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GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


Bv  SYLVANUS  URBAN,  Gei 


"VOLUME   XXII. 
NEW  SERIES. 


MDCCCXLIV. 

JUNE  TO  DECEMBER  inclusive. 


LONDON; 
JOHN  BOWYER  NICHOLS  AND  SON. 


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LONDON  :    J.  B.  NICB0L8  AND  SON,  PRINTBR8,  85,  PARLIAMBNT-8TRBKT. 


PREFACE. 


Thbbb  is^  we  think,  among  all  people  a  natnral  feeling  of 
respect  for  that  which  is  gone  before ;  or,  in  other  words,  a  curi- 
osity accompanied  with  reverence  towards  the  records  of  the  past, 
— sometUng  like  the  personal  feeling  in  society  which  is  occasioned 
by  the  presence  of  venerable  age.    The  ^^  Laudator  temporis  Acti/' 
if  he  wanted  a  defence  for  his  favourite  and  partial  opinions^  might 
find  them  in  the  general  concurrence  |  and  certainly,  though  they 
may,  like  those  on  other  subjects,  be  carried  into  an  undue  indul^ 
genoe,  yet  in  principle  they  seem  to  rest  on  a  solid  foundation. 
The  present  is  not  so  much  the  follower  of  the  past,  as  its  off- 
spring ;  and  who  would  not  wish  to  know  all  that  belongs  to  his 
ancestry,  to  the  founders  of  his  family,  to  his  parental  stem  ?    But 
as  those  who  live  in  the  early  periods  of  a  nation's  existence  are 
not  aware  of  the  future  curiosity  of  their  posterity,  nor  of  the  ob- 
scurity that  may  hereafter  envelope  the  most  familiar  usages,  and 
even  the  most  important  events  of  their  own  time ;  so  in  conse- 
quence are  they  little  careful  either  to  record  or  to  preserve  that 
which  to  them  needs  no  explanation,  which  possesses  no  pecu- 
liar value,  and  appears  to  be  in  no  danger  of  being  lost  or  obscured, 
"nme  however  passes  on,  and  behind  its  steps  mist  and  obscurity 
are  continually  gathering.    Some  things  are  overlooked  by  negli- 
gence, some  lost  by  misfortune,  and  even  some  destroyed  by  folly 
or  malignity.    Hence  arises  the  immense  labour  necessary  in  ac- 
quiring those  extensive  stores  of  knowledge  which  can  alone  render 
die  studies  of  the  searcher  into  antiquity  successful.    On  whatever 
branch  of  the  general  subject  he  may  enter,  he  must  possess  a 
comprehensive  erudition  which  brings  all  that  belongs  to  the  in- 
quiry at  once  within  the  circle  of  sight, — a  sagacity  enabling  him  to 
supply  by  conjecture  and  analogy  what  has  been  entirely  lost  or  is 
partially  defective,  and  a  delicate  and  discriminating  power  in  ba- 
lancing between  different  shades  and  degrees  of  evidence,  and  se- 
parating tiie  probable  from  the  true.    To  effect  this  to  any  extent, 
as  in  the  whole  range  of  national  antiquities,  lies  beyond  the 


PRSrACE. 


powers  of  a  single  and  anusisted  person;  the  field  of  inqmry 
requires  combined  exertions,  and  diverofied  talent  and  experience. 
These  reflections  on  a  subject  to  which  we  have  always  given 
close  attention,  and  on  whidi,  we  hope,  we  have  not  laboured  in 
vain,  have  been  not  nnnaturally  su^ested  by  the  formation 
within  this  past  yew  of  the  Britiah  Archmia^eal  AMMoatum,  an 
asiodation  tint  has  arisen  out  of  the  best  auspices — a  general 
belief  in  its  utility,— and  which  we  ttiink  <rill  be  attended  with 
the  best  results.  Its  numbers  ensure  such  extensive  connectioas, 
that  its  researches  can  be  prosecuted  every  where,  without  dif- 
ficulty or  discouragemeot.  We  know  of  no  event  conne<jted 
with  our  particuhr  poraaita  that  has  gratified  us  so  much  for 
many  years ;  we  hail  its  rise  with  pleasure,  we  contemplate  its 
permanence  and.  increase  with  confidence,  and  we  hope  that  it 
may  in  time  weaken  the  force,  if  it  cannot  destroy  the  entire 
power,  of  the  poet's  saying, 

Hon  etkm  mU>  oomiBibaqM  vaait. 

S.  Urban. 


THft 

GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 

JULY,  1844. 
By  SYLVANUS  URBAN,  Gent. 


CONTENTS.  .'^^" 

Minor  Cormspokdenct.— British  Roada  adopted  by  the  Roman«--Familiei 
of  S€«man—Chcynf—Tookc— Anecdote  of  Sir  Jamea  ThorohiU  proposed 

as  a  Sabjeet  for  a  Picture— Wesft  windows  at  Windsor   » 

Thb  FiRST-BoRN,  A  Drama,  by  the  Rev.  W.  Harness  3 

Southey's  Editorship  of  Banyan's  Pilgrim's  Progress 15 

On  the  Scarabens • • 

Description  of  Stafford  Ca«tle  ('loiM  a  P/a/e)  •  • ^^ 

New  Chorch  at  East  Grafton,  WUts  (i«/A  a  Fimr)    19 

Restoration  of  the  Church  at  Woodchurch,  Cheshire. • ^^ 

The  Ancient  costom  of  a  Lady  taking  her  Chamber ^ 

Roman  Sepnlchral  Inscription  foand  near  Pieroebridge 24 

Ornamental  Tiles  in  Great  Malvern  Church,  (wiik  a  Plate) ^ 

The  Portraits  of  Versailles,  No.  IV.— Reigns  of  Louis  XIII.  and  XIV 31 

On  the  Pottery  termed  Samian— Potters'  stamps  found  in  London 3^ 

Value  of  the  Metonic  Cycle— Date  of  the  First  Passover  . . . .  i .  •  38 

A  Cavalier's  Farewell  to  his  Mistress— Rev.  James  Anderson 40 

Confessionals  existing  in  English  Churches • •  •  •  •  41 

Remarks  on  Collier's  edition  of  Shakespeare,  &c 4^ 

Retrospkctiye  Rjsvxbw; — Witheia's  Salt  upon  Salt •  •  •  ^ 

REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS.  .  .^       ^« 

Jesse's  Scenes  and  Tales  of  Country  Life,  49  ;  Greenwood's  Trce-Lifter,  53  ; 
Milucs's  Palm  Leaves,  55 ;  Mrs.  Bray's  Courtenay  of  Walreddon,  57 ; 
Sandby's  Mesmerism  and  iu  Opponents,  58  ;  Miscellapeoua  Reviews    ....     60 

UTERARY    AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE. 

New  Publications,  63;  University  of  Oxford— University  of  Cambndgj,  67; 
Royal  Geographical  Society— Royal  Asiatic  Society— Wiltshire  Topo- 
graphical Society,  68;  Numismatic  Society,  69;  Ethnological  Society- 
Society  of  Arts '  ? 

PINE  ARTS.— British  Sculptors  at  Rome,  70 ;  Sir  R,  K.  Porter's  Drawings  . .  71 
ARCHITECTURE.— Oxford  Architectural  Society,  72  ;  Royal  Academy  ....  73 
ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES.— Society   of    Antiquaries,    75;  Arch«o. 

logical  Association— Society  of  Northern  Antiquaries — Ancient  Armour. ,  • .     78 

HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE.— Proceedings    in    ParUameot,    79 ;   Foreign 

News — Domestic  Occurrences    •  •  •     ^0 

Promotions  and  Preferments,  83 ;  Births,  84 ;   Marriages 84 

OBITUARY ;  with  Memoirs  of  Eari  of  Bcssborough  ;  M.  Laffitte ;  Sir  William 
Johnston,  Bart. ;  Admiral  Sir  C.  E.  Nugent ;  Vice-Adm.  Sir  Jahleel  Bren- 
ton;  Lieut.-Geo.  Sir  T.  Stubbs ;  Lieut.-Gen.  Loveday ;  Major-Gen.  W. 
H.  Bcckwith  ;  Major-Gen.  Sir  O.  Carey  ;  Major-Gen.  F.  J.  T.  Johnstone  5 
Lt..Col.  W.  G.  M'hite;  Wadham  Wyndham,  Esq.;  John  Tomes.  Esq:; 
J.  N.  Wigney,  Esq.  M.P. ;  Thomas  Bowes,  Esq. ;  John  Herman  Merivale, 
Esq. ;  J.  S.  Duncan,  Esq.  D.C.L. ;  John  Grant  Malcolnison,  Esq.  M.D. 
Mr.  Sebastian  Pether;  Mr.  Theodore  Van  Hoist;  Lwigi  Canonica;  Dr. 

George  Swiney ;  Capt.  R.  Fair,  R.N. ;  James  Stuart 87—101 

Clrrot  Deceased  *^* 

Deaths,  arranged  in  Counties ^®3 

Rcgiatrar-General's  Returns  of  Mortality  in  the  Metropolis— Markets— Prices 

of  Shares,  111 ;  Meteorological  Diary— Stocka 11^ 

EmbellUhed  with  Views  of  Staftord  Castle  and  East  Grafton  Churcb,  WilU 
and  Fao-Slmiles  of  Ornamental  Tilei  in  Guat  Maltsrh  Abbey  Choroh. 


MINOR  CORRESPONDENCE. 


tint  c«MrJ!IS.I?~*  '"•*'  ^««.  ""J 

Th.ml        **.  "■«   '<"'d«We    part  of  the 

JTo/Wb/,  S.  '.      "*"''"  "***=   ewn  the 
m'J^d  '*'  T^  '"  •■•«  «>e«n  tucb 

which  i.  !.„     t      """'  ■<*''^>  "t  wond ; 

SeaniM.    Sheriff  of  Norwich  in    1699 

f  dlfin  T7  ^'^'  i5"'  ."!P^  Sheriff  if  No'' 
folic  in  1710.     He  is  desiroua  more  oar- 

tlcu Uirly  of  wccrtaining  the  date  ^nd  oiirin 
Norfo  k  *.T^  f •^?W»t'"«f  themselves^n 
from  r  ^ni  ''Yf^''^  ^^^y  «'<^re  descended 
whom  ?h  ^*'''^^''  ^"'""y  of  Seaman,  of 
Ihv  r  ^'^  "^^'^  "'*'«^«'  bearing  pre- 
a  Hy  the  same  names.     The  Norfolk^ 

SLK'^••'?*^A^"«'^»»«'n.  which  was 
iff  .rl^'i"*^'*'^.^^  Humbleyard.  till  it  was 

city  of  Norwich,  as  it  now  remains. 
U  awani  thlr'ir"™"  ^-  "*  S.  (p.  339^ 
(Kent)  of  the  name  of  Chevn*  or 
lhcy„,y,  ^hieh  intermarried  withTh.t  of 
ford  H  7"r'  ""^  "«^^^  Castle  and  Koch- 
volv.rf*''''  ^r*;.  J''*  Utter  estate  de- 

A  bt.t?fu7''  •  ^'^'  ^^.  ^"»«  Boi<^y»«^^ 

in    lever  i».'"''?""*'l'"^  *»™"  »'•"  ^»i«l» 
irari  M    ^^""'^'  ^®  ^'^e  memory  of  Mar- 

rarv  An«  ^'  ^''"^"=  ^n  Nichols's  Lite. 

Tuke    or  V  1    "'"'^y  °f  *o^«'  Tooke, 
^"•t»on.  in  the  spelling  of  the  Dame,  tee 


p.  602)  are  descended  from  l^  Siear 
de  Touquc,  Toe,  or  Touke,  as  it  is  tari- 

imnn^.u^"'  ''t*''  ***  i«  mentioned, 

ttLn«  ^^"^"•i:?''  ■*  t«»e  Battle  of 
tio^T^K^iS  lu«  n«H6  i.  not  men- 
whe«  iL?*iJ^*  of  Tenant,  in  Capite. 

would  be,  nor,  I  beliere.  do  any  of  the 

names  of  his  children  appear  in  fhe  Sur! 

b2;  !1  ?y.  probably  would   had  land 

a^ndSr.!!^^i°  **"":."  •""  Immediate  de- 
■cendanta.     From  thi.  it  «jeaia  probable 

anffi  i/'l   '?*1™^  '"'o    Normandy, 
nn?.!?^  '^  ?*  i*?^  *"y  ^'^i'dren  they  did 

T    ?  ""L  To*^*>^   Toch«,  Toche,  Toe. 

T^ka""'  ^S^^JZ^'^  Tokesone.  TuS 
i-«J?  '.  ■  u  T^'ochi,  occur  as  holders  of 
lands  m  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Con- 
fwior,  and  the  name  of  Thoke  in  the 
X^.^S^^S^y^^^'^  Magna  Britannia, 
ijortolk,)  It  seems  much  more  probable 
that  the  families  are  of  Saxon  or  Danish 
than  of  Norman  origin.  Can  any  of  the 
readers  of  the  Gents.  Magazine  throw 
any  light  on  the  derivation  of  the  name? 

J.  A.  R.  remarks.  Among  the  great 
variety  of  historical  subjects  designed  by 
the  British  artists  of  the  present  day,  it 
has  often  occurred  to  me  that  the  follow, 
ing  may  be  worthy  of  notice,  which  I 
have  never    seen    introduced,  i.   e.   Sir 
James  ThombiU  on  a  high  scaffold  paint- 
ing within. side  the  dome  of  St.  Paul's, 
and  in  the  attitude  of  running  backward,' 
and  in  great  danger  of  falling  over,  while 
a  companion,  obeerving  this  (with  great 
presence  of  mind),  is  seen  with  a  brush 
daubing  over  the  painting  in    order  to 
alarm  him,  and  save  his  life.  If  this  were 
managed    by  a   clever  artist,    and    the 
painter's  anxiety  manifested  in  his  coun- 
tenance,  at  seeing  his  work  injured,  ai  he 
appeared  to  be  rushing  forward  to  pre. 
serve  it,  I  think  it  might  prove  an  in- 
teresting picture. 

T.  W.  inquires  where  West's  original 
sketches  for  the  Stained  Glass  that  was 
begun  for  the  Weti  window  of  St. 
George's  Chapel,  Windsor,  are  to  be 
found. 

BaRATA.  lo  a  small  portion  of  the  impres- 
sion of  our  present  number,  at  p.  40.  line  25, 
f9r  Sunday  read  Saturday.  In  p.  43,  line  15 
frOBj  foot,  /or  "  Falstair  calls  simple  •  Sir,*" 
rMtfraistaffcalia  Simple  "Sir." 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


Tke  FtrsUhom;  a  Drama,     {PrifUed  for  private  circulation.)* 

THE  present  composition  is,  properly  speaking,  neither  a  tragedy  or 

comedy,  bat  a  domestic  drama,  a  poem  in  a  dramatic  form,  exhibiting  in  a 

liTely  and  pleasing  manner,  through  the  mediom  of  the  persons  themselves, 

the  simple  fortunes  and  adventures  of  rural  life — the  disappointroeut  of 

rejected  lo?e  in  one,  the  punishment  of  guilty  and  unnatural  pride  in 

another,  and  the  trial  of  virtuous  affection  and  constancy,  and  resistance  to 

the  temptations  of  ambition,  in  a  third.     Such  is  the  subject  which  the 

poet  has  embellished  with  the  elegancies  of  ideal  fiction,  and  conducted 

through  the  vicissitudes  of  contending  passions,  of  opposing  interests,  and 

those  changes  that  affect  the  destinies  of  the  humblest  life,  and  disturb  the 

repose  even  of  the  most  tranquil  disposition.    Our  literature  does  not 

aboond  in  this  branch  or  class  of  the  dramatic  story  so  much  as  that  of 

some  of  our  neighbours  ;  our  flight  has  been  of  a  more  ambitious  kind  ;  in 

the  higher  region  of  intense  mental  agitation,  in  the  conflict  of  mighty 

passions,  in  the  exhibition  of  deeper  sorrows,  in  the  imposing  grandeur  of 

feelings  lofty  and  remote  from  common  participation  \ — in  the  description 

of  that  presumptuous  and  erring  ambition  that  is  crushed  under  the 

gigantic  structure  itself  has  raised,  and  the  delineation  of  that  utter  and 

hopeless  misery  that  admits  no  hope,  and  seeks  no  other  refuge  than  the 

grave.     Such  are  the  achievements  of  the  great  masters  of  their  art ;  and 

so  great  has  been  at  once  their  power  and  success,  that  the  forms  of  their 

creative  fancy,  the  images  which  they  have  called  forth  from  the  depth  of 

mental  inspiration,  and  to  which  they  have  given  the  truest  and  noblest 

attributes  of  nature,  have  become  little  less  than  realities  in  the  memory 

of  mankind, — a  rival  creation  of   human  power,  so  strongly  are  they 

painted,  so  freshly  remembered,  so  easily  and  quickly  recalled,  at  least  by 

ail  who  are  gifted  with  vivid  perceptions  of  the  beautiful  and  the  true. 

The  impressions  they  make  are  so  permanent  that  we  are  scarce  willing  to 

distinguish  them  from  what  Nature  herself  has  done ;  and,  like  the  monk 

in  the  chapel  of  the  Escurial,  when  pointing  to  the  figures  of  Titian  and 

Velasquez,  we  may  say — I  have  lived  so  long  among  these,  and  seen  them 

unchanged  while  all  else  is  changing  around  me,  that  I  almost  believe  these 

to  be  the  real  flgures  of  humanity,  and  that  we  are  but  the  pictures  and 

shadows  of  it. 

But  the  empire  of  the  drama,  the  mental  dominion  of  thought  and 
poetry,  is  not  so  to  be  confined  as  to  admit  pleasure  and  instruction  only 
through  one  channel.  The  true  poet  stands  in  the  central  point,  where 
all  human  passions  and  feelings,  high  and  low,  strong  and  weak,  perma- 
nent and  transitory,  are  at  his  command  and  subject  to  his  choice.    The 


*  In  expreising  the  pleasure  we  have  received  from  the  present  composition,  we  trust 
that  we  may  publicly  return  oar  thanks  to  the  Rev.  Wm,  Hamen  as  to  the  auibor  ; 
to  whom  we  were  previously  obliged  by  his  affecting  little  drama  of  ''  Welcome  and 
TteeweU." 


4  The  Fh-st-horti ;  a  Drama*  [July, 

geutler  passions,  the  softer  emotions  of  the  heart,  the  hnmbler  interests, 
the  common  cares  and  joys  and  sorrows  of  lowly  life,  have  also  their  power 
to  affect  the  mind  when  represented  with  that  clearness,  perspicuity,  and 
tmth  which  poetry  requires,  and  with  that  jadicioos  selection  of  circum- 
stances and  taste  in  combination,  which  good  natural  feeling  and  acquired 
habits  of  composition  seldom  fail  to  enable  the  author  to  produce.     There 
is  one  province  in  the  poetic  drama  beyond  this,  more  remote  from  the 
sympathies  of  ordinary  minds,  and  further  removed  from  their  knowledge, 
where  fancy  and  imagination  hold  the  supreme  sway,  soliciting  little  assist- 
ance from  the  passions,  from  change  of  incident,  from  variety  of  circum- 
stance, or  force  of  character,  bat  imparting  sufficient  delight  to  the  mind  by 
the  beauty  of  the  imagery,  the  elegance  of  the  fable,  the  delicate  arrange- 
ment and  choice  of  the  language,  and  the  exquisite  harmony  of  the  metre. 
Such  is  the  Contirs  of  Milton,  in  which  the  little  simple  story  is  but  the 
vehicle  for  those  ethereal  fliglits  of  fancy,  those  fine  allusions,  and  those 
rich  combinations  of  poetical  language  that  have  justly  placed  it  at  the 
head  of  its  class.     Such  also  are  the  beautiful   dramas  of  Tasso  and 
Guariui.     In  this  species  of  poem,  what  is  wanting  in  views  of  com- 
mon hfe  and  individual  nature  is  supplied  by  the  ideal  grace  and  the 
pervading  dignity  of  the  execution ;  by  the  refined  expressions  and  beau- 
tiful and  remote  allusions ;  the  whole  heightened  by  musical  accompani- 
ment and  scenical  decoration.     Between  these  two  kinds  of  dramatic  fable, 
in  a  region  lying  below  the  dark  and  tempestuous  passions  of  the  deep 
tragedy,  more   remote    from   the  immediate    presence  of  Melpomene, 
and  not  requiring  the  rich  exuberance  of  ornament  and  reflected  lustre  of 
that  poetic  diction  which  would  only  mar  the  simple  pathos,  and  overload 
the  plain  narrative  of  the  domestic   story,  the  present  drama  makes  no 
unsuccessful  appeal  both  to  our  natural  feelings  and  to  our  poetical  taste. 
The  subject  is  so  treated  as  to  be  natural  without  being  common  ;  and 
the  poet,  while  borrowing  by  observation  from  the  realities  of  everyday 
life  and  of  private  mannera,  has  embodied  his  ideas  in  characters  perma- 
nently and  poetically  true.     The  characters  of  the  persons  in  the  drama 
are  well  conceived  and  consistently  maintained,  the  contrasts  in  incident 
and  situation  keep  the  attention  alive,  and  the  events  are  so  directed  as  to 
appear  to  flow  naturally  from  the  causes,  yet  sufficiently  attractive  to 
occasion  a  pleasing  surprise  ;  the  reader  is  satisfied  with  the  justness  of 
the  reflections,  that  are  either  deliberately  given,  or  such  as  arise  from 
accidental  associations  or  sudden  turns  of  fortune  ;  and  the  lover  of  nature 
will  not  overlook  the  short  but  pleasing  touches  of  description  which  are 
at  all  times  calculated  to  gratify  and  soothe  the  mind,  but  which  are  pre- 
sented with  double  force  and  interest  when  they  appear  in  their  sweet  and 
nndisturbed  tranquillity,  amid  the  conflict  of  human  passions,  the  anxiety 
of  worldly  cares,  and  the  disappointment  of  cherished  hopes  ;  recalling  us 
from  the  transitory  to  the  permanent,  from  what  has  only  an  artificial  and 
false  connection  with  the  feelings  to  that  which  claims  a  strong,  inherent, 
and  natural  association  with  them.     There  is  no  further  need  of  remark 
or  introduction  from  us,  and  we  turn  to  the  far  more  pleasing  occupation 
of  giving  such  an  abridgment  of  the  story  as  may  place  its  leading  features 
before  the  reader's  mind,  making  use  of  the  author's  language  when  we 
can,  and  only  introducing  our  own  in  order  to  bring  the  narrative  into  a 
compass  convenient  to  the  space  we  can  commsud.     The  poet  should 
strike  his  first  blow  as  early  as  he  can,  seize  and  secure  our  attention  by 
some  early  exhibition  of  his  power,  and  his  after-path  will  be  compara- 
lively  smooth  and  easy.    This  is  effected  in  the  present  case  successfully 


1844.]  The  FiTBi-hom ;  Drama.  5 

by  theqaarrel  between  George  and  Walter  in  the  opening  scene,  and  we 
think  also  thatmucli  talent  and  skill  are  shewn  in  designing  the  character  of 
Sir  Charles,  which  seems  intended  to  harmonize  the  opposing  shadows  of 
the  other  characters,  acting  as  a  medium  between  the  contrasts  of  the 
artificial  sentiments  and  erroneous  views  of  Lady  Ellinor,  and  the  strong, 
plain,  and  natural  sense  and  feeling  of  Walter  and  the  Eropsons.  We  do 
not  mean  to  say  that  there  is  no  part  of  the  drama  that  might  not  be  capa- 
ble of  some  improvement ;  and  we  certainly  tliink  that,  without  any  violent 
interference  with  the  general  scope  or  the  particular  execution  of  the  plot. 
Lady  Ellinor's  first  error  might  have  been  spared,  and  her  character  have 
been  preserved  free  from  those  spots  that  we  too  distinctly  see  upon  her 
virgin  zone ;  while  some  other  satisfactory  reason  might  have  been  found 
for  the  strange  concealment  of  Walter  :  and  this  is  of  importance,  because 
that  one  error  most  spread  a  cloud  over  the  remainder  of  her  life,  which  no 
reconciliation  with  her  son  could  remove,  and  sully  a  reputation,  that  no 
late  repentance  could  restore,  thus  leaving  the  termination  of  the  story  not 
quite  satisfactory  to  us  ;  but  he  whom  a  few  faults  in  any  composition  pre- 
vents from  partaking  of  the  many  beauties,  is  one  who  is  attempting  to 
dry  up  the  very  sources  of  enjoyment,  and  to  reverse  the  beautiful  ordina- 
tions of  nature,  which  enable  us,  if  rightly  disposed,  to  draw  good  out  of 
evil,  and  to  extract  nourishment  and  pleasure  from  trivial  or  even  noxious 
things.  Perhaps,  also,  in  the  instance  before  us,  we  are  mistaken  in  our 
judgment,  and  that  the  poet,  if  called  upon,  would  convince  us  that  his 
plot  was  not  in  any  part  formed  without  sufficient  deliberation,  that  he 
liad  fully  considered  the  different  means  to  effect  his  desired  purpose,  and 
that  no  particular  portion  could  be  altered  without  injury  to  the  whole. 
In  this  case  we  are  quite  willing  to  be  convinced,  and  shall  see  without 
displeasure  the  torch  of  criticism  drop  from  our  hands  and  expire,  which 
we  uplifted  only  to  reflect  the  lustre,  and  exhibit  to  others  the  beauties  of 
that  structure  which  we  ourselves  approved  and  admired. 

The  play  opens  with  the  scene  of  a  com  field  in  harvest  time,  and  a 
dispute  between  two  young  husbandmen,  Walter  and  George  8axby  ;  the 
cause  of  quarrel  being,  as  Walter  gives  it,  that  George  Saxby  taunts  him 

That  I  an  infant  at  the  Ticar's  gate 
Was  in  my  helpless  infancy  exposed; 

while  George  points  to  Walter's  arrogance  and  scorn,  and  his  absence 
from  the  village  festivities. 

Is't  not  pride 
Which  when  the  wake,  or  fair,  or  Tillage  feast, 
Collects  us  to  keep  holiday  together. 
Prompts  him  forbear  our  sports,  and  brood  alone. 
Now  with  his  flageolet  upon  the  hills, 
Now  by  the  river  side  in  moody  thought. 
Now  with  some  book  of  rhymes  in  the  deep  wood  ?  &c. 

The  real  cause,  however,  is  George's  jealousy  of  Walter,  who  he  thinks 
has  estranged  his  cousin  Mary  from  his  love. 

Gsoa«B. — I  know  not  how  to  speak,  I*m  all  in  doubt ; 
From  childhood  I  have  loved  my  cousin  Mary, 
And  hoped  that  she  loved  me.    When  first  my  father 
Purchased  the  farm  hard  by  she  was  an  infant 
Aod  I  a  boy  not  more  than  ten  years  old, 
Yet  even  then  I  loved  her.    When  sent  here. 
As  oft  I  was,  on  errands  from  my  home, 
Twas  my  delight  to  see  that  as  I  entered 
She  would  spring  fortfir  and  spread  her  little  an&B| 


6  Tk€  First'bom ;  a  Drama,  [ivly^ 

And  laugh  aloud,  and  trj  to  eome  to  me 
Even  from  her  mother's  lap ;  as  she  grew  up 
And  'gan  to  walk  alone  she'd  take  my  hand 
And  stroU  for  hours  about  the  fields  and  lanes, 
Gathering  the  wild  rose  and  the  eglantine, 
As  I  bent  down  the  branches  to  her  reach* 
In  all  my  boyhood's  light  and  stirring  hours 
There  was  no  sport  i'  th'  green  nor  chase  a-field, 
Though  well  I  lOTed  them,  gave  me  half  the  joy 
I  found  in  idling  with  that  soft-eyed  child. 
And  when  with  feigned  reluctance  I  forboroi 
She  with  her  pretty  wiles  and  promised  kisses 
Would  woo  me  still  to  be  her  playfellow. 
Then  afterwards,  in  all  her  school-day  troubles. 
To  me  she  ran  to  hide  her  bursting  tears ; 
In  all  her  school-day  triumphs  first  to  me 
Would  run  to  show  the  priae  she  had  obtained ; 
Nor  did  she  wish  for  any  living  thing. 
Kitten,  or  bird,  or  squirrel  from  the  wood, 
To  cast  her  girlish  care  and  fondness  on, 
But  cousin  George  must  seek  it.    And  'till  Walter 
Began  to  train  his  slight  and  delicate  Umbs 
To  our  field  labours,  and  to  haunt  the  farm 
With  his  soft  voice  and  gently  flowing  speech, 
His  rhymes  of  love  to  suit  old  scraps  of  tunes. 
His  tales  of  distant  lands  and  former  times, 
Conn'd  from  the  vicar's  books,  her  kindness  never 
Knew  shadow  of  abatement  or  caprice. 
But  now — I  know  not — there's  an  icy  power 
That  severs  us ;  we  are  not  as  we  were; 
Her  eye  averted  never  answers  mine ; 
She  talks  constrainedly  with  me  ;  speaks  of  things 
Which  of  slight  moment  are  to  her  or  me ; 
Calls  me  no  more  by  kind  familiar  names ; 
Withdraws,  if  chance  cast  us  alone  together  ; 
And  with  her  strange  indifference  brraks  my  heart. 

This  speech  is  given  with  a  true  warmth  of  feeling,  conyeyed  in  tender- 
ness and  elegance  of  expression )  bat^  whether  it  is  quite  in  accordance 
with  the  impression  which  the  reader  has  previously  formed  of  George 
Saxby  in  the  opening  scene  in  the  harvest  fields  where  be  uiges  Walter  to 
fight  with  him,  we  say,  this  we  must  leave  to  the  author's  judgment. 

Walter  does  not  deny  his  love,  but  says  that  being  an  unknown  and 
friendless  orphan  he  had  never  ventured  to  disclose  it. 

Walter. — I  own  I  love  your  daughter^fondly  love  her. 
I  scarce  can  think — I  never  can  believe — 
That  any  but  one  orphaned  like  myself, 
And  utterly  devoid  of  every  claim 
Which  might  divide,  and  weaken  by  dividing, 
The  stream  of  deep  affection  ever  flowing 
Forth  from  the  sacred  fountain  of  the  heart, 
A  tenderness  so  infinite  could  yield 

As  I,  from  my  free  soul,  do  render  her. 

•  •  •  a 

Master  Empson, 
Bethink  you  what  she  is,  and  what  I  am  1 
Oh  I  never  would  the  sweetest,  fairest  flower, 
The  summer  bears,  its  tender  root  infix, 
And  shower  its  blossoms  on  the  barren  rock 
Which  stands  in  the  broad  ocean  all  alone  ! 
Nor  would  the  mild-eyed  bird  of  love  and  peace 
Be  from  her  woodlana  shelter  lured  away, 
There  amid  waves  and  storms  to  build  her  nest  1 

No.  therv'i  no  hope. 

*  ♦  »  * 


1844.]  The  Ftrtt-born ;  a  Drma.  t 

My  lonely  life 
Knowi  but  one  loUee— to  admire  lier  beauty ; 
One  wish — to  pasa  deroted  to  her  Benrioe. 

Mary  now  appears,  and  an  explanation  takes  place,  which  is  the  only 
passage  that  is  not  quite  satisfactory  to  onr  minds  ;  when  George  tells  Mary, 

Till  he  came  hither  1*11  be  sworn  you  loyed  me ; 
and  then  Mary  answers. 

Tea,  George,  I  lot ed  you  at  a  sister  lovesi 
And  thought  that  as  a  brother  yon  loved  me. 

«  •  a  • 

But  when  you  came 
To  talk  to  me  of  love  it  chilled  and  shocked  me; 
Yon  were  bo  much  my  brother  the  words  sounded 
Wicked  for  you  to  speak,  for  me  to  hear. 

Now  this  we  do  not  think  quite  natural,  for>  in  the  first  place,  being 
cousins,  there  was  nothing  that  ought  to  have  appeared  wicked  in  Mary's 
eyes  in  George's  love ;  and,  secondly,  there  is  such  a  wide  difference 
between  the  brother's  friendly  affection  and  the  lover's  fondness  that 
surely  Mary  could  not  have  mistaken  them.  We  feel  how  utterly  absurd 
it  is  for  a  critic  to  give  advice  to  an  author,  or  for  his  '^  clouted  sboon  "  to 
tread  upon  the  poet's  fairy  path  5  but  we  think  something  might  have  been 
devised  for  Mary's  coldness  more  natural  than  this.  We  should  propose 
that  George  should  have  previously  trifled,  or  been  supposed  by  Mary  to 
have  trifled,  with  the  affections  of  one  of  her  female  friends,  and  thus 
closed  her  heart  against  him  as  a  lover  of  her  own,  while  she  was  content 
to  have  lived  with  him  under  the  same  roof  with  the  feeling  of  sisterly 
affection  only.  However  this  may  be,  Mary's  father  approves  of  the 
alhance  of  his  daughter  with  Walter,  and  George  departs  in  angry  sorrow. 

Next  comes  on  the  scene  the  puritanical  Vicar  of  the  parish,  who  in 
his  place  as  Vicar  has  entrusted  him  the  annual  donation  which  is  sent  to 
him  by  an  unknown  hand  for  Walter's  maintenance,  and  who,  in  his 
character  as  Puritan,  has  had  the  mean  and  low  curiosity  (a  curiosity 
which  belongs  now  and  ever  has  done  to  that  class  of  churchmen)  to  pry 
into  the  secret  of  Walter's  birth,  and  who  now  informs  him  that  he  be- 
lieves he  has  discovered  it. 

I*m  more  deceived  than  I  was  ever  yet. 
Or  they're  no  strangers  to  the  Lady  Eltinor, 
The  wife  of  Sir  Charles  Tracy,  who  returns 
After  long  sojourn  with  the  court  abroad, 
To  his  patrimonial  seat  at  the  old  Hall ; 

and  he  resolves  to  go  to  the  Hall  straight  and  commune  with  the  lady. 

The  second  Act  opens  at  Long-Ashby  Hall,  and  with  the  presence  of 
Sir  Charles  and  Lady  Ellinor  Tracy,  who  discourse  very  prettily  "  de 
snmmo  bon(>,"  Sir  Charles  taking  the  philosophical  side  of  the  question. 

Hi^piness,  I'm  sure, 
Dwells  not  in  lofty  places.    The  lark  soars 
Up  to  the  skies  to  carol  forth  his  song, 
But  builds  his  nest  a -ground.    The  noontide  sun 
Shines  brightest  on  the  mountain's  snowy  top, 
But  only  warms  the  yalley  at  Its  base. 
Ladt  Ellinor. — Does  your  philosophy  contemplate,  then, 
In  its  next  transformation,  to  reduce 
Our  state  to  the  condition  yon  admire, 
And  test  their  hapiMnesi  ? 


d  The  Firtt-harn ;  a  Drama.  t^alj* 

SiK  Cba&leb.—  'Twere  all  in  Tain  I 

The  simple  blisi  enjoyed  by  timple  people, 
Once  forfeited,  can  never  l>e  reclaimed ; 
Learning,  refinement,  arts,  indacing  wanti 
Foreign  to  nature,  opening  a  wide  scope 
For  objects  Tagne,  for  wishes  infinite, 
For  aspirations  after  viewless  things. 
Teach  us  to  scorn  the  blessings  at  our  feet, 
And  long  for  some  vast,  undefined  delights, 
Which,  if  existent,  never  can  be  reached ; 
Knowledge,  a  doubtful  acquisition,  shedding 
Its  light  upon  our  souls,  lilce  Psyche's  lamp, 
Expels  the  good  best  suited  to  their  nature, 
And  yields  no  reparation  for  its  loss. 

He  then  laments  the  want  of  children : — 

Did  I  feel 
A  father's  interest  bind  me  to  the  worlds 
Did  our  halls  hear  the  sound  of  little  feet 
Beating  their  pavements— did  young,  merry  voices, 
Ringing  with  laughter,  cheer  our  garden  walks, 
And  lawns,  and  aUeys-— did  I  leave  my  home, 
A  group  of  clamorous  children  gathered  round  me. 
Inquiring  where  I  went,  how  long  my  stay. 
Whose  bounding  joy  would  welcome  my  return, 
All  had  been  different ; — life  had  not  proved 
A  waste  I  cannot  till — a  precious  gift 
I  have  no  purpose  for — ^an  instrument 
I  know  not  how  to  employ — Oh  1  had  our  children  — 

This  tenches  a  tender  chord  in  Lady  Ellinor^s  feelings,  which  she  tnrns 
aside^  and  expresses  a  wish  to  leave  tlie  lonely  sojourn  of  the  Hall ;  but 
the  colloquy,  in  which  the  husband  certainly  bears  the  more  amiable  cha- 
racter, is  broken  by  the  appearance  of  the  Vicar,  who  seeks  a  private 
interview  with  Lady  EUinor,  and  who  commences  immediately  his  in- 
sidious questionings  to  assure  himself  of  a  secret  he  has  long  suspected, 
which  Lady  Ellinor  in  vain  endeavours  to  avoid. 

Why  address  me  ?— can  I  assist  you,  Sir? 
ViCA.a.— Can  you  not,  Lady? 
Lady  EiUNOR. —  I! 

ViCAK. —  Excuse  my  boldness; 

Tve  reason  to  presume  a  word  from  you 

Might  supersede  the  need  of  further  search. 
Lady  Ellinor. — A  strange  conceit  1   I  comprehend  it  not ! 

Pve  heard  no  more  than  what  you*ve  now  related. 

A  child,  a  boy,  found  at  the  vicarage 

I  well  rememoer.     I  was  then  a  bride — 

Sir  Charles  and  I  sojourned  in  Westminster. 

All  that  you  know  1  know,  but  nothing  more. 

The  Puritan  minister,  thus  baffled,  threatens  to  have  an  interview  with 
the  husbiind,  iiud  proceeds  in  that  base  and  insolent  strain  not  unusual 
with  lowmiii(ied  [lersons,  till  he  tells  her  that  he  has  identified  the  mes* 
•eii)(cr  who  conveys  the  annual  bounty  to  his  hands  for  Walter  with  a 
iicnr  kinsman  of  hers, 

Dependent  and  residing  at  the  Hall. 

As  lie  cannot  wring  the  unwilling  secret  from  her,  he  again  threatens  to 
•cik  8ir  Charles  till  she  confesses. 

Since  you  have  traced 
Our  hottie*i  near  oonoemment  with  that  vouth, 
Learn,  Sir,  the  secret's  mine.    I  vainly  deemed  it 
I 


r^-^^^w^PP 


1844.]  The  FtrH-bom ;  a  Dranta.  9 

Subtly  seenred  *gaiiif  t  all  discoTery ; 

A  monmful  story  'tis,  with  which  the  honour 

Of  a  right  noble  lady,  whose  fair  name 

Never  reproachful  epithet  received 

From  slander's  lip,  inseparably  is  link'd. 

I  own  I  know  the  parents  of  yonng  Walter ; 
By  my  advice  his. home  was  here  assigned. 
His  mother's  fame  secnred. 

The  Vicar  then  informs  ber,  seeing  be  can  extract  no  more,  tbat  his 
purpose  in  coming  was  to  inform  her  tbat  Walter  is  in  love  and  betrothed 
to  the  daughter,  the  only  child,  of  the  wealthiest  yeoman  in  that  part  of 
the  country.  She  orders  the  Vicar  to  forbid  the  wedding's  further  pro- 
gress, and  resolves  to  remove  Walter  to  "  brighter  scenes  and  courtlier 
company  3"  and  she  then  expresses  a  desire  to  see  Walter  in  the  garden 
for  a  few  minutes*  converse. 

Waiting  the  Vicar's  arrival  from  the  Hall,  a  iiU-a-tHe  takes  place 
between  Walter  and  Mary,  in  such  sweet  pastoral  talk,  that  has  won  our 
heart  too  much  not  to  let  our  readers  share  in  it. 

Waltbr. — He  is  so  long  in  coming !  this  delay 

Is  torture. 
Mary. —  Trust  me,  he  will  soon  be  here. 

Come,  sit  you  down  beneath  the  linden  trees 

Upon  this  bank,  and  ease  your  restless  mind 

With  admiration  of  yon  laughing  scene. 
Waltsr. — If  admiration  could  divert  my  thoughts, 

I  need  not  turn  my  eyes  away  from  thee. 
Mart. — You  speak  so  idly  1 

Walter. —  What  must  I  admire  ? 

Mary. — Admire !  the  wide  and  fertile  view  before  us. 

How  beautiful  it  is  I  its  meadow-lands, 

Its  com-fidds,  and  its  woods. 
Walter. —  Oh  I  move  aside 

Mary,  my  love,  that  intercepting  curl, 

That,  while  you  talk,  I  maj  see  all  your  face ! 
Mary. — Look  on  the  landscape,  Walter,  not  on  me  ; 

Upon  those  groups  of  scattered  cottages 

Half  seen  amid  their  orchards— -on  yon  grange, 

Whose  gathered  harvests  crowd  the  rickyard  nigh  ; 

On  BrauDston  spire,  which  from  its  woody  knoll 

Is  ever  pointing  upward  to  the  skies. 

As  it  would  warn  us  of  our  higher  home. 
Walter. — I'm  almost  fain  to  say,  would  we  were  laid 

Where  the  last  sunbeams  fall  on  the  green  turf, 

Within  that  peaceful  churchyard,  side*by-side. 
4>  •  •  « 

Mary. —  Think  of  other  things; 

Inhale  the  peace  that  breathes  from  all  around. 
I*m  never  wearied  gazing  on  this  scene  : 
How  quietly  upon  the  upland  browse 
Yon  scattered  flock  ;  while  in  the  stream  beneath. 
Where  the  tall  alders  yield  them  choice  of  shade, 
Stand  pensively  the  kine— delightful  all 
In  Its  variety  of  pleasing  sights — 
Till,  where  the  plain  in  hazy  distance  fades, 
The  Malvern  hills  rise  cloudlike  to  the  view  ; 
How  beautiful  it  is  1 
Walter. —  But  not  so  fair 

In  the  bright  midday  as  it  is  at  eve. 
I  often  think  the  scenes  we  most  rejoice  in 
Are  ^r  their  beauty  debtors  to  the  heavens 
GTemt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII.  C 


10  The  Pbtt'-tpm  s  aDrama^  [July^ 

More  than  the  earth.    The  rarest  dlapoeition 
Of  land,  wood,  lake,  whidi  the  wide  world  caa  offer , 
0*erhang  by  a  duU,  leaden,  lowering  iky. 
Is  robb'd  of  all  ita  charm ;  while  the  blank  moor. 
The  dose-shorn  willow  on  the  yellow  marsh, 
The  peatbog,  with  its  sqnare,  black,  stagnant  pools. 
Lit  by  the  bright  ton  of  the  joevnd  mon, 
Impart  a  sense  of  {deaavre  to  the  Tiew. 
Mart. — May  not  the  beauty  be  i'  the  dieeiM  mind, 
Whidi  has  the  grace  to  see  it,  rather  placed 
Than  in  the  landsei^  or  the  o'erimnging  sky  ? 

This  delicate  little  strain  of  fond  parleying  is  first  broken  by  the  pre- 
seoce  of  George,  who  impatiently  informs  thiem  that  he  is  going  into  the 
wide  world,  and  cannot  rest  there  -,  and  then  by  the  arrival  of  the  Vicar, 
who  informs  Walter  that  the  lady  would  converse  with  him.  This  it  is 
evident  is  the  important  crisis  of  the  plot^  and  the  most  difficult  for  the 
poet  to  encounter,  in  the  strong  and  complicated  passions  which  most  be 
present  at  the  scene.  After  some  few  speeches  of  involuntary  admiration 
on  her  part,  and  of  anxious  doubt  and  inquiry  on  his.  Lady  EUinor  says. 

My  taak  is  hard,  bnt  it  mnat  be  performed.— 

Your  mother,  Walter,  was  of  noble  birth  ; 

Your  father  wealthy,  and  of  gentle  blood ; 

And  both  were  young,  and  both  in  the  esteem 

Of  thdr  compeera  were  held  the  paragona, 

Whose  presence  graced  the  court.     Daily  thev  met 

In  the  town's  gayest  scenes — the  Mall,  the  ball ; 

In  the  same  measure  danced,  in  the  same  madrigals 

Mingled  their  voices.    What  could  they  but  love  ? 

None  saw  them,  but  assigned  them  to  each  other. 

They  fondly,  wildly  lored. 
Walt». —  And  could  thdr  kindred. 

Being,  as  you  speak,  even  in  that  cold  world. 

Have  had  the  heart  to  sever  them  ? 
Ladt  Ellinob.— >  Oh  no  1 

They  on  their  course  of  love  sailed  smoothly  on, 

Fann*d  by  light  galea  along  a  pladd  stream, 

All  between  banks  of  flowers ;  none  barr'd  their  union. 

Relations,  friends,  approved. 
Waltkr.—  And  yet  I  am — 

And  such  my  parents,  and  my  birth  their  shame ! 

These  things  perplex  me. 

And  now  the  solution  of  the  riddle  is  imparted,  snch  as  Walter  little 
could  have  foreseen. 

Ladt  Ellikor.—  It  is  hard  to  utter- 

How  shall  I  speak  it  ?  There  waa  much  delay ; 
The  law  la  dilatory ;  noble  kinsmen, 
Whose  presence  state  demanded  at  their  nuptials. 
Were  rar  away  and  must  be  wdted  for. 
Oh  1  apprehend  me  quickly.    In  the  court 
There  was  much  licence,  though  the  king  was  holy.* 
The  marriage  came  at  length — a  gorgeous  scene, 
And  then,  a  month  scarce  past  in  privacy. 
The  fairest  boy  the  sun  e'er  shone  upon 
Was  born  ;  the  fact  from  all  the  world  conceded. 
Save  from  one  relative. 

Walter.—  Yourself,  Lady  ? 

*  Not  quite  so  holy  as  ths  lady  ioemi  to  imagine ;  but  the  nbject  is  a  little 
^'dicate.-^tUnr. 


1844.]  Tie  Unt-i&m ;  a  Drama.  1 1 

Laot  Ellinos.— >To  ue  'twas  known. 

Waltvr. —  And  the  poor  ehiid  ? 

Ladt  Ellino&«»—  That  hour 

Was  to  a  far  seelnded  borne  eonveyed. 
Walter. — An  ovteast,  pnnifllied  for  no  fault  of  hk. 
Ladt  Ellimos.— Your  UAer  fondly  anpplicated  for  yon. 

But  at  that  hour,  enamonr'd  as  he  was. 

He  could  deny  her  nothing. 
Waltxr. —  Ajid  my  mother  ? 

Ladt  Ellinor. — ^The  parting  from  her  child  nigh  broke  her  heart ; 

But  Am  snbdned  the  mother's  tendemesii 

And  sternly  dvng  to  honour. 
Waltsr.—  Could  it  be  ? 

Ladt  Ellinor. — ^Honooi'cher  idol ;  life's  a  trifle  to  her, 

Compared  with  Iker  fair  fiane.    Tlie  very  night 

Before  your  birth,  a-blase  with  jewellery 

She  shone,  the  bright  sultana  of  the  masque. 

On  the  next  eve  she  at  the  banauet  sat, 

The  courteous  hostess  of  a  hundred  guests, 

Till,  nature  failing  to  support  her  courage, 

The  attendants  bore  her  fainting  to  t^e  chamber. 

Walter  receives  this  tale  with  less  emotion  thaa  might  be  expected ; 
inquires  eagerly  after  his  father^  and  asks  after  his  brothers  and  sisters. 
He  is  told  that  his  father  considers  him  dead,  and  that  his  brothers  and 
sisters  all  one  by  one  perished.  He  then  requests  a  likeness  of  his 
mother — a  description  of  her — a  picture.  Lady  EUinor  says  she  was  like 
her^  and  then  turns  a  conversation,  too  affecting  and  dangerous  to  be  pro- 
longed^ to  Walter's  future  fortunes^  and  informs  him  that  his  mother  is 
studying  to  restore  him  to  the  state  from  which  she  cast  him  ;  but  Walter 
is  the  child  of  nature,  has  imbibed  the  gentle  philosophy  of  his  father's 
disposition,  and  expresses  his  satisfaction  in  his  present  sphere. 


Oh  I  tell  her,  lady, 


Pomp,  riches,  rank  are  vahieiess  to  me ; 
My  care  is  higher  than  such  ga«ds  as  those ; 
I'd  not,  for  idl  the  advanoement  in  the  world, 
Ezchange  the  freedom  of  my  country  life. 
What  are  tiie  splendours  of  your  courtly  pageants  ? 
I'm  sure  tbev  are  poor  to  what  we  may  behold 
Here  thro'  the  beauties  of  the  changeAil  day. 
From  its  grey  dawning  to  its  glowing  eve. 
Where  is  the  joy  of  scraping  wealth  together 
From  desks  and  counters  in  the  murky  town, 
Compared  with  that  of  seeing  in  the  fields 
God's  liberal  bounties  springing  from  the  earth  ? 
Or  what's  the  satasfaction  rank  may  yield 
That's  equal  to  a  peaceful  loving  home  ? 

Lady  Ellinor  hints  to  him  that  his  unaspiring  mind  and  love  of  rural 
tranquillity  and  content  is  owing  to  some  attachment  to  a  Phillis  or 
Delia. 

With  wreathed  crook,  and  silken-fleeced  flock, 
To  sing  her  carols  to  your  shepherd*s  pipe 
BeneaUi  the  woodbines  at  your  cottage  door. 

And  she  informs  him  that  with  his  mother's  consent  these  nuptials  may 
not  he,  *'  you  cannot  know  her  heart  -"  when  Walter  naturally  bursts  oo^ 

Could  she,  who  loted  so  madly,  ruin  mine? 

And  now  we  must  give  Lady  £llinor's  explanation  at  full  lengtiL 


1 2  7%e  First'bom ;  a  Drama.  [ July , 

It  miut  not,  cannot  be.    The  hour  may  come— 

When  the  world's  leu  to  her  than  now  it  ia, 

Her  youth  quite  gone,  her  waning  beauty  faded. 

When  pride,  the  love  of  praise,  and  vanity. 

Fly  the  chill  blasts  which  issue  from  the  grave, 

And  leave  the  aged  breast  to  worthier  tenants,-— 

That  she  may  force  herself  to  brook  her  shame. 

Do  a  late  justice  to  the  child  she  has  wronged. 

And  implore  pardon  from  her  injured  husband. 

But  no,  not  yet.  In  rickness  or  in  sorrow 

Such  thoughts  have  strongly  urged  her,  and  oft  times 

Could  hardly  be  repressed.  The  day  will  come, 

I  feel  it  must — ^not  yet — still  come  it  will — 

That  dreadful  revelation  must  be  made. 

And  all  its  torturing  consequences  suffered — 

The  crimson  ignominy ;  the  world's  scorn ; 

The  pity  of  the  good ;  but  that  were  little  ; 

The  loathed  familiarity  of  those, 

Who,  with  their  blighted  names,  now  keep  aloof. 

But  then  will  freely  greet  her  as  their  own ; 

Your  father's  keen  reproaches  for  the  years 

Of  comfort  in  his  child  abstracted  from  him  ;— 

All  might  be  borne ;  but  I  could  not  endure 

To  see  my  son  with  humble  blood  allied. 

Or  hear  that  yeoman's  daughter  tail  me  mother. 
Waltkr. — Your  blood  !  you  mother ! 
Ladt  Ellxnok. — I  am  self-betrayed. 

And  here  we  think  this  scene  would  have  ended  with  more  effect  than 
it  does  at  present.  From  the  opening  of  the  third  act  it  appears  that 
Lady  Ellinor  had  forbidden  Walter  to  continue  his  attachment  to  Mary  ^ 
bat  he  persists  in  his  purpose  of  remaining  faithful  to  his  engagements. 


Their  hard,  imperious  will 


May  make  me  wretched ;  it  shan't  make  me  great. 

I'll  not  be  torn  from  lowly  liberty, 

I'U  not  be  manacled  with  courtly  forms, 

I'll  not  be  hemmed  around  by  fine  appointments, 

I'll  not  be  always  watched  by  bowing  lacqueys,  &c. 

Mary  says  all  on  the  occasion  that  an  amiable  and  trustful  maid 
ought  to  say — "  We'll  love  and  wait  and  hope."  George  also  returns  to 
bid  them  farewell^  behaves  with  admirable  temper  and  feeling,  shake 
hands  with  Walter,  leaves  Mary,  in  case  he  dies  when  away,  all  bis  little 
property,  and  even  wishes  them  to  name  their  first  child  after 
him.  Old  Empson  now  comes  in,  who  has  been  ignorant  of  all  the  late  dis- 
coveries, and  is  eager  for  the  fulfilment  of  the  marriage.  The  Puritan 
Vicar  however  interposes,  who  informs  him  that  he  is  commanded^  as  a 
tenant  of  Sir  Charles,  to  order  them  to  move  no  further  in  his  purpose. 
This  moves  the  old  man's  spleen  a  little,  and  he  mentions  the  obligations 
the  family  are  under  to  him,  among  which  is  the  following  : 


When  Sir  Charles  at  Naseby 


Lay  fallen,  with  little  hope  to  rise  again, 
I  tore  him  from  the  Roundhead  ruffian*s  grasp, 
And  by  a  wound,  whose  scar  records  the  act. 
Preserved  his  life  at  th'  hazard  of  my  own,  &c. 

He  then  finds  that  Sir  Charles  bears  no  part  in  a  proceeding  which  is 
indeed  guarded  from  his  knowledge ;  he  determines  to  see  him,  and  takes 
Mary  with  him  }  in  the  meantime  Lady  Ellinor  has  an  interview  with  her 
son  in  the  public  avenue  leading  to  Ashby  Hall ;  and  makes  the  following 
piopoflition : 


1 844.]  The  Ftnt-bom ;  a  Drama.  1 3 

In  the  French  court  my  influence  can  do  mnch ; 
For  yon  I've  used  it.   There  is  a  rich  abbey. 
Whose  spires  and  towers  may  afar  be  seen 
Glistening  in  whiteness  'gainst  the  dark  bine  sky. 
And  it  stands  nobly  'mid  a  wide  domain 
Of  fields  and  vineyards  on  a  rising  ground, 
Beside  the  silver  Loire  in  hit  Touraine : 
It  waits  but  your  consent  to  call  you  lord. 

But  he  refuses  to  change  his  futh  -,  and  in  the  middle  of  an  argument, 
getting  rather  warm  on  the  lady*8  side,  Sir  Charles  suddenly  appears  close 
to  them,  and  expresses  bis  surprise  at  his  lady's  sudden  interest  in  Walter 
and  his  fortunes. 

But  by  what  secret  motive  prompted, 
Beyond  all  rightful  limit,  far  extending 
Such  influence  as  our  ancient  lordship  yields. 
You've  sought,  as  the  good  Empson  counsels  me, 
To  separate  and  blight  two  gentle  hearts, 
I  would,  in  no  vain,  curious  spirit,  ask ; 
And  deem  a  candid  answer  is  my  due. 

The  Lady  urges  the  inequality  of  the  match,  and  its  consequent  impro^ 
priety.  Sir  Charles  maintains  the  higher  ground^  that  virtue  is  the  true 
nobility. 

Though  his  descent  from  monarchs  were  derived. 
They'd  find  him  proudly  mated. 

And  this  topic  is  debated^  though  rather  at  too  great  a  length,  between 
thero^  till  the  Lady's  opposition  evokes  a  full  exposition  of  Sir  Charles's 
views  in  the  following  speech: — 

I  hold  that  honours  honourably  won, 

Titles  and  coronets,  renown  and  station, 

Afford  the  purest  stimulants  to  action. 

Which  men,  imtouched  by  heavenward  desires, 

Regardless  of  their  everlasting  crown. 

And  cent' ring  in  this  world  their  sum  of  good. 

Can  raise  their  hopes,  or  bend  their  efforts  to. 

They  far  exalt  fame's  ardent  votary 

Above  the  miserable  herd  whose  lives 

Are  wasted  on  the  grovelling  quest  of  gain. 

Or  dissipate  on  sensualities; 

The  noble  name,  acquired  by  noble  deeds, 

lives  the  memorial  of  past  excellence. 

And,  potent  in  the  virtues  it  embalms, 

ISzcites  the  aspiring  soul,  which  yearns  for  fame. 

To  emulate  the  achievements  it  rewards. 

But  glittering  orders  and  proud  appellations 

Are  but  as  stigmas  when  the  unworthy  wears  them ; 

And  to  degenerate  from  a  father's  greatness. 

To  soil  the  badge  of  honour  with  foul  acts. 

To  shame  by  vice  the  rank  by  virtue  won,  ^ 

To  have  the  state  whieh  speaks  a  gentleman. 

Yet  want  the  generous,  humble,  kindly  spirit 

Imported  in  the  name^  stamps  a  reproach 

On  the  base  scion  of  a  noble  stock. 

Which  sinks  him  so  much  lower  than  the  people, 

As  were  the  heights  above  from  which  he  fell. 

This  open  declaration,  in  which  the  virtues  of  the  heart  and  the  honour 
of  the  character  are  so  raised  above  the  splendour  of  rank  and  titles  of 
iodety,  begets  some  suspicion  and  alarm  in  Lady  EUinor's  miod  that  Sir 


14  Tke  Rr$Uhom ;  a  Drwma.  [Jidy, 

Charles  had  some  partacolar  meaning  api^cable  to  her  in  what  he  says ; 
and  this  leads  to  the  full  disclosure  of  the  guilty  secret^  which  we  mnst 
give  in  those  winged  words  which  the  poet  himself  has  chosen. 

Sir  Charlvs. —  Think  yon  then,  and  eaji 

Wliich  is  the  nobly,  which  the  beiely  born. 

Good  Empson'f  daughter,  though  of  lowly  race, 

Whose  birth  was  hallowed  by  a  parent's  blessing. 

Whose  childhood  throve  benieath  their  brightening  hopes, 

Whose  youthful  loTeliness  is  aU  their  pride, 

Or  he,  whose  parents,  whatsoe'er  their  rank, 

Dread  in  Aeir  son  the  witness  of  their  idiame, 

And  only  may  his  filial  duty  challenge 

By  publication  of  their  own  disgrace  ? 
Ladt  Ellinor.— Hare  yon  no  recollection  of  the  past  ? 

Charles,  this  is  cmel  I    Every  word  yon  speak, 

Sunestive  of  a  woiid  of  bitter  tijoughfti, 

StnKes  to  my  heart  a  pang  of  keen  reproach. 
Sir  Charles. — Whenoe  springs  this  strong  emotion  ? 
Walter.-^  Pray  feibear  t 

No  longer  urge  our  cause  against  her  will ; 

Let  it  not  discord  breed  beneath  yon  twain. 

Oh!  sacrifice  our  lores — sever  us  quite,— - 

What  are  our  hopes,  onr  happiness,  onr  Utcs, 

That  they  should  cost  the  treasure  of  her  tears  ? 
Ladt  Ellinor. — My  noble-hearted  boy ! 
Sir  Charlbs.— -  How  say  you,  lad  I 

So  vehement  a  suitor  'gainst  yourself? 

What  mystery  is  here  ?     Sp^Jc,  Ellinor ! 

Speak,  I  entreat  you !    Let  me  see  your  face  I 

lliose  features !    Boy — ^wife— why  are  you  silent  both  ? 

Heavens  1  can  it  be  ?    Have  I  been  trifled  with  ? 

Say,  is  my  thought  the  image  of  the  truth  ? 

In  mercy  tell  me — but  one  word  to  allay 

This  trembling  agony  of  painful  hope— 

That  youth 

Ladt  Ellinor. —  Oh,  Charles  1 

Sir  Charlbs. —  Is  he? 

Ladt  Ellinor. —  He  is  our  son* 

Sir  Charlbs.— I  am  not  childleu. 

Walter.—  Father ! 

Sir  Charles.—  My  lost  boy! 

Sir  Charles  commnnicates  therefore  to  Empson  that  he  has  discovered 
in  Walter  a  relation  ;  yet  that,  notwithstanding  his  iMighteaed  prospects, 
he  will  make  no  alteration  in  their  course  of  life  or  desires,  but  make  them 
happy  in  the  way  they  have  chosen.  He  then  joins  their  hands>  and^  on 
Walter  owning  his  preference  to  a  country  life^  Sir  Charles  thus  at  once 
unfolds  his  views,  and  concludes  the  drama  in  a  very  poetical  and  pic* 
tnresque  manner. 

Your  choice  is  wiselv  made,  and  shall  be  prosptred. 

There  is  a  fertile  wide  demesne  of  mine. 

Which  shall  to  you  and  to  your  gentle  Msry 

Be  confirmed  folly.    'TIs  an  ancient  sett,— 

A  venerable  patrimonisl  hall, 

And  nobly  stsnds  at  Abcr  by  the  sea, 

Hard  by  the  coast — ^bnt  oh  1  not  such  a  ooest 

As  in  the  bleak  North  or  the  bairen  East 

Mocks  at  the  labour  of  the  husbandman^ 

Opposing  to  the  ladling  of  the  waves 

A  wild  imd  desolate  ateiili^ ; 

fiut  axtoh  tncity  whan  to  u«  rvy  vti|B 


1844.]  2te  Kr^'lom ;  a  Drtmut.  15 

Ol  the  bine  oeean'ii  tide  the  corn-fields  ttretch, 

And  flocki  and  herds  tiie  flowery  meadows  browze ; 

While  the  firm  oak  and  dusky  dm,  secure 

From  the  mde  touch  of  all  nngenial  Uasts, 

lift  up  their  heads  unscathed,  and  spread  their  branches 

Widely  around  in  undiminished  growth. 

lliere  were  my  boyish  haunts, — I  Iotc  them  yet ; 

And  there  sfaidl  be,  with  you  and  with  your  children, 

The  frequent  home  of  my  declining  life. 

It  cbeers  me  in  anticipation  now 

To  tlunk  upon  our  snmmer-eyenings  there ; 

As  in  some  natural  arbour  we  repose, 

And  look  across  the  Menai*s  sparkling  straits, 

Where  with  its  satellite  islSy  fair  Anglesea, 

Rests  on  a  plain  of  waters,  which,  beyond. 

Blend  with  the  distant  sky  ;  while,  to  the  east, 

Huge  Penmaenmawr,  and  mountains  further  still. 

That  girdle  in  old  Conway's  quiet  bay, 

Bask  in  the  tfaB.  light  of  the  setting  sun ; 

And  Bangor's  hallowed  towers  and  solemn  woods 

Rise  in  deep  shadow  toward  the  Rowing  west. 
BiABT.«*We  H  be  so  happy  there  1 
Waltbb. —  Will  we  not,  Mary  ?  ^ 

Our  tenants  €ar  our  friends ;  our  TiUagers 

The  humble  £unily  we'll  live  to  aenre : 

In  useful  innocence  we'll  spend  our  days, 

AboTO  the  world,  its  censure  or  applause. 

So  ends  this  little  domestic  or  familiar  tragedy,  representing  natore 
and  truth  nnder  a  poetical  form,  with  less  depth  in  the  delineation  of 
passion  than  the  loftier  tragedy,  yet  conyeying  its  mitigated  impressions 
with  greater  ease  and  lighter  colouring.  Tlie  story  is  not  a  mere  imitation 
of  the  prosaic  reality  of  the  world,  but  dignified  by  ideality,  and  admitting 
pictnresqiie  associations  and  figures.  The  dramatic  progress  is  slower 
than  in  Uie  higher  tragedy,  but  not  less  effective ;  and  what  is  wanted  in 
intensity  of  passion  is  compensated  by  the  truth  of  the  picture,  and  the 
readiness  with  which  it  excites  sympathy,  by  being  more  on  a  level  with 
our  own  feelings  and  situation.  Perhaps  it  is  to  this  class  of  fiction, 
whether  in  prose  or  poetry,  that  we  recur  with  most  pleasure ;  for  there 
are  accents  that  come  from  the  poet*8  lyre,  too  deeply  plaintive  to  bear 
frequent  renewal,  while  those  works  will  be  most  uniformly  popular  that, 
while  they  moderately  affect  the  passions,  at  the  same  time  seek  to  divert 
the  fancy  and  exercise  the  taste.  Nonnnllas  credo  esse  materias,  quae 
continuum  desiderent  affectum  5  nee  tamen  minus  artis  aut  usus  hi  leniorea 
habent 


Mr.  Urban,   Charterhouse,  May  8. 

YOUR  Correspondent,  Mb.  J. 
Allies,  who  requests  information 
respecting  John  Bnnyan,  will  probably 
have  learned  before  seeing  your  next 
number  that  another  splendid  edition 
has  just  been  edited  by  Lewis  Pocock, 
esq.  F.S.A.,  who  has  laid  XYi^  firet 
editiou,  with  many  other  early  ones^ 
nnder  such  ample  contribution  as 
probably  to  settle  every  really  import- 
ant bibliographical  question  for  the 
future. 


But  a  new  era,  even  in  the  fame  of 
Bunyan,  having  as  it  were  set  in  with 
the  editorship  of  Southey,  perhaps 
others  of  your  readers  besides  J.  A. 
may  thank  me  for  requesting  a  little 
of  your  space  in  order  to  do  justice 
to  the  high  principle  displayed  by  the 
laureate  in  the  execution  of  the  task 
which  he  undertook  at  my  request* 
It  is  a  subject  which  perhaps  no  one 
but  myself  can  speak  of— on  which 
there  will  be  but  one  opinion, — and  can 
be  no  mistake*     Mr.  Southey  was 


1 6  Smdhtf'g  SmwJup  ofB\ 

inm  the  first  particolaH y  antww  to 
improTe  the  text ;  hat,  residing  three 
hondred  miles  (rom  Loodonp  he  ia  the 
first  io^taoce  oofTected  ft  cobubos  copj 
thrcmglumi  with  his  own  hand,  con- 
toltiDg  the  folio  edition  as  well  as 
others  which  I  had  sent  him,  and  this 
was  done  tiiinkiog  it  would  therefore 
not  be  necessary  to  transmit  each 
sheet  to  so  great  a  distance  as  it  came 
from  the  press :  hot  as  he  proceeded 
in  his  task  I  was  enabled  to  fnmish 
him  with  so  many  Yaloable  aids  from 
▼arioos  literary  friends,  that  he  de- 
termined to  disregard  his  own  eitra 
laboor,  and  wrote  me  thus  : — 

*'Ke9wiei,  21  Mm^k,  18S9. 

*'  I  dnlj  reeeiTed  jonr  pared,  sod  will 
in  a  few  days  return  the  copj  for  the 
press.  It  hss  pat  me  iinon  a  carefol 
collation  of  the  text,  snd  I  do  not  repent 
of  the  unexpected  labour  which  has  been 
thus  occasioned,  ai  it  will  be  the  means 
of  presenting  the  work  in  Banyan's  own 
vigoroos  ▼emacolar  English,  which  had 
been  greatlj  cormpted  in  the  easiest  and 
worst  of  all  ways, — that  of  comporitorsand 
correctors  following  inadTcrtentlj  their 
own  mode  of  speech.  The  copy  of  Hep- 
tiDstairs  edition  has  been  of  use  in  this 
collation ;  and  sometimes  in  the  one 
which  gocf  to  press,  corrupt  ss  it  is,  I 
have  found  a  better  reading  than  in  Uie 
folio.  These  are  minate  pains  of  which 
the  public  will  know  nothing,  but  of 
which  a  few  readers  will  feel  the  worth. 

**  A  rorrect  text  has  appeared  to  me 
(who,  both  as  a  Terseman  and  a  proseman, 
am  a  weigher  of  words  and  sentences,)  of 
80  much  consequence,  since  I  undertook 
this  collation,  that  I  should  like  to  correct 
the  proofs  myself." 

Accord iogly,  every  proof  sheet  was 
transmitted  to  Mr.  Soutbey  at  Keswick, 
and  the  modem  printer*  whom  I  lately 
heard  honestly  exalting  in  the  beaaty 
of  a  Large  Paper  bound  copy,  now 
mellowed  and  glossy  with  comparative 
age,  was  as  happy  in  minutely  follow- 
ing his  "copy"  as  former  mar-iexts 
seem  to  have  been  in  perpetuating,  if 
not  engendering,  the  foulest  errors. 

I  feci  quite  happy,  Mr.  Urban,  in 
the  iden  that  you  will  think  I  ought 
not   to   lose   so   fair  an   occasion   of 

'  *  Using  accidentally  the  word  modem 
here  calls  to  my  mind  that  the  late  Lord 
Spencer  used  to  call  my  friend  Mr.  Wm. 
Nicol — of  whom  I  am  now  speaking — the 
**  modern  Jknson  !** 
2 


■Mkng  known  the  saocd  light  in 
whidi  the  first  prase  writer  of  modem 
days  Tiewed  the  edUurMp  of  snch  an 
aathoras  Bnnran. 

* 

Yoois,  fcc  JoH3r  Majoa. 

P.S.  1  have  examined  the  copy  of 
the  teeomi  edslaaa  in  the  British 
Mttsenn,  and  it  has  ■•/  the  portrait, 
hot  a  gentleman  of  the  highest  biblio- 
graphical  and  biblical  anthority  tells 
me  has  alwars  considered  it  as  im- 
perfect  on  that  account.  The  sporions 
third  part  (boond  np  with  it,)  wants 
the  title-page;  Scott  adopted  the 
9ecomd  editum  for  his  text — it  was  lent 
to  him  by  a  lady  for  the  purpose — in 
all  probability  Mrs.  Gnmey,  for  there 
cannot  be  many  persons  who  can  boast 
of  possessing  even  a  second  edition 
of  this  remarkable  book. 


Ojr  THE   SCAEAniirS. 

IN  every  cabinet  or  museum  of  an- 
tiquities are  to  be  seen  nnmerons  col- 
lections of  stones,  such  as  agate,  cor- 
nelian, porphyry,  basalt,  &c.  &c. 
which  are  worked  into  the  shape  of 
the  scarabcua  or  beetle,  and  have 
often  some  engraving  or  device  on  the 
flat  surface.  They  have  been  found  in 
great  abundance  in  Egypt,  and  occa- 
sionally amongst  the  vestiges  and 
rains  of  the  ancient  Etruscan  cities, 
and  are  of  different  sizes,  and  great 
variety  of  execution.  Why  this  insect 
should  have  been  selected  so  general Iv 
for  an  object  of  sculpture  is  by  no 
means  a  clear  point,  and  it  may  be  a 
matter  of  some  interest  to  inquire  for 
what  reason  any  consideration  should 
have  been  attached  to  a  creature  of 
such  comparative  insignificance,  and 
how  far  it  may  have  been  connected 
with  the  philosophy  and  mythology  of 
the  earliest  nations  of  the  viorld. 

Lanzi,  in  his  "  Saggio  di  Lingua 
Elrusca,"  (p.  135,  vol.  ],)  has  these 
observations  on  this  subject : 

"  We  will  now  say  a  few  words  on  the 
Scarabseas,  which  has  served  as  a  model  for 
the  form  of  a  vast  number  of  Etruscaa 
sculptured  stones. 

'»  They  are  generally  perforated  with  a 
hole  lengthways,  so  that  either  they  may 
be  strung  on  a  thread  or  small  cord,  and 
thus  worn  as  amulets,  or,  by  means  of  a 
rivet,  they  may  be  fixed  or  set,  so  as  to 
serve  the  purpose  of  a  ring  or  signet. 
This  description  of  superstition  is  derived 
from  Egypt,  where  the  scarabsens  was  held 


1 844.  J 


0»  the  Scarabaui. 


17 


l»j  1111B7  It  an  object  of  divine  woiihip,* 
•nd  WM  wuTenelly  considered  a  symbol 
of  the  moon  and  tbe  sun.  It  was  likewise 
•apposed  to  be  emblematical  of  manlj 
atrenfth  and  Tigoor,  from  tbe  received 
opinion  that  these  insects  were  solely  of 
the  male  species,  and  from  thence  were 
held  as  particniariy  adapted  to  fDrm  the 
sn^ect  o(  the  ring  or  signet  nsed  by  the 
military  dass.  Ans,  according  to  Pln- 
tarch,  the  scarabseos  amongst  fighting 
men  was  engraved  on  their  signets.t 

**  The  same  enstom  seems  to  have 
passed  over  into  Italy,  either  having  been 
first  adopted  in  Sicily,  where  the  nsagea 
of  Egypt  prevailed  from  the  earliest  ages, 
or  tlux>agh  the  doctrines  of  Pythagoras, 
whose  philosophy,  being  Tciled  in  symbols, 
was  copied  from  that  of  the  Egyptians. 
There  is  every  reason  to  snppoae  that  the 
warriors  of  Italy  held  this  same  opinion 
respecting  the  acaralMens,  since  the  figvre 
of  sofloe  hero  waa  generally  engraved  on 
the  flat  surface  of  the  stone,  and  it  waa 
probably  not  only  considered  as  an  amu- 
let, but,  from  the  image  representing  some 
peraoB  connected  with  religions  venera- 
tion,  it  was  classed  and  deposited  amongst 
the  honaehold  gods.  Hence  it  follows, 
tiiat,  as  the  atyle  of  engraving  in  many  in- 
atanoea  is  exceedingly  rude  aod  unfinished, 
it  is  to  be  snpposed  that  these  scarabsd 
were  in  use  among  the  soldiery  of  the 
lower  grades,  aince  auch  as  are  more  deli* 
cately  executed  are  Ui  less  numerous." 

The  earliest  meDtion  in  the  Old 
Testament  of  religious  worship  ren- 
dered to  any  divinity  connected  with 
an  insect  occurs  in  the  let  chap.  2Dd 
Book  of  Kings.  2nd  and  3rd  verses. 
"  Ahaziahp  King  of  Israel,  having 
fallen  through  a  lattice  of  his  upper 
chamber,  and  having  thus  received 
some  dangerous  injury,  sent  to  con- 
sult Beelzebub,  the  god  of  Ekron,  to 
know  whether  he  should  recover  of 
this  disease."  The  name  of  this  deity  I 
ia  translated  in  the  Septuagint  as 
"The  God- Fly  of  the  Ekronite8/*§ 
who  were  the  inhabitants  of  a  district 
belonging  to  the  Philistines,  situated 
near  the  Mediterranean,  and  originally 
allotted  to  the  tribe  of  J odah.  (Josh, 
chap.  IT.  ver.  45  and  46.) 

*  iBgyptl  magna  Pars  scarabieos  inter 
Bumina  oolit.  Flin.  Nat.  Hist.  Izxx.  c.  SI. 

f  rots  dc  fiaxifMHf  ^v  yXvifnj  fr<l>pa' 
<WSor.  De  Iside  et  Osir.  p.  355. 

I  Baal.Beel,  or  Bel, signifying  "  lord*' 
or  •*  master,"  and  **  sebnb,"  or  **  xevuv," 
a  fly. 

f  BmaK  funay  M»  *Aiutapinf* 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


Calmet  Bays,||  (and  the  same  opi- 
nions are  found  in  Buztorfs  Chaldee 
Dictionary,  o.  the  word  "  Baal,")  that 

•*  This  deity  was  called  the  god  of  the 
flies,  either  because  he  defended  the  peo- 
ple from  the  flies,  (which  were  attracted 
In  great  nnmbera  by  the  sacrifices,)  or  be- 
cause the  idol  represented  a  fly  or  beetle, 
and  the  figure  of  this  insect  was  according 
to  Pliny  an  object  of  adoration.  The 
Egyptians,  with  whom  this  worship  ori- 
ginated, were  at  a  short  distance  from  the 
country  of  the  Philistines,  and  it  is  ob- 
served that  there  are  beetles  in  the  picturea 
of  Isis,  on  which  Pignorius  %  has  a  comment. 
The  author  of  the  Book  of  Wisdom,** 
(chap.  zii.  ver.  8,  S3,  and  S4,)  having 
said  that  Grod  sent  flies  and  wasps  to  drive 
the  Canaanites  and  Ammonites  by  degrees 
out  of  their  country,  adds,  that  God  made 
those  very  things,  to  which  they  paid  di- 
vine honours,  the  instruments  of  their 
punishment,  they  therefore  adored  fliea 
and  wasps.  There  are  said  to  be  medala 
and  old  sods  on  which  flies  and  beetles 
are  represented.  Some  authors  are  of 
opinion  that  the  name  Achor  ft  ("^  quoted 
by  Pliny)  being  the  God  invoked  at 
Gyrene  against  flies,  refers  to  Akron,  the 
city  where  Beelxebub  was  worshipped.** 

According  to  this  extract  from  Cal- 
met, it  appears  that  winged  insects,  such 
as  the  fly,  the  wasp,  and  the  beetle,  were 
objects  of  worship  amongst  the  Egyp- 
tians and  tbe  adjoining  nations.  It  may 
further  be  observed,  that  one  of  the  dis- 
tinguishing marks  on  the  calf,  which 

II  Tide  Calmet*s  Dictionary  under  the 
word  Beelzebub. 

%  Pignorius  Laurentius  of  Padua,  a 
canon  of  Treviso,  died  1631.  He  wrote 
the  Mensa  Isiaca  to  illustrate  Egyptian 
antiquities.    Vid.  p.  43. 

**  As  Calmet  evidently  refers  to  the 
Vulgate,  these  verses  are  here  given : 

Wisdom  zii.  8.  Et  misisti  antecessores 
ezercit&s  tui,  vespas. 

Ver.  S3.  Unde  et  Ulis,  qui  in  vitA  sua 
insensatd  et  injustd  vizerunt,  |»«r  Affc,  qum 
eoluerunt,  de<flsti  snmma  torments. 

Ver.  S4,  Etenim  in  erroris  viA  diuti6s 
erraverunt,  Decs  estimantes  hsBc,  quae  in 
animalibus  sunt  supervacna.  Vttlgnie 
Version. 

tt  Cyreniaci  Achorem  Deum  invocaot, 
muscarom  multitudine  peatilentiam  af- 
ferente,  quss  protinus  intereunt,  cum  li- 
tatum  est  iUi  Deo.  Plin.  Nat.  Hist.  L  10, 
e.  36.  Gyrene,  here  mentioned,  wss  a 
city  and  province  of  Libya  PentapoUtaoa, 
lying  between  the  great  Syrtes  and  the 
MeSterranean. 

D 


18 


Stafford  Castle. 


was  held  to  be  the  personification  of 
the  god  Apis,  was  "  the  form  of  a 
beetle  found  under  his  tongue."*  Both 
Isis  and  Osiris,  themselves  the  symbols 
of  the  moon  and  the  sun,  were  likewise 
connected  with  the  worship  rendered 
to  the  cow,  ox,  or  bull,  into  which 
figure  Osiris  was  said  to  have  passed 
by  the  doctrine   of  Metempsychosis. 


rJniy. 


As  therefore  the  scarabsens  became 
thus  identified  with  the  mythology  of 
Egypt,  it  may  be  supposed  that  it  nad 
some  mystical  allusion  to  the  religions 
veneration  so  universally  paid  to  an 
animal,  whose  authenticity,  as  a  divine 
being,  it  essentially  contributed  to  es- 
Ubiish. 

Axminater.  N.  T.  S. 


ERDESWICKE,  the  old  historian 
of  Stafifbrdshire,  says  of  the  County 
Town  :  "  The  town  hath  been  walled 
(as  I  take  it)  round  about,  whereof 
some  part  remains,  and  the  rest 
sheweth  by  the  ruins  where  they  have 
been  ;  and  there  hath  been  also  a 
castle  within  the  town,  but  now  it  is 
quite  decayed. 

"The  castle,  which  now  stands  on 
the  south  side,  and  is  half  a  mile  or 
more  from  the  town,  hath  and  doth 
belong  to  the  Earls  and  Barons  of 
Stafford.  The  said  castle  that  now  is 
was  builded  by  Raufe  first  Earl  of 
Stafford,  as  the  report  is,  and  not  un- 
like to  be  true;  and  yet  I  have  a 
certain  deed  dated  apud  castrvm  juata 
Stafford,  long  before  the  said  Raphe 
lived,  so  that  it  would  seem  that  Raufe 
Earl  of  Stafford  did  but  re-edify  the 
said  castle,  and  not  build  it." 

Doctor  Plot's  account  is  somewhat 
different ;  he  says, 

"The  earliest  authentic  account  of 
Stafford,  is  of  the  year  913,  when  BWeda, 
sister  to  Edward  the  elder,  and  Countess 
of  Mercia,  built  a  castle  there,  bat  the 
site  of  it  is  not  now  known.  (Saxon  Chron. 
104.)  Another  was  founded  by  William 
the  Conqueror,  on  an  insulated  hill  near 
the  town,  and  was  given  in  custody  to 
Robert  de  Toeni,  who  assumed  the  name 
of  de  Stadford,  and  was  the  progenitor  of 
the  illustrioas  family  of  Stafford.  This 
castle  was  garrisoned  by  King  Charles  I. 
but  was  taken  by  the  ParliamenUry  forces 
and  demolished  in  1644.*' 


STAFFORD  CASTLE. 
(With  a  Plate.) 


It  Further  information  may  very  pro- 
bably be  obtained  from  the  work  of  Pig- 
norius  from  Bochart  De  sacris  Animali- 
bus,  and  from  the  more  recent  discoveries 
in  the  drawings  and  hieroglyphics  of 
Egypt. 


Mr.  Clifford,  the  historian  of  Tixal, 
.(in  1817,)  says, 

"  About  thirty  years  ago,  nothing  of  the 
castle  remained  visible  but  a  solitary  frag- 
ment of  wall  which  the  late  Sir  William 
Jemingham  underbuilt  to  prevent  it 
from  falling.  Some  workmen  being 
employed  to  search  for  an  ancient  wall, 
discovered  that  all  the  basement  story  of 
-the  castle  (keep)  lay  buried  under  the 
ruins  of  the  upper  parts;  Sir  William 
Jemingham  immediately  ordered  the 
whole  to  be  excavated  and  cleared  of  the 
rubbish,  so  that  the  curious  traveller 
may  now  explore  every  part  of  it,  and 
contemplate  at  his  leisure  the  form  and 
extent  of  a  fortress  or  baronial  castle  in 
the  time  of  the  Conqueror. 

"  Sir  George  Jemingham,  son  of  Sir 
William,  has  undertaken  to  build  the 
castle  on  its  old  fonndatioDs,  and  has 
already  completed  one  front,  flanked  by 
two  octagonal  towers,  in  a  very  elegant 
castellated  style." 

So  far  the  historian.  Sir  George 
Jemingham,  who  was  summoned  to 
Parliament  as  Baron  Stafford  of  Staf- 
ford Castle,  in  1824,  completed  only 
this  front.  In  the  tower  are  deposited 
some  armour  and  other  curiosities. 
The  ancient  well  (160  feet  deep)  of  the 
castle,  a  little  distance  from  the  north- 
east angle  of  the  keep,  was  discovered 
in  1819  by  preparations  for  planting; 
,it  was  covered  with  oak  planks  under 
3  feet  of  soil  or  rubbish  ;  the  water  is 
good  and  abundant.  No  search  has 
been  made  for  the  outworks  of  the 
castle,  the  foundations  of  which  no 
doubt  remain,  and  probably  included 
Castle  Church. 

The  artificial  mount  on  which  the 
castle  stands  is  of  an  oblong  form, 
measuring  one  hundred  and  five  feet 
by  fifty.  The  walls  are  twelve  feet 
high  and  eight  in  thickness.    J.  W. 


GoiaMo^  Krl.imi-.fvJ,,, 


Sl<i/yhrd     rt/^AV  . 


Od  the  I  Ith  of  April  the  Lord  Biihop  place  till  the  3rd  of  Mr;  foUowlD;,  wheo 

of  Sdiiburj  coDKcrated  ■  new  charch,  the  MinjacM  of  AUeibnry  depMlted  the 

dedicated    to    Saint    Nieholai,   at  Eait  central  itone  at  the  eiat  end  of  the  apae, 

GraAoa,  ii  the  pailih  of  Great  Bedwjn,  and  the  Earl  Bruce  the  plinth  itone  Ijing 

Wilta  ;  (ha  fint  atone  of  which  wu  laid  immediatelj  oter  it.   Between  these  atonea 

on  tlie  nth  of  April,  IMS,  bj  the  Vicar,  waa  inurted  a  braia  plate  bearing  the  foU 

though  the  unsl  ceremon;  did  not  take  lowing  inacription  : — 


IN  .  NOMINE  . 

DEI  .  OMNIPOTENTIS . 

BEATISSIM*  .  ET  .  GLOBIOSISSIM*  .  TRINITATIS  . 

PATHIS  .  PILII  .  SPIEITUS  .  SANCTI  . 

AMEN  . 

LAPIS  .  HIC  .  PRIHARIUS  .  CAPEtL£  .  IN  .  NOMINE  .  S  . 

NICOLAI  .  DICANDX  .  DEP031TUS  .  Ill  .  DIE  .  MAII  . 

ANNO  .  SALUTIS  .  H.DCCC.XLII  . 

REGINiE  .  VICTORIA  .  V  . 

A  .  CAROLO  .  HARCHIONE  .  AILESBURENSI . 

ABSISTENTB  .  EI  .  GEORGIO  .  GUL.  FRED.  COHITE  .  BRUCE  . 

BEGENTE  .  ECCLESIAM  .  SARISB.  EDVARDO  .  DENISON  . 

EPISCOPO  . 

DECANO  .  eCCL.  CATH.  SARUM  .  HUGONE  .  NICOLAO  .  PEARSON  . 

HUJUS  .  LOCI  .  OFFICIALI  . 

PAROECI*  .  BEDWYN  .  MAGNjE  .  VICARIO  . 

lOANNE  .  WARD  . 

BENJAHINE .  FERRBY  .  ARCHITECTO . 


20 


New  Church  ai  Ea$l  Grafton,  WiUm. 


LJoly. 


The  popalatioa  of  tlufl  parish  b  dispened 
in  tefenl  hamlettt  orer  an  extent  of  10,000 
•cm ;  and  at  the  mother  chorch,  dtoated 
in  the  principal  townihip,  ia  quite  at  one 
extremity  of  the  pariah,  abont  half  of  the 
population  ia  diatant  from  two  to  fonr 
miles  from  it.  The  hamlet  of  East 
Grafton  is  eentral  to  thia  outlying  popu- 
lation, whieh  exceeds  1,000 ;  and  the  new 
church  is  calculated  to  accommodate*  nearly 
500  persons  in  open  sittings,  four-fifths 
of  whieh  sre  free  for  the  use  of  the  poorer 
classes. 

We  are  anxious  to  give  a  ftill  aceount 
of  this  building,  as  it  is  decidedW  one  of 
the  most  successful  attempts,  taat  have 
been  made,  to  produce  a  good,  substantial, 
correct,  and  appropriate  Tillage  church. 
The  style  is  Norman,  about  the  time  of 
Henry  I«  and  the  plan  consists  of  a  fully 
dcTcloped  chancel  terminated  with  a  dr- 
eular  apse,  a  well-proportioned  nave  with 
dere-story  and  aisles,  and  al  the  north- 
west angle  a  substantia)  tower,  pierced 
near  the  top  with  open  arohea,  and  covered 
by  a  low  stone  spire,  of  which  there  is  a 
good  example  at  Than  church  near  Caen, 
in  Normandy.  The  whole  ia  built  of  Bath 
stone,  the  exterior  Hot  of  the  walla  being 
left  in  the  rough,  and  the  interior  dragged 
to  a  smoother  finish,  yet  not  so  as  to  de- 
stroy the  idea  of  reality ;  whilst  the  orna- 
mental detail,  both  interiorly  and  exte- 
riorly, is  simple,  bold,  and  eiTectiTe, 
neither  thrust  in  out  of  place,  nor  orer- 
done  where  it  is  necessary.  The  chancel 
with  its  apse,  S7  feet  by  16,  is  ooTcred  with 
a  semi-circular  vault,  which  is  dirided  by 
transverse  ribs  over  Uie  chancel,  with  two 
others  converging  to  a  point  at  the  centre 
of  the  easternmost  transverse  rib,  over  the 
apse.  Astring-coorse  runs  round  the  whole 
at  the  springing  of  the  vault.  This  part 
of  the  building  is  lighted  by  three  round- 
headed  narrow  windows  in  the  >pMf  the 
chancel  walls  being  unpierced.  Ine  win- 
dows are  connected  together  by  an  hori- 
sontal  string,  level  with  the  abaci  of  the 
shafts  supporting  the  mouldings  of  the 
window-arches,  and  further  by  a  low  ar- 
cade of  two  openings  between  the  windows, 
and  of  one  opening  between  them  and  the 
vaulting  shafts  which  diride  the  apse  from 
the  chancel ;  another  string-course  forms 
a  base  to  the  arcade  and  windows.  The 
floor  of  the  chancel  is  raised  three  steps 
from  the  nave,  and  the  apse  one  from  the 
chancel.  The  pavement  Is  of  Chamber- 
lain's encaustic  tile,  of  an  early  pattern, 
and  arranged  Tery  effectively  after -a  design 
by  Willement.  The  altar  is  of  a  polished, 
dark-coloured  marble,  in  the  shape  of  a 
plain  tomb,  haying  engaged  Norman  ihafta 
at  the  four  angles,  a  chevron  moulding 
under  the  slab,  and  a  cross  patt^  within 


a  nimbus  carved  in  the  eentie.  The  glass 
of  the  apse  is  beantifttDy  stained  by  Wille- 
ment. The  centre  window  exhibits  five 
subjects  selected  from  the  life  of  Christ, 
namely :  the  Adoration  of  the  Magi,  the 
Last  Supper,  the  Crucifixion,  the  Resur- 
rection ffom  the  tomb,  and  the  Ascension. 
In  the  side  windows  are  represented  the 
emblems  of  the  four  evangelists,  the  Alpha 
and  Qflsega,  the  IHS,  and  the  double 
triangle,  emblematic  of  the  Holy  Trinity. 
These  windows  were  the  gilt  of  the  Mar- 
quess  of  Ailesbury.  The  Commandmenta 
are  painted  in  illuminated  Norman  charac- 
ters on  richly  gilt  sine  platea,  whidi  line 
the  concave  of  Um  apae  immediately  above 
the  altar.  The  deep  splay  of  the  window 
jambs,  the  recesses  of  the  arcade,  and  the 
spandrels  of  the  aieade  arches,  are  highly 
decorated  with  painting  in  Norman  pat- 
tern, and  over  the  arcade  are  introduced 
sentences  of  Scripture,  the  Lord's  Prayer, 
and  the  deed,  in  a  very  legible  Norman 
letter.  The  effect  produced  in  this  chan- 
cel by  a  happy  oombination  of  design  on 
the  part  of  the  architect  and  of  the  deco- 
rator, cannot  be  fully  expressed  by  words, 
but  must  be  seen  to  be  duly  appreciated. 
A  rich,  solemn,  and  Christian  character 
has  been  given  to  this  sacrarium  by  the 
akilful  adaptation  of  very  simple  elements. 

The  nave,  measuring  with  the  aisles  64 
feet  by  40,  is  divided  from  the  chancel  by  a 
tall  and  massive  arch,  and  from  the  aiales 
by  fonr  round  piers  on  the  south  side, 
and  by  three  on  the  north,  with  a  plain 
wall  next  to  the  tower.  Tlie  capitals  of 
the  piers,  sculptured  from  examplea  of 
the  time,  differ  from  each  other  in  every 
instance.  Above  the  arches,  which  at 
present  are  left  quite  plain,  riaea  a  simple 
dere-story,  pierced  with  narrow,  circular- 
headed  slits.  Between  these  are  corbela 
supporting  shafts,  whereon  are  laid  the 
timbers  of  the  roof.  The  passages  are 
paved  with  plain  encaustic  tiles,  but  the 
general  floor  of  the  church  u  boarded. 
The  whole  of  the  bendiea  are  open,  mas- 
sive, and  very  low ;  they  are  greatly  pre- 
ferred by  those  who  have  hitherto  been 
used  to  pews. 

The  font  is  placed  near  the  west  door, 
and  is  copied,  in  Pdnswick  stone  of  very 
fine  grain,  from  an  original  Norman  ex- 
ample now  remaining  at  Welford  church  in 
Berkshire.  It  is,  in  plan,  drcular,  and  on  a 
projecting  base  rise  seventeen  three  'quarter 
shafts,  the  capitals  of  which  are  con- 
nected together  by  intersecting  arches  of 
deeply-cut  mouldings ;  over  these  is  a 
lip -moulding  running  round  the  upper 
edge  of  the  font.  The  basin  is  capacious, 
and  lined  with  thick  lead,  on  the  margin 
of  which  the  following  sentence  is  cir- 
cumscribed  in   raised   Norman   letters. 


1844.] 


Restoration  of  Woodchurch,  Cheshire. 


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'•«  3BCUKDUM  M18ERICORDIAM 
SUAH  SALTOS  NOS  FECIT  PER 
LATACRUM  RE6BNERATIONIS  ET 
RENOVATIONIS  SPIRITUS  SANC- 
Tl."  The  cover  Is  fl«t»  with  an  ornamental 
seroll  in  iron  diterging  at  right  angles 
from  a  Norman  oroaa  in  the  centre.  The 
Queen's  arms  cxecated  in  stained  glasi  are 
placed  in  the  west  window,  and  underneath 
ia  written  on  a  mtoU,  "  Frar  God,  Honour 
the  Qneen." 

It  may  be  remarked ,  that  in  this  arrange- 
ment of  an  old  custom  of  the  Church,  a 
highly  deooratiTe  ornament  has  been  sub- 
stituted for  that  which  is  often  a  sad  dis- 
figurement to  our  churches,  at  an  expense, 
too,  so  moderate  as  not  to  exceed  the 
mnal  chaiige  for  an  emblaxonment  executed 
by  the  Tillage  painter. 

The  sacramental  Tessels  are  of  silTcr, 
parcel  gilt,  and  consist  of  a  paten,  two 
chofioes,  a  flagon,  and  a  basin  for  the 
oflertery,  the  whole  executed  from  designs 
by  William  Bntterfield,  esq.  in  imitation 
of  ancient  examples. 

The  exterior  of  this  church  is  generally 
very  plain  $  the  windows  of  the  aisles, 
cbsiaccl,  and  dcre-story  are  separated  by 
■hallow  buttresses  running  into  a  corbel 
table  above.  The  rooft  are  of  a  high 
pitch,  covered  with  a  Cornish  slate,  and 
the  gables  surmounted  by  the  Than  cross. 

More  ornament  has  been  bestowed  on 
the  west  front.  The  centre  doorway  is 
an  excellent  specimen  of  Norman  work, 
consisting  of  cable,  chevron,  and  other 
moiddings  very  happily  disposed.  Above 
is  the  west  window,  flanked  by  an  inter- 
seeting  sroade,  of  wUch  two  recesses,  one 
on  each  side  the  window,  are  pierced, 
thus  forming  a  triplet  within.  The  north 
door  openinig  into  the  tower  is  also  orna- 
mented with  chevron  mouldings,  which 
have  a  chaste  eStteL 

We  cannot  close  this  account  without 
Botieing  tiiat  the  ohureh  has  been  erected 
chiefly  through  the  munificence  of  the 
Marquess  of  Ailesbury,  who  has  also 
krgely  contributed  to  the  endowment 
ftind  s  nor  can  we  omit  to  pay  a  tribute 
of  commendation  to  the  architect  Mr. 
Ferrey,  who  has  so  eminently  succeeded 
in  his  exertions  to  make  this  church  a  truly 
Temple. 


Bestoratian  qf  the  church  at  Woodehurchf 
Chethire, 

Mn.  Ubban, — Having  in  the  course 
of  last  summer  passed  a  few  weeks  in 
Liverpool  and  the  neighbouring  parts  of 
Cheshire,  among  several  good  old  friends, 
we  took  the  opportunity,  according  to  the 
bent  of  our  minds,  to  examine  carefully 
sbmeinteresting  old  churches  and  mansions 


thereabouts.  Our  attention  was  more  par- 
ticularly diracted  to  the  parish  churches 
of  Bebbington  and  Woodchurch.  My 
remarks  on  the  former  I  shall  reserve  for 
the  ensuing  month,  and,  in  the  meantime, 
I  have  great  pleasure  in  communicating 
to  yon  the  following  interesting  intelli- 
gence eonceming  the  latter. 

The  parish  of  Woodchurch,  in  Cheiiiire, 
lies  midway  between  the  Mersey  and  the 
Dee,  and,  in  former  ages,  it  was  a  portion 
of  the  great  forest  of  Wirrall.  A  short 
time  before  the  death  of  King  Edward  the 
Hiird  the  whole  was  disforested.  At  that 
time  the  present  church  was  built,  and 
appears  to  have  been  completed  early  in 
the  reign  of  his  successor.  It  stands  on 
the  site  of  a  much  older  one,  "  the  church 
In  the  wood,''  and  consists  of  a  handsome 
square  tower,  a  nave,  south  aisle,  chancel, 
and  vestry.  The  structure  is  entirely  of 
the  old  red  sandstone,  and  has  not  been 
much  injured  by  the  lapse  of  time.  It 
seems  to  have  been  generally  kept  in  good 
repair.  The  style  is  decorated  English , 
with  a  slight  indication  of  transition  to 
that  which  followed  it.  The  original  work 
has  been  weU  preserved  throughout  the 
sacred  edifice,  with  the  exception  of  the 
windows  of  the  nave  and  aisle,  and  the 
front  of  the  south  porch.  These  were  all 
renewed  early  in  the  reign  of  King  Henry 
the  Eighth,  a  period  distinguished  for 
great  zeal  in  re-building,  enlarging,  and 
repairing  churches.  They  are  all  of  the 
square-headed  kind,  the  windows  large 
and  altogether  of  handsome  workmanship* 

While  visiting  at  Woodchurch  we  had 
many  conversations  on  the  practicability 
of  in  some  measure  restoring  the  venerable 
structure  to  its  original  stata.  We  happily 
found  the  materials  in  good  condition ;  but 
the  fine  old  timber  roofs,  and  the  graceful 
chancel  arch,  had  been  entirely  hidden  by 
low  and  flat  white-waahed  ceilings.  The 
richly  carved  screen  had  been  removed, 
the  entrance  to  the  chancel  encumbered 
with  pews,  and  that  portion  of  the  church 
disfigured  by  four  more  that  were  large, 
square,  and  of  considerable  height. 

By  the  praiseworthy  exertions  of  the 
good  rector,  his  lady,  and  one  of  his 
nephews,  sll  the  projected  improvements 
have  been  carried  into  effiBct,  and  are 
now  nearly  completed.  They  have  shewn 
great  liberality  ;  and,  to  the  credit  of  the 
parishioners,  at  the  late  Easter  meeting 
a  rate  in  aid  of  what  had  already  been 
done  was  unanimously  voted,  without  a 
single  objection. 

In  examining  the  walls  the  following 
remains  of  past  times  were  discovered, 
and  have  since  been  repaired  and  kept 
open,  viz.  1.  On  the  north  side  of  the 
chancel,  and  a  few  inches  within  the  altar* 


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Restoration  of  Wbodchurch,  Cheshire, 


[July, 


rail,  an  aperture  rather  more  than  two 
feet  ia  height,  ae?en  inches  in  its  narrowest 
width,  and  arched  at  the  top.  It  com- 
municated with  the  vestrj,  and  had  been 
intended  for  the  conTcnience  of  persons 
necessarily  within  during  the  performance 
of  divine  service.  2.  Indications  of  steps 
near  the  south-east  angle  of  the  nave  that 
had  led  to  the  rood-loft.  3.  A  very  neat 
arched  niche  in  the  south  wall  of  the 
aisle,  near  to  its  eastern  termination, 
where  are  some  indications  of  there  having 
been  an  altar,  doubtless  that  of  the  blessed 
Virgin  Mary.  4.  A  plain  small  opening 
for  a  locker  on  the  north  side  of  it.  5. 
A  small  niche  for  the  hallowed  water  in 
the  north-east  angle  of  the  porch,  close  to 
the  south  doorway.  6.  Nearly  the  whole 
of  the  nave  still  bears  the  remains  of  a 
painted  surface.  Much  of  it  is  on  dressed 
stone- work,  whidi  has  long  been  covered 
with  repeated  coats  of  whitewash.  All 
these  had  been  very  carefully  concealed 
on  the  settlement  of  the  Reformation ; 
and,  as  a  good  part  at  least  of  the  south 
wall  of  the  chancel  was  rebuilt  about  forty 
or  fifty  years  ago,  there  are  no  remains  of 
the  feditia  tibat  must  certainly  have 
adorned  it 

Thb  Rbstorations. — ^The  white  ceil- 
ings of  the  chancel,  the  nave,  and  the 
aisle,  have  successively  been  taken  down, 
and  the  high-pitched  roofs  within  are  now 
laid  open,  together  with  the  chancel-arch; 
the  oldest  persons  of  the  present  genera- 
tion never  saw  them  before,  and  it  is  very 
gratifying  that  their  well-proportioned 
timbers  and  good  condition  have  far  ex- 
ceeded the  general  expectation.  The 
workmanship  is  for  the  most  part  plain ; 
but  the  principals  in  the  roof  of  the  nave 
are  terminated  on  each  side  with  carved 
heads. 

The  piers  and  arches  of  the  nave  and 
chancel  are  of  polished  stone,  and  the 
well-formed  figure  presented  by  each  of 
them  is  entirely  freed  from  the  mass  of 
paint  with  which  for  a  length  of  time  it 
has  been  covered. 

A  western  gallery,  for  from  being  hand* 
some,  though  of  small  projection,  will 
shortlv  be  tdcen  down.  The  opening  be- 
hind it  will  then  admit  of  the  original 
decorated  window  in  the  west  side  of  the 
tower  being  seen  from  all  parts  of  the 
church  eastward.  The  tracery  of  it  is  in- 
tended to  be  filled  with  ancient  stained 
glass.  The  organ,  when  removed,  will 
most  probably  be  placed  on  a  platform  at 
the  west  end  of  the  aisle. 

Between  the  organ  and  the  south  door 
is  a  fine  old  font  of  stone,  that  was  much 
admired  by  Mr.  Lysons  when  he  visited 
this  parish.    Ithasthesacrariumorwater* 


drain ;  and  at  this  font  the  holy  sacrament 
of  baptism  has  alwa]rs  been  administered 
after  the  second  lesson,  according  to  the 
order  of  the  Church. 

The  encumbering  pews  at  the  east  end 
of  the  nave  will  be  removed,  for  the  space 
of  nine  feet  in  width ;  and  at  the  entrance 
of  the  chancel  will  be  an  elegantly  carved 
screen  of  Dantxic  oak. 

The  pulpit  with  its  sounding  board  will 
be  set  diagonally  at  the  northern  angle, 
and  the  reading  desk  beneath  it,  looking 
southward  and  westward. 

The  pews  that  were  within  the  chancel 
are  replaced  by  a  range  of  stalls  on  each 
side,  chiefly  of  oak.  They  are  of  good 
design,  and  their  ends  are  terminate  by 
richly-carved  poppy  heads,  that  have  been 
preserved  in  the  church  from  the  time  of 
its  erection. 

The  altar  rails  were  of  such  a  substance 
as  to  admit  of  being  re-modelled  accord- 
ing to  the  justly  admired  style  of  the 
fourteenth  century. 

New  tables  of  the  Commandments,  the 
Lord's  Plrayer,  and  the  Apostles'  Creed, 
have  been  set  up,  having  the  letters 
painted  of  a  beautiful  blue,  on  a  light 
stone  colour,  and  all  the  capitals  richly 
illuminated  in  the  three  primitive  colours. 
Above  the  first  of  these  is  this  inscription , 

"  T%e  law  was  given  bp  Afoeei. 
"  Grace  and  truth  came  by  Jetut  Christ." 

Above  the  Lord's  Prayer, 

**  After  this  moiiMr,  thertfore,  pray  ye»* 

Above  the  Apostles'  Creed, 

**  Repent  ye  and  believe  the  ChtpeL*' 

The  mouldings  are  all  suitably  decorated. 

The  original  eastern  window  has  been 
composed  of  ancient  stained  glass,  from 
the  rare  and  beautiful  collection  of  Mr. 
Watson,  of  Hanway  Street,  London, 
brought  about  half  a  century  ago  from  the 
churches  of  suppressed  monasteries  in 
France.  The  upper  parts  of  the  two 
south  windows  of  the  chancel  are  also 
decorated  with  glass  from  the  same  source. 

The  following  inscription  is  inserted  at 
the  bottom  of  the  east  window. 

**  Deo  et  Ecclesis  hanc  Fenestram 
humiliter  dedicavit  Georgius  Smith  King, 

A.D.  MDCCCXLIY." 

Yours,  &c.  Saxon. 


Mb.  Urban,  B.  S.  June  3.    | 

IN  your  valuable  Repository,  Sept. 
1839,  p.  236,  a  letter  is  published  from 
John  Mowbray,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  which 
annouoces  that  on  the  "  Monday  next 
cominge"  his  wife  will  "  take  her  eham^ 


1844.1 


€€ 


The  Chiid'bed  PriviUge  "  or  Rights. 


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her,"  Tliis  letter  appears  to  have  been 
written  Not.  19,  1472;  in  another 
place,  "  the  takyng  or  hyr  chambre"  is 
alladed  to ;  and  in  a  third  letter,  dated 
Nov.  24,  it  is  stated  that  the  "  lady 
tooke  not  hyr  chambre  till  yesterday." 
To  the  letters  containing  the  above 
cited  allusions,  the  following  note  is 
appended : — 

"There  appeir  to  have  been  some  cere- 
monies anciently  used  when  the  lady  took 
her  chamber.  It  is  stated  that  when  the 
Qneen  of  Henry  YII.  took  her  chamber, 
'  the  Erles  of  Shrewsbury  and  of  Kente 
hyld  the  towelles  whan  the  Queen  tohe  her 
rightee ;  and  the  torches  were  holden  by 
kmlgbtes.  Whan  she  was  comen  into  hir 
great  diambre,  she  stode  under  her  cloth 
of  estate ;  then  there  was  ordeyned  a 
voide  of  espices  and  swet  wyne;  that 
doone,  my  Lorde,  the  Queue's  Chamber- 
lain, in  very  goode  wordes,  desired  in  the 
Quene's  name  the  pepul  there  present  to 
pray  God  to  send  Mr  the  goode  honre : 
and  so  she  departed  to  hir  inner  chambre.** 
From  a  M8.  in  the  Cotton,  Library. 

What  the  righte  were,  which  the 
Queen  took,  I  have  been  unable  to  dis- 
cover ;  nor  can  I  explain  the  ceremony 
of  a  lady  taking  her  chamber.  Her- 
mione,  when  before  her  judges,  com- 
plains that  she  was  deprived  of  her 
privilege — 

**  with  immodest  hatred 
The  cAf/id-6eJjiri9t7e^edenied,  which  longs 
To  women  of  all  fashion : — ^lastly,  hurried 
Here  to  this  place,  i*  the  open  air,  before 
I  have  got  strength  of  limit.*'* 

Winter^e  Tale,  Act  iii.  sc.  9. 

Were  the  rights  of  the  same  kind  as 
the  privilege  here  claimed  ?  Shake- 
speare's commentators  are  silent  upon 
this  subject. 

The  celebrated  French  midwife, 
Louise  Bourgeois  dite  Boursier,  who 
has  given  a  very  minute  account  of 
the  several  lyings-  in  of  Marie  de  Me- 
dicts.  Queen  of  Henry  IV.  of  France, 
describes  several  of  the  preparations 
made  for  her  first  confinement.  A 
tent  or  pavilion  was  erected  in  the 
great  chamber  at  Fontainebleau.  It 
was  made  of  very  fine  hoUand,  at  least 

*  Johnson  suggests  *'  strength  of  limb," 
and  he  is  supported  by  one  of  the  folios, 
which  reads  '*  strength  of  limbs  ;*'  but 
limit  is  the  approved  reading. 


twenty  ells  round ;  within  this  larger 
pavilion  was  a  smaller  one  made  of 
the  same  material;  the  Queen's  bed 
was  placed  in  this  inner  pavilion,  and 
into  it  none  were  admitted  but  the 
King,  who  scarcely  left  the  Queen 
during  her  illness  of  twenty-two  hours' 
duration,  and  those  whose  immediate 
attendance  upon  the  Queen  was  neces- 
sary :  the  larger  pavilion  was  appro- 
priated to  those  ladies  and  officers 
whose  presence  at  a  royal  birth  was 
officially  required. 

There  were  in  attendance,  in  case 
their  assistance  should  be  required, 
four  of  the  most  celebrated  physicians 
and  a  surgeon,  Guillemeau,  to  whom 
Louise  Bourgeois  made  occasional 
reports  of  the  progress  of  the  labour ; 
but  no  one,  except  the  midwife,  took 
any  active  share  in  the  labour  itself. 

The  relics  of  Saint  Margaret  (les 
reliques  de  Madame  Saincte  Margue- 
rite) were  placed  upon  a  table  in  the 
chamber,  and  two  priests  (Religieux 
de  Sainct  Germain  des  Prez)  offered 
up  prayers  to  God  without  ceasing: 
but  no  ceremony  or  formal  taking  of 
the  chamber  is  mentioned,  no  rights  or 
privileges  are  alluded  to;  nor  have  I 
been  able  to  find  any  information  upon 
this  subject,  though  I  have  sought  for 
it  among  the  early  writers  on  mid- 
wifery, both  female  and  male,  both 
English  and  foreign. 

In  an  edition  of  Jacobus  Rueffus  de 
Conceptu,  printed  at  Frankfort  on 
the  Maine,  1587*  4to.  there  are  some 
wood- cuts  representing  several  matters 
illustrative  of  the  practice  of  midwifery 
three  hundred  years  ago.  One  of  these 
represents  a  lady,  evidently  far  ad- 
vanced in  her  pregnancy,  who  has 
called  upon  her  midwife  to  bespeak 
her  attendance.  The  ladv  is  very  ele- 
gantly attired,  having  a  snort  cloak  or 
mantle  over  her  dress,  her  head  is 
adorned  with  a  lace  cap,  on  which  she 
wears  a  small  hat ;  she  is  in  a  standing 
posture,  but  behind  her  there  is  a  well- 
cushioned  chair,  on  which  she  may,  if 
she  pleases,  repose :  she  has  been  ac- 
companied by  a  favourite  shock  dog, 
which  is  standing  by  her  side. 

The  midwife  is  clad  in  a  more 
homely  style  than  the  lady,  but  every- 
thing about  her  is  neat  and  handsome, 
shewing  that  she  ranked  high  among 


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Roman  Inscription  found  near  Piercebridge. 


[July, 


this  usefal  branch  of  practitioners ;  on 
a  table  covered  with  a  cloth  is  a 
chicken  dressed,  and  a  tankard  with  a 
glass  goblet  is  standing  near ;  whether 
because  she  was  about  to  take  her 
dinner,  or  that  refreshment  should  be 
ready  in  case  any  person  should  call, 
most  remain  uncertain.  The  midwife 
appears  as  if  discussing  the  qnestion 
as  to  the  time  when  the  labour  may 
be  expected,  and  the  lady  is  listening 
with  great  attention. 

Another  picture  represents  the  lady 
placed  upon  the  chair,  which  was  then 
commonly  used  for  the  parturient 
woman ;  the  midwife  is  in  attendance, 
and  all  that  is  considered  necessary 
for  her  in  the  exercise  of  her  art  is 
placed  within  reach  in  proper  order. 
On  each  side  of  the  lady  is  a  female  ; 
one  is  a  domestic  with  the  expression 
of  much  feeling  in  her  countenance, 
aoothing  and  comforting  her  mistress, 
the  other  is  an  old  nurse  who  may  be 
supposed  to  say,  "  Aye  I  you  must 
bear  it,  you  know."  Refreshments  are 
placed  upon  the  table,  and  on  the 
floor  is  a  large  jug  of  hot  water,  and 
likewise  a  wooden  pail.  In  the  back- 
ground is  seen  a  four- post  bedstead 
prepared  with  two  or  three  pillows 
for  the  lady  to  be  removed  to  after  the 
labour  is  over,  and  in  an  adjoining 
closet  are  two  physicians  or  astrologers 
carefully  noticing  the  moon  and  stars, 
and  making  calculations  on  the  ho- 
roscope to  cast  the  nativity  of  the 
infant  at  its  first  entrance  into  the 
world. 

A  third  picture  shews  that  the 
labour  has  happily  terminated ;  the 
lady  has  been  conveyed  to  her  bed, 
and  two  attendants,  one  on  each  side, 
are  offering  her  cordials  and  refresh- 
ments, bat  she  seems  disinclined  to 
take  anything,  and  wishes  for  repose. 
In  front  the  nurse  is  represented  bathing 
and  washing  the  new-born  babe  in  a 
large  bason ;  a  small  pan  with  a  sponge 
in  it  is  ready  at  her  side ;  an  uuder 
nurse  is  holding  a  large  cloth  or  flannel 
to  receive  the  child  as  soon  as  the 
washing  is  finished ;  a  handsome  cradle 
is  at  hand  which  an  older  child,  carry- 
ing a  doll  in  her  arms,  is  amusing 
herself  with  rocking.  At  a  side  table 
are  seen  the  two  astrologers  and  the 
midwife,  enjoying  the  various  good 
things  that  have  been  prepared  for 
3 


them ;  the  midwife  has  a  good  sized 
drinking  cup  at  her  mouth,  evidently 
intent  on  draining  it  to  the  bottom. 
A  door  opens  into  a  kitchen  at  some 
distance,  where  a  female  servant  ia 
preparing  some  necessaries  over  a 
large  fire. 

Nothing  in  these  prints  indicates  the 
darkness  or  closeness  of  the  lying-in 
chamber  which  prevailed  formerly  to  so 
great  and  injurious  an  extent  in  £ng* 
land ;  but  probably,  though  the  prints 
exhibit  light  and  ventilation,  the  rooms 
in  Germany  were  kept  quite  as  close  and 
dark  as  inEngland,  for  the  adage  .FW- 
ffU3  omnibui  parturieniibua  ei  puerpertM 
pestis  eft,  id  quod  etiam  de  potu  frigido 
intelligendum,  comes  from  a  German 
author.  So  great  a  dread  of  cold  ex- 
isted even  within  the  last  twenty 
years  that  very  careful  nurses  were 
accustomed,  during  the  entire  month 
of  childbed,  to  wrap  the  handles  of 
spoons,  knives  and  forks,  &c.  with 
silver  paper,  that  they  might  not  feel 
cold  to  the  touch;  even  the  elegant 
little  silver  hand-bell  which  rested  on 
the  bed  for  the  convenience  of  the 
invalid  was  enshrined  in  silver  paper. 

Yours,  &e.     S.  M. 


ROMAN    INSCRIPTION    FOUND   NBAR 
PIBRCEBRIDGB. 

An  inscribed  stone  was  lately  found  at 
Piercebridge,  or  rather  at  Cliffe,  on  the 
Yorkshire  side  of  the  Tees.  The  station 
was  on  the  Darham  side  of  the  river,  at 
Piercebridge  ;  but,  as  is  well  known,  the 
Romans  buried  their  dead  in  all  directions 
by  the  side  of  their  roads.  At  all  events 
the  stone  seems  to  have  been  found  within 
half  a  mile  from  the  camp  of  Piercebridge 
itself.  The  inscription  ia  of  the  monu- 
mental character,  and  seems  to  have  been 
erected  by  Aurelia  Flavilla  to  her  hus- 
band. 

M 

RACI  II 

OINATO 

....  mavsvper 

..  ..xxit  avrblia 

[flav]illa  con 

[ivg}i  faciend 

ym  cvravit 

[The  Av  in  the  fourth  line,  and  the  vr 
in  the  fifth  line,  are  ligatures ;  and  the  ia 
at  the  end  of  the  fifth  line  are  small 
letters  within  the  l.] 


•  •  •  •_ 


•    •    • 


•  •<•* 

•  ••• 

»         • 

•••• 


•  •  •  •» 


•  ".    • 


.  Mag.  leJ4,  FUUm. 


1844.] 


Ornamental  IHles  in  Great  Malvern  Church. 


25 


Mb,  Urban,        ■«**??  '^f*' 

May  17« 

BEFORE  I  proceed  to  eaomerate 
the  ▼ariotu  personal  memoriaU  or  de- 
vices which  are  seea  amoogst  the  de- 
corations of  the  ancient  pavement  at 
Great  Malvern  Church,  one  singular 
tile  remains  to  be  noticed,  which 
ought  more  properly  to  have  found  a 
•lace  in  my  former  communication. 
It  bears  an  inscription  in  eight  lines, 
which  conveys  the  moral  admonition 
to  "  work  while  it  is  day/'  not  defer- 
ring  to  the  care  of  an  executor,  after 
life  is  passed,  those  duties  of  Christian 
benevolence,  which  might  be  better, 
and  more  surely,  discharged  by  our 
own  hand. 


^jenkt  ♦  mon  .  }>i .  ttffc 


tnaf .  not  ttx  •  cnnutc  • 


>at .  l>otD  *  noft  *  l?i  .  felf 


of.  )>at  *  )KrtP .  art  •  (ure , 


but .  l>at  >  >otD  »  fcfplft 
tm .  to  *  l>i »  Crcttir  .  girT 


anil  *  eu .  Wt  *  abaile  .  }>e  • 
SHt  •  iiB  •  but  •  aDmtute 


Think,  man,  thy  life 

May  not  ever  endure ; 
That  thou  dost  thyself 

Of  that  thou  art  sure  { 
But  that  thou  keepest 

Unto  thy  executor's  cure, 
And  ever  it  availe  thee, 

It  is  but  aventnre. 

This  same  tile  may  be  seen  in  the 
church  of  Little  Malvern ;  it  has  been 
also  found  at  Hereford,  and  Nash,  in 
his  History  of  Worcestershire,  vol.  ii. 
App.  p.  70,  has  given  a  representation 
of  one  preserved  at  Stanford  Church 
in  that  county :  it  has  been  more  cor- 
rectly copied  in  the  selection  recently 
published,  entitled  "Examples  of 
Eocaostic  Tiles."  Similar  admonitions 
are  of  no  uncommon  occurrence 
amongst  monumental  inscriptions  of 
the  XVth  century ;  several  examples 
have  been  enumerated  by  Mr.  John 
Gongh  Nichols,  in  a  communication 
which  appeared  in  your  pages.  (Oct 
1833,  p.  302.)  The  date  of  the  tile 
appeara  to  be  about  1450,  when  the 
Gkuon  character  >  was  still  frequently, 
but  not  invariably,  need.  The  obsolete 
words  which  occur  in  these  lines 
accord  perfectly  with  the  language  of 

GxNT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


that  period;  thus,  many  instances 
might  be  cited  of  the  use  of  the  verb 
to  keep,  in  the  sense  of  reservation 
rather  than  preservation,  as  also  of 
the  words  sectur,  an  executor,  and 
cure,  cara. 

In  describing  the  principal  heraldic 
decorations  introduced  on  the  Malvern 
tiles,  the  arms  of  the  Sovereign  first 
claim  attention;  they  occur  frequently, 
the  most  ancient  example,  which  is  not 
of  earlier  date  than  the  reign  of 
Richard  ILor  Henry  IV.,  is  the  lower 
moiety  of  the  quarterly  bearing,  France 
and  England ;  this  tile  for  want  of  the 
upper  one,  which  completed  the  arms, 
appears  at  first  sight  to  present  the 
bearing  of  Eoglaod  impaling  France 
(three  fleurs  de  lys.)  Three  lions 
passant  towards  the'  sinister  side,  aud 
regardant,  occurs  on  a  tile  of  which 
numerous  other  specimens  are  pre- 
served in  the  choir  of  Gloucester  ca- 
thedral ;  the  date  appears  to  be  the 
XlVth  century,  instances  occur  of 
tiles  on  which  letters  or  ornaments 
appear  in  the  inverse  direction  to  that 
in  which  they  should  properly  be 
placed,  aud  in  these  cases,  as  in  that 
here  noticed  of  the  lions  turned  towards 
the  sinister  side  of  the  scutcheon,  the 
cause  may  be  attributed  to  the  care- 
lessness of  the  artificer,  who,  in  pre- 
paring the  mould  or  stamp,  neglected 
to  invert  the  design.  The  arms  of 
England  alone  without  those  of  France 
may  be  noticed  on  tiles  of  very 
elegant  design,  four  of  which  form  a 
complete  compartment ;  each  tile  is 
ornamented  with  a  scutcheon,  sur- 
mounted by  the  inscription,  JFiat . 
Iiolnnta^  •  M  •  (the  will  of  God  be 
done.)  The  same  tile  has  been  found 
near  Monmouth  Priory ;  its  date  ap- 
pears to  be  about  1450.  The  like 
bearing  of  England  is  also  found  on 
the  large  set  of  wall- tiles,  which  will 
be  noticed  hereafter,  dated  1453. 

The  most  interesting  series  of 
heraldic  tiles  which  are  here  to  be 
seen,  are  illustrative  of  the  descent  of 
the  chase  and  manor  of  Malvern,  which 
had  been  given  by  Edward  L  in 
marriage  with  the  Princess  Joan  of 
Acre,  to  Gilbert  de  Clare  Earl  of 
Gloucester.  On  the  death  of  their 
only  son  at  Bannockburn,  the  manor 
was  brought  by  Alianor,  his  sister  and 
coheiress,  to  her  husband  Hugh  le 
Despenser ;  as  also,  subsequently,  by 

E 


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Ornamental  TiUi  in  Great  Malvern  Church, 


[July, 


IsabellA*  sister  and  cobeiress  of  Richard 
le  Despenser,  to  her  husband  Richard 
Beauchamp,  Earl  of  Warwick.  By  a 
third  marriage  with  a  coheiress,  the 
manor  finally  reverted  to  the  crown 
in  the  person  of  Richard  III.  The 
tiles  which  commemorate  these  suc- 
cessive possessors  of  the  manor«  who, 
doubtless,  were  also  benefactors  of  the 
priory,  have  been  faithfully  represented 
in  the  series  of"  Examples" published 
by  Messrs.  Nichols,  and  supply  an 
interesting  variety  of  elegant  specimens 
of  this  application  of  heraldic  ornament. 
Four  simitar  tiles  are  required  in  each 
instance  to  compose  a  complete  com- 
partment, the  scutcheons  con  verging  to- 
wards the  centre ;  the  three  chevronels 
of  Clare  are  first  to  be  noticed,  next 
the  tile  charged  with  two  scutcheons, 
le  Despenser,  and  the  cheeky  coat  with 
a  chevron  ermine,  attributed  to  the 
old  Earls  of  Warwick;  lastly,  the 
cross- crosslets  of  Beauchamp.  The 
bearing  of  Beauchamp,  a  fess  tietween 
six  cross- crosslets,  occurs  alto  with  a 
crescent,  as  a  difference,  upon  the  fess ; 
this  tile  is  part  of  a  compartment  of 
sixteen,  the  central  portion  being  this 
scutcheon  four  times  repeated ;  it  was 
used,  and  perhaps  expressly  fabricated, 
to  form  the  decorative  pavement  of  the 
chantry  built  on  the  north  side  of  the 
choir  in  Tewkesbury  abbey  church,  to 
the  memory  of  Richard  Beauchamp, 
Earl  of  Worcester,  by  his  widow 
Isabella,  and  dedicated  in  1438.  The 
pavement  of  this  interesting  chapel, 
although  now  almost  wholly  defaced, 
may  deserve  attention  as  an  example 
of  general  arrangement.  Panels  or 
compartments,  formed  of  these  sets  of 
sixteen  pieces,  were  arranged  in  the 
lozengy  fashion,  or  "frett6,"  which 
was  so  much  in  vogue  at  the  period, 
and  surrounded  by  a  single  h)w  of 
plain  black  tiles,  separating  each 
panel  from  those  adjoining.  The 
angles  alone  were  connected  by  a 
single  ornamented  tile,  on  which  ap- 
pears a  circle,  like  a  collar,  fashioned 
in  imitation  of  the  ragged  staff  of  the 
Beauchamps.  Such  examples  of  ar- 
rangement are  now  very  rare,  and  I 
have  made  this  digression  to  notice  the 
chantry  at  Tewkesbury,  because  the 
usual  disposition  of  ornament  in  modern 
pavements  of  decorative  tile  has  an 
unpleasing  effect,  and  resemblance  at 
first  sight   to  floor-cloth.    I  believe 


that  this  defect  would  be  obviated  if 
ancient  models  of  arrangement  were 
as  faithfully  imitated  as  the  examples 
of  separate  portions  of  ornament  have 
been.  The  continuous  surface  of  deco- 
rative patterns  does  not  produce,  as 
perhaps  had  been  anticipated,  richness 
of  effect ;  and  I  am  persuaded  that  the 
ancient  arrangement  in  separate  com- 
partments, divided  by  plain  bands, 
either  of  white  or  dark  colour,  is  very 
much  to  be  preferred. 

The  arms  of  Richard  Beauchamp, 
impaling  those  of  Isabella,  coheiress  of 
le  Despenser,  were  displayed  on  a  set 
of  four  tiles,  forming  a  scutcheon  of 
large  dimension,  of  which  the  lower 
quarter  only  is  now  to  be  seen  at 
Malvern.  The  same  corner-tile  is 
found  at  Leigh,  near  Worcester,  and 
in  other  churches  m  the  vicinity ;  but 
I  have  never  been  able  to  meet  with 
either  of  the  other  pdrtions  which  were 
required  to  complete  the  design.  The 
bearings  exhibited  on  this  scutcheon 
were,  quarterly,  1  and  4,  cheeky,  a 
chevron  ermine,  Newburgh ;  2  and  3, 
a  fess  between  6  cross- crosslets,  Beau- 
champ ;  impaling,  quarterly,  Clare  and 
le  Despenser. 

The  cross  between  A^t  martlets,  at- 
tributed to  Edward  the  Confessor,  and 
assumed  by  the  Abbey  of  Westminater, 
of  which  Great  Malvern  Priory  was 
regarded  as  a  cell,  occurs  repeatedly : 
on  the  large  wall-tiles  it  may  be 
noticed  placed  by  the  side  of  the  arms 
of  England ;  it  occurs  also  in  the  angles 
of  a  compartment  formed  of  sixteen 
pieces  of  remarkably  elaborate  design, 
which  may  still  be  seen  in  its  perfect 
state  in  the  choir  of  Gloucester  Ca- 
thedral. On  another  compartment, 
composed  of  nine  pieces,  the  same 
bearing  is  introduced  alternately  with 
the  cross-keys  and  sword,  the  arms  of 
the  Abbey  of  Gloucester. 

A  tile  of  very  elegant  design,  (plate 
III.  fig.  xiv.)  merits  especial  notice, 
both  on  account  of  the  ingenious  man- 
ner in  which  the  quarter  of  the  com- 
partment is  designed  so  as  to  present 
alternately  the  single  and  the  impaled 
coat,  and  also  as  the  memorial  of  a 
benefactor  to  the  fabric  of  the  church, 
and  ancestor  of  the  noble  house  of 
Beauchamp,  of  Madresfield.  These 
tiles  exhibit  the  bearing  of  Braci,  Gules, 
a  fess  or,  in  chief  two  mullets  argent, 
and  the  same,  impaling  a  cross  en- 


1844.] 


Ornamental  TiU$  in  Great  Malvern  Church. 


27 


greiled  (?  Aylesbury.)  Several  iodi- 
vidoals  of  the  Braci  ramily*  efttablished 
at  the  neighboariDg  raaoor  of  Madree- 
lieldf  were  benefactors*  on  the  occasion 
of  the  rebuilding  of  the  Priory  charch 
about  1450 ;  their  pious  liberality  was 
commemorated  by  the  portraitures,  as 
indicated  by  the  names  inscribed  be- 
neath, which  were  formerly  displayed 
in  the  windows  of  the  choir  and  its 
Borth  aisle.  Habingdon  has  preserved 
the  memory  of  these,  and  many  in- 
teresting memorials  which  are  now 
sought  in  vain ;  two  figures  only  of 
the  Bracis  still  remain,  one  is  to  be 
seen  in  the  great  eastern  window,  in 
the  first  light  of  the  lower  row,  under 
the  transom,  and  nearest  to  the 
northern  side ;  it  is  a  small  kneeling 
figure,  in  complete  armour,  with  a 
tabard  of  the  arms  of  Braci.  The 
second,  inscribed  Oamtnu^  Kobertu^ 
te  hiati,  is  now  placed  in  the  great 
western  window;  it  is  in  costume 
similar  to  the  former,  and  around  the 
neck  is  a  golden  collar  of  SS«  Several 
figures  of  the  Bracis,  with  scutcheons 
of  their  arms,  were  to  be  seen  formerly, 
according  to  Habingdon's  account,  in 
the  window  nearest  the  eastern  end  of 
the  north  aisle  of  the  choir ;  the  figures 
are  now  lost,  but  two  of  the  scutcheons 
still  remain,  one  of  which  is  the  same 
as  that  which  is  found  upon  the  tile, 
(fig.  xiv.)  namely,  Braci  impaling 
Axure,  arcross  engrailed  argent  (?  Ayles- 
bury.) 

On  two  tiles,  parts  of  distinct  sets, 
may  be  noticed  a  bearing  commemo- 
rative, probably,  of  some  benefactor 
now  unknown.  It  is  a  chevron  between 
3  crescents,  impaling  paly  of  several 
pieces,  on  a  bend  3  cinquefoils  pierced. 

Two  remarkable  sets  of  tiles,  deco- 
rated with  coats  of  arms,  remain  to  be 
noticed.  The  distinctive  term  wall- 
tiles  may  be  applied  to  them,  denoting 
the  purpose  for  which  they  were  fab- 
ricated. These  tiles  were  intended  to 
be  afllxed  to  the  wslls  as  a  decorative 
facing,  and  are  disposed  so  as  to  be 
arranged  in  upright  bands,  instead 
of  quarterly  compartments,  like  the 
grester  part  of  those  already  noticed, 
which  were  destined  to  form  pave- 
flsents.  The  design  was  so  adjusted 
that  several  upright  bsnds  united  in 
jaxta-position  composed  a  rich  decora- 
tion, similar  in  effect  to  tabernacle 
work  or  carved  tracery  of  wood,  in  the 


place  of  which  these  tiles  were  un- 
doubtedly intended  to  be  used,  either 
as  a  reredorse  of  the  altar,  or  enrich- 
ment of  the  walls  of  the  choir.  I  am 
not  aware  that  any  similar  example  of 
the  application  of  ornament  of  a  fictile 
nature  to  the  interior  decoration  of  a 
church  has  hitherto  been  noticed,  or 
exists  in  England.  A  small  number  of 
these  wall-tiles  may  now  be  seen  af- 
fixed to  the  face  of  the  altar  screen  and 
adjoining  walls,  but  they  appear  to 
have  been  so  arranged  in  recent  times : 
formerly  the  walls  of  the  eastern  end 
of  the  church  were  so  decorated  to  a 
considerable  extent.*  Cole,  in  his 
notes  taken  at  his  visit  to  Malvern  in 
1746,  remarks,  "  there  is  a  new  and 
elegant  altar-piece  erected  on  the  old 
one,  which  is  standing,  and  a  very  fine 
and  curious  piece  of  work,  which  is 
semicircular,  and  covered  both  before 
and  behind  extreamly  high  from  top 
to  bottom  by  yellow  tiles,  with  the 
arms  of  several  of  y*  nobility."  In 
another  place  he  describes  the  arms  on 
"  the  tiles  with  which  the  back  and 
fore  part  of  y*  altar  is  covered."  Bishop 
(^yttelton  makes  the  following  note  in 
1752:  "The  back  part  of  the  choir 
wall  is  faced  ten  feet  high  with  painted 
tiles,  containing  the  arms  of  France 
and  England,  Clare,  &c."  (Minutes  of 
the  Soc.  of  Antiqu.)  Not  many  years 
have  elapsed  since  a  large  number  of 
these  wall- tiles  were  to  be  seen  in  this 
part  of  the  church,  occupying  the  po- 
sition for  which  they  had  originally 

*  In  Dr.  Hopkin's  trsnacript  of  Habing- 
don's description  of  the  parishes  of  Wor- 
cestershire, with  additions  by  Dr.  Thomas, 
(MS.  in  the  library  of  the  Soc.  of  Anti- 
qnarieSi  143)  the  following  description  is 
given :  "  The  eastern  and  upper  parte  of 
the  fidre  quire  of  the  Greater  Malvern  is 
closed  round  with  qaarreys  of  brick, 
whereon  are  painted  the  armes  of  England 
and  Jerasalem,  and  underneath  the  like  of 
Mortimir  Earle  of  March,  with  an  ines- 
chochean  ermin,  and  Bohnn  Earle  of 
Hereford ,  and  lowest  of  all  the  armes, 
Clare,  Earle  of  Gloucester,  the  lord  le 
Despencer,  Beanchampe,  Eiarle  of  War- 
wick, and  Beanchamp,  Baron  of  Powick  ; 
Anno  Dom.  1453,  and  33  Hen.  6^  In 
one  panell  within  is  Gules,  a  bend  voyded 
of  the  field  betweene  six  lyons  heads 
erased  or,  beeing  the  armes  of  Skull,  once 
of  Holt,  com.  Wigom,  and  i^ext  the  coa^ 
of  SUfford  of  Grafton,*' 


28 


Ornamental  Tiles  in  Great  Malvern  Church. 


[July, 


been  fabricated ;  bat  it  is  now  difficalt 
to  ascertain  with  precision  to  what 
extent  they  had  been  thus  employed, 
Mr.  Ciiffe,  in  his  account  of  Malvern, 
which  is  given  in  Brayley's  lUastrator. 
describes  "the  two  circular  ends  of 
the  church,  partly  faced  with  richly 
glazed  tiles ;"  he  apparently  followed 
the  observations  of  the  architect,  Mr. 
Tatham,  who  surveyed  the  dilapidated 
fabric  in  1802.  In  the  course  of  subse- 
quent repairs  these  walUtiles  were 
taken  down,  and  this  injudicious  re* 
moval  of  so  curious  and  unique  an  ex- 
ample of  the  application  of  fictile  orna- 
ment is  very  much  to  be  regretted. 
The  tiles  thus  displaced  were  laid 
down  in  the  north  transept,  and  north 
aisle  of  the  nave ;  from  continual  wear 
in  a  part  of  the  church  where  they 
were  most  exposed  to  injury  from  the 
feet  of  the  passing  congregation,  they 
are  already  almost  defaced,  and  their 
curiously  designed  ornaments  scarcely 
to  be  distinguished.  The  remarkable 
semicircular  wall  behind  the  altar 
opposite  to  the  entrance  of  the  Lady 
Chapel,  under  the  great  east  window, 
remains,  stripped  of  this  curious  deco- 
ration ;  the  intention  of  this  singular 
construction,  and  of  the  small  ceillet 
holes,  pierced  through  (he  upper  part 
of  i%  which  seem  to  bear  some  analogy 
to  the  apertures  termed  by  some  hagio- 
9cope8,  has  not  been  explained,  and 
deserves  to  be  investigated. 

Two  distinct  sets  of  wall- tiles  may 
still  be  distinguished  ;  the  first  is  dated 
at  the  top,  Xnno  b'  m.cccc.lttf.  The 
upright  band  was  formed  of  several 
tiles,  each  measuring  Hi  in.  by  9  in. 
and  in  thickness,  2|  in. ;  and  it  is  ob- 
vious that,  by  repetition,  bands  of  any 
desired  length  might  be  formed,  ar- 
ranged pale-wise.  The  uppermost  tile 
is  covered  with  elegant  foliated  tracery, 
under  which  are  seen  scutcheons  sur- 
mounted by  open  crowns,  and  charged 
with  the  arms  of  the  Confessor  (or  the 
Abbey  of  Westminster)  and  of  Eng- 
land. Each  successive  tile  of  the  band 
presents  two  scutcheons,  with  foliated 
ornament  elegantly  disposed  ;  they  ex- 
hibit the  arms  of  some  of  the  princi- 
pal families  of  the  counties  surround- 
ing Great  Malvern,  and  were,  no 
doubt,  commemorative  of  benefactions 
to  the  monastery.  These  are,  ], 
a  bend  cotised,  between  six  lioncels, 
Bohun  ;  2.  barry  of  eight,  two  pallets 


in  chief,  between  two  esquires,  an  in- 
escutcheon  ermine,  Mortimer ;  3.  three 
chevronels,  Clare  Earl  of  Gloucester ; 
4.  a  fess  between  six  cross-crosslets, 
Beauchamp  Earl  of  Warwick ;  6. 
quarterly,  the  second  and  third  quar- 
ters frett^,  over  all  a  bendlet,  Le 
Despenser ;  6.  a  fess  between  six 
martlets,  Beauchamp  of  Powyck;  7- 
a  bend  voided,  between  six  lions'  (?) 
heads  erased.  Skull  of  Wicheoford; 
8.  a  chevron,  with  a  canton  ermine, 
Stafford  of  Grafton.  A  narrow  band 
of  quatrefoils  and  cruciform  ceillets, 
alternately,  runs  along  the  margin  of 
the  lowest  tile,  as  a  finish  to  the 
ornamental  design.  Representationa 
of  some  of  these  interesting  examples 
of  decorative  design  have  been  given 
in  Shaw's  Encyclopedia  of  Ornament, 
but  without  the  accuracy  of  detail 
which  might  be  desired. 

The  second  set  is  composed  of  tiles  of 
somewhat  smaller  dimensions,  mea« 
suring  8i  in.  by  6|,  and  about  If  in 
thickness ;  five  tiles  of  this  series  are 
now  to  be  seen,  which,  when  several 
bands  are  ranged  in  juxta- position,  so 
as  to  give  the  full  effectof  the  design,  are 
highly  ornamental.  They  represent 
tabernacle-work,  with  scutcheons  and 
devices  introduced  at  intervals,  and  the 
date  is  fixed  by  the  following  inscrip- 
tion which  runs  along  the  upper 
margin,  3(nno  r.  r.  (.  tij.  rtptot.  (Anno 
regni  regis  Henrici  VI.  36,  1456.)  Of 
these  tiles  faithful  representations,  of 
the  full  size  of  the  originals,  have  been 
given  amongst  the  "  Examples,"  and 
carefully  reduced  copies  accompany 
my  previous  letter.  (See  plate  11.) 
It  must  be  noticed  that  the  tile  fig  x. 
should  be  ranged  third  or  fourth  in 
the  series,  but,  on  account  of  the 
dimensions  of  the  page,  it  has  been 
placed  by  itself.  Figures  of  a  part 
of  this  set  had  been  given  by  Carter 
in  his  Ancient  Architecture ;  the  re- 
mainder were  probably  overlooked  by 
him,  in  consequence  of  their  being 
indiscriminately  scattered  throughout 
the  church ;  it  is  indeed  now  no  easy 
task  to  reunite  the  scattered  portions 
of  these  curious  decorations,  which 
present  to  the  casual  observer  the 
appearance  of  hopeless  confusion.  On 
the  east  side  of  the  ancient  gateway 
of  the  Priory  Close  the  external  face 
of  the  parapet  is  covered  with  tiles 
of  the  set  here  described,  64  in  num- 


1844.] 


Ornamental  Tiles  in  Great  Malvern  Church^ 


29 


ber ;  they  are  in  fair  preservation,  ex- 
hibitiDg  a  remarkable  proof  of  the 
durable  quality  of  these  glazed  tiles, 
aad  shew  how  adyantageoasly  they 
might  be  employed  extemaUy  for  pur- 
poses of  architectural  decoration. 

Under  the  head  of  personal  devices 
or  badges  may  be  noticed  the  double- 
headed  eagle,  displayed,  surrounded 
by  a  circular  bordore  bezant^  (fig. 
iviii.)  ;  this  tile  was  found  in  1843  in 
the  wall  at  the  north-east  corner  of 
the  church,  and  its  date  appears  to  be 
of  the  14th  century.  The  swan  dis- 
played,  ducally  gorged,  and  chained, 
adopted  as  a  royal  badge  in  token  of 
descent  from  the  Bohuns,  whose  device 
it  had  been,  may  be  seen  here,  and 
also  at  Little  Malvern  church,  (fig. 
xiv.)  The  nave  of  a  wheel,  with  the 
Stafford  knot  issuing  from  it,  is  like- 
wise found  in  both  churches,  (fig.  xvi.) 
Many  examples  of  the  introduction  of 
the  badge  of  the  Stafford  family  as  a 
decoration  might  be  cited  ;  it  occurs 
on  the  gates  at  Maxtoke  Castle,  War- 
wickshire, which  are  clamped  with 
ornamental  iron- work ;  the  tiles  fabri- 
cated for  Thornbury  Castle,  on  which 
the  nave  of  the  wheel  appears  with 
flames  issuing  therefrom,  have  recently 
served  as  one  of  the  ancient  examples 
selected  for  imitation,  according  to  the 
very  successful  revival  of  the  process 
of  making  decorative  pavements  at  the 
works  of  Messrs.  Barr,  and  St.  John, 
at  Worcester. 

On  one  tile,  now  much  defaced, 
may  be  discerned  a  bird  apparently 
standing  on  an  heraldic  wreath,  as  if 
intended  for  a  crest ;  if  the  conjecture 
be  correct,  that  it  represents  a  pelican, 
it  is  doubtless  the  memorial  of  some 
member  of  the  ancient  family  of  the 
Lechmeres,  of  Hanley  Castle,  who 
had  contributed  to  the  fabric  of  the 
church  of  Great  Malvern.  Another 
benefactor,  whose  name  arrests  the 
eye  with  more  than  common  interest,  is 
commemorated  by  the  figure  of  a  tal- 
bot  seiant,  with  the  legend,  fhix  Slo^n 
Calhot  (fig.  xiii.) ;  this  tile  occurs 
also  at  Leigh,  and  in  other  neighbour- 
ing churches. 

1  have  been  informed  that  a  tile, 
formerly  to  be  seen  in  the  choir,  was 
charged  with  the  armorial  bearings  of 
the  Lygons  of  Madrestield,  and  that 
it  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Lord 
Beauchamp.     1  have  not  been  able  to 


ascertain  the  fact.  It  has  also  been 
stated  that  the  table  tomb  on  which 
the  ancient  eflSgy,  now  placed  in  the 
north  transept,  is  laid,  was  formerly 
faced  with  tiles,  amongst  which  was 
to  be  found  the  bearing  of  Corbet.  On 
this,  or  some  equally  vague  and  un- 
tenable conjecture,  this  effigy  has  been 
assigned  to  a  member  of  that  family. 

A  few  personal  devices  may  merit 
attention,  such  as  the  monogram  com- 
posed of  the  interlaced  letters  R  and 
£,  (fig.  xii.)  which  is  possibly  the 
memorial  of  Richard  de  Estone,  Prior 
of  Malvern,  who  died  1300;  this  tile 
may  also  be  seen  at  Leigh,  and  in  other 
churches.  On  the  inscribed  circular 
bordure  are  the  words  Sin  re  b'nr  f... 
( ?  speravi).  A  single  tile,  now  wholly 
defaced,  exhibited  the  curious  canting 
device  of  Tydeman  de  Winchcomb, 
Bishop  of  Worcester,  1 395^1401 .  It 
represents  a  sort  of  capstan,  with  a 
rope  wound  around,  bars  being  inserted 
at  intervals  for  the  purpose  of  turning 
it,  and  a  large  comb  ;  this  whimsical 
expression  of  the  name  Winch-comb 
is  surmounted  by  the  mitre  and  pastoral 
staff.  The  same  device  is  thus  noticed 
by  Anthony  Wood  as  existing  at  Ox- 
ford !  "The  farthermost  lodging  at 
Gloucester  Hall  did  one  Winchcomb 
build,  but  I  rather  thinke  that  one 
Compton  did  build  it,  for  there  is  a 
perfect  allusion  of  his  name,  viz.  a 
combe  and  a  ton  ;  and  that  he  was  a 
bishop,  I  suppose,  because  there  is  a 
miter  over  the  aforesaid  allusion." 
(Hearne,  Liber  Niger,  App.  ii.  584.) 
The  occurrence  of  the  device  of  this 
prelate  at  Great  Malvern  is  in  some 
measure  explained  by  the  fact  of  his 
grant  to  the  Priory,  regarding  the  ap- 
propriation of  the  church  of  Upton 
Snodbnry,  in  consideration  of  hospi* 
talities  exercised  by  the  monks ;  the 
particulars  are  given  by  Thomas  in  his 
Hist,  of  Malvern,  and  Nash,  Hist. 
Wore.  II.  440. 

Two  singular  tiles  form  the  memo- 
rial of  an  individual  whose  initials 
I  '  N  '  appear  on  both  ;  in  one  instance 
surrounded  by  the  pious  aspiration, 
fftac  mii^ericorbia  tua  bomine  ;Bup'  no^, 
(according  to  thy  mercy  be  it  done  to 
us,  O  Lord,  fig.  viii.)  and  the  other 
gives  apparently  a  clue  to  the  name, 
by  the  canting  device  of  a  heart  trans- 
fixed by  three  nails  (fig.  xv.)  The 
inscription  moOum   ^perauintuj?   (too 


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Ornamental  Tilet  m  Great  Malvern  Church, 


[July, 


moch  have  we  hoped)  appears  on  the 
bordare.  It  has  been  suggested  to  me 
by  an  obliging  correspondent,  that  the 
monogram  1  *  N  *,  introduced  invarions 
parts  of  Bristol  cathedral,  denotes 
Abbot  John  Newland,  elected  148  ]« 
and  that  the  place  of  his  birth,  from 
which  his  name  was  taken,  was  pos- 
sibly Newland,  the  chapelry  adjoining 
to  Great  Malvern,  part  of  the  pos- 
sessions of  the  Priory.  Although  the 
tiles  have  the  appearaoce  of  being  of 
a  somewhat  earlier  date,  and  the 
obvious  intention  of  the  device  would 
be  Nail-heart,  a  name  which  occurs  in 
these  parts  of  England,  I  cannot  wholly 
reject  the  supposition  that  these  little 
memorials  may  appertain  to  Abbot 
Newland. 

I  can  offer  no  satisfactory  ex- 
planation of  the  tile,  pi.  i.  fig.  vi.  The 
scutcheons  are  evidently  humble  imi- 
tations of  heraldry,  presenting  the 
implements  of  the  artizan  or  the 
husbandman,  the  axe  and  hammer, 
and  so  forth.  The  sacred  monograms 
tj^c  and  nPC  appear  in  intervening 
spaces,  and  the  inscription  S&eneilirtalf 
ttuf  in  boni^  fui^  (blessed  be  God  in 
his  gifts)  runs  along  the  margin. 
May  not  these  representations  of  the 
implements  of  rural  toil  have  been 
fanciful  bearings  assumed  by  some 
local  gild  or  fraternity  in  humble  life, 
whose  unostentatious  contribution  to 
the  fabric  of  God's  house  was  recorded 
by  this  simple  memorial  stamped  with 
the  aspiration  of  pious  gratefulness  ? 

There  are  some  small  tiles  here,  as 
also  in  the  north  aisle  of  the  Lady 
Chapel  at  Worcester  cathedral,  whicn 
may  possibly  present  the  marks  or  ini- 
tials of  the  artificers  by  whom  these 
pavements  were  fabricated.  On  one 
at  Malvern  may  be  noticed  the  letters, 

WBIL 
LAR 

on  another,  the  letters  s  and  w,  un- 
less the  latter  be  a  fanciful  device  or 
symbol.  The  occasional  introduction 
of  inscriptions,  formed  with  small  tiles, 
each  stamped  with  a  single  letter, 
has  been  already  noticed  ;  an  example, 
curious  on  account  of  its  late  date, 
formerly  existed  at  Malvern,  of  which 
the  two  letters  BO,  large  Roman  capi- 
tals, impressed  on  the  clay,  and  filled 
in  with  white  earth,  precisely  accord- 
ing to  the.  ancient  method  of  fabrica- 
tion, still  exist.     An  undeniable  evi- 


dence is  hereby  afforded  that  this  pro- 
cess of  producing  fictile  decorations 
had  not  been  totally  disused  in  Wor- 
cestershire as  late  as  1640.  When 
Cole  visited  Malvern  church,  June  25, 
1746,  the  inscription,  of  which  these 
letters  formed  a  part,  was  perfect :  it 
marked  the  resting-place  of  an  incum- 
bent of  the  parish.  Cole  notices  the  an- 
cient effigy,  now  placed  in  the  north 
transept,  which  then  lay  near  the 
wall,  under  the  window  nearest  the 
east  end  of  the  south  aisle  of  the 
choir.  Adjoining  to  this,  as  he  states, 
lay  a  black  marble  slab  to  the  me- 
mory of  Francis  Moreton,  1714,  and 
close  to  this,  on  the  north,  was  this 
inscription,  on  tiles,  all  round  the  verge 
of  a  grave ;    - 

HBBB  LTBTH  TBI  BODY  OP  BDMUH D 
BBA  LATB  VICAB  OP  MUCH  M ALVBBNB 
DBCBASBD  TBB    23  OP   DBC.    ANNO  DO. 

1640.  (Cole's  MSS.  vol.  x.  126.) 

Numerous  are  the  varieties  of  ele- 
gant and  elaborate  design,  presenting 
no  sacred  or  commemorative  allusion, 
which  may  still  be  distinguished  on 
the  defaced  and  neglected  tiles  in  the 
church  of  Malvern.  In  some  instances, 
complete  sets  of  these  may  still  be 
seen  in  the  choir  at  Gloucester  cathe- 
dral, the  work  of  Abbot  Sebrok, 
which  presents  the  most  striking  ex- 
ample that  exists  of  pavements  of  this 
kind,  executed  during  the  fifteenth 
century.  It  appears  probable  that  the 
Malvern  manufactory  supplied  this  and 
numerous  other  similar  decorations, 
of  which  traces  are  found  in  churches 
of  the  adjacent  counties.  It  may  in- 
terest some  natives  of  Worcestershire 
to  be  reminded,  that  from  an  early  pe- 
riod this  manufacture  had  flourished  in 
the  county,  as  appears  by  the  discoveries 
of  kilns,  previously  noticed.  The 
more  choice  and  elegant  productions 
of  the  porcelain  works  of  later  times 
are  far  more  generally  attractive,  bat 
those  who  care  to  investigate  the  pro- 
gressive industry  of  their  forefathers 
will  not  overlook  the  singular  fact, 
that  from  the  period  when  the  red 
ware,  usually  termed  Samian,  Intro- 
duced by  the  Romans  into  Britain,  had 
ceased  to  be  used,  until  the  times  of 
the  r^ittance,  when  the  tasteful 
nuiiolica  of  the  Italians  was  imported 
from  Venice,  and  the  use  of  pottery, 
as  one  of  the  elegancies  of  life,  had 
been  introduced  by  intercourse  with 


1844.] 


The  Tortraits  of  Versailles. 


31 


Frmnce  daring  the  reign  of  Henry 
VUl.,  these  pavement- tiles  are  the  sole 
productions  of  fictile  art,  properly  to 
be  called  decorative,  which  appear  to 
have  been  used  in  our  country. 

The  tiles  at  Great  Malvern  appear 
to  be  of  two  periods  only ;  a  few,  the 
remains  of  the  pavements  of  the  more 
ancient  structure,  are  of  the  time 
termed  in  architecture  the  Decorated 
period  ;  the  remainder  appear  to  have 
been  fabricated  about  1450,  at  the 
time  when  the  church  was  rebuilt 
The  work  was  probably  commenced 
by  Prior  John  Malverne,  whose  libe- 
rality was  recorded  in  the  window  on 
the  north  side  of  the  choir,  nearest 
the  east  end.  Its  advance  appears  to 
have  been  slow,  for  the  consecration  of 
the  altars  in  the  choir  and  transepts  of 
the  new  church  did  not  take  place 
until  1460;  the  construction  of  the 
clerestory  of  the  nave  and  the  great 
west  window  was  probably  subsequent 
to  that  period.  The  tiles  of  the  earlier 
date  measure,  in  most  instances,  5 
in.  square,  the  later  examples  6  in. ; 
some  fine  square  tiles  of  unusual  di- 
mension may  be  seen  in  the  north 
aisle  of  the  nave ;  they  measure  9  in. 
square,  and  2i  in  thicknets. 

One  more  fact  remains  to  be  noticed 
in  regard  to  the  use  of  fictile  orna- 
ments as  accessories  to  sacred  archi- 
tecture ;  the  only  example  of  the  kind, 
hitherto  recorded,  has  been  Jouod  at 
Great  Malvern.  In  the  spring  of  1843 
A  portion  of  a  cross,  fashioned  in  clay, 
well  burned  and  glazed,   was  found 


by  a  person  digging  in  the  garden  ad- 
joining the  east  end  of  the  church.  It 
measures  about  14  in.  across  the  arms, 
the  foot  being  shaped,  suitably  for  in- 
sertion in  a  socket,  for  the  purpose  of 
fixing  the  cross  in  some  elevated  posi- 
tion. Having  occasion  to  go  upon  the 
roof  of  the  church,  during  the  progress 
of  some  repairs,  I  noticed  on  one  of  the 
original  ridge- tiles  of  the  roof  of  the 
choir  a  projection,  which  on  closer 
view  proved  to  be  a  socket  prepared 
to  receive  the  foot  of  such  an  or- 
nament as  the  cross  in  question. 
There  can  be  little  doubt  that  a 
crest  thus  formed  originally  ran  along 
the  whole  length  of  the  ridge ;  the 
ridge-tiles  were  deeply  serrated  in 
the  spaces  intervening  between  the 
larger  ornaments,  which  were  thus  af- 
fixed by  means  of  tenons  and  sockets. 
The  effect  of  such  a  crest,  in  breaking 
the  straight  regularity  of  the  outline  of 
the  roof  as  seen  against  the  sky, 
must  have  been  admirable.  It  may  be 
observed  that  the  representation  of  the 
church,  and  buildings  of  the  monas- 
tery, which  may  be  seen  in  the  curious 
window  on  the  north  side  of  the  choir, 
wherein  the  principal  circumstances  of 
the  foundation  of  the  Priory  are  com- 
memorated, exhibit  the  decorative  crest 
running  along  the  ridge  of  the  roof.  It 
is  surprising  that  so  effective  an  expe- 
dient for  producing,  at  a  very  small  cost, 
a  decoration  not  less  durable  than  pleas- 
ing to  the  eye,  should  not  have  been 
adopted  in  modern  times. 

Yours,  &c.    Albert  Way. 


THE  PORTRAITS  OF  VERSAILLES.    No.  IV. 
{Continued from  vol.  XX.  p.  580,  and  concluded.) 


THE  reigns  of  Louis  XIII.  and  XIV. 
are  profusely  illustrated  in  this  Gallery, 
as  may  be  readily  supposed,  the  latter, 
indeed,  more  than  the  former;  and 
the  scries  extends  in  much  amplitude 
through  the  reigns  of  Louis  XV.  and 
XVI.  down  to  the  revolutionary  epoch, 
and  even  to  the  present  day.  The 
monarch  who  has  formed  this  Gallery 
has  not  admitted  within  its  walls  the 
portraits  of  the  remarkable  personages 
among  the  revolutionary  leaders— only 
those  of  the  revolutionary  generals 
occur :  as  for  Robespierre,  Marat, 
and  the  rest,  they  are  not  to  be  seen 


within  Versailles.  The  same  reason 
that  has  led  to  their  exclusion  has 
prompted  the  omission  of  pictures 
commemorating  the  principal  civil 
scenes  of  that  disastrous  epcch ;  and, 
perhaps,  the  less  such  horrible  atro- 
cities, and  the  countenances  of  their 
authors,  are  brought  to  public  recol- 
lection the  better.  There  is  nothing 
to  admire  in  them,  nothing  to  imitate : 
that  page  of  the  history  of  France  is 
to  be  read  only  as  a  dreadful  record  of 
the  madness  and  the  vices  of  a  dis- 
solute nation ;  an  awful  instance  of  the 
consequences  of  bad  admiiflbtration  by 


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The  Portraiis  of  Versailles, 


[July, 


the  governing,  and  of  national  immo- 
rality on  the  part  of  the  governed.  It 
18  not  intended  to  notice  the  portraits 
of  the  period  snbsequent  to  Loois  XIV.« 
and  the  concluding  remarks  of  these 
papers  will  be  confined  to  those  of  the 
brilliant  reign  of  this  monarch,  end 
that  of  his  predecessor. 

There  are  several  excellent  portraits 
of  Louis  XIIL,  including  a  contem- 
poraneous one,  on  horseback,  at  the 
age  of  seven  years,  and  another  at  the 
age  of  ten,  the  painters  being  un* 
known.  The  finest  portraits  of  this 
king  are  those  by  Philippe  de  Cham- 
pagne  in  the  Louvre,  of  which  there 
are  only  copies  at  Versailles ;  but 
there  is  a  remarkable  picture  here,  by 
Gaspard  Grayer,  of  Louis  XIIL  and 
Ferdinand  IV.  king  of  Bohemia,  a 
good  specimen  of  that  master's  style. 
Of  the  second  son  of  Henri  IV.,  who, 
though  duke  of  Orleans,  was  never 
christened,  only  baptized,  and  who 
died  in  1611,  in  his  fifth  year,  there  is 
one  pleasing  portrait  preserved  in  this 
collection ;  but  of  his  next  brother, 
Gaston- Jean- Baptiste  de  France,  Duke 
of  Orleans,  and  Regent  of  the  kingdom 
after  his  brother's  death,  there  are  se- 
veral excellent  pictares.  Some  are 
copies  of  fine  Vandycks,  others  are  by 
contemporary  painters  not  named  in 
the  catalogue :  one  represents  him  in 
full  Roman  costume  with  a  flowing 
grey  wig,  and,  though  well  painted, 
produces  by  this  contrast  a  truly  lu- 
dicrous effect.  Philippe  de  Champagne 
has  painted  a  first-rate  picture  of  Anne 
of  Austria  while  Regent ;  there  is  ano- 
ther of  the  same  Queen  by  an  unnamed 
artist  of  the  Spanish  school ;  and  two 
valuable  pictures  of  her  Majesty,  with 
the  two  royal  children,  Louis  XIV.  and 
Philip  of  France,  afterwards  Duke  of 
Orleans.  One  of  these  pictures  repre- 
sents the  Queen  on  her  knees  with  her 
children,  assisted  by  St.  Benedict  and 
St.  Scholastica.  his  sister,  all  praying 
to  the  Virgin  Mary,  and  placing  under 
her  protection  the  crown  of  France,  in 
compliance  with  the  well-known  vow 
of  Louis  XIII.  This  is  the  work  of 
Philippe  de  Champagne,  and  in  his 
best  style,  exceedingly  rich  and  bril- 
liant in  colouring,  at  the  same  time 
that  it  is  harmonious  in  tone.  The 
same  master  has  here  one  of  his  mag- 
nificent portraits  of  the  Cardinal  de 
Richelieu :  it  is  a  three-quarter  canvass, 

4 


full  of  all  the  best  points  of  art,  and 
well  worthy  of  study. 

Most  of  the  great  lords  and  ladies  of 
the  court  of  Louis  XIII.  are  portrayed 
in  this  collection  by  contemporaneous 
hands:  among  them  two  of  the  best 
pictures  are  those  of  Henri  de  Senecey* 
Marquis  de  Bauffremont,  and  Mane 
de  Senecey,  his  sister,  Duchesse  de 
Randan,  and  governess  to  Louis  XIV.  \ 
they  are  charming  productions  of  art* 

Of  the  portraits  of  the  distinguished 
Mvoju  of  that  period,  the  best  is  one 
of  Galileo,  by  Francisco  Boschi,  a 
bold,  masterly  picture.  There  are  se- 
veral good  canvasses  in  this  part  of 
the  collection  by  Sebastian  Bourdon, 
Voaet,  &c. ;  one  of  Rubens,  by  a 
painter  not  named,  but  probably  one 
of  his  pupils,  is  worthy  of  attention. 
It  appears  to  be  a  copy  of  his  own 
famous  picture,  with  the  large  black 
hat,  the  eyes  looking  to  the  right,  and 
the  hair  made  out  in  great  detail. 

We  now  come  upon  a  rather  nu- 
merous s^ies  of  European  princes  and 
statesmen  who  flourished  in  the  time 
of  Louis  XIU.  One  of  the  best  pic- 
tures is  the  portrait  of  Philip  IV.  of 
Spain,  very  much  in  the  style  of  Ve- 
lasquez, but  probably  by  some  less 
eminent  member  of  the  Spanish  school. 
Near  it  is  a  capital  work  of  Gaspard 
Crayer,  the  portrait  of  Ferdinand  of 
Spain,  third  son  of  Philip  III.  He 
was  made  a  Cardinal,  and  went  by 
the  title  of  the  Cardinal-Infante ;  but 
nevertheless  gave  himself  up  to  mili- 
tary pursuits,  aud  fought  with  the 
imperial  armies  in  the  Netherlands. 
We  must  not  omit  to  notice  a  most 
masterly  portrait  of  Antony  Triest, 
Bishop  of  Ghent;  the  name  of  the 
painter  is  not  known,  but  it  possesses 
a  breadth  and  vigour  which  would 
make  us  look  upon  it  as  a  Rubens  if 
its  colouring  were  more  mellow.  It 
may  probably  be  an  early  Vandyck. 
There  is  a  little  gem  in  this  room,  by 
Vandyck  himself,  the  only  one  men- 
tioned in  the  catalogue  as  being  un- 
doubtedly from  his  pencil ;  a  portrait 
of  Thomas  de  Savoie,  Prince  de  Ca- 
rignan,  who  commanded  the  French 
armies  in  Italy  a.d.  1643-65.  The 
picture  is  only  sketched  in  with  bistre 
and  white ;  but  it  is  a  splendid  sketch, 
and  valuable  to  any  one  who  would 
carefully  study  the  works  of  that  great 
master. 


18440 


Reiji^  of  Louis  XIV* 


33 


We  find  one  picture  of  Charles  I.  of 
England  in  this  gallery :  it  is  a  con- 
temporaneous one  by  an  unknown 
hand,  not  of  much  value  as  a  work  of 
art,  but  curious  from  its  representfng 
the  king  with  features  less  strongly 
marked  than  in  the  picture  by  Van- 
dyck.  It  must  have  been  taken  in  the 
early  part  of  his  reign.  While,  how- 
ever, there  is  such  an  absence  of  por« 
traiture  with  regard  to  this  unfortunate 
monarch,  the  gallery  is  rich  in  beau- 
tiful likenesses  of  his  amiable  and 
excellent  queen.  Of  these  there  is  one 
taken  in  about  the  twenty-fifth  year  of 
her  age  in  a  white  dress,  and  another 
in  red,  with  the  Vaudyck  cuffs  at  the 
wHato,  both  by  artists  not  named,  and 
the  latter  said  to  be  a  copy  of  one  by 
Sir  P.  Leiy.  Bot  the  best  portrait  of 
the  qoeen,  certainly  the  best  picture 
that  has  ever  borne  her  name,  and 
one  of  the  finest  works  of  art  at  Ver- 
sailles, is  a  half-length  in  black  by 
an  unknown  hand.  It  represents  the 
Queen  at  the  age  of  about  sixteen,  the 
time  of  her  marriage,  and  shows  her  to 
have  had  that  lovely  dignity  of  coun- 
tenance, combined  with  a  patient  mild- 
ness of  expression,  which  always  ho- 
vered around  her  features.  The  man- 
ner in  which  the  subject  is  executed 
is  masterly  in  the  highest  degree,  es- 
pecially the  treatment  of  the  eyes  and 
the  forehead,  where  a  few  curls  play- 
ing upon  its  ivory  surface  cast  a  richly 
tinted  shadow  upon  the  skin.  We 
have  never  seen  any  engraving  of  this 
pictore,  and  we  recommend  it  most 
strongly  to  the  notice  of  all  visitors  of 
Versailles ;  its  number  is  20^^  in  the 
general  catalogue.  To  us,  who  are 
warm  sympathisers  with  that  illus- 
trioos  lady  and  all  her  descendants  in 
their  unmerited  misfortunes,  this  pic- 
ture has  formed  a  point  of  riveted 
attraction  by  the  hour  together. 

In  the  same  room  there  is  a  very 
striking  portrait  of  Oliver  Cromwell^ 
by  whom  is  not  said,  but  evidently 
a  contemporaneous  picture  of  great 
vigour,  and  valuable  for  its  details. 
It  is  placed  in  a  wretched  light  by  the 
side  of  a  window,  bot  can  be  readily 
examined.  The  drawing  and  ex- 
pression closely  resemble  those  of  the 
portrait  in  crayons  at  Sidney  Sussex 
College,  Cambridge.  A  beautiful  pic- 
tore of  Prince  Edward  of  Bavaria,  by 
an  unknown  artist,  stands  opposite  to 

Gent.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII. 


the  last  named  portrait,  and  a  still 
better  one  of  his  brother  Philip  (by 
Vandyck  ?)  is  placed  at  its  side.   There 
are  two  sood  copies   of  Vandyck's, 
probably  by  his  pupils,  portraits  of 
Prince  Rupert  and  of  Charles  Louis 
elector    of  Bavaria,   which  complete 
the  series  of  portraits  of  this  family. 
About  the  same  part  of  the  room  is  a 
remarkable  picture    of   Christina    of 
Sweden,    surrounded  by  the  French 
nobles  of  the  time,  listening  to  Des- 
cartes, who  is  demonstrating  a  geo- 
metrical problem ;  it  is  by  Domesnil. 
Close  to  it  is  a  large  and  masterly  head 
of  the  same  queen  by  a  contemporary 
artist,  not  named  in  the  catalogue. 

The  heads  of  Sebastian  Bourdon  by 
himself,  of  L.  Testelin  the  painter  and 
engraver  by  C.  Lebrun.  and  of  the 
Chancellor  Seguier  by  H.  Testelin,  are 
all  well  worthy  of  careful  remark. 

The  golden  age  of  Louis  XIV. 
occupies  some  large  rooms  with  the 
portraits  of  its  principal  charscters, 
and  constitutes  one  of  the  most  in- 
teresting portions  of  the  collection. 
Nearly  all  the  portraits  are  here 
genuine,  nearly  all  contemporaneous, 
and  most  of  them  admirable  as  works 
of  art.  Their  state  of  preservation  is 
in  general  excellent,  and  the  brilliant 
mass  of  warm  colour  which  thev  pre- 
sent cannot  fail  of  immediately  at- 
tracting the  notice  of  the  connoisseur. 
There  is  a  good  whole-length  likeness 
of  Louis  XIV.  at  the  age  of  9.  by  H. 
Testelin;  and  two  splendid  portraits 
taken  at  a  later  period  by  Philippe  de 
Champagne :  one  of  these  in  particular, 
at  the  end  of  the  room.  No.  145,  is  the 
best  of  the  younger  likenesses  of  the 
king.  There  are  numerous  other 
portraits  of  the  Grand  Monarqoe  in 
the  state  apartments  and  various  parts 
of  the  palace ;  but  we  now  speak  only 
of  the  collection  in  this  upper  suite  of 
rooms.  One  of  Philip,  Duke  of  Orleans, 
brother  of  Louts,  painted  by  Matthteu, 
senior,  in  1665,  is  a  good  picture ;  the 
portrait  is  in  a  medallion  held  by 
Henrietta  his  duchess,  habited  as  Mi- 
nerva. Close  by  these  two  pictures 
is  a  charming  likeness  of  Henrietta 
herself,  the  universal  favourite  of  her 
family  and  the  French  court,  and 
whose  sudden  death  still  remains  a 
mystery  even  to  those  best  read  in  the 
history  of  the  tiriies.  This  princess, 
like  only  very  few  of  the  Stuurts,  had 


34 


Poriraits  of  VenaiUes. 


[Joly, 


beaniifDl  blue  eyes,  and  was  the  most 
comely  of  the  cnildren  of  her  unforta- 
•nate  parents,  though  she  bore  little 
resemblance  to  the  peculiar  beauty  of 
her  mother.  The  painter's  name  is 
unknown.  A  grand  picture  by  Mig- 
nard  of  a  notable  personage.  Mile, 
de  Montpensier,  cannot  but  attract  the 
eye  of  the  most  indifferent  visitor. 
Her  countenance  corresponds  most 
fully  to  her  character,  her  aspect 
being  peculiarly  haughty  and  quick. 
Had  it  been  possible  for  a  female  to 
have  ascended  the  throne  of  France, 
she  might  have  proved  herself  another 
Elizabeth.  There  were  seveii  other 
portraits  of  the  princess  in  this  part  of 
the  gallery,  but  we  pass  by  them  and 
come  to  a  masterly  likeness  of  the 
great  Cond^  by  Michel  Corneille :  it 
is  a  whole-length  of  the  size  of  life, 
and  is  an  excellent  specimen  of  the 
master.  The  good  portraits  of  the 
Duke  and  Duchess  de  Longueville  are 
in  the  state  rooms;  but  there  is  a 
crowd  of  pictures  up  stairs  and  in  the 
gallery  we  are  now  examining,  of  all 
the  eminent  personages  of  the  court  of 
Versailles;  and  scarcely  any  notable 
character  remains  uodelineated.  There 
are  six  original  portraits  of  the  Grand 
Dauphin,  one  of  them  by  Rigaud,  the 
others  anonymous,  in  this  division  of 
the  gallery ;  all  good  pictures  and  all 
bearing  the  same  testimony  to  the 
noble  features  of  the  prince,  whose 
death  was  an  immense  calamity  to  his 
country.  There  are  also  in  these 
rooms  portraits  of  Marie-Anne  de 
fiavidre  his  consort,  and  of  the  Duke 
and  Duchess  d 'Orleans  (the  Regent), 
as  well  as  of  the  Duke  and  Duchesse 
de  Bourgogne ;  but  they  are  not  the 
best  of  these  subjects,  which  are  kept 
in  the  state  apartments.  Of  the  beauti- 
ful La  Vallidre,  there  are  in  this  gallery 
only  two  originals,  with  no  names  of 
painters  attached  ;  one  of  Madame  de 
Montespan,  and  two  of  Madame  de 
Maintenon,  (including  a  Mignard) ; 
the  best  pictures  of  the  royal  mis- 
tresses are  in  the  state  apartments. 

Of  the  foreign  princes  of  this  epoch, 
one  of  the  best  portraits  is  that  of 
Don  Joan  of  Austria,  by  Van  Hull, 
a  remarkably  fine  picture,  and  others, 
by  unnamed  artists,  of  the  Great  John 
Sobieski  of  Poland,  and  of  Frederick 
III.  of  Denmark.  A  highly  valuable 
and  unique  portrait  is  one  of  James  II. 


of  England  at  the  age  of  18,  while 
Duke  of  York,  and  in  the  service  of 
his  cousin  Louis  XIV.  The  features 
of  this  monarch  were  at  that  time 
peculiarly  pleasing,  and,  like  his  sister 
Henrietta  d'Orl^ans,  he  must  have 
been  one  of  the  best  looking  personages 
of  the  French  court.  In  this  picture 
he  is  dressed  in  armour,  and  there  is 
an  inscription  on  it, 

JACQVBS  8TYART  DVC  !>'  TORS. 

In  another  picture  by  its  side,  of  more 
recent  date,  he  is  styled, 

IACQVB8  .  7  •  KOy  .  DS  .  LA  .  ORANOB  • 
BRRTAONR  . 

The  countenance  of  this  king  testi- 
fies to  the  excellent  tenor  of  his  life, 
now  at  length  coming  to  be  under- 
stood when  the  mass  of  misrepresenta- 
tion and  prejudice  under  which  it  has 
been  obscured  is  crumbling  before 
the  light  of  truth  thrown  on  it  by 
the  publication  of  contemporaneous 
memoirs  and  papers*  There  is  placed 
near  this  picture,  as  it  should  be,  a 
good  portrait  of  Maria-Beatrix- d'£ste» 
his  second  consort,  one  of  the  most 
amiable  and  virtuous  ladies  of  her 
age.  On  the  opposite  wall  is  a  picture 
with  two  portraits  of  the  Prince  of 
Orange  and  his  wife,  and  others  of 
Charles  II.  of  England  with  his  queen» 

We  have  been  much  struck  by  an 
energetic  picture  from  an  unnamed 
painter,  the  portrait  of  Cardinal  de 
Retz,  which  gives  a  capital  idea  of  the 
peculiar  acuteness  and  courage  of  the 
original ;  and  we  may  say  the  same 
of  a  most  excellent  portrait  of  Tnrenne 
by  H.  Rigaud,  full  of  fine  colouring 
and  able  drawing.  These  are  both 
choice  m&reeaux,  A  good  Philippe  de 
Champagne,  the  portraits  of  F.  Man- 
sart  and  C.  Perrault,  united  in  the 
same  canvass,  is  to  be  remarked,  not 
only  for  the  likenesses  of  such  eminent 
architects,  but  *also  as  a  forcible 
and  effective  picture.  Francis  Porbus, 
senior,  has  left  here  an  excellent 
portrait  of  the  great  Cornelius  de  Witt ; 
and  there  is  close  by  it  a  curious 
picture  by  F.  Denys  (of  Antwerp)  of 
F*  P.  de  Brouckoven,  Seneschal  of 
Antwerp,  A.D.  1656.  There  are 
able  contemporary  portraits  on  these 
walls  of  Montecuculi,  Prince  Eugene, 
Marlborough,  Colbert,  Louvois,  Vau- 
ban,  and  other  great  characters  of  the 
time,  all  worthy  of  close  examination 


184^0 


On  the  PoUery  termed  Samian^ 


35 


•s  rorrectiDg  or  TerifyiDg  the  engraved 
likeneeses  of  these  historical  persoa- 
ages  with  which  every  body  is  ac- 
quainted. 

We  find  here  also  a  skilfal  portrait 
of  Lenostre^  the  garden  architect  of 
Loais  XIV.  by  Carlo  Maratta,  and 
one  of  Mignard^  by  Rigaad;  others, 
contemporaneous,  bat  some  anony- 
mous, pictures  of  Molidre,  Racine,  and 
Boileao,  Fenelon,  Mons.  de  S^vign^; 
Gtrardon  and  Coysevox,  the  sculptors ; 
Keller,  the  founder  of  all  the  bronze- 
work  for  Louis  XIV. ;  Murillo,  by  an 
unknown  hand,  but  a  good  picture; 
Coypel,  Rigaud;  Largillidre,  one  of 
the  best  painters  of  that  time,  but  little 
known  in  England ;  Vanderwerf  and 
Carlo  Maratta,  each  by  themselves; 
and  numerous  others, "  thick  as  leaves 
in  Vallombrosa,"  of  all  degrees  of 
merit  and  interest. 

We  here  bring  our  brief  notices  of 
this  collection  of  portraits  to  a  ter- 
ttinatioo,  strongly  recommending  all 
visitors  of  Versailles  to  devote  an  hour 
or  two  to  this  division  of  the  palace. 
This  large  series  of  pictures  will  pro- 
bably be  much  augmented  in  future 
days ;  and,  indeed,  fresh  acquisitions 
of  portraits  are  daily  making  by  the 
king.  It  is  to  be  hoped,  however,  that 
the  rage  for  retouching  portraits  will 
not  be  allowed  to  run  riot  within  these 
walls.  We  have  observed  several  pic- 
tures in  this  collection  greatly  injured 
by  inexperienced  modern  hands ;  and, 
indeed^  an  old  portrait  is  something 
sacred,  not  to  be  handled  heedlessly, 
but  rather  to  be  kept  from  dirt  and 
destruction  than  attempted  to  be  em- 
bellished or  improved.  In  general 
these  pictures  are  as  well  arranged  as 
the  circumstances  of  the  locality  will 
admit,  although  many  are  in  absolute 
obscurity  on  account  of  the  light  being 
admitted  only  through  side-windows. 
We  cannot  sufficiently  praise  the  good 
taste  and  judgment  of  Louis  Philippe 
in  forming  this  immense  series  of  his- 
torical illustrations,  and  whosoever 
would  complete  his  knowledge  of  mo- 
dern European  history,  to  him  we 
would  say.  Go  and  study  the  Portraits 
of  Versailles. 
Yours,  Ace.  H.  Lonotjxvillb  Jonks. 


attempting  to  add  another  word  to  his 
interesting  paper  on  the  Roman  pottery. 
The  numerous  quotations  he  has  cited 
are  all  highly  illustrative  of  the  esteem 
in  which  the  potter's  art  was  held 
among  the  Romans,  both  for  sacri- 
ficial and  ordinary  domestic  purposes. 
Whether  that  singularly  beautiful  red 
glazed  earthenware  which  Stowe  so 
aptly  compares  to  coral,  and  of  which 
such  vast  quantities  have  been  since 
exhumed  in  every  part  of  England  and 
France  where  their  respective  records 
have  assigned  a  Roman  station,  be 
really  the  identical  Samian  pottery 
of  Pliny,  is,  I  think,  a  question  yet  to 
be  decided.  But  whether  it  be  from 
Italy,  Greece,  or  Spain,  the  quan- 
titiesf  which  have  been  from  time 
to  time  discovered,  betoken,  I  thinks 
a  somewhat  more  extensive  use  than 
W.  C.  seems  inclined  to  give  to  it,  in 
supposing  it  not  to  have  been  in  general 
use  except  among  the  upper  classes*  In 
the  various  excavations  in  the  city  of 
London  I  have  generally  observed  that 
the  quantity  of  this  ware  has  far  ex- 
ceeded that  of  any  other,  from  what  is 
termed  the  Roman  level.  The  almost 
endless  variety  in  shape,  size,  and  or- 
nament, whicn  seems  to  characterise 
these  vessels,  induces  me  to  think  they 
must  have  been  in  very  general  use. 
The  great  number  of  potters'  stamps, 
moreover,  indicates,  I  think,  a  rather 
extensive  trade.  If  a  complete  list  of 
those  found  in  England,  even  during 
only  the  last  twenty  or  thirty  years, 
and  now  lying  scattered  through  private 
and  public  collections,  were  to  be  placed 
before  your  readers,  4hey  would  be  sur- 
prised at  its  lengtli  and  variety.  The 
subject,  although  it  has  elicited-  from 
your  correspondent  a  paper  of  con- 
siderable interest  and  research,  is  not 
yet  exhausted  ;  I  venture  to  hope  that 
a  few  additional  illustrations  may  not 
be  unacceptable. 

The  "  terra  Samia"  of  Pliny  appears 
to  have  been  white,  and  seems  to  have 
possessed  some  medicinal  properties. 
(Lib.  XXXV.  c.  6.)  Our  author  states 
that  it  was  not  much  esteemed  among 
the  painters  on  account  of  its  grea$ine$$ 


Ma.  UasAN, 

YOUR  correspondent  W.  C.  (April, 
p.  369)  will,  1  am  sure,  pardon  me  for 


*  Vide  Stowe's  accooDt  of  the  Disco- 
veries in  Spitslfields,  1576. 

t  Exeter  appears  to  have  been  remark- 
ably proUfic.  Vide  ShortVs  SUva  Ant. 
Iscansi  p.  117. 


36 


On  the  Pottery  terined  Samum. 


[July, 


(pioguetadioeiki).  Id  tbis  respect  it 
seems  to  bear  some  analogy  to  the  clay 
of  Cornwall,  which  is  so  much  in  vogue 
in  our  potteries  under  the  name  of 
••  china  clay," 

1  think  W.  C.'s  conjecture,  that 
"some  colouring  matter  was  used," 
certainly  derives  support  from  Pliny, 
who  alludes  to  an  opinion  at  Samos, 
(sunt  qui  in  Samo  tradunt,)  that  Rhoa- 
cus  and  Theodorus  were  the  first  arti- 
ficers in  the  plastic  art,  but  states  that 
Dtbntades  of  Sicyonia  (in  Peloponesus) 
was  the  first  who  added  red  earth  or 
colour  to  his  material  (rubricam  addere, 
aut  ex  rubrica  cretam  fingere.)  This 
seems  to  afford  some  little  support  to 
the  opinion  that  the  Samian  ware  was 
red;  but  it  is  not  decisive,  and  the 
quotation  from  Pitiscas,  "  Ex  luto 
Samio  in  rubrem  eolorem  vertente,"  is 
scarcely  sufficient  authority.  He  pub- 
lished his  Lexicon  Antiquitatum  Ro- 
naDorum  (from  which,  I  assume,  the 
passage  to  be  taken)  in  1713*  He  may 
have  had  good  authority  for  his  state- 
ment, but,  if  so,  we  ought  to  have 
the  source  of  his  opinion.*  We  have 
good  evidence  that  numerous  other 
cities,  far  removed  from  the  island  of 
Samos,  furnished  red  pottery.  The 
passage  from  Pliny,  "major  quorum 
pars  hominum  terrenis  utitnr  vasis," 
does  not  solely  refer  to  the  productions 
of  Samos,  but  is,  I  think,  merely  a 
general  remark,  and  equally  applicable 
to  earthenware  of  all  kinds.  He  in- 
forms 09  that  the  earthenware  of  Samos, 
and  of  Aretium,  in  Italy  (Tuscany,)  is 
famed  for  "  eating  out  of,"  (in  escu* 
lentis,)  but  that*  for  drinking  cops 
(calicum)  the  following  cities  are  dis- 
tinguished (nobiiantor) : — Snrrentinum 
(Sorento  in  Campania)  ;  Asta  and  Po* 
lentia  (part  of  ancient  Liguria,  now 
Asti  and  Polenzo) ;  also  Sagnntum,  in 
Spain ;  Mutina  (Italy,  now  Modena) ; 
Pergamos,  in  Asia-Minor;  and  the 
Greek  cities,  Trailis  and  Erythne ;  and 

*  As  this  psssage  is  of  importance  to 
our  subject,  and  hu  been  more  than  once 
introduced  in  the  "  Archaeologia,"  it  may 
be  worth  while  to  inquire  what  work  of 
Pitisctts  it  occurs  in ;  and,  if  in  his  ela- 
borate Lexicon,  under  what  head.  It  is 
certainly  not  to  be  found  under  those 
heads  where  we  should  think  it  most 
likely.  I  have  referred  to  "Samiie,*' 
"  Fictilia,"  "  Pocula/'  and  a  host  of  other 
words,  but  without  success. 


towards  the  end  of  the  chapter  he  adds 
Rhegium  and  Cumse. 

The  red  earthenware  of  Cumie  (in 
Campania)  is  mentioned  in  the  Latin 
poets — 

Hanc  tibi  Ctiwumo  rubicundam  pmUtere  teatam 
Mnnicipem  misit  casta  SybiUa  snam. 

Mart.  lib.  xiv.  114. 

Articles  of  similar  description  formed 
the  "Campanian  furniture"  (supellex 
Campana)  which  decorated  the  table 
or  sideboard  of  Horace.  Sat.  lib.  i.  6« 
118.  Mr.  Shortt  in  "Silva  Antiqua 
Iscans,"  a  work  replete  with  interest 
and  learning,  quotes  a  passage  from 
Apicius  (De  arte  coquina)  in  which 
the  cook  is  directed  to  use  "  a  clean 
Cumaan  red  earthenware  dish." 

Of  the  pottery  of  Sagnntum  we  have 
frequent  mention — 

Pogna  Saguntina  fervet  commiasa  lagenm. 

Jut.  v.  30. 

It  would  seem,  however,  that  the  Sa- 
guntine  ware  was  held  in  less  esteem 
than  the  others ;  judging  from  Martial 
(who  came  from  the  neighboaring  city, 
Bilbilis)— 

Ficta  8ag%mHna  cimbia  maio  Itito. 

Mart.viiL6. 

And  again  (lib.  xiv.  108) — 

QuR  non  soUdtns  teneat  senretque  minister^ 
Same  8aguntinQ  pocula  ficta  lirfo. 

meaning,  it  is  supposed,  that  the  at- 
tendant may  use  this  material  without 
any  anxiety,  being  of  less  value.  It  is 
probable  that  he  alludes  to  the  same 
ware  in  the  following  passage  (lib.  xiv. 
102)  :— 

Accipe  non  vili  calices  de  puivere  natos, 
Sed  Snrrentine  leve  toreuma  rots. 

The  cups  of  Surrentinum  are  recom- 
mended  by  the  poet  as  preferable  for 
the  wine  for  which  that  city  waa 
famed — 

tharrmMna  bibis  nee  mnnrhina  pieta  nee  aoium 
Some:  dabunt  cottcet hcc tibi  vina mim. 

Mart.  lib.  ziii.  110. 

The  pottery  of  Aretium  (in  Tuscany,) 
one  of  the  cities  spoken  of  by  Pliny,  is 
also  mentioned  by  Martial  (lib.  xiv. 
98)— 

Aretina  nimis  ne  spemas  voia  monemus, 
Laatus  erat  TVtdt  Forsena  flctilibos. 

The  red  dish,  or  platter  (paropsis 
rubra,)  is  alluded  to  by  the  same  poet, 
(lib.  xi.  28), 


1844] 


On  the  Pottery  termed  SoMian. 


37 


Coi  portat  gaodens  mdlMparoptids  rubra 
Alecem. 

and  by  Persius  (Sat.  ▼.  183)» 

AnAnofifiM  ampleza  eatinum 
Omda  natat  thyani,  tnmeC  alba  ildelia  yino. 

also  io  the  Fasti  of  Ovid  (v.  622), 

Terra  rmbetu  crater,  pocula  tt^goa  crant. 

These  perhaps  form  the  chief,  if  not 
all  the  illuBtratioos  furnished  by  the 
"  classic "  authors  relative  to  the  red 
pottery  of  the  Romans,  and  the  result 
of  my  inquiries  into  the  subject  is,  the 
opinion  that  what  we  have  so  long 
termed  "Samian  ware"  really  came 
from  Italy,  and  that  the  material  was 
indigenous  to  that  portion  of  Italy 
anciently  comprehended  in  the  name 
Campania,  a  district  which  included 
Cumae,  Baiae,  Puteoli,  Pompeii,  Her- 
rulanenm,  Stabise,  Surrentum,  &c.&c. 

We  have  certainly  much  stronger 
evidence  in  support  of  this  supposition 
than  that  in  favour  of  the  isle  of  Samos, 
particularly  as  no  modern  discoveries 
in  the  latter  seem  to  afford  us  much,  if 
any,  corroborative  testimony.  Mr.  C. 
R.  Smith  (no  slight  authority  in  such 
matters)  seems  to  think  it  likely  that 
this  beautiful  ware  was  imported  from 
Sagunturo,  as  being  the  nearest  port 
to  Britain  (Collect.  Antiq.  No.  2),  in 
which  case  Martial's  description  of  its 
quality  is  certainly  not  applicable. 

The  "  Signina  "  mentioned  by  Pliny 
(xxxv.  10)  and  Vitruvius  (ii.  4)  was 
made  from  broken  pots  and  tiles  gener- 
ally. The  text  of  Pliny  does  not  ex- 
clusively mention  Samian  earthenware ; 
he  merely  says,  "  fractis  testis,"  which 
will  equally  apply  to  the  manufactures 
of  Cumae  or  the  other  cities  he  enu- 
merates. 

To  the  beautiful  and  varied  cha- 
racter which  distinguishes  so  much  of 
this  ware,  I  can  bear  ample  testimony  ; 
that  in  some  cases  the  ornaments  were 
afterwards  finished  off  by  the  graver 
or  tools  of  the  sculptor  is,  I  think, 
borne  out  by  the  following  passage 
from  Martial,  lib.  iv.  46. 

Et  craaeofifMU  poUta  e«l0 
Septenaria  synthesis  Ssgunti 
Uispaae  Inteum  roUe  torenma ; 

thus  supporting  the  opinion  of  Mr.  C. 
R.  Smith  with  respect  to  the  ornaments 
00  the  beautiful  red  vase  discovered  in 
Corohill,  1841  (Arch.  xxix.  274). 


Whichever  locality  may  be  decided 
upon  as  the  source  of  this  pottery,  it 
seems  pretty  evident,  from  the  remark- 
able similarity  in  the  specimens,  that 
England  and  France  were  supplied 
from  the  same  market. 

Of  embositd  drinking-cops  in  wood, 
earthenware,  and  metals,  the  Roman 
poets  furnish  us  with  many  illustra« 
tions.  Among  them  I  may  briefiy  cite 
Virgil,  Eclog.  iii.  43  ;  Juvenal,  i.  76 ; 
Martial,  lib.  iv.  46 ;  viii.  51 ;  Pro- 
pertius  i.  14.  Some  of  them  seem  to 
have  been  sufficiently  large  and  pon- 
derous to  serve  for  other  purposes  as 
well.  Thus  we  read  in  Ovid  (Met.  y. 
81)  that  Perseus  broke  the  head  of 
Eory thus  with  a  massive  bowl  highly 
embossed. 

While  paying  a  just  tribute  of^  ad. 
miration  to  the  many  interesting  il- 
lustrations of  the  poetry  and  mythology 
of  Greece  and  Rome,  and  to  the  ge- 
neral beauty  and  elegance  which  fre- 
quently characterise  the  figured  specie 
mens  of  the  red  ware,  we  most  at  the 
same  time  bear  in  mind  that  there  are 
occasionally  discovered  fragments  de- 
picting subjects  of  such  extremely  gross 
character,  that  we  must  cease  to  wonder 
at  the  more  refined  taste  of  Pliny  caus- 
ing him  to  inveigh  so  eloquently  against 
the  depravity  of  his  countrrmen  in 
attaching  a  higher  value  to  such  vessels* 

Quot  modis  aaximos  pretia  rerum 
In  pocolla  libidines  cielare  juvit,  ac  per 
obscenitates  bibere. 

Lib.  zzxiii.  Proemiiim. . 

Similar  sentiments  occur  in  a  former 
passage  (lib.  xiv.). 

W.  C.  amusingly  alludes  to  the  well- 
known  game  with  the  acetabulum  as 
the  prototype  of  the  "  thimble- rig  "  of 
modern  times,  that  never- failing,  but 
perhaps  not  inappropriate,  accompani- 
ment of  the  race-course,  (the  transac- 
tions of  each  presenting  equal  claim  to 
the  late  facetious  designation  "iM«/y 
iports/')  But  this  distinguished  game 
can  trace  its  parentage  to  a  much 
earlier  source,  as  evinced  by  the  sculp- 
tures on  the  tombs  at  Thebes  (iTufe 
Wilkinson's  Ancient  Egyptians). 

Yours,  &c.    E.  B.  Paica* 

P.S.— I  annex  a  list  of  such  •'  pot- 
ters' stamps  "  as  are  in  my  own  pos- 
session, from  the  various  excavations 


38 


Potien*  Siamju.^ne  Mttomc  Cycle. 


[July, 


in  the  city  daring  the  last  three  or  foar 
years. 

ACCiLiNvs.  F.  Broad-ftreet. 

ALBiNi.  OF.  Saddler's-plsoe,  London 
Wall. 

ABiANi.  New  atreet  by  Holborn- 
bridge. 

ADYOCisi.  (in  large  characters  on  the 
ride).  St.  Paul's  Chorchyard. 

ATBMT.(ATentini?),  Bishopsgate-street* 

ATii.  (or  Atali)t  BishoDsgate-street. 

OF.  ABALi.  Clement*8-lane. 

OF.  ABiNit  ditto. 

AYBNTiNi.  M.  Cateaton-strset. 

BBLiNiCTS.  Lad-lane. 

BTEDONis.  OF.  Cateaton-strcet. 

OF.  BASSi.  Water-Une,  Tower-street 

BOBiLLi.  OF.  Saddler's-plaoe. 

CACAs.  M.  Qaeen-street. 

CBBTVS.  F.  Broad-street. 

OALVi.  St.  Paul's  Chorchyard. 

coTTO.  F.  Clement* s-lane. 

ciBBVS.  FBC.  St.  Paul's  Churchyard. 

COM iTiALis.  F.  (on  the  side).  Lothbury. 

OF.  CALYi.  The  new  street  at  Holbom- 
bridge. 

CYNA.  F.  Plsyhouse-yardy  Blackfiisrs, 

DOMiNici.  ArtiUery-lane. 

DAifONYS.  Clement's-lane. 

DAOOMAKYS.  Lad-lane. 

Domi.  Great  St  Helens. 

OF.  FACB.  Bishopsgate. 

OBBMANL  OF.  Ncsr  the  Bank* 

oiMMT.  F.  (Gunmati  ?)  Patemoster-row. 

OF.  OAi.  lYi.  Water-lane. 

I.OLL.  Holbom-bridge  new  street 

I.08SA,  Paternoster-row. 

Mimri.  o.  ditto. 

icAXiMi.  ditto. 

MiNYTiYs.  F.  I«d-lane. 

OF.  MODBST.  Queen-Street. 

OF.  Mooi.  Basinghall-stxeet 

MAscYLYs.  F.  Clement* s-lsnc. 

NBRTYS.  St.  Paul*s  Churchyard, 

OF.  NIOR.I.  Bishopsgate -street, 

NBRT.  u,  St.  Swith&i's-lane. 

OYAi.  Creed-lane. 

ONCBO.  Lad-lane. 

PASSBNi.  Comhill. 

PRIM.  M.  Tooley-street. 

OF.  PRIM.  Clement's-lane. 

pRiMANi,  Basinghall-street 

r ATRici.  New-street,  Holbom  bridge. 


PBCYLARI8.  Shoe-lane. 
OF.  PATRici.  ditto. 
PRiMYL.  Cateaton-street 
Ditto.     Pstemoster-row. 
PYRiNx.  Addle-street. 
PYTR — .  Queen-street 
PATBRCLYs.  F.  Csteston-street. 
PASTO—  •  ditto. 

RACYNA.  F.  Cateaton-street 
RBOALI8.  St  Paul's  Churchyard. 
RBBYRRi.  OF.  Lad-lauc. 
RBONYS.  F.  Threadneedle-street 
OF.  RYF.  St.  Paul's  Churchyard. 
OF.  RYFiNi.  Clement*s-lsne. 
BBNTiA.    F.    Saddler's-plsoey    London 
WaU. 
SBNBCi.  o.  Queen-street 
Ditto.  Great  St  Helen's. 
8ILYINI,  Broad-street. 
OF.  SBYBRi.  Butcher-hall-lane. 
SARBNTiY.  Lothbury. 
TITYR0KI8.  Water-lane. 
OF.  YiTAu.  Clement*s*lane. 
YTALI8  M.  Threadneedle-street. 
xiYi.  Clement's-lane. 


\ 


Mr.  Urban,      Lief^ld,  April  18. 

MY  last  remarks  on  the  Metonic 
Cycle,  as  a  means  of  finding  the  date 
of  our  moYeable  feasts,  having  been 
condensed  for  the  purpose  nf  aToiding 
a  lengthened  trespass  on  the  pages  of 
the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  I  beg  now 
to  give  a  plainer  illustration  of  the 
value  of  the  lunar  measure  of  time 
than  that  which  the  former  commn* 
nication  may  offer  to  those  of  your 
readers  who  have  not  hitherto  had 
their  attention  directed  to  this  par- 
ticular subject 

To  prove,  therefore,  in  the  first  place, 
that  the  conclusions  before  arrived  at 
by  decimal  fractions  agree  with  the 
more  common  form  of  expressing  the 
amount  of  time,  I  shall  now  take  three 
examples  of  familiar  character : 

A  Lunation,  then,  being  twenty-nine 
days,  twelve  hours,  forty-four  minutes, 
and  nearly  three  seconds ;  a  mbtonic 
CTCLB  consists  of  two-hundred  and 
thirty-five  such  lunations. 

Days.     Hours. 
100  Metonic  Cyele$,  therefore,  are  very  nearly  693,968    20} 
200  ....  .      1,387,937     I7i 

A  80LAB  YBAR  being  three  hundred  and  sixty-five  days,  five  hours,  forty* 
eight  minutes,  and  rat]^er  more  than  forty-nine  seconds  and  a  half. 

Days.      Hoai-8. 
1900  So2ar  years  are  very  nearly  .  693,960      6 

And  twice  1900  .  •  1,387,920     12 


1844.] 


Value  of  the  Metamc  Cycle. 


39 


Civil  tivs  being  computed  bf  an  omission  of  one  day  in  four  thousand 
Gregorian  years. 


1900  CivU  years  are 
Twice  1900  are 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  nineteen 
hundred  solar  years  exceed  the  civil 
measure,  while  twice  nineteen  hundred 
are  less  than  the  civil  account. 

But  the  Metonic  Cycle  exceeds  both 
the  other  measures,  and  this  in  dif- 
ferent progress.  Because,  while  its 
course  and  that  of  solar  centuries  are. 

If/.  Solar  time  being  in  advance  qf  Cnnl. 

Dsys.     Honrs. 
100  Metonic  Cycles  are  •  •  693,968    20| 

1900  Solar  years  are    •  •  .  693,960      6 


693,960  days. 
1,387,921  days. 

popularly  speaking,  uniform,  the  course 
of  civil  centuries  is  not  uniform.  But 
the  difference  between  the  uniform 
measures  being  determined,  that  be- 
tween either  of  them  and  the  irregular 
measure  may  be  determined  by  com- 
parison, as  thus : 


Excess  of  100  M.  C.  over  solar  time    . 
Add  excess  of  solar  time  over  civil 

100  Metonic  Cycles  exceed  1900  civil  years 


8     141 
6 


8     20| 


2mf/y.  Civil  time  being  m  advance  of  Solar, 

.                                                                          Dsys.  Hoars. 

200  Metonic  Cycles  exceed  twice  1900  solar  years     17  5i 

Dbduct  the  correct  excess  of  civil  over  solar  time  11  § 

200  Metonic  Cycles  exceed  twice  I90O  civil  years      16      18 

In  the  general  table,  which  exhibits 
Uie  anticipation  of  the  Metonic  Cycle 
on  civil  time,  the  decimal  figures  ex- 
press the  parts  of  an  hour  not  exactly 
as  here  represented.  But  this  is  solely 
because  of  the  manner  in  which  botn 
forms  of  calculation  are  given;  and 
not  from  any  defect  in  the  rule  of  cal- 
culation. And,  when  it  is  considered 
tiiat  various  "  anomalies,"  &c.  cause  a 
difference  of  some  hours  between  the 
mean  and  true  dates  of  new  moon,  it 
would  be  trifling  to  expect  precision  in 
general  estimates. 

Now,  since  the  course  of  the  Me- 
tonic Cycle  has  been  calculated  for 
four  thousand  years  before,  and  two 
thousand  five  hundred  years  in,  the 
Christian  era,  if  the  average  day  of 
new  or  full  moon,  in  March,  for  any 
year,  for  six  thousand  five  hundred 
years,  be  required,  it  may  at  once  be 
found  by  adding  the  number  for  its 
century  to  the  date  of  new  or  full 
moon  in  the  March  of  a  year  in  the 
forty-first   century  b.c.  which  has  a 

corresponding  Golden  number  in  the  •  The  decimal  figures,  m  decimal  parts 
following  table,  the  hours  of  which  of  a  day,  may  be  reduced  at  once,  and 
table  refer  to  the  division  of  the  day  with  sufficient  accuracy,  to  the  usual  man- 
from  midnight  to  midnight.  ner  of  expressing  hoars»  by  estimating 


The  Metonic  Cycle  for  the  AUt 

B.C. 

Century 

Golden 
Number. 
I. 

Meann 
in  Id 

Day.  I 
3  • 

ewmoon 

[arch. 

)ec.part. 
47 

Full  moon  in 
Manb. 

Day.  Dec.  part. 
18  •  23 

II. 

22  • 

14 

7 

•  38 

III. 

11  ' 

21 

25 

•  97 

IV. 

99  • 

86 

15 

•  10 

V. 

19  • 

00 

4 

•  24 

VI. 

8  ' 

15 

22 

•  91 

VII. 

26  • 

.  72 

11 

•  96 

VIII. 

15  ' 

•  87 

5 ' 

€30 

•  11 

•  64 

IX. 

5  • 

'  02 

19 

•  78 

X. 

33  ' 

-  66 

8 

•  90 

XI. 

18  • 

*  66 

27 

•  42 

XII. 

i^ 

90  1 

16 

*  &G 

^^A  AS 

isT 

"43/ 

\#\^ 

XIII. 

20  ' 

'  60 

5 

•  84 

XIV. 

9  • 

•  71 

24 

•  47 

XV. 

28  ' 

•  32 

13 

•  56 

XVI. 

17 

•  47 

2 

•  71 

XVII. 

6 

•  61 

21 

•  37 

XVIII. 

25 

•  18 

10 

•  42 

XIX. 

14 

'  33 

29 

•  09* 

40 


Date  of  ike  FhrH  Paasovtr. 


[July, 


Tbb  goldbn  ntjxbbb  for  any  year 
c,   U  thus  found  :  Adopting  Arch- 
blsbop  Usher's  estimate  of  time  elapsed 
ince  the  preparation  of  the  earth  for 
bucnan   existence,   reduce  the    given 
J.    ]|.c«  to  the  corresponding  year 
^tvled  A.v*  hy  deducting  its  number 
from  4004.    To  the  result  add  7,  and 
divi<lc  by  19*     The  remainder  is  the 
soldeD  number  required. 
^  (j*0B  DAT  OF  THE  WBRK  ou  which  any 
dmv  of  the  year  has  happened,  or  may 
Y^Jpoen,  can  be  determined  by  certain 
famiH*^  tables  in  the  Book  of  Common 
Prayer^  or  by  tables  which  shew  the 
A^ytX  once  without  the  interTention 
of  Sunday  letters. 

As     TO    THB    DATS    OP    THB     FIRST 

PAsaoVBB  then,  it  is  agreed,  that  this 
event  happened  in  the  beginning  of 
the  day  of  the  first  full  moon  after  the 
vernal  equinox,  b.c.  1491 ;  according  to 
the  Jewish  division  of  the  twenty- four 
hours,  which  commenced  "between  the 
two  evenings."  Now  the  Golden  Num- 
ber for  this  year  is  xii.  and  by  adding 
1 1  days,  14  hours,  as  the  anticipation 
of  the  Metonic  Cycle  for  the  fifteenth 
century  before  the  Christian  era,  to 
the  I6th  of  March,  at  four  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon,  as  the  date  of  mean  full 
moon  for  the  golden  number  xii.  in 
the  forty-first  century  d.c.  the  result 
is  the  28th  of  March,  at  six  o'clock  in 
the  morning.    And  this  date,  in  our 
account  of  time,   is   nearly  the  true 

date  of  THB  FIB«T  PASCHAL  FULL 
MOON.        But     THB     FIHST     PAS80VBB 

embraced  the  evening  and  night  of  the 
twenty-seventh  of  the  month  in  the 
same  account ;  and  in  so  far  antici- 
pated the  date  of  full  moon.* 

each  unit  oontained  in  the  first  figure  only 
of  the  decimal  as  representing  a  value  of 
two  hours  and  a  half,  and  by  counting  the 
hours  which  exceed  12  as  afternoon  hours. 
Thus  the  first  date  in  the  above  Uble  is 
3  •  47,  which  really  expresses  the  third 
day  of  the  month,  at  sixteen  minutes  and 
forty-eight  seconds  p^t  eleven  o'clock  in 
the  forenoon.     But  it  may  be  called  the 


A  proof  of  the  correctocss  of  the 

foregoing  deduction  is  this  : 

Supposing  civil  years  to  have  been 
counted  as  now  from  a  very  remote 
period,  the  year  1491  b.c.  was  the 
second  year  after  leap  year,  and  in  it 
the  vernal  equinox  happened  on  the 
twenty-second  of  March.-j*  Now  from 
the  twenty-eighth  of  March  b.c.  1491« 
to  March  the  twenty-sixth  a.d.  1842, 
(the  second  year  after  leap  year  and 
true  date  of  paschal  full  moon,)  being 
3332  years  less  by  two  days  in  the 
corrected  Gregorian  style,  is  1,216,985 
days. 

But  so  many  days  are  an  etact 
number  of  lunations,  and,  therefore, 
as  the  moon  was  full  at  one  date,  so 
was  it  full  at  another. 

Again,  the  number  of  days  just  men  - 
tioned  is  an  exact  number  of  weeks, 
and,  therefore,  as  the  26th  of  March, 
A.D.  1842,  fell  on  Saturday,  so  the 
28th  of  March,  b.o.  1491  >  fell  on  a 
Sunday  also,  a  fact  on  which  as  a 
layman  I  shall  offer  no  comment, 
however  obviously  this  embracing  of 
the  Jewish  and  Christian  sabbaths  in 
the  establishment  of  the  passover,  as 
the  great  Jewish  ordinance,  and  the 
subsequent  escape  "  out  of  the  house 
of  bondage,"  may  be  enlarged  upon 
with  reference  to  the  bondage  of  ordi- 
nances and  the  liberty  under  "  Christ 
our  passover,"  through  whom  a  new 
covenant  has  been  effected,  and  this 
not  according  to  the  covenant  made 
"  M  tke  day  "  when  the  Jews  prepared 
to  leave  Egypt. 

Hoping  on  an  early  occasion  to 
point  out  the  value  of  the  Metonic 
Cycle  in  relation  to  certain  other  im- 
portant dates  noticed  in  sacred  and 
profane  history,  1  am. 

Yours,  &c.  J.  R. 


Mb.  Ubban,     Sttmtford,  25  March, 

The  inclosed  I  found  in  a  manuscript 

common -place  book  of  an  ancestor  of 

mine,  the  Rev.  John  Adamson,  M.A. 


^ Rector  of  Burton  Coggles,  and  a  Pre- 

Mme'day,  at  four  times  two  and  a  half    bendary  of  Lincoln.     He  was  also,  I 
hours,  or  ten  o*clock  instead  of  the  later     believe,  one  of  the  chaplains  of  King 


date.  And  in  like  manner  the  decimal 
66  may  be  Uken  to  express  three  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon,  as  the  15th  hour  of  the 

dav.  and  so  on. 

»  See  Gresweirs  Dissertations,  Snd 
edition ;  Dissertation  vU.  and  Appendix, 
DisserUtion  xi.  on  the  compuution  of 
pusovers,  and  thedate  of  the  first  passover. 


Charles  the  Second. 

1  think  you  will  agree  that  it  is  a 
good  specimen  of  old  English  gallantry 
and  loyalty,  described  with  true  pathos 

f  See  Brinkley*s  Astronomy,  Sections 
90 — 99 f  on  precession  of  the  equinoxes. 


id 


1844.]  Confessionals  remainkp  in  JBngUsh  Churches, 


nad  feeling.  Perliaps  you  can  tell  me 
who  is  the  author.  Is  it  Butler  ?  If 
it  has  not  been  published  (which  I 
hare  not  been  able  to  ascertain),  per- 
haps you  can  give  it  a  nooli  in  your 
Magazine.  It  was  apparently  written 
for  music.         Yours,  &c.    W.  H. 

P.  S.  Mr.  Adamson  took  for  a 
motto  to  his  arms,  "  pro  rbos  hso, 
paospsBia  ST  advxrsis."  He  was 
son  of  the  Rev,  James  Adamson,  a 
learned  and  loyal  divine*  Rector  of 
Teigh,  in  Rutland,  whose  epitaph  is 
set  forth  in  Wright's  Hist,  of  Rutland, 
and  he  married  Catharine,  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Wm.  Gilbert,  Rector  of  CuU 
worth,  in  Northamptonshire,  He  was 
Domestic  Chaplain  to  Sir  Edmund 
Tumor  of  Stoke  Rochford,  co.  Line. 
knL  aa  well  ae  one  of  the  King's  chap- 
lains. 

A  CmmHsr'9  9enw^i  h  Ai«  hRiirm,  on 

hmsi  eoikd  iQ  the  Wor^> 
1. 
W9it  Fidfllis,  tempt  no  more, 
i  may  no  more  thy  deity  adore, 

Nor  offer  to  uiy  shrine ; 

I  serve  one  more  divine, 
And  fiurr  more  great  than  you. 
Hark  1  the  trumpets  call  away ; 

I  must  go. 

Lest  the  foe 
Gain  the  cause,  and  win  the  day. 
Let's  march  bravely  on, 
Chaige  them  in  the  van. 

Ouy  cause  God's  is. 

Though  their  odds  IS 
Venloone. 

9. 
Tempt  no  more,  I  may  not  yield, 

Although  ^ne  eyes 

A  kingdom  may  surprise^ 
Leave  off  thy  wanton  tales, 
The  high-bom  prince  of  Wales 
Is  mounted  in  U&e  field, 
Where  the  royal  gentry  flock, 

Though  alone, 

Kobly  born. 
Of  a  ne're  decaying  stock. 
Cavalien,  be  bold. 
Bravely  hold  your  hold, 

He  that  loyters 

Is  by  traytors 
Bflvght  sad  sold. 
3. 
One  kiss  more,  and  then  farewell, 

Oh  no !  no  more, 

I  prythee  aive  me  o*re, 
Why^ctoudest  thou  thy  beams? 
I  see  by  these  extremes 
A  woman's  heaven  or  hell. 
Fray  the  king  may  have  his  own ; 

And  the  queen 

May  be  seen, 

OiiiT«  Um.  Vol.  XXIL 


41 

With  her  babes,  on  England^  s  throne* 
Rally  up  your  men, 
One  shall  vanquish  ten. 

Victory,  we 

Come  to  try  thee 
Once  again. 

Mr.  Urban,  May. 

ALLUDING  to  E.  I.  C.'s  request  (in 
your  Minor  Correspondence  of  Febru- 
ary  last)  for  information  as  to  the  situa- 
tion of  those  places  in  monasteries  ap- 
propriated to  "  outward  confession,"  I 
am  of  opinion  that  a  certain  small  aper- 
ture, now  walled  up,  but  formerlycom- 
municating  from  the  cemetery  through 
the  lower  part  of  the  chancel  wall  of 
Hurley  Priory  church,*  and  those 
low-silied  windows  often  found  near 
the  western  end  of  chancels — were  the 
places  for  that  "  confession  of  all 
comers"  denominated  by  Bedyll 
"  uttward,"  (from  the  circumstance  of 
the  penitent  being  placed  outside  the 
church  during  confession,)  to  distin- 
guish them  from  places  more  within  the 
church  or  monastery  where  the  priest- 
hood privately  confessed  to  one  ano- 
ther, as  your  correspondent  J.R.  states. 

Hagioscopes,  as  we  now  term  them, 
were  also  I  think  confessionals,  al- 
though  oerhaps  not  what  Bedyll  would 
have  called  uttward  confessionals. 

At  Lenham,  in  Kent,  attached  to  the 
southern  side  of  the  chancel,  is  a  hand- 
some Btooearm-chair»havingatits  west- 
ern side  a  low  step-like  base,  as  if  for  a 
person  to  kneel  on  at  confession,  and 
there  is  something  like  it  in  the  north- 
ern porch  of  Redcliff  church,  Bristol. 

A  reverend  friend  has  just  informed 
me  that  at  about  four  feet  from  the 
ground,  tlirough  the  lower  part  of  the 
southern  wall  of  the  chancel  at 
Coombe  in  Sussex,  was  a  circular  hole, 
about  eighteen  inches  in  diameter, 
having  splayed  sides,  and  apparently 
coeval  with  the  old  wall,  but  certainly 
not  made  for  a  window,  and  therefore 
probably  a  confessional. 

In  a  paper  read  to  the  Oxford  Ar- 
chitectural  Society,  last  May,  it  was 
stated  that  "  on  both  sides  of  Garsing- 
ton  chancel,  under  the  westernmost 
windows,  are  low  side  openings  which 
retain  the  old  iron  work,  and  have 
evidently  been  glazed,  though  long 
blocked  up  within." 

At  the  outside  of  the  northern  wall 

*  Noticed  by  Plantagenet  in  oxur  Maga- 
sine  for  March.  1839. 

G 


42 


Confestionab.—'CoUier't  Shaketptare. 


CJniy> 


of  the  tower  of  Trnmpington  Charch 
18  a  recess,  haviog  its  base  level  with 
the  ground,  about  G  feet  high,  aod 
1^  feet  wide  and  deep,  and  at  the 
back  of  which  is  a  loop-hole,  now 
closed  up,  but  once  comrounjcating 
with  the  inside  of  the  tower.  And  in 
St.  Michael's  church  at  Cambridge  I 
lately  saw  at  the  back  of  the  central 
sedile  a  small  loop-hole,  now  glazed, 
but  formerly  opening  into  the  eastern 
part  of  the  south  aisle.  This  hole  is 
about  44  feet  from  the  pavement  of  the 
aisle,  but  there  are  no  remains  of  any 
step  for  the  penitent  to  kneel  on,  as  at 
Lenham. 

In  Elsfield  church,  Oxon,  is  a  low 
side  window  now  walled  up,  at  the 
inside  of  which  is  an  original  stone 
seat ;  and  I  believe  there  is  something 
like  a  confessional  in  Gloucester 
cathedral — not  to  mention  the  so- 
called  confessionals  enumerated  in  the 
tenth  volume  of  the  Archaeologia. 

Confessionals  are  not  necessarily 
closed  like  those  wooden  latticed 
closets  now  commonly  used  on  the 
continent ;  for  I  once  saw  on  a  hot 


Sunday  in  Bavaria  a  priest  seated  Id 
the  church- yard  receiving  the  confes- 
sions of  his  parishioners,  as  they  one 
by  one  reverentially  passed  him. 

The  term  "  uttward  "  may  also  have 
been  used  in  contradistinction  to  cer- 
tain small  chambers,  probably  sacristies, 
behind  the  altar,  such  as  exist  at  Crew- 
kerne  and  Hensdridge,  in  Somerset- 
shire, and  which  have  two  doors,  one 
for  the  entry,  and  one  for  the  exit  of 
penitents ;  each  with  an  appropriate 
symbol  and  inscription  over  it. 

Outward  Confessionals— originally 
I  presume  in  the  porch  or  galilee — are 
now  only  permitted  to  be  in  the  nave 
or  other  generally  accessible  parts  of 
the  church  ;  and  I  much  doubt  whe- 
ther we  ought  to  infer,  as  E.  I.  C. 
would  seem  to  do,  from  Bedyll's  use  of 
the  term  outward,  that  any  other  kind 
of  confessionals  existed,  (except  for  the 
priesthood  as  above  mentioned,)  and 
more  especially  since  such  must  in 
Bedyll's  opinion  have,  "a  fortiori," 
been  more  objectionable  than  open  con- 
fessionals. 

Yours,  &c.    Plantaobnst. 


Mr,  Dye€*9  Remarki  on  Collier* %  and  KnighVi  Bditiont  qf  Shekeipeare, 


Mb.  Urban, 

MR.  DYCE  has  accumulated  so 
many  proofs  of  the  absurd  incompe- 
tency of  these  two  editors  of  Shake- 
speare that  very  little  is  left  for  any 
one  else  to  say ;  and  even  that  little 
may  possibly  have  been  rejected  already 
by  Mr.  Dyce,  along  with  the  other 
notes,  which  want  of  room  has  (most 
unfortunately)  compelled  him  to  omit. 
1  must  venture,  however,  to  contribute 
my  mite. 

There  are  two  cases  in  which  Shake- 
speare appears  to  have  had  reference 
to  the  works  of  others,  which  cer- 
tainly merit  mention  among  the  many 
quotations  of  that  description  which 
have  been  brought  together  by  his 
various  editors. 

1.  la  The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor, 
the  jest  of  Pistol,  "Then  did  the  sun 
on  dunghill  shine."  is  a  caricature  of 
a  line  in  Robert  Southwell's  S,  Peter'i 
Complaint  (1595)  "As  spotlessesunne 
doth  on  the  dunghill  shine"  (p.  15, 
ed.  1599)*  It  is  possible  that  an  ex- 
pression in  Fletcher's  Queen  of  Corinth 
(Works,  vol.  V.  p.  438,  ed.  Pyce)  may 
be  an  imitatioa  frov  Shakespeare  $  bat 


it  seems  far  more  certain  that  Shake- 
speare himself  was, in  this  passage,  un- 
consciously joining  Bp.  Hail  in  throw- 
ing unmerited  ridicule  on  Southwell. 

2.  In  As  fou  LiAre  it,  the  line  "  Sans 
teeth,  sans  eyes,"  &c.  is  copied  from 
Garnier's  Henriade,  1594.  See  Cen- 
sura  Literaria,  ix.  p.  337t  second  edit* 

As  Mr.  Dyce  (p.  107)  has  taken  the 
trouble  to  set  Mr.  Collier  right  about 
the  meaning  of  "  Lady,  my  brach,"  I 
wonder  that  he  did  not  give  him  a 
hint  on  "Ay,  Sir  Tyke,  who  more 
bold  ?"  (Collier,  vol.  i.  p.  258.)  Mr. 
Collier's  note, — "  Falstaff  calls  simple 
'Sir,'  and  then  corrects  himself  in 
order  to  give  him  a  derogatory  appella- 
tion," &c.  is  one  of  the  most  enter- 
taining pieces  of  folly  I  ever  read. 

Mr.  Collier's  life  of  Shakespeare  is 
left  untouched.  But  fairness  is  so 
great  a  virtue,  that  I  heartily  wish 
some  one  would  give  him  a  little  ad- 
vice on  the  proper  way  of  treating 
former  editors  and  biographers.  Any 
one  who  compares  his  remarks  on  pp. 
Ixix.  and  cxix.  with  the  original  pas- 
aages  in  Malone's  Shakespeare,  by 
Boswelli  tqU  il«  pp.  63  »pd  l^if  (M 


IS44-^        Retbospective  Review. — VVitliers^s  Salt  upon  Sail.  43 


well  as  168,)  will  fully  understand 
what  I  mean.  But  Mr.  Collier  is  so 
systematic  in  his  blunders^  when  he 
has  occasion  to  give  a  reference  to 
Malone,  that  one  can  scarcely  help 
SQspecting  him  of  a  desire  to  avoid 
comparisons.  Thus*  on  p.  Ixxvii.  he 
refers  to  "  ii.  90/'  meaning  ii.  95 ; 
on  p.  xci.  he  refers  to  "  ii.  266/' 
meaning  ii.  566,  as  he  elsewhere  gives 
it  rightly  (viz.  on  pp.clxiii.  and  ccxi.) ; 
on  p.  dxxxii.  he  refers  to  "ii.  585/' 
meaning  ii.  485 ;  and  on  p.  cclxvii.  he 
refers  to  "i.  601/'  meaning  ii.  601. 
Of  course  all  these  (and  many  like 
them)  may  be  mere  misprints,  just  as 
in  his  note  on  p.  Ixvii.  "  Jfary  Arden" 
is  a  misprint  for  "  Agne$  Arden  ;"  but, 
if  so,  what  becomes  of  Mr.  Collier's 
character  for  correctness?  or  how 
can  we  trust  him  where  we  cannot 
trace  him,  if  he  is  found  to  be  so  un- 
safe a  guide  where  we  can  ? 

Mr.  Dfce  (p.  294)  has  referred  to 
one  emendatum  (!)  in  Mr.  Collier's  re- 
print of  Armin's  Negf  of  Nitmiet'  Let 
me  call  your  attention  to  another ;  on 
p.  7,  line  23^  of  the  reprint,  we  read, 
"  loode  of  any,"  t.  e.  of  course  "  loved 
of  any."  Mr.  Collier  (p.  58)  suspects 
a  misprint;  otherwise  he  would  ex- 


f  I 


plain  it  "allow'd  of  any"!!  an  in- 
terpretation which  will  most  certainly 
be  "  allowed  "  of  none. 

In  like  manner,  in  his  reprint  of 
Patient  Grissil,  for  the  same  most 
luckless  Shakespeare  Society,  we  meet 
with  a  misprint  in  his  original — "Ala- 
baster boweli"  (reprint,  p.  54,  line  6), 
which  the  meanest  critic  would  at 
once  correct  to  "  bowk."  Mr.  Collier 
(p.  95)  proposes  "  vessel "  ! ! 

I  will  just  add  that  another  instance 
of  the  misprint,  "away  "  for  "  awry," 
mentioned  by  Mr.  Dyce,  p.  212,  may 
be  found  in  Davison's  Poetieall  Rhap- 
sodie,  p.  301,  ed.  Nicolas,  where  Sir 
Egerton  firydges  (vol.  i.  p.  118)  bad 
silently  corrected  it ;  and  that  a  speci- 
men of  another  misprint,  also  men- 
tioned by  Mr.  Dyce,  p.  220,  that  of 
"yet"  for  "yt"  or  "it/'  occurs  in 
the  Appendix  to  Laud's  JVoublet  and 
Dryal,  p.  561,  where  it  has  been  lately 
remarked  that  "  yei  being  bis  first 
visitation"  is  a  misprint  for  "it  being," 
&c. 

Yours,  &c.    A  Country  Parson. 

When  will  Mr.  Dyce  give  us  an 
edition  which  may  hereafler  be  re- 
garded as  the  textus  receptus  of  Shake- 
speare ? 


RETROSPECTIVE  REVIEW. 


Salt  upon  Salt.     By  George  Withers,  E$q.  1659* 
{Coniimudfrtm  Vol.  XXI.  p.  272.) 
Withers  mentions  the  rule  of  his  own  obedience  to  the  government. 

The  principle  I  own  is  to  adhere 

To  that  power  which  supremacy  doth  bear. 

And  I'll  (without  an  oath)  be  true  to  those 

Who  are  by  God  and  by  this  people  chose. 

Till  they  advance  another  whom  I  see 

Invested  with  power  absolute  to  be, 

And,  whether  he  comes  in  by  right  or  wrong, 

Ijeave  that  to  them  to  whom  it  doth  belong ; 

Him  I  will  serve,  not  with  base  flatteries 

Which  blind  his  judgment  or  put  oat  his  eyes ; 

In  my  addresses  I  will  never  tell 

To  him  what  I  may  fear  he  knows  too  weU, 

Nor  farther  than  I  know  him  magnify  him. 

Lest  his  own  conscience,  knowing  I  belie  him, 

Or  speak  more  than  my  knowledge  can  acquire, 

Do  hereby  know  I  am  a  fawning  liar. 

Before  him  I  will  those  things  onely  set, 

Which  I  think  he  may  possibly  forget, 

Or  which  unto  his  knowledge  were  not  brought. 

Or  (if  known)  not  considered  as  they  ought, 

And  do  it  so  that  he  shall  not  despise 

What*i  done,  if  he  be  either  good  or  wise ; 


scTiVB  Review.  CJ^^y* 

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X  «Im4  eafoei  thereon. 
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■  Tola  iBTiolAte, 

not ;  when  one  power  wm  mMM  t«o> 
(not  which  way  to  go, 
iDioMnca  wonlJ  permit, 
which  in  the  throM  dM  rit 
trj  change  that  cane, 
chBnginK  of  the  ume. 
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D,  who  enjoyed  it  lait, 
nploj  mjr  Ibrce 
t  be  mtiigkt  from  bring  wotm, 
etimei  bo  hx  tfaertin 
ntege  it  hath  been, 
thingi  alwaji  true, 
t  fWnii  his  mperioT'i  doe. 
I  it  would  eondit 
with  the  public  intemt, 
,  do  what  in  me  lay 
>na  to  remoTe  away, 
:  him  might  heretofore 
[ers  and  oor  mischief)  more,  Ice. 

int  Kod  obiequiee  of  Cromwell,  which  it  the 
limndverting  with  centore  oa  it*  magDiSccnce, 

s  «econd  (m  'tii  aajd], 
geaat  thus  array d, 
lich  ti  reiembled  mnch 
matsnce,  and  lome  few  e«oh 

ooght  that  I  yet  knew 
'■tely  performed  too,) 
r  state,  with  btackg  becliul, 
ID  to  die  efBgiM  pasMge  had, 
were  forced  to  itand  bare, 
r  unnBefol  there ; 
I  they  efaonld  Acre  hare  MUt 
br  the  loal  thafi  dead. 
lonie  had  obeerred 
locei  were  st  fint  rcHrred, 
igh  nnpraetisad  at  thU  day) 
will  peAapt  make  w«y> 
awing  very  nigh 
nd  tdolatrle, 
ioor  that  is  coming  in 
<  door  hath  expelled  bin. 
thongbt  that  ve  who  do  neglect 
eat  pilei  of  architect 
in  world,  beciiue  lohg  lince 
I,  by  thiogi  which  gare  oSence, 
use  up  trophies  in  Its  stead, 
icks,  and  keiea  to  the  dead, 
d  Tsnitiea  defile 
«mple8  of  the  isle  ? 

what  leal  ezpresied  was 
>f  crosses,  painted  glais, 
I  of  laiats  (md  kings, 
if  Bomeinoffensiie  things,) 
t  be  shonld  have  liTcd  to  aoe 
lace  advanced  to  be, 

•n  altar  and  a  rood 
uie  people  itood  i 


1644.]  Withen'8  Soft  npon  Salt.  i^t 

Who  can  beliere  that  he  who  TiliUde 
Not  long  ago  the  tanitie  and  pride 
Of  former  princes, — that  he  who  had  spoke 
Against  the  heaTie  burthen  and  ^e  yoke 
By  them  imposed,  and  was  himself  the  rod 
And  sword  assumed  into  the  hand  of  God 
To  root  them  vrntj-^tiiat  he  who  but  of  late, 
When  he  dismist  the  counsellors  of  state, 
Sayd  to  tiie  soergeant,  Take  away  that  bable, 
(His  mace  at  that  time  lying  on  the  table,) 
Should  eter  of  his  own  accord  think  fit 
Those  trinkets  which  he  slighted  to  admit  \ 
And,  when  he  down  into  the  grave  descended, 
Should  thither  with  more  vain  pomps  be  attended 
Than  any  English  prince  that  heretofore 
A  soTeraign  sceptre  in  then  islandt  bore  ? 


He  then  speaks  of  the  <iffence  giTen  by  this  pomp  of  foDeral  rites^  and  of  th« 
eoiiMficencet  that  may  follow ;  and,  alluding  to  the  Worm  which  was  the  subject 
of  so  much  attention,  anxiety,  and  remark,  he  says,  it  is  the  storm  of  God's 
anger  and  punishment  that  he  most  fNtrs  and  anticipates,  from  the  vices, 
flatteries,  and  avarice  of  the  times. 

God  hath  made  known  to  us  in  some  measure, 

By  every  element,  his  just  displeasure^ 

Those  things,  without  which  nothing  is  eigoved, 

Have  of  our  late  ei^oyments  much  destro7«d* 

By  sudden  fires  our  dwellings  are  consumed, 

And  into  smoke  our  precious  things  are  fumed  ( 

The  waters  in  their  wombs  have  swallowed  up 

No  little  portion  of  the  merchant's  hope ; 

And,  overflowing  new  and  andent  boutdSf 

Swept  herds  and  flocks  out  of  the  lower  grounds  i 

The  air,  by  storms  and  blastings,  frosts  and  snows, 

Destroyed  our  last  crops  in  their  fairest  shows  i 

Yea  after  publicly  we  made  confessionst 

That  God,  accepting  our  humiliations^ 

Had  thereupon  vouchsafed  pregnant  hopes 

Of  future  health  and  of  more  plenteous  oropsi 

Even  since  that  likely  h<^  we  for  our  sin 

Deprived  of  that  expectancy  Itave  bin  : 

The  earth  which  bears  us  too,  for  our  offences 

WitUiolds  her  bounty  ;  their  sweet  influences 

The  heavens  withdraw.    Death,  when  unlocked  for,  seises 

More  oft  than  formerly  by  new  diseases, 

And  they  to  give  accompt  are  called  upon 

Who  lived  as  if  accomptable  to  none. 

•  •  •  «  m 

But  hear  me  further,  and  relate  I  shall 
Some  things  which  do  not  every  year  befall, 
Our  ablest  horse  (even  those,  perhaps,  wherein 
More  trust  reposed  was  than  should  have  bin) 
Die  suddenly,  and  ditches  are  bestrewed 
With  those  oones  whereupon  our  gallants  rode, 
Their  stink  (as  once  a  prophet  said)  ascends, 
Yet  still  his  hand  against  us  God  extends. 
Those  leggs  likewise  which  are  our  second  strength, 
Do  reel  already,  and  wlU  sink  at  lengUi 
That  body  whidi  they  bear ;  the  wings  by  which 
We  flew  from  shoar  to  shoar  and  were  made  rich, 
Begin  to  flag,  and  fly  not  to  and  fro 
With  such  success  as  they  were  wont  to  do. 
Some  whose  new  honours  bloomed  but  last  spring 
Fell  with  the  leaf,  to  shew  how  vain  a  thing 
Ambition  is,  and  let  them  understand 

Who  flourish  yet,  their  wiater  li  at  hiaid« 


46  tlETROSPECTITS  ReVIEW.  [JqIJ^ 

Mach  of  our  precious  life-blood  up  ia  drunk, 
The  sinews  of  our  power  are  crackt  and  shrunk, 
Our  honour,  with  our  public  faith,  is  lost, 
Our  private  credits  are  destroy*d  almost ; 
And  nsrd  it  is  to  say,  whether  the  debtor 
Or  creditor  is  in  condition  better. 
The  Parliament  securities  are  slighted. 
And  he  whom  thej  have  by  their  acts  incited 
To  purchase,  (and,  of  paying  whose  just  dues 
An  ordinance,  and  orders  made  fair  shows). 
Though  more  than  ten  years  are  elapsed  since. 
Gets  neither  money,  land,  nor  recompense. 

He  then  speaks  of  the  obseiratiooB  he  has  made« 

By  being  fifteen  years  together  tide 
(As  by  Uie  leg)  near  London  to  reside, 

on  the  abominations  of  the  times,  the  iniquitous  delays  of  law,  the  denial 
of  public  debts,  and  the  struggle  for  place  and  power. 

Nay,  from  ambition  Termin  are  not  free, 
The  nasty  body -lice  would  head'Uce  be, 
The  aenrant  rides,  the  master  goes  on  foot,  &c. 

We  likewise  (as  of  late  that  Parliament 
From  whom  he  took  the  supreme  goyemment) 
So  idolised,  that  we  thought  too  little 
Conferred  upon  him  by  the  soverayn  title 
Which  God  permitted  him  to  undertake. 
And  what  his  army  pleased  of  him  to  make 
To  gOYem  us  ;  we  long'd  for  such  a  thing 
As  other  nations  have,  forsooth  a  King, 
With  all  the  former  burthensome  array 
Of  kingship,  which  was  lately  took  away. 
Though  he,  as  much  as  flesh  and  blood  could  do, 
Refused  it,  with  some  persereranoe  too ; 
And,  not  content  to  make  him  paraleU 
With  all  who  are  recorded  to  ezceU 
In  Tirtues,  by  prophane  or  sacred  story. 
But  placed  Urn  in  a  higher  sphere  of  glory ; 
We  gave  him  attributes  which  unto  none 
Belongs,  but  to  the  Deity  alone. 
And  towards  him  ourseWes  oft  so  behsTed 
As  if  by  him  alone  we  could  be  sared  ; 
Which  peradTcnture  did  provoke  God's  wrath 
To  do  to  him  and  us  as  done  he  hath,  &c. 

Let  us  therefore  weigh  God's  dealing  with  him«  and  not  be  deterred  from  the 
duty  of  that  Inquiry. 

To  that  entent  it  will  have  some  relation. 

To  know  and  heed  that  his  last  visitation 

By  sickness  did  that  day  on  him  appear 

Which  made  the  time  completing  just  a  year 

Since  he  solemnised  a  pubUc  fast 

To  pacifie  God*s  wrath  for  failings  past. 

And  also  for  removing  from  our  dime 

Such  sicknesses  as  raged  at  that  time,  &c. 
«  •  •  • 

We  should  consider  too  how  on  that  day 
Just  that  day  twelve  month  he  was  took  away, 
Wherein  he  kept  a  formal  celebration 
Of  thankfulness  for  public  preservation. 
That  very  day  of  his  chief  triumph's  turning 
Into  a  said  and  fatal  day  of  mourning. 
How  that  day  wheron  (if  fame  hath  not  lide) 
He  purposed  to  be  crowned  king,  he  didci 


1844.]  Withers's  Sak  upon  Salt.  47 

htmng;  an  image  with  a  waxen  face 

To  be  instal'd  and  crowned  in  hia  place. 

*  «  •  •  • 

God  caird  him  hence  that  day,  to  make  ni  heed 

That  he  in  all  hia  actings  doth  proceed 

By  number,  weight,  and  measure ;  both  to  places 

And  times  refering  them  in  many  cases. 

♦  •  •  '  •  * 

I  know  he  was  upon  that  day  advis'd 

To  somewhat  which  he  should  not  have  despised, 

Whereto  he  gave  small  heed,  or  none  at  all, 

Till  what  was  justly  feared  did  befall ; 

And  who  knows  what  beside  that  was  neglected  ? 

What  was  pretended  then>  what  since  projected  ? 

Or  what  mis-prosecuted  or  mis-done, 

Whieh  might  proroke  the  great  Almighty  one 

To  call  him  on  that  very  day  from  hence, 

Which  was  the  day  of  his  magnificence, 

And  lay  the  sceptre  level  with  the  spade  ?  &c. 

Perhaps  the  death  of  the  Protector  was  occasioned  by  the  aina  of  the  nation. 

So  peradrenture  that  tiorm,  which  did  roar 
So  unmercifully  four  days  before 
He  took  hence  our  Protector,  waa  intended 
To  signifie  that  he  is  much  offended 
With  all  this  land,  &c. 

He  then  writes  hia  epitaph^  to  prevent  those  of  the  flatterer  or  the  male- 
▼olent. 

THB  BPITAPH. 

Here  dead  he  lies,  who  living  here 
Was  Britain's  greatest  hope  and  fear, 
And  by  what  was  on  him  bestown 
Had  all  his  equals  overgrown ; 
His  predecessors*  sins  and  our 
Made  way  for  him  to  sovereign  power, 
By  rendering  that  an  act  of  reason, 
And  justice,  which  had  else  been  treason. 
No  prince  was  ever  heretofore 
More  praised  or  dispraised  more ; 
Advantages  few  ever  won 
So  great ;  none  lost  so  great  a  one. 
This  world  afford  no  pattern  can 
Which  better  shows  what  is  in  man  ; 
His  virtues  were  enough  to  do 
So  much  as  God  designed  him  to ; 
He  failings  had,  but  when  lived  any 
That  had  not  every  way  as  many  ? 
If  he  (whilst  here  abode  he  made) 
Such  tempters  and  temptations  had  ? 
Presume  not  therefore,  but,  with  fear. 
Mind  what  you  know,  and  see,  and  hear. 
Yea  heed  what  God  and  men  have  done, 
But  judge  none  but  yourselves  alone. 
And  aim  in  chief  how  to  increase 
God*s  glory  and  the  public  peace. 

Then,  after  farther  discoaraiDg  of  the  times,  and  of  the  fKcceaior  of  the  late 
Protector^  he  goes  on  to  say  : 

Thus,  in  plain  language  and  in  homely  rhimes, 
You  have  a  brief  cbsracter  of  these  times, 
Made  on  a  slight  occasion ;  to  awake 
Tlie  drowfie,  that  more  heedful  it  may  make 


48  RsTBOSPECTiTS  Rbvisw.<— WithefS*t  SaU  upon  5att«      iJvif, 

Men  heedleu ;  aad  him  to  be  lonewhat  idior 

Who  is  not  of  good  oouimI,  a  despuer, 

A  Bonidier  's  dream,  but  of  a  tarley-cakt. 

Told  to  hit  fellow,  when  he  did  awake, 

And,  spirited  with  hii  interpretation 

Product  an  effeot  worth  obaenratioa ; 

And  lo  may  this,  altho'  to  some  it  teem 

No  better  tiian  a  lillj  sonldier*!  dream  s 

I'U  add  no  more,  though  mnch  more  add  I  might. 

For  here  wiU  be  too  much  for  them  to  alight. 

Who  in  these  flatteries  much  more  nleasure  havet 

That  send  them  with  dishononr  to  m  graTO, 

Than  in  plain  spoken  truth,  which  would  to  theni 

Have  brought  salTation  if  embraced  in  time ; 

And  here  will  be  enough  to  startle  some, 

To  stir  up  others,  till  the  alarum  come 

To  such  a  number,  as  may  then  suffice 

To  mAke  a  reconcfling  sacrifice. 

Unless  we  Sodom«Uke  stand  unreformed 

Untill  with  fire  and  brimstone  we  are  stormed ; 

This  mli  made  out  of  »ali  I  took  oecasioii 

To  boil  up,  for  the  sendee  of  my  nation, 

To  this  height,  as  oonoeiring  it  was  meet 

To  keep  what's  yet  unpntrified  sweet, 

And  those  oompted  humours  to  expeU 

"^niich  in  God's  nostrils  hare  an  evil  smell  i 

I  hope  men  win  not  throw  it  in  mine  eyes, 

Neither  so  uniyersallj  despise 

These  timely  warnings,  that  they  shall  by  none 

To  good  effect  be  read  and  thought  upon ; 

And  if  but  two  or  three  shall  thereby  gain 

Some  benefit,  I  have  not  lost  my  pain. 

The  poet  then  ends  with  an  aUusion  to  Walter'9  poem,  on  which  hii  own 
lines  wen  written. 

Mine  be  the  shame,  if  I  hereby  to  him 

Intend  disgrace,  whose  Tersea  are  my  thMun ; 

I  did  but  thus  his  mereury  ealeine 

For  physick  :  let  him  do  as  much  by  mine. 

And  if  ought  from  my  failings  he  deduce, 

Which  may  to  others  be  of  wholesome  use, 

I  shall  be  pleased ;  beoause,  what  lose  I  may 

In  one  kind, will  be  gained  another  way; 

But  if  he  hath  so  generous  a  minde, 

As  to  bdeiye  he  hath  I  am  indinda, 

He  wilTretum  me  thanks  that  I  have  used 

To  no  worse  purpose  that  which  he  hath  mnied ; 

Yea,  and  rejoice  that  what  in  sport  he  writ 

The  needful  prmnomiion  did  beget. 

Such  is  an  abstract  of  a  poem  which,  with  one  exception,  is  the  scarcest  of  all 
Witbera  a  pieces,  and  which  is  with  diflScuIty  to  be  procured.  It  derived  iU 
title  of  "  Salt  upon  Salt  "  as  being  written  on  WalUr'$  verm  on  the  death  qf 
the  L^d  Protector,  which  Withers  gives  in  the  first  page  of  his  volume,  and 
on  which  his  poem  may  be  considered  as  a  moral  commentary,  "  offering  to 
consideration  the  probable  near  approach  of  greater  storms  and  more  sad  con- 
sequences.  Though  it  is  wanting  in  poetical  merit,  yet  it  derives  an  interest 
from  the  perBonal  and  political  allusions.  Of  WaUer*8  Poem  Goldsmith  re- 
marks, that  with  respect  to  the  times  in  which  it  was  written,  it  was  almost 
a  prodigy  of  harmony ;  but  a  modern  reader  will  chiefly  be  sUuck  with  the 
ulur^^lr."  ^^^^^^fi'  ^^  the  turn  of  the  compliments  bestowed  on  the 

^-^-^'  J.  M. 


49 


REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


Seen€»  and  Tbiei  qf  Cmmiry  Life*    By 
Edward  Jesse,  Eiq, 
WE  think  that  the  present  Tolame 
is  at  once  the  most  interesting  and  in* 
Btmctive  of  Mr.  Jesse's  publications, 
and  in  the  variety  of  its  information, 
and  the  justness  of   the    reasoning, 
bears  the  marks  of  a  matured  know- 
ledge of  the  subject,  and  a  long  culti- 
vation of   the    delightful    science  of 
which  he  here  imparts  to  os  the  latest 
acquisitions  he  has  made.    All  sciences 
which  have  nature  for  their  object,  are 
to  be  improved,  first  by  the  accurate 
observation  of  facts,  and,  secondly,  by 
proper  deductions  from  them.  In  either 
branch   of  his  work,  Mr.  Jesse,  we 
think,  is  worthy  of  our  confidence  and 
praise ;  and  if  we  ever  think  him  erro- 
neous  in  the  conclusions  which  he 
forms,  it  is  only  in  those  cases  where 
the  warmth  of  his  benevolence   and 
the  natural  gentleness  of  his  dispo- 
sition perhaps  induce  him  to  bear  a 
little  too  strongly  on  some  favourite 
opinions,  and  to  pronounce  a  little  too 
decidedly  on  subjects  that  appear  to 
us  not  to  be  altogether  free  from  ob- 
scurity ;    but  on  the  whole  we  must 
add,  that  any  points  in  which  we  differ 
from  him  are  trivial  indeed  compared 
with  the  large  mass  of  information  with 
which  oar  present  stock  of  knowledge 
has  been  enriched  by  him ;  nor  can,  nor 
ought  we  to  overlook  that  tone  of  feel- 
ing  which  pervades  the  entire  work, — 
a  feeling  which  turns  knowledge  into 
piety,  which  makes  every  acquistion 
of  the  mind  a  blessing  to  the  heart, 
and  which  beholds  in  every  object  of 
nature  an  impress  of  that  original  fiat 
of  the  Almighty  voice,  that  declared 
at  the  creation  that  everything  which 
proceeded  from  his  hands  was  "very 
good."    Were  we  to  speak  of  our  own 
individual  sentiments,  we  should  pro- 
nounce the  book  to  be  one  of  the  most 
valuable  additions  that  have  been  re- 
cently made  to  our  practical  knowledge 
in  the  natural   history  of  our  own 
country.    And  were  we  to  follow  only 
our  own  feelings,  we  should  transcribe 
a  very  large  portion  of  it  intooor  pages ; 
Gbnt,  Mao.  Vol.  XXIL 


but,  as  this  cannot  be,  we  can  only 
point  out  one  or  two  passages  worthy 
of  observation. 

P.  12.  "Heronshaw."  This  re- 
minds us  of  another  word  of  similar 
formation,  "  Ravenshaw,"  now  only 
preserved  as  a  family  name,  but  which 
shows  how  common  that  noble  race 
of  birds  once  was. 

P.  24.  "  The  cuckoo's  hollow  note." 
Mr.  Jesse  might  have  remarked  also 
how  loud  and  incessant  during  the 
month  of  May  is  the  monotonous  call 
of  the  cuckoo's  mate  (the  wryneck), 
extending  through  the  whole  dsy,  and 
giving  to  the  hearer  something  of  the 
same  unpleasant  sensation  which  is 
felt  at  the  unceasing  call  of  the  cicala 
in  a  hot  noonday  sun  of  Italy. 

P.  23.  "The  golden  hues  of  the 
beech."  It  is  singular  that  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  of  all  forest  trees  is 
seldom  cultivated  by  us,  we  mean 
"  the  Norway  maple."  In  spring  it  is 
covered  with  long  tassels  of  the  bright- 
est yellow  ;  in  autumn  its  foliage  dies 
away  in  rich  golden  hues,  unequalled 
by  any  other  tree ;  it  also  stands  the 
sea- gales  better  than  any  other  tree. 

P.  29*  As  regards  the  passage 
quoted  in  a  note  written  by  a  friend 
of  Mr.  Jesse's,  (J.  M.)  we  have  only 
further  to  observe,  that  Cesar  wrote 
his  Commentaries  in  a  very  hurried 
manner ;  that  in  some  caaes  both  in 
style  and  matter  they  are  incorrect ; 
and  that  he  may  have  been  mistaken 
in  the  instance  before  us,  that  the 
beech-tree  was  not  to  be  seen  in  Bri- 
tain. 

P.  35.  A  mole  may  be,  as  Mr.  Jesse 
says,  useful  to  a  fanner ;  but  be  is 
very  destructive  to  a  gardener,  and  he 
creeps  from  the  fields  into  the  garden, 
to  the  destruction  of  the  crops  and  the 
total  ruin  of  the  lawn. 

P.  88.  "  List  of  the  trees  on  which 
the  mistletoe  has  been  found  " — a  very 
curious  and  valuable  little  calendar. 
We  must  make  one  observation  on  the 
subject  of  the  mistletoe  on  the  oak. 
It  was  heeameot  its  being  rarely  found 
on  this  tree,  that,  when  it  was,  it  waa 

H 


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Rbhew.^  Jesse's  Scenes  emd  Tales  of  Country  Life*        [Jaly> 


reckoned  wicind  by  the  Draids.  It  is 
rare  in  our  days^  and  their  worship  of 
it  shows  that  it  was  also  rare  in 
theirs. 

P.  *n»  The  notes  of  the  black-cap 
are  certainly  no/  on  equality  with  the 
nightingale's,  whatever  Mr.  Symes  may 
say. 

P.  87.  "  We  find  such  men  as  Dr. 
Johnson,  Lord  Hailes,  Dr.  Home,  and 
others,  anxious  for  the  elucidation  of 
Walton's  Lives,"  Sec.  Walton's  Lives 
differ  so  much  in  the  various  editions, 
that  a  collation  ought  to  be  made,  and 
the  result  given. 

P.  117.  There  is  no  doubt  but  that 
the  increase  of  rats  is  much  owing  to 
the  destruction  of  their  natural  ene- 
mies, the  stoat,  owl,  polecat.  Sec.  but 
there  is  also  no  doubt  but  that  by  vigilant 
attention,  and  the  use  both  of  traps 
and  poison,  these  disgusting  and  de- 
structive animals  might  be  thinned, 
and  the  numbers  much  diminished. 
No  one  ever  enters  fmr  garden  that  is 
not  caught  or  destroyed  in  two  days  1 
but  farmers  are  careless,  and  rat- 
catchers dishonest. 

P.  1 18.  In  this  chapter  some  beau- 
tiful instances  are  given  of  the  grati* 
tode,  attachment,  and  affection  of  ani- 
mals, to  which  we  refer  our  readers. 
When  We  consider  these  examples  of 
"  love  strong  as  death "  showing 
itself  in  the  animal  creation  j  in- 
stances of  attachment  as  independent 
of  any  s^Xfiih  motives  as  it  is  pos- 
sible to  imsgine,  as  pure,  as  strong 
as  are  either  to  be  met  with 
in  reality,  or  feigned  in  fable;  and 
when  we  compare  such  feelings  with 
the  kindred  ones  that  we  meet  with 
among  mankind ;  when  we  acknow- 
ledge their  strong  resemblance,  and 
then  add  that  it  is  for  the  possession 
and  exercise  of  such  feelings  that  we 
raise  our  humble  claim  to  be  formed 
in  likeness  of  the  Divine  image ;  when 
we  add  that  in  his  worst  and  lowest 
form,  in  his  most  brutal,  degraded, 
dishonest,  selfish  character,  man  still 
claims  to  himself  to  have  sprang  from 
an  immortal  seed, — how  can  we  wish 
to  deny  the  same  gift  of  mercy  to  the 
lowlier  servants  of  the  Deity,  to  the 
humbler  tenants  of  his  love,  to  the 
grateful  and  contented  pensioners  on 
his  paternal  charity  ?  For  man  there 
IS  appointed  a  future  world,  ib  which 
the  spirits  of  the  just  may  rejoicsi  and 


the  remorse  of  the  godless  and  im- 
penitent may  be  the  sole  subject  of 
their  eternal  shame ;  but  can  there  be 
supposed  no  other  worlds  in  the  count- 
less multitudes  of  the  heavenly  hosts, 
that  may  be  the  future  habitation  of 
the  innocent  creatures  that  have  spent 
their  little  lives  in  this?    May  not 
there  "the  half- reasoning  elephant" 
be  found,  who  has  had  his  faculties 
so  muchr  improved  and  enlarged  by 
his  acquaintance  w  ith  mankind  ?   M  ay 
not    there    the    noble    horse,    man's 
servant,  or  the  dog,  his  faithful  and 
sagacious  companion,  be  permitted  to 
prolong  their  lives,  which  have  been 
so  elevated    and   improved  by  their 
fellow-creatures  here  upon  earth  ?    Is 
it  wrong  to  suppose  that  there  can  be 
no  future  compensation  for  the  in- 
flictions of  cruelty,  no  enjoyment  of 
freedom  after  a  tyrannous  and   in- 
cessant   bondage,     no    blessings    of 
repose  after  a  wretched  lif^  worn  out 
under  the  oppression  of  creatures  far 
lower,  far  more  brutal  and  bestial  than 
themselves?    Who  would    not  wish 
this  to  be,  and,  wishing,  who  would  not 
believe  it  true?    The  Creator  seems, 
by   bestowing  on  some  animals   an 
instinct  to  attach  themselves  to  man^ 
to  have  intended  through  this  to  im- 
prove  and    soften    and   elevate  their 
nature*    They  learn  to  look  to  man  as 
their  protector  and  also  their  teacher ; 
they  watch  his  movements,  they  even 
anticipate  his  desires ;  they  partake 
his     enjoyments;    they     share     his 
sorrows  ;  they  rejoice  in  his  presence, 
they  grieve  for  his  departure;  they 
feel  for  him  in  sickness,  and  they  lie 
down  by  him  in  death.    The  longer 
we  associate  with  men  (the  confession 
is  sad  but  true)  the  larger  we  must 
spread  the  landscape  that  is  to  exhibit 
them  to  us  in  those  various  points  of 
view  that  call  out  our  surprise,  our  sor^^ 
row,  or  our  indignation;  themore  know- 
ledge we  possess,  and  the  more  fami- 
liarity we  cultivate  with  the  animal 
creation,  the  more  we  are  delighted 
with  their  instinctive  virtues,  and  the 
more  we  are  invited  to  train  them  to  a 
wider  sphere  of  usefulness,  and  to  call 
forth  their  dormant  powers  into  ac- 
tivity.   We  have  long,  very  long,  con- 
sidered that  there  is  no  stronger  and 
surer  token  of  an  amiable  and  good 
disposition  than  the  love  of  the  com- 
pany of  c^'ldreiif    As  age  advances. 


1944.]  Rbtibw.— Jesae'a  Scenes  and  Tales  ofCotmiry  Life,        51 


we  find  our  pleasure  in  their  society 
still  increasing,   both  for  the  natural 
delight  their  age  of  innocent  enjoyment 
affords  to  us,  and  for  the  contrast  they 
lend  to  that   other  society  which  we 
once  too  much  frequented   and    too 
ardently  cDJoyed  ;  which  we  spread  out 
our  most  glittering  fascinations  to  gain, 
which  we  exhausted  our  best  resources 
to  enliven,  on  which  we  lavished  our 
warmest  affections,  which  we  trusted 
with  our  choicest  hopes,  and  which 
repaid  us  with  neglect,  estrangement, 
and  ingratitude.  Often  do  we  recall  to 
our  minds  that  pretty  expression  of 
Goldsmith's,   in  the   roost  charming 
of  all  tales  of  fiction  that  time  ever 
made  immortal,  which  calls  children 
**  harmless  little  men ;"  and  what  we 
say  and  think  of  them,  and  what  love 
we  bestow  on  them,  and  what  delight 
we  have  in  their  society,  we  are  willing 
(we  speak  for  ourselves)  to  partake 
also  with  that  part  of  the  animal  crea^ 
tioH  which  is  most  intimately  known 
to  us,  and  with  which,  by  habit  or 
choice,  we  have  the  nearest  connexion. 
In  an  old  man's  heart  the  passionsof  life 
should  have  left  a  home  in  which  they 
can  no  longer  with  propriety  live ;  and 
then  the  recollections  and  feelings  of 
early  life,  long  banished  and  long  for- 
gotten, will  rush  in  again  to  repair  what 
has  been  injured,  to  refresh  what  has 
been  weakened,  and  to  shed  a  soft  and 
evening  light  upon  the  closing  day. 
This  is  the  euihaiuuia  so  ardently  to 
be  wished,  and  this  alone  can  repair 
the  broken  harmony  of  man's  nature, 
and   render  it  fit  for  immortslity  in 
that  world  of  spirits  to  which  it  is 
hastening.     How  delightfully  has  the 
friend  of  Fox*  described  the  innocent 
recreations  that  amused  the    leisure 
and  occupied  the  attention  of  the  re- 
tired and  aged  statesman. 

"  Thee  at  St.  Anne's,  so  soon  of  care  beguil'd» 
PUyfal,  sincere,  and  artless  as  a  child ; 
Thee,  who  ooold  watek  a  bird*9  nett  on  the 

spray, 
Throogh  the  green  leaves  exploring  day  by  day  { 
Then  oft  from  grove  to  grove,  from  seat  to  seat, 
With  thee  convening  in  thy  lov'd  retreat* 
I  saw  the  sun  go  down.*' 

Besides,  it  might  be  not  unreason* 
ably  asked  whether  the  animal  creation 


*  Mr.  S.  Rogers,  la  his  beautifid  poem 
of  Hanun  Iif«« 


is  not  now,  like  man,  in  a  fallen  state, 
possessing  powers  which  seem,  from 
some  cause  or  other,  to  be  impaired, 
yet  able  to  recover,  and  exhibit,  if 
opportunity  is  given,  something  of 
their  original  activity  and  intelli- 
gence. Some  animals,  like  the  ele- 
phant, shew  no  superiority  of  powers 
nor  superior  instinct  in  their  wild  and 
natural  state,  but  which  seem  to  wait 
only  to  be  developed  by  care  and  edu- 
cation, till  that  natural  instinct  is  so 
heightened  and  improved,  that  even 
man  scruples  not  to  confess  that  it 
may  approach  so  close  to  reason  as 
scarcely  to  be  distinguished  from  it. 
The  same  may  be  said  of  other  animals, 
as  some  birds,  and  others  in  a  state  of 
domestication.  Now  this  looks  rather 
like  a  faculty  impaired  or  lying  dor- 
mant, than  one  which  we  can  deny  to 
exist.  Place  animals  in  a  state  of 
great  difficulty,  and  their  powers  seem 
to  increase  in  proportion  as  they  are 
required.  And  this  view  of  the  sub- 
ject seems  not  to  be  unsupported  by 
the  picture  of  the  animal  creation 
which  we  see  in  Scripture,  where  they 
appear  certainly  more  advanced  in  the 
ecale  of  creation  than  they  do  now ; 
when  they  were  at  once  the  friends  as 
well  as  the  servants  of  men  ;  when  they 
were  even  gifted  with  the  power  of 
language,  and  conversed  with  him,  as 
appears,  without  any  expression  of 
astonishment  on  his  part,  as  if  it  were 
no  unusual  exercise  of  power ;  though 
Milton  makes  Eve  express  surprise 
when  the  tempter 

"  Her  attention  gained  with  serpent  tongne 
Organic,  or  impulse  of  vocal  air,'* 

for  he  thus  describes  the  effect  of  the 
address  made  to  her  by  the  enemy  of 
mankind : 

"  What  may  this  mean  7  Umgnage  of  man  pro- 
nounced [pressed  7 
By  tongue  of  brute,  and  human  sense  ex<. 
The  first  at  least  of  these  I  thought  denied 
To  beasts,  whom  God  on  their  creation-day 
Created  mute  to  all  articulate  sound ; 
The  latter  I  demur,  for  in  their  looks 
Much  reason,  and  in  their  actions  oft  appears. 
Thon  serpent,  subtlest  beast  of  all  the  field, 
I  know,  but  not  with  human  voice  endowed. 
Bedouble  then  this  miracle  and  say, 
How  earnest  thou  speakable  of  mute  7  and  how 
To  me  so  friendly  grown,**  &c. 

This,  however,  is  the  embellishment 
of  poetry,  and  is  not  to  be  considered 
as  a  necessary  deduction  from  any 


52  Rbvibw.— Jesse's  Scenes  and  Tales  of  Country  Life,         [July, 


authority  of  Scripture.  Many  birdsas 
can  distinctly  Imitate  the  human  voice, 
and  utter  our  language  as  clearly  as 
ourselves ;  and  this  only  from  their  own 
spontaneous  habit  of  faculty  of  imita- 
tion, without  being  taught.  Animals 
were  originally  divided  by  their  Maker's 
will  into  clean  and  unclean,  that  is, 
more  or  less  honourable ;  and  this  dis- 
tinction may  still  exist,  and  thus 
enable  some  to  be  raised  higher  than 
at  present  they  arc  in  the  scale  of 
creation,  enjoying  a  fuller  and  more 
enlarged  measure  of  the  divine  be- 
nevolence, with  higher  capacities  of 
enjoyment  in  a  more  prolonged  ex- 
istence. And  this  brings  us  to  the 
consideration  of  another  branch  of  the 
argument,  which  connects  the  care  of 
the  brute  creation  with  the  duties  of 
man,  and  makes  him  responsible  for 
his  conduct  towards  them  ;  for  as  by 
care  and  tenderness,  and  a  prudent  ex- 
ercise of  authority  and  application  of  his 
superior  understanding,  he  may  enable 
them  to  develope  faculties  which  other- 
wise would  have  remained  imperfect, 
or,  perhaps,  been  wholly  obliterated  ; 
so  by  cruel  usage,  by  infliction  of  brutal 
and  savage  treatment,  by  bad  example, 
by  habitual  incitement  to  acts  of  pas- 
sion and  outrage,  by  breeding  them 
up  in  habits  of  violence  and  enmity  to 
all  other  animals,  even  of  their  own 
kind,  and  to  man  himself, — he  may 
debase  them  below  even  his  own  de- 
graded state,  make  them  the  mere 
creatures  of  fierce  and  violent  passion, 
till  to  them  every  object  they  meet 
becomes,  if  strong,  an  enemy  to  en- 
counter, if  weak,  a  prey  to  destroy. 
So  much  does  the  character  of  animals 
depend  on  that  of  their  masters ;  com- 
pare only  the  gentle  spaniel,  brought 
up  to  watch  the  movements  and  obey 
the  kind  voice  of  his  master;  see 
how  the  sagacity  of  the  animal  has 
developed  itself  with  its  improved  tem- 
per and  manners, — as  in  the  instance 
of  Cowper's  favourite  dog  plunging 
into  the  river  to  gather  a  flower  which 
its  master  was  in  vain  endeavouring  to 
reach ;  or  the  Newfoundland  dog  saving 
from  death  the  drowning  sailor ;  or  the 
noble  faithful  mastiff  pulling  down  the 
robber  who  is  threatening  his  master's 
life ; — compare  this  with  the  race  of 
the  same  animals  brought  up  under 
different  treatment ;  of  the  deer-hounds 
io  the  keeper's  yard,  which  he  waros 


not  to  approach,  and  which  in 
sullen  and  dogged  hate  slink  away 
from  those  that  they  dare  not  attack ; 
or  of  the  fox- hounds,  whom  the  hunts- 
man dare  not  approach  for  his  life, 
unless  with  a  powerful  weapon  in  his 
hand.  If  man  be  accountable,  as  con- 
science, and  reason,  and  the  voice  of 
religion  tell  us  he  is,  for  the  sorrows 
his  conduct  may  bring  on  his  fellow 
creatures,  from  confidence  he  has 
deceived,  innocence  he  has  ruined, 
friendship  he  has  violated,  injury  he 
has  committed,  or  even  happiness  he 
has  failed  to  bestow ;  so  in  a  lesser 
degree  may  we  not  suppose,  that,  if  his 
line  of  duty  extend  also  up7to  those 
limits  where  the  animal  creation  is 
found,  it  may  be  more  forcibly  felt,  if 
not  only  their  present  comfort  is  seen 
to  depend  mainly  upon  his  conduct, 
but  that  their  future  destiny  may  also 
be  involved  in  it  ?  We  know  very  little 
regarding  the  individual  tempers  and 
capacities  of  animals;  we  think  the 
subject  beneath  our  notice,  or  at  least 
not  worthy  of  the  trouble  it  demands. 
The  sportsman  who  shoots  a  thousand 
hares  in  a  season,  looks  on  them 
merely  as  the  very  same  animal  mul- 
tiplied a  thousand  times;  but  the  Poet 
who  brought  up  a  few  of  them  in  per- 
fect and  familiar  domestication  with 
him,  discovered  the  interesting  fact, 
that  they  are  all  distinguished  from 
each  other  by  such  difference  of  tem- 
per, feelings,  and  habits  as  we  are ;  by 
different  degrees  of  boldness,  attach- 
ment, sprightlineas,  gentleness,  and  so 
on, — which  fact  surely  opens  to  us  a 
new  and  pleasing  field  of  inquiry, 
and  one  that  would  tend  more  than 
any  philosophical  speculations  to  give 
us  distinct  views  of  what  may  be 
the  instinctive  and  acquired  intellect 
of  the  animal  creation.  We  well  know 
that  it  is  very  easy  indeed  to  turn  all 
such  notions  as  these  into  ridicule; 
for  ridicule  can  successfully  disguise 
and  debase  with  its  motley  coat  far 
graver  subjects  than  ours;  but  we 
know  that  these  humble  creatures  are 
all,  like  ourselves,  dependent  on  God's 
bounty,  and  partakers  of  his  common 
and  universal  care ;  that  they  are  gifted 
with  very  different  degrees  of  capacity ; 
that  they  are  capable  of  great  improve- 
ment ;  that,  like  ourselves,  they  are 
placed  in  situations  which,  humanly 
speaking,  are    not  correspondent  tg 


1844.} 


RBVitiw.— Greenwood's  Tree  Liftef'. 


53 


their  tempers,  or  dependent  (if  we  may 
so  speak)  on  their  deserts ;  and  that 
the  general  justice  of  God's  government 
must,  in  a  fotare  state,  in  its  wide 
embrace^  comprehend  the  whole  of  his 
creation ;  and  spealiing  most  reve- 
rently, most  hambly,  and  most  diffi- 
dently, as  becomes  as ; — looking  to  the 
treatment  which  the  animal  creation 
receives  here  from  the  hand  of  roan, 
there  is  much  suffering  to  be  compen- 
sated, much  degradation  to  be  removed, 
and  even  much  goodness  to  be  rewarded. 
We  now  can  only  add,  that  we  fear 
oar  lucubrations  have  taken  up  so 
much  room  that  we  cannot  quote,  as 
we  could  have  wished,  some  pleasing 
and  instructive  passages  from  Mr. 
Jesse's  work,  or  that  exquisite  little 
poem  by  his  daughter,  (now  Mrs. 
Hoa&ton),  which  we  defy  all  the 
Sapphoes  and  Erinnas  of  the  present 
day  to  excel ; — it  is  oXi;^  ({  ir'tboKos 

The  Tree  Lifter:  or  a  New  Method 
of  TVmuplainting  Forest- trees.  By 
Colonel  Gforge  Greenwood. 
WE  have  read  this  treatise  with 
great  interest  and  satisfaction,  both  as 
regards  the  practical  observations  and 
advice,  and  the  physiological  reason- 
ings and  deductions.  We  must,  how- 
ever, observe  that  the  system  recom- 
mended by  the  author  for  transplanting 
trees  of  size  with  balls  of  earth  can  only 
apply  to  certain  soils,  and  we  presume 
that  his  experiments  were  made  in  clay; 
but,  as  we  cannot  in  our  sands  retain  a 
particle  of  earth  on  the  roots,  we  are 
obliged  to  have  recourse  to  the  only 
other  system  which  can  be  successful, 
and  with  great  care  and  labour  en- 
deavour to  trace  out  the  remotest 
fibres  and  small  roots,  and  follow  them 
up  till  we  arrive  at  the  stem  of  the 
tree :  in  this  way  we  have  never  failed. 
When,  however,  the  nature  of  the  soil 
will  allow,  we  still  should  recommend 
the  old  plan,  of  uniting  a  ball,  with  as 
many  roots  as  can  be  conveniently 
preserved  :  this  was  the  plan  adopted 
with  great  success  at  Dropmore  and 
at  the  Earl  of  Harrington's,  who  has 
moved  (perhaps  is  now  moving)  trees 
of  one  to  three  hundred  years  old, 
with  the  most  remarkable  success.  We 
scarcely  remember  a  single  tree,  of  all 
his  "  ancient  yews,"  that  has  failed ;  and 
thus  hia  seat,  which  bttt  ten  years  ago 


was  comparatively  on  a  naked  area  of 
ground,  is  now  embowered  in  the 
"immortal  umbrage"  of  venerable 
cedars  and  yews,  and  other  ever- 
greens ;  while  two  thousand  Deodora 
cedars,  and  an  avenue  of  Araucarias^ 
will  give  in  a  few  years  such  a  cha- 
racter to  Elvaston  as  no  other  place 
in  England  possesses.  We  do  not  take 
notice  of  the  author's  theory  of  trees  not 
deriving  food  or  absorbing  from  the 
spongioles  or  extremities  of  the  roots,  as 
we  perceive  it  has  been  remarked  on  in 
the  Gardener's  Chronicle.  As  regards 
the  season  for  transplanting  trees,  the  au- 
thor's remarks  (p.  61)  are  well  worthy 
attention,  and  of  their  justness  we 
have  no  doubt.  We  have  ourselves 
removed  trees  with  success  in  the 
summer  months ;  and  we  recollect 
that  the  large  limes  and  other  trees 
which  were  brought  by  Louis  the 
Fourteenth,  to  form  his  garden  at 
Marly,  were  all  removed  in  the  sum- 
mer, and,  for  the  most  part,  success- 
fully. On  the  injury  done  by  the 
roots  of  trees  to  masonry,  the  author 
says,  in  "  Greece,  Italy,  and  through 
the  East,"  roots  are  the  great  di- 
lapidators  of  the  ruins  of  antiquity; 
he  might  have  recollected  that  the 
Romans  had  a  law  against  planting 
the  fig-tree  within  a  certain  distance 
of  buildings,  on  account  of  the  injury 
done  by  it. 

At  p.  95  the  author  has  given  the 
marvellous  measurements  of  some 
Pinus  Ijamhertiana  on  the  Columbia, 
of  which  the  only  part  we  hesitate  at 
believing  to  be  correct  is,  that,  when 
the  trees  were  only  15  feet  diameter 
near  the  ground,  they  were  13  feet 
diameter  at  the  height  of  250  feet ;  if 
so,  they  did  not  assume  the  form  of 
cones  ;  and  how  much  higher  did  they 
grow  ?  for  they  could  not  terminate  in 
that  abrupt  and  truncated  manner. 
The  Pinus  DougUutii,  if  taken  on  Mr. 
Douglas's  statement,  as  to  its  girth 
and  height,  will  produce  near  400 
loads  of  timber !  while  a  large  English 
oak  will  not  bring  10  ! !  but  these  are 
not  the  largest  trees  in  the  world,  as 
they  are  exceeded  by  the  Taxodium 
Distichum  of  Mexico,  which  are  sup- 
posed to  be  the  oldest  trees  on  the 
face  of  the  earth,  and  for  an  account 
of  which  we  refer  to  Humboldt.  As 
great  pains  and  most  praiseworthy 
have  been  taken  by  different  writers  to 


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[July, 


assist  the  planter,  by  recommending  the 
best  methods  of  transplanting  large 
trees,  so  that  men  may  see  around 
them  a  well-grown  forest  of  their  own 
creation,  we  think  the  present  author's 
hints  as  regards  ihelier  and  sheltered 
positions  to  be  equal  in  yaiue.     Seldom 
a  space  of  5  or  10  years  passes  without 
some  park  in  England  or  Ireland  being 
denuded  of  its  venerable  and  magnificent 
canopy  of  verdure  by  the  effect  of 
sudden  and  terrific  storms;   only  a 
few    years    since,    in    this    manner. 
Lord  Petre's  park  at  Brentwood  suf- 
fered much  injury  by  the  uprooting 
of  trees  that  had  been  there  for  cen- 
turies ;  and  in  Ireland  we  believe  the 
ravage  done  in  this  way  by  the  ele- 
ments has  been  still  more  destructive. 
There  is  another  point  which  we  think 
might  be  more  fully  recommended  in 
works  of  this  kind,  we  mean  the  good 
effect  of  iop-dreanng  in  promoting  the 
growth  of  trees :  if  it  is  worth  while 
to  be  at  the  expense  of  removing  large 
trees,  it  is  of  equal  value  to  give  ra- 
pidity to  the  growth  by  manuring  the 
surface  of  the  ground  $  this  we  have 
done,  and  now  practise  with  eminent 
success.    As  regards  the  author's  ob- 
servation (p.  104)  on  the  Araucarias  at 
Dropmore,  we  shall  observe  that  the 
largest  in  England,  all  of  which  we 
have  seen,  are  the  following,  given  in 
the  order  they  stand  reciprocally  for 
size:-^l.  At  Kew;   3.  two  at  Drop- 
more  ;  3.  Lady  Rolles,  at  Bicton ;  4. 
Pince's  nursery,  at  Exeter,  in  the  spe- 
cimen garden  ;  6.  then  come  those  at 
Mr.  Baker's,  at  Bayfordbury ;  and  one 
at  Lord  Harrington's,  at  Elvaston. 
We  cannot  close  this  little  work  with- 
out again  expressing  our  thanks  to  the 
author  for  it;  and  we  hope  that  it  will 
be  the  precursor  of  others  on  the  same 
important  subject. 

P.  16.  "He  who  expects  that  a 
diminished  root  will  support  an  un- 
diminished head  will  be  disappointed : 
this  is  the  fundamental  principle  of 
transplanting."  True,  and  so  we  have 
found ;  but  it  is  directly  opposed  to 
the  principle  of  Sir  Henry  Stuart,  and 
to  his  practice,  for  he  never  touches 
the  head  of  any  transplanted  tree. 
The  large  transplanted  evergreen  trees 
at  Lord  Harrington's^  we  believe,  are 
never  pruned  or  touched  with  the 
knife. 

P.  31.  The  ftathor*9  objection  to 


Liebig,  that,  according  to  his  hypo- 
thesis, "  if  trees  are  cut  down  at  mid- 
summer till  the  fall  of  the  leaf,  the 
heads  would  remain  alive  and  the  roots 
immediately  die,"  does  not  appear  to 
us  satisfactory ;  for  the  cutting  down 
the  tree  and  separating  it  from  the 
root  would  stop  the  circulation  of  sap, 
which  we  presume  necessary  for  the 
vitality  of  the  plant;  nor  do  we  see 
why,  on  the  same  reasoning,  "the 
roots  should  immediately  die."  On 
this  subject  we  may  remark  imme- 
diately, that  the  root  of  the  silver  fir, 
when  the  tree  is  cut  down,  having  the 
power  to  grow  and  increase  in  size 
annually,  is  so  curious  a  fact  as  led 
Mr.  Knight  to  say,  *  thai  a  tret  mighi 
do  without  leawi/  " 

P.  33.  The  author  observes—"  I 
think  it  possible  that  engrafting  trees 
on  stocks  of  minor  growth  may  incline 
them  to  fruit  instead  of  growth,  on  the 
same  principle  as  ringing  branches,  or 
tying  ligatures  round  them,  does.  In 
each  case  the  nstural  supply  of  sap  is 
diminished."  What  the  author  con- 
siders possible  has  been  carried  into 
effect  on  more  than  one  species  of  trees. 
Mr.  A.  Knight  grafted  the  sweet  chest- 
nut on  itBelf,  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
curing fruit ;  and  the  consequence  was, 
as  we  can  testify,  who  had  several  of 
these  trees,  that  when  a  few  feet  high 
they  were  loaded  with  fruit  of  remark- 
able size.  We  believe  the  same  experi- 
ment has  been  tried  on  the  walnut. 

P.  33.  "With  the  exception  of  the 
parts  of  the  shoot  of  the  current  year, 
no  other  part  of  a  tree  makes  any 
upward  progress."  This  observation 
may  be  true,  but  it  is  in  direct  opposi- 
tion to  the  authority  of  Gilbert  White, 
who  relates  the  fact  of  his  observing  the 
regular  annual  elevation  of  a  tree  (and 
he  watched  it,  we  think,  over  the  line 
of  the  roof  of  a  building)  independent 
of  its  yearly  shoot. 

P.  75.  fVe  also  much  doubt  the 
theory  of  injurious  excretions  for  the 
roots  of  trees;  nor  do  we  believe  it 
necessary  to  explain  the  phenomena 
attributed  to  it. 

P.  83.  On  the  subject  of  the  in- 
jury trees  receive  from  the  force  of 
winds  in  open  situations,  as  near  the 
sea,  we  have  no  doubt  but  that  the 
author  is  right  in  the  causes  he  states,— 
the  violence  of  the  wind  destroying 
th0  tender   ftfrnual  shoott    On   our 


1844.] 


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55 


eoast  no  trees  stwd  the  "boffeting  of 
the  storm"  so  well  as  the  sycamore 
and  the  white  poplar ;  bat,  if  we  had 
the  opportunity  given,  we  should  try 
the  Norway  maple  {Acer  Plaianoides) , 
which  we  have  neard  is  found  on  the 
rocky  shores  of  Norway. 

P.  95.  With  regard  to  the  magni- 
tude of  some  foreign  trees^  we  may 
observe  that  no  American  trees  attain 
their  natural  size  in  England,  probably 
from  deficiency  in  soil,  certainly  from 
the  alteration  of  climate.  The  Decidu- 
ous Cypress  is  always  a  small  tree  with 
us,  so  is  the  Tulip  tree;  and  how 
much  like  a  shrub  is  the  white  cedar  / 
yet  a  botanist  who  has  travelled  all 
through  the  two  Americas  assures  us 
that  the  white  cedars  of  North  America 
are  of  gigantic  growth,  and  in  fact  are 
the  largest  trees  he  had  ever  seen. 
Our  pale  and  languid  summers  do  not 
act  with  sufficient  force  and  vigour  on 
the  elements  of  growth.  With  regard 
to  the  new  gigantic  pines  from  Cali- 
fornia, &c.  they  will  never  attain  any 
large  growth  here,  or,  if  they  do, 
will  be  blown  down,  as  all  the  pine 
trees  are  in  Guernsey,  after  they 
attain  a  certain  height.  We  have 
heard  from  an  intelligent  traveller 
that  the  localities  where  the  great 
Douglas  pines  grow  in  California, 
are  deluged  by  watery  tempests  from 
the  Pacific,  so  that  the  trees  are 
sometimes  as  it  were  in  a  lake,  and 
the  whole  soil  and  climate  quite  dif- 
ferent from  the  comparative  mildness 
and  temperance  of  our  own. 

P.  97.  "If  there  is  an  exception 
to  this  rule,  it  is  the  Italian  pine." 
What  is  the  Italian  pine  ?  Our  late 
esteemed  friend  Mr.  Loudon  told  ns, 
that  the  flat-headed  pine  of  Italy  was 
not  the  stone  pine  (Ptniu  Pinea),  but 
the  pinaster ;  if  planted  singly,  both 
these  trees  will  have  lateral  braochea, 
and,  the  stone  pine  especially,  will 
grow  like  a  large  bush.  We  may 
remark  (in  passing)  that  of  all  ever- 
green trees,  the  stone  pine  bears  best 
the  smoke  of  towns,  and  seems  hardly 
affected  by  it. 

P.  102.  The  author  says,  "The 
Deodora  cedar  attains  the  largest 
growth  of  all  trees  :"  this  is  far  from 
correct,  we  never  heard  of  any  that 
^rted  more  than  30  feet,  which  is  not 
equal  to  the  size  of  some  of  the  few 
old  cedan  now  left  at  Lebanon*    As 


to  its  growth  *'  being  twiee  as  quick  aa 
that  of  the  common  cedar,"  we  do  not 
know  the  point  correctly,  but  our  Le- 
banon cedars,  watched  for  years  by  ns^ 
make  their  annual  shoots  from  a  foot  to 
15  inches.  One  great  superiority  the 
Himalaya  cedar  (or  Beloo  tree)  pos- 
sesses, is  in  the  durable  nature  of  its 
wood,  which  is  said  to  be  almost  im- 
perishable, while  the  wood  of  the  Le- 
banon cedar  is  worth  but  little.  With 
regard  to  the  Araucaria,  we  under- 
stand that  it  is  a  very  ugly  tree  when 
it  attains  a  large  size.  The  only  park 
where  we  have  found  it  planted  oat 
among  the  common  forest  trees,  is  at 
Lord  Guildford's,  at  Waldershare,  in 
Kent. 

P.  102.  As  regards  protecting 
single  trees  in  parks  from  the  ravages 
of  cattle,  we  think  the  best,  the 
cheapest,  the  most  durable,  and  the 
most  picturesque,  is  that  used  at  Lord 
Talbot's  at  Ingestrie«  where  large 
slabs  of  stone  or  rock  are  thrown 
around  all  the  thorns  and  other  trees, 
so  that  no  animal  can  approach  to  rub 
the  stem,  and  they  are  so  irregularly 
placed  together  as  to  have  a  pleasing 
effect. 


Palm  Leatfee,    By  Richard  Monckton 
Milnes,  Esq. 

THIS  volume  consists  entirely  of 
poetry  suggested  by  a  temporary  re- 
sidence in  the  East,  and  formed  on 
Oriental  subjects  and  scenery;  and, 
without  our  remarking  any  very  lofty 
flights  of  poetical  genius,  any  powerful 
descriptions  of  passion,  or  striking 
combination  of  incidents,  yet  the  ge- 
neral impression  from  the  perusal  will 
be  pleasing,  and  the  reader  will  be  in- 
structed as  well  as  amused.  There  are 
some  very  judicious  remarks  in  the  au- 
thor's preface  relating  to  the  £ast,  and 
to  the  poetical  form  it  is  susceptible  of 
receiving. 

''  I  cannot,  however,  say  that  I  found 
the  East  poetical  in  that  application  of  the 
word  which  suits  the  wants  and  feelings 
of  our  time.  To  interest  or  to  benefit 
««,  poetry  most  be  refleettve^  sentimental) 
snbjective ;  it  must  accord  with  the  con- 
scious, analytical  spirit  of  present  men. 
It  must  be  deeper  than  description*  more 
lasting  than  passion  f  more  earnest  than 
pleasure f  it  must  help,  or  pretend  to  help, 
the  mind  of  man  out  of  the  struggles  and 
entanglements  of  life.    But  in  the  East 


— Milnes's  Paint  ZMtvtt. 


CM?. 


unmnitj. 
vmuDcd 
■  it  were 
ire,   with 

:■  ia    the 

i*Mction* 
ill  philo- 


jnOBtty  to, 

1  cottfaaion 
uid  power. 
lug  btmseU 

lie  with  the 

BCM    to     d«- 

I  be  Bttcmpt 
m  the  exeet- 
of  Ood.  fant 
and  on  tbe 


■on   IB   Klao 

ntal  life  more 
iceiTC  Id  the 
r  obierrklion ; 
nail  a  portion 
re  not  on\y  to 
>r  it,  hnt  h»e 
rified  eien  the 
I    ciiatence  in 
■  klmost  arraid 
■y    have  been 
■"«   Uken  onr 
ity  loach  more 
«»    reaUty.   and 
I  mui^  rerocity 
ooDtBaon-plac« 

^f*elt  ftt  Coo. 
•lytic*!,  ud 
th    "otnethin- 

»y    of   Bvron. 

K  *°'»fi'm  the 
t^"  VVnhabee. 
»•"■  wnd  spirit 
"Preaaioo  and 
»Jl*    •ubjecti 

a'fferent  atyle. 


they  excel  in  mnit  the  otbet  puts  of 
tl)«  volamr. 

Thoa(;h  Syra'a  rock  wa«  paai'd  at  mom, 

The  wind  ao  fslrij  arched  tbe  nul, 
That,  e'er  to  Deloa  we  were  borne, 

The  ■.otama-day  began  to  fail. 
And  only  la  Diana'a  amilea 
^7e  reached  the  bay  between  the  iilei. 
In  aweet  aerenity  of  force 

She  ml'd  the  heaTena  withoot  a  itar, 
A.  aacred  Image,  that  the  coorae 

Of  tone  and  thought  can  hardly  mar  ; 
Aa  dear,  and  nearly  aa  divine , 
A«  sTer  In  Epheiian  abrioe. 
I  knew  that  on  the  ipot  I  trod, 

Her  gloriom  twini  Latona  bore, 
That  for  her  lake  the  pitying  god 

H  ad  fii'd  tbe  Ule,  ^oat  before  ; 
And,  fearful  of  bia  juit  diidain, 
I  almoat  felt  tt  move  agun. 
For  the  delicion*  light  that  threw 

Such  clear  transparence  o'er  the  WBTa, 
Prom  the  black  roastich-bnahei  drew 
Column  and  frieae  and  aroliitraTe  ; 
like  rodia  which,  native  to  tbe  place, 
Had  aoioetbing  of  nyaterioua  grace. 
Sbong  wai  the  power  ot  art  to  bid 
Arlac  aucb  bwuty  out  of  atoae  ; 
Yet  Parol  might  ai  well  have  bid 

Ita  wealth  within  itt  breaat  unkDomi, 
Aa  for  bmte  nature  to  regain 
The  ftagmenta  of  the  fallen  fane. 
Who  can  rebuild  tlioca  coIonnadM 

Where  met  the  ancient  faital  boat, 
The  peaaant  from  Arcadia's  gladci, 
The  merchant  from  loois'i  ccait, 
Gladdening  their  Grecian  blood  to  itaod 
On  one  religioui  father  .land  ? 
So  in  my  angry  discontent 

1  cried  ;  hut  calmer  thoughts  came  Ml, 
And  gratitude  with  sorrow  blent. 
And  murmur  turoad  to  orison: 
1  thanli'd  the  gods  for  what  had  been. 
And  nature  for  tbe  present  scene. 
I  felt  thst  while  in  Greece  remained 

Signs  of  that  old  heroic  show, 
Hop«,  Memory's  sister,  so  lustsined, 

Would  sink  not  altogether  low  ; 
And  Greciaa  hearts  once  more  might  bs 
Combin'd  in  pooerfnl  amity. 
Long  e'er  the  sun's  most  carious  ray 

Had  touch'd  the  moreing's  looe  oTpearl, 
I  and  mj  boat  were  far  awa;, 

Raii'd  on  tbe  water's  freah'QlDg  curl  j 
And  barely  'twiit  the  rose,  and  blue 
The  island's  rim  was  stUl  in  view. 
So  Delos  rests  upon  my  mind, 

A  perfect  vision  of  the  nl^ht, 
A  picture  by  mooa.rays  designed, 
Aad  (haded  into  Uaok  and  bright ; 


1M4.]        RBTiiWf^Mis.  Bny'a  CW^aMty  bfWfArtid^. 


57 


4  tr«B  ite  Wnit  «ii»79 
yntropUad  b j  the  dnunkw  day. 

MOBIBII  4TBSVf. 

If  lltt%  tkoogli  JMlow  of  the  aecoad  birtli 
Of  Buuf  in  lilstorf  nlt'd  to  UgH  dcKiMb 
Panita  that  Atlifiu  y«t  once  more  iliel]  b^ 

Let  ber  be  placed  v  snit^  tbe  tbongbt  aiia 

Of  ttoee  whOk  during  leaf  ofipicaekm'e  deaitb» 
Went  ont  fivn  Hydra  and  Ipaaim  freeb 
Maklag  thdjrhomeatcad  of  tbe  duinleaa  aiif 
And  bardly  toodiinff  tbeir  enalaved  eartb. 
80  on  tlie  abor%  in  aiybt  of  Salaniat 
On  tbe  Penean  and  Fhalerian  baya, 
Witb  no  barah  oontraat  of  wb»t  wm  iad  la. 
Let  ▲theni  riae;  wUle  in  the  dlatanee  atandp, 
like  aomethinfc  bardly  railed  by  bmnanbanda^ 
The  awlU  akdeton  of  andant  daya. 

TBI  TOMB  OF  LAIOl. 

Wbcra  Delphi's  opnascratod  pu« 

Bceotia'f  miaty  region  faoesi 
Ihcre  ia  a  tomb-like  itonj  maia 

Amid  the  beaky  mountain  boaei. 
It  aeema  no  work  of  human  care, 

But  many  rock«  apHt  off  from  one ; 
liBina,  the  TMian  king,  liee  there, 

Hia  mutew,  CSdipuv,  hia  son. 

No  pilgrim  to  the  Pythian  ahrine 

Bnt  marked  the  apot  with  dcont  awe, 
In  jpreeaaee  of  a  power  divine 

O'ermUng  hmolkaa  will  and  law ; 
And  to  aome  thoughtlbl  hearta  that  aeene— 

Thoae  patha— da|  moond— thoasbrowt- 
ing  hcrdi    1 
Wen  more  than  e*«r  tbat  late  htf  been 

Anif 'd  in  Bopboeleeii  worda. 


80  ia  it  yet-Hio  tiaae  or  apace 

That  aacieoBt  angniah  can  aasnage. 
For  aorrow  ii  of  every  race, 

And  aafeiiag  due  from  every  age; 
That  awlul  leg^  falla  to  uf 

With  all  &  weight  that  Greece  could 
fed, 
And  every  man  ii  CEdipua, 

Whoae  wounds  no  mortal  skill  can  heal. 

Ohl  oiU  U  Frovidenoe  or  £ste, 

nm  sf^ywc  propounds  the  riddle  stilli 
That  man  muat  bear  and  eacpiate 

Jxiada  of  involuntary  ill : 
80  ahaU  endurance  ever  hold 

The  foremost  rank  *mid  human  needs, 
Not  without  faith,  that  God  can  mould 

To  good  the  dross  of  evil  deeds. 

Gwrlsttoy  qf  Wokrtddxmi  a  Jtomonee 
of  the  Wwt    By  Mr9.  Bray. 

THIS  is  not  only  the  latest  of  Mrs. 
Bray's  prodnctions  but  tbe  best  There 
ia  greater  richness  of  invention,  greater 
skill  in  the  disposition  of  the  incidents. 
Tbe  characters  are  well  marked^  yet 
without  extravagance;   the  incidenta 

Qent.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


surprising  without  being  unnatural. 
The  chain  of  circumstances  is  well 
maintained,  and  tbe  mysteries  of  the 
plot  are  at  once  so  skilfully  conceived 
as  to  awaken  the  curiosity  of  the 
reader,  and  then  so  satisfactorily  un- 
ravelled as  to  prove  their  adherence  to 
nature  and  truth.  There  is  much 
humour  and  a  quaint  drollery  in  some 
of  the  aeenes  Uiat  amused  us  not  a 
little ;  in  others  a  power  of  pathetic 
description  which  is  effective  because 
it  does  not  overpass  its  proper  bound- 
aries. If  there  is  any  one  character* 
in  parta  of  which  we  may  not  be  en- 
tirely aaUsfied,  it  ia  in  that  of  "  Cin- 
derella;'^ we  think  her  simplicity,  and 
worldly  ignorance,  and  innate  purity, 
are  carried  beyond  what  we  feel 
could  ba  probable*  in  the  earl^  scenes 
and  in  the  society  in  which  she 
first  appears  \  and  yet,  while  we  say 
this*  It  is  with  a  strong  approba- 
bation  of  tiia  feeling  witb  which  the 
entire  ehanctar  is  drawn.  We  also 
object  to  Robin's  death,  which  appears 
quite  unnecessary,  and  which  gave  us 
much  pain,  for  we  were  looking  for- 
ward to  his  being  made  Major-Greneral, 
or  having  the  command  of  a  regiment 
at  least.  Robin  and  Cinderella  had 
suffered  miseries  enough;  it  would 
have  been  mora  satisfactory  to  have 
seen  all  the  clouds  that  hung  so  darkly 
over  their  fortunes  for  ever  dispersed ; 
and  what  had  Robin  done  that  his  fate 
should  be  different  from  that  of  Cin- 
derella? We  may  also  express  a  doubt 
whether,  with  all  her  gentle  virtues, 
her  innate  loveliness,  her  feminine  de- 
licacy* her  mental  purity,  her  natural 
grace*  Cinderella  could  be*  from  her 
want  of  education*  and  her  strange* 
wild*  and  wandering  life  amid  her 
rude  companions*  such  a  Icdy  in  man- 
ners* thought,  and  knowledge  as  Mrs. 
Chudleigh  ought  to  be.  We  express 
our  doubts  rather  timidly*  for  we  be- 
lieve strongly  in  the  elasticitjr  of  the 
female  character  in  adapting  itself  to 
the  circumstances  it  is  called  to  meet* 
and  the  stock  of  virtues  and  talents  on 
which  it  is  able,  when  required*  to 
draw  ;  but  still*  if  something  could  be 
contrived  to  give  this  "  gipsy  wench  " 
a  little  education*  so  at  least  as  to 
enable  her  to  read  a  French  novel,  and 
play  on  the  piano*  or  read  the  names 
of  the  plante  at  a  horticultural  ffite,— • 


58        Rsvifiw.— SaDdby's  Mamerim  and  Us  Opponenit,  4c«       tJxAyt 

with  the  ecclesiastical  drams  these 
worthy  divines  are  both  beating  in 
our  ears.  We  almost  believe  we  were 
present,  "When  Mr.  Gandy  dwelt 
much  on  the  authority  of  Scripture, 
Mr.  Goodman  on  that  of  tradition. 
Mr.  Gandy  quoted  the  great  divines  of 
the  Church  of  £ngland,  Mr.  Goodman 
the  writings  of  the  fathers ;  Mr. 
Gandy  argued  for  the  Reformation, 
Mr.  Goodman  called  it  innovation. 
Mr.  Gandy  declared  the  Protestant 
to  be  a  representative  of  the  primitive 
Church,  Mr.  Goodman  insisted  on  the 
higher  antiquity  of  his  own ;"  and  we 
think  we  remember  them  separating 
to  go  to  bed,  "  not,  however,  without 
a  last  word,  in  which  Mr.  Gandy  sent 
bloody  Queen  Mary  to  the  devil,  and 
was  answered  by  Mr.  Goodman  pay- 
ing the  same  compliment  to  Queen 
Elizabeth."  We  also  enjoyed  the 
dialogue  between  Mr.  Lukeroan  and  his 
clerk,  and,  on  the  whole,  we  msy  truly 
say  of  this  very  pleasing  and  varied 
history, 

Readingt  alternate  tears  and  smiles  would 

rise,  [iug  from  the  eyes. 

These  playing  round  the  lipsi  those  burst- 


all  we  can  say,  is — if  this  should  be  per- 
formed in  the  next  edition,  we  shall 
think  the  general  eflfect  will  be  im- 
proved, and  nothing  wanting  to  make 
the  interest  we  feel  in  her  still  height- 
ened by  the  additional  accomplishments 
of  her  mind.  Surely  Mrs.  Bray  has 
not  the  heart  to  deny  us  this,  and  will 
not  refuse  to  add  some  acquired  ele- 
gance to  complete  the  natural  graces 
of  so  interesting  a  character.  There 
is  an  excellent  ladies'  seminary  at  De- 
von port,  very  suitable  for  the  pur- 
pose. 

The  character  of  Lady  Howard  is 
the  foremost  figure  in  the  work,  and 
accordingly  it  has  been  drawn  with 
care  and  fullness  of  colonring  (v.  p. 
45,  &c.),  and  with  due  consistency 
throughout ;  and  indeed  we  most  say 
that  Mrs.  Bray  has  succeeded  in  a 
point  in  which  many  of  her  rivals  have 
failed,  and  the  author  of  Coningsby 
among  the  rest,  in  harmonising  the 
colouring  in  which  the  real  and  fictU 
tious  personages  of  the  story  are  re- 
presented. In  Coningsby,  for  instance, 
surely  the  half- ideal,  poetical,  mys- 
terious character  of  Sidonia  is  out  of 
keeping  beside  Lord  Monmouth  and 
Tadpole  and  Rigby.  With  Mrs.  Bray, 
though  she  has  mixed  the  real  histori- 
cal events  with  fictitious  ones,  yet  she 
has  rather  alluded  to  the  real  persons 
of  history  than  introduced  them,  and 
thus  preserved  an  historical  interest, 
without  an  incongruous  mixture  of  the 
airy  and  shadowy  creatures  of  the 
fancy  with  the  solid  forms  of  reality, 
^a  mixture  that,  notwithstanding  its 
high  authority  in  late  times,  has  never 
been  quite  satisfactory  to  oar  minds. 
Lady  Howard's  character  is  well  sup- 
ported by  that  of  Constance  Behenna ; 
and  such  dark  and  gloomy  passages 
are  contrasted,  much  to  the  relief 
of  the  reader,  with  Mr.  Gandy  and 
his  wife  Sally,  and  his  clerk,  all  ec- 
centric, and  all  entertaining.  The 
more  powerfully  described  and  affect- 
ing parts,  as  that  in  the  chapel  of 
Walreddon,  the  adventure  of  Cin- 
derella when  she  received  her  wound, 
and  the  marriage  scene,  depend  on  the 
narrative  being  given  entire  for  their 
effect,  and,  therefore,  are  totally  be- 
yond our  very  narrow  limits.  Besides, 
we  have  now  dried  our  tears  and  have 
Joined  the  society  of  Messrs.  Gandy 
and  Goodman,  not  a  little  delighted 


MnmtrUm  and  Hi  Opponenii,  8fc,  By 
George  Sandbv,  junior,  M.A.  Vicar 
of  Flixton,  Suj^oVc. 
THE  little  pamphlet  of  Mr.  Sandby's 
which  we  noticed  last  year  has  since 
grown  into  the  present  volume,  having 
attracted  much  attention  as  to  the 
curiosity  of  its  facts,  and  produced 
much  conviction  in  the  truth  of  its 
argument.  In  the  interval  that  has 
elapsed  since  his  former  publication, 
Mr.  Sandby  has  had  much  practical 
experience  nimself  in  mesmerism — ^has 
formed  the  acquaintance  and  profited 
by  the  conversation  of  many  persons 
of  science,  whose  attention  has  been 
drawn  to  the  subject,  has  read  many 
works,  considered  at  leisure  the  ob- 
jections that  have  been  advanced,  and 
as  the  fruit  of  his  researches  has  ex- 
panded his  former  publication  into  the 
present  volume.  In  the  third  and 
fourth  chapters,  p.  59  to  178,  the 
reader  will  find  a  large  mass  of  curious 
and  important  facts  collected,  both  as 
regards  the  truth  of  mesmerism  and 
its  curative  power  in  disease ;  facts 
that  we  bold  it  is  impossible  openly 
to  deny,  or  insidiously  to  explain  away, 
and  which  therefore  form  a  strong  and 


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59 


unbroken  body  of  evidence.  In  the 
sixth  chapter,  the  author  has  examined 
the  bearing  of  the  wonders  of  mesmerism 
on  the  miracles  qf  the  New  Testament, 
though  why  he  has  confined  it  to  the 
New  we  do  not  know ;  but  he  says, 
"It  is  notorious  that  a  feeling  is  gain- 
ing ground  that  these  several  facts 
exhibit  an  Equality  of  power,  and  that 
the  divine  nature  of  the  one  is  im- 
paired by  the  extraordinary  character 
of  the  other."  Mr.  Saodby  shows 
that  a  part  of  our  Saviour's  miraculous 
acts  of  power  is  altogether  removed 
out  of  the  sphere  of  mesmeric  infiuence; 
as  his  stilling  the  waves  of  the  sea, 
withering  the  fig-tree,  changing  water 
into  wioe,  feeding  the  multitude  in 
the  desert,  walking  on  the  sea,  being 
transfigured  on  the  mount,  raising  the 
dead.  He  then  comes  to  the  other 
class  of  miracles,  healing  all  manner 
of  diseases  ;  and  he  distinguishes  the 
wonders  recorded  in  the  Gospel  from 
those  performed  by  merely  human 
means ;  by  showing  in  the  first  place 
that  no  mesmeriser  could  claim,  or 
claiming  prove,  the  possession  of  m 
power  of  removing  diseases,  that  was 
infallible  and  universal.  He  succeeds 
in  many  cases,  he  fails  in  others ;  some* 
times  the  benefit  is  lasting,  sometimes 
temporary.  Secondly,  the  cures  re- 
lated in  Scripture  are  of  a  far  higher 
order  than  those  that  mesmerism  can 
boast ;  and  thirdly,  the  change  that 
followed  the  touch  or  voice  of  Christ 
was  instantaneous,  whereas  mesmerism 
requires  some  interval  of  time,  longer 
or  shorter  according  to  circumstances, 
to  develope  its  effects.  "  A  fourth  dis- 
tinguishing mark  (he  says)  attendant 
on  the  cures  related  in  the  Gospel,  is 
the  permanency  of  their  effect.  There 
is  no  reason  to  suspect  from  the 
slightest  phrase  that  drops  from  any 
of  the  New  Testament  writers,  nor 
from  any  charge  that  was  advanced 
by  the  unbeliever,  that  the  benefit  was 
not  as  lasting  as  it  was  complete.  No 
one  can  assert  the  same  of  all  mesmeric 
cures.  Many  are  indeed  permanent, 
bot  with  a  large  number  the  action 
requires  to  be  renewed  at  intervals, 
especially  in  some  diseases  that  are  of 
a  chronic  kind."  Yet  Mr.  Sandby 
does  not  positively  deny  the  identity 
of  mesmerism  and  the  Christian 
miracles.  He  says,  "  Christ  may  have 
exercised  a  latent  mesmeric  power  to 


an  extra  and  miraculous  extent ;"  and 
yet  be  adds, "  this  is  rather  mentioned 
in  deference  to  the  views  of  others, 
than  as  expressing  his  own  opinion." 
And  lastly  he  mentions  a  fifth  and 
remarkable  distinction,  the  cure  of 
persons  at  a  distance,  whither  the  as- 
sumed mesmeric  virtue  could  not 
possibly  except  by  miracle  extend : 
nothing  in  the  annals  of  mesmerism 
has  a  parallel  to  this.  He  then  turns 
to  the  subject  of  clairvoyance,  internal 
vision,  and  the  pr^(2tc/tve  faculty,  all  of 
which  are  phenomena  partaking  of 
the  miraculous  character,  and  then  he 
shews  how  they  are  to  be  distinguished 
from  similar  supernatural  powers  men- 
tioned in  Scripture.  He  lastly  takes  a 
Tiew  of  the  modern  miracles  among 
the  Roman  Catholics,  that  have  ex- 
cited of  late  such  reverential  curiosity 
in  the  members  of  that  Church,  and 
especially  theTyiolese  nuns  of  Lord 
Shrewsbury,  the  Ecstatica  of  Caldaro, 
and  the  Addolorata  of  Capriana,  and 
he  considers  their  states  to  be  states 
of  catalepsy ;  this  part  of  the  work 
we  recommend  to  the  attention  of  our 
readers,  and  particularly  that  relating 
to  the  sympathy  between  the  mes- 
meriser and  his  patient,  and  the  trane* 
ference  of  thoughts  from  one  to  the  other, 
which  we  consider  to  be  a  key  unlock- 
ing much  difficulty,  and  opening  a 
new  region  of  experiment*  As  re- 
gards elairvoyanee^  from  what  we  our- 
selves have  seen  of  patients  in  mes- 
meric states,  we  should  say  that  its 
effect  on  all  the  senses,  in  rendering 
them  supernaturally  acute,  is  too  plain 
to  deny  ;  and  this  extraordinary  power 
of  vision  is  to  be  paralleled  by  a 
similarly  increased  fineness  in  the 
touch,  in  the  taste,  and  in  the  ear. 
All  is  wonderful ;  but  the  power  of  the 
eye  to  read  writing  through  an  inter- 
posed medium,  is  not  more  so  than  that 
of  the  ear,  to  catch  the  faintest  whisper 
at  a  distance  inaudible  to  all  others  ; 
that  of  the  tongue  to  distinguish  tastes 
from  substances  in  the  mouth  of 
others;  that  of  the  touch,  (if  so  it 
may  be  called,)  which  enables  the 
mesmerised  person,  though  with  eyes 
fast  closed  in  sleep,  to  feel  where  the 
mesmeriser  is  and  to  approach  him  in 
the  most  direct  line,  as  if  led  by  some 
subtle  fluid  to  the  spot.  But  not  only 
the  senses  but  the  whole  brain  is  ex- 
cited to  a  sensibility  that  it  doev  not 


6d 


Mhcellaneow 


[July, 


know  in  its  natural  state,  as  If  the  man 
had  become  all  mind«  and  the  body  was 
only  the  more  dormant  and  half-life- 
less  vehicle,  over  which  it  reigned 
snpreme,  and  from  which  it  threw  its 
intellectaal  illaminations  wide  aronnd. 
Mr.  Chetenix  said  a  few  years  back. 


''Mesmerlstt  Is  established."  Mr. 
Sandby  adds, ''  soon,  rery  soon.  Will  it 
be  acknowledged  an  admitted  branch 
of  inedical  practice  ;"  and,  when  that 
day  arrives, ''  a  gratefal  posterity  will 
respond  with  tbe  name  or  John  Elliot- 
son. 


7%e  Phihiophy  if  TVakiinfft  f  e.  S^ 
A.  R.  Craig.  ISmo.— This  little  essay  Is 
worthy  of  attention,  for  its  porpote  is  not 
only  to  advocate  the  necessity  of  nonasl 
schools  for  teachers  to  the  wealthier 
dasMs,  but  to  afford  better  guides  to  the 
mode  of  teaching  kagnages,  so  as  to 
abridge  the  time  employ^  In  attdning 
them,  and  to  enable  the  learner  to  gala 
them  with  more  ease  as  well  aa  aoevaey. 
It  is  said  (p.  99,)  **  That  the  late  acoom- 
plished  Sir  W.  Jones  said, '  he  considered 
a  course  of  Hit  monikt*  study  by  the  way 
he  practised,  a  snfBcient  length  of  time  to 
acquire  a  thorough  knowledge  of  any  lan- 
guage.' '*  Now,  as  life  Is  Aort  and  lan- 
guages numerous,  he  who  teaches  us  to 
master  them  with  the  smallest  etpenditare 
of  time,  Is  conferring  aa  Inestimwlo  bene- 
fit on  society. 

Treaii90  oh  JP\or§it  TVetf .  By  John 
Smith.— A  useful,  practical,  little  work, 
containing  judidons  advice  on  most 
branches  of  forest  culture,  as  planting, 
fencing,  preparing  the  rround,  thinning, 
pruning,  &c.  and  contamlng  at  the  end  a 
very  judicious  list  of  the  best  apples  and 
pears  suitable  to  the  climate  of  Scotiand ; 
thoagh  a  few  of  the  names,  as  dtnuf  mor- 
eeaux  and  others,  do  not  qipesr  to  us  to 
be  correctiy  spelt 

A  Mamu^  of  Devotiwu/or  ik§  Boiy 
Commuiuon.  Compiled  from  Mrtotit 
toureeo. — ^The  author  mentions  that  he 
has  made  in  this  little  work  **  an  unspar- 
ing use  of  the  Latin  Manual  called  Para' 
duu9  Anim^t  a  book  comparatively  littie 
known  in  this  country/*  It  concludes  with 
a  Hymn  of  St.  Thomss  Aquinas,  In  the 
original  Latin,  and  translated. 

Sermom  preached  b^/hre  the  Unheniiy 
and  other  placet.  By  Aee.  C.  Marriott, 
A.M. — ^These  are  very  impressive,  earaest* 
and  even  elegant  discourses,  and  we  think 
so  equal  is  their  merit,  that  It  would  not 
be  easy,  perhaps  not  jnat,  to  select  any 
particular  ones  as  superior  to  the  others  i 
but  it  is  difficult  to  read  any  volume  with* 
out  preferring  some  parts  to  others,  as 
more  easily  sssociating  with  our  feellncs 
and  knowledge.  We  were  accordingly 
stmek  with  the  fibril  a&d  tone  of  tU 


36th  discourse,  called  "  Christ  the  Door.** 
We  cannot  deprive  ourselves  of  the  plea- 
sure of  giving  one  short  passage,  (p.  440,) 
and  that  is  all  for  which  space  is  granted  us. 

'*When  we  are  occupied  with  our 
own  Immediate  belief  and  first  duties  as 
Christians,  we  may  be  said  to  stay  within; 
and  when  we  range  over  a  wider  field,  and 
apply  our  minds  either  to  the  arts  of  life, 
or  to  secular  knowledge,  or  to  the  general 
study  of  humanity  in  history,  philosophy, 
and  literature,  still  must  our  Lord  be 
kept  ever  in  view,  unless  all  is  to  be  life- 
less and  starving  to  the  soul.  Whoever 
has  *  entered  In  by  Him '  is  In  a  position 
where  he  may  diseem  the  true  life  and 
meaidng  of  sU  that  Is  In  the  world,-— of 
all  that  really  concerns  man  here.  What 
Is  the  aim  of  politieal  aelettoe,  bat  that 
which  has  began  to  be  resUsed  in  his  king- 
dom ?  What  Is  tiie  sim  of  moral  philo- 
sophyt  but  the  saintly  character,  the 
transcript  of  his?  What  Is  liberty, 
but  choosing  the  Father's  will?  What 
la  Christian  education,  but  folfilUng  the 
mystery  of  his  birth  and  our  new  birth  in 
Him  ?  What  is  reason,  but  a  partaking 
of  the  light  that  lighteneth  every  man  that 
Cometh  into  the  world  ?  What  Is  poetry, 
but  the  baring  of  the  heart  when  he  IS 
near?  What  Is  art,  bat  the  striving  to 
leooUect  his  lineaments?  What  la  history^ 
but  the  trsees  of  his  iron  rod  or  his  shep- 
herd's staff?** 

Thia  is  beautiAilly  Imagined  and  ex- 
pressed: we  glesn  a  few  words  from 
another. 

**  The  Christian  may  seem  minute 
in  fixing  his  practice  and  ordering  his 
thonghti  I  but,  if  he  only  does  this  ac- 
cordhig  to  the  heavenly  standard,  he 
really  enlarges  his  powers  of  discern- 
ing truth.  He  Is  ukt  the  astronomer 
who  gases  Intentiy  on  a  mierosoople  ad- 
justment that  he  may  measure  spaces  so 
great  as  to  be  searoely  eonoelvable  to 
tiiooght,  and  who  proves  again  and  agaia 
the  calculation  of  a  mher,  that  navies 
may  traverse  the  boundlMs  ocean  in  safety. 
We  disconnect  our  lifiB,  that  we  may  have 
some  of  it  at  our  own  will,  and  for  our 
own  indulgences ;  but  so  much  as  we  thus 
set  apart  for  ourselves,  so  much  do  we 
kill,  sad  the  rest  is  weakened  bytiielossy** 


1844.] 


Miicdkmeow  Reviews. 


61 


J%e  Doctrine  of  Ckangn  tu  appticabtt 
to  the  eonititutiofu  qf  Sodal  Life,  4rc.— 
The  design  of  this  treatise  is  to  aicertaln 
"as  far  as  possible  the  laws  to  which 
these  ffreat  changes  which  occasionally 
Tary  the  scene  of  human  lift  seem  to  be 
•ubjecti  and  to  point  oat  the  rules  which 
onght  to  be  applied  to  all  such  erents, 
with  a  Tiew  of  determinfaig  whether  they 
are  in  accordance  with  the  progressive 
tendencies  of  nature,  or  are  to  be  regarded 
as  but  occasional  irregularities  or  retard- 
ations of  her  course/'  &c.  This  search, 
philosophical  and  moral,  the  author  pur- 
sues with  zeal  and  diligence  through  more 
than  500  pages  of  his  Tolume ;  and,  as  phl- 
losophicAl  arguments  are  bound  together 
by  long  and  curious  chains  of  reasoning, 
they  are  not  fitted  for  short  quotations  or 
extracts ;  but  the  reader  will  peruse  parts 
of  the  book  with  pleasure,  and  fbel  the 
justice  of  the  author's  views  and  deduc- 
tions. The  subjects  treated  of  certainly 
are  of  the  highest  interest  to  the  moralist 
and  the  poUudan,  and  many  of  the  ques- 
tions raised  are  worthy  of  serious  inquiry^ 
and  donand  a  Tery  strict  and  serer^ 
analysis.  The  table  of  contents  will  best 
put  the  reader  in  ^ssession  of  the  dif- 
ferent portions  and  di?  isions  of  tht  sub- 
ject. 

Aide  to  Gtteehetied!  Teaching;  being 
the  Chmrch  Catechitm  ithutrated  bg  Pa- 
rabiee  and  Anecdotee.  Bf  a  Ctergvman, 
^The  design  of  thil  work  is  good,  tbd 
in  many  cases  the  ittustrations  from  hii- 
tory  are  aptly  and  well  chosen,  and  cal- 
culated to  arrest  thb  attention  and  awaken 
the  feelings  in  the  youthM  mind ;  but  the 
author  should  be  rery  caretul  that  hii 
anecdotes  are  taken  firom  atithentie  sources : 
and  therefore,  in  the  tiext  edition,  h« 
should  omit  those  regarding  the  latter  end 
of  Voltaire  and  of  Shelley  (tid.  p.  90.) 
One  histoiT  which  is  found  to  be  erro» 
neoue  will  do  much  to  eSkce  In  the  jronth- 
tal  mind  the  best  impressions  left  by  those 
that  are  true,  and  mat  indeed  Ihake  the 
whole  building,  that  ouerwise  would  hAt^ 
stood  finn  and  uaasiailible. 

What  ie  the  Church  qf  ChrUt  /— Thii 
Uttle  work  is  written  by  Ur.  George  HiU, 
ot  ShriTenham.  It  is  divided  into  two 
parta— 1.  The  Doctrine;  S.  the  Moral; 
and  each  Is  divided  into  separate  chapters, 
Tlie  author  proposes  first  his  definition  of 
a  Church — wUch  is,  "  The  one  society  of 
believers  which  are  founded  by  Christ 
Jesus."  The  following  chaptert  confirm 
each  of  the  material  polnta  in  thii  defi- 
nition. The  work  has  pleased  us  both  in 
the  manner  the  argument  Is  conducted^ 
tnd  in  tho  good  tth  ia  which  It  li  com* 


posed.  A,  very  interesting  table  of  the 
principal  churches  throughout  the  world 
doses  the  volume,  slvin^  an  account  of 
the  number  of  the  bishops  to  each,  th« 
presbyters  and  deacons,  the  amount  of 
the  laity,  and  the  authorities  from  which 
the  table  is  taken.  The  Church  of  Hueeta 
contains  forty-seven  millions;  that  of 
France,  thirty  millions;  Spain,  thirteen 
millions;  and  the  Chnrch  of  England, 
tbteen  millions. 


I^^Mtnal  Thoughte :  a  poem,  i^e.  Bg 
O*  A.  Wlngfield,  eeq. — ^There  appeara  to 
Hi  to  be  some  obscurity  or  mysticism  in 
the  poetry  of  thii  author,  who  is  strongly 
attached  to  the  tenets  of  Swedenboig  (seQ 
p.  60) ;  but  there  is  poetical  feeling  as  weU 
as  expression  throughout,  which,  if  em- 
ployea  on  subjects  less  abstracted  and  lest 
elevated  iibove  the  participation  of  common 
understandings,  woiUd  not  fkil  to  please 
and  instruct.  As  It  Is,  the  author  must  be 
content  with  a  more  confined  circle  of  ad- 
mirers.    We  give  a  specimen  ^  the  style. 

to  nn  mtMtt. 
Sweet  Spriflgi  thou  leadsst  to  thy  suiny 
bowers,  [fiowetsf 

Thy  kwks  with  amilsa,  thy  trssBss  deek*d  witii 
With  voice  of  Joy,  to  greet  thy  smiks  again. 
The  west  wind  munnurs  to  the  langbing  plain* 
Along  thy  path  the  unbidden  violets  spring. 
And  wide  around  their  od'rous  fragmoe  fiiiig. 
See  1  Nature's  mighty  heart  leaps  up  to  prove 
thy  brooding  influence  and  thy  qulck'ning 

love. 
Ages  may  pass,— ages  of  countless  time,— 
Tears  hastiDg  ever  on  the  wings  of  crime, 
these  thee  proftme  not,  nor  to  anxioos  sight 
The  glory  (6m.  of  thy  retoming  light  \ 
Svcr  thy  smiles  as  In  their  earnest  primes 
Nor  ftde  the  tocks  of  youth  that  shade  flit 

Mow  suMlne. 

A  icAT  Momiriira. 

The  fragrance  of  this  morning's  breese  to  me 
8weet  music  brings  of  ancient  memory; 
And  the  fresh  breathings  of  the  vernal  ikmers 
Awake  the  choral  songs  of  the  departed  hours| 
Such  secret  power  within  the  memory  lies. 
Which  oft  waves  back  the  strain  (rf  andent 

harmonies. 
What  ttane,  with  gladness,  speed  thesngel  train 
Of  young  aflTections  to  the  heart  again. 
Murmuring,  with  Ups  o^  love,  the  ooBfiJrt* 

brsafbiwg  stndnt 


4  Confute  View  o/PueegUm,  ^e.  Bg 
R.  Weaver. — This  is  the  work  of  a  Dis- 
senter, and  we  have  two  short  remarks  to 
make  on  It.  The  first,  that  it  is  as  much 
directed  against  the  general  tenets  of  the 
Esladilished  Church  as  against  the  par- 
ticular doctrines  improperly  called  Pusey* 
Ism ;  secondly,  that,  professing  to  attack 
Pnieyiiin  (ana  whit  can  PoicTiani  be  but 


62 


Miscelluneous  Reviews. 


[July, 


the  doctrinef  of  Dr.  Pntey  ?),  it  throws  to- 
gether the  scattered  tenets  and  opinioDS  of 
Tarious  personsi  manr  anonymoast  as  if 
they  had  mastered  under  certain  rules  and 
compacts  and  agreements,  and  formed 
themselres  into  a  corporate  religious  body. 
In  one  place  (p.  SO)  the  present  Bishop  of 
London  is  quoted,  though  we  nerer  before 
heard  that  he  was  enumerated  in  the  list 
of  Oxford  dmnei  !  But,  we  repeat,  as  the 
doctrines  impugned  are^for  ih€  mottpari, 
not  the  particiUar  doctrines  of  a  particular 
sect,  but  those  generally  held  by  our 
Church,— held  by  the  generality  of  the 
members, — there  is  scarcely  a  scriptural 
writer  of  note  who  might  not  be  classed 
with  those  whom  it  is  Mr.  WesTer's  prin- 
dple  to  refute  and  to  condemn. 

Edmund  8omer9 ;  a  J)ome$tie  Story, '^ 
A  pleasing,  well- written  story,  the  cha- 
racters weU  contrasted,  and  the  incidents 
in  general  true  to  nature,  though  the  death 
of  Wildbore  might  haye  been  more  natu- 
rally brought  to  pass.  We  were  much 
amused  at  Mr.  Nethersole's  examination 
for  his  degree  at  Oxford.  He  was  asked, 
What  brute  animal  is  recorded  as  haying 
■poken  in  Scripture?  Mr.  Nethersole 
looked  ftrtt  at  the  table  before  him,  then 
at  the  ceiling  and  walls  of  the  room,  and, 
finding  they  afforded  him  no  assistance, 
at  last  answered,  "The  whale."  The 
examiner  was  taken  rather  aback  at  this 
preposterous  reply,  but,  wishing  to  sound 
the  depth  of  Uie  examinee's  ignorance, 
veiled  his  astonishment  as  best  he  might, 
and  proceeded  to  ask  in  a  tery  bland  and 
conciliatory  tone  of  Toioe,  to  whom  the 
whale  spile  ?  '*  To  Moses  in  the  bul. 
rushes."  answered  Nethersole,  who  now 
fancied  he  was  getting  on  famously.  What 
passed  between  them  ?  was  the  next  ques- 
tion. "  *  Moses  said  unto  the  whale,  Thou 
art  the  man  ;*  and  the  whale  answered  and 
said,  '  Almost  thou  persuadest  me  to  be  a 
Christian/  *  &c.  At  p.  SOT  an  eccentric 
old  clergyman  who  kept  an  old  serrant, 
John  Winsley,  asked  him  whether  he  had 
■een  the  beautiful  planet  Venus,  now 
dasrly  risible  every  night.  **  Sir,  I  nerer 
looks  upwards,"  was  John's  reply.  We 
presume  that  the  Rev.  Roderick  Fits- 
flunmerie  is  intended  for  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Montgomery,  but  the  pictwei  though  like, 
Is  a  little  caricatured. 


Conin09by;  or  ik9  Nno  Generaium, 
By  B.  D* Israeli,  Btq.  M.P,  3  vols. 
^This,  like  all  the  author's  other  writ- 
ings, is  a  very  singular  production.  He 
aims  at  originality,  and  he  has  certainly 
succeeded  in  his  object,  although  we  can- 
not say  that  it  is  a  species  of  originality 
innch  to  our  twte.    It  i«  more  confined 


to  style  than  to  thought,  and  the  flights 
of  fancy  in  which  it  displays  itself  are 
somewhat  too  irregular  and  capricious. 
Mr.  D* Israeli's  design  in  this  book  ap- 
pears to  be  to  delineate  the  opiniuns  of 
that  party  which  is  termed  *^  Young  Eng- 
land ;"  moreover,  he  is  much  more  in- 
clined to  tell  his  readers  what  are  not  the 
sentiments  of  this  party  than  what  they 
are,  and  it  is  only  from  obscure  hints  and 
faint  intimations  scattered  here  and  there 
that  it  is  possible  to  make  out  what  the 
feelings  of  its  members  may  be  on  any  of 
the  great  questions  of  the  day.  Judging 
from  these  we  cannot  say  that  we  should 
feel  much  inclined  to  trust  ourselves  to 
the  political  guidance  of  **  Young  Eng- 
land." We  prefer  **  Old  England"  with 
all  its  faults,  and  even  think  that  if  new 
theories  were  less  attended  to  by  all  parties 
and  old  practice  more  followed,  the  coun- 
try at  large  would  be  more  happy,  and 
its  prosperity  more  likely  to  continue. 
Some  of  the  author's  observations,  how- 
ever,  on  political  matters  contain  much 
good  sense,  and  might  be  attended  to  with 
advantage.  But  it  is  as  a  political  satire 
that  the  work  will  be  chiefly  read,  and 
under  this  head  there  is  undoubtedly  a 
peat  deal  of  lively  and  piquant  matter. 
We  cannot  say  though  that  we  at  all  ad- 
mire the  spirit  in  which  the  book  is  writ- 
ten, nor  do  we  think  it  likely  to  improve 
the  tone  of  thought  in  the  minds  of  those 
who  read  it.  The  author  has  gone  at  some 
length  into  the  present  state  of  the  Jews, 
coi&rming  in  many  points  the  account 
given  by  Mr.  Borrow  in  "The  Bible  in 
Spain."  Judging  from  what  the  author 
says  on  this  subject,  people  may  be  led  to 
imagine  that  he  is  by  no  means  hostile  to 
the  Hebrewfaith,  which  his  family  have  left. 
Be  this  as  it  may,  we  by  no  means  admire 
the  tone  of  thought  in  which  he  speaks 
on  Church  subjects. 

IZott  D*jilbretj  or,  TVoublous  Titnei. 
jBy  G.  P.  R.  James,  Eeq.  3  vols. — Ano- 
ther work  from  the  prolific  pen  of  Mr. 
James,  equally  good  if  not  better  than  any 
of  his  other  productions,  and  that  is  say- 
ing a  great  deal  in  its  prabe.  This  book 
possesses  one  peculiarity  which  displays 
the  author's  powers  of  writing  in  no 
small  degree.  The  events  which  it  de- 
scribes aU  take  place  wiUiin  the  space  of 
eight  davs,  and  yet  the  tale  is  full  of  inci- 
dent and  adventure,  brings  the  reader  into 
acquaintance  with  many  distinguished 
personages  of  the  age  to  which  it  belongs 
— that  of  Henri  Quatr»— not  omitting 
that  monarch  himself,  and  possesses  a 
most  thrilling  and  engrossing  interest. 
For  our  own  parts,  we  must  say  we  always 
look  forward  to  the  appearanoe  of  one  of 


1644.] 


JNew  PuhlicfdionB. 


63 


Mr.  James's  tales  with  somewliat  of  the 
same  feeling  with  which  in  our  younger 
days  we  used  to  anticipate  the  publication 
of  one  of  the  wondrous  creations  of  fancy 
of  the  king  of  romantic  fiction — the  poet 
of  Abbotsford. 


The  New  Teeiameni  of  our  Lord  and 
Saviour  Jetut  Chriet;  with  Historical 
Notes,  and  engravings  of  many  ancient 
eoins^  illustrating  the  narrative  portions 
qf  the  New  Testament.  By  John  Yonge 
Akerman, /'.S.i^.  No,  J.  (To  be  com- 
pleted in  about  VIII  Numbers.] — ^We 
hsTc  had  illustrated  and  "  Pictorial" 
Bibles  of  late,  as  well  as  Pictorial  his- 
tories and  poets ;  but  such  undertakings, 
in  the  very  zeal  of  their  editors,  are  liable 
to  result  in  mere  picture-books,  and  a 
medley  of  heterogeneous  matters.  The 
rule  is  good,  Ne  sutor  ultra  crepidam, 
Where  the  plan  is  encyclopediac,  either 
a  numerous  band  of  coadjutors  is  neces- 
sary, or  that  unirersal  knowledge,  which 


is  so  rare  as  to  be  nearly  unexampled. 
Now,  how  far  the  numismatology  of  the 
illustrated  Bibles  has  been  well  founded, 
we  ourselves  are  unable  to  say :  but  this 
we  know,  that  Mr.  Akerman  has  acquired 
a  well-earned  reputation  for  his  skill  in 
that  science,  and  that  therefore  he  is 
highly  qualified  to  illustrate  the  holy 
scriptures  in  the  department  he  has  here 
undertaken.  His  engraTings  are  beauti- 
fully executed  in  wood,  and  among  those 
in  this  first  Part  are  coins  of  Herod  the 
King,  Archelaus,  the  Community  of  Syria, 
Tetradrachms  of  Tyre  and  of  Sidon,  the 
Shekel,  the  Half-Shekel,  the  Assarion  or 
**  farthing,*'  the  '*  penny  '*  with  the  image 
and  superscription  of  Ctesar,  &c.  Sec.  In 
some  cases  the  devices  of  the  reverses  ap- 
pear capable  of  fuller  explanation,  which 
would  always  be  acceptable.  In  his  notes 
generally  Mr.  Akerman  confines  himself 
to  history  and  philology,  clearly  and  suc> 
cinctly  stated,  excluding  everything  of  a 
doctrinal  or  controversial  character. 


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TTNIVERSITT   OF  OXFORD. 

A  Commemoration  has  been  celebrated 
at  Oxford  in  the  customary  manner,  wiih 
Sermons,  Concerts,  and  Balls.  At  the 
convocation  held  on  Thursday  June  SO 
the  honorary  degree  of  Civil  Law  was 
conferred  on  the  following  gentlemen : 

The  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Powis. 

Sir  W.  C.  Medlycott,  Bart.,  formerly 
Gent.  Commoner  of  Trinity  college. 

Captain  Sir  James  Ross,  R.N. 

Major-Gen.  Pasley,  Royal  Eng.,  C.B. 

Sir  John  Wither  Awdry,  Knt.,  M.A. 

George  Bowyer,  esq.,  M.A. 

Donald  Maclean,  esq.,  M.A.,  M.P.  for 
the  city  of  Oxford. 

William  Eotwistle,  esq.,  M.P.  for 
Sonth  Lancashire. 

Mr.  Seijeant  Talfourd. 

George Biddell  Airy,  esq., M.A.,F.R.S., 
Astronomer  Royal. 

Francis  Baily,  esq.,  F.R.S. 

Professor  Struve,  Astronomer  to  the 
Emperor  of  Russia. 

C.  R.  Cockerell,  esq.,  R.A.,  Member 
of  the  Royal  Institute  of  France. 

The  Rev.  W.  Jacobson,  M.A.,  the 
Public  Orator,  then  proceeded  to  deliver 
the  Oration  in  Commemoration  of  the 
Benefactors  to  the  University,  according 
to  the  intention  of  Lord  Crewe,  Bishop  of 
Durham. 

The  Prise  Poems  and  Essays  were  after- 
wards recited  in  the  following  order  : 

The  Latin  Prize  Poem,  **Triumphi 
Pompa  apud  Romanes,"  by  Mr.  Edwin 
Palnaer,  scholar  of  Balliol  college. 

The  English  Prize  Essay,  on  **  The  Prin- 
dplesahd  Objects  of  Unman  Punishments,*' 
by  Mr.  C.  £.  Prichard,  B.M.,  Fellow  of 
Balliol,  and  son  of  Dr.  Prichard  of  Bristol, 
author  of  "  The  Natural  History  of  Man.*' 

The  Latin  prose  Essay  on  '*  Literarum 
humaniorum  utilitas,**  by  the  Rev.  W. 
Harris  Smith,  B.A.,  Fellow  of  Magdalene. 

The  English  Prize  Poem,  '*  On  the 
Battle  of  the  Nile,''  by  Mr.  J.  L.  Brere- 
ton.  Scholar  of  University  college. 

The  EUerton  Theological  Prize  has  been 
awarded  to  Mr.  Robert  Wheler  Bush, 
M.A.,  Scholar  of  Worcester  college. 

UNIVERSITY  OF  CAMBRIDGE. 

May  30.  The  Porson  Prize  was  awarded 
to  Edward  Thring,  Scholar  of  King*s  CoU 
lege : — Subject,  Shakespeare,  second  part 
of  Henry  IV.  Act  4,  scene  4 ;  beginning 
"  Thy  wish  was  father,''  and  ending 
"  unto  the  worms." 

Sir  William  Browne's  Medals  are 
awarded  as  follows  :-— 

Greek  Ode. — Henry  Newport,  Scholar 
of  Pembroke  College.  Subject,  "  Victoria 
Regina  Acadeffliam  saam  Cimtabrigienseni 
invisit,'' 


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Latin  Ode.^The  same.  Subject,  * '  Nel- 
soni  monumentum.*' 

Greek  Epigram — James  George  Curry 
Fttgsell,  Trinity  College.  Subject,  **  Non 
famum  ex  fulgore.*' 

Latin  Epigram. — ^The  same.  Subject, 
"  Incidit  in  Scyllam  cupiens  ritare  Cha- 
rybdim." 

ROTAL  OEOGAAFHICAL  80CIITT. 

Mag  27.  This  was  tbe  fourteenth  anni- 
versary of  this  important  society.  Sir  John 
Franklin  and  Sir  George  Back  were  elected 
Vice-Presidents.  Sir  H.  T.  De  la  Beche, 
Lieut.-Col.  Colquhonn,  R.A.,  Sir  C. 
Lemon,  Bart.,  Capt.  W.  H.  Smyth,  R.N., 
Lord  Prudhoe,  and  Mr.  J.  Bandinel, 
members  of  council.  The  President,  R. 
J.  Murchison,  esq.  presented  the  royal 
medals,  with  suitable  addresses,  to  Mr. 
W.  J.  Hamilton  and  Professor  A.  Erman, 
to  whom  they  had  been  awarded  for  their 
important  geographical  labours.  After 
which  he  read  his  usual  anniversary  ad- 
dress on  the  progress  of  geography  during 
the  past  year. 

ROTAL  ASIATIC  80CIXTT. 

May  1 1 .    The  twenty-first  anniTersary 
of  this  Society  was  held  this  day ;   the 
Earl  of  Auckland,  President,  in  the  chair. 
The  annual  report  of  the  council  began  by 
congratulating  the  meeting  upon  the  im- 
proving state  of  the  finances.     Particular 
allusion  was  made  to  those  deceased  mem- 
bers who  had  distinguished  themselves  in 
the  paths  which  the  Society  was  Instituted 
to  investigate ;  to  Prof.  Roselllni  of  Pisa, 
the  fellow-labourer  of  ChampoUion  in  the 
field  of  hieroglyphic  research ;  to  the  Hon. 
G.  Tumour,  the  investigator  of  Buddhist 
antiquities,  and  the  first  Pili  scholar  of 
Europe ;   to  the  Hon.  J.  R.  Morrison, 
the  able  successor  of  his  ikther  in  Chinese 
scholarship;    and  Major  Elont,   a  cele- 
brated Malay  grammarian.     Short  biogra* 
phical  sketches  of  these  gentlemen,  with 
a  notice  of  their  works,  were  contained  in 
the  report.    The  attention  of  the  meeting 
was  then  called  to  a  correspondence  which 
had  been  bt/^un  with  their  learned  and 
zealous  member,  Mr.  Davis,  recently  ap- 
pointed governor  of  the  British  possessions 
on  the  coast  of  China,  who  had  promised 
to  use  his  best  endeavours  in  f^hering 
the  views  of  the  Society  in  the  extensive 
fields  of  inquiry  now  opened  to  us  in  that 
remote  country.    The  report  next  alluded 
to  a  request  made  by  the  council  to  the 
Court  of  Directors,  to  permit  some  quali- 
fied officer  in  India  to  take  copies  of  those 
ancient  and  perishing  fresco-paintings  in 
the  cavesof  Ajunta,  representing  deeds  and 
races  now  gone  by,  and  which  have  excited 
the  admiration  of  thoM  who  haye  ezaudned 


them ;  a  request  whidi  it  wu  UBderstood 
would  be  readily  aeoeded  to.  The  report, 
then  mentioned  the  experiment  of  evening 
meetiiigB,  at  which  matters  of  a  practieel 
and  less  recondite  tendency  were  discussed 
than  was  the  practioe  at  the  ordinary  daily 
meetings  of  Uie  Society.  It  was  stated 
that  it  was  under  consideration  to  hold 
f^her  meetings  in  the  same  spirit,  if  it 
should  be  thought  desirable  bv  the  mem- 
bers generally.  Some  valuable  additions 
to  the  library  were  mentioned  and  de- 
scribed; and  another  donation  of  100/. 
to  its  funds  by  the  late  treasurer,  Mr.  J. 
Alexander.  The  works  published  by  the 
Oriental  Translation  Fund  since  the  last 
meeting  are — that  remarkable  work,  the 
"Dabistan,"  so  eulogised  by  Sir  W. 
Jones,  translated  by  the  joint  efforts  of 
Mr.  D.  Shea  and  Captain  A.  Troyer; 
the  second  and  last  volume  of  Al-Makkari's 
'<  Mahommedan  Dynasties  in  Spain,"  by 
M.  Gayangos ;  the  second  volume  of  Ibn 
KhallikanNi  **  Biographical  Dictionary," 
by  Baron  M'Gnckin  de  Slane;  and  the 
third  /tvratffon  of  M.  Quatremcre's  *'  His- 
toire  des  Sultana  Mamlouks."  The  works 
preparing  for  the  press  are,  the  '*  History 
of  Tipii  Sultan,"  transhiled  by  Col.  Miles : 
the  fourth  volume  of  Haji  Khalfa's  •'  Bi- 
bliographical  Dictionary,*'  by  Prof.  FlQ- 
gel ;  and  the  **  Khit^bal  Yamini,"  by  the 
Rev.  J.  Reynolds,  the  secretary  to  the 
committee  of  the  Fund.  The  committee 
had  also  accepted  a  proposal  from  Mr. 
J.  Ballantyne  to  translate  Khifi  KhiLn's 
**  History  of  India ''  from  the  Persian. 

The  following  gentlemen  were  elected 
into  the  Council  in  lieu  of  those  who  went 
out  by  rotation  : — Colonel  Barnewall ;  the 
Right  Hon.  H.  Mackensie ;  J.  Matheeon, 
esq.  M.P.  {  G.  R.  Porter,  esq. }  H.  T. 
Prinsep,  esq. ;  Prof.  Royle,  M.D. ;  the 
Right  Hon.  Sir  £.  Ryan ;  and  CoL  Sykes. 
The  officers  of  the  preceding  year  were 
re-elected. 


WILTSHI&B  TOPOGRAPHICAL  BOCIRTT. 

June  8.  At  the  annual  meeting  the 
Council  presented  their  Fourth  Annual 
Report,  explaining  the  proceedings  of  the 
Society  since  the  last  anniversary.  It 
relates  chiefly  to  the  completion  and  dis- 
tribution of  the  first  volume  of  its  Topo- 
graphical publications,  which,  has  been 
placed  in  the  hands  of  all  the  membersi 
and  forwarded  to  six  of  the  national  li- 
braries. 

The  CouncU  entertained  a  hope  that 
Mr.  Britten's  volume  on  the  Parish  of 
Kington  Si,  Michael  would  have  been 
ready  for  the  members  at  this  anniver- 
sary ;  but  they  are  assured  by  that  gentle- 
man that,  if  his  health  enables  him,  he 
wUl  complete  it  before  Christmas  nezt« 


1844.] 


Lxterary  and  SeimHfie  Intelligence. 


69 


materiaU  an  ample,  and  embrmoe 
imuch  curious  and  original  matter  relating 
to  an  ancient  Royal  ViU  and  Manor ;  as 
well  as  to  the  life,  times,  and  literature  of 
Jokm  Aubrey ^  and  to  other  interesting  sub- 
jects. An  accurate  and  beautiftil  map  of 
the  parish,  also  exterior  and  interior  riews 
of  the  Church,  and  a  portrait  of  Aubreyi 
now  ready,  will  embellish  the  Tolnme. 
This  will  be  followed  by  a  History  of 
Cattie  CombSf  already  in  a  very  advanced 
state,  by  Atr»  Poukii  Scrape,  who  is  in 
possession  of  sereral  original  manuscripts 
and  memorials  relating  to  that  andent 
Barony,  under  which  nearly  thirty  manors 
of  Wiltshire  were  held  of  the  De  Dnnstan- 
files  and  Scropes. 

In  conolnsion,  the  Council  re*call  the 
attention  of  the  Society  to  the  importance 
of  soliciting  their  friends  to  join  its  ranks, 
and  to  the  oontinuanee  of  their  co«opera- 
tion  in  adiraacing  its  interests  and  u^ty. 
The  Balance  Sheet  for  the  year  shews  that 
the  Society  has  116/.  St.  3d.  m  hand. 


NVMISMATie   BOOIBTT. 

Map  83.    Dr.  Lee  in  the  Chair. 

The  Rer.  Lowrie  Guthrie  was  elected 
a  Member.  Mr.  Pfister  exhibited  an 
unedited  soldo  d*oro  of  Beneyent,  struck 
in  787,  on  which  the  name  of  Char* 
Innagne  is  in  the  Lombard  or  Teutonic 
idiom,  cYAn.  for  Carina.  It  was  found 
at  Liuio,  a  Tillage  near  Salerno,  on  the 
mountain  pass  towards  BcneTent.  Mr. 
Pfister  also  exhibited  a  coin  of  Isabella  de 
VilhardoniD,  Princess  of  Achaie,  1897^ 
1301 ;  and  one  of  Mahaut  de  Hainaut, 
Princess  of  Achaie  and  Duchess  of  Athens, 
1311—1313,  both  Tery  rare. 

Mr.  Alfred  Stabbs,  of  Boulogne,  fcur- 
warded  a  drawing  of  a  Billon-piece  of  ^e 
Anglo-Prench  s^es,  which,  he  beUeres, 
will  prove  an  unedited  addition  to  the 
many  varieties  already  known  of  the  money 
of  Edward  III. 

Mr.  C.  R.  Smith  read  a  communication 
from  Mr.  J.  H.  Burn,  containing  unpub- 
lished notes  of  the  late  Mr.  Q.  H.  Pet- 
tingal  on  the  legend  upon  the  coins  of 
Cnnobelin,  which  formed  the  subject  of 
Mr.  Birch's  interesting  paper  read  at  the 
precediog  meeting  of  the  Society.  Mr.  6. 
H.  Pettingal  was  related  to  John  Pettingal, 
D.D.  author  of  a  Dusertation  on  the 
Tatcia,  or  Legend  on  the  British  Coins  of 
CunobeUn:  but  the  interpretotions  of 
these  two  writers  are  laboured  and  un- 
founded on  any  numismatic  example, 
while  Mr.  Birch's  is  simple  and  based 
upon  the  Roman  formula  of  Ae  period. 
A  further  portion  was  then  read  of  Mr. 
Borrell's  paper  on  unedited  Greek  impe- 
rial and  autonomout  coini. 


/wis  20.  The  annual  meeting  was  held, 
the  President,  Lord  Albert  Conyngham, 
in  the  chair. 

The  Report  of  Council  was  read.  It 
appears  that  the  funds  of  the  society  have 
increased  during  the  last  year,  and  toe  re- 
tirements, chiefly  of  members  alluded  to 
in  a  former  report  as  non-confributors,  has 
been  more  than  counterbalanced  by  elec- 
tions. The  Council  alluded  to  the  in* 
creased  correspondence  of  the  Society 
with  foreign  bodies,  and  the  flattering 
tributes  paid  to  its  exertions  by  numis- 
matisto  on  the  continent,  as  well  as  at 
home ;  and  enumerated  the  exertions  of 
particular  indiriduals,  as  well  as  some  of  the 
more  distinguished  recent  publications  on 
numismatics.  The  British  Archaeological 
Association  was  alluded  to,  and  recom- 
mended to  the  notice  of  the  Society,  not 
merely  on  the  specific  ground  that  the 
objecte  it  has  in  view  must  embrace  and 
encourage  numismatic  pursuits,  but  also, 
on  the  wider  principle,  that  the  grand 
object  of  the  Association  is  one  which 
ought  to  be  dear  to  every  lorer  of  the  his- 
tory and  institations  of  his  country.  In 
speaking  of  the  dispersion  by  public 
auction  of  the  collections  of  the  Duke  of 
Devonshire,  and  of  the  late  Mr.  Thomas, 
(now  under  the  hammer  of  Messrs.  Sothe- 
by  and  Co.)  it  was  suggested  that  great 
service  might  be  rendered  to  numis- 
matic science  by  the  publication  of  de- 
scriptive catalogues  of  private  collectionB, 
which  is  Uie  only  mode  of  making  them 
adequately  known  and  estimated,  and  a 
hope  was  expressed  that  the  trustees  of 
public  collections,  such  as  those  of  Glas* 
gow,  of  Oxford,  and  of  the  British  Museum, 
and  the  directors  of  the  Bank  of  England, 
would  be  induced  to  order  the  compilation 
of  catalogues,  to  be  printed  for  the  use  of 
numismatisto,  without  which  these  valu- 
able collections  are  comparatively  useless* 
The  collection  of  the  British  Museum  is 
the  only  public  cabinet  in  this  country 
that  is  as  aocessiUe  as  a  good  collection 
ought  to  be ;  but  at  the  Bank  of  England^ 
at  the  Bodleian  at  Oxford,  and  at  th« 
Hunterian  Museum  at  Glasgow,  there  ere 
cabinete  of  the  greatest  value,  access  to 
which  is  fettered  by  many  restrictions  and 
conditions  more  vexatious  to  the  curator 
than  even  to  the  visitor.  Such  a  state  of 
things,  the  Council  remarks,  ought  not  to 
continue,  for,  if  no  plan  could  be  devised 
by  the  trustees  of  these  treasures  to  ren- 
der them  more  easily  accessible,  their  dis« 
persion,  rather  than  their  conservation^ 
would  be  a  public  benefit. 

On  a  ballot  beiog  Uken,  it  was  found  that 

The  Lord  Albert  Denison  Conyngham,  F.S.A. 
was  re-elected  President ;  C.  P.  Barnwell,  esq., 
r»iU9.,  r.S.A.,  and  a.  H,  WiIson«  esq.,  F.  A.d.f 


70 


Pine  Artt, 


[July, 


Vice-Presidents;  J.  B.  Berig^e,  eaq.,  F.S.A., 
TYeasurer ;  John  Yonge  Akerman,  esq.,  F.S.A., 
one  of  the  Secretaries  and  Foreign  Secretary ; 
the  Rev.  Henry  Christmas,  M.A.,  F.R.S , 
F.S.A.  was  elected  Secretary  in  the  place  of 
Mr.  C.  R.  Smith,  retiring^ ;  Hugh  Welch  Dia- 
mond, esq.,  F.S.A.,  Librarian ;  and  as  Mem- 
bers of  the  Coancil,  Samuel  Birch,  esq.,  F.S.A., 
John  Brumell.  esq.,  J.  D.  Cuff,  esq..  F.S.A., 


«f«.,  F.S.A.,  F.G.S.,  Ckarlet  Roach  SmUk, 
etq.,  F.S.A.,  and  H.  L.  Tovev,  esq,  [The  names 
of  new  Members  are  in  Italics.] 

The  following  resolation  was  passed 
upon  Mr.  Smith's  retiring  from  the  office 
of  Honorary  Secretary :  —  •*  Resolved, 
That  the  thanks  of  the  Society  be  given 
to  Charles  Roach  Smith,  esq.  F.S.A.  for 
the  untiring  zeal  and  ability  with  which, 
during  a  period  of  four  years,  he  has  dis- 
charged the  office  of  Secretary,  and  has 
by  his  exertions  greatly  contributed  both 
to  the  advancement  of  numismatic  science 
in  general,  and  to  the  welfare  of  this 
Society  in  particular.  *' 


ETHNOLOOICAL  SOCIETY. 

JUay  25.  The  first  anniversary  of  this 
society  took  place,  Mr.  G.  B.  Greenongh 
in  the  chair.  The  council  reported  that 
the  society  now  consisted  of  157  members, 
that  the  donations  had  boen  very  numerous, 
that  a  Journal  had  been  established,  and 
that  suitable  apartments  would  at  once  be 
provided  for  the  use  of  its  members.  Ap- 
pended to  the  report  was  a  list  of  the  do- 
nations, with  their  respective  donors,  and 
an  estimate  for  the  year  1844,  leaving  a 
balance  in  hand  of  228/.  Owing  to  the 
severe  indisposition  of  the  President,  Rear- 
Admiral  Sir  C.  Malcolm,  the  anniversary 
address  emanated  from  the  Secretary.  It 
commenced  with  an  historical  account  of 
the  remains  of  nations  long  since  extinct, 
and  of  those  since  the  historic  age  com- 
menced ;  a  description  of  the  origin,  design, 
incipient  labours,  and  prospective  efforts 
of  the  society  then  followed ;  and,  lastly, 
was  given  the  progress  of  ethnology  during 
the  past  year  in  the  respective  countries  ot 
Asia,  Africa,  America,  West  Indies,  Aus- 


tralia, and  the  islands  of  the  Pacific  and 
Indian  Archipelagos,  &c.  The  officers, 
elected  by  ballot  were — Prtiident :  Rear- 
Admiral  Sir  C.  Malcolm.  Vice-Presi" 
dent*:  The  Archbishop  of  Dublin;  Hon. 
M.  Elphinstone ;  Mr.  G.  B.  Greenough ; 
J.  C.  Pritchard,  M.D.  Treaturer:  Mr. 
S.  Duckworth.  Secretary:  R.  King, 
M.D.,  and  a  loog  list  of  councillors. 


80CIBTT  OF  ARTS. 

June  10.  The  annual  distribution  of  the 
rewards,  by  Prince  Albert,  was  the  most 
interesting  witnessed  for  some  years,  and 
encourages  the  sanguine  hope  that  this 
society,  phoenix-like,  is  rising  from  its 
ashes.  No  better  sign  can  be  offered  than 
that  it  has  added  nearly  200  members  to 
its  list  within  the  last  year  and  a  half, 
since  Mr.  Whishaw  (who  stated  the  fact 
in  his  report)  has  been  Secretary.  The 
report  having  been  read  by  that  gentle- 
man, highly  to  the  satiafiction  of  the 
densely  crowded  room.  His  Royal  High- 
ness proceeded  to  deliver  the  medals,  &c. ; 
first  to  the  successful  candidates,  fourteen 
in  number,  in  mechanics  and  other  prac- 
tical arts;  and  then  to  fourteen  equally 
fortunate  with  their  productions  in  the 
fine  arts.  To  Mr.  P.  Lucas  was  given 
the  silver  medal  for  a  very  ingenious  self- 
adjusting  step-ladder  for  wharfs ;  it  rises 
with  the  tide,  and,  according  to  circum- 
stances, consists  either  of  ascending  steps, 
a  plane,  or  descending  steps,  so  that  the 
transit  of  goods  from  the  vessel  to  the 
wharf  is  always  most  convenient  and  easy. 
A  beautiful  lever  microscope  by  Mr.  C. 
Varley  would  require  a  very  long  descrip- 
tion to  render  intelligible ;  and  improved 
house-tiles,  carpenters'  cramps,  ships' 
scupper-mouths,  ruling  machine  for  en- 
graving (they  are  too  much  used),  ana- 
tomical modelling,  expanding  centre-bits, 
&c.  &c.  were  duly  honoured.  It  was 
gratifying  to  observe,  that  some  of  the 
persons  so  distinguished  were  working 
mechanics ;  and  the  deep  attention  which 
the  prince  bestowed  upon  the  explana- 
tions of  their  clever  inventions  must  have 
been  very  pleasant  to  them. 


FINE  ARTS. 


BAITISH  8CULPT0B8  AT  EOMS. 

We  can  now  boast  of  several  distin- 
guished men  at  Rome,  who,  in  grace,  con- 
ception, and  execution,  may  be  com- 
pared with  the  artists  of  any  country. 
The  studio  of  Gibson  displays  his  inti- 
p^ate  knowlod^  and  appreciation  of  classic 


beauty,  great  delicacy  of  conception,  and 
if  he  did  but  throw  a  little  more  expres- 
sion into  his  figures,  they  would  be  un- 
rivalled. An  "  Aurora  "  which  he  is  now 
executing  is  the  very  soul  of  poetry ; — 
her  sweet  and  graceful  figure,  the  right 
foot  advanced,  whilst  the  left  lightlj  tread* 


1844.1 


Fint  Arii. 


7\ 


OD  clouds,  seems  to  be  in  motion ;  the 
▼ery  drapery  confirms  the  illusion,  cling- 
ing closely  as  it  does  around  her,   and 
floating    loose  behind,    as   if    she  were 
cleaving  the  morning  air.     Her  beautiful 
coantenaoce,  however,  is  directed  earth- 
ward, and  has  rather  a  triste  expression — 
bot  still  very  sweet.     A  full-length  figure 
of  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Murray,  also  in  course  of 
execution,  is  remarkable  for  its  easy  grace 
— the  drapery  is  perfect,  but  again  the  face 
wants  expression.    A  group  in  clay  for  a 
bas-relief,  is  happily  conceived  :  Minerva, 
fully  armed,  is  pursuing  and  threatening 
Cupid  with  her  spear,  whilst  he  runs  for 
protection  behind  his  mother.     A  cartoon, 
for  a  bas-relief,  is  characterized  by  the 
simple  majesty  which  the  subject  demands, 
'*  Christ  blessing  little  children,"  in  which 
the  different  dispositions  of  mankind  are 
admirably  typified.     One  child,  with  the 
elasticity  and  ardour  of  youth,  is  running 
to  the  Saviour — another,  sensible  alone  to 
benevolence  of  disposition,    with  infan- 
tine simplicity  and  confidence,  is  clasping 
his  knees  and  looking  up  smiling  in  his 
face.     Another  is  being  dragged,  unwiU- 
ingt  by  his  mother,    to  our  Lord.     In 
front    stands  an  older  lad,  whose  mind 
may  be  supposed  to  be  more  awakened  to 
the  higher  attributes  of  our  Saviour — re- 
verent and  attentive.      Unlike  most  of 
the  figures  of  our  Lord,  this  unites  much 
sweetness  with  dignity  of  expression.     If 
this  chaste  drawing  is  well  executed  in 
marble,  it  will  form  an  invaluable  addi- 
tion to  the  treasures  of  Art. 

The  most  beautiful  piece,  and  that  pos- 
sessing the  most  character,  which  Wyatt 
is  at  present  executing,  is  a  figure  of  Pe- 
nelope. She  is  represented  at  the  mo- 
ment when,  to  baffle  her  rival  suitors  (at 
the  suggestion  of  Ulysses  in  disguise),  she 
is  about  to  offer  to  each  of  them  by  turns 
a  bow  to  bend.  This  beautiful  and  classic 
production  isititended  for  Windsor  Castle. 
A  Flower-girl,  carrying  in  her  left  hand  a 
garland,  in  her  right  a  basket,  is  an  ex- 
tremely  pretty  and  elegant  statue.  A 
Bacchante,  crowned  vri th  a  garland  of 
flowers,  and  holding  in  her  right  band  a 
patera,  is  an  admirable  personification 
of  thoughtless  gaiety.  **  Musidora  "  from 
Thomson's  Seasons,  is  a  beautiful  figure, 
happily  conceived  and  executed. 

Hogan  is  much  employed  in  executing 
bas-reliefti  and  altar-pieces,  and  in  these 
branches  is  unrivalled.  Several  convents 
and  chapels  in  England  and  Ireland  have 
been  enriched  by  his  chisel.  His  busts 
and  statues  form  a  motley  group.  First 
and  foremost  is  Daniel  O'Connell.  A 
toga  is  thrown  over  his  shoulders — an  ar- 
rangement left  to  the  taste  of  the  artist — 
his  wig  hu  received  its  right  twitch — and 


his  eye  is  lifted  with  that  nndefinable  ex- 
pression so  difficult  to  catch.  It  is  a 
strong  likeness,  and  admirably  executed. 
Hogan  has  received  an  order  from  the 
'*  Association,*'  for  a  statue  of  the  Libe- 
rator ten  feet  high.  Tom  Steele,  Dr. 
Doyle,  and  Dr.  Murray,  all  bear  him 
goodly  company.  A  colossal  statue  of 
Crawford,  for  the  Cork  Savings  Bank,  is 
finely  executed,  but  its  beauty  is  impaired 
by  its  modem  costume. 

Father  Mathew,  in  his  mild  placid  ex- 
pression of  countenance,  strongly  con- 
trasts with  the  powerful  humerous  expres- 
sion of  0*ConneIl.  Another  unfinished 
group  is  *  Ireland,'  represented  by  a  fe- 
male form,  with  the  bust  of  Lord  Clon- 
curry  on  a  pedestal :  intended  for  the 
Dublin  Library. 

Macdonald,  who  represents  the  Scotch, 
as  Hogan  does  the  Irish,  Sculptors,  de- 
votes most  of  his  time  to  busts,  in  which 
be  excels.  His  Andromeda,  however,  is 
a  powerful  delineation  of  the  fable ;  her 
struggles  to  liberate  herself  are  manifest, 
and  one  sympathizes  with,  as  one  regards 
with  astonishment,  the  agony  which  is 
expressed  in  her  eloquent  face. 

Card  well,  a  younger  man,  who  has  just 
arrived  at  Rome,  in  his  group  of  grey- 
hounds playing,  shews  a  keen  observation 
of  Nature,  and  great  power.  He  has 
executed  but  few  groups,  one  of  which 
Mrs.  Beaumont,  of  Yorkshire,  ordered. 
{^bridged  from  the  Athen<Bum.) 

SIR  R.  K.  porter's  DRAWINGS. 

The    late    Sir    Robert    Ker    Porter's 
*'  Large  Folio,"  containing  the  original 
drawings  he  made  during  his  welUknowu 
travels  in   the  East,  illustrated  by  their 
attendant  notes,  and  all  sketched  on  the 
relative   spots,  has  become  the  property 
of  the  British  Museum.     Sir  Robert  Ker 
Porter  spent  three  years,  or  rather  more, 
in   the  East,  indefatigably  pursuing  his 
researches,   and  carefully  recording,  by 
pen  and  pencil,   their    results.      About 
twenty-four  years  ago   he  published  in 
England  two  large  quartos,  entitled  *'  Tra- 
vels in  Persia,  Armenia,  Babylonia,  &c« 
&c.,"  given  in  nobler  detail  in  his  (now) 
Museum  Folio,     From  that  work  the  Rev. 
Alex.  Keith  extracted  many  "  Evidences 
of  fulfilled   Prophecy,*'  produced  in  his 
admirable  volumes  on  that  important  sub- 
ject.    Knight's   '  Pictorial  Bible"  also  is 
enriched  in  numerous  parts  with  notes 
and   outlines  from   Sir  R.    K.    Porter's 
work.     The  folio  opens  with  a  highly- 
finished  portrait  (in  bistre)  of  the  late 
King  of  Persia,  taken  at  the  monarch's 
personal  request.  Then  succeed  the  views, 
sketches  of  distinguished  personages,  &c. ; 
and  the  last  portrait  in  the  book  will  b« 


;« 


Architeeiure, 


that  of  the  Umented  autiior  and  artiit 
himselfi  —  the  recently-published  fall- 
leAgth  print  of  him  from  a  faithful  like- 


[July, 


nesB  by  G«o«  Harlowa,  dressed  in  the 
light  European  uniform  he  wore  during 
part  of  his  traTols  in  the  East. 


ARCHITECTURE. 


OXVO&D  ARCHITSCTUKAL  BOOIETT. 

June  17.  The  fifth  annual  meeting  was 
held  at  Wyatt's  room,  High-street.  The 
Rey.  the  Rector  of  Exeter  college  took 
the  chair,  and  congratulated  the  Society 
on  the  steady  progress  of  the  "  study  of 
Gothic  Architecture,"  which  is  daily  be- 
coming more  general.  He  rejoiced  to  ob- 
serve the  formation  and  successful  progress 
of  similar  societies  in  various  parts  of  the 
kingdom,  and  mentioned  particularly  the 
Cambridge  and  Exeter  Societies,  as  very 
flourishing  and  efficient.  The  mutilation 
and  destruction  of  the  remains  of  Gothic 
Architecture  has  been  checked,  although 
a  few  instances  are  still  heard  of  occa- 
sionally, as  at  Newcastle,  where  an  ancient 
church  has  been  wantonly  destroyed 
within  the  last  few  weeks;  the  general 
indignation  with  which  such  acts  are  now 
viewed  by  all  persons  who  have  any  pre- 
tension to  the  rank  of  educated  or  ea- 
Ughtened  men,  is  a  guarantee  that  they 
will  not  be  frequent.  There  is  however 
another  just  ground  of  alarm  in  the  mis- 
chief which  is  daily  perpetrated  under  the 
name  of  Retioraiionf  which,  when  con- 
ducted without  sufficient  knowledge,  is 
often  productive  of  more  injury  than  be. 
nefit,  and  should  be  very  closely  watched. 
Irreparable  injury  is  often  done  by  igno- 
rant persons,  under  the  plausible  pretext 
of  merely  ecn^ng  off  the  whitewash,  and 
still  more  when  the  decayed  surface  of  the 
stone  has  also  to  be  scraped. 

In  the  university  and  city  of  Oxford 
there  have  been  four  instances  of  resto- 
ration within  the  past  year,  which  are  de- 
serving of  praise.  At  St.  John's  college 
the  chapel  has  been  restored  in  a  very 
elaborate  manner,  and  with  good  taste. 
At  Merton,  the  roof  of  the  ante-chapel, 
which  was  in  a  decayed  state,  has  been 
renewed,  and  the  floor  for  the  ringers  in 
the  tower  removed,  throwing  open  a  fine 
groined  wooden  ceiling,  which  is  a  great 
improvement,  but  the  gallery  for  the 
ringers  which  has  been  introduced  in  the 

Slacc  of  the  old  floor  would  have  been 
etter  omitted.  In  St.  Aldate*s  church 
the  general  effect  of  the  exterior  is  pleas- 
ing, but  there  might  have  been  more  ac- 
curacy in  the  details,  and  we  cannot  but 
regret  the  loss  of  the  old  library.  At 
Holywell,  though  the  exterior  is  less 
striking,  all  the  detail  is  admirable,  and 
9 


in  the  interior  the  good  effect  of  open 
seats  is  fairly  seen,  and  the  manner  in 
which  this  restoration  and  enlargement 
have  been  executed  is  worthy  not  only  of 
praise  but  of  imitation.  The  restoration 
of  St.  Peter's  in  the  East  is  now  also  in 
progress,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  most 
scrupulous  care  will  be  taken  to  preserve 
entire  the  character  of  the  building,  even 
in  its  most  minute  details,  and  that  no 
attempts  at  impnvemeiU  will  be  allowed 
to  interfere  with  the  designs  of  the  ori- 
ginal architects  of  this  interesting  and 
valuable  relic  of  antiquity. 

The  publications  of  the  Society  daring 
the  year  have  been,  The  Second  Part  of 
the  ''  Guide  to  the  Architectural  Anti- 
quities  in  the  Neighbourhood  of  Oxford,** 
of  which  a  Third  Part  is  now  in  prepara- 
tion ;  and  several  sheets  of  working  draw- 
ings  of  ancient  pews  and  pulpits,  which 
are  found  very  generally  useful,  and  are 
readily  purchased.  Two  new  sheets  were 
laid  on  the  table,  containing  the  details  of 
the  pulpits  of  Beaulieu,  Hants,  of  stone, 
very  early  in  the  Decorated  style ;  St. 
Giles's,  Oxford,  of  wood,  also  in  the  De- 
corated style,  but  late ;  and  Coombe,  Ox- 
fordshire, of  stone,  in  the  Perpendicular 
style.  The  drawings  of  Shottesbroke 
church,  a  well-known  and  very  perfect 
specimen  of  the  Decorated  style,  have 
been  engraved,  and  will  be  ready  for  pub- 
lication in  a  few  days  ;  for  these  drawings 
the  Society  is  indebted  to  W.  Butterfield, 
esq.  The  drawings  of  Minster  Lovell 
church,  a  good  specimen  bf  the  Perpen- 
dicular style,  promised  at  the  two  last 
annual  meetings,  are  still  not  ready,  the 
architect  who  undertook  to  furnish  them 
having  failed  to  fulfil  his  engagement. 
The  drawings  of  Wilcote  church,  pre- 
sented by  C.  Buckler,  esq.  were  laid  on 
the  table,  and  will  be  engraved  imme- 
diately ;  this  is  a  email  church  in  the 
Decorated  style.  Also  those  of  St.  Bar- 
tholomew's chapel,  presented  by  C.  Cran- 
ston, esq. ;  this  is  a  small  but  elegant 
building  of  the  period  of  transition  from 
Decorated  to  Perpendicular. 

New  editions  are  preparing  of  the 
churches  of  Stanton  Harcourt  and  Hase- 
ley :  to  the  series  in  6vo.  it  is  proposed 
to  add  the  papers  on  Ewelme  and  Dor- 
chester churches  by  Mr.  Addington,  for 
which  the  drawings  are  ready. 


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Architecture* 


73 


At  the  ingfettion  of  the  Bishop  of 
Newibnodland,  designs  for  churches  to 
be  coostracted  entirelj  of  wood,  the  obIj 
material  to  be  obtained  in  that  oolonj, 
hare  been  prepared  by  Mr.  Cranston, 
nnder  the  directions  of  the  Committee. 
Two  of  these  designs  were  laid  on  this 
table. 

At  the  request  of  the  Madras  Com* 
mittce  for  the  erection  of  a  church  at 
Colabah,  a  design  has  been  prepared  by 
Mr.  Derick,  under  the  direction  of  the 
Committee,  which  it  is  hoped  will  be 
found  well  suited  to  the  climate,  while  it 
preserves  a  strictly  Grothic  and  church-like 
character.  An  elevation  of  this  design 
has  been  engraved,  and  copies  sent  for 
distribution  to  any  members  interested 
in  it. 

The  Society  has  in  several  instances 
given  useful  advice  to  persons  engaged  in 
church-building  or  restoration,  and  have 
pleasure  in  doing  so  in  any  case  in  which 
they  may  be  applied  to. 

A  Paper  was  read  on  Dorchester  chnrcht 
Oxfordshire,  by  Henry  Addington,  esq.  of 
Lincoln  college,  illustrated  by  a  large 
number  of  drawings  of  all  parts  of  the 
building,  including  the  original  drawing 
by  Mackensie  for  Skelcon's  Oxfordshire, 
which  were  kindly  lent  for  the  occasion 
by  the  Rev.  H.  Wellesley.  Mr.  A.  gave 
an  outline  of  the  early  history  of  Dor- 
chester, with  its  bishopric  and  abbey, 
rhewing  clearly  that  there  was  a  Saxon 
church  on  this  site  ;  but  he  considers  no 
pnrt  of  the  existing  building  earlier  than 
the  middle  of  the  twelfth  century,  (unless 
H  is  a  small  portion  of  the  masonry  of  the 
tower,)  and  the  greater  part  is  of  the  time 
of  Edward  I .  The  two  semicircular  arches, 
which  have  been  sometimes  considered  as 
Saxon,  are  evidently  cut  through  the  Nor- 
man walls,  and  are  probably  of  the  time  of 
Charles  II.,  when  the  church  was  repaired 
after  the  injury  it  had  sustained  in  the 
civil  wars.  This  interesting  paper  is  to 
be  published. 

ROTAL   ACADBIIT. 

There  u  a  growing  improvement  in 
church  architecture  apparent  in  this  year's 
exhibition ;  and  it  is  pleasing  to  see  that 
the  pointed  style  has  been  so  universally 
adopted  in  church  architecture  that  we 
may  fairly  hope  that  the  time  is  not 
distant  when  the  anomaly  of  a  Grecian 
design  for  a  church  will  never  be  at- 
tempted by  any  architect. 

The  following  churches  are  the  most 
•triking : — 

1055.    St,    Petir*i    Church,  UUngton. 
Gough  and  Ronmieu. 
This  structure  is  a  very  bambk  chapel, 
Gbkt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


amply  bedecked  with  cheap  and  mire- 
tricions  ornament :  a  new  feature  in  de- 
sign is  a  screen  of  three  open  lancets  be- 
fore the  western  window,*  for  which  the 
style  is  indebted  to  the  joint  talent  of 
the  architects.  At  one  corner  is  a  thin 
spire,  springing  up  from  a  group  of  minor 
pinnacles,  Tike  a  tall  buhrush  aspiring 
above  its  more  humble  brethren :  these 
are  the  main  features  of  the  improved  de- 
sign; for  we  believe  that  the  present 
architects  only  claim  the  merit  of  adding 
to  the  pile,  which  was  originally  a  very 
mean  chapel,  the  work  of  some  other 
architects,  or  galaxy  of  architects,  per- 
haps, as  joint-stock  designs  seem  now  lo 
fishlonable  with  the  profession. 

1076.     The  interior  fff  the  new  Chweh 

now  huilding  at  dotting  Hill.    Stevens 

and  Alexander. 

This  design  is  very  pleasing,  from  the 
strictly  ecclesiastical  character  which  it 
possesses.  It  consists  of  a  nave  and 
aisles,  transept  and  chancel.  The  arches 
are  acutely  pointed  with  bold  chamfered 
mouldings,  the  columns  cylindrical  and  of 
good  dimensions.  There  are  both  nave 
and  chancel  arches,  and  within  the  latter 
a  rood-screen.  The  clerestory  has  lancet 
windows,  and  the  east  window  is  com- 
posed of  three  lancets.  The  pulpit,  of 
stone,  is  afllxed  to  one  of  the  piers  of  the 
chsncel  arch  ;  the  roof  of  the  nave  and 
aisles  is  timber,  without  any  ceiling ;  the 
principals  of  the  nave  are  formed  with  a 
pointed  arch  instead  of  the  usual  tiebeam  ( 
the  chancel  has  a  boarded  ceiling ;  all  the 
principals  have  inscriptions,  and  tliere  am 
paintings  in  arches  in  the  spandrels  of  the 
nave ;  the  chancel  ceiling  is  also  enriched 
with  paintings.  As  far  as  a  judgment  can 
be  formed  from  a  drawing  this  appeajcs  to 
«s  a  very  superior  design.  The  columns 
and  arches  are  marked  with  a  boldness 
of  character  not  often  seen  in  modem 
churches. 

A  similar  propriety  of  character  Is 
visible  in  the  following  design  by  the  same 
architects:— 

1149.  New  Chweh  building  at  Surbiten, 

Surrey, 
Thia  is  also  a  correct  and  pleasing  de- 
sign. It  is  an  interior  view  of  the  nave 
and  aisles,  transept  and  chancel ;  the  ar- 
chitecture of  the  15th  century.  The  pillars 
are  octagonal,  with  moulded  caps ;  the  nave 
and  chancel  arches  have  a  pleasing  ap- 
pearance, and  there  is  great  boldness  in 
the  architecture.  The  ceiling  of  the  chan- 
eel  is  pannelled  and  painted  with  devices. 
Tht  font,  pulpit,  and  other  appurtenances, 
in  this  as  well  as  the  last  design,  are  ar- 
nuiged  in  proper  ecclasiastical  sitoationi. 


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dreiiUtUM. 


[Jdy, 


1075.    M  Bdkit^  CfturcA,  TMtoM. 
I.  M.  AUeii. 

A  plain  chnreb,  oomposed  of  naTe  and 
dianoelf  the  windows  are  ahigU  ligl&ta. 
The  tower  la  at  the  aonthem  angle  of  the 
west  part  crowned  with  a  spirei  the  roofr 
have  a  high  pitch,  and  the  deaign»  on  the 
whole,  poisesses  some  degree  of  orict 
nalitj.  The  sacriaty  ia  ereeted  against  ue 
wall  of  the  nare;  thia  is  incorrect,  in 
nccorcbnce  witii  ancient  example  it  ahonU 
hare  been  bnilt  against  the  chanceL 

1118.  South'WCit  view  <if  a  dntgnfor 
mHorgimg  the  parish  church  of  All 
SoiniMf  Lcammgion  Prion*  J.  G. 
Jackson. 

There  is  a  pecoHar  feature  in  this  de- 
sign not  met  with  in  modem  chnrohes ; 
this  is  a  detached  campanile  for  the  peal 
of  bells.  The  church  is  a  large  cruciform 
edifice,  with  central  tower  and  spire.  The 
campanile,  a  square  tower  with  plnades, 
is  situated  near  the  north-west  angle  of 
the  structure.  The  detail  of  the  whole  is 
late,  approaching  to  the  Tudor  styles 
which  is  injudidous,  as  the  depressed 
character  of  the  style  does  not  hannonise 
with  a  apire,  which  is  a  feature  of  an 
earlier  date  than  the  style  in  which  the 
church  is  erected. 

1119.  jfyvrcvd  design  ufa  nsiv  church 
to   be  imU  at   Woolwich.     E.    H. 

Fowler. 

Iliere  are  many  good  points  in  this 
design.  Hie  style  of  architecture  fluctu- 
ates between  the  lancet  arch  and  the  flow- 
ing tracery  of  Edward  the  Third' s  reign. 
It  coDirists  of  a  naTe  and  aisles,  transept, 
and  north  porch,  and  has  a  central  tower 
and  spire,  the  latter  too  much  crowded 
with  spire  lights,  which  greatly  injure  the 
design.  The  derestory  to  the  nave  has 
triangular  windowa  composed  of  three 
segments,  and  indodng  the  like  number 
of  smaller  triangles  ;  it  is  a  rer^  pleasing 
form  for  windows  in  this  situation.  The 
transept  window  is  composed  of  six  lancets, 
all  of  one  hdght,  which  has  an  unpleasing 
effect,  resembUng  too  closely  the  square- 
headed  window  of  late  Tndor  work. 

1135.  Weei  elevation  qf  a  church  to  be 
ereeted  for  the  united  pariehee  of 
Cartton  and  Chellington,  BeifordeMre. 
£.  B.  Lamb. 

The  only  novel  feature  ia  the  tower, 
which  is  placed  on  one  side  of  the  structure 
instead  of  the  west  end,  as  usual  in  mo- 
dern churches — the  elevation  is  however 
broken  into  parts,  the  lower  portion 
being  square,  the  next  octagonal,  the 
third  a  dwarf  spire  s  it  is  surprising  that 
arehitcoU  cannot  see  any  beautv  in  the 
simpUdty  of  the  indent  church  spiroi 


q>ringln|al  onoe  from  the  towtr  without 
any  intermediate  story. 

1142.    JSfo/y  Croii  Church  now  erecting 
atLeede.    J.  M.  Derick. 

A  structure  which  will  exdte  great  in- 
terest from  its  bdng  understood  to  be 
erected  at  the  charge  of  an  Oxford  divine 
eminent  for  high  talent  and  piety,  and 
equally  distinguished  by  the  narsh  and 
.  unfair  treatment  which  he  has  sustained. 
The  deaign  however  is  any  thing  but  what 
it  ought  to  have  been ;  ahowy  and  modem, 
it  ia  more  like  a  chapd  in  a  fashion^le 
watering  place,  built  to  attract  pew-rent- 
ers, than  a  church  to  which  we  might 
look,  as  a  modd  of  reality  and  propriety 
in  churoh  building. 

It  is  a  cross  church,  having  nave  and 
aislea,  transept  and  choir ;  the  architec- 
ture is  late,  or  rather  modem  gothic,  the 
windows  large ;  a  forest  of  pinnacles,  a 
square  tower,  with  a  spire  also  crowded 
with  pinnades,  snd  a  general  gaudiness 
about  the  building,  show  that  the  design 
partakes  laigdy  of  the  usual  faults  of 
new  churches.  The  nave  has  a  derestory, 
which  is  unnecessary  from  the  extent  of 
the  other  windows.  On  the  western  gable 
is  a  amall  beU-tnrrst.  In  fact  there  is 
throughout  a  mixture  of  correct  eccle- 
liaatioal  forma  with  debased  detail. 

1147.  Manton  Churchy  Somereetehire, 
now  under  aUerationfyr  the  Hon,  and 
Rev,  R,  C,  Bogle,    E.  Davis. 

The  old  structure  was  an  ancient  church 
modernised  and  spoiled  s  the  present  de- 
sign is  of  an  anomalous  Norman  charac- 
ter. The  old  tower  has  had  four  turreta 
added  to  it  in  the  usual  modern  Norman 
style,  and  a  dwarf  spire,  and  the  chancd 
has  recdved  the  addition  of  two  smaller 
transepts.  The  architect  has  attempted 
to  do  too  much;  if  he  had  contented 
himself  with  restoring  the  ancient  church 
to  its  origind  nmplidty,  he  would  have 
earned  more  fame  Uian  by  changing  it  to 
a  structure  of  a  showy  and  unmeaning 
character. 

U8S.    St,  Bartholomew's  Church,  Beth^ 
nal  Oresn.    W.  Railton. 

An  interior.  There  are  some  good 
fratorea  about  this  deaign.  The  arclutec- 
ture  is  lancet,  with  an  eastern  window  of 
Ave  lights ;  the  chancel  is  far  too  shallow  ; 
it  has  an  arch  on  corbels  dividing  it  from 
the  nave. 

1183.    Detign  fbr  the  new   Church  at 
Torquag,    J.  Brown. 

This  is  also  an  interior,  and  is  in  very 
good  taste.  The  architecture  is  in  the 
lancet  style;  it  has  a  nave,  aisle,  and 
chancd ;  the  roof  is  timberi  with  arched 


Ifi44.] 


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principtlfl.     It  is  a  Terj  good  modem 
•pecimen  of  a  Tillage  church. 

1193.  View  qf  ike  Ckaneel  of  ike  new 
Ckurck  ai  Reigaie,    J.  X.  Knowles. 

A  ihellow  recett,  groined  la  the  Tador 
style :  it  has  more  the  resemblance  of  a 
chantry  or  monaaental  chapel  than  the 
chancel  of  a  church.  The  best  feature  is 
the  pannelled  stone  altar  raised  on  a  flight 
of  steps. 

The  last  ecclesiastical  design  which  we 
shall  notice  is  the  only  one  in  whidi 
Italian  architecture  is  used ;  it  is  fiBur  in- 
ferior in  church-like  oharaoter  to  its 
Gothic  riyals. 

1099.  Si,  Mary^e  Ckurek,  now  ereei- 
inff  ai  Si.  Peier  and  Si.  PauTe  Col- 
lege,  Prior  Park,  Baik.    J.  J.  Seoles. 

This  is  an  interior  view  of  a  plain  cha- 
pel, composed  of  a  nave  and  aisles,  sepa* 
rated  by  a  Corinthian  colonnade,  and 
corered  with  a  waggon-head  ceiling ;  the 
eastern  termination  is  an  apse.  It  is  a 
college  chapel,  and  has  little  that  is  eccle- 
siastical in  its  appearance.  As  an  append- 
age to  an  Italianized  building,  the  archi- 
tect had  probably  no  choice,  and  was 
obliged  to  accommodate  his  design  to  the 
style  of  the  main  structure. 

1059.    Memorial  io  a  Ladp,  now  ereeiheg 
at  Afuniek,    J.  M.  Derick. 

The  design  is  intended  to  resemble  an 
ancient  cross  :  it  commences  with  a  square 
pedestal,  above  which  the  eleration  be- 
comes octagonal.  The  transition  is  too 
abrupt,  and  not  in  accordance  with  the 
graceful  tapering  of  the  old  designs,  which 
nerer  change  firem  one  form  to  another 
so  suddenly  as  to  displease  the  eye. 

1180.  View  qf  ike  iniended  CkoHetere' 
Sckooif  Si*  Mary  Magdalene,  College^ 
Oj^ord*    J.  C.  and  C.  Buckler. 

A  plain  and  simple  structure,  in  the 
style  of  the  oollege,  and  appropriate  for 
the  purpose  for  which  it  is  designed. 

1186.     View  qfike  new  Palace  ai  TVeei- 

miniier,  ae  ii  will  appear/rom  Lambeik. 

1196.      Tke  eame,  ae  ii  would  t^^pear 


firom  tke  Bmreg  eide  qfike  Hmt,  near 
ike  foot  qftke  mew  Hungerfbrd  Bridge. 
C.  Barry. 

Mr.  Barry  has  borrowed  the  effect  of 
an  Italian  sun  to  set  off  his  building, 
enriching  the  points  of  every  pinnacle 
and  tower  with  living  gold,  and  oringing 
out  every  shallow  projection  which  can 
produce  the  Mutest  shadow ;  but  let  the 
actual  building  be  viewed  from  Lambeth, 
either  ^ove  or  below  Westminster  Bridge, 
with  the  exhalations  of  the  Thames  risinc 
into  a  London  fog,  and  the  aspect  wiu 
appear  strikingly  dissimilar.  The  rich 
carvings  and  niches  which  cover  the 
design,  even  with  the  statues  which  they 
contain f  will  scarce  be  discernible  from 
either  of  the  points  of  view  under  the 
influence  of  a  London  atmosphere.  We 
fear  at  either  place  a  very  sharp  sight 
wiU  be  required  to  see  the  ornamenta 
at  all. 

The  Victoria  tower  forms  a  grand  fea- 
ture in  the  design.  There  is  also  an 
attenuated  spire  in  the  centre  of  the 
design,  we  presume  for  the  purposes  of 
ventilation.  The  clock  tower  is  another 
lofty  structure.  These  features  are  visible 
enough  ;  but  the  main  building  wants 
boldness  in  its  projections  to  render  it  a 
striking  object  at  even  a  distance  so 
trifling  as  the  points  of  views  selected  by 
the  arehiteot.  Such  shewy  drawings  as 
these  bad  better  be  avoided ;  they  are  too 
often  merely  apologies  for  a  bad  design. 

1219.  Deeign  J^  an  esieneion  of  ike 
Bangueiing  ffouee,  Wkitekall,  on  iko 
eiie  qf  Owydir  Bouee.  Wyatt  and 
Brandon. 

''  A  design  for  effectually  injuring  the 
fabric  of  Inigo  Jones  "  would  be  the  more 
proper  designation  of  the  subject,  which 
is  really  nothing  more  than  the  erection 
of  a  counterpart  of  the  present  building, 
at  a  short  distance,  the  two  being  united 
by  a  mean  centre  with  two  clumsy  towers. 
Respect  to  the  memory  of  Inigo  Joaee 
we  trust  will  orevent  this  design  firom 
appearing  anywhere  except  on  paper. 


ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


BOCIBTT  or  ANTIQUABIXS. 

June  6.  The  Dean  of  Hereford  exhi- 
bitted  the  episcopal  rings  of  bishop  Mayo 
fdied  1516^  and  that  of  another  oishop, 
found  in  their  graves  in  Hereford  cathe- 
dral. 

John  Brfttott,  esq.   F.S.A.   exhibited 


some  drawings  of  Malmesbury  abbey 
church  and  other  architectural  subjects  of 
interest. 

John  NichoU,  esq.  F.S.A.  of  Islington, 
communicated  some  newly  discovered  facte 
respecting  Isaack  Walton.  Sir  Harris 
Nicolas,  in  hia  lii«B  of  Walton,  obserrea, 


7« 


Antiquarian  Reuarches. 


[July, 


"  Not  a  Mingle  feet  can  be  stated  respect- 
ing him  from  the  time  of  his  baptism  un- 
til he  attained  his  SOth  year,  when  he  ap- 
nears  to  have  been  a  resident  of  London. 
Neither  the  cause  nor  the  period  of  his 
removal  from  Stafford  to  the  metropolis 
has  been  ascertained,  though  it  is  pro- 
bable that  he  was  apprenticed  when  very 
yoang  to  a  distant  relation  of  the  name  of 
Henry  Walton,  who  was  a  haberdasher  at 
Whitechapel."  It  now  appears  that  Itaaek 
Walton  was  made  free  of  the  Ironmongers' 
Company  in  1617-18  by  Thomas  Grin^ 
sell.  This  fsct  does  not  greatly  interfere 
with  the  supposition  that  he  was  appren- 
ticed to  Henry  Walton.  There  is  no  entry 
in  the  Ironmongers'  books  of  the  year  in 
which  he  was  bound  ;  Henry  Walton  may 
have  died  before  he  had  completed  his 
time,  in  which  case  Isaack  was  probably 
turned  over  to  GrinseU  to  serve  out  the 
remainder.  Henry  Walton  does  not  ap- 
pear to  have  been  a  member  of  the  Iron- 
mongers' Company.  I n  1 63  7  Isaack  Wal- 
ton was  chosen  warden  of  the  yeomanry 
(or  freemen),  and  in  1639  paid  over  the 
sura  of  31,  7a.  \0d.  the  balance  left  in  his 
hands  after  discharging  the  duties  of  that 
ofSce.  He  is  again  mentioned  in  1641 : 
the  Lord  Mayor  having  addressed  three 
several  precepts  to  the  city  companies,  to 
make  a  return  of  all  their  members,  with 
their  places  of  abode,  and  to  raise  certain 
sums  of  money  which  were  '*  immediately 
required  for  the  important  affairs  of  the 
kingdom,*'  &c.  Walton  was  assessed  with 
his  brethren  of  the  Ironmongers'  Com- 
psny,  and  is  then  described  as  Isacke  Wal- 
ton of  the  parish  of  St.  Dunstons  in  the 
West,  and  contributed  for  his  proportion 
the  sum  of  3/.  Beyond  this  period  no 
further  mention  is  found  of  him,  ex- 
cept  in  an  account  of  arrears  of  quarter- 
age. Thomas  GrinseU  was  a  liveryman 
of  the  Ironmongers*  Company  ;  in  his 
will,  which  is  dated  the  14th  January, 
1640,  and  was  proved  in  the  Prerogative 
Court  of  Canterbury  on  the  1 3th  of  June, 
1645,  he  is  described  as  Tho.  GrinseU, 
Paddington,  citizen  and  ironmonger. 
He  bequeaths  20/.  to  the  parish  of  St. 
Dunstan's  in  the  West,  where  he  lately  re* 
aided,  and  he  appoints  his  son-in-law 
Henry  Valentine,  D.D.  and  Isaack  Wal- 
ton,  citizen  and  ironmonger,  his  over- 
seers. 

Mr.  NichoU  also  exhibited  a  roll  of  the 
pedigree  of  Lloyd  of  Cownwy  co.  Mont- 
gomery, made  by  John  Cain  of  Oswestry 
in  1633,  and  emblazoned  with  many 
shields  of  arms. 

The  Rev.  George  Munford,  of  East 
Winch,  Norfolk,  made  a  communication 
relative  to  a  monument  of  the  Howard 
ftmily  MiaCiDg  in  that  churobt 


June  13.    W.  R.  Hanulton,  esq.  V.P. 

The  Rot.  David  Jones,  Incumbent  of 
St.  Mary's  Kirkdale,  near  Liverpool,  au- 
thor of  "  The  Patriarchal  ReUgion  of  Bri- 
tain, or  a  complete  Mannal  of  Ancient 
British  Dmidism,"  and  James  Wallis  Py- 
croft,  esq.  of  Great  College-street,  West- 
minster, were  elected  FeUows  of  the  so- 
ciety. 

Dawson  Turner,  esq.  F.S.A.  exhibited 
four  books  of  beautifully  executed  draw- 
ings Ulustratire  of  the  ecclesiastical  an- 
tiquities of  Norfolk. 

1.  Of  the  painted  screen  at  Martham, 
vrith  a  series  of  saints,  about  half  Ufe-size, 
in  fine  preservation. 

S.  Of  the  ancient  altar-cloth  at  Ling. 
This  is  7  feet  long  by  3|  wide,  and  formed 
of  curious  pieces  of  cloth  richly  wrought 
in  embroidery,  with  gold  and  silver  thread, 
presenting  rather  a  patchwork  appearance 
at  present.  A  part  of  the  cloth  is  of 
nearly  the  same  pattern,  of  feathered 
angels,  &c.  as  the  cloth  at  St.  Thomas  at 
Salisbury,  engraved  in  the  History  of  that 
city,  lately  published. 

3.  Of  a  casket  of  stamped  leather  for 
the  sacramental  chalice,  a  piscina,  a  beau^ 
tiful  painting  of  a  saint,  and  a  figured 
pavement-tile,  in  Cawston  church.  The 
casket  is  23  inches  high ;  on  its  lid  is  a 
griffin  segreant,  surrounded  by  the  legend 
-f  IHESVS  NAZARENVS  REX  IV- 
DEORVM.  Around  the  side  are  seven 
shields  :  I.  Gyronny  of  four  pieces ;  2.  a 
Uon  rampant  guardant ;  3.  three  crosslets 
fitch ^  and  on  a  chief  two  moleta  pierced 
(CUnton  ?) ;  4.  a  cross  engrailed  (Ufford) ; 

5.  Bezanty,  a  canton  ermine  (Zouche) ; 

6.  a  maunche  (Hastings)  ;  and  7.  a  lion 
rampant  debruised  by  a  bendlet  gobon^e. 

The  4th  book  we  did  not  see. 

George  Grant  Francis,  esq.  Hon.  Li- 
brarian of  the  Institute  of  South  Wales, 
at  Swansea,  exhibited  sn  acquittance,  on 
parchment,  of  Sir  Rees  ap  Thomas,  in  9 
Hen.  VII.  releasing  the  lands  of  his  ward 
and  son  (in  law)  Edward  Stradling  from 
payment  of  their  rents  to  himself,  in  fa- 
vour of  their  owner.  It  is  sealed  with  a 
small  square  seal  of  a  raren  surmounted 
by  the  letter  R,  which  is  made  on  a  slit  of 
the  parchment  without  a  label.  Sir  Rees 
was  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and  lineal  an- 
cestor of  the  present  Lord  Dynevor. 

William  Wansey,  esq.  F.S.A.  presented 
a  copy  of  the  fac-simUe  drawings,  in 
colours,  of  the  Pageant  of  the  Fishmon- 
gers' Company  on  Lord  Mayor's  day 
1616,  made  by  Mr.  Henry  Shaw,  F.S.A. 
and  accompanied  by  an  illustrative  dis« 
sertation  by  Mr.  John  Gough  Nichols, 
F.S.A.  which  have  been  privately  printed 
at  the  expense  of  the  Company,  in  a  largo 
folio  * 


1844.] 


ArdtqUarian  Researches. 


n 


The  reading  was  then  continued  of  the 
order  book  of  Major>6en.  Lambert  and 
the  Council  of  War  sitting  in  Yorkshire 
in  the  year  1647. 

•Aine  20.  Richard  Yates ,  esq.  of  St. 
Andrew's  Hill,  Doctors'  Commons,  was 
elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Society. 

Mr.  Brown  exhibited  a  small  seated 
idol,  of  pnre  gold,  found  on  the  margin  of 
the  lake  of  Guativite,  situated  on  the  sum- 
mit of  a  ridge  of  mountains  about  eight 
leagues  from  Santa  F4  de  Bogota,  the  ca- 
pital of  Columbia.  This  lake,  previously 
to  the  conquest  of  New  Gransida  by  the 
Spaniards,  was  considered  sacred  by  the 
natives  of  that  country,  and  they  were 
accustomed  at  certain  periods  to  throw 
into  it  their  treasures  as  oiferings  to  their 
deities.  The  scenery  around  the  lake  is 
magnificently  romantic,  and  well  calcu- 
lated to  make  a  powerful  impression  on 
the  human  mind.  By  the  remains  still  to 
be  seen  of  extensive  works,  it  is  evident 
that  Tarious  attempts  had  been  made  by 
the  Spaniards  to  drain  the  lake,  and  it  is 
on  record  that  about  eighty  years  ago  so 
much  gold  was  got  out,  that  the  quinto 
to  the  crown  amounted  to  upwards  of 
eighty  thousand  dollars.  At  that  time 
also  an  emerald  of  immense  value  was 
found,  and  sent  to  Madrid.  A  company 
has  of  late  been  formed  in  Bogota  for  the 
express  purpose  of  effectoally  draining  the 
lake,  and,  from  the  judicious  measures 
adopted  and  the  progress  already  made, 
there  is  no  doubt  it  will  be  accomplished. 
This  golden  idol,  which  formed  part  of 
the  collection  of  His  Royal  Higness  the 
Duke  of  Sussex,  was  found  near  the  mar- 
gin of  the  lake,  and  was  presented  to 
James  Hamilton,  esq.  by  General  Sant- 
ander,  Vice-President  of  Columbia. 

Mr.  C.  Roach  Smith  exhibited,  1.  a 
drawing  of  a  fresco  painting  in  Godshill 
church,  Isle  of  Wight,  by  Mr.  John  A. 
Barton,  representing  Christ  crucified  on 
a  tree  or  shrub,  with  mottoes  on  the 
aide,  one  only  legible,  4^rA  pro  noht^ 

l^ominf. 

S.  Drawing  of  a  fresco  of  a  late  date, 
found  in  pulling  down  Mr.  Mason's  house 
in  Chichester. 

3.  A  Runic  almanac  belonging  to  Mr. 
Crafter  of  Gravesend,  formed  of  several 
wooden  leaves  strung  together. 

4.  A  rubbing  of  the  brass  of  Margery 
Amndell,  in  Anthony  church,  Cornwall, 
communicated  by  Charles  Spence,  esq. 
of  Devonport.  ^  The  inscription  is  as 
follows:  *'  Hie  jacet  Margeiia  Amndell 
qoondam  d'nade  Est  Anthon*  filia  Warini 
Erchedeken  militis  que  obijt  xx'^vj^*  die 
Oc:tobr'  A*  d'ni  M'^cccc^^xx®  cuius  a*i*e 
p.ptcktur  deus." 

Joha  Adey  Bepton,  esq.  F.S.Af  coq- 


municated  a  drawing  of  an  ancient  vessel 
found  in  1843  in  digging  the  foundation 
of  the  Savings  Bank  at  Chelmsford,  and 

Presented  to  the  Chelmsford  and  Essex 
luseum  by  Mr.  James  Moss.  It  is  sop- 
posed  to  have  had  two  handles  (one  of 
which  is  lost),  and  each  was  also  a  spout. 
Its  only  ornament  is  a  row  of  nail-head 
knobs. 

Sir  Henry  Ellis,  Secretary,  exhibited  an 
oblong  brass  box  containing  a  dial,  a  mari- 
ner's compa&s,  and  various  tables,  for- 
merly called  a  Viatorium  or  German  Ring. 
The  present  specimen  is  marked  B.  S. 
1587,  and  belongs  to  J.  B.  Heath,  esq. 
F.S.A.  the  Sardinian  Consul -General. 

A.  J.  Kempe,  esq.  F.S.A.  exhibited  a 
copy  by  Albin  Martin,  esq.  made  by  per- 
mission of  the  Duke  of  Sutherland,  of  an 
ancient  portrait  now  in  his  Grace's  gal- 
lery at  Sutherland  House,  said  to  be  that 
of  Cardinal  John  Kempe,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  who  died  A.D.  1453.  Mr. 
Kempe  entered,  on  the  authority  of  a  MS. 
in  the  British  Museum,  at  some  length 
into  the  memoirs  of  the  Cardinal,  who 
was  born  at  his  patrimonial  seat  of  Ollan- 
tigh,  in  the  parish  of  Wye  in  Kent,  A.D* 
1380.  He  noticed  his  acta  of  munificence 
and  those  of  his  nephew  Thomas  Kempe, 
Bishop  of  London,  to  Merton  college, 
Oxford,  his  diplomatic  employments  as 
Custos  Privati  Sigilli  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
y.  and  as  Lord  Chancellor  in  that  of 
Henry  VI.  The  authenticity  of  the  por- 
trait of  Cardinal  Kempe  rests  on  the  au- 
thority of  Walpole,  who  probably  inserted 
in  his  Catalogue  of  the  Collection  at  Straw- 
berry Hill  such  accoontas  he  had  received 
with  the  picture.  Mr.  Kempe  pointed 
out  that  certain  panels  which  have  been 
associated  with  this  portrait  ^d  that  as- 
signed to  Cardinal  Beaufort  were  not  by 
the  same  hand.  One  of  these  panels,  re- 
presenting a  man  in  the  act  of  adoration 
in  a  stable,  bears  the  arms  of  Tate  impal- 
ing Boleyn  ;  another  is  said,  in  Walpole*8 
Catalogue,  to  represent  Humphrey  Duke 
of  Gloucester.  Mr.  Kempe's  paper  was 
accompanied  by  a  diagram  shewing  that 
this  last  panel  was  part  of  a  group  depict- 
ing Yh€  Wise  Men' 9  Offering ;  that  the 
centre  part  of  the  composition,  the  Virgin 
and  Child,  was  wanting;  that  the  man 
kneeling  in  a  stable  was  certainly  .Joseph, 
and  completed  the  picture.  The  two  pa- 
nels said  to  represent  Beaufort  and  Kempe, 
whatever  the  authenticity  of  their  desig- 
nation, were  certainly  distinct  and  by  ano- 
ther hand.  Observations  on  these  pic- 
tures have  already  been  inserted  in  the 
Gentleman's  Magazine,  N.  S.  vol.  xviti. 
pp.  24  and  187.  Mr.  Martin's  copy  of 
the  portrait  attributed  to  Cardinal  Kempe 
x«  •  rerr  spirited  wi  faithful  doUnefUioA 


78 


Jnttqturim  Rnearehes. 


[July, 


of  the  original,  which,  ai  a  work  of  art 
of  the  15th  centniy,  has  condderahle 
merit. 

The  Society  then  adjourned  to  the  14th 
of  Noyember. 


Arthttologietil  AiweUtiom, — The  fint 
annual  meeting  of  the  British  Archnolo- 
gical  Association  is  fixed  for  the  second 
week  in  September,  and  will  be  held  at 
Canterbury,  under  the  presidency  of  Itord 
Albert  Conyngham,  who  proposes  to  open 
at  that  time  several  of  the  Saxon  barrows 
near  his  seat  at  Bourne  Park.  Mr.  Pet> 
tigrew  proposes  to  unfold  an  Egyptian 
mummy,  and  explain  whatever  points  of 
interest  may  occur  in  its  developement. 
The  ancient  monuments  of  the  city,  its 
museum  and  public  establishments,  will 
be  freely  thrown  open. 

80CIBTT  OV  NO&THEEN  ANTIQUARIES. 

This  sodaty  met  at  Copenhagen  on  the 
87th  of  May,  under  the  presidency  of  the 
Crown  Prince.   The  most  important  pub- 
lication of  the  society  during  the  past 
year  is  an  edition  of  the  ancient  Sagas  of 
Iceland,  embracing  the  annals  of   that 
island  snd  its  inhabitants  from  the  ninth 
to  the  fourteenth  centurr.    The  first  vo- 
lume contains  two  works  by  Iceland*8 
•arliest  historian,  Are,  sumamed  Frode, 
or  the  Learned  (6.  1068,  tf.  1148).    In 
the  latter  are  related  the  earliest  voysges 
of  discovery  from  Denmark,  the  Faroe 
Islands,  and  Norway,  with  the  emigration 
to  Iceland  caused  by  the  conquests  of 
Harold  Uaarfager.    To  the  "  Historical 
Monuments  of  Greenland"  two  supple- 
ments have  been  added  by  Dr.  Pingel, 
who,  having  resided  and  travelled  for  some 
time  in  that  country,  undertook  to  draw 
up  a  general  account  of  the  most  im- 
portant expeditions  which  have  heea  made 
in  modem  times  from  Denmark  and  Nor- 
way, to  explore  the  various  localities  which 
have  been  brought  to  light  by  the  exertions 
of  Uie  society.    A  new  edition  of  Rafh^s 
Memoir  on  the  Discovery  of  America, 
being  a  supplement  to  his  great  work  the 
Antiquitates  Americans,  was  laid  before 
the  meeting,  together  with  communica- 
tions from  the  American  section,  con- 
firmntory  of  the  learned  author's  views 
and  deductions.    The  Memoires,   1840- 
1843,  contain  a  disquisition  on  the  con- 
nexion between  Sanscrit  and  Icelandic ;  a 
Memoir  of  Einar  Sokkason,  the  Green- 
lander,  translated  from  the  Icelandic ;  an 
account  of  human  remains  and  remark- 
able antiquities  found  at  Fall  River,  Mas- 
sachusetts,  &c. ;  Remarks  on  two  Ice- 
landic chairs  with  ornamental  carving  and 
Runic  inscriptions ;  and  a  description  of 
the  frontier!  b«tweon  Norway,  Swedoo, 


and  Russia,  in  the  Middle  Ages,  taken 
from  an  ancient  vellum  MS.  It  was  stated 
that  H.R.H.  the  President  had  caused' 
several  barrows  on  the  Fockr  island  to  be 
opened  and  examined  during  the  pre- 
ceding summer.  In  one  of  these  wss 
found  an  urn,  surrounded  and  overlaid 
with  iron  articles.  The  urn  was  filled 
with  burnt  bones,  upon  which  lay  an  iron 
buckle  bent  together  after  having  been 
exposed  to  fire,  and  which  had  probably 
belonged  to  a  shield  or  head  ornament; 
four  fragments  of  a  remarksble  iron  sword, 
thirty  inches  in  length,  lay  also  above  the 
urn ;  this  had  evidently  been  submitted  to 
the  action  of  fire,  and  then  broken  or  bent 
together,  as  if  to  prevent  the  weapon  being 
again  used.  It  was  generally  supposed 
that  the  similar  fragments  of  swords  in 
the  museum  had  become  broken  and  in- 
jured by  the  effect  of  rust  and  time,  but  it 
would  now  appear  that  they  were  inten- 
tionally placed  in  that  condition  at  the 
time  of  being  deposited  in  the  earth. 

ANCIKHT  ARMOUR. 

At  a  sale  in  May  of  ancient  armour, 
carved  furniture,  tapestry,  &c.,  by  Mr. 
Deacon,  in  Bemers-street,  which  occu- 
pied three  days,  the  following  lots  were 
bought  for  the  repository  of  ancient 
armour  at  the  Tower  of  London : — 

36.  A  cleddyn,  or  sword  of  the  ancient 
Britons,  the  hilt  of  which  was  of  horn 
(vide  Meyrick)  ;  whence  the  adage,  "  He 
who  has  ^e  horn  has  the  blade.*' — 2  gui- 
neas. 

96.  A  specimen  of  the  early  chain  and 
plate  armour,  with  helmet  and  chain  ca- 
mail  attached,  and  mail  hauberk.  The 
plastron  and  arms  are  probably  the  ear- 
liest example  of  plate  armour. — 10  gui- 
neas. 

243.  A  dagger  of  the  Crusaders — 91.  8t. 

246.  A  pair  of  ancient  sollerette  stir- 
rups—3/. 

S48.  A  hauberk,  of  chain  mail,  of  Eu- 
ropean workmanship — Si.  4«. 

276.  A  complete  cap-a-pi^  suit  of 
knight's  steel  armour,  of  the  fifteentii 
century,  remarkable  for  the  form  of  its 
treble-jointed  breast  and  back,  helmet, 
and  tuilles.  From  the  Royal  Arsenal  of 
Constantinople — 33  guineas. 

278.  A  knight's  suit  of  bright  steel 
German  armour,  with  strong  visored  hel- 
met, having  a  small  door  in  the  vizor. 
(It  was  the  sudden  opening  of  this  door 
which  occasioned  the  death  of  Henry 
II.  of  France,  when  tilting  with  Gabriel 
Count  of  Montgomerie,  in  1559) — 95  gui- 
neas. 

281.  An  engraved  suit  of  knight's 
armour,  of  singular  form  and  great  weight 
—^0  guinms,  * 


79 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE, 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  PARLIAMENT. 


H0U8B  OF  Lords. 

JuM  6.  The  Earl  of  Bamoni  mored 
the  second  reading  of  a  Bill  giving  to  Sir 
T.  M.  Wilson  power  to  dispose  of  that 
portion  of  his  estate  which  had  been  be- 
queathed to  him  by  his  father  on  Hamp- 
STEAD  Heath.  The  Bill  was  opposed 
by  Lords  DeninoHf  Campbelif  Brougham, 
Mantfieldt  and  others,  on  the  ground  that 
it  was  clear,  from  the  will  of  the  late  Sir 
T.  M.  Wilson,  that  be  did  not  intend 
Uampstead  Heath  to  be  inclosed  and 
built  on,  which  would  be  the  effect  of  this 
BiU  ;  and,  therefore,  that  to  pass  it  would 
be  to  benefit  an  individual  at  the  expense 
of  the  public. — Lord  Cotimham  and  Lord 
CotehHter  supported  the  measure,  as 
doing  no  more  for  Sir  T.  M.  Wilson  than 
tbeir  liordships  were  continoalljr  called 
on  to  do  for  others.  On  a  division  the 
Bill  was  rigected  by  31  to  SO. 

June  11.  The  £arl  of  PowU  moved 
the  second  reading  of  a  Bill  to  repeal 
the  Act  that  united  the  Sees  or  Bangor 
AMD  St.  Asafh.  The  whole  of  the  clergy 
of  North  Wales  have  united  in  petition- 
ing  against  the  Act;  the  diocese  to  be 
formed  by  the  junction  of  the  two  sees 
would  embrace  3,000  square  miles  of 
mountainous  country,  and  be  larger  than 
one  bishop  could  properly  overlook. — 
The  Duke  of  WfUmffUm  and  the  Arch- 
bishop  of  Canterbury  supported  the  pro- 
posed union  as  necessary  to  the  erection  of 
tbe  diocese  of  Mancbester.^.The  Bishops 
of  BoHffor,  Si.  Danid^e,  Exeter^  and  Sa- 
Uehuy  spoke  in  favour  of  the  repeal  of 
the  Act;  and  the  Earl  of  Harrowbj^ 
cme  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners, 
seeing  that  such  strong  opposition  existed 
to  the  proposed  union,  would  no  longer 
object  to  that  course.  Tbe  House  di- 
vided on  tbe  motion  for  the  second  read- 
ing*.— Contents,  49;  Non-contents,  37; 
Majority,  13. 

June  13.  Lord  MwUeagle  moved  for 
a  Select  Committee  to  inquire  into  the 
Import  Duties. — The  Earl  of  DaMoiMie 
opposed  the  motion,  and  it  was  negatived 
bjr  184  to  75. 

House  or  Commons. 
Jime  3.    In  Committee  of  Ways  and 
Mwis»  th«  GlmcsMif  q^  the  B»ch$fuer 


proposed  a  duty  of  S4ff«  a  hundred  weight 
on  FoREiOK  S(t70ARS  not  the  produce  of 
slave  labour.*— Lord  J.  RuteeU  proposed 
an  amendment  to  admit  all  Foreign  sugars 
at  that  duty,  whether  free  or  slave-grown. 
The  Committee  divided— -Ayes  128,  Noes 
197.  The  original  question  was  then  put 
and  agreed  to. 

Jtme  4.  Lord  Harry  Vane  moved  a 
Committee  of  the  whole  House  on  the 
Export  Duty  on  Coal,  with  a  view  to  its 
immediate  rei>eal — Ayes  74,  Noes  110. — 
Mr.  Lgall  moved  for  a  Select  Committee 
on  the  Commercial  Marine  of  this 
country,  which  was  agreed  to. 

June  6.  The  Attorney-  General  moved 
the  second  reading  of  the  Dissenters' 
Chapels  BiU,  a  measure  intended  to 
prevent  aggressive  litigation  upon  exist- 
in^  trustees,  but  which  has  been  ear- 
nestly petitioned  against  both  by  church- 
men and  orthodox  dissenters,  as  offering 
an  unjust  protection  to  the  Unita- 
rians. Sir  A.  H.  Inglie  moved  that  the 
second  reading  be  deferred  for  six  months. 
The  Bill  was  strongly  supported  by  Go- 
vernment, and  the  second  reading  carried 
by  307  to  117. 

June  7.  The  Lord  Advocate  moved 
the  order  for  Committee  on  the  Parisbes 
(Scotland)  Bill,  which  is  intended  to  fa- 
cilitate the  division  of  parishes  and  the 
creation  of  new  parishes. — Mr.  Fox  Maule 
contended  that  the  measure  was  unne- 
cessary. In  the  last  twelve  months  nearly 
800,000  people  had  left  that  Scotch  church 
whose  parif  DCS  and  places  of  worship  this 
Bill  proposed  to  increase ;  while  500  new 
places  of  worship  had  been  erected  for  the 
reception  of  the  seceding  parishioners. 
He  moved  that  it  be  committed  that  day 
six  months.  The  House  divided — Ayes 
259,  Noes  56.  The  Bill  then  went 
through  Committee. 

June  10.  On  the  order  for  Committee 
on  the  Sugar  Ddties  Bill,  Mr.  Ewart 
moved  an  amendment,  that  ''it  is  expe- 
dient that  the  Duties  on  Foreign  and  Co- 
lonial Sugars  should  be  equalised."  The 
main  question  was  carried  by  959  to  56. 

Jiffie  12.  A  debate  was  resumed  upon 
a  motion  of  Mr.  Ward,  for  a  Committee 
of  the  whole  Honse  upon  the  present 
State  of  the  Tsmfoaauties  o;  thx 


80 


Foreign  Ifexot. 


CJnIy, 


Church  of  Irelakd.  Oq  a  division 
the  motion  was  negatived  by  274  to  179. 

June  13.  On  the  order  for  the  second 
reading  of  the  Bank  of  England 
Charter  Bill,  Mr.  Hawu  moved  aa  an 
amendment  that  '<  no  sufficient  evidence 
has  been  laid  before  this  House  to  justify 
the  proposed  interference  with  Banka  of 
Issue  m  the  management  of  their  circu- 
lation." The  second  reading  was  carried 
by  185  to  30. 

Jun§  14.  In  Committee  on  the  Sugar 
Duties  Bill,  Mr.  PhUif  JUilei  moved  an 
Rmendment  in  favour  of  the  West  Indian 


interest.  The  Ministerial  proposition 
was  that  the  duty  upon  British  sugar, 
should  be  2it,  per  cwt.  and  34f.  upon 
Foreign  free-grown  sugar.  Mr.  Mi  lea 
proposed  that  the  duty  on  British  colonial 
augar  should  be  20t. ;  on  Foreign  sugars 
the  produce  of  free  labour,  30$, ;  on 
Foreign  sugars  the  produce  of  slave 
labour,  63f.  This  proposition  was  car- 
ried  against  Oovernment  by  241  to  221. 

June  17.  In  Committee  on  the  Sugar 
Duties,  the  proposed  rate  of  duty  on  Colo- 
nial sugar  waa  restored  to  24«.  by  a  ma- 
jority of  255  to  233. 


FOREIGN   NEWS. 


Amkrica. 
A  series  of  dreadful  riots  has  occurred 
in  Philadelphia,  which  continued  several 
dayji,  during  three  of  which  the  mob  held 
complete  possession  of  the  city.  Sixteen 
live«  were  lost,  and  20  persons  dangerously 
wounded,  besides  many  others  not  ascer- 
tained. They  commenced  with  a  disturb- 
ance at  a  public  meeting  of  a  new  party 
lately  sprung  into  existence  in  the  Unitea 
States,  called  "  Native  Americans;'* and 
they  were  caused  by  collision  with  the 
Roman  Catholic  Irish,  who  inhabited  the 
houses  in  the  vicinity  of  the  place  where 
the  meeting  was  faolden.  The  prejudices 
of  the  Irish  settled  in  the  United  States 
have  been  flattered  to  a  great  degree  by 
designing  demagogues  toeteure  their  voiet. 
Their  old  sympathies  and  attachments  are 
appealed  to,  and  the  distinctive  national 
character  of  their  country  is  sedulously 
preserved  to  them.  The  Catholic  Irish- 
men move  as  one  man,  and  are  sufficiently 
powerful  to  make  terms  for  their  suffrage. 
In  many  placea  they  hold  the  balance  of 
power,  and  are  alternately  caressed  and 
cajoled  by  either  party.  The  influence  of 
this  body  has  at  length  become  sa  odious 
in  its  effects  as  to  originate  a  "  Native 
American  *'  party  for  its  counteraction. 
This  party  held  an  out-door  meeting  in 
Kensington,  a  suburb  of  Philadelphia,  on 
Mondny  the  6th  May,  to  discuss  some 
IochI  sffnirs,  and  before  it  was  fairly  or- 
ganised a  violent  storm  arose,  which  in- 
duced  the  assembly  to  adjourn  to  the 
Washington  Market  House,  a  building 
near  at  hand,  which  has  been  frequently 
nsed  for  public  meetings.  The  third 
speaker  haa  hardly  commenced  when  he 
was  interrupted  by  a  loud  noise,  said  to 
have  been  miide  by  Irishmen,  and  then 
followed  a  general  fight,  in  which  the 
Irish  were  worsted  and  driven  to  their 
10 


houses.  The  excitement  was  raised  to 
an  intense  degree  in  consequence  of  se- 
veral shots  being  fired  from  the  windows 
of  the  Hibemia  Hose  House,  a  building 
adjoining,  which  wounded  manv  of  the 
Americans.  There  appeara  to  be  some 
doubt  as  to  which  party  fired  the  first 
shot  \  but  the  Irish  were  in  the  vicinity  of 
their  own  houses,  and  fired  from  their 
windows.  The  **  Native  Americans**  pur- 
sued them,  and  attacked  them.  Finally 
the  Irishmen  rallied  and  beat  off  the 
'*  Native  Americans.**  The  next  mom- 
ing  placards  were  posted  all  over  the 
city,  calling  a  meeting  of  ''  Native  Ame- 
ricans,'* to  be  held  at  three  o*clock,  p.m.^ 
in  Independence-square.  About  noon,  a 
party  of  men  and  boys,  of  the  working 
class,  paaaed  through  the  streets,  bearing 
a  large  American  flag,  and  a  banner,  on 
which  waa  inscribed,  *<  This  is  the  flag 
that  waa  trampled  by  Iriah  Papists,*'  re« 
ferring  to  the  act  of  the  Irish  Catholics  at 
the  American  meeting  of  the  previous 
day,  which  they  had  invaded  and  fired 
upon.  The  resolutions  passed  at  the 
meeting  were  as  calm  and  moderate  as 
could  be  expected  under  the  circum- 
stances, but  the  people  composing  the 
meeting  proceeded  after  it  to  tne  scene  of 
the  riot,  and  thera  fresh  outrages  ensued. 
The  conflict  commenced  about  five 
o'clock.  At  about  six  the  Native  Ameri- 
cans set  fira  to  the  house  at  the  corner  of 
Cadwallader  and  Master  streets,  from 
which  It  is  supposed  the  gun  was  fired 
that  killed  the  man  the  day  before.  The 
fire  epread  with  great  rapidity  to  the 
Hibemia  Hose  House  adjoining,  and  in 
a  abort  time  the  whole  row  of  buildinga 
was  in  flamea.  Tbe  Irishmen  still  con- 
tinued firing  at  intervala  from  their  houses, 
even  after  they  were  aet  on  fire,  «id  aa 
fast  as  they  were  driven  out  of  one  house 


1844.]                            Domestic  Octurrencei.  81 

by  the  heat  of  the  flames  and  the  falling  were  prepared  to  resent  it.     Arms  and 

mUcrs,  tbey    took    refuge   in    another,  ammunition  were  found  in  nearly  all  the 

These  scenes  were  repeated  during  the  houses    in    the    vicinity  ;    some  of  ihe 

night   and    the  succeeding  day.      Two  muskets  and  rifles  heing  new,  and  evi. 

Roman  Catholic  churches  were  burned  to  dently  placed  there  in  anticipation, 
ashes,  one  the  St.  Michael's  Church,  in 

Kensington,  and  the  St.  Augustin's  Church,  Africa. 

in  Philadelphia  city.     Above  50  houses  The    latest   accounts    received    from 

were  also  connumed.     The  mob  held  un«  Algiers  leave  no  doubt  that  France  is  on 

broken  sway  until  the  evening  of  Thurs-  the  eve  of  a  war  with  Adorocco.     While 

day,  when  they  ceased,  it  would  seem.  Marshal  fiugeaud  was  busy  carrying  out 

from  mere  physical  fatigue.     In  one  of  his   expedition  against   the    Kubyles  of 

the  churches  a  viiluable  library  was  en«  Juijum,  it  was  all  at  once  disruverfd  that 

tirely  destroyed.    The  military  and  police  the  old  enemy  of  France,  Abd-el-KHder, 

were  singu'arly  inefficient.    l>]o  one  dared  supported  by  the   Emperor  of  Morocco, 

to  take    the  responsibility  of   ordering  was  preparing  an  expedition  to  invade  the 

the  strong  measures  necessary  in  such  a  French  territory  in  the  neij;hboui  hood  of 

crisis.  Oran,  and  has  proclaimed   a  koiy  war 

With  regard  to  the  origin  of  the  riots,  against  France.      One  of  his  sons,  at  the 

it  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  meeting  head  of  a  considerable  force   (some  say 

nt  which  the  disturbance  began  was  held  10,000  men),  has  already  joined  the  Kmir 

in  a  strirtlv  Catholic  district,  and  thus  Abd-el-Kader,  both   being  prepared   to 

the  original  provocation  came .  from  the  make  a  joint  invasion  of  the  French  terri* 

Natives.      On  the  other  hand,  the  Irish  tory. 
seem  to  have  bad  warning  of  the  fact,  and 


DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 

Tigm  or  THH  EMPBRoa  OF  RD8BIA  AND  One  Priuoe  Albert  acain  came  to  conduct 

KINO  OF  8AX0NT.  his  Majesty  to  Buckingham  Palace,  where 

His   Majesty    the    King   of    Saxony,  the  Q<ieen  received  the  Emperur  in  the 

travelling  under  the  assumed  title  ot  the  gmnd  hall.     TheKingofSaxuny  was  also 

Count  de  Hohenstein,  and  accompanied  present.    The  Emperor  afterwards  visitfd 

by  M.  de  Minchewits,  his  Prime  Minis-  the  Queen  Dowager  and  othvr  me mbers 

ter,  and  a  limited  suite,  arrived  at  Dover  of  the  royal   family,  and   the   Duke  of 

May  28,  from  Ostend,  and  shortly  aUer  Wellington.     In  the  evening  he  dined  at 

proceeded  by  the  South  Eastern  Railway  Buckingham  Palace, 

en  nmU  for  Buckhurst  Park,  the  seat  of  On    Monday  June   3,  the    Emperor 

Earl  Delawarr,  Lord  Chamberlain.    The  visited  Messrs.  Mortimer  and  Hunt,  the 

next  day  his  Majesty  visited  Knole  Park,  jewellers,  the  Zoological  <  tardens,  Lady 

where  be  was  entertained  by  Lord  Am-  Heytesbury    (formerly    ambassaflress  in 

bersr  •  Kedleafe,  the  beautiful  seat  of  Mr.  Russia),    the    Countess   of     Pembruke, 

W.  Wells,  a  celebrated  connoisseur  in  the  Sir   Robert    Peel,  the   Marrhion&is  of 

^ne  arts ;  and  Pt* nshurst  Place.     On  the  Clanrirarde,  and  the  Mnrquess  of  Augle- 

dOth  he  visited  Brighton,  Arundel  Castle,  sey.     The  Duke  of  Devoiiiibire  lunched 

Chichester,  and  Portsmouth.  with  his    Imperial  Majesty  at  Ashbuin- 

On  the  1st  of  June,  the  Emperor  of  ham  House.  In  the  afternoon  he  pro- 
Russia,  landed  at  Woolwich,  where  he  was  ceeded  by  railway  to  Windsor,  having 
received  by  bis  Embassador  Baron  Bru-  been  preceded  by  the  Queen,  Prince 
now,  who  conducted  him  to  Ashburnham  Albert,  and  the  King  of  Saxony. 
House,  the  Rus  ian  Embassy,  in  Dover  On  Tuesday,  June  4,  both  monarcha 
Street.  On  the  following  morning  H.  R.  attended  the  races  at  Ascot. 
U.  Prince  Albert  visited  the  Emperor^  On  Wednesday,  June  5,  they  wit- 
wbo  attended  Divine  s«*rvice  at  the  chapel  nessed  a  review  in  the  Home  Park,  at 
of  the  embassy  in  W«  Ibeck  Street ;  and  on  which  were  present  in  command  of  their 
his  return  found  the  Earl  of  Hardwicke,  regiments  General  the  Viscount  Cuin- 
Lieut.. Colonel  B.  Drummond,and  Lieut.-  bermere,  6.C.B.  1st  Life  Guards;  Gene- 
Colonel  Wylde,  who  bad  received  her  ral  the  Marquess  of  Anglesey,  K.G. 
Majesty's  commands  to  attend  upon  the  Royal  Horse  Guards;  General  the  Right 
Emperor  during  his  stay.    At  halt-past  Hon.  Sir  Geoige  Murray,  G.C.B.  Royal 

GswT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXIL  M 


K.     Ok     A 


li^m     "*■<•  (n  ^A  far  dv  cmoiBa   of* 


8tk.   Ik  III  li  II  1^1  It  I  iMHiiiii.BJrtTlr  riti 

n»T  m4  b<  Kertalt  ■»  Arii  fct^  fcy  Ae  Btthop 

Hnmtttt  «fVancMw.MdBkM  OMMBf  ckfKr. 

wClBhw  Mi  kr  M^  MU_n  Md  flodcaca. 

•t  Bvk-  A.  iritLMUB  «H  fwii  mJ  the  Priaee 

*aoN  ite  BdiMod    WB.»    ^    B^fw      The 

Mb  M  Im        1     I  I   •  1  fiiii   ir    »i>  rr    I 

oW  Hb.  pMMdc4  U  k  tecr  Mi  hdd  fcr  the 

«DB7^  bcwAtgftkech 


piST'TW 


__  OilMK  HuiiiiiBi.  tta  prencA  o(  Ac 
CBt-  Tte  ^wn  kBc.aOOL;  of  wUek  laOOL 
■«  B(  the  ««•  vkm  m  Wf-crovae  «  Ae  Uotj 
Ur  cBtHMC.  A  tale  wnttcn  Ibr  Ae 
•niw,  lia  anarioa  by  Mn.  8.  C.  flaU,  witlrd, 
U  *iato  Is  "  He  FMan  Bopc,"  feml  a  nadr 
*t^er  fia.  Mle :  Of  M  l»|Wto«  oT  ene  tbowand, 
»  "*■!*«     MTCB  >iiihir  «an  aoU  cm  A*  fint  day. 

■•*-     TW  

■■  twat  in  ,_^  _^^  _,,,_ 

"»»  D'doA  ^^  «*»»  niALa. 

^  anott.  Ob  Ac  3CKh   Mar,  in   the    Coait  of 

Wootwich.  (fam-t  Btach.  U  Dnbfin,  Hr.  Judge 
'  ."**>  ap-  Bnrna  aawei  mtcncc  no  Hr.  O'Coa- 
">*  BImA  mQ  wd  U«  Mlowa.  raonetod  of  a  con- 
?,  "'*  Ha-  iDiTar*  to  pmcnre  the  RcdmI  of  the 
■!«<»'c»iidt  Union  («•  M«»i.  ?■  S06).  Hr. 
**>  "M  lh«  O'CooDcU  «M  MBUDced  to  twdva 
'  ^"  Mon.  MMlW  iaipriMMBeot,  and  a  fin«  of  two 
-«•  bouti.  iliinMiii  pooBd*  i  end  Mean.  John 
?«»I«rt«ro  CrCooneil,  C.  O.  Du^.  T.  M.  tUj, 
^"«».  not     Dr.  Oiaj,  Richard  Burelt,  and  Thonaa 

"  *^  hia  Sterit,  to  bim  moatha'  imprisonment, 
'.**««.  to  and  a  fine  of  CfH  poind*  each.  Mr. 
.„\®^'mj  0*0000*11  h  fanher  to  pTt  luredes  to 
Jl"  "t«lt»ia,     kM«  the  ptate  for  tno  Ttani,  himwlf 

wintonij^     In  WOW.  ud  two  •umite  in  S500/.  nth : 


^^'~  m     iBt  WMn,  lor  ine  nme  pcnoa,  lo  gii 

i»^'  '  >«     n^uritlH  in  lODOl.  each,  and  two  luretii 

~^lJ  I  to     (or  MOI.     Mr.  O'Conneil  hai  been  con 

mlltH  to  the  RidBood  Panitentnty. 


Pwtah, 


PROMOTIONS,  PREFERMENTS,  &c. 


Oazxttb  Pbohotioni. 

Jfrlll^  LDTdAtMrdonrlobaUmt.-Colond 
Of  Ibe  Hid  IdlUui  Yeonuai;  OinllT,  *fc«  tb* 
BtriofUoitoD. 

Mm  n.  Fndnic  TbMiMr.  ctq.  Her  H*- 
imtfi  SoUdUr  OtDtnT^cWal. 

Jfatio.  GconcTwlacut  L«r,Mq.  lebr 
CoanlatAmaTiiBCbiDii  RatlicinidAlcocki 
Mq.  to  b*  OiunI  It  Foo-cbow-fiK^  la  Ouiw; 
dwlMUwtnl  Kailb  Kamicht,  mo.  tu  ba 
CoDinlu CtrtlMT^  In  Ntw  Qnuitdti  uid 
JabD  WiaUni  Panr  Aticb,  ih.  to  ba  CoudI 
)b  the  FtUUpfiiu  IdMub. 

Ifoy  Jl.  nUi  Pi»l,  C*|)l.  J.  Broini  U  be 
imw-BUa firlndc. Ofit.  B.  Wilpole  to  be 
Xajor.— UMtttclwd,  bcerat  Col.  the  Hod.  C 
Oor^  from  U.^w  IwU-^yjiulUcbe^  to  be 


OaloHl  I  brmt  Uol.  V.  Cunphell,  from  Cai 
k.B.iadFoot.labelMor.-Bnnt,  Unjot  _ 
H-ToUoeh.  hilf-pa*  Uutt.  HlUtaiy  Sq|»ri»- 
Madeat  of  Out  Pendonen,  to  be  Uant. -COloosI 

Am  <.  iimnel  Wm.  Need,  of  Lucwllh 
Lodn,  Nott*.  eu.  in  com^iaDce  with  the  will 
if  l£  mUeiwI  unci*  Whl  WEllltt,  of  PcLlwm, 
CO.  LiDCOla,  Mq.  to  take  the  nue  ot  Wilfitt 
ODly,  mnd  biw  the  im  of  WeUll  in  tlu  Ant 

JuaT.  Snifhted  bT  letten  piUiit,  WillUm 
Connnllla  Huiii,  bq.  Hljor  BomtnTBagi- 
nccn.— nth  Ufht  Dnfooju.  C*pt.  I.  Joom 
lo  be  MMJir,  nnaltwhed  braiet  LieDl-Col. 


IMh Footi  HeaiT  Khd,  nth  VMt ;  and  the 
,.__  ...  «  .^ :..   .^  y^  Ouardi,  to 


b*  U^on  In  tbe  Ataj. 

Natal  PaoiionoHa. 
Commandrr  W.  KiPt  <<)>  to  the  CoomT.— 
Coaunuider  Bldaey  Uuber  to  the  Wup.  II, 
on  tbe  Wnl  India  Statloa.-U.  H-  E.  Alltn  to 
the  Inaum  nctiiiaif  ihip  at  Jamaica.— Lieo- 
tenant  W.  H-  Aldham,  of  the  Wlocbeater,  to 
the  tank  of  Commander. 


Mtmitrt  rthirntd  to  n 


« im  FarHamnti. 


I.— Hon.  Henry  Artbnr  Cole. 
t,»c.— Hon.  eHw.  P.  Bati<eiia. 
r  r&w(,i>.— William  Rntwiitle,  en 


t.-Cal.SlrF.V 

FortoneM  Sorica,  l~ 
OVL  v.  8.  I.  BrutT 
in  the  Amri  Cipt.  I 
— T,  rtthToot 


•  Sorica,  to  be  Uajor. Brevet, 

r.  8.  B.  BrutT.MthFaot,tobcH4or 
' -~t.  Heurr  "numu  Earl  of 

_     ...  .    .'not,  to    be  KMiar  in  the 

Jnmt  )S.  Bdaird  Gonlbnra,  BeHeint-at. 
Law,  to  ba  on*  of  the  CommUeioneri  of  the 
CoDit  Of  Sankroptci  in  London. 
'  JMMia.  Ufior-GenRichardOoddardHare, 
C.B.  in  coupUABce  with  the  with  of  hii 
cowio,  the  laie  BlrT  ~  " 


EeCLIIIAITlOAL    PHinRWaNTl. 

B«v.  B.  B.  Bathnnt,  Kibwortb  Beaacbamp  H. 
Her.  J.  K.  P.  Berkeler,  91,  Qeer  V.  Conivall. 
Bev.  J.    K.  Bradford,  Vfigturd  St.  Manr  V. 

Lincoln. 
HaT.  J.  Bttod,  Keelby  V.  Line. 
Rei.  B.  B.  W.  Churtan,  Icklobam  V.  Soeaei. 
Be*.  C.  S.  Clarke,  Liodiell  V.  Ewei. 
Bar.  F.  A.  Cnw.  Alcesler  R.  Wtrwick. 
Ber.  D.  C-  DeUfoaM,  Sbere  B.  Sucrer. 
Bay.  W.  Doncombe,  Crowle  V.  Line. 
Bar.  J.  Bvani,  Whiiball  P.C.  Salop. 
Ker.  &.  Oee,  Abbota  l^niley  V.  tlerta. 
Bar.  J.  U.  Healb,  BnHeld  V-  MldUleKl. 
Bar.  R.  L.  Hoopper,  St.  Geone,  Brandon  HUt 

Ber'.  J.  Jackion,  Lidnte  R.  Soffblli. 
Bar.  J.  Jannu.  I^dock  B.  Cornwall. 
Etv.  B.  G.  Jama,  Hachtbora  V. 


afterllan.— 


Bliia  Bryan  (formarly  deaig^,ofGloiKeMer-^. 


_.  _  .__,  _.  Je^Bit.    _, 

Capt.  Grenadier  Ovarda,  to  nw  tbe  name  of 

Bryaa  oaly.— William  I^e,  ol  Cadf^an-placa, 

Huldi.  aiaNiblev.houK,  eo.  Olonc.  nnt.  in 

'-   -'  of Ua friend, Johi  ' 


tba  dty  of  LondoB,  .. ... .. 

Jortio  after  I«e. 

Jmttia.  Jidin  Cuiliffe-Uiter,  of  FarAetd- 
bali,  in  Addlnibam.  co.  York,  Mcond  bat  now 
cMeat  inriiiing  aoo  and  heir  anparenl  of  BUIa 
CdiUIPe-  UMer  (formirlr  CaDlllfe),  of  Hum  inf - 
ham-ball,  in  Bradford,  co  Vork,  tea.  by  Mary, 
dan.  of  William  Bwbank,  aflerwarda  Kay     ' 


Kanhaw,  nephew  by  (be  liiter  of  Joaaph  Hi 
aOB,of  Stnwewayi-hall,  CO.  Lane.  eaq.  to  ta 
tbe  naiae  of  Baaaoo  imly,  and  bear  (he  an 


B*Y.  T.  N,  Twopeny 

landi. 

Bar.  F.  Vincent.  Sinltold  R.  Snesra. 
ReT.n.Woolcomba,Cberiton-BlibopR.  Devon. 

CiTiL  FaBrEauKHTi. 


■nccaaded  Sir  Thorn  u  Frem 
sury,  bii  continued  Mr.  Bd 
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CJaty, 


BIRTHS. 


March  28.  At  Stamford  Villas,  Folham,  the 
wife  of  Alfln  Martin,  esq.  of  Silton,  Dorset,  a 
dau. 

May  ao.  At  Julians,  Herts,  the  wife  of  Adol- 

5hus  Meetkerke,  esq.  a  daa. ^The  wife  of 
ohn  Httinphery,  esq.  M.P.  a  soo. 21.    At 

Fonroon  Castle,  Glamorgan,  the  wife  of  Robert 

Oliver  Jones,  esq.  a  son  and  heir. 22.    At 

'Wilton  Place  near  Sidbury,  the  wife  of  J.  Cam 

Thackwell,  esq.  a  son  and  heir. 23.    At 

Avranrhes,  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev. 

Robert  Plunket.  a  son. 24.    At  Menabilly, 

Cornwall,  the  wife  of  Jonathan  Rashleig;h,  esq. 
a  dan. — 25.    At  Whitehill,  near  Edinburfrh, 

Lady  Louisa  Wardtaw  Ramsay,  a  dau. 28. 

In  Portland-pl.  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  Lient.- 

Col.  Wilbraham,  a  dao. SO.    In  Dover -st. 

Piccadilly,  the  wife  of  Hajirh  Williams,  esq.  of 

Kin**ton  Manor  House,  Warw.  a  son  and  heir. 

Lately.    At  Worlincbam-halU  Viscountess 

Acheson,  a  son. At  Newbold  Comyn,  War- 

wicksh,  Lndy  SomerviUe,  a  dau. Mrs.  Wil- 
liam Rivini^ton,  adau. In  Chesham-pl.  Lady 

Arthur  Ijcnnox,  a  dau. At  Goldings,  Lady 

TowDsend  Farquhar,  a  son. At  Bnrnham 

Dinfcle.  Lady  Ventry,  ason. At  Aberdeen, 

Lady  i^eton,  a  son. \t  Ibstone-house,  the 

wife  of  Philip   Wrouffhton,  esq.  a  dau. 

At  Sampford  Feverell.  Devon,  the  wife  of  J.  D. 
Svmes,  esq.  a  son  and  heir. In  St.  James's- 

El.  Lady  Emma  Vesey,  a  son. At  Cbelten- 
am.  Lady  Blount,  a  son. At  LAke>house, 

the  wife  or  Georfre  Lynch,  esq.  a  son. 

JuHe  1.  In  Grosvenor- street,  the  Lady  Mary 
Farquhar,  a  dau.     In  Grosvenor-place,  the 

wife  of  W.  G.  Craif^,  esq.  M  P.  %  dau 2.    At 

Needwood  House,  Staffordsh.  the  wife  of  Lo- 
renzo R.  Hall,  esq.  a  son. S.  At  Hi|ch  Park, 

near  Didcford,  the  wife  of  Richard  Shute,  esq. 
a  dan.  4.  At  Petersham- lodre,  Surrey,  the 
wife  of  Andrew  Buchanan,  eso.har  Majesty's 
Secretary  of  Leflfat ion  at  the  Court  of  Russia, 

a  son. 5.    At  Limpsfietd  rectory,  Surrey, 

Mrs    Walpole,  a  son. 6.    At  Gothic  Villa, 

St.  John's  Wood,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Edward 
Thompson,  M.A.  Minister  of  Charlotte  Chapel, 

Pimlico,  a  dau. 6.    At  Chatham,  the  wife 

of  Brignde-Maior  J.  D.  O'Brien,  a  dau. 

7.   At  Bishop's  Court,  county  Kildare,  the 

Countess  of  Clonmell,  a  dau. At  Rogate 

Lodg:e,  Hon.  Mrs.  Charles  Wyndham.  a  son. 
8.  At  Upper  Philllmore  Place,  Kensing- 
ton, Mrs.  John  Gough  Nichols,  a  dao. 9.  At 

Corpud  Christi  Lodge,  Cambridge,  the  wife  of 

the  very  Rev.  the  Dean  of  Bristol,  a  dau. 

In  Upper   Harley-st.    the  wife  of  Edmund 

Pepys,  esq.  a  dao. 12.    At  Baaton  Court, 

Herefordsh.  the  wife  of  Joseph  Bailey,  esq. 

M.P.  a  son. 15.   In  Bryanston-sq.  the  Hon. 

Mrs.  Parnell,ason. 18.  At  Sydenham,  Mrs. 

John  Rivington,  a  dau. 


MARRIAGES. 

March  27.  At  Derby,  the  Rev.  John  Far- 
rand,  U.A.  Rector  of  Cumberworth,  Oxford,  to 
Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  William  Morley,  esq.  of 
Derby 

Aprit  2.  At  Kensington,  Capt.  John  Francis 
Grant,  l.ite  of  1st.  W.  I.  Reg.  to  Antoinette, 
widow  of  E.  C  Taylor,  esq.  of  Broom  Hall 
Manor,  Sunning-hilf. 

8.  At  Skipton,  the  Rev.  John  Holdsworth. 
B.A-  Second  Master  of  the  Skipton  Grammar 
School,  to  Elizabeth-Hirst,  daugUter  of  Mr. 
Richard  Shacklock,  of  Kmbsay. 

9.  The  Rev.  W.  H.  Newbolt,  Rector  of  Pau- 
lerspury.  co.  Northamp.  to  Emily,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  J.  Seagrmve,  Vicar  of  Aid- 
bourne,  Wilts. 

10.  At  Dublin,  William  Wilson  Cams  WU- 


son,  esq.  Jnn.  of  Casterton  Hall,  Westmore- 
land, to  Mary-LeUblere,  dan.  of  Edward  Utton, 
esq.  Master  in  Chancery,  and  late  M.P.  for 

Coleraine. At  Childwall,  Lane.  J.  W.  Ni- 

choll-Came  (Ute  Nicholl)  D.C.L.  Barrister-at- 
Law,of  Dimlands  House,  Glam.  to  Mary-Jane, 
only  dau.  of  P.  W.  Brancker,  esq.  of  Field 

House,  Wavertree. At  Hatfield,  Herts,  the 

Rev.  R.  Davies,  of  Corpus  Christi  coll.  Camb. 
to  Cecilia-Grantham,  second  dau.  of  the  Rev. 
J.  F.  Faithfull,  Rector  of  Hatfield. At  Roch- 
dale, the  Rev.  R.  Ken ingale  Cook,  M.A.  incum- 
bent  of  St.  John's  church,  Small  Bridge,  to 
Sllen,  eldest  dao.  of  Mr.  Jonathan  Neiid,  of 

Rochdale. At  Warblington,  Hants,  the  Rev. 

Charles  Brune  Henrille.  Fellow  of  Winchester, 
and  Rector  of  Hamole  le  Rice  and  Bnrsledon, 
to  M.  Lind  McArthur,  dao.  of  Thomas  Meik, 
M.O.  physician  to  the  garrison  of  Portsmouth, 
and  widow  of  John  McArthur,  of  Hayfield 
Hall,  Hampshire.  __  ^ 
11.  In  Bermondsev,  the  Rev.  Thomas  C. 
Dixon,  A.M.  of  Brightwell,  Berks,  to  Mary- 
Anne,  dau.  of  James  Uarkness.  es'v AtCa- 

versham,  J.  Harrinson^esq.  surgeon.  Reading, 
youngest  soo  of  the  late  Rev.  William  Harrin- 
son,  Bardsey,  near  Leeds,  to  Ellen,  youngest 

daughter  of  Mr.  John  May,  Caversham. At 

North  Cadbnry,  Som.  the  Rev.  Robert  Black- 
bume.  Fellow  of  Braaenose  college,  eldest  son 
of  the  late  Robert  Blackbume,  esq.  of  Madeira, 
to  Eliaa-Franres,  younger  dau.  of  the  late  C. 
C  Clutterbuck,  esq. 

IS.  At  Great  Itadminton,  the  Rev.  E.  J. 
Bverard.  B.A.  Rector  of  Didmarton,  Glonc.  to 
Marie-Madeleine-Cecile,  eldest  dau.  of  the  lata 
Rodolph  L  de  Rusilton,  of  Yverdun,  in  the 
Pays  de  Vaud. 

Mav  7.  At  St.  Pancras  Church,  Middlesex, 
Mr.  Samuel  Wing,  of  Bedford,  to  Elisabeth- 
Cox,  eldest  dau.  of  Mr.  Richard  Francis,  of  the 
same  place. 

8.  At  Radford  Semele,  Mark  Jocelyn  Lay, 
esq.  second  son  of  J.  G.  Lay,  esq.  of  Great  Sey, 
Essex,  to  Lucy,  dao.  of  John  Greaves,  esq.  of 

Radford  Semele. At  Great  Yarmouth,  Tbos. 

Mallett  Wythe,  esq.  of  Biney  Lodge,  Norfolk, 
only  son  of  Thomas  Wythe,  esq.  of  Middle- 
ton,  in  the  same  county,  to  Rosabel le-Mary, 

only  dao.  of  the  late  E.  Tompson,  esq. At 

Halifex,  Robert-John,  eldest  son  of  Robert 
Bentley,  esq.  of  Rotherham.  to  Sarah,  second 
dau.  of  the  late  Thos.  Hirst,  esq.  of  Low  House, 

Bradford. At  Brighton,  waiter  Morton, 

esq.  of  Brighton,  and  Higginstown.  co.  West- 
meath,  to  Maria,  dau.  of  John  Jones,  esq. 
Grand-parade,  Brighton. At  Jersey,  Tho- 
mas Reed,  esq.  East  India  Civil  Service,  to 
Dorothy-Dann,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  T.  L. 

O.  Davies,  esq.  of  Alresford. At  Frankfort- 

on-the-Maine,  Arthur  Farre,  M.D..  of  Curson- 
st.  to  Jessie- Bethune,  eldest  dau.  of  Lieut  - 
Col.  Macdonald,  C.B.,  K.  St.  A. At  St.  Pan- 
cras, Raymond  D'Arcy  Newton,  esq.  of  Ken- 
sington and  W»rwick-sq.  second  son  of  the 
late  Thomas  Newton,  esq.  of  Olapham-com- 
mon,  to  Henrietta,  second  dau.  of  Samson 
Goldsmid,  esq.  of  Mecklenburgh-sq. 

9.  At  Padoington,  Capt.  Sir  Spencer  Vas- 
sail,  R.N.,  K.H..  to  Letitia.  only  dau.  of  the 
late  E.  B.  Napier,  esq.  of  Pennard  House, 
Somerset,  and  widow  or  the  Rev.  C.  H.  Puis- 

ford.  Canon  Residentiary  of  Wells. At  St. 

Stephen's,  near  Canterbury,  the  Rev.  J.  O.  A* 

Baker  to  B.  G.  Andrewes. At  the  Catholic 

Church,  Qielsca,  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  Bart,  of 
Talacre,  to  the  Hon.  Frances  Georgiana  Fraser, 

second  dau.  of  Lord  Lovat. At  St.  Mary's, 

Bryanston-sq.  Charles  Davidson,  esq.  B4rris- 
ter-at-Law,  and  Feliow  of  Christ's  Coll.  Camb. 
to  Mary-E.ixabeth,  eldest  dao.  of  J.  H.  Chris- 
tie, esq.  Barrister-at-Law. At  Bristol.  John 

GoUios,  esq.  of  Boaltoa  Moor,  Pembrokesh., 


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to  Ann-Ames,  only  cUn.  ot  the  late  J.  T.  Dew, 
esq.— At  All  Saints,  Norwuod,  Joseph  Neville 
esq.  of  Croydon,  to  Eleanor,  onlv  child  of 
John  Russell,  esq  of  Norwood. At  St.  Pan- 
eras,  John  Parsons,  esn.  of  Bridgewater,  to 
Ellen,  third  dau.  of  the  late  James  Remnant, 

csa.  of  Hampstead. At  Richmond,  Yorksh. 

J.  Bailey  Langhorne,  esq.  to  Jennett,  second 

dan.  of  the  late  Ottiwell  Tomlin,  esq. At 

Ruffhy,  the  Rev.  Robert  Minnitt,  Perp.  Carate 
of  Heywood,  Lane,  to  Helen-Mary,  younjrest 
dan.  of  the  late  Michael  Smith,  esq.  of  Rugl^y. 

At  Walcot  Church,  Bath,  William  Purey 

Cast,  esq.  eldest  son  of  the  Hon.  William 
Cast,  to  Emma-Matilda,  only  child  of  the  late 
W.  cbaplin,  esq.  formerly  Commissioner  of 

the    Deccan. At  St.   Maryleboue,    John 

Nodes  Dickinson,  esq.  one  of  Her  Majesty's 
Judi^es  of  the  Supreme  Court  at  Sydney,  to 
Helen,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Capt.  Janncey , 

R.N.  of  Dartmouth. At  Charlton,  near 

Cheltenham,  J.  Grenfell  Movie,  esq.  10th  regt. 
Bombay  army,  eldest  son  of  J.  G.  Moyle,  esq. 
late  President  of  the  Medical  Board,  Bombay, 
to  Bessie,  eldest  dau.  of  Frederick  Ross,  esq. 

10.  At  Naples,  Joseph  Delafield,  esq.  eldest 
son  of  the  late  Joseph  Delafield,  esq.  of  Bry- 
anston-sq.  to  Eloisa,  dau.  of  the  Cavaliere 
Bevere,  of  Naples. 

11.  At  St.  Marylebone.  Benjamin  Terry 
Hodf^e,  esq.  of  Sidmouth.  to  Rosalind-Ka- 
nanica,  only  dau.  of  the  late  John  Hare,  esq. 

of  Bedford-sq.    London. At  St.  George's, 

Han.-sq.  Lieut-Col.  Eraser,  R.  Art.  to  Catherine 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Robert  Hamilton,  esq. 

of  Fenton,  Staffordshire. At  Banbury,  Kdw. 

Cobb,  esq.  of  Calthorpe  House,  to  Octavia, 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  H.  H.  Piper,  of  that  place. 

12  At  Manchester,  John  Freeman,  esq.  of 
Pentonville,  to  Louisa,  youngest  dau.  of  Benja- 
min Niphim,  esq.  of  Primrose-st.  in  the  former 
place. 

13.  At  Trinity  Church,  St.  Marylebone, 
Thomas  Horlock  Bastard,  esq.  eldest  son  of 
T.  H.  Bastard,  esq.  of  Charlton  Marshall, 
Dorset,  to  Margaret,  widow  of  Capt.  James 

Keith  Forbes,  E.  L  Co.'s  Civil  Service. At 

Hadzor,  the  Rev.  B.  Davis,  of  St.  George's 
Church,  Worcester,  to  Julia,  third  daa  of  the 
late  Kev.  R.  H.  Amphlett,  and  Rector  of  Hadzor. 

14.  At  Long  Melford,  Suffolk,  the  Rev.  Geo. 
Coldham,  M.  A.  Rector  of  Glemsford,  and 
youngest  son  of  the  late  James  Coldham,  esq. 
of  Anmer  Hail,  Norfolk,  to  Henrietta,  eldest 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  H.  B.  Faulkner,  M.A.  West- 
gate  House.  Long  Melford. At  St.  Marga- 
ret's, Westminster,  John-Patten,  second  son 
of  J.  H.  Good,  esq.  of  Kensington  Palace- 
green,  to  Henrietta-Elizabeth,  only  dan.  of 
the  late  William  Griffith  Williams,  esq.  of 
Cefn  Cwm  Mwd,  Anglesea. At  Wands- 
worth, Wm.  B.  Twilling,  esq.  of  the  Strand, 
Youngest  son  of  George^Twining,  esq.  of  East 
sheoM,  to  Margaretta,  younerest  dau.  of  Benja- 
min Bovill.  esq.  of  Milford-lane,  Strand. At 

Southampton,  John-Edmund,  eldest  son  of  J. 
Mortlock  I^coii,  esq.  of  Great  Yarmouth,  to 
Louiaa-Matilda,  dau.  of  the  late  Edw.  Shewell, 

esq. At  Plymstcck,  Devon,  Nicholas  Were, 

esq.  solicitor,  of  Plymouth,  to  Sophia,  second 
dau.  of  Christopher  Harris,  esq.  of  Thorncott, 

Devon Henry  Grace  Wilson  Sperling^,  esq. 

only  son  of  the  late  Rev.  H.  G.  S()crliiig,  Rector 
of  Pspworth  St.  Agnes,  Hants,  to  Anua-Mar- 

Snetta,  eldest  daii.  of  the  Rev.  C  D.  Breretou, 
ector  of  Little  Massingham,  Norfolk. At 

St.  James's.  Westminster,  William  Pocock, 
esq.  of  Cnarterhouse-sq.  to  Ann,  second  daa. 
of  Nathaniel  Hill.  esq.  of  Regent-st. 

13.  At  St.  Mary*8,  Lambeth,  the  Rev.  J.E. 
Cox,  M  A.  of  All  Souls'  College,  Oxford,  to 
Emily-Clara,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  John 
Vittmao,  esq.  of  Warwick-sq.  and  South  Lam- 


beth.—At  the  Holy  Trinity  Chnrch.  J.  Watson, 
esq.  of  Scalby,  near  Scarborough,  to  Mary- 
Ann-Letitia,  eldest  dau.  of  the  lateT.  Knam, 

esq.  of  Scarborough. At  Barking,  Suffolk, 

John  Bntterworth  Walker,  esq.  of  Iver,  Bucks, 
to  Eleanor,  only  child  of  the  late  Robert  Ro- 
binson, esq.  of  Westminster. At  Ramsgate, 

James  Webster,  esq.  of  Ramsgate,  to  Emma- 
Curtis,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  G.  T.  Hardy, 

esq.  of  St.  Lawrence,  Thanet. At  Mangota- 

field,  the  Rev.  Charles  J.  Maddison,  son  of  the 
Rev.  John  Maddison.  and  grandson  of  the  late 
Charles  Maddison.  esq.  of  Belmont,  Bath,  to 
Julia-Noel,  younger  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Ben- 
jamin Crack  nell,D  D. At  Paris,  John  Man- 
ley,  esq.  M.D.  to  Ellen,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
Solomon  Sawrey,  esq.  of  Bloomsbury-sq. 

16.  At  Knowie,  Warw.  James  Roberta  West, 
esq.  of  Alscot  Park,  to  Elizabeth,  third  dau-  of 
J.  M.  Boultbee,  esq.    of  Springfield  House, 

near  Knowie. At  Curry  Bivel,  Som.  Henry 

Burford  Norman,  esq.  of  Duchess-st.  Port- 
land-pl.  to  Harriet-Jane,  fifth  dau.  of  the  Rev. 

Samuel   Alford,   Heale  House. At  East 

Tisted,  Hants,  John,  eldest  son  of  Thomas 
Webber,  esq.  of  Escot  Cottage,  Ottery  St. 
Mary,  to  Martha,  only  dau.  of  George  Dyer, 

eaq. At  Abingdon.  John-H?nry-Westcar, 

youngest  son  of  tne  late  Jonathan  Peel.  esq. 
of  Cnlham,  to  Catherine,  eldest  dau.  of  J.  T. 

Hester,  esq. At  Glastonbury,  Somerset,  the 

Rev.  Walter  Allnutt,  M.A.  of  St.  Catharine*8 
Hall,  Camb.  to  Anna,  dau.  of  the  late  John  Bull 

Emery,  esq.  of  Glastonbury. At  Aberford, 

Yorkshire,  T.  D.  F.  Tatham,  esq.  only  son  of 
T.  J.  Tatham,  esq.  of  Bedford-pl.  Russell-sq. 
and  Three  Ash,  Althorne,  Essex,  to  Barbara, 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  James  Landon,  Vicar  of  Aber* 
ford,  Yorkshire,  and  Aymestry,  Hereford.— 
At  St.  Botolph's,  Aldersgate,  the  Rev.  Josh. 
Watkins  Barnes,  MA.  Fellow  of  Trin.  coll. 
Camb.  and  Vicar  of  Kendal,  to  Emma-Lu- 
cretia.  dau.  of  Charles  Lestonrgeon,  esq.  late 
of  Cambridge. —  At  Docklow,  Weston  Cra- 
croft,  esq.  formerly  of  the  Royal  Dragoons, 
eldest  son  of  Robert  Cracroft.  esq.  of  Hack- 
thorn  and  Harrington,  Lincolnshire,  to  Wil- 
liama-Emma,  youngest  dau.  of  W.  G.  Cherry, 

esq   of  JIuckland,  Herefordshire. At  Bal- 

dock,  George  De  Vlns  Wade,  esq,  of  Baldock, 
Herts,  to  Ann,  eldest  dau.  of  George  Henry 
Hicks,  esq.  M.D. At  All  Souls',  John  Gre- 
gory Forbes,  esq.  of  Oxford  terr.  Hyde-park, 
only  surviving  son  of  the  late  Capt.  James 
Keith  Forbes,  Hon.  E.  I.  Go's  Service,  to  Uar- 
riet- Elizabeth,  eldest  dau.  of  William  Mac 
Intyre,  esq.  M.D.  of  Harey-st. 

18.  At  Caml>erwell,  Richard  Incledon,  eaq. 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Capt.  Incledon,  R.N.  to 
Maria,  dau.  of  the  Ute  Charles  Heathcote 

Tatham,  esq.  architect. At  Croydon,  Robert 

Russell,  esq.  of  Croydon,  to  Mary,  eldest  dau. 

of  Thomas  Russell,  esq.  of  Croydon. At 

Paris,  Mr.  W.  Parker,  to  Marian,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  Henry  Gray,  esq.  of  Dean's 
Court,  Doctors'  Commons,  and  btanhope-pl. 
Hyde  Park. 

20.  At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sa.  Viscount 
Melgund,  eldest  son  of  the  Earl  of  Minto,  to 
Em  ma- Eleanor- Elizabeth,  only  dau.  of  tne  late 
Gen.  Sir  Thomas  Hislop,  Bart.  G.CB. 

21.  At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sq.  the  Rev. 
Henry  Cockerell,  Vicar  of  North  Weald  Hasseit, 
to  Elizabeth- Fanny,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  W. 

Hesse   Gordon,  esq. At   St.  Marylebone, 

William  John  Whyte,  of  Vernon-pl.  iilooms- 
bury-sq.  to  Abigail,  fourth  dau.  of  the  late 
Judah  Cohen,  esq.  of  Park-cresc.  Portland-pl. 

At  Banstead,  Surrey,   Edward  Burnaoy 

TInling.  esq.  Cant.  R.N.  (to  Mary-Ann,  dau. 
of  the  late  Francis  Brace,  esq.  and  niece  of  the 
late  Vice-Adm.  Sir  Edward  Brace,  K.C.B. 
Commander-in-Chief  at  the  Nore. At  St. 


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Marylebone,  th«  B«?.  W.  Heidiey,  B.A.  of 
Oorpu  Christi   colL  OuBbridn,  to    Lucy, 

Ibartb  dma.  of  the  late  A.  W.  lifoiTii.  esq. 

At  8t.  Piuicru,  Thomifl  Iimis,  esq.  or  FItiroy- 
■q.  yoQiisest  son  of  Charles  Innis,  eeq.  of 
BoBton-sq.  to  Guoline.  third  dan.  of  the  late 
William  Home.  esq.  of  Streatham.— ^At  Bar- 
ton Sesffrave,  Northamptonsh.  William  Smyth, 
esq.  or  Little  Hoorbton.  to  Laqr-Ch«rlotte, 
second  dau.  of  the  Hon.  and  Her.  R.  B.  Stop- 

fbrd,  Rector  of  Barton  SeafrmYe. ^At  Rid- 

linfftoo,  the  Rev.  John  Oay  Girdlestone,  Rec- 
tor  of  KdUntr-witb-Salthouse,  to  Mary  Reid. 
second  dan.  of  the  Rev.  Wtlliam  Rees,  late 
Head  Master  of  Hr  Wttliam  Paston*s  Free 
Orammar  School  at  North  Walshan,  and  Vicar 

of  Horsey,  Norfolk* At  Banstead,  Richard 

Ward,  esq.  of  Balbonse  Hall,  Norfolk,  to  BUsa- 
beth,  third  dau.  of  the  late  Vice-Admiral  Sir 

Bdward  J.  Foote,  K,C.B. At  Soothmolton. 

James  Pearce.  esq.  to  Jane,  eldest  dan.  or 

Nicholas   Oould.  esq. ^At  Pershore,  Wor- 

oestersh.  Capt.  Henry  Strond,  R.N.  to  Mary- 
Ann,  dan.  of  the  late  Bdward  Cruse,  esq. 

99.  At  Milbrook,  Southampton,  Henry  Ber- 
said,  esq.  of  Wells.  Somerset,  to  Mary,  eldest 
dan.  at  D.  P.  Haynes,  esq.  of  Ashtead,  Surrey. 
—At  Leeds,  Charles,  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Reed,  of  London,  to  Margaret  yonnipest 

dau.  of  Edward  Baines,  esq.  of  Leeds. At 

Brunswick,  Germany.  David  Watson,  esq.  of 
John-st.  Berkeley>sq.  to  Victoire-Martha,  dau. 
of  the  late  Henry  William  Henry  Cole,  esq.  of 
Brunswick. 

98.  At  St.  Geonre's  Bloomsbnry,  Abraham 
Oann,  esq.  of  Nottingham,  to  laaune,  dau.  of 

T.  S.  Needham,  esq.  of  Torrinfton-sq. At 

Mandate,  the  Baron  Blphefre  Van  Zuylen  Van 
Nyevelt  de  Gaesbeke,  of  Brum,  to  BUen- 
Claibome,  eldest  dau.  ofThomas  Hirham,  esq. 
of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and  or  Margate, 

Kent. AtTamworth,  Robert  Hanbury,  esq. 

of  Bolehall,  Warwickshire,  to  Mary-Ann, 
yonnaest  dau.  of  T.  B.  Bamford,  esq.  of  wilme- 

cote  Hall,  same  co. At  Norbury.  the  Rev. 

W.  H.  C.  Uoyd,  of  Norbury,  son  of  Bell  Lloyd, 
esq.  to  BUen.  dan.  of  the  late  Rev.  Henry 

Norman,  of  Moreton. At  Clapham,  W.  B. 

Hudson,  esq.  of  the  Haymarket,  to  Fanny- 
Charlotte,  youngest  dau.  of  Thomas  Hatchard, 

esq.  of  Clapham,  and  of  Piccadilly. At  Chis- 

wick,  Henry  Parsons  Churton.  esq.  third  son 
of  the  Rev  John  Chorton,  to  Eliia,  eldest  dau. 
of  William  Churton,  esq.  of  Sutton  Court 

Lodge,  Cliiswick. At  St.  Clement  Danes, 

Thomas  Keely,  esq.  of  Woodthorpe,  Notting- 
hamsh.  to  Elizabeto-Catherine  Wyer,  only  dau. 

of  George    Phillips,  esq. At  Kensington, 

Robert  Banks  Penny,  tao,  of  Woolwich,  to 
Bliiabeth-Sarah.  dau.  of  John  C.  Bennett,  esq. 

of  Nottlng    Hill,    Kensington. ^At    Solas 

Magna,  W.  Hasledlne  Austin,  esq.  of  the 
Manor  House,  Woore  (grandson  of  the  late  W. 
Haxledine.  esq.  of  Shrewsbury),  to  Jane, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  William  uombersley, 

esq.  oi  Priors  Lee  House,  Salop. At  Winter- 

ton,  John  Ferraby,  esq.  of  Owmby  Mount,  to 
Miss  Abigail  Everatt,  of  Winterton,  eloest 
dau.  of  the  late  John  Everatt,  esq.  of  Saxby. 

95.  At  Paris,  Lieut.  Hodfdjcinson,  R.N.  to 
Jane,  second  dau.  of  Charles  bright,  esq.  late 

of  Blackheath. ^At  Southampton,  George 

¥rheeler,  esq.  to  Julia,  second  dau.  of  the  late 
Col.  John  Huskisson. 

90.  At  Whittinirham,  Northumberland,  Ann, 
relict  of  the  late  Joseph  Hojrhes,  esq.  or  Glan- 
ton,  and  only  dau.  of  William  Cowley  Hus- 
bandman, esq.  formerly  of  Middleton  Hall,  to 
Thomas  Hudson  Cobler,  esq.ofMHiittingham. 

97.  At  Alton  Pancras,  Clifford  Gill,  esq.  of 
Weymouth,  to  Hannah-Emma.  dau.  of  the  late 
Simon  Payne,  esq.  of  Uphill  House,  Somerset. 


98.  hX  St.  G«0Mtt'8»  Bloomibnry-aq.  Charles 
Mercer,  esq.  of  Asnford,  Kent,  to  Anne-Martha« 
younger  dan.  of  the  late  George  Elwick  Jem- 

mett,  esq.  of  Ashford. ^At  St.  George's, 

Bloomsbnry,  Thomas  Haire.  esq.  M.lf.  of 
Lewes,  to  Mary-Ann,  only  cnild  of  the  late 

William  Frankun  Hick,  esq.  of  Lewes. ^At 

Jersey,  George  Balaton,  esq.  of  Poole,  Dorset, 
to  BleaBor-Mary.  dau.  of  the  late  Bdmund 
Lockyer,  esq.  of  Plymouth,  M.D. 

99.  At  Walton,  near  Liverpool,  Hudson  Lut- 
wyche,  esq.  of  Liveraool,  to  Cbarlotte-Anoe, 
doaatdan.  of  Arthur  Lathani,  esq.  of  Liverpool. 
— — AtSouthamnton.  John,  only  son  of  Jolm 
laJnson,  esq.  or  Boston-sq.  and  late  Alderman 
of  London,  to  Catherine-Maria,  eldest  dau.  of 
the  late  Rev.  Alexander  NicolL  D.C.L.  Profes- 
sor of  Hebrew,  and  Canon  of  Christchurch, 
Oxford. At  St.  Giles's,  the  Rev.  O.  P.  Vin- 
cent, M.A.  eldest  son  or  J.  P.  Vincent,  esq. 
of  Uneoln's-inn-flelds,  to  BUiabeth-Hale,  se* 
cond  dau.  ot  the  Rev.  Henry  Budd,  Rector 
of  White  Roothingt  Essex,  and  grand-daf  of 
the  late  Gen.  John  Hale,  of  the  Plantation,  near 
Guisborongh.  Yorkshire. 

ao.  AtGulliford  Chapel,  Lympstone,  J.  H.  B. 
Carslake,  esq.  of  Bridgwater,  aolicitor,  to  Mary, 
eldest  dau.  ofThomas  Foster  Barham,  esq.  of 
Fenleonard  Honse,  near  Exeter. ^At  Lang- 

Krt,  the  Rev.  J.  S.  Coles,  Rector  of  Shepton 
lauchamp,  Somerset,  eldest  son  of  James 
Benjamin  uoles,  esa.  of  Farrock's  Lodge,  to 
BUsa,  dau.  of  Vincent  Stuckey,  esq.  of  the  Hill 

House,  Langport. ^At  Isleworth.  Thomas 

Tbdd  Walton,  esq.  of  Clifton,  to  Margaret- 
Anne,  dau.  of  Henry  Famell,  esq.  of  Holland 
House,  Isleworth. At  St.  George's,  Blooms- 
bury,  the  Rev.  Arthur  Charles  Tirbutt,  M.A., 
Fellow  of  Wadham  coll.  Oxford,  to  Georgiana, 
only  dan.  of  the  late  David  Lousada,  esq.  of 
Gower  St.  and  niece  of  Emanuel  Lousada,  esq. 

of  Peak  House,  Sidmouth. At  St.  Mary's, 

Bryanston-sq.  William  Meybohm  Rider  Hag- 
gard, esq.  of  Bradenham  Hall,  Norfolk,  and  of 
Lincoln's-inn,  barnster-at-law.  to  Ella,  eldest 
dau.  of  Buett  Doveton,  esq.  of  Gloucester-pl. 
Portman-«q.  and  late  of  the  Bombay  Civil 

Service. At  Pilliogton,   John  Philip  Mit- 

ford,  esq.  Capt.  18tn  Royal  Irish,  to  Fanny, 
dau.  of  tne  late  Charles  Mitford,  esq.  of  Pitts- 

hin. In  Grosvenor-st.  Capt.  Allix,  Grenadier 

Guards,  to  Mary-Sophia,  only  child  cit  the  late 
C.  H.  Noel,  esq.  of  Wellingore,  Lincolnshire. 

At  Foxton  Alverstoke,  J.  Bovill.  esq.  of 

Guernsey,  to  Stella,  dau.   of  Samuel  BoviU, 

esq.  of  Foxton  Cottage*  Gosport,  Hants. 

At  llftacombe.  the  I&v.  Thomas  Scott,  A.M. 
only  son  of  tne  late  Thomas  Scott,  esq.  of 
Rock  House,  Bath,  to  Louisa-Florence,  eldest 

dau.  of  J.  S.  Down,  esq.  M.D. At  Maryle- 

bone,  Edmund  Elsden  Goldsmid,  esq.  of  Park- 
cresc.  Regent's  Park,  and  Paris,  to  Sarah- 
Elisabeth,  eldeat  dau.  of  Edward  Bryant  Garey. 
esq.  solicitor,  of  Southampton-buildings,  and 
POwis-pl-  Haverstock  Hill. 

SI.  At  St.  George's,  Bloomsbury,  Charles 
James  Fox  Bunbury,  era.  eldest  son  of  Lieut.- 
Gen.  Sir  Henry  Edward  Bunbury,  of  Barton 
Hall,  Suffolk,  bart.  K.C.B.  to  Frances-Joanna, 
dau.  of  Leonard  Homer,  esq.  of  Bedfonl-pl. 
In  Paris,  the  Rev.  Charles  W.  Leslie,  in- 
cumbent of  St.  Leonard's  and  St.  Mary  Mag- 
dalen, Sussex,  to  Emily,  widow  of  the  late 
Arthur  French,  esq.  of  Leslie  House,  Ballibay. 

June  96.  At  St.  George*s,  Hanover  square, 
by  the  Rev.  Leeds  Comyns  Booth.  M.A.  the 
Rev.  William  Comyns  Berkeley,  eldest  son  of 
W.  Berkeley,  esq.  of  Park  Villas.  Notting  Hill, 
and  late  or  Coopersale  Hall,  Essex,  to  Har- 
riett-Elizabeth, third  daughter  of  John  Bowyer 
Micbois,  esq.  F.8.A.  of  the  Chancellor's,  Ham- 
mflfsniith. 


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OBITUARV. 


Thb  EaAl  of  BMiBOftouott. 

Peh.  3.  At  the  teat  of  his  yottngMt 
son  Lord  de  Mauler,  Ganford  House, 
OoraeCshire,  aged  86,  the  Right  Hon. 
FVederick  Ponsonby/ third  Earl  of  fiess- 
borough  (1789),  Viscount  Duncannon 
(17:23),  and  Baron  of  Bessboroogh,  eo. 
Kilkenny  (1721),  and  Baron  Ponsonby 
of  Sysonby,  co.  Leicester  (1740),  Vice- 
Admiral  of  Munster,  and  D.GrL. ;  unde 
to  Earl  Fits- William. 

His  lordship  was  born  Jan.  2^,  1756, 
the  only  son  Qiis  sisters  being  Catharine 
Duchess  of  St.  Alban*s  and  Charlotte 
Countess  FitzWilliam)»  of  Willi*m  the 
second  Earl  of  Bessoorough.  by  Lady 
Caroline  Ca?endish,  eldest  daughter  of 
William  third  Duke  of  Detooihire. 

When  Lord  Duncannon,  he  was  a 
member  of  Christ  Churcbf  Oxford,  where 
he  was  created  M.A.  April  S9^  1777^ 
and  D.C.L.  Aprtt  30,  1779.  After  trs- 
▼elling  abroad,  he  married,  shortly  after 
his  return,  in  1780,  Lady  Henrietta- 
Firanees  8penc6r,  sister  to  tb«  kte  Barl 
Spencer  and  to  Georgianii  Duchess  of 
DcTonshire. 

At  the  general  election,  in  the  saitie 
year,  be  was  returned  to  Parliament  for 
Krraresborongh,  for  whieh  he  sat  In  three 
Psrllaments,  until  his  succession  to  the 
peerage. 

On  the  dOth  lAarch  1789,  on  the 
formation  of  the  Rockinghand  adminis- 
tration, he  was  appointed  one  of  the 
Lords  Comtnissioners  of  the  Admiralty, 
but  retired  when  the  Marquess  of  Rock- 
ingbam  gare  way  to  the  Earl  of  Shel- 
burne  on  the  iStb  of  July  following. 
Again,  when  the  Duke  of  Portland  be- 
came prime  mbiister,  on  the  8th  of  April 
1783,  he  was  reappointed  to  the  boara  of 
Admiralty,  but  this  ministry  lasted  little 
longer  than  the  former,  terminating  in 
December  of  the  same  year. 

JHis  lordship  succeercd  to  the  peerage 
on  the  death  of  his  father,  March  11, 
1793.  He  was  throughout  life  a  con- 
sistent supporter  of  the  Whig  party.  lin 
1808  we  find  it  stated  of  him,  that  '*  he 
possesses  a  highly  cnltiyated  taste  for 
the  fine  arts,  of  which  he  Is  a  patron, 
and  has  himself  sketched  seteral  sub- 
jects with  the  hand  of  a  master.*' 

His  Lordship  married  Not.  97 1  1780, 
Lady  Henrietta  Frances  Spencer,  second 
daughter  of  John  first  Ean  Spencer,  and 
by  that  lady,  who  died  Nor.  11,  1831, 
iM  bid  kmt  <hl««  worn  ted  9w  dM^b* 


ter !  1.  the  Risht  Hon.  John- William 
now  Earl  of  Bessborough;  9.  Major- 
Oeneral  the  Hon.  Sir  Frederick  Caven- 
dish Ponsonby,  K.C.B.  who  died  In 
1837,  leaving  issue  by  Lady  Emily  Char* 
lotte  Bathurst,  second  daughter  of  llenry 
third  Earl  Bathurst,  three  sons  and  three 
daughters;  3.  Lady  Caroline,  married  in 
1805  to  the  Hon.  William  Lamb,  now 
Viscount  Melbourne,  and  died  in  1838, 
leaving  Issue  an  only  surviving  son,  since 
deceased;  and  4.  the  Right  Hon.  Wil- 
liam  Francis  Spencer  Lord  de  Mauley^ 
who  was  advanced  to  that  title  In  1638 ; 
he  married  in  1814  Lady  Barbara  Ash- 
lev- Cooper,  only  child  of  Anthony  fifth 
Eart  of  Shaftesbury,  and  has  issue  the 
Hon.  Charles  Frederick  Ashley- Cooper 
Ponsonby,  M.P.  for  Poole,  the  Right 
Hon.  Frances  Lady  Kinnaird,  and  one 
younger  son. 

The  present  Earl  of  Bessborough  is 
well  known  in  public  life  as  Lord  Dun- 
cannon. He  was  created  a  Peer  by  that 
title  In  1834,  and  Is  Lord  Lieutenant  and 
Custos  Rotulorum  of  the  county  of  Kil- 
kenny; He  married  in  1805  Lady  Maria 
Fane,  third  daughter  of  John  tenth  Earl 
of  Westmoreland,  and  has  Issue  John 
Qeorge  Brabason,  now  Viscount  Dun- 
cannon, M.P.  for  Derbvand  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant of  the  CO.  Cariow;  the  Right 
Hon.  Augusta- Lavinia-Prisdlla  Coun- 
tess of  Kerry,  and  many  other  children. 

M.  LAPFirrE. 
Ma^  26.    At  Paris,  in  his  77th  year, 
M.  Jacques  Laffitte,  the  eminent  banker, 
Deputy  for  Rouen. 

M.  Laffitte  came  to  Paris  in  1778,  when 
the  extent  of  his  ambition  was  to  find  a 
situation  In  a  banking-house,  and  to  at- 
tain this  object  he  called  on  M.  Perre- 
Saux,  the  rich  Swiss  banker,  to  whom  he 
ad  a  Iftter  of  recommendation.  This 
gentleman  had  just  taken  possession  of 
the  hotel  of  Mdlle.  Gurmard,  which  had 
been  put  up  to  lottery  by  that  lady.  He 
was  introduced  into  the  l>ondoir  of  the 
danseuse,  then  become  the  cabinet  of  the 
fortunate  banker,  and,  having  modestly 
stated  the  object  of  his  visit,  was  told 
that  the  establishment  was  full,  snd  ad- 
vised to  seek  elsewhere.  With  a  disap- 
pointed heart  the  young  aspirant  left  the 
office,  and  while  with  a  downcast  look  he 
traversed  the  courtyard  he  stooped  to 
pick  up  a  pin  which  lay  in  his  path,  and 
wU^  kt  ettefeUy  Mxk  in  Ifae  kpptl  9f 


88 


Obituaby.— Af.  LaffUte. 


[July. 


bis  cont.  Little  did  be  think  that  this 
trivial  action  was  to  decide  his  future 
fate,  but  so  it  was.  From  the  windovr 
of  bis  cabinet  M.  Perregauz  had  observed 
the  action  of  the  young  man.  The  Swiss 
banker  was  one  uf  those  keen  observers 
who  estimate  the  value  of  circumstances 
apparently  trifling,  and  in  this  simple  ac- 
tion he  saw  the  revelation  of  a  character ; 
it  was  a  guarantee  of  a  love  of  order  and 
economy,  a  certain  pledge  of  all  the 
qualities  which  should  be  possessed  by 
a  good  financier.  In  the  evening  of  the 
same  day,  M.  Laffitte  received  the  fol- 
lowing note  from  M.  Perregaux : — *<  A 
place  is  made  for  you  in  my  office,  which 
you  may  take  possession  of  to-morrow 
morning."  The  anticipations  of  the 
banker  were  not  deceived.  The  young 
Laffitte  possessed  every  desirable  quality, 
and  even  more  than  was  at  first  expected. 
From  simple  clerk,  he  soon  rose  to  be 
cashier,  then  partner,  then  head  of  the 
first  banking-house  in  Paris,  and  after- 
wards, in  rapid  succession,  a  deputy  and 
president  of  the  Council  of  Ministers, 
the  highest  point  to  which  a  citizen  can 
aspire. 

He  was  the  oldest  member  of  the 
national  representatives  of  France,  and 
was  undoubtedly  the  most  popular  of  all 
the  public  men  in  France.  In  his  politi- 
cal career  he  was  always  a  sincere  and 
consistent  friend  to  liberty,  and  he  stood 
firm  to  the  principles  of  the  revolution 
which  raised  the  Orleans  dynasty  to  the 
throne,  after  many  of  the  most  active 
partizans  of  that  event  had  deserted  the 
cause.  It  was  by  the  influence  of  M. 
Lsffitte  alone  that  Louis  Philippe  was 
called  to  the  throne  so  suddenly  vacated 
by  the  elder  branch  of  the  Bourbons,  but 
from  the  course  of  events  since  the  three 
days  of  July,  and  the  utter  abandonment 
by  the  Government  of  the  principles 
which  were  supposed  to  have  been  es- 
tsblished  by  the  revolution,  be  lived  long 
enough  seriously  to  repent  of  the  part  be 
took  in  calling  the  Orleans  family  to  the 
throne,  and  even  publicly  to  avow  bis 
disappointment,  and  solemnly  to  ask 
pardon  of  God  and  of  men  for  the  part 
ne  had  taken  in  chat  event. 

Before  the  revolution  of  1830,  the 
fortune  of  M.  Laffitte  was  immense.  It 
was  estimated  at  upwards  of  forty  mil- 
lions of  francs.  The  disasters  and  failures 
which  followed,  and  bis  involvements 
with  the  class  of  Paris  shop.keepers,  who 
were  great  sufferers  by  the  revolution, 
reduced  M.  Laffitte  so  much,  that  he  was 
obliged  to  a  certain  extent  to  suspend 

Eayments  and  to  sell  the  whole  of  his 
irge  property.     At  that  time  so  popular 
was  be,  that  his  splendid   house  in  the 
RucTLaffitte  (so  chU^  in  honour  of  him) 
U 


was  purchased  for  him  by  a  nntional  sub- 
scription, which  amounted  to  no  less 
thau  1,400,000  francs.  Ultimately,  on 
the  winding  up  of  his  affairs,  he  was 
found  to  have  saved  about  seven  millions, 
and  at  the  present  day  it  is  said  to  be 
about  ten  or  twelve  millions.  In  1836 
M.  Laffitte  founded  the  Joint-stock 
Bank  which  goes  by  his  name,  nnd  of 
which  he  was  the  head  and  principal 
partner. 

Little  did  M.  Perregaux  think  that  the 
hand  which  would  pick  up  a  pin  whs  that 
of  a  man  generous  to  prodigality  in 
doing  good — a  hand  always  open  to  suc- 
cour honourable  misfortune.  Never  were 
riches  placed  in  better  bands — never  did 
banker  or  prince  make  a  more  noble  use 
of  them. 

He  has  left  one  daughter  only,  who  is 
married  to  the  Prince  of  Moskowa,  the 
son  of  Marshal  Ney,  and  who  has  several 
children. 

On  the  dOth  May  the  body  of  M.  Laf- 
fitte  was  interred  at  the  cemetery  of  Pere 
Lachaise.  Early  in  the  morning  the  Rue 
Laffitte  was  entirely  occupied  by  troops. 
The  first  room  on  the  ground-floor  was 
made  f the  ehapelU  ardente,  where  the 
body  was  placed,  and  where  was  scHted  a 
priest  before  a  prie-Dieu,  A  single  mu- 
nicipal guard  was  on  duty  by  the  side  to 
direct  those  who  arrived  how  to  pass  on, 
each  sprinkling  the  remains  with  holy 
water.  All  the  spacious  saloons  on  this 
floor  were  crowded  with  citizens  of  all 
classes,  expressing  their  regret  and  con- 
dolence to  the  Prince  de  la  Moskowa  his 
son-in-law  and  M.  Pierre  Liiffitte  his 
brother,  who  were  there  to  receive  them. 
Nearly  all  the  members  of  the  (Chamber 
of  Deputies  attended,  with  the  President, 
Vice-Presidents,  and  Questors,  and  the 
grand  deputation.  The  Peers  were  »1no 
very  numerous.  Marshal  Soult  was 
among  the  first  arrivals,  wearing  the 
grand  cordon  of  the  Legion  of  Honour. 
MM.  Cunnin-Gridttine  and  Lucave- 
Laplagne  were  the  only  other  Ministers 
present.  General  Gourgaud,  Aide.de- 
Camp  to  the  King,  and  sevenil  officrrs  of 
bis  Majesty,  were  there,  and  aUo  M.  de 
Montesquiou and  M.de  Chastelluz,  <  be- 
valiersof  Honour  to  the  Queen  und  Mme. 
Adebtide.  Amongst  the  crowd  which 
filled  the  drawing-rooms  might  be  seen 
the  most  remarkable  persons  connected 
with  politics,  finance,  literature,  and 
commerce,  M.  Migiiet,  M.  Rothschild, 
M.  Mendizabal,  &c.  The  press  bad  sent 
there  the  principal  editore  of  all  the 
journals  of  the  Opposition  of  the  Left. 
It  was  about  half  past  12  when  the  coffin 
was  placed  on  the  funeral  car.  Tbe 
cort^e  then  got  into  line,  and  proceeded 
towards  tbe  «burcb  of  St,  Rocb.    The 


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S9 


population  of  Paris  formed  a  deep  line  at 
each  aide.    AH  the    houses    bad    their 
windows  filled  with  spectators,  as  well  as 
their  balconies,  and,  in  many  cases,  their 
roofs.     The  utmost  decorum  and  deep 
silence,  which  the  crowd,  however  con- 
siderable,   never  attempted  to    disturb, 
prevailed  throughout  the  passage  of  the 
procession.     The  body  was  conveyed  in 
a  very  handsome   car,    drawn  by  four 
horses.     On  the  coffin  were  placed  the 
Cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honour  and  the 
decoration  of  July.     The  cords  of  the 
pall  were  held  by  M.  Sauzet,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chamber  of  Deputies;  M. 
Calmon,   one  of   the   Vice-Presidents, 
and  MM.  Odilon-Barrot,  Arago,  B^ran- 
ger,  and  d*  Argout,  Governor  of  the  Bank 
of  France.     At  Saint- Roch  a  musical 
mass  was  celebrated  by  the  archbishop  of 
Paris,  amidst  the  deepest  silence.     The 
church  was  completely  huug  with  black, 
with  escutcheons  beanng  the  letter  L  on 
the  hangings.  In  the  centre  of  the  church 
was  placed  a  rich  catafolque,  on  which  the 
coffin  was  laid.     It  was  half-past  two 
when  the  procession  began  to  leave  the 
church.     It  proceeded  by  the  Rue  Saint- 
Honor^,    the    Hue   Richelieu,  and   the 
Boulevards  to    Pdr^- Lachaise.     It  had 
been  intended  to  return  by  the  line  chosen 
for  going  to  the  church,  but  this  was 
afterwards  changed.    M.  Odilon-Barrot, 
whom  a  recent  loss  in  his  fiaroily  pre- 
vented from  going  to  the  cemetery,  wnere 
Eoignant  emotions  would  most  probably 
ave  affected  his  mind,  having  retired  on 
leaving  the   church,  as    well  as   MM. 
Sauzet  and  d* Argout,  they  were  replaced 
at  the    funeral   car   by   MM.    Ihiers, 
Dupin,   sen.,  and   General  Excelmaiis. 
The  order  of  the  procession  was  the  fol- 
lowing : — ^a  body  of  the  horse  municipal 
guard  ;   two  squadrons  of    hussars  and 
dragoons ;  a  detacbmeot  of  the  2nd  and 
23ni  infantry  of  the  line  ;  detachments  of 
various  legions  of  the  National  Guard ; 
the  Mayor  of  the  Second  Arrondissement 
of  the  city  of  Paris  and  his  two  deputies  ; 
two  battalions  of  the  second  legion ;  a 
picket  of  dragoons;   the  funeral  car  sur- 
rounded by  a  double  tine  of  soldiers  be- 
longing to  the  infantry  of  the  line  and  of 
grenadiers  of  the  second  legion  ;  the  fa- 
mily of  the  deceased  headed  by  Prince  de 
la    Moscowa  .  and    Pierre   Laffitte,   the 
leaders  of  the  mooniers;  the  Chamber 
of  Deputies  with  the  Vice-Presidents, 
the  questors,  and  the  huissiers  ;  the  de- 
putations of  the  electors  of  Rouen  ;  the 
deputations  of  the  schools;  a  great  num- 
ber of  national  guards,  citizens  of  every 
class,  students,  workmen, — the  whole  in 
aoeh  numbers,  that  it  took  more  than  half 
an  hour  for  them  to  pass  in  front  of  any 
GiNT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


given  point  of  the  Boulevards «  five  car- 
riages of  the  King  and  Royal  family ;  the 
carriage  of  the  deceased ;  twenty  mourn- 
ing  carriages  ;  two  battalions  of  the  se« 
cond  legion  commanded  by  the  Colonel, 
M.  Ganneron ;  two  batteries  of  artillery ; 
a  regiment  of  infantry ;  a  squadron  of 
hussars ;  and  lastly  a  squadron  of  horse 
municipal  guards,  which  closed  the  pro- 
cession. The  cortege  arrived  at  five 
o'clock  at  the  cemeterv,  and  the  body  was 
then  carried  to  the  place  prepared  to  re* 
ceive  it,  near  the  tombs  of  Manuel,  Foy, 
and  Benjamin  Constant.  AVhen  the 
bod^  had  been  deposited  in  the  vault,  two 
voUies  were  fired  over  it  by  a  detachntient 
of  the  troops,  after  which  funeral  orations 
were  pronounced.  M.  Pierre  Laffitte, 
who  was  much  affected,  rendered  homage 
to  the  virtues  of  his  deceased  brother. 
M.  Arago  made  a  speech  full  of  dignity 
and  feeling ;  M.  Visinet,  of  Rouen,  ex- 
preased  in  the  name  of  the  electors  of 
Rouen  the  regret  felt  at  the  losa  of  their 
representative;  and  M.  Gamier- Pag^ 
spoke  at  some  length  in  honour  of  the 
deceased,  both  aa  a  citizen  and  a  politi- 
cian. He  spoke  in  warm  terms  of  the 
benevolence  of  the  man,  and  the  patriot* 
ism  of  the  statesman.  M.  Philippe- Du- 
pin, at  the  request  of  the  Prince  de  la 
Moskowa,  said  a  few  affecting  words  ; 
and  lastly  a  young  student  made  an  ora- 
tion in  the  name  of  the  deputation  of  the 
the  schools.  The  mourners  then  left  the 
cemetery,  and  the  crowd  generally  dis- 
persed in  the  greatest  order. 

Sib  William  Johnston,  Bart. 

Jan.  13.  At  the  Hague,  in  his  8^h 
year,  Sir  William  Johnston,  the  seventh 
Bart,  of  Hilton,  N.B.  (1626),  and  Lite  of 
Burnbam  Grove,  Bucks. 

He  was  son  of  the  sixth  Baronet,  by 
his  second  wife  the  daughter  of  Capt. 
William  CIcland,  R.N.  and  succeeded 
his  father  in  1794. 

He  was  twice  married :  first,  in  178^ 
to  the  daughter  of  John  Bacon,  esq.  of 
Shrubland  Hall,  Suffolk ;  and,  secondly, 
to  the  only  daughter  of  John  Bacon,  esq. 
of  Friern  House,  Middlesex. 

His  son,  now  Sir  William  Bacon 
Johnston,  has  succeeded  to  the  title. 

Admiral  Sir  C.  E.  Nugent. 

Jan.  7.  At  the  residence  of  George 
BBnkes,esq.M.P.,  Studland,  Dorsetshire, 
aged  85,  Sir  Charies  Edmund  Nugent, 
G.C.H.  Admiral  of  the  Fleet. 

Sir  Charies  was  one  of  the  reputed 
children  of  the  Hon.  Edmund  Nugent, 
Lieut.-Col.  1st  Foot  Guards,  only  son  of 
Robert  Viscount  Clare,  afterwards  ^arl 

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Obituabt.— FtM-itfimtni/  Sir  Jahhel  BrcHtm, 


LJdy, 


Nugent,  by  Anne,  sister  and  heiress  of 
the  Right  Hon.  James  Cniggs. 

As  a  Lieutenant  Sir  Charles  Nugent 
saw  much  service  of  a  very  distinguished 
character,  as  he  served  in  the  Bristol,  50, 
under  Sir  Peter  Parker,  on  the  coast  of 
America,  in  the  first  American  war  of 
independence,  and  was  engaged  in  the  ex- 
pedition against  Charlestown,  in  the  redu<v 
tion  of  New  York  and  of  Rhode  Island. 
tie  obtained  post  rank  in  1779;  and  be 
subsequently  commanded  the  Pomona,  at 
the  capture  of  the  fortress  of  Omoa,  and 
the  register  ships  in  1 780.  He  also  com- 
manded the  Veteran,  and  in  that  ship  as- 
sisted at  the  reduction  of  the  French  West 
India  Islands,  in  1793.  His  flag  promo- 
tion as  Rear- Admiral  took  place  on  the 
SOth  Feb.  1797,  and  he  served  in  the 
Cesar,  80,  in  the  Channel  fleet ;  he  was 
made  a  Vice- Admiral  on  the  1st  Jan. 
1801,  and  attained  to  the  rank  of  full 
Admiral  on  the  28th  April,  1808.  He 
became  Admiral  of  the  Fleet  on  the  S4th 
April,  1833,  and  was  nominated  a  6.C.H. 
on  the  13th  March,  1834.  It  is  a  remark- 
able coincidence,  and  the  fact  is  of  itself 
singular  in  the  annals  of  the  united  ser- 
vices, that  while  Sir  C.  Nugent  was  the 
senior  Admiral  of  the  Navy,  his  brother, 
Sir  George  Nugent,  Bart.  G.C.B.,  who 
survives  and  is  his  senior,  is  the  oldest 
General  OiBcer  in  the  army. 

Not  many  years  before  bis  death  Sir 
Charles  was  an  inmate  of  the  Cfaaring- 
cross  Hospital,  from  having  accidentally 
broken  his  leg  by  slipping  off  the  kerb- 
stone near  the  Nelson  Monument,  from 
which  accident  be  perfectly  recovered. 

Vice- A  DM.  Sib  Jahleel  Babnton. 

jipril  21.  At  Leamington,  aged  73, 
Vice- Admiral  Sir  Jahleel  Brenton,  Bart. 
K.C.B.  and  G.C.  St.  F.  and  M. 

He  was  bom  August  22,  1770,  the  son 
of  Rear.  Admiral  Jahleel  Brenton,  (second 
son  of  Jahleel  Brenton,  of  Rhode  Island, 
North  America,)  by  Henrietta,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Cowley,  esq.  of  Wolver- 
hampton. 

He  received  his  education  at  the  mart, 
time  school  at  Chelsea,  and  previously  to 
obtaining  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  in  1790 
had  served  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Swedish 
navy,  and  borne  a  part  in  a  desperate 
battle  between  the  Kussians  and  Swedes 
in  the  gulf  of  Wibourg. 

He  served  as  Lieutenant  on  board  the 
Barfleur  in  Lord  Bridport's  action  off 
Cape  St.  Vincent  in  1797;  was  made  a 
Commander  on  the  3rd  of  July,  1799,  and 
in  command  ot  the  Speedy,  14  gun  brig, 
in  that  year  fought  several  actions  in  the 
vicinity  of  Gibraltar ;  three  of  the  enemy's 
vessels  he  captured  during  this  command 


near  Cape  de  Gatt  under  a  beav^  Are  of 
musketry  from  the  surrounding  hills.  In 
the  following  October  he  destroyed  four 
of  the  enemfa  vessels  in  a  heavy  surf,  at 
the  time  exposed  to  the  guns  of  a  fortifi- 
cation and  musketry  from  the  beach,  and 
in  the  next  month  of  November  he  dis- 
played consummate  skill  and  gallantry  in 
beating  off  two  Spanish  schooners,  and 
ten  other  armed  vessels  ;  by  these  services 
be  won  his  post  rank  dated  the  85th  of 
April,  1800.  He  was  then  selected  by 
Sir  James  (afterwards  Lord)  de  Saumarez 
as  his  Flag-Caj^tain,  and  in  command  of 
the  CsBsar  distinguished  himself  in  tbe 
severe  action  off  Algesiras  of  the  6th  of 
July  1801.  Subseouently,  in  command 
of  the  Minerva,  when  that  frigate  ran 
aground  in  a  fog,  and  was  lost  near  Cher- 
bourg, he  defended  her  during  a  heavy 
fire  of  several  hours,  for  which  unsur- 
passable gallantry  he  received  the  highest 
praise  when  acquitted  at  a  court-martial 
for  the  loss  of  bis  ship.  In  1807»  when 
in  command  of  the  Spartan  frigate.  Sir 
Jahleel  assisted  in  driving  the  French 
garrison  out  of  Pezaro,  and  destroying  the 
castle ;  in  the  following  month  he  assisted 
in  blowing  up  the  castle  of  Cesaratico, 
destroying  a  neighbouring  battery,  and 
compelling  the  island  of  Sussin  to  sur- 
render; also  at  the  reduction  of  Zante  and 
Cepbalonia,  and  particularly  distinguished 
himself  at  the  capture  of  Cerigo,  where 
he  was  first  in  comownd.  These  and 
many  other  important  services  did  this 
gallant  officer  render  in  the  Adriatic.  In 
the  same  ship,  in  1810,  in  concert  with 
the  Success,  ne  defeated  a  French  squad- 
ron in  the  Bay  of  Naples,  when  he  was 
severely  wounded. 

Sir  Jahleel  Brenton  was  created  a 
Baronet  by  patent  dated  Dec.  24,  1813, 
and  he  was  nominated  K.C.B.  at  the 
enlargement  of  that  order  Jan.  9,  1815. 
The  King  of  the  Two  Sicilies  also  con- 
ferred on  him  the  Grand  Cross  of  the 
order  of  St.  Ferdinand  and  of  Merit. 
He  received  a  sword,  value  100  guineas, 
from  tbe  Patriotic  Fund  at  Lloyd's.  On 
the  8th  Feb.  1811,  he  had  a  pension  con. 
ferred  on  bim  of  300/.  per  annum  for  the 
wounds  he  had  received,  and  subsequently 
be  received  another  pension  of  300/.  per 
annum  for  good  service. 

In  Jan.  18H,  be  was  appointed  to 
superintend  the  naval  arsenal  ot  Port 
Mabon ;  in  June  following,  to  command 
the  Dorset  yacht ;  and,  in  the  autumn  of 
tbe  same  year,  to  be  Resident  Commis- 
sioner at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  Tbe 
establishment  at  the  latter  place  being  re- 
duced, he  returned  thence  in  the  Vigo, 
bearing  the  flag  of  Rear- Ad m.  Lambert, 
and  arrived  at  Portsmouth,  Jan.  1,  18S9. 


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91 


He  subsequently  commanded  the  Royal 
Charlotte  yacht.  He  waa  made  a  Rear. 
AdmiralJuly22f  \S30,  and  Vice- Admiral 
July  1,1840. 

Sir  Jableel  Brenton  was  twice  married. 
He  married  first,  April  19. 1803,  Isabella, 
daughter  of  Anthony  Stewart,  esq.  of 
Idaryland — she  died  at  the  Cape  of  uood 
Hope,  July  29,  1817 ;  and  secondly,  Oct. 
9,  1829,  his  cousin  Harriett,  youngest 
daughter  of  the  late  James  Brenton,  esq. 
of  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia.  By  the  first 
lady  he  had  issue  two  sons  and  one 
dRUghter :  1.  John.Jervis,  who  died  at 
Winchester  school  in  1817t  aged  14 ; 
2.  Frances- Isabella,  married  in  1831  to 
her  cousin  Edward  Brenton  Stewart,  esq. ; 
and  3.  Sir  Lancelot  Charles  Lee  Bren- 
ton, who  has  succeeded  to  the  baronetcy. 
By  his  second  marriage  Sir  Jahleel  has 
left  a  daughter,  Harriet- Mary,  born  in 
1824. 

The  present  Baronet  was  born  in  1807, 
and  married,  in  1839,  a  daughter  of  the 
late  Major.  General  Chester. 

[A  more  ample  memoir  of  the  services 
of  Sir  Jahleel  Brenton  will  be  found 
in  the  second  volume  of  Marshall's  Royal 
Naval  Biography.] 

Lieot.-Gen.  SirT.  W.  Stubbb. 

Aprils,  At  Lisbon,  Lieut.- General 
Sir  Thomas  Witham  Stubbs,  of  the  Por- 
tuguese army,  Vicond^  de  VilU  Nova 
de  Gaio,  K.T.S.  and  C.B. 

This  distinguished  officer  was  originally 
in  the  British  50th  regiment,  which,  with 
two  others,  was  sent  to  Lisbon  in  1797. 
Here  Lieut.  Stubbs  became  attached  to 
a  young  Portuguese  lady  of  many  per- 
sonal attractions,  to  whom  he  was  suDse- 
quently  married.  On  the  circumstancea 
becoming  known  to  the  late  Queen  of 
Portugal,  she  offered  him  a  company  in 
her  service^  which  he  accepted;  and, 
having  repaired  to  EngUind  to  dispose  of 
his  commission,  returned  to  Lisbon  to 
fulfil  bis  double  engagement.  When  oar 
troops  entered  that  capital  in  1808,  they 
found  the  subject  of  this  memoir  a  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel in  the  Portuguese  army; 
on  the  reorganisation  of  tlus  force  by 
General  Beresford,  he  was  appointed  to 
the  command  of  a  regiment,  in  which  he 
served  until  1813,  when  he  became  Bri- 
gadier, and  continued  his  services  through- 
out all  the  campaigns  until  the  close  of 
the  operations  in  France,  in  1814,  when 
he  became  Major- General.  After  the 
peace  Sir  Thomas  Stubbs  was  appointed 
to  command  the  military  division  in  the 
Alemtqo.  On  the  accession  of  Don 
Miguel  to  the  throne.  Sir  Thomas  Stubbs 
Q^itted  Portugal,  and  returned  to  EngUnd 
onring  the  reign  of  that  prince,  who  con« 


fiscated  part  of  his  property  in  his  ab« 
sence.  When  Sir  Thomas  returned  to 
Portugal,  Don  Pedro  made  him  Governor 
of  Oporto.  Subsequently  to  this,  about 
1824,  he  became  Lieut. -General,  and  held 
several  high  situations  at  the  Portuguese 
head-quarters,  where  his  opinions  and  ad- 
vice were  always  respected  and  well-re- 
ceived. There  he  remained  until  his 
death,  carrying  with  him  the  regrets  of  all 
the  British  and  Portuguese  who  enjoyed 
the  benefit  of  his  acquaintance. 

Lieut.- General  Loveday. 

DeC'  20.  At  Bath,  at  an  advanced  age, 
Lieut.- General  Lambert  Loveday,  the 
senior  officer  of  the  Bengal  army. 

He  was  the  second  son  of  Richard 
Loveday,  esq.  an  apothecary,  at  Ham- 
mersmith, in  Middlesex,  to  whose  me- 
mory he  erected  a  tablet  in  Hammersmith 
church,  with  a  Latin  inscription,  which 
will  be  seen  in  Faulkner's  History  of  that 
parish,  p.  135.  Bv  this  inscription  it 
appears  that  his  father  was  for  nearly  40 
years  in  practice  at  Hammersmith,  and 
died  Dec.  10,  1812,  aged  81.  His  mother 
Maria,  of  the  Bainbridge  family  in  the 
county  of  Leicester,  died  May  19,  1801, 
aged  63. 

He  received  his  first  appointment  in 
the  East  India  Company's  service  in  1778 ; 
became  Colonel  of  the  32d  regiment  of 
Bengal  infantry  in  Nov.  1817;  attained 
the  rank  of  Major- General  in  1819;  and 
of  Lieut.- General  in  1837. 

He  married  Miss  D'Esterre,  sister  to 
Mr.  Norcott  D'Esterre,  who  was  killed 
by  Mr.  Daniel  O'Connell  in  a  duel  near 
Dublin  in  1815 ;  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons,  Lieut.  Byam  M.  Loveday,  of  the 
15th  Bombay  N.I.,  killed  in  India,  having 
married.  May  12,  1842,  Alicia- Cassan, 
eldest  daughter  of  Major- Gen.  Simpson  ; 
and  the  Rev.  Henry  A.  Loveday,  a  Chaplain 
in  India,  married  Aug.  3, 1840, 1o  Eliza- 
Louisa,  daughter  of  William  Mulls,  esq.  and 
Lady  Pilkington,  of  the  Grove,  Dedham, 
Essex;  and  four  daughters,  of  whom  the 
eldest,  Mary,  who  is  deceased,  married 
Edward  Hawkins,  esq.  (since  remarried 
to  Alicia,  daughter  of  Henry  Lumsden, 
esq.) ;  the  second,  Eliza,  was  the  wife  of 
Lieut. -Col.  Herring,  of  the  37th  Bombay 
N.  Inf.  killed  at  Hyder  Keel,  Sept.  6, 
1839;  the  third,  Jesse,  is  married  to  Capt. 
Spottiswoode ;  and  the  fourth,  Julia- 
Charlotte,  married  July  20,  1842,  at 
Meerut,  in  India,  to  C.  Madden,  esq. 
civil  surgeon. 

Majo&.Gck.  W.  H.  Beckwith., 
March  17.  In  Chester,  i«ed  78,  Major- 
General  William  Henry  Beckwith. 
He  entered  the  army  Jan.  19, 1778,  as 


92    Major-Gtm.  Sir  O.  Care^. ^Major-Gen.  F.  J.  T.  Johnstone.      [July, 


Eonso  ia  the  S8th  Foot.    He  terred  in 
ftiat  rank  npwvds  of  eighteen  months  in 
the  West  Indies,  and  obtsined  his  Lien- 
tensBCj  Jsn.  88,  1782.     He  returned  to 
En^ndat  the  peace,  and  to  1793  went 
to  the  West  Indies  at  Aide-de-camp  to 
lieut.-Gen.  Prescott.    He  served  at  the 
aiptore  of  the  West  India  Islands  by  Sir 
Charles  Grey,  and  May  31, 17M^  received 
a  company  in  the  56th.  He  was  present  at 
the  siege  of  Fort  Matilda,  and  at  the  cap- 
ture of  Goadalonpe;  after  which  he  re- 
turned home.     In  1798,  he  joined  his  re- 
giment at  St.  Domingo,  and  he  returned 
to  England  upon  the  evacuation  of  that 
island. 

He  served  the  campaign  of  1799,  in 
Holland,  as  Major  of  Brigade,  and  on  his 
return  was  appointed  Major  in  the  52nd, 
June  86,  1799.  He  accompanied  bis  re- 
giment to  the  coast  of  Spain,  and  to  the 
Mediterranean ;  but  it  was  not  permitted 
to  serve  in  Egypt,  being  formed  of  li- 
mited service  men.  On  his  return  to 
Enghind,  he  was  appointed,  Sept.  17th, 
1803,  Lieut. -Colonel  to  the  1st  Battalion 
of  Reserve.  He  was  Bubsequently  placed 
on  the  half.pay  of  the  27tb  Foot,  and  ap- 
pointed an  Assistant  Adjutant-general 
in  Ireland.     The  1st  Jan.  1813  he  re- 


nt Col  de  Ordal,  was  forionsly  attacked  at 

midnight,  on  the  13th  Sept.  1813,  by  two 

French  columns  of  10,000  men,  and,  after 

a  sanguinary  eonflict  of  two  hoars,  was 

oomptrlled,  from  want  of  support,  to  retire 

with  heavy  loss    in    officers   uid   men. 

Major  Carey,  haviqg  been  poated  by  the 

Commander  of  the  Forees  himself  con- 

siderably  to  the  left  of  the  position,  was 

completely  separated  from  the  main  body 

of  the  army,  and  must  have  been  captured 

but  for  the  promptitude,  skill,  and  darinff 

with  which  he  boldly  cut  his  way  through 

the  rear  of  the  French  column,  though 

with  heavy  loss,  thereby  opening  his  road 

to  Villa  Kova,  where  he  pressed  some 

vessels,  embarked  his  weakened  corps, 

and  rejoined  the  army  at  Tarragona,  to 

the  inexpressible  surprise  and  satisfaction 

of  the  Commander  of  the  Forces,  Lord 

William  Bentinck,  who  had  given  them 

up  as  lost,  and  who  was  proportionably 

warm  in  his  praise  of  Major  Carey  and 

his  brilliant  feat. 

When  in  command  of  the  57th  regiment, 
Lieut.- Colonel  Carey  arrived  with  the 
regiment  off  Chatham,  from  Ireland,  on  a 
day  when  the  Duke  of  York  was  review- 
ing the  garrison,  and  received  orders  for 
ita  immediate  debarkarion  and  presence 


ceived  the  brevet  of  Colonel ;  and  that  of    on  the  reviewing  ground.    A  though  quite 


Major- General  ^une  4th  1814.     He  hsd 
been  a  retired  oiBcer  for  many  years. 

Major- Gen.  Sia  O.  Cabby. 

March  13.  In  London ,  aged  58,  Major- 
General  Sir  Octavius  Carey,  K.C.H. 
commanding  the  Cork  district. 

He  was  present  at  the  siege  of  Scylla 
in  1809,  and  served  with  distinction  on 
the  eastern  coast  of  Spain,  from  Feb. 
1812  to  the  close  of  the  war  in  18U. 
When  a  Major,  he  was  selected  for  the 
command  of  the  Free  Corps  of  C«la- 
brese,  which,  under  his  nble  superintend- 
ence, soon  attained  efficiency  and  skill  as 
light  troops.  His  rigid  enforcement  of 
justice  from  the  officers,  chiefly  Italians, 
to  the  men,  gained  him  the  devoted  at- 
tachment of  tbe  latter,  as  was  evinced  by 
their  readiness  to  follow  and  stand  by  him 
in  the  execution  of  any  enterprise,  how- 
ever perilous. 

Major  Carey  wss  at  the  taking  of  Alcoy, 
the  action  at  Briur,  battle  of  Castilla, 
siege  of  Tarragona,  action  at  Ordal, 
blockade  of  Tarragona,  and  also  of  Bar- 
celona. At  Briar  and  Castilla  he  and  his 
corps  achieved  great  credit  by  their  dex- 
terity and  courage  ;  but  it  was  at  the  Col 
de  Ordnl  that  the  ability  of  the  com- 
mander and  the  gallantry  of  his  men  were 
most  eminently  contipicuous.  Tbe  light 
division  of  the  English  army,  to  which 
^he  Calabrese  were  attacbedi  being  posted 


unconscious  of  what  was  going  on,  the 
regiment  appeared  before  tbe  Commander- 
in-chief  in  as  clean  a  state,  and  in  as  fine 
order,  as  any  corps  in  the  field,  and 
elicited  from  His  Royal  Highness  the  re- 
peated expression  of  his  admiration  and 
thanks. 

Sir  Octavius  Carey  was  nominated  a 
Companion  of  the  Bath  in  1815,  re- 
ceived  the  honour  of  knighthood  Aug.  4, 
1830,  and  was  appointed  a  Knight  Com- 
mander of  the  Hanoverian  Order  in  1835. 
The  following  are  the  dates  of  his  re- 
espective  commissions:  Ensign,  March, 
1801 ;  Lieutenant,  5th  June,  1801 ;  Cap- 
tain, 27th  Aug.  1804;  Major,  2nd  Nov. 
1809;  Lieut.-Col.  dOth  Sept.  1811; 
Colonel,  27tb  May,  1825;  and  Major- 
General,  10th  Jan.  1837. 

Sir  Octavius  Carey  married,  in  1818,  a 
daughter  of  R.  P.  Le  Merchant,  esq.  of 
Guernsey,  whom  he  has  left  his  widow 
with  thirteen  children. 

In  private  life  he  was  deservedly  held  in 
great  esteem,  as  he  professionally  enjoyed 
the  character  of  a  breve,  zealous,  and 
able  soldier. 


Major.  Gen.  F.  J.  T.  Johnstone,  C.B. 

Jan.  5.  Aged  67,  Major- Gen.  Francis 
Jamea  Thomas  Johnstone,  C.B. 

He  was  born  August  26,   1776,  the 


younger  son  of  Samuel  Johnstone,  esq.  of 
tbe  £•  I.  civil  seryicei  by  the  Hod.  Hester 


n 


.18i4.]     Lt.-CoL  W,  G.  WhUe.-^Wadham  WynMqm,  Esq.  M.P.  Q3 

Napier,  third  daughter  of   Francis  fifth  He  commanded  the  48th  Renmentin  the 

Lord  Niipier,  and  was  only  brother  of  the  battles  of  Vit'toria  and  the  Pyrenees,  in 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Alexander  Johnstone,  of  the  latter  of  which  his  horse  wan  shot 

Carnsalloch,    Dumfriesshire,  late   Chief  under  himyand  he  himself  was  wonnded 

Justice  of  Ceylon.  in  the- leg  and  dangerously  in  the  ribs, 

He  entered  the  Bengal  army  in  1795.  from  the  effects  of  \vhich  together  with  a 

His  regiment  was  the  3d  Light  Cavalry,  former  wound  in  the  head  he  suffered  at 

He  attained  the  rank  of  Colonel  June  5,  times  both  mentally  and  bodily.      He 

18?9,  and  was  appointed  Brigadier. Ge  was  promoted    to    the  rank  of  Lieut., 

neral  in  Oude,  Feb.  11,  1835.  Colonel  on  the  26th  of  August,  1813. 

.  He  returned  from  the  South  of  France  in 

Lt.-Col.  W.  O.  White.  1814,  with  the  48th  Regiment.     In  1817 

March  3.      At    Newtown     Cottage,  he  was  appointed  to  the  command  of  the 

Swanage,  DorseUhire,  aged  66,  JLieut.-  consolidated  depots  at  Canterbury.     In 

Colonel  William  Grove  White,  C.B.  Dec.  1823,  he  was  appolnied  to  the  com- 

He  entered  the  service  in  April,  1795,  roand  of  the  d4th  Regiment,  which  he 

and  was  appointed  Ensign,  by  purchase,  accompanied  from  Scotland  to  Gibraltar, 

in  a  corps  then  raising   by  the    Hon.  He  sold  out  in  1826,  retaining  his  rank. 

Colonel  Ward,  and  in  August  was  re-  •   

moved  to  the  48th  Regiment,  in  which  Wadbam  Wtndham,  Bad.  M.P. 

he  was  shortly  afterwards  promoted  to  a  Qd,  23.     At  the  College,   Salisbury, 

Lieutenancy.     In  November  ot  the  same  aged  70,  Wadhani    Wyndham,  esq.   for 

year,  be  sailed  for  the  West  Indies,  with  many  years  one  of  the  represenUtives  of 

the  expedition  under  Sir   Ralph  Aber-  that  city  in  Parliament, 

crombyand  Adm.  Sir  Hugh   Christian.  Mr.  Wyndham  was  bom  Oct.  16, 1773, 

He  was  at  the  capture  of  St.  Lucia,  and  and  was  the  eldest  surviving  son  and  heir 

suffered   severely  from    the  fatigues  of  of  Henry  Penruddocke  Wyndham,   esq. 

service  and  the  noxious  influence  of  the  M.p.  for  Wiltshire  from  1796  to  1812, 

climate,  until  the  year  1797,  when,  the  (author  of  Tours  in  Wales  and  the  Isle  of 

regiment  being  reduced  to  a  skeleton,  he  Wight,  and  translator  of  the  Domesday 

returned  with  it  to  England.  Book    for    Wiluhire,*)    by     Caroline, 

On  the  48th  being  recruited  in  1798,  daughter  and  heiress  of  the  Rev.  Richard 

he  accompanied  it  to  Gibraltar,  and  sub-  Hearst,  Canon  Residentiary  of  Sarum. 

sequently  in  the  expedition  up  the  Medi-  Mr.  Wyndham  was  firet  a  candidate  for 

tcrrenean,  where  he  assisted  at  the  taking  the  representation  of  Salisbury  in  Par- 

of  Malta,  and  in   1802    was    sent    to  liament  in  1813,  when  he  was  defeated  by 

England  with  the  limited-service  men  of  George  Purefoy  Jervoise,  esq.  who  polled 

bis  corps,  preparatory  to  their  discharge.  S8  votes,  and  Mr.  Wyndham  21.   He  was 

A  few  months  after  the  regiment  followed,  elected  without  opposition  in  1818,  1820, 

and,  receiving  reinforcements   from   the  and  1826,  and  1830.     On  the  agitation  of 

army  of  reserve,  was  formed  into  two  the  Reform  Bill  he  was  opposed  in  1831 

batulions,  to  the  second  of  which  this  by  Mr.  Brodie,  and  the  result  of  a  poll 

officer  was  appointed  paymaster  ;  but  he  ^as 

relinquished  that  office  on  his  promotion     n^„.  jj.  P.  Bouverie 31 

o  a  company  ,nJ804,  and  in  im  joined     ^^^^^^  Wyndham,  esq 87 

the     1st    Battalion,    under    orders   for  «t^    oi,j  u^^ai^  L,,                             n 

Gibraltar,  where  be  continued  until  1809,      ^";  Bird  Brodie,  esq 7 

and  for  the  last  thirteen  months  acted  as  After  the  passing  of  that  measure  he 

Town-Major  of  that  garrison,  and  pwrt  of  was  again  returned,   Mr.  Brodie  being 

the  time  previously  as  Aide-de-Camp  to  elected  at  the  expense  of  his  Whig,  and 

Lieut.-General  Drummond,  then  in  com-  not  his  Tory,  competitor.     The  election 

matid.    During  the  above  interval,  this  terminated  as  follows : 

officer,  in  conjunction  with  the  then  Capt.     Wm.  Bird  Brodie,  esq.  .. .  •  • 392 

Hailey  of  the  10th  Foot,  raised  under  the     Wadham  Wyndham,  esq 268 

sanction  of  Lieut.-  Gen.  Drummond  500     Hon.  D.  P.  Bouverie 265 

men  and  upwards,  who  were  transferred  However,    Mr.    Wyndham    waa    un- 
to the  regiment  of  Meuron  by  order  of  grated  on  a  petition. 

r    .^^l    . '^-  .    ^                 .      ,.  In  1835  and  1837  Mr.  Brodie  and  Mr. 

In  1809  be  joined  the  army  under  the  Wyndham  were  returned  without  a  con- 
Duke  of    WeUington,  with  which    he  teat;  but  at  the  last  general  election  in 
actively  served  dunng  the  transactions  in  ________^__,___^.___________^ 

the  Peninsula,  except  at  short  periods, 

when  severe  illness  obliged  him  to  repair  *  See  a  Memoir  of  Mr.  H.  P.  Wynd- 

to  England  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  bam  in  Hoare*s  Modem  WilUhire,  His* 

Be  was  promoted  to  his  majority  in  1809.  tory  of  Salisbury,  p.  646. 


% 


94  Obitvary.— (7o^  Tomes,  Esq.  [July, 

1841  tliey  had  ■  competitor,  but  who  wu  The  **  Ctttle"  influenee   was  that  de- 

oatToted—- as  foUowa :  feated  by  the  refection  of  its  former  no- 

Wadham  Wyndham,  esq d66  "»"««  Sir  Charles  Greville;  but  in  the 

Wm.  Bird  Brodie,  esq? 293  Allowing  year  it  resumed  its  supremacy, 

Hod,  John  Ashley  .7/. 234  ^^  ^^«  exclusion  of  the  "  Reformer    Mr. 

Mr.  Wyndham  was  for  many  year,  an  ^omes,  the  poU  being,  foj 
officer  in  the  WUtshire  MiUtia,  and  was         Hon.  Sir  C.  J.  Greville  ...  701 

Major  of  the  regiment  when  he  retired         £.  B.  King,  esq 553 

from  it.     He  was  held  in  the  highest        John  Tomes,  esq 463 

^^^y  ilfS?  M^^'i^-'lfn^*  Kf?J!!^^^^^^  Mr.  Tomes  had  since  retired  into  private 

stnct  integrity  of  his  conduct,  his  popular  i.<>  '^ 

mannen,  «nd  the  eitrem.  benevolence  or        o„  ^^  g^^  p^^  y,  ^  ^  conveyed 

'"Mr'I^SSSi-  ««rirf  M«el.  1. 1881.  »»  i,^^P'«~  ''^"v^le'.ltlen.e!;  o f'^e 

Anne- Eliza,  second  daughter  of  Lieut.*  ««:«kKJ;,»k*v*,vj—««.—A5«iii.oit.«  ♦«-»««-« 

ham  and  Wadbam  Wyndham,  esquires.  y^^^^k  (son-in-law  of  thi  dweased),  H. 

_  _  T.  Chamberlayne,  esq.  (who  married  a 

John  Tomss,  Esq.  jje^e  of  the  deceased).  Mr.Thomaa  ColUns, 

Jan,  31.     At  Warwick,  aged  83,  John  and  Mr.  Edmund  Tomes  (grandsons  of 

Tomes,  esq.  late  M.  P.  for  that  borough,  the  deceased) ;  and  the  pall^arers  were 

Mr.  Tomes  was  an  active  persevering  Charles  Lamb.  esq.  Theophilus  Taylor, 

man,  and  universally  esteemed,  even  by  esq.  Thomas  Heatn,  esq.  and  W.  Hand- 

those  bearing  different  political  opinions.  ley,  eso.— all  of  whom  were  for  years  the 

About  the  year  1793,  when  Mr.  Knight,  devoted  friends  of  the  deceased.   The  ser- 

of  Barrels,  opposed  Mr.  Villiers  for  the  vice  was  attended  by  many  of  the  old  and 

representation  of  the  borough  of  Warwick,  respectable  inhabitants  of  the  town,  who 

Mr.  Tomes  (who  then  lived  in  Church,  bail  witnessed  the  long  and  useful  course 

street)  was  engaged  on  behalf  of  the  of  their  late  fellow-townsman  ;  and  there 

former  as  his  attorney.      Mr.   Knight,  were  present  also  many  of  the  poorer  re- 

boweyer,  was  unsuccessful,  the  Castle,  sidents,  who  gratefully  remembered  his 

or  Orange,  interest  being  then  too  pow-  kindness  and  condescension  of  manners, 

erful.     Soon  afterwards,  on  the  death  of  and  his  willing  and  strenuous  endeavours 

Mr.  John  Parry,  the  Coroner,  he  sue-  to  render  services  to  others.    "  In  Mr. 

eeeded  to  that  appointment,  whicb  be  Tomea  of  Warwick,  Dr.  Parr,"  says  one 

held  many  years.     He  then   purchased  of  his  biographers,  '*  always  admired  the 

Mr.  Parry's  boose  in  Jewrr-atreet,  pulled  vigorous  understanding  and  useful  activity 

it  down,  and  on  the  site  built  a  splendid  by  which  be  is  distinguished  in  private 

mansion,  and  adjoining  it  a  large  hotel,  life :  and  he  applauded  the  consistencr 

called  the  Black  Swan.    In  courae  of  and  integrity  ofhis  public  conduct;  guided, 

time  be  felt  it  necessary  to  take  a  partner,  as  it  has  ever  been,  by  large  and  eniight- 

and  the  firm  then  beoune  *'  Tomes  and  ened  views  on  all  great  questions  con- 

Heydon.**    He  was  also  a  banker — the  nected  with  tbe  wise  policy,  the  just  rights 

firm  being  *'  Tomes  and  Russell."    He  and  liberties,  and  the  true  prosperity  and 

was  of  great  benefit  to  the  rising  town  of  glory  of  his  country.     This  gentleman 

Leamington,  and  patronized  the  sports  has  Utely  been  raised,  by   the   almost 

of  the  turf  by  occasionally  entering  horses  unanimous  suffrage  of  his  fellow-towns- 

to  lun  at  Warwick  races.  men,  to  tbe  honour  of  being  one  of  their 

He  was  first  elected  to  Pariiament  representatives  in  Parliament.  Thus  they 
for  Warwick,  on  a  vacancy  in  Feb.  have  borne  to  him  a  hifh  testimony  of 
1826,  on  the  Whig  interest,  having  polled  their  respect  for  his  puElic  and  private 
186  in  competition  with  the  Hon.  O.  character,  and  of  their  gratitude  for  his 
Winn,  who  polled  oiUy  14*  He  was  re*  exertions,  so  constantly  directed  to  the 
elected  in  1830,  and  again  alter  a  contest  local  improvements,  to  the  political  free- 
in  1^31 ,  which  teraiinated  as  follows :  dom,  and  the  general  wellare  of  thdr 

John  Tomea,  esq 666  *<>'^'" 

E.  B.  King,  esq.    ...    &    •  £83 
Hod.  Sir  C.  J.  Grerille  .    .    .  M5 


n 


1844]  lioae  Newton  Wigfuy,  Eiq.-^Thomas  Bawei,  Esq. 


95 


Isaac  Nxwton  WiaNsr,  Esq. 

Feb*  8.  In  Porcbester-plaoe,  Hyde 
Park,  aged  49,  after  years  of  ill  health 
and  months  of  severe  suffering,  Isaac 
Newton  Wigney,  esq.  for  several  years 
M.P.  for  Brighton. 

Mr.  Wigney  was  for  many  years  a 
banker  at  firighton,  of  high  errait  and 
estimation,  even  among  those  from  whom 
he  differed  in  politics. 

He  first  contested  the  representation 
of  the  borough,  on  the  ultra-Liberal  in* 
terest,  in  1832,  and  was  returned  after  a 
poll  which  terminated  as  follows  i — 

I.  Newton  Wigney,  esq.  896 

George  Faithfi^,  esq.      .  790 

G.  R.  PecheU,  R.N.      .  609 

Wm.  Crawford      ...  391 

Sir  A.  J.  Dalrymple       .  39 

In  1835  he  was  not  so  high  on  the  poU| 
but  again  returned— 

Capt.  PecheU,  R.N.  .    .  961 

I.  Newton  Wigney,  esq.  593 

Sir  A.  J.  Dalrymple  .     .  483 

George  Faithful,  esq.      .  467 

In  1837  he  was  defeated  by  Sir  A.  J. 
Dalrymple  the  Conservative  candidat^^ 

Capt.  Pechell,  R.N.     .  1083 

Sir  A.  J.  Dalrymple     .  819 

I.  Newton  Wigney,  esq,  801 

George  Faithful,  esq.    .  183 

Bot  in  1841  he  recovered  his  seat,  th« 
poll  being- 
Copt.  Pechell,  R.N.     .    1443 
I.  Newton  Wigney,  esq.     1935 
Sir  A.  J.  Dalrymple     .      879 
Charles  Brooker,  esq.    .        19 

The  sudden  failure  of  Messrs.  Wig. 
ney's  bank,  in  1849,  rendered  Mr.  Wig. 
ney's  retirement  from  Parliament  neces- 
sary. He  married,  about  1891,  a  daughter 
of  John  Walter,  esq.  of  Bear  Wood, 
Berkshire,  M.P.  for  that  county,  and  has 
left  a  numerous  family. 


Thomas  Bowes,  Esq. 

March  13.  At  Durham,  Thomas 
Bowes,  esq.  of  Bradley  hall  in  that  county, 
the  last  male  representative  in  name  and 
descent  of  the  head  line  of  the  ancient 
family  of  Bowes  of  Streatlam. 

"  Of  the  family  of  Bowes,"  says  Mr. 
Surtees,  (History  of  Durham,  vol.  IV. 
p.  101,)  '*an  account,  said  to  be  taken 
from  the  Chartulary  of  St.  Mary*s  Abbey 
at  York,  states  the  first  ancestor  to  be  a 
cousin  of  an  Earl  of  Richmond,  Alan  the 
Black,  who  appointed  him  captain  of  the 
Tower  of  Bowes,  and  leader  of  five  hun- 
dred archers.  The  heralds,  however,  be. 
gin  tha  genealogy  with  Sir  Adam  Bowes^ 


a  successful  lawyer  and  Chief  Justice  in 
Eyre,  who  married  the  heiress  of  Trayne 
of  Streatlam  towards  1310,  and  was  the 
ancestor  of  a  line  of  knightly  rank,  who 
intermarried  with  the  first  nobility  of  the 
north,  Graystock,  Fitzhugh,  Coniers, 
Eure,  and  Clifford,  and,  what  is  more 
sinj^ular,  were  distinguished  by  civil  or 
military  talent  in  even'  successive  gene- 
ration. Sir  George  £owes,"  the  head 
of  the  house  in  his  day,  was,  continues 
Mr.  Surtees,  '*  early  trained  to  the  pro- 
fession of  arro%  and  engaged  like  most  of 
his  ancestors  in  the  service  of  the  Border." 
His  first  wife  was  Dorothy,  daughter  of 
Sir  William  Mallory,  of  Studley  Royal, 
in  Yorkshire,  from  which  match  the  (ate 
Mr.  Bowes  was  lineally  descended ;  and 
his  second  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Talbot,  of  Grafton,  by  whom  he 

gained  a  dose  alliance  with  the  powerful 
ouse  of  Shrewsbury.  He  was,  during  a 
long  and  active  life,  one  of  the  most  faith- 
ful  as  well  as  powerful  supporters  of  £11. 
zabeth  and  of  the  Protestant  interest  in 
the  North,  and,  when  the  rash  rebellion  of 
the  earls  of  Northumberland  and  West- 
morland broke  out,  his  prompt  and  vigo- 
rous conduct  gave  the  first  important 
check  to  the  insurgents.  Surrounded  on 
every  side  by  the  immediate  retainers  of 
the  rebel  earls,  and  in  the  midst  of  a 
country  either  openly  engaged  in  the 
rising,  or  more  than  wavering  in  their 
allegiance  to  the  Queen,  he  threw  him. 
self  into  the  Earl  of  Westmoreland's  for- 
tress of  Barnard  Castle,  and  maintained  a 
siege  against  the  whole  power  of  the  in- 
surgents for  eleven  days,  until  the  ad- 
vance  of  the  earls  of  Sussex  and  War- 
wick with  the  royal  forces  sealed  the  fate 
of  the  rebellion."  Sir  George  Bowes 
was  rewarded  by  the  Queen  with  a  grant 
of  divers  estates  which  had  belonged  to 
the  rebel  earls  or  their  adherents,  among 
which  was  Bradley  Hall,  which  duly  de- 
scended to  the  late  Mr.  Bowes :  and,  in 
addition  to  the  estate  of  Bradley,  there 
also  descended  to  Mr.  Bowes,  as  we  have 
been  informed,  a  presumptive  right  to  the 
^erage  of  Bray,  the  son  of  the  Sir  George 
Bowes  above-mentioned,  from  whom  be 
was  descended,  having,  as  it  was  believed, 
married  the  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Ed- 
ward, the  next  heir  male  of  John  Lord 
Bmy,  who  died  in  1691.  A  few  years 
ago,  when  the  question  of  this  peerage 
was  brought  before  the  House  of  Lords, 
in  consequence  of  a  petition  from  Mrs. 
Otway  Cave,  who  was  descended  from 
another  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Bray, 
Mr.  Bowes,  having  taken  his  advanced 
age  and  other  circumstances  into  consi- 
deration, declined  to  prosecute  his  cUim, 
and  the  title  was,  in  consequence,  revived 
in  favour  of  th«  lady  above-mentioned* 


96 


OBiTtrARY.«WoA»  Herman  Merwalt,  Ssq,  f,S,A,        [Jciy, 


Mr.  BowM  was  born  in  1758,  but  a 
complaint  in  bis  eyes,  under  which  he  la- 
boured for  the  first  twenty  years  of  his 
life,  and  which  frequently  during  that  pe- 
riod confined  him  for  weeks  together  to 
a  dark  room,  prevented  him  from  making 
much  progress  with  his  education  in  the 
days  of  bis  youth.     He  was  gifted,  how- 
ever,  with  good  natural  talents,  which  he 
afterwards  cultivated,  and  one  result  of 
this  cultivation  was  an  undeviating  at- 
tachment to  our  constitution  in  Church 
and  State.     He  appears  fb  have  settled 
in  Durham  about  the  year  1780,  after  he 
had  lost  his  father  and  mother,  and  from 
that   time    he    became   intimately    ac- 
quainted with  the  principal  families  of  the 
county,  of  all  shades  of  politics,  and  was 
alwaytt  a  welcome  guest  in  their  houses. 
Mr.  Bowes  was  the  last  survivor  of  three 
ffentlcmen  who,  in  consequence,  as  it  has 
been  said,' of  a  wiiger,'  made  a  toiir  through 
Sweden,  Swedish'La'pland,  Finland,  and 
Denmark,  in  the  jenr  17B6.'    His  fellow 
travellers  were  Sir  H.  G.  Liddell,  Bart, 
the  tather  of  the  present  Lord  Ravens- 
worth,  and  Mr.  Consett.    A  very  inte- 
resting account  of  this  tour  was  published 
by  Mr.  Consett,  in  1789,  in  quarto,  with 
engravings  on  copper  by  Bewick :  we  are 
not  aware  that  tnat  eminent  artist  has 
left  behind  him  any  other  engravings  on 
copper,  and  it  may  be  remarked  that  in 
the  frontispiece  to  the  book,  inscribed 
'*  Viewing  the  midnight  sun  atTornao,  in 
Lapland,*'  the  figure  standing  at  the  foot 
of  the  ladder,  pointing  to  the  sun  half  bid 
by  the  horizon,  is  said  to  represent  Mr. 
Bowes.      This  book,   which    possesses 
considerable  merit,  has  become  scarce. 
I'be  party  left   Ravensworth  Castle  on 
the  24th  of  Mny,  1780,  when  Mr.  Bowes 
was  in  his  28th  year,  and  returned  to 
England  on  the  17th  of  August  follow, 
ing.    A  list  of  subscribers  is  prefixed  to 
Mr.  Consett**  narrative  of  their  travels ; 
and  we  believe  we  are  correct  in  stating 
that  in  that  list  the  only  person  now  alive 
is  R.  J.  Lambton,  esq. 

Mr.  Bowes* s  remaina  were  baried  in  a 
vault  in  the  churchyard  of  St.  Mary's, 
in  the  South  Bailey,  Durham,  near  the 
grave  of  bis  grandfather,  'i  homas  Bowes, 
of  Bradley  Hall,  esq.  who  died  in  1752. 
His  pall  was  supported  by  the  present 
and  late  High  Sheriffs  of  the  county, 
H.  T.  M.  Witham  'and  Edward  Ship- 
perdson,  csqrs.,  the  Hon.  Captain  Lid- 
dell, and  other  gentlemen  attached  to  him 
by  lung  arquHintance  and  friendship. 
Having,  before  his  death,  presented  to 
that  church  a  handsome  armorial  window 
of  stained  glnsji,  executed  by  Mr.  Wailea, 
of  Newcastle,  a  suitable  inscription  baa 
aince  his  death  been  inscribed  in  the 
g\tM,  contaiDiDg  the  mme  of  the  donoTi 
12 


and  the  day  and  year  of  bis  death,  to 
serve  as  his  monument.  The  inscription 
is  as  follows : 

THOMAS  BOWES  DE  BRADLEY  HALL 
ARMIGER,  QUI  HANG  FENESTRAM  FIERI 
FECIT,  OBIIT  XIII  MARTII  ANNO  DOMINI 
MDCCCXLIV.  £T  IN  CtEMITERIO  HdJL'S 
£0CL£8L£  JACET  8EPULTUS. 


John  Herman  Merivale,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Jpril  25.  At  his  house.  18,  Bedford 
Square,  in  bis  65th  year,  John  Herman 
Merivale,  Esq.  Commissioner  of  the 
Court  of  Bankruptcy,  F.S.A. 

Mr.  Merivale  was  born  at  his  father's 
residence  in  Exeter,  the  5tb  of  August 
1779.  His  grandfather,  the  Rev.  Stimuel 
Merivale,  was  a  minister  of  the  Presby- 
terian denomination,  and  tutor  in  the 
theological  academy  in  that  city.  He  was 
well  known  and  highly  respected  for  his 
character  and  attainments  among  the 
Dissenters  in  the  west  of  England.  His 
only  son,  John  Merivale,  inherited  from 
him  the  estate  of  Annery,  near  Bideford, 
and  other  property  in  the  North  of  Devon. 
He  married  Anne,  dadghter  of  Mr. 
Katenkamp,  of  a  <  mercantile  house  at 
Bremen,  who  came  over  to  England  and 
settled  in  business  at  Exeter  in  the  mid- 
dle of  the  last  century, 

John  HeYman  Merivale  received  his 
early  education  from  Mr.  .Biirrington,  the 
Vicar  of  Chudleigh.  He  went  in  his 
18th  year  to  St.  John's  college.  Cam- 
bridge,  where  he  formed  an  intimate 
acquaintance  with  several  of  those  who 
became  afterwards  among  the  most  dis. 
tinguished  ornaments  of  the  bar.  The 
theological  views  in  which  he  had  been 
brought  up  prevented  his  offering  him- 
self  for  a  degree  at  the  university,  but  be 
completed  the  usual  career  of  academical 
study,  and  proceeded  from  thence  to 
Lincoln's  Inn,  where  he  became  a 
member  of  the  Chancery  bar.  The 
knowledge  that  the  honours  and  emolu. 
ments  of  the  University  were  closed  agiiinst 
him  as  a  Diasenter  discouraged  him  from 
paying  very  close  attention  to  the  principal 
objecta  of  study  there,  or  rather  it 
furnished  him  Miitb  an  excuse  for  turning 
to  other  pursuits  more  congenial  to  his 
taste,  and  be  became  a  desultory  but 
very  extensive  reader  of  modern  history 
and  modern  literature  in  various  languages. 
A  poetic  temperament  and  great  lacility 
in  composition,  both  in  verse  and  prose, 
induced  him  lo  give  a  large  part  of  his 
time  during  the  earlier  years  of  his  pro- 
fessional career  to  the  cultivation  of 
literature.  He  was  a  copious  contributor 
to  the  Critical  Review,  the  Literary 
GaieCtei  aod  other  periodlcab  i  ai  at  a 


1-844.] 


Obitvabt.*— i/l  S*  Duncan,  Esq.  D*C.L. 


97 


later  period  to  the  Qaarteriy,  the  Foreign 
Quarteriy,  end  Blackwood's  Magaaine. 
His  principal  poetical  works  were  his 
contnhutions  to  Mr.  Bland's  Transla- 
tions from  the  Greek  Anthology,  his 
Orlando  in  Ronceavalles,  &c.  of  which, 
with  various  other  pieces,  ori^nal  and 
translated,  of  which  his  translations  from 
Dante  may  be  particularly  mentioned,  he 
published  a  collected  edition  in  later  life. 
At  one  period  he  was  not  less  engrossed 
in  a  pursuit  of  a  very  different  kind,  be- 
ing busily  engaged  during  his  spare  hours 
for  several  years  in  collecting  materials 
for  a  history  of  his  native  county  of 
Devonshire.  But  the  subject  soon  began 
to  assume  such  vast  proportions  in  his 
hands,  that  he  abandoned  all  idea  of  ever 
effecting  any  thing  of  the  kind  which 
should  be  at  all  adequate  to  his  views, 
and  the  increase  of  his  professional 
business  and  opening  of  other  prospects 

{prevented  his  ever  making  even  a  more 
imited  use  of  his  acquisitions. 

In  18S5  and  the  following  year  Mr. 
Merivale  was  employed  upon  the  Chan, 
eery  Commission,  and  be  aevoted  himself 
with  great  assiduity  to  the  prosecution  of 
this  memorable  essay  in  legal  reform,  of 
which  he  was  a  lealous  advocate.  He  was 
appointed  by  Lord  Etdon  to  a  Commis. 
sionerpbip  of  Bankruptcy  under  the  old 
system,  and,  when  the  court  was  re- 
modelled in  the  vear  1831,  he  was  one  of 
the  reduced  number  who  were  selected  to 
form  its  members. 

In  the  later  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Meri- 
vale returned  with  extraordinary  vigour  to 
the  literary  pursuits  in  which  he  most  de- 
lighted. He  entered  with  great  interest 
into  tlie  theological  questions  which  have 
excited  so  much  of  the  public  attention, 
and  devoted  himself  more  particularly  to 
inquiries  into  the  character  and  history  of 
the  dissenting  bodies  in  the  eighteenth 
century.  He  bad  himself  long  since  re- 
nounced the  peculiar  tenets  of  the  sect  in 
which  he  haa  been  brought  up,  and  be- 
come a  sincere  member  of  the  established 
Church  ;  but  his  grandfather's  voluminous 
letters  and  other  remains*  furnished  him 
with  stores  of  information  on  the  history 
of  dissent,  and  conferred  additional  in- 
terest upon  it  in  his  mind;  so  that  he 
formed  various  plans  for  putting  his  ma- 
terials in  a  shape  in  which  they  might 
present  an  important  contribution  to  the 
literature  of  the  country.  Various  cir- 
cumstances,  however,  prevented  any  such 
desi^  being  carried  into  effect. 

*  Mr.  Merivale  communicated  to  this 
Bifagazine  the  series  of  the  Corres- 
pondence of  Walter  Moyle,  esq.  published 
In  our  volumes  for  1838  snd  18&. 

Gtirr.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


Mr,  Meri vale's  last  literary  effort,  con. 
temporarv  with  his  acquisition  of  the 
German  language  in  the  few  last  years  of 
his  life,  was  a  translation  of  the  Minor 
Poems  of  Schiller.f  He  just  lived  to  see 
this  production  issue  from  the  press,  and 
to  be  encouraged  to  augur  its  favourable 
reception.  Having  enjoyed  for  a  con* 
siderable  time  uninterrupted  good  health, 
and  being  in  full  possession  of  his  usual 
strength  and  spirits,  he  was  suddenly  cut 
off  by  a  stroke  of  apoplexy,  on  the  25th 
of  April  last,  and  was  buried  in  the  family 
vault  in  Hempstead  churchyard  the  2nd 
of  the  following  month. 

Mr.  Merivale  married  July  10,  1805, 
Louisa-Heath,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Drury  of  Cock  wood  House,  I^wliah,  for 
many  years  Head  Master  of  Harrow 
School.  By  her  he  had  a  family  of  six 
sons  and  six  daughters,  of  whom  all  but 
two  of  the  sons  survive  him. 


J.  S.  Duncan,  Esq.  D.C.L. 

Map  14.  At  Westfield  Lodge,  near 
Bath,  aged  75,  John  8bute  Duncan,  esq. 
D.C.L. 

He  was  a  native  of  Hampshire,  and  at 
the  usual  time  was  adopted  into  Win- 
chester College,  where  he  formed,  in  early 
life,  friendships  which  lasted  throughout 
his  existence,  including  the  present  vene- 
rable Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  a 
former  prime  minister,  Lord  Sidmoutb* 
From  Winchester  he  was  transplanted  to 
New  College,  Oxford,  where,  by  his 
talents  and  acquirements,  he  commanded 
the  respect,  and  by  his  overflowing  good- 
will to  all  around  him  he  conciliated  the 
affection,  of  his  academic  associates.  He 
obtained  the  degree  of  M.A.  Oct.  27, 
1794.  Having  fixed  upon  the  law  as  a 
profession,  be  was  called  to  the  bar  at 
Lincoln's  Inn,  Nov.  14,  1798,  but  never 
practised  much  as  a  barrister,  his  peculiar 
turn  of  oiind  impelling  him  to  the  culti- 
vation of  science,  and  more  especially  to 
the  study  of  nature,  of  which  he  was  a 
fond  admirer.  And  herein  be  set  an  ex- 
ample well  worthy  of  imitation,  by  making 
science,  as  in  truth  she  should  be,  the 
handmaid  of  religion ;  by  regarding  reli- 
gion as  the  Queen,  and  the  sciences  des- 
tined to  be  her  attendant  fellows,  and  in 
that  capacity  to  bear  her  company ;  by 
exploring  nature  with  a  view  of  illustrat- 

f  This  publication  was  noticed  in  our 
last  Magazine.  We  have  been  informed 
that  the  pieces  marked  with  the  signature 
A  in  the  volume  are  by  Dr.  Anster,  the 
translator  of  Faust ;  those  with  the  sig- 
natures H  and  C,  by  Mr.  Merivale  and 
bis  son  the  Rev.  Charles  Merivale, 
respectively.— i2i/t/. 

O 


9S 


Obitoart.— Dr.  John  Grant  lialetinton. 


rJnly. 


ing  the  power,  wisdom,  and  the  goodness 
of  the  Creator,  as  manifested  in  the  ani- 
mal, vegetable,  and  mineral  kingdoms. 
Thus,  whilst  he  found  constant  employ- 
ment for  his  curious  researches,  he  so  ap- 
plied  his  knowledge  as  to  render  it  valuable 
in  giving  him  true  wisdom  snd  under, 
standing.  Not  only,  however,  in  the  pur- 
suit of  science  was  every  thing  made  by 
him  subservient  to  the  religious  principle, 
but  it  was  this  which  was  his  guide  in 
every  department  of  social  life,  and  which 
strengthened  and  enlarged  those  social 
obligations  which  bind  man  to  man.  Con- 
sidering mankind  as  members  of  one  body, 
as  pro'essing  one  faith,  having  one  hope  of 
their  catling,  united  by  one  worship,  and 
acknowledging  one  common  Father — all 
thiff  gave  birth  within  him  to  a  lovely  train 
of  beneficent  virtues,  such  as  humility, 
resignation,  mildness,  meekness,  gentle- 
nehs,  forbearance,  which,  while  they  adorn 
the  scholar,  are  essential  to  the  formation 
of  the  (yhiistian  character,  and  which 
closely  tied  him  to  the  whole  range  of  society 
in  which  he  moved.  In  htm  Christian 
chnnty,  riKhtly  accounted  the  crown  and 
cunrummarion  of  all  the  evangelical  vir- 
tues, shone  pre-eminent.  To  this  asser- 
tion the  charitable  institutions  of  Oxford 
and  Bath  bear  ami  le  testimony,  aloud 
proclaiming  him  the  poor  man's  friend, 
who^e  countenance  never  l>eamed  so 
b  ightly  with  the  moral  sunshine  of  bene- 
volence as  when,  under  Providence,  be 
felt  himself  instrumental  in  advancing  the 
weU'are  of  the  humbler  classes, — as  when 
he  gladdened  *'  the  pour  that  cried,  and  the 
fatherlesv,  and  made  the  widow's  heart  to 
sing  lor  joy."  But  amid  this  rare  assem- 
blMge  of  intellectual  and  moral  qualities, 
which  procured  for  htm  deservedly  from 
the  University  of  Oxford  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  in  Civil  Law,  no  human 
being  ever  felt  more  deeply  than  himself 
the  necesniry  and  efficacy  of  an  atonement 
for  human  imperfection ;  this  was  the  sure 
anchor  to  which  his  soul  cleaved  unto  the 
end.  Thiv  consideration  may  serve  to 
abate  the  sorrow  o«  hin  mourning  (liends, 
who  will  never  rease  to  venerate  his  me- 
mory with  affectionate  respei't.  May  it 
be  a  balmy  coidial  to  the  surviving  **  wife 
of  h\%  bosom,**  to  a  brother  to  whom  he 
hns  been  "  aa  his  own  soul,"  through  a 
period  lengthened  beyond  the  allotted  age 
of  man. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  the 
Baih  Roynl  Litemryand  Scientific  Insti- 
tution, held  on  the  Gth  of  June,  J.  H. 
Maiklund,  Erq.  F.R.S.  and  S.  A.  in  the 
(^hair,  it  WHS  unanimouily  resolved— 
**  That  this  Committee,  on  their  first  as- 
sembling after  the  decease  of  John  Shute 
Duncan,  £sq.  a  Vice*  Patron  and  Trustee 


of  this  Institution,  are  desirous  of  record- 
ing their  feelings  of  deep  regret  at  the  loss 
which  this,  and  every  Institution  in  the 
city  of  Bath,  devoted  to  purposes  of  cha- 
rity  and  usefulness,  have  sustained  by  that 
event.  By  the  Members  of  this  society 
Mr.  Duncan's  memory  must  be  especially 
cherished.  By  bis  liberality  and  judg- 
ment this  Institution  has  been  fostered 
from  its  origin ;  and  by  the  watchful  care 
which  he  and  his  brother,  Mr.  P.  B. 
Duncan,  have  exercised  in  protecting  Its 
interests,  its  existence  rosy  be  said  to 
have  been  preserved.  To  that  excellent 
relative,  allied  not  only  by  blood,  but  by 
kindred  pursuits  and  virtues,  this  Com- 
mittee would  beg  to  convey  these  expres- 
sions of  sympathy  and  respect.  Resolved 
— That  this  resolution  be  transmitted  by 
the  Chairman  to  Mr.  P.  B.  Duncan,  and 
that  a  copv  of  the  same  be  also  trans- 
mitted to  Mrs.  Duncan.*' 


Da.  John  Grant  Malcolmson. 

lfareA23.  At  DbooHa,  John  Grant 
Malcolmson,  M.D. 

His  medical  and  scientific  character 
stood  high  in  India,  and  many  interesting 
papers  from  his  pen  have  appeared  during 
the  last  fourteen  yeais  in  Prinaep*s  Jour- 
nal, the  JouruHl  of  the  Bengal  Asiatic 
Societv,  the  London  Asiatic  Society, 
the  bdinbui^h  Medical  and  Surgical 
Journal,  the  British  and  Foreign  Medi- 
cal Review,  and  that  of  the  London 
Geological  Society,  in  which  last-named 
science  he  was  an  ardent  and  successful 
labourer,  and  explored  not  only  an  inte- 
resting portion  of  Scotland  during  a 
home-visit  about  four  years  ago,  but  also 
a  considerable  tract  of  Egypt,  and  a  very 
wide  sphere  of  Indian  investigatinn.  He 
was  connected  with  the  patriotic  and 
liberal  bouse  of  Sir  Charles  Forbes  at 
Bombay,  and  contributed  greatly  to  the 
establishment  of  the  Museum,  and  the 
progress  of  literature  and  science  which 
so  honourably  distinguishes  that  presi- 
dency. \ 

He  left  Bombay  in  the  firet  week  of 
February,  and  on  his  arrival  at  Sunt 
immediately  proceeded  up  the  line  of  the 
Taptee  into  the  jungles  towards  Dhooiia. 
On  the  27(h  of  February  he  was  seized 
with  the  jungle-fever,  and  hsd  a  long 
journey  before  him  with  only  Bbeel  at- 
tendaitts.  On  the  i9ih  of  March  he 
wrote  a  cheerful  letter,  uben  about  /oity 
miles  from  Dhooiia,  and  represented 
himself  as  much  recovered  ;  but  the 
symptoms  were  fallacious,  and  notwith- 
standing the  cares  ol  Dr.  Hatborn,  who 
attended  him  during  the  last  lour  days, 
he  sank  on  the  evening  of  the  23rd,  and 


1844.] 


Omtuarv* 


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terCon) ;  she  died  in  18^4 ;  and  secondly, 
in  1825,  Rebecca,  eldest  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  David  Jones,  who  survives  him. 
By  the  former  lady  be  bad  four  sons  and 
two  daughters;  and  by  tbe  latter,  four 
sons  and  one  daughter;  all  of  whom,  ex- 
cept his  eldest  son,  survive  bim. 

May  11.  At  Poppleton,  Worcester- 
sbire,  aged  93,  tbe  Rev.  George  Dineley, 
for  63  years  Rector  of  Churchill,  and  tor 
58  years  Rector  of  Poppleton.  He  was 
formerly  a  Frllow  of  Worcester  college, 
Oxford,  where  he  took  the  degree  of 
AJ.  A.  1776*,  and  thut  of  B.D.  1786.  He 
was  presented  to  Churchill  in  1781  by  R. 
Berkeley,  esq.,  and  instituted  to  Popple* 
ton,  which  was  in  bis  own  patronage,  in 
1786. 

May  12.  Aged  67,  the  Rev.  Jamee 
BuekoU,  Virar  of  Great  Limber,  Line.  He 
was  of  Wadbiim  college,  Oxford,  M.A. 
1800,  and  was  presented  to  his  living,  in 
1830.  by  the  Lord  Cbsncellor.  He  died 
from  injuries  received  from  being  thrown 
from  bis  pony  phaeton  on  the  lOth  of  April. 
His  serond  son,  Mr.  E.  G.  Buckoll,  of 
Heckmondwike,  near  Leeds,  surgeon, 
died  SIX  dnys  before  him. 

May  12.  At  Rhayader,  aged  77,  the 
Rev.  John  Williame  M.A.  Vicar  of 
North  Ltrverton,  Nottinghamshire,  and  of 
South  Stoke,  Oxfordshire.  He  was  pre- 
sented to  the  former  living  in  1795  by 
Christ  Church  Oxford  ;  und  to  the  latter 
in  1806,  by  the  Prebendary  of  North  Le- 
verton,  in  the  collegiate  church  of  South- 
well. 

May  13.  At  Louphgall.  co.  Armagh, 
aged  67.  the  Rev.  SUver  Oliver,  for  37 
years  Hector  of  that  parish. 

May  13.  At  St.  Uflier*s,  Jersey,  aged 
85,  the  Rev.  Wiliiam  Gameti,  late  of  tbe 
island  of  Barbadoes.  He  whs  of  Queen's 
collpRe,  Cambridge,  M.A.  1797. 

May'ii.  At  Cranbourn,  Dorsetshire, 
aged  78,  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Templeman, 
He  was  formerly  of  Trinity  college, 
Cambridge,  B.A.  1789,  M.A.  1793 

May  2*.  Aged  76,  tbe  Rev.  Hobert 
Luke,  senior  Keilow  of  S>dney  college, 
Cambridge.  He  graduated  B.A.  1790  as 
J7ih  Senior  Optime ;  M.A.  1793,  and 
B.D.  1>0U. 

May  2o.  In  his  85th  year,  the  Rev. 
Joirph  Cook,  of  Newton  ball.  Vicar  of 
Chatton,  and  of  Shilbottle,  all  in  the 
county  of  Northumberland.  lie  was  for- 
merly Fellow  of  Queen's  college,  Cam- 
bridj;c.  whtre  be  graduated  B.A.  \Wi  as 
J5th  Wrangler,  M.A.  1785;  was  presented 
to  both  his  livings  in  1803  ;  to  Chatton  by 
tbe  Dukeof  Northumberland,  and  to  Shil- 
bottle by  the  Lord  Chancellor. 

Jtne  8.  Aged  33,  tbe  Rev.  John 
MGreyor,  B,A.  Incumbent  of  Mellor, 
Derbyshire. 


DEATHS. 


LONDON  AND  ITS  VfCINITT. 

AJay  8.  In  Charlotte-st.  Bedford-sq. 
Mrs.  De  Castro. 

May  13.  Aged  31,  Capt.  Marley  HuU 
cbinson,  late  of  the  53d  regt.  third  son  of 
the  late  6.  P.  Hutchinson,  esq.  of  Eg- 
glestone,  Durham. 

May  14.  George  Henry  Horn,  esq.  of 
Craig' s-court,  Charing  Cross. 

May  15.  Aged  63,  Celta,  wife  of  George 
William  Wye,  esq.  of  Kennington. 

May  16.  At  Blackheatb,  aged  48,  John 
William  Hartshome,  esq. 

In  Upper  Albany-st.  Regent's  Park, 
aged  47 f  Henriette- Julie,  wife  of  Frede- 
rick Langley,  esq. 

May  17,  In  Park -pi.  Maida  HiU  West, 
aged  65,  William  Gentls,  esq.  formerly  of 
Honduras. 

May  18.  Maria,  foiurth  daa.  of  the  late 
Sir  John  Pinhorn. 

May  19.  Aged  70,  William  Prosser, 
esq.  of  Goswell-st.  one  of  the  oldest  mem* 
bers  of  the  Saddlers'  Company. 

In  New  Ormond-st.  aged  73,  Miss 
Jane  Gaskell,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Wil- 
liam Peon  and  Robert  Barclay. 

May  20.  Id  North  Brixton,  aged  73, 
James  Donford  Capel,  esq.  one  of  tbe 
Cashiers  of  the  Bank  of  England,  having 
besn  in  the  service  of  the  Bank  51  years. 

May  21 .  At  Bayswater,  aged  86,  Mrs. 
Sarah  Stafford,  rldest  surviving  dau.  of  the 
late  Robert  St^ifford,  esq.  of  Huntingdon. 

In  Nottingham -pi.  aged  67,  Anne,  re- 
lict of  Patrick  Bartlet,  esq. 

AtMorden  college,  Blackheatb,  aged  94, 
Mr.  Joseph  Webb,  a  veteran  of  tbe  ill-fated 
Royal  George.  A  few  minutes  before  the 
loss  of  the  ship  he  had,  with  a  boat's 
crew,  pulled  off  from  tbe  vessel,  when  a 
midshipman  requested  permission  to  re- 
turn, to  fetch  his  dirk.  Permission  was 
granted,  and  the  boat  put  back  for  that 

Surpose  ;  but  his  stay  being  too  long  on 
oard,  the  boat's  crew  rowed  off  from  the 
ship,  which  in  a  few  minutes  after  sunk. 

Afay  22.  At  the  house  of  his  brother 
in  Grosvenor-st.aged  4^,  the  Hon.  Charles 
Wortley,  youngest  son  of  Lord  Wham- 
diffe.  President  of  the  Council.  He  mar* 
ried  Lady  Emmeline  Charlotte  Elizabeth 
Manners,  second  daughter  of  the  Dukeof 
Rutland  (the  Poetess,)  by  whom  he  has 
left  a  son  and  daughter. 

Josephiae- Catherine,  only  dau.  of  John 
Ince,  esq.  of  Lower  Grosvenor-pl. 

May  23.  At  Netting  HilUterr.  Robert 
Scott,  esq-  of  Gloucester-pl.  Portman-sq. 

In  Cumberland-st.  Portman*sq.  aged 
76,  Elisa,  wife  of  Adm.  Carpenter. 

In  the  Waudsworth-road,  aged  75, 
George  Gaadin,  esfj.  one  of  tbe  Casbiera 
of  tbe  Bank  of  England. 

May  34.    In  Carlton  Hou8e»terr«  aged 


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69>  T^niliam  Crooklbrd,  esq.  Adminis- 
tration with  his  will  annexed  (no  executor 
being  named  therein)  has  been  granted  to 
Mrs.  A.  F.  Crockford,  his  widow.  The 
will  is  dated  as  late  as  last  month,  and 
gives  the  whole  of  his  property  to  his  wife 
in  nearly  the  following  words  i — '*  I  give 
and  bequeath  the  whole  of  my  property 
of  whatoTer  description  unto  my  dear  wife, 
and  her  heirs,  relying  on  her  doing  what 
is  right. ' '  The  personal  property  alone  is 
«worn  under  the  sum  of  S00,000/.  and  it 
is  rumoured  that  his  real  estate  is  worth 
150,000/.  more.  He  formerly  kept  the 
68hmonger*s  shop  adjoining  Temple  Bar, 
and,  by  a  series  of  successful  speculations 
on  the  **  Turf,"  was  enabled  to  purchase 
the  bouse  in  St.  James*s-street,  afterwards 
terribly  famous  as  **  Crockford*s  ;"  and  it 
is  said  that  there  the  deceased  amassed 
the  bulk  of  his  immense  property. 

May  26.  In  Sackrille-st-  Piccadilly, 
Henry  Buddy  esq.  of  Oak  House,  Feltham, 
Middlesex. 

Whilst  on  a  visit  at  George  Alexander's, 
esq.  M.O.  Sussex-terr.  Hyde  Park,  aged 
76,  Sarah,  relict  of  Walter  Strange  Page, 
esq.  of  Rochester. 

May  28.  In  Sussex-pl.  Regent's  Park, 
aged  60,  George  L.  Wilder,  esq.  third  son 
of  the  late  Rct.  Dr.  WUder,  of  Purley 
Hall,  Berks. 

At  Chelsea,  aged  68,  Mary,  widow  of 
the  late  William  Tebbs,  esq.  of  Doctors' 
Commons. 

May  29.  At  Tottenham,  aged  62, 
Thomas  Porter,  esq. 

In  Vincent- sq.  aged  81 ,  Margaret,  relict 
of  William  Tarte,  esq.  of  Great  James-st. 
Westminster. 

Mrs.  John  A.  Pigott,  of  Heathcote-st. 
Mecklenbixrgh-sq. 

In  Berkeley-sq.aged  63,  Thomas  Thorn- 
hill,  esq.  of  Fizby  Hall,  Yorkshire,  and 
Riddlesworth  Hall,  Norfolk,  Secretary  to 
the  Jockey  Club. 

May  30.  At  Brompton,  Anne,  ouly 
dan.  of  the  late  Nicholas  R.  Gamer,  esq. 
formerly  of  Barbadoes. 

In  Augusta- terr.  Clapham-road,  aged 
55,  Stephen  Cnndy,  esq. 

May  31.  In  Tilney-st.  Park-lane,  aged 
86,  Benjamin  Rawaon,  esq.  of  Nidd  Hall, 
Yorkshire. 

In  York.terr,  Regent's  Park,  Alicia, 
relict  of  Andrew  Seton  Karr,  esq.  of  Rip. 
pilaw,  Roxburghshire. 

At  Clapham-common,  aged  81,  Mary- 
Bless-Atkins,  relict  of  John  Pagb,  esq. 
formerly  of  Gracechurch-st. 

In  Russell-pl.  aged  21,  Albertina  Eliza- 
beth, dau.  of  the  late  J.  C.  Thierens,  esq. 
of  Demerara. 

At  the  house  of  his  brother  Mr.  James 
Mead,    Trinity-st.    Borough,    aged   78, 
13 


Geoige  Mead,  esq.  late  Superintending 
Surgeon  in  the  Hon.  East  India  Co.'s 
Service  at  St.  Helena. 

In  Piccadilly,  aged  72,  David  Grove,  esq. 

At  Peckham,  aged  70,  Pike  ChanneU, 
esq. 

Lately,  In  Oxfordterr.  Hyde  PSrk, 
aged  25t  George  Augustus  Wingficld,  esq. 
barrister-at-lawy  third  son  of  the  late  John 
Wingfield,  D.D.  Prebendary  of  Worcester. 

In  Welbeck-st.  aged  64,  John  Finney, 
esq. 

JwM  1.  In  Brandenburgh-place,  Fnl- 
ham,  aged 68,  Elisabeth,  wife  of  Mr.  James 
Green,  of  Green's  Hotel,  Lincoln's  Inn 
Fields. 

Aged  26,  Edward-Germaine,  youngest 
son  of  the  late  William  Jones,  esq.  of 
Woodhall,  Downfaam,  Norfolk. 

June5i.  At  the  Marquess  of  Downshire's 
house,  in  Hanover-sq.  Walter,  infant  son 
of  Mr.  and  tbe  Lady  Charlotte  Chetwynd. 

In  Sloane-st.  aged  14,  Henriette,  eldest 
dau.  of  G.  W.  Griffith,  esq.  Pantywyn, 
Cardiganshire. 

«/n)M  3.  In  New  Bridge-st.  Blackfriars, 
Mary,  wife  of  J.  G.  Conyers,  esq. 

At  Hampstead,  Maria,  wife  of  Edward 
Page  Clowser,  esq. 

June  4.  At  Dalaton,  aged  70,  Lieut. - 
Col.  Robert  Frederick,  of  Corsham,  Wilts. 

At  Tottenham,  aged  73,  Margaret,  re- 
lict of  John  R.  Mander,  esq.  of  Stoke 
Newington. 

At  ^nce's-pl.  Kennington,  aged  99, 
Jane«  relict  of  Humphrey  Bunster,  esq.  of 
Cornwall. 

/wis  5.  In  Albemarle-st.  the  Right 
Hon.  Barbara,  Baroness  de  Mauley.  She 
was  only  child  of  Anthony  fifth  Earl  of 
Shaftesbury,  by  Barbara,  only  dau.  of  Sir 
John  Webb,  of  Canford,  Dorset,  and 
married,  in  1814,  the  Hon.  William  P.  S. 
Ponsonby,  third  son  of  Frederick  Earl  of 
Bessborough,  created  a  Peer  at  the  coro- 
nation of  her  Majesty.  Her  body  was  re- 
moved to  Canford  for  interment. 

June  6.  George  Fraser,  esq.  late  of 
Burwood-pl.  and  of  Searle-st.  Lincoln's- 
inn. 

Aged  59,  George  Bowes  Wateon,  esq. 
of  Clapham  Park. 

June  7.  At  Brompton,  aged  84,  Ellen, 
relict  of  Dr.  Heywood,  many  years  resi- 
dent of  Greenwich,  and  afterwards  of 
Emswortb,  Haute. 

In  Mansfield-st.  aged  82,  the  Lady 
Catharine  Browne,  thbd  dau.  of  the  Mar- 
quess of  Sligo. 

June  9'  At  Brompton,  aged  81,  A.  J. 
Jellicoe,  esq. 

At  Highbury,  J.  W.  Sykes,  esq.  son  of 
the  late  Mr.  Sykes,  of  Newbury. 

June  10.  At  Islington,  Emma,  widow 
of  Capt.  John  Bradly,  R.N. 


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At  Horaiey,  aged  78,  CharletDanven, 
esq.  of  Croom*8  Hill,  Greenwich. 

JuneM,  Aged  34,  Wiliiam  Tennaot 
Harrison,  esq.  eldest  son  of  Richard  Har- 
rison, esq.  of  Doughty. St. 

In  Chapel-st.  Park -lane,  Maria,  relict 
of  Francis  Jodrell,  esq.  of  Henbary  Hall, 
Cheshire,  and  second  dan.  of  the  late  Sir 
W.  Lemon,  Bart.  She  was  married  in 
1807. 

June  13.  Maria,  wife  of  J.  G.  Harris, 
esq.  of  Old  Palace-yard. 

Aged  1 1,  Basil- John-Leigh,  eldest  son ; 
also,  on  the  16th,  aged  8,  George-Alex- 
ander,  second  and  only  son  of  Basil  Heron 
Godlie,  esq.  of  the  Ordnance  Office, 
Tower,  and  of  Goldie  Leigh,  Plumsted, 
Kent,  and  grandsons  of  the  late  Lient.- 
Gen.  Thomas  Goldie,  of  Goldie  Leigh, 
sear  Dumfries. 

June  14.  In  Somerset-st.  Portman-sq. 
ajfed  63,  Mary  Vye  Lee,  of  Ilfracombe, 
Devon. 

In  Hyde  Park  Gardens,  Capt.  J.  B. 
Morris,  late  of  the  1st  Dragoon  Guards. 

Aged  S2,  Anna-Matilda,  relict  of  Philip 
M'^estero  Wood,  esq.  and  dan.  of  the  late 
John  Cowley,  esq.  of  Guildford-st. 

JunelS,  Emily,  wife  of  Philip  Hughes, 
esq.  of  Fitzroy-sq. 

At  Addison -terr.  Kensington,  John 
Baird,  esq.  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

Aged  22,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  the  late 
John  Charrington,  esq. 

June  1 7.  In  Euston-sq.  aged  65,  John 
Lainson,  esq.  For  nearly  ten  years  he 
filled  the  office  of  Alderman  of  Bread-street 
ward,  in  which  he  carried  on  business, 
under  the  firm  of  Laioson,  White,  and 
Co.  Manchester  warehousemen,  for  nearly 
half  a  century.  He  succeeded  the  late 
Mr.  Alderman  Atkins,  in  1635,  and  served 
the  office  of  sheriff  in  1838.  In  1849  the 
period  for  his  being  chosen  Lord  Mayor 
arrived,  but.  feeling  himself  incompetent  to 
the  duties  of  that  office  on  account  of  ill 
health,  he  resigned  his  gown.  He  was  a 
magistrate  for  Middlesei.  He  has  left  t 
widow  and  large  family. 

At  Blackheath,  age.l  16,  Charlotte- 
Powell,  only  dau.  of  J.  Bannister,  esqt  of 
Coleifhill-st.  Euston-sq. 

June  18.  At  Blackheath  Park,  aged  ft9, 
Emma,  second  dan.  of  the  late  Robert 
Bill,  esq. 

In  Bernard-street,  Russell -sq.  aged  33, 
George  Peregrine  Nash,  esq.  eldest  son 
of  George  Peregrine  Nash,  esq.  of  Bedford. 

At  Camden  villas,  Camden  Town,  aged 
73,  Ann,  relict  of  Thomas  Eagles  Prenticei 
esq.  of  Hemel  Hempstead,  Herts.  ^ 

June  19.  In  Conduit-st.  Ebeneser  Rae, 
esq.  of  Aigburth,  Liverpool. 

Bids.— Afoy  11.  Aged  74,  Charles 
!    GxifT.  Mao.  Vol,  XXII. 


Short,  esq.  He  wae  guidon  to  the  Bed- 
ford Infirmary  from  iu  foundation  in  ltf09 
to  the  year  1832,  when  he  was  appointed 
Consulting  Surgeon.  He  served  the 
office  of  Mayor  on  three  fMrrssione  in  the 
old  corporation,  and  during  three  soe* 
oessive  years  immediately  after  the  pass- 
ing of  the  Monidpal  Reform  Act ;  en  hii 
election  for  the  sixth  time,  the  estima« 
tion  of  his  friends  and  fellow-towntaaen 
was  testified  by  a  presentation  of  plate. 

May  15.  At  Copt  Hall,  near  Luton, 
aged  81,  Elbabeth,  dau.  of  the  late  Ebe- 
neser M*Cnlloh,  esq.  of  Edinburgh,  by 
his  second  wife,  Penelope,  sister  of  the 
late  Patrick  M'Donall  Crichton,  fifth  Earl 
of  Dumfries. 

Bbrks.^  if/ay  20.  At  Windsor,  Su- 
sannah, relict  of  R.  Battiaoombe,  esq. 

Afay  2S.  Aged  70,  John  Engall,  esq. 
who  for  nearly  half  a  century  (during  four 
reigns)  held  the  appointment  of  Steward 
at  her  Majesty's  Home  Park,  Windsor. 

June  5.  At  Reading,  aged  70,  Thomas 
Coles,  esq. 

June  10.  At  Cookham  Grove,  aged 
52,  Joseph  Fleming,  esq.  of  Carey-street, 
Lincola's-ion. 

Bocks. — May  19.  At  Little  Germains. 
Chesham,  Elizabeth,  third  dau.  of  the  late 
Edward  Lucas,  esq.  of  Edmonton. 

Lately.  At  Edlesborough,  aged  82, 
Elizabeth,  widow  of  the  Rev.  F.  H.  Barker, 
Rector  of  North  Church,  Herts. 

Cambridob.  —  June  8.  At  Little 
Abiogton,  aged  38,  Mary,  wife  of  WilUam 
Brown,  esq.  and  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
Mr.  William  Salt,  solicitor,  Maldoa. 

June  18.  At  Melbourne,  Great  Roy- 
ston,  aged  89,  James  Wortham,  esq. 

Chesbirb. — ,4/fril25.  Beatrice,  wife 
of  Francis  Philips,  esq.  of  Bank  hall,  near 
Stockport,  and  of  Abbey  Cwm  Hir,  co. 
Radnor. 

Cornwall — May  22.  At  Mevagis- 
sey,  aged  86,  John  Pearce,  esq. 

Cumberland. — June  13.  At  White- 
haven, aged  78,  John  Harrison,  esq.  one 
of  the  justices  of  the  peace,  and  a  deputy- 
lient.  for  Cumberland. 

Dbton.— Afay  11.      At  Stonehouse, 
S.  B.  Douglas  Anderson,  Lieut.  49th  regt. 
May  18.     At  Stonehouse,  Anna- Rose- 
Bernard,  youngest  dau.  of  James  Bleazby, 
esq.  late  of  Cork. 

May  20.  At  Plymouth,  Anne,  wife  of 
William  Langdon,  esq.  of  Inwood  Lodge, 
Somerset. 

Lately,  At  Lympstone,  aged  79, 
Catharine  -  Jane,  relict  of  Col.  John 
Thomas  Wright,  and  sister  of  Sir  Staff^ord 
Northcote,  Bart.  She  wf»  married  in 
1782. 

June  3.  At  Tiverton,  aged  68,  WiUitm 
Leigh,  esq.  late  of  Bardon,  Somenet. 

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JuM  4.  At  TaktoBi  CtroUne,  wife  of 
the  Rev.  I^  P.  Welland,  and  third  dau.  of 
the  late  Mr.  Stone. 

June  9.  At  his  seat,  CUffden,  Teign> 
iBOuch,  aged  93,  Sir  John  Strachan,  Bwt. 
of  Thornton. 

At  hia  brother'araaidence,  Tndor  Lodge, 
Torquay,  aged  67,  Robert  liajward  Lucaat 
ea^  M.D. 

Jutu  19.  At  hit  reside&oe  in  the  Cloie, 
Exeter,  aged  6S»  Harrf  Janea,  esq. 
Treasurer  .of  the  eounty  of  Devon. 

DonaiT.  —  Afoy  29,  At  Littleton* 
Blandford,  aged  71,  William  Donaldson, 

June  6.  At  Fontmell  rectory,  agod  36, 
Mary,  wife  of  the  Rev.  J.  Browne,  Curate 
of  that  pariah. 

June  10.  At  Weymouth,  Cecil,  wife 
of  Mr.  Wm.  Anaeli,  and  niece  of  the  late 
Gen.  Sir  Thomaa  Picton,  leaving  six 
children. 

Durham. — June  1.  At  Tees  Cottage, 
Darlington,  aged  38,  Emily-Mary,  wife  of 
Edward  T.  Copley,  esq.  and  dau.  of  Sir 
John  MUbanke,  Bart,  of  Hahiaby  Hall, 
Yorkshire.     She  waa  married  in  1826. 

At  Durham,  Dr.  G.  A.  Chayter,  of 
Manchester. 

June  6.  At  Denton,  aged  8S,  Jane, 
wife  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Peacock,  and 
mother  of  the  Very  Rev.  the  Dean  of  Ely. 

June  9.  At  Darlington,  Mr.  W.  Back, 
house,  senior  partner  of  the  old  banking 
establishment  of  Backhonae  and  Co.  Dar- 
lington. He  was  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends,  and  attended  the  meeting- 
house in  the  evening  as  usual.  He  arose 
to  address  the  congregation,  and  whilst 
speaking  fell  down  and  immediately  ex* 
pired. 

Essex.— May  17.  Aged  7S,  Thomaa 
Addy,  esq.  of  Writtle. 

May  18.  At  Colchester,  Maria,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  Samuel  Daniell,  esq. 

June  1 .  At  Boxtead  Lodge,  aged  8% 
William  Fisher,  esq. 

At  Springfield,  Mary,  wife  of  Richard 
Brown,  esq.  of  York-pl.  Portman-sq. 

Gloucester. — May  18.  At  Clifton, 
aged  23,  Willtam-Loftus,  fifth  son  of  the 
late  Rev.  John  Digby,  of  New  Park,  co. 
Meath,  and  of  Osberatown,  co.  Kildare. 

May  25.  At  Clifton,  Jane,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Charles  Edmund  Wylde.  She  was 
widow  of  Col.  W.  D.  Knox,  of  Edinburgh, 
and  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  John  Waitej 
esq.  of  Old  Barlington-st. 

May  26.  Aged  68,  Mary,  wife  of  Mi- 
chael Proctor,  eaq.  of  Twyning,  near  Tew. 
kesbnry. 

May  29.  At  the  residence  of  Samuel 
James,  eaq.  Cotham-hill,  aged  25,  Edwin 
Thorne  Wait,  M.D. 

May  31,    At  Roie  Villa^  Hayle,  aged 


[JoJy; 

58,  tba  wife  of  HaBnlbal  EUia,  esq.  She 
was  the  only  survivor  of  one  of  the  oldeit 
finmiUes  in  Hayle. 

Jxifely,  At  Cheltenham,  aged  61, 
Lieut.-Col.  Thomas  Baron. 

At  Cheltenham,  aged  65,  Lydia,  rcUct 
of  lieuU-Gen.  Prole,  E.I.C.S. 

At  Kingstone-houae,  Aylburton,  aged 
(1,  John  Morse,  esq. 

In  Field-place,  near  Stroud,  aged  79, 
Stephen  Clissold,  esq. 

June  2.  At  Shirehampton,  Georgiana- 
Rebeoca,  wi£s  of  Charles  Clarke  Dix,  esq. 
and  aeventh  dan.  of  the  lata  CoL  Bird,  of 
Goitre-honse,  Monmouthshire. 

June  6.  At  Bristol,  Harriette,  wife  of 
Dr.  Symonda. 

June  7.  At  Clifton,  aged  58,  Francis 
Adams,  esq. 

Hants.— 4|iH/ 18.  At  Bishop's  Wal- 
tham,  Elixabeth,  only  aurviviug  dau.  of  the 
late  Richard  Hinxman,  esq.  of  Kitnock's 
House. 

May  9.  At  Southtown,  Elisabeth,  re- 
lict of  J.  D.  Burdon,  eaq. ;  also,  on  the 
S2nd,  Mary,  her  sister. 

May  15.  At  Alton,  aged  87,  Thomaa 
Lee,  esq. 

May  21.  Aged  74,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Penford.  She  died  very  suddenly :  verdict 
''  Natural  Death.'*  She  has  bequeathed 
the  sum  of  1000/.  to  the  South  Hanta  In- 
ftrmary,  and  the  same  sum  to  the  South- 
ampton Dispensary. 

May  23.  At  Romaey,  in  Hampshire, 
aged  77,  Mr.  John  Young,  sen.  alderman 
of  the  corporation  of  town,  of  which  be 
had  been  for  upwarda  of  fifty  years  a 
member. 

May  24.  At  HoUam  House,  Tichfield, 
Ehzabeth,  widow  of  James  Anderson,  esq. 

At  the  residence  of  the  Lady  Frances 
Stuart,  Southampton,  aged  49,  John  Ro- 
bert  Baker,  esq.  of  Exeter. 

At  Southampton,  Lacy  Gray  Ford,  esq. 
*««jPi»y«ician.Gen.  of  the  Bombay  Medi- 
cal Estab.  Hon.  East  IndU  Go's,  service. 

May  28.  At  Holyboume,  Lieut.-CoL 
1  nomas  Frederick,  aged  80 ;  and  June  4, 
J*  P*^ton,  Middlesex,  his  brother,  Lieut.- 
U)l.  Robert  Frederick,  aged  70— sons  of 
the  bite  Gen.  Frederick,  formerly  of 
Easterton.  ^ 

May  29.  Capt.  Thomas  CoUard,  late 
Of  the  81st  Regt.  and  Adjutant  of  the 
South  Hants  Militia. 

T  ^^*i^\  ^*  Winchester,  aged  84,  Mr. 
James  Robbins,  for  upwards  of  sUty  years 
an  eminent  bookseller  and  printer  of  that 
city,  and  bookseller  to  the  school. 

At  North-house,  Horndean,  Miss 
Richards,  eldest  dau.  of  the  Ute  John 
ivichards,  esq. 

n^TJ  ^'  Harriot-Ann,  widow  of  John 
A^nthy,  esq.  of  Ropley. 


1844.] 


Obttuart. 


107 


Herts. — Mmf  9\ .  At  Cheftliant,  a|^ 
75|  Joseph  Batho,  esq. 

Junt  1.  At  Otterapool,  Mary- Anne, 
relict  of  George  Woodford  TbeUnson,  esq. 
brother  of  the  first  Lord  Rendlesham,  and 
nnde  of  the  present  Lord.  She  was  the 
third  daughter  of  Philip  Fonnerean,  esq. 
waa  married  in  179l»  and  left  a  widow  in 
1811,  with  two  danghters,  of  whom  the 
younger  was  married  in  1813  to  Henry 
Hoyle  Oddie,  esq. 

Jun9  2.  At  Albnry  HaH,  aged  87 1  John 
Calvert,  esq. 

JwM  4.  Aged  59»  Capt.  Jellicoe  Tur- 
ner, R.N.  of  Stevenage,  fourth  son  of  the 
late  Charles  Turner,  esq.  of  Mount-hill 
House,  Rochester.  He  was  appointed  a 
retired  Commander  in  1840. 

JwM  5.  At  Theobald's,  aged  77,  Jacob 
H.  Busk,  esq. 

/vneG.  At  Biishey,  aged  59>  Peter 
Lovekin,  esq.  late  of  Droxford  Manor 
House,  Hampshire. 

KiNT.^lfay  9.  At  Hythe,  aged  88, 
Ingram  Hammond,  esq.  Alderman  of  that 
borough. 

May  1 3 .  At  Bilting,  'Godmersfaam ,  aged 
58,  William  Henry  Baldock,  esq. 

May  22.  AtTunbridge Wells,  Margaret- 
Louisa,  infant  dau.  of  Lient.-Col.  and  the 
Hon.  Mrs.  Nngent. 

May  23.  At  the  rectory,  East  Mailing, 
aged  81,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Smith. 

May  30.  At  Broad  Oak,  Brenchley, 
aged  76,  Robert  Withy,  esq. 

JwiK  1 .  At  his  residence,  Nile  Cottage, 
GilHngham,  near  Chatham,  a^ed  72,  Mr. 
Michal  Austin,  late  of  her  Majesty's  dock- 
yard, Chatham.  This  old  and  meritorious 
officer  was  recently  superannuated  for  ser- 
vices of  nearly  50  years.  He  served  in 
several  general  actions,  and  lost  his  right 
arm  with  the  immortal  Nelson  in  the  Van- 
guard, at  the  action  of  the  Nile,  on  the 
Ist  Aug. — It  is  rather  remarkable  that  be 
died  on  the  anniveraary  of  the  glorious 
Ist  June,  in  which  he  served  under  Lord 
Howe. 

Junt  5.  At  Tonbridge  Wells,  John 
Stone,  esq.  late  of  Lincoln 's-inn,  burister- 
at-law. 

JwM  6.  At  Tnnbridge  Wells,  Elizabeth- 
Mary,  wife  of  John  Henry  Ord,  esq.  of 
Highbury,  Middlesex. 

June  9.  At  Riverhead,  aged  85,  Jane 
widow  of  Donald  Macleod,  esq.  of  Gea* 
nies,  Ross-shire,  N.B. 

/«ffe  11.  At  Bromley,  aged  30,  John 
Acton,  esq. 

June  16.  At  Aahurst  Park,  Alexander 
Q.  Gordon,  esq.  second  son  of  the  late 
Alexander  Gordon,  esq.  formerly  of  Great 
Myles,  Essex. 

Lakcastse.— Jfoy  13.  At  Liverpool, 
OA  her  way  to  lio&don  (at  4h«  home  of 


Mr.  Cripps,  surgeon),  Mary-Anne- Char- 
lotte, wife  of  Alexander  Magnay,  esq. 
69th  regt.  (brother  of  the  present  Lord 
Mayor  of  London),  second  dan.  of  Henry 
de  Brnyn,  esq.  of  Hyde  Park-sq. 

May  25.  Aged  60,  Mary,  wife  of 
Richard  Woodward,  esq.  Gilnongh,  Bol- 
ton-le-Moors. 

May  30.  At  Liverpool,  Robert  Gifford, 
esq.  third  son  of  Charles  Gilford,  esq. 
Cliff  find  House,  Exmouth,  and  nephew 
of  the  late  Lord  Giffbrd. 

Lbicsster. — May  21.  Aged  86,  Han- 
nah, retiet  of  James  Vann,  esq.  of  Bel- 
grave. 

May  30.  At  Leicester,  sged  30,  Sarah- 
Ann,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Burnaby, 
Incumbent  of  St.  George's,  of  that  place* 
and  eldest  dau.  of  the  Itev.  William  Blow, 
Rector  of  Goodmanham. 

LiircoLW. — May  28.  At  Stamford, 
aged  68,  William  Stevenson,  esq.  the 
death  of  whose  brother  was  recorded  in 
our  Mag.  for  Feb.  1843.  These  gentle- 
men were  bom,  lived,  and  died  in  the 
same  house.  Under  their  wills  1,000/.  is 
given  to  the  Stamford  Infirmary,  and  by 
deed  9,200/.  is  secured  for  building  and 
endowing  a  church  to  be  dedicated  to  St. 
Nicholas  in  Deeping  Fen,  aft  extraparo- 
chial  district  containing  15,000  acres. 

Lately,  Aged  79,  at  Brigg,  Jane,  wi- 
dow of  Joseph  Hannath,  esq.  of  Scam- 
blesby,  and  mother  of  John  Hannath, 
M.D.  ofYork. 

June  12.  At  Lincoln,  Agnes,  wife  of 
the  Rev.  Frederick  Tryon,  of  Market 
Deeping,  formerly  curate  of  Prestbury. 

June  16.  Aged  11,  Francis  Richards 
Thirkill,  only  child  of  the  late  Francis 
Pulvertoft  Thirkill,  esq.  and  great-grand- 
son of  Francis  T.  esq.  who  was  many 
years  town  clerk  of  Boston,  and  clerk  ot 
the  peace  for  the  division  of  Holland. 

MiDDLESBX. — May  10.  At  the  Grove, 
Honnslow,  aged  67,  Elizabeth,  wife  of 
James  Ensor,  esq. 

May  11.  At  Ealing,  aged  47,  Edw. 
Percy  Sinnett,  esq.  of  Ehrenberg- terrace, 
Regent's  Park,  a  contributor  and  reporter 
to  the  Morning  Herald.  His  extensive  in- 
formation and  professional  experience,  hia 
knowledge  of  the  modern  languages,  as 
well  as  of  classical  literature,  gave  him 
great  advantages,  of  which  he  made  ef- 
fective use. 

May  SO.  At  Twickenham,  aged  35, 
Jane-Matilda,  wife  of  Arthur  Walker,  esq. 
of  King's-road,  Gray's-inn. 

May  31.  At  Hampton,  aged  63,  Jenny, 
relict  of  William  Berryman,  esq. 

June  11.  At  Finchley,  aged  70,  Eliza, 
relict  of  Lieut. -Gen.  Salvin. 

June  19.  At  Twickenham,  aged  89, 
Mxv,  AnftDsvies. 


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Obituary. 


[July, 


Monmouth. — Majf  89.  At  Oak  Grore 
Honae»  near  ChepstoiTi  aged  56,  John 
Bambridge,  esq. 

NonFOLK.— /tme  21.  At  Tbetford, 
James  Fiaon,  eaa.  (of  the  firm  of  Messrs. 
James  Pison  and  Son,  woolstaplers,)  one 
of  the  Magistrates  of  the  borough  of 
Thetford.  At  one  of  the  wool  fairs  din- 
ners, the  Earl  of  Albemarle  designated 
him  as  the  '*  Emperor  of  the  wool  buyers.** 

NoKTHAMPTOK. — May  14.  At  Bam- 
well  rectory,  aged  53,  Mary,  wife  of  the 
Rot.  R.  M.  Bonltbee. 

At  Peterborough,  aged  81,  Mary-Both- 
way,  wife  of  Thomas  White,  esq  banker. 

A/ay  24.  At  the  rectory,  Oundle,  aged 
77,  John  Smith,  esq. 

OzFOKD. — May  6.  At  Kencott,  near 
Burford,  aged  82,  Charles  Loder,  esq.  a 
Justice  of  Uie  Peace  for  the  county. 

Mey  29.  At  Queen's  college,  Oxford, 
aged  ^,  James,  only  son  of  the  Rct.  James 
JoUiffe,  Stoke  Charity,  Hants. 

June  18.  At  Oxford,  aged  33,  Cecilia, 
wife  of  the  Rct.  Richard  Harington,  D.D. 
Principal  of  Brasenose. 

Salop. — May  12.  At  the  Ticarage, 
Ellesmere,  aged  83,  Sarah,  wife  of  Uie 
Rot.  J.  A.  Cotton,  Vicar. 

Jun€  8.  At  Madeley,  Anne,  dan.  of  the 
late  William  Ferriday,  esq.  formerly  of 
Badger. 

SoMKHSBT.—^Ay  21.  At  Bath,  EUza, 
wife  of  John  James  Coward,  esq.  and  dau. 
of  John  Legge,  esq.  a  cousin  of  the  Earl 
of  Dartmouth. 

May  29.  At  Bruton,  Luctnda,  relict 
of  Capt.  Guyon,  of  Swaflfham,  and  second 
dan.  of  the  late  Rer.  C.  Langford,  Rector 
of  Great  Massiogham. 

At  Bath,  aged  78,  Harriet,  widow  of 
Thomas  Pickard,  esq.of  Blozworth  House, 
Dorset. 

Xa/e/y.  At  Batbford,  aged  88,  Richard 
Cowper,  esq. 

At  Westfield  House,  Weston  Lane, 
Bath,  aged  79,  Rebecca,  wife  of  Lorell 
Todd,  esq. 

June  1.  At  the  rectory,  Crosoombe, 
near  Wells,  aged  33,  Jane,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  W.  P.  Purvis. 

Stafford.^— Z<«/e/y.  At  Cloy  ton  Hall, 
aged  27,  Mary,  wife  of  John  Ayshford 
Wise,  esq.  laite  of  Forde   House,  Tot- 

BCSS. 

Suffolk.— il/ay  24.  At  Rose  Hillj 
Wixoe,  aged  82,  Josiaa  Nottidge,  esq. 

June  3.  At  Long  Melford,  Harriet- 
Alice,  relict  of  the  late  Rev.  Geo.  Bret- 
tell,  formerly  Curate  of  Histon,  Cam- 
bridgesh  and  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Rot, 
S.  Halsted,  of  Great  Thurlow.  Suffolk. 

June  5.     At  Rushmere,  near  Ipswich, 

Sed  29*  Sanh-Anne,  wife  of  T.  W.  L 
■Dovgally  esq.  of  Ipswicbi  and  jousgest 


dau.  of  the  late  Samuel  Francb,  esq.  of 
Jamaica. 

June  6.  Charlotte,  wife  of  the  Rer. 
W.  Kirby,  Rector  of  Barham. 

Surrey.— ^/fH/  11.  At  Richmond,  aged 
74,  Mr.  John  Lucas,  for  more  than  half  a 
century  keeper  of  Richmond  Park.  This  si- 
tuation had  been  filled  by  his  grandfather, 
his  father,  and  himself  in  succession,  for 
a  period  of  140  years.  During  the  whole 
of  his  long  servicei  until  his  last  illness, 
he  was  nerer  absent  a  fortnight  from  his 
duties.  He  enjoyed  the  regard  not  only 
of  his  private  friends  and  acquaintance, 
but  of  many  of  the  royal  family,  of  the 
late  Lord  Sidmonth,  and  others  of  the 
nobility.     He  is  succeeded  by  his  son. 

May  1 4.  At  Morden  rectory,  the  house 
of  her  brother-in-law  the  Rev.  William 
Blackwell.  aged  42,  Anne-Duff,  eldest 
dau.  of  Robert  Hepbume,  esq.  of  Clack- 
ington,  North  Britain. 

May  16.  At  Egham  Hill,  Emelia,  wife 
of  Christopher  Bushman,  esq. 

May  18.  Aged  77,  Mary,  widow  of 
Charles  de  St.  Leu,  esq.  of  Shalford, 
near  Guildford,  who  died  in  April  last. 

May  21.  At  Reigate,  John  Swayne, 
esq.  of  Trinity-sq.  Southwark. 

May  24.  At  Thames  Ditton,  aged  80, 
Mary,  wife  of  the  Rev.  J.  Churchill,  for- 
merly of  Chipping  Ongar,  Essex. 

Aged  54,  John  Richard  Birnie,  esq.  of 
Frimley  Hill,  near  Bagshot,  formerly  in 
the  office  of  Messrs.  Cox  and  Co.  Craig's- 
court,  Charing-cross. 

June  1.  Aged  28,  George,  fourth  son 
of  Thomas  Mellersh,  esq.  of  Godalming. 

June  10.  At  Windlesham,  aged  51, 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Taylor,  widow  of  Col.  J.  W. 
Taylor,  of  the  Bengal  Army. 

June  15.  At  the  Poplars,  Mitcham, 
aged  19,  Julia- Bryan  Rudd. 

Sussex. — May  11.  At  Bognor,  aged 
41,  William  Hunter,  jun.  esq.  of  Stock- 
well,  and  of  the  Stock  Exchange. 

May  12.  At  Down  House,  Rotttng- 
dean,  aged  27,  Eliza- Jane,  wife  of  Wil- 
liam E.  Frere,  esq.  Bombay  CiTil  Service, 
and  eldest  dau.  of  Maj.-Gen.  Osborne,  of 
Pen^elly  House,  Cheshunt,  Herts. 

May  17.  At  the  rectory,  Ewhnrst,  aged 
70,  John  Watts,  esq. 

May  32,  At  Brighton,  Martha,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  John  Lagier  Lamotte,  esq. 
formerly  of  Thorngrove,  Worcestershire. 

May  25.  At  Kemp  Town,  Brighton, 
aged  68,  the  Most  Hon.  Elizabeth  Al- 
bana  Marchioness  of  Bristol.  She  was 
the  eldeit  surviving  daughter  of  Clot- 
worthy  first  Lord  Templetown,  by  Eliza- 
beth, third  daughter  of  Shuckburgh 
Boughton,  esq. ;  was  married  to  the  Mar* 
quess  of  Bristol  in  1798,  and  has  left  issue 
fire  survitiDg  sou  and  three  daughters^ 


1844.] 


Obituary. 


109 


Her  body  was  conveyed  for  interment  to 
the  family  yault  at  Ickworth  churchi  Suf- 
folk. 

May  26.  At  Loxwood  Hoose,  aged  73, 
John  King,  esq.  many  years  a  deputy- 
lieut.  and  formerly  high  sheriff  of  the 
county. 

/kim  1.  At  her  seat,  Coombe,  aged  7d, 
Mary,  relict  of  Sir  George  Shiffner,  Bart. 
She  was  the  only  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Sir  John  Bridger,  of  Coombe,  Knt. 
was  married  in  1787.  and  left  a  widow  in 
1843,  hanug  had  issue  the  present  Ba- 
ronet, three  other  sons,  and  four  daugh- 
ters. 

June  6.  In  NewSteine,  Brighton,  aged 
S7,  Frances,  youngest  dau.  of  the  Rev. 
R.  R.  Knipe,  of  Hookfield  Grove,  Epsom, 
and  Rector  of  Water  Newton,  Huntingd. 

June  12.  At  Brighton,  aged  52,  Samuel 
Hood,  esq.  M.D. 

Jvne  17.  At  Worthing,  aged  78,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Dealtry,  of  Rottingdean. 

Warwick. — May  13.  At  Leamington, 
aged  53,  Frances,  widow  of  Oliver  Hatch, 
esq. 

May  18.  At  Leamington,  Mary-Ann, 
wife  of  Capt.  Bernard  Granville  Layard, 
26th  Foot. 

Lately.  At  the  house  of  her  son-in- 
law,  Major  M'Mahon,  Homton.  Amelia, 
wife  of  the  Rev.  J.  Morgan,  of  Burton 
Dassett  vicarage,  and  sister  of  Mrs.  Gen. 
Conyngham,  Bath. 

June  2.  At  Leamington,  aged  43, 
Uriah  Davenport,  esq.  of  Liverpool. 

Wilts.— May  26.  At  logfield,  near 
Settle,  aged  25,  Mary,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
H.  J.  Swale. 

May  27.  Anna-Maria«  second  dau.  of 
the  late  Rev.  Edmund  Benson,  of  the 
Close,  Salisbury. 

June  10.  At  Stratton,  near  Swindon, 
Miss  Anne  Bradford,  sister  of  the  Rev. 
W.  B.  Bradford,  of  Eaton.  Her  death 
was  caused  by  a  fall  from  a  pony  carriage, 
combined  with  disease  of  the  heart,  with 
which  she  had  been  afflicted  for  some 
years.  She  had  not  sustained  the  slight- 
est outward  injury,  and  her  brother 
escaped  almost  unhurt.  Verdict,  "  Died 
of  disease  of  the  heart,  accelerated  by 
sudden  fright.'' 

June  17.  At**Great  Bedwyn,  Ann, 
wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Ward,  M.A.  Vicar 
of  that  parish.  She  was  the  eldest  child 
of  Samuel  Merriman,  of  Brook  •  street, 
M.D.  and  was  born  on  the  14th  of  Au- 
gust 1802.  She  was  married  to  Mr. 
Ward,  at  St.  George's  Hanover- square, 
on  the  9th  Jan.  1823,  and  has  left  sur- 
viving issue  two  sons  and  five  daughters. 

York. — May  16.  At  Belle  Vue,  near 
Leeds,  aged  62,  Ann-Maria,  wife  of  Ed- 
ward Coke  Wilmot,  esq. 


May  22.  At  the  house  of  his  father 
William  Pilkington,esq.  of  Hatfield,  near 
Doncaster,  aged  54,  Redmond  William 
Pilkingtou,  esq.  of  Kensington  Gore. 

May  26.  At  Little  Woodhouse,  near 
Leeds,  James  Musgrave,  esq.  one  of  the 
senior  aldermen  and  a  magistrate  of  the 
borough  of  Leeds.  He  was  found  dead 
in  the  evening  in  a  lane  not  far  from,  his 
own  residence.  He  had  left  home  only 
ten  minutes  before,  and  to  all  appearance 
had  been  tolerably  well  during  the  day, 
having  been  twice  to  the  Wesleyan  chapel. 
A  coroner's  inquest  was  held,  when,  it 
appearing  that  he  had  died  from  disease 
of  the  heart,  the  jury  returned  a  verdict 
of  "  Died  by  the  visitation  of  God." 

May  29.  At  the  Rev.  G.  A.  Jacob's, 
Sheffield,  aged  13,  Henry  Lea,  only  child 
of  the  late  Henry  Priestley,  esq.  of  Haugh 
End,  near  Halifax. 

Lately.  At  Topcliffe  vicarage,  aged 
29,  Harriet,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Henry  An- 
nesley  Hawkins. 

June  12.  At  Leeds,  aged  26,  Frederic 
Freer,  eldest  son  of  the  late  William  Ro<* 
bertson,  esq.  Assistant  Commissary-Gen* 
to  the  Forces. 

June  15.  At  Helmsley  Blackmoor^ 
George  Flintoft,  esq.  Paymaster  and  Pur* 
ser  R.N. 

June  18.  Aged  88,  William  Burland, 
esq.  of  Groves  House,  near  Howden. 

Wales. — May  18.  Aged  76,  Charles 
Poyser,  esq.  of  the  Priory,  Wrezhami 
Denbighshire. 

May  22.  At  the  vicarage,  Northop, 
Flintshire,  aged  20,  Henry  Archer  Allen^ 
esq.  Lieut,  in  the  4th  Royal  Irish  Dra- 
goon Guards. 

May  24.  At  Fonmon  Castle,  Glamor- 
gansh.  Oliver  Evan,  infant  son  of  Robert 
Oliver  Jones,  esq. 

Lately,  At  Llandovery,  Carmarthensh^ 
aged  80,  William  Harries,  esq.  of  Swansea. 

At  the  Hay,  Breconshire,  agfed  69, 
Thomas  Bomford,  esq. 

Scotland. — May  4.  At  Edinburgh, 
Jessy-Murray,  wife  of  John  Knapp,  esq. 
M.D. 

May  12.  In  Edinburgh,  Miss  Christian 
Greig,  dan.  of  the  late  David  Greig,  esq. 
of  Hallgreig. 

May  17.  In  Largs  Bay,  two  young 
midshipmen  of  the  Shearwater,  Govern- 
ment surveying  steamer,  stationed  oppo«- 
site  Largs;  one  named  Jewell,  between 
18  and  20  years  of  age  ;  the  other,  in  hia 
18th  year,  was  Charles- Digby,  son  of  E.  J. 
Cayley,  esq.  M  P.  for  the  north  riding  of 
Yorkshire.  He  had  distinguished  himself 
in  the  "  Rodney,"  on  the  coast  of  Syiia, 
and  had  been  awarded  a  medal  for  the 
victories  at  Acre,  and  other  ]>laces  on  that 
coast.    They  w^e  amusing  themselves  in 


10 


Obitvabt. 


CJdy. 


B  RBall  open  boat,  wben  a  gale  came  on 
fttMD  tbe  north-eait,  and,  as  tbey  neglected 
to  lUcken  tail,  tbe  litUe  cnit  wn  ran 
tinder  water  wbile  tbe  was  ronnding  tbt 
vortb  end  of  tbe  Larger  Cnmbrae.  Tbe 
mccideat  wts  obserred  from  tbe  dedc 
of  tbe  "  Vnlean,**  another  Government 
steamer  lying  in  tbe  bay  witb  ber  steam 
np,  and  she  immediately  proceeded  to  the 
spot,  bnt  nothing  was  found  floating  ex- 
cepting tbe  two  caps  of  tbe  deceased. 

May  91.  At  Edinbargb,  Laura,  wife 
of  Charles  Stannard  Eustace,  esq.  of  tbe 
00.  Kildare* 

ilfoy  23.  At  Bdebester,  Berwicksbiie, 
George  Dickson,  esq.  of  Stonefold  and 
Belchester. 

June  6.  At  Sueeotb,  Dombartonsbire, 
Elisabeth,  wife  of  Sir  Archibald  Camp- 
bell,  Bart.  8be  was  tbe  eldest  daughter 
of  John  Balfour,  esq.  of  Balbimie,  co. 
Fife  ;  and  was  married  to  Sir  Archibald  in 
1795,  by  whom  she  lesTes  a  numerous  fa- 
mily. 

Jme  13.  At  Edinburgh,  aged  77, 
Thomas  Cbaries  Hope,  M.D.  F.L.S., 
Professor  of  Chemialij  ibr  nearly  bdf  a 
century  in  Edinburgh  UniTcrsity.  At  the 
dose  oif  tbe  winter  session  before  last  he 
Islt  himself  compelled  by  increasing  years 
to  resign  the  Professorship  which  be  had 
90  long  and  so  ably  filled. 

IniLAim. — Af«|f  7.  At  Crocknolina, 
near  Broadbaven,  in  Erris,  aged  12S, 
GraoeDerit.  Her  mental  faculties  seemed 
unimpaired  wben  she  conversed  of  things 
long  gone  by,  but  she  spoke  like  a  child 
of  matters  A  recent  occurrence. 

JUttf  15.  At  Dublin,  Janette,  wife  of 
Edward  Mayne,  esq.  of  Norfolk- crescent, 
London. 

Jfay  19.  At  BaHfaiamore  Honse,  co. 
Mayo,  aged  56,  Anne,  relict  of  Anthony 
Ormsby,  esq.  Lieut. -Col.  North  Mayo 
MUitia. 

JimeS.    At  Abascreagb,  co.  Galway, 
'William  Brackenbufy,  esq.  formerlyLient. 
in  the  61  at  regt.  late  of  Usselby  House, 
Lincobish.  and  recently  of  Aswa^lby,  near. 
Spilsby,  same  county. 

June  1,  Mr.  Shannon,  tbe  mayor  of 
Limerick.  He  died  suddenly,  in  tbe  act 
of  presiding  at  a  Repeal  meeting  in  that 
town. 

JsnsEY. — June  14.    At  St.   Heller*s, 
aged  30,  Frances-Mary,  only  dan.  of  tbe 
late  Mijor  Sbairp,  of  Kirkton,  Linlith- 
gowshire, Scotland,  and  sister  of  S.  F. 
•     Sbairp,  esq.  banker,  Totnes. 

East  Indirs — J'e6.  6.  At  Moul- 
jnein,  aged  27,  in  the  Hon.  East  India 
Company's  Service,  Assistant  Surgeon 
Bx>bert  Wood  Spry,  son  of  the  late  James 
Hume  Spry,  eso.  of  Clapham,  and  for- 
merly  of  Cfasrterfaouae-fq. 


Mtirck..  AtMontaiein,Capt.Bidmrd 
L.  Coxe,  of  tbe  84*  ftcgt.  eldest  son  of 
the  Rev.  Cbaries  Coxe,  Newtown  Lodge, 
Hungerford.  

AprU  7.  At  Deesa,  aged  17,  S«ond 
Lieut.  Eustace  Montatt  Maude,  of  tbe 
Ist.  Bombay  European  Fusiliers. 

Apra  15.  At  CalcutU,  aged  S5,  Win 
Bensley  Tbombffl,  e«i.  of  the  Hon.  East 
India  Company's  Civil  Service. 

jfyril  2«.  At  Mbow,  aged  23,  Robert 
M.  D.  Delafosse,  Ensign  of  tbe  36^ 
Bombay  N.  L,  third  son  of  the  Rev,  D. 
C.  Delafosse,  Rector  of  Sbere,  Surrey. 

Wbst  Indies.— AfarcA  15.  On  the 
passage  from  Jamaica  to  Bermuda,  aged 
«0,  Mr.  WilKam  Wilbrabam,  Mate  of 
H.M.S.  "  niustrions,"  only  son  of  the 
late  Capt.  Wilbraham,  R.N.,  and  nepbew 
of  G.  Wilbrabam,  esq.  of  Ddamere  House, 

Cheshire. 

Mmreh  17.  In  ^e  Bsbama  Islands, 
Cbsrlotte,  wife  of  tbe  Rev.  Pelbam  Stan- 
hope  Aldridi,  and  dan.  of  ^e  late  Mr. 
Benjsmin  Bridges,  of  HoUesley,  Suffolk. 

April  2.  On  board  tbe  "General 
Palmer  *'  transport,  off  Santa  Luda,  Lieut. 
Eustace  Moffat,  of  tbe  46tb  Regt  late 
Deputy  Assistant  Quartermaster-Gen.  at 
Baibaaoes. 

AprU  10.  At  Barbadoes.  aged  49, 
John  Lucie  Smith,  LL.D.  of  Demerara. 

May  11 .  At  Dominica,  tbe  wife  of  Dr. 
Alexander  Stewart,  Senior  Surgeon  to  tbe 
Forces. 

Abroad. — Jan,  13.  At  sea,  on  board 
H.M.S.  «*  Rattlesnake,"  on  her  voyage 
from  Hong  Kong  to  Portsmouth,  Capt. 
Henry  Geary,  of  the  Royal  Artillery. 

Jan.  14.  At  Sydney,  New  Soutb 
Wales,  aged  30,  James  Alexander,  son  of 
John  Robinson,  esq.  of  Norwood,  Surrey. 

Jan,  20.  At  Bronti,  Bungonia,  New 
South  Wales.  Mary-Anne,  wife  of  W.  F. 
Baker,  esq.  R.N. 

F#5.  1.  At  Hong  Kong,  Assistant 
Commissary-Gen.  John  Irvine. 

March  14.  At  sea,  on  board  the 
<'  Thomas  Coutts,'*aged  40,  H.  F.  Boaden, 
esq.  He  was  yougest  son  of  the  late  James 
Boaden,  esq.  weU  known  in  the  literary 
and  dramatic  world,  and  for  a  long  period 
filled  the  responsible  situation  of  Agent 
to  Her  Majesty's  Navy,  to  tbe  entire  sa- 
tisfaction of  the  Crown. 

AprU  11.  At  New  York,  aged  77, 
Jacob  Walton,  esq.  Rear-Admirid  of  tbe 
White. 

May  5.  At  Malta,  Major  Thomas 
CUbbom,  1st  Bombay  Grenadiers,  youngest 
son  of  the  late  Henry  Clibbom,  esq, 
Lyisanisky,  King's  County,  Ireland. 

May  10.  At  Berlin,  at  a  very  advanced 
age,  ueneral  Borstell,  commander  of  the 
CiTilry.    Tbe  King  loiei  in  him  one  of 


1844.] 


Obituabt. 


Ill 


Iiifl  moBt  faithftil  semats  and  wisest  coon- 
dllon ;  the  coantry  one  of  its  most  dis- 
tiogoished  citizens;  and  the  trnj  one 
of  its  bravest  and  greatest  leaders  during 
the  war  of  liberty  from  1813  to  1815. 

May  12.  At  Rome,  Thomas  Anbin, 
esq.  resident  at  Rome,  and  for  many  years 
attached  to  her  Majesty's  Legation  in 
Toscany. 

May  15.  At  Boulogne-snr-Mer,  Kate, 
only  dan.  of  Dr.  Derbishire. 

May  SI .  I|i  France,  Admiral  Lalande. 
His  death  is  a  severe  loss  to  the  French 
navy,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  most 
distingtiished  oftcers.  He  commanded 
the  Mediterranean  fleet  hoi  1840. 


Jims  1.  At  Rome,  Lady  Adam,  wife 
of  Lient.-Gen.  the  Right  Hon.  Sir  Frede- 
rick Adam,  G.C.B. 

June  S.  At  Cadenabbia,  near  ComOy 
aged  30,  Harriet,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
John  Bayntun  Scratton,  esq.  of  Miltoa 
Hall,  Prettlewell,  Essex. 

June  9.  At  Brussels,  Susanna,  widow 
of  CoL  Duncan  PresgraTe,  of  the  Hon* 
East  India  Company's  Service. 

June  11.  At  Paris,  Horatio,  youngest 
son  of  the  late  Sir  Richard  Phillips. 

Juna  13.  At  the  Chateau  de  Capicurt, 
near  Boulogne,  Henry  Charles  Pocock, 
esq.  late  of  the  74th  Regt.  and  youngest 
son  of  the  late  Sir  George  Pocock,  Bart. 


TABLE  OF  MORTALITY  IN  THE  METROPOLIS. 

(Including  the  District  of  Wandsworth  and  Clapham.) 

From  the  Reiume  iseued  by  the  Regietrar  General, 

Deaths  Registered  from  May  25  to  June  SS;  1844*,  (5  weeks.) 

Under  15 2119 


Males        «80)44^ 
Females     8157$***' 


16  to  60 1495 

60  and  upwards        818 
Age  not  specified       5 


.4437 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  CORN,  June  18. 


Wheat. 
t,  d. 
65    7 


Barley. 
t.  d, 
31     2 


OaU. 

«.    d. 

21    5 


Rye. 
«.    d' 
32    5 


Beans. 
«.    d. 
34    7 


Feaa. 
«•    d, 

32  10 


PRICE  OF  HOPS,  June  21. 
Sussex  Pockets,  6fc  0».  to  7/.  0#.— Kent  Pockets,  61.  ie,  to  11/.  lit. 


PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW  AT  SMITHFIELD,  June  21. 

Hay,  3/.  Os.  to  4/.  15» Straw,  U.  8f.  to  W.  lOt.— Clover,  4/.  10s.  to  5/.  15t. 

SMITHFIELD,  June  21.    To  sink  the  Offal— per  stone  of  81bs. 


Head  of  Cattle  at  Market,  June  15. 

Beasts 2752     C^iWes   204 

SheepandLambfl   34,150    Pigs      361 


Beef. 2#.  6rf.  to  4f.  Orf. 

Mutton 2*.  Sd.  to  4f.  Orf. 

Veal.... 3f.  2d.  to  4f.  4rf. 

Pork 3#.  2rf.  to  4#.  2rf. 

COAL  MARKET,  June  21. 

Walls  Ends,  from  17#.  3J.  to  22i.  6<f.  per  ton.   Other  sorts  from  I5t.  Od.  to  }Qt.  6d* 

TALLOW,  per  cwt.— Town  Tallow,  43f.  6d.      Yellow  Russia,  43i.  Od. 

CANDLES,  7«.  Od,  per  doz.    Moulds,  9t.  6d, 

PRIC£8  OF  SHARES. 

At  the  Office  of  WOLFE,  Brothers,  Stock  and  Share  Brokers, 

23,  Change  Alley,  Comhill. 

Birmingham  Canal,  17& Ellesmere  and  Chester,  65^. Grand  Junction,  263. 

Kenn«t  and  Avon,   10^. Leeds  and  Liverpool,  640. Regent's,  25, 

Rochdale,  62. London  Dock  Stock,  113^. St.  Katharine*s,  115. East 

and   West  India,  138.  -*^  London    and  Birmingham    Railwav,  217. Great 

Western,    123.— London    and    Southwestern,    644* Grand   Junction    Water. 

Works,  88. West  Middlesex,  125. Globe  Insurance,   143. Guardian, 

51. Hope,  7i.  —  Chartered   Gas,  67 J. Imperial   Gas,    82. Pbcpnijj 

Gas,  38.^— London  and  Westminster  Bank,  26^.— Reversionary  Interest,  104^ 

For  Prices  of  all  other  Shares,  enquire  as  above. 


METEOROLOGICAL  DIARY,  by  W.OARY,  Strava. 

Fraai  May  26  to  Juie  S5,  ISli,  ielk  ■■ 


Fahrenlici 

■t  Therm. 

Fahwnlie 

fi  Therm. 

i|li!i 

Weather. 

m 

l|i;|  --«-'■ 

Miiv     " 

-   lin.pt!.. 

<• 

•     •    io.  pt*. ! 

«     « 

49 

4*  lao,  17 

f«f,  cloudy 

11  '  64 

70  '  57  1     ,90  iirur,  cloudy 

27     49 

50 

49       ,16 

do.  bvr  "in 

12  ,  66 

74     a  '    ,  SO  ido. 

Sfl     54 

99 

47  l29,  90 

du.ddy.lt.do 

13  ■■  70 

76     58  «9,  98   do.hyahnn. 

S9     40 

53 

46  1    ,95 

do.  da  hy  do. 

14     63 

7U     56  30,  04  :  fine,  cloudy 

30  '  31 

57 

46       ,  99 

do.  do. 

15     60 

68     58       ,  06   do. 

31  '  49 

57 

48   30.03 

doair,  fair 

16     60 

65     J6  1     ,  )8    do. 

Ju.l   69 
^     51 

60 

47  ;29,  98 

hir.  cloudy 

17     65 

89     56       ,  13   do.  cloudy 

57 

47  1     .99 

clouify,  fair 

18     60 

6.1     56  ».  74   d.  fr.  all  run 

3  '  5V 

60 

58  1-30,  02 

f.if,  cloudy 

19     55 

6i     S3  ,     ,91    <to.do.do.do. 

4  <  51 

58 

53       .10 

do. 

M     53 

(i9     57  ,30,  03   do.do.do.do. 

fi     63 

70  1  67   29.  93 

.fine,  cloudy 
min,  rair.do. 

31      68 

li     63  W.95    fiue 

6     61 

75  1  57       ,77 

2i     69 

75     60       .88   do. 

7     61 

67  1  55       ,88 

cloudy,  rio. 

S3     74 

81      68       ,7*   do. 

8  '  63 

69  :  59  !»).  04 

do.  do.  fire 

U     74 

80     64       ,70  jdo.  doudy 

9  {  61 

69  1  56  ,     ,0i 

ido.  do. 

85.60 

61   ,  50  ,    ,66  ,  coniunt  laio 

W     63 

70 

57  '    ,01 

'ftcFj-ibwym. 

1 

'           :' 

DAILY  PRICE  OF  STOCKS. 


THE 

GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 

AUGUST,  1844. 
■  By  SYLVANUS  URBAN,  Gbnt. 


J. 


CONTENTS.  '*" 

Minor  Correbpondbnce Mr.  BUaaw's  History  of  the  Barons'  War.— 

Surname  of  Tooke.— West's  windows  for  St.  George's  Chapel,  Windsor. — 
.  Glass  inscribed  b^  Evelyn. — Family  of  Elstob    114 

Conjectural  Emendations  on  the  Text  of  Shakspbrb    •••• •••    115 

The  Identity  of  John  Wyclif,  the  Reformer 136 

Academies — the  Lincei — the  Academic  Fran9aise  and  its  Dictionary— Laroisier — 
Barr^re— Condorcet— Lord  Bacon— Galileo — Epitaph' on  Montaigne— Con- 
stables  of  France— Early  Editions  of  Cbissic  Authors  ' • 137 

Remarks  on  the  Fire  of  London,  from  G.  Wither's  "  Fragmenta  Prophetica  "  ••  149 

Brief  Notes  on  the-  Oi^s  of  the  .London  Churches • 145 

Sale  of  Mr.  Bright's' Collection  of  Manuscripts •  •  • •  147 

Mr.  Jesse's  '<  Facts*'  oh  the  Locality  of  kerne's  Oak 151 

The  Situation  of  <'  CloTcshoo"— Clifton  Hoo,  cb.'  Bedford  •  • 153 

Ancient  Mansion  at  Sandford-Orcas,  co.t  Somerset  (with  a  Plate) 156 

Correspondence  between  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Brislol  and  Henry  Hallam, 
Esq.  on  the  Character  of  Le  Clerc  as  a  Critic 157 

REVIEW  OF  new' PUBLICATIONS.  ! 
Tooke's  life  and  Poems  of  Charles  Churchill,  161 ;  Hollingsworth's  History 
of.Stowmarket,.  1 65  ;  Warter*s  Plain.  Practical  Sermons,  168;  Bullar's  Lay 
Lectures,  169  :  Zareefa,  and  other  Poems,  170  ;  Life,  and  other  Poems,  by 
S.  S.  S.,  171 ;  Mathews's  Poems  on  Man,  178;  Lockhart's  Memoirs  of 
Bernal  Diaz  del  Castillo,  172  ;  Miscellaneous  Reviews • .   17B 

LITERARY    AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE. 
New   Publications,  178 ;  University  of  Oxford— University  of  Cambridge— 
Roxburghe  Club— The  Percy  Society,'  182  ;  The  Ray  Socieljr-rNortheni 
Church  of  England  School,  183  ;  Jews'.  Literary  and  Scientific  Institation — 
British  and  Foreign  Institute    '.......••••' 184 

FINE  ARTS.— Royal  Commission  of  the  Fine  Arts,  184  ;  Panorama  of  Baalbec — 
SpiUlfields  Branch  of  School  of  Design 185 

ARCHITECTURE.— Restorations  at  Woodchurch 18^ 

ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES^— British .  Arcbseological  Association,  187  ; 

Ruins  of  Athens,  191 ;  College  of  St.  Elizabeth,  Winchester 192 

HISTORICAL  CHRONI^CLE.- Proceedings    in    ParUament,    193;   Foreign 

News — Domestic  Occurrences 196 

Promotions  and  Preferments,  199 ;  Births,  200 ;  Marriages 200 

OBITUARY ;  with  Memoirs  of  the  Earl  of  Kintore  ;  Earl  of  Athlone  ;  Hon. 

Hugh  Lindsay ;  Hon.  Arthur  H.  Cole,  M.P. ;  Hon.  R.  B.  Wilbraham,  M.P. ; 

Sir  George  Pigott,  Bart. ;  Sir  Timothy  Shelley,  Bart. ;  Sir  John  Low  ther.  Bait. ; 

Sir  Henry  Chamberlain,  Bart. ;  Major-'Gen.  Sir  W.  Casement ;  Vice-Adm. 

Norborne  Thompson ;  Rear*Adm.  W.  F.  Wise  ;  William  Beckford,  Esq. ; 

Alexander  Johnston,  Esq.  M.P. ;.  William  Adair,  Esq. ;  Thomas  Campbell, 

Esq. ;  Charles  Barton,  Esq. ;  Miss  Ellen  Pickering 203 — ^216 

Cleroy  Deceased .' 216 

Deaths^  arranged  in  Counties. .  •  217 

Registrar-General's  Returns  of  Mortality  in  the  Metropolis — Markets— Prices 

of  Shares,  223;  Meteorological  Diary— Stocks 224 

Embellished  with  a  View  of  an  Ancient  Mansion  at  Sandford  OacASf  oo. 

Somerset. 


f 


114 


MINOR  CORRESPONDENCE. 


\    \  \      Irt  OUT  r*?ifw  of  Mr.  RlMUw*t  llUtory 
of  ibc  Haron«*   Wiir  we  ohirrtr4  to  hit 
rcferrinir    ooiitinuiUy    to    the     Polittcml 
Hoitiri  pubU«hi*d  ill  Mr.  >^'nght'»  volumo 
o<lltod  for  tht  Camden  Sorirty,  in  such 
m»nnrr  ai  to  Iriid  the  rtii<lvr  to  tuppoM 
tbtit  hp  had  drrivrd  hit  knowledge  from 
the  M8S.  initendofflruin  Mr.  Wnght*« 
book,  Mpfcially  •»  we  etated  that  Mr. 
Wnghl'i    name    t»ever   appeara  in  Mr. 
Blaauw'H  book.    Mr.  Blaiiitw  haa  pointed 
out  to  ua  in  rererence  to  tbta  paaange  that 
Mr.  Wriiibfa  name  doea  onee  appeor  in 
bit  book  with  commendation,  namely  in 
•  table  of  referencea  appended  to  bia  pre* 
fare.     We  wtiiiiijcly  aamit  that  we  over- 
looked  that  mention  ot  Mr.  Wright  when 
writing  the  paaaage  alluded  to,  but  we 
Cannot  think  that  aurh  a  mention  la  auf- 
tirlent,  or  ibat  it  at  all  affecta  the  queetlon 
we   railed.      Mr,    Blauuw    derived    bla 
knowlrdge  f^om  .Mr.  Wright**  book,  but, 
Inttead  ol  paying  to  and  referring  to  the 
book  in  the  unual  wav,  he  relrrred  to  the 
orlginala  thua,  •*  Polit.  Song  from  Harl. 
M8/*  ••  from  MS.  of  the  13th  cent.**  and 
10  lorth.     Thia  dracription  of  rclerenre 
claimed  for  Mr.  Blaauw  the  uae  of  the 
Oiiginale,  and  negNtivrd  the  une  of  the 
book,   whirh   nrverthele«t  Mr.    Blaauw 
did  uee.     With  a  multitude  of  theae 
reference!    before    him    the    Quarterly 
Reviewer  praised  Mr.  BlauuwU  retf«rcA, 
ind  eipreaaed  aurpriae  that  he  had  not 
aeen  and  u«ed  Mr.  Wright*8  book,  a  clear 
proof  that  Mr.  Blaauw*a  tolitary  mention 
of  Mr   Wright  wm  Inaufficient,  And  that 
the  referencee  were  cftlculated  to  mialemd. 
We  are  ready  and  pleated  to  believe  Mr« 
B)aauw*a  aaaurance  that  be  bad  no  in* 
Cention  to  minlifad  any  one,  but  we  should 
not  have  satialied  our  critical  conacience 
if  we  bad  not  pointed  out  that  he  had 
mialed  the  Quarterly  Reviewer,  and  had 
■dopted  a  mode  of  reference  calculated  to 
mislead  generally.    •*  Honour  to  whom 
honour ;"  let  Mr.  Blaauw  have  the  honour 
of  having  written  a  very  useful  volume, 
and  Mr.  Wright  the  honour  of  having 
brought  to  light  bv  hie  research  a  valuable 
portion  of  Mr.  Bfaauw*s  materials. 

Ma.  W.  T.  P.  Shortt,  in  answer  to 
the  inquiry  in  p.  2  into  the  origin  of  the 
name  of  Tooke,  submits  that  it  is  not 
Dunish  or  Saxon,  but  Briiuh  in  all  pro- 
lability.  The  root  of  it,  in  his  opinion, 
is  the  old  British  or  Celtic  Tog,  a  leader 
or  commander,  (root  of  the  Latin  Dux,) 
and  the  verb  iogiut,  or  in  modem  diction 
ilf^9,  to  lead,  from  which  is  (yt^talie,  a 
leader.  TbyfUt  Mtiii  (modemixed  Tywrs 
Vael,)  is  the  Prince  of  Leading,  Of  toe 
same  came  the  brother  of  Carsctacus  in 
Tadtusi  among  the  chiefs  of  the  SUuru^ 


named    Togodommw    (7Vf  • 
ihm),  leader  of  the  peoyie  «f  d 
who  waa  killed  in  the  lale  of 
bably  ao  called  frooa  a 
name.     T%iy9og  is  the  Wcbki 
for  a  captain.      Pexron  in  haa 
of  Narions  gives  as  Dmx  fi 
Dmg,   This  is  in  his  table  of 
from  the    Celtic  or 
There  is  little  doabc  hut 
ruption  of  the  old  root. 

In  answer  to  T.  W.  (p.  S,) 

S aired  where  Weat*e  origuiai  ah4 
le  stained  glass  that  waa  bcgvn  far 
west  window  of  St.    Geor}^*s 
Windsor,  are  to  be  found.  Ma.   Rsarrov 
states  that  the  finished  study  thae   v«s 
made  for  the   painter  on  gUas  to  woe^ 
from,  which  is  a  paintinf^  by  West  m  ofl 
colours,  the  subject  the  Ciufifiaiou, 
all  the  attendant  drcumstaiiees 
by  the  diffrrent  evangelists,  is  in  the 
session  of  Qeorge  Loddiges,  esq.  Hiack- 
ney.    We  may  add  that  the  reason  for 
the  inquiry  was  that,  the  Dean  and  Cummb 
of  Windsor  having    presented  the    nn« 
finished  glass  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Cal- 
cutta for  his  new  cathedral  churrh,   Mr. 
Willementf  in  whose  hands  the  glass  has 
been  placed  for  completion,  was  drsirous 
of  knowing  whether  a  complete  sketch  or 
the  (ulUsise  drawings  were  in  existence, 
and  if  so  where  they  could  be  referred  to, 
as  a  considerable  part  of  the  glass  yet  re- 
mains  untouched.     Mr.    Kenton's    in- 
formation  very  kindly  removes  a  great 
difficulty. 

Ma.  Mallsson  states,  that  by  an  in- 
advertency  on  bis  part  his  reading  of  the 
inscription  on  the  second  quarry,  pre. 
sumed  to  have  been  inscribed  by  £velyn, 
was  incorrectly  given  in  our  June  Maga- 
xine.     He  reads  it, 

**  Thou  that  betrayst  mee  to  this  flame, 
Thy  pemance  be  to  quench  the  same," 

in  opposition  to  the  opinion  of  some 
friends,  who  conceived  the  word  power 
to  be  the  correct  interpretation,  and  which 
word,  though  he  never  coincided  in  it,  he 
accidentally  wrote. 

Mr.  Obokgx  B.  RicHAaoeoN,  of  New- 
castle  upon  Tyne,  requests  anyinformation 
respecting  the  family  of  filstobof  Koxden, 
CO.  Durh.  and  particularly  of  Elixiibeth 
and  William  Elatob,  the  famous  Saxonista, 
who  were  born  in  Newcastle.  He  has 
already  referred  to  the  more  popubr 
sources  of  information,  and  haa  gleaned 
from  Surtees,  Hutchinson,  Tindel,  Rowe 
Mores,  Nichols,  and  Thoresby  all  that 
they  contain. 

P.  lOS.  The  Hon.  Charles  Stuart  Wortley 
was  the  second,  and  not  the  youngest,  son  of 
JLiord  Whamdiffe, 


— I 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


Co^fectural  EmendatiofiM  on  the  Text  of  Shakspertp  with  Ohi&oaiiont  mk 

the  Notes  of  the  Commefitators. 

WHEN  the  original  fertility  of  natnre  begins  to  be  exbausted,  the 
science  of  agricnlture  commences  j  and  when  tlie  age  of  original  genius 
has  passed,  that  of  criticism  begins,  by  which  another  source  of  pleasure  is 
opened  to  the  mind  $  whether  seen  in  its  higher  province  as  in  the  pages 
of  Aristotle  and  Longinus,  where  it  appears  as  the  gnide  of  taste  and  the 
handmaid  of  genius^  pointing  ont  the  latent  sources  of  beauty,  and  form* 
ing  laws  for  the  future  regulation  of  authors,  after  the  models  of  established 
excellence ;  or  whether  it  undertakes,  like  the  later  critics  of  the  Alex-' 
andrian  school,  the  humbler  yet  honourable  province  of  purifying  and 
amending  the  text  in  those  works  on  which  time  has  stamped  the  seal  of 
approbation  }  whether  by  removing  the  errors  and  correcting  the  blemishes 
of  transcribers,  or  by  explaining  the  language  that  has  become  antiquated 
or  obsolete,  and  throwing  light  on  customs  and  manners  which  have  long 
been  changed  and  forgotten.  «  Since  the  days  of  the  revival  of  literature, 
the  most  illustrious  names  have  appeared  among  the  critics  and  com  men* 
tators.    Politian  esteemed  it  to  be  the  highest  glory  to  explain  the  language 
and  expatiate  on  the  beauties  of  the  Homeric  poems ;  and  we  remember 
hearing  Professor  Person  say,  with  that  modesty  which  always  aceompaniea 
real  learning,  "  Why  should  I  think  of  writing,  when  such  an  author  as 
Euripides  still  wants  assistance  and  emendation  ?"     Influenced  by  such 
reasons  as   these,  many  very  ingenious  persons,  and  some  even  of  the 
highest  fame  themselves,  have  devoted  much  time  and  labour  to  the  study 
and  improvement  of  the  text  of  Shakspere,  being  willing  rather  to  sail 
with  their  little  barks  attendant  on  his  illustrious  progress,  than  to  venture 
out  in  bolder  excursions  of  their  own.     Certainly  there  is  room  even  in 
these  later  days  for  the  application  of  various  learning  and  conjectural 
ingenuity  to  the  injured  pages  of  our  great  dramatist.     Steevens  says, — 
**  Every  reimpression  of  our  great  dramatic  master's  works  must  be  con- 
sidered in  some  degree  as  experimental,  for  their  corruptions  and  ob- 
scurities are  still  so  numerous,  and  the  progress  of  fortunate  conjecture  so 
tardy  and  uncertain,  that  our  remote  descendants  may  be  perplexed  by 
passages  that  have  perplexed  us,  and  the  readings  which  have  hitherto 
disunited  the  opinions  of  the  learned  may  continue  to  disunite  them  as 
long  as  England  and  Shakspere  have  a  name.'*    The  same  critic  mentions, 
as  Uie  chief  cause  of  these  errors,  "  that  the  vitiations  of  a  careless  theatre 
were  seconded  by  those  of  as  ignorant  a  press."    Yet  in  the  attempt  at 
the  removal  of  mistakes,  and  the  restoration  of  a  purer  and  better  text, 
iken  ii  danger  lying  on  either  side  from  timidity  or  rashness ;  he  who 


116  Canjeciural  EmunimlknM  on  the  [Aug. 

avoids  Scylia  may  fall  into  Charybdia.    On  the  onf  hand  may  bo  seen  the 
error  of    reviving  obsolete  and    barbarous    expressions,    of  defiending 
anomalons  constractions,  and  supporting  typographical  biandera  or  biatricMc 
interpobUions :  on  the  other  lies  the  eqnal  danger  of  indulging  too  widefy 
in  conjectural  emendation  ;  of  interpreting  ancient  ezpresstons  by  modem 
ideas  j  of  attempting  to  improve  the  author  instead  of  explmning  him,* 
and  of  using  the  poct*s  text  only  as  a  pedestal  on  which  to  raise  Ike  fame 
and  perpetuate  the  talents  of  the  commentator.    Each  of  these  errors  has 
for  a  time  prevailed.    The  earlier  editors,  as  Rowe  and  Pbpe  and  etlien, 
most  indulged  in  wide  deviation  from  the  established  text.    "  Hoc  vero  aon 
est  criticam^sed  poeticen  exeroere.*'  The  succeeding  critics,  among  whom  tin 
name  of  llieobald  is  to  be  found,  learned  to  touch  it  with  a  more  timid  hand^ 
and  supplied  the  place  of  rash  conjecture  by  a  more  careful  collation  of  the 
oldeditions»  and  by  bringing  illustrations  in  language  and  construction  frosa 
those  contemporary  with  the  poet :  but  we  are  i^raid  when  we  look  into 
the  latest  editions  that  the  stream  of  critical  industry  is  again  changing  its 
channel ;  instead  of  the  patient  and  sure  mode  of  improvement  in  a  diligent 
study  of  the  language  of  the  time,  we  sometimes  meet  with  a  boldness  of 
conjecture  which  would  have  astonished  Warburton  himself  $  and  oome'- 
times,  when  other  means  of  illustration  have  been  applied  in  vain,  such  a 
laborious  attempt  to  extract  sense  and  meaning  from  language  as  it  never 
could  convey  to  common  apprehension,  or  be  reconciled  with  grammatical 
construction,  "inanibus  hariolationibus  aSrem  verberantes."  The  two  former 
editors,  whose  names  their  respective  editions  bear,  and  who  might  be 
called  the  rival  chairmen   of  the  Shakspere   committee,  Steevens  and 
Malonoy  together  with  their  mutual  auxiliaries  and  followers,  differed  as  to 
the  very  principle  and  foundation  on  which  their  critical  ingenuity  should 
be  applied.     Steevens  [says,  "  Shakspere  has  suffered  more  certain  in- 
jury from  interpolation  than  omission."     Malone's  opinion  is,  *'  that  it  is 
safer  to  add  than  to  omit"     Steevens  expunges  when  the  measure  is 
redundant,  and  corrects  when  it  is  deranged,  and  when  no  idea  is  lost  by 
the  omission  that  is  meant  to  be  expressed.     Malone  adopts  another  plan 
in  cases  of  difficulty,  and  inserts  lines  of  his  own   to  supply  fancied 
deficiencies  or  improve  imperfect  constructions,  so  that  the  language  of  the 
two  editors  somewhat  resembles  that  of  the  drama^ 

Kbmt.— Ym. 
IdtAA. — No,  I  lay. 
Kbnt.— »I  My,  yea. 
Lbar.— No,  no. 
Kbnt.— Yes. 

By  this  we  see  that  the  two  great  beacon  lights  can  never  be  brought 
to  bear  together  on  the  dangerous  passages,  sufficiently  to  enable  our  in- 
experienced barks  to  keep  with  safety  in  the  proper  channel  of  ori^icismi. 
£ach  person  is  therefore  lefl  to  his  own  taste  and  knowledge  5  and,  should. 


♦  Paulas  Manutias,  in  bis  restoration  of  an  anthor^s  text,  seens  to  have  pro- 
ceeded on  the  principle  of  the  octi/f#r,  who  considered  that  an  eye  which  he  bad 
bnuhed  was  Muoh  move  brilliant  than  any  that  had  only  been  touched  by  th€  hand 
of  Natore.  '*  Sed  nt  medici,  non  eot  solum  qui  segrotant,  sed^eoa  «tiam  qui  MotU 
eommodt  kabeni^  quandoque  curant,  ut  ad  naturse  beneficiam  addito  artis  adianculo, 
qnam  optimam  valitudinem  et  speciem  consequantur ;  b!o  nos,  non  ea  modo  qum, 
erromm  tenebris  involuta,  minus  perspicua  sunt,  sed  siquid  ejusmodi  est,  quod 
Wctori  omnino  non  latest,  quanto  m»gi»  poMumui,  corrections  illnstramui,'»  (In  Cic.) 


1 844.]  Ttsti  4f  Shitfc^pere.  \  1 7 

he  be  successful  in  his  pursuit,  it  mutt  be  by  the  union  of  pstient  fliOugbt, 
assisted  by  well-directed  reading,  and  heightened  -  by  that  poetical  feeling 
and  taste,  without  winch  the  best  and  ctearest  understanding  Caii-  be  tuo 
judge  of  poetry.  It  was  said  by  a  very  witty  person,*  in  aHnsion  to  the 
frontispiece  in  Warburton*s  edition  of  Pope,  "  that  ttie  poet  looked  on^^ 
way  and  the  commentator  another  ;*'  and  so  it  must  be  if  they  are  riot 
of  kindred  minds  ;  and  tlie  defect  will  be  most  apparent  when  the  sebtSy 
ments  to  be  judged  of  are  of  the  finest  texture,  and  when  a  deep  poetic 
sensibility  can  alone  feel  where  the  line  of  truth  extends.  Milton  says 
''  that  to  derive  instrnction  from  a  book  the  reader  must  bring  a  ib^ 
superior  to  itj"  but  that  cannot  well  be,  and  it  wonid  be  safer  to  say,*  li 
nind  of  the  same  class  and  endowed  by  nature  with  similar '  powers ; 
otherwise  it  is  to  be  feared  that  an  increase  of  learning  may  tend  to  lead 
us  further  astray,  and  our  massive  piles  of  erudition  will  only  be  a  weight 
to  extinguish  the  poet's  flame,  instead  of  being  fuel  to  support  It  Ydt 
the  task  of  improvement  mnst  be  attempted,  for  no  one  would  now  dispute 
the  assertion  of  a  former  editor,  "  that  a  blind  fidelity  to  the  oldest  printetl 
copies  is  on  some  occasions  a  confirmed  treason  against  the  sense,  spirit, 
and  versification  of  Shakspere."  Pope  had  previously  observed,  ''tbiit 
the  folio  as  well  as  the  quartos  were  printed  from  no  better  copies 
than  the  prompter* a- book  or  piecemeal  parts,  written  out  for  the  use 
of  the  actors ;  for  in  some  places  their  very  names  are  set  down  instead 
of  the  personte  dramatis ;  and  in  others  the  notes  of  direction  to  th^' 
properiy  men  for  their  moveables,  and  to  the  players  for  their  entries,  are 
inserted  into  the  text  through  the  ignorance  of  the  transcribers ;  in  shorty 
by  his  account,  the  havoc  they  committed  on  the  beautiful  body  of  Shake- 
speare's poetry  was  as  extensive  as  fatal ;  by  arbitrary  division  of  acts,  by 
transposition  of  scenes,  by  omission  and  transposition  of  verses,  by  con*-' 
founding  and  mixing  characters,  by  putting  speeches  into  the  mouths  of 
wrong  characters,  and  lastly*  from  inability  to  distinguish  prose  from  verse ; 
to  these  must  be  added,  the  typographical  errors  of  an  ignorant  and  un- 
corrected press,  till  we  perhaps  may  wonder  that  the  injuries  have  no)? 
been  more  frequent  and  more  fatal.  Theobald  says  justly,  "  We  m«f 
consider  Shakspere  as  a  writer  of  whom  no  authentic  manuscript  was 
left  extant, — as  a  writer  whose  pieces  were  dispersedly  performed  on 
several  stages  then  in  being ;  that  many  pieces  were  taken  down  in  short- 
hand, and  imperfectly  copied  by  ear  from  a  representation  ;  others  were 
printed  from  piecemeal  parts  surreptitiously  obtained  fn>m  the  theatres  i 
and,  when  the  players  took  on  them  to  publish  Shakspere's  works  enbre, 
every  theatre  was  ransacked  to  supply  the  copy,  and  parts  collected  which 
had  gone  through  as  many  changes  as  performers,  either  from  mutilations 
Or  ailditions  made  to  them.**  Johnson  sums  up  the  whole  amount  of  miscl^leC 
in  the  following  words  :  **  The  faults  are  more  than  could  have  occurred 
without  the  concurrence  of  many  causes.  The  style  of  Sbakspere  was  in 
itself  ungrammatical,  perplexed,  and  obscure  ;  his  works  were  transeribed 
for  the  players  by  those  who  may  be  supposed  to  have  seldom  understood 
them  :  they  were  transmitted  by  copiers  equally  unskilful,  who-stiU  i^nUi- 
plied  errors ;  they  were  perhaps  sometimes  mutilated  by  the  actors  for 
the  sake  of  shortening  the  speeches  ;  and  were  at  last  ptiftted  without  oer«^ 

•  ;  .  • 

' ' I  I  - ' 

•.*•■> 

*  John  Wilkes.    This  saying  has  been  wroi^ly  given  to  another  man.  oC  mtr^ 
George  Steevens. 


116  CwijichtrmI  SmetidtiWM  on  tkg  [A^. 

lectioD  of  the  p^en.**  To  this  list,  rafficieiitly  copkras^  we  httve  sHM  to 
add  one  more  source  of  evil ;  namelyy  the  lysteoi  adopted  before  the  editer's 
art  was  properly  understood  or  applied,  to  reject  whatever  was  diaKked, 
and  to  think  more  of  amputation  than  of  core.  BnC,  even  in  akilfal  handa, 
*'  conjectural  criticism/'  as  Johnson  says, ''  has  always  something  to  abate 
its  confidence;*'  "  as  I  practised  conjecture  more  1  learned  to  trost  it  less  : 
for  every  day  tncreues  my  doubt  of  my  emendations.* '  And  he  tells  na  "  thai 
it  demands  more  than  humanity  posseesesy  and  he  that  exercises  It  wftb 
most  praise  has  very  frequent  need  of  indulgence.**  This  confeesion  of  the 
dilticulty  of  the  art,  and  the  uncertainty  with  which  it  may  be  employed, 
may  be  considered  as  corroborated  by  the  opinion  of  one  eminently  dl»* 
tmguished  for  his  possession  of  this  talent  in  its  meet  enlarged  eenee,  an4 
who  has  pronounced  his  opinion  upon  the  commentators  on  Shakepere. 
If  the  fact  of  William  Schlegel  being  a  foreigner  should  lessen  the  weight 
of  his  authority  by  those  who  do  not  know  how  intently  he  has  studied 
a  kindred  language  to  his  own,  yet  it  may  give  confidence  in  his  impar- 
tiality ;  and  to  those  who  know  the  partialities  and  prejudices  which  are 
for  ever  throwing  their  false  lights  on  our  contemporary  literature,  from  the 
dishonest  quotations  and  garbled  extracts  of  the  party  reviewer,  to  the 
venal  adulation  and  fulsome  praise  of  the.  daily  journalist,  will  not  be 
disinclined  to  think  that  objects  may  be  too  close  to  be  correctly  viewed, 
and  that  a  diipassionate  and  deliberate  judgment  may  be  best  formed  when 
at  some  distance  from  that  on  which  it  has  to  pronounce  its  decision.  How- 
ever this  may  be,  the  German  critic,  in  those  celebrated  lectures  which 
he  delivered  at  Vienna,  and  which  have  been  since  published,  thus  ex- 
presses his  opinion  on  our  Variorum  Shakiperes,  **  (Jommentators  have 
succeeded  each  other  in  such  numbers,  that  their  labours,  with  the  critical 
controversies  to  which  they  have  given  rise,  constitute  of  themselves  a 
library  of  no  inconsiderable  magnitude.  These  labours  are  deserving  of 
our  praise  and  gratitude  -,  and  more  especially  the  historical  inquiries  into 
the  sources  from  whence  Shakspere  drew  his  materials,  and  into  the 
former  state  of  the  English  stage.*'  But  he  adds,  "  With  respect  to  the 
criticisms  which  are  merely  of  a  philological  nature,  I  am  frequently  com- 
pelled to  differ  from  the  commentators;  and,  when  they  consider  him 
merely  as  a  poet,  endeavour  to  pronounce  upon  his  merits,  and  to  enter  into 
his  views,  I  must  separate  myself  from  them  entirely.  1  have  hardly  ever 
found  either  truth  or  profundity  in  their  remarks,  and  these  critics  seem 
to  me  to  be  but  stammering  interpreters  of  the  general  and  almost  ido« 
latroos  admiration  of  his  countrymen.  There  may  be  people  in  England 
who  entertain  the  same  yiews  as  themselves ;  and  we  know  that  a  satirical 
poet  has  represented  ShaksperOi  with  reference  to  his  commentatora,  as 
Actsson  devoured  by  his  own  dogs ;  and,  following  up  the  story  of  Ovid, 
exhibited  a  female  that  had  written  on  the  great  poet  under  the  figure  of 
the  snarling  Lyeisca.* 

Whether  this  character  be  correct  or  not^  or  whether  the  plain  and 
practical  method  adopted  by  our  commentators  did  not  satisfy  the  atihetk 
and  philosophical  criticism  of  the  German  school,  we  do  not  say  ;  but,  as 
we  do  not  aspire  to  the  fame,  so  we  do  not  dread  the  fate  of  our  more  ce- 
lebrated predecessors  ^  and  now  lay  before  the  public  our  humUer  endea- 


•  See  Seklegsl  on  Dranuitle  latsratore,  vol.  U.  p.  109.    By  Xfttoce,  he  meaas 
Mft«  Montagu. 


1944]  Temto/Sigkipm,  119 

yernn  to  aaieiid  lome  of  tho6«  pasaagea  in  which  the  kbourB  of  formet 
crittct  ha?e  not  appeared  aatiafactofy  to  na,  or  been  generally  approved  amd 
admitted ;  believing  that 

**  Each  riring  art  by  just  gradation  moTet, 
Toil  builds  on  toil,  and  age  on  age  improTes." 

Hoping  on  the  one  hand  that  we  ahall  not  incur  the  cenanre  which  War* 
barton  paaaed  on  aome  of  hia  brethren  of  the  craft,  "  that  they  left  their 
author  in  ten  timea  a  worae  condition  than  they  fonnd  him  3**  nor,  on  the 
other,  preauming  with  an  older  brother^  whoae  occupation  waa  the  aame  aa 
oara,  "  that  what  we  have  aaid»  is  an  answer  to  every  thing  that  shall 
hernfter  be  written  on  the  aubject  ;**  but  knowing  that  ''  Optimi  qniqne 
Critici  aooe  manea  patinntnr/'  and  that  anccesa  can  only  be  partial 

'<  Non  est  in  Medico  semper  releretur  ut  Kger; 
Interdnm  docU  plus  Talet  arte  malum." 


MUCH  ADO  ABOUT  NOTHING.    (Vol.  VI.  ed.  Reed.) 
P.  lda.--<«  Why  sbaU  I  always  keep  baow  stain  ?" 

The  aense  of  tliis  passage  is  quite  clear^  on  the  supposition  that  bed- 
rooms are  on  the  upper  floors.  Neither  Theobald's  alteration  of  "  above 
stairs/'  nor  G.  Steevens's  interpolation  of  '*  keep  men  *'  are  wanted  :  the 
former  wonld  destroy  the  allusion,  the  latter  weaken  the  expression. 

P.  172.—'*  Grayes  yawn  and  yield  your  dead 
Till  death  be  uttered.*' 

The  expression  in  the  last  line  being  considered  obscure,  Steevena 
sdggeated  '^  songs  of  death/'  which  is  a  mere  verbal  alteration  formed  on  a 
similar  locntio  verborum  in  Richard  III.  but  which  in  no  way  improves 
the  sense,  or  meets  the  poet's  meaning.  Whether  the  word  *'  her  *  is  to 
be  inserted,  or  only  understood,  we  will  not  take  on  ourselves  to  say  ;  but 
the  meaning  of  the  passage  is,  "  till  the  cause  of  her  death  be  made  known^ 
so  that  her  fame  will  be  cleared." 

<'  So  the  life  that  died  with  shame 
Lives  in  death  with  glorious  fame.'* 


MEASURE  FOR  MEASURE. 


P.  ia7.— '"  Since  I  am  put  to  know  that  your  own  science 
Exceeds  in  that,  the  lists  of  all  advice 
My  strength  can  give  tou,  then  no  more  remains 
But  that  to  your  sufficiency  as  your  worth  is  able 
And  let  that  work.'* 

This  paaaage  has  afforded  much  perplexity  to  the  commentators,  and 
three  whole  pages  of  annotation  bear  witness  to  their  sufferings.  That, 
after  much  hammeiiog  and  filing,  the  critical  forge  has  not  been  very  sue* 
ceasful  b  evident  from  the  manner  in  which  the  text  now  stands.    We 


120  Co»Jeetural  Emendations  on  the  rj^ 

have  no  doobt  bat  that  the  words  *'  your  toorth  *•   is  a  eloss  or   m       ■     i 
reading,  being  meant  to  be  an  explanation  of  "  your  rafficien^.*'   We^*^ 

'*  Pat  that  to  your  ivffidency,  m  able. 
And  let  that  work." 

t.  e  put  your  science  to  your  sufficiency,  your  knowledge  to  your  i>ow«r 
and  let  them  work.    As  we  shall  m  other  places  have  to  show  tlS^TS 
corruption  of  the  text  has  arisen  from  marginal  readings  beinir  in«l^rLi  • 
it,  we  shall  quote  the  opinion  of  Professor  Porson  on  that  point  ^'P  *** 
haps  you  think  it  an  affected  and  absurd  idea,  that  a  roanrinal'  not^  .!« 
over  creep  into  the  text    Yet  I  hope  you  are  not  so  Igawant  aS  nnt  T 
know  that  this  has  actually  happened  not  merely  in  hundreds  and  ikoJamnl 
but  m  millwne  of  places.   *    »   From  this  known  propensity  of  trauJrihItIf 
to  turn  every  thing  into  text  which  they  found  written  in  the  n^^r 
their  manuscripte,  or  between  the  lines,  so  many  interpolations  h w  nr^ 
ceeded  that  at  present  the  surest  canon  of  criticism  is.  Prff»r«>rA»»*  i  *^*?" 
brevior."    See  Porson's  Letters  to  Archd.  Travis,  p.  150  *" 

P.  222.—"  Your  hrother  and  hU  Un>tr  hate  embraced.*' 
So  in  the  history  of  the  renowned  Prince  Arthur^  ed.  1634,  4to.  lib  "' 
c.  176.     *'  And  thou  were  the  curtiest  knight  that  ever  beare'  shield  •  and 
thou  were  the  truest  friend  to  thy  lover  that  ever  bestrode  horve  j  and 'thou 
were  the  truest  lover  of  a  sinful  man  that  ever  loved  woman/*  &c. 

P.  231.—^'  Some  run  from  brakes  of  vice  and  answer  none. 
And  some  condemned  for  a  fkult  alone." 

The  engine  of  torture  called  *'  the  brake  "  was  applied  for  the  punish- 
ment of  great  crime,  or  the  extortion  of  important  secrets  ;  the  meftuiajr 
therefore  is,  some  escape  from  the  punishment  inflicted  on  gross  vice  or 
great  crime,  without  confessing  their  guilt,  others  are  severely  punished 
for  a  slight  fauH.  Mr.  Collier's  *'  breaks  of  ice,"  and  Mr.  Kn^t^s 
"  brakes  off  ice,"  we  must  leave  in  the  soft  and  gentle  embrace  of  Mr. 
Dyce*s  critical  pincers. 

P.  264. "  Tis  meet  so,  daughter ;  but  lest  you  do  repent 

As  that  the  sin  hath  brought  you  to  this  shame, 
Which  sorrow  is  always  toward  oorselvei,  not  heaven. ' 

Pope's  conjecture  of  "repent  you  not "  is  inadmissible ;  Tyrrwhitfs,  that  a 
line  is  omitted,  unnecessary  ;  and  G.  Steevens's  negative  imperative  does 
not  exist.  The  passage  seems  quite  right  as  it  at  present  stands,  only  the 
argument  is  not  concluded,  being  suspended  by  Juliet's  sudden  interruption 
of  the  Duke's  discourse,  and  therefm'e  it  is  rightly  printed,  **  But  as  tee 
stand  in  fear, •"  The  Duke's  intention,  judging  from  the  line  of  rea- 
soning, was  to  say,  "  I  must  remind  you  of  another  and  a  better  kind  of  re- 
pentance than  mere  sofrow  for  the  effect  and  consequence  of  sin  ,"  hut  Ju- 
liet abruptly  and  eagerly  breaks  out  into  an  assurance  that  she  already  feels 
nnd  possesses  that  true  repentance  for  crime  as  an  evil,  which  he  is  urging. 

P.  2(18.—**  Could  I  with  boot,  cliangc  for  an  idle  plume 

Which  the  air  beats  for  vain.  O  place  I  O  form." 

We  must  give  our  uninitiated  readers  a  specimen  of  the  true  lecfio 
Jdaloneana  in  this  place.  This  most  Boeotian  of  all  the  commentators, 
yet  always  excepting  Mr.  Douce,  professes  to  read, 

««,  an  idlo  plume 

Which  the  air  beaU  for  vane  o'  the  pl#cc." 


1 844.]  Test  of  Shahpere.  1 2 1 

We  only  wonder  his  restoration  did  not  include  the  entire  line,  as  ex.  gr. 

*'  Whi<^  the  air  beata  for  yane  o'  the  place  o'  the  fonun." 

It  is  said  that  there  is  no  authority  for  the  phrase  '<  for  Tain  "  being  used 
for  "  in  vain  :*'  if  so,  we  are  inclined  to  read 

«  Whieh  the  air  beats ;  for  O  vain  place,  O  fdrm," 

with  the  mere  transposition  of  vain  to  place, 

P.  970.-*«<  Let's  write  food  angel  on  the  deril's  horn, 
'Tis  not  the  devil's  crest." 

In  this  passage,  in  the  interpretation  of  which  the  commentators  differ 
mnch,  it  is  possible  that  the  sense  is  suspended^  and  the  speech  imperfect* 
from  the  intermption  of  the  servant  3  if  so,  it  might  be  printed, 

"  'Tis  not  the  devil's  crest,— 

How  now,  who's  there  ?'' 

P.  896.~<<  Bring  them  to  speak  where  I  may  be  oonoeal'd 

Yet  hear  them.    Now  sister,  what's  the  comfort  ?** 

The  first  copy  has 

"  Bring  them  to  hear  me  speak,  where  I  may  be  ooneeal'd.*' 

The  second  folio  agrees  with  the  text :  but  then,  though  the  sense  is 
good,  the  tecond  line  is  not  metrical.    We  therefore  would  read 

"  Bring  them  to  speak,  where  I  may  hear  them  speak 
Yet  be  conceal'd  ;«now  sister,  what's  the  comfort  ?" 

By  this  slight  transposition  the  metre  is  made  correct,  which  it  is  not  in 
any  other  reading. 

P.  304.—"  To  be  imprison'd  in  the  viewless  winds.** 
So  io  the  Cnlex  of  Virgil,  verse  211.    "  Rapior  per  inania  ventis.*' 

P.  334. — "  How  may  likeness  made  in  crimes 
Making  practice  on  the  times 
Draw  with  idle  spider's  stings 
Most  ponderous  and  substantial  things* 
Craft  against  vice  I  must  apply. 
With  Angelo  to-night  shall  lie 
His  old  ^trothed,  bnt  despis'd ; 
So  disguise  shaU,  by  the  disguxs'd, 
Pay  with  fUsehood  false  exacting. 
And  perform  an  old  contracting." 

We  wish  not  to  speak  presamptoously  or  rashly,  but  we  think  that  the 
emiimeottitot«  have  all  mistaken  the  meaning  of  this  passage,  which  they 
have  andersto6d  as  the  annonncement  of  a  general  troth,  instead  of  a  par- 
tidolar  application  to  the  ease  in  point )  and  the  editor  who  examined  the  ex- 
"plMatkms  'Of  ali  the  preceding  commentators,  came  to  the  following  conclu- 
riott/  **  I  neither  comprehend  the  drift  of  the  lines  before  us,  as  they  stand 
in  the  old  edition,  or  with  the  aid  of  any  changes  hitherto  attempted,  and 
mnst  therefore  bequeath  them  to  the  luckier  efforts  of  future  criticism." 
Id^^ne,  with  his  nsoal  felicity,  suggests  "  wade  in  crimes,**  and  "  mock- 
ing "  for  *'  making.*'  llie  lines  appear  to  as  to  bear  application  only  to 
the  immediate  subject  before  us,  the  crime  of  Angelo,  and  to  tlie  manner 
of  the  intended  retribution  by  the  Duke  3  the  only  change  we  make  is 
"  now  ••  for  •'  how/'    The  interpretation  is  as  follows :  "  Now  may  the 

Gent.  Mao.  Vol.  XXIL  R 


122  Conjecturol  EmaidmiUm  on  the  \A^ 

uppauBOoe  of  crimes  similar  to  one  anotberj  t»  e.  the  decat  of  Angelo  and 

the  craft  of  the  present  scheme — the  Duke  intending  to  deceive  Angelo  as 
Angelo  deceived  Isabella,— produce  or  draw  on  with  slight  effort  the  most 
snbtftantial  effects,  i.e.  justice  and  punishment.  I  shall  apply  subtlety 
against  Angelo.  His  old  betrothed,  but  in  disguise,  shall  sleep  with  him 
to-night.  80  shall  falsehood  and  disguise  pay  him  for  bis  false  or  wrong 
exactions.**  Or^  in  a  more  compressed  form,  *'  Now  shall  a  deception  on 
my  part,  similar  to  the  one  on  his,  acting  on  the  present  occasion,  easily 
lead  to  important  results.  I  shall  employ  stratagem  against  his  crime  ; 
and  his  old  betrothed  shall  repay  him  with  a  falsehood  like  his  own.*' 

P,  386.  IsABiLUk.—  " O  gradont  Dnke, 

Harp  not  on  that,  nor  do  not  b«ni8h  reason 
For  iDoqiiality,  but  let  your  rsasoa  serve 
To  make  the  truth  appear  when  it  seema  hidy 
And  bide  the  false,  seems  true." 

DuKS. —  " Many  that  are  not  mad 

Have  sure  more  lack  of  reason," 

Not  only  are  these  lines  allowed  to  be  so  obscure  that  Steevens  confesses 
he  does  not  understand  them,  but  the  metre  of  one  line  is  redandant. 

**  And  bide  the  false,  seems  true ;  many  that  are  not  mad.*' 

Now  the  words  ''  9eem$  true  **  are  redundant  both  in  the  sense  and  in 
the  measure,  and  certainly  are  a  marginal  jotting  or  interpretation  of 
some  one  who  would  substitute  them  for  '*  seem$  hid,'*  and  meaning  "  to 
force  the  truth  fully  out  when  it  just  appears."  But  the  argument  is,  *'  Let 
your  reason  serve  to  make  the  truth  appear  openly  when  it  seems  to  be 
concealed,  and  to  suppress  or  bury  what  is  false.'*  Thus  both  good  sense 
and  good  measure  are  restored.     Omit  "seems  trueJ" 


LOVE'S  LABOUR  LOST.    (Vol.  VII.  ed.  Reed.) 

P.  37. — "  A  man  of  sovereign  parts  he  is  esteem*d." 
So  the  text.    The  first  4to. 

**  A  man  of  sovereign  peerlease  he's  estesm'd." 
Mr.  Malone  reads, 

"  A  msn  of  —  sovereign,  peerless  be*s  esteemed.** 

That  is,  according  to  his  interpretation,  a  man  '*  of  extraordinary  accom* 
plishments,**  (for  all  that  is  meant  by  the  line  ^-  3)  but  the  speaker  checks 
himself,  and  adds  "  sovereign,  peerless***     Steevens  suggests 

**  A  man,  a  sovereign  pearl  he  is  esteem'd.** 

Now  these  wretched  pieces  of  patchwork  must  be  thrown  aside  at  once. 
Peerletts  is  nothing  else  than  either  a  gloss  for  *'  sovereign,*'  or  a  varions 
reading  ^  leaving  it  doubtful  whether  "  sovereign  parts  '*  or  "  peerless 
parts,**  were  preferable. 

We  roust  say,  '*  Hominis  est  jadicio  pollentis^  m/iMJ  potiot  qoam  libra* 
riorum  lapsibus  fidem  habere*" 


1 844.]  nsi  of  Shakspere.  1 23 

P.  1 10.  "I  do  diM  to-dt;  At  tliA  ftither's  of  a  certain  pnpU  of  mine,  while  if  b^ore 
rtpatt^  it  shall  pleaaa  you  to  gratify  the  table,"  &c. 

The  folio  b»8,  **  being  repast,*'  which  must  mean  "  when  dinner  is  over,  or 
being  fed  and  satisfied," 

P.  1 40. "Dally with  my  excrement/*t.e.  hair.  So Prynne, Mont  Orgneil, 
p.  180.  4to. 

**  Upon  ftJae  buacos  of  bought  excrement:'* 

which  means  periwigs^  or  false  hair.    Again,  p.  184.    ^ 

'*  'What  are  our  locks,  our  curled  bruds  of  hair, 
But  exeremente  at  best  ?" 

P.  159.—''  Fleeter  than  arrows,  bullets,  wind,  thought,  swiftest  things.*' 

Ritson  thought,  as  the  line  was  too  long,  that "  bnllets  **  should  be  erased ; 
but  no ;— -'^  bullets  *'  were  substituted  in  the  place  of  "  arrows/'  being 
swifter,  and  therefore  nearer  the  other  images,  wind,  thought,  &c.  Un- 
doubtedly one  was  intended  to  be  displaced  by  the  other. 


MERCHANT  OF  VENICE. 


P.  231.  See  Jordan's  Royal  Arbour  of  Loyal  Poesie,  p.  36,  for  a  ballad 

on  the  story  of  this  play«  beginning 

"  You  that  do  look  with  Christian  hue, 
Attend  unto  my  sonnet,"  &c. 

p.  2&4.«-''  And  for  the  Jtw's  bond  which  he  haOi  of  me, 
Let  it  pot  enter  in  your  mind  ofiope» 
Be  merry,"  &c. 

Johnson  saw  lome  cormption.    Malone  would  pnt  a  comma  after  mind, 

with  wbai  effect  we  cannot  say ;  but  the  fact  doubtless  is,  that  the  words 

*'of  lov0  "  erept  in  from  the  next  line  but  one,  of  which  they  form  the 

condosieoy  md  therefore  no  word  resembling  them  in  form  or  sound  is  to 

be  songht. 

'*  Be  merry,  and  employ  your  cheerful  thoughts 
To  courtship,  and  sach  fair  oiteota  qflop$ 
As  shall  conyeniently  become  you  then.'* 

It  is  not  improbable  that  the  word  "  Bassanio  *'  stood  in  this  line  as  it 
does  in  a  former  one, 

**  Slabber  not  businesf  for  my  sake,  Bassanio." 

The  rhythm  of  the  two  lines  is  also  Tcry  similar.    We  would  read, 

"  Let  it  not  enter  in  your  mind,  Bassanio."  « 

F.  344*^^''  And  others,  when  the  bagpipe  sings  i'  the  nose. 
Cannot  contain  their  urine,"  &c. 

See  Chevrseana^  p.  79.  '*  J.  C.  Scaliger  dans  ses  exercitations  centre 
Cardan,  dit  qn'un  autre  Gascon  craignoit  tellement  le  son  de  la  vielle,  qu*il 
ne  pouvoit  jamais  entendre  sans  nne  en  vie  extraordinaire  de  /aire  de  Veau, 
On  en  fit  Texperience  par  nn  vielleur  que  Ton  fit  cacher  sous  nne  table,  et 
il  ne  commenca  pas  plutot  a'joaer,  que  Ton  s'apper^nt  de  Timperfection  du 
gentilhomme.'  See  also  Brathwaite's  Strappado  for  the  Devil.  (The 
Wooer)^  p.  94.  1615. 

<<  Yea  I  have  heard,  nor  think  I  ftmt  did  lie, 
8o  skilful  was  this  lad  in  ninitrclsia 


124  Conjeclnnd  Emendaiioiu  on  the  L^ug- 

That  when  he  pUded  oae  4itrDke»  wliiflk  ^  Ke  w««U»  * 

No  lasse  that  heard  him  could  her  water  hold/'  &c. 

P.  358.  "  O  noble  ludgc  !"  w  KaXov  iiKamov,    Vide  Charitonis  Rhod. 
aiid  DosicK  Amor:  ed.  DorviUe,  p.  114.    4to. 


JIS  YOU  LIKE  IT.    (Vol.  VIII.  ed.  Reed.) 

P.  65. — "  Which  ia  as  dry  as  the  remaiDder  bialcet 
After  a  Toyage.*' 

So  in  H.  Bold  8  Poems,  1664,  p.  120.     12mo. 

"  Their  bitiet  jeato  after 
That  are  steept  ia  their  hwighter.*' 

i.  e.  dry,  stale* 

P.  74. — **  His  fair  round  belly  with  fat  capon  lin*d.'' 

See  Cowley's  Love's  Riddle,  p.  104. 

"  ■  Alderman-like,  a  walking  after  dinner 

His  paunch  o'ercharged  with  capon — 

P.  90.—**  I'll  graff  it  with  you,  and  then  I  shall  graff  it  with  the  earliest  froit  of  the 
country,  for  you'll  be  rotten  ere  you'll  be  half  ripe,"  &c. 

G.  Steevens  says,  *'  Shakspere  had  little  knowledge  of  gardening ;  tbe 
medlar  is  one  of  the  latest  fmits,  being  uneatable  till  the  end  of  Novem- 
ber." Shakspere  is  not  comparing  the  season  in  which  the  medbi}  is 
ripe  with  that  of  other  fraits ;  and  it  surely  does  not  require  a  knowledce 
of  gardening  to  tell  the  time  the  medlar  is  eaten  j  but  he  means  that  is  the 
eankst  fruit  which  is  rotten  (fully  ripe)  before  it  is  haif  ripe ;  tarliest  hi 
itself,  coming  to  full  perfection  when  only  half  ripe  :  other  fruits  must  be 

longer  or  later  ripening  that  have  to  perfect  their  full  and  CDtire  gcowtll." 

• 
P.  144.—*'  Like  Diana  in  the  fountain." 

The  piece  of  water  in  Bushy  Park,  in  the  Chestnut  Avenue,  is  still 
called  '« The  Diana  Water." 

P.  171. — "  In  the  spriDg-time,  the  only  pretty  rank  time." 

The  old  edition  has  *'  rang  time,*'  from  which  Johnson  foimed  <'  rank.*' 
Pope  read  "  spring-time."  G*  Steevens  proposes  '*  ring-time,"  the  time 
for  marriages ! !  We  prefer  Pope's  reading  to  Johnson *8,  as  mor^  poetical 
and* elegant,  though  we  do  not  think  it  to  be  the  trne  one  ;  but  tlie  ISne  is 
too  long;  did  "pretty"  get  into  it  fitmi  the  next  stanza,  '*th^$t  preity 
country  folks  would  lie  r"  We,  however,  have  <^r  own'opinioti  as  to'ivhfere 
the  error  lies.    We  think  the  line  stood  '    '"'  / 

"  In  the  spring-time,  the  only  pretty  time ;" 

and  that  "  rang  "  is  altogether  the  printer*8  blunder,  from  the  number  of 
words  in  "  ring,"  which  surrounded  him,  and  prodviQpd  .cwfvsi^^n  in  the 
type ;  besides,  '^rank  **  is  very  uupoetical  in  ^his  place. 

P.  S24. — **  Impossible  be  strange  attempts,  to  those  "         ' '  *^ 

That  weigh  their  painb  intense  s  and  do  suppose 
What  hath  been  cannot  be«" 


1 844.]  TMPt  of  Shahpere.  \  2& 

Johnson  approves  of  Hanmer's  alteration. 

"  What  ha'ant  been,  cannot  be  ;''  •      «i 

but  tills  abbreviation  is  unusaal  and  inharmonious :  we  proposOj  only]  ^}i\k 
the  addition  of  the  letter  "  //* 

'*  What  hath  not  been,  can't  be." 

P.  293.  ''For  doing  I  am  past."  For  obvioos  reasons  it  is  not 
advisable  to  expatiate  on  this  expression :  otherwise  we  coald  give  nninber- 
less  examples  from  the  old  dramatists  ;  but  we  may  observe  that  the  same 
word  had  the  same  meaning  in  the  ancient  languages.  See  Theocr.  Idyll. 
/5.  V.  143. 

See  also  the  note  of  Is.  Casaubou  to  the  Apologia  of  ApuleiuSy  p.  60, 
4to.  on  the  word  "  factum."  We  also  refer  to  Gaulmin's  note^  on  Eu* 
mathii  et  jsmen :  amores,  p.  1 7 ;  where  he  says.  "  ApdtFai  verbum  nequitiae  :'* 
and  see  Wakefield's  note  to  Lucre  t.  IV.  209,  "  transact  in  sspe  omnibus 
rebus."  We  shall  add  that  from  a  passage  in  Steele's  Theatre,  p.,  161^  it 
would  seem  that  the  word«  in  the  sense  we  have  alluded  to,  was  beginning 
to  wearout,  ashe  explains  it. 

P.  343. — ''  I  see  that  men  make  hopes  in  such  affairs f 
That  we'll  forsake  oarsehes." 

This  line  is  manufactured  by  the  commentators  from  the  old  readings 

which  is, 

"  I  see  that  men  make  ropes  in  snch  a  scarre.'*  .'    ' 

But  a  much  slighter  alteration,  and  one  nearer  the  text,  will  give  us,  . . 

"  I  see  tbat  men  make  hopes  hi  such  a  cause,*'' 

rr  being  printed  for  u,  or  "  in  such  a  case,**  the  rr  being  redundant. 

P.  374.  '*  I  would  give  his  wife  my  bauble."  The  best  representation 
of  the  foors  "  bauble  "  we  know,  is  in  Langjus's  edition  of  Afartial,  fo).  p. 
59 ;  in  the  last  page  of  the  Latin  poem  "  Liber  NanceidoSi"  4to.  and  m 

Holbein's  plates  to  Erasmi  Laus  Stultitiae. 

>i  I 


■( 


.'    -♦, 


TAMING  OF  A  SHREW.    (Vol.  IX.  ed.  Reed.)  ...       { 

P.  16. — "  Hnntsman,  I  charge  thee  tender  well  my  hotmdsi  ^<  i'   ' 

Brack  Merriman,  the  poor  cur  is  embossed."  <.:<•'   ) 

.  'Brach  *'  is  evidently  wrong,  having  been  taken  by  the  pfintrr*  itoot 
the.  foIlowKug  line,  *'  the  dee|>»mouthed  brach."  Miqson  Woidd*'read 
"  bathe  ;".  au4  Sir  T.  Hanmer,  in  utter  absurdity,  <'  leeck,  t\  e.  a^lv-  ^otfi^i 
remeciies,  the  poor  cur  has  his  joints  swelled  $'*  the 'true  iteidilt^  '  JA 
"breathe." 

P.  119.— "  She  is  my  gopds,  my  chattel^ ;  8b«  is  n^y  house,  ,         ,,..  ,  i  .,,. 
My  katt«ehoM  staff,  my  nwd,  my  barti.*>    .         '.'-„,  1^1/^- 
St«ev*ttw  (horfescb  referens)  would  add  '^  mv  stkble  "  to  Ihi  Willing  tQ 
make  up  the  metre ;  but  there  is  no  necessity  for  any  alteration  but  the  in- 
sertion of  "  aii(f."  -  -  .1  .    - 

''  She  is  my  goods,  my  chattels,  and  she  ia 

My  house,  my  household  stuff,  my  field,  my  bam.* 


IM  Coujeamml  MmaUhim00  on  the  U^^ 

P.  liO.^*'  O  master,  mstv,  I  hvm  wvldMd  ao  kwf. 
That  rm  dog-weary ;  but  at  last  I  spied 
An  ancient  «if  «l  eo»iBf  down  tha  hill, 

Win  aerre  the  tons.** 

There  is  a  very  singular  error  here  in  the  word  *'aagel»*'  bat  llM  «•«- 
mentators  have  not  seen  the  manner  in  which  it  was  made.     Theobald» 
Hanmer,  Warborton,  and  Johnson  all  agree  to  substitnte  *^  engle/*  though 
thty  ackaowlodga  th^  word  is  Bot  to  be  fond  in  (Shakspeie^  and  thoogh 
thty  0Q^0$»  ihm  ipmmee  ofita  mmmmy.  only  Kr  T.  Hamper  w^mgkU 
is  a  golL    SteovMs  soflgMts,  "  angel  mcfchanl,  a  wmckuU  mU  d^is  im 
amffeU**  1    And  this  is  all  the  assistance  that  we  can  derive  from  thea» 
illastrions  names  ; — all  that  can  be  afforded  by  those  who  passed  thftir  lives 
10  studying  Shakspere.     Did  it  not  strike  any  of  them  that  the  syllables 
of  angel  were  transposed  by  the  compositor,  who  was  oonfnsed  by  so  many 
ans,  **  an  ancient  angel/'  and  that  f&dn  was  the  abridgment  of  gentleman  ? 
They  might,  at  least,  if  they  had  read  a  Uttle  farther,  have  seen  the  same 
person  addressed  in  these  words,  p.  171,  "  Sir  yon  seem  a  sober  onstcitf 
gentleman,** 

P.  141.— <•  Mastv  a  umttHtuM  or  a  pedant.'* 

We  dispute  altogether  the  correctnessof  the  accent  over  the  last  syllable  of 
«'  mercatante,"  or  the  insertion  of  the  h  at  all.  The  old  editions  read 
'' marcatant,"  with  the  same  spelling  as  the  woid  *'marchanf  formerly 
^*?/  if^"  Steevens  says,  the  modern  editors  were  obliged  to  supptg  a 
iyllahle  to  make  out  the  verse  j  but  this  arose  from  their  own  ignorance  10 
not  reading  the  line  with  the  accentuation  Shakspere  gave  it.  »*  Pedant " 
was  formeriy  pronounced  "  pedknf     See  Bentley's  verses, 

"  Instead  of  leam'd,  Ws  called  pediLnt/' 

Therefore  in  fatnre  editions  the  old  word  ''marcatitot"  shonU  be 
restored,  with  the  accent  also  on  pedtini,  both  being  from  the  French. 

P.  168.— <<  AaA  10  H  dMll  be  te,  Cor  Katharine. 
A^  ths  punctaation  of  this  line  to 

<•  And  10  it  shall  be,  so  for  Kathaiine.*' 

Malone  suggests  «  sir,"  and  Ritson  "  etiU,"  for  the  second  *'  so,"  without 
***  l««8t  necessity^  an<*  ""^^^h  to  the  injury  of  the  expression. 

P.  188.—"  Hsf  e  at  yom  fqr  a  hiitef  jest  or  twe." 
Old  copy  ''better/*   'Th^  s^o^e  Tarious  reading oocors in  Hamlet,  p.  222. 

%t  Antl  do  >^ch  business  as  the  hetter  day 
Would  quake  to  look  on.*' 

^bere  Reed  and  Steevens's  edition  has  very  erroneously  "bitter." 
^^^  *  *  better  day  **  1^  ^  Upov  Hfiap  of  Homer,  II.  9.  66.  See  also 
Beaumont's  "  Knight  of  the  Burning  PesUe,"  4to.  p.  51.  ed. 

II  i^dy  'tis  true,  you  need  not  lav  your  lips 
Xo  Mt^  Nipitato  then  ti^re  ki/^ 

^liew  read ''  better/' 


If44«]  Tm$of8hakipm*  197 

THl  WINTER'S  TALK. 

P.  238. — "  Whereof  the  execution  did  cry  out 
Against  the  non*perfoniiance." 

We  think  the  commentators  have  missed  the  meaning  of  this  passage. 
Johnson  says,  "This  is  one  of  the  passages  by  which  Shakspere  too 
frequently  clonds  his  meaning.  This  sonnding  phrase  means,  I  think,  no 
more  than  a  thing  necessary  to  be  ^done"  An  easy  way  of  getting  over 
a  difficulty.  The  meaning  is,  the  execution  cried  oat  one  way,  the  noii* 
performance  cried  oat  another,  to  one  who  was  fearful  to  act  and  dovblett 
the  issue  -,  consequently  the  cries  of  the  execution  and  of  the  non-ex« 
ecution  were  opposed  to  each  other. 

P.  ISO.— «'  flwMff  kU  lliovgfat  ov«r 

By  MMh  pvtfedar  ilw  of  bsavna**' 

The  commentators  differ  much  on  the  passage ;  but  the  snbltltntion  of 
tJuB  for  hia  seems  to  us  to  set  the  meaning  right." 

P.  25S.—  "  Fear  overshades  me. 

Good  expedition  be  my  friend,  and  comfort 

The  graciona  queen,  part  of  hit  theme,  but  nothing 

Of  bis  ill-ta'en  auapicion.* ' 

Either  a  line  is  lost  after  "  qaeen,*'  or  rather  the  sentence  is  imperfect  at 
"  suspicion."  Warburton's  conjecture,  approved  by  Johnson,  of  "  queen's  " 
we  do  not  like  ;  for  it  is  sorely  hardly  logical  to  call  comfort  the  friend 
of  the  queen,  comfort  being  itself  the  effect  of  some  cause,  and  not  the 
cause  itself. 

P.  264.  "  I  wonld  land-damn  him."  On  Mr.  Collier's  substitute  of 
"  laudanum  "  we  shall  only  say,  ewixt^.  We  think  with  Mr.  Dyce  there 
is  some  corraption  of  the  text*  Hanmer's  interpretation  is  out  of  the 
qncstieii.  We  do  not  believe  in  the  existence  of  such  a  word  at  "  laod^ 
damn.'*    The  speech  is  passionate  and  broken.    We  would  read  "  And  J 

I  would  damn  him  j"  or,  if  it  suited  better  the  harried  impetuosity  of  j 

the  speaker* 

•«  And  I  weuM-^daani  hhn  {<-^b«  she  heaottr.^w'd,'* 

repeating  the  word  **  damn/'  used  in  the  preceding  line.  The  letter  /  in 
kmdt  we  think,  strayed  away  from  '*  would,"  and  is  the  only  letter  we  do 
not  use  in  our  transposition  of  the  passage. 

297.  *'  The  flatness  of  my  misery  -"  so  Milton,  in  Sampson  AgonisteS| 
— "  My  hopes  all/a/."^ 

P.  330.—  **  I  should  bluah 

To  lee  yoo  to  attired ;  swifmt  1  think, 
To  show  myself  a  glass.'' 

There  are  several  long  and  unsatisfactory  notes  to  explain  this  passages 
Sir  T.  Hanmer,  with  his  accustomed  infelicity,  reads  <' swoon.''  The 
lost  word  is  "  scorn."  I  should  blush  to  see  you^  I  should  ^corn  to  shew 
myself,  a  mere  glass. 

P.  391.—  ''  Thou  speak'st  truth. 

No  more  such  wives ;  therefore  no  wife ;  one  worse, 
And  better  used,  would  make  her  sainted  spirit 
Again  possess  hef  corps ;  and  uu  this  stage 
(Where  we  offenders  now  appesr)  souUTSied 
Bsgtei  Md  wiNr  le  m$/* 


128  Conjectural  EfMniaiitmk  on  the  ~CAi|^ 


It  is  not  necessary  to  transcribe  the  different  nnsatisfaclory  notea  on  this 
passage^  but  shall  merely  give  onr  own  reading  with  the  altered  puoetiiatian, 

"  And  on  thii  stage 
Where  we're  offenders  now,  appear,  soul-Tezed, 
And  begin— wAy  to  me." 

P.  398.  Flo.—"  Here  where  we  are. 

Lbok. —  The  blessed  gods 

Purge  all  infeetion,**  &c. 

A  foot  being  wanting  we  suggest, 

**  Oh  /  may  the  blessed  gods,'* 

or  "and  may"'  Sir  T.  Hanmer  reads,  "Here  where  we  happily  are  ;" 
a  phrase  which  he  must  have  picked  op  from  some  suburban  couple 
arrived  at  their  own  door  from  a  journey  to  town  to  lay  in  their  stock  of 
tea  and  sugar. 


MACBETH. 

P.  18. — "  For  brave  Macbeth  ^well  he  deserves  that  name), 
DUduining  forhme,  with  his  brandished  steel. 
Which  smoked  with  bloody  execution, 
Like  talour^e  mimion 
Carved  ont  his  passage  till  he  fonnd  the  slave.'* 

The  old  copy  reads, 

**  Like  valour's  minion  carved  out  his  passage 
Till  he  found  the  slave.*' 

Steevens  says,  "As  an  hemiiiich  must  be  admitted,  it  seems  more 
favourable  to  the  metre  that  it  shoold  be  found  where  it  is  now  left/'  &c. 
but  we  do  not  agree  that  there  ought  to  be  a  hemistich  at  all,  for  we 
consider  "  disdaining  fortune  *'  and  "  like  valour's  minion  **  to  be  two 
readings  of  the  same  line.  '*  Like  valour's  minion  **  was  written  on  the 
margin  opposite  to  that  line,  and,  by  the  blander  of  the  printer,  was  in- 
serted below.  We  also  think  this  marginal  reading  to  be  the  poet's  second 
and  better  though t^  and  that  it  ought  to  stand  in  the  place  of  *'  Disdaining 
fortune." 

» 

P.  45.—  "  We  arc  sent 

To  give  thee  from  our  royal  master  thanks. 
To  herald  thee  into  his  sight,  not  pay  thee." 

Steevens  says,  '*  The  old  copy  redundantly  reads, '  only  to  herald  thee  ;*  ** 
but  this  redundance  has  arisen  from  forcing  the  two  readings  into  the 
aame  line  ;  one  must  be  selected,  and  the  other  put  aside. 

Lme  1. — *'  Only  to  herald  thee  into  his  sight." 
or  Line  3^^**  To  herald  thee  into  his  sight,  not  pay  thee." 

P.  160.    Lady  M. — "  Say  to  the  King  I  would  attend  his  leisure 

For  a  few  words. 
Slav.— Madami  1  will. 
Ladt  M«—  Nought's  bad,  all's  spent." 

Steevens  called  ''nought*s  had  **  a  tasteless  interpolation  ;  but,  as  in  the 
last  instance,  it  is  nothing  but  the  oM  reading,  which  gave  way  to  '*  all's 
2 


MM.]  7^  0/ShtA$pm.  189 

apentf'  for  the  rkyiie)  or,  if  not  the  poeti's  reading,  it*«  tkte  scholiist's 
eqpftmiitvon^  and  is  to  be  rejeoted* 

P.  161.  "  We  have  scotched  the  snake."  So  Overbury,  "  He  scotcheth 
time.** — See  Characters,  The  Amorist,  |^  89. 

P.  168.—  "TheiSrow 

Makes  wing  to  the  roeily  wood;*' 

On  this  passage  Steevens  has  all  the  annotation  to  himself^  and  so  he 
criticises  his  own  criticisms,  and  corrects  his  own  emendations^  1st.  rooky 
is  reeky^  or  datnp  ;  2d]y.  it  is  a  rookery  3  3dly.  to  rook,  or  to  ruck,  is  to 
roost ;  therefore  the  line  is  to  stand, 

^*  Makes  wing  to  rook  i'  th'  wood  1" 

atid  be  calls  Uiis  reforming  the  passage,  which,  like  some  other  reforms  in 
Church  and  State^leave  things  much  worse  than  they  were  before.  Bnt  it  mast 
snrely  be  known  to  the  general  reader,  that  the  "  crow"  is  the  common  appel- 
lation of  the  *'  rook,**  the  latter  word  being  used  only  when  we  would  speak 
with  precision,  and  never  by  the  country  people,  as  the  word  **  crow-keeper*' 
will  serve  to  show,  which  tneans  the  boy  who  keeps  the  rooks  (not  carrion 
crows)  o£f  the  seed  com.  The  carrion  crow,  which  is  the  croto  proper, 
being  almost  extinct,  the  necessity  of  distinguishing  it  from  the  rook  has 
passed  away  in  common  usage.  The  passage  therefore  simply  means,  "  the 
rook  hastens  its  evening  flight  to  the  wood  where  its  fellows  are  already 
assembled}"  and  to  our  minds  the  term  ''rooky  wood*' is  a  lively  and 
natural  picture  5  the  generic  term  ''  crow  "  is  used  for  the  ^c^e  "  rook/* 

P.  193. — **  SpiteM  and  wrathfid ;  who,  as  others  do, 
lives  for  his  own  ends,  not  for  you.*' 

The  first  line  is  a  foot  too  long ;  but  spiteflil  and  wrathfid  are  rival 
readings,  and  one  should  be  placed  as  a  varia  lectio  in  the  notes. 

F.  31.— ^<  But  in  a  neve  ru  thither  saU.** 
See  Shirley's  St  Patrick,  p«  S4,-^ 

<*  Sail  once  a  month  to  Scotland  In  a  sieve  C* 

and  Overbnry's  Characters  (a  Pyrate)  p.  158 — "  Give  him  sea-^room  in 
never  so  small  a  vessel^  and,  like  a  witc^  in  a  sieve,  you  would  think  he 
were  going  to  make  merry  with  the  devil.'* 


P.  74. —  "  No  jutty,  frieze,  buttress, 

..  >  ^    *   Kor  coigBfr  of  vantage,  bnt  this  bhrd  haA  made 
*  ^.*  \      ;i  i  Hie  pendent  bed  and/yreereoit/  cradle*** 

See  Ovid's  Tristii,  ili.  i%  ver.  10-^ 

**  Utq^ne  naUB  crimen  matris  deponat  hinihdo 
Sub  trabibm  cumit,  parvaque  tecta  facit." 

P.  80.— '^  Bloody  instructions,  which,  being  tanght,  return 
To  plague  the  inventor.** 

See  Orid^s  Tristia,  iii.  xiv*  6. 

'    "  ArtitnM,  wtiiM  quM  noMWr*  MO." 

QiMT.  Maq.  Vol.  XXIL  S 


t^O  Conjtdwtd  EwmdaHim^  the  [A«^« 

P.  83.*->('  P^  Hectte't  offtringt  and  wUMw»d  mtttder." 

Miss  Seward  conjectures  with  her  for  withered  i  but  tbe  poete  in  sach 
personifications  often  make  the  eflfect  produced,  to  be  the  attribute  of  the 


power,  produdn^f— as  lean  hunger,  pale  fear,  &c.  and  wUher'd  muider. 

P.  108.  "  I  have  drugged  their  poseeur  See  Davison's  Poedeal 
Rhapsody,  vol.  ii.  p.  399.  ''  The  Earl  after  this  posset  was  drawn  into  a 
gallery,"  &c. 

P.  115.— *<  Will  all  great  Neptune'i  ocean  waah  the  blood 

Cleaa  from  my  hand  ?    No !  this,  my  hand,  mil  rather 
The  mnltitadijioiu  teas  incarnadine, 
Making  the  green— one  red." 

See  Claodiani  Eutropius,  lib.  ii.  ver.  22.  p,  270,  ed.  Gesneri. 

**  Qois  Toa  liutrare  Yalebit 
Ooeanvs  ?*' 

See  also  Pienoni  Verisioiiiia,  p.  148,     Pythiie  Orac.  apnd  Dorville 
ad  Chant,  p.  64— 

Mt  S»  6  vat  pi^nj  pofioatp  'ikuop^t,** 

P.  140. — "  A  fidoon  tow'ring  in  her  pride  of  place 

Wat  hy  a  moaiiDg  owl  hawked  at  and  Ulled.** 

See  Julius  Obsequens  (Prodigia),  p.   163.  ed.  Havercampi.— •'' Corvi 
vulturem  occidemnt.*' 

P.  179. —  *' Our  monnmeata 

Shall  be  the  maws  of  kites.'' 

See  LoDginus  de  SnbL  ii.  2, — yvrts  €fi}l/vxoi  ra^i, 

P.  163.— '*  Bat  in  them  Nature's  copy's  not  eteme." 

This  line  calls  forth  the  following  note :  — "  The  allnsiou  is  to  an  estate 
foff  lives  held  by  copy  of  court  rolL  It  is  clear,  from  numberless  allusions 
of  this  kind,  that  Shakspere  had  been  an  attorney's  cierk"  Riisoti. 
P^  213,  ** '  Take  a  bond  of  fate.'  In  this  scene  the  attorney  has  more  than 
once  degraded  the  poet,  for  presently  we  have  '  the  lease  of  nature.'  ** 
Steenens*  P.  247,  " '  Is  it  a  fee  grief  due  to  some  single  breast  V  It  mnst 
be  allowed  that  the  attorney  has  been  guilty  of  a  flat  trespass  on  the  poet.** 
Ditto. — Can  pedantry  and  folly  go  further  than  this  ?  By  the  same  rule 
Sir  William  Ehivenaot  was  an  attorney,  for  in  his  Song  of  the  Witclies,  p. 
314,  he  writes  — *'  And  becomes  worse  to  make  his  title  good*  ** 

P.  196.—  '*  Men  must  not  walk  too  late. 

Who  cannot  want  the  thought,  how  monstrous 
It  was  for  Malcolm  and  for  Donalbaia 
To  kill  their  gracious  father  ?" 

Malone  says,  Shakspere  is  sometimes  incorrect,  and  that  the  sense 
roquif-es,  ''.Who  can  want  the  thought  V*  We  differ  from  him  altogether, 
aiid  conceive  that  it  means,  '*  So  monstrous  is  the  crime,  it  should  oe  im- 
possible to  imagine  it.  Who  is  there  who  cannot  be  entirely  free  from 
any  conception  of  it  ?  to  whose  mind  could  the  thought  of  sucn  a  hideous 
crime  present  itself  ?** 


1044.]  TunofBhtAspert,  131 

P.  S48.-~ *'  Whmtt  man  /  ne'er  poll  your  hel  opoii  yoar  brows. 

Sec  J.  tieywood't  Epigrams^  4to.  p.  26 — 

—^  '    '  •       ' '     ' 

"  ?Fila/,  man  /  plucke  np  your  hearte»  be  of  good  cheere ;'' 

and  Cowley '8  Love's  Riddle,  p.  122^ 


I 


<*  With  what  judidoai  garb 
He  plucks  his  hat  over  his  eyes." 

•  P.  S50.— "  What,  aU  my  pretty  chickens  and  their  dam 
At  one  fell  swoop  ?'* 

See  Whiting's  Albino  and  Bellama,  ed.  1637,  12mo.  p.  27 — 

"  'Cause  some  rude  SyWan  in  a  raging  fit 
Snateh*d  her  fkint  ehhkeiu  from  their  downy  nest." 

P.  371.'—'*  Bam  oat  the  written  troablea  of  the  bnia."- : 
So  Sylvester's  Don  Bartas,  2nd  day— 

**  And  on  the  tables  of  our  troubled  bnin." 


f    « 


»  I 


.    !'    I 


P.  871.—"  Cleanse  the  tfi#'if  bomtm  ol  that  perihrat  staff." 
So  Yarrington,  in  Two  Trag.  in  One,  p.  63 — 

'<  These  are  the  stings,  when  as  our  eofi#c»aie#t 
Are  9if^d  and  clogg'd  with  close  concealed  crimes." 

And  Sir  T.  Moie's  Ufe  of  Richard  III.,  p.  413,  )2mo.— "  Strake  bis  heart 
with  a  sudden  fear^  but  it  Biuff^d  his  head  and  troubled  his  imnd" 

■  ••     '^ 
P.  873. — **  What  rhubarb,  imna,  or  what  purgative  drug 
Can  scour,"  fto. 

In  the  M  copy,  "  cyme  5"  Rowe  conjectured  "senna/'  which  has  bden 
very  properly  taken  into  the  text,  though  it  might  be  i^marked'thati 
''henbane"iB  cyamtv  (cyme) ;  yet  we  would  go  no  farther  with  theobaetvaH> 
tion,  for  there  is  a  similar  corruption  in  King  John,  p.  529«-^''  I  mi  tht) 
cygnet ;"  old  copy,  *'  symet,"  which  Pope  corrected  $  and  if  ^^  ayaiieC"  wtm^ 
pvinted  when  cygnet  was  certainlg  meant,  so  "  cyme"  nugfat  be  intended' 
for  '*  senna,"  which  probably  was  spelt  somewhat  difilsrentiy.  .  •«! 

*<  v.  878.-^**  The  time  has  been  my  senses  would  have  ooeVd         '■  -^    '  ^ 
To  hear  a  night-sfaLriek,"  &c.  •-  m    M « 

So  Ovid.  Amor.  Eleg.  i.  b.  10 — 

'*  At  quondam  noctem,  aimulachraque  Tsna  timebitm, 
Mirabar  tenebris  siquis  ituros  erat.** 

P.«B4.-.«•I*giAtobea.1rear3rofthein|^.'^    -  •..    ?/ 

'^',^ir"t,  Browne,  in  Religio  Medici,  p.  88,  ed.  1659,  ^' i^etliinks'/r 
iiaVe  put- lived  p)ya.elfj  and  bjPgin  to  be  weary  of  the  sunne.*' 

P.  445.—"  Or  if  that  surly  spirit,  Mdancholr,  '    •  '.  •  •• 

Had  bak'd  thy  blood.*'  .  •       .;.(  ' 


132  C&njectH»$l  SmindaiimH  on  the  [Aiv* 

See  Mant<m*8  Scourge  of  ViUattie^  Proem.  lib.  1— 

**  Thou  nursing  mother  of  fair  Wisdom*!  lore, 
Ingennoos  MeUmehoif,  I  implore 
Tky  grare  asststaace,  take  thj  ghmiif  aeat* 
Tnik^ime  thee  im  mjt  bteod,** 

And  Heywood*8  Golden  Age,  p.  11— - 

"  The  pnrait  blood  that  runs  within  my  veins 
I*n  doU  with  thick  and  troubled  Melancholy." 


r^m 


KINO  JOHN. 

P.  380.   K.  Joaik— <^  Bedlam,  have  done*'  •  • .  Shoidd  not  this  word  be 
''  beldam  ?'*     See  p.  460—''  Old  men  and  beldams  in  the  street." 

P.  413. — **  I  will  instruct  my  sorrows  to  be  proud, 

For  grief  is  proud,  aad  OAkes  Air  owner  siMrf.** 


"  Stoat**  is  an  emendation  of  Sir  T.  Hanmer*s»  approved  by  Johnson 
and  Monck  Mason,  and  received  into  the  text,  which  in  the  old  copy  is, 
" and  makes  fltt  owner  afoop.'*  Wkv  ** ito*  ahonki  be  alleied  to  his  we 
cannot  see :  we  also  donbt  Hanmer  s  alteration,  which  is  too  distant  from 
the  original  to  be  at  once  admitted.    We  would  read — 

**  For  grief  is  proud,  and  makes  its  owmrs  too  ;*' 

only  leaving  one  redandant  letter  p,  '<  owners  too**  was  easily  o(»rrapted 
into  ** owner  stoop,*'  or  it  ought  be  **  owners  so'* 

P.  431.— *<  A  eassd  lion  by  the  mortal  paw.'' 

Mod.  ed.  *'  chafed  3*'  bat  sorely  cagtd  is  ike  right  reading.  See  the 
note  from  Rowley,—'' The  lion  in  his  cage** 

r.  446.-^««  theft  in  tepHe  of  WsodsM,  walehlU  di^t." 

This  is  acknowledged  not  to  be  a  very  satisfactory  reading.  Steevens 
infers  that  brooded  means  vigilant,  and  Malone  that  it  is  pat  for  brooding. 
We  have  thought  that  the  poet  wrote  "  crowded,**  with  the  same  meaning 
as  in  the  former  part  of  the  speech— 

**  The  proud  day, 
Aiisndsd  with  the  pleasures  of  the  world, 
Is  all  too  wanton  and  too/ull  ofgaudtJ** 

Pope's  emendation  of  *'  broad-eyed  *'  is  elegant,  and  in  the  sai^e  play  we 
have  "  wall-eyed,*'  and  "  eyeUss  night  5"  yet  we  should  prefer  reading 

«  Then  in  despite  of  broad  aai{  watchful  day.** 
P.  448. — "  A  whole  armado  of  eowietsd  sail.*' 

Mr.  Dyce  queries  if  Shakspere  did  not  write  coneoected,  but  we  think 
oormeled  right.    Compare  Cicero  de  Legibas,  lib.  i.  13,  **  Sed  tamen  jam 
fradam  ei  convietam  sedam  secuti  sunt." 

P.  478.^"  if  likat  la  Hi#  yon  hsfe  in  i%ht  yoi  hoU, 
Why  then  yow  Iwis  " 


1844.]  I\Nf$  0f  Skah$pir9.  13S 

Steerens's  coDJecture'of  wre$i  leems  Approved  by  bit  leDow  commentators ; 
bot  we  prefer  '*  rest/'  and  interpret  it  undisputed  peace  and  possession. 
We  question  whether  '^  what  you  have  in  wrest  '*  is  an  allowable  construc- 
tion of  language. 

P.  594. — **  Death  haTing  preyed  upon  the  oater  parts 
Leaves  them  imrtiibhf  and  hli  ilege  Is  now 

Against  the  mind.—" 

The  commentators  reject  invinbh  as  without  meaning,  and  inaert  in-- 
sensibU,  adding  five  long  pages  of  commentary }  notwilhstanding  which 
we  are  not  at  all  convinced  that  they  had  any  right  to  turn  Shakspoie's 
good  steed  out  of  the  stall,  to  put  in  their  own  sorry  gelding.  We  have  iu 
our  copy  insert^  the  following  reading  as  most  likely  to  be  true : 

**  Death,  havhig  preyed  upon  the  ouiyf^rd  parts, 
lieaTet  tbean,  and  ha  im9iHkt$  liege  Is  now 
Againit  the  mind.  " 

The  fint  nde  of  a  good  surgeon  is  never  to  amputate  when  he  can  resei 
Ibe  Bmb,  and  thns  restore  it  to  its  primitive  state  j  bnt  the  editors  of 
Shakapere  are  too  often  Kke  those  quack  dentists  who  draw  a  sound 
Batural  toolh  to  insert  a  false  one  <^  their  own. 

P.  533. —  ''  And  his  pure  brain, 

Whieb  sttMS  sappoae  the  soul's  frail  dweUing-house.** 

So  Cicero  de  Natura  Deorum,  c.  i.  35,  **  Magis  ilia  cerebrum^  cor — hsec 
enim  smt  domieitia  vitss  :**  and  lib.  ii.  55,  '*  Sensui  autem  interpretes  et 
nuntii  rerum,  in  eapitey  tanquam  in  mety  conloeati  sunt  >*'  and  Lactantius  de 
Op.  Dei,  c.  8,  "  Quas  ratione  pollens  verticem  bominis  quasi  arcem  et  regiam 
iosedit  :*'  and  Tnsc.  Disput.  lib.  i.  9,  "  Alii  in  cerebro  dixerunt  animi  esse 
aedem.* 


fUNG  RICHARD  THE  SECOND.— Vol.  XI. 

P.  65. — ^B.  Tis  nothing  but  conceit,  my  gracious  lady. 
Qu.  'Tis  nothing  less.    Conceit  is  still  deriTed 

From  soma  fore-father  giief  s  mine  is  not  ao,— 
For  nothing  hath  begot  my  somethingi  grief ; 
Or  something  hath  the  nothing,  that  I  grievo." 

The  key  to  the  interpretation  of  this  passage  is,  that  the  queen  feeb  she 
has  a  real  cause  for  grief  weighing  on  her  mind,  but  is  not  able  to  tell  it, 
nor  fully  to  understand  it.     She  says, 

"  In  thinking,  on  no  thought  I  think," 

evincing  an  '<  involuntary  and  unaccountable  depression  of  mind.**  Her 
argument  then  is, ''  For  some  cause  I  know  not,  u  e,  nothingt  hath  begotten 
a  grief  that  is  real,'*  that  is  **  something ,-"  or  else  **  something  "  that  is  real 
hath  begotten  this  grief  without  an  ol:ject — therefore  ''  nothing  /'  as  she 
before  said, ''  on  no  thought  I  think."  She  feels  her  nameless  woe  not  to 
be  conceit,  yet  cannot  tell  what  it  is,  or  how  it  came ;  but  soon  after  she 
diaoovers  what  it  is. 

"  8o»  Qn«i»  thou  Sit  the  mUwili  to  my  nea, 
Aa4  Miaghraka'a  ny  aorrsWs  diswil  Mr. 
Now  hath  my  sell  hmght  telb  hm  viedlfr  i 


134  Conjectural  EnitmUttionM  on  the  [i^g- 

And  I,  a  gasping  new -delivered  mother, 
Have  woe  to  woei  Borrow  to  torrowi  joined.^* 

P.  77.  —"  Grace  me  no  grace,  and  unde  me  no  uncle  1 
I  am  no  traitor's  uncle ;  and  that  word  grace 
In  an  ungracious  month  is  but  profane.** 

We  should  displace  ''  word  *'  from  the  text  in  the  second  line  as  an  inter- 
polation. 

P.  94^  ''  To  bend  their  bows 

Of  double-fatal  yew  against  thy  state.**  '     ' 

There  is  a  very  superficial  note  by  Steevens  on  this  passage.  He  says^ 
'*  Yews  were  planted  for  their  use  in  making  bows,  as  well  as  for  shelter  ;" 
but  these  two  purposes  are  destructive  of  each  other ;  for  what  shelter 
could  a  tree  stripped  of  its  boughs  afford  ?  besides,  bows  were  made  from 
the  trunk  of  the  tree  also.  But  yew  trees  were  in  Saxon  and  Norman  days 
the  only  native  evergreen  tree  except  the  holly,  the  cedar  not  beiujg;  in- 
troduced till  the  time  of  Charles  II.  and  they  were  our  northern  palm-trees 
to  decorate  the  churches  at  festivals.  Lastly,  the  yew*bows  for  our  archers 
were  chiefly  of  imported  wood)  and  not  of  native  growth,  and  those  who 
were  slain  by  our  bowmen  at  Aginconrt  or  Cressy  might  say,  '<  That 
eagle's  fate  and  mine  were  one/*  &c. 

P.  116.  —  ''  Thou,  old  Adam's  likeness, 

Set  to  dress  this  garden,  how  dares—" 

Malone  saysi  "  It  is  safer  to  add  than  to  omit,"  which  is  exactly  the 
reverse  of  the  truth  ;  and  then  he  supplies  this  line  as  follows : 

**  Set  to  dress  out  this  garden  ;  iay,  how  dares—" 

but "  dress  out  *'  is  a  modern  phrase  of  cockneyism  unknown  to  Shakespeare, 
though  suitable  to  an  Irish  gentleman  dwelling  in  Queen  Anne  Street  East.* 
Shakspere  says, 

"  Tliat  he  hath  not  so  trimmed  and  drested  hU  land 
As  thou  this  garden." 

We  believe  the  line  to  have  been  metrical,  but  that  the  means  of  supplying 
it  are  lost. 

P.  1S2.— "  /  take  the  earth  to  the  Mtf,  forsworn  Anmerle.'* 

Johnson  proposes  ''  take  thy  oath/'  Steevens  "  thy  heart  /'  but  the  corrup- 
tion is  not  so  simply  removed.  The  word  <'  earth  "  is  altogather  corrupt, 
being  a  printer's  blunder,  and  not  the  poet's  word.  The  first  letter  <)f  it,  e^ 
behmgs  to  the  former  word  ''  the,'*  making  "  thee ;"  and  the  true  reading 
is  "  task/*  with  the  quarto  (1597). 

**  /  taek  thee  to  the  iike,  forsworn  Aumerle.** 

We  have  in  the  same  speech  "  and  epur  thee,'*  again ''  to  tie  thee"  and  <'  to 
prove  it  on  thee-^l  heard  thee.**     The  remaining  letters  "  arth  "  we  take 
to  be  a  printer's  blunder  for  *'task,"  the  letters  being  misplaced  when  the,, 
two  words  "  take  "  and    ''task"  were  before  him..  Of  this  emendation 
we  have  no  doubt.    Malone  confesses  he  could  not  understand  either  of  \ 
the  former  readings  proposed.  j 

•  t 

*  So  designated  we  think  by  Capell  or  Rition,  we  forget  which ;  the  Joke  perpetuated 
by  Gaoige  Steevens  is  now  loft»  for  Q«e«n  Amia  Street  his  ekanged  its  daiM  of  in« 
babitaats  iIbcg  Mitae  lifid  Hmvi  W  Will  as  Its  aa*M. 


18440  Teai  ^f  l^tOfS/iere,  135 

KINO  HENRY  THE  FOURTH. 

P.  331.— '<  ni  have  a  starUng  shall  be  taught  to  apeak." 
Compare  Flaot.  Menechm.  A.  iv.  ec.  ii.  93. 

**  Yin'  afferri  Noetuam  qoas  Ta^  TU|  luque  dkat.  , 

P.  S64. — **  On  aome  great  tudden  haste.   O  !  what  portents  are  these  ?** 

Dele  *'  snddeD,"  which  is  merely  a  maqpnal  explanation  of  **  great  baste." 
P.  279.  '*  There,  behold  that  compound  5" — that  is,  a  compound  of  heat 
and  grease,  of  Titan  and  batter. 

P.  ^92. — ''  Beware  instinct.    The  lion  will  not  touch  the  true  prince," 
See  Colothi  Lycop.  Raptus  Helenas,  ver.  346. 

QrifHg  dpi{q\oio  Ai^r  rpofi€6va'i  ytvi^rjv  ; 

and  Beaumont's  Psyche,  1648,  fol.  Cant.  ix.  st.  111. 

*'  Such  secret  awfdlness  men  ftnde  in 
Th'  apparent  heir  of  any  Idngdome,  that 
They  think  the  king  of  heasts,  by  royal  kin 
To  his  condition,  groweth  courteous  at 
His  sight,  and  quite  forgets  his  insolent  sense 
Of  being  salvagenesses  dreadful  prince.*' 

P.  301.— « I  wiU  do  it  in  King  Cambyses*  rein.*' 
See  Flecknoe's  Diarinra,  p.  97,  **  When  he  is  in  King  Cambyses'  vein.*^ 

P.  379.—  '*  To  set  so  rich  a  main 

On  the  nice  hazard  of  one  doubtful  hour, 
It  were  not  good.    For  therein  should  we  read 
The  very  bottom  and  the  soul  of  hope, 
The  very  list,  the  Tery  utmost  bounds 
Of  all  our  fortunes.  ** 

Johnson  reads  <'  risque,"  Malone  "  tread  ;"  whereas  in  the  word  "  read  " 
the  letters  are  merely  misplaced  3 

'*  It  were  not  good.    For  therein  should  we  dare 
The  ^ery  bottom,  and  the  soul  of  hope.*' 

P.  376. — "  All  plumed  like  estridges  that  wing  the  wind, 
Bated,  like  eagles  having  lately  bathed.'* 

This  passage  exhausts  four  pages  of  commentary.  The  old  copy  has 
"  with  the  wind  3"  the  most  absurd  conjecture  is  Steevens^s,  *'  that  whisk 
the  wind."  Johnson's  '*  wing  the  wind  "  has  been  received,  but  with  most 
doubtful  claim.  Malone  abHSolutely  proposes  to  insert  a  line  of  bis  own 
composition,  and  such  a  line  ! 

— <•  That  with  the  wind 
Runs  on.    In  gallant  time  they  now  advance, 
Bated  like  eagles.—'* 

But  if  is  not  true^  as  he  says,  that  ostriches  are  compared  to  eagles  ;  there 
is,  a.s  is  not  unusual  in  Shakspere,  a  double  comparison.  The  comrades  of 
the  prince  are  compared  6rst  to  ostriches,  secoudly  to  eagles.  We  do  not 
know  that  the  passage  ought  to  be  altered,  but  in  such  a  case  it  might  be 
in  tlie  slightest  manner, 

'*  AU  plumed  like  estridges ;  and  with  the  wind 
Bating,  like  eaglea  that  have  lately  bathed ;". 


1S< 


Identlthf  tf  John 


[A«f 


or  the  stop  migbt  be  after  bating^  if  that  action  should  be  supposed  to 
be  suitable  to  the  ostrich.  See  Ornithol.  Nova,  i.  p.  100,  describing 
this  bird :  "  Short  wings  that  serve  as  sails  or  oars,  to  enable  her  to  cut 
through  and  impel  the  air,'*  But  to  "  bate/'  i.  e.  baltre  Us  ailes,  is  a  term 
that  can  be  applied  to  either  bird^  and  of  which  of  the  two  it  is  here  pre- 
dicated, is,  perhaps^  left  in  doubt.  The  ostrich  bates  the  wind  when  it 
runs,  and  the  eagle,  like  other  birds,  after  it  has  bathed  ;  but  to  place  the 
semicolon  in  the  first  line  is  by  fur  the  preferable  reading,  and  the  simili- 
tode  to  the  ostrich  is  confined  to  the  plumes, 

(7b  5e  cfmHnMd.) 


YOUR  correspondent  W.  C.  in  a 
very  interesting  communication,  Au* 

gust  1843,  (N.S.  XVI.  pp.  146-8.) 
as  endeavoured  to  shew  that  the  John 
Wycllf,  appointed  Warden  of  Canter- 
hury  Hall  in  1365,  was  not  the  great 
Reformer,  but  a  clergyman  of  the  same 
name,  at  that  time  Vicar  of  Msyfield, 
Sussex,  a  peculiar  in  the  jurisdiction 
of  Canterbury,  and  subsequently  of 
Horsted-Ksynes  in  the  same  county, 
and  in  the  diocese  of  Chichester. 

Your  correspondent  L.,  in  reply  to 
this  communication,  (ibid.  pp.  378-90 
remarks,  that  it  is  plain  there  were 
two  clergymen  living  in  1365  of  the 
name  of  John  Wyclif,  but  he  is  not 
willing  that  the  questioned  preferment 
should  be  transferred  from  the  Re- 
former to  the  Vicar  of  May  field.  He 
says,  as  a  second  John  Wyclif  hu 
been  found,  there  may  have  lived  at 
the  same  time  a  third,  and  he  supports 
his  hypothesis  (which  W.C.  makes  a 
stand  against,  ibid.  pp.  591-2,)  by 
quoting  the  appointments  of  John 
Wyclif,  priut  (the  Reformer),  on  14 
May,  1301,  to  the  rectory  of  Filling- 
ham,  Lincolnshire,  diocese  of  Lincoln ; 
of  John  Wyclif,  pn>»e,  on  21  July, 
1361,  to  the  vicarage  of  May  field ;  and 
of  John  Wyclif,  eUTk,  of  the  diocese 
of  York,  in  1364.  to  one  of  the  eight 
secular  scholarships  founded  in  Can- 
terburv  Hall,  an  appointment  which 
led  to  his  advancement  to  the  warden - 
ship  oil  9  December  the  year  following. 
Th:it  the  hypothesis  of  L.  is  correct 
there  is  nothing  to  doubt,  for  in  the 
will  of  William  de  Askeby,  Arch- 
deacon  of  Northampton,  proved  13 
kal.  Jan.  (20  Dec.)  1371,  Register 
Wittlesey  at  Lambeth  f.  119^  there 
is  a  bequest  to  "  Johanni  de  Wyclif 
rectori   ecclesis   de   Lskehamstede/' 


Baekinghainshire.  diocese  of  Lincoln ; 
and  the  testator  in  the  same  will 
mentions  "Magistrum  Johannem  de 
Wyclif  rectorem  ecdesiae  de  Ludger- 
sall,"  same  county  and  diocese^  the 
last  named  being  the  Reformer,  who, 
on  19  November,  1368,  exchanged  his 
rectory  of  Fillingham  for  that  of  Lud- 
gershall,  and  the  former,  if  in  1364  he 
was  a  "  simple  clerk  "  only  and  not  "  a 
priest  having  the  cure  of  souls,"  (but 
of  which  I  have  not  at  present  the 
means  of  ascertaining)  a  good  claimant 
for  the  lately  disputed  honour. 

It  has  been  mentioned  by  W.  C« 
that  the  vicar  of  Mayfield's  name  is  in 
the  two  instances  which  have  occurred 
to  him  spelt  with  the  final  syllable 
clyw.  John  "  Whyteclyve,"  vicar  of 
Mayfield,  is  met  with  in  the  will  of 
John  de  Watford,  rector  of  Snargate, 
Kent,  proved  6  id.  September  (8)  1368 
(Register  Wittlesey  at  Lambeth*  f.  107.) 
Is  the  name  of  Wyclif  so  spelt  through- 
out the  numerous  documents  relating 
to  the  Canterbury  Hall  wardenship 
alluded  to  by  L.  ?  But  this  is  a  ques- 
tion of  little  moment. 

I  perceive  that  Dr.  Lingard,  Hist, 
of  England,  1837,  IV.  p.  159,  says 
that  the  Reformer  exchanged  the  rec- 
tory of  Fillingham  for  that  of  Lutter- 
worth, Leicestershire,  diocese  of  Lin- 
coln. He  was  not  appointed  to  this 
last  mentioned  benefice  until  1374, 
when  he  possibly  resigned  Ludgershall, 
although  Dr.  Lipscomb,  who  does  not 
care  to  set  out  any  biographical  notice 
of  his  rector,  says  he  retained  it  "  till 
1390,''  six  years  after  the  death  of  ^e 
Reformer,  "  or  later."  (Hist,  of  Buck- 
inghamshire, 1.  p.  318.) 

In  p.  158  ofthe  vol.  of  Lingard  quoted 
from,  Wyclif  is  inadvertently  described 
a  clerical  scholar  of  Canterbury  Hall. 
Yours*  fcc.   G.  Stbinman  Stkinhax. 


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137 


CammunicaiioH  of  /.  R,  continued  from 
voL  XXL  p.  264. 

(No.  4.)       OF  ACADEMIES. 

"  Adde,  quod  iogenuos  didicisse  iideliter 

artes, 
EmoUit  mores »  nee  sinit  esse  feros.'' 

Otid,  de  Ponio,  lib.  IL  Eleg,  ix,  47. 

The  purpose  and  origin  of  these  as- 
sociations, in  their  various  appliances 
and     denominations,    are    generall7 
known,  or  of  easy  inquiry.    Widely 
spread,  however,  as  they  now  are,  and 
adopting  a  distinctive  title  of  antiquity, 
they  are  still  of  comparatively  recent 
establishment ;    but  literature,  which 
embraces  the  fruits  of  the  frst-born 
or  earliest  unfolded  of  our  faculties, 
"imagination,"  and  likewise  extends 
her  empire  over  other  departments  of 
mental  exertion, long  preceded, in  union 
of  culture,  science  or  the  arts.      How 
far,  on  the  whole,  these  assemblages 
of   congenial    minds  have    promoted 
their  destined  objects,  has  been  a  sub- 
ject of  controversy ;  and  the  negative 
has  found  more  partisans  than  an  ab- 
stract view  of  the  question  would  pre- 
pare us  to  expect.     In  England  and  the 
United  States,  where,  in  almost  every 
practical  availment  of  human  resources, 
individual  or  private  industry  has  been 
more  successful  in  enterprise  and  im- 
provement than  where  Government  in- 
trudes its  official  control  and  aid,  too 
often,  like  the  pledged  reward  of  the 
Tarpeian  maid,  of  fatal  incumbrance, 
the  inference  would  not  be  favourable 
to  these  institutions,  nor,  consequently, 
are  they  numerous.     With  us  in  Eng- 
land, (for  there  are  two  in  Ireland,  at 
Dublin  and  Belfast),  one  only  bearing 
the  name  of  Academy,  and  dignified  as 
Royal,  can  be  cited.     I  allude  to  that 
of  the  Fine  Arts  ;  but  to  what  extent 
they  have  in  result  prospered  I  have 
not  the  presumption    to    determine, 
while   it  is  certain  that  the  English 
school  has  not  yet,  however  expectant 
of  future  justice,  with  the  exception 
of  Landseer's  unsurpassed  excellence 
in  animal  life,  and  some  other  mani- 
festations of  uncontested  genius,  at- 
tained    any    eminence    in    European 
estimation.      Besides    it    cannot    be 
denied    that   several  of   the   highest 
proficients  in   every  branch  of   cul- 
tivation   submitted    to  the  fostering 
charge  and  jurisdictionof  the  Academy, 
owe  not  their  professional  education 
Gent.  Mao.  Yoi..  XXII. 


or  fame  to  its  instmctions.  It  will 
be  sufficient  to  mention  Turner,  Danby, 
Stanfield,  Flaxman  (so  undervalued 
by  his  countrymen,  in  the  judgment 
of  Canova),  Gibson,  Chantry,  &c. 
"Vos  Academies  ressemblent  k  la 
nature,  comme  une  botte  de  violon  res** 
semble  h  rinstrumentqu'ellerenferme,'' 
said  the  painter  Gu^rin  to  his  disciple 
G^ricault.  Gu^rin,  I  may  add,  was  a 
member  of  the  Revolutionary  Tribunal 
in  the  days  of  terror,  though  not  a 
very  active  one,  such  as  his  colleague 
and  superior  in  art,  Gerard,  who  showed 
no  want  of  emulative  zeal  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  sanguinary  functions; 
and,  of  David  their  master's  phrenzied 
devotion  to  Robespierre's  principles 
and  memory  his  whole  life  bears  wit- 
ness, whereas  his  two  pupils  repented, 
and  deeply,  in  maturer  years,  mourned 
their  earlv  aberrations. 

''  Sebben  tarda  a  venir  spasso  compensa, 
L*indugio  poi  conpanizion*  immensa." 

AriotiOt  Orl.  Fur.* 


*  In  the  elaborate  article  of  a  recent 
Quarterly  Review,  No.  146,  on  the  atro- 
cities of  the  revolutionary  tribunal,  the 
grand-daughter  of  the  venerable  Males- 
herbes,  daughteiT  of  President  Rosambo, 
is  represented  as  the  wife  of  Chateaubriand's 
uncle.  It  should  be  that  celebrated  writer's 
elder  brother.  This  misstatement  occurs 
at  page  409 ;  and  at  page  211,  in  report- 
ing the  execution  of  the  twenty-eight 
fanners-general  of  the  revenue,  on  the 
8th  May,  1794,  whose  real  delinquency, 
veiled  under  a  most  preposterous  crimi- 
nation, was  their  riches,  I  was  much  dis- 
appointed at  not  discovering  a  special  ad- 
vertence to  the  most  interesting  of  the  ac- 
companying circumstances,  in  the  loss 
sustained  by  science,  on  that  occasion,  of 
Lavoisier,  one  of  its  brightest  ornaments, 
when  the  great  mathematician  La  (xrange 
mournfully  remarked,  as  observed  in  this 
Magazine  for  November  1838,  p.  474, 
*'  II  n*a  fallu  qu'un  moment  pour  fatre 
tomber  cctte  tetc,  et  cent  ann^es  peut^tre 
nesuffiront  pas  pour  en  produireune  autre.** 
Lavoisier,  just  then  engaged  in  experi- 
ments of  pregnant  importance  to  human 
life,  disdained  not,  says  his  eulogist  Cuvier, 
to  solicit  a  few  days*  respite  for  their  com- 
pletion, but  in  vain.  "The  republic 
wants  no  philosophers  or  chymisls,  nor 
shall  the  course  of  justice  be  arrested," 
was  the  characteristic  answer  of  the  execra- 
ble Coffinhal.  Cuvicr  presumes  that  these 
experiments  related  to  animal  transpira- 
tion.    See  "  Rapport  Uistoriquo  lur  les 

T 


138 


Barrire,'^CoBdareei, 


In  science,  Newton  belonged  to  no 
society  when  his  first  discoveries  con* 
signed  his  name  to  immortality  ;*  nor 


[Aug. 


progr^  des  Sdenoes  Phisiqaes  et  Na- 
tereUes  depnis  1789,"  tome  i.  (Parii, 
1889,  8to.)>  a  work  worthy  of  the  iUiu« 
trious  Cuvier,  though  not  always,  as  is 
shown  in  the  instance  of  LaYoisier,  quite 
impartial  in  the  relative  appreciation  of 
English  and  French  scientific  discoveries. 
On  the  contested  qnestioni  of  priority,  and 
they  are  not  few,  the  decision  is  too  often 
inl^vonr  of  France. 

To  many  of  the  appalling  troths  detailed 
In  that  article  of  the  Quarterly  Review, 
and  substantially  confirmed  by  its  nofthwn 
oontemporary.  No.  160,  in  the  sketch  of 
Banire^s  Ufe,  I  can  bear  personalevidence. 
Of  Barrire  and  his  fiunUy  I  had,  indeed, 
some  cursory  knowledge  at  Tarbes,  in  the 
spring  of  1 789,  ere  he  had  launched  into  the 
revolutionary  turmoil,  or  become  conspi- 
cuous as  the  champion,  the  herald,  or 
Anacreon,  as,  from  the  atrocious  in- 
dulgence of  joyous  humour  in  his  blood- 
exciting  reports  of  those  horrors,  he  was 
called,  in  which  his  shsre,  forced  on  a 
dastard  spirit  that  durst  not  encounter  the 
danger  of  recoiling  from  their  contact, 
has  classed  his  name  with  the  most  debased 
and  depraved  of  recorded  characters.  Well 
sre  delineated,  in  the  ensuing  lines,  these 
"  honteux  vestiges  de  la  peur,"  to  use  the 
words  of  an  historian  of  Uie  period, 

**  Cuncta  ferit,  dum  cuncta  timet :  desaevit 
in  omnes ; 

nee  bellua  tetrior  ulla, 

Quam  serri  rabies  in  libera  colla  furentis.*' 
CUiudian,  in  Bvtropium,  lib.  i,  182. 

It  was,  I  recollect,  at  the  house  of  a  M. 
Fedespan,  on  whom  I  had  a  credit  at 
Tarbes,  that  I  met  this  most  abject  slave 
to  fear,  whose  countenance  was  by  no 
meana  repulsive  nor  his  manners  unpre- 
possessing, but,  at  the  immature  age  of 
eighteen,  I  had  little  experience  in  phy- 
siognomy or  foresight  of  the  future. 

*  Condorcet,  in  his  posthumous  "  Ks- 
qnisse  des  Progris  de  T Esprit  Humain  " 
(Neuvi^me  Epoque),  pays  a  due  tribute 
to  the  genius  of  Newton,  while  main- 
taining that  a  student  just  emerged  from 
his  college  course  was  then,  that  is  in 
1794,  more  advanced  in  mathematics  thsn 
our  great  countryman  was,  or  could  have 
been,  in  the  preceding  century,  so  pro- 
gressive had  been  the  movement  of  science 
in  that  interval, — an  advantage  of  which  he 
claims,  and  no  doubt  justly,  no  inconsider- 
able share  for  his  friend  d'Alembert.  This 
work,  demonstrative  alike  of  his  acquire- 
ments and  irreligion,  occupied  his  mind 
while  conossled  daring  the  period  of  terror 


did  Descartes,  or  Fermat,  or  Kepler 

at  any  period.  Galileo,  indeed,  was 
a  member  of  the  Lincei,  the  oldest, 
of  any  enduring  fame,  for  the  sole 
cultivation  of  natural  philosophy  in 
Europe.f    It  was  founded  at  Rome  in 


from  October  1793  to  the  following  March, 
when,  outlawed  and  refused  an  asylum 
by  Suard,  he  ended  his  Ufe  by  poison  on 
a  spot  which  I  have  often  viaked.  He 
then,  also,  for  the  first  time  as  he  says, 
attempted  to  versify,  and,  in  retaliation 
of  some  lines  from  his  vrife,  the  sister  of 
Marshal  Grouohy,  to  whom  Napoleon 
imputed  the  ditoiter  of  Waterloo,  ad- 
dressed  her  an  epistle  under  the  semblance 
of  a  Polish  exile  in  Siberia.  The  poetry 
is  that  of  a  mathematician,  but  a  most  ex- 
pressive distich  which  I  have  heard  his 
accomplished  daughter,  the  spouse  of  my 
friend  General  Arthur  O'Connor,  repeat 
with  filial  pride  and  virtuous  sympathy, 
deserves  notice.  It  indicates  his  resolu- 
tion to  encounter  every  risk  rather  than 
concur  in  the  horrors  which  so  deeply 
stained  that  epoch,  though  certainly  not 
without  reproach  himself  in  having  pre- 
psred  the  way  for  them. 

'<  lb  m'ont  dit :  choisis  d*dtre  oppreaseur 

ouvictime;  fcrime.'* 

J'embrassai  le  malhenr  et  leur  laissai  le 

How  different  were  the  prindplea  and  con- 
duct of  the  pusillanimous  Barrdre  just  re- 
ferred to !  Madame  O'Connor,  a  child  of 
five  years  old  at  herfather>a  death,  could  not 
well  recollect  him  whom  she  had  not  seen 
for  some  time  previously,  but  I  perfectly 
remember  him  in  public  and  private  life. 
In  the  latter  relation  I  never  beard  a  dis- 
paraging word  of  his  character  and  demea- 
nour ;  though  loose,  like  his  philosophical 
sssociates,  in  moral  principlea,  he  certainly 
was,  not,  I  must  say,  in  the  obUgations  of 
honour  as  understood  by  the  French,  but 
in  the  purity  of  Christian  definition. 

t  The  apparent  opposition  of  scientific 
discoveries  to  the  literal  text  of  scripture, 
which  constituted  the  arraignment  of 
Galileo,  (Gent.  Mag.  for  April,  1842, 
p.  373,)  has  equally,  in  our  own  days, 
been  urged  in  denunciation  ot  the  facts 
and  theories  of  geology,  as  adverse  to 
Christian  faith.  The  esUblished  clergy 
have  been  more  especially  prominent  in 
this  manifested  hostility,  though  they 
enjoy  the  honour,  and  may  indulge  the 
pride,  of  possessing  Dr.  Buckland,  one  of 
the  most  snccessfiU  cultivators  of  the 
science,  in  their  body.  Even  their  pre- 
possessions, however,  are  gradually  yield- 
ing to  more  enlightened  views,  of  which 
the  town  of  Bandoni  inthisndghbovrhood. 


1844.] 


The  lAnceL'^Lofi  Bacon. 


13d 


1603,  (17  AugUftt,)  by  Federico  Cesi, 
dake  of  Aqua-Spftrta«  who  named  it 
the  LjftuB'eyed,  when  he  had  scarcely 
reckoned  his  eighteenth  year.     Under 


has  lately  offered  a  gratifyiDg  instance. 
Mr.  E.  W.  Brayley  of  the  London  In- 
stitntion,  after  closinga  course  of  geological 
lectures  in  Cork,  was  invited  to  deliyer 
a  few  elementary  ones  at  Bandon,  though 
forewarned  that  the  most  strenaoas  dis- 
conragement  of  his  purpose  was  to  be 
expected  from  the  Anglican  ministers. 
At  the  persuasion  of  thdr  Cork  friends, 
howerer,  and  an  assuraaee  of  the  per- 
fectly onobjeotionable  character  of  the 
lectures,  they  were  induced  to  attend,  in 
order  to  satisfy  themselves  of  the  fact, 
when,  quickly  disabused  of  their  previous 
misapprehension,  they  ranked  themselves 
amongst  his  warmest  admirers.  No  one 
truly  less  than  Mr.  Brayley  would  be 
disposed  to  undermine  the  fabric  of  our 
belief,  or  in  any  wise  countenance  the 
schemes  of  infiddity ;  and  nothing  oould 
be  more  impressive  than  the  peroration, 
if  I  may  so  term  it,  of  his  course ;  when 
ezhortiDg  his  hearers  to  **  look  up  from 
nature  to  nature's  God,''  he  referred,  in 
beautiful  language,  every  element  of  her 
being,  and  every  manifestation  of  her 
action,  to  ^e  divine  control,  omnipotent 
as  well  as  exclusively  operative  in  crea- 
tion, and  omnipresent  to  every  modifica- 
tion or  movement  of  existing  matter. 
Cwieror  Dr.  Buckland,  whose  Christian 
convictions  are  on  unequivocal  record, 
could  not  be  more  explicit  It  is  due  to 
this  gentleman  to  add,  that  altogether  his 
course  wss  an  admirable  one»  demon- 
strative in  the  highest  degree  of  talents 
and  attainments  seldom  indeed  more 
happily  combined  in  individual  possession. 
And,  if  an  experience  ofvrpassing  half  a 
century  in  space,  while  embracing,  in 
opportunities  of  observation,  the  most 
celebrated  continental  professors,  be  a 
presumptive  warrant  of  judgment,  England, 
I  feel  authorised  to  affirm,  may  anticipate 
from  the  prospective  career  of  her  gifted 
son  BO  unimportant  accession  to  her 
scientific  fame.  Fresh  laurels,  we  may 
thence  assure  ourselves,  are  in  rich  and 
pregnant  germination  for  Britain's  in- 
tellectual wreath.  On  the  conclusion  of 
his  final  lecture  a  burst  of  universal  ap- 
plause, crowned  with  a  vote  of  thanks  by 
acdamation,  of  which  as  chairman  of  the 
meeting  I  was  the  official  organ,  greeted 
Mr.  Brayley. 

The  delusive,  however  conscientious, 
resistance  to  the  study  and  inferenoca  of 
geolcfy,  in  corroboration  of  the  pre- 
ceding itatOMBt,  WM  itrikiogly  vriiMod 


his  influence  it  numbered  amongst  its 
members,  besides  Qalileo,  the  most 
distinguished  philosophers  of  the 
period, — J.  B.  Porta,  Eckius,  Fabio 
Colonna,  Francesco  Stellati,  &c.  with 
several  others,  now  forgotten,  except 
in  Italy.  We  are  likewise  assared 
that  our  immortal  Bacon  offered  him- 
self unsuccessfully  as  a  candidate. 
So  M.  Victor  Cousin,  late  Minister 
of  Public  Instruction,  states,  on  the 
authority  of  Francesco  Cancellieri's 
work,  "  Prospetto  delle  Memorie  dei 
Lincei,  (Roma,  1823. 8vo.)"  See  also 
"  LeJournalde8Savanta"for  February, 
1843,  p.  100.  I  have  not  discovered 
any  advertence  to  the  circumstance  in 
our  biographies ;  and  I  equally  find 
that  it  is  unnoticed  in  Mr.  Macaulay's 
luminous  review  of  Mr.  Basil  Mon- 
tague's edition  of  the  philosopher's 
works,  comprised  in  the  third  volume 
of  the  right  honourable  gentleman's 
lately  republished  contributions  to  the 
great  Edinburgh  periodical.  But,  if 
founded  in  truth,  the  rejection  was 
probably  caused  by  the  religion  and 
country  of  the  illustrious  postulant, 
which  had  spurned  the  reformed 
calendar  merely  because  it  had  ema- 
nated from  Rome.  And,  in  England 
at  that  day,  a  foreign  Catholic  would 
assuredly  have  had  quite  as  little 
chance  of  acceptance;  although  shortly 
after  Milton  had  not  to  complain  of 
his  general  reception  in  Italy^  where 
his  conduct  was  not  always  the  most 
discreet,  and,  it  will  hardly  be  denied, 
was  such  as  would  have  exposed  an 
Italian,  venturing  to  act  the  same  part 
in  England,  to  no  indulgent  treatment 

during  the  late  meeting  in  this  city  of  the 
British  Association.  "A  gentleman  in 
Ireland,  says  Dr.  James  Johnson,  (Tour, 
p.  141,)  told  me,  that  the  single  section 
of  geology  in  that  association  was  calcu- 
lated to  bring  down  the  curse  of  God  on 
any  country  where  that  section  broached 
its  atheistical  doctrines."  And,  at  p.  140, 
he  attributes  the  prejudice,  generally,  to 
'<  the  whole  of  the  ultra- religionists  or 
evangelicals  on  both  sides  of  the  channel, 
but  more  especially  to  the  saints  of 
Ireland."  Yet  none  have  ever  been 
louder  in  the  outcry  against  the  condem- 
nation of  Galileo,  or  more  forward  in 
wielding  it  as  a  weapon  of  attack  against 
an  adverse  creed>  though  demonstrably 
grounded  on  the  same  principle  of  torip- 
tural  mifloonceplioD* 


^  ^^  GuUUo.^The  Academit  FVanfaise. 

The  ftame  senseless  prejudice  in  refer- 
cnce  to  Rome  continues,  I  understand, 
operative  in  refusing  to  our  aspirants 
oi  art  a  recognised  national  establish- 
nient,  such  as  other  countries  so  bene- 


[Ang. 


the  centre  whence  radiate  the  inspira- 
tions and  lessons  of  art  in  its  grandest 
sphere,<^Rome,  the  normal  school  of 
academic  tuition,  would,  indeed, 
furnish  materials  not  solely  for  an 


ficially  possess,  in  that  genial  soil  of    article,  but  for  a  volume.     Nor  would 
Tk*  f  .  ""'■•«!7  of  Ulent.  the  scientific  corporations  of  Paris,  of 

IheLincei  directed  their  researches 


to  natural  philosophy  in  its  largest 
compass;  but,for some  timeat least, the 
application  and  power  of  the  telescope 
and  microscope  formed  a  particular 
object  of  pursuit,  as  might  be  expected 
from  Galileo's  influence ;  and  these 
instruments  in  consequence  were 
signally  improved  for  every  purpose  of 
observation.  On  the  death,  however, 
of  the  Academy's  noble  and  munificent 
patron  in  1632,  the  institution  gradu- 
ally declined  until  its  extinction  in 
1651.  See  Sir  David  Brewster's  Life 
of  Galileo,  and  the  more  enlarged 
work  of  D.  B.  Odescalchi,  "  Memo- 
rie  Istorico-Critiche  dell'  Academia  de' 
Lincei,  e  del  Principe  Federico  Cesi." 
(Roma,  1806,  4to.)  From  the  con- 
current  testimony  of  both  the  English 
and  Italian  writers,  we  see  how  greatly 


Berlin,  of  Petersburg,  &c.  in  their 
formation,  constituent  principles,  and 
proceedings,  independently  of  our  own 
Royal  Society,  or  the  Royal  Dublin 
Academy,  now  so  rapidly  rising  in 
fame  under  its  gifted  president,  and 
of  the  many  minor  assemblies  which 
combine  all  branches  of  intellectual  or 
tasteful  pursuit,  offer  less  attraction  ; 
but  the  limitation  of  space  denies  me 
the  pleasure  of  engaging,  however 
rapidly  or  superficially,  in  the  com- 
prehensive survey.  The  subject  must 
be  treated  divisionally,  as  Sallost  chose 
to  parcel  out  for  his  lucubrations 
detached  periods  of  Roman  history, 
"carptim  res  gestas  popnli  Roman  i 
perscribere,"  as  he  expresses  his  pur- 
pose. (Bell.  Catiiin.  cap.  iv.)  Confining 
myself  for  the  present,  therefore,  to  the 
preceding  transient  glance  at  our  own 


exaggerated  have  been  the  reports  of    sole  ostensible  Academy  in  England, 


the  philosopher's  persecution,  and 
how  kindly,  all  through.  Cardinal 
Bellarmine,  his  judge,  in  particular 
acted  towards  him.  In  the  collection 
of  documents  accompanying  the  in- 
tended life  of  Lord  Chancellor  Egerton 
hy  his  descendant,  the  late  Lord 
Bridgewater,  I  find  mention  made 
at  p.  180  of  five  letters  from  the  great 
astronomer,  the  "  starry  Galileo,"  as 
distinguished  by  Milton,  to  his  family 
and  friends.  One,  on  the  Spots  of  the 
Sun,  a  subject  treated  subsequently 
by  the  Jesuit  Boscowich,  (Gent.  Mag. 
for  April,  1842,  p.  374,)  was  addressed 


and  to  the  oldest  of  scientific  bodies, 
I  may  the  more  freely  indulge,  on  some- 
what a  larger  scale,  in  a  few  arising 
observations,  not  indeed  so  much  on 
the  all-embracing  Institute  of  France, 
which  would  again  involve  a  length  of 
narration  far  beyond  my  enjoined 
bounds,  as  on  a  single — the  second — 
section  of  the  five  which  now  com- 
pose it,  and  which  corresponds  with 
the  ancient  Acad^mie  Fran9aise,  as 
representing  the  high  literature  of  the 
country.  Here,  too,  I  must  rather 
touch  on  the  influence  than  the  con- 
tinuous and  complete  history  of  this 


in  May  1612  to  Marcus  Welserus,  of    once  supreme  object  of  literary  aspi- 


Augsburg,  but  who  had  long  resided 
in  Italy,  and  was  author  of  the 
"Squittinio  della  Libert^  Veneta," 
which  so  deeply  offended  that  state, 
(see  Gent  Mag.  for  August,  1838, 
p.  136,  and  Scheihornii  Amoenitates 
Litterariae,  torn.  iii.  p.  237,  ed.  1730.) 
These  letters  will,  I  trust,  be  published, 
if  not  already  done,  by  Lord  Francis 
Egerton,  in  whose  possession  I  pre- 
sume they  are. 

A  brief  outline  of  the  multiplied 
other  establishments  in  furtherance  of 
the  arts  and  sciences  would  certainly 
not  be  without  intereat.    Rome  alone, 


ration,  but  now  displaced  from  its 
envied  pedestal  to  a  subordinate  rank  ; 
for  even  a  portion  of  this  minor  sec- 
tion is  quite  as  much  as  I  can  war- 
rantably  encounter;  so  little  could  I 
compass  the  subject  in  its  wide  ex- 
panse. It  was  thus  that  "  Hyacinthe 
de  St.  Pierre,"  who  at  first  had  san- 
guinely  contemplated  the  History  of 
Nature,  in  imitation,  as  he  says,  of 
Aristotle,  of  Pliny,  and  of  Bacon, 
soon  felt  the  necessity  of  reducing  the 
frame  of  his  hold  enterprise  to  the  level 
of  his— perhaps  of  human— capacity, 
and  of  luniting  it  to  mere  sketcnea  or 


1844.] 


The  Dictionary  of  the  French  Academy. 


141 


stadies,  on  finding  that  the  smallest 
particle  of  organised  nature — that  mi- 
nisterial and  plastic  agent  of  the  order 
impressed  by  Providence  on  his  crea- 
tion— even  a  strawberry- plant,  defied 
his  faculty  of  analysis  or  power  of  de- 
scription, exuberant  as  we  know  that 
power  was, — so  infinite  in  their  varie- 
ties were  the  animalcules  that  cleaved 
to  the  shrub,  and  so  numerous  were 
its  elemental  fibres.  (Etudes  de  la 
Nature,  tome  i.  p.  2.)  "  La  Nature," 
he  concludes,  "estinfiniment  ^tendue  et 
je  sais  un  homme  fort  born^,"  as,  re- 
latively to  the  great  instrument  of  di- 
vine action,  every  human  being  must 
confess  himself  most  limited. 

Long  posterior  to  the  Jeux  Floraux 
of  Toulouse,  the  French  Academy,  the 
earliest  under  royal  sanction,  was  es- 
tablished in  1635.  Precisely  from  that 
period  also  may  be  dated  the  enerva- 
tion of  the  language,  fettered  as  its 
energies  were,  and  enchained  in  its 
movements,  by  the  coercive  regulations 
that  weakened  by  over-refining  it. 
Richelieu,  the  founder  of  this  institu- 
tion, similarly  enslaved  the  great  nobles 
of  the  land,  and  prepared  them  for 
that  polished  servitude  under  Louis 
XIV.  which  effectually  broke  their 
spirit.  "Idque  apud  imperitos  hu- 
manitas  vocabatur,  cum  pars  servitu- 
tis  esset."  (Tacit.  Agricola,  xxii.) 
Style,  asserts  a  master-artist,  is  the 
index  of  character,  the  type  of  man. 
"  Le  style,  c'est  I'homme,"  says  Buf- 
fon ;  and  the  assimilation  is  here  ex- 
emplified in  the  concurrent  decline  of 
the  national  tongue  and  independence, 
as  well  as  in  the  resurgent  vigour  and 
parallel  advance  of  both  at  the  present 
day.  Yet,  in  the  course  of  last  year, 
and  after  two  centuries  devoted  to  the 
composition  and  revisal  of  the  Aca- 
demy's Dictionary,  the  expressed  mo- 
tive of  that  body's  creation,  M.  Arngo, 
at  a  sitting  of  the  Chamber  of  Depu- 
ties, exposed  to  just  ridicule  some  very 
unscientific  definitions  of  the  laboured 
work,  such  as  in  the  words  "  tirer  de 
but  en  blanc,"  "  mar^e,"  "  Eclipse," 
&c.  In  fact,  Garrick's  complimentary 
epigram  on  Johnson's  similar  under- 
taking seems  quite  as  much  the  ex- 
pression of  truth  as  the  homage  of 
friendship  for  his  old  roaster.  (The 
French  Academicians,  be  it  observed, 
were  forty  in  oamber.) 


<'  Talk  of  war  with  a  Briton,  he'll  boldly 
advance  [France. 

That  one  English  soldier  will  beat  ten  of 

Would  we  alter  the  boast  from  the  sword 
to  the  pen,  [men. 

Oor  odds  are  still  greater,  still  greater  our 

And  Johnson  well  armed,  like  a  hero  of 

yore. 
Has  beat  forty  Frenchmen,  and  will  beat 

forty  more." 

CVoker't  Botweli,  vol.  i.  p,  284. 

Again,  a  remarkable  omission  was 
pointedly  noted  and  sharply  urged 
against  M.Villemain,  its  editor,  in  a 
debate  last  January,  by  M.  de  Tocque- 
ville,  the  able  author  of  "  Democracy 
in  America." 

Even  the  fastidious  Voltaire,  in  his  va- 
ledictory visit  to  the  Academy,  that  seat 
of  his  empire,  on  his  triumphant  return 
to  Paris  in  1778,  declared  his  anxious 
desire  to  restore  "  les  expressions  pit- 
toresques  et  ^nergiques  de  Montaigne, 
d'Amyot,  et  de  Charron."  Yet  few 
have  been  more  instrumental  than 
Voltaire  in  emasculating  his  native 
idiom ;  "  dont  il  ^monda  par  fois  le  jet 
vigoureux,  et  n'en  retint  pas  toutes  les 
ricbesses,"  observes  M.  Villemain,  in 
his  preface  to  the  last  edition  of  the 
Academy's  Dictionary,  adding,  "  Sa 
langue  si  correcte  et  si  facile,  a  moins 
de  nerf  et  de  physionomie,  que  celle 
du  si^cle  pr^c^dent ;"  and  he  ruled,  we 
know,  the  Academy  with  sovereign 
sway.  Of  all  the  old  writers  thus  in- 
voked, to  none  is  the  language  of 
France  more  indebted  than  to  Mon- 
taigne; and  these  obligations  would 
be  far  more  numerous,  had  all  his 
vivid  imagery  of  expression  been  pre- 
served.* 

" Licuit  semperque  licebit, 

Signatumprsesentinota  producere  nomen." 

(Horat.  Poetic.  57.) 

{lb  be  contifMed,) 


*  The  following  Greek  lines  were  sub- 
joined to  a  long  Latin  inscription  on  the 
monument  erected  to  the  quaint  philo- 
sopher by  his  widow,  Fran9oise  de  la 
Chassaigne,  in  the  church  of  the  Fenil- 
lants,  at  Bordeaux,  where  it  was  pointed 
to  my  notice  in  my  boyhood  by  my  ve- 
nerablo  friend  Dom  Devienne,  who  has 
inserted  it  in  his  History  of  Bordeaux, 
printed  in  that  city  in  1771  ^  4to.,  but 


142 


Epiiaph  on  Moniaigne.'^ComtabUi  qf  France, 


[Aug. 


Mr.  Ubbah^  Wither,  esq.  1669/'  are  some  cnrioiM 

IN  the  preface  to  a  scarce  volume  remarks  connected  with  the  history  of 

of  poetry  called    "  Fragmenta    Pro-  the  great  fire  of  London  in  1666,  which 

phetica,  or  the  Remains  of  George  I  do  not  remember  to  have  met  with 


which  he  left  incomplete,  the  first  Tolame 
only  hamg  appeared.  I  annex  M.  de  la 
Monnoie's  paraphrastic  Latin  Tersion ; 
and  though  redolent  somewhat  of  the 
ffenhu  /oct— which  it  mil  be  observed  is 
Osscony — ^the  verses  are  not,  I  think,  un- 
worthy of  record  in  these  colamns.  A 
passing  tribute  is  also  paid  to  Montaigne 
in  the  '*  Chroniqne  Bonrdeloise,*'  p.  51 
(1619,  4to.)  on  mentioning  his  death,  for 
he  nad  been  Mayor  of  Bo^eanx  in  1581. 
The  Greek  and  Latin  lines  referred  to  are 
as  follow : — 

"  'Hploif,  Sons  t^Vf  ^b'  oCpofia  Tovfi6v 

ipwras,  [itaBtlv. 

Mdy^ayc   Movroi^r.      Ilavco   BofApO" 

OIk  ffiii   ravra,  dffuis,   yivos   ivywts, 

Skpot  aPoKfiog,  [^X*?^* 

JlpoaraaUu,  dvydfuis,  waiyyia  Bvtira 

OvpixMfv    KorfPfjif,    Btlav   <^nfT6v,    tls 

"XJ^va  HaKt&v,  [rpiTot 

Oit    aoff>6s   '^Kkrpmp    ISy^oos,    Bvt€ 

JiwrovUw   dXX*    clr    inanwf    ian-afyos 

SKKtuf, 

"Og  Koi  XiMOTo<rc/3ct  fyv&aa  dcdoy/Miri 

Ti^yllvpptfa^i^y/EXXiidad'cTXc  0^dyoff, 

EZXc  ical    AvaovuiP,    ^^ycp^v    d'cpiy 

our^ff  hri(TXȴ,  [oW/S^y." 

Td^   cir'    Ovpoytdtfy,   voirpilba  fitv 


**  Qnisqnis  ades,  nomenqne  rogas,  Ingere 

paratns, 

Montani  andito  nomine,  paroe  metn. 

Nfl  jacet  hie  nostri,  neo  enim  titalosqne 

gennsque,  [pnto. 

Fasces,  corpus,  opes,  nostra  vooanda 

OaUorum  ad  terras  superis  demissus  ab  oris, 

Non  alter  cecidi  Chilo,  Catove  novns. 
Ast  omnes  »quans  uuus,  quoscumque  ve- 
tustas 
Enumerat,  celebrescordeveloreSopbos. 
Solius  addictus  jurare  in  dogmata  Christi, 
Cetera  Pyrrhonis  pendere  lance  sciens. 
Jam  iTtihi  de  aophia  Latium,  jam  Graecia 
c'crtent, 
Ad  caelum  redncem  lis  nihil  ista  mo  vet " 

Visit  annos  lix.  menses  viii.  dies  zi. 
Obiit  anno  Salatis,  cio  lo  Tin  o. 
(1592)  idibas  Septembris. 

These  concluding  words  remind  me  of 
the  simiUtr  conjugal  effusion  eipressed  in 
the  epitaph  of  the  Marquis  de  Cr^ui, 
composed  by  the  accomplished  LatinisC, 


Santueil,  for  that  nobleman's  disconsolate 
widow,  «  Catherine  du  Plessis-Belli^re," 
and  thus  pathetically  terminating : — 

.  .  • .  "  Hunc  Rex,  hnnc  Gallia  flevit. 
Sed  flet,  et  seternum  flebit  pro  conjnge, 

conjux, 
Donee,  quod  posuit  tristi  tumulata  sepul* 

chro, 
Tam  caro  cineri  sese,  cinis  ipsa,  maritet." 

The  subject  of  this  posthumous  tribute, 
Fran9ois  de  Cr^qui,  second  son  of  Marshal 
Cr^qui,  Duke  of  Lesd^gui^res,  fell  at  the 
battle  of  Luzara,  in  Piedmont,  a  conflict 
of  doubtful  issue  between  Prince  Eugene 
of  Savoy  and  the  Duke  of  Vend6me,  the 
15th  October,  1709.  His  relict  survived 
till  1713.  He  and  his  cousin,  Canaplea, 
are  fluently  mentioned  In  Madame  de 
Sevign^'s  Correspondence.  The  ducal 
rank  and  peerage  (by  no  means  neces- 
sarily conjoined  as  with  us)  of  Lesdl* 
guiires  were  granted  to  Fran^sis  de 
Bonne,  with  reversion  to  his  son-in-law, 
Charles  de  Cr^qui,  the  husband,  in  suc- 
cession, of  his  two  daughters,  in  1611,  but 
expired,  sfter  a  century's  duration,  in 
1711,  on  the  death  of  his  grandson.  De 
Bonne,  a  converted  Calviniat,  was  the  last 
Constable  of  France.  He  died  in  1686 ; 
and  the  following  year  this  highest  military 
offlce  was  suppressed  by  Richelieu,  who, 
debarred  of  its  possession  himself  as  an 
ecclesiastic,  woidd  sulFer  no  one  else  to 
enjoy  the  power  snd  rank  it  conferred. 
A  prevalent  error  generally  names  Henri 
de  Montmorencj,  decapitated  at  Toulouse 
the  30th  October,  1633,  ss  the  \n»t  titulsr 
of  the  dignity ;  but,  though  a  Field-Mar- 
shal and  Admiral  of  France,  he  never  was 
invested  with  that  paramount  martial  dis* 
tinctjon,  whioh  however  had  so  often  de- 
oorated  the  escutcheons  of  the  Illustrious 
house,  from  Albericus  in  the  eleventh,  to 
the  father  of  this  Henri  in  the  seventeenth, 
century  (1050 — 1614),  furnishing  Con- 
stables equal  in  number  to  the  interv^- 
nient  centuries,  that  it  was  almost  con- 
sidered an  hereditary  transmission.  Many 
interruptions  of  course  arose  from  the 
minorities  of  descendants,  or  interposed 
royal  cUinuntSi  ss  in  the  instance  of  the 
famous  Chsrles  de  Bourbon,  who  was 
slain  in  15S7  at  the  assault  of  Rome.  This 
Duke  Henry's  father  and  namesake,  the 
last  Constable  of  the  fiunily,  second  son, 
though  ultimately  heir,  to  his  more  celo- 
brated  predecessor,  Aanede  Montmorraoj, 


1844.] 


Early  e^Ums  qf  Goitie  Authari. 


14S 


elsewhere,  and  which  may  serve  to 
make  the  account  of  so  memorable  an 
event  more  full  and  complete.  I  have 
therefore  extracted  from  the  preface 


was  one  of  the  handsomest  men  of  his 
time,  an  advantage  not  unnoticed,  it  was 
believed,  by  the  beautifnl  and  sensitive 
widow  of  Francis  the  Second,  Mary  Stnart, 
of  whom  he  was  deeply  enamoured.  A 
matrimonial  union  woidd  have  been  the 

Erobable  consequence,  had  he  not  found 
imself,  untowardly  as  he  then  thought, 
already  bound  in  wedlock  to  ht>  first  wife 
(not  the  mother  of  Duke  Henry)  Antoinette 
de  la  Mark.  This  episode  in  the  eventful 
career  of  Mary  has  escaped,  to  my  recol- 
lection, most  of  her  biographers,  though 
Montmorency  is  mentioned  among  the 
noblemen  who  followed  her  to  Scotland. 

Lesdiguidres  was  one  of  Henry  the 
Fourth's  ablest  captains.  *'  If  a  second 
Lesdigui^res  existed,  I  would  ask  him  of 
my  brother  of  France,"  said  our  Eliaa* 
beth.  He  had  little,  however,  to  recom- 
mend him  on  the  score  of  morality — ^no 
great  blemish,  history  assures  us,  in  the 
consideration  of  these  not  very  scrupulous 
sovereigns.  See  M^moires  de  Sullj,  pat- 
rim,  especially  tome  iv,  pp.  136—141,  and 
tome  V.  p.  436,  ed.  1763. 

I  am  in  possession  of  all  the  early  edi- 
tions of  Montaigne's  Essays,  from  the 
first  in  1580,  containing  only  two  books, 
and  printed  under  his  own  inspection  at 
Bordeaux,  to  the  standard  one  of  1635, 
and  the  Elsevir  impression  of  1653.  Many 
various  readings  might  be  collected  from 
a  comparison  of  the  texts,  and  some,  I 
believe,  hitherto  unnoticed.  Cotton's  old 
and  raey  translation  has,  I  perceive,  been 
lately  republished. 

It  was  in  a  copy  of  the  still  older 
version  by  the  Italian,  Florio,  that  the 
last  discovered  autograph  of  Shakespeare 
was  found.  No  trace  whatsoever  of  the 
epitaph  now  remains,  nor,  as  may  be  sup- 
posed, of  the  church.  I  saw  both  de- 
molished; and  I  still  possess  the  gilt- 
marble  efligies  of  the  apostles  and  saints 
visible  on  the  canopy-niches  of  the  edifice 
before  it  was  perverted  to  a  proftme  use, 
as  at  that  hideous  era  of  unchristianized 
society  and  unhinged  public  mind  was  the 
destined  fkte  of  every  religious  monument, 
either  marked  for  destruction  or  only  pre- 
served for  desecration.  But  eventually 
the  Apostle^s  denunciation  was  signally 
verified  in  tiie  example  of  these  despoilers, 
for  to  my  knowledge  few  survived  the  year 
of  transgression-— ''*E<  rir  t6v  voiy  roO 
0fov  ^e/pct,  ifiBtptt  rovrov  6  ecdr." 
(Corinth.  1.  cap.  iii.  17). 
The  old  printing  oflice  of  Montaigne*! 


those  passages  which  relate  to  the 
subject.  Yours,  &c.      J.  M« 

"  We  have  had  in  our  days  revela- 


first  publisher,  Simon  Millanges,  in  1580, 
contmued  in  sctive  existence  till  the  pre- 
sent century,  or  at  least  two  hundred  and 
fifty  years,  though  under  another  firm — 
<*  Les  Fr^res  Labotti^re,"  his  descend- 
ants  in  the  female  line.  This  is  a  further 
instance  of  the  continuous  transmission  in 
the  printing  trade  of  a  family  establish- 
ment, more  frequently  exemplified,  I  be- 
lieve, in  that  profession  than  any  other. 
(See  G.  M.  for  July,  1837,  p.  16).  At 
the  recent  sale  of  Charles  Nodier*s  books, 
that  first  impression  of  the  philosophio 
Gascon's  Essays  produced  537  francs,  or 
twenty  guineas,  while  my  copy,  purchased 
indeed  many'years  ago  at  the  original  shop 
in  the  Place  du  Palais  of  Bordeaux,  merely 
cost  me  a  crown  I  It  only  contained  two 
books,  to  which  a  third  was  added  in  1588. 
It  is  with  similar  eagerness  that  the  ear- 
liest, however  imperfect,  editions  of  other 
popular  authors  are  sought  after;  and, 
omitting  the  emulous  research  for  the  pri- 
mary publications  of  our  native  glories,  I 
may  name  the  first  editions  of  Ariosto,  of 
Camoens,  of  Comellle,  of  Molidre,  &c. 
Brunet  estimates  the  Orlando  Furioso, 
printed  at  Ferrara  in  1538,  though  defi- 
cient  of  the  last  six  books,  at  above  1,300 
firancs.  The  Don  Quixote  of  1605,  com- 
pleted in  1616,  two  volumes,  fetched  fifteen 
guineas  at  Mr.  Hibberf  s  sale,  and  forty  at 
Colonel  Stanley's,  whereas  their  highest 
price  hslf  a  century  since  did  not  exceed 
a  pound.  They  presented  little  attraction, 
truly,  in  typographical  merit,  so  eminently 
displayed  in  the  quarto  edition  by  Joaquin 
Ibarra,  of  1780,  though  now  considerably 
of  infierior  estimation  to  its  ill-executed 
prototype.  Camoens*  epic  of  1573  is 
worth  at  least  ten  guineas,  an  equal  rise 
in  value  from  so  many  shillings,  as  I  simi- 
larly find  in  the  edition  of  Molidre,  bearing 
date  1675,  at  Amsterdsm,  which  I  easily 
obtained  for  35  francs,  and  could  with 
difficulty  at  present  procure  for  300.  The 
collective  works  of  the  two  brothers  Cor- 
neille,  in  1664*5,  have  in  like  manner 
decupled  in  price— that  is,  the  ten  vo- 
lumes, from  100  francs  or  less,  to  1,000, 
within  my  own  recollection.  Nodic  r  was 
a  tasteful,  not  bibliomaniac,  collector ;  but 
his  library,  consisting  of  1,360  articles, 
produced  68,000  francs,  or  just  two 
guiness  each.  Dr.  Askew's,  in  1775, 
brought  one  guinea  the  lot,  then  con- 
sidered a  most  favourable  result ;  for  the 
great  Harleian  collection  did  not  even 
repay  the  binding  of  the  volumes.    One 


144 


George  WUker  on  the  Fire  of  London* 


[Aug. 


tions  of  BQch  things  (Judgments)  before 
they  came  to  pass,  and  have  been  living 
witnesses  of  their  predicting  them 
beforehand,  as  also  of  their  being 
afterwards  fuiaUed ;  and  in  that  par- 
ticular of  that  judgment  whereby  the 
glory  of  London  was  this  year  con- 
sumed (though  that  will  not  come 
into  every  man's  creed).  For  before 
the  said  fire,  this  author  was  informed 
by  a  credible  person,  (who  was  after- 
ward a  great  sufferer  thereby,)  of  a 
vision  representing  such  a  conflagra- 
tion in  London  as  there  befel  soon 
after.  He  himself  also  had  confused 
preapprehension  of  the  like  effect  when 
ne  sent  forth  his  Warning- Piece  to 
London,  published  1662,  occasioned  by 
a  sudden  fire  in  the  night  at  Lothbury, 
near  the  middle  of  that  city,  which 
then  consumed  the  house  of  an  emi- 
nent citizen,  with  all  the  inhabitants 
therein.  Dr.  Gell,  a  learned  and  con- 
scientious preacher  to  this  city,  seemed 
also  to  have  had  the  like  impressions 
upon  his  heart,  both  by  what  he  com- 
municated  to  his  friends  in  private, 
and  by  a  printed  sermon  of  his  preached 
before  the  Lord  Mayor  upon  that  text 
(Math,  xxiv.)  wherein  the  coming  of 
the  Son  of  Man  is  paralleled  with  the 
coming  of  the  flood  in  the  days  of 
Noah.  The  same  sermon  contains  a 
narrative  which  he  averrs  was  attested 
by  many  witnesses,  to  wit,  that  about 
two  years  before  his  preaching  of  that 
sermon,  the  sign  of  the  Son  of  Man, 
even  of  Christ  on  the  cross,  wounded 
in  his  hands  and  feet,  and  angels 
round  about  him,  appeared  in  Franken- 
dale  in  Germany  to  the  view  of  thou- 
sands, three  hours  together  at  mid- 
day. Moreover,  it  is  credibly  avowed 
that  a  book  was  brought  to  be  pub- 
lished a  httle  before  the  said  fire,  fore* 
declaring  what  we  have  seen  come  to 


of  the  most  productive  sales  for  the  num- 
ber  and  the  period  was  that  of  M.  Pftris 
at  London,  in  1 790.  Bat  the  subject  woald 
lead  ine  beyond  bounds,  and  I  shall  only 
add,  that  a  small  collection  of  my  own, 
pold  in  1834  by  Mr.  Evans,  netted  above 
three  pounds  each  article.  The  books  se- 
lected, possibly  with  some  bibliographical 
knowledge,  were  for  the  most  part  the 
fruit  of  no  common  skill  at  billiards — to 
me,  in  all  other  respects,  a  mere  pastime 
or  recreation  -certainly  no  habitual  pur- 
suit or  gambling  propensity. 
4 


piss,  and  was  refoaed  by  the  printer 
because  not  licensed;  and  that  the  said 
printer,  being  afterward  busie  to  help 
quench  the  fire,  and  then  seeing  that 
same  person  passing  by,  told  him  he 
suspected  his  hand  to  be  in  the  kin- 
dling thereof.  Whereto  the  man  an- 
swered, that,  had  he  been  accessory  to 
such  a  wicked  purpose  or  action,  he 
should  not  have  offered  that  to  publi- 
cation whereby  it  might  probably  have 
been  prevented ;  adding  these  words, 
"  That  ere  long  there  would  be  a  more 
dreadful  execution  by  the  tword  than 
that  was  by  the^Fre,  (which  whosoever 
that  man  was,  or  upon  what  ground 
soever  he  spake,  it  may  probably  come 
to  pass,)  and  a  famine  follow  that,  if 
God  should  deal  with  us  according  to 

our  demerits." 

This  .  ...  66th  year  shall  be  a 
preparation  thereto  (t.  e.  the  end  of 
the  reign  of  Antichriet),  though  the 
Romanists  insult,  as  if  the  Saints  have 
mistaken  the  time  of  their  visitation  ; 
for  the  late  execution  of  judgment  by 
devouring ^re  (the  like  whereof,  con- 
sidering it  was  not  accompanied  with 
the  sword,  was  never,  or  vei'y  seldom, 
heard  of  since  the  consuming  of  Sodom 

and  Gomorrah,  &c.) The 

author  believes  that  the  Saints'  last 
purgatory  is  now  commencing,  and 
that  it  is  made  signal  by  the  jSre, 
which  in  this  year  hath  eclipsed  the 
glory  and  defaced  the  beauties  of  Lon- 
don ;  which  is  to  our  Israel  of  God 
the  same  which  Jerusalem  in  Palestine 
was  to  his  Israel  at  that  time.  London 
was  the  greatest,  the  most  famous,  and 
the  most  potent  of  all  the  cities 
wherein  the  Protestant  religion  was 
visibly  professed,  in  opposition  to  the 
Papacy ;  and,  among  other  considerable 
circumstances,  that  mercy,  whereby 
the  execution  of  divine  justice  was 
managed,  during  this  year's  visitation 
hitherto,  do  manifest  that  they  have 
a  special  relation  to  God's  inheritance. 
The  roost  magnificeut  and  the  noblest 
part  of  this  ancient  city  was  wholly 
and  suddenly  consumed  ;  her  sad  inha- 
bitants, looking  on,  were  disabled  to 
quench  it,  till  it  had  destroyed  (with 
many  thousands  of  other  structures, 
great  and  small)  above  a  hundred  tern* 
plei  and  oratories,  besides  colleges, 
schools,  and  halls  ;  one  of  her  temples 
being  reputed  the  greatest  in  Christen- 
dom, and  wherein  the  Gospel  has  been 


1844.] 


The  Orgam  of  the  London  Churches. 


145 


pretched  and  God  worshipped,   and 
(though  not  at  all  times  by  all  accord- 
ing to  the  purity  of  bis  sanctuary,  yet) 
by  some  with  as  much  sincerity,  ac- 
cording to  the  degrees  of  their  under- 
standing, as  by  any  other  national  or 
congregational  assemblies,  until  hu- 
man authorities  presumed  to  set  up 
their  posts  by  God's  posts,  &c.   .   .   . 
....   Yet  the  fury  of  the  late  fiery 
§torm    most    raged,  and    made    the 
saddest  spectacle   and  the  most  de* 
formed  marks  of  desolation,  even  in 
that  part  of  this  city  wherein  they 
lired  who  were  then  reputed  among 
the  most  generous,  the  most  civil,  the 
most  charitable,  and  the  most  pious  of 
her  inhabitants ;  and,  though  the  best 
men  had  not  the  least  share  in  that 
calamity,  yet  it  was  made  tolerable  by 
so  many  mercies  wrapt  up  therewith, 
as  do  evidence  that  God  had  a  con- 
siderable number  therein,  and  that  the 
generality    were  no  greater  sinners 
than   they  whose  dwellings  escaped 
that  judgment.    The  out  parts  (except 
at  the  West  End)    were   graciously 
spared,  as  Zoar  was  heretofore  for  the 
sake  of  Lot ;  to  be  for  the  present  time 
a  refuge  both  to  them  who  were  chased 
away  bv  the  fire,  and  to  their  brethren 
whose  nabitations  were  preserved  for 
their  joint  comfort ;  and  of  this  mercy 
the  best  and  worst  of  men  had  equal 
portions   in  some  respects,    because 
their  time  is  not  yet  come  wherein 
God  will  be  fully  avenged  on  his  and 
their  enemies.    Though  probably  that 
fire  was  both  kindled  and  increased  by 
wicked  hands,  divine  Providence  (who 
permitted  these  to  be  his  execution- 
ers) carried  it  on  as  well  against  the 
wind,  when  it  blew  very  strongly,  as 
with  it;    and,  by  taking  away  their 
hearts  who  were  successfully  active  at 
other  times  in  preventing  such  begin- 
ings,  permitted  it  to  proceed  so  far; 
and,  when  God's  >Sery  messen^tfr  was  in 
the  height  of  his  career,  bounded  his 
rage  at  Paper  buildings,  after  it  had 
broken  irresistibly  through  thick  and 
strong  edifices  of  brick  and  stone.    It 
is  considered  also  that  this  fire  was 
not  permitted  to  extend  into  those  con- 
tiguous buildings,  streets,  and  allies, 
wherein  the  greatest  oppressors,  the 
most  profane,  the  most    impudent, 
the  most  debauched,  and   the  most 
irreligious    persons    were  commonly 
famed  to  have  their  dwellings,  intermixt 
Gbkt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


with  such  as  were  of  a  civil  and  pious 
conversation ;  for  few  or  no  places 
were  there  touched  by  the  ^rc  wherein 
either  a  public  theatre,  or  a  common 
gaming  house,  or  a  notorious  brothel 
house,  or  a  May- pole,  or  a  Popish 
chapell,  was  at  that  time  standing ; 
which  it  may  be  some  think  so  hal- 
lowed the  places,  that  the  fire  could 
not  prevail  against  them ;  whereas  it 
rather  demonstrates  that  this  visitation 
extends  primarily  to  God's  own  people : 
and  that  the  utter  extirpation  of  Anti- 
christ and  his  profane  associates  is 
deferred  until  a  time  yet  to  come,  &c. 

aaiBF  NOTBS  ON  THB  ORGANS  OF 
THB  LONDON  CBURCHBS. 

Ma  Urban, 

IN  offering  you  a  few  observations 
on  the  above  head,  derived  from  not  a 
few  years'  experience,  I  would  intreat 
to  be  understood  as  not  offering  any 
full  catalogue.  There  are  many  "  in- 
Btruments  "  not  alluded  to  at  all  here, 
which  may  have  sterling  claims  on  the 
notice  of  the  musical  connoisseur  and 
amateur ;  and  the  mention  of  two  or 
three  Organists  alone  out  of  a  legion, 
will,  from  the  necessarily  curt  scope 
of  allusion,  not  appear  invidious. 

Yours,  &c.    J,  D.  Parry. 

Eastern  and  Northern  Parts, 
.Stbpnby:    an  organ    said    to    be 
nearly  200  years  old.     Has  about  40 
stops,  including  several  not  now  com- 
monly used. 

St.  Gbobob's  East,  —  Whitb- 
CHAFBL,  (a good  '•swell,")  and  Shorb- 
ditch,  the  parochial  churches,  pretty 
good. 

Bbthnal  Grbbn.  In  one  of  the 
new  churches,  standing  in  the  "road," 
St.  Jambs,  a  good  organ,  given  by  two 
maiden  ladies.  In  a  new  church  on 
the  opposite  side  of  the  way,  a  small 
sweet-toned    organ,    very    tastefully 

played. 

St.  Lukb's,  Old  Strbbt.  Was 
formerly  thought  nothing  of;  but  has 
lately  been  improved  at  an  expense  of 
600i.  the  whole  of  which  was  raised  by 
the  sale  of  2500  tickets,  at  6«.  each,  for 
a  musical  performance  in  the  church. 

St.  Jambs  Clbbkbnwbll,  pretty 
good.  St.  Mark's,  Pbntonvillb, 
very  good.  St.  John's  Clbbkbn- 
WBLL,  very  old  ;  tolerable. 

Islinoton.    I  am  not  aware  of  any 

U 


U6' 


thToJfr"''^  particular  notice  in 

HamJsteaTro'''^«^°^-   St.  James 
Episcopal  Cw^°'  ^'"*"'  ^"^  good- 

castle     r/lf.  ',  ''':*'i'«*^^    ^^O"*    Newl 
DaruLfi^l*'!^  ^^^«'  though  ha«h  ia 


the  tenets  of  T  T  ^?**™*'  ^^»>°"8^ 
what  UwL^?^  *^^*P«'  a***  averse  to 

tbedi^Vfo?n?.K  ^"^^y^  '""^^^ 

Iter  a  m,,^  .  ^^  ^^®  organist.  Afr.  KiU 

oerio/^i  •  ^^"^  compilation,  of  su- 
perior character ;  as  also  of  personal 

the\j!l^?p  "^^^*-  The  organ  in 
cabled  nn  ^^^tory)  Church  has  heen 
but  it  K.  "^  ""^  ^^"^  ^"^"t  in  England, 
^Ll  ^I'''^  '^^"«^*^  "nea*  superior  to 
«any  good  modern  ones.      It  stands 

church)  behind  the  commuoion  table, 
(as  does  also  that  of  Chhistchubch, 
7C  ^^^'^'"'AS.)  The  organs  in  the 
other  district  churches  have  nothing 
remarkable ;  there  are  some  good  ones 
in  the  old  chapels  of  ease. 

Ct7y,  ^c. 

St.  Andbkw  UNnBRSHAFT,  Leaden- 
nall   Street,   very  large  and  grand— 
Crwji.    Allhallows  Barking,  and 
St.  Dunstan's  East,  good.     Spital- 
FIELD8,  grand  ;  44  stops.     St.  Mag- 
nus,   London     Bridge    (qy.     Father 
&cAmid/)  very  good.   Ditto  St.  Olave 
Hart     Street.      Ditto    St.   Michael 
CoRNHiLL.      St.    Stephen's    Wal- 
BaooK.    fine— Fa/AiT    Schmidt,      St 
Maby-le-Buw,   small,  but  effective. 
St.  Lawrence  Jewry,  with  separate 
choir    organ— Fa/Aer    Schmidt.      St. 
Alban's    Wood    Street,    old    and 
small,  but  good.    Cripplegate,  old, 

large,  powerful,andfioe.toned,ableand' 
well  known  organist  Mr.  Miller.     St. 

Paul's  Cathedral— Fa/A«-  Schmidt ; 

24  stops  ;  considered,  since  the  double 

diapasons  have  been  added,  one  of  the 

finest  in  England.     Tone  rather  pe. 

paliar ;  the  effect  of  the  church,  with 

the  dome,  does  not  appear  favourable 

t9  found.    The  choir  is  as  to  boy9  de- 


The  Organs  of  the  Ltmdon  Churche». 


[Aajf. 


cidedly  weak,  there  being  only  eighty 
four  of  a  side;  whereas,  at  King's  Coll 
Chapel,  Cambridge,  and  New  Coll.  and 
Magdalen  Coll.  Oxford,  there  are  nix- 
teen,  eight  of  a   side;    and  in  most 
country  cathedrals  ten  or  twelve,  which 
last  is  the  least  number  there  ought  to 
be  in  St.  Paul's.     Every  thing  may  be 
hoped  under  the  present  worthy  Dean 
and  public-spirited  Chapter.    Speaking 
of  which,  the  writer  of  this  cannot  for- 
bear a  brief  tribute  to  the  deceased 
talent  and  goodness  of  a  7b/e,  or  living 
benevolence,  coupled  with  genius,  of 
a    Barham.      Christchurch,  New- 
gate Street,  one  of  the  largest,  if 
not  quite  the  largest,  in  England  ;  68 
stops,  same  number  as  that  of  f/aeWoeai. 
St.    Sepulchre,    Snow- Hill ;    very 
large,  rather  too  loud,  separate  choir 
organ,   flute    stop    very  fine.      Able 
organist,  Afr.  Cooper, — formerly  assist- 
ant organist  at  St.  Paul's,  which  he 
resigned  to  his  son,  a  very  accom- 
plished young  man,  who  assists  the 
talented     organist     Mr.    Goss.      St. 
Bartholomew,  Smithfield,  very  old 
but  good.     St.  Bride's  has  been  a 
good  deal  altered,  and  I  have  heard 
it  spoken  against,  but  it  appears  to  me 
unexceptionable.    The  organist  here, 
of  rich  and  tasteful  finger,  Mr.  Mather, 
is  blind.  May  the  writer  quote  the  say- 
ing of  his  deceased  excellent  Father — 
that  "he  alwaj's  liked  to  hear  of  a 
blind  man  being  an  organist."    What 
a  divine  gift  does  Music  appear  to  the 
Blind  I  Like  the  influence  of  Faith  and 
Hope  on  the  mental  eye — "  fixed  on  a 
light  to  which  all  suns  are  dark!"* 
St.  Dunstax's,  West  ;  liberally  given 
by  a  lady,  but  of  most  absurd  size  for 
a  small  church ;  a  very  large  organ 
there  being  even  worse  than  a  small 
one  in  a  large  building— the  talented 
organist,  Mr.  Adams.    St.  Andrew's, 
HoLBORN ;  the  original  one  in  this 
most  elegant  of  London  churches  was 
by  Harris,  and  the  unsuccessful  one 
at  the  trial  in  the  Temple  church,     it 
has  since  been  entirely  changed ;  and 
it  is  doubtful  whether  the  church  has 
not  "gained  a  loss." 

The  organs  in  the  Roman  Catholic 


♦  Miss  Porter's  "  Villoffe  of  Marien^ 
tfo?y/, "—introduced  also  in  the  speech  of 
of  a  blind  man  in  a  drama,  founded  on 
the  same,  by  Sheridan  Knowles. 


1844.] 


Sale  of  Mr.  Bright^ a  Manuscripii. 


u: 


chapels  are  generally  good.  That  at 
DuKB  Strsbt,  Lincoln's-inn-Fields, 
is  perhaps  superior  in  peculiar  fineness 
n(  tone  to  that  of  any  church  in  Lon- 
don. There  is  a  powerful  organ  in 
Rowland  Hill's  Chapel,  Surrey 
Road,  and  a  small  number  in  dis- 
senting places  of  worship. 

Southern  Suburbs. 

St.  Savioue's,  South  war  k  ;  the 
organ  in  this  venerable  building  was 
by  Father  Schmidt,  and  was  enlarged, 
for  which  there  was  not  the  slightest 
occasion,  on  its  removal  to  that  much- 
to-be- deprecated  abortion  the  new 
Nave.  There  is  scarcely  another  in 
the  Borough,  unless  that  of  Sx.  John's 
HoRSELYDowN,  requiring  notice.  A 
very  fine  one,  with  a  commensurate  or- 
ganist, Mr.  Brownsmiih,  in  St.  John's 
Waterloo  Road  ;  a  tolerable  one  in 
Newinqton  Church  ;  and  a  very 
good  one  at  St.  Peter's  Walworth, 
with  another  "  blind  man  eloquent," 
Mr.  Purkia;  a  fine  one,  with  24  stops, 
in  Greenwich  Hospital;  and  good  ones 
at  the  Old  and  New  churches  in  that 
place. 

Westminster,  8fc. 
St.    Clement's,    tolerable.      St. 


Mary- LB- Strand,  small,  but  pleas- 
ing. CovENT  Garden,  fine,  slightly 
harsh.  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields, 
given  by  George  11.1726,  St.Georoe*8 
Hanover  Square,  St.  George's 
Bloousbury,  and  St.  Giles  in  tub 
Fields,  not  above  mediocrity.  In 
Trinity  Church,  Little  Queen  Street, 
St.  Giles,  a  powerful  and  fine  one, 
not  unlike  that  in  the  Waterloo 
Road.  St.  Anne's  Soho,  very  large, 
and  extremely  fine — Green;  the  late 
talented  organist.  Miss  Sterling,  died, 
a  flower  nipped  in  early  bloom, 
aged  18,  two  or  three  years  back. 
Westminster  Abbey— the  organ  in 
this  ancient  church  leaves  little  to  be 
desired.  It  has  only  21  stops,  but 
each  tells:  the  swell  (I  believe  new  a 
few  years  back)  is  very  powerful.  The 
position  and  effect  in  the  building  ad^ 
mirable.  There  are  here  also  only 
eight  boys ;  but  there  are,  I  have  un- 
derstood, four  "  probationers ;"  and 
nine  or  ten  usually  attend.  The  taste 
and  feeling,  in  every  sense  of  the  word, 
of  Mr.  Turle,  the  organist,  are  well 
known.  St.  Margaret's,  good.  St. 
John's,  old,  pretty  good.  St.  James 
Piccadilly — the  organ  in  this  elegant 
church  is  of  beautiful  tone ;  a  better 
could  not  conclude  the  catalogue. 


SALE  OF  MR.  BRIGHT'S  MANUSCRIPTS. 


A  COLLECTION  of  Manuscripts 
of  unexpected  value  was  brought  to 
sale  by  Messrs.  Sotheby  and  Co.  on 
the  18th  of  June.  It  had  been  formed 
silently  and  secretly  by  the  late  Ben- 
jamin Heywood  Bright,  esq.  who  ap- 
pears to  have  had  a  mercenary  plea- 
sure in  accumulating  articles  of  ad- 
mitted and  increasing  value,  and  keep- 
ing them  unknown  to  those  who  might 
have  employed  them  to  a  more  general 
benefit.  In  two  cases  the  auctioneer 
was  able  to  enhance  the  value  of  his 
merchandize  by  an  admission  that  re- 
flects disgrace  on  its  late  possessor. 
In  Lot  145,  "  the  article  No.  IV.  is 
the  important  work  of  William  of 
Malmesbury,  recently  edited  by  Mr. 
Hardy  for  the  English  Historical  So- 
ciety, but  without  having  been  compared 
with  the  present  manuscript,  which  has, 
in  fact,  never  been  collated."  Again, 
in  Lot  150,  "This  manuscript  of 
Ocofirey  of  Monmouth  has  nefer  beea 


collated,"  though  Geoffrey  of  Mon- 
mouth has  also  recently  passed  through 
the  press. 

We  wish  such  a  man,  or  his  sur- 
vivors who  are  like-minded,  were  ca^ 
pable  of  a  blush. 

The  "  Memoirs  of  the  Unton 
Family "  were  not  published  by  the 
Berkshire  Ashmolean  Society  until 
after  public  inquiry  had  been  made 
for  materials,  yet  Mr.  Bright  kept  his 
secret  that  he  possessed  the  volume 
catalogued  as  Lot  263. 

So  also,  whilst  this  dog  in  the 
manger  has  concealed  his  possession 
of  Lot  277,  Mr.  Davies  in  his  publi- 
cation of  the  Records  of  the  Corpora- 
tion of  York,  including  a  memoir  of 
the  ancient  Dramatic  Mysteries  of  that 
city,  has  lamented  the  loss  of  that 
volume,  the  former  existence  of  which 
was  known.  It  had  seen  the  light,  in 
an  anonymous  form»  at  the  Strawberry 
Hill  Sale,  only  to  be  priyately  recog^ 


148  Sale  of  Mr.  Bright's  ManmcripU.  [Aug. 

nised,  and  agaia  coDdacted  like  a  cul-  Bright's  collection  ha^e  now  become 
prit  to  coofiDement.  It  has  now  been  publici  juris,  and  are  Bafely  brought 
purchased  by  Mr.  Thorpe  for  another  to  an  anchor  in  the  National  Col- 
owner,  who«  like  his  predecessor,  is  lection.  This  inclades  all  that  were 
apparently  ashamed  to  let  his  name  purchased  by  Sir  F.  Madden,  and  lots 
transpire.  Qwnu^ue  tandem  f  It  is  a  39*  116,  127,  164,  172,  245,  252,  to 
truth  which  must  be  taught,  if  un-  which  we  have  added  the  letters  b.m. 
acknowledged,  that  the  possession  of  It  is  believed  that  all  the  volumes 
literary,  as  of  other  wealth,  is  a  trust  to  which  the  name  of  Payne  is  affixed 
not  to  be  abused  with  impunity.  were  purchased  as  additions  to  the  ex- 
We  are  happy,  however,  before  con-  traordinary  collection  of  Manuscripts 
eluding  these  remarks,  to  be  enabled  formed  bv  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps,  at 
to  state«  that  many  articles  of  Mr.  Middlehill«  co.  Worcester. 

88.  The  Book  of  Vices  snd  Vertaes,  a  MS.  in  veUnm,  of  the  XlVth  oentary.  6i. 
14«.    Pickering. 

89.  ViU  de  Chli^puio  Vltelli,  &o.  Arbitro  tra  la  Msestim  Catlolioa  e  d'Inghilterra. 
By  Lorenso  Borgheae.  VitelU  osme  to  EngUnd  as  Ambassador  in  1568.  8i.  8«.   Payne. 

30.  Breviariam  secandum  coosaetudinem  ordiais  Sancti  Benedict!.  Two  volnmes, 
quarto,  on  vellum,  with  illominsted  capitals  and  miniatures  in  Italian  art.  Si.  15f. 
Sir  F.  Madden,  ^b.  m.) 

39.  A  large  volume  of  letters,  addressed  to  Sir  Julias  Casar  by  the  Lord  High 
Admiral  and  other  officers  of  the  Admiralty,  from  1583  to  1600.  61/.  Thorpe,  (b.  m.) 

This  was  lot  1 81  at  the  sale  of  Sir  Julius  Cesar's  MSS.  in  1757,  and  was  sold  either 
for  2/.  3t.  or  3/.  3«.  to  the  name  of  Webb. 

48.  Chronicle,  in  Latin,  of  Charles  VII.  of  France ;  folio,  in  vellum  :  formerly  be- 
longing to  the  church  of  Toumay.    93L  lOt.     Psyue. 

54.  The  Tales  of  Canterbury,  by  Chancer ;  a  folio  vellnm  MS.  of  the  early  part  of 
the  XVth  century.    70/.     Rodd  {tot  Lord  Aihbumham). 

57.  A  collection  of  original  Letters  during  the  Conmionwealth,  from  1648  to  1660. 
18/.  18«.     Payne. 

68.  Copy-book  or  Register  of  Thomas  Cotton,  Clerk  of  the  Hanaper,  in  the  reigns  of 
Edward  VI.  and  PhiUp  and  Mary.     IS/.  12«.    Payne. 

90.  Voyage  d'Angleterre  faict  en  I'an  1641 ;  on,  dans  nn  agreable  meslange  de 
romans  et  de  vMtes,  les  moeurs,  les  forces,  et  fa9onB  de  vivre  de  cette  iile  y  sont 
naiiuement  descrites,  avec  ce  qui  s'est  passe  de  plus  considerable  dans  les  oommence- 
mens  et  le  progrez  des  guerres  dvilles  entre  leura  Majestes  Britanniquea  et  le  Parle- 
ment.    Written  by  one  of  the  suite  of  the  French  Ambassador.     13/.    Payne. 

98.  Memoires  d'un  Voyage  fait  en  Angleterre  par  L.  D.  L.  S.  [Lasarre  de  La 
Sale]  D.  L'H.  P.    1684.    20/.  lOt.    Payne. 

94.  A  Discourse  of  Witchcraft,  as  it  was  acted  in  the  ftmuly  of  Mr.  Edward  Fairfax 
of  Fuystone,  co.  Ebor.    1621 ;  transcribed  about  1711.    6/.  15t.    Rodd. 

101.  Yeeld,  Yeeld,  O  Yeeld :  Omnia  vincit  Amor.  Venus  est  dignissima  porno.  By 
Abraham  Fraunce,  addressed  to  Sir  Philip  Sidney.    4/.    Rodd. 

108.  Correspondence  of  John  Fry,  of  Bristol,  on  literary  and  antiquarian  topics, 
1809—1818.     Bound  in  3  vols.  4to.     14/.  14«.     Payne. 

104.  Jocasta.  A  Tragedie  writen  in  Greke  by  Euripides,  translated  snd  digested 
into  Aote  by  George  Gascoyn  and  Francis  Kvnwelmarshe,  of  Graves  ynne.  1566.  foL 
4/.  14#.  M.    Thorpe. 

107.  Works  of  Fulke  Greville,  Lord  Brooke ;  transcribed  for  the  author,  and  cor* 
rected  by  him }  in  6  folio  volumes  with  vellum  covers.    11/.  lit.    Thorpe. 

115.  Hor»,  a  MS.  of  the  XlVth  century.    4to.    5/.  18«.     Pickering. 

116.  HorB,  in  Latin  and  English :  of  the  XVth  century,  with  some  illuminations 

of  English  art.    Small  8vo.     10/.    Thorpe,    (a.  m.) 

118.  Six  iUnminated  miniatures  from  a  service-book  of  the  XVIth  century.  9/. 
Strong. 

188.  Correspondence  addressed  to  Sir  Leoline  Jenkins,  English  Ambassador  at 
Nimegnen,  ft-om  1676  to  1679,  bound  in  two  volumes  4to.    81/.  lOf.    Payne. 
183.  Another  volume  of  LeUers  to  the  same.     13/.  13«.     Pajne. 

186.  liber  Sententiarnm  Roberti  Kilwarby,  archiepiscopi  Cantuariensls :  of  the 
XlVth  century,  on  vellum,  4to.  **  Liber  domus  S**  Edmnndi  Cantabrigie  ex  dono 
venerabilis  Magistri  Joannis  Hanworth."    3/.  15s.    Thorpe. 

187.  Travels  of  Hieronymus  Koler  in  Holland,  Spain,  South  America,  8ms,  1538^, 
written  in  Oermani  with  curious  oolonred  drawings.    9li    Rodd.    (s.  m.) 


1 844.]  Sale  of  Mr.  Bright' s  ManuscripU.  1 49 

130.  Lydgate'f  Sieg«  and  Destroction  of  Troy :  small  folio,  of  the  Utter  part  of  the 
XTth  centnrj ;  imperfect.    3/.  15».    Thorpe. 

131.  An  HiBtorical  Description  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  of  the  XVIIth  oentory :  with 
an  autograph  letter  of  Ric.  Parr,  Bishop  of  Sodor  and  Man,  to  the  Earl  of  Derby, 
1643.     Folio.     20/.  10«.     Payne. 

133.  Historical  CoUectioas,  by  Peter  Manwood,  temp.  James  I.  A  large  folio.  17/. 
Payne. 

143.  Original  Correspondence  between  John  and  Paul  Methuen,  and  Sir  Wm. 
Simpson,  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  from  1702  to  1708  :  containing  the  letters  of  both 
parties,  altogether  about  150.    59/.     Payne. 

145.  A  fouo  volume,  of  vellum,  containing  several  pieces  respecting  Charlemagnef 
and  a  copy  of  WiUiam  of  Malmsbury  :  formerly  belonging  to  the  monastery  of  St. 
Martin  of  Toumay.    53/.  lU.     Payne. 

150.  Another  folio,  from  the  same  library,  containing,  1.  a  history  of  the  church  of 
Toumay,  (printed  from  this  identical  MS.  in  D'Achery's  SpMUgiumj  vol.  III.)  ;  8. 
Historia  Judaica ;  3.  Historia  Britannica  of  Geoffrey  of  Monmouth ;  4.  Prophetia 
Meriini.    55/.  13«.    Payne. 

152.  A  miscellaneous  volume  on  vellum,  in  4to.  of  the  Xlllth  oentunr,  containing 
some  pieces  of  Peter  of  Blois,  and  several  others.     8/.  15#.     Sir  F.  Madden,    (b.  m.^ 

163.  A  folio  volume  of  the  Xlllth  century,  containing,  1.  liber  Magistri  Petri 
Cantoris  ParisienBU  qui  didtur  Verbum  Abbreviatum ;  9.  Vita  sancti  Thome  Can- 
tuariensis,  in  Latin  verse  ;  3.  De  Magnete  lapide,  in  Latin  versa.    30/.  10#.     Payne. 

154.  A  quarto  volume  from  St.  Martin's  at  Toumay,  containing,  1.  Delocls  Sanctis ; 
S.  Beda  de  locis  Sanctis ;  3.  Glose  super  Bibliam ;  4.  Ezplicatio  quorundam  nominum 
dutinctorum  per  alphabetum.  On  vellum,  of  the  Xlllth  centurv,  with  a  very  spirited 
outline  drawing  of  Saint  Martin  on  horseback.    14/.  14f.     Sir  P.  Madden,    (b.  m.) 

164.  Questio  Consolatoria,  addressed  to  Mary  Queen  of  France  on  the  death  of  Louis 
XII.  in  1515,  by  Joannes  Benedictus  Moncetto,  de  CastelUone  Aretino.  2/.  10#. 
Rodd.     (b.  m.) 

168.  A  Pocket  Diary  of  public  and  private  occurrences,  by  Sir  Edward  Nicholas, 
Clerk  of  the  Privy  Council ;  two  small  volumes,  1667-8,  and  1674.     2/.  I7t.     Payne. 

172.  Ordinale  Ecdesic  Romanc ;  an  octavo  volume  of  the  tenth  century,  in  vellum, 
which  formerly  belonged  to  the  church  at  Besan9on.     10/.  lOt.     Rodd.     (b.  m.) 

185.  Poesies  Francoises  du  XVme  Siede  :  on  vellum,  folio.  7/*  7«.  Sir  F.  Madden. 

197.  An  extensive  collection  of  ballads  and  ftigitive  pieoes  of  the  XYIIth  and 
XVIIIth  centuries,  pasted  in  two  folio  volumes.     10/.  15*.    Payne. 

202.  Paalterium,  cum  Predbns ;  a  quarto  manuscript  on  veUum,  of  the  XlVth 
century.    225/.    Rodd  (forMr.  Holford). 

'*  This  manuscript  is  illuminated,  ap«  of  David,  four  on  a  page,  with  a  leaf  of 

parently  by  a  French  artist,  in  a  very  description  in  French,  written  in  white 

minute  and  laboured   style.      It   com-  upon  a  coloured  ground,  the  lines  bdng 

menoes  with  the  calendar  in  a  tabular  red  and  blue  alternately.  The  Psalter  Uien 

form,  the  dominical  letter.  Ate.  being  in  commences  with  a  capital  letter  occupying 

burnished  gold  upon  a  coloured  ground,  half  the  page,  and  containing  two  illumi- 

whilst  the  saints'  days  and  holidays  are  in  nations*  Other  illuminated  histories  occur 

colours  upon  a  silver  ground,  remariEable  in  various  parts  of  the  book,  each  being 

for  the  preservation  of  its  brightness,  preceded  by  a   page   of   description  ia 

Each  page  of  this  calendar  is  ornamented  French,  and  having  to  soma  of  the  Psalma 

with  two  small  miniatures,  one  represent-  an  initial  letter,  with  histories,  oocnpyiiw 

ing  the  sodtacal  sign  of  the  month  ;  the  the  entire  page.    The  first  letter  of  each 

other  its  peculiar  occupation.    After  the  Psalm  is  ornamented,  and  the  initial  letter 

calendar  follow  three  pages  of  tables  of  of  every  verse  is  in  gold ;  and,  wherever 

the  moveable  feasts,  &C.  richly  ornamented  the  verse  does  not  extend  to  the  end  of 

in  chequered  work  of  gold  and  colours ;  the  line,  the  space  is  filled  up  with  minute 

then  a  series  of  illuminations  on  sixteen  illumiaations.   These  small  illuminationi 

pages,  four  on  a  page,  -in  compartments,  are  of  a  very  singular  and  fanciful  kind* 

representing  the  events  of  sacred  history.  They    represent    knights    encountering, 

from  the  Creation  to  the  Assumption  of  mock-combats,  quintaines,  monsters,  gro- 

tbe  Virgin.    Following  these  is  a  leaf  con-  tesques,  jugglers  and  posture-  masters,  and 

taining  on  the  recto  the  stem  of  Jesse,  on  coats  of  arms  ;  the  bearings  of  the  latter 

the  reverse  the  portrait  of  the  person  for  being   quite  well  defined,  although  the 

whom  the  manuscript  was  executed,  and  shield  is  not  more  than  the  sixth  of  an 

those  of  his  wife  and  children,  in  the  at-  inch  in  sise. 

titude  of  prayer  to  the  Virgin.    The  two  <'  Two  of  these  ihielda  are  evidently 

cncceedhig  iMTes  present  ere&ta  in  the  life  those  of  the  families  allied  in  marriage  la 


150  Sale  of  Mr.  Bright's  MantttcripU.  [Aug. 

tbc  personi  for  whom  the  manuBcriptKu  unworthjr  of  remark,  that  in  (ome  in- 
cxecQted,  HiiproicdbTthelirgeihieldi  lUneei  ods  of  the  combatants  it  rtpre- 
OD  the  top  of  the  page,  in  which  thej  ire  sented  u  ■  female.  A  fac-simile  of  one 
repreuated  lueeliDg.  The j  are  Oier  th  e  of  theae  toonianienti  ia  *ubioiDed,  bj 
knight  Vert,  ■  feti  ai^nt,  impaling,  faionr  of  Mr.  Leigh  Solheby. 
Argent,  three  bends  Tert,  witbia  i  bor-  "  The  large  mininlorei  an  ranch  more 
dare  gniei :  orer  the  lad;,  Argent,  fretti  vuied  in  chincter  than  ia  uinallr  found 
gnle«,  a  canton  of  the  eecond.  These  in  manoacnpti  of  thia  nature,  and  are  re- 
anna  maj  lead  to  the  diicoTerr  of  the  markable  for  the  ipirit  with  which  they 
penoni  ivprewDtad.  Thejoecurin  acTe-  are  executed.  A  &c-iimile  in  outline  of 
ral  parti  of  the  Tolnme  on  the  ahiclda  of  one  of  the  illnininated  pagca  waa  given  ai 
two  knight*  eneonntering ;  and  it  ii  not  a  frontiipiece  to  the  Sale  Catalogue. 


SIS.  Le  Ronuo  duRenart  i  of  the  XlVtb  centary,  npon  Tellnm,  with  roiaiaturea. 
(Imperfect.)    351.    Sir  F.  Midden,     (b.  M.) 

3S4.  Ijei  Hiitoirea  et  Croniqnei  des  Belgei.  Written  bj  Hector  Sandorer,  aliai 
de  Uarchen,  at  Doua;  in  15J4.    2T/.  lOi.     Payne. 

3S6.  The  jonmey  of  John.Emeat  Daks  of  Saxony,  In  England  in  1613,  detcribeil 
by  J.  W.  Nenmayr  tod  RamnU  :  an  Engliah  tnulation.     3(.  1S>.  6il.      Payne. 

339-  A  Poetical  Miicellany  of  the  age  of  Eliiabeth,  in  4to.    IS/.    Thorpe. 

340.  Aatrnphel  and  Stella,  aonneta,  by  Sir  P.  Sidney.  A  mannicript  inppated  to 
be  corrected  by  the  author  and  hii  filter  the  Couuteit  of  Pembroke  ;  with  *D  auto- 
graph letter  of  the  Counteu.     4f.  14*.  6d.     Sir  P.  Madden,     (b.  u  ) 

941.  Pulmi  tranilated  by  Sir  Philip  Sidney  and  the  Connteu  of  Pembroke  :  a  MS. 
truueiibed  by  John  Dariea,  of  Hereford,  the  Poet ;  from  the  coUectioni  of  Bofwell 
and  Heber.    41,  \6t.    Thorpe. 

943.  The  tame  Tenion  of  Che  PuImi,  a  4to.  MS.  formerly  belonging  to  the  poet 
Uayley.    3/,  le*.    Wilaon. 

843,  A  aerlee  of  aixty-aeTen  Autograph  Lettert,  addreiied  hj  rarious  foreignen  to 
Sir  P.  Sidney  during  bta  traTcli,  and  eleven  lettera  of  Dr.  Robert  Dortett,  from 
Oxford,  to  the  aame.    SOI.     Payne. 

344.  Mkaeellaneoua  pipera  of  Sir  William  Slmpion,  Baron  of  the  Btcheqner,  temp. 
Anne  and  George  I.  chiefly  relating  to  the  affairs  of  the  Temple.     41.  \Ai.  id.    Payne. 

345.  A  volume  of  Muiic  and  Poetry  by  John  Bedford  and  Otheri,  temp.  Henry 
VIII.  ia  oblong  quarto.     ISf.    Thorpe,     (b  .  u.) 

S4T.  Three  hundred  Meditadooi  of  the  Love  of  God,  by  Robert  Southwell  the 
Jetuit  and  Poet,  dedicated  to  the  Lady  Beauchamp.     41.  St.     Dolman. 

94B.  Antiqoitie,  &c.  of  the  laleof  Man,  by  Samael  Stanley,  temp.  Elii. ;  from  the 
Thorcaby  and  Roibnrgbe  collectioni,     3S/.  10».     Payne. 

951 .  Memoiret  Mnnuacrita  du  Compte  du  Lncano, — son  of  James  FiUJnmei,  Dnke 
of  Berwick.     171.  6t.  6<f.     Payne. 

S53.  Virgill'a  Gnomologie,  contayning  hii  principall  eenteocei  and  beat  appliable 
•peechea,  aelected  for  hia  Highnes'  uie  [Hbiut  Friaoe  of  Wtleil  by  SimoB  StnnoTMit. 
».  5t.    Rodd.    (b.  h.) 


1844.]  HerM*s  Oak.— Windsor  Link  Park.  151 

353.  De  Synedriifl  BriUnnicis  ;  an  English  treatise  of  the  early  part  of  the  XVIIIth 
century,  ascribed  to  Petyt.    S/.  lU.    Thorpe.  ^ 

255.  County  Observations,  &c.  1638 — 1660,  by  Henry  Townshend,  of  Elmley 
Lovett,  in  Worcestershire.     18/.  Is,  6d,    Payne. 

360.  Register  of  Privy  Seals,  13  Oct.  1611  to  13  Oct.  1614.  30/.  lOt.  Sir  F. 
Madden.  This  was  the  second  volume  of  Lot  183  of  Sir  Julius  Caesar's  MSS.  in  the 
Catalogue  of  1757,  and  which  then  sold  both  together  for  either  15«.  or  I6t.  6d.  to 
Lowndes.  At  its  present  price,  however,  it  is  a  valuable  addition  ftogether  with  lot 
39)  to  those  purchased  for  the  British  Museum  at  Strawberry  Hill.  (See  our  toI. 
XVIII.  p.  606.) 

363.  State  Letters  and  Papers  of  Sir  Henry  Unton  during  his  Embassy  in  France, 
159 U2.  folio.  46/.  Payne.  [It  is  remarkable  that  these  Papers  appear  to  exist  in 
triplicate;  there  are  similar  volumes  in  the  British  Museum  (MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  B.vii.) 
and  Bodleian  Library  (No.  3498  of  Bernard's  Catalogue).  See  Mr.  J.  G.  Nichols'a 
Memoirs  of  the  Unton  Family,  printed  for  the  Berkshire  Ashmolean  Society,  p.  liii.] 

365.  Herbarium,  Medical  Receipts,  8cc,  small  volume  on  vellum  of  the  XlVth 
century.     7/.  7».    Sir  F.  Madden,     (b.  m .) 

369.  Autograph  Life  and  Journal  of  Archbishop  Wake.    23/.  lOtf.     Payne. 

373.  Regtstmm  Monasterii  de  Warden,  [co.  Bedford,]  4to.  on  vellum»  of  the 
XII I th  century ;  described  in  the  new  edition  of  the  Monasticon.    95/.    Payne. 

373.  Legend  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  and  other  Poems :  by  Thomas  Wenman, 
FcllowofBalliol  College,  and  Public  Orator  of  the  University  of  Oxford.  1594.  MS. 
of  the  time.     10«.  6d.    Rodd. 

374.  The  Proceedings  in  the  Starr-chamber  against  Henry  Sherfeild,  esq.  for  break- 
inge  a  glass  window  in  the  church  of  St.  Edmund's  in  the  cittie  of  Salisburie,  1632. 
4Co.  5/.  Payne.  [See  Hargrave^s  State  Trials,  vol.  i.  p.  399 ;  and  Hoare*8  Modern 
Wiltshire,  Hist,  of  Salisbury,  p.  373.] 

375.  Antiquities  of  Malvern.  17^3.  8vo.     3/.  3«.     Payne. 

376.  Journal  kept  by  Sir  Henry  Wotton  in  1591  when  attending  on  the  Earl  of 
Essex,  in  the  army  of  Henri  lY.     10/.    Payne. 

377.  The  York  Miracle  Plays :  in  folio,  on  vellum.  Formerly  Thoresby's  ;  pur- 
chased  at  his  sale  by  the  Hon.  Horace  Walpole;  and  sold  at  the  Strawberry  Hill  sale 
in  1843  for  335/.    305/.    Thorpe. 

389.  Tractatus  Historicus  de  Virtutibus  Philippi  Burgundie  Ducis.  By  J.  Germain, 
Bbbopof  Cabillon,  1453.    4to.    17/.  17#.    Payne. 

390.  Abridgment  of  the  Law  Books,  from  Henry  VI.  to  Henry  VIII.  a  very  largo 
folio  volume  by  Judge  Walmesley.     10/.   Thorpe. 

The  whole  day's  sale  prodaced  1995/.  3«.  6d.  Mr.  Bright's  library  is  in  pre- 
paration for  a  second  sale ;  and  his  collection  of  virorks  in  natural  history, 
geography,  mining,  &c.  will,  separately,  form  a  third. 

Mr.  Urban,  June  24.  proof  of  it  from  some  of  the  Issue- 
ALTHOUGH  possibly  you  may  rolls  or  books  of  the  Commissioners  of 
think  that  I  have  sufficiently  occupied  Woods  and  Forests.  And,  as  to  the 
the  pages  of  your  Magazine  "On  the  so-called  "distortion"  of  this  row  of 
Locality  of  Kerne's  Oak/'  my  papers  trees  (for  it  is  not,  correctly  speaking, 
on  this  question  having  been  alluded  an  avenue),  Mr.  Knight  and  many 
to  by  Mr.  Jesse  in  his  lately  published  others  well  recollect  it  to  have  been  a 
"  Scenes  and  Tales  of  Country  Life,"  mere  belt  or  boundary — one  of  those, 
I  beg  to  say  a  few  words  in  reply,  probably,  mentioned  in  an  account  of 
But  as  the  style  and  tenor  of  hisargu-  Windsor,  a.d.  1592 — between  the 
rocnts  arc  very  similar  to  tliose  with  Little  Park  and  a  common  field  once 
which  he  has  already  favoured  us —  belonging  to  the  inhabitants  of  that 
and  since,  moreover,  he  is  evidently  town,  and  was,  no  doubt,  so  "dis- 
"  a  man  convinced  against  his  will,"  torted"  because  of  the  angular  form 
I  shall  confine  myself  to  an  exarolna-  of  the  boundary,  and  not  to  "  intro- 
tion  of  his  "Facts."  duce  into  it  this  oak  " — the  situation 
To  begin  then  with  the  first,  viz.  of  which  depended  simply  on  its  hap* 
"  that  the  avenue  in  which  Mr.  Jesse's  pening  to  have  been  near  the  fence, 
oak  is  now  to  b3  seen  was  planted  by  The  evidence  of  Collier's  plan  pub- 
King  William  HI.,  who  delighted  in  lishedin  1742,  (and  which,  to  my  great 
straight  lines"— were  this  at  all  re-  surprise, Mr.Jesse  says  he  "cannot but 
levant  to  the  question,  I  would  demand  think  in  favour  of  his  supposition,") 


152 


Mtn  Je$$e*$  Faeti  on  Hemes  Oak, 


[Aug. 


chiefly  consists  in  a  hand  pointing  to 
an  oBk,  underwritten  "  Sir  John  Fal* 
Btaffe's  oak  ;"  and  I  still  maintain  that 
ihu  fact  is  an  irrefragable  proof  that 
Mr.  Jesse's  tree  is  not  the  Heme's  oak 
BO  pointed  out,  however  he  may  im- 
pugn the  accuracy  of  this  plan,  be> 
cause,  forsooth,  it  is  "  a  very  old  one." 
And  Collier's  tree  not  being  in  an 
avenue,  it  does  not  require  atqr  "  in- 
genuity to  show  that  the  tree  now 
standing  m  the  avenue  is  moi  "  Collier's 
oak,  although  Mr.  Jesse  would  infer 
••  much  from  its  "  inclination  out- 
wards,"— an  opinion  to  which  I  would 
humbly  bow  (since  in  his  capacity  of 
Itinerant- Deputy 'Surveyor  of  Woods 
and  Works,   he  must   be  better  ac- 

auainted  with  such  trees  than  I  am)« 
id  not  its  unusually  spiry  form  de- 
monstrate that  it  was  a  flourishing  tree 
long  aAcr  it  had  become  one  of  the  row 
wherein  it  is  now  situated.* 

"  The  evidence,  thirdly,  of  some  old 
inhabitants  of  Windsor"  (many  of 
whom  I  examined  with  Mr.  Jesse, 
and,  as  I  then  told  him,)  is  objection- 
able, since  many  of  them  are  interested 
in  supporting  his  opinion  on  account 
of  his  official  influence  :  and  the  evi. 
dence  of  one,  now  in  her  ninety-fourth 
year,  is,  from  the  very  circumstance  of 
her  anility,  especially  dubitable.  Nor 
does  "  the  present  appearance  of  this 
tree  prove  that  it  might  (may)  have 
remained  in  nearly  the  state  in  which 
we  now  see  it  tnrough  a  long  suc- 
cession of  ages,"  for  many  persons 
know  that  within  the  last  sixty  years 
it  has  borne  acorns,  and  Mr.  Jesse,  for 
his  seventh  fact,  himself  asserts  that 
it  "is  still  sound  as  to  the  external 
wood,  though  it  had  evidently  been 
blasted" — meaning,  I  presume,  that  it 
had  been  so  injured  before  our  great 
dramatist  visited  it  (as  I  feel  assured 
he  did),  with  the  other  localities  men* 
tioned  in  his  Merry  Wives  of  Wind- 
sor— the  pits,  the  ways,  and  stile  yet 
traceable  there — and  all  of  which  were 
probably  well  known  to  his  royal 
auditor. 

Our  author's  fourth  fact  ia — "  that 
King  George  III.  frequently  asserted 
that  he  had  cut  down  an  oak  tree  at 


*  The  relative  positions  of   Collier* a 
tne  and  Mr.  Jesse's  tree  may  be  seen  in 
the  smaller  plan  prefixed  to  our  number 
forApnl,  1841. 
5 


the  edge  of  the  pit  close  to  the  present 
tree,  because  many  persons  confounded 
it  with  the  tree  growing  in  the  avenue, 
and  called  it  Heme's  oak,  which  he 
said  it  was  not."  Now,  Sir,  "  this 
anecdote,"  although  corroborative  of 
my  opinion,  I  cannot  but  deem  a  libel 
on  the  character  of  George  111.,  albeit 
Mr.  Jesse  says  that  he  had  it  from  the 
royal  huntsman.  A  brother,  however, 
of  this  gentleman, — who,  "  equally 
with  him,  when  young,  was  in  the 
habit  of  attendance  upon  George 
III."— has  often  told  me  that  Heme's 
oak  was  removed  because  it  had 
been  represented  to  his  Majesty  by 
the  bailiff  of  the  park  (one  Mr. 
John  Frost)  as  an  old  and  unsightly 
Incumbrance  —  Mr.  Jesse  admitting, 
moreover,  that  "the  tree  then  cut 
down  was  by  many  persons  considered 
to  be  Heme's  oak."  But  how  this  fact 
disproves  a  statement  of  Lady  Ely, 
that  (leorge  III.  expressed  to  her  "  his 
sorrow  for  having  destroyed  the  re- 
mains of  Heme's  oak,"  and  why  Mr. 
Jesse  doubts  the  veracity  of  her  lady- 
ship's "representation  of  what  the 
king  had  told  her,"  or  the  misappre- 
hension of  Mr.  Crofton  Croker  as  to 
the  matter, — I  must  leave  to  the  ani- 
madversion of  Mr.  Croker  himself*  on 
whose  authority,  Mr.  Jesse  says,  this 
statement  was  made.* 

As  I  do  not  see  by  what  alchemy  of 
ratiocination  the  following  opinione 
can  be  converted  to  Mr.  Jesse's  pur- 
pose. I  will  give  them  complete  in  his 
own  words :  viz. 

**  Fifthly.  The  fectthat  the  King  placed 
the  present  tree  under  the  especial  charge 
of  Mr.  Engall,  who  is  still  the  manager 
of  the  Home  Park,  forty  years  ago,  telling 
him  at  the  time  that  it  was  Heme's  oak. 
It  may  be  added  on  the  same  authority 
that  some  chairs  were  made  from  the  snp- 
posititioas  Heme's  oak,  and  presented  to 
the  King  as  interesting  relics  of  that  tree, 
but  which  he  refused  to  accept,  stating 
that  Heme's  oak  was  still  standing. 
Many  tldngs  also  were  made  from  the 
tree,  and  sold  to  various  persons  in  the 
neighbourhood,  which  left  the  impression 
that  Herne*s  oak  had  been  felled. 


*  Mr.  Crofton  Croker  informs  us  that 
there  can  be  no  ''misunderstanding"  on 
his  part,  as  he  received  the  statement  in 
writing  from  his  fisther-in-law,  the  late 
Mr.  Nicholson. — Ed. 


1844.] 


I%e  iitwation  •/  ^  Clmmhoo:* 


153 


**  Sixthly.  A  ftatenfiit,  which  I  know 
was  made  by  his  late  majesty  George  the 
Fourth,  that  Heme's  oak  had  not  been 
eat  down  by  his  father,  ind  which  hat 
been  oonfirmed  to  me  by  one  of  the  aor- 
rning  members  of  his  family.** 

With  regard  to  the  opinion  of  Sir 
Herbert  Taylor  and  Sir  David  Don- 
da9» — ^theae  gentlemen  were  not  likely 
to  express  one  dissimilar  from  that  of 
their  royal  master;  and  as  to  Mr. 
Jeaae  attempting  to  identify  hia  trea 
from  the  admeasurement  of  ita  girth 
by  however  "  respectable  a  carpenter," 
we  might  aa  well  try  to  ascertain 
whether  any  individoal  in  Alderman- 
bnry  or  elsewhere  be  an  alderman  by 
gatttng  a  "  respectable  ?  tailor  to  take 
the  circomfarence  of  auch  individual's 
corporation. 

Our  author  then  apologises  for  hia 
obstinacy,  and  aaka  whiningly,  "  even 
if  he  could  be  proved  to  be  wrong, 
what  object  would  be  gained  by  the 
eodeavoura  to  deatroy  the  intereat 
which  would  otherwise  be  attached  to 
this  last  (?)  relic  of  our  immortal  bard.'* 
To  this  1  aimply  reply— Truth.  Had 
Mr.  Jease,  instead  of  "  discovering  the 
mn^atptcied  fact  that  superstition  holds 
the  aame  away  in  Windsor  that  it  did 
when  our  poet  wrote/'  because  "  some 
females,"  it  is  said,  "have been  alarmed 
with  the  fear  of  meeting  Heme  the 
Hunter ;"  had  he,  1  say,  discovered 
any  ilocwaen/o/  evidence  illustrative  of 
Shakspeare, f Aaf  would  truly  have  been 
"acceptable;"  but  never' with  such 
"  argumenta" — non  tali  auxilio— aa 
those  he  haa  hitherto  made  uae  of,  let 
him  again  trouble  ua.  And  so,  leaving 
him  to  his  conacience,  ahould  the  board 
affixed  by  him  to  thia  tree  have  been 
instrumental  in  causing  such  men  aa 
the  King  of  Prussia  and  the  celebrated 
Humboldt  to  have  "  gazed  at  it  in  si- 
lence "  a«  the  Heme's  oak  of  our  im- 
mortal Shakspeare, 

I  am,  yours,  &c.    Plaxitaobnet. 


Ma.  Ubban, 

AS  I  hold  that  in  mattera  of  topo- 
graphical import  accuracy  of  inlor« 
mation  is  a  great  desideratum,  I  trust 
that  the  following  remarks  may  be 
deemed  sufficiently  important  for  in- 
aerlion  in  your  pages. 

The  Saxon  Chronicle,  under  the  date 
▲.D.  742,  saye* 

Gbht.  Mao.  Vol,  XXII. 


''  There  was  a  large  synod  *  assembled 
at  CIpueshoTi  (Cliffy  Hoc),  and  there  was 
Ethelbald,  King  of  Mercia,  with  Arch- 
bishop  Cathberty  and  many  other  wise 
men."t 

Rapin  the  historian  is  more  par- 
ticular in  his  information,  but  has  the 
synod  under  a  rather  different  date, 
and  says, 

*'  In  747  was  held  at  Cloveshoo,  a  diff 
m  ikt  kingdom  of  Kent,  a  natioDsl  t  jnod, 
at  which  Ethelbald,  King  of  Mercia,  was 

S resent,  with  13  bishops  and  a  great  nom- 
er  of  lords.  That  Cuthbert  Archbishop 
of  Canterbory,  who  was  president,  read 
Pope  Zachary's  letter,  wherein  the  pope 
admonished  Uie  English  to  reform  their 
lives,  and  threatened  those  with  excom- 
munication that  cootioned  in  their  wicked 
oonrses.  They  made  S8  caoona,  most  of 
them  relating  to  eccleaiutical  discipline, 
the  government  of  monasteries,  the  daties 
of  bishops  and  other  deigymen,  the  pabUc 
service,  singing  psalms,  keeping  the  Sab- 
bath and  other  holidajs.*' 

Another  synod,  the  Saxon  Chronicle 
saf  94  was  holden  in  822  at  Cliffs  Hoo ; 
but  Rapin  has  it  in  800,  and  is  roor^ 
circumstaotial,  and  saya  it  was  held 
under  Adelard,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, and  convened  for  the  recovery 
of  certain  church  lands  uaurped  by  the 
Kings  of  Mercia. 

Rapin  further  aaya,  three  yeara  af\er 
(viz.  803)  another  council  was  held 
at  the  aame  place,  wherein*  according 
to  Pope  Leo'a  cooatitution,  and  with 
the  consent  of  Cenulph,  King  of  Mer- 
cia, the  archbishopric  of  Lichfield  waa 
reduced  to  a  biahopric  as  formerly. 

In  the  Notea  upon  Rapin  by  Tindal 
and  Smollett,  as  to  these  synods  being 
held  at  Cliffa  Hoo,  in  the  kingdom  of 
Kent,  it  ia  observed, 

''  Cliff  or  Hoo  is  a  town  on  a  rock  near 
Rochester.  Bat  the  presence  of  the  King 
of  Mercia  at  this  and  some  other  councils 
held  at  Cloveshoo  makes  it  supposed  that 
it  is  the  same  with  Abingdon,  in  Berk- 
shire, about  the  middle  of  the  nation, 
antiently  written  Shoveaham,  by  piistake 
for  Clovesham  or  Cloveshoo." 
'  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■■11.       ■  I     . 

*  Wittena  Gemote  or  parliament. 

t  Vide  Ingram's  edition  and  translatieBt 
p.  67.  See  also  Spelman*8  Concilium,  I. 
230. 

I  Ingram's  edition  and  traBaUtion,.pi. 
87  ;  and  Spelman's  ConciL  for  the  whok 
of  the  f  tqimU* 

X 


U4 


The  iiiHaii^  of  **  Cbteskoo.*' 


Now  the  learned  Camden  (vol.  I.  p. 
159)  observes  upon  these  synoJs  or 
councils  at  Cloveshoo,  nnder  the  head 
Abingdon, 

"  That  it  was  in  antieot  times  called 
SheovesAom ;  it  is  not  unreasonable  to 
think  this  the  very  place  where  two  synods 
were  held,  one  in  the  year  749,  and  the 
other  in  H29,  both  said  to  be  at  Cloveshoo; 
for  thoogh  It  hath  been  settled,"  says 
Camden,  'Mn  Kent,  at  a  place  called 
Cliff  at  Hoo,  yet  that  conjecture  is  wholly 
founded  upon  the  similitude  of  names, 
■ad  doth  bv  no  means  agree  with  what  is 
supposed,  that  Cloveshoo  was  probably  in 
Merda,  and  Ethelbald  King  of  the  Mer- 
cians had  the  greatest  hand  in  it,  because 
the  Saxon  annals  mention  him  particularly 
as  present ;  and  Cliff  at  Hoo,  in  Kent,  is 
too  much  in  a  comer  to  answer  the  charac- 
ter of  Cloveshoo,  which  is  mentioned  but 
twice  in  the  Annals,  and  both  times  said 
expressly  to  be  the  place  of  a  synod.  And 
in  a  coundl  at  Hertford  in  673  we  find  it 
decreed  that  there  should  be  two  synods 
yearly;  but,  because  there  were  several 
i&ddental  causes  which  might  prevent 
them,  it  was  unanimously  agreed,  how- 
ever, that  there  should  one  meet  yearly 
the  first  day  of  August,  at  the  place  called 
Clofeshoh,  which  cannot  be  supposed  un- 
reasonably to  point  out  a  place  so  little 
for  the  convenience  of  most  of  the  mem- 
bers ;  but  may  very  rationally  be  meant 
of  this  place  (Abingdon),  a  place,  perhaps, 
by  reason  of  its  situation,  as  eligible  by  all 
partiea  as  oould  be  well  thought  oi,*' 

Yet  in  another  place,  under  the  head 
Ctiff  at  Hoo.  Kent,  Camden. "  accord- 
ing to  the  opinion  of  Sir  Henry  SpeU 
man  and  Mr.  Talbot,  both  eminent 
antiquaries,  (alluding  to  these  councils 
or  synods,)  observes, 

.    "The  first,  called  by  Cuthbert  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  at  which  was  pre- 
,sent  Ethelbald  King  of  Mercia,  a.d.  743 ; 
the  second,  under  Kennulpb,  also  King 
of  Merda,  a.d.  803  ;  and  a  third  under 
Ceolwulf,  his  successor,  a.d.  833.    Upon 
which  account  Mr.  Lambard  also  doubts 
whether  Ciovesboo  were  not  in  Mercia 
'  rather  than  in  Kent,  the  kings  of  Merda 
'being  dther  present  at  them  or  the  councils 
. 'Called  by  their  authority,  neither  of  which 
.  wwsldfc  probably  have  been  at  a  place  so 
isetaote  from  them  (as  Cliff  at  Hoo,  in 
.Kfnt^)  of  so  inoommodious  for  such  a 
liWrpoaa  ;««r^thdes8Mr.  Lambard;  upon 
^ahe  authority  of  Talbot,  (ye/  reservtvg  m 
j^mkrqfrevoJktnguyon  better  infyrma- 
*  |}o)i,)  agrees^tnat  Cliff  at  Hob  most  be  the 
plAoe.  aitd  tlja  ralber  because  be  fiiids  no 
sucti  place  u  Cbvesfaoo  withhi  the  pre- 
dneu  of  Merda,  altlMugh  there  be  diven 


[A* 
of  OUff 


places  there  that  bear  the 
as  well  as  this.** 

With  submission,  hovtrever,  to  so 

frave  an  authority  as  that  of  Camden, 
think  he  could  not  have  seen  or  at 
least  examined  that  copy  of  the  Saxon 
Chronicle  kept  or  compiled  at  Abing- 
don ;  he  would  there  have  seen  that 
these  synods  (or  one  of  them)  were 
there  said  to  have  been  held  at  Clavea- 
hoo  not  Sheovesham  (Abingdon) ;  and. 
indeed.  Leland  the  historian  calla 
Abingdon  antiently  Seuk^iham, "  whe- 
ther from  record  or  mistake  1  know 
not,"  says  Camden ;  and  theafllnitv  of 
the  name  Sheovesham  or  Seukeaham 
to  Cloveshoo  seems  to  me  very  small* 
(independently  of  that  place  or  Abing- 
don  being  as  it  was  in  the  West  Saxon 
kingdom  and  not  in  Mercia,  and 
Egbrichus,  then  King  of  the  West 
Saxons,  waa  not  present  thereat  though 
a  renowned  Christian  ;)  besides,  the 
termination  "  ham  "  instead  of*'  hoii  " 
is.  1  think,  definitive  that  this  latter 
place  could  not  be  the  Cloveshoo.  as 
"  ham  *'  is  the  Saion  house,  farm,  or 
village,  and  *'  hoo  "  the  Saxon  high ;  I 
think,  therefore,  I  have  disposed  of 
the  probability  that  ever  Sheovesham, 
Seokesham,  or  Abingdon,  was  or  were 
the  locality  of  this  synod,  or,  indeed, 
of  any  of  these  synods.  With  regard 
to  Cliff  at  Hoo.  in  Kent,  its  situation, 
as  will  be  seen  by  the  map,  renders  it 
most  improbable  even  for  a  Kentish 
synod,  being  that  of  a  cAersonfttia.  ahd 
not  approachable  by  land  except  on 
one  side  of  it,  viz.  that  between 
Rochester  and  Gravesend  ;  and  that 
the  Kings  of  Mercia,  and  their  dukes, 
lords,  and  prelates,  &c.  should  be 
drawn  such  a  distance  out  of  their 
own  territories  to  attend  synods  in 
two  of  the  cases,  vis.  that  of  taking 
the  archiepiscopal  seat  from  Lichfidd, 
and  that  of  obtaining  the  restoration 
of  property  taken  from  the  Church  in 
Mercia,  seems  altogether  improbable. 
I  shall  now  proceed,  without  further 
preamble,  to  nx  the  locality  of  these 
syuods  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  a 
part  of  the  Mercian  kingdom.  It 
most  be  premised  that  this  district 
seemsto'have  been  a  species  or  sort  of 
Urra  tneognitn,  never  having  had  its 
t)wn  i^artrcolar  or  eifctasive  historian. 
Its  division  into  a  couotv  hy  the  name 
of  Beddanford.'  or  Becffbrd,  did  not 
Uke  place  untiLthe  reign  of  M(M 
(about  a  centary  after  the  boldio^o^ 


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CUftan  Hao,  eo.  Bedford. 


155 


tbe  synods  at  Clovnlioo,)  which  would 
be  another  reason  why  a  more  par* 
ticular  or  explanatory  account  of  the 
aituatioo  of  Cloveshoo  had  not  been 
given  by  historiographers.  And  Bed- 
lord  must  at  that  time  have  been  a 
small  place,  though  daily  growing  into 
more  importance  by  one' of  the  vicinal 
ways,  probably  made  by  Ostorias  the 
Roman  propraetor,  from  Towcester 
(the  antient  Triptmiium)  by  Newport 
(Nova  porta),  through  the  Ouse  at 
Bedford,  to  Salsna  (Sandy),  passing 
through  it,  and  earthworks  being 
thrown  up  on  one  side  of  the  river, 
and  a  sort  of  military  defence  made 
and  kept  by  troops  at  the  passage,  as 
was  customary  at  great  rivers,  the 
people  began  to  draw  themselves  to- 
gether to  such  localities,  to  partake  of 
such  defences,  and  to  build  houses ; 
which  in  this  case  (Bedford;  was  in- 
creased by  King  Offa  the  Mercian 
taking  to  its  situation,  and  afterwarda 
more  increased  by  King  Edward,  who 
built  that  part  of  the  town  south  of 
the  Ouse,  viz.  St.  Mary  Street  and 
Potter  Street,  or  Porta  Street,  (the 
street  of  the  vicinal  way  or  passage 
to  Salaena  or  Sandy). 

We  come  now  to  observe,  that  at 
the  west  end  of  the  town  of  Clifton, 
in  the  county  of  Bedford,  and  in  a  line 
leading  to  Meppershall  and  Shetling- 
ton,  is  an  ancient  way,  which,  before 
the  late  inclosure  of  Clifton,  was  and 
is  yet  called  the  Hoo  way,  and  at  the 
extremity  of  it,  a^  it  enters  and  crosses 
the  London  and  Bedford  roads,  which 
separates  the  parishes  of  Clifton  and 
Meppershall,  is  there  called  Clifton 
Hno.  This  place,  "  the  Hoo,"  is  the 
highest  place  in  Clifton  parish,  and 
commands  an  extensive  view  of  Bed- 
fordshire on  the  one  side,  and  into 
Herts  on  the  other.  And  on  the  noith 
side  of  it,  looking  down  for  Shetford, 
or  Shefford,  about  half  a  mile  hence,  is 
quite  a  declivity.  On  the  right  hand 
of  I  his  "  Hoo  way."  in  Clifton  parish, 
about  hair  a  mile  from  the  town  before 
the  indospre,  was  a  large  quantity  of 
argillaceous  earth,  thrown  up,  much 
resembling  an  ancient  barrow  or  tumu- 
lus, but,  instead  of  being  round  like 
the  Roman  tumuli,  was  oblong,  like 
that  of  the  Danes  or  Saxons,  according 
to  Olaus  Wormius,  and  the  descent 
therefrom  was  gradual  into  the  valley, 
■dmittiog  of  a  fiMDOut  opportunity  of 


bi'ing  addressed  therefrom ;  and  I  can 
almost  figure  to  myself  Archbishop 
Cuthbert  (the  holy  Cuthbert)  sur- 
rounded by  Ethel  bald  the  king,  the 
twelve  bishops,  the  dukes  and  nobles, 
reading  to  this  admiring  primitive 
Christian  assembly,  on  the  onset  of 
their  synod,  the  letter  of  Pope  Zachary 
to  him  on  (Christian  duties. 

This  place  is  distant  from  Hertford, 
where  the  synod  was  held  in  the  6th 
of  Ethelred,  king  of  the  Mercians  (di- 
recting a  synod  or  council  to  be  held 
yearly  at  Clives  Hoo),  about  35  miles, 
and  in  a  direct  line  by  the  great  road 
leading  from  London  to  Bedford  and 
into  the  heart  of  Mercia ;  and  it  is  re- 
markable from  this  spot  were  roads 
leading  crosswise  into  almost  all  parts 
of  England ;  besides,  it  is  seated  in  a 
fine  sound  gravelly  soil,  in  an  open 
situation  (the  open  fields),  about  two 
miles  from  Arlsey,  a  market  town  in 
the  time  of  the  Saxons,  and  about  five 
or  six  miles  from  Ashwell,  a  borough 
in  the  time  of  the  Saxons,  and  both  of 
which,  according  to  the  Domesday 
Survey,  remained,  and  were  such  in 
the  time  of  Edward,  and  subsequently 
of  the  Conqueror.  Biggleswade,  also 
another  Saxon  and  hundred  town,  only 
four  miles  from  Clifton,  and  haviog  a 
market,  temp.  Hen.  1.  the  grandson  of 
the  Conqueror,  and  Clifton  itself  being 
in  the  time  of  King  Alfred  a  places  pf 
so  much  importance  as  to  give  nanie 
to  the  hundred  in  which  it  is  situate, 
and  cooseqoentlyaffording  conveniente 
for  the  holding  of  its  Hundied  Court 
and  Stolfold  (anciently  caljed  Stalfalt) 
little  more  than  three  miles  from 
Clifton  Hoo,  being  in  the  time  of' Ed- 
ward, and  subsequently  of  the  Domes- 
day Survey,  so  lari^e  as  to  have  ft)tir 
mills,— one  is  led  to  suppose  it  mHy 
have  been  equally  capable  of  affording 
convenience  for  travellers  at  the  tioye 
of  these  synods. 

Clifton  deiives  its  name  from  its 
situation,  the  town  on  the  cliff.  An 
old  farm,  about  half  a  mile  from  the 
locality  of  this  synod,  or  not  so  much, 
but  directly  by  the  Hoo  way,  is  now, 
and  has  from  antiquity,  been  called 
the  Hoo  farm.  And  at  the  time  of 
the  Domesday  Survey,  we  have  other 
towns  in  its  neighbourhood,  all  eqoaHy 
high  situations,  such  as  Silversboo« 
(Silsoe,)  Cain-hoo,  and  }A\\\a: 

Yours,  <cc.   W.  CiiAPMAir/ 


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ANCIENT  MANSION  AT  SANDFORD-ORCAS,  co.  SOMERSST. 

(With  a  PUtU.) 


SANDFORD-ORCAS  ia  situated  on 
the  southern  eobfioes  of  Somerset* 
shire,  adjoioing  Dorsetshire^  and  is 
onlv  three  miles  from  Sher bourne  in 
the' latter  county.  It  is  a  Small  and 
sequestered  parish,  lying  under  the 
western  declivity  of  the  Gorton  Hills, 
which  sweep  round  towards  the  west, 
forming  two  sides  of  a  small  valley. 
The  parish  is  diversified  with  hill  and 
dale  I  the  soil  a  sandy  loam,  and  stone 
bra^h,  chiefly  in  pasture,  interspersed 
with  a  small  portion  of  arable.  An 
extensive  sheep-walk  occupies  the 
declivity  of  hill  on  the  east,  and  the 
parish  contains  1,370  acres.  Cows  are 
principally  fed  in  the  valley.  A  small 
stream  flows  down  the  vale,  on  which 
the  village,  surrounded  by  trees  and 
orchards,  is  situated.  It  consists  of  a 
long  straggling  street,  running  along 
the  bank  of  the  rivulet  nearly  a  mile ; 
at  its  western  extremity  stands  the 
church,  and  near  it  the  ancient  manor 
house,  still  in  tolerable  preservation. 

This  mansion  Mr.  Phelps,  in  his 
History  of  Somersetshire,  stated  to  be 
"  in  the  Ellxabethan  style,"  a  general 
term,  and  much  too  generally  em- 
ployed. The  building  in  question  is 
older  than  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  and 
perhaps  of  the  time  of  Henry  VIII. 
We  are  sorry,  however,  not  to  possess 
the  materials  for  describing  it  minutely. 
It  has  a  porch  and  large  bay  windows. 
A  lofty  arched  gateway  leads  into  a 
court ;  over  it  are  the  arms  of  fCnoyle, 
ina  pannel ;  and  also  over  theentrance- 
porch.  The  hall  has  been  divided, 
and  converted  into  a  farm-house. 

The  additional  name  of  Orca$  is  a 
corrupted  abbreviation  of  Orescuilts 
or  Or§k(nf9t  a  family  who  possessed 
this  manor,  with  other  lands  in 
the  same  county,  in  Wilts,  and  in 
Gloucestershire,  soon  after  the  Con- 
quest. In  the  time  of  Henry  I.  Henry 
Orescutlts  held  one  knight's  fee  in  this 
county  of  the  Abbot  of  Glastonbury ; 
and  was  succeeded  by  Helias  de 
Orescuiltz  his  son,  who  was  living 
12  Henry  II.  1166.  To  this  Helias 
succeeded  Richard  de  Orescuilrz,  his 
son,  lord  of  this  manor  and  of  Sturis, 
In  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of  King 
John,    In  the  13th  of  the  same,  Roger 


de  Viliers  paid  twenty  marks,  that  he 
might  inherit  the  share  of  his  mother 
Alice  in  the  lands  of  the  said  Richard 
de  Orescuiltz.  Maud,  the  daughter 
and  coheir  of  this  Richard,  and  sister 
of  the  said  Alice,  was  lady  of  this 
manor  and  of  Sharncot.  in  the  county 
of  Wilts.  She  married  William,  son 
of  William  de  Harptree,  of  Harptree 
in  this  county,  and  made  a  partition 
of  her  inheritance  with  her  sister  Alice, 
by  a  fine,  10  Richard  I.  1199-  He 
died  16  Henry  III.  1S39,  leaving  issue 
Thomas  de  Harptree,  who  married 
Eva  de  Qournay,  sister  and  heiress  of 
Maurice  de  Berkeley.  The  moiety 
continued  in  that  family  for  a  long 
series  of  years,  and  became  involved 
with  their  other  estates  in  the  vicissi- 
tudes of  the  Gkiurnays,  till  it  fell  to  the 
Crown,  after  the  death  (most  probably) 
of  Mathew  de  Gournay,  the  last  of  the 
line,  in  1406.  The  manor  seems  to 
have  been  divided  about  this  period 
between  the  families  of  Knoyle,  who 
had  held  possessions  in  this  parish  in 
the  time  of  Edward  III.,  and  of 
Jerrard  ;  one  of  whom,  John  Jerrard, 
died  seised  of  a  moiety  of  this  manor 
and  of  the  advowson  of  the  church, 
6  Henry  VI.  1428. 

William  Knoyle,  who  died  in  1607, 
is  called  of  Sand  ford- Orcas,  and  left 
three  sons  and  four  daughters. 

In  1708,  Sir  Thomas  Webster,  of 
London,  Bart,  was  seised  of  a  moiety 
of  this  manor ;  and  soon  after  the 
other  moiety  belonged  to  John  Hunt, 
of  Compton  pAuncefoot,  Esq.  whose 
widow  presented  to  the  living  In  1723. 
He  devised  it  to  his  second  son  Doding- 
ton  Hunt,  who  died  in  1749,  leaving 
the  moiety  of  the  manor  and  of  the 
advowson  of  the  church  to  hia  eldest 
son,  Dodington  Hunt,  Esq.  of  Charlton 
King's,  in  the  county  of  Gjoucester, 
who  sold  it  to  John  Hutchins,  Esq. 
in  1735 ;  whose  grandson  John,  of 
Ludlow,  in  the  county  of  Salop,  now 
holds  the  manor  and  aidvowson.  The 
other  portion  belongs  to  Lord  Port- 
man. 

(These  particulars  are  extracted 
from  Mr.  Phelps's  History  of  Somer- 
setshire.) 


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CORRESPONDENCE  BETWEEN  THE  BISHOP  OF  GiLOUCESTBR  AND 

.  HENRY  HALLAM,  ESQ. 


THIS  Correspondeiice,  wbich  has 
been  privately  circolated  by  tbe  Bisbop 
of  Gloucester  and  Bristol,  and  is  now 
published  with  his  approbation,  relates 
to  the  following  note  which  is  ap- 
pended to  the  account  given  of  John 
Le  Clerc  by  Mr.  Hallam,  in  his  In- 
troduction to  the  Literature  of  Europe, 
vol.  iv.  p.  145.  First  edit. 

Bishop  Monk  observes,  that  Le  ClMc 
**  seems  to  hsve  been  the  first  person  who 
understood  the  power  which  may  be  ex- 
ercued  over  literature  by  a  reviewer.'* 
Life  of  Bentley,  p.  909.  This  may  be 
true,  especially  as  he  was  nearly  the  first 
leTiewer,  and  certainlv  better  than  his 
predecessors.  Bat  this  remark  is  fol- 
lowed by  a  sarcastic  animadversion  upon 
Le  Clerc*8  ignorance  of  Greek  metres, 
and  by  the  severe  assertion,  that  '*  by  an 
absolute  system  of  terror  be  made  himself 
a  despot  In  the  republic  of  letters."  Tbe 
former  is  so  far  true,  that  he  neither  un- 
derstood the  Greek  metres  as  well  u 
Bentley  and  Person,  or  those  who  have 
trod  in  their  steps,  nor  supposed  that  all 
learning  was  concentred  in  that  know- 
ledge, as  we  seemed  in  danger  of  suppos- 
ing within  my  memory.  The  latter  is  not 
warranted  by  the  general  character  of  Le 
Clerc*s  criticisms,  Which,  where  he  has 
no  personal  quarrel,  is  temperate  and  mo- 
derate, neither  traducing  men  nor  im- 
puting motives ;  and  consequently  unlike 
certain  petiodleal  cntietsm  of  a  later  date.*' 

1. 

The  Cloisters*  Westminster, 
June  S,  IMI. 

My  dear  Sie» — Presuming  upon 
the  common  bond  of  sympathy  in 
which  literature  unites  its  professors, 
I  take  the  liberty  of  calling  your  at- 
tention to  a  passage  in  yoar  Intro* 
(fuclton  to  the  Literoture  qf  Europtt 
by  which  I  feel  myself  aggrieved. 

It  is  your  note  (in  vol.  iv.  p.  145i  Ist 
edition)  respecting  Le  Clerc,  and  the 
notice  taken  of  him  as  a  reviewer  and 
a  scholar  in  my  Life  of  Bentley.  When 
I  first  saw  this  note,  three  or  ^ur  years 
ago,  I  conceived  tbo  idea  of  pointing 
out  to  you  the  erroneous  representa- 
tion which  is  there  given  of  my  senti- 
ments :  but  the  distressing  state  of 
my  vision  has  long  compelled  me  to 
renounce  almost  all  coi  respondence, 
except  upon  the  bveiBtss  of  my  di- 
0Mst#  !•  wImIiI  dtvoie  what  ramaiaa 


to  me  of  eye-sight.  Howerer,  an  ac- 
cident having  recalled  it  to  my  mind. 
I  have  determined,  though  late,  to 
name  the  subject;  being  convinced 
that  it  is  doe  to  you,  as  well  as  to  my- 
self, to  afford  yon  an  opportunity  of 
repairing  the  wrong,  if  upon  consi- 
deration yon  should  deem  that  any . 
has  been  infiicted. 

After  noticing  my  observations  upon 
Le  Clerc  as  a  reviewer,  you  say, 
"  but  this  remark  is  followed  by  a 
sarcastic  animadversion  opon  Le 
Clerc's  ignorance  of  Greek  metres, 
and  by  the  severe  assertion,  that,  '  by 
an  absolute  system  of  terror,  he  made 
himself  a  despot  In  the  republic  of 
letters.' " 

I  must  infer  that  while  writing  this 
note  yon  had  not  my  book  before  yon ; 
for  you  speak  of  the  above  "  severe 
assertion"  as  Me  loiter  of  the  two 
censures,  when  in  fact  those  worda 
precede  my  remark  upon  Le  Clerc's 
Ignorance  of  Greek  [comic]  metres* 
which  I  mention  as  among  the  cir- 
cumstances which  utterly  disqualified 
him  from  undertaking  an  edition  of 
the  fragments  of  Menander  and  Phi- 
lemon. 

But,  however  this  may  have  been* 
the  words  quoted  by  yon  are  but  the 
conclusion  of  a  sentence  describing 
the  mode  and  the  effect  of  a  plan  of 
reviewing,  which  was  at  that  time 
novel,  and  in  which  he  had  no  com- 
petitor. The  sentence  is  this  :  "  Such 
an  adept  was  he  in  the  science  of  re- 
viewing,  so  skilfully  did  he  distribute 
his  praises  and  censures,  and  so  well 
did  he  understand  the  artifice  of  inter- 
posing his  own  judgment  on  some  of 
the  leading  subjects,  that  he  main- 
tained an  air  of  superiority  on  every 
topic,  and  hjf  an  abeolute  iyetem  of 
terror  made  kimtelf  a  iupot  m  the  re* 
public  of  lettere."  It  is  only  by  se- 
parating the  last  words  from  the  con- 
text that  they  can  be  represented  as  a 
severe  reflection  upon  Le  Clerc.  His 
becoming  a  literary  despot  is  stated 
as  the  result  of  his  executing  with 
ability  and  address  the  ofiice  of  eole 
reviewer,  and  of  the  consequent  terror 
with  which  his  censures  were  re- 
garded. Had  there  been  numeroue 
competiton  in  the  eane  liae^  m  bag 


158 


Biship  Monk  and  Mr.  Hallam 


[Aug, 


Bttbseqaently  been  the  ease,  do  aach  su- 
premacy could  have  been  maiDtained. 

1  have  only  to  add,  that  your  own 
character  of  Le  Clerc's  criticisms  is 
not  very  different  from,  certainly  not 
incompatible  with,  that  given  by  my- 
self: indeed,  1  had  bestowed  upon 
him  higher  praise  than  you  do,  for 
candour  and  moderation,  as  having 
displayed  those  qualities  in  a  case 
where  he  was  eiposed  to  the  influence 
of  personal  irritation  (see  Life  of 
Bentley,  vol.  i.  p.  322).  Respecting 
the  classical  enterprise  of  Le  Clerc, 
which  brought  him  under  my  censure, 
I  have  undoubtedly  expressed  senti- 
ments of'  unqualified  condemnation. 
But  if  the  account  which  1  have  given 
of  the  book  itself,  and  of  the  want  of 
all  qualification  in  the  editor,  be  cor- 
rect, it  can  hardlv  be  thought  that  I 
have  spoken  of  the  performance  with 
undue  severity.  The  point  therefore 
is,  whether  those  particulars  in  my 
book  (p.  266 — 280)  be  correctly 
stated,  without  exaggeration  or  over- 
colouring.  I  take  the  liberty  of  send- 
ing a  copy  of  the  second  edition  ;  you 
will  see  that  1  have  not  censured  Le 
Clerc  for  inferiority  in  metrical  know- 
ledge to  mdueqwtnt  scholars,  (which  in 
a  matter  of  that  nature  would  have 
been  palpably  unfair,)  but  because  his 
information  on  this  subject  was  far 
below  that  usually  possessed  by  con- 
temporary and  by  preceding  scholars, 
and  particularly  by  Grotius.  the  editor 
whose  errors  he  undertook  to  detect, 
and  whose  fame  he  seemed  anxious  to 
eclipse. 

I  should  much  wish  that  yoo  would 
ask  the  Dean  of  Christ  Cburch,  or 
any  other  impartial  scholar,  familiar 
with  that  department  of  literature, 
whether  In  his  opinion  I  have  spoken 
of  Le  Clerc's  publication  of  Menander 
and  Philemon  with  unmerited  severity. 
It  would  give  me  pleasure  to  re-con- 
sider any  particular  so  pointed  out, 
and  to  retract  or  soften  any  sentence 
or  any  word  which  seemed  more 
harsh  than  the  justice  of  the  case  de- 
manded. 

Afler  each  of  your  remarks  upon  my 
sentiments,  there  follows  an  allusion 
to  some  unnamed  publications  of  late 
years  : — you  say,  "  he  neither  under- 
stood the  Greek  metres  so  well  as 
Bentley  and  Porson,  or  those  who  have 
trod  in  their  steps,  nor  supposed  that 
all  learniog  waa  conceotted  \Vk  that 


knowledge,  om  w9  itemed  in  dinger  of 
mtppoiitig  wiihim  aijr  memory;"  and 
again,  "  tbe  character  of  Le  Clerc'a 
criticisms,  where  he  has  no  personal 
quarrel,  is  temperate  and  moderate, 
neither  traducing  men  nor  imputing 
motives ;  amdeonaequently  mtlike  certain 
periodical  criiicitm  of  a  later  date." 

What  allusions  you  designed  to  con- 
vey by  the  words  marked,  I  cannot 
rronounce  or  conjecture  ;  but  of  this 
am  sure— as  I  am  the  person  against 
whom  this  note  seems  especially  di- 
rected, your  readers  will  suppose  these 
sentences  to  contain  oblique  censures 
of  some  writings  of  mine.  Now,  in 
whatever  I  have  written  upon  the  sub- 
ject of  Greek  metre,  I  am  perfectly 
certain  that  I  never  attempted  to  exalt 
that  science  above  its  proper  station, 
as  auxiliary  in  a  humble  degree  to  true 
criticism*  and  consequently  to  the  ac- 
curate knowledge  and  perception  of 
the  language.  And  in  regard  to  the 
other  imputation,  levelled  against  mo- 
dern reviewers,  I  not  only  feel  innocent, 
but  of  the  very  small  share  which,  in 
the  course  of  my  life,  I  have  had  in 
periodical  criticism,  I  am  at  a  loss 
even  to  guess  at  what  such  a  charge 
could  have  been  directed. 

Had  this  note  appeared  in  an  anony- 
mous publication,  or  with  the  name 
of  an  author  of  inferior  celebrity,  I 
should  have  disregarded  it  as  harmlesa, 
and  never  have  bestowed  upon  it  a 
second  thought.  But  when  given  to 
the  world  under  the  sanction  of  a 
writer  of  the  highest  reputation  among 
his  contemporaries,  and  in  a  work 
which,  among  other  merits,  lays  claim 
to  impartiality,  1  can  not  help  feeling 
that  it  has  a  tendency  injurious  to  my 
literary  reputation.  It  is  now  there- 
fore submitted  to  your  consideration, 
whether  there  be  any  grounds  upon 
which  it  can  be  justified  ;  since,  if  in- 
justice has  been  committed,  though  to 
a  humble  individual,  you  must  see  that 
tbe  note  is  pro  tanto  a  disparagement 
to  your  work. — Believe  me  to  be.  with 
much  respect,  my  dear  sir,  your  faith- 
ful and  humble  servant, 

J.  H.  Gloucester  and  BaiaTot. 
Henry  Hallam,  Esq. 

IL 

M,  Wilton  CVeioenti 
Jane  ft,  16M. 

Mr  DEAR   Lord, — 1    cannot   bat 

much  rtgrtt  that  any  ezptaaai4ma  gf 


1844.] 


on  (he  LUerary  Character  o/Le  Clere, 


159 


mine  shoald  have  seemed  to  your  miDd 
rather  unfair  aad  uncalled  for.  Pos- 
sibly the  latter  charge  may  have  some 
foundation,  as  I  was  not  bound,  in  my 
History  of  Literature,  to  make  any 
remaik  of  the  kind.  But  I  bad  con- 
tracted, from  early  reading,  some  de- 
gree of  partiality  for  Le  Clerc,  and 
had  derived  much  information  from 
his  Bibliothdques.  I  was  somewhat 
hurt,  therefore,  to  find  a  person  of 
your  eminence  treat  him,  as  it  seemed 
to  me,  more  harshly  than  on  consider- 
ation of  his  general  merits  he  deserved. 

"The  absolute  system  of  terror," 
and  the  name  of  "despot  in  the  re- 
public of  letters,"  did  not  strike  me  as 
very  applicable ;  because  Le  Clerc  is 
not,  im  general,  a  severe  critic,  though, 
like  almost  every  critic,  capable  of 
being  bitter  enough  when  irritated. 
It  could  not  be  necessary  to  quote  the 
former  part  of  the  sentence,  which  in- 
troduces this  clause ;  since  it  does  not 
modify  it,  but  only  points  out  the 
qualities  by  which,  in  your  Lordship's 
opinion,  he  established  this  despotism. 
Many  reviewets  since  have  practised 
the  arts  you  impute  to  him,  and  thus 
have  become  terrible  and  almost  de- 
spotic. 

I  roust  now  advert  to  the  expression, 
"certain  periodical  criticism  of  a  later 
date."  If  this  could  be  taken  by  your 
Lordship  as  referring  to  anything  of 
your  composition,  I  could  not  be  sur- 
prised at  your  being  offended  at  it. 
But  f  most  unequivocally  deny  that  any 
such  allusion  was  in  my  mind.  In 
face  I  cannjt  recollect  more  than  one 
article  in  periodical  criticism  which 
has  been  generally  attributed  to  your 
pen;  though  there  may  probably  be 
others,  which  do  not  occur  to  me,  or 
of  which  I  bad  no  information ;  and 
that  article  was  of  a  nature  hardly 
within  the  verge  of  literary  criticism, 
nor  open  to  any  censure.  The  word 
"  certain,"  indicates  perhaps,  in  ge- 
neral use,  some  peculiar  allusion  ;  but 
1  am  satisfied  that  I  did  not  intend  it 
for  any  individual,  and  unquestionably 
not  for  yourself. 

.  The  observation  about  "  concen- 
trating learning  in  a  knowledge  of 
Greek  metres,"  was  not  specially  di- 
rected against  yourself.  I  thought 
that,  at  one  time,  metrical  criticism 
was  andaly  held  up  in  England,  to  the 
iojury  of  other  philological  learaing ; 
•ndiA  tbia  the  prrteotage  ofaoMArt 


appears  to  agree  with  me.  As  to  Le 
Clerc's  ignorance  of  metres,  I  never 
pretended  to  set  him  op ;  but  is  it  not 
to  be  remembered,  that  little  had  been 
known  by  the  preceding  age,  and  that 
Bentley's  acuteoess  was  not  given  to 
every  one?  Bemley,  like  yourself,  ia 
not  very  gentle  towards  Le  Clerc. 

If  my  book  should  reach  a  third 
edition,  1  will  endeavour  to  roodtfy 
the  phrases  of  my  note,  so  far  as  they 
can  be  construed  into  anything  offen- 
sive to  yourself,  which,  as  I  repeat,  1 
never  meant,  nor  could,  in  a  case 
where  there  was  no  provocation,  and 
much  respect  for  your  literary  cha- 
racter, have  inserted  without  lowering 
myself.  I  am  much  obliged  by  the 
handsome  way  in  which  yon  have 
spoken  of  my  work. — And  am,  my 
dear  Lord,  with  much  respect,  your 
most  faithful  servant, 

HXNBY  HaLLAM. 

Tas  Loan  BrsHOP  or 
Glouckbtbb  and  BaisTOL. 

III. 

The  Cloisters,  Westminster, 
June  e,  IM*. 

Mr  DEAa  Sib, — My  best  thanks  are 
demanded  by  our  obliging  reply  to  my 
letter  of  remonstrance,  and  I  assure  you 
that  it  fL\ve9  me  much  satisfaction  to 
learn,  that  your  two  reflections  upon 
metrical  scholarship  and  periodical 
criticism  were  not  designed  againat 
myself  i  which,  as  the  note  now  stands, 
your  readers  will  generally  suppose  to 
have  been  the  case. 

But  your  reply  to  my  complaint  of 
the  manner  in  which  my  sentiments 
were  represented,  is  not  satisfactory. 
An  author  has  a  right  to  have  his  words 
quoted  correctly,  and  without  muti- 
lation, particularly  when,  as  in  this 
instance,  a  censure  is  founded  upon 
the  quotation.  The  sentence,  when 
folly  cited,  gives  a  different  impression 
of  my  meaning  from  that  conveyed  by 
the  piece  which  you  have  taken  from 
it.  Perhaps  the  words  "  terror  "  and 
"  despotism "  were  too  strong,  and 
not  wfll  chosen:  "Arbiter  of  lite- 
rature "  (as  I  elsewhere  call  Le  Clerc) 
was  more  appropriate.  Still  the  pas- 
sage, when  read  fairly*  leaves  no 
doubt  upon  the  reader's  mind  in  what 
sense  I  designed  the  words*  I  re- 
presented Le  Clerc  to  have  becoaie 
ijrmidable  and  despotic,  not  maUt 
t^iibut,  but  by  the.  oati^rat  effect  of 


160      Correipondime€  Uiwien  Bithep  M^nh  wi  Mr.  HaTlam.         {A^* 


that  eoffine,  wbich  he  wielded  so  ably, 
and  witboat  a  rival.  T  shoald  cer- 
tainly DOt  have  written  at  a  diitinct 
and  complete  sentence  the  wotds  which 
yoa  quoted  ;  nor  shonld  I  have  oeed 
them  at  all,  had  I  apprehended  the 
danger  of  their  being  misconetnied. 

Yoa  8ay»  "  It  could  not  be  necessary 
to  qaote  the  former  part  of  the  sentence 
which  introduces  this  clause ;  since  it 
does  not  modify  it,  but  only  points  oat 
the  qualities,  by  which,  in  your  Lord- 
•hip's  opinion*  he  established  this 
despotism."  Yoa  will  pardon  me  for 
remarking,  that  yoa  have  yourself 
here  given  a  reason  which  made  it 
necessary,  in  fairness,  to  have  quoted 
the  whole  sentence,  particularly  as  my 
assertions  were  to  be  styled  "  severe  " 
and  "  unwarranted."  The  words 
which  you  omitted  point  oat  the 
qualities  by  which  I  held  him  to  have 
established  this  despotism  ;  he  was 
not  accused  of  having  done  it  by  dis- 
creditable practices.  At  all  events 
your  readers,  had  they  seen  the  whole 
sentence,  would  not  have  been  left  to 
suppose  (as  they  now  may)  that  I  had 
charged  this  famed  reviewer  with 
having  attained  his  terrible  pre-emi- 
nence, by  **  traducing  men  "  or  "  as- 
atgning  motives." — 1  remain  with  great 
truth,  my  dear  Sir,  yours  very  faith- 
fully. 

J.  H.  Glouokstbe  and  Bmstol. 

HnirmT  Hallam,  Eta. 

IV 

The  Ctoistert,  WettmlM  ter, 
June  14, 1S44. 

My  D«Am  Sib,— To  prevent  the 
danger  of  accident  or  mistake,  I  take 
the  liberty  of  asking  whether  you  re- 
ceived the  letter  which  I  addressed  to 
you  on  the  6th  of  this  month. — I  am, 
my  dear  Sir.  your  faithful  servant, 
J.  H.  Gloucbstbr  and  Bristol. 

Hbmet  Hallam,  Esa. 

V. 

My  Wntoa  Crescent, 
JQDS 15, 1S44. 

Mt  dbab  Lord,— I  certainly  re- 
ceived the  letter  which  your  Lordship 
addressed  to  roe  on  the  6th  instant. 
It  did  not  occur  to  me  that  any  answer 
was  required,  as  I  could  only  have 
•aid,  as  I  now  do,  that  I  omitted  a 

Sirt  of  the  sentence  in  the  Life  of 
entley.  because  I  did  not  perceive  that 
it  affected  the  senst  of  what  I  quoted. 
No  one,  I  can  sinctffly  My«  U  non 
6 


averse  to  garbled  qootation  tfarnn  my. 
self ;  but  it  may  easily  happen  that  two 
persons  do  not  see  Uie  importance  of 
particular  clauses  in  the  same  light. — 
I  am,  my  dear  Lord,  very  faithfoUy 
yours,  Hbnet  Uallax.  ' 

Thb  Lord  Bisbof  of 
Gloucbstbr  ANn  Bristol. 

VI. 

Tte  Cloisters,  Westwdattar, 
June  17,  1844. 

Mt  dbar  Sir,— -Yoar    favour    of 
June  l$th  has  reached  me. 

I  am  still  of  opinion  that  an  injury 
has  been  done  to  me,  which,  had  our 
cases  been  reversed,  I  should  have 
felt  pleasure  in  redressiog.  Having 
now  only  a  prospect  of  partial  redress, 
and  even  that  uncertain,  1  have  no 
course  left  roe  eicept  to  enable  the 
public  to  judge  of  the  merits  of  the 
case  which  we  seem  to  regard  in  such 
different  lights. — Believe  me,  my  dear 
Sir,  yours  very  faithfully, 

J.  H.  Gloucbstbr  and  Bristol. 
Hrkrt  Hall  am,  Eao. 

vn. 

tS,  Wilton  Crescent, 
Jone  18,  1844. 

Mt  dbar  Lord,^I  have  never  said 
that  I  would  not,  if  my  History  of 
Literature  should  reach  another  edition, 
inset t  the  whole  sentence,  which,  in 
your  Lordship's  opinion,  I  have  too 
partially  quoted,  though  I  was  unable, 
as  I  still  am,  to  perceive  what  im- 
portant difference  it  would  make  in 
the  sense  of  the  clause  which  1  have 
extracted.  But  if  I  was  to  do  so,  as 
I  am  ready  to  promise,  it  will  be  as  a 
matter  of  courtesy  at  your  request,  and 
not  as  feeling  it  due  in  justice  and 
candour.  Here  we  do  not  agree,  as 
roust  oAen  happen  where  two  authors 
have  to  defend  themselves.  I  ought, 
however,  to  observe,  that  I  have  no 
immediate  or  near  expectation  of  pub- 
lishing another  edition;  so  that,  if 
TOur  Lordship  feels  yourself  aggrieved, 
it  may  be  better  to  lay  the  matter 
before  the  public. 

You  have  my  full  permission,  if  you 
think  fit,  to  print  my  letters  on  this 
subject,  including,  of  course,  the  pre* 
sent. — 1  remain,  my  dear  Lord,  very 
faithfully  yours, 

Hbmry  Hallam. 

Thb  Lord  Bishop  of 

GLOyOBtTBft  AND  BrUTPL* 


161 


REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS, 


T%e  Poenu  qf  CharUi  ChurchUl,  with 
Noie$    and   Life.    By  W.  Tooke, 
RR,S.  3  voU.  Aldine  Editum. 
WE  think  that  Mr.  Tooke  has  done 
all  that  an  editor  could  do  to  illustrate 
the  works  and  revive  the  reputation  of 
a  neglected  poet.     His  copious  anno- 
tations not  only  explain  the  ohscure 
passages  of  the  text,  but  also  contain 
a  pleasing  variety  of  literary  informa- 
tion.    Of  all  poets  the  aatiriat  stands 
most  in  need  of  a  commentary :  his 
allusions  are  temporary  and  fugitive ; 
instead   of  speaking    boldly  out,   he 
sometimes  '*  hints  a  lault,  and  hesitates 
dislike/'  and  sometimes  the  object  of 
his  satire,  though  notorious  in  his  day, 
becomes  in  a  generation  or  two  a  lost 
and  forgotten  name.    There  is  no  one 
now  who  can  fill  up  the  blank  initials 
in  the  satires  and  other  personal  po- 
ems of  Pope.    We  happen  to  possess 
all  that  Horace  Walpole's  memory  or 
curiosity  supplied,  and  he  was  the  last 
person  who  interested  himself  in  the 
personal  and  curious  anecdotes  of  that 
time;  and  yet  our  list  is  still  imperfect. 
We  feel  assured  that  Doctor  Joseph 
Warton    possessed    opportunities    of 
which  he  was  too  careless  or  indolent 
to  avail  himself;  and  it  is  curious  that 
no  edition  of  Pope's  works  has,  to  our 
knowledge,  ever  turned  up,  in  which 
any  one  of  his  contemporaries  or  ad- 
mirers had  supplied  the  deficiency  we 
are  lamenting.  Mr.  Tooke,  however,  has 
performed  an  editor's  task  with  fidelity, 
and  has  enabled  us  to  read  Churchill 
with  double  pleasure.     Whether  all 
his  well-directed  efforts  will  restore  a 
departed  popularity  we  cannot  say, 
but  the  first  edition  having  sold  off^,  is 
a  proof  that  curiosity  is  even  nowawake 
to  the  merits  of  a  writer  who  once  filled 
a  large  space  in  public  estimation,  and 
many  of  whose  productions  may  be 
still  read  with  instruction  and  delight. 
Churchill  has  received  the  praise  of 
men  who  were  able  judges  of  the  art 
he  professed,  and  who  could  support 
their  favourable  opinion  of  him  with 
suflicient  reasons.   Warbnrton,  a  critic 
not  over  easily  pleased,  says,  "he was 
GsMT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


surprised  at  the  excellent  things  he 
found  in  the  Rosciad."  Cowper  calls 
him  "  the  great  Churchill,"  and  says, 
"  he  deserves  the  name  of  a  poet ;" 
and,  indeed,  as  Southey  has  remarked, 
Cowper  formed  his  style  and  tone  (we 
are  speaking  of  his  poems  in  rhyme  and 
in  the  heroic  couplet,)  more  after 
Churchill  than  any  other  model. 

It  certainly  is  wonderful  how  much 
and  how  well  Churchill  wrote,  consider- 
ing the  shortness  of  his  life  and  the  idle 
dissipation  of  his  habits.     He  pos- 
sessed a  wonderful  fertility  of  inven- 
tion and  fluent  copiousness  and  com- 
mand of  language,  which  might  have 
led  to  the  highest  excellence ;  but  no 
one  who  writes  as  he  did,  can  hope  to 
write  uniformly  well,   and  we  fully 
agree  in  Lord  Bath's  decision,  "  He 
has  a  great  genius  and  is  an  excellent 
poet ;  there  are  to  be  seen  some  as  fine 
lines  as  ever  were  writ,  and  some  as 
low,  prosaic  trash  as  ever  came  from 
Grub  Street.     One  may  plainly  see 
that  all  his  works  are  what  the  French 
call  pieces    rappwrie»;"  and  Col  man 
describes  his  muse  as  "  now  a  queen 
and  now  a  slattern."    Those  of  his 
poems  were  the  most  popular  at  the 
time  which  had  the  most  personal  al- 
lusions ;  but  the  Rosciadhas  other  and 
higher  claims  to  admiration,  and  pos- 
sesses in  itself  much  of  the  pungency, 
wit,  force  and  expression  of  the  best 
satire. 

We  now  shall  extract  from  high 
authoritv  a  passage  regarding  our 
poet  both  as  a  man  and  as  a  writer, 
m  the  spirit  and  tone  of  which  wt 
fully  agree,  and  we  believe  also  it  will 
meet  with  Mr.  Tooke's  approbation. 

Mr.  Southey,  when  speaking  of 
Chalmers's  Life  of  Churchill,  in  his 
edition  of  the  British  Poets,  says, 
"  The  editor  bestows  due  commenda- 
tion upon  the  powers  of  Churchill, 
wasted  as  they  were  on  worthless 
subjects,  and  comments  with  not  un- 
deserved severity  upon  the  errors  and 
vices  of  the  poet.  Yet  it  is  not  in  a 
tone  of  unmitigated  censure  that  the 
life  of  this  extraordinary  man  should 

Y 


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be  writteo.  To  one  who  died  in  his 
34th  year  something  may  be  allowed 
on  the  score  of  hot  youth,  unsubdued 
passions,  and  principles  which  were 
rather  unfettered  than  depraved,  it 
ought  also  to  be  remembered  that  he 
was  not  without  some  redeeming 
yirtues, — that  he  had  an  open  heart 
and  a  liberal  hand,  and  was  steady  as 
he  was  ardent  in  his  friendships. 
Temporary  as  were  the  topics  on  which 
be  squandered  himself,  and  wicked  as 
was  the  malignity  of  his  personal 
satire,  the  general  strain  is  of  that 
character  which,  now  that  all  personal 
and  party  feelings  are  gone  by,  ele- 
vates the  reader  by  its  manliness  and 
generous  spirit.  This  it  is  which,  like 
spice  in  a  mummy,  has  preserved,  and 
will  continue  to  preserve,  his  works 
from  the  dissolution  to  which  the  sub- 
ject would  otherwise  have  hastened. 
The  life  of  such  a  man  should  be 
written  in  the  spirit  of  philosophy ;  it 
is  not  difficult  to  trace  the  self-delu- 
sions by  which  he  was  misled,  and  the 
lesson  which  such  a  life  holds  out 
would  be  most  impressive  when  ex- 
pressed with  most  charity  for  one  who 
deservel  compassion  even  more  than 
condemnation." 

We  have  now  only  further  to  say, 
that  we  have  added  a  few  observations 
of  our  own  to  Mr.  Tooke's  Commen- 
tary, which  we  cannot  make  so  full 
or  correct  as  we  could  wish,  as  we 
are  awa^  from  our  books,  and  must 
trust  entirely  to  our  memory  for  what 
we  have  written.  In  one  or  two  in- 
stances we  differ  from  Mr.  Tooke  in 
our  opinion  of  the  merit  of  the  writers 
on  whom  he  passes  his  judgment; 
but  a  difference  of  opinion  that  is 
formed  with  deliberation,  and  that  is 
supported  with  temperance  and  judg- 
ment, is  the  "  pioneer  of  truth."  We 
are  quite  willing  to  go  with  him  in  his 
estimation  of  Churchill,  and  in  return 
we  shall  hope  to  lead  him  to  re-con- 
sider his  judgment  on  Pope. 

Vol.  I.  p.  17.  The  character  of 
Arthur  Murphy  is  not  in  our  opinion 
sufficiently  favourable;  and  the  high 
commendation  of  him  by  Johnson,  as 
narrated  by  Boswell,  should  have  been 
placed  on  Me  other  tte?e. 

P.  31.  Sir  Michael  Foster.  A  life 
of  this  learned  person  was  published 
by  his  nephew,  Michael  Dodson,  esq. 
in    1811.    It  was   intended  for  the 


sixth  volume  of  the  Biographia  Bri- 
taonica,  and  was  the  last  article 
printed  for  that  work. 

P.  96.  The  picture  of  Betterton  by 
Pope  is  now  at  Lord  Mansfield's  at 
Caen  Wood,  where  we  lately  saw  it. 
It  is  a  very  moderate  production,  and 
the  hand  in  particular  is  ill-drawn. 

P.  148.  As  regards  Garrick's  want 
of  generosity  ;  we  should  observe,  that, 
like  other  men  who  have  made  their 
fortunes  in  an  arduous  profession,  he 
knew  the  difficulty  of  making  money, 
and  therefore  did  not  unnecessarily 
part  with  it;  but  when  occasion 
called  he  was  liberal,  and  we  refer  with 
pleasure  to  his  correspondence  with 
Madame  Riccoboni,  and  to  his  very 
liberal  assistance  to  her. 

P.  172.  In  the  list  of  ittuiirunu 
men  who  havt  had  Ubutrioui  tone, 
should  not  the  editor  have  mentioned 
Lord  Burghley  and  his  son  the  Earl  of 
Salisbury  ? 

P.  179*  Mason  had  generaUgf  "  es- 
caped the  imputation  of  being  the 
author  of  the  Heroic  Epistle;"  but  it 
was  suspected  by  a  few,  and  known 
to  Horace  Walpole.  He  seems  to 
have  had  a  personal  dislike  to  the 
King,  and  grew  more  bitter  in  politics 
and  literature  as  he  grew  old.  See  in 
his  Life  of  Whitehead  his  anger  against 
Johnson,  breaking  out  in  a  most  hy- 
perbolical attempt  to  imitate  his  style. 

On  Lord  Lyttelton  —  we  have 
only  to  observe  that  there  is  a  small 
volume  called  "  The  Correspondents," 
which  is  generally  attributed  to  him ; 
but  without  sufficient  reason.  It  is 
published  anonymously.  The  letters 
of  the  younger  Lord  Lyttelton  in  one 
volume  were  written  by  W.  Coombe, 
the  author  of  Dr.  Syntax, 

P.  182.  Allan  Ramsay,  the  portrait 
painter, — we  possess  his  portrait  of 
himself  in  the  act  of  painting. 

P.  186.  "  Macpherson  published  a 
contemptible  translation  of  the  Iliad." 
True ;  but  perhap3  the  finest  transla- 
tion that  could  be  made  of  the  Iliad 
would  be  in  the  prose  of  the  Bible. 

P.  187.  David  Mallett  filled  a  consi- 
derable  space  in  the  public  mind  in  his 
day ;  his  manners  were  elegant,  his 
conversation  interesting.  He  was  not 
a  man  of  genius,  but  was  clever ;  he 
imitated,  and  not  badly.  Pope's  cou- 
plets and  Thomson's  blank  verse  :  his 
life  was  prosperous^  and  he  lived  in 


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•floence.  That  be  was  selected  to 
write  the  Dnke  of  Marlborough's  Hfe« 
and  to  edit  Bolingbroke's  posthomoos 
works«  show  that  he  was  in  general 
estimation  as  a  maa  of  literature  and 
knowledge.  A  wit  of  the  day  said  his 
proper  name  was  Moheh,  which  he 
softened  down  to  Malloch,  and  then 
to  MaUeU. 

P.  280.  "  The  defaulter  of  unac- 
counted millions,"  t.  e.  Lord  Holland. 
This  injurious  calumny  has  been  amply 
refuted  by  Lord  Brougham  in  his 
sketch  of  that  statesman. 

P.  230.  Thomas  Potter  was  au- 
thor of  several  short  poems  in  the 
Asylum  for  Fugitive  Pieces:  among 
which    is    one  on   Mrs.  Warburton 

foing  to  a  ball  in  the  character  of 
)iana«  alluding  to  the  scandal  of  the 
times,  (See  Duellist,  iii.  p.  238,  for 
an  allusion  to  it.) 

**  See  Disn's  crescent  on  her  front  dis- 
played ;  [&c. 
Behold  the  wife  confess  herself  a  maid/* 

Mrs.  Warburton  married  after  the 
Bishop's  death  his  chaplain,  Mr. 
Martin  Stafford  Smith.    The  linea 

"  And  was  so  proud,  that  should  be  meet 
The  Twelve  Apostles  in  the  street, 
He*d  tarn  his  nose  np  at  them  dl,  [&c. 
And  shove  his  Saviour  from  the  wall,'* 

might  be  illustrated  by  Churchill's 
once  saying,  that,  if  Warburton  had 
met  the  Apostle  Paul,  he  would  have 
said — Paul,  hold  my  horse  I*  We 
may  remark  by  the  way  that  Parr's 
character  of  Warburton  in  the 
*'  Warburtooiana,"  is  one  of  his  most 
elaborate  and  successful  perform- 
ances. Psrr  used  always  to  say, 
that  Warburton's  fame  stood  on  the 
double  pedestal  of  his  and  Johnson's 
praise. 

Vol.ILp.121.  "  Alluding tothenui. 
dem  death  of  Henry  Prince  of  Wales." 
The  term  sudden  death  is  surely 
wrong ;  Prince  Henry  died  of  decline 
and  Inflammatory  wasting  of  the  lungs, 
and  accurate  details  of  his  illness  are 
in  print.  He  died  at  Sheen,  and  a  post- 
mortem examination  took  place. 

P.  136.  The  suspicion  of  James  H. 
being  implicated  in  the  death  of  his 
brother,  whose  disease  was  manifestly 

*  See  Monthly  Review,  Sept.  1809,  p. 
11,  where  this  anecdote  is  told  in  bolder 
language  than  we  have  chosen  to  use. 


apoplectic,  is  utterly  without  founda- 
tion,  and  most  abhorrent  from  the 
character  of  that  unfortunate  Prince, 
who,  at  least,  was  a  conscientiou 
man. 

P.  138.  The  House  of  Nassau— 
this  is  justly  praised.  Neither  France 
nor  England  can  boast  such  a  succes- 
sion of  heroes  and  patriots.  Next  to 
them  in  talent  would  come  the  Stuarts 
of  Scotland. 

P.  1 56.  We  do  not  approve  of  the 
character  given  of  Pope  in  this  note ; 
but  we  have  no  room  to  enter  on  rea- 
sons. The  life  of  this  great  poet  hat 
not  yet  been  written. 

P.  171.  "Of his  (Marvell's)  contro- 
versy with  Archbishop  Parker ;"  does 
not  the  editor  mean  Bishop  Parker, 
the  author  of  the  Memoir  of  his  own 
Times,  and  the  friend  of  Sheldon? 
Archbishop  Parker  was  a  very  different 
person,  living  in  a  very  different  time. 
P.  183.  We  do  not  exactly  know 
what  Gray  means  when  he  writes  to 
Walpole, — "  Guthrie  is  a  rascal,  but 
rascals  may  find  out  curious  things," 
kc. 

P.  186.  Canning's  saying  on  Sir 
Philip  Francis  being  the  author  of  Ju- 
nius just  meets  our  feeling.  FTe  think  it 
was  a  party  paper,  and  Francis  might 
have  been  the  scribe. 

P.  222.  This  account  of  the  gypsies 
should  be  corrected  and  enlarged  from 
Mr.  Borrow's  History  of  them,  which 
is  very  curious  and  authentic. 

P.  234.  Lord  George  Sackville. 
Cumberland's  interesting  character  of 
him,  8vo.  1785,  should  have  been  re- 
ferred to  or  consulted.  Cumberland 
lived  in  habits  of  intimacy  with  him. 
He  appears  to  advantage  in  the  Chat- 
ham Correspondence,  and  recovered 
from  the  blow  received  at  Minden. 

P.  265.  Dr.  Douglas  also  wrote  a 
very  judicious  and  celebrated  essay  on 
miracles,  called  The  Criterion. 

P.  340.  Glover  left  memoirs,  which 
have  been  published  since  his  death, 
called  "  Memoirs  of  a  celebrated  Lite- 
rary Character."  His  poem  of  The 
Athenaid,  3  vols,  should  also  have 
been  mentioned.  His  ballad  of  Ho- 
sier's Ghost  is  the  most  popular  of  the 
productions  of  his  muse.  He  wrote  it 
at  Stowe,  and,  it  is  said,  in  his  poetical 
enthusiasm  he  was  found  cutting  a 
bed  of  favourite  tulips  to  pieces. 
P.  346.    We  do  not  approve  of  the 


1 64      Rbvibw.— Tooke'8  JAje  «ttd  Poem  ofCharies^  ChmrehilL    [Aug. 

■pecalator  hazarded  in  the  Penn&yl- 
vanian  fiinds  wai  6001. 1 

P.  164.  Dr.  Smithy  Master  of  Trinity 
College,  known  by  his  Treatise  on 
Optics*  In  allasion  to  this  work  Gray 
wrote  his  severe  and  caustic  epigram 
on  him,  beginning. 


note  on  Seeker,  which  the  editor  has 
taken  from  Walpole.  Is  he  aware 
that  on  its  publication  Dr.  Porteus, 
who  wrote  an  account  of  Seeker  and 
published  his  Sermons,  addressed  a  re- 
monstrance to  Walpole,  of  which  an 
account  may  be  found  in  Dr.  Hodg- 
son's Life  of  the  Prelate.  Seeker's 
Sermons  have  something  more  in 
them  than  fanaticism. 

Vol.  111.  p.  19.  Both  these  poems  of 
Mason  and  Warton  are  well  known. 
Warton's  certainly  must  claim  the 
superiority ;  but  the  poem  of  Tyr- 
whitt's  which  preceded  them,  and  to 
which  Warton  alludes,  is  known  only 
to  a  few,  and  is  not  alhided  to  by  Dr. 
Mant,  the  editor  of  Warton.  It  is 
Tery  scarce,  and  was  reprinted  by  us 
in  our  Magazine  for  Dec.  1835. 

P.  66.  Sir  Thomas  Robinson.  The 
anecdote  of  his  being  mistaken  at  a 
dinner  at  Paris  for  Robinson  Crusoe 
is  told  in  the  Walpoliana.  We  possess 
many  curious  manuscript  anecdotes  of 
him.  From  his  height  he  was  called 
Umg  Sir  Thomas.  When  he  was  very 
ill.  Lord  Chesterfield  asked  some  one 
how  he  was :  the  answer  was,  he  was 
dying  by  laeAet;  Then,  said  Lord  Ches- 
terfield, ii  wiU  be  a  hng  wkiU  htfwre 
Ae  <&# .  He  was  a  person  of  talent 
and  acquirement. 

P.  124.  It  was  on  Lord  Sandwich 
atanding  for  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge Uiat  Gray  wrote  his  very  severe 
poem  called  The  Candidate,  in  which  a 
very  curious  misprint  has  existed  in  all 
the  editions. 


«f 


''  But  his  lUttM  it  s  shame. 


In  the  Aldine  edition  of  Gray's  works 
it  is  rightly  printed  "tiofr."  Lord 
Sandwidi  was  very  accomplished  in 
music.  The  present  Mr.  B.  Mon- 
tague  is  his  son  by  Miss  Ray. 

P.  1 38.  "  Langhorne,  author  of  some 

g)etical  pieces  of  merit."  Yes,  his 
wen  of  Carron  is  a  beautiful  ballad - 
poem,  and  every  one  knows  the  fine 
lines, 

*'Cold    on   Csnsdian    hills    or    Minden 
plain,"  &c. 

He  also  deserves  our  gratitude  for 
the  first  collected  edition  of  Collins. 

P.  168.  "The  Rev.  Sydney  Smyth 
was  a  creditor."  True,  and  the  ball 
went  with  great  force  considering  the 
little  powder  it  had  \  for  all  the  reverend 


''What's  the  reason  old  Fobus  has  cut 
down  yon  tree,"  &c. 

P.  170.  Dr.  William  King,  Principal 
of  St.  Mary's  Hall.  The  editor  miaht 
have  mentioned  the  "Anecdotes  of  nis 
own  Times,"  written  by  him,  and  pub- 
lished a  few  years  since  by  Mr.  Mur- 
ray. His  poem  of  The  Toast  has  been 
reprinted  in  a  quarto  volume  called 
"Opera  Gulielmi  King."  It  is  re- 
markable that  the  lady  whose  repu- 
tation he  assails  with  such  unmitigated 
severity,  and  whose  name  he  would 
consign  to  infamy,  is  no  less  a  person 
than  the  Myra  of  Pope's  Windsor 
Forest.  We  believe  this  to  be  a  fact 
little  known.  We  possess  a  copy  of 
King's  Latin  Orations  which  belonged 
to  Dr.  Burton,  in  which  are  bound  up 
about  30  pages  of. the  most  severe 
attack  on  his  Latinity.  Part  of  one, 
the  late  orator  Crowe  adopted  into  one 
of  his  English  poems. 

P.  174.  "  Dr.  Heberden."  His  Latin 
work  "DeCurationeMorborum"  might 
have  been  justly  mentioned.  There 
are  three  works  by  our  physicians  in 
excellent  Latinity:  the  one  just  al- 
luded to ;  Dr.  Gregory's  Conspectus 
Medicinae;  and  Sir  George  Baker's 
Orationes;  and  we  have  heard  that 
Dr.  Chambers  composes  in  the  same 
language  with  taste  and  correctness. 

P.  180.  We  are  much  inclined  to 
agree  with  Dr.  Elmer  respecting  Col- 
man's  concluding  couplet  on  PoweU, 
and  we  certainly  do  not  know  what 
he  intended  by 

«  All  else  a  bubble  and  an  empty  name." 

Does  he  mean  all  beside  Powell's 
"  pity,  love,  and  friendship  ?"  or  does 
he  mean  all  besides  his  own  grief  and 
fidelity  ? 

P.  183.  Together  with  Mr.  Macau- 
lay's  Essay  on  Maehiavelli,  which  the 
editor  extols,  we  should  recommend 
the  character  of  that  writer  as  drawn 
by  Mr.  Dagald  Stuart  in  the  preface 
to  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica,  as 
both  elegant  and  just. 

P.  196.  "One  Thomas  Taylor,  a 
crazy  believer  in  the  inhabitants  of 


1844.]      RsyiEW«-*HoUingsworth*8  HUiofy  qf  Stowmarkei, 


165 


Took^'ft  PantbeoD/'  &c.    We  could 
wUh  tbis  accouot  of  Taylor  to  be  moch 
modified  in  anotber  edition.    We  were 
acquainted  witb  this  gentleman;   he 
was    a    simple-minded,    inoffensive, 
learned  visionary,  well  read    beyond 
any  one  of  his  age  in  the   Platonic 
writers,  though  never  pretending  to 
eritical  scholarship.      We    think    he 
passed  forty  years  of  his  quiet  inoffen- 
sive life  in  the  same  little  house  at 
Walworth ;    and  he  was  followed  to 
the  grave  by  those  who  moch  esteemed 
him  when  living,  and  who  had  enjoyed 
his  learned  and  amusing  society.    His 
highest  hopes  probably  were,  to  be  per- 
mitted to  join  the  company  of  Proclus 
and  Plotinus ;  and  with  them  and  John 
Philoponus 
'*  Inter  sylvss  Academi  qaierere  vemm.*' 

P.  262.  Too  severe  a  note  on  the 
noble  poets.  Rx)scommon  had  great 
merit  as  a  versifier.  Is  there  nothing 
to  be  said  for  the  author  of  The  Re- 
hearsaH  Who  was  equal  to  Lord 
Surrey  in  his  day  ?  and  who  does  the 
editor  mean  by  the  Herberts  ?  We  hope 
not  the  accomplished  author  of  Attila. 

P.  280.  We  think  the  account  of 
Gerard  Hamilton  not  sufficiently  fa- 
vourable to  him.  His  talents  were 
highly  esteemed  in  his  day.  We  think 
that  Burke  might  be  quoted  in  his 
praise. 

P.  300.  Burke  had  the  sole  manage- 
ment of  the  Annual  Register  at  its  ap- 
pearance in  1758,  and  some  subsequent 
years.  He  was  paid  GoL  or  501,  per  an- 
num for  his  labours ;  so  very  humble 
was  tills  great  man's  commencement* 

P.  308.  Dr.  Armstrong  was  a  very 
clever  writer,  and  his  two  volumes  of 
Miscellanies  will  well  repay  the  pe- 
rusal. We  remember  Sir  Francis 
Bnrdett  quoting  from  him  in  the  House 
of  Commons.  His  "  Art  of  Preserving 
Health  "  is  a  very  classical  and  elegant 
poem.  He  lived  on  terms  of  intimacy 
with  the  late  Mr.  Fuseli.and  we  think 
travelled  with  him. 

We  just  remind  Mr.  Tooke,  in  case 
of  another  edition  being  called  for, 
that  there  are  several  repetitions  in 
his  notes,  and  that  his  arrangement  of 
them  might  be  improved.  There  are 
also  not  a  few  typographical  errors  not 
marked  in  his  Errata,  which  should 
not  exist  in  the  classical  typography  of 
Aldus. 


TAe  Hiitwry  of  Stowmarlsei,  the  aneimt 
County  Tbwn  of  Suffolk  ;  unik  otum 
no/tcff  rf  the  Hundred  of  Stow,  com* 
piled  in  a  popular  form  by  the  Re9» 
A.  G.  H.  Holliogsworth,  M,Am 
Rural  Dean  and  Vicar  of  Siom* 
market  with  Stow*  upland,  SmaU  4/9* 
pp,  xiu  248. 

THIS  is  a  volume  full  of  matter,  com* 
pressed  by  means  of  double  colnaina 
and  small  type  into  a  narrow  compass. 
It  is  compiled,  as  the  title-page  pro* 
fesses,  in  a  popular  style ;  and  from 
the  variety  and  minoteneas  of  ita  in- 
formation, and  its  abstracts  of  histori- 
cal and  statistical  documents,  of  all 
periods,  it  will  prove  both  locally  in* 
teresting  and  generally  instructive. 
Its  perusal  will  give  any  incumbent  of 
an  old  town  who  finds  hia  parish 
chests  full  of  papers,  a  good  idea  of 
what  matters  of  pith  and  moment  may 
be  extracted  from  them. 

In  his  earlier  chapters,  however, 
the  author  enlarges  not  only  on  the 
ancient  history  of  Stowmarket,  but  on 
that  of  the  county  at  large,  in  the  days 
of  the  Romans,  the  Saxons,  and  the 
Normans.  He  gives  a  plan  of  the 
Roman  camp  at  Haughley,  named 
Sitomagus,  and  in  another  plate  the 
plans  of  no  less  than  thirty-two  moated 
sites  in  Suffolk,  the  antiquity  of  which 
is  carried  back  to  the  time  when  the 
Saxon  proprietors  had  occasion  to  pr«>- 
tect  themselves  from  the  Danish  in* 
vader.  This  explanation  (derived,  it 
appears,  from  Mr.  Biddell  of  Play  ford, 
the  apportioner  under  the  Tithe  Act, 
who  has  furnished  the  plans,)  is,  we 
believe,  new,  and  we  are  doubtful  how 
far  it  can  be  maintained. 

**  Their  shape  is  not  uniform,  and  the 
exigencies  of  the  time,  or  the  nature  of 
the  ground,  caused  some  of  these  forms. 
In  many  the  simple  indosure  of  a  smaU 
space  of  ground  by  a  deep  trench  filled 
with  water,  and  surrounded  within  by  an 
earthen  rampart,  is  all  that  was  attempted: 
In  others,  as  at  Monewden,  Stowu|)Iand, 
Hasketon,  Elmsett,  a  peculiar  figure 
adapted  to  suit  some  particular  spedes  of 
defence  was  adopted.  In  every  hundred 
throughout  the  country  will  be  found  a 
larger  work  suited  to  accommodate  the 
forces  or  men  of  that  hundred,  and  be- 
come a  fortress  into  which  they  might 
retreat  from  the  smaller  or  parochial  forts, 
and  defend  themselves." 

'*  The  old  halls  were  afterwards  built  in 
the  interior,  as  both  secure  and   oon* 


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A.  80  it  kMMof  mlniiartDrtDScnfcg 
Priory,  arc  1100,  "kk  fitfker  Eli- 


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UtcnUj 


On  thb  we  may  mnork  that  so  early 
an  applieatioo  of  this  term  of  reproadi 
or  ridicaie  to  Loodoo  woold  be  cori- 
oas,  were  it  clearly  so  applied,  which 
woold  have  been  the  case  if  the  Lord 
Major  or  the  Portreeve,  as  the  chief 
magistrate  was  then  called,  had  been 
comiog  against  Bnogaj  Castle;  bat 
Henry  the  Second  was  not  especially 
king  of  London,  nor  his  army  com- 
posed of  Londoners.  Neither  does 
the  term  appear  to  have  originated 
with  cooking;  but  rather  from  the 
land  of  Cocaigne,  a  scene  of  old  ro- 
mance (originally  French),  where  the 
manners  were  delicate  and  effeminate. 
The  term  ''  King  of  Cockoay  "  would 
therefore  be  a  sarcastic  term,  irre- 
spective of  the  metropolis  and  its  in- 
habitants, and  rather  allasive  to  the 
character  of  the  royal  courtiers,  in 
contrast  to  the  Earl's  determined  and 
hardy  soldiers. 

**  William  of  Tomeis  or  Htowmarket. 
This  nsme  became,  like  others,  in  time, 
either  simply  Williams  or  WilUam 
Thorne.'*  (p.  81.) 

Never  Williams :  which  is  a  Welsh 
patronymic. 

'*  Most  of  the  signatures  to  these 
ancient  deed*  are  signed  by  the  nobility 
iritb  a  mark,    Roger  Bigot,  Earl  of  Nor- 


IB  potat  of  ratifica. 

or  ideatity  of 

alike  aakiiown. 


of  Ckriis  (. 

•:••'  (F  83.) 

ttetlMsioapart  of 

,, ,    04  keoa  appreciated  by 

tne  iiiciead  aofthor.  Its  eztraTagaace 
IS  modified  when  it  is  naderstood,  aa  it 
TO  certainly  iatcadcd,  ia  the  spirit  of 
CbL  u  IS ;  the  mystical  body  of  Christ 
Rsaainiag  ia  the  world  wa^  snUeriDs 
iDjones  froas  the  Saraceas,  npon  whtMc 
petsoas  the  crasaden  ^however  qd* 
wisely)  nadettook  to  revenge  them. 

Oar  last  remark  oo  thia  chapter  will 
be  merely  an  expression  of  astonish* 
meat  at  the  following : 

"la  1641  •  IWhy.  the h»lye  of  Wil- 
^sWofd,  kt.  bte  of  BatUye  Ahbye,  wms 
boned  m  StovsMiket  dianji.*  (Regwtcr.) 
Bat  whether  he  was  a  deseeadaat  of  the 
nmoos  jastidary  is  vnoertsia.'* 

That  is  to  say.  GlanviUe  having 
endowed  the  priory  of  BnUey  more 
than  three  centuries  and  a  half  before 
the  Dissolution,  and  Sir  William  Ford 
having  resided  there  one  centary  after 
that  event,  the  author  is  uncertain 
whether  the  wife  of  the  latter  was  de- 
scended from  the  former!  It  was 
surely  unnecessary  to  point  out  an  un- 
certainty so  infinite. 

In  the  next  page  it  is  stated  that 

"Sir  R.   Coptnger  was  knighted    bv 
Edward  the  Third  on  Mncklebarg  Field 
he  having  valianUy  assisted  in  beatinr 
back  the  Scots,  who  would  otherwise  have 
captored  the  royal  standard  ;" 

which  must  mean,  we  presume,  that 
Sir  R.  Copinger  was  knighted  by 
the  Duke  of  Somerset,  the  Lieutenant- 
General  of  King  Edward  the  Sixth,  on 
Massleborough  Field. 

In  p.  BO  Flixton  and  Felixstow  are 
supposed  to  be  the  same ;  but  surely 
the  names  coald  never  be  confounded 
except  by  blunder,  for  there  are  two 
parishes  named  Flixton  in   Suffolk 


1844.J        RxyiKWi^^HolliDg8Worth*8  History  qfSlowmarket,  167 

both  distant  from  Ftliittow.  The 
noonery  foanded  by  Lady  Creke  was 
at  FlixtoD  near  Banffay. 

In  p.  92  Ada  de  Bolonia  should  be 
Adam,  and  Robert  Earl  Morton  iwas 
lord  of  Creting,  not  in  1330,  but  in 
the  days  of  the  Conqueror. 

It  is  very  obvious  that  the  author  is 
far  from  accurate,  and  that,  if  we  went 
through  his  volume  page  by  page,  we 
might  fill  our  Magazine  with  remarks. 
But  what  we  disapprove  still  more  is, 
that  he  makes  general  assertions  on 
insufficient  premises,  such  as  the  fol- 
lowing respecting  armorial  bearings : 


*'  Each  family  obtained  them  by  grant 
from  the  crown,  and  none  had  them  who 
were  not  esqnires,  and  none  assamed  them 
withont  some  legible  meaning  connected 
with  their  origin  and  fortunes  ;"  (p.  73) 

where,  in  one  short  sentence,  three 
dogmas  are  advanced,  each  of  which 
is  not  only  unsupported  by  evi- 
dence, but  absolutely  contrary  to  the 
truth. 

We  cannot  conclude  without  no- 
ticing another  bold  hypothesis,  equally 
new  and  not  so  plausible  as  that  re- 
specting the  moated  sites  which  we 
before  noticed.  By  way  of  Appendix 
the  author  gives  a  table  of  the  number 
of  churches  and  parishes  in  Suffolk, 
computed  from  Domesday  Bonk,  "with 
the  quantity  of  land  each  of  them  pos- 
sessed as  glebe  or  minister's  ground." 
This,  accompanied  by  the  notices  of 
the  churches  then  existing,  is  inter- 
esting and  valuable  if  carefully  exe- 
cuted ;  but  the  hypothesis  we  have 
alluded  to  is  this  : ' 

"As  the  survey  is  most  minute,  and 
every  tittle  had  a  meaning,  some  of  the 
chnrches  are  begun  with  a  large  E,  others 
with  a  small  one.  I  have  therefore  con- 
jectured that  the  capital  indicated  a  large 
chumh,  or  one  of  stone ;  and  those  with 
a  small  e,  the  old  churches  of  timber.*' 

But,  before  Mr.  Holiings worth  pro- 
ceeded to  decide  on  the  value  of  the 
capital  letters  of  Domesday  Book,  he 
ought  to  have  made  himself  acquainted 
with  its  contractions  and  terminations. 
He  would  not  then  have  presented  to 
his  readers  the  word 

Rigke$halam, 
where  there  is  one  letter  too  little  and 
two  too  much ;  the  former  an  n,  repre- 
sented by  a  contraction  over  the  t,  and 
the  latter  the  accusative  termination 


am,  A  like  disregard  of  the  letters 
omitted  in  the  contractions  of  the 
manuscript  occurs  in  Blachenham. 
Froxeaden,  Helroingeham,  Leuetitun« 
&c.,  and  Debenham  appears  in  two 
forms,  Depbenham  and  Depbenham, 
whilst  from  the  Latin  accusative  we 
have  such  names  as  Hoxanom,  Suin- 
landam,  Seameram,  Eiam  (meaning 
Hoxne,  Swinland,  Seamer,  Eye), 
&c.  thus  confounding  those  names 
with  others  which  really  end  in 
ham^  Still  more  frequent,  indeed,  al- 
most pervading,  is  the  excess  of  the 
ablative  termination  a;  and  in  one 
case  the  preposition  is  prefixed  as  well^ 

/nsibbetona 
instead  of  Sibbetun.  The  Latin  forms 
are  only  confusing  detached  from  the 
context.  From  not  knowing  the  value 
of  other  contractions,  the  author  pre- 
sents us  with  P'stetone  instead  of 
Prestetune,  B'mingham  for  Birming- 
ham, Preham  for  Perreham^  Regua  for 
Regrava. 

In  one  instance  the  same  inattention 
has  quite  misled  our  author  in  his 
modern  name  :  he  suggests  that  "  0«- 
feldam  "  is  Bulcamp  or  Bulkeham,  but 
he  will  find  that  place  twice  in  the 
survey  as  Bulecampe.  There  is  here« 
in  fact,  an  error  in  the  printed  Domes- 
day, of  an  u  for  an  n,  and  the  real 
name  is  Brunfeld  (now  Bramfield), 
which  name  will  be  found  at  length 
under  the  very  next  paragraph,  which 
relates  to  Walpole.  In  Kkewortha 
(Ickworth)  we  have  another  misprint 
of  Domesday  for  Ikewortha :  Brihtol- 
nestana  is  a  misprint  of  Mr.  Rollings- 
worth's  for  Br  ihtolvestane — Brihtolfs- 
stoiie,  which  he  can  scarcely  have  cor- 
rectly understood  for  Brightwell,  for 
that  occurs  as  Brihtewell.  Haragvana 
is  also  his  misprint  for  Haragra«a; 
Eleheteshala  for  Elcheteshala.  Cana- 
vatham  is  probably  a  misprint  of  the 
original  for  Cavanatham  (Cavenham). 
Heluedon  (misprinted  by  Mr.  Hol- 
iingsworth,  p.  237,  Haluedona)  and 
Heluedan  are  clearly  Elvedon,  as  well 
as  Elveden.  Wlteskeou  is  now  Wixoe* 
not  Wickham.  Huepestede  is  of 
course  Wbepstead,  not  Horse  Croft. 
Ervestun  is  Wyverston;  and  Esce- 
fella  is  Ashfield:  why  Mr.  H.  haa 
combined  both  into  "  Totshill "  we  do 
not  apprehend.  Still  more  strange  is  it 
that  he  should  not  perceive  that  Bele- 
sted  is  Belstead,  ioatead  of  propoting 


IIM 


RsTiBW.^Waitei^t  Pfafa  mT  PrmsMl  Sermom.         {hag. 


it  tor  '*  Bentlejr."  We  linger  too  long 
on  thU  ilUexecoted  Tocatmlary,  and 
will  notice  only  one  name  more — 
''  OeflOoefoforiuuB— Foraluai  St.  Gene- 

▼e«e;** 
wfaere  are  three  corrigenda  in  the 
Latin,  and  one  in  the  English.  We 
find  it  printed  in  Domoday  book 
''  Genone£e  forha."  In  this  instance 
Mr.  H.  has  supplied  the  final  m :  bat 
be  ooght  to  have  corrected  the  typo- 
graphical error  of  a  for  »»  and  have 
written — Genoaeftf  Forahaja. 

In  the  same  page  we  find  it  as- 
serted of  "  Vlnerestnn  (now  WoWer- 
•ton),  "This  is  one  of  the  most  carious 
cormptions  of  an  original  name — 
Gnthlom's  or  Gnrthrum's  ford,  where 
the  Danish  chief  crossed  the  river." 
How  will  our  author  prove  that? 

On  the  whole,  we  have  rarely  met 
with  a  book  requiring  more  revision 
and  correction  ;  at  the  same  time  that 
our  opinion  of  its  general  readable 
character,  and  interest  upon  more 
modem  subjects,  remains  unaltered, 
particularly  if  its  rural  statistics, 
which  the  disturbed  condition  of  the 
neighbourhood  now  renders  particu- 
larljT  valuable,  stand  the  test  of  exami- 
nation. 


ita  Praeiical  Serwumt,     Bf  J.  W. 

Warter,  B,D.  3  voli. 
A  MORE  interesting  publication  of 
the  kind  we  never  read.  The  author 
possesses  in  addition  to  his  theological 
knowledge  various  and  elegant  acquire- 
ments in  classical  and  modern  litera- 
ture. The  numerous  quotations  from 
our  elder  poets,  which  are  copiously 
sprinkled  throughout,  will  be  most 
acceptable  to  every  reader  of  taste  ; 
and  the  introductory  portion  of  the 
work,  in  which  the  author  speaks  of 
himself  and  of  those  who  directed  and 
assisted  his  studies,  begets  a  lively  in- 
terest in  the  subsequent  parts,  and  has, 
as  it  were,  the  advantage  of  a  perfect 
introduction.  We  have  had  occasion 
to  express  our  surprise  that  the  writers 
of  sermons  have  not  more  often  availed 
themselves  of  the  learning  and  talent 
of  our  elder  divines,  by  giving  quota- 
tions of  remarkable  passages,  and  re- 
ferences to  the  manner  in  which 
certain  topics  are  treated  by  them. 
He  must  have  great  confidence  in  his 
own  powers  who  can  hope  to  express 
7 


,,  Tigomr, 

or  elegance  dian  others  have  done 
before  him,  or  place  a  subject  in  a 
brighter  light,  or  adorn  it  with  more 
eloquence,  or  penetrate  it  with  more 
JQSt  and  close  reasoning,  than    the 
great  masters  of  our  theology  have 
shewn  in  their  treatises,  on  which  we 
may  say  the  utmost  powers  of  our 
language  have  been  odled  out  and 
tried  by  them.     Now  as  it  must  be 
confessed  that  sermons  are  after  all,  in 
ordinary  hands,  not  the  most  attractive 
class  of  compositions,  we  can  see  no 
way  in  which  curiosity  may  be  more 
reasonably    and  successfully    excited 
and  gratified  than  by  the  occasional 
admixtore  of  quotations  from  Taylor, 
Barrow,  South*  and  others,  where,  as 
may  be  found  plentifully  in  them,  the 
weight  of  the  argument  is  set  off  by  the 
lustre  of  the  expression.    This  will  act 
by  way  of  relief  to  the  other  parts, 
and  certainly  will  do  no  injury  to  the 
author's  own  part  of  the  composition. 
Who  would  think  of  writing  on  ethics 
without  quoting  passages  from  Locke, 
or  Pftley,  or  Stewart,  or  Mackintosh  ? 
or  without  availing  himself  of  every  as- 
sistance his  predecessors  could  afford  ? 
but  certainly,  from  what  cause  we  do 
not  know,  this  has  not  been  the  habit 
of  writers  of  sermons,  especially  in 
later  days.     They  appear  reluctant  to 
feel   indebted  to  any   borrowed    as- 
sistance ;  or,   if  they  are  fed  with  any 
tributary  waters,  they  silently  receive 
them   into  the  parent  stream,  where 
they  are  mingled  without  distinction. 
But  if  this  system  appears  to  us  wrong 
when  reasoning  on  it,  we  are  still  more 
supported  in  our  view  when  we  look 
pracHcaUif  to  it,  for  we  have  seldom 
heard  a  preacher  break  the  continuous 
thread  of  his  discourse  by  inserting  a 
quotation  with  the  prefatory  words, 
"  As  a  father  of  the  Church  says,"  or 
"  As  one  of  our  eminent  divioes  as- 
serts," or  "  to  use  the  words  of  one 
of  the  great  lights  of  the  Protestant 
Church/'  or  with  a  mention  of  their 
names ;  we  say  that  this  we  always 
observed  to  be  followed  by  an  instant 
attention    of   the    auditors.      It    re- 
animates the  drooping  spirit  of  the 
weary,  and  acts  like  the  call  of  the 
trumpet    in  awakening    the    sleepy. 
The  present  author  seems  fUIlv  aware 
of  Uie  advantage  of  this  practice,  and 
has  used  it  accordingly :  and  his  read- 


1844.] 


Review.— >fiallar'8  Lay  Leciurei. 


169 


ing,  at  ODce  extensive  and  judicious^ 
has  enabled  him  to  bring  from  his 
stores,  old  and  new,  roost  interesting 
and  able  passages.  Of  the  sermons 
themselves  we  mast  express  very  high 
approbation  ;  they  were  delivered  to 
a  country  congregation  on  the  Sussex 
shore,  in  a  parish  where  the  author 
is  the  rector ;  they  are  affectionate 
in  temper,  a  quality  we  can  never 
dispense  with,  and  earnest  in  ex- 
hortation, and,  when  needed,  most 
solemn  in  reproof.  In  style,  manner, 
and  expression  they  are  well  suited  to 
their  design,  for  he  who  converses  on 
the  week  days  with  his  parishioners 
will  soon  know  in  what  language  to 
address  them  on  the  Sunday.  But  we 
think  these  volumes  will  spread  over 
a  wider  field  than  the  boundaries  of  a 
rural  parish,  and  we  are  mistaken  if 
they  will  not  be  read  with  delight  by 
the  younger  clergy,  who  will  be  able 
to  draw  much  information,  not  only 
from  the  doctrines  contained  in  them, 
but  from  the  spirit  that  animated  and 
guided  the  writer  both  in  his  mental 
labours  and  his  academical  course,  and 
they  will  see  what  rich  fruits  have 
arisen  in  this  case,  where  the  tree 
has  been  judiciously  planted  and  duly 
watered  ;  for  the  author  says  "  he 
will  never  fail  to  express  his  obli- 
gations to  the  late  Bishop  Lloyd, 
whose  private  lectures  the  late  la- 
mented Professor  Burton  so  worthily 
followed  up :  with  the  first  he  read  the 
Catholic  epistles,  with  the  latter  the  Ec- 
clesiastical  History  of  Eusebius  ;  aud 
since  that  time  the  greatest  advantage 
has  been  drawn  from  the  Hebrew 
lectures  of  Dr.  Pusey,"  &c.  On  this 
admirable  foundation  it  is  evident  that 
the  author  is  never  weary  to  raise 
a  suitable  superstructure  by  his  own 
labours,  in  this  too  affording  a  moni- 
tory lesson  to  his  younger  brethren, 
who  in  the  distractions  and  solitude  of 
a  country  parish,  and  in  the  different 
occupations  and  engagements  on  which 
they  have  entered,  either  at  once  lay 
aside  or  gradually  disuse  those  studies 
which  ought  to  be  inseparable  com- 
panions aud  guides  of  their  pastoral 
labours.  We  can  warmly  recommend 
these  volumes,  but  we  have  no  room 
for  extracts. 


Gent.  Mao.  Vol.  XXH. 


Lay  Leetum  on  ChriiHan  Faith  and 
Practice.  By  John  Bnllar. 
WE  have  been  much  pleased  with 
this  little  work,  with  its  rectitude  of 
principle,  its  earnestness  of  religious 
feeling,  its  soundness  of  observation, 
and  the  just  and  happy  application  of 
its  theological  knowledge  and  biblical 
history.  We  cannot  quote  as  we  could 
wish,  but  must  take  an  extract  from 
the  chapter  on  the  mental  cultivation 
of  the  ancient  Israelites,  (p.  190 

''  The  peasant  of  Palestine  must  have 
been  far  superior  to  the  country  people  of 
England.  Every  year  he  made  three 
journeys  to  attend  the  celebration  of  the 
three  great  festivals.  These  journeys, 
with  their  turns  and  changes  for  the  sake 
of  variety,  would  bring  him  into  acquaint- 
ance with  a  great  number  of  persons, 
places,  and  adventures,  and  would  thus 
give  him  much  scope  for  observation  and 
reflection.  An  English  fanner  may  live 
all  his  days  in  a  nook  of  his  native  county 
without  extending  his  knowledge  by  ob- 
servation or  report  over  a  larger  space 
than  the  few  miles  between  his  own  vil- 
lage and  the  nearest  market  town,  and 
then  he  will  meet  those  only  who  live 
within  a  very  moderate  circle  round  that 
town ;  not  so  the  yeoman  of  IsraeL  In 
many  instances  he  had  to  pass  over  spaces 
from  50  to  120  miles.  He  would  meet 
and  travel  in  company  with  men  branch- 
ing off  right  and  left  in  all  directions. 
AU  would  have  something  to  tell  of  their 
own  territories.  Friendships  formed  by 
travelliog  together  would  give  rise  to  fre- 
quent invitations  between  members  of  dis- 
tantly settled  tribes.  Thus  a  general 
knowledge  of  the  whole  country  would  be 
spread  everywhere.  The  dwellers  in  Dan 
would  know  far  more  about  Beersheba 
than  Hampshire  men  know  of  Lanca- 
shire, and  the  tribes  beyond  the  Jordan 
would  have  a  far  better  idea  of  the  whole 
Mediterranean  coast,  derived  from  inter- 
course with  those  settled  in  that  direction, 
than  the  men  of  Norfolk  have  of  the 
coast  of  the  Irish  channel.  We  may 
convince  ourselves  how  certainly  this  was 
the  case,  by  turning  over  the  Bible  simply 
to  mark  how  generally  the  localities  of 
the  whole  country  and  their  character- 
istics were  known  to  the  public  at  laige. 
Thus,  to  take  a  single  instance  out  of 
multitudes.  The  prospects  from  Lebanon, 
— the  odour  of  its  cedars,  brought  out  by 
the  heat  of  summer, — ^the  grand  masses  of 
those  cedars,  with  what  the  Prophet  Esekiel 
so  portrayingly  called  their  '  shadowing 
shrouds/ — the  headlong  torrents  of  Leba- 

Z 


170 


RiTiBW.—Areg/Sr,  a  TaU,  WarimtrH,  4c. 


CA«g. 


BOB  Inllad  gndoally  Isto  quiet  ■traami  ia 
the  Talleyt-^its  desolate  fonett  m  enbanc- 
iag  the  beauty  of  anrroimdiBg  fruitftil- 
seas, — its  aooiry  hetgbta  in  contrast  wiUi 
its  sheltered  flowery  dells  and  vineyards, — 
are  subjects  of  frequent  allusion  in  the 
inspired  literature  of  Judea.  Nor  would 
they  tbos  have  been  used  but  that  such 
points  were  familiar  with  those  whom  the 
prophets  (the  public  preachers  of  the 
time)  addressed  in  discourses  full  of  feel- 
ing, and  adapted  to  all  ranks.  There  are 
but  few  in  this  part  of  England  who  would 
be  impressed  by  allosions  from  the  pulpit 
to  the  mountains  of  Wales  or  Cumberland, 
to  Snowdon,  HelTeUyn,  or  Skiddaw.  But 
every  Israelite  could  enter  into  the  force 
and  beauty  of  allusion  to  the  nearer  or 
more  remote  scenes  of  his  native  land. 
He  was  therefore  no  half.barbarian.  He 
was  one  of  a  nation  trained  to  be  a  '  wise 
and  understanding  people '  (Dent.  iv.  6). 
The  learned  and  accurate  Dr.  Robinson 
was  much  struck  during  his  travels  in 
Palestine  with  the  nnmber  and  definite- 
ness  of  the  topographical  notices  pre- 
served  in  the  Old  Testament,"  &c. 

The  above,  we  think,  a  jadicious 
reflection,  founded  on  truth,  and  nar- 
rated in  a  pleasing  and  picturesque 
manner. 


Zaretfa,  a  Tble,  and  other  Poem.    By 
iho  author  qf  Cephahu  and  Procri$, 

THESE  poems  are  the  production 
of  an  elegant  mind.  They  are  written 
with  feeling  and  taste  generally  cor- 
rect, and  they  show  that  the  author  is 
not  only  conversant  with  the  best 
models  of  his  art,  but  has  within 
himself  the  power  of  embodying  the 
creations  of  his  fancy  in  "  thoughts 
that  breathe,"  if  not  "  in  words  that 
burn."  There  is  too  a  gentleness  and 
tenderness  in  his  conceptions  that  is 
very  agreeable  to  our  taste ;  a  soft 
calm  atmosphere  is  diffused  over  his 
pictures,  which  calls  forth  a  feeling 
akin  to  that  we  always  experience 
when  we  are  reading  Virgil,  and  to 
which  we  always  hasten  as  to  a 
blessed  haven  of  repose,  from  the 
trumpeU  of  war,  the  clangor  tubarum, 
and  rolling  clouds  of  battle.  The 
largest  poem,  "  Zareefa,  or  the  Excel- 
lence of  Woman,"  in  itself  unites  the  va- 
rious merits  of  the  volume,  and  is  indeed 
a  pleasing  little  tale ;  it  is  however  too 
long  to  quote,  too  closely  united  to 
•eyer.    The  "  Burden  of  Britain  "  is 


in  a  good  lyric  strain,  and  reads  like 
an  old  tragic  chorus,  with  somewhat 
of  the  dark  prophetic  strain  about  it ; 
but  let  us  give  the  entire  poem  of 
"  Wark worth"  as  a  specimen  of  the 
author's  style. 

Beneath  a  northern  sky  the  river  flows,    piill. 
Its  sonroe  mid  dreary  moor  and  vaporous 
Where  many  a  tower  in  bygone  days  arose, 
And  frown  in  ruin  stUL 

Winning  thro'  soUen  rocks  its  rapid  way. 
Their  rogfed  brows  pat  on  a  smile,  and, 
crowned 
With  leafy  bowers  of  softer  climes,  amy 
Their  sheltering  ramparts  round. 

And,  ever  wandering  on,  these  waters  bring 

A  lovettness  and  Joy  unknown  beside 
To  all  the  land,  and  rarer  flowers  npspring, 

Thro*  greener  meads  they  glide. 
TUl  nearing  now  the  wide  absorbing  main, 
Lingering  aa  toath  their  blithe  coarse  thus 
to  end,  [plain. 

Circling  roand  wooded   height  and   verdant 
How  do  they  wind  and  bend. 

And  you  may  stand  and  hear  chafed  ocean 

chide,  [scene. 

While  fer  around  oatspreads  that  inland 

And  seems  to  sleep,  the  calm  nnconscioos  tide 

Its  sloping  baidu  between. 

Bven  so,  as  smiling  in  some  pleasant  dream. 
Once  I  beheld,  and  age  on  memory  dwells 
Alkr,  old  Warkworth's  legead-haonted  stream 
Blending  with  fancy's  spells. 

Bright  day  was  sinking  in  the  golden  west. 
Mild  automn  shone  o*er  summer's  sweet 
decay, 
Balm-Uden  airs  had  fenn'd  themselves  to  rest. 
The  wave  broad-mirror'd  lay. 

Smoothly  along  the  current  borne,  oar  boat 

Scarce  niflled  the  reflected  wave  below. 
By  the  pervading  spirit  taught  to  float 
Noiselessly,  with  ripple  low. 

High  o'er  the  eastern  marge  a  castle  ttood, 
With   keep  and  battlement  and  archway 
grand, 
A  princely  structure  once,  tho'  long  iubdued 
To  Time's  destroying  hand. 

Yet  beautifttl ;  in  broad  refkilgeoce  glowed. 

Fair  sunset,  bathinf^  tower  and  hall  in  light, 
Nor  less  in  the  translucent  crystal  showed 

Their  pictared  reflex,  bright. 
There  once  the  storied  Percy's  ancient  line 
With  bow  and  spear  held  border  warfere 
strong ; 
Now,  grey  memorial  of  fierce  feud's  decline. 
And  glory  dear  to  song. 

Thus  gliding  on,  the  sunny  banks  were  past, 

The  castle  and  its  image  in  the  flood ; 
A  deeper  calm  was  o'er  the  stillness  cast. 
Soft  shadows  from  the  wood. 

On  either  side  o'erhanglng,  gradual  stole 
Into  a  deep,  sequestered,  hushed  repoes, 
Not  gloom,  hut  sacred  peace,  when  the  sick 
soul 
Might  hope  of  ills  the  close. 


1844.] 


Rbvibw. — Lifty  and  other  Poemi,  by  S.  S.  S. 


171 


And  soon  oar  iludlop  touched  without «  shock 
The  moss-g^rown  brink.    Midway  the  cliff, 
behold, 
HoUow'd  within  the  steep  obdnrate  rock, 

The  hermit's  cell  of  old. 

Ascending,  to  the  low-srch'd  door  we  came, 

(Verahaded  by  a  beech-tree's  woven  bonghs, 
Where  the  world-wearied  man  his  home  did 
frame* 
Self-pledged  to  sternest  tows. 

Here  was  his  hard  conch,  on  the  cold  damp 
stone,  » 

And  here  the  chapel  with  its  altar  due, 
Where,  through  long  hours  of  night,  his  vigils 
lone 
Bach  star  rsrolving  knew. 

And  here,  mysterious  index  of  his  doom, 

A  sculptured  form  recumbent,  at  whose  feet 
Stood  an  arm'd  knight ;  was  this  the  lady's 
tomb? 
This  cave  his  last  retreat  7 

Did  he  cast  off  his  sword  in  warrior-prime. 

Of  yon  proud  towers  the  far  descended  heir. 
To  mourn  a  cureless  loss,  or  expiate  crime. 
In  penitence  and  prayer  7 

Or,  fiUM  with  high  devotion's  holier  fire. 

Did  he  seek  out  this  undisturb'd  abode. 
And  from  the  pomps  and  cares  of  life  retire. 
To  commune  with  his  God  7 

More  of  his  name  and  story  none  may  know 

Than  vague  tradition  and  these  walls  attest. 
But  surely,  whether  from  remorse  or  woe, 
Such  sanctuary  were  blest. 

And  bless' d  the  age  when  ftrvent  piety 
Still  kept  her  new-trimm'd  lamp  so  pure  and 
bright. 
The  spectres  of  despair  and  dread  must  lies 
From  its  celestial  light. 

Now  love  grows  cold,  and  fkith  doth  dimly 
burn, 
The  herd  will  trample  on  the  stricken  hart ; 
But  whither  shall  the  poor  dejected  turn. 
Where  hide  the  bitter  smart  7 

Perhaps  e'en  here  a  visionary  hue 

Of  raptured  quiet  ne'er  vouchsafed  on  earth. 
My  soul  from  the  dim  past  and  future  drew 
Her  refuge  in  life's  dearth. 

O,  perfect  scene !  O,  hour  of  charm'd  repose  I 
Long  may  thy  changeless  soothing  aspect 
beam 
O'er  memory's  waste,  and  silently  disclose 
What  is  not  all  a  dream. 

We  much  like  the  "  Evening  Ode  " 
(p-  59)  >  bat  we  have  do  room  for  farther 
extract;  and  we  were  so  grie?ed  by 
the  poem  on  Milton  (p.  114)  and  his 
dishonourad  name,  that  we  closed  the 
Tola  me  (otherwise  esteemed)  in  grief 
and  anger. 

I4fe,  and  other  Poem$.     By  S.  S.  S. 
WE  have  nothing  to  object  to  these 
poems,  bat  there  is  a  little  monotony 
m  the  Babjecta,  and  perhaps  a  little 


want  of  care  in  the  finish  and  execa- 
tion.  If  they  are  by  a  yoang  author, 
there  is  that  feeling  and  sensibility  and 
poetical  power  that  may  lead,  under 
proper  caltivation  and  study,  to  future 
excellence :  but  let  it  always  be  remem- 
bered that  to  be  a  poet  requires  nights 
and  days  of  thought  and  toil.  It  is 
something  very  different  from  mending 
a  pen  and  spreading  a  sheet  of  paper 
on  the  desk,  and  then  thinking  on 
what  we  shal  1  write.  Poetry  is  a  flame^ 
but  that  fiame  must  be  fed  by  proper 
and  sufficient  fuel.  For  that  purpoie 
study  the  Elizabethan  poets  and  prose 
writers, — for  the  prose  writers  of  our 
early  days  were  poets  in  their  minds,— 
and  read  as  little  of  your  contempo- 
raries as  you  can  help.  We  now  give 
two  or  three  extracts. 

TO  MBMNON  IN  THB  BRITISH  M17SBUM. 

I've  bent  beneath  the  shadow  of  that  hsad, 
Which  oft  the  waters  of  the  Nile  havehuh'd, 
While  round  its  base  her  proudest  waves 
have  dash'd ; 

And  often  thither  hath  the  saint  been  led 

In  pious  fear,  or  superstitious  dread, 
But  not  with  truer  sanctity,  I  ween, 
Than  her's  who  here  thy  majesty  hath  seen. 

As  though  her  foot  did  tread  on  sacred  ground ; 
Nor  wonders  she  that  spirits  of  the  deep 

Were  conjured  up,  and  naiads  danced  aroundt 
To  list  thy  music  wild.   Oh  I  who  could  keep 

His  ear  unbent  to  such  mysterious  sound? 
Fancy's  broad  pinion,  in  its  mystic  flight. 
Soars  o'er  thy  head  mijestic  with  delight. 


TO 


Though  all  without  may  dark  appeari 
And  hope  withhold  its  cheering  ray, 

Let  but  thy  love  illume  my  path, 
And  in  this  world  I  yet  would  stray. 

Though  there*  s  a  darkness  of  the  mind 
That  sheds  a  sadness  o*er  the  heart, 

Which  friendship  with  its  sacred  light 
May  bidf  but  cannot  makef  depart ; 

Tet  envy  with  thy  love  may  rage, 
And  fortune  change, — *twill  all  be  well, 

Such  love  can  never  fail  to  calm 
The  heart  where  heaviest  sorrows  dwell. 

Then  wilt  thoa  not  for  ever  stay. 
And  watch  me  with  affection's  eye^ 

Wipe  every  rising  tear  away, 
And  break  each  heart-oppressing  sigh  ? 

I  know  thov  wilt, — for  thou  art  true, 
And,  when  o'erclouded  most  my  way, 

Thy  love,  like  sunbeam  through  a  cloud, 
Shall  come  and  chase  the  gloom  away. 

Let  but  thy  voice  in  accents  mild 
Fall  like  soft  music  on  my  ear, 

I  shall  forget  the  storms  without. 
And  calmly  smile  if  thou  art  netr. 


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RsviBW.-^Mathews's  PoemM  on  Man. 


In  tfaeM  Terses  we  have  made  two 
alteratiooa  which  were  necessary  to 
the  metre  and  the  grammar ;  and  we 
advise  the  author  carefolly  to  go  over 
his  {or  her)  poems*  and  to  mend  Ait 
{w  her)  pen  very  hard  for  the  job, 

ON  THB  DBATH  OF  A  FRIBKD. 

As  one  by  one  the  fragile  chords 
That  bind  me  to  this  lower  sphere 

Loosen  their  hold,  my  spirit  fsints. 
And  monms  the  power  that  keeps  me 
here. 

Borne  on  the  wings  of  those  I  love, 
AU  lesser  Joys  I'd  leave  behind. 

And  stretch  my  thoughts  to  hi^er  things. 
On  which  may  feast  the  immortal  mind. 

That  subtle  essence  undefined, 
Which  holds  with  ipirits  oft  unseen 

The  oonverte  sweet  of  kindred  souls, 
Ai  though  on  earth  it  ne'er  had  been. 

Oh,  might  I  but  the  breese  command, 
My  little  barque  would  homeward  steer, 

To  our  own  haven  baariog  safe 
The  friends  that  still  on  earth  are  dear. 


LAuir- 


Poenu  on  Man,    By  Cornelius 
Mathews. 

THE  author  is  an  American.  His 
book  is  printed  at  New  York,  and 
dedicated  to  the  hopeful  friends  of 
humanity.  Man  is  considered  in  nine- 
teen different  characters,  beginning 
with  the  child  and  ending  with  the 
poet.  There  is  little  attempt  at  cor- 
rectness  in  the  language  or  harmony 
in  the  metre,  but  there  is  still  a  poeti- 
cal vein  at  the  bottom.     We  give 

THE   If  ASSES. 

When  wild  and  high  the  uproar  swells 
Fhim  crowds  that  gather  at  the  set  of  day, 
When  square  and  market  roar  in  stormy 

And  fields  of  men,  like  lions,  shake  their  fells 
Of  savage  hair;  when  quick  and  deep  call  out 
the  bells 
Through  all  the  lower  heaven  ringing ; 
As  if  an  earthquake's  shock 
The  city's  base  should  rock, 
And  set  its  troubl'd  turrets  riiiiring. 

Remember,  man !  on  massy  strength  relying. 
There  is  a  heart  of  right 
Not  always  open  to  the  light. 
Secret  and  still,  and  force-defying ; 
In  vast  assemblies  calm,  let  order  rule, 
And  every  shout  a  cadence  owning, 
Make  musical  the  vex'd  wind's  moaning. 
And  be  as  little  children  at  a  singing-school. 

Bat  when  thick  as  night  the  sky  is  crusted 

o'er,  {idlt  dream, 

Stlfiing  life's  jpnUe,  and  making  Heaven  an 


Arise !  and  cry  up,  through  the  dark,  to  God's 
own  throne ; 

Your  fkces  in  a  fUrnace-glow, 

Tour  arms  uplifted  fin-  the  deathward  bkm. 

Fiery  and  prompt  as  angry  angels  shew. 
Then  drmw  the  brand  and  fire  the  thunder-gun. 
Be  nothing  said  and  all  things  done ; 

Till  every  cobweb'd  lover  of  the  common- 
weal [back,  the  steel, 

Is  shaken  f^ee,  and,  creeping  to  its  scabbard 
Lets  ahine  again  God's  rightAiI  sun. 

We  do  not  know  exactly  what  the 
purpose  of  this  poem  is,  or  of  the  ad- 
vice it  gives;  but  it  seems  to  us  to 
advise  an  insurrection  at  night,  with 
fire  and  sword,  in  the  streets  of  New 
York,  at  a  time  when  no  one  expects 
it.  With  this,  however,  if  so  it  be, 
we  have  nothing  to  do,  nor  with  the 
author  as  a  citizen ;  but  as  a  poet  we 
should  advise  him,  if  advice  can  cross 
the  Atlantic,  to  consider  whether 
turning  substantives  into  verbs  is  idio- 
matic, or  if  so,  whether  it  is  graceful, 
as  ex,  gr,  **  canvass- tents  the  sea — 
trumpets  men — shining  and  axled," 
ficc.  and  what  "  is  the  amber-cope  of 
the  world  ?"  or  "dusk-red  words,"  or 
"  hell  not  the  quiet,"  or  "  the  shaggy 
past,"  or  "and  with  the  tidiest  piU 
lows  for  a  wife,"  or  "a  withered  Paul, 
opof/fe^pss beyond  recall."  When  these 
and  similar  expressions  are  amended^ 
we  shall  be  happy  to  see  another 
edition  of  the  poems. 


The  Memoirs  qf  the  Conquistador  Ber* 
nal  Diaz  del  Castillo,  written  by  him- 
self:  containing  a  true  and  full  account 
of  the  discovery  and  conquest  qf 
Mexico  and  New  Spain,  translated 
from  the  original  Spanish,  By  John 
Ingram  Lockhart,  F.R,A.S.  Author 
of  "  Attica  and  Athens." 

MR.  LOCKHART'S  clever  little 
compilation  on  the  topography  and 
chorography  of  Attica  and  Athens  has 
been  introduced  to  the  notice  of  our 
readers  in  our  Magazine  for  Jan.  1843, 
vol.  XIX.  p.  61  :  we  are  glad  to  find 
this  gentleman  still  pursuing  the  same 
track,  and  by  his  knowledge  of  lan- 
guages acting  as  interpreter  to  the 
curious  narrative  of  the  brave  and 
frank  old  Spaniard  who  accompanied 
Cortez  to  Mexico. 

The  introductory  notice  of  Diaz 
with  which  Mr.  Lockhart  prefaces  his 
translation  is  brief.  We  extract  from 
it  a  few  particulars  of  thia  scribe  mili* 


1 8^4.]  Review. — Lockhart^s  Memoirs  of  Bernal  Diaz. 


173 


tant,    and  add   8ome    from  another 
source.    Bernal  Diaz  del  Castillo 

"  Was  of  a  respectable  family,  bom  in 
Medina  del  Campo,  a  small  town  in  the 
proTince  of  Leon.  He  was  what  in  Spain 
is  termed  an  hidalgo  ^  though  by  this  little 
more  was  signified  than  a  descent  from 
Christian  foreftithers,  without  any  mix- 
ture of  Jewish  or  Moorish  blood.  With 
respect  to  the  precise  year  of  his  birth  be 
has  left  us  in  the  dark ;  but,  according  to 
his  own  account,  he  first  left  Castile  for 
the  New  World  in  the  year  1514,  and,  as 
on  his  first  arrival  in  Mexico  in  the  year 
1519  he  calls  himself  still  a  young  man, 
we  may  safely  conclude  he  was  bom  be- 
tween 1495  and  1500." 

He  remained  in  the  country  to  the 
conqaest  of  which  his  valoar  had 
greatly  contributed,  and  received  a 
considerable  allotment  of  land,  which 
was  named  encwnienda,  or  the  com- 
mandery,  as  gained  by  knightly  service 
in  the  field.  This  veteran  was  in  a 
hundred  and  nineteen  battles,  and  he 
had  become  so  entirely  devoted  to 
military  habits,  that  be  is  said,  by  the 
editors  of  the  Biographic  Universelle, 
always  to  have  slept  in  his  armour. 

This,  however,  is  a  slight  variation 
of  his  own  account. 

'*  I  grew,*'  says  he,  ''  so  accustomed  to 
being  armed  night  and  day,  as  it  were 
living  in  armour,  that  after  the  conquest 
of  New  Spain  I  could  not  accustom  myself 
for  a  length  of  time  to  undress  on  going 
to  lie  down,  or  make  use  of  a  bed,  but 
slept  better  in  soldier  fashion  than  on  the 
softest  down.* 

"  Even  at  the  present  day,  in  my  old 
age,  I  never  take  a  bed  with  me  when  I 
visit  the  townships  belonging  to  my  com- 
mandery  (encomienda),  and  if  I  do  take 
one  it  is  merely  because  the  cavaliers  who 
accompany  me  may  not  think  I  take  no 
bed  with  me  because  I  have  no  good  one. 
From  continued  watching  at  night  it  has 
become  natural  to  me  to  sleep  for  a  short 
time  together  only,  and  get  up  at  intervals 
to  gaze  upon  the  heavena  and  the  stars, 
and  take  a  couple  of  turns  in  the  open  air. 
Neither  do  I  wear  a  night-cap  or  wind  a 
kerchief  around  my  head ;  and,  thanks  be 
to  Ood  1  this  has  become  so  natural  to 
me  that  I  never  feel  any  inconvenience 


^  How  similar  is  this  passage  to  the 
words  of  Shakspeare*s  hardy  soldier 
Othello,  *'  The  tyrant  custom  hath  made 
the  flinty  and  steel  couch  of  war  my  thrice- 
driven  bed  of  down."  How  readily  did 
our  poet  comprehend  profeM&oaal  traits. 


from  it.  I  have  merely  mentioned  all 
this  to  convince  the  reader  how  we,  the 
true  eonquistadoretf  were  always  obliged 
to  be  upon  our  guard,  and  what  hardships 
we  had  to  undergo." 

The  work  of  Francis  Lopez  de  Gro« 
mara  intituled,  "  Historia  General  de 
las  Indies  con  la  Conquista  del  Mexico 
y  de  la  Nueva  Espan'a,"  published  in 
1554,  made  Diaz  an  author;  be  was 
indignant  to  find  himself  passed  over 
altogether  without  notice  by  that 
writer;  he  therefore  took  his  military 
reputation  into  his  own  hands,  and 
wrote  with  spirit  and  simple  fidelity 
his  own  commentaries  on  the  war  in 
Mexico.  The  omission  of  Gomara, 
therefore,  by  its  consequences  gave  to 
the  world  a  most  interesting  and  aa- 
thentic  narrative.  In  1568  he  com- 
pleted his  MS.  not  without  a  severe 
censure  on  "  cosas  escritas  viciosas  en 
an  libro  de  Franciso  Lopez  de  Gro- 
mara."t  Six  only  of  his  brother 
adventurers,  called  by  the  honourable 
title  of  conquiatadom,  were  then  alive. 
He  has  given  a  very  long  list  of  his 
companions  in  arms. J  He  must  then 
have  been  about  76  years  of  age,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  suppose  that 
he  attained  to  that  of  86  before  he 
died,  and  left  to  his  country  his  me- 
mory, his  best  epitaph,  as  a  soldier, 
valiant,  pious,  frank,  and  honourable. 
The  testimony  of  these  qualities,  and 
of  his  achievements,  are  now  given  to 
the  public  by  Mr.  Lockhart  in  an 
£nglish  version.  The  original  Spanish 
manuscript  remained  unpublished  for 
upwards  of  sixty  years  after  the  death- 
of  Diaz,  when  a  monk  of  the  Order 
of  Mercy,  or  of  the  Redemption  of 
Captives,  Alonzo  Remon,  drew  it 
from  oblivion,  and  it  was  printed  in 
1632,  with  a  dedication  to  Philip  IV. 
by  F.  Diego  Serrano,  Master- Gen  era  I 
of  the  Order  of  Mercy,  who  thus  gave 
his  sanction  to  Remon'e  editorship. 

In  the  two  hundred  and  twelfth 
chapter  of  this  extraordinary  and 
minute  auto- chronicle,  (and  the  whole 
work  contains  no  less  than  213  chap- 
ters, according  to  Mr.  Lockbart's 
division,  which  appears  slightly  to 
differ  from  the  earliest  Spanishedition,) 

t  Hist.  Yerdadera  de  la  Conquista  de  la 
Nueva  Espan'a.  Escrita  por  el  Capitano 
Bernal  Diaz  del  Castillo.    Madrid,  1632, 

X  Ibid,  capitnlo  905, 


RKvi«w.~Lockl,nrt'8 

,     heroic  deedi  nr^     «    *"*"  <>' 
C   it  them,   n  order    h,  ..  *'""»8'y 

'•%«*- to  ?^'fittett7;;r.r:? 

:;?-.  he  h."r:„'rr^'a-^s::A' 

P^doi..   Who   wwu  Z  ^"'•'"°  "* 

a  t.  neM  who  mutt  h»vV.  I?^  •"other 

•^n  .ny  other   «  the  Vo7M"r'8''» 

:*   Emperor  Chitrle,  thetlAJ  •??*» 

•  f_    who  by  one  nf  k-  "^'*   ^""tt- 


«1«-*'  "  '"•'«"  <l«>o  I.,  m,    ;  '■''V  heroic 

}   r«»n  alio  cIa|,„  n,    «  "^i-  UfHi.       ""« 

icrlptlon  put  on  th?  jfc  «f  the  i„' 

,|lv*r.  »n.l    copper.«'y;^^;.of  g<;rd: 

— "''  ^       **    the 


#  Mr.  Lookhnrt  reailTTti  ""*""-«— 
the  t«it  „v,  plain,  rf!"'""-  oi>U  . . , 
«o*r#,  •  muoli  more  pro^Ki  '^'  J»*i-  ** 
tb.  n,.Ul  of  ,  c«moT  On  ?.'«<^V* 
oieat  enrnplea,  '  ^•*  »ot  «Sr^*o«a 


afmoirt  •/Berma/  DiuM.  [Aug. 

Pfacenix,  and  which  Cortex  sent  a  pre- 
sent to  his  Mijeetjr  from  Meiico. 
lUU  are  nacio  sin  par ;  yo  en  ser- 
viros  8in  aecando.  y  tos  tin  igoel  en 
•I  "•«»«'o-" .  Thi.  bfid  was  borS  with, 
oot  iu  eqnal  j  ••  a  aerrant  I  have  not 
a  second,  and  jroa  hare  aot  an  equal 
•n  the  world. 

Whate»er  share  Dia«  might  have 
t^*^?  contributing  the  rich  metal 
thit     !  '*'»*'k«We  piece,  it  is  etidenl 

£twtL  /k"***'    •"   .*•  complimen 
between  the  cannon,  himself,  ud  hU 

Se^  cr?^?'*"^  °J"  ''"»  oi  to  ask 
poseiwl    r    '"'*''»«»«    »«o''    it    was 

D?,iL„/  •^^"l''''  *'«'  ^*^  not  been 

ttt'VoS?  -'^k^-^.  orTh^rout 
he  lifh  J^IJ"" .'"«»' '  "  Who."  „id 
•bou    it  t'^P''""':'«*i»P*»k  better 

t"b;t^:aT-"  J^'?  *^^"°»*»'«*  fought 
lin»tn„  l  "'"'""  ^"W  "d  Wei. 

w.&^*'V""fl"'"  honest  Di.« 
rel»M*f~i   ^™*' ?'•«  then.  lilie  our- 

Romanfi  '•     u     !..  ^*  eiploiU  of  the 
.^=.ry.^,bt^.P^^,^^^^^^ 

0.U    occMiL'"'  h«en  present;  and  on 

K;rt^'reTne;5'^^''^1 
The  siege  of  mSco^S  M^^C" 

Sfm  "^  m'^  *•"*  »«8ht.  and  AU  g2?e 

skirmishes  for  his  bank  of  honours  "I 
wish  not  exacUy."  he  wiy,.  "Zlini^ 
myself,  but  it  i.  truth  what  I '^W 

!f"nM '."!f-.?°'^  '"""'y  '•  -ot  •  h^k 

?Ki  "''*  i^^v'""*'  "  "  •ccountof 
things  that  happened  in  ancient  timw 
among  fte  Romans."  Had  BeSS 
Diar  hred  in  our  day  he  would  nelSw 


1944.]         Review.— LocUiart's  Memoirs  0/  Berndl  Diax. 


17S 


liave  become  a  member  of  tbe  Society 
of  Antiquaries  nor  of  the  Archaeological 
Society.  He  liked  laarels  fresh  and 
newly  plucked  from  the  field,  and 
would  not  have  consented  to  wear  them 
snatched,  faded  and  embrowned,  from 
a  sepulchral  chamber.  His  sneers  at 
Julius  Caesar  and  the  poetical  passages 
of  Roman  hutory  are  at  once  amusing 
and  characteristic. 

Our  space  will  allow  us  but  small 
opportunity  to  do  justice  to  the  details 
which  Diaz  gives  us  of  the  conquest 
of  Mexico.  Robertson  has  frequently 
bad  recourse  to  his  narrative,  which 
he  duly  appreciated,  calling  it  one  of 
the  most  intelligent  and  singular  to  be 
found  in  any  language.f  It  has,  in- 
deed, all  the  wild  interest  of  a  Crusoe 
tale,  with  the  additional  value  conferred 
by  the  stamp  of  truth.  How  striking 
is  the  following  reflection  on  the  con- 
quest achieved  by  such  slender  means 
as  Cortex  and  his  followers  possessed  1 
How  pre-eminent  a  place  does  it  occupy 
in  the  romance  of  history ! 

**  I  must  now  beg  the  kind  reader  to 
pause  a  moment  upon  the  heroic  deeds 
we  performed,  and  consider  their  magni- 
tade.  First  of  all  we  destroy  all  our 
vessels,  and  thereby  cut  off  all  hopes  of 
escaping  firom  this  country.  We  then 
veature  to  march  into  this  strong  city, 
though  we  were  warned  against  it  on  iH 
sides,  and  assured  we  shoidd  merely  be  al- 
lowed a  peaceable  entrance,  to  be  the  more 
easily  destroyed.  We  then  have  tbe  au- 
dacity to  imprison  the  monarch  of  this  vast 
empire,  the  powerful  Motecusuma)  Monte- 
suma),  in  his  very  palace  amidst  his  nu- 
meroos  troops  ....  When  again  on  earth 
will  be  found  such  a  handf^  of  soldiers, 
in  all  scarcely  550,  who  dare  to  penetrate, 
at  a  distance  of  above  6,000  miles  from 
their  native  country,  into  the  heart  of  such 
a  strong  city,  larger  than  Venice,  take  its 
very  monarch  prisoner,  and  execute  his 
generals  in  his  very  presence?  These 
things,  indeed,  ought  to  be  deeply  pon- 
dered on,  and  not  mentioned  so  briefly  as 
I  here  have  done.  But  it  is  time  I  should 
eontinue  my  history.'* 

In  the  above  passage,  Diaz  says,  how- 
ever, nothing  concerning  the  very  large 
number  of  native  auxiliaries  which 
joined  the  army  of  Cortez  on  their  ex- 
pedition against  the  capital  of  Mexico. 
Even  the  cavalry,  artillery,  and  mus 

t  Hist,  of  America ;  Notes  and  Ulna- 
tiationi. 


ketry  wbich  be  brought  to  bear  on  that 
ill-fated  nation,  after  the  first  surprize 
which  they  created  had  subsided, 
might  have  availed  him  nothing  but 
for  the  numerical  support  he  received 
from  his  allies,  who  found  that  they 
made  common  cause  with  warriors 
who  wielded  at  their  pleasure  the 
thunders  of  the  gods,  and  who  were 
borne  over  the  field  on  supernatural 
animals,  for  such  they  took  the  horses 
to  be. 

Moreover,  the  examples  in  the  Old 
Testament  gave  the  conquests  of  Cortes 
a  religious  character.  He  found  the 
Mexicans  polluted  with  unnatural 
lusts,  sacrificial  murders,  and  gross 
idolatry ;  to  reform  such  practices 
even  by  the  sword  was  to  choose  in« 
finitely  the  least  of  two  evils.  Cortez 
was  fully  aware  of  this  justifying  plea, 
as  may  be  seen  from  the  following 
narrative  of  his  conduct  at  Tzin- 
pantzinco.    Vol.  I.  p.  119* 

**  Hardly  a  day  passed  by  that  these 
people  did  not  sacrifice  from  three  to  four 
and  even  five  Indians,  tearing  the  hearts 
out  of  their  bodies  to  present  them  to  the 
idols,  and  smear  the  blood  on  the  walls 
of  the  temple.  The  arms  and  legs  of  these 
unfortunate  beings  were  then  cut  off  and 
devoured,  just  the  same  as  meat  from  a 
butcher's  shop  ;  indeed,  I  believe  that 
human  flesh  is  exposed  to  sale  cut  up  in 
their  tianget  or  markets.  . . .  Cortez  spoke 
a  long  time  to  us  on  the  subject;  he 
brought  many  holy  and  useful  lessons  to 
our  minds,  and  observed,  *  that  we  could 
do  nothing  which  would  be  morebeneficisl 
to  this  people  and  more  to  the  glory  of 
God  than  to  abolish  this  idolatry,  with 
its  human  sacrifices.  It  was  certainly  to 
be  expected  that  the  inhabitants  would 
rise  up  in  arms  if  we  proceeded  to  destroy 
their  idols  ;  we  should  however  make  the 
attempt  if  even  it  were  to  cost  us  our 
lives.*  Upon  this  we  all  arrayed  ourselves 
as  if  we  were  preparing  for  battle,  and 
Cortes  acquainted  the  caziques  that  we 
were  now  going  out  to  destroy  their  idols. 
When  the  fat  cazique  heard  this  he 
ordered  the  other  chiefs  to  call  out  the 
warriors  in  their  defence ;  and,  when  we 
were  about  to  mount  up  a  high  temple 
where  the  sacrifices  were  made — I  forget 
now  how  many  steps  led  to  the  top — he 
and  the  other  chiefs  became  outrageously 
furious.  They  went  menacing  up  to 
Cortez,  and  asked  him  '  why  he  was  going 
to  destroy  their  gods  ?  such  an  insult  they 
could  not  suffer ;  it  would  be  their  ana 
our  destruction.'  Cortez  now  also  lost 
patiencei  and  answered,  <he  had  already 


176 


Mmettaneoui  Rmeufs, 


[Aug. 


told  them  severftl  times  they  should  not 
sacrifice  to  these  monsters,  who  were  no- 
thing more  than  deceiyers  and  liars. 
There  was  now  therefore  no  alternative 
left  him  than  to  lay  violent  hands  on 
them  himself,  and  hurl  them  from  their 
bases.  He  most  look  upon  them  as  his 
worst  enemies  and  not  as  friends,  since 
they  would  put  no  faith  in  his  advice. 
He  was  well  aware  what  design  their  chiefs 
and  armed  warriors  had  in  hand  ;  his  for- 
bearance was  at  last  exhausted,  and  any 
opposition  would  cost  them  their  lives.' 
These  threats  were  most  intelligibly  in. 
terpreted  to  the  Indians,  by  Don'a  Ma- 
rina, who  also  put  them  in  mind  of  Mote- 
cusuma*a  (Montezuma's)  army,  which 
every  moment  might  fall  upon  them.  They 
therefore  turned  the  question  another 
way,  and  dechured,  '  that  they  were  not 
worthy  of  lajing  hands  on  their  gods; 
if  we  durst  venture  to  do  so  the^  sup- 
posed we  must,  for  we  could  not  resist  the 
temptation,  but  they  would  never  give 
their  consent.'  They  had  scarcely  done 
speaking  when  more  than  fifty  of  us  began 
mounting  the  steps  of  the  temple.  We 
tore  down  the  idols  from  their  pediments, 
broke  them  to  pieces,  and  flung  them 
piece-meal  down  the  steps.  Some  of 
these  idols  were  shaped  like  furious 
dragons,  and  were  about  the  size  of  young 
calves,  others  with  half  the  human  form, 
some  again  were  shaped  like  large  dogs, 
but  all  were  horrible  to  look  at.  When 
the  caziques  and  papas  thus  beheld  these 
monsters  lying  crumbled  on  the  ground 
they  set  up  a  miserable  howl,  covered 
their  faces,  and  begged  forgiveness  of  the 
idols  in  the  Totonaque  language,  as  they 
were  unable  to  protect  them  against  the 

It  will  ever  be  matter  of  regret  with 
the  Christian  who  is  free  from  the 
BQperstitioDs  which  the  dark  ages  have 
built  on  revelation,  to  find  that  the 
communicants  of  the  faith  to  heathen 
nations  did  little  more  than  substitute 
new  superstitions  for  old  ones ;  yet 
they  taught,  it  must  be  allowed,  the 


hamanities  of  religion  and  some  of  its 
great  leading  features,  as  the  vicarioas 
sacrifice  of  Christ,  the  unity  of  the 
triune  Godhead  ;  but,  to  counterbalance 
all  this,  the  idolatrous  deification  of 
the  Virgin  Mary  was  made  an  article 
of  belief,  and  the  human  mother  was 
preferred  above  her  Son  the  incarnate 
deity.  Thus  was  a  principle  of  faith 
superadded  at  once  erroneous  and  de- 
rogatory to  Almighty  God. 

In  comparing  Mr.  Lockhart's  trans- 
lation with  the  original  edition,  we 
find  some  abbreviations  and  variations 
from  the  text  of  the  author,  of  no  very 
material  character.  For  example,  eight 
or  ten  concluding  lines  of  chapter  lOS 
are  omitted.  In  chapter  184  "y  San- 
doval les  dixo  con  palabras  algo  desa- 
bridas  "  is  construed  "  and  Sandoval, 
to  use  a  common  phrase,  blew  them  up 
in  fine  style."  In  the  spelling  of 
the  names  of  chiefs  and  townships 
he  says  he  has  followed  Torquemada, 
who  lived  fifty  years  in  New  Spain, 
and  was  perfect  master  of  the  Mexican 
tongue.  There  is  one  deviation  which 
we  would  rather  Mr.  Lockhart  should 
have  avoided,  as  not  in  accordance 
with  the  uniform  authority  of  the  text 
of  edit.  1632.  In  the  original  we  find 
Montezuma  always  written  Mute- 
9uma,  or  Montezuma ;  the  dash  over 
the  o  of  course  expresses  the  n,  the 
cedilla  softens  the  c  into  s  or  z ;  but 
Mr.  Lockhart  constantly  calls  the 
Mexican  Emperor  Motecusuma,  a  vari- 
ation from  received  practice  perplexing 
and  unnecessary.  These  are,  however, 
minor  specks  in  an  achievement  of 
great  merit.  Mr.  Lockhart,  by  his 
translation  of  this  rare  old  Spanish 
writer,  will  afford  to  all  who  love 
original  narratives  by  eye-witnesses 
high  and  rational  gratification.  The 
book  deserves  a  place  in  every  well- 
chosen  library. 


Bodolph  ike  Voyager.^k  wild  fan- 
tastic tale,  not  a  little  obscure,  and  in 
parts  beyond  all  measure  strange,  yet 
showing  much  fancy,  and  picturesque 
imagery,  and  grandeur  of  scenery.  We 
should  have  looked  for  its  birth-place 
rather  on  the  banks  of  the  Elbe  than  of 
the  Thames.  The  whole  is  allegorical, 
poetical,  visionary,  and  the  first  part  only 
Is  concluded. 


a 


Euphroiyne,  By  H.  Von  Mensch.— 
A  pleasing  little  book  of  moral  sayings 
and  wise  maxims  and  useful  truths ;  as, 

*'  Old  men  and  single  women  no  one 
ever  feels  grateful  to  ;  what  have  they  to 
do  with  their  money,  time,  and  affections, 
bat  give  them  ? 

«  The  aristocracy  to  come  sits  now  be« 
hind  the  counter,  or  keeps  school, 

'*  We  make  God  a  liar,  if  we  fear  lest  ex- 
amination  and  knowledge  shake  our  belief. 


1844.] 


MUeeUanumi  Reviewi. 


177 


*'  Religion  nUevM  the  mind  by  futuity 
from  the  toil  of  happiaen  now. 

"  There  U  the  easy  peace,  when  all  want 
and  suffering  count  as  a  merit  and  bless- 
ing. There  is  the  hard  strife,  when  we 
aim  at  perfection,  yet  would  not  lose 
happiness. 

"  Natural  virtue  required  respect,  ap- 
plause, victory,  snd  what  it  did  was  a 
means  to  an  end ;  Christianity  removed 
the  end  into  another  world,  and  for 
glorifying  in  success  substituted  humble 
endeavour. 

**  It  was  no  doubt  a  thing  impossible  that 
Pagan  men  comiog  crudely  to  the  teachings 
of  Christianity  should  comprehend  that 
this  perfection  was  a  whole,  real  and 
entire  as  the  statue  of  the  artist ;  not  a 
case  and  a  mask»  as  are  always  the  idols 
of  savages. 

'*  It  might  often  need  much  self-conceit 
for  one  of  a  noble  and  bountiful  spirit,  to 
■ee  that  what  it  deems  ingratitude  is 
merely  the  contrast  of  its  own  wealth 
with  the  more  sterile  natures  around. 

"  Truth  must  be  met  with  smiles;  when 
past  she  will  not  be  recalled,  or  if  she 
turns  she  is  sullen  and  ungracious.*' 

7^  Pastor  preparing  kUFlocifor  Con^ 
Jirmation.  By  Rev,  Al.  W.atson,  A,Af, — 
This  little  work  is  dedicated  to  the  arch- 
bishops  and  bishops  in  their  several 
dioceses  ;  and  it  is  worthy  of  their  patron- 
age, being  a  very  able  exposition  of  the 
subject. 

On  Me  Choral  Service  of  the  Anglo^ 
Catholic  Church. — It  appears  that  the 
author  interested  himself  much  in  the 
promoting  the  restoration  of  the  choral 
service  in  the  Temple  church;  but  he 
considers  it  to  be  a  great  disadvantage  to 
the  choral  establishment  of  the  Temple 
church  that  there  is  not  daily  choral 
service.  He  thinks  there  should  be  re- 
hearsals on'Friday  and  Saturday,  and  that, 
to  promote  the  perfect  and  careftil  per- 
formance of  the  parts,  a  few  compositions 
only  should  be  selected,  and  these  should 
be  the  choicest  examples  of  our  early 
Anglo-Catholic  music.  The  work  contains 
an  account  of  the  origin,  antiquity,  and 
services  of  the  Jewish  Church  from  the 
earliest  times~K)f  the  same  sanctioned  by 
our  blessed  Saviour,  then  of  the  Christian 
worship,  and  the  puts  retained  at  the  Re- 
formation. It  then  gives  an  account  of 
the  serviees  and  anthems,  and  a  very  in- 
teresting mention  of  the  English  com- 
posers of  the  Anglo-Catholie  Church  in 
early  times,  and  of  their  successors  to  the 
present  day,  from  White  and  Tallis  to 
Wesley  and  Atwood.  The  author  owes 
himself  indebted  to  the  Rev.  John  Jsbb's 

G»if T.  Mao.  Vol.  XXIL 


Choral  Service,  &e.f  and  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Latrobe's  treatise  on  the  Music  of  the 
Church  :  and  with  their  assistance  he  has 
composed  a  very  able,  judicious,  and  in- 
structive work,  on  a  subject  which  we  sre 
glad  to  find  is  occupying  the  attention  of 
all  who  feel,  as  we  do,  that  the  best  return 
of  gratitude  we  can  show  to  those  who 
have  given  us  in  our  venerable  cathedrals 
the  means  of  forming  the  finest  choirs,  is 
to  restore  the  services  to  their  original 
beauty;  and  what  is  proposed  in  our 
cathedrals  will  doubtless  be  followed  in 
many  of  the  smaller  churches  throughout 
the  land. 


Sermotu  om  the  IMwrgy,  By  J.  W. 
North,  M,J. — ^The  author  in  his  preface 
speaks  very  modestly  of  his  work ;  but  we 
think  he  is  the  only  person  who  can  see 
"  the  manifold  demerits  of  his  Sermons," 
though  written  in  the  midst  of  clerical 
duty  and  professional  exertion.  <*The 
single  aim  (he  observes)  is  to  make  our 
congregational  service  a  more  intelligent 
and  spiritual  serrice,  and  to  point  out  the 
unseasonableness  of  the  objections  made 
to  our  beautiful  form  of  prayer ;"  and  he 
hopes  *<  that  the  attention  of  some  who 
read  these  sermons  may  be  drawn  to  the 
Importance  of  familiar  expositions  of  the 
Book  of  Common  Prayer.  The  tendency 
of  such  expositions  will  be  to  promote  a 
really  sound  Church  feeling ;  to  secure  the 
attachment  of  a  large  body  of  the  people 
to  our  venerable  Church,  not  on  account 
of  her  presumptive  authority,  nor  her 
apostolic  form  of  discipline,  but  her  own 
inherent  excellence,  and  her  entire  agree- 
ment with  the  word  of  God,'*  &c.  The 
author,  in  the  course  of  twenty  sermons, 
goes  tiirough  the  great  divisions  of  the 
Common  ^ayer,  devoting  six  discourses 
to  the  Liturgy,  and  four  to  the  Com- 
munion Service,  and  ending  with  a  very 
excellent  and  emphatic  disooune — **The 
Presence  of  the  Saviour  in  his  Church." 
The  judiciousness  and  usefulness  of  the 
design  is  well  sustained  by  the  execution, 
and  we  think  these  sermons  might  be  ad- 
vantageously read  in  families  and  distri- 
buted amongst  the  best  educated  portion 
of  a  parish.  Whatever  tends  to  sustain 
the  attachment  to  our  Church  on  reason- 
able grounds,  and  with  temperate  expres- 
sion as  regards  that  of  others,  is  to  be 
encouraged,  and  we  think  also  will  gene- 
rally meet  with  success.  The  author 
must  excuse  our  inability  to  give  extracts, 
which  in  works  of  this  kind,  where  to  be 
of  any  use  must  be  of  certain  length,  is 
seldom  in  our  power. 

CoHtrilutUma  to  Aural  Surgery.  Ko» 
5.  On  the  Pathological  Onmetfio*  qf  the 

2  A 


m 


Ifew  Puhlicalions, 


[Aug. 


7%roai  and  Bar,  By  James  Yearaley, 
M,R.C.8.B. — To  ihow  the  usefalness  of 
the  institatioQ  over  which  Mr.  Yearsley 
prefides,  it  is  only  necessary  to  mention 
that  up  to  December  1843  no  less  than 
3414  persons  had  been  registered  as  pa- 
tients in  the  admission  book  on  account 
of  affections  of  the  ear.  This  little  work  ap. 
pears  to  ns  to  contain  much  curious  infor- 
mation, and  such  as  will  be  new  to  the  gene- 
ral reader.  It  appears  that  deafness  of  one 
ear  only  is  yery  rare ;  also,  that  the  great 
preponderance  of  ear  diseases  is  on  the  l^ 
side,  particularly  among  sportsmen,  since 
the  introduction  of  the  percussion  lock. 
Cold  produces  fur  the  greater  number  of 
cases;  one  person  attributes  his  to  the 
noif  at  the  battle  of  Waterloo  I  There 
are  some  curious  notes  of  the  /lum'/iit 
which  often  accompanies  deafness,  and 
which  occasions  much  misery.  The  author 
speaks  of  his  mode  of  treatment  (p.  14;, 
and  the  advantage  of  the  catheter :  also  of 
the  excision  of  enlarged  tonsils  of  the 
throat,  which  is  a  common  cause  of  deaf- 
ness. *'  The  connexion,"  says  the  author, 
*' between  the  throat  and  ear  has  been 
little  thought  of,  and  is  even  yet  but  little 
recognised  by  medical  men :  be  it  mine  to 
inculcate  still  more  than  I  have  done,  the 
importance  of  directing  their  treatment 
m»re  to  the  throat  than  to  the  ear ;  and 
let  their  treatment  be  directed  to  the 
stomach,  as  probably  the  source  of  the 
morbid  condition  of  the  mucous  mem- 
brane ;  and,  if  local  treatment  be  required, 


let  it  be  applied  to  the  throat,  and  through 
the  Eustachian  tube."  The  whole  work, 
though  small,  appears  to  us  to  abound  in 
the  most  useful  information,  the  result  of 
extensive  practice  and  judicious  inference. 
He  who  can  cure,  or  even  lessen,  so  great 
and  common  an  infirmity  as  deafness,  one 
that  embitters  solitary  life  and  precludes 
social  intercourse,  may  surely  be  ranked 
among  the  benefactors  of  his  race. 

Practical  Sermona  preached  in  Hanover 
Chapel,  Regent  Street,  By  the  Rev.  S. 
D.  Hill,  ^.iV.— The  author  says  that 
"  these  Sermons  are  published  as  they  were 
written,  for  the  use  of  a  congregation.  He 
thinks  this  will  disarm  criticism  of  some 
of  its  severity,  and  if  they  serve  to  impress 
one  holy  though  trite  precept,  or  to  che- 
rish one  high  hope  of  an  anxious  spirit, 
they  will  amply  repay  the  pains  bestowed 
on  their  composition.*'  We  know  no 
severity  of  criticism  that,  if  applied  to  this 
volume,  published  with  such  motives,  and 
spoken  of  with  such  modesty,  would  not 
recoil  on  its  author;  for  the  discourses 
contain  much  good  advice  and  sound 
scriptural  doctrine  in  very  good  language, 
and  such  as,  if  well  delivered,  would  make 
due  impression  on  the  hearers.  He  who 
publishes  plain  and  practical  sermons  must 
look  for  his  reward,  not  in  the  applause  of 
the  noisy  and  clamorous  press,  out  in  the 
silent  approbation  of  his  thoughtful  and 
thankful  readers. 


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cU  Um  Vim  im  I>«f  e 
ilon.     By  A  Ondu^i 
iity.     Wmo.  )ic.  6if. 

TiM  Holy  of  HoU 
lUittoCuary  i   a  Sen»o«* 
8ouU,    Si.   Marylrbo^**- 

KaMTKL    Pi^AMK»    J.^^"' 

iWmo,  Hil« 

At  Uto  Kr»tual  of  tl»« 
Ity   (Kr    Hvv,    IUi«»^«' 

Tli»  UUulnR  in  tb«*  ^ 
lirr«o)ira  »|  th«  Ch%&r<^^^ 
Mr|iironl,  Juii0  :i.   lH-*^« 

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>U«»v  Maiviii..  1%.  E  » 
IVMtUiiUiin«lKiiiut»  s     * 

in  uuir  or  lb*  MMK«fti»  ^  * 

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w*MM  Manninu,     JWE.    ^ 
i  III)  l«»i«Ur      N^it.     I  ^ .     •  • 
M»  l|*  III  Ah  K«m«alt  %•»  •< 

Hf  tlii«  !•  itnluli  t  huro  l»    1 

i  »««*.*»ii,  MA.       V  ••» 

•*  ^»  J««M»«.  luifiinr* 
««»»,^„»  ^„,,  ^.,,  •  *•«■ 
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Edward  the  Pint,  or  tke 
t  •  I>raBa»  in  Kva 
CBBSOir.    Btd.  5a.M. 
Q«d  I¥»  Qm>;  or,  tie  Dttj  itf 
tW  PHbo  Cqwudy,  »  Rvo  Acta, 
performed  at  Ike  TlMattra  Rof««,  « 
market,  Jane  18, 1844.     Sro.  2t.  6^ 
The  Ancient  Bflariner,  and  oiker  r~ 
Bf  8.  T.  Cai.su*«B.     Mao.   1«. 


By  J. 


»j«y  9, 1044. 

the  Cleify. 

■la.,  B.D. 


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^    <;t.  Nicholaa, 
the  Cor. 


4CO.  1«.  <»d. 
^s«>r«noai  preached 
B^    tto«piUl,atSt, 

MMy  t>>«  I^^*  S»- 
.  .     Archdeacon  of 


I  lilt  Dny  Houre     «>r      « 
»•  Ordinary  Omc^»    «  ta  w- 

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Baodaya    and    iloliaM3r« 
*•«••    ByHnitny  A.«.»*<3 


t«»r   tlieuaeofhar 
1«Y     Jonit   Mill 

•»«%«!  the  Raiabow 
>*«••-■»«  on  prt«ebed 
JB  %••««•  V.  U44,  by 
«    •  •   1- urate.     Hto, 

f      t^A«t  our  PtdI^. 

•  •"ekllowthiit  u|  the 

»4C.    iVtwr'.t  ha|i«.K 

l»y    the  Hey.  c. 

>*minu,   Purl  4, 


Walter  dayton  :  a  Tble  of  tbe  Gofdon 
Klota.     3Tob.31#.  M. 

Edith  Lealie  :  3  Tob.  31r.  6£ 

Conatance  D'Oyley  :  a  Thle*  by  tibe 
Anther  of  ••  The  CInndestine  Marnace.** 
3  Tola.  31«.  €d. 

The  Orandftther.  By  the  Inte  Bfisi 
^^  ^CKnnijTo.  3  Tola.  31#.  €d. 
•u^f  ^•***  ®'  Hononr;  or,  Scenea  in 
the  Nineteenth  Centnry.  By  Akws  Ftuf - 
OKKs,  Anthor  of  •«  Felix  de  Lisle."  flkc 
Ac.  5r. 

^  T?*  I*»«^nr  of  John  Marten :  a  Seqnel 
to  the  Life  of  Henry  MOner.  By  M*a. 
^■■f '^ooo.  12nio.  7s.  6d. 

The  White  Lady,  and  Un<fine :  IWes 
from  the  Germen.  7r. 

Abbey  Chnrch  :  or  Self-Control  and 
^«f-Conceit.  4#.  6d. 

tJu^^^S?  ®^  ***«  Kataekopfa :  a  Fairy 
aSll'  7q^      iLLiAjf  Chu«nb,  of  StaiTonl. 

PrinrfoU*'^';  ^""SP  5  or,  the  TroA  of 
Ti^&SSf^  ""i   *^   ««^5    or,  the 


f€9*^m. 


Historic  Panciee.    12^ 

TDNRY  SbTYTHS,  M.  ~ 

WUd  Flowera  ;  or  I 
iatnral  Objects,  and 
oral,  and    Philantli 
isa  C.  S.  '^irmn,.     4^  _ 
The  Paaloan  of  DrnwitM.  s 
rased  for  the  Uuam 


».*»m  8oriptMre. 

•*i».***^''t***^oth; 

««  "TS«^***    the 
»^B>.  M.A.   Uiao. 


eye.  lie,.  *«« 


Poetry  Vadp^^^'  *>«'  chiefly  upon 

Enthifti.,tic:tLd'a^Tr?,«^  Elder,  « 
•▼o.  qloth,  d,         ""^  Apostle  of  the  Law. 

An  Ai 

•»d  lUbl 

At*KX«  \i 

^^^jn  Ki^ii.r^jjj;;*;;;'  frofeaior  of  h;: 
L»*»n»  Grammars*  i^«»<*on-  8to.  la. 


»  of  R.ri,*'^**      pJr^""*  0»^»mmati<wl*  if"***on.  8to.  la. 


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1844.] 


Nem  PMkuHoM. 


181 


Um  of  C^rammtr  8oh«olsy  Ac.    %f  tht 
Rer.  E.  Rbddall.     IBmo.  2f. 

Guide  to  Qermaa  CoBvemtkni  end 
Letter  Writing;  oontauuBg  a  Series  of 
German  PhraMS  and  Dialognet ,  intended 
ae  a  Practioe  in  the  CoUoqnial  Language 
of  the  Edneated  Claaaea  in  Germany. 
Edited  hf  W.  Ki«AUBB«Ki.ATTOW0Kt. 
19mo.  St, 

Medicine. 

Miacelianeona  Contribntiona  to  Pa* 
thology  and  Tberapentici ;  being  a  Series 
of  Original  and  Practical  Papen  on 
Rickets,  Hjdroeephalos,  Impotence  and 
Sterility,  Palmonary  Apoplexy,  and  He* 
moptysis,  &c.  &c.  By  James  Richard 
Smtth,  M.D.    8to.  lOf.  6d. 

Practical  Treatise  on  Diseases  of  the 
Eye.  By  William  JiAFrRBflOK,  late 
Surgeon  to  the  Bombay  Eye  Infirmary. 
8to.  10«.  Gd, 

Graefenberg  ;  or,  a  Tnie  Report  of  the 
Water  Care  ;  with  an  Account  of  its 
Antiquity.  By  Robsrt  Hat  Graham, 
M.D.  8to.  6«. 

On  the  Decrease  of  Disease  effected  by 
the  Progress  of  Civilization.  By  C.  F.  H. 
Marx,  M.D.  and  R.  Willis,  M.D.    4e. 

AdTice  on  the  Management  of  the 
Teeth.  By  Richard  Wuitx,  Surgeon- 
Dentist,  Norwich.    3«>  6d. 

Remarks  on  the  Efficacy  of  Matico  as  a 
Styptic  and  Astringent ;  with  Cases, 
Mode  of  Exhibition,  &c.  By  T.  Jsr- 
rRBTS,  M.D.    8to.  It. 

The  Handbook  of  Yltel  Magnetism  or 
Mesmerism.     18mo.  If. 

Law, 

Treatise  on  Preenmption  of  Law  and 
Fact,  with  the  Theory  and  Rules  of  Pre- 
sumptiTe  or  Circumstantial  Proof  in 
Criminal  Cases.  By  W.  M.  Bxst,  A.M. 
LL.B.  of  Gray*s  Inn,  Barrister-at-Law. 
8to.  15#. 

Natural  Hietary. 

Zoology  of  the  Voyage  of  H.M.SS.  Ere- 
bus and  Terror,  under  the  command  of 
Capt.  Sir  James  Clark  Ross,  R.N.  F.R.S. 
during  the  years  1839  to  1843.  By  au- 
thority. Edited  by  John  Richardson, 
M.D.,  F.R.S.,  &c.,  and  John  Edward 
Gray,  Esq.,  F.R.S.  Part  I.  Mammalia, 
by  John  Edward  Grat,  esq.  Royal 
4to.  10*. 

Essays  on  Natural  History,  chiefly  Or- 
nithology. By  Charles  Waterton, 
Esq.,  Author  of  *'  Wanderings  in  South 
Africa. "  3nd  series,  with  a  continuation 
of  the  Autobiography  of  the  Author, 
6s.  6<l. 

Botanical  Guide  to  the  Enrirons  of  Chel- 
tiDhaB  \  comprghtRding  a  ClaaiAad  Ar« 


rangement  of  the  Indigenous  Flowers  and 
Ferns  of  the  Cotteswold  Hills  and  Yato 
of  Gloucester.  By  Jamrs  Buokmaiti 
F.G.S.    8to.  S«.  64. 

5cieMee« 

Bncyclopvdia  of  Domestic  Economy} 
oomprising  such  Subjects  as  are  most  im« 
mediately  connected  with  Housekeeping. 
By  Thomas  WxbotsA,  F.G.S.  &o.,  as- 
sisted by  the  late  Mrs.  Parkrs.  8to« 
1000  woodcuts,  50«. 

An  Historical,  Geological,  and  Descrtp* 
tire  View  of  the  Coal  Trade  of  the  North 
of  England.  By  Matthias  Dvick,  Co1« 
liery  Viewerand  Mining  Engineer.  8vo.  7#» 

Lectures  on  Agricultaral  Chemistry  and 
Greology.  By  Jamxs  F.  W.  Johnston, 
M.A.,  F.R.SS.L.  &  B.     8to.  S4«. 

The  Medals  of  Creation,  or  First  Les* 
sons  in  Geology  and  in  the  Study  of 
Organic  Remains.  By  Gidbon  Alobr* 
NOM  Mahtrll,  LL,D.,  F.R.S.  S  toIs. 
31«. 

The  Principles  of  G^metrical  Demon- 
stration deduced  from  the  Original  Con- 
ception of  Space  and  Form.  By  H.  Wkdo- 
wooD,  M.A.    S«. 

jirehiieeiure,  Euffineerinfff  j[C, 

Treatise  on  Harbours,  with  a  Demon- 
stration of  the  general  Theory  of  Bars  ; 
and  Plans  for  the  Improvement  of  the 
Harbours  on  the  South-Eastem  Coast  of 
England.  By  W.  B.  Priohard,  y<ri.  I. 
4to.  S0». 

Fine  Arte. 

The  Pencil  of  Nature.  By  H.  Fox 
Talbot,  esq.,  F.R.S.  No.  1,  roysl  4co. 
12«. 

Criticisms  on  Art.  By  William  Haz* 
litt  ;  with  Catalogues  of  the  Principal 
Galleries  of  England.  Second  Series* 
Edited  by  his  Son.     6#. 

Miniatures  of  the  Pictures  in  the  Na- 
tional Gallery,  highly-finished  in  colours 
after  the  Originals.  Series  I,  containing 
9  subjects,  31 «. 

The  Smith's,  Founder's,  and  Orna- 
mental Metal  Worker's  Dhnector ;  com- 
prising a  variety  of  Designs,  in  the  present 
Taste.  Chiefly  collected  by  L.  N.  Cot- 
tinoham.    4to.  4Ss. 

Mueie. 

The  Gaelic  Psalm  Tunes  of  Ross-shire 
and  the  Neighbouring  Counties.  The 
Harmony  and  Introductory  Dissertation 
by  Joseph  Mainzkr.    Royal  4to.  6e. 

The  Elements  of  Music ;  condensed  for 
the  use  of  Students  of  the  Piano- Forte. 
By  C.  Dawsok.  3«. 

Preparing  far  Puilieatian* 
Tho  Soeond  Ftet  of  Mr.  HvMTBA'g 


■Miy    of 


182 


''New  IDntntioM  W  tibe  life, 
ndWiitiags  of  ShakoMMe'* 
nmijktr  iwMSnrioB.     It 
tnticMMof  ^  Comedks. 

Mr.  W.  D.  Bbccs,  of  RipoB,  co.  of 
Toik,  has  bcca  for  soac  tise  coOectiBg 
■MtBuli  far  a  HntOTfof  tke  Und  of 
BoriMdoes,  oa  «  piaa  HaOar  to  tkc  coaatr 
Uiterics  by  Nieteb,  Bdtcr, &r.  HcviU 
be  gratiy  obGgcd  to  admdnb  fcnraH. 
iag  to  hn  iafanMlmi,  sock  at  MS& 
nre  books,  pcdigraes,  &c.  aaay  of  tke 


Utt< 


kann^  settled  ia  tkat  uAud  daria^  tke 
twe  tke  diril  war  raged  ia  tke  SMtkcr 
oooatry.  (See  Chraadon's  HiatorT  of  tke 
RebeUioa.) 

cKiTsmsrrr  of  oxroaa. 
Tke  foUowiag  sabfects  are  ptopoaed  for 

^  CkaacdkM's  Pritrs  for  tke  ensaiag 

year:  m.^ 
Jbr  Za/m  Kerie^"  Noma  Fbnpaios.* 
fhr  an  EmfHU  Eutijf    **  The  Causes 

and  Consequences  of  Natioaal  ReTolatioBs 

among  the  Ancients  and  tke  Modems 

/V    a    t9tm    St9€ih^**D9    Ordine 
£qur»tri  apud  Romanos.*' 

5iV  lloyerA>irrfi>a/f'tfV«e^"IVtra.- 

Mr$.  Dtnwer'M  Ykfohfieai  Prizt*—**  On 
the  doctrine  of  Faitk  in  the  Holy  Trinity.*' 
— **  On  tke  duties  of  Christianity,  incum- 
bent on  a  national  Community.*' 

TTkeolofficmi  Prizt — •*  The  Law  was  oar 
Schoolmaster  to  bring  us  unto  Christ.'* 

The  Examiners  for  the  Pusey  and  El- 
lerton  Hebrew  Scholarship  hare  elected  to 
the  Tacant  Scholarship  Charles  Frederick 
Secretan,  B.A. ofWadham  college.  Mr. 
Secretan  obtained  the  Kennioott  Scholar- 
ship in  1843. 

The  Examiners  for  Mrs.  Kennicott's 
Hebrew  Scholarship  have  elected  to  the 
Tacant  Scholarship  Robert  Gandell,  B.A. 
Michel  Scholar  of  Queen's. 

Ac  Wadham  College,  on  the  30th  of 
June,  the  Rev.  John  George  Sheppard, 
M.A.  Henry  King,  M.A.  and  the  Rer. 
Richard  Congreve,  M.A.  were  elected 
Fellows ;  and  John  Langford  Capper, 
Postmaster  of  Merton  college,  Francis 
Morgan  Nichols,  Commoner  of  Exeter 
college,  and  Henry  Weare  Blanford,  Com- 
moner  of  Wadham  college,  and  n  native 
of  the  county  of  Somerset,  were  elected 
Scholars. 


[Aug. 
Sabject-."  The  Tower 

^*Tfc!!  ^'^  f^  I>i«ertaaoas 
B^4i5^****^    of    ArU. 

H«^  MiWredBtrdi.  Fellow  of 

Z!ZJJ^1"/*  erfesywe  ad  «r- 
perrmemtm    tier«    rHiyiomi 

^-g^-to^  colW    ,Bd  James 


UNIVERSITY  OP  CABiBRfDGE. 

TheMarquess  Camden's  Gold  Medal  for 
Latin  verse  has  been  adjudged  to  William 
Johnson,  Scholar  of  King's  college. 
Subject—**  Archimedes." 

The  Chancellor's  Gold  Medal  for  Eng- 
Ufh  verse  to  Edward  Henry  Bickeriteth, 


AOXBUK6BB  CLCB. 

JnT^n^^T^       SrtimUy  the  SSnd  of 

A.  J.  Beresford  Hope,  eao.  •  J  A  i  iV  j 
W.  H-  Mdler,  esq.;  Thomas  Ponton 
,^w;4;  i.  f  ^^hrRev^H^nry^^^E^^ 

HaU,  Oxford.  The  last  named  ^ent^ 
man,  wuh  Sir  R  H.  |ngU»  and  Mr.^opT 

at  Staf ord  Honse  by  their  Graces  the 
Dnkc  and  Duchess  of  Sutherland. 

•  •l/^**"f8h«  Club  has  this  year 
Sik^nf  |?!5  »«««!^^W  Books  of  J^n 
P4«l     14^'^'*J1"^***^  ^"'  of  Surrey, 

^?.!i^!;"V^i'*'^  ^'^^y  of  Antiquaries  ;" 
edited  by  J.  Payne  CoUier,  esq.  F.S.A.  a 
handsome  quarto  volume.  After  supply- 
ing each  member  of  the  Club  with  two 
copies,  the  residue  are  ut  apart  for  dis- 
tnontion  as  presents  and  for  sale. 

THB    PKRCr   SOCIETY. 

The  general  meeUng  of  this  Society 
was  held  in  the  rooms  of  the  Roval  Society 
of  Literatorc,  on  the   1st  of  Juoe.  the 
Right  Hon.  Lord  Braybrookc,  President 
in  the  Chair.     The   Secretary   read   the 
Report  of  the  Council,  which  stated  that, 
by  the  economical  application    of  com- 
paratively small  funds,   they  have   been 
enabled  to  publish  1069  pages  of  matter 
during  the  first  year,  1359  pages  during 
the  second  year,  1042  pages  during  the 


1844.] 


Literary  etnd  Seientifie  iHtelligenee. 


18$ 


third,  and  1550  pages  in  the  year  which 
has  just  ended.    They  have  regarded  with 
increased  attention  the  intrinsic  merits  of 
the  works  prepared  for  the  press,  and  they 
feel  confident  that  many  of  those  now  in 
preparation   for  publication    will    be   of 
equal,  if   not    of   greater    Talue.      The 
Conacil  have  not  lost  sight  of  a  sugges- 
tion made  in  the  third  year,  to  print  from 
time  to  time  the  collected  Works  of  some 
of  the  distinguished  authors  in  our  elder 
literature,  whose  various  productions  hare 
not    hitherto    been    assembled    in     any 
uniform  series,  or  which  have  been  printed 
incorrectly.     Mr.   Peter  Cunningham  is 
prejiaring  for  the  press    the   Poems  of 
William   Browne,   author  of  Britannia's 
Pastorals ;  and  Mr.  Wright  has  signified 
his  willingness  to  edit,  at  a  subsequent 
period,  from  contemporary  manuscripts, 
a  more  correct  text  of  the  works  of  Chaucer 
than  has  hitherto  appeared.    Tyrwhitt's 
text  of  the    Canterbury   Tales    is    now 
known  to  be  inaccurate,   owing  to  his 
eatirB  ignorance  of  the  grammatical  form 
and  construction  of  the  language  as  used 
by  the  poet. 
The  publications  of  the  last  year  are^ 

34.  The  Four  Knaves.  A  Series  of 
Satirical  Ttacts,  in  verse,  by  Samuel  Row- 
lands. Edited  by  Edward  F.  Rimbault, 
esq.  LL.D.,  F.S.A. 

35.  A  Poem  to  the  memory  of  William 
Congreve,  by  Jamea  Thomson.  Edited 
by  Peter  Cunningham,  esq. 

36.  The  Pleasant  Conceits  of  Old  Hob- 
son,  the  Merry  Londoner,  1G07.  Edited 
by  J.  O.  HaUiwell,  esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

37.  Marocctts  Extaticus ;  or  Bankes* 
Bay  Horse  in  a  Trance,  1597.  Edited 
by  Edward  F.  Rimbault,  esq.  LL.D. 
F.S.A. 

38.  Lord  Mayors'  Pageants,  Part  I : 
being  Collections  towards  a  History  of 
thesa  annual  celebrations.  By  F.  W. 
Fairholt,  esq.  F.S.A. 

39.  The  Owl  and  the  Nightingale,  an 
early  English  Poem.  Edited  by  Thomas 
Wright,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

40.  Thirteen  Psalms,  and  the  First 
Chapter  of  Ecclesiastes,  translated  into 
English  Verse  by  John  Croke,  in  the 
Reign  of  Henry  VI  n.  Edited  by  the  Rev. 
P.  BUss,  D.C.L. 

41.  An  Historian  Expostulation  against 
the  Beastlye  Abusers,  both  of  Chyrurgerie 
and  Pbysyke,  in  oure  tyme.  By  John 
Halle,  1565.  Edited  by  T.  J.  Pettigrew, 
esq.  F.R.S.*  F.S.A. 

42.  Old  Ballads  illustrating  the  Great 
Frost  of  1683-4,  and  the  Fair  on  the 
River  Thames.  Edited  by  Edward  F. 
Rimbault,  esq.  LL«D.,  F.S.A. 

43.  Lord  Mayors'  Pageants,  Part  11 : 
containing  specimens  of  Dekker,  Hey- 


wood,  Tatbam,  and  Jordan.    Edited  by 
F.  W.  Fairholt,  esq.  F.S.A. 

44.  The  Honestie  of  this  Age,  by 
Barnaby  Rich,  1611.  Edited  by  Peter 
Cunningham,  esq. 

45.  Reynard  the  Fox :  From  Caxton'a 
Edition.  Edited,  with  an  introductory 
essay,  by  W.  J.  Thorns,  esq.  F.S.A. 

Many  other  works  are  in  different  stages 
of  preparation,  with  which  it  is  intended 
to  maintain  the  Society's  monthly  issue. 

C.  Purton  Cooper,  esq.  Q.C.,  F.R.S. 
and  F.S.A.,  Henry-  J.  Dixon,  esq.  and 
Sir  Cuthbert  Sharp  were  elected  members 
of  the  Council  in  the  place  of  Mr.  Crofton 
Croker,  the  Rev.  A.  Dyce,  and  Dr. 
Rimbault,  retiring  ;  and  Thomas  Wright, 
esq.  M.A.  F.S.A.  was  elected  to  the 
offices  of  Treasurer  and  Secretary,  in  the 
place  of  William  Chappell,  esq.  and  E.  F. 
Rimbault,  esq.  LL.D.  both  of  whom  had 
resigned. 

THE  RAT   60CIETT. 

This  Society,  instituted  2nd  Febmary, 
1844,  has  been  formed  upon  the  principle 
of  the  Parker,  Camden,  Sydenham,  and 
other  Societies,  for  the  purpose  of  printing 
works  in  Zoology  and  Botany.  Its  publi- 
cations are  to  consist  of  original  works ; 
of  new  editions  of  works  of  established 
merit;  of  rare  tracts  and  MSS. ;  and  of 
translations  and  reprints  of  foreign  works. 
The  subscription  is  one  guinea  annually. 
The  number  of  Members  already  exceeds 
three  hundred,  and  the  Council  hope  to 
publish  two  volumes  before  Christmas, 
the  first  of  which  will  consist  of  transla- 
tions, from  the  German  and  Italian,  of 
reports  on  the  progress  of  Zoology  and 
Botany  during  the  last  few  years.  Com<. 
munications  are  to  be  addressed  to  the 
Secretaries,  Dr.  George  Johnston,  Ber- 
wick-upon-Tweed, and  Dr.  Lankeater, 
Golden  square,  London. 

NORTHERN  CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND 
SCHOOL. 

On  the  ICth  June  a  meeting  was  held 
at  the  Bull  Inn,  Preston,  of  the  sub- 
scribers and  friends  of  this  institution, 
which  is  about  to  be  established  at  Ros- 
sall-hall,  near  Fleetwood  on  Wyre,  for 
the  good  and  sound  religious  education  of 
the  sons  of  Clergymen  and  other  gentle- 
men, under  the  direct  superintendence  of 
the  Established  Church,  upon  a  plan 
nearly  similar  to  the  school  at  Marl- 
borough. The  Bishop  of  Chester  pre- 
sided, and  there  were  also  present  the 
Chancellor  of  the  Diocese,  the  Archdea- 
con of  Manchester,  and  several  of  the 
clergy  of  the  town  and  neighbourhood^ 
as  well  as  a  large  proportion  of  the  gentry 
and  eminent  maaonicturers  of  Preston 


184 


UneArii. 


[Ai*. 


and  its  vicinity.  It  a|>pflan  that  upwardg 
of  5,000/.  hu  been  already  lubicribed  { 
and  the  establishment  is  to  be  imme- 
diately opened  for  the  reception  of  pupils^ 
as  it  is  found  that  100  can  be  received  in 
the  present  building  at  Rossall-hall. 

TBB  JIWB*  AND  OENXRAL  LITKEA&T 
AND  8CISNTIPIC  INSTITUTION. 

M€ty  S8.  A  meeting  was  held  at  the 
Jews'  Free  School-room,  Spitalfields,  Ha« 
aaoel  De  Castro »  esq.  patron,  in  the 
ehair,  who  said  that  a  general  desire  was 
felt  by  the  metropolitan  Jews  for  the 
formation  of  an  institution  amongst  them- 
selTes,  in  which  an  acquaintance  with 
science*  arts,  and  literature  may  be  ob- 
taiaed  by  means  similar  to  those  adopted 
with  such  beneficial  results  in  other  lite- 
rary associations.  The  secretary  read  a 
report,  which  showed  among  the  list  of 
subscriptions  and  donations  the  Baroness 
N.  M.  de  Rothschildi  25  guineas  ;  Baron 
Lionel  de  Rothschild,  25  guineas ;  Sir 
Motes  Montefiore,  85  guineas;  F.  H. 
Goldsmid,  esq.  15/. ;  Isaac  Cohen,  esq. 
S5/. ;  Hananel  De  Castro,  esq.  50/. ; 
David  Salomons,  esq.  25  guineas ;  making 
a  total  of  upwaj^s  of  600/.  Sir  Isaac 
Lyon  Goldsmid  supported  the  institution, 
but  objected  to  its  being  called  "  The 
Jews*  Literary  and  Scientific  Institution,'' 
not  that  he  objected  to  the  word  Jews 
from  any  disrespect  to  his  nation — all  who 
knew  him  were  aware  that  he  was  proud 
of  it — but  he  objected  to  it  on  this  ground, 


that  it  would  be  oonsidared  am  eidudve 
society ;  and  therefore  moved  that  it  be 
called  "The  Eastern  Metropolitan," 
instead  of  "Jews'.'*  This  was  objected 
to  by  the  meeting,  and  it  was  ultimately 
agreed  upon  that  the  society  be  called 
*'  l*he  Jews*  and  General  Literary  and 
Scientific  Institution." 


BBITI8B  AND  FORXION  IN8TITUTB. 

June  7.  The  first  general  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  members  of  this  institute  was 
held  at  their  rooms  in  George-street, 
Hanover-square,  the  Right  Hon.  the  Barl 
of  Devon,  President  of  the  Society,  in  the 
chair ;  supported  by  Earl  Grosvenor,  Lord 
Claud  Hamilton,  Sir  George  Staunton, 
Lord  William  Lennox,  &c.  &c. 

The  report  stated  at  length  the  progress 
and  present  state  of  the  Institute,  and 
gave  an  abstract  of  its  statistics  and 
finances,  which  showed  it  to  be  in  a 
flourishing  condition,  both  as  to  mem- 
bers and  fonds;  there  being  1255  mem- 
bers, including  those  families  entitled  to 
the  privilege  of  membership,  and  a  vested 
capital  of  4000/.  in  the  Three  per  cent. 
Consols,  and  assets  to  the  value  of  5000/. 
and  liabilities  to  the  extent  of  2000/.  only. 

A  vote  of  entire  satisfaction  with  the 
management  of  the  past  year  was  passed 
unanimously,  as  well  as  votes  of  thanks  to 
the  Earl  of  Devon,  to  Mr.  Buckingham 
for  his  able  and  satisfactory  mansgement 
and  superintendence,  and  to  the  com- 
mittee. 


PINE   ARTS. 


ROTAL  COIfMIBSION  OP  TBI  FINK  AETS. 

Her  Majesty's  Commissioners  of  the 
Fine  Arts,  with  the  sanction  of  the  Lords 
Commissioners  of  her  Majesty's  Treasury, 
have  resolved  that  six  arched  compart- 
ments in  the  new  House  of  Lords,  each 
measuring  nine  feet  three  inches  wide,  by 
sixteen  feet  high  to  the  point  of  the  arch, 
shall  be  decorated  with  fresco  paintings ; 
that  the  subjects  of  such  fresco  paintings 
shall  be  illustrative  of  the  functions  of  the 
House  of  Lords  and  of  the  relation  in 
which  it  stands  to  the  Sovereign ;  three 
to  be  personifications  or  abstrsct  repre- 
lentatioDs  of  Religion,  Justice,  and  the 
spirit  of  Chivalry;  and  that  the  three 
others,  corresponding  with  such  repre- 
sentations and  expressing  the  relation  of 
the  Sovereign  to  the  Church,  to  the  Law, 
and,  as  the  fountain  of  honour,  to  the 
SUte,  shall  be— the  Baptism  of  Etbelbert ; 
Prince  Henry,  afterwards  Henry  V.,  ac- 


knowledging  the  authority  of  Chief  Justioe 
Gascoigne  ;  and  Edward  the  Black  Prinoa 
receiving  the  Order  of  the  Garter  from 
King  Edward  III. 

The  Commissioners  have  selected  six 
artists  from  the  present  exhibitors  in 
Westminster  Hall,  to  prepare  designs  for 
these  subjects,  who  are  required  to  pre- 
pare a  cartoon,  coloured  sketch,  and 
specimen  of  fresco  painting  by  the  first 
week  in  June,  1845,  for  exhibition  in 
Westminster  Hall.  They  are  each  to 
be  remunerated  with  the  sum  of  400/. ; 
but  the  Commissioners  do  not  bind  them- 
selves to  employ  them  finally  on  the  fresco 
paintitif^s  in  the  House  of  Lords.  The 
six  subjects  are  distributed  among  the  six 
artists  as  follows  :-*the  subject  of  Religion 
is  given  to  Mr.  John  Cslcott  Horsley ;  the 
subject  of  Justice  to  Mr.  William  Cave 
Thomas }  the  subject  of  Chivalry  to  Mr. 
Daaiel  Maoliia  i  the  subject  of  the  Baptism 


1844.] 


Fine  Arts* 


185 


of  Etfaelbert  to  Mr.  William  Dyce ;  that 
of  Prince  Henry,  afterwards  Henry  tibe 
Fifth,  acknowledging  the  authority  of 
Chief  Justice  Gascoigne,  is  given  to  Mr. 
Richard  Redgrave ;  and  diat  of  Edward 
the  Blacic  Prince  receivine  the  Order  of 
the  Garter  from  Edward  III.  to  Mr. 
Charlea  West  Cope. 

Although  the  six  sobjecta  are  required 
to  be  undertaken  by  and  among  the  six 
artists,  the  artists  are  at  liberty  to  ex- 
change subjects  ;  and,  although  the  com- 
mission given  to  each  artist  is  for  one 
snbject  only,  each  is  at  liberty  to  treat  any 
other  in  addition.  A  general  competition 
is  also  invited  among  artists,  for  designs 
for  the  same  subjects,  to  be  prepared  by 
the  time  before  specified,  for  which  three 
premiums  of  200/.  each  are  offered,  and 
the  aix  commissioned  artists  are  not  al- 
lowed to  be  competitors  for  such  pre- 
miums. 

1 .  Mr.  Horsley,  the  first-named  gentle- 
man  ,received  a  second-class  prize  of  200/. 
in  1843  for  his  cartoon  of  '*  St.  Augustine 
preaching  to  Ethelbert  and  Bertha,  his 
Christian  Queen.'*  He  has  two  frescoes 
in  the  present  exhibition — ^the  one.  No.  9, 
a  female  bead  entitled  **  Prayer,*'  the  bor- 
der to  which  was  designed  and  painted  by 
Mr.  Owen  Jones ;  and  the  other.  No.  63, 
entitled  *'  Peace,*'  a  very  beautiful  whole- 
length  female  figure  embracing  a  dove. 
— S.  Mr.  Thomas  was  a  successful  com- 
petitor in  1843,  having  received  an  ad- 
ditional premium  of  100/.  for  his  cartoon 
of  **  St.  Augustine  preaching  to  the 
Britons."  He  contributes  to  the  present 
exhibition  a  cartoon,  a  fresco,  and  an  oil 
painting,  respectively  marked  Nos.  53, 
54,  and  55,  all  from  one  design,  entitled 
**  The  Throne  of  Intellect.**— 3.  Mr.  Mac- 
Use,  the  well-known  artist,  contributes  to 
the  present  exhibition  a  magnificent  fresco, 
No.  74,  '*  The  Knight."  In  composition 
and  splendour  of  colouring  it  equals  his 
well'known  oil-paintings ;  but  in  the  latter 
respect  it  is  too  glaring,  and  not  success- 
Ail  in  its  fiesh-tints.— -4.  Mr.  Dyce*s  name 
did  not  appear  in  the  catalogue  of  the  car- 
toon exhibition  last  year,  but  he  has  an 
exquisite  subject  among  the> frescoes  now 
exhibit JDg.  It  is  marked  No.  66  in  the 
catalogue,  and  entitled,  "Two  Heads 
from  a  Composition  representing  the  Con- 
secration of  Archbishop  Parker  in  Lam- 
beth Chapel,  A.D.  1559."  This,  produced 
almost  entirely  in  one  brown  colour,  is  yet 
one  of  the  most  expressive  and  effective 
pietores  in  the  exhibition. — 5.  Mr.  Red- 
grave, a  name  also  not  appearing  in  the 
catalogue  of  1843,  is  the  artist  of  No.  51 
among  the  frescoes  now  exhibiting.  It  has 
excit^  considerable  notice,  and  is  entitled 

G«KT.  Mao.  Vol,  XXII. 


*  *  Loyalty  t  Catharine  Douglia  barring  the 
Door  with  her  Arm  to  wiSistand  the  As- 
sasiins  of  James  I.  of  Scotland." — 6.  Mr. 
Cope  received  a  first-class  prize  of  300/. 
for  his  cartoon  of  the  "  First  Trial  by 
Jury,"  in  the  exhibition  of  1843.  He  haa 
a  beautiful  fresco  in  the  present  exhibition, 
entitled  *' The  Meeting  of  Jacob  and 
Rachel." 


PANORAMA  OF  BAALBBC. 

This  view  is  in  a  graver  style  than  those 
Mr.  Burford  haa  li^ly  exhibited,  but  is 
not  less  meritorious  in  its  execution  or 
attractive  in  its  subject.  The  vast  extent 
of  the  scene,  the  magnificence  of  the 
ruins,  the  air  of  desolation  that  reigna 
around  them,  the  striking  isolation  of 
fa9ades  and  columns,  which  seem  pre* 
served  to  mark  the  beautv  of  the  temples 
of  which  they  are  the  only  remains,  the 
mountainous  country,  with  Lebanon  rising 
in  the  distance,  are  forcibly  represented. 
The  drawing  is  extremely  accurate,  and 
the  colouring  properly  subdued  to  suit 
the  sombre  character  of  the  scene.  But 
its  highest  merit  is  that  it  is  a  faithful  re< 
presentation  of  reality,  and  that,  if  the 
spectator  will  allow  himself  to  think  that 
he  stands  in  the  middle  of  the  ruins,  he 
can  survey  them  rising  around  him  in  all 
the  sublimity  of  aspect  they  present  to 
the  eye  of  the  traveller  on  the  desert  plains 
of  Asia.  Mr.  Bnrford  may  well  be  con- 
gratulated on  the  noveltiea  he  is  constantly 
preparing  for  public  gratification,  and  on 
the  perfection  to  which  he  has  brought 
this  striking  style  of  art.  His  views  are 
always  among  the  best  exhibitions  of  the 
metropolis,  and  fill  the  mind  as  well  as 
gratify  the  eye. 


Juljf  10.  The  third  annual  distribution 
of  prises  of  the  Spitalfields  branch  of  the 
Government  School  of  Design  took  place 
at  Crosby-hall,  Bishopsgate-jtreet.  The 
Marquess  of  Normanby  filled  the  chair. 
The  report  was  read  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Stone,  the  Rector  of  Spitalfields.  It 
stated  that  the  number  of  students  attend- 
ing the  school  was  now  S38,  being  122 
more  than  last  year.  It  was  proposed  to 
raise  the  sum  given  for  teaching  from  150/. 
to  350/.  as  a  second  master  was  now  re- 
quired. A  subscription  had  been  raised 
of  450/.  the  interest  of  which  it  was  pro- 
posed should  be  expended  in  prises.  The 
prizes,  which  consisted  of  sums  varying 
from  10s.  6d.  to  S/.  9s.  were  then  awarded. 
Many  of  the  works  were  extremely  clever 
and  ingenious. 


SB 


186 


ARCHITECTURE. 


Mr.  Urbaw, 

6inc«  I  wrote  jou  my  last  account 
(p.  SI)  of  the  reatorattona  at  Woodcharch, 
the  work  haa  heen  carried  on  with  spirit, 
and  in  a  ahort  time  will  be  completed. 
The  gallery  I  mentioned  has  been  en- 
tirely remoTcd,  and  the  beautifnl  arch  of 
the  tower  is  now  open  to  the  body  of  the 
church.  Beyond  it  the  original  decorated 
treat  window  has  been  perfectly  repaired, 
and,  being  famished  with  several  interest- 
ing pieces  of  the  old  stained  glass,  is  a  fine 
feature  of  the  edifice  in  every  polntof  riew. 
It  is  gratifying  to  acquaint  you,  that, 
ftotwithstandiog  the  rate  nnanimonsly 
TOted  at  Easter  for  the  restoration  of  the 
naTe  and  aisle,  the  rector  with  his  ac- 
enatomed  kindness  has  signified  his  in- 
tention of  being  at  the  whole  expense 
bimself. 

A  sabscrfption  has  since  been  com- 
■lenced  by  some  of  the  landed  proprietors, 
for  the  repairs  that  may  be  required  in 
the  exterior  of  the  church. 

The  east  window  has  already  been 
Tisited  and  admired  by  many  persons  of 
taste  around  the  neighbourhood,  and  the 
restorations  are  considered  to  be  an  ex- 
cellent pattern  to  excite  the  adjacent 
parishes  to  "  go  and  do  likewise/* 

The  Tery  interesting  old  church  of 
Bebington  cannot  fail  to  cause  emotions 
of  painful  feeling  on  riewing  its  present 
state  as  contrasted  with  what  it  evidently 
has  been  in  times  past. 

It  consists  of  a  nave,  a  south  aisle, 
with  a  tower  and  spire  at  its  western 
termination,  a  north  aisle,  a  chancel,  and 
on  each  side  of  it  an  aisle  or  chapel.    All 
these  parts  are  admirably  arranged,  and 
present  specimens  more  or  less  of  every 
style,  from  late  ^'omum  to  late  Perpew 
dieular  Bnglieh  inclusive.    The  nave,  of 
a  fair  length,  has  on  each  side  a  range  of 
rather  light  Norman   piers,   with   semi- 
circular arches.    The   tower,  the  aisles, 
and  the  chancel,  partake  of  the  earfy 
Bngtieh  and  Decorated  characters,   and 
were  most  likely  built  in  the  period  of 
iraneitton  from   one    to  the  other.    A 
large  window  in  the  west  side  of  the  tower, 
another  equally  large  at  the  east  end  of 
the  chancel,  the  windows  of  the  aisles  of 
the  nave,  and  the  north  and  south  porches 
as   usual  towards  the  west  end  of  the 
church,  are  all  of  the  same  character. 

A  very  peculiar  but  nobhe  addition  was 
made  to  the  church,  evidently  designed 
early  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  pro- 
bably suggested  by  the  celebrated  chapel 
of  KingV  College  at  Cambridge,  and  that 
of  Henry  VII.  at  Wastmintter.    On  each 


side  of  the  chancel  is  an  aisle  of  large 
dimensions,  open  to  it  by  three  lofty 
arches,  and  lighted  on  the  outer  aides  by 
as  many  beautiful  windows  of  correspond- 
ing proportions.  Immediately  westward 
of  these  aisles,  which  doubtless  were  in- 
tended to  be  screened  in  that  direction, 
as  well  as  on  their  sides  adjacent  to  the 
chancel,  is  a  still  loftier  but  less  orna- 
mented arch  northward  and  southward, 
which  have  plainly  been  intended  to  have 
the  effect  of  a  transept.  These  last 
erections  have  never  been  entirely  finished, 
and  were  perhaps  closed  in  at  a  short 
time  previous  to  the  Reformation. 

I  now  come  to  the  painful  task  of 
describing  the  present  state  of  this  onco 
beautiful  church  :  and  well  would  it  be  if 
the  example  of  Woodchurch  should  stir 
up  the  minds  of  ail  who  are  really  in- 
terested  in  its  preservation  to  commence 
in  earnest,  and  in  correct  taate,  the  great 
work  of  restoration.      If  so  a  glorious 
church  would  be   produced,   and   (with 
respect   to    the  peculiarity    alluded  to) 
unlike  any  other  in  the  kingdom.    The 
cost  would  certainly  be  great,  but  the  re- 
ault  would  be  most  satisfactory.     I  do  not 
say  that  the  church  is  absolutely  in  very 
bad  repair,  though  many  of  its  parts  are 
fast  approaching  to  dilapidation.      The 
whole  of  the  interior  should  be  stript  of 
its  present  hideous   deformities.      They 
are  chiefly  the  work  of  the  last  century, 
and  have  been  effected  at  no  trifling  ex- 
pense.    At  least  one  third  of  the  nave  and 
its  aiales  have  been  cut  off  by  a  rude  screen 
of  timber  reaching  to  the  roof,  and  left  in 
a  deplorable  condition.     A  fine  old  font, 
which  might  easily  be  restored,  still  remaina 
in  this  rejected  portion  of  the  church,  and, 
like  the  place  wherein  it  stands,  has  long 
ceased  to  be  made  use  of  for  its  once  holy 
purpose.    Within  the  screen  is  a  western 
gallery,  so  wide  from  back  to  front  as  to 
approach  much  too  nearly  to  the  entrance 
of  the  chancel.     An  organ  waa  erected 
some  years  ago,  but  not  in  this  gallery, 
for  a  small  one  waa  built  to  contain   it 
over  the  little  portion  that  remains  of  the 
south  aisle.    The  access  to  it  is  of  a  piece 
with  the  rest,  and  haa  been  gained  by 
breaking  a  doorway  through  the  south 
wall.     It  is  approached   by  a  miserable 
flight  of  stone  steps  that  would  not  be 
thought  too  good  to  lead  to  a  hay-Iofc. 
Thus  disfigured  is  the  otherwise  venerable 
south  front.     Returning  to  the  interior, 
we  scsrcely  find  a  relic  of  wood-work 
worthy  of  being  preaerved,  exceptihg  a 
few  old  carved  stalls  without  canopies. 
They  have  b«en  ill  treated,  but  at«  still 


M44.] 


Antiqtmrian  lt»$eard^ta. 


\» 


Mpable  of  being  brovglit  back  to  uracil  of 
their  original  appearance.  Near  to  these 
if  a  ▼erj  diroinatiTe  and  uneanooical  lort 
of  font,  which  for  many  years  has  been 
vsed  instead  of  the  real  one,  and,  far  from 
*'  the  accustomed  place,**  we  find  it  within 
a  few  feet  of  *<  the  holy  Uble."  I  shall 
•ondnde  by  adding  that  one  of  the  piers 


on  the  south  side  of  the  naive  has  been  rs. 
moved,  and  ivfO  arohes  formed  into  on§  oC 
most  disproportionate  figure  and  dimes* 
sions.  Hoping  that  some  good  and 
wealthy  Christians  will  arise  and  d^ 
justice  to  a  church  that  so  intelligibly 
ealls  for  it,  I  remain, 

Youn,  4ie.      8a  son. 


ANTiaUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


nniTISH   ARCHABOLOOICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 

ThaCeatral  Committee  of  this  Associa- 
tion have  continued  their  meetings  every 
fortnight,  and  the  following  subjects  have 
been  brought  before  their  notice : 

Mitrrk  U.  Mr.  William  Wire  exhi< 
bited  drawings  of  Romano-British  and 
Middle-Age  Antiquities,  found  in  and 
about  Colchester  within  the  last  few  years. 
The  former  consist  of  a  great  variety  of 
earthen  vessels,  lamps,  enamelled  bronze 
fibulae,  coloured  day  and  glass  beads, 
buckles,  bracelets,  rings,  bone  pins,  a 
fragment  of  a  bone  comb,  a  small  bronze 
statue  of  Mercury,  and  an  ornament  in 
jet,  on  which  is  carved,  in  high  relief,  a 
representation  of  two  winged  Cupids  fill- 
ing a  bag.  It  appears  to  have  been  worn 
suspended  from  the  neck.  The  fictile 
urns  and  vases  are  numerous,  and  of  a 
great  variety  of  shape.  Manv  of  these 
remains  were  found  on  the  site  of  the 
Union  workhouse,  and  between  Butt  and 
Maldon  laoes,  both  of  which  localities, 
from  the  great  number  of  skeletons  and 
urns  containing  burnt  bones  which  have 
there  been  discovered,  were  doubtless  ap- 
propriated as  burial  places.  The  objects 
of  Middle" Age  art  comprise  a  brass  imsge 
of  the  Saviour,  the  eyes  of  which  are  made 
of  a  blue  transparent  substance,  a  small 
brass  crudfix  made  in  two  parts  with  a 
hinge  so  as  to  contain  a  relic,  seals,  and 
a  tap,  the  key  of  which  is  in  the  form  of  a 
cock.  Mr.  Wire  also  forwarded  a  map  of 
Colchester,  on  which  is  marked  in  colours 
the  various  spots  where  Roman  buildings, 
pavements,  and  burial  places  have  been 
discovered. 

Mr.  Thomas  Bateman,  jun.,  exhibited 
sketches  of  twenty-two  crosses  on  grave 
slabs,  discovered  beneath  the  church  of 
Bakewell  in  Derbyshire. 

The  Rev.  Allan  Borman  Hntefains,  of 
Appleshaw,  Hants,  communicated  an  ae- 
oouat  of  the  opening  of  a  barrow,  situ- 
ated seven  miles  to  the  east  of  Sarum, 
near  Winterslow  Hut  Inn  Inclosures.  The 
Committee  do  not  give  the  date  of  this 
tscavation  in  tiieir  report.    It  wu  in  the 


year  1814  :  and  an  account  of  the  discQ« 
varies,  addressed  ^  Mr.  Hutcbins  to  tha 
late  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare,  has  been  printed  (bi;t 
not  yet  published)  in  the  Addenda  tQ 
Hoare's  History  of  South  Wiltshire. 

March  27.  Communications  were  rot 
oeived  from  Mr.  William  Sidney  Gibson 
and  Mr.  6.  B.  Richardson  relating  to 
the  destruction  of  the  ancient  church  of 
the  Hospital  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  at  New- 
castle-upon>Tyne.  In  its  progress  a  fine 
chancd-arch,  sedilia,  &c.  have  been 
stripped  of  the  modem  barbarisms  which 
concealed  them,  as  well  as  the  east  and 
west  windows.  The  corporation  collec- 
tively authorize  the  spoliation.  Mr.  Dobn 
son,  an  architect  of  Newcastle,  made 
plans  for  its  restoration  as  a  chapel  in 
connection  with  the  Church  of  England } 
but  the  site  has  been  devoted  to  "  tba 
town  improvements.*' 

A  letter  from  Mr.  Edmund  Tyrell  Artia, 
of  Castor,  in  Northamptonshire,  stated 
that  paintings  had  recently  been  dia- 
covered  on  the  walls  of  five  of  the  churches 
in  that  neighbourhood,  namely,  in  those 
of  Castor,  Etton,  Orton.  Peakirk,  and 
Yaxley.  The  subjects,  which  are  accom- 
panied with  inscriptions,  are  scriptural, 
and  differ  from  each  other,  but  the 
colours  are  the  same  in  all,  and  the  great 
similarity  in  style  leads  Mr.  Artis  to  be« 
lieve  that  they  were  executed  by  the  same 
artists. 

Mr.  Thomas  Bateman,  jun.  exhibited  a 
drawing  of  a  pewter  chalice,  found  with  a 
patina,  and  one  or  two  coins  of  Edward 
II.  in  a  stone  coffin  in  the  churchyard  of 
Bakewell,  Derbyshire. 

Mr.  Thomas  Clarkson  Neale  exhibited 
a  richly-ornamented  jug  of  Flemish  ware, 
of  a  greyish  white  colour  and  degant 
shape,  found  at  Butley  Priory,  Norfolkt 
and  now  preserved  in  the  Chdmsford  and 
Essex  Museum.  Its  date  is  of  the  close 
of  the  sixteenth  century.  A  drawing  of 
the  jug  bv  Mr.  John  Adey  Repton  ac- 
companied the  exhibition. 

Aprii  10.  Mr.  Joseph  Clarke,  of  Saf. 
fron  Walden,  exhibited  various  objects 
found  at  the  moit  northemly  CKtramity  q( 


188  Antiqiiarimi  Htuarchu.  t-^xv- 

Ihtt  p«iwh,   kbout  tbne  milet  dircctij     tba  layar  of  plutw  coDtuniag  tke  paint- 
Molh    (Tom   ChiMMifbrd,    luppoud    b;     inp. 

•onus  to  be  the  CunboricnDi  of  Uie  Ro-  Hr.  Thouu  Firmer  Dakca,  of  Sbr«ira- 
B*ni.  Od  ods  of  the  moit  dented  bur,  preKnted  ■  dnoiog  of  the  window 
ipoU  In  the  lidnitf,  u  the  progreu  of  of  St.Mary'i  chnrch,  inthat  town,  which 
bad-dreiidDg  wu  proceeding,  the  work-  contein*  the  greeter  portioa  of  the  punted 
■nea  itonibled  frequeatljr  apoa  wb«t  they  gUu  formerk;  in  the  eeetem  window  of 
oUid  [Hccet  of  dU  pbttert  md  bit*  of  old  old  St.  Cbad'i  church,  lod  rcpreaeDta  tka 
riMi,  which  proTM  to  be  fragmenti  of  lenealogj  oF  our  Saviour.  At  the  bottom 
Roowio-Britlib  foaersl  nteouU.  The  ia  depicted  the  patriarch  Jeaae,  ■•  larg« 
htlowlng  trticlei  (of  lome  of  which  en.  aa  life,  betng  lii  feet  ia  length.  He  is  is 
graTingi  are  giTen  In  the  Society'i  Re-  ■  deep  aleep.  reclining  npon  a  cDihion. 
pMt}  were  all  found  together,  not  more  From  the  loins  of  tbi*  figure  proceed  ■ 
than  two  feet  from  the  lurfaoe,  and  from  vine,  the  bruchei  of  which  extend  Demrlf 
the  occurrence  of  iion  biogea,  &c.  the  oTcr  the  entire  of  the  window,  inclosing 
cooelanan  drawn  ii,thatthejwere  buried  within  unall  otkI  compartmeota  the  de- 
in  a  hex: — No.  1.  A  glaia  bottle,  3(  icendintiof JeuedowntoJouiph.  Under 
inehe*  high,  of  the  dua  to  which  the  thcM  paiotioga  there  appear  amonsat 
term  tacArynuftry  U  giiea.  !.  A  iquare  othera  the  repreientationi  of  Sir  John  da 
Tcsael  of  tolerabl;  thick  green  glaii,  with  Charllon,  Lord  of  Powia,  and  hii  wife 
a  email  neck,  and  an  el^ant  atrialed  Hawia,  who  ■eemi  to  hare  been  the  donor 
handle,  in  liie  lii  inchei  high,  and  abont  of  thii  window  lometime  between  the 
four  inchei  aqosre  at  bottom.  3,  4.  For-  jean  1333  and  1.153.  The  figure  of  the 
tions  of  two  cinerary  nmi.  5,  6.  Two  lady  diSera  In  iti  detaila  from  a  draw- 
patera  of  red  or  Samlan  ware.  7.  A  ing  taken  by  SirWilliam  Dugdale  in  1663, 
large  aimpolnm  of  red  Samiau  pottery,  now  in  the  Hemldt'  College,  wherein  her 
with  the  iiy  leaf  mnning  ronnd  ita  edge,  robe  ia  ornamented  by  armorial  bearings. 
nine  Inchei  oier,  of  elegant  ihape,  hnt  Thii  painting  baa  been  engraved  by  Carter, 
defaced.     B.  The  wide  month  or  rim  of  Mr.  Dakei  alio  preaeuted  another  draw- 

a  imall  Tettel  of  nearly  colouileii  glaii.  leg  from  a  piece  of  glaii  in  hia  own  pos- 
9.  An  iron  lampholder.  It).  Fart  of  a  aeition  representing  Aloiander  slaying 
spew-head,  of  iron,  barbed  on  one  ude.  CLitoi ;  and  a  Tiew  of  en  ancient  wooden 
11.  Shaft  of  the  same,  or  another.  13.  chapel  at  Mdverley,  about  ten  miles 
Pair  of  mde  iron  hinges,  one  of  which  ia  from  Shrewabury,  nearly  adjoining  the 
perfect  and  acting.  13.  Paria  of  an  iron  confloi  of  the  riven  Severn  and  Vir- 
itaple  and  heap,  probably  the  fastenings  niew ;  and  a  sketch  of  the  remaining 
of  a  box.  14.  ^ecei  of  lead,  one  of  portion  of  an  octagonal  font,  bearing 
which  looka  as  if  it  had  been  folded  ronnd  the  inscription  in  Greek,  reading  for- 
lometbing.  IS.  Six  bronie  omamenti,  wards  and  backwards  the  same,  "  NI^ON 
of  tolerable  workmanihip,  with  iron  riveta  ANOMHHA  MH  MONAN  0*IN," 
in  thii  ivniM  nf  «icb,  and  five  rings  of  icoidentally  riacned  from  deatntctton  at 
•rt»  of  the  «eld  were      Kinneriey  in  Shropshire. 

red  diah,  a  small  Mr.  Albert  Way  exhibited  a  forged 
lont  tix  inchea  over,  brass  aeal  of  Macarma  Bishop  of  Antiocb, 
or.  Txai,  much  mu-  which  the  owner  had  purchased  upon  the 
mtbed  vessel  of  very  asMrtion  of  its  having  been  found  ia  the 
H  inches  high,  month  Thames  by  the  ballast-heavers.  The  seal 
jlng  about  half  a  pint,  ;■  circular,  about  one  and  a  half  inch  in 
ituberances  after  the  diameter  ;  the  apper  part  ia  in  form  of  a 
I  or  the  fir ;  a  lachry-  tortoise,  on  the  ^ack  of  which  ia  a  semi- 
high;  pordons  of  se-  circular  handle.  Many  aimilar  forgeriea, 
of  potCerv  and  glaai ;  executed  in  the  immediate  neighbourhood 
in,  second  braia,  with  of  CoventGarden,  bavebeen  disperaed  not 
It  ^Bo  in  tbe 


)bn  Oreen  Waller  made 
the  poaiibilityof  restor- 

dls  covered  with  many  nearly~Gve  years  ago  in  our  vol.  XII.  p. 

His  opinion  is  that  the  g36.)    Many  of  these  leala   are  merelr 

J  foDnd  on  the  walls  of  lead  dectrotyped,   the   weight  of  which 

;aat«d  "fresco,"  are  in  alone  would  lend  to  their  detection.    They 

re  than  distemper,  for  have    moreover  in    most    cases   a  light 

di  he  soggeiti  the  use  mouldy-green  rust,  the  surface  is  uneven 

y  applied  with  a  bmah  and  covered  with  very  minute  globules, 

Iter,  to  nodity  it*  (o-  and  tbe  edge  hat  a  coarse  look  and  ap. 

Ou  >oid  from  injuiini  pesn  filed. 


--1 


1844.] 


Aniiquarian  Researches, 


m 


May  8.  Mr.  Wright  laid  on  the  table 
a  YtLBc  of  stone  apparently  of  the  time  of 
James  I.,  dug  up  within  the  precincts  of 
the  priory  of  Leominster  in  Herefordshire, 
and  a  fragment  of  a  head  sculptured  in 
stone  (Norman  work)  dug  up  at  the  depth 
of  IS  feet  in  a  field  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  Leominster.  These  articles  are  the 
property  of  John  ETans,  esq.,  F.S.A.,  of 
Upper  Stamford  Street. 

Mr.  £.  B.  Pricei  of  Cow-cross  Street, 
West  Smithfieldy  communicated  an  ac- 
count of  the  discovery  of  vast  quantities 
of  human  remains  during  excavations  for 
sewerage  at  the  west  end  of  Newcastle 
Street,  Farringdon  Street,  within  a  short 
distance  eastward  of  an  old  brick  wall 
which  Mr.  Price  thinks  formed  part  of  the 
barrier  of  the  river  Fleet.  These  remains 
were  found  at  the  depth  of  about  five  feet. 
Another  similar  deposit  was  discovered  at 
the  depth  of  six  or  seven  feet  about  twenty 
or  thirty  feet  further  up  the  street,  near  Sea- 
coal  Lane.  A  very  ancient  wall  still  exists 
at  the  foot  of  the  precipitous  descent 
named  Breakneck  StairSf  which  was  a  relic 
in  Stowe's  day.  He  alludes  to  *'  an  old 
wall  of  stone  inclosing  a  piece  of  ground 
up  Seacoal  Lane,  wherein  (by  report)  some- 
time stood  an  Inne  of  Chancery,  which 
house  being  greatly  decayed  and  standing 
remote  from  other  houses  of  that  profes- 
sion, the  company  removed,"  &c.  When 
the  excavation  had  descended  to  the  depth 
of  14  feet,  numerous  fragments  of  Roman 
pottery,  an  iron  Wy/ut,  and  two  small 
brass  coins  of  Constantine,  were  disco- 
vered. 

Mr.  A.  Stubbs  of  Boulogne  communica- 
ted a  drawing  from  stone  capitals  of  pillars 
sculptured  with  the  Tudor  arms,  deposited 
in  the  museum  of  that  town.  These 
capitak  were  found  on  taking  down  a 
house  on  the  Tintilleries  in  1807)  and 
Mr.  Stubbs  conjectures  that  they  belonged 
to  the  jub4  or  rood-loft  of  the  church  of 
St.  Nicholas  in  Calaisi  taken  down  to 
make  room  for  the  citadel  erected  by  the 
French  after  the  recovery  of  the  town  from 
the  English ;  and  which  jub^f  it  appears, 
was  by  order  of  Charles  IX.  transferred  in 
1561  to  Boulogne. 

Notes  were  read  from  Arthur  W.  Up- 
cher,  esq.,  on  the  discovery  of  a  small 
bronze  figure  of  the  crucified  Saviour  in  a 
field  adjoining  Beeston  Priory,  near  Cro- 
mer ;  and  from  Sir  Arthur  Brooke  Faulk- 
ner, mentioning  the  finding  of  a  small 
brass  coin  of  Victorinus  and  some  trades- 
men's tokens  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
in  digging  the  foundations  of  a  house  at 
Broadstairs,  near  Ramsgate. 

Mr.  Charles  L.  Fisher,  of  Aldenham 
Park,  solicited  the  kind  interference  of  the 
Assodation  on  behalf  of  the  Prior*8  House 
•iWenlocky  an  interestiiig  moiuuitic  hoiuei 


almost  the  only  one  remaining  habitable 
which  hss  not  been  altered  or  modernised. 
It  has  since  been  proposed  that  some 
members  of  the  committee  should  rent 
the  ruins  of  Wenlock  for  the  purpose  of 
commissioning  a  gentleman  in  the  neigh* 
bourhood  to  see  to  their  preservatioil 
from  unnecessary  injuries,  and  at  the 
meeting  of  the  committee  of  the  10th 
July,  four  gentlemen  were  named  for  that 
purpose. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Rolfe  exhibited  a  small 
enamelled  and  gilt  bronze  figure,  appa« 
rently  of  a  mass-priest,  found  at  Hammel, 
near  Eastry  in  Kent. 

Atay99,  Mr.  William  Edward  Rose 
presented  a  spear-head  in  iron,  S3  inches 
in  length,  a  bronze  ornament  attached  to 
a  portion  of  a  chain,  and  a  small  brass 
coin  of  Constantino  (Rev.  spesreipvbl*), 
a  figure  on  horseback  with  the  right  arm 
elevated,  and  holding  in  the  left  hand  a 
javelin ;  before  the  horse  a  captive  seated  ; 
in  the  exergue,  pln.  These  objects  were 
discovered  in  1838  (the  date  is  deficient 
in  the  Report)  on  the  apex  of  Shooters' 
Hill,  Pangbourn,  Berks,  in  making  exca- 
vations for  the  Great  Western  Railway. 
At  the  same  time  and  place  were  brought 
to  light  a  variety  of  urns,  coins,  and  speai^- 
heads,  together  with  nearly  a  hundred 
skeletons  Tying  in  rows  in  one  direction. 
There  was  also  discovered,  Mr.  Rose  states, 
a  structure  resembling  the  foundations  of 
a  lime-kiln,  about  thirty  feet  in  diameter, 
and  2  feet  deep,  composed  of  fiints  ce« 
mented  with  mortar  of  intense  hardness  ; 
the  interior  contained  a  large  quantity  of 
charcoal  and  burnt  human  bones.  A 
brief  account  of  these  discoveries  ap- 
peared in  our  vol.  x.  p.  650  ;  and  they 
were  also  noticed,  with  a  description  of 
the  skulls  of  the  skeletons,  by  Dr.  AlU 
natt,  F.S.A.t  in  the  Medical  Gazette, 

Richard  Sainthill,  esq.  of  Cork,  for- 
warded a  coloured  drawing  of  an  ancient 
punt  or  canoe,  with  a  descriptive  letter 
from  J.  B.  Gumbleton,  esq.  of  Fort 
William,  near  Lismore.  Mr.  Gumbletoil 
writes,  ''The  canoe  was  found  on  very 
high  though  boggy  land,  a  few  feet  under 
the  surface,  on  the  lands  of  Coaloweo, 
the  estate  of  Richard  Gumbleton,  esq. 
The  river  Bride  is  about  a  mile,  and  the 
Blackwater  river  about  two  mUes  distant, 
but  I  do  not  think  the  canoe  was  ever  on 
either.  Its  length  is  16  feet  6  inehes; 
breadth,  4  feet;  depth  inside,  1  foot  9 
inches  ;  depth  outside,  2  feet.  It  is  hol« 
lowed  out  from  the  solid  timber  with,  I 
should  say,  the  smallest  and  rudest  axes ) 
it  seems  also  to  bear  marks  of  having  beeti 
partly  hollowed  out  by  fire;  there  is  no 
appearance  of  seats,  or  places  fbr  oars  t 
the  timber  is  oak,  and  so  hard  that  « 
b«tchet  can  make  bat  little  impreuion  oil 


190 


AnHfuaritm  Rsmard^ea. 


CAi*. 


il ;  tbara  are  ftrar  krg»  kolef,  two  ateacK 
CBd,  the  QM  of  whieh  I  camiot  gmas.  Iti 
waight  is  I  think  aboat  three  tons.'* 

John  Adej  Repton,  ciq.  P.S.A.  exhi- 
Wted  a  coloored  dnwing  of  Tariooa  orna* 
menta  from  iobm  ancient  tapestry  in  hia 
WMaetaioa,  apparently  of  the  tine  of 
Henry  VIII. 

Jum€  IS.  Mr.  C.  R.  Sauth  informed 
the  Committee  of  the  aiafeeBoe  of  the  re* 
maina  of  some  Roman  bnildinga  in  the 
chmrch-field  at  Snodland  in  Kent.  Ahont 
two  yean  ainoe,  Mr.  Smith  having  ob* 
aerred  Roman  tilea  in  the  walla  of  the- 
chnrchf  was  induced  to  examine  the 
Beighbonring  field  with  a  view  to  aaoertain 
whether  theie  tilea  might  have  been  taken 
from  Roman  bnildinga  in  the  immediate 
vicinity,  as  in  several  instancea  where  Ro* 
man  tUea  oompose  in  part  the  masonry  of 
ehureh  walls,  he  had  discovered  indica* 
tioos  of  a&dent  habitations  in  the  ad- 
joining fields.  He  found  the  field  in 
which  the  church  of  Snodland  is  situate, 
•trewed  in  places  with  the  tesaerm  of  Ro* 
man  pavements,  and  fragments  of  roof 
and  floe  tiles,  and  pottery,  and  also  oh« 
perved  in  the  bank  of  the  field  which  over- 
hangs  the  river  Med  way  other  evidenoea 
of  buildings.  During  a  recent  visit  to 
Snodland,  Mr.  Smith  examined  the  latter 
more  circumspectly,  which  he  was  better 
enabled  to  do  from  a  part  of  the  bank 
having  foundered  from  the  action  of  the 
water.  The  remains  of  the  walls  and 
flooring  of  a  small  room  are  now  distinctly 
visible  in  the  bank,  at  about  six  feet  from 
the  surface  of  the  field.  The  walls,  two 
feet  thick,  are  composed  of  chalk  and  rag 
stone ;  the  pavement,  of  lime  mixed  with 
sand,  small  stones,  and  pounded  tile.  In 
continuing  his  search  along  the  bank  to- 
wards the  east,  Mr.  Smith  diacovered  the 
remains  of  other  buildings,  of  one  of 
which,  part  of  a  well-built  wall  of  stone, 
with  alternate  layers  of  red  and  yellow 
tiles,  is  to  be  seen  beneath  the  sedge  and 
underwood  with  which  the  bank  is  co- 
vered. Mr.  Smith  hopes  the  attention  of 
some  of  the  membera  of  the  Association 
will  be  directed  to  these  remains,  with  a 
view  to  effect  a  more  complete  investi- 
gation. 

Mr.  Smith  also  ethibited  several  draw- 
ings, already  noticed  in  our  report  of  the 
Society  of  Antiquaries,  at  p.  77* 

Mr.  Henry  Norria  of  South  Petharton 
eommunicated  the  discovery  on  the  S3d 
May,  at  Stroudshill,  near  Montaouta, 
Somersetshire,  of  between  seventy  and 
eighty  iron  weapona,  which  at  first  sight 
appeared  to  be  sword-blades,  but  on 
doser  inspection  seemed  more  probably 
to  be  very  long  javelin  heads,  from  the 
lotal  absence  of  any  thiag  like  a  hilt,  as 
wall  u  fron  Um  «lr€»»ftaa«9  tbtt  Hfsik 


efthem  haaaaa^at,  or  tha  reasaitta  of 
•ae,  evidently  intended  fora  shaft.  Tlmaa 
that  are  in  the  auiet  peifcpt  ateta  an 
about  two  and  a-half  feet  long,  their 
greatest  breadth  one  inch  and  three  quar* 
tars.  They  were  fennd  in  a  eorroded 
Buas,  covered  over  with  a  flat  atone,  and 
the  field  in  which  ther  were  diacovered  ia 
eontiauoaa  with  Hamdoa  Hill,  the  aite  of 
a  British-Roman  encampasantt  wherv 
nnuMroua  reauiaa  in  iron  and  braaae 
have  been  frwad,  snch  as  ooina,  mnow* 
heads,  fibula,  &c 

Mr.  G.  R.  Comer,  F.SJl.,  infome4 
the  Committee  that  Mr.  George  WooUaa- 
ton,  of  Welling,  has  discovered  somn 
freaoo  paintings  on  the  walla  and  window, 
jambs  of  the  church  of  Eaat  Wi^hai^, 
Kent,  of  which  he  is  engaged  in  making 
tracinga,  which  he  offers  to  lay  befora  the 
Association  at  the  propoeed  m^^Hng  ^ 
Canterbury.  They  consist  of  a  double 
row  of  scriptural  snl^jects  in  colours,  ex. 
tending  originally  (it  ia  believed)  all 
round  the  church.  The  lower  range  ia 
within  an  arcade  of  pointed  trefoil  archea, 
each  arch  containing  a  distinct  subject. 
The  subjecta  at  present  made  out  am, 
the  three  Kiaga  bringing  preaents  tn 
Herod ;  the  fligbt  into  Egypt ;  the  mee(« 
ing  of  EUsabeUi  and  Mary ;  the  piaaan* 
tation  of  Jesus  in  the  Temple ;  and  the 
archangel  Michael  overcoming  Satan.  Mr. 
Comer  states  the  paintings  to  be  exceed. 
ingly  well  drawn,  and  to  be  in  hia  opinion 
aa  early  aa  the  thirteenth  century,  the 
probable  date  of  the  chancel. 

Mr.  John  Sydenham  informed  the  Com. 
mittee,  that,  in  consequence  of  a  reservoir 
being  about  to  be  erected  by  order  of 
(iovemmcnt  in  Greenwich  FWrk.  for  the 
purpose  of  supplying  the  Hospital  and 
Dockyard  with  water,  the  Saxon  banowa, 
the  examination  of  which  by  Douglaa 
forms  so  interesting  a  feature  in  his  Nemim 
Britatmiea,  would  be  neariy  all  dMtroyed. 
The  Aasodatioo  had  not  time  to  take  any 
effectual  steps  in  eonaaquence  of  this 
communication ;  for,  on  the  14th  of  June^ 
in  the  faae  of  a  public  meeting  of  the  in* 
habitaata  of  Greenwich  proposed  to  be 
holden  on  the  same  day,  the  greater  nam. 
her  of  the  twenty-six  barrowa  were  hastily 
cleared  away,  under  the  immediate  super- 
intendeace  of  the  Woo«U  aad  Foreats 
Committee,  leaving  only  thiea  or  fi>ttr  to 
point  out  their  former  site. 

A  letter  from  Mr.  £.  I.  Carloa  was  read, 
containing  objections  to  certain  altera- 
tions said  to  be  contempkited  in  the  in. 
tenor  arrangements  of  Westminster  Ah. 
bey.  It  is  understood  that  these  plaw 
are  now  abandoaed. 

The  Comaiittee  of  the  Aasoaiatioa  ha^ 
fixed  the  second  weak  ia  Septambar  for 
th«  gfBffgl  n«etiog  it  CflAtirWgr,    Clip 


Anttquarttm  Be$0artk^ 


m 


cttluv  will  be  addiMied  to  ths  menben 
•totinf  the  plan  end  aniBge&ieBtt  of  the 
aeeting. 


THS  mUIKS  OV  ATHSMS. 

The  Archaologioal  Sodety  of  Athens  has, 
with  the  aid  of  the  mihtcriptioni  of  theEago 
Huh  oommittee,  tenninated  the  rettontion 
of  the  Temple  of  the  WiogleiB  Victory. 
Not  only  waa  this  an  object  of  primary  ne- 
cessityf  but  the  former  work  (not  haTing 
been  terminated)  was  in  a  course  of  de- 
struction, as  unfortunately  demonstrated 
by  the  fall  of  one  of  the  replaced  columns. 
A  capital  and  a  drum  of  a  column  haTC 
been  supplied,  as  well  as  scTeral  small 
trantrerse  marble  beams,  which  have  en* 
abled  as  many  lacunaria  to  be  placed  in 
their  proper  position  as  could  be  found. 
The  architraTos  have  also  been  placed  on 
the  columns,  and  the  whole  of  the  firiese 
on  the  east  side.    The  whole  is  firmly 
connected  together,  and  the  three  relievos 
of  Winged  Victories,  which  formed  part 
of  a  iMlustrade  round  the  temple,  are 
placed  in  safety  within  its  walls.    Though 
the  traces  of  the  balustrade  remain  on  the 
north  side  of  the  temple,  it  has  been 
deemed  most  advisable  to  preserve  them 
separately.     Two  pieces  of   the  frieze, 
probably  built  into  the  Turkish  bastion 
below,  and  the  four  pieces  in  the  British 
Museum,  are  still  wanting,  but  the  effect 
of  the  temple  is  perfect  as  regards  its  prin- 
cipal front.    The  bases  of  all  the  colamns 
of  the  Propyleum  have  been  long  since 
cleared  from  the  earth  which  reached  to 
half  their  height ;   and  the  Pinacotheca 
now  forms  a  clean  and  orderly  museum 
for  the  preservation  of  inscriptions  and 
small  fragmeata  of  sculpture.    From  the 
Propyleum  to  the  Parthenon,  and  from 
the  Parthenon  to  the  Brechtheium,  the 
whole  of  the  rubbish  has  been  removed 
down  to  the  rock,  so  that  the  perspective 
effect  of  the  great  temple  has  been  re- 
stored ;    it  is,  however,  to  be  regretted 
that  the  great  expense  of  this  labour  (for 
in  some  places  the  soil  and  stones  were 
ten  fieet  high)  haa  prevented  the  principle 
being  carried  out  by  the  removal  of  the 
laiger  fragmenta  of  marble  which  encum- 
ber the  ground.    To  save  expense,  too, 
and  to  preserve  a  vast  number  of  sculp- 
tured fragments  of  different  eras,  the  con- 
servator of  antiquities  has  imbedded  them 
in  low  walls  of  plaster,  which  injures  the 
generul  effect.     When  means  have  been 
afforded  to  clear  the  great  space  beyond 
the  Parthenon  at  the  eastern  end  of  the 
Acropolis,  these  remains  may  be  arranged 
conveniently,  and  a  proper  place  chosen 
for  a  simple  building  to  be  used  as  an 
Acropolitan  Museum.    This  would  render 
it  possible  to  puU  down  the  several  Ve- 


netian casematea,  &e.  whieh  so  much 
destroy  the  effect  of  the  beautiful  builds 
ings  in  the  centre  and  western  part  of  tho 
Acropolis. 

The  iaterior  of  the  Parthenon  has  beem 
cleared  of  the  Turkish  mosque  in  its  cen- 
tre, which  had  become  dangerous,  and* 
could  it  now  be  relieved  of  the  huge  frag- 
menta of  the  Christian  church  (at  its  east 
end},  the  whole  area  would  be  displayed 
in  the  pristine  proportions  of  its  beauty, 
excepting  always  the  Interior  of  the 
columns,  which  ^thanks  to  the  buildms 
of  mosque  and  church)  have  wholly  dia- 
appeared.  The  position  of  the  Chrysele- 
phantine statue,  by  Phidias,  is,  however, 
clearly  ascertained,  as  well  as  the  site  of 
the  colossal  Minerva. 

What  does  most  honour  to  the  labours 
of  the  conservator  of  antiquities,  and  the 
Arohseological  Society,  however,  is  the 
rebuilding  of  the  southern  wall  of  the 
Temple  of  Minerva  Polias,  and  the  repair 
of  the  portico  of  the  Caryatides,  with  the 
complete  clearing  of  the  Erechtheium  and 
of  the  Cecropeium,  with  the  exception  of 
the  northern  portico.  To  this  portico, 
now  wholly  fiUed  by  a  modern  powder 
magasine,  the  attention  of  the  Archaeolo- 
gical Society  has  been  drawn,  and  the 
English  committee  have  reserved  what  re- 
mains of  the  very  small  sum  placed  at 
their  disposal,  until  the  clearing  of  this 
beautiAd  object  can  be  undertaken.  Two 
enormous  fragments  of  its  marble  beams 
remain  suspended  on  the  roof  of  the 
modern  building,  their  corresponding  parte 
being  on  the  ground  below. 

Few  who  see  the  Acropolis  in  its  pre- 
sent state  would  be  disposed  to  deny  that 
the  clearing  the  portico  of  the  Erech- 
theium, and  opening  the  beantiful  door 
from  it  to  the  Temple,  is  evidently  the 
next  great  work  which  should  be  under- 
taken by  the  Society  ;  and  it  is  lamentable 
that  so  very  small  a  sum  as  what  is  neces- 
sary should  be  wanting.  A  French  com- 
mission, under  the  direction  of  Mens.  Le 
Bas,  has  been  employed  in  making  casts 
and  drawings  in  the  Acropolis  for  these 
last  eight  months ;  and  an  arrangement- 
due  to  the  good  understanding  of  the 
French  and  English  ministers — has  juat 
been  made,  by  which  some  of  these  ad- 
mirably executed  works  will  find  their  way 
into  the  halls  of  the  British  Museum. 
The  French  artists  have  just  erected  scaf- 
folding which  will  enable  them  to  make  a 
magnificent  cast  of  the  north-west  angle 
of  the  Parthenon,  including  the  upper 
part  of  its  column,  firiese,  and  entabl^ 
ture,  which  will  give  a  correct  idea  of  the 
colossal  proportions  of  the  whole  build*- 

ing* 
Among  the  many  inscriptions  of  tht 


192 


CA-g. 


tf .  «r«  tJLree  «r 
tJHtere«l — tic 
the  v'>i.ie  staStte  to 
SH^u-xubd  H  tW  Li<e  «f 
tar'.fc  a»d  bf  P^t  :  the 

is  tie  PvtkeocM 
if^,',B.   price. 


of 

Pcficks,  hw  As- 

of  t^ 

to  ts« 

aci  i*e  ^'- 

oT  tbe 


C.  H.1L 


ia  cnctiBC  tW  Lovf  Walls. 

TW  roSwia^  ftotaes  aad  rebrrot  m 
of  oafcif*  raise  to  acrit  eaoti,  vere  tW 
Mcaaa  afforded  from  the  BSfesms  of 
Evope  r— 10  f  »eeef  of  tke  frieie  of  the 
Pkrtheaoa,  of  tbe  14  ftiU  in  tbe  Acropo. 
Ik  ;  I  metopo— tlie  Winfed  Victory  tak- 
ie^  oW  her  tandal,  and  aoodKr  called  the 
Boll  of  Maratboa,  rdi'-Too  from  tbe  ex- 
tierior  of  tbe  Victory  Afiteroa,  witb  part 
of  « third,  a  beaatifol  little  atatoe  of  a 
faan.  aSoot  2  feet  bigb  ;  CVrea.  or  Diaaa, 
aoeen  Jiof  a  ear,  ta  a  ftylr  retemblmf  that 
of  the  Zanthiaa  Marbles  :  aboat  eight  of 
tbe  aaiall  tepalchrsl  aad  oCber  re^lieri  pre- 
ienred  ia  tbe  Pioacothrci ;  aereral  beaa. 
tifal  fragBMoU  of  oaiall  atataes,  tbree  of 
tboie  preferred  ta  tbe  Stoa  of  Adriaa  ;  a 
tono  of  a  Capid  ;  a  bold  •epalcbral  relief 
of  ta  old  nan  and  a  yootb,  5  feet  high ;  a 
Haely  draped  aUtaet  of  tbe  best  era,  6 
feet  high,  fooad  at  Ajidros,  bead  wasting, 
baling  been  replaced  by  a  Bonaa  bast, 
as  the  catting  at  tbe  neck  shows ;  small 
relief,  with  inscription  "Athena,"  &e. ;  the 
colossal  sUtae  of  Erechtboaias,  still  m 
sl/«,  below  the  Temple  of  Theseus,  8  feet 
high,  bead  wanting;  cob»sal  statae  of 
Minerra  Victrix,  remarkable  for  iU  ex- 
qaisite  drapery,  head  wanting,  near  the 
Theseiam.  In  the  TTieseiBm— tbe  very 
canons  relievo,  6  feet  high,  of  a  Warrior 
with  spear,  with  great  remains  of  colours 
—a  work  of  Ariiteion,  of  tbe  ancient 
school  of  Sycion ;  a  beaatifal  figure,  of  tbe 
▼ery  best  era,  perfect  aU  but  tbe  legs 
below  tbe  knee  and  tbe  arms,  5  feet  high, 
called  the  Apollo,  from  baring  a  serpent 
on  the  base ;  a  sUtuc  supposed  to  be  Apollo 
Lycins,  6  feet ;  a  beautiful  Uttle  Silenus, 
with  the  infant  Bacchus  on  his  shoulder, 
3  feet;  a  Pan,  3  feet  high  ;  a  beautiful 
little  Terminus,  1§  foot  high,  with  three 
heads  of  the  Diana  Triformis,  and  one  of 
Hermes  ;  s  sepulchral  relief,  5  feet  by  4, 
of  •  youth,  dog,  and  boy ;  another,  of  the 
same  siie,  of  female,  nurse,  child,  and 
friend— both  these  pieces,  in  very  promt, 
nent  alto-relievo,  are  admirable  specimens 
of  the  common  sepulchral  style  subse- 
ouent  to  the  best  period  of  Athenian 
sculpture.  Several  other  relievos,  of 
amall  si»c  and  minor  imporUncc. 

So  excavations  have  been  made  lately 
ont  of  the  AcropolU,  neither  ii  there  any 
10 


having  fw  and  the 
College  of  Sc  Ebiabetb, 
are  ao 

tbe  walb  is  IdD  feet, 
feet;  each  wall  asd 


attached  to  tbe 
.  of  vrbick 


tbe  width  X 
of  whiiA 


and  two  at  tbe 

traced,  and  meassia  aMMt  to.  Wttt  ia 
tbickneaa.  This  college  was  foasdcd  is 
1301  by  John  de  Postisma,  Bisfaop  of 
Winchester,  aad  dedicated  aader  tbe  naaae 
of  St.  Etixabeth  of  Hungary,  witb  foads 
for  a  warden,  six  other  priests,  three 
deacons  and  sab^ieacoBi,  besides  youig 
clerks  or  stadeats,  oae  of  wbon  was  ap- 
pointed to  wait  on  each  priest.  At  the 
dissolution  of  religious  boaaes  the  yearly 
income  was  valiMd  at  113/.  I7«.  Ad. 
Thomas  Runcorn  was  at  that  time  wardoa, 
and  was  afterwarda  appelated  oae  of  the 
first  prebendaries  of  the  cathedral  vpon 
the  expulsion  of  tbe  moaka.  The  build- 
ings and  site  were  given  to  Sir  Hiomas 
Wriothesley,  afterwards  Eari  of  South* 
ampton,  who  sold  them  to  Dr.  Joba 
White,  then  Warden  of  Winchester  CoU 
lege,  for  the  use  of  his  society,  for  3601. 
subject  to  the  condition,  that  the  church 
should  be  turned  into  a  grammar  school 
for  70  students,  or  else  that  it  should  he 

fulled  down  before  the  pentecost  of  1547. 
n  consequence  tbe  church  was  destroyed 
to  tbe  foundations.  It  is  said  to  have 
been  ornamented  witb  three  altars,  one  of 
St.  Elizabeth,  a  second  of  St.  Stephen 
and  St.  Lawrence,  and  a  third  of  St.  Ed- 
mund and  St.  Thomas  tbe  Martyr. 

A  considerable  portion  of  tbe  site  of 
this  establishment  was  added  in  1554  to 
the  meadow  attached  to  Winchester  Col- 
lege, and  the  wall  inclosing  it  has  every 
appearance  of  being  erected  with  stone 
taken  from  the  destroyed  buildings. 


198 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  PARLIAMENT. 


HoasB  OF  Lords. 

JuM  16.  Lord  Whamclife  moved  the 
iSrst  reading  of  the  Leeds  Parochial  Di- 
TisiON  Bill.  Its  object  is  to  divide  the  large 
and  populous  parish  of  Leeds  into  separate 
parishes,  and  it  originated  with  Dr.  Hook, 
the  Vicar  of  Leeds,  in  order  that  better 
spiritual  instruction  should  be  afforded  to 
the  inhabitants  of  that  town.  The  Bishop 
cf  RipoH  said  that  the  measure  was  en- 
tirely in  conformity  with  the  ancient 
unges  of  the  Church.  The  object  of  the 
Bill  is,  in  the  first  place,  to  empower  the 
Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  to  constitute 
the  existing  churches  in  Leeds  parish 
churches,  and  to  grant  endowments  for 
those  churches  from  the  tithes  and  other 
emoluments  belonging  to  the  vicarage  of 
Leeds,  on  condition  that  the  nave,  or  body 
of  each  church,  should  be  free  to  the  poor, 
and  a  house  be  found  for  the  minister  of 
each  parish. 

June  21.  A  lengthened  discussion  took 

51aeeon  the  Bankruptcy  and  Insolvency 
jawb  Amendment  Bill  and  the  Debtor 
AND  Creditors  Bill — the  former  being  in- 
troduced  by  Lord  Brougham,  and  the 
latter  by  Lord  Coitenham;  and,  the  object 
of  both  being  somewhat  similar,  they  were 
discussed  in  conjunction.  The  Lord  Chan- 
etllor  suggested  that  both  Bills  should  be 
referred  to  a  Select  Committee  to  inquire 
which  Bill  was  preferable,  or  whether  a 
measure  preferuble  to  either  might  not  be 
compounded  from  both.  Lord  BmugJuim 
assented  to  this  airangement;  but  Lord 
Cottenham  persevered  in  moving  that  his 
Bill  be  read  a  third  time,  to  which  an 
amendment  was  moved  that  it  be  sent  to 
a  Select  Committee.  Their  Lordships 
divided,  and  the  third  reading  of  the  Bill 
was  negatived  bv  a  majority  of  28  to  4. 
The  Bill  was  then  referred  to  a  Select 
Committee,  which  was  in  effect  getting 
rid  of  it  for  the  present  Session. 

July  h.  Lord  Campbell  moved  the 
third  reading  of  the  Law  of  Libel  Bill, 
designed  to  allow  the  defendant  in  a  trial 
for  libel  to  establish,  if  be  could,  the 
truth  of  the  charges  be  made.  His  Lord, 
ship  explained  that  the  Bill  was  intended 
to  complete  the  measure  of  last  year,  and 
would  place  the  law  for  public  libel  on  the 
same  footing  as  that  of  private  libel.  The 
Lord  Chancellor  did  not  approve  of  the 
Bill,  on  the  ground  that  it  would  be  no 

Obiit.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


improvement  in  the  law  as  it  at  present 
existed,  and  moved  that  it  be  read  a 
third  time  on  that  day  three  months.  The 

House  divided ;  when  the  third  reading 
was  lost  by  a  majority  of  33  against  3. 

July  9.    Chief  Justice  Tindal  read  the 
opinion  of  the  Judges  on  the  claim  of  Sir 
Augustus  d'Este  to  the  Dukedom  of 
Sussex,  which  entered  into  a  long,  ela- 
borate, and  comprehensive  view  of  the 
meaning  of  the    Royal   Marriage  Act. 
The  Judges  were  of  opinion  that  the  lan- 
guage of  the   Royal  Marriage  Act  was 
clear  and  precise ;  that  there  was  no  am- 
biguity about  it,  and  that  no  marriage  of 
any  branch  of  the  Roval  Family  was  a 
valid  marriage  unless  the  consent  of  the 
Crown  was  previously  obtained ;  that  the 
consent  of  the  Crown  must  be  given  by 
the  Sovereign  in  Council ;  that  such  con- 
sent  must  he  inserted  at  full  length  in  the 
marriage  licence,  in  the  certificate,  and 
also  in   the    registry    of  such  marriage. 
That  was  a  law  made  and  agreed  to  by 
the  British  legislature,  and  it  was  to  all 
intents  and  purposes  binding  on  all  British 
subjects,  whether  they  resided  within  the 
realm  or  in  some  other  country.   The  sons 
and  daughters  of  the  Sovereign  could  not 
marrv  without  his  or  her  consent;  they 
could  not  marry  in  defiance  of  an  existing 
law ;  and,  consequently,  if  such  a  marriage 
took  place,  the  eldest  son  was  not  entitled 
to  his  father's  lands  and  estate.     Under 
these  circumstances,  the  judges  were  of 
opinion  that  the  claim  of  Sir  Augustus 
l}'£ste  to  the  Dukedom  of  Sussex  ought 
not  to  be  allowed.     The  Lord  Chancellor, 
Lord  Coitenham,  and  Lord  Campbell  fully 
concurred  in  the  opinion  delivered  by  the 
Judges.    Lord  Brougham  also  concurred, 
but  strongly  condemned  the  Royal  Mar- 
riage   Act,    and    the  Parliament  which 
passed  such  a  measure.     He  thought  com- 
pensation  ought  to  be  given  to  the  children 
of  the  Duke  of  Sussex,  and  others  injured. 
The  Lord  Chancellor  then  put  the  ques- 
tion that  the  opinion  of  the  learned  Judges 
be  affirmed,  which  was  agreed  to. 

July  11.  In  consequence  of  its  having 
been  stated  by  the  Duke  of  Wellington  on 
a  former  evening  that  the  Bill  for  repeal, 
ing  the  intended  union  of  the  Sees  of  St. 
Asaph  and  Bangor  required  the  previous 
consent  of  the  Crown,  which  the  Ministry 
chose  to  withholds  the  Earl  of  Pmpi's  statta 

ac 


194 


Prceeeiinffsin  Parliament. 


LAag. 


that  he  should  not  proceed  with  any  farther 
steps  regarding  it,  on  account  of  the  late 
period  of  the  Session, 

JtUjf  15.  The  Lord  Chancellor  having 
moved  the  consideration  of  the  Commons' 
Amendments  on  the  Dissenters*  Chapfxb 
Bill,  the  Bishop  of />>n<toii moved  that  they 
should  be  taken  into  consideration  on  that 
day  three  weeks.  He  objected  to  the  mea- 
sure as  opposed  alike  to  truth,  equity, 
and  religion ;  as  one  rejected  not  only  by 
the  members  of  the  Church,  but  by  all 
classes  of  Dissenters  excepting  one — the 
Unitarians,  for  whose  benent  it  was 
solely  intended.  The  Bishops  of  Dur- 
ham and  Norwich  and  Lord  Brougham 
defended  the  Bill,  as  wise  and  equitable, 
and  merely  as  placing  property  in  Chapels 
on  the  same  footing  as  other  property. 
On  a  division  there  appeared, — Contents, 
present  27,  proxies  14,  Total  41  ;  Non- 
contents,  present  100,  proxies  102,  Total 
208.  The  Commons*  Amendments  were 
then  agreed  to. 

July  16.  Lord  Monteagh  introduced 
a  Bill  for  the  legalization  of  AaT- 
Unions.  It  provides  that  the  practice  of 
Art- Unions  should  be  made  lawful  afler 
January  next,  by  the  larger  societies  ob- 
taining charters  of  incorporation,  and  the 
smaller  ones  having  their  lules  sanctioned 
by  the  Board  of  Trade. 

House  of  Commons. 

«/ime21.  On  the  bringing  up  of  the 
report  on  the  Sugar  Duties  Bill,  Mr. 
Bwart  moved  that  the  same  nites  of  duty 
should  be  levied  on  sugars,  whether  the 
produce  of  slave  or  free  Inbour.  The 
motion  was  defeated  by  a  majority  of  183 
to  65. 

On  the  motion  for  going  into  committee 
on  the  Dissenters*  Chapels  Bill,  Mr. 
Plumptre  moved  as  an  amendment  that 
the  order  for  committing  the  Bill  be  dis- 
charged.— Sir  K,  Peel  said  the  question 
was  treated  bv  the  Government  as  one  of 
propertv,  and  not  of  faith.  They  a'ere 
not  enaowing  Unitarianism,  but  deciding 
a  controversy  as  to  the  rights  of  property 
by  that  rule  of  prescription  which  was  the 
foundation  of  all  justice.  Notwithstand- 
ing, therefore,  the  unpopularity  and  mis- 
construction to  whicn  it  would  expose 
them,  the  Government  still  thought  the 
course  they  pursued  the  right  one. — Mr. 
Plumptre  withdrew  his  amendment,  and 
the  House  went  into  committee.  On 
the  second  clause,  Mr.  Shaw  moved  as  an 
amendment,  that  if  any  congregstion  pos- 
sessed documents  contemporaneous  with 
the  endowment,  indicating  specific  reli* 
gioos  doctrines,  the  usage  for  twenty-five 
years  should  not  be  taken  as  evidence 
contradictory  of  those  documents.    His 


object  was  to  enable  the  Synod  of  Ulster 
to  claim  certain  endowments  alleged  to  be 
founded  for  Trinitarian  doctrines.  This 
amendment  was  negatived  by  a  mnjority 
of  161  to  43. 

June  24.  On  the  motion  for  going 
into  committee  upon  the  Bank  Charter 
Bill,  Mr.  ilftfn/;r  moved  thut  the  Bill 
should  be  committed  on  that  day  six 
months.— Sir  R,  Peel  said  the  Govern- 
ment  could  nut  assent  to  any  alterations 
in  this  Bill  which  would  afifect  its  prin- 
ciple.  He  was,  therefore,  unable  to 
accede  to  the  proposals  of  Mr.  Alderman 
Thompson  and  of  Mr.  Masterman  for  an 
advance  upon  the  maximum  of  14,000,000/. 
The  modifications  to  which  the  Govern- 
ment were  prepared  to  consent  were  the 
following : — Instead  of  taking  a  two  yeare* 
average  for  determining  the  maximum  of 
the  circulation  of  country  banks,  he  was 
prepared  to  take  an  average  of  the  twelve 
weeks  preceding  the  announcement  of 
this  measure.  The  increase  of  circulation 
thus  occasioned  would  not  be  much  more 
than  half  a  million ;  and  the  satisfaction 
produced  would  be  very  considerable. 
With  respect  to  the  returns  to  be  pub- 
lished, he  proposed  to  ascertain  the  majr- 
imum  by  monthly  instead  of  weekly 
averages.  The  House  divided — For  the 
commitment,  205;  against  it,  18;  ma- 
jority for  it,  187.  The  House  then  went 
mto  committee,  and  the  remainder  of  the 
evening  was  occupied  in  the  discussion  of 
the  clauses  of  the  Bill. 

June  25.  Sir  J.  Graham  brought  forward 
a  messure  on  the  Turnpikes  of  South 
Wales.  He  proposed  to  appoint  a  commis- 
sion to  visit  each  trust  in  the  six  counties 
of  South  Wales,  and  report  their  aggregate 
value  to  the  Exchequer  Loan  Commis- 
sionera,  from  whom  they  were  to  raise  a 
loan,  repayable  by  way  of  annuity,  for  the 
extinction  of  the  debts  of  the  trusts  in  the 
course  of  thirty  yeura.  All  the  existing 
Acts  were  then  to  be  repealed,  existing 
trusts  extinguished,  and  toe  management 
of  each  board  was  to  be  vested  in  a  county 
board,  to  be  composed  of  ex  officio  mem- 
bera,  magistrates  chosen  at  quarter  ses- 
sions, and  representatives  of  the  rate- 
Siyers  in  certain  proportions.  In  this 
ill  {there  was  also  a  provision  for  re- 
ducing the  amoutit  of  the  tolls,  and  the 
distance  between  two  turnpikes  was  to  be 
in  no  case  less  than  seven  miles,  except 
on  the  borders  of  adjoining  counties. 

Mr.  Villiert  moved  a  series  of  Kesolu* 
tions  condemnatory  of  the  present  Corn 
Law,  which  were  met  by  an  Amendment 
containing  some  counter  Resolutions  by 
Mr.  Ferrond,  The  debate  was  adjonrned 
to  the  next  day,  when,  the  Amendment 
having  been  withdrawn^  the  House  divided 


1844.] 


Proceedings  in  PartiamtnL 


195 


oil  Mr.   Villien's  motion,  Ayes    184, 
Koe8  328. 

June  28.  Sir  R.  Peel  moved  the  third 
reading  of  the  Dissbntbrs*  Chapblb 
Bill,  which  was  carried  by  201  to  81. 

Jv/y  1.  The  Regutbatzok  of  Elec- 
TOR8  (Iaeland)  Bill  was  withdrawn  for 
the  Session ;  the  Unlawful  Oaths  (Ire* 
land)  Bill,  to  continue  the  Act  2  and  3 
Vic.  c.  74  for  one  year,  went  through 
Committee. 

July  2.  In  consequence  of  the  letters 
of  certain  foreigners  having  been  opened, 
Mr.  T,  Duneombe  proposed  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  Select  Committee  to  inquire 
into  the  department  of  the  Post  Office 
called  the  Secret  or  Inner  Office,  and  the 
expediency  of  making  any  alterations  in 
the  law  under  which  the  secret  opening, 
delaying,  or  detaining  of  letters  is  con- 
ducted. The  motion,  with  some  modifi- 
cation  of  its  terms,  was  assented  to  by  Sir 
Jamee  GrnAam,  and  a  Select  Committee 
was  appointed.  On  its  being  moved  that 
Mr.  Jjuncombe  should  be  one  other 
member  of  such  Committee,  the  House 
divided.  Ayes  52,  Noes  128. 

Juiy  4.  On  the  order  for  Committee 
on  the  Poor  Law  Amendment  Bill 
being  read,  Mr,  Borihwiek  proposed  an 
Amendment,  '*  That  the  Act  4  and  5 
Will.  4,  c.  66,  commonly  called  the  New 
Poor  Law,  is  unconstitutional  in  principle 
and  oppressive  in  operation;  that  it  is 
therefore  expedient  that  the  said  Act 
should  be  taken  into  consideration  with  a 
view,  not  to  its  partial  amendment,  but 
to  its  entire  reconstruction." — ^Ayes  18, 
Noes  SI 9.  After  another  division  forgoing 
into  Committee,  Ayes  199»  Noes  19,  the 
Bill  was  taken  into  consideration ;  as  it 
was  again  on  the  5th  July,  when  no  less 
than  live  divisions  took  place  on  several 
clauses. 

July  8.  The  order  for  the  second 
reading  of  the  Railways  Bill  having 
been  read,  Mr.  Gladetone  rose  to  make 
the  Government  statement  on  behalf  of 
the  Bill.  He  contended  that  the  portion 
of  it  which  provided  for  the  humbler 
classes  conveyance  at  a  penny  a  mile,  in 
carriages  sheltered  from  exposure  to  the 
weather,  constituted  a  national  question 
of  considerable  importance.  But  the 
essence  of  the  Bill  was  rightly  conceived 
to  be  that  power  which  it  gave  to  the 
State  of  purchasing  lines  of  railway,  should 
it  be  thought  such  purchases  were  for  the 
public  interests.  On  this  point  great  de- 
lusion prevailed  ;  it  was  assumed  that  the 
Bill  gave  to  the  Executive  Government  the 
option  of  purchasing  existing  or  future 
railways,  or  of  revising  their  tolls  at  dia- 
eretion.  This  was  erroneous.  The 
£iecutive  would  hare  no  power  ander  it 


of  purchasing  without  coming  to  Par- 
liament in  each  specific  case.  Kn  ad- 
journment of  the  debate  took  place. 

July  9.  Mr.  Christie  moved  for  a 
Committee  on  the  Danish  Claims,  or 
claims  for  losses  sustained  firom  the  Danes 
in  1807.— Ayes  68,  Noes  72. 

July  10.  A  debate  adjourned  from  the 
13th  March,  on  the  question  that  the 
Court  of  Arches  Bill  be  now  read  a 
second  time,  was  resumed,  and  the  ques- 
tion negatived  by  30  to  17. 

On  the  order  for  Committee  on  the 
Bill  for  the  Disfranchisement  of  the  bo- 
rouffh  of  Sudbury,  in  consequence  of  the 
Bribery  proved  to  have  taken  place  at  the 
last  election,  Mr.  Blaektione  moved  as 
an  amendment  that  the  franchise  should 
be  extended  to  the  entire  hundred  of  Ba- 
bergb.  The  House  divided.  Aye  1, 
Noes  37. 

July  11.  The  Railways  Bill  was  read 
a  second  time,  after  a  division,  Ayes  186, 
Noes  98  ;  Sir  R,  Peel  having  stated  that 
all  that  was  asked  by  the  measure  was 
that  after  a  lapse  of  fifteen  yean  it  should 
be  competent  to  Parliament  to  deal  with 
Railwavs  as  it  pleased ;  it  was  asking  no 
more  tnan  was  asked  by  the  renewal  of 
the  Bank  Charter  Bill. 

July  13.  Mr.  Wyee  moved  the  ap- 
pointment of  a  Select  Committee,  to  in- 
quire into  the  fact  connected  with  the 
formation  of  the  Special  Jury,  in  the  case 
of  the  Queen,  at  the  prosecution  of  the 
Attorney.  General  e.  Daniel  0*Connell 
and  othera.     It  was  negatived  by  91  to  73. 

July  16.  In  Committee  on  the  Cri- 
minal Justice  (Middlesex)  Bill,  it  was 
resolved  that  provision  be  made  for  an 
Assistant  Judge  of  the  Court  of  the  Ses- 
sions of  the  Peace  of  the  countv  of  Mid- 
dlesex ;  and  in  Committee  on  the  Turn- 
pike Trusts  (South  Wales)  Bill,  it 
was  resolved  that  provision  be  made  from 
the  Consolidated  Fund,  for  the  salaries, 
&c.  of  Commissionen  and  other  officera 
appointed  under  an  Act  for  the  consolida- 
tion and  amendment  of  the  laws  relating 
to  Turnpike  Trusts  in  South  Wales,  and 
for  the  advance  of  825,000/.  to  pay  off 
the  crediton  on  those  trusts. 

July  19.  On  going  into  Committee  of 
Supply,  Mr.  Milner  Gibean  read  an  Ad- 
dress to  her  Majesty,  praying  for  a  Com- 
mission to  inquire  into  the  Incendiarism 
prevalent  in  Norfolk,  Suffolk,  £issex,  and 
Cambridgeshire,  which  was  negatived  by 
130  to  41. — In  the  Committee  votes  were 
passed  of  40,000^  for  Public  Education 
in  Great  Britain ;  72,000/.  for  Public 
Education  in  Irekind;  and  8,928/.  for  the 
Roman  Catholic  College  (of  Maynooth) 
in  IreUnd,^the  Ust  after  a  division,  Ajei 
87,  Noes  30. 


196 


Foreign  Ntwi.^^Dam€Stic  Occurrences. 


[Aug- 


July  28.  In  Committee  of  Supply, 
votes  were  paiaed,  among  othen ,  of  441 1/. 
for  the  Schools  of  Design;  6,000/.  for 
repairs  of  Lectare^rooms,  &c.  at  the  uoi- 
▼ersity  of  St.  Andrew's  |  8,000/.  for  the 
completion  of  Lord  Nelson's  Monument ; 
7,524/.  for  pictures  for  the  National  Qal- 
lerj;  and  6,000/.  for  the  piirchaae  of 
Books,  Manuscripts,  and  Coini  for  the 
British  Museum. 


Juijf  84.  In  Committee  on  the  Poom 
Law  Amendment  Bill,  Mr.  Borthwiek 
moved  a  Clause  that  husband  and  wife, 
when  more  than  sixty  years  of  age,  should 
not  be  separated  in  the  workhouse.  Ayes 
38,  Noes  95.  Three  other  clauses,  carry- 
ing out  the  same  principle,  were  then  se- 
verally put,  and  negatived  without  di- 
vision. 


FOREIGN    NEWS. 


Morocco. 

The  Emperor  of  Morocco  has  rejected 
the  ultimatum  of  the  Spanish  government 
and  the  proffered  mediation  of  England. 
Marshal  Bugeaud  states  that  the  war 
carried  on  against  the  French  is  not  by 
the  Emperor  of  Morocco,  but  by  the  in- 
dependent tribes  on  the  frontier.  During 
a  late  conference  6,000  cavalry  treacher- 
ously fired  on  the  French,  but  they  were 
routed  instantly,  leering  300  dead  on  the 
field.  The  French  do  not  demand  the 
expulsion  of  Abd-el-Kader  from  the 
Moorish  territory,  but  liis  removal  from 
the  Algerian  neighbourhood,  where  he 
had  been  recruiting  his  army,  and  the  as- 
signation of  a  fixed  residence  for  him, 
under  the  responsibility  of  the  Emperor, 
in  one  of  the  towns  of  the  most  distant 
frontier.  The  French  bad  no  design  on 
Morocco,  but  they  demanded  the  punish- 
ment of  the  troops  who  had  attacked  the 
French.  The  Marshal  entered  the  town 
of  Ouchda  on  the  lOtb,  but  afterwards 
retired  into  the  French  territory.  A  fire 
broke  out  at  Algiers  on  the  night  of  the 
86th  ult.,  which  destroyed  the  late  palace 
of  the  Duy,  used  by  thie  French  as  a  ma- 
gaiine,  and  property  to  the  amount  of 
£0,000/. 

Unrbo  States. 

The  Tens  Annexation  Treatjr  was  re^ 
jected  in  the  senate  on  the  8th  of  June  by 
a  majority  of  35  to  16.  It  would  have 
required  a  majority  of  two-thirds  to  ratify 
it,  and  it  is  thus  rejected  by  more  than 
that  majority  against  it.  The  President 
had  sent  a  message  to  Congrees  on  the 
same  subject,  stating  his  views,  and  calling 
on  that  body  to  forward  the  Annexation 
scheme  ;  but  the  motion  that  it  do  lie  on 
the  table  waa  negati?ed  by  a  majority  of 
118  to  86. 


India. 


The  Punjaub  is  still  in  a  most  dis- 
tiacted  state.  A  battle  look  place  on  the 
7th  of  May,  between  Heerv  Singh,  the 
present  Prime  Minister,  and  the  party  of 
the  sons  of  Runjeet  Singh,  who  are  op* 
posed  to  him,  led  on  by  Ittur  Singh,  a 
chief  of  considerable  influence.  Ittur 
Singh  waa  considered  by  some  of  the  par- 
tisans of  Ueem  as  being  supported  by  the 
British,  and  they  therefore  have  threat- 
ened to  invade  the  territories  of  the  latter. 

The  Belochees  baring  come  down  to 
plunder  the  country  round  Shikarpore, 
destroyed  several  villages  within  a  few 
miles  of  our  oamp.  Captain  Tait,  with 
600  irregular  horse,  and  iiieut.  Fits- 
gerald,  with  800  of  the  camel  corps,  went 
out  in  quest  of  them,  and  baring  crossed 
the  desert  proceeded  till  very  near  the 
entrance  of  the  Murree  bills.  The  enemy 
were  there  in  considerable  force,  and  had 
taken  refuge  in  the  strong  fort  of  Poolajee. 
An  attempt  waa  made  by  Lieutenant  Fitx- 
gerald  to  blow  open  the  gate  with  powder 
bags  and  storm  the  town.  The  first  opera, 
rion  waa  unsuccessful,  the  leading  man 
carrving  the  gunpowder  having  been  killed 
on  his  way  towards  the  gate.  The  fire 
from  the  walls  was  found  so  hot  that  our 
troopa  were  compelled  to  retire— the 
enemy  following  them  the  whole  way 
hack  to  camp,  a  distance  of  70  milea. 
The  coast  being  thus  dear,  the  Belocheea 
renewed  their  forays,  and  proceeded  to 
strip  the  unprotected  country  round  Shi- 
karpore of  everything  that  could  be  carried 
away. 

A  kige  native«made  piece  of  ordnance^ 
found  some  years  ago  at  Kumoul,  has 
been  shipped  on  board  her  Majesty's  ship 
Comwaliis,  to  be  removed  tu  England. 
It  weight  upwarda  of  eight  tona. 


DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 


JmH§  8.  A  fire  occurred  at  Oravttend^ 
which  destroyed  twenty-five  houses  and 
injured  filteen  others.    It  broke  out  in 


West  Street,  in  the  house  of  Mrs.  Sau- 
ford,  used  for  boiling  shrimps,  and  thence 
fxteoded  to  Union  Wiutff,  tenanted  ^ 


1644.] 


Dainuik  OtatrreHceg, 


m 


tbe  Star  Steam -packet  Company,  the  re- 
poeitory  of  many  inflammable  stores  j  it 
next  communicated  to  Mr.  Saddington*a 
salt  warehouse,  in  which  were  several 
barrels  of  gunpowder  and  a  large  quantity 
of  brimstone,  and  soon  after  consumed 
seven  houses  belonging  to  the  same  gen- 
tleman on  Homcastle  Quay.  The  de- 
struction was  chiefly  in  and  near  West 
Street,  and  included  three  public-houses, 
the  Cock,  the  Fisherman's  Arms,  and 
the  India  Arms, 

On  the  same  day,  Mr,  Kaye's  Old 
Factory  at  Folly  Hail,  liudder^fieldt  was 
destroyed  by  fire.  It  was  about  63  yards 
long,  eighteen  yards  wide,  and  twenty- 
four  yards  high.  It  was  the  property  of 
Mr.  Joseph  Sturge,  but  occupied  by 
about  30  different  firms,  of  finishers  in 
a  email  way  of  business,  most  of  whom 
were  uninsured,  and  the  loss  Is  variously 
calculated  at  from  30,000/.  to  50,000/. 
Tbe  steam-engine,  of  about  GO-horse 
power,  was  preserved. 

June  18.  This  being  the  anniversary 
of  tbe  battle  of  Waterloo,  Sir  Francis 
Chantrey*s  statue  of  the  Duke  of  Wel- 
lington was  placed  upon  its  pedestal  in 
the  area  newly  formed  in  tbe  front  of  the 
Royal  Exchange  by  the  removal  of  Bank 
Buildings.  At  one  o'clock  the  Royal 
Exchange  and  Gresham  Trust  Com- 
mittee, several  of  the  Aldermen,  the  true- 
tees  for  the  Statue,  and  the  executors  of 
Sir  Francis  Cbantrey,  assembled  at  Guild- 
hall, and,  after  partaking  of  a  d^'eiuter, 
proceeded  thence  in  the  following  order: 
Mr.  R.  L.  Jones,  the  Chairman  of  the 

Royal  Exchunge  Committee. 
The  Master  of  the  Mercers'  Company. 
John  Masterman,  esq.  M.P.  and  Sir 

Peter  Laurie,  Trustees  for  the  Statue. 

Executors  of  Sir  F.  Chantrey. 

Aldermen. 

The  Court  of  the  Mercers'  Company. 

William  Tite,  esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A., 
Architect  of  the  Royal  Exchange. 

Members  of  the  Royal  Exchange  and 

Gresham  Trust  Committee. 

City  Officers. 

It  accidentally  happened  that  his  Ma- 
jesty tbe  King  of  Saxonv  was  at  the  same 
time  receiving  the  rity  hospitality  of  the 
Mansion  House,  after  having  visited  the 
Old  Bailev,  attended  by  the  Lord  Mayor. 
In  the  midst  of  bis  repast  be  was  waited 
upon  by  Mr.  Masterman  and  Sir  Peter 
Laurie,  and  at  once  assented  to  their  re- 
Quest  for  his  presence.  The  Committee 
Uien  walked  twice  round  the  statue,  the 
band  playing  the  national  anthem,  and  the 
statue  was  immediatelv  uncovered.  Mr. 
Jones  delivered  an  eloquent  address  to 
the  assembly,  and  the  most  enthusiastic 
cheering  evinced  tbe  feeling  of  tbe  nu- 
merous byttanden. 


The  cost  of  this  statue  and  its  pedeetal 
was  9000/.,  the  metal  having  been  given 
to  the  committee  by  tbe  Chancellor  of  th« 
Exchequer,  and  valued  at  1500/.,  in  addi* 
tion  to  that  amount.  The  money  was 
raised  by  a  public  subscription,  after  a 
meeting  held  at  the  Mansion  House. 
The  contract  with  Sir  Francis  Chantrey 
was  made  in  Feb.  1839,  by  tbe  trustees. 
Sir  Peter  Laurie,  Mr,  John  Masterman , 
Mr.  Arthur  K.  Barclay,  and  Mr.  it  L. 
Jones.  Sir  F.  Chantrey,  at  his  death, 
left  the  whole  model  complete,  and  also 
the  head  of  the  Duke  the  lull  sise.  The 
work  has  since  been  completed  by  his  as« 
sistant,  Mr.  Weeks,  under  the  direction 
of  the  executors.  The  statue  itself  is  14 
feet  in  height  from  the  feet  of  the  horse 
to  the  top  of  the  bead  of  its  rider.  Ths 
pedestal  on  which  it  stands  is  of  red 
Peterhead  granite,  with  the  exception  of 
the  lower  course,  which  is  of  grey  granite. 
The  pedestal  is  altogether  14  feet  high, 
so  that  the  total  heigbt  is  exactly  28  feet. 
The  attitude  of  the  horse  is  of  the  quiet 
character  which  was  introduced  by  the 
great  artist,  and  closely  resembles  the 
horse  of  the  statue  of  George  I V.  in  front 
of  the  National  Gallery.  Tbe  costume 
of  the  Duke  is  generally  taken  from  that 
which  he  wore  on  the  great  day  of  Wafer* 
loo^  including  his  military  cloak.  There 
is  in  both  these  modern  statues  an  affecta- 
tion  of  simplicity  in  the  costume,  in  tbe 
pedestal,  and  in  the  absence  of  inscrip. 
tion,  in  all  which  we  roust  confess  that 
we  prefer  the  usages  of  the  good  old 
times ;  and  we  hope  to  see  the  termina* 
tion  of  such  fashions,  as  we  have  already 
seen  tbe  absurd  mimicry  of  Greek  cos. 
tume,  which  distinguished  the  ladies  of 
181S,  superseded  by  waists  of  mor« 
natural  proportions ;  and  the  un-English 
colonnades  of  temple  architecture  su(^ 
ceeded  by  the  solid  elegance  of  the 
Reform  Clubhouse.  We  maintain  that  a 
portrait  requires  truth  of  attire  as  well  as 
of  features,  and  we  deem  a  fancy  costum* 
more  exceptionable  than  a  Roman  toga. 
Truth  is  the  essential  requisite,  which  a 
master  artist  ought  to  render  graceful, 
and  not  supersede  by  fancy.  Tbe  art  of 
the  Middle  Ages  possessed  a  truth  and  • 
beauty  of  its  own  :  and  such  art,  even  if 
deficient  in  some  imaginary  or  poetic  qua- 
littes,  is  preferable  to  a  mixture  of  bor« 
rowed  graces  and  false  features.  Seamdiyf 
as  to  naked  pedestals,  we  prefer  such  ac* 
cessories  as  may  illustrate  the  chaiacter 
and  achievements  of  tbe  party  commemo. 
rated,  and  the  intentions  of  those  who 
erect  the  monument.  This  is  generally 
understood  on  the  continent  s  and  in  ths 
new  monument  to  Moliere,  at  Paris,  it 
is,  perhaps,  carried  to  an  excess.  Lasifyt 
we  think  a  judicious  sad  weU-expressed 


1D8 


Domestic  Occurrences, 


[Aug. 


inscription  possesses  a  great  monumental 
value  of  its  oivn.  Did  not  tbe  Marquess 
Wellesley  write  a  brief  but  pleasing  in* 
scription  for  this  very  statue  of  his  illus- 
trious Brother? 

On  tbe  18th  and  19th  July  Mr.  Harrill 
brought  to  the  hammer,  at  the  White 
Lion,  Bristol,  the  manors  of  Chew 
Magna,  North  Elm,  and  Dundry,  together 
with  freehold  estates,  mansion  houses, 
&c.  at  Chew  Magna  Dundry,  and  Win. 
ford,  Somersetshire,  the  property  of  Mr. 
Harfordi  of  the  late  firm  of  Harford, 
Davies,  and  Co.  and  sold  by  order  of 
their  assignees.  There  was  considerable 
competition,  and  every  lot  was  cleared,  at 
prices,  in  many  instances,  far  above  the 
sum  estimated  by  valuers.  The  total 
proceeds  amounted  to  upwards  of  54,000/. 

Jtine  19.  There  is  now  a  direct  line  of 
railway  communication  between  London 
and  the  important  town  of  Newcastle,  a 
distance  of  303  miles,  which  is  accom- 
plished in  twelve  hours  and  a  half.  The 
only  link  wanting  to  complete  the  chain 
was  between  Darlington  and  Belmont 
^the  Durham  Junction).  This  has  been 
nnisbed,  and  the  ceremony  of  opening  the 
line  formally  took  place  this  day.  It  is 
called  the  *'  Newcastle  and  Dariington 
Junction,**  and  its  length  is  about  23 
miles.  The  numerous  embankments, 
cuttings,  and  viaducts,  are  fine  specimens 
of  engineering,  and  reflect  the  highest 
credit  upon  the  skill  of  Mr.  Stephenson. 
A  special  train,  conve^ng  a  party  of 
gentlemen  connected  with  the  northern 
railways,  left  the  Euston-square  station 
three  minutes  after  Are  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  and  arrived  at  Newcastle  at  35 
minutes  after  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
having  accomplished  the  distance  (303 
miles)  in  9  hours  and  32  minutes.  The 
stoppages  consumed  1  hour  and  14 
minutes  of  the  period. 

June  SO.  Toe  foundation  stone  of  the 
new  buildings  at  Eton  College  was  laid 
br  his  Royal  Highness  Prince  Albert. 
They  are  to  be  in  the  Elizabethan  style, 
and  will  be  erected  on  the  site  of  the 
wash-houses  and  stables  of  the  Provost 
and  Fellows,  immediately  contiguous  to 
the  Provost's  lodge.  The  front  will  be 
upwards  of  ISO  feet  in  length.  In  addi- 
tion to  two  extensive  apartments  to  be 
appropriated  to  the  library  of  the  school, 
aod  as  examination-rooms  for  the  New- 
caatle  scholarship  and  tbe  prise  given 
annually  by  his  Royal  Hichncss  Prince 
Albert  for  proficiency  in  modem  languages, 
there  will  be  S6  rooms  for  the  accommo- 
dation of  that  number  of  the  boys  on  the 
foundation ;  a  laige  dormitory  for  80  of 
the  Younger  boys,  a  supper-room  for  tbe 
sim  form,  a  suite  of  apartments  for  bf 


two  conductors,  private  apartments,  &c. 
The  expense  of  canying  these  great  im- 
provements and  additions  into  effect  will 
exceed  20,000/.,  nearly  the  whole  of 
which  sum  has  been  subscribed  by  old 
Etonians.  His  Royal  Highness  arrived 
at  the  college  at  half-past  12  o'clock,  when 
the  procession  was  formed  to  tbe  chapel, 
where  service  was  chaunted  by  tbe  Rev. 
C.  S.  Harrison.  His  Royal  Highness 
having  taken  his  station  on  the  south 
side  of  the  corner  stone,  an  appropriate 
prayer  was  offered  for  the  Divine  blessing 
upon  the  undertaking  by  the  reverend  the 
Provost;  and  Drake,  K.S.,  the  cap- 
tain of  the  school,  afterwards  delivered  a 
Latin  speech.  The  coins,  consisting  of 
several  of  all  the  gold,  silver,  and  copper 
moneys  coined  during  the  reign  of  her 
present  Majesty,  were  handed  by  Mr. 
Shaw,  the  architect,  to  the  Rev.  George 
Bethell  (one  of  the  Fellows,  and  the 
bursar  of  the  college),  by  whom  they 
were  presented  on  a  large  silver  salver  to 
the  Prince.  His  Royal  HiKhness  then 
placed  them,  with  a  scroll  of  parchment 
containing  the  names  of  all  the  authorities 
of  the  college  and  of  the  building  com- 
mittee, and  also  the  elevation  and  ground 
plan  of  the  building,  in  a  bottle,  hermeti- 
cally sealed, and  deposited  it  in  the  cavity 
of  the  stone  formed  for  their  reception, 
which  was  covered  with  a  brass  plate, 
bearing  the  following  inscription : — 

COLLEOIDM  •  RBGALB 

BEATAB  .  MARIAB  .  DE  .  ETONA 

AD  .  GLOaiAM  .  DEI  .  PROMOVENDAM 

ET  .  BXC0LEND08  .  INOBNVI8  .  ARTIBITB 

PVERILES  .  ANIMOS 

AB  .  HENRICO  .  SEXTO 

PIENTISKMO  .  FVNDATORB  .  INSTITVTVM 

ET  .  PER  .  SAECVLA  .  PLV8QVAM  .  QVATVOR 

MVNIFICB  .  8V8TENTATVM 

NOVO  .  HOC  .  AEDIFICO 

REGUS 

ET  .  8VIS  .  ET  .  C01CMVNIBV8  .  ETONEN8IVM 

IMPENSI8  .  AVGENDVM 

PRIUVIIQVE  .  HVNC  .  LAPIDEM 

AB  .  ILLV8TRI88IM0  .  PRINCIPE 

ALBERTO  .  DE  .  SAXB  .  COBVRG  .  GOTHA 

VICTORIAE  .  BRITANNfARVM  .  RBOINAB 

CONJVGB  .  AVGV8TI88IMO 

PONENDVM  .  CVRAVERVNT  .  PAAEP081TV8  . 

BOCUQVE 
DEC  .  VT  .  SPEBANT  .  FEL1CC8  .  EXfTVS  . 

DATVRO 
Xn  .  KAI.  •  JVL  .  A  .  8  .  013  .  IDCCC  .  XL  .  IV 

The  usual  ceremony  of  spreading  the 
mortar  on  the  stone,  striking  it  with  tbe 
mnllet,  and  proving  its  level,  was  then 
performed  by  his  Royal  Highness,  after 
which  the  1 00th  Psalm  was  sung  by  the 
choir.  The  Bishop  of  Lincoln  then  de- 
livered the  benediction,  and  tbe  assem- 
blage retired. 


199 


PROMOTIONS,  PREFERMENTS,  &c. 


GAZ£rrE   PHOMOTION8. 

Jmme  14.  Robert  Wright  €k>pe  Doolan,  o' 
Looffball,  CO.  Armagh,  esq.  to  take  the  name 
of  CS>pe  only,  and  quarter  the  arms  of  Cope, 
in  compliance  with  tne  will  of  his  cousin  Arthur 
Cope,  of  Loughall,  esq. 

JuMe  19.  ^ond  West  York  Yeomanry  Ca- 
valry, Major  George  Pollard  to  be  Lieut.-Colo- 
nel  (Commandant);  Captain  William  Moore 
to  be  Major. 

June  37.  Msjor  Richard  Becher  Leacroft 
to  be  Lieut-Colonel  of  the  Derby  Militia. 

June  28.  Capt.  Parry  MitcheU,  6Sd  Foot,  to 
be  brevet  Major  in  the  army. 

Juijfl.  Lt.-Gen.  the  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Henry 
Hardinge,  K.C.B.  to  be  G.C.B.— Dr.  William 
Smith  to  be  one  of  the  Physicians  to  H.  R.  H. 
the  Duke  of  Cambridge. 

Juljf  a.  John  Jepbson  of  Rowthome|CO. 
I^rby*  ?^t.  and  Mary-Ann,  widow  of  Wm. 
Rowley,  of  Sheffield,  gent,  to  use  the  name  of 
Rowley  after  Jephsoo,  after  their  intended 
marriage.— 2d  West  India  Regt.,' Major  Henry 
C.  Cobbe  to  be  Ueut.-Colonel ;  Capt.  Herbert 
Mends  to  be  Major.— Brevet,  Captain  John 
Daniel  de  Cartaret,  66th  Foot,  to  be  Major  in 
the  army. 

Jmijf  10.  The  Hon.  Lucy  Maria  Kerr  to  be  one 
of  the  Maids  of  Honour  in  Ordinaiy  to  Her  Ma- 
jesty.— Royal  Marines,  Colonel  Second  Com- 
mandant John  OWen  to  be  Colonel  Command- 
ant and  Deputy  Adjutant-general ;  Colonel 
Second  Commandant  John  Wright  to  be  Colo- 
nel Commandant  of  the  Chatham  Division; 
Lient.-Col.  Charles  Menaies  to  be  Colonel 
Second  Commandant;  Captain  and  brevet 
Major  Hugh  Mitchell  to  be  Lieut.-CoIonel. 

/m/jt  11.  Capt.  Humphry  Willyams  to  be 
Major  of  the  Cornwall  and  Devon  Miners* 
Militia. 

Jul^  12.  Capt.  H.  W.  S.  Stewart,  Ceylon 
Rifle  regt.  to  be  brevet  Mi^or  in  ^^^  army. 

Jufy  22.  James  Lilley,  esq.  to  be  Colonial 
Surgeon  for  Her  Majesty's  Forts  and  Settle- 
ments  on  the  Gold  Coast. 

Jmlp  23.  John  Hall  Morse,  esq.  only  son  of 
John  Morse,  formerly  of  Sprowston-hul,  Nor- 
folk, afterwards  of  Moont  Ida,  in  the  same 
county,  and  late  of  Montarue-square,  esq. 
<leceased,  (in  compliance  witn  the  will  of  the 
said  John  Morse,)  to  take  the  surname  of  Boy- 
cott after  Morse,  and  bear  the  arms  of  Boy- 
cott, quarterly  with  those  of  Morse. 

Jmi9  24.  CdI.  G.  P.  Wymer,  C.  B.,  Bengal 
serv.,  to  accept  the  order  of  the  Dooran^e  em- 
pire, of  the  third  class. 


Natal  Promotions. 

To  be  C<i0/aJii«,— William  Kelly  (r),  G.  H.  Sey- 
mour, C.  F.  Hutton. 

To  be  retired  Captaitu,—\\m,  Holman,  John 
Forbes. 

To  be  CommaHder»,-~E,  B.  Stewart,  M.  Thomas, 
C.  H.  Douglas,  M.  Donellan. 

To  be  retired  Comwtandere,— George  George, 
John  White  {b\  George  Welsh,  Thomas 
Bardwood,  Charles  Tilly,  Jonathan  Nicolls, 
Edward  Rowan,  Stephen  Briggs  (1807)  April, 
and  George  Decoeurdoux. 

AmoiHtMentt,—Keu-A6m.  Sir  Hugh  Pigot, 
K.C.B.  to  be  (Commander  in  chief  at  Cork  : 
Qapt.  Horace  Bullock  to  Porcupins,  surveying 
steam  vessel. 


Memhert  returned  to  eert€  in  Parliament, 

JUnnin^Aoiii— Richard  Spooner,  esq. 
XflsMnVA— James  Kelly,  esq. 


ECCLSSIASTICAL    PrIFBRMBNTS. 

Rev.  G.  Bland,  to  be  Archdeacon  of  Llndis- 

Csrne,  Northumberland. 
Rev.  T.  L.  Strong  and  the  Rev.  J.  Collinson  to 

be  honorary  Canons  of  the  Cathedral  Church, 

Durham. 
Rev.  Dr.  Wameford  to  be  an  Hon.  Canon  of 

Gloucester. 
Rev.  H.  Ashington,  Kirby  la  Thorpe  and  Ash* 

garby  RR.  Lincoln. 
Rev.  J.  B.  Birtwhistle,  Beverley  Minster  P.  C. 

Yorkshire. 
Rev.  R.  H.  K.  Bock,  Bideford  R.  Devon. 
Rev.  W.  S.  BuckniU,  Burton  Hastings  P.  C. 

Warwickshire. 
Rev.  M.  Burrell,  Chattan  V.  Northumberland* 
Rev.  W.  J.  Butler,  District  church  of  Ware- 
side  p.  C.  Herts. 
Rev.  T.  C.  B.  S.  Clerk,  POtterspnry  V.  N*p*ns1>* 
Rev.  R.  M.  Cremer,  North  Bamingham  R. 

Norfolk. 
Rev.  R.  A.  Denton,  Stonr  andTodbere  R.  Don. 
Rev.  J.  Edmunds,  Castle  Eden  P.C.  Durham. 
Rev.  E.  Evans,  Llanegwad  V.  Carmarthen. 
Rev.  S.  Fisher,  Trent  Yale  District  Church  P.C, 
Rev.  W.  H.  Flowers,  Ulceby  Y.  Lincolnshire. 
Rev.  H.  FylTe,  St.  John's  Church,  Southwark, 

P.C.  Surrey. 
Rev.  H.  L.  Guilebaud,  Swineshead  V.  Line. 
Rev.  H.  Hake,  Chilvers  Coton  Y.  Warw. 
Rev.  W.  W.  Harvey,  Buckland  R.  Hertford. 
Rev.  W.  P.  Hasherwood,  Ardingly  R  Sussex, 
Rev.  C.  Y.  Hodge,  Clareborougb  R.  Notts. 
Rev.  W.  Home,  Limber  Magna  Y.  Linconlnsb. 
Rev.  C.  H.  Hughes,  Wysley-with-Parford  R. 

Surrey. 
Rev.  £.  James,  Hindringham  Y.  Norfolk. 
Rev.  Dr.  Jenne,  Taynton  R.  Gloucestershire. 
Rev.  W.  Johnson,  Llanfaethlo  R.  Anglesea. 
Rev.  J.  W.  Jones,  Heneglwys  R.  Anglesea. 
Rev.  N.  Kendall,  Talland  Y.  Cornwall. 
Rev.  T.  B.  Lancaster,  Houghton  next  Harpley 

Y.  Norfolk. 
Rev.  W.  Metcalfe,  New  Church  of  St.  John, 

Yeadon  P.C.  Yorkshire. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Micklethwait,  Chapel-thorpe  P.C. 

Yorkshire. 
Rev.  H.  H.  Mogg,  High  Littleton  Y.  Som. 
Rev.  £.  J.  Moor,  Great  Bealinn  R.  SulTolk. 
Rev.  J .  Oliver,  Yi  armington  Y.  Northamptonah . 
Rev.  W.  H.  Parker,  St  Paul's,  Whippingham 

P.C.  Isle  of  Wight. 
Rev.  J.  C.  Ryle,  Helmingham  R.  Snflblk. 
Rev.  W.  A.  Shute,  New  district  church  of 

Thornley  P.C.  Lancashire. 
Rev.  R.  Williams.  Stokenchorch  P.C.  Oxf. 
Rev.  G.  Wray,  Ufford  cum  Bainton  R.  N'p'nsh. 

Civil  Prefbruentb. 

Rev.  D.  R.  Godfrey,  M.A.  to  be  Principal  of 
Grosvenor  College,  Bath. 

Rev.  G.  F.  Noad,  to  the  Yice-Principalship  of 
Kingston  College.  Hull. 

Mr.  R.  D.  Harris.  B.A.  to  be  Tliird  Master  of 
Huddersfield  College. 

Rev.  J.  Spurgen,  to  be  Head  Master  of  the 
Grammar  School,  Maidstone,  Kent. 

John  Henry  Hodson^sq.  of  the  Oxford  cir- 
cuit; Charles  H.  Wbitehurst,  esq.  of  the 
Midland  circuit ;  John  Wm.  Alexander,  esq. 
of  the  Oxford  circuit ;  Robert  Charles  Hild- 
yard,  esq.  Northern  circuit,  and  who  is  also 
Queen's  counsel  for  the  Duchy  of  lAncaster, 
were  sworn  in  as  Queen's  counsel ;  and  the 
following  gentlemen  were  also  sworn  in  as 
Sergeant5-Bt-1aw :  — Edward  Jlalfour.  esq. 
John  Alexander  Kinglake,  eso.  of  the  Western 
circuit,  and  Charles  Chadwick  Jones,  esq. 


200 


Birthi.^^MarrUigei. 


[Aug. 


of  the  Home  circiiit.~Jo1iii  DATid  Cham- 
bers, esq.  of  Linooin't  Inn,  Bnrrister-at- 
Lsw,  to  be  Recorder  of  Sftlisborf .— The 
foilowing  f^entlemen  hare  been  elected  Fel- 
lows of  the  Boval  Collcse  of  Physkums  :— 
Dr.  Guy,  of  Kind's  coUen,  London ;  Dr. 
ConoIIy,  of  Hanwell ;  Dr.  Pleoderlesth,  of 
S&magate;  Or.  Forbes.  Dr.  O.  O.  Rees,  Dr. 
Conham,  Dr.  RjunsboUuun,  and  Dr.  Hn^hes. 

BIRTHS. 

Jum  1ft.   At  Badborow,  the  wife  of  Uent.- 

Col.  Bragfe,  a  dao. 17.  At  Roydoa-hall, 

JCeirt,  the  wife  of  William  Cook.  esq.  a  dan. 

18.  In  Eaton-pL  the  wife  of  Neville  Abdy, 

esq.  a  son. If.  At  Hurst  House,  Henlej- 

tn-Ardeo,  Warwicksh,  the  wife  of  C.  J.  Noble, 

esq.  a  son. ^At  the  house  of  her  fluher, 

Joseph  Hume,  esq.  M.P.  Bryanstone-sq.  the 
wife  of  Charles  Gubbins,  esq.  of  the  Bengal 

Civil  Service,  a  son. 33.  At  Burton  Agnes. 

the  wife  of  Henry  Bovntoo,  eso.  a  son  and 

hair. In  Raton-sq.  toe  wife  of  Mynors  Bas- 

kerville,  esq.  MP.  a  dan. 94.  At  Datchet, 

the  wife  of  the  Right  Hon.  Henry  Labouchere, 

H.P.  for  Taunton,  a  dau. S5.  At  Ulcombe- 

pL  Kent.  Lady  Frances  Fletcher,  a  son. 

m.  At  Maidstone,  the  wife  of  Capt.  B.  Scott, 

Ute  4th  Light  Drag.,  a  dao. In  FIttroy-sq. 

Mrs.  Henry  Smales,  a  dau. 9.  At  war- 

borne,  Hanta,  the  wife  of  J.  Rivett  Camac, 

esq.  a  dan. 30.  The  wife  of  Wm.  Palmer, 

esq.  of  Turners,  Chigwetl.  a  son. 

Lmtelg.    At  Teignmouth,  the  wife  of  Bdward 

Mockler,  eso.    15th   Hussars,  a  son. In 

Oreen-st.  Laay  JoUiflTe,  a  son. In  Grosve- 

BOr-pl.  Lady  Lyttelton,  a  son. In  Dublin, 

the  wife  of  Sir  Valentine  Blake,  Bart.  M.P.  a 

son. ^llie  wife  of  the  Hon.  H.  Tumour, 

a  dau. At  Cheltenham,  the  wife  of  Sir 

Nicholas  Chinnery.  Bart,  a  dau. At  Chart- 
ley,  the  seat  of  Earl  Ferrers,  the  wife  of  the 

Hon.    Henry  Hanbury  Tracy,  a  dau. At 

Gutle  Froome,  Herefordsh.  the  wife  of  John 

Homes,  esq.  a  son  and  heir. At  Swillington- 

house,  the  wife  of  Chas.  Hugh  Lowther,  esq. 

t  •on. At  West  Tytherley,  Hants,  the  Lady 

Catharine  Barrington,  a  son. 

Julp  I.    At  Leckhampstead  rectory,  Bucks. 

Mrs.  Heneage  Drummond,  a  son. 3.   At 

Linton  Park,  Kent,  the  Countess  Comwallis, 

a  dau. 8.  At  Brompton  Park,  Lady  Sarah 

Ingestre,  a  dau. 9.  At  Hadley.  Barnet,  the 

wife  of  the  Rev.  J.  C.  Kempe,  M.A.  a  son. 

10.  At  Longford  Hall,  co.  Derby^  Anne  C*tess 
of  Leicester,  a  son,  which  survived  its  birth 

Skly  a  few  hours. 11.  At  Edgerton  Lodge, 
addersfield,tbewifeofG.  H.  Brook.esq  ason. 
13,  In  France,  the  Duchess  of  Nemours,  a 

gf&,  to  whom  the  King  has  given  the  name  of 
uke  d'Alenson. At  Wimbledon,  the  wife 

of  Migor  Olipbant,  a  dau. In  Grosvenor- 

■q.  the  Countess  of  Home,  a  dau. 15.  In 

fiowndes-st.  Belgrave-sq.  the  wife  of  Evelyn 

Philip  Shirley,  esq.  M.  P.  a  son  and  heir. 

—The  wife  of    Charles    Harward,  esq.  of 

Hayne  House,  a  son. 19.  In  Kensington- 

«q.  Mrs.  John  Shephard,  of  twin  daughters. 


MARRIAGES. 

Jan.  13  At  Sydney,  New  South  Wales, 
Thomas  John  Fisher,  esq.  fiarri«ter-at>Law, 
eldest  son  of  John  Fisher,  esq.  of  Folbam, 
and  nephew  to  the  late  Robert  Wardell,  LL.D. 
Barrister-at-Law,  to  Thomasine,  eldest  dau.  of 
W.  C.   Wentworth,    esq.    Barrister-at-Law. 

'88.    At  Adelaide,  South  Australia,  Jacob 
Bagen,  esq.  M.L.C.  to  Mary,  aecond  dau.  of 
the  Ute  R.  C.  Baker,  esq.  Lopeo,  Somenet. 
11 


AftrUn,  At  Maditi,  Gipt  Bcnweil,  4fth 
Madras  Nat  Inf.  to  Jane-Fnaces,  youngest 
dam.  fii  Fnads  Hamilton,  esq.  ana  grand- 
dan.  of  the  late  James  Hamilton,  esq.  of 
Stevenson,  Lanarkshire,  N.B. 

Majf  7.  At  Andover,  George  Jones,  esq. 
R.A.  to  Gertrude,  second  dan.  of  the  late 
Major  Losoombe,  of  Andover. 

10.  At  Wandsbeck,  Denmark,  Winiam  John 
Bovill,  eso.  of  Qapham,  to  lavtoia-Ana,  dan. 
of  Edward  I'Anson,  esq.  isi  Bantwood-laao, 
Wandsworth-eommon. 

19.  At  Wigton,  Ounbertand,  Wilson,  ridest 
■on  of  Jos^  Armistead,  esq.  of  Water 
Lodge,  Leeds,  to  Mary,  only  dan.  of  the  late 
John  Bragg,  esq.  of  Whitehaven. 

38.  At  ueonretown,  Demerara, 
eldest  SOB  «f  Abraham  Oumett.  eoq.  Com-' 
ming*s  Lodge,  in  that  colony,  to  Jane-Cktha- 
rine,  only  dan.  of  the  late  Bdwmrd  Henry 
Dalton,  esq.  of  Oemermra  t  and  at  the  same 
time  and  place,  Henry  Olbba  Dalton,  coq. 
M.R.C.aL.,  to  Elisa^ane,  yonngest  dau.  of 
the  late  Jam«  John  Biggs,  enq.  of  FuUmm, 
Middlesex. 

LmUkf.  At  Weft  Oowes.  T.  H.  Chase,  omi. 
of  Brighton,  to  Blisa,  onlydan.  of  Capt.  Jama 
Oorfce,ofWestCowes.~~At  Devonport,  licnt. 
Raymond,  Commander  of  Her  Maiesty's  cutter 
Soine,  to  Anna-Maria,  dao.  of  William  T«ck- 

ield,  esq.  R.N. At  Radford  Bemelew  M.  J. 

Lay,  esq.  second  son  of  J.  G.  Lay,  esq.  of  Great 
Tey,  Raoez,  to  Lucy,  fourth  dau.  of  J.  Greavos, 
eaq.  of  Radford  Semeie,  Warwicfcahire. 

JWH9 1.  At  Bath,  Charles-Drederick,  son- of 
George  Danvera  Jenkins,  ^.  to  Catharine* 
Mary,  only  dau.  of  the  lata  Rev.  John  Hngliea, 
Rector  of  Tedworth,  WilU,  and  Fyileld,  Hants. 

At  St.  George's,   Hanover-sq.   Richard 

Kyrke  Penson,  esq.  of  Oswestry,  to  Clara- 
Maria,  onlydan.  of  John  Thomas,  esq.  Dinham 

House,  Ludlow. At  Camberwell,  Samuel 

Williams,  esq.  of  Greenwich  and  Boons,  Kent, 
to  Sarah,  eldest  dao.  of  Thomas  Jones,  esq.  of 

Bast  Dulwich. At  Naples,  Robert  Bate,  coq. 

surgeon,   to  Lydia-Catbarine,   only  dan.   of 

Charles  O'Reilly,  surgeon  R.  N.  of  Naples. 

At  Staplegrove,  near  Taunton,  R.  R.  Wood- 
land, esq.  of  Glastonbury,  to  Fanny,  third  daa. 
of  Capt.  Law,  of  SUpleerove-kKlge,  Somerset. 

At  St.  George's,    Hanover-sq.  William, 

eldest  son  of  William  Taylor,  esq.  of  Parkfien 
House,  Hanla.  to  Jane,  second  dan.  of  Charles 
Winkworth,  esq.  Controller  of  Customs,  Rams- 

Bite. Henry  F.  Fsithfoll,  esq.  of  Tring,  so. 
citor,  to  Blisa,  second  dan.  of  Oooige  fmith> 
foil,  esq.  of  Hurstpicrpoint. 

a.  At  Nunfield,  Dumfkiesshire,  Morris  Charles 
Jones,  esq.  of  Gungrog,  Montgomeryshire,  and 
of  Liverpool,  only  son  of  the  late  Morris  Jones, 
esa.  of  Gungrog.  to  Kliaabeth.  eldest  dao.  of 

Robert  Paterson,  esq.  of  Nunfield. ^The  Rev. 

Thomas  G.  P.  Hough,  B.A.  to  La-Belle-Alli- 
ance-Sophla,  only  surviving  dan.  of  Capt.  St. 
John,  RN.  ta  Coltishall. 

4.  At  Chewton  Meodip,  Wm.  Abrahall  Cox, 
esq.  surgeon,  of  Bath,  to  Mary,  only  dan.  of 
the  late  Bdward  Hippesley,  cm.  of  the  former 

5 lace. At  Cadoxton-Juxta  Neath,  Charles 
ones,  eso.  of  Gartmill  Hall,  Montgomery, 
shire,  and  I)ownfield,  Stroud,  to  Jane,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  James  Valentine,  esq.  at  Lnd- 

low. At  Paddington,  W.  W.  Willink,  esq.  of 

Liverpool,  to  Catharine-Harriet,  youngest  dan. 

of  George  Nicholls,  esq.  of  Hyde  Park-st. 

At  Bath,  John  Edwards,  esq.  to  Emma-Hutch- 
inson,  youngest  dau.  of  G-  Pitt  Smith,  esq.  of 

Bath. At  Workington,  Cumberland.  John 

Thomas  Rowsell,  esq.  of  Stamford.hill,  to  Blisa, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Benjamin  Thompson, 

e«q.  of  Workington. At  Oosforth,  Chavtas 

Francis  Shum,  eso.  Lieut.  87th  Regt.  youngest 
•on  of  George  Bhnrn  Stortyi  caq.  of  Arcot, 


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NorthnmberlAnd,  and  of  Ham  Common,  Sur- 
rey, to  Harriet,  yoaogest  dan.  of  Christopher 
Fenwick.  esq.  or  Stand  House,  Northamber* 

l*nd. ^At  Isleworth,  Middlesex,  the  Re?. 

James  R.  Wbyte,  Rector  of  King^snymptoD, 
Devon,  to  Loulsa-Lucy,  third  dau.  of  the  late 
Sir  John  Courtenay  Hony  wood,  Bart .  of  Evinr- 

ton,  Kent. At  Bromley  Palace,  John  9. 

Rikington,  esq.  M.P.  of  Westwood  Park,  Wore, 
to  Aiie^usta  Anne,  third  daa.  of  the  Bishop  of 
Rochester  and  the  Lady  Sarah  Murray. 
——At  Bungay  St.  Mary's.  Suffolk,  the  Rev. 
willes  Hobson,  Incumbent  of  Hales  and  Heck- 
in^bam,  Norfolk,  to  Charlotte,  third  dan.  of 

Pearse  Walker,  esq. At  Kensington,  James 

Green,  esq.  of  Brixton,  Surrey,  to  Mphia,  third 
dau.  of  the  late  James  Rixon  Oliver,  esq.  of 

Upper  Clapton  and  Aldermanbury. ^At  Cork» 

Robert  Tucker,  esq.  of  Woodside,  Cheshire,  to 
Eliza,  second  dau.  of  the  late  Walter  Hebden, 

esa. At  St.  Marylebone,  Robert  Raikes,  esq. 

of  Kastdale,  Yorkshire,  to  Catharine,  only  dau. 
of  Michael  Hart,  esq.  ot  Belmont,  co.  water- 
ford,  Ireland. At   Great  Totham,   Essex, 

Cuthbert  William  Johnson,  esq.  of  Gray's  Inn. 
barrister>at-Iair,  to  Mary-Ann,  eldest  dau.  of 
the  late  Richard  Hall  Gower,  esq.  of  Nova 

Scotia  House,  Ipswich. At  St.  George's, 

Hanover-sq.  John  Ralph  Ormsby  Gore,  esq. 
Groom  in  Waiting  to  iter  Miu««ty,  and  eldest 
■oo  of  William  Ormsby  Gore,  esq.  M.P.  for 
North  Shropshire,  to  Sarah,  youngest  dan.  of 
Sir  John  Tyssen  Tyrell,  Bart.  M.P.  for  North 
Essex. 

5.  Charles  La  Grance,  esq.  of  Riversdale. 
CO.  Wicklow,  to  Jane-Edgar,  fourth  dan.  of 
the  late  Rev.  Robert  Craig,  of  Frescati,  near 

Dublin. At  Bedminster,  Henry  Bennett, 

esq.  of  Rock  Cottage,  to  Ellen-Florence,  only 
dau.  of  John  Ryon,  esq.  of  Saint  John's,  New- 
foundland.  George  E.  B.  Lou8ada,esq.  of 

Gloucester  Road,  Hyde  Park,  to  Juliana, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Alexander  Goldsmid. 
esq.  of  Tavistock-pl. ^At  St.  James's,  Pic- 
cadilly. William  Henry  Elliott,  esq.  of  the 
Bengal  Civil  Serv.  to  Catharine-Mary,  eldest 
dau.  of  the  Very  Rev.  Dr.  Pearson,  Dean  of 

Salisbury. ^At  Cookham,  Brrks,  John  Elton 

Mervin  Prower,  esq.  of  Purton-hoose,  Wilts, 
late  Capt.  67th  reg.  only  son  of  the  Rev.  J.  M. 
Prower,  Vicar  of  Purton,  to  Harriet,  youngest 
dan.  of  late  Wm.  Payn,  esq.  of  Kidwells,  Maioen- 

head. At  Walton,  near  Liverpool,  Charles- 

Todd|  second  son  or  J.  Todd  Naylor,  esq.  of 
Kenvington-house,  Liverpool,  to  Harriet-Han- 
nah, only  child  of  the  late  George  Naylor,  esq. 
of  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

6.  At  St.  George's  Hanover  iq.  John  Clavel, 
eldest  son  of  Col.  Mansell,C.B.  of  Smedmore- 
house,  Dorset,  to  Emily  A.  Harriet,  only  dau. 

of  late  Capt.  A.B.  Bingliam,R.N. ^At  Rowley 

Regis,  Staffordshire,  Thomas  Jeffreys  Badger, 
esq.  of  Shrewsbury,  to  Sarah-Eliza,  eldest  dan. 
of  rhomas  Yate  Hunt,  esq.  of  the  Brades,  in 

the  same   county. At  Liverpool,  William 

Laird,  esq.  to  Louisa-Helen,  dau.  of  James 

Lister,  esq At  Kensington,  Thomas  M.  D. 

Trotter,  esq.  of  Ely-place,  to  Ellen-Catharine, 
youngest  dau.  of  tne  late  Murdoch  Robertson, 

esq.  R.N. The  Rev.   Thomas  Ainsworth, 

M.A.  Vicar  of  Carbrooke,  Norfolk,  to  Mrs. 
Hawkins,  of  Riigarley,  Glastonbury,  Somerset, 

relict  of  the  Rev.  Jonn  B.  Hawkins,  A.M. 

At  Alton,  the  Rev.  Geoi^  William  Hutchins, 
Assistant  Curate  of  Chew  Magna  cum  Dnndry, 
Somerset,  to  Maria,  fourth  dau.  of  the  lata 
Thomas  Heath,  esq.  ot  Andover.— — ^-John 
Giaisber.esq.  of  the  Cambridge  Observatory, 
to  Jane-Sarah,  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  B.  Berry, 

Vicar  of  Thriplow. At  Ramsgate,  Francis 

Henry,  eldest  son  of  Ralph  Deane.  esq.  of 
East  Court  House,  Middlesex,  to  GuUelma  U. 
Harrison,  youngest  dan.  of  Enoi  Smith,  eiq, 

Gbkt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


of  Ramsgate,  and  Utd  of  Richmond,  Surrey. 

At  ^nburgh,  Capt.  Fulford,  R.N.  third 

son  of  Baldwin  Fulford,  esq.  of  Great  Fulford, 
to  Isabella,  eldest  dau.  of  John  Russell,  esq. 

Principal  Clerk  of  Session  in  Scotland. At 

Colleinard,  the  Rev.  John  Tannoch,  Minister 
of  Kinross,  to  Anna,  dau.  of  the  late  Capt. 

George  M'Pherson,  R.N. At  Lanercost, 

Capt.  George  Alfred  Currie,  67th  reg.  to 
Frances,  eldest  dau.  of  George  Shadforth,  esq. 
of  Orchard-house,  Gilsland.^— -At  Taunton* 
David  Robert  Grant  Walker,  esq.  eldest  son  of 
the  late  Lieut.-Col.  Walker,  R.M.  C.B.  to 
Mary-Bamston,  only  dau.  of  the  Rev.  T.  Tnd- 
ball,  and  grand-dau.  of  the  late  Ven.  Arch- 
deacon Daubeny.^— — At  St.  Martin's-in-the- 
Fields,  John  Beckwith  Towse,  esq.  to  Mary, 
eldest  dau.  of  Richard  Baker,  esq.  of  Brif  hton. 

At  Charlton  King's,  Gloucestersh.  Digtyy 

Latimer,  esq.  Barrister-at-Law,  of  Lincoln's- 
inn,  and  of  Headington.  Oxfordsh.  to  Harriet, 
eldest  surviving  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Charles 

Lyne,  of  Megavissy,  Cornwall. At  Appleby, 

Leic,  John  Bockett,  esq.  of  Clapham  Com- 
mon, Surrey,  to  Blixabeth-Beatrice,  relict  of 
the  late  Richard  Alsager.  esq.  and  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  Richard  Lloyd,  esq.  of  AUesley, 
Warwickshire. 

7.  At  Hull,  W.  B.  FDopleton.  esq.  late  of 
Selby,  now  of  Anlaby,  to  Eliza,  eldest  dau.  of 
J.  T.  Smith,  esq.  late  of  Anlaby. 

8.  At  Epsom,  James  Winkworth  Winstan- 
ley,  of  Lincoln's-inn,  esq.  Barrister-at-Law, 
to  Marienne-Dorcas,  younger  dau.  of  John 
NichoUw  Shelley,  esq.  of  Kpsm. ^At  Cob- 
ham,  Surrey,  Bury  Victor  Hutohinson,  esq. 
of  Wigmore-st.  Cavendish-sq.  eldest  son  of 
the  late  Bury  Hutchinson,  esq.  of  Rnssell-aq. 
and  Bromley-house,  Middlesex,  to  Catharine- 
Harriett  Massey,  of  Pain's-hill,  Cobham.  eldest 
dau.  of  the  late  Charles  Massey,  esq.  of 
Wyndham-pl.  Bryanston-sq.— At  Lewin's 
Mead,  Samuel  Worsley,  esq.,  to  Eleanor- 
Harper,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  William 
Parkes,  esq.  of  the  Marble-yard,  Warwick. 

At  Marylebone,  T.  W.  Leppinfl[well,  esq. 

to  Jane,  only  dau.  of  the  late  Christopher 
Lundin  Hooper,  esq.  of  Cambridge-terrace. 

9.  Charles  Hawkey,  esq.  Lieut.  R.N.  to  the 
Hon.  Miss  De  Moleyns,  eldest  dau.  of  Lord 
Ventry,  of  Bumham-nouse,  co.  Kerry. 

10.  At  Stomford-hill,  John  Christie,  esq. 
second  son  of  Robert  Christie,  esq.  of  Edin- 
burgh, to  Sarah-Frances,  youngest  oau.  of  the 
late  Nicholas  Fitzgerald,  esq.  of  Rathlee,  co. 
Sligo,  and  of  HoUiville,  co.  Wexford,  Ire- 
land.  Sir  David  Roche,  Bart.  M.P.  for 

Limerick,  to  Miss  Grady,  dau.  of  W.  D.  Grady, 

esq.  of  Dublin. At  Alphington,  Parmenas 

Pearce  Mudge,  esq.  to  Caroline-Edhsiaa- 
Jamesetta,  only  dau.  of  the  late  James  Gerard 
Andresen,  esq.  of  St.  Domingo. At  Cam- 
bridge, Captain  Edleston,  R.N.  to  Mrs.  Fuller. 

11.  At  \¥iUingham,  Lincolnshire,  Thomas 
Henry  Hewitt,  esq.  of  Cork,  to  Florence- 
Augusta,  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Robert  Peel, 
andirrand-dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Peel,  esq. 
of  ml  Fold,  Lancashire,  and  Trennant  Park, 

Cornwall. ^At  Littleham,  Devon,  the  Rev. 

John  Wilkinson,  B.A.  of  Merton  coll.  Oxford, 
to  Jean  Prat,  grand-dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  R. 

Prat,  Vicar  of  Littleham  and  Exmouth. At 

TUehurst,  Philip  Lybbe  Powys,  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  esq.  Barrister-at-Law,  and  eldest  son 
of  Henry  Philip  Powys,  esq.  of  Hardwick, 
Oxfordshire,  to  Anne-FhiKis,  dau.  of  Thomas 
Greenwood,  esq.  of  Turner's  Court,  niece  and 
adopted  child  of  William  Stephens,  esq.  of 

Prospect  Hilh  Tilehurst. At  Lowestoft, 

Suffolk,  the  Rev.  T.  L.  Fellowes,  B.A.  Perp. 
Curate  of  Lingwood,  Norfolk,  to  Eliiabeth- 
Pleasance,  eldest  dau.  of  the  l*te  Jannes  Reeve, 
esq. At  Highworth,  WUts,  William  Jamss 

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CAog. 


Dnsftml,  fsq.  df  Bristol,  to  lCati1dA.A]iic1lm. 
8Utcr,  wecond  dao.  of  the  late  WillUm  Crowdy, 

esq.  of  WMtrop-booM,  Wilts. At  Ockley» 

the  Rev.  Willism  Cartwrifht,  M.A.  to  Chsr. 
iitte-Htyfloii,  daa.  of  John  Sniailpiece,  esq.  of 

l^ith-hill-ptece.  oesr  Dorkio^,  Surrey. In 

SwitterUnd,  Wade  Brown«  esq.  of  Monckton 
fhrieif h  House,  Wilts,  to  Selins,  second  dso. 
of  Sir  J.  B.  Kardley  Wilmot,  Bart.  Governor 

of   Van  Diemen's   LAod. At   Botherham. 

Anthony  Trollope.  esq.  of  the  General  Post 
Office,  Ireland,  to  Itose,  dan.  of  Bdward 
Hesettine,  esq.  of  Botherham. 

IS.  At  Storrington.  Sussex,  the  Ber.  Bobert 
Orecory,  yonnser  son  of  ihe  late  Balph  Creyke, 
esq.  of  Bawclillfe  Hall,  Torksh.  to  BUsa,  dan. 
of  Thomas  Philip  Dennett,  esq.  M.D.  of  Stor- 

itofftOB. 

IB.  At  Stibbingtoo,  Henry  W.  Posbery, 
esq.  Uite  of  the  Isth  ref.  to  Sarah-Stone, 
■seond  dan.  of  the  late  Steed  Oirdlestone,  esq. 

of  Stibbinfton  Hall,  Northamptonsh. ^At 

St.  Pancras,  Alfred  Charles  Marriott,  esq.  of 
Worcester,  son  of  T.  W.  Marriott,  esq.  ot 
Bonbary,  to  Maria-Georrlana-de-Lane,  dau.  of 

Rtchard    CnttiU,   esq. The  Bev.  WilUam 

Oliver,  M.A.  Incumbent  of  Hadoal.  Salop,  to 
Frances- Harriet,  second  sarrivin{(  dan.  or  the 
late  Thomas  Henry  Tiunton,  esq.  of  Grand 

Pont-house,    near    Oxford. At    Qifton. 

Bichard  loirram  Dansev,  esq.  eldest  son  or 
Dansey  B.  Dan»ey,  esq.  late  of  Baston  Court, 
Herelbrdsh.  to  Aonabella-CaroUne,  fourth  dan. 
or  the  late  Bobert  Bell,  esq.  of  Bitteriy,  Salop. 
-^At  BItham,  Kent,  the  Bev.  J.  GoiM^oa 
Shapley,  Bector  of  Carriacore,  Grenada,  W.  I. 
to  Mary-Jane,  youngest  dau.  of  A.  G.  Milne, 

esq.  of  Elthaoi. At  Hadsor,  the  Bev.  B. 

Davis,  Minister  of  St.  George's  Church,  Wor- 
oester,  to  Julia,  third  dau.  of  the  late  Bev.  B. 
H.  Amphlett,  of  New  UaU,  co.  Worcester,  and 
Bector  of  Hadxor. 

14.  At  Brighton,  James  AthiU  Gunthorpe, 
•M|.  Msdras  Art.  to  Jaiia-Charli>tte,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  Col.  Nuthall,  of  the  Hon.  Bast 
India  Company's  Service. 

15.  At  Streathara,  James  Parkinson,  esq. 
of  Baquet-court,  Fleet-street,  to  Boaamona- 
Bleanor,  only  dau.  of  William  Haigh,  esq.  of 

Lower  Tnlse  Hill. ^At  Chiswick,  Alfred  M. 

W.  Christopher,  esq.  son  of  Geonee  Christo- 
pher, esq.  of  Chiswick.  to  Maria-Frances,  dan. 
of  the  late  Thomas  Cnristopher,  esq.  of  Lon« 

don. At  Landford  Church,  co.  Dublin,  the 

Hon.  Philip  Cecil  Crampton,  Judge  of  the 
Queen's  Bench,  to  Margaret,  eldest  dan.  of 
John  Duffy,  esq. 

16.  At  ^t.  John's,  Bethnal-green,  Lieut. 
William  Pretyman,  B.N.  of  Ipswich,  to  Cathe- 
rine-Blliott.  second  dan.  of  lient.  AlfFindfr 
Webb,  B.N.  of  Hackney. 

17.  At  St  George's  Uanover-square,  Keith 
Stewart  Mackeniie,  esq.  of  Seafbrth,  to  Miss 
Hope  Vere,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  James 
Joseph  Hope  Vere,  esq.  of  Craigie  Hall,  and 

Blackwood,   N.  B At  Bichmond.  Surrey. 

Bdward  Slaughter,  esq.  of  John-st.  Bedford- 
row,  to  Frances,  second  das.  of  the  late  Sir 
Bdward  Mostyii.  Bart. 

18.  At  Maidstone.  Kent,  the  Bev.  N.  J.  B. 
Hole,  Bector  ot  Broadwoodkelly,  to  Emily- 
Frances,  second  dau.  of  John  Mercer,  esq.  of 

Maidstone. At  St.  Sidwell's,  Edmund  car- 

lyon,  esq.  of  St.  Austell,  Cornwall,  to  Marianne, 
only  dau.  of  K.  8.  Cornish,  esq.  Hill's  Ccmrt. 

At  Blckldgh.  Capt.  Edward  Herbert  Ken- 

ney,  B.N.  to  Charlotte-Mary,  eldest  dau.  of 
Capt.  Bignell,  KN.  of  Haxter  Lodge,  near 

Flymonth. ^The  Bev.   Wm.    Wetliogton, 

Bector  of  Upton  Hellions,  to  Florence,  second 
dan.  of  John  Hugh  Smyth  Pigott,  esq.  of 
BrocUey   U«U,  co,  8oiiMnet<— At  Upper 


Chelsea,  WIttam  Hmter,  M.D.  floffeon-MaJor 
Coldstream  Guards,  to  Helen,  dan.  of  the  lata 
Bev.  David  Wilkie,  Minister  of  the  parish  of 
Cults,  Fifeshire. — At  Morden,  Surrev,  Bobert, 
only  ten  of  U.  Monteith,  esq.  of  Carstaira, 
Lanaitshire,  to  Wilhelmina,  third  dan.  of  the 
late  J.  C.  Mellish,  esq.  Consul  st  Hambargh. 

At  Batcorobe,  Somerset,  the  Bev.  Octavios 

Brock,  Bector  of  Dengie,  Essex,  to  Harriet- 
Ann,  only  dau.  of  Henry  Bmst,  mo.  of  West- 

oombe-house,   Batcombe. At   Marylebone, 

Bobert  Elliott,  esa.  of  Tempsford-hall,  Beds, 
only  son  of  the  late  Bobert  Elliott,  esq.  of 
Ooldington-house,  to  Anne-Lndnda,  only  daa. 
of  the  late  James  Wade,  esq.    fbrmeriy  of 

Bfccles,  SuflMk. At  Cowes,  the  Bev.  W.  H. 

Phrker.  A.M.  Incnmbent  of  St.  Punl's  Church, 
Wbippingham,  to  Mary-Davis,  widow  of  ths 
late  ¥.  Kingston,  esq.  and  dan.  of  John  Barnes, 

esq At  Goring,  Oxon.  William,  youngest 

son  of  Charles  AthertonAllnatt.  esq.  of  wai- 
lingfbrd,  to  Ellen-Sarah,  eldest  oau.  of  James 

Pesrman,  of  Goring  Heath,  esq. At  Milton, 

Kent,  dipt.  Archibald  Park,  99th  Bengal  Nut. 
Inf.  son  of  the  late  distinguished  traveller, 
Mungo  Park,  to  Bachel-Anne.  dau.  of  Adam 

ftrk,e9q. At  Teddington,  Middlesex.  Bobt. 

Davey,  esq.  of  Shere,  to  Jane,  second  aao.  of 
the  late  Bev.  Thomas  Duncombe,  Bector  of 
Shere,  Surrey. 

19.  At  Holliagten.  Sussex,  Adolpbus  Lft- 
croix,  esq.  her  Majesty's  Consul  at  Nice,  to 
Frances,  second  dan.  of  the  late  Bouert 
Cunynghame,  esq. 

to.  At  St.  Clement's,  Thiro,Bdmoiid  Henry 
Chsey,  esq.  of  Newbrook-house,  co.  Dublin, 
to  Msry,  second  dau.  of  the  late  P.  S.  Tom, 

esq.  of  Bosedale,  Cornwall. At  St.  Oeorge'sl 

Hanover-sq.  James  Parker,  esq.  eldest  son  or 
Charies  Geonce  Parker,  esq.  of  SpringfieldpL 
Essex,  to  Mary- Ann- Eliiabeth,  only  dau.  of 
Thomas  Crosse,  esq.  of  Down,  Kent,  late  Capt 

in  the  Kinir's  Kegt. At  Bryanston,  Dorset, 

William  Grey  Pitt,  esq.  late  Lieut,  llth  Hus- 
sars, only  son  of  the  late  W.  Morton  Pitt, 
esq.  of  Kingston  House,  to  Laura-Matilda, 
youngest  dan.  of  the  late  Adm.  Byves,  B.N., 

of  Shroton  House,  Dorset. At  St.  Oiles's- 

in-the-Flelds,  John  Alldin  Moore,  esq.  II.  A.  of 
St.  John's  coll.  and  of  the  Inner  Temple,  to 
Harriet-Masters,  dau.   of  the  late  lw»mas 

Usbome,  esq.  of  Croydon. ^The  Bev.  Wm. 

Harte,  youngest  son  of  the  late  Wm.  Harte, 
eaq.  of  Coamip,  co.  Limerick,  to  Henrietta, 
ehlest  dau.  of  the  late  Wm.  Donaldson,  esq. 
At  Uangoven,  Monooonthshire,  John 
IJoyd,  esq.  of  Brynderry  House,  to  Elisabeth, 
Iburth  dau.  of  the  late  Robert  nrqnhar,  esq. 
of  Pont-y-pool. 

SI.  At  East  Stonehouse,  Joseph  Collier 
Cookworthy,  esq.  M.D.,  of  fly  mouth,  to  Elisa- 
beth-Clara, eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Capt.  Pit- 
kington,  6th  Foot,  and  widow  of  the  Bev. 

Bobert  Lugger. At   Pitton,   Bamsteple, 

John  James  Nnrent,  esq.  of  donlost,  West- 
meath,  Capt.  Sd  Dragoon  Guards,  to  Anne, 
youngest  dan.  of  the  late  Sir  John  Bobison, 

of  Edinburgh. At  Norwich,  Halter  Hasle- 

wood  Dunsibrd,  esq.  of  Barnstaple,  to  Selina, 
eldest  dan.  of  G.Garland,  esq.  of  that  place, 
late  Gen.  In  the  Army. 

SS.  At  Paris,  Frederick-Janvrin,  eldest  sou 
of  Frederick  De  Lisle,  esq.  of  xork-placs, 
Portman-sq.  to  Josephine,  only  dau.  of  the 

bite  Thomas  De  Lisle,  esq.  of  Paris. At 

Stanton  Uarcourt,  Oxfordsn.  H.  W.  Clifton, 
esq.  of  Brussels,  to  Harriette,  dau.  of  Perclval 

Walsh,  esq.  of  SUnton  Hsrcoort. At  Flii- 

ton,  near  Manchester,  Cspt.  B.  B.  Williami, 
B  N.  to  Sarah,  dau.  of  the  fate  James  Forbes, 
esq.  of  Hutton  Hail,  Essex,  and  Kingatrlock, 
Argylsaliire. 


20S 


OBITUARY. 


Thb  Earl  or  KraroEE. 

Jufyll.  At  Keith  Hall,  co.  Aber- 
deen,  aged  50,  the  Right  Hon.  Anthony 
Adrian  Keith- Falconer,  seventh  Earl  of 
Kintore,  Lord  Keith  of  Inverurie  and 
Keith  Hall  (1677]),  tenth  Lf>rd  Falconer, 
of  Halkertoun  (1647),  in  the  peerage  of 
Scotland;  and  Baron  Kintore,  in  the 
peerage  of  the  United  Kingdom  (1838). 

He  was  born  April  20,  HQi,  the  eldest 
son  of  William  the  sixth  Earl,  by  Maria, 
daughter  of  Sir  Alexander  Bannerman, 
of  Kirkhill,  Bart. ;  and  he  succeeded  his 
father  in  the  Scotish  dignities,  Oct.  6, 
1813. 

He  was  advanced  to  a  seat  in  the  House 
of  Peers  by  the  title  of  Baron  Kintore, 
June  Zi,  1838,  and  supported  Lord  Mel. 
bourne's  administration.  His  Lordship 
had  been  in  a  depressed  state  of  mind  for 
some  time  past,*  and  last  season  relin- 
quished  his  favourite  amusement,  fox- 
hunting, and  sought  to  recruit  his  strength 
on  the  Continent.  He  returned  some 
time  since,  and  tried  the  spa  of  Strath- 
peffer,  without  anv  advantage.  The  im- 
mediate cause  of  bis  Lordship's  death  is 
stated  to  have  been  an  injury  received 
while  hunting  many  years  ago,  and  which, 
though  partially  cured,  had  left  effects 
which  he  never  altogether  recovered.  His 
Lordship  married,  first,  June  14,  1817, 
Juliet,  third  daughter  of  the  late  Robert 
R«nny,  esq.  of  Barrowfield,  who  died 
without  isftue  in  1819;  and,  secondly, 
Aug.  27,  1821,  Louisa,  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Francis  Hawkins,  esq.  who  ob- 
tained a  decree  of  divorce  from  his  Lord, 
ship  in  1840,  and  died  in  1841.  By  the 
latter  marriage  his  Lordship  had  issue 
William  Adrian  Lord  Inverurie,  late 
Lieutenant  17th  Light  Dragoons,  whose 
melancholy  death  while  hunting,  it  will 
be  recollected,  took  place  in  the  early 
part  of  the  present  year;  Lady  IsabelU 
Catharine,  who  also  recently  died  from 
the  effects  of  a  most  distressing  accident ; 
the  Right  Hon.  Francis  Alexander,  the 
present  and  ninth  Earl,  bom  in  1828; 
and  the  Hon.  Charles  Jemes. 


Tbk  Earl  of  Athlonb. 

Afay  21.  At  the  Hague,  aged  43,  the 
Right  Hon.  Wilbelm  GusUuf  Friedrich 
de  Reede  de  Ginkel,  tenth  Earl  of  Ath- 
lone  and  Baron  of  Aghrim,  co.  Gal  way  ; 
0691-2);  a  Count  of  the  Holy  Roman 
Empire;   Baron  de  Reede  and  Qinkeli 


Baron  of  AmeroDgen,  Middaehier,  Lie  ven- 
ded,  Elst,  Ster veldt,  and  Ronenbei^g,  in 
the  Netherlands, 

With  this  personage  has  become  extinct 
one  of  those  families  whose  fortunes  were 
made  by  accompanying  the  House  of 
Orange  to  Great  Britain.  There  were 
five  foreigners  whom  William  of  Nassau 
elevated  to  the  English  peerage — William 
Bentinck,  whom  he  made  Earl  of  Port- 
land ;  Marshal  Frederick  de  Schombeiigi 
whom  he  made  Duke  of  Schomberg ; 
William  de  Nassau  de  Zuleistein,  whom 
be  made  Earl  of  Rochford  ;  Arnold  Joost 
Van  Keppel,  whom  he  made  Earl  of  Al- 
bemarle ;  and  Henry  Nassau  Van  A  over, 
querque,  whom  he  made  Earl  of  Grantham. 
Of  these  the  Bentincks  and  Keppels  alone 
remain,  the  former  promoted  to  a  duke* 
dom  in  1716  by  Queen  Anne.  The 
dukedom  of  Schomberg  became  extinct  in 
1719;  the  earldom  of  Grantham  in  1754; 
and  the  earldom  of  Rochford  in  1830. 

In  Ireland,  King  William  made  Mein« 
bardt  Schomberg,  the  marsbars  son, 
Duke  of  Leinster;  Henry  Massue  de 
Ruvigny,*  first  Viscount,  and  afterwarda 
Earl,  of  Gal  way,  invariably  transformed 
into  Galloway  by  the  continental  writers; 
and  Godart  de  Ginkel  Earl  of  Athlone.f 
The  dukedom  of  Leinster  was  extinct  in 
the  Schombergs  as  above  menrioned  ;  and 
the  earldom  of  Galwav  in  the  following 
year,  1730.  The  earldom  of  Athlone  was 
the  last  remaining ;  not  only  of  the  Irish 
earldoms  conferred  on  foreigners,  but  of 
all  the  earldoms  of  Ireland  created  by 
William  the  Third. 

The  successful  aasauU  on  Athlone, 
from  which  Baron  de  Ginkel  derived  his 
title*  took  place  on  the  20th  June,  1691, 
O.S.  (30th  June,  N.S.),  and  on  the  12th 
O.S.  (22d  N.S.)  of  the  following  month  be 
achieved  the  decisive  victory  of  Aghrim. 
By  privy  seal  duted  at  Whitehall  the  1 1  th 
Feb.,  and  patent  dated  4th  March,  1691-9, 
their  majesties  were  pleased  to  create  him 
Earl  of  Athlone  and  Baron  Aghrim,  and 


*  Ruvigny  was  the  only  name  by  which 
his  familv  was  known.  The  original  one 
sunk  under  it,  as  Mottier  merged  in  that 
of  La  Fayette,  Bouchard  in  Montmorency, 
or  Riguetti  in  Mirabeau. 

f  Major.Gen.  Count  de  Marton  got  a 
warrant  to  be  Earl  of  Lifford,  and  was  so 
styled  during  his  life,  but  the  patent  never 
passed  the  seals. 


204  Hon.  Hugh  LM$ay.^Hon.  Arthur  H.  Cole,  M.P.  [Aug. 


on  the  15th  October  1693  be  received  a 
grant  (confirmed  bj  Pariiamentin  1695)  of 
the  forfeited  estates  of  Williaoi  Donffan, 
£ari  of  Limerick,  atuinted  the  1 6th 
April,  1691.  He  afterwards  returned  to 
military  service  on  the  continent,  and  died 
at  Utrecht  in  1703.  On  Ginkel's  return 
to  Holland  he  was  created  a  Field  Mar- 
shal, and  as  such,  which  precluded  all 
superiority  of  command  over  him,  was 
extremely  jealous  of  Marlborough,  under 
whom,  when  placed  at  the  hevl  of  the 
Dutch  troops,  in  the  War  of  the  Succes- 
sion of  Spain,  he  was  compelled  to  act, 
and  therefore  signalized  himself  by  no 
achievement.  He  died  in  1705,  at  Utrecht, 
where  by  some  he  is  stated  to  have  been 
bom — by  others,  in  Guelderland. 

His  descendants  have  always  maintained 
theirconnection  with  their  original  country, 
in  which  they  have  formed  most  of  their 
alliances.     Indeed,  no  £arl  of  Athlone 
sat  in  the  House  of  Peers  in  Ireland  be- 
fore  the  10th  March  1795,  when  the  sixth 
Earl,  who  had  accompanied  the  Stadt- 
holder  to  England,  on  the  French  inva- 
sion of  Holland,  took  his  seat;  and  no 
English  blood  entered  the  veins  of  the 
iiimilv  except  in  the  case  of  the  tenth  Earl. 
Friedrich,  the  seventh  Earl,  married  first 
Miss    Munter,    and    afterwards    Maria, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Eden,  but  died  with- 
outissue.    His  brother,  Renaud-Diedrich- 
Jacob,  the  eighth  Earl,  married  Harriet, 
daughter  of  John  William  Hope,  esq.  of 
Amsterdam,  and  of  Cavendish  square,  and 
had  issue  George-  Godart-Henry,  the  ninth 
Earl,  who  died  without  issue  March  2, 
1843,  and  was  then  succeeded  by  his  uncle, 
whose  death  we  now  record. 

Wilhelm-Gustauf- Friedrich,  brother  to 
the  seventh  and  eighth  EaHs,  was  the  fifth 
and  youngest  son  of  Friedrich  the  sixth 
Ear],  by  Anna-Elizabetb- Christian  Ba- 
roiiess  de  Tuyll  de  Seevoskerken,  and  born 
on  the  2l8t  July,  17HD.  Previously  to  his 
accession  to  the  earldom  he  was  a  Count 
of  the  Roman  Empire,  and  Lord  of  the 
Bedchamber  to  the  King  of  the  Nether- 
lands.  Having  survived  all  his  brothers, 
he  succeeded  to  the  peerage  on  the  death 
of  hia  nephew,  as  above  mentioned. 

He  married.  Sept.  7,  1813,  Wendela- 
Eleanor,  eldest  daughter  of  Monsieur 
Burcel,  member  of  the  college  of  nobility 
of  the  province  of  Holland,  but  bad  no 
iflsae. 

The  ninth  Earl  left  a  sister.  Lady  Eli- 
zabeth, wife  of  Capt.  the  Hon.  Frederick 
Villiers,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Jersey,  who 
was  said  to  inherit  a  large  accession  of 
fortune  on  bis  death.  (See  vol.  XIX 
p.  446.) 


Hon.  Hugh  Lindsay. 

.Y/;ri/23.  At  his  house  in  Berkeley- 
square,  aged  78,  the  Hon.  Hugh  Lindsay, 
Marshal  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty,  a 
Director  of  the  East  India  Company, 
and  a  Commissioner  for  the  Lieutenancy 
of  London ;  uncle  to  the  Earl  of  Bttl- 
Carres,  and  brother  to  the  Countess 
dowager  of  Hardwicke  and  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  Kildare. 

He  was  born  Oct.  30,  1765,  the  eighth 
son  and  eleventh  and  youngest  child  of 
James  5th  Earl  of  Balcarres,  by  Anne, 
youngest  daughter  of  Sir  Robert  Dal. 
rymple,  of  Castleton.  He  served  in  eariy 
life  in  the  Royal  Navy,  and  was  present 
in  several  actions  under  Lord  Rodney  and 
Lord  St.  Vincent,  and  among  others  in 
that  of  the  Ist  of  June.  He  afterwards 
became  Commander  of  an  Indiaraan  in  the 
service  of  the  Hon.  E.  I.  Company.  He 
was  first  elected  a  member  of  the  Court 
of  Directors  in  1814. 

In  1620  be  was  returned  to  Parliament 
for  the  boroughs  of  Forfar,  Perth,  Dun- 
dee, Cupar,  and  St.  Andrew's,  for  which 
he  sat  till  1830. 

He  married  at  Bai^geny  Jan.  14,  1799, 
Jane,  second  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Alex- 
ander Gordon,  Lord  Rock vi lie,  great- 
unole  to  the  present  Earl  of  Aberdeen  ; 
and  by  that  lady,  who  survives  him,  had 
issue  Anne,  married  in  1817  to  Sir 
Edmund  W.  R.  Antrobus,  Bart. ;  and 
Hugh  Hamilton  Lindsay,  esq,  M.P.  for 
Deal  and  Sandwich. 


Hon.  Arthua  H.  Cole,  M.P. 

June  16.  In  Manchester- square,  in  his 
64th  year,  the  Hon.  Arthur  Henry  Cole, 
M.P.  for  Enniskillen ;  brother  to  the 
Countess  de  Grey,  and  uncle  to  the  Earl 
of  Enniskillen. 

He  was  born  June  28,  1780,  the  fourth 
son  of  William- Willougbby  first  Earl  of 
Enniskillen,  by  Anne,  only  daughter  of 
Galbruith  Lowry,  esq.  M.P.  for  co. 
Tyrone,  and  sister  to  Armar  first  Eari  of 
Belmore. 

Mr.  Cole  had  represented  Enniskillen 
in  every  Parliament  from  1830;  and  is 
now  succeeded  in  that  post  by  his  nephew 
the  Hon.  Henry  Arthur  Cole,  only 
brother  and  heir  presumptive  to  the  pre- 
sent Earl  of  Enniskillen. 

He  has  died  unmarried. 


Thb  Hon.  R.  B.  Wilbbaham,  M.P.* 

May  10.   At  Lord   Skelmersdale's,  in 

Portland.place,aged42,  the  Hon.  Richard 

Bootle  Wilbraham,  M.P.  for  South  Lan- 

cashire. 

The  deceased  was  the  eldest  son  of 


1844.]      Hon.  E.  B.  mibraham.—Sir  G.  Pigoit-^Sir  T.  Shelley.    205 


£dward  I^ord  Skelmerscble,  and  brother 
to  Lady  Stanley.  His  mother  was  Mary- 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Edward 
Taylor  of  Bifrons,  Kent,  and  sister  to 
the  late  Sir  Herbert  Taylor  and  Sir 
Brook  Taylor.  He  was  bom  the  27th 
of  Oct.  1801,  and  married  the  22d  of 
May,  1832,  Miss  Jessy  Brooke,  third 
daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Brooke,  Bart., 
by  whom  he  leaves  a  son  and  four 
daughters.  In  1835  he  was  returned  to 
the  House  of  Commons  for  the  Southern 
division  of  Lancashire,  after  a  contest 
which  terminated  as  follows : — 

Lord  Francis  Egerton    .  7822 

Hon.  R.  B.  Wilbraham  7645 

Edward  Stanley,  esq.     •  6576 

Charles  Towneley,  esq.  6044 

The  two  Conservative  members  were 
re-chosen  without  opposition  in  1841. 

The  interment  of  his  mortal  remains 
took  place  at  Skelmersdale,  near  Orms- 
kirk,  on  the  19th  May.  The  body  had 
been  removed  to  Latham  Hall,  the  seat 
of  Lord  Skelmersdale,  about  three  miles 
distant.  About  10  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing the  procession  left  the  hall  in  the 
following  order : — First  mourning  coach, 
containing  the  Rev.  Mr.  Battersby,  Dr. 
Lax,  Mr.  Robert  Boyer,  and  JVfr.  E. 
Boyer ;  the  hearse  came  next ;  and  then 
the  second  mourning  coach,  in  which 
were  Lord  Skelmersdale,  Mrs.  R.  Bootle 
Wilbraham,  Mrs.  A.  Lasrelles,  and  Sir 
Richard  Brooke,  Bart. ;  third  mourning 
coach  containing  Lord  Stanley,  Sir 
Brook  Taylor,  Mr.  Farington,  and  Mr. 
Warburton  ;  and  in  the  fourth  mourning 
coach  were  Mr.  Arthur  Brooke,  Mr. 
Brooke,  Mr.  Button,  and  the  Hon.  Arthur 
LasceUes.  In  the  rear  were  the  private 
carriages  of  Lord  Skelmersdale  and  many 
of  the  local  gentry  and  clergy. 

Sir  George  Pigott,  Bart. 

May  28.  At  Paris,  in  his  80th  year,  Sir 
George  Pigott,  of  Knapton,  Queen's 
County,  Bart. 

He  was  tbe  eldest  son  of  Thomas 
Pigott,  of  Knapton,  esq.  by  Priscilla, 
dxughter  of  John  Garden,  of  Lismore, 
Queen's  Countv,  esq.  He  was  created  a 
Baronet  of  the  United  Kingdom  by 
patent  dated  Oct.  3,  1»03. 

He  married  Feb.  15,  1794,  Annabella, 
daughter  of  the  Right  Hon.  Thomas 
Kelly,  of  Kellyville,  Queen's  County,  a 
Judge  oi  the  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland ; 
and  by  thit  lady  has  left  issue  four  sons 
and  five  daughters.  The  former  are :  1. 
Sir  Thomas,  who  has  succeed  to  the  title ; 
2.  Georae- Francis  ;  3.  William  Pigott, 
esq.  of  Dullingham  House,  Cambridge- 
imre,  who  miuii^  i^  1827  Harriett,  sole 


daughter  and  heiress  of  the  late  General 
Christopher  Jeafireson,  of  that  place,  and 
sister  by  her  mother  to  the  present  Vis- 
count Gormanston;  4.  Wellesley-Pole. 
The  daughters  are,  ].  Frances  ;  2.  An- 
nabella ;  3.  Jane  ;  4.  Charlotte  ;  and  5. 
Salisbury. 

The  present  Baronet  was  bom  in  1796, 
and  was  formerly  a  Captain  in  the  Royal 
Horse^uards  Blue.  He  married  in  1831 
Georgina-Anne,  daughter  of  William 
Bruromell,  of  Wyvenhoe,  co.  Essex,  esq. 

Sir  Timothy  Shelley,  Bart. 

jlpril  24.  At  his  seat.  Field  Place, 
Warnham,  Sussex,  aged  90,  Sir  Timothy 
Shelley,  the  second  Bart,  late  of  Castle 
Goring  in  that  county  (1806). 

This  venerable  gentleman  was  the  re« 
presentative  of  one  of  the  three  great  linea 
of  Shelley,  of  Sussex;  the  other  two 
being  now  represented  by  Sir  John 
Shelley,  Bart.,  and  by  Miss  Shelley,  of 
Lewes.  These  three  branches  descend 
from  a  common  ancestor,  John  Shelley, 
esq.,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
and  heiress  of  John  Michelgrovc,  and  died 
in  the  reign  of  Henry  the  Eighth.  Edward 
Shelley,  esq.,  the  fourth  son  of  this 
marriage,  was  seated  at  Warminghurst, 
in  that  county,  and  was  the  direct  ances- 
tor of  the  subject  of  this  notice.  In 
1692,  John  Shelley,  esq.,  a  descendant, 
married  one  of  the  co-hciresses  of  Roger 
Bysshe,  of  Fen -place,  and  thus  brought 
that  estate  into  the  family.  His  grand- 
son, Bysshe  Shelley,  esq.,  was  created  a 
Baronet  in  1806.  He  married  twice. 
By  his  first  lady,  Mary- Catharine,  daugh- 
ter and  heiress  of  the  Rev.  Theolwld 
Mitchell,  of  Horsham,  he  had  issue  two 
daughters  and  a  son,  the  late  Sir  Timothy 
Shelley.  By  his  second  wife,  Eiizabeth- 
Jane-Sidney,  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of 
William  Perry, esq.,  by  Elizabeth,  heiress 
of  Colonel  Sidney,  brother  uf  the  last 
Earl  of  Leicester,  he  had,  with  several 
other  children,  ii  son,  John,  of  Pensburst, 
in  Kent,  who  took  the  surname  of  Sidney, 
and  was  created  a  Baronet  as  Sir  John 
Shelley  Sidney,  in  1818.  He  is  father 
of  Philip- Charles  Lord  de  Lisle.  Sir 
Bysshe  died  at  an  advanced  age  in  1815, 
when  the  title  devolved  upon  hid  eldest 
son.  Sir  Timothy,  who  was  bom  in 
1753,  and  married  in  1791  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Charles  Pilfold,  esq.  of 
Effingham,  Surrey,  by  whom  he  hud 
issue, — 1.  Percy  Bysshe;  2.  Elizabeth, 
who  died  unmarried  in  18.U  ;  3.  Helen, 
who  died  an  infant  in  1796 ;  4.  Alary, 
married  in  1819  to  Daniel  F.  Haynes, 
esq.  of  Lonsome,  Surrey;  b,  Helen;  6. 
Margaret ;  and  7.  John,  married  in  1827 
to  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Cbarle« 


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Obituabt.*— 5ir  John  Lowther,  SaH. 


[Aog. 


fiowen,  esq.  of  Kilnacourt,  treknd. 
The  eldest  loii,  Percy  Bjsshe  Shelley, 
well  known  as  one  of  the  greatest  poets 
of  bis  age,  was  drowned  off  the  coast  of 
Italy,  in  1822,  leaving  by  Mary  Wolstone- 
crort  Godwin,  the  author  of  Frankenstein, 
(daughter  of  Mr.  William  Godwin,  the 
kistoriau,  by  Mary  Wolstoneeroft,  author 
of  '<  The  Kights  of  Woman,'*)  a  son, 
Percy  Florence,  who  was  bom  at  Florence 
in  1819,  and  who  now  succeeds  to  the 
baronetcy. 

Sir  Timothy  Shelley  was  sincerely 
respected.  As  a  landlord,  and  as  a  prac- 
tical agriculturist,  he  enjoyed  a  hign  re- 
putation. In  htm  the  agricultural  labourer 
baa  lost  a  kind  benefactor  and  a  constant 
rewarder  of  honest  industry ;  in  short  he 
possessed,  in  a  high  degree,  the  best  qua- 
lities  of  the  English  country  gentleman. 

His  remains  were  deposited  in  the  family 
vault  in  Horsham  Church. 


Sib  John  Lowtbeb,  Bart. 

May  13.  At  S Willi ngton  House,  near 
Leeds,  aged  85,  Sir  John  Lowther,  Bart, 
formerly  M.P.  for  Cumberland. 

Sir  John  Liowther  was  the  only  brother 
of  the  late  Earl  of  Lonsdale,  whom  he 
sunrired  for  less  than  two  months,  and  of 
whom  a  memoir  was  given  in  our  May 
Magazine,  p.  532.  He  was  bom  on  the 
1st  April,  1759,  the  younger  son  of  the 
Rev.  Sir  William  Lowther,  of  Swilling. 
ton,  Bart,  by  Anne,  eldest  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Charles  Zouche,  Vicar  of  Sandal. 
He  was  of  Trinitv  College,  Cambridge, 
where  he  took  the  degree  of  B.  A.  in  1780. 
He  was  one  of  the  last  survivors  of  the 
Pariiament  of  1780,  to  which  he  was  re- 
turned for  the  borough  of  Cockermouth, 
and  again  in  1784.  hi  April  1786  he  ac 
cepted  the  Cbiltem  Hundreds,  in  order 
to  stand  for  Carlisle ;  but  on  a  petition 
was  declared  not  duly  elected,  a  Com- 
mittee deciding  in  favour  of  John  Chris- 
tian, eSQ.  Room  was  made  for  him  as 
one  of  the  members  for  Haslemere.  We 
do  not  find  him  in  the  Parliament  of  1790, 
but  in  1796  he  was  elected  for  the  county 
of  Cumberland,  and  again  in  1802.  In 
1806  he  was  returned  for  both  Cocker- 
mouth  and  the  county,  but  made  his  elec- 
tion fur  the  latter  in  Jan.  1807.  He  was 
re-elected  in  1812  and  1818,  and  again  in 
1820.  At  the  last-named  election  there 
was  a  contest,  in  which  the  present  Earl 
of  Carlisle  (then  Lord  Morpeth)  was  the 
defeated  candidate,  and  which  terminated 
aa  follows : 

John  Lowther,  esq.  .  .  .  166 
J.  C.  Curwen,  esq.  ...  138 
Lord  Morpeth      ....    91 

gir  John  Lowtktr  (thtn  •  BanNif  t)  WM 


re-chosen  for  Cumberland  in  1826  aad 
1830,  but  retired  in  1831,  at  which  elec- 
tion his  nephew  Lord  Lowther  was  de- 
feated. 

He  was  created  a  Baronet  by  patent 
dated  1824,  thus  restoring  the  old  family 
title,  which  had  merged  in  the  peerage. 
Indeed  two  patents  of  baronetage,  dated 
respectivelv  1640  and  1764  (the  rormer  of 
Nova  Scotia),  are  vested  in  the  Earl  of 
Lonsdale.  Sir  John  Lowther  was  also 
in  the  remainder  of  the  dignities  of  Vis- 
count Lowther  and  Baron  Lowther  of 
Whitehaven,  conferred  on  his  cousin 
James  Earl  of  l^nsdale  in  1797. 

Sir  John  Lowther  strongly  resembled 
the  late  excellent  Earl  of  I/>nsdale,  both 
in  features  and  personal  disposition.  He 
was  exemplary  in  all  the  relations  of  life, 
and  by  none  will  bis  death  be  more  sin- 
cerely  lamented  than  by  his  tenantry  and 
the  poor  in  the  vicinity  of  his  extensive 
property.  Though  fond  of  retirement,  he 
was  not  unused  to  public  life,  and  his 
constituents  ever  found  in  him  a  zealous 
guardian  of  their  local  and  general  inter, 
ests. 

Sir  John  Lowther  married  Sept.  4, 
1790,  Lady  Elizabeth  Fane,  third  daughter 
of  John  ninth  Earl  of  Westmoreland, 
and  sister  to  Lady  Augusta,  whom  his 
brother  had  previously  married  in  1781. 
They  bad  issue  three  sons  and  three 
daughters:  1.  Elizabeth,  unmarried;  8. 
Sir  John  Henry  Lowther,  who  has  suc- 
ceeded to  the  Baronetcy;  3.  George 
William,  who  died  in  1805.  in  his  10th 
year;  4.  Frederica,  who  died  in  181S, 
aged  13;  5.  Louisa,  who  died  in  1816, 
aged  15 ;  and  6.  Charles  Hugh  Lowther, 
esq.  who  married  in  1834  Isabella,  eldest 
daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  Robert  More- 
head,  D.D.  and  has  issue  two  sons  and  a 
daughter. 

Lady  Elisabeth  Lowther  had  been  for 
some  time  indisposed,  and  her  illness 
having  increased  after  the  death  of 
her  venerable  husband,  she  became  so 
unwell  that  orders  were  sent  to  delay  the 
preparations  for  the  Baronet's  funeral,  as 
it  was  feared  her  ladyship  could  not  long 
survive,  and  it  was  not  desirable  to  disturb 
her  repose  by  the  bustle  necessarily  inci- 
dent  to  that  mournful  ceremonial.  She 
died  on  the  19th  Mav,  aged  74. 

Their  funeral  took  place  on  the  25th 
at  Swillington.  The  two  hearses  were 
followed  by  a  mourning  coach,  containing 
the  chief  mourner.  Sir  John  Henry  Low- 
ther, Bart.  M.P.  accompanied  by  his 
brother,  Charies  Hugh  Lowther,  esq. 
General  Sir  John  Woodford,  half-brother 
of  the  deceased  lady,  and  the  Rev.  Henry 
Fludyer,  a  nephew  of  her  huiyship.  Fiv» 
other  coaebet  followed,  eoatainiiig  the 


207 


ftunily  bas  been  laid  prostratei  and  tbere 
are  few  wbo  hare  not  to  mourn  tbe  loss 
of  some  members. 


1M4.]         Shr  H.  Chaniberhin.~Maj.*een.  Sir  W.  Casement. 

pall-bearers  of  tbe  deceased  Baronet- 
namely,  tbe  Earl  of  Mexborougb,  tbe 
Hon.  Sir  Edward  M.  VavaBour,  Bart, 
tbe  Hon.  and  Rev.  Philip  Yorke  Savile, 
Col.  Markbam,  Christopber  Beckett,  esq. 
Tbomas  Davison  Bland,  esq.  Henrv 
Ramsden,  esq.  and  Adolpbus  Woodford, 
esq. ;  tbe  palUbearers  of  tbe  Lady  Eliza, 
beth  Lowtber — ^namely,  tbe  Hon.  Henry 
Savile,  John  Blayds,  esq.  tbe  Rev.  The- 
opbilus  Barnes,  tbe  Kev.  Jobn  Bell, 
Leonard  Tbompson,  esq.  Tbomas  D. 
Bland,  Jan.  esq.  Martin  Jobn  West,  esq. 
and  Tbomas  T.  Dibb,  esq. ;  tbe  Rector 
of  Swillington,  Mr.  Ellerton  of  Kippaz, 
tbe  family  surgeon,  and  otbers.  After 
tbe  mourning  coocbes  followed  several 
private  carriages. 

The  present  Baronet  was  bom  in  1793, 
and  is  unmarried.  Ae  is  M.P.  for  tbe 
city  of  York. 


Sift  Henry  CnikUSERLAiN,  Babt. 

Lately,  At  Bermuda,  in  tbe  West 
Indies,  aged  48;  Sir  Henry  Cbamberbun, 
tbe  second  Baronet  (18^),  Captain  Royal 
Artillery. 

He  was  bom  Oct.  8,  1796,  tbe  eldest 
son  of  Sir  Henry  the  first  Baronet, 
Consul.  General  and  Cbargft  d'Afiaires 
in  Brazil,  by  bis  first  wife  Aiiss  Elizabeth 
Harrod,  of  Exeter;  and  be  succeeded 
bis  father  in  the  title,  July  31,  1829. 
He  was  appointed  2d  Lieutenant  in  tbe 
Royal  Artillery  May  1,  1815,  1st  Lieu, 
tenant  May  1,  1819,  and  Captain  Sept.  2, 
1836;  and  he  succeeded  Lieut.-Col. 
Arabin  in  command  of  the  Roval  Ar. 
tillery  in  Bermuda  on  tbe  18tb  Aug. 
1843.  He  married  in  18426  a  daughter  of 
Major  Robert  Mullen,  1st  Foot,  and  bas 
left  issue  a  son  and  heir,  now  Sir  Henry 
Orlando  Robert  Chamberlain. 

Tbe  late  Baronet  fell  a  victim  to  a  fatal 
epidemic  fever,  as  about  tbe  same  time 
did  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant  Jenkin,  of 
tbe  Royal  Engineers.  It  was  formerly 
stated  that  tbe  yellow  fever,  which  bad 
again  visited  tbe  Bermudas  group,  and 
especially  St.  George's  Island,  was  found 
to  be  as  malignant  as  tbe  epidemy  which 
attacked  it  in  1819.  Experience  has,  how- 
ever, painfully  proved  that  the  latter  visi. 
tation  has  been  more  direful  in  its  effects, 
wider  in  its  spread,  and  more  severe  in 
every  way  than  on  any  former  occasion. 
In  addition  to  tbe  above  officers,  9  gun- 
ners and  drivers  of  tbe  Royal  Artillery 
and  37  privates,  out  of  a  company  of  only 
about  70  Royal  Sappers  and  Miners,  have 
died,  and  about  120  of  tbe  reserve  bat- 
talion  of  tbe  20th  Regiment  of  tbe  Line 
at  present  serving  on  the  Bermuda  station. 
In  St.  George's,  the  most  important  and 
populous  island  in  tbe  group,  almost  erery 


Major.  Gen.  Sia  W.Casembnt,  K.C.B. 

jipril  \Q.  At  Coasipore,  near  Calcutta, 
the  Hon.  Major- Gen.  Sir  William  Case* 
ment,  K.C.B.  Second  Ordinarjr  Member 
of  tbe  Supreme  Council  of  India. 

Sir  William  Casement  bad  passed 
forty-seven  years  of  uninterrupted  service. 
He  was  appointed  to  the  Bengal  establish, 
ment  in  1795.  In  his  earlier  years  be 
was  actively  employed  in  Lord  Lake's 
campaigns,  as  also  during  tbe  Marquess 
of  Hastings's  administration.  He  waa 
present  in  action  with  bis  regiment  at  tbe 
storming  of  Allygbur  in  1803,  and  at 
tbe  battle  of  Deeg  in  1804.  In  1810  be 
was  appointed  Deputy-Judge  Advocate- 
General  at  Cawnpore ;  was  afterwards 
named  Deputy  Quartermaster- General, 
and  attached  during  the  Nepaul  campaign 
to  tbe  division  commanded  by  General 
Marley.  In  1818  be  waa  appointed 
Military  Secretary  to  Government,  which 
situation  be  held  for  upwards  of  twenty 
years,  until  be  was  nominated  Member 
of  Council.  He  was  appointed  Colonel 
of  the  23d  Bengal  Native  Infantry,  May 
1,  1834,  and  attained  the  rank  of  Major- 
General,  Jan.  10,  1837.  In  tbe  latter 
year  he  was  also  nominated  a  Knight 
Companion  of  tbe  Bath. 
.  Sir  William  Cssement  was  thoroughly 
conversant  with  every  detail  connected 
with  tbe  army,  an  able  and  valuable 
servant  to  the  Government,  and  an  up. 
right  and  honourable  member  of  his  pro- 
fession. Though  he  bad  filled  high  offices 
for  forty  years,  and  in  times  of  difficulty 
and  trouble,  yet  he  had  tbe  rare  felicity  of 
obtaining  not  only  tbe  approbation  of  tbe 
directors,  but  tbe  confidence  of  tbe  army, 
wbo  looked  on  bis  promotion  aa  tbe  re« 
ward  of  efficient  service  and  of  great 
military  knowledge. 

He  bad  taken  his  passage  in  tbe  Wind* 
sor,  and  was  to  have  returned  to  England 
in  March  last,  but  the  outbreak  of  tbe 
corps  ordered  to  Scinde,  having  then  as- 
sumed  an  alarming  aspect,  led  to  bis  re- 
maining in  compliance  with  the  wishes  of 
tbe  Governor  General  and  the  Members 
of  the  Council.  He  had  been  unwell  for 
some  time  past,  and  his  constitution  ap- 
peared to  be  breaking,  but  be  attended 
council  on  the  I3tb  April,  coming  in  (rom 
Cossipore,  a  distance  of  four  mileM,  where 
be  bad  taken  a  house  for  change  of  air ; 
that  night  he  was  attacked  with  cholera, 
but  lingered  on  until  3  o'clock  on  the 
morning  of  the  16th,  when  he  expired. 
He  waa  boned  on  tbe  morning  of  the 
17th  April,  with  military  bonoura^  th« 


Gorernor.  General,  Members  of  CoancU, 
and  all  the  civil  and  military  officers  at 
the  Presidency  attending  the  funeral. 
He  has  left  a  widow  the  daughter  of 
General  Sir  SackviUe  Browne. 


Vice.Adm.  No&borne  Thompson. 

May  28.  In  Great  Russell-street, 
Bloomsbury,  in  his  75th  year,  Vice -Ad- 
miral Norbome  Thompson. 

This  officer  entered  the  Royal  Navy  in 
1778,  and  was  made  a  Lieutenant  in 
1790.  He  served  on  board  the  Boyne  d8 
at  the  attack  on  Point  Pitre  in  Guada- 
loupe  in  17&1>;  was  made  Commsnder 
2oth  March  1796;  commanded  the  Zebra 
sloop  of  war  in  that  year,  and  subsequently 
the  Savage  of  10  guns  ;  the  latter  vessel 
formed  part  of  Sir  Home  Popham's  squa- 
dron  at  Ostend  in  May  \196,  He  was 
promoted  to  post  rank  Aug.  II,  1800, 
and  appointed  to  the  Perl  in  ^,  which 
assisted  at  the  reduction  of  Flushing,  in 
1809.  He  afterwards  commanded  the 
Aboukir  at  the  capture  of  Genoa  in  1814. 
He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Rear- 
Admiral  in  1830,  and  to  that  of  Vice. 
Admiral  in  1841. 


208        Vke-Adm.  Thqngiiion.^Rear'Adm.  W.  F.  Win,  C.B.        {Aogi 

before  they  discovered  their  mistake.  A 
heavy  cannonade  was  now  commenced  on 
both  sides,  and  continued  for  four  hours, 
when  the  fort  was  gallantly  stormed  by 
a  detachment  of  seamen  and  marines, 
landed  under  the  command  of  Captain 
Wise,  assisted  by  Lieutenants  Baker, 
Norton,  and  Shaw.  Possession  was  then 
taken  of  two  French  schooners,  fitting 
for  sea  as  cruisers,  with  an  American 
ship  and  an  English  schooner,  both  of 
which  had  been  recently  captured  by  pri- 
vateers. The  iMediator,  Captain  Vii8e'9 
ship,  was  the  greatest  sufferer  on  this  oc- 
casion, the  fire  of  the  enemy  being  chiefly 
directed  against  her,  but  not  so  much  as 
might  have  been  expected  from  the  com- 
manding situation  of  the  fort,  which 
was  manned  principally  by  the  crews  of 
schooners.  Her  lote  consisted  of  2  men 
killed  and  12  wounded;  the  Bacchante 
had  not  a  man  slain,  and  only  4  wounded. 
The  fort  and  cannon  were  afterwards  de- 
stroyed  by  Lieutenant  Goald,  and  the 
place  vras  evacuated  by  Captain  Dacres 
on  the  21st  of  the  same  month. 

In  1813  Capt.  Wise  was  appointed  to 
the  Granicus  frigate,  in  which  be  cap- 
tured the  Leo,  an  American  privateer  of 
6  guns,  off  Cape  Spartel,  Dec.  2,  1814. 
On  the  27th  Oct  1815,  he  was  reap- 
pointed to  the  Granicus,  which  was  en- 
gaged  in  the  assaalt  on  Algiers,  and  on 
that  brilliant  occasion  sustained  a  loss  of 
16  killed  and  42  wounded.  <■  With  a 
display  of  intrepidity  and  of  seamanship 
alike  unsurpassed,*'  as  James  relates  in 
his  Naval  History,  *'  Captain  Wise  an- 
chored his  frigate  in  a  space  scarcely  ex- 
ceeding her  own  length,  between  the  Queen 
Charlotte  and  Superb, — a  station  of  which 
a  three- decked  iine-of-battle  ship  might 
justly  have  been  proud."  For  this  service 
Capt.  Wise  was  nominated  a  Companion 
of  the  Bath,  Sept.  21,  1816. 

He  was  appointed  Jan.  8,  1818,  to  the 
Spartan  frigate,  which  was  despatched  to 
Algiers  to  complain  of  a  violation  of  the 
treaty,  in  having  plundered  the  Genoese 
ship  Misericord ia.  His  mission  was  com- 
pletely success! ul.  He  obtained  the  sum 
of  35,000  dollars  in  compensation  of  the 
plunder,  and  a  disavowal  on  the  part  of 
the  reigning  Dey  of  his  predecessor's  act 
of  dismissing  the  Sardinian  vice-consul. 

In^  1819  the  Spartan  visited  Madeira, 
Dominica,  Vera  Cruz,  Jamaica,  Barba- 
does,  and  Halifax.  In  July  1820  she 
conveyed  Lord  Combermere  from  Halifax 
to  England.  She  subsequently  proceeded 
to  the  Havannab,  Chariestown,  and  New 
York,  from  whence  she  returned  to  Eng- 
land,  to  be  paid  off,  in  Jan.  1821. 

Captain  Wise  attained  the  rank  of 
Rear-Admiral  Nov.  23,  IMl.    He  mar- 


Rear-Aom.  W.  F.  Wise,  C.B. 

June  .  At  Hoegate  House,  Plymouth, 
after  a  week's  illness,  in  his  60th  year, 
William  Furlong  Wise,  esq.  Rear- Ad- 
miral  of  the  Blue,  and  C.B. 

This  officer  was  bom  at  Woolston,  near 
Kingsbridge,  in  Devonshire,  Aug.  21, 
1784,  the  son  of  George  F.  Wise,  esq. 
of  that  place,  by  Jane,  sister  of  the  late 
Vice-Adm.  James  Richard  Dacres.  He 
entered  the  Navy  Feb.  7,  1797 ;  attained 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant  May  1, 1804 ;  was 
made  a  Commander  into  the  Elk  sloop  of 
war  Nov.  1,  1805;  and  posted  into  the 
Mediator,  44,  on  the  Jamaica  station. 
May  18,  1806. 

On  the  14th  Feb.  1807,  his  cousin  Capt. 
J.  R.  Dacres,  of  the  Bacchante,  captured 
the  French  national  schooner  Dauphin, 
of  3  guns  and  71  men,  a  vessel  which  had 
done  much  mischief  to  British  commerce 
in  the  West  Indies,  and  was  then  return- 
ing from  a  successful  cruise  to  St.  Do- 
mingo. Finding  that  the  Dauphin  was 
well  known  at  Samana,  and  having  con- 
sulted with  Captain  Wisie,  who  had  wit- 
nessed her  capture,  Captain  Dacres  de- 
termined to  send  her  in  under  French 
colours,  to  disguise  the  Bacchante  as  a 
prize,  and  the  Mediator  as  a  neutral  ; 
which  stratagem  so  completely  deceived 
the  enemy,  that  he  got  through  the  in- 
tricate navigation  of  the  harbour,  and 
anchored  within  half  a  mile  of  the  fort, 
19 


1844.] 


Obituary*— ITtV/iam  Beekford,  Esq* 


209 


n>d,  June  16,  1810,  Fanny,  only  daughter 
of  W.  Orenfell,  esq.  He  was  univernally 
respected  in  tbe  neighbourhood  of  Ply- 
mouth. 


WiLUAK  BecKFORD,    EsQ* 

Maif  2.  At  Bach,  aged  84,  Williain 
Beekford,  esq.  tbe  author  of  VaCbek,  and 
formeily  proprietor  of  Foncbili. 

This  very  extraordinary  man  was  in- 
debted for  bis  ample  fortune  to  tbe  pro- 
perty which  his  ancestors  bad  acquired 
in  the  West  Indies.  His  great-grand- 
fiither,  Peter  Beekford,  esq.  was  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor  and  Commander-in- 
Chief  of  tbe  island  of  Jamaica,  from  tbe 
reign  of  Charles  II.  to  that  of  Anne; 
and  his  grandfather  of  tbe  same  name 
was  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly 
in  the  same  ifdand.  His  father  was 
Alderman  William  Beekford,  who  was 
twii'e  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  and  re- 
presentative in  rarliament  for  the  me- 
tropolis in  tbe  stormy  times  of  Wilkes, 
Chatliam,  and  the  American  discontents, 
and  who  is  celebrated  for  having  bearded 
King  Geoige  1 1 1.  on  his  throne,  by  replying 
extemporaneously  to  his  Mnjesty's  an- 
swer to  an  address.*  Shortly  after  this 
memorable  exploit  Mr.  Beekford  died 
(June  21st,  1770),  and  the  City  voted  a 
statue  to  bis  memory  in  Guild  hail,  and 
ordered  that  tbe  speech  be  had  delivered 
to  the  King  should  be  engraved  on  tbe 
pede«tal. 

Tbe  Lord  Mayor  enjoyed  tbe  friend- 
ship of  Mr.  Pitt,  tbe  first  £arl  of  Chat- 
ham, and  that  great  man  became  the  spon- 
sor of  his  onlv  son  :  tbe  Earl  of  Effing- 
ham, who  bad  married  Elizabeth  sister  of 
the  Lord  Mayor,  standing  as  proxy  on 
the  occasion.  The  following  letterf  was 
written  by  the  father  to  Mr.  Pitt,  an- 
nouncing the  completion  of  this  arnmge- 
ment: 

"  Your  very  obliging  and  much  es- 
teemed favour  was  duly  received.  I  con- 
sider it  tbe  greatest  boooar  to  have  such 
A  sponsor  to  my  child.     He  was  made  a 

•  See  in  the  Chatham  Correspondence, 
1839,  vol.  iii.  p.  463.  a  letter  of  the  Earl 
ol  Chatham  expressing  his  enthusiastic 
approbation  of  Beck  ford's  conduct,  fol- 
lowed by  the  Lord  Mayor's  reply. 

f  The  editors  of  the  Chatham  Cor- 
respondence  have  committed  two  errors  in 
tbeir  notes  to  this  letter.  Thev  call  Peter 
Beekford,  esa.  the  '*  eldest  brother**  of 
William,  tbe  Lord  Mayor,  instead  of  bis 
fitberi  and  they  term  tbe  Alderman's 
mansion  at  Fontbill  '*  Gothic*" 

Gbwt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


Christian  last  night,  and  Lord  Effingham 
was  your  proxy.  No  endeavours  of  mine 
shall  be  wanting  (if  it  please  God  to 
sp|iire  his  life)  to  instil  into  bis  tender 
mind  principles  of  religion,  honour,  and 
love  of  country.  It  is  true  these  are  old- 
fashioned  prindples,  but  they  are  such  ai 
you  approve  of,  and  practise. 

'*  Nothing  would  give  me  more  plea- 
sure than  to  take  your  opinion  on  my 
present  works  [at  Fontbill].  and  to 
regulate  my  future  operations  by  your 
advice  and  judgment ;  but  I  cannot 
flatter  myseU  so  much  as  to  think  it 
possible  to  enjoy  that  (*omfurt,  until  yott 
have  first  procured  for  your  country  n 
safe,  honourable,  and  lasting  peace.  I 
am,      My  dear  Sir, 

'*  Your  ever  faithful  and 

affectionate  humble  servant, 

W.    BBCKFOaD." 

In  1773  the  Earl  of  Chatham  thus 
mentions  his  godson,  in  a  letter  to  bis 
son  William,  then  at  Cambridge — 

'*  Little  Beekford  was  really  disap- 
pointed at  not  being  in  time  to  see  you,-» 
a  good  mark  for  my  young  vivid  friend. 
He  is  just  as  much  compounded  of  the 
elements  of  air  and  flre  as  he  was.  A 
due  proportion  of  ierreiirial  solidity  will, 
I  trust,  come  and  make  him  perfect." 

At  a  page  of  the  Chatham  Correspond- 
ence shprtly  following  that  from  which 
this  extract  is  made,  will  be  seen  a  letter 
dated  Fontbill,  Dec.  11,  1773,  addressed 
to  the  Eari  of  Chatham  by  the  Rev.  John 
Lettice,  Mr.  Beckford's  tutor,  and  who 
afterwards  superintended  tbe  education  of 
bis  daughter  the  Duchess  of  Hamilton. 
It  speaks  of  Mr.  Beckford's  attention 
having  been  directed  to  mathematics,  to 
the  study  of  Locke,  to  arithmetic,  and  to 
literature ;  it  gives  Mr.  Lettice*s  senti- 
ments on  these  several  topics,  but  con* 
tains  nothing  verv  striking  or  characteris- 
tic of  the  pupil,  except  the  following 
passage : — 

"  I  assure  myself  it  will  give  your 
Lordship  pleasure  to  be  informed  tbati 
about  a  month  ago,  that  splendid  heap  of 
oriental  drawings,  &c.  which  filled  a  hirge 
table  at  Burton,*  has  been  sacrificed  at 
tbe  shrine  of  good  taste.  Mr.  Beekford 
bad  firmness  enough  to  bum  them  with 
bis  own  hand.  I  hope  that,  as  bis  judg- 
ment grows  maturer,  it  will  give  me  an 
opportunity  of  acquainting  your  lordship 
with  other  sacrifices  to  the  same  power.** 

Mr.  Beekford  inherited  from  bis  father 
the  estate  of  Fontbill,  and  a  very  Urft 
West  Indian  proper ty,'in  all,  it  is  said, 

*  Burton  Pynsent,  the  seat  of  Lord 
Chatham,  in  Somersetshire, 

2E 


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OBirrABT.— IFiZlfanii  Beekfmrd,  Esq. 


to  more  tban  100.0001^  pfr  annum.  At 
tb«  afc  of  rigbtcen  be  published  Biof^ri* 
pbirel  .Memoiri  of  Eitnkonitniiry  Fttintifri, 
a  work  Mtiruiiig  toeM"  Kn^lii^h  erriftft 
under  fetgned  nnmes.  In  1780  he  made 
a  tour  to  the  continent,  which  formed  the 
•ubject  of  a  series  of  Wttem,  pictunnque 
and  poetimi,  published  long  alter  under  the 
tirle  of  **  lulj,  with  Sketches  of  Spain 
and  Portugal.**  The  high-bred  ease.  vo. 
luptuou«iieM,  and  clamic  taste  of  some  of 
these  descfipiions  and  personal  adven- 
tures,  have  a  striking  and  unique  effect. 
This  work,  which  was  published  in  iai4, 
Is  fully  reviewed  in  our  vol.  II.  pp.  lid, 
SM,  At  the  general  election  of  I78i» 
Mr.  Beck  font  was  returned  to  Parlia. 
Blent  for  tlie  citj  of  Wells,  and  in  1790 
for  Hindon.  He  resigned  his  sent  by 
•rcepting  the  Stewardiibipof  the  Cbiltern 
Huiidredfi  on  the  last  day  of  1794. 

In  1784  first  appeared  his  far-fele- 
brated  romance  of  '*  Vaihek,  an  Arabian 
Tale  ;**  but  it  was  a  translation,  not  made 
bv  himself,  and  sarreptittoualy  obtained. 
The  original  waa  firat  printed  at  Lau* 
tanne  *  in  the  year  1787.  It  waa  written 
In  French,  and  ao  admirable  was  it  tor 
ttylc  and  idiofn,  that  it  was  considered  by 
Bfiany  as  the  work  of  n.  Frenchman.  The 
English  version  was  made  by  Dr.  S.  Hen. 
ley,  Rector  of  Kendlesham^  who  added  all 
the  notes  (see  our  vol .  11.  p.  1 1 5) .  Byron 
praised  Vathek  for  its  correctness  of 
costume,  beauty  of  deacription,  and  power 
of  imagination.  **  iU  an  Eastern  tale,*' 
be  said,  **even  Rasselas  must  bow 
before  it:  bis  Happy  Vulley will  not  bear 
■  comparison  with  the  Hall  of  Ebht."  It 
la  difficult  to  institute  a  comparison  be. 
tween  scenes  so  very  diMimilar—almoet 
ii  different  as  the  garden  of  Eden  Irom 
Fandrnioniora ;  but  Vathek  seems  to  have 
powerfully  Impressed  the  youthftil  fancy 
of  Byron.  It  contains  some  minute  East* 
•m  painting  and  charscten  (a  Oiaour  being 
of  the  number),  uniting  enenry  and  fire 
with  volupruouaness,  such  as  fiyron  loved 
to  draw.  The  Caliph  Vathek.  who  had 
**  sullied  himself  with  a  thousand  crim<»a,'* 
like  the  Corsair,  is  a  magnificent  Childt 
Harold,  and  may  have  suggcatod  the  chn- 
tacter. 

The  outline  or  plot  of  Vathek  poaieeset 
all  the  wildiiess  of  Arabian  fiction.  The 
bero  is  tbegiiiidson  of  Harounal  Kasehid 
(Aaron  the  Just),  whose  dominioni 
ttretched  from  Africa  to  India.  He  is 
fearless,  proud,  inquisitive*  a  gourmand, 
fond  of  theological  controveray,  cruel  and 


[AUR. 


nagnificenc  in  bSa  power  ma  m  ralfpb ;  in 
•bort,  an  esatem  Henry  VIIL  He 
oabMea,  moreover,  in  tbe  orrolt  srienrvs, 
a«»d  iiiteiprvta  rhe  i»c»ns  .ml  pl..,«tw7  m. 
fiuences  from  tbe  top  of  bU  bigb  tmrer. 
In  tbeae  m^Btmows  arts  the  caKph  is  as- 
ttsted  by  bis  mother,  Carmrfaia.  a  Greek, 
a  m-onian  of  miperior  gettiua.  Tbeir  am. 
biiion  and  guilt  render  tbesn  m  prey  to  a 
Gisour-.a  aupematnml  peraotn^,  who 
plays  an  important  part  in  the  4raaa,  and 
hurries  the  Calipb  to  destnietkMi^ 

Mr.  Beckford  afterwards  went  to  Por- 
tugal, and  porchaain^  m  eatsfe  at  Ginna 
—that  *'glorioua  Eden**  of  tlie 
he  built  btffioelf  n  palace  for  a 


*  Whilst  at  Lausanne,  Mr.  Beckford 
purchased  the  whole  Ubinry  of  tbe  bii. 
toriaa  Gibboft. 


Tberr  tboo,  too.  VatbAl 

lest  SOB, 
Ouce  ftMved  thy  patadlae.  as  not  ^^^^ 
Wbea  wantoa  Wealth  ber  ■ligiitieat  dnds 

■Ml  react  volapftaoaa  fares  waa  ei«  wmit  la 

Hers  dklst  thoa  dwdl,  hen  aeheaMs  ef  piea> 
sura  plan. 

Beneath    yoa    Bi«BataiB*a 

Bat  aow,  aa  If  a  thia^  aablcat  by 
Thy  lUry  dwBlUng  is  aa  lone  aa  tbm  t 
Hsre  giaat  weeds  a  passage  acaree  aUu. 
To  halls  deserted,  poftala  gapii«  wMe ; 
Prcsh  lesaoaa  to  the  thlakiag  )>oao»«  tow 
Vain  an  the  plsaaaoiicca  ea  earth  aapp  Jed ; 
Swept  into  wicdLs  anon  by  Time's  aogen  tie  ad 

Ckii4U  tfarW^Ckato  L 

Mr.  Beckford  has  lelt  a  literary  me-~ 
rial  of  his  residence  in   Portugal  in  »• 
"  Recollections  of  an  Excursion  to  tbe 
MoniiSteHeaof  Alcoba^si  and  Batalha," 
poblisiied  in  t83S,  (and  revievred  in  oar 
vol.   IV.  p.  S7.H.)     The  excursion  wm 
made  in  June  1794,  at  the  desire  of  ibe 
Piince  Hegent  of  Portugal.    The  aio- 
Mstery  ot    Alcoba^  vras  the  grandeat 
ecclesiastieal  edifice  in  that  country,  with 
paintings,  antique  tombs*  and  foonraina ; 
tbe  noblest  architecture,  in  the  finest  situa- 
tion,  and  inhabited  by  monks  who  lived 
like  princes.  The  wbule  of  thete  skrtrbet 
are  interesting,  and  present  a  gon^eoua 
picture  of  ecclesiastioal  pomp  and  wealth. 
That  magnificent  monastery  waa  plun- 
dered and  given  to  the  flamea  by  the 
French  troops  under  Masseiw  in  1811. 

After  leaviiiff  Cintra,  Mr.  Beckford 
took  up  his  abode  on  bis  pstemal  estate  in 
England,  and  for  twenty  yeara  employed 
himself  in  rearing  the  magnificent  but  ub. 
substantial  Gothic  structure  known  aa 
Fontbill  Abbey,  and  in  embellishing  the 
surrounding  grounds.  The  latter  were 
laid  out  in  the  most  exuuisite  style  of 
landscape-gardening,  aided  by  the  natural 
inequality  and  beauty  of  the  ground,  and 
enriched  by  *  hike  and  fine  sylvan  scenery. 
His  buildings  commenced,  alKMit  the  close 
of  119^  h^p  rMnmiBg  tht  eiectiva  tf  n 


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211 


Unrer  on  the  suniniit  of  the  higbeat  hill 
upon  the  eKUte,  the  foundation  of  which 
bad  been  already  laid  by  the  Alderman, 
in  imitation  of  Alfred's  Tower,  at  S tour- 
bead.  In  the  following  year  he  gave  in- 
structions to  Mr.  James  Wyatt  to  prepare 
a  design  for  an  oniamentiu  building  oil 
the  apot  which  became  the  site  of  the 
ftttnre  Abbey ;  it  was  to  have  the  appear- 
ance of  a  cuDvent,  partly  in  ruins  and 
partly  perfect,  but  to  contain  a  few  rooms 
which  might  afford  shelter  lor  a  day 
either  of  sunsliiue  or  of  shower.  From 
this  germ  arose,  with  continual  alterations 
of  plan,  the  far-famed  Abbey  of  Fonthill. 
For  many  years,  however,  no  intention 
of  converting  the  Convent  into  a  perma- 
nent residence  was  entertained ;  nor,  in- 
deed, did  the  impatience  of  Mr.  Beck- 
fjrd  admit  of  the  necessarily  slow  progress 
of  a  worlc  of  such  dimensions,  when  con- 
atructed  of  solid  materials.  Timber  and 
cement  were  therefore  the  principal  arti* 
cles  in  its  composition  ;  ana  everv  expe- 
dient was  used  to  complete  the  building 
within  a  given  time,  regardless  of  the 
consequences  that  might  almost  have  been 
ex[jected  to  ensue.  At  one  period  every 
cart  and  wagon  in  the  district  was  pressed 
into  th«  service,  though  all  the  agricultu- 
fal  labour  of  the  country  stood  still.  At 
another,  even  the  royal  works  of  St. 
Georges  chapel,  Windsor,  were  aban. 
doned,  that  iGO  men  mieht  be  empbyed 
night  and  day  on  Fonthill  Abbey.  Tbesa 
Ben  were  made  to  relieve  each  other  by 
regular  watches ;  and,  during  the  longest 
and  darkest  nights  of  winter,  the  astouisued 
traveller  might  see  the  tower  rising  undor 
their  hands,  the  trowel  and  torch  being  as- 
•ocfated  for  that  purpose.  Mr.  Beckford 
was  fond  of  watching  the  work  thus 
expedited,  the  busy  levy  of  masons,  the 
high  and  giddy  dancing  of  the  UghtSy 
and  the  strange  effects  produced  upon 
the  architecture  and  woods  below,  from 
one  of  the  eminences  in  the  walks, 
and  wasting  the  coldest  hours  of  De- 
cember dancnesa  in  feasting  his  sense 
with  this  dispky  of  almost  superha- 
maii  power.  One  immediate  result  of 
this  injudicious  haste  was  the  destruction 
of  th«  great  tower,  which  was  carried  up 
to  the  extreme  height  of  300  feet  (and 
furnished  wi  tb  pinnacles  and  weather  VB  nes) 
without  time  being  allowed  to  complete 
its  fa>tening8  to  the  base  on  which  it  waa 
ererted :  a  amart  gust  of  wind  acting  sud- 
denly upon  a  Uige  titf  attached  to  a  acaf* 
fold-pole  at  its  summit,  carried  it  off  its 
base  altogether.  The  fall  was  tremendout 
and  sublime,  and  the  only  regret  expressed 
by  Mr.  Beckford  was,  that  he  had  not 
witiieeacd  the  catastrophe.  He  instantly 
gaf  e  orders  for  the  areotioB  of  a  new  cower. 


This  also,  at  first,  was  only  of  timberi 
covered  with  cement,  but  was  a^terwarde 
cased  with  stone,  with  the  view  of  ex* 
tending  its  chance  of  durability.  The 
stone,  however,  was  never  properly 
clamped  to  the  timber  work.  This  tower 
was  876  feet  high;  it  was  frequently 
crowded  with  visitors  during  the  memo* 
rable  sale  in  182S,  and  was  b^  many 
deemed  insecure:  this  anticipation  waa 
fulfilled  by  its  fall,  on  the  afternoon  of  the 
2ist  Dec.  1825. 

Mr.  Beckford  removed,  in  1807,  to 
the  Abbey  from  the  handsome  mansion 
erected  by  his  father,  which  was  then, 
with  the  exception  of  one  wing,  pulled 
down,  and  its  materials  carried  to  the  new 
works.  The  reason  assigned  for  its  deser« 
tion  was  the  lowness  of  its  situation,  and 
liability  to  fo2s.  From  that  date  to  1828 
he  was  chiefly  engHged  in  adding  to  the 
ornaments  and  the  treasures  of  bis  new 
palace.  It  is  stated  that  his  total  expen- 
diture on  the  place,  during  the  period  of 
sixteen  years,  was  estimated  by  himself  at 
273,000/.  At  length,  in  the  latter  year, 
the  public  were  suddenly  surprised  by 
an  announcement  from  Mr.  ChriMtie  that 
Fonthill,  so  long  locked  up  from  the  eyee 
of  strangers,  was  about  to  be  thrown  open 
in  preparation  for  a  sole. 

The  Abbey  waa  first  opened  for  visiton 
on  the  1st  of  July;  catalogues  were  issued 
at  one  guinea  each,  and  not  less  than 
7800  were  sold.  The  owner  was  gratified 
by  his  bouse  and  collections  becoming  the 
topic  of  general  conversation.  The  sale 
did  not,  however,  then  take  place,  as  tbe 
entire  domain,  and  the  Abbey,  with  all 
its  splendid  contents  (some  choice  books^ 
pictures,  and  curiosities  excepted),  were 
sold,  by  private  contract,  to  John  Far- 
qubar,  esq.  for  330,000/.  The  collection 
was  dispersed  by  Mr.  Phillips,  in  the  foU 
lowing  year,  and  occupied  a  sale  of  thirty- 
seven  days.  (For  further  particulars  we 
must  refer  to  the  works  on  Fonthill,  by 
Brit  ton,  Rutter,  Storer,  flic.,  and  to  tbe 
latest,  entitled,  *<  Historical  Notices  of 
Fonthill  Abbey,  Wiltshire,'*  by  Mr. 
Nichols,  4to.  18i6.} 

Mr.  Beekford's  relinquishment  of  Font- 
hill  was  occasioned  by  the  depreciation  of  hie 
property  in  the  West  lnd»es,  and  the  lose 
of  two  large  estates  therct  which  were 
auccessfully  claimed  in  Chancerv  by  other 
owners  after  they  had  been  in  his  fimily 
for  more  than  sixty  years.  The  proceeds 
of  the  sale  of  Fonthill  were  invested  ntrtly 
in  annuities  and  partly  in  land  near  JBiitDi 
where  he  united  two  bouses  in  the  Roval 
Crescent  by  a  flying  galleiy  extended 
over  a  road,  and  erected  on  Lansdown  an 
elegant  and  loftv  tower,  which  became 
tbe  cepositoiy  of  the  artidei  fcttrred  or 


Obitvabt.— -iRiZitffli  Beekford,  Bsq. 


21S 

bongbt  in  at  Fonthill,  and  ia  fret  the 
foundation  of  a  fresh  museum.  He  also 
formed  large  pleasure  grounds  on  Lana- 
down,  and  clothed  its  late  exposed  de- 
clivities with  extensive  woods,  shrub- 
beries, and  gardens. 

Subaequentlj,  he  frequently  parted 
with  pictures,  but  never  with  a  book 
from  his  splendid  colleetion.  The  last 
picture  he  sold  waa  just  before  his  death, 
the  bMutiful  portrait  of  Bellini,  which 
was  purcliased  for  the  National  Gallerj 
for  GOO/. 

It  may  well  be  questioned  whether  any 
individual  ever  united  greater  knowledge 
and  taste  in  all  the  sister  arts,  then  Mr. 
Beekford.  Bom  with  mental  powers 
superior  to  the  generality  of  mankind, 
these  powers  were  early  developed  by  the 
fostering  care  of  the  first  professors  in  the 
ki  ngdom .  Mozart  was  his  m  usic-master : 
he  played  on  the  piano,  and  sung  with 
taste.  Sir  W.  Chambers  instructed  him 
in  architecture,  and  an  eminent  painter  of 
the  day  taught  him  the  rudiments  of  draw, 
iiw.  His  early  sketches  from  nature 
of  Italian  scenery  for  correctness  and 
delicary  would  not  have  been  unworthy 
a  profr  sional  artist.  He  designed  almost 
9t€ry  building  and  piece  of  furniture 
that  be  poasMScd*  His  general  taste 
in  all  branches  of  art  was  correct,  and 
bia  Judgment  of  pictorea  was  that  of 
•  dealer  rather  than  a  eonnoisaeor.  Hit 
own  collection,  which  be  was  perpetually 
changing,  bad  embraced  specimens  of 
almost  every  painter  of  eminence  of  all 
aces  and  nations ;  but  he  waa  not  insen. 
sible  to  the  genius  of  many  of  our  modem 
artists,  of  whom  his  treatment  was  most 
liberal.  Of  late  years  he  had  added  to 
his  collection  many  of  the  works  of 
Roberta,  (^pe,  Lam-e,  and  others.  A  mong 
the  productions  of  modern  sculpture,  be 
espCHdally  admired  Mr.  Baiiy's  Eye. 
He  bad  a  very  fine  eye  for  engravings,  of 
which  he  possessed  a  supeib  collection. 
His  bouse  was  one  vast  library,  ftud  many 
of  the  modern  books  are  full  of  curious 
remarks  in  bis  own  writing.  He  was 
not  a  deep  scholar,  but  migbt  be  called  a 
singularly  accomplished  man,  and  it  ii 
aaid  that  he  could  converse  in  the  differ, 
ent  dialects  of  luly.  His  conversation 
was  replete  with  anecdotes  of  the  great 

Cople  and  distinguished  charactera  that 
vc  flourished  in  tbe  last  century-.  Vgi 
tHire,  Mirabeau,    Neckar,    Madame   da 

Stiel,  Egalit^,  W«<«fnie  Beaulmrnob 
(afterwards  Empress  Josephine;,  Gain,, 
borough.  West,  Reynolds,  and  others  of 
Dote,  with  whom  be  was  in  habits  of  |b. 
timscy.  In  his  dress  and  habits  be  wai 
pLin  and  simple,  and  be  appeared  totally 
^ — -^  of  penonal  oateiitation,  howev^ 


[Aug. 


extravagant  in  saanyof  his  pursuits.  He 
was,  considering  his  great  age,  wondcr« 
fully  artire ;  hie  took  daily  exercise  on 
foot  and  on  horsebark  unt;l  within  a  few 
days  of  his  death :  few  men,  for  the  long 
period  of  eighty- four  years,  have  enjoyea 
such  uninterrupted  health,  or  maintained 
to  ao  late  a  period  of  life  such  vigoroua 
energy  and  iniellcctual  power.  Hia  death 
was  induced  by  a  violent  attack  of  in- 
fluensi,  and  overtook  him  while  he  waa, 
with  undiminished  leal,  intent  on  adding 
to  hia  curious  library  by  purchases  at 
M.  Nodier*s  sale  at  Paris.  In  all  tbinxs 
tbe  zeal  and  enthusiasm  of  his  youth 
seemed  quite  unchanged  by  age. 

On  the  5th  Mav,  1783,  Mr.  Beekford 
married  Lady  Margaret  Gordon,  sole 
surviving  daughter  of  Charles  fourth 
Eari  of  Aboyne.  She  died  M^y  93, 
1786,  leaving  issue  two  daughters — Mar- 
garet Maria  Elisabeth,  who,  in  May, 
Idll,  married  Lieutenant-Geneial  (then 
Colonel)  James  Orde,  and  who  died  in 
1818,  leaving  two  daughters :  and  Su- 
sanna Eupbemia,  who  on  tbe  S6th  of 
April,  1810,  married  Alexander  Duke 
of  Hamilton,  Brandon,  and  CbateU 
herault,  by  whom  bis  Grace  has  one  son 
and  one  daughier^viz.,  William  Alexan- 
der  Anthony  Archibald,  Marquess  of 
Douglas  and  Clydesdale  (who  recently 
married  the  Princess  Mary  of  Baden^, 
and  Susan  Catharine  Harriet,  who,  in 
November,  I83S,  married  the  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  son  and  heir  of  the  Duke  of 
Newcastle. 

Bv  a  patent  dated  Aug.  11,  1791,  Mr. 
Beckford's  arms  were  placed  within  a 
bordure  or,  charged  with  a  treasure  flory 
gules,  as  a  memorial  of  his  lineal  descent 
from  the  blood  royal  of  Scotland ;  and  by 
a  second  grant  dated  March  20,  1810,  the 
single  was  changed  into  a  double  treasure, 
in  consideration  of  tbe  **  extraordinary  ac. 
cumulation  of  descents  from  royal  and 
illustrious  families  **  concentrated  in  his 
person  ^see  Gentleman's  Magazine,  1822, 
A  CI  I.  II.  202.)  He  received  also  a  crest  of 
augmentation,  viz.  that  of  tbe  house  of 
Hamilton  (to  commemorate  bis  descent 
from  a  coheir  of  the  Earls  of  Abercorn), 
Out  of  a  coronet  or,  an  oak-iree  fnicted 
proper,  the  stem  penetrated  by  a  frHtnc 
saw,  inscribed  through,  differenced  by  a 
shield  pendant  charged  with  the  cott  of 
Latimer,  Gules,  a  cross  flory  or,  in  alluiiion 
to  bis  descent  from  William  tbe  firat 
Ixifd  Latimer.  He  adopted  the  motto 
**  De  Dieu  tout,"  which  was  that  of  the 
Mervyns,  tbe  old  possessore  of  Fontbill, 
instead  of  libbrtas  er  natalb  boluk, 
tbe  motto  uned  by  his  father. 

Among  his  other  decorations  of  Font- 
bill,  hit^  Beekford  wai  profuse  ia  ht« 


1844.]      Alexander  Johnston,  JSsq,  M.P.^WUliQin  Adair,  Esq.       213 

armorial  innignia.  The  whole  are  described 
and  blazoned  at  length  in  our  Magasine 
for  1822  by  the  late  G.  F.  Beltz,  esq., 
Lancaster  Herald. 

Mr.  Beckrord*8  mortal  remains  were 
deposited  in  the  mausoleum  placed  for  the 
purpose  in  the  Abbey  Cemetery,  Lvn- 
combe  Vale,  on  Saturday  the  II  th  of  May. 
At  about  half.past  eleven  o*clock  the 
procession  set  out  in  the  following  order: 
—Mutes ;  coach  and  four,  containing  the 
Rev.  the  Rector  of  Walcot,  and  the  Rev. 
1'.  Lathbury ;  two  coaches  and  pairs  con« 
taining  the  Marquess  of  Huntly's  domes- 
tics,  &c. ;  plume ;  the  body,  in  a  hearse 
and  six  ;  coach  and  six  with  the  Duke  and 
Duchess  of  Hamilton,  the  Marquess  of 
Douglas,  and  Lady  Lincoln;  two  coaches 
and  four  with  the  Marquess  of  Huntly» 
Earl  of  Dunmore,  the  Hon.  C.  Murray, 
the  Hon.  Keith  Stewart  Mackenzie,  6. 
W.  Blathwayt,  esq.,  R.  S.  White,  esq, 
and  James  Heaviside,  esq.  who  were 
the  pall,  bearers.  Three  other  mourning 
coaches  followed,  and  the  procession  was 
closed  by  the  private  carriages  of  the  de* 
ceased,  the  Duchess  of  Hamilton,  the 
Duke  of  Hamilton,  G.  W.  Blathwayt, 
esq.  Admiral  Lysaght,  General  Andrews, 
the  Rev.  S.  H.  Widdrington,  Dr.  Whit, 
ter.  Dr.  Brodie,  and  J.  Worthington,  esq. 

It  is  stated  that  the  mausoleum  cost 
TOO/.  It  is  of  polished  granite,'and  stands 
on  a  small  circular  plot  of  ground  imme- 
diately in  front  of  the  chapel  of  the 
Cemetery.  It  was  constructed  a  longtime 
before  Mr.  Beckford*8  decease.  A  dome 
is  to  be  erected  over  it,  and  it  is  to  be  in- 
scribed with  the  following  inscriptions : — 
On  one  side  will  appear  *'  William  Beck- 
ford,  CFq.  late  of  Fonthill,  Wilts ;  Died  2d 
May,  1844,  aged  84.'*  with  this  quotation 
from  Vatbek — "Enjoyinghombly  the  most 
precious  gift  of  heaven  to  man — Hope.*' 
On  the  other  side  there  will  be  the  SHme 
obituary,  with  the  following  lines  from 
*•  a  prayer"  written  by  the  deceased — 


"Eternal  Power! 
Grant  me  through  obvious  clouds  one  transient 

fleam 
(H  thy  bright  essence  oa  my  dying  boor." 

At  each  end  of  the  sarcophagus,  the  arms 
of  the  deceased  will  be  placed  on  sculp- 
tared  ahields. 

5Ir.  Beckford,  it  is  believed,  has  left 
behind  him  several  manuscripts,  which  he 
intended  for  posthumous  publication. 
Among  which  is  one  called  "  Liber  Veri- 
tatis,*'  consisting  of  remarks  on  the 
pedigrees  and  history  of  the  noble  familiea 
m  England. 


Alexander  Johnston,  Esq.  M.P. 

May  9.  At  Rothsay,  aged  54,  Alex- 
ander Johnston,  esq.  of  Shield  HhII, 
Lanarkshire,  M.P.  for  the  Kilmarnock 
district  of  burghs. 

Mr.  Johnston  was  a  merchant  and 
manufacturer  of  Glasgow ;  and  President 
of  the  Anti-Corn  Law  Association  of 
Glasgow  and  of  the  West  of  Scotland. 
He  M-as  in  other  respects,  as  may  be  in- 
ferred, an  extreme  liberal. 

He  was  first  returned  to  Parliament  at 
the  last  general  election  in  1841,  when  he 
polled  490  for  the  Kilmarnock,  &c. 
burghs,  and  John  C.  Coiquhoun,  esq.  the 
Conservative  candidate,  479. 

Mr.  Johnston  married  in  1815.  During 
the  last  twelve  months  his  health  was  fre- 
quently in  a  precarious  state,  but  im- 
proved so  mucn  since  the  beginning  of  the 
E resent  year  that  he  was  able  to  resume 
is  duties  in  Parliament  in  March  last, . 
and  to  continue  his  attendance  in  the 
House  of  Commons  till  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Easter  holidays.  He  visited 
Roihsay,  in  the  hope  of  recovery  at  that 
salubrious  spot. 

William  Adair,  Esa. 

May  7.     At  his  seat,  Colehouse,  De- 
vonshire, at  a  very  advanced  age,  WiHiMin 
Adair,  esq.  of  Flixton    Hall,    Norfotk, 
Bally menagb.  co.  Antrim,  and  St.  James's ' 
Square,  Westminster. 

This  gentleman  was  descended  from  a 
family  which  has  been  seated  for  many 
generations  at  Ballymenagh,  Co.  Antrim. 
He  married  the  daughter  of  Robert 
Shafto,  esq.  of  Benwell,  Northumber. 
land,  and  bad  issue  Sir  Robert  Shafto 
Adair,  who  was  created  a  Baronet  in 
1838,  and  who,  by  Elizabeth. Maria, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Strode,  has 
a  son  and  heir,  Robert  Alexander  Shafto 
Ad:tir,  esq  who  married,  in  1838,  Theo- 
do&ia,  daughter  of  General  the  Hon. 
Robert  Meade. 

His  younger  son,  Alexander  Adair,  ecq. 
of  Heatherton  P»trk,  Somerset,  married, 
in  1823,  Harriet  Eliza,  daughter  of  George 
Atkinson,  esq.  of  Lee,  in  Kent,  and  has 
issue. 


Thomas  Campbell,  Esq. 

June  15.  At  Boulogne,  aged  67, 
Thomas  ("ampbeil,  ei^q.  LL.D.  the  Poet. 

Mr.  Campbell,  the  tenth  and  youngest 
child  of  bis  parents,  was  born  at  Glasgow 
on  the  27tb  of  July  1777.  His  father 
was  a  retired  merchant,  of  old  Highland 
family,  and  an  intelligent  and  cultivated 
man.  The  son  of  his  age  (for  Thomas 
was  born  when  he  was  sixty.seven)  seems 
to  have  been  early  **  laid  out"  for  honours. 
An  excellent  education  was  given  to  him 


214 


«««r,  d.«»iM4  oar  0M»  m  'mem.     B* 


aprie  far  a  fwinno*  •#  ••  n«  O 
ol  ArUcopkuMS,  wfticft 


f  0» 
TW 


tfUl  •  yottSf  MM,  Mr 
to  Edinbu'gli.  M^  ttcfv 
hoBoormMy  luMwa  MMflf  rb« 
tptnu  of  iW  pkmn  ;  4rv^.a^  kii 
privsce  Initioo.  He  pw^i 
PlrsMim  of  Hope"  hi  17^  r^iu  w.  ui 
the  tweot>.*rroiid  ytar  •#  ».«  •««-  Ta» 
work  ««•  proficab*e  lo  >c»  •»:a<:«  .» 
way*  th»n  one  :  *n^  »«•  ••rr«»*  m 
Mr.  CMiBpbeU  to  uk«  the  Crtrrt-m  f*.«r, 
the  curlier  mnA  loicr  fmu  o«  o&..ra  were 
the  ni»blnl  1>  rio  of  Doa<ni  uae.  *  Ho- 
benhnden,"  — "  Ye  Alaniwr^  of  Er>m* 
lend,"  written  •!  HiiBboar  wi'h  o  D»A.4ii 
war  in  protpect,— "  Tbr  Exiic  of  Ena," 
■  gentler  breathing  of  (be  aiecTu/<M,  boC 
also  referable  to  tue  poet'«  c»**m  tt^ 
counter  wiib  ioine  of  tbe  baaiADed  Irub 
rebelt,--~nMy  he  all  d«ir<l  fn/'^.   »•*  •'^j' 

Returning  from  tbe  coouncnt,  Mr. 
Campbell  again  MJoumed  for  a^Uik  in 
Edhibuigh,  and  tbere  wrote  ocber  of  hr% 
celebrated  balladt  and  poeoa.  la  1^)03 
be  wat  drawn  iouthward  by  the  aoiac- 
tloiit  of  London.  He  narned  hia  eoiiaui« 
Miu  Matilda  Sindair,  in  tbe  autnaRn  of 
the  aarae  year ;  and  at  once  cooaamced 
a  coume  of  literarr  activity  of  which  few 
tracea  remain.  Amonfr  bia  laboura  waa 
an  historical  work  entitled  "  Annab  of 
Great  Britain,  from  tbe  Acceaaioo  of 
George  HL  to  the  Peace  of  Amiena." 
printed  at  Edinburgh  in  1807,  in  three 
volumea  ocUvo.  Hia  conreraatioiial 
powers  drew  around  bim  many  friends : 
and  to  thcae,  probably,  aa  much  aa  to  tbe 
lilMTal  principles  which  he  unflinchmgly 
mHititttined  trom  first  to  last,  may  be 
a«cnb<*d  the  interest  taken  in  him  by 
Charles  Fos,  who  placed  him  on  the 
petisian  list  al  800/.  a-year. 

AUer  six  years  of  anaicty.  drudgery  tor 
the  presv,  &r.  and  the  other  trials  which 
av^'Mit  tbe  working  author,  Mr.  Campbell 
gave  a  proof  that  his  poetry  was  not 
merely  an  afl'alr  of  youthful  entbuaiasm, 
by  puhlinhing,  In  Ib09,  "  Gertrude  oi 
Wyoming,**  with  •'  Lord  Ullin*s  Daugh- 
ter,*' and  **  The  Battle  ot  the  Baltic"^ 
adding  to  a  subsequent  edition  that  most 
bsuniTngi  perhaps,  of  all  bis  ballads, 
"  O'Connor's  Child.**  He  was  now  in 
tbe  lenith  of  his  popularity :  known  as 
one  who  could  discourse  upon—as  well 
aa  write*- poetry.  In  this  capacity  be 
WM  angaf ed  to  deliver  a  coutse  of  lee- 


In  \€S30,  m 
tM  \om  of  bsa  wit«,  be  rnmn«A  cb« 
%oip  of    tk      " 
and  firo«  tl 
dedine  of  beahb  asrf 
d#«t,  in 


a  compilacion  or 


tke 


eaubliahed*  in  1S3I,  Tbo 

rime.      He 

Atgiera,  wbitWr  be' 

eisit  in  IfiSe,  Tbe  Lite  of  Mis.  SI , 

Letters  from  the   Sovtb,  Tbe   Life  «f 

Petrarcfa,   (rcriewed  in  oar  naMfccr  |«r 

Aug.  Jdll.)andlcBtbsai 

to  a  reprirtt  and  a  compC^ 

btit  tbe  oil  waa  seen  to  bwv  lower  aarf 

lowei  in  tbe  lamp,  year  1^  year,  and 

social   wit  waxed  fatut, 

plescdly  among  old  v'-snllectiooa,  mhm  H 

bad  formerly  auuck  oat  bright  cretttiooa. 

It  nas  a  sorrowful  thing  to  see  htm  gUdi^ 

about  bke  a  abadow — to  hew  th»t  hia 

health  compelled  bim  to  retrcnt  more  and 

more   froea  the   wocld  be  bad  oacr  so 

adomod. 

Mr.  Campbell  mited  Germany  m  W€i, 
and  at  hia  rctom,  baring  Krcd  ainee  tba 
death  of  bia  wife  in  tbe  comparativa  lone- 
lineaa  of  cAeaiA«r«,  took  a  booac  in  Vie. 
toria-sqoare,  Pimlico,  and  devoted  bis 
time  to  tbe  education  of  bia  niece.  Ue 
found,  however,  that  bia  health  ««§ 
failing,  and  be  retired  about  a  year  ago  to 
Boulogne.  Hia  attached  fiicnd  and  phy. 
sician.  Dr.  William  Beattie,  who,  lor  %. 
period  of  nearly  twenty  yeara.  bad  devoted 
bis  talents  and  attention  to  him  when 
needed,  and  to  whom,  in  token  of  bia 
gratitude,  tbe  poet  dedicated  bia  bat 
work,  **  Tbe  rilgrim  of  Gleoeoe/'  le. 


H 


XM4.]       OkiTVAmT.— r.  CampbOl,  Jb;.— -C.  Sarttm,  Stq. 


21S 


cef Ted  inftmsaHon  of  tbe  dtogerom  itate 
of  hi*  ffieiMlt  tnd,  proG«Miingto  Boulogne, 
found  bim  in  •  lUte  mucb  wone  tban  be 
bad  bpen  led  to  antici^Mte.  A  few*  dajs 
after  deaib  dosed  tbe  M*ene. 

Uia  will,  being  short,  we  are  able  to 
insert  at  length : 

"This  is  the  last  will  and  testament  of  me, 
Tbomis  Campbell,  LL.n.  now  resident  at  No. 
%  Vlctoria>snoare,  In  the  coooty  of  Middlesex. 
**  Whereas,  ander  and  by  virtoe  of  tbe  will 
of  Archibald  Macartbar  Stewart,  late  of  Ascoip, 
deceased,  my  only  soo,  Thomas  Telford  Camp- 
l>ell.  will,  Qpon  my  decease,  be  entitled  to  a 
osrtaJA  aom  of  money,  which  i  deem  a  com- 
petent proviaion  fbr  him :  I  do  not,  therefore, 
intend  to  make  any  provision  for  him  by  this 
mv  wilt. 

**  1  ciTe  and  bequeath  tbe  sIlTer  bowl  nre- 

acatcCto  me  by  the  stodants  of  Olascow  woea 

t  was  Hector  of  that  Unlrersitr,  ana  the  copy 

of  the  portrmit  of  Her  Msjes^  Queen  Victoria, 

which  waa  sent  to  me  by  the  Qoeen  herself 

(aad  which  two  artlolsa  1  reckon  tbe  Jewels  of 

my  property),  and  also  all  and  every  my  ma- 

aascripts  aod  copyrights  of  my  compositions, 

whether  in  prose  or  verse,  and  the  vignettes 

which  have  illnstrsted  mv  poems,  and  also  all 

sad  every  my  books,  pnnts,  pictnres,  foml- 

tare.  plate,  money,  personal  estate  and  effects 

whatsoever  and  wheresoever,  whereof  I  may 

die  possessed,  after  aad  snmect  to  the  pay- 

mmx  of  ray  iast  debta,  fanerai  and  testamea- 

tary  expenaea,  which  I  do  direct  to  be  paid  as 

Booa  aa  conveniently  may  be  after  my  decease, 

imt9  my  ulece,  Blary  Campbell,  the  daughter 

of  ny  deceased  brother,  Alexander  Campbell, 

kte  of  tilaagnw,  fcr  har  awa  sole  and  separate 

ase  and  beaeflt. 

"  And  I  do  hereby  appoint  my  stanch  and 
inestimable  fHend,  Dr.  IWlUiam  Beattie.  of  Mo. 
•i  Psrfc-sqoare.  Regent's  Park,  in  the  aald 
coastf  of  Middlesex,  and  William  Moxon,  of 
the  Middle  Temple,  esq.  to  be  execotoia  of  this 
tty  will,  aod  also  to  act  as  gnardians  to  my  said 
•aa;  and  I  revoke  all  former  and  other  wills 
ttd  testamaotary  dispositioaa  by  me  at  any 
tuae  heretofore  made,  and  declare  tbia  only  to 
be  ny  last  will  and  testament.  In  witness 
«Ben»ri  have  hereunto  set  my  hand,  the  7th 
day  of  November,  IMl. 

*'  Thomas  CAMPBBLk 
"Signed,  published,  and  declared  bv  the 
nstator,  Thomaa  Campbell,  as  and  for  his  last 
vlU  aad  testament,  la  the  presence  of  as,  pre- 
Mi  at  the  same  time,  who  in  his  presence  and 
M  aia  reqacat  have  aubaciibed  onr  names  as 
Witncises. 

"  IpwAap  CtivvoaD,  0,  Banelagh- 

grave,  Plmlico. 
**  HnitaT  Moxoif,  €7,  Xbary««treat, 
Baton-aqaaro." 

Mr.  Campbell  waa  intber  under  tbe 
Middle  height,  aod  in  his  youth  was  con. 
ndered  eminently  handsome.  There  is  a 
■nc  portrait  of  bim  by  Sir  Thomas  Law. 
'vnrct  an  engraving  of  which  is  prefixed 
to  bis  eoUectcd  «*  Poetical  Works,'*  1828, 
^0  vols.  8vo.;  but  bit  beat  likeneas  is 
5»^  to  be  a  picture  taken  by  Mr.  T.  C. 
Jbompson  in  iai3.  There  are  also 
7«2  by  Mr.  SnUy  and  Mr.  Patrick 
Park. 

OnthaSSth  Juno  the  mortal  remaina 
OT^Mr.  Camnbell  weri  brought  froaa 
''^^^uoBM  to  LoodoD,  and  depoiitod  •i 


iMierim  in  a  room  adjoining  tbe  Jerasalem 
Chamber,  at  tbe  west  end  of  Westminster 
abbey.  Tbe  funeral  took  place  on  the 
3rd  of  July.  The  procession  went  tbruug^ 
the  cloisters  into  the  Abbey,  where  it  was 
met  by  the  Rev.  U.  H.  Mtlman.  Tbb 
pall-boirers  were  Sir  R.  Peel,  tbe  Duke 
of  Argyll,  the  Earl  of  Aberdeen,  Viscount 
StninKford,  Lord  Brougham,  Lord  Cam|f- 
bell,  Lord  Leigh,  Viscount  Morpeth,  and 
LoM  D.  C.  Stuart.  Tbe  chief  mourners 
were,  Mr.  Alexander  Campbell,  Mr. 
Wbiss  (nephews  of  the  deceased).  Dr. 
Beattie  and  William  Moxon,  esq.  (ex- 
ecutors), John  Richardson,  esq.  Wm. 
Avrton,  esq.  Rev.  C.  J.  Haasells,  and 
Mr.  Edward  Moxon,  the  publisher. 
Among  tbe  friends  wbo  followed  were— 
Macaulay.Hobhouse,  Shell,  R.  M.  Milnei, 
Emerson  Tennent,  Charlea  Mackay,  Dr. 
Croly,  J.  O.  Lockhart,  Rev.  A.  Dyce, 
D*  Israeli  the  younger.  W.  H.  Ainsworth, 
Horace  Smith,  Sir  James  C.  Ross,  and 
many  otbera  of  literary  repute.  Colonel 
Szyrma,  one  of  tbe  Literary  Association 
of  Poland,  (of  which  Campbell  became 
the  firet  president  in  1832  )  brought  with 
him  a  small  portion  of  earth  fron  the 
grave  of  Kosciusko  at  Cracow,  which  he 
cast  into  the  grave.  Tbe  spot  is  near  the 
centre  of  Poet's  Corner,  and  dose  %o  the 
tomb  of  Addison.  A  public  subscription 
has  been  openrd  for  a  monument,  under 
the  management  of  a  committee. 


CMABLSt  Barton,  Eta. 

AToe.  18.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  75, 
Charles  Barton,  Esq.  barrister-at-law. 

He  was  called  to  the  bar  at  the  Inner 
Temple  Nov.  20,  1795,  and  practised  sa  a 
conveyancer,  on  which  branch  of  the  Ihw 
he  published  many  valuable  treatises.  The 
titles  of  bis  publications  were  aa  follow : 

Noy's  Grounds,  Maxims,  and  Analysia 
of  the  English  Lawa;  to  which  is  annexed, 
A  Treatise  of  EsUtes,  by  Sir  John  Dod- 
dridge,  Knt.  and  Observations  on  a  Deed 
of  Feoffment  by  T.  H.  Qent.  6tb  edition, 
179i.    7th  edition,  1800. 

Historical  Treatise  of  a  Suit  in  Equity, 
in  which  is  attempted  a  Scientific  Deduc- 
tion of  tbe  Proceedings  used  on  the  Equity 
aides  of  the  Courta  of  Chancery  and  Ex- 
chequer, from  the  commencement  of  the 
suit  to  the  Decree  and  Appeal ;  with  oc- 
casional Remarka  on  their  import  and 
efficacy,  and  an  introductory  Discourse  on 
the  rise  and  progreaa  of  the  Equitable  Ju- 
risdiction of  those  Courts. 

Original  Precidenta  in  Conveyancing, 
aelected  from  the  M8.  Collecrton  of  the 
late  Joa.  Powell,  esq.  1802.  6  vola.  8fo. 
8nd  edition,  royal  8vo.  1807-1810. 

ElenenH  of  ConveynnciDg,    1888.1;. 


216        QaiTVAMi.—MUt  Ellm  Pielamg.~Cltrff  Deeened.        [Ai^. 


6  Tol*.  rojal  8to.    Snd  edidon,  A  nAt. 

mo.2t. 

A  Select  CollMlion  of  PriaUd  JSUok 
Dnlo  in  Coni'ejwiicinit.     (olio. 

ASrrinoF  Original  PrtMilenU  in  Con. 
Kjaticing,  ieD£-&,0*ai«.i  ind  1807.10, 
iujrolti.      18i!l,7raii. 

Pnctioil  Diurnilioni  on  Convtf- 
•pcinic.    ISSfl,  8to. 

Clurlc*  Banon,  jun.  eiiq.  ii  alio  aaibor 
oF"  UoiicitePnKcdeuuiuCoDveyancing.' 
ia36, 8vo. 

Ml*S  ELLt.y  PtCKIftlNB. 

ATm.  IMX  At  Bath,  of  malignuit 
•nrlrc  fe*er.  Mim  l^llrn  Ptotenng. 

UiH  Pickering  bad  UtaiDcd  coiiudm. 
ble  popularity  u  m  iioveI<wn(er.  She 
WMtbe  auihoreu  of 

limn  LhrTElI. 

The  tnght. 

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I'he  £xp«ct(nl. 

Tfae  Quiet  Hulband,  ISIO,  3  roll. 

Who  aiiatl  be  Heir?    IHIO,  3  %-oli. 

Tfae  Secret  Foe,  •□  hitloncBl  Novel, 
1841. 

Charutr*  for  Actinir,  1S4a 

The  OrumUer,  publiihed  ihortlj  before 
ber  death  (•«  our  Jan.  number,  p.  Si.) 
■nd  "  Tb«  Gnndlalfaer,  "  whii-b  hu  ip. 
peareri  ai  ■  poitbiiinoui  work,  htnng; 
bvrn  Itrit  uiiEniibed,  and  completed  bjr 
Miu  Youatt. 

CLERGY  DECEASED. 

Mn  S9.  At  tfae  Carluir  Iiifinnarr, 
aged  45,  the  K«v.  Hugh  Bllioll,  Vicar 
Ol  Caille  Son-erbj,  and  late  Jiicumbent  of 
Uighnd  chapet.  He  was  appointed  to 
Caiile  Sowerbyin  1B4I. 

Tbe  Kev.  B.  Sw»dtrbmd,  Vinr  of 
Olentbam  and  Normanb;,  Lincoinahire. 

Ataj/.. .  Ac  MalLa.aged  80,  the  Rer. 
Jama  Ward.  M.A.  Ute  Fellow  of  New 
College,  Oxford.  He  wag  the  eldett  too 
of  Jamei  Ward,  ttn.  of  Willey  Uouie, 
Farnham,  Surrey. 

JwM  3.  At  Llanfiielfalu,  Aneleur, 
the  KeT.  ff<7/um<L/oyil,  M.A.oFBlaen. 

gynor,  Merionethshire,  Rector  of  Llan-' 
elblu.  and  a  Juitire  of  the  Peace  (or  the 
countiea  of  AiiRlrMy,    Caernarvon,  and 
Llan. 
.p  of 

78. 


Jmu  5.  At  Hntwy'i  tnm,  Fro^, 
Hampabire,  aged  7^,  tbe  Rev.  Otcrft 
tfmetll  Waltiiu,  Perpetual  Curate  of 
Long  Sutton,  in  tbe  nunc  county,  ta 
which  he  waa  prraenled,  in  1806.  by  tbe 
Matter  and  Brethren  of  St.  C-oa  Ho*. 
pital  near  Wincheiter.  He  wu  of  St. 
Mary  hall,  Oxford,  M.A.  1793. 

Thr  Rev.  Gforgt  Wmlerhmut.  of  At. 
tettliffe,  near  Sheffield,  iormerij  of  Dew*. 

At  Sheliley  Beauchamp,  Worreiter- 
abire,  aged  49,  tbe  Rev.  rioawi  Price, 
Rector  <^  SbeliJey  Beauchamp  and  Sbel». 
Ify  Wal«h,  in  the  patronise  of  Lord 
Foley. 

Am  9.  Ac  Mambam,  Notta,  Ibe  Rev. 
Jokn  Alattndtr  Ltuertmet,  M.A.  Reetot 
of  that  parish,  tie  wai  formerly  of  Clare 
hall,    Cambridge.   B.A.    1(414.  and    arai 

Snenled  to  Marnhani  in  18J4  by  Earl 
rownlow.  He  had  read  tfae  evenii^ 
prayeni,  and  wai  aUiut  to  comnicnee  hi* 
•erman,  when  be  waa  arretted  by  tbe 
band  of  death. 

Jwu  ti.  At  Harbour  Oraee  rectory, 
Newfoundland,  aged  36,  the  Rer.  Oeorgt 
Baring  (Won,  aevenlh  aon  of  the  Rev. 
TlioiDM  Conolly  Cowan,  of  Bnttul. 

Jmt  13.  Ac  Muldon,  Essei.  aged 
76,  Ibe  Rev.  Ciarla  Maltkrm,  Vicar  of 
All  Saltiii-  with  St.  Peier'B  in  that  town, 
Rerlor  of  Layer  Mamey,  and  Chaplain 
to  tfae  King  of  Hanover.  He  wh(  for 
more  than  tfairty  years  an  active  and  effi- 
cirnt  magisirate  tor  Eisex.  He  formerly 
resided  at  Chudleigh,  in  Devonshire.  H* 
WM  iniiituted  to  Maldon,  which  vvai  in 
'11  patronage,  in  1SU9 ;  and  10  Layer 


arney 


ilMl. 


Jume  17.  Aged  AS.  the  Rev.  mfJiain 
dv/orif,  incumbent  of  Werrington,  Com. 
wall,  and  late  of  L^merton.  He  was  of 
Pembroke  college,  Cambridge,  B.  A. 
iaS3,  and  was  appointed  to  [be  Perpetual 
Curary  of  Laneast  in  1886  :  to  that  of 
Werrington  in  I84S.  He  died  suddenly  it 
Dolidan,  when  on  hi;  road  lo  a  funenil. 

Junt  la  Aged  63.  tbe  fWv.  Thomai 
Thlitr  Hunt,  Rector  of  Carlby,  near 
Stamrord,  to  which  he  u'as  presented,  in 
1792,  by  the  Earl  of  Exeter,  and  Rector 
of  BrHceboroueh,  to  which  fae  was  pte- 
icmed  in  1794  by  the  Lord  Chancellor. 

/MX*  !4.  The  Rev.  Witlimm  SiligrU, 
Rector  of  Marley,  Derbyshire.  He  was 
of  Si.  John's  college,  Cambridge,  B.A. 
1805,  and  waa  presented  lo  Silwell  in 
1807. 

Juneil.  Ac  Beelham,  Westmoreland, 
aged  ee,  the  Rer.  /otepA  "nuflm,  Vicat 
ol  that  parish,  to  whicfa  be  was  preienled 
in  IBM  by  ibe  Chancellor  of  tbe  Ducby 
of  Lancaittr,  He  died  nhilat  taking  a 
walk. 


1M40 


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tlf 


Lately.  At  the  rectory  bouse,  Sligo, 
aged  70,  tbe  Rev.  Ckarlet  Hamilionf 
Vicsr  General  of  Dromore. 

In  Hunter-street,  Brunswick-square, 
a^d  86,  tbe  Rev.  John  Hewlett,  B.D, 
Rector  of  Hilgay,  Norfolk,  and  formerly 
Morning  Preacher  at  the  Foundling  Hos- 
pital. He  was  of  Magdalene  college, 
Cambridge,  B.D.  1796  ;  and  was  pre- 
sented to  Hilgay  in  1819  (value  1291/.) 
As  a  scholar  and  divine  he  was  equalled 
by  few  and  surpassed  by  none  in  every 
quality  that  could  adorn  the  Christian,  or 
endear  him  to  the  large  circle  of  relatives 
and  friends  who  will  long  and  deeply  feel 
bis  loss.  His  splendid  edition  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures  will  ever  remain  a  monu- 
ment of  Christian  zeal  and  erudition. 

The  Rev.  Jthanatiut  Laffer^  Per- 
petual Curate  of  St.  Juliot,  Cornwall. 

Of  tetanus,  tbe  result  of  accident, 
which  occurred  in  the  discharge  of  his 
ministerial  duty,  tbe  Rev.  William 
Wkiity,  for  twenty  years  Curate  of 
Rathvilly,  in  the  diocese  of  Leighlin. 

Juljf  1.  The  Rev.  Thama*  Harriam 
Vaiieiort  Mill,  Minister  of  Northam, 
Devonshire,  to  which  he  was  presented 
in  1812  by  the  Dean  and  Canons  of 
Windsor.  He  was  presented  Sept.  29, 
1834,  with  a  silver  salver,  accompanied 
by  a  scroll  of  parchment  containing  the 
names  of  631  subscribers. 

At  Vicar's  Hill,  Devonshire,  aged  70, 
tbe  Rev.  TAoma$Whipham,J},i),  vicar  of 
King's  Teignton  cum  Higbwick,  in  that 
county.  He  was  of  Oriel  college,  Oxford, 
M.A.  1796;  and  was  presented  to  King's 
Teignton  in  1812. 


DEATHS. 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY. 

Afay  29.  At  Gloucester  Cottage,  Re- 
gent's Park,  Ann,  relict  of  Thomas  Youn- 
ger, esq.  Capt.  Royal  West  India  Rangers. 

June  1.  Aged  26,  Edward  Germaine, 
youngest  son  of  the  late  William  Jones, 
esq.  of  Woodhall,  Downham,  Norfolk. 

Jun  e  13.  At  the  house  of  his  brother- 
in-law  Mr.  William  Dawson,  New  Dor- 
set-pl*  Clapham-road,  Richard  Hunt,  esq. 

Dr.  William  Joseph  Bayne,  late  of 
Southampton,  Hants ;  also,  on  June  30, 
his  mother,  wife  of  William  Bayne,  esq.  of 
New  Grove,  Mile-end. 

June  15.  At  Kensington,  John  Baird, 
esq.  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

June  18.  At  Black  heath-park,  aged  54, 
Henry  Locock,  esq. 

June  19.  At  Islington,  Jane,  dau.  of 
the  late  C.  J.  Hector,  esq.  M.P.  for  Pe- 
tersfield. 

In  Condnit-st.  Ebeneser  Rae,  esq.  of 
Aigburth,  near  Liverpool. 
^BVT.  Mao.  Vojl.  XXII. 


In  Chester- terr.  Eaton-iq.  Sybilla-Jane 
wife  of  G.  B.  Tattersall,  esq.  of  her  Ma- 
jesty's Ceylon  Rifle  Regt 

In  Upper  Gower-st.  Clementina,  wife 
of  Major-Gen.  Birch.  C.B.  and  dan.  of  the 
late  Sir  James  Hunter  Blair,  Bart. 

June  20.  In  Cbester-pl.  Hyde  Park- 
sq.  aged  45,  Hugh  MannadnkeO*H anion, 
esq.  Counsel  to  the  Irish  Office.  He  acci- 
dentally swallowed  a  fish-bone,  which,after 
some  difficulty,  passed  into  the  stomach, 
but  unfortunately  it  caused  irritation  in 
the  lower  intestines ;  violent  inflamma- 
tion and  mortification  came  on,  which  ter- 
minated in  his  death.  He  was  a  native 
of  tbe  town  of  Newry,  of  the  ancient  sept 
of  the  O'Hanlons,  who  originally  bore 
sway  over  that  part  of  the  North  of  Ire- 
land. He  was  kind  in  his  social  and 
domestic  affections,  active  and  steady  in 
his  friendships,  honourable  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duties,  and  in  his  situation 
of  Law  Adviser  to  the  Irish  Office  highlT 
respected  for  his  practical  knowledge  and 
the  diligent  and  faithful  exertion  of  his 
clear  and  vigorous  understanding. 

June  21.  At  the  house  of  her  son-in- 
law.  Dr.  Cnmming,  Brook -st.  Grosvenor* 
sq.  aged  61,  Mrs.  Helen  Stuart,  of  Green- 
wich, widow  of  John  Stuart,  esq.  formerly 
of  Leadenhall-st. 

June  22.  William  Simpson,  esq.  of 
Brook  House,  Cambridge. 

At  Camden  Town,  aged  64,  Ann,  widow 
of  Charles  William  Hyatt  Foster,  esq.  late 
of  the  Admiralty  Office,  Somerset  House. 

In  Elizabeth-st.  Eaton-sq.  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Harriet  Watts. 

Aged  64,  Amy,  widow  of  Robert  Farran, 
esq.  of  Old  Dorset-pl.  Clapham-road. 

June  23.  In  Aberdeen -pi.  MaidaHill, 
aged  36,  George  Foley  Hodgkinson,  esq. 
late  of  Calcutta. 

June  24.  Aged  63,  Richard  John 
Brassey,  esq.  formerly  of  Lombard-st. 

June  25.  In  Grosvenor-pl.  aged  80, 
John  Prowden,  esq. 

June  26.  In  Chester-pl.  Regent's  Park, 
Clement,  youngest  child  of  the  Rev.  Fran- 
cis Thomas  New. 

*    In  Portman-sq.  aged  76,  Charles  Mor- 
ris, esq. 

In  Gioucester-terr.  Old  Brompton,  aged 
78,  Mrs.  Jane  Edwards,  relict  of  Richard 
Edwards,  esq. 

June  27.  In  Tilney-st.  Anna  Maria, 
wife  of  the  Rev.  S.  Johnes  Knight,  Rector 
of  Welwyn,  Herts. 

Aged  22,  Mary,  wife  of  WUliam  Bur- 
raud,  esq.  of  Pelbam-pl.  Brompton.  and 
second  dau.  of  John  Ratcliff,  esq.  of  Cam- 
berwell. 

At  North-pl.  Hampstead-road,  aged  72, 
Judith,  relict  of  Capt.  Thomas  Innes,R.N. 

June  ^9,  At  Clapham,  aged  62,  Amelia, 

if 


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Obitoaky. 


[Aug 


widow  of  Col.  WiUiMik  HenviUc  Wood,  of 
tlie  East  India  Company's  Service. 

At  Chelsea,  aged  84,  Mai7,  relict  of 
Benjamin  HoUingwortli,  esq. 

/mim  39.  At  the  residenoe  of  her 
daughter,  Kingsland-pl.  aged  77,  Elisa- 
beth,  relict  of  Metcalr  Dick  onsen,  esq. 

At  Hermes  House,  Penton^ille,  aged 
76,  EHisabeth,  reUct  of  Adam  Alderson, 
esq.  solicitor,  of  Tokenhouse-yard. 

Jwu  30.  In  Sonthampton-st.  Blooros- 
bary,  Sarah,  wife  of  Simon  Thurston,  e$q. 

At  Chelsea,  aged  65,  Richard  King,  esq. 
late  of  the  Pnymaster  General's  Office. 

Lately,  In  London,  Mrs.  Mitchell,  of 
Monkton  House,  near  Chippenham .  She 
was  the  only  child  of  the  late  John  Fig- 
gins,  esq.  of  Chippenham,  and  on  the 
death  of  her  first  husband,  Thomas  Ed- 
ridge,  esq.  became  possessed  of  the  Monk- 
ton  estates ;  which,  being  by  his  wilt  left 
at  her  own  entire  disposal,  she  has  be- 
queathed to  Mr.  Graham  Moore,  of  the 
Western  Circuit. 

In  8outhampton.it.  Covent  Garden, 
Capt.  John  M'Dermott,  late  of  1 1th  Regt. 

Aged  51,  Lady  Katharine  Henrietta 
Bernard,  relict  of  Col.  Bernard,  of  Castle 
Bernard,  King's  County,  Ireland.  She 
was  the  sister  of  the  present  Earl  of  Do- 
noughmore  ;was  married  in  1814,  and  left  a 
widow  in  1834,  having  had  issue  the  pre- 
sent Thomas  Bernard,  esq.  of  Castle  Ber- 
nard, three  other  sons,  and  two  daughters. 

In  Cursitor-st.  Chancery  Lane,  aged  70, 
Francis  J.  Guyenette,  esq.  formerly  Mas- 
ter of  the  Ceremonies  at  Bath. 

July  1.     In  Cambridge-st.  Connangfat- 

S.  aged  94,   Mary,  widow  of  the  Rev. 
enry  Crowe,  of  Burnham,  Norfolk. 

In  Kensington-sq.  aged  75,  Jane,  relict 
of  John  Meniman,  esq.  Apothecary  Ex- 
traordinary to  Her  Majesty  (a  memoir  of 
whom  ap)ieared  in  our  Magazine  for  Aug. 
1839,  p.  S04).  She  was  the  daughter  of 
John  Hardwick,  esq.  of  Weston,  Here- 
fordshire. 

In  Upper  Berkeley- st.  V/est,  aged  64, 
Harriet,  wife  of  George  Bedford,  esq.  for- 
merly of  Bedford-row. 

July  2.  In  Priory-road,  South  ImH' 
beth,  Margaret,  relict  of  the  Rev.  A.  Gar- 
thome,  of  Wolerston,  Durham. 

Within  seven  weeks  of  his  wife's  de- 
cease, Mr.  John  Caldecott,  of  the  Black- 
heath-road,  aged  74,  fifty  of  which  were 
passed  in  the  service  of  the  Bank  of 
England. 

Jane,  wife  of  J.  W.  Nicholson,  esq.  of 
Lark  Hall  Rise,  Ctapham,  and  Throgmor- 
ton-st.  and  dau.  of  the  late  G.W.  H.  Par- 
ker, esq.  of  the  Postmaster  General's 
Office. 

Jhly  .1.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  James  Crofts, 
tsq.  Heme  Hill,  Surrey. 


In  Brompton-sq.  aged  37t  Mrs.  Back* 
stone,  the  wife  of  the  comedian. 

Jmfy  4.  In  Hereford-st.,  aged  9?» 
Harriot-Marianne,  eldest  dan.  of  the  Rct. 
Alien  Cooper. 

Jtily  5.  At  Putney,  aged  62,  George 
Ogg,  esq. 

At  Denmark  Hill,  Surrey,  aged  74, 
Charles  Wrench,  esq. 

At  Kflburn,  aged  84,  Hannah,  relict  of 
Nathaniel  Chater,  esq.  of  St.  Dunstan*s 
Hill  and  Upper  Clapton. 

Mr.  Thurey,  of  Finsbury-sq.  He  com- 
mitted suicide  by  hanging  himsdf  in  bis 
bed-room,  liaving  attempted  suicide  twice 
previously  during  the  night,  but  fiiiled  in 
consequence  of  the  line  breaking ;  this  was 
known  by  letters  written  after  each  at- 
tempt. Mrs.  Thurey  and  family  are  oq 
the  continent. 

July  6.  In  Rnssell-pl.  Fitzroy-sq.  aged 
71,  Jehosophat  Castell,  esq.  late  of  the 
Ilon.  East  India  Company's  Medical  Ser- 
vice. 

In  Maria-st.  Hackney-road,  aged  15, 
Henry,  youngest  son  of  Mr.  Reader, 
printer,  formerly  of  Coventry. 

July  11.  At  Camberwell,  aged  76, 
Sarah,  relict  of  Edward  Wharton,  esq. 

Elizabeth-Mary,  wife  of  Joseph  Bishop, 
esq.  of  the  Crescent,  America-sq. 

At  Hackney,  Neville  Ash,  esq.  only  sur- 
viving son  of  the  late  Rev.  Thomas  Ash,  of 
East  Ham,  Essex. 

July  ]?.  At  his  residence,  Clapham 
New  Park,  Clapham,  John  Travers,  esq. 
the  extensive  grocer  of  St.  Swithin's-Iane, 
of  apoplexy.  At  the  city  elections  he  was 
always  an  active  supporter  of  the  Radical 
candidates,  and  he  was  a  director  of  the 
Anti- Corn -Law  League. 

In  Wimpole-st  Miss  Pinfold. 

July  13.  In  Oxford-sq.  Hyde  Park, 
aged  82,  Ann,  widow  of  John  Pearse,  esq. 
late  of  Craig' s-court.  Charing- cross. 

At  Camberwell,  aged  74,  Elizabeth- 
Carey,  relict  of  Philip  Melville,  esq.  Lient.- 
Gov.'of  Pendenuis  Castle,  Cornwall. 

At  Kensington,  Emily,  youugest  sur- 
viving dau.  of  the  late  Lieut. -Col.  Gilbert 
Buchanan,  Royal  Eng. 

July  15.  At  Brook  Green,  Hammer- 
smith,  aged  6*7,  much  respected,  Mr. 
Wm.  Bird,  builder.  He  was  for  some 
years  one  of  the  Board  of  Guardians  for 
the  parish  of  Hammersmith,  from  which 
office  he  lately  retired  on  account  of  ill 
health. 


Beds.— J«/y  5.  At  St.  Paul's  vicai-age, 
Bedford,  aged  15,  James,  only  child  of  the 
Rev.  James  Donne. 

Berks.— ■/line  20.  At  Maidenhead, 
aged  70,  Mary,  only  surviving  dau.  of  the 
late  John  Lee,  esq.  of  Woolley  Lodge. 


1844.] 


OBltUARY. 


219 


July  4,  At  Binfield,  aged  a3,  Mny, 
widow  of  Francis  RiTers,  esq.  surgeon 
and  apothecary,  formerly  of  Spring-gar- 
dens. She  was  the  youngest  of  the  two 
daughters  of  Harry  House,  esq.  of  Pall 
Mall,  who,  from  the  lead  he  took  in  the 
Westminster  elections,  was  denominated 
**  The  Father  of  Westminster.*'  He  died 
at  Hammersmith,  Feb.  1,  1803;  and  a 
memoir  of  him  appeared  in  our  Magasine 
for  June  1803,  p.  581. 

Bucks.— /mim  19.  At  Willow  Brook, 
near  Eton,  aged  71 ,  Ferrott  Fenton,  esq.  of 
Doctors*  Commons. 

July  4.  At  the  rectory,  Datchet,  aged 
81,  John  Richards,  esq. 

Cambridoe. — June  6.  At  Whittles- 
ford,  aged  83,  Edward  William,  fifth  son 
of  H.  J.  Thurnall,  esq. 

June  10.  At  Soham,  aged  60,  Edw. 
Lloyd  Knowles,  esq.  surgeon.  He  was 
father  of  Mr.  Knowles,  surgeon,  of  Cam- 
bridge. 

At  Dollingham,  aged  73,  Mrs.  King, 
relict  of  Rol^rt  King,  esq. 

June  11.  At  Fordham,  aged  69,  Eliza- 
beth»  widow  of  R.  Walton,  esq. 

June  38.  Aged  38,  Henry  John  Cra- 
mer, esq.  B.  A.  of  Trinity  hall,  Cambridge, 

Cornwall. — May  33.  At  Tregoney, 
at  the  residence  of  her  brother,  Samuel 
Jewel,  esq.  aged  57,  Maria  Jewel,  up« 
wards  of  35  years  matron  of  the  General 
Infirmary  in  Northampton. 

June  33.  At  Trenodden,  aged  58,  Ri- 
chard Doidge,  esq.  a  magistrate  for  Corn- 
wall. 

July  13.  At  Falmouth,  aged  17*  Henry 
Jacob,  eldest  son  of  Charles  Joachim 
Wyless,  esq.,  K.N.L.,  and  Consul-Gen. 
for  the  Netherlands  at  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

Juiy  14.  At  Weard,  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Stephen's,  aged  68,  John  Rogers,  esq. 
late  of  Holwood,  in  the  parish  of  Que- 
thiock. 

DsYON. — June  33.  At  the  residence 
of  her  cousin  Alexander  Adair,  esq.  of 
Cokhouse,  aged  17f  Elizabeth-Maria- 
Georgiana,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Capt. 
Wm.  Pkyne,  of  Nutwell,  near  Lympstone. 

June  34.  At  Mount  Radford-terr.  near 
Exeter,  Mary,  wife  uf  Capt.  T.  FoUiott 
Bangh,  R.N. 

June  25.  At  St.  Leonard's  Cottage, 
Exeter,  aged  76,  John  Mackintosh,  esq. 

At  Plymouth,  aged  53,  Lieut.-Col. 
James  Edward  Freeth,  late  of  the  64th 
Regt.  He  was  appointed  Ensign  1813, 
Lieutenant  1814,  Capuin  1817^  M^or 
1839,  and  Lieut.-Colonel  1837. 

June  36.  At  Exeter,  at  the  house  of 
his  brotber<ia-law,  Joseph  Shepherd,  esq. 
aged  51 ,  Joseph  Pim,  esq.  of  Wandsworth. 

June  37.  Louisa,  wife  of  J.  P.  HiU, 
eiq.  of  Honiton. 

/me  39.    At  Val«  Holm,  near  Plymp« 


ton,  aged  31 ,  Letitia,  wife  of  Francis  Philip 
Wingate,  esq.  of  Stonehouse,  solicitor, 
and  youngest  dau.  of  Capt.  A.  Sutherland, 
late  5th  R.V.B. 

July  6.  At  Bishopsteignton,  Amelia, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Capt.  Wm. 
White,  R.N. 

At  Exton,aged69,  Thomas  Stogdon,  esq. 

Juiy  7.  At  Widey,  near  Plymouth,  aged 
57«  John  Resell,  esq. 

July  10.  Ann,  wife  of  Wm.  Lambert, 
esq.  of  Wallon,  Drewsteignton. 

JiUy  14.  At  Exeter,  aged  86,  Mrs.  P. 
Thomas,  dau.  of  the  late  James  Wolcot, 
esq.  of  Sidbury. 

July  17.  At  Knowle  House,  Bndleigh 
Salterton,  aged  63,  Gilbert  Cowd,  esq. 

DoRSBT. — June  39.  At  Sherborne,  J. 
P.  Melmoth,  esq.,  solicitor,  and  associated 
for  n»ny  years  with  nearly  every  public 
office  connected  with  the  goyernment  of 
the  town. 

July  4.  At  Stock  House,  aged  38, 
Louisa. Wolcott,  wife  of  Theodore  Moil- 
Het,  esq.  of  King's  Heath,  co.  Worcester, 
and  dau.  of  the  Rer.  Harry  Farr  Yeatman. 

July  7.  Louisa,  third  dan.  of  Waring 
Biddle,  esq.  of  Longham. 

Durham. — July  3,  At  Stockton-upon<* 
Tees,  R.  Pulman,  esq.  solicitor. 

July  8.  At  Bishop wearmouth,  William 
Hunter  Bume,  esq. 

Essex. — Ayril  30.  At  the  rectory, 
Pentlow,  aged  50,  Elisabeth,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  E.  Bull,  Rector  of  that  parish. 

June  11.  At  the  ricarage,  Hatfield 
Broad  Oak,  aged  3,  Mercy-Jane,  dau.  of 
the  Rev.  T.  F.  Hall,  and  grand-dau.  of 
the  Rev.  Sir  Robt.  Affleck,  Bart,  of  Dal- 
ham  Hall,  Suffolk. 

June  14.  Ann-Matilda,  widow  of  Philip 
Western  Wood,  esq.  and  aunt  to  Sir  John 
Page  Wood,  Bart. 

June  33.  Susannah,  last  surriying  dau. 
of  Edward  Leslie,  esq.  of  Woodford- 
bridge. 

June  36.  At  Woodford,  Elisabeth,  wife 
of  Peter  Mallard,  jnn.  esq.  of  Woodford, 
and  youngest  dau.  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Bourdillon,  Yicar  of  Fenstanton,  Hunts. 

June  39.  Aged  33,  Mary-Anne,  eldest 
dau.  of  the  late  J.  Sterling  Wright,  esq.  of 
Birch  Holt. 

June  30,  Aged  70,  Richard  Hudson, 
esq.  of  Plaistow. 

July  13.  Aged  31,  WiUiam  Wells  Plax- 
ton,  jun.,  only  son  of  W.  W.  Plaxton,  esq. 
of  Forest  Gate,  Wanstead. 

July  14.  At  Great  Gearies,  near  Ilford« 
aged  89,  Sarah,  widow  of  Joseph  Quincey, 
esq.  late  of  Bedford. 

Gloucbstbr. — Lately,  AtBoulsdon, 
near  Newent,  Richard  Edward,  second 
son  of  the  late  Msjor-Gea.  Richard  Legge, 
formerly  of  Chaxhill* 

Jufy  1.    At  Pembroke  Dock,  Briito^t 


214 


OBiTUAmY«*->TAoMai  Campbell^  Siq. 


[Aug. 


at  tbe  eoUege  of  Glasgow ;  but  the  poet, 
like  the  rest  of  tbe  fiaternity,  was  but  an 
idle  schoolboy.  His  superiority,  how« 
ever,  flHshed  out  once  or  twice.  He  car- 
ried off  a  bursary,  when  only  thirteen, 
ftniD  a  competitor  twice  his  sge ;  and  won 
a  prise  for  a  translation  of  *'  The  Clouds" 
of  Aristophanes,  which  was  pronounced 
as  unique  among  college  exercises.  When 
still  a  young  man,  Mr.  Campbell  removed 
to  Edinburgh,  and  there  made  himself 
honourably  known  among  the  choice 
spirits  of  the  place ;  devoting  himself  to 

Private  tuition.  He  published  *'  The 
lessures  of  Hope"  in  1799,  that  is,  in 
the  twenty 'Second  year  of  his  age.  This 
work  was  protitable  to  its  author  in  more 
ways  than  one  :  since  its  success  enabled 
Mr.  Campbell  to  take  the  German  tour, 
the  earlier  and  later  fruits  of  which  were 
tbe  noblest  lyrics  of  modern  time.  **  Ho- 
benlinden,** — '*  Ye  Mariners  of  £ng. 
Und,"  written  at  Hamburg  with  a  Danish 
war  in  prospect, — "  The  Exile  of  Erin,** 
a  gentler  breathing  of  the  affections,  but 
also  referable  to  the  poet*s  casual  en* 
counter  with  some  of  the  banished  Irish 
rebelSf^may  be  all  dated  frum  this  tour. 
Returning  from  the  continent,  Mr. 
Campbell  again  sojourned  for  awhile  in 
Edinbuigh,  and  there  wrote  other  of  his 
celebrat^  ballads  and  poems.  In  1603 
be  was  drawn  southward  by  the  attrac- 
tions of  London.  He  married  bis  cousin, 
Miss  Matilda  Sinclair,  in  the  autumn  of 
the  same  year ;  and  at  once  commenced 
a  course  of  literarv  activity  of  which  few 
traces  remain.  Among  his  labours  wss 
an  hutorical  work  entitled  *'  Annals  of 
Great  Britain,  from  the  Accession  of 
George  III  to  the  Peace  of  Amiens," 
printai  at  Edinburgh  in  1807,  in  three 
volumes  octavo.  His  conversational 
powers  drew  around  him  many  friends : 
and  to  these,  probably,  as  much  as  to  the 
liberal  principles  which  he  unflinchingly 
maintained  trom  first  to  last,  may  be 
ascribed  the  interest  taken  in  him  by 
Charles  Fox«  who  placed  him  on  the 
pension  list  al  200/.  a-year. 

After  six  years  of  anxiety,  drudgery  for 
the  press,  &c.  and  tbe  other  trials  which 
aw'ait  tbe  working  author,  Mr.  Campbell 
gave  a  proof  that  his  poetry  was  not 
merely  an  affair  of  voiithful  enthusiasm, 
by  publishing,  in  Ib09,  '*  Gertrude  oj 
Wyoming,'*  with  "  Lord  Ullin's  Daugh- 
ter,** and  **  The  Battle  of  the  Baltic"^ 
adding  to  a  subsequent  edition  that  most 
bauming,  perhaps,  of  all  his  balkds, 
"  O'Connor's  Child."  He  was  now  in 
the  senkh  of  his  popularity :  known  as 
one  who  could  discourse  upon—as  well 
as  write— poetry.  lu  this  capacity  be 
WM  cngsged  to  deliver  a  cootse  of  lec- 


tures at  tbe  Royal  Institution :  tbe  sue- 
cess  of  these  led  Mr.  Murray  to  engage 
him  in  the  well-known  **  Critical  Essays 
and  Specimens,"  which  established  bim 
on  our  library  shelves  as  a  prose-writer, 
and  is  the  best  of  his  unrhymed*-not  un. 
poetical — works.  1 1  forms  seven  vol umee 
m  small  octavo,  1819.    His  subsequent 

f publications  may  be  charged  with  care* 
essness  in  collection  of  materials,  and  an 
uncertainty  of  style,  incompatible  with 
lasting  reputation. 

In  the  year  1820  Mr.  Campbell  en- 
tered upon  the  editorship  of  The  New 
Monthly  Magaxine,  which  was  conducted 
by  him  for  ten  years.  In  1824  he  pub- 
lished his  <«  Tbeodric,"  the  feeblest  of 
his  long  poems.  He  interested  himself 
eagerly  in  the  foundation  of  the  London 
University ;  he  took  an  active  part  in  the 
cause  of  Greece,  and  subsequently  in  that 
of  Poland ;  and  was  twice  elected  Lord 
Rector  of  the  University  of  Glasgow,  a 
distinction  upon  which  he  highly  prided 
himself. 

In  1830,  in  which  year  he  had  to  suffer 
the  loss  of  his  wife,  he  resigned  the  editor- 
ship of  the  New  Monthly  Magazine, 
and  from  that  time  to  his  decease  the 
decline  of  health  and  energy  became  evi- 
dent, in  sad  and  steady  progress.  He 
established,  in  J831,  The  Metropolitan 
Msgazine.  but  relinquished  it  after  a  short 
time.  He  also  composed  Letters  from 
Algiers,  whither  he  went  for  a  short 
visit  in  1832,  The  Life  of  Mrs.  Siddons, 
Letters  from  the  South,  The  Life  of 
Petrerch,  (reviewed  in  our  number  for 
Aug.  18i1 ,)  and  lent  bis  nsme  editorially 
to  a  reprint  and  a  compilation  or  two — 
but  the  oil  was  seen  to  burn  lower  and 
lowei  in  the  lamp,  year  by  year,  and  the 
social  wit  waxed  faint,  or  moved  per- 
plexedly  among  old  recollections,  where  it 
Iwd  formerly  struck  out  bright  creations. 
It  was  a  sorrowful  thing  to  see  him  gliding 
about  like  a  shadow — to  hear  that  his 
health  compelled  him  to  retreat  more  and 
more  from  the  woild  he  had  once  so 
adorned. 

Mr.  Campbell  visited  Germany  in  1842. 
and  at  bis  return,  having  lived  sinoe  the 
death  of  bis  wife  in  tbe  comparative  lone- 
liness of  e^mbtrs,  took  a  bouse  in  Vic. 
toria-square,  Pimlico,  and  devoted  bis 
time  to  the  education  of  bis  niece.  He 
found,  however,  that  bis  health  was 
failing,  and  be  retired  about  a  year  ago  to 
Boulogne.  His  attached  friend  and  phy- 
sician, Dr.  William  Beattie,  who,  for  a 
period  of  nearly  twenty  years,  bad  devoted 
nis  talents  and  attention  to  bim  when 
needed,  and  to  whom,  in  token  of  his 
gratitude,  the  poet  dedicated  his  last 
work,  "  The  Pilgrim  of  Glenooe/'  re- 


1844.] 


OsiTUASt. 


221 


OzFomo.— Ji0M  IB.  At  Oiford,  tg«d 
38,  Joiiah  Yincent  lUndall,  esq. 

SoMBBtvT.— «/tMif  SO.  At  Keyniham, 
Aged  lif  Mn.  Pintent,  relict  of  Charlei 
Pifueot,  esq.  of  Uennock. 

Jme  3S.  Aged  87,  Mery-Ann-Bradby, 
wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Barney,  Vicar  of 
Eaat  Charlton,  and  only  dau.  of  the  late 
Capt.  Liunley,  R.N.  of  Fareham. 

•/wie  83.  At  Uphill  Lodge,  aged  69, 
the  relict  of  Thomaa  Knyfton,  esq. 

June  87.  At  Bath,  aged  76,  EUiabeth. 
Henrietta,  relict  of  James  Crowdy,  esq. 
of  Swindon,  Wilts,  and  co-heiress  of 
William  Morie,  esq.  formerly  of  Ogbonm 
St.  George,  WilU. 

June  S9.  At  Bath,  aged  86,  Mrs.  Pol- 
lard, of  Old  Charch,  Cumberland. 

Juiy  8.  At  Shepton  Mallet,  aged  66, 
James  Brown  Cary,  esq.  President  of  the 
Church  of  England  Lay  Society  in  that 
town. 

Juip  4.  At  Cli^e,  Thomas  Uoole,  esq. 
late  of  the  East  India  House* 

Stafford. — /wm  23.  At  the  resi- 
dence of  Robert  John  Peel,  esq.  Burton - 
on-Trent,  Joseph  Peel,  esq.  of  Knowle- 
mere,  Yorkshire. 

Juiy  9,  At  Bonehill,  near  Tamworth, 
aged  88,  John  Harding,  esq. 

Suffolk. — May  6.  Aged  74,  Thomas 
Whiting  Wootton,  esq.  of  Theberton* 
house,  near  Sasmundbam. 

At  Ipswich,  aged  63,  Mary,  only  survi- 
▼ing  dau.  of  the  late  George  Graham,  esq. 
of  Harwich* 

At  West  Lodge,  Bizley  Heath,  Elea- 
nora,  wife  of  John  Bayley,  esq.  and  relict 
of  George  Fair,  esq.  of  Beocles. 

Jun€  U.  At  Wickham  Market,  aged 
69,  Mr.  George  W.  Deane,  eldest  son  of 
the  kte  Rct.  G.  Deane,  Vicar  of  Car- 
brooke,  Norfolk. 

Jufu  14.  Aged  98,  Susao,  relict  of 
James  Scarlin,  Gent,  of  Horringer,  and 
formerly  of  Brook-hall,  near  Sudbury. 

Jutu  15.  Aged  88,  Thomas  Hammond, 
esq.  of  Ashley  Hall,  eldest  son  of  the  late 
John  Hammond,  esq. 

June  S4.  John  Mills,  esq.  formerly  of 
Brandeston  Hall. 

Juiy  4.  Aged  88,  Elisabeth,  wife  of 
the  Rev.  William  Hamilton  Attwood,  of 
Beddingfield,  and  youngest  dau.  of  the 
late  John  HodgkinsoD,  esq.  of  Stamford- 
St.  Sun'ey. 

Juiy  8.  At  Grundtsburgh,  near  Wood- 
bridge,  aged  85,  John  Spurling,  Gent,  one 
of  the  Chief  Constables  of  Ue  hundred 
of  Carlford  upwards  of  half  a  century. 

July  9.  Aged  73,  John  Dalton,  esq. 
many  years  a  medical  practitioner  of  Bury 
St.  Edmund's. 

SuRRSY.— JiMM  81.  Caroline,  wife  of 
th«  Rof  •  Dr.  Ptmbf  rton,  Vigtr  of  Waadi- 


worth,  and  niece  of  the  late  Randle  Jack- 
son, esq.  of  Fir  Grofe,  Brixton. 

June  83.  At  Esher,  aged  80,  Mrs* 
Smallpieoe,  relict  of  Mr.  John  Smallpieoe, 
many  years  a  resident  near  Guildford. 

June  86.  At  Dorking,  aged  53,  Mist 
Bell,  of  the  Park,  Cheltenham. 

June  27.  At  Richmond,  Frances- Mau- 
IcTerer,  wife  of  Col.  the  Hon.  Henry  Ed«* 
ward  Butler.  She  was  the  second  dau. 
of  the  late  John  Parker  Toulson,  esq.  of 
Skipwitb,  Yorkshirci  and  became  the  se- 
cond wife  of  Col.  Butler  in  1836. 

At  Epsom,  Jane-Riokard,  relict  of  Cept« 
George  Browne,  and  youngest  dau.  of  the 
Ute  Robert  Cony,  esq.  of  Walpole  Hall, 
Norfolk. 

June  89.  At  Croydon,  aged  83,  Henry 
Wright,  esq.  He  was  bom  at  Knowle^ 
Warwickshire.  He  was  for  some  years 
proprietor  of  the  White  Lion  Inn,  Fase* 
ley,  Staffordshire,  and,  at  a  great  expense, 
established  ten  additional  fairs  in  that 
place,  which  are  of  considerable  import^ 
anee  to  the  gratiers  of  the  surrounding 
neighbourhoc^  He  was  engaged  in  many 
scientific  pursuits  with  the  late  Sir  Ed- 
ward Banks,  Joseph  Wilkes,  esq.  and 
other  eminent  men  of  his  day. 

July  1.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Thomas  Weall, 
esq.  of  Woodcote  Lodge,  Beddington. 

July  5.  At  Heathfleld  Lodge,  near 
Croydon,  aged  74,  Frances-Maria,  relict 
of  George  Smith,  esq.  M.P.  late  of  Seis- 
don.  She  was  a  dau.  of  Sir  John  Parker 
Mosley,  BarL  was  married  in  1798,  and 
left  a  widow  in  1836|  haTing  had  issue 
nine  sons  and  six  daughters. 

Su 8SIX.— /tcue  1 4.  At  Chichester,  sged 
84,  Thomas  Rhoades,  esq.  many  years  trea- 
surer of  the  Western  division  of  Sussex. 

June  16.  At  Chichester,  aged  65,  Mrs. 
Stamper,  relict  of  George  Stamper,  esq. 

June  18.  At  Brighton,  Prisdlla-Mar. 
gafet,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Vice-Adm. 
William  Albany  Otway,  wife  of  Rear- Adm. 
Inglefield,  C.B. 

At  Brighton,  aged  76,  Charles  Bell,  esq. 

June  19.  Aged  85,  Elixabetb,  wife  of 
Samuel  William  Brown,  esq.  and  eldest 
dau.  of  Henry  Stainton,  eeq.  of  Lewisham. 
She  died  from  exeesslTc  fright,  in  conse« 
quence  of  witnessing  an  aocideot  which 
occurred  to  the  carriage  of  Mr.  HolUs, 
opposite  her  wiDdow. 

June  23.  At  Brighton,  Mrf.  Land- 
mann«  wife  of  Col.  Landmann,  late  of  th« 
Royal  Engineers,  and  eldest  dan.  of  Lieut.* 
Gen.  Dickinson,  Royal  Art. 

June  24.  At  Hastings,  aged  34,  EUsa^ 
beth-Mary-Anne,  only  surrtTing  dau.  of 
the  late  William  Lloyd,  esq.  of  Bamet. 

At  Hastings,  Sophy,  widow  of  Dr.  Wil- 
liams, of  Guildford*st.  RaaseU-sq. 

At  ChidhMs,  ^{td  78,  Jmm  Woodi^edq. 


222 


OBITUAmT. 


/«•«  87.  At  Brighton,  Mr.  Hiiide, 
a  retired  wholesale  chemist  and  druggist. 
He  committed  soicide  bj  cutting  his 
throat  in  an  ontbuUding  of  an  uninhabited 
house  at  the  western  part  of  Brighton. 
A  coroner's  inquest  returned  a  verdict  of 
'*  Temporary  insanity.*  ♦ 

Jnfyi.  Aged  88,  at  Henfteld,  Goring 
Hideout,  esq.  lato  of  the  86th  rei^.  He 
was  the  son  of  the  Rev.  J.  Rideout, 
Rector  of  Woodmancote,  Sussex,  by 
Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Harry  Goring, 
Bart.  He  was  made  Ensign  1835,  Lieut. 
1837  ;  and  married  in  1840  Maria-Caro- 
Une-Louisa,  daughter  of  Col.  Newton 
Dickenson  and  Ladv  Boughton. 

At  St.  Leonard  s-on-Sea,  aged  S8, 
Louisa,  eldest  dau.  of  Capt.  Edmund 
Haywood,  R.N. 

/«/y  10.  At  Petwortb,  T.  H.  Hale, 
esq.  M.D. 

Jufy  13.  At  Brighton,  aged  45,  Thos. 
Bolding,  esq.  late  of  Great  Linford,  oo. 
Buckingham. 

Warwick. — Juiy  1.  Sarah-Margaret, 
elder  and  only  sunriving  dau.  of  the  late 
Rer.  Geo.  Bfaeness  Johnson,  formerly  of 
St.  Nicholas,  Warwick. 

Juig  7*  At  Leamington,  aged  58, 
Klisabeth,  wife  of  the  Rer.  J.  James, 
D.D.  Canon  of  Peterborough. 

WasTiiOBBLAND. — July  5.  At  Kendal, 
aged  73|  Mary,  relict  of  John  Barrow,  esq. 

WoRCBSTBR.— /ttii«32.  At  Worcester, 
aged  82,  Elisabeth,  wife  of  the  Rev.  James 
Hastings,  Rector  of  Martley. 

Lately.  At  Drayton  House,  Chaddes* 
ley  Corbett,  aged  34,  Anne,  eldest  dau.  of 
H.  Brinton,  esq.  of  Kidderminster. 

Wilts.— VtKM  15.  At  Marlborough, 
aged  35,  James,  fifth  son  of  the  late  John 
Maule,  esq.,  M.D. 

June  16.  At  Christian  Malford,  Henry, 
eldest  son  of  the  Rct.  J.  Hooper. 

June  31.  At  New  House,  Chilmark, 
aged  70,  Henry  King,  esq. 

York. — June  99.  Aged  63,  Prances, 
wift  of  John  Thornton,  esq.  of  Hull. 

Julp  14.  Aged  67,  Edward  CleaYor, 
esq.  of  Slingsby. 

July  17.  Suddenlv,  from  the  rupture 
of  a  blood-ressel,  Mr.  Edward  Nicholas 
Walton,  of  Drypool,  fifth  son  of  the  late 
gliomas  Walton,  esq.  He  was  elected  a 
town-councillor  of  Hull  1836. 

Wales.— /tme  18.  At  Aberystwith, 
Arabella,  eldest  dau.  of  "the  M'Gilly. 
cuddy  of  the  Reeks,"  Killamey. 

June  20.  At  Southern  Down,  Glamor- 
ganshire,  aged  18,  Richard,  youngest  son 
of  A*  Verity,  esq.  of  Bridgend. 

SooTLANO.— ^nfM  18.  At  Aberdeen, 
Mr.  John  Esdaile,  son  of  James  EsdaUe, 
esq.  of  Upper  Bedford-pt. 

JuM  31.    At  Dunkeld»  «g«<l  ^^t  ^ 


[Aug. 

Right  Hon.  Emily  dowager  Lady  Glen- 
lyon.  She  was  the  fifth  dau.  of  Hugh 
second  Duke  of  Northumberland,  by 
Prances- Jnlia,  third  dau.  of  Peter  Burrell, 
esq.  and  lister  of  the  present  Duke  ;  and 
W88  married  in  1810  to  Lord  James 
Murray,  second  son  of  the  late  Duke  of 
Athol,  and  brother  of  the  present  Duke, 
who  was  raised  to  the  peerage  by  the  title 
of  Lord  Glenlyon  in  1831,  and  died  in 
1837.  She  leares  issue  the  present  Lord 
Glenlyon,  another  son,  and  two  daughters. 

June  2^,  At  Edinburgh,  aged  90,  Anne, 
only  snrriTing  dau.  of  the  late  William 
Mure,  esq.  of  Caldwell,  one  of  the  Barons 
of  Exchequer  in  Scotland. 

July  8.  At  Kirkwall,  James  C.  Cum« 
ming,  esq.  Purser  R.N. 

Irbland.-Vvim  80.  At  Earrs  Gift, 
CO.  Tyrone,  aged  15,  Georgiana-PTances, 
fifth  dau.  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Charles 
Douglas,  brother  to  the  Earl  of  Morton. 

Laieiy.  At  Dublin,  aged  77,  the  Right 
Hon.  Elizabeth  dowager  Lady  Ashtown. 
She  was  the  only  daughter  and  heir  of 
Robert  Robinson,  esq.  M.P.  and  niece  to 
the  late  Judge  Robinson,  and  married  in 
1785,  Prederick  Trench,  esq.  created 
Lord  Ashtown  in  1800,  who  died  without 
issue  in  1840.  She  is  succeeded  in  her 
esUtes  by  her  cousin  Capt.  Robinson, 
R.N.  of  Rosmead. 

Henry  O'Hara,  esq.  sole  male  repro- 
sentatiye  of  the  0*Haras  of  Claggan,  de- 
scended by  his  maternal  ancestors  from  a 
branch  of  the  noble  house  of  O'Neill. 
Thus  has  been  ended  one  of  the  oldest 
houses  in  Ireland. 

East  Indibs. — Jpril  10.  In  camp, 
at  Sooreapett,  en  route  to  Ytzianagram,  of 
grief  for  the  loss  of  her  husband  and  two 
children,  Mary,  relict  of  Major  William 
Blood,  commanding  the  11th  Nat.  Inf. 

April  39.  At  Calcntte,  Charles  James 
Burkinyoung,  esq.  of  the  firm  of  Stewart 
and  Co. 

Wbst  Indibs.— Jfay  17.  At  Nassau, 
New  Proridenoe,  Bahamas,  Lieut.  T.  V. 
E.  Reynolds,  3d  West  India  Regt. 

Abroad.— /ffarcA  25.  Onboard  HM.S. 
"Cleopatra,*'  aged  34,  Lieut.  Montague 
Treby  Moles  worth,  second  son  of  the  Rer. 
W.  Molesworth,  of  St.  Breoke,  Cornwall. 
His  death  was  caused  by  a  spear  wound, 
received  in  a  treacherous  attack  by  the 
natives  of  the  west  coast  of  Madagascar 
on  his  boafs  crew,  while  employed  in  se- 
coring  the  anchor  which  had  just  been 
used  to  warp  the  ship  off  a  ooral  reef. 
Two  seamen  were  killed.  This  gallnnt 
young  officer  and  five  others  were  nior«^ 
tally  and  three  severelr  wounded.  Tht 
savages  made  for  the  shore  on  seeing  the 
ship's  head  tvned  towards  them. 

May  35.    At  Mt,  oil  board  the  Queen, 


1844.] 


Obituary. 


223 


aged  S4,  the  wife  of  W.  Vansittart,  esq. 
Bengal  Ciril  Service. 

May  31.  At  New  Lancaster,  Pensyl- 
vania,  John  Tremayne,  esq.  M.D.,  for- 
merly of  Helaton,  Cornwall. 

Lateljf.  At  Port  Essington,  Lieut. 
Chetwode,  commanding  the  Royalist  brig, 
10,  son  of  Sir  John  Chetwode,  Bart. 
M.P.  His  commission  as  Lieat.  bore 
date  Aug.  27,  1B32. 

At  St.  Pearne,  France,  aged  87  r  George 
James,  esq.  of  the  Mayndee,  Monmouth- 
shire. His  extensive  estates,  by  the  will 
of  the  late  W.  Kemeys,  esq.  devolve 
upon  Charles  Kemeys  Tynte,  esq.  late 
M.P.  for  Somerset. 

Jwne  5.  On  buard  the  Cressy,  on  his 
passage  home  from  Ceylon,  William  James 


French,  tsq,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Rev, 
J.  French,  Rector  of  Vange,  Essex. 

June  11.  At  Jerusalem,  the  infant  son 
of  Sir  Cecil  Bisshopp,  Bart. 

June  17.  At  Dinan,  France,  aged  68| 
James  Stow,  esq.  late  of  Kennington. 

June  18.  At  Bruges,  Belgium,  aged 
80,  Theodosia- Henrietta,  relict  of  Michael 
Egan,  esq.  formerly  of  Bath»  and  niece  of 
the  late  Adm.  Sir  George  Collier. 

July  4.  On  board  the  Great  Liverpool 
steam-ship,  on  his  voyage  from  Alexan- 
dria, aged  24,  William  James,  esq.  of  the 
Hon.  East  India  Co.'s  medical  estab. ,  son 
of  the  late  W.  Rhodes  James,  esq.  of 
Aldborough. 

July  7.  On  board  the  Princess  Royal, 
Charles  Foote,  esq.  M.D.  of  Gibraltar. 


TABLE  OF  MORTALITY  IN  THE  METROPOLIS. 

(Including  the  District  of  Wandsworth  and  Clapham.) 

From  the  Retume  Ueued  by  the  Registrar  General, 

Deaths  Rcgisterkd  from  June  29  to  July  20,  1844^  (4  weeks.) 

Under  15 1833^ 

Ioto60 Il40f. 

CO  and  upwards        583  ?' 
Age  not  specified        6  J 


Males 


1811  I 


Females     1751  i 


3562 


.3562 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  CORN,  July  20. 


^^eat. 
1.  d. 
55    3 


Barley. 
s,  d. 
33    8 


Oats. 
1.     d. 

22    5 


Rye. 
s.     d. 
34    6 


Beans. 

t,     d. 

37    8 


Feat. 
s,    d. 
36    I 


PRICE  OF  HOPS,  July  26. 
Sussex  Pockets,  5/.  \2t.  to  6/.  6t.--Keiit  Pockets,  6/.  Qe,  to  8/.  Of. 


Beef. 

Mutton. 

2m. 

2#. 

2d.  to  3m. 
id.  to  4#. 
2d.  to  4f. 
Od.  to  4«. 

]0d. 
()d. 

Veal 

Pork 

3f. 

3*. 

2d. 
Od. 

PRICE   OF  HAY  AND  STRAW  AT  SMITHFIELD,  July  26. 

Hay,  31.  lOt.  to  4/.  15« Straw,  !/.  \2s.  to  1/.  I6f.— Clover,  4/.  15*.  to  61.  6f. 

SMITHFIELD,  July  26.    To  sink  the  Offal—per  stone  of  Slbs.  . 

Head  of  Cattle  at  Market,  July  22. 

Beasts 2580     Calves    193 

SheepandLambs    32,350    Pigs      360 

COAL  MARKET,  July  26. 
Walls  Ends,  from  16#.  6d.  to  21m.  Od.  per  ton.   Other  sorts  from  16m,  6d,  to  82#.  0^. 
T  A  LLO  W,  per  cwt.— Town  Tallow,  43*.  6d.      Yellow  Russia,  43t.  Od. 
CANDLES,  7m.  Od.  per  doz.    Moulds,  9«.  6d. 

PRICES  OF  SHARES. 

At  the  Office  of  WOLFE,  Bbothers,  Stock  and  Share  Brokers, 

23,  Change  Alley,  Cornhill. 

Birmingham  Canal,  167. Ellcsmere  and  Chester,  65^. Grand  Junction,  162. 

Keniiet  and   Avon,  10^. Leeds  and  Liverpool,  640. Regent's,  25J. 

Rochdale,  62. London  Dock  Stock,  113. St.  Katfaarine*8,  115. East 

and   West   India,  136. London    and  Birmingham    Railway,  230. Great 

Western,  62  pm. London  and  Southwestern,    87. Grand   Junction  Water- 
works, 88. West  Middlesex,  125. Globe  Insurance,   140. Guardian, 

49i. Hope,  7|. Chartered   Gas,  66^. Imperial   Gas,    85. Phoenix 

Guo,  .')8^.-^~London  and  Westminster  Bank,  27.— > Reversionary  Interest,  104. 

For  Prices  of  all  other  Shares,  enquire  as  abore. 


994 


METEOROLOGICAL  DIARY,  »t  W.CARY.  Strand 


Fahrenheit's  Therm. 

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FVom  /iMt«  86  to  Jmif  25,  18U,  Mk 

Fahrenheit's  Therm. 


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65 

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61 
68 
68 
73 
71 
70 
60 
63 
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84l800 
200 
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57  ;89, 
55 
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57  89, 
57 
57 
56 
68 
55 
57 
57 
62 
58 
68  j 


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84   ftlght.m.cldy.' 
97  .  cloudy,  fair    | 
08    fine 
96    do.  cloudy 
81    hl.strn.thjg.j 
87  i  rain,  fair,  do. 


80 
65 
68 
84 
98 
95 
90 
96 


fr.cly.shs.  m.; 
'cn^t.  rn.  fair 
fr.cly.do.do. 
do.  do. 
cloudy,  fair 
fair 

jdo.  cloudy 
jcloudy,  fair 


11 
18 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 

18. 
19  i 
80  • 
81 
88 
83 
84 
85 


66  71 

68  66 

60  6:i 

60  68 

60  71 

63  65 

59  63 

60  68 
56  60 

61  70 
63  73 
68  78 
74  '  78 
76  78  I 
73  I  78 


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in.  pts. 

60 

.90 

57 

89,90 

55 

.84 

60 
59 
56 
58 
53 
54 


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,  90 
.96 
.78 
.91 


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60  '  ,88 
74  30, 
78  30, 
70  '88,08 
74  30, 


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fine,  cloudy 
cy.hy.idia.fr. 
fr.cly.hy.do. 
do.  do. 
I  fine 

fair,  cloudy 
cloudy,  fair 
fr.cl.ihs.r«in 
do.do.mthlig 
fine 
I  do. 
do. 
do. 

fair,  cloudy 
fair  &  cloudy 


DAILY  PRICE  OF  STOCKS. 


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1084 


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108i 


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108iL 

108<L 

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103 

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1034 
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1034 
1034 
10311 
1031 
103^1 


98 


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1021 

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8844 

885 

885 


96  pm. 


991, 


113} 9ipm. 

8844  96  94pm. 

9496pm. 

885  I  94  pm. 

■|88449496pm. 

■188549697  pm. 


115 


78 
78 
74 
73 
73 
75 
Td 
76 
74 
76 
74 
76 
75 
76 
78 
76 
76 


74  pm. 

75  pm. 
78  pm. 
75  pm. 

75  pm. 

73  pm, 

76  pro. 

74  pm. 
76  pm. 
74  pm. 

76  pro. 
74  pm. 

77  pm. 

78  pm. 
76  pm. 
78  pm. 
80  pm. 


88549896  pm.  78  79  pm 

98  96  pm.  77  79  pm 

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95  pm.  79  76pm 

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886     96  pm. 


76 
77 
79 
80 
78 


79  pm. 

80  pm. 
80  pm. 
78  pro. 
80pm. 


95  pm. 

J.J.  ARNULL,  English  and  Foreign  Stock  and  Share  Broker^ 

3«  Bank  Chambers,  Lothbury. 

f»  B.  iricsoLa  AKD  aoy,  FmiifTBmt»  95,  vAUiAiCBirT-iTftiB?. 


THE 

GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE 

SEPTEMBER,  1844. 
By  SYLVANUS  URBAN,  Gknt. 


CONTENTS.  ""*' 

Minor  Corrbspondbmcs. — Lady  Mary  Coke — Charlefl  Lloyd — Contributor! 
to  Quarterly  Review— Dr.  Nash's  Worccatershire  MSS.—Sir  Williani  Grif- 
fith, of  North  Wales— The  Roman  Mile— John  Smith,  esq.  of  Herefordshire  236 

Thb  Poetical  Works  of  Skblton  :  edited  by  the  Rev.  A.  Dyce 287 

On  Women  '*  taking  their  Rights"  before  Childbed 247 

The  Twelfth  Iter  of  Antoninus— Maridunnm 247 

Scnlpture  found  in  St.  Nicholas  Church,  Newcastle  {toith  a  Cm/)   S48 

Notes  ON  Battlr  FiSLDS,  No.  I.    Bamet  Field 249 

Hadley  Church  (i9iM  a  View  (^  the  Tower) 254 

Universality  of  the  French  Tongue — Conversational  Powers  of  the  French  and 
English — the  Language  of  Diplomatists — Pronunciation  of  Latin — Foreign 
Writers  of  French— Napol9(Mr  on  Latin 255 

On  the  proposed  Removal  of  St.  Margaret's  Church,  Westminster 260 

Queries  respiting  the  Coheirs  of  the  Blood  Royal :.......«....  261 

Epitaph  at  Willesborough,  Kent— alleged  Origin  of  Otway's  "  Orphan" 262 

Bifigy  of  Judge  Glanvile  at  Tavistock  (with  a  Plate) 264 

The  Date  of  the  Crucifixion  tested  by  the  Metonic  Cycle 267 

Historical  Account  of  Sutton  Coldfield,  Warwickshire 270 

Mr.  Britton  on  the  proposed  Monument  to  Sonthey  at  Bristol 27 1 

REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 
Miss  Halsted's  Richard  the  Third,  273  ;  Archttologia,  Vol.  XXX.  Part  II. 
278  ;  Publications  of  the  Calvin  Society,  281  ;  The  Claims  of  Labour,  283  ; 
Waterton's  Essays  on  Natural  Histdry,  284 ;  The  Poetical  Works  of  Leigh 
Hunt,  286 ;  Uvedale  on  Hebrew  Names — Lane's  Selections  from  the  Kur- 
in,  287 ;  Brandon's  Analysis  of  Gothick  Architecture,  288  ;  Elliott's  Hors 
Apocalyptics,  and  Miscellaneous  Reviews '. 289 

LITERARY   AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE. 

New   Publications,  292 ;  Copyright,  296 ;  Booksellers'  Provident  Retreat— 

The  French  Academy    • 297 

FINE  ARTS.— Art  Union  of  London,  297  ;  Sale  of  Mr.  Penrice's  Pictures,  300 ; 
Monument  of  Southey — Decorative  Art,  301  ;  Bunyan's  Pilgrim's  Progress — 
Metallic  Rubber  for  Brasses,  302 ;  Statue  of  the  Duke  of  Sussex 303 

ARCHITECTURE.— Westminster  Bridge— Bridge  at  Cologne— Lincoln  City 
Prison — Lynn  Architectural  Society,  303  ;  Bury  St.  Edmund's— Market 
Weston  Church — New  Churches,  304  ;  Churches  repaired 305 

ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES.— British  Archsological    Association— St. 

Stephen's  Church,  Bristol   306 

HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE.— Proceedings  in  Parliament,  307;  Foreign 
News,  308  ;  Domestic  Occurrences    . . .'. 309 

Promotions  and  Preferm^ts,  310 ;  Births — Marriages 311 

OBITUARY;  with  Memoirs  of  the  Due  d'AngouI^me ;  Joseph  Bonaparte, 
Count  de  Survilliers ;  Lord  Huntingfield ;  Hon.  James  Erskine  Murray ; 
Sir  John  Maxwell,  Bart. ;  Ralph  John  Lambton,  Esq. ;  Vice-Adm.  Sir 
Courtenay  Boyle ;  Sir  James  Gambier ;  ColonelCharlesKing,  K.H. ;  Com- 
mander J.  H.  Nicolas ;  Commander  R.  Tomlinson  ;  Commander  Jeaffreson 
Miles  ;  Dr.  Heioroth ;  John  Haslaro,  M.D. ;  W.  J.  Bayne,  M.D. ;  Robert 

Benson,  Esq. ;  Yen.  Archdeacon  Bayley     315 — 325 

Clbrgy  Deceased  325 

Deaths,  arranged  in  Counties 327 

Registrar-General's  Returns  of  Mortality  in  the  Metropolis— Markets— Prices 

of  Shares,  335 ;  Meteorological  Diary— Stocks 336 

Embellished  with  a  Plate  of  the  Effigy  of  Judos  Glanvile  at  Tavistock,  a  Monu^ 
MENTAL  Stone  discovered  at  the  church  of  St.  Nicholas,  Nbwcastlr-upon* 
Ttnb,  a  View  of  the  Tower  of  Hadlst  Churob,  HjiRXFORDSBiRRy  &G. 


226 
MINOR  CORRESPONDENCE. 


In  answer  to  the  inquiry  in  onr  Maj 
Number,  p.  450,  we  have  received  lereral 
reminiBcences  of  Lady  Marr  Coke.  She 
resided  in  the  house  at  oie  corner  of 
Berkeley  Square,  with  one  front  in  Mount 
Street,  now  occupied  by  the  Earl  of 
Abergavenny,  and  latterly  at  Chiswick 
(not  Chelsea),  in  a  house  called  Morton 
Hall,  since  pulled  down  by  tiie  Duke  of 
Devonshire,  There  she  died,  and  her 
body  was  buried  in  the  vault  of  her  feither 
John  Duke  of  Argyll,  in  Westminster 
Abbey.  It  is  said  she  enjoyed  a  jointure 
of  4,000/.  per  annum  on  the  Holkham 
estate.  She  was  a  tall  and  haughty  dame, 
and  her  eccentricities  were  notorious. 
She  was  followed*  whether  in  her  carriage 
or  on  horseback,  by  a  train  of  servants 
and  dogs,  and  was  always  dressed  in  an 
extraordinary  Sray,  as  were  also  her 
servants. 

1. 1.  beUevee  the  lioyd  "  mentioned  in 
Wmiam  Taylor's  Life  (see  May,  p.  450) 
was  not  Mr.  Charles  LLoyd,  the  intimate 
friend  of  the  Lake  poets,  the  Coleridge  and 
Sonthey,  Lloyd  and  Lamb,  and  Co."  of  the 
Antijaoobins,  but  the  Bev.  Dr.  Lloyd, 
a  dissenting  nunister,  who  married  a 
sister  of  the  late  Sir  James  Smith,  and 
with  whom  Soathey  wonld  very  naturally 
fall  in»  in  his  visit  amongst  the  Dissenters 
at  Yarmouth  to  his  friend  Burnett. 

R.  D.  says  there  are  two  errors  in 
T,  P.'s  <*Liat  of  Contributors  to  the 
Quarterly  Review,"  in  our  isst  number. 
In  vol.  xzii.  1830,  Art.  5,  p.  400,  he 
says,  that  Mr.  Croker  was  the  author  of 
the  article  on  "  Spence*s  Anecdotes.*' 
This  article  was  the  origin  of  the  famous 
Pope  controversy,  and  was  attributed  at 
the  time  to  sevenl  eminent  writers  by  the 
Anti-Papist  party.  It  was  noi  by  Mr. 
Croker,  but  by  Mr.  D' Israeli.  In  vol. 
xzzii,  Art.  6,  p.  159,  he  says,  that  the  one 
on  *'Dibdin's  Library  Companion''  was 
written  by  Mr.  D' Israeli.  Mr.  D' Israeli 
was  esr/ctei^  fief  the  anther  of  this  article. 

In  answer  to  the  inquiry  of  C.  N. 
(p.  562,)  "  What  has  become  of  Dr.  TVed- 
way  Nash's  MSS.,  from  which  was  com- 

f»iled  his  History  of  Worcestershire ;  and 
f  there  are  any  continuations  of  the 
collateral  branches  in  bis  own  pedigree 
subjoined  to  that  work,"  Mr.  Jabbz 
Allies  informs  us,  on  the  authority  of 
Mr,  Eaton  of  Worcester,  that  Mr.  Ross 
and  Mr.  Hard  made  some  corrections  and 
additions  to  bis  History,  which  Mr.  Eaton 
has,  including  additions  to  the  Doctor's 
pedigree.  Hb  library,  manuscripts,  and 
plates  were  packed  up  by  Mr.  Eaton  and 
sent  to  Eastnor  Castle,  I^rd  Somers 
having  married  the  Doctor's  only  danghter. 
An  account  of  his  death  was  inserted  in 
the  Gent.  Mag.  written  by  M'' 


and  partlcnlars  of  him  and  his  family  are 
given  in  Chambers's  Biographical  Illus- 
trations of  the  county.  Mr.  Ross  was 
the  engraver  of  the  plates  in  the  History, 
and  alM  of  those  in  the  edition  of  Hudibras 

fublished  by  Dr.  Nash,  with  notes.    Mr. 
[urd  was  the  brother  of  the  Bishop  of 
Worcester. 

To  Corretponienti  oersed  In  WeUh 
Qenealogiet,  Elizabeth  Fiennes,  danghter 
of  Sir  William  Fiennes,  (who  was  sum- 
moned to  Parliament  39th  Hen.  VI.  and 
slain  at  the  battle  of  Bamet,  10th  Edw. 
IV.  147U  married  Sir  William  Griffith 
of  North  Wales,  knight.  Can  any  genea- 
logical Correspondent  identify  this  Sir 
William  Griffith,  or  state  what  family  of 
Griffith  now  existing  is  descended  from 
him?  Many  Welsh  pedigrees  give  the 
descendants  of  Sir  William  Griffith, 
Chamberlain  of  ^orth  Wales,  bnt  none 
of  them  give  him  any  suidi  wi£s  as  Blin- 
beth  Fiennes. 

J.  P.  observes  that  Plantaobvbt,  in 
his  interrogatories  as  to  Csesar's  landing. 
Sic.  p.  603,  of  your  last  volnme,is  a  tittie  In 
error  as  to  the  length  of  the  Roman  mile. 
He  will  see  the  mistake,  as  undoubtedly  it 
has  arisen  from  oonfonnding  the  number  of 
feet  in  its  termination  with  the  yards.  It 
should  be  1611  yanisandtwo-thirds,or  4835 
feet,  not  1635  vards.  Ttiis  is  according  to 
the  tables,  so  that  1 1  English  miles  exceed 
12  Roman  ones  by  only  SO  yards.  In  the 
Commentary  on  the  Itinerary  of  Richard 
of  Cirencester,  (edit  1809,)  there  is  an 
account  of  some  attempts  to  ascertain  the 
length  of  the  Roman  mile,  by  actual  ad- 
measurements, which  all  vary,  but  from 
which  is  deduced  an  average  of  1593  yards, 
a  result  that  should  not  be  relied  on. 

A.  K.  wishes  for  reference  to  any  source 
of  information  respecting  the  genralogy  or 
affinity  of  John  Smith,  Esq.  Barrister-at- 
Law,  who  had  considerable  estates  in  the 
counties  of  Hereford  and  Brecon.  He 
fbunded  almshouses  at  Peterehnrch,  and 
left  charities  for  the  parishes  of  Eaton- 
Bishop,  CUIFord,  Kingston,  &c.  in  Here- 
fordshire, (see  Report  of  Charity  Com* 
missioners.  XXXII.  part  3,  p.  368.)  His 
will  dated  1733  mentions  his  cottfin  **Moor 
Green,"  whose  descendants  have  to  this 
time  continued  to  be  the  owners  of  his 
estate  at  Eaton-BUhop,  and  of  his  man- 
sion there,  called  "Cagebrook."  The 
charities  were  to  be  disposed  of  at  tho 
discretion  of  his  trustees,  and  the  per$on 
who  ikould  hav0  thefrtthold  of  the  hotue 
in  which  he  lived  at  Eaton  Biehop. 

m.?A*^^^"  /•  ."•.  Tb«  portrait  is  one  of 
Madame  de  Seylgn^,  not  ofMona.  de  Serign^. 

viSlf^i.  .^*S*^.  ^<'^*  *-w^  Inverurie  was 


THJC 

GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


The  Poetical  Works  of  John  Skelion,  with  Notes,  SfC.   By  Rev.  Alexander 

Dyce.     2  Vols. 

IN  the  whole  catalogue  of  English  poets,  there  was  not  one  whose 
works  called  more  loudly  for  an  editor  than  Skelton,  nor  could  they  have 
fallen  into  abler  or  more  careful  hands  ;* — almost  all  the  original  editions 
of  Skelton's  pieces  have  perished:  the  black-letter  edition  of  Marshe 
(1568)  is  not  only  very  imperfect  and  incorrect,  but  exceedin{;ly  scarce  } 
and  the  later  edition  by  Mr.  Bowie  (1738)  is  really  worthlesib  Skelton's 
productions  indeed  had  become  so  entirely  one  of  the  ''  Curiosities  of  Li- 
terature/* that  Mr.  Dyce  says  the  power  of  giving  a  complete  edition 
of  them  depended  entirely  on  the  liberality  of  the  late  Mr.  Heber,  "  for 
his  library  contained  some  poems  by  Skelton»  of  which  copies  were  not 
elsewhere  to  be  fonnd.*'  If  Skelton  s  poetical  powers  had  been  of  a  much 
lower  kind  than  they  were,  his  works  would  have  been  well  worth  collect- 
ing, for  their  historical  remembrances  and  personal  anecdotes ;  for  records 
of  manners  and  customs,  for  verbal  expressions,  and  for  the  original,  or 
certainlv  singular,  metre  in  which  they  are  conveyed.  But  we  think  much 
more  highly  of  his  powers  5  the  wit  that  is  encircled  by  his  buffoonery  is 
broad  and  coarse,  but  it  is  genuine  and  effective :  and  when  he  chooses, 
instead  of  running  along  the  ground,  scattering  as  he  goes  his  wild  licen- 
tious satire,  to  rise  on  his  wings,  we  can  see  that  he  would  have  equalled 
or  perhaps  surpassed  many  a  poet  of  greater  pretensions  in  subjects  of  a 
more  elevated  nature,  and  admitting  mor^  poetical  decoration.  Mr.  Dyce 
says,  the  Bowge  of  Courte  is  an  allegorical  poem  of  considerable  invention, 
in  which  a  series  of  characters  is  introduced,  delineated  with  a  boldness 
and  discrimination  which  no  preceding  poet  had  displayed  since  the  days 
of  Chaucer,  and  which  none  of  his  contemporaries  with  the  exception  of 
Dunbar,  were  able  to  attain  :  and  he  says,  in  **  Phyllyp  Sparowe,"  he 
exhibits  such  fertility  and  delicacy  of  fancy,  such  graceful  sportive- 
ness,  and  such  ease  of  expression,  that  it  might  well  be  charac- 
terised by  Coleridge  ''as  an  exquisite  and  original  poem  3*'  and  in  The 
Tunnyng  of  Elynour  Rummyng,  he  observes  that,  *'  if  few  compositions 
have  more  coarseness  or  extravagance,  there  are  few  which  have  greater 
animation  or  a  richer  humour.'* 

Mr.  Dyce  has  not  only  made  his  edition  of  the  Works  of  Skelton 

*  Mr.  Soathej  aayg,  **  An  editor  who  should  be  competent  to  the  tMk,  eonld  not 
more  worthily  employ  himself  than  by  giving  a  good  and  complete  edition  of  his 
[Skelton' a]  works ;  the  power,  the  straogenefls,  the  Yolubility  of  hu  hmguage,  the  au- 
dacity of  his  satire,  and  the  perfect  originality  of  his  manner,  made  Skelton  one  of 
the  most  extraordinary  writers  of  any  age  or  country."  See  Quarterly  Rev.  No. 
zxii.  p.  485.  We  may  refer  the  reader  who  wishes  to  see  what  other  critics  have 
said  of  Skelton  to  Warton's  Hist,  of  Engl.  Poetry,  (see  Index,)  EUls's  8poeia«M, 
vol.  ii.  p.  5,  &c  and  D'Xsraeli's  Amenities  of  literature^  vol.  ii.  p.  69,  &c.— £o. 


228  Dyce's  Poetical  M'orks  if  John  Skdton.  [Sept. 

more  complete  than  others,  by  the  insertion  of  additional  pieces,  but  far 
more  correct,  as  well  by  careful  collation  as  by  jadicioas  conjecture.  He 
has  illustrated  the  text  with  a  valuable  body  of  notes,  the  usefulness  of 
which  extends  beyond  the  pages  of  the  author  they  are  intended  to  illus- 
trate. He  has  added  also  two  very  curious  poems  written  in  Skel ton's 
manner,  and  probably  soon  after  his  time,  called  the  "  Ymage  of 
Ypocrisy,'*  and  the  "  Vox  Populi  ;'*  the  former  attacking  the  corruptions  of 
the  Church,  and  the  second  exhibiting  the  complaints  of  the  commons  and 
the  oppression  of  the  poor,  a  subject  also  touched  upon  in  Roy's  Satire, 
as  well  as  in  Latimer  s  Sermons.  We  shall  now  give  a  short  abridgment 
of  the  poet's  life,  and  such  specimens  from  the  different  poems  as  may 
awaken  curiosity  to  a  larger  acquaintance  with  the  whole. 

At  what  time  Skelton  became  rector  of  Diss,  in  Norfolk,  is  not  known  } 
he  resided  therein  1504,  and  1511,  and  1513jandat  his  death  was  at 
least  nominally  the  rector.  "  We  are  told  that  for  keeping,  under  the 
title  of  concubine,  a  woman  whom  he  had  secretly  married,  Skelton  was 
called  to  account,  and  suspended  from  his  ministerial  functions  by  his 
diocesan,  at  the  instigation  of  the  Dominican  friars."  It  is  said  that  he 
had  several  children,  and  that  on  his  death-bed  he  declared  that  he  con- 
scientiously regarded  her  as  his  wife  3  but  that  he  chose,  out  of  his  weak- 
ness>  rather  to  confess  concubinage  than,  what  was  then  more  criminal  in 
an  ecclesiastic,  marriage.  Delafield,  in  his  MS.  Collections,  says  it  was 
in  return  for  his  being  married^  an  equal  crime  in  the  ecclesiastics  in  those 
days,  that  Bishop  Nykke  suspended  him  3  and  Tanner  says,  "  Skelton 
took  sanctuary  in  Westminster,  '  propter  quod  uxorem  habuit,* "  An- 
thony a  Wood  mentions  that  Skelton  in  the  pulpit  at  Diss  was  more  fit 
for  the  stage  than  the  pew  3  and  Mr.  Dyce  says,  **  It  is  at  least  certain 
that  anecdotes  of  the  irregularity  of  his  life,  of  his  buffoonery  as  a 
preacher,  were  current  long  after  his  decease,  and  gave  rise  to  that  tissue 
of  extravagant  figments,  which  was  entitled  the  '  Merie  Tales  of  Skelton." 

The  poems  of  Skelton  against  Wolsey  are  not  the  light  and  sportive 
sallies  of  the  satirist  playing  with  his  subject,  pleased  with  the  wit 
of  his  invention,  and  the  keenness  of  his  invective,  but  it  is  the  deadly 
language  of  hatred,  the  indignant  anger  of  a  determined  enemy,  merciless 
in  his  wrath,  and  apparently  revenging  some  gross  insult  or  injury  re- 
ceived. And  yet  it  appears  that  Skelton  once  enjoyed  Wclsey's  patron- 
age, and  expected  preferment  from  his  influence.  The  fierceness  of  his 
later  indignation  can  only  be  paralleled  by  the  grossness  of  his  former 
adulation,  of  which  Mr.  Dyce  has  afforded  sufficient  s{)eciroens  3  Mr.  Dyce 
thinks  the  "  provocation  must  have  been  extraordinary  which  transformed 
the  humble  client  into  his  '  dearest  foe  ;'  "  but  the  continued  neglect  of  his 
patron,  till  Skelton  felt  that  advancement  was  hopeless,  and  the  door  of 
preferment  was  decidedly  shut  against  him,  was  perhaps  sufficient.  The 
wasp  that  is  prevented  coming  to  the  honey- pot  will  turn  round  and 
sting.  From  the  awakened  vengeance  of  the  Cardinal,  Skelton  took 
sanctuary  at  Westminster,  where  he  was  received  and  protected  by  the 
Abbot  Islip,  and  in  this  asylum  he  appears  to  have  remained  till  his 
death,  in  June  1529.  He  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  St.  Margarefs 
church,  and  the  following  inscription  placed  on  his  grave  : 

Joannee  Skeltonus,  vates  Pierius,  hie  situs  est. 

John  Skelton  is  generally  said  to  have  been  descended  from  the 
Skeltons  of  Cumberland,  but  Mr*  Dyce  says  there  is  some  reason  to  be- 


1844.1  Dyce's  Poetical  Works  of  John  Skelton.  229 

lieve  that  Norfolk  was  his  native  county.  The  time  of  his  birth  cannot  be 
carried  back  earlier  than  1460.  He  was  certainly  at  Cambridge,  and 
possibly  at  Oxford.  The  authority  for  the  first  is  in  his  own  verses, 
"  Alma  parens  O  Cantabrij^ensis  .  .  .  tibi  quondam  cams  alumnus 
eram."  For  the  latter  Wood  refers  to  the  authority  of  Bale.  The  uni- 
Tersities  at  that  time  were  *'  schools/'  and  Warton  says,  "Skelton  studied 
at  both."  Of  almost  all  Skelton*s  writings  the  original  editions  have  pe- 
rished :  and  Mr.  Dyce  says,  it  is  impossible  to  tell  at  what  dates  his  va* 
rious  pieces  were  originally  printed.  He  suspects  also,  and  probably  with 
good  reason,  that  two  of  his  most  celebrated  pieces,  "  Colyn  Cloute  *'  and 
**  Why  come  ye  not  to  Courte  ?"  were  not  committed  to  the  press,  proba- 
bly lest  the  author  should  have  been  committed  to  prison.  A  portion  of 
"  Speke  Parrot  '*  and  of  the  poem  against  Garnesche  *  are  printed  for  the 
first  time  in  these  volumes.  That  Skelton  was  the  author  also  of  many  pieces 
that  have  perished,  we  learn  from  their  titles  in  the  Garlande  of  Laurell ; 


*  We  are  indebted  to  the  kindness  of  oar  friend  Mr.  D.  £.  Davy  for  the  following 
account  of  '*  Garneyche/'  which  forms  a  valuable  addition  to  what  was  known  to 
Mr.  Dyce. 

'*  Sir  Christopher  Gameys,  knt.  whom  I  suppose  to  be  the  person  who  was  the 
ohgect  of  Skelton's  satire,  was  the  second  son  of  Kdmund  Gameys,  esq.  of  Beccles, 
who  was  the  second  son  of  Peter  Garneys,  esq.  of  Beccles,  whose  eldest  son,  Thomas, 
was  of  Kenton.  He,  '  Sir  Christopher,  was  janitor  of  Caleys,  and  often  employed  in 
the  wars,  temp.  H.  VIII.' 

*'  *  The  2d  Oct.  6  H.  VIII.  at  four  in  the  morning,  the  Princess  Mary,  sister  to  King 
Henry  VIII.  upon  her  marriage  with  Louis  XII.  King  of  France,  took  her  ship,  with 
ail  her  noble  company,  and,  when  they  were  about  a  quarter  over  the  sea,  the  wind  rose 
and  severed  the  fleet :  some  reached  Calais ;  some  were  forced  on  the  shore  of 
Flanders,  and  the  ship  she  was  in  was  with  great  difficnlty  brought  to  Boulogne,  with 
such  danger,  that  the  master  run  the  ship  on  shore,  and  Sir  Christopher  Gamyshe 
stood  in  the  water,  receiving  her  in  his  arms,  and  carried  her  to  land.'  Collins's  Hist, 
of  the  Windsor  Family,  p.  36. 

"  In  a  window  of  the  chapel  in  the  north  aisle  of  St.  Peter's  Mancroft  Church,  Nor- 
folk, was  the  following  inscription:  '  Pro  a'i'abus  Thome  Elys  tercia  vice  hujus  civi- 
tati  Norwicis  Majoris  et  Margarete  consortis  sue.  Orandum  est  pro  animabus  £d- 
mnndi  Gamysh  armigeri,  et  Matilde  ejus  consortis,  filie  predictorum  Thome  Elis  et 
Margarete,  ac  pro  longevo  statu  Christopheri  Garnysh  miiitis,  d'c*i  serenissimi  Princir 
pis  ville  sue  Calisie  Janitoris.'     See  Blomf.  Norf.  vol.  iv.  p.  199. 

*' '  A  description  of  the  Standards  borne  in  the  field  by  Peers  and  Knights  in  the  reign 
of  Hen.  VIII.  From  a  MS.  in  the  Coll.  of  Arms.  I.  S.  Compiled  between  1510 
and  15S5.  Syr  Christoffer  Gamys.  In  the  1st  compartment,  on  a  wreath,  arg. 
and  gn.  an  arm  erased  below  the  elbow,  and  erect,  proper,  holding  a  falchion  arg. 
pomel  and  hilt  or,  the  blade  embrued  in  3  places  gn. — Arms.  Arg.  a  chevron  ax. 
between  3  escallops  sa.'  Ezcerpta  Historica,  p.  317. 

"  SUndards,  temp.  H.  VIII.  Harl.  MS.  4632.  Syr  Xofer  Gameyshe.  Blue.  The 
device,  on  a  wreath  arg.  and  gu.  an  arm  erased,  grasping  a  scymetar,  pro.  —  Motto. 
*  Ottblie  ne  dois.*  "     Collect.  Topog.  vol.  iii.  p.  64. 

"  '  The  names  of  the  Englishmen  which  were  sent  in  ambassade  to  the  French  King, 
before  the  Queen's  landing,  and  oder  gentilmen  in  their  compaigne.'  Sir  Christopher 
Gameys  (inter  al.) — Leland's  Collect,  vol.  ii.  p.  704. 

"  In  the  Athensum  for  July  18,  1840,  p.  572,  there  is  a  long  letter,  dated  '  at 
Morpeth,  the  zzviij  day  of  Decembre,'  and  signed  '  C.  Garneys,^  whom  the  editor 
supposes  to  have  been  one  of  the  medical  attendants  sent  by  the  King,  upon  the  illness 
of  Queen  Margaret;  it  was  more  probably  Sir  Christ.  Garneys,  knt. 

"  Sir  Christopher  was  knighted  at  Touraine,  25  Dec.  5  H.  VIII.  1513,  and  mar- 
ried Jane,  daughter  of She  died  27th  March,  1552.     Her  will  was  dated 

87th  Aug.  1550,  and  proved  12th  May,  1552;  she  was  buried  at  Greenwich.  Her 
husl^and  was  dead  when  she  made  her  will.  She  names  her  son  Arthur  Dymok^^ 
esq.   Bequeaths  most  of  her  personal  estate  for  charitable  purposes." 


330  Dyoe*i  PmHoU  Wfrki  0/  Jokm  Skekm.  [^tp^ 

sttcb  M  the  Ballade  of  Ibe  Mutarde  Twte,  The  Mimyiig  of  the  Mapely 
Rote;  and  Sir  Jdha  Hawkins  Bays,  "Many  of  the  songs  and  popeJar  ballads 
of  the  time  appear  to  ha?e  been  written  by  Skelton.*'     In  1489  he  wrote 
an  elegy  on  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Northambeilaad»  slain  daring  an  in- 
surrection in  Yorkshire*    He  had  acqoired  a  great  repatation  as  a  scholar, 
and  had  been  laure^Ud  at  Oxford,  when  Caxton  in  1490  pnUished  his 
Virgil^  in  the  piefaoe  to  whieh  he  is  highly  praised,  and  his  translation  of 
TvUy  and   Diodoms  Sknlos    mentioned.    "He  hath  redde  Vyigyle, 
Ooyde^Tollye,  and  all  the  other  noble  poetes  and  oratoorsy  tome  Tnknowen  : 
and  also  he  hath  redde  the  ix.  Moses^— I  soppose  he  hath  dronken  of 
Elycons  weile/'  &c  InA.D.  1493,  9  Hen.VILhe  was  admitted  odeaiidhM 
at  Cambridge  \  and  in  1504-5  he  was  farther  permitted  ^  ati  habitn  sibi 
eooceSBO  a  principe]'*  which  Warton  thinks  relates  to  some  distinction 
of  habit,  perhaps  of  fur  and  velret,  granted  him  by  the  King ;  and  Mr« 
Dyce  infers  from  his  Terses  against  Oamysche,  that  he  wore»  as  lanreat, 
and  probably  as  Mr.  Wordsworth  does,  a  dress  of  white  and  green,  or 
perhaps  a  white  dress  with  a  wreath  of   lanrel,   and   that  the   word 
'<  Caluope  **  was  stitched  (Mr.  Dyce  uses  the  more  poetical  word  **  em- 
broidered**) on  some  part  of  his  garment.**  Whether  Skelton  was  what  we 
now  call  poet  laareate,  that  is,  coart  poet,  or  laureate  to  Henryt  he  Eighth, 
is  a  snlject  lying  in  some  little  doubt  >  bat  that  he  receiyed  this  honour 
from  the  university  of  Lonvaine  has  been  inferred  from  the  title  of  a  very 
scarce  poem,  called  **  In  cbarissimi  Scheltonis  Lonaniensis  poetse  laudes 
Epigramma,'*  though  Louvaine  has  neglected  to  keep  any  r^^istry  of  the 
honour  she  conferred  on  her  adopted  son.     He  frequently  styles  himself 
"  orator  regius,*'  but  what  was  the  nature  of  his  office  is  not  understood.  It 
might  be,  to  compose  the  speeches  which  the  King  had  to  make  in  public. 
Warton  saysi  *'  He  found  one  John  Mallard  in  tnat  office  to  Henry  the 
Eighth,  and  his  epistoUry  secretary."     In  1498  Skelton  took  hc4y  orders. 
The  dates  of  his  successiveordinations  are  known  by  the  entries  in  the  regi^ 
ters  of  the  diocese  of  London.     In  1494  be  was  appointed  tutor  to  Prince 
Henry — an  appointment  which  affords  a  proof  of  the  high  opinion  en- 
tertained of  his  talents,  learning,  and  character.    Yet  Miss  Agnes  Strick- 
land has  pricked  him  with  her  silver  bodkin,  and  called  him  "  an  ill-living 
wretch  :"  and  Mrs.  Thomson  has  taken  a  small  needle  from  her  literary 
pincushion  for  the  same  purpose ;  for  which  Mr.  Dyce  has  with  decent  and 
gentle  authority  rebuked  them  ;  remarking  that,  "  when  ladies  write  his- 
tory, they  sometimes  say  odd  things.*'  That  either  of  these  learned  ladies 
knew  any  thing  at  all  about  Skelton,  the  virgin  purity  of  the  one,  and  the 
matronly  reserve  of  the  other,  would  prevent  us  from  snpposinff.     Skelton 
is  certainly  not  a  poet  for  those  tables  of  the  toilet  where  rrior  cannot 
now  gain  even  an  unwilling  admission.*     When  Prince  Henry  was  nine 
years  old,  Erasmus  dedicated  to  him  an  ode  De  Laudibus  Britannim,  &c. 
in  which  that  illustrious  scholar  mentions  Skelton*s  name  (the  name  of  the 
**  ill-living  wretch  ")  with  due  honour,  *'  Domi  haberes  Skeltonum,  unum 

*  A  lady  of  ovr  acquaintance  had  the  Aldtne  edition  of  Prior  on  her  table  the  other 
day,  for  which  she  was  tererely  rebuked  by  an  acqoaintance,  astoniahed  at  each  a  mar- 
~i      Such  is  the  fanaticism  and  hypocrisy  of  modem  times  :  and  yet  Byron  covers 


1644.]  Dyee^s  P^eHcd  WcrkiofJohi  SkeU&n.  231 

Britannicanim  literanim  lumen  et  decas/*  and  in  a  line  remarkable  for 
the  correctness  of  its  metre^ 

MonBtnnte  fontsls  Tata  Skeltmio  sieros. 

Amid  the  delight  of  these  laudatory  boQOon>  Skelton  was  somewhat  startled 
at  finding  himself  suddenly,  by  an  order  of  the  King  and  Council,  com- 
missus  carceribns  Jauitoris  Domini  R^s-o-or*  in  other  words,  clapt  up 
in  prison ;  but  on  this  Mr.  Dyce  remarks,  in  the  firsi  place,  that  impri- 
sonment in  those  days  followed  often  very  light  offences  5  and  that  it  was 
as  likely  that  there  were  other  persons  named  Jo.  Skelton,  as  there  may 
be  now  also  others  rejoicing  in  the  appellation  of  AL  Dyce. 

Our  first  extract  is  taken  from  the  *^  Bowge  of  Grarte." 

Wyth  that  came  Ryotte,  nushynge  all  at  onm, 

A  ruBtj  gaUande,  to*  ragged  and  to»rente ; 
And  on  thft  borde  he  whyrled  a  payre  of  bonea , 

Quater  irg^e  detot  he  daterea  aa  he  wente ; 

Now  bane  at  all,  by  aarate  Tbomaa  of  Kente  1 
And  eacr  be  tbrewa  and  kyst*  I  wote  nere  what : 
Hia  here  was  growen  thorowe  oute  hia  bat. 

Thenne  I  bebelda  bow  he  dyagyaed  was  t 
Hia  bade  was  beuy  £or  wa^ynge  oner  nygbte, 

Hia  eyen  blereed,  hia  fiice  ahoae  lyke  a  glaa ; 
Hia  gowne  ao  aborta  that  it  na  ooner  myghte 
Hia  nunpe,  be  wante  ao  all  for  aomer  lygbte  { 

Hia  boae  waa  gardad  with  a  lyate  of  grena, 

Tetat  the  knee  they  were  broken,  I  wane. 

Hia  cote  waa  cheeked  with  patchea  rede  and  blawa ; 
Of  Kyrkeby  Kendall  waa  hia  ahorte  dentya  ;f 

And  aj  he  aanga,  In  fay th,  decon  tbon  crewe ; 
His  elbowe  ban,  be  ware  hia  gera  ao  nye: 
Hia  noae  a  droppynge,  hia  lyppea  were  full  drye ; 

And  by  hia  ayde  hia  whynarde  and  hia  poucbe. 

The  denyll  myghte  daunca  therin  for  ony  crowcbe. 

Counter  he  conde  0  hut  Tpon  a  potto ; 

An  eeatrycha  ladder  of  a  capona  tayla 
He  aet  ¥p  freaabely  vpon  hia  hat  alone : 

What  renell  route !  qnod  he,  and  gan  to  rayle 

How  o^  ha  hadde  hit  Jenet  on  the  tayle* 
Of  Felyce  fetawaai  and  lytall  pretr  Cate, 
How  ofta  be  knodud  at  her  klycked  gate,  Sec 

The  next  character  is  Dyssymulacion,  which  is  drawn  with  spirit  and 

mth. 

Dyadayne  I  aawe  with  Dyaaymnlacyon 
Standynge  in  aadde  commanicadon. 

But  there  waa  poyntynge  and  noddynge  with  the  bade, 
And  many  wordea  aayde  in  aecrete  wyae ; 

They  wandred  aj,  and  atode  atyll  in  no  atede  : 
He  thoughtai  alwaye  Dyacymular  dyda  devyaa  s 
Me  paaaynge  aore  myne  berte  than  gan  agryae, 

I  danpta  and  drede  theyr  talkynge  waa  not  good. 

Anone  Dyaeymnlar  oane  where  I  atode. 


*  t.  e,  caat. 

t  Thia  phraae  aeema  donbtfaL  Thonaaa  Warton  nnderatanda  by  it,-*"  hia  coataleeTe 
waa  ao  abort  ;*'-i-Mr.  Dyea,  with  whom  we  are  inclined  to  agree,  "  he  wore  hia  dothaa 
ao  near,  ao  thoronghly."— *'  In  fayth,  decon  thou  crewa^"  in  the  commenceaent 
of  aome  aong.    See  Kditor'a  note. 


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Dyce'ft  Poetkal  Workg  of  John  Skekcn. 

Tbn  ia  hu  bode  I  lawe  there  facet  tfreyne ; 

That  one  was  leoe  and  lyke  a  pyned  goost, 
That  other  loked  ai  he  wold  me  hane  tlayne ; 

And  to  me  warde  aa  he  gan  for  to  eooat, 

Whan  that  he  was  euen  at  me  ahnoost, 
I  lawe  a  knyfe  hyd  in  his  one  aleve, 
Wberon  was  wryten  this  worde,  IfyseiltM. 

And  in  his  other  slene,  me  thonght.  I  sawe 
A  spone  of  golde,  full  of  hony  awete, 

To  fede  a  fole,  and  for  to  preoe  a  dawe ; 
And  on  that  slcne  these  wordes  were  wrete, 
A/ait€  abtiraete  anmetk/rom  a  fait  eoncrtte : 

His  hode  was  syde,  his  cope  was  roset  gnjt : 

Thyse  were  the  wordes  that  he  to  me  dyde  aaye,  &e. 

Then  comes  "  Deceit." 

Sodaynly,  as  he  departed  me  fro, 
Came  pressynge  in  one  in  a  wonder  araye  : 

£r  I  was  ware,  behynde  me  he  sayde,  Bo  f 
Thenne  I,  astonyed  of  that  sodeyne  fraye, 
Sterte  all  at  ones,  I  lyked  no  thynge  his  playe  ; 

Fort  yf  I  hkd  not  qayckely  fledde  the  toache, 

He  had  plucte  oate  the  nobles  of  my  ponche. 

He  was  trussed  in  agarmente  strayte : 

I  bane  not  seoe  snche  an  others  page  ; 
For  be  coade  well  vpon  a  casket  wayte ; 

His  hode  all  poonsed  and  garded  lyke  a  cage  ; 

Lyghte  lyme  fynger,  he  toke  none  other  wage. 
Harkea,  quod  he,  loo  here  myne  honde  in  thyne ; 
To  TS  welcome  thou  arte,  by  saynte  Qnyntyne. 

But,  by  that  Lorde  that  is  one,  two,  and  thre, 
I  hane  an  errande  to  ronnde  in  your  ere  : 

He  tolde  me  so,  by  God,  ye  maye  tmste  me. 
Parte  remembre  whan  ye  were  there. 
There  I  wynked  on  yon, — ^wote  ye  not  where  ? 

In  A  loeo,  I  mentjuxia  B  t 

Woo  is  hym  that  is  blynde  and  maye  not  see  1 

Bat  to  here  the  subtylte  and  the  crafte. 

As  I  shall  tell  you,  yf  ye  wyll  harke  agayne ; 
And,  whan  1  sawe  the  horsons  wolde  yon  hafte. 

To  holde  myne  honde,  by  God,  I  hadgrete  peyne ; 

For  forthwyth  there  I  had  him  slayne. 
Bat  that  I  drede  mordre  wolde  come  oute  : 
Who  deleth  with  shrewes  hath  nede  to  loke  aboote,  &c. 

We  make  our  next  quotation  from  the  pretty  sportive  poem  of  Philip 
Sparrowe. 


It  was  so  prety  a  fole. 

It  wold  syt  on  a  stole. 

And  lemed  after  my  scole 

For  to  kepe  his  cut, 

With,  Phyllyp,  kepe  yonr  cut  1 

It  had  a  Telnet  cap, 
And  wold  syt  Tpon  my  lap. 
And  seke  after  small  wormes, 
And  8omt?me  white  bred  crommes  ; 
And  many  tymes  and  ofte 
Betwene  my  brestes  softe 
It  wolde  lye  and  rest ; 
It  was  propre  and  prest. 

Somtyme  be  wolde  gaspe 
Whan  he  sawe  a  waspe  ; 
1 


A  fly  or  a  gnat, 

He  wolde  flye  at  that ; 

And  prytely  he  wold  pant 

Whan  he  saw  an  ant ; 

Lord,  how  he  wolde  pry 

After  the  butterfly ! 

Lorde,  how  he  wolde  hop 

After  the  gressop ! 

And  whan  I  sayd,  Phyp,  Phyp, 

Than  he  wold  lepe  and  skyp, 

And  take  me  by  the  lyp. 

Alas,  it  wyll  mo  slo. 

That  Pbillyp  is  gone  me  fro,  &c. 


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For  it  wold  come  and  go» 
And  fly  so  to  and  fro ; 
And  on  me  it  wolde  lep« 
Whan  I  was  aalepOy 
And  hii  fethers  snakey 
"Wherewith  he  wolde  make 
Me  often  for  to  wake, 
And  for  to  take  him  in 
Tpon  my  naked  skyn, 
God  wot,  we  thought  no  ayn  t 
What  though  he  crept  so  lowe  ? 
It  wai  no  hurt,  I  trowe, 
He  dyd  nothynge  perd^ 
But  syt  Ypon  my  kne : 
Phyllyp,  though  he  were  nyte, 
In  him  it  waa  no  ryse ; 
Phyllyp  had  leue  to  go 
To  pyke  my  lytell  too ; 
Phillip  myght  be  bolde 
And  do  what  he  wolde ; 
PhiUip  wolde  seke  and  take 
All  the  flees  blake 
That  he  coulde  there  espye 
With  his  wanton  eye. 
•  *  • 

Was  neuer  byrde  in  cage 
More  gentle  of  corage 
In  doynge  his  homage 
Vnto  his  Bouerayne. 
Alas  !  I  say  aga3rne, 
Deth  hath  departed  ts  twayne  ! 
The  false  cat  hath  thk  slayne : 
Farewell,  Phyllyp,  adew ! 
Onr  Lorde  thy  soule  reakew  I 
Farewell  without  restore, 
Farewell,  for  euermore ! 

And  it  were  a  Jewe, 
It  wolde  make  one  rew. 
To  se  my  sorow  new. 
These  vylanous  false  cattea 
Were  made  for  myse  and  rattes. 
And  not  for  byrdes  smale. 
Alas,  my  face  waxeth  pale, 
Tellynge  this  pyteyua  tale. 
How  my  byrde  so  fayre. 
That  was  wont  to  repayre, 
And  go  in  at  my  spayre^ 
And  crepe  in  at  my  gore 
Of  my  gowne  before, 
Flycke^Dge  with  his  wynges ! 
Alas,  my  hert  it  stynges. 


Remembrynge  prety  thynges ! 

Alas,  myne  hert  it  sleth 

My  Phyllyppes  dolefull  deth, 

Whan  I  remembre  it, 

How  pretely  it  wolde  syt» 

Many  tymes  and  ofte* 

Ypon  my  iynger  aloft  I 

I  played  with  him  tytteU  tattyll, 

And  fed  him  with  my  spattyll. 

With  his  byll  betwene  my  lippea ; 

It  was  my  prety  Phyppes ! 

Many  a  prety  kusse 

Had  I  of  his  swete  muase  i 

And  now  the  cause  is  thus. 

That  he  is  slayne  me  fro, 

To  my  great  payne  and  wo. 

Of  fortune  this  the  chaunce 
Standeth  on  varyaunce : 
Oft  tyme  after  pleasaunce 
Trouble  and  greuaunce ; 
No  man  can  be  sure 
Allway  to  haue  pleasure : 
As  well  perceyue  ye  maye 
How  my  dysport  and  play 
From  me  was  taken  away 
By  Gyb,  our  cat  sauage, 
That  in  a  furyous  ra^e 
Caught  Phyllyp  by  the  head. 
And  slew  him  there  starke  dead. 
For  Phylyp  Sparowes  soule. 
Set  in  our  bede  roUe, 
Let  TS  now  whysper 
A  Pater  notter. 

•  •  •  • 

Detu,  cut  proprium  ui  miseriri  eipareeref 

On  Phillips  soule  haue  pyte ! 

For  he  was  a  prety  cocke. 

And  came  of  a  gentyll  stocke. 

And  wrapt  in  a  maidenea  smocke, 

And  cherysshed  full  dayntely, 

Tyll  crueU  fate  made  him  to  dy  ; 

Alas,  for  dolefuU  desteny ! 

But  whereto  shnld  I 

Longer  mome  or  crye  ? 

To  Jupyter  I  call, 

Of  heuen  emperyall. 

That  Phyllyp  may  fly 

Aboue  the  starry  sky, 

To  treade  the  prety  wren 

That  is  onr  ladyes  hen : 

Amen,  amen,  amen  1 


Having  thus  performed  onr  pioug  obsequies  to  Philip  Sparowe^  we  will 
add  Skelton's  eulogy  of  the  three  English  poets  who  preceded  him. 


Ooweri  Englysh  ia  olde. 
And  of  no  value  told. 
His  mater  is  worth  gold, 
And  worthy  to  be  enrold. 
In  Chancer  I  am  sped. 
His  tales  I  have  red : 
His  mater  is  delectable, 
Solacious  and  commendable. 
Hia  Englysh  well  alowed, 
So  as  it  is  enprowed, 

Gent.  Mao.  Vol,  XXI. 


For  as  it  is  enployd. 
There  is  no  Englysh  voyd. 
At  those  dayes  moch  commended. 
And  now  men  wold  haue  amended 
His  Englysh,  whereat  they  barke. 
And  mar  all  they  warke : 
Chaucer,  that  famus  clerke, 
His  termes  were  not  darke, 
But  plesaunt,  easy,  and  playne ; 
No  worde  he  wrote  in  vayne. 

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Alio  Johnn  Lydgate 
Wryteth  after  an  hyer  rate ; 
It  ia  dyffaae  to  fynde 
The  sentence  of  his  mynde, 
Yet  wry  teth  he  in  his  kyod, 
No  man  that  can  amend 
Thoae  maters  that  he  hath  pende ; 
Tet  some  men  fynde  a  &nte, 


And  say  be  wryteth  to  haute. 
Wherfor  hold  me  excvaed 
If  I  have  not  well  penised 
Myne  Englyssh  halfe  aboaed. 
Though  it  be  refoaed. 
In  worth  I  ahaU  it  take. 
And  fewer  wordes  make,  &c. 


[Sept. 


The  very  popular  performance  of  the  TuoByng  of  Elynoor  RDmmviiir 
with  iU  lowe  borlesqae  coarse  hnmoar^  most  not  pass  witboot  remark. 


Tell  yon  I  chyll, 
Ifthatyewyll 
A  whyle  be  styllf 
Of  a  comely  gyll 
That  dwelt  on  a  hyU  t 
Bat  she  is  not  gryll, 
For  she  is  somwhat  sage 
And  well  wome  in  age  ; 
For  her  rysage 
It  wonid  aswage 
A  mannes  connge,  &e. 
•  *  • 

And  this  comely  dame, 
I  TnderstandOi  her  name 
Is  Elynoar  Rammynge, 
At  home  in  her  wonnynge  ; 
And  as  men  say 
She  dwelt  in  Sothray,* 
In  a  certayne  stede 
Bysyde  Lederbede. 
She  is  a  tonnysh  gyb ; 
The  deuyll  and  she  be  syb. 

Bat  to  make  yp  my  tale, 
She  breweth  noppy  aJe, 
And  maketh  therof  port  sale 
To  trauellars,  to  tynkers, 
To  sweters,  to  swynkers, 
And  all  good  ale  drynkers, 
That  wyll  nothynge  spare, 
But  drynke  tyll  they  stare, 
And  brynge  themselfe  bare, 
With,  Now  away  the  mare. 
And  let  us  sley  care. 
As  wyse  as  an  hare,  &c. 

•  a  •  * 

Instede  of  coyae  and  monny, 
Some  brynge  her  a  conny, 
And  some  a  pot  with  bonny. 
Some  a  salt,  and  some  a  spone. 
Some  tbeyr  hose,  some  theyr  shone  ; 
Some  ran  a  good  trot 
With  a  skeUet  or  a  pot ; 
Some  fyll  theyr  pot  full 
Of  good  Lemster  woll : 
An  huswyfe  of  trust, 
Whan  she  is  athrust, 

The  Poems  agaynst  Garnyscbe  we  must  overpass,  who  seems  to  have 
written  against  Skelton  through  an  ally  called  Crystofer  Chalangcr ;  for 
Skelton  says> 


Such  a  webbe  can  sprn. 

HerthryftiafuUthjn. 

*  ♦  • 

Some,  lothe  to  be  eapyde, 
SUrt  in  at  the  backe  syde. 
Oner  the  hedge  and  pale. 
And  all  for  the  good  ale. 

Some  renne  tyll  they  swete. 
Brynge  wyth  them  malte  or  wbete 
And  dame  Elynonr  entrete  ' 

To  byrle  them  of  the  beat. 

*  *  • 

Anone  oometh  another, 
As  drye  as  the  other. 
And  wyth  her  doth  brynge 
Melc,  salte,  or  other  thynge. 
Her  haniest  gyrdle,  her  weddynm  rrmtm 
To  pay  for  her  scot  *    '^X"8»» 

As  Cometh  to  her  lot. 
Some  bryngeth  her  husbandes  hood. 
Because  the  ale  is  good ; 
Another  brought  her  his  cap 
To  offer  to  the  ale  tap, 
With  ilaxe  and  wyth  towe ; 
And  some  brought  sowre  dowe  ■ 
Wyth,  Hey,  and  wyth,  howe, 
Syt  we  downe  a  rowe. 
And  drynke  tyll  we  blowe. 
And  pype  tyrly  tyrlowe  1 

Some  layde  to  pledge 
Theyr  hatchet  and  theyr  wedge, 
Theyr  hekell  and  theyr  rele, 
Theyr  rocke,  theyr  spynnyng  whele  ; 
And  some  went  so  narrowe. 
They  layde  to  pledge  theyr  wharrowe, 
Theyr  rybskin  and  theyr  spyndell, 
Teyr  nedell  and  theyr  thymbell : 
Here  was  scant  thryft 
Whan  they  made  suche  shyft. 

Tbeyr  thrust  was  so  great, 
They  asked  neuer  for  mete, 
But  drynke,  styll  drynke. 
And  let  the  cat  wynke. 
Let  us  washe  our  gommes. 
From  the  dry  crommes. 


»  t.  e.  Surrey. 


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Lytyll  wyt  in  your  scrybys  nolle 
That  scrybblyd  your  fonde  scroUe, 
VpoQ  bym  for  to  take 
Agennst  me  for  to  make, 
Lyke  a  doctor  dawpate 
A  lauryate  poyete  for  to  rate,  &e. 

And  again.  Tu,  Garnishee  futuns,  fatuus  tuus  est  mage  scriba.  The 
portiait  he  draws  of  his  enemy  is  not  certainly  in  Holbein's  style. 

Tbow  seyst  I  callyd  th^  a  pecok : 
Thow  liist,  I  callyd  th^  a  wodcoke  ; 
For  thow  haat  a  long  snowte, 
A  semly  nose  and  a  stowte, 
Prickyd  lyke  an  ynicome : 
I  wold  sum  manys  bake  ink  home 
Wher  thi  nose  spectacle  case : 
Yt  wold  garnyche  wyll  thy  face. 

The  poem  called  '*  Ware  the  Haoke  **  is  written  against  some  *'  lewde 
curate,  a  parson  benefyced/'  who  brought  his  hawk  into  Skelton  *s  church  at 
Diss,  bat  what  it  all  means  we  cannot  say  ^  in  it  occurs  what  Skelton 
calls  a  ''  taboll  playne,"  which>  we  presume^  contains  some  account  of  the 
offender^  but  which  is  so  concealed  by  transposition  of  letters  and  syllables 
and  other  enigmatical  devices,  as  totally  to  surpass  our  comprehension,  as 
it  has  the  editor's  ;  but,  as  a  future  (Edipus  may  arise  in  one  of  the  anti- 
quarian societies,  we  here  give  the  words  :— 

Sicculo  lutueris  est  colo  buraara 
Nixphedras  uisarum  caniuter  tuntantes 
Raterplas  Natabrian  umsudus  itnugenos. 

He  prefixes  this  challenge, 

Loke  on  this  tabnll 
Whether  thou  art  abull 
To  rede  or  to  spell 
What  these  verses  tell. 

The  interlude  of  Magnifiience  which  follows  is  formed  of  allegorical 
personages,  as  Fancy,  Liberty,  Crafty  Conveyance,  Cloaked  Collusion,  Sad 
Circumspection,  &c.  Magnificence  being  the  chief  character.  Parts  of  it 
are  written  with  great  spirit  and  cleverness.  Mr.  Dyce  justly  says,  ''  To 
those  who  carry  their  acquaintance  with  our  early  playwrights  no  farther 
back  than  to  the  period  of  Peele,  Greene,  and  Marlowe,  this  goodly  inter- 
lude by  Skelton  will  doubtless  appear  heavy  and  inartificial  3  its  superiority, 
liowever,  to  the  similar  efforts  of  his  contemporaries  is,  I  apprehend, 
unquestionable.**  As  the  merit  of  this  piece  consists  in  the  dramatic 
force  and  wit  of  the  dialogue,  it  would  require  a  long  extrnct  to  do  it 
justice,  which  we  cannot  afford.  At  the  end  of  the  play  Magnificence 
sums  up  the  purport  of  it  in  a  farewell  speech  to  the  audience. 

Thu  mater  we  haue  mouyd,  you  myrthys  to  make, 
Precely  pnrposyd  Tnder  pretence  of  play, 
Shewyth  wysdome  to  them  that  wysdome  can  takCf 
Howe  sodenly  worldly  welth  dothe  dekay, 
How  wysdom  thorowe  wantonnesse  vanyssheth  away. 
How  none  estate  lynynge  of  hymselfe  can  be  sure, 
For  the  welthe  of  this  worlde  can  not  endue ; 
Of  the  terestre  rechery  we  fall  in  the  flode, 
Beten  with  stormyg  of  many  a  frowarde  blast, 
Ensordyd  with  the  wavyi  sauage  and  wode, 


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Without  our  ihyppe  be  i «re,  it  it  likely  to  brasti 
Yet  of  magnyfycence  oft  made  ia  the  maat ; 
Thna  none  estate  Iruynge  of  bym  can  be  sue. 
For  the  welthe  of  thia  woride  oan  not  indnra^  &c. 


[Sept 


Of  Colin  Cioate,  our  next  poem^  the  editor  says,  "  It  shews  the  fear- 
lessness which  on  idl  occasions  distinguished  him,  and  evinces  a  saperio- 
rity  to  the  prejudices  of  the  age  in  assuling  abases  which>  if  manifest  to 
his  more  enlightened  contemporaries,  few  at  least  had  as  yet  presumed  to 
censure/* 


▲nd  whylea  the  heedes  do  thia, 
The  remenaunt  ia  amya 
Of  the  clergy  all, 
fiothe  great  and  amall. 
I  wot  ncTer  how  the?  warke, 
But  thua  the  people  barke  ; 
And  surely  thus  they  say, 
Byaahoppea»  if  they  oMy, 
Small  honaes  wolde  kepe, 
But  slombre  forth  and  slepe, 
And  assay  to  crepe 
Within  the  noble  wallea 
Of  the  kynget  hallea, 
To  fat  thep  bodyea  full, 
Theyr  aoulea  lene  and  dull, 
And  haue  full  lyull  care 
How  enyll  theyr  shepe  fare. 

The  temporalyte  say  plryne 
Howe  bysshopes  dysdayne 
Sermons  for  to  make, 
Or  such  laboure  to  take ; 
And,  for  to  say  trowtb, 
A  great  parte  is  for  slowth, 
But  the  greattest  parte 
Is  for  they  haue  but  small  arte 
And  ryght  sklender  connjng 
Within  theyr  heedes  woonyng. 
But  this  reason  they  take 
How  they  are  able  to  mdlce 
With  theyr  golde  and  treaaure 
Clerkes  out  of  measure. 
And  yet  that  is  a  pleaaure. 
How  be  it  aome  there  be^ 
Almost  two  or  thre, 
Of  that  dygnyte 
Full  worshypfuU  clerkes, 
As  appereth  by  theyr  werkes, 
lake  Aaron  and  Ure, 
The  wolfe  from  the  dore 
To  werryn  and  to  kepe 
From  theyr  gooatly  shepe, 
And  theyr  spirituidl  lammes 
Sequestered  from  rammes, 
And  from  the  berded  gotes 
With  theyr  heery  cotes  ; 

Set  nought  by  golde  ne  grotea. 

•  ♦  * 

What  hath  lay  men  to  dOf 
The  gray  gose  for  to  sho  ? 
Like  houndes  of  Hell, 
They  cry  and  they  yell, 
Howe  that  ye  sell 
The  grace  of  the  Holy  Gost : 


Thna  they  make  theyr  boat 

Thnragh  oata  eoery  cost, 

Howe  aom  of  you  do  eate 

In  Lenton  seaaon  fleahe  mete, 

Fesanntea,  partryohe,  and  cranea. 

Men  call  you  therfor  prophanea  ; 

Ye  pycke  no  ahrympea  nor  pranea, 

Saltffsahe,  atoekfysahe,  nor  heryng, 

It  ia  not  for  your  werynge ; 

Nor  in  holy  Lenton  aeason 

Te  wyll  netheyr  benes  ne  peaaon, 

Bnt  ye  loke  to  be  let  loae 

To  a  pygge  or  to  a  goae» 

Your  gorge  not  endowed 

Without  a  capen  stewed. 

Or  a  stewed  cocke 

To  knowe  whate  ys  a  docke 

Vnder  her  sarfled  amocke. 

#  *  • 

In  you  the  faute  is  supposed, 
For  that  they  are  not  apposed 
By  iust  examinacyon 
In  connyng  and  connersacyon ; 
They  haye  none  instructyon, 
To  make  a  true  constmctyon  : 
A  preest  without  a  letter 
Without  his  Tcrtue  be  gretter, 
Doutlesse  were  moche  better 
Vpon  hym  for  to  take 
A  mattocke  or  a  rake, 
Alas,  for  very  shame  I 
Some  cannot  dedyne  their  name ; 
Some  cannot  scanly  redo. 
And  yet  he  wyll  not  drede 
For  to  kepe  a  cure, 
And  in  nothyng  is  sure ; 
Thia  Domtntu  vobittum, 
Am  wyae  aa  Tom  a  thrum, 
A  chaplayne  of  trust 

Layth  all  in  the  dust. 

•  *  • 

Ouer  this,  the  foresaid  laye 
Reporte  howe  the  Pope  may 
An  holy  anker  call 
Out  of  the  stony  wall, 
And  hym  a  bysshopp  make. 
If  he  on  him  dare  take 
To  kepe  so  harde  a  rule, 
To  ryde  ypon  a  mule 
With  golde  all  betrapped 
In  purple  and  paule  beUpped ; 
Some  hatted  and  some  capped, 
Rychely  and  warme  bewrapped. 


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God  wot  to  thejr  giMt  paynet 

In  rotcb«ttcf  of  fyne  Raynet, 

Why te  u  morowes  mylke ; 

Their  tabertes  of  fyne  silke, 

Tbeyr  styrops  of  myzt  golde  begared, 

There  may  no  cost  be  sparedt 

Theyr  moylei  golde  dothe  eate» 

Th^  neygbbonn  dye  for  meate. 

What  care  they  though  Oil  sweate, 

Or  Jacke  of  the  Noke  ? 

The  pore  people  they  yoke 

With  sommons  and  dtacyons 

And  ezcommanycacyons 

About  churches  and  market : 

The  bysflhop  on  his  carpet 

At  home  full  soft  doth  syt. 

This  is  a  farly  fyt, 

To  here  the  people  iangle, 

Howe  warely  they  wrangle  : 

Alas  !  why  do  ye  not  handloi 

And  them  all  to-mangla  ? 

*  #  • 

Ye  are  so  puffed  wyth  pryde 
That  no  man  may  abyde 
Your  hygh  and  lordly  lokes  i 
Ye  cast  yp  then  your  bokes, 
And  Tertue  is  forgotten  ; 
For  then  ye  wyll  be  wroken 
Of  eoery  lyght  quarell, 
And  call  a  lorde  a  iauell, 
A  knyght  a  knaue  ye  make ; 
Ye  host,  ye  (acCi  ye  crake. 


And  Tpon  yoo  ye  take 

To  role  both  kynge  and  kayier  i 

And  yf  ye  may  haue  layser, 

Ye  wyll  brynge  all  to  nought, 

And  that  is  aU  your  thought : 

For  the  Lordes  temporall 

Theyr  rule  is  very  small, 

Almost  nothyng  at  all. 

Men  save  howe  ye  appall 

The  noble  blode  royafi  i 

In  emest,  and  in  game. 

Ye  are  the  lesse  to  blame, 

For  lordes  of  noble  blode, 

If  they  well  rnderstode 

How  eonnyng  myght  them  avaunce, 

They  wold  pype  you  another  daunce : 

But  noble  men  borne 

To  ieme  they  haue  scome, 

But  hunt  ana  Uowe  an  home, 

Lepe  ouer  lakes  and  dykes, 

Set  nothing  by  polytykes  ; 

Therfore  ye  kepe  them  bace 

And  mocke  them  to  theyr  face. 

This  is  a  pytious  case, 

To  you  that  ouer  the  whele 

Greta  tordee  must  cronehe  and  knele. 

And  brake  theyr  hose  at  tiie  kne 

As  dayly  men  may  se, 

And  to  remembraunce  call. 

Fortune  so  tumeth  the  ball 

And  ruleth  so  ouer  all, 

That  honoure  hath  a  groat  fall,  &c. 


He  tbeu  attacks  the  friars  and  mendicant  orders. 


Nowe  wyll  I  go 
And  tell  of  other  mo, 
Semper  protestando 
De  non  impugnando 
The  foure  ordores  of  fijars, 
Though  some  of  them  be  lyers ; 
As  Lymyters  at  large 
Wyll  charge  and  dyschaige  ; 
As  many  a  frere,  God  wote, 
Preches  for  his  grote 
Flatterynge  for  a  newe  cote. 
And  for  to  haue  his  fees ; 
Some  to  gather  chese  i 
Loth  they  are  to  lese 
Eyther  corn  or  malte ; 
Sometyme  meale  and  salte^ 
Sometyme  a  bacon  flycka 
That  is  thre  fyngers  tbyoko 
Of  larde  and  of  greace, 
Theyr  couent  to  encreaee. 

I  put  you  out  of  dottte 
This  cannot  be  brought  aboute 
But  they  theyr  tonges  fyle, 
And  make  a  pleasannt  style 
To  Margery  and  to  Mauiis, 
Howe  they  haue  no  fraude; 
And  sometyme  they  pronoke 
Both  Gyll  and  Jacke  at  Noke 
Tbeyr  dewtyes  to  withdraws. 
That  they  oo^t  by  the  lasre 


Theyr  curates  to  content 

In  open  tyme,  and  in  Lent : 

God  wot,  ther  take  great  payne 

To  flatter  and  to  fayne ; 

But  it  is  an  old  sayd  sawe. 

That  nede  hath  no  lawe. 

Some  walke  aboute  in  melottes. 

In  gray  russet,  and  heery  cotes ; 

Some  wyl  neyther  golde  ne  grotes ; 

Some  pluck  a  partryche  in  remote, 

And  by  the  banes  of  her  tayle 

Wyll  know  a  rauen  from  a  rayle, 

A  qnayle,  the  raile,  and  the  old  rauen ; 

Sea  libera  nos  a  malo  1  Amen. 

And  by  DmduM,  theyr  Cleraentinay 

Against  curates  they  repyne  ; 

And  say  propreli  they  are  gaeerdotis, 

To  shryue,  assoyle,  and  reles 

Dame  Margeries  soule  out  of  Hell : 

But  when  the  freare  in  the  well, 

He  could  not  syng  himselfe  theroot 

But  by  the  helpe  of  Christyan  Clout. 

Another  Clementyne  also, 

How  frere  Fabian,  with  other  mo, 

Emit  de  Paradito  ; 

Whan  thay  agayne  theder  shal  come, 

De  hoc  petimus  consilium  : 

And  through  all  the  world  they  go 

With  Dirige  and  Phce^f  &c« 


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The  Garland  of  Laurelle,  though  not  among  Skel ton's  best  pieces » 
shews  *'  that  he  possessed  ponrers  of  the  higher  kind  of  poetry^  if  he  had 
chosen  to  exercise  them.** 

Thus  talkyng  wa  went  forth  in  it  a  postern  gate ; 

Tnmyng  on  the  ryght  hande,  by  a  windjmg  stayre, 
She  brought  me  to  a  goodly  chaumber  of  astate, 

Where  the  noble  Cowntes  of  Surrey  in  a  chayre 

Sat  honorably,  to  whome  did  repaire 
Of  ladye  a  beue  with  all  dew  reuerenoe : 
Syt  downe,  fayre  ladys.  and  do  your  diligence  I 

Come  forth,  ientylwomen,  I  pray  yon,  she  sayd; 

1  bane  contryuyd  for  you  a  goodly  warke, 
And  who  can  worke  beste  now  ahall  be  asayde ; 

A  cronell  of  lawrell  with  Terdnris  light  and  darke 

I  haue  deuytyd  for  Skelton,  my  clerke  ; 
For  to  hia  semyce  I  haue  auche  regarde, 
That  of  our  bownte  we  wyll  hym  rewarde : 

For  of  all  ladyea  he  hath  the  library, 
Ther  names  reconntyng  in  the  court  of  Fame ; 

Of  all  geotylwomen  he  hath  the  scruteny, 
In  Fames  conrt  reportynge  the  same ; 
For  yet  of  women  he  neoer  sayd  shame, 

But  if  they  were  connterfettes  that  women  them  call. 

That  list  of  there  lewdness  with  hym  for  to  brail. 

With  that  the  tappettis  and  carpettis  were  layd, 
Whereon  theis  ladys  softly  myght  rest, 

The  saumpler  to  sow  on,  the  lacis  to  enbraid  ; 
To  weue  in  the  stonle  sume  were  full  preste, 
With  slaiis,  with  teuellis,  with  hedellis  well  drest ; 

The  frame  was  browght  forth  with  his  weuing  pin : 

God  geue  them  good  spede  there  warke  to  begin  1 

Sume  to  enbrowder  put  them  in  prese, 
Well  gydyng  ther  glowtonn  to  kepe  strelt  theyr  sylk, 

Sum  pirlyng  of  goldde  theyr  warke  to  encrese, 
With  fingers  smale,  and  handis  whyte  as  mylk  ; 
With,  Reche  me  that  skane  of  tewly  sylk  ; 

And  Wynde  me  that  botowme  of  such  an  hew, 

Grene,  rede,  tewny,  whyte,  blak,  purpill,  and  blew. 

Of  broken  warkis  wrought  many  a  goodly  thyng. 
In  castyng,  in  tnrnynae,  in  florisshyng  of  flowris. 

With  burris  rowth,  and  bottons  surffiUyng, 
In  nedill  wark,  raysyng  byrdis  in  bowris 
With  vertu  enbesid  all  tymes  and  houris  ; 

And  truly  of  theyr  bownte  thus  were  they  bent. 

To  worke  me  this  chapelet  by  goode  aduysement. 


To  MaYSTAKS   ISABILL   PBXKBL. 

By  Saynt  Mary,  my  lady, 
Your  mammy  and  your  dady 
Brought  forth  a  godely  babi! 

My  mayden  Isabell, 
Reflaring  Rosabell, 
The  flagrant  camameUe; 

The  ruddy  rosary, 
The  sonerayne  rosemary. 
The  praty  strawbery ; 

The  columbyne,  the  nepte, 
The  ieloffer  well  set, 
The  propre  vyolet ; 

Enufryed  your  colowre 
Is  lyke  the  dasy  flowre 
After  the  Aprill  ihowre ; 


Sterre  of  the  morow  graye, 
The  blossom  on  the  spray. 
The  fresshest  flowre  of  May ; 

Maydenly  demure, 
Of  womanhode  the  lure  ; 
Wherfore  I  make  you  sure. 

It  were  an  heuenly  heltb, 
It  were  an  endeles  welth, 
A  lyfe  for  God  hymselfe. 

To  here  this  nightingale, 
Among  the  byrdes  sm^, 
Warbelynge  in  the  Tale, 
Dug,  dug, 
Ing,  iugy 

Good  yere,  and  good  Ink, 
With  cfank,  chnk,  chnk|  chnk  1 


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**  Why  come  ye  not  to  Coorte."  This  satire  is  entirely  personal,  and 
80  well  aimed  at  Wolsey  that  the  editor  says  **  We  know  that  he  writhed 
under  the  wounds  which  it  inflicted.*' 


They  shote  all  at  one  marke, 

At  the  Cardynals  hat, 

They  shote  all  at  that ; 

Oate  of  theyr  stronge  townes 

They  shote  at  him  with  crownes ; 

With  crownes  of  golde  enhlased 

They  make  him  so  amased, 

And  his  eyen  so  dased, 

That  he  ne  se  can 

To  know  God  nor  man. 

He  is  set  so  hye 

In  his  ierarchj 

Of  frantycke  frenesy 

And  folysshe  fantasy, 

That  in  the  Chambre  of  Starres 

All  maters  there  he  marres ; 

Clappyng  his  rod  on  the  borde, 

No  man  dare  speke  a  worde, 

For  he  hathe  aU  the  sayenge, 

Without  any  renayenge ; 

He  rolleth  in  his  recordes, 

He  sayth,  How  saye  ye,  my  Lordes  ? 

Is  nat  my  reason  good  ? 

Good  enyn,  good  Robyn  Hood ! 

Some  say  yes,  and  some 

Syt  styll  as  they  were  dom : 

Thus  thwartyng  oner  thorn, 

He  ruleth  aU  the  roste 

With  braggynge  and  with  host ; 

Borne  Tp  on  enery  syde 

With  pome  and  with  pryde, 

With,  trompe  vp,  alleluya  I 

For  dame  Philargerya 

Hathe  so  his  herte  in  holde, 

He  loueth  nothyng  but  golde ; 

And  Asmodeus  of  hell 

Maketh  his  membres  swell 

With  Dalyda  to  mell. 

That  wanton  damoseU. 

Adew,  Philosophia, 

Adew,  Tbeologia ! 

Welcome,  dame  Simonia, 

With  dame  Castrimergia, 

To  drynke  and  for  to  eate 

Swete  ypocras  and  swete  meate  ! 

To  kepe  his  flesshe  chast, 

In  Lent  for  a  repast 

He  eateth  capons  stewed, 

Fesaunt  and  partriche  mewed, 

Hennes,  checkyngei,  and  pygges,  &c. 


What  here  ye  of  the  Lorde  Dakers  ? 
He  maketh  ts  Jacke  Rakers  ; 
He  sayes  we  ar  but  crakers ; 
He  calleth  ys  England  men 
Stronge  herted  lyke  an  hen ; 
For  the  Scottes  and  he 
To  well  they  do  agre, 
With,  do  thou  for  me 
And  I  shall  do  for  th6. 


Whyles  the  red  hat  doth  endure, 
He  maketh  himselfe  cock  sure ; 
The  red  hat  with  his  bure 
Gryogeth  all  thynges  ynder  cure. 

But,  as  the  worlde  now  gose, 
What  here  ye  of  the  Lorde  Rose  ? 
Nothynge  to  purpose, 
Nat  worth  a  cockly  fose : 
Their  hertes  be  in  thyr  hose. 

The  erle  of  Nortbumberlande 
Dare  take  nothyng  on  hande : 
Our  barons  be  so  bolde, 
Into  a  mouse  hole  they  wolde 
Rynne  away  and  crepe, 
Lyke  a  mayny  of  shepe ; 
Dare  nat  loke  out  at  dur 
For  drede  of  the  mastyue  car, 
For  drede  of  the  bochers  dogge 
Wold  wyrry  them  lyke  an  hogge. 

For  and  this  curre  do  guar, 
They  must  stande  all  a  far, 
To  holde  vp  their  hande  at  the  bar. 
For  all  their  noble  blode 
He  pluckes  them  by  the  hode. 
And  shakes  them  by  the  eare. 
And  brynge[8]  them  in  suche  feare  ; 
He  bayteth  them  lyke  a  here, 
Lvke  an  oxe  or  a  ball : 
Theyr  wyttes,  he  saith,  are  dull ; 
He  sayth  they  haue  no  brayne 
Theyr  estate  to  mayntayne  ; 
And  maketh  them  to  bow  theyr  kne 
Before  his  maieste. 
Juges  of  the  kynges  lawes, 
He  coantys  them  foles  and  dawei ; 
Sergyantes  of  the  coyfe  eke, 
He  sayth  they  are  to  seke 
In  pletynge  of  theyr  case 
At  the  Commune  Place, 
Or  at  the  Kynges  Benche ; 
He  wryogeth  them  suche  a  wrenche. 
That  idl  our  lerned  men 
Dare  nat  set  theyr  penne 
To  plete  a  trew  tryall 
Within  Westmyoster  hall ; 
In  the  Chauncery  where  he  syttes, 
But  suche  as  he  admyttes 
None  so  hardy  to  speke ; 
He  sayth,  thou  huddypeke. 
Thy  leroynge  is  to  lewde, 
Thy  tonge  is  nat  well  tbewde. 
To  seke  before  our  grace ; 
And  openly  in  that  place 
He  rages  and  he  raues, 
And  cals  them  cankerd  koaues  : 
Thus  royally  de  doth  deale 
Ynder  the  kynges  brode  seale ; 
And  in  the  Checker  he  them  cheks  ; 
In  the  Star  Chambre  he  noddes  and  beks, 
And  bereth  him  there  so  stowte, 
That  no  man  dare  rowte. 


MO 


Dyee*!  PotHetl  Wtrltt  tfMm  SUUm. 


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IlMm  ImiQ  lOMSO  Md«d  I 
^  Thus  dajly  they  be  dcd:eil. 
Taunted  ind  checked, 
tbMk  they  ar  lo  wo, 
They  wot  not  whether  to  go. 

No  Dun  dare  come  to  the  tpedie 
Of  this  gentdl  lacke  hreche* 
OfwhatesUtehebe, 
Of  apiritnall  dypiTte, 
Nor  dnke  of  hye  degre, 
Nor  marques,  erle,  nor  lorde } 
Whiche  shrewdly  doth  accorde, 
Thns  he  borne  so  base 
All  noble  men  shnlde  ont  Hot, 
His  eonntynannce  lyke  a  kayser. 
My  lorde  is  nat  at  layser ; 
Syr,  ye  mnst  tary  a  stoonde, 
TjVi  better  layser  be  founde ; 
And,  syr,  ye  mnst  daunce  attendmnce. 
And  take  padent  sofferauncet 
For  my  lordes  grace 
Hath  nowe  no  tyme  nor  space 
To  speke  with  you  as  yet. 
And  thus  they  shall  syt, 
Chnse  them  syt  or  llyt, 
Stande,  walke,  or  rrde, 
And  his  layser  abyde 
Parchannoe  haUe  a  yere. 
And  yet  nener  the  nere,  5cc. 


Dnke,  erle,  b«roii»  nor  lorde. 
Bat  to  his  sentence  mnst  aceorde ; 
Whether  he  be  knyght  or  sqayre, 

AU  men  most  folow  his  desyre,  &e. 

*  •  » 

Set  Tp  a  wretche  on  hre 

In  a  trone  trinmphafiUye, 

Make  him  a  great  estate. 

And  he  wyllplay  ehecke  laate 

With  ryall  maleste, 

Ck>vnte  him  selA  as  good  u  he ; 

A  prelate  potencyall. 

To  mle  Ynder  Bdlyall, 

As  ferce  and  as  cmell 

As  the  lynd  of  hell. 

His  semanntes  menyall 

He  dothe  renyle,  and  brail, 

Lyke  Mahonnde  in  a  play ; 

'^o  man  dare  him  witnsay  : 

He  hath  dispyght  and  scome 

At  them  that  be  well  borne ; 

He  rebukes  them  and  rayles, 

Ye  horsons,  ye  vassayles, 

Te  knanes,  ye  chnrles  sonnys, 

Te  rebads,  nat  worth  two  plummis, 

Ye  raynbetyn  beggers  reiagged. 

Ye  recrayed  mifyns  all  ragged  f 

With,  stowpe,  thou  hanellt 

Rynne,  thou  ianell  I 

Thou  peuysshe  pye  pecked. 

One  very  cnriooB  poem  which  Mr.  Dyce  has  first  printed  from  the 
manoscript  is  called  "  The  Image  of  Ipocrysy,"  and  is  directed  against 
the  prelates  and  clergy.  Mr.  Dyce  proves  that  it  could  not  be  written  by 
Skelton,  but  in  imitation  of  his  style,  by  some  one  posterior  to  his  time. 
It  is  a  long  poem,  occupying,  in  double  columns,  thirty-four  pages.  In 
the  second  parte  the  poet  attacks  Wolsey. 


-This  lorde  of  loeae, 


The  fo  of  Christes  croese, 
lliis  hoore  of  Babilon, 
And  seeds  of  Zabnlon, 
The  enemy  of  Christ, 
The  derels  holy  pryst, 
And  very  Antechrist,  &e. 

And  after  some  hundred  lines  of  malediction  he  turns  to  the  bishops 
and  prelates,  and  the  "  Cruel  cleigy,"  for  he  says. 

Thy  mynde  is  not  to  lye, 
Bnt  to  write  playnlye 
Ageynst  Ipocresye. 


And  then  he  names 


-Doctoure  Bullatus, 


Though  panim  literatns. 

And — Doctoure  Pomaunder, 

As  wise  as  a  gander, 

And — Doctonr  Dorbellous. 
«  •  e 

And  Doctoure  Sym  Sotus 


Then  Doctoure  Bonbardus 

Can  skill  of  Lombardos. 

•  *  • 

Then  Doctoure  Tom-to-bold 
Is  neyther  whole  nor  colde 
Till  his  coles  be  soldo,  fcc. 


In  the  third  part  he  attacks  the  different  sects,  beginning  with  the  Pope, 
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the  Cardinals,  and  Bisbops'  officers,  till  be  comes  to  Friar  Fallax,  and 
Friar  Fugax,  and  Friar  Capa»y  and  Friar  Nycticorar, 

Frier  Chipchoy 
And  ffrier  Likpott, 
And  frier  Fandigo, 
With  an  handrd  mo. 


And  tbe  whole  of  them  are 

In  preachinge  prestigious, 
In  wtlkinge  prodigious, 
In  talkinge  sedicious, 
In  doctrine  pamicious, 
Haute  and  ambicious, 
Ponde  and  supersticious, 
Id  lodginge  prostibulus, 
In  beddinge  promiscaoua, 
In  counceUs  myseherooa, 
In  musters  aaonstrous, 
In  skulkinge  insidicions, 
Vnchast  and  lecherous, 
In  ezcesse  outragious, 
In  sicknesse  oontagious, 
The  wurst  kind  of  edders, 
And  stronge  sturdy  beggers  : 


Vfher  one  stande  and  teaches. 

An  other  prate  and  preches, 

Like  holy  horseleches. 

*  i»  * 

That  no  man  can  matche  them. 
Till  the  dcTill  fatche  them, 
And  so  to  go  together 
Vnto  their  denne  for  ever, 
Wher  hens  as  they  never 
Hereafter  shall  dissever. 
But  dy  eternally, 
That  lyve  so  carnally ; 
For  that  wilbe  ther  ende. 
But  yf  God  them  sende 
His  grace  here  to  amend  : 
And  thus  I  make  an  ende. 


The  author  will  not  tell  his  name. 

Ego  sum  qui  sum. 
My  name  may  not  be  told ; 
But  where  ye  go  or  come. 
Ye  may  not  be  to  bold. 

We  make  the  following  extract  from  the  ''  Vox  Populi." 


Bothe  lordeshipes  and  landes 
Are  nOwe  in  fewe  mens  handes  ; 
Bothe  substance  and  bandes 
Of  all  the  hole  realme 
As  most  men  exteame, 
Are  nowe  consumyd  cleane 
From  tbe  fermour  and  the  poore 
To  the  towne  and  the  towre ; 
"Whiche  makyth  thcjrm  to  lower. 
To  see  that  in  theire  flower 
Ys  nother  malte  nor  meale. 
Bacon,  beffe,  nor  veale, 
Crocke  mylke  nor  kele. 
Bat  readye  for  to  steale 
For  very  pure  neade. 
Your  comons  saye  indeade, 
Thei  be  not  able  to  feade 
In  theire  stable  scant  a  steade. 
To  brjmge  vp  nor  to  breade, 
Ye,  scant  able  to  brynge 
To  the  marckytt  eny  thynge 
Towardes  theire  housekeping ; 
And  scant  have  a  cowe« 
Nor  to  kepe  a  poore  sowe : 
This  the  worlde  is  nowe. 
And  to  heare  the  relacyon 
Of  the  poore  mens  communycacion, 
Yndre  what  sorte  and  fashyon 
Thei  make  theire  exclamacyon. 
You  wolde  have  compassion. 
Thus  goythe  theire  protestacion, 
Sayeng  that  suche  and  suche, 
Gknt.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII, 


That  of  late  are  made  riche, 
Have  to,  to,  to  myche 
By  grasyng  and  regratinge, 
By  ponlyng  and  debatynge, 
By  roulyng  and  by  dating. 
By  checke  and  checkmatyngCf 
[With  delays  and  debatynge, 
With  cowstomes  and  tallynges, 
For&yttes  and  forestallynges]  ; 
So  that  your  comons  saye, 
Thei  styll  paye,  paye 
Most  willyngly  idlwaye. 
Bat  yet  thei  see  no  staye 

Of  this  outrage  araye,  &c. 

*  •  •  • 

For  grasyers  and  regraters. 

With  to  many  shepemasters, 

That  of  erable  grounde  make  pastures, 

Are  thei  that  he  these  wasters 

That  wyll  vndoo  your  lande, 

Yf  thei  contynewe  and  stande, 

As  ye  shall  vnderstand 

By  this  lytle  boke : 

Yf  you  yt  overloke. 

*  •  •  « 

And  why  the  poore  men  wepe 
For  storyng  of  suche  shepe, 
For  that  so  many  do  kepe 
Suche  nombre  and  suche  store 
As  never  was  seene  before  : 
[What  wolde  ye  any  more  ?] 
The  encrease  was  never  more. 

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[Sept. 


Thvs  goythe  the  wojce  and  rore : 

And  tnitfae  yt  is  indeade ; 

For  all  men  nowe  do  breade 

Whicb  can  ketche  any  lande 

Oat  of  the  poore  mans  hande ; 

For  who  ya  ao  greate  a  graiyer 

Am  the  luidlorde  and  ttw  laweare? 

For  at  erery  drawing  daye 

Tbe  bocher  more  mutt  paye 

For  hia  Iktting  ware, 

To  be  the  redyaie 

Another  tyme  to  craTe» 

When  he  more  shepe  wold  have ; 

And,  to  elerate  the  pryoe, 

Somenhat  he  mnst  ryoe 

Withe  a  sinqoe  or  a  aioe. 

So  that  the  boeber  eannot  qiare, 

Towardea  hia  charges  and  hia  fare. 

To  sell  the  Tery  careaa  bare 

Vnder  zij*  or  a  marke, 

[Whiche  is  a  pytyfnU  werlce,] 

Bcsyde  the  offaU  and  the  fleoe. 

Hie  fleoe  and  the  fell  : 

Thus  he  dothe  yt  selL 

Alas,  alas,  aUa, 

Thisisapitioascasel 

What  poore  man  nowe  is  able 

To  have  meate  at  hia  table  ? 

An  oze  at  foore  ponnde, 

Yf  he  be  anythinge  ronnde. 

Or  com  not  in  theire  gronnde, 

Snche  Ubonr  for  to  waste  : 

This  is  the  new  caste, 

Hie  new  caste  from  Uie  olde ; 

This  oomon  pryce  thei  holde. 

*  •  •  • 

And  yet  not  long  agoo 
Was  preachers*  on  or  twoo. 
That  spake  yt  playne  inowe, 
To  yoQ,  to  yon,  and  to  yoii,t 
Hygh  tyme  for  to  repent 
This  dyrelisbe  entent 


[Of  covitis  the  oonfente]  : 
From  Scotland  into  Kent 
This  prea^ing  was  bysprent ; 
And  from  the  easte  fiK>Qnt 
Vnto  Saynct  Myghellea  Hoont, 
This  sayeag  dyd  snrmoont 
Abrode  to  all  mens  eares, 
And  to  yonr  gracea  peeres, 
Hiat  from  pificr  vnto  post 
Hie  powr  man  he  was  tool ; 
~  meaao  tiie  labouring  man, 

meane  the  hnsbandbuui, 

meane  the  ploughman, 

meane  the  playne  true  man, 

meane  the  handeenftemaat 

meane  the  Tictnaling  man, 

Also  the  good  yeman. 

That  some  tyme  intfaisnalaM 

Had  plentye  of  kye  and  ereame* 

[Batter,  cgges,  and  chesse, 

Hony,  Tax,  and  bease :] 

Bat  now  alacke,  alaeke, 

All  theise  men  goo  to  wracke. 

That  are  the  bodye  and  the  ataye 

Of  yonr  giaoea  reolme  allwaye  I 
♦  •  •  • 

For  thay  that  of  latt  did  sope 

Owtt  of  an  asehyn  eappe. 

Are  wonderftiUy  sprownge  Tpe ; 

That  nowght  was  worth  of  ktt. 

Hath  now  a  enbborde  of  platt. 

His  tabell  fbmysched  tooe 

With  platt  beaett  inowe, 

PerseU  gylte  and  sownde. 

Well  worthe  towo  thousand  ponnde. 

With  castinge  oownteres  and  ther  pen, 

Thea  are  the  irpstart  gentylmen ; 

Thea  are  they  that  dcwowre 

All  the  goodes  of  the  pawre. 

And  makt  them  dotysche  davys, 

Vnder  the  cowler  of  the  kenges  lewya,  &e« 


The  poet  then  attackg  the  merchante. 

For  the  stette  of  aU  youre  marchntmen 
Vndo  most  parte  of  youre  geatyUmen. 
And  wrape  them  in  suche  baades 
That  they  hawe  aUe  ther  landea. 

J«t  inarehantmen  goe  sayle 

For  that  ys  ther  trwe  wayUe ; 

ror  of  one  c.  ye  bane  not  ten 

1  hat  now  be  marchantes  Tentring  men, 

1  hat  occupi  grett  inawnderes, 

Jjrthcr  then  into  Fianderes, 

FUwnderes  or  into  France, 

For  fere  of  some  myschance, 

^Qt  byeth  at  home,  and  sUndes 

By  morgage  and  purchasse  of  lands 

Owtt  of  all  gentyllmenes  handes. 


Wiche  showM  serre  alwave  your  grioe 
With  horse  and  men  in  chasse. 


The  poore  man  at  the  dnrre 
Standee  lyke  an  Island  curre. 
And  dares  not  ons  to  sturre, 
Ezoepte  he  goo  his  waye. 
And  come  another  daye  ; 
And  then  the  matter  is  made, 
That  the  poore  man  with  his  spade 
Mnst  no  more  his  fenn  invade, 
But  must  Tse  some  other  trade ; 
For  yt  is  so  agreed 
That  my  lady  mesterea  Mede 
Shall  bym  ezpnlce  with  all  spede. 


*  Does  the  poet  allude  to  Latimer  >    See  his  Sermons, 
t  **  Yott  "  seems  to  haye  been  pronounced  broadly, 
X^«iftntry,  as  it  rhymes  to  **  inowe."* 


as  it  is  at  this  time  by  the 


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And  our  matter  the  landlorde 

Shall  have  yt  all  hia  accorde, 

Hia  home  and  (arme  agayne, 

To  make  thereof  hia  uttermost  gayne ; 

For  hia  Tantage  wylbe  more, 

With  ahepe  and  cattell  it  to  storoi 

And  not  to  plonghe  hia  gronnde  no  more, 

Ezcepte  the  fermonr  wyU  aryere 

Hie  rent  hyere  by  a  hole  yeare ; 

Yet  muat  he  have  a  fyne  too, 

The  bargayne  he  may  better  knowe ; 

Which  mtktB  the  marcket  now  so  deare 

That  there  be  few  that  makes  good  cheare ; 

For  the  fermoor  muat  sell  his  goose, 

As  he  may  be  able  to  pay  for  hia  house, 

Or  els,  for  non  payeng  Uie  rent. 


Avoyde  at  onre  Lady  daye  in  Lent : 

Thus  the  poore  man  shalbe  shent,  &c. 
•  •  «  « 

Yes,  yes,  you  riche  lordes, 
Yt  is  wrytten  in  Cristes  recordes. 
That  Divea  laye  in  the  fyere 
With  Belaabttb  his  sire, 
And  Pauper  he  above  satte 
In  the  seate  of  Habrahams  lappa, 
And  was  taken  from  thys  Troye, 
To  lyye  aUwaye  widi  God  in  ioye. 
The  oomona  thus  do  saye, 
Yf  thai  had  yt  thai  wold  paye : 
VojrPcpuii,  VoxIM/ 
O,  most  noble  kyng, 
Consydre  well  this  thynge ! 


We  now  proceed  to  make  a  tew  observations  on  some  corrupted  passages 
in  the  text  of  Skelton ;  but  we  confess  with  no  very  agreeable  anticipa- 
tions ;  for  we  well  knpw  from  former  experience  in  our  youthful  and 
sporting  days,  that  it  was  not  very  pleasant  to  our  companion  when  we 
brought  down  a  bird  which  he  had  missed  :  but  all  we  can  say  is,  that  in 
the  remaining  covey  is  sport  for  all ;  but,  as  the  stubbles  are  stiff,  it  will  be 
necessary  to  have  a  dog  that  is  well  broken  in  to  the  game.  Le  gibier 
abonde,  il  n*y  a  que  S9avoir  le  d^nicher. 

P.  xziii. — Monatrante  fonteis  vate  Skeltono  sacros. 
Monstrante  fonteis  vate  Laurigero  sacros. 

Surely  Erasmus  could  not  have  written  such  lines  as  these. 

P.  cxxiii.— A  Commemoration  or  Dirige  of  Bastarde  Edraonde  Boner, 
Bbshoppe  of  London  :-* 

You  are  Bpuriua  de  muliere. 
Not  legittimate  nor  lawM  here : 
O  quam  venenosa  jMt<tv. 
Fur,  periurua,  latroy  mechus, 
Homiddia  tantum  decus  I  &c. 

Mr.  Dyce  says  " '  O  quam  3*  a  line  which  ought  to  have  rhymed  iwdth 
this  one  is  wanting.*'  We  wonder  it  did  not  strike  him  that  jpei^u  was  a 
misprint,  and  that  the  right  word  was  ''  peaum" 

P.  80.  ••  The  Bowge  of  Courte  ;"  p.  xlvii.  Mr.  Dyce  says,  "  I  am  some- 
what surprised  that  Mr.  Disraeli,  who  has  lately  come  forward  as  the 
warm  eulogist  of  our  author,  should  have  passed  over  the  Bowge  of  Courte 
without  the  slightest  notice."  We  can  only  suggest  as  the  reason,  the 
nature  of  the  subjects  treated  of,  which,  in  a  work  like  Mr.  D*Israeli*8,  not 
confined  to  verbal  criticism,  or  poetical  curiosity,  but  meant  for  general 
reading,  might  be  offensive.     See  p.  44,  &c. 

P.  106. — Joneaayne  she  had  eaten  ^fyett. 

"  Foist  **  is  a  toadstool,  in  Suffolk  language. 

P.  117.— Your  tethe  teintyd  with  tawny ;  your  Mmdff  snowte  doth  passe. 

Mr.  Dyce  says, '' Semely  appears  at  first  sight  to  be  'sriuelyfbnt 
compare  v.  131  of  the  concluding  poem  against  Gamesche.**  The  proper 
word  is  "  smvelif.**    See  p.  120. 


t44  Dyce*9  Poeikal  Works  of  John  SkeiioM.  [8qit. 

In  the  pott  your  nose  dedde  mmifilt 
and  Magnyfycenoe,  p.  286, 

The  tnyte  tnjuelcd  in  the  mowte  and  imyled  at  the  game. 

P.  133.  "  Hie  DOtat  parpararia  arte  intextas  litems  Romanas  in  amic- 
tibiia  poBi  ambalonnm  ante  et  retro.'*  Mr.  Dyce  mentions  a  friend  who 
proposes  reading  *<  ambalonam  post'*  We  think  post  to  be  an  abridgement 
otpotitoBm 

P.  134.— Such  tongef  vnhappy  hath  made  great  ihdritm 
In  reahnea*  in  dties,  by  mehe  fids  abason ; 
Of  lala  flckil  tnngea  tnch  doked  ooUaaion. 

Shonld  not  dwitlon  be  delusion  ? 

P.  139.  We  do  not  agree  with  Mr.  Dyce  in  reading  **  Mary  thy 
mother  *'  for  "  Mary  the  mother:"  the  mother^  mater,  being  an  epithetom 
commune,  an  nsnal  predicate  of  the  Viigin. 

P.  1 63.  We  cannot  decypher  the  meaning  of  the  three  Latin  yersea 
beginning  '*  Sicculo  latoeris,**  &c. ;  but  as  regards  the  three  following, 

Chartnla  itet,  precor,  hse  noUo  temeranda  petnlco : 

Hoi  rapiet  nomeroa  non  homO|  nd  muUa  io9. 

Ex  parte  rem  charts  adrerte  aperte,  pone  Mnaam  Arethuam  hene, 

the  second  line  should  be 

Hoa  rapiet  nnmeroa,  non  homo,  Mid  mmius  eal  hot. 
See  p.  179, 

ilnnna,  mu9n»  oehtit  ti  ^ot  ; 

and  **  banc.*'  shonld  be  placed  in  hooks  [banc],  as  we  think  it  is  only 
a  misprint  for  "  ant.'* 
P.  170.    '*  Et  cines  socios.*'    Shonld  it  not  be  ches  ? 

P.  818. — Sed  quia  non  eatis  de  genere  bonoram. 

Qui  eateriiutiM  oat^goriat  caoodiamonionim. 

Mr.  Dvce  conjectures  catarrhizaiie,  which  we  do  not  exactly  understand. 
We  shonld  read  "  casteris  datis."    See  p.  216, 

For  ye  hane  enduetd  a  aeU 
With  heref y  all  infecte  ; 

and  p.  208^ 

For  all  that  they  preche  and  teche 
la  farther  than  their  wytte  wyHe  reohe  i 

and  p.  209,  "  to  publysshe  and  to  preche  to  people,**  &c. ;  and  p.  213« 

Whan  ye  logyke  chopped, 

And  in  the  pnlpete  hopped. 

And  foljsshly  there  fopped 

Yonr  aysmaticate  lawea 

Agaynit  Goddea  lawea, 

And  showed  yonr  aelfe  dawea ! 

Ye  argued  argnmentes, 

Aa  it  were  ypon  the  elenkes,  &c. 

F.  243. — ^For  like  aa  mnatarde  ii  aharpe  of  ia§ie. 

Mr.  Dyce  has  jastly  observed,  **  A  line  is  wanting  to  rhyme  with  this  /' 
probably  such  a  one  as 


1644  ]  Dyce  8  Poetical  Works  of  John  SMion.  245 

Nay,  let  iu  our  heads  together  caate ; 
see  p«  244^  1.  1. 

P.  259.  *'  Hie  iDgreditnr  Foly,  quatiendo  crema  et  faciendo  nraltanit 
feriendo  tabnlas  et  similia."  Mr  Dyce  says,  "  Crema — If  this  be  the  right 
reading,  I  am  onacquainted  with  the  word.  It  can  hardly  be  a  misprint 
for  cremia,  qy.  crembaium."  Is  Mr.  Dyce  unacquainted  with  the  word 
XP^/ia  ?  Greek  words  thus  Latinized  are  common  enoogh  in  this  poet. 
See  Tol.  ii.  p.  2,  chaire,  x^'P^i  P  ^'  Myden  agan,  &c.  We  suppose 
chrema  is  his  thing  or  bauble, 

Nowe  take  thou  my  dogge,  and  giue  me  thy  fowle. 

Mr.  Dyce,  whose  vigilance  never  sleepeth,  has  observed  that  a  line  is 
wanting  to  rhyme  with  this.  Certainly^  and  Folly  has  twice  used  the  word 
to  Fancy,  which  doubtless  made  the  rhyme. 

What  is  this,  an  owle  or  a  glede  ? 
Again, 

Ye»  for  aU  thy  mynde  is  on  owlti  and  apes. 

P.  263.  We  doubt  Mr.  Dyce*s  proposed  alteration  of  "  you  there**  which 
we  think  would  make  a  very  bad  rhyme  to  dyeer  and  vyser.  We  would 
rather  break  the  line  into  two  short  verses. 

Howe  rode  he  by  yon  ? 
Howe  pat  he  to  yon  ? 

As  V.  1131,  with  same  cadence  and  accent. 

What  callest  thon  thy  dogge  ? 
Tosshe,  his  name  is  Gryme. 

P.  S78.— Call  for  a  eandeli,  and  cast  vp  your  gorge. 

Mr.  Dyce  proposes  caudellt  but  is  there  any  authority  for  caudell  as  an 
emetic }     We  think  not,  and  that  the  text  is  right. 

P.  306. — Sad  Ctb.  Then  ye  repent  yon  of  foly  in  tymes  past  ? 
Mao.  Sothely  to  repent  me  I  haa  grete  cause. 
Howe  be  it  from  yon  I  receyued  a  letter 
Whicbe  conteyn^  in  it  a  specyall  claase. 

Mr.  Dyce,  alluding  to  the  third  line,  says,  *'  Qy.  some  corruption  ?  This 
line  ought  to  rhyme  with  the  preceding  line  but  one."  True  -,  and  we 
think  the  proper  text  stood  thus  : 

Sad  Ctb.  Then  of  foly  in  tymes  oast  yon  repent  ? 
Mao.  Sothely  to  repent  me  I  hao  grete  cause. 

Howe  he  it  from  you  I  receyued  a  tetter  tent, 
Whiche  conteyned  in  it  a  specyall  clause. 

For  our  expression  in  the  proposed  alteration  we  have  the  poet's  own 

authority, 

Syr,  this  letter  ye  tent  to  me  at  Pountes  was  enclosed. 

P.  357.— And  saynt  Mary  Spyttell 

They  set  not  by  ts  a  whystell. 

Perhaps  *'  whittle'*  or  **  whytUe/*  a  chip,  a  common  word  in  old  poetry. 

P.  360. — Colinus  Cloutus,  quanquam  mea  carmioa  multis, 
Sordescnnt  stultis,  ^eA  jpuevinate  sunt  rare  cultis, 
Pue  vinatu  altieem  dmno  ilamine  flatis. 


246  Dyoe'8  Poeikal  fVcrb  ofJohi  SkelUm.  [SqiC. 

Mr.  Dyce  tayt,  "  Tlie  oorraptioos  in  die  second  aDd  third  fines  bave 
bdled  tlie  ingennity  of  tlie  severd  scholars  to  whom  I  hare  ^snbmittcd 
them/*  This  dechration  we  take  as  a  warning  off  the  premises, — proemi 
etU  pr^m,— especially  as  we  possess  none  of  the  sdiolarship  of  Mr. 
Djce  and  his  friends ;  hot  nerertheless  we  wish  to  try  oar  hand  at  them, 
and  we  pro;iose  to  read  thus : 


Caliovs  Clootiu,  qaniq[aaiii  mca  ctfiuaa  maltis 
Sordeacwit  itvltis ;  wed  pmmeis  mmi  dmU  cmiiis, 
Pameit  mmte  «iSof  dmno  flamine  flatii. 

We  kept  an  eye,  during  the  progress  oi  parturition,  on  Skeltoo*s  own 
lines,  p.  223— 

Sed  smt  pAVci  nuriqae  poets. 

Hioc  omne  est  rarwm  eanmi :  reor  ergo  poetas 
Ante  aliot  omnes  dirino  llamine  flatoc 

VoL  IL  p.  3.  '*  Saepenamero  hsc  peositans  psittacns  ego  prmnadio,** 
Mr.  Dyce  says  of  pronantio,  **  Prabably  not  the  right  reading.  The  MS. 
seems  to  haye  either  po  sio  or  pd  fio.*'  We  think  the  right  word  is 
^  pando/'  and  join  it  with  what  follows ;  rix.  **  ego  poiido  aphorismo  qoia 
paronomasia  certe  incomprehensibilis  ;"  and  Parrot  in  the  text  says,  "  Now 
pamdez  mory,"  &c. 

P.  12.  "  In  ista  cantilena  ore  stilla  plena  algectis  frangibnlis  et  aperiL* 
Mr.  Dyce  says,  *'  grossly  corrupted.**  Bot  chiefly  by  the  words  getting 
out  of  order,  which  is  '*  Ista  cantilena,  in  ore  esf  tUa  plena." 

P.  18. — Pnttaeiu  U  notas  sea  Peniiis  eit  pato  notas, 
Nee  reor  est  nee  erit  lioet  est  erit. 

Mr.  Dyce  says,  **  *  Notiis  *  qy. '  Motas  V  bat  I  have  no  idea  what  these 
two  lines  mean.**     We  think  we  can  inform  him. 

Psittseos  hie  notos  sea  F^rsins  est  poto,  notos. 
Nee  reor  est,  nee  erit,  ace  licet  est,  nee  erit. 

**  Nee  **  b  two  places  was  omitted. 

P.  ^4 — ^For  9i  owtr  regente  the  regiment  he  hathe,  er  faa  pi, 
pMieiptr  senat,  quod  «ar  m  Mte  kmvL 

Mr.  Dyce  says  of  this  strange  jnmUe  of  shapeless  words,  " '  Qood  * 
means  '  qooth ;'  of  the  rest  the  reiuler  may  make  what  he  can."    Bat  a 


reader  looks  to  the  eUtar  for  a  helping  hand,  in  the  absence  of  which  we 
Teotnre  oor  hnmUe  assistance. 

For  ci  ower  regeate  the  regiment  he  hathe,  er  qmm  W , 
Patet  per  Tersos  faet  aa«ofjlev<. 


P.  148. — She  is  playnly  expiesse 
Egeria,  thegoddesse, 
AJnd  lyke  to  her  image, 
Emportnied  with  oorsge, 
A  looen 


Mr.  Dyce  says, "  I  mnst  leave  the  reader  to  form  his  own  idea  d  tbe 
meaning  of  the  last  two  lines,  which  are  beyond  my  comprehension.*'  The 
difficulty  mast  be  in  the  last  line,  which  wants  connexion  with  the  pre- 
ceding.   We  interpret  tbe  former  as  her  image  drawn  ^or  portrayed  with 


1844.3 


u 


Taking  rightM  *'  before  Childbirth. 


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force,  what  the  French  call  animer  let  tableaux,  or  force  de  eouleurs;  and 
we  think  a  line  after  this  mast  have  dropped  out,  like  the  following : 

To  whom  made  Numa  Mge 
A  lovers  pilgrimage. 

Numa  was  called  *'  the  wise/'  and  certainly  the  expression  in  the  last  line 
would  lead  us  to  think  that  we  are  not  far  off  from  the  poet*s  intention. 

P.  188. — ^Thou  sweaty  sloTen  «cjfiiijf. 

Mr.  Dyce  correctly  interprets  this  word  "  greasy/'  and  so  in  Hamlet, 

In  the  rank  sweat  of  an  en»eamed  bed. 

P.  255.  *'  Nvfyls."    We  suppose  composed  of  '*  ui  fait/'  nothing  done, 
''nihil  factum.' 


On  Women  "  taking  their  nghU  "  hrfm  Childbirth. 


Mr.  Urban,  Aug.  10. 

SIR  Harris  Nicolas  has,  through 
the  kiudoess  of  a  mutual  friend,  very 
politely  referred  me  to  "The  Index 
and  Additional  Index  of  the  Privy 
Purse  Book  of  Henry  VIII."  with  the 
intention  of  explaining  the  expression 
commented  upon  in  your  Number  for 
July  last,  p.  83,  "  the  Queen  toke  her 
Rightes." 

I  have  in  consequence  consulted  Sir 
H.  Nicolas's  Remarks,  and  admit  that 
the  explanation  he  has  given  is  suffici- 
ently conclusive,  that  the  RighU,  in  the 
instances  there  referred  to,  meant  tak- 
ing the  Communion. 

This,  however,  does  not  quite  explain 
the  passage  in  the  quotation  from  the 
MS.  in  the  Cotton.  Library,  of  the 
Earls  of  Shrewsbury  and  Kent  bold, 
ing  the  towels  when  the  queen  received 
the  Communion,  nor  why  "the  torches 
were  holden  by  knights."  Something 
more  than  the  ordinary  ceremony  of 
receiving  the  Holy  Communion  seems 
necessary  to  be  accomplished,  before 
the  lady  could  take  her  chamber. 

If  there  be  now  exhibited  less  of 
ceremony  and  show  on  these  occa- 
sions,  than  was  displayed  by  our  an- 
cestors.  let  it  not  be  supposed  that  the 
important  duty  of  receiving  the  Sacra- 
ment is  in  our  own  days  altogether 
neglected ; — the  interesting  state  al- 
luded  to  very  generally  induces  our 


women  to  seek  for  the  comfort  which 
is  afforded  them  by  partaking,  with 
piety  and  devotion,  of  the  Holy  Com- 
munion. 

Yours,  &c.  S.  M. 


The  T\oe\fth  Iter  of  Antoninue. 

Ma.  Urban,  Aug.  I. 

I  AM  surprised  at  Camden's  con- 
clusion upon  the  12th  Iter  of  Antoni- 
nus, which  is  manifestly  a  journey 
from  Maridunnm  (Carmarthen)  to  C/t- 
rocoaovtiim  (Wroxeter):  but  Camden 
says  "  the  copyists  have  carelessly 
confounded  two  journeys  ;  the  one 
from  Galena  iCaUtvd]  to  lica,  the 
other  from  Mandmninm  to  Uiroeono^ 
vium."  I  do  not  believe  this  to  have 
been  the  case  ;  but  I  suppose  Camden 
has  been  misled  by  a  Commentary  or 
Ot>servations  of  Josiah  Simler*  (a  Ger- 
man) upon  this  Iter.  This  unquali- 
fied assertion  of  Camden  has  been 
blindly  followed  by  many  of  our  anti- 


*  These  Observations  appear  in  the 
copy  of  the  Itinerary  prefixed  to  Gibson's 
edition  of  Camden  ;  and  I  presume  were 
inserted  in  Camden*s  own  editions,  as 
Simler  had  been  dead  some  years  before 
the  first  edition  of  the  Britannia  was  pub- 
lished. 


248 


Maridiiiuim^~St-  Nickolat,  Keirctatlf. 


qowin ;  aad  it  baa  iodaced  tbem  to 
divide  the  Iter  Id  qacatioa  h  he 
hu  BuggeBted  (struigelf  jn  tome  io' 
BtaDcei)  ;  and  thus  they  haie  con- 
fouoded  themielve*  and  others  ddod 
it. 

By  the  1 1th  and  I3lfa  Iters  of  Richard 
of  CiirDcester,  which  corrMpond  with 
the  13th  of  AntoiiiDus,  in  all  esseotiml 
points,  the  latter  may  be  effectuaiif 
eipiained,  and  the  doubts  thrown  opon 
it  renored.  If  there  is  any  error  in 
the  13th  Iter  of  Aolonioa*,  m  it  it 
giTen  in  Gibson's  original  edition  of 
the  Britannia,  it  i>  that  the  TirmnH* 
ad  qutm  is  not  correctly  itated,  for 
Maridnonm  ii  there  pat  aa  such,  and 
yet  it  is  again  inserted  aa  36  miles  from 
that  terminnt.  The  Tact  sscma  to  be 
that  this  Iter  appear*  to  have  com- 
nencedat  AfeM}>ia  (St.Daiid'a).  How 
Calieia,  which  is  aboat  100  miles  rrom 
the  line  of  this  jonrncy,  could  have 
been  presumed  to  have  twlonged  to  it 
it  is  impossible  to  say. 

This  incorrect  interpretatioD  o(  the 
Iter  has  arisen,  I  have  do  doubt,  from 
the  want  of  distingnishing  MaridxaNsi 
from  Jifori^iMaM,  a  station  of  the  ISth 
Iter  nf  Aotoninni.andof  the  16th  Iter 
of  Richard  laodsttaated  15  miles  to  the 
east  of  Eieter  lltea  DswaoworKm) . 
To  add  to  the  coDfasion,  we  find  that 
Marid^KUM  is  errooeonsly  throughout 
Aichard  of  Cirencester'*  work  written 
Muriduiaim,*  a  mistake  that  pervades 
some  copies  of  Antoninus.  The  fact  i* 
there  was  no  mcA  ph»  a»  ihnJmimm. 
In  Ptolemy  il  is  properly  dfaridiiMKSi. 

Impressed  with  the  importance  of 
these  itineraries  to  the  antiqnitiea  of 
Britain,  and  with  their  being  more 
correct  than  they  are  generally  al- 
lowed to  be,  1  am  aniioaa  to  submit 


anything  that  may  serve  to  remove 
some  portion  of  the  obscurity  nnder 
which  these  valuable  historical  records 


labonr,  and  which  has  evidently  been 
increased  by  the  no  war  ran  table  liber, 
ties  that  have  been  taken  with  them. 
Yours,  *c.  J.  P. 

*  From  this  error,  I  beliive,  yonr  dis. 
tfognlshed  Correspondent  A.  J.  K.  ii  not 
free.  See  bii  Londiniana,  No.  VIII.  p. 
SSS  of  your  last  volume. 


Ma.  UaiaN,  0^"7«'.  AW/fc. 
'  Jar  SI. 

DURING  some  late  repair*  and 
cleaning  in  the  fine  old  church  of  St. 
Nicholas,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  the 
workmen,  on  tearing  away  some  pa- 
nelling aronnd  the  altar,  under  the  lill 
of  the  great  east  window,  discovered, 
aunk  into  the  wall,  and  beneath  the 
two  most  soathem  mQllions  of  the 
window,  a  finely  scnlptored  atone,  re- 
presenting the  ciuciGxion,  snrmonnted 
by  a  beaatifol  monlding  (which  ha* 
probably  eitended  all  along  the  win- 
dow), and  inscribed  below  the  croaa, 
in  black  letter,  "  JBtrcl  Ib^u.'  Tho 
cross  ha*  originally  been  painted  red, 
and  the  other  prominenre*  black. 

The  ttone,  which  i*  probably  mo- 
nnraental,  is  about  five  and  a  hair  feet 

The  Bcnipture  within  the  tablet  haa 
originally  been  very  beautiful,  and  in 
high  relief  1  but  the  Goths  in  1783, 
wbo  then  bratU^flfd  the  church,  in 
order  to  make  the  filthy  paneUtng  lie 
to  the  wall,  ordered  the  masona  to 
chip  off  the  prominences.  The  mould- 
ing on  the  top,  however,  is  perfect. 
Yours,  &c.    Gbo.  B.  Ricbabdion. 


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NOTES  ON  BATTLE  FIELDS  AND  MILITARY  WORKS. 

No.  I.  BARNET  FIELD. 

I  will  away  towards  Barnet  presentif , 
And  bid  thee  battle,  Edward,  if  thou  dar*8t 

ShdcMpHort^  Henry  VI,  Pttrt  3. 


THE  scenes  in  which  remarkable 
eveDts  have  been  transacted  stand  like 
beacons  on  the  tide  of  time,  by  which 
the  observer  may  track  the  coarse  of 
history,  and  recall  its  facts  to  memory 
with  double  force*  attested  as  they 
are  by  those  silent  and  enduring  wit- 
nesses. 

He  who  has  stood  on  the  plains  of 
Marathon  or  Cannae,  of  Crecy  or  of 
Waterloo*  can  confirm  this  observation. 

The  conflicting  claims  of  the  Roses 
occupy  a  most  prominent  position  in 
English  history.  The  events  to  which 
they  gave  rise,  and  the  characters  who 
shared  in  them*  have  been  set  forth  by 
onr  great  national  dramatist  with  a 
faithfulness  and  truth  at  once  instruct- 
ive and  delightful.  The  master  hand 
of  Shakspeare  could  call  up  the  dif- 
ferent personages  of  his  histories,  and 
make  them  speak  and  reason  and  act 
just  as  they  themselves  must  really 
have  done.  This  is  the  highest  at- 
tainment of  poetic  painting ;  some 
later  writers  have  acquired  it  in  no 
small  degree.  Wherever  it  exists  it 
will  ensure  permanent  popularity. 

Every  local  site  of  an  action  which 
Shakspeare  has  brought  on  the  stage 
has  a  double  claim  on  the  topographer 
and  antiquary.  The  battle-field  of 
Barnet  will  not,  on  these  grounds, 
escape  his  notice.  It  has  attracted 
the  minute  attention  of  a  modern  his- 
torical novelist,  whose  work  I  had  not 
seen  when  I  made  these  notes  from  a 
personal  inspection  of  the  field,  guided 
solely  by  the  hints  afforded  by  our  old 
historians. 

North  of  the  rural  township  of 
Barnet.  High  Barnet,  or  Chipping 
Barnet  as  it  has  been  variously  called, 
the  hill  on  which  it  is  placed  becomes 
a  level  plot  about  half  a  mile  in  breadth, 
part  of  which  still  remains  open  or 
common  land.  It  declines  on  the  east 
and  west  into  a  natural  escarpment, 
and  must  have  presented  an  eligible 
military  position  for  an  army  endea- 
vouring to  cover  the  high  road  to 
London.    On  this  little  plain  the  roads 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXIL 


to  St.  Alban's  and  Hatfield  diverge 
north-west  and  south-east,  and  on  the 
spot  where  they  divide  was  erected  in 
1740  *  an  obelisk  of  stone  about  twenty 
feet  in  height,  commemorating  the 
sure  tradition  connected  with  the  spot 
by  this  inscription  on  its  eastern  side  : 

<'  Here  was  fought  the  famous  battle 
between  Edward  the  Fourth  and  the  E^rl 
of  Warwick,  April  14,  anno  147 1 ,  in  which 
the  Earl  was  defeated  and  slain.*' 

The  other  sides  of  the  stone  record 
the  distances  from  St.  Alban's,  &c.  and 
prohibit  its  desecration  by  the  four 
times  repeated  admonition,  "  Stick 
no  bills."  The  obelisk  is  known  by 
the  name  of  Had  ley  High  Stone. 

The  circumstances  of  the  conflict  at 
Barnet  stand  thus  recorded  by  tho 
collective  reports  of  our  national  his* 
torians.f  When  Edward  the  Fourth 
had  been  deposed  from  his  regal  office 
by  the  powerful  Richard  Neville,  Earl 
of  Warwick, 

'*  That  setter  up  and  placker  down  of 
kings/' 

he  fled  to  the  court  of  the  Duke  of 
Burgundy,  whose  duchess,  Margaret, 
was  his  sister.  He  was  there  sup- 
plied with  a  small  body  of  troops,  ships 
to  transport  them,  and  money.  He 
set  sail  for  England,  and  landed  on 
the  15th  March,  14/1* 

'« Upon  the  naked  shore  at  Ravenspurg,** 

near  the  mouth  of  the  river  Humber, 
where,  some  seventy  years  before, 
Henry  Duke  of  Lancaster^  and  Here- 
ford, afterwards  King  Henry  the 
Fourth,  had  disembarked  with  a  mili« 
tary  force  to  prosecute  claims  which 
eventuallysecured  to  him  the  English 
crown.    The  issue  of  Edward's  expe- 

*  By  Sir  Jeremy  Sambrook.  Ly8ons*s 
Env.  of  London,  vol.  i.  pt.  2,  p.  753. 

t  Fabyan,  Hall,  Holinshed,  Stowe, 
Speed,  and  Fleetwood's  MS.  printed  by 
the  Camden  Society. 

X  He  was  recognised  as  Dake  of  Lan- 
caster ID  letters  of  Richard  the  Second. 
See  Rymer,  vol.  viii.  pp.  84,  85. 

2  K 


250 


Notes  on  Battle  Fields,  No.  I. 


[Sept- 


dition  makes  the  coincidence  farther 
remai  kable. 

It  is  unnecessary  to  particularise 
the  accessions  of  force  ^hich  fid- 
ward  after  his  landing  received,  his 
being  joined  by  a  considerable  body 
under  his  brother  the  Duke  of  Cla- 
rence,* his  inarch  to  Coventry,  where 
Warwick  had  assembled  his  troops, 
his  onward  progress  to  London,  to- 
wards which  city  Warwick  followed 
him.  hoping  if  it  should  continue 
faithful  to  King  Henry,  then  at  the 
Bishop  of  London's  palace  within  the 
wallsf  that  Edward,  opposed  by  the 
city's  bulwarks  in  his  front,  and  as- 
sailed  by  Warwick's  forces  in  his  rear, 
would  sustain  a  signal  overthrow. 

The  issue  was,  however,  otherwise. 
Warwick  advanced  to  St.  Alban's,  ac- 
companied by  the  Duke  of  Exeter,  the 
Duke  of  Somerset,  the  Earl  of  Oxford, 
and  John  Neville  Marquess  of  Mon- 
tacute,  his  brother.  He  there  learned 
the  defection  of  the  Londoners,  the 
entrance  of  Edward  into  the  city,  and 
the  capture  of  Henry  VI.  He  now 
saw  that  possession  of  London  and  its 
palatine  citadel  the  Tower  could  only 
be  gained  by  a  pitched  battle  ;  he 
marched  forward  on  the  London  road 
towards  Barnet,  and  there,  a  little  to 
the  eastward  of  the  highway,  and  near 
Had  ley  church,  encamped  his  forces 
in  an  oblique  position  upon  the  open 
plain  on  the  skirts  of  Enfield  Chase,t 


*  "  For  tidings  here  in  this  country  be 
many  tales,  and  none  accord  with  other. 
It  is  told  roe  by  the  under-sheriff  that  my 
Lord  of  Clarence  is  gone  to  his  brother 
the  Isle  king,  and  that  his  men  have  the 
gorget  on  their  breasts,  and  the  rose  on 
It."  Paston  Letters,  vol.  ii.  p.  62.  Gorget 
probably  here  means  an  embroidered  de- 
vice or  badge  of  the  rote  en  eoleil.  Beau- 
tiful examples  of  roses  and  suns  as  a  collar 
are  deline«t<^d  in  Stothard's  Monumental 
Effigies,  as  on  the  figures  of  Sir  John 
Crosby,  of  a  Nevill  in  Brancepeth  Church, 
and  of  the  Countess  of  William  Fitzalan, 
Earl  of  Arundel.  See  also  notices  of 
Livery  Collars  by  J.  G.  Nichols,  Esq. 
F.S.A.  Gent.  Mag.  paseim. 

t  This  position  reconciles  with  the  fact, 
the  assertion  of  the  historian  of  Enfield, 
that  the  battle  of  Barnet  was  fonght  on 
that  part  of  Enfield  Chase  formerly  called 
Monken,  and  corruptly  Monkey  Meal. 
By  the  epithet  *'  Monken  "  tlie  property  of 
the  priors  of  Wajden  in  Hadley  church  is 


then  called Gladmore  Heath,  occupying 
the  town  of  Barnet  with  an  jadvanced 
guard.  His  right  was  covered  by  the 
woods  of  Wrotham  Park,  and  hia  left 
by  those  adjacent  to  Hadley. 

There  seems  to  have  been  con- 
siderable strategic  purpose  in  this 
arrangement ;  it  commanded  in  a  pa- 
rallel line  for  some  distance  the  high 
road,  and,  if  King  Edward  should  beat 
out  and  follow  the  advanced  guard,* 
he  then  might  be  assailed  in  flank  or 
rear  by  the  army  posted  near  Hadley. 
The  van  of  Edward's  army  reached 
Barnet  in  the  afternoon  of  Easter  eve, 
dislodged  the  outlying  picquet,  to  use 
a  modern  military  phrase,  posted  in 
the  town  by  Warwick,  and  pursued  it 
over  the  heath  to  the  neighbourhood 
of  Warwick's  position. 

Night  had  come  on  before  the  main 
body  of  Edward's  forces  arrived  at 
Barnet.  He  encamped  them  somewhat 
to  the  westward  of  Warwick's  line, 
not  having  ascertained  its  exact  posi- 
tion, and  threw  up  some  hastily  con- 
structed earthworks  for  their  defence. 
They  had  cannon  on  both  sides,  but 
Warwick's  was  superior  in  number  to 
the  King's.^  The  rapid  changes  of  po- 
sition effected  by  flying  artillery  in 
modern  days  were  then  impracticable. 
The  cannon  were  brought  to  the  field 
in  carts,  and  placed  on  rude  trucks  of 
timber  §  in  the  most  eligible  posts  for 
defence  or  annoyance.  There  they  re- 
mained as  immoveable  as  the  Turkish 
guns  which  defend  the  Dardanelles. 
King  Edward  commanded  silence  to 
be  maintained  throughout  his  host 
during  the  night ;  the  low  murmurs  of 
assembled  troops,  the  clank  of  arms, 
and  the  neighing  of  horses,  sounds 
which  could  not  be  altogether  sup- 
pressed, were  ever  and  anon  broken  by 
the  loud  booming  of  Warwick's  artil- 
lery, which  maintained  a  random  and, 
therefore,  ineffective  fire  throughout 
the  night. 

The  morning  broke ;   its  mists  ob- 


recogni^ed.  See  Robioson*s  Enfield,  vol. 
Lp.  221. 

t  **  Bothe  parties  had  goons  and  ordi- 
naunce,  but  the  Erie  of  Warwike  had 
many  moo  then  the  Kynge."  Fleetwood's 
MS.  printed  by  the  Camden  Society,  p.  19. 

$  See  the  plates  from  an  illuminated 
MS.  of  the  ]jth  century  illustrating 
Johncs's  Froissart. 


J8M.] 


The  Battle  of  Barnet^ 


251 


scared  the  sun,  and  concealed  the 
hattalions  now  ranging  in  order  for 
the  fight.  The  far-soanding,  deep,  and 
harsh  waitings  of  the  trumpets  and  pro- 
longed echoes  of  the  bugles  called  the 
combatants  to  arms.*  The  festival  of 
the  Resurrection  of  oar  Lord  did  not 
effect  on  that  day  a  truce  between  op- 
posing hosts*  a  stay  of  carnage  among 
men  for  the  most  part  of  kindred 
tongue  and  origin. 

•  It  may  be  inferred  from  the  hints 
which  the  chronicles  afford,  that  the 
order  of  Warwick's  attack  was  by 
an  advance  in  a  kind  of  echellon 
movement  from  the  eastward,  as  de- 
scribed in  the  plan,  while  Edward 
was  moving  over  the  plain  in  three 
divisions,  uncertain  of  the  precise  po- 
sition of  Warwick's  line. 


No.  1  of  Warwick's  columns  was 
composed  of  infantry  and  liorse,  and 
was  led  by  the  Marquess  of  Montacute 
and  the  Earl  of  Oxford. 

The  Duke  of  Somerset  commanded 
the  centre  column.  No.  2,  composed  of 
archers. 

Warwick  himself  and  the  Duke  of 
Exeter  took  charge  of  the  division 
No.  3. 

King  Edward's  army  was  mar- 
shalled thus : 

The  foremost  division.  No.  4,  com- 
manded by  the  Duke  of  Gloucester. 

The  second  division.  No.  5,  by  Ed- 
ward himself  and  the  Duke  of  Clarence, 
having  with  them  as  a  prisoner  King 
Henry  the  Sixth. 

The  third  division.  No.  6,  by  the 
Lord  Hastings. 


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♦* 


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^ 


Wrotbam  Park. 


^J^S^    HadleyWood, 

■-^-"""'^         part  of 

*<^    Enfield  Cbice. 


Scaleof  half  smile. 


1.  a.  S.  Divisions  of  Warwick's  army ;  4. 5. 6. 7.  Divistons  of  Edward's  army. 


Behind  the  whole  was  a  hody  of 
reserve.  No.  7#  which  was  eminently 
useful  towards  the  close  of  the  battle. 
It  will  be  seen  by  the  plan  that  the 

*  The  mention  of  drums  would  not 
have  here  been  an  anachronism ;  Froissart 
speaks  of  them  as  in  use  by  the  English 
army  in  the  time  of  Edward  IIL  Johnes's 
translation  y  vol.  ii.  p.  231. 


divisions  of  the  opposing  armies  were 
not  placed  in  parallel  arrangement  re- 
latively to  each  other,  and  this  per- 
fectly accords  with  the  account  of  the 
chronicles ;  "  they  joined  not  front  to 
front,"  says  Holinshed,  "  as  they 
should  have  done,  by  reason  of  the 
mist  that  took  away  the  sight  of  either 
army."  This  obscuration  of  the  at* 
mosphere,  so  favourable  by  chance  to 


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NOTKS  ON  BaTTLK  F1ELD8.  No.  I. 


[Sept 


King  Edward's  party,  was  prodaced, 
according  to  popular  belief,  by  the  in-* 
cantattoDs  of  a  professor  of  magic,  one 
Friar  Bungey,  who  accompanied  the 
Yorkists  to  the  field.* 

The  first  division  of  Warwick's  army, 
led  by  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  owing  to  this 
circumstance  outflanked  and  routed 
King  Edward's  third  division,  who, 
abandoning  the  field  as  lost,  fled  in 
confusion,  spreading  the  report  that 
Warwick  had  prevailed ;  and  this  had 
probably  been  true  but  for  an  unforeseen 
incident  which  decided  the  fortunes  of 
the  day.  The  Yorkists,  to  commemo- 
rate, it  is  said,  the  appearance  of  the 
three  mock  suns  at  the  battle  of  Mor* 
timer's  Cross,  in  Herefordshire,  which 
they  interpreted  as  an  omen  auspi. 
cious  to  their  cause,  had  adopted  as 
a  cognizance  the  white  rose  within  a 
blazing  sun.  This  badge  decorated 
the  jackets  before  and  behind  of 
Edward's  retainers.  On  the  surcoats 
of  the  Earl  of  Oxford's  men  glittered 
the  star  or  silver  mullet  of  De  Vere ; 
the  archers  under  Somerset,  in  division 
No.  2  of  Warwick's  host,  mistook  the 
radiated  badge  of  Oxford  for  the  roie 
ea  soleU  of  Edward's  party,  and  loosed 
their  arrows  in  swift  and  deadly 
showers  against  their  own  compa- 
nions in  arms,  who,  confounded  and 
dismayed,  set  up  a  cry  of  "treason," 
and  precipitately  fled;  Edward's  di- 
visions took  advantage  of  the  con- 
fusion, and  closed  with  Warwick's 
two  remaining  columns,  now  out- 
flanked in  their  turn  by  their  enemy. 

The  hand-to-hand  mel^e  of  the 
fight  prevailed  on  and  about  the  spot 
where  the  obelisk  has  been  erected.^ 
Edward's  reserve  now  advanced,  and 
turned  the  tide  of  battle  in  his  favour; 
Warwick's  forces  were  irretrievably 
routed,  hewn  down  by  bills,  speared 
by  the  mounted  men-at-arms,  and  dis- 
persed.J  Warwick  retreated  to  a  neigh- 

•  Fabysn,  p.  661. 

1*  "  At  the  est  end,  the  Kyngs  batajle 
when  they  came  to  joyning  ovar-rechyd 
theyrbatayle  and  so  distresyd  them  there 
greatly,  and  so  drewe  nere  towards  the 
King,  who  was  about  the  rayddest  of  the 
battayle,  and  sustaygned  all  the  might  and 
weight  thereof.**  Fleetwood's  M8.  pub- 
lished by  the  Camden  Society,  p.  19. 

X  In  the  twenty-fir«t  volume  of  the 
Archsologia,  p.  11,  is  a  communication 


bouring  thicket,  doubtless  Hadley 
wood,  which  still  remains  wild  and 
luxuriant,  a  lingering  relic  of  the  great 
royal  hunting-ground,  Enfield  Chase. 
There  he  was  assailed  by  some  of 
Edward's  men,  slain,  stripped  of  hia 
coat  armour,  and  ltd  naked  oo  the 
soil. 

<«  Thos  yields  the  cedar  to  the  axe's  edge, 
Whose  arms  gave  shelter  to  the  princely  eagle. 

Under  whose  shade  the  ramping  lion  slept. 

•  «  *  • 

Lo  1  now  his  glory  smear'd  in  dost  and  blood. 
His  parks,  his  walks,  his  manors  that  he  had, 

by  Edward  Jemingham,  esq.,  of  a  trans« 
lation  from  a  French  MS.  preserved  in  the 
public  library  of  Ghent,  containing  an 
account  of  Edward  IV.'s  second  invasion 
of  England  in  1471,  drawn  np  by  one  of 
his  followers,  with  the  King's  letter  to  the 
inhsbitants  of  Bruges  upon  his  success. 

This  MS.  on  vellum  consists  of  four 
chspters,  each  of  which  is  hesded  by  a 
rich  illumination. 

The  first  represents  the  bsttle  of  Bar- 
net  ;  the  second,  that  of  Tewkesbury ; 
the  third,  the  execution  of  the  prisoners 
taken  at  Tewkesbury;  the  fourth,  the 
attack  made  by  Thomas  Neville,  son  of 
Willism  Lord  Fsnconberg,  and  commonly 
called  the  bastard  Fauoonberg,  on  Lon- 
don. These  illuminations  have  been  beau- 
tifully etched  in  outline  by  the  late  C.  A. 
Stothard. 

In  the  picture  of  the  battle  of  Bamet 
the  Yorkists  bear  a  huge  red  banner,  with 
a  border  and  rose  embroidered  in  gold. 
Edward  appears  on  a  white  charger  capa- 
risoned with  red  cloth  lined  with  blue,  and 
sem^e  with  fleurs  de  Us ;  his  visor  is  raised, 
and  a  gold  crown  is  on  the  top  of  his 
helmet ;  he  hss  just  pierced  with  a  long 
lance  the  breast-plate  of  his  antagonist  the 
Earl  of  Warwick. 

In  front  two  esquires  are  engaged  hand 
to  hand,  armed  cap-i-pi^ ;  in  the  back- 
ground is  an  open  country  between  two 
ridges  of  rock,  and  a  castellated  building 
on  the  summit  of  the  right.  Nothing  can 
be  more  unlike  the  real  features  of  the 
country  than  this  view ;  the  srmonr  and 
weapons  of  the  combatants  are,  however, 
in  accordance  with  the  period.  It  ap- 
pears by  the  '*  Historic  of  the  Arrivall 
of  Edward  IV.  in  England,  and  the  finall 
Recoverye  of  his  kingdomes  from  Henry 
VI.  A.D.  1471,"  edited  by  J.  Bruce,  Esq. 
F.S.A.  for  the  Camden  Society,  that  the 
Ghent  MS.  above  described  is  but  a  brief 
and  meagre  abridgment  of  that  curious 
tract ;  which  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
was  in  the  possession  of  Fleetwood,  Re- 
corder of  London. 


1814.1 


The  Battle  ofBarnet. 


253 


Even  now  forsake  him,  and  of  all  his  lands 
Is  nothing  left  him  bat  his  body's  length. 
'Why,  what  is  pomp,  rule,  reign,  bnt  earth  and 

dasti 
And,  live  we  how  we  can,  yet  die  we  must. 

Thus  does  Shakspeare  descant  on  the 
fall  of  this  most  brave  and  powerfal 
English  peer. 

His  brother,  Montacnte,  fell  early  in 
the  fight,  when  the  fatal  error  occa- 
sioned by  the  similarity  of  badges  took 
place ;  it  is  not  probable  that  he  veas 
killed  in  the  act  of  deserting  to  the 
enemy,  as  one  authority  has  stated. 
Shakspeare  says,  in  accordance  most 
probably  with  the  fact«— 

"  Montague  hath  breathM  his  last. 
And  to  the  latest  gasp  cried  out  for  Warwick  I" 

The  dead  corses  of  the  brothers  were 
conveyed  to  London,  exposed  to  public 
view  in  St.  Paul's  cathedral,  and  then 
conveyed  for  interment  at  Bisham 
Priory,  in  Berkshire. 

The  number  of  slain  in  this  battle 
was  considerable,  but  it  is  very  va- 
riably stated  by  our  historians.  Fabyan 
says  that  they  amounted  to  upwards 
of  1,500 ;  Hall,  10,000 ;  Stowe,  4,000. 
It  appears  probable  that,  in  the  num- 
ber of  10,000,  Hall  includes  the 
wounded  as  well  as  the  killed,  and 
even  then  it  would  be  eitremely  large, 
for  the  aggregate  of  the  combatants 
did  not  exceed  perhaps  30,000.  On 
this  point,  however,  much  uncertainty 
prevails.  The  force  of  Edward  has 
been  estimated  only  at  9*000  men, 
while  that  of  Warwick  has  been  raised 
to  30,000  ;*  such  an  account  of 
course  magnified  the  victor's  skill 
and  prowess. 

Sir  John  Paston,  writing  to  his 
mother  from  London,  on  Thursday  in 
the  Easter  week  of  ]471»  four  days 
after  the  battle,  says  the  slain  were 
upwards  of  1,000;  the  testimony  of 
a  document  so  immediately  contem- 
poraneous must  be  of  considerable 
weight.  The  letter  itself,  as  from  one 
who  had  been  engaged  in  the  battle 
of  Barnet  on  the  Lancastrian  side, 
under  Oxford's  banner,  may  be  quoted 
as  a  lively  illustration  of  the  event; 
the  persons  wounded  were  doubtless 


«  Fleetwood's  MS.  by  Camden  Society, 
pp.  30,  31.    Holinshed,  Vol.  IL  p.  685. 


in  the  foremost  division  when  the 
fatal  mistake  of  the  Oxford  for  the 
Yorkist  cognizance  was  made. 

"  To  my  Mother. 

"Mother,  I  recommend  me  to  yon, 
letting  you  weet,  blessed  be  God,  my 
brother  John  (Paston)  is  alive  and  fareth 
well,  and  in  no  peril  of  death ;  nevertheless 
he  is  hurt  with  an  arrow  on  his  right  arm 
beneath  the  elbow,  and  I  have  sent  him 
a  surgeon,  which  hath  dressed  him,  and 
he  telleth  me  that  he  trusteth  he  shall  be 
uU  whole  within  right  short  time. 

"It  is  so  that  John  Milsent  is  dead, 
God  have  mercy  on  his  soul  1  and  William 
Milsent  is  alive,  and  his  other  servants  all 
be  escaped  by  all  likelihood. 

"  Item,  as  for  me  I  am  in  good  case, 
blessed  be  God,  and  in  no  jeopardy  of 
my  life  as  me  list  myself,  for  I  am  at  my 
liberty  if  need  be. 

**  Item,  my  Lord  Archbishopf  is  in  the 
Tower  ;  nevertheless  I  trust  to  God  that 
he  shall  do  well  enough :  he  hath  a  safe- 
guard for  him  and  me  both ;  nevertheless 
we  have  been  troubled  since,  but  now  I 
understand  that  he  hath  a  pardon,  and  so 
we  hope  well. 

"  There  was  killed  upon  the  field  half 
a  mile  from  Barnet  on  Easter  day  the 
Earl  of  Warwick,  the  Marquis  Montagu, 
Sir  William  Tyrell,  and  Lewis  Johns,  hnd 
divers  other :  esquires  of  our  country,  God- 
merston  and  Booth.  And  on  the  King 
Edward's  party,  the  Lord  Cromwell,  the 
Lord  Say,  Sir  Humphrey  Bourchier  of 
our  country,  which  is  a  sore  moaned  man 
here,  and  other  people  of  both  parties  to 
the  number  of  more  than  a  thousand. 

**  And  for  other  tidings  it  is  understood 
here  that  Queen  Margaret  is  verily  landed 
and  her  son  in  the  west  country,  and  I 
trow  that,  as  to-morrow  or  else  the  next 
day,  the  King  Edward  will  depart  from 
hence  to  her- ward  to  drive  her  out  again.**} 

Stowe  informs  us  that  the  slain,  mean- 
ing those  of  undistinguished  rank,  were 
buried  on  the  plain  where  they  fell, 
half  a  mile  from  Barnet,  "where after- 
ward a  chapel  was  built  in  memory  of 
them."§  It  was  a  very  usual  practice 
to  consecrate  such  spots  of  ground  in 
the  middle  ages. 

Stowe  says  that  the  chapel  was  after- 
wards converted  into  a  dwelling  house, 
and  that  the  upper  part  of  the  build- 
ing remained   unaltered  in  his  day. 

f  George  Neville,  Archbishop  of  York, 
brother  to  the  Earl  of  Warwick. 
t  Paston  Letters,  vol.  II.  p.  63. 
i  Stowe's  Annals,  p.  413. 


[S<Tit. 


It  ia  not  improbable  that  Hadlevchurch- 
yard  and  Barnet  chapel,  which  had 
been  erecttd  »e*enty  yeirB  before  by  an 
abbot  or  St.  A I  ban's,*  Moote,  afforded 
resting  placet  for  Romeoftheuatimelv 
parted  relics  of  the  better  sort.  Sach 
a  tradition  relative  to  Hadley  church- 
yard still  liagers  at  Barnet, 

From  the  same  source  we  leara  that 
the  iroD  beacon  or  creuet  which  still 
is  kept  up,  placed  in  form  of  a  pitch 
pot  on  the  lofty  stair-case- turret  of  the 
Eae  old  ivy-mautled  tower  of  Hadley 
church,  blazed  throughoat  the  night 

*  Neweouie,  Hist,  of  St.  Albta'i,  p. 
ST9.  An  inscription  in  riised  letten  on 
the  spandril  of  one  of  the  srchea  of  the 
nsTC  of  this  chapel  records  the  name  of 
another  person  ai   iti  founder,   "  Orate 


of  Easter  eve.  as  a  guiding  signal  for 
Warwick's  friends  approaching  from 
the  eastern  counties.  The  precept  for 
their  levy  by  the  Eari  of  Oxford  is 
given  in  the  margin  from  the  Pastoo 
Letters. f  Hadley  church  tower  is  a 
very  coDsplcuoas  object  in  the  adja- 
cent country.  In  the  western  face 
of  this  Tcnerable  atructure,  imme- 
diately over  the  main  entrance  door 
of  the  church,  is  a  carving  in  stone 
surmounted  by  a  label  moulding  bear' 


.  Johsn 


toris  hnjni  op'ris."  The  words  _ 
are  defaced.  An  aiitiquiy,  I  am  told, 
lately  remarked  to  the  sextan  who  shewed 
him  the  building,  that  the  eraiare  was  per- 
petrated by  the  leal  of  the  firat  reformen  ; 
bat  the  lextoa  asinred  the  antiquary  he 
was  in  error,  for  he  had  himielf  accident. 
ally,  a  few  days  before,  knocked  off  the 
letleriwilhabrooiD.   Ljbohb  gives  the  in- 


scription as  perfect  in  hU  time.  Ho 
seems  to  coniider  Beauchamp  ai  joiot 
foDnder  with  Moote.  Env.  Lond.  vol.  L 
pt.  a,  p.  7S4. 

t  '■  Trusty   and  well  beloved,   I  com- 
mend me  to  you,  letting  you  to  weet  that 


J«44.] 


Universality  of  the  French  tongue. 


255 


log  the  iDBcription  1494,  and  on  the 
right  side  a  quatrefoil  flower,  on  the 
left  a  wing;  the  same  cognizance  is 
carved  over  the  arches  of  the  nave  of 
Enfield  church,  and  has  been  con- 
sidered to  be  the  rebus  of  a  prior  of 
Walden  named  Rosewing.*  I  am  not 
aware  that  there  is  any  evidence  of  a 
prior  of  Walden  being  so  named.  It 
is  much  more  probably  the  cognizance 
of  Sir  Thomas  Lovell,  Knight  of  the 
Garter  and  Banneret  in  the  time  of 
Henry  VILf 

I  have  credible  tidings  that  the  king's 
great  enemies  and  rebels,  accompanied 
with  enemies,  estrangers,  be  now  arrived, 
and  landed  in  the  north  parts  of  this  bis 
land,  to  the  utter  destruction  of  his  royal 
person,  and  sab  version  of  all  his  realm, 
if  they  might  attain  [prevail]  ;  whom  to 
encounter  and  resist  the  king's  highness 
hath  commanded  and  assigned  me  under 
his  seal  sufficient  power  and  authority  to 
call,  raise,  gather,  and  assemble,  from  time 
to  time,  all  his  liege  people  of  the  shire 
df  Norfolk  and  other  places,  to  assist,  aid, 
and  strengthen  me  in  the  same  intent. 

'*  Wherefore,  in  the  king's  name  and  by 
anthority  aforesaid,  I  strictly  charge  and 
command  you,  and  in  my  own  behalf 
heartily  pray  yon,  that,  all  excuses  laid 
apart,  ye  and  each  of  you  in  your  own 
persons  defensibly  arrayed,  with  as  many 
men  as  ye  may  goodly  make,  be  on  Friday 
next  coming  at  Lynne  and  so  forth  to 
Newark,  where,  with  the  leave  of  God,  I 
shall  not  fail  to  be  at  that  time^  intend- 
ing from  thence  to  go  forth,  with  the  help 
of  God,  you,  and  my  friends  ;  to  the  re- 
counter  of  the  said  enemies,  and  that  ye 
fail  not  hereof  as  ye  tender  the  weal  of 
our  said  sovereign  lord  and  all  this  his 
realm.  Written  at  Bury  the  19^^  day  of 
March,  OxYNFOan. 

*'To  my  right  trusty  and  well  beloved 
Henry  Spilman,  Tho*.  Seyve,  John 
Seyve,  James  Radclif,  John  Bramp- 
ton the  elder,  and  to  each  of  them.'' 

Paston  Letters,  vol.  II.  p.  59. 

*  Robinson's  Hist,  of  Enfield,  vol.  II. 
p.  3. 

f  The  same  badge  occurs  in  the  vault- 
ing of  the  choir  of  St.  George*s  Chopel, 
Windsor,  and  there  appears  in  colours  as 
follows:  A  quatrefoil  gules,  tied  by  a 
eord  or,  to  a  bird's  wing  erased  sable. 
Mr.  Willement  in  his  recently  published 
account  of  the  restoration  of  St.  George's 
Chapel,  Windsor,  has  assigned  this  badge 
to  Sir  Thomas  Lovell,  K.G.,  and  has 
appended  the  following  note,  which  is 
decisive  as  to  its  appropriation  :  **  A 
wing  sable,  the  bone  embrued,  is  given  as 


Every  vestige  of  the 
*•  intestine  shock 


And  furious  close  of  civil  butchery,*' 

of  which  the  elevated  plain  near  Bar- 
net  was  the  scene,  has  been  swept 
away  in  the  lapse  of  upwards  of  four 
centuries.  No  earthworks  shew 
"  where  trenching  war  channelled  the 
fields  ;"  no  greensward  hillock  marks 
the  promiscuous  grave  of  sturdy  English 
yeomen  who  fought  and  fell  in  this 
conflict, 

**  Which  sent,  between  the  red  rose  and  the 

white,  [night." 

A  thousand  souls  to  death  and  deadly 

Of  the  chapel  mentioned  by  Stowe 
not  a -vestige  remains,  nor  am  I  able 
to  indicate  its  actual  site ;  it  probably, 
however,  stood  near  the  spot  occupied 
by  the  pillar,  and  where  the  roads  to 
Hatfleld  and  St.  Alban's  branch  off  in 
different  directions.  There,  until  the 
Reformation,  it  had  invited  by  a  chari- 
table, if  unavailing,  superstition  the 
prayers  of  the  wayfaring  Christian  for 
the  repose  of  the  souls  of  those  who 
died  in  the  strife  at  Barnet. 

A»  J.  K.. 


Communication  of  J,  R.  continued  from 

p.  141. 
The  "uNiVBRSAHTY  of  the  French 
tongue"  is  a  cherished  assumption ; 
and  the  boast,  if  narrowed  in  its  con- 
struction to  the  popular  use  of  the 
epithet  (see  Gent.  Mag.  for  September, 
1843,  p.  259),  or  applied  in  space  to 
Europe,  is  not  without  foundation. 
In  1784,  on  the  command  of  Frederick 
of  Prussia,  whose  predilection  for  the 
language  was  always  so  partially 
evinced,  the  subject  was  proposed  as  a 
prize  essay  by  the  academy  of  Berlin, 
which  that  same  year  crowned  the 
discourses  of  J.  C.  Schwab  and  of 
Rivarol,  now  forming  the  second  to- 
lume  of  the  collection  called  "L'Esprit 
de  Rivarol"  (1808,  2  vol.  12mo).  It 
is  a  brilliant,  yet  rather  superficial  dis- 
course, not  unlike  himself,  who,  with 
Champfort  and  Champcenetz,  com- 
posed the  dazzling  triumvirate  of 
Parisian  wits,  and  were  competitors 

the  badge  of  Lovell  in  the  MS.  Harl.  4632, 
The  flower  is  probably  derived  from  the 
second  quarter  of  the  arms  on  Sir  Thomas 
Lovell's  stall- plate,  which  remains  on  the 
Prince's  side  in  St.  George's  Chapel,  Sable, 
two  chevrons  argent,  each  charged  with 
three  cinquefoils  gules,  Muswtll." — EoiT. 


256 


ConverstUional  Powers  of  the  Fnnch  and  English,         ^[Sept* 


for  colloquial  fame,  wheD   sparkliDg 
thoughts,  bright  effusioos,  and  live- 
liness of  repartee  constituted  primary 
clainos    to    social    admiration.     And 
never,  truly,  did  the  French  metropolis 
shine  in  more  vivid  splendour  of  con- 
versational talent  than  at  that  period. 
The  fact  is  emphatically  attested  by 
Madame  de  Slael,  herself  a  conspi- 
cuous star  in  the  resplendent  horizon* 
who  says — "Jamais  cette  soci^t^,  taot 
vantde  pour  son  charme  et  son  €clat, 
n'a  ^t^  aussi  brillante  et  aussi  s^rieuse 
tout  ensemble,  que  pendant  les  trois 
ou  quatre  premieres  ann^es  de  la  Re- 
volution, k  compter  de  1788  k  1791*" 
(Considerations    sur    la    Revolution 
Fran9aise,  tome  i.  p.  381,  ed.  1818)* 
Yet  these  flashes,  or  apparent  inspi- 
rations, it  is  well  known  were  not  un- 
frequently  "des  impromptus  faits  k 
loisir,"  elaborated  in  previous  study, 
rather  than  the  spontaneous  expression 
or  bursting  utterance  of  the  moment* 
We,  too,  could  produce  our  Chester- 
fields, our   Selwyns,  our   Sheridans* 
and  Currans,  of  traditional  celebrity 
in  that  evanescent  exertion  of  talent, 
followed  by  Theodore  Hook,  my  gifted 
friend  Dr.  Maginn,   with   numerous 
others — all,  however,  eclipsed  in  native 
powers  by  Johnson,  or  at  least  not 
80   fortunate   in  transmitted   fame — 
"Carent  quia  vate  sacro."     But  in 
our    female  circles   we  scarcely  are 
enabled,  I  apprehend,  to  oppose  any 
anccessful  rivals  to   the   Dudeffants, 
the  Geoffrins,or  Mademoiselle  TEspin- 
asse,  and  far  less  to  Madame  de  Stael 
and  Sophie*Arnaud — to  the  polished 
point  of  the  one,  or  the  keen  allusions 
and  apt,  though  too  often  unfeminine, 
vivacity  of  the  other.    The  Revolu- 
tion eventually   acted  on    these   re- 
unions,   or    "  bureaux   d'esprit"    as 
they  were  termed*   with   equal    in- 
fluence*   suspensive    or    mortal,    as 
on    all    existing    institutions ;    but, 
though  not  wholly  extinct,  they  have 
never  recovered  their  former  lustre. 
Rivarol's    maturer    works,    written 
during    his    emigration,  were    more 
aolid  however ;  but  the  Abb^  Gabriel 
Henry's  "  Histoire  de  la  Langue  Fran- 
9aise"  (1822.  2  vols.  8vo.)  is  of  su- 
perior texture  ;  and,  at  page  270  of  the 
first  tome,  his  remarks  on  this  claimed 
universality  of  his  tongue  are  entitled 
to  notice. 
4 


Swift  regretted  that  England  had 
not  followed  the  example  of  France,  in 
founding  an  Academy  for  the  correc- 
tion   and    arrest  of   her    excrescent 
tongue,  forgetful,  as  observed  by  M. 
T.  Varro,   ("  De  Lingaa  Latina,  para 
prima,")  that  "  omnis  consuetudo  lo- 
quendi  in  motn  est."   The  recommen- 
dation was  not  adopted ;  and  our  ver- 
nacular idiom  is,  as  I  believe  in  con- 
sequence, considerably  more  copious 
than  its  rival.*    It  is   more   widely 
spread    in    space,    and    embraces    a 
larger  mass  of  people  in  its  use,  than 
the  French,  with  every  prospect  of  a 
still  greater  relative  extension.  "  Even 
now,"  to  borrow   the  words  of  Dr. 
Arnold's  inaugural  lecture,  "  it  is  co- 
vering  the  earth  from  one  end  to  the 
other."  It  is,  in  fact,  commensurate  in 
practice,  partial  or  general,  with  the 
empire  of  its  birth,  from  whose  sur- 
face, still  more  demonstrably  and  with 
greater  precision  of  fact  than  the  boast 
of  the  Hispano-German  Caesar,  Charlea 
v.,  the  light  of  day  is  never  wholly 
withdrawn,  for  on  some  portion  of  its 
vast  expanse  the  sun  is  always  visible 
above  the  horizon.    And,  as  to   its 
superior  riches,   I  may  appeal  to  a 
very  simple  test.     Let  any  dictionary, 
French    and    English,    be    compared 
in  their  respective  divisions,  and  the 
inferiority  of  the  former  will  be  at  once 
apparent  in  its  numbered  pages ;  an 
uniform  result  which  has  often  surprised* 
and  not  less  mortified,  many  a  French 
acquaintance,  before  whom,  always  se- 
lecting an    edition    of  his   country's 
press,  for    surer  effect,   I  have  tried 
this  plain  criterion.     A  more  minute 
parallel   may  be  seen   in   the   Gent. 
Mag.  for  November  1841,  p.  490.    It 
is  not,  therefore,  I  confess,   without 

•  For  an  interesting  parallel  between 
the  English  and  lUlian  or  Spanish 
tongues,  see  **  Paralleli  dei  tre  vocabnlarj, 
Italiano,  Inglese,  e  Spagnaolo/*  forming 
the  third  volume  of  Joseph  Grassi's  publi- 
cation in  1617,  conjointly  with  the  poet 
Monti,  and  the  latter's  son-in-law,  Count 
Perticari,  of  a  highly  esteemed  work* 
"  Proposta  de  alcune  corresioni  ed  aggi- 
unte  al  vocabulario  della  Crusca,"  Milano, 
6  vol.  8vo.  I  may  add  that,  notwith- 
standing the  nnmerooB  additions  to  the 
French  language  within  these  fifty  years, 
it  still  is  less  copious  than,  not  only  tha 
English,  but  the  Italian. 


1844.] 


Tke  Languoge  of  DiphmatUis. 


257 


ftome  feeling  of  hamiliatioD,  that  I 
have  witnessed  the  advantage  con- 
ferred on  our  neighboon  by  the  pre- 
ference of  their  language  in  our  foreign 
diplomacy. 

The  least  civilised  nation  of  Eu- 
rope confessedly  possesses  the  ablest 
diplomatists,  though  rarely,  in- 
deed, natives  of  Russia.  They  speak 
all  languages.  *'  T6  irkff^t  crtW^^, 
Sri  fficovop  tig  wKaarof  rff  idi^  buikiKTm 
XaKovpT»p  avT»v,"  They  can  assume 
the  garb  and  personate  the  character 
of  every  people,  "  make  themselves  all 
things  to  all  men,"  and,  balancing  in 
the  impassive  scale  of  policy  any 
case  of  interest,  alternately  wield  the 
imperious  wand  of  a  Papilios,  or  af- 
fect the  blandishments  of  a  Talleyrand, 
or  seductions  of  a  Marlborough, 
whom  Lord  Chesterfield  represents  as 
not  less  successful  in  negotiation  than 
in  the  field.  But  never  do  we  find  a 
Muscovite  politician  moved  by  a  libe- 
ral impulse,  or  enticed  by  a  generous 
feeling,  to  deflect,  in  the  slightest  de- 
gree, from  the  traced  course  of  his 
ambition.  In  truth,  our  own  foreign 
agents  fall  under  the  same  selfish  cen- 
sure in  continental,  or,  at  least,  French 
opinion,  however,  we  may  think,  un- 
justly ;  bat  the  hate  and  thirst  for  re- 
venge of  vanquished  France  can  only 
be  satiated  or  quenched  in  the  reta- 
liated defeat  and  blood  of  her  victor, 
"  Longe,  longe  absit  ilia  dies  i"  The 
declaration  of  Chatham,  unworthy, 
both  in  troth  and  policy,  of  a  great 
statesman,  "  that  France  was  our  na- 
tural enemy,"  now  nearly  extinct  in 
use,  and,  1  trust,  in  feeling,  with  all 
educated  Britons,  has  changed  its  di- 
rection, and  is  retorted  on  ourselves 
by  those  who  were  its  objects.  That 
England  is  the  born  foe  of  France  is 
proclaimed  and  echoed  by  almost  every 
pen  and  tongue.  Most  deeply  do  I 
lament  and  deprecate  this  national 
estrangement.  Rivals,  not  enemies, 
let  us  be,  and  competitors  for  the  ame- 
lioration, not  the  destruction,  of  human 
life.  "  Verum  haec  nobis  certamina 
ex  honesto  maneant,"  I  love  to  re- 
peat with  Tacitus.     (AonaK  iii.  55.) 

Milton  wrote  his  dispatches  in 
Latin ;  for  Cromwell  would  acknow- 
ledge no  modern  superiority.  The 
danger  of  misconception,  or  mis- 
representation, is  also  to  be  feared, 
and  not  always  discoverable  by  owe 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


ministers.  Walpole,  we  are  told  by 
his  son,  was  wholly  ignorant  of  French, 
as  our  first  George  had  to  regret,  and 
Canning's  knowledge  of  it  was  very 
slight,  nor  was  the  two  Pitts'  ac- 
quaintance with  it  much  superior. 
Fox's  vaunted  scholarship  was  also 
found  deficient,  on  trial,  by  Napoleon 
(Gent.  Mag.  for  November  1839,  p. 
493),  though  far  above  that  of  the 
Pelhams,*  (Newcastle  and  his  bro- 
ther,) so  that,  like  our  Eastern  dra- 
gomans, the  interpreters  might  design- 
edly or  unconsciously  pervert  the  mi- 
nister's intentions.  Very  lately,  our 
envoy  to  Brazil,  in  his  first  audience 
with  the  young  sovereign  of  that 
region,  addressed  him  in  French,  just 
as  Mr.  Roscoe,  in  his  preface  to  the 
life  of  Lorenzo  de  Medici,  remarks,  as 
a  singularity,  that  Tenhove,  a  Dutch* 
man,  wrote  his  "  M^moires  de  la  Mai- 
son  de  Medici,"  (1773—1776, 8  tomes, 
8vo.)  an  Italian  house,  in  FVench, 
Similarly  our  diplomatist,  an  EnglM* 
man,  addressed  the  Portuguew  emperor 
in  the  language  of  a  third  country. 
(Relative  to  Tenhove'i,  or  rather  Ten- 
Hoven's,  work,  see  Beloe's  Anecdotes, 
vol.  ii.  p.  403.)  I  find,  however,  that 
last  year  the  correspondence  between 
Lord  Aberdeen  and  the  Prussian  Mi- 
nister, Baron  Billow,  on  the  commer- 
cial international  charges,  (Zolwerein) 
was  carried  on  in  their  respective 
tongues,  though  not  without  the  Ger- 
man's complaint  at  this  departure 
from  rule,  which  had  originated 
with  Lord  Aberdeen.  I  hope  he  will 
continue  it. 

The  Emperor  Charles  V.  always 
spoke  Italian  to  foreign  ministers; 
it  was  then,  Voltaire  asserts,  as 
the  French  now  is,  the  language 
of  diplomacy.  Charles  XII.  of  Swe- 
den, with  the  spirit  of  Crom. 
well,  would  not  condescend  to  em. 
ploy  any  other  tongue  than  Latin' 
but  our  Elizabeth  was  proud  of  her 


*  It  wss  to  the  memory  of  Henry  Pel- 
ham  i  who  died  ia  1754,  and  not  to  Lord 
North,  S8  stated  in  the  Gent.  Mag.  for 
August  1840,  p.  147,  that  Garrick  ad- 
dressed the  ode  there  quoted,  and  com- 
mencing, 

"  Let  others  hail  the  rising  sun, 
I  bow  to  him  whose  coarse  b  ran." 
See     Boswell's      Life    of     Johnson, 
Croker's  edition,  1831,  vol.  i.  p.  ^56, 

2L 


1^8 


Pronunciation  oflAUin, — Mr,  Harrold. 


[Sept. 


acqalremenU,  and  desirous  of  dbplay- 
ing  them.    Many  of  her  repartees  are 

00  record,  such  as«  on  the  introduc- 
ttoo  of  Bodim,  author  of  the  work 
"  De  Republica,"  "  C'cst  plutot 
Badin;**  because,  in  his  book,  he  re- 
commended  the  exclusion  of  females 
from  the  crown,  as  in  the  Salic  law. 
Elizabeth  generally  conversed  with 
the  ambassadors  of  southern  Europe  in 
their  own,  and  with  those  of  the 
north  in  the  Latin,  language.  Her 
prompt  retort  in  1597  on  the  Polish 
envoy  of  Sigisround  III.  appears  de- 
monstrative of  the  mastery  she  pos- 
sessed of  the  Roman  idiom,  which, 
however,  she  most  have  pronounced 
somewhat  differently  from  the  present 
English  mode,  to  have  rosde  herself 
intelligible.  Erasmus  had  contributed 
to  reform  the  vicious  pronunciation  of 
Greek  and  Latin  in  various  parts  of 
the  continent,  and,  with  Lilly  and 
Colet,  corrected  many  similar  defects 
in  our  universities ;  but  the  sound  of 
our  vowels  has  continued  unchanged ; 
and  strangers  consequently,  as  I  have 
had  frequent  occasion  to  witness,  do 
not  understand  our  oral  Latin.  In- 
deed, it  was  for  some  time  my  own 
case ;  for  I  recollect  having  attended 
the  performance  of  Terence's  Phormio 
by  the  Westminster  scholars,  when, 
from  my  foreign  education,  1  could 
scarcely  follow  the  speakers.  "  Do- 
mine,  non  intelligo  Aoglice,"  re- 
sponded Scaliger  to  the  Latin  address 
of  an  English  student :  and  can  words, 

1  may  ask,  be  more  dissimilar  than 
the  "  Ezplaoa  mihi  "  of  old  Demipho, 
directed  to  Phnrmio,  (Act  ii.  sc.  3, 
33,)  in  an  English,  or  continental 
mouth?  Roger  Ascham,  who  had 
travelled,  and  most  have  experienced 
the  necessity  of  assimilation,  may 
have  equally  impressed  it  on  his  pupil 
Elizabeth,  as  probably  did  Ludovirus 
Vives,  a  Spaniard,  in  his  instructions, 
on  her  predecessor  Mary.  George 
Buchanan,  too,  a  long  and  early  resi- 
dent in  other  countries,  may  be  sup- 
posed to  have  taught  James  the  accent 
be  had  himself  acquired,  and  thus 
enabled  the  royal  scholar  to  be  under- 
stood. Milton  and  Johnson,  we  find, 
differed  on  the  expediency  of  adopting 
the  more  general  European  pronun- 
ciation ;  but  the  great  poet,  when 
abroad,  saw  that  it  was  indispensable, 
as  Latin  was  then  so  much  more  the 


medium  of  communication  than  « 
century  and  a  half  afterwards,  when 
Johnson  published  his  life  of  Milton* 
"Let  travellers  be  perfect  Latinists, 
not  only  for  pen.  but  for  speech.  The 
Latin  tongue  cements  all  the  learned 
world,  as  it  were,  into  one  nation. 
Without  it  travellers  are  for  some 
time  such  silly  mutes  that  it  rests  with 
the  companies  charity  to  think  that 
they  have  some  reason,"  says  a  con- 
temporary of  Milton,  quoted  in  this 
Magazine  for  August  1840,  page  121. 
It  was  in  Latin  that  Johnson  conversed 
with  the  learned  Jesuit  Boscowich, 
because,  said  Arthur  Murphy,*  "  he 


*  This  gentleman,  it  is  known,  on  ter- 
minating his  collegiste  course  'it  St. 
Omer,  was  placed  in  a  commercial  house 
of  this  city.  The  establishment  was  that 
of  my  great-uncle,  Mr.  Harrold,  which, 
however,  Murphy  soon  abandoned  for  the 
more  congenial  pursuits  of  the  law  and 
letters,  but  without  the  slightest  ground  of 
personal  dissatisfaction  with  his  master, 
who  was  a  most  amiable  and  highly  con- 
nected gentleman.  Several  of  his  nearest 
relatives  have  long  enjoyed  the  most  im- 
portant administrative  offices  in  Catholic 
Germany,  particularly  in  Bavaria,  where 
the  recognised  antiquity  of  the  Harrold 
fimily  entitled  them  to  the  first  distinc- 
tions at  court.  And  here,  as  sn  associated 
occasion  offers,  I  wish  to  rectify  an  error 
in  the  Gent.  Mag.  for  December,  1842, 
p.  588,  where  a  nephew  of  Mr.  Harrold, 
my  maternal  uncle.  Captain  G'Bryen,  is 
stated  to  have  held  the  reins  of  the  Great 
Frederick's  horse,  and  nearly  talc  en  him 
prisoner,  after  the  defeat  of  Kolin,  the 
8th  of  June,  1757'  But,  on  more  exact 
recollection,  I  find  that  it  was  at  the  bat- 
tle of  KCknersdorf,  the  12th  of  August 
1759,  my  relative  was  so  near  achieving  « 
memorable  act,  when  repelled  and  se- 
verely wounded  by  Captain  Prittwits  and 
his  devoted  followers.  Frederick's  immi- 
nent danger,  at  that  moment,  is  of 
graphic  recital  in  Archenhols's  history  of 
the  war.  Pressed  in  his  flight  by  a  thou- 
sand of  his  pursuing  enemy,  the  King 
cried  out,  **  Prittwits,  ich  bin  verloren," 
Prittwits,  I  am  lost.  *'  Nein,  Thro  Majes- 
tat !  das  soli  nicht  geschehen,  so  langenoch 
ein  Athem  in  uns  ist.*'  No,  your  Ma- 
jesty !  that  shall  not  happen  so  long  as 
thebresth  is  in  us;  was  the  heart-in- 
spired reply  of  this  intrepid  officer, 
(*'  Dieser  helden  mOthige  officier,")  who 
could  only  oppose  one  hundred  hussars  to 
tenfold  that  number  of  the  assailing  foe ; 
but  he  succeeded  in  effecting  the  mo^ 


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259 


did  not  onderstand  the  pronunciation 
of  the  French."  (Boswell,  vol.  iii.  p. 
293.)  But  assuredly  his  Latin  ut- 
terance mast  have  been  fully  as 
strange  to  the  accomplished  Italian, 
v?ho,  in  contradiction  to  my  country- 
man's further  statement,  spoke,  as  he 
avowedly  wrote,  the  language  with 
classic  elegance.  So  the  fact  has  been 
aflSrmed  to  roe  by  those  who  had  en- 
joyed his  acquaintance.  The  subject 
vividly  reminds  me  of  the  contrasted 
impression  once  made  on  my  organ  at 
Edinburgh,  in  the  celebration  of  divine 
service,  with  all  the  sweetness  of  an 
Italian  accent,  by  a  clergyman  edu- 
cated at  Rome,  and  the  same  eccle- 
siastic's delivery  of  a  sermon,  imme- 
diately after,  in  his  native  idiom.  It 
was  a  transition  from  the  beautiful 
church-hymn,  the  "  Adeste  Fideles," 
as  sung  in  Venice,  to  the  harsh  into- 
nations of  a  Highlander's  pibroch, 
however  inspiriting  to  the  martial  Scot 
—from,  I  may  say,  the  charm  of  Pa- 
ganini's  violin  to  the  rugged  bagpipe, 
or  the  touching  simplicity  of  the  final 
lines  of  the  Iliad  and  the  Paradise 
Lost,  compared  with  the  croaking  of 
Aristophanes'  "  Frogs,"  (Act  1,  sc.  v.) 
and  the  grating  portals  of  the  infernal 
regions,  in  our  own  great  poet's  epic. 
Such,  too,  it  has  been  remarked,  was 
the  variance  between  the  deep-toned 
brogue  of  the  brigaded  Irish  officers  in 
speaking  English,  and  the  exquisite 


Darch*8  escape.  My  nncle  was  then 
under  the  command  of  Laudon,  the  Ana- 
trian  general,  who  turned,  in  so  striking 
a  manner,  the  fortune  oif  the  day,  and 
Frederick's  anticipated — ^his  actually  an- 
nounced— victory,  into  a  total  rout.  The 
bold  and  almost  accomplished  attempt, 
though  my  uncle's  name  is  not  on  histo- 
rical record,  was  of  long  traditional  recol- 
lection among  the  Irish  officers  in  the 
Imperial  service,  as  his  brother-in-law, 
the  late  Mr.  Fierce  Nagle  of  Annakissy 
in  this  county,  who,  at  a  later  period, 
fought  under  the  same  standard,  often  as- 
sured me.  But  see  *'  Geschichte  des 
Siebenjahrigen  Krieges,  von  J.  W.  von 
Archenholz,  Erster  Theil,  p.  359,  Berlin, 
ia30,"  and  Frederick's  own  **  Histoire  do 
la  Guerre  de  Sept  Ans,*'  in  his  collected 
works,  Amsterdam,  1790.  The  Nagle  fa- 
mily, into  which  my  uncle  married  in 
1774,  had  also  given  a  wife  to  the  poet 
Spenser's  son,  or  grandson,  and  a  mother 
to  Edmund  Burke. 
"  Let  Bourbon  or  Nassau  go  higher.'' 


polish  of  their  foreign  accents  acquired 
in  high  military  intercourse  abroad. 

Nor,  amongst  the  important  results 
to   France  of  the  prevalence  of  her 
idiom,  should  we  overlook  the  many 
writers  of  first    eminence,  who,   by 
adopting  it,  have,  though  of  foreign 
birth,  been  generally  classed  with  her 
authors,  and  thus  shed  the  bright  ra- 
diance of  their  names  on  her  science 
or  letters.     Proud  may  France,  or  any 
country,  be  of  the  associated  glories  of 
Lagrange,  of  Cuvier,  of  Malte-Brun, 
and  of  Humboldt,  or  of  Hamilton,  my 
countryman,  and  Rousseau,  with  the 
old  chroniclers  Froissard,  Monstrelet, 
Comines,  &c.  who  were  all  aliens, 
though  Mr.  D'lsraeli  (Curiosities  of 
Literature,  page  445)  calls  the  last  a 
Frenchman.      Among    foreigners    by 
birth,     yet    not     by    language,    we 
must  also  number  Berthollet,  who,  by 
the  happy  application  of  science  to 
the  pursuits   of  industry,    saved  or 
gained  for    the  chosen    soil,   whose 
precincts  he  bad  never  entered  until 
his  four- and -twentieth  year,   an  an- 
nual sum  of  forty  millions  of  francs. 
Such  was    the    ascertained  fruit    of 
the  improved  processes  introduced  by 
him  into  the  manufacture  of  dyeing  or 
bleaching  matter,  as  well  as  of  glass 
and  soap.    Of  this  last  article,  so  es- 
sential to  cleanliness  and  health,  and 
which,  in  extent  of  use,  may  be  almost 
considered  a  criterion  of  comparative 
civilization,  the  quantity  consumed  in 
consequence  of  the  increased  supply 
has  doubled,  as  every  one  in  recollec- 
tion of  the  former  and  present  ap- 
pearance of  all  classes  in  France  must 
be  convinced  of.     Professor  Liebig,  in 
his  "Letters  on  Chymistry,"  (letter 
iii.)  states,  that  France  formerly  im- 
ported soda,  the  element  of  soap,  from 
Spain  at  the  cost  of  about  a  million 
sterling ;  but  Le  Blanc  discovered  how 
to  make  it  from  common  salt,  doubt- 
less a  great  advantage  to  France  ;  and 
the  further  facility  of  purchase  from 
Berthollet's  ameliorations,   has  pro- 
duced the  present  strikingly  advanced 
national  neatness  of  personal  habits. 
To  no  native  chymist  has  France  been 
more  indebted,'  and,  though  not  so 
eloquent,  or  rather  flaent,  as  Fourcroy, 
he   too  could   enliven  his  course    of 
lectures  with  various  anecdotes.     One 
in  particular,  during  the   memorable 
expedition  to  Egypt,  whither  he   ac- 
conopanied   Bonaparte,   under  whose 


360 


Fourcroy^-^Napaleon  am  liaUan. 


[6ept. 


fempicM  he  co-operated  with  Monge 
in  foQodiog  and  enrichiDg  the  Grand 
Cairo  iDfttitate.  as  1  heard  it  in  glow- 
ing recital  from  his  own  lips,  and  may 
he  pardoned  for  thus  dwelling  ia  fond 
retrospect  on  the  meriU  of  an  honoured 
friend  and  teacher,  1  shall  brieay  re« 
peat.    Ordered  by  his  renowned  com- 
mander   to   try  the  nerves  of.  and 
impress  with  admiration  of  European 
supcnority,  a  native  chief,  the  Sheik 
f  *^«««y#  he  condensed,  in  accumn- 
iatcd  action,  the  most  potent  elements 
or   chymica)    combinsUon,  including 
the  terrific  fulminating  powder  of  his 
own   invenUon;    but   the    impassive 
Musulman  stood  unmoved,  and  be- 
trnyed  not  an  excited  muscle ;— "  Im- 
P*y*i,««n  Orient  niinae,"  as  BerthoUet 
•dded ;  and  the  truly  astonUhed  wit- 
ness  of  this  test  of  firmness  was  Bona- 
pnrte  himself,  at  the  barbarian's  un- 
J"    I  ^  apathy  on  the  occasion.    The 
fnct  I  find  also  reported  byBourrienne 
in  his  M^moires,  tome  it  p.  178. 

Thus  to  France  we  see  ascribed  this 
eminent  man,  who  did  not  even  owe 
nis  education  to  the  country ;  nor  did 

I  M?''**"**  ^^  conscientious  Joseph 
■^  M&itre  ;  nor,  again,  did  Lagrange, 
or  B.  Constant,  with  so  many  more 
^?T°yj^^*  and  Swiss;  nor,  we  may 
add,  the  musical  composers  of  whom 
ane  IS  most  proud,  Gossec  and  Gr^trv, 
]*ithout  including  LuUi,  the  boast  of 
Jlje  preceding  age.  It  is  similarly, 
inough  with  better  right,  as  subjecU 
IK  J?°**'  ^'^at  the  great  city  claimed 
*^VameofTerence,  ofApuleius,  and 
?/  S^audian,  natives  of  Africa,  or  of 
rLi  ^^■^f^as,  of  Lucan,  of  Quintilian, 
^oiumella,  &c.  fruits  of  Spain,  with 
iLrS*'®'*"  others  of  alien  origin.  Eng. 
Rm^'  ®?  ^'l'**^  grounds,  might  enlist 
Ad^*  I"^  ^"'*"  Franklin,  Jeflferson, 
ams,  &c.  born  under  our  sway,  or. 


from  identity  of  language,  the  sub- 
sequent authors  of  America,  if  that 
circumstance  could  authorize  the  pre- 
tension.   And,  in  other  paths  of  dis- 
tinction, is  not  Napoleon  himself  far 
more  Italian  than  French,  even  should 
we,asl  think  we  must,  notwithstanding 
the  contradictory  evidence  of  his  mar- 
riage registry,  place  his  birth  in  August 
1769,  rather  than  in  February  1768,  as 
attested  by  his  own  signature  on  his 
union  with  Josephine,  that  is,  a  few 
weeks  after  the  annexation  of  Corsica 
to  France,  instead  of  preceding  that 
event  bv  sixteen  months  ?     (See  Gent. 
Mag.  for  December   1839*   p-   589.) 
"  Sa  toumure,  son  esprit,  son  langage 
soot  empreintsd*une  nature  ^trangdre," 
as  reported  of  him  by  Madame  de 
Stiiel,  who  had  studied  him  well  in 
her  "  Considerations  sur  la  R^olution 
Fran^aise,"  tome  ii.  p.  198.     Neither 
the  blood  nor  soil  of  France  formed  a 
principle  of  his  being;  while  both  were 
essentially  Italian,  as  Jersey  and  the 
Isle  of  Man  are  English,    which  a 
native  of  the  Mauritius  or  the  Ionian 
islands,  immediately  on  the  incorpo- 
ration of  these  localities,  would  hardly 
be  considered.     But  these  analogies, 
though  in  my  apprehension  not  in- 
applicable, would  carry  me  much  too 
far  were  I  to  overpass  the  precincts  of 
studious  and  trench  on  the  sphere  of 
active  life.    Besides,  I  have  already  a 
good  deal  transgressed  my  forethought 
limits,  pretty  much  as  we  find  gentle- 
men generally  do  in  their  building 
estimates.    The  subject,  however,  de. 
mauds  a  few  additions,  beginning  with 
a  comparative  view  of  our  own  obli- 
gations to  foreign  learned  or  ingenious 
and  scientific  men. 


Yours,  &c. 
(7b  fte  coa<tfMerf.) 


J.  R. 


ST.  MARGARETS  CHURCH,  WESTMINSTER. 


h«?^^'.^^^^WELL,  the  Architect, 

iKo  •  1*^'.®'*^^  '*»«  following  letter  to 
^e  inhabitants  of  St.  Margaret's  West- 
™»n8ter,  m  the  sentiments  of  which 
^e  heartily  unite.  There  is  no  reason- 
*oie  excuse  for  sacrificing  that  church, 
getting  aside  the  necessary  illtreatment 
J  ^^®  remains  and  monuments  of  the 
an  i'  ^^.*^^  would  accompany  such 
j^^*'*"'ation,  the  removal  would  injure 
d  not  improve  the  appearance  of  the 


Abbey  church,   whose  length,  unba- 
lanced by  adequate  towers  or  spire,  is 
too  long  to  be  viewed  to  advantage 
directly  from  the  North. 
7b  tK9  Inhahitani*  of  St.  Margaret**, 

We9imin$ter, 
Gbntlembn, — Permit  me  to  call 
your  attention  to  the  fact,  that  efforts 
are  still  being  made  to  effect  the  de- 
struction of  your  venerable  parish 
church,  and  to  remove  it  from  the  site 


1844.]        Proposed  Removal  ofSL  Margaret's;  Westminster. 


261 


it  has  occupied  for  790  years.  I  much 
fear  a  committee  of  the  House  of 
Commons  was  prevailed  upon  yester- 
day, the  4th  July,  to  recommend  this 
scheme  of  church  desecration. 

I  have,  in  my  works  on  Church 
Building  and  on  Westminster  Im- 
provement, and  by  other  means,  en- 
deavoured to  expose  the  shallow  pre- 
texts of  the  destruction! sts ;  and,  as  1 
have  brought  over  some  of  the  most 
influential  persons  to  my  views,  I  flat- 
tered myself  that  my  efforts  had  been 
successful,  when,  to  my  astonishment, 
a  letter  appeared  a  short  time  since  in 
The  Builder,  announcing  "  the  pleas- 
ing intelligence  " — the  pleasing  intel- 
ligence !— *'  that  St.  Margaret's  Church 
was  immediately  to  be  pulled  down 
and  rebuilt  on  another  site,  both  which, 
and  fimds  for  the  purpose,  had  been  o6« 
tained." 

Let  me  epitomise  the  reasons  against 
this  measure  which  I  have  given  else- 
where at  length :  "That  persons  greatly 
err  who  would  regulate  Grothic  archi- 
tecture on  Greek  principles  ;"  "  that 
Gothic  architecture  does  not  exhibit 
itself  naked  and  bare;"*  "that  it  de- 
lights  in    bold,    striking,    and    pic- 
turesque    irregularities  "  —  "  veiling 
itself   with  walls  and    screens    and 
towers ;"  "therefore  appears  best  as  an 
accumulation  of  buildings ;"  "  there- 
fore, the  Abbey  church  and  St.  Mar- 
garet's gain  byjuxta-position,"  "while 
the  grandeur  of  the  ancient  edifice  is 
increased  by  comparison  with  the  more 
modern  structure  which  stands  beside 
it;"  "that,  when  the  new  palace  of 
legislature  is  completed,  St.  Margaret's 
will  be  absolutely  necessary  to  effect  a 
harmonious  union  between  that  and 
the  Abbey ;"  "  that  St.  Edward  did  not 
think  the  position  of  St.  Margaret's 
would  injure  the  effect  of  his  darling 
Abbey  church;"   "that  its  removal 
would    involve     the     destruction    of 
another   of   history's    landmarks,   a 
document  of  stone  which  cannot  lie, 
attesting  the  antiquity  of  your  parish ;" 
"  that,  instead  of  your  venerable  tem- 
ple, founded  by  St.  Edward,  rebuilt 
by  Edward  I.,  and  again  by  Edward 
IV.,  you  would  probably  get  a  mere 
brick  and  plaster  apology,  on  a  par 
with  those  vulgar  modern  churches 
which  are  the  laughing-stock  of  eccle- 
siologists."      But  is  mere  taste,  or 
rather  the  want  of  it,  fit  to  be  put  in 


competition  with  the  desecration  of  a 
spot  on  which  your  ancestors  wor- 
shipped for  nearly  eight  centuries  ? 
Or  are  ye  on  these  matters  below  that 
nation  of  savages  who,  when  urged  to 
emigrate,  replied,  "  But  what  shall  we 
do  with  the  bones  of  our  forefathers  ?" 
Inhabitants  of  Westminster,  rouse 
yourselves  to  resist  the  architectural 
barbarians.  Your  ancestors  rose  en 
masse,  and  successfully  resisted  the 
Protector  Somerset  and  his  myrmi- 
dons, when  they  attempted  the  destruc- 
tion of  St.  Margaret's.  The  present 
most  excellent  Dean  and  your  gifted 
Rector  are  utterly  opposed  to  the  pro- 
ject of  removal ;  put  yourselves  under 
their  legitimate  guidance.  "  Remove 
not  St.  Margaret's,  restore  it  to  itspriS' 
tine  beauty  as  left  to  you  by  the  illus- 
trious Edward,"  and  you  will  never 
more  hear  the  senseless  cry  of  remoy- 
ing  St.  Margaret's  to  obtain  a  better 
view  of  the  Abbey  church.  Perhaps 
the  best  of  all  methods  to  unite  St. 
Margaret's  with  the  Minster  would  be 
the  erection  of  a  tomb-house,  or  clois- 
ter, for  the  reception  of  those  mural 
monuments  which  disfigure  the  in- 
terior of  the  Abbey  church,  the  ex- 
pense of  which  the  accession  of  new 
monuments  would  probably  defray. 
As  an  architectural  antiquary  I  have 
now  done  my  duty,  let  the  guardians 
of  the  fabric  do  theirs. 
Park-Street,  July  5.  Wm.  Bardwell. 


Mr.  Urban, 

WITH  a  view  to  perfecting,  as  far  as 
is  practicable,  a  list  which  I  am  pre- 
paring of  all  persons  entitled  to  quarter 
the  Royal  Coat,  may  I  be  permitted  to 
submit  the  following  questions  to  your 
readers,  and  at  the  same  time  to  state 
that  I  shall  feel  obliged  by  whatever 
communications  they  may  make  to 
you  in  reply  ? 

Yours,  &c.  L. 

Istue,  if  any,  qf  the  following  pertons. 

1.  William  Sherwin  and  Elizabeth 
Pride,  daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas  Pride, 
and  RebeccAi  daughter  and  heir  of  William 
Lord  Chandos. 

2.  Owen  Owens,  and  Martha,  daughter 
and  coheir  of  Sir  George  Hastings,  brother 
of  Henry  5th  Earl  of  Huntingdon. 

3.  Ferdinando  Hastings,  grandson  of 
Ralph  3nd  son  of  Henry  Hastings  of 
Woodlands. 


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Coheirs  of  the  Blood  RoyaL 


[Sept. 


4.  Thomas  Alway,  living  1691,  son  of 
John  Alway  and  Anne,  daughter  and  heir 
of  Henry  Hastings,  3rd  son  of  Henry 
Hastings  of  Woodlands. 

5.  Names  and  issue,  if  any,  of  the  two 
daughters  of  Henry  Hastings  of  London, 
living  1688,  son  of  William  4th  son  of 
Henry  Hastings  of  Woodlands. 

6.  Jane  and  Anne,  daughters  and  coheirs 
of  Walter  Hastings,  brother  of  Richard 
Hastings,  ancestor  of  the  Earl  of  Hunting- 
don. 

7.  Names  and  issue,  if  any,  of  the  four 
sons  of  Anthony  Hastings  of  Windsor, 
brother  of  Henry  Hastings  of  Humber- 
stone. 

8.  George  Hastings,  Ensign  in  the 
Guards,  living  1760. 

9.  John  Hastings  of  St.  Martin*s-in- 
the-Fields,  Goldsmith,  brother  of  the  said 
George. 

10.  Name  and  issue,  if  any,  of  the 
daughter,  of  William  Orrock  and  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Charles  Hastings  of 
Chelsea.  She  was  living  unmarried  in 
1760. 

11.  Knevett  Hastings  and  Charles 
Hastings,  sons  of  Ferdinando  5th  son  of 
Sir  Henry  Hastings. 

13.  Colonel  John  Barrington,  uncle  of 
Ellison  Barrington  of  Chelmsford,  living 
in  1676. 

13.  John,  or  Sir  John,  Stanney  and 
Mary  Pole,  daughter  of  Sir  Arthur  Pole. 

14.  Thomas,  or  Sir  Thomas,  Fits* 
herbert,  and  his  sister  Margaret  Pole. 

15.  Roger  Stafford,  nephew  of  Edward 
3rd  Lord  SUfford. 

16.  Walter  Stafford,  brother  of  the 
said  Edward. 

17.  Washington  Gascoyne  Nightin- 
gale, son  of  Joseph  Gascoyne  Nightingale, 
and  Elisabeth  daughter  and  coheir  of 
Washington  Earl  Ferrers. 

18.  Thomas  Littleton,  3nd  son  of  Str 
Edward  Littleton  of  Pillaton,  and  Mar- 
garet Devereuz. 

19.  Walter  Littleton  of  Lichfield,  son 
of  Sir  Walter  Littleton. 

20.  William  Price,  of  Vaend,  co.  Flint, 
and  Mary,  daughter  and  heir  of  Price 
10th  Viscount  Hereford. 

SI.  James  Grove  and  Anne,  daughter 
and  coheir  of  Thomas  Lord  Grey  of  Groby 
and  Dorothy  Bourchier. 

22.  Proby  and ,  daugh- 
ter and  heir  of  James  Howard  of  Brough- 
ton,  of  the  Suffolk  branch. 

Her  sister  married  the  Hon.  and  Rev. 
Charles  Hervey,  who  died  in  1782,  and 
had  no  issue. 

23.  Sir  Charles  Howard,  4th  son  of 
liord  William  Howard  of  Naworth.  An 
only  daughter,  said  to  marry  William 
Orfeur,  but  query. 


84.  Younger  sons  of  Francis  Howard 
of  Bookham,  who  died  in  165U 

25.  Elizabeth  and  Charlotte,  daughters 
and  coheirs  of  Wilfrid  Lawson,  eldest  son 
of  Sir  Wilfrid  Lawson  and  Elizabeth  Mor- 
daunt. 

26.  Margaret  Mordaunt,  sister  of  the 
said  Elizabeth  Mordaunt. 

27.  Charles  Morton,  M.D.  Secretary 
to  the  Royal  Society,  and  Mary  Berkeley, 
grand-daughter  of  Charles  2nd  Earl 
Berkeley. 

28.  Clarke,  M.D.  and , 

daughter  and  coheir  of  John  Brome,  of 
Tttbbenham,  co.  Kent,  and  Elizabeth 
Berkeley,  grand-daughter  of  Greorge  Ist 
Earl  Berkdey. 

29.  John  and  Berkeley  Hammond,  sons 
of  John  Hammond,  surgeon  to  the  Dock- 
yard, Chatham,  who  died  in  1774,  and 
the  other  daughter  and  coheir  of  John 
Brome. 

30.  Sir  Thomas  Perrott  and  Sir  Thomas 
Jones,  by  Mary,  daughter  and  heir  of 
James  Berkeley,  3rd  son  of  Maurice  7th 
Lord  Berkeley. 

31.  John  Berkeley,  of  East  Bamet, 
1634.     Had  a  daughter  Catharine. 

Query  married  to  William  Dixon,  1639* 

32.  Sir  John  Russell,  Bart  and  Cathe- 
rine, daughter  and  heir  of  General  George 
Carey,  son  of  Lucius  5th  Viscount  Falkland. 

33.  Sir  William  Heveningham,  son  of 
William  Heveningham,  and  Mary  daughter 
of  John  5tb  Lord  Hunsdon. 

34.  Henry  Thwaytes  of  co.  York,  and 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Saville  and 
Elizabeth  Paston. 

35.  Robert  Palmer  and »,  grand  • 

daughter  of  James  Lord  Audley  and  Mar* 
garet  DarelL 

36.  Sir  John  Mortimer  and  Robert 
Home,  by  Margaret  youngest  daughter 
and  coheir  of  John  Neville,  Marquess 
Montacute. 

37.  Nicholas  Pudsey,  and  Margaret, 
eldest  daughter  and  coheir  of  Charles 
Neville,  6th  Earl  of  Westmoreland. 


Mr.  Urban, 

IN  the  notes  from  Kentish  Churches 
published  by  the  Rev.  Philip  Parsons, 
IS  the  following,  under  the  head  of 
Willesborough,  written  in  1790. 

In  the  church-yard,  near  the  south 
door,  is  a  large  raised  tomb-stone,  which, 
about  26  years  ago,  had  an  inscription  upon 
it  very  legible  ;  I  examined  it  twice  within 
these  two  years,  but  could  make  out  very 
little  more  than  "  William  Master."  The 
very  curious  and  remarkable  iuscnption 
was,  however,  preserved  by  the  care  of  a 
person  who  copied  it  in  the  year  1764,  and 
obliged  me  with  the  trauscript. 


1844.]        EpUaph  at  Willeshorough,  Keui.-^Oiways  "  Orphan^      263 


"  Here  lieth  entombed  the  body  of 
William  Master,  Esa.  the  second  son 

of  Master,   Esq.      He  living  a 

batchelor,  came  to  an  untimely  Abel's 
death  at  the  age  of  26  years.  In  his 
carriage  honest;  of  his  vords  well-re- 
ported, and  beloved  of  all.  Elizabeth  the 
only  daughter  of  John  Hall,  mourner  and 
mother,  for  so  great  a  loss  of  so  dear  a 

son, all  memory,  she  hath  erected 

this  monument,  with  expectation  of  meet- 
ing in  the  resurrection  of  souls.  Anno 
Pom*,  1634." 

Tradition  says,  that  this  young  man 
was  killed  by  his  brother  as  they  sat  at 
dinner — that  the  two  brothers  paid  their 
addresses  to  the  same  lady — that  the 
murderer  made  his  escape,  and  some  time 
after  was  seen  endeavouring  to  efface  the 
inscription,  but  was  prevented  by  pas- 
sengers going  by. 

lliis  account  in  some  respects  is  very 
probable ;  the  words  *'  an  untimely  Abel's 
death'*  plainly  point  out  a  brother's 
murder ;  but  that  the  murderer  should 


hazard  a  return  merely  for  the  purpose  of 
effacing  the  inscription  is  very  improbable : 
that  some  of  it  was  effaced  is  very  certain ; 
what  that  was  cannot  be  said  ;  but  surely 
nothing  more  strongly  expressive  of  the 
fratricide's  guilt  than  the  words  above 
quoted.  However  that  be,  it  has  been 
said,  that  Otway  founded  his  tragedy  of 
the  Orphan  on  a  fact  that  happened  at 
Willesborough.  The  above  account  af« 
fords  strong  proof  to  suppose  Ibis  tra- 
dition true.  Here  are  certainly  the  out- 
lines of  a  tragical  story;  the  colouring 
was  given  by  the  poet's  genius. 

Having  met  with  an  old  MS.  which, 
though  itself  imperfect  (from  having 
been  nibbled  by  mice),  contains  a  dif- 
ferent and  more  complete  copy  of  the 
remarkable  epitaph  above  noticed  than 
that  of  Mr.  Parsons,  I  beg  to  send  you  a 
transcript  thereof,  preserving  the  ar- 
rangement of  the  lines,  which  will 
show  the  places  where  the  stone  was 
purposely  defaced. 


A  Thmb  SioM  in  fflUe$borough  Churchyard,  Com.  Kane, 

HEBE  LTETH  ENTOMBED  THE  BODY  OF  WILLIAM  [MASTER] 
THE  SECOND  SON  OF  MICHAEL  MASTER  ESQIHER.    [aFTER] 
A  BATCHELORS  LYFE  HE  CAME  TO  AN  UNTIMELY  [aBEL's  DEATH] 

AT  THE  AGE  OF  26  YEARS CIV[lL  IN] 

CARIAGE,  HONEST  OF  HIS  WORD,  WELL  RESPECTED  [AND  BELOVED] 
OF  ALL.      ELIZABETH  THE  ONLYE  DAUGHTER  OF  [lOHN  HALL] 
MOURNER  AND  MOTHER,  FOR  80  GREAT  AND  INC[ONSOLABLE  ?] 

LOS8B  OF  SO  DEERE  A  SON 

SHE  HATH  ERECTED  THIS  MONUMENT  WITH  [EXPECTATION  OF] 
MEETING  IN  THE  RESURRECTION  OF  SOULES. 

ANNO  DOM.  1632.  (not  1634.) 

"Tradition  says,  that  the  abovemention'd  William  Master  was  murder'd 
the  Day  of  his  mariage  by  his  Elder  Brother  on  account  of  their  both  loving 
the  same  young  Gentlewoman." 

The  presumed  connection  of  the  plot  "  The  tale,"  remarks  Mr.  Thornton, 

of  Otway's  tragedy  of" The  Orphan"  "will    shew    that,  although    Otway 

with  this  tragedy  of  real  life,  has  in-  obtained  the  outline  of  his  fable  from 

duced  me  to  examine  that  point,  but  this  source,  the  sentiments  and  cha- 

the  examination  does  not  tend  to  con-  racters  are  entirely  his  own."    The 

firm  the  supposition.  general  similarity  of  plot  consists  in 

"The  Orphan"   was   produced   in  a  lady  being  loved  by  two  brothers,  in 

1680  ;  and  its  story  is  taken  in  part  a  private  marriage,  and  the  lady  being 

from  an  episode  introduced  in  a  novel  deceived  into  an  incestuous  intercourse 

published  four  years  before,  entitled,  by  the  disappointed  brother.     In  the 

"  English  Adventures  ;  by  a  Person  of  fatal   consequences  which  en^e,  no 

Honour,"  that  person    being   Roger  resemblance  is  retained.     In  Otway's 

Boyle,  Earl  of  Orrery.    This  episode  tragedy  the  guilty  brother  leads  "the 

(which  will  be  found  extracted  as  an  dance    of  death"  by  rushing  on  his 

appendix    to  Thornton's    edition    of  brother's  sword;  the  lady  takes  poison; 

Otway's  Works,  1813,  Tol.  iii.  p.  325,)  and  the  husband  stabs  himself.     la 


is  related  to  King  Henry  the  Eighth 
by  Brandon,  (for  such  are  the  cha- 
racters of  the  noble  novelist,)  as  a 
peisonal  incident    of  his  early  life. 


Lord  Orrery's  novel  the  lady  first  dies 
of  a  fever  brought  on  by  her  shame 
and  grief,  and  the  husband  follows 
her  of   despair;  whilst   the    guilty 


264 


JS^f  9fJndfe  GlmufiU  at  Jkvistock, 


brother  fliea  abroad^  and  lites  to  relate 
the  story  many  years  after. 

The  Kentisn  tragedy  is  therefore 
quite  different  from  either;  its  maiD 
feature  is  a  isnrder  committed  by  a 
brother*  the  obscure  proTocstion  of 
which,  as  hinted  by  tradition*  was 
superseded  love.*    Nor  does  the  simi- 

*  HsTiDg  taken  the  very  best  counsel 
on  the  pohit — that  of  the  Rer.  Thomas 
Streatfeild,  of  Chart's  Edge— I  find  no. 
thing  farther  than  the  epitaph  and  the 
loeal  tradition  is  known  of  this  tragic 
event  in  the  Master  family.  He  has 
•bHgingly  informed  me  that  **  Elisabeth, 
the  daughter  of  John  Hall  and  sister  of  Sir 
William,  married  Michael  Master,  and 
had  several  sons  and  daughters,  of  whom 
William  was  the  second.  Hall  of  WlUes* 
borough  bore,  Asure,  three  partisans 
erect  in  frss  or.  There  were  two  other 
and  diftinct  families  of  the  name  in  Kent. 
Master  of  WiUesborongh  bore.  Gales,  a 
lion  rampant  gnardant  donble>qaened  or, 
holding  a  rose  and  sprig  proper.  There 
was  a  grant  in  1568,  confined  to  Me  ertit, 
vii.  within  a  ring  or,  gemmed  proper, 
two  snakes  entwined  erect  on  their  tails 
and  endorsed  azure,  to  Dr.  Richard 
Master,  physician  to  Queen  Elisabeth, 
and  ancestor  of  the  Masters  of  Ciren- 
cester, a  brother  of  the  grandfather  of 
Michael  Master  above  :  the  arms  I  have 
no  doubt  are  the  original  coat  of  all  the 
Masters  and  Maysters  of  Kent.  The 
Masters  of  East  Langdon  had  a  grant  at 
a  later  period,  when  probably  they  could 
not  prove  the  intervening  links;  but,  I 


larity  improve  at  we  ascend  to  Otwsy's 
original ;  for,  though  we  Unis  come 
home  from  Bohemia  to  England,  it  is 
to  Gloucestershire  not  Kent,  and  to 
about  the  reign  of  Henry  the  Sewecth 
instead  of  Charles  the  First. 

There  seems  to  have  been  in   the 
Willesboroogh   story,  whatever   vwerv 
the  local  traditions,  nothing  more  than 
such  a  presumed  similarity  of  oocar- 
rences  as  reminded  persons  of  Otwmy's 
play ;  and  that  being  mentioned  was 
sufficient  to  lead  others,  who  knew 
not  the  play,  to  assert  that  the  con- 
nection was  positive.     There  are,  no 
doubt,  many  other  such  cases  of  n»- 
serted   resemblance   or    origin,  that 
would   as    little    bear    eKaminatioo. 
Somewhat  parallel  is  the  connection 
of  Camberwell  Grove  with  the  tragedy 
of  George  Barnwell ;  but  in  that  cnse 
it  was  the  pleasure  of  Lillo  the  dm- 
matist  to  fix  upon  that  scene  for  the 
crime    of    his    London    Apprentice, 
though  the  real  tragedy  from  which 
his  story  was  derived,  and  which  had 
formed  the  subject  of  earlier  composi- 
tions, had  occurred  near  Ludlow.f 
Yours,  &c.  J.  G.  N. 


have  no  doubt,  both  families  sprung  from 
Peter  Matster  of  Winchelsea,  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  the  Eighth.  T.  S.*' 

t  See  the  review  of  Mr.  Allpoit*i 
recent  History  of  Camberwell,  in  Gait. 
Mag.  N.  S.  XVIII.  175. 


EFFIGY  OF  JUDGE  OLANVILE  AT  TAVISTOCK.J 

(With  a  Plate.) 


IN  the  account  of  Tavistock  Abbey, 
communicated  to  the  Gentleman's  Ma- 
gazine for  1830,  vol.  C.  p.  489,  the 
monument  of  Judge  Glanvileis  noticed 
among  other  memorials  for  the  dead 
extant  in  the  parish  church  of  Tavi- 
stock. •  We  have  now  the  opportunity 
of  presenting  to  our  readers  an  accu- 
rate representation  of  the  effigy  of  that 
eminent  lawyer  as  it  reposes  on  his 
tomb. 

According  to  the  particulars  fur- 
nished by  the  historian  of  Devonshire 
worthies.  Prince,  John  Glanrile,  son 
of  Sir  John  Glanvile,  was  born  at  the 
family  seat,  Holwell  House,  in  the 
5 


parish  of  Whitchurch,  adjacent  to 
Tavistock.  The  same  authority  in- 
forms us  that  Ranolph  de  Glanviie,§ 
the  founder  of  that  family  in  England, 
came  over  with  the  Norman  invader. 

John  Glanvile,  the  subject  of  this 
notice,  was  entered  of  the  honourable 
society  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  called  to  the 
bar,  and  in  1589  created  Sergeant-at- 
Law ;  in  1598,  June  30th,  he  was  con- 
stituted Justice  of  the  Common  Fleas, 

t  We  follow  the  orthography  of  the 
name  as  it  appears  in  andent  deeds. 

§  See  also  Dugdale's  Baronage,  voL  i. 
p.  493. 


•••• 

•••• 

•     •_ 


•  •  • 


•..•., 


1844.] 


Kilwofihy,  co.  Devon, 


265 


aod  probably  about  that  time  knighted. 
He  purchased  the  barton  or  insulated 
demesne  of  Kilworthy,  distant  about 
a  mile  from  Tavistock,  where  he  erected 
a  mansion-house,  some  traces  of  the 
importance  of  which  are  still  extant. 
Of  this  place  Mrs.  Bray  has  given  us 
an  interesting  sketch  in  her  work  on 
the  Tamar  and  Tavy,  vol.  III.  p.  305, 
which  we  shall  here  adopt,  with  slight 
abbreviation. 

'*The  now  humbled  remains  of  Kil- 
worthy,  once  the  splendid  mansion  of  tke 
Glaaviles,  a  family  long  distingaished  in 
Devon.  The  house  was  built  by  them  in 
the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  This  structure 
partook  of  that  combination  of  heavy  and 
clumsy  ornament  common  to  the  period, 
yet  rendered  imposing  by  the  grandeur 
that  characterised  the  original  proportions 
of  the  building  to  which  it  was  appended. 
The  front  of  Kilworthy — I  speak  of  what 
it  was,  not  what  it  is — facing  the  south 
displayed  many  a  window  divided  in  the 
midst  by  muUions  so  large  and  broad  that 
they  not  a  little  obscured  the  light  the 
windows  were  intended  to  admit. 

"  A  small  tower,  not  unlike  the  top  of 
a  pepper-box,  stood  at  either  end  of  the 
building.  Along  the  front  the  parapet 
was  embattled,  and  a  noble  cluster  of 
chimneys  rose  to  a  considerable  height, 
and  displayed  their  ornamented  caps  far 
above  every  other  part  of  the  building. 
A  projecting  porch  stood  before  the  prin- 
cipal entrance,  over  the  outward  door  of 
which  appeared  carved  in  stone  the  arms 
of  Glanvile,  three  crosses  in  the  form  of 
that  called  St.  Andrew*  s ;  in  the  language 
of  heraldry,  three  saltires  or  on  a  field 
azure.  The  date  of  the  building  was  be- 
neath, likewise  carved  in  stone.* 

"  Such  was  Kilworthy,  but  it  no  longer 
appears  in  its  original  form.  It  under- 
went considerable  alterations  in  the  reign 
of  Charles  II.  and  lastly,  and  still  worse, 
in  that  of  George  III.  when,  nearly  sixty 
years  since,  the  front  was  entirely  modem- 
ieedJ* 

Here  we  take  leave  to  interrupt  Mrs. 
Bray,  and  to  express  our  hope  that  the 
Archaeological  Society  lately  established 
will  prove  truly  conservative,  and  be  on 
the  alert  to  remonstrate  against  and 
prevent,  as  far  as  possible,  the  perpe- 
tration of  similar  barbarous  atrocities. 
In  a  long  passage  of  the  house,  as  well 
as  in  one  of  its  chambers,  may  still  be 
seen,  Mrs.  Bray  informs  us,  a  vast 


number  of  paintings  on  panel,  repre- 
senting in  succession  the  arms,  alli- 
ances, &c.  of  the  family  of  Glanvile  for 
many  generations.  The  hall,  though 
now  but  a  vestige  of  what  it  once  was, 
shows  enough  to  indicate  its  former 
grandeur. 

The  gardens  of  Kilworthy  were  on 
a  scale  suited  to  the  place.  They  ran 
along  the  side  of  an  elevated  piece  of 
ground  to  the  west  of  the  house ;  the 
entrance  to  them  was  through  a  pair 
of  ample  gates,  on  either  supporting 
pier  of  which  was  a  lion  rampant. 
Kilworthy  had  once  a  chapel ;  a  dove- 
cote, stables,  and  other  offices  are  near 
the  house.  A  noble  avenue  of  old 
beech-trees,  overgrown  with  moss,  and 
casting  the  deepest  shade,  formed  the 
principal  road  to  the  mansion, "  afford- 
ing the  passenger  here  and  there  those 
peeps  of  landscape  and  of  the  Dart- 
moor heights,  between  their  trunks 
and  branches,  always  so  welcome  to  a 
lover  of  the  picturesque."  So  far  by 
the  aid  of  Mrs.  Bray  have  we  been 
enabled  to  describe  the  mansion  of  the 
Glanviles ;  we  now  request  her  as  an 
eye-witness  to  speak  of  its  possessor's 
tomb. 

''The  effigy  of  Glanvile,  lauded  by 
Prince,  is  certainly  a  very  superior  work 
of  art ;  there  is  so  much  character  about 
the  face  and  head  that  1  have  no  doubt  it 
was  an  excellent  likeness  .  .  .  The  effigy 
is  that  of  a  corpulent  man  lying  at  full 
length  on  his  side,  the  upper  part  of  the 
body  being  raised,  and  the  left  arm  rest- 
ing on  a  cushion. 

"  The  countenance  and  brows  in  par- 
ticular exhibit  those  strong  marks  of  in- 
tellectual superiority  which  ever  distin- 
guish a  man  of  talent.  As  a  whole  his 
head  is  striking  and  impressive,  not- 
withstanding the  injury  it  has  sustained, 
by  a  loss  of  a  part  of  the  nose ;  the  hands 
have  likewise  been  mutilated. 

"  In  front  of  the  Judge,  but  beneath 
the  figure,  kneels  in  a  praying  attitude 
the  effigy  of  Dame  Glanvile.*' 

A  singular  tradition  is  current  at 
Tavistock  that  Judge  Glanvile  passed 
sentence  of  death  on  his  own  daughter. 
The  tale  is  thus  related  on  the  authority 
of  the  Rev.  E.  Bray.f 

''  The  Judge's  daughter  was  attached  to 
George  Stanwich,  a  young  man  of  Tavis- 
tock, lieutenant  of  a  man  of  war,  whose 


•  We  regret  that  Mrs.  Bray  has  omitted  t  Mrs.  Bray's  Tamar  and  Tavy,  vol.  ii. 

the  date.  p.  316. 

Gbnt.  Miio.  Vol.  XXI.  2  M 


266 


Moummait  ofJtdgt  GUanile. 


[Sept. 


letters,  the  fiither  diftpproriiig  of  the  at- 
tuhment,  were  intercepted.  An  old 
mlBer  of  Fl3nnonth  of  the  name  of  Pw, 
wiahing  to  ha^e  an  heir  to  diiappoint  hia 
relationa,  who  were  too  confident  in  cal- 
culating npon  sharing  his  wealth,  availed 
himself  of  this  apparent  neglect  of  the 
Tonng  sailor,  and,  settling  on  her  a  good 
Jointure,  obtained  her  hand.  She  took 
with  her  a  maid  servant  from  Tiiyistock ; 
but  her  husband  was  so  penurious  that  he 
dismissed  all  the  other  servants,  and 
caused  the  wife  and  her  maid  to  do  all  the 
work  themselves.  On  an  interview  sub« 
■eqnently  taking  place  between  her  and 
Stanwich,  she  accused  him  of  neglecting 
to  write  to  her,  and  then  discovered  that 
his  letters  had  been  intercepted.  The 
maid  advised  them  to  get  rid  of  the  old 
gentleman,  and  Stanwich  at  length,  with 
great  reluctance,  consented  to  their  putting 
an  end  to  him.  Page  lived  in  what  is 
now  the  mayoralty  house  at  Flymouth> 
and  a  woman  who  lived  opposite,  hearing 
at  night  some  sand  thrown  against  a 
window,  thinking  it  was  her  own,  arose, 
and,  looking  out,  saw  a  young  gentleman 
near  Page*B  window,  and  heard  him  say, 
For  God's  sake  stay  your  hand  I  a  female 
replied,  'Tis  too  late,  the  deed  is  done.  On 
the  following  morning  it  was  given  out 
that  Page  had  died  suddenly  in  Uie  night, 
and  as  soon  as  possible  he  was  buried. 
On  the  testimony,  however,  of  his  neigh- 
bour (above  mentioned)  the  bodv  was 
taken  up  again,  and,  it  appearing  that  he 
had  been  strangled,  his  wife,  Stanwich, 
and  the  maid  were  tried  and  executed." 

Sir  John  Glanvile,  the  story  adds, 
was  the  preaidtng  Judge  at  the  trial  i 
and  this  circumstance  may  be  true  if 
his  own  daughter  as  the  culprit  be 
omitted;  it  appears,  that  such  a 
murder  waa  a  matter  of  great  pub- 
licity and  interest  with  the  common 
people,  and  gave  rise,  it  is  said,  to  a 
drama  intituled  "  The  lamentable  tra- 
gedy of  Page  of  Plymouth ;"  just  as 
the  violent  death  of  Arden  of  Fever- 
sham,  by  a  treacherous  wife,  some 
fifty  years  before,  furnished  a  subject 
for  stage  representation. 

Judge  Glanvile  had  gained  a  high 
reputation  for  his  knowledge  of  law, 
and  equity  in  dispensing  it,  but  did 
not  long  enjoy  his  elevation  to  the 
Bench,  for  he  died  two  years  after  his 
promotion.  He  married  a  lady  whose 
maiden  name  was  Skerret,  by  whom 
he  had  seven  children,  particularised  in 
the  following  inscription,  which  occu- 
pies four  separate  compartmenta  on 


hia  tomb,  divided  at  in  the  following 
paragraphs : 

**  Honoratse  sacrum  memoria  Johan. 
nis  Glanvil  unius  quondam  Justiciarormn 
de  Communi  Banco.  Qui  merito  fiutna 
judex  summo  cum  labore  adminiatravit 
Justiciam;  Justicii  conservavit  Paoem; 
Face  expectavit  Mortem ;  et  Morte  invenit 
Requiem,  27°  die  Julii,  Ann.  Dom.  1600, 

**  Statum  erat  hoc  monnmentum,  Ann. 
Dom.  1615.  Tmpensis  DomiuK  Alicia 
Godolphin  vidua,  prihs  uxoris  ejusdem 
Johannis  Glanvil,  renupta  vero  Franciso 
Godolphin  miUti  jam  etiam  defnncto. 
Qua  peperit  fidem  Johanni  viro  suo 
et  septem  liberos.* 

"  Quorum  nomina  et  connubia  proxima 
tabula  suo  ordiae  continentur. 

"1.  Maria  defuncta  nupta  Edwardo 
Estcoort  Armigero  postea  militi.  2.  Fran- 
ciscus  qui  duxit  in  uxorem  Elizabetham 
filiam  Willelmi  Grymes  Armigeri.  3. 
Dionisia  nupta  Thoma  Polewheele  Ar- 
migero. 4.  Johannes  qui  duxit  in  ux- 
orem Winlfredam  filiam  Willelmi  Burchier 
Armigeri.  5.  Alicia  defuncta  innupta.  6. 
Johanna  nupta  Samson  Hele.  7.  Thomas." 

Any  one  who  attentively  peruses 
the  above  inscription  will  be  happy, 
we  think,  to  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  tale  respecting  Judge  Glon- 
vile's  daughter  and  Page  of  Plymouth 
is  perverted  by  some  error.  The 
marriages  of  three  of  the  Judge's 
daughters  are  specified  in  the  inscrip- 
tion ;  no  one  of  these  was  united  to 
the  name  of  Page,  and  the  remaining 
daughter  Alice  died  unmarried.  The 
Judge  waa  therefore,  we  conclude, 
never  called  upon  to  execute  an  office 
from  which  Christian  propriety  would 
have  certainly  exempted  him  had  he 
been  so  unhappy  as  to  find  his  child 
thus  guilty  and  disgraced. 

The  dissolute  manners  of  Sir  Fran- 
cis Glanvile,  the  Judge's  eldest  son, 
and  the  touching  circumstances  of  his 
reform,  have  been  noticed  in  the  com- 
munication to  which  we  have  referred 
in  our  vol.  for  1630,  pt.  I.  p.  493, 
also  by  Prince,  and  very  copiously  and 
effectively  by  Mrs.  Bray.f 

His  second  son  Jonn  became  an 


*  This  clause  of  the  inscription  appears 
to  be  much  blundered  ;  perhaps  the  words 
engraved  on  the  stone  should  have  been 
**et  que  peperit  eidem  Johanni,  &o.'' 
Viro  is  corrupted  by  a  typographical 
error  in  Prince's  book  to  vero. 

t  Tamar  and  Tavy,  vol.  II.  p.  338. 


1844.] 


Date  of  the  CrudJUnon, 


267 


tminent  loyalist  and  lawyer,  was 
knighted  by  King  Charles  the  Second, 
appointed  King's  Serjeant,  died  in  1661, 
and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Broad 
Hinton  in  Wiltshire.* 

Before  we  conclude  this  brief  notice 
of  Sir  John  Glanvile,  we  take  occasion 
to  speak  of  the  honorary  monnment, 
or  rather  painting,  executed  in  com- 
pliment to  Queen  Elizabeth,  his  royal 
mistress,  on  the  wall  near  his  tomb.f 
Some  traces  of  this  memorial  were  of 
late  extant,  and  were  observed  by  Mrs. 
Bray.  The  Queen  was  represented 
as  lyin^  in  state  under  a  canopy,  this 
inscription  being  subjoined  :l 

'*  If  eyer  royal  Tirtues  crowned  s  erown. 
If  ever  mildness  shined  in  majesty, 
If  ever  honour  honoured  renown, 
If  ever  courage  dwelt  with  courtesy, 
If  ever  princess  put  all  princes  down, 
For  temperance,  prowess,  prudence,  equity. 
This,  this,  was  she,  that  in  despight  of 

death 
Lives  still,  admired,  adored  Elizabeth  f 
Spain's  rod,  Rome's  ruin,  Netherlands' 

relief,  [Nature's  chief." 

Heaven's  gem,  Earth'sjoy, World's  wonder, 

So  dear  was  the  memory  of  Eliza- 
beth to  succeeding  times  that  the  keep- 

*  Tamar  and  Tavy. 

f  See   notices  of  Tavistock  and  its 
Abbey,  Gent.  Mag.  1830,  pt.  I.  p.  489. 
^  Prince. 


ing  of  her  day  of  acceasion  to  th« 
crown  was  the  practice  even  in  our 
own  recollection  of  the  offices  sub* 
ordinate  to  the  Court  of  Exchequer ; 
the  placing  painted  memorials  of  her 
in  parish  churches  was  a  commoii 
usage  after  her  decease ;  and  well  did 
this  firm  and  accomplished  ruler  de- 
serve the  gratitude  of  the  reformed 
Church. 

Without  entering  into  any  of  the 
sentimentalities  which  some  modem 
annotators,  or  rather  libellers,  of  her 
history  have  indulged,  as  advocates  of 
the  unhappy  Scotish  Queen,  it  may 
be  observed  that  Elizabeth  was  raised 
by  the  hand  of  Providence  to  confirm 
the  Reformation,  to  give  the  Bible  re* 
ligion  to  her  subjects,  and  extend  con- 
stitutional liberty  by  maintaining  the 
independence  of  the  kingly  office.  The 
battle  of  her  day  was  between  the 
dragon  of  papistry  and  herself  M 
champion  of  the  purer  faith,  which 
Britain  now  professes,  and  is  daily 
under  Providence  extending  to  the 
nations  of  the  earth.  The  policy  of 
rulers  must  often  be  judged  by  iU 
effects  in  times  which  succeeded  their 
sway.  In  this  view  no  one  will  cavil 
at  the  praise  which  has  been  bestowed 
on  the  Virgin  Queen  by  the  loyal  and 
religious  in  her  own  or  after  timet. 


THB   DATS   OF   TUB    CRUCIFIZIOW  TKSTBD  BT  A  COKIIDBRATIOIT  OP  TSB 

MBTONIC   CTCLB. 


THE  fact  of  altogether  different 
dates  having  been  assigned  by  learned 
commentators  to  any  leading  event  in 
ecclesiastical  history,  cannot  but  be 
acknowledged  sufficient  apology  for  a 
layman  endeavouring  to  ascertain  its 
exact  date  by  a  consideration  of  natural 
epochs.  And  in  thus  endeavouring  to 
ascertain  the  exact,  but  amazingly  dis- 
puted, date  of  the  Crucifixion,}   the 

i  Compare  the  authorised  translation 
of  the  Bible,  marginal  notes  on  Matthew, 
with  Stephens's  edition  of  the  Vulgate ; 
Historia  ad  rei  notitiam  ;  Calmet*8  Dic- 
tionary, variously ;  Lightfoot's  Harmony, 
part.  1,  sections  6  and  9 ;  Greswell's  Har- 
mony, dissertations  7,  8,  9 ;  Mann's  De 
Annis  Christ!,  &c.  &c.  quoted  by  Gres- 
weU,  vol,  I.  pp.  328—331,  414,  415, 


precise  season  of  the  year  when  it 
happened  must,  of  course,  be  resolved 
by  general  means  before  the  Metontc 
Cycle  can  be  appealed  to  regarding  a 
particular  day  in  that  season. 
Thb  time  of  THB  YBAB,  then,  XH 

WHICH  THE  CEUCIFIXION  TOOK  PLACB, 

having  been  that  of  a  Passover,  caa 
only  be  determined  by  the  most  pro* 
bable  estimate  of  those  rules  by  which 
the  Levitical  priesthood  were  enabled 
for  fifteen  hundred  years  to  proclaiia 
the  feasts  in  their  seasons.jl      And 


second  edition;  Adam  Clarke's  ohrono* 
logical  notes  on  Matthew  xxvi* ;  and 
Ferguson*s  Astronomy,  sections  35^  and 
359. 

II  See  the  rules  for  the  Ceaiti  in  Le- 
viticus, ch.  23;  Ezekiel,  ch.  45;  and 


268 


The  Date  of  the  Crucifixion 


[Sept, 


since  a  tradition  of  the  Syrian  church, 
as  well  as  the  various  dates  which  in- 
dividuals have  adopted  in  this  matter, 
implies  (to  borrow  Dr.  Greswell's 
reasoning,)  that  the  Jews  celebrated 
the  Passover  either  before  or  after  the 
vernal  equinox,  just  as  they  happened 
to  have  intercalated  a  month  or  not,* 
it  is  of  unavoidable  importance  to  as- 
certain if  such  were  really  the  fact ; 
since,  if  it  were,  a  search  for  the  exact 
date  of  the  Crucifixion  would  be  hope- 
less. 
Thb  history  op  thb  time  for 

KEEPING    THB    PASSOVER,  RS  far    aS    I 

understand  it,  is  this  : — During  their 
residence  in  Egypt  the  Jews  having 
for  some  uncertain  period  counted 
their  months  by  the  motions  of  the 
moon,  or  "  from  one  new  moon  to 
another,"t  naturally  adopted  the  days 
of  that  lunation  which  came  nearest  to 
the  autumnal  equinox  for  the  measure 
of  the  first  month  of  the  year,  in  order 
that  their  account  of  time  might  tally 
with  the  Egyptian  account,  which 
dated  from  about  this  season.  And 
so,  guided  by  a  mixed  rule,  they  com- 
menced the  computation  of  the  year 
in  which  they  left  Egypt  on  the  evening 
of  the  eighteenth  or  nineteenth  of  Sep- 
tember, as  we  may  call  it,  e.g.  1492, 
such  having  been  the  first  day  of  a 
visible  moon. 

By  the  succeeding  spring,  therefore, 
that  division  of  the  year  had  arrived 
which  was  known  to  them  on  account 
of  the  then  state  or  forwardness  of 
vegetation,  as  the  month  Abib,  For 
this  name,  literally  taken,  means  Me 
month  of  young  ears  of  com.  And 
because  it  so  happened  that  they  ob- 
tained  their  liberty  at  this  well-marked 
date,  very  shortly  after  the  vernal 
equinox,  they  were  then  and  sub- 
sequently enjoined  by  their  legislators 
and  prophets,  over  and  over  again,  to 
remember  the  month  Abib  as  the  first 
month  of  the  sacred  year,  from  year 
to  year  for  ever,  "  at  the  season  that 
they  came  forth  out  of  Egypt." 

Nor  was  this  injunction  a  diflScult 
one  in  a  country  situated  under  a  sky 

Josephus's  Antiquities  of  the  Jews,  B.  1, 
oh.  3,  sec.  3 ;  Book  3,  ch.  10 ;  and  B.  4. 
ch.  8,  last  section. 

*  Greswell  on  the  time  that  the  pas- 
Bover  was  celebrated,  yoL  1,  p,  3^8* 

t  Is.  66,  S3. 


that  invited  and  encouraged  observa- 
tion of  the  heavens,  and  in  which  the 
former  and  the  latter  rain,  and  other 
especial  notes  of  season  on  earth, 
enabled  men  to  judge  of  periodical 
returns  of  time  with  great  precision.^ 

"In  its  appointed  season,"  there- 
fore, the  Passover  was  observed  in  the 
wilderness,  where  the  appearances  of 
the  heavens,  rather  than  the  state  of 
vegetation,  were  its  signs.  And  in 
season  it  continued  to  be  observed  by 
Ezekiel  and  his  companions  in  a  strange 
land  during  the  captivity,  and  by  Jo- 
sephus  and  his  contemporaries  in 
Judea,after  the  date  of  the  Crucifixion  : 
this  very  continuance  for  ages  of  two 
kinds  of  year  among  the  same  people, 
under  various  circumstances,  implying, 
without  actually  proving,  a  different 
form  of  computation  to  have  existed 
for  the  purpose. 

Without,  however,  entering  at  large 
into  this  question  at  present,§  it  may 
be  noted  here  that,  having  lived  ia 
Judea  very  soon  after  the  date  of  the 
Crucifixion,  and  having  there  obtained 
"an  accurate  understanding  of  Jewish 
laws,"||  the  especial  historian  of  the 
Jews  variously  records  that  his  coun- 
trymen still  used  two  kinds  of  year, 
the  style  of  the  one  being  as  their 
forefathers  had  "  ordered  it  in  Egypt," 
but  that  of  the  other  "  as  Moses  ap- 
pointed on  bringing  them  out  of  this 
country."  For  their  great  legislator 
fixed  that  the  seventh  month  of  the 
civil  year  "  should  be  the  first  for  the 
festivals,  because  he  brought  them  out 
of  Egypt  in  it,  and,  consequently,  it 
began  the  year  as  to  all  the  solemni- 
ties, while  the  more  ancient  order  of 

X  **  Rain  in  doe  season  **  is  spoken  of  in 
Leviticus.  Solomon  writes,  '*  The  rain 
is  over  and  gone,  the  flowers  appear.'* 
Joel  speaks  of  "  the  latter  rain  in  the  firal 
month  ;*'  Jeremiah  of  '*  the  former  and 
the  latter  rain  in  season,  and  the  appointed 
weeks  of  the  harvest.'*  And  Christ  says, 
''  There  are  yet  four  months  and  then 
cometh  harvest,*'  all  which  expressions 
mark  how  Btrictly  the  seasons  were  ob- 
served in  Judea. 

$  On  some  future  occasion  I  hope  to 
demonstrate  that  neither  form  of  year 
adopted  by  the  Jews  could  possibly  haf« 
been  computed  agreeably  to  oar  com* 
monly  received  notion  of  their  having  in- 
tercalated a  month  every  third  year* 

II  Life  of  Josephusy  te9tioA  ^t 


1844] 


tested  hy  the  Meiouic  Cycle, 


20& 


the  months  was  preserved  as  to  buying 
and  selling,  and  other  ordinary  trans- 
actions/' because  it  was  a  compara- 
tively simple  form  of  computation, 
whereas  the  great  solemnity  was  kept 
"  on  the  fourteenth  day  of  Nisan, 
according  to  the  moon,  when  the  sun 
M  in  Aries,"  whereby,  as  Josephus 
continues,  the  Jews  in  so  far  "  to  that 
day  most  religiously  observed  the  ordi- 
nances and  constitutions  of  Moses."* 

From  these  undeniable  authorities, 
therefore,  it  is  plain  that  in  the  first 
century  of  the  Christian  era  the  Pass- 
over was  never  intentionally  celebrated 
before  the  vernal  equinox,  because  the 
occurrence  of  this  equinox  is  distin- 
guished by  the  sun's  entrance  into  that 
particular  sign  which,  by  some  form  of 
calculation,  was  understood  to  have 
preceded,  or  coincided  with,  the  four- 
teenth day  of  Nisan  or  Abib.  And 
since  this  month,  as  the  first  of  the 
sacred  year,  was  measured  by  the  ap- 
pearance of  the  vernal  moon,  and  not 
by  the  popular  form  of  intercalation,  it 
began  when  this  moon  was  at  least  a 
day  old,  because  under  the  most  fa- 
vourable circumstances  she  could  not 
have  been  sooner  discernible ;  and  as 
the  vernal  moon  cannot  begin  her 
course  more  than  half  a  lunation  be- 
fore the  sun's  entrance  into  Aries,  the 
fourteenth  day  of  Nisan  corresponded 
to  some  part  of  the  fifteenth  day  of 
this  moon ;  or,  in  other  words,  the  day 
of  the  Passover  corresponded  to  some 
part  of  that  full  moon  which  happened 
at,  or  next  after,  the  vernal  equinox. 

To  assert,  however,  that  the  Jews 
had  general  rules  of  perfect  character 
for  finding  the  true  or  astronomical 
time  of  their  moveable  feasts  would  be 
to  assert  too  much,  when  we,  with  all 
the  boasted  aids  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury, are  anable  in  extended  tables  to 
avoid  error  in  determining  the  time  of 
oars ;  and,  these  points  being  settled, 
we  are  now  prepared  more  accurately 
to  examine  the  date  of  the  Crucifixion 
at  the  legitimate  season  of  a  Passover. 

Thb  tbar  of  the  Crucifixion, 
then,  it  is  evident,  must  appear  con- 
•Istent  with  the  time  occupied  in  the 
Hie  of  Christ  after  his  baptism,  at  an 
acknowledged  date  in  the  reign  of  Ti- 
berius Caesar,  just  aa  the  account  of 

*  See  Antiqtdties  of  the  Jews  as  re- 
ferred to  in  iiotel9. 


Christ  having  suffered  on  a  Friday 
must  appear  consistent  with  the  occur-^ 
rence  of  a  Passover  not  many  years^ 
afterwards;  and  the  rules  for  using 
the  Metonic  Cycle  and  other  roeasurea 
of  time,  already  detailed  in  this  Maga- 
zine,t  will  show  that  there  are  but  two 
years  from  the  time  of  Christ's  baptisxa 
to  the  latest  reasonable  date  as92gne4 
to  his  Crucifixion,  in  which  the  day 
(as  daylight)  of  the  Passover  could 
possibly  have  corresponded  to  the  sixth 
day  of  the  week,  or  Friday ;  for  Christ 
having  begun  his  public  ministry  pot 
later  than  a.d.  27  i  in  the  year  29,  th<i 
Passover  must  have  happened  on  a 
Sunday,  and  in  the  years  28,  31,  and 
32,  each  on  a  Monday;  while,  as  to 
A.D.  33,  though  the  Passover  was  kept 
in  it  on  a  Friday,  it  could  not  hava 
been  the  year  of  the  Crucifixion,  be- 
cause the  time  occupied  in  the  life  of 
Christ  after  his  baptism  could  not  poa^ 
sibly  have  extended  to  so  late  a  period^ 
as,  I  believe,  is  now  acknowledged  by 
the  highest  authorities ;  and,  therefore, 
all  other  years  being  rejected,  it  only 
remains  to  prove  that  the  day  of  the 
Passover  in  the  year  30  corresponded  to 
the  sixth  day  of  the  week. 

The  Golden  Number,  then,  for  a.s* 
30  was  XII. ;  and,  the  Golden  Number 
being  xii  in  the  4ist  century  b.c,» 
the  date  of  the  full  moon  in  March  waa 
the  sixteenth  day,  in  the  afternoon— 
or,  in  decimals  .        .     16*6^ 

To  which  add  the  anticipation 
of  the  Metonic  Cycle  for  the 
1st  century  c.s.  .         .     18*76 


•^ 


And  the  result  is  .     3 5 '42 

That  is,  the  35th  day  near  noon,  dating 
from  the  first  of  March— which,  of 
course,  means  the  4th  of  April,  abont 
midday ;  but,  when  certain  astrono- 
mical anomalies  are  taken  into  account, 
so  many  hours  must  be  added  to  this 
amount  of  time  that  the  result  will 
prove  the  true  date  of  the  full  mooiii 
A.D.  30,  to  have  been  after  eight  o'clock 
in  the  evening^  of  this  35th  day,  a(}« 
cording  to  our  division  of  the  twenty- 
four  hours,  and  therefore,  in  the  be^ 
ginning  of  the  36th  day,  according  to 
the  Jewish  division  of  them-  ■  • 

And  now,  calling  such  36th  day  the 


* 


t  See  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for 
April  and  Jaly,  1844. 
t  See  Ferguson's  AstronOkny,  p.  d08. 


270 


Sution  CoUfield,  co.  Warwick. 


[Sept 


5th  of  April,  and  counting  the  number 
of  daya  included  between  the  5th  of 
April,  A.o.  30,  and  Friday,  the  5th  of 
April,  A.D.  1844,  it  must  be  concluded 
that  the  Cmc^fisfion  could  not  have  hap- 
pened on  any  other  day,  nor  at  any  other 
date,  than  Friday  the  Sth  of  April, 
A.D.  30. 

Lichfield,  Aug.  I.  J.  R. 

Me.  UaaAN,       ^""''^^^^f^' 

IN  looking  over  Bome  old  numbere 
of  your  Taluable  Magazine  I  happened 
to  come  to  an  account  of  Sutton  Cold- 
field,  Vol.  XXXII.  D.  401,  and  while 
reading  it  over  (which  I  did  with 
some  interest)  it  struck  me  that  some 
further  particulars  relating  to  this  ex- 
tensive parish  might  not  be  unaccept- 
able to  your  readers.  I  have  therefore 
put  together  a  few  circumstances  con- 
nected with  this  place  which  are 
omitted  in  the  former  account. 

Sutton  Coldfield  appears  to  have 
been  early  distinguished  as  a  hunting 
seat  of  our  sovereigns.  The  extensive 
chace  (part  of  which  still  remains  in 
its  original  state)  was  well  stocked 
with  game,  and  the  pools  in  the 
vicinity  were  famous  for  the  bream 
which  they  contained.  King  John 
dates  several  of  his  charters  from 
hence,  and  shortly  afterwards  it  passed 
into  the  hands  of  the  Earls  of  War- 
wick (see  Blount's  Tenures).  Incon- 
sequence of  disputes  between  the  Earl 
of  Warwick  and  Ralph  Basset  of 
Drayton,  the  part  of  the  chace  which 
was  situated  in  Staffordshire  was 
taken  away,  and  the  Warwickshire 
portion  became  called  Sutton  Park : 
at  the  death  of  Richard  Neville,  or  more 
probably  at  that  of  George  Duke  of 
Clarence,  it  lapsed  to  the  Crown,  from 
whom  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII. 
John  Vesey  alias  Uarman,  Bishop 
of  Exeter,  himself  a  native  of  Sutton, 
procured  a  grant  of  Sutton  Park  for  the 
benefit  of  the  inhabitants.  Its  history 
from  this  time  is  very  short.  During  the 
Protectorate  an  attempt  was  made  to 
cultivate  it ;  but  at  the  Restoration  the 
inhabitants  restored  it  to  its  former 
state.  The  park  now  contains  about 
2000  acres  of  heath  and  wood,  and 
six  large  pools,  of  which  three  are  the 
property  of  the  inhabitants,  the  others 
belong  to  private  individuals.  Vesey, 
who«  as  Foiler  Bays^  robbed  his  see  to 


enrich  a  beggarly  village  called  Sutton 
Coldfield,  was  a  most  liberal  bene- 
factor to  this  place;  he  founded  an 
excellent  classical  school  here  for  the 
benefit  of  the  inhabitants,  he  en- 
deavoured to  establish  the  clothing 
trade,  and  he  built  a  large  number  of 
stone  houses  in  various  parts  of  the 
parish;  of  these  nearly  twenty  are 
still  standing.  Moor  Hall,  the  resi- 
dence of  the  prelate,  has  been  almost 
entirely  rebuilt ;  it  is  the  property  of 
the  Hacket  family  (descendants  of 
Andrew  Hacket,  Bishop  of  Lichfield 
and  Coventry  in  1660),  but  the  pre- 
sent inhabitant  is  R.  Garnett,  esq* 
Near  Moor  Hall  is  one  of  the  stone 
houses  built  by  Bishop  Vesey  to  pro- 
tect travellers  over  the  moors  which 
in  those  days  existed  between  Sutton 
and  Tamworth.  The  place  was  so 
notorious  as  to  be  called  the  "  spe* 
lunca  latronum." 

The  town  of  Sutton  consists  of  one 
long  street,  through  which  the  road 
from  Birmingham  to  Lichfield  passes. 
About  the  middle  of  the  street  stands 
the  town  hall,  or  Moot  Hall  as  it  is 
called,  an  ugly  brick  building  of  the 
last  century.  Higher  up  is  one  of 
Bishop  Vesey's  stone  houses,  probably 
his  winter  residence.  The  exterior  is 
almost  entirely  grown  over  with  yew. 
On  the  gable  end  are  the  arms  of  Vesey 
and  Henry  VHI.  and  figures  of  the 
Trinity  and  Virgin  Mary,  rudely  carved 
in  stone,  and  much  dilapidated. 

The  church,  built  of  red  sandstone,  is 
of  various  ages.  The  east  end  is  proba- 
bly as  old  as  the  reign  of  Edward  I. ; 
but  the  chancel  was  rebuilt  in  the  last 
century,  and  the  aisles  were  added  by 
Bishop  Vesey;  in  one  of  them  his 
monument,  a  recumbent  figure  in  full 
canonicals,  is  placed.  The  rest  of  the 
church  is  quite  barren  of  interest; 
there  is  no  stained  glass,  and  but  few 
monuments,  principally  those  of  the 
Jessons  and  Sacheverells,  whose  seats, 
Langley  Hall  and  New  Hall,  are  both 
in  the  parish.  There  is  abo  a  brass 
of  the  notorious  Anthony  Burgess  the 
nonconformist,  who  was  Rector  here 
about  1656.  The  patronage  of  tile 
rectory  belonged  to  the  Riland  familv ; 
from  them  it  was  transferred  to  the 
Bedfords.  The  present  Rectbr  is  the 
Rev.  R.  Williamson,  D.D.  There  are 
two  chapels  of  ease  at  the  hunleta 
of  Hill  and  Walmley,    The  popuhitioA 


1844.] 


Pfopo$ed  Mmummii  to  Southey, 


271 


U  about  4000.    The  Dumber  of  free 
schools  is  eight. 

Sutton  Coldfield  is  governed  by  an 
unreformed  corporation  called  ''The 
Warden  and  Society/'  and  also  by  a 
Lord  High  Steward,  which  office  is 
now  held  by  the  Earl  of  Aylesford. 

Of  historical  events  there  are  few. 
During  the  civil  wars  the  governors  of 
King  £dward  VI.'s  grammar  school 
in  Birmingham  sent  the  marble  bust 
of  that  monarch  to  Sutton  Coldfield 
to  be  kept  in  safety  by  the  Warden,  of 
whom  they  afterwards  received  it  back , 
and  reinstated  it  in  its  usual  place. 
On  the  west  side  of  the  park  stands  a 
clump  of  trees  known  by  the  name  of 
King's  Standing,  said  to  be  the  first 
point  where  Charles  I.  halted  after 
the  battle  of  Edgehill.  This  tradition 
is  partially  confirmed  by  a  mouument 
in  Mlddleton  Church,  four  miles  from 
Sutton,  to  a  Lord  Londonderry  who 
died  of  wounds  received  in  Edgehill 
fight. 

There  are  several  other  places  worthy 
of  notice  in  this  parish.  New  Hall, 
formerly  the  residence  of  the  Sache- 
verells,  is  a  fine  old  place,  and  contains 
many  interesting  relics.  Langley  Hall 
and  Pedimere  Hall  were  both  ancient 
seats,  but  are  now  farm«houses.  Four 
Oaks  Hall  is  a  modern  building,  stand- 
ing in  an  extensive  park ;  it  was  the 
seat  of  the  Luttrells,  and  the  celebrated 
Anne  Lady  Carhampton,  wife  of  Henry 
Duke  of  Cumberland,  resided  here. 
The  present  possessor  is  Sir  Edmund 
Cradock  Hartopp,  Bart. 

Yours,  &c.    A  Fbibnd. 


Mr.  UaBATf,         London,  Aug  17. 
THE  good  citizens  of  Bristol  have 
lately  made  a  move  respecting  a  Mo- 

NUMBNT   to    SOUTBBT,  but   it  IS  mUCh 

to  be  feared  that  they  will  neither 
make  that  exertion,  nor  manifest  that 
zeal  and  taste,  which  are  necessary  to 
the  accomplishment  of  their  object,  in 
a  manner  commensurate  to  the  indivi- 
dual, to  the  place,  and  to  the  present 
age.  Their  monument  to  Chatterton 
is  a  lamentable  failure  ;  their  proposed 
restoration  of  the  fine  and  interesting 
ehmreh  at  Redclife  seems  to  be  slum- 
bering, if  not  quite  dead ;  and  the 
projected  bridge  over  the  Avon,  at 
Clifton,  is  in  a  similar  state.  In  the 
hope  of  kindling  a  spark  of  local  en- 
thuiiaam  and  patriotism,  it  appears 


that  Mr.  Britton  has  addressed  the 
following  letter  "  To  the  Southey  Mo- 
nument  Commitiee ;  "  which  I  think 
you  may  with  great  advantage  insert 
in  your  Magazine,  in  order  to  give  the 
subject  publicity,  and  feel  the  public 
pulse.  Yours,  &c.        T.  E.  J, 

London,  8nd  Aug.  1844. 

**  Gbntlbmen,  I  am  not  a  little  grati* 
fied  to  observe  the  movement  that  has  been 
made  at  Bristol,  relating  to  one  of  its  most 
amiable  and  estimable  natives.  Southey 
deserves  not  only  the  fame  he  has  so  justly 
attained,  but  every  kind  consideration 
and  sincere  regard  which  the  Bristolians 
can  award  to  his  memory :  he  has  ho- 
noured English  literature  and  his  natal 
place;  and  the  latter  will  participate  in 
his  public  honours  y  if  it  duly  appreciates 
his  worth,  and  manifests  that  appreciation 
by  an  appropriate  posthumous  testimoniaL 
A  bust,  a  statue,  or  an  allegorical  rnonu* 
ment  in  a  church,  is  not,  however,  in  my 
estimation,  either  adequate  to  the  object, 
or  novel  enough  for  the  subject.  Shut 
up  within  church-walls,  it  would  be  too 
exclusive,  too  sectarian ;  and  would  appear 
destined  for  the  select  few,  rather  than 
for  the  general  mass  of  society.  Mr* 
Walter  S.  Landor,  whose  writings  are 
replete  with  genius  and  learning,  properly 
observes  that  monuments  in  churches  are 
usually  placed  there  *"  for  profit  and  per- 
quisite.* In  reprobating  the  disgraceful 
practice  of  interring  human  bodies  in 
churches,  he  also  gives  it  as  his  opinion 
that  even  monuments  should  not  be  ad» 
mitted  within  their  walls.  On  this  point 
I  differ  with  him  ;  for  I  think  that  appro- 
priate architectaral  and  sculptural  memo- 
rials may  be  well  and  advantageously 
placed  in  churches  ;  but  they  should  only 
be  devoted  to  persons  who  are  intimately 
associated  with  the  sacred  edifices,  and 
designed  in  forms  and  styles  to  harmonize 
with,  and  embellish,  rather  than  disfigure 
the  buildings  in  which  they  are  placed. 
Mr.  Landor  may  have  been  the  Jiret  to 
express  his  '  public  opinion '  on  these 
subjects,  but  I  have  repeatedly  written 
against  the  danger  and  offensiveness  of 
church  interments,  in  my  '  Cathedral 
Antiquities,'  '  History  of  Bath  Abbey 
Church/  and  other  works. 

"  Long  before  the  late  talented  Mr. 
Kemp,  of  Edinburgh,  made  his  design  for 
the  Seoit  Monument,  I  wrote  to  the  Com- 
mittee, urging  the  propriety  and  peculiar 
applicability  of  a  design  in  the  style  or 
manner  of  an  architectural  crou,  with 
statues,  bas-reliefs,  and  other  ornamental 
appendages,  strictly  analogous  to  the  cha- 
racter of  the  *  Great  Unknown,*  to  his 
literary  works,  and  to  his  country.    I 


272 


The  Worihtes  of  Briitol. 


[Sept 


also  made  sketches  of  sacli  a  design,  but 
did  not  send  tbem  to  the  Committee ;  for 
tbe  extent  Sind  cost  of  its  execntion 
would,  I  fear,  bave  exceeded  tbe  limits  of 
tbe  anticipated  subscription.  It  gave  me 
mucb  pleasure,  afterwwds,  to  see  and  ad- 
vocate Mr.  Kemp*8  designs,  and  I  am 
SiaUy  gratified  to  bear  tbat  tbey  are 
dy  to  be  carried  into  complete  effect. 
Tbis  will  be  tbe  first  cenoUph  of  tbe  kind 
in  tbe  world,  and,  from  its  beauty  and 
originality,  it  is  likely  to  be  imitated  in 
otber  places,  in  commemoration  of  emi- 
nent men.  lliougb  tbis  design  is  on  a 
large,  elaborate,  and  costly  scale,  it  is 
somewhat  deficient  in  its  direct  and  imme- 
diate application  to  tbe  distinguished  per- 
son  to  whose  memorv  it  is  devoted.  It 
has  nothing,  indeed,  personal  but  the 
•ingle  statue  of  Scott,  in  the  whole  compo- 
sition ;  whereas  the  design  I  contem- 
plated embraced  more  of  illustrative  sculp- 
ture, and  otber  objects,  allusive  to  tbe  his- 
tory, antiquities,  literature,  Sec,  of  Scot- 
land. It  was  my  aim  also  to  collect  and 
concentrate  wUhm  ii  copies  of  aii  bis 
literary  works,  in  their  various  and  nu- 
merous editions  and  illustrations,  thus 
amassing  and  preserving  a  bibliographical 
history  of  the  author  and  his  writings. 
It  is  my  suggestion  and  recommendation 
that  something  of  this  kind  be  raised  in 
your  ancient  commercial  city;  but  I  would 
extend  it  to  all  tbe  kmxnknt  wortuiks 
OF  Bristol. 

**  This  subject  has  frequently  and  long 
engrossed  my  attention,  and  my  consider- 
ation of  it  has  been  revived  and  stimu- 
lated by  the  recent  proceedings  com- 
menced in  honour  of  my  old  and  much 
esteemed  friend. 

**  I  first  met  Soutbey  in  Bristol  in  1799 ; 
corresponded  with  him  whilst  he  was  pre- 
paring bis  '  Memoir  and  Works  of  Chat- 
terton ; '  derived  some  valuable  informa- 
tion from  him  when  writing  my  *  History, 
&c.  of  Redcliffe  Church  ; '  and  received 
several  interesting  letters  from  him  daring 
his  residence  at  Keswick.  He  is  fairly 
entitled  to  the  greatest  posthumous  com- 
pliment which  his  fellow  citizens  can  be- 
stow, but  I  think  they  may  do  this  in 
connection  with  a  testimonial  to  other 
meritorious  natives  of  firitftol.  If  this 
suggestion  be  duly  ftlt  by  the  Committee 
and  the  inhabitants,  I  shall  be  prepared 
to  enter  into  full  explanations  and  parti- 
culars of  the  plan  I  have  to  propose  ;  and 
I  am  sanguine  enongh  to  believe  that  a 
Cenotaph  of  Bristol  Worthies  may 
be  designed,  with  so  mucb  novelty,  ap- 
plicability to  place,  persons,  and  events, 
and  so  eminently  effective  in  appearance, 
as  to  form  a  remarkable  and  interesting 
fbature  of  tbe  city. 
0 


'*  Gsnyii^ct  has  left  a  magiiifioent,  b«t 
sadly  mutilated,  monument  to  his  memory 
— Redcliffe    Church  ;    Edward    Coieiim 
founded,   built,  and  endowed  a  valoable 
public    school  ;    Nickoiat   and   T^omcs 
T^Aome    also    founded   a   free   grammar 
school;  and  Alderman  John  Wkiieom,  bom 
of  poor  parents,  amassed  great  wealth  in 
Bristol,  and  gave  it  liberally  to  benefit  the 
inhabitants.     Many  others  might  be  enu> 
merated,  to  shew  tbat  there  have  been  re- 
sidents and  natives  of  the  city,  eminently 
entitled  to  the  respect,  gratitude,  and  emu- 
lation of  all  who  possess  a  spark  of  aamr 
patrim.    In  conclusion,  I  will  venture  to 
quote  a  few  remarks  which  I  made  about 
two  years  ago,  in  an  Essay  printed  by  the 
Churchwardens    of   St.   Mary  Reddille, 
with  their  '  Appeal  to  the  Public '  on  the 
proposed    restoration    of    that    church. 
'  lA>cai  patriotism  is  a  virtue  which  has 
essentially  promoted  the  improvement  and 
importance  of  almost  every  old  city  and 
town  in  Great  Britain.     An  Englishman's 
native  place  and  home  is  naturally  dear  to 
him  :  when  tbe  pleasores  and  cares  of  life 
have  accompanied  him  to  ripe  old  age,  and 
fortune  has  crowned  his  career,  he  medi- 
tates on  the  reminiscences  of  that  home, 
and  of  tbe  relatives  and  friends  with  which 
it  has  been  associated.     Hence  originated 
most  of  the  noble  foundations  and  exem- 
plary charities  which  belong  to  Bristol ; 
hence  tbe  fame  accompanying  tbe  names 
of  Colston,  Cabot,  Penn,  Carr,  Whitson, 
the  Whites,  the  Fitxhardings,  tbe  Tbomes, 
and  the  Canyoges,  of  the  olden  times; 
whilst  those  of  Seyer,  Soutbey,  Freeling, 
Chatterton,  and  many  others  of  the  present, 
are  intimately  associated  with  this  place, 
by  deeds  of  munificent  benevolence  or  by 
works  of  merit.    To  some  of  these  men 
Bristol  is  not  only  indebted  for  mucb  of 
its  fame  and  greatness,  but  thousands  of 
its  natives  have  derived  important  bene- 
fits from  their  good  deeds  and  their  popu- 
lar influence.    Their  names  and  memories 
should  therefore  be  constantly  brought  un- 
der public  notice,  not  merely  to  do  them 
honour,  but  to  rouse  others  to  follow  their 
example.  Portraiie  of  such  of  them  as  are 
not  already  in  the  Council  House,  should  be 
exhibited  and  preserved  in  that  and  other 
public  places  ;    their  monumente  should 
also  be  guarded  with  religious  care ;  and, 
were  such  testimonials  as  the  following  re- 
peated of  all  public  benefactors,  it  would 
still  further  promote  the  cause  of  local  pa- 
triotism :  —A  pious  Meditation,  by  John 
Whiteon,  Alderman  of  the  city  of  Bristol, 
with  some  Account  of  the  author.     By  G. 
S.  Catcott  and  the  Rev.  John  Eden,  8vo. 
1829.     With  a  portrait,  and  view  of  his 
monument.—*  Go  thou  and  do  likewise.* 
**  Yours,  &c.    J.  Brixton," 


273 


REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


Rtehard  HI.   as  Duke  of  Gloueeiter  an  advantage  in  any  case,  if  effected 

fjndKtng  of  England.    By  Caroline  without  the  loss  of  either  facto  or 

A.  Halsted,  author  of  the  "  Ltfe  qf  documento.      She    would   also  have 

Margaret  Beaufort,'*  8ft.  2  voU.  8t;o.  avoided  the  inconsistency  of  being  at 


THE  pages  of  this  work  are  replete 
with  proofs  that  the  author  has  «• 
ercised  the  utmost  pains  and  dili- 
gence, not  only  in  collecting  facto,  but 


once  the  constant  apologist  and  eu- 
logist of  Richard,  and  yet  the  author 
of  such  sentiments  as  the  following : 

"  Very  early,  therefore,  must  the  sub- 


m  comparing  authorities.  The  fault  jcct  of  this  memoir  have  been  inured  to 
we  nna  is,  tbat  she  has  paid  too  much  the  sangmnary  proceedings,  and  been  an 
deference  to  the  latter,  classing  among  eye-witness  of  the  harrowing  scenes, 
them  modern  and  occasional  writers,  which,  so  subversive  of  the  best  feelings 
and  quoting  their  sentimento  and  ex-  ^^  human  naturey  marked  his  youthfol 
pressions  as  if  they  were  really  of  ^^^7? »  ^°^  ^^^7  early,  too,  mast  the  bane- 
weight,  when,  in  truth,  their  means  of  ^  influence  of  a  desire  to  command  and 
information  must  have  been  very  in-  ^^^}°  ^^'  of  disdain  for  the  constituted 


ferior  to  her  own.    It  would  appear  as 
if  she  was  afraid  that  her  materials 
would  prove  too  scanty  for  the  design 
she  had  in  view,  and  that  therefore 
she  was  ready  to  appropriate  all  that 
had  ever  been  written  on  the  subject, 
rather  than  to  build  her  work  afresh 
upon  documentary  evidence,  and  upon 
those  writers  of  nearly  contemporary 
date  who   were  likely  to  have   been 
well  informed.    From  this  cause,  and 
from  an  inclination  for  fine  and  senti- 
mentol  writing,  the  incidento  of  Miss 
Haisted's    biography    are    too   often 
overwhelmed  in  floods  of  commentary, 
and  even  her  professed  impartiality  is 
rendered  ambiguous  by  prolonged  ar- 
gumento  on  both  sides  of  a  question. 
The  views  of  historical  writers  must 
necessarily  change,  and  be  modified, 
as,  in  the  progress  of  their  investiga- 
tions, they  acquire  a  closer  approxima- 
tion to  that  perfect  truth  which  they 
can  very  seldom  succeed  in  attoining. 
So,  whenever  a  fresh  gleam  of  light  Is 
shot  into  the  far-distant  retrospect, 
into  scenes  now  obscure  in  the  depth 
of  centuries,  it  is  desirable  that  they 
should  retouch  their  pictures,  oblite- 
rating the  false  lines  or  colours  made 
when  they  stood  in  imperfect  and  dls- 
advantogeous  lighto, — ^not  merely  pro. 
long  their  canvas,  or  crowd  it  with 
unmeaning  shadows. 

Had  Miss  Halsted  learned  that  in- 
estimable art,  "the  art  to  blot,"  she 
might  posftibly  have   comprised  her 
work  in  one  volume  instead  of  two : 
Gkmt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


aathorities,  and  a  remlution  to  seize  iAs 
throne,  and  wrest  the  sceptre  from  '  the 
Lord's  anointed'  by  open  violence  and 
sacrilegious  fraud,  have  been  engrafted  on 
his  youthful  mind;  and  this,  too,  at  a 
time  of  life  when  impressions  are  most 
durable,  and  the  bias  given  to  the  good  or 
evil  of  maturer  years.    Richard  III.  may 
in  truth  be  said  to  have  been  cradled  by 
ambition,  nurtured  on  desperate  deeds, 
and  inured  by  example  and  tuition,  from 
the  first  dawn  of  reason,  to  consider  a 
crown  as  the  uitimatum  qf  human  happi^ 
nesSf  and  its  attainment  the  sole  object  and 
ehi^  business  qf  life:* 

All  which  is  very  inconsistent  with 
the  general  current  of  the  author's 
narrative,  and    indeed  of  her  com- 
ments, according  to  which,  Richard  of 
York  was  a  boy  only  eight  years  old 
when   his  father   struggled    for    the 
crown,  and   his  brother  attoined  it; 
and  afterwards  continued  the  faithful 
subject  of  the  latter  during  his  not 
brief  reign.     So,  in  p.  83,  the  author 
enlarges  in  these  observations  on  the 
advantoges  which  the  princes  of  the 
house  of  York  are  supposed  to  have 
derived  from  their  sojourn  at  Utrecht. 

"  They  continued  to  abide  there  until 
the  house  of  York  regained  the  ascend- 
ancy, and  King  Edward  IV.  was  esU- 
bllshed  permanently  on  the  throne.  The 
Low  Countries  being  at  this  crisis  the 
seat  of  chiralry,  renowned  for  its  knightly 
spirit,  anddistinguished  throughout  Europe 
by  ite  patronage  of  learning  and  encourage* 
ment  of  the  fine  arts,  the  young  princes 
benefited  materially  by  an  event  which » 
apparently  fraught  with  sach  evU  to  their 

2N 


274 


Retibw.— Mifls  Hakted*a  Rkhard  the  TUrd. 


[Sepl. 


Ikhim,  thus  proTed  to  themadTei  indi- 
Tidoally  of  sinpUr  advantafe.  It  gare 
them  opportamtj  for  mental  evhiire,  aad 
altogether  a  more  aooomplished  edacation 
than  the  dictracted  state  of  England  would 
hare  admitted  at  that  period." 

All  this  is  an  amplification  of  a 
pissiog  assertion  of  Back,  that  the 
princes  bad  at  Utrecht  "  princely 
and  liberal  edacation :"  which  oar 
author's  more  accurate  information 
ooght  rather  to  have  taoght  her  to  re- 
ject than  to  aggravate;  for»  by  her 
own  showing,  their  absence  from  Eng- 
land could  not  have  exceeded  three 
months,  dedacting  from  which  the 
time  consumed  in  trsTelling,  there 
could  have  been  room  for  a  very  brief 
course  of  study  indeed,  even  if  their 
visit  had  been  anticipated,  and  every 

Erovision  made  for  it,  instead  of  its 
sing,  as  it  actually  was,  the  unez- 
pected  flight  of  refugees. 

It  is  on  very  slight  grounds,  as  far 
as  we  can  perceive,  that  Miss  Halsted 
has  formed  her  view  of  the  conduct, 
sentimenu,  and  character  of  Cecily 
Duchess  of  York.  The  following  pas- 
sage  is  an  example  how  far  too  ima- 
ginative she  is  : 

<'  By  bis  ill-judged  marriage  King  Ed. 
ward  forfeited  his  mother's  reapeot,  and 
weakened  her  affection  ;  while  Ckrence's 
Ireaoherons  and  unprincipled  conduct 
warred  with  all  the  better  and  nobler 
features  of  her  nature.  In  the  young 
Dake  of  Gloucester  she  beheld  a  firmness 
of  character  that  contrasted  as  strongly 
with  the  weak  points  of  his  eldest  brother, 
as  his  fidelity  to  this  latter  was  opposed  to 
the  envious  and  ungmerous  acts  which, 
from  his  entrance  into  life,  had  chanus* 
terised  every  movement  of  her  second  son 
towards  his  royal  kinsman.  Richard's 
highly  honourable  career  was  equally  at 
issue  with  that  of  the  ignoble  political 
conduct  of  '  the  false  and  peijured  Cla- 
rence.*  On  his  actions  she  could  dwell 
with  pride  and  pleasure ;  and  on  him, 
therefore,  there  is  little  doubt  that  his 
mother  henceforth  fixed  her  hopes  and 
■trong  affections." 

What,  it  may  be  asked,  had  been 
the  "  actions  "  of  the  "highly  honour- 
able  career"  of  Richard  up  to  this 
time,  namely  1470?  If  any  were 
known,  our  author  would  have  dwelt 
upon  them  as  she  has  on  other  minute 
circumstances :  but  the  truth  seems 
to  be,  that  it  was  at  this  very  time 
that  his  public  career  was  first  com* 


menced.  A  few  pages  on  we  read  thst 
"on  the  26th  of  March,  1470,  the 
King  appointed  Richard  Duke  of  Glou- 
cester, then  hut  teventeem  years  of  age, 
[Clarence  was  three  years  older,]  com- 
missioner of  array  in  the  county  of 
Gloucester,"  and  on  the  16th  of  the 
next  month  a  commissioner  for  a  simi- 
lar purpose  in  the  counties  of  Devon 
and  Cornwall;  of  which  appointments, 
if  he  was  only  named  in  a  com  mission 
with  others,  we  should  think  little,  as 
his  name  may  have  been  inserted  merely 
in  deference  to  his  rank.  However, 
soon  after  (Miss  Halsted  does  not  give 
the  exact  date,  which  was  desirable,) 
the  Duke  of  Gloucester  was  made 
Warden  of  the  Northern  Marches; 
but  before  he  had  even  time  or  oppor- 
tunity to  prove  his  manhood,  be  ac- 
companied the  King  in  his  flight  to  the 
court  of  Burgundy. 

This  is,  as  far  as  we  can  perceive, 
the  summit  of  the  virtue  and  fortitude 
of  the  future  Richard  the  Third,  up  to 
that  period.  If,  as  our  author  suc- 
cessfully shews,  he  was  then  too  young 
to  have  been  guilty  of  some  of  the 
crimes  which  party  writers  or  poets 
have  accumulated  upon  him,  so  was 
he  also  too  young  to  have  proved  him- 
self so  marked  a  contrast  to  his  brother 
Clarence.  Such  high  "actions,"  aa 
ye/,  to  adopt  the  words  of  Gray, 

**  His agt forbade;  nor drramBcribed atone 
His  growing  virtQes,  but  bis  crimes  coBfin'd ; 

Forbade  to  wade  tbroogb  sUogbter  to  a  tbrone, 
And  shut  the  gates  of  mercy  on  mankind." 

The  youthful  disposition  of  Richard 
the  Third  may  form  a  good  subject  for 
ingenious  speculation,  but  such  dis- 
cussions can  never  lead  to  any  certain 
result,  unless  supported,  as  other 
parts  of  history,  by  contemporary  evi- 
dence. The  true  state  of  affairs  in  the 
year  1470  seems  to^ave  been  this: 
the  Earl  of  Warwick,  discontented 
with  the  treatment  he  received  from 
the  King,  conceived  the  project  of 
strengthening  his  influence,  already 
great,  by  alliance  with  Edward's  next 
brother  the  Duke  of  Clarence,  whom 
he  may,  or  may  not,  at  that  time, 
have  destined  to  supersede  the  King.* 

*  Edward  had  then  no  son.  Edward 
the  Fifth  was  bom  on  the  4th  of  Novem- 
ber in  the  same  year.  The  former  cir- 
cnmstanoe  may  have  encouraged  the  am- 
bitious aspirations  of  Clarence. 


1844.] 


Rbvikw.-^MIbs  Halsted's  Richard  the  Third. 


375 


Clarence,  an  anstable  yoang  man,  of 
twenty  years  of  age,  accepted  the  offer 
of  receiving  in  marriage  the  Earl'e 
elder  daughter  and  co-heiress,  and 
from  that  time  he  adhered  to  the  policy 
of  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  in  preference 
to  his  brother.  This  fully  accounts 
for  Clarence's  defection :  but  it  does 
not  create  any  merit  on  the  part  of  his 
younger  brother  Richard,  who  remained 
wholly  dependent  upon  the  King,  with- 
out object  or  incitement  to  desert  him. 
Warwick  did  not  offer  his  younger 
daughter  the  lady  Anne  to  Richard :  if 
it  could  be  shown  that  he  did,  and  that 
Richard  refused  that  offer,  then,  and 
then  only,  might  his  conduct  be  fairly 
contrasted  to  that  of  Clarence. 

The  actions  of  the  great  men  of  the 
feudal  ages  may  be  much  more  safely 
estimated  by  assigning  them  to  party 
rather  than  personal  motives.  They 
could  rarely  act  individually,  but  they 
were  the  slaves  of  alliance.  The  leaders 
of  party  were  not  a  Pitt  and  a  Fox,  a 
Peel  and  a  Russell,  but  on  the  one 
side  the  monarch,  or  the  occupier  of 
his  authority,  and  on  the  other  some 
potent  earl  (whose  adherents  are  ge- 
nerally termed  in  history  "the  Ba- 
rons ")  ;  and  the  scene  of  contest  was 
not  the  house  of  Parliament,  but  the 
open  battlefield. 

The  Duke  of  Clarence  was  allured 
into  the  project  of  forming  an  Oppo- 
sition of  his  own ;  but  there  was  not 
room  for  him.  An  Opposition  already 
existed  in  the  Lancastrian  party ;  his 
proper  part  was  to  have  supported  his 
own  house,  and  his  subsequent  vacil- 
lation shows  that  he  was  sensible  of 
his  monstrous  and  unnatural  position. 

The  conduct  of  Richard  the  Third 
was  subsequently  still  more  monstrous 
and  uonatural  towards  his  infant 
nephews,  left  under  his  tutelage.  But 
at  that  period  we  perceive  on  his  part 
the  adequate  motive  and  the  sufficient 
opportunity.  He  was  already  in  the 
place  and  invested  with  the  power  of 
Kiog ;  he  had  only  to  exercise  that 
power  to  perpetuate  his  sovereignty, 
and  to  achieve  the  regal  name  and 
dignity. 

During  the  reign  of  Edward  the 
Fourth,  however,  he  was  uniformly 
loyal  to  his  brother ;  and  there  is  no 
sober  reason  for  supposing  that  he 
ever  breathed  any  anticipation  of  his 
fiitore  destiny,  whilst  his  brother  was 


surrounded  by  a  numerous  family,  and 
gave  no  promise  of  leaving  them  in 
the  defenceless  state  he  subsequently 
did.  The  unexpected  death  of  Edward 
the  Fourth  placed  Richard  under  that 
strong  temptation  which  he  had  not 
the  virtue  to  resist.  His  great  crime 
is  such  that  it  requires  no  aggravation. 
The  Lancastrian  party  seems  to  have 
thought  it  did,  and  they  therefore 
heaped  upon  him  other  calumnies. 
These  the  researches  of  historical  in- 
quirers may  in  part  remove ;  but  it  is 
too  much  to  expect  that  merits  and 
virtues  must  necessarily  spring  up  in 
their  place,  in  the  character  of  one 
who  was  subsequently  so  deeply  guilty. 
Miss  Halsted,  with  a  zeal  that 
may  be  thought  characteristic  of  a  fe- 
male historian,  labours  hard  to  make 
Richard's  marriage  with  the  Lady 
Anne  Neville  a  love  match,  and  the 
result  of  very  early  attachment.  The 
foundation  of  this  is  a  presumption 
(for  which  there  is  some  slight  an- 
thoritv)  that  Richard  of  York  had  been 
brought  up  under  the  care  of  the  Earl 
of  Warwick.  But,  supposing  that  point 
to  have  been  ascertained,  does  it  thence 
follow  that  he  was  associated  with 
the  Earl's  daughters?  We  do  not 
think  the  manners  of  the  age  are  agree, 
able  to  such  a  supposition.  On  the 
other  hand,  it  is  obvious  that  a  lady 
who  had  been  a  fit  consort  for  the 
eldest  son  of  a  former  King,  was,  when 
again  left  disposable  in  marriage,  ex- 
ceedingly likely  to  be  given  to  the 
nearest  relation  of  the  King  then 
regnant  who  was  in  the  position  to 
receive  her :  and  the  circumstance  of 
her  sister  being  already  the  wife  of 
Richard's  elder  brother  was  one  cal- 
culated rather  to  suggest  suoh  an  al- 
liance than  otherwise.  Our  author 
urges  that  Richard  could  not  have  had 
interested  motives  for  the  marriage, 
because  the  estates  of  Warwick  had 
been  forfeited  to  the  Crown;  whilst 
he  might  have  formed  a  princely  al- 
liance on  the  continent.  The  latter 
course  will  not  be  found  to  have  been 
usual  with  the  junior  princes  of  the 
royal  family.  Large  mone^  dowries 
were  raised  with  difficulty  in  ancient 
times ;  and  a  dowerless  Princess  would 
not  have  been  worth  having.  The 
possession  of  lands  implied  fealty  at 
least,  if  not  residence ;  and  therefore 
a  Prince  could  not  accept  of  laodt 


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Rbtikw. — ^i 


Halsted  8  Riekard  the  Third. 


abroad.  The  nvuX  altcmatWe  was 
for  the  Crown  to  eetablisk  a  younger 
•on  by  marriage  with  the  heiress  of 
some  native  Earldom ;  and  this  prac- 
tice continued  down  to  the  instance 
before  us  of  Richard  Duke  of  Glouces- 
ter. The  circumstance  of  the  lady's 
lands  being  under  forfeiture  was  of 
little  difficulty.  Lands  there  were; 
and  the  forfeiture  was  at  once  removed 
by  the  same  royal  favour  which  pro- 
moted the  marriage. 

The  length  to  which  our  reuMrks 
have  now  estended  leaves  us  but  little 
space  to  speak  of  the  second  volume* 
which  contains  the  history  of  Richard 
as  King.  The  general  facts  of  that 
period  of  his  life  are»  however,  better 
known ;  and  it  may  be  sufficient  to 
say,  that  his  lenient  biographer  con- 
tinues to  view  his  conduct  throughout 
with  a  most  favourable  judgment,  and 
to  explain  away  every  imputation  that 
can  admit  of  dispute.  To  convince 
her  of  Richard's  guilt  she  requires  the 
most  undeniable  evidence.  Lord  Ba- 
con's account  of  King  Richard's  mea- 
sures to  effect  the  murder  of  his 
nephews  is  "  scarcely  within  the 
bounds  of  probability/'  unless  his 
letter  and  credence  were  extant,  to- 
gether with  the  formal  warrant  sent  to 
Brackenbury.  (p.  194) 

For  this  somewhat  unreasonable 
demand  it  is  true  Miss  Halsted  has 
the  example  of  Mr.  Bayley,  the  his- 
torian of  the  Tower  of  London,  this 
being  one  of  the  cases  io  which  she 
has  thought  proper  to  interweave  with 
her  narrative  the  dicta  of  her  prede- 
cessors, whether  to  the  purpose  or  not, 
in  the  manner  we  have  before  de- 
scribed. She  also  follows  Bayley  in 
stating  that  Sir  Thomas  More  has  mis- 
represented the  rank  and  position  of 
Sir  James  Tyrrell,  to  whom  the  King 
is  said  to  have  entrusted  the  execution 
of  the  murder;  but  this  supposition 
is  refuted  by  the  very  means  that  are 
taken  to  demonstrate  it.  The  more 
eminent  the  appointments  of  Sir 
James  Tyrrell  in  the  service  of  the 
crown,  the  less  likely  is  Sir  Thomas 
More,  living  in  the  next  immediate 
generation,  to  have  been  ignorant  of 
his  station  i  and,  as  to  any  alleged 
improbability  in  the  incidents  related, 
such  as  the  King  going  out  into  the 
''pallet  chamber"  of  his  attendant 
koighte,  and  finding  them  asleep^  ace. 


[Sept. 


surely  Sir  Thomas  More,  at  the  interval 
of  only  thirty  years,  was  a  much  better 
judge  how  far  they  were  coDsislent 
wi^  the  manners  and  custoBsa  of  tha 
court  and  times,  than  any  aiodern 
critic  can  be.  More  ia  a  writer  whose 
judgssent  and  veracity  are  alike  en- 
titled to  high  credit,  and  he  affirms. 
"  Very  truth  it  is,  sind  well  known, 
that  at  such  time  as  Sir  James  Tirrdl 
was  in  the  Tower,  for  treason  com- 
mitted against  the  most  fasMUS  prince 
King  Henry  VH.  bodi  Dighton  and 
he  were  examined,  and  confessed  the 
murder  in  manner  above  written." 
To  hope  to  find  the  depositions  of 
Tyrrell  and  Dighton  might  be  an  ex- 
pectation far  less  unreasonable  than 
that  expressed  by  Mr.  Bayley  and  re- 
peated by  Miss  Halsted,  for  probably 
it  was  from  them  that  Sir  Thomaa 
More  derived  his  story.  It  is  true 
there  are  many  points  in  which  that 
story  admits  of  dispute,  and  it  is  twit 
justice  to  Miss  Halsted  to  state  that 
she  has  very  ably,  as  well  as  amply, 
rehearsed  all  the  "  Doubts  "  that  have 
been  raised  by  Walpole  and  his  fol- 
lowers. The  substantial  objections, 
however,  do  not  lie  on  the  surface  of 
the  narrative,  nor  do  they  consist  in 
misconceptions  of  persons,  character, 
or  manners.  If  a  fable,  it  is  a  cun- 
ningly devised  one,  and  as  like  truth 
as  parties  very  competent  to  its  fabri- 
cation could  make  it.  Sir  Thomas 
More  would  not  otherwise  have  adopted 
it  as  the  best  and  most  probable  ac- 
count that  he  could  obtain. 

On  the  whole  our  author,  with  re- 
gard to  her  hero,  adheres  most  per- 
se veringly  to  the  charitable  rule. 

Be  to  his  &ults  a  little  blind, 
And  to  his  virtues  very  kind : 

but  we  cannot  acknowledge  that  she 
has  altered  our  previous  opinion  of  the 
estimation  in  which  Richard's  cha- 
racter is  to  be  regarded.  It  may  be 
admitted  that  others  of  his  time  and 
house  were  as  bad  or  worse.  His 
brother  Edward  was  more  voluptuous, 
and  to  him  may  most  probably  be  at- 
tributed the  murder  of  Henry  VI.  as 
well  as  the  sacrifice  of  his  own  brother 
Clarence.  Clarence  himself  is  utterly 
despicable,  whether  for  principle  or 
for  abilities.  Richard  may  have  been 
more  able,  more  active,  and  more  tem- 
perate, than  either  broU^er ;  but,  whafc* 


]844.] 


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277 


ever  can  be  said,  we  cannot  consider 
him  more  scrupalous  in  his  measares, 
lets  vindictive,  or  less  blood-thirsty. 
If  his  disposal  of  his  royal  nephews 
was  secret  and  mysterious,  his  slaughter 
of  the  Queen's  relatives,  and  his  suc- 
cessive and  sudden  sacrifices  of  his  own 
abettors,  Hastings  and  Buckingham, 
were  done  in  the  face  of  day.  Allow 
him  not  to  have  been  worse  than  his 
age,  still  History  roust  have  the  victim 
of  her  censures,  and  we  do  not  see  that 
Richard  the  Third  is  shown  to  be  other 
than  a  deserving  representative  of  the 
vices  of  the  times. 

For  the  reign  of  Richard  the  Third 
the  most  excellent  historical  materials 
are  afforded  by  the  Register  of  his 
Privy  Seal,  preserved  in  the  Harleian 
MSS.  and  which  now  stands  in  the 
list  of  works  proposed  to  be  printed 
by  the  Camden  Society.  Some  in- 
teresting documents  from  this  source 
were  published  by  Sir  Henry  £Ilis  in 
his  Original  Letters,  and  it  has  of 
course  been  materially  serviceable  to 
Miss  Halsted.  It  is  not  often,  how- 
ever, that  such  official  letters  can  with 
much  probability  be  ascribed  to  the 
King's  own  pen. 

With  respect  to  some  other  highly 
important  letters,  it  is  unfortunate  that 
Miss  Halsted  should  not  have  been 
aware  of  the  volume  of  extracts  from 
the  Municipal  Records  of  York,  pub- 
lished in  1843  by  Robert  Davies,  esq. 
F.S.A.  the  Town  Clerk  of  that  city. 
In  that  work  there  are  accurate  copies 
of  those  letters,  in  which  some  im- 
portant errors  were  made  by  the  old 
nistorian  Drake.  Thus  in  p.  72  our 
author  has  been  misled  to  say, 

**  Accordingly,  on  the  eighth  instant,  by 
the  hand  of  one  of  his  faithful  adherents, 
Thomss  Brackenbury,  he  renewed  his 
former  connexion  with  the  city  of  York, 
by  writing  to  the  authorities  of  that  place,'' 

when  the  letter  is  really  dated  the  5th, 
not  the  8th,  of  June,  and  was  sent,  not 
by  Thomas,  but  by  "John  Braken- 
bcry,"  not  "  our  servant,"  but  "  your 
servant," — tliat  is,  he  was  "gentle- 
man at  mace  "  to  the  mayor  of  York, 
by  whom  and  the  citizens  he  had  been 
sent  to  the  King,  on  their  own  business, 
on  the  24th  of  April.  In  the  letter 
printed  by  Miss  Halsted,  vol.  ii.  p. 
558,  the  word  dlier  (1.  7)  should  be 
"svert;"  meuage  (p.  559>  I*  1)  mes* 
•agca;  bting  (U  5)  bene,  t.e,  are ;  U  8| 


the  word  "great"  is  omitted  before 
"  heaviness  ;"  and  the  date  is,  accord- 
ing to  Mr.  Davies,  the  5th,  not  the 
nth,  of  April. 

Miss  Halsted's  volumes  are  embel- 
lished with  an  engraving  (the  first 
that  has  been  made)  of  an  original 
portrait  of  King  Richard,  in  the  pos- 
session of  Lord  Stafford  at  Costessy 
Park,  which  is  certainly  an  acquisition. 
To  the  second  volume  is  prefixed  a 
fac-simile  of  the  figures  of  Richard, 
his  queen,  and  son,  on  Rous's  roll  at 
the  College  of  Arms,  already  published 
in  Wal pole's  Historic  Doubts.  In 
praise  of  these  Miss  Halsted  quotes 
the  opinion  of  the  late  Mr.  Seguier, 
that  "  illuminated  drawings,  having 
attained  their  highest  perfection  during 
the  15th  century,  are  considered  su- 
perior even  to  oil  paintings  as  faithful 
illustrations,  in  consequence  of  the 
latter  art  being  at  that  era  yet  in  its 
infancy;"  but  surely  Mr.  Seguier's 
opinion  was  directed  to  elaborately 
finished  miniatures,  not  to  such  mere 
heraldic  trickings  as  those  of  Rous's 
roll. 

The  seal  of  Richard  as  Lord  Admiral, 
engraved  iu  vol.  i.  p.  227«  is  misinter- 
preted as  showing  that  "  he  was  in- 
vested with  the  earldoms  of  Dorset  and 
Somerset."  The  meaning  of  the  legend 
is — 

"  The  Seal  of  Richard  dnke  of  Glouoes- 
ter,  sdmiral  of  England,  in  the  counties 
of  Dorset  and  Somerset.*' 

— that  is,  it  was  the  seal  for  the  juris- 
diction of  Admiral  on  the  coasts  of 
those  counties.  The  flag  is  supported 
by  a  greyhound,  not  a  dragon. 

In  the  "autograph"  letter  of  tlie 
King,  of  which  a  fac- simile  is  given  at 
vol.  ii.  p.  346 — 

**  My  lorde  Chaunceler,  We  pray  you  in 
slle  hast  to  sende  to  us  a  pardon  under 
our  Gret  Scale  to  sir  Kerry  Wode,  preste, 
&c.  and  this  shalbe  yo'  warrant. 
RiCABous  Rbz. 

J#'.  Skypton,  tpede  ihyt  forth 
wyth  ex'an  ^expedition). 

Jo.  Lincoln." 

we  doubt  whether  more  than  the  sig- 
nature was  written  by  the  King.  The 
addition  is  all  evidently  by  the  Chan- 
cellor John  Russell,  Bishop  of  Lincoln, 
and  the  signature  is  "Jo.  Lincoln," 
not  "Jo.  Omcots,  perhaps  the  Chan- 
cellor's secretary. 


»» 


mmm 


378 


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[Sept. 


the  philological  evideDce  which  may 
eiitt  in  the  proYincce  they  undertake 
to  illostrate,  that  the  British  and  Ro- 
mano. British  inhabitants  are  not  at* 
ttrly  eradicated.  The  districts  irst 
sabjected  to  Saxon  iuTasion  prolwbly 
snifered  from  a  warlike  of  Uie  moat 
exterminating  character.  Later  ac- 
quisitions of  the  Saxon  chieftains 
were  probably  made  on  terms  of  for- 
bearance on  one  part,  and  submission 
on  the  other.  On  this  point  the  fol- 
lowing remark  is  very  pertinent : 

"  We  can  onlj  trriye  bj  deductions  at 
sn  ides  of  the  component  parts  of  the 
sgricultorsl  or  serrile  class  in  F^g^^Tid 
in  the  earlier  period  of  die  Saxon  rale. 
Tlie  old  ehroaldes  tell  ns  that  the  Ani^ 
sad  Saxons  came  in  each  anmbers  to  s^Ue 
in  this  islsad,  that  they  left  their  original 
country  entirttly  destitute  of  populatiaa  { 
they  must  therefore  have  brought  with 
them  a  serrile  class  of  settlers*  amdj  to 
cultivate  the  lauds  that  were  to  be  shared 
amongst  them. 

<*  As  the  Saxons  extended  their  con* 
quests,  the  ▼anquished  Romano-British 
population  was  added  to  the  serrile  class. 
The  change  in  their  oondidon  was  much 
smaller  than  we  are  in  the  habit  of  sup- 
posing.   There  can  be  no  doubt  that  rae 
sgricultural  population,  under  the  Bomans« 
preeented  the  saaae  physiognomy  i  it  was 
only  a  Roman  ^lenaMwho  changed  hie 
lord  and  became  a  Saxon  lAsew.    But  thm 
free  inhabitants  of  the  cities,  and  oaptiTsa 
of  every  class,  were  (perhaps  with  cxoep* 
tioDs)  reduced  to  the  same  condition.  Wa 
perceive  in  this  manner  how  the  rural 
population  differed,  at  least  in  the  propor- 
tioDB  of  its  component  parts.     In  the  first 
Anglo-Saxon    kingdoms,    Kent,    Essex, 
Wesaex,  fcc.  the  foreign  race  of  seifi, 
who  came  in  as  iuTsders,  must  have  fonaed 
the  Isrgest  psrt,  perhaps  in  lome  districts 
the  whole  msss,  of  the  sgrioulturslists. 
In  the  later  oooqaests — ^Merda,  the  ex« 
treme  parts  of  the  Northumbrian  king- 
dom, and  tlie  western  parts  of  the  islaiMl 
--rthere  must  have  been  a  large,  and  lome- 
timet  a  preponderating,  mixture  of  the 
older  British  population.    To  the  gradual 
melting  together  of  these  races  we  may 

»  -«..-   *'  .nM   trt   alaverv   bv     attribute  much  of  the  difference  which  is 

By  persons  sold  to  Jla^ery  oj  ^^  observed  in  the  physical  character, 
themselves"  we  suppose  the  auAor  ^^^^^^he  peasantry  Jf  different  counties, 
allades  to  the  naitm  eonventtonam  or  ^^        ^^  ^^  ^^  Tsriations  of 

our  old  law  authorities,  who  became     ^^^n 
villeins  not  by  birth  or  stocit,  as  the 
natwi  de  $U^ie,  but  by  contract  or 
Rgreement.  . 

The  following  remark  is  curious, 
and  it  would  be  well  that  county  his- 
toriana  should  turn  their  attention  to 


Arch^tologia.  or  MkoMmeauM  TVaeU 
rthHng  to  Amiiqmiji,  publuKed  6y 
lAe  BocUltof  AmiiquarUtqf  lAmdtm. 
Vol.  XXX.  pi.  2. 
THE  publication  of  the  concluding 

portion  of  the  Society's  thirtieth  vo. 

fume  enables  us  to  continue  our  analysis 

of  its  contents. 

19.  On  th€  PoUtieal  Condition  of  tho 

EngUih  Peoiomtry  dwrvM  the  MidiU 

4ae$.    fly  Thorna*  Wright,  es^.  31.-4. 

The  origintl  condition,  the  transition 
steps,  and  the  gradual  emancipation 
of  the  human  race  from  the  yoke  of 
bondage,  U  one  of  the  most  inUresUng 
lubjecu  on  which  researches  of  anti. 
Quaries  can  be  employed;  and  the 
author  of  the  essay  before  us  is  every 
way  well  qualified  for  an  inquiry  of 
this  nature. 

Mr.  Wright  informs  us, 

*«  It  is  not  geaerslly  known  tiisl  the 
nusl  popaUtlon  of  BngUnd  U  art  enly 
the  leJiSienUtive  of  a  dsss  of  slaves,  but 
that  it  U  origiaaUy  by  blood  of  a  diffijre^ 
race  from  the  pure  Anglo-Saxon  stock. 
When  we  trace  back  the  history  of  the 
different  tribes  of  the  greet  Gcmamc  rsM 
to  the  earliest  times,  we  always  find  society 
consisting  of  two  dUtlnct  portions,  free, 
men  and  slaves,  one  portion  being  the 
masters,  the  other  the  cultivators,  of  the 
SOU  they  inhabited.     I  do  not  mean  to 
say  thst  this  is  s  peculiar  charactensUc 
of  the  Teutonic  tribes,  for  we  find  the 
ssme  state  of  things  among  other  nations 
of  antiquity,  and  in  Russia  a  suniUr  di- 
rision  of  the  popuUtion  remains  to  the 
present  day.    We  have  no  historical  ac- 
count of  the  origin  of  this  state  of  societv, 
but  many  circumstances  combine  in  lead- 
Inc  ns  to  conclude  that  the  division  first 
wose  from  conquest,  that  the  cultivators 
of  the  land  were  the  remnant  of  a  preceding 
race  which  hsd  been  subdued  by  wcipi 
invasion.  To  these  were  afterwards  sdded, 
captives  msde  in  wsrlike  expeditions,  per- 
sons sold  into  slavery  by  themselves  or 
by  others,  and  others  who  were  condemned 
to  slavery  for  offences  sgsinst  the  laws. 


20.  Oil  f  As  Eastern  Terminut  qf  tkM 
Wall  of  Antoninxu,  By  the  Rev. 
Richard  Garoett,  A$nx»tant  Librarian 
of  the  British  Museum, 

The  object  of  this  communication  is 


1844.] 


B,Mmvt.^Afehaologkf  Vol  XXX. 


279 


to  flbow  that  Kinneil  was  the  real  ter- 
mination of  the  wall  of  Antoninus,  an 
opinion  countenanced  by  Horsley. 

The  following  elucidation  of  the 
origin  of  the  name  Kinneil  is  at  once 
curions  and  satisfactory : 

"In  the  Durham  copies  of  Nennivs, 
appsrenUy  of  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth 
oeatories,  there  is  an  interpolated  passage 
in  the  part  where  Antoninus's  wall  is  men- 
tioned, stating  that  the  tennination  of  it 
was  ealled  by  the  Britons  Pen  Qaanl  [Pen 
Gwall] ,  Seoiiei  (that  is^  in  the  Gaelic  hm- 
guaga)  Cenail,  Anglici  vero    Peneltwi. 
Innes  and   others  liaYe  remarked   that 
Cenail  iS|  in  all  probability,  the  present 
Kinneil,  and  therefore  the  locality  de- 
scribed by  Bede  under  the  Piotish  desig* 
nation  of  Peannfahel.    But  no  one,  as  far 
as  the  writer  knows,  has  observed  that 
Cenail  is,  in  fact,  of  synonymous  import 
with  the  British  and  Pictiah  appellations. 
Ceann  in  Gaelio  answers  to  the  British 
pen,  head;  fai  is  a   wall   or  rampart. 
Wairs  Head  would,  according  to  the  rules 
of  GaeUc  construction,  be  Ceann  fhail, 
/h   being   quiescent;    consequently  the 
pronunciation  would  be  exactly  the  same 
as  that  of  the  term   given  by  Nennius. 
In  ancient  Irish  MSB.  the  silent  fh  is 
not  uncommonly    omitted   in    writing  { 
do-n-acoM  for  db-fi^Aacof,  he  saw }  gania 
for  ffam-fhio$t  without  knowledge.   Of  the 
substitution  of  ceii  or  eeatm  for  pen,  there 
is  another  remarkable  example  on  the  line 
of  the  wall,  namely,  Caer-pen-taloch,  now 
Kirkintnlloch,  in  Dumbartonshire.    The 
change  was  not  brought  about,  as  Chalmers 
supposes,  by  turning  eaer  into  kirkf  and 
dropping  p,  but   simply  by  the   Scots 
translating    the  second  syllable  of   the 
British  name  into  one  of  identical  Bigni« 
fication  in  their  own  language.  The  mean- 
ing  is,  tiie  town  at  the  end  of  the  hill ; 
Welsh  iwicht  Gaelic  tuiach,  a  hiU.** 

The  most  probable  origin  of  the 
term  Graham's  or  Grime's  Dyke,  given 
to  this  military  earth-work  in  later 
days,  as  the  trench  of  the  Grima  or 
wizard,*  seems  to  have  escaped  the 
cognizance  of  the  author. 

2 1 .  On  a  recently  opened  IStmulus  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Asierahad,  forming 
pari  of  Ancient  Hgrcania,  and  the 
country  of  the  Parthiane,  By  Baron 
Clement  Augustus  de  Bode. 

The  author  tells  us  that  in  the 
spring  of  1841  the  Beglerbeg  or  Chief 
of  Asterabad,  a  proTince  on  the  south- 

*  See  Lye  in  voce,  Epima,  Yeneflos, 
Masea. 


eastern  shores  of  the  Caspian  sea,  sent 
to  the  Shah  of  Persia  some  ancient 
gold  vessels  and  other  articles  which 
had  been  found  in  an  artificial  mound 
near  the  town  of  Asterabad.  Con- 
sidering that  this  discovery  might  in- 
terest the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  and 
aid  them  in  their  researches  relative 
to  the  ancient  Scythians  and  Par- 
thians,  the  Baron  de  Bode  submitted 
to  them  drawings  of  the  relics  and  a 
topographical  notice  of  the  site  of  the 
mound  in  which  they  were  contained, 
12  miles  N.E.  of  the  town  of  As- 
terabad, bordering  on  the  Turkoman 
plain  of  the  Yamun  tribe,  and  known 
to  the  natives  under  the  appellation 
of  Turengtepeh,  or  the  mound  of  the 
pheasant. 

The  contents  of  this  tumulus  were 
rich  and  extraordinary.    A  goblet  of 
gold  weighing  36  ounces,  embossed 
with  the  figures  of  a  man  and  woman, 
whose  costume  is  described ;   in  the 
hand  of  the  man  appears  a  sort  of 
pruning  knife,  still  in  use  among  the 
peasants  of  Asterabad  ;  a  golden  lamp 
weighing  70  ounces}  a  golden  pot  II 
ounces  i  two  small  trumpets  weighing 
5i  ounces,  similar  to  trumpets  used 
in  Persia  at  the  nagharihaneh,  or  pa- 
vilion where  music   is  performed  at 
sunset  in  honour  of  the  Shah;  two 
rudely  carved  trunks  of  female  figures 
of  stone;   various  offensive  and  de- 
fensive weapons  of   copper  covered 
with  verdigris.  There  are  no  iron  mines 
in  Khorassan  or  Asterabad,  but  cop- 
per ore  is  found  in  the  beds  of  the 
rivers.    This  discovery  was  not  with- 
out the  most  cruel  infliction  on  the 
workmen  who  were  engaged  in  it; 
one  disappeared  altogether,  and  the 
other  had  his  tongue  cut  out  to  in- 
sore  bis  silence  on  the  entire  contents 
of  the  tomb,  of  which  the  governor  was 
supposed  to  have  appropriated  a  large 
portion  to  himself. 

That  these  remains  belong  to  the 
Scythian  race  the  writer  would  infer 
from  the  curious  statement  given  by 
Herodotus,  that  "After  they  (the 
mourners  of  a  Scythian  king)  have 
deposited  the  body  within  the  tomb, 
on  a  bed  of  heath,  they  stick  javelins 
on  either  side  of  and  close  to  the 
corpse,  and,  placing  wooden  bars  on 
the  top  of  these,  roof  the  whole  in 
with  willow.  In  the  wide  space  of  the 
fosse  that  remains^  they  bury  one  of 


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his  (the  deceased  kiog's)  concubines, 
whom  they  first  strangle,  the  cap« 
bearer,  the  cook,  the  groom,  one  of 
the  serrants,  and  the  messenger,  to- 
gether  with  some  horses,  the  firstlings 
of  all  things,  and  some  if  olden  beaken; 
indeed  they  never  use  either  siWer  or 
brass.  When  they  have  done  this 
they  all  set  about  raising  a  great  bar- 
row, vying  with  one  another,  and  en- 
deavouring to  make  it  as  large  as  pos- 
sible." 

The  author  thinks  that  the  mean- 
ing of  Herodotus  in  the  exclusive  men- 
tion of  gold  ve»9€l»  is,  that  such  alone 
were  used  at  the  board  of  Scythian 
monarchs ;  the  Scjrthian  weapons  were 
not  of  course  formed  of  that  metal. 

The  passage  relative  to  sepulchral 
mounds  he  thinks  explains  the  fact  of 
their  existing  in  such  numbers  in  the 
plains  of  Persia,  Torcomania,  and  the 
steppes  of  Southern  Russia. 

22.  The  King  of  Birds  ;  or,  the  Lag 
of  the  Phoenix :  an  Anglo-  Saxon  Song  oj 
the  Tenth  or  Eleventh  Century.  Now 
Jtret  tramlated  into  the  metre  and  al» 
Uteration  of  the  Original,  Eg  George 
Stephens,  Esq.  Author  of  a  TVemjJa- 
tion  of  FHthiofi  Saga,  Sfe* 

The  ancient  Myth  of  the  Phoenix  is 
supposed  to  be  typical  of  the  immor- 
tality of  the  soul.  The  eastern  tra- 
dition is,  that  she  is  an  Arabian  bird, 
about  the  size  of  an  eagle,  which  lives 
for  six  hundred  years ;  at  the  end  of  that 
period  she  builds  a  nest  of  materials 
so  combustible  that  they  may  be  fired 
by  the  rays  of  the  sun ;  these  being 
consumed,  a  new  Phoenix  arises  from 
a  worm  engendered  in  the  ashes, 
which,  in  the  same  way,  keeps  op  the 
perpetuity  of  the  race.  To  this  tale 
we  suppose  the  author  alludes  when 
he  says  the  fable  of  the  Phoenix  had 
its  rise  in  the  fanciful  and  gorgeous 
East.  He  tells  us  the  Fathers  of  the 
Christian  Church  were  the  first  to  re- 
store its  hidden  meaning.  The  argu- 
ment of  the  poem  will  be  a  safficient 
description  of  its  general  character. 

"Canto  1.  Contains  a  richly  painted 
description  of  the  happy  bower-land  of 
the  East,  the  care-free,  spotless,  and 
shining  sunfield  of  the  earth.  When  the 
great  flood  came,  its  beauties  remained 
untarnished,  nor  will  aught  scathe  them 
tUl  the  whole  world  shall  perish  and  be 
consnmed. 

«<  Canto  2.  This  blessed  paradise  is  the 
7 


sbode  of  the  PhoeBiz,  who  nikfh  all  aloBe 
in  its  grove-land.  The  manner  of  life  of 
this  wondrous  bird.  His  most  match- 
less song.  After  a  thousand  years  have 
rolled  away,  he  retreats  among  crowdiB^ 
fowl-dans  to  a  tree  named  frmn  himself 
the  Phoenix-tree,  in  the  desert  aftr. 

"  Canto  3.  Hie  age-woni  fowl-kin^ 
here  coUecteth  all  herbs  and  spices  sweet- 
est and  fairest,  and  buildeth  him  a  nest- 
hall,  which  anon  takes  fire  and  biases 
high,  the  flames  eonsnming  both  nest  and 
wwder.  Hereafter  fbUoweth  its  strange 
re-birth,  first  as  a  worm,  then  as  an  eaglet, 
and  at  last  as  the  full  grown  Phoenix. 
The  likeness  of  this  to  the  deeay  and 
fresh-rising  of  seed-oom  in  the  earth. 

'*  Canto  4.  After  its  flre-death  the  aew- 
boru  fowl  ooHecteth  the  ashes  of  his  elder 
into  a  flower-garlanded  ball,  and  hastes 
therewith  baek  to  his  old  mead  of  bliss.  A 
description  of  his  beantiftil  form  and  of  his 
shining  feathers.  His  flight  homewuds, 
the  wonder  of  gasing  nations.  Crowding 
bird -throngs  follow  him  in  his  oonrse* 
carolling  his  praise  and  proclaiming  him 
their  king. 

**  Canto  5.  The  Phoenix,  sore  of  a 
glorious  resurrection,  despiseth death  and 
the  grave.  This  a  figure  of  the  fall  and 
bani^ment  of  man,  and  of  bis  happy 
restoration  to  Paradise  by  Christ.  The 
Phoenix-nest  showeth  forth  theChnrdi,  all 
whose  champion  members  bnild  them  in 
its  shade  retreats  from  sin  and  crime. 
Clothing  themselves  there  with  the  sweet 
herbs  of  good  works,  charity,  and  a 
lively  faith,  they  pass  through  the  fires  of 
dissolution  to  life  and  halls  eternal  and 
fiill  of  glory.  Their  happiness  in  the  new 
heavens  and  the  new  earth  which  after  the 
Judgment  arise  from  thephoenix-ashes  of 
a  perishing  creation.  The  day  of  doom 
described. 

"  Canto  6.  The  fire-death  and  fire- 
youth  of  the  king  of  birds  pictures  the 
immortality  of  the  soul  in  general ;  this, 
fortified  by  tiie  testimony  of  Job|  as 
chanted  in  the  days  of  old. 

"  Canto  7.  The  great  Phoenix  is  Christ ; 
his  fellow  fowls,  happy  souls  of  the  re- 
deemed, throng  with  him  in  glory  abont 
the  throne  of  God.  The  unspeakidile  de- 
lights of  heaven.  The  song  of  the  just  in 
light." 

The  Anglo-Saxon  poem  of  the 
Phoenix,  the  theme  of  Mr.  Stephens's 
paraphrase,  is  extant  in  a  MS.  pre- 
sented to  the  see  of  Exeter  by  Leofric, 
bishop  of  that  diocese,  circ.  a.d.  1050, 
the  precise  age  of  which  is  not  known. 
The  paraphrase  is  comprised  in  about 
fourteen  hundred  lines,  the  principal 
attraction  of  which  must  be  the  Sfwm* 


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iimt  which  they  present,  for,  at  a  poem, 
they  are  somewhat  tedious,  and  do 
not  possess  the  dignity  of  the  strains 
of  the  Anglo-Saxon  Milton,  Ccedmon, 
The  following  stanzas  narrate  the  re- 
generation of  the  immortal  hird,  in 
which  the  resarrection  of  man  is  typi- 
fied. 

"  Up  from  thoie  sshes. 
Out  from  that  dust-heap, 
Springs  then  what  aeemeth 
Shaped  lilce  an  apple. 
Wazeth  a  worm  tbencei 
WondroQsly  handsome, 
As  from  roand  eggs  he 
Eagerly  crept  bim 
Sheer  from  the  shell. 
In  shade  then  he  groweth, 
Breasted  and  beak'd  like  the 
Brood  in  the  eyrie, 
Fowl-youDgling  fairest, 
Tet  frirther  ont-swelling, 
Mid  blisses  he  bnddeth. 
Budded  and  framed  as  the 
Eagle  when  old-flown. 
Soon  then  thereafter. 
With  feathers  rich  fretted. 
He  soars  as  at  first— all 
Blooming  and  brightsome. 
Bird  waxing  quickly 
Fresh  as  to-fore,  and 
Fitly  in  all  things 
Sunder'd  from  sin." 

The  glossary  appended  to  the  poem 
is  replete  with  words^  and  idioms 
strikingly  iUastrative  of  the  construc- 
tion and  native  force  of  the  language 
of  the  Anglo-Saxons. 

23.  On  ;S/ofie  Skoifotmi  m  the  Ditch 
^f  the  Jhwer  of  Loidon.  In  a  htter 
from  Robert  Porrett,  Eeq.  F,S.A. 

During  the  progress  of  the  conver- 
sion of  the  Tower  moat  into  a  dry 
ditch,  for  the  purpose  of  getting  rid  of 
the  unhealthy  exhalations  which  so 
large  a  body  of  standing  water  pro- 
duced, upwards  of  30  stone  shot  of 
various  diameters  from  10  inches  to  4i 
inches  were  found  imbedded  in  the 
mud.  Tliey  were  composed  of  Kentish 
rag,  doubtless  from  the  Maidstone 
quarries.  A  record  is  extant  that  in 
the  reign  of  Henry  V.  a.d.  1418,  an 
order  was  given  for  seven  thousand 
cannon  balls  to  be  made  from  the 
Maidstone  quarries.*  Mr.  Porrett 
shews  that  the  Tower,  then  in  custody 

«   *  Brayley's  Hist,  of  Kent,  p.  1278. 
Rymer. 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


of  Lord  Scales,  was  assaulted  in  the 
year  1460  by  the  Yorkist  party,  under 
the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  Lord  Cobham, 
and  Sir  John  Wenlock.  They  estab* 
lished  a  battery  in  Southwark,  and 
the  shot  fired  across  the  river  against 
the  Tower  walls,  rebounded  and  fell 
into  the  ditch.  Many  of  these  pro- 
jectiles were  split  in  two.  Two  of 
them  were  taken  up  from  the  bed  of 
the  river  above  low- water  mark,  im- 
mediately opposite  the  water-gate 
known  as  the  Traitor's  Gate.  A  large 
stone  shot,  probably  also  projected 
from  the  Southwark  battery,  was  lately 
dug  up  within  the  area  of  the  fortress, 
north-east  of  the  White  Tower.  Stone 
shot,  it  appears,  were  used  by  the 
Tnrks  in  1453,  at  the  siege  of  Con- 
stantinople. It  is  well  known,  we 
may  observe,  that  those  people  still 
employ  them  for  their  artillery,  and 
that  the  columns  of  ruined  buildings 
of  the  classic  age  have  been  appropri- 
ated by  them  to  form  cannon  balls. 
(7b  be  eoHtmued») 

PubKeatimu  ^  the  CaMn  Society,  7Wo 
.  volt.     Tracts  relating  to  the  JRrfoT' 

motion.  Vol.  /.    Comsien/arteff,  VbL 

I.  {Romane.)     Edited  by  Henry  Be« 

veridge,  Esq.  Svo, 

THERE  is  perhaps  no  name  to 
which  a  greater  share  of  popular  dis- 
like attaches  than  that  of  Calvin* 
The  eminence  which  he  enjoyed  dur- 
ing his  lifetime  has  been  paid  by  the 
ill-will  with  which  his  memory  is 
regarded  by  numbers.  We  need  not 
go  far  for  the  causes,  since  they  will 
be  readily  found  in  the  sternness  of 
his  character  and  his  creed.  Nor 
need  we  attempt  to  explain .  them 
away,  when  they  are  virtually  al* 
lowed,  and  justly  characterised,  by  a 
friendly  historian,  the  late  Mr.  John 
Scott,  the  continuator  of  M  liner's 
Church  History,  in  a  comparison  of 
Calvin  with  Luther,  (Ecolampadiosi 
and  Melancthon.  (Contin.  vol.  iii.  p. 
492.)  It  is  too  long  to  quote,  but  we 
give  the  summing  up  in  the  last  para- 
graph :  "  The  first  among  them,  we 
may  perhaps  pronounce,  in  sheer  intel- 
lect, he  fell  short  of  more  than  one  of 
them  in  the  powers  of  imagination, 
and  of  all  of  them  in  warmth  of  heart. 
Hence,  while  he  commands  our  vene- 
ration, he  does  not  equally  attract  our 
attention." 

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The  attentive  reader  of  Hooker 
must  have  been  struck  with  the 
praises  which  that  writer,  who  is 
eminently  styled  Judieiow,  has  be- 
stowed on  Cslrin,  in  the  preface  to 
his  Ecclesiastical  Polity.  He  terms 
him  "  iacomparably  the  wisest  man 
that  ever  the  French  Church  did  en- 
joy." He  compares  liis  retarn  to 
Geneva  to  that  of  Cicero  to  Rome, 
after  his  banishment,  a  parallel  which 
probably  means  the  highest  eulogy. 
He  says  further,  "  the  perfectest  di- 
vines  were  judged  they  which  were 
skilfuUest  in  Calvin's  writings ;  his 
books  almost  the  very  canon  to  judge 
both  doctrine  and  discipline  by ;"  and 
agatD,  that  his  Institutes  and  his  Com- 
mentaries "  have  deservedly  procured 
him  honour  throughout  the  world." 
Mr.  Scott  hss  collected  other  testimo- 
nies from  Bishop  Andrews,  Heylin, 
Sanderson,  and  Poole,  the  author  of 
Synopsis.  In  the  last  generation. 
Bishop  Horsley  undertook  his  defence 
(see  Appendix  to  his  Sermons),  and 
elsewhere  acknowledged  "  he  is  one 
of  the  comroeotators  whom  1  fre- 
quently consult."  £ven  Arminius, 
whose  name  now  stands  as  a  contro- 
versial  Se9to$  to  the  Abydo§  of  Cal- 
vin's, says,  "  After  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures I  exhort  the  students  to  read  the 

Commentaries  of  Calvin for 

I  tell  them  that  he  is  incomparable  in 
the  interpretation  of  Scriptore;  and 
that  his  Commentaries  ought  to  be 
held  in  greater  estimation  than  all 
that  is  delivered  to  us  in  the  writings 
of  the  ancient  Christian  fathers." 
(Declaration  of  Arminius,  in  The 
Christian  Observer,  1807»  p.  179.) 
That  Arminius  could  so  express  him* 
self  will  be  a  matter  of  astonish* 
ment  to  some  of  our  readers ;  bat  we 
cannot  make  him  unsay  his  own 
words. 

The  latest  writer  whom  we  would 
quote  on  the  subject  is  the  American 
Moses  Stuart,  with  whom  the  Cal* 
Tinbtic  school  (if  they  are  rightly 
termed  so)  are  at  issue  on  some 
points.  Yet,  in  speaking  of  the  Com- 
mentary on  the  Romans  (which  is 
•ne  of  the  volumes  now  republished), 
he  says,  "  Many  a  difficulty  is  solved, 
without  any  appearance  of  effort  or 
any  shew  of  learning.  Calvin  is  by 
iar  the  most  distingnished  of  all  the 
commentalori  of  his  timet."  Periiape 


we  should  add  the  remarks  of  Mr. 
Orme:  "  His  dogmata  prejudice 
many  against  his  writings  who  might 
derive  profit  froin  sitting  at  the  feet 
of  the  (jenevese  reformer*  His  pecu- 
liar sentiments,  however,  it  ought  to 
be  remarked,  are  by  no  means  forced 
into  his  expository  writings.  He  was 
too  judicious  to  do  this*"  (Bibliotheca 
Biblica,  art.  Calvin.) 

The  plan  of  the  C^alvin  Society  is 
similar  to  that  of  the  Parker,  Wodrow, 
Camden,  and  other  societies,  only  that 
it  proposes  to  publish  but  one  author's 
works.  The  association  was  formed 
in  the  May  of  last  year,  and  the  pro- 
spectus which  was  issued  ia  conse- 
quence is  rather  an  interesting  bib- 
liographical document.  It  gives  a  list 
of  the  earlier  English  translations  of 
his  works,  so  far  as  they  have  been 
discovered,  and  these  are  now  to  be 
reprinted,  in  preference  to  making 
new  ones.  The  present  mode  of  spell- 
ing is  adopted,  but  fac-simile  titles  are 
given,  and  notes  are  occasionally 
added  where  the  original  might  be 
more  closely  rendered.  We  will  offer 
one  which  suggests  itself  to  us. 
Rosdell,  in  his  translation  of  the 
Epistle  to  the  Romans  (1583),  uses  at 
verse  1 1  of  chapter  iv.  the  word  bodily, 
where  the  original  Liatin  is  »ecuri, 
which  the  editor  renders  fnely,  but 
without  expunging  the  word  he  found. 
Now  we  have  no  doubt  that  bodily 
was  a  misprint  for  boldly.  We  are 
sorry,  at  p.  143,  to  see  such  an  error 
of  the  press  as  duuumavmpf  with  an  i» 
instead  of  an  o,  which,  if  it  occurred, 
in  the  old  edition,  need  not  have  been 
retained  for  mere  exactitude'**  sake. 
Ifourresdcrs  wish  for  ^specimen  of 
Calvin's  language,  we  will  select  one 
from  the  same  page,  (chap.  v.  18J 
which  beautifully  harmonises  a  gene- 
ral redemption  with  a  limited  salva« 
tion,  in  a  way  that  many  will  scarcely 
believe  can  be  found  in  Calvin's  writ- 
ings. "  He  [the  apostle]  maketh  it  a 
grace  common  to  all,  because  it  is 
offered  to  all.  Not  that  all  men 
arc  partakers  of  it  indeed ;  for,  al- 
beit Christ  suffered  for  the  sins  of 
the  whole  world,  and  he  indifferently,* 
through  the  goodness  of  God,  offered 
unto  all,  yet  all  do  not  receive  him." 


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Wt  believe  that,  after  readiog  tUl 
paseage*  CaWio's  mtmory  will  have 
rieeo  a  degree  in  the  eetimation  of 
naay. 

The  other  volame  cootains  CaWin's 
"  Tracts  relating  to  the  Reformatioo," 
to  which  18  prefiied  the  Life  by  Beza« 
as  the  death  of  Dr.  Mac  Crie,  who  had 
designed  a  work  on  the  subject,  has 
left  a  blank  in  biography.  The  letter 
of  Sadolet  to  the  senate  and  people  of 
Geneva  is  added,  in  order  to  elncidate 
Calvin's  reply.  His  other  tracts  are. 
The  Antidote  to  the  Articles  of  the 
Theological  Faculty  at  Paris,  The  Ne- 
cessity  of  Reforming  the  Chnrch,  Re* 
marks  on  the  Admonition  of  Pope 
Panl  III.  to  Charles  V.  and  An  Adno. 
nition,  suggesting  an  inventory  of 
relics,  that  frauds  and  delusions  of  the 
kind  might  be  exposed.  It  mentions 
that  at  Carcassonne  and  Tours  relics 
of  the  archangel  Michael  were  pre^ 
served.  <*  It  will  be  thought  I  am  in 
jest  when  I  speak  of  the  relics  of  an 
angel,"  (p.  330,)  an  acute  and  power- 
ful remarXf  to  which  nothing  need  be 
added.  We  shall  only  say  further 
.that  these  volumes,  which  are  printed 
at  Edinburgh,  are  handsomely  ex- 
ecuted, and  at  the  subscription  price 
•are  invitingly  cheap. 

The  C/atms  o/  Labour;  an  JSfsoy  <m 
the  duiiet  of  tke  Emplojfer  to  iho 
Emploptdm 

A  THOUGHTFUL,  reflecUve  work, 
worthy  of  praise,  both  for  the  spirit 
that  animates,  and  the  good  sense  that 
directs  it ;  aud  we  have  no  doubt  but 
.that  it  will  be  instrumental  in  assist- 
ing to  effect  the  purpose  for  which  it 
is  designed ;  but  the  cose  of  the  poor 
is  a  very  difficult  problem  indeed,  and, 
though  much  is  doing,  much  remains 
to  be  done.  All  that  we  can  do, 
.seems  to  arrange  itself  under  two 
heads.  1.  The  education  of  the  young. 
2.  The  employment  of  the  mature. 
For  in  educating  the  young  we  certainly 
give  them  the  best  chance,  and  that  is 
all  that  education  can  do»  of  pursuing 
what  is  right  and  shunning  what  is 
wrong,  by  improving  their  understand- 
ing and  enlarging  their  knowledge. 
That  we  also  give  them  increased 
facilities  of  acquiring  evil  we  also 
know;  but  that  is  the  necessary  im- 
perfection attending  all  human  exer- 
tions.    We  give  then  the  means  of 


reading  the  Bible,  the  fountain  of  all 
religtous  and  moral  truth ;  and  by  the 
same  education  they  also  acquire  the 
power  of  reading  inflammatory  news- 
papers, obscene  pamphlets,  seditions 
and  lying  publications,  which  brood 
like  a  pestilence  of  filth  over  the  lower 
part  of  the  conununity.  We  must  how- 
ever always  hope  that  good  will  pre- 
ponderate over  evil ;  and  in  this  rests 
our  hope  of  amelioration.    On  the 
second  head  we  have  only  to  observe, 
if  employment  could  be  found  for  the 
population,  we  might  securely  leave 
much  that  is  treated  of  so  ably  in  this 
work  to  the  people  themselves';  know- 
ing that,  like  their  betters,  as  their 
circumstances    improved,    so   would 
their  comforts  also  increase ;  and,  when 
poverty  was  driven  away,  the  pride 
of  independence  would    be  a  much 
greater  security  to  the  labourer  that 
his  cottage  should  be  clean  and  com- 
fortabiy  furnished,  and  that  his  table 
should  be  decently  spread,  than  any 
that  laws  or  charity  could  devise.   All 
that  the  public  ought  to  do,  whatever 
lies  in  their  province  to  do,  should  be 
done,  as  drainage,  ventilation,  allot* 
meat  of  land,  ^c. ;  the  rest  should  be 
indirectly  provided  for  through    the 
labourer  himself.    The  great  reliance 
.on  this  point  must  be  in  limited  allot- 
ments of  land  ;  and,  as  work  is  most 
slack  in  winter  time,  it  must  be  so 
arranged  that  the  labourer  may,  if 
otherwise    unemployed,    make    suffi- 
cient in  the  summer,  to  keep  him- 
self   and    his    family    through    the 
winter  months :  this  we  know  to  be 
a  point  of  importance  not  sufficiently 
attended  to.    But  as  there  will  and 
must  be  occasional  relaxations  of  the 
demands  of  labour,  as  there  is  great 
irregularity  between  demand  and  sop- 
ply,  as  there  is  often  a  want  of  capital 
sufficient  for  proper  cultivation  of  land, 
there  will  be  locally  a  superabundance 
of  labourers ;  thence  arises  the  ques- 
tion of  emigration,  a  question  that  has 
sot  yet  met  the  attention  it  deserves, 
and  which,  so  far  as  we  can   see, 
government  is  willing  to  leave  to  in- 
dividual exertion  as  long  as  it  can; 
probably  from  the  difficulties  attend- 
ing it,  aod  from  the  opposition  that 
it  would  certainly  meet  with  in  the 
details  of  its  execution.    Then,  as  not 
only  the  able-bodied  labourer  requires 
work,  but  the  infirm  and  aged  demand 


284  RBTiB4r.-^Waterton*t  Et$afi  on  Nidmml  Hutoiy.         EScft 

aMittance*  the  tabject  of  tht   poor 
law  aod  the  naion  hooece,  and  the 
Kgotatioot   atUoding   them,  preeent 
themeeWee   for    inqairy,    and   ander 
these  diYUione  the  entire  eobjeet  eeeiM 
to  lie ;  aod  a  Tery  intricate  and  diffi* 
cnlt  one  it  h,  becanee  it  is  connected 
with  sQch  a  variety  of  interests,  and 
is  dependent  on  so  many  causes  lying 
at  SQch  an  apparent  distance  from  it. 
The  state  of  tne  poor  is  dependent  on 
the  moral  saperiotendeoce  of  the  rich, 
on  the  religions  instruction  of   the 
clergy,  on  the   fiscal  regulations  of 
the  government,  on  the  monetary  laws 
of  the  banks,  on  the  tariffs  and  cos* 
toms  of  foreign  countries,  on  the  soil, 
on  the  seasons,  on  local  influences, 
on  parish  institutions,  on  the  temper 
aod  habits  of  the  employer,  and  even 
on  the  village  shopkeeper.    All  these 
causes  affect    the   labouring   classes 
at   different  times,  and  in  different 
degrees.    Now    how    difficult   it    is 
to    understand    these,    to    regulate 
them   in   the  best  manner,  or  even 
to  have    the    power   of   influencing 
them  at  all ;  and  all  that  has  been 
attempted  has  been  partisl  and  tem- 
porary.   For  instance,  say  a  parish  is 
well    regulated,  the  welfare    of   the 
labourer  duly  regarded,  employment 
is  found  and  sufficient  wages   paid, 
and  all  that  the  landlord,  tenant,  and 
clergyman  of  the  parish  can  do  with 
their  united  care  is  done — unexpect- 
edly the  minister  alters  the  tariff,  and 
admits  foreign  corn  or  cattle  duty  free; 
at  once   the    former  means    of   em- 
ployment are  lessened  or  destroyed, 
the  labourer  is  thrown  out  of  employ- 
ment, and  no  local  exertion  can  restore 
what  ministerial  power  has  destroyed. 
The  same  effect  would  arise  from  a 
contraction  of  issues  by  the  national 
bank,  by  the  country  banks,  by  a  panic 
on  the   exchange,— so   artificial  and 
complicated  is  the  system  under  which 
our  national   prosperity   is   existing. 
What  multitudes  of  dependents  has  the 
present  income  tax,  small  as  it  is,  oc- 
casioned to  be  dismissed.  What  wonid 
be  the  effect  of  a  war,  with  the  same 
tax  trebled  in  amount?    £ven  on  this 
▼ery  slight  and  superficial  statement, 
we  can  see  how  unjust  it  is  to  assert 
that  the  state  of  the  poor  is  altogether 
dependent  on  the  landlord, — he  is  but 
one  among  the  numerous  springs  that 
act  on  the  wheel  of  life  ;  the  clergyman 


has  fhr  lesa  po^ 

much  more;  the  chief     _ 

great  and  important  iotmatB 

the  nation,  aiid  the  chief     

national  prosperity  of  every  kind  _ 
steadiness  and  aecnrity.     No  osui  win 
work    who   doea    not  rely   ta   aose 
measure  that  he  shall  re«p  the  fivits  of 
his  work ;  and  his  relianoe  is  fhcmJbsL 
placed  on  the  fotore  beins    like  the 
past  and  present.    ConsCaot  rhan^i  ■ 
of  laws,  constant  variatimia  of  prices, 
are  the  ruin  of  confidence,   the  de- 
struction of  all  commerce,  the  parm- 
lyser  of  all  industry.     This  stmte  of 
tnings  has  unfortunately  been  the  cose 
with  us,  more  or  less,  ever  since  the 
termination  of  the  last  war ;  it  has 
been  the  fruitful  mother  of  half  oor 
discontents   and  disturbanoea  aosoog 
the  turbulent,  and  half  our  misfortoiies 
among  the  peaceful .     If  any  one  vrants 
-to  see  what  this  state  of  things  is  when 
pushed  to  the  extreme,  to  a  point  to 
which  it  has  not  fortunately  arrived  at 
here,  let  him  look  to  the  West  Indies. 
There  is  possession  without  propert]^* 
aharvestwithoutwealth,labourwithoat 
profit,  and  expenditure  without  retam. 
Yet  the  seasons  and  the  soil  are  the 
same  as  when  the  land  teemed  with 
plenty,  and  the  owners  revelled  in  a  pro- 
digality of  wealth.    The  difference  has 
arisen  entirely  from  fiscal  regulation, 
heavy  taxation,  altered  laws,  and  Par- 
liamentary interference.  This  is  a  lesson 
that  ought  not  to  be  overlooked  nor  for- 
gotten. 

Eeewfl  on  Natural  Hi$tory,  chiefly  Or- 
nithology, By  Charles  Waterton, 
Eeq.  Second  Seriee. 
WE  often  read  these  delightful  and 
instructive  volumes  of  Mr.  Waterton 
in  our  own  study,  and  we  often,  while 
our  old  gardener  is  enjoying  his  noon- 
tide meal,  read  to  him  the  anecdotes, 
so  new,  so  striking,  and  so  accurate, 
of  the  habits  of  birds  and  animals,  com- 
paring the  experience  of  the  learned 
naturalist  with  that  of  the  unin- 
structed  labourer :  and  we  have  found 
that  his  dinner  comes  to  him  with  a 
double  relish  when  accompanied  also 
with  this  intellectual  repast.  The  pre- 
sent volume  contains  a  very  interesting 
piece  of  autobiography,  most  amu- 
singly sprinkled  with  the  author's 
gibes  on  Hanoverian  rats,  the  national 
debt,  and  the  EstahlUhed  Church.  But 


1844.3        ftBVifiW.<-WatereoD*8  Essays  tm  Naimral  History .  385 

the  fnmkiwsi,  pleaBantoefts,  and  cleyer* 
ness  with  which  it  is  written,  and  the 
agreeable  nngularitiee  and  enthusi- 
astic feelings  it  developes,  have  made 
it  to  our  apprehension  vere  aureus 
liber,  one  to  be  often  read  and  en- 
joyed ;  for  so  vividly  and  picturesquely 
are  all  the  descriptions  and  facts 
brought  before  us  that  we  believed 
ourselves  accompanying  the  author 
wherever  he  went ;  we  attended  him 
in  his  bare'foot  walk  into  Rome ;  we 
went  with  him  daily  into  the  bird 
markets ;  and  we  were  at  his  elbow 
when  "he  obtained  a  fine  gobbo  or 
white-headed  duck,  the  only  one  in 
the  market  during  the  two  seasons  of 
his  stay  in  Home ;  and  also  the  very 
handsome  red -crested  duck,  with  a 
red  beak,  equally  as  scarce."  Among 
the  Essays  is  one  we  much  like  on 
"the  Solitary  Sparrow/'  the  thrush 
of  Italy,  which  we  remember  well  by 
the  water- falls  of  Tivoli.  On  the 
second  paper,  "On  destroying  Vermin 
ID  Gardens,"  we  should  say,  that  we 
succeed  pretty  well  in  everything  but 
on  the  small  slug,  to  whose  depre- 
dations not  all  the  rats,  mice,  and 
birds  united  are  to  be  compared.  Can 
Mr.  Waterton  find  us  a  trap  for  this 
insidious  and  voracious  foe  ?  On  the 
"  Roller,"  called  "  Pica  Marina,"  we 
shall  observe,  that  we  have  seen  about 
four  killed  in  our  neighbourhood  in  the 
last  20  years,  together  with  one  honey- 
buzzard  and  one  beautiful  Iceland  fal- 
con !  As  regards  the  holly  (p.  35),  we 
may  remark  that  it  is  much  more 
tender  with  us  in  Suffolk  than  the 
yew  or  the  box;  the  severe  winter 
of  1824  stripping  all  the  leaves  off 
the  hollies,  and  indeed  killing  some, 
while  the  box,  a  tree  we  believe  not 
native  (for  it  has  no  Saxon  name), 
but  from  the  sonth  of  Europe*  is  in- 
vulnerable to  all  severity  of  climate. 
In  our  district  the  holly  is  only  found 
of  spontaneous  growth  in  the  deep 
sandy  lands,  with  a  substratum  of  light 
loam  ;  when  it  does  not  like  its  soil 
It  will  stand  immovable   for  half  a 


century. 

The  squirrel  is  not  suspected  by  our 
keepers  of  eamivoroue  propensities; 
but  its  destruction  of  the  young  shoots 
of  the  spruce  fir  is  terrific,  and  must 
promote  its  destruction.  Did  Mr. 
Waterton  ever  see,  as  we  have,  the 


stoat  climb  op  the  trees  in  pursuit  of 
them? 

Mr.  Waterton  has  supported  with 
his  authority  our  assertion  in  the  last 
Magazine  (see  our  Notes  on  Shake- 
spere,  p.  134),  that  the  yew  was  not 
planted  by  our  ancestors  for  the  pur- 
pose of  making  bows,  but  to  adorn 
our  churches  at  festivals.  Who  can 
account  for  the  churchyards  of  one 
whole  county  being  without  them, 
which  we  believe  the  county  of  Suf- 
folk to  be?  our  only  conjecture  is 
— the  deficiency  of  pasture  land.  In 
the  parish  in  which  we  live  there  is 
no  yew  in  the  churchyard,  but  the 
small  wood  which  joins  it«  is  full  of 
them! 

P.  78.  He  who  wants  to  see  ivy 
in  gigantic  growth  should  go  to  the 
ruins  of  Kenilworth,  and  to  the  ruined 
church  of  Upton,  near  Windsor.  Some 
sacrilegious  hand  has  destroyed  the 
beautiful  mantle  of  ivy  that  graced 
the  venerable  ruins  of  Sir  Francis 
Bacon's  house  at  Gorhambury*  Are 
Pope's  lines  to  be  verified  a  second 
time? 

"  Shades  that  to  Bacon  a  retreat  afford,"  &c. 

P.  88.  The  combat  between  two 
hares  is,  we  think,  a  novel  fact  in  the 
history  of  that  animal ;  though  ita 
occonojiaj  courage  we  have  long  known. 
Our  gardener  has  seen  a  rabbit  beat 
away  a  weasel,  and  drive  it  across  the 
field. 

P.  120.  The  account  of  the  swan 
is  very  interesting.  The  author  ob« 
serves — "  the  dying  song  of  the  swan 
is  nothing  but  a  fable,  the  origin  of 
which  is  lost  in  the  shades  of  anti« 
quity."  We  believe  that  the  ancient 
poets  and  mythologists  never  intended 
to  represent  their  picture  of  "  the  can- 
tuscygni  morientis"  as  true  to  nature; 
it  was  one  of  their  inventions  of 
beauty:  they  added  melody  of  voice 
to  gracefulness  of  form,  and  then 
dedicated  this  most  beautiful  bird* to 
Apollo,  at  once  the  god  of  beauty  and 
melody. 

P.  136.  "I  consider  the  stories  of 
wolves  hunting  in  packs  as  mere  in- 
ventions of  the  nursery,"  &c. ;  but 
what  does  Mr.  Waterton  say  to  the 
description  of  the  old  bull  bison  sur- 
rounded by  a  pack  of  wolves,  as  seen 
by  Mr.  Catlin  in  the  prairies  of  North 


lUTuw^7Vl>M«lir«rfeofLciBkHaL  (BrptL 


?  It  M  Mid  «bo  AH  wohw 
mmite  to  destroy  the  bear. 

P.  166.  As  regufds  tbe  noks.  tbc 
•inple  fact  k,  that  they  do  both  good 
•ad  barn :  tbey  do  good  by  devooring 
i^etUi  ham,  by  pollmg  op  the 
yoBog  com ;  and  they  will  fellow  a 
liirrow  of  btm§  till  they  have  traa». 
ferrcd  them  ail  iato  their  crops,  as 
8ir  R.  Peel  does  oor  loYereigiis  iato 
bis  crop.  As  soon  as  the  corn  is  well 
op  then  their  evil  ceases,  and  nothing 
bat  benefit  remains. 

We  recommend  this  ¥010016  most 
strennoosly:  first,  to  the  P6pe  and 
the  Cardinals ;  then  to  the  English 
Bishops  and  Clergy;  then  to  all 
naturalists;  and.  lastly,  and  most 
especially,  to  Mr,  Swammm,  fer  snodry 
weighty  reasons,  which  he  will  not 
want  OS  to  tell  him.  J.  M. 


7^  PpeHeai  Work*  of  Leigh  Hoot. 
THE  poetry  of  Mr.  Leigh  Hoot  has 
been  so  long  snbmitted  to  pablic 
judgment  that  praise  woold  be  oselcss 
and  censure  absurd.  We  still  main* 
tain  our  old  opinion,  that  his  poetry 
contains  many  siogular  beauties,  dis- 
plays much  fancy,  freedom  of  Yersifi- 
catioD.  and  some  passages  of  greet 
elegsnce.  together  with  singularities 
hoth  in  Jsnguage  and  metre  that  we 
could  wish  removed.  From  the  longer 
poems,  the  Storyof  Rimini,  the  Palfrey, 
the  Feast  of  Violets,  or  the  Legend  of 
Flowers,  we  cannot  quote,  although  we 
should  do  so.  and  at  length,  if  these 
poems  were  now  appear! og  for  the 
first  time,  and  we  were  called  on  for 
our  judgment  of  their  eicellencies  or 
defects :  as  it  is.  we  shall  take  one  or 
two  of  the  shorter  pieces,  written  with 
the  same  spirit,  and  displaying  the 
same  manner  and  style  as  the  longer 
and  more  elaborate  ones. 

THOUGHTS  OF  THS  AVOM.     S8  SBPT.  1817. 

It  is  the  loveliest  dsy  that  we  have  had 
"niis  lovely  month,  sparkling  and  ftill  of 
cheer; 

Tbe  sun  has  a  sharp  eye,  yet  kind  and  glad, 
Colours  are  donbly  bright,  all  things  appear 
Strong  ontlined  in  the  spacious  atmosphere. 

And  through  the  lofty  air  the  white  clouds  go. 

As  on  the  their  way  to  some  celestial  show. 

The  banks  of  the  Avon  must  look  well  to-day. 
Autumn  is  there  in  all  his  glory  and  trea- 
sure ; 
The  river  must  run  bright,  the  ripples  play 


And  tke  rick 

Af*  poatiag  tkkk  witk  all 

And  wky  stttst  I  be  tluaki^  oTtke 
Of  distaat  bowcn,  as  if  I  ted  BO 

T»  siaig  in  Wre,  tko^  by  tke 
AsifleHddnatfasa 
Ubstayidds 

Having  on  < 

On  t'other  Lmidoa  with  its  wcsltb 

It  is  not  that  I  cnry  Avtom  tlwn 
Nor  the  sweet  river,  tlMmgb  ay 


of 


Nor  yet  that  in  its  all  pioduetlfe 
Was  bora  HnoaBit7*s  dirhsest 
That  sprigbtUcst, 


Shafccspcsre ;  nor  yet,  oh  no  I  that 
Soola  not  nnworthy  to  be  Muned  witk 


a  little 


No!  but  it  is  that  on  this  vtty  dsy. 
And  opoa   Shakespeare's 
lower. 
Where  dmnk  with  Delphic  air  it 
fencing  in  perfiune  by  the  ftory  shore,* 
Was  born  the  lass  that  I  tovesaoi 
A  fnit  as  flne  as  in  the  Hesperian  stoee, 
SoMOth,  ronndly  smiling,  noble  to  the  oorer 

An  eye  for  art,  a  nature  that  of  yore 
Mothers  and  daoghters,  wives  and  sisters 
wore. 
When  in  the  golden  age  one  tvne  they  bore, 
Marian,  who  makes  my  heart  and  very  rhymes 
run  o'er. 

To  T.  L.  H. 

SIX  TSASS  OLD,  DUBING  A  SICKKKSS. 

Sleep  breathes  at  last  from  ont  thee. 

My  little,  patient  boy. 
And  balmy  rest  about  thee 

Smoothes  off  the  day's  annoy : 
I  sit  me  down  and  think 

Of  all  thy  winning  ways, 
Yet  almost  wish,  with  sadden  shrink, 

That  I  had  less  to  praise. 

Thy  sidelong  pillowed  meekness. 

Thy  thanks  to  all  that  aid, 
Thy  heart,  in  pain  and  weakness, 

Of  fancied  faults  afraid  ; 
The  little  trembling  band 

That  wipes  thy  quiet  tesrs. 
These,  these  are  things  that  may  demand 

Dread  memories  of  years. 

Sorrows  I've  had,  severe  ones, 

I  will  not  think  of  now. 
And  calmly,  *mid  my  dear  ones, 

Have  wasted  my  dry  brow. 
But  when  thy  fingers  press. 

And  pat  my  stooping  head, 
I  cannot  bear  thy  genUeneas — 

The  tesrs  are  in  their  bed. 

*  Pershore,  or  Pearshore. 


1844.] 


Rmvizvf •'^Sekciions  from  the  Kttr^dn. 


282 


Ah  I  fint-born  of  thy  mother. 

When  life  and  hope  were  neW| 
Kind  playmate  of  thy  brotheri 

lliy  Bister,  father,  too. 
My  light  where'er  I  go, 

My  bird,  when  prison  bonnd. 
My  hand-in-hand  companion — no, 

My  prayers  shall  hold  thee  sound. 

To  say  he  is  departed, 

His  Toice — his  face — ^is  gone, 
To  feel  impatient-hearted, 

Yet  feel  we  most  bear  on. 
Ah  1  I  coold  not  endore 

To  whisper  of  such  woe. 
Unless  I  felt  this  sleep  seeore^ 

That  it  will  not  be  so. 

Yet  still  he*s  fixed  and  sleeping. 

This  sUeoce  too  the  while, 
Its  very  hnsh  and  creeping 

Scarce  wfaispering  us  a  smile. 
Something  diyiae  and  dim 

Seems  going  by  one*s  ear, 
Like  parting  wings  of  seraphim 

Who  say  '*  WeWe  finished  here.*' 

Remarks  on  a  Trantlation  qf  the  Hebrew 
Names  of  the  Antediluvian  Ptitriarchs; 
with  an  Appendix,  containing  ohser- 
vatione  on  the  Masoretical  punctuu' 
tion  qf  the  Hebrew  names,  8fc.  and  on 
the  Conversion  of  the  Jews  and  the 
Muhammedans  or  Mahomedans.  By 
the  Rev,  Robert  Uvedale,  M,A,  Vicar 
of  Fotherby, 

A  PAMPHLET  that  contains  some 
interesting  notes  on  the  typical  mean- 
ings of  the  names  of  the  antediluvian 
patriarchs,  and  is  a  good  companion 
for  the  Hebrew  etymology  published 
by  Priestley,  Loudon,  1823. 

In  the  appendix  the  author  has  col- 
lected from  diGFereot  authors  some 
objections,  which  we  may  believe  he 
makes  himself  to  the  anticjuity  and 
even  use  of  the  Masoretic  poiDts.  We 
can  readily  believe  that  they  were  not 
used  by  the  Jews  in  writing  Hebrew 
as  a  living  language,  any  more  than 
the  short-vowel  marks  are  now  written 
by  the  Persians  or  Hindoos,  or  than 
&e  Romans  wrote  all  Latin  words  at 
length ;  but  we  think  they  became  as 
desirable  to  the  first  readers  of  Hebrew 
as  a  dead  language,  as  those  of  the 
Arabic  are  to  an  English  reader  of 
Persian,  or  as  the  Greek  accents  or 
long- vowel  accents  of  the  Anglo-Saxon 
are  in  our  schools  or  closets :  nor  do 
we  believe  that  any  objection  can  lie 
more  fairly  against  them  than  against 
the  want  of  them.  But,  as  it  is  a 
disputed  case  amoug  Bible  scholan« 


we  cannot  forbear  giving  an  intelligible 
example  of  it.  Supposing  that,  like  the 
ancient  Jews,  we  did  not  write  our 
short  vowels,  and,  for 

Tke  man  was  a  pinmaker, 
wrote, 

Thmmws  apn mkr ; 

then,  though  such  abbreviations  if 
they  were  common  among  us  would 
be  intelligible  to  us,  and  we  should 
not  mispronounce  the  words  they 
would  stand  for,  yet  a  reader  of  English 
as  a  dead  language  would  be  much  in 
want  of  the  help  of  the  vowels ;  and, 
in  answer  to  a  common  objection  to 
the  Masoretic  punctuation  which  may 
be  also  cast  against  them,  that  if  a 
false  vowel  were  to  slip  into  a  text, 
as  a  or  e  between  pn,  it  would  vitiate 
it,  and  may  convert  pinmaker  into  pan- 
nuiker,  or  petunaker;  we  would  ask 
why  a  reader  may  not'  mentally  read 
a  wrong  vowel  as  well  as  a  copyist  or 
compositor  may  put  it  in  ?  or  as  well 
as  a  corrector  of  the  press  may  over- 
look it  ?  Neither  can  we  think  that 
the  system  of  Masoretic  punctuation 
is  so  unsound  as  some  of  Mr.  Uvedale'a 
authorities  would  make  it,  since,  if  it 
is  truly  said  (p.  39«)  that  Hebrew  is 
Arabic,  it  may  be  tested  in  com- 
parison with  Arabic,  as  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  accents  are  in  a  comparison 
of  Anglo-Saxon  with  other  Teutonic 
dialects. 

The  observation  of  Ravis  that  the 
Seventy  and  Hierome  could  make  a 
faithful  translation  of  the  Bible  with- 
out accents,  is  of  no  weight,  since 
Hebrew  was  a  living  language  to  the 
Seventy,  and  Hierome  had  for  a  time 
the  help  of  a  Jew  who  spoke  it;  and 
in  answer  to  another  opinion  quoted 
by  Mr.  Uvedale,  that  the  Masoretic 
punctuation  hurts  the  harmony  of 
Hebrew  poetry,  we  would  eay  that 
the  objectors  to  it  put  in  when  read* 
ing  Hebrew  a  short  vowel  (a  close  e) 
instead  of  a  short  punctuated  one,  and 
we  cannot  understand  how 

The  men  pet  the  hek  en  the  bekeese, 

can  be  more    harmonious  than  the 
variety  of  open  and  close  vowels  in 

T%e  man  put  the  book  in  the  bookcase. 


Selections  from  the  Kur-dn^  oommonXf 
caXted  in  England  the  Koran*    Bf 
Edward  William  Lane. 
THIS  18  a  welUexecuted  work  by 


288 


RsTiBw.— BnuidoB't  Amaifm»  wf  GmUuc 


a  good  Arabic  achoUr*  wlio  gives  a 
coouBentary  fro«  tlie  Arabic  ioter- 
wovcfl  whb  tbe  text,  witb  an  edifyiof 
introdoctory  diteoone  oo  Arabia  aad 
tbc  Arab*  bdbcc  Mobaanad,  a*  well 
as  of  bis  fooading  of  EL-idam^, 

We  will  leave  oar  readers  to  searcb 
Mr.  Laae's  selectioas  for  tbemselves, 
tbooi^  the  bisiory  aad  morality  of 
Bost  of  tbem  seem  to  os  to  have  been 
drawn  from  the  Old  Testament*  or. 
wbere  tbey  leave  it,  from  the  rankest 
traditions  of  the  Jews.  We  may 
allow  with  Mr.  Lane  that  the  Karia 
has  some  fine  thooghts,  though  we 
csnoot  find  in  it  the  pMoetry  of  the 
book  of  Job  or  the  Prophets. 

Mohammad  at  first  gsve  himself  oot 
as  a  •  wordiest  prescher  only,  hot  when 
he  foood  some  bitter  enemies  to  his 
mission  it  wss  revealed  to  him  that 
he  should  kill  them. 

The  tribe  of  Koreysh  had  signed  a 
league  sgainst  Mohammad,  and,  having 
somehow  known  that  worms  had  be* 
gun  to  eat  it,  he  sent  to  tell  them  that 
God  in  his  anger  had  sent  a  worm  to 
eat  every  word  of  it  but  his  own  name, 
whereupon  as  they  found  it  partly  if 
not  wholly  true  they  declared  it  void. 
Mohammad  chose  twelve  followers 
after  the  pattern  of  the  twelve  apostles. 

Hie  Kor-in — we  like  much  Mr. 
Laoe's  system  of  orthography — meaos 
the  rtadiug,  from  the  verb  Karad,  he 
read. 

In  chap,  xivii  we  learn  something 
more  than  our  Bible  tells  us  of  the 
Queen  of  Sbeba,  whom  it  seems 
Solomon  married,  though  not  without 
some  hesitation,  as  he  was  told,  what 
was  true,  that  she  had  hairy  feet; 
but,  "the  devils  made  for  him  the 
depilatory  of  quicklime,  wherewith  she 
removed  the  hair." 

One  of  the  most  admired  verses  of 
the  Kar-6o,  as  Mr.  Lane  tells  us,  is 
that  called  the  verse  of  the  throne, — 

"  His  throne  compriseth  the  heavens 
and  the  earth,  and  the  preservation  of 
them  burdeneth  Him  not ;  and  He  is 
the  High,  the  Great.' 


ate  carefully 

The 

extended 

the 

cal  ardiitectore,  amagcd 

sections ;  the  first  to 

dows.   doorways  and 

second  of 

features ;  and  the  third  of  paera, 
capitals,  and  bases,  ii 
fumitare  and  wood 
of  the  anthors  is  **  to  place 
public  the  resah  of  deep 
stady,  laying  daim  to  aortiiag 
anattainable  by  others,  bat 
a  careful  and  patieat  in 
the  truly 
architectnre  ia  this 


fp 


An  Amafynt  of  Gotkiek  ArekUtdurt  hf 
R.  and  J.  A.  Brandon,  ArekUt€i$. 
4 to.  fort  1. 

TH  £  first  portion  of  a  series  of  draw- 
ings  of  the  component  parts  of  Gothic 
structures  made  from  actual  measure- 
ment  of  ancient   specimens,  which 
8 


The  first  plate  ia  the 
represents  an  Early. Eagfiib 
from  Orpington  ^arch  ia  Kaat.  whick 
the  authors  designate  '*  •emi-Normaa*' 
from  the  chevron  moaMiag  whkh  s 
retained  in  the  arch.     It  is  a  simple 
but  striking  example,  aad  is  capable 
of  execution   in  aay  i 
The  same  qualitr  applies  to  three 
dows  from  Norttifleet,  one  of 
example  of  the  early  part  of  Edward 
the  Third's  reign,  is  aa  csqaisite  spe^ 
cimen  ;  a  window  we  have  often  looked 
on  with   great  satisfactioa,  fires  ila 
regular  and  beautiful  tracery,  aad  the 
often  repeated  oombiaatioas   of   the 
sacred  number  lArvp,  which  forass  the 
pervading  feature  of  the  design :  these, 
with   a  simple  and    often  oocarnag 
window,  from  Chesham,  are  the  cx« 
am  pies  of  windows  given  in  this 
her.  The  great  merit  of  the  repti 
tions  lies  in  the  completeoeas  of  the 
drawing ;  the  centres  of  the  cam 
ascerteined  and  given,  aad  the 
structton  of  the  windows  showa  w^ 
precision ;  the  stones  are  also  distiactiy 
msrked :  without  this  atteatioa  to  de. 
tail,  merely   beautiful   drawings   an 
useless. 

A  plain  example  of  a  doorway  fram 
the  very  pleasing  decorated  chaich  of 
Sutton -at- Hone,  is  showa  ia  one  of  the 
plates ;  the  windows  and  corbels  of 
thb  church  are  deserving  of  atteatioa, 
from  the  excellence  of  the  desiga  «f 
the  one,  and  the  finish  of  the  scai^lare 
of  the  other. 

A  very  elaborate  frontispiece  finm 
St.  Alban's,  of  the  reign  of  Hcniy  IV. 


1844.] 


MkceOaneous  RevieM. 


289 


being  the  abbot's  doorway,  is  engraved 
in  elevation  and  detail,  in  two  plates  ; 
the  doors  are  covered  with  tracery, 
and  exhibit  a  fine  specimen  of  ancient 
wood  carving.  The  spandrils  of  the 
arch  contain  shields  emblazoned  with 
the  arms  of  Henry  IV.  and  the  abbey. 
The  utility  of  heraldry  as  a  branch  of 
architectural  decoration  is  manifest ; 
as  armorial  bearings  will  often  lead 
to  the  date  and  the  identity  of  the 
founder  of  a  structure,  or  a  portion  of 
one,  when  no  other  record  of  the 
fact  may  exist. 

We  should  recommend  the  authors 
to  give  an  example  of  an  entire  church 
of  each  of  the  periods,  with  the  view 


of  showing  the  mode  of  applying  the 
several  parts  which  they  have  given  in 
detail*  Modern  architects  generally 
forget  the  intimate  conoectioo  which 
exists  between  the  parts  and  the  whole ; 
with  them  one  design  is  made  to  serve 
as  well  for  an  Early-English  as  a  Per- 
pendicular structure,  the  only  difference 
being  in  the  detail  ;  and,  without  such 
a  guide  as  we  have  recommended,  we 
fear  the  well  drawn  subject  of  these 
plates  will  be  often  misapplied.  With 
this  remark  we  leave  the  work,  which 
we  have  little  doubt,  from  the  sample 
before  us,  will  form  a  useful  aid  to  the 
architect  of  a  modern  church  built  after 
our  ancient  and  catholic  models. 


Hora  Apocalyptiea  {  or,  a  Commeniary 
an  the  Apocalypse,  Critical  and  Hietori' 
ealt  including  also  an  esamination  of  the 
chief  prophecies  qf  Daniel.  By  the  Rev, 
£.  B.  ElUottt  J.M.  late  Felloto  of  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge,  800.  3  vols.  pp.  zlv. 
[71]  1455.— This  is  a  copious  and  elabo- 
rate worki  and,  if  we  are  not  greatly  mis- 
taken, will  long  remain  the  standard  book 
on  the  subject.  It  has  been  very  favour- 
ably noticed  by  the  Bishop  of  Winchester, 
in  his  recent  sermon  before  the  Jews* 
Society,  where  his  lordship  terms  the  au- 
tiior  "  the  latest  and  most  learned  of  the 
students  of  the  page  of  prophecy,'*  and 
fiirther  calls  it  "  the  most  important  pro- 
phetical work  of  this  century,  and  as  re- 
markable for  elaborste  research  and  wide 
range  df  illustration  as  for  the  absence  of 
all  dogmatic  spirit  in  its  conclusions.'' 
(p.  29,  30.;  That  superficial  readers  will 
be  deterred  by  such  a  mass  of  informa- 
tion, the  author  must  expect,  but  others 
will  be  attracted  and  gratified.  We  could 
not  however  go  minutely  into  the  subject 
without  writing  what  would  only  be  a 
shorter  commentary.  But,  after  having 
fsad  through  the  greater  part  of  it,  we 
can  justly  say,  that  it  is  a  storehouse  of 
facts  and  citations,  for  which  future  com- 
mentators will  have  to  thank  the  author, 
whether  they  agree  with  his  interpreta- 
tions or  not.  In  explaining  scripture  by 
parallels  we  consider  him  very  successful. 
He  advocates  the  year -day  system,  by 
shewing  that  the  other  fails,  and  accord- 
ingly interprets  the  death  of  the  tiro  wit- 
nesses, (chapter  xi.)  of  the  period  from 
May  5,  1514,  the  day  of  the  mnth  session 
of  the  fifth  Lateran  Council,  (when  the 
preacher  said,  Jam  nemo  reclamat,  nullus 
obsUtit,)  to  October  31,  1517,  the  day  of 
Luther's  posting-up  his  theses  at  Wittem- 

Gent.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII. 


berg.  Mr.  Btckersteth,  in  his  "  Pro- 
mised Glory,"  has  adopted  a  similar  view, 
as  he  speaks  of  "  the  slaughter  of  the 
witnesses,  and  the  period  of  their  lying 
unburied,  for  three  years  and  a  half  before 
the  Reformation  by  Luther."  (p.  312.) 
As  to  minor  points,  our  impression  in 
reading  was,  that  the  author  was  not  con- 
clusive on  the  subject  of  the  Quaternion, 
(vol.  1.  p.  314,)  and  the  symbol  of  the 
horse-tails.  We  think  too  that  he  has 
recognised  the  independence  of  Genoa 
too  slightly,  (vol.  ii.  p.  353.^  The  note 
2,  at  p.  385,  which  is  probably  a  quota- 
tion from  M.  Micbelet,  wants  a  reference. 
The  errata  are  numerous,  owing  to  the 
author's  distance  from  the  press ;  but  most 
of  them  arc  pointed  out.  A  variety  of 
engravings  are  given  from  medals  and 
other  monuments,  so  that  this  work  is  a 
commentary  for  the  eye  as  well  as  for  the 
mind,  which,  when  the  subject  is  pro- 
fessedly symbolical,  is  of  some  import- 
ance. To  give  a  critical  opinion  of  the 
hook  as  a  whole  would  almost  pledge  us 
to  approve  or  disapprove  of  a  system  ; 
but  we  can  truly  say,  that  no  commen- 
tator furnishes  such  ample  materials  for 
studying  the  subject,  combined  with  soli- 
dity and  piety. 

Literarische  Sympaihien,  oder  indus" 
trielle  Buchmacherei.  Bin  heitrag  gur 
geschichte  der  neueren  Englisehen  Lesi- 
cographie.  Von  Dr,  J.  G.  Flfigel. — An  ap- 
peal to  the  literary  world  by  Dr.  J.  G. 
FlQgel,  consul  of  the  United  SUtes  of 
North  America,  in  a  case  of  book-piracy. 
He  is  the  author  of  an  English-German 
dictionary,  of  which  it  seems  a  pirated 
edition  or  raffacimenfo  has  been  pub- 
lished by  a  Herr  Grieb  in  Germany,  and  a 
mutilated  reprint  has  been  issued  in  Eng- 

8P 


290 


U»d,  tiiroocb  Mnin.  Black  aad  a.. 
««-♦  o,  WWtUker  «k!  O^  J^  gSI 
«»  pror«*>r.  .bo  Ut.  p«  Dj.  Fltoer, 

i..»j.i.s^  #  "**••  ••^■»  to  Of  «  neat 

^^^JZ:^  »«  to  be  tkM  aitof  ftS. 
tbe  recompaiw  of  long  toil  br  tb<  ni^ 

lume  .boaid  be  bart  br  bii  banT.  ta 

nl  the  m/L  *''  '»"«»«•  tbe  cactom 
or  tbe  moft  r»»p,««ble  bookiellera  In  thk 
coaotnr,  u  well  ..  .u  '~""**"'"  •»  tn" 
German.  Ik:  i^  "*  '""^  '"  '''■««*  and 
I-  S.  ^  *'"*''  •«  t«k«  to  be  tme  •  bat 
in  bebavioar  affectuw  tk*  fJii«~  J 
fellow  wen  it  „,72  InJ-^T  "'  f" 
other*  ma*  do    iJ??  ^  "  '.  .■*»*  *• 

other,  .ho  Jid  Si  ,^^  -  "•  ""^  «»«•» 

more  of  th«  work  than  that  it  M^eoi  to  a. 
k^o^n  "r"  "•»''«'»"  of  that  of  the  well! 

T.^L»!   1?.°"*  *"  "»<»"«'  tongue  and 

X 1  t'^hfUtalnlr-  r- 
«•  it  JJ*.m.  k  '   1  '■  *"  ****  preface, 

their  DotUc  ton«i«  ilU  they  are  Uughtit; 
till  the;  .tudy,^'  through  theoldcFXeu! 
tonic  dwlecU.  'Mtt  ftructureand  literature, 
just  ••they  itttdy  the  structure  and  litera. 
tnrc  of  any  other  language  of  which  theyar« 
wholly  Ignorant ;"  and  the  tongue  of  "Ul- 
tima Thule  •'  it  to  well  worthy  of  our  at- 
tention,  from  itt  purity  and  the  hittory  of 
iU  Sagat,  that  we  hope  tome  of  our 
readert  may  be  gUd  of  Mr.  Dateot*t 
introduction  to  it. 

OmP9T9atUin%  tm  Lanff%ui0§,/or  Child- 
ren.  By  Mr;  Marcet.— Thii  nice  little 
work  it  written  in  the  language  of  that 
best  teacher  of  a  child,  an  intelligent 
toother ;  and,  though  intended  for  child- 
ren,  may  be  read  for  edification  by  many 
of  their  elders,  especially  young  ladies,  who 
have  not  often  the  grammatical  discipline 
of  the  dead  languages;  as  it  has  tome 
conversations  on  compounds  from  Latin 
>nd  Greek  rootti  and,  intwined  with  its 
philology,  a  great  deal  of  ethnographcial 
history.  There  may  be  a  passage  or  two 
^o  which  we  may  make  a  slight  objection, 
^^ch  as  in  page  S8,  where  Sophy  tayt  to 
Aer  mother,  of  the  Romans,  *'  1  hope  they 


too  low  aa 

it  it  said  ihit  __      _ 

talkei^  kwiBg^„"fc^  _, 

~>t  fviiportcd  br  Cadm 
the  *        •        -    -  ""-*"• 


be 
\m  book 


TkeYommf        _^_ 
RrereittM  im  Sm^StA    wvubm, 
James  CoroweU  —A  verrimod 
AUen  and  Cornwell's  school  nvma 
which  we  haTe  already  spokca  welL 


By 
>or 


—This  little  work  contains  a  rood  daljL^ 
matter  which  our  dericl  resdS^t?  ^ 

Mr    P JTT  '"  'i*  ^^^  »N^  i«  wbicb 
Mr.  Ethendge  offer,  it,  aTitcomprii^ 

Aramean  dialecU  m  general,  and  of  the 
versions  of  Ho  y  Scripture  found  in  S^T 

to  St.  Matthew,  and  of  the  EpUUe  to  tbe 

If..  ^''%i  """"^  ^^  *'*"^'"*  Pcachito  St. 
nsc'      The  Aiamcan  or  Aramaic  (from 
Aram  the  son  of  Shem)  i,  the  northern 
branch   of  the  Shemelic.  the  other  u^ 
branches  of  It  being  the  Canaanitiab  and 
the  Arabic.  The  Aramaic  was  the  lan«iure 
of  the  later  Jews,  and.  as  the  author  ob! 
serves,  we  have  stiU  in  it '« the  words  in 
which  our  Redeemer  taught  his  people  tbe 
prayer  which  calls  upon  the  Almigh^  God 
as  our  father  in  heaven; -and  Jven  now 
It  cxUu  as  a  rude  vernacular  in  the 
neighbourhood    of  Mosul  and  Diarbek- 
kir."  The  Peschito  version  of  the  scripture 
contains  the  four  gospels,  with  the  acts, 
and  some  of  the  epUtles,  in  the  old  Syriac 
caUcd  PwcAt/o,  or  pure,  from  a  Syrian 
word  for  what  is  "simple*'  or*'uncor. 
rupt ;  »  and  we  have  authority  for  takinr 
it     as  the  exponent  of  a  very  early  ediUoS 
of  the  sacred  text,  if  not  of  the  very  copies 
which  were  in  use  among  the  first  converts 
of  the  apostles, "  and  of  the  original  rosoel 
of  St.   Matthew.      The   PescWto  |3 
scriptures  are  not  divided  into  chapters 
and  verses,  but  into  pcricopes  or  leuons 
for  particular  days,  like  the  Anglo-Saxon 
Gospels,  with  the  lessons  of  which  very 
many  of  Mr.  Uvedale'a  translation  co- 
incide. 


J 


1844.] 


MisctUaneouB  Reviews* 


291 


Philological  Proof  %  qftho  Original  Uni- 
ty  and  iUetnt  Origin  of  the  Human  Race. 
By  Arthur  James  Johnei,  nq, — ^This  is  a 
desirable  addition  toour ethnography,  * '  de- 
rived from  a  comparison  of  the  languages 
of  Asia,  Europe,  Africa,  and  America,*'  bj 
a  mind  of  first-rate  powers  of  research, 
comparison,  and  deduction ;  though,  while 
we  have  no  olqectionto  the  author*8  theory, 
and  like  his  etymology  in  the  main,  we 
fo  low  him  with  a  little  hesitation  at  some 
parts  in  the  African  and  American  lan- 
guages. We  find  his  beautiful  exposition  of 
Ad^ung's  opinion  that  Central  Asia  was, 
frlom  its  geographical  position,  the  birth* 
pace  of  the  human  race,  to  be  very  con- 
vincing ;  and  are  glad  to  find  him  rejecting 
that  (to  ns)  wicked  opinion  that  the  Ne- 
groes are  a  naturally  and  so  immutably 
lower  branch  of  the  human  family.  In  page 
64  we  are  told  that  the  Gaulish  or  Celtic  con- 
tinued (in  France)  until  the  eighth  cen- 
tury, nearly  until  tne  time  of  Charlemsgne. 
Then,  as  the  Francs  spoke  a  Teutonic 
dislect,  what  was  the  origin  of  French, 
which  is  a  dialect  of  the  Latin  ? 


Elemenii  qf  Natural  Hiiiory,  for  the 
me  ofSehooU  and  Young  Pertotu :  com^ 
prinng  the  Principles  qf  Clatiificaiion , 
hUertpened  with  Amusing  and  Instructivs 
Original  Accounts  of  the  most  Remarkable 
Animals.      By  Mrs.  R.  Lee. — ^We  feel 
that  we  cannot  praise  this  most  excellent 
work  too  highly ;  and  think  that  for  tiie 
place  it  is  meant  to  fill  no  other  can  com- 
pete with  it ;  for,  though  it  may  be  partly 
a  compilation,  its  authoress  instructs  her 
readers  with  all  the  bold  discrimination  of 
a  perfect  comparative  anatomist;  while  she 
has  made  the  most  striking  arrangement 
of  her  matter,  and  freshened  the  otherwise 
dry  principles  of  science  with  such  well- 
directed   observations  and  touching  re- 
marks as  cannot  fail  to  hold  the  heart  and 
make  it  better.    Of  the  edible  birds*  nests 
of  the  Chinese  Mrs.  Lee  says,  **  a  very 
small  species  "  of  the  bunting  "  in  the  In- 
dian Archipelago  forms  its  nest  of  a  pecu- 
liar kind  of  sea-weed,  which  is  gelatinous, 
and  nearly  white ;  and  which  it  bruises 
and  macerates  before  use.     It  is  dressed 
like  mushrooms,  has  an    insipid    taste, 
though  peculiar;  the  clean  nests  are  se- 
lected for  eating,  and  those  which  are 
dirty  are  converted  into  glue.**     Captain 
Lyon  found  one  of  the  snow  bunting's 
nests  made  in  the  bosom  of  an  Esquimaux 
child  who  was  a  corpse.     The  tempest 
birds  (jfrocellaria)  bear  the  name  of  Pe- 
trels,  or  Little  Peters,  because  they  walk 
on  the  water  by  means  of  their  wings. 
<*  The  Stellio  of  the  Levant  is  said  to  be 
killed  by  Mahometans  because  it  mocks 
them  b/  "  an  anlocky  gait  of  '*  bowing  its 


bead  as  they  do  when  they  pray.*'  Fb/i- 
tion,  in  page  355,  we  suppose  has  been 
overlooked  for  volitation.  To  the  author- 
ess's anecdotes  of  the  dog  we  cannot  re- 
frain from  adding  one  of  our  own.  A 
neighbour  had  a  Newfoundland  dog  which 
occupied  at  night  a  doghouse  in  a  stable 
yard.  The  house  was  left  one  night  with 
its  door  toward  the  west,  and  a  rain  that 
came  on  before  morning  being  driven  into 
it  by  a  westerly  wind,  its  occupant  got  out 
and  pushed  it  round,  as  was  shown  by 
innumerable  footmarks  on  the  ground 
and  side  of  the  house,  by  standing  on  his 
hinder  legs  and  pushing  with  hii  fore  ones. 

The  Parents*  School  and  College  Guide  t 
or,  Liber  Seholastieut :  being  an  account 
of  all  the  Scholarships  and  Brhibitions 
at  the  Universities,  Sfc. — We  are  not  sur- 
prised that  this  work  has  soon  reached  a 
second  edition,  for  a  more  useful  one 
cannot  easily  be  named.  Under  a  clear 
and  lucid  arrangement,  Mr.  Gilbert,  the 
compiler,  has  comprised  more  important 
information  on  every  point,  than  could  be 
obtained  by  the  most  persevering  personal 
inquiries.  We  are  sure  it  will  frequently 
prove  a  blessing  to  parents,  as  it  will 
assist  them  by  showing  how  they  can  most 
easily  obtain  a  university  education  for 
their  children.  It  often  happens  that  it 
is  indifferent  at  what  school  a  youth  is 
placed.  This  work  will  instruct  the  parent 
where,  from  the  sccidental  circumstance 
of  the  child  being  born  in  some  particular 
county,  or  other  minute  difference,  it  will 
be  most  beneficial  to  send  him  to  school, 
with  the  certainty  of  a  scholarship  to  the 
university,  and,  if  accompanied  by  steady 
conduct  whilst  there,  of  perhaps  a  pro- 
vision for  life.  The  work  gives  also  an 
account  of  such  colleges,  schools,  city 
companies,  corporations,  &c.  as  have  uni- 
versity advantsiges  attached  to  them,  with 
their  ecclesiastical  patronage,  &c, 

Anti-Duel ;  or,  a  Plan  for  the  Abroga- 
tion of  Duelling*  By  James  Dunlop, 
Bsq. — ^This  pamphlet  treats  the  subject 
fully,  and  very  particularly,  and  contains, 
perhaps,  all  that  can  be  said  on  the  sub- 
ject; but  we  think  that  without  any  fresh 
law,  or  even  any  additional  enforcement 
of  public  opinion,  private  or  public, 
duelling  has  yielded  to  more  refined  and 
civilised  manners,  and  will  soon  be  en- 
tirely extinct  under  their  gentle  but  peace- 
ful influence. 


Observations  on  the  Situation  qf  the 
Coftniry  in  1820,  Sfc.  By  A.  B.  C— 
This  is  the  second  edition  of  a  pamphlet 
published  in  18'20.  The  object  of  it  is  to 
propose  a  plan  of  gradual  improvement  of 


292 


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[Sept 


ourftnaaoMf  monli,  sad  religioB.  TIm 
aboUtioB  of  half  of  the  National  Debt  la 
to  aifecl  the  firat,  and  a  freih  amnfo* 
ment  of  ecoleaiaatical  propeity  the  laat  i 
luid  the  morals,  lying  between  them,  will 
ImI  the  benefit  of  their  improYOOMnt. 

Temp§rmi  Pr^tperii^  fimtrBd  to  Mm* 
kind  h  <A«  Prmitict  qf  Ckrittimuip,  ^e. 
iff  J.  8.  Metcalfe.  Theanthor  propo>ea 
to  form  a  society  called  **  The  Practical 
Christian  Union/'  founded  on  the  maxim 
**  do  unto  others  as  yon  wonld  bo  done 
•■to."  

Tk$  Inwwrd  OM,  a  CAerye.  Bjf  Ed- 
ward Denison,  BitM^  •/  Salts^nfy.— An 
impremlve,  able,  and  earnest  disoonrse, 
which  is  well  oatovlated  to  prodnee  a  deep 
impression  on  the  younger  dei^  and 
candidates  for  Holy  Orders,  for  whom  it  is 
designed. 

Tk0  PmrlUmtnt  i^fBm^Umd,  frtm  \H 
(ih0r$§  /.  to  lAf  jM^SNnf  fiaie.  Bif  Henry 
Vtooks  Smith,  Umo.^The  first  volume 


of  this  T«ry  viafel  woric  (whieh 

(nUished  in  eounties)  ia  now  eomptcte. 
t  contains  the  members  of  ererj  Par* 
liament  for  the  counties  and  borouglM  of 
Bodlbidahiio  to  Nottingham  indnsiYe, 
wiUi  thdr  polities,  and  tlM  numbers  polled 
at  oonloatod  eleetioBS  within  the 
mentioned  in  the  title. 


CSIcffC  ddi9troi  ai  ikt 

By  R.  S.  WUbcrforce.~A 
▼ery  imprsmive  and  excellent  ohaigeb 
urging  on  the  clergymen  and  the  chui^- 
wwdens  the  duty  oiF  endeavouring  to  en* 
force  and  to  restore  the  better  obaerranoa 
among  the  people  of  public  worship. 

DomerMe  Jfnsde  Jhr  tht  JTmIT Ay,  if. 
Hy  H.  I.  Banister,  r^frimitd  from  fAe 
JtfitfiMi  IFerld.^Very  amusing  letters 
these,  and,  to  musical  professors  and 
amateurs,  something  better  than  amusiBg. 
They  contain  also  a  short  aeoount  of  the 
lives  of  the  great  musicians,  as  Haydn, 
Handel,  he. 


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It.  ed. 


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The  Textile  Manofactnres  of  Great 
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ArehU0etur9,  Bitfineerinfft  jt* 
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Preparing  far  Plid/icilioii. 

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Biographical  Notices  of  the  most  distin- 
guished Individuals,  Agricultural  and 
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esq.,  descended  from  and  representing 
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COFYRIOHT. 

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present  Session,  reducing  the  duties  pay- 
able upon  such  books,  prints,  and  other 
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council,  to  command  their  admission  on 
the  new  scale  of  duties  enforced  by  this 
Act.  The  following  is  the  schedule  of 
the  reduced  duties  i—- 

t.  d. 
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1844J 


Fine  ArU. 


29; 


BOOESBLLBES*  VBOTIBBNT  BBTBBAT. 

▲  pieoe  of  freehold  l«Bd  has  been  mii- 
nlficentlj  presented  hf  John  Dickinion) 
esq.  for  the  porpose  of  building  the  pro- 
posed Retreat.  It  is  sitaate  about  31 
miles  from  Easton  Square,  on  the  Bir- 
iningham  line  of  Railway,  between  Abbot's 
Langley  and  Kinf*s  Langley,  at  which 
latter  place  there  is  a  station,  and  ^  the 
trains  stop  four  or  five  times  each  way 
daily.  The  land  cousists  of  nearly  three 
acres,  and  is  in  every  respect  calculated  to 
promote  the  health  and  enjoyment  of 
those  who  may  hereafter  become  its  occu^ 
pants. 

THE    FRENCH    ACADEMY. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Academy 
of  Inscriptions  and  Belles  Lettres,  the 
prize  for  Numismatics  was  awarded  to 
Sigaor  Oennaro  Riccio  fbr  his  work  on 
tiie  '*  Coins  of  the  Great  Roman  Fami- 
lies ;"  the  first  medal  for  works  *'  on  the 
Antiquities  of  France*'  was  given  to  the 
treatise  of  the  late  M.  Gerard,  on  Indel- 
burge  of  I>aimark^  Queen  of  France ;  the 
second,  to  M.  MarcUga,  for  his  work  on 
the  Archives  of  Anjon ;  and  the  third,  to 
M.  de  la  Teyssoniere,  fbr  his  historical  re- 
searohes  on  the  department  of  the  Ain. 
A  fburUi  medal  had  been  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Academy  by  the  Minister 
of  Public  Instruction,  and  had  been  by  it 
awarded  to  Messrs.  Chemel  and  Le  Olcy, 
s»  apto:  to  the  former,  for  his  History  of 
Rouen,  and  to  the  latter  for  his  History 
of  the  Counts  of  Flanders.  Honourable 
mention  was  made  of  not  less  than  1 3  other 
historical  works.  The  prises  founded  bv 
Baron  Qobert,  for  works  connected  with 
Frendi  history,  were  awarded,  the  first  to 


M.  H.  Martin,  for  his  tenth  and  elerenth 
Yolumes  of  his  History  of  France,  and  the 
second  to  M.  Monteil.  After  the  prises 
had  been  announced,  M.  Dureau  de  la 
Malle  read  an  interesting  paper  on  **  the 
Budget  of  the  Roman  Bmpire  under  Au- 
gustus,*' which  was  much  applauded. 
Some  other  business  was  then  transacted, 
and  the  meeting  separated. 

Hie  fbUowing  are  announced  as  the 
subjects  proposed  for  prises  by  the 
Academy  of  Inscriptions  and  Belles  Let- 
tree  for  the  gold  medal,  value  SOOOf.  for 
the  ensuing  year:— "A  Sketch  of  the 
History  of  the  Wars  which  took  place 
between  the  Romans  and  the  Kings  of 
Persia,  of  (he  Dynasty  of  the  Sassanides, 
from  the  time  of  the  Emperor  Gordian 
down  to  the  Invasion  of  the  Arabs."  This 
subject  was  proposed  for  the  present  year, 
but  no  prise  was  awarded*  Also,  a  simi- 
lar medal  for  the  best  paper  on  *'  A  Criti- 
cal Bzamination  of  the  Historians  of  Con- 
Btantine  the  Great,  compared  with  the 
various  Monuments  of  his  Reign ;  **  alreadv 
proposed  for  1843,  but  not  awarded.  And 
lastly,  a  third  gold  medal  for  the  follow- 
ing subject  :-»*'  A  Research  into  the 
Origin,  Emigrations,  and  Successions  of 
the  people  who  inhabited  the  countries 
north  of  the  Black  Sea  and  the  Caspian, 
ftom  the  Third  Century  down  to  the 
Eleventh ;  determining,  as  fkr  as  possible, 
the  Extent  of  the  Countries  which  each 
of  them  occupied  at  different  Epochs.** 
The  subject  for  the  gold  medal  of  1846  is 
'*  A  Critical  Inquiry  into  the  Succession 
of  the  Egyptian  Dynasties,  according  to 
Historical  Writings  and  National  Menu- 
meats." 


FINE  ARTS. 


AUT-UMIOK  or  LONDON. 

Aug.  13.  The  annual  meeting  of  the 
subscribers  to  the  Art-Union  of  London 
was  held  at  Dniry-laoe  Theatre,  his 
Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Cambridge 
in  the  chair.  In  consequence  of  the 
recent  proceedings  in  Parliament  con- 
nected with  this  society  the  greatest  pos- 
sible interest  seemed  to  be  excited  to 
witness  this  annual  ceremony,  and  the 
theatre  was  filled  in  every  part.  George 
Godwin,  esq.  F.R.S.  the  honorary  secre- 
tary,' read  the  report,  which  contained 
the  following  statement  of  the  dtfl&culty 
which  occasioned  this  year's  delay. 

"  In  ^ April  last,  according  to  custom, 
all  tha  'arrangements  were  made  for  the 

Gent.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII. 


annual  distribution  of  the  ftinds.  A  fow 
days  before  the  appointed  time  a  letter 
was  received  from  the  solicitor  to  the 
Lords  Commissioners  of  her  Majesty's 
Treasury,  infbrmiog  the  committee  that 
the  Art.  Union  of  London  had  been 
brought  under  the  notice  of  their  lord- 
ships, that  they  were  advised  it  was  illegal, 
and  that  the  farther  contlnuanoe  of  the 
same  would  jfcnder  all  parties  engaged  In 
it  liable  to  prosecution.  On  receipt  of 
this  communication  the  committee  imme- 
diately suspended  their  proceedings,  and 
addressed  an  urgent  memorial  to  the 
Prime  Minister,  settiog  forth  that  the 
Art-Union  of  London,  since  its  esU- 
blishmoit  in  1B37,  had  expended  about 


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298 


JPtM  Aria. 


[Sept 


36,000/.  in  the  parchaie  and  preparation 
of  works  of  art,  to  the  great  encourage- 
ment of  artists,  and  the  diffusion  of  a 
taste  for  the  fine  arts  throughout  the 
empire;  that  none  of  the  parties  con- 
cerned in  its  management  had  any  pecu- 
niary or  other  personal  interest  therein  ; 
that  it  had  put  into  operation  painters, 
sculptors,  engravers,  medaUdie  sinkers, 
and  workers  in  hrooie — a  branch  of  art 
much  neglected  in  this  country  ;  and  they 
had  established  correspondents,  not  merely 
throughout  the  United  Kingdom,  but  in 
Ceylon,  Bombay,  Singapore,  Nova  Scotia, 
Hobart  Town,  Mexico,  and  New  York; 
and  had  thus  bound  together  by  one 
common  interest — an  important  and  good 
one^a  multitude  of  individuals  through- 
out the  world,  and  had  opened  to  many 
freah  sources  of  elcTating  gratification, 
tending  to  wean  them  from  debasing  pur- 
suits ;  that  the  committee  had  then  a  large 
sum  of  money  in  their  hands  for  diatribn- 
tion  and  for  payment  of  engravers ;  that 
many  artists  had  devoted  labour  and  skill 
to  the  preparation  of  works  of  art,  and  in 
the  majority  of  cases  looked  to  this  and 
similar  associations  for  their  reward ;  and 
that,  if  the  committee  were  prevented 
from  completing  their  arrangements,  the 
results  would  be  disastrous  to  a  large 
body  of  meritorious  mea.  They  there- 
fore prayed,  without  then  entering  on  the 
question  of  legality,  that  they  might  re- 
ceive assurance  that  no  legal  proceedings 
would  be  sanctioned  by  Government  if  the 
general  meeting  were  held  as  arranged, 
and  promised  to  give  the  most  serious 
attention  to  the  opinion  of  the  law  officers 
of  the  Crown  before  any  steps  were  taken 
towards  a  future  subscription. 

"  They  had  an  interview  afterwards 
with  Sir  George  Clerk,  on  the  part  of  Sir 
Robert  Peel,  but  were  unable  to  obtain 
any  guarantee.  A  meeting  of  artists  was 
held  in  the  metropolis,  numerous  peti- 
tions were  presented  to  Parliament  from 
all  parts  of  the  country,  and  ultimately, 
on  the  motion  of  the  Right  Hon.  Thomas 
Wyse,  a  committee  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons was  appointed  (3d  of  June)  *  to 
consider  the  objects,  results,  and  present 
position  of  Art-Unions,  how  far  they  are 
affected  by  existing  laws,  and  what  are 
the  most  expedient  and  practicable  means 
to  place  them  on  a  safe  and  permanent 
basis,  and  to  render  them  most  subser- 
vient to  the  improvement  and  diffusion 
of  art  through  the  different  classes  of  the 
community.' 

"  This  committee  continued  to  receive 
evidence  till  the  end  of  July,  and  have 
not  yet  made  their  report.  In  the  mean- 
time the  exhibitions  were  drawing  to  a 
olose,  and  the  Right  Hon.  Lord  Montea- 


gle,  with  the  view  of  lecariBg  the 
tinuance  of  the  operations  of  this 
tion,  and  of  preventing  disiqipointmcnt 
to  artists  who  had  exhibited  works  during 
the  current  year,  preaented  a  bill  to  the 
House  of  Lords  to  legalise  Ait- Unions, 
under  the  provisiona  of  which,  as  altered 
by  the  House  of  Commons  and  made  law, 
the  assodation  is  now  carried  on.  By 
this  Act  we  are  enabled  to  proceed  nntfl 
the  3l8t  day  of  July,  1M5 ;  and  it  is 
understood  that,  early  in  the  next  aeasMm 
of  Parliament,  a  Bill,  founded  on  the  re- 
port of  the  committee,  will  be  broogfat  in 
to  place  the  Art-Union  of  London  and 
similar  aoctetiea  on  a  permanent  and  firm 
basis. 

'*  The  subscription  for  the  present  yew 
amounts  to  the  sum  of  14,819/.  14«.,  being 
an  increase  of  S485i.  7s.  over  that  of  last 
year.  The.  number  of  works  of  art  se- 
lected by  the  prise-holders  last  year  was 
336,  including  two  pieces  of  sculpture. 
They  were  eiUubited  for  three  weeks  to 
the  subscribers  and  their  friends  in  the 
Suffolk-street  Gallery,  by  permission  of 
the  Society  of  British  Artists,  and  for  one 
week  gratuitously  to  the  pubUe  without 
any  limitation  or  restriction.  It  is  esti- 
mated that,  in  the  whole,  nearly  200,000 
persons  visited  this  exhibition,  without 
the  occurrence  of  any  aocident. 

*'  Since  the  last  general  meeting  the 
print  due    to  the  subscribers  of  1843, 

*  Raffaelle  and  the  Fornarina,'  engraved 
after  Sir  Augustus  Cslcott  by  Mr.  Lamb 
Stocks,  has  been  distributed.  At  the 
same  time  the  outlines  in  illustration  of 

•  The  Pilgrim*s  Progress,'  engraved  after 
Mr.  Seloos  by  Mr.  Henry  Moses,  were 
distributed  to  the  subscribers  of  the  cur- 
rent year.  The  engraving  after  Mr. 
Clarkson  Stanfield,  R. A.,  by  Mr.  Goodall, 
<  The  Castle  of  Ischia,*  due  to  the  sub- 
scribers of  the  current  year  (1844),  in 
addition  to  the  outlines,  is  in  a  forward 
state.  Every  subscriber  for  1845  will 
receive  an  impression  of  a  line  engraving, 
after  Mr.  Mulready,  R.A.,  by  Mr.  G.  T. 
Doo,  '  The  Convalescent,'  which  is  far 
advanced  towards  completion. 

**  In  consequence  of  the  very  success- 
ful result  of  the  first  competition  of  de- 
signs in  outline,  the  advertisement  was 
repeated.  In  reply,  32  sets  of  designs  of 
various  degrees  of  merit  were  received, 
from  which  the  committee  selected,  as 
most  deserving  of  the  premium  offered,  a 
series  illustrative  of  Thomson*s  'Castle 
of  Indolence,*  by  Mr.  William  Rimer. 

"  For  a  future  year  the  committee  have 
arranged  to  engrave  '  Jephtlia's  Daugb- 
ter,'  painted  by  Mr.  O'Neil,  and  selected 
by  Mr.  Cyrus  Legg,  a  prizeholder  of 
1843,  and  have  placed  it  in  the  hands  of 


1844.] 


Fine  AriSm 


299 


Mr.  Peter  Lightfoot,  for  that  purpose. 
In  order  to  insure  a  good  subject  for 
engraving  hereafter,  and  to  induce  the 
production  of  a  superior  work  of  art,  the 
committee  are  about  to  offer  the  sum  of 
500/.,  under  conditions  which  will  be 
advertised,  for  an  original  picture  illustra- 
tive of  English  history.  They  propose 
that  cartoons,  the  size  of  the  picture, 
shall  be  sent  in  by  the  Ist  of  January, 
1845,  from  which  the  selection  shall  be 
made,  and  that  the  artist  shall  undertake 
to  complete  the  finished  painting  within 
12  months  after  the  decision. 

"  The  bronzes  from  Flazman's  *  Mi- 
chael and  Satan,'  and  Sir  R.  Westmacott's 
'  Nymph  and  Child,'  ezecnted  very  satis- 
factorily by  Mr.  Edward  Wyon  and  Mr. 
Woodingtou,  have  been  distributed  to  the 
prizeholders.  For  the  present  year  the 
committee  have  caused  a  bust  of  Hebe, 
by  Mr.  A.  Gatley,  selected  by  Miss 
Aeocks,  a  prizeholder  in  the  last  distribu- 
tion, to  be  put  into  bronze  by  Mr.  Hat- 
field. 

"  The  medal  of  Cbantrey  has  been 
delayed,  unfortunately,  partly  by  the 
illness  of  Mr.  W.  Wyon,  R.  A.,  and  partly 
by  the  success  of  our  arms  in  India, 
which  led  the  Government  to  call  on  that 
gentleman  unexpectedly  for  medals  for 
the  troops,  it  is  now  nearly  completed. 
In  contiJauation  of  the  series,  Mr.  A.  J. 
Stothard  has  been  comuiissioned  to  exe- 
cute a  medal  of  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds. 
The  committee  intend  to  take  immediate 
steps  to  obtain  medals  commemorative  of 
Sir  Christopher  Wr^n  and  Flaxman. 

'*  The  extension  of  the  Society's  opera- 
tions has  called  for  an  increase  of  the 
establishment,  and  additional  exertions 
on  the  part  of  those  engaged  in  it.  To 
remind  the  subscribers  of  the  largeness  of 
the  operations  carried  on  in  the  office,  it 
may  not  be  uninteresting  to  state  that 
since  the  last  meeting  more  than  60,000 
letters  and  circulars  have  been  issued  by 
post;  15,030  copies  of  last  year's  report, 
50*000  prospectuses  and  almanacs,  and 
10,000  catalogues  of  the  prizes  have  been 
distributed.  For  the  print  of  '  Una ' 
12,000  sheets  of  paper  were  required ; 
for  that  of  *  Raffaelle  and  the  Fornarino ' 
nearly  the  same  number ;  and  for  the 
designs  in  outline  330,000  sheets. 

'*  The  account  of  receipte  and  disburse- 
ments for  the  current  year  showed  that 
the  sum  set  apart  for  engraving  the  '  Cas- 
tle of  Ischia'  was  .  :^1857  17  9 
For  the  outlines  .  1805  0  0 
For  the  bronzes  .  /  400  0  0 
For  expenses,  printing,  &c.  9166  16  3 
For  pictures  and  other  works 

of  art      ....  8590    0    0 

*'  It  ii  satisfactory  to  observe  that  the 


expenses  are  little  mdre  than  they  were 
last  year,  notwithstanding  the  increased 
number  of  subscribers,  and  the  expenses 
caused  by  the  late  proceedings  of  the 
Government.  The  amoimt  set  apart, 
according  to  the  foregoing  statement,  for 
the  purchase  of  works  of  art — ^viz.,  8590f, 
mil  be  allotted  as  follows : — Fifty  works 
of  art  of  the  value  of  10/.  each,  500/. ; 
thirty-six  of  15/.  each,  540/. ;  forty- two 
of  20/.  each,  840/. ;  twenty-eight  of  25/. 
each,  700/. ;  twenty-five  of  30/.  each, 
750/. ;  twenty  of  40/.  each,  800/. ;  four- 
teen of  50/.  each,  700/. ;  twelve  of  60/. 
each,  720/. ;  eight  of  70/.  each,  560/. ; 
six  of  80/.  each,  408/. ;  six  of  100/.  each, 
600/. ;  two  of  150/.  each,  300/.  ;  two  of 
800/.  each,  400/. ;  one  of  300/. ;  one  of 
400/.  To  these  are  to  be  added  thirty 
bronzes  of  the  '  Bust  of  Hebe,'  making, 
in  the  whole,  283  works  of  art.  The 
reserved  fond  commenced  in  1842  ;  and, 
formed  simply  by  the  profit  on  sale  of 
catalogues  at  the  exhibition,  the  interest 
on  subscriptions  received,  and  the  sums 
unexpended  by  prizeholders,  now  amounts 
to  1000/.'» 

The  report  concluded  with  some  gene- 
ral remarks,  which  were  received  with 
considerable  applause.  T.  Wyse,  esq. 
M.P.  then  addressed  the  meeting.  He 
remarked  that,  with  regard  to  what  had 
recently  occurred,  it  appeared  to  him  that 
the  Government,  when  called  upon  by 
individuals  to  uphold  the  law,  had  no 
other  course  to  pursue  but  to  put  that 
law  into  execution.  In  consequence  of 
this  step  on  the  part  of  the  Government 
an  inquiry  had  been  instituted,  not  only 
into  the  msnagement  of  art-unions  in  this 
country,  but  also  into  the  management  of 
those  on  the  Continent ;  and  he  felt  bound 
in  justice  to  say  tliat  Sir  Robert  Peel  had 
given  every  facility  to  the  inquiry,  and 
had,  throughout,  acted  in  the  most  candid 
and  conciliatory  manner.  The  speaker 
then  proceeded  to  make  some  eloquent 
remarks  on  the  language  of  art,  and  to 
point  out  how  desirable  it  is  that  artists 
should  be  induced  to  devote  their  atten- 
tion to  the  illustration  of  the  two  noblest 
subjects  that  could  engage  the  attention 
of  the  human  mind — ^religion  and  history. 
It  might  be  seen,  by  the  recent  illustra- 
tions of  the  history  of  Knox,  that  Pro- 
testantism had  her  artistical  glory  as  well 
as  Catholicism.  With  regard  to  history, 
there  were  many  public  buildings  of  this 
metropolis  which  might  be  most  appro- 
priately made  receptacles  for  historical 
paintings;  he  trusted  that  the  example 
set  by  those  who  had  the  mansgement  of 
the  decoration  of  the  two  Houses  of  Par- 
liament would  be  followed  by  the  city  of 
I^qdon  and  the  other  cities  of  the  em^ 


390 


fine  ArU, 


[Sept. 


pire.  Hie  arts,  to  proiper,  mint  be 
patroniied  by  the  SoVenig&y  the  aria- 
loonej,  and  the  people.  We  mre  happy 
in  the  posaeaaion  of  a  Sovereign  who  not 
only  enoonraged  art,  bat  who  knew  by 
what  meana  that  eneovragement  night  be 
made  moat  effectual,  who  herMif  enjoyed 
thenobleet  aaptrationa— who  loted,  Tidued, 
and  uadontood  the  art.  Aa  a  Royal  eom* 
Buaaioner,  he  eonld  atate  that  he  hkd  aeTer 
leen  more  enthvaiaam  in  the  canae  of  art, 
or  more  devotion  to  iti  encouragement, 
than  had  been  exhibited  by  the  Sove« 
reign. 

Mr.  Ewart,  M.P.,  moved  a  vote  of 
thanks  to  Lord  Monteagle  and  Mr.  Wyse, 
M.P.  for  their  services  in  their  respective 
Houses  of  Farliament.  The  former,  in 
rptuming  thanks,  aeknowledged  the  asaist- 
anee  he  had  received  flrom  the  Duke  of 
Cambridge  and  tlie  Marquees  of  North- 
ampton. 

The  drawing  of  tlie  prizea  was,  asnsnal, 
performed  by  two  yonng  ladies,  one  of 
whom  drew  from  a  wheel  the  numbers, 
while  the  other  drew  from  another  wheel 
the  prizes.  The  first  prize  drawn  was  one 
of  TO/,  in  favour  of  Dr.  Culham,  of  Dart- 
ford.  This  was  Iblfewed  by  one  of  SOL  in 
favour  of  Mr.  Jas.  Thompson,  of  Nova 
Scotia,  and  the  next  was  one  of  100/.  in 
fiivoor  of  Mr.  Kilbnm,  of  PoK  Philip,  Aus- 
tralia. The  singnlarity  o  t  theae  two  prises 
being  awarded  topersonF  dwelling  on  such 
opposite  points  of  the  esi  th,  created  a  sen- 
sation of  surprise,  and  was  loudly  ap- 
plauded. The  prise  of  4001.  waa  obtained 
by  Miss  C.  Remington,  of  Kirfcby  Lons- 
dale ;  that  of  300/.  by  Mr.  E.  M.  George, 
of  Cheapaide.  Among  the  other  prise- 
holders  were,  the  Countess  of  Amndel 
and  Surrey,  3%i, ;  the  Countess  of  March, 
30/. ;  Lady  Luabington,  SOL  ;  the  Earl 
of  March,  95/. ;  Eari  Grey,  10/. ;  Edward 
Hawkins,  esq.  P.R.S.  60/. ;  A.  Cooper, 
R.A.  901. 


SALi  or  iin.  pBirnicE*a  picrumse. 

Hm  aeeond  and  last  picture-sale  of  any 
impoitanee  this  season  took  place  on  the 
ith  inly,  at  Messrs.  Christie  and  Man- 
sen's.  Among  seventeen  spedmena,  no 
fewer  than  six  were  maater-pieoes,  and 
three  of  theae  were  maater-piecaa  of 
maater-spirits.  No.  1,  **The  Israelites 
drawing  water  from  the  Rock,*'  by  i?aa- 
aano,  bronaht  70  guineaa.  No.  9,  a 
**  Maiket,"  by  the  aame,  90  gmoeas.  No. 
3,  the  "  Virgia,  Child,  St  Joeeph,and  St. 
SUaabeth,"  by  Cbelto,  commended  for 
befng  SB  imitation  of  Carlo  Maratti,  305 
gnincM.  .No.  4,  a  ''  Mew  of  Floreaoe,'' 
by  Canaletti,  SOO  guineaa.  Nos.  5  and 
6,  two  •*  Flower  and  Fhiit  Pieces,*'  by 
Vm  Of,  190  and  170  gniacas.     No.  7,  a 


<<  Bepoao,"  nid  by  TUUm,  frnm  the  Gius- 
tiniani  collection,  900  guineas.  No.  8, 
a  '*  Hawking  Party,"  by  IFbMwnmraa, 
once  excellent,  and  may  become  so  again 
under  the  akilftil  care  of  ita  purchaser 
(Mr.  Farrar),  620  guineas.  No.  9,  "  Le 
Lendeasain  dea  Nooea,"  by  T^mien,  510 
gvineaa.  No.  10,  a  **  Landaoape,"  by 
OMpmr  PsMffin,  380  guineas.  No.  11, 
the  «<  Flight  into  Egypt,*'  by  CUtude,  re- 
ppesenting  a  beautifid  Mediterranean  inlet, 
without  a  single  feature  of  the  Levantine 
shore,  760  guineas.  No.  19,  another 
and  far  better  7\ni4er«,  "  Pair  on  non 
Pair,'*  which  may  be  Englished,  "  Odd 
or  Even  ;"  a  game  repreaented  at  its  crisis, 
before  a  Dvrtch  alehouae.  It  onee  be- 
longed to  the  Orleana  eollection.  Mr. 
Hibbert  gave  300  guineas  for  it  half  a 
century  ago ;  it  now  brought  850.  No. 
18,  <*  Lot  and  his  Daughters,"  by  0fUd9, 
purchased  for  the  National  Gallery  at 
1600  guineaa,  and  on  which  we  quote  the 
following  remarks  from  the  Athenaeum : — 
**  A  graceful,  a  grandiose,  an  attractive, 
though  quite  unmeretricious  picture.  Its 
venturesome  theme  is  the  forlorn  hope  of 
a  painter  to  succeed  in ;  he  seldom  es- 
eapea  unscathed ;  Guide's  discreet  skil! 
and  delicate  taste  enables  him  to  triumph. 
His  proper  choice  of  the  time  makes  his 
visible  delineation  as  little  objeotionable 
aa  the  catastrophe  itself,  seen  through  the 
dim  veil  of  sacred  description.  We  are 
not  here  disgusted  with  a  view  of  senile 
and  incestuous  bacchanaHanism  ;  the  per- 
sonages, on  their  way  from  Zoar  to  the 
mountains,  betoken  not  that  they  have 
left  one  Gomorrah  for  another,  nor  would 
find  this  other  anywhere  they  went,  be- 
cause they  had  it  within  them  ;  nererthe- 
less,  those  beautiful  Niobe  features  of  the 
eldest  daughter  wear  a  too  pleasure-given 
regard;  and  tbe  golden  wine-vessel  she 
carries  has  Cupid-like  forms  embossed 
upon  it  t  the  youngest,  a  damsel  of  still 
lovelier  mien,  and  her  indulgent  father, 
hold  discourse  more  earnest  and  familiar 
ttian  patriarchal  strictness  would  have 
permitted :  thus  charily,  yet  significantly, 
doea  Guide  prefigure  the  approaching 
tni^.  We  defend  his  attempt  no  further. 
He  outrages  costume,  if  he  observes  de- 
corum :  Greek  art  was  undreamt  of  then, 
and  Roman  cloaks  had  not  dawned  on  any 
sartorial  imagination.  This  admitted,  tbe 
figures  are  draped  with  tasteful  deganoe 
and  nobleness.  In  respect  of  worlman- 
ship,  the  style  we  should  pronounee  tran* 
aition,  between  his  earlier,  powerful,  Ca- 
ravaggieaque,  and  his  later,  subdued,  own, 
— nearer,  however,  to  the  first.  Well- 
painted  heads  have  always  a  substantive 
value,  but  the  hand»  of  these  dignified 
pOTtOM  wonM  by  thtmadves  make  com* 


1944.] 


Fk»  Arii. 


301 


pUsfee  and  admifmUe  pictures.**  Of  this 
pictare  there  is  an  engraving  hf  Canego. 
No.  14,  *'  Snianna  and  the  Elders,**  Outdo, 
900  gnineaa ;  also  engraTed  by  Cvnego. 
No.  15,  *<  Interior,**  by  A.  Oftode,  1,310 
goineas.  No.  16,  '*11ie  Woman  taken 
in  Adultery,'*  ascribed  to  TliMm,  600 
gaineas.  Last,  not  least.  No.  17^  the 
*'Jadgment  of  Paris,**  by  fMen^ .-  an 
Orleans  article,  and  brought,  when  Lord 
Kinnaiid  sold  it,  8,000  ponnds  {  it  now 
broogfat  4|000  guineas,  and  has  beeome 
one  of  the  splendid  lurtnres  that  adorn  our 
National  Gfdlery.  **  Here  are  Mercury  and 
thiB  Phrygian  shwherd-piince  surreying 
with  flushed  compUnions  and  watery  eyes 
three  hussies  of  goddesses  that  unmask 
their  Flemish  graces  to  the  noontide  sun. 
Had  the  judge  to  decide  which  was  Ae 
tmtf  of  a  beauty,  it  might  well  have 
pussled  him.  Notwithstanding  all  this, 
the  picture  entrances,  enraptures  I  Power 
—power  is  the  secret  charm  of  Rubens's 
creations,  gorgeousness  only  their  super* 
fidal  attraction,  sometimes  their  defect, 
when  it  degenerates  into  gurishnees.*' 
This  picture  has  been  engrayed  by  Lorn- 
melin,  Couch^,  and  WocSlmtin.  It  may 
be  said  the  national  collection  wanted 
neither  another  Rubens  nor  Guido,  but 
such  fine  specimens  onee  lost  would  have 
been  qwut  irrecoverable  t  each  was  bid 
for  like  a  dish  of  food  in  a  famine.  A 
single  hour  sold  the  entire  Penrice  cabinet 
— diirteen  thousand  pounds*  worth  of  pic- 
tures* 


MONUMBlfT  OP    SOUTHKY. 

Considerable  dissatisfaction  is  felt  at 
Bristol  as  to  the  proposed  erection  of  the 
monViment  to  Soutbey  in  the  Cathedral ; 
and  it  is  thought  by  some  that  College 
Green  would  be  the  more  fitting  locality. 
Mr.  W.  8.  Landor  has  written  on  the 
subject  a  letter  to  the  editor  of  the  Great 
Western  Advertiser,  which  we  think 
worthy  of  republication,  particularly  as  it 
is  referred  to  in  Mr.  Britton*8  letter  given 
in  another  part  of  our  present  Magazine. 
Sir,  Bath,  July  ^5th,  1844. 

I  delay  not  an  instant  to  acknowledge 
your  courtesy  in  sending  me  the  Great 
Western  Advertiser,  dated  Saturday,  July 
SOth,  1844,  and  containing  the  notice  of 
a  meeting  held  to  consider  about  a  monu- 
ment to  the  memory  of  Southey.  In  my 
opiuion  your  remarks  on  Mr.  Baily's  de- 
sign are  just.  Among  the  many  who  have 
done  honour  to  your  City  as  their  birth- 

Elace,  Mr.  Baily  occupies  almost  the 
igfaest  station.  In  this  design,  however, 
he  has  fallen  into  the  same  error  as 
Canova  fell  into  regarding  the  monument 
of  Alfieri,  in  the  church  of  Santa  Croce, 
at  Florence.    They  resemble  one  anotheri 


and  are  the  very  worst  ideas  of  the  two 
great  masters.  Mr.  Baily  is  classical) 
but  Mr.  B.  must  recollect  that  neither 
mural  nor  otiier  monuments  of  the  dead 
ever  were  seen  in  the  temples  of  Greece 
or  Rome.  If  the  Christian  religion  was 
tolerant  of  this  profanation,  it  was  linom 
motives  neither  slight  nor  unholy ;  it  vrsf 
to  protest  her  defenders  from  outrage  in 
their  last  home,  and  to  exeite  at  once  the 
piety  and  the  courage  of  their  Mlow-wor- 
shippers.  It  was  continued  for  profit  and 
perquisite.  The  Crusaders,  and  o^ers 
who  bore  arms  at  home.  He  recumbent 
under  the  images  of  their  faiterceseora,  and 
ezprees,  in  their  placid  countenances,  n« 
sentiment  hut  devotion.  Everydiing 
about  them  bears  one  charaoter.  I  was 
the  first,  I  believe,  to  express  my  opinion 
publicly,  that  there  should  be  neither 
burials  nor  monuments  in  churches.  At 
the  same  time  I  proposed  that  the  images 
of  great  men  should  adorn  the  public 
walks  of  our  cities.  Such  is  our  climate^ 
that  we  cannot  walk  among  them  fre- 
quently in  the  open  eir.  But  why  not 
build  ample  and  welUlighted  arcades  for 
their  reception?  Navu  worthies  might 
rest  upon  rostra,  just  higher  than  our 
heads,  and  not  upon  columns  where  only 
the  jackdaws  can  see  them.  Generals  of 
armies  should  have  equestrian  statues  t 
poets,  philosophers,  and  historians  (when- 
ever we  have  any),  may  rest  on  single 
plinths ;  and  theirs  fle  only  busts.  No 
inscription  for  any.  It  is  singular  that 
Southey,  when  we  were  walking  for  the  last 
time  together,  should  have  conversed  wi A 
me  on  the  subject  of  his  monument.  He 
was  then  in  perfect  health.  We  walked 
in  College  Green;  and  I  said  to  him, 
'*  Twenty  years  hence,  perhaps,  workmen 
may  be  busy  on  this  very  spot  in  putting 
up  your  statue."  He  replied,  "  If  ever  I 
hare  one,  I  would  wish  it  to  be  here.** 
I  am,  See,    W.  8.  Laxdoe. 


DBCOBATITC    AUT. 

The  Committee  appointed  by  the  Royal 
Commissioners  to  inspect  and  report  on 
works  of  Decorative  Art,  as  applicable  to 
the  New  Houses  of  Parliament,  have  re- 
commended the  specimens  of  Ornamental 
Metal-work  sent  in  by  Messrs.  Messenger 
and  Sons,  of  Binningham,  Messrs.  Bra- 
mah  &  Co.,  and  Mr.  Abbott.  In  the  de- 
partment of  Wood- Carving  the  artists  spe- 
cially noticed  are  Mr.  Cummings,  Mr. 
Ollett,  Mr.  Ringham,  Mr.  Freeman,  Mr. 
Browne,  and  Mr.  John  Thomas.  The 
Committee  add,  tiiat,  *'  among  the  artists 
in  wood,  Mr.  Rogers  did  not  comply  with 
the  terms  announced  in  the  notice  put 
forth  by  the  Commission,  and  his  name 
haS|  therefore,  not  been  inserted  in  the 


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Fike  Ari$. 


[Sept. 


foregoing  lut.  It  is,  however,  the  opi- 
nion of  the  Committee,  that  among  the 
earvert  whose  works  have  heen  exhthited 
he  holds  the  first  place ;  and  thej  con- 
sider him  as  the  person  best  qualified  to 
be  intrusted  with  those  parts  of  the  wood- 
work of  the  House  of  Lords  in  which 
greet  richness  of  effect  and  delicacy  of 
execution  are  required.**  In  Arabesque 
Painting  the  performances  of  Mr.  CoU- 
mann,  Mr.  Ooodison*  Messrs.  F.  and  J. 
Grace,  and  Mr.  Johnstone,  are  noticed 
witii  commendation.  It  is  in  a  significant 
postaeript  observed  —  *'  The  Commis- 
sioners haTing  had  reason  to  suppose  that 
some  of  the  persons  who  have  exhibited 
works  of  decoratiTe  art  may  have  em* 
ployed  other  hands,  or  even  the  assistance 
of  foreigners,  in  the  execution  of  such 
works,  ha?e  resolved  that  those  persona 
who  may  be  selected  for  employment  in 
those  branches  of  decoration  shall,  if  the 
Commissioners  think  fit,  be  required  to 
produce  specimens  of  their  art,  to  be  com- 
pleted under  such  conditions  as  the  Com- 
missioners may  think  necessary.**  This 
applies  particularly  to  the  branch  of 
arabesque  painting,  Mr.  Goodison  and 
Mr.  Johnstone  being,  as  we  are  assured, 
the  only  artists  here  mentioned  who  exe- 
cuted the  works  to  which  their  namea  are 
attached  ;  Mr.  Collmann  having  employed 
German,  and  Messrs.  Grace,  rrench 
artists. 


y^J3HYKV*%  PilgrlmCt  Progren:  an  ih 
hutrMied  ediiiont  with  a  Life  of  ike 
jimthor,  and  a  BihHographieal  Notice  by 
Oeorge  Godwin,  eex\,  F.R.S.  F.S.A.,  and 
Lewis  Pocock,  esq.  F.S.A. — ^When  the 
Art-Union  of  London,  in  the  year  184S, 
offered  a  premium,  by  public  advertise- 
ment, for  a  consecutive  series  of  ten  de- 
signs in  outline,  illustrating  some  part  of 
British  history,  or  the  work  of  some 
English  author,  Mr.  Selous  was  the 
successful  competitor ;  he  selected  for  his 
subject  the  immortal  "  Pilgrim's  Pro- 
gress,*' and  produced  therefrom  a  series 
of  graceful  and  animated  pictures,  which 
(increased  by  the  liberality  of  the  artist 
to  the  number  of  twenty-two)  were  faith- 
fully etched  foe- the  Society  by  Mr.  Henry 
Moses.  These,  however,  formed  only  a 
part  of  the  subjects  which  the  skill  and 
feeling  of  the  artist  had  delineated ;  he 
was,  therefore,  induced  by  the  commenda- 
tion bestowed  upon  his  first  series,  and 
inspired  apparently  by  the  subject,  to 
complete  the  whole  of  his  original  sketches, 
making  upwards  of  twenty  additional 
8ttbjects»  besides  a  number  of  beautiful 
vignettes  and  taiUpieces,  which  have  been 
engraved  on  wood,  and  are  now  published 
in  the  form  of  a  very  handsome  oblong 


folio  volume,  the  page  being  large  enough 
to  admit  of  the  designs  being  engraved  on 
a  scale  sufficient  for  their  full  effect.    The 
new  plates  have  been  intrusted  to   the 
well-known  talent  of  Mr.  Charles  Rolls, 
and  the  wood  engravings  are  admirably 
executed  by  Mr.  John  Bastin.    To  the 
volume  is  prefixed  a  well-written  memoir 
of  John  Bunyan,  and  a  bibliographical 
notice,  composed  with  much  diligence  and 
cara,  containing  some  curious  information 
respecting  the  original  publication  of  the 
<«  Pilgrim's  Progress,**  and  some  clever 
fac-similes  of  the  grotesque  illnstratioiis 
of  the  old  editions,  forming  a  remarkable 
contrast  to  the  polUhed  and  classical  pro- 
ductions of  Mr.  Selous.     We  may  add 
that,  as  the  new  deaigns  are  of  the  same 
character  as  thoee  issued   by  the  Art- 
Union  of  London,  this  volume  ia  eapeoiaUy 
adapted  for  the  reception  of  their  en* 
gravings,    thus    presenting    together    a 
uniform  series  of  forty -three  plates,  iUos- 
trating,  independently  of  the  woodcuta* 
nearly  every  incident  of  Bunyan*s  cele- 
brated dream. 


His  Royal  Highness  Prince  Albert  has 
purchased  a  gallery  pictura  by  Scheffer, 
the  celebrated  French  artist,  which  re- 
cently arrived  in  ^his  country,  for  the  sum 
of  SOyOOOf.  Its  subject  is  from  GOethe*a 
fantasticaland  esoteric  romance,  **  Wilhelm 
Meister.**  The  name  of  Scheffer,  which 
in  France  ranks  second  to  none,  is  not  as 
well  known  in  England  as  that  of  the 
brilliant  and  gorgeous  Delaroche ;  but  the 
severe  simplicity  of  Scheffer  always  veils 
a  profound  sentiment ;  the  intellect  and 
the  taste  are  alike  satisfied  with  his  pro- 
ductions, and  hia  creations  dwell  on  the 
memory. 


A  marble  statue  of  his  Royal  Highnoss 
Prince  Albert,  executed  bv  Wolff,  has 
reached  England  from  Tuscany,  and 
arrived  at  Windsor  Castle. 


ICKTALLIC  RUBBER  FOR  BRAS8B8. 

We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  H.  S.  Richard- 
son, of  Greenwich,  for  two  very  beautiful 
impressions  of  Ancient  Sepulchral  Brasses, 
taken  with  a  composition  and  prepared 
paper,  which  are  offered  for  aale  to  the 
artist  and  antiquary.  We  are  not  able  to 
describe  the  materials,  which  we  have  not 
seen  in  their  original  state ;  but  we  can 
state  of  the  impressions  that  they  are  by 
far  the  most  perfect  we  have  ever  seen. 
The  prepared  paper  appean  to  be  blade ; 
the  metdlic  rubber  aives  the  whole  the 
appearance  of  the  brass  itself,  except 
where  the  latter  is  engraved,  or  where  it$ 
sorface  is  impaired  by  rust— for  the  rnb« 


1844.] 


Architecture* 


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bingi  before  us  are  no  less  exact  than  that ; 
so  complete  is  the  duplicate  of  the  brass 
thus  obtained  upon  paper,  both  in  genersl 
colour  as  well  as  in  ^e  engraved  lines. 
The  operation  is  stated  to  be  as  simple  as 
with  heelball,  and  the  rubbings  appear 
fixed,  and  not  liable  to  be  smeared.    . 


STATUE  OF  THB  DUKX  OF  8UB8KX. 

Mr.   Bally,   R.A.  has  completed  the 


model  for  his  marble  statae  of  the  late 
Duke  of  Sussex,  intended  to  be  erected 
in  the  great  hall  of  the  Freemasons,  in 
Great  Queen  Street.  It  represents  the 
late  Grand  Master  of  the  Brethren,  with 
the  decorations  of  the  Garter  and  the 
Bath,  and  in  the  robes  of  the  former.  The 
figure  is  of  the  heroic  size,  standing  about 
seven  feet  and  a  half  in  height. 


ARCHITECTURE. 


WXSTMINSTBA  BRIDGE. 

Mr.  Barry's  design  for  an  iron  bridge 
of  five  arches  on  the  site  of  the  present 
edifice  has  been  promulgated,  together 
with  elevations,  plans,  embankments,  &c. 
&c.,  to  explain  its  details,  and  contrast  it 
with  the  existing  bridge,  which  is  pro- 
nounced to  be  unsightly  and  unsafe.  It  is 
stated  that  by  this  means,  at  a  cost  of 
185,000/.,  the  navigation  and  trade  of  the 
river  would  be  improved,  the  effect  upon 
the  new  houses  of  Parliament  be  con- 
sulted, and  the  whole' tend  to  a  genersl 
consistency  and  beauty  not  attainable  by 
patching  up  the  old  structure.  However, 
the  Committee  appointed  by  the  House  of 
Commons  to  inquire  into  this  subject 
have  reported — *•  That,  on  a  review  of  the 
whole  of  the  evidence,  no  case  has  been 
nude  out  to  justify  the  Committee  in  re- 
commending to  the  House  the  pulling 
down  the  present  bridge  and  the  con- 
structing a  new  one.  That  it  is  desirable 
that  the  inclination  of  the  roadway  over 
the  bridge  be  improved,  by  lowering  its 
summit  and  raising  its  extremities.  That 
the  parapets  of  the  bridge  be  lowered  as 
much  as  is  practicable  and  consistent  with 
safety." 

BRIDGE    AT   COLOGNE. 

A  bridge  of  a  novel  and  magnificent 
description,  or  rather  a  double  bridge, 
one  over  the  other,  is  proposed  to  be 
thrown  over  the  Rhine,  at  Cologne.  It 
will  have  twenty-five  arches  ;  and  its  ex- 
treme height  will  be  1 44  feet  above  the 
shores.  The  lower  bridge  will  carry  a 
railroad,  to  connect  the  Berlin  and  Co- 
logne line  with  the  terminus  of  the  Rhe- 
nish railway.  The  upper  bridge  will  be 
for  other  carriages,  horsemen,  and  foot- 
passengers.  In  that  part  of  the  piers 
which  extends  between  the  two  bridges, 
cannon  will  be  placed,  for  the  double  pur* 
pose  of  breaking  up  the  ice  on  the  river, 
and  defending  the  city. 


LINCOLN   CITY  PRISON. 

The  Lancoln  city  prison  has  been  re« 
built  by  Mr.  Marshall,  of  Hull.  It  is 
constructed  for  carrying  out  the  principle 
of  classification.  On  the  east  side  there 
is  a  long  corridor,  two  stories  high,  having 
twenty-four  separate  cells  for  males,  and 
there  are  seven  different  courts  or  airing 
yards,  all  radiating  from  the  turnkey's 
room,  so  that  one  person  can  oversee 
the  whole.  Each  cell  is  warmed  by  a 
hot-air  apparatus,  has  a  tap  of  water  and 
a  washing  trough,  and  a  signal  by  which  a 
bell  is  struck  in  case  of  requiring  the  as- 
sistance of  any  person  sifter  they  are 
locked  up.  The  cell  can  be  inspected 
without  being  perceived,  and  there  is  also 
a  small  trap -door  for  communication , 
without  unlocking  the  cell-door.  Ham- 
mocks are  to  be  swung  instead  of  bed* 
steads,  and  each  cell  lighted  with  gas.  On 
the  female  side  there  ai-e  ten  similar  cells, 
with  three  different  court-yards  for  exer- 
cise. In  the  chapel  there  are  forty-eight 
boxes  or  pews,  so  constructed  that  the 
prisoners  cannot  see  one  another. 

LTNN  ARCHITBCTURAL  SOCIETY. 

On  the  11th  July  the  members  of  this 
society  met,  on  the  invitation  of  the  Rev. 
E.  E.  Blencowe,  the  Rector,  at  the  par- 
sonage of  West  Walton,  for  the  purpose 
of  examining  the  churches  of  West  Walton 
and  Walsoken.  Engravings  and  drawings 
of  the  leading  features  of  these  edifices 
were  exhibited  in  the  room  in  which  the 
members  were  received,  and,  the  character- 
istics of  the  different  styles  having  been 
pointed  out  by  Mr.  Blencowe,  the  party 
proceeded  to  examine  the  church  ot  West 
Walton,  a  fine  relique  of  early-English, 
though  much  mutilated  from  the  joint  in. 
fluences  of  time  and  bad  economy.  The 
magnificent  tower  is,  however,  uninjured, 
and  one  of  the  original  wiodcvs  in  the  soath 
aisle  remains  to  attest  the  exqaisite  beauty 


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iifvAMOtefw* 


C8«pt 


of  0ieoliiirchwlmiinit«ractied.  MaohbM 
bMD  doM  by  Mr.  Bl«acowt  to  pnwene 
what  remaiufly  and  to  improTe,  wher« 
improYement  wai  feasible ;  but  rattoratioa 
oannot  be  Uumglit  of  unkU  the  public  shall 
take  it  up  as  a  county  work.  Walsoken 
Church  is  purely  Nonnan,  tUe  anhes  ex- 
tending,  almost  uninjured,  the  wbok 
length  of  the  nave.  Dividing  the  nave 
from  the  chancel  is  a  pointed  arch,  but 
with  Norman  mouldings  and  omamente, 
and  dividing  the  south  aisle  from  a  side 
chapel  is  a  screen  of  elegant  and  elaborate 
workmanship  in  the  Perpendicular  style. 

nURT  ST.  B0MUND*S. 

The  house  between  St.  James's  Church 
and  the  Norman  Tower  has  now  been 
cleared  away,  and  never  was  a  finer  im- 
provement effected.  In  repairing  the 
offences  of  a  tastelesa  age,  than  in  thus 
bringing  out  in  all  ite  grandeur  the  per- 
spective view  of  the  tower  and  the  church, 
with  the  ruins  of  the  great  church  in  the 
teek  ground. 

MARKUT  WRirrON  CHURCH. 

The  north  wall  of  Market  Weston 
Church,  Suffolk,  has  been  restored  to  a 
perpendicular  position  by  a  snccessfixl 
application  of  science.  This  church  is 
supposed  to  have  been  erected  in  the  1 4th 
century :  in  1630  it  was  injured  by  light- 
ning, and  again  ten  years  since  it  was 
much  shattered  by  a  thunder  storm.  The 
time  had  now  arrived  when  it  became 
necessary  to  effect  a  perfect  restoration, 
as,  from  age  and  the  above  mentioned 
casualties,  the  north  wall  had  declined 
outwardly  19  inches  from  the  perpendi- 
euiar,  and  threatened  the  utter  destruc- 
tion of  the  building.  Under  the  super- 
intendence of  Mr.  Cottingham,  this  wall 
(the  weight  of  which  had  been  calculated 
at  340  tons)  has  been  brought  up  to  the 
perpendicular,  by  the  process  of  expand- 
ing by  heat  3  bars  of  iron,  24  inches  in 
diameter,  which  traversed  and  connected 
both  walls  of  the  church.  These  bars 
(which  had  screws  worked  on  one  end  of 
them  and  projected  beyond  the  south 
wall)  were  inclosed  in  cast-iron  boxes 
filled  with  lighted  charcoal.  When  the 
bars  were  fully  expanded  by  the  heat,  the 
screws  were  wound  up  firmly  to  the  un- 
damaged south  wall.  The  charcoal  boxes 
were  then  removed  and  the  process  of 
cooling  commenced.  Gradually  the  bars, 
contracting  equally  with  their  previous 
expansion,  compelled  the  whole  mass  of 
the  wall  to  follow  the  irresistible  power 
now  exerting  itself,  and  in  four  successive 
operations  the  whole  wall  rose  to  its 
original  perpendicular.  The  whole  ope- 
ration does  infinite  credit  to  Mr.  Cot- 
10 


tlRihaa«  wlw  ndoptod  tiM  like 
Annagh  Cathedral. 

New  CaURCHRS* 

jipnisa.  The  ehapel  of  eaee  of 
eele,  near  Banbury,  whidi  hae  bees  neariy 
wholly  rebuilt,  was  cMieecrated.  Tkt 
structure  now  conristo  of  a  nave,  aisles  of 
the  length  of  the  nave,  (which  was  boI  the 
oaae  wUh  the  northern  aisle*)  a  chaacel, 
and  a  tower  at  the  western  end,  in  plaoe 
of  one  which  stood  on  the  north.  To 
these  has  been  added  a  small  vestry  room 
on  the  north  side  of  the  chancel.  Bodicote 
is  a  chapelry  to  Adderbury.  The  total 
cost  of  the  alterations  has  been  upwards 
of  1,575/.,  the  risk  of  which  was  under- 
taken by  gentlemen  in  the  parish,  and  a 
clergyman  in  the  neighbourhood.  Before 
the  consecration,  aU>ut  800/.  (includiac 
150/.  procured  from  the  Incorporated 
Church  Building  Society,)  had  been  re- 
ceived ;  and  on  that  day,  236/.  was  col- 
lected— 208/.  and  Upwards  at  the  morning 
service,  and  17/.  8«.  at  the  evening. 

JUa^  28.  A  new  church  was  conse- 
crated at  Woherton,  Northamptonshire, 
by  the  Bishop  of  Lincoln.  The  estimated 
population  of  the  district  is  1100,  and  the 
number  of  houses  on  the  railway  stetion  is 
196.  The  parish  church  is  one  mile  dis. 
tent,  and  seats  only  two  hundred.  The 
cost  of  building  the  church,  with  extras, 
amounts  to  about  4,300/.  The  architects 
were  Messrs.  Wyatt  and  Brandon,  and  the 
builders  Messrs.  Grissell  and  Peto,  of 
London.  The  land  was  given,  and  the 
whole  expense  of  the  building  was  defrayed 
by  the  trustees  of  the  late  Dr.  Radcliffe. 
The  directors  of  the  London  and  Birming- 
ham Railway  voted  1000/.,  and  collected 
1000/.  for  an  endowment;  this  sum  is 
funded,  and  yields  the  clergyman  63/.  per 
annum.  The  church  is  called  St.  George 
the  Martyr.  The  foundation  stone  was 
laid  on  the  13th  of  July,  1843.  The  stone 
used  was  procured  partly  from  Cosgrove 
and  partly  from  Worcestershire.  The 
plan  of  the  chancel  window  is  token  from 
Tintem  Abbey. 

Jii/y.  33.  The  Bishop  of  Worcester 
consecrated  a  new  church  at  Btmiingham* 
It  is  a  neat  and  convenient  structure, 
capable  of  accommodating  about  1200 
people,  and  dedicated  to  St.  Stephen.  On 
the  preceding  day,  the  Lord  Bishop  laid 
the  foundation  stone  of  a  new  church  in 
Garrison-lane. 

July  24.  St.  John*8  church.  West* 
wood  Heath,  Warwickshire,  was  con- 
secrated by  the  Bishop  of  the  diocese. 
It  is  in  the  Decorated  style,  of  free-stone, 
and  capable  of  holding  400  persons. 
Two-thirds  of  the  sittings  ore  free.  The 
cost  of  erection  is  between  two  and  three 


1844.] 


Archkeeture. 


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tlioiinBd  pounds.  The  itOB^wu  gifen 
l>y  Lord  Ldriiy  firom  hU  quarrr  near 
Gibbet  HiU. 

On  the  S6th  the  Biihop  ooniecreted  the 
district  chapel  of  St.  Paul's,  Warwick, 

July  25.  The  Lord  Bishop  of  Oxford 
consecrated  the  new  militarj  church  at 
Windsor.  It  is  calculated  to  contain  a 
congregation  of  2000,  and  cost  about 
7O00/.,6000/.  of  which  has  already  been 
raised  hj  Tolontary  contributions.  An 
organ  has  been  presented  by  James  Jen- 
nings, Esq.  of  Windsor. 

Juty.  7.  The  new  church  of  St.  Mark's, 
in  HuU,  which  had  been  open  for  public 
serrice  some  months,  was  consecrated  by 
the  Lord  Bishop  of  Ripon.  The  cere- 
mony had  the  effect  of  constituting  the 
district,  including  Sutton  within  the  bo- 
rough, and  the  heretofore  extra-parochial 
ground  of  Garrison-side,  into  a  new  parish 
called  the  parish  of  St.  Mark,  HuU.  The 
church  was  stated  in  the  deed  of  conse- 
cration to  contain  1300  sittings,  half  of 
which  are  declared  therein  to  be  free  for 
erer.  The  church  is  a  beautiful  structure, 
especially  In  the  interior.  The  architect 
was  Mr  Lock  wood,  of  Hull. 

j^uff.  8.  The  church  of  St.  John,  Ken- 
sal  Green,  was  consecrated  by  the  Bishop 
of  London.  It  is  intended  to  supply 
the  wants  of  the  extreme  ends  of  five 
parishes,  viz.  Chelsea  (in  which  parish  it 
is  situated),  Kensington,  Paddington, 
Hammersmith,  and  Willesden.  It  stands 
on  the  north  side  of  the  Harrow-road, 
almost  immediately  opposite  the  principal 
entrance  of  the  General  Cemetery  at 
Kensal -green,  upon  a  quarter  of  an  acre 
of  ground,  the  gift  of  AU  Souls*  College, 
Oxford.  It  is  of  Norman  structure,  after 
designs  by  Mr.  H.  E.  Kendall,  jun.  archi- 
tect. Tbe  church  is  in  length  83  feet, 
and  in  width  44  feet,  composed  of  yellow 
brick  with  flint ;  an  open  stained  roof,  the 
windows  of  stained  glass,  with  a  marigold 
window  over  the  altarpiece.  At  the  west 
end  are  two  towers,  each  about  80  feet 
high,  each  tower  being  surmounted  by 
Ave  terminals  of  a  cross.  The  west  en- 
trance consists  also  of  a  porch,  forming  an 
arch  of  singular  beauty,  decorated  in  the 
old  Norman  style,  with  dentals  and  dogs- 
toothings.  There  is  one  gallery  for  the 
organ  at  the  west  end.  The  edifice  is 
capable  of  containing  about  500  persons, 
and  the  cost  is  estimated  at  about  3000/. 
of  which  sum  500/.  has  been  furnished  by 
the  Church  Building  Society,  and  upwards 
of  600/.  is  still  deficient. 

Aug.  9.  The  Bishop  of  Worcester  con- 
secrated the  ehurch  of  the  Holy  Trinity 
at  JVimpley,  near  Kidderminster  (the 
sixth  in  the  parish  of  Kidderminster). 
It  is  smaller  than  any  church  in  Kidder- 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


miniter  or  tiie  neighbonriiood,  but  is  ex- 
ceedingly neat.  The  site  was  presented 
by  Mr.  Joseph  Chillingworth,  and  the 
cost  of  erection  will  be  defrayed  by  public 
subscription.  The  pulpit,  which  is  aii- 
cended  by  steps  leading  from  the  vestry, 
is  of  solid  stone.  The  reading  desk  and 
font  are  also  of  the  same  material. 

Churchbs  RBFAinsn,  &c. 

Vork  Mhuter.—The  restoration  of  the 
nave  of  York  Minster  may  now  be  pro- 
nounced as  completed,  and  in  a  short  time 
the  whole  will  be  thrown  open  to  the  pub- 
lic. The  repairs  of  the  north-west  tower, 
in  which  the  great  clock  bell  will  be 
placed,  are  likewise  progressing.  During 
the  fire  of  1839,  the  monument  of  Arch- 
bishop Hutton  received  considerable  in- 
jury. The  present  high-sheriff  (Timothy 
Hutton,  esq.),  being  a  descendant  of  that 
eminent  divine,  has  determined  to  restore 
the  monument  to  its  original  condition  at 
his  own  expense. 

St,  DavitTs  Cathedral.— The  Dean  and 
Chapter  of  St.  David's  have  ordered  the 
pews  in  the  nave  of  the  cathedral  church 
to  be  removed,  and  benches  of  oak  sub- 
stituted. Another  chapel  in  the  cathedral 
is  now  undergoing  extensive  repairs,  and 
is  being  fitted  up  with  great  taste,  for  the 
performance  of  the  Welsh  service ;  this 
chapel  is  capable  of  accommodating  about 
300,  and  the  whole  of  the  sittings  are  en- 
tirely free.  The  English  service  is  regu- 
larly performed  in  the  choir,  so  that  when 
the  new  chapel  is  completed,  both  services 
will  be  performed  without  the  one  inter- 
rupting the  other. 

8t,  Mary,  Andover,  —  This  ancient 
church  (some  portion  of  which  was  of 
Anglo-Norman  date),  having  become  so 
dilapidated  as  to  render  further  repair  all 
most  impracticable,  a  venerable  clergyman 
(Dr.  Goddard),  connected  with  the  town 
only  by  residence,  has  erected  at  his  own 
expense  a  church  nearly  on  the  same  site, 
commensurate  with  the  population  of  the 
place.  Tbe  body  of  the  sacred  edifice  is 
now  complete,  and  consists  of  a  nave, 
aisles,  and  transept, — the  whole  of  exceed- 
ingly lofty  and  graceful  proportions,  and 
presenting  a  splendid  example  of  the  early 
English  style.  The  windows  of  the 
chancel  are  filled  with  coloured  glass.  The 
edifice  is  built  of  Caen  stone  and  flint ; 
the  interior  finished  in  a  most  chaste  and 
beautiful  manner — no  gallery  excrescences 
appearing  to  disturb  the  harmony  of  the 
slender  shafts  and  pointed  windows.  It 
will  accommodate  about  1000  persons. 
No  part  of  the  tower  is  yet  erected,  but  it 
will  be  constructed  on  the  site  of  the  re- 
maining portion  of  the  old  church. 

Stained  Glati.x— The   church  of   St. 

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Antiquarian  Researches, 


[Sept 


Chad's,  Skreufihurif,  has  been  further  en- 
riched by  the  maniftcenoe  of  the  Rer. 
Richard  Scott,  B.D.,  with  two  additional 
windows  of  stained  glass.  The  larger  is 
in  the  gallery  to  the  left  of  the  principal 


entrance,  and  represents  the  raising  of 
Lazaras,  from  a  design  by  one  of  the  old 
masters.  The  window  nndemeatb,  in  the 
body  of  the  church,  represents  Christ 
blessing  little  children. 


ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


BRITISH  A&CBJBOLOGICAL  ASSOCIATION. 

A  Programme  of  the  first  Annual  Meet- 
ing  of  this  Association,  which  is  to  take 
place  at  Canterbury,  is  now  in  circulation. 
General  and  Local  Committees  have  been 
appointed,  and  four  Sectional  Committees, 
respectively  nam^ d  the  Primeyal,  Medie- 
val, Architectural,  and  Historical  Sections. 

The  meetings  will  be  held  at  the  Town 
Hall,  where  the  General  Committee  will 
assemble  at  2  o'clock  on  Monday  Sept.  9. 
The  General  Meeting  will  be  opened  at  3, 
and  will  be  addressed  by  Lord  Albert 
Conyngham,  the  President.  At  8  p.m. 
there  will  be  a  Conversazione  and  reading 
of  a  Paper  on  the  Barrows. 

Tuesday,  Sept.  10.  Opening  of  Saxon 
Barrows  in  the  Park  of  Lord  Albert 
Conyngham  at  Bourne.  In  the  evening 
at  8  p.  m.  the  Primeval  Section. 

Wednesday,  Sept.  11.  Medieval  Sec- 
tion at  12  o'clock.  Architectural  Section 
at  8  p.  m.    Conversazione. 

Thursday,  Sept.  12.  Excursions  to 
Richborough,  and  to  Barfreston  church. 

Friday,  Sept.  13.  Historical  Section 
at  11  a.  m.  Primeval  Section  at  3.  Un- 
rolling of  an  Egyptian  Mummy  by  Mr. 
Pettigrew  at  8. 

Saturday,  Sept.  14.  General  Meeting 
^Reports  of  Committees,  &c.  at  11  a.  m. 

Coaches  are  prepared  to  convey  mem> 
hers  from  the  Ashford  station  of  the  Dover 
Railway ;  tables  d'h6tes  ordered;  and  the 
innkeepers  put  on  their  best  behaviour. 
John  Brent,  esq.  one  of  the  Aldermen  of 
Canterbury,  has  kindly  undertaken  to  be- 
come the  organ  of  the  Local  Committee, 
in  answering  the  inquiries  of  strangers. 
Tickets  (price  One  Guinea)  are  to  be  ob- 
tained of  T.  J.  Pettigrew,  esq.  No.  8, 
Saville  Row,  the  Treasurer,  and  of  C.  R. 
Smith,  esq.  5,  Liverpool  Street,  City,  the 
Secretary.  Tliey  include  the  privilege  of 
introducing  one  lady. 

ST.    STEPHEN'S    CHURCH,    BRISTOL. 

As  the  workmen  were  proceeding  with 
the  alteration  of  the  pews  in  this  church, 
(see  our  June  number,  p.  636,)  they 
brought  to  light  on  the  24th  May  another 
of  the  long-forgotten  memorials  of  the 
dead,  in  the  south  wall  of  the  clmrch. 
The  figure,  which  is  that  of  a  man,  mea- 
sures six  feet  two  inches.    It  is  io  a  re- 


cumbent position,  with  the  hands  joined 
in  supplication.  The  head  is  uncovered, 
with  the  hair  curled  round  it,  so  as  to  re- 
semble a  wig ;  he  has  a  diort  peaked 
beard  partly  mutilated.  The  dress  is  a 
long  gown,  reaching  to  the  feet,  with  an 
upright  collar,  and  large  MX  sleeves.  A 
basilard  is  suspended  in  front  by  a  belt 
passing  over  the  shoulders.  The  feet 
rest  on  a  much  mutilated  animal.  From 
the  recess  being  only  eighteen  inehes  in 
depth  the  right  elbow  was  obliged  to  be 
imbedded  in  the  wall.  The  arch  of  the 
recess  is  ornamented  in  a  similar  style 
to  that  in  the  north  wall.  The  features 
of  the  face  are  in  a  good  state  of  preserva- 
tion. On  the  fillet  in  front  of  the  edge 
of  the  slab  on  which  the  effigy  lies,  an  il- 
legible portion  of  an  inscription  remains, 
and  which  was  continued  on  the  other 
sides  of  the  stone.  This  circumstance, 
together  with  the  inadequate  space  in 
which  the  effigy  is  placed,  stron^y  indi- 
cates removal  from  its  original  position. 

A  pipe  has  recently  been  inserted  in 
Cardiff  Castle  wall,  for  the  conveyance  of 
water  from  the  feeder  to  the  castle  itself. 
The  wall  through  which  the  aperture  has 
been  made  is  no  less  than  13  feet  6  inches 
thick.  The  wall,  thpugh  apparently  de- 
cayed, was  found  one  solid  mass  of  closely 
wedged  and  almost  impenetrable  material, 
and  so  hard  that  it  was  the  labour  of 
several  days  to  effect  a  breach. 

A  Roman  armilla,  or  military  bracelet, 
has  been  found  by  a  labourer  in  a  fen  five 
miles  from  Cambridge.  It  has  five  coils, 
three  inches  in  diameter  each  ;  is  of  the 
finest  gold,  and  weighs  between  five  and 
six  ounces. 


The  sale  by  Messrs.  Sotheby,  of  the 
princely  collection  of  coins  of  the  late  Mr. 
Thomas,  of  Oxford-st.  has  concluded,  and 
the  sum  realized  is  little  short  of  17,000/. 


Some  bas-reliefs  of  the  hall  of  the  an- 
cestors of  Moeris  have  lately  arrived  in 
Paris  from  Egypt,  having  been  sent  to 
the  Royal  Library  from  that  country  by  a 
French  traveller.  They  present  about 
sixty  portraits  of  the  Pharaohs  in  dynastic 
Qrder, 


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HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  PARLIAMENT. 


House  of  Lobds. 

/ii/y  30.  Tbe  Lord  ChaneeUor,  on 
bringing  up  tbe  report  on  tbe  Roman 
Cathouc  Penalties  Repeal  Bill, 
stated  that  tbe  Government  were  desirous 
tbar  Lord  Beaumont,  tbe  promoter  of  tbe 
bill,  sbould  postpone  it,  as  tbey  contem- 
plated  a  general  revision  of  our  criminal 
code,  which  would  embrace  tbe  oljects 
contemplated  by  it.  As  its  author,  bow- 
ever,  was  desirous  of  pressing  it,  be  (the 
Lord  Chancellor)  felt  himself  pledged  and 
bound  to  vote  for  it  in  the  form  to  which 
be  had  reduced  it.  He  admitted  that  it 
was  an  imperfect  measure,  but  it  was  im- 
perfect on  tbe  safe  side.  The  noble  and 
learned  lord  concluded  by  moving  that  the 
report  be  brought  up. — The  Biihop  qf 
XJondon  complained  of  the  measure  being 
pressed  forward  without  its  having  re- 
ceived that  mature  delibeFstion,  especially 
from  the  Bishops,  which  its  importance 
demanded.  He  moved  that  tbe  report  be 
received  that  day  three  months.  After 
some  further  discussion  arose,  the  amend- 
ment was  negatived  without  a  division, 
and  the  report  was  received. 

Aug,  6.  On  the  order  for  going  into 
Committee  on  the  Pooa  Law  Amend- 
ment Bill,  the  Bishop  of  Exeter  moved 
its  postponement  for  six  months.  This 
motion  was  rejected  by  17  to  I,  and  the 
Bill  went  through  Committee. 

Aug,  9.  The  House  adjourned  to  the 
2nd  ot  September. 

House  of  Commons. 

July  26.  Tbe  PooB  Law  Amend- 
ment Bill  was  read  a  third  time,  and 
passed. 

Juig  30.  'i  he  Earl  qf  Lincoln  obtain- 
ed leave  to  bring  in  a  Bill  to  empower  Her 
Majesty's  Commissioners  of  Woods,  &c. 
to  form  a  Terrace  and  Embankment,  with 
convenient  landing-places  for  the  public, 
on  the  Middlesex  shore  of  the  river 
Thames,  between  Westminster  and  Black- 
friars  bridges. — Mr.  Wyte  moved  an  Ad- 
dress praying  for  the  establishment  of 
Galleries  for  tbe  reception  of  Casta  of 
Sculpture  and  Architecture,  Ancient  and 
Christian.  This,  after  a  brief  discussion 
in  an  empty  bouse,  was  withdrawn. 

Aug,  5.  Mr.  Gtadttone  introduced, 
for  future  consideiation.  Bills,  I.  for  con- 
solidating provisions  usually  inserted  in 


Acts  for  taking  Lands  for  public  pur- 
poses ;  2.  for  consolidating  the  usual  pro- 
visions for  making  Railways;  3.  for 
consolidating  tbe  usual  provisions  for  con- 
stituting Companies;  4.  to  amend  the 
laws  relating  to  tbe  Merchant  Sbambn*8 
Fund.  Tbev  were  severally  read  tbe  first 
time,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Aug,  7,  Sir  Janui  Orakam  introduced  a 
Bill  for  the  better  regulation  of  Medical 
PjiACTicE  throughout  the  United  King- 
dom, which  was  read  the  firet  time,  and 
ordered  to  be  printed. 

In  this  measure  Sir  James's  leading 
principle  is,  that  quackerv  is  not  to  be 
put  down  by  penalty,  but  by  such  encou- 
ragements as  mav  raise,  generally,  the 
character  of  the  legitimate  pracdtioner, 
and  offer  a  distinction  and  a  guarantee  to 
tbe  public.  A  Council  of  Health  is  to 
have  a  general  controlling  influence  over 
the  many  medical  bodies  in  the  three 
kingdoms,  and  correct,  by  a  uniform  sys- 
tem of  registration,  the  various  licensing 
systems  now  in  practice,  and  the  exclu- 
sions and  exceptions  created  by  a  number 
of  discordant  charters.  Provisions  are 
made  for  rendering  the  control  of  this  new 
Presiding  Board  effectual  to  the  securing 
of  a  competent  degree  of  instruction  on 
the  part  of  the  practitioner ;  and  no  per- 
son whom  it  has  not  registered  will  be 
qualified  to  hold  any  public  medical  or 
surgical  office,  naval,  military,  parochial, 
hospital,  or  otherwise ;  tbe  certificate  of 
no  such  pereon  will  be  receivable  in  a 
court  of  law,  nor  will  he  be  entitled  to 
recover  therein  for  professional  attendance. 
Neither  will  any  unregistered  person  have 
the  right  to  claim  any  one  of  the  ex- 
emptions, (such  as  that  from  being  sum- 
moned upon  juries,)  which  attach  to  the 
medical  character.  The  general  action 
of  the  Central  Board  will  be,  to  raise  tbe 
standard  of  general  fitness,  and  secure  ior 
that  of  education,  in  the  various  licensing 
bodies,  equalization  and  uniformity  ;  and 
an  important  clause  in  the  Bill  r^ulates 
the  age  at  which  degrees  shall  be  con. 
ferred.  No  positive  enactment  is  directed 
against  the  iriegular  practitioner ;  but, 
with  the  mark  of  disability  on  him  which 
this  Bill  creates,  he  is  still  free  to  cheat 
those  who  are  determined  to  be  cheated. 

Aug.  8.  Sir  Jamef  Graham  brouaht 
in,  in  like  manner,  for  consideration  b«. 


SOS 


Foreign  New$. 


[Sept. 


fore  next  Session,  a  Bill  to  consolidate  of  the  Courts  of  Petty  and  Quarter  Ses- 

■nd  amend  the  Laws  relating  to  Parochial  sions. 

Settlement, and  the  removalof  the  Poor ;         On  the  9th  of  August  the  house  ad- 

and  a  Bill  to  rnnUate  the  appointment  joumed  to  the  5th  of  September. 

and  payment  of  Clerks  and  other  officers 


FOREIGN    NEWS. 


FRU8UA. 

On  tha  Mh  July,  at  the  moment  that 
the  Kiaf  of  Prussia,  on  his  journey  to 
SrdmiiiadoHr,  in  Silesia,  went  into  his 
oarriage,  ia  wbieb  her  Majestv  was  already 
seated,  for  the  purpose  of  driving  to  the 
lailway  terminus,  a  madman  fired  both 
barrels  of  a  doubDi-barrelled  pistol  at  him. 
One  of  the  balls  missed  altogether,  and 
the  other,  without  wounding,  only  left  a 
slight  trace  on  the  breast  of  his  Migesty. 
Her  Majesty  the  Queen  escaped  the  im- 
minent  danger  by  just  at  the  moment 
leaning  forward,  and  in  this  way  the  ball, 
which  otherwise  inevitably  would  have 
hit  the  Queen,  passed  behind  her.  The 
perpetrator  has  been  identified  by  the 
name  of  Tscbeck,  formerly  Buigomaster 
of  Storkon ;  and  states,  as  the  motive  of 
his  crime,  that  several  petitions  for  another 
appointment  bad  been  without  effect. 
He  has  been  eommitted  for  trial. 

MOROCCO. 

In  consequence  of  (he  r^Ply  of  the 
Emperor  of  Morocco,  to  the  French  ul- 
timatum, not  having  been  deemed  suffi* 
ciently  explanatory,  the  Prince  de  Join- 
ville,  the  French  Admiral,  commenced 
bombarding  Tangier,  on  the  morning  of 
the  6tb  August,  be  then  having  the  English 
Consul  on  board.  In  one  hour  the 
fire  of  the  plsoe  was  silenced,  the  bat- 
teries were  dismantled,  and  the  guns 
dismounted. 

EGYPT. 

Mehemet  All,  who  is  in  his  75th  year, 
on  the  87th  July  left  Alexandria,  de- 
daring  that  he  renounced  for  ever  Egypt 
and  public  affairs;  and  was  going  to 
Mecca.  After  a  few  days,  however,  he 
returned,  apparently  having  altered  bis 
resolution.  This  sudden  act  of  the  Pacba 
is  attributed  to  the  distress  be  felt  at  the 
departure  of  bis  son,  Hussein  Bey,  with 
several  noUe  Egyptians,  for  education  ia 
France, 

8hamel-Bey,  the  Circassian  General, 
having  defeated  the  Russians  at  Eiibend, 
on  the  Caspian  Sea,  entered  the  town, 
after  forcing  the  temporary  fortifications, 
with  a  loss  to  the  Rnisians  of  9,000  men, 


and  made  a  rich  booty  in  provlsioiie  end 
ammunition.  The  Russians  have  ainee 
been  beaten  with  considerable  loes  near 
Gratigarsk,  in  the  Upper  Caucasus.  The 
army,  100,000  strong,  is  greatly  dis- 
couraged.  Its  head-quarters  are  at  Stav- 
ropol, near  Coubmn,  under  the  orders  of 
Prince  Michael  and  General  VerroololT. 

BOKHAaA. 

Positive  intelligence  has  been  reeeired 
as  the  result  of  Dr.  Wolflf^s  mission  to 
Bokhara.     He  writes  that  Colonel  Stod- 
dart  and  Captain  Conolly  Tnotieed  in  oar 
Obituary  for  Msrch  1843,  out  whose  liste 
has  since  been  considered  uncertain)  were 
both  of  them  publicly  exeeuted  In  July 
1848.     The  King  stated  that  the  first 
had    been    put   to    death  —  1.    On    ac- 
count of  his  having  treated  Royalty  with 
disretpeet    on    different  occasions.  —  9. 
That  he  hsd  turned  Mussulman,  and  re- 
turned to  the  Christian  faith.— -3.  That 
he    hsd    promised    to    get   letters  frona 
£ngland  in   four  months,  by  which  be 
would  be   scknowledged  as  ambassador 
from  England,  and  fourteen  months  had 
elapsed  without  any  answer  being  received, 
though  the  King  had  erected  japsr  khans 
(post-houses)  on  his  account.    And  with 
regard  to  Conolly,  that  he  had  been  put 
to  death  for  having  induced  the  Khans  of 
Khiva  and  Kolcan  to  wage  war  against 
the  King  of  Bokhara,  &c. 

Fears  are  now  entertained  for  the  safety 
of  Dr.  Wolfl^,  as  the  King  of  Bokhara 
detains  him  to  wait  the  result  of  a  war  in 
which  the  King  is  engaged. 

DNlTfiO  8TATK8. 

Another  dreadful  riot  took  place  on 
Sunday,  July  7,  at  Philadelphia,  between 
the  ''Native  Americans"  and  the  Irish 
Roman  Catholics,  and  that  city  waa  oiiee 
more  placed  at  the  mercy  of  a  lawless 
mob.  Conflicts  took  place  between  the 
military,  who  had  beeu  called  in  to  quell 
the  distttriiances,  and  the  populace,  the 
latter  of  whom  were  armed,  and  possessed 
themselves  of  some  pieces  of  artilierv, 
which  they  used  with  effect  against  the 
regular  forces.  Several  lives  were  lost  in 
these  desperate  struggles,  and  a  great 
number  were  wounded. 

Joseph  and  Hiram  Smith,  the  Monnoa 


1844.] 


Danmik  Octurrence^. 


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prophets,  were  murdered  in  June  last,  at 
Carthage  in  Illinois,  by  a  mob  of  60  or 
70  peraonf, 

Tbe  American  papers  are  filled  with 
accounts  of  most  disastrous  floods  on  the 
great  rivers  of  the  Union — the  Mississippi, 
Miasourit  ArkansiSi  and  Bed  and  White 
Rivers.  Cotton  plains  have  been  covered, 
and  the  crops  destroyed — cattle  and  houses 
almost  innumerable  swept  away^^families 
of  biioian  beings  have  perished — ^and  towns 
and  villages  have  been  inundated,  to  depths 
of  ten  and  twenty  feet.  At  St.  Louis, 
on  the  Mississippi,  the  water  rose  three 
feet  higher  thtn  in  the  great  flood  of 
1785.  The  destruction  of  property  has 
been  immense* 

TAHITI. 

When  M.  D*  Aubigny  and  the  French 
authorities  usurped  the  sovereignty,  mis- 
called "  protection,''  of  Queen  Pomare's 
dominions,  the  Queen,  having  taken  re* 
fuge  on  board  an  English  vessel,  issued  a 
proclamation  (which,  however,  was  inter- 
cepted by  the  French),  telling  her  sub- 
jects to  be  quiet,  to  "have  great  pa- 
tience,'*  and  to  trust  to  help  from  Eng- 
land.  Some  of  her  chiefs,  who  had  driven 
their  cattle  away  to  the  mountains,  were 
seized  and  imprisoned — others,  naturally 
fearing  the  same  fate,  fled.  The  property 
of  theae  hat  was  confiscated,  and  the 
districts  in  which  they  should  be  found  to 
have  taken  refuge  threatened  with  heavy 
fines.     The  Queen*s  house  was  seised  by 


the  French  Governor,  and  her  female  iiU 
tendants,  who  had  remained  there,  driven 
out  houseless.  After  '*  evening  gun  firsb" 
the  French  commander,  M,  D'Aubi^yp 
informs  the  world,  Europeans  and  natives 
must  be  within  their  houses  and  must 
receive  no  on^-^nlimited  power  of  entry 
end  search  is  given  to  the  police*-4dl  fires 
in  native  houses  must  be  extinguished-^ 
boats,  with  all  belon^ng  to  them,  must 
have  returned  to  their  ships  i  and,  upon 
infraction  of  these  orders,  nouses  will  be 
pulled  down^boats  sunk  or  destroyed—* 
and  personSf  **  European  or  native,'*  ar* 
rested  or  shot,  as  may  be  convenient  In 
consequence  of  a  French  sentinel  having 
been  attacked  on  the  night  of  the  8nd  of 
March,  by  the  natives,  D' Aubigny,  by  way 
of  reprisal,  seised  Mr.  Pritcbard*  the  lata 
British  consult  who  had  previously  baule4 
down  his  flsg.  He  was  imprisoned  save* 
ral  days,  but  at  length  was  aent  from  the 
bland,  and  is  now  arrived  in  England. 
The  natives  took  refuge  in  the  mountains  $ 
and  shortly  afterwards  a  skirmish  took 
place  between  them  and  the  French,  when 
several  were  killed  and  wounded.  Late 
accounts,  received  from  Paris,  state  that 
this  afifair  has  received  a  timely  remedy. 
Captain  Bruart,  to  whom  A  dm.  Dupetit 
Thouars  had  delegated  his  authority,  not 
approving  of  the  informal  arrest  of  Mr. 
rritehard,  has  reprimanded  M.  D'Aubigoyy 
and  suspended  him  until  the  further  plea« 
sure  of  the  French  government  is  ascer'. 
tained. 


DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 


Jufy  SO.  An  extraordinary  invention 
was  put  to  the  test  oft  Brighton,  Captain 
Warner,  R,N.  undertook  to  shew  that  no 
ship  could  chase  another,  furnished  with 
his  implements  of  warfare,  without  being 
herself  destroyed.  Multitudes  went  down 
from  London  to  see  the  experiment,  and 
it  is  supposed  that  30,000  persons  were 
assembled  on  the  shores,  including  a 
number  of  official  personages,  and  naval 
and  military  officers.  The  ship  to  be 
operated  upon  was  the  John  o*  Gaunt^- 
a  stout  bark  of  300  tons  measurement,  a 
perfectly  seaworthy  ship,  presented  to 
('aptain  Warner  by  Mr.  Soames,  ship- 
owner, for  the  purpose  of  testing  the  in- 
vention. About  a  quarter  to  five  the  John 
o*  Gaunt  began  to  move  towards  the 
destined  spot  of  operations,  towed  by  the 
Sir  William  Wallace,  steam -tug,  in  which 
was  Captain  Warner  with  his  implements 
of  destruction,  and  attended  hy  a  small 
Shoreham  steam-tug,  the  Tees,  to  take 
off  the  crew  of  the  John  o'  Gaunt  previous 


to  her  destruction.  When  the  John 
o'  Gaunt  came  abreast  the  battery,  about 
a  mile  and  a  half  from  shore,  a  tJnion<» 
jack,  the  signal  agreed  upon,  was  hoisted, 
to  intimate  to  Captain  Warner  that  ha 
was  now  to  destroy  the  ship.  In  a  few 
minutes,  however,  the  instrument  of  de« 
struction  seemed  to  strike  the  vessel  smid- 
sbips,  for  from  that  point  a  huge  column 
of  water,  in  which  was  intermingled  some 
of  the  shingle  of  her  ballast,  shot  up 
perpendiculvly  into  the  air,  higher  than 
ner  topmast ;  her  mizen  went  by  the 
board,  her  mainmast,  a  new  one,  w^s  shot 
clean  out  of  her  like  a  rocket ;  she  heeled 
over  to  port  to  an  angle  of  45  degrees, 
and  her  main  hatchway  being  open,  day- 
light was  visible  through  her  bottom 
timbers,  and  she  seemed  to  part  asunder 
as  she  went  down,  leaving  nothing  per- 
ceptible but  the  top  of  her  foremast !  The 
decks  were  not  blown  up,  but  reooaincd 
entire  when  the  ship  sunk — a  dear  proof 
that  the  force,  whatever  it  was,  and  from 


310 


Damesiic  Occurrences. — Promoiions  and  Prr/ernumis.         [Sept. 


whatever  quarter  it  proceeded,  was  ex- 
ternal, and  not  from  within  the  cavity  of 
the  ship.  The  time  which  passed  from 
her  heing  stmck  and  her  sinking  could 
not  have  exceeded  two  minutes  and  a -half. 
The  invention  has  been  since  disoMsed 
in  both  booses  of  Parliament,  and  the 
best  naval  judges  are  not  favourable  to 
its  practical  value. 

JufySl,  Bkm^kmyme»kotu€f  ut  Co\y» 
ton,  near  Exeter,  the  seat  of  Sir  Edward 
Blajwood  Elton,  Bart  but  tenanted  by 
a  gentleman  named  Fury,  was  destroyed 
b^  fire.  Its  eonstmction  and  picturesque 
situation  formed  a  %'ery  great  attraction 
in  the  county,  having  been  erected  in  the 
reign  of  Elizabeth  by  Thomas  Marwood, 
esq.,  one  of  Sir  Edward*s  ancestors.  It 
appears  that  the  brickwork  of  the  roof 
had  in  some  way  parted,  and  allowed  a 
cavity  under  the  rafters,  where  the  soot 
collected,  and  the  flue  of  one  of  the 
chimneys  taking  fire  soon  communicated 
to  the  mass. 


Auff,  6.  This  morning,  at  ten  minutes 
before  eight  o'clock,  the  Queen  was 
safely  delivered  of  a  Prince  at  Wmdt&r 
QuiU,  In  the  room  with  her  Majesty 
were  his  Royal  Highness  Prince  Albert, 
Dr.  Locock,  and  Mrs.  Lilly,  the  monthly 
nurse ;  and  in  the  rooms  adjoining  were 
the  other  medical  attendants.  Sir  James 
Clark  and  Dr.  Ferguson.  The  Cabinet 
Ministers  were  brought  down  shortly  altera 
bv  special  trains  of  the  Great  Western 
Railway. 

Aug.  7.  A  dreadful  accident  took 
pUce  at  Noitmgham^  at  the  execotioo  of 
William  Saville,  iped  t^venty-nine,  for  the 
murder  of  his  wife  and  three  children, 
aged,  respectively,  seven,  five,  and  four 
years,  bv  cutting  their  throats.  A  dread- 
ful rush  was  wilfully  occasioned  by  a 
gang  of  lawless  scoundrels.  Twelve 
persons,  chiefly  between  the  ages  of  14  and 
20,  were  crushed  to  death,  and  twenty- 
one  were  conveyed  to  the  hospital,  severely 
and  dangerously  wounded. 


PROMOTIONS,  PREFERMENTS,  &c. 


Gazrttb  Peomottons. 

Jmu  14.  Robert  Wright  Cope  Doolan,  of 
Loughall.  CO.  Armagh,  in  compliance  with  the 
will  of  hts  cousin  Arthur  Cope,  of  Longhall, 
esq.  to  use  the  name  of  Cope  only,  and  quarter 
the  arms  of  Cope. 

Js/y  96.  ftSd  Foot,  Major  W.  G.  Gold  to  be 
IieQt.-Colonel:  brevet  Major  J.  L.  Black  to 
be  Mi^or.— flotn  Foot,  brevet  Colonel  the  Hon. 
H.  Dundas,  to  be  Uent.-Colonel ;  Midor  C.  L. 
Nesbitt  to  be  Lieut.-Colonel ;  brevet  Major  R. 
Rumlev  to  be  Major.— <Sl8t  Foot,  Mijor  A. 
M'Leoa  to  be  Lieut.-Colonel ;  Capt.  W.  Jones, 
to  be  Mi^or.— Wth  Foot,  Major  T.  Bunbury, 
to  be  ueut.-Colonel ;  brevet  Mi^or  J.  W. 
Nann,  to  be  Major. 

Juii  99.  Francis  Bradley,  of  Gore  Court,  in 
Tnnsull.  Kent,  esq.  a  Deputy  Lieutenant  for 
that  coanty  (out  of  rmrd  to  his  paternal  family 
of  Dyne),  to  take  the  surname  of  Dyne  after 
Bradley. 

Jnlp  80.  13th  Light  Dragoons,  Capt.  R. 
Pole  to  be  Major.— lUh  Foot,  Capt.  J.  For- 
dyce  to  be  M^or.— S4th  Foot,  Capt.  R.  W. 
Bvron  to  be  Major.— Brevet,  Capt.  Wm.  Chad- 
wick.  Slat  Foot,  to  be  Mi^or  in  the  Army. 

Aug,  1.  Edward  Hooper  Senhouse,  esq. 
Commander  R.N.  to  be  Provost  Marshal  of 
Barbadoes.— Patrick  Brenan,  esq.  to  be  Head 
of  Police  for  St.  Lucia.— Henry  Gavan,  esq. 
to  be  Superintendent  of  Police  for  Ceylon. 

Auff.2.  1st  Dragoon  Guards,  Capt.  J.  S. 
Schonswar  to  be  Mijor.— Grenadier  Foot 
Guards,  Lieut,  and  Capt.  the  Hon.  R.  Bruce 
to  be  Capt.  and  Lieut.-Colonel. 

Aug.  5.  Sir  William  Owen  Barlow  (late  Sir 
William  Owen),  of  Lawrenny,  co.  Pembroke, 
Bart,  in  compliance  with  the  will  of  his  near 
relation,  Hugh  Barlow  (formerly  Hugh  Owen), 
of  LAwrenny-hall,  esq.  deceased,  some  time 
M.P.  for  Pembroke,  to  continue  to  use  the 
surname  of  Barlow  after  Owen ;  and  bear  the 
arms  of  Barlow,  of  Lawrenny,  quarterly,  in 
the  first  quarter,  with  his  own  family  arms. 


Aug.  17.  Mr.  Serjeant  Adams  to  be  Aasist- 
aut  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Sessions  of  the 
Peace  in  and  for  the  county  of  Middlesex. 

Aug.  19.  Ralph  Bemal  the  youneer,  esq. 
M.P.  for  Chipping  Wycombe,  and  Catharine 
Isabella  Osborne,  spinster,  only  surriviog 
child  and  heiress  at  law  of  the  late  Sir  Thomas 
Osborne,  formerly  of  Newtown  Anner,  co. 
Tipperary,  Bart,  after  their  marriage,  to  use 
the  surname  of  Osborne  only,  ana  the  said 
Ralph  Bemal  to  l>ear  the  arms  of  Osb«»ne 
Quarterly,  in  the  first  quarter,  with  his  own 
family  arms.-— Wm.  wakeford  Attree,  esq. 
Barrister  at  Law,  to  be  an  Assistant  Tithe 
Commissioner  for  special  porposes.— 60th 
Foot,  Capt.  F.  Murray  to  be  Mijor. 

Aug,  ao.  23d  Foot,  Capt.  H.  Seymour  to  be 
Mi^or.— 94th  Foot,  Capt.  C.  Cotton  to  he  Ma- 
jor.—Brevet,  Mi^or  A.  Champain,  9Sd  Foot, 
to  be  Lieut.-Colonel  in  the  Army;  Capt.  I. 
Walker,  3d  West  India  Regiment,  to  be  Mi^r 
in  the  Army. 

Aug,  93.  8th  Light  Dragoons,  Capt.  F.  G. 
Shewell  to  be  Mi^or.— Brevet.  Capt.  H.  Pratt, 
36th  Foot,  to  be  Major  in  the  Army.— John 
Fklcon,  late  of  Workington,  and  now  of  White- 
haven, Cumberland,  gent,  in  compliance  with 
the  wiU  of  his  grandfather  Thomas  Harrison 
esq.  to  take  the  name  of  Harrison  only,  and 
bear  the  arms  of  Harrison  quarterly  with 
FSloon. 


Naval  Promotions. 

To  be  C<mmamd€r9,—BAmxd  Hill  and  Edward 

C.  Earle. 
To  be  retired  Comwumder*,—CheTlBB  Patri- 

arche  and  George  KIrington. 


Membere  returned  to  eerve  in  Parliament, 

Cireneeeter,—The  Hon.  G.  A.  F.  ViOlers. 
I>udieg.-^ohn  Benbow,  esq. 


1844.] 


Birlit:-~Marriageg. 


KeT.  T.  U.  BrDi 

Hon.  I'nd  Ret.  b!  3.  Keppti,  tr 

at  Notwiih. 
Ret.  M,  iUi)in,taL 
B«.  M.  J.  SleTUK 

Worewler. 
R«.  8.  Tliornton,  to 


Jima  BejttU,  M.D.  F.ILS.  i  dan, B.  At 

Hiverheul,  Kent,  Ihe  Hire  of  CbirlH  R.  drtcr 
Petley,  uq.  K  gon  lod  heir.~SO.  Lmlf_C«r- 


k, the  < 


t.  Kene: 
tlidT  ot  tjir  Cb» 
k,  a  son 37,  ^ 


0.  Cinon  of  Vtta- 


H.  Dirty,  »»:.. 

DouKlas.  M,  P.  for  ' 

Butoii  PLftce,  Extler,  nn.  neniHD  airuTut, 

a  daa. n.  At  Battey  Pick.  n«u-  Lrioliir 

ton,  the  nlfe  of  Q,  R.  Funill,  tsq.  ■  (Ua. 

■■  "       "  "  Deion,    ih»    l>dy  of  Sir 


Ker.  M.  Ampblelt,  Clmrch-LcDCb  R.  Ware. 
R«T.  W.  Atkini,  Runillon  R.  co.  Dounnl. 
Bfv.  H.  J.  Biilev,  Narlfa  LevFrloii  V.  Notts. 
RCT.  R.  K.    Biiler,   at.  Fiul's,    Hull,    F.C. 


Rrr.  Mr.  Bircl 


.  AU  Suati  witb  St.  John  in- 


Scv.  T.  R.  DIrlH,  Kelslull  R.  Hcrtfordab. 
ScT.  C.  CbicbBler,  SlnibbT  V.  Unc. 
Rer.  O.  Cokt,  nddlebinton  R.  DorKt. 
Ker.  J.  O.  Dakcynr,  Hrkchun  R.  Line. 
Kev.  a.  Dinelcy,  Charchill  R.  Ware. 
Ker.  J.  R.  Dunne,  St.  Joba'a,  Oldhim  P.< 

Uncuhin. 
BcT.  W.  H.  DfOtl.  Anitrey  V.  Wtrwicksb. 
R«v.  R.  Kv»ns,  VocIm  P.C.  DenbljmhltP. 
Bev.  R.  Elton,  Hemley  [t.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  R.  Fletcher,  St.  Tbomu  RidclUFC  P.< 

Uocuhire. 
Scv.  P.  A.  Qtlinda,  Bnuisbai'  F.C.  Lane. 
Rer.  W.  W.  Hunnr,  Bucklind  R.  Herta. 
RcT.  R.  J.  Hiriison,  Fordeo  P.  C.  Monl[. 
Rer.  W.  Button,  Bcttbiin  V.  Wealm. 
BcT.  H.  ITM,  North  L»»erton  V.  NotH. 
Bn.  J.  JohD»D,  Glentbwn  uid   Nori 


Latfh,    Id  Mantign-sq.  tho  wife  of  Arcb' 

McuD  Kinr,  ■  aon. At  Il*r«,  Ulddle««, 

le  Mlfe  of  W.  D.  Cbrlitte,  eta.  M.  P.  for 
/eymonlb,  adiu. At  BUcdeii,  Luly  Rid- 
ley, ■  ion  ud  dau. In  Florence,  the  Via. 

countcaa  DrumliDrlK,  a  ton  and  heir. lady 

Maria  PonmnbT,  ■  ion. At  Sbirler-boaaa, 

tbewifCof  LleDt.-OeD.  Sieiitta,  C.B.adan. 

At  Kensingtop,  Lady  Georgiana  Romilly,  a 


.  'tip- 


Lad) 


idy  Mary  Hoare,  a  son. — 
|.  iin.  Homphny  SL  John 
— InPortland-pl.  tbeolfei 


Ulldml 


Re*.  J.  Jone . 

Cardinuahlre. 
R«T.  jTd.  Une,  Forncell  SI 

celt  SI.  Mary^a  RR.  Norfo 
Rev.  F.  LcAtbea,  Reedham  R.  nilh 


■Glyn  V. 


—  yfrittoD, 

ritbyd.OlainoTnni' 
the  wife  of  the   Bev.  Rowr   Treyor  Tyli 

adau. In  Cbarlea-atreet,  Berkeley-sqnai 

tbe  Conntess  Oaien,  a  dan, 10.  At  Pol 

mare  Reclary,  tbc  Hon.  tin.  ForteacDe. 

lOD. U.  -nie  wife  of  William  Culinan,  a 

Wolil  Newton   Hall,  Vorkibire,   a  daa.- 
13.  At  ltliog:toD,  Mrs.  (kimdiDS  Payne,  ■  st 


nor.  Mr.  Haaoo,  wharlon  V.  Hestm. 
Bar.O.  Ncwby,  Wlckbun  R.  Durham. 
Rev.  J.  Nnnn,  Morton  Say  P.C.  Sbropibire. 
Rev.  P.  Perlng,  Great  l^mard  V.  Easei. 
He*.  J.  PolUtl,  Undale  R.  near  Carlmel,  Unc. 
Rev.  a.  Ray,  Stntberne  R.  Lelcegtenbire. 
Rev.  J.  Beea,  LUnnanog  com  Uandlsaillo- 

tor  V.  Canfinniluce. 
Rev.°ff.  T.Smythies.Shill>oll!e  R.  Nortbumb. 


MARRIAGES. 

.    At  Anatralind,  Weatem  Anatnlla, 
Pearee  Clifton,  esq,  third  son  of  M. 

,. Waller  OiRon,  esq.  lo  Annette,  yooniest  dan. 

Freethorpe      ^  ^^,^  r„    ^  "Q    Huett,  IuHot  o?  Idllcoi, 
WarHicksh.  and  widow  of  H.  Gaudin.esq. 

IT.  At  iJiuncealon,  Van  Diemen'a  Land, 
Edwin,  second  aon  of  Robert  Tooth,  esq.  of 
Cnnbrook.  Kent,  to  Sarah.  yoonECitdan.  of 
tbe  late  Francis  Lucas,  esq.  of  Blackbealh. 

/Iprii  19.  At  Penanr,  Lieut.  Arthur  How- 
letl.37ihMadruNsl.Reir.se 

Rev.  J.  H.  Howlet 

Roial.  Whilebail,  t> 


late  Edward  FrracTaye,  esq.  Residenl 
■elkir  of  Sinnpore. 

May:.  Al  CUcatta,  Bdwaid 
Bengal  Bng.  to  Loolsa,  second  di 
Capt.  Fraucia  Hodnon,  Denial  A 

JhhM.    At  SCLnke-a.  Cbel 

HCBTT,  TODntal  loii  of  tte  Rev.  Heni^Wlnllej 


Fttmy-aq.,  i 


«,  aiini  dao.  Of 
aden,  eaq.  winm-Mrait, 
of  thaUva  of  Oankk 


Rev.  J.  B.  OnnI,  B. 

Endowed  Free  Oral 

York  shire. 
a  W.  Hardy,  esq    I 


BIRTHS. 

JfiqrIS.    In  Mamin^onnudiUornington- 

emoeni,  iha  wife  of  Jono  Hanson,  esq.  a  son. 

Jalt ;.    At  till  CoUege,  Derby,  the  wife  Of 


sia 


Jt(tTfiO^€$m 


[Sept 


Boakta.  MQ.  aiviliMi 
{•HvrieMhMdra.  «rtte  Wmt, 
to«T.  iBcambtttt  of  8t.  4i 
At  81.  li«i7*B.  BryBMl 
•tq.  to  CAtbariDo*Loiiin,  Modnd  dML  of  tke 
Mi  JUMO  lAwralL  eoq.  ni  Primtoy,  Sonor. 
—At  8Cuilbnl.hin,  UpMr  Ctaftoo.  tl»  Etv. 
Boory  Robbltto,  M  JL  oT  WftdbiacoO.  Otlbnl, 


|»  AntMkiid  dA«.  of  thoj^  JohB  Gooloa, 

a  I*  lDnMrt|r  of  Wofknpt 
ward    BUM.  coq.    of 


of  Wofknpb  NottOt     "At 


■a 


JoMh  BotM.  Mq.  or  flpttaf  Hoflt^Mor 

tef  10  lUtfl,  dUL  of  TkomM  TiMMDpMMt  **!• 

Merehaat,  of  HoO.— >At  Konnagtoo.  Jolui 
OUbcrt,  oiq.  of  BMom  U|n»  Cbotldn,  to 
BrtkOT-Anno,  iHdov  of  tboMo  Idiranl  Umi- 

ter,oiq.of  NottlM-hfll-oqaore. ^AC  Wltbm, 

tko  BoT.  BmIiiiiBio.  Bryaa,  B.A.of  Tttalty 
OolL  OmhtMgo.  tMrd  mb  of  tho  JUrr.  Oinr 
BryoB,  Roetorof  WooAaa  WtltBr,  to  Honrt- 
•tta-Oonihaoif  otoood  &n,  of  W.  W.  Lovd, 
ooq.  of  WltluUB  Lodft.— At  Upper  GIntos, 

WanrtcktUre,  to  FIuibt,  eldott  dan.  of  tho  lalo 
luuMl  htmtf,  oaq.  of  Loipm,  Bumi.— At 
AapaRhorp,  Bobort  Bpoooer  flhMd,  cm.  of 
Ckiat».lc-8tR0t,  Mooad  no  of  the  lata  Gipt. 


flhlold,toBUsibeth.OBl7dan.  of  John  Dodc- 
•oa  Charloawortkt  aoq.  of  Ctep^tliors^HaB, 


Graat  Umbor,  wlWam 
of  tbo  lata  JOhB 
aaq.  of  Rorkolov,  to  Mary^BUn, 
only  dan.  of  tho  lata  ThosMa  MaaBatU,  oaq. 

BmnerlT  of  Ummkk. At  Bath,  the  Bar. 

ittehai^  dfth  aoB  of  the  lata  Bov.  J.  W. 
Aatley,  ICJL  Baelor  of  QoaolBfton.  Clone,  to 
AdeUide-ABBotta^  acooad  dan.  of  ttie  lata  P. 
H.  CrampCoa,  aaq.  of  IhasaraOa  eo.  WIcklow. 
*->At  Highgate.  Geoife  Fearee  Moore,  caq. 
of  DanrlBitoB,  Wllta*  to  ManMaaa,  oalf  dan. 
di  Hea^f  Btosaaia  eaq. 

tt.  At  at.  MaTtlB'a-iB'the-nelda,  NidMrtaa 
Tyacke,  aaq,  M.D.  of  Chicheater»  to  Fimacaa- 
Abb,  ekteat  daa.  of  J.  B.  PtaelaBd.  eaq.— *At 
8t  Marxai«t*a»  Wcotakiaatar,  Bobert  KoaoelL 
oaq.  IHMt-Oqrt.  B.N.  to  Heater,  eUeat  daa.  of 

the  Bt.  Hoa.  fltophea  Lnahiactoa. ^At  Strat- 

Brnt^apon-Avoii.  Jooeph  Bamboarae  Bailtti. 
oeq.  ■oUdtor.  of  Ledbnry,  to  Chriatian,  dan.  of 
the  lata  Thooaaa  Webb,  caq.  of  Tiddingtoa 
Hoaae,  Wanrlckahir«.-^At  Bt.  X^eoaard'av 
T.  AUea  Boathwood.  eaq.  B. A.  to  Anae-Doro- 
thea,  eldeat  dao.  of  the  lata 

Eoval  Bay. ^The  Rev.  Joha  At . 

of  iteaTy.  Devoa.  to  Cathariae,  yonafeot  daa. 

of  tho  late  Joha  Jamca  Hiftid,  eaq. ^At 

Sheflteld,  the  Ber.  Aogaataa  A.  Befihawa, 
B.A.  ftraetoal  Caiata  of  WonahiU,  yooageet 
•OB  of  the  lata  Blr  W.  G.  Baffaluwe,  of  tho 
Oaka,  Derbyah.  to  GuoUao-BaBilT.  oaly  child 
of  the  Ber.  William  H.  Vale.  M  JL,  iMnnaa. 
boat  of  Beclceal,  oear  Shefflald. 

17.  At  St.  Puicraa,  Bdward  Joha  Chapman, 
eaq.  of  Maaaiarham,  Torfcahira,  to  Aaae- 
Loaiaa,  oahr  child  of  the  tete  Joha  Ooeaa,  eeq. 

of  BothwelU  Northamptonah. At  Brtrhtoa, 

Bydaey  Leareace,  eaq.  of  Bcddiogtoa,  SorrsT, 
to  Marf-Aaao,  ekket  dao.  of  the  late  Arthar 
Joaaa.  eeq.  of  Caetle  Oreca,  Gardigan,  and  of 

TIrhoot,  Eaat  Indlea. At  All  Boule',  Laar- 

ham-pl.  Hearf  Boyle  Lee,  eaq.  Iborth  eoa  of 
tho  late  Robt  Newtoa  Lee,  eeq.  of  CoMrey, 
Baata,  to  Anne-Bmilia,  oaly  daa.  of  the 
late  Richard  DebarT7,eBq.->At  Tlbertoa,  Hara- 
Ibrdah.  William  Veraon  Oalae.  eeq.  ddeat  eoa 
Of  Llent.-Gen.  Bir  John  W.  Oalae,  Bart,  of 
Beadeomb-park  and  Blmora-oonrt.  Oloac.,  to 
Marnret-Aaaa-lfaria,  eldeat  dao.  of  the  Rer. 
D.  11 .  Lee  Waraer,  of  Tibertoa-oonft  and  Wal- 
p^*||*>—  Abbey.  At  UverpooL  the  Rev. 

Bmrt   Moreirood,  B.A.  Vicar   of  Barton, 
and  late  of  Qaaaa'a  ooU.  to 


dMU  of  tta  lali  Mha  Borthp 
aan.  of  laUaaiOBt  LNaiuooL-'  -At  Ufcrpoal» 
jTB.  MaESSLon.  BeadStarof  tteDeaaar 
School,  Hhrh  Wyeombe,  to  Mfaa  GhroliBa 
F0».  At  Ladttoae,  Bhlop,  Bdmvad  Pai, 
eaq.  Baatar  of  the  Boyal  Grammar  School, 

Hifh  Wycombe,  to  MIh  Lm. At  Alver- 

atoke,  the  Bar.  Oeorfo  W.  lircaay,  lt.A.  of 
Soathaea,  to  Oarollae,  eldeat  daa.  of  Jaaati 


Adaaaa.  eaq.  Architect^  Ooeaort. 
9p.   At  St.  Macrae,  Heary  Bagoai 
of  Jamea  Baraaa,  eaq.  of 


)  Hoary  Bagoaa  Baraca| 


11 


Halt  to  WMj^niaaplfaTia,  yoaageat  daa.^ 
the  lata  George  Pafbyi_eaq.  of  Logbora. 
——At  Chlawick,  Dr.  Thomaa  Cbs,  Head 
Maater  of  the  Boyal  fnm  Oraaimar  School, 
Uaraot,  Herta.  to  BHia-Aaa-Mertoa,  oaly  anr- 
Tfring  dan.  of  W.  W.  Cox,  eaq.  of  Tnrnhaa 

Oraea. ^At  Alatoa,  Geoige  Hcary  Bowfbr, 

caq.  B.N.  to  Garoiiae.  yoaagaat  dan.  of  the  late 

Heaiy  SaMa.  caq.  of  DarlMm. ^At  Mitvar- 

ton.  Joeeph,  eon  of  the  late  Joaeph  Jaaiea,  eaq. 
of  Haacombe-pl.  Sorrrr,  to  Marianne^  Ibarn 
daa.  of  the  ute  WIlAam  Foatar  B^rnoMa, 
eaq.  of  Carahalton  Honae,  Sorrey. 

Lmi«iv,  At  Bainford,  the  Rer.  Ttenma 
Green,  H.A.  of  Praacot.  to  V ary-Aan,  dan  of 
the  late  Mr.  Ather,  aad  graad-dan.  of  the  late 
Rer.  Mr.  Robinson,  Incnmbent  of  Rainlbrd. 
— ^At  St.  Oeorge*a,  Ranorer-eq.  Jntiaa,  oon  of 
the  late  Lieat.-Col.  B.  Bonce.  R.M.  of  Ply- 
month,  to  Blisabetb-Anne,  eldest  daa.  of  taa 
late  John  Utiermare,  eeq.  of  Carry  MaUett, 

Bomenet. ^At  Btnnidwater,  Gbarfca  West, 

M.D.  of  Gharterhooae-aq.  to  Mary-Hester, 
third  dan.  of  W.  B.  Ctofwright,  esq.  of  tho 
flekl,  formerly  of  Derites.— -At  St.  JaBBes*a, 
ManatoB  Pipoa,  eaq.  to  Ann,  dan.  of  the  lata 

Hon.  Capt.  Rodney,  R.lf. ^At  UmpooL 

the  Rev.  Robert  Morewood.  B.  A.  Tlcar  of 
Barton,  WestmoreUod,  to  Margaret,  eldeat 
daa.  of  the  late  John  North,  eeq.  of  LiTeipool. 

Juhf  1 .  At  St.  Oeorgc's,  HanOTer-aq.  Uent ^ 
Col.  Le  Blanc,  of  the  Royal  Hospital,  Chelaea* 
to  Bllsabcth,  relict  of  the  late  MiJpr-Oen.  Sfar 
Alexander  Caldwell,  Q  CB.-^At  stonehonse, 
D.  Dn  Pre,  esq.  son  of  the  late  J.  W.  Du  Pre, 
eeq.  and  grandson  of  the  late  Adm.  Bqger,  to 
Philippa  P.  Wanrell,  niece  of  Capt.  Pearse, 
R.N. 

%  At  St.  George's,  Haaorer-aq.  Bdward 
Wingfleld  Dickenaon,  eaq;_of  Dostnill-bonse, 
to  Sarah,  widow  of  Major  William  Spratt,  late 

of  the  Hon.  Bast  India  Co.*a  Serrice. ^At 

Hackney.  Charles  Blakely  Brown,  eaq.  B.A., 
M.  B.  Trinity  coll.  Oxod.  and  John^st.  Berke- 
ley-sq.  to  Mary,  eldest  dan.  of  the  late  Rer. 

Jamea  Clements,  of  Lower  Qapton. At 

Walllngford,  Berks*  W.  O.Tlley,  esq.  snmoo, 
Glifton-upon'Tame,  Worcestersiiire,  to  Maria- 
Jane,  aecond  daa.  of  the  Rer.  J.  langley, 

Rector  of  St.   Mary*a,  Walllngford. At 

Rearaby,  Leic.  the  Rct.  Charles  Nerinson, 
M.A.  late  Fellow  of  Wadham  coll.  Oxford,  to 
Rmma,  third  dan.  of  the  Rer.  N.  Morgan, 
Rector  of  Rearsby— At  Edinbargh.  Lieot.- 
Gol.  Wm.  Low,  of  the  Msdras  Anoy.  toTlioma- 
sina-Agoes,  eldest  dao. ;  and  Wm.  Logan 
White,  esq.  of  Killerstain,  Advocate,  to  Jane, 

Knngeet  dan.  of  the  late  Sir  James  Poulis, 
irt.  of  Gollnton. ^At  River,  Kent,  John 

MataoB,  esq.  of  the  Admiralty,  third  eon  of 
Robert  Matson,  eso.  of  Rochester,  to  Gatha- 
riae-Withardea,  oaly  dan.  of  the  late  Simon 

Horton,  esq.  of  Bwell. ^At  Kensington, 

William,  eldest  son  of  Seth  Thomaa,  esq.  of 
the  Tower.  London,  to  Anna,  dan.  of  the  hite 
William  Chstell  Damant,  eaq.  late  of  Kensing. 

ton-sq. At  St.  Marfsret's,  Westminster. 

Alexander  Boyle,  esq.  Comm.  R.N.  aecond 
aon  of  the  Haght  Hon.  Davfd  Boyle,  Lord 
Jastica-Oaa.  of  Scotlaad,  to  Agaca,  yo«i««at 


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313 


dM.  of  JaoiM  Walfcir,  eiq.  of  Ovaot  Goofgo- 

■t— -At  Firhim,  Bm wz.  Geor^  Sdbr,  eoq. 
Madras  ActUkry.  to  AnseUcA-Marr,  thiid  dao. 
of  Capt.  Rowland  Money,  R.  N,.  C.B.  of  Aid- 

wick-Iod«,  near  Bqcnor. At  Bodicote, 

Oxon,  llr.  K.  R.  Hartley,  Principal  of  the 
Grammar  School,  Chipping  Norton,  to  Anne- 
Rebecca,  third  dan.  of  John  Austin,  esq. 

S.  At  Blackawton,  Devon,  Veaey  Hine,  esq. 
of  Dartmouth  (only  son  of  the  late  Gapt.  John 
Hiae,  of  the  Hon.  Bast  India  Co.'sS«rTice), 
to  Anna,  second  dan.  of  the  late  Geoise 
Tempter,  eeu.  of  Sandford  Orleigb.— -^-At 
BoTiogton.  HerU,  A.  F.  Aylward,  esq.  B.A. 
of  St.  Bdmnod's  Hall.  Oxfiord,  to  Jnlia, 
yoniuest  dao.  of  the  late  Thomas  Morton,  esq. 

At  St.  Geofige's.  Hanorer-sq.  Lord  Alez- 

nader  Geone  RnsseiU  youngest  son  of  the  late 
Duke  of  Bedlbrd,  to  Anne-Bmily,  youngest 
dan.  of  the  late  Sir  Lsonard  Woraiey  Holmes, 

Bart,  of  WeetOTor.  Isle  of  Wight. ^At 

Bath,  8.  Sneade  Brown,  esq.  or  the  Bengal 
CiTil  Serrice,  to  Amelia,  dan.  of  Dr.  James 

Watson,  of  Bath. ^At  Alton,  WiUiam-Thos.. 

second  son  of  the  late  Capt.  Clement,  R.N.  or 
Chawton.  to  Marianne,  second  dan.  of  James 

White  Clement,  eso. At  little  Horkesly, 

Robert,  only  son  of  R.  Forbes,  esq.  of  Hyde 
Fark-gate,  Kensington,  to  Carolme-Maria.  dao. 
of  Charles  Rooke,  esq.  of  Westwood  House, 

Bssex. At  Flaisance.  Jersey,  Edw.  George 

Le  Conteor,  esq.  Col.  in  the  Royal  Jersey 
Militia,  to  Blizabeth-Maria,  dau.  of  Sir  Cod- 
rJngton  Bdmnnd  Carrington,  formerly  Chief 
Justice  of  Ceylon.  Also,  Francis  John  Le 
Conteor,  esq.  of  the  same  place,  Ueot.-Co1.  in 
the  same  corps,  to  Frances,  dau.  of  Sir  C.  B. 
Carrington. 

4.  At  St.  Geoige's.  Hanorer-sq.  Julius,  son 
of  the  late  Ueut.-Coi.  B.  Bunco,  R.M.  of  PIt- 
mouth,  to  Blizabeth-Anne,  eldest  dan.  of  tne 
late  John  Uttermare,  esq.  of  Curry  Mallett, 

Somersetsh. ^At  St.  Geoige's,  HanoTer-sq. 

Sir  William  Molesworth,  Bsrt.  of  Pencarrow, 
ConiwalL  to  Mrs.  Temple  West,  widow  of 
Temple  West,  esq.  of  Mathon  Lodge,  Wore. 

^At  Wisbeach,  Charles  Boucher,  om.,  Jun. 

to  BUxabetb-Rnssel,  only  child  of  Thomas 
Stcarjesq. At  Kenmnre  House,  near  Glas- 
gow, Thomas  Grehem  Stirling,  esq.  of  Strowan, 
Ferthahire,  to  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  William 

Stirling,  esq. At  MuthiU,  Perthshire,  Wm. 

Nelson  Clawe,  esq.  to  Mtfy-Lsslie.  sister  of 
the  Rev.  Alexander  Lendmm,  of  Mnthill.^— 

At  St.  Paul's,  Bdmnnd  Goodwin,  esq.  of 

Slough.  Bucks,  to  Laora-Maynard,  dan.  or  the 
late  Thomas  Ball,  esq. 

5.  At  Jersey,  the  Rer.  James  Currie,  In- 
combmit  of  Christ  Church,  Manchester,  to 
Anne-Caroline,  youngest  dan.  of  Christcmher 
Heath,  esq.  formerly  of  Pew  HiU,  near  Cnlp- 
penham,  Wilts. 

d.  At  Paddlngton,  CapC  Hirtland.  Royal 
Art.  to  Cara-Mary,  onnr  dan.  of  the  late 
Bdward  Daaoe,  esq.  uqmty  Commissary-Gen. 

to  the  Forces. ^At  St.  Geoige's,  Hanover-sq. 

John  Dunn,  esq.  eldest  son  of  John  Dunn, 
esq.  of  HeathfieU,  Hobart  Town,  to  Rllen, 
second  dan.  of  Francis  Skorray.  esq.  of  Stan- 

hope-pl.  Hyde  Park. ^At  Whitchnrch,  Salop, 

T.  B.  Collier,  esq.  solicitor,  of  Liverpool,  to 
Bmma-Gharlotte,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 

Robert  Peake,  esq. At  Newport,  the  Rev. 

Maodonald  Steele,  M.A.  Vicar  of  Caerwent 
and  Perpetual  Curate  of  Uanvair,  near  Chep- 
stow, to  Maria,  youngest  dan.  of  M.  T.  Smith, 
esq.  of  Maesglaes,  Monmouthshire. 

8.  At  Plymouth,  J.  J.  Grant,  esq.  11th 
Regt.  to  Msria,  eldest  dan.  of  Richard  Martin, 
esq.  of  Porthmd  House,  Plymouth.— ^^At 
Jersev,  David^WilUe,  second  son  of  the  late 
Abraham  Raimbach,  esq.  of  Stanhope-street, 
Hampstead-road,  to  Jane*Winter,  second  dao. 

Gbnt.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII. 


Philip  Jovrttieaiix,  esq.  of  Saint  Hdierj 

■ey. At  Shrewsbury,  the  Rev.  J.  Poole, 

B.  A.  Incumbent  of  Llandysilio,  Montgomery- 
shire, to  Emily,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  B. 
Blythe,  esq.  Surgeon  of  Cound. 

9.  At  Wilton.  Somerset,  William  Palraer« 
esq.  of  Saint  Giles's,  Oxford,  to  Chartotte^ 
youngest  dan.  of  the  late  JasMS  S.  Prtton^ 

esq.  of  the  Friary,  Lichfield. At  East  Grin- 

stead,  the  Rev.  J.  R.  Judson,  UndfieUU  to 
Bmily,  fourth  dan.  of  John  Bdger,  esq.  of 

Pickstone  Park,  Bast  Grinstead. ^At  Ken- 

sington,  William  Longman,  esq.  of  Hyde  Park- 
sq.  to  Emma,  eldest  dau.  of  nedenck  Pratt 
Barlow,  esq.  of  Kensington.  The  Rer* 
Thomas  Cross  POake.  M JL  Rector  of  Halla- 
ton,  00.  Ldoester,  to  Mary-Jane^  second  dan. 
of  John  Dawson  Barnard,  esq.  of  Somerby 
Grove. —  At  Ripple,  Kent,  the  Rev.  W.  B, 
Holland,  M.A.  nrpetnal  Curate  of  Walmcr, 
to  Anne-Blixabeth,  dan.  of  J.  B.  Slader,  esq. 

of  Ripple  Court. ^Lord  Charles  Wellesley« 

second  son  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  to  Mlsi 
Pierrepoint,  dau.  of  the  Right  lion.  Henrv 
Manyers  Pierrepont— — At  Menheniot,  Mr.  J. 
S.  Deane  Pearce,  of  Bodmin,  to  Christiana, 
third  dan.  of  the  late  John  Sobey,  esq.  of 
Trewolland,  near  UskeanL— At  Weston 
Zoyland,  the  Rev.  Richard  James  Loscombe. 
Rector  of  Chedozy,  to  Harriet-Louisa,  eldest 
dau.  ot  the  Rev.  Wm.  Marshall,  the  Vicar. 

^At  Brislingtoo,  the  Rev.  Charles  Leopold 

Cartwnght,  Curate  ot  that  parish,  to  Anna- 
Mary,  dau.  of  the  late  Bdward  Long  Fox,  esq. 

M.D.  of  BrisUngton. At  St.  James's,  West. 

minster,  the  Rev.  Edward  Hartopp  Grove, 
Vice-Prmcipal  of  Brasenose  college,  to  the 
Hon.  Hairiet  Lister,  one  of  Her  Midesty's 

Maids  of  Honour. ^At  Brackley,  Henry 

James  Lsoon,  esq.  to  Caroline-Louisa^&artlett, 
second  dau.  of  the  late  J.  Roberts,  esq.  of 

Buckingham. The  Rev.   Thomas  Cross 

Peake,  M.A.  Rector  of  Hallaton,  co.  Leicester, 
to  Mary- Jane,  second  dau.  of  John  Dawson 
Barnard,  esq.  of  Somerby  Grove. 

10.  At  Dublin,  John  Henry  Keane,  esq. 
eldest  son  of  Sir  Richard  Keane,  Bart,  of  Gap- 
poquin  House*  co.  Waterford,  to  Laura,  eldeit 
dan.  of  the  Right  Hon.  Richard  Keatinge, 
Judge  of  the  Prerogative  Court  in  Ireland.^— 
At  St.  Geom's,  Hanover-sq.  Horatio  Kemble* 
esq.  second  son  of  the  late  Thomas  Nssh 
Kemble,  esq.  late  of  Gobions  Park,  Herts,  to 
Msigaret-Amelia,  only  child  of  Lleut.-CoL 

Carpenter,  of  Potter's-bar,  Middlesex. ^At 

Islington,  Joseph  Rickett,  esq.  to  CordeUa- 
Jane,  eldest  dao.  of  Edmund  Dnnn,  esq.  and 

niece  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Dunn. At  Berlin, 

T.  Amend  Bentley,  esq.  of  the  Free  Gram- 
mar School,  Shrewsbury,  to  Pauline-Fanny, 
youngest  dau.  of  Professor  FUlion,  of  Berlin. 

11.  At  Taunton,  the  Rev.  T.  TudbaU,  of 
Trull,  to  Sarah,  dan.  of  the  late  Gapt.  David 
Ross,  R.N.  of  Walmer,  Kent. ^At  Chelten- 
ham. George  Robert  Lambert  Anncsley,  esq. 
Lieut,  in  the  Austrian  Cavalry,  son  of  the  law 
Hon.  Robert  Annesley,  and  nephew  of  the  late 
Barl  Annesley,  to  Millicent-Munray  dau.  of 
the  late  Miles  Mundy  French,  esq.  of  the  co. 

Derby. ^At  Lewes.   Sussex,  John  Cosson 

Turner,  esq.  M.  D.  of  Brighton,  third  son  of 
the  late  Charles  Turner,  esq.  of  Hanwell  Park, 
Middlesex,  to  Frances,  dau.  of  William  Bal- 

combe  langridge.  esq.  of  Lewes. ^At  St. 

Ewe,  Cornwall,  William  Fox,  esq.  of  Elford- 
leigh,  to  Elisabeth,  second  dan.  of  the  late  J. 
M.  P.  Cosserat,  esq.  of  Torquay. At  Trow- 
bridge, Arthur  Newell  Jones,  esq.  of  Bidefoitl, 
to  Frances-Rishton,  youngest  dan.  of  Biyah 

Bush,  esq.  of  Trowbridge,  Wilts. At  St. 

Pancras,  William  John  Williams,  esq.  of 
Brighton,  to  Mary-Blixabeth,  second  dau .  of  the 
late  T.  Jones,  esq.  of  Chester-pl.  R^gent's-pk. 

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314 


MUyTUI^l€$t 


CSept 


It.  At  OU  Brompto%  Xdwvd  Bswmb 
CUrit,  CM.  to  Lran-fltUoa,  onlir  child  of  Join 
Iblej  Kmuv,  esq.  of  Upper  Qotrer-et. 

14.  At  atoneiioiiae,  Fefeer  Benoon  Btewart, 
•■q.  OommaDdcr  B.  N.  fourth  eon  of  the  late 
Wm.  Stemrt,  eiq.  of  Horn  Heed,  oo.  Done- 
nl,  to  Chiulotte-Aiinsta,  eUUet  dM.  of  John 
loote,  eeq.  Capt.  R.  m. 

15.  In  OMrnsey,  Patrick  Leonud  Maedoii- 
plLCkpt.  in  the  Eoftl  CmuuUu  Ri" 
af  OoL  Sr  DoDcen  BfecdoogidL  to 
Aoraeta.  dan.  of  Maior*Oen.  Willii 


l<fiiilia 
rmiam  r.  P. 


Aogveta. 

iS.  Aiat.r)iitt'a,  Arthur,  son  of  tho  late 
Ber.  Stephen  Woodgate,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  Pen* 
bary.  Kent,  to  Oiaoe-Biaria,  foorth  dan.  of 
Hoffb  Eennedy,  esq.  of  Coltra,  oo.  DowUt 
Iralaad.— At  St.  Oeoiwe>a,  Hanorcr-oq.  the 
B*e?.  W.  P.  Haalewood,  Rector  of  Ardin^fi 
Snaeex,  to  Franeee,  dan.  of  Cholmeley  Charlee 

Define,  eaq.  of  Ayot  St.  Lawmco. ^At  St 

JaineTa,  the  Hon.  R.  8.  Oarew,  M.  P.  for  the 
eo.  Waterford,  eldeet  son  of  Lord  Carew,  to 
Bmily-Anne,  second  dan.  of  O.  R.  PhiUpe,  eeq. 

If  P. ^At  St.  Mary's,  Bryaneton-sq.  Arthur 

Onslow  Creithton,  esq.  son  of  the  late  Chpt. 
Creifhton,  of  the  11th  Draffoona.  and  paad* 
•on  of  the  late  Sir  Rich.  Onslow.  Bart.  O.C.B. 
to  Marr-Rosalie,  second  dau.  of  Hogh  ftrkio, 
esq.  of  MOntsgn*sq.  and  Ashnrst  Loufe,  Kent. 
•^-At  St.  Gilee-in.the.nelds,  the  Rer.  OeorKO 
Bawlineon,  eon  of  John  Rawlinaon,  eeq.  of 
Wimpole-st.  and  Alresford,  Hants,  to_/i 


Plillippa,  second  dan.  of  Robt  Onehre  Walker, 
esq.  or  Bedford-sqnars.— 'At  Chicne8ter,the 
Rev.  James  Charles  Oane.  of  Itognor.  to  Fanny, 
only  dao.  of  J.  W.  Bnck«l,  eeq.  of  Chichester. 

^At  St.  Mary's,  Marylehoae,  Robt.  Mills 

Nesdeld,  esq.  Barrlster*at-Law,  son  of  the  late 
Rev.  W.  Nesdeld.  Rector  of  Brancepeth,  Dar- 
bam,  to  Locy-Bliiabeth,  second  dau.  of  W. 
Underwood,  eeq.  of  Castle  Hill,  near  Bakewell, 
and  formeriy  Oapt.  in  the  Slst  Lig^ht  Dnigoona. 
——At  Colne,  Lucashire,  John  Joeeph  Ayre, 
esq-  BorEcon,  to  Mary,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late 
George  Thomas  Carr,  esq.  and  niece  of  the  late 
J.  B.  Carr,  esq.  of  Lsnsroyd. 

17.  At  UptOD  Warren,  Alfred  C.  Hooper, 
esq.  of  Worcester,  to  Ann-Mary,  only  dau.  of 
the  late  John  Inipledew,  eaq.  of  Richmond, 
Yorkshire. 

18.  At  Bseter,  the  Rev.  J.  L.  Dmpea,  M.A. 
of  Kilkenny,  to  Henrietta,  dan.  of  the  late 
J.  B.  Travers.  esq.  of  the  B.  I.  Co.*e  CItQ 
Serrice,  and  niece  of  O.  P.  TrmverSieaq.  of 
Pliirfleld  Lodice,  near  Bxeter.^— At  Warmin- 
ster, Capt.  Robert  Saunders,  of  Calcutta,  to 
Bllen,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late  Rer.  M.  Row- 

landson,  D.D.    Vicar  of  Warminster. At 

Paddington,  Henry  Julius  Jones,  esq.  of 
Church-court,  Lomhard-st.  and  CamberweU 
New-road,  Solicitor,  to  Emma,  eldest  dau.  of 
Bdward  William  Lake,  esq.  of  Oxford-terr. 

Hyde  Buk. At   Lewisham,  Edmund  Or- 

mond  Lyne,  esq.  of  Cross  Hayes,  Malmesbury. 
surgeon,  only  son  of  the  late  Capt.  Edward 
livne,  let  Madras  Cst.,  to  Mary,  only  dau.  of 

William  Tiamadffe,  esq.  of  Blackheath. At 

Christ  Church,  Maryiebone,  Charles  P.  B. 
Bweetland,  esq.  to  Jessy-Mary,  dau.  of  Wm. 
Scott,  esq.  of  Hall  Place,  St.  John's  Wood. 
——At  Lyminiton,  Alfred  J.  Wood,  esq.  of 
Olouoester,  to  rrances-Beeston.  second  dau.  of 

W.  Towsey,  esq.  M.D. At  DoTer,  Godfjrey 

Wills,  esq.  of  wills  GroTe.  co.  Roscommon, 
to  Bllsabeth-Udney,  second  dau.  of  William 
Robert  Wills,  esq.  of  Suflblk  House,  Chelten- 
ham, and  Castlerea.  co.  Roscommon.— At 
Cookham,  the  Rev.  John  Spurgin,  M.  A.  Head 
Master  of  the  Corporation  Grammar  School 
at  Maidstone,  to  Amanda,  eldest  dan.  of  the 
Rev.  Jno.  F.  Grantham,  Vicar  of  Cookham, 
Berks.— At  Bdinburgh,  Alexander  Dunlop, 
esq.  AdTOcate,  to  EUbuuEsther,  only  dau.  of 


JohnMnnrnr.CMi. ^WUHam  Chutes 

bert,  esq.  of  Knowle,  Dorset,  to  Agnes-Gro 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  William  Halyar,  esq. 
Ooker  Court,  Somerset.  _ 

90.  At  St  George's,  HanoTer-sq.  Bertrrai 
Mitford,  esq.  to  Anne,  youngest  sister  of  the 

late  Sir  Francis  Ford,  Bart At   Dublm, 

James  Cook.  esq.  Principal  d  the  Institution 
for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Claranont,  aad  late 
of  Beverley,  to  Hannah-Anne,  dan.  of  the  lata 
John  Marks,  esq.  of  Cork,  and  sister  to  the 
Rer.  Dr.  Marks,  of  St.  Patrick'a  Cathedral* 
—At  Scukoates.  near  Hull,  Bemhard  Samuel- 
aon,  esq.  of  Manchester,  to  Carolincu  flfth 
dan.  of  Henry  BluadelL  esq.  of  HuU  aad 
liondon. 

a.  At  Gufsrasey,  Selby  Hutton,  eao.  of 
Carlton-on-Trent,  Notta,  and  late  of  Wadham« 

third  dau.  of  Charles 
Guernsey,  and  late  of 

^At  CharleviUe, 

the  aeat  of  the  Earl  of  Rathdowne,  Charlee- 
SUnley  Mnnck,  eeq.  eldest  son  of  the  Hon.  C 
J.  K.  Monck.  to  Lsdy  EUisabeth-Louise-Mary, 
third  dau.  of  the  Earl  of  Rathdowne. 

S8.  At  Kenmnre  House,  Lanarkshire,  N.  B. 
Graham  Ruasell.  esq.  son  of  the  late  CoL 
Russell,  to  Hennetta-Jane,  third  dau.  ot  Wm. 

Stirling,  esq. ^At  Middleton,  Forfarsh.  John 

GuthrM,  esq.  inn.  of  Guthrie  Castle,  same  co. 
to  Harriet,  eldeat  dau.  of  Barnabas  Maude^ 

esq.  of  Lighom. ^At  Melbury,  Dorset,  Edw. 

C  &erri9on,  esq.  son  and  heir  of  Lieut.-Gen. 
Sir  Edward  Kerrison,  Bart,  of  Oakley  Park, 
SulTolk,  to  the  Lady  C.  F.  Strangways.  dau.  of 
the  Earl  of  llchester. ^At  Stoke,  near  Devon- 
port,  Arthur  Arundel  Browne,  esq.  eldest  son 
of  the  late  Col.  Marmaduke  Browne,  Bengal 
Art.  to  Dora-Anne,  only  child  of  the  late  Rev. 

St.  John  Browne,  of  Kinsale,  Ireland. At 

Bsthwick,  John  S.  Scott,  esq.  Slst  Ri«t.  to 
Teresa-Anne,  dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Morris, 
esq.  of  Thombury.  Glouc.  and  niece  of  John 
Buckle,  esq.  of  wyelanda,  Monmouthsh.— 
At  North  Witham,  Line,  the  Rev.  Henry 
Beady.  Rector  of  Waxham,  Norfolk,  eldest 
aon  of  Storer  Ready,  esq.  to  Emily-Uoyd, 
eldeet  dan.  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Dowson,  In- 
cumbent of  Monk  Pryaton,  Yorkshire. ^At 

Qogher,  Robert  George  Archibakl  Hamilton 
Gun  Cunningham,  esq.  eldest  son  of  R.  O. 
Cunningham,  esq.  of  Mountkennedy,  co. 
Wicklow,  to  Isabella,  only  dau.  of  Lord  Robert 
Tottenhani,  Bishop  of  Clogher. At  Lea- 
mington. Robert,  eldest  son  of  James  Alex- 
ander, esq.  of  Somerhill.  Kent,  to  Julia-Char- 
lotte, fourth  dan.  of  the  late  William  Fane, 

esq.  Bengal  Civil  Service. ^At  Salisbury, 

Thomas  Cave.  esq.  of  Yeovil,  Somerset,  to 
Mary,  dau.  of  the  late  Henry  Kaines,  esq.  of 

Manston,  Dorset. At  Stranraer.  Wigtonsh. 

N.  B.  John-Frederick,  eldest  son  of  Frederick 
Bowman,  esq.  of  Heme  Hill,  Surrey,  to  Mary- 
Anne,  only  dau.  of  John  Mscmeikan,  esq.-^— 
At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sq.  the  Rt.  Hon.  the 
Earl  Ferrers,  to  Angusta>Annabella,  dau.  of 

Lord  Bdward  Chichester. ^At  Barnes,  Wm. 

Charles  Sheppard,  esq.  4th  King's  Own,  to 
Frances,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  William 

Beebe,  esq.  of  Ham,  Surrey. At  Sutton 

Bonoington,  Notts,  Alfred  Goddard,  esq.  of 
King-st.  Cheapside,  and  Clapham-rise,  Surrey, 
to  Louisa,  only  dau.  of  Edward  Bacon,  esq.  of 

Sutton  Bonniogton. ^At  Aspringer.  Edwaid 

Lee  Warner^esq.  to  Julia-Maria,  eldest  dau. 
of  Gen.  Sir  Thomas  Gage  Montresor,  K.CH. 
-—At  Holbrooke,  Frraerick  Daniel,  second 
son  of  John  Fryer,  esq.  of  Chatteries,  to  Har- 
riette-Millicent,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
John  Reade.  esq.  of  Holbrooke  House|Sulfcdk. 
-^At  Lewisham,  Edward  Berry  Walford, 
esq.  of  Blackheath,  son  of  Richanl  Walford, 
esq.  of  Ryde,  to  Blisabeth-Maigaret.  only  dau. 
of  the  late  James  Dyer,  esq.  of  Blackheath. 


S15 


OBITUARY. 


The  Duke  d*Angodlsms. 

Jtm9  3.  At  Gorits,  in  Austria,  oged 
68,  Louis  Antoine  Due  d*  Angoul^me. 

He  was  bom  Aug.  6, 1775,  the  elder 
of  the  two  sons  of  Charles  Philippe 
Comte  d*Artoi8,  afterwards  Charles  X., 
by  Maria- Theresa,  daughter  of  Victor  III. 
King  of  Sardinia. 

The  youthful  Dauphin,  Louis  XVII., 
having,  as  it  is  tolerably  well  ascertained, 
perished  in  the  dungeon  wherein  the 
ruffians  of  the  revolutionary  government 
had  immured  him,  and  the  Salique  law 
prohibiting  the  descent  of  the  crown  to 
the  Princess  Royal  of  France,  she  was 
united  on  the  10th  June,  1799,  to  the 
Due  d*AngouUme«  Louis  XVIIL  as* 
cended  the  throne  on  the  restoration  of 
the  Bourbon  dynasty,  in  the  year  1814 ; 
and  dying  without  issue  in  18^,  the  suc- 
cession devolved  upon  the  Comte  d*Ar- 
tois,  who  reigned  as  Charles  X.  In  188- 
he  was  placed  at  the  head  of  the  army 
which  made  a  demonstration,  rather  than 
a  campaign,  in  Spain.  His  exploits,  bow- 
ever,  were  the  subjects  both  of  the  French 
painters  and  sculptors  of  that  period. 

The  events  of  1830  are  too  well  known 
to  require  even  a  curM>ry  notice.  An  un- 
successful attempt  was  made  on  the  third 
of  the  <«  great  days  of  July,*'  by  M. 
Jacques  Laffitte,  and  the  leading  roemben 
of  the  newly-elected  Chamber  of  Depu- 
ties, to  induce  a  withdrawal  of  the  ob- 
noxious ordinances  which  had  been  issued 
by  the  ministry  of  the  Prince  de  Poiignac. 
The  government  hesitated,  and  when 
their  misguided  sovereign  became  willing 
to  accede  to  the  proposal  of  the  deputies, 
M.  Laffitte  declared  that  it  was  then  too 
late.  Ultimately  Charles  X.  signed  an 
abdication  at  Bambouillet,  and  his  son 
the  Due  d*Angou14me  resigned  his  right 
of  succession  in  favour  of  his  young 
nephew,  the  Due  de  Bordeaux,  whose 
father,  the  Due  de  Berri,  was  assassinated 
in  1820. 

The  Doc  d' AngouMme  seems  to  havse 
been  a  harmless  character,  of  no  marked 
talent,  and  of  no  decided  propensities. 
During  the  government  of  Charles  X.  he 
was  eootent  with  doing  what  he  was  bid 
— «C  the  revolution  of  1830  he  was  con- 
tent with  doing  nothing — and  during  the 
exile  of  his  bouse  be  was  content  with 
being  nothing.  In  private  life  he  appears 
to  have  been  an  amiable  man. 

When  he  perceived  his  death  approach* 
ing,  he  sent  to  the  archives  of  the  War 
Department  at  Paris  an  important  work 
which  be  had  got  exwuted  during  the 


Restoration,  giving,  in  folio,  plans,  draw- 
ings and  full  descriptions  of  all  tha  for- 
tified places  in  France,  showing  their 
weak  points,  the  best  modes  of  attacking 
them,  and  the  proper  manner  of  defence. 
The  cause  or  his  death  was  a  cancer  in 
the  pylorus.  On  the  8th  of  June  his  funeral 
was  celebrated  in  the  cathedral  of  Ooritx, 
and  thence  proceeded  to  the  chapel  of  the 
Franciscan  convent,  situated  on  a  height 
at  the  west  of  the  town.  The  Due  de 
Bordeaux  followed  the  oar  on  foot,  in  a 
mourning  cloak.  Count  de  Montbel, 
Viscount  de  Champagn^,  and  the  Duke 
de  Blacas,  also  in  mourning  cloaks,  walked 
behind  the  Duke ;  next  came  the  French 
now  at  Qorits,  the  authorities,  and  tho 
inhabitants.  The  body  was  placed  in  the 
vault  where  the  mortal  remains  of  Cfaarltf 
X.  rest* 


JOSBFU   BoNAVAXTB. 

July  S8.  At  Florence,  aged  76,  Joseph 
Bonaparte,  Count  de  Surviltiers,  m 
elder  brother  of  Napoleon,  and  fonnerly 
King  of  Naples  and  King  of  Spain. 

He  was  bom  in  176B,  at  Corte,  in  the 
island  of  Corsica  \  and  attended  his  brother 
in  his  first  campaign  of  Italy  in  1796. 
Having  been  appointed  a  member  of  the 
legislative  body,  he  was  distinguished  for 
his  moderation  and  good  sense,  and  gave 
proofs  of  generous  firmness,  when  be 
undertook  to  defend  General  Bonaparte, 
then  in  Egjrpt,  against  the  accusations  of 
the  Directory.  Under  the  Consulate  ha 
was  member  of  the  Council  of  State  and 
one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  treaty  of 
Luneville.  On  the  accession  of  Napoleon 
to  the  empire  the  crown  of  Lombardv 
was  offered  to  and  refused  bpr  him.  A 
few  days  after  the  battle  of"^  Austeriiti 
he  assumed  the  command  of  the  army 
destined  to  invade  the  kingdom  of  Naples, 
penetrated  without  striking  a  blow  to 
Capua,  and,  on  the  Idth  of  February, 
1806,  be  made  his  entrance  into  Naples, 
of  which  kingdom  the  Emperor  ap- 
pointed him  Sovereign.  The  govern- 
ment  of  Joseph  as  King  of  Naples,  though 
short,  was  not  sterile.  In  the  epace  of 
less  than  two  years  be  drove  the  English 
from  the  kingdom,  reorganised  the  amy 
and  navy,  and  completed  many  publie 
works.  In  1806  he  proceeded  to  occupy 
the  throne  of  Spain ;  which  he  abandoned 
after  the  battle  of  Vittoria.  On  his  re- 
turn to  France  he  took  the  command  of 
Paris,  and,  faithful  to  the  orders  of  th« 
Emperor,  he  accompanied  the  En^resa 
regent  to  Chartree,  and  subsequently  to 


316         Obituary.— Lord  Huntingfield, — Hon,  J.  E.  Murray,     [Sept 

Blois,  After  the  invasion  of  the  Allies,  and 
assembled  around  her  all  the  disposable 
troops.  After  the  abdication  of  Fon. 
tjiinebleaUf  Prince  Joseph  Napoleon  was 
obliged  to  withdraw  to  Switzerland.  He 
returned  to  France  in  1815,  the  same  day 
the  Emperor  arrived  at  Paris.  A  fter  the 
battle  of  Waterloo  be  embarked  for 
America,  where  his  brother,  whom  he 
was  never  more  to  see,  appointed  to  meet 
him.  In  1817  the  Sute  of  Jersey,  and 
in  1825  the  legislature  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  authorised  him  to  possess 
lands  without  becoming  an  American 
dtJsen. 

The  Count  de  Survilliers  did  not  re- 
turn to  Europe  until  1838.  He  then 
came  to  England,  where  he  resided 
several  vears.  A  painful  maladv,  which 
required  a  milder  climate,  obliged  him  to 
demand  permission  of  the  foreign  powers 
to  fix  his  residence  at  Florence,  where 
he  breathed  his  last.  He  vnM  attended 
on  his  dying  bed  by  his  brothers,  Louis 
and  Jerome.  There  remain  of  the 
Emperor's  brothers  but  the  two  latter 

1>rinces — Louis,  formerly  King  of  HoU 
and;  and  Jerome,  formerly  Kinsr  of 
Westphalia. 

Lord  Huntinqfield. 
Aug,  10.     At  Heveninghara-hail,  Suf. 
folk,  aged  66,  the  Right  Hon.  Joshua 
Vanneck,  Baron  Huntingfield,  of  Heve. 

?ill!£*!""*'*"»  *"  ^^*  Peerage  of  Ireland 
(1796,)  and  a  Baronet  of  England  (1751.) 
He  was  the  eldest  son  ot  Joshua  first 
Lord  Hwntingfteld,  by  Maria,  second 
daughter  of  Andrew  Thomson,  esq.  of 
Koehampton. 

ifritl*  ^^*'  ^^  °"  '^®  *2^*»  of  August, 
I778,andathisdeuth  was  within  two  days 
completing  his  66lh  year.  He  succeeded 
his  father  on  the  1 6th  Aug.  IHIO.  He 
wastwicemarned,immi.ly,first,i?nd  April. 

i:..-k.  ^^  r*'J[f"5"  Calhuriiie.  eldest 
daughter  of  Chaloner  Arccdcckne,  esq. 
of  Glevering  hall,  Suflfolk.  who  died  in 

1  nnJ  ^r^  •^con'iiy.  6th  January,  1817,  to 

RUt  '  «  "®»  ^^^"^^  daughter  of  Sir  Charles 

u     ,»  ™"-»  who  survives  his  lordship. 

**.    leavea  an  only  daughter  by  the  first 

"^'"•ge.  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Rowley,  wife 

01  Captain  Robert  Charles  Rowley  4  and 

Jk  ®2^  "^^  ^^  *^®  second  lady,  namely, 
Y»e  Hon.  Charles  Andrew  Vanneck,  now 
l^rd  Huntingfield,  who  was  bom  the 
^h  Jan.  1818,  and  married  on  the  6th 
of  July,  1839,  Miss  Louisa  Arcedeckne, 
Only  daughter  of  Andrew  Aicedeckne> 
^q.  and  has  issue.  There  was  another 
Bon  by  the  first  marriage,  the  Hon. 
Joshua  Vanneck,  who  died  in  1833,  in 
^U  8Snd  year. 


Hon.  Jamrs  Eabkine  Mubray. 
FM.  17.  At  Borneo,  in  his  35th  year, 
James  Erskine  Murray,  of  Aberdona,  co. 
Clackmannan,  esq.  Advocate ;  uncle  to 
Lord  Elibank. 

He  was  bom  May  4,  1810,  the  third 
son  of  Alexander  seventh  Lord  Elibank, 
and  the  eldest  son  of  his  second  marriage 
with  Catharine,  daughter  of  James  Stew- 
art, esq. 

He  ^i-as  called  to  the  Scotish  bar  as  an 
advocate ;  and  published  in  1836  an  in- 
teresting account  of  a  Summer  Tour  across 
the  Pyrenees.  This  tour  was  performed 
on  foot,  for  Mr.  Murray  had  an  extra- 
ordinary physical  constitution,  naturally 
good,  and  strengthened  by  frequent  exer- 
cise in  the  Scottish  highlands. 

In  conjunction  with  Mr.  C.  W.  Bowra, 
be  undertook  a  commercial  expedition 
from  China  to  the  island  of  Borneo, 
where  he  met  his  death. 

After  their  arrival  on  the  coast  the  two 
vessels,  the  schooner  Young  Queen  and 
the  brig  Anna,  entered  the  river  Coti  for 
about  80  miles,  and  anchored  off  Tongar- 
ron.     During  the  ascent  no  opposition 
was  offered  ;  and  on  arriving  at  tne  town 
named,  where  the  Sultan  resides,  he  ex- 
pressed himself  gratified  by  the  visit,  and 
willing  to  trade  with  the  vessels.     De- 
ceived  by  these  friendly  appearances,  they 
were  moored ;  but  after  some  time  having 
elapsed,  there  appeared  no  intention  on 
the  part  of  the  inbabiunte  to  buy  or  sell. 
From  the  large  body  of  armed  men  con- 
gregating around  the  Sultan's  house,  sus- 
picions began  to  be  entertained  that  all 
was  not  right.     These  suspicions  were 
soon  confirmed  by  attempts  being  made  to 
board  on  two  several  nights,  which  were 
prevented  by  the  vigilance  of  those  on  the 
watch.      The   Sultan  had  now  thrown 
aside  every  appearance  of  friendliness, 
and  there  was  no  longer  any  doubt  of  bis 
intention  to  destroy  the  vessels,  if  possi- 
ble.    Mr.  Murray,  deeply  impressed  with 
their   dangerous    position,    addressed   a 
letter  to  the  captains  of  the  Young  Queen 
and  the  Anna,  stating  his  conviction  that 
they  could  only  escape  by  fighting  their 
way  through  the  gun-boats  and  floating 
batteries    with  which    they    were    sur* 
rounded :    he  also  endeavoured  to    get 
hostages  from  the  Sultan,  for  a  safe  pas- 
sage  down  the  river :  in  this  he  failed. 
The  attack  commenced  upon  the  veaseU 
on  the  16th  of  February  while  they  were 
still  at  anchor,  by  masked  batteries  fron 
the  shore  and  gun.boats.     Thejr  slipped 
their  cables,  and  commenced  their  almost 
hopeless  attempt  to  fight  their  way  out  of 
the  river,  surrounded  by  numerous  boats 
which  kept  up  an  incessant  fire  from  tbdr 
long  brass  guns.    On  every  turn  of  the 


1844.] 


Obituaby.— S'ir  John  Maxwell,  Bart. 


31? 


river  ther  found  a  fresh  battery  to  con- 
trnd  with,  the  boats  keeping  up  the  pur- 
suit oat  of  range  of  the  swivels,  but  not 
of  the  long  guns,  from  which  in  the  Young 
Queen  there  were  fired  550  shot,  and  a 
proportionate  nnnober  from  the  Anna.  At 
one  time  the  Anna  got  on  a  mad  bank, 
but  her  consort  nobly  bore  up  and  ranged 
alongside  for  her  protection,  until  she  got 
off.  But  for  this  she  would  inevitably 
have  been  taken.  The  night  being  calm, 
with  a  strong  ebb  tide,  the  two  vessels 
were  lashed  together,  and  allowed  to 
drift  with  the  current,  determined  to 
escape  or  perish  in  company.  Ahead  of 
each  was  a  boat  to  pull  them  round  when 
they  got  broadside  on  to  the  current ;  the 
men  in  these  boats  state  positively  that 
they  heard  English  voices  hailing  them 
from  the  shore.  After  36  hours  of  con- 
tinuous fighting,  they  reached  within  a  few 
miles  of  the  mouth  of  the  river,  and  escape 
appeared  certain.  But  they  found  a  nu- 
merous fleet  of  boats  ahead  of  them, 
which  had  entered  through  some  unknown 
creek.     This  was  the  last  and  most  des- 

terate  attack,  and  the  number  of  pirates 
illed  must  have  been  immense.  With 
personal  safetv  almost  within  his  grasp, 
here  poor  Murray  was  killed,  in  the 
Young  Qaeen.  He  was  fighting  the 
midship  guns  when  he  was  struck  by  a 
two-pounder  on  the  breast ;  death  \i'a8 
instantaneous. 

The  ships  at  length  passed  the  bar  and 
flats  at  the  mouth  of  the  river,  though  at 
sunset  the  boats  were  still  in  chase. 
During  the  whole  afiair  the  conduct  of 
the  officers  and  men  was  excellent.  An 
unflinching  determination  was  evinced  to 
escape  or  die  in  the  attempt.  Mr.  Mur- 
ray was  the  moving  spirit  by  which  they 
were  all  influenced,  and  it  is  deeply  lo  be 
regretted  that  he  was  cut  short  in  the  very 
vigour  of  life:  with  his  talents  and  energies 
be  might  have  done  much  to  retrieve  past 
misfortanes.  Two  lives  were  lost  in  the 
other  vessel,  and  four  were  wounded  in 
the  Anna,  and  one  in  the  Young  Queen. 
Mr.  Murray  married  in  1832  Isabella, 
only  child  of  the  late  James  Erskine,  esq. 
of  Aberdona,  son  of  James  Lord  Alva, 
of  the  Earl  of  Mar's  family.  He  there- 
upon Bssamed  the  name  of  Erskine  before 
hts  own.  He  has  left  issue  a  son  and 
heir,  Alexander- Erskine,  bom  in  1832, 
another  son,  and  two  daughters. 

Sir  John  Maxw£ll,  Bart. 

«/«fy  30.  Aged  76,  Sir  John  Maxwell, 
the  seventh  Bart,  of  Nether  Follok,  co. 
Renfrew  (1682). 

Sir  John  was  bom  in  1768,  the  eldest 
son  of  Sir  James  Maxwell,  the  sixth 
Baronet,  1^  Frances,  second  daughter  of 


Robert  Colquhoun,  esq.  of  St.  Christo- 
pher's.    He  succeeded  his  father  in  1785. 

Sir  John  was  educated  in  the  most 
liberal  principles  of  the  Whigs,  to  which 
he  stood  true  and  faithful  at  all  times 
and  seasons.  In  the  memorable  struggle 
for  the  Reform  Bill,  few  gentlemen  in  bis 
part  of  the  kingdom  occupied  so  promi- 
nent a  position  as  did  Sir  John  Maxwell, 
in  favour  of  that  national  measure.  At 
all  public  meetings  in  Glasgow,  or  in  the 
neighbouring  counties,  in  which  he  had 
a  deep  stake,  Sir  John  was  ever  found  in 
the  front  ranks  of  the  people.  After  the 
Reform  Bill  became  the  law  of  the  land, 
he  was  elected  the  first  member  for 
Paisley.  Subsequently,  after  his  retire- 
ment from  the  representation  of  Psislev, 
on  the  death  of  Sir  M.  S.  Stewart,  in 
1836,  he  contested  the  county  of  Ren- 
frew with  Mr.  Houston,  but  was  unsuc- 
cessful. Since  that  period  he  has  not 
been  much  before  the  public  in  his  political 
character,  hot  on  every  occasion  where 
bis  vote  and  influence  could  be  of  use  to 
the  Liberal  cause  in  his  native  country, 
they  were  freely  given.  In  private  life, 
nobody  could  be  more  remarkable  for 
strict  integrity.  He  was  easy  of  access^ 
courteous  in  manner,  a  friend  to  the  poor, 
and  to  mankind  in  general — and  resided 
almost  constantly  on  his  patrimonial 
estates,  which  yielded  him  a  rental  of 
from  15,000/.  to  20,000/.  per  annum. 
His  leisure  hours  were  devoted  to  agri- 
cultural pursuits,  and  few  could  excel 
him  in  the  knowledge  of  practical  feirming. 
Being  a  kind  and  truly  indulgent  land- 
lord, he  was  universally  beloved  by  his 
numerous  tenantry.  His  death  was  calm 
and  serene.  He  had  been  complaining 
slightly  of  a  palpitation  at  the  heart;  but 
he  arose  at  his  usual  hour  on  Tuesday  the 
30th  July  to  take  a  carriage  drive  with 
his  friend  and  relative,  Mr.  Wallace,  of 
Kelly,  to  whom  he  was  very  much  at- 
tached, and  who  was  paying  a  short  visit 
to  him.  He  was  proceeding  to  the 
carriage  to  join  JNlr.  Wallace,  but  he 
faltered  for  a  moment  or  two  in  the  lobby, 
his  head  drooped,  his  faithful  body  servant 
Archibald  M*Donald,  who  had  served  him 
for  the  long  period  of  45  years,  sprang  to 
his  assistance  ;  so  did  Mr.  Wallace ;  but 
their  efibrts  were  unavailing.  The  venera- 
ble Baronet  had  breathed  his  last. 

He  married  Hanway-Anne,  daughter 
of  Richard  Gardiner,  of  Mount  Amelia, 
CO.  Norfolk,  esq. ;  and  is  succeeded  in  his 
title  and  estates  by  his  amiable  and  only 
son,  now  Sir  John  Maxwell,  who  has  sat 
in  Parliament  successively  for  the  counties 
o£  Renfrew  and  Lanark.  He  married  in 
1839  Lady  Matilda  Harriet  Bruce,  second 
daughter  of  the  late  Earl  of  Elgin  and 


»)lll 


R.  J.  LambUm,  Ssq.^Vki^Adm,  Sir  C.  Boyle.         [Sept 


K\n««r<line.  The  late  Baronet  has  alio 
U\\  two  daugbtera,  the  younger  the  wife 
Mf  Archibald  Stirling,  esq.  of  Kenmurc. 

Ralph  John  Lambtok,  £bq. 

July  29.  At  Morton  house,  Durham, 
Ralph  John  Lambton,  Esq.  great-uncle 
to  tne  Earl  of  Durham. 

He  was  the  second  son  of  Major- 
General  John  Lambton,  M.P.  for  Dur- 
ham, by  Lady  Susan  Lyon,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Earl  of  Stratbmore.  lie  waa 
elected  M.P.  for  the  citv  of  Durham, 
after  hia  elder  brother's  oeatb,  in  1798, 
and  was  rechosen  in  1809,  1806,  1807, 
and  1812.     He  retired  in  Dec.  1813. 

fie  waa  for  many  years  a  master  of 
hounds  in  the  North,  and  gave  them  up 
only  in  Feb.  1837,  after  meeting  with  a 
fall  in  hunting,  which  had  from  tnat  time 
kept  him  to  his  couch.  He  sold  hia 
bounds  to  Lord  Suffield,  for  a  higher 
price  than  was  ever  given  before. 

Mr.  Lambton  was  the  head  of  a  bank- 
ing house  at  Newcastle,  and  has  died  very 
rich,  and  unmarried. 

His  remains  have  been  interred  at 
Chester-le-Street.  The  chief  mourners 
were  Mr.  W.  H.  Lambton  and  hia  son, 
Mr.  Henry  Lambton;  and  the  pall, 
bearers  Sir  M.  W.  Ridley,  Bart.,  R.  £.  D. 
Shafto,  Esq.,  Colonel  Tower,  W.  WiU 
liamson,  Esq.,  R.  S.  Surtees,  Esq., 
John  (jregson,  Esq.,  Edward  Johnson, 
Esq.,  and  Thomas  Fenwick,  Esq.  The 
bulk  of  Mr.  Lambton's  large  fortune,  it 
is  understood,  is  left  to  his  nephew,  Mr. 
William  Henry  Lambton,  next  brother  to 
the  late  Earl  or  Durham,  and  son-in-law  of 
Cttthbert  EUison,  Esq.  of  Hebbum  HaU. 

Vici-Adm.  Sia  C.  Boylb. 
aroy  81.    Aged   73,    the    Hon.    Sir 
Courtenay  Boyle,  K.C.H.  Vice- Admiral 
of  the  Red,  and  F.R.S. ;  brother  to  the 
Earl  of  Cork  and  Orrery. 

He  was  bom  Sept.  3,  1770,  the  third 
but  second  surviving  son  of  Edmund  the 
seventh  Earl,  by  liis  first  wife  Aenn, 
•eooad  daughter  of  Kelland  Courtenay, 
esq.  end  niece  to  John  fourth  Earl  of 
Sandwich. 

He  entered  the  royal  navy  Feb.  19, 

1781,  as  a  midahipman  on  board    the 

^iona  frigate,  commanded  by  the  late 

Sir  Hyde  Parker,     la  this  ship  he  wit- 

'^^•••d  tbe  action  between  the  squadron 

^uider  the  command    of   his    Captain'a 

^^rmn  father,  and  that  of  Holland  under 

^amiral  Zoutman ;  some  time  after  which 

be  had  the  misfortune  to  fall  (hxn  the 

'^ooiiM  into  the  orlop,  and  waa  obliged  to 

8»  on  abore  for  his  icoovery. 

«^i^®  •oWqwntly  joined  the  Goliah  74^ 

ana  reoMuaed  in  that  vwael  until  April 


8th,  1783,  when  he  waa  sent  to  tbe  Naval 
College  at  Portsmouth,  where  he  oon« 
tinned  antU  March  1784  { at  which  period 
he  re-commenced  bis  professional  career, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  great  Nelson,  in 
the  Boreas  fngate,  and  sailed  in  her  to 
the  West  bidies,  from  whence  be  returned 
to  Enghmd  in  the  summer  of  1787. 

The  Boreas  having  been  put  out  of 
commission,  Mr,  Boyle  was  received,  at 
the  recommendation  of  Captain  Nelaon, 
on  board  the  Barfleur  98,  bearing  Lord 
Hood's  flag;  and  in  that  ship  he  con- 
tinued untu  the  25th  Nov.  1788,  when  ha 
waa  removed  into  the  tieander  5(K  the 
flag-ship  of  Admiral  Peyton,  by  whom, 
on  the  5th  June  1789,  he  waa  appointed 
to  act  aa  Lieutenant  in  the  Aquilon 
frigate,  on  the  Mediterranean  atation. 
He  subaequentiv  served  in  the  sane  ca- 
pacity on  board  tbe  Vanguard  74,  and 
was  at  length  confirmed  in  that  lank,  and 
appointed  to  Otm  Roebuck,  a  44  on  two 
decks. 

At    the  commencement  of   the  war 

Siinst  revolutionary  France,  in  1793, 
r,  Boyle  was  fourth  Lieutenant  of  the 
Egmont  of  74  guns,  commanded  by  the 
hue  Sir  Archibald  Dixon.  TbU  ship, 
after  fitting  at  Plvmouth,  proceeded  with 
the  squadron  under  Rear-Adm.  Gell  to 
convor  the  East  India  fleet  to  a  certain 
latitudes  and  then  cruised  between  the 
western  isles  and  the  coast  of  Spain. 
On  the  14th  April  the  squadron  cap- 
tured the  General  Dumourier  French 
privateer  of  22  guna  and  196  men,  and  r<^ 
took  the  St.  Jago  regiater  ship,  her  priie, 
which,  after  a  tedious  litigation,  waa  ooa« 
demned,  when  the  captors  sharad  largely, 
each  of  the  lieutenants  receiving  1,4002. 

On  the  S7th  of  the  following  month. 
Lord  Hood,  then  at  Gibraltar,  appointed 
Lieut.  Boyle  to  the  Fox  cutter,  and 
charged  him  with  despatches  for  the  Ad* 
rainutv.  He  afterwards  served  in  the 
Excellent  and  Saturn  ships  of  tbe  line  { 
and  in  the  spring  of  1795  acoompaaied 
Comasodore  Payne  in  tbe  Jupiter  of  SO 
guns,  to  bring  over  H.S.H.  the  Prineeaa 
Caroline  of  Brunswick  from  Cuxbaven. 
On  his  ntum  from  that  service  he  waa 
promoted,  April  1795,  to  the  rank  of 
Commander ;  and,  during  tbe  asonth  of 
October  following,  obtained  an  appoint- 
ment to  the  Kangaroo,  a  new  brig  of  18 
guns,  in  which  he  cruised  with  consider* 
able  success  againat  the  enemy's  pri. 
vateers  and  other  aimed  vessels  on  the 
Lisbon  and  Irish  stationa.  He  obtained 
post  rank  June  dOth,  1797. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  easning  year 
Captain  Boyle  waa  appointed  to  tbe 
Hyena,  of  24  guna,  and  served  in  bar  off 
Cherbottig,  St.  Maloea^  and  the  lale  of 


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319 


Ban,  iiiitQ  Maroh,  1799,  when  he  wai 
obliged  to  resign  his  ship  in  consequence 
of  an  injury  he  had  sustained  from  being 
thrown  out  of  a  carriage  when  about  to 
sail  for  Lisbon.  His  next  appointment 
was  in  the  ensuing  month  of  June,  to  the 
Cormorant,  of  24  guns,  in  which  ship, 
after  being  for  some  time  in  attendance 
upon  the  royal  fitmily  at  Wejrmouth,  he 
was  sent  to  the  Mediterranean,  and  on 
the  passage  out  captured  a  Spanish  brig 
of  14  guns  and  87  men,  and  retook  an 
English  West  Indiaman.  On  the  20th 
May,  1800,  the  Cormorant  was  wrecked 
off  Oamietta,  on  the  coast  of  Egypt, 
when  on  her  wav  to  Alexandria,  with 
despatches  from  Lord  Keith  to  Sir  W. 
Sidney  Smith,  containing  the  ratification 
of  the  treaty  of  £1  Arisb.  Contrary  to 
the  usages  of  war.  Captain  Boyle  was 
kept  in  close  confinement  for  nearly  three 
months,  during  which  period  the  French 
General  Menou,  into  whose  power  he  had 
fisllen,  treated  him  in  a  savage  manner, 
telling  him  that  he  must  consider  himself 
as  an  hostage  for  the  safety  of  Bodot, 
who  had  been  an  aide-de-camp  to  Bona* 
parte,  and  was  then  in  the  hands  of  the 
Grand  Vizier. 

Having  at  length  recovered  his  liberty, 
Captain  Boyle  joined  Sir  W.  Sydney 
Smith  at  Cyprus,  and  from  thence  went 
to  Minorca,  where  a  court  martial  as- 
sembled,  Nov.  17,  1800,  to  inquire  into 
the  circumstances  by  which  the  loss  of 
the  Cormorant  was  occasioned.  The 
conrt  were  unanimouslv  of  opinion  that 
it  arose  from  an  error  in  the  reckoning, 
occasioned  by  the  great  incorrectness  of 
the  charts,  and  that  the  conduct  and  ex- 
ertions of  Captain  Boyle  were  highly 
meritorious  and  exemplary  on  the  un- 
fortunate occasion,  and  did  therefore 
adjudge  him  to  be  fully  acquitted  of  all 
blame.  In  the  spring  of  1803  Captain 
Boyle  was  appointed  to  the  Seahorse 
frigate,  and  ordered  to  the  Mediterranean, 
where  be  was  actively  employed  under 
Nelson  during  a  very  important  part  of 
his  Lordship's  command  on  that  station. 

In  the  summer  of  1805  he  exchanged 
into  the  Amphitrite,  a  Spanish  prize 
frigate,  and  returned  to  England.  His 
last  appointment  afloat  was  May  31 ,  1806, 
to  the  Royal  William,  bearing  the  flag  of 
the  Port-Admiral  at  Spitbead,  the  com- 
mand of  which  ship  he  retained  until 
June,  1809,  when  he  succeeded  Capt. 
Towry  as  a  Commissioner  of  Transports. 
The  control  of  the  dockyard  at  Sheemess 
was  confided  to  him  in  the  summer  of 
1814.  Some  time  after  be  was  appointed 
by  an  order  in  council  to  superintend  the 
bringing  up  of  the  arrears  of  the  accounts 
left  unaudited  by  the  Transport  Board  at 


the  time  of  its  dissolutioo,  and  he  aiib* 
sequently  obtained  a  seat  at  the  Navy 

Board. 

He  was  made  a  retired  Rear.  Admiral 
in  1831,  but  in  1840  was  restored  to  the 
active  list,  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  Vice- Admiral  of  the  Red  in  Nov, 
1841.  In  183S  he  was  nominated  a 
Knight- Commander  of  the  Hanoverian 
Guelphic  Order,  and  be  was  dubbed  a 
Rnigbt-Bachelor  on  the  3d  Dec.  in  that 
year. 

In  1807  he  represented  the  borough  of 
Bandon  in  Parliament. 

Sir  Courtenay  Boyle  married,  April 
16,  1799,  Caroline.  Amelia,  youngest 
daughter  of  the  late  William  Poyntz,  esq. 
of  Midgbam,  co.  Berks,  and  sister  to 
Isabella- Henrietta  Countess  of  Cork 
and  Orrery,  the  wife  of  his  elder  brother* 
By  that  lady,  who  survives  him,  he  had 
issue  three  sons  and  two  daughters — 1. 
Courtenay  Edmund  William  Boyle,  esq. 
Capt.  H.N.  and  Groom  of  the  Privy 
Chamber,  who  married,  in  1836,  Mary, 
daughter  of  William  Wallace  Ogle,  esq. ; 
2.  the  Hon.  Caroline  Boyle,  Maid  of 
Honour  to  Queen  Adelaide ;  3.  Charles 
John  Boyle,  esq.;  4.  Charlotte- Anne, 
who  died  in  1816,  aged  seven;  5.  Mary- 
Louisa;  and  6.  Cavendish.Spencer,  Lieut. 
48th  Foot. 


SlK  JaM£8  GaMBISB. 

jhtff.  5.  In  Pall  MaU,  aged  72,  Sir 
James  Gambler,  late  Her  Majesty's 
Consul-Generai  in  the  United  Nether« 
lands. 

He  was  son  of  the  late  Admiral  James 
Gambler,  by  his  second  wife  Jane, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Monpessan,  and 
nephew  to  the  late  Admiral  Lord  Gam- 
bier.  He  was  born  in  Orcfaard-street, 
May  Fair,  Feb.  15, 1772.  He  first  served 
in  the  navy,  but  subsequently,  in  1793, 
entered  the  army,  and  was  major  of  the 
Ist  Life  Guards.  He  quitted  the  army 
at  the  peace  of  Amiens,  and  in  J  802  was 
appointed  Consul  General  at  Lisbon ;  a 
situation  which  be  held  until  the  de- 
parture of  the  Portuguese  royal  family. 
He  was  then  removed  in  the  same  capa- 
city to  the  Brazils;  and  thence  subee- 
quently  to  the  Netherlands.  He  was 
knighted  whilst  holding  the  latter  situa- 
tion,  April  27,  1808.  On  the  abolition 
of  several  consulships  general  in  1826,  he 
was  placed  on  the  retired  list  with  a  pen- 
sion of  1200/.  a-year. 

He  married  in  1797  Jemima  daughter 
of  William  Snell,  esq.  of  Salisbury  hall, 
Hertfordshire.  She  died  on  the  15th  of 
March  last  year,  aged  67. 

Their  children  were:  1.  William- 
Morton,  who  died  an  infant  in  1800  9 


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Obituary.— *Dr.  Hemroth^^^John  Haslatn,  M,Df        [S<^t. 


moored  dose  to  the  batteries  of  Grand 
Canaria,  May  8tb,  1807.  On  the  23rd 
of  July,  be  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant.  He  served  in  the  Alfred, 
74,  Capt.  John  Bllgb,  at  the  bombard- 
ment  of  Copenhagen,  and  surrender  of 
the  Danish  Pleet,  in  Sept.  1807,  and  was 
included  in  the  general  vote  of  thanks  by 
both  houses  of  Parliament.  He  was  also 
at  the  first  landing  of  Sir  Arthur  Welles- 
ley  aud  the  British  army  in  Portugal ;  at 
the  surrender  of  the  Russian  squadron  in 
the  Tagus,  in  Sept.  1806;  and  the  re- 
embarkation  of  Sir  John  Moore's  army  at 
Corunna  and  Vigo.  He  also  served  in 
1809,  in  the  Baltic,  on  board  the  Mel- 
pomene, 38,  Capt.  Frederick  Warren; 
next  as  First  Lieutenant  of  the  Sabrina, 
in  1810-11,  and  was  actively  emplojred  in 
the  same  capacity  on  board  the  Surprise,  in 
tbe  West  Indies ;  as  likewise  in  the  expe- 
dition to  Washington  and  Baltimore,  in 
1812,  1813,  and  1814. 

During  his  long  and  useful  career,  Com . 
mander  Miles  assisted  at  the  capture  of 
three  colonies,  twenty-six  line  of  battle 
ships,  eighteen  frigates,  and  twenty-one 
sloops  of  war  and  privateers.  Having 
been  six  and  thirty  years  a  Lieutenant,  be 
was  at  length,  shortly  previous  to  his 
death,  placed  on  the  list  of  retired  Com- 
manders, on  the  28th  Sept.  1843.  At 
tbe  peace  he  retired  to  the  little  village  of 
Knapton,  by  the  sea  side,  in  Norfolk, 
where  he  ended  his  days,  regretted  by  all 
who  knew  him.  His  djing  wish  was  that 
tbe  Union  Jack  should  supersede  tbe 
usual  funeral  pall,  and  that  he  should  be 
buried  with  the  least  possible  parade. 
His  request  was  complied  with,  and  the 
ground  has  closed  over  one  of  England's 
most  xealous  defenders.  His  vindication 
of  Lord  Nelson's  proceedings  in  the  Bay 
of  Naples  was  published  a  short  time 
since,  and  aw  hardly  fail  of  establishing 
its  author's  object;  it  being  a  complete 
refutation  of  tbe  calumnious  opinions 
bnt  too  generally  received,  basea  upon 
ftcts  which  no  sophistry  can  shake, — 
{UnUed  Serviee  Journal), 

Da.  Heinrotii. 
At  Leipsic,  aged  70,  Doctor  Heinroth. 
He  was  a  pupil  of  tbe  celebrated  Pinel, 
whose  views  and  those  of  Esquirol,  as  to 
the  substitution  of  moral  treutmcnt  for 
physical  coercion,  in  the  cure  of  madnessi, 
be  was  the  firsc  to  introduce  into  Ger- 
many, both  in  his  own  practice,  and  by 
bis  publicatiou  and  annotation  o(  the 
works  of  thoae  two  eminent  phyfticiana. 
On  his  return  from  France,  the  Saxon 
government  created  a  chair,  for  the  teach- 
ing of  this  class  of  medical  science,  ex* 
pressly  for  him,  and  appointed  the  new 


Erofessor  bead  physician  to  the  St.  George's 
[ospital  for  the  insane — ^the  functions  of 
both  which  offices  he  discharged  till  his 
death.  He  was  the  author  of  many 
works  of  reputation,  connected  with  his 
own  speciality — besides  some  popular 
novels  and  romances,  published  under  the 
pseudonym  of  Tremund  Wallentreter — 
and  member  of  most  of  the  learned  bodies 
in  Europe,  including  the  Royal  Society 
of  London. 


John  Uaslam,  M.D. 

July  20.  In  Lamb's  Conduit-street, 
aged  80,  John  Haslam,  M.D. 

He  was  a  member  of  Pembroke  Hall, 
Cambridge,  but  we  believe  took  no  de. 
gree  at  that  university.  He  was  for  some 
years  apothecary  to  Bridewell  and  Beth, 
leham  Hospitals,  previously  to  his  enter- 
ing bis  career  as  a  physician. 

His  *^  Observations  on  Insanity  "  were 
first  published  in  1798,  second  edition  in 
1809. 

**  Illustrations  of  Madness,  1810."  8vo. 

"Considerations  on  the  Moral  Manage- 
ment of  Insane  Persons.  181 7." 

**  Medical  Jurisprudence,  as  it  relates 
to  Insanity,  according  'to  the  Law  of 
England.   1817." 

"  A  Letter  to  the  Governors  of  Bethle- 
hem Hospital,  containing  an  Account  of 
their  management  of  that  Institution  for 
the  Inst  twenty  years.   1818." 

**  Dr.  Haslam  was  long  and  justly 
celebrated  as  a  physician  in  cases  of  in- 
sanity, and  a  man  otherwise  of  great  at- 
tainments,  information,  and  literary  tastes. 
His  scientific  publications  were  always 
held  in  high  esteem ;  but  his  numerous 
contributions  to  lighter  literature  through 
the  periodical  press  were  perhaps  stiU 
more  calculated  to  raise  a  reputation.  As 
reviewer,  critic,  epigrammatist,  and  author 
of  witty  and  comic  papers,  be  had  few 
superiors ;  and  his  extensive  knowledge 
of  the  world,  and  what  is  called  life,  ^ve 
him  a  ready  hand  for  almost  every  subject. 
In  society  he  was  equally  entertaining, 
and  full  of  anecdote.  We  remember, 
during  a  temporary  absence  from  town, 
that  he  wrote  a  review,  which  was  in- 
serted in  the  Literary  Gazette,  on  one 
of  Dr.  Kitchiner'ii  books.  It  was  very 
droll  and  humorou.^,  and  laughed  good- 
naturedly  enough  at  some  of  tbe  worthy 
doctor's  eccentricities.  But  the  doctor 
took  it  in  dungeon ;  and  in  an  extreme 
rH;;e  happened  to  pitch  on  his  friend 
ILiftlam  to  consult  what  steps  he  would 
advJHe  him  to  take  against  the  worthless 
libeller !  This  was  fun  to  Haslam,  and 
be  abused  the  writer  and  the  Gazette  to 
the  topmost  of  Billingsgate,  till  be  in- 
flamed Kitchiner  beyond  all  mitigation. 


It  was  in  vnin,  on  our  return,  that  we 
endeavoured  to  pacify  and  modentte  his 
resentment.  He  never  would  forgive  us  ; 
and  it  was  only  a  few  months  before  his 
death  that  he  was  so  far  reconciled  as  to 
meet  us  with  tolerable  civility  in  society." 
— Literary  Gazette. 


1844.]     Obituary.-— H^.  •/.  Bfl^ffff,  Af.  D. — Robert  Benson^  Esq,       323 

He  was  called  to  the  bar  bv  the  Hon. 
Society  of  the  Middle  Temple,  Nov.  23, 
1881,  and  afterwards  practised  at  the 
Chancery  Bar. 

In  1823  Mr.  Benson  went  to  Corsica, 
as  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  carry  into 
effect  the  bequests  of  General. Paoli;  and 
after  his  return  he  published  '*  Sketehes 
of  Corsica,  a  Journal  written  during  h 
Visit  to  that  Island  in  1833,  with  an 
Outline  of  its  History,  and  Specimens  of 
the  Language  and  Poetry  of  the  People," 
reviewed  in  the  Oentlemnn's  Magazine 
for  Jan.  1826.  Not  long  after  this  work 
was  published,  a  friend  who  called  on 
Mr.  Benson,  told  biro  that  Sir  Walter 
Scott  had  described  himself  by  a  letter 
which  be  had  just  heard  read,  as  much 
amused  with  the  book :  and  subsequently, 
in  his  history  of  Napoleon,  Sir  Walter 
referred  to  it  with  terms  of  approbation. 

Mr.  Benson  was  elected  the  Deputy 
Recorder  of  Salisbury  by  the  Mayor,  AU 
dennen,  and  Corporation,  9  December, 
1829,  in  opposition  to  Mr.  Sergeant  Mere- 
wether,  by  a  majority  of  two  votes.  At 
this  time  the  Earl  of  Radnor  was  the  Re- 
corder of  Salisbury,  and  was  very  much  op- 
posed to  Mr.  Benson  on  political  matters. 
He  carried  bis  feelings  towards  him  to  a 
very  great  height,  and  sought  to  exclude 
him  from  the  Council  Chamber  whenever 
he  himself  was  present,  and  on  the  27th  of 
September  1830,  he  obtained  a  vote  of  the 
Common  Council,  requesting  Mr.  Ben- 
son to  withdraw,  on  the  ground  that  he 
was  simply  his  deputy.  In  1831,  Mr. 
Benson  published  a  very  clever  pamphlet, 
entitled  **  Remarks  on  the  Office  of  the 
Deputy  Recorder  of  Salisbury,*'  in  which 
he  clearly  demonstrated  from  the  charters, 
and  records  of  the  city,  that  the  deputy 
recorder  was  a  substantive  member  of  the 
corporation,  and  that  the  Recorder  of 
Salisbury  himself  ought  to  have  been  a 
person  learned  in  the  law,  a  barrister  in 
fact,  one  of  the  quorum,  and  a  magistrate. 
This  well-reasoned  pamphlet  bad  its 
effects,  and  Mr.  Benson  thenceforward 
enjoyed  all  the  privileges  of  his  office 
without  further  interruption. 

When  the  Bill  passed  for  reforming 
the  Municipal  Corporations,  a  singular 
change  took  place.  The  Earl  of  Rad- 
nor was  disqualified  under  that  act  fh>m 
sitting  as  recorder,  and  by  virtue  of  the 
103d  section  of  the  Act,  coupled  with  the 
grant  to  the  city  of  a  separate  quarter 
sessions,  Mr.  Benson  became  toe  re- 
corder, and  he  was  formally  elected  by 
the  corporation,  and  confirmed  in  his 
office  by  a  warrant  under  the  sign  manual 
from  the  crown,  dated  at  St.  James^, 
the  6th  of  Jane,  1836.  It  is  remarkable 
that  since  the  passing  of  the  Reform  Bill, 


W.  J.  Bayke,  M.D. 

June  13.  At  his  house,  in  (he  Alpha 
Road,  Regent's  Park,  after  a  lingering 
illness,  aged  48,  William  Joseph  Bayne, 
M.D.  Fellow  of  the  Roval  College  of 
Physicians  and  of  the  Geological  Society. 
He  was  the  son  of  William  Bayne,  esq. 
of  New  Grove,  Mile-end ;  his  brother 
died  on  the  30th  June  last. 

His  election  to  a  Fellowship  of  Trinity 
college,  Cambridge,  in  a  year  when  there 
was  the  rare  occurrence  of  a  single  va- 
cancy, shows  that  his  talents  and  acquire- 
ments were  of  a  superior  order,  though 
his  studies  were  not,  even  then,  confined 
to  university  pursuits.  He  graduated, 
B.A.  1819,  as  thirteenth  Wrangler,  M.A. 
\B2'i.  In  the  relations  of  private  life 
he  was  holden  in  high  estimation  and 
strong  regard  by  his  numerous  inti- 
mate friends,  many  of  whom  were  of 
literary  and  scientific  eminence:  while 
among  the  larger  circle  of  his  acquaint- 
ance it  has  been  observed  of  him,  *'  that 
no  one  ever  knew  him  without  esteeming 
him." 


Robert  Benson,  Esq. 

June  21 .  At  Salisbury,  aged  47,  Ro- 
bert Benson,  Esq.  M.A.  Recorder  of  that 
city. 

This  gentleman  was  the  youngest  son 
of  the  late  Rev.  Edmund  Benson,  M.A. 
of  the  Close,  Sarum,  formerly  Rector  of 
St.  Edmund's  in  that  city,  and  Priest 
Vicar  of  the  Cathedral,  who  died  in' 
January,  1835.  He  was  born  in  the  Close, 
February  5,  1797.  His  mother,  Anne 
Hunt  Grubbe»  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Hunt  Grubbe,  of  Potterne,  in  the  county 
ot  Wilts,  Esq.  one  of  the  most  ancient 
families  of  the  count  v.  His  studies  and 
inclinations  towards  historical  and  anti- 
quarian research  were  industriously  culti- 
vated by  his  paternal  grandfather,  whose 
acquaintance  with  early  British  history  and 
antiquities  was  accurate  though  not  pro« 
found,  and  whose  information  on  such 
subjects  was  always  welcome  to  his  a^ 
tentive  pupil.  His  general  education  was 
received  at  the  private  school  of  the  Rev. 
A.  Morrison  in  Salisbury;  and  at  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge,  where  he  took  his 
B.A.  degree  in  1818  as  second  Junior 
Optime,  and  proceeded  M.A.  in  18^1. 


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[Sept, 


aad  the  Municipal  Corpontion  Act,  the 
influence  of  the  Bouvene  fiEunily  in  Salis- 
bury hu  netrly  paaied  away,  and  though 
several  attempts  have  been  made  to  re- 
turn one  of  tAem  as  member  for  the  city 
it  has  always  been  in  vain. 

In  1837  Mr.  Benson  published  **  Me- 
moirs  of  Arthur  Collier,''  Rector  of 
lisngford-Magna  in  Wiltshire,  and  styled 
by  Du^ld  Stewart,  **  a  very  acute  meta- 
pbyaiaan.''  This  work  was  yerj  fully 
reviewed  in  the  Gentleman's  Magasine  for 
Jttl^,  1887$  and  also,  with  higii  appro- 
bation, in  the  Edinbuigh  Review. 

In  1843  appealed  the  History  of  Salis. 
bury,  a  large  folio  volume,  forming  part 
of  Sir  Riohard  G.  Hoare's  History  of 
Modem  Wiluhire,  with  the  joint  names 
of  Robert  Benson,  esq.,  and  Mr.  Henry 
Hatcher,  of  Salisbury,  as  the  authors. 

Two  pamphlets  were  shortly  after  issued, 
bearing  the  following  titles  i— 

•'  lie  Original  Preface  to  the  History 
of  Old  and  New  Sarum,  or  Salisbury. 
Witb  a  statement  of  the  circumstances 
connected  with  the  publication  of  that 
work.    By  Henry  Hatched."  8vo. 

<*  Facts  and  Observai  ions  touching  Mr. 
Hatcher  and  the  History  of  Salisbury, 
being  an  Answer  to  hifc  recent  pamphlet 
on  that  subject.  By  RoBEaT  Bbn- 
BON,  £sq.  M.A.  Recoi'tlerof  Salisbury." 
8vo. 

From  these  pamphlets  we  collect  Mr. 
Benson's  connection  with  the  topography 
of  Wiltshire  to  have  bee  ii  as  follows :  He 
was  introduced  to  a  correspondence  with 
Sir  Richard  Hoare  by  Lord  Arundel  in 
1818,  and  soon  after  undertook  to  describe 
the  small  Hundred  of  Underditch,  con- 
sisting of  only  four  parishes.  On  the  1st 
June,  1881 ,  he  paid  nis  first  visit  to  Stour- 
head  ;  and  in  the  course  of  the  same  year 
be  was  encouraged  by  the  Baronet  to  com- 
roence  his  collections  for  the  History  of 
Salisbury.  Subsequently,  he  relinquished 
Underditch,  and,  devoting  himself  to  the 
illustration  of  bis  native  city,  for  many 
years  continued,  at  intervals,  bis  long  but 
desultory  researches;  until,  at  the  close 
of  1835,  Sir  Richard  Hoare  persuaded 
bim  to  commit  to  his  care  the  arrange- 
ment of  the  collections,  providing  for 
that  labour  the  assistance  of  Mr,  Hatcher, 
of  Salisbury.  Mr.  Hatcher  then  assumed 
the  work  in  a  more  systematic  and  labo- 
rious way,  vastly  adding  to,  or  rather 
multiplying,  the  onateriais,  and  writing 
the  work  in  the  form  of  a  chronological 
narrative.  The  proportion  of  the  mate- 
rials furnished  by  Mr.  Benson  can  only 
be  seen  by  eiamining  the  work,  where 
they  will  be  found  distinguished  throughout 
by  his  initial  B.  It  is  undisputed  that 
Mr.  Hatcher  composed  the  work  so  en. 


tiiely,  that  only  about  sixteen  pageB*  out 
of  six  hundred  were  from  the  pen  of  Mr. 
Benson,  besides,  in  the  subsequent  bio- 
graphical section,  four  original  memoirs 
of  distinguished  nativea  of  Salisbury, 
namely,  John  Oreenhill  the  punter, 
Robert  Bateman  Wray  the  dye-sinker, 
William  Benson  Earle  an  accomplished 
gentleman  of  Salisbury,  and  John  Pern 
Tinney  the  poUtieal  writer. 

In  May,  1840,  the  printing  of  the  His- 
tory  commenced,  and  during  its  prqereaa 
in  that  and  the  following  ^r,  Mr.  Ben- 
son cordially  co-operated  with  Mr.  Hatcher 
in  rendering  all  tbe  literary  assistance  in 
his  power.  We  give  the  cause  of  rupture 
in  Mr.  Hatcher's  own  words:  "In  the 
autumn  of  1841  Mr.  Benson  accidentally 
met  me  in  the  Close.  He  inquired  if  the 
Salisbury  were  safe,  and  wben  told  that 
the  last  sheet  of  tbe  Narrative  had  been 
forwarded,  he,  for  the  firet  time,  intimated 
a  wish  that  his  name  should  appear  in 
tbe  title-page^  '  not,  however,*  as  he  said, 
*pari  pauu  with  you.'  He  afterwards 
offered  to  write  my  Preface ;  and,  finally, 
we  entered  into  some  discussion  relative 
to  an  application  to  Mr.  Hoare  for  addi- 
tional plates,  to  which  I  objected.  On 
the  whole,  tbe  conversation  terminated,  I 
believe,  not  very  satisfactorily  to  either 
party." 

It  appears,  from  Mr.  Benson's  diary,f 
that  this  was  on  the  21st  Sept.  1841 ;  oa 
the  25th  he  set  out  on  a  tour  into  the 
West.  However,  about  a  month  after, 
he  resumed  his  attention  to  the  proof- 
sheets,  and  there  was  a  truce  on  the 
question  of  the  title-page  until  the  follow- 
ing January.  The  late  Mr.  Gage  Roke* 
wode  was  requested  by  Mr.  Merrik  Hoare 
(at  whose  expense  the  work  was  carried 
on,)  to  act  as  arbitrator.  He  was  inclined 
to  lean  to  Mr.  Benson's  claims:  but  his 
premature  death  occurred  before  the  con- 
troversy  came  before  the  public.  Mr. 
Hatcher  wrote  a  preface  deemed  offensive 
by  Mr.  Benson,  and  refused  to  withdraw 
or  alter  it.  Mr.  Benson  insisted  on  the 
insertion  of  his  name  in  the  title-page : 
and  finally  the  volume  was  published  in 
August,  1843,  with  the  names  of  both 
Mr.  Benson  and  Mr.  Hatcher  in  the  title, 
and  a  Preface  written  bv  the  former. 

We  have  preferred,  in  this  summary, 
to  state  the  bare  facts  of  these  transac- 
tions ;  and  to  those  whom  the  oontroveray 
may  interest,  we  have  only  to  recommend 


*  Mr.  Hatcher's  Preface,  p.  vil. 

f  Mr.  Benson  kept  from  early  youth 
<<a  minute  account  of  the  time  passed  in 
my  journey  of  life,  and  my  employment 
of^it." 


18440 


Obituary."-*  F«n.  Amhdeacon  Bayley. 


S25 


the  imptrHal  penual  of  Mr.  Hatcher's 
«nd  Mr.  Beiieon*ii  pampUeti,  and  a  lub* 
sequent  letter  of  Mr.  Hatcher,  dated  Dee» 
1,  1843,  published  in  the  Devixes  Qaiette. 
It  will  then  be  seen  that,  whatCTer  was 
the  amount  of  time  and  Isbour  bestowed 
bj  Mr.  Benson  on  this  undertaking,  and 
whatever  the  benefits  derived  to  it  from 
his  general  acquaintance  with  liteiature, 
and  his  legal  acquirements,  they  could  in 
no  ease  supersede  or  equal  the  vast 
amount  of  Mr.  Hatcher's  most  assiduous 
labours ;  and  whatever,  in  the  controversy, 
might  be  Mr.  Benson's  skill  in  argument, 
or  the  brilliancy  of  his  style,  they  are 
more  than  balanced  by  the  facts  adduced 
by  Mr.  Hatcher,  who  has  no  ooeasion  to 
regret  the  manly  efforts  he  made  in  his 
seTf-defence. 

Mr.  Benson  ^sessed  a  retentive  me- 
mory, and  considerable  literary  acquire* 
ments }  and  his  stores  of  anecdote,  buoyant 
spirits,  and  general  conversational  talents, 
rendered  him  a  great  favourite  in  society. 
He  died  unmarried,  after  a  lingering  and 
painful  illness,  which  be  bore  with  ex- 
traordinary patience  and  fortitude,  at  the 
house  of  his  only  surviving  sister,  in 
the  Close,  Salisbury  t  and  was  buried 
in  the  Cathedral  Yvitli  the  other  members 
of  his  familv.  His  sister  Anna-Maria 
died  only  a  few  weeks  before  him,  on  the 
27th  May  last,  aged  57. 


moval  of  tho  moral  tablets  and  other 
hideous  mementos  from  the  walls  and 
piUars  of  the  cathedral  into  the  side  cha- 
pels, and  repairing  the  parts  which  had 
been  out  away  to  admit  them. 

In  1888  Dr.  Bayley  exchanged  the  Sob* 
deanery  of  Lineoui  with  the  Rev.  Xiord 
John  Thynne  for  a  stall  va  St  Peter's 
Abbey  church*  Westminster.  He  held 
the  latter  preCsrment  until  his  decease,  la 
also  the  non-residentiary  stall  of  Iddding^ 
ton  in  Lincola  Cathedral.  He  was  col- 
lated to  the  rectoryof  West  Meon  in  1806 
by  the  Bishop  of  Winchester. 

His  esany  amiable  qualities,  aa  they 
made  him  beloved,  so  also  cause  him  to 
be  laoMnted  by  his  nunseroos  friends  i 
bis  loss  will  be  more  especially  felt  at  his 
parish  of  West  Meon,  where  he  wsa 
Dttilding  a  very  chaste  new  ehurdi,  at  the 
ooat  of  hiroseu  and  his  sister-iii«1aw.  In 
1680,  when  Viear  of  Messini^ham,  Lin*- 
collishire,  he  rebuilt  the  parish  eburoh 
there ;  and  few  have  had  the  privilege  of 
glorifying  (Mi  by  such  good  works  as  he 
effected. 

We  could  wish  to  see  this  good  npaii 
commemorated  as  of  old,  in  a  way  which 
he  himself  would  have  approved,  by  a 
correct  brass  pieced  in  the  oathedrsi  with 
which  he  was  upwards  of  30  yean  con* 
nected ;  so  that  whoever  looks  on  it  may 
say  with  the  writer,  <*  C^fUi  anJImm  pro* 
picUtwr  Dnu,** 


Yen.  Abchdkacon  Bayley. 

jiuff.  12.  The  Venerable  Henry  Vin- 
cent Bavley,  D.D.  Archdeacon  of  Stow, 
Prebendary  of  Westminster,  Rector  of 
West  Meon,  Hants,  and  Vicar  of  Great 
Carlton,  Lincolnshire. 

Archdeacon  Bayley  enjoyed  the  repu- 
tation of  being  one  of  the  most  elegant 
scholars  that  Cambridge  has  produced ; 
having  gained  the  highest  classical  honour 
that  the  University  could  bestow,  viz. 
Battle's  scholarship,  in  1796.  He  gradu- 
ated B.A.  in  1800,  and  was  elected  fellow 
of  Trinity  college :  be  obtained  the  first 
of  the  members*  prizes  for  middle  bache- 
lors in  1801,  and  the  first  for  senior 
bachelors  in  1802. 

He  was  presented  to  the  vicarage  of 
Great  Carlton  by  the  Dean  and  Chapter 
of  Lincoln  in  1812,  and  was  appointed 
Archdeacon  of  Stow  in  1823  ;ne  was 
also  for  many  years  Stibdean  of  Lincoln. 
In  both  these  important  offices  he  was 
distinguished  bv  taste,  in  restorations  of 
churches,  wortny  of  a  better  age  :  more 
especially  does  Lincoln  Minster  owe 
much  to  his  care  whilst  be  was  one  of  the 
Chapter.  Amongst  other  laudable  acts 
may  be  mentioned  his  causing  the  re- 


CLERGV  DECBASEa 

July  3.  At  Siston,  Gloucestenhire, 
aged  63,  the  Rev.  Fnmeit  Peitv,  Rector 
of  that  parish.  He  was  of  Christ- 
church,  Oxford,  M.A.  1810;  and  was 
presented  to  Siston  in  1815  by  F.  Trot- 
man,  esq. 

July  4.  At  Great  Houghton,  North- 
amptonshire, aged  %5,  the  Kev.  Richard 
fVilliamit  Rector  of  that  parish,  and  of 
Msrlcfteld,  Leicestershire,  and  a  Pre- 
bendary of  Lincoln.  He  was  of  Christ'$ 
college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1780,  M.A. 
1783;  was  presented  to  Great  Hough- 
ton in  1805  by  that  society;  and  to 
Markfield  in  the  previous  year  by  the 
Marquess  Hastings. 

Aged  26,  the  Rev.  Houmamlllingtportkf 
son  of  A.  Illlngwortb,  esq.  of  Fowey, 
and  formerly  curate  of  Penryn,  Comwau. 
He  was  drowned  at  Sieira  Leone,  of 
which  colony  he  was  chaplain,  by  the 
upsetting  of  a  boat.  Five  others  perished 
with  him.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Illinffworth 
left  England  as  chaplain  to  H.M.S.  Ma- 
dagascar 44,  and  soon  after  her  arrival 
on  the  African  station,  the  chaplain  of 


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[Sept. 


Sierra  Leone  dying,  he  was  solicited  to 
become  his  successor. 

July  6.  At  Hulme,  Lancashire,  aged 
72,  the  Rev.  Edward  Booth,  M.A.  In- 
cambent  and  Patron  of  St.  Stephen's 
church,  Salford.  He  was  of  Lincoln  col- 
lege, Oxford,  M.A.  1809. 

July  7,  At  Midway,  near  Aberyst with, 
in  his  33th  year,  the  Rev.  John  ',Danet, 
M.A.,  for  eleven  ]rears  Curate  of  Llan- 
ferns,  Denbighshire. 

At  Wortham,  aged  57,  the  Rev.  Joteph 
Cktarl€9  Htlme,  M.A.  He  was  of  Wad- 
ham  college,  Oxford,  M.A.  1811.  He 
has  left  a  widow  and  eight  children. 

July  8.  Aged  83,  the  Rev.  Bobert 
Jones,  Rector  of  Derwen,  Denbighshire, 
to  which  he  was  collated  in  1819  by  the 
Bishop  of  Bangor. 

At  Cheltenham,  aged  82,  the  Rev. 
Gtorg$  Fbxton,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  Twyning, 
Gloucestershire,  and  Rector  of  Newtown, 
CO.  Montgomery.  He  was  of  Christ's 
Church,  (hiford,  M.A.  1786;  was  pre- 
sented to  the  former  church  in  1808  by 
that  society;  and  collated  to  the  latter  in 
1815  by  the  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph.  His 
youngest  son,  the  Rev.  T.  J.  Foxton,  is 
Perpetual  Curate  of  Wix,  Essex. 

At  the  residence  of  his  father-in-law, 
the  Rev.  R.  P.  Buddtcombe,  M.A., 
Priorv,  St.  Bee*s,  Cumberland,  aged  30, 
the  Rev.  John  Sandart,  only  son  of 
John  Sandars,  esq.  of  Derbjr.  He  was 
of  Emmanuel  college,  Cambridge,  B.A. 

1837. 

July  9.  At  Preston,  nged  47,  the  Rev. 
Theophilus  Lane,  Rector  of  Horndon-on- 
the-Hill,  Essex.  He  was  of  Msgdalene 
college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1820,  M.A. 
1833,  and  was  presented  to  bis  living  in 
1827  by  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  St. 
Paul's. 

July  10.  At  Shelton  rectory,  Norfolk, 
the  residence  of  his  youngest  son,  the  Rev. 
Jeremiah  Curteis,  aged  76,  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Curleit,  LL.D.  formerly  of  Lin. 
ton,  Cambridgeshire.  He  was  of  Queen's 
college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  17R9,  as  1 1th 
Senior  Optime,  M.A.  1801,  LL.D.  1808. 
He  was  for  some  years  Bister  of  Sunbury 
school. 

At  Appleton,  Berkshire,  aged  84,  the 
Rev.  James  Wtlliame  Hotkine,  D.D. 
Rector  of  that  parish,  and  a  Prebendary 
of  Wells.  He  was  formerly  a  Fellow  of 
Magdalene  college,  Oxford,  where  he 
graduated  M.A.  1781,  B.D.  1794,  D.D. 
1797  ;  was  presented  to  Appleton  in  1802 
by  that  society ;  and  appointed  to  the  pre- 
bend of  Combe  the  Twelfth  in  the 
cathedral  church  of  Wells  in  1813. 

On  bis  26th  birthday,  the  Rev.  WiUiam 


Henry  Jonet,  Assistant  Minister  of  St. 
Peter's,  Preston,  second  son  of  the  Rev. 
W.  P.  Jones,  incumbent  of  St.  Thomas's, 
Preston.  He  was  of  Trinity  college, 
Cambridge,  B.A.  1838. 

July  16.  At  Wrexham,  aged  62,  ybe 
Rev.  /.  8,  Bdwarde,  Vicar  of  Llanar- 
mon  in  Yale,  in  the  patronage  of  the 
Bishop  of  St.  Asaph. 

At  the  Cbapel-house,  Twvford,  aged 
52,  the  Rev.  Tkonuu  Morrie,  Minister  of 
the  chapel,  and  Perpetual  Curate  of  Rus- 
combe,  Berks. 

July  20.  At  Lesnewth,  Cornwall,  the 
Rev.  FT.  P.  Bray,  Curate  of  that  place. 

July  23.  At  Ilminster,  aged  82,  the 
Rev.  James  Upton,  Rector  of  Beercro- 
combe  and  Stocklinch  Magdalen,  Somer- 
set. He  was  presented  to  the  former 
living  in  1803  by  the  Earl  of  Egremont, 
and  instituted  at  the  same  time  to  the 
latter,  which  was  in  his  own  patron- 
age. 

July  25.  At  the  Beaufort  Arms,  Mon- 
mouth, on  his  return  from  Malvern,  in 
his  63d  year,  the  Rev.  James  Ashe  Gabb, 
Rector  of  Shirenewton,  Monmouthshire, 
magistrate  and  deputy  lieutenant  of  that 
county,  and  Deputy  Provincial  Grand 
Master  of  the  Monmouthshire  district  of 
Freemasons.  He  was  presented  to  Shire- 
newton  in  1816  by  Lord  Chancellor  El- 
don. 

July  26.  At  Sansaw,  Salop,  aged  77, 
the  Rev.  Lanrenee  Gardner,  D.D.  Canon 
Residentiary  of  Lichfield,  and  Rector  of 
St.  Philip's,  Birmingham,  to  which  he  was 
collated  in  1€@1  by  Uishop  Ryder. 

July  26.  At  Tintinhull,  Somerset, 
aged  76,  the  Rev.  J,  Valentine  Clari, 
B.A.  for  twenty-ei^ht  years  Perpetual 
Curate  of  that  parish,  and  for  eleven 
years  Rector  of  Uossinglon,  near  Bridg- 
water. 

July  91,  At  Southend.  Essex,  the 
Rev.  Francis  Festing,  late  Vicar  of  Wins- 
ham,  Somerset. 

At  Selham,  near  Midhurst,  aged  ^, 
the  Rev.  WiUiam  Jenkins,  of  St.  John's 
college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1811,  M.A. 
1814. 

At  Goytre,  Wales,  the  Rev.  Men 
Morgan,  late  of  Awbridge  house,  near 
Romsey. 

July  28.  At  Hensingham,  Cumber- 
land, aged  88,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Bardgett, 
Rector  of  Melmerbv,  near  Penrith. 

July  30.  At  Twyford,  Hampshire, 
aged  88,  the  Rev.  George  Core,  Rector 
of  St.  Michael's,  Winchester,  and  of  Wich- 
call,  Lincolnshire.  He  was  a  brother  of 
the  late  Archdeacon  Coxe,  of  Salisbury, 
the  historian.     He  was  formerly  of  P6m« 


1844.] 


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broke  college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1780, 
M.A,  1792,  and  obtained  both  bis  livings 
in  1810,  Witbcall,  (value  516/.)  from 
Lord  Chancellor  Eldon,  und  bis  church 
at  Winchester  from  Bishop  North.  With  a 
highly  cultivated  mind,  refined  taste,  and 
polished  manners,  he  found  his  chief  delight 
in  the  exercise  of  the  Christian  ministry. 
The  diligence  with  which  he  discharged 
the  duties  of  bis  station  to  a  very  advanced 
period  of  life,  his  kindness  ot  heart  and 
extensive  charity,  endeared  him  to  al 
classes  of  bis  parishioners,  by  whom  and 
by  a  large  circle  of  friends  he  will  be  long 
and  affectionately  remembered. 

Jtdff  31.  At  Bath,  the  Rev.  John 
Partoiu,  of  the  island  of  Barbadoes, 
Vicar  of  Marden,  Wilts.  He  was  for. 
merly  Fellow  of  Oriel  college,  Oxford, 
where  he  attained  the  degree  of  M.A. 
in  1807,  and  was  presented  to  Murden 
in  Wilts  by  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of 
Bristol. 

The  Rev.  B.  Sunderland,  Vicar  of 
Glentham  and  Normanby,  Lincolnshire. 

At  Ballybegg,  co.  Wicklow,  the  Rev. 
Jeremiah  M.  Sytuet,  Incumbent  of  the 
parishes  of  Kilpipe  and  Kilninor. 


DEATHS. 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY. 

March  10.  At  Camberwell,  aged  21 , 
Mr.  William  FuUer  Lofty,  of  St.  John's 
college,  Cambridge. 

June  17.  In  Montague-square,  aged 
7S,  James  Holbrook,  esq.  late  of  Park-st. 
Grosvenor-sq. 

June  18.  At  Highbury-place,  aged 
83,  Sarah,  widow  of  William  Farebrotber, 
esq. 

July  5.  Aged  67,  Capt.  William  WiU 
liams  Foote,  R.N.  of  the  Royal  Hospital, 
Greenwich.  He  was  one  of  the  few  sur- 
vivors  of  Rodney's  action,  and  was  in  the 
Valiant  when  she  captured  two  64  gun 
ships  in  1782 — in  the  Illustrious  at  the 
siege  of  Toulon  and  JI5a5tia,  and  in  Lord 
Hotham's  acdon  in  1795— in  the  Blen- 
heim  at  St.  Vincent's — in  the  Director  at 
Camperdown— at  the  mutiny  at  the  Nore 
— at  the  siege  of  Cadiz— and  for  some  years 
in  the  Channel  service.  He  was  posted 
Oct.  21,  1810.  He  married  Miss  Hill,  of 
Upminster. 

July  16.  At  Walworth,  at  nn  advanced 
age,  Elizabeth,  relict  of  Marcus  Rochfort, 
esq.  of  WalshestowD,  Balbriggati,  Ire- 
land. 

July  17.  In  Agar- St.  Strand,  aged  30 
Mr.  John  Moore,  house  surgeon  of  the 
ChariDg  Cross  Hospital,  and  surgeon  ac- 
concheiir  to  tb«  West  London  Lying-in 


Hospital,  eldest  son  of  Mr.  John  Moore, 
of  Wickham-Market,  formerly  of  Lax<» 
field,  Suffolk. 

July  18.  Hyman  Hurwitz,  esq.  Pro- 
fessor of  Hebrew  at  University  College, 
London.  ^ 

At  Kensington,  aged  13,  Gurney,  se* 
cond  son  of  Foster  Reynolds,  esq. 

July  20.  Aged  72,  Sarah,  wife  of 
Thomas  Prothero,  esq.  of  Lyon- terrace, 
Edgware-road. 

July  21.  In  Kensington-sq.  aged  86, 
Mrs.  Olivia  Searle,  only  dan.  of  Charles 
Searle,  esq.  of  BromptonPark. 

In  Camden-terr.  Kentish-town,  aged 
76,  Sarah,  relict  of  John  Hamilton,  esq. 
of  Stamford-hill. 

Aged  55,  Mr.  John  Adamson,  of  Lime* 
street,  City,  for  many  years  a  member 
of  the  Common  Council  for  Langboum 
Ward. 

In  Portland-terr.  Regent's-park,  aged 
68,  Ann,  relict  of  Perry  Nursey,  esq.  of 
the  Grove,  Little  Bealings,  Suffolk. 

At  Hampstead,  Mary-Ann,  wife  of  Sa« 
muel  Wimbush,  jun.  esq.  of  Halkin-at. 
Belgrave-sq. 

July  22.  At  Grosvenor-park,  Camber* 
well,  Eliza,  wife  of  W.  G.  Hayes,  esq. 
and  third  dau.  of  the  late  James  Lawson, 
esq.  of  Norwood,  Surrey. 

Aged  52,  Frederica-Jane,  wife  of  Mr. 
Westell,  of  Clement's-inn,  and  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  John  MaJing,  esq.  for* 
merly  of  the  Commander  in- Chiefs  Of- 
fice, Horse  Guards. 

July  23.  In  HiU-st.  Berkeley-square, 
aged  23,  Martha,  fourth  dau.  of  the  late 
William  Willis,  esq.  of  Lombard-st.  and 
Wandsworth -common. 

In  Montague-sq.  aged  75,  Henry  Sykes, 
esq.  of  Bath,  youngest  son  of  Joseph 
Sykes,  esq.  of  Hull. 

July  24.  In  Gloucester-pI.  Portman- 
sq.  Louisa,  youngest  dau*  of  the  late  Sir 
John  English  Dolben,  Bart. 

In  Oxford- terr.  Hyde- park,  aged  84, 
Henrietta,  relict  uf  William  Marmaduke 
Sellon,  esq.  of  Harlesdon-green,  Willes- 
don. 

July  25.  In  Wimpole-st.  aged  67, 
Charles  Bourchier,  esq. 

In  Clapton-square,  Hackney,  aged  72, 
George  Deane,  esq.  for  many  years  in 
Monument- yard. 

July  26.  At  the  residence  of  his  bro- 
ther, Bath-pl.  Kensington,  aged  40,  J. 
S.  Pollock,  esq. 

In  Norfolk -St.  Park -lane,  aged  64,  Jo- 
seph Littledale,  esq. 

July  27.  In  James-st.  St.  James^s-sq. 
St.  James*s-park,  aged  62,  Henry  Bed- 
ford, esq. 


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At  h!s  nude's  honse,  Cfoom'i  Hill, 
Greenwich,  aged  21 ,  Edward  Parry  Mar- 
tjTf  esq. 

In  Robert  St.  Hampstead  Road,  aged 
77 y  Charlotte- Augusta,  relict  of  Samuel 
'  Barnard,  esq.  Surgeon  to  the  98th,  and 
third  dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Saiidby, 
esq.  Deputy  Ranger  of  Windsor  Great 
Park. 

July  28.  In  Melbury-terr.  aged  37, 
l^liam  Plunkett,  esq.  M.A.  Banister. at- 
Law,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Wm.  Plunkett, 
esq.  Deputy  Chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Excise.  He  was  called  to  the  bar  at  the 
Middle  Temple,  Nov.  23,  1832. 

Jufy  29.  Agnes,  second  dau.  of  George 
Pritt,  esq.  of  Bentinck-terr.  Regent*s 
Park,  and  Parliament. st.  Westminster. 

tn  York- St.  Portman-square,  aged  63, 
Thornton  Bentall,  esq.  late  manager  of 
the  Devon  and  Cornwall  Bank,  Totnes. 

At  Stepney  Green,  aged  61,  John  Dins- 
dale,  esq.  late  Assistant  Master  Attendant 
to  the  lion.  East  India  Company;  48 
years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  theh*  ser- 
vice. 

July  30.  In  Upper  Seymour-st.  West, 
Frances-Mary,  widow  of  William  Henry 
Beauchamp,  esq.  of  Forthampton,  Glou- 
cestershire. 

In  Crosby-sq.  aged  56,  Thomas  Row- 
land Alston,  esq. 

Aged  23,  Louisa,  third  dau.  of  L.  M. 
Simon,  esq.  Paragon,  Blackheath. 

/tf/y31.  In  Tonbridge-pl.  Euston-sq. 
Hetty,  widow  of  John  Palmer,  esq.  of 
Rickmansworth. 

Lately,  At  Camberwell,  aged  74,  Eli- 
zabeth Carey,  relict  of  Philip  Melvill,  esq. 
Governor  of  Pendennis  Castle,  Cornwall. 

Aged  30,  W.  Phillips  Cracknell,  esq. 
eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  Benj.  Cracknell, 
D.D.  late  of  Weymouth,  brother-in-law 
of  T.  Conway  Robins,  esq.  Wells,  Somer- 
set, and  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Maddeson, 
Batheaston,  near  Bath. 

At  Putney,  aged  50,  Mrs.  Villiers,  re- 
lict  of  Geo.  Wm.  ViUiers  VUUers,  esq. 
late  of  the  Royal  Horse  Guards  Blue,  and 
of  Bath. 

Aug,  4.  At  Clapham  Common,  aged 
84,  WiUiam  Hibbert,  esq.  of  Hare  Hill, 
Cheshire. 

Mrs.  Nash,  wife  of  Sebastian  Nash,  esq. 
of  St.  John's  Wood-road,  Regent's  Park, 
and  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Sam.  Dixon,  esq. 

'^ug,  5.  At  the  Master's  house,  Inner 
Temple,  aged  63,  Mary,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
W.  H.  Rowlatt. 

Aug,  6.  At  St.  John's  Wood,  aged  63, 
Christopher  Harrison,  esq. 

Anne,  wife  of  the  Rev.  E.  Withers,  of 
Lower  Phillimore-pl.  Kensington. 

In  Great  Quebec-st.  St.  Marylebone, 
the  widow  of  WiUiam  Sadlci:  Bruere,  jun. 
13 


esq.  of  Jetoa  Coll.  Cambridge,  and  third 
dau.  of  the  late  Charles  Wagstaff,  esq.  of 
Cambridge. 

Aug,  7,  At  Mnswell  Hill,  Mr.  Ed- 
ward  Mottram,  many  years  a  member  of 
the  Common  Council  for  the  Ward  of 
Aldersgate. 

In  I\)rtman.sq.  aged  33,  William  Hicks 
Hicks  Beach,  esa.  only  brother  of  Sir 
Michael  Hicks  Hicks  Beach,  Bart,  of 
Williamstrip  Park,  Gloucestershire. 

In  Percy-st.  aged  80,  Joseph  Hume, 
esq.  late  of  the  Admiralty,  Somerset  House. 

At  Camden  New  Town,  J.  Lemon,  esq. 
late  of  St.  Ann's,  Jamaica. 

jiug,  8.  In  Sloane-st.  Charlotte,  relict 
of  John  Boylston  Hallen,  esq.  of  Birming- 
ham. 

In  Netting  Hill-sq.  Eliza-Sdphia.  relict 
of  Lieut.-Col.  Leeds  Booth,  formerly  of 
the  3 2d  Regt.  and  In^cting  Field  Officer 

of  Essex ;  daughter  and  coheiress  of 

Comyns,  esq.  of  Highlands,  near  Writtle, 
Essex. 

Aug,  9.  In  Camden-road  Villas,  aged 
.35,  Ellen,  wife  of  Charles  B.  Spaeth,  esq. 

Charlotte,  wife  of  John  Powell  Powell, 
esq.  of  Quex  Park,  Thanet,  and  Park 
House,  Fulham. 

Aged  79,  Rebecca,  relict  of  John  Carver, 
esq.  of  Camden  Town,  Middlesex. 

Aged  56,  Major  J.  J.  Anderson,  K.H. 
late  of  the  10th  Foot,  one  of  the  Military 
Knights  of  Windsor.  He  had  been  in 
active  service,  both  in  the  East  and  West 
Indies,  and  was  buried  at  St.  George's 
Chapel,  Windsor,  with  military  honours. 

Aug,  10.  At  Clapham  Common,  aged 
31,  Julia,  wife  of  Robert  Hudson,  esq. 

At  Lower  Clapton,  aged  85,  Jacob 
Clements,  esq. 

At  Clapham  Common,  aged  81,  Elixa- 
beth'Susanna,  relict  of  Thomas  Graham, 
esq.  of  Edmond  Castle,  Cumberland. 

At  Newington,  Surrey,  aged  75,  Isa- 
bella-Ann, relict  of  Thomas  Waite  Mar- 
son,  esq. 

In  Guildford-st.  aged  65,  Elizabeth, 
wife  of  Philip  Wynell  Mayow,  esq. 

At  Camden  Town,  aged  76,  Sarah 
Marianne  Abinffton,  eldest  surviving  sister 
of  the  late  William  Abington,  esq.  of  the 
East  India  House. 

Jug,  11.  At  Bayswater  Hill,  aged  69, 
Lewis  Duval,  esq.  of  Lincoln's-inn,  con- 
veyancer.  He  was  formerly  Fellow  of 
Trin.  hall,  Cambridge,  LL.B.  17.96,  and 
was  called  to  the  bar  at  Lincoln's-inn, 
June  19,  1804.  He  has  of  late  years  been 
considered  the  first  "case"  man  in  his 
profession. 

Aug,  12.  In  Torrington-sq.  aged  27, 
Henry  White,  esq.  of  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge,  youngest  son  of  John  White, 
esq.     He  graduated  LL.B.  1840. 


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In  Camberwell-grove,  aged  83»  Stephen 
Batler,  esq. 

Jug,  13.  Aged  66,  Cornelis  Schenk, 
esq.  of  the  Pangoo,  New  Kent-road. 

At  Chichester  Lodge,  Wandsworth- 
road,  aged  60,  Eliaabeth,  wife  of  William 
Farlar,  esq. 

Aug,  14.  At  Clapham,  aged  85,  John 
Jacob  Zomlio,  esq* 

Jug,  86.  At  Islington,  within  one 
day  of  completing  his  19th  year,  William, 
eldest  son  of  William  Bentley,  esq.  one  of 
the  principal  clerks  of  the  Bank  of  Eng« 
land. 


Bi&KS.— Jtf/y  20.  At  Wallingford,  at 
the  honse  of  her  father,  the  Rev.  Richard 
Roberts,  Amelia- Shickle,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
George  Andrews,  Vicar  of  Sntton  Courte- 
nay. 

Julg  S5.  At  Midgham  House,  aged  66, 
Miss  Elizabeth  Fowke,  eldest  dau.  of  the 
late  Major  T.  Thorpe  Fowke. 

Jug.  3.  Aged  63,  Edward  Golding, 
esq.  of  Maiden  Erlegh  and  Sonning  Grove. 

Jug.  5.  At  the  residence  of  her 
nephew,  H.  Simonds,  esq.  Reading, 
aged  83,  Mrs.  May,  late  of  Pangboum. 

Jug,  6.  At  Stanlake,  aged  75,  Leonard 
Carrie,  esq. 

Aug,  13.  At  Hall  Place,  the  seat  of 
his  father-in-law,  Sir  East  Clayton  East, 
Bart,  aged  25,  Joseph  John  Wakehorst 
Peyton,  esq.  of  Wakehurst-pl.  Sussex, 
and  late  of  the  2d  Life  Guards. 

Berwick. — Jug,  7*  At  Manderston, 
in  his  7th  year,  Thomas,  only  son  of  Sir 
Thomas  Maitland,  Capt.  R.N. 

Bucks.— /#if^.  9.  At  Boyne  Hill  Cot- 
tage, near  Maidenhead,  Daniel  Penning, 
esq.  for  many  years  Receiving  Inspector 
of  Stampa  and  Taxes,  Somerset  House. 

Cambridob. — May  15.  Aged  27, 
George  Francis,  eldest  son  of  George 
Fordham,  esq.  of  Odsey  House,  near 
Royston.  He  was  at  a  very  early  period 
of  Ufe  distinguished  for  scientific  and  lite- 
rary attainments,  and  for  theological  re- 
searches. 

June  17f  At  Cambridge,  aged  60, 
Alex.  Watford,  esq.  the  eminent  surveyor. 

Julg  2.  At  ^e  Observatory,  Cam- 
bridge, aged  36,  Jane-Sarab,  wife  of  John 
Glaisher,  esq. 

Jug,  6.  Aged  72,  Elisabeth,  wife  of 
Wm.  Hurrell,  esq.  of  Newton. 

Aug,  7.  At  Foxton,  aged  09,  Martha, 
widow  of  William  Hurrell,  esq. 

CoRNWALL.—^iiy.  6.  At  Truro,  aged 
64,  George  Thomas,  esq.  He  tilled  the 
office  of  Town  Steward  and  Treasurer  of 
that  borough  for  a  very  long  period. 

Dbrbt.— /«/y  21.  At  Derby,  Mrs. 
Katharine  Geddes,  relict  of  Christian 
Geddes,  esq.  of  Yiewforth,  Culross, 

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Jmlg  28.  At  Longford-hall,  aged  41, 
the  Right  Hon.  Anne-Amelia  dowager 
Countess  of  Leicester,  wife  of  the  Righ, 
Hon.  Edward  Ellice,  M.P.  for  Coventryt 
Her  death  resulted  from  her  confinement, 
she  having  on  the  10th  inst.  given  birth 
to  a  son,  who  survived  his  birth  only  a 
few  hours.  She  was  the  third  dau.  of  the 
Earl  of  Albemarle,  by  his  first  Countess 
the  Hon.  Elizabeth  Southwell,  fourth 
dan.  of  Edward  Lord  Clifford.  She  mar- 
ried, 25th  February,  1822,  T.  W.  Coke, 
esq.  of  Holkham,  >forfolk,  created  Earl  of 
Leicester  in  1837,  who  died  in  1842  ;  by 
whom  she  had  issue  Thomaa- William  the 
present  Earl  of  Leicester,  three  other  sons, 
and  one  daughter.  She  married  secondly, 
the  25th  Oct.  1843,  the  Right  Hon.  Ed- 
ward EUiee,  M.P. 

July  26.  At  Bumaston  House,  Derby, 
aged  22,  Ensign  Arthur  Mosley,  95th 
Regt.  second  son  of  Ashton  N.  E.  Mosley, 
esq. 

Dbvon.— VaJy  17.  At  Leaford  House, 
aged  60,  Gilbert  Cowd,  esq. 

July  27.  At  Mill  Bay  Grove,  Ply- 
mouth, aged  40,  Wm.  Cole  Loggin,  esq. 
of  Buckish  House,  near  Bideford. 

At  the  Quay  House,  Kingsbridge,  the 
residence  of  Mrs.  Fortescue,  Anna,  wife 
of  G.  F.  Fortescue,  esq.  of  Plymouth,  and 
dau.  of  the  late  Admiral  Cumberland. 

Lately,  At  Mount  Boone,  Dartmouth, 
Jane,  youngest  dau.  of  Sir  J.  H.  Seale, 
Bart. 

Jug,  1.  At  Netherexe  House,  near 
Exeter,  aged  25,  Clifford  Martyn  Young, 
esq. 

Jug,  4.  AtExmouth,  Elizabeth,  relict 
of  Rev.  Wm.  Barker,  Rector  of  SiWerton. 

At  Kingsbridge,  aged  85,  Maria-Juli- 
ana,  relict  of  Thomas  Wyse,  esq. 

Aged  88.  George  Hertzel,  esq.  one  of 
the  oldest  merchants  of  Exeter. 

Aug.Q.  In  Dix's  Field,  Exeter,  aged  68, 
Henry  Limbrey  Toll,  esq.  of  Porridge 
House,  a  Major  in  the  South  Devon  Regt. 
of  Militia,  and  a  Magistrate  of  Devon.  Mr. 
Toll  was  the  only  son  of  the  Rev.  John 
Frederick  Toll  of  Grewel  St.  Mary,  and 
Vicar  of  Kingsclere,  Hants.  He  married, 
at  Odiham,  his  cousin  Jane,  daughter  of 
Richard  Limbrey,  esa.  by  whom  he  had 
an  only  son,  the  late  Henry  Limbrey  Toll. 
He  married,  first,  Jane,  dau.  of  the  Rev* 
Alexander  Mackenzie,  of  Finennd,  in  the 
county  of  Perth,  by  whom  he  had  no 
issue ;  and  secondly,  in  the  year  1823,  to 
Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Walter 
Vavasour,  esq.  of  Heath,  Yorkshire,  by 
whom  he  has  left  issue  a  son  and  dau. 

Mary,  third  dan.  of  Charles  Hoppe, 
esq.  of  Withycombe,  near  Exmoutb. 

Juy,  7.  Aged  50,  Robert  Rookes, 
esq.  of  Heavitree. 

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Jtiig,  8.  At  Torquty,  Hester,  dt«.  of 
Hunms  Dewee,  esq.  of  WinohelMe. 

Ju§.  IS.  At  Bideford,  aged  78,  the 
relict  of  John  Yarde,  esq.  of  Trowbridge. 

Amf,  15.  At  Brampfonkpeke,  aged 
78,  Agnes,  wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Madge. 

Dorset.— /v/y  19.  At  Whichamptoo, 
aged  9,  Georgina,  eldest  dau.  of  George 
Bart,  esq.  late  of  Whitsbary,  Wilts. 

Latefy.  At  Dorchester,  aged  76,  Ag- 
nes, relict  of  Thomas  Taanton,  esq.  for- 
merly of  Wraokleford-hoose,  near  Dor- 
chester. 

Auff.  6.  At  Moreton,  aged  66,  the  Lady 
Harriot  Frampton,  third  daa.  of  Henry- 
Thomas  late  Earl  of  Ilchester,  and  wife 
of  James  Frampton,  esq.  to  whom  she  was 
married  in  1799. 

Durham. — Lately,  James  Watson,  esq. 
of  Aycliffe.  He  left  to  most  of  his  tenants 
a  legacy  of  500/.  each ;  to  one  the  farm 
for  his  life ;  to  one  tenant  (Mr.  G.  Chap- 
man) the  lime-kilns ;  to  his  housekeeper 
his  dweUing-honse,  famitore,  plate,  &c., 
together  with  1000/.  The  residue  of  his 
estate  is  given  to  a  distant  relative,  S. 
Swires,  esq.  of  Skipton  in  CrsTen. 

Essex.— ilfay  28.  At  Skegg-hall,  Great 
Oakley,  Lieat.-Col.  J.  R.  Lynch,  of  Ply- 
month,  late  of  63rd  foot. 

July  19.  At  Billericay,  aged  82,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Spitty,  relict  of  Ths.  Spitty,  esq. 

/Htff,  13.  At  Southend,  George  Nolan, 
esq.  of  Geraldstown,  co.  Meath. 

Gloucester.  July  12.  At  Bristol, 
aged  81,  Mr.  Thomas  Butt,  for  35  years 
I^esident  of  the  London  Twopenny  Post 
Office. 

July  17.  At  Compton,  aged  50,  Mary- 
Ann,  wife  of  Joseph  Taylor,  esq.  surgeon 
R.N.  and  niece  of  the  late  Rer.  Henry 
Beran,  M.A.  late  Vicar  of  Congresbury, 
Somerset. 

July  IS.  At  CUffcon,  aged  74,  Mar- 
garet,  relict  of  Rich.  Sargent  Fowler,  esq. 
Barrister-at-law. 

July  20.  At  Cheltenham,  Amelia,  wife 
of  Edward  Griffiths,  esq.  of  Newcourt, 
Herefordshire. 

July  21.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  21, 
Augustus  Frederick,  youngest  son  of  the 
lace  Rer.  Samuel  Hemming,  D.D.  of 
Hampton,  Middlesex. 

July  22.  At  Bristol,  aged  76,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Williams,  sister  to  R.  T.  Wil- 
liams,  esq.  Old  Park. 

July  23.  At  Aust,  Charlotte-Bourke, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  John  Maxse, 
esq.  of  Aroo's  Vale. 

At  Clifton  Park,  Miss  Lyon,  dau.  of 
the  late  Benjamin  Lyon,  esq.  of  Jamaica. 

July  26.  At  Olveston,  aged  83,  Ann, 
only  Burriring  dau.  of  the  late  John 
Camplin,  D.D.,  for  many  years  Vicar  of 
that  parish. 


Jms  28.  At  the  HotwdU,  Bristol, 
aged  76,  Mr.  WUliam  Porteus.  He  was 
a  Saperiotendent  of  the  boilding  of  the 
docks,  bridges,  and  excaTattons  of  the  New 
Cut,  during  its  progress,  under  that  oele- 
brated  engineer,  Josiah  Jessop,  esq.  and 
subsequently  an  assistant  engineer  and 
oootractor  on  varioas  railways. 

July  29.  At  Wotton,  near  Gloucester, 
John  Darke,  esq.  formerly  of  the  7th  Dra- 
goon Guards. 

July  30.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  20, 
Edward  Hamond  Kevile  Daries,  c»q. 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Rev.  James  Kevile, 
and  grandson  of  the  late  Somerset  Da- 
vies,  esq.  of  Croft  Castle,  Herefordshire. 

Auff,  2.  At  Clifton,  Isabella-Beatrice- 
Cecil,  only  child  of  the  late  Edward  Par- 
ker, esq.  of  Browsholme  Hall,  Yorkshire. 

jiuff,  7.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  79,  Eli- 
sabeth, relict  of  the  Rev.  John  Whalley, 
late  Vicar  of  Rushall,  Staffordshire. 

At  the  vicarage,  Tetbury,  aged  63,  Su- 
sannah-Martha, widow  of  Thomas  Richard 
Walker,  esq.  of  Bletchingdon,  Oxford- 
shire. 

Auff.  11.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  58, 
Ann,  widow  of  Richard  Edleston,  esq.  of 
Nantwich,  Cheshire. 

Hants— ^ti/y  20.  At  Fareham,  Caro- 
line-Matilda,  widow  of  the  Rev.  Alexander 
Raddiffe,  Vicar  of  Titchfield,  and  Rector 
of  St.  Clement's,  Sandwich,  third  dau.  of 
the  late  Sir  William  Benett. 

At  Hayling  Island,  aged  76,  Martha, 
relict  of  William  Padwick,  esq.  late  of 
Cosham  House. 

July  24.  Aged  69,  Matthew  Aldridge, 
esq.  of  Romsey. 

At  Ryde,  I.  W.,  Marr,  eldest  dau.  of 
Edward  Fletcher,  esq.  late  of  London- 
derry. 

July  25.  At  Shanklin,  I.  W.  aged  19, 
Robert  Bagot,  fifth  son  of  the  late  Rev. 
William  and  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Chester. 

July  26.  At  Kingston,  Portses,  aged 
57,  John  Rigden,  esq.  First  Clerk  in  the 
Royal  Engineer  Department,  Portsmouth. 

July  28.  At  Milbrooke,  near  Newport, 
I.  W.  aged  31,  Lucinda-Marianne,  wife 
of  Henry  Seweil,  esq.  eldest  dau.  of  the 
late  Major>Gen.  Nedham. 

Lately,  At  Minstead  parsonage,  Eliza- 
beth-Susanna, wife  of  the  Rev.  Arch- 
deacon Moysey,  D.D.,  of  Rowford  Lodge, 
Taunton,  dau.  of  Sir  James  Stewart, 
Bart,  of  Fort  Stewart,  co.  Donegal. 

At  King*s  Somborne,  aged  50,  Sarah, 
wife  of  James  Reeves,  esq. 

j4uff.  1.  At  Rowde  Cottage,  aged  92, 
Mary- Anne,  relict  of  the  Rev.  George 
Morgan  Deere,  Rector  of  St.  Lythin,  co. 
Glamorgan,  and  only  dau.  of  the  late 
Richard  Tuck,  esq.  of  Rowdeford-house. 

At  Woodfield,  Havaat,  aged  88,  Eliza- 


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hethf  reUct  of  Thomas  Hinchliff,  esq.  Ute 
of  Wandle  GroTe,  Mitchanii  Surrey. 

jiuff.  3.  At  Uigbfield,  near  Soutbamp- 
toD,  aged  66,  Arabella-Sarah,  widow  of 
Rear-Adm.  V.  V.  BaUard,  C.B.  of  Bath. 

^uff.  4.  At  the  residence  of  Capt, 
Wilson,  R.N.  near  Andorer,  Francis 
Wollcock,  esq.  late  of  her  Majesty's 
Customs,  Rochester. 

Herts. — July  25.  At  New  Marlowes, 
Hemel  Hempstead,  aged  71,  Ann,  widow 
of  Jeremiah  Hamilton,  esq. 

HuNTiKODON.— >/tms  93.  At  Homing- 
ford  Abbats,  aged  33,  Frances,  wife  of 
£.  S.  Knipe,  esq. 

Kent. — March  8.  At  Lees  Court, 
FeTersbam,  agftd  60,  Charles  May  Lush- 
ington,  esq.  late  of  the  Madras  civil  ser- 
▼ioe,  which  he  entered  in  1800.  He  wss 
appointed  a  Proyisional  Member  of  Coun- 
cil in  1836. 

Jtt/y  13.  At  Ramsgate,  aged  20,  Louisa, 
wife  of  Charles  Daniel*  esq.  only  dau.  of 
Capt.  E.  Hodges,  of  Ramagate. 

July  24.  At  Speldhurst,  Tonbridge 
Wells,  aged  76,  Baden  Powell,  esq. 

Aged  20,  Fanny,  dau.  of  Charles  Hosr, 
esq.  of  Maidstone. 

July  25.  At  Deal,  aged  56,  Robert 
George  Sparrow,  esq. 

Aug,  11.  At  Horsmonden,  Mrs.  Hodg- 
shin,  relict  of  John  Hodgskin,  esq.  for 
many  years  Storekeeper  of  her  Majesty's 
Dock-yard  at  Sheemess,  and  at  Dept- 
ford. 

Lancaster. —/iifie  23.  At  Chapel 
House,  Ormskirk,  Anne,  ¥ddow  of  John 
Bridges,  esq.  of  South  Lambeth. 

July  21 .  At  New  Ferry,  sged  74,  WU- 
liam  Whitehonse,  taxi,  of  LiYerpooI. 

July  27.  Aged  71,  Charles  Barrett, 
esq.  solicitor,  Mandiester. 

jtug.  7.  Aged  82,  William  Donald, 
esq.  of  LiTsrpool. 

LBiCRSTKR.-^tt/y  83.  Fanny,  wife  of 
the  Rer.  Henry  K.  RichsrdsoB,  Rector  of 
Leire. 

Aug,  7.  Aged  70,  Methuselah  Moore, 
gent,  of  System,  near  Leicester. 

Lincoln.— /ttiM  10.  At  Lincoln,  aged 
26,  Jane-Agnos,  wife  of  Frederick  Tryon, 
esq.  B.A. 

MinnLBBBX. — Jun»9B.  At  the  Lodge, 
Hillmgdon,  aged  69,  Thomas  Hanlyn 
Bent,  esq.  Commissary-generai. 

Juiy  18.  At  Hounslow,  aged  68.  Elisa- 
beth, wife  of  the  Bey.  Joseph  Bensooi 
D.D. 

July  22.  At  Tottenham,  aged  89,  Mrs. 
Anna  Atkins. 

Aug,  5.  Aged  69,  Samuel  Lsndon, 
esq.  of  Sunbury  and  Ryde,  I.  W. 

Aug,  9.  At  Clay  Hill,  Enfield,  aged 
69,  Mary,  wife  of  Banjamin  Tucker,  esq. 

I^ORroLK.  — /t(/y  23.     At  Korwichy 


aged  56,  Mary,  wife  of  Mr.  D.  Denny, 
formerly  of  Starston-hall,  aud  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  N.  Pallant,  esq.  of  the  White- 
house,  Rendham,  Suffolk. 

Lai€iy.  At  Norwich,  Mary-Anne,  only 
dau.  of  the  late  Rvv.  John  Boldaro,  of 
Ampton,  Suffolk. 

Northampton. — /wie  19.  At  Ket- 
tering, at  the  house  of  her  son.  Dr.  Starr, 
aged  71,  Lois  Louisa,  relict  of  Wm.  Starr, 
esq.  of  Boreham,  Wilts,  and  dau.  of  tha 
late  Edw.  Soothouse,  formeriy  Judge  in 
Lower  Canada. 

July  6.  At  Arthingwordi,  aged  60, 
Langham  Rokeby,  esq.  Lieut.-Col.  of  the 
Northamptonshire  Militia. 

July  96.  At  YeUertoft,  aged  84,  WU- 
Uam  Clark,  esq.  formerly  of  Lincoln  col- 
lege, Oxford. 

NORTBUMBIRLAND.  —  Jufy    15.       At 

Lorbottle  House,  aged  90,  Adam  Atkin- 
son, esq. 

Oxford.  '^July  26.  At  Adderbury, 
Rebeoca,  reliet  of  the  Rev.  Holford  Cot- 
ton, many  years  Yioar  of  that  parish,  and 
Kemys  Inferior,  oo.  Monmouth. 

Somerset.— Jti/y  19.  At  Bath,  sged 
74,  Captain  James  Conran,  only  brother 
of  the  late  Major-General  Conran.  He 
served  22  years  in  the  East  Indies,  in  her 
Majesty's  52d  Regiment,  the  25th,  and 
17th  light  Dragoons ;  was  present  at  both 
sieges  of  Seringapatam,  as  well  as  at  all  the 
principal  engagements  of  thst  period. 

July  20.  Aged  49,  John  Peter  Perring, 
esq.  of  Combeflory  House,  Somerset. 

July  23.  At  Ansford  House,  Castle 
Cary,  aged  86,  Col.  Woodforde. 

July  24.  At  Chard,  Miss  Loverldge, 
onlysurriring  sister  of  William  Loveridge, 
esq.  of  Paradise  House. 

Aged  66,  Thomas  Oliver,  esq.  of  Bath. 

July  26.  At  Clevedon,  Emily,  second 
dau.  of  R.  H.  Harrison,  esq.  of  the  Inner 
Temple. 

Lately.  At  Bath,  Mary-Anne,  relict 
of  Edward  Barlow,  esq.  M.D. 

At  Bath,  Charles  David  WUliams,  esa. 
Commander  R.N.  son  of  the  late  Col. 
Sir  Daniel  Williams,  of  Stamford-hill, 
Middlesex. 

At  Bath,  aged  91,  Mrs.  Jekyll,  reUot  ef 
Joseph  Jekyll,  esq. 

At  Bath,  Elisa-Mary-Anne,  eldest  dan. 
of  the  late  Major  Goldfinch,  of  Chewton 
Priory. 

At  Bath,  Anne,  widow  of  Hugh  Bariow, 
esq.  of  Lawrenny,  Pembrokeshire. 

Aug.  2.  At  Milton  Clevedon,  aged  7 
months,  Catharine-CeciHa- Hannah,  only 
child  of  the  Rev.  George  M.  K.  EUerton. 

At  Creech  St.  Michael,  near  Taunton, 
aged  18,  Emma,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
William  Trevenen,  esq.  of  Helston,  Onv- 
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Aug.  9.  At  Taanton,  aged  37,  John 
H.  Seton,  e«q. 

Jm^.  13.  At  Bath,  aged  73,  Midiael 
Constable,  esq. 

Stavfobd.— Vn/y  15.  Mn.  Holden, 
relict  of  UyU  Holden,  eaq.  of  Wednes- 
borr. 

Juip  24.  At  FentOD,  Charity,  wife  of 
Philip  Barnes  Broade,  eiq. 

jMfy99.  At  Perry  HaU,  aged  63,  John 
Gongh,  eaq.  formerly  of  Seend,  and  the 
last  lineal  descendant  of  the  Gongha  of 
Staffordshire. 

Amp,  14.  At  BiUtone,  Catharine,  eldest 
dan.  of  the  late  John  Willim,  esq.  and 
sbter  of  Mrs.  Fraaer,  of  Exeter. 

Suffolk. — June  99.  Suddenly,  having 
the  day  before  eompleted  his  71st  year, 
Mr.  John  Orridge,  upwards  of  47  years 
GoTemor  of  the  liberty  gaol  in  Bury  St. 
Edmund's,  and  father  of  the  Messrs.  Or- 
ridge, gaolers  at  Cambridge,  Oakham,  and 
Carlisle.  Mr.  Orridge  was  on  the  point 
of  resigning  the  office  at  Bury,  and  Mr. 
Mackintyre,  the  present  Mayor,  is  ap- 
pointed by  the  Marquess  of  Bristol,  at 
steward  of  the  liberty,  to  succeed  him. 

/Wy  17.  At  Sibton,  aged  38,  John 
Exeter  Edward  Spink,  esq. 

Jui^  S3.  Aged  86,  Robert  Lanchester, 
gent,  of  Long  Melford,  and  formerly  of 
Bury  St.  Edmuod's. 

July  S4.  At  Brockford  Green,  aged 
88,  Tobias  Revett,  esq.  the  last  descend- 
ant by  name  of  one  of  the  moat  ancient 
familiea  of  Suffolk. 

July  85.  At  Melford,  aged  83,  Mrs. 
Jane  Hanwell,  sister  to  the  late  Admiral 
Hanwell. 

SunmxT.— /tmr  20.  Charlotte  Elisa- 
beth, wife  of  R.  H.  Williams,  esq.  of  St. 
John's  Grove,  Richmond. 

•/vne  85.  At  Richmond,  aged  15,  Au- 
gusU  Sydney,  only  daughter  of  Fanny, 
widow  of  William  Spencer,  esq. 

July  16.  Frances,  daughter  of  J.  W. 
Iiddiard,esq.  Leigham-house,  Streatham. 

July  19.  At  Epsom,  aged  24,  George 
Barnard,  eldest  son  of  G.  P.  Barclay, 
esq. 

July  93,  At  Tador-lodge,  Richmond, 
aged  78,  Rebecca,  wife  of  William  Pearce, 
eaq.  late  of  Weasenham.ball,  Norfolk, 
now  of  Whitehall-place,  London.  She  was 
one  of  the  daughters  of  the  late  Her. 
Christopher  Crowe  Munnings,  Rector  of 
the  united  parishes  of  Beetley  and  Brisley, 
near  East  Dereham. 

July  84.  At  Richmond,  aged  70,  Sa- 
muel Paynter,  esq.  a  magistrate  for  many 
years  of  Surrey  and  Middlesex. 

Aug*  1.  At  Guildford,  Ann,  relict  of 
Mr.  J*  Neales,  wine  merchant,  one  of  the 
Aldermen  of  that  borough. 

Aged  88,  Elisabeth,  rolict  of  Thomas 


Hinchliff,  esq.  late  of  Wandle-groTC,  Mit- 
cham. 

Auy.  4.  At  Kingston,  Ben  Morgan, 
a  celebrated  Irish  rocalist.  He  poasnsed 
a  rich  brogue,  and  a  vein  of  quiet  humour, 
which  imparted  an  especial  charm  to  all 
hia  efforts.  He  waa  the  most  intimate 
friend  and  associate,  for  twenty  years,  of 
the  Ute  Tom  Hudson,  the  poet,  and  many 
of  his  best  songs— tIs.  "Judy  Calla- 
ghan,'»  "Biddy  of  Sligo,»'  "Teddy 
O'Ran,"  "  Widow  Mahony,"  &c.  were 
written  expressly  for  Morgan.  Both  these 
**  sons  of  mirth  '*  ended  their  mortal  ca- 
reer within  a  "  little  month,"  and  each  in 
the  58nd  year  of  his  age.  Morgan  has 
left  a  widow  totally  unproTided  for. 

Auy,  8.  At  Brixton,  aged  35,  Mr. 
Jamea  La  Mark,  second  son  of  William 
La  Mark,  esq. 

jiuy.  12.  At  Croydon,  aged  35,  Ro* 
bert  Stock  Roscow,  esq. 

SussBX. — Jume  30.  At  Hastings,  aged 
38,  Hannah,  wife  of  G.  W.  Asbboraham, 
esq.  onW  brother  of  the  Rct.  Sir  John 
Ashbnrnham,  Bart,  leaving  seren  chQdreB 
out  of  elersn. 

July  14.  At  Brirhton,  aged  78,  Cha- 
rity,  relict  of  Willkm  Woodhams,  esq. 
late  of  Lullington. 

July  80.  At  Newlands,  Esst  Grin- 
sted,  Mrs.  Hannah  Talbot,  dau.  of  John 
Stenning,  esq. 

July  31.  At  Mariborough-house, 
Worthing,  aged  41,  Marian,  wife  of  John 
Greatrex,  esq.  of  Titclifield-house,  R^* 
gent's-park. 

LaMy.  At  Frampost,  East  Grinsted, 
aged  76,  Jonathan,  son  of  the  late  Jona- 
than Worrell,  esq.  of  Juniper-hall,  Mie- 
kleham,  Surrey. 

Auy.  5.  At  Broadwater-house,  near 
Worthing,  Elinor,  widow  of  the  Rer. 
H.  L.  Walsh,  D.C.L.  of  Grimblethorpe- 
hsll,  Lincolndi.  and  dau.  of  the  late  Wil- 
liam Newoome,  Archbishop  of  Armagh. 

Aged  80,  Henrietta-Sarah,  relict  of 
Ewan  Law,  esq.  of  Horsted-place,  brother 
to  the  first  Lord  Ellenborough.  She  was 
the  eldest  dau.  of  the  Most  Rct.  William 
Markham,  Archbishop  of  York;  was  mar- 
ried in  1784,  and  left  a  widow  in  1889. 

jhty,  8.  At  Bognor,  aged  69,  Richard 
Mnggeridge,  esq. 

Warwick. — June  87.  At  Leaming- 
ton, Michael  Head,  esq.  Post  Capt.  R.N. 
He  waa  a  son  of  Dr.  Head,  a  physician  of 
Halifax,  Nova  Scotia.  His  first  commis* 
sionbore  date  Dee.  10,  1804;  he  com- 
manded the  boats  of  the  Earyalus  at  the 
the  destruction  of  a  Danish  gun-boat  and 
two  transporU  in  June  1808.  He  was 
made  Commander  Dec.  6, 1809;  appoint- 
ed to  the  Curlew  brig  June  87,  1819 ; 
captured  the  Americto  letter  of  mnqvo 


1844.] 


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335 


YolRiite,  of  14  guns,  1813  ;  and  attained 
post  rank  Jnne  7,  1814. 

Juljf  6.  At  Cord  worth -lodge,  aged  64, 
Mrs.  Noble. 

July  10.  At  the  residence  of  his  son- 
in-law,  Hampton-cottage,  Leamington, 
aged  65,  John  Martin,  esq.  late  of  the 
Third  Dragoon  Guards,  in  which  regiment 
he  serred  48  years.  He  was  on  senrice  in 
Ireland  during  the  rebellion,  and  was  also 
present  in  nine  different  engagements  da- 
ring the  Peninsular  war. 

July  17.  Aged  17,  Clement  George, 
eldest  son  of  the  Rer.  George  Winstanley, 
rector  of  Glenfield,  and  nephew  of  Cle- 
ment Winstanley,  esq.  of  Braunston- 
hoose,  Leicestersh. 

Jufy  S3.  Aged  70,  Thomas  Chattock, 
of  SoUhuU. 

July  27.  At  the  house  of  her  son,  at 
Eathorpe,  aged  83,  Mary,  widow  of 
Edward  Welchman,  esq.  of  Kineton. 

Aug,  13.  At  Leamington  Spa,  aged 
44,  Lady  Anne-Elizabeth  Scott,  eldest 
sister  of  the  Duke  of  Buccleuch.  She 
was  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Duke  of  Buc- 
cleuch, having  been  born  on  the  17th 
Aug.  1796.  Her  remains  were  removed 
for  interment  to  the  family  mausoleum  at 
Bowhill,  Selkirksh.  N.  B. 

Wtvn.^July  21.  Aged  77,  Elizabeth, 
lelict  of  Richard  Matthews,  esq.  late  of 
East  Kennett. 

j^.  8.  Aged  S8,  Elizabeth-AmndeU, 
youngest  dau.  of  J.  Peniston,  esq.  of  De 
Vauz-place,  the  Close,  Salisbury. 

Aug,  9.  At  Westrop  House,  High- 
worth,  Charlotte,  dau.  of  the  late  William 
Slater,  esq.  of  Nassau,  New  Providence. 

WoRCBBTBK.— Tii/y  29*  Aged  29, 
Bichard  Henry  Hooton,  esq.  of  Worces- 
ter, only  son  of  the  late  Richard  Hooton, 
esq.  late  of  Leamington. 

Aug,  10.  At  the  College,  Worcester, 
aged  21,  Marianne,  wife  of  the  Rev.  John 
Ryle  Wood,  Canon  of  Worcester.  She 
had  given  birth  to  a  son  on  the  3d. 

York,— July  24.  At  Sheffield,  aged  69, 
Joshua  Hawksley,  esq. 

Jufy  25.  At  Leeds,  Catherine-Matilda, 
dau.  of  the  late  T.  Robinson,  esq.  of 
Rocky  hiU. 

Aug.  2.  At  Hull,  aged  9,  Augusta- 
Caroline,  only  dau.  of  Capt.  C.  R.  Shuck- 
burgh,  staff  officer  of  pensioners  of  the 
North  and  East  Ridings,  Yorkshire. 

WAhW.^Jufy  30.  At  Cardiff,  aged  56, 
Jonathan  HoweUs,  esq.  Capt.  and  Adju- 
tant of  the  Royal  Glamorgan  Militia,  and 
formerly  of  the  77th  (Picton*s)  Regt.,  in 
irbieh  he  served  during  the  whole  Penin- 
sular was. 

Lately,  At  Pembroke,  aged  88,  Mrs. 
Hodges,  relict  of  George  R.  Hodges,  esq. 

Aug,    4*    At   VcUnidrey   Carmarthen- 


shire, aged  65,  Edward  Jones,  esq.  the 
Clerk  of  the  Peace  for  that  county. 

Scotland. — July  13.  At  St.  Bds* 
weirs  Bank,  Rozburghsh.  Montgomerie, 
wife  of  Lieut.-Col.  Sir  Henry  Fairfax, 
Bart.  She  was  the  third  dau.  of  Thomas 
Williamson,  esq.,  married  in  1830,  and 
has  left  an  infant  family. 

Aug,  8.  Anne,  widow  of  David  Ross, 
esq.  of  Milncraig. 

Aug,  9.  At  Broadley,  Naimsh.  aged  23, 
John  Mackintosh  Grant,  esq.  M.B., 
second  son  of  the  Rev.  James  Grant, 
Minister  of  Nairn. 

Ireland. — May  10.  At  her  mother's 
residence,  in  Dublin,  Lady  De  la  Beche, 
wife  of  Sir  H.  De  la  Beche,  one  of  the 
Commissioners  of  Health. 

May  18.  At  Higginstown  Cottage, 
near  Ballvshannon,  in  his  75th  year.  Con 
0*Donnell,  esq.  formerly  of  Larkfield, 
county  of  Leitrim,  the  lineal  descendant 
of  Hugh  Roe  O'Donnell,  Earl  of  Tyrcon- 
nell,  the  Chieftain  of  former  days  so  re- 
nowned in  Ulster;  he  was  unde  of  the 
present  O' Conor  Don,  M.P. 

July  17.  At  the  house  of  her  son, 
the  Rev.  Walter  Oke  Croggon,  Dublin, 
aged  90,  Anne,  relict  of  Mr.  Thomas 
Croggon,  of  Walworth,  formerly  of  Pen- 
ryn,  Cornwall. 

Lately,  Mrs.  Delacour,  of  Cork.  She 
died  of  hydrophobia,  caused  by  a  favourite 
dog.  The  death  of  her  daughter  (Miss 
Delacour)  appeared  in  our  Obituary  for 
April,  from  the  same  cause. 

At  Sandy  Cove,  John  Madden,  esq.  of 
Hilton,  CO.  Monaghan,  late  Colonel  of  the 
Monaghan  militia. 

Aug,  1.  Mr.  Joseph  Martin  (brother 
to  the  late  member  for  the  borough  of 
Sligo)  and  his  wife  were  drowned  while 
crossing,  in  a  jaunting  car,  to  their  lodge 
on  an  island  at  the  mouth  of  the  river  that 
runs  into  the  bay  of  Sligo.  They  have 
left  five  young  children. 

East  Indibs. — May  15.  At  Nare- 
conda,  on  his  march  from  Secundrabad  to 
Kamptee,  aged  21,  Lieut.  James  Robert 
Campbell,  43d  Msdras  Nat.  Inf.,  second 
son  of  the  late  Sir  Duncan  Campbell,  Bart, 
of  Barcaldine,  Argylesh. 

May  17.  At  Andkree,  Lieut.  Wm.  H. 
Tanner,  42nd  Regt.  Madras  Army,  second 
son  of  Capt.  Tanner,  I.N.,  of  Exeter. 

May  20.  At  Bombay,  Lieut.  Sydney 
Lloyd  Horton,  14th  Light  Dragoons, 
eldest  son  oithe  late  Rear- Admiral  Horton. 

May  23.  At  Bangalore,  in  conse- 
quence of  a  fall  from  his  horse,  Arthur 
Vizard,  esq.  Comet  in  the  15th  Hussars. 

Lately.  At  Kerwenchee,  Bombay, 
George  Frederick  Thome,  esq.  of  Che  1 4th' 
N.I.,  third  son  of  Lieut. -Col.  Thome, 
K.H.,  ]«te  of  Both. 


334 


OaiTUAMT. 


[Sept. 


At  Serampore,  aged  70»  Mrs.  C.  Bie, 
the  oldest  Earopean  inhabitant  of  that 
settlement.  She  came  out  from  Europe 
at  the  age  of  IS,  was  married  to  Mr.  Bie, 
a  magistrate,  the  nephew  of  the  Goremor 
who  first  welcomed  the  missionaries  to 
Serampore,  when  the  Bengal  GrOTerament 
had  issued  orders  Ibr  tl^ir  instant  de« 
partwe,  and  sorrived  her  husband  more 
than  20  years. 

WssT  lNi>iit.-*t/Miy  18.  At  Nassau, 
New  ProTidence,  Bahamas,  aged  SS,  Mary 
Mannings,  wife  of  the  Rer.  John  Fletch- 
er, M.A.,  of  St.  Mary's  Hall,  Oxford, 
Head  Maater  of  the  King's  CoUege 
School,  Nassau,  and  eldest  dan.  of  tho 
Hon.  John  Campbell  Lacs,  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Bahamas. 

Jmi^  16.  At  Barbados,  aged  57, 
Benjamin  Walrond,  esq.  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  of  the  island,  a  Commis* 
sioner  of  the  Peace,  Seijeant-at-Arms  to 
the  Court  of  Chancery,  and  Grand 
Marshal  to  the  Exchequer  and  Common 
Pleas.  He  was  lineally  descended  from 
Col.  Humphrey  Walrond,  *<  The  ^lUtnt 
old  Ropaliit,^*  Governor  of  Barbados  in 
1660. 

ABmoAD.-^fl».  15.  Aged  98,  Richard 
Penny,  esq.  District  Surgeon  at  Port  Lin- 
coln, South  Australia.  He  was  a  natiTS  of 
Poole,  in  Dorsetshire,  aiTi?ed  in  the  colo- 
ny about  four  years  ago  as  surgeon  of  the 
**  Branken  Moor,'*  and  was  for  some  time 
editor  of  the  late  '*  Adelaide  Examiner.'* 

Jan.  20.  At  sea,  off  the  Canaries, 
Dorothea-Bfary ;  and  Ajfril  26,  at  Bath- 
urst,  Gambia,  Alice-Philippa-Mary ;  daus. 
of  the  RcT.  F.  Harrison  Rankin,  B.A., 
Chaplain  to  her  Majesty's  Possessions  on 
the  Gambia. 

Feb,  14.  In  New  England,  New  South 
Wales,  aged  48,  Henry  Ditmas,  esq. 

Feb,  15.  At  Sydney,  New  South 
Wales,  Isabella,  wife  of  Capt.  Frank 
Marsh,  80th  Regt. 

Jpril  96.  At  Valparaiso,  aged  34,  Ed- 
ward, son  of  Frederick  Hm,  esq.,  of 
Upper  Harley*st. 

LaMjf,  At  Bookham,  nesr  Yap,  New 
South  Wales,  aged  37,  Charles  Horatio 
NeUon  Matcham,  esq.  sixth  son  of  the 
late  George  Matcham,  esq.  of  Ashford 
Lodge,  Sussex. 

At  Patna,  aged  34,  Geo.  F.  Houlton, 
esq.  son  of  the  late  Col.  Houlton,  of  Par- 
leigh,  Somerset. 

At  sea,  a  lady  of  the  name  of  Sigmond, 
said  to  be  sister-in-law  of  Mr.  Mnnts, 
M.P.  She  left  London  by  the  Ocean 
steamer  for  Rotterdam,  and  proceeded  to 
her  cabin  while  the  passengers  were  at 
dinner,  locked  herself  in,  and  after  direst- 
ing  herself  <^  a  portion  of  her  dress, 
jumped  oTcrboard,  and  was  drowned,    A 


letter  was  left  on  the  cabin  table, 

ing  that  her  luggage  might  be  forwarded 

to  her  brother,  Mr.  Munts. 

At  Paris,  Madame  Thierry,  wilb  of  tiie 
historian  M.  Angustcn  Tliierry.  She  was 
dam.  of  the  Admiral  de  Qnerangal,  and 
married  M.  Thierry,  who  was  blind,  finom 
admiration  of  his  works,  and  an  ardent 
wish  to  soothe  the  sufferings  of  his  lifSe, 
and  lighten  his  darkness  with  the  perpe- 
tual presence  of  a  friend.  To  the  world 
of  literature  she  was  known  by  her  ro- 
manoe  Adelaide,  and  her  Sc^nee  dea 
Moenrs  aux  dix-huitiime  et  dix-neuTi^nM 
Slides.  She  was  attended  to  her  grave 
by  the  most  eminent  literary  men  in  the 
capital,  with  the  yeteran  Chateaubriand 
at  their  head. 

t/tt/y  1.  In  the  Island  of  Neria,  Job 
Ede,  esq.  of  Claytield  Lodge,  Soutfaamp- 
ton. 

Jutf  15.  At  Leopolds  Krow,  near 
Salsburg,  Austria,  in  the  thirteenth  year 
of  her  age,  Elisabeth  Chariotte  Olivia, 
youngest  ehild  of  J.  T.  Baumgartner,  esq. 
M.D.,  of  Godmanchester. 

July  16.  At  Winnsborough,  S.C.,  in 
his  80th  year,  the  Tenerable  Thomas  Parr, 
LL.D.,  formerly  professor  of  Isngnages  in 
the  South  Carolina  College,  and  we  be- 
lieve  of  late  treasurer  and  librarian  of  that 
institution. 

July  18.  At  Baden  Baden,  in  Ger- 
many, Fanny,  wife  of  Capt.  WiUhun 
O'Neill,  and  fifth  dau.  ef  the  late  Robert 
Lindesay,  esq.  of  Loughry,  co.  Tyrone. 

At  Vicensa,  aged  7,  John  Maitland ; 
and  on  the  99th,  at  Como,  aged  10, 
George  Alexander  Mordaunt,  only  sons 
of  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Lord  Thomas  Hay. 

Jufy  21.  At  Boulogne,  France,  Ann, 
second  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  John  Rennie, 
Vicar  of  Long  Itchington,  Warwickriiire. 

July  S4.  At  Naples,  Mary,  wife  of 
Thomas  Barrett  Lennard,  esq. 

July  ^S,  At  Oporto,  Elisabeth,  wife 
of  the  Rev.  Edward  Whiteley. 

July  97.  At  Spa,  aged  79,  Phifip 
Frederick  Tinne,  esq.  of  the  Hague. 

July  99.  In  his  1 8th  year,  Frederick 
Christtan,  youngest  son  of  the  late  C.  R. 
Hodson,  esq.  His  death  was  caused  by 
falling  from  a  precipice,  near  Cauterets, 
Hautes  Pyrenees. 

July  31.  At  Avranches,  Mary-Fran- 
ces,  wife  of  T.  G.  Gardiner,  esq.  of  the 
Bombay  Civil  Sendee,  and  youngest  dau. 
of  Sir  John  Peter  Grant  Rothiemurrikus. 

Auy.  1.  In  Paris,  of  typhus  fbver, 
caught  while  attending  the  hospitals, 
sged  99,  Arthur  Robert,  only  son  of 
R.  Blair,  esq.  of  Great  Russell-et.  Bed- 
ford-sq. 

Aug.  9.  At  Florence,  Csroline-Emily, 
wife  of  Capt.  Pakenham,  R.N.    She  was 


1844.] 


Obitvabt. 


335 


the  3d  daughter  of  the  late  Rear-Adm. 
Sir  Home  Popham,  was  married  in  1817i 
and  haa  left  issue  two  daughten  and  a 
son. 

jiug.  II.  At  St.  Petersburg,  the 
Grand-Dacbess  Alexandra  of  Russia,  third 
dau.  of  the  Emperor  of  Russia,  and  con- 
sort of  Prince  Frederick  of  Hesse.  She 
was  bom  June  34,  1835,  and  was  married 
on  the  22nd  of  January,  in  the  present 
year. 

Lately,  At  Rome,  the  wife  of  Prince 
Don  Frospero  Sciarra  Colonna,  bom 
Princess  Donna  Maria  Pignatelli  di  Mon- 
te Leone  in  Sicily.  This  distinguished 
lady  was  the  last  branch  of  the  eelebrated 
Cortes  family,  to  which  Ferdinand  Cortes, 
the  conqueror  of  Mexico,  belonged. 


At  Berlin,  aged  60,  Henr  Blum,  one  of 
the  most  prolific  of  German  dramatic 
writers.  His  works  for  the  stage  amount 
to  the  incredible  number  of  589 ;  inclnd- 
ing,  however,  many  translations.  But 
this  is  not  all,  nor  nearly  all ;  Herr  Blum 
was  also  a  composer,  his  vocal  and  instru- 
mental works  of  that  description  amount- 
ing  to  169,  including  some  comic  operas ; 
and  his  sprightly  part-songs  are  sure  to  be 
heard  wherever  a  party  of  Liedertafel 
singers  meet  together.  Then  he  executed 
many  of  the  scenic  decorations  for  the 
Berlin  theatres ;  was  first  comic  actor  at 
the  national  theatre  of  that  city,  from  1891 
to  1831 ;  and  haa  been  its  chief  manager 
since  1839. 


TABLE  OF  MORTALITY  IN  THE  METROPOLIS. 

(Including  the  District  of  Wandsworth  and  Clapham.) 
Vrom  the  Returns  itsued  by  the  Registrar  General, 
Deaths  RsGiSTEasD  from  July  27  to  August  17, 1844,  (4  weeks.) 

Under  15 2177 


Males         2018  )  oclaa 
Females     1928$'^'^ 


15  to  60 1161 

60  and  upwards        603 
Age  not  specified       5 


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AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  CORN,  August  90. 

Peas. 
t,    d. 
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PRICE  OF  HOPS,  Aug.  23. 
Sussex  Pockets,  5/.  18*.  to  6/.  8«.— Kent  Pockets,  6/.  Qe,  to  8/.  8f. 


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Hay,  3/.  10«.  to  5/.  Oe Straw,  1/.  6«.  to  W.  10«.— Clover,  4/.  10#.  to  6/.  6». 

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SheepandLamba   3^230    Pigs      295 


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Walls  Ends,  from  18f.  6d.  to  22i,  Od.  per  ton.   Other  sorts  from  15/.  9d,  to  22#.  Od, 
TALLOW,  per  cwt.— Town  Tallow,  43*.  Sd,      Yellow  Russia,  43#.  Od. 
'     CANDLES,  Is.  Od.  per  doz.    Moulds,  9s.  6d. 

PRICES  OF  SHARES. 

At  the  Ofiice  of  WOLFE,  Brothers,  Stock  and  Share  Brokers, 

23,  Change  Alley,  Cornhill. 

Birmingham  Canal,  167.— EUesmere  and  Chester,  65^. Grand  Junciion,  162, 

Kennet  and   Avon,  10|. Leeds  and  Liverpool,   640. Regenfs/25i, 

Rochdale,  62, London  Dock  Stock,  113. St.  Katharine's,  115. East 

and   West  India,  136.  —  London    and  Birmingham   Railwav,  230. Great 

Western,  62  pm.^— London  and  Southwestern,    87. Grand   Junction   Water. 

Works,  88. West  Middlesex,  125. Globe  Insurance,   140. Guardian, 

491. Hope,  7\. Chartered   Gas,  66^. Imperial   Gas,    85. Phoenix 

Gas,  38^.— London  and  Westminster  Bank,  27.*— Reversionary  Interest,  104. 

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GENTLEMAN^S  MAGAZINE- 

OCTOBER,  1844. 
By  SYLVANUS  URBAN,  Gent. 


CONTENTS.  '^" 

MiKOB  C0RRB6POMDBNCK Organ    of  St.   Luke's,   Old  Street^Lockhart'i 

Beroal  Diu— House  of  Peers  temp.  Hen.  VII. — Deseendants  of  Llojd  Bp. 
of  Woreester— Outward  Confessionali— Christ  crucified  on  a  Bush 338 

PRsacoTT's  History  of  thb  Conqubbt  or  Mixico • •••••  339 

Sedilia  in  Leominster  Church,  Herefordshire  (with  QUa) 360 

On  the  Feodality  of  the  Anglo-Saxons •  361 

Opening  of  the  Great  Barrow  at  Rougham,  Suffolk  {wUh  Cuit) 369 

Litery  Collan  and  Badges  distinguished — The  Battle  of  Bamet 375 

Edword  Earl  of  Salishury,  son  of  Richard  Duke  of  Gloucesteri  (afterwards  King 

Richard  III.)  and  his  companion  *'Lord  Richard.*' •     377 

The  Hospital  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen,  Winchester 379 

Sculptured  Shrine  found  at  York  (with  a  Plate) 380 

Druidical  Temple  near  Shap  {with  a  Plate) 381 

Terms  of  the  Grant  of  the  Arms  of  Ulster  to  BaroneU  '*  and  their  Deeeendante*'  381 

Epitaph  of  the  Black  Prince  at  Canterbury    • 383 

Epitaph  of  Cnrran  at  Clifton 384 

REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 
Mrs.  Houston's  Texas  and  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  385  ;  Erdeswick's  Survey  of 
Staffordshire,  and  Gamer's  Natural  History  of  the  County  of  Stafford,  388 ; 
Brockedon's  Italy,  390  ;  Miss  Strickland's  Lives  of  tlie  Queens  of  Engkmd, 
Vols.  VI.  and  VII.  398;  Barry  Cornwall's  English  Songs,  393  ;  Weale's 
Quarterly  Papers  on  Architecture,  395;  Lord  Leigh's  Walks  in  the 
Country,  397  ;  Fosberry*s  Hymns  and  Poems  for  the  Sick,  ib. ;  Ardico- 
logia.  Vol.  XXX.  Part.  II 398 

LITERARY   AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE. 

.  New  Publications,  40S  ;  Mechanics'  Institute,  Devonport 405 

PINE  ARTS.— Modem  Race-cups 40^ 

ARCHITECTURE.~Temporary  Church  at  Kentiah  Town  406 

ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES.— British  Archseological  Association 407 

HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE.— Proceedings    in    Parliament,   415;   Foreign 
News,  Domestic  Occurrences 

Promotions  and  Preferments,  420 ;  Births,  ih.  Marriages 421 

OBITUARY;  with  Memoirs  of  the  Earl  of  Mountnorris;  Viscount  Powers- 
court;  Lord  Keane;  Sir  Charles  Watson,  Bart.;  Vice-Admiral  HoUis; 
Major.Gen.  Edward  Scott ;  Rear-Adm.  Galwey  ;  Joshua  Scholefield,  Esq. 
M.P.;  John  Dalton,  D.C.L. ;  James  Mitchell,  LL.D. ;  Simon  Ansley 
O'FerralL  Esq. ;  Andrew  Geddes,  A.R.A. :  Rev.  Thomas  Gillespie,  L.L.D. ; 
Rer.  H.  F.  Cary,  M.  A. ;  Mrs.  Rachel  Wilson 425—437 

Clbrot'Dkceased 437 

Draths,  arranged  in  Counties 439 

R^tmr-General's  Returns  of  Mortality  in  the  Metropolis— Marketo— Prices 
of  Shares,  447;  Meteorological  Diary— Stocks .,,,   448 

EmheUiahed  with  a  View  of  a  Druidical  Trmplb    near   Sbap  ;  and  with  aa 
Engraving  of  Scuxfturbd  Fiourb9  on  a  Shrinr  found  at  Yoek. 


338 


MINOR  CORRESPONDENCE. 


Amongit  the  Organs  mentioned  in 
onr  last  Magazine  was  that  at  St. 
Luke*8,  Old  Street,  which  has  lately  un- 
dergone yery  considerable  additions  and 
improtements,  so  as  to  place  it  among 
the  first  in  London.  We  are  now  in- 
formed by  the  Rev.  Benj.  C.  Sangar, 
M.A.  Curate  and  Evening  Lecturer  of 
St.  Luke's,  that  the  money  which  was  re- 
quired for  this  purpose  was  noi  raised 
by  the  sale  of  tickets,  (for  not  one  was 
sold,)  but  by  the  voluntary  contributions 
of  the.  parishioners  and  freeholders — va- 
rying from  901.  to  5/. 

Mr.  JohK  Imoram  Lockhart,  editor 
of  the  translation  of  the  Memoirs  of  Bemal 
Diaz  dfil  CastiUo,  has  iiddressed  to  us  a 
letter  explaining  that  the  slight  variation 
of  the  number  of  chapters  in  his  transla> 
tion  from  those  in  the  original  Spanish 
edition  of  1633,  has  been  occasioned  by 
the  erroneous  numeration  of  one  of  the 
chapters  in  thp  latter.  Mr.  Lockhart's 
division  is  therefore  only  a  proper  cor- 
rection of  the  original.  He  also  oifers 
some  notes  explaining  why  he  has  called 
the  cannon  presented  to  the  Emperor, 
Charles  Y.  a  silver  cannon,  instead  of 

Sold,  silver,  and  copper,  as  it  certainly  is 
escribed  in  the  passage  pointed  out  by 
our  reviewer.  (After  idl,  we  suggest  that 
it  was  a  brass  cannon,  inlaid  with  gold  and 
silver  ornaments.)    Also  why   he  sup- 

Sressed  some  passages  of  the  original 
panish,  as  redundant  and  superflnous ; 
and  why  he  followed  Torqnemada  instead 
of  the  author  he  was  translating,  Bemal 
Diax,  in  calling  the  Emperor  Montezuma, 
Moteeuiuma  and  not  Monte9uma,  as 
Diaz  constantly  styles  him.  All  our 
reviewer  hafe  observed  is  substantially 
correct,  accordiog  to  Mr.  IiOckhart*s  own 
showing. 

In  "  Coningsby'*  we  are  told,  that 
**  when  Henry  the  Seventh  called  his  first 
Farliament  there  were  only  twentv-nine 
Temporal  Peers  to  be  found,  and  even 
some  of  them  took  their  seats  illegally,  for 
they  have  been  attainted.  Of  those 
twenty-nine  not  five  remain,  and  they, 
as  the  Howards  for  instance,  are  not 
Norman  nobility.*'  If  any  correspondents 
would  take  this  as  a  text,  **  One  who  is  no 
Antiquary,  but  a  Politician,*'  thinks  that 
his  discourse  would  be  generslly  interest- 
ing. 

In  the  pedigree  which  accompanies  a 
memoir  of  Bishops  Lloyd  and  Morgan, 
in  our  Volume  for  1826,  it  is  stated, 
thst  the  Rev.  William  Lloyd,  D.D.  son 
of  William  Bishop  of  Worcester,  died 
without  issue.  Mr.  En  w  a  no  Prothx- 
ROB,  Jan.  states  that  this  is  an  error. 
He  was  twict  mattMf  and  had  issue  by 


both  wives.  His  mala  deaoendanta  be* 
came  extinct  on  the  death  of  John  Lloyd 
his  son  ;  but  his  representative  in  the 
female  line  is  Thomas  Barwick  Lloyd 
Baker,  Esq.  now  of  Hardwick  Court 
near  Gloucester. 

W.  S.  is  indebted  to  the  article  in  July 
No.  on  the  subject  of  **  Confessionals 
still  existing  in  English  Churches,"  for 
the  suggestion  that  a  circular  aperture  in 
the  southern  chancel  wall  at  Coombes  in 
Sussex  (which  during  a  recent  visit  at- 
tracted Uie  notice  and  roused  the  conjec- 
tures of  himself  and  a  companion)  was  for- 
merly used  as  an  outward  confessional. 
The  aperture  is  close  by  the  smudl  door, 
formerly  called  the  priest's  entrance  to 
the  chancel.  The  village  itself,  consist- 
ing of  but  some  half  dozen  oottsgea, 
though  from  its  extreme  seclusion  but 
little  known,  is  one  of  the  most  pic- 
turesque and  romantically  situated  of 
our  English  hamlets.  The  church,  or 
rather  chapelry ,  is  said  to  have  been  a  de- 
pendency on  the  neighbouring  priory  of 
St.  Botolph's. 

In  the  same  No.  p.  77,  is  mentioned 
a  drawing  from  a  fresco  in  Godshill 
Church,  Isle  of  Wight,  exhibited  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries, 
June  SOth,  representing  Christ  crucified 
on  a  buih.  It  seems  to  me  that  by  this 
(as  it  appears)  unusual  peculiarity  of  de- 
tail, the  artist  may  have  desired  whilst 
representing  the  sacrifice  of  our  Saviour, 
the  antitvpe,  to  recall  to  the  mind  and 
place  before  '*  the  eyes  of  the  faithfoil*' 
the  prophetical  one  of  Isaac,  the  type. 
St.  Ambrose,  (lib.  I,  de  Abraham  Pa- 
triarchA,  c  8),  says,  *'  Et  ecce  aries  unua 
suspensns  comibus,  in  virgulto  5sAm. 
Aries  hie  comibus  hserens  et  snspensva 
inter  vepres  significat  Christum  in  cruce 
suspensum :  virgultum  illud,  patibulum 
cruds  est."  Procopios  says  of  the  ram, 
that  it  appears  **  instar  ascendentis  in  ar- 
bore  Sabec ;  nee  tantum  comibus  sed  pe« 
dibtts  etiam  anterioribns  iniquum  hnstsse 
in  illius  arboris  ramis,  eAque  figurA 
Christum  in  arboris  crucem  ascendentem, 
et  in  ei  pendentem,  reprsBsentasse.'* 
Athanasius,  (lib.  Qu«st.  ad  Antiochum, 
q.  98,)  says,  there  is  also  a  mystical 
meaning  in  the  name  of  the  bush,  subee, 
which  may  be  translated  retmstion,  ob- 
tained for  us  by  the  Cross  of  Christ. 
**  Plants  Sabee  est  veneranda  crux.  Joxta 
Hebrseos  videtar  Sabec  remissio  esse,  et 
conifofia/io." 

EaaATA.  P.  ao8.  Rear-Admiral  Wise  died 
on  the  39th  April. 

At  page  187,  line  9  of  the  note,  911  should 
be  411.  And  in  page  140,  line  34  of  the  note, 
after  the  word— <«  called  ^*-«f  Burkt,  should 
have  been  added. 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


History  of  the  Conquest  of  Mexico.    By  William  Prescott   3  Voh.    1843. 

THOUGH  all  histories  coincide  in  their  general  pnrpose  and  aim  of 
imparting  to  as  a  knowledge  of  some  portion  of  mankind,  during  a  certain 
period  of  their  existence;  yet,  in  effecting  this,  they  ma^  vary  their  style 
and  manner,  according  to  the  genius  of  the  writer,  the  particnlar  purpose  he 
has  to  accomplish,  or  the  nature  of  his  subject.  What  may  be  called  the 
general  style  of  historical  writing,  which  is  more  usually  adopted  than 
any  other,  is  when  the  writer,  enumerating  the  facts  that  occur,  separating 
what  is  essential  and  important  from  what  is  accidental  or  trivial,  then 
reasons  on  what  are  the  probable  causes  connected  with  them.  Thus 
history  becomes  philosophical,  drawing  general  inferences,  revealing  import« 
ant  truths,  and  obtaining  instruction  for  the  future  from  the  experience  of 
the  past.  In  this  manner  of  writing,  among  the  Greeks,  Thucydides  stands 
pre-eminent ;  and  Tacitus  among  the  Romans.  We  see  in  them  the  great ' 
masters  of  political  wisdom  -,  judging,  as  from  a  higher  survey  of  good  and 
evil,  of  wisdom  and  of  folly,  of  moral  strength  or  weakness  )  connecting 
causes  with  events,  tracing  back  important  results  unto  their  secret 
springs,  and  penetrating  into  those  remote  doctrines  of  the  future 
which  an  ordinary  eye  would  fail  to  reach.  In  the  same  class,  in  later 
times,  we  should  reckon  Davila,  and  Hume,  and  Gibbon,  and  others  of  no 
inferior  claims  in  our  own  times.  At  one  of  the  two  extremes  of  this 
division,  lies  that  species  of  history  which  in  the  hands  of  Machiavel  be- 
came purely  philosophical  or  didactic ;  in  which  the  facts  are  used  as 
mere  illustrations  of  the  principles,  and  comprehensive  conclusions  are 
drawn  from  certain  events,  and  the  consequences  that  have  resulted  from 
them,  and  in  which  the  clear  and  comprehensive  mind  of  the  philosopher 
fixes  its  attention  solely  on  the  general  results  for  the  just  deduction  of 
inferences.  At  the  opposite  extreme  is  seen  what  may  be  called  the  pic- 
turesque narrative,  in  wliich  class  the  old  chroniclers  for  the  most  part 
will  be  found,  and  such  histories  as  that  of  Froissart  and  Monstrelet  j 
which  style  has  lately  been  revived  under  the  eloquent  pen  of  Mr. 
Baraute,  in  his  '*  History  of  the  Dukes  of  Burgundy,*'  and  of  Chateau- 
briand in  his  *'  Genius  of  Christianity.'*  Here,  dismissing  all  fine  and  subtle 
analysis  of  motives,  or  remote  deduction  of  consequences,  or  logical  infer- 
ences, or  penetrating  criticism,  or  ingenious  and  probable  theories,  the 
writer  simplv  mentions  his  field  of  action,  produces  his  characters,  and 
gives  life  to  bis  picture,  by  the  skilfulness  of  his  grouping,  the  animation 
of  his  action,  and  the  variety  and  splendour  of  his  colouring.  With  such 
a  pencil  as  this,  the  Greek  historian  already  alluded  to  has  described  that 
memorable  expedition  of  the  Athenian  army  to  the  conquest  of  Sicily, 
from  its  commencement,  when  it  left  the  harbour  of  the  Pirsus,  like  a 
triumphal  processioni  and  the  inspiring  sounds  and  melody  of  mnsical  in^ 


340  Frescott's  History  of  ike  Conquf^t  of  Mtxito.  [Oct. 

9triiinept8>  aud  the  bcDedlctions  of  llie  people,  till  iU  Anal  termittataott  in 
defeat  and  iu  dUtress,  its  ruined  armies  iu  the  prisons  of  Syracuse,  and 
its  beart-broken  commandera  seeking  in  death  a  refuge  from  a  fate  atill  BM»re 
terrible  :  or  as  may  be  read  in  later  times*  in  thoi«  terrific  pictures  wlacli 
the  pencil  of  Tacitus  has  drawn,  of  an  age  of  political  wickedness  and  per* 
sooal  depravity,*-of  vicct  aud  misery,  and  degradation  in  every  shape  still 
increasing,  till,  as  ive  descend  atoiig  the  stream  of  history,  it  seems  akKMt 
to  leave  the  surface  of  the  earth  and  the  open  light  of  heaven,  and  to  siak 
into  low,  deep,  subterraneous  channels,  where  it  may  be  heard  sullenly 
aud  dismally  lieaving  amid  tlie  chasms  of  darkuess,«nd  dashing  in  low  and 
melaacholy  reverberations  against  the  hollow  caverns  in  which  it  has  sunk. 

It  is  in  this  class — in  the  province  of  picturesque  hbtory — ^that  the  preaeat 
author  will  take  his  place,  and  to  which  both  the  nature  of  his  solyect  and 
the  bent  of  his  genius  have  united  to  lead  him.  History  must  take  its 
hfie  and  local  colouring  from  its  subject,  aud  that  will  naturally  be  chosen 
by  a  writer  which  he  feels  congenial  to  him,  and  on  which  he  trusts  suc- 
cessfully to  exert  his  powers.  It  would  perhaps  be  impossible  in  modern 
times  to  point  at  a  subject  which  in  itself  would  form  a  more  splendid  and 
fascinating  historical  picture  than  the  one  before  us  :  it  possesses  nnity  of 
subject,  with  striking  contrasts  of  character,  novelty  of  description,  and 
variety  of  detail.  It  is  crowded  with  romantic  adventures  and  noble  ex- 
ploits ;  it  admits  the  most  picturesque  associations,  and  is  connected  witk 
the  most  engrossing  interests.  It  describes  countries  previously  unknown, 
it  makes  us  acquainted  with  a  people  living  under  a  form  of  social  inter- 
course and  political  regulation  not  before  observed  \  it  opens  a  new  and 
almost  boundless  landscape  beyond  the  distant  shores ;  it  describes  the 
most  astonishing  changes  of  fortune,  and  the  most  momentous  conse- 
quences proceeding  from  ^ery  trifling  causes  ;  and  lastly,  it  presents  to  us 
both  the  powers  of  the  mind  and  the  aflfections  and  natural  virtues  of  the 
heart  under  modifications  not  before  observed,  and  existing  in  circum-^ 
stances  that  were  not  known  to  exist  at  all.  Such  is  the  nature  of  the 
history  which  the  present  writer  has  selected  to  embellish  with  the  graces 
of  his  narrative,  as  well  as  to  illustrate  by  a  supply  of  richer  materials  than 
any  of  his  predecessors  could  command.* 

History  is  more  or  less  entertaining,  we  arc  apt  to  think,  as  it  is  more 
or  less  personal.  How,  for  instance,  the  foremost  associations  of  Grecian 
history  crowd  around  the  persons  of  a  few  favourite  heroes,  as  Miltiades 
or  Epaminondas  among  the  earlier,  and  most  prominently  around  Alexander 
it!  the  later  times ;  and  how  they  droop  and  fade  an4  fall  away  under  the 
reigns  of  his  successors,  not  because  the  matter  is  unimportant,  but  be- 
cause the  interest  is  no  longer  concentrated.  If  the  welfare  of  the  state  is 
added  to  this  personal  interest  in  the  principal  agent  or  character,  so  that 
history  and  biography  are  mingled  with  each  other,  nothing  more  is 
wanting  in  attraction  of  the  subject, — and  these  requisites  are  all  found 
in  the  present  narrative.  The  characters  present  many  noble  por- 
traits for  the  historical  painter ;  and  the  history  is  a  record  of  heroic 
deeds  on  the  one  hand,  in  defence  of  national  existence  ;  on  the  other,  in- 
.  ftigated  by  the  strongest  of  passions,  worldly  and  religionsi  that  the  mind 

^^— ^^-^^^W— ^— ■■      ■  ■  ■  ■  ■'  I  ■  !■■■■■■      M^  I  I         ■  I    I      ■■   ■^M^^^    ■   iini       a^Bifci    I 

*  See  in  the  Preface,  p.  v.  to  p.  viii.  an  acoonnt  of  the  new  materialt  which  Mr« 
tcMOott  poasoised,  both  from  Madrid  and  Mexico,  as  weU  a3  by  other  eourees,  public 
and  private.  These  most  important  materials  were  wanting  to  Robertson,  which  hive 
since  been  assembled  by  the  mdustry  of  Spanish  scholars. 


1644.]  Prestiotfii  Hiamy  of  the  ConquBit  of  MtsrUo,  A'H 

of  niMi  coiikil  Aid.  Here  was  tli€D  ah  adaptation  of  tnr^ti^  to^^id^V^^i^i^^' 
on  tlirmigii  long  and  complicated  difficulties;  evil  principled  adfd'gdcy^ 
iniiced»  and  contending  together  5  tilings  iinmoral,  andlo^and'bi^e^  Aii^in^ 
Witii  all  that  vias  virtuous,  and  ennobling,  and  praisewortliy;;  and  aH  thra 
displayed  in  the  most  attractive  field  of  all — the  fiefd  of  wAr  and  battle  ;' 
where  the  imperfect  tactics  and  rude  masses  of  the  barbarians  w^re  tOtiAS 
brovght  into  collision  ivith  the  science  and  iugenaity  of  the  mbst^'ciViTiKed 
nation  of  the  globe.  The  first  object  of  the  author  was  t^  coH^ct  afi  ilA 
authorities  to  which  he  could  gain  access,  and  which  w^re  at)klfi|0Mm  to'df 
Housed  by  his  predecessors  :  the  next  was  to  apfifeca'ate  their  ts^Tttel'td 
keep  a  watchfnl  eye  on  national  prejadices>  on  professional  in]!^e^;|dii 
party  views,  or  on  personal  habits  and  temperament. 


•'      ;i 


The  author  justly  observes.  ^  -      •    '.mil. 

"  The  anbTersion  of  a  great  empire  by  conquerors  ;  while  to  a  SpaQiani,,ac<;iMr 

a  handful  of  adventurers,  taken  with  all  tomed  to  the  undiluted  panegyric .(^SoHq^ 

its  strange  and  picturesque  accompani-  I  may  be  deemed  to  have  dealt  top  h.arcl(iy 

maitta,  has  the  air  of  romance  ratlier  with  them.    To  sueh  I  can  otilyaayjthirt^ 

than  of  sober  history ;  and  it  is  not  easy  while,  on  the  one  hand,  I  have  ttbt  ^m>U 

to  treat  such  a  theme  according  to  the  se-  tated  to  expose  in  their  strongest  oaloars 

Tere  rules  prescribed  by  historical  criti-  the  excesses  of  the  conquecoi^s  ; .  on  .  the 

cism.     But,  notwithstanding  the  scduc-  other,  I    have  given  tliem  the  benefit  of 

tions  of  the  subject,  I  have  conscientiously  such  mitigating  reflections  as  might  be 

eadeavoured    to    distinguish    fact    from  suggested  by  the  circumstances  anti  th4 

fiction,  and  to  establish  the  narrative  on  period  in  wliich  they  lived.     I  have  cil* 

as  broad  a  basis  as  possible  of  cootempo-  deavoured  not  only  to  present  a  pictune 

rary  evidence.      •        *        *      The  dis-  true  in  itself,  but  to  place  it  in  its  proper 

tance  of  the  present  age  from  the  period  light,  and  to  put  the  spectator  in  a  proper 

of  the  narrative  might  be  presumed  to  se-  point  of  view  for  seeing  it  to  the  best  ad* 

c«re  the  historian  from  undue  prejudice  vantage.     I  have  endeavoured)  at  the  ex* 

or  partiality.     Yet  to  the  American  and  pense  of  some  repetition,  to  surround,  hiifi 

the  £nglish  reader,  acknowledging  so  dif<  with  the  spirit  of  the  times,  and,  in  ,a 

ferent  a  moral  standard  from  that  of  the  word,  to  malie  him,  if  I  may  so  express 

sixteenth    century,   I    may  possibly  be  myself,  a  contemporary  of  the  sixteenth 

thaught  too  ittdulgeot  to  the  errors  of  the  century,**  &c. 

It  is  trne  that  the  same  period  of  history  and  the  same  events  have  beefi 
described  by  Robertson,  and  with  all  that  judgment,  grace^  and  e^eganq^ 
in  the  disposition  of  his  subject,  which  he  so  eminently  po8sessqd^:4nd 
which  often  supplied  the  place  of  deeper  investigation  and  a  wider  cir-; 
cumference  of  knowledge ;  but  the  History  of  the  Conquest  of  Mexico 
formed  only  one  part  of  Robertson's  more  comprehensive  plan  ^  and  was 
therefore  as  briefly  narrated  by  him  as  was  consistent  with  a  clear, ancf 
just  elucidation  of  the  subject.  The  present  writer  has  viewed  it  oix  .a 
larger  scale;  the  dimensions  of  his  canvass  are  more  extensive;  he  is 
enabled  to  enter  into  more  minnte  details,  and  to  give  a  more  elaborate 
finish  to  his  design.  Yet  it  is  the  very  extent  of  this  narrative  that  occa- 
sions the  difficulty  we  feel  in  conveying  our  impressions  of  it.  We  are 
embarrassed  by  the  copiousness  of  the  subject,  and  the  exuberant  richness 
of  the  successive  pictures,  and  the  variety  of  subjects  it  comprehends.  If 
we  take  single  specimens  from  different  pages  of  the  work,  they  are  but 
little  detached  fragments,  less  pleasing  as  detached/  from  the  general  body^ 
and  giving  little  insight,  and  but  partial  and  scattered  glimpses,  into  the 
general  structnre :  and,  if  we  were  to  attempt  an  abridgment  of  the  whole, 
it  'wooM  be  dryi  tedious,  and  uninteresting  in  its  altered  fovus.f 


•  Preface,  vol.  I.  p.  zii.  4,  ' 

t  La  methods  dss  abr^g^s  a  ^gal^ment  \n  incoavsnieoa.    £a  ^carUmt  lei  details 


343  Pres€0tt*8  HUtwy  of  At  Conquat  of  Mtxko.  [Oct. 

Even  the  iiret  yolume  alone  is  so  comprehensiye  in  its  view  as  to  afibrd 
at  once  a  description  of  the  natoral  features,  the  climate,  and  prodnctaoos 
of  the  country^  and  of  the  various  and  remote  migrations  of  the  people  ; 
a  history  of  their  government,  laws,  and  revenue ;  of  their  political  statC} 
their  military  institutions,  and  their  religions  belief  and  worship  \  of  the 
arts  of  tife,  and  the  degree  to  which  they  had  attained;  and  of  the  domeatic 
manners  and  habits  ;  as  well  as  of  the  discovery  of  the  country  by  its  fa* 
tore  conqueror.  One  chapter  is  devoted  to  a  summary  of  the  mTthology 
of  the  Mexicans ;  and  another  to  the  very  curious  subject  of  their  hiero- 
glyphics *  and  picture-writing,  connected  with  their  astronomy  and  chrono* 
fogy,  their  system  of  notation,  and  their  sacred  calendar :  and  the  first 
lNX>k  closes  with  a  view  of  the  nation  of  the  Tezcueant,  of  the  golden  age 
of  the  empire,  of  the  accomplished  princes  who  reigned  over  them,  and 
especially  of  their  enlightened  and  illustrious  prince,  Nezahualooyotl,  and 
his  successor  ',  men  truly  great,  whose  wise  and  generous  policy  extended 
through  nearly  half  a  century,  and  whose  names  are  identified  with  the 
most  fflorious  period  in  the  annals  of  the  Indian  races^f  Mr.  Prescott  has 
ako  given  us  a  valuable  essay  on  that  difficult  and  controverted  subject,  the 

intermediaires,  en  depouillent  les  faiti  de  leur  accesaoires,  elle  resierre  Panteiir  dans 
un  cercle  si  6troit,  qQ;il  y  est  comme  en  captiviU.  Sa  narration  devient  aride,  et  oette 
aridity  est  nne  bien  eaaentielle,  qu'on  ne  pent  racheter  qne  par  I'inter^t  qu'oa 
si^ipoae  qne  le  lecteur  prend  aux  mati^res  qn*on  traite  sommairement  ponr  m6iag«r 
son  tema." — p.  Pauw  lur  les  Americains,  toI.  i.  p.  282. 

*  In  this  branch  of  the  subject,  the  author  refers  to  Lord  Kingsborongh's  splendid 
work.  See  toI.  i.  p.  115.  The  work  is  sold  at  175/.  and  the  mechanical  execution  is 
perfect.  The  drift  of  Lord  Kingsborongh's  speculation  is,  to  establish  the  oolonixa* 
tion  of  Mexico  bj  the  Israelites  !  but  Mr.  Prescott  observes,  that  it  would  be  unjust* 
however,  not  to  admit  that  the  noble  author,  if  his  logic  is  not  always  convincing, 
shows  much  acuteness  in  detecting  analogies ;  that  he  displays  familiarity  with  his 
subject,  and  a  fund  of  erudition,  though  it  often  runs  to  waste  ;  that,  whatever  be  the 
defects  of  arrangement,  he  has  brousbt  together  a  most  rich  collection  of  unpublished 
materials  to  illustrate  the  Aztec,  and  in  a  wider  sense  American,  antiquities ;  and  that, 
by  this  munificent  undertiddng,  which  no  government,  probably,  would  have*  and  few 
individuals  could  haye,  executed,  he  has  entitled  himself  to  tlio  lasting  gratitude  of 
every  friend  of  science.  Mr.  Prescott  also  mentions  the  name  of  Antonio  Gama, 
whose  works  should  be  consulted  by  every  student  of  Mexican  antiquities.  P.  117. 
The  Asleos  when  compared  to  the  Egyptians,  were  at  the  bottom  of  tiie  seale  In  hiero- 
glyphios,  and  yet  it  has  been  observed  that  the  Egyptians  had  made  no  advance  in 
their  alphabet  for  twenty-two  hundred  years.     See  vol.  i.  p.  94. 

f  Wno  would  not  think  that  the  scene  of  the  following  story  was  not  at  the  Couzt 
of  Persia  or  of  Delhi,  so  Asiatic  its  character  ?  who  would  have  placed  it  in  a  bor^ 
iarout  city,  in  an  unknown  country,  and  among  a  twage  people  ? 

"  The  elder  son  of  the  King  (Nexahualptlli),  heir  to  the  crown,  a  prince  of  great 
promise,  entered  into  a  poetical  correspondence  with  one  of  his  father's  concubinety 
the  lady  ^f  Tulot  a  woman  of  humble  origiD,  but  of  uncommon  endowments.  She 
wrote  verses  with  ease,  and  could  discuss  graver  matters  with  the  king  and  his  minis« 
ters.  She  maintained  a  separate  establishment,  where  she  lived  in  state,  and  acquired 
by  her  beauty  and  accomplishments  great  ascendancy  over  her  royal  lover.  With 
this  favourite  the  prince  carried  on  a  correspondence  in  verse, — whether  of  an  amor- 
ous nature  does  not  appear.  At  all  events,  the  offence  was  capital.  It  was  submitted 
to  the  regular  tribunsJ,  who  pronounced  sentence  of  death  on  the  unfortunate  youth  i 
and  the  king,  steeling  his  heart  against  all  entreaties,  and  the  voice  of  nature,  suffered 
the  cruel  judgment  to  be  carried  mto  execution.  We  might,  in  this  case,  soroeot  the 
influence  of  baser  passions  on  his  mind,  but  it  was  not  a  solitary  instanoe  of  his  la* 
exorable  justice  towards  those  most  near  to  him.  He  had  the  stem  virtue  of  an  an* 
cient  Roman,  destitute  of  the  softer  graces  which  make  virtue  attractive.  When  the 
sentence  was  carried  into  effect,  he  shut  himself  u^  in  his  palace  for  many  weeks,  and 
commanded  the  doors  and  windows  of  his  son's  residence  to  be  walled  up,  that  It  might 
never  again  bo  ossupied."  VoL  I.  p.  las. 


1844.]  Fieaeott'B  HkHnry  of  the  Confued  of  Meitieo.  343 

origin  of  Mexican  civilization^  as  connected  with  the  magnificent  rains  and 
architectural  antiquities  of  Central  America,  discovered  by  Mr.  Stephens^ 
and  with  the  remains  of  Palinque  and  Uxmnl,  described  by  Dupaix  and 
Waldeck.  Much  light  has  been  thrown  into  the  darkness  of  this  myste- 
rions  subject,  though  a  much  greater  portion  is  still  hidden  under  an  im- 
penetrable veil,  which  no  distinction  of  races,  or  analysis  of  language,  or 
history  of  rites  and  customs,  can  remove. 

Let  ns  begin  our  extracts  with  one  where  our  author  introduces  us  to 
the  country  and  the  people  where  the  scene  of  his  history  is  to  be  laid  :-«• 
''  Midway  across  the  continent,  yet  somewhat  nearer  to  the  Pacific  than 
the  Atlantic,  at  an  elevation  of  nearly  seven  thousand  five  hundred  feet 
above  the  level  of  the  sea,  is  the  celebrated  valley  of  Mexico.  It  is  of  an 
oval  form,  about  sixty-seven  leagues  in  circumference,  encompassed  by 
lofty  ramparts  of  porphyritic  rock,  and  the  soil  white  with  the  incrustation 
of  Bidts.  Five  lakes  are  spread  over  its  surface,  occupying  about  a  filth 
of  its  extent.  Here  stood  the  cities  of  Mexico  and  Tezcuco,  the  capitals 
of  the  two  states  of  Anahnac ;  whose  history,  **  says  the  author,**  with  that 
of  the  mysterious  races  that  preceded  them,  exhibits  some  of  the  nearest 
^preaches  to  civilization  to  be  met  with  anciently  on  the  American  con- 
tinent.** Of  these  races  the  most  conspicuous  were  the  Toltecs,  who 
entered  the  territory  of  Anahuac  probably  about  the  close  of  the  seventh 
century,  but  from  what  region  they  came  is  uncertain.  Remains  of  the 
extensive  buildings  which  formed  their  ancient  capital  of  Tula,  were  still 
remaining  at  the  time  of  the  Conquest.  After  a  period  of  about  four  cen- 
turies, this  people,  who  had  extended  their  sway  over  the  remotest  borders 
of  Anahuac,  disappeared  from  the  land  as  silently  and  mysteriously  as 
they  had  entered  it.  A  few  perhaps  lingered  behind,  but  the  greater 
number  of  them  spread  over  the  region  of  Central  America,  and  the  tra- 
veller now  speculates  on  the  ruins  of  Mitla  and  Palenque  as  possibly  the 
work  of  this  extraordinary  people,  since  whose  existence  so  many  ages 
have  rolled  away.  As  the  author  says,  their  shadowy  history  reminds 
ns  of  those  primitive  races,  who  preceded  the  ancient  Egyptians  in  the 
march  of  civilization.  These  were  succeeded  by  a  numerous  and  rude 
tribe  called  the  Chichemecs,  and  after  them  came  the  Aztecs,  or  Mexicans, 
and  the  Acolhuans,  better  known  as  Tezcucans,  from  the  name  of  their 
capital^  on  the  eastern  border  of  the  Mexican  lake.  The  Mexicans  came 
also  from  the  remote  re^ons  of  the  north,  and  arrived  on  the  borders  of 
Anahuac  towards  the  beginning  of  the  thirteenth  century,  and  after 
wandering  in  an  unsettled  state  for  some  period,  probably  hidted  on  the 
southern  borders  of  that  lake  in  1325.  They  laid  the  foundation  of  their 
capital  by  sinking  poles  into  the  shallows  of  the  lake,  and  they  named  it 
after  their  war-god,  Mcxitll.  Such  were  the  humble  beginnings  of  the 
Venice  of  the  Western  World.  Soon  after  this,  a  league  was  formed  be- 
tween Mexico,  Tezcuco,  and  the  neighbouring  kingdom  of  Tiacopani  so 
remarkable,  as  to  be  said  to  have  no  parallel  in  history  3  they  agreed  to 
support  each  other  in  war,  and  that  in  the  distribution  of  the  spoil  one- 
fifth  should  be  assigned  to  Tlacopan,  and  the  remainder  divided  between 
the  other  powers.  Success  crowned  the  warlike  adventures  of  the  confe- 
racy  3  and  by  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century,  under  the  reign  of  the 
first  Montezuma,  the  dominion  spread  down  to  the  borders  of  the  Oalf  of 
Mexico.  The  throne  was  filled  by  a  succession  of  able  monarchs :  no 
state  was  able  to  meet  the  accumulated  strength  of  the  confederates ;  year 
after  year  their  armies  returned  home  laden  with  the  spoils  of  conquered 


344  Prescott*s  HiMoiy  of  ihe  ConquiMi  of  Mexico.  [Oct. 

cities,  and  with  throngs  of  devoted  captives.  At  the  begraning  of  tkenx- 
tecnth  century,  just  before  the  arrival  of  the  Spaniards,  the  Axtec  domi* 
nion  reached  across  the  continent,  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Paci6c,  and 
they  penetrated  even  into  the  farthest  corners  of  Guatemala  and  Nicaragua. 
The  history  of  the  Aztecs  is  said  to  present  some  striking  resemblance  to 
that  of  the  Romans  in  the  early  stages  of  their  histor)' ;  particularly  in  the 
policy  of  associating  themselves  in  wars>  with  other  states,  as  principals.* 

Such  is  a  brief  outline  of  the  state  of  Mexico,  as  seen  in  its  infant 
cradle.  We  then  proceed  with  the  author  to  view  it  in  its  political  and 
civil  regulations,  in  the  law  of  succession  to  the  crown,  in  the  order  of  no- 
bility, in  the  judicial  system,  and  military  institutions.  The  government 
was  an  elective  monarchy  ;  there  was  a  distinct  class  of  nobles,  with  large 
landed  possessions  and  political  power.  The  judges  were  independent  of 
the  crown,  and  held  their  offices  for  life.  The  rites  of  marriage  were  ce* 
lebrated  with  religious  reverence,  and  divorces  could  with  difficulty  be  ob- 
tained. Slavery  was  sanctioned  under  various  forms  ;  but,  under  all,  of  a 
mild  character,  aud  no  one  in  Mexico  could  be  born  to  slavery.  I1ie 
taxation  was,  something  after  the  spirit  of  our  feudal  institutions,  in  money 
payment  or  in  personal  service.  At  first  light,  this  grew  so  burdensome, 
probablv  from  the  increasing  luxury  of  the  monarch  and  the  capital,  as  to 
breed  dissatisfaction  through  the  land,  and  prepare  the  way  for  its  con<- 
qucst  by  the  Spaniards.  Their  armies  were  divided  into  bodies  of  eight 
thousand  each,  and  these,  again,  into  companies  of  three  or  four  hnndrod. 
Their  knowledge  of  the  tactics  of  war  was  not  scientific,  but  their  disci- 
pline was  exact  and  severe.  Their  object  was  not  to  kill  their  enemies,  but 
take  them  prisoners  ;  and  they  never  scalped  like  the  other  North  American 
tribes.  They  had  military  hospitals,  and  surgeons  were  placed  over  them, 
*'  who  were  so  far  better  (says  the  old  chronicler  Torquemada)t  than 
those  in  Europe,  that  they  did  not  protract  the  cure  in  order  to  increase 
their  pay."  In  short,  the  degree  of  civilization  which  this  nngular  and 
interesting  people  had  attained,  has  been  compared  to  that  enjoyed  by  onr 
Saxon  ancestors  nnder  Alfred  ;  but  in  the  nature  of  that  civilization,  as 
well  as  in  other  things  connected  with  religion,  and  with  their  social 
relations,  they  bear  a  closer  resemblance  to  the  Egyptians. 

llie  institution,  however,  which  had  the  greatest  influence  in  forming 
the  national  character,  and  without  maturing  which,  no  just  or  accurate 
account  could  be  given  of  the  people,  was  that  of  human  sacrifices.  They 
were  adopted  by  the  Aztecs  in  the  fourteenth  century,  aud  consequently 
had  been  in  use  for  two  centuries  before  the  Conquest.  Rare  at  first,  they 
became  more  frequent  as  the  empire  extended,  till  every  festival  was 
closed  with  them.  The  form  of  sacrifice  was  rigorously  prescribed  in  the 
Aztec  ritual ;  women  were  sometimes  selected,  and  children,  and  some- 
times infants.  In  the  case  of  a  captive,  the  body  was  delivered  to  the 
warrior  who  had  taken  him  in  battle,  and  by  him,  after  being  dressed, 
was  served  up  in  an  entertainment  to  his  friends.  **  This  was  not  the 
coarse  repast  of  famished  cannibals,  but  a  banquet  teeming  with  delicious 


»  See  MachiavelU,  Discorai  eopra  T.  Litio,  lib.  «.  cap.  4.  The  early  hiitory  of 
Mexico  ii  best  ^ined  from  the  Historia  Antiqaa  of  Vcytia,  pablishcd  in  1836.  See 
BQ  inter«Bting  account  of  him  and  his  labonra  in  a  note,  vol.  I.  p.  20. 

t  Torqnemada  and  Clavi^ro  are  the  authorities  for  this  part  of  the  history,  the  last 
of  which  is  a  work  of  great  merit,  the  avowed  object  of  which  was  to  vindicate  his 
^untrymenfrom  the  misrepresentations  of  Robertson,  Raynal,  and  De  Panw:  and,  as 
regards  the  last  two,  he  was  perfectly  saccessful. 
1 


1844.] 


FM0Otf 8  Aiif #fy  of  ihe  Cfim§nm  of  UeMo. 


345 


befemg^  lad  Mieate  rands,  prqMitd  with  art,  and  attended  by  both 
■azM,  who  cQodaeted  thenaelvea  with  all  the  decornin  of  dviii^d  life  ;** 
thna  bringing  great  refinemeot  and  the  extreme  of  barbarism  in  close 
•ad  corions  contact  with  each  other.  Hnman  sacrifices  were  practised 
by  the  Egyptians,  b^  the  Greeks,  and  by  the  Romans ;  bat  never  to  any 
eaetent  eompared  with  that  of  Anahnac.  The  amoont  of  rictims  would 
•tagger  all  belief  ;*  but  acaroely  any  author  pretends  to  estimate  the  yearly 
sacnfice  at  less  than  20,000,  and  some  carry  it  as  high  as  50,000.  At 
the  dedication  of  the  great  temple  in  I486  the  prisoners,  who  had  been  re^ 
served,  were  drawn  from  all  quarters  to  the  capital.  The  procession 
reached  two  miles  in  length;  the  ceremony  lasted  several  days,  and 
seventy  thonsand  captives  are  said  to  have  perished.  It  was  customary 
to  preserve  the  skulls  of  the  sacrificed.  The  companions  of  CortM 
counted  136,000  in  one  of  these  edifices. 

•  The  great  object  of  war  was  as  much  to  gather  victims  as  to  extend 
empire.  An  enemy  was  never  slain  in  battle  if  he  could  be  taken  alive  j 
and  to  this  circumstance  the  Spaniards  repeatedly  owed  their  preserva- 
tion. Montezuma  said  that  the  republic  of  Tlascala  was  maintained  in 
her  independence,  ''  that  she  might  furnish  victims  for  his  gods  !** 
Familiarity  with  these  horrid  rites  rendered  the  character  of  the  Aztecs 
cmely  sanguinary,  and  superstitious.  The  character  of  the  whole  nation 
wore  a  gloomy,  melancholy  aspect ;  the  power  of  the  priesthood  of  course 
became  unboundedt  and  a  blind  fanaticism  spread  over  the  whole  nation. 
The  cannibalism  of  the  nation,  the  most  detestable  feature  of  the  whole, 
however,  was  not,  as  the  author  observesy  such  in  the  coarsest  acceptation 
of  the  term  5  they  fed  on  human  flesh,  not  to  gratify  a  brutal  appetite,  but 
in  obedience  to  their  religion.  Their  repasts  were  made  of  the  victims 
oflbred  in  sacrifice,  and  of  them  alone.  This  loathsome  and  detestable 
crime  seems  to  stand  as  it  were  apart  from  other  parts  of  their  character. 
It  did  not  so  much  seem  to  arise  out  of  any  natural  ferocity  as  to  beget  it. 
The  whole  was  the  ofiispring  of  some  strange,  wicked,'  and  abominable 
•nperstttion. 

Tsntvm  nligio  potuit  snadere  wlomm. 


n  In  this  ststs  of  thingi,"  sayi  Mr. 
Frsioofct*  "  it  wu  beneScently  ordered  by 
Providence  that  the  Und  should  be  de- 
livered over  to  another  race,  who  would 
reiette  it  fVom  the  bmtish  aaperatitions 
that  dailv  extended  wider  and  wider,  with 
extent  of  empire.  The  debasing  institu- 
tions of  the  Axteca  fiimiih  the  best 
apology  for  their  oonquest.    It  is  true. 


the  conquerors  brought  along  with  them 
the  Inquisition.t  But  they  also  brought 
Christianitj,  whose  benign  radiance  wonld 
still  annrive,  when  the  fierce  flames  of 
ftnaticism  should  be  extinguished ;  dis- 
pelling those  dark  forms  of  horror  which 
had  so  long  brooded  over  the  fhir  regions 
of  Anahuac" 


*  That  eeoentrie  bat  ingenious  writer  Pavw,  has  a  chapter  on  Anthropophages,  in 
Us  RMierdies  nr  les  Americsins,  vol.  I.  p.  907.  The  milder  Peruvians  it  appears 
obIj  opened  a  vein  in  their  victim,  and  let  the  blood  flow  over  their  bread  or  flour- 
cake.  The  last  Mexican  rictim,  it  appears,  was  Mr.  Charleville,  who,  in  1719,  havinc 
lost  his  way  while  hunting,  was  seised  by  the  Atacapas,  taken  to  the  village,  killed 
by  biowa  with  a  dub,  and  eaten  at  a  general  foast.  Vide  p.  219.  But  the  Mexicans 
idd  OArMten  flsah  was  very  bitter.   Vide  voL  ill.  p.  148. 

t  An  institutioa  which  yearly  destroyed  its  thousands,  by  a  death  more  painfel 
than  the  Aateo  saerifices  1  whidi  armed  the  hand  of  brother  against  brother,  and, 
totting  Ha  bumiac  seal  npon  the  lip,  did  more  to  stay  the  march  of  improvement  than 
«ny  other  selMns  over  devised  by  human  cunning,  p.  7^. 

Gbnt.  Mao,  Vol.  XXll.  2  Y 


346 


Presoott*8  Hisiori/  of  the  ConquHt  of 


[Oct 


The  author  oommenceB  his  second  book  with  ao  account  of  the  odlonial 
poticy  of  Spain  under  Charles  the  F1fth»  with  the  discovery  and  conquest 
of  Coba  by  Velasquez^  and  by  Cordova's  expedition  to  Yucatan,  and  his 
traffic  with  the  Indians  >  events  which  led  to  the  fitting  out  of  a  new 
armada  for  further  discovery  and  fresh  conquests,  and  with  the  command 
of  it  being  given  to  Cort^,  of  whom  the  foUowing  portrait  is  drawn. 

"  Cortfs  at  this  time  wai  thirty- three,  made  those  who  approached  him  fed  they 

or,  perhaps,  tiiirtj-four  years  of  age.     In  most  ohey,  and  which  infased  something 

stature  he  was  rather  above  the  middle  like  awe  into  the  attadiment  of  his  moat 

site.     His  complexion  was  pale ;  and  his  devoted  followers.     Snch  a  oombination» 

large  dark   eye  gave  an  expression    of  in  which  love  was  tempered  by  antho- 

gravity  to  his  eonntenance,  not  to  have  lity,  was  the  one  probably  best  cakii- 

been  expected  in  one  of  his  cheerfol  tem-  lated  to  in^ire  devotion  in  the  rough  and 

perament.      His  iignre  was  slender,  at  tuibolent  spirits  among  whom  his  \ot  was 

feast  untU  later  life  ;  bat  his  chest  was  to  be  cast.    The  character  of  Cort^  seems 

deep,  his  shonlders  broad,  his  frame  mnscu-  to  have  undergone   some   change  with 

lar  and  well  proportioned.     It  presented  diange  of  drcumstances,   or,  to  speak 

the  union  of  agility  and  vigour,  which  more  oorrecthr,  the  new  scenes  in  whi^ 

qualiiied  him  to  excel  in  fendng,  horse-  he  was  placed  called  forth  qualities  which 

manship,  and  the  other  generous  exercises  before  lay  dormant  in  his  bosom.    Iliero 

of  chivalrv.     In  his  diet  he  was  temperate,  are  some  hardy  natures  that  require  the 

cardessofwhat  he  ate,  and  drinking  little;  heats  of  excited  action  to  unfold  their 

while  to  toil  and  privation  he  seemed  per-  energies ;  like  the  plante,  which,  dosed 

fectly  indifferent.     His  dress,  for  he  did  to  the  mUd  influence  of  a  temperate  lati- 

not  disdain  the  impression  produced  by  tude,  come  to  their  full  growth  and  give 

such  adventitious  aids,  was  such  as  to  set  forth  their  fruits  only  in  the  burning 


off  his  handsome  person  to  advantege; 
ndther  gaudy  nor  striking,  but  rich.  He 
wore  few  ornaments,  and  usudly  the 
same ;  but  those  were  of  great  price. 
His    manners,    frank    and   soldier-like, 


atmosphere  of  the  tropics. — Such  is  the 
portrait  left  to  us  by  his  contemporarien 
of  this  remarkable  man ;  the  instrument 
selected  by  Providence  to  soatter  terror 
among  the  barbarian  monarchs  of  the 


concealed  a  most  cool  and  calculating    Western  world,  and  lay  their  empires  in 
spirit.     With  his  gayest  humour  there     the  dust." 
mingled  a  settled  air  of  resolution,  which 

The  strength  of  the  armament  which  Cortes  led  to  the  conquest  of  the 
New  World  was  as  follows  : 


"  Landing  on  the  Cape,  and  muster* 
ing  his  forces,  Cort^  found  that  they 
amounted  to  one  hundred  and  ten  mari- 
ners, five  hundred  and  fifty-three  soldiers, 
includiog  thirty-two  crossbow-men  and 
thirteen  arquebusiers,  besides  two  hundred 
Indians  of  the  island,  and  a  few  Indian 
women  for  menial  offices.  He  was  pro- 
vided with  ten  heavy  guns,  four  lighter 
pieces  called  falconets,  and  with  a  good 
supply  of  ammunition.  He  had  besides 
sixteen  horses.  They  were  not  easily  pro- 
cured, for  the  difficulty  of  transporting 
them  across  the  ocean  in  the  flimsy  craft 
of  that  day  made  thtm  rare  and  incredibly 
dear  in  the  islands.  But  Cortes  right- 
fully estimated  the  imporUnce  of  cavalry, 
however  small  in  number,  both  for  their 
actual  service  in  the  fidd  and  for  striking 
terror  into  the  savages.  With  so  pdtry  a 
force  did  he  enter  on  a  conquest,  which 
even  his  stout  heart  must  have  shrunk 
from  attempting  with  such  means,  bad  he 
but  foreseen  half  its  real  difficulties. 
Before  embarking  Cortdg  addressed  his 


soldiers  in  a  short  but  animated  harangue. 
He  told  them  they  were  about  to  enter  on 
a  noble  enterprise,  one  that  would  make 
thdr  name  famous  to  after  ages.  He  waa 
leading  them  to  countries  more  vast  and 
opulent  than  any  yet  visited  by  Europeans. 
*  1  hold  out  to  you  a  glorious  prise,*  con- 
tinued the  orator,  *  but  it  is  to  be  won  by 
incessant  toil.  Great  things  are  achieved 
only  by  great  exertions,  and  glory  was 
never  the  reward  of  sloth.  If  I  have 
laboured  hard  and  staked  my  dl  on  this 
underteking,  it  is  for  the  love  of  that  re- 
nown which  is  the  noblest  recompense  of 
man.  But  if  any  among  you  covet  riches 
more,  be  but  true  to  me,  as  I  will  be  true 
to  you,  and  to  the  occasion,  and  I  will 
make  you  musters  of  such  as  our  coun- 
trymen have  never  dreamed  of!  You 
are  few  in  number,  but  strong  in  reso- 
lution ;  and,  if  this  does  not  falter,  doubt 
not  but  that  the  Almighty,  who  has  never 
deserted  the  Spaniard  in  his  contest  with 
the  infidel,  will  shield  you,  though  en- 
compassed by  a  cloud  of  enemies ;  for 


1844.]  Prcscott's  Hisiorif  of  the  Conquest  of  Mexico. 


347 


yoar  cause  is  b/im/  eaUMe,  and  you  are  to 
fight  under  the  banner  of  the  Cross.  Go 
forward  then/  he  concluded, '  with  alacrity 
and  confidence,  and  carry  to  a  glorious 
issue  the  work  so  auspiciously  begun.' 
Hie  rough  eloquence  of  the  general,  touch- 
ing the  YariouB  chords  of  ambition,  avarice, 
and  religiona  zeal,  sent  a  thrill  through 
the  bosoms  of  his  martial  audience,  and, 
reoeiring  it  with  acclamations,  they  seemed 
eager  to  press  forward  under  a  diief  who 
was  to  lead  them  not  so  much  to  battle  as 
to  triumph/' 

¥  •  •  • 

**The  first  objectof  Cortes  was  to  reclaim 
the  natives  from  their  gross  idolatry,  and 
to  substitute  a  purer  form  of  worship.  In 
accomplishing  this  he  was  prepared  to  use 
force,  if  milder  measures  should  be  In- 
effectual. There  was  nothing  which  the 
Spanish  government  had  more  earnestly 
at  heart  than  the  conversion  of  the  Indians. 
It  forms  the  constant  burden  of  their  in- 
structions, and  gave  to  the  military  ex- 
peditions in  this  western  hemisphere  some- 
what of  the  air  of  a  crusade.  The  cavalier 
who  embarked  in  them  entered  fully  into 
these  chivalrous  and  devotional  feelings. 
No  doubt  was  entertained  of  the  efficacy 
of  conversion,  however  sudden  might  be 
the  change,  or  however  violent  the  means. 
The  sword  was  a  good  argument  when  the 
tongue  failed;  and  the  spread  of  Ma- 
hometanism  had  shewn  that  seeds  sown 
by  the  hand  of  violence,  far  from  perish- 
ing in  the  ground,  would  spring  up  and 
bear  fruit  to  after  time.  If  this  were  so 
in  a  bad  cause,  how  much  more  would  it 
be  true  in  a  good  one!  The  Spanish 
cavalier  felt  he  bad  a  high  mission  to  ac- 
complish as  a  soldier  of  the  Cross.  How- 
ever unauthorised  or  unrighteous  the  war 
into  which  he  had  entered  may  seem  to 
ns,  to  him  it  was  a  holy  war.  He  was  in 
arms  against  the  infidel.  Not  to  care  for 
the  soul  of  his  benighted  enemy  was  to  put 
his  own  into  jeopardy.  The  conversion 
of  a  single  soul  might  cover  a  multitude 
of  sins.  It  was  not  for  morals  that  he 
was  concerned,  but  for  the  faith.  This, 
though  understood  in  its  most  literal  and 
limited  sense,  comprehended  the  whole 
scheme  of  Christian  morality.  Whoever 
died  in  the  feith,  however  immoral  had 
been  his  life,  might  be  said  to  die  in  the 
Lord.  Such  was  the  creed  of  Uie  Cas- 
tilian  knight  of  that  day,  as  imbibed  from 
the  preachings  of  the  pulpit,  from  cloisters 
and  collets  at  home,  from  monks  and 
missionaries  abroad,  from  all  save  one,* 
whose  devotion,  kindled  at  a  purer  source, 
was  not,  alas !  permitted  to  send  forth  its 


radiance  far  into  the  thick  gloom  by  which 
he  was  encompassed.  No  one  partook 
more  fully  of  the  feelings  above  described 
that  Heman  Cortes.  He  was,  in  truth , 
the  very  mirror  of  the  times  in  which  he 
Uved,  i^ecting  its  motley  characteristics, 
its  speculative  devotion,  and  practical 
licence, — but  with  an  intensity  all  hia 
own.  He  was  greatly  scandalized  at  the 
ezhibition  of  the  idolatrous  practices  of 
the  people  of  Cozumel,  though  untainted, 
as  it  would  seem,  with  human  sacrifices. 
He  endeavoured  to  persuade  them  to  em- 
brace a  better  faith  through  the  agency  of 
two  ecclesiastics  who  attended  the  ex- 
pedition,— ^the  licentiate  Juan  Diaz,  and 
father  Bartolom^  de  Olmedo.  The  latter 
of  these  godly  men  afforded  the  rare  ex- 
ample— ^rare  in  any  age— of  the  union  of 
fervent  zeal  with  charity,  while  he  beauti- 
fully illustrated  in  his  own  conduct  the 
precepts  which  he  taught.  He  remained 
with  the  army  through  the  whole  expe- 
dition, and  by  his  wise  and  benevolent 
counsels  was  often  enabled  to  mitigate 
the  cruelties  of  the  conquerors,  and  to 
turn  aside  the  edge  of  the  sword  from  the 
unfortunate  natives.  These  two  mis- 
sionaries vainly  laboured  to  persuade 
the  people  of  Cozumel  to  renounce  their 
abominations,  and  to  allow  the  Indian 
idols,  in  which  the  Christians  recognised 
the  true  lineaments  of  Satan,  to  be  thrown 
down  and  demolished.  The  simple  natives, 
filled  with  horror  at  the  proposed  pro- 
fanation, exclaimed  that  those  were  the 
gods  who  sent  them  the  sunshine  and  the 
storm,  and  should  any  violence  be  offered 
they  would  be  sure  to  avenge  it  bv  sending 
their  lightnings  on  the  heads  of  its  per- 
petrators. Cort6s  was  probably  not  much 
of  a  polemic.  At  all  events  he  preferred 
on  the  present  occasion  action  to  argu- 
ment, and  thought  that  the  best  way  to 
convince  the  Indiana  of  their  error  was 
to  prove  the  falsehood  of  the  prediction. 
He  accordingly,  without  further  ceremonj, 
caused  the  venerated  images  to  be  rolled 
down  the  stairs  of  the  great  temple,  amidst 
the  groans  and  lamentations  of  tne  natives. 
An  altar  was  hastily  constructed,  an  image 
of  the  Virgin  and  child  placed  over  it,  and 
mass  was  performed  by  father  Olmedo  and 
his  reverend  companion  for  the  first  time 
within  the  walls  of  a  temple  in  New 
Spain.  The  patient  ministers  tried  once 
more  to  pour  the  light  of  the  gospel 
into  the  benighted  understandings  of  the 
islanders,  and  to  expound  the  mysteries  of 
the  Catholic  faith.  The  Indian  inter- 
preter must  have  afforded  rather  a  dubioua 
channel    for  the  transmission  of   such 


*  The  Biihop  Lu  CaiM« 


348  Presoott's  Hiaoiy  of  the  Conquer  of  Maneo.  [Oct. 


abitmse  doctrines*    But  theT  at  length  poteaee  of  deities  that  ooiUd  not 

foand  favour  with  their  saditors»  who,  their  own  shrines  from  violationy  now 

whether  oyenwed  by  the  bold  bearing  of  consented  to  embraoe  Christianity."* 
the  inyadersy  or  convinced  of  the  un- 

VVe  next  meet  with  the  arrival  of  the  Spaniah  forces  at  Tabasco,  the 
first  and  desperate  conflict  with  the  Indians,  the  terror  inspired  by  the 
war-whoop,  the  Tictory,  and  the  conyersion  of  the  natives.  We  then  first 
enter  the  presence  of  Montezuma,  hear  the  mysterious  prophecy  which 
foretold  the  arrival  of  the  Stycas,  listen  to  the  portentous  omen»  and  witness 
the  melancholy  f(»ebodings  and  vain  propitiations  of  the  dismayed  and 
afflicted  monarch ;  bat  the  sight  of  the  gold  which  he  presented  only 
sharpened  the  cupidity  of  the  invaders.  The  army  is  again  on  its  march, 
and  already  there  lies  at  its  feet,  like  a  victim  aressed  for  sacrifice,  the 
beautiful  valley  of  Cempoalla* 

"  They  now  came  in  view  of  very  dif«  they  bivouacked  in  an  wpn.  meadow, 

ferent  scenery— wide  rolling  plains  covered  where  they  were  well  sapplied  with  |iio» 

with  a  rich  carpet  of  verdure,  and  over-  visions  by  their  new  friends.    They  left 

shadowed  by  groves  of  cocoas  and  feathery  the  stream  on  the  following  morning,  and, 

palms,  among  whose  tall  slender  stems  strikingnortherly  across  the  oonatry.osma 

were  seen  deer  and  various  wild  animals  upon  a  wide  expanse  of  luzoriant  plaina 

irith  which  the   Spaniards  were   unac-  and  woodknd,  glowing  in  all  the  splsodoor 

quainted.     Some  of  the  horsemen  gave  of  tropical  vegetation.    The  brandiea  of 

chase  to  the  deer,  and  wounded  but  did  the  statdy  treea  were  gaily  festooned  with 

not  succeed  in  killing  them.    They  saw,  clustering  vines  of  the  dark  pvrpla  grape, 

also,  pheasants  and  other  birds,  among  variegated  oonvolvali,  and  other  flowanng 

them  the  wild  turkey,  the  pride  of  the  parasites  of  the  most  brilliant  dyes.    The 

American  forest,  wmeh   the   Spaniards  undergrowth  of  prickly  aloe,  matted  with 

described  as  a  species  of  peacock.    On  wild-drop  andhoneysnokls,  made  in  many 

their   route  they  passed  through  some  pbuses  an  almost  impervious  thicket.  Amid 

deserted  villages  in  which  were  Indian  this  wilderness  of  sweet  smelling  bods  and 

temples,  where  they  found  censers  and  blossoms  fluttered  numerous  birds  of  Uie 

other  sacred  utensils,  and  manuscripts  of  parrot  tribe,  and  douda  of  butteifliea, 

the  agmt  fibre,  containing  the  picture-  whose  gaudy  colours,  nowhere  so  gorgeous 

vrriting,  in  which,  probably,  their  religions  u  in  the  iinrra  celisiift,  rivalled  those  vi 

ceremonies  were  recorded,     lliey  now  the  vegetable  creation ;  while  birds  of  ex* 

beheld,  also,  the  hideous  raectade  with  quisite  song,  the  scsrlet  cardinal  and  the 

which  they  became  afterwards  familiar,  of  marvelloua  mocking  bird,  that  eompre* 

the  mutilated  corpses  of  victims  who  had  heads  in  its  own  notes  tlM  whole  muale 

been  sacrificed  to  the  accursed  deities  of  the  of  a  forest,  filled  the  air  with  delkdons 
land.  The  Spaniards  turned  with  loathing  melody.  The  hearta  of  the  stem  eon* 
and  indignation  from  a  display  of  butchery  querors  were  not  very  sensible  to  the 
which  formed  so  dismal  a  contrast  to  the  beauties  of  natve.  Bnt  tho  magioal 
fair  scenes  of  nature  by  which  they  were  charms  of  the  scenery  drew  forth  na» 
surrounded.  They  held  their  course  dong  bounded  expressions  of  ddight,  and  aa 
the  banks  of  the  river,  towards  its  source,  they  wandered  through  this  *  terrsstlal 
when  they  were  met  by  twelve  Indians,  paimdise,'  aa  they  called  it,  they  fondly 
sent  by  the  cacique  of  CempoaUa  to  shew  oompared  it  to  the  faireat  raguma  of  their 
them  ue  way  to  hia  residence.    At  night    own  sunny  land.     As  they  approaehad 

*  In  the  cement  of  one  of  the  houses  he  was  amased  by  the  eight  of  a  crast  of 
atone  and  lime,  about  10  palms  high.  It  was  the  emblem  of  the  god  of  rain.  Its 
appearance  suggested  the  wildest  ooigeetures,  not  merely  to  the  unlettered  soldier,  but 
subsequently  to  the  European  schdar,  who  speculated  on  the  character  of  the  raees 
that  had  introdnced  there  the  sacred  symbol  of  Christianity.  But  no  such  inferenca, 
as  we  shall  see  hereafter,  eould  be  warranted.  Yet  it  muat  be  regarded  as  a  cHiioua 
fact,  that  the  cross  should  have  been  venerated  as  the  object  of  religious  worship  both 
In  the  new  world  snd  in  the  old,  where  the  light  of  Cbristiaotty  had  never  risen. 
Coiumd  is  now  an  uniahabited  island,  covered  with  impenetrable  forests.  Mr. 
Preacott  refers  to  Mr.  Stephens's  Travels  in  Yucatan,  voL  II.  c  SO,  for  ftarther 
reflections  on  the  existence  of  ths  crow  u  a  symbol  of  wondiip  among  the  islaaderk 


1844.]  Preaoott's  Htitfary  of  the  Caufitett  of  Metnco. 

the  IndiAB  dtj,  fhey  Mir  ibuidaiit  ngni 
of  evltivatioBy  in  the  trim  gtidene  md 
orchards  thet  Uned  both  lidei  of  the  roed. 
Thej  were  now  met  by  peftiet  of  the 
natbes  of  either  mx,  who  incfeased  in 
munbcn  witfa  ererr  st^  of  their  progieai* 
The  women,  as  wall  as  men,  mingled  fear* 
lesaly  among  the  soldiers,  bearing  bonchea 
and  wreathe  of  flowers  with  which  ihtj 
decorated  the  nech  of  the  genenl*s  diarger, 
and  hmig  a  diaplet  of  roees  about  his 
hebnet.  Flowors  were  the  delight  of  this 
people.  Thej  bestowed  mnch  care  in 
their  coltiTation,  in  which  thej  were 
well  aeconded  hj  a  climate  of  alternate 
heal  and  molstiire,  stimulating  the  aoil 
to  the  spontansons  pvodnetioB  of  ererj 
form  of  Tsgetsble  life.  The  same  re- 
fined taste,  as  we  shall  see,  prevailed 
among  the  warlike  Aitecs,  and  has  sor- 
^ved  the  degradation  of  the  nation  in 
their  descsndants  of  the  present  day. 
Hany  of  the  women  appeared,  from  their 
risher  drses  and  nnmerons  attendants,  to 
be  persons  of  rank.  They  were  clad  in 
robes  of  fine  cotton,  cnrioosly  cokmred, 
which  reached  from  the  neck,—- in  the 
inferior  orders  from  the  waist  to  the 
ankles.  The  men  wore  a  sort  of  mantle 
of  the  ssBM  material,  h  la  JVorisee,  in  the 


349 


Moorish  feshion,  over  the  shonlders,  and 
betta  or  sashes  abont  the  loins.  Both 
sexes  had  jewels  and  ornaments  of  gold 
ronnd  thdr  necks,  while  their  ears  and 
nostrils  were  perforated  with  riegs  of  the 
same  metsL  Just  before  readiing  the 
town,  aome  horsemen  who  had  rode  in 
adf  anoe,  returned  with  the  amasing  in* 
tcUigence,  '  that  they  had  been  neer 
enough  to  look  within  the  gates,  md 
found  the  houses  sli  plated  with  burnished 
sihrer  1'  On  entering  the  place  the  silver 
was  found  to  be  nothing  naore  than  a 
brilliant  coating  of  stucco,  with  which  the 
principal  bnih&ngs  were  covered  \  a  sir* 
cumstance  which  produced  much  mer* 
riment  among  the  aoldiers,  at  the  expense 
of  their  oedulous  comrsdn.  Such  ready 
cteduUty  is  a  proof  of  the  exalted  state 
of  their  imaginations,  whidi  wereprepered 
to  see  gold  and  sUver  in  every  olqect 
around  them.  The  edifices  of  the  better 
kind  were  of  stone  snd  lime,  or  bricka 
dried  in  the  sun ;  the  poorer  were  of  day 
and  earth.  All  were  thatched  with  palm 
leaves,  which,  though  a  flimsy  roof,  ap- 
parenUy,  for  audi  structures,  were  so 
nicdy  interwoven  as  to  form  a  very 
effectod  protection  againat  the  weather," 
&c. 


In  the  long  interval  tliat  sepnnites  this  from  the  next  quotatton,"— aftera 
series  of  victories,  peace  is  made  with  the  republic  of  Tlascala,  maidens  of 
the  highest  rank,  the  daughters  of  princes  and  caciques^  are  bestowed  on 
the  generals  and  leaders  of  the  army,  and  the  anny  leaves  Teasla  for  the 
dty  of  Cholnla.  Again  the  march  is  resnmed,  ascent  of  the  great  volcano 
is  made,  they  descend  into  tbe  plains  of  Mexico,  pass  the  great  canseway 
into  the  unresisting  dty,  and  are  received  in  tbe  very  heart  of  tbe  capital, 
Tbe  anthor  in  vivid  colours  describes  all  the  wonders  and  encbantments 
thai  awakened  their  cariosity  and  aroosed  their  avarice,  tbe  mnltitodinons 
population,  the  busv  trade  and  crowded  markets,  tbe  magmficent  buildings, 
and  the  imperial  palace  with  its  beautiful  gardens. 

blossoms.  Ten  Urge  tanks,  well  stocked 
with  fisb,  afforded  a  retreat  on  thdr  mar- 
gins to  vsrioos  tribes  of  water  fowl, 
whose  habits  were  so  carefully  consdted, 
that  some  of  these  ponds  were  of  sdt 
water,  as  that  which  they  most  loved  to 
firequent.  A  tessellsted  pavement  of  mar- 
ble inclosed  the  ample  basins,  which  were 
overhung  by  light  uid  fandfol  paviliona, 
that  admitted  the  perfumed  breeaes  of  the 
gardens,  and  offered  a  gratefol  shdter  to 
the  monarch  and  his  mistresses  in  the 
sdtry  heats  of  summer.*    Bat  the  most 


'*  Extensive  sardens  were  spread  out 
around  these  buildings,  filled  with  fragrant 
shrubs  and  flowers,  and  espedaUj  with 
medidnd  plants.  No  country  has  afforded 
more  numerous  spedes  of  these  plants 
than  New  Spdn,  and  their  virtues  were 
perfiMtly  understood  by  the  Aztecs,  with 
whom  medied  botany  may  be  sdd  to  have 
been  studied  as  a  sdence.  Amidst  this 
labyrinth  of  sweet-scented  groves  and 
shrubberies,  fountains  of  pure  water  might 
be  seen  throwing  up  thdr  sparkling  Jets, 
and  scsttering  refreshing  dtows  over  the 


*  It  was  an  extraordinary  delicacy  and  refinement  of  taste  in  Montesuma,  as  a 
landscape  gardener,  in  not  allowingynit/  trees  in  his  pleasure  grounds,  thinking  them 
unsdt^le  to  the  scenery.  This  was  far  beyond  the  refinement  of  Roman  luxaij,  even 
hi  the  days  of  Sdlust ;  snd  even  in  England  the  fig  and  the  mulberry  are  admitted 
Odr  bBBthren  of  loftier  statfon  and  more  huraxisnt  baaaty }  bat  the  taste  of 


SelS 


encsB  noaarch  was  lordy  oorvoeU^BiT. 


550 


Pre8Cott*8  Hidory  of  the  Conquest  of  Mexico. 


[Oct, 


lazarioiM  reddcDce  of  the  Attec  monarch 
at  that  season  was  the  royal  hill  of  Chapol- 
tepec,  a  spot  consecrated,  moreOTer,  by 
the  ashes  of  his  ancestors.  It  stood  in  a 
westerly  direction  from  the  capita,  and 
its  base  was,  in  his  day»  washed  by  the 
waters  of  the  Teicnco.  On  its  lofty  crest 
of  porphyritic  rock  there  now  stands 
flie  magnificent,  though  desolate,  castle, 
erected  by  the  young  Tioeroy  GalTcx,  at 
tibe  close  of  the  VJth  century.  The  Tiew 
ftrom  its  windows  is  one  of  the  finest  in 
the  earirons  of  Mexico.  The  landscape 
is  not  disfignred  here,  as  in  many  other 
quarters,  by  the  white  and  barren  patches 
so  ollSc&sive  to  the  sight ;  but  the  eye 
wanders  oter  an  unbroken  expanse  of 
meadows  and  cnltirated  fields,  wating 
with  rich  harrests  of  European  grain. 
M ontesuma's  gardens  stretched  for  miles 
around  the  base  of  the  hUl.  Two  statues 
of  that  monarch  and  his  father,  cut  in 
has  relief  in  the  porphjrry,  were  spared 
till  the  middle  of  the  last  century ;  and 
the  grounds  are  still  shaded  by  gigantic 
cypresses  more  than  fifty  feet  in  circum- 
ference, which  were  eenturies  old  at  the 
time  of  the  Conquest.*  The  place  is  now 
a  tangled  wilderness  of  wild  shrubs,  where 
the  mrrtle  mingles  its  dark  glossy  lesYcs 
with  the  red  bwries  and  delicate  foliage 
of  the  pepper  tree.  Surely  there  is  no 
spot  better  suited  to  awaken  meditation 
on  the  past ;  none  where  the  ttaveller,  as 
be  sits  under  these  stately  cypresses  grey 
with  the  moss  of  ages,  can  so  fitly  ponder 
on  the  sad  destinies  of  the  Indian  races, 
and  the  monarch  who  once  held  his  courtly 
rerels  under  the  shadow  of  their  branches. 
The  domestic  establishment  of  Montezuma 
was  on  the  same  scale  of  barbaric  splen- 
dour as  OTerything  else  about  him.  He 
could  boast  as  many  wires  as  are  found 
in  the  harem  of  an  eastern  sultan.  They 
were  lodged  in  their  own  apartments,  and 
provided  with  every  accommodation  ac- 
cording to  their  ideas  of  personal  comfort 
and  cleanliness.  They  passed  their  hours 
in  the  usual  feminine  employments  of 


weaving  and  embroidery,  especially  in 
the  gracefnl  feather  work,  for  which  such 
rtdi  materials  were  famished  by  the 
royal  aviaries.  They  conducted  them- 
selves with  strict  decorum,  under  the 
supervision  of  certain  aged  females,  who 
acted  in  the  respectable  character  of 
duennas  in  the  same  manner  as  in  the 
religious  houses  attached  to  the  UoemUit* 
The  palace  was  supplied  with  numerous 
baths,  andMontesuma  set  the  example 
in  his  own  person,  of  frequent  ablutions. 
He  bathed  at  least  once,  and  changed  his 
dress  four  times,  it  is  said,  every  day.  He 
never  put  on  the  same  apparel  a  second 
time,  but  gave  it  away  to  his  attendants. 
Queen  Elinbeth,  with  a  similar  taste  for 
costume,  showed  a  less  princely  spirit  in 
hoarding  her  discarded  suits.  Her  Ward- 
robe was  probably  somewhat  moro  costly 
than  that  of  the  Indian  emperor.  Be- 
sides his  numerous  female  retinue,  the  halls 
and  antichambers  were  filled  with  nobles 
in  constant  attendance  on  his  person,  who 
served  also  as  a  sort  of  body-guard. 
It  had  been  usual  for  plebeians  of  merit  to 
fill  certain  offices  in  the  palace.  But  the 
haughty  Montesuma  refused  to  be  waited 
upon  by  any  but  men  of  noble  birth.  They 
were  not  unfrequently  the  sons  of  the 
great  chiefs,  and  remained  as  hostages  in 
the  absence  of  their  fathers ;  thus  serving 
the  double  purpose  of  security  and  state. 
His  meals  the  emperor  took  alone.  The 
well-matted  fioor  of  a  large  saloon  was 
coTcred  with  hundreds  of  dishes.  Some- 
times Montezuma  himself,  but  more 
frequently  his  steward,  indicated  those 
which  he  preferred,  and  which  were  kept 
hot  by  means  of  chafing  dishes.  The 
royal  bill  of  fare  comprehended,  besides 
domestic  animals,  game  from  the  distant 
forests,  and  fish,  which  the  day  before 
was  swimming  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 
They  were  dressed  in  manifold  ways,  for 
the  Aztec  arthtes,  as  we  have  already  had 
occasion  to  notice,  had  penetrated  deep 
into  the  mysteries  of  culinary  science.f 
The  meats  were  served  by  the  attendant 


*  See  on  the  subject  of  these  most  interesting  trees,  considered  to  be  the  oldest,  as 
well  as  the  largest,  existing  on  the  face  of  the  earth.  Humboldt,  Tableau  de  la 
Nature.  Next  to  these  taxodiums,  in  size  and  age,  are  the  baobabs  of  western  Africa, 
and  the  dragon  tree  of  Teneriffe.  When  the  reader  in  these  volumes  meets  with  the 
words  cedar  and  cypress,  he  is  not  to  understand  the  cedar  of  Lebanon,  or  the 
evergreen  cypress  of  Italy,  but  the  white  cedar  of  the  American  swamps,  which  is  a 
tree  of  gigantic  size,  we  have  heard  the  largest  of  all  American  trees,  and  the  deciduous 
cppre»tt  or  taxodlum  distichum.  Mr.  Prescott*s  American  readers  would  not  be  so 
likely  to  mistakes  on  this  head  as  Europeans.  Which  of  the  American  nuiplei  he 
means  by  the  word  "sycamore,**  a  name  applied  to  an  European  tree,  we  do  not 
know. — RKv. 

t  Bernal  Diaz  has  given  us  a  few  items  of  the  royal  earte.  The  firet  eauree  U 
rather  a  etartlmg  one, — being  a  fricasste,  or  stew,  of  little  children.  **  Games  de 
muchachos  de  poca  edad  !*'  And  we  are  told,  "  at  the  great  Aztec  feasts^  the  flesh  of 
a  slave  elaborately  dreeted  formed  one  of  the  chief  ornaments  of  the  ban^uot*" 
Cannibaliim  in  the  guise  of  an  epicurean  tcieace ! 


1844.]  Pfeflcott*8  Hidory  of  the  Conquedi  of  Mexico. 


S51 


noblei,  who  then  resigned  the  office  of 
waiting   on   the   monarch    to   maidena 
selected   for    their  personal  grace   and 
beauty.    A  screen  of  richly  gilt  and  carved 
wood  was  drawn  around  1^,  so  as  to 
conceal  him  from  vulgar  eyes  during  the 
repast.     He  was  seated  on  a  cushion,  and 
the  dinner  was  served  on  a  low  tablci 
covered  with  a  delicate  cotton  cloth.  The 
dishes  were  of  the  finest  ware  of  Cholula. 
He  had  a  service  of  gold  whteh  was  re- 
served for  religious  celebrations.    Indeed 
it  would  scarcely  have  comported  with 
even  his  princely  revenues  to  have  used  it 
on    ordinary  occasions,  when  his    table 
equipage  was  not  allowed   to  appear   a 
second  time,  but  was  given  away  to  his 
attendants.      The  saloon  is   lighted  by 
torches  made  of  a  resinous  wood,  which 
sent  forth  a  sweet  odor  and,  probably,  not 
a  little  smoke,  as  they  burned.    At  his 
meal,  he  was  attended  by  five  or  six  of 
his  ancient  counsellors,  who  stood  at  a 
respectful  distance,  answering  his  ques- 
tions, and  occasionally  rejoiced  by  some 
of  the  viands  with  which  he  complimented 
them  from  his  table.    This    course   of 
solid  dishes  was  succeeded  by  another  of 
sweetmeats  and  pastry,  for    which   the 
Astec  cooks,  provided  with  the  important 
requisites  of  maixe-flour,  eggs,  and  the 
rich  sugar  of  the  aloe,  were  famous.   Two 
girls  were  occupied  at  the  further  end  of 
the    apartment,    during    dinner,  in  pre- 
paring fine  rolls  and  wafers,  with  which 
they  garnished  the  board  from  time  to 
time.    The  emperor  took  no  other  bever- 
age   than   the   chocolatl,  a   potation  of 
^ocolate,  flavored  with  vanilla  and  other 
spices,  and  so  prepared  as  to  be  reduced 
to  a  froth  of  the  consistency  of  honey, 
which  gradually  dissolved  in  the  mouth. 
This  beverage,  if  so  it  could  be  called, 
was  served  in  golden  goblets,  with  spoons 
of  the  same  metal  or  of  tortoise-shell 
finely  wrought.    The  emperor  was  ez- 
oeedingly  fond  of  it,  to  judge  from  the 
quantity, — no    less    than    fifty   jars    or 
pitchers  being  prepared  for  his  own  daily 
consumption.    Two  thousand  more  were 
allowed  for  that  of  his  household.    The 
general  arrangement  of  the  meal  seems 
to  have  been  not   very  unlike  that    of 
Europeans.    But  no    prince  in  Europe 
could  boast  a  dessert  which  could  com- 
pare with  that  of  the  Aztec  emperor :  for 
it  WAS  gathered  fresh  from  the  most  op- 
posite climes ;  and  his  bosrd  displayed  the 
products  of  his  own  temperate    region, 
and  the  luscious  fruits  of  the  tropics, 
plucked  the  day  previous,  from  the  green 
groves  of  the  tierra  ealiente,  and  trans- 
mitted with  the  speed  of  steam,  by  means 
of  couriers,  to  the  capital.     It  was  as  if 
some  kind  fairy  should  crown  our  banquets 
with  the  spicy  products  that  but  yesterday 


were  growing  in  a  sunny  isle  of  the  far- 
off  In^an  seas*  After  the  royal  appetite 
was  appeased,  water  was  handed  to  him 
by  the  lemale  attendants  in  a  silver  basin, 
in  the  same  manner  as  had  been  done 
before  commencing  his  meal;  for  the 
Aztecs  were  as  constant  in  their  ablutions, 
at  these  times,  as  any  nation  of  the  East. 
Pipes  were  then  brought,  made  of  a 
varnished  and  richly  gilt  wood,  from 
which  he  inhaled,  sometimes  through  the 
nose,  at  others  through  the  mouth,  the 
fumes  of  an  intoxicating  weed,  called 
tobacco,  (que  m  dize  tabaeo,)  mingled 
with  liquid-amber.  Wliile  this  soothing 
process  of  fumigation  was  going  on,  the 
emperor  enjoyed  the  exhibitions  of  his 
mountebanks  and  jugglers,  of  whom  a 
regular  corps  was  attached  to  the  palaoe. 
No  people,  not  even  those  of  China  or 
Hindostan,  surpassed  the  Aztecs  in  feats 
of  agility  and  legerdemain." 

**  Such  (says  our  author)  is  the  picture 
of  Montezuma's  domestic  establishment 
and  way  of  living,  as  delineated  by  the 
Conquerors,  and  ^eir  immediate  followers, 
who  had  the  best  means  of  information ; 
too  highly  coloured,  it   may  be,  by  the 
proneness    to    exaggerate,    which    was 
natural  to  those  who  first  witnessed  a 
spectacle  so  striking  to  the  imagination,, 
so  new  and  unexpected.    I  have  thought 
it  best  to  present  the  full  details,  tririal 
though  they  may  seem  to  the  reader,  as 
affording  a  curious  picture  of  manners,  so 
superior  in  point  of  refinement  to  those 
of   the  other  aboriginal  tribes   on  the 
North  American  continent.  Nor  are  they, 
in  fact,  so  trivial,  when  we  reflect,  that, 
in  these  details  of  private  life,  we  possess 
a  surer  measure  of  civilization,  than  in 
those  of  a  public    nature.    In  survey- 
ing them  we  are   strongly  reminded  of 
the    civilization   of   the   Easts   not    of 
that  higher,  intellectual  kind  which  be* 
longed  to  the  mora  polished  Arabs  and 
the  Persians,   but  that  semi-dvilizatioB- 
which  has  distinguished,  for  example,  the 
Tartar  races,  among  whom  art,  and  even 
science,  have  made,  indeed,  some  progress 
in  their  adaptation  to  material  wants  and 
sensual  gratification,  but  little  inrefennoe 
to  the  higher  and  more  ennobling  interests 
of  humanity.    It  is  characteristic  of  such 
a  people  to  find  a  puerile  pleasure  in  a 
dazzling  and  ostentatious  pageantry;  to 
mistake  show  for  substance,  vain  pomp 
for  power;  to  hedge  round  the  throne 
itself  with  a  barren  and  burdensome  cere- 
monial, the  counterfeit  of  real  majesty. 
Even  this,  however,  was  an  advance  in  re- 
finement, compared  with  the  rude  manners 
of  the  earlier  Aztecs.    The  change  may, 
doubtless,  be  referred  in  some  degree  to 
the  personal  influence  of  Montezuma.  In 
his  younger  days,  he  had  tempered  the 


352  PMoottV  JSbtoty  oj 

itrea  hablCi  of  the  ■oUier  wllih  the  milder 
nrofeeiloii  of  rriigioii.  In  later  life,  he 
Md  withdrawn  himaelf  still  more  from 
the  brutalitingoecapationa  of  war,  and  his 
manners  acqnired  a  refinement  tinctured, 
it  maj  be  added,  with  an  effeminaey  un- 
known to  hi*  martial  predeoeiion.  Hie 
eondition  of  tiie  empire,  too,  under  his 
reign,  wai  fiiTonrable  to  this  change.  The 
dinoemberment  of  the  Teicacan  kingdom, 
on  the  death  of  the  great  NeuhnalpiUi, 
had  left  the  Aatee  monarchy  without  a 
rival ;  and  it  soon  spread  its  colossal  arms 
OTOr  the  furthest  limits  of  Anahnac.  The 
aspiring  mind  of  Montesuma  roae  with 
the  acquisition  of  wealth  and  power ;  and 
he  displayed  the  consciousness  of  new 
importance  bj  the  assumption  of  unprece- 
dented state.  He  affected  a  reserre  un- 
known to  his  predecessors  ;  withdrew  his 
peraon  from  the  vulgar  eye,  and  fenced 
himself  round  with  an  elaborate  and 
oourtly  etiquette.  When  he  went  abroad, 
it  was  in  state,  on  some  public  occasion, 
nsnally  to  the  great  temple,  to  take  pait 
in  the  religions  serrices;  and,  as  he 
passed  along,  he  eiacted  from  his  people, 
as  we  have  seen,  the  homage  of  an  adula- 
tion worthy  of  an  Oriental  despot.  His 
haughty  demeanour  touched  the  pride  of 
his  more  potent  vassals,  particulany  those 
who,  at  a  distance,  felt  themsdves  nearly 
independent  of  his  authority.  His  ez- 
•ctions,  demanded  by  the  proftise  ex- 
penditure of  his  palace,  scattered  broad- 
oast  the  seeds  of  discontent ;  and,  whUe 
the  empire  seemed  towering  In  its  most 
palmy  and  prosperous  state,  the  canker 
had  eaten  deepest  into  its  heart"* 

*'On  the  way,  the  Spaniards  were 
struek,  in  the  same  manner  as  they  had 
been  on  entering  the  capital,  with  the 
appearance  of  the  inhabitants,  and  their 
great  superiority,  in  the  style  and  quality 
of  their  dress,  over  the  people  of  tiie 
krner  countries.  The  tllmatli,  or  cloak, 
thrown  over  the  shoulders,  and  tied 
round  the  neck,  made  of  cotton  of  dif- 
ferent decrees  of  fineness,  according  to 
the  eondition  of  the  wearer,  and  the 
ample  sadi  around  the  loins,  were  often 
wrouffht  in  rich  and  elegant  figures,  and 
edgedfwlth  a  deep  fringe  or  tassel.  As 
the   weather   was    now   growing   cool. 


OMfltftl 


[Oct 


mantles  of  fer  or  of  the  gorgeooi  featter- 
worfc  were  sometimes  suhatitnted.    Tiie 
Utter  combined  the  advantage  of  great 
warmth  with  beauty.    The  Mexicans  had 
also  the  art  of  spinning  a  fine  thread  of 
the  hair  of  the  rabbit  and  other  animals, 
which  they  wove  into  a  deHeate  web  that 
took  a  permanent  dye.    Tlie  women,  aa 
in  other  paits  of  the  country,  seeased  to 
go  about  asfreelyas  themen.    limy wote 
several  siciits  or  pettieoata  of  diftrsnt 
lengths,  with  highly  ornamented  boidera, 
and  sometimea  over  them  looee  flowing 
robea,  which  reached  to  the  ankles.  Tbeoe 
slso  were  made  of  cotton,  for  tte  wealthier 
classes,  of  a  fine  texture,  pietttty  em- 
broidered.   No  veils  were  worn  here,  as 
in  some  other  parte  of  Anahnac,  vriiere 
they  were  made  of  the  aloe  tiiread,  or  of 
the  light  web  of  hair  above  noticed.    Hie 
Astec  women  had  their  feees  exposed; 
and  their  dark  raven  trasses  floated  lux- 
uriantly over  their  shoulders,  revealing 
features,  which,  altiiough  of  a  dudcy  or 
rather  cinnamon  hue,  wera   not  uAre- 
quently  pleasing,  while  touched  with  the 
serious,    even   sad    expression,    eharae* 
teristic  of  the  national  physiognomy.    On 
drawing  near  to  the  tii&gnes,  or  great 
market,  the  Spaniards  were  astonished  at 
the  throng  of  people  pressing  towards  it, 
and,  on  entering  tiie  place,  their  surprise 
was  still  frirther  hdghteaed  by  the  sight 
of  the  multitudes  assembled  thm,  and  tlw 
dimensions  of  the  inclosura,   thrice  as 
large  as  the  celebrated  squara  of  Salamanca. 
Here  wera  met  tocether  traders  from  all 
parts,  with  the  products  snd  mannfectarss 
peculiar  to  their    countries;  the  gold- 
smiths of  Axcaposalco,  the  potten   and 
jewellen  of  Cholula,  tiie  paintera  of  Tea- 
euoo,  the  stone-cutten  ox  Ten^oean,  the 
huntera  of  XHotepec,  the  fishermen  of 
Cuitlahuae,  the  fruiteren  of  the  warm 
countries,  the  mat  and  ehair-maken  of 
Quauhtitlan,  and  the  florists  of  Xodii- 
milco, — all  busilv  engaged  In  recommend- 
ing their  respecnve  wares,  and  in  dmflbr- 
ing  with  purchaaen.    The  market-piaee 
was  surrounded  by  dera  porticoes,  and 
the  several   artidea  had  each    its  own 
quarter  allotted  to  it.    Hera  might  bo 
seen  cotton  piled  up  in  bales,  or  nwnu- 
feetured  into  dresses  and  articles  of  do- 


*  Hera  the  author  happily  quotes  the  Roman  historian.    "  Referra  in  tanto  rege 
t  Buperbam  mutationem  vestis,  et  desiderates  humi  iacentium  adnlationes."  lav. 


gir. 


[ist.  iz.  18.  The  ramarks  of  the  Roman  historian  in  raferance  to  Alexander,  after  he 
was  infected  with  the  mannen  of  Persia,  fit  equally  well  the  Astec  emperor.  Yet 
*'  Tonto  rage"  is  an  expression  hardly  adapted  to  the  Aztec  emperor.  We  have  often 
thought  (though  our  opinion,  as  far  as  we  know,  has  no  support  for  this)  that  Alex- 
ander's change  of  costume  might  partly  be  owing  to  a  natural  and  reascmsble  desira 
to  adapt  his  clothing  to  the  new  climate  in  which  he  lived.  In  tropical  countries,  the 
dress  of  Europeans  is  most  inconvenient  and  unhealthy.  The  turban  and  the  loose 
trousen  are  as  appropriato  to  these  dimates  as  the  hat  and  tight  psatdooni  to  ours.-^ 

RiY. 

2 


1 844.]            PrescoU's  History  of  ike  Conquest  of  Mesico.  353 

)neitic  use,  as  tapestry,  cnrtahis,  cover-  ratps  for  the  hieroglyphical  picture* 
lets,  and  the  like.  The  richly-stained  and  '  writing  were  to  be  seen,  folded  together 
nice  fabrics  reminded  Cortda  of  the  alcay-  like  fans,  and  made  of  cotton,  skins,  or 
ceria,  or  silk-market  of  Granada.  There  more  commonly  the  fibres  of  the  agaycy 
was  the  quarter  assigned  to  the  gold-  the  Aztec  papyms. 
smiths,  where  the  purchaser  might  find  '*  Under  some  of  the  porticoes  they  saw 
▼arious  articles  of  ornament  or  use  formed  hides  raw  and  dressed,  and  Tarious  articlea 
of  the  precious  metals  ;  or  curious  toys,  for  domestic  or  personal  use  made  of  the 
such  as  we  have  already  had  occasion  to  leather.  Animals,  both  wild  and  tame^ 
notice,  made  in  imitation  of  birds  and  were  offered  for  sale,  and  near  them, 
fishes,  with  scales  and  feathers  alternately  perhaps,  a  gang  of  slaves,  with  collara 
of  gold  and  silver,  and  with  movable  heads  round  their  necks,  intimating  they  were 
and  bodies.  These  fantastic  little  trinkets  likewise  on  sale, — a  spectacle  unhappily 
were  often  garnished  with  precious  stones,  not  confined  to  the  barbarian  markets  of 
and  showed  a  patient,  puerile  ingenuity  Mexico,  though  the  evils  of  their  con- 
in  the  manufaetnre,  like  that  of  the  dition  were  aggravated  there  by  the  con* 
Chinese.  In  an  adjoining  quarter  were  sciousness  that  a  life  of  degradation  might 
collected  specimens  of  pottery,  coarse  and  be  consummated  at  any  moment  by  the 
line,  Tases  of  wood  elaborately  carved,  dreadful  doom  of  sacrifice.  *  •  •  I 
varnished  or  gilt,  of  curious  and  some-  must  not  omit  to  mention,  however,  the 
times  graoefttl  forms.  There  were  also  display  of  provisions,  one  of  the  most  at- 
hatchets  made  of  copper  alloyed  with  tin,  tractive  features  of  the  tianguez ;  meats 
the  substitute,  and,  as  it  proved,  not  a  of  all  kinds,  domestic  poultry,  game  from 
bad  one,  for  iron.  The  soldier  found  the  neighbouring  mountains,  fi&  from  th« 
here  all  die  implements  of  his  trade.  The  lakes  and  streams,  fruits  in  all  the  de. 
casque  fiuhioned  into  the  head  of  some  licious  abundance  of  these  temperate 
wild  animal,  with  its  grinning  defences  of  regions,  green  vegetables,  and  the  unfail- 
teeth,  and  bristling  crest  dyed  with  the  ing  maize.  There  was  many  a  viand,  too, 
rich  tint  of  the  cochineal;  the  escaupil,  ready  dressed,  which  sent  up  its  savory 
or  quilted  doublet  of  cotton,  the  rich  steams,  provoking  the  appetite  of  the  idle 
surcoat  of  feather-mail,  and  weapons  of  passenger ;  pastry,  bread  of  the  Indian 
all  sorts,  copper-headed  lances  and  com,  cakes,  and  confectionary.  Along 
arrows,  and  the  broad  maquahuitl,  the  with  these  were  to  be  seen  cooling  or 
Mexican  sword,  with  its  sharp  blades  of  stimulating  beverages,  the  spicy  foaming 
itztli.  Here  were  razors  and  mirrors  of  chocolatl,  with  its  delicate  aroma  of 
this  same  hard  and  polished  mineral  which  vanilla,  and  the  inebriating  pulquit  the 
served  so  many  of  the  purposes  of  steel  fermented  juice  of  the  aloe.  All  these 
with  the  Aztecs.  In  the  square  were  also  commodities,  and  every  stall  and  portico, 
io  be  found  booths  occupied  by  barbers,  were  set  out,  or  rather  smothered,  with 
who  used  these  same  razors  in  their  vo-  flowers,  showing,  on  a  much  greater  scale, 
cation.  For  the  Mexicans,  contrary  to  indeed,  a  taste  similar  to  that  displayed 
the  popular  and  erroneous  notions  re-  in  the  markets  of  modem  Mexico, 
epecting  the  Aborigines  of  the  New  World,  Flowers  seem  to  be  the spontaneonsgrowth 
Jiad  beards,  though  scanty  ones.  Other  of  this  luxuriant  soil ;  which,  instead  of 
sliops  or  booths  were  tenanted  by  apothe-  noxious  weeds,  as  in  other  regions,  is  ever 
caries,  well  provided  with  drugs,  roots,  ready,  without  the  aid  of  man,  to  cover 
and  different  medicinal  preparations.  In  up  its  nakedness  with  this  rich  and  varie- 
oUier  places,    again,   blans    books    or  gated  livery  of  Nature." 

The  author  observes,  that  the  mechanical  skill  aod  the  polished  wants 
of  this  singnlar  people  appeared  to  the  Spaniards  to  resemble  those  of  a 

refined  community^  rather  than  a  nation  of  savages;  but  it  was  the 

material  civilization  which  belongs  neither  to  the  one  nor  to  the  other. 

The  Aztec  had  plainly  reached  that  middle  station^  as  far  above  the  rude 


*  The  author  has  somewhere  in  a  note  to  his  work  correctly  observed,  that  without  the 
otstV/anee  qfflre'Omu  Madoc  in  Mr.  Southey*s  poem  could  not  have  effected  what  he 
and  his  little  band  are  represented  to  have  done  against  multitudes,  armed  in  a  manner 
similar  to  themselves.  The  objection  is  fatal  to  the  probahUUy  of  the  story :  and  we 
may  add,  that,  if  sword  to  sword  it  was  a  drawn  battle  between  Madoc  and  Italala  on 
the  stone  of  sacrifice,  how  could  Madoc's  few  companions  cope  with  the  countless 
multitudes  opposed  to  them ;  their  wily  advautage  lying  in  their  iron  armour,  instead 
of  thdr  enemies*  quilted  cotton  doublet  ? — Rxv. 

Gent.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII.  2  Z 


S54  .  Preteott's  ^11^017  o/lhe  CoaqmeMi  o/Mesieo.  [Oct 

races  of  tbe  New  World  as  it  was  below  tlie  caltiTaled  ooaiiDiiiiities  of 
the  Old.  Id  the  midst,  bowercr,  of  all  this  luxury  and  refiaement,  and 
the  gentle  arts  of  peace,  and  the  pleasing  labours  of  commerce,  there  was 
one  spot  on  the  capital  which  at  once  altered  the  whole  aspect  of  outward 
things,  and  showed  the  ignorance,  superstition,  and  abomination  on  which 
they  were  bnilt.  The  Spaniards  saw  with  curioeity  and  honor  the  great 
temple,  and  the  shrine  of  the  idols,  and  the  blood-stained  sanctuaries,  and 
the  mounds  of  skulls,  and  the  dreadful  instruments  of  worship.  They  saw 
there  enshrined  the  war  god  of  the  Astec8»  his  visage  distorted  into 
hideoos  lineaments  of  symbofical  import. 


i« 


gold  pbtei  and  oniaments ;  mmoog  which 


Mm  WM  a  dutttt  of  gold  and  nlTer  hearts     a  ahidd,  bvmiihed  like  a  mirror,  wai  the 
alternate,    ■oepended    rooad    his    ne^,     most  characteristic  emblem,  as  in  it  ho 


lUematieal  of  tiie  sacrifice  in  which  he  saw  reflected  all  Uie  doings  of  the  world, 

most  delighted.     A  more    nneqaiTocal  Bat  the  homage  to  this  god  was  not  alwaya 

endenoe  of  this  was  afforded  by  ikrt€  of  a  more  nSned  or  merdfol  character 

Aetfft  nmHmg  mmd  mbmoti  jm^pj-  than  that  paid  to  his  camiToroiis  brother ; 


iatim§,  as  if  recently  torn  from  thcTietims,    farjiwe  kUedhtf  kmrtt  were  also  seen  in 
and  now  lying  on  the  altar  befiire  him.     a  golden  platter  on  his  altar.    The  walls 


The  adjoining  sanctoary  was  dedicated  to     of  both  these  chapels  were  stained  with 
a  milder  deity.    This  was  Tescatlipoca,     human  gore.    '  The  steneh  was  more  in- 


next  in  honor  to  that  imrisible  Being,  the  tolerable,*  ezdauns  Diss,  '  than  that  of 

Svpreme  God,  who  was  represented  by  the  alanghter-honses   in  Castile.*    And 

no  ioMge,  and  confined  by  no  temple,  the  frantic  forms  of  the  priests,  with  iSbx&t 

It  was  Teieatlipoca    who    created    the  dark  robes  clotted  with  blood,  as  they 


world,  and  watched  orer  it  with  a  prori-  flitted  to  and  fro,  seeoMd  to  the  Spaniards 

dcntial  care.    He  was  represented  as  a  to  be   those  of  the  Tery  ministers  of 

▼oang  man,  and  his  image,  of  poUsbed  Satan.** 
hack  stone,  was  ridily  garnished  with 

But  we  have  little  more  room,  and  must  bring  our  extracts  to  a  close.  We 
must  suppose  the  anxiety  of  Cortes  in  his  strange  and  hazardous  position ; 
the  boldness  of  his  dengns ;  the  seizure  of  Montezuma ;  the  burning  of  the 
chiefs ;  the  intimidation  of  the  people ;  and,  lastly,  the  treasures  bestowed 
on  the  victors,  in  the  vain  hope  of  securing  their  friendship  and  hasten* 
ing  their  departure.  We  are  told  the  whole  treasure  amounted  to  one 
hundred  and  sixty-two  thousand  pe$oi  de  oro,  independently  of  the  fine 
ornaments  and  jewelry,  the  value  of  which  Cort^  computes  at  hve  hundred 
thousand  ducats  more.  There  were,  besides,  five  hundred  marks  of  silver, 
chiefly  in  plate,  drinking  cups,  and  other  articles  of  luxurv.  The  incon- 
siderable quantity  of  the  silver,  as  compared  with  tbe  flold,  forms  a  un- 
gular  contrast  to  the  relative  proportions  of  the  two  metsik  unce  the  occu- 
pation of  the  country  by  the  Europeans.*  The  whole  amount  of  the 
treasure,  reduced  to  our  currency,  and  making  allowance  for  the  change  in 
tbe  value  of  gold  since  the  beginning  of  the  sixteenth  century,  was  about 
six  million  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  or  one  million  four  hundred 
and  seventeen  thousand  pounds  sterling  j  a  sum  large  enough  to  shew  the 
incorrectness  of  the  popular  notion,  that  little  or  no  wealth  was  found  in 
Mexico.  It  was,  indeed,  small  in  comparison  with  that  obtained  by  the 
conquerors  of  Peru.    Bat  few  European  monarchs  of  that  day  could  boast 


*  Humboldt  sayi,  that  the  quantity  of  liWer  taken  from  the  American  mines  ex- 
ceeded that  of  gold  in  the  ratio  of  46  to  1.  The  valae  of  gdd,  says  Clemengin,  which, 
on  the  discoyery  of  the  New  World,  was  only  U  times  greater  than  silver,  has  now 
come  to  be  16.  This  doea  not  materially  differ  ftom  Adam  Smith's  estimate  made 
after  tbe  middle  of  the  Ust  oentnry.    Vide  Wealth  of  Nations,  i.  ch.  S. 


1844.]  Pre8cott*8  Huiwry  of  the  Conquest  of  Mexico.  355 

a  hrger  treasure  m  their  coflers.*  The  division  of  the  spoil  was  a  work  of 
some  difficulty.  A  perfectly  equal  diyision  of  it  among  the  conquerors 
would  have  given  them  more  than  3000/.  a-piece^ — a  magnificent  booty  ! 
But  one-fifth  was  to  be  deducted  for  the  Crown  $  an  equal  portion  for 
the  general  5  a  large  sum  was  to  indemnify  him  for  the  charges  of  the  ex- 
pedition and  the  loss  of  the  fleet.  Ample  compensation  was  made  to  the 
principal  cavaliers.  The  cavalry,  arquebusiers^  and  crossbowmen  each 
received  double  pay.  So  that,  when  the  turn  of  the  common  soldiers 
came,  there  remaincxl  not  more  than  a  hundred  pesoe  de  oro  for  each ;  a 
snm  so  insignificant  in  comparison  with  their  expectations,  that  several 
refused  to  accept  it  Discontent  on  this  vital  subject  rose  to  such  a 
height  as  to  tax  all  the  address  and  authority  of  Cortes  to  meet  it ;  but  he 
did  not  shrink  from  it.  *'  At  Vera  Cmz,"  says  the  author,  "  he  had  per* 
anaded  his  followers  to  give  up  what  was  but  the  earnest  of  future  gains« 
Here  he  persuaded  them  to  relinquish  those  gains  themselves.  It  was 
snatching  the  prey  from  the  very  jaws  of  the  lion.  Why  did  he  not  turn 
and  rend  him  ?*' 


it 


ThTM,  alter  a  siege  of  nearly  three  dieted  bj  the  oracle,  and,  appearing  oa 
monthi'  duration,  unmatched  hi  history  the  platean,  assailed  them  in  the  very 
for  the  constancy  and  courage  of  the  be-  senith  of  their  prosperity,  and  blotted 
sieged,  seldom  surpassed  for  the  severity  them  out  from  the  map  of  nations  for 
of  its  sofferings,  fell  the  renowned  capital  erer  I  The  whole  story  has  the  air  of 
of  the  Aztecs.  Unmatched,  it  may  be  fable  rather  than  of  history  1 — a  legend  of 
truly  said,  for  constancy  and  courage,  romance, — a  tale  of  the  genii !  Yet  we 
when  we  recollect  that  the  door  of  ca-  cannot  regret  the  fall  of  an  empire  which 
pitulation  on  the  most  honourable  terms  did  so  little  to  promote  the  happiness  of 
was  left  open  to  them  throughout  the  its  subjects,  or  the  real  interests  of  hu» 
whole  blockade,  and  that,  sternly  reject*  manity.  Notwithstanding  the  lustre 
ing  every  proposal  of  their  enemy,  they,  thrown  over  its  latter  days  by  the  glorious 
to  a  man,  preferred  to  die  rather  than  aur*  defence  of  its  capital,  by  the  mild  muni- 
render.  More  than  three  centuries  had  fioence  of  Montezuma,  by  the  dauntless 
elapsed  since  the  Aztecs,  a  poor  and  heroism  of  Gnatemozin,  the  Aztecs  were 
wandering  tribe  from  the  far  North-west,  emphatically  a  fierce  and  brutal  race,  little 
had  come  on  the  plateau.  There  they  calculated,  in  their  best  aspects,  to  excite 
buUt  their  miserable  collection  of  huts,  on  our  sympathy  and  regard.  Their  cirili- 
the  spot — as  tradition  tells  us — prescribed  zation,  such  as  it  was,  was  not  their  own, 
by  the  oracle.  Their  conquests,  at  first  but  reflected,  perhaps  imperfectly,  from  a 
confined  to  their  immediate  neighbour-  race  whom  they  had  succeeded  in  tiie  land, 
hood,  gradually  coTered  the  Valley,  then.  It  was,  in  respect  to  the  Aztecs,  a  gene- 
crossing  the  mountains,  swept  over  the  rous  graft  on  a  ridoos  stock,  and  could 
broad  extent  of  the  table-land,  descended  hare  brought  no  fruit  to  perfection.  They 
its  precipitous  sides,  and  rolled  onwards  ruled  OTcr  their  wide  domains  with  a 
to  the  Mexican  Gulf,  and  the  distant  con-  sword,  instead  of  a  sceptre.  They  did 
fines  of  Central  America.  Their  wretched  nothing  to  ameliorate  the  condition,  or  in 
capital,  meanwhile,  keeping  pace  with  the  any  way  promote  the  progress,  of  their 
enlargement  of  territory,  had  grown  into  vassals.  Their  vassals  were  serfk,  used 
a  flourishing  city,  filled  with  buildings,  only  to  minister  to  their  pleasure,  held  in 
monuments  of  art,  and  a  numerous  popn-  awe  by  armed  garrisons,  ground  to  the 
lation,  that  gave  it  the  first  rank  among  dust  by  imposts  in  peace,  by  militarr  con- 
the  capitals  of  the  Western  World.  At  scriptions  in  war.  They  did  not,  like  the 
this  crisis  came  o?er  another  race  from  Romans,  whom  they  resembled  in  the 
the  remote  East,  strangers  like  them-  nature  of  their  conquests,  extend  the 
seWes,  whose  coming  had  also  been  pre-  rights  of  citizenship  to  the  conquered. 
-  -                                                                              -  -                                ■     ■ — 

*  Maximilian  of  Germany  and  Ferdinand  of  Spain  barely  left  enough  to  bury 
them.  Henry  IV.  of  France  embraced  Sully  with  rapture,  because  he  bad  sared,  by 
great  economy,  about  1,500,000  livres  in  the  treasury.  And  Elizabeth  had  never  any 
treasure  to  spare.  But  no  European  monarchs  ever  reached  the  riches  of  the  Em- 
perors of  the  East.  It  is  said  Napoleon  had  collected  30  millions  in  gold,  for  the 
payment  of  his  army  in  the  Russian  campaign.  The  produce  of  the  sack  of  Delhi 
has  been  estimated  at  70  millions  by  Mr.  Sharp. 


356                Prescott's  Hisiorf  of  the  Conptesi  of  MejncQ.  [Oet 

They  did  not  amalgamate  them  into  one  heait  was  hardened,  the  mannen  wer9 

great  nation,  with  common  rights  and  in-  made  ferocioos,  the  feeble  light  of  citiU- 

t.-rests.    They  held  them  as  aliens, — even  sation,  transmitted  from  a  milder  race, 

those  who  in  the  valley  were   gathered  was  growing  fainter  and  fainter,  as  thou- 

ronnd  the  very  walls  of  the  capital.    The  sands  and  thousands  of  miserable  Tictima* 

Aztec  metropolis,  the  heart  of  the  mo«  throughout    the    empire,    were    yearly 

narchy,  had  not  a  sympathy,  not  a  pnlsa-  fattened  in  its  cages,  sacrificed  on  its 

tion,  in  common  with  the  rest  of  the  body  altars,  dressed  and  served  at  its  banquets ! 

politic.     It  was  a  stranger  in  its  own  land.  The  whole  land  was  converted  into  a  vast 

The  Aztecs  not  only  did  not  advance  the  human  shambles !     The  empire  of  tho 

condition  of  their  vassals,  but,  morally  Aztecs  did  not  fall  before  its  time. 

■pcAking,  they  did  much  to  degrade  it.  "  Whether  these  unparalleled  outrages 

How  can  a  nation,  where  human  sacri-  furnish  a  sufficient  plea  to  the  Spaniards 

fices  prevail,  and  especially  when  com-  for  their  invasion ;  whether,  with  the  Pro- 

bined  with  cannibalism,  further  the  march  testant,  we  are  content  to  find  a  warrant 

of  civilization  ?     How  can  the  interests  of  for  it  in  the  natural  rights  and  demands 

humanity  be   consulted,  where  man  is  of   civilization,    or,    with    the    Roman 

levelled  to  the  rank  of  the  brutes  that  Catholic,  in  the  good  pleasure  of   tha 

perish  ?    The  influence  of  the  Aztecs  in-  Pope,^^n  the  one  or  other  of  which 


troduced  their  gloomy  superstition  into  grounds,  the  conquests  by  most  ChristiaQ 

lands   before   unacquainted  with  it,  or  nations  in  the  East  and  the  Weat  have 

where,  at  least,  it  was  not  established  in  been  defended, — ^it  is  unnecessary  to  dis- 

any  great  strength.    The  example  of  the  cuss,  as  it  has  already  been  considered  in 

capiUl  was  contagious.     As  the  latter  in-  a  former  chapter.    It  is  more  material  to 

creased  in  opulence,  the  religious  celebra^  inquire,  whether,  assuming  the  right,  the 

tions  were  conducted  with  stiU  more  ter-  conquest  of  Mexico  was  conducted  with  a 

rible  msgnificence ;  in  the  same  manner  proper  regard  to  the  daims  of  humanity* 

as  the  glwiiatorial  shows  of  the  Romans  And  here  we  must  admit,  that,  with  all 

increased  in  pomp  with  the  increasing  allowance  for  the  ferocity  of  the  age  and 

splendour  of  the  capital.    Men  became  the  laxity  of  ito  principles,  there  are  pas* 

familiar  with  scenes  of  horror  and  the  sages  which  every  Spaniard  who  cheriahes 

most  loathsome  abominations.    Women  the  fame   of  his  countrymen  would  be 

and  children — the  whole  nation— became  glad  to  see  expunged  from  their  history  ;* 

familiar  with,  and  assisted  at  them.    The  passages  not  to  be  vindicated  on  tiie  score 

*  True,  but  we  may  ask,  are  the  military  annals  of  any  nation  free  from  the  staui 
of  cruelty,  ferocity,  and  atrocity  in  its  worst  forms  ?  Are  our  own,  even  in  our  own 
times  ?  He  who  would  flatter  himself  with  this  belief,  should  read  Col.  Napier*s 
account  of  the  taking  of  St.  Sebastian,  where  he  says  that  language  fails  him  to 
describe  the  unparalleled  horrors  that  took  place ;  but  to  describe  them  wou|d  be  im- 
possible, even  to  mention  such  abominations  is  to  defile  the  pages  of  history  ;  but  all 
that  rapacity,  lust,  and  drunkenness,  stimulated  by  revenge,  could  do,  was  witnessed 
there ;  and  the  very  atrocity  alone  preserves  them  from  our  full  execration,  because  it 
makes  it  impossible  to  describe  them.  Mr.  Prescott  openly  declares  that  the  atroci- 
ties committed  by  the  soldiers  of  Cortes  at  Cholula  were  not  so  bad  as  those  inflicted 


be  the  signal  of  hell  for  the  perpetration  of  villany  which  would  have  shamed  the  most 
ferocious  barbarians  of  antiquity.  At  Ciudad  Rodrigo,  intoxication  and  plunder  had 
been  the  principal  object ;  at  fiadajos  lost  and  murder  were  joined  to  rapine  and 
drunkenness ;  but  at  San  Sebastian  the  direst,  the  most  revolting,  cruelty  was  added 
to  the  catalogue  of  crimes.  One  atrocity,  of  which  a  girl  of  seventeen  was  the  victim^ 
staggers  the  mind  by  its  enormous,  incredible,  indescribable  barbarity.  Some  order 
was  at  first  maintained,  but  the  resolution  of  the  troops  to  throw  off  discipline  was 
quickly  made  manifest.  A  British  sUff-oflicer  was  pursued  with  a  volley  of  small 
arms,  and  escaped  with  difficulty  from  men  who  mistook  him  for  the  provost- martial 
of  the  fifth  division ;  a  Portuguese  adjutant,  who  endeavoured  to  prevent  some 
atrocity,  was  put  to  death  in  the  market-place,  not  with  sudden  violence  from  a  single 
ruffian,  but  deliberately  by  a  number  of  English  soldiers.  Many  officers  exerted 
themselves  to  preserve  order,  many  men  were  well-conducted,  but  the  rapine  and 
violenoe  commenced  by  villains  soon  spread,  the  camp-followers  crowded  into  the 
place,  and  the  disorder  continued  until  the  flames,  following  the  steps  of  the  plunderer* 
put  an  cud  to  his  ferocity  by  destroying  the  whole  town." 


357 

thi* 


1844.]  P«->"-«  ^"'-J'  •/'*•  ^'^  f  ''^..«.,  .U  «.. 

|„u«  New  World.         ^  .  Artec. W«>'«^^~t*2:^!;^^t  « 

..  wtateVer  m.,  be  thought   of  Ae    SJjX^'.^i'W  *«  Sp.ni.rd.  idone. 

it^ted  prohibition,  of  iu  wrereign,  hwe  Sj^™     ,ed  their  ruin,  did  »»  ««=' '"f'^ 

f^^tSeir  w.y  into  tt>e  l-J"";-;^  Srir  .»cce«i.      i*V>^^  to ret^t 

tbcT  .hooM  h.Te  done  thu.  '"»°""^j  Strong  n«U»e  wpport,  »»'"«"  "4  »Wch 

lejL  of  the  luigoege  or  of  the  tod,  J^^^our  of  trouble,  •'»*"°^rf  the 

JX»t  ch«t  or  compj-  .^  8»de«iem,  »  *«  ^^j^  ^j  the  W"^,^,^,^  „! 

,ritho«t  «.y  ide.  of  the  *^b«^y  |^J  ,„,  o„e  Bre.t  •^^^'T'^uS  b?  the 

,^   to    encounter.    t^J  J^f^  Uult.    The  A.tec  "J^'J^^Jnaer  the  di- 

whether  the  next  .tep  "»«"  bnng  tt^  ^,  .»,  ^^  •"^i,  wSwdence. 

on  .  hostile  BUion,  -r  ~  *  "^'  „  «     rection  of  E-^PXifSSbt  to«  bidden 
imr  their  w.y  dong  in  the  ***"'.     jj^a  jt  been  united,  it  migni " 

!:L  ,_tb«t/though  »««*T  »""^K^     dXnce  to  lie  i»'»^-    ^f,  i^^f  the 
b,  their  firrt  »«'?»'"^*  ^  on  to     cpitd  w»  ^iBwrered  ft^»  ^^.'^tt  haw 

^i!!io«d.?:f"2^i^?  E^«^r.^tErJ^": 

power  »d  «'*«»««»°'J:SL«l  in  thdJ  it.  own  ruin.— l"  ^^'^.^nt  which 
!;;«.  but  the  BOre  «>»^«*^  *,S^%     striking  proof,  ttat.  ff"«^ty^  of  ito 

origin^  design  i-***  ^"^ '"^d  M«  ^o**  "°*  '**  »  i«-r  .wSe  f  th«t  hum.n 
seUed  the  monwcb,  •»'«  ^'if^Tyert.,  wbjectt  «»°»<".  *"°*  !f  ^ected  with 
minieter.  before  the  eyw  of  hi.  w»J^^     in,atution.,  when  ""L^.m^tWl, 

wreck  together,  md,  .fter  ^jr;*    ^     ciyili«rtion.  by  the  h.na  o  ,^„  ^thout. 

K'^djs;ss..j^-ri  ^^x'ssiCs;.  their  «ir 

Kmlug  the  c.pit.1.  wd  e.td.li.hi»g  their  jigcoTered  in  the  same 

It  appears  to  as  that  no  ''»|^".^'^ScaM  were  at  the  time  of  the 
BinguJir  rtage  of  society  in  T^tJ^  otndned.  according  to  the  aspect 
CoS»«t.Tpea"°8  "^^f'  "^fefare  d^Sed  'a.  most  ferocious  m  war- 
in  which  they  are  newed.    y*y  aWenemies,  as  was  the  cnstom  of    he 
fare    vet  they  never  scalped  their  ^'""'f';    .  ^  their  enemies  which 
JShefn  tribel.,  They  'f  ^l^^Vmrfn  hut uTal  and  benighted jtate 
with  every  cmel  passion  belong  l„nhivalroos  feelings  of  polished  and 
and  they  united  not  the  f  ^^^'V^lifj  a  Bd^hbouriSg  city    the  Aatec 
refined  nations.    While  closely  ~«^"?  *      ^l  ^^^  chiefs  of  the  forces 
nobles  sent  presents  of  fr"*",»"J?:,iLT!SuIn  ?y  and  generosity  that  we 
opposed  to  them,  a  secies  of^^ii^^  fi  L  sho^d  not  expect  to 
^  of  in  the  wars  <>f  }^;^l^^^;,J^^lJney^cre  advanced  in  mathe- 
find  among  the  savage  tnbes  of  Ana""*^.     f^"*?  j^  the  slaves  of  a 

matical  science  and  mechanical  arts,  and  they 


358  Pre9cotV8  Hitioiy  of  the  Conque$i  of  Mexico.  [Oct. 

blind,  ignorant,  fanaticism,  and  of  a  loathsome  and  bloody  mythology. 
With  such  an  enlightened  and  liberal  policy  as  is  not  often  found  in 
European  countries,  they  allowed  success  in  trade  to  lead  to  eminent 
political  power  and  preferment,  while  at  the  same  time  the  taxation  of 
the  country  was  enormous,  tyrannical,  and  nneqnaL  Such  are  the  incon- 
ffroities  to  be  observed^  that,  while  the  general  character  of  the  nation  is 
described  as  one  of  unmitigiited  ferocity,  yet  in  domestic  or  social  life  the 
intercourse  was  regulated  with  all  the  ceremonial  forms  of  civilised  com- 
munities, and  accompanied  with  expressions  of  polite  attention  or 
affectimiate  regard.  The  obligation  of  the  marriage  tow  was  sanctified  by 
religion,  and  fully  recognised,  and  the  women  partook  equally  with  the 
men  in  the  festivities  and  refinements  of  social  intercourse.  The  discipline 
of  children  when  under  tutelage  was  severe,  but  the  greatest  care  of 
morals  and  the  most  blameless  deportment  were  maintained;  and  the 
modest  Aztec  maiden,  when  grown  up,  was  treated  with  nnreserved 
tenderness,  and  all  the  fulness  of  a  parent's  love.*  There  was  the  same 
contrast  and  opposition,  it  has  been  observed,  in  the  character  of  the 
people  as  there  was  in  the  natural  features  of  the  country  they  possessed  ; 
where  tracts  of  hopeless  sterility — the  bristling  peaks  of  the  wild  sierra, 
the  burning  volcano,  the  dark  range  of  porphyritic  rocks,  or  mountains 
clothed  with  perpetual  snow,  looked  down  where,  in  a  soft  and  genial 
climate,  lay  the  most  lovelv  valleys  at  their  feet,  each  a  paradise  upon 
earth  ;  where  the  palm  and  the  banana  waved  their  graceful  foliage  and 
spread  their  cooling  shade  ;  where,  knitting  branch  to  branch,  flowers  of 
sorpassbg  beauty  waved  in  bright  festoons  and  garlands,  filling  the  air 
with  fragrance ;  where,  partially  seen  through  the  openings  of  the  forests, 
extended  the  blue  lake»  whose  waters,  like  a  polbhed  mirror,  seemed  to 
tremble  in  the  light ;  where  birds  and  insects  of  the  richest  plumage  and 
most  dazzling  colours  glittered  in  the  sun  ;  and  where  a  carpet  of  perpetual 
verdure  was  spread,  enamelled  with  the  brightest  hues  of  spring,  and 
glowing  with  all  the  splendour  of  tro|»ical  vegetation.  To  reconcile  such 
striking  opposition  of  character  and  habits,  we  most  fix  an  attentive  look 
on  history,  where  she  tells  us  that  the  Aztec  nation,  as  seen  by  the 
Spaniards,  was  formed  from  the  conjunction  of  two ;  that  on  the  mild  and 
civilised  character  of  their  predecessors,  the  polished  Toltecs,  they  had 
grafted  their  own  fiercer  and  more  warlike  virtues,  even  as,  in  their  re- 
ligious ceremonies,  they  mixed  beautiful  flowers  with  their  bloody  rites. 
From  long  familiarity  with  a  licentious  and  predatory  warfare,  they  had 
become  a  cruel  people  in  their  nature,  and  cruelty  is  ever  allied  to  super- 
stition. Upon  this  was  founded  the  supreme  power,  the  uncontrolled 
authority,  of  the  priesthood,  who  nurtured  it  by  a  rigid  system  of  super- 
stitions terror,  by  human  sacrifices,  and  butchery  of  the  most  brutal  kind  : 
add  to  this,  that  the  throne  of  Mexico  at  the  time  of  the  invasion  of  the 
Spaniards  was  filled  by  a  monarch  who,  though  of  a  brave  and  warlike 
character  in  youth,  had  become  effeminate  and  luxurious  in  his  habits,  and 
tyrannical  in  hb  rule,— had  (^pressed  his  subjects  and  offended  his  nobles. 


*  See  a  verv  interettiDg  doewnent,  '*  Aihriee  of  la  Aztec  mother  to  her  daughter," 
tmnelited  in  tko  Appeodiz  to  Mr.  Preieoit*!  history,  vol.  Hi.  p.  373--^76.  The  trans, 
lator  mentioni  the  nioral  tabtiaiity  of  it,  and  that  it  is  the  product  of  the  tme  light  of 
ciTiliiation.  fTe  etn  tee  very  little  ekildi$hntu  in  it.  Modest  reserve  in  behsTiour 
and  chastity  are  the  two  virtnes  it  chicilj  incnicates.  It  ends  with  thfse  remarkable 
words,  '*  May  Godyro*pcr  yon,  mjf  firtt-bwm,  and  maff  you  come  to  God,  who  is  in 
every  place,** 


1 844]         Preacol  f»  History  of  the  Conquest  of  Mexico.  359 

but  was  still  regarded,  like  the  Eastern  despots,  with  feelinp  of  awe  and 
admiration  by  the  people.  Such  was  the  state  of  things  at  that  time ;  and 
the  existence  of  much  discontent  and  disaffection  throughout  the  empire, 
and  among  the  higher  ranks,  showed  that  it  was  not  a  state  Ijkely  to  be 
permanent— that  internal  divisions  and  troubles  would  probably  have  taken 
blace.  and  that  in  some  revolution  or  change  an  injured  and  indignant 
L,ple  might  have  thrown  off  at  once  the  yoke  of  a  bloody  ««?«"«?»«>■ 
«d  a  tyrannic  despotism,  and.  under  some  fortunate  and  favourite  chief- 
tain.  haVe  gone  out^Igain  to  conquer,  and  founded  an  ««?'« ."'»»'=^.»«^* 
hav;  spread  over  rem^  countries  to  the  Atlantic  shore  and  have  maUed 
in  extent  and  in  opulence  the  glory  of  the  ancient  dy»*«t'!"  "^  'Jf^n*^ 
World,  It  pleased  Providence  to  order  things  otherwise.  * "«  "8"* 
of  tuques  oWthe  infidel  and  heathen  was  a  thing  .«P>".ow'^f^^'°tJ 
Lam^  i  a  holy  duty  not  to  be  disclaimed  or  even  avoided ,  *  °'S3 
an  inferior  racelgnoiint  of  God.  neither  worthy  of  tije  name  ■^•^'"'jj^ 

to  the  rights  of  men.*  The  cross  of  Chnst  was  P''^t«J  1°  *r  JJ^^ents  t^^ 
The  champion  of  Christ  was  he  in  whose  «J«k  and  frowning  ""^^^J"  JJ« 

destined  destroyer  might  be  i^-gi"*^  /  t^'^  "^^"^  l^^.  t^erofion  S 
battered  cuirass' and  Uie  bruised  and  Wood-stained  sword  '^^^^l^ll 
Christ  came  into  the  land  accompanied  with  «;«'?*««' »"i/""'"?i '"^J^ 
M>h>tion  5  the  consuming  fire  of  the  conquerors  breath  «•«"«  ^^'^^"^ 

the  pollution  of  the  land*;t  '^^'^'.^t'^X^T^^Zu^T^ottieW 
the  waters  of  their  own  rivers,  but  in  the  blood  of  t'"*"'^^*^?""  "i^^  ;„ 

cbUdi^n.  Thns  terminated  the  history  o  *  P^P^^  "'J^'^^S  T^^ 
the  pensive  and  melancholy  «P«»?'»V^•  J?  wh^aKerished,  5ter 
gnoe^c  of  the  darkness  of  their  '^^-^.^^^X^Jli^eXTresi.me, 
a  vain  and  fruitless  resistance,  >'«°«?*''  »  "^^"S  the  clear  and  com- 
and  unknown.  Yet  the  historian,  who  f""^?^  *""  .  influencing  prin- 
prehensive  glance  of  a  pWlosopber  ♦»•« J"»'i»J""?he"g^^^  to  be 

dples  of  the  people,  and  fixed  his  »'t«"t\«»  ?"  •  ""*  Jgnt  judgment,  not 
-       tie  dUcoveries.  hu  P"»«"»«=f;  .•"?.  ffiX  L^re  of  the 
le  means,  but  looking  to  the  end,      i  nai  wc  ^  r 


drawD  from 

criticisiDg  the 

Aztecs  did  not  fall  before  its  time. 


beaaT.,  much  -  to  mn.-"  Wh»  tlu.  mob  hj^^^«  °^  ,^ 
891.    The  Pope  Paul  III.  in  hw  hoU;  is37.  deciareo  inc 

bat  not  to  be  edmitted  to  the  «>»f  ?^"- „„t^  ^w  ,b<,»e  6000  victiiM  were  amuialfy 
t  In  the  city  of  CholaU  alone  it  u  conp»ted  ftrt  rtwe^  ^^  ^^ 

o«J«d«p.t  the  •angnin.ry  *"»"•  ~'i''-fi,e8p«ni«rd«,  when  theyeptewd  tte 

anrrifice  of  cbUdren  wm  oBered  up.  P'Jt.   *  „/5^  pdpitating.  -  if  recently 

R^  temple,  few  three  h«m«i  heerto  •""''^"f J^h7J,W^6eri-l  Di»,  wa«  more 
SSf^  thi  victim.  ««1  lyings  the  dtor.-n...^  ^^  ^^  ^  th, 

tatolereWe  UrnnlJ  ^  t!!!'^'^':^  btLiTAJ^mttd  to«.dfiro.  .eemed  to 

S^^.rhe^t^S'^^ttly'-.S^.^f^^ 

S'St^'^ijf^whr^-'^^-"'^^'"*''^ 

Ui.  p.  193. 


960 


Sediik  in  LeaminUer  Ckureh,  Sffoti. 


[Oct 


Mb.  Urban,  Birmtngham,  Aug.  IS. 

WILL  you  dlow  me  tu  rokke  koown 
to  your  reailers  an  ioEtaace  of  the 
utter  Dcglect  with  which  oar  eccleti- 
Mlk«l  edifices  are  treited,  eveo  within 
these  few  lut  years,  and  by  the  (aac- 
tioD  or  those  whose  duty  and  pleasure 
it  should  be  to  preserve  and  beaatify 
then.    The  publl    ■"       '       .    -    . 


the  Dorth  aiale,  ir  I  may  apply  that  term 
to  a  porlion  which  seems  to  hare  been 
the  DBve  of  the  original  church,  (built 
probably  by  Henry  \.  ad.  1125,)* 
vhich  is  separated  from  the  later  ad- 
dition!. The  DKm-attd  part*,  which 
are  at  highly  ornamented  as  the  style 

....      _ ,      will  allow,  have  experienced  a  far  dif- 

of  such  facta     ferent  fortune.   Several  windowswhich 


will,  I  trust,  tend  to  render  pertons  were  once  tilled  with  elegant  Iracery, 
raore  alive  to  the  value  of  the  amallest  as  profusely  studded  with  the  ball- 
relic  of  antiquity,  and  haply  be  the  floweraslhoseia  thenaveofGloucester 
means  of  preserving  some  time-hal-  cathedral,  have  been  "  beautified  "  by 
lowed  monument  of  our  fathers  from  the  iobertions  of  new  muMions,  which 
Bollering  fiom  the  rude  hand  of  inno-  are  perfectly  plain,  andevinceaocare  to 
TatioD,  an  object  which  has'  ever  been  attain  to  elegance  even  by  graceful  pro- 
forwarded  by  your  earnest  leal  and  portions.  Inthiipossibly  the  crippled 
influence.  funds  of  our  modern  restorer  may  have 
The  church  of  Leominster,  co.  Here-  prevented  him  from  rivalling  the  mag- 
ford,  is  well  known  to  lovers  of  archi-  nificence  of  olden  days.  But  the 
tecture  by  the  striking  peculiarities  of  chief  instance  of  destruction,  and  that, 
its  Norman  and  E>ecoratcd  work;  the  too,  perfectly  wanton,  to  which  1  wish 
former  still  remains  entire,  being  con-  to  call  your  attention,  is  the  mntila- 
finedtotheiowuBtageofthetowerand  tion  of  the  tedtlid,  by  a  wall  built  m 


*-^ 


as  to  form  a  portion  of  the  south  aisle 
into  a  vestry  ;  two,  together  with  the 
pwciao,  are  tolerably  perfect,  though 
degraded  to  nnworthy  uses,  as  yon 
will  see  by  the  accompanying  sketch  ; 
(hethird  is  destroyed,  and  this  wasdone 
in  IS40.  1  have  seen  instances  of  simi- 
lar mutilation  atDursley,  (Qloacester- 
shire,]  wheresome  fine  J^corof  ed  sedilia 
were  nearly  destroyed  to  give  room  for 
a  family  pew ;  and  at  Ludlow  (Salop), 
where  a  hideoas  monument  has  filled 
the  place  of  one ;  but  this  was  done 
long  before  the  lime  of  our  architec* 
taral  societies — when  the  revival  of 
Chlhic    architecture    was     not    even 


thought  of.  The  Utter  church  would 
well  repay  a  most  careful  eiamina- 
tion,  and,  if  it  would  not  be  trespassing 
on  your  space,  1  should  be  pleased  to 
bring  some  of  its  features  under  the 
notice  of  your  readers  at  a  future  time. 
Can  you  give  me  any  account  of  the 
arches  which  are  found  frequently  in 
the  exterior  of  the  south  aiale  of 
churches  in  the  Decorated  style?  I 
am  not  aware  that  their  character  has 
been  clearly  ascertained. 

Yoors,  &c.    B.  F.  W. 


*  Cf.  Dugdale's  Monxsticon,  fv.  51. 


36! 


ON  THE  FEODALTTY  OP  THE  ANGLO-SAXONS, 


THE  existence  of  feodality  in  this 
coQotry  before  the  Normao  Conquest 
has  been  denied  by  most  of  our  histo- 
rians, but  they  have  in  no  instance 
entered  into  the  real  merits  of  the 
qaestioo;  by  an  investigation  of  its  de- 
tails or  an  appeal  to  the  Anglo-Saxon 
remains,  which,  it  is  obvious,  can  su|>- 
ply  the  only  evidence  on  the  subject.* 

Under  these  circumstances,  the  fol- 
lowing obseivations,  though  meagre 
and  incomplete,  have  been  hazarded  by 
the  writer  under  the  impression  that 
they  may  in  some  degree  assist  to  clear 
up  in  the  mind  of  the  geperal  reader 
a  point  of  indisputable  interest,  not 
only  to  English  but  to  European  anti- 
tiqntties  in  general. 

I  wish  it  however  to  be  clearly  un- 
derstood that  by  feodality  I  do  not 
mean  to  assert  that,  at  any  period  be- 
fore the  epoch  I  have  mentioned,  ex- 
actly the  same  regular  machinery  in 
this  respect  (so  far  as  mere  details  or 
minor  incidents  are  concerned,)  was 
found  in  England  as  in  France  or  in 
Lombardy ;  but  only  that,  from  a  simi- 
lar application  to  thtfi»eal  land  of  thi$ 
country  of  a  prmeiple  oominoa  to  all 
the  Germanic  naiiona,  there  was  deve*- 
loped  a  corresponding  system,  which 
in  its  generic  and  essential  character- 
istics agreed  with  that  which  flou- 
rished in  the  befoie-mentioned  coun- 
tries, the  alleged  incunabula  of  feuds. 

It  will  be  proper  in  the  first  place  to 
expUia  what  that  original  principle 

*  The  denial  of  Mr.  Hallam  is  qualified 
and  guarded.  He  says,  (History  of  the 
Middle  Ages,  Vol.  I.  c.  2,)  '<  The  regular 
machinery  and  systematic  establishment 
of  feuds,  in  fact,  may  be  considered  as  al- 
most confined  to  the  dominions  of  Charle* 
magoc,  and  to  those  countries  which  af- 
terwards derived  it  from  thence.  In  Eng- 
land it  can  hardly  be  thought  to  have  ex- 
isted in  a  complete  state  before  the  con- 
quest** M.  Thierry  (Recits  Merovingiens, 
vol.  I.  ch.  5)  says,  **  Le  berceau  de  la 
feodaJit^  Europeenne  fut  la  France,  et  la 
Lombardie.  Bienqa*il  n*y  eut  dans  le 
syst^me  feodale  autre  chose  que  le  pur 
developement  d'une  certaioe  fase  des 
moeors  Germaniques,  ce  syst^me  ne  s'y 
implanta  dans  la  Germanic  que  par  limi- 
tation d*une  maniere  tardive  et  inoom. 
plete.»» 

Gent.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII. 


was,  and  then  to  proceed  to  the  con- 
sideration of  the  land  in  which  it  was 
eventually  comprised. 

The  principle  alluded  to  was  vas- 
salage, or  simple  homage,t  the  origin 
and  primitive  existence  of  which 
amongst  the  ancient  Germans  it  was 
reserved  for  the  acumen  of  Montes- 
quieu to  discover,  and  in  his  hands  it 
furnished  a  complete  clue  to  the 
otherwise  inexplicable  mazes  of  feo- 
dality.t 

The  words  of  Tacitus,  which  sup- 
plied the  authority  for  this  fact,  are  so 
familiar  that  quotation  is  unnecessary. 
They  express,  under  the  names  of  prtw- 
cepa  and  come«  the  relative  and  mutual 
dependence  for  service  and  protection 
of  a  superior  aud  inferior,  t.  e.  in  the 
language  of  the  feudalists,  of  a  lord  and 
his  vassal. § 

This  relation  was  transplanted  into 
Britain  by  the  Jutes,  the  Saxons,  and 
the  Angles.  Along  with  it  they  also 
imported  the  system  which  had  regu- 
lated the  occupation  of  lands  in  their 
native  soil. 

This  system  of  primitive  law  recog- 
nised the  collective  nation  as  the  pro- 
prietor of  the  territory  which  it  occu- 
pied, and  the  whole  of  the  corn -lands 
were  public. ||  From  this  rule  were 
excepted  only  the  cabin  and  surround- 
ing plot  of  ground  of  each  freeman.^ 

The  occupation  of  Britain  in  the 
fifth  century  presents  in  a  general  view 
many  points  of  intimate  resemblance 
to  that  of  Gaul  by  the  Franks.**  Un- 
like Burgundy,  there  was  no  compact 
or  convention^  which  should  ta  som^ 
extent  respect  the  rights  of  the  old  in- 
habitants; but  both  the  before- men - 


t  i.  e.  Homage,  unconnected  with  a 
tenement  of  land. 

t  Montesq.  L' Esprit  des  Lois,  liv.  30, 
ch.  3. 

§  Tacit,  de  M.  G.  c.  13. 

li  Cses.  de  B.  G.  1.  16,  c.  88.  Tacit, 
de  M.  G.  c.  16. 

%  The  latter  says  (ibid.)  **  Suam  quisque 
domum  spatio  circumdat.''  This  land 
when  appropriated  could  never  have  been 
recalled  by  the  state.  It  was  the  asylum 
of  the  family  when  the  father  was  absent 
on  the  wars  of  the  nation. 

**  Montesq.  liv.  30,  ch.  7  and  8. 
3  A 


362 


Oh  tht  FecdaUty  of  the  Anglo- Saxons. 


[Oct. 


tioned  coo d tries  were  snbjagated,  and 
the  conquerors  became  lords  of  the 
soil.  They,  therefore  would  seize  so 
much  as  their  necessities  or  their  ca> 
price  reouired,  and  those  estates  re- 
taining the  characteristics  which  had 
appertained  to  them  in  the  bands  of 
the  Romano*  Britons,  placed  the  barbae 
rian  in  the  new  condition  of  an  exten« 
sive  allodial  proprietor — a  condition, 
however,  which  his  mind  was  capable 
of  apprehending  and  appreciating, 
from  the  experience  of  his  home  in 
Germany. 

But,  notwithstanding  those  seizures 
and  appropriations  of  individual 
estates,  by  private  persons,  a  larger 
proportion  of  good  and  available  ter* 
ritory  remained  onoccapied  and  un- 
appropriated by  the  barbarians. 

This  land  the  nation  itself  stepped 
in  and  claimed  to  hold  as  its  own  pro- 
perty, subject  to  the  ancient  and  still 
existing  laws  of  Germany,  and  it  then 
appears  in  English  history  distin- 
guished as  public  and  fiscal  land. 

In  Ciermany  it  had  been  an  annual 
custom  that  the  taldormfn  should 
allot  the  corn- lands,  for  the  space  of 
one  year,  to  those  members  of  the 
tribe  whose  turn  it  was  to  remain 
peaceably  at  home,  whilst  the  others 
were  engaged  in  war.*  Annexed  to 
this  temporary  possession  was  a  con- 
dition to  contribute  towards  the  sub* 
sistence  of  their  militant  brethre n.f 

The  practical  exposition  of  such 
condition  is,  that  the  annual  occupier 
of  the  soil  paid  to  the  state  a  rent  in 
kind. 

Both  these  principles  of  the  tempo- 
rary holding  of  public  land,  and  the 
obligation  of  certain  services  to  be 
rendered  to  the  state  for  it,  were  re- 


*  Cssar,  de  B.  6. 1.  6,  c.  S3.  <'  Neqae 
qaisqoam  agri  modom  certum  sot  fioes 
habet  proprios,  sed  magUirattu  ac  prin^ 
eipei,  in  aonos  singulos  geatibus  cogna- 
tionibusque  hominum  qui  una  coierant 
quantum  et  quo  loco  visum  est  agri  attri- 
bttunt,  atque  anno  post  alio  transire  co- 
gunt.** 

t  Ibid.'  1.  4,  c.  1.  **  SueTomm  gens 
est  longe  maxima  et  bellicosissima  Ger- 
manoram  omnium.  Hi  centum  pagos 
babere  dicuntur,  ex  quibua  quotannii, 
singula  millia  armatorum  bellandi  causa 
ex  finibus  educunt.  Reliqui  qui  domi 
mansednt,  se  at^uealio*  alunt." 


tained  and  introduced  by  the  barba- 
rians into  their  British  settlements, 
though,  owing  to  the  large  formation 
of  allodial  estates,  the  territory  to 
which  these  principles  were  applied 
was  not  so  extensive  as  the  public 
land  of  their  native  Germany. 

The  public  land  of  Britain  was  ap- 
plied by  the  invaders  for  the  benefit  of 
the  nation,  in  two  distinct  ways,  viz. 
it  was  either  cottivated  by  eoioni  or 
farmers,  who  paid  to  the  state  certain 
rents  for  the  occupation,  or  it  was 
dispensed  in  precarious  or  life  assign* 
ments  to  the  eomiiet  of  the  chieftain 
who  had  led  the  expedition  into  Bri- 
tain, as  the  inducement  and  condition 
for  further  services  in  war. 

A  most  important  change  however  oc- 
curred after  the  barbarians  had  aban- 
doned their  old  country  and  acquired 
a  new  one*  The  leader  of  the  expedi- 
tion had  been  converted  into  a  king, 
and  the  assignments  of  all  the  public 
4ands  were  now  transferred  from  the 
ealdormeo  to  the  former,  who  had  be- 
come the  permanent  comrnunis  magis^ 
iraius;  and  when  his  permanence  was 
established,  it  would  appear  also  that 
the  assignments  which  were  made  by 
his  sanction,  were  prolonged  over  the 
same  term,  i.  e.  from  an  annual  ex- 
istence they  became  for  IKe.l 

This  point  brings  us  back  to  a  cir- 
cumstance attending  the  ancient  Ger- 
man vassalage,  which  is  of  considera- 
ble importance,  in  its  bearing  upon  the 
institution  of  feudalism. 

The  chieAaiu  in  Germany,  besides 
affording  subsistence  to  his  comiies, 
rewarded  and  encouraged  them  by  the 
occasional  present  of  a  horse  or  a 
/ramea.§  His  armoury  in  the  early 
ages  formed  the  only  fund  from  which 
his  retainers  could,  by  the  possibility 
of  things,  be  rewarded.  But  when 
the  same  chieftain  had  put  on  the  cha- 
racter of  a  king,  he  then,  as  we  have 
seen,  was  invested  with  the  same  right 
of  disposition  over  the  public  land 
which  had  formerly  belonged  to  the 

X  Vide  an  article  which  appeared  in 
the  Magazine  for  May  last,  under  the 
title,  "  On  the  Developement  of  the  An- 
glo-Saxon Ealdordum." 

$  Tacit,  de  M.  O.  c.  14.  '*Exigunt 
enim  prtncipis  sui  liberalitate  ilium  bella- 
torem  equum,  iUam  cruentam  victricem- 
que  frameam." 


1 844 .]                   On  the  FeodnlUy  of  the  Angh-Sa^ns.  '363 

caldormen  collectively.  Instead,  there-  and  sovereign  all  that  the  generosity 
fore,  of  the  limited  means  of  his  former  or  extravagance  of  a  barbarian  would 
condition,  he  found  in  the  public  land  prompt  him  to  bestow, 
of  the  conquered  country  a  copious  The  names  under  which  the  two 
fund  for  the  reward  and  incitement  of  divisions  of  land  which  1  have  men- 
tbe  comt/es  who  had  followed  him  from  tioned  were  known  to  the  Anglo- 
Germany.  The  customs  of  his  native  Saxons  were  folclatid  and  hocland,§ 
country  allowed  of  larger  grants  of  the  the  former  being  the  terra  fiacalU,  or 
public  land  to  persons  more  dignified  beneficiary  land,  and  the  latter  the  o^ 
or  worthy  than  the  multitude,  and  lodium  o{  the  coptinent,  held  of  no 
such,  in  his  judgment,  would  be  his  superior,  and  su^'jject  to  no  service  or 
own  eomitee.^  charge. 

Moreover,  in   consequence  of  the  The  folcland,   whilst  it  continued 

extensive  occupation  of  allodial  pro-  such,  strictly  speaking,  t.  e.  when  it 

perty,  the  claims  for  temporary  allot-  was  merely  fisc  or  royal  demesne,  and 

nents  from   the  state  would  not  be  before  any  beneficiary  assignment  had 

made  so  largely  as  of  old.  been  made,  was  incumbered  with  ser- 

fiut,  notwithstanding  all  these  changes  vices  aod  dues  rendered  to  the  king  by 

of  circumstances,  the  ancient  rule  was  its  occupiers. || 

still    observed    in    one    great    point.  In   what  the  latter  consisted    the 

though  it  was  departed  from  in  another,  Anglo-Saxon  laws  do  not  disclose,  but 

and  the  assignments  of  public  land  the  information  which  they  withhold 

were  not  prolonged  beyond  the  life  of  is  to  be  found  in  the  Diphmala,  where 

the  grantee,  en  whose  death  they  im-  folcland,  by  the  concurrent  act  of  the 

mediately  reverted  to  the  fisc  ;  resem-  monarch  and  his  witan,  is  enfranchised 

bling  in  this  the  fate  of  the  warlike  into  an  estate  of  bodand. 

implements  or  heregeate,  which  were  The    following    services   and   due^ 

returned  to  the  lord  when  the  vassal  occur  therein  as  incident  to  folcland* 

was  dead.f  (Kemble's  Diplomats,  vol.  ii.) 

I  have  described  circumstances  which  o      «    .    . -l  i.      ^        ^-    v 

must  actually  have  occurred  in  Great  ^^^^"^  *"*^"**  *'  vectigsha,  opus  ^^^ 

Britain  after  its  invasion  in  the  fifth  ^iBt^  tributi.  pastiis  epi^c^r^mi 
century,  for  each  Jutish,  Anglic,  or  principum  et  cxactorum,  pcenales 
Saxon  chieftain  brought  with  him,  in  res,  et  furis  comprehensio  ...  246 
addition  to  the  general  horde  of  war-  Regalia  tributa,  principalis  dominatio, 
riors  who  followed  him  through  the  poenales  conditiones,  furls  corn- 
influence  of  his  military  fame,  a  se-         prehensio 253 

lecter  body  of  dependents  engaged  by  Secularia  tributa  et  vectigalia  .    .    .  258 

oath  to  maintain  and  defend  their  lord.  Regalia  et  principalia  tributa  et  vi 

and  even  to  merge  their  own   glory  c**5ta  opera,  sive  pcenales  causae, 

into   his.*     And  these    persons,   the     „  ^'^"»  comprehensio 260 

courtiers   of  later  times,  when  each  M^  rnn-'^nt";..^         '    '    *    '  9^ 

r^^t.1,:^     ^  ^    •        u  J                 J    *i.  Kegale  opus  mtus  et  ions  •    •    .     •  269 

Gothic  sovereign    had    assunied    the     r^^^,^  ^^^^ ^^ 

habits  of  the  Byzantine  empire,  de-  Regalia  tributa  et  vi  exacU  opera, 

manded  and  received  from  their  lord  pcenales  res.  principalis  dominatio, 

fttrisque  comprehensio    ....     ib, 

Regalis  subjectio  .......  295 

♦  Tacit,  de  M.G.  c,  26, "  Agri  pro  nu-     Regalia  debiu 300 

mero  cultorum  ab  universis  per  vices  oc-  Tributnm  regale  (^thelred,  Ealdor- 

cuphninr, qjxosmoxiuterae secundum  dig '         manofMercia) 3l| 

nationem  partiaotur.''  Ic   thnt  mynster  fram   teghwelcum 

t  Notwithstanding  these  new  means  of 

rewarding  the  eomiies,  the  heregeate  or 

faereots,  though  no  longer  given  by  the  §  The  Introduction  to  Kemble*s  Anglo- 
lord,  continued  to  be  paid,  for  they  coold  Saxon  Diplomata,  vol.  i.  Allen's  Rise 
not  be  returned  to  him  on  the  death  of  and  Progress  of  the  Royal  Prerogative  in 
his  vassal.  England. 

X  Tacit,  de  M.  6.  c.  14,  '*  Ilium  de-  ||  Called  by  the  Anglo-Saxons  **  cy. 

fendere,  tueri,  sua   quoque  fortia    facta  ninges  folcland."     Vide  Kemble*s  Diplo- 

glorise  ejus  assignare,  pnecipuum  sacra-  mats,  vol.  ii.  No.  281,  "Ab  occidente 

nentum  est.'*  .  cyninges  folcland,  quod  habet  Wighelm/' 


364                      Om  the  PeodaUiy  of  tie  JngUnSaiNms.  [Oct. 

nfoliim  gefr«0M,  tbe  to  tbiode  this  recommendation  of  the  faAer 

lil«ronle  beUmpath,  Utle»  oththe  may  see  a  small  advance  towards  tne 

midea  cnthes  ge  ancatbes,  ditto    .  313  inheritance  of  fiefa.    It  could  not  have 

Fiaci  regaica,  tribaU  majora  et  mi-  been  oncoromon  in  this  age  that  the 

nora,  atque  expeditiooalia,  vis.  tax-  benefices  of  the  father  shoold  be  eon- 

ationea 358  tmned  over  to  the  son  ;  and*  as  I  have 

Censna  regalia 369  ^ej^^  remarked,  from  this  sUte   of 

Servile  jngnm  . 384  ^.j^^j^m^t^ces,  to  the  regular  trans- 

Mundiale  obatoculum    .    .    .    .    .  38»  mUsibility  of  feodal  property,  there 

n^  tnbatum.  aeculanamque  ser-  »»  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^  ^^^  ^p^ 

^^Z^^ 488  I  have  been  unable  to  aacerUin  in 

Regale  aervitmm 488  ^^^^^  j.^^^  ^j^^  ^ogj^j.Saxon  benefices 

Bnt  from  all  these  services  and  does,  ^^^^  granted  or  guaranteed  to  the 

the    beneficiary  assignment    or    fief,  persons  who  were  favoured  with  this 

which  tbe  Anglo-  Saxons  would  appear  Qgnfract  of  the  fiscal  property.    The 

to  have  called  th^ytdand,  was  exempted  ^^^ ^  boclaod,  applied  distinctively  to 

in  tbe  same  manner  as  the  absolute  the  Anglo-Saxon  allodium,  would  lead 

estate  of  bocland.*    For,  although  we  ^^  ^i^^  belief  that  no  book  or  deed  was 

have  no  direct  evidence  to  show  pre-  employed  in  the  conveyance  of  a  bene* 

cisely  on  what  terms  the   thegnland  g^^^  ^j,j^  therefore,  the  grant  being 

was  granted,  yet  tbe  analogy  between  ^^^^i^  ^^at  recourse  must  have  been 

it  and  tbe  Frankish  benefice,  and  tbe  bad 'to  the  same  sort  of  testimony  to 

base  and  onerous  nature  of  the  charges  prove  the  title  where  tbe  posseasion 

I  have  enumerated,  would  lead  to  the  ^^^  disputed.    In  whatever  cases  it 

strongest    presumption.     These   ser-  ^^^y  \^  supposed  that  tbe  right  of  the 

vices  were  doe  only  when  the  folcland  beneficiary  could  be  questioned,  there 

was  still  in  the  king,  but  actually  oc-  ^^^  qo  absolute  necessity  for  written 

copied  by  farmers  (the  jSwa/tnt  of  the  evidence.     So  long  as  the  benefice  waa 

Continent),  and   before   it  had  been  determinable  on  a  life,  the  remote  title 

converted  into  a  benefice  or  thegnland.  ^|^g  jq  the  crown ;  and  the  disturbed 

They  were  tbe  renders  of  the  tenants  beneficiary  being,  as  we  shall  after- 

in  demesne.  wards  see,  released  from  the  ordinary 

On  the  death  of  each  beneficiary  tribunals,  would   lay  his  complaint 

the  thegnland  reverted  to  the  state,  berore  the  court  of  the  king,  who  would 

and  was  either  regranted  in  that  cha-  necessarily  be,  as  the  grantor,  in  full 

racter  or  remained  under  farm  as  de-  possession  of  the  real  facts  of  the  case. 

mesne  or  terra  regit,  Xhe  unjust  possessor  either  of  bodand 

Of  this  fact  we  find  the  clearest  or  folcland  waa  mulcted  in  the  same 

proof  in  England,  even  in  tbe  ninth  penalty  .|  Vassalage,  having  so  great  an 

century,  feudality  not  having  yet  ad-  inflaence  in  the  institution  of  feodality, 

vanced  beyond   the  lirst  stage  of  its  necessarily  supplied  it  with  its  princi- 

developement.   The  Ealdorman  Alfred,  p|e  of  military  service.    This  feature, 

in  his  last  will  (executed  between  the  however,  eqosUy  belonged  to  bocland, 

years  870  and  889).  after  giving  to  his  ^qJ^  whether  in  France  or  England^ 

son  three  bides  of  his  bucland,  adds^  cannot  be  considered  the  peculiar  cha« 

"  And  gif  se  cyning  him  geunnan  wilie  ractertstic  of  the  one  more  than  of  the 

thses     folclaode    to    thsem   boclande,  other.     But,  though  this  general  mili- 

thonne  hsebbe  and  broce."t  tary  service  was  required  from  both 

We  see,  by  this  will,  that  the  dying  species  of  land,  yet  the  mode  of  exact- 

beneficiary    could   not    bequeath   his  \^g  it,  and  the  appHcation  of  it  to  each 

folcland,  nor  did  it  descend  like  his  ^s  a  condition  or  incident  of  tenure, 

estates  of  bocland  ;  but,  in  the  prospect  ^ere  totally  different.    This  leads  us 

of  death,  he  recommended  his  son  to  to   the   consideration   who   were  the 

the  bounty  of  his  lord,  in  whose  dis-  beneficiaries  in  England  during  the 

cretion  it  would  be  to  continue  the , . 

beneBce  in  the  .ame  family,  or  grant  ^^    ^    j.,j       ^^  j. 

it  afresh  to  another  vawal.    Yet  in  ..|,J^e%„donhw«»  «  wyrthe  w«re, 

— ■ — the  othmm  ribtea  wymde  athor  oththe  on 

♦  Allen*a  Rise  and  Progresa,  p.  159.  boclande  oththe  on  folclande  hwonne  he 

t  Kemble*a  DiplomaU,  vol.  ii.  317-  him  rihte  worhte  bcforan  thwn  gerefan." 


1844.} 


On  the  Feodaliiy  of  the  Atiglo-Saxens* 


365 


Anglo-Saxon  period ;  bat  for  this  par^ 
poee  it  becomes  necessary  to  make  a 
few  remarks  upon  vassalage,  as  it 
actually  existed  amongst  the  Anglo- 
Saxons. 

Like  their  German  ancestors,  they 
regarded  it  as  superior  to  all  other  ob- 
ligations in  the  man,  and  as  equally 
binding  upon  the  lord,  except  in  the 
instance  of  his  own  superior  being 
opposed  to  him,  when  the  same  prin- 
ciple which  had  bound  the  other  ap- 
plied to  himself  also. 

Alfred,  in  his  laws  (c.  38, be  gefeohte) 
gays,  "  Eac  we  cwsedath  that  man  mot 
mid  his  hiaforde  feohtan  orwite,  gif 
mon  on  thone  hlaford  feohte,  swa  mot 
se  hlaford  mid  thy  men  feohtan.  After 
there  ylcan  wisan  mot  mon  feohtan 
mid  his  geborenum  moegegif  him  mon 
on  woh  ongefeohtath,  butan  with  his 
hiaforde,  and  theet  we  ne  lyfath." 

This  interesting  passage  places  in 
the  clearest  light  not  only  the  intimate 
connexion  which  existed  between  the 
English  lord  and  his  vassal,  but  also 
shews  it  to  have  been  approved  of  and 
ratified  by  the  highest  authority  of  the 
law.  This  relation  between  them  was 
a  voluntary  compact,  and  contained 
conditions  which  it  was  the  duty  of 
each  to  fulfil.  It  was  created  by  the 
oath  of  fealty  and  simple  homage, 
called  by  the  Anglo-Saxons  the  hyU 
dath  or  boldath. 

llie  oath  of  the  man  or  vassal  is 
given  in  ^Ethelstan's  laws  in  the  fol- 
lowing words:  "On  thone  firihten, 
the  thses  haligdom  is  forehalig,  ic  wille 
beon  N,  hold  and  getriwe  and  eal 
lufian  thet  he  lufath  and  eal  ascunian 
thset  he  ascuoath  aefter  Codes  rihte, 
and  seller  worold  gerysnum  and  nsefre 
willes  ne  gewealdes  wordes  ne  gewe- 
orces  owiht  don  tbns  the  him  lath  re 
bith,  with  thaem  the  he  me  healde  swa 
ic  earnian  wille  and  eal  thst  Isste  that 
uncer  formsel  wses,  tha  ic  to  him 
gebeah  and  his  willan  geceas." 

Vassalage  was  the  same  in  all  ranks 
of  society,  and,  as  lord,  the  eorl,  ceorl 
or  king,  claimed  over  his  man  identi- 
cal rights  and  privileges.  It  was  also 
assumed  by  all  grades,  and  an  equal 
commended  himself  (or,  Saxomd, 
bowed  himselO  to  an  equal,  and  became 
his  man.* 

In  the  time  of  the  Confessor,  Eorl 


*  Alfred's  Laws,  c.  4.  Be  hlaford  syrwe. 


Swegen,  son  of  the  celebraited  God* 
win,  with  a  view  of  conciliating  his 
relative  Eorl  Beorn,  offered  "  to  swear 
unto  him  oaths,  and  be  to  him  hold."t 

The  effect  of  vassalage  in  this 
country,  as  on  the  continent,  was  to 
give  to  the  lord  devoted  and  uncom- 
promising followers,  who  had,  with 
their  own  free  will,  separated  them* 
selves  from  the  political  community 
to  identify  themselves,  in  their  feelings 
and  interests,  with  the  former. 

It  is  therefore  easily  understood  how 
the  new  kings  and  their  successors 
would  largely  dispense  amongst  such 
deserving  adherents  the  lands  which 
were  submitted,  as  we  have  seen,  to 
their  discretionary  bounty ;  and  thus^ 
as  the  connexion  between  the  |>rtiicep» 
and  cornea  was  not  severed,  and  the 
old  German  tenure  of  the  public  land 
was  by  necessity  observed,  the  deter- 
minable occupation  of  the  one,  and  the 
military  service  of  the  other  were  ac- 
cumulated, and  in  the  result  the  feudal 
system  was  developed. 

The  royal  beneficiary  and  vassal  in 
England  was  known  by  the  appellation 
of  king's  thegn,todistinguish  him  from 
the  medeme  thegn,  or  ordinary  gen- 
tleman. His  military  service  was  due 
to  the  king  only,  whom  he  regarded  as 
his  personal  and  immediate  lord  ;  and, 
being  in  this  respect  on  an  equality 
with  the  ealdorman,  led  his  own  men 
or  tenants  into  the  fie]d,|  while  the 
allodiaries  were  conducted  by  the  eal- 
dorman of  the  shire. 

He  was  also  released  from  the  civil 
power  of  the  IatterǤ  and  was  amenable 
to  the  king  alone.  In  all  other  re- 
spects also  he  enjoyed  privileges  be- 
yond those  of  the  medeme  thegn;  and 
the  most  important  of  these  was  the 
jurisdiction  which  he  possessed  over 
his  own  vassals  and  tenants,  for,  by 
a  principle  of  Germanic  law,  the  civil 
judicature  generally  accompanied  the 
military  power ;  and  accordingly,  in 
the  case  of  the  king's  thegn,  the  two 
privileges  were  usually  conjoined  by 
the  grant  of  a  crown. ||    We  have  thus 

t  Ingram's  Sax.  Cbron.  p.  220,  A.n. 
1049.  ''CwBth  tbeet  be  him  athas 
swerigan  wolde,  and  him  hold  beon." 

X  Sax.  Chron.  a.d.  871,  ad  finem.  The 
expressions  used  there  imply  the  fact  of  the 
military  independence  of  the  king's  thegn. 

§  Wilkins's  Laws,  p.  118. 

I  Cnat*8  Laws,  de  hereotis.  *'Cyninges 


366 


Oh  the  Feoddliiy  of  the  Angh-BaJNUu. 


[Oct. 


attempted  to  trace  the  origin  of  Eoglish 
benefices^  and  the  prolongation  of 
these  estates  to  a  period  embracing 
the  life  of  the  grantee,  and  the  question 
next  arises  whether  in  this  country 
the  perpetuation  of  the  ^ef,  (i.  e.  its 
hereditary  traosmissibility,)  was  ever 
established,  and  if  soch  were  the  case 
when  that  event  took  place. 

It  should  be  observed,  that,  as  this 
subject  is  not  very  clear  in  France,  it 
is  not  surprizing  that  our  own  annals 
supply  no  direct  evidence  in  regard  to 
it ;  and  much  therefore  must  be  left  to 
presumptions,  which  are,  however, 
sufficiently  strong,  1  think,  to  shew 
that  this  final  developement  had  taken 
place  independently  m  England. 

In  regard  to  the  evolution  of  feodality 
in  France,  the  celebrated  Augustin 
Thierry  has  some  striking  remarks, 
which  have  considerable  bearing  on 
the  same  question  in  its  relation  with 
this  country.*    He  says, 

*'  La  tradition  dee  assemblies  de  canton 
et  des  assembles  nationalesi  le  syst^me 
de  garantie  mntaelle,  et  d'associations  de 
toQS  lea  hommes  libres,  dareot  par  la 
force  des  choses  tomber  eD  desuetude. 
Cette  portion  des  moenrs  Germaniques  alia 
d^cliaant  de  plus  en  plus,  mail  une  autre 
portion  de  ces  mdmes  moeurs,  Tbabitude 
de  vassalage,  devint  de  plus  en  plus  vivAce, 
and  finit  par  se  rendre  dominante.  Elle 
fut  le  seul  lien  social  auquel  dans 
ranarcble  des  volont^s  et  des  inter^ts  se 
rattach^rent  ceux  qui  repoussaient  avec 
dedain  la  cit^  Romaine  et  pour  qui  la 
citd  Gcrmanique  n*^tait  plus  desormais 
qu*un  r6ve  impossible  k  realiser.  Cette  so- 
ciety a  part  que  formaient  au  sein  de  cheque 
tribu  Germaine  lea  patrons  et  les  vassaux, 
esp^ce  d'etat  dans  I'^tat,  qui  avait  sa 
jurisdiction,  sa  police,  ses  usages  par« 
ticuliers,  grandit  ainsi  rapidement  en  force 
et  en  importance.*' 

It  is  evident,  if  M.  Thierry  has 
correctly  enumerated  all  the  causes 
which  in  France  led  to  the  establish- 
ment of  the  feudal  system,  that  there 
would  not  be  much  probability  of 
finding  it  in  this  country,  even  in  the 
first  stage  of  its  progress',  for  it  is  well 
known  that  the  several  German  insti- 
tutions referred  to  by  this  historian 
continued  to  exist,  notwithstanding 
all  the  frightful  troubles  of  the  nation 

thegn  the  bis  socne  hsbbe."     Montesq. 
liv.  30,  ch.  18. 

*  Recits  Merovingiens,  vol.  1,  c  5, 
p.  S88. 


daring  the  Danish  invasions,  and  long 
survived  the  shock,  not  only  of  these 
events,  bat  of  others  of  a  similar  nature 
which  followed  them.  Yet,  as  we  have 
seen  feodalityin  itsincipient  form  exist- 
ing here  as  a  native  institution,  through 
no  introduction  or  imitation  of  con* 
tinental  asages,  other  causes  widely 
different  from  those  which  suggested 
themselves  to  M.  Thierry  must  have 
operated  to  produce  in  England  the 
complete  and  final  developement  of 
the  system.  It  is  not  my  pyrpose  to 
inquire  whether  there  has  been  any 
omission  on  the  part  of  M.  Thierry  in 
regard  to  his  own  country,  though  1 
am  inclined  to  believe  such  is  the  case ; 
at  least,  that  the  causes  which  he  has 
enumerated  do  not  go  to  the  institution 
but  to  the  encouragement  only  of 
feudalism.  But  at  all  events,  in  respect 
to  England,  the  change  or  develope- 
ment of  the  benefices  into  perpetual 
fiefs  is  totally  inexplicable  unless  other 
reasons  are  assigned,  and  these  reasons 
are,  1  think,  obvious  and  natural. 
The  king  who  had  known  and  loved 
the  deceased  vassal,  continued  (though 
by  the  eye  of  the  law  he  was  regarded 
to  have  re-granted)  to  the  son  the 
benefice  of  his  father,  and  on  his  death 
the  same  course  was  again  pursued, 
and  the  descent  of  the  benefice  being 
thus  maintained  in  the  channel  of  the 
same  family,  was  gradually  looked 
upon,  and  at  length  claimed,  as  an 
estate  of  inheritance,  governed  of  course 
by  its  own  peculiar  rules.  The  wUan, 
who  connived  at  or  sanctioned  such 
a  proceeding,  either  on  the  part  of 
their  sovereign  or  their  fellow  nobles, 
had,  in  so  doing,  motives  of  personal 
interest,  however  indirectly  exercised  ; 
and  the  king  only  consulted  bis  own 
influence  and  power  in  strengthening 
those  of  his  adherents,  especially  at  a 
price  which  was  not  derived  fiom  his 
private  means  or  resources. 

This  developement  may  be  traced 
historically  in  the  appointments  of  the 
later  ealdormen  and  eorls ;  for  their 
offices  proceeding  from  the  same 
source  as  the  fiefs  underwent  the  same 
changes,  and  involved  themselves  by 
the  same  process. 

The  ealdordom  of  Mercia  granted 
by  Alfred  the  Great  to  i£thelred  and 
^thelfloed  jointly  was  a  feudal  county, 
and  so  were  all  the  hereditary  eorldoms, 
which  sprang  up  in  the  tenth  century 


1844.] 


On  the  FeodalUy  of  the  Anglo-Saxon^* 


367 


In  England.  But,  as  in  a  former 
namber  1  went  fully  into  this  part  of 
the  sabject,  I  beg  to  refer  the  in- 
dulgent reader  to  the  article  there 
inserted^  without  trespassing  on  his 
patience  by  a  repetition. 

The  beforegoing  observations  may 
mccoontforthe  institution  offeudalism^ 
but  they  do  not  explain  the  extra- 
ordinary increase  of  fiefs,  almost  to  the 
disappearance  of  the  true  allodium, 
which  is  discernible  in  the  11th 
century  in  England. 

In  France,  Montesquieu  has  at- 
tributed the  same  circumstance  to  the 
fact  of  the  large  allodiaries  voluntarily 
surrendering  their  estates,  and  re- 
ceiving them  back  from  their  sovereign 
as  hereditary  benefices  ;  their  induce- 
ment to  take  this  step  beiug  the  greater 
honour  and  protection  which  attended 
the  king's  vassals.* 
'  Similar  privileges  undoubtedly  ap- 
pertained to  the  king's  thegnas  in 
England,  but  no  mention  can  be  found 
of  the  English  medeme  thegn  sur- 
rendering his  bocland  for  the  prospect 
of  obtaining  them  ;  and  other  reasons 
therefore  roust  be  sought  for  to  explain 
this  increase  of  fiefs. 

None  1  think  so  readily  or  so  na- 
turally present  themselves  as  the  im- 
mense escheats  to  the  crown  of  boc- 
land, occasioned  by  the  destruction  of 
the  great  families,  which  must  have 
followed  the  hideous  devastations  of 
the  Northmen  in  all  parts  of  the 
country  during  the  tenth  century,  and 
the  seizures  and  confiscations  made  by 
the  Danish  sovereigns  who  sat  on  the 
English  throne.  There  is  no  doubt 
that,  at  the  commencement  of  the 
eleventh  century,  the  infeudation 
which  had  been  proceeding  during  the 
preceding  century  had  then  pervaded 
the  major  part  of  the  English  territory. 
In  the  first-mentioned  century  the  word 
allodium  had  acquired  the  general 
meaning  of  a  hereditary  property,  and 
as  Such  was  applied  to  fiefs  ;t  aod  it  is  in 
this  sense  that  we  find  it  so  extensively 
employed  in  the  Domesday  Book,  to 
describe  estates  as  they  were  held 
during  the  reign  of  the  Confessor. 

Such  notices  as  the  following  occur 
continually    in    the   Survey,   "  God- 

*  L' Esprit  des  Lois,  liv.  30,  c.  H, 
t  Hallam*8    History    of   the  Middle 
Ages,  vol.  i.  ch.  9,  p.  103,  in  note. 


winus  comes  tenuit  de  Rege  £.  stcuf 
allodium.*'l 

These  words  are  inapplicable  to  the 
old  Saxon  allodial  estate  of  bocland, 
which  was  not  held  of  the  king  or  any 
other  superior,  but  they  can  only  ex- 
press the  fief  or  perpetuated  benefice, 
developed  in  the  course  of  things  out 
of  the  folcland.  The  events  of  the 
reign  of  the  Confessor  compose  a  pic* 
ture  of  feodality  scarcely,  if  at  all, 
differing  from  the  political  appearances 
of  the  continents  The  excessive  in- 
fluence and  power  which  that  system, 
when  full  grown,  was  calculated  to 
give  to  the  eminent  families  by  means 
of  the  sub-  infeudations  which  theirown 
large  benefices  enabled  them  to  make, 
is  distinctly  shown  in  the  conduct  and 
proceedings  of  Eorl  Godwin  and  his 
sons,  which  would  have  been  imprac- 
ticable, unless  through  the  aid  of  that 
system ;  and  the  overwhelming  import- 
ance conferred  by  it  was  in  that  age  so 
familiar  to  men's  minds,  that,  when  the 
great  Eorl  1  have  named  was  dispos* 
sessed  and  outlawed,  the  nation  won* 
dered  at  his  fall,  not  at  his  previous 
power  and  riches.  "Thset"  (saysa  con- 
temporary historian)  "wolde  thyncaa 
wundorlic  selcum  men  the  on  Engla 
lande  wies,  gif  xnig  man  sr  tham 
ssede,  thst  hit  swa  gewurthan 
sceolde."§ 

From  the  reign  of  the  Confessor  the 
transition  was  but  short  to  the  Con- 
quest of  the  Norman.  If  therefore 
any  change  was  effected  by  the  latter 
in  the  principles  on  which  the  English 
s6il  was  occupied,  it  must  have  been 
abrupt  and  violent,  and  would  there- 
fore leave  behind  it  ample  memorials 
of  its  occurrence.  It  has  been  usual 
to  attribute  to  the  Conqueror  the  pa- 
rentage of  the  feudal  tenure  in  this 
country ;  and  this  opinion  is  supported 
by  the  authority  of  Blackstone  and 
De  Lolme.  The  theory  is  attempted 
to  be  grounded  on  a  circumstance  re- 
corded in  the  Saxon  Chronicle,  under 
the  year  1085,  in  the  following  words, 
"  Siththan  he  (i.  e.  William)  ferde 
abutan,  swathset  he  com  to  Lammaes- 
san  to  Searebyrig,  and  thaer  him 
comon  to  his  witan,  and  ealle  tha 
land  sittende  men,  the  ahtes  weron. 


t  Tom.  ].  fol.  S3. 

§  Sax.  Chron.  a.d.  1051. 


268 


Oil  the  Fcodalihf  of  ike  Angh^aroM. 


[Oct. 


ofer  ealt  EoelclaDd,  weroQ  thss 
maones  men,  the  hi  wieroD,  and  ealle 
hi  bugon  to  him,  and  weroa  his  men, 
and  him  hold  athaa  aworoo,  thet  hi 
woldao  ongean  ealle  othre  men  him 
holde  beon." 

I  will  ask  the  reader,  what  is  there 
in  this  passage,  to  intimate  that  at 
this  epoch,  nineteen  years  after  the 
acceasioo  of  William,  ih^feudml  tjfttem 
was  for  the  first  time  introduced  into 
Eogland?  If  the  English  historian 
had  intended  to  commemorate  a  revo- 
lation  in  the  institutions  of  his  country, 
rach  as  the  sadden  and  arbitrary  intro- 
duction of  a  foreign  novelty,  by  which 
the  general  allodial  land  of  the  king- 
dum  was  traosformed  into  fiefs,  would 
it  not  be  amazing  that  he  should  use 
language  so  inadequate  to  represent 
his  meaning  ?  He  could  be  clear  and 
circumstantial  when  he  recorded  the 
Survey  preceding  the  compilation  of 
the  Domesday ;  and  other  events  of  a 
similar  degree  of  importance  are  also 
carefully  told  by  him.  If  the  coq- 
vtructioo  put  upon  this  fact  by  Black- 
stone  and  Oe  Lolme  were  correct,  we 
should  look  to  find  existing  in  our  own 
times  some  solemn  record  of  it,  for 
such  a  measure  could  not  have  been 
<ione  without  the  consent  of  all  per- 
sons interested  in  such  a  proceeding, 
and  must  have  left  a  legal  memorial 
to  attest  the  change  of  law,  and  to  en- 
force its  observance.  But,  though  we 
have  many  copies  even  of  the  act  of 
the  Witenagemot  which  founded  the 
ecclesiastical  Courts,  we  have  no  trace 
of  any  enactment  of  that  body  con- 
nected with  the  present  subject.  The 
fact  is,  that  the  witan  were  specially 
convened  by  the  Conqueror  to  take 
the  oath  of  fealty  The  same  thing 
had  been  done  by  Caut,  who,  on  his 
accession  to  the  whole  of  the  kingdom 
in  1016,  had  assembled  the  magnates, 
and  obtained  from  them  an  oath  of 
the  like  nature.* 

The  explanation  of  each  circum- 
stance is  founded  on  the  peculiar 
character  of  vassalage  as  it  then  ex- 
isted. Homage  and  fealty  were  ori- 
ginally undistioguishable,  no  fealty 
being  due  where  homage  did  not  apply, 
and  the  immediate  vassal  only  was 


•  Flor.  Wig.  A.P.  1016. 

4 


bound  by  this  ohiigation.  In  the 
Saxon  oath  which  has  been  qf06led  it 
will  have  been  seen  that  no  fealty*  ^as 
even  reserved  to  the  king. 

It  was  not  till  later  times  that  this 
reservation  was  made.  Hie  effect. bf 
this  principle  was  practically  seen  in 
the  reign  of  the  Confessor.  Durii^^ 
the  troubles  of  that  period  the  follow- 
ers of  Godwin,  Swegen,  and  Harold 
unhesitatingly  embraced  theircaos^as 
that  of  their  immediate  lords,  againat 
the  king.  The  Saxon  hiatoriao  saya 
of  these  vassals,  "  Ealle  gearwe  to 
wige  ongean  thone  cyning."  Thalr 
conduct  was  contrasted  with  that  of 
the  eorls,  who  were  engaged  in  hosti- 
lities against  their  own  lord,  and  felt 
all  the  feudal  responsibility  of  the 
step.  The  same  writer  says,  "  hi  (the 
eorls)  trymedon  hi  fsestlice  ongean, 
theah  him  lath  were,  thaet  hi  ongean 
heora  cynehlaford  fondan  sceoldoa." 
This  state  of  things  compelled  Edward 
to  take  securities  of  the  thcgnaa  of 
Harold,  and  afterwards,  for  hia  own 
safety,  to  require  them  all  to  be  dall* 
vered  into  his  hands.  As  the  same 
circumstances  might  occur  in  his  own 
case,  we  should  not  be  surprised  that 
William  took  the  precaution  of  admi- 
nistering to  the  landed  proprietors  of 
the  country,  whether  his  own  or 
others'  vassals,  an  oath  of  personal 
fidelity  to  himself  as  a  guarantee  for 
their  support,  and  in  order  to  obviate  the 
mischiefs  that  might  arise  tbroagh  the 
want  of  taking  such  an  obligation 
from  them  ;  and  this  was  all  which  he 
could  do,  or  could  propose  to  himself 
to  be  done. 

In  conclusion  of  this  sketch,  I  will 
merely  observe,  that  the  same  data 
being  found  in  the  institutions  and 
customs  of  England  before  the  Coo- 
quest,  as  those  from  which  the  con- 
tinental system  was  undoubtedly  de- 
rived, and  there  being  no  proof  of  the 
Normans  having  introduced  that  sys- 
tem, it  must  necessarily  follow  that 
feodality  in  England  had  a  native 
origin  and  growth. 

Doctors'  Commons.  H.  C.  C. 


t  Sax.  Chron.  m.p.  1051. 
:  Ibid. 


J  844.] 


Barrow  at  Rougham,  Suffolk. 


3G9 


OPENING   or  THB    ORKAT    EA8TL0W 

barrow,  at  rougham,  suffolk. 

Mr.  Urban, 

In  the  Gentleman's  Magaaine  for  Nov* 
1843,  p.  537,  I  communicated  a  few  ob« 
serrations  supplementai'y  to  tiie  account 
of  the  exploration  in  the  month  of  Sept. 
in  that  year,  made  by  the  Rer.  Professor 
Henslow,  of  one  of  the  four  Roman  tu- 
mnli  extant  at  Rougham,  near  Bury  St. 
£dmnnd*s,  on  the  estate  of  Philip  Bennett, 
esq.  At  p.  190  of  the  same  Tolnme  is  a 
notice  of  an  accidental  discovery  made,  on 
the  7  th  of  the  prcFions  month  of  July,  of 
Roman  sepulchral  remains  in  another  of 
these  barrows,  which  led  to  the  research 
aboTC  mentioned. 

I  mentioned  that  the  Roman  tumuli  at 
Rougham  were  four  in  number,  ranging 
near  the  side  of  a  country  road,  on  a 
line  nearly  north  and  south.  That  the 
northernmost,  the  loftiest  of  the  range, 
was  known  as  Eastlow  hill;  the  next 
barrow,  to  the  south,  was  accidentally 
opened  in  July  1843,  as  I  have  described  ; 
the  third  barrow  was  explored  by  Pro- 
lessor  Henslow,  with  a  very  successful 
Ksolt,  as  has  been  seen  by  his  report  of 
the  excavation;  the  fourth  barrow,  at 
some  former,  but,  I  believe,  unascertained 
period,  was  nearly  levelled  with  the  adja- 
cent natural  surfoce  of  the  soil. 

The  first,  however,  and  loftiest  of  these 
ancient  sepulchres  remained  still  unex- 
plored, except  that  a  portion  of  its  west 
side  had  been  cut  away  on  some  occasion 
merely  for  agricultural  purposes.  This  ' 
larger  tumulus  could  not  be  less  than  one 
hundred  feet  in  diameter,  and  twelve  or 
fourteen  feet  in  height. 

When  I  was  on  the  spot  last  autumn, 
1  had  reason  to  believe  that  I  might  my- 
self have  been  permitted  to  explore  this 
tumulus,  but  I  could  not  then  conveniently 
nadertake  the  task,  and  I  have  awaited 
with  some  degree  of  curiosity  the  result 
of  a  research  which  I  thought  it  highly 
probable  might  be  made  by  the  gentle- 
man who,  in  the  former  instance,  had 
proved  himself  so  well  qualified  to  direct  it. 

This  renewed  exploration  of  the 
Rougham  sepulchres  was  made  by  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Henslow  about  1st  July  last, 
and  has  produced  a  very  interesting  dis- 
covery. Had  I  been  fortunate  enough 
to  be  apprised  of  the  day  fixed  for  the 
excavation,  I  should  have  certainly  been 
present  as  a  spectator, 

Mr.  Henslow  has  recorded  the  particu- 
lars, some  weeks  since,  in  the  Bury  Post,* 


and  hints  that  they  may  be  followed  up  at 
some  future  time  by  a  lecture  on  the 
subject  of  ancient  sepulchral  deposits  ;  I 
shall  for  the  present,  therefore,  confine 
myself  to  a  few  general  outlines  of  the 
discovery,  and  to  one  or  two  observations 
which  the  notes  of  the  Professor  have 
elicited. 

Narraiive  ^fPrqftnor  Henghw, 

On  Thursday  morning,  the  4th  of 
July  last,  the  workmen  were  suffici* 
ently  advanced,  after  more  than  four 
days*  constant  labour,  in  exploring  the 
large  tumulus  at  Rougham,  named  East* 
low-hill,  to  raise  our  expectations  that 
we  should  be  able  to  expose  an  extensive 
deposit  of  Roman  remains  by  the  hour  at 
which  the  public  had  been  invited  to  at- 
tend.  The  discovery  turned  out  to  be 
something  of  a  very  different  description 
from  what  1  had  anticipated.  Instead  of 
urns  and  vases,  paterae  and  simpnla,  lamps 
and  lachrymatories,  such  as  were  found 
last  year,  the  only  contents  of  a  large 
chamber  of  masonry,  which  I  shall  pre- 
sently describe,  proved  to  be  a  leaden 
coffin,  inclosing  a  skeleton. 

Perhaps  it  is  my  scanty  experience  in 
this  sort  of  adventure  that  inclines  me  to 
fancy  our  antiquaries  will  feel  more  in- 
terested at  this  result  than  if  we  had  met 
with  a  repetition  of  what  the  Bartlow 
Hills,  the  smaller  tumuli  at  Rougham, 
and  those  of  other  places,  have  revealed 
to  us  concerning  tlie  more  usual  cere- 
monies adopted  by  the  Romans  in  bury- 
ing their  dead.  I  am  aware  that  Roman 
skeletons  have  been  found  before  in  leaden 
coffins ;  but  the  circumstance  is  rare ; 
and  I  have  no  opportunity  here  of  con- 
sulting the  j^rehaohffia,  or  other  standard 
works  on  antiquities,  to  ascertain  how  fisr 
former  discoveries  msy  bear  comparison 
with  the  present. 

The  object  of  peculiar  interest  to  my- 
self was  the  well-built  chamber  of 
masonry.  My  very  slight  acquaintance 
with  antiquities  must  be  my  excuse,  if 
I  wrongly  suppose  this  chamber  to  afford 
us,  in  England,  a  solitary  txUting  example 
of  the  manner  in  which  the  Romans  tiled 
their  houses.  I  recollect  baring  seen  a 
rather  rude  sketch  (in  the  second  volume 
of  the  Arehifologia)  of  a  tiled  roof,  which, 
I  believe,  was  of  the  same  description  as 
the  one  we  have  now  found.  It  was  dis- 
covered in  a  tumulus  near  York ;  and,  if 
it  has  been  preserved,  it  may  be  a  second 
example  of  this  sort.     In  that  case,  the 


*  We  have  inserted  Mr.  Kompe's  notes  on  the  late  excavation  at  Rougham,  and 
Professor  HensUm's  vmrt  flrom  the  Bvy  Post  at  length,  as  they  are  mutually  Ulof* 
tntWe  of  each  other. — Edit. 

Oxif  T.  Ma«.  Vol,  XXII.  3  B 


370 


Bmrrow  ai  Saigham,  SmJMk. 


[OcL 


chamber  contained  nnm,  and  other  artidea 
of  the  ordinarj  funereal  depoaits.  It  ia 
not  at  all  likely  that  any  Roman  bnUding 
should  be  atanding  abore  ground  in  thia 
country,  with  a  tiled  roof  laid  OTer  it 
1600  yean  ago.  Another  feature  in  thla 
chamber,  of  peculiar  intereet  to  myself, 
was  the  arched  ranlting,  a  mode  of  oon- 
itmction,  of  which,  I  bdieTC,  there  are 
▼cry  few  aamplei  among  us  which  can 
positively  be  assigned  to  the  Romans — 
BO  few,  indeed,  that»  at  one  time,  it  was 
imagined  that  they  were  not  well    ac- 

?uainted  with  the  prindple  of  the  arch, 
am  not  sure  that  in  this  case  we  can 
feel  quite  confident  that  they  had  platied 
disolttte  faith  in  that  principle,  for  cir- 
oumstances  may  have  required  that  the 
woodwork  which  Ibrmed  the  oanteribg 
should  not  be  remoTed.  It  had  been  left, 
and  had  rotted,  and  the  fragmenta  had 
fallen  upon  the  lid  of  the  coffin. 

Before  I  enter  into  further  detail,  t 
shall  permit  my  pen  to  wander  a  little 
into  the  regions  of  imagination.  For  1500 
Tears,  or  thereabouts,  a  narrow  vault  haa 
been  tenanted  by  the  mouldering  remains 
of  we  know  not  whom— only  we  fed  con- 
fident that  he  must  have  been  a  person 
who,  in  his  brief  day,  had  been  eminent 
in  some  way  or  other — for  his  wealth  or 
his  rank,  his  valour,  or  his  position  in  the 
social  system.  No  one  ot  little  estima. 
tion  in  the  eves  of  his  fellow  men  would 
have  been  buried  in  the  style  of  this 
Roman — in  a  leaden  coffin — within  a 
solidly  built  vault — and  with  a  monu- 
mental mound  of  earth  piled  over  it, 
which  needed  the  united  efforts  of  a 
numerous  company  for  its  erection.  I 
Uiiok  we  shall  not  be  wandering  very  far 
from  the  truth,  in  supposing  tUs  person 
to  have  been  lord  of  that  neighbouring 
villa,  whose  foundations  we  detected  last 
year,  in  a  field  at  a  short  distance  from 
these  tumuli.  He  was  possibly  the  very 
last  who  died  in  occupation  of  it,  before 
the  Roman  legions  were  finally  recalled 
from  enervated  Britain,  in  the  year  of 
our  Lord  426.  I  argue  thus  in  favour  of 
the  late  period  at  which  this  tumulus  was 
erected.  The  Romans  in  the  earlier 
periods  of  the  Empire  burnt  their  dead, 
almost  universally.  The  other  tumuli 
at  Rou^ham  afforded  examples  of  this 
custom,  with  the  usual  accompaniments 
of  those  vessels  in  which  the  offerings  to 
the  manes  of  the  deceased  had  been  con- 
veyed to  the  buttumf  and  deposited  with 
the  burning  lamp,  to  cheer  them  on  their 
way  ''to  that  bourne  from  whence  (as 
they  supposed)  no  traveller  was  ever  to 
return,*'  to  the  enjoyment  of  light  and 
Ufo,  in  a  resurrection  of  the  flesh.  Some 
of  the  occupiers  of  this  villa  may  have 


returned  to  Italy  and  died 
perhaps  a  few  only  of  the  ■ncoeasive  pos- 
sessors of  the  property  may  have  left  thdr 
bones  in  this  foreign  land.  This  may 
account  for  thdr  burial  ground  contain- 
ing so  lew  barrows,  though  tiie  villa  itself 
may  have  stood  for  many  vean.  We 
have,  however,  ascertained  that  several 
interments  had  taken  place  in  the  souUiem* 
most  of  the  four  banrowsb  which  was  not 
well  shaped,  and  might,  probably,  be  the 
spot  appropriated  to  inferior  members  in 
the  family.  Upon  a  small  cinerary  urn, 
reatored  from  fragments  found  in  this 
barrow,  there  has  been  rudely  scratdied 
a  few  letters,  from  which  I  can  make  out 
nothing  satisfactory.  They  may  be  in- 
tended for  a  name ;  but  I  sometimes  fancy 
they  read  dcoX  .  •  Xn  for  drt  nX■lX^^ 
*'  1  am  perished  lor  ever/'  a  sort  off 
lament  we  can  suppose  a  good  mother 
might  have  scrawled,  whilst  weepiBg 
over  the  uni  which  contained  thin 
bones  of  her  depaited  child.  No  oim» 
rejoidng  in  our  happier  praspoety  nan 
look  upon  those  reLcs  from  the  smallar 
barrows,  preaerved  at  the  Hall  at  Rong^ 
ham,  without  feeling  them  to  be  a  rsoord 
testifying  to  the  general  belief  of  man* 
kind  in  the  immortality  of  the  soul.  Bat« 
in  the  arrangementa  within  this  laiger  and 
later  tumulus,  perhaps  we  have  some  traoa 
of  the  already  spreading  infiuenee  of  a 
still  better  creed.  During  the  400  yaara 
that  the  Romana  held  this  country  in  sub- 
jection, the  Gospel  had  been  gradually 
leavening  the  corrupting  mass  of  heathen 
sunerstitions.  Better  conceptions  of  what 
is  life,  and  what  is  death,  were  beooming 
interwoven  with  the  current  opinions  of 
the  world,  and  they  were  inspiring  efttn 
heathens  with  a  contempt  for  pcacticaft 
which  could  profit  nothmg  to  departad 
Bouls.  The  simpler  mode  of  sapnUnro 
adopted  for  this  Romaut  may  have  had 
some  connection  with  that  mi^ty  revohs- 
tion  which  was  then  taking  place  in  tba 
world  of  mind.  The  Christiana  wen 
everywhere  abandoning  the  praotice  of 
of  burning  the  dead ;  and,  though  thmr 
faith  may  not  have  reached  the  heart  of 
this  Roman,  yet  his  head  may  have  as- 
sented to  better  notions  than  those  which 
bad  persuaded  his  predecessors  at  Roog- 
ham  to  feed  ghosts  with  oil  and  winot 
milk  and  blood,  and  other  aubstantial 
creations,  suited  only  to  the  sustenanoa 
of  a  bodily  existence*  For  where  ara 
those  funeral  rites  which  we  found  had 
been  so  carefully  attended  to  in  the  other 
cases?  The  funeral  pyre  no  longer 
blazes.  The  lamp  is  no  longer  considered 
of  any  inportanoe.  No  offiningi  are 
laced  within  the  vault.  AU  that  eonM 
e  found  withia  the  tomb  iMliiiitiiv  aC 


I 


1844.] 


Marrow  at  Rougham,  Safolk, 


371 


hefttheB  fliipergtitioii  was  the  pati- money 
(an  oiolui)  in  the  mouth  of  the  entombed. 
Charon  had  been  propitiated,  I  have  not 
yet  been  able  to  diatinguish  any  legend  on 
thiii  ooin»  which  ia  nearly  aa  much  cor- 
fOdad  aa  the  one  found  last  year.  There 
waa  a  Uttle  chamber  ontaide  the  vault,  in 
which  glaaa  veaacla  had  been  depositedi 
but  Qamrtunately  th«e  had  crumbled  to 
noipdcr,  and  thftw  waa  no  relic  ol  any 
kind  to  ahow  vhat  thav  had  flontainad.  If 
tlmt  rua^  obolifl  bad  been  miaaingi  we 
B^|ht  hnwie  felt  half  paviuaded  to  beUove 
thia  Boman  had  embraced  the  Cnwa.  The 
•uperttitiaBB  of  ihoae  daya,  and  of  later 
dtj§,  and,  alaa  I  of  thaae  daya  alaa*  a» 
•tnnge  thioga  to  look  uiuDn.  Indeed  we 
hare  no  iMed  to  tax  aur  imaginatioii*  for 
what  the  lUae  ftmoiaa  of  ignorant  and  un- 
enlighfiMMd  minda  may  fonnarly  have 
tempted  men  to  pnt  their  tnut  in.  I  al- 
lude to  none  of  the  Tanitiea  of  will-wor- 
ahip ;  but  it  aeema  that  even  the  record  in 
the  Adi,  eouoerning  thoae  dealers  in  eu- 
rioua  arte  who  burnt  their  booka  and  re- 
pented, is  a  laaaon  loat  upon  many  of  us 
now*a-  days ;  and  we  still  hear  of  hundreds 
conauUing  some  "  wise  man/'  or  **  wise 
woman,'*  (wiae  indeed  in  their  generation,) 
aa  confidently  aa  this  heathen  ever  trusted 
an  aruspex  or  an  augur.  Truly  a  thou- 
sand years  in  these  matters  have  passed 
away  but  as  one  day ! 

But  let  me  come  to  a  detail  of  facts  ; 
and«  with  the  assistance  of  the  woodcuts 
you  have  so  ItberaUy  consented  to  intro- 
duoe  in  illuatration  of  my  account,*  I  shall 
hope  to  make  the  structure  of  the  chamber 
we  have  diaoovered  intelligible  to  all.  I 
dare  aay  that  very  few  of  the  many  hun- 
dreds who  paaaed  through  the  tumulus 
were  aware  they  had  been  peeping  into  a 
bnUding  of  the  form  represented  in  fig.  1 . 
More  than  half  of  the  roof  still  remains 
covered  over  by  the  superincumbent 
earth ;  bat  we  may  see  plainly  from  what 
haa  been  exposed  the  real  character  of  the 
whole. 

The  workmen  approached  this  subter- 
raneous building  by  driving  a  tunnel,  at 
the  level  of  the  natural  soil,  and  about 
six  feet  high,  aa  directly  towards  the 
centre  of  the  barrow  as  we  could  judge. 
At  a  distance  of  about  fifty  feet  from  the 
outermost  edge  of  the  base,  they  struck 
upon  the  middle  of  the  western  wall, 
running  in  a  N.E.  direction,  rather  more 
weaterly  than  the  direction  of  the  tunnel. 
They  had  previously  come  upon  the  solid 
concrete  foundation  (ABC)  upon  which 
the  tomb  ia  built,  and  which  projects  on 


*  And  as  liberally  lent  by  T%e  Bury 
PoH  to  onrfehes.  ^  BdU. 


all  aides  round  the  walls.  The  walls  of 
the  tomb  were  then  exposed  by  tunnelling 
completely  round  the  tomb.  The  passage 
at  the  north  end  of  the  tomb  was  driven 
easterly  till  an  opening  was  effected  in 
that  direction  through  the  tunnel,  which 
was  the  nearest  way  out  again ;  the  tomb 
lying  to  the  «aat  of  the  centre  of  the  bar- 
row. Notwithstanding  the  very  unfa- 
vourable state  of  the  weather,  many  bun- 
dfeda  visited  the  apot,  and  the  constant 
stream  of  wonderera  paasing  through  the 
tunnela  was  kept  up  for  five  or  six  hours 
without  any  intermisaion.  It  was  very 
aatia&etory  to  witneas  the  good  behaviour 
and  good  humour  of  the  labouring  classes, 
who  appeared  to  be  far  more  gratified  than 
I  could  have  expected,  considering  the 
abaenoe  of  all  thoae  kinds  of  sepulchral 
furniture  which  were  found  in  the  ad- 
joining tumuli  opened  last  year.  The 
confidence  with  which  Mr.  Bennett  had 
trusted  them  was  in  no  instance  abused, 
and  we  have  this  example,  among  many, 
that  Englishmen  are  wonderfully  improved 
since  the  times  when  they  had  a  character 
(was  it  a  just  one?)  of  looking  more 
through  their  fingers  than  with  their 
eyes.  Such  a  light-fingered  faculty  is 
now  restricted  to  the  practice  of  the 
cktir-voyant  mesmeriaer !  There  are,  in- 
deed, a  light-fingered  gentry  of  another 
class — pilferers  of  whatever  may  be  trans- 
mutable  into  modem  coin,  whom  we  have 
not  thought  it  advisable  to  trust  over- 
confidently.  Common  prudence  has  dic- 
tated the  propriety  of  removing  the  leaden 
coffin  to  a  better  aecurdd  locality;  and 
Mr.  Bennett  having  left  it  at  my  disposal, 
I  have  suggested  it  being  transferred 
to  the  FitawUliam  Museum,  at  Cam- 
bridge, the  nearest  public  depoaitory 
suited  to  its  reception  with  which  I  am 
acquainted.  It  would  certainly  have 
been  desirable  to  have  left  it  with  the 
skeleton  in  the  tomb;  but  probably  it 
would  have  gradually  corroded  away  in 
that  position.  I  intend  to  forward 
the  skull  to  the  Anatomical  Museum 
at  Cambridge,  where  it  will  possess  a 
scientific  intereat,  among  a  rapidly  in- 
creasing and  akilfuUy  arranged  collection 
of  objects  of  comparative  anatomy.  The 
rest  of  the  bones  will  be  left  in  the  tomb, 
to  undergo  that  speedy  decay  which  the 
admitted  influences  of  the  weather  will 
produce  upon  them.  This  skull  has  all 
its  teeth  in  perfect  preservation  ;  but  the 
sutures  in  it  are  partially  obliterated. 
Perhaps  we  guess  pretty  correctly  in  be- 
lieving the  disentombed  had,  in  his  life- 
time, seen  about  as  many  revolving  auna 
aa  the  disentomber,  bom  in  1796.  In 
atature  thia  Roman  appears  to  have  been 
rather  more  than  six  feet ;  but  tha  bonea 


372 


Biirnw  at  Roaskam,  Sufftik, 


h«d  become  to  modi  detached  from  each 
other,  u  to  meks  the  mcuaremeDt  >  mat- 
ter of  nDcertiiiit;.  There  wu  ■  corrupted 
looking  mau  of  caihooaceoiu  raatter.  in- 
tenniied  witli  hair,  about  the  fioor  of  the 
coffin  and  over  the  bonet,  which  potaibly 
hill  pirtlr  rtinlted  from  the  decompo- 
litioD  of  the  hide  of  eoine  animal  in  which 
the  bodj  had  been  wrapped.  There  were 
also  root-like  fibm  projecting  from  tlui 
lyineg,  of  the  lega  more  especiatlf,  which 
|»e  them  ■  itrange  and  ahifgy  appear- 
ing. Thii  proYe*  to  be  ■  mau  of  ■ 
pecoliar  kind  of  fungui,  called  rUta- 
■uHTita,  and  serm  to  illottrate  the  bet, 
that  aU  faDgi  are  derived  from  tiM  de- 
compoiing  materiali  of  nme  preTioulf 
organiied  bodj,  whether  animal  or  te. 
getahle.  Here  we  hare  the  aabttauce  of 
one  of  the  noblea  of  astiqnitf 

Fif.  1  ii  a  penpectire 
liaw,  la  it  would  appear  if 
perfectlj  cleared  of  the  au- 
[MTtncumbeot  earth. 

Flf.  Sua  horixoDtal  or 
gronud  plan  of  the  tomb  and 
the  foundation. 

Fig.  3  ia  a  Tcrtical  aection 
through  the  middle  and  at 
right  aoglei  to  the  ridge. 

The  lameletten  areuKdto 
mark  the  tame  paiti  in  the 


A  B  C,  a  concrete  foonda' 
lion  of  brge  flint*  and  verj 
hard  mortar  mixed  with  aand  ; 
ISfeotaqnare.  DE(13rect)i 
E  F  (61  feet} ;  the  waUa  of 
the  tomb,  S  feet  thick,  9  feet 
high  at  the  lidee,  (B  N), 
and  the  eudi    i  feat  to  the 

Theie  walli  are  of  flint  and 
mortar,  with  rowi  of  tile  at 
latemli,  at  in  the  city  walli 
of  Veralam,  Colcheater,  Sic. 

It  wii  probablj  when  the 
wall*  had  Wn  railed  to  the 
height  of  two  feet  that  the 
coffin  wai  laid  in  the  chamber, 
and  then  aa  arch  turned  orer 
the  catlty  G  H  I.  Thit  arcb 
ia  a  half  cjlindcr  of  Roman 
tilei  ioteniuied  with  tuch 
mortar.  The  two  end  walli 
were  next  bailt  up  to  their 
fiiE  height,  which  lerred  to 
date  the  tomb.  The  roofing 
ahon  the  arch  wai  lillecl.in 
with  ttone,  brick  and  mortar, 
K  bed  of  mortar  wti  ipread 
uniformly  OTCr  the  whole, 
■Io|ring  on  eaeh  ride  ai  much 
«  iB  wtaHon   root*.     Th9 


[Oct. 

mio  maienau  lorv^ing  one  of  the  Tery 
low«at  of  the  fnngi !  The  leaden  ohcit  or 
cofEn  wu  til  feet  nine  inehea  is  lengA, 
one  foot  Are  indwt  broad,  and  oae  Caa( 
four inchei  deep.  Ithadbeen  formedofa 
■beet  or  aheela  of  kwt,  by  taming  up  the 
■idea  and  endi,  after  rattiBg  out  the  piece 
at  the  eornert ;  jntt  ai  we  mike  a  paete- 
board  tray.  The  edge*  were  loldered  oa 
the  iniide.  The  lid  wai  a  loaee  aheet, 
alio  turned  in  at  the  edgea  and  enda  in  the 
•ame  way,  but  without  any  loUeilDK.  TiM 
whole  wai  loperfloially  ooBTeited  to  Ae 
white  oxide  (the  commou  white  paint  af 
the  ihopi),  10  thit  thli  coffin  miy  be  uM 
to  baTC  been  Mlf-painted.  It  wai  ilao 
much  corroded  in  parte.  A  reference  to 
the  figurci  will  aniat  ni  In  better  appre- 
Bg  the  pecnllaritU*  ol  the  tomb,  lad 


/V-l 


1644>] 


SttrT^w  at  BBugkoMf  SufM* 


373 


iilmg  MBsirts  of  twelve  rows  on  etidi  eidet 
with  four  tiles  fia  s  row.  Contiguous  rows 
do  not  overlap  at  their  edges ;  hut  the  su- 
perior tiles  in  each  row  overlap  those  im- 
medliately  below  them.  The  contrivance  by 
which  this  effect  is  secured  nay  be  under- 
stood by  referring  to  fig.  4,  where  Q  is  the 
upper  part,  and  R  the  lower,  of  the  same 
tile.  There  is  a  square  projecting  ridge 
upon  the  upper  surfiice  of  the  tile  next 
the  edges,  but  which  does  not  extend 
quite  up  to  the  uppermost  end  ;  so  that  a 
sort  of  noteh  is  left  there.  On  the  under 
sarfisoe  of  the  tile,  and  next  the  edges  at 
the  bottommost  end,  there  are  square  de- 
pressions of  suflkdent  size  to  admit  a  por- 
tion of  the  projecting  ridges  of  the  tile 
next  below  it — so  that  the  under  part  of 
one  ist  as  it  were,  loosely  dove -tailed  with 
the  upper  portion  of  the  next  tile.  A 
thick  layer  of  mortar  is  laid  over  tbe 
junction  lines  of  the  contiguous  rows,  and 
completely  embeds  the  elevated  ridges 
along  the  edges  of  the  tiles.  Wherever 
this  sort  of  tiling  was  exposed  above 
ground,  I  presume  the  mortar  over  the 
contiguous  edges  was  further  protected  by 
other  curved  tiles,  similar  to  those  we 
place  on  the  ridges  of  our  own  roofs. 
Along  the  ridge,  in  this  case,  was  laid  a 
row  of  hollow  flue-bricks,  each  of  them 
18  inches  long,  with  a  hole  on  one  side. 
I  presume  these  bricks  had  been  prepared 
(br  a  hypocanst,  or  a  bath  for  hot  vapour, 
in  the  villa :  and  that  they  happened  to 
be  lying  about  ready  at  hand  for  the 
workmen  who  were  preparinf^  the  tomb. 
Several  of  the  same  description  had  been 
worked  into  the  walls  of  the  chamber  in 
one  of  the  tumuli  opened  last  year. 

The  north  end  of  the  arched  vault  has 
been  exposed,  by  removing  a  portion  of 
the  wall  at  that  end ;  but  the  wall  at  the 
south  end  has  been  left  entire :  so  that  no 
feature  in  the  tomb  has  been  destroyed 
which  has  not  a  duplicate  left,  for  pur- 
poses of  comparison  or  study.  The 
weight  and  settlement  of  the  superincum- 
bent earth  has  cracked  all  the  tiles ;  but, 
on  putting  one  of  them  together,  I  find  it 
measures  15^  byll|  inches,  and  is  1) 
inch  thick  at  the  edges,  and  |  inch  thick 
in  the  middle.  The  coffin  api>enrs  to  have 
rested  upon  woodwork,  or  perhaps  had 
been  completely  encased :  for  we  found  a 
great  many  nails,  of  various  sizes,  from  2 
to  13  inches,  lying  by  its  side,  and  among 
a  mass  of  decayed  wood  beneath  it. 

The  addition  of  the  little  chamber  (M) 
to  the  north  end  of  the  tomb  appears  to 
have  been  an  after-thought,  for  it  extends 
beyond  the  limits  of  tbe  concrete  founda- 
tion. When  I  first  saw  this  chamber,  I 
expected  to  find  in  it  the  sweepings  of  a 
funeral  pyre,  deposited  in  some  coarse 


jar,  OS  was  tbe  case  in  the  largest  of  th» 
Bartlow  barrows,  where  Mr.  Rokewode 
describes  one  to  have  been  pbced  on  tbn 
outside  of  the  Buitwn, 

When  I  was  at  Cambridge  this  spring, 
delivering  my  annual  course  of  lectures,  I 
took  every  opportunity  I  could  command 
of  consulting  some  of  the  older  standard 
works  on  antiquities  in  the  Public  Library 
and  Fitzwilliam  Museum,  expressly  for 
the  purpose  of  preparing  myself  for  the 
task  of  opening  this  tumulus,  and  for  ma- 
turing my  judgment  with  respect  to  what- 
ever might  be  found  in  it.  In  the  course 
of  my  researches,  I  have  met  with  ample 
evidence  that  the  conjecture  was  correct 
which  I  hazarded  in  my  former  account 
last  year,  respecting  the  real  use  of  la- 
chrymatories. These  were  not  tear- vessels, 
as  is  almost  universally  believed'^they 
were  vessels  for  balms  and  balsams.  The 
hypothesis  of  their  being  tear-vesseU  ori- 
ginated in  an  nnphilosophical  view  taken 
of  the  contents  of  one  of  them  by  an  anti- 
quary who  wrote  early  in  the  seven- 
teenth century.  The  imaginations  of  the 
antiquaries  of  that  day  needed  a  little 
ballasting  with  the  facts  elicited  by  mora 
modern  science,  to  check  their  over-«cu- 
berance.  The  dreams  of  this  propounder 
of  tear-vessels  were  readily  adopted  by  a 
crowd  of  half-observers,  half-compilers  ; 
but  were  amply  refuted  by  some  of  the 
more  learned  and  careful  antiquaries  who 
succeeded  them.  It  does  then  seem 
somewhat  strange  to  a  mere  dabbler  in 
this  kind  of  research,  that  some  modem 
antiquaries  should  persist  in  believing 
the  ancients  practised  any  such  custom 
as  bottling  up  their  tears,  in  order  to  lay 
them  by  the  ashes  of  departed  friends. 
There  is  no  such  word  as  Laehrjfmatorium 
in  our  Latin  dictionaries.  Let  us  in  future 
call  these  vessels  Va9a  Ungufntatia, 
They  may  all  bo  classed  in  the  same  cate- 
gory as  that  "alabaster  box  of  vnry 
precious  ointment,*'  whose  recording  in 
the  Gospel  is  one  of  the  noblest  memo- 
rials ever  circulated  to  the  honour  of  the 
faithful.  These  vata  unguentttria  were 
often  made  of  alabaster— I  possess  a  very 
pretty  one,  said  to  hsve  been  taken  from 
a  tomb  in  Egypt.  They  were  sometimes 
hermetically  sealed,  to  prevent  the  escape 
of  the  subtle  odour ;  and  thus  it  became 
necessary  to  break  off  the  neck  to  get  at 
the  precious  contents.  I  have  made  some 
further  memoranda  on  the  subject  of  Um 
Burial,  which  may  possibly  be  as  interest* 
ing  to  others  as  ignorant  as  myself  on 
subjects  of  antiquity.  If  I  can  find  time 
to  throw  them  into  a  presentable  shape,  I 
shall  hope  to  offer  them  in  the  form  of  a 
Lecture  to  the  inhabitants  of  a  neighbour- 
hood which  takes  so  nnch  interest  in  tUs 


374 


Bwrraw  tu  Rtmghim,  Si^fM^ 


[Oct, 


•ort  of  reiMTch ;  bat  whan  or  where  I 
may  he  able  to  do  this  I  cannot  at  preaent 
laj*  J.  S.  Hbnslow. 

BemarM9  dy  Mr.  Kimpe, 
A  tunnel,  it  appean,  was  driTen  towards 
t)M  centre  of  the  great  Eaatlow  barrow, 
and  at  about  the  diitanoe  of  fiftj  liBei»  ita 
■emi-diameter,  the  workmen  struck  upon 
a  small  Taulted  buUdmg,  constmetod  on  a 
podium  or  base  of  concrete  mortar  and 
flints.  This  Tault  ^ipoara  to  have  bean 
about  seven  feet  and  a  half  in  length, 
four  and  a  half  in  width,  clear  dimensions 
of  the  interior.  The  sides,  constructed  of 
flint  and  layers  of  Roman  tile,  weie  about 
two  feet  in  height.  The  ends,  bearing 
north-east  and  south-west,  were  olcTatad 
like  the  gables  of  a  house,  and  the  whole 
was  eorered  in  by  those  Roman  house- 
tiles,  turned  up  at  the  edges  and  over- 
hMPpingy  of  whioh  representations  will  be 
found  in  your  vol.  for  1829,  p.  401,  pt. 
i.,  giving  some  further  particulars  thnn 
were  to  be  found  in  the  Archeologia, 
Vol.  S2,  of  the  ezcsTations  made  by  if  r. 
Crofton  Croker  and  myself,  in  the  War- 
bank  field,  Keston,  of  a  Roman  saoellum 
and  tombs.  It  is  not  a  little  remarkable 
that  the  house-like  vault  at  Bastlow,  co- 
vered with  tiles,  exactly  resembles  in  form 
the  roof  which  I  myself  had  conjeoturaUy 
supplied  in  my  sketch  book  as  a  oovering 
for  one  of  the  tombs  discovered  at  Keaton* 
The  bodies  at  Warbank,  like  that  at  fiaat- 
low,  had  been  laid  nearly  north  and  south, 
tiiat  is,  with  the  face  to  the  south ;  audit 
may  be  no  improbable  deduction  that  the 
heathen  Romans  in  this  arrangement  re- 
garded the  meridian  sun,  while  the 
Christian  Church,  in  subsequent  ages, 
have  always  in  their  ceremonial  ob- 
servanoes  had  respect  to  the  Eastern  sun, 
as  a  type  of  the  appearance  of  Christ, 
and  of  raexesurrsetionof  the  dead.  I  dis- 
covered and  pointed  out  at  Rougham,  as 
at  Warbank,  the  remains  of  a  Roman 
villa,  to  which  at  both  places  had  bean 
attached  a  series  of  family  tombs. 

A  small  projecting  chamber,  about 
eighteen  inches  square,  was  added  to  the 
north  end  of  the  tomb  at  Rougham  i  and 
appeared  to  have  contained  glass  vessels 
which  had  perished  by  decomposition. 
House* like  tombs,  it  will  be  remembered, 
for  the  unbnmt  body  of  the  dead,  were  in 
use  by  the  Etruscans  (see  an  interesting 
specimen  in  the  British  Museum)  ;  they 
were  employed  in  the  Saxon  times,  and  were 
succeeded  by  coffins  of  stone — sn  dotd*ane. 
The  skeleton  at  Eastlow  was  that  of  a 
man  upwards  of  six  feet  in  height,  and  in 
the  mouth  was  a  piece  of  coin  to  pay  the 
fsre  of  hb  ghost  over  the  Styx.  This 
QoiD,  Mr.  Henslow  tella  «•»  wu  niieb 


cttrrDdad--but  ita  siae  and  thidoMsa,  if 
stated,  might  lead  pretty  conclusively  to 
an  approximation  of  the  date  for  the  in^ 
torment ;  a  most  desirable  point,  not  yet 
elucidated. 

The  akeleton  had  been  inclosed  in  • 
kind  of  ooliin  compoaad  of  sheets  of  lead 
turned  up  as  a  paper  trough,  and  eovared 
with  a  sheet  of  the  same  metal  i  it  wm 
not  aoldered,   and  Hie  whole  had   baas 
pUmad  in  an  outer  loenlua  or  eolBn  of 
woodf    of   which   the  naila,   varying  iii 
length  from  S  to  19  inahas,  and  the  iw- 
mains  of  the  rotted  ohest,  lay  on  the  floor 
about  the  body.    The  Roman  mftM  of 
lead  found  at  Sovthfleel,  in  Kent,  wmm 
formed  ezaetly  in  the  nmaner  above  man* 
tionad,  and  with  thm  were  t\m  itiMO 
vared  many  intereating  artiolas  of  jewelif 
and  costume.'^ 

In  speaking  of  the  vaoltiag  of  the 
chamber,  which  appears  to  have  \mm 
effected  throughout  its  length  on  a  ea«tv« 
iog  of  wood,  and  to  be  oompoaed  of  snoh 
msterials  as  were  ready  at  band,  flue  tilna« 
&c.  Mr.  Henslow  appears  to  doubt  that 
the  Romans  possessed  a  thorough  know- 
ledge of  the  principle  of  the  arch.— 
Surely  the  recollection  of  the  remains  of 
their  noble  aqneducta,  arches  and  bridges, 
in  various  quarters  of  their  empire,  will 
remove  ibis  impression. 

Mr.  Henslow  seems,  with  muah  deai- 
sion,  to  repudiate  the  idea  that  tiia 
ancients  had  any  tear  boktias,  oomasonly 
called  lachrymatories,  t  I  think  he  ia 
quite  ri|^t  in  eonsideriiig  many  of  the 
small  veasels  of  earthen-ware  and  glaas* 
on  which  that  appeUation  has  been  hastily 
conferred  aa  purely  unguentary ;  but  whan 
I  remember  that  nnmerona  gUas  vessels 
have  been  found  in  ancient  tomba,  pfO'* 
ciaely  in  f As  form  of  m  tHur^  and  hardly 
large  enough  to  be  appliedto  any  other  pwr« 
pose  than  the  eoaaervation  or  symhalioal 
imitation  of  the  natural  dropa  from  *'  the 
fruitful  river  of  the  eye  ;*'  when  I  iMaU 
the  emphatic  allusion  of  the  Psalmiat|  to 
such  a  custom,  I  cannot  dismiss  feom  nay 
mind  the  ooiyecture  that  lachrymal  ves- 
sels (  were  really  employed  in  funaroal 
rites. 
1-1.  —.»      II        .^    ^,,  , 

*  See  communication  of  my  late  re- 
spected correspondent,  Rev.  Peter  Raah- 
leigb,  to  the  Society  of  Antiqnariea, 
Archmologia,  vol.  xiv. 

f  I  know  that  in  this  opinion  the 
professor  concurs  with  what  has  been  said 
on  the  subject  by  the  Ute  learned  anti- 
quary. Rev.  T.  D.  Foabroke.— Vide  £n- 
cyolopmdia  of  Antiquities. 

t  *'Thou  tellest  myflittings;  put  my 
team  mU  ikyMtk,''^Vw^ak  56,  v.  8. 

i  See  an  account  of  the  ^xhibitioB  of. 


1844.] 


Collan  of  Livery  and  Badges, 


S75 


I  wfll  not  condttde  this  commiinicatioii 
without  offering  the  soggestioii  to  the 
worthy  lord  of  Rongham,  that  the  Romen 
ooiBBt  house-like  tomb,  and  their  con* 
tentB>  might  be  easily  presenred  for  the 
inspection  of  the  enrloos  in  onr  national 
antiqiiitieS)  by  supporting,  with  a  few 
timber  props,  the  tunnel  formed  through 
the  Eastlow  barrow,  leaving  one  entrance 
open,  aooessible  by  a  gate,  and  entrusting 
the  hoy  to  the  tenant  of  the  adjoining 
ftvm  f  who  might  shew  the  remains.  They 
would  retain  a  much  greater  Talne  in  ntUt 
tiwn  If  distributed  to  the  Museums  at  Cam- 
bridge, as  propoisd*  A  neat  and  aoou- 
rale  modal  ou^  at  ouee  to  be  made  of 
0iie  tomb)  and  depeMted  in  the  BrMsh 


Ma.  Urbait, 

TOUR  Corre^pdAdetat  Mr.  KnUvt, 
\tk  his  iotemting  metoDir  on  the  Battle 
of  Bafnet  inserted  in  your  last  Maga- 
zine, baa  done  me  the  honour  to  refer, 
generally,  to  my  articles  on  Collars  of 
Livery  communicated  to  your  pages, 
on  the  occasion  of  hie  giving  an  ex- 
planation of  a  passage  in  one  of  the 
Paston  Letters,  which  he  presumes  to 
have  referred  to  the  Livery  Collar  of 
Edward  the  Fourth.      My  series  of 
articles  on  Collars  of  Livery  was  un- 
fbrtnnately  abruptly  broken  off  before 
I  came  to  the  Collar  of  that  reign ; 
and  other  matters  have  since  diverted 
my  attention  from  my  proposed  task 
of  resuming  it,  though  I  have  collected 
many  interesting  particulars  relating 
to  the  subject,  which  only  require  ar^ 
rangement ;  and,  besides,  I  have  still  to 
famish  the  catalogue  of  Monumental 
Eiffigita  wearing  Collars  of  Livery,  the 
formation  of  which  catalogue  alone 
was  at  first  the  principal  part  of  my 
plan.      I  take  the  occasion  afforded 
Dy  Mr.  Kempb's  note  to  state  that 
I  still  intend  to  do  this  at  the  earliest 
opportunity,  and    that   I   shall    feel 
obliged  by  any  assistance  that  may  be 
given  me. 

With  regard  to  the  passage  quoted 
by  Mr.  Kbmpe,  I  am  inclined  to  think 
that  it  does  not  relate  to  a  Livery  Col- 


sdme  glass  vessels  in  the  form  of  tears, 
brought  from  the  Elysian  fields,  near  Na- 
ples) by  Albin  Martin,  esq* — Gent.  Mag. 
for  1844,  p.  409*  pt.  i»  Also  sketch  of  a 
glass  vessel  found  ih  Deveril  Street,  Kent 
Boad»  Archsologia,  vaL  afcvi.  p  466,  and 
our  vol.  vi»  p.  507. 


lar.    As  Sir  John  Fenn  gives  it  in  the 
old  orthography  it  is  as  follows : 

*'  My  Lord  of  Clarence  is  goon  to  his 
brother  late  kyng,  in  so  moche  that  his 
men  have  the  Gorget  on  their  breests  and 
the  Rose  over  it."  (vol.  ii.  p.  68.) 

Sir  John  Fenn  has  explained  the 
word  Gorget  by  this  note, 

**  A  Collar  worn  round  the  neck.'* 

Now,  the  gorge  is  the  throat,  as 
every  body  knows;  and  the  gorget 
was  a  piece  of  body- armour  worn 
round  the  throat  ot  neck ;  but  I  believe 
the  word  will  not  be  found  applied  to 
a  loose  collar*  Farther,  as  I  hate 
shewn  on  a  former  occasion,  Liverr 
Gollain  Were  not  worn  by  the  "  men,^' 
or  common  soldiers,  who  are  here 
meant;  and  if  they  bad  been,  and 
were  called  by  the  name  in  question, 
the  writer  of  Uie  letter  would  not  have 
said  that  the  men  "  have  the  gorget," 
but  that  they  "  have  gorgets." 

It  is  evident  to  me  that  the  word 
was  misread  by  Sir  John  Fenn,  and 
that  this  is  one  of  the  instances,  of 
which  there  are  probably  many,  in 
which  we  have  to  regret  the  disap- 
pearance of  the  original  manuscripts  of 
that  unparalleled  collection  of  ancient 
Letters. 

The  soldiers  at  large  were  accns^ 
tomed  to  wear  badges,  made  generally^ 
I  presume,  of  cloth,  or  like  material,* 
sewn  upon  their  breasts,  and  backs 
al80,t  and  the  badge  which  the  Duke 
of  Clarence  directed  his  men  to  assume 
on  this  occasion^  was  doubtless  that  of 
"  his  brother  late  king."  King  £d^ 
ward^s  badge  was  the  rose  in  a  sun ; 
it  was  commonly  known  by  its  French 
name  (the  language  of  heraldry)  as 
the  Ron  en  Soleil,  and  (though  there 
does  not  appear  much  similarity  in 
the  letters  composing  the  words,)  it 
is  still  almost  certain  that  James 
Gresham,  Sir  John  Paston's  corre- 
spondent, must,  instead  of  Oorgetp 
have  written  Soleil. 

I  must  beg  permission^  before  I  con* 
elude,  to  point  out  the  original  aa» 


*  — '*  thirteen  thousand  quioysans  (cog- 
nisanees)  of  fiuOtm  with  boars.**  War- 
rant of  Richard  IIL  to  his  Wardrobe 
keeper,  MS.  Harl.  433,  art.  lo76. 

t  — "  bothe  before  and  behynde.*^ 
WarKw<Nrth*s  Chrosiele. 


376 


The  BaUle  ofBarnet. 


[Oct. 


thority  for  the  incident  related  of  the 
Earl  of  Oxford's  livery  being  mis- 
understood,  which  is  stated  to  have 
tamed  the  fortune  of  the  day  at  the 
battle  of  Barnet.  It  is  derived,  from 
the  history  of  the  first  thirteen  years 
of  the  reign  of  King  Edward  the 
Fourth,  which  has  been  published  by 
the  Camden  Society  under  the  title  of 
Warkworth's  Chronicle.  It  was  from 
this  narrative  that  Stowe,  as  was 
pointed  out  by  your  reviewer,*  derived 
much  that  he  gives  in  his  Chronicle 
relative  to  the  same  period.  Thus,  it 
states  the  number  of  the  sUin  on  both 
sides  to  have  been  4,000  men,  as  given 
by  Mr.  Kxmpb  on  the  authority  of 
Stowe.  In  one  important  point,  the 
duration  of  the  battle,  from  four  to  ten 
in  the  morning,  it  supplies  informa- 
tion unnoticed  by  Mr.  Kempb.  If  1 
append  the  whole  account  furnished 
by  this  authority,  I  think  it  will  not 
be  unacceptable.  After  having  stated 
the  number  of  king  Edward's  forces 
to  have  been  7«000,  and  that  of  the 
Earl  of  Warwick's  20,000,  and  de. 
■cribed  the  arrival  of  the  two  hosts  at 
Barnet,  the  writer  proceeds : 

*'  And  on  Ester  day  in  the  momynge, 
the  xiiij  day  of  Apryl,  ryght  erly,  eche  of 
them  came  uppone  otbere  ;  and  tber  was 
anche  a  grete  ro  jste,  that  nether  of  them 
mygfat  see  otherc  perAtely.  Ther  tbei 
faugbte,  from  iiij.  of  clokke  in  the  mom- 
ynge unto  X.  of  clokke  in  the  forenone. 
And  dyverse  tymes  the  erle  of  Warwykes 
party  had  the  victory,  nnd  supposede  that 
thei  hadde  wonne  the  felde.  Hut  it  hap. 
enede  so,  that  the  erle  of  Oxenfordes  men 
hade  nppon  them  ther  lordes  lyvery,  bothe 
before  and  behynde,  which  was  a  sterre 
withe  stremys,  wiche  [was]  royche  lyke 
kynge  Edwardes  lyvery,  the  sunne  withe 
atremys ;  and  the  myste  was  so  thycke, 
that  a  manne  myghte  not  perfytely  juge 
one  thynge  from  anothere  ;  so  the  erle  of 
Warwikes  meone  schott  and  faugh te 
agcns  the  erle  of  Oxenfordes  menoe, 
wetynge  and  supposynge  that  thei  hade 
bene  kynge  Edwardes  menne ;  and  anone 
the  erle  of  Oxenforde  and  his  meone  cryed 
Treasonne !  treasoune  1  and  iledde  awaye 
lh>m  the  felde  with  viij.  c.  menne.  The 
lorde  markes  Montagu  was  agreyde  and 
apoyntede  with  kynge  Edwarde,  and  put 
nppone  hym  kynge  Edwardes  lyvery  ;  and 
a  manne  of  the  erle  of  Warwyke  sawe  that 
and  felle  nppon  hyme,  and  kyllede  hym. 


*  Dec.  183»|  vol*  XII.  p.  114. 
5 


And  whenne  the  erle  of  Warwyke  sawe 
his  brothere  dede,  and  the  erle  of  Oxen- 
forde fledde,  he  Icpte  one  horse-backe, 
and  fled  to  a  wode  by  the  felde  of  Bamett» 
where  was  no  waye  forthe ;  and  one  of 
kynge  Edwardes  menne  hade  espyed  hymsi 
and  one  came  uppon  hym  and  kylled 
hyme,  and  dispolede  hyme  nakede.  And 
so  kynge  Edwarde  gate  that  felde. 

"  And  ther  was  slayne  of  the  erle  of 
Warwykes  party,  the  erle  bym-self.  markes 
Montagu,  acre  William  Tyrellc  knyghte, 
and  many  other.  The  duke  of  Excetre 
fangth  manly  ther  that  day,  and  waa 
gretely  despolede  and  woundedci  and  lefte 
naked  for  dede  in  the  felde ;  and  so  lay 
ther  from  vij.  of  clokke  tille  iiij.  after* 
none ;  whicbe  was  taken  up  and  brought  to 
a  house  by  a  manne  of  his  owne,  and  a 
leche  brought  to  hym,  and  so  afterwarde 
brought  into  santusiry  at  Westmynster. 

"  And  one  kynge  Edwardea  party  waa 
slayne  the  lorde  Crowmwelle,  sonne  and 
heyre  to  the  erle  of  Essex,  lord  Barnes' 
Sonne  and  heyre,t  lorde  Say,  and  dyverse 
other,  to  the  nombre  of  bothe  partys 
iiij  111.  menne. 

"  And  after  that  the  felde  was  don, 
kynge  Edirarde  commaundyd  bothe  the 
erle  of  Warwikes  body  and  the  lord 
markes*  body  to  be  putt  in  a  carte,  and 
returned  hym  with  alle  his  oste  ageyne  to 
Londone;  and  there  commaunded  the 
seide  ij  bodyes  to  be  layede  in  the  chyrche 
of  Paulis,  one  the  pavement,  that  every 
manne  myghte  see  them  ;  and  so  they  lay 
iij.  or  iiij.  days,  and  afterwarde  were 
buryedc. 

'•  And  kynge  Henry,  beinge  in  the  for- 
warde  durynge  the  bataylle,  was  not  hurte, 
but  he  was  broughte  ageyne  to  the  toure 
of  London,  ther  to  be  kept.*' 

It  may  be  observed  that  in  this 
narrative  occurs  the  passage  reflecting 
on  the  consistency  of  the  Marquess 
Montagu,  to  which  Mr.  Kemps  with- 
holds his  credence.  On  that  point  I 
have  nothing  further  to  remark,  but 
that  it  corresponds  with  the  previous 
very  vacillating  conduct  attributed  to 
that  person  by  the  same  writer.  I 
would  point  out,  however,  the  state- 
ment where  it  is  said  that  the  Marquess 
"put  uppone  hyra  kynge  Edwardes 
lyvery,"  which  in  an  ordinary  case  I 
should,  as  applied  to  a  man  of  that 
rank,  understand  to  mean  a  livery 


§  Sir  Humphrey  Bourchier,  the  same 
person  who  is  mentioned  in  the  Pastoii 
letter,  at  p.  S51  of  last  Magaxine.  See 
note  on  him  in  Warkworth's  Chronicle. 
p.  64. 


1  S^.l       Edwatd  Earl  o/flQUshufy,  #mi  qf  King  Richard  III,         S7T 

colUr  ;  but  I  mast  confess  that  I  adi 
9t  m  loss  to  understand  how  such  a 
dMtioction  would  be  worn  in  a  field 
of  battlA  so  as  to  be  in  any  way  con- 
■pAcaow,  and  rather  imagine  that  the 
««liverf "  saited  for  such  a  purpose 
■rast  haive  displayed  some  distinguish- 
ing colours.  Any  eiplanation  that 
may  occur^  Mr.  UHian,  to  your  readers 
wiu  be  accepUble  to^ 

Voursj  &c.    J.  G.  Nichols. 


Me.  UbbaNj 

IN  Miss  Halsted's  recently  published 

"lafe  of  Richard  III."  reviewed  in 
your  last  number,  we  find  the  follow- 
ing passage  relating  to  Prince  Edward, 
the  only  sou  of  that  King,  who  was 
creatad  Earl  of  Salisbury  by  his  uncle 
Edward  IV. 

'<  As  relates  to  the  immediate  biography 
of  the  young  Esrl  of  Saliibory,  a  most 
interesting  and  curious  document  preserved 
in  the  same  MS.  Ubrsry  gives  the  only 
brief  memorials  that  have  been  transmitted 
to  posterity  relative  to  this  young  prince 
in  his  childhood.    These  are  contained 
in  a  fragment  connected  with  the  house- 
hold npenditure  and  the  administration 
and  economy  of  the  Duke  of  Gloucester 
at  Middleham  during  this  and  the  follow- 
ing year,  In  which  the  details  are    so 
minute  that  even  the  colour  of  the  young 
prinoe's  dress   is  inserted,  as  also  the 
mice  of  a  feather  to  be  worn  in  his  cap. 
One    item   commemorates   the    sudden 
death  and  burial  of  Lord  Richard  Bernall, 
his  governor,  who,  it  would  seem,  expired 
and  was  interred  at  Pomfret  recently  after 
a  jonmey  from  Middleham,  a  specified 
sum  being  inserted  for  *  y<  Lord  Richard's 
eosts  from  Middleham  to  Ponctfret,*  and 
another  expenditure  for  the  '  Lord  Rich- 
sid'i    bunal.'      Various    entries    con- 
nected with    this    nobleman    show  the 
entire  association  of  the  young  prince  with 
his  tutor,  and  it  also  proves  Sist  Middle- 
hsm  was  their  fixed  abode  during  Glou- 
cester's sctive  military  career.**    Vol.  I. 
p.  367. 

What  is  here  meant  by  MS.  library 
is  the  Register  of  Letters,  &c.  under 
the  Privy  Seal,  in  the  reigns  of  Edward 
V.  and  Richard  III.  (Hari.  MS.  No. 
433,)  of  which  Mr.  Sharon  Turner 
has  made  admirable  use  in  his  History 
of  those  reigns  ;  and  the  ^'  interesting 
and  curious  document  preserved  in 
tiia  same"  is  a  mandate  or  warrant 
from  Kin|  Richard  to  Geoffrey  Franke, 
hia  receiver  at  Middleham,  dated 
r.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


September  95th,  1483,  anthf^istng  the 
payment  of  certain  expenses  incunred 
during  a  few  months  previooa  to  its 
date,  on  account  of  the  royal  hoiisa- 
hotd  at  Middleham  Castle.  Numerous 
extracts  from  this  document  are  given 
by  Mr.  Turner  in  illustration  of  his 
memoir  of  Richard  III.  and  the  young 
Prince  Edward  his  son,  and  it  un- 
fortunatelv  happens  that  the  mistake 
of  a  single  word  (probably  made  by 
Mr.  Turner's  copyist  in  transcribing 
the  warrant  from  the  original  MS,) 
has  occasioned  that  eminent  historian, 
when  adverting  to  a  letter  written  by 
King  Richard  from  Pomfret  Castle  on 
the  212nd  of  September,  1483,  to  state 
that  "the  prince  was  at  that  time 
under  the  care  of  Lord  Richard  Ber- 
nall." (Hist,  of  England,  4to.  ed. 
vol.  IIL  p.  482.)  This  error  is  Miss 
Halsted's  sole  authority  for  the  account 
she  gives  in  the  passage  above  quoted, 
of  "  the  entire  association  of  the  young 
prince  with  his  tutor,"  and  the  sudden 
death  and  burial  of  the  latter  at  Pon- 
tefract. 

Now,  in  point  of  fact,  there  is  no 
such  name  as  "  Lord  Richard  Bernali" 
among  the  historical  personages  of 
this  period,  nor  does  the  warrant  to 
Geoffrey  Franke,  nor  any  other  docu- 
ment yet  brought  to  light,  afford  the 
slightest  ground  for  alleging  that  the 
prince  had  a  governor  bearing  the 
name  of  Bernall,  or  indeed  that  he 
had  a  governor  or  tutor  at  all.  In  the 
copy  of  the  warrant  printed  in  the 
Appendix  to  Miss  Halsted's  book, 
*'  Bernall"  does  not  occur ;  the  words 
mistaken  by  Mr.  Turner's  transcriber 
for  "  Lord  Richard  Bernall,"  are  there 
correctly  printed  "Lord  Richard's 
Burial."  But,  supposing  Lord  Richard 
Bernall  to  be  a  real  personage,  accord- 
ing to  Mr.  Turner  the  prince  was 
under  his  care  on  the  22nd  of  Sep- 
tember, whilst  Miss  Halsted,  on  the 
authority  of  the  ^warrant  to  Franke, 
proves  him  to  have  been  dead  and 
buried  prior  to  the  21st  of  the  same 
month,  which  is  the  date  she  (in- 
correctly) assigns  to  that  document. 

It  is,  however,  quite  clear  that 
'Uhe  Lord  Richard,"  so  frequently 
named  in  the  warrant,  was  a  person 
of  importance,  and  intimately  con- 
nected with  the  young  prince;  and, 
upon  a  more  careful  examination  of 
this,  which  may  be   truly  called  a 

3C 


3/8 


Lord  XMard  Grtf^ 


lOct. 


highly  cttrioos  and  intereating  docu- 
inent*  a  very  plausible  coDJecture  may 
be  formed  as  to  who  was  really  de- 
aignated  by  the  title. 

Among  the  muUifarions  contents  of 
the  warranty  we  find  the  following 
entries,  occurring  at  intervals,  bat 
succeeding  each  other  in  the  order 
here  observed : 


« 


ixij*.  iij^.  for  the  Lord  Ric*  costs 
fW>ni  Middlehsm  to  Pbnctfret. 

«'x1tj>.  ills',  for  the  Lord  Rkhmrd's 
Berisll. 

^'vy*.    vtij'.     to   y    Lord    Richard's 
i'vnnU. 

'*  Xfjp.  vj'.  for  the  expenses  of  y*  Lord 
Rie*  s'vuats  and  y'  horsse  at  Middelh*m. 

"  zzxTu"'  »']*•  ^J"-  ^^^  thexpcnses  of 
my  lord  prince  household  and  y*  lord  Rtc' 
from  seint  Olymmesse  to  Midsemer  day. 

"  xxxj'^  X*.  for  thexpenses  of  y«  same 
boose  from  Midsomer  day  to  y*  ij***  day  of 
August. 

"xxvij".  XTij'.  ob.  for  my  said  lords 
housbold  fro  y«  ij^*  of  August  to  y*  xxij 
day  of  y*  said  moneth.** 

And  the  concluding    item   in   the 

warrant  is  this  : 

*•  vj*'.  xviij'.  for  money  psied  to  S' 
Thomas  Gower,  by  him  laid  out  for 
thexpenses  of  y»  lord  Ryc'd.-*' 

Hart.  MS.  No.  433.  Art.  1531. 

From  these  items  the  following  in- 
ferences are  deducible : 

1.  That  the  Lord  Richard  was  an 
inmate  of  Middleham  Castle,  from  the 
3rd  of  May,  (St.  Olymmesse,  the 
invention  of  the  Holy  Cross,)  to  the 
24th  of  June,  (Midsummer  day,)  and 
not  longer,  his  name  being  omitted 
from  the  two  next  items. 

3.  That  he  was  conducted  from 
Middleham  to  Pontefract* 

3.  That  very  soon  after  his  arrival 
atPontefract  he  was  buried— indicating 
a  sudden  or  violent  death. 

4.  That  certain  expenses  of  the 
Lord  Richard  were  subsequently  "  laid 
out"  by  Sir  Thomas  Gower. 

5.  That  all  the  expenses,  not  only  of 
the  Lord  Richard  himself  and  his 
servants  and  horses  whilst  at  Middle- 
ham«  and  on  their  journey  thence  to 
Pontefract,  but  also  of  his  burial,  to- 
gjifther  with  other  disbursements  on 
hia  account,  were  afterwards  lepaid 
l(y,  the  command  of  the  Duke  of  Glou- 
cester when  be  ,  had  ascended  the 
Umone* 

.Thw  ca^i)^<P9:dfiMiilit  tb^t  >y '!  my 


lord  prince"  is  meaat  Prince  Edward* 
the  son  of  the  Duke  of  Gloucester  % 
and  it  seems  almost  equally  obviooa 
that  "  the  lord  Richard"  denotes  "  the 
Loid  Richard  Grey«  son  unto  our 
sovereign  lady  the  Queen/'  <aa  he  i» 
styled  in  a  grant  of  Edward  IV.)  whp 
was  beheaded  with  bis  uncle  the  Earl 
of  Ryvers  at  Pontefract  on  the  2Sth  or 
26th  of  June.  1483.  The  CroyUad 
historian  and  Sir  Thomas  More»  whea 
relating  the  circumstances  atteadinf 
the  arrest  of  Ryvers,  Grey,  smd 
Vaugban  at  Stony  Stratford  on  the 
30th  of  April,  by  the  order  of  the 
Duke  of  Gloucester,  agree  in  stating 
that  they  were  conveyed  from  thence 
to  different  places  in  Yorkshire.  It  is 
now  a  well  ascertained  fact  that  the 
Earl  of  Ryvers.  until  his  removal  to 
Pontefract  to  be  executed,  was  a  pri- 
soner in  the  castle  of  Sheriff  Hutton  ; 
but  the  place  of  confinement  to  which 
his  nephew  Lord  Richard  Grey  was 
conducted  has  not  l>een  the  subject  of 
inquiry,  historians  having  taken  for 
granted  that  Pontefract  was  the  scene 
of  his  imprisonment  as  well  as  of  his 
death.  But  it  seems  extremely  pnN 
bable  that  Gloucester,  having  sent  the 
uncle  to  one  of  his  own  castles  in 
Yorkshire,  should  select  another* 
which  was  also  bis  favourite  residence, 
as  the  place  of  honourable  imprieoK* 
ment  for  the  nephew,  who,  from  bis 
youth  and  close  consanguinity  to  the 
reigning  monarch,  was  entitled  to  more 
than  ordinarv  consideration. 

A  journey  from  Stony  Stratford  la 
Middleham  would  occupy  two .  or 
three  days,  and  would  bring  the  arrival 
there  of  the  Lord  Richard  Grey  to  the 
3rd  of  May.  On  the  24th  of  J«m» 
when,  according  to  the  warrant,  hia 
stay  at  Middleham  terminated,  his 
uncle  Lord  Ryvers  was  conducted  from 
Sheriff  Hutton  to  Pontefract;  and  it 
is  plain,  as  Dr.  Lingard  observes, 
(Hist,  of  Engl.  vol.  V.  p.  243,)  that 
the  "  affecting  and  significant''  post- 
script to  the  last  will  of  Lord  Ryvera, 
"  my  will  is  aoto  to  be  buried  before 
an  image  of  our  blessed  Lady  Mary 
with  my  Lord  Richard  in  Pomfret/' 
was  added  after  he  had  areived  at 
Pontefract,  and  received  notice  of  iila 
approaching  execution.  He  then  dis- 
covered that  he  and  his  nephew  were 
brought  there  to  share  the  sama^dis- 
aslrous  fate,  and  with  his  owa  haul 


18440 


HosjMal  o/SU.^ay  Magdiden,  Winchesfcr, 


37  !> 


he  recorded  his  dying  wish  that  their 
bodies  should  repose  in  the  same  tomb. 
Sir  Thomas  Gower,  IcDight,  was  one 
of  the  witnesses  to  the  will  of  Lord 
Ryyers,  which  he  signed  at  Sheriff 
Huttonon  the  23rd  of  June,  (Excerpta 
Hist.  p.  248 ;)  and  as  Stittenham, 
"  the  dowers'  auntient  manor  place/' 
is  the  adjoining  township  to  Sheriff 
Utitton,  it  is  probable  that  Ryvers 
possessed  in  this  worthy  Icnight  a 
ftiitlifal  friend,  who,  having  assisted 
hhn  in  the  performance  of  his  latest 
worldly  duty,  afforded  him  the  con* 
•olation  of  his  presence  and  sympathy 
dering  his  last  moments  at  Pontefract, 
and  there  ei tended  even  beyond  the 
grave  bis  kindness  and  services  to  the 
beloved  nephew  of  the  accomplished 
and  unfortunate  Earl. 

Yours,  &c.  A, 


Mr.  Urban, 


Wiachesier, 
Aug.  14. 


1  AM  not  aware  that  any  notice  has 
appeared  in  your  Magazine  of  the 
Hospital  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen, 
which  formerly  stood  on  the  hill  bear- 
ing that  name,  about  a  mile  east  of 
this  city ;  but,  as  some  account  of  it 
may  probably  afford  interest  to  some 
of  your  readers,  I  send  you  the  best  i 
can  collect  ft-om  the  scanty  history  ex- 
isting of  it. 

It  is  somewhat  remarlcable  that  this 
•stablishroent  has  escaped  the  notice 
of  Dugdale,  Tanner,  and  every  other 
aatiquary  i  nor  is  even  the  name  of  the 
Isunder  positively  ascertained.  Milner 
Ims,  however,  brought  together  so 
numy  circumstances  in  his  investiga- 
tioB  of  this  point  as  prove  satisfac- 
torily, in  my  opinion,  that  to  Richard 
TcKlyve  most  be  assigned  the  merit. 
He  governed  this  see  in  the  reign  of 
Hen.  I.,  from  the  year  1173  to  1189, 
with  the  character  of  an  exemplary 
prelate }  and  we  learn  that  his  charity 
led  him  first  to  the  augmentation  of 
St  Cross,  but  that  afterwards  it  was 
diverted  into  another  channel.  We 
are  acquainted  with  the  works  of  his 
predecessors,  and  those  who  immedi- 
ately succeeded  him,  and  as  the  style 
af  architecture  of  the  chapel,  *  that  of 


'^'See  plat^  i.  11.  in  3d  tol,  Vetuata 
IKiMmeiita. 


the  ornamented  Norman  with  the  Rrst 
rudiments  of  the  Gothic,  corresponds 
with  the  period,  the  appropriation  to 
him  appears  warranted  by  every  sense 
of  reason  and  justice. 

That  it  must  have  been  established 
soon  after  the  Conquest  is  confirmed 
by  the  Register  of  John  de  Pontissara, 
wherein  is  an  agreement  made  in  1283 
between  the  Bishop  and  the  Prior  and 
Convent  of  St.  S within,  in  which,. tlH^ 
latter  acknowledge  that  the.  Bishops  of 
Winchester  had  been  for  a  hng  Mime 
(per  multa  tempora)  patrons  pf  the 
preferments  mentioned,  amongst  which 
is  the  house  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen. 

The  foundation,  which  was  distin- 
guished by  having  the  munificent 
Waynfiete,  afterwards  Bishop  o^  the 
see,  for  its  master,  consisted  of  a 
master  and  nine  persons^  either  male 
or  female,  eight  being  resident,  with  an 
ample  provision  in  money  and  com- 
mons, and  one  out- pensioner;  and 
there  is  strong  reason  to  believe  that 
the  sick  and  leprous  were  occasionally 
admitted,  as  in  the  will  of  John 
Fromond,  Steward  of  Winchester  Col- 
lege, dated  Nov.  14,  1420,  is  the 
clause,  "  Item  lego  ad  distribuend. 
inter  leprosos  B.  M.  Magdalene  Win- 
ton,  vis.  viiirf."  Many  other  legacies 
are  mentioned  in  the  bishops'  registers 
as  lefl  for  the  benefit  of  this  com- 
munity, which  continued  to  prosper 
until  the  reign  of  Henry  VIIT.  when 
it  shared  the  fate  of  so  many  others, 
that  of  spoliation,  but  was  not  sop* 
pressed. 

In  the  war  between  Charles  1*  and 
his  Parliament,  it  suffered  greatly  fh)m 
the  royal  troops  under  Lord  Hopton, 
who  in  vain  endeavoured  to  restrain 
them.  But  it  was  in  1665  that  the 
ruin  was  completed.  By  the  command 
of  Charles  II.  and  Lord  Arlington,  the 
master  was  compelled  to  remove  with 
the  almsfolk,  that  Dutch  prisoners  of 
war  might  be  admitted.  These  burned 
all  the  timber  they  could  find,  greatly 
injured  the  master's  and  the  other 
houses,  carried  away  the  pulpit,  seats, 
bell  and  lead  of  the  chapel,  and,  indeed, 
rendered  the  buildings  unfit  for  habita- 
tion. On  this  occasion  an  humble 
petition  was  presented  to  his  mijesty, 
setting  forth  the  damage  sustained, 
which  was  estimated  Rt  ^50/.  '  A 
grant  of  lOOl.  was  made,  but  .tilt 
societj^not  possefl(8{t]|$4ii«tiM>ii^fiBd» 


380 


SeulpiuredShrme  found  at  YorL 


[Oct. 


iDg  friends  to  assist  tbem,  were  nerer 
afterwards  enabled  to  return. 

In  1788  a  commission  was  obtained 
by  the  master  for  palling  the  bnildings 
down,  which  was  soon  after  accom- 
plished, leaving  only  the  naked  pillars 
and  arches .  l^ese  have  long  since  d  i  s- 
^  appeared,  and  nothing  now  remains  to 
mark  the  spot  on  which  this  charitable 
asylum  stood ;  the  only  part,  indeed, 
existine,  to  be  recognised  elsewhere,  is 
the  bold  and  well  designed  Saxon 
portal  forming  the  entrance  to  the 
Roman  Catholic  chapel  In  St.  Peter's 
Street.  This  was  the  western  doorway 
of  the  venerable  chapel,  and  removed 
piecemeal  on  its  destruction  in  1792. 

The  buildings  originally  consisted 
of  a  good  residence  for  the  master, 
and  a  separate  house  for  each  of  the 
inmates.  The  chapel  stood  on  the 
south  of  these,  77  feet  long  and  36 
feet  wide,  with  three  aisles,  the  roof 
supported  by  five  columns  on  each 
side.      Here    Dr.    Ebden,  a    former 


master  and  benefhctor,  was  burisd  in 
1614,  aged  98,  and  a  brass  plate  fixed 
in  the  south  wall  of  the  clumcel,  with 
the  following  inscription  to  his  me- 
mory: 

«  Corpus  Johsnnis  Ebden,  sacrteTheo- 
logic  ProfesBoris  pii,  ecdesis  caAedraHs 
Winton.  prebendiuii  doetl,  hujus  Hotpitii 
Magistri  reverendi :  qui  inter  alia  dona  ia 
alios  charitatis  usns  eollata  jfSOO  in  ang- 
mentationem  stipeadiorom  ibidem  libni 
dedit  (  hoc  tegitur  tumnlo.  Obiit  16 
NoTembris  1614,  leUtis  suie  98.** 

Several  acres  of  land,  principally  in 
gardens,  were  attached,  and  with  a 
burial  ground,  surrounded  by. a  wall. 
Without  the  vrall  were  16  acres  more 
land,  and  pasturage  for  126  sheep. 

The  present  state  of  this  once  flou- 
rishing society  is,  the  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester appoints  the  master,  usually 
the  incumbent  of  one  of  the  churches 
of  the  city,  who  nominates  eight  poor 
persons  to  share  with  him  the  small 
remaining  funds.  B. 


SCVLPTURVO   snniNS   rOUND   AT  YORK. 


{WUkaPlate.) 


Mr.  Urban,  York,  Aug.  26. 
THE  sculptured  stones  which  have 
given  Mr.  Robert  Stothard  the  sub- 
jects of  the  sketches  in  the  accom- 
panying Plate  are  two  in  number. 
From  one  of  them  the  female  figure  is 
taken,  and  the  two  smaller  drawings 
from  the  other.  They  are  portions  of 
the  shafts  of  oval  clustered  pillars^ 
measuring  12  inches  in  the  longeri 
and  6  inches  in  the  shorter,  diameter. 
On  each  of  the  narrower  faces  of  the 
pillar  is  a  niche  containing  a  statue, 
ten  inches  high,  standing  under  a 
canopy,  with  the  feet  resting  on  a 
bracket  or  pedestal.  The  canopy  con- 
sists of  an  ogee  arch  terminating  in 
corbeille  heads,  with  pediment  and 
finial,  all  richly  decorated,  and  most 
elaborately  and  delicately  carved.  The 
back  of  the  niche  and  the  soffit  of  the 
canopy  show  traces  of  a  reddish  colour, 
and  Uie  hair  of  the  female  statue  ap- 
pears to  have  been  gilded ;  and  I 
believe  that  the  drapery,  and  other 
parts  of  the  figures,  when  they  were 
first  discovered^  presented  some  re- 
mains of  colour,  of  which  they  now 


retain  but  little.  All  the  four  niches 
have  been  alike  in  form  and  decora- 
tion. The  female  figure,  which  is  the 
most  perfect  of  the  statues,  apparently 
represents  Saint  Margaret  standing 
on  the  dragon  ;  but  her  crosier,  with 
her  left  hand  and  the  head  of  the 
monster,  are  broken.  The  canopy 
above  her  head,  except  the  corbeilles,  is 
also  entirely  gone.  The  statue  in  the 
niche  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  same 
stone  is  not  included  in  Mr.  Stothard's 
plate.  It  is  headless,  and  otherwise 
much  damaged;  but  the  right  hand, 
which  grasps  two  arrows*  is  uoin* 
jured.  From  this  symbol  it  is  pro- 
bable that  the  saint  represented  was 
Saint  Edmund  the  King. 

The  canopies,  and  other  decorations 
of  the  niches  on  the  second  stone,  are 
entire,  and  in  good  preservation,  though 
the  statues  are  mutilated.  That  is  the 
least  damaged  which  represents  St* 
Cuthbert  holding  in  his  hand  the  head 
of  King  Oswald.  The  other  is  too  im- 
perfect to  allow  roe  to  offer  any  con- 
jecture as  to  its  meaning. 

Accompanying  these  two  atones  Im 


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1844.] 


tMndkal  Temple  near  Skap. 


S81 


another,  found  at  the  Bame  time  and 
place,  and  perhaps  the  most  valuable 
of  the  three.  It  is  the  upper  part 
of  a  central  pier,  having  a  slightly- 
projecting  buttress,  and  supporting 
ogee  arches,  of  which  one  half,  with 
the  spandrel,  remains  on  each.  side. 
Within  one  spandrel  is  sculptured  an 
eagle,  with  expanded  wings,  holding  a 
scroll  in  his  beak.  The  other  contains 
a  winged  monster,  with  human  head 
and  hands  and  lion's  legs,  having  a 
bird  like  a  hawk  or  eagle  perched  on 
the  right  fist.  Ail  the  three  stones 
are  of  8ie  same  material  and  workman- 
ship, and  there  can  be  no  doubt,  I  think, 
that  they  have  formed  part  of  a  monu- 
mental shrine  of  considerable  magni- 
tude, and  of  exquisite  and  elaborate 
design  and  execution.  Mr.  Stothard 
considers  them  to  be  of  about  the  time 
of  Edward  the  Second.  The  general 
character  appears  to  me  very  similar 
to  that  of  the  gorgeous  Percy  shrine 
in  Beverley  minster. 

The  circumstances  attending  the  dis- 
covery of  these  interesting  remains  are 
these.  '  Frederick  Swineard,  Esq.,  in 
wi  ose  possession  they  now  are,  resides 
in  a  part  of  the  Cathedral  Close  of  York 
called  Precentor's  Court,  in  which,  as 
the  name  indicates,  the  precentor,  and 
other  dignitaries  of  the  Church,  for- 
merly lived.  In  the  year  1835  a  carved 
stone  being  accidentally  turned  up  by 
the  workmen  employed  in  digging  a 
drain  near  Mr.  Swineard's  house,  he 
was  induced  to  extend  the  excavation, 
and  a  number  of  beautiful  remains  were 
found  a  few  feet  below  the  ground  floor 
of  the  house,  which  is  not  cellared. 
The  stones  were  lying  one  upon  an- 
other, the  worked  face  being  placed 
upwards,  but  carefully  protected  from 
ihjory  by  a  covering  of  fine  sand,  in- 
dicating that  they  had  been  deposited 
there  for  concealment  and  preserva- 
tion. These,  which  are  supposed  to 
be  portions  either  of  the  s^dilia  or 
of  the  screen-work  of  the  high  altar 
of  the  minster,  were  liberally  presented 
by  Mr.  Swineard  to  the  Yorkshire  Phi- 
losophical Society,  and  are  now  placed 
in  their  museum  of  antiquities.  A 
short  time  after  this  discovery  Mr. 
Swineard  made  an  excavation  in  the 
garden  adjoining  his  house,  and  found, 
a  little  below  the  surface,  the  three 
stones  above  described;  and  it  is  by 


no  means  improbable  that  more  would 
appear  if  the  search  were  pursued. 
This,  however,  would  be  attended  with 
expense  which  he  may  not  choose  to 
incur.  He  preserves  these  relics  with 
great  care  in  his  own  house  at  present, 
but  I  suspect  that  the  museum  of  the 
Yorkshire  Philosophical  Society  is  their 
ultimate  destination. 

Yours,  kc,    R.  D. 


Druidical  Tsmpli  near  Shop. 

Mr.  Urban, 

NOTWITHSTANDING  the  alleged 
increase  of  good  taste  at  the  present 
day,  1  find  it  is  the  intention  of  the 
projectors  of  the  Lancaster  and  Carlisle 
Railway  to  carry  their  line  through, 
and  destroy,  a  most  interesting  rem- 
nant of  antiquity,  the  remains  of  a 
Druidical  Temple  situated  in  a  field  the 
property  of  the  Earl  of  Lonsdale,  on 
the  road  from  Kendal  to  Shap,  and 
about  2  miles  from  the  latter  place. 
I  am  surprised  that  the  noble  Earl 
should  permit  such  barbarity,  witJi 
such  influence  as  he  possesses  over 
the  Company. 

The  accompanying  sketch  {Plate  IL) 
of  this  curious  monument,  which  will 

{>robably  be  in  a  very  short  time  no 
onger  in  existence,  may  be  interesting 
to  your  readers.  It  consists  of  13 
stones  of  Shap  granite,  the  largest  of 
which  is  7  or  8  feet  high,  placid  in  a 
circle  about  forty  feet  in  diameter. 
Yours,  &c.        Dbvid. 


Mb.  Urban,       Oxford,  Stpi,  10. 

ALLOW  me  to  suggest  to  your 
learned  readers  the  following  question 
of  law  and  heraldry.  What  is  the 
effect  of  the  words  of  the  letters  patent 
of  James  I.  granting  the  arms  of  Ulster 
as  an  addition  to  their  paternal  coat  to 
Baronets  aiul  their  descendants?  Do 
those  words  convey  that  privilege  only 
to  the  descendants  being  Baronets,  t.  e. 
the  heirs  in  tail  of  the  grantees,  or  do 
they  extend  to  all  the  descendants  of 
the  grantees  bearing  the  paternal  arms 
of  such  grantees  ? 

A  gift  by  the  Crown  of  lands  to  A.  B. 
and  his  descendants  would  be  clearly 
void  for  want  of  the  words  heirs,  and 
of  his  body.  Without  the  word  heirs 
the  grant  would  not  be  of  an  estate  of 


882 


Hi^ht  of  BaroneU  /o  the  Arnu  oj  Uf^er^ 


COet. 


inberitanot*  asd  without  the  addition 
of  the  irords  of  kU  bodv  it  would  not 
create  an  eatate  tail.  It  would,  there, 
fore*  be  void  as  against  the  crown, 
though  it  would  pass  an  estate  for  life 
if  the  conveyance  were  by  a  subject. 
But  how  b  it  with  respect  to  grants 
of  arffls?  Coke  in  commenting  on 
sec*  31  of  Littleton,  in  which  the  latter 
lays>.dowB  the  law,  requiring  the  wordf 
^fprocrmtimi  to  make  an  estate  tail, 
aayB  *'  this  role  eiteodeth  but  to  lands 
or  tenements,  and  not  to  the  in- 
heritance which  noblemen  and  gentle- 
men have  in  their  armories  or  arms." 
He  then  proceeds  to  shew,  and  assign 
as  a  reason  of  that  position,  that  the 
fee  simple  which  a  man  has  in  his 
arms  ia  of  the  natoreof  gavelkind,  but 
far. exceeding  the  nature  of  gavelkind, 
in  which  all  the  sons  inherit  equally, 
for  arms  descend  to  females  (in  a 
qualified  manner)  and  males  together, 
and  to  heirs  lineal  and  collateral  al- 
together, subject  to  certain  differences. 
He  then  continues :  "if  the  King  by 
his  letters  patent  give  lands  or  tene- 
ments to  a  man  and  to  his  heirs  male 
the  grant  is  void,  for  that  the  King  is 
deceived  in  his  grant,  inasmuch  as 
there  cam  be  no  iuehinheriiwMie  of  Unde 
or  tenemenie  as  the  King  intended  to 
grant."  "  But,  if  the  King,  for  reward 
of  service,  granteth  arms  or  armories 
to  a  man  and  his  heirs  male,  without 
saying  qf  the  bodv,  this  is  good,  and. 
Of  As/A  been  eaid,  they  shall  descend 
accordingly." 

Coke  evidently  means  that  a  grant 
of  arms  to  a  man  and  his  heirs  male, 
gives  him  a  fee  simple  of  that  parti- 
cular species  which  is  peculiar  to  arms 
and  armories,  and  which  he  has  pre- 
viously described,  that  is  to  say,  to 
Mm  mid  hie  hein  male  equally  and  al- 
together#  and  to  his  female  descend- 
ants in  a  qualified  manner,  t.  e.  for 
life,  to  bear  the  armories  in  a  lozenge, 
nnd  impaled  with  their  husband's  arms, 
or  quartered  if  they  be  heiresses,  in 
which  last  case  their  descendants  in- 
herit such  maternal  arms. 

But,  even  supposing  that  a  grant  of 
arms  to  A.  B.  and  his  heire  male 
wovid  create  an  estate  tail, — it  is  clear 
thai  a  grant  of  arms  to  A.  B.  and  hie 
dtaeaeitrnte  would  not,— because  the 
word  descendants  is  general  and  un- 
q«alifled,  and  cannot  potsibly  be  re* 


stricled  so  as  to  apply  only  lo  the  heir 
in  tail.  The  grant  to  A.  B.  and  his 
descendants  cannot  be  void,  becsose  it 
is  in  conformity  with  the  species  of 
inheritsnce  peculiar  to  armories  set 
forth  in  Coke's  Comm.  on  Sections 
31  and  310  of  Littleton.  It  is  soeh 
an  inheritance  as  the  law  allows  in  ar*- 
roories.  It  follows  that  the  grant  of 
the  arms  of  Ulster  to  the  baronets 
and  their  descendante,  by  the  letters 
patent  of  James  I.  is  not  void,  and 
cannot  be  restricted  to  their  hcira  rn 
tail,  and  therefore  cannot  be  made  M 
follow  the  dignity  of  Baronet  (which  is 
entailed)  to  the  exclusion  of  their 
other  descendants.  Consequently  that 
bearing  of  the  arms  of  Ulster  is  de- 
scendible according  to  and  governed 
by  that  particular  species  of  gavel- 
kind which,  by  the  law  of  England, 
governs  the  inheritance  that  noblemen 
and  gentlemen  have  in  their  arms  and 
armories. 

I  presume  that  no  one  will  be  suf- 
ficiently ignorant  to  say  that  custom 
has  restricted  the  effect  of  King  James' 
letters  patent. 

We  must  conclude,  that  the  follow- 
ing persons  are  entitled  under  those 
letters  patent  to  bear  the  arms  of  Ul- 
ster in  a  canton  or  escutcheon,  as  an 
addition  to  their  paternal  arms,  that  is 
to  say : — 

1    Baronets. 

2.  Baronets'  sons  and  daughters. 

3.  Descendants  of  Baronets  into 
male  lines,  that  is  to  say,  entirely 
through  males. 

4.  Descendants  of  a  Baronet,  who 
are  entitled  to  quarter  his  arma 
through  females. 

The  persons  in  the  fourth  class 
ought,  however,  to  use  the  Ulster  ad- 
dition only  with  the  quartering  as  an 
appurtenance  of  which  they  inherit 
that  addition. 

I  think  this  point  of  heraldic  law  is 
new  aud  interesting,  and  I  shall  be 
glad  if  you  deem  it  worth  submitting 
to  your  readers,  especially  our  brethren 
of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries. 

Yours,  &c.     D*  C.  L« 


Ma.  UasAN, 

DURING  ray  recent  visit  to  Canter- 
bury 1  amused  myself  by  taking  a  very 
careful  copy  of  the  Epitaph  of  th^. 


1844.] 


Epitaph  of  ilie  Black  Prinrce  at  Caniefburf, 


388 


importance*  beudet  mftny  minor  ioae« 
euracies,  in  the  verses.  I  will  firat 
remark  that  the  letter  s  is  generally 
written  (,  unless  it  is  final ;  that  there 
are  two  forms  of  r,  answering  to  those 
still  used  in  printing  and  in  writiag, 
employed  indiflferently;  that  the  letter 
y  is  always  surmounted  by  a  (*),  bit 
the  letter  t  as  frequently  Written  with* 
out  a  point  as  with.  I  trust  the  EnglMi 
translation  I  affix  wiU  be  pardonedit  Af 
an  attempt  as  close  to  the  original  aa 
rhyme  will  allow. 


Plack  Prince,  which  is  beautifully  en- 
graved on  brass  plates  in  raised  letters 
found  the  verge  of  bis  tomb^  and 
though  the  characters  cannot  be  very 
eloseiy  imitated  in  modern  types,  I  will 
refi|nest  you  to  insert  it  in  your  pages, 
as  a  literal  copy  may  be  acceptable  to 
some  of  your  readers  ;  particularly  as 
(not  to  speak  of  mere  capitals  or  other 
trifling  variations,)  there  are  errors  in 
all  the  printed  copies,  —  the  last,  in 
Store's  Monumental  Remains,  con- 
taining four  incorrect  words  in  the  prose 
partaloee,  and  at  least  three  errors  of 

-  Cy  gist  In  noble  Prince  moos'  Edward  aisne|  fil)  du  tresnoble  Roy  Bdirsrd  tlett   ^^^ 
iadis  Priaoe  dsquitanie  de  Gales  due  de  Comewaille  et  Coonte  de  (>stre  qi  momst 
en  Is  leste  de  Is  Trinite  qestoit  le  .viij.  iour  de  Joyn  Lsn  de  grace  Miltroisoeti|  sep« 
taate  sissme  lalme  de  qi  dien  eit  mercy,    amen. 

Whoe*er  thou  art,  with  lips  eompivst, 

That  psssest  where  this  corpse  doth  vest) 

To  that  I  tell  thee  list,  o  man ! 

So  far  as  I  to  tell  thee  can. 

Such  as  thou  art  I  was  but  now, 

And  as  I  am  so  shalt  be  thou. 

Death  little  did  my  thoughts  employ 

So  long  as  I  did  life  enjoy ; 

On  earth  great  riches  were  my  fate. 

With  which  I  kept  a  noble  state, 

Great  lands,  great  houses,  treasure  great. 

Hangings  and  horses,  gold  snd  plate. 

But  now  I  sm  but  poor  and  base, 

Deep  in  the  earth  is  now  my  plaeoi 

My  flesh  is  wasted  all  away. 

Reduced  my  splendour  to  decay  ; 

My  house  is  very  strait  and  short, 

Forsooth  in  me  is  utter  naught* 

Nay,  such  s  change  has  past  o'er  me. 

That,  could  you  now  my  features  see, 

I  scarcely  think  you  aught  could  scan 

To  show  that  I  was  once  a  man. 

For  God's  sake  pray  the  heavenly  King 

That  he  my  soul  to  mercy  bring ! 

All  who  for  mo  their  prayers  shall  spend, 

Or  me  to  God  shsll  recommend, 

God  make  his  paradise  tibeir  home, 

Wherein  uo  wicked  soul  may  oome. 

[J.  G.  NiOBOLa.} 

Noie9.  In  the  prose  portion,  the  word  daquitanU  is  so  engraved,  incorrectly,  Itar 
d*aquiiaine  ;  and  the  word  de  is  omitted  before  Vaime. 

The  six  first  verses  form  one  line  on  the  south  side  of  the  tomb :  and  the  not 
follow  in  long  lines  according  to  the  width  of  the  fides  of  the  tomb. 

In  line  31  the  word  hontme  is  expressed  with  a  contraction,  which  passes  through 
the  first  letter,  h*ome. 

In  the  last  line  but  four  larme  is  incorrectly  engraved  instead  of  Valme, 

The  shields  of  arms  round  the  tomb     of  France  and  England.    The  Utter  is 

printed  Houmont  in  Blore's  Momi.* 
mental  Remains,  and  if  I  rightly  reool* 
lect  that  is  the  usual  reading.  I  bag 
to  eay  it  is  incorrect,  aitd  to  raqMtft 
an  ex|)lanation  of  Hoim9Uip  .. 

I  might  repeat  the  ibamotfeqiaiat  (or 
Ich  diene,  witnout  forgetting  how  often 


i- 


Ta  qi  posse)  one  bouohe  close : 
Fsr  la  ou  oe  corps  repose  : 
Entent  ce  ue  te  dirai : 
Sicomo  te  dire  le  say  : 
5  Tiel  come  tn  es  ie  au  tiel  fu : 
Tn  serras  tiel  come  ie  su  : 
I>e  la  mort  ne  pensai  ie  mye : 
Tantconie  iauoi  la  vie  : 
Fn  tVe  auot  g*nd  richesse : 

10  Bont  ie  y  fis  g*nd  noblesse : 
Terre  mesons  ft  g*nd  tresor : 
Draps  ehinauz  argent  &  or : 
Mes  ore  su  ieo  poures  Be  cheitifs  : 
Per  fond  en  la  t're  gis  : 

1^  Ma  g*nd  beante  est  tout  alee : 
Ma  char  est  tout  gsstee  : 
Moult  est  estroit  ma  meson : 
en  moy  na  si  verite  non : 
Et  si  ore  roe  veissej  : 

90  Je  ne  quide  pas  qe  vous  deissc) : 
Qe  ie  eusse  onqes  homme  este  : 
81  tu  ie  ore  de  tant  changee  : 
Pur  dieu  priej  au  celestien  Roy. 
qt  mercy  ait  de  larme  de  moy : 

36  Tou)  eeoU  qe  pur  moy  prieront : 
on  a  dien  macorderont : 
Dieu  les  mette  en  son  psray*. 
ou  nnl  ne  poet  estre  cheitifs. 


(when   complete)     were    alternately, 

1.  France  and  England  quarterly,  and 

2.  Three  ostrich  feathers  each  piercing 
a  scroll  inscribed  Ich  diene^  The  same 
motto  on  a  label  of  brass  surmounted 
each  of  the  shields  of  feathers ;  and 
the  motto  novmout  each  of  the  shields 


S8i 


iiaph  ofCurrMH  t  CHfton. 


l^.^J^  aUtedthtt  it  was  derived, 
with  the  Black  Prince's  "  crett,"  from 
™  King  of  Bohemia,  slain  at  Crecy : 
w,  ae  1  fully  believe  there  is  no 
fonndation  for  the  idea  that  the  0«- 
totch  feather  had  any  relation  to  the 
King  of  Bohemia,  so  alto  it  is  probable 
TOt  Ich  diene  will  admit  of  eiplana- 
tlon  which  it  has  not  yet  received.* 

Before  I  conclude  I  may  mention 
that,  daring  the  occupation  of  the  Ca- 
tliedral  of  Canterbury  by  the  British 
Archsological  Association,  an  eiami- 
nation  of  the  actual  surcoat  and  crest 
€tf  the  Black  Prince,  still  suspended 
over  his  monument,  was  made  by  Mr. 
Hartshorns. 

The  Surcoat  was  found  to  be  of  one- 
piled  velvet,  embroidered  with  the  he- 
xaldio  bearings.  It  was  gamboised 
with  cotton,  and  Hoed  or  quilted  with 
linen.  What  was  particularly  inte- 
resting is,  that  it  resembled  precisely 
the  surcoat  represented  in  the  Effigy, 
the  number  of  fleurs  de  lis  and  their 
position  (the  coat  of  France,  it  will  be 
recollected,  is  nm4e  de  feun  de  Us) 
being  identical :  thus  showing  that 
ancient  sculptors  probably  copied  the 
very  dresses  of  the  deceased,  as  well 
as  their  features. 

The  Crest  of  a  Lion  (which  was  un- 
fortunately separated  from  its  cap  of 
maintenance,  which  still  adheres  to 
the  helmet,  during  a  visit  which  the 
Duchess  of  Kent  paid  to  the  Cathe- 
dral some  years  since,)  is  very  light ; 
being  hollow,  formed  of  pasteboard, 
lined  with  linen,  and  covered  with 
some  kind  of  composition,  afterwards 
gilt,  each  lock  of  the  lion's  hide  being 
apparently  stamped  by  one  lozenge- 


*  I  am  happy  to  hear  from  Sir  Harris 
Nloolas  thst  he  hss  obtained  some  defi- 
nite information  on  the  origin  of  the  Royal 
Badge  of  the  Ostrich  Peatlier,  which  he 
will  shortly  communicate  to  the  public.  I 
had  myselif  the  satisfaction  to  show,  in 
the  XXIXth  volume  of  the  Arclueologia, 
that  the  King  of  Bohemia's  crest  was  not 
a  plume  of  ostrich  feathers,  but  a  vulture's 
wing.  TocsUthe  plume  a  '* crest"  at 
all  is  a  vulgar  error ;  the  Prince  of  Wales*s 
crest  still  being,  as  in  the  days  of  the 
Black  Prince,  a  lion  passant.  The  Os- 
trich feathers  seem  to  have  been  first 
combined  into  the  plume  of  three  when 
Kh)g  Edward  the  Sixth  was  Prince  of 
Wales. 
6 


[Oct. 


shaped  mould.  The  tail  is  very  long, 
as  in  the  crest  represented  in  metal 
under  the  head  of  tne  efllgy. 

These  relics,  together  with  the 
Prince's  helmet,  shield,  and  gauntlets, 
are  particularly  interesting  as  contem- 
porary trophies  of  the  victor  of  Crecy 
and  Poitiers.  His  sword  is  said  to 
have  been  removed  by  Cromwell. 

Yours,  &c.  J.  G.  N, 


EPITaPH   TO   CVftRAN. 

THE  following  inscription  to  the 
memory  of  the  illustrious  Curran  is 
placed  on  a  marble  tablet  inserted  into 
the  south  wall  of  the  church  of  Clif- 
ton  near  Bristol.  It  deserves  perpe- 
tuation on  many  accounts.  One  of 
Curran's  daughters  married  a  clergy- 
man of  the  name  of  Taylor,  perhaps 
the  incumbent  of  Clifton. 

M.S. 

JOHANNTS  PrILPOT  CoEEAN, 

a  secretioribus  Domini  Regis  oonsiliis, 

Curi«  regalis  rotulorum  in  Hibernia 

olim 

Pnesulia  Primarii. 

Morum  comitate,  salibus  Attieis, 

Splendors  ingenii  celeberriflai, 

Qui  in  horis  mszimeproceilosis  relpubli 

Longe  lateque  versatus, 

Fidissimum  infsustis  tutamen, 

Nullum  siU  iaimienm  feolt, 

Nullo  patriK  inimico 

Peperdt. 

Fori  senatnsqne  doqnio 

Inter  principes  princeps, 

Ad  summa  juris  erectus 

Cresoente  fama, 

Animo  magis  magisque  lucescente, 

Lsbente  tantum  corpora, 

Sexages.  sept,  jam  agens  annum) 

Heu 

Immature  mortuus  est. 

Orbi  nstus 

Orbi  memoriam  relinquens. 

FilU 

superbiam  inter  et  lachrymas 

H.  M. 

Dicarit. 

Nat.  in  Hibernia,  A.  D.  1751. 
Ob.  Londini,  A.D.  1818. 


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REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


TnMU  and  M0  Gu^f  qf  Mexico;  or. 
Yachting  in  ike  New  H'orld.  By 
Mrs.  Houston.     2  volt, 

THESE  volumes  are  written  with 
all  the  spirit  and  intelligence  that  we 
expected  to  find  in  them.  Tbey  con- 
vey a  good  deal  of  instruction  in  a 
lively,  arousing  form :  a  dramatic  in- 
terest  is  preserved  by  the  form  in 
which  the  narrative  is  conveyed ;  and 
a  mixture  of  acute  observation  and 
personal  adventure  is  ever  varying  the 
scene  that  passes  before  the  reader's 
eyes.  The  voyage  was  performed  in 
Mr.  Houston's  yacht  "The  Dolphin/' 
the  chief  object  being  the  new  empire 
of  Texas,  of  which  a  very  interesting 
account  is  given.  A  residence  of  some 
time  at  New  Orleans  enables  Mrs. 
Houston  to  give  us  some  interesting 
particulars  of  that  place ;  and  on  the 
return  voyage  we  were  pleased  with 
the  account  of  Havannah  and  Ber- 
muda, which  Mrs.  Houston,  not  hav- 
ing the  fear  of  Mr.  Hunter  before  her 
eyes,  in  all  the  pristine  simplicity  of 
her  heart  believes  to  have  been  the 
residence  of  Prospero  and  Miranda. 
She  did  not  know  that  every  word  she 
describes  herself  as  so  poetically  pro* 
nounciog  on  its  shores  from  the  "  Tem- 
pest" was  carried  far  away  by  the 
envious  winds  to  the  distant  rocks  of 
Lampednsa.  When  we  add  that  there 
are  some  short  poetical  pieces  scattered 
in  ihese  pages  that  may  truly  be  called 
beautiful,  and  that  there  is  at  times 
much  comic  humour  in  the  descrip- 
tions of  personal  character  and  many- 
coloured  life  which  the  author  en- 
countered in  her  changing  scene,  we 
think  we  have  said  enough  to  show 
our  opinion  of  the  work,  and,  we 
trust,  to  awaken  the  curiosity  and 
propitiate  the  farour  of  its  readers. 

Instead  of  making  one  or  two  long 
extracts  from  the  work,  we  prefer  catch- 
ing various  glimpses  of  passing  things, 
and  holding  short  conferences  with 
the  author,  as  the  humour  takes ;  and 
let  us  begin  with  ladies'  maids. 

Vol.  i.  p.  9. — "  My  msid  was  a  wretched 
prey  to  the  distressing  malady  of  sickness. 
I  believe  there  never  yet  existed  a  lady's 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXU. 


maid  who  was  not  *.  tboogb  I  have  never 
yet  been  able,  either  from  pbysicsl  or  ns- 
tnrsl  causes,  to  decide  satisfactorily  why 
it  should  be  so.*' 

P.  19.— "  I  have  been  often  sarprised 
at  the  fondness  for  dancing  which  prevails 
in  hot  climates.  The  iohabitaDts  seem 
to  enjoy  this  exercise  the  more  the  higher 
the  thermometer  rsnges.  I  was  told  that 
that  in  Pancfaal,  daring  the  hottest  months, 
balls  were  carried  on  with  unabated  spirit 
till  a  late  hour  in  the  morning ;  and  that; 
country  dances  and  Scotch  reels  were 
executed  with  a  spirit  of  enterprise  and 
perseverance  unknown  in  our  northern 
laUtudes.'* 

P.  23. — "  The  vineyards  (in  Madeira) 
are  very  pretty.  The  vines  are  trained 
over  wooden  pillars,  supporting  a  lattice- 
work of  bamboo.  The  grapes  are  dried 
in  the  shade,  which  19  said  to  give  them  a 
peculiar  richness  of  flavour.  The  vine  was 
first  introduced  into  Madeira  in  the  year 
14S0,  and  was  brought  from  the  island  of 
Crete.  .  .  .  The  grapes  from  which  the 
largest  quantity  of  wine  is  made  are  small^ 
and  extremely  sweet.  We  have  taken  a 
laige  quantity  of  them  on  board,  besides 
bananas  and  other  fruits.  The  grspea 
from  which  the  Maknteg  wine  Is  mado 
grow  upon  racks,  over  which  they  are 
trained :  they  are  not  gathered  till  over* 
ripe.  .  .  .  Vines  are  found  growing  at  a 
great  height^some  say  3,000  feet  above 
the  level  of  the  sea ;  but,  though  they  bear 
fruit,  no  wine  can  be  made  from  it.'* 

P.  28. — '*  The  sugar-cane  grows  in  great 
qnantities,  and  it  was  formerfy  the  elapU 
commodiig  of  the  island ;  but,  not  proving 
very  productive  as  an  article  of  commerce, 
its  culture  was  abandoned  for  that  of  the 
vine.  The  coffee  trees  are  very  large,  and 
grow  to  a  larger  size  than  even  in  the  West 
Indies  or  Cuba." 

P.  29.—"  Here,  for  the  first  time,  I 
tasted  that  most  indispensable  article  of 
Negro  food — the  sweet  potato.  I  cannot 
say  that  I  approved  of  it  as  an  adjunct  to 
meat;  but,  roasted  like  a  chestnut^  and 
eaten  hot,  it  is  very  tolerable." 

P.  43.—**  We  saw  flying-fish  in  great 
nnmbera.  They  flew  on  board  at  night, 
and  were  found  in  the  morning  on  deck, 
and  in  the  chains,  being  attracted  by  the 
Hgbt.  I  ate  them  for  breakfast,  and  found 
them  delicious :  like  a  herring  in  flavour 
and  oonsuteney,  bat  more  delicate.'' 

P.  57.— "Barbadoes.wss  one  of  the 
first,  if  not  the  very  first,  of  the  Carrib* 

3D 


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beaa  iaUnds  colonized  by  tbe  English. 
For  aerenl  years  dorinf  the  early  part  of 
the  nth  century  the  Earl  of  Carlisle  was 
hereditary  proprietor  of  the  island,  by 
Tirtae  of  a  grant  from  James  the  First. 
After  the  Restoration  it  became  the  pro- 
perty of  the  Crown.'* 
~  P.  82.—'*  Jamaica,  to  my  idea,  presents 
tiie  melancholy  picture  of  a  land  whose 
prosperity  has  passed  away.  Indolence  Is, 
1  think,  the  principal  characteristic  of  the 
inhabitants  of  this  island  at  the  present 
day.  That  the  CVfo/«t  hare  been  losers  to 
a  large  amount  by  the  abolition  of  the  slave 
trade  there  can  be  no  doubt ;  and  but  little, 
that  the  prosperity  of  this  island  generally, 
its  trsde  and  resources,  have  gradually  de- 
clined. I  think  it  also  more  than  ques- 
tionable whether  the  sUtcs  themselves 
have  found  a  greater  aggregate  of  hi^pi- 
ness  since  their  freedom  was  declared. 
They  wander  about  now  in  rags  and  des- 
titution :  idleness  is  their  occupation  and 
drunkenness  their  striking  tIcc.  There 
Is  a  look  of  hopeless  indolence  about  the 
coloured  population  which  I  did  not  re- 
mark in  any  of  the  other  countries  we 
Tisited,'*  &c. 

P.  101.— <*  The  dugU9,  a  species  of 
ghost,  answering  to  the  Irish  batukee. 
The  burial-ground  of  Port  Royal  is  just 
outside  the  town,  and  is  a  most  congenial 
spot  for  their  unholy  revels.  It  is  strewed 
with  human  bones,  of  all  sorts  and  dimen- 
sions. Here  they  are  said  to  hover  over 
the  silent  graves,  dancing  about  in  wild 
glee,  and  sometimes  even  venturing  beyond 
the  limits  of  the  grave-yard  to  pay  noc- 
turnal visits  to  their  former  friends.  There 
are  several  cocoa-trees  in  and  about  the 
burial*  ground.  Their  tops  wave  about, 
iiot  unlike  the  plumes  of  a  hearse,  and 
add  greatly  to  the  gloom  of  the  plaoe. 
The  ghost  of  a  certain  merchant,  who  died 
some  time  ago  at  Jamaica,  is  said  to  mount 
nightly  to  the  top  of  these  cocoa- trees,  and, 
after  taking  a  deliberate  survey  of  the 
country,  to  descend,  and  make  his  way 
into  the  town.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
several  persons  owed  him  money  to  a  con- 
siderable amount;  in  particular  one  in- 
fluential person,  against  whom  he  appears 
to  entertain  a  bitter  grudge.  The  dvfy 
of  the  dead  merchant  frequently,  in  the 
dead  of  the  night,  when  all  around  are 
sleeping,  enters  the  house  of  his  quondam 
friend,  and  pummels  his  corpulent  sides 
till  he  roars  for  mercy.  I  was  seriously 
informed  by  o  lodging-house  keeper,  whose 
house  had  formerly  been  a  hospitsl,  that 
on  moonlight  nights  I  might  see  troops  of 
its  former  inhabitants,  those  who  had  died 
within  the  walls,  walking  leisurely  up  and 
down  the  verandah,  and  looking  compla* 
cently  in  upon  thepresentinhabitants,*'  &c. 

P.  1S4. — **  Scenery  of  the  Mississippi. 


By  degrees  the  scenery  improves,  and 
the  woods  are  thicker.  Still  the  timber 
is  not  of  large  growth,  though  the  late 
autumn  colour  of  the  leaves  rendered 
them  very  varied  and  beautiful.  The 
most  common  tree  u  the  sycamore,  not 
quite  the  same  as  ours  of  the  same  name, 
but  neariy  so ;  the  brilliant  crimson  oi 
its  seed-pods  contrasted  finely  with  the 
brown  and  changing  leaves.  As  we  ad- 
vanced up  the  river,  the  trees  were  of  a 
more  considerable  sise,  and  there  was 
much  more  variety  in  their  foliage.  Ilex 
and  the  line  [sc  iive]  oak  are  very 
frequent.  There  is  a  peculiarity  in  the 
appearance  of  the  woods,  owing  to  the 
trees  being  almost  uniformly  covered  with 
long,  drooping,  Spanish  mots,  lliis  pan« 
sitical  plant  luings  from  every  branch  and 
twig,  descending  in  long  weeping  dostera. 
These  dependents  often  grow  to  the  length 
of  six  or  eight  feet,  and  are  of  a  greyish 
eolour.  They  give  a  sombre  hue  to  the 
forests,  and  render  their  appearance  some- 
what monotonous.  The  shores  increased 
in  beauty  as  we  proceeded,  being  diversified 
with  splendid  magnolias  and  cotton-wood 
trees.  Occasionally  we  saw  extensive 
ckarings,  on  which  were  temporary 
wooden  houses  erected  near  the  river  side ; 
they  were  occupied  by  the  wood-cutters, 
who  wereem]^yed  in  felling  and  stacking 
the  wood  for  the  innumerable  steamers 
which  work  up  and  down  the  river. 
These  insatiable  monstera  of  the  deep 
(the  Mississippi  is  said  to  have  no  bottom} 
will  soon  effect  the  almost  total  destruc- 
tion of  these  characteristic  forests ;  they 
are  fast  disappearing  under  the  hands  of 
the  large  ^o-eAsoif  steamboat  companies. 
Of  course,  every  traveller  in  America  Is 
prepared  by  previous  description  to  admire 
tbe  autumn  foliage  of  these  pathless  woods* 
Then  is,  however,  a  richness  and  variety 
in  them — the  light  and  almost  datiling 
crimson  shaded  into  rich  golden  yellowp 
and  intermingled  with  the  brightest  ever- 
greens— whi(£  is  perfectly  indescribable. 
If  a  painter  were  to  pretend  to  depict  them 
to  life,  he  would  be  called  as  mad  e# 
T\arner ;  and  truly  no  mortal  hand  could 
image  forth  such  scenes  as  these.'* 

P.  144. — "  Character  of  the  Amerieans. 
Who  ara  those  gaily  dressed  men  sitting 
astride  upon  cotton  bales,  and  looking  so 
composed,  while  discussing  some  serious 
questions  with  each  other  ?  You  can  judge 
nothing  from  their  countenances;  they 
are  so  well  schooled  and  tutored  that  no 
one  would  imagine  an  important  mer- 
cantile negotiation  in  progress.  That 
gentleman  mounted  on  a  molasses  cask, 
whistling,  cutting  up  a  stick,  as  if  for  the 
bare  life,  but  in  rtaliiy  to  prevent  his 
countenance  from  betraying  his  feelings, 
is  doing  business  with  the  man  who  is 


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balandog  hiniMlf   on  an  empty  barrel 
near  him;  the    Utter  with  the  eternal 
quid  io  the  comer  of  hit  month,  is  clearly 
looking  out  for  the   Girt^e^   (A»ylie^, 
taking  cart  he  u  not  taken  in,)  and  after 
a  while  he  rises  with  great  eangfrwd,  with 
•  Well,  Sir,  I  calculate  there  is  something 
of  a  stringhalt  in  the  bargain.    It  is  a 
tiorrid  sight  of  money.  Sir,  you're  asking ; 
and    as  I*m    in  a    tarnation  hnrry    to 
lienor,  111  put  it  off  tUI  next  falL'    I  need 
lianlly  say  that  this  shrewd  gentleman 
was  recaUed,  and  a  bargain  concluded. 
The  process  of  iiptoring  is  gone  through 
laveral  times  before  a  bargain  is  struck. 
This   is    the    first    specimen    I   saw  of 
Americans  in  their  own  country,  and  it 
•truck  me  forcibly.     It  showed  me  that 
those  who  in  dress  and  appearance  are 
decidedly  the  gentlemen  of  the  land,  are 
■o  devoted  to  money>making,  as  eridently 
to  have  neither  time  nor  many  ideas  to 
wsste  on  other  subjeets.    It  convinced 
roe  that  tiiongh    the  contemplation    of 
America  as  a  nation,  and  at  a  distance, 
may  and  indeed  must  be  interesting,  yet 
the  investigation  and  survey  of  the  people 
who  compose  that  nation  must  soon  be* 
come  wearying  and  monotonous.    One 
may  be  amused  for  a  time  at  the  shrewd- 
ness with  which  they  make  their  bargains, 
at  the  aeuteness  of  their  remarks,  and  the 
originality  of  their  expressions ;  but  once 
convinced,  as  I    speedily   became,  that 
every  action  proceeds  from    a    love  of 
amassing  wealth,  and  you  cease  to  be* 
oome    interested    in    Individuals  whose 
conduct  and  whose  pleasures  are  swayed 
by  such  an  ignoble  cause.    The  Americans 
are  accounted,  and  I  believe  justly  so,  a 
moral  people,  but  this  merit  is  I  think 
not  so  great  a  one  in  their  case  as  it  is 
among  other  nations ;  their  love  of  wealth 
being    all  powerful,  and    being  to    be 
gratified  only  by  the  strictest  attention  to 
business,  it  follows  necessarily  that  the 
hsAiite  of  their    Uvea  generally  become 
quiet   and    restrained.      Every   one    in 
America  looks   grave,  serious,  and   re- 
flective.   There  U  none  of  the  sportive 
light-headed  manner  visible  among  the 
Frendi,  and  occasionally  among  our  own 
countrymen.     Their    very    amusements, 
and  they  are  few,  are  partaken  of  without 
any  show  of  relaxation  or  pleasure.  Why 
is  this  ?  because  business   pursues  them 
into  the  very  heart  of  the&  enjoyment ; 
because  It  is  in  fact  their  enjoyment ;  and 
business  is  certainly  not  a  lively  thing; 
it  neither  opens  the  heart  nor  expands 
the  countenance." 

Vol.  ii.  p.  34.— <'The  first  time  we 
appeared  among  the  Indians,  they  ex- 
hibited no  marked  signs  of  wonder ;  they 
looked  at  us  askance,  and  rather  bus- 


pidottsly,  but  once  only  did  I  see  them 
roused  to  anything  like  animation.    The 
object  of  their  curiosity  was  my  eablekoOf 
and  I  shall  not  easily  forget  the  silent 
wonder  with  which  some  of  the  grave  old 
hunters  surveyed  it.    One  of  them  with- 
out any  ceremony  took  it  away  from  me, 
in  order  to  examine  it  more  closely:  a 
little  circle  was  then  formed,  and  they 
deliberated  upon  its  nature  and  origin. 
The  preralent  opinion  certainly  was,  that 
it  was  the/uii'ienpih  Mi  oj  eonte  anhna!, 
a  creature  to  them  unknown,  on  whom 
natnra   had  bestowed  a  fly-dispener  of 
unusual  length    and  beauty;  and,  alter 
lookiAg  at  it  for  a  long  time,  one  of  them'' 
endeavoured  to  fasten  it  to  the  back  of  a 
brother  hunter  who  stood  near.    Having 
done  this  he  proceeded  to  curl  it  up  to 
make  it  look  as  natural  as  possible.    The 
joke  was  hailed  by  the  reat  in  a  momentary 
Uugh,  but  in  another  second  their  coun- 
tenances were  as  still  and  impassive  aa 
before.     I  had  no  idea  that  they  could  be 
half  so  facetiona.    We  generally  distri- 
buted   some  small    coin    among    them« 
Money,  however,  they  seemed  to  set  but 
little  value  on.    A  much  more  acceptable 
present  there  is  no  doubt  would  have  been 
whisky  or  rum.    I  believe  it  is  the  in- 
tention of  the  Government  to  send  the 
prisonera  to  St.  Louis,  with  the  object  of 
settling  them  in  the  Western  Prairies.** 

P.  898.^'*  At  the  Havannah  we  were 
warned  not  to  expose  ourselves  to  the  in- 
fluence of  the  moom*»  rays ;  the  influence 
of  the  gentle  planet  being  supposed  to  be 
particularly  dangerous,  and  to  bring  on 
attacks  of  the  fell  disease." 

P.  339.—"  The  flesh  of  the  whale  after 
much  boiling  and  soaking  is  very  tolerable, 
and  may  be  easily  mistaken  for  cow-beef. 
Those  people,  however,  whose  olfactory 
nerves  are  in  a  delicate  state,  would  do 
wisely  not  to  have  it  cooked  within  half 
a  mile  of  their  drawing-room." 

We  could  willingly  extract  half  the 
volumes  in  this  manner,  much  to  the 
reader's  edification  ;  but  as  that  must 
not  be,  we  terminate  our  review  by  a 
poetical  extract, — ^Ihat  we  hope  will 
induce  those  who  read  it  to  search  the 
volumes  for  more. 

LIMBS  WatTTBM   OK   LADT  BLOIK. 
BBS  TOL.  I.  P.  111. 

Rest  thou,  weary  wanderer,  hera. 
Be  still — for  sacred  ground  is  near. 
Here  'neath  a  simple  tablet  lying. 
The  lov'd  in  life,  the  blest  when  dying  ; 
Waits  in  this  dark  and  still  abode 
A  summons  to  attend  her  God. 
A  peaceful  halo  fills  the  air, 
And  tells  that  faith  Is  sfeeping  there. 


388 


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[Oct; 


The  young,  the  high-born,  sleeps  bdow ; 
For  her  the  tears  of  thonsaniU  flow. 
Thou,  wanderer  through  this  world  of  care* 
Breathe  o*er  this  spot  a  silent  prayer. 
Pray  for  the  desolate  and  poor, 
Who  ne'er  were  driren  from  ker  door. 
Pray  that  the  rich  who  here  abide 
May  imitate  so  fur  a  gnide. 

ON  THB  MIBSIBSIPFI. 

Proudly  by  the  woodland  deepe 
Onr  little  gallant  schooner  sweeps. 
The  song  of  birds  is  heard  above, 
Toning  their  swelling  throats  to  lore; 
▲nd  with  a  joyons  welcome  hailing 
The  boat  with  snch  a  white  wing'sailing. 
On  poising  wings  the  sea-birds  float. 
And  join  them  with  their  warning  note ; 
But  heedless  on  the  Tessel  glides. 
Stemming  the  fury  of  the  tides. 
And,  like  a  spirit  of  the  seas 
Riding  on  the  wintry  breeze, 
Pull  many  a  tall  ship,  creeping  on. 
She  pssses  e'er  her  race  is  won. 

1.  A   Survey   ^f  Stoffordtihire;   con- 
taimng  tke  Antiquities  0/  Maf  County, 
By  Sampson  Erdeswick,  E$q.   Col" 
lated  with  MS.    Copies,    and  with 
Additional  Corrections  hy    fFyrley, 
Chetwjfnd,    Degge,   Smgth,    LytteU 
ton,  JBucleendge,  and  others;  iUuS' 
irative  of  the  History  amd  Antiquities 
of  that   County.    By  the  Bee.  T. 
Harwood,   D,D.  F.S.A.     A  new 
Edition,  eonsiderahly  improved.  8to. 
654  pp. 
3.  The  Natural  History  of  the  County 
of  Stafford;  comprising  its  Geology, 
Zoology,  Botany,  and  Meteorology; 
also    its    Antiquities,     Topography, 
Maun^actures,  ^c.  By  Robert  GarDcr« 
F*L,S»    8vo.  562  pp. 
IT  is  now  more  than  40  veart  since 
the  hopes  of  the  antiqaanes  of  that 
period,  for  a  complete  and  satisfactory 
History  of  Staffordshire,  were  raised 
by  the   Rev.  Stebbing  Shaw;    mho, 
with  competent  abilities  for  the  task, 
whilst   a  young  man,  had  embarked 
in  the  pursuit  with  great  alacrity  and 
zeal.      His  endeavours    to  elucidate 
the  history  of  the  county  were  met 
with  great  liberality  by  all  the  noble- 
men and  gentry ;  who,  with  cootidence, 
gladly,  received    him    as  a  welcome 
guest  into  their  mansions,  and  opened 
to  his  view  all  their  stores  of  docu- 
mentary evidences.      He    was    also 
peculiarly  fortunate  in  gaining  pos- 
session of  the  materials  of  Dr.  Wilkes, 
Mr.  Feilde,    and    other    collectors; 


and  perhaps  never  again  will  be 
amassed  so  large  and  valoable  a  store. 
Unfortunately,  however,  the  severe 
illness  and  early  death  of  Mr.  Shaw 
cut  off  these  hopes,  after  he  had  pub- 
lished about  one  half  of  his  intended 
work ;  and  his  materials  were  for 
the  most  part  returned  to  their  re- 
spective owners,  and  the  remainder 
have  since  passed  throogh  the  hands 
of  his  friend  the  late  William  Hamper, 
esq.  F.S.A.  to  those  of  Wm.  Salt,  esq. 
F.S.A.  their  present  possessor.  But, 
since  Mr.  Shaw's  death,  no  gentleman 
has  had  the  boldness  to  undertake 
either  to  finish  his  work  or  to  commence 
a  new  regular  history  of  the  couot]r« 
The  task  is  still  open  to  any  literar- 
adventurer. 

The  County  of  Stafford  has,  ho* 
ever,  during  the  last  quarter    o^ 

century,  been  fortunate  in  t<>pog>^P^V\i!fti 
works  illustrative  of  ito  history.  ^^ 

In  1817,  Mr.  Pitt  published  ^^ 
satisfactorvvolume  00  the  topo^        /J 
of    Staffordshire;    and   in    18^  ^P? J 


county  was  depicted  by  Mr.  ^^.  . 
ingale  in  vol.  xiii.  of  The  Be«^^'«"; 
England  and  Wales.  ^"'^^  ^' 

In  1830,  a  volume  of  vie^v.   :-  ik. 
county    drawn   by    Mr.   ^  Z^'^^^^^ 
and  engraved  by  Mr.  T.^^         ^^ 
Birmingham,  wu  accomp^^^^^^^^ 
scriptions  by   Mr.   W.  Y^„t    More 
recently,  a  volume  on    t&e  PotleTy 
district  was  published  tinder  the  l\l\e 
of    "The    Borough    of  Stoke- npon- 
Trent,"  which  was  re^\^^^  in  our 


number  for  March  last 


»  ?•  ^7^. 


OfkK 


In  1820,  the  lat^  Dr  U 
published  his  first  ^«f;«,-  *  ^^^>vood 
wick's  Survey  of  St^ifS?'^  ^'des- 
a  running  comment%|^  in  ^a."^'  ^'^^ 
additions  to  the  sbotteVi*!!  1  ^^Y  of 
wick;  so  that  it  Nta»  (I'^J'' «>f £rdes- 
greater  part,  an  orl^i^^  noVr**'  **»« 
on  the  topography  and  •  P«^J»cation 
the  county.  This  work  iirf*?**'®*^  ^f 
received,  and  had  becoiil^Jr''^^'^**>»y 
induced  the  pu^UsW  in  ,  ''''^  •  ^^>» 
Harwood  to  preparJ\^''  ^^^^est  Dr. 
which  he  coiipleied  t  ^^^  ^^^^^^xx, 
death.    This  uSi^Lted  e^^^^^^  W; 

during  the  printing  of  » k  ^'PP****** 
every  cam  has  been  tA*  '''*"'•  ^^ 
his  directions,  and  w.  **  ^^  f"*fii 
publisher,  the  ^f^^lo^^^^^ ^^^ 
in  our  opinion  the  t^r^^  ?    , '^*'  *^»t 

a  great  inapto^tmat  ;">.  ,'i^'^«'y 


i 


Jdl4.]     Rbyibw.— Garner's  Nalwral  History,  S^c*  of  Siafordshire.    389 


Very  numeroot  errors  which  had 
escaped  in  the  first  edition  have  been 
corrected,  particularly  in  the  heraldry ; 
and  the  additions  thronghont  the  work, 
certainly  as  important  as  any  already 
printed  in  the  former  edition,  are  not 
less  than  a  fourth  part  of  the  whole ; 
thus  increasing  very  considerably  both 
the  extent  and  the  interest  of  the  work, 
by  continuing  the  history  of  the  couoty 
to  the  present  time.  The  text  has 
been  revised  by  W.  Salt,  esq.  F.S.A. 
who  has  by  far  the  largest  collection 
of  the  MS.  copies  of  Erdeswick  ;  most 
of  which  vary  in  minute  particulars. 
An  account,  by  Mr.  Salt,  of  all  the 
copies  of  Erdeswick*  now  known  to 
exist,  and  where  deposited,  precedes 
the  work,  and  will  be  useful  to  future 
inquirers  into  the  history  of  Stafford- 
shire. A  small  impression  only  has 
been  printed,  the  greater  part  of  which 
has  been  taken  off  by  the  subscribers, 
resiJent  chiefly  in  the  county. 

The  Preface  contains  a  very  good 
series  of  biographical  articles  on  the 
topographers  of  Staffordshire;  em- 
bracing the  following  eminent  names : 
Camden,  Erdeswick,  W.  Burton,  the 
historian  of  Leicestershire ;  Wyrley  ; 
Sir  W.  Dugdale,  the  historian  of  War- 
wickshire ;  Gregory  King,  the  herald  ; 
£lias  Ash  mole,  the  historian  of  Berks 
and  Surrey ;  Walter  Cbetwynd ;  Dr. 
Plot,  the  historian  of  Oxfordshire  and 
Staffordshire ;  Sir  Simon  Degge,  John 
Uuntbach,  Dr.  Wilkes,  the  Rev.  Theo- 
philus  Buckeridge,  and  many  other 
minor  collectors ;  Robert  Smyth,  rector 
of  Woodston,  in  Huntingdonshire,  an 
indefatigable  collector  for  Huntingdon- 
shire, Cambridgeshire,  and  several 
other  counties;  (many  of  his  MSS. 
yet  remain,  and  his  additions  to 
Erdeswick  are  peculiarly  valuable ;) 
and  Rev.  S.  Shaw,  the  historian  of  Staf- 
fordshire; with  a  portrait  of  whom 
we  are  favoured  for  the  first  time  in  this 
work.  The  biographical  articles  are 
closed  by  a  memoir  of  the  respected 
Dr.  Harwood,  who  died  at  Lichfield, 
Dec.  22,  1842,  aged  75.  This  Isst 
memoir  we  have  already  given  in  our 
Msgsxine  for  February,  1843. 

This  work  does  not  admit  of  extracts 
being  given  by  way  of  specimens ;  but 

«  In  p.  xcvii.  I.  14,  for  JfcynWI,  rfsd  Mtjh 
rlek.  The  codt  was  boucht  at  Mr.  Meyrick'a 
aale  by  Mr.  Nichols,  sou  by  him  sold  to  Mr. 
WolTersUo. 


it  will  be  found  to  be  ably  eiecuted, 
and  will  hereafter  be  an  indispensable 
volume  in  all  important  topographical 
libraries. 

We  had  scarcely  looked  over  the 
preceding  work*  when  that  of  Mr. 
Garner  met  our  eye ;  and  a  mure 
valuable  accompaniment  to  the  drier 
antiquarian  work  of  Erdeswick,  could 
scarcely  have  been  found.  Uniform 
in  size  and  type,  the  two  volumes  form 
together  a  most  satisfactory  descrip- 
tion of  the  county.  In  the  Introduc- 
tion, Mr.  Garner  gives  an  account  of 
preceding  writers  on  the  History  of 
Staffordshire  ;  but,  in  the  slight  notice 
of  the  preceding  edition  of  Erdeswick, 
p.  8,  he  has  not  done  justice  to  Dr. 
Har wood's  labours,  as  we  are  sure  he 
will  be  ready  to  confess  if  he  takes 
the  trouble  of  again  looking  at  his 
work,  particularly  as  developed  more 
at  large  in  the  new  edition.  The  tezt 
of  Erdeswick  is  not  perhaps  one  tenth 
of  the  whole ;  the  rest  being  the 
creation  of  Dr.  Harwood's  industry. 

Mr.  Garner's  strength .  lies  in  the 
natural  history  of  the  district ;  and  in 
his  two  first  chapters  he  discusses 
the  Geography  and  Meteorology  of  the 
county.  The  3rd  and  4th  chapters 
are  devoted  to  the  Historical  and 
Topographical  Antiquities,  which,  in 
this  work,  are  very  subordinate  to  the 
Natural  History  ;  thus  very  little  in- 
terfering with  the  labours  of  Erdeswick 
and  Harwood  in  the  preceding  work. 

The  5th  chapter  contains  the  Geology 
of  the  county  ;  and  in  his  introductory 
observations  Mr.  Garner  touches  on 
a  most  difficult  subject,  and  in  our 
opinion  very  judiciously. 

"  The  study  of  grology  has  been  looked 
upon  with  suspicion  by  many  pious  men, 
from  the  idea  that  some  of  the  principles 
of  the  science  are  incompatible  with  the 
truths  of  Ilevelation.  The  reasonings  of 
geologists  would  seem  to  show  that  the  earth 
is  much  older  than  has  been  supposed  by 
divines, — that  there  have  been  several 
creations  of  plants  and  animals  at  long 
intervals  of  time,  and  that  the  earth  has 
undergone  more  catastrophes  by  deluge, 
than  the  one  described  as  occurring  in  the 
days  of  Noah.  •  *  •  Believing  that  every 
verse  of  scripture  is  inspired  by  God.  we 
must  yet  maintain  that  it  can  never  have 
its  authority  impaired  by  any  discovery  of 
man  in  geology,  or  in  any  natural  science ; 
and  after  the  Book  of  God,  but  by  no 
means  to  b^  compared  together}  we  can 


390      Rbticw. — Gamer's  Naimral  Hisiar^,  4c.  of  St^fwrdsMte.    [Oet. 


in  nothing  more  Me  tke  operation  of  hit 
power  and  goodneee  than  in  the  ttnd j  of 
ti>e  book  of  oatoce."  p.  191. 

The  whole  snHject  is  discusaed  in  a 
very  pleaaiog  and  aatiafactory  manDer. 

'*  In  Staffordshire,  at  the  present  time, 
there  most  be  obtained  at  least  a  quarter 
of  a  million  of  tons  of  iron  annually,  and 
more  than  a  million  of  tons  of  ooal  must 
go  to  produce  this  from  the  ore ;  whilst 
the  consumption  of  the  latter  article  for 
other  purposes,  the  forging  and  manu- 
fncture  of  iron,  the  firing  for  pottery,  for 
steam-engines,  sod  for  household  uses, 
must  also  be  immense."  p.  195.  "  Cosi 
is  undoubtedly  of  Tegetable  origin,  and  in 
st>me  layers  is  little  different  from  char* 
coal."  p.  197. 

'  The  6th  chapter  describes  the  North 
Staffordshire  or  Pottery  coalfield — the 
MilUtooe  grit — the  Mountain  lime- 
stone,— and  Silnrtan  rocks. 

*'  The  iron-stone,  cannel  coal,  fire-day, 
and  red  sand-stone,  are  extremely  inter- 
mixed in  this  district ;  in  some  cases,  ss  many 
as  30  or  40  beds  of  coal  exist  in  this  field, 
▼arying  from  a  fiew  inches  to  10  in  thick* 
ness.  p.  213.  The  beds  of  fire-clay  are 
numerous,  and  valuable  to  the  potters, 
p.  914.  Fossils,  consisting  of  vegetable 
rtmsins,  fresh-water  shells,  fish,  &o.  are 
numerous."  p.  SI 4. 

*'  The  mountain  lime-stone  of  Stafford- 
shire must  be  four  or  fire  hundred  ysrds 
in  thickness.  The  lowest  or  fourth  bed 
has  not,  however,  been  penetrated.  As- 
sociated with  this  lime- stone,  near  the 
borders  of  Staffordshire,  occurs  a  dark 
greenish  spotted  stone,  railed  foad-stone, 
lying  between  the  strata  of  lime-stone : 
whilst  the  very  perfect  fossils  reveal  to  us 
how  the  lime-stone  was  formed  tranquilly 
at  the  bottom  of  the  sea,  this  formation 
shews  us  how  the  mass  of  lime-stone  was 
raised  from  the  ocean  to  the  height  it  has 
now  attained  abore  its  level;  for  this 
stone  is  evidently  an  igneous  or  volcanic 
rock,  was  injected  in  a  fluid  state  from 
the  bowels  of  the  earth,  and  has  up- 
heaved the  beds  of  lime-stone.  The  toad- 
stone  has  its  cells  occasionally  filled  with 
hornblende,  seolite,  mesotype,  agate,  &c. 
occasionally  with  cells,  empty  from  the 
decomposition  of  the  contained  minerals." 
p.  SS3. 

The  8th  chapter  is  devoted  to  In- 
vertebrate Animals, — ^ListsofLand  and 
Freshwater  Shells, — Beetles  and  other 
Insects.  The  9th  and  10th  contain 
the  Botany  f>f  the  County.  And  the 
11th,  List  of  Fossils  of  Staffordshire  ; 
and  a  Calendar  of  Natural  Phenomena, 
*— a  very  interesting  article. 


The  lath  deacribes  the  maonfactttre 
of  pottery*  and  the  great  impjove meats 
introduced  in  it  by  the  celebfkted 
Josiah  Wedgewood»  F.R.S.  of  whom 
a  good  memoir  is  given,  p.  497* 

"  Of  Iste  smaU  articles  have  been  made 
in  a  novel  and  ingenious  way ;  bdng 
stamped  in  dies,  by  a  strong  pressure 
from  clay  in  a  state  of  powder.  A  firm 
and  solid  cohesioa  of  the  ipateriai  is  pro* 
duced  by  this  method  of  manufacture. 
Beaatifiil  buttons  are  so  obtained,  as  weU 
as  the  tesscTK  for  Mosaic  pavements,  5(c. 
The  tesselated  tiles,  now  so  much  used  for 
the  pavement  of  churches,  halls,  &c.  are 
made  of  different  coloured  clays,  com- 
monly black,  red,  and  yellow.  The  tiles 
are  formed  from  moulds  in  which  the  clay 
is  forced  by  a  press ;  in  the  squares  so 
formed  certain  depressions  are,  in  this 
stage,  seen  on  the  upper  surface,  vairing 
acoording  to  the  patterns,  and  into  these 
depressions  the  diffsront  coloured  clay  is 
plastered  in  a  softer  state.  They  are 
glased  or  not  acoording  to  eircnmstanoea. 
When  laid  down  the  effect  is  beautiful, 
resembling  the  richest  patterns  of  the 
loom.*'  p.  496. 

The  13th  chapter  deecribes  the  Lead 
and  Copper  Minea  of  Staffordshire; 
and  the  14th  and  last  chapter  gives 
the  Population  at  different  periods, 
and  other  statistical  information.  An 
Appendix  enlarges  on  the  preceding 
chapters,  particularly  on  the  anti- 
quarian division  of  the  volume. 

The  volume  is  illustrated  with  a 
pleasing  view  of  the  valley  of  the 
Manyfold ;  and  with  several  clever 
wood-cuts,  under  the  superintendence 
of  Mr.  Thompson.  Also  several  litho- 
graphs of  fossils,  trees,  &c.  and  a 
coloured  Geological  Map  of  Stafford- 
shire, drawn  by  Mr.  Garner,  and  de- 
scriptive of  its  strata. 

Alter  a  careful  examination  of  Mr. 
Garner's  work,  we  rise  from  it  both 
amuaed  and  instructed ;  and  can  safely 
recommend  his  labours  to  the  perusal 
of  our  readers. 


Uohf,  Cioimeai,  Hutmical,  and  Pic- 
iure$que;  iUu$trated  and  de$eribed 
by  William  Brockedon,  Etq.  F,R.8. 
Member  of  the  ^eademiet  of  Fine 
Arte  in  Florence  and  Rome,  jimtkor 
of  "  The  Paetea  qf  the  AlpB,"  '*  Tke 
Road  Book  to  Italy,"  Sfe»  8fc,  Large 
4to.  1843. 
IF  graphic  illustration  in  popular 

literature  be  regarded  as  "  the  order  of 


1844.] 


RsTnsw.-^Brockedoirs  Italy* 


3£ri 


the  day,"  it  may  aUo  be  considered 
as  ooe  of  its  cfif-.orders,  for  there  is  cer- 
tainly a  plethora,  or  overflow  of  either 
bile  or  blood  in  the  artistic  body. 
Never  were  pictorial  embellishments 
ao  abundant  as  at  the  present  time : 
alttMal  every  species  of  pablication* 
from  the  highest  order  to  the  lowest 
^ade  of  paffery  and  quackery^  is 
"  adorned**  ivith  pictures,  "  cuts,"  or 
"fine  engraviags*"  Beauty  and  ex* 
cellence»  thus  made  common  and  hack* 
neyed,  lose  their  valtte  in  the  estimation 
of  the  fastidious ;  for  noity  gives  an 
adventitious  quality  to  all  works  of  art 
and  literature.  The  paintiof,  aoalp* 
ture,  and  architecture  of  the  ancient 
Greeks  and  Romans  have  acquired 
their  standard  of  fame  and  worth* 
nearly  as  much  from  their  rarity  as 
their  intrinsic  merits.  What  is  com* 
monly  called  tofte,  and  on  which  ao 
much  has  been  written  and  said,  is  a 
fickle,  fluctuating  quality.  In  the  re- 
spective days  of  Elizabeth,  of  Anne, 
and  of  Victoria,  it  has  presented  dif- 
ferent phases,  and  sanctioned  or  re- 
probated dissimilar  works  and  objects. 
What  was  regarded  as  beautiful  under 
the  first  of  those  female  monarchs,  was 
condemned  as  vulgar  and  tasteless  by 
the  second ;  and  that  which  would 
have  been  admired  by  the  first,  might 
be  thought  ugly  and  monstrous  by  the 
third.  The  same  remark  applies  to 
embellished  literature.  Had  such  a 
volume  as  that  before  us  appeared 
either  at  the  court  of  Elizabeth  or 
Anne,  it  would  have  been  a  prodigy, 
and  as  such  wondered  at,  but  not 
understood. 

Competition  and  rivalry  have  super- 
seded the  old,  dull,  plodding  system 
in  the  manufacturing  and  commercial 
world ;  and  art  is  compelled  to  mount 
its  seven-league  boots  and  telescopic 
magnifiers,  to  keep  pace  with  manu- 
Cactures,  for  the  market  demands  a 
rapid  and  copious  supply  to  gratify 
that  vitiated  appetite  which  has  been 
created.  Co-operation  and  combina^ 
tion  have  conspired  to  bring  into  active 
and  systematic  employ  a  great  number 
of  working  hands,  which  are  kept  in 
constant  requisition  to  produce  novelty, 
variety,  and  cheapness.  Hence  every 
annual,  monthly,  weekly,  and  even 
daily  publication  is  embellished  with 
wocKl-cuts,  or  stereotype  substitutes, 
in  almost  countless  numbers.  Although 


this  mode  of  publication  certainly  ad* 
ministers  amusement  and  instruction 
to  "the  million,"  it  tends  rather  to 
nauseate  than  gratify  the  man  of  re- 
fined taste  and  the  real  lover  of  the 
beautiful. 

In  this  state  of  things,  and  at  a  time 
when  publishers  and  the  higher  class 
of  artists  despaired  of  embarking  in, 
or  even  witnessing  any  truly  fine 
work,  the  enterprising  proprietors  of 
this  publication  announced  a  series  of 
engravings,  with  accompanying  de- 
scriptions, illustrative  of  "Italy,  Clas- 
sical, Historical,  and  Picturesque.'* 
This  work  has  been  some  time  in 
progress,  end,  unlike  many  other  pub- 
lications which  commence  full  of  pro- 
miae  and  presumptuous  assurance,  but 
ftul  in  pc^formeooe,  it  has  improved 
as  it  advanced,  and  its  later  portione 
heve  far  anrpassed  those  issued  at  the 
commenceasent.  It  was  found,  at  an 
early  stage,  that  the  public  did  not 
duly  appreciate  or  encourage  the  pro- 
ject, and  that  there  were  but  small  hopee 
of  remuneration  for  the  vast  outlay  it 
involved.  Instead,  however,  of  break- 
ing faith  with  their  patrons,  and  either 
relinquishing  the  work  entirely,  or 
hurrying  it  to  a  close  by  reducing  the 
number  of  engravings,  and  issuing 
them  in  a  style  inferior  to  those  first 
published,  the  proprietors  wisely  and 
generously  resolved  to  improve  every 
department  by  employing  the  most 
eminent  artists,  and  paying  liberally 
for  their  respective  performances.  Ac- 
tuated by  this  noble  motive,  they  had 
recourse  to  the  portfolios  of  Staofield, 
Eastlake,  Roberta,  Leitch,  Harding, 
Front,  and  other  professional  artists, 
besides  some  highly  talented  amateurs, 
and  in  the  engraving  department  em- 
ployed, amongst  others,  Willmore, 
Higham,Brandard,  R.  Wallis,Jeavons, 
Allen,  Adlard,  and  Carter;  and  the 
result  is  a  series  of  sixty  of  the  finest 
landscape  engravings  ever  produced 
by  British  artists. 

A  nobler  subject  for  pictorial  illus- 
tration than  Italy,  the  land  of  song, 
of  poetry,  of  classic  history,  cannot 
be  conceived,  and  no  one  more  com- 
petent than  Mr.  Brockedon  to  super* 
intend  those  illustrations  could  have 
been  found.  His  familiar  acquaintance 
not  only  with  the  ancient  and  modern 
history  of  Italy,  but  with  the  charac- 
teristic features  of  Italian  landscape^ 


392 


Rbview.— -Miss  Strt€kUnd*8  Queen$  of  England.        [Oct. 


ftnd  his  ahility  as  an  artistM>ecoliarly 
qualified  him  for  the  task.  The  preface 
states  that  of  the  subjects  of  the  plates 
"  nearly  two -thirds  have  never  before 
come  under  the  burin  of  the  engraver, 
and  of  the  remainder  the  scenes  and 
objects  are  presented  in  new  and 
striking  points  of  view.  Italian  land- 
scape is  in  fact  inexhaustible,  and  the 
only  difficulty  lies  in  the  choice  of  sub- 
ject, where  every  aspect  of  nature  is 
beautiful  and  picturesque;  but  we 
flatter  ourselves  that  this  collection 
will  be  found  to  render  more  justice 
to  the  scenery  of  Italy  than  has  ever 
before  been  attempted  or  accomplished 
by  the  united  efforts  of  the  painter  and 
the  engraver,  within  the  compass  of  a 
single  volume."  In  this  opinion  we 
cordially  join.  The  buildings  and  the 
scenery  so  glowingly  described  by 
Rogers,  Byron,  Forsyth,  Woods,  and 
many  other  travellers  and  authors,  are 
here  brought  tangibly  before  us,  and 
that  too  with  every  advantage  which 
can  be  derived  from  the  talents  of  the 
first  artists  of  the  country,  and  an  ex- 
penditure of  capital  which,  we  feel 
assured,  would  hardly  be  credited  were 
it  stated  by  the  proprietors. 

Each  engraving  is  accompanied  by 
four  or  six  quarto  pages,  containing  a 
clear  and  lucid  sketch  of  the  historical 
events  connected  with  the  scene  de- 
lineated, in  which  the  most  essential 
and  interesting  points  are  seised  and 
narrated  in  a  learned  but  straight- 
forward manner,  with  a  brief  notice  of 
its  present  state,  deriving  additional 
value  from  the  narrative  of  many 
curious  facts  and  observations  made 
by  the  aathor  himself.  The  accounts 
of  Genoa,  Loretto,  Naples,  and  Phestom 
are  favourable  specimens  of  the  author's 
style. 

Every  department  of  the  volume 
appears  to  have  received  the  ad- 
vantage of  Mr.  Brockedon's  super- 
intendence. Where  all  are  excellent 
it  would  seem  invidious  to  point  out 
any  one  of  the  engravings  as  especially 
deserving  praise.  We  will  merely  add 
that  the  copper- plate  and  letter* press 
printers  have  performed  their  tasks 
most  creditably.  We  trust  that  the 
proprietors  will  ultimately  be  rewarded 
for  their  liberality,  and  that  others 
will  be  stimulated  by  their  example 
to  produce  works  which,  unlike  the 
ephemeral  productions  of  the  day,  are 
7 


calculated  to  reflect  credit  on  all  par- 
ties concerned  in  them. 


Lfoes  of  th€  Qumtu  of  EmgUmd.  Bjf 
Agnes  Strickland,  Folt.  6  and  7* 
THE  present  volumes  contain  the 
lives  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  Queen 
Anne  of  Denmark.  The  life  of  the 
former  has  extended  to  the  unusual 
lengtli  of  a  volume  and  a  half;  as  the 
biographer  has  to  add  the  political 
history  of  the  sovereign  to  the  per- 
sonal one  of  the  Queen  ;  and  this  we 
think  has  given  a  heaviness  of  effect 
to  the  whole  :  though,  preserving  an 
adherence  to  her  original  plan,  we  do 
not  see  how  well  it  was  to  be  avoided; 
if  the  history  of  politics  and  of  petti- 
coats were  to  be  mixed  together,  and 
if  so  much  of  original  correspondence, 
on  matters  of  little  moment,  was  to  be 
given.  Miss  Strickland  has,  with  fe- 
minine propriety,  not  entered  into  the 
subject  either  of  the  stories  of  Eliza- 
beth's amours,  or  of  the  supposed  ob- 
stacles to  her  marriage ;  subjects  both 
involved  in  much  obscurity,  and  which 
are  scarcely  worth,  at  this  time,  any 
expense  of  grave  or  over-curious  inves- 
tigation. The  one  great  blot  in  her 
reign  was  the  murder  of  Mary,  and 
that  never  can  be  effaced,  though  cer- 
tainly others  are  also  deeply  stained 
with  the  same  guilt,  and  must  stand 
at  the  same  bar  of  judgment  with  her. 
Fear  is  of  all  passions  the  most  cruel ; 
and  doubtless  Burghley  and  Walsing- 
ham  foresaw  their  fate,  if  their  mis- 
tress died  before  her  captive  sister.* 
In  turning  to  Miss  Strickland's  ac- 
count of  the  "  Armada,"  we  do  not 
know  whether  Protestant  feelings  and 
patriotic  ardour  have  not  prevented 
our  historical  writers,  and  oar  coun* 
try  men  in  general,  from  acknowledg- 
ing that  the  projected  invasion  of 
England,  and  the  equipment  of  the 
gigantic  armament,  and  the  vast  pre- 
parations by  land  as  well  as  by  sea, 
and  the  fine  army  under  the  great  ge- 
neral, the  Duke  of  Parma, — that  the 
whole  enterprise,  if  undertaken  for  a 
better  cause,  and  with  other  aims, 
would    have  been  worthy  of  admi- 

*  Would  it  not  be  ss  weU  if  Miss 
Stricklsnd  were  to  get  tome  friend  to 
correct  the  mistakei  in  the  Latin  lines, 

£.  93,  vol.  Tii.    lliey  look  rsther  snoms- 
»as  to  our  eyes. 


1844.] 


RSYiBW.^iBarry  Coniwairs  Bngliih  Songt. 


393 


ratioDj  and  wm  conceived  io  a  daring, 
proad,  ambitioas  and  confiding  spirit. 
England  alone  stood  in  those  times 
between  Philip  and  the  accomplish- 
ment of  his  great  purposes,  as  it  did 
in  later  before  Baonaparte.  To  es- 
tablish his  vast  temporal  and  spiritual 
dominion,  it  was  necessary  that  she 
and  her  spirit  of  liberty  should  be  de- 
stroyed, that  body  and  soul  she  should 
be  bound  with  linlcs  of  iron.  Had 
Philip's  enterprise  been  successful,  all 
Europe  would  have  lain  at  his  feet  { 
and  who  could  have  foreseen  the 
means  which  under  Providence  was 
taken  to  avert  the  blow?  Had  the 
joint  armies  landed,  those  of  the 
Armada,  and  of  the  Duke  of 
Pkrma's  victorious  legions,  what 
hope  was  there  of  resisting  them  by 
our  fresh  and  hasty  levies  of  undis- 
ciplined troops,  under  inexperienced 
leaders  ?  We  believe  that  in  the  Eng- 
lish Councils  this  point  of  weakness 
was  deeply  felt  and  understood ;  and 
that  it  was  proposed  only  partially  to 
oppose  the  invader,  and  to  rest  the 
main  hope  in  laying  waste  the  country 
before  him,  and  depriving  him  of  the 
necessary  sustenance  for  his  army. 
Whether  the  country  would  have  been 
conquered,  or  its  sovereign  deposed, 
we  do  not  say ;  but  cruelly  devastated 
it  would  have  been  i  and  left,  if  left  at 
all,  with  cities  burnt,  country  ravaged, 
commerce  destroyed,  prisons  filled,  and 
unutterable  cruelties  mflicted,  produc- 
ing inconceivable  calamities.  He  who 
acknowledges  the  hand  of  Providence 
interfering  in  human  affairs,  and  ap- 
parently exerting  itself  when  all  other 
aid  is  in  vain,  must  surely  acknow- 
ledge its  presence  in  such  a  case  as 
this:  and  again,  after  the  lapse  of 
more  than  two  centuries,  in  the  de- 
struction of  Napoleon's  army  in  Rus- 
sia. Hence  "  the  wind  and  storm  " 
seem  to  obey  His  word  by  which  they 
were  created,  to  deliver  us  from  the 
oppression  of  tyranny,  which  was  too 
powerful  to  be  withstood  ;  which  was 
unrighteous  in  its  course ;  and,  if  suc- 
cessful, would  have  been  so  at  the  ex- 
pense of  justice,  liberty  and  truth. 

In  the  life  of  Queen  Anne  of  Den- 
mark tliere  is  much  pleasant  anec- 
dote ;  and  it  is  told  as  well  as  it  waa 
worth  telling.  There  are  some  mis- 
takes, as  "  Daniels"  for  Daniell  the 
poet,  and  others  of  that  light  east ; 

GiiiT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


and  we  do  not  think  the  following  a 
good  specimen  of  the  historical  style. 

"As  Robert  Carr  was  tivellow'haired 
laddie,  of  tall  stature,  etfAeUithed  ioith 
round  blue  eyes,  and  a  high-coloured 
complexion,"  &c.  and  there  is  too 
much  of  "  the  pale  young  girl,"  and 
"  the  fair  young  girl,"  and  other 
such  expressions ;  suiting  the  Novel- 
ists' Magazine  better  than  the  History 
of  England  ;  but,  on  the  whole,  the  li- 
terary world  should  be  satisfied  with 
the  result  of  Miss  Strickland's  in- 
dustry and  learn  log;  and  especially 
with  the  skill  with  which  she  has 
avoided  the  delicate  and  difficult  pas« 
sages  of  her  task :  though,  in  the  case 
of  Anne  of  Denmark,  she  seems  to 
have  drawn  the  curtain  at  once  over 
the  whole  of  that  part  of  the  subjects 


Engliih  Songe.  By  Barry  Cornwall. 
A  VOLUME  like  this  wants  no  in- 
traduction  to  the  reader,  no  apology  by 
the  author,  no  observation  by  the  critic. 
It  is  a  self- moving  vessel,  that  could 
not  be  impelled  more  rapidly,  by  the 
anxiety  of  the  author  pacing  the  deck, 
or  handling  an  oar  ;  or  retarded  in  its 
course,  by  the  adverse  gales  of  the  cri- 
tical bellows.  It  is  full  of  spirit,  fancy, 
life,  and  animation  :  with  great  variety 
of  subject  and  of  style;  sometimes 
bitter,  satirical,  splenetic ;  sometimes 
all  joy,  hilarity,  and  fun  ;  and  some- 
times sweetly  plaintive  and  delicately 
fanciful.  We  could  quote  half  the  vo- 
lume— but  for  what  use  ?  We  take  al- 
most at  random — but  could  we  have 
taken  better  ? 

THB   POOa   SCHOLAa'S  SOMO. 

Death,  old  fellow  1  have  we  then 
Come  at  last  so  near  each  other  ? 

Well — shake  hands,  and  be  to  me 
A  quiet  friend — a  faithful  brother. 

AU  those  merry  days  are  gone, 

Gone  with  cash  and  heiith,  old  fellow  ! 
When  I  read  long  days  and  nights,  [low. 

And  sometimes  (with  a  friend)  got  mel- 

Newton  !  Euclid  1  fine  old  ghosts ! 

Noble  books  of  old  Greek  learning ; 
Oh  1  ye  left  hoge  works  behind, 

Head  and  heart  and  brain  all  bnrning. 

How  I  toil*d !  for  one  now  fled, 
I  wore  down  the  midnight  taper, 

Labouring— dreaming — ^till  one  day 
I  woke  and  found  my  life  a  vapour. 

3E 


304 


Review. — ^Barry  Cornvrairs  Englhli  Simgs. 


(Oct. 


Y«t  I  hoped  (ah  1  langh  not  now) 

For  wealth,  and  health,  and  fame— the 

So  I  climb*d  up  AVisdom's  atept,  [bubble ! 
And  got  a  fall,  boy,  for  my  trouble. 

Kow  all's  over — no  one  helped, 
No  one  cheer'd  my  strong  endeavour ; 

So  I  sank  and  called  on  thee. 
And  thou'li  be  my  friend  for  erer. 

A.  DEBAMEE'S  80N0. 

I  dream  of  thee  at  mom, 

When  all  the  earth  is  gay, 
Qvn  If  ilrho  live  a  life  forlorn, 

And  die  through  a  long  decay. 

I  dream  of  thee  at  noon, 
When  the  summer  sun  is  high, 

And  the  river  sings  a  sleepy  tuue, 
And  the  woods  give  no  reply. 

I  dream  of  thee  at  eve, 

Beneath  the  Aiding  sun. 
When  e*en  the  winds  begin  to  grieve, 

And  I  dream  tiU  day  is  done. 

I  dream  of  thee  at  night. 

When  dreams,  men  say,  are  free  : 
Alas  !  thou  dear,  too  dear  delight. 

When  dream  I  not  of  thee  ? 

THE  SONG  Of  A  FELOn's  WIFE. 

The  brand  is  on  thy  brow* 

A  dark  and  guilty  spot, 
'Tis  ne'er  to  be  erased, 

'Tis  ne'er  to  be  forgot. 

The  brand  is  on  thy  brow. 

Yet  I  mus^  shade  the  spot ; 
For  who  will  love  thee  now 

If  I  love  thee  not  ? 

Thy  soul  is  dark-*is  stained — 

From  out  the  bright  world  thrown  ; 

By  God  and  saan  disdained, 
But  not  by  me—thy  own. 

Oh!  e'en  the  tiger  slain 
Hath  one  who  ne'er  doth  flee. 

Who  soothes  his  dying  paiD,*— 
That  one  am  I  to  thee. 

THE  PAUFEES'  JVBILBB. 

Unrrah  !  who  was  e'er  so  gay 

As  we  merry  folks  to  day  ? 

Brother  beggars,  do  not  stare. 

But  toss  your  rogs  into  the  air, 

And  cry,  •*  No  work  and  better  fare !" 

Each  man,  be  be  saint  or  sinner, 

Shall  to  day  have — meat  for  dinner. 

Yesterday,  oh !  yesterday, 
That  indeed  was  a  bad  day  t 
Iron  bread,  and  rascal  gruel, 
Water  drink,  and  scanty  fuel ; 
With  tlie  beadle  at  our  backs, 
Curving  na  as  we  beat  flax, 
Just  like  twelve  OM  Bailey  varleU 
Amottgat  oakiun-plekiEg  hnrlots. 


Why  should  we  such  things  endure. 
Though  we  be  the  parish  poor  ? 
This  is  usage  bad  and  rough ; 
Are  not  age  and  pain  enough  ? 
Lonely  age,  unpitied  pain, 
With  the  bars  that  like  a  chain 
To  our  prison  bare  hath  bound  us. 
And  the  unwelcomed  winter  round  us. 

Why  should  we  for  ever  work  ? 
Do  we  starve  beneath  the  Turk  ? 
That  with  one  foot  in  the  grave 
We  should  toU  stiU  like  the  slave. 
Seventy  winters  on  our  heads, 
Yet  we  freeze  on  wooden  beds, 
With  one  blanket  for  a  fold> 
That  lets  in  the  horrid  cold, 
And  cramps  and  agues  manifold  ? 

Yet — sometimes  we  are  merry  people, 
When  the  chimes  clang  in  the  ateople. 
If't  be  summer  time,  we  all, 
Dropsied,  palsied,  crippled,  crawl» 
Underneath  the  sunny  wall : 
Up  and  down  like  worms  we  croaeh. 
Or  ttand  still  and  fall  asleep. 
With  our  faces  in  the  sun, 
Foi^getting  all  the  world  has  done. 

irt  be  May,  with  hawthorn  blooms 
In  our  breasta,  we  sit  on  tombs, 
And  spell  o'er  with  eager  ken 
The  epitaphs  of  older  men, 
Choosing  those,  for  some  strange  reasooj. 
Who've  weathered  ninety — a  hundred  sea- 
sons, 
TiU  forth  at  last  we  shout  in  chorus, 
We've  thirty  good  years  ttill  before  us. 

But  to  day's  a  bonny  day, 

What  shaU  we  be  doing  > 
What*s  the  use  of  saving  money, 
When  rivers  flow  with  milk  and  honey  3 

Prudence  is  our  ruin. 
What  have  we  to  do  with  eare  ? 
Who,  to  be  a  pauper's  heir. 
Would  mask  his  false  face  in  a  smile, 
Or  hide  his  honest  hate  in  guile  ? 

But  come, — why  do  we  loiter  here  ? 

Boy,  go  get  us  some  small  beer ; 

Quick,  twill  make  our  blood  ran  quickeri 

And  drown  the  devil  pain  in  liquor. 

March,  so  fierce,  is  almost  past, 

April  will  be  here  at  last ; 

And  May  must  come. 

When  bees  do  hum. 

And  Saniroer  over  Cold  victorious : 

Ilurrab  !  'tia  a  prospect  glorious! 

Altai  /  tmmii  kter  /  and  warmer  wemiker  / 

Come  boys,— let's  be  mad  together ! 

TUB  LBVELLBE. 

The  king  he  reigns  on  a  throne  of  gold, 
FtDCMl  round  by  his  right  divine  } 

The  baron  he  sits  in  his  castle  old, 
DViakUg  bis  ripe  red  wlac : 


1844.]     RBViBW,r-\Vealc  s  Quarterly  Paptrs  on  JrchiUclure.        395 


Bat  bdoif ,  below,  in  his  ragged  coat^ 

The  beggar  lie  tuneth  a  hungry  note, 

And  the  spinner  is  hound  to  his  wearjr  thread. 

And  the  debtor  lies  down  with  an  aching  head. 

So  the  worid  goes, 

So  the  stream  flows ; 

Yet  there's  a  fellow,  whom  nobody  knows. 

Who  maketh  all  free, 

On  land  and  sea. 

And  maketh  the  rich  like  the  poor  to  flee. 

The  lady  lies  down  in  her  warm  white  lawn. 

And  dreams  of  her  painted  pride  ; 
The  milk-maid  sings  to  the  wild  eyed  dawn 

Sad  songs  on  the  cold  hill's  side ; 
And  the  bishop  smiles,  as  on  high  he  sits, 
On  the  scholar  who  writes  and  stares  by  fits ; 
And  the  girl  who  her  nightly  needle  plies, 
Looks  out  for  the  source  of  life  and  dies. 

So  the  world  goes. 

So  the  stream  flows ; 

Yet  there's  a  fellow,  whom  nobody  knows. 

Who  maketh  all  firee. 

By  land  and  sea. 

And  forccth  the  rich  like  the  poor  to  flee. 

QHurttrljf     PaperB    on    Architecture, 

Edited  and  published  by  John  Wcale. 

Fola.  L  and  II,  Uo, 

UNDER  this  name  we  have  a  series 
of  articles  on  the  decorative  sciences 
connected  with  boildiog,  highly  illus- 
trated with  engravings,  many  of  which 
are  beaatifiilly  coloured.  The  subjects 
of  the  papers  are  essays,  theoretical, 
biographical,  and  descriptive,  many  of 
them  being  original  compositions,  and 
others  translatious  from  the  French 
and  German  ;  and  in  this  manner  a 
great  variety  of  subjects  of  high  in- 
terest are  from  time  to  time  brought 
into  notice,  the  periodical  form  of  the 
publication  admitting  of  a  very  ex- 
tended plan  of  illustration.  The  ma- 
jority of  the  engravings  are  dedicated 
to  the  styles  of  the  middle  ages,  to 
stained  glass,  and  to  modern  revivals 
of  the  decorations  of  ecclesiastical 
structures. 

The  splendid  fittings  and  embellish- 
ments recently  introduced  into  the 
Temple  church  have  received  great 
attention.  Designed  in  the  strictest 
accordance  with  the  appropriate  de- 
corations of  the  early  churches,  the 
Temple  may  be  safely  consulted  as  a 
work  of  authority.  The  publication  of 
these  designs  will  spread  far  and  wide 
the  well-earned  fame  which  attaches 
to  the  name  of  Willement.  It  is 
pleasing  after  viewing  this  resplendent 
temple  to  be  able  to  examine  closely, 
with  even  a  critical  eye,  if  wc  are  so 
diipo«ed»  «n4  ia  detail*  the  rich  c^loar- 


ing  which  had  so  recently  charmed 
us  with  its  general  effect.    This  Mr. 
Weale  has  enabled    us   to    do  most 
efTectually  by  a  very  copious  series 
of  engravings,    worked    to  a  scale, 
and    coloured    after     the    originals, 
from  drawings  by  Mr.  Essex,  so  well 
known  by  his  pleasing  view  of  the 
interior  of  the  church.    The  plates  dis- 
play the  windows,  rich  with  symbolical 
and  historical  design,  and  resplendent 
in  the  glowing  coloars  wb  tch  d  ieti  ngu  ish 
the  works  of  antiquity.     The  brave 
and  ilUused  brethren  of  the  order  are 
shewn,  first  as  the  poor  soldiers  of 
Christ  and  the  Temple,  with  but  one 
horse  between  two  knighU,  and  after- 
wards  in  their  more  prosperous  days, 
when  Geoffrey  Fits-Stephen,  Amaric  de 
St.  Maur,  Alan  Marcel,  and  Robert  de 
Montefort,  displayed  the  parti -colon  red 
banner  of  the   order,  with  the  ever 
victorious  war-cry  of  "Beauseont" 
The  minor  windows  speak  of  the  fame 
of  the  brethren ;  the  more  important 
shew  passages  in  the  earthly  life  of  our 
Lord,  and  the  presence  of  that  sepulchre 
which  called  forth  the  energies  of  the 
wonderful   order.     The  spandrels  of 
the  vaulting,  rich  with  foliage  running 
in  graceful  convolutions  over  the  sur- 
face, and  relieved  with  medallions  in 
which  the  artist  basjudiciously  blended 
the  winged  horse  and  lamb,  the  modern 
bearings    of   the   Temple,  with    the 
triumphant  banner  and  red  cross  of 
the  brethren  of  the  Temple  and  of  St. 
John,  except  over  the  altar,  where  are 
displayed  the  sacred  monogram  and 
the  holy  cross,  accompanied  with  the 
symbolic  representation  of  the  evan- 
gelists, each  holding  a  verse  oC  his 
Gospel,— these  are  beautifully  and  ac- 
curately given  in  the  decorative  style 
of  the  period  when  the  choir  was  re- 
built. These  subjects,  with  the  bench- 
ends  to  the  seats,  with  their  bold  car- 
Tings  of  oak  leaves,  flying  horses,  lambs, 
and,  apparently,  the  bust  of  an  illus* 
trious  lady,  are  shewn  in  the  engravings 
already  published,  and  the  series  is  not 
yet  complete.  A  brief  bat  compendious 
essay  on  the  improvements,  from  the 
pen    of  Mr.    Sydney    Smirke,  gives 
an  account  of  the  restorations,  and 
serves  as  an  appropriate  preface  to 
the  illustrations,  which^  together,  will 
form  a  pleasing  record  of  this  complete 
and  splendid  luHmAork* 
P»iAtedAB4itiui9dglM«if.«  pro* 


396 


Rbtibw.— Weale^s  Quarttrlif  Papers  on  AtchUechat*      [Oct 


lific  subject,  and  it  occupies  a  promi- 
nent station  in  the  work.  In  addition 
to  the  modern  examples  from  the  Tem- 
ple, the  work  contains  selections  from 
the  cathedral  and  parochial  churches 
in  York,  with  a  description  by  Messes. 
Bell  and  Grould,  architects,  of  York. 
This  article  comprises  several  figures 
of  great  beauty,  with  some  quarries  of 
most  elegant  design.  The  interesting 
windows  of  West  Wickham,  contain- 
ing figures  of  our  Lady,  88.  Anne, 
Christopher,  Catherine,  and  Dorothy, 
are  engraven  from  drawings  by  Mr.  J .  G. 
Waller,  one  of  the  authors  of  "  Sepul- 
chral Brasses."  The  entire  east  win- 
dow of  Winchester  cathedral,  rich  in 
sainted  bishops,  is  exhibited  in  a  series 
of  engravings  by  Owen  B.  Carter,  ar- 
chitect. These,  with  one  subject  from 
Gouda,  containing  a  portrait  of  our 
Queen  Mary,  completes  this  branch  of 
the  subject.  Another  extended  article  of 
great  interest  representing  the  archi- 
tecture and  coloured  decorations,  in 
fac  simile,  of  the  roof  of  the  church 
of  Saint  Jacques,  at  Liege,  is  also 
commenced,  and  bears  great  promise. 

The  essay  on  the  primitive  churches 
of  Norway  will  be  read  with  great  in- 
terest ;  novel  in  their  material,  which  is 
timber,  and  consequently  differing  in 
elevation  and  design  from  the  churches 
of  every  other  country,  they  will  be 
viewed  with  interest  from  their  shew- 
ing distinctly  the  ecclesiastical  division 
into  nave  and  chancel.  The  bell- 
towers  are  of  the  same  material,  and 
detached  from  the  main  building ;  the 
doors  have  square  frontispieces,  rich 
with  runic  knots,  possessing  a  plea- 
sing character,  and  not  void  of  merit. 
The  structures  themselves  are  sup- 
posed to  be  of  high  antiquity. 

The  hall  of  the  Middle  Temple  forms 
the  subject  of  one  of  the  papers,  and  is 
illustrated  by  ^"vt  engravings  exhibit- 
ing the  timber  roof,  one  of  the  latest 
specimens  of  those  mighty  frames  of 
carpentry  which  our  ancestors  have 
bequeathed  to  us  as  evidences  of  their 
skill  in  construction.  Several  re- 
markable churches  are  also  fully  il- 
lustrated, and  form  a  valuable  ad- 
dition to  tiie  library  of  the  to* 
pographer.  These  are  Stoke  Goldin^, 
Leicestershire,  by  T.  L.  Walker,  archi« 
tect,  with  six  platea ;  Beaiilieii.  Hants, 
(formerly  the  refectory  of  the  abbey,) 
by  B.  OHter,  aichitfct,  with  tea  en- 


gravings ;  and  Penton  Mewsey,  Hants* 
by  the  same  author,  with  six  en* 
gravings.  A  building  of  a  different 
description,  though  in  these  days  an 
important  one,  is  the  Greenwich  Union 
House,  wiA  an  essay,  plans,  and  an 
isometrical  view,  by  R.  P.  Browne, 
architect.  In  addition  to  these  subiects 
the  character  of  the  work  is  varied  by 
the  introduction  of  fac  similes  of  early 
MSS.,  wood  blocks,  and  monograma, 
numerous  alphabets  from  the  same 
source,  and  the  Gregorian  chants  from 
an  old  church  book,  the  original  M88. 
being  in  Mr.  Weale's  nossession.  Thus 
it  will  be  seen  the  subjects  are  multi- 
farious and  not  confined  to  dry  archi* 
tecturai  detail*  as  the  title  of  the  work 
would  lead  many  to  anticipate.  The 
literary  portion  of  the  work  comprises 
"An  Essay  on  those  Powers  of  theMind 
which  have  reference  to  Architectural 
Study  and  Design ;"  "  Life  of  W.  V. 
Morrison,  of  Dublin,  architect ;"  "A 
Treatise  on  the  Pointed  Style  of  Archi- 
tecture  in  Belgium,  by  A.  G.B.  Schayes, 
translated  by  Henry  Austin,  architect," 
comprising  brief  notices  of  a  great  num* 
ber  of  ecclesiastical  and  secular  build* 
ingB ;  and  another  "  On  the  Art  of 
Glass  Staining,  by  De  Gessert,  tran^ 
lated  bv  Wm.  Pole,  Assoc.  Instit. 
C.E.  j"'"  A  Description  of  the  Win- 
dows at  Gouda  ;"  "  An  Essay  on 
Artistic  Ecclesiastical  Decoration,  by 
J.  W.  Papwell,  A.R.I.B.A. ;"  "Oa 
the  Present  Condition  and  Prospects 
of  Architecture  in  England,"  much 
like  its  subject,  possessing  more  shew 
than  substance ;  "  Outlines  and  Cha- 
racteristics of  different  Architectural 
Styles,  by  W.  H.  Leeds ;"  "  M.  Portal 
on  Symbolic  Colours,  translated  hy 
Wm.  Inmao,  Assoc.  LB. A.  ;"  with 
notices  of  books  on  the  subject  of 
architecture  and  its  attendant  arts. 

We  notice  an  error  in  the  essay 
on  Artistic  Ecclesiastical  Decoration, 
which,  though  a  slight  one,  might  lead 
to  great  misconception  :  it  is  said  the 
ciboreum  is  used  for  the  reservation 
of  the  eucharist  for  the  use  of  the 
*«  rjc/k,"— the  word  should  be  nelr; 
it  is  a  mere  error  of  the  press,  but  it 
conveys  a  very  wrong  impression. 

We  have  not  space  to  enter  fhrther 
into  the  contents  of  the  work  beyond  the 
mere  titles  of  the  essays ;  but  we  can- 
not doae  without  advtiiiog  to  the  ez- 
ti«ma  chc^Mieta  of  tiia  work,    Wa 


1844.]  RsTisw.-^Lord  Leigh's  9Valk$  in  tht  Country. 

perceive  tbete  two  Tolumes  contain  1 10 
plates,  which,  one  with  the  other,  are 
actually  sold  to  the  public  at  less  than 
four-pence  each  plate,  a  degree  of  cheap- 
ness unrivalled  even  in  this  age  of  cheap 
literature.    Great  credit  is  due  to  the 

{mblisher  for  producing  at  an  extremely 
ow  price  a  book  really  elegant  in  its 
getting  up,  and  worthy  a  place  in  any 
library  ;  we  trust  he  will  be  rewarded 
with  an  extensive  patronage.  The 
admirers  of  English  antiquities  are 
promised  a  treat  in  the  forthcoming 
portion  in  subjects  of  English  to- 
pography, selected  (torn  an  extensive 
series  of  drawings  by  the  Rev.  John 
Suckling,  whose  collections  have  been 
purchased  by  Mr.  Weale  for  the  pur- 
pose of  illustrating  this  periodical. 


397 


fFalkt  in  ike  Cotmtry,    Bf  Lord 

Leigh. 
A  LITTLE  more  of  "justice  to  itself 
severe  "  would  improve  these  poems  ; 
and  we  beg  generally  to  say  to  the 
sacred  brotnerhood  of  the  poets  of  the 
present  day,  that  if  they  would  dis- 
tinguish themselves  and  stand  apart 
from  the  crowd  of  competitors,  it 
must  be  by  superior  accuracy  and 
neatness  of  finish ;  by  courage  to  erase 
what  is  superfluous,  and  to  amend 
what  is  defective.  Of  wild  luxuriant 
shoots  of  genius  we  have  an  ample 
crop ;  of  patient  industry,  and  severe 
critical  judgment  and  forbearance, 
till  what  comes  hot  from  the  anvil  has 
time  to  cool  and  takes  its  proper 
mould  and  form,  we  have  little  enough. 
Depend  on  it  the  old  Roman  critic, 
when  he  advised  authors  to  put  their 
verses  into  their  desks,  and  take  them 
out  alter  soose  years'  interval,  was 
right:  they  would  come  out  with  a 
very  different  form  from  that  they  had 
When  they  entered.  We  give  "The 
Great  Oak"  as  a  specimen  of  the 
noble  author's  talents ;  we  shall  make 
no  criticisms  on  it,  but  only  observe 
that  it  wants  to  be  re-wrUten  ;  that  the 
verses  prefixed  to  it,  by  Bryant,  should 
be  removed  as  not  worthy  of  their 
place ;  and  that  Wellesley's  Latin  does 
not  appear  to  us  to  be  over  correct. 

Monarch  of  all  this  world  of  shade, 
Of  fall-leaved  trees,  on  hill  and  giade, 

There  separate,  here  massM ; 
Or  n<*ly  towerinf ,  rank  o'er  rank, 
AloDg  the  fSDtly  twriHng  hudc, 

Or  in  the  itver  glMMM. 


It  pvoodly  stands,  'mong  many  mors 
Coeval  oaks,  now,  as  of  yore, 

Mi^estic  in  repose. 
And  maidens  fair,  knights  proud  and  brave, 
Their  p%hted  troth  received  and  gave 

Beneath  its  ample  boughs. 

See,  alone  pre-eminent  it  rears 
Its  swelling  foliage  e'er  compeers, 

Like  patriarchal  aage. 
Thus  look'd  the  matchless  Shakspera,  placed 
Among  those  master-bards  who  graced 

Eliia's  golden  age. 

Our  present  race  it  will  survive. 
By  those  who  may  hereafter  live 

In  veneration  held ; 
If  by  the  lightning's  stroke  unrent, 
Still  flourishing,  too  prominent 

In  grandeur  to  be  fell*d. 

And  youth  elate»  in  sportive  mood. 
On  rushing  fh>m  the  deepening  wood 

That  bounds  the  interspace 
So  green,  where  cnmcfa  the  aatled  deer, 
8h^  strive,  with  laughter-moving  cheer. 

The  giant  to  embrace. 

How  many  changes,  dark  and  light, 
Shadow  and  sun-burst,  has  the  flight 

Of  years  around  it  cast  I 
It  flourishes,  while  things  decay 
That  had  their  birth  but  yesterday ; 

It  braves  the  tempest's  blast  i 

How  many  hearts  shall  beat  with  Joy, 
And  cease  to  beat,  era  time  destroy 

Its  Btorm-defyjng  frame  { 
How  many  scenes  of  weal  and  woe 
Shall  acted  be^  ere  earth  ahall  shew 

No  vestige  of  its  name  ! 

This  forest  soenery  asMmg, 
Rise  others  beautiful  and  strong  \ 

Perchance,  in  after  times, 
As  yon  untiring  sun  returns. 
To  canopy  a  bard  who  mourns 

In  meditative  rhymes. 

Of  their  columnar  greatness  proud, 
Their  leafy  ftilness  like  a  cloud 

Of  verdure  to  the  eye  % 
Or  dust'ring  rising  hall  or  tower, 
They  unborn  Diana  will  embower 

As  Bununers  onward  fly. 


HymiM  oMd  Poem  for  the  Siek  and 
Suffering.  Edited  bf  the  Rev.  T.  V. 
Fosberry,  A,M, 

THIS  is  avery  pleasing  and  judicious 
selection  of  Sacred  Hymns  and  Psalms^ 
including  the  most  honourable  and 
esteemed  names,  from  Herbert  and 
Vaughan  and  Quarles,  to  the  writers 
of  the  present  day.  Some  of  the 
modern  poems  are  new  to  us ;  and* 
presuming  that  the  works  of  the  older 
poets  are  fffulif  to  our  readers,  for 
it  wo«yLk^Mk||||Jb*n  ^  shame  to 
be  hoS^^^^^^K  Oatcoigne^ 


39d 


Review. — Jrchaolofiap  V<fL  XXX, 


[Oct. 


or  eveo  those  less  illuatrious,  we  shall 
extract  from  p.  357,  "  Miss  Barnet's 
Sleep/' 

Of  all  the  thoagfats  of  God  that  are 
Borne  mward  unto  soals  afar, 

AloD^  the  Psalmist's  nradc  deep  ; 
Now  tell  ine  if  that  any  is, 
For  gift  or  grace,  surpassiDg  this, — 

**  He  giveth  his  belored  sleep." 

What  would  we  give  to  our  beloved  ? 
The  hero's  heart,  to  be  unmoved,  ~ 

-  The  poet's  star-tuned  harp  to  sweep, — 
The  senate's  shout  for  patriot  vows, — 
Hie  monarch's  crown  to  light  the  brows, — 
**  He  giveth  his  beloved  sleep." 

What  do  we  give  to  our  beloved  ? 
A  yttle  faith,  not  all  unproved, 

A  little  dust  to  overweep. 
And  bitter  memories  to  make 
The  whole  earth  blasted  for  our  sake, — 

"  He  giveth  his  beloved  sleep." 

Sleep  soft,  beloved !  we  sometimes  say, 
But  have  no  power  to  chase  away 

Sad  dreams  that  through  the  eyelids 
creep; 
But  never  doleful  dreams  again 
Shall  break  the  happy  slumber  when 

"  He  giveth  his  beloved  sleep." 

O  earth !  so  full  of  dreary  noises, 
O  men  I  with  wailing  in  your  voices ! 

O  delved  gold  !  the  waiter's  heap  ; 
O  strife !  O  curse  !  that  o'er  it  fall, 
God  makes  a  silence  through  you  all, 

"  And  giveth  his  beloved  sleep." 

His  dews  drop  mutely  on  the  hill. 
His  doud  above  it  saileth  still, 

Though  on  its  slope  men  toil  and  reap  ; 
lioK  softly  than  the  dew  is  shed. 
Or  doud  is  floated  overhead, 

<'  He  giveth  his  bdoved  sleep." 

Yea !  men  may  wonder  while  they  scan 
A  living,  tliinking,  feeling  man. 

Sufficient  such  a  rest  to  keep  ; 
But  Angels  say,  and  though  the  word, 
The  motion  of  their  smile,  is  heard, 

'*  He  giveth  his  beloved  sleep." 

For  me  my  heart — that  erst  did  go, 
Most  like  a  tired  child  at  a  show. 

Seeing  through  tears  the  juggler  leap- 
Would  from  its  wearied  rision  dose. 
And  diild  like  on  His  love  repose 

Who  **  giveth  his  beloved  sleep." 

And  friends,— dear  friends, — when  it  shall 

be 
That  this  live  breath  is  gone  from  me. 

When  roosd  my  bier  ye  come  to  weep ; 
Let  one,  most  loring  of  you  all. 
Say,  «  Not  a  tear  must  o'er  her  IbU,"— 

"  He  giftth  his  bdoved  deep." 


ArduBologia,  or  MUceUaneeus  Tracts 
relating  to  Antiquity,  pubtisked  £y 
the  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  hndom. 
Vol,  XXX.  pt.  2. 

{Continued from  p  281.) 

24.  An  account  of  the  opening  (^ 
some  Barrows  in  South  Dorsetshire.  In 
a  tetter  from  John  Sydenham,  Esq.  4^ 
Greenwich. 

There  is  no  doubt  but  the  ase  of  the 
spade,  and  a  careful  observation  of  the 
objects  it  reveals,  will  do  much  to. 
virards  the  classification  of  our  sepul- 
chral antiquities;  barrows  will  f^o 
longer  be  designated aaBritish,  Roman^ 
Saxon,  or  Danish,  according  to  the 
vague  description  which  tradition  may 
have  affixed  to  there.  Of  the  vestiges 
of  the  earliest  inhabitants  of  Dorset- 
shire,  Mr.  Sydenham  tells  as, 

**  Few  counties  are  so  rich  in  relics  of 
our  Cdtic  forefathers  as  Dorsetshire.  The 
numerous  hill  cities  that  crown  its  heights, 
the  ancient  settlements  that  are  traceable 
on  its  hill  sides,  the  stone  cirdes  and  other 
lithite  monuments  that  yet  rear  their  grey 
and  venerable  forms,  the  innumerable  bar- 
rows that  bestud  i(s  elevated  and  un- 
ploughed  downs,  still  remain  the  monu- 
mental indications  of  the  customs,  the 
modes  of  life,  the  religious  rites,  and  the 
funeral  ceremonies  of  the  Celtic  inhabi- 
tants of  our  land.  This  rich  mine  of  an- 
tiquarian and  historical  assodations  has 
been  little  explored  ;  and  it  is,  therefore, 
with  less  reluctance  that  I  venture  upon 
some  detail  of  circumstances  connected 
with  Dorsetshire  barrows,  leaving  it  to 
others  of  more  enlarged  experience  and 
of  more  extensive  reading  to  apply  the 
facts  to  the  purposes  of  histoncal  il- 
lustration. The  circumstances  in  which 
the  contents  of  the  Dorsetshire  barrows 
differ  from  those  of  Kent  are  chiefly  nega- 
tive. They  offer  few  evidences  of  elaborate 
ceremonial  depositure.  The  explorer  is 
rewarded  by  no  domestic  vessels,  or  other 
fictile  vases  of  graceful  form,  and  indi* 
eating  an  advance  in  the  art  of  pottery, — 
no  paterse  of  bright  Samian  ware,  no 
elegant  balsamaria,  no  glittering  trinkets 
of  gold,  no  ornaments  of  jet  or  amber,  no 
glass  beads,  no  lamps,  no  metal  vessels, 
no  Instruments  or  weapons  of  iron,  rare 
exceptional  instances  of  articles  in  bnmaa, 
and,  above  all,  no  illnstrativa  ooias. 
These  barrows,  however,  are  not  dead* 
tttte  of  a  considerable  degree  of  interest, 
heightened  indeed  by  these  very  pecu- 
liarities, which  indicate  that  here  are  tha 
ancient  sepulchres  of  the  earliest  fathers 
of  the  land,  sAd  that  the  history  of  tu- 


1844.] 


Reyibw. — Archatlopa,  Vol.  XXX, 


399 


mnlar  iaterment  in  Britain  cannot  be 
carried  higher  than  the  period  of  their 
ooMtruction.  In  form  these  barrows 
generallj  present  the  segment  of  a  sphere 
thrown  no  with  great  precision.  There 
are  a  few  instances  of  the  bell-shaped  bar- 
h>w»  a  species  frequently  of  large  sixe; 
•ccasionaUy  the  barrow  is  encircled  by  a 
shallow  ditehi  and  in  rare  instances  a  low 
yallnm  is  found  beyond  the  ditch.  There 
are  also  a  few  of  the  varieties  termed  by 
the  cognoscenti  in  tumular  physiognomy 
as  the  *  long  barrow,'  the  *  twin  barrow,* 
the  '  druid  barrow/  and  the  '  pond  bar- 
row/ though  from  the  absence  of  sufficient 
remains  in  the  latter,  I  am  not  satisfied  of 
their  sepulchral  intention.  In  size,  the 
Dbrsetshire  barrows  rary  considerably, 
ranging  from  a  height  of  twenty  or  twenty- 
five  feet  to  a  scarcely  perceptible  elevation 
above  the  surrounding  soil.  In  tumular 
research,  however,  as  in  many  other  pur- 
suits, appearances  are  not  to  be  trusted. 
Pronti  nulla  fides.  It  is  not  in  the  largest 
barrow,  nor  in  that  of  the  most  graceful 
outline,  that  the  explorer  must  look  for 
the  richest  reward  for  his  toil.  Many  a 
large  and  elegant  barrow  has  produced 
but  a  simple  interment  by  inhumation  or 
cremation,  without  any  urn  or  accom- 
panying relic  of  any  kind;  whilst  some 
contiguous  humble-looking  barrow  of  five 
or  six  feet  elevation  has  been  rich  in  inter- 
ments of  varied  character,  itself  contain- 
ing the  elements  for  a  whole  chapter  on 
the  varieties  of  tumular  interment.  The 
contents  of  barrows,  however,  constitute 
their  most  interesting  and  important  fea- 
tures, and,  in  this  respect,  the  barrows  of 
South  Dorsetshire  present  peculiarities 
not  elsewhere  observable.  One  of  the 
more  striking  of  these  pecoHarities  is  the 
utter  want  of  uniformity  in  the  modes  of 
interment.  Combustion  and  inhumation 
are  manifestly  contemporaneous  practices, 
and  different  varieties  of  both  these  modes 
of  deposit  'are  observable  in  the  same 
barrow.  The  articles  found  associated 
with  the  interments  are  few  in  number. 
Hiey  comprise  urns  of  varied  size  and 
form,  of  coarse  material  and  rude  manipu- 
lation, fragments  of  pottery,  implements  of 
bone,  beads  of  clay,  bone,  and  shells,  flint 
arrow-heads,  deers*  antlers,  and ,  but  rarely, 
weapons  and  implements  of  bronze.*' 

An  interesting  detailed  description 
of  some  of  the  barrows  explored  here 
fbilowt.  The  barrows  of  the  south  of 
Dorsetshire  have  peculiarities  which 
coDstitote  them  a  class  tut  ^enrns. 
There  is  ao  absence  of  oniforaiity  in 
the  modes  of  interment:;  cremation 
aod  inhamatioi^  ^  i 
io  the  same  btmw« 


occar  indifferently,  in  sucb  a  way  that 
it  is  not  possible  to  conclade  that  in- 
humation had  saccceded  cremation, 
for  instances  are  found  of  alternation 
of  such  deposits  in  which  inhumation 
had  been  the  earliest  and  latest  mode 
of  the  funeral  rites.  Examples  of 
tumnli  inanes  or  honorary  barrows  are 
not  wanting  in  Dorsetshire.  The  bar- 
rows explored  by  Sir  Richard  Colt 
Hoare  in  Wiltshire,  are  manifestlf 
those  of  tribes  inhabiting  Britain  before 
its  colonization  by  the  Romans ;  but 
the  ai  tides  which  they  contain  of  gold, 
brass,  ivory,  glass,  and  amber  show 
that  they  are  of  a  date  posterior  to  the 
primitive  sepoichrcs  of  South  Dorset- 
shire. 

25.  Letter  from  Capt,  Evan  Nepean, 
R.N.,  to  Samuel  Birch,  Esq.  upon  titut 
part  of  Mr,  Birch* $  Report  upon  the 
Antiquities  discovered  in  the  Island  of 
Sacr\ficios,  in  which  Mr.  Birch  considers 
the  different  objects  assembled  to  have 
been  the  work  of  theAztecks  or  Mexicans, 

Captain  Nepean  concludes  that  most 
of  the  above-mentioned  objects  ought 
to  be  assigned  to  the  early  period  of 
the  Tolteks,  who,  Humboldt  informs 
us,  were  in  the  possession  of  Mexico 
five  hundred  years  previous  to  the  ar- 
rival of  the  Aztecks.  The  great  depth 
at  which  the  relics  weie  discovered, 
the  decomposed  condition  of  the  pot- 
tery, and  the  fact  that  some  of  the 
skulls  found  were  in  the  fossil  state, 
are  the  circumstances  on  which  Ca^« 
tain  Nepean  claims  a  much  higher 
period  for  their  deposit  than  that  as- 
signed by  Mr.  Birch. 

26.  Observations  on  a  Jieiile  Vase  re* 
presenting  the  contest  of  Hercules  and 
Juno,  preserved  in  the  Department  qf 
Antiquities  in  the  British  Museum,  By 
Samuel  Birch,  Esq, 

In  the  subject  of  this  vase  Mr.  Birch 
recognises  the  Arcadian  tradition  of 
the  combat  of  Hercules  and  Juno  at 
Pylus ;  in  the  female  supporter  of  Her- 
cules Pallas,  and  in  bis  opponent  the 
Juno  Sospita  or  Lanuvian  Juna  The 
paper  is  of  classical  value,  and  illus- 
trated by  a  plate  showing  in  clear  de- 
lineation the  subject  represented  on 
the  vase. 

27.  Extracts  in  Prose  and  Verse  flrom 
an  old  English  Medical  Mmtutcript, 
fre$erved   in    the    Bogal  Librarg   ai 


400 


KMmyfr^^Arckeolofia,  V0I.  XXX. 


[Oct. 


Bttekholm,    Qnnmimieated  bff  George 
Stephens,  Etq, 

28.  Oh»ervations  upon  the  Extract  $ 
from  an  ancient  English  Medical  MS, 
in  the  Roffal  lAhrary  at  Stockholm.  By 
T.  J.  Pcttigrcw,  Esq.  F.R.S,,  F.S.A. 

These  communicatioDs,  the  one  hav. 
ing  given  rise  to  the  other,  are  naturally 
classed  together  in  our  notice.  The 
attention  of  our  readers  has  been 
already  turned  to  the  medical  super- 
stitions of  our  forefaUiers,  by  a  paper 
detailing  the  contents  of  an  ancient 
MS.  treatise  on  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine as  connected  with  planetary  in- 
fluences,* and  by  our  review  of  Mr. 
Pettigrew's  separate  volume  on  the 
subject.t 

Mr.  Pettigrew  is  of  opinion  that  the 
MS.  from  which  extracts  are  given  by 
Mr.  Stephens  is  of  the  latter  end  of  the 
fourteenth  century,  and  considers  that 
the  ancient  tracts  extant  on  "  Leche- 
craft  or  Medicine,"  may  be  dated  from 
the  Anglo-Saxon  times,  from  the  tenth 
to  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  cen- 
turies. It  must  not,  however,  be  for- 
gotten that  superstitious  recipes  in  the 
practice  of  medicine  were  prescribed* 
and  found  a  place  in  printed  books 
long  alter  the  period  last  specified. 
A  short  specimen  of  curative  charms 
may  suffice :  "  For  the  falling  sickness 
say  this  word  ananuti^ne  in  his  [the 
patient's]  ear,  when  he  is  fallen  down 
in  that  evil,  and  also  in  a  woman's  ear 
anamMqfta,  and  they  shall  never  more 
after  feel  that  evil."  We  modernixe 
the  orthography  of  the  above,  net  with- 
out apologising  for  having  deprived 
the  prescription  of  a  leading  eharm  for 
antiquaries. 

Mr.  Pettigrew  judiciously  observes 
that  these  medical  absurdities  were 

M  Entertained  at  a  period  when  the  hal* 
Ineiiiatiotta  of  the  imagination  were  per- 
mitted to  usurp  the  place  of  obserratioD, 
and  the  greatest  puerilities- superseded  the 
employment  of  reason  and  experiment.  , 
.  .  The  diseases  in  which  they  have  been 
principally  employed  will  all  be  found  to 
oe  under  the  influence  of  the  nervous  and 


*  Observations  by  A.  J.  K.  on  a  MS. 
Treatise  preserved  at  Loseley  House  in 
Surrey*  on  Grammar,  Judicial  Astrology, 
aad  riiysic.  Geot.  Msg.  for  May,  1843, 
p.  473. 

t  March,  1844,  p.  S76. 
8 


sanguiferous  systems,  and  they  opetata 
ohieily  by  inspiring  hope,  which  imparta 
tone  aad  creates  Increased  action  in  the 
frame  generally,  or  by  exciting  disgust  aad 
horror,  which  frequently  serves  to  break 
up  a  chain  of  morbid  actions  and  aaso* 
ciations,  and  thus  enables  nature  to  re« 
sume  her  healthy  oondition." 

29-  AcconutoftlteMonumenialBrMi 
qf  Bishop  Halbm,  in  the  Cathedral 
Chnreh  of  Constance.  By  R.  Pearsall^ 
Esq.  qf  Carlsruhe, 

This  elegant  sepulchral  memorial  Is 
rendered  doubly  interesting  by  the 
generally  believed  tradition  that  the 
brass  part  of  Bishop  Hallum's  monu- 
ment was  manufactured  in  Englaad^ 
and  sent  from  thence  to  cover  his  re* 
mains ;  this  circumstance  "  aflbrds  a 
presumption  that  in  the  early  part  of 
the  fifteenth  century  our  brass  en- 
gravers were  reputed  to  be  superior  to 
those  of  the  Rhenish  cities,  where  the 
thing  might  have  been  executed  with- 
out incurring  the  charge  of  transport 
and  the  risk  of  damage  which  must  have 
attended  any  shipment  from  England." 
Certain  peculiarities  in  the  form  and 
arrangement  of  the  ornaments  of  this 
memorial  tend  to  confirm  the  tradition 
above  mentioned.  Robert  Hallum  was 
educated  at  Ox  ford,  became  Archdeacon 
of  Canterbury,  and  in  1403  was  nomi- 
nated Chancellor  of  Oxford.  He  was 
first  designated  for  the  see  of  York  by 
papal  bull :  but,  afterwards  nominated 
to  Sarum,  a.d.  1407,  and  was  made 
cardinal  in  1411.  He  died  on  the  4th 
September,  being  then  ambassador 
from  the  English  court  to  the  Council 
of  Constance. 

30.  On  Antiquarian  Excavations  and 
Researches  in  the  Middle  Ages,  Bu 
Thomas  Wright,  Esq.  M.A.  F.8.A.  t^. 

Mr.  Wright's  essay  shows  us  that 
the  assistance  of  the  spade  in  explora- 
tion of  ruined  buildings  and  tombs  of 
antiquity  has  been  called  into  operation 
at  a  very  early  period;  it  is  true 
rather  with  a  view  to  the  convertible 
utility  of  the  objects  sought  for  than 
from  any  desire  thereby  to  illustrate 
the  arts  and  manners  of  obsolete  ages. 

*<  Under  the  Anrlo-Saxons,  down  to  a 
late  period,  our  island  appears  to  have 
been  covered  with  the  mijestic  remains  of 
ftooua  towns  and  cities,  slthoagh  people 
had  been  gradually  clearing  away  many  of 


18440 


RKyizw.-^Archaologia,  Vol.  XXX. 


401 


them  in  order  to  nBe  the  niAterials  for  new 
bnildings.  As  early  as  the  middle  of  the 
seTenth  eentnry,  when  the  monks  of  Ely 
wanted  a  stone  coffin  for  the  body  of  the 
abbess  Etheldrida,  they  sought  for  it  among 
the  mlns  of  the  Roman  town,  the  site  of 
which  is  now  occupied  by  the  town  of 
Cambridge.  They  came  to  a  small  de- 
serted city  which,  in  the  language  of  the 
Angles,  is  called  Grandchester,  and  pre* 
sently,  near  the  city  walls,  they  found  a 
white  marble  coffin,  most  beautifully 
wrought,  and  neatly  cofered  with  a  lid  of 
the  same  kind  of  stone. 

"  At  a  much  later  period  we  shall  find 
the  abbots  of  St.  Alban's  collecting  the 
materials  furnished  by  the  ruins  of  Veru- 
lamium  (or,  as  the  Saxons  called  it,  Wser- 
lam-ceaster)  to  build  their  church.  Many 
Anglo-Norman  works  still  exist!  Dg  are  built 
in  part  of  Roman  materials.  We  find  also 
that  at  an  early  period  people,  not  con- 
tent with  Uking  what  was  above  ground, 
made  excavations  under  the  soil  in  search 
of  the  relics  of  ancient  days.  It  seems 
probable  that  the  different  tribes  who  oc- 
cupied the  ground  frequently  opened  the 
barrows  of  the  tribes  who  had  preceded 
them ,  in  search  of  treasures.  The  earliest 
mediseval  poems,  such  as  the  romance  of 
Beowulf,  speak  of  the  treasures  of  a  pri- 
meval age  (sic]  ,*  consisting  of  cups  and 
other  vessels,  personal  ornaments,  and 
weapons  rescued  by  their  heroes  from  be- 
neath the  tumulary  mounds  of  the  giants 
(acoofding  to  the  belief  of  the  unconverted 
Germans),  or  of  the  heathen  (according  to 
the  Christianised  notions).  We  hear  of  the 
opening  of  barrows  as  late  as  the  thirteenth 
jmd  fourteenth  centuries,  and  the  disco- 
very of  funereal  deposite  and  of  treasures. 
The  Anglo-Saxons  appear  to  have  col- 
lected immense  quantities  of  articles  of 
Roman  manufacture  by  excavating,  par- 
ticularly vases,  and  other  vessels  of  dif- 
ferent materials,  and  the  earlier  rituals 
frequently  coutein  forms  for  blessing  these 
implements  of  Pagan  manufacture,  in 
order  to  m%ke  them  fit  for  Christian  use. 
«...  In  many  insUnces,  particularly  in 
the  earlier  times  of  the  Anglo-Saxons,  these 
Roman  utensils  appear  to  have  been  bu- 
ried again  in  Anglo-Saxon  barrows,  which 


*  We  recommend  that  aotiquariea 
should  employ  some  much  more*  definite 
term  for  the  early  ages  than  yrinunat, 
which  embraces  any  period  up  to  Noah's 
fiood,  and  before  it. 

Gbmt.  Mao.  Vol,  XXII. 


accounts  for  the  discovery  of  mixed  dn- 
posite  of  earlier  and  more  recent  articlea 
in  one  place.  Mr.  C.  Roach  Smith  re- 
cently exhibited  to  the  Society  a  brazen 
bowl  of  Roman  workmanship,  which  had 
been  mended  with  pieces  of  metal  bearing 

proof  of  Saxon  art The  earliest 

systematical  excavations  in  England  of 
which  we  have  a  definite  account  were 
made  among  the  ruins  of  Verulamium  in 
the  earlier  part  of  the  eleventh  oentary  by 
two  successive  abboto  of  St.  Alban's,  £al- 
dred  and  Eadmer.  We  learn  from  Matthew 
Paris  that  Abbot  Ealdred  overthrew  and 
filled  up  all  the  *  subterranean  crypte '  of 
the  ancient  city,  as  well  as  the  vaulted 
passages,  with  their  windings,  some  of 
which  ran  under  the  bed  of  the  river. 
He  did  so  because  they  had  become 
hiding-places  for  thieves  and  strumpets. 
The  subterranean  ruins  of  Roman  Paris 
are  described  as  the  haunte  of  a  similar 
class  of  society  in  the  twelfth  and  thir- 
teenth centuries The  abbot  laid 

up  carefully  all  the  unbroken  tiles  or 
bricks,  and  the  stones  which  were  fit  for 
building,  as  materials  for  the  new  church 
which  it  was  his  intention  to  erect.  With 
this  object  he  made  great  excavations,  in 
order  to  discover  stone  buildings.  As 
the  workmen  were  digging  near  the  bank 
of  the  river  they  found  oak  planks,  with 
nails  in  them,  and  covered  with  pitch, 
apparently  part  of  a  ship,  as  well  as  old 
rusty  anchors  and  oars,  which  proved,  as 
Matthew  Paris  thought,  that  the  sea  had 
once  encircled  the  town.  Moreover,  they 
found  shells,  snch  as  are  commonly  cast 
upon  the  sands  of  the  sea  shore.  The 
places  where  these  were  found  received 
the  appropriate  names  of  Oysterhill,  Shel- 
ford,  Anchorpool,  Fishpool,  &c.  .  .  • 
They  uncovered  the  foundations  of  a  vast 
palace,  and  they  found  a  hollow  in  the  wall 
like  a  cupboard,  in  which  were  a  number 
of  books  and  rolls,  which  were  written  in 
ancient  characters  and  language  that  could 
only  be  read  by  one  learned  monk,  named 
Unwona.  He  declared  that  they  were 
written  in  the  ancient  British  language ; 
that  they  contained  '  the  invocations  and 
rites  of  the  idolatrous  citizens  of  WsrUm- 
ceaster,*  with  the  exception  of  one,  which 
conteined  the  authentic  life  of  St.  Alban. 
The  abbot  preserved  the  latter,  and  had  it 
translated  into  Latin,  and  aa  soon  as  the 
translation  was  completed  the  original 
crumbled  into  dust  1" 

(Th  be  etntinutd.) 
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SpeUng  turned  EtymolcMnr.  By  the 
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Law. 

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LiAM  GoLBBN  LuMLET,  csq.  of  the  Mid- 
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The  Factory  AcU,  4S  George  III.  c.  73  : 
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LuMLEY,  esq.  of  the  Middle  Temple, 
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Tlie  Worcester  Encaustic  Tiles  manu- 
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Flowers.  By  John  and  Horatio  Min* 
torn.    Sff.  6<l. 

iliMffiC. 

The  Order  of  Daily  Service,  with  the 
Musical  Notation,  as  used  in  the  Abbey 
Church  of  St.  Peter,  Westminster.  Edited 
by  E.  F.  RiMBAULT,  LL.D.  F.S.A.  &e. 
5ff. 

Hamilton's  Universal  TnDc-Book:  a 
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&c.  Edited  by  James  Manson.  Vol.  I. 
square  ISmo.  4ff. 

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9,  containing  Exercises,  Trios,  Ronnds^ 
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Charles  Dawson.  3ff. 

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Joseph  Warren.     18mo.    Vff.  6d. 

The  Importance  of  Church  Music 
shewn  from  the  Principles  of  Nature,  the 
Testimony  of  Scripture^  and  the  Con- 
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J.  Cooper,  M.A.  Incumbent  of  St. 
Jade's,  Bradford.  ISmo*    Iff. 

MECHANICS*  INSTITUTEl  DETOKVORT. 

A  handsome  edifice  has  been  recently 
erected  at  Deronport,  for  the  pnrpofct  of 


406 


Pine  AfiM.'^Arehidecture, 


[Oct. 


«  Mechanlci'  Institute.  It  is  dei tined  to 
contain  a  muMum  of  natural  history,  a 
gallery  of  paintings,  a  collection  of  scien- 
tific models,  &c*  It  has  been  opened  with 
a  polytechnic  exhibition,  accompanied  by 
▼ariotts  lectures  and  experiments,  includ- 
ing a  representation  of  the  blowing  up  of 
the  Dorer  eliffsi  &c.  Among  other  lee* 
turers,  Mr.  Charles  8penoe,  of  the  Admi- 
ralty, DeTonport,  delivered  a  dissertation 
on  tiie  Monumental  Brasses  of  the  Middle 
Ages,  aoeompanied  by  an  exhibition  of 


rubbings  oorering  altogether  aeariy  700 
square  feet  of  wall.  They  comprised  the 
whole  of  the  Cobhams,  firom  Cooham  near 
GraTcsend,  Sir  Roger  de  Tmmpiagton,  Sir 
Robert  de  Septvans,  Alienor  Dudiess  of 
Gloucester,  John  de  Bstney  abbat  of  West- 
minster, &c.  with  plaister  casta  of  the 
palimpsest  brasses  of  Thomas  Cod,  and 
many  others.  The  latest  in  date  was  that 
of  Mr.  Plumley,  from  Hoo  church  near 
Rochester,  1640. 


FINB   ARTS. 


MODBMM  &AOB  OOPS. 

It  speaks  something  for  the  spread  of 
artistic  oonquest  amongst  us,  that  Uie  in- 
fluence of  art  is  making  itself  felt  in  that 
remote  and  somewhat  barbarian  region, 
the  sporting  world.  The  higher  arts  of 
design  are  now  oaHed  in  to  celebrate  the 
triumphs  of  the  race-course  i  and  the 
"  cup,"  so  long  the  leading  prise  of  our 
EngUsh  Olympians,  is  riring  from  its 
primitiTc  idea  of  a  mere  tanlurd,  in  the 
predous  metalsi  to  drink  in,  to  the 
winner's  health,  into  the  dignity  of  an 
elaborate  and  beautiful  work  of  art.  The 
Goodwood  cups  of  the  present  year  may 
be  quoted  as  examples.  The  first  of  these 
is  a  group  in  silver,  designed  by  Mr. 
Frsnk  Howard,  and  executed  under  the 
superintendence  of  Mr.  Bally  (the  horse 
being  modelled  by  Mr.  Macarthy) — and 
represents  that  passage  in  the  escape  of 
Charles  II.,  after  the  battle  of  Woroester, 
wherein—while  riding,  disguised  as  a 
serrant  from  the  house  of  Col.  Lane  (in 
eompany  with  Miss  Lane),  to  the  sea- 
coasl  he  is  nearly  betrayed  bj  the  pro- 
ftwional  craft  of  a  furier.    The  king, 


baring  stopped  to  get  their  horse  shod, 
answered  the  fturrier*s  question,  as  to  the 
direction  from  which  he  had  trayelled,  by 
saying  that  he  came  firom  the  West ;  while 
the  farrier's  knowledge  of  his  trade  enabled 
him  to  declare  that  the  horse  had  been 
last  shod  in  the  North.  Hits  cup  has 
been  manufactured  at  the  establishment 
of  Messrs.  Hunt  and  Co.,  in  Old  Bond 
Street.  The  two  others  are  of  the 
manufacture  of  Mr.  Garrardi  of  the  Hay- 
market  ;  and  the  designs  and  models  are, 
in  each  case,  Mr.  Cockerell's.  One  re- 
presents the  Baron  of  Bradwardine,  on 
horseback,  and  Darie  Gellatly  on  the 
ground,  playing  with  his  muter's  hounds. 
The  other  group  tells  the  old  story  of 
Llewellyn  and  his  hound  GeUert.  The 
dog,  baring  ssTcd  the  Hfe  of  Llewellyn's 
child  frvm  an  attack  hj  a  wolf,  is  met  by 
his  master  covered  with  the  blood  of  the 
combat:  and  the  latter,  belierinr  that  the 
faithful  animal  has  destroyed  uie  ehild« 
drives  his  sword  to  its  heart,  and  discovers 
his  mistake  too  late.  Hie  figures  are  Ato— 
Llewellyn,  his  child,  his  honOy  the  dead 
wolf,  and  the  dying  dog. 


ARCHITECTURE. 


TKIIPORART   CBUnCH. 

A  temporary  church  has  been  erected 
hi  the  district  fA  Kentish  T6wn,  St  Pan- 
eras, for  the  use  of  the  congregation  during 
the  rebuilding  of  the  old  chapel  of  that 
hamlet.  It  is  buUt  entirely  of  wood,  on 
brick  foundations,  and  is  the  work  of  Mr. 
Peter  Thompson,  of  Limehouse,  who  is 
largelj  concerned  in  preparing  buildings 
of  this  description,  and  has  a  Tftasury 
grant,  allowing  him  to  mannlketure,  free 
of  duty,  ftmmed  churches,  chapels,  schools, 
and  dwellings,  to  export  to  her  Majesty's 
Tsrious  colouies.  Although  of  consider, 
able  dimensions,  and  capable  of  aoeom- 
modating  500  adnlCi  nd  300  efaUdm,  H 


has  been  prepared  and  erected  in  the  short 
space  of  one  month ;  and  was  opened  for 
dirine  serrice^n  Sunday,  the  1st  of  Sep* 
tember.  It  consists  of  a  tower,  10  feet 
square,  surmounted  by  a  belfry,  forming 
the  entrance  to  two  lobbies,  right  and 
left,  each  nine  fset  by  eight  feet,  com- 
municating with  the  nave  or  choir,  60  feet 
long  by  30  feet  wide,  dirided  fhnn  the 
side  aisles  by  a  range  of  colnans  that 
support  an  open-framed  roof;  the  sid« 
aidea  are  eaen  GO  feet  long,  and  9  foet 
wide,  thus  making  the  whole  width  48 
feet.  At  the  end  of  the  nave  or  choir  is 
the  chancel,  30  feet  long  by  S8  feet  wide, 
tttalMtiBc  with  a  iMMMd 


1844.] 


Antifuarim  Re$earches* 


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16  feet  wid«  by  6  feet  deep.  At  the  end 
of  one  elite  ii  the  veftiy,  8  feet  by  6  feet ; 
and  at  the  end  of  the  other  the  robing- 
room,  of  the  tame  dimensions,  commn- 
nicating  with  the  pulpit.  The  body  of 
the  ohnreh  reoeiyet  its  light  from  two 
ranges  of  cterestory  windows,  of  * '  Titreous 
cloui,"  the  light  from  which,  although 
subdued  in  tone,  is  very  brilliant.  Tke 
walls  axe  formed  in  compartments,  the 
inside  finished  with  neat  oak  paper  in 
panels.  The  outside  panels  and  tne  en< 
tire  of  the  roof  are  oorered  with  patent 


asphalted  felt,  the  roofe  being  coreredi 
as  well  as  all  the  outside  wood  and  Uie 
open  roof  inside,  with  patent  marine  glue, 
liie  seats  are  all  open  benches.  The 
erection  of  this  churdi  will  show  that  for 
a  yery  limited  sum  a  congregation  may 
be  proyided  with  a  neat  and  comfortable 
church,  so  planned  as  to  haye  all  the 
essentials  of  Christian  architecture,  until 
they  are  enabled  to  erect  structures  of 
greater  pretensions  and  more  durabte 
materials. 


ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


BRITISH  AnCBJBOLOOICAL  ASSOCIATION. 

Hie  first  Annual  Meeting  of  this  Asso- 
ciation was  aooompiished  at  Canterbury, 
nearly  according  to  the  Programme  quoted 
in  our  last  Number,  p.  306.  As  matter 
of  record,  and  future  curiosi^,  we  print 
the  names  of  the  Officers  and  Committees 
of  Sections,  distinguishing  by  Italics  those 
not  present 

Oenerai  Cfommiitee, 

The  Lord  Albert  Denison  Conynghami 
K.C.H.,  F.S.A.  President.  Thomas  Jo- 
seph Petttgrew,  esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Treasurer.  Charles  Roach  Smith,  esq. 
F.S.A.  and  Albert  ITav,  etq.  M,J.t  Dir. 
S^,  Secretaries.  The  Presidents  andVioe 
Preddents  of  the  Sectional  Committees. 
Uatthtw  JMi^  uq.  The  Rey.WilUam  Ben- 
nett, M.A.  Thomas  Crofton  Croker,  esq. 
F.S.A.,  M.R.IJL  /2«e.  Franeii  Dtn^wn, 
M,A.  PrtbmtdMy  qf  Cmteriurf.  The 
Rey.  Godfrey  Fauasett,  D.D.  Bt^famin 
J^errsy,  e$q,  Fj*B,A.  t%M  Tefi.  WiUiam 
ffal$  HaU,  M,J,,  Arekdtaeim  qf London, 
The  Rey.  Stephen  Isaacson,  M.A.  Wil- 
liam V.  Pettigrew,  esq.  M.D.  James  Ro- 
binson PlancM,  esq.  F.S.A.  Ambrose 
Poynter,  esq,  Hon.  Sec.  Inst.  Brit.  Arch. 
WUliam  Henry  Rolfe,  esq.  Thomas  Sta- 
pleton,  esq.  F.S.A.  James  Whatman,  esq. 
M.A.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  Thomas  Wright, 
esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Corresponding  Mem- 
ber  of  the  Institute  of  France. 

R.  F.  Fairholt,  esq.  F.S.A.,  Draftsman. 

Primeval  Section. 

WUUem  EiekardH&miUon,  eeq.F.R.8,, 
V.P^8.A.  Preaident.  The  Very  Rey.  the 
Dean  of  Hereford,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  and  Sir 
James  Anneeley,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  Vice  Pre- 
sldeBti«  Charles  Roach  Saaith,  esq.  F.S  JL 
WiUiaa  V.  Fettipew,  esq.  M.D, 
Mimmd  iyrnU  Jrtwt  eff. 


F,8.A.  Thomas  Bateman,  es^.  Sir  William 
Bethim,  F.S.A.  Ulster  King  of  Amt. 
Samuel  Birch,  etq.  F.8.A.  Matthew 
Holbeche  Bloxam,  esq.  F.S.A.  Rey.  Pro- 
fessor William  BuckUnd,  D.D.,  F.R.S. 
Rey.  John  Bathurst  Deane,  M.A.,  F.S,A. 
WiUiam  Jordan,  eeq.P.S. A.  Sfc.  Charles 
K5nig,  esq.  K.H.,  r.R.S.  Thomas  Joseph 
Pettigrew,  esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  John  Sy. 
denham,  esq. 

Medieval  Section. 

The  Yen.  Charles  Put  Bumey,  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.  Archdeacon  of  St.  Alban's,  Presi- 
dent. The  Rey.  J.  H.  Spry,  D.D.  Fire. 
beudary  of  Cantefbury,  and  Sir  Riohard 
Westmaoott,  R.A.,  F.S.A.  Vioe-Pnd- 
dents.  Thomas  Stapleton,  esq.  F.S.A.aBd 
James  Robinson  Flaneh^,  eeq.  F.8»At 
Secretaries.  WiUiam  BeattiOr  eeq.  MJ}, 
TheReo.  Henr^CkrittmaeJi.A.,  F.R.8.t 
F.8,A.  George  R.  Comer,  Beq,  F.8.jt* 
Rey.  J.  J.  Ellis,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  Rao.  H, 
Parr  HamiUon,  U.J.,  F.R.8.  The  Reo* 
Chariee  HaettUe,  M.A.  The  Reo.  Lambert 
B. Larking,  M.A.  John  NoUe,  eeq.F.S.A« 
Dawton  Turner,  eeq.  P.R.8.,  F.S.A* 
Albert  Way,  eeq.  M.A,,  Dir.  8. A. 


Architectural  Section. 

TheRey.  Robert  WUIU,  M.A.,  F.R.S., 
Jacksonian  Professor,  Cambridge,  Presi- 
dent. Char leeBarry, eeq.  R.A.  and  Bdward 
Blore,  eeq.  D.C.L.,  F.R.8.,  F.S.A.  Vice- 
PrcsidentB.Brajanim  Ferrey,  eeq.F.LB.A, 
and  Ambrose  Poynter,  esq.  Honorary  Se- 
cretary of  the  Inst,  of  British  Architects, 
Seoretaries.  John  BritUm,  esq.  F.S.A. 
Deeimue  Burton,  eeq,  F,S.A.,  F.LB.A. 
George  Godwin,  jun.  esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S. A. 
4fie^h  OufiU,  eeq.  F.S.A.  Copt.  JSf.  Q. 
Hamilton,  RJi.  Richard  Charles  Hussey, 
esq.  Charlee  Manbp,  eeq.  Secretary  qfthe 
Inetiiution  of  CM  Ayleem.     John 


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hall,  the  Yen.  Ghaileg  Pftrr  Bwrney » F.R.8. 
F.S.A.  Archdeacon  of  St.  Alban'ti  in  the 
chair,  who  opened  the  meeting  with  a 
brief  bat  doquent  address,  in  the  course 
of  whidi  he  defined  the  "  MedicTal "  pe- 
riod to  extend  from  the  Norman  Con- 
quest to  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII. 

Mr.  Wm.  Henry  Hatcher,  of  Salisbnry, 
exhibited  a  model  of  Old  Samm,  con- 
stmcted  upon  a  scale  of  two  chains  to  an 
inch. 

The  Rer.  J.  H.  Spry,  Prebendary  of 
Canterbury,  rose  to  explain  a  drawing 
made  by  Mr.  E.  Pretty,  fhnn  a  paintiDg 
i^cently  found  on  the  walls  of  Lenham 
dhurch,  Kent.  It  represents  a  kneeling 
figure  praying  to  the  Virgin,  who  stands, 
crowned,  upon  an  orb ;  and  at  hand  is  an 
angel  holding  a  balance,  in  one  scale  of 
which  are  '*  three  demons,"  and  in  the 
other,  which  is  weighed  down,  a  rosary. 
By  tfais  dedgn,  which  so  dofeely  resembles 
the  more  frequent  one  of  St.  Michael 
weighing  souls,  was  eridently  intended  to 
be  represented  the  efficacy  of  prayer. — 
George  Godwin,  esq.  F.R.S.  remarked, 
that  the  ancient  paintings  in  churches, 
though  commonly  called .^sco,  hare  been 
ascertained  to  be  usually  in  dMempet, 
This  occasioned  Dr.  Spry  to  notice  the 
large  painting  of  this  kind  which  remains 
in  a  recessed  arch  in  the  north  alle  of  the 
diancel  of  Canteri>ury  cathedral,  which  he 
really  beUered  greater  trouble  had  been 
tsdcen  ^  destroy,  than  to  restore  any 
otiier  work  of  ancient  art.  Its  colours, 
however,  had  been  imbibed  by  the  stones, 
and  were  particularly  yisible  in  damp 
weather.— -we  may  remark  that  this  paint- 
ed recess  appears  to  deserre  to  be  deoy« 
phered  and  carefully  drawn  t  the  lower 
suMect  is  dearly  the  Vision  of  Saint 
Hubert. 

The  RcT.  C.  H.  Hartshome  then  deli- 
Tend  some  remarks  on  the  opu$  JnpHemm, 
or  needlework  for  which  Eng^d  was 
remarkable  in  former  times,  as  employed 
for  ecdesiaaticd  purposes.  Some  beau- 
tiftd  specimens  of  ecclesiastical  embroidery 
were  exhibited,  but  they  were  not  exactly 
of  the  character  to  which  Mr.  Harts- 
home's  remariis  referred,  having  been 
partly  woren. 

George  B.  WoUaston,  esq.  then  read  a 

Eiper  descriptiTe  of  East  Wickham  church, 
ent,  accompanying  a  drawing  of  some 
paintings  in  *' fresco,'*  or  rather  distem- 
per, found  on  the  north  wall  of  the  chan- 
cel there.  They  were  represented  within 
canopies  of  early-English  architecture  i 
and  ten  different  compoeitions  have 
been  uncovered,  the  subjects  of  most 
of  which  are  taken  from  the  history  of 
our  Lord.  Mr.  WoUaston  having  in- 
timated that  theN  paintftaga  wen  In  im« 


minent  dangw  of  deatfueHon  by  tibA 
erection  of  a  mural  monumental  tablet*  it 
was  agreed  that  representations  should  bo 
made  from  the  Assobiation  to  the  Arch- 
deacon, and  other  authorities,  in  order  to 
arrest  the  threatened  Vandalism. 

A  good  pi^r  was  received  from  M<  A. 
Lower,  esq.  of  Lewes,  containing  oollee- 
tions  on  the  Budde,  tiie  andent  badge  of 
the  House  of  Pelham.  It  is  asserted  by 
an  old  writer  to  have  been  assumed  in 
commemoration  of  the  capture  of  King 
John  of  France,  at  Poitiers,  and  that  on  tlio 
same  occasion  the  crampet,  or  point  of 
the  scabbard,  was  taken  by  the  ancestor 
of  Earl  Delawarr.  This  paper  was  lUus* 
trated  by  drawings  of  many  curious  ex* 
amples  of  the  Badge* 

Thomas  Stapleton,  esq.  F.S.A.  then 
read  an  elaborate  paper  on  the  succession 
of  William  de  Ards,  the  Domesday 
lord  of  Folkestone,  who  was  of  the  fii- 
mily  of  the  Comtes  of  Guisnes,  and  a 
marriage  with  whose  hdress  led  to  the 
dignity  of  Earl  (of  Oxford),  hdd  Ibr  so 
many  generations  by  the  long  line  of  Vers. 
Mr.  Stapleton  showed  that  Dugdde  and 
others  have  been  in  error,  in  supposing 
that  Aubrey  de  Vere  was  created  an  Earl 
by  the  empress  Maud,  bat  that  he  first  as- 
sumed the  title  of  Comte  in  right  of  his 
wife,having  married  the  heiress  of  Guisnes. 

On  the  dose  of  the  Section  the  greater 
part  of  the  members  of  the  AssMiation 
repdred  to  Heppington,  three  miles  from 
Canterbury,  the  seat  of  the  Rev.  Godfrey 
Faussett,  D.  D.,  Margaret*s  Profeaaof  of 
Divinity  at  Oxford,  in  order  to  Inspect 
the  very  rich  collection  of  relies  exhumed 
from  the  barrows  of  Kent,  formed  by  the 
professor's  grandlkther,  the  Rev.  Biyiil 
Faussett,  F.S.A.  in  the  middle  of  the  last 
century.  Some  portion  of  them  were  en- 
paved  in  DougWs  Naenia  Britannica} 
but  the  greater  mass  have  for  many  years 
remdned  wholly  unknown  and  unseen. 
They  are,  however,  carefully  arranged  and 
preserved  in  cabinets  made  for  the  pur<* 
pose.  Douglas's  own  collection  of  simi« 
lar  antiquities  was  purchased  of  his  family, 
a  few  years  since,  by  the  late  Sir  R.  C* 
Hoare,  and  are  now  by  his  liberdity,  in 
the  Ashmolean  Museum  at  Oxfofd.— 
Some  drawers  of  antiquities  exhumed  at  a 
still  earlier  date — rather  more  than  a  cen- 
tury since^by  an  ancestor  ot  Sir  John 
Fagg,  Bart,  were  kindly  sent  by  that 
gentleman  to  be  exhibited  together  with 
Dr.  Faussett's  collection. 

This  day*s  ordinary  was  provided  by 
the  landlord  of  the  Rose,  in  the  great 
room  of  the  Com  Exchange. 

At  dght  o'clock  the  AncHtrnortrnAt 
Sbotiok  was  opened,  the  Rev.  Robert 
Willis,  M*A.  F.R.S.  JaokMdin  Pvoftaor 


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Brithk  Arekt^kgkat  Jaoeiation. 


oC  BnoriiMntal  FhikMoidiy  at  C«inbfidf»t 
preiiauig,  a»d  Ambrose  Poyntorycaq.  act* 
iBg  M  sSmUry, 

FrofeiMr  Willis  opened  the  proceed- 
ings by  reading  a  translation  which  he 
had  made  of  a  minute  description  of  the 
Cathedral  of  Canterbury,  written  by  Oer- 
vase,  one  of  the  monksi  after  a  fire  which 
ooeurred  in  1174 1  comparing  the  same 
with  the  prasent  structure  by  means  of  a 
large  plan  exhibited  to  the  meeting.  This 
was  perticnlarly  interesting!  as  the  pre- 
sent  cathedral  was  raised  upon  the  foun- 
dations of  the  former,  the  crypt,  and  part 
of  U&e  upper  structure  to  the  north  of  the 
choir,  remaining  as  before  the  fire.  In* 
deed,  the  building  to  which  the  accident 
happened  was  not  more  than  sixty  years 
earlier  in  date. 

The  Rev.  C.  ^.  Uartshorne  then  briefly 
explained  some  plans  of  Dover  Castle, 
wUch  he  has  recently  surveyed,  with  the 
permission  and  assistance  of  the  Board  of 
Ofdnanoe.  He  found  the  ancient  parts 
almost  entirely  of  the  Norman  period, 
and  still  remaining  complete  amidst  the 
modem  fortifications.  Dover  keep  waa 
built  in  1153  ;  its  walls  are  eighteen  feet 
thick.  Mr.  Hartshome  added  some  re* 
marlu  on  the  castles  of  Richborough, 
Perensey,  and  some  others  s  and  again  on 
the  concentric  Block-houses  of.  Henry 
the  Eighth,  such  as  Deal,  Walmer,  San* 
down,  &c.  Of  these,  Camber  castle  re- 
mains the  most  perfect. 

John  Adey  Bepton,  esq.  F.  S.  A.  of 
Springfield,  exhibited  some  drawinga  of 
Capitals  of  Columns,  with  several  spe- 
cimens of  Arch-mouldings,  String-courses, 
and  Sections  of  Munnions  of  Windows, 
which  he  has  arranged  chronologically, 
I.  e.  from  the  Normans  to  the  year  1500. 

Mr.  D.  H.  Haigh,  of  Leeds,  sent  a 
drawing  and  description  of  a  Norman 
tomb  at  Coningsborottgh. 

George  Godwin,  jun.  esq.  F.R.S.  made 
some  brief  observations  on  Masons' 
Marks,  recapitulating  what  he  has  already 

{rahlished  on  that  subject  in  the  Arctuso- 
ogia  and  elsewhere,  and  presenting  a 
sheet  of  a  great  variety  of  marks  which  he 
had  found  that  day  in  Canterbury  Cathe- 
dral. 

W.  H.  Blaauw,  esq.  M.A.  of  Beech- 
land,  sent  for  exhibition  a  relic  of  brass, 
discovered  in  1835,  together  with  some 
human  bones,  near  the  entrance  gateway 
of  the  Castle  of  Lewea,  It  bean  the 
arms  of  the  King  of  the  Romans,  and  waa 
supposed  by  Mr.  Blaauw  to  have  been  the 
poaunel  of  a  sword.  It  tallies,  however, 
with  the  steel-yard  weights  engraved  in 
Avdusologia,  vol.  XXY.  pL  Ixiv. 

Mr.  Booth  read  some  remarks  on  tho 
Triapinlar  Bfidge  at  Croyland*  and  an 


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near  thai  j^toei  with  whiali 
the  proceedings  of  the  Section  closed. 

At  ten  o'clock  the  second  Conver- 
sasione  was  held  in  Barnes's  rooms. 

TAnndsy,  8ipi,  IS.  This  day  waa 
destined  in  the  Programme  Ibr  a  &tant 
excunion  to  Barneston  Church,  and 
Richborough  Castle ;  but  it  was  variously 
employed,  aooording  to  the  inclination  it 
diflTerant  parties. 

In  the  early  part  of  the  day  ProflBssor 
Willis  had  a  laige  auditory  in  the  Gathe* 
dral,  to  Kceive  on  the  spot  a  mora  ample 
demonstration  of  his  remarks  of  the  pro- 
vious  evening  on  Gervase's  aeoount  of  ita 
arehiteotwre,  which  he  had  tested  by  nn« 
merous  admeasurements.  The  crypt  also 
was  eagerly  explored,  and  mneh  interest 
was  excited  by  some  paintings  which  have 
been  recently  observed  in  a  dark  and 
almost  inaccessible  vault  beneath  thd 
Chapel  of  St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul. 

The  party  which  went  to  Richborangh 
were  met  by  William  Henry  Bolfe,  esq. 
of  Sandwich,  (grandson  of  Boys  the  liis* 
torian  of  that  town,)  at  whoee  expense 
some  excavations  wera  Isst  year  made 
upon  the  spot,  but  without  any  further 
result  than  that  of  ascertaining  ue  extra- 
ordinary massivenesB  of  the  masonry 
which  exists  below  the  surCsce.  The  up* 
permost  layer,  about  five  feet  thick,  is  in 
the  form  of  an  oUoog  cross.  Below  this 
is  a  '*  platform,"  also  five  feet  thick,  and 
extending  144  feet  by  104.  Beneath  that 
is  massive  masonry,  extending  1S4  fsel 
by  00,  and  upwarde  of  twenty-six  feet  in 
depth.  Whether  any  ehambera  are  con- 
tained in  this  enormous  mass  no  modens 
pickaxe  has  hitherto  been  able  to  aseer« 
tain. 

The  company  wera  entertsined  to 
luncheon  by  John  Godfrey,  esq.  of  Brook* 
street  House,  Ash ;  and  afterwards  visitsd 
the  ehnrah  of  Barfreston,  that  very  in* 
teresting  example  of  Norman  ardutectnre, 
repaired  a  few  yean  ago  by  Mr.  Hussey. 

Another  party,  under  the  guidance  of 
Major  Davies  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Harte* 
horne,  went  over  Dover  Castle,  and  visitsd 
Wingham,  where  the  church  was  found  in 
a  state  of  rapair  which  excited  their  com* 
miseration.  Some  interesting  examples 
of  domestic  architecture  wera  observed  at 
the  latter  place. 

The  ordinary  at  the  Fountain,  froes 
theae  protracted  excursions,  tkon^  de« 
ferrad  to  a  late  hour,  fell  of  in  point  of 
nnmben.  Barnes's  rooms  wera  opened 
in  the  evening  Ibr  a  sort  of  Conversasiono 
extraordinary,  the  principal  sntertsinment 
being  performances  of  the  Caaterbuiy 
Glee  Club. 

Friday,  8§pi.  13.  The  HiaromiCAn 
SaonoN  wM  opiMd  al  tlfTiii  o*«)ookt 


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Antiquarian  ReHarckf3. 


[Oct. 


Lord  Albert  Conyngbam  taking  the  cbair 
■s  President  thereof. 

The  first  paper  read  was  from  Miss 
Halsted,  aathoreas  of  '*  Richard  the 
Third  as  Duke  of  Gloncester  and  King  of 
England/'  pointing  ont  a  royal  commis- 
sion, or  "  brief,"  issued  in  2  Ric  1(1. 
for  the  repairs  of  the  chapel  of  a  hermit- 
age at  Recalver.  It  is  entitled,  *'  a  Com- 
missioii  to  all  the  King*s  snbjects  charit- 
ably disposed  to  give  their  alms  to  Tho- 
mas Hammond,  hermit  of  the  Chapel  of 
St.  Peter,  St  James,  and  8t«  Anthony, 
being  at  onr  Lady  of  Recolver,  in  Kent, 
ordained  for  the  sepnltnre  of  soch  persons 
as  by  casoalty  of  storms,  or  other  incident 
fites,  or  misadTentnres,  were  perished ; 
for  bnilding  the  roof  of  the  said  chapel, 
fallen  down.** 

The  receipt  of  a  docnment  from  John 
Barrow,  esq.  F.8.A.  relative  to  the. ex- 
penses of  the  King's  shipping  in  the 
Thames  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  was 
announced,  bat  deemed  not  calculated  for 
public  reading. 

T.  Crofton  Croker,  esq.  F.S.A.  then 
read  a  critical  examination  of  the  Anto- 
biography  of  Richard  Boyle,  first  Earl  of 
Cork,  who  was  a  native  of  Canterbury. 
The  autobiography  is  brief,  is  entitled 
'*  True  Remembrances,"  has  been  intro- 
duced in  Tsrions  works,  and  forms  the 
Kneral  foundation  for  the  Earl  of  Cork*a 
igraphy.  Mr.  Croker's  investigations« 
however,  demonstrate  these  "  Remem- 
brances" to  be  far  from  "true."  This 
he  showed  by  proofs  derived  from  paro- 
chial registers,  the  **  Pacata  Hibemia," 
and  documents  in  the  State  Paper  Office. 
Richard  Boyle  is  now  exhibited  as  a  most 
unscrupulous  adventurer,  alchongh  in  his 
latter  years  he  affected  deep  religion  and 
piety.  So  extraordinary  are  the  discre- 
pances, that  some  auditors  were  inclined  to 
doubt  the  authorship  of  '*  The  True  Re- 
membrances ;**  but  we  do  not  partake  in 
that  InoreduUty.  Some  errors,  in  points 
of  little  importance,  may  be  probably 
ascribed  to  a  lapse  of  memory  after  a  long 
series  of  years ;  otlier  misstatements  were 
doubtless  intended  to  tell  a  fair  story 
where  impartial  testimony  would  have  led 
to  a  very  different  account. 

J.  O.  Halliwell,  esq.  F.R.S.  next  read 
some  brief  notes  he  had  made  in  the  Ca- 
thedral library.  The  principal  subject  of 
his  remarks  was  a  MS.  volume  of  poetical 
satires*  prior  to  Hall  and  Donne.  He 
also  communicated  a  paper  relating  to  the 
Coronation  banquet  of  Henry  VI. :  it 
eonsiats  of  a  short  metrical  account  of 
the  feast,  some  verses  apparently  intended 
for  recital  on  the  oocasion,  and  an  enume- 
ration, of  the  dishes  in  eaoh  course* 

Mr,  Wright  followed  with  an  enter- 


taining series  of  connected  eitracti  from 
the  mnnicipal  archives  of  Canterbory* 
This  has  been  printed  at  length  in  the 
Canterbury  papers.  Of  the  records  them « 
selves,  Mr.  Wright  gave  the  following  ac* 
count :  '*  The  greater  part  of  the  reoords 
of  Canterbury  are  totally  unarranged. 
They  consist  of  several  different  kinds  of 
documents,  eaoh  having  its  particular 
share  of  historical  importance.  The  do- 
cuments which  go  back  to  the  most  rcoMite 
nntiquity  are  the  royal  diarters,  of  whiefa 
one,  still  preserved,  was  written  in  the 
twelfth  century,  previous  to  the  martyr- 
dom of  Thomas  Becket,  whoee  name  oc- 
curs among  the  witnesses.  The  books  of 
aceoonts  ^  the  chamberlains  of  the  city, 
are  preserved  in  regular  succession  from 
the  year  1393.  They  give  the  partievlare 
of  the  receipts  and  expenditure  of  the 
corporation  in  each  successive  year,  and 
contain  an  immense  mass  of  curious  in- 
formation on  the  manners  and  peculiar 
customs  of  the  people  of  past  ages.  The 
judicial  records  of  the  courts  of  sessions^ 
which  are  in  great  confusion,  but  which 
appear  to  commence  also  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  fourteenth  century,  are  espe- 
cially valuable  for  the  light  they  throw 
on  the  condition  of  society  in  genera!  at 
different  periods.  Besides  these,  there  is 
a  large  mass  of  documents  of  a  less  ub- 
portant  character,  but  which  still  lend 
their  aid  in  historical  researches.'* 

J.  H.  Parker,  esc{.  of  Oxford,  commu* 
nicated  extracts  from  the  Barsars'  ac- 
counts of  Merton  College,  Oxford,  con- 
taining all  the  expenses  of  the  original 
erection  of  the  chapel.  Mr.  Parker  re- 
marked that  these  documenta  confirm  the 
opinion  he  bad  formed  of  the  age  of  the 
chapel,  vis.  1S77,  which  opinion  he  had 
retained  in  opposition  to  that  of  some  of 
his  friends,  to  whose  authority  he  was 
ususlly  accustomed  to  bow.  Walter  de 
Merton,  the  founder  of  the  college,  fur- 
nished the  design  for  the  splendid  csthe- 
dral  of  Cologne,  commenced  by  his  pa« 
tron,  Richard  King  of  the  Romans ;  and 
it  is  remarkable  that  the  cathedral  and 
the  chapel,  which  resemble  each  other 
very  much  in  some  particulars,  were  both 
left  unfinished,  and  have  never  been  com* 
pleted  to  the  present  day. 

At  three  o'clock  the  Primeval  Sec- 
tion re-asaembled,  the  Dean  of  Herefiord 
again  in  the  chair ;  when  a  large  assem* 
blage  of  exhumed  antiquities  were  laid 
upon  the  table.  Among  them  the  moat 
striking  were  from  Bridge  Hill,  near  Can* 
terbury ;  from  Victoria  Terraoe,  near  St. 
Dunatan'a,  in  the  same  city;  from  thn 
Old  Dover  Road  (a  fine  urn,  lannd  wHh 
skeletons) ;  fkvm  tftw  predacfes  of  tho. 
thedrul,  some  Bysantioe 


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1844.] 


Biitish  Arthaoiogicid  Association, 


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cmiis  of  gold,  moanted  with  loops  for  de-> 
cormdnr  the  person  (a  Roman  and  Saxon 
cnstom;!  dlscOTeredwith  other  ornaments 
of  gold,  near  the  Tery  ancient  church  of 
St.  Martin ;  a  rare  Roman  gloss  goblet 
frdm  London ;  an  Etmsean-like  Tase,  said 
to  hsFe  been  found  in  Wilts,  &c.  &c. 

Mr.  Rolfe,  of  Sandwich,  produced  some 
gold  coins,  one  of  them  unique,  inscribed 
VPABDTS  BP*s,  and  supposed  by  Mr.  C. 
R.  South  to  have  been  coined  by  a  Bishop 
of  Autun,  in  the  sixth  century. 

The  papers  read  were : — 

An  account  of  Roman  remains  found  in 
Northamptonshire,  by  E.  T.  Artis,  esq. 
F.S.  A.  of  Caistor.  This  gentleman  exhi- 
bited a  model  in  wax  of  a  Romm  kilo, 
with  specimens  of  pottery  found  therein, 
discovered  at  Wansford,  near  Stamford, 
in  Lincolnshire.  Ue  also  stated  that  Ro- 
man statues  of  the  size  of  life  hare  been 
recently  found  at  Sibson  near  Wansford. 
They  are  sculptured  from  the  stone  pe- 
culiar to  that  part  of  England,  and  are 
supposed  to  represent  Hercules,  Apollo, 
and  Minerra  Medica.  The  Rev.  Mr. 
Hartshorne  stated  that  the  Duke  of  Bed- 
ford, on  whose  estate  they  were  found, 
has  taken  them  under  his  protection. 

A  Dissertation  on  the  Roman  roads  and 
stations  of  Kent,  as  described  in  the  Iti- 
neraries of  Antoninus  and  Richard,  by 
James  Puttock,  esq. 

An  account  of  Celtic  and  other  remains 
found  at  Sittingboume,  by  the  Rev.  Wil- 
liam Vallance. 

Ob  some  Roman  and  British  Encamp- 
ments near  Dunstable,  by  W.  D.  Saull, 
esq.  F.8.A. 

On  a  gold  Saxon  buckle  found  in  Hamp- 
shire, by  Samuel  Birch,  esq.  F.S.  A. 

The  Dean  of  Hereford  mentioned  the 
remains  of  mi  extensive  Roman  town 
near  Hereford,  where  every  kind  of  im- 
plement used  by  the  Romans  was  found 
on  the  surface.  Among  them  were  a  num- 
ber of  tiles  with  large  iron  nails  stuck 
into  them.  These  naiLs  were  so  numerous, 
that  bushels  of  them  might  be  collected. 

T.  J.  Pettigrew,  esq.  F.R.S.  communi- 
cated, at  the  request  of  Sir  Gardner  Wil- 
Idnson,  a  bilingual  inscription  from  a  vase 
found  at  Thebes,  and  now  deposited  in 
the  treasury  of  St.  Mark  at  Venice.  This 
inscription  is  expressed  in  two  characters 
— the  arrow-head,  or  Persepolitan,  and 
the  Egyptian  hieroglyphic  (engraved  in 
the  Literary  Gazette  of  Sept.  SI,  p.  611). 
The  latter  gives  the  nsmeof  Abtaxxexbs, 
reading  phonetically  Ard>kho-Bcho,  con- 
tained in  a  cartouche  or  oval  of  peculiar 
coBstraetion,  formed  of  two  letters  b  end 
N,  whieh,  with  the  intermediate  vowel  so 
covuonly  omitted  in  Orleatal  languages, 


gives  the  Coptic  word  rax,  and  signifies 
*  name.*  The  name  of  the  Persian  king 
is  followed  by  certain  hieroglyphics, 
which  phonetically  read  erpba,  signifying 
GRRAr ;  it  is  thus,  King  Artaxerzes  the' 
Great.  Above  the  hieroglyphics  express- 
ing this,  the  inscription  in  the  arrow-head 
character  is  arranged  in  three  lines.  This 
is  the  second  decypherable  bilingual  in* 
scription  of  the  kind  known ;  the  lint 
being  one  on  the  alabaster  vase  of  Xerxes, 
contained  in  the  Cabinet  da  Roi  at  Paris, 
first  depicted  by  Count  Caylas  In  tlie  dOth 
plate  of  his  5th  volume  of  AntiquitHes/ 
and  afterwards  decyphered  by  M.  Cham- 
pollion  ;  on  which  also  Sir  Gardner  Wil- 
kinson now  offered  some  remarks.  To 
have  ascertained  the  import  of  several 
cuneiform  characters  is  a  step  which  may 
lead  to  further  results  of  importance  in 
philological  discovery,  and  in  the  develope- 
ment  of  the  most  ancient  records  of  the 
human  race. 

Professor  Buckland  then  delivered  a 
long  oral  account  of  some  important  Ro-' 
man  ruins  at  Jordan  Hill,  near  Weymouth, 
lately  visited  by  him,  under  the  goidance 
of  Mr.  Medhurst,  formerly  of  Tunbridge. 
The  Professor  stated  that  there  could  be 
no  doubt  that  the  Romans  maintained  a 
settlement  of  importance  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Dorchester,  and  that  Poole 
was  probably  the  harbour  of  their  fleet ; 
and  he  gave  his  opinion,  that  in  a  few' 
years  it  would  again  become  important  as 
a  harbour  of  refuge  for  steam*boats.  In 
the  area  in  question  are  the  foundations 
of  a  building,  supposed  to  have  been  a 
temple,  thirty-seven  yards  squsre.  In  a 
large  well,  or  cesspool,  have  been  fbuntf 
several  swords,  large  quantities  of  birds' 
bones,  &c.  As  many  as  70O  Roman  coins 
have  been  collected.  Some  account  of 
this  discovery  has  been  already  published' 
by  Mr.  Warne. 

There  were  still  some  other  commoni'' 
cations,  which  time  did  not  suffice  to  pro-' 
duce,  and  which  were  therefore  reserved 
for  the  consideration  of  the  General  Com- 
mittee in  Ijondon,  which  will  make  them 
public  through  the  Society's  Journal. 

The  Ordinary  this  day  was  held  at  the 
Lion :  and  in  the  evening  the  unrolliog 
of  an  Egyptian  Mommy  was  performed  by 
Mr.  Pettigrew  and  his  son  Dr.  Pettigrew, 
on  the  stage  of  the  Theatre.  By  way  of 
introduction,  Mr.  Pettigrew  delivenMl  a 
lecture  describing  the  five  different  modes 
of  embalming,  the  four  urns  fbr  the  in- 
testines, the  sareophagt,  the  inscriptions 
and  remains  found  on  the  rolls  of  linen 
and  about  the  body,  and,  in  shott,  on 
every  prominent  point  coimeeted  imn 
these  memorable  rites,  ih  a  ttimm^  eiiyi' 


414 


J^tipMrim^  Be$ew^e$. 


[Oct. 


naatly  adapted  for  a  mixed  popular  aa- 
lembly.  Ho  then  doToted  about  an  hoar 
and  a  half  to  diveating  the  Ttieban 
mummy  of  hit  ooTering.  The  lower  part 
of  the  caie  in  which  it  waa  contained  waa 
destroyed.  The  hieroglyphici  appeared 
to  have  been  carelessly  written^  and  it 
was  with  difficulty  he  had  decyphered 
them.  They  consisted  of  sefen  lines,  the 
last  two  of  which  could  only  he  partially 
made  ontt  though  it  was  sufficient  to  show 
^t  those  lines  were  a  repetition  in  other 
forms  of  the  preoeding;  and  the  following 
was  a  litersl  translation : — 

**  Royal  offering  to  Anup,  attached  to 
embalment,  and  that  he  may  give  wax, 
olothes,  manifestation  all  in  altar,  to  go 
out  in  west  happy.  That  he  may  give 
air  (the  movement  of  breath),  for  aake  of 
Har  [the  name  of  the  mummy] ,  tnith- 
apealdng,  son  of  Unnefer,  child  of  lady  of 
house,  Saherenneb.  Royal  gift  offered  to 
Osiris,  resident  in  the  west,  Great  God, 
Lord  of  the  East,  that  he  may  give  painted 
case,  good  one,  in  Nouteker.  Ob,  sup- 
port Mant,  mistress  liyiug  Nepthe,  great 
one  rejoicing  in  Tctu  with  thy  mother* 
the  Heaven  over  thee,  by  her  name  of  Ex* 
tender.  That  she  may  give  thee  to  be 
with  the  God,  annihilating  thy  enemiea  in 
thy  name  of  a  God,  directing  with  other 
things  all  giving  great  in  her  name  of  wa- 
ter." The  remaining  two  lines  were  im- 
Krfectiy  decyphered  thus  :  '  Great 
r  name  of  thy  mother over  thee 

— —  in  her  name thee  to  be  with 

the  God  annihilating  thy  enemies  in  thy 
name  of  a  God— <^that  she  may  suffice 
—making  Har,  son  of  Unnefer,  truth- 
speaking,  lx>m  of  lady  of  house,  Saheren- 
neb.' " 

Mr.  Pettigrew  eommenoed  unrolling  by 
flaking  ai^  incision  through  the  pink  cloth 
or  the  CQfering  down  the  whole  length  of 
the  body.  After  the  removal  of  a  few  folds 
of  the  (doth,  he  came  to  a  black  covering, 
consisting  of  the  doth  impregnated  with 
bitumen,  about  one. twentieth  of  an  inch 
thick.  Under  it  was  a  pink  covering,  the 
same  as  at  first,  but  in  a  whole  sheet,  in- 
stead of  being  in  bandages.  Afterwards 
the  bsndages  commenced,  and  occasion- 
ally small  pieces  of  loose  cloth  were  found 
which  had  been  put  in  to  fill  up  hollows, 
and  to  make  the  surface  quite  smooth. 
As  the  unrolling  proceeded  the  bituminous 
matter  with  which  the  body  was  saturated 
penetrated  more  and  more  through  the 
cloth,  until  it  became  impossible  to  unrol, 
and  it  was  cleared  away  with  knives.  On 
one  part  some  hieroglyphics  were  marked, 
indicating  the  name  of  the  individual; 
and  pieces  of  papyrus  and  lotus  leaf  were 
found,  but  the  writing  on  the  papynia  wa« 


obliterated  by  the  bttmnea.  The  doth 
was  linen  of  dose  and  strong  fafaorio,  bean* 
tifuUy  woven,  and  atill  atrong  enough  to 
bear  pulling  without  tearing.  After  work- 
ing assiduously  for  about  an  hour,  the  hoc 
was  uncovered,  and  part  of  the  body,  anf- 
ficientiy  to  shew  its  fbrm.  The  arma  were 
croaaed  over  the  body.  The  fsoe  had  been 
thickly  gilded,  and  a  great  part  of  the 
gold  leaf  still  adhered  to  it.  Theeyea 
were  hollow,  the  cheek-bones  high,  but 
covered  with  skin  i  the  lips  tidn  and  half 
opened,  shewing  the  teeth.  The  heighi 
of  the  mummy,  which  was  that  of  a  male, 
did  not  exceed  five  feet.  Pr.  Pettigiew 
sawed  off  the  back  part  of  the  akull,  which 
was  as  hard  as  recent  bonea,  to  expose 
the  interior,  whence  the  brains  had  been 
extracted,  through  the  nose,  and  their 
place  filled  with  pitch.  The  muosmy  waa 
supposed,  by  Mr.  Pettigrew,  to  belong  to 
a  period  about  five  hundred  years  before 
the  Christian  era, 

Saturday,  Sept.  14.  At  U  a.  m.  the 
closing GsirKRALMnsTi NO  was  held, Lord 
A.  Conyngham,  the  President,  in  the  chair. 

Thanks  were  liberally  and  eloqoentiy 
bestowed  upon  all  who  had  taken  an  ao« 
tive  part  in  the  proceedings,  and  aa  grate- 
fully and  eloquently  acknowledged :  and 
the  business  was  wound  up  with  general 
congratulations.  Among  others,  the 
Mayor  of  Canterbury,  George  Neame,  esq. 
begged  to  express,  on  the  part  of  the  d- 
tisens,  the  gratification  which  th^had 
derived  from  the  unwonted  facUitiea  that 
had  been  afforded  for  viewing  the  Cathe- 
dral, and  waa  sure  that  \U  under  proper 
restrictions,  the  same  privil^e  waa  ooca* 
sionally  repeated,  the  favour  would  be 
duly  appreciated,  and  be  productive  of 
much  advantage.  Dr.  Spry,  one  of  the 
Prebendaries,  bad  the  satisfoction  to  state 
that  no  improper  use  had  been  made  of 
the  facilities  given. 

Among  the  votes  of  thanka  waa  an  ao« 
knowledgment  of  the  sense  entertained  by 
the  Association  of  the  liberality  of  A.  ^. 
Beresford  Hope,  esq.  M.P.  who  has  re- 
cently purchased,  for  S,020/.  the  ruins  of 
St.  Augustine*s  Abbey,  Canterbury,  with 
the  view  of  preserving  them  from  destrac* 
tion. 

It  is  believed  that  about  two  hundred 
tickets  were  purchased  for  the  meeting, 
though  about  ninety  persons  only  in« 
scribed  their  autographs  in  the  ^k 
placed  in  the  anteroom  of  the  Muaeuaa* 
On  the  snlqeot  of  contrilmtions,  aome  li- 
beral donations  to  the  general  funds  of  the 
Association  were  announced.  The  place 
of  the  next  year's  meetii^  was  left  for  the 
aifangevient  of  the  General  Committee. 


415 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  PARLIAMENT. 


House  of  Lobds* 

Sept.  2.  Their  Lordships  met  this 
day  by  adjournment  from  the  9th  of 
.Au|(iist,  to  hear  the  opinions  of  the 
Judges  in  the  appeal  case,  "  Daniel 
0*OMineU  V.  the  Queen,  in  error."  The 
opinions  delirered  were  long  and  varied. 
On  the  great  merits  and  substance  of  the 
case  there  was  no  doubt  or  difference.  It 
was  quite  clear  that  under  one  count  or 
another  in  the  indictment  a  true  legal 
offence  was  described,  and  that  on  die 
proof  of  that  offence  judgment  was  given 
against  Mr.  O'Connell.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  indictment  contained  bad  and 
unsound  matter,  as  well  as  good  and 
•oundt  The  judgment  was  given  upon 
the  indictment ;  the  judgment  was  given 
therefore  upon  bad  counts  as  well  as  upon 
good  ones.  Here  arose  the  point  of  diffi* 
culty.  Chief  Justice  Tindal,  Ju^es 
Patteaou,  Maule,  Williams,  and  Gde- 
ridge,  and  Barons  Oumey  and  Alderson, 
were  of  opinion  that  the  judgment  was 
not  invalidated}  but  Mr.  Btfon  Parke 
and  Mr.  Justice  Coltman  were  of  opinion 
that  it  was« 

8fpL  4.  The  Lttrd  ChaneeUor  and 
L9rd  Br9UMkmm  decidedly  and  strongly 
otpnMtd  their  conviction  that,  on  the 
opinions  of  the  majority  of  the  Judges, 
the  judgment  ought  to  be  affirmed.  Lords 
Dewman,  CottitUkam,  and  Campbell,  de- 
clared to  the  contrary.  It  was  agreed 
that  none  but  the  law-lords  should  vote 
upon  the  question,  and  therefore  the 
judgment  was  reversed,  by  a  majority  of 
ikree  to  two* 

Sept,  5.  The  Parliament  was  pro- 
rogued by  a  Commission,  when  the  Lord 
OktmeeUoTf  on  behalf  of  the  Lords 
Commissioners,  delivered  the  following 
Speech  s-' 

'*  My  Ijorde  and  Gentlemen, 

**  We  are  commanded  bv  her  Majesty, 
in  relieving  you  from  further  attendance 
in  Parliament,  to  express  to  you  the  warm 
acknowledgments  ot  her  Majesty  for  the 
zeal  and  assiduity  with  which  you  have 
applied  yourselves  to  the  discharge  of 
your  public  duties  during  a  laborious  and 
piotncted  session*  The  result  has  been 
the  completion  of  many  legislative  mea- 
sures calculated  to  improve  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  lawf  and  to  promote  the 
tmVUe 


*'  Her  Majesty  has  given  her  cordial 
assent  to  the  bill  which  was  presented  to 
her  Majesty  for  regulating  the  issue  of 
bank  notes,  and  for  conferring  certain 
privileges  upon  the  Bank  of  Enghind  for 
a  limited  period.  Her  Majesty  trusts 
thst  these  measures  will  tend  to  plaoe  the 
pecuniary  transactions  of  the  country 
upon  a  sounder  basis,  without  imposing 
any  inconvenient  restrictions  on  com- 
mercial  credit  or  enterprise. 

<*  We  are  directed  to  infbrm  you  that 
her  Majesty  continues  to  receive  fW>m  her 
Allies,  and  from  all  Foreign  powers,  as* 
snrances  of  their  friendly  disposition. 

■*  Her  Majesty  has  recently  been  en* 
gaged  in  discussions  with  the  Govern- 
ment of  the  King  of  the  French  on 
events  calculated  to  interrupt  the  good 
understanding  and  friendly  relations  be- 
tween this  country  and  France.  You 
will  rejoice  to  learii  that,  bv  the  spirit  of 
justice  and  moderation  which  has  ani. 
mated  the  two  governments,  this  danger 
has  been  happily  averted. 

"  Gentlemen  qftke  Houee  qf  Oftmmone, 
We  are  commanded  bv  her  Majesty 
to  thank  you  for  the  readiness  with  whicn 
you  voted  the  supplies  for  the  service  of 
the  year. 

'^  Her  Majesty  has  observed,  with  the 
utmost  satisfaction,  that,  bv  the  course  to 
which  you  have  steadily  adhered  in  main- 
taining inviolate  the  public  faith,  and  in- 
spiring a  just  confidence  in  the  stability 
of  the  national  resources,  you  have  been 
enabled  to  make  a  considerable  reduction 
in  the  annual  charge  on  account  of  the 
interest  of  the  National  Debt. 

"  My  Lorde  and  Oentiemen, 

''  Her  Majesty  desires  us  to  congra- 
tulate you  on  the  improvement  which 
has  taken  place  in  the  condition  of  our 
manufactures  and  commerce,  and  on  the 
prospect  that,  through  the  bounty  of 
Divine  Providence,  we  shall  enjoy  the 
blessing  of  an  abundant  harvest. 

^*  Her  Majesty  rejoices  in  the  belief 
that,  on  your  return  to  your  several  dis- 
tricts, you  will  find  generally  prevailing 
throughout  the  country  a  spirit  of  loyalty 
and  cheerful  obedienoe  to  the  law.  Her 
Majesty  is  oonfideot  that  these  dispo- 
sitionsi  so  important  to  the  peaceful  deve- 
Icypement  of  our  resources  and  to  our 
oatMHal  strgDgtbf  wiU  bo  eonfirmod  and 


416 


F&refynNewi. 


[Oct. 


encouraged  by  your  presence  and   ex- 
ample. 

'<  We  are  commanded  by  ber  Majesty 
to  assure  you  that,  when  you  shall  be 
called  upon  to  resume  the  discharge  of 
your  parliamentary   functions,  you  may 


place  entire  reliance  on  the  cordial  co- 
operation  of  her  Majestjr  in  your  endea- 
vottrs  to  improve  the  social  condition,  and 
to  promote  the  happiness  and  content- 
ment of  her  people." 


FOREIGN    NEWS. 


£GYFT. 


Sir  H.  Hardinge  has  completed  a  treaty 
with  Mebemet  Ali,  wherebv  the  govern, 
ment  of  Egypt  is  guaranteed  to  him  and 
his  descendants.  In  return,  Mebemet 
All  has  covenanted  to  protect  all  English 
subjects,  and  consents  to  allow  troops  to 
go  through  Egypt  whenever  necessary. 
The  railways  from  Cairo  to  Sues  are  to 
be  commenced  without  loss  of  time. 

The  intended  retirement  of  Mebemet 
arose  from  a  sudden  fit  of  ilUbumour  at 
his  son  Ibrahim  supporting  a  measure  in 
the  council  disapproved  by  him  ;  the  old 
Paclia,  however,  was  induced  to  return  to 
Alexandria  by  the  council  and  Ibrahim 
giving  woy. 

ALGERIA. 

A  battle  took  place  on  14th  August  at 
Isly,  between  Mitrshal  Bugeaud  and  the 
Moorish  army  of  20,000  horse,  led  on  bv 
the  son  of  the  Emperor.  The  French 
were  surrounded,  but  they  successively 
captured  all  the  camps,  which  occupied  a 
space  of  a  league  in  extent,  11  pieces  of 
artillery,  16  stand  of  colours,  1,200  tents, 
the  baggage  of  the  Emperor's  son,  his 
perasol,  the  insignia  of  command,  and  a 
considerable  quantity  of  warlike  stores. 
The  Moors  left  800  killed  on  the  field ; 
the  French  had  200  killed  and  wounded. 
The  Prince  de  Joinville,  on  the  15th 
Aug.  attacked  the  town  and  batteries  of 
Mogiulor,  which  he  destroyed,  and  took 
possession  of  the  island,  where  he  placed 
a  garrison.  The  British  consul  nnd 
family  were  seaeted  during  the  bombard- 
ment, not  having  been  allowed  by  the 
Moors  to  leave  the  place.  Subsequently 
Uie  Emperor  of  Morocco  sued  for  peace, 
and  he  signed  the  original  ultimatum  of 
the  French.  The  island  of  Mogador 
was  then  evacuated.  Peace  has  also 
been  established  between  Spain  and  Mo- 
rocco. 


INDIA. 


The  despatches  containing  Lord  Ellen- 
borough's  recall  reached  Calcutta  on  the 
15th  June.  A  council  was  immediately 
convened,  when  the  Hon.  Mr.  Bird  v  as 
sworn  into  the  office  of  Governor- Oene- 
ral,  vacated  by  the  fiat  of  the  Court  of 
Directors.  The  measure  appeared  to  be 
expected  by  his  lordship,  who  had  pre- 
viously provided  himselt  with  a  private 
residence  five  miles  from  Government 
House.  GenerHl  Cooper  and  many  of 
the  officers  of  the  Presidency  division  in- 
vite<i  him  to  h  dinner,  and  her  Majesty's 
39th  regiment  have  subscribed  150/.  for  a 
testimonial  to  him. 

At  Upper  Scinde  the  grasscutters  of 
the  6th  Irregular  Ca\'alry  having  been 
employed  in  procuring  forage,  under  an 
escort  near  Ikhanghur,  were  surrounded 
and  set  upon  by  a  party  of  Beelochee  horse- 
men, when  about  SO  men,  including  30 
of  the  cavalry  purty,  were  cut  to  pieces, 
and  50  were  wounded  severely.  Sir  C. 
Nspier  has  recorded  a  most  indignant 
general  order  in  reference  to  the  affiur, 
niahly  blaming  the  conduct  of  Captain 
M'Kenzie,  the  Commander  of  the  Ir- 
regulars. 

CIBCA88IA. 

After  the  defeat  of  the  Russians  at 
Erbend,  on  the  Caspian  Sea,Scbamil-Bey, 
the  Circaaaian  general,  entered  the  town, 
after  forcing  the  temporary  fortificationa, 
with  a  loss  to  the  Russians  of  2,000  men, 
and  made  a  rich  boohr  in  provisions  and 
ammunition.  The  iiusstans  have  since 
been  beaten,  with  considerable  loss,  near 
Gratigarsk,  in  the  Upper  Caucasus.  The 
army,  which  is,  it  is  said,  100,000  strong, 
is  greatly  discouraged.  Its  head  quarters 
are  at  Stavropol,  near  Coubran,  under 
the  orders  of  Prince  Michael  and  General 
Yermaloff. 


DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 


jfug.  15.  A  public  meeting  of  the  in- 
habitants of  Manch§tier  and  Salford^  and 
their  vicinities,  took  place  for  the  purpose 
of  taking  the  preliminary  steps  toMrards 
the  purchase  of  land  for  publie  walks  or 
10 


arboretums,  and  which  was  moat  na- 
merously  and  respectably  attended.  The 
donations  were  of  the  moat  liberal  kind, 
Il,000f.  having  been  subscribed  in  the 
loom.    Among  the  contiibatioiw  wcfe. 


1844.] 


JhnwiiuUc  Occufftnoa* 


417 


Loid  Fkudb  JB^erton  1,000/.  Sir  B. 
Heywood  1»000/.  Mark  Philips,  esq. 
JM.P.  1,000/.  ditto  for  the  firm  500/. 
Jamei  Kerthawy  esq.  (e^  mayor)  500/. 
Sir  Robert  Peel  haa  tiDca  remitted  l,000i. 
aceompanied  by  a  letter  stating  that, 
although  he  has  iio  longer  any  personal 
eonoeetion  with  the  town  of  Manchester, 
b^  property  or  other  local  tie,  yet  he  con. 
aiders  Manchester  to  be  the  metropolis  of 
a  district  to  the  industry  of  which  be  and 
his  family  are  under  very  deep  obligations. 
Pubiie  woorki  at  Hvirpool  and  Birk*n» 
k9ad» — Probably  there  are  no  places  in 
the  luDgdom,  not  even  excepting  the  me* 
tropolis,  where  a  larger  amount  of  money 
ts  in  process  of  expenditure  in  the  con. 
•traction  of  public  works  than  there  is  at 
this  moment  in  Liverpool  and  Birktn- 
hcad.  Almost  in  every  direction  on  the 
banks  of  the  Mersey,  huge  preparations 
meet  the  ef  e ;  and  without  entering  into 
details,  which  would  occupy  much  space, 
some  idea  of  their  extent  may  be  gathered 
from  an  outline  of  the  expenditure.  In 
some  of  the  following  items  the  estimates 
include  the  cost  of  land.  In  Liverpool 
there  are  the  following  works  now  in  pro* 
gress  :— Assise  Courts  ToorporationV  cost 
800,000/. ;  New  Gaol  (corporation),  cost 
100,000/. ;  Albert  Dock  and  Warehouses 
rdodk  committee),  600,000/.  \  New  North 
Dock  Works,  including  hmd  and  junction 
with  Leeds  Canal  (dock  committee,) 
1,500,000/.;  reservoirs,  Green-lane,  and 
corresponding  works  (highway  commis- 
sioners),  50,000/.  \  Industrial  .Schools  at 
Kirkdaie  (select  vestry),  30,000/.;  Gas 
Bxtension  (New  GasCompanv),  140,000/. ; 
Shaw-street  Park  (private  shareholders), 
8,500/. ;  making  a  gross  total  of  8,500,000/. 
All  this  is  independent  of  many  other 
works,  some  in  progress  and  others  in 
contemplation,  with  prospects  of  almost 
Immediate  commencement.  Amongst 
those  in  progress  may  be  reckoned  Prince's 
Park,  now  forming  by  Mr.  Richard 
Vaughan  Yates,  at  the  south  end  of  the 
town ;  the  new  Presbvterian  church 
in  Myrtle*street ;  the  Female  Orphan 
Asylum  ;  the  Catholic  Female  Orphan 
Asylum;  the  New  Northern  Hospital 
(towards  which  Mr.  Brown  recently  con- 
tributed  1,000/.);  St.  Martin's  schools ; 
the  Cathotic  Magdalene  Asylum  at  Much 
Woolton,  and  St.  Mary's  Catholic  church, 
in  Edmund-street  Besides  other  works 
in  contemplation,  we  may  mention  the 
Daily  Courts,  on  the  site  of  Islington 
market  (now  discontinued) ;  the  intended 
additional  railway  tunnel  to  the  north  end 
of  tba  lown»  by  the  Liverpool  and  Man- 
cheater  Railway  Companv;  an  additional 
■atvhaiigac  etatioB  lor  the  Onaiid  June. 
tioB  Riilmy  Gonpaoy ;  the  enlainmeDt 
•f  tho  LiaM*ttmai  mmmm\  and  aooM 
improvements  on  the  Bridgewater  pio« 

Gmr.  Mao,  Vol*  XXII. 


perty.  These  various  works  altogether 
will  probably  absorb  not  less  than  another 
million.  So  that,  in  the  whole,  between 
three  and  four  millions  of  monev  will  have 
to  be  raised  and  expended  before  the 
various  present  designs  for  the  promotion 
of  charity,  the  convenience  of  commerce, 
and  the  improvement  of  the  town,  are 
completed.  But,  if  much  is  ^ing  on  in 
Liverpool  in  this  way,  more,  m  propor* 
tion  to  popuhition  and  means,  is  doing  on 
the  (yfaeshire  side  of  the  water,  at  Birken« 
head.  Here,  Indeed,  a  town  la  rising, 
the  progress  of  which,  in  buildings  aa  well 
aa  inAabitants,  dwing  the  last  four  or  five 
years,  baa  been  onpreosdented.  The 
magnitude  of  the  poblie  works  in  jpto* 
grass  at  Birkenhead  maybe  inferred  from 
the  following  abstfict,  which  is  taken 
ttom  the  eatimates  :*-New  Market  (com- 
missioners), 20,000^.  t  Town.bsll  (com- 
missioners), 10,0001.;  Park  (commis- 
sioners), 85^000/. ;  Docks  in  Wallasea  Pool 
(commissioners,  as  trustees),  400,000/. ; 
Dock  Warehouses  on  the  margin  of  Wal- 
lasea Pool  (private  company),  600,000i« ; 
Tunnel  from  Monk's  Ferry  to  Grange- 
lane  (Chester  and  Birkenhead  Railway), 
90,000/.;makingagross  total  of  ],075^000/.| 
and,  further,  a  proposal  has  been  made, 
which  is  now  under  the  consideration  of 
the  Finance  0>mmittee  of  the  Liverpool 
corporation,  to  buy  the  freehold  of  all 
their  Wallasea  estate,  and  pay  for  it  in 
ready  money  (  Besides  the  works  named 
as  being  in  progress,  a  cemetery  and  in. 
firmsrv  are  contemplated,  to  which  may 
be  added  a  design  for  the  erection  of  one 
or  more  churches.  On  the  two  former, 
we  believe,  it  is  intended  to  expend  about 
15,000/.  In  these  items  we  have  said 
nothing  aliout  the  sums  being  expended 
in  sewerage,  and  laying  nmtns  for  water 
and  gas ;  they  are  verv  large,  and  in  thia 
present  year  they  will  exceed  any  of  the 
past.  After  these  statements  it  wlH  be 
sdmitted,  we  think,  that  there  are  very 
few,  if  any,  pUces  where  the  progression 
in  woriis  of  a  public  nature  is  greater  than 
in  Liverpool  and  Birkenhead. 

Aug.  §0.  The  consecmtion  of  a  mo- 
nasteiy  dedicated  to  St.  Bernard,  and  in- 
tended  for  the  use  of  a  number  of  Cis- 
tercian monks  who  have  hitherto  Inhabited 
temporary  buildings  in  Chamwood  Forest, 
took  place  on  the  80th  Aug.  the  cere- 
monv  being  performed  by  Dr.  Wiseman, 
(styhng  himself  *»  Bishop  of  MelipoU* 
mus**)f  Dr.  Walsh  (•<  Bishop  of  Candy- 
opolia")f  tnd  Dr.  Morris  (*<  Bishop  of 
Troy**).  The  Cistercians  were  founded 
seven  hundred  and  forty-six  years  ago  by 
Robert,  Abbot  of  Molesme,  whob  with  a 
few  devoted  monks,  retired  to  the  monas- 
tory  of  Citeaux,  aitnate  in  a  wild  and 
daaiit  plaoo  near  GhaloM-9ttr«  Saone,  in 
order  toat  they  might  restore  more  per- 

3H 


418 


Dome9lw  Occwrrencti. 


[Oct. 


feeUf  the  auttere  nilei  of  SC  Benedict. 
From  thii  beguming  the  order  increased 
rapidly,  and  extended  all  over  Europe. 
Their  first  ahbey  built  in  England  was  at 
Waverley,  in  Surrey»  in  the  year  1129; 
but  in  the  reign  of  Edward  1*  there  were 
no  lesa  than  sixty*f6ur  Cistercian  houses, 
including  Fountains,  Furness*  Tintem, 
Joreval,  Kirfcstall,  and  a  host  of  others  of 
notable  meoiory.  At  the  time  of  the 
Beformation  many  of  the  scattered  **  re- 
ligious*' emigrated  to  the  continent ;  but 
when  that  in  its  turn  afforded  them  no 
longer*  refuge,  the  English  Cistercians 
of  L«  Tmppe,  in  France,  returned  to  this 
country,  ana  after  experiencing  many  vi- 
dseitudea,  settled  near  Sheepahed,  XiCi* 
oestershire.  The  scenery  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood is  remarlcably  stem  and  wild ; 
irregular  masses  of  rock  being  scattered 
about  in  groups  at  once  romantic  and 
picturesque,  while  the  prospects  which 
nay  be  seen  by  looking  down  from  the 
hiilfl  upon  the  country  around  are  truly 
glorious  to  behold.  The  site  chosen  by 
the  new  community  is  at  the  south  side 
of  an  immense  rock,  which  rises  in  rugged 
grandeur,  and  completely  shelters  the 
monastery  from  the  bleak  north  winds. 
This  mount  has  been  called  by  the  monks 
after  **  St.  Bernard,''  and  will  shortly  be 
surmounted  by  a  sculptured  representa- 
tion  of  the  awful  scene  on  Calvary.  The 
land  belonging  to  the  abbey  is  naturally 
cold  and  »tenle,  but  the  unremitting  la- 
bours of  the  '*  religious  "  have  brought  it 
into  excellent  cultivation.  The  scene  to  a 
nineteenth-century  man  is  certainty  one  of 
the  most  curious ;  the  monks,  arrsyed  in 
Ibe  sombre  garment  of  their  order,  may 
be  observed  working  silently  in  the  fields ; 
but  as  soon  as  the  bell  rings  out  (he  hour 
for  prayer,  they  immediately  cease  from 
their  toil,  and  wherever  they  may  be,  or 
whatever  they  be  doing,  they  instantly 
fall  down  upon  their  knees  and  betake 
themselves  to  their  devotions.  The 
whole  of  the  domestic  and  other  build- 
ings,  including  the  cloister,  chapter  .bouse, 
refectory,  dormitory,  CHlefactory,  guest- 
house, priors*  lodgings,  lavatory,  kitchen, 
offices,  &c.  are  completed ;  but  of  the 
chapel,  only  the  nave  has  been  completed. 
The  style  is  Early  English,  with  massive 
walls,  buttresses,  high  gnbles  and  roofs, 
long  and  narrow  windows, deeply  recessed 
doorways,  and  the  other  characteristics  of 
that  kind  of  architecture,  which  surpasses 
every  other  for  solemnity  and  grandeur  of 
effect.  The  chapel  is  cruciform  in  phin, 
and  when  ruiished  will  consist  of  a  nave 
and  choir  with  aisles  and  transepts,  with 
a  tower  and  spire  at  the  intersection.  The 
arches  of  the  nave  spring  from  pillars  nine 
feet  in  circumference,  with  foliated  capi- 
tals.    The  framing  of  the  rooff  which  is 


decorated  with  paintiagi  ie  open  to  the 
view,  and  springs  from  stone  corbels  level 
with  the  base  of  the  clerestory  windows. 
The  high  altar  will  be  at  the  east  end, 
against  a  reredoa  of  arched  panel-work 
below  the  triple  lancets  of  the  gable.  On 
the  eastern  widla  of  the  transepts  there 
are  two  altars— one  to  the  Virgin  and  the 
other  to  St.  Joseph.  As  the  chapter- 
bouse  a4ioins  the  south  wall  of  the  tran- 
sept,  a  rose  window  will  be  erected  in  the 
gaole,  and  three  large  lancets  on  the  oppo* 
site  end;  the  sacristy  is  on  the  south 
side,  and  forms  in  the  plan  a  continuation 
of  the  transept  gable  wall  nearly  as  far 
eastward  as  the  termination  of  the  chapel. 
The  stalls  for  the  monks  will  be  continued 
a  considerable  portion  of  the  way  down 
the  nave,  for  which  arrangement  there 
are  examples  to  be  found  in  Westminster, 
Gloucester,  Winchester,  Tewkesburjr,  St. 
Alban*s,  and  Norwich.  The  choir  is 
bounded  westward  by  a  large  and  band- 
some  stone  roodloft,  occupying  one  bay 
of  the  nave.  It  is  supported  by  three 
open  arches  (the  side  ones  containing 
altars),  and  surmounted  with  appropriate 
painting  and  other  enrichments.  The 
rood  itself  is  fifty  feet  high,  and  has 
images  of  the  Blessed  Virgiu  and  St. 
John.  By  the  rules  of  the  Cistercian 
order  the  loft  will  be  used  for  all  ita 
ancient  purposes,  and  will  be  provided 
with  standards  for  lights,  a:id  other  requi* 
site  furniture.  At  about  ten  o'clock  on 
the  dav  above  named,  the  monks  set  out 
from  the  temporary  buildings  they  occu- 
pied, and  walked  in  procession  to  the  new 
abbey,  which  is  about  a  quarter  of  a  osile 
distant.  On  arriving  thither  the  cere- 
mony of  consecration  was  immediately 
commenced  by  Dr.  Walsh.  The  sermon 
was  presched  by  Dr.  Wiseman,  high  mass 
being  said  by  Dr.  Morris.  In  the  even- 
ing vespers  were  said  for  the  first  time, 
and  the  sermon  was  preached  by  Dr. 
Morris. 

On  Thursday  evening  Sepi,  5,  the 
news  of  the  reversal  of  the  sentence  on 
0*Connell,  &c.  reached  Dublin,  and  in  a 
few  minutes  spread  like  wildfire.  All 
parties  had  been  prepared  for  a  contranr 
decision.  On  the  morning  of  the  Gtli 
the  Richmond  Bridewell  be<*ame  the 
grand  scene  of  attraction,  and  in  the 
evening  the  order  for  the  release  of  the 
prisoners  arrived.  Shortly  after  seven 
o'clock  they  left  the  prison  amidst  the 
shouting  of  the  mob,  which  followed  Mr. 
O'Conoell  to  Merrion-square,  %vhere  lie 
made  a  short  speech  and  retired.  On 
the  next  day  (Saturday)  a  *'  great  demon- 
stration **  was  made.  Aceordiag  to  ar- 
rangement. Mr.  O'Connell  repaired  to 
the  Circular  Road  near  the  Richmond 
Bridewell,  when  a  procession,  oonsisting 


1844.] 


Domestic  Occurrences. 


419 


of  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Corporation,  the 
trades  of  Dublin,  Odd  Fellows,  &c.  &c. 
met  bira,  and  the  whole,  incloding  all  the 
tflg-rag-and-bobtail  of  Dublin,  inarched 
in  procession  through  the  streets  of  the 
capital,  and  finally  to  the  house  of  the 
Agitator,  where  he  made  another  speech, 
and  the  day  ended.  On  Monday  a  great 
meeting  of  the  Repeal  Association  took 
phice  in  the  *^  Conciliation  Hall ;  '*  the 
Lord  Mayor  occupied  the  chair.  On  this 
occasion  Mr.  0*ConncIl  addressed  the 
meeting  at  great  length,  developing  bis 
new  schemes  of  agitation.  He  proposes 
the  assembling  of  a  '*  Preservative  So- 
ciety fi»r  Ireland,"  to  consist  of  300  gen- 
tlemen from  the  various  counties  in  Ire- 
land, to  meet  on  a  certain  day  in  Dub- 
lin ;  and  their  title  to  meet  to  be  the 
banding  in  of  100/.  eacb^they  should 
have  a  treasurer  of  their  own,  and  have 
the  working  of  their  own  funds.  He 
also  threatens  the  impeachment  of  the 
Judges  of  the  Court  of  Queen's  Bench, 
and  of  her  Majesty's  Attorney- General 
in  Ireland. 

Sqfi.  6.  The  infant  Prince  was  christ- 
ened in  the  Queen'd  private  chapel  at 
Windsor  Castle,  by  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  assisted  by  the  Bishops  of 
Oxford  and  Norwich.  The  sponsors 
were  Prince  George  of  Cambridge,  re- 
presented by  his  father  the  Duke  of  Cam- 
bridge, his  Serene  Highness  the  Prince 
of  Leineogen,  represented  by  the  Duke 
of  Wellington,  and  her  Royal  Highness 
the  Duchess  of  Saxe  Coburg  and  Gotba, 
represented  by  her  Royal  Highness  the 
Diichesa  of  Kent.  The  Prince  received 
the  names  of  Alfred  Ernest  Albert. 
Her  Majesty  the  Queen  Dowager  and 
Prince  William  of  Prussia  were  also  pre- 
sent at  the  ceremony ;  which  whs  fol- 
lowed by  a  banquet  at  which  the  Earl  of 
Liverpool  presided  at  the  north  end  of 
the  table  as  Lord  Steward,  and  the  Earl 
Jermyn  at  the  other  end  as  Treasurer  of 
the  Household. 

Sept.  9.  Her  Mujesty  and  Prince  Al- 
bert, with  the  Princess  Royal,  left  Wind. 
MMT  Castle  for  a  visit  to  Scotland.  They 
embarked  Ht  Woolwich  nt  half-past  8  a  .  u« 
on  board  the  Royal  Victoria  and  Albert 
steam  ywbt,  commanded  by  Lord  Adol- 
phus  Fitzclarciice,  and  landed  at  Dun- 
dee at  half-past  8  a.  m.  on  Wednesday, 
Sept.  ll.  They  were  received  there 
under  a  triumphal  arch,  and  started  the 
same  dav  for  Blair  Athol,  the  castle  of 
Lord  Olenlyon,  where  they  have  since 
remained,  visiting  the  neighbouring  ice- 
nery. 

The  Gremunch  and  Sauth-BMttru 
BMwmfM. — Differences  which  have  long 

G vailed  between  these  compeniei  beT- 
been  brought  to  «  oonelt»ion,  e  treaty 


has  been  arranged  by  which  the  South- 
Eastern  Company  become  the  purchasers 
of  the    Greenwich  line.     I'lie  principal 
article  in  the  agreement  is — that  a  lease 
for  999  years  to  be  granted  by  the  Green- 
wich  Company   to    the    South. Eastern 
Company  of  the  Greenwich  Railway,  and 
all  the  works  and  conveniences  connected 
therewith,  at  a  rent  of  36,000/.  for  the 
first  year,  to  be  increased  at  the  rate  of 
1000/.  per  annum  until    it  shall  reach 
45,000/.  per  annum.     Such  lease  to  in- 
clude the  land  on  either  side  of  the  rail- 
way, varying  from  twenty- four  feet  and  a 
half,  more  or  less,  to  toirty  feet,  to  in- 
clude all  the  land  reserved  for  widening 
the   Greenwich  line.     The  lease  is  to 
commence  on  the  1st  of  January,  1845, 
the  terms  of  the  agreement  being  aubject 
to  the  approval  of  the  shareholders  of  the 
'two  companies  and  the  sanction  of  Par- 
Hament.     The  whole  of  the  engines,  car- 
riages, and  plant  to  be  taken  at  a  valua- 
tion, and  delivered  over  to  the  South- 
Eastem  Company  on  the  1st  of  January 
next  ill  good  working  order.     The  ex- 
cepted lands  and  buildings  may  be  pur- 
chased  for    20,000/.   before  the  25th  of 
September  1845,  or  |iarts  of  them  to  be 
bought  at  a  valution.     The  result  of  this 
arrangement  will  be  to  give  to  the  share- 
holders of  the  Greenwich  line  a  dividend 
of  about  nine  shillings  per  share  for  the 
first  ten    years,  and    after  that    period 
twelve  shillings  per  share.    The  old  pre- 
ference shares  wilt  still  receive  five  per 
cent. 

Metropolitan  Improvements -^Between 
Holbom  and  Oxford  Street  the  line  of 
a  new  street  is  in  a  state  of  considerable 
forwardness.  The  vaults  for  the  hooaca 
on  either  side  of  the  way  are  completed, 
and  the  width  of  the  thoroughfare  ia  now 
marked  out ;  through  the  \vhole  distance 
a  sewer  is  formed  about  fifteen  feet  below 
the  surface.  When  the  whole  length  ia 
finished  there  will  be  a  direct  communica- 
tion between  Holbom  and  Oxford  Street, 
avoiding  the  drcoitoas  way  by  St.  Gilea'a 
church.  While  digging  ground  for  the 
vault  on  the  site  which  was  formerly 
the  area  of  *'  the  Rookery,"  the  work- 
men met  with  some  curious  remaini. 
Outside  the  walls,  where  stood  the  hoe- 
pital  for  lepers,  was  found  the  root  of  a 
vine,  in  good  condition.  Several  pieces 
of  marble  slabs  were  also  taken  out  of 
the  ruins  of  the  above  hospital,  as  also  a 
marble  slab  with  the  following  inaeription 
on  it:— "Bttckeridge  Street,  16S8.'* 
This  street  was  built  shortly  after  the  fire 
of  London,  and  out  of  some  of  the  ma- 
terials publielysold  after  that  cahauty. 
A  qoantity  of  wood  excavated  here  (aooM 
of  which  ia  oak)  waediacovtred  tp  be  tn  a 
vhaired  itade. 


PROMOTIONS,  PREFERMENTS,  &;c. 

GaZitib  Pbouotiohb. 


tbj^™™  «,d  ™i  of  5S^*?n«-d  of  S:;:g:SsStSS;;iS^SSfpc^b-. 

poi.«Wil_Mipqo<l  ».  Jo^  MlMmT,  •»!.  oae      r„  ,^  PrIWhuil.  Ntnrtwld-oititoiir  R.  W— 


tlHistaMn'iBque. 

S^.  I.    Altnor  B^nKnids,  «q.  barrlL -. 

Uw,  to  b*  Registrar  of  HMropolIMn  BnlM- 
innuMt  Wm.  HoiUw,  oq.  d>U  mglnMr 
(PnAMor  of  ConuracHon  ud  ArcUUctDre 
■t  Kinf'i  ccdicp,  London),  ind  Junes  White 
HinlD«,  fa,  iRhltect  Mid  •nmnir,  to  be 
ttcOflcUl  Htftrta  of  MetnipoUUli  Bolld- 
b«(,  nndK  tke   Act  of  the  lot  Boaion  of 

St^Tii.  Hijor  H.  C.  rUwUnson.  C.B.  of 
Bonilwy  »niiT,  to  Kc«p«  the  Pmlan  order  of 
Uu  Lion  uhJ  Sun,  Bnt  cUs  <  ud  the  ordv 
of  the  Dooru^  empire,  tliirdcliu. 

Sal.  K.  Ud  Foot,  Miioc  A.  C.  Pole  to  be 
Uen)  .-Colonel ;  Cipt.  A.  0.  9edley  to  be  Ui- 
ler.  Ha  Pole. 

Naval  Pbouotions. 


■n.  H.  K,BKthaa,WileUanlV.  Uleor: 

lei.  W.  H.  Rouh.  New  Chorcli ' 

Stnisd,  p.  C.  Oloncutcnhire. 


/Hi. 

Whiten  Hin, 

Her.  J.  p!  r!  Bbepard.  Monkainod  P.C  Moun. 
R«T.  W.   Th«BpMMi,  OMcombe   V.   Iila  of 


BT.  J.  Wauon,  Helkir  P.C.  Dtrbv. 

B*.  T.  C.   Whltcbe^,    Holy  TrialtT  P.C 

Ruainte. 
Rev,  J.C.  WoodiToitethPut  P-CLinrpooL 
RCT.   H.   Waolkoabe,    UuntdnlsD    wtth 

Hlchneh  V.  Denn. 

CHAri-AlNI. 
Rn.  R.  a.  IMBeld,  to  H.  R.  H.  tha  Doka  «t 
CuDbridft. 


C.OtMT.O. 
A.  Polbnrr, 

IB^R.  B. 


MtfOtr  ntMHud  t»  Mrte  fa  PnHtmmt. 
LaHttMrt  (IfoMlh-John  T.  CURon,  fq. 

EcouBiAiTioAL  PBinxHiirr*. 
Iter.  W.  B.  BtonehooM,  to  the  Arcbdruonnr 

of  Slow.  ' 

Rot.  O.  N.  Barrow,  to  b< 

BriiloL 


to  be  SkomI  HuUraf 


Hn.  n.  innn,  m  ne  launr  OT  uw  unaM(n 

Ormouur  School. 
Rn.  J.  D.  Withentone,  M.A.  to  be  Hud 

Huter  of  the  HanaioDth  Qrvntnir  School. 
ReT.  HeurTdePoaBllier.  M.A       '     "     ■ 


BIRTHS. 

Jtlf  30.    In  Rilon-iq.  the  Hon.  Uta.  Daw- 

iwr,  >  mh. X.  The  wife  of  Ale*.  Cotton, 

esq.  of  HIldenhuD,  CUnhridn,  >  din. 

Jm.  4.    Hn.  John  FeU  Mstr,  of  Lo4- 

diwtoo  UilL  Adra. At  DoddenUl,  nr» 

ATlenbarT,   Iba  wife  of    Q.  Pifott,    esq. 


Q.  Pifott,    esq.   A 
>  Whllmare,  ■  dan. 


,  the  wife  of  Sir  K 


a  PDTtTTUD-sL,  tbe 


I.  At  CowsUp-lodEe,  Wrti 


^°A 


t  Bath,  the  wife  of  Richaml 

iwaraoi  eaq.  a  loa. At  TUDbiidfe-veDa. 

LadrTcisaiDantta,  a  un. 18.  Ai  Boorw 

noath,  tba  wUh  of  AlftM  CanalL  ma.  lar- 
fiM«r,adaa.— -Ol  lomte,  th*  iAHmm 


I  •  V 


•tl? 


'-\ 


1844.] 

IM^.    At 
DoofflM,  a 


Births,— Marrtages. 


421 


Bdinbvrf b.    Lidy    IDiiabeth 
In  HaUdn-ftreet,  Bd- 


gnTe-Mniare,  the  ConnteM  of  Docie,  a  dau.— - 
At  Genera,  the  wife  of  Sir  J.  C  Thorold,  Bart. 

a  ion. In  Upper  Harley-ttreet.  the  Hon. 

Hrt.  Petre,  a  dan. The  wife  of  J.  8.  Tre- 

lawny,  eeq.  M.  P.  a  son. At  Down.p]ace, 

Berka,  the  Bon.  Mn.  Fitzmaarice,  a  son. 

At  8warland-park»  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Conlson,  a 

son. At  Hampatead,  Mrs.  J.  Gomey  Hoare, 

a  son.~In  Belgrave-sq.  Lady  Cecilia  Des  Yceux, 
a  dan.— At  Gormanaton  Caftle,  the  Hon.  Mrs. 

T.  Preston,  a  dao. ^At  Kidderminster,  the 

Hon.  Mrs.  Clanfhton,  a  dan. At  Coptfold- 

hall.  Bases,  the  wife  of  J.  A.  Hardcastle,  esq. 
It  dan.— At  Richmond,  the  wife  of  J.  Dennis- 

toun,  esq.  M.P.  a  son^ ^Tbe  wife  of  the  Hev. 

B.  BauJng,  Vicar  of  Wellington,  Salop,  a  son 
and  heir.— —At  Kensington  Gore,  the  wife  of 

James  P.  Barlow,  esq.  a  dao. At  0ana-end, 

Herta.  the  wife  of  H.  B.  Sortees.  esq.  a  dan.— 
In  WUnpole-st.  the  wife  of  Dr.  Clendlnning,  a 

dan« ^At  Hale  Hall,  Cumberland,  the  wife 

of  Miles  Ponsonby.  esq.  a  son. At  Peterley- 

honse.  Bocks,  the  infe  of  Lt.-Col.  Alves,  a 

dan. In  Baton-sq.  the  wife  of  Capt.  Sir 

Thomas  Boorchier,  K.CB.  a  son.— — At  East 
Cowes  Pirk,  the  wife  of  G.  Byres  Brook,  esq.  a 
8on.-^At  Darsham  House,  Snifolk,  the  wife 
of  npederick  Newton  Dickenson,  esq.  of  Siston- 

ooort.  Oloocestersh.  a  dan. At  Upton  Coort* 

Hererardsh.  the  wife  of  William  Lane.  esq.  a 

son  and  heir. ^At  Belfest,  the  wife  of  Capt. 

Gladstone.  R.N.  M.P.  a  dan. At  Sonthsea, 

the  wife  of  Capt.  Chas.  Paget,  lUN.  a  son. 

At  St.  John's  Cottige,  Yarmonth,  I.  W.  the 
wife  of  Capt.  Graham  Hamond,  R.N.  a  dan. 

^At  Ostend,  the  wife  of  C.  J.  KemysTynte, 

esq.  a  dan. 
Stpi.  1.    At  Coton  House,  Warwicksh.  the 

Lady  Jane  Johnstone  Douglas,  a  dau. At 

Tissington  Hall,  Derbysh.  the  wife  of  William 

ntsHerbert,  esq.  a  son. 6.  At  Brighton, 

the  Lsdy  Harriet  B.  Hamilton,  a  son. 7.  In 

the  Isle  of  Man,  the  wife  of  Lieot.-Col.  Goldie 
Taobman,  Scots  Pusilier  Guards,  a  son.— 

Lady  Charlotte  Watson  T|Lylor,  a  dan. 

8.  At  Kintbury  ricarage,  Berks,  the  wife  of 
Jamas   Contts  Crawibrd,   esq.  of  Overton, 

Lanarkshire,  a  dau. la.  At  Brighton,  the 

wife  of  O.  B.  Byre.  esq.  of  Warrens,  Wilts, 

a  dan. 15.  At  Whitgill  Hall,  Goole,  Torkah. 

ftha  seat  of  Thos.  Ooulm,  esq.)  the  wife  of  Capi. 

ar  Jamea  Clail  Boas,  R.N.  a  son. ^ao.  At 

uownes,  the  wife  of  James  Wentworth  Bnller, 
OM|.adaa. 

MARRIAGES. 

June  11.  At  Ouildsileld,  Montgomeryshire, 
Thomas  Bdgworth,  esq.  of  Wrexham,  to  EUia- 
Jane,  only  child  of  James  Robarts,  esq.  of 
Trelydan  Hall,  near  Welshpool. 

».  At  Calcutta,  Capt.  R.  N.  Maclean,  and 
Grenadiers,  A.  D.  C.  to  the  Got.  Gen.  to  Flora* 
Anne,  Mest  dau.of  M^or-Gen.  W.  R.  Gilbert, 
late  of  Bseter. 

aa.  At  Bombay,  C  Morehead,  esq.  M.D. 
B.  I.  Co.'s  Service,  to  Harriett-Anne,  eldest 


of  the  Rev.  Archdeacon  Barnes. 

Jftfy  IS.  At  St.  John's,  Newfeundland.  Lieut.- 
Edmund  Heathcote,  sen.  of  H.M.8.  Earydice, 
third  son  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Heathcote,  of 
tte  New  Forest,  Hants,  to  Eliiabeth-Lncy, 
eldest  dau.  of  Lieut.-Col.  Law,  K.H.,  com- 
manding the  Royal  Newfoundland  Companies. 
as.  At  West  Ham,  Henry,  eldest  son  of  the 
late.  Thos  Gibson,  esq.  of  Newcastle,  toAiwi*. 
Catharine,  eldest  dau.  of  Thomas  Wf^ 
Messon,  esq.  ot  Stratford.  Essex,  and  II 

Salop^ M  Hampton,  Mr.  CochruM^ 

Baar-Admiral  Sir  Thomas  CoduaT'" 
■■Bdcp-iB-Ghief  on  the  East  ladift 


the  eldost  dau.  of  Rear-Admiral  Sir  G.  F.  Sey- 
mour, Commander-in-Chief  in  the  Pacific. 

34.  At  Bathwick,  Robert-Arthur,  son  of 
William  Kinglake,  esq.  of  Wilton  House, 
Taunton,  to  Harriett-Saiome,  only  child  of  the 
Rev.  Loftus  A.  ClifTe.  of  Osbome-place,  near 

Taunton. ^At  the  Spanish  Chapel,  and  at  St. 

Mary's,  Bryanstone-sq.  Signor  Oiovanni  Tas- 
sinari.  Officer  of  the^'  Garde  Noble  "  of  the 
Grand  Duke  of  Tuscany,  to  Maria-Amelia, 
only  dan.  of  the  Right  Hon.  Sir  Edward 
Thornton.  G.C.B.  of  wembury  House,  Devon. 

At  Chalfont  St.  Peter's,  Bucks,  William 

James,  esq.  Madras  Army,  to  Lucy,  only  child 

of  Ralph  Stevens,  esq.  of  Uxbridge. ^At 

Stonehouse,  Capt.  Thomas  Lemon,  ^yal  Ma- 
rines, to  Anne,  only  dau.  of  Wm.  Cowling. 

esq.  Royal  Marines. At  Littleham,  Richard 

Green,  esq.  of  Knighton,  Radnorsh.  to  Laura, 
dau.  of  the  late  R.  H.  King,  esq.  M.  D.  of 

MortUke. At  Watlington.  (&on,  John 

Fluie,  esq.  jun.  of  Shirburn  Lodge,  eldest  son 
of  John  Fane,  esq.  of  Wormsley,  to  Eleanor, 
second  dau.  of  Sir  Henry  Lamnert,  Bart,  of 
Aston  House,  in  the  same  county. 

as.  At  Brighton,  the  Rev.  Alfired  Spalding, 
B.A.  to  Caroline-Sarah,  fourth  dau.  of  the  Ism 
Bdw.  Hayley,  esq.  of  Kentish  Town.— At  Calne, 
Matthew-Henry,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Canon 
Marsh,  Chancellorof  Salisbury,  to  Elisa-Mary- 
Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  Mr.  Serjeant  Merewether, 

of  Castlefield,  WilU. At    Shiflhal.    David 

Haig,  esq.  of  Lochrin,  Edinburgh,  and  Gleno- 

E'l,  Forfershire,  to  Elisabeth,  fourui  dau.  of  the 
te  Rev.  John  liayes  Petit. ^At  St.  John's* 

the  Rev.  William  Tennant,  M.  A.  youngest  son 
of  the  late  Thomas  Tennant,  esq.  of  Leeds,  to 
Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  Thomas  Feethain.  esq.  of 

Mitbank-st.  Westminster. At  cnariton, 

Edward  Gylles  Crooke,  esq.  son  of  the  lata 
John  Crooke,  esq.  Finchiey,  Barrister,  to  Elixa« 
Victoria,  fourth  dau.  of  A.  C.  Rea,  esq.  R.M. 

of  Blackheath  Park. At  Brighton,  the  Rev. 

Septimus  Fairies,  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb. 
chaplain  to  the  English  residents  at  Bonn,  to 
Emma-Jane,  youngest  dau.  of  Thomas  Tourle, 

esq. ^At  Christ  Church,  St.  Marylebonc, 

Edward  Norton,  esq.  surgeon,  of  Upper  Baker* 
St.  and  Gloucester-pl.  to  Augusta,  youngeat 
dau.  of  the  late  Jonn  Pearson,  esq.  of  the 
loner  Temple  and  Croom's  Hill,  Greenwich. 

At  Leamington  Prior's,  the  Rev.  Jamea 

Kni^t  Jennings,  to  Louisa,  third  dan.  of  the 
late  Richard  Paul  Sayer,  esq. 

ae.  At  Saint  Jameses,  Piccadflly,  C  W. 
Stokes,  esq.  late  of  Zacatecaa,  Mfexico,  to 
Catharine-Oiaabeth,  eldest  dau.  of  the  lata 
Robert  Colmer,  esq.  of  Lincoln's-inn,  and  the 
Rookery,  YoxfordiSuifolk. 

37.  At  Wandsworth,  the  Rev.  Edward  Bur- 
ridge,  of  Sidmouth,  Devon,  son  of  the  Rev. 
William  Bunidge,  of  Bradford.  Somerset,  to 
Isaline.  youngest  dau.  of  Vickria  Pryor,  esq. 

of  Baldock,  Herto. James  Stanslleld,  Jun« 

esq.  of  the  Inner  Temple,  to  Caroline,  second 
dao.  of  W.  H.  Ashurst.  esq.  of  Muswell  HilL 
^At  St.  Pancras.  D.  Pugsley,  esq.  to  Mary- 
Anne,  only  dau.  of  John  Darhngton,  esq. 

a9.  At  Eckington,  the  Hon.  Wellington 
Henry  Stapleton  Cotton,  only  son  of  the 
Viscount  Combermere,  to  Susan-Alice,  eldest 
dau.  of  8ir  George  Sitwell,  Bart,  of  RcnishaWf 

Derbyshire. At  Homington,  Wm.-WadhaflBp 

son  of  the  late  Capt.  Young,  to  Mary,  eldest 
dau.  of  Wm.  Andrews,  esq.  of  Salisbury. 

SO.  At  Bishop's  Waltham,  HanU,  Capt. 
Charles  Richards.  R.N.  C.B.  late  of  H.  M.  S. 
to  Matilda-Mary,  eldeht  dan.  ot 
XLJPq.  of  Bishop's  Waltham.— 
Krvitt  Rotherham, Jun. 
t  dan.  of  the  late  John 
Booae,  near  Coventry. 
Vied.  Mutx,  esq. 


422 


Marriages. 


[Oct. 


eMest  son  of  G.  F.  Mantz,  esq.  M.P.  Ley  Hall, 
Staffbrclshire,  to  Marianne- Lydia,  third  dau. 
of  the  late  William  Richardson,  esq.  of  Cal- 
cutta.  At  Marylebonc,    tlie  Rev.  Edward 

Healey  Thompson,  M.A.  Curate  of  St.  James's, 
Westminster,  eldest  son  of  Rohert  Thompson, 
esq.  of  Salisbury,  late  of  Bath,  to  Harriet- 
Diana,  youngest  dao.  of  the  late  nicolson  Cal- 
vert, esq.  M.P. At  Biufield,  Capt.  Mitchell, 

of  the  Oren.  Guards,  to  Sarah,  only  dau.  of  the 

late  H.  D.  Lowndes,  esq. At   Tavistock, 

Devon,  R.  J.  S.  Robins,  esa.  of  Tavistock,  to 
Slixa-Ann,  second  dau.  of  C.  V.  Bridgman, 

esq. ^Tbe  Rev.  Richard    Keats,    Vicar  of 

Northfleet,  Kent,  to  Matilda-Eliza>Lonisa, 
only  dau.  of  Major  Kelly,  Commander  of  Til- 

bary  Fort. At  St.  James's,  Piccadilly,  Capt. 

David  Price,  R.N.  of  Lanthew,  co.  Brecon,  to 
Elizabeth,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  John  Taylor, 

esq.  Maize-hill,  Greenwich. At  Marylebone, 

the  Rev.  Robert  Abercrombie  Denton,  M.A. , 
Rector  of  Stower  Provost,  Dorset,  to  Mary- 
Frances-Matilda,  fourth  dan.  of  the  late  George 
Wrourhton,  esq.  of  Adwicke-hall,  Yorkshire. 

At  Stooehouse,  Adolphus  Georre  Eyde, 

esq.  R.N.  to  Elizabeth,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 

Lieut.  Thomas  Eyre,  R.  N. At  St.  James's, 

Edward  Beckett,  esq.  of  Hunter-st.  Bruns- 
wick>sq.  to  Caroline,  third  dau.  of  Mr.  Evans, 

of  Pall  Mall. At  Rotherhithe,  Capt.  John 

FBok,  of  Dublin,  to  Susan-Maria,    dau.   of 

William  Hartree,  esq.  of  Rotherhithe. ^At 

Edinburgh,  WiUiam  James  Tnrquand,  esq. 
Bombay  Civil  Service,  son  of  the  late  W. 
Tnrquand.  esq.  B.C.S.  to  Anne,  eldest  dao.  of 
the  late  Lient..Col.  James  Michael,  H.EI.C.S. 

^At  Erinrton,  Leicestersh.  Alfred  Whitby. 

esq.  of  WarBleton  Priory,  to  Anne,  onlychiid 
of  the  late  Edward  Gregory,  gent,  of  Thurl- 
aston,  Leicestersh. —  At  Chester,  the  Rev. 
TThomas  Hostcr  Chamberlain,  Rector  of  Rof- 
ford,  Lancash.  to  Mary-EUzabeth-Christian, 
only  dau.  of  the  Rev.  James  Slade,  Canon  of 

Chester,  and  Vicar  of  Boiton-le-Moors. At 

Piddlehinton,  Dorset,  the  Rev.T.  Rolsey  Mas- 
kew.  B.A.  of  Sidney  Sussex  Coll.  Cambridge, 
to  Emily,  fourth  dan.  of  John  Baverstock 
Knight,  eaq.  of  West  Lodge,  near  Dorchester. 

ai.  At  Trentham,  George  John  Marquess 
of  Lorn,  onlv  son  of  the  Duke  of  Argyll, 
to  Lady  BUzabetb-Georgiana-Leveaon-Gower, 

eldest  dan.  of  the  Duke  of  Sutherland. At 

Uverydole.  near  Exeter,  the  Rev.  Joseph 
Corfe,  M.A.  one  of  the  Priest  Vicars  of  Exeter 
Cathedral,  and  Rector  of  St.  Petrock,  in  that 
city,  to  Fnmces-Marv,  dau.  of  Pitman  Jones, 

esq.  of  Saint  Blovs,  in  Heavitree. ^At  Man- 

ceter,  Warwickan.  Q.  J.  Sale,  esq.  of  Ather- 
stone,  to  Charlotte,  dau.  of  the  late  Mr.  Bur- 
rows Kirby,  of  Bodicote,  Oxfordshire. 

Lateijt.  At  St.  George's,  Uanover-sq.  John 
Henry  Blagrave.  esq.  only  son  of  Anthony 
Blagrave,  esq.  of  Bingham^s  Melcombe,  Dor- 
set, to  Sarah,  third  dao.  of  the  late  Richard 
Boyers,  esq.  of  Greenwood,  near  Dublin,  and 
niece  to  Lord  and  Ljidy  Talbot  de  Malahide. 
'•'-At  Cheltenham,  George  R.  L.  Annesley, 
Lieut,  io  the  Austrian  Cavalry,  son  of  the  late 
Hon.  Robert  Annesley,  and  nephew  of  the  late 
Sari  Annesley,  to  MiUtcent,  dan.  of  the  late 
Miles  Mundy  French,  esq.  of  the  co.  Derby, 

and  Jersey  villa,  Cheltenham. ^At  Dover, 

Godflrey  wUls,  esq.  co.  Roscommon,  to  Eliza- 
beth-Ldney,  second  dao.  of  WiUiam  Robert 
WtUa,  esq.  of  Suffolk  House,  Cheltenham,  and 
Castlerea.  co.  Roscommon^ In  Hanover- 

9.  Lord  John  Chichester,  son  of  the  Marquess 
Donegal,  to  Caroiine,  dau.  of  H.  Bevan. 
caq. 

Ait0, 1.  At  Doncaster,  Thomas  Cree,  Jun. 
caq.  ot  Qray*s4on,to  Maria^Biahop,  youngest 

dao.  of  G.  C  Walker,  esq. At  Cbebca. 

James,  eldest  mm  of  Jaisee  Turner,  esq.  or 


Beckenham,  Kent,  to  Drucitta,  second  dan.  of 
John  Maynard,  esq.  Maynard-pl.  King'a-road, 

Chelsea. At  Ealing,  Charies  O'Reilly,  esq. 

of  Naples,  to  Emily,  second  dau.  of  the  late 
John  Winter,  esq.  of  Heathfield  Lodge,  Acton. 

At  Worth,  Sussex,  Peter  Laurie,  esq.  of 

Lincoln's-inn,  Barrister-at-Law,  to  Fanny, 
third  dau.  of  Henry  Hulbert,  esq.  of  Eaton- 
sq.  and  Ronfant,  Sussex. ^At  Wath,  York- 
shire, the  Rev.  WiUiam  Senior  Salman,  M.A. 
Vicar  of  Elmton,  Derbyshire,  and  Perpetual 
Curate  of  Shire  Oaks,  Notts,  to  Charlotte, 

dau.  of  James  Simpson,  esq.  |of  Wath At 

Camberwell,  Alexander,  youngest  son  of  Saml. 
Bevington,  esq.  of  Wandsworth  Common,  to 
Louisa,  second  dau.  of  Abraham  de  Home, 

esg.  of  Homerton. ^At    Plymouth.    Henry 

William  Dickinson,  esq.  solicitor,  Poole,  to 
Margaretta-Eliza-Courtenay,  fourth  dau.  of  the 
late  John  ScobeU,  esq.  of  HolyweU  House, 

Tavistock. ^At  WestCpwes,  the  Rev.  Henry 

Charles  Knight,  M.A.  of  Bognor,  Sussex,  only 
son  of  the  late  Hon.  F.  Knight,  of  Bognor 
Lodge,  and  grandson  of  Charles,  eighth  Lord 
Dormer,  to  Katherioe-Paterson,  dan.  of  the 
late  T.  A.  Minchin,  esq.  of  the  Grove,  Hants. 

At  Trinity  Churcn,  Marylebone,  Henry 

Sogden.  esq.  second  surviving  son  of  the  Lord 
Cliancellor  of  Ireland,  to  Marianne,  only  sur- 
viving dau.  of  the  late  Colonel  Cookson,  of 

Neasharo  Hall,  Durham. At  Northenden, 

Cheshire,  the  Rev.  Charles  Michael  Turner, 
eldest  son  of  Major-Gen. Turner,  Commanding 
the  Southern  District,  Ireland,  to  Louisa, 
fourth  dau.  of  the  Ute  Thomas  William  Tat- 

ton,  esq.  of  Withenshaw  Hall^  Cheshire. At 

St.  James's,  Piccadilly,  William  Baker,  esq. 
Capt.  9th  Bengal  Cavalry,  to  Frances- Konpell, 
eldest  dau.  of  James  Alexander  Simpson,  esq. 

of  Queen-square. At  Exeter,  John  George 

Smith,  esq.  late  of  Manor  House,  Crediton,  to 
Emma,  widow  of  the  late  Francis  Brewin,jun. 
eaq.  and  youngest  dau.  of  the  Rev.  John  Savill, 

late  of  Colchester. At  Cheltenham,  John 

Walcot,  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  C  Walcot,  of 
Bitterley  Court,  Salop,  to  Mary-Sophia-Bam- 
fylde- Foster,  second  dau.  of  SirThos.  FhUlipps, 
Bart,  of  Middle  HUl.  Worcestershire. 

a.  At  Hampstead,  Capt.  Puget,  R.N.  to 
Mary-Lanrents,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
Rev.  Philip  Godfrey.  Rector  of  Ayot  St.  Law- 

rence,  and  of  Aston.  Herts. At  Greenwich. 

Capt.  Timothy  Smith.  H.C.S.,  to  Mary,  second 
dau.  of  George  RandeU,  esq.  of  Groom's  HilL 

Blackheath. At  St.   Marylebone,   WiUiam 

Henry  Turner,  esq.  inn.  to  Augusta,  only  dao. 
of  the  late  Henry  Holden  Tomer,  esq.  of  St. 

John's  Wood At  St.  Pancras,  New-road, 

Edward  Graham,  eaq.  second  son  of  Sir  Robt. 
Graham^  Bart,  of  Eak,  Cumberland,  to  Ade- 
laide-Elizabeth, youogest  dau.  of  the  late  Jaa. 
Dillon  Tulty,esq.  M.D.  Deputy  InspectorGen. 
of  Hospitals  at  Jamaica. 

5.  At  Tours,  in  France,  Monsieur  Alfred 
Jameron,  to  Louisa-Cecilia,  only  dau.  of  the 

late  Hon.  and  Rev.  Tliomas  Alfred  Harris. 

At  Watermillock,  Cumberland,  the  Rev.  J. 
Tinkler,  B.D.  Senior  Fellow  and  Tutor  of  Cor- 

Es  Christi  Coll.  Cambridge,  and  Rector  of 
ndbeach,  Cambridgesh.  to  Rebecca,  youngest 
dan.  of  the  Rev.  John  Hutchinson,  of  Horrock 
Wood,  I'llawater. 

6.  At  Tormoham.  R.  Henry  Bartlett,  esiq. 
of  Pryor  House,  WelUngton,  to  Emily- Emma- 
Carpenter,  second  dau.  of  the  Ute  John  Price 

Warington,  esq.  of  Hayes,  Middlesex. At 

Isteworth,  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Beniamin 
Elam,  esq.  of  Leicester-sq.  to  Elizabeth-Dixon, 
youngest  dalt.  of  Charles  H.  Stanbrongh,  esq. 

oflsleworth At  Abbertoo,  Charles  Henry 

Hawkins,  esq.,  second  son  of  the  late  Wtt 
Hawkins,  esq.  of  Colchester,  to  Sarah-Jane^ 
eldest  dau.  or  John  Bawtree,  esq.  of  Abber* 


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ton. At  Caveraliain,  ThomM  Fraser  Sande« 

nuuny  esq.  Ut«  Cftpt.  73d  Re^.  to  Amelia, 
fburth  dau.  of  Wilnain  Crawshayi  esq.  of  Ca- 
Tersham  Park,  Oxon,  and  Cyfartbfa  Castle, 

Olamomnsh. At  King's  Norton,  the  Rev. 

Patrick  M.  Smjrthe,  yon  nicest  son  of  the  late 
Hon.  David  Smythe,  of  Methven,  one  of  the 
Senators  of  the  College  of  Justice  in  Scotland, 
to  Anne-Oertmde,  second  dan.  of  the  late  R. 
K.  R.  Myaors,  esq.  of  Wetheroak  Hill,  Wore. 

At  Colton,  Major  James  Johnston,  late 

44th  Regt.  to  Anne,  eldest  dan.  of  the  late 

Joseph  Penny,  est).  Bridgefteld,  Lancash. 

At  the  Catholic  Chapel,  Spantsh-pl.,  and  after- 
wards at  St.  Pancras  Church,  John  Crowch, 
eldest  son  of  John  Christopher,  esq.  of  Olon- 
cester-place,  Portman-sqiiare,  to  Laura,  third 
dau.  of  the  late  Charles  Cnerton,  esq.  of  Bed- 

fordTOw. At  Belgrave,  Leicesterah.,  John 

Howctttt.  esq.  of  Leicester,  to  Susan,  second 
dan.  of  the  late  John  Higginson,  gent. 

7.  At  Lambeth  Palace,  Lord  Claude  Hamil- 
ton, M.  P.  brother  to  the  Marquess  of  Aber- 
corn,  to  Elizabeth-Emma,  second  dau.  of 
Rear-Adm.  the  Hon.  Granville  Leveson  Proby. 

At  Ainstable.  Cumberland,  George  Henry 

Carleton  Sunderland,  esq.  R.  N.  to  Marvaret, 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Lieut..Col.  Story,  Royal 

Art. At  Sproughton,  Suffolk,  the  Rev.  Wm. 

Wallace,  Rector  of  Thorpe  Abbat's,  Norfolk, 
to  Rosetta,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late  John 

JosselyiK  esq.  or  Sproughton. At  Hutton 

Manse,  uavid  Bogue,  esq.  Publisher,  of  Fleet- 
st.  to  Alicia,  second  dau.  of  the  Rev.  John 
Edgar,  Minister  of  Hutton. At  St.  Pan- 
cras new  Church,  W.  Thome,  esq.  of  Con- 
naught-Terr.  Edgeware-road,  late  of  Barn- 
staple, to  Mary,  relict  of  Robert  Summers, 

esq.  H.K.I.C.S. At  CUimes,  Wra.  Coker 

Godson,  esq.  of  Harrington,  esq.  nephew  of 
Rich.  Godson,esq.  M.P.  and  grandson  of  the  late 
Robert  Coker,  esq.  of  Mappowder.  Dorset,  to 
Millicent-Slizabetn-Emma,  youngest  dan.  of 
the  Rev.  Thomas  Davies,  of  the  TythiugH, 
Worcester,  and  grand-dau.  of  the  late  R. 
Coker,  esq.  of  Mappowder,  Dorset. 

8.  At  Plymouth,  William  Augustus  Byrne, 
esq.  surgeon,  of  London,  son  of  J.  F.  Byrne, 
esq.  formerly  at  Scots  Fusilier  Guards,  and 
grand-nephew  of  the  late  Lord  Crawford  and 
Lindsay,  to  Elisabeth-Anna-Maria,  dan.  of  the 

late  Comm.  J.  Yule.  R.N. At  St.  George's, 

Hanover-sq.  Thomas  Hartshorne,  esq.  of  Silk- 
more  House,  Stafford,  to  Susanna,  widow  of 

John  Nash,  esq.  of  Rose  Hill,  Worcester. 

At  Gamberweli,  John  Woollett,  es4i.  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  to  Amelia- Vaughan,  only  dau. 
of  James  Jones,  esq.  of  Park-st. At  Wor- 
cester, Charles,  youngest  son  of  the  late  Thos. 
Evans,  esq.  of  Hereford,  and  Secretary  to  his 
Lordship,  to  Henrietta,  youngest  dau.  of  Wni. 
Corles,  esq.  of  the  Collm  Precincts,  Worces- 
ter.  At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sq.  lliomas 

Hayley.  esq.  of  the  Hon.Ea.it  India  Co.'s  Serv. 
to  Bertlia-Elixa,  dau.  of  Robert  Kirby,  esq.  of 
Cambridge-terr.  Hyde  Park. — Vincent  Baron 
de  Tuyll,  Chamberlain  to  the  King  of  the 
Netherlands,  to  Charlotte-Henrietta,  second 
dau.  of  the  late  John  Mansfield,  esq.  and 
grand-dau.  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  James  Mans- 
field.  ^The  Rev.  W.  Ganiton  Mills,  son  of 

the  Rev.  W.  Mills.  Rector  of  Sltellingford, 
Berks,  to  Maria,  elnest  dau.  of  Robert  Henry 
Hurst,  esq.  M.P.  of  Horsham  l^irk,  Sussex. 

Frederick  L.  Slous,  esq.  of  Crescent-pl. 

Mornington-cres.  to  Elizabeth-Russell,  eldest 
dan.  of  John  Clippertoii,  esq.  of  Bedford-row. 

At  Totteridge,  James  Peard  I^y,  esq.  of 

Cumberland,  eldest  son  of  Jas.  Smith  J^y,  esq. 
of  Durrant  House,  Devon,  to  Louisa  S.  I'ulk. 
second  ilau.  of  Charles  Augustus  Tulk,  tm,  of 
Totteridge  Park,  Herts,  anil  Dnke-st.  West- 
minster.  At  St.  George'.i,  Bloomsbury, 


George  Archibald  Lcftcfa,  Boyal  Eng.  fourth 
son  of  Thomas  Leach,  esq.  or  RosMU-aq.  to 
Emily-Leigh,  eldest  dau.  of  Edward  Ldgh 
Pembertoo,  esq. At  Hadham,  Herts,  Ed- 
mund Sexten  Fery  Calvert,  esq.  second  son  of 
the  late  Nicholson  Calvert,  esq.  M.P.  of  Uuna- 
don  House,  Herts,  to  Elizabeth,  only  dau.  of 

Sir  John  Campbell,  K.C.T.S. ^At  Kensinr- 

ton,  Thomas  Fraser  Barclay,  esq.  of  the  Mkl- 
dle  Temple,  and  Wobnm-pl.  Ruasell-sn.  to 
Lncy^  dau.  of  William  Brnce,  esq.  M.l).  of 

Kensington. At  Paddington,  Jonn  Borrer, 

esq.  of  Brighton,  eldest  son  of  John  Borrer,  esq. 
banker,  ofPortsiade,  Sussex,  to  Amelia-Daven* 
port,  only  surviving  dau.  of  Rowland  Yallop, 
esq.  of  OxfonUterr.  Hyde  Park. At  Whit- 
church, Hants,  Major  Hadfield,  Madras  Army, 
to  Marianne- Atkins,  niece  of  George  Twynam, 

esq.  of  Whitchurch. At  Canterbury,  Wm. 

Augustus  Guy*  M.D.  to  Georgina-Lucindiu 
second  dau.  of  Maior  Frederick  Wright,  Royal 

Art. ^At  Aller,  somerset,  Henry  Blanahard, 

jun.  esq.  of  Lombard-st.  to  Miriam,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  James  Hyde,  esq.  of  Alter. 

9.  At  Birmingham,  Frederick  Giles,  esq.  of 
theOaklands,  uandsworth,  to  Rose,  second 
dau.  of  Thomas  Pemberton,  esq.  of  Waratone 
House,  near  Birmingham. At  St.  Marga- 
ret's, Westminster,  the  Rev.  Villiers  Henry 
Plantagenet  Somerset,  Rector  of  Honiton,  son 
of  the  late  Lord  Cliarles  Henry  Somerset,  to 
Frances-Dorothea,  eldest  dau.  of  John  Henry 
Ley,  esq.  of  Trehill. 

10.  At  Edinburgh,  Mr.  Charles  James 
Scott,  of  London,  to  Elizabeth,  eldest  dan.  of 
James  Scott,  M.D.  R.N.  late  of  the  Roy.  Naval 

Hospital,  Haslar. At    Hertford,  Toogood 

Coward,  esq.  ot  Shaldon,  to  Julia*Ayshrord, 

widow  of  Dr.  Barr)*,  of  Torquay. ^At  Mil- 

ton-nezt-Gravesend,  Major  James  Agnew, 
Colonial  {Secretary,  Dominica,  to  Helen-Caro- 
line, third  dau.  of  Henry  Brandon,  esq.  of 

Gravesend. At  Dover,  David  Davies,  esq.  of 

Lower  Belgrav»-st.  Eaton-sq.  to  Mary,  eldest 

dau.  of  James  Capel,  esq.  of  Fitzroy-eq. ^At 

Broadwater,  Sussex,  Henry,  third  son  of  John 
James,  Secondary  of  London,  and  of  Worthinr* 
esq.  to  Charlotte-Marriott,  second  dan.  of  tfie 

late  Tliomas  F.  Ranee,  esq. At  Sholden, 

Kent,  Thomas  Baker  May,  esq.  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  Barristerat-Law,  to  Nancy-Eliza* 
Ann,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  John  Banks,  esq. 
of  Hailing,  Kent,  and  grand*dau.  of  the  late 
Sir  Edward  Banka. 

la.  At  Paris.  Edward  John  Woollett,  esq. 
of  Rouen,  to  Marianne,  aecond  dau.  of  John 

Arthur,  esq.  late  of  Vernon.  France. ^At 

Hull,  Thomas  Wood,  esq.  of  Chelsea,  to  Sanh. 
second  dau.  of  Henry  Blnndell,  esq.  of  Hull 
and  London. 

13.  At  Chelsea,  the  Rev.  James  O'Brieo, 
Domestic  Chaplain  to  Lord  Cottenham,  to 
Octavia,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  diaries 
Hopkinson,  esq.  of  Cadogan-pl.  and  Regent- 
St.  and  of  Wotton,  Gtoucestersh. At  Bush- 
berry,  the  Rev.  Robert  Corbett,  third  son  of 
IVedale  Corbett.  esq.  of  Tettenhall,  to  Maria- 
Simmonds,  youngest  dau.  of  John  Pooutney, 
esq.  of  liow  Hill,  Staffordshire. At  Horn- 
sea, Yorksh.  Henry  James  Perry,  esq.  Fellow 
of  Jesus  Coll.  Cambridge, and  Pnncipal  Secre- 
tary to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  to  Eliza- Agnes, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Joshua  Robinson, 

esq. At  Greenwich,  Andrew  Murray,  esq. 

of  Woolwich,  second  son  of  Andrew  Murray, 
esq.  of  Mnrrayshall,  Perthshire,  to  Marianna- 
Paimer,  dau.  of  Henry  Francis,  esq.  uf  Maze 

Hill,  Greenwich. At  Northborough,  North- 

amptonah.  Grainger  Lawrence  Towers,  esq.  of 
St.  John's  Coll.  Cambridge,  to  Eliza,  second 

dau.  of  Mr.  W.  Clark,  of^Nortbboroort. 

At  Hadleigb,  Richard  Newman,  esq.  <^  Had- 
leigh,  eldest  son  of  Richard  Newman,  esq.  of 


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the  Priory,  Keney,  to  SUxabeth,  eldest  du. 
of  Henry  Offord,  esq.  of  the  Hall,  Hadleirh. 

At  Trinity  Church,  Regent'S'park.  FTanae* 

Vere,  second  son  of  B.  V.  Holloway,  esq. 
Bnsham.  Oxon,  to  Jnlia^Jefford,  second  dan.  of 
Mr.  O.  C.  Davy,  Maida  HUl,  Paddington,  and 

late  of  Old.  NorthaiD]itonsh. At  Greenwich. 

Andrew  Murray,  esq.  of  Woolwich,  second 
son  of  Andrew  Murray,  esq.  of  Mnrrayshall, 
^rthsh.,  to  Marianna-Palmer,  dau.  of  Henry 

Francis,  esq.  of  Mase-hill. At  West  Derby, 

Richard  Potter,  esq.  of  the  Middle  Temple. 
Barrister-at-lAw.  only  son  of  the  late  Richard 
Potter,  esq.  of  Manchestei*,  to  I^wrendna, 
only  dau.  or  Lawrence  Heyworth,  esq.  of  Yew 

Tree,  near  Liverpool. At  Paddin|^on,Tbos., 

8on  of  James  Gox,  esq.  of  Brosd-freen*place, 
Surrey,  to  Frances-Maria,  dau.  of  the  late 
Edward  Rlshton,  esq.  of  Eiswick  Lodn  and 

Preston,  Lancashire. At  Wootton  Wawen, 

Warwicksh.  Aris  Henry  Nourse^  esq.  of  Bir- 
minrham,  to  Henrietta*Cliarlotte,  dau.  of  the 
Rer.  Poyntf  Stuart  Ward,  of  Heniey-in-Arden. 
-^-At  Bushberry,  the  ReT.  Robert  Gorbett, 
third  son  of  Uvedale  Corbett,  esq.  of  Tetten- 
hall,  Bt^rdsh.  to  Maria-Simmonds,  voungest 
dan.  of  John  Pountney.  esq.  of  Low  Hill. 

14.  At  Street  ham,  Surrey,  John  Garratt, 
esq.of  Bishop's  Lk>art,  Devon,  to  Sarah-D'Ovly, 
youngest  dan.  of  the  late  Christopher  Aplin, 

esq.  of  Atterbury,  Oxon. At  Greenwich, 

Edwin  Morton  Abbott,  esq.  of  Bromley,  Mid- 
dlesex, to  Elizabeth-Georruia,  dau.  'of  Geddea 

Simpson,  esq. ^At  St.  Mary's,  Marylebone. 

Mi^or  Iniffo  Jones,  Prince  Albert's  Hussars, 
to  Anne-Maria,  dau.  of  Joseph  Neeld,  esq. 

M.P.  of  Orittleton    House,    Wills. ^At 

PourhiU,  Henry  Robson  Collinr,  esq.  solicitor, 
Okehampton.  to  Elizabeth-Caroline,  eldest  dan. 
of  the  late  Capt.  John  Williams,  R.N.-^-At 
Marylebone,  Lewis  Upton,  esq.  of  Glyde  Court, 
CO.  Louth,  late  9th  Lancers,  to  Isabella^ 
Georrina,  only  child  of  the  late  William  Henry 

Feilde,  esq.  of  Netherfield  House,  Herte. 

At  Nice,  the  Comte  Theobald  de  llegnauld  de 
Parcien,  only  son  of  the  Marquess  de  Parcien, 
to  Janetto-Sarah,  dau.  of  the  late  Capt.  Nagle 
Lock,  RN.  and  granddan.  of  the  late  Adm. 

Lock,  of  Uaylanifi,  L  W. At  St.  Pancru, 

Mr.  Dngald  B.  Cameron,  of  Buckingham 
Chambers,  Adelphi,  to  Maria-Rosetta,  second 
dau.  of  Abraham  Cooper,  esq.  R.A.  of  New 
Milmaa-street. At  Christ  Church,  Maryle- 
bone, Edward  William  Cox,  esq.  of  the  Middle 
Temple,  Barrister-at-lAW,  to  Rosalinda-Alicia, 
dau.  of  John  S.  M.  Fonblanque,  esq.  of  Hamil- 

ton-terr.  St.  John's  Wood. At   Lingfleld, 

Surray*  Lieut..Col.  J.  T.  Leslie,  C.B.  Bombay 
Art.  to  Oiroline,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
Edward  Cranston,  esq.  of  East  Court,  Sussex. 

—At  St.  Martin's-in-the-Flelds.  Christopher 
Francis  Holmes,  esq.  Capt.  in  the  Army,  to 
Anne-Aniss,  second  dau.  of  Mr.  Harding,  of 
Bralntree,  Essex.. At  St.  Mary's.  Bryanston- 

51.  Robert  Murray  Nott,  esq.  Mth  Bengal 
at.  Inf.  second  surviving  son  of  Mi^or-Gen. 
Sir  W.  Nott.  O.C.B.  to  Emily,  third  dan.  of  the 
late  John  MMntosh,  esq.  of  Upper  Berkeley-st. 
Portman-sq.  and  of  WiUiaBofleld,  Portobello, 

Scotland. At  Liverpool,  John,  son  of  J.  B. 

Brancker,  esq.  of  that  town,  to  Mary,  eldest 
dau.  of  James  Bateson,  esq.  of  Ht.  George's 

Hill,  Everton At  Ealinr,  Alfred  Von  Lang, 

third  son  of  Dr.  Lang,  of  Bedford-sq.  to  Elite, 
second  dau.  of  the  late  John  Vernon,  esq. 

15.  At  Plymouth,  Herbert  Fillis,  esq.  of 
Norley  House,  Devon,  to  Sarali-Dorothea,  dau. 
of  the  late  Thomas  King,  esq.  of  the  Manor 

House,  North  Huish. At  Reading,  the  Rev. 

A.  F.  Smith,  to  Emma,  second  dau.  of  the  Ute 

Harry  Harmood,  esq. At    Great  Ness, 

8ak>p,  the  Rev.  Cbtrlet  Orlando  Ktnyon,  ion 

11 


of  the  Hon.  Thomas  KenyoDf  of  Pradoe,  to 
Matilda-Eloisa,  only  dan.  of  the  Rev.  Henry 

Calveley  Cotton,  Vicar  of  Great  Ness. At 

Hampton,  Gspt.  Wentworth  Bayly,  Madns 
Grenadiers,  eldest  son  of  the  late  wentworth 
Bayly,  esq.  of  Weston-hall,  Suflblk,  to  Harriet, 
third  dau.  of  the  late  Sir  Ambrose  Hardlnge 
Oiflkrd,  Chief  Justice  of  Ceylon.— —At  ClaD- 
ham,  George  B.  Leftoy,  esq.  of  Piccadilly,  to 
Charlotte,  second  dan.  of  the  late  Edward 

Dolman,  esq.  of  Clapham  Common. ^Thoe. 

Leach,  lun.  esq.  of  the  Middle  Temple,  Bar- 
risterntt-UkW,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Leach« 
esq.  of  Rnsaell-sq.  and  nephew  of  the  late 
Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Leach.  Master  of  the 
Bolls,  to  Sarah,  only  Burviring  dau.  of  the  late 
John  Green,  esq.  of  St.  JohiPs,  BedftmL— 
At  Colli ngbourne,  James  Shot  er,  esq.  of  Klnt- 
bury,  Berks,  to  Susan,  youngest  dan.  of  the 
Rev.  H.  Wilson,  Rector  of  Coillogbonme  Dii- 

cis,  Wilts. ^At  St.  Mary's,  Pad<flngton,  Jaa. 

Woodhouse,  esq.  to  Eminr-Buphemia,  dao.  of 

J.   Hopper,  esq. At  Blairoow,  Redcastia, 

William  Murray,  esq.  Mains  or  Kllcoy,  to 
Jane,  youngest  dau.  of  Alexander  Mackenile, 

esq.  late  of  Kearnsary. At   dppenham 

House,  Bucks,  Joseph  John  Geary  Choimonde- 
ley,  only  son  of  Joseph  Cholmondeloy,  eeq.  of 
Nottingham-pl.  Regent's  Park,  and  witweB* 
Bucks,  to  I^y  Page  Turner,  of  Cippenham 

House. At  the  Isle  of  Wight,  Alexander 

Oswald,  esq.  M.P.  son  of  the  late  Richard 
Alexander  Oswald,  esq.  and  nephew  of  James 
Oswald,  esq.  of  Auchincmlve,  M.P.  to  Lady 
Louisa  Johnstone,  widow  of  Sir  Frederic 
Johnstone,  Bart,  of  Westorhall,  and  only  dan. 

of  the  late  Earl  of  Craven. At  Reading, 

the  Rev.  Hart  Smith,  late  Curate  of  St.  Mary^s 
Episcopal  Chapel  in  that  town,  to  Rmina, 
second  dau.  of  the  late  Harry  Harmood,  esq. 

17.  At  Kennington,  Mr.  Henry  Cornfoot 
Chees Wright,  to  Eliza- Mary,  second  dan.  of 

James   woolner,  esq.  of  Kennington. ^At 

Bumeston,  the  Earl  of  Mulgrave  to  Miss 
Laura  Russell,  niece  of  the  Dowager  Dncheas 

of  Cleveland. ^At    Plympton  St.  Mary, 

Devon,  Edward  Sydenham  Markland.  esq. 
only  son  of  Capt.  John  Duff  Markland,  R.N. 
C.B.  of  Handley  House,  Dorset,  to  Caroline, 
dau.  of  George  Eastlake.  esq.  of  Plynooth. 

^At  St.  Marylebone,  William  Delves,  esq. 

of  Avenue-road.  Regent's  Purk,  to  Suah, 
second  dao.  of  Robert  Amall,  esq.  of  Btan- 
tree-road,  St.  John's  Wood*'—- At  Exoter, 
John  Coke  Fowler,  esq.  of  the  Inner  Temple, 
and  of  Dufflel  t  Bank,  near  Derby,  to  Aogosta- 
Maria,  youngest  dau.  of  John  Bacon,  esq.  of 

Mount    Baorord,  Exeter. ^At  Alkbonragh, 

Uncolnsh.  William-Henry  Cooper,  esq.  Ute 
8th  Hussars,  eldest  son  of  the  late  W.  H. 
Cooper,  esq.  of  Pains  Hin,  Surrey,  to  Jemima- 
Octovia,  voungest  dao.  of  William  Hale,  esq. 
of  Acomo. 

19.  At  Geneva,  Charles  Bernard  Alexandre 
de  St.  RomalD,  eldest  son  of  Monsieur  de  St. 
Romain,  of  CnOmerie  in  Ard^he,  to  Henri- 
etta-Jane, yoangetit  dau.  of  the  late  MaioT' 
Gen.  Sir  Amos  Robert  Godsile  Noroott,  C.B. 
and  K  C.H. 

30.  At  Winterfield  House,  East  Lothian, 
Lieut.  Anderson,  Royal  Art.  to  Rachel* Wade, 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Col.  Anderson,  of  Wti^ 
terfleld.  K.  H. At  Christchorch,  Maryle- 
bone, Cliarles  Robert  Thompson,  esq.  to  Caro- 
line-Eurenie,  youngest  dau.  of  Ool.  West, 
Ueut.-Gov.  of  lAndguard  Fort.^-^John  Ran- 
dall, esq.  M.  B.,  of  Middleton.  to  Mary, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Pope, 
gent,  of  Blaxhall,  Sullblk.-^->At  Lee.  Kent, 
WiUiam  Bovill.  esq.  of  the  Middle  Temple,  to 
Maria-  eldest  dau.  of  J.  H*  Bolton,  eeq.  of 
lincoln's-inn,  and  of  Lee. 


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OBITUARY. 


Earl  of  Mountnorris. 

/tt/y  23.  At  Arle^  Castle,  Stafford, 
sbire,  aged  74,  the  Right  Hon.  Geori^e 
Annealey,  second  Earl  of  Mountnorris 
(1793),  ninth  Viscount  Valentia,  co. 
Kerry  (1621),  and  Baron  Mountnorris  of 
Mountnorris  Castle,  co.  Armagh  (1628)  ; 
eighth  Baron  Altham,  of  Altham,  co. 
Corlf  (16B0) ;  the  premier  Baronet  of 
.Ireland  (1620),  P.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  and 
F.L.S.,  and  a  Vice-President  of  the  Li- 
terary  Fund. 

Th^  Eail  of  Mountnorris  (who  was 
better  known  by  the  title  of  ms  youth, 
when  Lord  Valentia,)  was  bom  Dec.  7, 
1770,  at  Arley  Castle,  one  of  the  seats  or 
his  maternal  ancestors  the  Lytteltons,  the 
eldest  son  of  Arthur  first  Earl  of  Mount- 
norris by  his  fiist  wife,  the  Hon.  Lucy 
Fortescue  Lytteltoo,  only  daughter  of 
George  the  first  and  celebrated  Lord 
Lyttelton,  and  heiress  to  her  brother 
lliomas  second  Lord  Lyttelton. 

He  received  the  early  part  of  his  educa- 
tion at  Upton-upon. Severn,  under  the 
tuition  of  the  clergvman  of  that  place. 
He  was  subsequently  removed  to  Stan- 
ford in  Worcestershire,  and  placed  under 
the  care  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Butt,  one  of  the 
King's  chaplains,  until  he  reached  his 
fourteenth  year,  at  which  period  he  went 
to  Rugby  school,  then  raised  to  a  very 
flourishing  condition  by  the  abilities  and 
OMUiagement  of  Dr.  James.  At  sixteen 
his  Lordship  was  entered  of  Brazenose 
college,  Oxford,  where  he  continued  only 
a  short  tine  in  consequence  of  his  enter- 
kig  the  armjr.  In  1TB9  he  visited  France, 
and  fixed  his  residence  chiefly  at  Stras- 
buigi  with  a  view  of  facilitating  his  ac- 
quircRient  both  of  the  German  and  French 
languages.  On  the  appearance  of  the 
troubles  in  France,  and  the  prospect  of  a 
speedy  rupture  with  England,  his  Lord- 
snip  returned  to  his  native  country.  Upon 
his  marriage,  in  1790,  he  quitted  the  armv 
and  settled  at  his  estate  of  Arley,  which 
was  bequeathed  to  him  by  hit  uncle, 
Thomas  Lord  Lyttelton,  in  1779.  At 
this  beautiful  and  picturesque  spot  Lord 
Valentia  continued  to  reside  until  June, 
1802,  at  which  period  he  embarked  for 
the  East  Indies,  with  the  intention  of 
putting  in  execution  a  iong-forroed  and 
uvounte  project  of  visiting  the  principal 
districts  of  tnose  celebrated  and  extensive 
legions,  together  with  many  other  inter- 
estiag  and  remote  countries.  He  was  at- 
tended on  his  travels  by  his  draughtsman 
and  secretary,  the  late  Henry  Mt,  esq. 

QufT.  Maq.  Vol,  XXII, 


F.R.S.,  the  nephew  of  his  Lordship's 
former  tutor  and  friend,  Dr.  Butt,  and 
whose  Egyptian  collections  have  been 
added  to  the  British  Museum.*  His 
Lordship  returned  to  England  at  the  dose 
of  the  year  1806,  and  in  1809  appeared,  in 
three  volumes  quarto,  his  **  Vovages  and 
Travels  in  India,  the  Red  Sea,  Abyssinia, 
and  Egyot,  1808—6.'*  A  second  edition 
was  published  in  1811,  in  six  volumes 
octavo,  with  one  in  quarto,  of  plates. 

In  1806  his  Lordship  was  returned  to 
Parliament  for  the  borough  of  Yarmouth 
in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and  sat  until  the  dis- 
solution in  1812.  He  succeeded  to  the 
Irish  peerage  on  the  death  of  his  father, 
July  1,  1816. 

The  Earl  of  Mountnorris  m«rried| 
Sept.  S,  1790,  the  Hon.  Anne  Courtenay, 
eighth  daughter  of  William  second  Vis- 
count Courtenay,  and  sister  to  the  late 
Earl  of  Devon ;  and  by  that  lady,  who 
died  Jan.  6,  1835,  he  had  issue  two  sons, 
both  deceased  :  1.  George- Arthur,  Vis- 
count Valentia,  who  died  March  16, 1841, 
without  issue,  having  married  in  1837 
Frances- Cockburn,  only  daughter  of  the 
late  Charles  James  Sims,  esq.;  and  2. 
the  Hon.  and  Rev.  William  Annesleyi 
who  died  in  1830,  unmarried. 

The  earldom  of  Mountnorris  has  be- 
come extinct.  The  other  titles  are  in- 
herited bv  Arthur  Annealey,  esq.  of 
Bletchingoon  House,  Oxfordshire,  the 
representative  of  Francis,  sixth  son  of  the 
first  Viscount  Valentia  ;  from  which  son 
the  Earl  Annealey  is  also  descended,  in  a 
junior  line.  The  present  Lord  Valenti* 
married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Henry 
O'Brien,  esq.  of  Blatherwycke  house,  co. 
Northampton,  and  has  a  numerous  family. 

The  late  Earl's  estates  in  England  and 
Ireland  devolve  on  his  nephew,  Arthur 
Lyttelton  Macleod,  esq.  of  Broadwas 
Court,  Worcester,  eldest  son  of  the  late 
Major- Gen.  Norman  Macleod,  C.B.  and 
his  lordship's  sister,  the  Lady  Hester 
Annabella  Annesley. 

The  will  and  three  codicils  of  the  Earl 
of  Mountnorris  have  been  proved  in  the 
Prerogative  Court  by  Arthur  L.  M^Leod, 
esq.  (the  nephew),  and  £.  R.  Nicholas, 
esq.  (his  loidship's  solicitor),  the  execu- 
tors.    His  lordship  gives  an  annuity  of 


•  Mr.  Salt  became  Consul-geneiml  in 
Egypt.  He  died  in  that  country  Oct. 
30,  1827,  and  a  memoir  of  him  will  be 
found  in  our  Magaxtne  for  April  1826,  p. 
374. 

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Obituary.—  VucowU  Pcwerscourt^^Lord  Keane. 


[Oct 


900/.  per  anDum  to  his  f  tster  Ladjr  Anna* 
bella  M*Leod  (siDce  deceased  on  the  14th 
August,  at  the  baths  of  Lucca) ;  to  his 
nephew  John  M'Leod,  1,000/.;  to  his 
nephew  Edward  M< Leod,  1  »000/..  but  this 
last  legaey  (to  Edward  M'L«eod)  is  revoked 
by  a  oodidl ;  and  to  his  niece  Miss  M'Leod, 
1 ,000/«  I  to  one  of  the  alleged  ill^itimate 
children  of  his  late  son  (Viscount  Yalentii) 
1«000/.,  and  to  two  others  500/.  each ;  to  the 
Rev.  J.  Allen»  Rector  of  Arley,  500/. ;  to 
his  wife«  800/. ;  and  legacies  to  two  of  their 
children.  Bj  a  codicil  he  directs  that  a 
sum  not  exceeding  10,000/.  be  laid  out  in 
the  iaprovement  of  Arley  Castle,  which, 
together  with  the  collections  of  paintings, 
atatues,  antiquities,  &c.  it  contains,  are  to 
descend  as  **  heir-looms,**  an  inventory  of 
them  being  first  made,  in  order  that  the 
collection  may  remain  undisturbed.  He 
also  gives  one  year's  wages  to  his  ser- 
vants above  what  may  be  due  to  them. 
Tbepersonal  property  is  sworn  under 
10,000/. ;  but  this  IS  an  unimportant  item 
compared  with  the  value  of  bis  large  cs- 
Utes  in  Staffordshire  and  the  adioiniiig 
counties.  The  will  is  of  extreme  length, 
and  dated  1B41. 


VtSCOUNT  POWEEICOURT. 

A^g.  11.  Ai  the  Crown  hotel,  Ro- 
rheater,  in  his  dOth  year,  the  Right  Hon. 
Richard  \¥ingfield,  sixth  Viscount  Pow- 
crscourt,  of  Powerscourt,  co.  Wicklow, 
and  Baron  Wingfield,  of  Winglidd,  co. 
Wexford  (1748). 

Hia  Lordship  was  bom  Jan.  18,  1815, 
the  only  son  of  Richard  the  fifth  Viscount, 
hf  his  liivt  wife,  Lady  Frances  Theodo- 
aia  Jocelyn,  eldest  daughter  of  Robert  se- 
cond Earl  of  Roden.  He  succeeded  to 
the  title,  at  an  early  age,  Aug.  9,  1836. 
In  1837  be  came  forward,  with  Mr. 
Bruges,  on  the  Conservative  interest,  to 
wreat  the  representation  of  Bath  from  the 
Radical  party,  and  after  a  strong  contest 
waa  successful,  the  poll  terminating  as 
follows  :^> 

Lord  Powcrscourt      .        1087 

W.  U.  L.  Bniges,  esq.       10'^4 

Major- Qen.  C.  Palmer        962 

J.  A.  Roebuck,  esq.    .        910 

At  the  last  election  in  1841,  however, 

the  Radicals  recovered  their  ascendancy, 

and  his  Lordship  was  in  the  minority, 

Mr.  Roebuck  beina;  restored  to  his  seat, 

with  Locd  Duncan  for  his  colleague.   The 

poll  was  thus : — 

Lord  Duncan  .        1223 

J.  A.  Roebuck,  esq.  .  1167 
W.  H.  L.  Bruges,  esq.  930 
Loid  Powcrscourt  92G 

His  Lordship  had  visited  luly  for  the 
benefit  of  his  health,  and  was  on  his  re- 
turn when  seized  with  his  fatal  attack  at 


Rochester.  His  disease  was  constimp- 
tion. 

Lord  Powcrscourt  married,  Jan.  20, 
1836,  his  cousin  Lady  Elizabeth  Frances 
Tbeodosia  Jocelyn,  eldest  daughter  of 
Robert  third  and  present  Earl  of  Roden, 
and  has  left  issue  two  sons,  the  Right 
Hon.  Mervyn  now  Viscount  Powers- 
court,  bom  in  1836  ;  and  (he  Hon.  Mau- 
rice Richard  Wingfield,  bom  in  1839. 

His  body  was  conveyed  to  the  family 
vault  in  Ireland  for  interment,  and  his 
funeral  took  pkce  on  the  20th  of  August 
at  Powcrscourt,  co.  Wicklow.  More 
than  500  of  his  tenantry  attended,  attired 
in  scarfs  and  hatbands. 


Lord  Kbane. 

Aug,  26.  At  Burton  l^ge,  Harop. 
shire,  of  dropsy,  in  bis  64th  year,  the 
Right  Hon.  Sir  John  Keane,  Baron 
Keane,  of  Ghuznee  in  Affghaunistan,  and 
of  Coppoquin,  co.  Waterford,  G.C.B. 
and  K.C.H. ;  l^ieut.- General  in  the 
armv.  Colonel  of  the  43d  regiment. 

He  was  the  second  son  of  the  late  Sir 
John  Keane,  of  Belmont,  co.  Waterford, 
(who  was  created  a  Baronet  in  1801 J  by 
his  firet  wife,  Sarah,  sister  of  John 
Keiley,  esq.  of  Belgrove.  He  entered 
the  army  at  a  verjr  early  age,  his  commis- 
sion  as  Ensign  being  dated  in  1793.  He 
was  appointed  to  a  company  in  the  l?4th 
Foot  the  12th  Nov.  1794 ;  he  was  on 
half.pay  from  1795  till  the  7th  of  Nov. 
1799,  when  he  obtained  a  company  in  the 
44th  Foot,  which  corps  he  joined  at  Gi- 
braltar. During  the  campaign  in  Egypt, 
he  served  as  aide-de-camp  to  Major- Ge- 
neral Lord  Cavan  ;  and  be  was  present  in 
the  actions  of  the  13th  and  Slst  of  March, 
1801.  The  27th  of  May,  1802,  he  ob- 
tained a  M^ority  in  the  60th;  he  re- 
mained in  the  Mediterranean  on  the  Staff 
till  March,  1803,  when  he  returned  to 
Enghind.  The  20th  Aucust,  1803,  be 
was  Lieut. •Colonel  in  the  13th  Foot, 
which  he  joined  at  Gibraltar  early  in 
1604.  He  served  the  campaiKn  of  Mar- 
tinique in  1809>  and  was  pretient  at  the 
siege  of  Fort  Dessaix.  The  Ist  of  Jan. 
1812,  he  was  appointed  Colonel  in  the 
army ;  and  the  25th  of  June  following, 
Lieut..  Colonel  in  the  60th  Foot.  His 
reputation  was  then  such  that,  imme- 
diately on  his  arrival  at  Msdrid,  he  waa 
intrusted  with  the  command  of  a  brigade 
in  the  third  division,  in  which  he  served 
until  the  end  of  the  war  with  France,  in 
1814,  and  was  present  at  the  battles  of 
Vittoria,  the  Pyrenees,  Nivelie,  and 
Orthes  ;  the  action  at  Vic  Bigorre,  battle 
of  Toulouse,  and  the  minor  actions  of 
that  war.  He  attained  the  rank  of  Ma- 
jor- General  June  14, 1814.    Herectire4 


1844.] 


OsiTUART.-^Zorcf  Keane. 


427 


the  Egyptian  medal,  and  a  cross  and  two 
elasps  for  Martinique,  Vittoria,  Pyre- 
nees, Nivelle,  Orthes,  and  Toulouse. 

In  August  1814  he  was  appointed  to  a 
command  ordered  for  particular  service, 
and  on  his  arrival  at  Jamaica,  being  se- 
nior officer,  he  assumed  the  command  of 
the  militury  force  destined  to  co.operate 
with  Vice-Admiral  the   Hon.  Sir  Alex- 
ander Cochrane,  for  the  attack  on  New 
Orleans  and  the  province  ot  Louisiana. 
Ou    the  morning  of    the  2Sd  of  De- 
cember   he    eifected    a   landing  within 
nine  miles  of  New  Orleans,  and  the  same 
night,  with  only  1600  bayonets  on  shore, 
repulsed  a  serious  attack  of  5000  of  the 
enemy,  assisted  by  three  large  armed  ves- 
aels  on  their  flank.     He  held  the  com- 
mand until  the  85th,  when  be  was  super- 
seded  by  the  arrival  of  Major. General  Sir 
Edward  Ptokenham,  who  took  the  com- 
mand ot  the  entire  army.     The  day  after 
the  arrival  of  that  general  officer  he  was 
appointed  to  the  third  brigade,  and  was 
engaged  and  present  in  the  affairs  of  the 
28ch  of  December  and  lit  of  January,  aa 
also  at  the  assault  made  on  the  enemy's 
fortified  lines  on  the  morning  of  the  dth 
Jan.  1815,  when  he  was  severely  wounded 
in  two  places. 

^  Sir  John  Keane  afterwards  passed 
eight  years  in  Jamaica,  in  the  interesting 
period  from  18S3  to  1830,  as  Commander- 
in-chief  of  the  forces ;  and,  during  a  year 
and  a  half  of  the  time,  he  administered 
the  civil  government  also. 

In  the  year  1833  be  succeeded  Sir 
Colin  Halket  as  Commander-in-chief  of 
the  army  in  Bombay ;  and,  after  nearly 
aiz  years'  service  in  that  presidency,  on 
the  S9tb  Oct.  1838,  he  received  autho- 
rity from  the  Government  of  India  to  or- 
ganize and  lead  into  Scinde  a  force  in- 
tended to  co-operate  with  the  army  then 
on  the  north-west  frontier  of  India  under 
the  command  of  Sir  Henry  Fane.  In  the 
month  of  December  following,  however, 
Sir  Henry  forwarded  bis  resignation  to 
bead-quartera,  and  the  command  of  the 
combined  forces  devolved  upon  Sir  John 
Keane.  He  was  now  called  upon  to  lead 
a  considerable  army,  and  to  conduct  ope- 
nitiona  requiring  much  discretion,  deli- 
cacy, and  tact  in  dealing  with  those  half, 
friendly  powers,  whose  existence  is  one 
of  the  greatest  difficulties  in  the  govern- 
ment of  a  semi-civilized  land.  With  the 
open  co-operation,  and  often  in  opposi- 
tion to  the  secret  intrigues,  of  these  wa- 
vering friends,  the  British  Commander 
in  India  has  much  to  do.  In  this  delicate 
intercourse,  it  has  been  remarked,  ^  Sir 
John  Keane  was  not  intended  by  natural 
qiiaUtiei  to  obtain  success.    We  accord- 


ingly find  him  much  censured  for  the 
Attuieur  with  which  he  treated  the  Ameera 
of  Scinde,  and  there  are  not  wanting 
many  persons  who  attribute  the  fatal  dif- 
ficulties into  which  those  unfortunate 
princes  plunged  themselves  to  the  open 
suspicion  and  irritating  manner  in  which 
they  were  treated  shout  this  period. 
"  To  go  through  the  whole  of  the  ram- 

5aigns  in  which  Lord  Keane  aerved  in 
ndia  would  exceed  our  present  limits, 
and  throw  but  little  additional  light  upon 
the  professional  character  of  a  commander 
who  is  said  to  have  been  more  lucky  than 
skilful,  and  to  whom — whether  injustice 
or  in  envy—the  sobriquet  of  *  the  fortu- 
nate youth '  waa  attached  by  those  whose 
wounded  feelings  or  disappointed  hopes 
made  them  more  alive  to  his  extraordinary 
fortune  than  to  that  degree  of  skill  and 
ability  which  he  must  be  suppoMdto  haw 
possessed.  He  is  charged  with  having 
almost  invariably  underrated  the  services 
of  the  Company's  troops,  and  with  not 
having  done  full  justice  to  the  distin- 

J;uished  merits  of  Sir  William  Nott,  Co- 
onel  Dennie,  and  others  whose  skill  and 
gallantry  are  now  universally  acknow- 
ledged."   (77met.} 

Lord  Keane,  however,  received  the 
thanks  of  the  Court  of  Directors  of  the 
East  India  Company  on  Dec.  18ih,  ]839f 
while  on  the  11  to  of  the  same  month  he 
was  raised  to  the  peerage,  and  obtained  a 
pension  of  2000/.  a-year  for  his  own  life 
and  that  of  his  two  immediate  successora 
in  the  peerage,  added  to  which  were  the 
thanks  of  both  Houses  of  Parliament  in 
the  month  of  February,  1840,  the  thanks 
and  approbation  of  the  Governor-  Genevalj 
/(SieM  and  entertainments  at  Borahav,  ban- 
quets at  the  London  Tuvem,  and  other 
marks  of  royal  and  public  approbation. 
There  can,  of  course,  be  no  wish  in  any 
quarter  to  den?  that  he  commanded  the 
forces  of  the  Queen  and  the  Company  on 
more  than  one  occasion  when  brilliant 
victories  were  achieved ;  but  it  cannot 
be  concealed  that  no  commander  of 
modem  times  has  been  more  severely 
criticised :  and  that  the  memorable  victory 
of  Ghuznee  did  not  obtain  for  Lord 
Keane  that  unqualified  approbation  which 
conquests  of  equal  magnitude  usually  pro- 
cure for  the  General  commanding-in-chief. 
Lord  Keane  attained  the  rank  of  Lieu- 
tenant- General,  July  SS,  1839,  and  re- 
ceived  the  colonelcy  of  the  43d  Hegiment 
(the  Monmouthshire  Light  Infantry)  in 
August,  1839. 

hoTd  Keane  married  first,  in  1806, 
Miss  Smith,  second  daughter  of  the  late 
Lieut.- General  Sir  John  Smithy  by 
whom  he  bad  isaue  Mveral  diildrtnii  md 


428 


Sir  Charles  Watmm,  BaH.—Viee^ Admiral  Hollis.        [Oct 


lecottdlv,  in  August,  1840,  Mim  Char- 
lotte  Maria  Boland,  yonn(te$t  daughter  of 
the  late  Lieut. -Colonel  Boland. 

He  is  succeeded  in  his  pension  and 
peerage  by  his  fifth  child  and  eldest  son, 
whom  he  called  after  the  great  cooDinander 
of  his  early  years.  The  presentpeer  bears 
the  naflses  of  Edward  Arthur  Wallington, 
and,  haviug  been  aide>de>cainp  to  his 
fiitber  when  in  conMMnd  of  the  Amy  of 
the  Indoa,  may  be  presumed  to  ka^ 
shared  in  the  honours  of  that  oampaign. 
He  is  a  Curtain  in  the  37th  Foot,  md  a 
Major  in  the  anny. 


.^Aftl 


Si&  Cbahlbs  Watson,  Baet. 

Aup,  £6.  At  Wratting  Park,  Cam- 
biMffeshire,  aged  93,  SlrOiarles  Wafton, 
of  Fulmer,  co.  Bucks,  Bart. 

He  was  bom  on  the  9th  June  1751 , 
the  only  son  of  Rear- Adm.  Charles  Wat- 
ion,  bjr  Rebecca,  eldest  daughter  of  John 
Ftamcts  Buller,  esq.  His  father  had 
greatly  distinguished  himself  in  the  ac- 
tion of  the  Sd  May,  1747,  and  snbse- 
ouentlyheld  the  command  of  the  East 
India  station.  In  consideration  of  the 
great  services  he  had  rendered  to  his 
country,  George  II.  conferred  a  baronetcy 
on  him,  but  before  the  patent  of  the  crea- 
tion was  completed  he  died,  and  that  dig- 
nity was  eventually  conferred  on  his  son, 
the  deceased,  then  in  his  ninth  year.  It 
is  probable  that  there  is  no  surrirorof 
those  who  enjoyed  the  title  In  that  roign. 

The  late  Baroncft  married,  July  16, 
1789,  Juliana,  daughter  of  Ihe  late  Sir 
Joshua  Copley,  Bart,  by  whom  he  leaves 
issue  the  present  Baronet,  Sir  Chaiies 
Wager  Watson,  and  sit  daoghters  :  1. 
Juliana,  manied  in  18S4  to  the  Rev. 
iThomasCrivert,  D.D.;  It.  Cecil,  manied 
fai  1821  to  Richard  Oreavoa  Townley, 
esq.  of  Folboume,  co.  Cambridge ;  3. 
Anna- Maria,  married  In  1833  to  John 
Bendyahe,  esq.  of  Barringlon  and  Knees- 
worth,  CO.  Cambridge;  4.  Henrietta, 
married  in  1883  to  the  Rev.  William 
Acton;  5.  Cstharine- Harriett;  6.  Char- 
lotte, married  in  1824  to  John  Gibbons, 
esq.  eldest  son  of  Sir  John  Qibbons, 
Bart. ;  and  7.  Marianne,  married  in  1833 
to  the  Rev.  Alexander  Cotton. 

The  present  Baronet  was  born  in  1800, 
and  married  in  1827  Jemima- Charlotte, 
eldest  daughter  of  Charies  Garth  Col- 
teton,  esq.  of  Haines-hill,  Berks,  and  has 
issue. 


Vice- Admiral  Hollis. 

June  23.  At  his  residence,  Highfield, 
Southampton,  aged  80,  Aiskew  Paffard 
Hollis,  esq.  Vice-Admiral  of  the  Red. 

This  officer  entered  the  Royal  Navy  in 


1774,  mider  the  protection  of  C^tsin 
(afterwards  Vice-Admiral)  Parry,  with 
whom  he  served  as  a  midshipman,  on 
board  the  Ltnz,  Liaard,  and  Acteon,  in 
the  West  Indies  and  British  Chaonel. 
He  subsequently  joined  the  Vigilant,  of 
M  guns,  which  fenned  part  of  Admind 
Keppel's  fleet,  and  was  warmly  engi^ed 
in  the  action  with  M.  d'OrnUiers,  off 
Ushane,  Jnly  27, 1778.  Hk  piomollon 
to  a  Lieatenancy  took  place  Juu  88| 
1781 ;  and  from  that  period  Mtil  July  87, 
1783^  he  served  succesaivoly  is  the  ftaa- 
ford,  of  24  gans,  Pcgase  74,  Naraaaua 
24,  and  Andfomeda  fHgale.  At  tba 
latter  period  be  was  ramuwid  by  Rear- 
Adminl  Alan  Gardner  into  hia  ilig«ab^ 
the  Queen,  a  second  rata,  than  asi  tia 
West  India  station,  but  soon  alitor  aC«> 
tachad  to  the  Channel  fleet  under  the 
orden  of  Eari  Howe,  and  engaged  in  the 
memorsble  victory  of  Jane  *1,  1794. 
Among  those  who  were  seriously  huit  in 
the  conflict,  but  whose  names  were  not 
reported  as  such,  was  Lieut.  Hollb,  who 
received  a  severe  contusion  in  the  head  by 
a  splinter.  On  the  83d  June  1795,  the 
Queen  formed  part  of  Lord  Bridport's 
fleet  in  the  affiiir  off  POrient,  on  which 
occasion  three  French  ships  of  the  line 
were  captured.  Some  time  after  this 
event  Lieut.  Hollis  accompanied  Vice- 
Adm.  Sir  Alan  Gardner  into  the  Royal 
Sovereign,  a  first  rate ;  and  he  oontiniied 
to  serve  with  that  distinguished  ofl&eer 
till  Nov.  1,  1796,  on  which  day  he  wna 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Commaader  in 
the  Chichester,  a  44ogUn  shijp,  anned  m 
/ale,  intended  to  fons  one  of  a  aqoadran 
about  to  be  placed  under  the  awtos  of 
Loi4  Hugh  Seymour,  for  Ihe  rsdottion 
of  the  Manillas. 

On  the  10th  Nov.  1797  Okipt.  HoUia, 
being  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  received 
an  order  from  Resr*Adm«  Pisngle,  Com- 
mander in  Chief  on  that  station,  to  aa. 
same  the  temporary  eommsnd  of  tlw 
Jupiter,  and  proceed  with  that  ship  to  the 
advanced  anchorage  of  Robin  island, 
where  the  Crescent  frigate  was  than 
lying  in  a  state  of  mutiny,  and  whose 
crew  be  Was  directed  to  reduce  to  imme« 
diate  obedience.  The  Crescent  was  met 
by  the  Jupiter  coming  into  Table  Bay, 
towed  under  the  batteries,  her  ringleaders 
secured,  brought  to  trial,  and  punished* 
On  the  IGth  of  the  same  month  Captaia 
Hollis  was  posted  into  the  Tremendous 
74,  besring  the  Rear- Admiral's  llMg ;  and 
a  few  weeks  after  appointed  to  the  Vin- 
dictive,  a  small  frigate,  in  which  he  waa 
ordered  home  as  convoy  to  a  laiga  fleet 
of  East  Indiamen.  On  his  arrival  in 
£nghMid  the  IMreetOfs  of  the  Eaat 


1844.]  OMiTVAMY^~Fiee*jUmirai  HoBit.  429 

CcMfpy  prtMKted  Um  witb  »  TtltaUe  four  daji,  and  In  that   time  her  boat! 

pisce  of  plate.    Hii  adnnoement  to  poit  bnngbt  oat  tereral  *e<ueli    whicli    aba 

nnk  wu  confinoed  by  tbe   Adminltj'  afterwarda  conrofed  ihroi^h  tb«  Oulf  j 

Feb,5,l79S;   and  tbe  Vindictive,  owing  and  thui  waiaar^,  througfa  ifae  prompti- 

to  ber  bad  condition,  una  paid  off  May  tnde  and  etettions  of  Capt.  Hollii,  ptO' 

4tb  Mlowinf.  pertr  to  ■  conaidmble  MMniM,  wki^ 

On  the  eih  June  laOl,  Cant.  Hollit  woald  otbarwiat  bave  been  coafiaeMad, 

obMioed  tbe  eommand  of  tbe  Tbame*,  a  The  Mmisaid  ma  aubtegueirtlr  eaplor. 

3i-fiin  Irisate,  in  nrbkb  be  perfonned  a  ed  in  blockading  aoiae  FVencb  aUpa  ta 

IWM  aaaeslial  aarriee  on  tbe  I3lb  of  tbe  tbe  ObeMpeake,  aad  affotdme  pr ^- 

(eilMring  moBtb,  by  bearins  off  from  tbe  to  tbe  Britiab  tnde  between  Nov 

■baala  af  Oeoil,  aad  with  great  exeniooa  a*d  tbe  WeM  Indiea ;  but  b«ng  m 

towiag  into  Oibfakar,  Ibe  Venerable  Ti,  found  defective,  wu  ordei«4  to  i   „ 

oommnded  by  tbe  gallant  Sir  Saoiuel  with  ■  homeward-bound  fleet,  and  an  the 

Haad,«rba,  wbcn  Nceriy  ponuing  tbe  30th  Aug.  IMT      '      '    ' 
FNoeh  abip  Foraridable,  forming  pact  of         OaiK.  HoUia' 

lb«  eon)buMd  tqMdnaia  attacked  by  Sir  March  16,    ISC 


imr  put  oat  of  01 
Uia'a  next  appoii 
IS09,  to  the  Staodald,  64, 


Jimee  Saumarei,  in  the  Uut,  on  the  pre-  favim  part  af  tbe  Bdtic  fleet  m4er  ffir 

ceding  night,  hid  unfortunately  grounded,  Jame*  Saunarai,   by  whon  he  waa  en- 

and  loat  all  hia  maati,  trtvtad  with   tbe  comnand  of  a  aiaall 

Shortly  after  thii  event  Capt.  Hollia,  uniadron    aent    to    reduoe    tbe    Dai^ 

npanrwltb  the  Hon.  Cant.  Dundai  iriand  of  Anboltt  wfaieb  aerrtce  was  moM 

"  '  '     mr,  deitroyed  a  ably  effected. 

coaatera  in  the  Early  ia  1811  the  Standard  waa  or. 
dered  to  convoy  a  fleet  of  merehantDea 
to  Lisbon   and   Cadii,  and   lo  join   tbe 

ed  and  carried  ■  Spaniah  priviteer  of  four  aquadron  employed  in  the  defence  of  tbe 

guna.     Re  waa  aRerwards  employed   on  latter  place.     On  the  I6lh  April  in  the 

tbe  coait  of  Egypt  and  in   [he  Mediter-  aame    year,   be  waa   removed    into  the 

lanean  until  Ihc  peace  of  Amiena.      The  Acbille,  ol  80  giina.  and  attached  to  tbe 

TkameawaapaidoffJan.  15,  I8K).  fleet    blodnding    Toulon.      He    aabea- 

In  the  eniuiiKaatumn  our  officer  com-  qnanily  riaiied  Malta,  fran  tbenee  went 

iiritaioned  tbe  Mermaid,  of  Siguni  J  and,  to  tbe  protection  of  Sicily,  aitd  wm  ulb. 

after  cmiaim;  for  aome  time  in  the  Chan,  mately  ordered  to  tbe  Adriatic,  where  be 

nel,  eecorted  a  ket  of  merchantmen  to  ooolimied  about  eightsaa   moatba,    em- 

tbe  Wen  Indiea.      In  Oct.  ISM  he  vnu  played    in   blockadi^  the   Freocb    and 

aent  by    Sir  John    T.  Duckworth,   tbe  Venetian    aquadtoai    at    Venice.     Tbe 

Oawmamder  In  CW«f  at  Jamuea,  to  re-  Aehdle  betiv  in    want  af    repair,    waa 

uuuBaitre  tbe  barboor  and  araenal  of  tbe  obUged  to  return  lo  Engbiaid  in  tbe  aum- 

Havinnah ;    and  on  tbe  ICtb  of  the  fol-  met  of  1818,  oa  which  oecaaion  Captain 

Imriog  month,   wbilat   lying   there   aaid  HolUa  eaoorted  boaae  tbe  HediterranaaB 

prepariag  to  entertain  the   Spaniab  offi-  trade. 

oera  at  UM  place,   he  received  informa*         AfUr  refitting  bii  abip,  and  eommand- 

lioa  wkioh  indoeed  bin  to  believe  boeli-  ing  the  blockade  of  Cherburg  for  aoaae 

Ktiealritb  Spain  were aboM  t«eoBHMnoa  time,  our  officer,  in  tbe  month  of  May 

ia  Eumpa,  and  tbtt  it  wa*  moat  probabla  1S14,  waa  ordered  to  tidce  charre  of  aome 

tbe  govemmaM  of  Cuba  ware  already  in  oatward -bound   Eaat    India  ahipa,    and 

poMeaalon  of   ainihr  information.      In  other  vetaels  bound  round  Ca^    Horn, 

thia  Mtaation  prompt  tneatuteaeMly  could  which  be  aaw  in  nfety  to  a  certain  latl- 

aave  the    Uenaaid  from  detentioa,  aad  tade;  when  he  detached  tbem  to  dtor 


ma  out  with  the  land-brenci  bat  to  hia  bimadf  to  reinlbrce  Vice-Adm.  Dixon  at 

mertificadon    the     night    waa   perfectly  ffio  .' — '—      "-  *•■-  —■ —  '— "  •>"«*> 

aim.    The  «hip,  however,  waa  unmoored  Ame 

without  oanaing  any  alarm,  and  at  day-  in  tbi 

break,  whilit  tbe  public  authoritiea  were  pot  e 

delibcntiag  on  tbe  propriety  of  dat^ning  on  ba 

ber,  abe  wanted  out  clear  of  tbe  batlcriea.  obtai 

Theia  bang  at  thia  lime  aome  valuable  atatic 

Engliab  merchant  vraaala  in  tbe  Uavan-  be  o 

nab,  Capt.    Hollia   loat  no  time  in  ap-  abe  v 

priai^l  them  of  their  rituatioa,  and  ran-  fiirtb 

Miv  them  every  aaaietaaee  in  hia  power  the  1 

M  avoid   the  tbnateaed  dangn.      The  Baa 

MfcnaU  wMatnad  off  tht  pgtt  tint  or  oohb 


430    Obituary. — Maj\»Gtn,  Edumrd  SeotL-^Reur^Adm,  Galwey.  {pet 


•fonally  boiating  a  broad  pendant  at  se- 
nior officer  at  Portsmoutbi  during  the 
absence  and  after  the  demise  of  Sir 
George  Campbell,  the  Comroander-in. 
chief  on  that  sUtion.  In  1819  and  18^, 
when  bis  Majesty  George  IV.  visited 
Portsmouth,  Capt.  Uollia  bad  the  ho- 
nour of  dining  with  bis  royal  master,  on 
the  day  of  whose  coronation  be  u'as  no- 
winated  to  one  of  the  Colonelcies  of 
Royal  Marines.  He  attained  the  rank 
of  Rear* Admiral  in  18 . .,  and  that  of 
Vice^Admiral  in  1837. 


Major.  GsNERAL  Eowaro  Scott. 

Juiy  26.  At  Bath,  aged  82,  Major. 
General  Edward  Scott. 

This  officer  entered  the  service  by  pur- 
chase  in  1780,  as  Ensign  in  the  11th 
Foot,  and  purchased  a  Lieutenancy  in  the 
same  regiment  in  1781.  He  %ras  placed 
on  Ittlf.pay  at  the  peace,  and  re-purchased 
on  full-pay  into  the  13th  Foot  in  1787, 
and  a  company  in  that  regiment  in  1790, 
at  which  period  he  went  to  the  West  In- 
dies  with  his  regiment  en  the  expectation 
of  a  war  with  SjMin.  In  1794  and  1795 
be  served  with  distinction  in  St.  Domingo, 
where  he  commanded  the  post  Bissetiii  at 
Port  au  Prince  during  eight  days,  when 
the  enemy  incessantly  fired  shot  and  shells 
into  the  post  from  sun.rise  to  sun -set, 
and  every  night  threatened  to  storm.  The 
iMghcat  approbation  and  thanks  of  the 
Commanaer  of  the  Forces,  Major.  Gene- 
ral Homeck,  were  expressed  in  General 
Orders  on  this  occasion. 

Capt.  Scott  was  promoted  to  the  Ma* 
jority  of  the  13th  infisntry,  Sept.  I,  1795. 
He  aerved  in  the  disturbances  and  rebel- 
lion in  Ireland  in  1797,  179B,  and  1799. 
In  1800  he  embarked  with  his  regiment 
on  the  secret  expedition,  under  Sir  James 
Pultcney,  against  Ferrol,  Cadix,  &c.  In 
1801  ho  served  under  Sir  Ralph  Aber. 
eromby,  in  Egypt,  and  was  present  at 
tbe  actions  of  the  8th,  13th,  and  3Ut  of 
March,  and  at  the  siege  and  surrender  of 
Alexandria.  In  the  action  of  the  1 3th  he 
received  a  severe  contusion  on  his  breast 
from  a  musket.bal],  which  penetrated  his 
cross-belts  and  clothing.  For  these  ser- 
vices  he  received  the  Egyptian  medal,  and 
the  Turkish  order  of  the  Crescent.  He 
became  brevet  Lieutemmt- Colonel  Jan. 
1,  1801.  In  1804  he  served  at  Gibraltar, 
during  the  whole  period  when  that  garri- 
son was  desolated  bv  the  roost  malignant 
fever  on  record.  The  7th  of  May,  1807* 
be  was  appointed  Lieutenant- Colonel  of 
the  96th  regiment ;  and  he  served  with 
that  oorps  seveml  eampaigns  in  the  West 
Indies.  The  85th  July,  1810»  he  re- 
ceived  the  brevet  of  Colonel,  and  he  oom« 
nanded  in  that  year  the  island  of  St. 


Croix.  In  Jan.  1813,  on  tbe  death  of 
Major. Gen.  Harcourt,  Lieutenant-Go- 
vernor of  St.  Croix,  Colonel  Scott,  as 
commander  of  the  troops  in  that  con- 
quered island,  succeeded  to  tbe  adminis- 
tration of  the  government,  civil  and  mili- 
tary. In  this  command  he  was  shortly 
superseded  by  the  appointment  of  a  senior 
officer ;  and  from  his  high  sense  of  feel- 
ing on  this  and  other  disappointments, 
and  sinking  under  ill  health,  the  conse- 
quence of  loni?  and  arduous  service  in  va. 
nous  and  unhealthy  climate*,  he  solicited 
to  retire,  which  was  allowed,  1814,  with 
the  pennission  to  retain  his  rank  aa  Ma- 
jor-General  in  the  armv,  to  which  he  had 
been  promoted  on  the  itb  of  June,  1813. 


RfauAomirai.  Galwey. 

Aug.  9.  At  an  advanced  age,  Edii-ard 
GaUvey,  esq.  Renr.  Admiral  ol  the  White. 

He  entered  the  Navy  on  the  19tb 
February,  1786,  and  obtained  bis  com. 
mission  of  Lieutenant  June  24,  1793* 
Towards  the  close  of  1797,  when  the 
Vanguard  of  74  guns  was  commissioned 
for  the  flag  of  Sir  Horatio  Nelson,  Mr. 
Galwey  was  selected  by  that  officer  to  act 
as  his  First  Lieutenant,  from  which  cir- 
cumstance it  may  be  concluded  that  he 
had  alresdy  served  under  that  celebrated 
commander,  and  shared  in  some  of  bis 
battles.  Be  that  as  it  may,  we  find  the 
following  short  account  of  him  in  a 
letter  from  Nelson  to  Earl  St.  Vincent, 
dated  May  8,  1798: 

"  My  First  Lieutenant,  Galu^y,  haa 
no  friends,  and  is  one  of  the  best  officeia 
in  my  ship.*' 

During  the  dreadful  conflict  in  Abon- 
kir  Bay,  Aug.  I,  1796,  Lieut.  Galwey 
was  sent  in  the  only  boat  which  had  not 
been  cut  to  pieces  by  the  enemv's  shot 
to  assist  the  distressed  crewof  rOrient 
(which  had  blown  up),  and  subsequently 
to  Uke  possession  ot  le  Spartiate.  He 
was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Commander 
in  consequence  of  that  ever  memorable 
victoiy ;  and  during  the  bitter  part  of  the 
war  he  commanded  the  Plover,  an  18>gun 
sloop,  employed  on  Chinnel  service.  His 
post  commission  bore  date  April  89, 
1808. 

Csptain  Galarev  commanded  the  Drrad 
frigate  during  the  expedition  against 
Wslcberen  in  1809,  and  in  1811  he  was 
actively  employed  on  the  north  coast 
of  Spain,  in  co-operation  with  tbe  Pa- 
triots or  National  party. 

On  the  83d  Dec.  I8I«,  he  drove  a 
French  national  brig  of  82  guns  on  the 
rocks  near  Isle  Dieu,  where  she  was 
completely  wrecked ;  ^e  Dryad  oo  this 
flccision  was  bulled  teveral  timet  1^  shot 


1844.]      Joskua  SchoU^ld,  M.P.-^John  Dalton^  D.CL.  F.R.S.      4dt 


from  tbe  shore,  and  her  foremast  badly 
wounded,  but  not  a  man  hurt. 

Returning  from  Newfoundlsnd,  March 
26,  I81i,  Captain  Ualwey  fell  in  with  tbe 
Clorinda,  a  French  frigate,  endeavouring 
to  escape  from  the  Eurotas  of  4S  guna, 
with  which  ship  she  bad  a  very  severe 
action  on  tbe  preceding  day.  Tbe  enemy, 
having  only  his  fore-mast  standing,  and 
more  than  one  third  of  his  crew  already 
killed  and  wounded,  struck  his  colours  on 
receiving  one  shot  from  tbe  Dryad,  after 
an  absurd  attempt  to  obtain  terms  pre- 
vious to  bis  surrender.  Captain  Galwey, 
aiter  towing  tbe  captured  fri^Ue  into 
port,  was  put  out  of  commission.  He 
attained  the  rank  of  Rear- Admiral  Jan. 
10,  1837. 

Joshua  Scholefield,  Esq.  M.P. 

July  4.  After  a  short  illness,  in  his 
70th  year,  Joshua  Schole6eld,  esq.  of 
Edgbaston  Orove,  Birmingham, M.P.  for 
that  town,  a  Director  of  the  National 
Provincial  Bank  of  England,  of  the  Lon- 
don Joint  Stock  Bank,  and  of  tbe  Metro- 
politan Assurance  Society. 

Mr.  Scholefield  was  well  known  for 
tbe  active  part  he  took  in  the  politics  of 
Birmingham,  where  be  was  a  banker  and 
merchant.  When  tbe  Reform  of  Parlia- 
ment was  in  agitation,  he  became  a  Vice- 
P^sident  of  tbe  Political  Union  ;  and  on 
Birmingham  being  constituted  a  Parlia- 
mentary  Borough,  he  was  elected  one  of 
its  first  meml^rs  in  conjunction  with 
Thomas  Attwood,  esq.  also  a  banker,  and 
the  head  of  the  Political  Union.  Both 
members  pledged  themselves  to  resign 
their  scats  whenever  a  majoritv  of  their 
constituents  expressed  themselves  dissa- 
tisfied with  their  Parliamentary  conduct. 
Mr.  Attwood  resigned  in  Jan.  1840 ;  but 
Mr.  Scholefield  has  maintained  his  seat 
at  each  of  tbe  three  Generul  Elections 
which  have  occurred  since  1832,  though 
there  has  always  been  a  contest,  and  on 
tbe  last  occasion  the  Radicals  were  severely 
pressed  by  Mr.  Richard  Spooner  on  tbe 
part  of  the  C^onservatives,  which  gentle- 
nnan  has  now  been  returned  upon  Mr. 
Scbolefield's  demise. 

As  a  thorough  Radical,  Mr.  Schole- 
field was  the  advocate  of  Triennial  Par- 
liamenu,  the  vote  bv  ballot,  free-trade, 
and  the  immediate  abolition  of  slavery; 
but  he  waa  a  general  supporter  of  the 
Whig  government. 

He  was  three  times  married  ;  first,  in 
1804,  to  the  second  dau|||hter  of  C.  CoU 
trell,  esq. ;  secondly,  in  1824,  to  the 
youngest  sister  of  bis  first  wile;  and 
thirdly,  in  1835,  to  Mary.  Anne,  daughter 
of  the  late  Thomas  Rose  Swaioe,  esq.  of 
LoodoB,  and  the  Grove,  Higbgite. 


His  body  was  interred  in  Edgbaston 
churchyard,  attended  by  a  large  company 
of  his  friends. 


John  Dalton,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S. 

July  87.  At  Manchester,  in  his  78th 
year,  John  Dalton,  D.  C.  L.  Oxon., 
F.R.S.  Lond.  and  Edinb.,  President  of 
the  Literary  and  Philosophical  Society  of 
Manchester. 

Dr.  Dalton  was  bom  at  Eaglesfield, 
near  Cockermouth,  in  Cumberland,  on 
tbe  5th  of  September,  1766,  of  respects- 
ble  parents,  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends.  He  gave  early  indications  of 
mathematical  ability.  In  1781  he  be* 
came  a  mathematical  teacher  in  Kendal, 
from  whence  he  contributed  largely  upon 
mathematical,  philosophical,  and  general 
subjects,  to  tbe  two  annual  works  called 
the  *'  Gentleman's  "  and  <<  Uidy*s  Diary.'* 
In  1788  he  commenced  his  meteorologi- 
cal observations,  which  he  continued 
throughout  bis  life.  In  1793  be  pub- 
lished an  octavo  volume  of  *'  Meteorolo- 
gical Observations  and  Essays.*'  In  the 
same  year  he  was  appointed  Professor  of 
Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy  in 
tbe  New  College,  Mosley-street,  Man- 
chester, and  continued  to  hold  his  office 
until  the  college  was  finally  removed  to 
York. 

In  1808  be  published  **  A  New  System 
of  Chemical  Philosophy,"  and  a  second 
Part  in  1810.  He  also  frequently  con- 
tributed  to  Nicholson's  Journal,  tbe 
Annals  of  Philosophy,  and  the  Phi- 
losophieal  Magazine,  as  well  as  to  the 
Memoirs  of  tbe  Literary  and  Philo- 
sophical Society  of  Mancheaer,  of  which, 
for  half  a  century,  be  was  an  active 
member,  having,  together  with  his  friend 
Dr.  Edward  Holme,  M.D.,  F.L.S., 
been  elected  on  tbe  S5th  of  April, 
1794.  Indeed  they  were  the  oldest  sur- 
viving members  of  the  society,  with  the 
sole  exception  of  Sir  George  Philips, 
Bart.,  who  became  a  member  in  1785. 
Dr.  Dalton  bad  been  President  of  thia 
society  since  1817.  lie  was  elected  Fel- 
low of  the  Royal  Society  in  1821  or  1829, 
and  was  also  a  member  of  the  lloyal  So- 
ciety of  Edinburgh  and  of  several  foreign 
colleges.  In  1826,  he  was  presented  with 
a  gold  medal  by  the  Royal  Society  for  hia 
scientific  discoveries;  and  in  1833  tbe 
sum  of  2,0001.  waa  raised  by  bu  frienda 
and  townsmen  for  the  erection  of  a  statue 
to  perpetuate  hia  remembrance.  The  taak 
waa  entrusted  to  Sir  Frauds  Cbantrey, 
who  brought  to  the  execution  of  his  sub* 
ject  a  warm  admiration  of  the  man,  and  a 
proportionate  desire  to  do  him  justice  | 
and  tbe  atatue  when  completed  waa  depo- 


432 


OnnvAmY.'^James  MUcMl,  LL.D.  F.G.S. 


[Oct. 


«Hto4u>  tbe  cntimnce  ball  of  Um  Royal 
Manchester  InsCitutioD. 

The  University  of  Oxford  did  itself 
high  honour  in  conferring  on  the  septua- 
genarian  philosopher  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Civil  Law.  During  Dr.  Daltoo's  visit 
tB  London,  about  1833,  it  was  thought  by 
his  friends  that  it  would  be  proper  {i(  not 
inoonaistent  with  his  private  feelinp;s,) 
that  he  should  be  presented  to  the  King* 
and  in  that  case  that  the  robes  to  whico 
his  academic  degree  entitled  him  would 
be  the  fittest  coatume  for  him  at  the  levee. 
The  Lord  Chancelloc  (Brougham)  being 
made  acquainted  with  these  Teellnga,  not 
only  immediately  approved  of  them,  but 
ofiered  himself  to  present  Dr.  Dalton  to 
the  Kiqg.  Dr.  Dalton  having  been  made 
acquainted  with  the  usual  forms,  agreed 
in  the  propriety  of  the  view  taken  by  bis 
friendsp  and  attended  the  levee.  Kiqg 
William  received  the  philosopher  very 
giaciously,  and  kindly  relieved  the  little 
•mbarrasamentof  such  an  unusual  position, 
by  addressing  to  him  several  questions  re- 
specting the  mterests  of  the  town  of  Man- 
cnester. 

The  mortal  remains  of  this  highly-es- 
teemed  individual  were  interred  on  the 
12th  August  in  a  vault  in  Ardwick  Ceme- 
tery, about  a  mile  and  a  half  distant  from 
Jklanchester.  The  body  lay  in  state  at 
the  Town  Hall,  on  Saturday,  Aug.  10, 
and  the  public  were  allowed  to  pass 
through  the  room  during  the  greater  part 
of  the  day.  At  11  o'clock  on  Monday 
the  procession  moved  from  the  Town 
Hall  in  the  following  order : — About  500 
members  of  various  societies,  82  carriages, 
300  gentlemen,  10  carriages,  100  mem- 
bers of  the  various  institutions,  36  car- 
rii^s,  the  last  of  which  contained  the 
Mayor  of  Manchester.  The  hearse,  drawn 
by  six  horses.  Six  mourning  coaches, 
drawn  by  four  horses  each,  containing  the 
relativea  and  friends  of  the  deceased,  fol- 
lowed hy  the  members  of  the  Philosophi- 
cal Society.  The  procession  moved 
through  the  principal  streets  of  the  town, 
and  was  joined  near  the  cemetery  by  a 
laige  body  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
Most  of  the  mills  and  workshops  were 
closed,  as  were  also  the  whole  of  the  shops 
in  the  principal  streets  of  the  town.  The 
wult  in  which  the  body  was  laid  was  al- 
lowed to  remain  open  until  five  o'clock 
in  the  evening,  during  which  period  many 
thousand  persons  viewed  the  coffin. 

Jambs  Mncaux,  LL.D.  F.G.S. 

S^fi'  3.  At  3;  Bedford  Circus,  £xeter, 
the  bouse  of  his  nephew  Mr.  Templeton, 
aged  5^  James  Mitchell,  LL.D.,  F.  G.  S., 
fcc.  formerly  Secretary  of  the  British 
Aiu)uity  Comj^ADjr,  London* 


Dr,  Mitchell  was  a  Scotchman,  edu- 
cated at  Aberdeen,  where  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  He  came  to  Lon- 
don poor,  but  not  so  poor  as  many  of  his 
Cpuntrymen,  as  he  had  ten  pounds  in  his 
pocket.  For  some  years  he  was  a  school- 
OMster,  then  a  private  teacher;  he  then 
rose  to  be  secretary  of  the  Star  Insurance 
Company.  He  had  travelled  much,  and 
observed  well.  He  was  the  author  of 
many  works  of  Travels,  Philosophy,  an4 
the  Aru.* 

A  Lecture  in  proof  of  the  System  of 
the  PUaets  being  inhabited.    1813.  8v«. 

Easy  System  of  Short  Hand.  1815. 
Umo. 

A  Tour  thr9Ugfa  Belgium,  Holland, 
along  the  Rhine,  and  through  the  NorUt 
of  France,  in  the  summer  of  1816.  1817. 
8vo. 

Dictionary  of  History  and  Biography. 
ISmo. 

Dictionary  of  Chemiatry  and  G«o^gy. 
12mo. 

Dictionary  of  Mathematies.    ISn^. 

Natural  Philosophy.  l2mo. 

Astronomy.     12mo. 

First  Lines  of  Science,    ISmo. 

Universal  Catechist.    I8mo. 

He  took  an  active  part  in  eataUishiug 
or  supporting  the  various  Literary  anS 
Philosophical  Societies  that  have  sprung 
up  in  the  Metropolis  during  the  laet 
twenty  years,  and  frequently  lectured 
gratuitously  for  them.  His  maousccipC 
works,  descriptive  of  the  Geology  of 
London  and  its  neighbourhood,  extend  to 
manv  folio  volumes;  and  whilst  in  the 
Geological  Society,  manv  were  mure 
brilliant  in  inventing  and  illustrating  their 
beautiful  but  perhiu^  aometimes  fanciful 
theories— no  one  was  clearer  and  more 
annutc  in  detailed  description  of  what  he 
had  actually  seen.  His  opinion  seemed 
to  be,  that,  although  Geology  was  &st 
advancing  to  a  perfect  science,  still  there 
was  need  of  very  close  observation,  be£ore 
theories  were  laid  down,  which  aubae- 
quent  difcoveries  might  tend  to  over, 
throw.  His  volumes  of  Illustrations  of 
Antiquities  Ancient  and  Modem,  Maps, 
Prints  and  Portraits  of  Illustrious  Scotch- 
men, cannot  perhaps  be  excelled.  They 
could  only  have  been  collected  at  consi- 
derable  expense,  by  a  long  residence  in 
London,  and  by  one  intimately  acquainted 
with  the  History  and  Literature  of  his 
native  country  and  the  other  subjects  he 

*  This  statement  is  derived  from  an 
Exeter  paper,  and  the  titles  which  fol- 
low are  inserted  by  ourselves.  We  men- 
tion this,  lest  any  of  them  should  prove 
to  belong  to  another  writer  d  the  same 
name.    JEdil.  Qwt.  Mtg. 


J8H] 


OBiTVAXx^^Smon  An$leif  O'Rrrutt,  Esq. 


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hfti  ilhtttnttd.  Thew  Yolames,  gene* 
rallr  ecoomiMiiied  witb  nMnuscript  de« 
lenptions,  ure  left  to  the  King*t  GoUegt 
ftnd  University  of  Aberdeen,  where  he 
WM  edaeeted. 

Dr.  Mitchell  ected  under  three  Parlia* 
mentary  CommiasioM — ^fint,  at  Actuary 
In  forming  the  Statistics  for  the  Factory 
Inquiry  $  then,  as  Sub-Gommiasioner  on 
Uie  Hand-loom  Weavers'  Commission; 
and  lastly,  on  the  Inquiry  into  the  Con- 
dition of  Women  and  Children  in  the 
Mines  and  Collieries  of  this  Kingdom. 
In  the  debate  on  the  bill  for  relieving  the 
worse  than  West  India  Slavery  of  Women^ 
and  we  may  say  of  Jnfuits,  in  our  Mines, 
bis  opinion  was  frequently  referred  to  in 
both  Houses  of  Paniament,  especially  by 
Lord  Ashley,  the  benevolent  promoter  of 
the  bill.  To  the  duties  of  this  last  Com- 
mission,  uniting  both  his  ^vourite  pur. 
suits  of  Geology  and  Statistics,  he  de- 
foted  more  laMur  and  attention  than  bis 
constitution  could  stand.  His  bodily 
strength  was  great,  but  he  had  overworked 
his  brain.  In  June  1843  he  had  a  stroke 
of  paialysis,  and  a  very  heavy  fall ;  and 
on  Sunday  Sept.  1 ,  a  sudden  fit  of  apo- 
plexy rendered  him  for  ever  afterwards 
onconsetous. 


SofoN  Anslsy  O'Fsraall,  £8Q. 

Lat9ly.  Simon  Ansley  O'Ferrall,  Esq. 
of  Oray's  Inn,  Barrister  at  Law. 

Mr.  O'FerraU  was  the  younger  brother 
of  an  eminent  surgeon  of  the  same  name 
in  Dublin ;  both  being  the  sons  of  the 
late  Simon  O'Ferrall,  Esq.,  a  gentleman 
highly  esteemed  for  his  benevolence  and 
his  puUie  virtues,  and  well  known  as  the 
founder  of  three  charitable  institutions 
still  existing  in  Dublin. 

In  the  vear  1S88  Mr.  Ansley  O'Ferrall 
resolved,  before  entering  any  profession, 
to  travel  for  a  few  years ;  and  being  even 
then,  though  very  young,  curious  on  the 
subject  of  laws  and  governments,  he 
wished,  as  he  said  himself,  **  to  see  how 
the  new  system  worked  in  America," 
and  accordii^ly  directed  his  course  first 
to  the  United  States.  His  letters  thence 
to  friends  in  London  and  Dublin,  being 
full  of  original  and  acute  observations, 
were  handed  about,  and  excited  a  good 
deal  of  attention. 

Having  spent  two  years  travelling 
through  America,  a  winter  in  Paris,  and 
some  time  rambling  through  France,  he 
returned  to  England,  and  was  then  (May 
1831)  much  pressed  to  publish  his  letters. 
It  was  just  at  this  time  that  Mrs.  Trol. 
lope's  work  on  America  made  its  appear* 
a&ce ;  and  the  publisher  having  seen  one 
of  Mr.  OTerrall's  letters  in  the  hands  of 
a  Uteiwy  Mend,  quieUy  remarked,  that  it 

Gbmt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


contradicted  some  of  that  lady's  opi<. 
nions,  and  mentioned  circumstances  which 
seemed  to  aeeount  for  the  severity  of  her 
remarks.  In  this  way  Mr.  O'Ferrall 
was  encouraged  to  prepare  his  lettera  for 
the  press ;  and  thus  appeared,  in  1838, 
**A.  Ramble  of  Six  Thousand  Miles 
through  the  United  States  of  Ametioa." 

Being  now  engaged,  with  all  the  natural 
ardour  of  his  constitution,  in  the  studv 
of  the  law,  he  could  not  spare  mucli 
time  to  extend  the  various  matter  col- 
lected in  bis  letters.  Many  of  those  who 
afterwards  listened  with  pleasure  in 
society  to  his  animated  description  of 
men  and  manners  in  America,  have  re* 
gretted  that  he  had  not  given  in  bis  work 
more  of  those  amusing  details  of  which 
he  evidently  possessed  so  large  a  fund. 
But  profound  statistical  views,  and  lucid 
and  eioauent  vindication  of  the  rights  of  the 
native  Indians,  formed  the  higher  ground 
on  which  his  mind  preferred  to  dwell. 
He  meant  not  to  make  a  popular  book, 
and  was  indifferent  to  mere  literary  fame. 
The  interest  he  took  in  the  condition  of 
the  native  Indians  had  induced  him  to 
travel  300  miles  through  their  villages  in 
order  to  make  himself  acauainted  with  their 
character  and  habits,  and  he  poured  freely 
into  his  pap;es  all  he  had  learned  respecting 
their  position  and  prospects. 

In  1835  he  published  a  paniphlet  on 
Bulwer's  *'  England  and  the  JBnglish,*' 
controverting  some  of  its  law  and  pmitics. 

Upon  being  called  to  the  English  bar, 
he  followed  the  bent  of  his  own  mind  in 
prosecuting  still  deeper  researches  into 
the  philosophy  of  the  law,  and  published 
in  1837  the  fruits  of  his  extensive  reading 
and  keen  reflection  in  his  laige  work,  en- 
titled ''  An  Exposition  of  the  Law  of  Par* 
liament  as  it  relates  to  the  Power  and 
Privileges  of  the  Commons'  House." 
This  monument  of  legal  leamin|f  won 
for  him  an  early  reputation  in  his  pro- 
fession; and  amongst  other  high  eulo- 
giums  pronounced  upon  the  works  were 
the  written  approbadon  of  two  successive 
Speakers  of  the  House  of  Commons.  In 
the  same  year  he  published,  in  a  smaller 
work,  his  '*  Question  of  PrivilAre,  raised 
by  the  decision  in  the  case  of  Stockdale 
V.  Hansard."  Of  the  importance  attached 
to  his  treatment  of  this  question  it  is 
sufficient  to  say,  that  the  then  Solicitor. 
Oenena  (Wilde)  freqoentlyprofited  by  his 
advice  and  assistance  in  the  conduct  of 
the  debate  on  that  case. 

In  1838  Mr.  O'  Ferrall  published  his 
**  Afguments  on  the  Law  of  the  Duel," 
In  which  he  pointed  out,  as  has  been 
since  proved,  the  insufficiency  of  any 
existing  law  to  suppress  duelling,  and  the 
inutility  aa  well  aa  injuitiee  of  trying  « 

3  ¥L 


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Obituary. — A^  Geide^  A.B»A- 


[Oct. 


dnellUtby  law  dlirected  against  treacherons 
and  wilful  murder.  A  second  edition  of 
tlie  Utter  work  was  published  in  1840. 
It  was  about  this  time  that  be  commenced 
a  biiger  work,  on  '<  Allegiance  as  a 
Xicancb  of  the  Iaw  of  Nations/'  which, 
tiiough  finished,  is  still  in  manuscript,  for 
deeUning  health  from  that  time  began  to 
interfera  with  avocations  too  closely  pur- 
sued,  and  prevented  his  being  able  to 
conduct  it  tnrough  the  press. 

This  work,  with  some  shorter  sketches, 
-**reaiinisceneee  of  travel,  and  essays, — 
•re  aaiongst  bis  unpublished  papers,  all 
alike  marked  by  that  acute  and  searcbine 
spirit  of  observation,  and  that  deep  ana 
fervent  love  of  truth  and  justice,  which 
were  the  marked  features  of  his  elevated 
and  single-minded  character.*- Lf/erai*y 


A.  Oedobb,  a.  R.  a. 

J/«y  5.  Aged  55,  Andrew  Geddes, 
A.K.  A* 

This  aeeomplisbed  artist  was  bom  in 
Edinburgh  about  the  year  1789:  be  was 
one  of  a  family  of  six,  and  the  only 
son.  His  father,  Mr.  David  Geddes,  ivas 
an  Auditor  of  Excise ;  and,  having  cul- 
tivated a  taste  for  fine  art,  possessed  a 
•nuill  but  valuable  collection  of  pictures 
and  prints,  which  it  is  probaUe  first  sti- 
mulated in  his  son  that  ardent  love  of  art 
bywhichhewas  afterwards  distinguished. 
Among  the  most  intimate  friends  of  Mr. 
David  Geddes  were  one  or  two  gentle- 
men of  acknowledged  taste,  the  known 
possessors  of  such  works  of  art  as  can  be 
estimated  only  by  persons  who  have  a 
genuine  feeling  for  the  best  productions: 
one  of  these  was  Mr.  Macrarqubar,  the 
possessor  of  many  fine  prints,  among 
which  was  a  series  of  etchings  by  Rem- 
brandt. The  schoolboy  cares  of  young 
Geddes  commenced  at  the  High  school 
of  Edinburgh.  He  used  to  speak  of  the 
time  he  was  compelled  to  devote  to  Greek 
and  I^iatin  as  so  much  time  lost ;  but  it 
was  the  parental  wish  that  he  should  be- 
come  a  scholar.  His  inclination  for  the 
Diofession  of  art  was  not  encouraged; 
but  he  indulged  himself  as  far  as  he 
could  in  his  favourite  study  by  rising  et 
four  o'clock  in  summer  for  the  purpose 
of  drawing  and  painting:  his  studio 
being  an  attic,  whence  he  retired  to  his 
bedroom  at  the  usual  time  for  rising.  He 
was,  even  at  this  period,  a  collector  of 
prints  and  a  constant  attendant  at  aU  the 
print  sakf ,  insomuch  as  to  be  known  to 
the  auctioneer,  whoae  name  waa  Martin, 
and  who  was  fibcetious  iu  his  way,  and 
kind  to  his  youthful  bidder.  He  knew 
the  ftnccal  extent  of  his  funds*  and  when 
•.ipt  ««s  «WHi^goii«  Car  Ai.  Off  !«•  hoeii* 


couraged  him  by  such  words  ••*«—**  Noo, 
my  bonny  wee  man— 'Uoo's  vour  time;'' 
and,  on  the  contrary,  coodoied  with  bim 
by  a  most  significsnt  shake  of  the  head 
when  he  was  looking  wistfully  after  a  lot 
that  seemed  likely  to  realiie  a  more  con- 
siderable sum. 

At  a  very  early  period  of  life  he  aaet 
with  a  very  kind  friend  in  the  late  iiotd 
Eldin,  at  that  time  John  Cleric,  Esq., 
who  enjoyed  a  high  reputation  at  the 
Scotish  wr.  This  gentleman  posseaaed 
a  taste  and  a  judgment  which  had  enabled 
him  to  form  a  collection  of  paintings  and 
drawings  by  old  masters,  which  he  opened 
to  young  Geddes,  having  observed  in  the 
latter  a  love  of  art  so  exclusive.  Mr. 
Clerk  even  lent  his  young  friend  the 
roost  valusble  of  his  drawings,  mneh  to 
the  surprise  of  the  elder  Geddes;  but  the 
father  was  vet  further  surprised,  and  the 
patron  highly  gratified,  on  the  exhibitioo 
of  the  copies,  which  were  so  successful 
as  to  pass  for  originals. 

From  the  High  School  he  was  removed 
to  the  University  of  Edinburgh  ;  and  be- 
fore the  expiration  of  the  usual  term,  and 
without  his  inclination  being  further  con- 
sulted, he  was  placed  by  his  father  in  his 
own  office,  in  which  arrangement  he  ac- 
quiesced without  a  murmur,  so  highly  did 
he  honour  and  reverence  the  parental  au- 
thority.  On  the  death  of  his  lather, 
which  took  pUce  after  he  had  held  hie 
appointment,  about  five  years,  he  became 
at  once  his  own  roaster,  and  consulted 
those  friends  who  had  expressed  a  kind 
interest  in  bis  welfare.  By  the  advice  of 
Lord  Eldin  and  others  lie  resigned  his 
appolntnMrnt,  proceeded  to  London,  and 
entered  as  a  student  of  the  Royal  Aca- 
demy. The  6rst  person  by  the  side  of 
whom  he  took  his  seat  was  Wilkie,  and 
between  bim  and  this  great  man  an  inti- 
macy arose  which  endured  until  the  death 
of  the  latter.  John  Jackson  and  Haydon 
were  also  among  his  conteroporariee  at 
the  Academv.  After  a  few  yearo^  dili- 
gent study  be  returned  to  Edinburgh* 
when  Lord  Eldin,  bis  earliest  patron  and 
friend,  ever  deeply  interested  in  bis  weU» 
being,  and  entertaining  the  highest  opi^ 
nion  of  bis  taste,  authorised  bias  to  per- 
chase  fur  bis  collection  various  works  of 
art.  He  soon  began  to  exercise  his  pro- 
fession, and  was  much  employed,  as  well 
in  painting  full- length  life-sixed  portmits 
88  others  of  smaller  dimensions,  all  of 
which  gave  entire  satisfaction  to  his  sit- 
ters and  their  friends.  He  resided  In 
EdinlMirgh  from  1810  until  18U,  but  vi» 
aitrd  London  every  year,  attended  the 
sales  of  works  of  art,  and  made  pur- 
chases fsr  himself  and  others. 

it  wns  dttriflff  his  residenre  i«  Vdmm 


ia44.] 


OBiTOAAv.*«-i2e4r.  Thomas  Giihfpie,  LL»  D, 


435 


biirgh  tbttt  be  commenced  eCching ;  but 
none  of  biH  works  in  this  depsrtment  have 
been  publisbed.  He  provided  hiniM*if 
with  H  press  ior  the  purpose  of  taking 
in»pre«sion9  of  the  pktes  in  various  stages 
of  their  propess. 

In  1614  Mr.  Geddes,  in  company  with 
Mr.  John  Burnet,  the  engrmrer,  visited 
Paris  in  order  to  see  the  wealth  in  ob- 
jects of  art  with  which  conquest  bad 
endowed  that  capital ;  and,  after  having 
omde  Bome  copies  in  the  Louvre,  they 
extended  their  tour  to  Flanders,  through 
which  country  they  returned  bome.  Mr. 
Geddes  resided  principally  in  Edinburgh 
ivitb  his  mother  and  sister ;  but  on  his 
return  to  England  he  took  apartments  in 
Conduit. street,  which  he  occupied  always 
during  a  psrt  of  the  year. 

Among  the  most  characteristic  works 
of  this  eminent  artist  at  this  period  is  a 
•mall  fiilUleiigth  portrait  of  Wilkie,  which 
is  in  the  possession  of  Ix>rd  Curoper- 
down ;  it  was  engmved  in  mezsotinto  by 
Ward;  a  portrait  of  Henry  Mackcnsie, 
Esq.  (the  «<  Man  of  FeeluiK"),  a  small 
full-length,  engraved  by  Uhodes;  **  Dr. 
Chalmers,*'  life-size,  cngnived  by  Ward ; 
and  **  Mr.  Oswald,*"  engraved  by  Hodgetts. 
The  unitiersal  approbation  with  which 
these  portraits  were  received  induced  Mr. 
Geddes  to  put  down  his  nsroe  as  a  candi- 
date for  the  honours  of  the  Royal  Aca- 
demy; but,  mortified  at  the  indifference 
with  Mhich  he  was  then  met,  he  withdrew 
his  pretensions,  and  did  not  agsin,  during 
a  |>eriod  of  ten  years,  present  himself  for 
election. 

In  IBI8  the  discovery  of  the  Regalia 
of  Scothind  was  efTected  in  Edinburgh 
Castle,  an  event  which  was  comroemo- 
mtcd  b^  Mr.  Geddes  in  sn  historical 
ooonposition,  embodying  portraits  of  many 
of  the  moet  distinguished  men  of  his  na- 
tive city,  among  them  a  striking  likeness 
of  Sir  Walter  Scott. 

In  18t^  Mr.  Geddes  noarried  the  ami- 
able  kdy  who  now  deplores  his  loss.  He 
bad  been  fortunate  in  making  her  ac- 
quaintance in  early  life  —  in  his  twen- 
tieth year^but  circumstances  for  many 
years  prevented  their  union;  and  with 
what  adoiinible  constancy  was  the  heart- 
weariness  of  these  many  years  sustained ! 
Among  his  m-orks  of  this  period  was  his 
|»ortndt  of  the  late  Duke  of  York,  pro- 
nounced by  Geoiige  I V.  to  be  the  best 
likeness  evei  painted  of  that  prince. 

In  1888  Mr.  Geddes  agaiu  visited  the 
Continent,  but  extended  thie  time  his 
tour  to  Italy,  aojoumed  some  time  at 
Home,  and  made  the  acquaintance  of  the 
principal  English  artists  then  resident  in 
that  city.  The  smntaMf  of  1829  be  pnaaed 
ftt  Smlco,  where  be  paiated  oa  the  spot 


the  landscape  now  banging  on  the  waHs 
of  the  Academy.  After  a  lengthened 
abode  in  Itiily,  Mr.  Geddes  returned 
home  by  Germany  and  France,  arriving 
in  London  in  January  1831.  In  188s2  he 
entered  his  nam?  for  election  as  a  mem. 
her  of  the  Academy,  and  was  this  time 
successful.  During  the  latter  years  of 
this  talented  painter  and  exeellent  man, 
his  works  were  fresh  in  the  public  mind  ; 
his  power  in  the  highest  walk  of  art  is 
evinced  in  his  altar-piece  in  the  church 
of  St.  James,  Gariick-hill,  and  Ma  pic. 
ture  of  *<  Christ  and  the  Woasan  of 
Samaria."  In  1839  he  visited  Holhind: 
in  1843  he  sho%ved  symptooM  of  oon- 
sumption,  which  were  speediljr  subdued, 
but  re-Bfipeared  at  the  beginning  of  the 
present  year  ;  when,  despite  the  moet 
skilful  efforts  to  arrest  its  progress,  his 
malady  gained  ground,  and  terminated  his 
existence. 

Mr.  Geddes  possessed  a  perfect  know- 
ledge of  the  theory  of  his  art ;  and,  as  far 
ns  regarded  works  of  ait  of  whatever 
kind,  his  judgment  was  unique.  His 
small  full. length  portraits  were  beauti- 
fully executed,  and  bis  landscapes  were 
remHrknble  for  their  truth  and  purity  of 
feeling ;  and  all  the  relations  of  life  be 
fulfilled  ill  strict  adherence  to  the  path  of 
Christian  duty. — {Art  Union,) 

Rev.  Thomas  Gillbspib,  LL.D. 

Sept.  11.  At  Dtinino,  N.B.,  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Gillespie,  Lb.D.  Professor  of 
Humanity  in  the  University  of  St.  An- 
drew's ;  an  iiidividunl  well  known  to  the 
liteniry  world  for  his  m^ny  beautiful  con- 
tributions to  the  poetry  of  his  country, 
and  known  also  to  the  classical  world  as 
an  author  and  a  teacher. 

Dr.  Gillcftpie  was  formerly  minister  of 
Cults,  ill  the  Presbytery  of  Cupar,  where, 
after  the  manner  of  the  Spanish  adven- 
turer, he  had  the  words  of  the  Roman 
poet  carved  over  the  portal — 

*'  Inveni  portum,  spes  et  fortune  valete ; 
SuC  me  ludistis,  ludite  nunc  alios.'' 

His  immediate  predecessor  in  the  ministry 
at  Cults  was  the  Rev.  Mr.  Wilkie,  father 
of  the  late  lamented  Sir  David  Wilkie ; 
and  we  have  heard  Dr.  Gillespie  condemn 
his  own  want  of  taste  in  having,  upon  his 
entering  to  the  manse,  unconsdoosly,  in 
the  cleansing  process,  washed  away  many 
rude  drawings  from  the  walls  of  the 
nursery,  the  work  of  the  infant  painter. 
Like  a  kindred  spirit,  the  Doctor  had  a  , 
great  edariration  of  the  genius  of  Wilkie; 
and,  in  the  bourse  of  Ms  pilgrimage  m 
Cults,  he  collected  many  interesting  anec- 
dotes of  Sir  D.  Wilkie's  juvenile  efforts 
end  eodooregifeinettte,   wA  wblelt  were 


436         OBiTVAM^^^Seo.  H.  F.  Corf,  liJi.^Mr$.  WUion.        [Oct 


by  htm  to  Allan  Cinninfr- 
huD,  and  bold  a  place  in  hU  laat  wort:, 
**  The  Life  of  Sir  David  Wilkie." 

Br.  GiUeqiie  having  been  appointed 
aiaistnnt  and  anccewor  to  hie  father4tt* 
law — that  distinKuifhed  elaiaioal  tcbobr, 
the  late  Dr.  John  Hunter,  Profeaaor  of 
Humanity  in  St.  Andrcwli^in  the  year 
1888,  vacated  the  living  of  Cults,  and 
aettledin  the dty  of  St.  Andrew^. 

Very  few  men  had  greater  vcrMtilify  of 
imagination  or  power  of  aatiie  i  and  few 
indeed  oonld  oomuit  their  overflowing 
thoughta  moie  eaaily  to  paper,  leady  for 
the  eye  of  the  printer  and  the  eritic. 
There  ia  a  vast  amount  of  hie  writings, 
both  in  poetry  and  prose,  extant  in  Ue 
magaiines  of  the  day,  as  well  as  in  the 
newspaper  press  of  Seotknd,  particnlariy 
in  that  of  Fife  and  DumlHes. 

Dr.  Gillespie  was  twice  married,  his 
fonner  wife  bein^  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Hun- 
ter, already  mentioned ;  and  his  second, 
who  survives  to  lament  his  loss,  a  dangh- 
ter  of  the  Ute  Rev.  Dr.  Qeoige  Camp- 
beU,  of  Cupar. Fife,  and  sister  of  the 
Right  Hon.  Lord  CampbeU. 

Ret.  H.  F.  CAaY,M.A. 

Am§,  14.  In  CharloCte-st.  Blooms. 
bury*sq.  aged  78,  the  Rev.  Henry  Francis 
Cary,  M.A.  Viesr  of  Bromley  Abbat's, 
Staffordshire,  the  translator  of  Dante,  and 
Iste  Assistant  Librarian  in  the  British 
Museum. 

Mr.  Carv  was  a  native  of  Birmingham* 
At  the  early  age  of  15  he  published  "  An 
irregular  Ode  to  General  Elliott,*'  and  in 
the  following  year  *'  Sonnets  and  Odes, 
1788,"  4to.  When  18  he  was  entered  as 
a  Commoner  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford, 
where  he  proceeded  to  the  degree  of  M.A. 
in  1796.    In  tbe  following  yesr  he  was 

£  resented  to  the  vicarage  of  Bromley  Ab- 
it*s  (its  yearly  value  187/.  with  a  resi. 
dence)  by  the  Marquess  of  Anglesey. 
While  at  Oxford  he  pursued  his  studies 
with  unremitting  diligence;  and,  not  being 
shackled  by  the  stringent  rules  of  modern 
academical  instruction,  msde  himself  con- 
versant not  only  with  the  great  authors  of 
antiquity,  but  with  almost  the  whole  range 
of  Italian,  French,  and  English  literature, 
as  the  notes  to  the  first  edition  of  the 
tmnslation  of  Dante  fully  evidenced.  In 
1797  he  produced  an  *'  Ode  to  General 
Kosciusko."  In  1805  he  published  the 
/<  Iiiferno  **  of  Dante  in  English  blsnk 
verse,  with  the  text  of  the  original.  His 
entire  transUtion  of  the  '*  Divina  Com- 
media'*  appeared  in  1814,  but  tbe  work 
lay  almost  unnoticed  for  several  years, 
until  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge,  forming 
at  the  same  time  an  acquaintance  with 
the  tnnslator  and  his  gmt  work,  drew 


poUie  attentioo  to  ita  merita ;  f raas  thai 
time  tbe  work  has  taken  its  place  among 
our  standard  Engliah  authora.  To  this 
Mr.  Caiy  aftefwaida  added  a  tmnahitioo 
of  the  **  Birds"  of  Ariatophanea,  and  of 
the  '<  Odea  *'  of  Pindar.  Bat,  perhaps* 
the  not  least  valuable  part  of  his  litcfury 
labours  is  to  be  fomid  in  his  conrinuation 
of  Johnsons  <*  Lives  of  English  Poel^*' 
and  his  *«  lives  of  Early  French  PoeU," 
all  which  have  Utheito  only  appeaiud  ano* 
nymously  in  the  **  Old  LoMoo  M 
nrie.'* 

In  1826  he  was  appointed 
librarian  in  the  British  Mueeum,  which 
ofllce  he  resigned  aboot  six  years  sinee^ 
after  bavine  been  paased  by  on  the  pro* 
motion  of  Mr.  Pani».  From  that  peiiod 
he  had  continued  his  literary  lalioun  with 
almost  voothfttl  energy,  having  edited  the 
poetical  works  of  Pope,  Cowper,  Milton, 
Thomson,  and  Youngs  together  with  n 
fourth  edition  of  his  own  '*  Dante,*'  to 
which  he  added  many  valnable  noiea. 
The  late  government  marked  its  sense  of 
his  literary  merits  by  granting  him  a 
pension  of  8001.  a.year. 

The  remains  of  Mr.  Cary  were  in* 
terred  in  Poets*  Comer,  Westminstnr 
Abbey,  on  Wednesday  Aug.  21. 

Mrs.  Rachil  Wiuon. 

Amjf»  13.  At  her  house,  oontiguoas  to 
the  rectory  bouse  of  Kegworth,  Leiees* 
tenhire,  aged  87,  Mrs.  Rachel  Wilson. 

She  was  the  last  surviving  daughter  of 
Commodore  William  Wilson,  the  carty 
patron  and  steadfast  friend  of  the  illos* 
trious  Captsin  James  Cook,  between 
whom  a  correspondence,  at  once  seientifie 
and  affectionate,  subsisted  during  their 
joint  lives.  CiNnmodora  Wilson's  per* 
Bonal  merit  as  a  seaman  is  briefly  attesKd 
by  the  follovring  inscription  on  the  reverse 
of  a  beautiful  gold  medaUion,  the  obverse 
of  which  contains  some  allegoric  figures  : 
— *•  The  gift  of  the  Eiielish  East  India 
Company  to  Captain  William  Wilson, 
Commander  of  the  ship  Pitt,  in  aeknow* 
ledgment  of  his  services  in  having  made 
his  passage  to  and  from  China  by  an  un. 
usual  course,  and  therebv  evincing  that 
nsYtgation  to  be  practicable  at  any  season 
of  the  year,  a.d.  u.doclx.*"  That  pas* 
sage  was  first  made  by  the  Pitt  Straits, 
which  name  he  gave  to  them  from  that  of 
his  ship,  the  William  Pitt.  He  disoo^ 
vered  the  advantages  to  be  derived  from 
tbe  situation  of  Port  Jackson,  in  New 
South  Wales,  to  which  he  likewise  pve 
the  name,  from  the  surname  of  his  wife's 
family— the  Jacksons  of  Normanby,  in 
Cleveland.  In  a  piivate  ship  of  war,  of 
36  guns,  as  was  the  custom  of  that  time 
(174i>-»praciseiy  a  bundled  yean 


Oct] 


OBivvAMY.^ilerg^  Deoeated. 


iSf 


be  ftnight  three  detpemte  •edons,  In  the 
firat  of  which  he  defeated,  and  would 
have  captured,  a  Spanish  frigHte  of  54 
gune,  hut  for  the  diaaUed  state  of  his  own 
fining ;  in  the  second  he  took  two  out 
of  three  French  letters  of  marque,  each 
carfying  from  88  to  88  guns ;  in  the  third 
he  captured  u  Spanish  sloop  of  war,  car* 
rjAng  goremment  despatches  and  spe* 
cie.  In  the  year  1750  he  had  the  com* 
mand  of  a  company's  ship  called  the 
Suffolk,  in  which  he  protected  and  wholly 
preserved  a  valuable  fleet  of  merchant* 
men  against  the  Comte  de  Provence,  a 
ship  of  the  line  of  74  guns,  aided  by  the 
SylpUde  fiinte,  forcing  the  Marquis  de 
la  Chaise,  who  had  the  chief  command, 
to  sheer  off,  with  consideiable  lose,  for 
which  roost  important  service  he  received 
the  thanks  of  tiie  Court  of  Directors,  and 
a  valuable  present  of  plate.  By  a  com- 
mission, bearing  date  the  83d  Dec.  1757, 
the  Baal  India  Company  constituted  Capt. 
William  Wilson  Commodore  of  all  the 
Company's  ships  and  vessels,  with  full 
power  to  take,  sink,  or  otherwise  destroy 
all  and  every  ship  or  ships  of  war  be- 
longing to  the  French,  outward  or  home- 
ward bound,  or  within  the  limits  ot  the 
Company's  charter.  It  was  in  this  ele- 
vated service  that  he  discovered  the  Pitt 
Straits.  The  evening  of  this  brave  man's 
life  was  spent  on  a  small  estate  which  he 
had  purchased  at  Ayton,  near  his  wife's 
relations,  in  Clevelsnd.  Here  he  occu- 
pied hiasaelf  in  the  dischar^  of  the  use- 
furduties  of  a  country  magistrate,  and  in 
bH  "  the  oAees  of  an  exemplary  pious 
Christian,  till  called  into  his  Maker's 
ppsaence,  in  the  year  1795,  in  the  (^h 
year  of  his  age.  He  left  behind  him  an 
only  Bon  and  three  daughters;  one  of  the 
latter  married  William  Blackbume,  esq. 
M.D.,  the  son  of  the  Archdeacon  of 
Cleveland.  The  rest  died  unmarried. 
His  only  surviving  grandchildren  by  Dr. 
Blaekboime  are  two  daughters,  one  of 
whom  is  married  to  the  Rev.  P.  Fraser, 
Rcccof  of  Kegworth  ;  the  other  to  Mr. 
Haynes,  a  British  merchant  settled  at 
Trieste. 


CLERQVr  DECEASED. 

•/n/y  83.  At  Bombay,  of  cholera,  the 
Rev.  0€9rf€  M.  Valentine,  A.M.  mis- 
sionary from  the  Church  Missionary  So- 
ciety, and  son  of  the  hite  Rev.  John  Va- 
lentine, Perpetual  Curate  of  Tintinhall, 
Somerset. 

Lately.  In  Upper  Canada,  the  Rev. 
Oeaiye  Mortimer,  M.  A.  He  died  sud- 
denly from  an  injury  he  received  on  his 
chest  in  consequence  of  being  thrown 
tnm  an  open  carriage  agalnflt  tihe  stump 


of  a  tree.  It  is  remarkable  that,  as  a  ftdl 
in  his  infancy  had  injured  his  powth  and 
distorted  his  person,  a  fall  should  have 
proved  the  occasion  of  his  death.  For 
several  yeara  (between  1886  and  188^  ho 
resided,  first  at  Horfield,  when  he  offld* 
ated  as  evening  preacher  at  St.  Mary.le<« 
Port  in  Bristol ;  afterwards,  as  curate  of 
the  Rev.  Alfred  Harford,  at  Hntton,  in 
Somerset.  In  his  extensive  parish  of 
Hamilton,  in  Canada,  he  enlaiged  the 
parish  church  at  his  own  expense  during 
the  year  preceding  his  last ;  and  also  ef- 
fected the  establishment  of  two  other 
ohurches,  with  deri^men  attached  to  themi 
in  the  same  extensive  district.  During  a 
long  course  of  yeara  be  made  It  his  rule  to 
expend  a  tenth  of  his  income  annually  on 
the  various  objects  of  Christian  benevo- 
lence. The  Bishop  of  Toronto,  sccom- 
panied  by  more  than  forty  clerffymen, 
many  from  distant  places,  attended  his 
remains  to  their  sepulchral  rest.  He  has 
left  a  widow  and  six  children.  Of  hie 
sons,  two  are  engaged  in  the  ministry,  one 
as  a  missionary  among  the  Chippeway  In- 
dians, and  the  youngest  is  studying  in  the 
College  of  Toronto  for  the  same  destina- 
tion. 

At  Port  Philip,  at  the  residence  of  his 
uncle  Joseph  Hawdon,  esq.  the  Rev. 
William  Bamee,  late  of  the  Univenity  of 
Durham,  eldest  son  of  the  late  John 
Barnes,  esq.  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

At  Hartley  Wintney,  Haaipshire,  aged 
80,  the  Rev.  WUHam  Oerrmrd  Brieknett^ 
formerly  Vicar  of  that  parish,  to  which  he 
was  presented  in  1831  by  Lady  St.  John 
Mildmay. 

Aag,  S.  At  Saffron  Walden,  EsseXi 
aged  68,  the  Rev.  Nieholae  Bnii,  Vicar 
of  that  parish,  and  of  Icklestoa ,  Cambridge- 
shire. He  was  collated  to  the  former 
living  in  1801  by  Bishop  Yorke,  and  pre- 
sented to  the  former  m  1804  by  Lord 
Braybrooke. 

At  Prince's  Risborougb,  Bucks,  aged 
61,  the  Rev.  Richard  Meade,  for  thirty- 
three  years  Perpetual  Curate  of  that  place, 
and  Rector  of  the  adjoining  parish  of 
Horsenden. 

Aug.  3.  At  Cronstadt,  Wurtembergi 
aged  57,  the  Rev.  Henry  Jamee  Parwnet 
vicar  of  Sanderton,  Bucks, and  Arundel, 
Sussex.  He  was  formerly  Fellow  of 
Magdalene  college,  Oxford,  where  he  at- 
tained the  degree  of  M.A  in  181 J ;  wat 
? resented  to  Sanderton  hv  that  society  in 
828.  and  to  Arundel  in  the  same  year  by 
the  Duke  of  Norfolk. 

jiuff,  7.  At  Wood  Plump  ton,  Lan« 
cashire,  aged  85,  the  Rev.  Henry  Pbeter, 
late  incumbent  of  that  fownhhip  for  more 
than  thirty-five  yean. 

Juy.  10.    Aged  65,  the   Ret.  Jamei 


43B 


Obituarv.— -Cy«iy^  Deceased. 


[Oct- 


HarwMHrJI.  A.  Ractorof  MMdle^Salopv 

and  Ute  Fellow  of  i^tagdaWAe  college, 
Oxford,  where  be  aUaioed  tbe  d^ree  of 
Id.  A.  in  J 801.  He  was  presented  to  bis 
living  in  1829  by  tbe  Earl  of  Bridgewater. 

jiuf,  IS.  At  Radwiiitcr,  £ssex,  aged 
70»  tbe  Rev.  JQhm  IK.  BuUoek^  Rector 
of  Radwioter  aiid  Faulkbourn,  and  a 
Rural  Dean.  He  was  instituted  to  Had- 
winter  in  1806,  and  to  Faiilkbourn  in 
1818,  both  livings  in  tbe  patronage  of  bit 
family. 

Jmg.  U.  Aged  70,  tbe  Rev.  John 
ZIorMMMit,  Rector  of  Heydoii  and  Vicar 
of  Cbisball,  £ssez«  He  was  formerly 
Fellow  ttnd  Tutor  of  Corpus  Cbristi  coU 
lege,  Oxiord,  where  be  attained  tbe  de- 
gree of  M.A.  in  1709,  and  proceeded 
B.D.  1807.  He  was  presented  to  tbe 
cburcb  of  Heydou  witb  Little  Chisball 
in  1810,  and  to  tbe  vicarage  of  Little 
Cbisball  in  1839. 

Jimg-^  16.  At  Ladbroke-place,  Not- 
ting-hill,  Middlesex,  aged  31,  tbe  Rev. 
Tk9ma*  Cltmenta  Jirowne^  Vicar  of 
Halse,  Somersetshire,  to  wbicb  he  was 
presented  in  1843  by  Sir  James  Langbam, 
Bart. 

At  Madeira,  tbe  Rev.  John  Thanuu 
TrevefyaUt  Vicar  of  Milverton,  Somer- 
setshire, second  son  of  tbe  late  Ven. 
Geotige  Trevelyan,  Archdeacon  of  Taun* 
ton,  (younger  brother  of  Sir  John  Treve- 
lyan, Bart.^  by  Harriet,  third  daughter  of 
Sir  llichard  Neave,  Burt.  He  was  pre- 
sented to  Milvcrton  by  his  father,  in  right 
of  the  archdeaconry  of  Taunton,  in  iSi^S. 

Attff*  18.  At  Croydon,  Surrey,  aged 
70,  the  Rev.  Richard  Hunter^  Rector  of 
Newnharo  with  Mapledurwell,  Hants. 
He  was  formerly  Fellow  of  Queen's  col- 
lege, Oxford,  M.A.  I79B,  and  was  pre- 
sented to  his  living  by  that  society  in  1816. 

Jujf,  18.  At  tbe  residence  of  his  fa« 
ther.  Grove-hill,  Camberwell,aged37,the 
Rev.  John  Ph^tpM  Turner  WyAe,  M.A. 
Curate  of  Cninfield,  Bedfordshire.  He 
WAS  the  eldest  son  of  Hezekiab  Wyche, 
esq,  formerly  of  Salisbury,  and  Mayor  of 
that  city  in  1808,  by  his  tirst  wife  Frances- 
Maria,  dau.  and  heiress  of  John  Tanner, 
of  Salisbury,  esq.  by  Frances,  dau.  of 
Thomas  Phipps,  of  Leighton  House,  West- 
bury,  esq.  He  was  of  Queen's  college, 
Cambridge,  M.A.  182G.  He  married  in 
18i2  Emma,  dau.  of  George  K.  Paxon, 
•sq.  of  Hampstead,  Middlesex,  where  she 
died,  six  days  before  him,  aged  25.  He 
was  suddenly  seized  with  upoplexv  in 
Emanuel  cburcb,  Camberwell,  whilst 
joining  io  singing  tbe  let  verse  of  the  4l8t 

When  troubles  compass  him  around. 

The  Lord  shall  give  him  xest. 
jiMg,  19.    Aged  ^7,  the  Rev,  CharUt 


Dm^mm^  Vicar  of  Great  Tnr,  Oxibtd. 
shire,  and  «  Rural  Dean.  He  was.  for- 
merly of  Bxeter  CoUegis,  Oxford,'  MM. 
1814,  «od  was  preeentied  to  his  liviB^  in 
iB30  by  M.  R.  BoHon,  esq. 

At  Dttothaughlin,  near  Dnblin,  4be 
Rev.  iMtrt  Hrnndatek,  M.A.  Rector  af 
Bally magUsson,  and  youngest  »a  of  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Handcock,  of  Marlborough 
street,  DoMin. 

A^,  2b,  At  Broadstone  hill,  Oxford- 
shire, aged  56,  the  Rev.  Biekard  God- 
dardt  &ctor  of  Drsyvot  Folioit,  and 
Vicar  of  Kenble,  Wiltshire.  He  w«tt 
tbe  youngest  surviving  son  of  tbe  kte  Am- 
brose Goddsrd,  esq.  of  Swindon  boose, 
and  WHS  formerly  Fellow  of  St.  Jdhft'lB 
college,  Oxford,  where  he  attaiiied  the 
degree  of  M.A.  in  1811.  He  was  pre* 
sented  to  Draycot  Foliott  in  1817  by  his 
father;  and  to  Kemble  In  I8M  by  R. 
Gordon,  esq. 

Ang,  26.  At  Botusflcming,  Cornwall^ 
sged  57,  the  Rev.  WiUiam  Spry,  Redof 
of  that  parish.  He  was  of  £xeler  col- 
lege, Oxford.  M.A.  1614;  and  was 
instituted  to  Botusflemiog,  whaeh  was  in 
his  own  patronage,  in  1826. 

Aug.  27.  At  the  Globe  House,  Swine* 
ford,  CO.  Maiyo,  aged  70,  tbe  Hon.  and 
Very  Rev.  George  Gore,  LL.L).  Oeanef 
Killala,  uncle  of  tbe  Earl  of  Armu.  He 
was  the  third  son  of  Arthur- Saunders 
2d  Earl  of  Arimn,  and  tbe  eldest  ^  bis 
second  wife  Anne,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Boleyn  Knight,  of  Ottley.co.  York.  The 
Dean  of  Killala  was  three  times  married, 
first  to  Miss  Burrowes,  who  died  in  1819; 
secondly  in  1820  to  Sophia,  dai^hter  of 
tbe  late  Sir  Geofge  Ribton,  Bart. ;  and 
thirdly,  in  1823  to  Maria,  widow  of 
Thomas  Bunbury  Isaac,  esq.  By  his 
first  wife  he  had  three  daughters,  Sophia, 
married  in  1832  to  James  Bnm  Pureloy 
Turbett,  esq. ;  Frances,  married  in  J83i 
to  John  Sankey,  esq. ;  Louisa,  marrieil 
in  1830  to  Waiiam  John  Waldron,  esq. 
and  other  issue. 

IsaMy*  At  FVodsbam,  Cheshire,  aged 
76,  the  liev./oAn  OoUine,  bite  incumbent 
of  Norley. 

Aged  78,  the  Rev.  W.  lUundeU,  1}.U. 
Prebendary  of  BsUingtobber,  Rector  of 
Kilkeevan,and  Vicar  of  Balscadden,  co. 
Dublin. 

Tbe  Rev.  Thomae  jtferris,  Perpetual 
Curate  of  Ruscombe,  near  Reading,  end 
Chaplain  of  Twyford  Hospital,  in  tbe 
parish  of  Hurst. 

At  Ventnor,  Isle  of  Wight,  aged  39, 
the  Rev.  John  Sterling,  formerly  of  Tri* 
nity  hell,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1834. 

Sept.  2.  At  Clifton^  near .  Nottiitg* 
ham,  aged  39,  the  Rev.  Bemrjf  £^remeer 
Markkam,  Rector  ot  that  parish,  yioar 


i844.] 


OsrrvABY. 


439 


of  CoiritiMM'dugky  and  Canon  Rendentiaty 
of  York.  He  xn»  son  of  the  Ven.  Ro- 
bert  Markham,  Arefadeaeon  of  York,  and 
grandaon  of  Arehbiibop  Markbam.  He 
was  appointed  a  Canon  Residentiary  of 
York  and  Prebendary  of  Wet\Ming»  on 
Ike  reaignation  of  bis  fatfaer,  in  1833 ;  and 
presented  to  tbe  rectory  of  Clifton  by  Sir 
R.  Clifton,  Bart. 

Sepi.  5.  Ac  Sawley,  Derbyshire,  aged 
SOf  the  Rer.  Jam§$  f/iwther  Senktmi§, 
Vicar  of  that  parish.  He  was  the  ninth 
son  of  the  hte  William  Senhous?,  esq. 
formerly  Surveyor^generol  of  the  Cus- 
toms in  tbe  West  Indies.  iJe  was  of 
Trinity  college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1815, 
M.A.  1818;  and  was  presented  to  tbe 
Ticarago  of  Sawlev  in  1823  by  tbe  Pre- 
bendary of  that  place  in  tbe  cathedral  of 
Lkbfield. 

S9/ri.  i9.  Aged  86,  the  Rev.  Chrhlo- 
pktr  Cookaout  B.A.  Warden  of  Brown's 
Hospital,  or  the  Bede  House,  in  Stwrn- 
foffd,  to  which  valuable  appointment  he 
succeeded  in  1808,  having  previously  filled 
tbe  office  of  Confrater  of  the  house  for 
twenty-three  years,  so  that  be  resided  in 
it  altogether  for  fifty-nine  years.  He  was 
alao  presented  by  the  Marquess  of  Ex- 
eter m  1808  to  the  rectory  ot  Wbittering, 
Nortfaamntonsbire.  He  was  of  St.  John's 
college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1781. 

Smt,  13.  At  Sporle,  Norfolk,  aged 
5Q»  tbe  Rev.  Wiiiimm  RoberU,  Vicar  of 
tbat  place  with  the  rectory  of  Palgrare 
annexed,  to  which  he  was  presented  in 
1831  by  Eton  college. 

Stpt.  U.  Aged  85,  tbe  Rev.  John 
Uoberi  Dewerell,  Rector  of  Careby,  near 
Stamford,  to  which  he  was  instituted  in 
1826. 

At  Llandevailog  House,  near  Brecon, 
tbe  Rev.  mUiam  Jones,  Rector  of 
Scartbo',  Lincolnshire,  and  of  Lianvillo, 
Bieeousbire.  He  was  presented  to  the 
fiamifr  living  in  1817  by  Jesus*  college, 
Oxford,  and  to  Llanvillo  in  1827  by  the 
Earl  of  Ashburnbam. 

8^t.  16.  At  the  Trumpet  Hou^e, 
near  Whitehaven,  aged  54.  the  Rev.  John 
Bnmt,  for  upwards  of  twenty  yeors  in« 
curobeiit  Minister  of  tbe  parish  of  Clea- 
tor. 


DEATHS. 

i<0MD0N  AND  ITS  ▼ICIHITY. 

Auff.  9.  Aged  54,  Michael  Fogcrty, 
esq.  late  Snrgeou  of  the  St.  Helena  Corps, 
6ower-pl.  Euston-sq. 

Auff.  S.  At  Poplar,  aged  93,  Frede* 
riek  Whateley  Ceely,  of  the  East  India 
Company's  Pilot  9erv.  Calcutta. 

Aug,  10.  At  Clapham  Common,  aged 
81,  ElUabeth- Susanna,  widow  of  Thomas 


Graham,  esq.  of  Bdmond  Catftle,  Oitn- 
berland,  and  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  London". 
She  was  tbe  only  daughter  aod  heiress  of 
Jobn  Davenport,  esq.  and  condaoed  to 
oocnpy  during  her  married  life,  and  until 
her  death,  tbe  house  which  her  father  liad 
built  when  she  was  seven  years  old.  She 
was  a  lady  of  striot  piety  as  well  as  culti- 
vated intelleot,  and  was  the  laullior  of 
several  books  of  chronology,  grammatf 
and  history,  principally  written  Ibr  the 
instruction  of  her  children,  one  of  which« 
entitled  <<  Eighteen  Maxims  of  Neat« 
ness  and  Order,  by  Theresa  Tidy,"  has 
reached  its  S4tb  edition.  She  formed  % 
collection  of  portraits  of  illiistHout  eha: 
raotera  conneetod  with  European  btstory, 
in  eight  volomes,  three  of  which  are  fiOed 
with  her  own  drawings,  many  of  them 
completed  in  her  old  age. 

jfuff,  11.  At  Chelsea,  aged  77,  Wil- 
liam Thomas  Webb,  esq. 

Aug.  15.  Catharine,  wife  ot  William 
Wainwright,  esq.  of  Flndycr-street. 

Migor  Christopher  Newport,  late  of  thfi 
Bombay  Army.  He  commanded  his  re* 
giment  for  nearly  three  years  in  SdndCi 
after  the  occupadon  of  that  country,  the 
climate  of  which  so  affected  his  health  as 
to  oblige  him  to  retire  from  the  service. 

Aug.  16.  Aged  49,  Thomas  William 
Tyndale,  esq.  of  the  Middle  Temple,  bar- 
rister. He  was  called  to  the  bar  Nov.  94, 
1833,  and  attended  the  Home  Circuit  and 
Sossez  Sessions. 

Elizabeth,  relict  of  Robert  Todd,  esq. 
of  Alpha. road.  Regent's  Park. 

At  Maida  Hill,  aged  46,  Robert  WiU 
11am  Currie,  esq.  late  3d  Dragoon  Guards* 

In  Stamford  Grove  East,  Upper  Clap- 
ton,  aged  ^2,  James  Chambers  Hunter, 
esq.  late  of  the  Tax  Office. 

In  Mornington  -  crescent,  aged  63, 
Jackson  Walton,  esq.  of  Warnfoi^-cottrt, 
solicitor. 

In  White  Hart-st.  Kennington,  aged, 
50,  Thomas  Sillitoe,  esq.  late  of  the 
Freight  Office,  Esst  India  House. 

Aug,  I ; .  In  Ver ulam  -buildingi,  Gray^s 
Inn,  aged  63,  James  Dunlop,  esq. 

yJuff,  18.  Charles  Edwards,  esq.  of 
Clarendon-pl.  Maida  Hill.  He  committed 
suicide  by  cutting  his  throat.  He  was  in 
affluent  circumstances,  and  had  not  pre- 
viously exhibited  symptoms  of  insanity. 

Aged  36,  Frederick,  third  son  of  the 
late  Luke  GraTCs  Hansard,  esq. 

Aug.  3u.  Aged  76,  Richard  Mansel 
Philipps,  esq.  of  Coedgatn,  Carmarthen- 
shire. 

At  the  residence  of  John  Penttingtonc 
esq.  Priory  Road,  Wandsworth,  age4  ^0, 
Sophia,  widow  of  George  Lyndon^,  esq. 
Gerard-st.  Soho. 


44  ie 


OatTlFAST. 


(Oct 


Ar^.  it?.    In  Coniuiiglit.lerr.  Bdgis- 
wan-roftd,  aged  77>  Luke  Wade,  eaq. 
Ite  FeTOhitrch.it.  Sam.  Tompaett,  eaq. 

Aug.  93.  At  KenaiDgtm,  Kitty,  r»> 
Uet  of  John  F«rard,  esq.  of  Englefleld 
Ofveni  Snrrey. 

At  Itleworth,  at  the  honae  of  her  bro- 
ther, the  Rer.  Henry  Oloaaop,  aged  €>1, 
Mra.  Ann  Bramwell,  of  Harley-pl.  leHot 
0f  George  Bnunwellt  eiq. 

At  Blaokheatii  Fitrk,  aged  ST*  Jamea 
Kempt  eaq.  of  Great  Tower-at.  and  Black- 
heath  Park. 

At  Homiey,  aged  63|  John  Cooper, 
eaq«  of  Upper  B^Hord-plaoe  and  weat 
Sulthfleld. 

Au0,  95.  Aged  64,  Benjamin  Adney 
Sjmea,  eaq.  of  Burton  Bradatock,  Dor- 
aet,  late  Capt.  in  the  9d  Someraet  Regt. 
of  Militia. 

-  At  Brompton,  Boyle  Arthur,  esq.  late 
Capt.  in  the  Someraet  Militia,  and  80n> 
In-law  of  the  late  Rer.  C.  Olasoott,  Vicar 
of  Hatherleigh. 

Aug.  86.  Aged  23,  Jnlia-Myrton,  wife 
of  Frederick  William  Kirby,  eaq.  of  Mil- 
ton-it.  Doraet-aq. 

Hannah,  wife  of  PbiHp  Garey,  eaq.  of 
0reat  Knight  Rider* at. DoeCora'Commona. 

Aug,  97.  Aged  73,  Thomaa  Haaaall, 
eaq.  of  Addiaon  Road,  Kenaington,  re- 
tired Army  Suiceon* 

Aug.  99.  In  Cambridge-at.  Connaoght- 
aq,  aged  63,  Maria,  wife  of  John  Bent, 
eaq.  of  Oat  Home,  Lindfield,  Sniaex. 

Henry  Loder,  eaq.  of  Albion-pl.  Hyde 
Park-aq. 

Aug,  30.  In  Camberwell  Grove,  Mary, 
reUct  of  Henry  Haiben,  eaq.  of  Hackney. 

Aug.  31.  At  Brompton,  Clara-Chrii- 
tiana,  only  aurviTing  dan.  of  the  late 
Chriatopher  William  Irrlne,  eaq.  of  Bath, 
and  of  the  island  of  Tobago. 

Laiefy.  In  London,  at  an  adTaneed 
age,  Robert  Kirby,  eaq.  of  the  flrm  of 
ffirby.  Beard,  and  Co.  pin  mannfeetarera, 
of  Glovceater. 

Smi.  1.  Aged  41,  Emma,  wife  of  John 
Raphael,  eaq.  of  Finabnry-cirena. 

Stpf.  4.  At  Limmer'a  Hotel,  Conduit- 
at  aged  S6,  John  Allan,  eaq.  M.A.  of 
Black  well,  Durham,  many  yeara  an  actiTO 
Magiatrate  for  that  county.  He  waa  the 
aecond  aon  of  Robert  Allan,  of  Sunnl- 
nde,  esq.  by  Elisabeth,  dan.  and  coheiress 
(with  Mary,  wife  of  Wm.  Russell,  esq.  of 
Brancepeth  Castle,)  of  Robert  Harrison, 
esq.  of  Sunderland.     He  was  unmarried. 

Aged  36,  Edward  Kellett  Green,  eaq. 
aon  of  John  Green,  esq.  of  Southampton- 
row,  Ruasell-sq. 

In  Park-crese.  aged  79,  Batid  HaU,  eaq. 

Bept,  5.    In  Upper  Church-st.  Chelaea, 
aged  73,  John  Holt  IbbetiOD,  eiq.  tldl 
13 


known  in  the  aeiantiio  woild  byfedajM- 
metrie  ehnek«  te.  and  yonageat  eea  ef 
the  lata  Ven.  Atchdaeeon  of  St.  AttM^a» 
Dr.  IbbetaoB,  Prebendary  of  linaeln,  end 
Rector  of  Buaby. 

Sqtt.  6.  In  South*  at.  C}ffoeveBor<^ 
and  79,  the  Very  Re?.  Willian  ¥iMor 
Ayer,  D.  D.  ChaplMn  te  tlm  Portag«eii 
Embasay,  and  for  auayyeara  PHnelpd 
Chaplain  of  the  late  Pmrtegneae  Chanel  in 
8onth-at. 

In  South  Parade,  Cheiaee,  ageA  71, 
Mra.  Parry,  late  of  Hollea-at.  Oiv«hdiab« 
aquate. 

By  auieide,  at  the  Pembroke  Arms  Ik* 
▼em,  Kenaington,  Capt.  Henry  Mttiley 
Dixon,  h.  p. 

In  HiU-at.  Berkdey.aq.  the  Hma.  Jnlte 
Maria,  Lady  Brooke  Ptoehell.  Skmwtg 
the  only  aurrinngdau.  of  Robert- Bdwia^ 
ninth  Lord  Petie,  and  mwried  in  1833 
Sir  Samuel  John  Brooke  Peebell,  Bait« 
late  one  of  the  Lorda  of  the  Admiralty. 

Stpt  7.  At  Deamark-hlH,  SmsHfft 
aged  73,  Mra.  WUmot  Haekblook,  widow 
of  William  Haekblook,  eeq.  of  Clapton. 

Smt.  10.  At  Caaaden  Town,  s«ed  75, 
Sarah  Marianne  AUngton,  eideat  aar» 
Tiring  aiater  of  the  late  William  AUsgeo^ 
eaq.  of  the  Eaat  India  Houae. 

8^i.  14.  At  hia  bfother*e  hoaae, 
Carlton  ViUaa,  Maida  Vale,  aged  SI,  Wlli. 
Uam  Henry  Houghton,  eeq.  <?the  Aim  of 
Burnett,  Houghton,  and  Co.  of  MadAifc 

Stpt.  15.  At  laUngton,  aged  77,  Hna- 
nah,  widow  of  the  Rev.  Profaaaer  Piariah, 
of  Cambridge. 

In  Groarenor-pl.  aged  46,  John  WM* 
nam  Bow  den,  eaq. 

Aged  41,  Geoq^e  Yemen  Colloa,  eaq* 
late  of  Frederick*a-pl.  Old  Jewry,  and 
Meeklenbuigh-aq. 

8tpi.  17.  At  Connang^t-terr.  Edge* 
ware  Road,  in  the  69th  year  ef  hie  age» 
Mr.  Daniel  Hopkina,  third  eon  ef  tte  late 
Mr.  John  Hopkma,  whowaa  theetghtataili 
of  that  name  (John)  who  had  aneeeeied 
to  an  eatate  at  Sibford  Gower,  In  Ok^ 
fordahire. 

S9pt,  19.  In  Montagu-aq.  aged  9ft« 
Chariea  Browne  Moatyn,  eaq.  aaeoiad  eon 
of  the  late  Sir  Edward  Moatyn,  fifth  BmC 
of  Taiaore,  oo.  Flint,  by  Barbara,  dam. 
and  sole  heiress  of  Sir  George  Browne, 
Bart,  of  Kiddington,  oo.  Oxford  (who 
married  aeoondly  the  fa^er  of  the  preaent 
Colonel  Gore  Langton,  M.P.  for  Weet 
Somerset).  Mr.  Browne  MeeNn  ie  ana* 
ceeded  by  his  grandaon,  Lord  Vans  of 
Haitowden,  and  leavea  two  sona,  Henry 
Moetyn,  eaq.  of  Uak,  oo.  Monmouth,  eni 
the  Right  Rer.  Dr.  Moetyn,  a  BoaMB  Cft» 
tholic  Biahop,  and  Vicar  Apoatolie  of  the 
Northern  Diatrict. 


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BiftKB. — /tup.  80.  At  tb«  Delly  nmr 
Wiadtori  tbe  Right  Hod.  Aoae  Baroneti 
RMtoiore.  8he  was  a  nataral  daughter 
of  Dottglai  8th  Duke  of  Hamflton,  wai 
married  in  1820  to  Lord  Roasmore,  bat 
has  lolt  no  itaae. 

jimg.  25.  At  Reading,  aged  39,  Mr. 
H.  I.  Priee,  third  aon  of  the  late  Rev.  B. 
Men,  of  Woodbridge. 

/J^^.  S6.  At  Maidenhead,  aged  S9, 
Hamnel  Maxwell,  eaq.  youngeitfon  of  the 
late  Rev.  Patrick  Maxwell,  of  Aimer  rec- 
tory, I>ontt. 

Lately,  At  Reading,  aged  79,  John 
Boiilte,  eiq.  formerif  of  Rotherwick, 
Hanta. 

Bucks.— ^M^.  15.  Aged  68,  Samuel 
Luek  Kent,  eaq.  of  High  Wycombe,  and 
formerly  of  Carpenters'  Hall,  London- 
waU. 

Auf.  SO.  At  Cowley  House,  Cndding* 
tOD;  aged  67,  Thomas  Sare  Bett,  eaq. 

CAMBniDOS.  —  ^htp,  15.  At  Cam* 
bridge,  aged  63,  Mrs.  Maxey. 

Crbssikb. — Aug.  95.  Wm.  Lowndes, 
esq.  of  Oldhouse-green,  near  Congleton. 

ConiiWALL.-^JLafe/y.  At  Truro,  aged 
98,  Edward-Llewellyn,  eldest  son  of  Ed- 
waind  Osier,  esq.  formerly  of  Bath. 

Stpt.  8.  At  Tregeare,  aged  7,  Elisa- 
beth-Baron, eldest  child  of  John  King 
Lethbrldge,  esq. 

CuMBBBLAND.— >#M^.  l9.  At  Carlisle, 
aged  89,  John  Borrer,  eaq.  of  Brighton, 
■vrgeon  to  the  Sussex  Hospital  at  Brigh- 
ton, eldest  son  of  John  Borrer,  esq.  of 
Portslade,  Sussex.  He  was  married  on  the 
81k  of  the  month,  passed  a  few  days  at 
the  Lakesi  and  was  proceeding  with  his 
bride  OB  a  tour  to  Scotland,  when,  by  the 
overturning  of  the  Carlisle  mail,  bis  leg 
and  thigh  were  so  dreadfully  shattered 
that  ampntation  waa  resorted  to,  under 
which,  combined  with  the  internal  inju- 
ries be  had  received,  he  sank,  after  be- 
twetn  fifty  and  sixty  hours  of  intenae 
raffering.  He  had  unfortunately  removed 
from  the  inside  of  the  mail-coach  to  the 
outside,  to  accommodate  a  female  paa- 

Amp.  87.  Owing  to  a  fall  from  his 
horse,  aged  39,  Sir  Patrick  Heron  Max- 
woU,  Bart,  of  Springkell,  CnmberUnd. 
He  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  4th  Bart, 
whom  he  succeeded  in  1830  by  the  only 
ehiki  of  Patrick  Heron,  esq.  M.P.  He 
is  succeeded  in  his  title  and  eatates  by  hia 
brother  John,  second  Lieut,  of  the  San 
Josef. 

jimy,  31.  At  Houghton  Hall,  aged  38, 
JoBkea  Robert  Grant,  esq.  eldest  son  of 
Sir  Jaaea  Robert  Grant,  of  the  Hill,  Car* 
lide. 

Dbbbt.— ^«^.  16.     At  Chaddesden 

Gbnt.  MAft.  Voi^  XXIL 


Moor,  aged  75,  Mary,  relict  of  Btche 
Heathcote,  eaq.  of  Littleover,  and  only 
dau.  aod  heiress  of  the  late  J.  Cockshutt 
Twisleton,  esq.  of  Osbastoa  Hall.  Lei- 
cestershire. Mr.  Twisleton  was  a  clsim- 
ant  in  1781  of  the  ancient  Barooy  of  Saya 
and  Scale,  and  assumed  in  1801  by  royal 
sign  manual  the  name  and  srms  of 
Twialeton. 

jtu0.  80.  At  High  Hall,  Chapel-en- 
le-Frith,  aged  58,  Peter  Booth,  esq.  sur- 
geon. 

Sept.  3.  At  HasUnd,  near  Cheaterd 
field,  aged  79,  Esther,  relict  of  Bernar- 
Lucas,  esq. 

Dbvon. — Jug,  11.  At  Topsham,  An- 
drew Shepherd,  esq.  late  of  the  India 
House. 

j§ug.  13.    At   Instow,   Julia-HoUand, 
wife  of  William  Gorton,  and  youngest 
dan.  of  the  late  Holland  Watson,  esq.  of 
■  Congleton. 

Jug.  14.  At  Topsham,  near  Exeter, 
aged  33,  Charles  Edwin,  third  surviving 
son  of  George  Gwilt,  esq.  of  the  borough 
of  South  war  k. 

Aug.  16.  At  Park  Hill  Cottage,  Tor- 
quay, Miss  Harriet  Southoote,  dau.  of  the 
late  John  Henry  Southcote,  esq.  formerly 
of  Buckland  Tout  Saints  and  of  Stoke 
Fleming. 

Aug.  81.  At  St.  Sidweirs,  aged  97, 
Mrs.  Sarah  Carter,  dau.  of  the  late  Rev. 
Elias  Carter. 

Aug.  31.  At  Tetcott  rectory,  aged  76, 
Mrs.  C.  M.  Upjohn,  widow,  eldest  dan. 
of  the  late  Rev.  E.  A.  Rouse,  Vicar  of 
Other/,  Somerset. 

LaMg,  Aged  36,  Elisa-Sykes,  wife  of 
Nicholas  Lockyer,  esq.  Mayor  of  Ply- 
mouth. 

Sept.  7.  At  Plymouth,  Lieut.  Gerald 
Fitxgibbon,  half-pay  of  the  83d  Royal 
Welsh  Fusiliers,  in  which  corps  he  served 
during  the  Peninsular  campaign  and  at 
Waterloo,  and  late  Sub-Inspector  of  Con- 
stabularyin  Ireland. 

Stpt.  8.  At  Cawsand,  Morris  Pritchett, 
esq.  surgeon  R.N.  He  was  one  of  the 
medical  officers  attached  to  the  Niger  ex- 
pedition, and  greatly  distinguished  him- 
self under  the  trying  circumstances. 

Sept.  18.  At  Stonehouse,  aged  34, 
John  Teage,  esq.  of  Devooport. 

Sept.  14.  Mrs.  Medley,  mother  of  the 
Rev.  Prebendary  Medley.  She  died  from 
compression  of  the  brain,  the  effects  of  a 
fall  from  a  phaeton  which  was  overturned 
near  Nadder  Farm,  in  consequence  of  the 
horses  taking  fright  at  the  top  of  Whit- 
stone  Hill,  on  returning  from  Oldridge 
Chapel.  She  was  accompanied  by  the 
Rev.  Prebendai7  Medley,  the  Rev.  Pre- 
bendary  Cornish,  Vicar  of  Kenwyn  and 

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Obituaat. 


[Oct 


Ke«,  Cornwall,  and  his  siitor  the  Hon. 
Hra.  Shaw,  of  Mount  Radford*  who  wore 
mnch  bmiiod,  the  lady  being  aeriooaly 
injnrad. 

DoRSBT. — jNjf,  15.  At  Lewent,  Wim- 
borne  Minster,  Elisabeth,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
John  Baskett. 

Amg,  S5.  At  Fordington,  Dorchester, 
Cornelia,  second  dnn.  of  the  late  Edmond 
Morton  Pleydell,  esq.  of  Whatcombe- 
house. 

Sept,  1.  At  Weymouth,  aged  63,  Wil. 
liam  Holder  Baker,  esq.  of  Edmonton, 
son  of  the  late  Thomas  Baker,  esq.  of 
Chalk,  near  Gravesend. 

£a»x.--/imc  18.  John  Sterling 
Wright,  esq.  of  Birch  Holt,  Essex.  The 
death  of  his  eldest  daughter,  which  oc- 
curred eleren  days  after,  has  been  record- 
ed in  p.  819. 

Aug.  17.  GranyUle  Sharp,  esq.  of  Walt* 
hamstow,  and  Winchester-st. 

A%ff,  18.  At  Dogmersfield  Park,  LeCi- 
tia,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late  Sir  Henry 
St.  John  Mildmay,  Bart. 

jfug.  19.  At  Forest-gate,  West  Ham, 
aged  67,  George  Dames,  esq. 

Aug,  27.  At  the  Manor  House,  East 
Ham,  aged  99,  William  Storrs  Fry,  eSq. 
eldest  son  of  Mrs.  Fry,  of  the  Sodety  of 
Friends ;  and  on 

S€9t,  3.  Aged  10,  Emma.Eliiabeth, 
his  eldest  daughter. 

GLoucBSTin. — Aug,  16.  At  Chelten^ 
ham,  Catharine,  wifs  of  W.  H.  Hooper, 
esq.  M.D. 

Aug,  36.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  83, 
Allan  Thompson,  esq. 

Aug,  30.  At  the  residence  of  R.  R. 
Whitehead,  esq.  at  Theescombe  House, 
CapUin  Robert  Rochford  Felix,  R.  N. 
son  of  Dr.  Felix,  many  years  a  physician  in 
Bristol,  and  related  to  the  Colston  family. 
He  was  made  Lieutenant  1806,  served  in 
the  Edgar  74,  Vautonr  sloop,  and  Ele- 
phant 74,  on  the  North  Sea  and  Baltic 
stations :  and  was  promoted  from  the  Sa« 
lisbury  58,  the  flag-ship  of  Rear- Admiral 
John  £.  Douglas  at  Jamaica,  to  the  com- 
mand of  the  Rifleman  sloop,    in  June 

1817.  He  afterwards  commanded  the 
Beaver  10,  on  the  same  station,  until  Oct. 

1818.  His  death  was  caused  by  his  horse 
falling  with  him  into  an  old  stone  quarry, 
near  the  Maypole,  on  Minchinhampton 
Down. 

LaMy,  At  Bristol,  Miss  Elisabeth 
Williams.  She  has  bequeathed  the  fol- 
lowing, free  from  legacy  duty : — ^To  the 
General  Hospital,  Guinea  st.  100/. ;  Bath 
Hospital,  50/. ;  Unitarian  Society,  and 
the  Schools  in  Lewin's  Mend,  150/. ; 
Kational  BencYolent  Institution,  Bristol 
District,  founded  by  P.  Herrd,  50/.  } 
Strangers'  Friend  Society,  25/. 


At  CheltenhaB,  aged  47* 
ofCapt.  George  Hope  Johnstone.  Sbewai 
a  daughter  of  Joseph  Ranking,  esq.  wai 
marri^  in  1826,  and  left  a  widow  in 
1842. 

At  Cheltenham,  Sarah-Eliaabeth,  wife 
of  John  Bassatt,  esq.  M.D.  and  only  dau. 
of  the  late  Robcnrt  Smith,  esq. 

Sepi,3,  Edward  Probyn,  esq.  of  Bristol, 

S^t.  7.  At  Bristol,  Mrs.  Glisaon,  re- 
lict of  Thos.  Glisson,  esq.  late  of  Jamaica, 

Sept,  8.  At  Bristol,  aged  74,  Frances, 
relict  of  Samuel  Henderson  Shorti  esq. 
surgeon. 

At  Clifton,  aged  65,  Mary*Anne,  wifo 
of  John  Tylee,  esq.  late  of  Broadleasei 
near  Devises. 

Sept,  10.  At  Clifton,  the  Hon.  Emily 
Powys,  third  dau.  of  the  first  Lord  Lilfctd, 

Sq^t,  13.    At  Bristol,  John  BusYine, 

Hants.— ilii^.  6.  At  Ryde,  I.W.  sged 
14,  John-Reade,  only  son  of  M.  T.  Hod- 
ding,  esq.  of  Fryem  Court. 

Aug.  19,  At  Winchester,  Lieut.  Arthur 
Robert  Shakespesr,  of  the  49th  regt. 

Aug,  17*  Catherine-Anne,  third  dau. 
of  the  Rer.  Francis  EUis,  Rector  of 
Lasham. 

Aug.  30.  At  Southampton,  aged  84, 
Edward  Priddam,  esq.  surgeon,  late  of 
Topsham. 

Aug.  28.  At  Mudeford,  Elisabotb,  wife 
of  W.  Adair  Bruce,  esq.  of  Bath. 

Aug.  25.  At  Southampton,  Riobard 
Eldridge,  Esq.  Alderman,  and  for  many 
yean  a  Magirtrate  of  that  borough. 

Lutelg.  At  Winchester,  aged  19,  Ca- 
roline, daughter  of  J.  V.  Earle,  eoq. 

Near  Benulieu,  Joseph  J>e,  the  no* 
knowledged  monarch  of  the  Gypsies.  Ho 
was  a  native  of  Brokenhurst,  in  the  New 
Forest,  and  was,  it  is  said,  in  his  86th 
year.  He  was  the  progenitor  of  a  long 
line  of  deseendants,  having  loft  behind 
him  a  large  assemblage  of  i^ged  ohildreat 
grandchildren,  and  great*grandohildran. 
He  is  reported  to  have  died  worth  n  great 
deal  of  money.  Indeed  some  years  ago, 
when  Charity  Lee  was  married  to  one  of 
the  Stanleys,  old  Joseph  Lee  presented 
her  upon  tht  occasion  with  one  hundred 
spade  guineas,  besides  trinkets,  and  seve* 
ral  pieces  of  plate  furniture.  About  aixty 
years  ago  he  was  in  the  habit  of  travelling 
the  country  around  Southampton,  Ron* 
sey,  Lymington,  and  Ringwood,  as  n 
razor-grinder,  and  was  w^l  known  in 
those  neighbourhoods  under  the  sobriquet 
of  Gypsy  Joe.  In  his  political  admini- 
stration this  monarch  was  remarkable  for 
one  act  which  took  place  in  his  reign,  vis. 
that  of  excommunicating,  in  person  (about 
tiiree  yean  ago),  a  Gypsy  of  the  name  of 
Lee  from  the  sibyline  fraternity,  for  some 


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act  the  latter  had  eomnitted  against  the 
rales  and  regnlations  of  the  order.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  before  a  rery 
large  assembly  of  the  Tarions  tribes. 

Sepi,  6.  At  Anstey,  near  Alton »  aged 
81,  Anne,  widow  of  William  Lee,  esq. 

Sept.  10.  At  Willow  Bank,  nearRyde, 
I.  W.  aged  59,  James  Johnson,  esq.  late 
Capt.  in  the  Artillery  of  the  East  India 
Company. 

S^^t.  14.  At  Portsmouth,  Retired 
Commander  Joseph  Hellard.  He  had 
been  in  the  service  nearly  70  years  ;  was 
made  a  Ltent.  in  1794,  and  a  Retired 
Commander  under  Order  of  Council  in 
1814,  on  the  15th  Oct.  1831.  He  was 
midshipman  in  tiie  Berwick  in  the  action 
with  the  French  and  Dutch  fleets  in  1778 
and  1781;  was  mate  of  the  Barfleur  in 
Lord  Howe's  action  ;  was  Lieut,  of  the 
Veteran  at  Camperdown;  was  senior 
Lieut,  of  the  same  ship  at  Copenhagen ; 
was  in  the  Leda  in  the  numerous  actions 
with  the  Boulogne  flotiUa,  1804,  and  at 
the  capture  of  the  Cape. 

Herts. — Sept,  7 »  At  Old  Park  Farm, 
Much  Hadham,  aged  58,  Robert  Elliott, 
esq.  late  of  the  East  India  Co.  service. 

ksmnroRD. — Lately,  At  Bromyard, 
aged  81,  Miss  Fanny  Jancey. 

KxNT. — Aug,  SI .  At  Margate,  aged  34, 
Henry,  third  son  of  the  late  Sam.  Brooke, 
esq.  formerly  of  Finchley,  Middlesex. 

Aug,  S4.  At  Dorer,  aged  41,  John 
Parker  Nuttall,  esq.  Ezon  of  the  Yeomen 
of  the  Guard. 

Aug,  98.  At  Greenhithe,  aged  84, 
LAeut. -Colonel  Samuel  Dales,  K.H. 

At  Bltham,  aged  30,  Mary  Ward  Jack- 
son. She  committed  suicide  by  drowning 
herself  in  a  pond,  having  evaded  the  vigi- 
lance of  her  attendant.  Verdict,  *'  Tem- 
porary Insanity.'*  She  has  left  a  will 
disposing  of  considerable  property  in  do- 
nations to  certain  schools,  and  towards 
building  churches. 

Lately,  At  Erith,  aged  84,  James  Page, 
sen.  esq. 

Seyt,  1.  At  Dover,  aged  55,  Colonel 
Joseph  l>ogan,  63d  reg.  with  which  he 
had  served  In  India  for  the  last  ten  years. 
He  was  appointed  Ensign  69d  foot  1799, 
Lieut.  1801,  Lieut.  6th  battalion  of  re- 
serve 1803,  First  Lieut.  1804,  Captain 
1809,  brevet  Major  18  June,  1815,  for  his 
services  at  Waterloo,  Major  63d  Foot 
1896,  Lieut. -Colonel  1899. 

Sept,  3.  Aged  74,  Frances,  wife  of 
John  Willis,  esq.  of  Woodnesborongh. 

Sepi,  1 1 .  At  Hawkhnrst,  aged  64,  John 
Pirkinson,  esq.  late  of  the  Accountant 
General's  Ofice,  Court  of  Chancery. 

Sept,  13.  At  Tonbridge- wells,  aged  55, 
Bdvrard  Stuart,  esq.  and  of  Henbury-hill, 
Gloneetterdiire. 


Lancabtsr.  —  Aug,  94.  Aged  54? 
James  Hagarty,  esq.  United  States  Con- 
sul at  Liverpool. 

At  Waiton-on-the-HiU,  near  Liverpool, 
aged  90,  Anne-Louisa,  second  dau.  of  the 
late  Walter  Skerrett  Morson,  esq.  M.D. 
of  Antigua. 

Aug,  95.  Jane,  wife  of  John  Bradshaw 
WanUyn,  esq.  of  Salford. 

Lricistbr. — Sept,  9.  At  Hinckleyt 
aged  77,  Thomas  Sansome,  esq.  the  last 
surviving  of  that  name  of  one  of  the  most 
ancient  ftmilies  in  the  place,  who  have  re- 
sided upon  the  same  site  for  nearly  300 
years  past.  He  was  Lord  of  the  Manor  of 
Hinckley,  and  had  served  the  office  of 
Hiffh  Sheriff  of  Leicestershire. 

Lincoln. — Sept,  1.  At  the  Old  Place, 
Sleaford,  Christiana,  wife  of  Edward  New- 
batt,  esq.  and  dau.  of  John  Fletcher,  esq. 
of  iCnipton,  Leicestersh. 

Middlesex. — Aug,  8.  At  Ealing,  aged 
57,  John  Davidson  Smith,  esq.  the  pro- 
jector of  the  Beulah  Spa,  Norwood. 

Aug,  17>  At  Cowley  House,  near  Ux- 
bridge,  Nash  Crosier  HiUiard,  esq.  of 
Gray*8-inn  and  Southampton-st.  Blooms- 
bury-sq. 

Aug,  19.  At  Finchley,  aged  41,  B.W, 
Barker,  esq. 

Aug,  99.  At  Chiswick,  Dennis  Rice, 
esq.  late  of  Dublin. 

Aug,  93.  Aged  84,  William  Pyke,  esq. 
of  Grove  Cottage,  Chiswick. 

Sept,  6.  At  Grove  Farm,  Turnham 
Green,  aged  74,  Mr.  Joseph  Jessop, 
yeoman  and  bailiff  to  the  Duke  of  Devon- 
shire. 

Sept,  8.  Maria -Ann,  youngest  dau.  of 
the  Rev.  John  Addison,  Kural  Dean  and 
Rector  of  tckenham. 

Norfolk. — Aug,  14.  At  Obynext  the 
Sea,  aged  44,  Harriett,  wife  of  the  Rev.  T. 
Beckwith. 

Aug,  19.  Mary-Sophia,  wife  of  James 
Robson,  esq.  of  Camelford,  and  dau.  of 
the  late  Wm.  R.  Russell,  esq.  of  Baming- 
ham  Park. 

At  Thetford,  aged  85,  Robert  Snare* 
esq.,  one  of  the  principal  burgesses,  and 
three  times  Mayor  of  that  borough  under 
the  old  corporation. 

Aug,  94.  At  Ashby-Hall,  Mary,  erdesi 
dau.  of  the  late  John  Hammond,  esq.  and 
wife  of  Robert  Gilbert,  esq. 

Aug,  95.  Aged  69,  Frances,  wife 
of  John  Wright,  esq.,  of  Kilverstone- 
Hall. 

Sept,  19.  At  Wilton,  William  Seagrim, 
eso.  Mayor  of  that  borough. 

Northampton. — Aug,  19.  At  Peter^ 
borough,  Frederick  John  Jenkins,  Mq. 
late  junior  partner  in  the  Arm  of  AtkifH^ 
son  and  Jenkins,  and  Clerk  to  the  Board 
of  Gnardiani. 


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[OtU 


S0pt'  8,  At  the  hou9e  of  her  graiMlf*- 
Ihcr,  J.  W.  Hentig,  esq.  of  CottiDgham, 
aged  9.  Gertrude,  youo^eat  dan.  of  the 
Ute  Charles  Hebbert,  esq.  of  £atoa-sq. 

Northumberland. — Aug.  17.  Aged 
C|5,  LetitUf  relict  of  Robert  Mitford,  of 
Mitford,  and  of  the  Aadit  Office,  Somer- 
Bct  House. 

Notts. — Juff,  16.  At  Hexgrare  Park, 
aged  60,  Richard  Milward,  esq.  a  Magis- 
trate  for  the  county. 

Sept.  3.  At  Thornej,  aged  75^  Capt. 
Christopher  Nevile.  He  served  uoder 
liOrd  Howe  on  the  1st  of  June  1794 ;  and, 
a  few  years  back,  served  the  office  of 
Sheriff  of  Nottingham. 

Oxford.— «/M(y  23.  Eliza-Sarah,  wife 
of  Robert  Cheek  Bartlett,  esq.  and  second 
dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Rooertson,  esq. 
town  clerk  of  Oxford. 

Swi,  4.  Anne,  youngest  dan.  of  John 
Stephens,  esq.  of  Caversbam  Rise,  near 
Reading. 

Sept.  5.  At  the  Cottage.  Belle  Hatch, 
aged  tf5,  Mrs.  Alloway,  maternal  grand- 
mother of  the  Right  Hon.  Lady  Dun- 
boyne. 

Salop. — Lately.  At  Shrewsbury,  at 
the  house  of  her  son-in-law,  the  Rev.  Da- 
vid Winstone,  aged  75,  Phoebe,  relict  of 
T.  Wall,  esq.  formerly  of  Tenbury. 

Somerset.— y/?r^.  12.  At  Compton 
Pftuncefoot,  Lewis  Goodin  Husey  Hunt, 
fcsq. 

Aug,  16.  At  Weston-super  Mare, 
Slizabeth- Harriet,  relict  of  William  Butt, 
esq.  of  Melvill  Hall,  Devon,  and  Tetbury, 
Glouoestershire,  and  dau.  of  the  late 
Stuckly  Lucas,  esq,  of  Baron's  Down. 

Ju$,  21.  At  Bnrcot  House,  Wells, 
Jane,  wife  of  Thomas  Coulthard,  esq. 

Jug.  22.  At  the  Vicarage,  Pilton, 
aged  21,  Henrietta-Maria,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Horace  Faithfull  Gray. 

Aug.  23.  At  Bridgwater,  aged  84, 
JeflTerys  Allen,  esq.  for  many  years  Re- 
corder, and  formerly  MP.  for  that  bo- 
rough, from  1796  to  1804. 

Aug.  24.  Aged  34,  Ann,  wife  of  Joaq>h 
Lucas  Lovell,  esq.  of  Langford. 

Latelg.  At  the  house  of  her  nephew, 
W.  H.  Carroll,  esq.  aged  86,  Eliza,  only 
surviving  sister  of  the  Ute  Dr.  Hale,  of 
Bath. 

At  Bath,  John  Fitsgibbon  Scanlan,  esq. 
At  Bath,  aged  77,  James  Dunlop,  esq. 
M*  D. 

Sept,  1.  At  Bath,  aged  72,  Jones  Har- 
rison, esq.  barrister-«t^«w. 
^t.ii.  At  Bath.  Mrs.  Melin. 
Sept,  8.  At  Uie  rectory,  Marston 
Magna,  nged  87,  Ann,  relict  of  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Vitzherbert,  and  mother  of  the 
Hev.  Thomas  Vitoherbert,  Rector  of 
Marston  Magna. 


Stavpo«d.-*./#m^.  15.    Aged  49,  Hea. 
H order n,  esq.  of  Danstall  Hall. 

Sept*  7.  At  Lozley  Park,  aged  71, 
Tboraaa  Soeyd  Kynnerslcy,  esq. 

SuFVOLK. — Aug.  20.  At  the  Grove, 
Bungay,  aged  80,  Robert  Bntcbert  esq. 

Aug.  24.  At  Haleswortb,  Miss  Robin- 
soo,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  H.  Robin- 
son, Rector  of  Thwaite,  Norfolk. 

Aug.  28.  At  Yoxford,  aged  S8, 
Christopher  Smear,  esq.  solicitor,  of  Ooa- 
dle,  Northamptoush.  and  only  aoo  of  the 
late  Rev.  C.  Smear,  of  Froitenden. 

SuRKET.— ^M^.  15.  At  Richmond 
Green,  Miss  Eleanor  WaUnesley. 

Sept.  3.  At  Shirley,  Frances-Emma, 
wife  of  the  Rev.  Matthew  Thomas  Pancr, 
Vicar  of  Addington 

Sept.  4.  At  Reigate,  Fnaees-AMi, 
widow  of  Thomas  Jones,  formeriy  a  Ca^t. 
in  the  Naval  Service  of  the  East  India 
Company. 

Sept.  7.  At  Guildford,  aged  49,  Har- 
riet,  wife  of  Joseph  Haydon,  esq. 

S^t.  11.  At  Croydon,  aged  71, 
Daniel  Richard  Warington,  esq.  of  Wad- 
don,  for  nearly  half  a  century  one  of  the 
Magistrates  of  the  Croydon  division,  and 
for  many  years  Chairman  of  tliat  Bench. 

Sept.  12.  At  Boyle  Farm,  Thames 
Ditton,  aged  34,  Frederick  Sngden,  esq. 
eldest  surviving  son  of  the  Right  Hon.  Sir 
Edward  Sugden. 

Sept,  18.  At  Guildford,  George  Shur- 
lock  Smallpeice,  esq.  solicitor,  and  ddcft 
son  of  J.  Smallpeice,  esq. 

S088EX. — Aug.  9.  At  Brighton,  Mar- 
tha,  widow  of  William  Bagot,  esq.  of  Ab- 
bat's  Langley,  Herts,  and  eldest  da«.  of 
the  late  Thomas  Swinnerton,  esq.  of  Bal- 
terton  Hall,  Suffordsh. 

Aug,  20.  At  the  vicarage,  Brighton, 
aged  86,  Mrs.  Wagner,  mother  of  the 
Vicar  of  Brighton. 

Aug.  27.  At  Brighton,  Mr.  James 
Braddock,  brother  of  Henry  Braddock, 
esq. 

Sept,  1.  At  Brighton,  aged  88,  Wal- 
ter Scott  Sunhope,  esq.  of  Ecckshill 
Hall,  Yorksh. 

Sept.  18.  At  Hastings,  aged  78,  Wil- 
liam  Lucas  Shadwell,  esq.  for  many  years 
a  Magistrate  and  Depnty-I  jeut.  of  Sussex. 

Warwick.  ^  Nov.  6,  1843.  At  Lea- 
mington,  aged  74,  Mm.  Sarah  HamiltiNi, 
the  youngest  and  last  surviving  daughter 
of  Biobert  Hamilton,  M.D.  formCTly  an 
eminent  physician  at  Lynn  Regis,  to  whom 
the  mediieal  world  are  especially  indebted 
for  the  introduction  of  calomel  combined 
with  opium,  in  the  treatment  of  ioflam* 
matory  diseases.  The  deceased  lady  was 
the  author  of  a  brief  Memoir  of  her  fk- 
ther*s  Life,  a  ▼olnme  of  «  Sonnets,"  "  The 
LiberatioA  of  Jotepb/^and  other  Poen«« 


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Jli^rSS.  At  lieaniBDgton,  Miss  New- 
man, eldert  4aa.  of' the  late  Charles  New- 
rnaor  esq.  formerly  of  Preston  Honse. 

Auff»  is.  Aged  75,  John  Kettle,  esq. 
of  iht  Bristol-road*  Birmingham,  son  of 
John  Kettk,  esq.  who  died  in  1803.  He 
waa  Low  Bailiff,  or  principal  oflicer  of 
that  town,  in  1810.  He  had  two  sisters ; 
one  was  married  to  Wm.  Scott,  esq.  and 
the  other  to  his  brother  John  Scott,  esq. 
late  High  Sheriff  for  Worcestershire,  and 
both  resident  at  Stourbridge. 

Auff,  97>  Aged  66,  Edward  Jones,  esq. 
9i  Birmingham. 

Sq>t.  1.  At  Leamington,  aged  13, 
Campbell,  jonngest  son  of  Sir  George 
Sitwell,  Bart,  of  Renishaw,  Chesterfield. 

Sept,  3.  At  Weston  House,  aged  75, 
Sarah-Ann,  wife  of  Sir  George  Philips, 
Bart,  and  mother  of  George  Richard  Phi- 
lips, esq.  M.P.  for  Kidderminster.  She 
was  the  eldest  dan.  of  Nathaniel  Philips, 
esq«  of  Hollinghurst,  in  Prestwich,  co. 
Lsjic.  and  was  married  in  1788. 
•  Sepi,  10.  At  Leamington,  aged  70, 
Anne,  widow  of  the  Very  Rev.  James 
Hook,  D,l}.  Dean  of  Worcester,  and 
mother  of  the  Rot.  Walter  Farquhar 
Hook,  D.D.,  Vicar  of  Leeds.  She  was 
the  second  daughter  of  Sir  Walter  Far- 
quhar, Bart.  M.D.  by  Anne,  fourth  dan. 
of  Alexander  Stephenson,  of  Barbadoes, 
esq. 

Stpi,  13.  Aged  26,  Martha*Eliza, 
eldest  snrriving  dan.  of  George  Joseph 
Green,  esq.  of  Birmingham. 

WBBTifomKi.AND.*-5e/»/.  7.  A)^d  34, 
William,  fourth  son  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Gibson,  Vicar  of  Barton,  and  Governor  of 
tiie  TirreU-lodge  Academy. 

Wilts. — Aug,  S7«  At  Corsbam,  aged 
18,  Georgiana-Jane,  fourth  dan.  of  the 
laie  Major  Gcen.  George  Mackie,  C.B. 

Avff,  S8.  Aged  10,  Catherine,  third 
dan.  of  G.  W.  Anstie,  esq.  of  Pu-k  Dale, 
Deviica. 

Sept,  6.  At  Milford,  near  Salisbury, 
aged  67»  Walter  Goddard,  esq. 

Sepi.  7.  At  Melksham,  aged  59,  Eli- 
sabeth, widow  of  Thomas  Bruges,  esq. 

WoBOxsTRm. — LaMjf.  At  Worcester, 
aged  84»  Mary,  relict  of  Richard  Adams, 
esq. 

YoBK.  —  Aug,  3.  At  Summerville- 
houae,  Halifax,  aged  73,  William  Roth- 
well,  esq. 

Aug.  13.  At  Scariiorough,  John  Cook- 
croft,  esq.  M.D. 

At  Grimsby,  Lieut.  Lester,  R.N.  Com- 
aoaader  of  H.M.R.C.  Lapwing,  of  that 
port. 

Aug,  18<    At  hii  seat,  Anlaby  House, 
null,  aged  70,  William  Voase,  esq. 

At  York,  aged  69,  John  Barker,  oq^ 

Am^  SO.    At  BUk  Fttk,  o^bt 


mond,  Thomas  Webb  Edge,  esq.  of  Strel. 
ley  Halt,  Notts. 

Jug,  "24,  Aged  46,  William  Heath- 
cote,  esq.  of  Cnndall  Manor,  and  Hythe^ 
SonthamptOD. 

Aug.  31.  At  the  house  of  bis  nephew, 
Mr.  William  Batdson,  of  Catwick,  aged 
74,  William  Gilder,  esq  late  of  this  town. 

Wales.  —  Lateiy,  At  Swansea,  Mr. 
Wm.  C.  Murray,  one  of  the  publishers  of 
the  Cambrian  newspaper. 

Stpt,  4.  At  Tenby,  Angelioa-Ceciliaf 
wife  of  Col.  Owen,  of  Landshipping,  only 
son  of  Sir  John  Owen,  of  Orieltoit,  Bart. 
She  was  the  third  daughter  of  Sir  Charles 
Morgan,  Bart  of  Tredegar,  tfnd  sister  to 
Lady  Rodney. 

8tpl,  16.  At  Rheola,  Glamorgansh. 
Mrs.  Edwards  Vanghan,  widow  of  John 
Edwards  Vanghan,  esq.  formerly  M.P. 
for  that  county,  and  for  the  city  of  Wells. 

Scotland. — Ma^  3.  At  Edinburgh, 
the  wife  of  Sir  James  Colquhonn,  of  LosSf 
Bart.     She  was  married  in  1849. 

Aug.  13.  At  Glasgow,  John  Wyld,  esq. 
Agent  for  the  Commercial  Bank  of  Scot- 
land. 

Aug.  19.  At  his  seat  of  Fetternear, 
aged  34,  Count  Leslie,  of  Balquhain,  the 
representative  of  one  of  the  oldest  families 
in  the  county.  He  had  been  enjoying 
the  sports  of  the  field,  when,  having  be- 
come overheated,  he  sought  the  refresh- 
ment of  a  draught  of  cold  water,  which 
produced  violent  inflammation,  and  caused 
his  death. 

Aug,  30.  At  Lochbuy  House,  aged  54^ 
Murdoch  M'Laine,  of  Lochbuy.  He  was 
formerly  a  Lieut,  in  the  43d  Highlanders, 
and  was  present  in  some  of  the  Peninsular 
battles.  He  married  Christina,  d^u.  of 
Donald  Maclean,  esq.  of  Kinloch,  W.  S. 
Edinburgh,  and  had  a  numerous  family. 
(See  History  of  the  Clan  Maclean,  1838, 
p.  335.) 

Aug,  30.  At  Edingigbt  House,  Banff' 
shire.  Lady  Innes,  wife  of  the  late  and 
mother  of  the  present  Sir  James  Innes. 
She  was  the  third  dan.  of  George  Porbes, 
esq. 

IBELAKD. — Aug,  91,  Drowned  in  the 
river  Shannon,  near  Athlone,  together 
with  a  boy,  his  servant^  by  the  capsizing 
of  a  boat,  Capt.  Granville  HeywoodEliott, 
4th  dragoons,  only  son  of  Col.  Eliott, 
R.  Art.  of  Valebrook  Lodge,  near  HastiDgs. 

Aug,  28.  At  Cove,  Harmer  Spratt 
Wise,  esq.  youngest  son  of  the  late  James 
Wise,  esq.  of  Monard. 

StpL  S,  At  Dublin,  Lieut.-Col.  Sker- 
ret,  who  formerly  commanded  the  5^th 
regt.  He  retired  from  the  service  In 
Aug.  1B96,  and  was  appointed  lieut. -Col. 
on  the  Continent  of  Europe  QdtaX  tt^jf) 
OH  the  3d  of  that  month. 


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GirBmNSBT.-*itf«f .  30.  Sibelk,  wife  of 
Major  Wm.  Stirling,  of  the  Bombay  Army, 
of  Clifton  Hooia,  Bzetar,  and  yonngest 
dan.  of  W.  L.  Hodcin,  esq.  of  Dartmonth. 
In  the  year  1836  the  was  shipwrecked  on 
the  uninhabited  Islsad  of  Astora,  where, 
during  a  period  of  68  days,  by  the  good 
enmple  and  great  exertion,  mnder  the  in- 
ihience  of  rel^ons  feeUng»  of  herself  and 
hvsband,  the  comforts  of  the  crew  of  tlw 
shipwrecked  vessel  were  attended  to,  and 
disdpUne  preserred. — On  the  following 
day,  aged  o,  Ellen*Mary,  yonngest  child 
of  t^  ahoTe ;  both  of  scarlet  feTor. 

East  Ikdibs. — Mmif  6.  At  Kumehee. 
in  Sinde,  Where  he  had  shortly  before 
arriTed  from  Rajcote,  in  command  of  tho 
left  wing  of  his  regiment,  aged  5f3,  lient. 
George  Frederic  T%ome,  of  the  14th  reg. 
of  Bombay  NatiTe  Infiiintry,  third  and 
youngest  son  of  Lieut. -Col.  P.  F.  Thome, 
K.H.  (late  of  the  94th  reg.)  Of  a  truly 
military  family  in  one  continued  line  for 
more  than  a  century  and  a  half,  he  early 
imbibed  a  high  feeling  for  that  noble 
profession,  and  educated  at  Addiscombe, 
he  there  gave  proofr  of  talent  which 
might  hare  led  him  to  look  to  the  high- 
est honours  of  the  serrice. 

Jffy  S6.  At  Jaffnapatam,  aged  20, 
Lieut.  A.  F.  Colley,  Ceylon  Rifle  reg. 
only  son  of  the  late  Mijor  Augustus  Kep- 
pel  Colley,  R.M. 

JwM  87.  At  Kalkj^  Bengal,  Miyor 
Urmston,  U.  M.  31st  reg.  fourth  son  of 
the  late  Capt.  James  Urmston,  of  the  East 
India  Co*s  Maritime  Serrice. 

Lately.  At  H|derabad,  Capt.  Durbin, 
39th  regt.  second  son  of  J.  J.  Durbin', 
esq.  of  Cheltenham. 

At  Calcutta,  aged  22,  Charles  Henry 
Thompson,  flfUi  son  of  Abraham  Thomp. 
son,  esq.  of  Bewdley. 

juiy  S9.  At  Ahmednuggur,  aged  29, 
Arthur  Andrew  Charles  Forbes,  esq.  of 
the  Bombay  Ciril  Service,  third  son  of 
the  late  John  Forbes  Mttehell,  esq.  of 
Iliainston,  Aberdeenshire. 

WatT  iNOtBs. — /IMS  . .  Accidentally 
drowned,  near  Kingston,  Jamaica,  aged 
21,  Henry-Thomas,  fourth  son  of  Lee 
Shaw,  esq.  and  nephew  of  Sir  Robert 
Shaw,  Bart  of  Bushy  Park,  near  Dublin. 

Abuoad. — Dee.  3.  At  Rome,  aged  33, 
Lady  Maria- Harriet,  wife  of  Sir  Wm.  M. 
Somerrille,  Bart  M.P.  sister  to  the  Mar- 
quess of  Conyngham.  She  was  the 
second  and  last  surriving  daughter  of 
Henry  the  first  Marquess,  by  Elisabeth, 
dan.  of  Joseph  Denison,  esq.  of  Denbies, 
Surrey ;  and  was  married  in  1832,  to  Sir 
William  Somerrille,  but  had  no  issue. 

Feb.  10.  At  Bathurst,  Cape  of  Good 
Hope,  in  her  79th  year,  Mrs.  Ann  Bid* 
dulph,  widow  of  Simon  Biddulph,  ssq. 


fbrmeriyofTsmwoftfa.  Sh0  was  tiM  only 
daughter  of  Thomas  Bumot,  esq.  eaptate 
in  the  Royal  Navy,  and  grsat-graadangh- 
ter  of  the  eelebrstod  Gilbert  Bunet, 
Bishop  of  Salisbury,  and  (upon  the  death 
of  her  brother,  Major-General  John  Bar- 
net)  beeame  sole  legal  representetive  of 
that  learned  prelate. 

AfrU  3.  At  Florence,  aged  61,  Bliaa- 
beth,  wife  of  Miyor-Qeneral  Dambency, 
eldest  daughter  of  the  bte  Venerable 
Archdeacon  Daubeney. 

.4prU  1 9.  On  board  the  Fsirlle,  on  his 
passage  to  England  from  Chins,  Captahi 
Cyrus  DanieU,  Paymaster  of  H.  M.  S5di 
reg.  He  served  fbr  many  years  with  the 
76th  r«w.  and  was  in  Spain  under  Sir 
John  Moore,  aft  the  Siegs  of  FlnsliiBg, 
in  the  Peninsula  from  July  1813  to 
Fbb.  1814,  induding  the  battie  of  the 
3lst  of  August  in  the  Pyrenees,  passage 
of  the  Bidassoa,  battle  of  Nivelle,  opera- 
tions  in  front  of  St.  Jean  de  Lus ;  vmI 
battles  of  the  Nive,  on  the  9di,  lOtfa,  and 
13th  Dec.  1813.  He  subsequently  re- 
tired from  the  service  by  sale  of  his  lieu* 
tenancy,  and  re-entered  ttie  army,  Nov. 
8,  1821,  by  the  purchase  of  a  second  lieu* 
tenancy  in  the  Rifle  Brigade,  and  being 
placed  on  half  pay,  was  brought  on  fUl 
pay  as  paymaster,  55th  regt.  March  14, 
1822.  Two  of  hia  sons  hold  commissions 
as  Lieutenanto  in  the  55th. 

May  5.  At  Philadelphia,  ProfesMr 
Sanderson,  author  of  the  *'  American  in 
Paris." 

May  26.  Drowned  by  falling  ovarboard, 
on  his  passage  to  the  East  Indies,  aged 
20,  Walter  Oke  Cleave,  eldest  son  of  W. 
O.  Cleave,  esq.  surgeon,  of  Clifton. 

July  27.  At  St.  John's,  New  Bruns- 
wick, aged  40,  Emily,  wife  of  Mr.  George 
Blateh,  and  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  George 
Roberte,  eaq.  of  Warminster,  one  of  the 
authors  of  "  Pinnock*a  Catechisms,*'  and 
various  other  popular  educational  works. 

Aug.  7.  At  CasteUamare,  aged  5,  Le 
Norman,  eldest  son  of  the  R%ht  Hon* 
Lord  Brabason. 

Aug.  14.  At  the  Villa  CaUgiole,  U 
Florence,  the  youthful  Archduke  Rainer 
of  Tuscany,  third  son  of  the  Grand  Duke 
of  Tuscany. 

At  the  baths  of  Lncca,  aged  63,  Lady 
Hester  Annabella  Macleod,  dau.  of  Ar* 
thur  first  Earl  of  Mountnorris  and  eighth 
Viscount  Yalentia,  by  his  first  wife,  the 
Hon.  Lucy  Fortescue  Lyttelton,  only 
dau.  of  George  first  Lord  Lyttelton ;  and 
sister  to  the  late  Earl  of  Mountnorris,  of 
whom  a  memoir  is  given  in  our  present 
Magsiine.  She  was  msrried  in  1801  to 
the  late  Major-Gen.  Norman  Macleod^ 
C.B.  who  died  in  1831,  and  her  son, 
Arthur  Lyttelton  Madiodv  esq.  ig  the 


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principtl  hdr  t9  the  Bail  of  MoimtBorris, 
hit  luudc 

Aug.  17.  At  the  Grmnd  Hotel  de 
Rouen,  aged  69»  Sarah-Maria,  wife  of 
George  Sattor,  eaq.  of  Sydney,  New 
Soath  Wales. 

Au§.  30.  At  Madrid,  aged  37,  the 
Dnke  D'Otsona,  brother  to  the  Maiqaia 
deTerranora. 

Lmttiff,  Drowned  in  the  Danube,  at 
Vienna,  aged  19,  George  Dryadale,  son  of 
the  late  Sir  Wm.  Dryidale,  of  Pittenchar, 
Fifeahire* 

At  the  Narigatora'  lalanda,  aged  28, 
Bfary,  wife  of  the  Rcr.  George  Pratt,  mis- 


aionary,  and  sister  to  the  Rev.  C.  P* 
Hobbs,  of  Market  Lavington. 

Sipi.  1.  At  a  Tery  lulTanced  age,  the 
celebrated  painter,  Camuceini,  Diieetor  of 
the  Academy  of  Fine  Arts  at  Rome. 

Sq^t.  6.  At  his  seat,  Schetenborg,  hia 
Eiedlency  the  Minister  Baron  Von 
Scheie. 

8tpL  9.  At  Bonlonge-siir«Mer,  aged 
7,  Emma-Frances,  youngest  dan.  of  the 
Hon.  Jamea  Iliomason,  Lient.-OoT.  of 
the  Agra  Presidency. 

Sept.  10.  At  Paris,  aged  63,  Rndi- 
Wilson,  wife  of  Major  Blondell,  and  lis- 
ter of  the  Bishop  of  Calentta. 


TABLE  OF  MORTALITY  IN  THE  METROPOLIS. 
(Indiiding  the  District  of  Wandaworth  and  Clapham.) 
FVvni  iJU  Retuma  tinted  b^  the  Regiitrar  Oemerai. 
DsATBs  RnsUTEEKD  from  AoGUST  24  to  Seftembee  21,  iQ4A,  (5  weeks.) 

Under  15.. 2340 


Males        2243  ( ..^ 
Females     2106  ]  *^ 


15  to  60 1303 

60  and  upwards        702 
Age  not  specified 


.4349 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  CORN,  September  17. 

Peas. 
1.    d. 
35    4 

PRICE  OF  HOPS,  Sept.  20. 
Sussex  Pockeu,  6L  Ot.  to  7/.  5t.~Kent  Pockets,  61.  6t.  to  Si.  St. 


Wheat. 

Barley. 

Oau. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

«.    d. 

t.    d. 

f.    d. 

t.    d. 

t.    d. 

47    7 

38    8 

21    0 

39    6 

34    1 

PRICE"  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW  AT  SMITHFIELD,  Sept.  20. 

Hay,  Si.  I5t.  to  5i.  Ik Straw,  I/.  8ff.  to  U.  lOt^Clover,  4/.  lOt.  to  61. 6$. 

SMITHFIELD,  Sept.  20.    To  sink  the  Offal_per  stone  of  Slbs. 


Beef. 2v.  6d.  to  St.  lOd. 

Mutton 2t.  Sd.  to  4f.    Od. 

Veal 3f.  4d.  to  4«.    id. 

Pork St.  Od.  to  4f.    Od. 


Head  of  Cattle  at  Market,  Sept.  15. 

BeasU 3666    Calves    144 

SheepandLamba   33,960   Pigs      391 


COAL  MARKET,  Sept.  20. 

Walls  Ends,  from  17«.  6d.  to  23*.  9d.  per  ton.  Other  sorts  from  15#.  9^.  to  2a#.6rf. 

T  ALLO  W,  per  cwt.— Town  Tallow,  43f.  6rf.      Yellow  Russia,  43f .  6d. 

CANDLES,  7s.  Od.  per  doz.    Moulds,  9t.  6d. 

PRICES  OF  SHARES. 

At  the  OiBceof  WOLFE,  Bbotuers,  Stock  and  Share  Brokers, 

23,  Change  Alley,  Comhill. 

Birmingham  Canal,  156L EUesmere  and  Chester,  62. Grand  Junction,  162. 

Kennet  and  Avon,  10^. Leeds  and  Lirerpool,  640.— Regents,  25). 

Rochdale,  62. London  Dock  Stock,  115. St.  Katharine's,  117. East 

and   West  India,  137.  -^—  London    and  Birmingham    Railway,  214. Great 

Western,  71  pm«—— London  and  Southwestern,    75. Grand   Junction  Water. 

Works,  90. West  Middlesex,  127. Globe  Insurance,  141. Guardian, 

49|.— -Hope,  7i. Chartered   Gas,  67. Imperial   Gas,    85|. Pbcenix 

Gas,  40.— London  and  Westminster  Bank,  26}.— Reversionary  Interest,  104. 

For  Prices  of  all  other  Shares*  enquire  as  abore. 


448 


METEOROLOGICAL  DIARV,  by  W.CARY,  Strand 

From  August  26  to  StpUmbtr  25,  l&U,  both  ineluiipt. 


Fnhreiilicift  Tbenn. 


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95  pm. 
93  pm. 
93  pm. 


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281 


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284 

2821 


9496  pm. 
94  pm. 


9i  pm. 
96  pm. 
2831 93  96  pm. 
9295  pm. 
284  ,9092  pm. 
9092  pm. 
2831' 


Ex.  Bills, 
jtlOOO. 


76  74pm. 
74  76  pm. 
74  76  pm. 


1151 


:^84i  92  pm. 
28HI  93  pm. 
285  9394pm. 
2841 


286  9395  pm. 
88  i  83  pro. 


75 
73 
73 
76 
75 
75 
77 
76 
76 
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75  pm. 
75  pm. 

74  pm. 
77  pm. 
77  pm. 

75  pm. 

74  pm. 
74pra. 

76  pm. 
76  pm. 

75  pm. 

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76  pm. 
74  pm. 
74  pm. 
76  pm. 
74  pm. 
76  pm. 
74  pm. 
76  pm. 
74  pm, 


'111  I 

J.J.  ARNULL,  Knglisb  and  Foreign  Stock  and  Share  Broker, 

3,  Bank  Chambers,  Lothbury. 

i,  9.  NICHOU  4KD  UOV,  PftlNTBRit  25,  PAHUAMBlfT-BTRBBT. 


THE 

GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 

NOVEMBER,  1844. 
By  SYLVANUS  URBAN,  Gent. 


CONTENTS.  •■*"« 

MuroB  CommsBPOiiDBKcmi — Confetsioiiftls  in  Churchea— The  Magdalen  Hospital 
At  Wincheiter — Painting  in  Lenham  Chnrcbi  &c.  &o 450 

Co»JBCTl^iAL  EmNDATiOKB  ON  THB  Text  OF  Shakspbbb  :  With  Obserra- 
tiona  on  the  Notes  of  the  Commentators,  and  on  Mr.  Hunter's  "  lUostra- 
tiona  of  Shakespeare*' • 451 

Emendatioo  to  the  Prometbens  Vinctns  of  ^schylos •••  47S 

Trb  TiUBB  Sbialbtb • 473 

On  Church  Bells,  particularly  the  Bells  of  London •  483 

Plas  G6ch,  a  mansion  of  the  Bolkeleys,  in  Beanmarais  (vntk  a  Plate) •  486 

0 

Sir  Thomas  Gresham  and  the  Royal  Exchange 488 

The  CanteHmry  Meeting  of  the  British  Aroh«ological  Association   495 

REVIEW  OP  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 

Diaries  and  Correspondence  of  the  first  Earl  of  Malmesbury,  497  ;  Arch«o« 
logia,  Vol.  XXX.  Part.  II.  502 ;  Edwards's  Old  EngUsh  Customs,  and 
Cnrious  Bequests  and  Charities,  506  ;  Lectures  by  the  late  John  Foster,  508 ; 
Pycroft's  Greek  and  Latin  Grammar  Practice,  510 ;  Sermons  by  the  Rer. 
W.  P.  M'Farquhar,  511 1  Brenton's  Septuagint  Version  in  English,  513  ; 
The  Churches  of  Warwickshire,  ibid, ;  Miscellaneous  Reviews 514 

LITER.VRY    AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE. 
New  Publications,  51 G  ;  British  Association  for  the  AdTancement  of  Science, 
5S0;  Royal  Society  of  Literature 596 

ARCHITECTURE.— New  Churches    529 

ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES.—Church  Paintings  at  Truro,  539;  Mr. 
Thomas's  Collection  of  Coins — Saxon  Churches — Stone  Coffins • .  •  •  •     533 

HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE.— Foreign  News— Domestic  Occurrences   ....     534 

Promotions  and  Preferments,  537 ;  Births  and  Marriages 538 

OBITUARY  ;  with  Memoirs  of  the  Duke  of  Grafton ;  Marquess  of  Donegall ; 
John  Willis  Fleming,  Esq. ;  Sir  R.  J.  Eden,  Bart. ;  Sir  Neil  Mensies,  Bart. ; 
Sir  Joseph  Whatley,K.C.U. ;  GranTille  Penn,  Esq. ;  Capt.  Thomas  Forrest, 
C.B. ;  Capt.  Peter  Fisher,  R.N. ;  Commander  C.  Hope,  R.N. ;  Major 
Urmston;  John  Dalton,  D.C.L. ;  Francis  Baily,  Esq.  F.R.S. ;  Mr. 
Robert  Taylor  ;  John  Overs 543—551 

Clbrot  Dxcbasbd 551 

Dbaths,  arranged  in  Counties ••     552 

Registrar-General's  Returns  of  Mortality  in  the  Metropolis-— Markets— Prices 
of  Shares,  559;  Meteorological  Diary— Stocks 560 

BmbcUished  with  a  View  of  Plas  Gooh,  in  Beaumaraib,  and  Two  Views  of  the 

Old  Royal  Exchange. 


450 


MINOR  CORRESPONDENCE. 


Saxon  remarks, ''  The  circular  aperture 
in  the  lower  part  of  the  south  wall,  and 
near  the  door,  of  the  chapel  at  Coombes 
in  Sussex,  mentioned  in  p.  338,  has  never 
beeo  a  Confessional.  It  is  too  old.  But 
such  like  apertures  nerer  were  confes* 
tionals.  This  one  can  hate  had  but  one 
purpose, — for  the  convenience  of  persons 
hearing  mass,  who,  whilst  under  Church- 
censures,  were  not  permitted  to  come 
within  the  walls.  A  person  might  be  so 
under  Church- censure  as  to  be  allowed 
to  come  itito  the  churchyard,  and  up  to 
the  sacred  edifice,  but  not  to  enter  in." 

Plantaobnkt  observes  that  the  form 
and  dimension  of  the  arches  alluded  to  in 
the  last  passage  of  the  letter  of  B.  F.  W. 
in  our  last  number,  p.  360,  are  not  given. 
Possibly  such  arches  may  be  blocked  up 
pier-arches,  formerly  communicating  with 
a  sacristy  or  vestiary ;  or  they  may  have 
been  merely  of  an  ornament^  character, 
like  those  frequently  met  with  on  the  in- 
terior of  aisle-walls,  and  on  the  exterior 
of  towers  and  porches. 

In  his  account  of  the  Magdalen  Hospital 
at  Winchester,  in  our  last  number,  B. 
omitted  to  mention  that  the  removal  of 
aged  inmates  in  the  winter  of  1665  to 
lodgings  within  the  city,  was,  in  all  pro- 
bability, attended  with  fatal  consequences, 
for  early  in  the  following  year  the  plague 
raged  with  fearful  violence,  carrying  off 
its  victims  in  large  numbers,  amongst 
whom  it  cannot  be  doubted  were  some  of 
these  unfortunate  individuals.  On  the 
destruction  of  their  ancient  dwellings  on 
the  hill,  some  small  cottages  were  erected 
for  them  near  Water-lane,  and  in  digging 
the  foundations  the  workmen  struck  on 
several  Roman  sepulchres  containing 
human  bones,  urns,  and  other  remains  of 
that  period.  The  brass  plate  to  the 
memory  of  Dr.  Ebden  is  probably  lost, 
but  the  whole  inscription  may  be  seen, 
together  with  the  lines  below,  in  a  history 
of  this  city  published  in  1773,  commonly 
called  the  **  Anonymous  History,*'  a 
work,  it  must  be  admitted,  containing  so 
many  errors  as  to  create  distrust  in  any 
of  its  statements,  in  the  absence  of  other 
authority. 

He  that  both  God  and  good  men  fear*d  and 

lovM, 
VHiich  by  example  cherish^  or  reproved, 
Heer  lyes  entered.    He  living  was,  dead  is, 
A  preacher  whom  the  church  lovM,  the  people 

mys ;  [create, 

His  life  for  length,  learning  for  truth  was 
,  His  doctrine  pure,  bis  deeds  withont  deceite, 
And  in  his  life  time  was,  and  att  his  end, 
To  rich  and  poore,  a  fiither  and  a  flreiode. 


The  annual  talue  it  there  given  at 
4W.  6«.  8<f.  as  certified  to  the  Augmenta- 
tion Oflioe  by  the  commissioners  appointed 
under  the  37th  of  Hen.  VIII.  a  copy  of 
which  appeara  in  the  Appendix.  Between 
1547  and  1569  the  pny  for  the  outpen- 
sioners  appears  to  have  been  lost,  and  the 
number  reduced  to  eight.  A  fiill  report 
of  the  present  income  was  made  a  few 
years  ago  to  the  Charity  Commissioners  ; 
it  has  not  fallen  under  my  notice,  bat 
I  believe  it  does  not  exceed  100/.  a 
year.*' 

In  our  notioe  (p.  410)  of  a  pninting  on 
the  south  wall  of  Lenham  Church,  Kent, 
it  was  stated  that  it  represents  a  knceliof 
figure  praying  to  the  Virgin,  &e.  which 
does  not  give  a  sufficient  explanation  of 
the  subject  The  following  description 
may  perhaps  be  better  understood :  the 
ArchangelMichael  is  weighing  sonls ;  one 
is  in  the  lower  scale  praying  to  the  Virgin 
Mary ;  she  is  crowned  as  the  Queen  of 
Heaven,  and  is  throwing  a  rosary  upon 
the  beam  to  shew  the  efficacy  of  prayer, 
and  to  give  weight  to  the  scale ;  her  right 
hand  is  raised,  as  bestowing  a  blessing,  or 
interceding  for  the  good  soul.  The  other 
scale,  which  is  upraised,  has  two  devils  or 
evil  spirits  using  their  utmost  power  to 
pull  down  the  s^e  ;  another  imp  is  seated 
on  the  upper  part  of  the  beam  with  a  soul 
in  his  right  hand,  and  blowing  a  born  with 
his  left,  either  in  exultation  at  his  success 
or  calling  for  other  evil  spirits  to  assist, 
as  there  are  evident  remains  of  a  osore 
extensive  arrangement  of  the  design*  The 
Archangel  and  the  Virgin  are  on  separate 
mounds  ;  under  the  latter  trefoils  are 
springing  up,  which  are  probably  allnsiTe 
to  the  Trinity,  but  by  some  have  been 
mistaken  for  stars,  as  designating  the 
Queen  of  Heaven.  There  is  a  beaatiful 
simplicity  in  the  design,  far  superior  to  the 
execution.  In  answer  to  Mr.  Godwinii 
question  Mr.  Pretty  observes  that  the 
painting  has  every  appearance  of  being  in 
distemper.  In  p.  409  it  is  stated  that  Mr. 
M.  H.  Bloxam  exhibited ''  a  fine  collection 
of  Roman  and  Romano- British  eotns  from 
Warwickshire  ;*'  it  should  hsve  been  on- 
HquiiitM  instead  of  roins.  In  our  list  of 
the  Sectional  Committees,  &c.  the  follow- 
ing should  have  been  represented  as  pr^' 
sent :  The  Rev.  F.  Dawson,  Prebendary 
of  Canterbury,  Joseph  Ardeoi  esq.  and 
the  Rev.  Charles  HasseUs. 

Erkata.— P.  3S9,  line  35  from  bottom^ /«r 
« doctrines,"  read  "destinies."  P.a46yUne 
9  from  top,7br  *'Stycaa."  read  **  Spaniards.** 
lb.  line  1  ofiiote,/or  «court,"  r  eaiT  ^  ccntnt.'' 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


Ckmjectwnd  Emendations  on  the  Text  of  Shakspere,  with  Observations  on 

the  Notes  of  the  Commentators.    Part  III. 

(Continued  from  p.  US.J 

THE  penisal  of  Mr.  Hunter's  iDterestlng  Illiistrations  of  Shakspere* 
has  led  us  to  recommence  our  humble  labours  on  the  text  of  the  same 
author,  which  we  hope  to  be  able  to  finish  in  the  next  portion.  We 
are  glad  to  find  any  coadjutors  in  the  field,  for  we  are  convinced  that  it  is 
only  by  united  labours,  by  combination  from  various  quarters,  that  a  purer 
text  and  a  better  edition  of  our  great  Bard  are  to  be  obtained.  Criticism 
admits  no  monarch  on  the  throne  ;t  no  one  has  the  right  to  assnme  the 
tone  of  superior  intelligence  or  information,  and  there  is  room  enough  for 
each  critic  to  have  a  domain  of  his  own.  He  who  looks  through  the  notes 
of  the  various  editions  will  easily  mark  the  difference  existing  in  the 
talents  and  acquirements  of  the  various  commentators  :  some  excelling  in 
acnteness  of  perception,  some  in  ingenuity  In  conjecture,  some  in  the  clear- 
ness of  their  explanation,  some  in  the  ready  application  of  remote  allu- 
sions, some  in  extensive  knowledge  of  contemporaneous  literature,  and 
some  in  a  fuller  command  of  the  language  of  the  ancient  drama.  Certainly 
by  this  joint-stock  company  of  critics  much  has  been  effected.  Truth  has 
been  elicited  by  controversy,  and  industry  stimulated  by  emulation.  But, 
after  all,  such  is  the  lot  of  human  nature,  we  are  obliged  to  confess  that  the 
oioat  learned  and  well-directed  research  will  often  be  found  useless,  and  the 
most  sagacious  criticism  will  be  sometimes  totally  misapplied.  For  instance, 
when  a  word  in  the  text  is  considered  to  be  corrupt,  the  commentator 
naturally  endeavours  to  substitute  for  it  one  of  a  similar  formation,  ap- 
proaching nearest  in  structure,  and  equally  applicable  to  the  sense.  This 
M  all  that  ingenuity  can  effect,  and,  when  done  under  the  guidance  of  taste 
and  judgment,  has  been,  on  the  whole,  eminently  successful.  But  in  many 
cases  tbe  disease  is  too  strong  for  any  remedy,  and  then  the  labour  of 
the  critic  is  vainly  spent  in  beating  the  air.  Generally  speaking,  whea 
errors  arise  from  transcription  of  manuscripts,  they  are  of  a  lighter  kind, 
and  may  often  be  rectified  ;  but,  when  they  proceed  from  mistakes  of  the 
compositor  in  the  press,  it  is  impossible  to  say  to  what  enormity  of  error 

*  The  First  Part  of  Mr.  Hunter**  work  wu  noticed  in  our  Magazine  for  April, 
p.  497.    Tbe  Second  contains  his  Illustrations  of  all  the  Comedies. 

f  Theobald  has  an  amosing  note  on  this  subject  in  Troilns  and  Cressida.  ^'  Why 
night  not  Alexander  be  the  name  of  Cressida*s  man  ?  Paris  bad  no  patent,  I  suppose, 
for  engrossing  it  to  himself.  Bat  the  late  editor,  perhaps  because  we  have  had 
AUMomUr  the  Great,  Pope  Alexander,  and  Aiexander  Pope,  would  not  have  so 
emiment  a  name  aa  Alexander  prostituted  to  a  common  Tsrlet.*'  Theobald  could  not 
foresee  that  a  fourth  Alexander  was  hereafter  to  arise  as  Editor  of  Shakspere,  who  has 
aot  oalj  shewn  the  "  fortis  Alexandri  yultus  "  in  his  attacks ;  but  in  his  conquests 
tbi  iptmaives  Tirtnas  of  his  iliustriooa  predeeassor^  '*  Uuie  ducis  ^^jDoathii  faerit 
Clcmcotia*" 


4i2  C0»je€immi  Smad^imM  m  tie  [N«r. 


they  myooiCBUiead.    A  tiaBscriber  aken  a  letter ;  a 

wliole  wQtdt  or  Uaaapatn  aa  catire  aeateaoe.*    Stoercaa  aaja,  aad  tke 

ioftoaoe  he  gires  ia  wocthj  oC  atlealioB,  "  fa  thiee  lare  ptairf  ihrcti  af 

Ihit  wark,  a  coaf^  of  tke  aMat  accarate  caapadtma  ia  geaenl  had  aab> 

atjtated^/wfarr,  /eat,  aad  eaick^  for  Aayedirt  aMrr, aad caaaarr."     Ia  sacha 

caie»  the  path  voakl  be  eatiiely  lost,  all  eiaeadatioa  hapeleiB,  aad  ia- 

feaaitjr  aad  laboar  thiowa  avaj.     For  what  haa  beea  done 

gratefal«  Ihoofh  aiach  oa|^t  to  have  beea  better  doae.    Far 

a  oeotory  the  work  of  criticiam  hat  beea  goiag  oa,  aad  yet  we 

fclactaatly  agite  with  Mr.  Heater  ia  his  asaertkai,  "  Thai  we  aie  atili 

withoot  a  reaaoaaUy  good  tesU  of  Shakspeie.*'t    A»  far  as  ve  have  seea 


*  Ham  tm  back  a  eompowtoKf  lahNVr  may  ntA  ia  iMoritiag  tte  ftezi  mA  ids* 
•bdaf  the  vonb*  (fracffttUy  wlale  "  oomctiag"  kb  p^gM,)  mmj  be  assa  ia  aa 
*"**frT  that  bsppeai  to  be  before  as  in  Pord*i  \idf%  TriaL 

"  Skimish  ef  words,  hath  wUk  jmm  wife  lewdly  nag'A 
Adalterating  the  honoan  of  yoar  bed 
Hold  [oot]  diq>iite.'* 

Qtlldnl  obterved  that  wiik  in  the  first  line  is  shaflled  oat  of  its  plaoe,  sad  rasihi, 

*'  Skinaisb  of  words.    Hath  yoar  wife  lewdly  laag 'd, 
Adolteratiog  the  honour  of  your  bed  ? 
Withhold  dispute." 

t  Ses  Mr.  Honter'a  lllnstrstions,  part  II.  p.  267.  We  hare  read  the  first  two 
Bomben  of  Mr.  Banter*!  lUostntions  with  plcasnre  snd  instruction;  and  look 
forward  with  eagemeM  to  the  remainder :  yet,  thoagh  we  have  been  gratified  in  foI« 
lowlaa  kim  in  Ids  coiioas  researches  throogh  some  of  ttie  remote  patba  of  Kteratare, 
thoai^  we  hare  profited  by  the  variety  of  his  learning,  and  approved  die  sonadness  of 
his  rassonings,  jet  what  more  than  all  has  met  our  warmest  approbation,  haa  beea  tiia 
earnestness  which  he  shews  in  the  pursuit  of  truth,  and  his  honest  anxiety  to  discorer 
it.  This  quality,  so  distinguishable  in  him,  forms  an  honourable  contrast  to  the  per- 
verse ingenuity  of  some  of  the  critics,  and  to  the  trifling  levity,  the  sly  evasion,  the 
open  effrontery,  or  the  pertinscious  obstinacy,  of  others.  His  knowledge  of  the 
lesraiag  of  Shskspere's  sge  seems  both  extensive  and  accurate,  and  all  must  allow  that 
his  inlerenoes  sre  carefully  drawn,  even  where  they  may  not  be  adoutted  as  ooa« 
elusions.  We  do  not  agree  with  him  in  some  of  his  conjectures,  but  conjecture,  by  its 
very  nature,  cannot  please  or  satisfy  all.  It  is  a  shaft  too  often  aimed  at  random  to 
be  near  the  mark,  what  is  of  far  more  importance,  his  prmcipht  of  criticism  we 
think  correct,  his  arguments  fairly  stated,  and  his  illustrations  from  works,  printed  or 
unprinted,  fidl  of  entertainment  and  instruction.  We  take  the  liberty  of  mentioning 
that  hi  page  332  '*  Si.  Herbert  '*  must  be  a  misUke  for  Si,  Hubert.  Relics  of  the 
areat  eainied  hunieman  are  sUII  shewn  in  the  beautiful  chapel  of  the  forest  village, — 
his  spear,  his  dogs'  collars,  &c. — and  they  are  supposed  to  possess  a  charm  against 
canine  madness.  We  also  observe,  for  we  have  spent  some  summer  days  under  the 
green  leaves  of  Arden  Forests,  that  they  consist  of  oak  treet,  and  that  the  district  still 
abounds  in  wild  sylvan  beauty.  We  may  also  observe  at  p.  347,  that  we  do  not  at  all 
anorove  Mr.  Hunter's  conjecture  of  "  a  miserable  ort"  for  *'  a  miserable  worid,'*  but 
think  the  passage  would  be  much  more  poetical  if  thus  read, 

A  motley  fool ;  O  miserable  worid ! 
As  I  do  live  by  food,  I  met  a  fool. 

Jacques  mentions,  as  a  subject  of  surprise  and  sorrow,  that  he  met  by  aceideat  a 
haman  being,  devoid  of  reason,^a  miserable  spectacle ! 

As  regards  Mr.  Hunter's  note  (p.  297)  on  the  woodbine  and  the  honeysuckle,  the 
proposed  reading  of  plachig  the  woodbine  and  honeysnakle  in  apposition,  aad  of 
rspvesentiog  the  woodbine  as  ascending  the  elm,  cannot  be  accqited  ;  aa  that  plant 
would  have  no  power  of  climbing  the  trunk  of  a  large  tree.  We  cannot  fiad, 
in  the,  provincial  dialect  of  our  county,  that  the  term  woodbine  is  applied  by  the 
peasantry  to  aav  other  phuK  but  to  the  honeysuckle ;  but  they  unhmtallf  eMthe  iSy 
the  bine.  We  have  a  strong  suspicion  that  Shakspere  intended  to  represent  the  wood- 
Mae  sad  hoaeyaaokle  as  ths  auds  aud  female  plaat,  which,  tboi%h  botunisrtly  ia- 


1844;]  Te^0fSMkspere.  4Si 

i&€  t«ro  last  editloiiB,  we  Bbovld  pronounce  them  both  better  and  worse 
than  their  predeeessorar  -,  certainly  they  are  not,  cons(deriDg  the  advan-* 
tag«9  the  editors  possessed,  what  they  ooght  to  have  been  ;  but  we  have 
newish  to  assume  the  censor's  part;  ''est  iniqna  in  omni  re,  prset^r* 
nrlssfs  bonis^  malomm  enumeration  vitiommqae  selectio  ;*'*  and  we  far 
more  willingly  turn  to  the  pages  of  a  faTourite  and  very  enlightened 
anthor^t  to  hear  his  opinion  on  the  general  safcject.  Certainly  som^ 
few  years  have  elapsed  since  he  wrote,  but  we  are  not  aware  that  anythhig 
has  occurred  to  detract  from  the  justice  of  his  observations,  or  redder  them 
inapj^icable  at  the  present  day.  **  Two  qualifications  are  absolutely  neces- 
sary for  the  commentators  on  oar  old  poets,-^being  versed  in  the  authors 
of  the  times,  and  in  the  provincial  dialects.  There  are  many  words  and 
phrases  occurring  in  those  writers  still  used  by  the  common  people  in  the 
same  sense  as  formerly^  which  would  instantly  explain  passages  that  dassit 
learning  and  modem  refinement  labour  at  in  vain.  Two  other  qualifica- 
tions are  necessary  for  an  editor  of  Shakspere,— a  poetical  imagination^ 
and  a  discernment  to  distinguish  what  is  probable  from  what  is  merely 
possible.  If  the  validity  of  these  rules  were  admitted,  and  the  different 
critics  and  commentators  tried  by  them,  '  They  must  better  then  their 
desert  to  escape  whipping.*  Shakspere  appears  more  like  himself  in  the 
twenty  plays  published  from  the  earliest  editions  (notwithstanding  the 
many  errors  of  the  first  transcribers  and  printers)  than  iu  Warburton*s 
edition,  where  so  much  critical  acumen  is  so  ill  directed  ;  or  in  Johnsoo*s 
first  edition,  in  which,  perhaps,  there  is  not  a  single  faulty  passage  cor^ 
rected  or  difficult  one  explained.  Farmer's  £ssay  is  the  most  satisfactory 
piece  of  criticism  that  has  yet  appeared  on  Shakspere  ^  and,  if  other  crities 
had  equal  merit  in  those  parts  which  are  not  included  in  that  design,  there 
would  be  nothing  left  to  desire  for  making  a  complete  and  correct  edition 
of  this  great  author.** 

correct,  may  be  poetically  allowable.  In  the  Fatal  Union,  1640,  <*  The  kam^Hteth  is 
apoken  of  as  the  flower,  and  the  woodbine  as  the  plant, 

" a  honeysackle, 

The  amorous  woodbine's  offspring." 

See  MaIone*s  Suppl.  to  Shakspere,  vol.  i.  p.  119. 

We  may  also  add  that  we  are  pleased  to  see  ourselves  supported  in  the  opinion  we 
gave  in  our  notes  on  Twelfth  Night,  that  the  I^ady  l<if  the]  Siraehy  was  a  proper 
name,  by  Mr.  Hunter's  authority.  See  his  Illustrations,  p.  389.*  Families  of  that 
name  still  exist,  and  Malvolio's  argument  is,  that  the  mistress  of  the  house,  a  lady  of 
quality,  married  her  domestic.  The  wliole  argument  would  be  destroyed  if  "  Lftdj  of 
the  Strachy  "  could  mean  anything  of  lower  rank  than  this.  This  is  a  passage  that 
Gifford  would  have  settled  in  a  single  line  of  sound  obserration  and  hearty  abuse  ;  and 
we  may  add,  that,  without  some  master-mind  like  his,  we  may  have  coU^Uqm  for 
Shakspere,  but  shall  never  have  an  edition.  Among  the  various  commentators^  thoiigh 
all  of  them  were  suitable  for  the  eommiteariat,  we  do  not  think  there  was  one  who 
was  fit  for  eommander'in'chie/.  Any  editor  of  Shakqpere  who  does  not  possess  the 
following  qualities  will  fail  in  his  task :  Critical  acute&ess  and  sagacity,  eztensiTe 
erudition,  a  clear  understanding,  poetical  feeling,  and  an  honest,  generous  temper  and 
dhposttion. 

*  The  following  passage  of  Mr.  Hunter  is  worthy  of  attention.  "  There  are  wMdn 
the  eompaasof  this  play  (As  Yon  Like  It)  at  least  twenty  passagw  In  which  the  cor- 
ruption IS  so  decided,  that  no  one  would  for  a  moment  think  of  defeadlng  the  reading ; 
and  there  are  about  fifteen  where  the  probability  of  corruption  is  so  great,  thsf  the 
SBOBt  scrapnlous  editor  would  think  it  his  duty,  if  not  to  sabstitnte  a  better  teiet,  ytt 
to  remark  in  his  notes  the  text  as  delivered  to  os,  and  the  text  as  it  probably  should 
be.  Yet  Mr.  Kaigfat  tells  as  the  text  of  the  original  fblio  la,  upon  the  whtftoi  a  veiry 
eocreot  one!"    See  illnst.  p.  331. 

t  Sco' Thirty  Letters  on  Tarieas  labjects  by  WiHtam  Jaeksen,  (of  CMtMr,)  fi.  1<8. 


4M  Conjeeimrai  SmenJk^tions  on  t%e  (Sixr. 

Wo  DOW  proceed  to  offer  our  comctioiw  at  Bone  particnlar  puMgM  in 
tbe  Uxt,  yet  not  forgetful  of  the  waniiog  of  the  critic^  "  Multi  hoc  tempora 
molta  in  libris  vitia  corrigimaSf  qufld  pnestiterit  lie  ilia  nt  inveniremni 
reliqiuMe/'    (Vide  Petr,  rabram  in  LocoUani*) 


HENRY  IT.    PaevII.    (Vol.  XII.  ed.  Reed.) 


P.  U^f*  Y«,  IB  thii  praMDt  qaaUty  of 

Indttd  the  instaat  actiim,  «  came  on  foot 
LiTOs  10  in  hope— m  in  an  early  apring/'  &c. 

The  word  " indeed'*  has  been  altered  into  ''  impel,*'  and  ''  induce,**  and 
^intiance,**  but  we  think  without  sufficient  reason.  For  with  the  word 
''  indeed  '*  commences  a  general  reflection  on  the  uncertainty  of  hope^ 
which  agrees  with  the  particular  argument  that  preceded. 

P.  79.—**  You  make  fat  raacala,  Mlatreia  DolL" 
See  Heywood's  Transl.  of  Seneca>  p.  56. 

*'  TIm  raecail  deerw  trip  after  faat,  you  thither  take  yow  way." 

P.  93.—*'  And  hollow  pamper'd  jadea  of  Alia." 

See  Brathwait's  Strappado  for  the  Devil>  p.  159«  ed.  1615. 

'*  If  I  had  Uv'd  when  fame-tpread  Tamherlaine 
Diiplaied  hia  purple  aignalla  in  the  Eaat, 
*  Halhw  ye  pon^p9r*djade9,^  had  been  in  Taine, 
POr  mine's  not  pamplued,  nor  was  ere  at  feest,*'  ftc. 

P.  118.—''  Why  nther,  Sleep,  UetC  thon  in  amoky  eribs. 
Upon  fMMMjf  peUeU  stretching  thee?'* 

See  Martial,  Epig.  lib.  xiv.  162. 

**  Non  yenit  ad  doros  pallida  cnra  toros." 

P.  157. — **  Taming  yonr  books  to  grares,  your  ink  to  blood. 
Your  pena  to  lanoea." 

Warbnrton  conjectured  ''glaives  ;'*  Steevens  "greaves."  We  consider 
"  graves  "  to  be  right.  The  ink  and  the  pen  make  the  hook,  the  lance  and 
the  klooi  the  fraiw. 

P.  166.^**  Aconitled  by  a  trae  snbstantial  form, 
And  present  eveeution  of  our  wills, 
To  us,  and  to  our  purposes  eoiuign^d, 
yft  coBfie  within  our  awful  banks  againi 
And  knit  onr  powera  to  the  arms  of  peace.'* 

The  old  copies  have  '<  confin*d.'*    Steevens  conjectures  '*  confirm 'd." 

Johnson  ''  consign *d/'  as  in  the  text.     We  think  the  old  copies  right,  but 

thai  the  punctuation  should  be  altered  thus, 

**  To  us  and  to  our  purposes ;  confin'd 
We  come  within  our  awful  banks  again,"  &o. 

P.  177.'—''  I  promis'd  you  redress  of  [thne  smie]  griefaaoes.*' 

Wo  ffiite  agree  with  Steevens  b  rejecting  words  that  appear  to  us  to  be 
ooHoquial  tnsertions  of  a  player. 

P.  194.—**  Will  fortune  never  some  with  Mk  ktmdtjWr* 
Bee  Propertiiy  Eleg.  I.  ix.  24. 

'*  Ut  non  altema  presserit  ilia  mann." 


)844]  Tagi  ^  ShakwptM.  4» 

P.  SOa.— <  <  Thy  nisk  ms  ftllicr»  Harry,  to  tint  tkraglit.*  ^ 
Compare  Qaintilian^  Inst.  Orat,  vi.  2. 

*'  Sed  id  quia  Tolont,  crednnt  qnoque.* 


HENRY  THE  KFTH. 


P.  S91.— <<  Of  the  tme  Um  and  ttoek  of  Charlei  tha  Great, 
To  JIne  his  title  with  lome  ahew  of  tnttb,"  &c. 

The  folio  reads  ^'  find.*'  Johnson  would  read  "  line ;"  yet  this  would 
be  unpleasing,  as  occnrring  in  the  preceding  verse.  We  propose  to  read 
''feign/*  a  word  easily  corrupted  into  *'  fine.*' 

P.  300.-^'*  Flaying  the  mouie  in  ahienoe  of  the  eat, 
To  ipoii  and  havoc  more  tliaa  ahe  can  eat.*' 

The  first  two  folios  read  tame,  for  which  Theobald  conjectures  **  taint.'* 
We  take  tame  to  be  a  corruption  of  "  tear/'  which  agrees  in  meaning  with 
^  havoc ;"  but  as  the  quarto  has  "  spoil  **  it  is  as  well  to  adhere  to  it. 

P.  311. — "  We  neyer  Talned  this  poor  seat  of  England, 
And  theref(Me,  imng  Am^,  did  give  onnelf 
To  barbarona  licence,*'  5tc. 

We  agree  with  Mr.  Mason  that  the  expression  '*  living  hence/'  notwith- 
standing the  explanation  of  the  commentators,  cannot  be  reconciled  to 
sense.  We  are  not  sure  that  it  did  not  arise  from  the  mistake  of  the 
compositor  in  seeing  ticence  iu  the  next  line  :  if  80|  then  the  trae  word 
may  be  irrecoverably  lost. 

P.  3S1 .— "  It  muit  be  u  it  may.   Though  Patience  be  a  tired  mare,  yet  she  will  plod.*' 

The  folio  reads  **  name."  Theobald  retrieved  from  the  qnarto  '<  mare/* 
of  which  '^  name  "  is  only  a  typographical  cormption^  the  r  being  changed 
into  n,  and  the  other  letters  transposed* 

P.  334. — **  If  little  faults,  proceeding  on  dUtemper, 
Shall  not  be  winked  at,"  Sec. 

When  Steevens  says  ''  distemper  *'  may  mean  **  intoncation/'  we 
wonder  that  he  did  not  quote  Hamlet,  Act  2,  ac.  3. 

6.  The  king.  Sir. 

H.  Aye,  Sir,  what  of  him  ? 

6.  In  his  retirement,  Is  marrelously  dittemper'd, 

H.  With  drink,  Sir  ? 

P.  339.—''  And  thus  thy  fall  hath  left  a  kind  of  blot. 

To  mark  the  fnll-franght  man,  and  beii  inclined. 
With  some  suspicion.*' 

Theobald  altera  make,  the  reading  of  the  folio,  into  mark,  but  the  error 
we  think  lies  in  the  word  "  best.*'  The  line  of  reasoning  is,  that  these 
traitors  had  filled  up  all  the  full  measure  of  deceit,  (See  the  whole  speech 
of  King  Henry,)  that  they  were  clearly  convicted,  and  not  merely  suspected. 
Accordingly  we  read, 

<<  To  mark  the  f^all-firaiight  man»  and  koii  inoliaed, 
With  soooe  saspieion,"  &e. 

The  common  reading  is  to  us  unintelligible. 


456  Conjectural  Emeiidaiums  on  the  ^Nov. 

P.  360.—''  And  therefore  io  fierce  tempest  is  be  oomiiig, 
In  thunder,  end  in  esrthqnake,  like  a  Jove.** 

The  word  "  and  "  is  not  authorised  by  the  old  copies,  bot  was  inserted 
by  Rowe  to  complete  the  metre  ;  but  a  slighter  alteration  woald  be  better : 

*'  Therefore  Ukjiiretit  tempest  is  he  coming." 

The  last  letter  of  one  word  being  the  same  as  the  first' of  the  following* 
often  leads  to  mistakes  of  the  compoators  :  and  these  minotise  shoold  be 
strictly  attended  to  in  conjectural  snrgery  ;  for  the  easiest  method  shoold 
be  always  adopted  of  healing  a  wound.  ''  In  conjectural  criticism/*  says 
Tyrwhitty  ''  as  in  mechanics,  the  perfection  of  the  art,  1  apprehend, 
consists  in  producing  a  given  effect  with  the  least  possible  force  ;*'  and  the 
following  observation  of  Malone  is  so  just  that  we  wonder  he  did  not 
himself  adopt  it :  *'  Mr.  Theobald  and  some  other  commentators  seem^ 
indeed,  to  think  that  anjf  word  may  be  substituted  for  another^  if  thereby 
sense  may  be  obtained ;  bot  a  word  ought  rarely  to  be  substituted  in  the 
room  of  another,  unless  either  the  emendation  bears  such  an  affinity  to  the 
corrupted  reading  as  that  the  error  might  have  arisen  from  the  mistake  of 
the  eye  or  ear  of  the  compositor  or  transcriber,  or  a  word  has  been  caught 
inadvertently  by  the  compositor  from  a  preceding  or  subsequent  line/* 

P.  498.— «<  As  by  m  lower  bot  bp  kinnff  tikelthood.*' 
Omit  the  second  "  by,'*  and  there  is  no  need  of  further  alteration. 


HENRY  VI.    PaetI.  II.    (Vol.  XIIL  ed.  Reed.) 

P.  10.—''  A  far  more  glorious  star  thy  sonl  will  make 
Than  Julius  Cnsar  or  bright  *  ■ 

Pope  conjectured  that  the  hemistich  might  be  filled  up  with  "  FVancis 
Drake !  !*'  Johnson  would  substitute  **  Berenice."  No  doubt  it  was  9l  foreign 
word  that  puzzltrd  the  com|K>8itor,  and  not  a  native  one,  a  sufficient  reason  in 
itself  to  reject  Pope*s  reading.  We  would  read  *'  bright  Orion^"  it  being 
a  star  more  usually  named  for  its  surpassing  splendour  and  size  than  any 
other.  "  Orion  *'  was  used  with  the  quantity  of  the  second  syllable  often 
short,  as  "  Hyperion/'  See  Lord  8terline*8  Third  Hour,  st.  xiii.  p.  50, 
"  Then  Pleiades,  Arcturus,  Orion  all  -,**  and  p.  87,  '*  Which  carrying  Orfon 
safely  to  the  shore  ;*'  but,  indeed,  "  Orion  *'  has  ali  the  syllables  doubt- 
ful, see  Erythrsei  Ind.  Virg.  art.  "  Orion.'** 

P.  38.—''  How  may  I  reverently  worship  thee  enough?" 

Steevens  would  read  "  reverence,*'  saying,  '*  the  climax  rises  properly 
from  '  reverence '  to  '  worship.'  '*    Yes,  but  it  is  not  Shaksperian. 


*  In  Mr.  Barry  Cornwall's  elegant  poem,  the  Worship  of  Dian ;  Orion  is  the  only  star 
mentioned,  with  Jupiter  and  Saturn,  as  being  the  most  eminent. 

'*  Then  Saturn  dimly  turns  within  his  ring, 
And  Jove  looks  pale  upon  his  burning  throne. 
Then  the  great  hunter-king, 
Orion^  mourns  with  watery  glare 
The  tarnished  lustre  of  his  blazing  sone,*'  &c. 
See  Poems,  vol.  ii.  p.  114. 
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1844.]  Teia^Sh9k$p9Nf.  4$7 

P.  89.--'«  RMher  llun  I  vroald  \m  lo  piPd  minm'd.*' 

Steevens  rebnkes  the  modern  editors  for  reading  "  vile-esteemed,**  as 
whhoat  antbority,  and  yet  himself  proposes  the  monstrons  absnrdity  of 
*'  so  Philiutin'd."    Such  is  the  consisteocy  of  critics ! 

P.  46.<— "  Sheep  nin  not  half  flo  timonmi  from  the  wolf, 
Or  bone  or  ozea  from  the  leopard." 

This  is  Pope*8  reading.  The  old  copy  has  *' treacherous/*  which  we 
would  preserve^  only  altering  its  place  in  the  verse^ 

**  Sheep  nm  not  half  so  from  the  irtMekinm^  wolf.*' 

P.  86.—"  If  I  were  coTetonsi  ambitioiUi  or  perrene. 

Stee?ens  reads  "  Were  I/*  in  order  to  improve  the  metre^  but  we  should 
prefer, 

"  If  I  were  eovetoiu,  perverse,  ambitioiu,'* 

«s  uMi  bat monions  and  more  correct. 

P.  90.— <<  Shall  pitch  a  field  when  we  ar«  dead.    Stay,  itay,  [I  lay.**] 

Certainly  omit  '*  I  say/'  which  might  either  be  an  interpolation  of  a 
player,  or  a  mistake  of  a  compositor  for  the  word  "  say  **  in  the  next  line. 

P.  118.—"  That  whoso  draws  a  sword  'tis  present  death." 

Warburton  says  Shakspere  wrote, 

■        "  draws  a  sword  i'th*  presence  't's  death." 

On  which  Edwards  justly  observed,  **  This  reading  cannot  be  right 
because  it  cannot  be  franounced" 

P.  157. — **  Ay,  beauty's  princely  majesty  is  such, 

Confounds  the  tongue  and  makes  the  senses  rough,^  "*'   " 

• 

Hanmer,  with  much  infelicity  of  conjecture,  reads  "  crouch/'  Should 
Ike  present  reading  stand,  we  recommeod  that  it  should  be  so  printodv  as 
if  tbe  speech  were  cut  off  by  the  interposition  of  Margaret's  query,  "  Sny* 
Earl  of  Suffolk/*-^or  perhaps  *'  rough  "  is  a  corruption  of  "  through." 

P.  »(1.— '*  Barren  winter,  with  his  wrathful,  nipping  cold." 

Either  Steevens's  correction  of  "  bare  "  winter  should  be  admitted,  or 
one  of  the  two  epithets  <'wraihful"or  "nipping  "should  be  omitted;  readings 


The  barren 


P.  31 8.  <'  Gelidus  timer  occupat  artus." — It  has  been  observed  that  no 
inch  tine  exists  in  any  classical  author.  "Tremor  occupat  artus"  isacomoMn 
expression,  and  Silins  Italicus  has  "  Itque  timortotos  geiido  sudorepecMtaa*** 
After  this  line  the  folio  reads  "  pine^*'  for  which  Malone  substitutes 
"  pene  ;"  on  which  Steevens  says^  **  pene,  the  gem  which  appears  to  have 
illuminated  the  dreary  mine  of  Collation,  is  beheld  to  so  little  advantage 
above  ground,  that  I  am  content  to  leave  it  whene  it  FJ4y^*^^^^;**  ^^ 
this  hopeless  condition  of  the  word  we  may  be  niyr  *^        '""" 

Gent.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII.  "*  ' 


458  Conjectural  EwnendatUns  on  ike  [Not. 

that  it  was  a  fragment  of  another  quotation  of  Snffolkp  applicabie  to  bis 
situatioD^— 

**  Terreor  botte  menm  jmim  premente  Utiu.*' 

P.  349. — "  Te  ihaU  have  a  hempen  caudle  then,  and  ihepttp  of  a  hatchet. 

The  old  copy  has  *'  the  help  of  a  hatchet**  Farmer  conjectured  *'  pap/' 
which  both  Steevens  and  Ritson  erroneoosly  approve.  "  The  help  of  a 
hatchet,"  says  Steevens^ "  is  little  better  than  nonsense  /*  bot  a  little  farther 
attention  might  have  shewn  him  that  the  trae  reading  was  '*  the  helve  d  a 
hatchet.**  Helve  is  the  handle  of  an  axe  or  other  instmment.  See  Den- 
teronomy,  xix.  5,  ''The  head  slippeth  from  the  helve ;"  and  Walton's 
Angler,  p.  ii.  is. 

'*  Hb  neck  was  a  hehe,  and  hif  head  was  a  wutU," 

And  see  Hill's  Transl.  of  Casimir's  Odes,  1646,  l2mo. 

"  Whose  heivM  were  made  of  laorel  good.** 

Among  the  East  Anglian  peasantry  this  word  "  helve/'  for  handle  of  an 
axe,  rake,  spade,  or  flail,  is  in  common  and  constant  use. 

P.  359.— «  Of  gallowglassea  and  stout  kernes.** 
Sorely  we  ought  to  read, 

**  Of  gaUowglasses  and  stout  Iriih  kernes.** 


HENRY  VI.    Part  III.    (Vol.  XIV.  ed.  Reed.) 
P.  48. — *'  But  that  thy  face  is  vi»9r»liife,  unchanging." 
See  Cowley's  Love's  Riddle,  p.  108.—"  Why  thy  face  is  as  a  vizard." 

P.  44. — I.  *'  Would  not  have  touched,  would  not  have  stained  with  blood.**  the  quarto. 
S.  **  Would  not  have  touched, 

**  Would  not  have  stained  the  roses  just  with  blood.**  2nd  folio. 

The  reading  of  the  second  folio  must  be  discarded,  not  because  the  words 
"  roses  jast  "  may  not  be  a  fragment  of  an  authentic  line,  a  passage  altered 
by  the  poet,  but  because  there  is  no  material  by  which  we  can  make  it 
perfect.  We  must«  therefore,  adhere  to  the  quarto,  though  the  other 
reading,  if  we  possessed  it  in  its  finished  state,  might  be  the  more  poetical. 

p.  88.—"  And  so  obsequious  will  thy  Mher  he, 
Sad  for  the  loss  of  thee.*' 

Sad  is  an  emendation  of  Howe's,  the  old  copy  being  ''  men,"  Steevens 
''  man.'*  We  think  **  son/'  to  be  the  word  best  to  be  adopted,  as  not  too 
remote  from  the  text,  and  appropriate  to  the  meaning  of  the  passage.  We 
had  once  conjectured  that  *'  men  "  was  a  corruption  of  "  mere,'*  '*  for  the 
mere  loss  of  thee/'  i.  e.  for  the  loss  of  thee  alone,  <S:c. 

P.  n8.^«  That  Clarence  is  so  harsh f  so  biuntf  unnataral.'* 

The  line  being  too  long,  a  choice  must  be  made  between  ''  blunt"  and 
''  harsh,"  they  l^ing  probably  various  readings,  of  which  one  only  was 
intended  to  stand  • 


1 844  ]  Text  of  Shakspere.  459 

P.  871*— ''  He  capera  nimblj  in  a  lady's  chamber.'* 

See  Sir  T.  More's  Life  of  Richard  III.  p.  439,  "  A  free  prisoner  on  a 
carpet  in  a  lady's  chamber/' and  Brathwait's  Strappado  for  the  Devil,  p.  18. 

**  For  gorgeous  roomes,  the  purprise  of  the  field ; 
For  nimble  capering ^  marching.'' 

P.  287.  '*  In  thy  mu/'»  throat  thou  liest."  How  any  editor  can  be 
tatiaHed  with  this  and  not  adopt  the  reading  of  the  foliOj  *'  thy  /o«/ throat/* 
we  are  much  surprised. 

P.  889. — **  To  leaTe  this  new  encounter  of  our  wits." 

See  Ford's  Tis  Pity  She's  a  Whore,  vol.  i.  p.  56.  ed.  Weber. 

«'  Mistress,  to  leane  theiefiruiiletatn/et  of  wit.*' 

P.  398.  "  she  finds,  although  I  cannot, 

Myself  to  be  a  manrellons  proper  man." 

See  Bp.  Earle's  Microcosm,  p.  17,  ed.  Bliss.  ^'  Noblemen  use  him  for 
a  denoter  of  their  stomach,  and  ladies  for  wantonness,  especially  if  he  be 
tL  proper  man ;"  and  Stanyharst's  Epitaph  upon  Fitzgerald,  **  proper  in  his 
person,  with  gifts  so  him  nature  adorned." 

P.  377. — **  And  being  but  a  toy,  which  is  no  grief  to  give.*' 

(And)  should  be  erased,  being  at  once  unnecessary  and  unmetrical. 


P.  407 .^'^  Even  when  his  raging  eye,  or  savage  heart, 
Without  control,  listed  to  make  his  prey.'' 


ft 


Surely  *'  lusted,"  the  reading  of  the  folio,  should  be  adopted. 

P.  418.  "And  almost  shouldered  in  the  swelling  gulf."  A  very 
poetical  word.     See  Spenser's  Fairy  Queen,  I.  xi.  21, 

"  The  rolling  billows  beat  the  rugged  shore, 

As  they  the  earth  would  shoulder  from  her  seat  ;*' 

and  Ruins  of  Rome,  s.  xvi.»  "  Of  thousand  billows  shoulder' d  near.** 
Collins  has  used  it  in  his  Ode  to  Liberty, — 

*'  And  down  the  shoulderinff  billows  borne." 
P.  456.—"  The  slaughter  of  the  prince  that  owed  that  crown.*' 

It  is  quite  unnecessary  to  quote  authorities  of  **  owe"  for  '*  own.*'  See 
Nares*8  Glossary,  and  Steevens's  note  to  Othello,  Act  1,  sc.  1,  "£*en  to 
the  faculties  we  owe;**  and  Gifford*s  ed.  of  Ford,*  vol.  i.  p.  135,  "  Owing 


*  The  mention  of  Gifford's  ed.  of  Ford,  leads  us  to  endeavour  to  set  right  one  or 
two  passages  which  puzzled  that  ardicritic  sorely  in  the  poet : 

1.  Hie  Lover's  Melancholy,  Act  1,  Sc.  1. 

— — "  I  dare  not  tell  thee  what, 
Lest  thou  might  think  Ifawn*d  tqton  a  sin 
Friendship  was  never  guilty  of." 

Giiford  would  read,  (for  he  makes  two  conjectures,)  "  either  fawn'd  on  thee,"  or 
"  fallen  upon  a  sin  *,"  bat  he  prefers  the  former.    We  propose, 

— — "  I  dare  not  tell  thee  what. 
Least  thou  might  think  1  feigned;  a  sin  upon 
Friendship  1  was  never  guilty  of.'' 

'<  Feign  "  was  often  spelt  <«  fain.'* 


460  Conjectwml  EmmMkni  an  the  [Nor. 

no  heart  )*'  and  p.  481,  ''my  love  to  bim  that  mm  it.**    But  we  will  add 
an  older  one  than  has  been  hitherto  gi?en. 

*'  Als  I  sat  upon  that  lowe, 

I  began  Denemarke  for  to  awe." 

See  Havelock,  ed.  Madden,  1292.    Atoe,  owe,  own,  possess.    Gloss. 

dad.    Tfao  Lady's  Trial,  Act  a.  So.  4. 

«*  Do  not  study, 

My  lord,  to  apparel  folly  in  the  iiud 
Of  costly  colonn.'' 

GiiTord  conjectures  *'  weed."  '*  That  it  was  the  author's  word  I  cannot  flatter 
myself ;  but  it  may  senre  in  the  absence  of '  slole '  or  '  garb,'  or  some  more  fortunate 
guess."  Hie  real  word  we  take  to  be  '*  dress,'*  consisting  nearly  of  the  same  letters 
as  '*  steed." 

3d.    The  Witch  of  Edmonton,  Act  i.  Sc  1. 

Win. — "  Then  were  my  happiness 

That  I  in  heart  repent,  1  did  not  bring  him 

The  dower  of  a  Tirginity.     Sir,  forgive  me, 

I  have  been  much  to  blame  ;  had  not  my  Ummdrmt 

GiTen  way  to  your  immoderate  watte  qf  virtue, 

Yon  had  not  with  such  eagerness  pursued 

The  errors  of  your  goodness." 

GiCFord  gives  the  following  note.  '*  I  can  do  nothing  with  this  speech,  which  in 
several  parts  of  it  appears  little  better  than  jargon.  The  *  laundress'  and  the  *  im- 
moderate waste  of  virtue'  of  the  author,  are  either  fragments  of  lost  lines  or  ridiculous 
corruptions  of  the  original, — perhaps  both."  After  such  a  confession  from  the  prince 
of  critics,  who  was  not  at  all  inclined  to  own  himself  oreroome,  especially  as  he  was 
now  flashed  with  his  recent  victory  over  Weber,  and  hot  firom  the  combat, — 
after  this  confession  of  his  inability  to  set  this  passage  right,  if  we  fail  it  will  not  be 
ingloriously  ;  but  we  think  with  the  change  of  two  words  which  are  manifestly  wrong — 
*'  Uundress"  and  **  waste,"  and  with  a  slight  transposition,  sense  at  least  may  be 
made.    We  read  thus : 


.«  'Twere  then  my  happiness, 


That  I  in  heart  repent,  I  did  not  bring  him 
The  dower  of  a  virginity.     Sir,  forgive  me, 
I  have  been  much  to  blame  ;  had  not  my  vtrfat 
Given  way  to  your  immoderate  tuet  and  hoeeneut 
Yon  had  not  with  such  eagerness  pursued 
The  error  of  your  goodness." 

We  hsTe  altered  "  waste"  into  "  hist,"  and  "  lavndresa"  into  «« looseaest,"  yet  not 
arbitrarily,  but  on  the  verbal  authority  of  her  following  speech ;  for  she  speaks  of  hia 
**  lascivious  Inst/'  and  being  a  **  loose  whore."  Had  not  the  old  lion  been  dead,  we 
should  not  have  ventured  to  his  den,  strewed  as  it  was  with  the  mangled  carcases  and 
limbs  of  llalone,  Chalmers,  Hunt,  and  HaiUtt,  and  half  the  Shakspere  oom- 
mentators,  besides  several  of  the  tender  sex,  both  matrons  and  virgins. 

We  add  one  more  passage  from  the  Lover's  xMelancholy,  Act  i.  Sc.  2.  After 
Menaphon  had  told  the  beautiful  tale  of  the  contest  of  the  Lutaaist  and  Nightingak, 
Amittts  says, 


'**  Thou  hast  discoura'd 


A  truth  of  mirth  and  pity.' 
Gifford  isyi  tiiis  is  cormpt,  but  can  suggest  no  remedy.    We  propose  readiogy 

"  Thou  hast  discours'd 

A  tale  of  ruth  and  pity." 

The  mistake  arose  in  this  way ;  "  mirth"  should  have  been  "  truth ;"  then  *•  truth," 
put  in  the  wrong  place,  displaced  the  proper  word  **  tale."  The  words  "  ruth"  aad 
''  pity"  are  common  adjuncts. 


1844.]  Tesfi  0/  SkMhper^.  461 

P.  505.— «  /  iUdfor  k^§,  e'er  I  eovld  lend  thee  eld.*' 

Theobald  reads  **  helpe/'  Hanmer  ''  foraook/'  Tyrwhitt ''  I  died  fore- 
done."  It  appears  to  us  that,  though  the  expression  is  not  well  worded, 
it  means,  I  died  hopeless  before  I  could  assist  you.  I  died  as  to  all  hope 
of  assisting  yon  3  but  this  line  is  addressed  to  Richmond,  not  to  Richard, 
as  it  is  given  in  Reed's  edition.  Buckingham  was  expected  to  assist  Rich- 
mond.   See  p.  475. 

'<  'Tie  thougbt  that  JUekmond  is  their  sdmlral, 
And  there  they  hull,  expecting  bat  the  tid 
Of  Buckingham  to  welcome  &em  to  shore." 

Perhaps  the  best  interpretation  is  Steevens's,  '*  I  died  for  0|ily  having 
hoped  to  give  you  that  assistance  which  I  never  had  it  in  my  power  to 
afford  you  in  reality.*'  The  expression  is  so  ambiguous  as  to  render  it 
difficult  to  say  wbi^t  bterpretatioA  is  the  true  one. 


HENRY  VIII.— (Vol.  XV.  Ed.  Reed.) 

P.  101.—  **  Thus  hulling  in 

The  wild  lea  of  my  conicience*" 


See  Par.  Lost,  xi.  840,  "  Saw  the  ark  hull  on  the  flood."  Q.  EHz. 
Tears,  by  C.  Lever,  1607,  **  Hulling  upon  the  river  where  she  lay." 
Donne*s  Poems,  xxxi.,  "  A  great  ship  overset,  or  without  sail  hulUng'* 
Stonyhurst's  Conceits,  "There  the  wagon  runneth,  where  whilom  vessell 
hath  hulled  *,'*  and  in  other  places  of  the  same  poem. 

P.  104.— <*  Orpheoi  with  hie  lute  made  trees,"  Ac. 
See  Masainger'a  Fatal  Dowry»  vol.  iii.  p*  453^ 

"  Fie !  ceiM  to  wonder, 
Though  yon  hear  Orphene  with  hit  ivory  late. 

More  trees  and  rocks — 
Charm  hnlli,  bean,  and  men  more  savage,  to  be  mut^,''  &c. 

P.  106.—**  I  know  my  life  so  even ;  if  your  business 
Seek  me  out,  and  that  way  I  am  wise  in, 
Oat  with  it  boldly.'' 

Many  alterations  have  been  proposed  on  the  second  line.  Tyrwhitt's 
is,  *'  seek  me,  speak  out.*'  Blackstone*s,  **  If  'tis  your  business  to  seek 
me  out.*'  Ritson's,  "  Doth  seek  me  out."  We  propose  the  following 
reading,  in  which  the  only  alteration  is  and  into  in. 


**  If  year  business 
In  that  way  I  am  wise  in,  seek  me  oat ; 
Out  with  it  boldly." 

P.  126.—  "  I  do  profess 

That  for  your  highness'  good  I  erer  Isbonr'd 
More  than  mine  own,  tJUU  am,  Aee«,  and  will  If, 
Tho'  all  the  world  shoold  crack  their  daty  by  you." 

The  words,  ''  that  am,  have,  and  will  be,"  as  Mr.  Mason  says,  and 
Makme  allows,  afford  no  meaning  j  and  he  would  therefore  strike  them 
out ;  but,  instead  of  so  violent  a  measure,  we  propose  a  gentler  alteratioB. 


1 


462  Co^ecNTMl  EmeniaikmM  on  ike  [Nor. 

**  Mora  than  mine  own ;  that  am  and  will  be  yonrt." 

As  he  says  in  the  condadiog  tine  of  the  same  speech,  ''  and  stand 
unshaken  yours.** 

P.  158.— 1st.  Gbkt.  *'  AH  were  woven 

So  itnm^y  in  one  piece/' 
Snd  GaMT. **  hutyrmy  what  foUow'd." 

^  Pray*'  is  an  insertion  of  Hanmer's  to  complete  the  metre  -,  bat,  ac- 
cording to  the  law  of  critical  correction  we  have  laid  down,  a  gentler 
alteration  shonld  be  madci — 

"  So  strangely  in/o  one  piece,— but  what  followed." 

P.  186.  — D.  K.  '*  Without  my  noMe  lords  ? 

O.  Tea. 

D.  K.  My  Lord  Anhbiahop.*' 

Steevens  says»  *'  noble**  shonld  be  omitted,  as  it  spoils  the  metre ; 
which  does  not  then  appear  to  ns  correct ;  we  prefer  omitting  "  yes,'* 
a  word  that  seems  superAuons,  and  reading 

**  Without  mj  noble  lorda^my  Lord  Archbishop  ?" 


TROILUS  AND  CRESSIDA. 

P.  341.—  "  Hector,  whose  patienee 

li  at  a  viHme  fiz*d,  to-day  was  moY'd." 

The  lore  of  alteration,  we  think  most  be  very  great  that  wonld  not  let 
this  passage  stand  3  but  Warbarton  reads,  "  the  virtae  3**  Johnson,  "  all 
a  yirtae ;  Steepens,  "a  statue.*'  We  interpret  the  text,  Hector's 
patience,  as  being  a  ^rtoe,  is  fixed.    Where  is  the  difficulty  ? 

P.  249.  <'  Is  he  so  young  a  man  and  so  old  a  lifter.*'  Steeyens  gives 
a  note  to  shew  that  "lifter**  means  a  thief;  but  it  has  also  another  and 
more  appropriate  meaning.  See  Merry  Wires  of  Windsor.  "  Will  yon 
takt  up  your  wife's  clothes  >*'  &c. 

P.  368. — "  And  look  how  many  Grecian  tents  do  stand 
Hollow  upon  this  plain,  so  many  hollow  Actions." 

We  agree  with  Monck  Mason  in  striking  out  the  first  hollow,  notwith- 
standing Steevens*s  opposition  to  it,  which  only  proves  the  propriety  of 
ita  removal. 

P.  ^4.— "That's  done— as  near  the  eztremeat  endi 

Of  paraUela ;  a«  like  at  Vulcan  and  his  wife." 

The  double  **  as**  in  the  second  line  is  useless,  overcharges  the  metre, 
and  was  borrowed  by  the  compositor  from  the  preceding  line. 

P.  378.—  **  They  have  galls, 

Oood  arms,  strong  iolnta,  trae  iwords,  and,  Jove^saeeardt 
Nothing  ao  fall  of  heart." 

Malone  reads,  "Jove's  a  God  j"  Steevens,  '*  Love's  a  lord  j*'  Monck  Mason 
"  Jove*8  own  bird  ;**  and  at  last  Steevens  owns  that  Me  old  reading  maf 
be  the  true  one.  Of  course  it  is.  ''  Annuit  et  mater  signa  secunda  dedit.'* 
Ovid. ;  and  "  Ubi  primum  vellere  signa,  annuerant  superi,**  Viig.  When 
the  quarto  reads,  "  And,  great  Jove*s  accord,'*  It  gives  perhaps  a  varions 
reading,  in  which  and  should  be  omitted. 


16440  ^^^  qfShakspere.  463 

P.  317.  ''He  iheni  our  messengers."  This  is  Theobald's  emenda- 
tion. The  qnarto  ''sate/'  the  folio  "sent/*  which  would  be  a  good  read- 
ing ;  bat  it  would  involve  the  alteration  of  "  he*'  unto  "  we/'  unless  "  sent" 
could  mean  "  sent  away."  It  is  curious  that  Steevens  fonnd  a  line  con- 
taining the  very  expression  formed  by  Theobald's  emendation, 

"  AU  mentngtrU  he  doth  ihende,** 

P.  333. — '*  He  is  so  plaguy  proud,  that  the  death  tokens  of  it." 

We  agree  with  Steevens  in  rejecting  "  plaguy/'  not  becaase  it  is  re- 
dundant in  the  metre^  for  that  is  not  too  strictly  to  be  confined,  but 
becaase  it  is  not  suitable  to  the  style  of  Ulysses'  speech; 

P.  3S3.— >"  That  hastes  his  arrogance  with  his  own  nam,** 
See  Hamlet.    Act  iii.  Sc.  4. 

*'  In  the  rank  sweat  of  an  emeamed  bed." 

P.  349. —  **  Bnt  yon  are  wise, 

Or  else  you  love  not ;  for  to  he  wise  and  loTe 
Exceeds  men's  might." 

We  think  Monck  Mason  has  given  the  true  interpretation.  ''  You  are  not 
so  easily  taken  in  ;  you  are  too  wise  or  too  indifferent :  for  to  be  wise  and 
love  exceeds  men's  might."  We  are  pleased  to  find  Mr.  Gifford  in  his 
edition  of  Ford  acknowledging  the  merits  of  Monck  Mason  as  a  critic. 

P.  357. — "  That,  through  the  sight  I  bear  in  things  to  Jove, 
I  have  abandoned  Troy. — 

There  are  four  long  pages  of  notes  to  this  passage.  Theobald  reads 
**  in  things  to  come,"  a  conjecture  which  Malone  thinks  very  happy. 
The  folio  reads  *'  in  love.*'  The  conjecture  of  Theobald,  though  it  meets 
the  sense,  is  so  far  from  the  original,  as  to  come  within  the  accusation  of 
re-writing  his  author.     We  therefore  propose, 

**  That,  through  the  sight  I  bear  in  things  above,** 

P.  371.— SiL.—  "  You  are  in  love, 

With  one  of  Prismas  daughters, 
AcH. —  Ha !  known  ?" 

Perhaps, ''  Ha !  whai,  known  ?" 

P.  375.—'*  To  see  us  here  unarmed.    I  have  a  woman's  longing." 

As  "  here  **  adds  nothing  to  the  sense,  and  injures  the  metre,  we  would 
dismiss  it. 

P.  381. — **  Bnt  he  as  he,  the  heavier  for  a  whore." 
The  reading  of  the  folio,  *'  which  heavier/*  leads  to  the  right  one, 
"  But  he  as  he, — each  heavier  for  a  whore*" 

p.  450.—  "  It  is  as  lawful. 

For  we  would  give  much,  to  use  violent  thefts.*' 

This  is  Tyrwhitt*s  reading,  formed  from  the  original  (folio), 

"  For  we  would  count  give  much  to  as  violent  thefts  ;" 

and  it  is  probably  the  best  that  could  be  given  -,  "  count "  crept  in  from  a 
previous  line. 


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4M  Conjeehtral  Smmidtahnt  on  ike  [Not. 

CORIOLANUS.    (YoL  XVL  ed.  Reed.) 
P.  45.—**  And  teptn  bom  to  IcAvanl.*' 

See  Bp.  King's  Poems*  p.  20,  (1657.) 

"  As  to  expend  on  him  yov  hedwturi  tiuroglit" 

P.  48.—  "  Pleeie  yon  to  marehv 

And,^r  shall  qniekly  draw  oat  my  command, 
Which  men  areWtl  inclined." 

Johnson  reads /ear  and  ieoit,  bat  with  no  improvement  to  the  meaning. 
Heath  reads  "  and  so  I  ;*'  bat  sach  a  conjecture  is  not  worth  attention. 
The  word  '*  four/'  nnder  all  explanation^  appears  to  ns,  as  it  did  to  John- 
son, to  be  corrupt  We  therefore,  with  attention  equally  devoted  to  the 
sense,  and  to  the  form  of  the  word  we  propose  to  alter,  read 

"  Am  hour  shall  quickly  draw  out  my  command.** 

So  Marias  in  his  preceding  speech  said, 

**  FOIiDg  the  air  with  tworda  advanced,  and  darts, 
Wiprtf9e  thii  very  ktmr.** 

P.  66.—'*  With  not  a  drop  of  e/Zaytiy  Tiber.** 

V,  Ovidii  Fast.  v.  p.  343, 

**  Donee  eras  miztns  nnllis,  Acheloe  raeemis/' 

P.  82.—**  HsTc  camels  in  their  war." 

Monck  Mason  reads  "  way,"  bat  wrongly,  for  Alexander  used  camels 
with  his  armies  in  the  East.     See  also  Steevens^s  note. 

P.  149.—  '*  As  the  ripest  mulberry 

Now  wiU  not  hold  the  handling :  or  say  to  them.** 

Omit  **  or,*'  as  useless  in  sense,  injarious  in  metre. 

P.  164.—  **  Whose  breath  I  hate, 

As  reek  of  the  rotten  fens.'* 

See  Marlow*s  Lust's  Dominion,  Act  iii.  sc.  6. 

*<  This  heap  of  fools,  who,  crowding  in  hnge  swarms, 
Stood  at  onr  court  gates  like  a  heap  of  dang. 
Reeking,  and  shouting  out  contagious  breaSi.*' 

P.  186.—*'  My  grained  ash  a  hundred  times  hath  broke, 
And  scared  the  moon  with  splinters.** 

See  Drayton  in  England's  Pamassns,  p.  450, 

**  The  stsTes,  like  yce,  in  shivers  small  did  flie, 
The  splints,  like  byrds,  did  mount  into  the  skie.** 

P.  809*—**  And  power,  unto  itself  most  commendable, 
Hath  not  a  tomb  so  evident  as  a  chair 
To  extol  what  it  hath  done.*' 

The  meaning  is  rightly  given  by  Warburton.  "  The  virtue  which  de- 
lights to  commend  itself  will  find  the  surest  tomb  in  that  citair  where  it 
holds  forth  its  own  commendations  ;**  but  the  thought  is,  as  he  owns, 
*'  miserably  exprestedt'  if  "  chair"  is  to  be  admitted  as  the  true  reading. 
We  however  propose, 

**  Hath  not  a  tomb  so  evident,  as  ctfre 
To  extol  what  it  hath  done.'* 
2 


1844.]  Terl  of  Shakapere.  465 

''  OiM  iire  driTM  out  one  fire ;  one  nail,  one  nail, 
Rights  by  right! /oiii«ri  strengths  by  strengths  do  fail.** 

The  corroption  in  the  second  line  has  not  been  removed  by  conjecture » 
for  **  fooled  '  and  ''  fool  are  "  are  not  worthy  of  the  name.     We  propose 

"  Rights  by  rightsy^Nmier,  strengths  by  strengths  do  fail." 

P.  216.—  '<  So  that  aU  hope  is  vain, 

Unless  his  noble  mother  and  his  wife, 
Who,  as  I  hear,  mean  to  solicit  him 
For  mercy  to  his  country.** 

As  the  construction  of  this  sentence  is  imperfect,  Warbnrton  reads 
''force  mercy  to  his  country.**  Steevens  ''  nnless  in  his  noble  mother." 
We  propose  what  we  think  an  easier  and  better  reading. 

"  Unless  his  noble  mother  and  his  wife 
DOf  as  I  hear,  mean  to  solicit  him,**  &c. 


JULIUS  CiGSAR. 


P.  S58.— "  HsTe  yon  climbed  np  to  walls  and  battlements, 
To  towers  and  windows,  yea  to  chimney  tops,**  &c. 

Compare  Martial,  Epig.  x.  6,  on  Trajan's  arrival  at  Rome. 

*'  Qnando  erit  ille  dies,  qno  campus  et  arbor  et  omnia 
Lucebit  Latia  culta  fenestra  nuru, 
Quando  morn  dulces,  longusque  a  Cesare  pulfis, 
Totaque  Flaminia  Roma  yidenda  yia.*' 

P.  278.—  <«  I  met  a  Uon 

Who  glazed  upon  me,  and  went  surly  by.** 

Pope  reads  "  glared/'  Johnson  ''  gazed."  Steevens  says  *'  glared  "  is 
certainly  right ;  but  there  is  no  matter  of  certiunty  in  the  case,  but  of  taste, 
for  either  word  would  do :  though  we  should  prefer  ''  gazed."  The  same 
word  is  used,  a  little  subsequently.  ^'  You  look  pale,  and  gaxCy  and  put 
on  fear.*' 

P.  S81.^"  Why  old  men, /oo/f,  and  children  calculate.** 

The  argument  is, "  Why,  all  things  change  their  nature  and  faculties/'  but 
old  men  would  not  change  theirs  if  they  calculated;  therefore  Blackstone, 
to  make  the  sense  better,  reads 

'*  Why  old  menfooU,  and  children  calculate  ?* 

that  is,  why  fboliih  old  men  ;  but  this  is  a  very  clumsy  expression  indeed. 
We  think  the  sense  is  perfect,  with  the  omission  of  a  single  letter. 

"  Why  old  men /oo/,  and  children  calculate.** 

Why  old  men,  who  should  be  wise, /oo/,  and  childreu,  who  by  nature  are 
foolish,  are  wise  enough  to  calculate. 

"  But  if  you  would  consider  the  true  cause, 
Why  all  these  fires,  why  all  these  gliding  ghosts. 
Why  birds  and  beasts  from  quality  and  kind, 
Why  old  men  fools,  and  children  calculate ; 
Why  all  these  things  change  from  their  ordinance, 
Their  natures,  and  preformed  faculties 
To  monstrous  quality.'* 

Gent.  Mao.  Vol.  XXL  3  O 


a^r»tm»IWmmiMkm,mtie  pfa,. 


>  •*i»Kk  tf  l«SI««<a.  tMlT  »  M  Med  «f  My 

^~kf  Old  MCK  tow-u.  a»d  c^u^ 

Thrv  nature^  m^A  frrfortd 

'VliT  bird*  aad  Wmi*  from  ^•abtj  ^  kad 
To  mciufeti  iMi  ^[saaty.* 

In  the  old  itadinjr.  Uie  oppoMtkw  hetvm  Mf„-«/  «.  ««&«*  qoalitr 


P.  315.—"  A  fioMM  hitk  lAdped  ia  tfe 
S*e  a«Hli«u  Eotivpm.  *oI   u.  p.  44.  p.  272,  ed.  Gen.  speakinc  of 


P.  352.^^  CiT.— «'  Lrt  Ub  be  C 
4  CiT.— 
SballM^be 


Haamer  iotfrtad  »m»  to  iaprofe  the  Mtw  5  wt  tkiak  Ikai  1m  k.«i 
^  Wtjt  looe.  «  the  he«.^  „  thbk  i.  'toTe^SJ^ll^fit  "^ 

«' Sban  be  erowB'd  in  Brvte.    Life !  Iwe  I  Bi«t«,  fife  »• 

the  CitijeM  jott  before  cry  oat—"  Lire,  Brutus,  lire  !  live  !  •— mhI  the 
Imc  that  follows  that,  which  we  hate  attempted  to  restore,  ia, 

*'  Well  bring  blm  to  hit  howe  with  shoats  aad  dammn  ;*' 

Which  follows  the  exclamations  *'  Uvc,  Brutus,  live,"  as  preTiOiisly  the 
•ame  Citizen's  (the  1st)  expression,  ^ 

"  Bring  him  with  trinrnph  home  anto  hit  hove* 

?1!!*Ik'?'"  ^^  •*"•  exclamation.    The  hemistich  is  thos  tnppiied.  and 
the  whole  passage  we  conceive  rendered  more  perfect  "^ 

P.  874.-^*  ^^tT?'^  ?!»  eommaaden  kid  their  ehugcs  of 
A  httle  from  this  gnmod. 
BB.—Lnciliot  do  ike  Oke,  and  let  no  maa 
Come  to  oar  tent  tiU  we  bare  done  oar  conferaioe.'' 

Stecrcns  says,   the  old  copy  has,  •'  Do  yom  the  like,"  but  without 
nght  reading  of  the  passage,  and,  filling  np  the  hemistichf  we  r^ 

r  «:ti"T?!^  P?'  commanden  lead  their  chafxet  off 
A  Utile  from  tbu  ground.    Ba.— LocUiw, 
Do  yon  tbe  Uke.  and  we  yo«  let  no  maa 
Come  to  oar  tent,"  &c 


ANTONY  AND  CLEOPATRA.  (VoL  XVIL  •!.  Raed.) 

'  ^*ln«n  ««•      "u^  '^^"  7"  *^"»f  ^orth  weeds 
waen  oar  qaick  winds  lie  still.'' 


1844.]  Te9i  ^  Shakipere.  467 

Six  oommeBtatora  hare  written  on  this  passage,  and  filled  three  long 
pages  with  the  explanations  and  amendments,  among  whom  an  Essex 
farmer  appears  as  a  coadjutor ;  but  if  "  quick  '*  is  understood,  not  as  swift, 
but  as  winds  giving  life,  fertility,  in  the  sense  the  word  is  used  in  Shak- 
spere  and  the  old  writers, — "the  quick  and  the  dead/* — we  can  see  no 
dbscarity  that  should  perplex  a  reader.  Biackstone  thinks  "  quick 
winds  "  mean  **  arable  lands/*  and  Steevens  *•  teeming  fallows/* 

P.  39.—^'  Cl.— I  am  quickly  ill  and  well ; 
So  Antoay  lovea." 

StoewBi  explains  this  passage, ''  Uncertain  as  the  state  of  my  health 

is  the  love  of  Antony/*     JVI alone  thinks  he  is  right,  to  whidi  we  cannot 

agree,  for  Antony  does  not  love  Ui  or  welly  but  warmly  or  coldly.     We 

interpret  it, 

"  I  am  ill  or  wdl,  as  Antony  lovw,  or  does  not  love." 

P.  47. — "  Like  a  vagabond  flag  upon  the  stream, 
Goes  to  and  baek.*' 

Should  we  not  read,  *'  Like  to  a  vagabond  ?"  the  commentaton  surely 
do  not  pronounce  vagabond  with  the  middle  syllable  long. 

P.  56.-^"  And  soberly  did  mount  a  termagani  steed.*' 

Old  copy — ** arm-gaunt 5"  Hanmer,  " arm-girt/'  Monck  Mason,  *'  ter- 
magaunt,  which  Steevens  approves,  and  challenges  any  critic  to  make  any 
change  productive  of  sense  more  apposite  or  commodious.  Without  en- 
tering the  lists,  we  think  '*  war-gaunt  "  would  be  closer  to  the  old  copy, 
and  a  better  reading  j  indeed,  we  see  that  Warburton  explains  "  arm- 
gaunt,"  a  steed  worn  bare  and  thin  by  service  in  war ;  the  inversion  of 
ooe  letter,  m,  and  the  transposition  of  the  other  or,  would  change  arm  into 
war, 

p.  67.^  *'  Yourwife  and  brother 

Made  wars  upon  me ;  and  their  contestation 

Was  theme  for  yoa.** — 

Many  notes  have  been  written  on  this  passage ;  but  we  would  either 
admit  Monck  Masons  alteration  of  the  place  in  which  the  words  stand, 

*'  And  for  contestation 
Their  theme  was  joa," 

or  ooe  we  had  previously  thought  of, 

**  And  their  contestatioD 
Was  you  for  theme." — 

p.  100.—'*  Ram  thon  tfay  fruitftil  tidings  in  mine  ears, 
That  long  time  have  been  barren." 

Malone  supports  '*  ram.**  Steevens,  however,  conjectures  "  rain,**  which 
no  doubt  is  right,  as  it  makes  the  metaphor  perfect  and  elegant.  The 
confusion  arose  merely  from  the  dot  to  the  t  being  wanting  -,  a  common 
source  of  mistake. 

P.  107.— '<  0 1  that  his  firalt  should  make  a  knaTe  of  thee, 
That  art  not  what  thon  'rt  sore  of." 

Monck  Mason  thus  points  the  passage.     Steevens  says  with  singular 

acuteness : 

<*  O !  that  his  fanft  shonld  make  a  kuaTe  of  thee, 
That  art  not !— What  ?    Thon  'rt  sore  of 't  ?" 


468  Conjedwral  EmendaiionM  on  the  [Not. 

And  yet  we  hare  oar  doubto,  for ''  that  art  not  *'  seems  ezpresMTe  of  pndae 
hardly  in  the  spirit  of  the  interview.     We  pn^Mwe 

**  O,  that  Mb  fault  should  make  a  knare  of  thee ! 
Thoa  art  not  ?— What  ?    Thoa  'rt  rare  of  *t." 

Natoral  hope  and  weakness  led  Cleopatra  to  say,  "  Thoa  art  not  snie  of 
the  truth  of  thy  news  ?**  but,  seeing  the  messenger's  countenance^  she 
stops  and  changes,  "  What  ?  yon  are  sure  of  it  ?" 

P.  187.^"  PosMsa  it,  1 11  make  aaiwer,  but  I  had  rather  Dut" 

Steevens  woald  reject  **  make  **  as  clogging  the  metre.  The  verse  would 
be  better  thus : 

'<  Pouess,  I  '11  answer,  but  I  had  rather  £ut,**  Sec. 

P.  143. — **  Brown,  madam ;  and  her  forehead  is  at  low 
As  she  would  wish  it." 

See  Broome's  City  Wit,  Act  iv.  sc.  1>  1. 2,  "  a  doll  eycj  a  low  forehead/' 

P.  1B1.«-"  When  half  to  half  the  world  opposed,  he  being 
The  mend  question." 

Johnson  would  read  "  mooted  question.'*  Mason  and  Malone  think 
Shakspere  coined  the  word  mered  from  mere  j  but  we  think  the  reading 
should  be  *'  Th*  admired  question,"  the  two  letters  ad  having  dropped  oat. 

P.  S71.— Pno.—  **  O,  temperance,  lady  1 

CLBO.-*Sir,  I  will  eat  no  meat ;  1*11  not  drink,  sir. 
If  idle  talk  will  once  be  necessary, 
I  *11  not  sleep  neither.    This  mortal  house  I  *U  ruin,"  &c. 

Malone  and  Ritson,  dissatisfied  with  the  explanation  of  the  line  *'  If 
idle  talk/*  &c.  think  a  line  has  been  omitted,  as 

*'  If  idle  talk  will  once  be  necessary, 
/  7/  not  to  much  at  syllable  a  word,** 

or  **  I  will  not  epeakf  if  sleep  be  neeeeearf,** 

Bat  we  object  altogether  to  this  way  of  giving  a  lame  author  a  wooden  leg. 
Proculeius  admonishes  the  Queen  to  temperance  and  moderation.  Then 
she  in  her  absorbing  passion  answers  him  at  once^  though  her  answer  she 
conceives  to  be  all  wasted  time  and  idle  words,  yet,  once  for  all^  she  says, 

'*  If  idle  talk  will  once  be  necessary ; — 

Sir,  I  will  eat  no  meat,  I  'U  not  drink,  sir,"  &c. 

Thus,  by  the  simple  transposition  of  a  line,  all  addition  is  rendered  an- 
necessa]^,  and  the  sense  is  agreeable  to  nature  and  troth. 

P.  376.—  *'  Realms  and  islands  were 

Am  plates  dropped  from  his  pocket. 

So  Heywood*s  Troy,  p.  375,  "  Figured  plates  of  coined  gold.**  How 
does  this  agree  with  Steevens*6  note,  who  says  plates  meant  silver  money } 

P.  289.— Hast  thou  the  pretty  worm  of  Nilus  there  ?" 

For  additional  instances  of  "  worm  *'  for  **  snake,^*  see  Crashaw's  Steps  to 
the  Temple,  p.  72  ;  Cowley*s  Davideis,  book  i.  p.  12. 

P.  994. — **  Dost  thou  not  see  my  baby  at  my  breast  t 
That  sucks  the  nurse  asleep  ?'' 


1844.]  Text  of  Shakspere.  469 

See  Drakenborcb's  note  to  Sil.  Ital.  lib.  ii.  417^  where  he  shows  that 
the  poets  and  painters  have  not  followed  history^  which  describes  Cleo- 
patra as  applying  the  asp  to  her  arm,  whereas  they  place  it,  as  Shakspere 
does,  on  her  breast.  He  refers  to  an  ancient  gem  in  Gorlsi  Dactyl,  ii. 
146  ;  to  an  inedited  epigram, '' Vivere  serpens  creditnr>  et  morsa  gaudens 
dare  fditsi  papilla  i*  and  to  Victorii  variae  Lect.  lib.  iv»  c.  22. 


KING  LEAR. 

P.  523.—  *'  Her  smaes  and  tears 

Were  like  a  better  day,** 

m 

The  commentators  read  "  way  '*  and  "  May  ;**  but ''  better  day  '*  is  right. 
See  Hamlet-^ 

"  And  do  anch  businesa  aa  the  better  day 
Would  quake  to  look  on.'* 

P.  557. — Steevens  says,  *^  After  servant  one  of  the  qnartos  has  this 
strange  continuation  :  '  and  for  you  her  owne  for  venter,  Gonerill.'  But 
these  words  are  only  a  corruption  of  "  and  youre  owne  for  ever"  We  may 
remark  that  at  the  end  of  Ford*s  play,  "  Tis  pity,"  &c.  instead  of  an 
epilogue,  there  is  an  apology  for  the  errors  of  the  Press,  ''  The  general 
commendation  deserved  by  the  actors  in  the  presentment  of  the  tragedy 
may  easily  excuse  such  faults  as  are  escaped  in  the  printing,**  &c.  This 
apology  for  one  play  of  one  author  might  be,  with  equal  justice,  affixed 
to  almost  all  plays  of  all  authors  of  the  stage  at  that  time. 

P.  564. —  <*  To  watch,  poor  perdu, 

With  thia  thine  helm  ?    Mine  enemy*e  dog, 

Though  he  had  bit  me,  should  have  stayed  that  night,"  &c. 

There  is  a  foot  wanting  in  the  second  line.  The  two  quartos  read  '*  mine 
injurious  dog.*'    This,  we  think,  leads  to  the  word  that  will  supply  the  line, 

"  VTiiAi  this  thine  helm  ?    Mine  enemj'syiiWoM  dog.** 

P.  571.— "  For  these  domestic  and  particular  broils.*' 
So  the  folio.    The  quartos, 

"  For  these  domestic  doore  particulars — *' 
which  Steevens  thinks  is  "  particulars  at  our  doors  !"    Bat  read 

*'  For  these  domestic  poore  particulars," 
the  d  being  only  the  p  reversed. 

P.  593. — **  This  would  have  seemed  a  period 

To  such  as  lore  not  sorrow ;  but  another, 
To  amplify  too  much,  would  make  much  more. 
And  top  extremity.'' 

There  are  various  notes  on  this  passage.  Steevens  thinks  its  obscurity 
arises  from  its  corruption.  We,  however,  would  make  it  easier  by  a  slight 
transposition, 


470  Cwjteiwtid  SwiemUiimis  on  tke  [N«v. 

**•  TUt  would  here  leeiiMd  a  ptriod 

To  flBcb  M  love  ttot  sorrow ;  oat  onotber 

7b  mmi^tify,  would  mak§  mmek  more  too  wmek. 

And  top  extramlty." 


TIMON  OF  ATHENS.    (VoL  XIX.  ed.  Rood.) 

p.  57.^"  Lord  Timon  wffl  be  left  a  naked  gull." 

We  bave  quoted  tbis  line  for  tbe  porpose  of  transcribtng  Steevens's 
DOte :  '*  A  gull  is  a  bird  as  remarkable  for  tbe  poverty  of  its  feathers,  as  a 
pboenix  is  supposed  to  be  for  tbe  ricbness  of  its  plumage.*'  So  says  tbe 
commentator  turned  naturalist  Now  it  so  bappens  tbat  the  seagull  is  so 
rery  remarkable  for  the  ricbnefls  and  amplitnde  of  its  pbiai^,  Ikat  it 
18  too  buoyant  to  be  able  to  dife,  as  the  other  aquatic  birds  do^ 

p.  70.— ><*  I  bare  retired  me  to  a  wasteM  oookp 
And  let  mine  eyei  at  flow.*' 

It  is  not  necessary  to  gt?e  tbe  explanations  of  the  commentatorsy  as  they 
are  so  well  known,  and  are  all  so  perfectly  unsatisfactory  that  Parmer 
doubts  the  meaning  of  the  passage,  and  that  Pope,  in  despair,  gate  m 
reading  of  his  own.  If  the  alteration  of  two  small  words  should  not  be 
refused  in  such  a  case  to  remove  the  difficulty,  we  would  propooe— 

**  I  have  retired  me,  like  a  waatefol  oock 
To  let  mine  eyea  at  flow." 

The  '*  wasteful  cock'*  being  the  comparison,  and  not  the  locality. 

P.  91 .— "  Mnat  I  be  bis  last  reliige  ?    His  friends,  like  pbyiieiaas, 
J%rw€f  give  him  orer ;  mast  I  take  tbe  care  upon  me  ?** 

Pope  conjectured  "  three,*'  Johnson  "  thrice^*'  Hanmer  *'  /ry V,"  Tyr- 
whitt  **  shrned  $**  but  not  one  of  them  appears  to  us  to  be  agreeable  to 
sense,  or  the  easy  plain  construction  of  a  passage  expressed  in  common 
familiar  language.  We  think  "  thrhe  "  is  nothing  more  than  a  corruption 
of  *'  have"    We  read,  therefore,  **  Have  given  him  over.** 

P.  109.—  "  Women  are  more  valiant 

That  stay  at  home,  if  bearing  carry  ity 
And  th'  ass  more  (captain)  than  the  Uon,  the  felon 
Loaden  with  irons  wiser  than  tbe  jadge." 

Pope  rejected  "  captain,*'  which  Ritson  justly  observes  has  been  in- 
judiciously restored,  for,  without  it,  the  sense  is  clear  and  correct.  The 
question  is,  whether  the  word  really  came  from  tbe  poet,  in  which  case 
we  must  admit  it,  or  was  a  mistake  of  the  transcriber  or  printer,  and  there-  I 

fore  may  be  rejected.     In  considering  this,  we  found  that  it  was  brought,  ' 

by  the  compositor's  carelessness,  from  tbe  former  part  of  tbe  speech.  "  If 
I  speak  like  a  captain.*'  It  is  therefore  nothing  more  than  an  error  of  the 
press }  and  the  line  may  be  read  either 

<*  Tbe  ass  more  than  the  lion,  and  the  felon," 
or  "  And  th'  ass  more  than  tbe  Uon,  the  felda  *' 

with  the  last  syllable  accentuated* 


'fr 


Tait  nf  Skaktpen. 


I 

i. 


To  the  wide  iroTla,  UnrStr  "'  ^'***OIIi.   ; 

Ellis'a  SpedmeoB,  vol.  ii.  p.  313  (a  Hraoet  by  ThoSTTtiu 
"  And  iIbm  that  lore  wu  mwe  I  trod  awij, 
I  hen  Uke  off  hii  belli,  tad  let  Ub  tj." 


472  Emendation  to  the  Promeikeiii  Vmetue.  [Sor. 

P.  51 8.^"  I  haTe  done  the  itate  lome  lenrioe,  and  thej  know  it.'* 

See  Brome*8  Coveot  Garden  Weeded,  8to.  p.  60,  "  And,  but  for  doing 
the  stale  so  good  Mervice,  we  would  hang  htm.*' 

P.  518.—"  Speik  of  me  as  I  am ;  nodiing  exteniate, 
Nor  let  down  aught  in  malke." 

See  Charitonis  Amores  Chaer.  et  Chariclis,  ed.  Donille,  p.  41, 
npiafietfe  roivvv^  ctrcK  6  Atovva^ioSf  roi  X^yc  &vra  ra  cKiivfis  pijfiara, 
Mifhiy  AfiXriSy  /ii^S^  wpdoOtSy  dXX*  Arpi/tes  cpfi^ytvt* 

P.  585.—"  I  took  by  the  throat  the  ctrcorndsed  dog, 
jind  mm&te  km  Miv ." 

See  Lud.  CarlelFs  Osmond  the  Great  Turk,  p.  52,  **  You  sbooM  bare 
struck  him  thnsi  and  thoi  !*'* 

(7b  5f  ewUkiMed,)  ' 


Ma.  UasAK, 


Batheaslon. 


TU  ax»$  tU  od^  irpooarra  /a'  d^cMnjf  • 

Prom.  Vinct.  L  115. 

Whilst  reading  the  above  passage  I 
have  often  thought  how  much  more 
poetical  it  might  be  rendered  if  the 
coDstmction  would  admit  of  a  com- 
parison being  instituted  between  the 
"  axii "  and  tiie  "  6dftd."  By  referring 
to  the  manuscripts  of  the  Prometheus 
Vinctns,  I  find  that  two  read  "  w"  in 
die  place  of  the  second  "ris,"  therefore 
making  the  substitution,  we  shall  haye« 

which,  by  changing  the  "  what "  in 
Dr.  Potter's  translation  into  'Mike/' 
may  be  thus  Englished : 

"  What  sound ylike  lofUy-breathing  odour, 
Steals  on  my  sense  ?'* 

Milton  has  a  very  similar  passage 
in  his  Comus, 

"At  last  a  soft  and  solemn-breathing  sound 
Bose  like  a  steam  of  rich  distill'd  per- 
fumes.'* 

My  reason  for  calling  your  attention 
to  the  aubject  is»  that  I  have  never 
seen  in  any  of  the  recent  editions  of 
JSschylna  any  recognition  of  the  ex- 


istence of  the  "Mf;''  indeed  I  have 
only  once  seen  it  in  print*  and  that 
was  in  an  old  edition  of  the  "  Prome- 
theus/' published  by  the  Brothers 
Bencknerr,  at  Amsterdam,  in  the  16th 
century.  This  valuable  copy  waa  obli- 
gingly forwarded  to  me  by  the  Rev. 
J.  Bickersteth.  D.D.  when  he  heaid 
that  the  passage  in  question  occupied 
my  attention.  I  cannot  tell  the  exact 
date  of  its  publication^  as  that  part  of 
the  title-page  which  contains  the  laat 
figure  of  the  date  is  torn  off.  As, 
however,  the  figures  151  remain,  it 
must  have  been  somewhere  between 
the  years  1509  and  1520. 

If  you  insert  this  communication 
in  your  long- established  Magazine, 
which  is  so  peculiarly  the  schoUir'a,  it 
may  call  the  attention  of  the  learned 
to  the  subject,  and  the  genuineness  of 
the  reading  "w"  may  be  by  their 
efibrta  established  or  disproved ;  if 
established,  the  superior  beauty  given 
to  the  passage  by  its  adoption  in  the 
room  of  the  unpoetical  "rit"  woald 
well  repay  any  pains  which  might  be 
taken  to  secure  so  desirable  a  con- 
summation. 

Yours,  &c.    Jambs  Hbndt,  B.A. 


*  We  take  this  opportunity  of  putting  right  a  passage  in  Suckling's  Supplement  to 
Shakspere's  Verses,  in  Malone's  Suppl.  vol.  i.  p.  496. 

"  Her  beams,  which  some  dull  men  call'd  hair,  divided, 
Part  with  her  cheeks,  part  with  her  lips,  did  sport ; 
But  these  as  mde  her  breath  pnt  by,  still  some— 
Wiselier  downward  sought,  but,  falling  short, 
Currd  back  in  rings." 

Malone  says,  "  From  the  want  of  rhyme,  I  ttupiet  this  [third]  Une  to  be  oorrnpt.** 
Certainly  it  is ;  read, 

"  But  these  as  rude  her  breath  put  by ;  ttiHgllMi 
Wu9lier  downword  somit*^  &c. 
3 


473 


THE  THRBB  SHJRLBYSc 


IT  was  in  the  lovely  montli  of  a  most 
lovely  June  in  18 — « that  I  was  per- 
suaded to  accompany  my  young  friend 
S  on  a  walking  tour  through 

Sussex;  hi*  chief  object  being  the 
churches*  mhe  any  interest  that  might 
present  itself,  whether  from  nature's 
own  fair  face,  which  has  a  remarkably 
varied  style  of  beauty  in  this  county, 
or  in  the  smaller  incidents  which  a 
tour  of  this  kind  offers,  of  interest  or 
amusement  to  him  who  seeks  for 
cither. 

That  fierce  crusade  which  so  many 
young  men  destined  for  the  clerical 
profession  wage  against  the  pem  and 
other  deformities  which  in.  so  many 
places  are  rapidly  disappearing,  was 
taken  up  warmly  and  carried  on  with 
vigour  by  S  There  was  not 

a  church  large  or  small,  interesting  or 
uninteresting,  that  he  did  not  want  to 
visit,  and  the  bare  rumour  of  some 
uncommon  bit  of  architecture  or  an- 
cient monument  carried  us  frequently 
far  out  of  our  regular  track  over  miles 
of  downs,  or  through  deep  lanes,  to 
all  which  1  patiently  submitted,  often 
finding  some  reward  for  myself  in  a 
quarter  where  I  least  perhaps  expected 
any. 

It  was  late  in  the  afternoon  of  a 
very  sultry  day  that,  af^er  a  walk  of 
many  miles,  sometimes  toiling  along 
deep  sandy  lanes,  sometimes  scramb- 
ling through  thickets  of  underwood, 
that  we  found  ourselves  before  the 
small  but  pretty  church  of  Isfield.  It 
stands  in  the  midst  of  quiet  green 
fields,  a  few  venerable  trees  around 
about  it.  At  a  short  distance,  placed 
among  trees,  and  with  its  front  to  the 
church,  was  an  old  grey-looking  house 
of  most  respectable  appearance,  now 
a  farm-house,  but  once  the  home  of 
one  of  the  Shirley  family,  probably  of 
him  whose  monument  is  in  the  church. 

Whilst  my  young  friend  S 
was  pacing  along  the  narrow  aisle, 
inveighing  bitterly  against  the  abo^ni- 
nation  of  an  awkward  and  ungainly 
looking  square  pew  with  high  wooden 
sides,  I  was  busy  in  a  small  inner 
chapel  that  in  times  past  had  belonged 
to  the  Shirleys,  trying  to  decypher  an 
inscription  on  one  of  the  monuments. 
It  was  erected  to  the  memory  of  a  Sir 

OcNT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


John  Shirley,  and  the  epitaph  set 
forth  with  announcing, 

"  That  the  fame  of  Sir  John  Shirley  of 
Isfield  in  the  coanty  of  Sussex,  knight, 
may  be  precious  in  the  memory  of  all 
men  till  the  change  of  the  last  man,  be  it 
delivered  to  posterity  that  Sir  John  Shir- 
ley, knight,  was  of  an  ancient  fkmily — of 
a  magnanimous  heart— of  an  exemplary 
indostry—Hif  a  justice  bevond  exoeption, 
and  that  he  was  stout  m  good  causes, 
yea,  and  good  in  all  causes. 

'*  His  first  wife  was  daughter  unto  Sir 
Thomas  Shirley,  of  Wiston,  knight.  His 
second  was  the  daughter  of  Cteorge 
Goring,  esq.    He  died  in  1631." 

The  epitaph  continues  in  the  same 
quaint  style  to  set  forth  the  excellent 
qualities  of  the  wife ;  but  it  was  the 
mention  of  the  first  that  set  me  upon 
the  train  of  thought  which  I  am  alM>ut 
to  detail,  making  the  first  chapter  as 
it  were  of  the  romantic  history  of  the 
Shirleys. 

There  are  other  monuments  of  Shir- 
leys in  the  chapel,  which  was  in  a 
dirty  and  uncared-for  condition.  It 
was,  however,  kept  locked  in  conse- 
quence (as  we  were  told  by  the  clerk) 
of  the  damage  that  had  been  done  to 
the  monuments  by  the  children  of  the 
parish  when  it  was  left  open  to  the 
public. 

Under  one  of  the  Shirley  monu- 
ments was  found  in  1775  a  stone  of 
black  marble,  the  tombstone  of  Gnn- 
dred,  youngest  daughter  of  William 
the  Conqueror,  and  wife  of  William 
first  Earl  of  Warren.  She  was  buried 
in  the  chapter-house  of  Lewes  Priory, 
and  how  or  why  the  stone  was  re- 
moved to  Isfield  does  not  appear.  It 
was  replaced  at  Lewes  by  Sir  William 
Burrell,  and  on  the  wall  of  the  sooth 
aisle  of  St.  John's,  Southover,  is  a 
marble  tablet  with  this  inscription  : 

"  Within  this  pew  sUnds  the  tomb- 
stone of  Gnndred,  daaghter  of  William 
the  Conqueror,  and  wife  of  William  the 
first  Earl  of  Warren,  which  having  been 
dep^iited  over  her  remains  in  the  chapter- 
hoose  of  Lewes  Priory,  and  lately  disco- 
vered in  Isfield  church,  was  removed  to 
this  place  at  the  expense  of  William  Bur- 
rell, Esq.  A.D.  1775." 

Gundred  died  in  childbed  at  Caatio 
Acre,  1085. 

In  1078  a  priory  was  founded  at 

3P 


I  pMMd  (torn  tfie   Sa 

Jf  1  mam  u  -'ti  di 

rt  G^  the  tixptfat  do»9»;:««  vorm- 
iiL;p; 

part  nmpjtr  ft ,  aa«l  cruiesi^r 

the   prxi«ct.->«s   cf 

aad  unnamed  Astncr ;  %-zch 


Noc  thaknif  tktt  his  cUm  «w 
It  hiiag  B  ■•  ilMrt  a  ~ 
We  kMc  Ws  m  a 


And  others  of  ftiAJar  merils  aa*!  urn- 
plicitT. 

I  sat  down  oa  a  grmasj  monod*  and 
looked  on  the  pcaccfal  scene  aroond 
me  ;  the  son  was  setting  clocileMl  j. 
His  rart  fell  on  the  old  mansion,  whidi 
wore  an  air  of  respectability  beyond 
that  of  an  ordinary  fisrm-hoose. 
There  were  traces  left  of  what  it  once 
had  been.  To  that  hoose,  I  pictured  to 
myself.  Sir  John  Shirley  broaght 
home  his  bride  from  Wistoo,  daoghter 
of  the  old  Sir  Thomas^  who  was  fa> 
tber  to  the  "  Three  Brothen,  whose 
romantic  lifes  are  remarkable  eren  in 
the  history  of  the  times,  and  in  the 
history  of  Sussex  shonld  form  a  little 
Odyssey  to  which  all  the  poetic  and 
distinguished  spirit  of  the  coooty 
might  well  look  ap  and  be  proud 
of."* 

It  was,  then,  the  sister  of  those  three 
gallant  brothers  who  once  lived  in  the 


*  The  author  of  this  quotatioQ  wrote 
but  did  not  publish  a  work,  short,  but  full 
of  beauty  both  in  sentiment  and  expres- 
sion. It  was  called  "  Winchester,  and  a 
ffw  other  Compositions  in  Prone  and 
Verse/' 


gRea  field  that 

fnmthe^oich. 

the  Hmtte  of 

Those  three  bff«f«  Shirleys !  tmA 
separate  historr  is  a  rooMnccw  How 
procd  mast  the  old  knigbt  their 
fcther  hav«  been.  Uviag  at  Wiston 
with  his  aoMe  saoa!  What  heart* 
ting  paitiagi;  what  sorrowfbl 
SOB  after  son  left  the 
to  seek  hommr  and  re. 


First  weat  forth  Anthony  the 
coad  of  the  soas ;  he  was  a  yimag  Ox- 
fodsdhola^He  says  of  himself,  ••  My 
frieads  bestowed  oa  aw  those  leani<- 
iags  which  were  fit  for  a  gcntlemaB's 
omamrnt."  He  was  bora  in  1565. 
After  fiaishiaghis  vairersity  education, 
he  entered  the  army  under  the  au- 
spices of  the  Earl  of  Essex.  In  1586 
he  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Zut- 
phen.  When  the  Earl  went  to  France 
with  four  thousand  men  to  aid  the 
King  against  the  confederates  of  the 
L«sgoe,  Anthony  accompanied  him, 
and  here  the  young  soldier  probably 
distinguished  himself  greatly,  for 
Henry  the  Fourth  gave  htm  the  order 
of  St.  Michael,  which  brought  upon 
him  the  displeasure  of  that  royal 
vingo  Queen  Elizabeth.  "  As  a  rii^ 
tuous  woman  ought  to  look  on  none 
but  her  husband,"  said  she,  "  so  a 
subject  ought  not  to  cast  his  eyes  on 
any  other  sorereign  than  him  God 
has  set  over  him.  I  will  not  have  my 
sheep  marked  with  a  strange  brand  ; 
nor  BuiTer  them  to  follow  the  pipe  of  a 


1844.] 


The  Three  Shirley*. 


475 


strange  shepherd."  She  commanded 
Sir  John  Pickering  and  Lord  Back- 
hurat  to  inquire  into  the  circumstances 
of  this  alleged  breach  of  allegiance, 
the  result  of  which  was  that  poor  Mr. 
Anthony  Shirley  was  sent  a  close  pri- 
soner to  the  Fleet.  His  father.  Sir 
Thomas  Shirley,  was  summoned  and 
questioned  sharply;  and  with  very 
great  humility  he  answers,  "  that  he 
hath  not  in  any  ways  encouraged  him, 
but  hath  Sfer  charged  him  to  be  very 
curious  and  circumspect  in  taking 
place  to  the  offence  of  any,  and  is 
most  heartily  sorry  that  his  son  hath 
thus  done  to  the  offence  of  her  Ma- 
jesty." 

How  long  his  imprisopment  lasted 
does  not  appear ;  the  matter  ended  in 
his  being  deprived  of  the  order  of  St* 
Michael.  During  the  next  few  years 
nothing  is  told  of  him,  or  how  they 
were  passed.  The  next  event  is  his 
marriage ;  but  Frances  Vernon  of  Hod- 
net  did  not  make  his  life  a  happy  one. 
All  that  we  know  of  his  domestic  sor- 
rows and  her  faults  are  collected 
from  an  expressive  sentence  in  a  letter 
written  by  Rowland  Whyte  to  Sir 
Robert  Sydney,  when  he  set  sail  from 
England  in  the  BevU  qf  Souihampton, 
accompanied  by  six  smaller  vessels, 
bound  for  the  island  of  St.  Thom^; 
"Sir  Anthony  Shirley  goes  forward 
on  his  voyage  very  well  furnished,  led 
by  the  strange  fortune  of  his  marriage 
to  undertake  any  course  that  may 
occupy  his  mind  from  thinking  on  her 
vainest  words." 

Whether  Elizabeth  made  him  amelids 
for  the  deprivation  of  the  order  con- 
ferred on  him  by  Henry  of  France,  and 
herself  knighted  her  loyal  subject,  or 
whether  he  retained  the  knighthood 
by  courtesy,  is  not  made  clear.  Some 
say  that  he  received  this  honour  after 
his  return  from  the  voyage,  and  that 
it  was  bestowed  by  his  patron  the 
Earl  of  Essex ;  cerUin  it  is  that  he 
was  dubbed  knight  when  the  French 
monarch  laid  his  sword  on  the  shoolder 
of  Anthony  Shirley,  saying,  "  Soyez 
Chevalier  de  St.  Michael  au  nom  de 
St.  George,  car  vous  Tavez  bien  merits." 

Eliaabeth  might  deprive  him  of  the 
order,  but  not  even  her  imperious 
word  had  the  power  to  undo  knight- 
hood so  honourably  and  legally  con- 
ferred hj  the  most  ehivalfous  and 
ilduuit  kng  than  liYiog. 


His  design  to  go  to  St.  Thome  was 
altered,  for  while  on  the  coast  of 
Guinea  "  the  water  from  the  heavens 
did  stink,  and  in  six  hours  turned  into 
maggots ;"  so  he  changed  his  course  to 
America,  where  he  took  the  city  of  St. 
Jago,  and  kept  it  for  two  days  and 
nights  with  280  men  (whereof  80 
were  wounded  in  the  service)  against 
3000  Portuguese ;  after  which  he  sailed 
to  the  Isle  of  Fuego,  "a  very  small 
isle,  with  a  very  high  hill  in  the  midst 
that  continually  burneth,  invincible  by 
nature." 

This  expedition  seems  to  have  proved 
unfavourable.  He  took  Jamaica  and 
several  towns ;  but,  not  meeting  with 
all  the  wealth  that  was  expected,  he 
was  deserted  by  the  ships  that  had  ac- 
companied him,  and  obliged  to  return 
to  England  the  following  year,  1697* 

In  the  winter  of.  1598  or  1699»  we 
again  find  him  in  pursuit  of  more 
honour  and  renown.  Probably  he  did 
not  find  the  tongue  of  his  wife  had 
become  sweeter  or  her  temper  gentler 
since  his  absence ;  and  so,  finding  do- 
mestic peace  denied,  he  sought  forget- 
fulness  of  troubles  like  these  in  a  life 
of  enterprise  abroad ;  probably  from 
tbe  home  of  discord  he  sought  refuge 
in  the  paternal  house  at  Wiston. 
There,  the  stirring  tales  he  had  to  tell, 
the  wild  and  romantic  adventures  and 
wondrous  narratives  of  strange  lands, 
so  worked  upon  the  mind  and  ima- 
gination of  his  young  brother  Robert, 
tiiat,  when  Sir  Anthony  once  more  bade 
the  good  old  knight  of  Wiston  fare- 
well, he,  too,  left  his  home  and  friends 
and  accompanied  his  brother. 

The  elder  brother.  Sir  Thomas,  had 
been  early  instructed  in  military  dis- 
cipline, and,  having  had  a  command  of 
300  men  in  Holland,  had  there  be- 
haved with  so  much  gallantry  that  he 
had  been  knighted  by  Lord  Wil- 
loughby. 

It  is  easy  to  imagine  what  must 
have  been  the  reluctance  of  the  aged 
father  to  see  his  home  thus  rendered 
desolate,  and  one  may  suppose  that  he 
did  not,  without  grievous  misgivings, 
see  his  truant  Anthony  carry  away  his 
youngest,  perhaps  his  favourite,  boy» 
who  he  might  have  hoped  would  be 
contented  to  remain  and  be  the  com- 
fort and  the  prop  of  his  declining 
years. 

The  expedition  on  which  Sir  Mt^ 


476 


The  Tkrte  Skirleyi. 


[Not. 


tbony  WM  boand  was  one  seat  by  the 
Earl  of  Essex  to  assist  Don  Cesare 
d'Este«  the  illegitimate  son  of  the 
Doke  of  Ferrara,  lately  dead,  against 
the  Pope,  who  laid  claim  to  the  princi- 
pality. Before  he  arrived,  however, 
the  Duke  had  snbmitled,  and  the  war 
was  at  an  end. 

Not,  however,  to  have  been  at  so 
much  trooble  and  expense  in  vain,  it 
was  determined  between  Lord  Essex 
and  Sir  Anthony  Shirley  that  the 
latter  shonld  undertake  a  voyage  to 
Persia,  the  objects  being,  first,  to 
endeavour  to  prevail  upon  the  king 
of  that  country  to  unite  with  the 
Christian  princes  against  the  Turks, 
and  secondly,  to  establish  a  com- 
mercial intercourse  between  this 
country  and  the  East.  Sir  Anthony 
had  moreover  certain  designs  of  his 
own.  They  embarked  at  Venice  for 
Aleppo,  on  the  24  th  of  May  I599« 
with  25  followers,  most  of  them  gentle- 
men. There  have  been  several  ac« 
counts  written  of  this  expedition  ;  that 
given  by  one  of  Sir  Anthony's  at- 
tendants, George  Main  waring,  seems 
to  be  the  most  amusing  and  circom- 
sUntial.  I  would  refer  those  who  wish 
for  more  detail  to  a  little  volume  called 
"The  Travels  and  Adventures  of  the 
three  Shirleys."  Many  curious  stories 
are  told  by  Mr.  Mainwaring  of  the 
jonrnev  i  at  last  they  arrive  at  a  town 
which  he  calls  Casbin.  Very  oddly  he 
spells  the  Persian  names. 

"  A  famous  city,''  says  he, "  snd  of 
great  antiquity."  The'  Lord  Steward 
came  with  a  great  train  of  gallant 
gentlemen,  saluted  Sir  Anthony  with 
much  courtesy,  and  oflfered  him  twenty 
pounds  In  gold,  telling  him  that  he 
shall  receive  this  much  every  day  till 
they  hear  from  the  king,  who  will 
probablv  treble  it. 

Sir  Anthony  made  answer  thus: 
"  Know  this,  brave  Persian,  I  come  not 
a  begging  to  the  king ;  but,  hearing 
of  his  ffreat  fame  and  worthiness, 
thought  I  could  not  spend  my  time 
better  than  come  to  see  him,  and  kiss 
his  hand,  with  the  adventure  of  my 
body  to  second  him  in  his  princely 
wars." 

"  Pardon  me,  brave  stranger,"  re- 
plies the  Persian,  "  for  now  I  see  thon 
art  a  prince  thyself,  for  so  it  seemeth 
by  thy  princely  answer." 

Sir  Anthony  asaurea  bin  that  he  ia 


no  prince,  but  the  second  eon  of  an 
English  knight,  who,  having  been 
trained  up  in  martial  alEura  sAd  well 
esteemed  of  in  his  own  country,  now 
comes  to  offer  his  best  services  to  the 
King  of  Persia;  and  so  vrith  much 
politeness  the  Persian  took  hia  leave, 
and  was  succeeded  by  the  Governor, 
giving  the  kindest  welcome  to  the 
stranger  knight,  and  in  eastern  fashion 
offering  all  that  he  was  worth  to  he 
at  his  service.  And,  though  Sir  An- 
thony declined  all  these  offers  with 
many  thanks,  they  continue  to  send 
him  rich  presents  day  alter  day. 

By-and-bye  there  come  tidings  from 
the  king,  the  great  Shah  Ablws.  He 
had  been  in  Tartary,  and  was  now  re- 
turning. He  sent  a  proclamation 
written  with  his  own  hand  to  the 
effect  that  horse  and  man  are  to  be  at 
the  service  of  Sir  Anthony  and  his 
suite,  upon  pain  of  death  to  those  who 
should  not  obey  ;  and  that,  if  any  man 
did  hold  up  his  hand  to  offer  the 
lowest  of  the  company  wrong,  he 
should  lose  his  head. 

Two  days  before  his  arrival  the  King 
sent  a  courier  to  order  that  the  English 
visitors  be  provided  with  horses,  and 
should  meet  him  four  miles  out  of 
Casbin,  accompanied  by  the  Governor 
and  the  Lord  Steward. 

"  And,"  says  Mainwaring, 

**  In  this  sort  was  Sir  Anthoiiy  sod  we 
of  his  oompsny  sppoiated;  nrst.  Sir 
Anthony  himself  in  rich  doth  of  gold,  his 
gown  snd  voder  coat ;  his  swocd  hanging 
in  s  rich  scsrf  to  the  worth  of  a  thoa- 
ssod  pounds,  being  set  with  pearls  and 
diamonds,  and  on  his  head  a  turban  ac- 
cording to  the  worth  of  200  dollars ;  his 
boots  embroidered  with  pearls  and  rubies : 
his  brother  Mr.  Robert  Shirley  likewise 
in  cloth  of  gold,  with  a  rich  turban  on  his 
head :  his  interpreter,  Angelo,  in  cloth  of 
siWer  gown  and  undercoat :  four  in  doth 
of  silver  gowns,  with  undercoats  of  silk 
damask :  four  in  crimson  velvet  gowns : 
four  in  bine  damask,  with  tsffety  nnder- 
costs  :  four  in  ydlow  damask,  with  their 
undercoats  of  a  Persian  staff:  his  page 
in  doth  of  gold :  his  four  footmen  in  car- 
nation talTety.*' 

After  they  had  ridden  half  a  mile 
from  the  city,  they  saw  "auch  a 
prospect  aa  is  not  nsnally  seen."  This 
waa  twelve  hundred  soldiers,  horse- 
men, carrying  twelve  haadrad  heada 
of  men  on  their  lances,  and  some 
haTing  the  mtv  of  nan  hnpng  aboot 


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47i^ 


their  necks  on  Etrings ;  then  trum- 
peters and  drammers,  standard  bearers 
and  pages,  and  at  last  Shah  Abbas 
himself,  and  after  him  the  rest  of  his 
officers  and  army,  twenty  thoasand 
soldiers,  all  horsemen. 

Sir  Anthony  and  his  brother  alight, 
and  (as  thev  are  desired,  being  told 
that  such  is  the  fashion  of  the  country) 
they  kiss  the  King's  foot ;  not  a  word 
does  he  utter,  only  looks  upon  them 
very  stately ;  then,  bidding  the  Lieut.. 
General  place  Sir  Anthony  as  he  had 
directed,  sets  spurs  to  his  horse,  and 
"did  ride  away  for  the  space  of  an 
hour." 

They  assure  Sir  Anthony  that  this 
is  the  custom  with  strangers,  and  de- 
sire him  to  have  patience  awhile ;  ac- 
cordingly, "  within  an  hour  the  King 
returned  back  again  as  fast  as  his 
horse  would  go,  and  having  sixteen 
women  richly  attired  following  him 
on  horseback ;  he  then  came  and 
embraced  Sir  Anthony  and  his  brother, 
kissing  them  both  three  or  four  times 
over,  and  taking  Sir  Anthony  by  the 
hand  swore  that  he  should  be  his  own 
brother ;  and  80  he  did  call  him  always ; 
and  so  the  King  marched  along,  put- 
ting Sir  Anthony  on  his  right  hand." 

This  very  cordial  reception  was  only 
the  beginning  of  a  series  of  honours 
and  favours  lavished  with  royal  mag- 
nificence upon  the  welcome  strangers. 
For  eight  days  and  nights  there  was  no- 
thing but  sporting  and  banqueting. 
The  King  loaded  Sir  Anthony  and  his 
companions  with  costly  gifts. 

Much  mention  is  made  in  Mr.  Main* 
wartng's  account  of  their  sports  of 
various  kinds,  hunting,  hawking,  and 
all  manner  of  diversions,  fiut  no 
doubt  the  whole  time  was  not  passed 
in  pleasure ;  Sir  Anthony  found 
time  to  discourse  with  the  Shah  on 
matters  more  important,  and  the  Shah 
obtained  from  him  instruction  in  the 
discipline  of  his  army,  which  was 
afterwards  carried  on  under  his 
brother  Robert.  About  this  time  the 
ShiJi  began  to  talk  of  sending  Robert 
Shirley  to  the  Queen  of  England  with 
a  rich  present,  to  shew  how  much  he 
honoured  her ;  bat  Sir  Anthony  did  not 
exactly  approve  of  such  a  measure. 
He  persuaded  the  Shah  to  let  him 
be  the  ambMsador  to  the  courts  in 
ChristcndiOM,  alltxcept  that  of  England, 
irhidi  il  aeemi  he  had  do  intention  at 


that  time  of  visiting;  probably  he 
might  be  disioclined  thereto  in  con- 
sequence of  his  old  experience  of  his 
royal  mistress's  temper,  and  her  dis- 
like to  see  her  subjects  serving  under 
a  foreign  prince. 

His  project  was  to  induce  the 
Sovereign  whose  courts  he  proposed 
to  visit  to  maintain  wars  against  the 
Turks  on  the  one  side,  whilst  the 
Persian  armies  should  attack  them  on 
the  other,  and  by  that  means  over- 
throw their  power.  This  project 
wonderfully  pleased  the  King,  only  he 
did  not  like  to  part  with  Sir  Anthony, 
and  wished  to  make  him  Lieutenant* 
General  of  all  his  forces ;  but  Sir 
Anthony,  though  he,  in  the  language  of 
his  biographer,  "  did  highly  embrace 
the  offer,  yet  in  regard  he  was  a  man 
of  greater  note  than  his  brother  was, 
did  make  choice  to  go  on  this  em- 
bassage, and  promised  to  return  again 
with  as  much  speed  as  he  could  ;  but 
mala  fortuna  did  happen  on  him  by 
the  way." 

Shah  Abbas  began  to  act  upon  this 
plan  of  Sir  Anthony's  directly.  Shortly 
after  this  he  sent  away  the  Turkish 
ambassador,  who  had  come  to  renew 
the  league  between  the  Emperor  of 
Constantinople,  Mahomet  the  Third, 
and  the  King  of  Persia,  commanding 
him  to  tell  his  master  that  he  would 
never  rest  till  he  was  in  the  field 
against  him.* 

So  Sir  ADthony  departed,  leaving 
his  young  brother  as  a  hostage  with 
the  Shah. 

At  his  own  request  a  Persian  was 
sent  along  with  him  to  bear  witness 
with  him  of  the  good  will  of  his 
Sovereign  to  the  Christian  princes. 
His  name  was  Seane  Olibeg ;  but  all  the 
Persian  names  are  so  curiously  spelt 
in  the  different  accounts,  that  they 
are  probably  very  different  from  those 
here  given. 

Just  about  the  time  of  his  departure, 
a  Franciscan  friar  arrived  at  the  Shah's 


*  Abbss  had  been  compelled  by  the 
situation  of  his  kingdom  to  preserve  peace 
with  the  Emperor  of  Constantinople,  bat 
he  could  hardly  deem  himself  the  monarch 
of  Persia  whibt  that  Sovereign  held  the 
fort  of  NavBvund  in  one  qosrter  of  bis 
dominions,  and  the  cities  of  Tsbreez  and 
Teiiis,  with  almost  the  whole  of  AderbQan 
and  Georgia^  hi  another,  (Maloolm'a 
History  of  renU,  Vol.  L) 


4S0 


7%e  Tktte  SMef9^ 


(N«r. 


nde,  and  kisovB  oa  Ae  otter, 
mad  delirercd  it  to  Sir  Antikoay,  say- 
tag, '  When  yoa  look  npos  this,  tbiak 
of ■€ ;'  Sir  Anthtmj,  reccmag  it  witk 
a  hnmble  aod  thaakfal  Baaaer.  pro- 
tcfted  that  his  life  aad  that  thoaU 
part  together." 

He  weat  first  to  Poftofal,  aod  then 
we  hear  of  hia  aad  his  aary  apoa  the 
Levaat  seas,  aad  all  farther  iatellt- 
geaca  iails  for  a  tiae ;  hot  ia  1635, 
"aaMagst  the  EagUsh  resideat  at  the 
ooart  of  Spaia,  the  foremost  is  Sir 
Aathoay  Sbertey,  who  styles  himself 
Earl  of  the  Sacred  Empire,  aad  hath 
from  his  Catholic  maj«ty  a  peasioa 
of  9000  docats  per  annum,  all  which 
In  respect  of  nis  prodigality  is  as 
nothing/'* 

Whether  Sir  Anthony  preferred  the 
warmer  climate  of  the  Sooth  to  that  of 
his  nati?e  land,  or  that  he  fonod  the 
treatment  he  recetred  from  foreign 
fOYcreigns  more  to  bis  taste  than  that 
which  he  bad  formerly  experienced 
from  Elizabeth,  and  migbt  expect  from 
her  soccessor,  who  now  sat  upoa  the 
throne  of  England ;  or  wheUier  the 
recollection  of  his  domestic  discom- 
forU  weighed  upon  bis  mind,  making 
aoy  home  preferable  to  his  own,  1  can- 
not discover.  The  honoors  he  received 
and  the  consequence  attached  to  him 
excited  the  displeasore  of  King  James 
the  First,  and  orders  were  dispatched 
for  his  return  to  England.  He  did 
not  think  it  necessary  to  obey.  No 
more  is  known  of  him  but  that  he  died 
In  Spain  in  the  year  1630. 

Meanwhile  the  yoaog  Robert  Sber- 
ley,  who  bad  remained  at  the  Persian 
Court  as  a  hostage,  enjoyed  a  high 
degree  of  favour,  and  Sbab  Abbas  in 
all  respects  treated  him  as  his  son, 
true  to  his  parting  promise  to  Sir 
Anthony.  Bat  two  years  pass  away, 
and  no  tidings  reach  the  Persian  Court 
of  the  embassy,  its  success  or  failure. 
Probably  there  was  treachery  in  this, 
for  it  is  very  improbable  that  Sir 
Anthony  in  all  this  time  should  never 
once  have  written  either  to  the  sove- 
reign in  whose  service  he  had  entered, 
or  to  the  young  brother  for  whom  he 
ever  expressed  the  warmest  affection. 

It  was  not  surprising  that  the  King 


«  Wordiworeh*s  English  and  Spanish 
Pilgrioi. 

4 


of  Pienia  shoald  he  utfigaaat.  how- 
ever,  at  s«ch  apparent  negiact,  or  dwt 
coolocas  shoald  have  heoi  ahcwtt  to 
the  joaag  English  fisvoairito  ta 
qoeoce,  which  no  doaht  there 
plenty  of  envioas  coortiers  eager  aad 
ready  to  feamnt.  It,  ho 
oaly  temporary ;  Robert  Sheriey 
succeeded  in  regaiaiag  the 
of  his  royal  anstar,  aad  of 
lishiag  himsflf  asore  stfongty  Una 
ever  ia  his  good  gracca,  even  ohtaia- 
iog  frooB  him  as  a  boon  a  fisvoor  oa 
which  he  had  set  his  heart, — freedom 
of  coascieace  for  all  ChriaUaaa  ia  the 
Persian  domiaioosL 

He  was  made  the  general  of  aa 
army  sent  agaiast  the  1\irks,  ia  which 
war  the  young  hero  condacted  himself 
with  so  much  bravery,  and  gained  so 
much  renown  by  his  unequalled 
courage  and  wisdom  beyond  his  years, 
that  his  favour  with  Shah  Abbas  grew 
daily  more  aod  more  confirmed,  aad 
his  name  was  cdebrated  throagh  all 
Persia. 

Old  Fuller  says,  that  "he  per- 
formed  great  services  agaiast  the 
Turks,  and  showed  the  difference  be- 
twixt English  and  Persian  valour, 
having  therein  aa  much  courage  aod 
more  mercy :  these  his  actions  drew 
the  envie  of  the  Persian  lords  aad 
love  of  the  ladies." 

In  one  of  these  engagements  he 
took  prisoner  thirty  of  the  chief  com- 
manders among  the  Turks,  and  sent  a 
message  to  this  effect,  that  the  thirty 
prisoners  should  all  be  freed  safe 
without  any  ransom  if  one  whom  they 
detained  in  captivity  was  delivered  up 
to  him.  This  one  important  prisoner 
was  his  own  unfortunate  elder  brother. 
Sir  Thomas  Shirley. 

And,  leaving  Robert  in  the  very 
highest  pinnacle  of  prosperity,  let  us 
look  after  this,  the  eldest,  but  cer- 
tainly not  the  most  fortunate,  of  the 
brave  three.  He  felt  ashamed,  says 
Fuller,  "to  see  his  two  younger 
brothers  worn  like  flowers  in  Uie 
breasts  and  bosoms  of  foreign  princes, 
whilst  he  himself  withered  on  the 
stalk  he  grew  on ;  so  he  left  his  aged 
father  and  his  fair  inheritance  in 
Sussex  to  undertake  sea  voyages  into 
foreign  parts,  to  the  great  honour  of 
his  nation,  but  small  enriching  of  him* 
self."  So  says  old  Fuller ;  it  cannot, 
however^   be  easily  made   out  that 


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The  Tkree  SMrte^i. 


481 


honour  or  credit  was  achieved  either 
for  himself  or  his  country ;  on  the 
contrary,  nothing  but  misfortune  and 
disgrace  were  the  results  of  this  ill- 
omened  eipedition.  He  equipped  three 
■hips  manned  with  600  soldiers,  and 
•et  sail  upon  a  religions  crusade 
against  the  Turks,  with  whom  it  would 
seem  the  English  were  at  this  moment 
at  peace ;  but  such  piratical  and  Qaiz* 
otical  kind  of  undertakings  were  not 
anfrequent  in  this  age  of  adventure. 

Sir  Tbomas  was  unfortunate  from 
the  very  beginniog.  The  first  ad- 
venture he  was  engaged  in  was,  that 
ader  an  obstinate  resistance  he  boarded 
and  captured  a  large  ship ;  but  he  lost 
a  hundred  of  his  own  men  in  the  con- 
flict, and  the  rest  mutinied,  not  having 
obtained  as  much  spoil  as  they  ex- 
pected. SirThomas,  probably,  though 
as  brave  and  as  ambitious  as  his 
brothers,  was  not  gifted  like  them 
with  those  qualities  which  at  once 
seem  to  exercise  power  over  the  minds 
of  men ;  hii  was  not  the  master  spirit 
of  Anthony,  nor  hii  the  graceful  art 
by  which  Robert  won  the  hearts  of  all 
to  love  and  follow  htm.  Mutiny  was 
busy  among  his  followers :  "  They 
plainly  told  him  they  would  be  no 
k>nger  under  his  command,  alleging, 
with  unkind  words  and  uncomely 
speeches,  that  their  hopes  and  ex- 
pectations were  deceived  of  him." 

Much  perplexed  by  this  contemptu- 
ous and  unruly  behaviour,  he  first 
tried  threats,  then  gentler  means,  and 
condescended  in  mild  terms  to  reason 
with  and  entreat  them  not  to  despise 
and  forsake  the  captain  whom  they 
had  vowed  to  follow  and  obey.  For 
a  time  be  succeeded  in  pacifying  them  ; 
but  soon  their  greedy  anxiety  for  prey, 
and  the  bad  disposition  that  had  got 
among  them,  led  the  illfaled  Sir 
Thomas,  in  an  evil  hour,  by  way  of 
diverting  their  ill  humour,  to  resolve  to 
surprise  and  attack  an  island  belong- 
ing to  the  Turks  which  was  not  far  off. 

They  landed  in  the  night,  by  the 
light  of  a  fnll  moon,  and  soon  made 
themselves  masters  of  the  town,  which 
the  inhabitants  had  abandoned.  Sir 
Thomas  gave  orders  that  the  property 
of  every  Christian  should  be  sacred  ; 
but  this  was  a  useless  command,  as 
goods  there  were  none ;  the  inhabit- 
ants had  fled  with  all  their  property. 

Not  finding  much  to  be  dona*  ht 

Gent.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII. 


commanded  a  retreat  to  the  ship ;  and 
having  intelligence  brought  him  that 
the  islanders  were  assembling  in  great 
numbers,  he  gave  orders  that  the  men 
should  keep  together  and  retreat  slow- 
ly, encouraging  them  not  to  fear 
enemies  who  were  unpractised  in  any 
military  discipline,  and  armed  only 
with  staves  and  stones.  But  his  mu- 
tinous and  ill-disposed  crew  now 
added  the  meanest  cowardice  to  their 
previous  bad  conduct ;  no  sooner  had 
they  come  in  sight  of  the  enemy  than 
they  fled  in  confusion,  regardless  of 
the  threats  and  entreaties  of  their 
leader,  who,  thus  abandoned  by  his 
own  men,  (all  except  two  faithful  serv- 
ants who  remained  fighting  by  his 
side,)  was,  after  a  gallant  and  desperate 
resistance,  overpowered  by  numbers 
and  made  a  prisoner  with  his  two 
companions.  For  three  days  did  his 
own  ship  remain  in  the  harbour,  but 
no  attempt,  either  by  force  or  entreaty, 
was  made  to  rescue  their  commander 
by  his  faithless  and  disaffected  crew. 

He  was  kept  in  this  island  for  a 
month  in  close  confinement,  and  then 
sent  in  a  small  boat  to  Negropont,  and 
delivered  up  to  the  authorities  there. 
He  was  allowed  to  send  a  letter  to  the 
English  Consul  at  Patras,  but  he 
never  received  any  answer ;  and,  upon 
the  return  of  his  messenger  without 
one,  he  was  thrown  into  a  dark 
dungeon,  and  bound  fast  with  a  great 
galley  chain  to  a  slave  who  had  been 
taken  before.  Here  he  remained  from 
March  1602  to  July  1603;  his  best 
diet  bread  and  water,  his  warmest 
lodging  the  ground, — sometimes  me- 
naced with  death,  sometimes  with  the 
galleys. 

Probably  it  was  not  discovered  that 
the  prisoner  was  a  brother  to  the  two 
men  who  had  been  proving  themselves 
the  most  inveterate  and  active  enemies 
to  the  Turkish  empire,  bat  they  were 
aware  that  he  was  of  some  import- 
ance, and  no  doubt  expected  a 'large 
ransom  ;  however,  be  that  as  it  may, 
when  the  demand  for  his  brother's 
freedom  was  made  by  Robert  Shirley, 
a  scornful  defiance  was  the  only 
answer,  and  a  threat  that,  before  two 
suns  should  set,  a  deed  should  be  done 
that  should  amaze  the  whole  com- 

"  Another  man  (says 

Robert  Shirley) 

for  his  men 


482 


7%tf  Three  Skirlegu 


[Nov. 


ivere  wearied,  and  not  expecting  to  be 
again  so  sooq  called  into  action  ;  bat 
that  honour,  the  chief  mark  he  ever 
aimed  at,  made  him  abandon  fear  and 
timidity,  and  no  sooner  had  he  re- 
ceiTcd  the  Turk's  answer,  than  he 
presently  cut  off  the  heads  of  the 
thirty  commanders,  caused  them  to  be 
carried  in  triumph  upon  the  pikes  of 
his  soldiers  about  the  market  place, 
and  swore  that  it  should  be  a  dismal 
day  to  his  enemy,  for  he  would  either 
return  conqueror  or  leave  his  body  on 
the  field."  And  thereupon  he  set  his 
soldiers  in  battle  array,  but  perceiving 
that  they  were  affrighted  at  the  sight  of 
the  Turks,  who  were  as  ten  to  one, 
he  addressed  them  in  a  short  oration. 
The  effect  of  this,  added  to  the  sight  of 
his  own  matchless  bravery  (which 
bore  down  every  obstacle  before  it  as 
he  rushed  upon  the  enemy  with  the 
fury  of  a  lion),  was  such,  that  the 
soldiers,  following  his  example,  and 
inspired  by  his  heroism,  behaved  with 
such  desperate  resolution  that  the 
Turks  were  amazed  and  confounded. 
Many  lay  down  their  weapons  and 
yielded,  the  rest  were  all  put  to  the 
sword.  From  the  prisoners  taken  this 
day  he  again  selected  some  of  the 
chiefest  among  them,  and  again  made 
the  same  proffer  in  behalf  of  his 
brother  as  before.  But  here  the  manu- 
script which  afforded  the  above  par- 
ticulars suddenly  breaks  off,  and,  as 
the  captivity  of  Sir  Thomas  lasted  for 
three  years,  it  is  to  be  concluded  that 
the  efforts  of  the  valiant  young  general 
were  of  no  avail. 

The  Shirleys  had  done  much  in  iu- 
structing  the  Persians  in  the  art  of 
war.  Malcolm,  in  his  history  of 
Persia,  says,  "that  they  not  only 
formed  and  disciplined  a  corps  of  in* 
fantry  which  Shah  Abbas  had  lately 
raised,  but  taught  the  Persians  the 
use  of  artillery." 

In  several  other  engagements  Robert 
Shirley  continued  to  win  honours  and 
glory,  and  to  be  considered  as  the 
right  hand  of  Shah  Abbas.  In  one  of 
these,  when  Shah  Abbas  commanded 
in    person,*     Robert     was    severely 

*  From  the  period  of  this  great  victory 
till  the  death  of  Shah  Abbas,  he  not  only 
kept  the  Turks  in  complete  check,  but  re- 
covered all  the  territories  which  that 
nation  had  before  taken  from  Persia. — 
(Malcolm's  Persia.) 


wounded  in  several  places.  His  favour 
wasatiUheight:  "This man's  bread,*' 
says  a  charter  granted  in  his  favour 
by  the  Persian  monarch,  "is  baked 
for  sixty  years."  He  bestowed  upon 
him  in  marriage  a  beautiful  Circassian 
called  Theresia ;  she  was  a  cousin  of 
the  favourite  wife  of  Shah  Abbaa; 
very  lovely,  both  in  person  and  cha* 
racter,  and  a  Christian.  As  a  further 
proof  of  his  confidence,  he  determined 
to  send  him  as  ambassador  to  the 
several  princes  of  Christendom,  not- 
withstanding the  ill  success  of  his 
former  embassy,  this  being  probably 
for  a  similar  purpose,  to  endeavour  to 
unite  them  against  the  Turks. 

Sir  Robert  Shirley  departed,  but 
very  little  is  known  of  the  events  of 
his  embassies.  He  left  Persia  either 
the  end  of  1608  or  early  in  1609.  He 
did  not  visit  England  till  1611,  and  all 
the  events  and  history  of  these  on- 
recorded  years  must  be  left  for  the 
romance  or  novel  writer  to  fill  up. 

His  arrival  in  England  is  mentioned 
inJStowe's  Chronicle.     He  arrived  in^^^ '»    ^ 
summer,  and  the  2nd  of  October  fol-  o^'t^ 
lowing  he  had  audience  at  Hampton  af- 
Court,  where  he  delivered  his  letters, 
and  shewed  his  commission.    "This 
Earl  Shirley  was  entertained  and  re- 
spected as  an  honourable  ambassador. 
He  brought  hither  with  him  Theresia, 
his  wife,  who  was  shortly  after  de- 
livered of  a  son,  unto  whom  the  queen 
was  god-mother,  and  Prince  Henry 
was  god.father,  who  called  the  child 
Henry  after  his  own  name." 

As  it  does  not  appear  that  the 
audience  took  place  till  October,  and 
that  the  ambassador  arrived  in  the 
summer,  it  will  surely  be  most  natural 
to  transport  the  party  to  the  old  house 
at  Wiston.  The  joy  of  the  old  father 
once  more  to  behold  his  son,  the  pride 
and  pleasure  with  which  that  son  pre- 
sented to  him  his  beautiful  wife  and  his 
infant  son,  one  can  imagine  it  all,  and 
the  feeliDgs  of  deep  interest,  half 
pleasurable,  half  melancholy,  with 
which  he  would  lead  that  fair 'stranger 
to  visit  the  home  and  haunts  of  his 
light-hearted  boyhood,  and  the  friends 
who  still  lived  and  remembered  him, 
he  no  longer  the  wild  and  playful 
boy,  but  the  roan,  the  soldier,  the  hero 
of  many  a  bloody  field,  the  favourite 
of  princes.  And  here,  no  doubt,  the 
fair  Circassian  remained  whilst  they 


1844.] 


On  Church  Bella. 


483 


stayed  in  England,  and  they  were 
there  for  a  year.  It  mast  have  been  a 
bitter  parting  when  the  time  came, 
and  so,  to  comfort  the  bereaved  old 
man,  the  yoang  boy,  the  little  English- 
bom  Henry,  was  left  with  his  grand- 
father* They  embarked  at  Dover  in 
January  1612.  Sir  Robert  never  saw 
his  father  again.  The  good  old  knight 
died  at  Wiston  before  the  end  of  the  year, 
(lb  be  eomiinued.) 


Mr.  Urban,  August. 

AS  you  have  granted  insertion  to 
my  article  on  the  London  Organs,  I 
hope  you  may  also  to  one  on  the  Bells, 
with  which  subject  I  have  a  more 
technical  acquaintance.  I  prefix  some 
brief  notices  of  the  principal  Beils 
of  Europe,  and  of  England  generally. 
Yours,  &c,    J.  D.  Parry. 

EUROPB. 

The  origin  and  general  history  of 
this  celebrated  member  of  Christian 
churches  needs  no  dissertation. — ^The 
largest  bell  rung  or  tolled,  in  the  world 
(the  "  monster "  at  Moscow  being 
crippled  on  the  ground,  and  the  great 
bells  of  China  without  clappers,  struck 
externally  with  wooden  hammers,)  is 
the  lioUhoi  Kolabol  or  "  great  bell "  of 
the  high  tower  of  Ivan  Veltikii  in  the 
Kremlin,  This,  which  was  recast  about 
20  years  ago,  weighs,  according  to  Dr. 
Lyall,  126,000  lbs.  There  are  several 
others  from  20  to  80,000  in  Russia. 

The  next  in  Europe  is,  I  believe, 
in  the  Tour  de  Beurre,  or  "butter 
tower,"  of  Rouen  Cathedral,  which, 
according  to  Dr.  Dibdin,  bears  the 
following  inscription  :-— 

"  Je  snis  nomm^  George  d'Amboise, 
Bien  trente  six  mille  ky  poise ; 
Ky  me  bien  posers, 
Qaarante  mille  y  trouvera." 

Which,  I  think,  may  be  thus  Eng- 
lished : — 

**  Vm  George  d'Amboise :  my  weight  is 

found 
Fall  six  and  thirty  thousand  pound, 
Bat  he  that  poiseth  me  aright 
Shall  forty  thoosaad  find  my  weight." 

Dr.  Dibdin  has  not  explained  the 
difference  between  the  real  and  im- 
puted weight.  A  bell  at  Erfurt,  in 
Saxony,  weighs36,000 lbs.  The  largest 
now  at  Ndtre  Dame,  Paris,  32,000, 


Several  in  France,  and  the  Low  Coun- 
tries, about  20,000.  Thulousi,  Ant^ 
werp,  (the  largest  of  33  "  chimers,") 
Ghent,*  &c.  St.  Peter's,  Rome,  about 
19,000. 

Enolamd. 

In  England,  Great  Tom  of  Christ- 
church  is  of  course  the  largest — 
17«80O  lbs.  Lincoln  has  often  been 
spoken  of  as  the  second  ;  but  this  is 
a  decided  mistake.  Before  the  re- 
casting it  only  weighed  9«40O,  now 
10,200.  If  I  am  not  mistaken,  there 
is  a  bell  at  Exeter  of  12,000;  thus 
constituting  the  second.  St.  Paul's, 
1 1,600.  In  a  life  of  Dr.  Parr,  it  is  said 
that  the  tone  of  this  bell  is  "  not  fine.'* 
Neither,  ccrtainl3%  is  it  bad.  It  is, 
perhaps,  for  its  weight,  "  middling." 
There  is  a  bell,  at  some  parish  church 
in  Gloucestershire,  of  8,000.  Canterbury 
7,500.  Hereford,  and  Gloucester,  about 
6,000.  It  was  formerly  mentioned  as 
a  curious  fact  that  there  were  only 
twelve  peals  of  twelve  bells  in  England. 
One  has  since  been  lost  at  Spitolfields., 

The  inhabitants  of  YorJc  have,  it 
seems,  an  ambition  to  have  a  bell  of 
20,000  lbs., — the  largest  in  England. 
This  is  honourable  enough,  no  doubt, 
but  it  seems  almost  a  pity  that  they 
should  seek  to  cast  poor  "  Old  Tom** 
from  his  honourable  position  of 
centuries.  He  "bore  his  faculties 
meekly"  enough,  doing  good  in  his 
way  quietly,  and  giving  umbrage  to 
nobody. 

At  Chester  Cathedral,  the  largest 
bell,  of  4,  requires  three  men  to  ring 
it,  the  great  rope  diverging  into 
as  many  cords ;  but  1  do  not  believe 
it  to  be  excessively  heavy.  The 
largest  of  12  at  St,  Peter's  Mancroft, 
Norvnch,  weighs  about  4  5  cwt.  Tenors 
in  the  country  are  seldom  as  much  as 
30  cwt.  27  being  considered  large. 
Of  village  peals,  of  5  or  6,  they  are 
generally  from  12,  or  less,  to  22. 

*  ThoB  alluded  to  in  Southey's  Pit- 
grimage  to  f9^aterloo  : 

"  That  ponderoos  bell, 
The  belfry*8  boast,  which  bears  old  Roland's 

name,  [fttme." 

Nor  yields  to  Oxford  Tom,  or  Tom  of  Uncoln'a 

What  a  pity  it  is  that  this  Poem,  coa- 
tainiog  many  passages  of  poetical  and 
moral  beauty,  if  not  sublimity,  is  now 
almost  totally  neglected. 


484 


The  Church  Belli  o/Londont 


[Nov. 


London. 


lSingl4  Bells,  or  le»$  than  a  Peal,  of 
fine  tone.} 

St.  Luke'8  Old  Street.  This  bell  is 
reckoned  a  "  miracle"  in  bell-found- 
ing. It  came  out  of  the  casting  pit 
in  a  different  tone  from  what  was  in- 
tended, (how  this  happened  the  writer 
cannot  tell,)  and  though  the  weight  is 
only  38  cwt.  odd,  it  has  the  depth,  and 
nearly  the  power,  of  a  bell  of  40  cwt : 
the  tone  is  majestic.  St,  Pancrae 
(New)  34  cwt.,  very  grand ;  also  a 
good  bell  at  the  Old  Church,  adjoining 
the  pleasing  cemetery  of  St.  Giles. 
It  is  singular  that  in  neither  of  the 
great  parishes  of  Marjflebone  and  St, 
PancroB  is  there  a  single  peal  of  bells* 
Three  parishes  at  the  West  End  are 
in  the  same  predicament.  A  peal  has 
been  spoken  of  for  Bloowubur^,  Christ" 
church  I^ewgate  Street,  only  22^  cwt. 
but  very  powerful — a  melancholy  note. 
Covent  Garden,  eicellent.  Episcopal 
Chapel,  Gray's  Inn  Lane,  17  cwt. 
good,  but  absurdly  placed.*  Highgate, 
powerful,  a  private  gift.  Hampstead. 
In  the  City,  5  or  6,  including  St, 
Mildred's  Poultry,  and  St.  Mary  Wool- 
noth.  The  smaUer  of  two  bells  at  Si, 
Benet's  Gracechurch  Street,  is  the  only 
one  known  to  have  survived  the  "  fire" 
in  any  church  burnt.  A  good  bell  in 
the  tower  (without  a  church)  of  St. 
Martin  Orgars  (leading  out  of  Thames 
Street.) 

Pbals  of  6. 

Westminster  Abbey,  tenor  36  cwt. 
pretty  good ;  but  it  is  by  no  means 
generally  known  f  that  these  are  only 
the  first  six  of  an  intended  peal  of 
Twelve,  the  largest  of  which,  in  propor- 
tion, would  probably  have  weighed  full 
sixty  cwt.  and  would  have  gone  down 
▼ery  low.     Whether  the  tower  would 

*  The  able  Organist ,  spoken  of  as  being 
here,  has  left,  and  is  now  at  Trinity 
Church,  Ctoudestey  Square,  Mingion. 
There  is,  however  an  able  one  at  the 
former  place.  The  chanting  of  the  psalms 
has  been  dropped,  but  that  of  other 
portions  is  retained. 

t  For  this  and  some  other  particulars 
I  am  indebted  to  a  respectable  man,  per- 
haps one  of  the  best  Campanalogists  in 
London  or  England,  Mr.  Jewson,  sexton 
and  steeple  kee|ier  of  Ait  Hatlows  Bark- 
ing, near  the  Tower. 


hvrt  sustained  them  whan  ringiog  ia  a 
different  question.  Si.  VedeiH,  Feeier 
Lane  (Post  Office) ,  about  2 1  cwt.  good. 
St.  Caiharine  Oree,  LaadenhalUatreet* 
about  20  cwt.  St.  Andrew  Vnder^ 
shtfi,  just  by,  wretched.  This  ehmreh, 
however,  does  not  seem  aafficientiy 
known  as  the  largest  and  handsomeat 
that  survived  the  Fire.  St.  Bar* 
ikohmew,  Smitl^Md,  vary  small  bat 
good ;  again,  not  genaraliy  known  as 
the  oldest  church  in  London.  Many 
popular  mistakes  exist  on  that  head. 
Bow  (beyond  Mile  End),  with  Its  ve- 
nerable tower,  14  cwt.  not  bad. 

Pbalb  of  8. 

The  heaviest  tenor  is  at  8t,  Law* 

renoe  Jewry  (Guildhall),  36  cwt. ;  haa 

a  fine  deep  toll.    St.  George's  East,  32 

cwt.  grand ;   same  weight  and  key  aa 

Stepney  and  Shoreditch  ;  the  7th  rings 

the  curfew,!  a  practice  now  confined 

to  four  or  five  £ast-end  parishes.     It 

might  be  restored  with  great  effect  at 

Bow  (Cheapside) .  Spita^lds,  now  only 

8,  the  peal  of  12,  with  a  tenor  of  44 

cwt.  and  chimes,  having  been  destroyed 

by  fire :  tenor  33i  cwt.  very  good,  aa 

is  the  7th,  which  rings  the  curfew. 

This  is  done  by  the  tenor  eXBiehopsgate, 

22 i  cwt.,  but  it  is  not  very  effective. 

St.  Andrew's,  Holbam,  28  cwt.,  very 

good.  Aldgate,  tenor  same  weight,  also 

good.    ClerkenweU,  24  cwt.,  very  good. 

Islington,    only    16,   though   usually 

supposed  to  be  more;   but  effective, 

St.    George's,    Southwark,    effective. 

Drinity  Church,  Newington;  Si.  Peter's, 

Waiwerth;  and  St,  George's,  Camher* 

well;  the  latter  only  13i  cwt.  but  ef« 

fective  for  the  weight.    Shadwell,  small 

and  "  chattering ;"  14  cwt.     Eoiher* 

hithe,  18   cwt.     Greenwich,  24  cwt.« 

very  effective  for  the  weight.     Wool' 

wich,    good.       Christchurcht    Surrey, 

ditto ;   both  probably  about  20  cwt. ; 

as  also  St.  John's,  Waterloo  Road,  an 

excellent  tenor.     Lambeth;  tbe  peal  is 

in  a  very  maimed  state,  only  the  first 

six  being  usable.     The  tower   may 

therefore  be  said,  in  an  unfortunately 

literal  sense,  to  "  keep  "  the  "  naiselese 

tenor."    Perhapa  arcbiepiscopal  spirit 

t  It  struck  the  writer  as  singular  that 
at  Winchester,  where  he  has  heird  it  was 
first  introdaccd,  the  Curfew  is  not  now 
rang  at  the  Cathedral,  or  any  Parish 
Chorch.  bat  at  the  steeple  or  torret  of  the 
City  HaU. 


1844.1 


The  Ckureh  Belli  o/LanAm. 


48ft 


and  gencrotity  will  do  Bomcthing  for 
this  lofty  md  venerable  tower,  its  cloie 
neighboar.  May  I  yen  tare  to  observe, 
Mr.  Urban,  that  i  think  the  pleasing 
epitaph  on  the  TVadesemUM,  in  the 
ehnrchyard,  is  so  little  hacknied  that 
it  will  well  bear  one  more  quotation : 

TKOMt,  trtTeller,  ere  thou  pus !  beneath  this 

stone 
lies  John  IVsdeecant-OniulsOD,  FUher,  Bon. 
ThearstdMdi&hisbirthe;  the  other  tvo 
UT*d  tiU  they'd  tisveUed  art  and  natore 

through, 
As  by  their  various  wanderings  does  appear, 
By  what  is  scarce  in  earth,  in  sea,  in  air ; 
Whilst  they  (as  Homer's  Iliad  in  a  not) 
▲  world  of  wonders  in  one  dooet  shut. 
These  fhmoos  antiqaarians,  that  have  been 
Both  fardeners  to  the  Rose  and  Lily  Queen, 
IVansplanted  now  themselTes,  sleep  here.— 

And  when 
Aofels  shall  with  their  tramps  awaken  men. 
And  fire  shall  puge  the  earth,  these  hence 

shaUrise, 
And  change  this  OsrtfM  for  a  PsrwiiM. 

JTenstfi^^on,  20  cwt*  St,  Giht  tn 
the  FiMs,  light  but  not  bad,  1 8  c wt.  St. 
Clement  J)ones :  the  tenor  here,  20  cwt. 
of  deep  and  good  tone,  is  said,  in  a  life 
of  Dr.  Parr,  to  be  4  feet  in  diameter, 
the  reason  of  which  is  said  to  be 
that  "  the  bell  is  thin."  The  clock 
strikes  a  second  time  on  a  small  su- 
pernumerary bell,  as  at  Trinit;^  col- 
lege, Cambridge.  The  peal  weighs  4 
tons  IS  cwt.  2  qrs.  8 lbs.  and  was  cast 
by  "  JViUiam  and  Philip  fFtyA/moii, 
founders  to  her  Majesty,"  in  1693, 
and  ^tt^eii  by  Edward  Clarke,  one  of 
the  churchwardens.  (Some  pleasing 
painted  glass,  not  unlike  that  at  St. 
George's  East,  was  put  op  in  thischurch 
last  spring.)  The  Chimes  here,  known 
as  playing  the  104th  Psalm,  are  now 
mute,  which  must  be  termed  discredit- 
able, as  it  is  understood  that  there 
is  a  bequest  for  their  support.  St, 
Dumtan't,  Fleet  Street,  19  cwt.  dis- 
agreeably loud;  which  is  said  to  be 
owing  to  their  being  huog  too  low.  St. 
Stephem't,  Coleman  Street  i  Whiteckapel 
(21  cwt.) ;  both  middling.  (The  south 
wall  of  the  latter  church  is  out  of  the 
perpendicular,  and  should  be  attended 
to  in  time.)  St.  Dumtan,  Tower, 
about  20  cwt.  indifferent.  AU  Hal- 
low9  Barking,  Tower  Hill,  about  the 
same  weight,  but  a  good  peal.  I 
think,  Mr.  Urban,  that  the  singular 
circumstance  connected  with  this 
church  is  but  little  known ;  though,  of 
coiina,  it  matt  have  found  a  place  in 


several  topographical  works.  On  tha 
4th  Jan.  I649f  it  was  "  much  injured 
and  defaced  by  a  lamentable  blow  of 
27  barrels  of  gunpowder,  at  a  ship* 
chandler's  opposite."  Strange  that 
such  a  quantity  should  be  allowed  to 
be  kept  in  a  street  I  And  was  rebuilt 
about  20  years  afterwards,  t.  e.  tha 
western  half,  with  the  tower  (of  brick.) 
It  is  consequently  in  two  styles ;  tha 
three  eastern  arches  on  each  side,  with 
clustered  columns,  being  in  a  fine 
style  of  the  latter  end  of  the  14th  cen* 
tury  t  the  western  ones  of  miied,  or 
"  debased"  style,  though  not  alto- 
gether ugly,  the  deformity  being  in 
Uie  abrupt  change.  The  side-aisles  are 
wide,  and  the  internal  effect  is  hand- 
some and  airy,  with  ancient  monu- 
ments ;  a  heavy  brass  balustrade  of 
some  200  years  old  round  the  Com« 
m onion  Table ;  some  pleasing  stained 
glass,  as  at  St.  Dunstan's  East,  and 
the  very  pretty  little  old  church  of  St. 
Olave's,  Hart  Street ;  and  what  will 
do  still  more  good  to  the  heart  of  the 
visitor,  a  good  list  of  those  who  "  de« 
liver  the  poor  that  crieth,  the  father- 
less, and  him  that  hath  no  helper,"  in 
a  Table  of  Benefactions. 

There  is  also  an  excellent  peal,  te* 
nor  25  cwt.  in  the  fine  and  lofty 
tower  of  Hackney,  now  divested  of  a 
church  immediately  adjoining;  but 
capable  of  lasting  (though  it  might  be 
as  well  strengthened  by  buttresses  on 
the  east)  for  several  centuries. 

Pbals  Of  10. 

The  best,  of  course,  in  London,  or 
perhaps  in  England,  is  St,  Jbary-2e- 
Sour— tenor,  53i  cwt.,  most  decidedly 
snperior  to  St.  Paul's ;  weight  and  key 
same  as  the  late  one  at  York  minster. 
The  next  in  weight  is  St,  SeptUchre, 
Snow  Bill,  33  cwt.  powerful  and  ef- 
fective ;  Stepney,  32  evri.,  St,  Magnua 
London  Bridge,  24  cwt.  very  good 
indeed ;  Bermond»eg  Aeto  Church,  26 
cwt.  good.  A  heautiful  little  peal,  20 
cwt.  with  Chimes,  at  St.  JHonie,  Fen* 
church  Street.  These  (the  peal)  are  said 
to  be  silent  now,  through  the  opposition 
of  one  or  two  neighbours  of  wealth  and 
influence,  which  (no  weakness  of  tha 
tower  being  alleged)  must  be  thoughtto 
partake  of  churlishness,  if  not  to  prove 
that  Mammon  has  left  "  no  mu^ic  in 
his  soul."  St,  Margaret's  H  eetmrnitmr, 
26  emu,  rather  a  thin  and  *' chatter* 


486 


PloB  Gdchf  JBeaumarois. 


[Nov. 


ing"  peal ;  not  so  good  as  it  should  be 
for  the  neighbourhood  of  the  "  Palace 
of  Westminster/'  to  which  it  an- 
nounces occasions  of  joy.  But  when 
the  exterior  of  this  ancient  parish 
church  has  been  improved,  with  new 
parapets,  windows,  &c.  (instead  of 
being  recklessly  swept  away,)  I  think 
it  wUl  be  found  that  the  tower  would 
bear  a  heavier  peal.  Pillar,  about 
21cwt.«  AMiiiii,do.  TheTVew  Church, 
CmKhtrweU,  will  have  a  peal,  with 
25  cwt. ;  Chd$ea  New  Church  has  one 
with  22i  cwt,  good ;  Sireaiham ;  SL 
John's,  HwKhfdoum,  probably  about 
20  cwt.,  good. 

Pbals  of  12. 

8L  Saowur't  (or  St,  Mary  Overy'9), 
tenor  52  cwt.,  and  said  to  be  Uie 
heaviest  peal  in  England.  The  tenth  has 
been  recast,  this  summer ;  all  the  rest 
are,  I  believe,  about  five  centuries  old. 
From  the  height  of  the  tower,  150 
feet,  they  have  a  mellow  effect;  the 
tone  of  the  largest  (alluded  to  in 
Wilson's  "City  of  the  Plague,")  is 
certainly  fine  and  full ;  it  has  much  the 
sound  of  brass.  The  next  (now)  is 
Si.  Michael'i,  CamhiU,  41  cwt.  It 
struck  the  writer  that  on  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  Royal  Exchange,  the 
chimes  might  have  been  removed  with 
effect  to  the  tower  of  this,  the  parish 
church.  The  bells  in  this  loftv  tower 
were,  about  seven  years  ago,  lowered 
40  feet :  the  upper  story  being,  not- 
withstanding the  solid  appearance  of 
the  turrets,  slight — not  more  than  18 


inches  thick.  The  sound  is  of  coarse 
subdued.  Si,  Bride'9  tenor  I  have 
known  variously  estimated  at  from 
28  to  34  cwt. ;  it  is  probably  about 
31  :  the  same  as  Si.  Mariin't^w-the' 
Fields,  which  has  a  very  long  rever* 
beration :  the  ringers  at  the  latter 
receive  a  "  leg  of  mutton  and  trim- 
mings" weekly,  from  a  bequest  of  the 
somewhat  notorious  NM  Gioyaac. 
Yet  there  have  been  worse  persons 
than  Nelly ;  especially  when  it  is 
considered  that  to  her  spontaneous 
and  disinterested  urging,  charity 
owes  Greenwich,  if  not  also  Chelsea 
Hospital,  and  she  died  penitent  and 
christian -wise.  So  let  it  be  believed 
that  it  will  be  said  to  her,  as  to  another 
of  her  class,  spoken  of  by  an  Apostle 
as  "justified"  through  an  act  of 
mercy,  "  Thy  sins  be  forgiven  thee." 

SlMreditch,  an  excellent  ring,  scarcely 
sufficiently  appreciated ;  tenor,  power- 
ful for  its  weight,  32  cwt. ;  and  the 
peal  has  a  very  fine  tone  when  mufiied ; 
the  Chimes,  however,  are  inferior  and 
out  of  order :  the  11th  bell  rings  the 
curfew.  Cripplegaie,  tenor  about 
34i  cwt.  famous  for  its  Chimes,  by  far 
the  best  in  London,  which  play,  every 
three  hours,  having  seven  or  eight  dif- 
ferent tunes,  and  changing  the  order 
on  different  days.  In  some  notes,  in 
one  or  two  of  the  melodies,  the  chimes 
play  the  ir^le  and  bass  on  two  bells 
at  once ;  which  I  am  not  aware  to  be 
the  case,  though  of  course  it  may  be 
so,  with  any  other  chimes  in  England. 


PLAS  GOGH,  BEAUMARAIS. 
{With  a  Plats.) 


THIS  ancient  mansion  has  had 
several  names  assigned  to  it,  and  has 
been  known  by  the  appellations  of 
Plas  Mawr  (Great  Place),  Court  Mawr 
(Great  Court),  and  now  by  that  of 
Plas  G6ch  (Red  Place).  They  were 
probably  given  to  it  without  any  con- 
sultation of  the  owners,  and  have  been 
changed  with  the  veering  fancies  of 
popular  caprice.  Tt  formed  the  ancient 
sest  of  the  Bulkelevs,  and  was  their 
principal  residence  until  they  removed 
to  Baron  Hill,  in  the  reign  of  James  I. 
There  is  a  tradition  that  one  of  the 
Dowager  Lady  Bulkeleys  resided  in 


this  mansion  at  a  much  later  period « 
at  the  end  of  the  1/th  or  beginning  of 
the  18th  century,  and  the  internal 
condition  of  the  building  is  in  sufficient 
consonance  with  this  supposition. 

Before  proceeding  to  describe  the 
mansion,  we  may  state  that  a  small 
and  interesting  brass  funereal  plate 
commemorative  of  this  family  is  still 
preserved  on  the  north  side  of  the 
chancel  in  Beaumarais  Church,*  where 
it  no  doubt  was  placed  after  having  been 

*  This  church  is  a  chapel  to  Llandeg- 
van,  and  is  dedicated  to  the  Virgin  Mary. 


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Plas  Gdch,  Beaumarais. 


487 


taken  from  a  slab  in  the  pavement.  It 
represents  a  gentleman  of  the  time  of 
Henry  VIII.  kneeling,  on  the  dexter 
side,  with  two  sons  behind  him,  and 
on  the  sinister  side  his  Udy  with  one 
daughter.  Between  them  are  two 
blank  spaces,  once  probably  filled  op 
with  their  emblazoned  armorial  bear- 
ings and  some  other  device :  while 
above,  between  two  figures  of  St. 
John  and  the  Virgin,  is  a  representa- 
tion of  the  Trinity,  consisting  of  the 
Father  seated  with  the  Son  crucified 
between  his  knees,  and  the  Holy  Dove 
hovering  between  the  mouth  of  the 
Father  and  the  head  of  the  Son.  From 
the  mouth  of  the  gentleman  proceeds 
a  scroll,  with  the  words,  Osaima  in 
exceUii;  and  from  that  of  the  lady 
another,  with  the  words,  Kyrye 
Eleyton.  In  a  compartment  beneath 
these  kneeling  figures  is  the  following 
inscription : 

Hoc  tegitnr  tamiUo  RicarduB  nole  Bolkley 
Hujui  mercator  providas  oppiduli. 

BHubeth  cojox  ctutoa  fldiMima  sacri 
Cojugiiqae  sab  hoc  marmore  claosa  Jacet. 

Jucta  Deo  vivis  fUerat  qnibus  una  volantaa, 
Foat  obitiim  maneat  unua  item  tomulus. 

We  will  not  criticise  the  scansion 
of  the  last  verse,  but  will  observe, 
that,  at  the  time  when  this  plate  was 
engraved,  the  saying  of  Sir  John 
Wynne  might  have  been  anticipated : 
"The  lawyers  of  Caernarvon,  the 
merchants  of  Beaomarais,  and  the 
gentlemen  of  Conway." 

The  house  in  question,  or  at  least 
the  greater  portion  of  it,  and  especially 
that  represented  in  the  plate,  is  of  the 
same  date  as  this  monument,  and  the 
mansion  may  have  been  erected  by 
the  person  therein  commemorated,  or 
one  of  his  immediate  descendants.  In 
subsequent  times,  probably  in  the 
reign  of  Elizabeth,  a  large  and  stately 
addition  was  made  at  the  back,  its 
style  being  indicative  of  the  Italian 
taste  then  introduced  into  this  country. 
At  the  present  day,  however,  the 
mansion  has  been  allowed  to  go  to 
ruin,  and  is  now  tenanted  by  numerous 
poor  families,  who  will  probably  re- 
side in  it  until  the  walls  and  roofs 
crumble  about  their  ears.  Without 
meaning  to  convey  any  impertinent 
hints  as  to  the  disposal  of  his  pro- 
perty, we  cannot  avoid  observing  that 
it  would  be  a  proof  of  good  archaeolo- 
gical taste  on  the  part  of  the  present 


representative  of  this  noble  family, 
the  owner  of  Plas  G6ch  and  Baron 
Hill,  if  he  were  to  prevent  the  total  de- 
struction of  this  cradle  of  his  family. 
The  house  might  be  so  far  repaired  at 
a  moderate  expense  as  to  make  it  fit 
for  the  residence  of  a  respectable 
family ;  and,  even  if  this  were  not  the 
case,  it  might  with  great  advantage  to 
the  town  of  Beaumarais,  be  converted 
into  a  museum  for  the  reception  of 
local  antiquities,  where  the  numerous 
relics  of  other  days,  found  in  various 
parts  of  the  island,  might  obtain  a 
secure  resting-place,  and  where  even 
a  small  cabinet  of  natural  history 
might  be  added  to  a  purely  antiquarian 
collection.  Any  thing  that  would 
attract  visitors  to  this  watering  place, 
already  rising  into  fashionable  note, 
would  increase  the  value  of  landed 
property  within  the  precincts  of  the 
town ;  and  the  trifle  now  received  for 
the  rent  of  the  tenement  might  be 
quadrupled  by  a  trifling  fee  of  admission 
paid  by  the  curious.  But  to  proceed 
to  a  description  of  the  mansion  itself. 
The  principal  portion  of  the  older 
part  of  the  house  is  occupied  by  a 
large  hall,  extending  at  right  angles  to 
the  street  from  the  middle  of  a  build- 
ing placed  athwart  it,  and  formed  into 
two  series  of  rooms:  those  on  the 
ground-floor  having  been  used  as  but- 
teries and  pantries,  those  above  as 
dormitories.  The  family  appears  to 
have  had  their  own  chamber  and 
parlours  in  the  building  behind,  look- 
ing partly  into  the  court-yard,  partly 
into  a  spacious  garden.  The  best  fea- 
ture of  the  house  is  the  hall,  the  en- 
trance to  which  is  seen  in  the  plate 
through  a  pointed  doorway.  Its  di- 
mensions was  about  40  feet  by  20, 
and  15  feet  in  height :  the  upper  end 
is  a  canopied  and  paneled  dais,  once 
embellished  with  a  large  coat  of  arms. 
On  the  northern  side  of  the  hall  is  a 
large  plain  fire-place,  and  on  the 
southern  side  is  an  ample  square  bay 
window,  represented  in  the  plate, 
with  a  small  chamber  above.  The 
ceiling  of  this  hall  is  remarkably  ele- 
gant, consisting  of  a  beautiful  series 
of  panels  in  plaster,  with  18  pendents 
of  most  elaborate  design, — no  two 
being  alike;  while  the  inferior  cor- 
nices  were  charged  with  scrolUwork« 
flowerings,  and  armorial  devices.  In 
general  design  it  resembles  the  ceil- 


Sir  ThomoM  Gr^ktm  md  ik$  JRofti  EsAw^. 


486 

ing  of  Um  great  mIooo  at  Avdley  End: 
•sd  is  certainly  posterior  to  the  inte* 
rior  of  the  hall  itsclC  which  formerly 
eiposed  to  view  the  rafters  of  the 
qoeeo-post  roof.coostractcd  with  modi 
•kill  and  attention  to  ornament.  Some 
■mall  pointed  windows  of  two  lights 
each,  with  cinqae-foliated  heads,  ad* 
Bitted  the  son's  rays :  and  at  the 
lower  end  of  the  hall  the  batteries 
irer«  concealed  from  view  by  an 
oaken  screen,  which,  to  jadge  from 
what  is  still  preserved,  most  have 
been  richly  ornamented. 

The  chambers  in  the  back  part  of 
the  house  have  been  so  much  altered 
and  mutilated  by  the  tenants,  that 
they  can  hardly  now  be  described.  A 
little  paneling  of  no  great  valae  still 
eiisto  in  them,  and  in  a  long  upper- 
most  room,  which  served  as  a  gallery 
of  staU,  the  ceiling  is  richly  decorated 
with  stucco  devices,  similar  to  those, 
of  the  hall.  This  part  of  the  building 
is  of  stone  I  but  that  towards  the 
street  has  only  the  ground-floor  of  that 


[Ni>t. 


materiaL  Tlie  upper  part  in  of  A* 
timber  and  plaster  constmctioo  once 
universal  in  Kngland,  and  which  haa 
proved  itself  to  be  infinitely  more 
durable  than  the  wietched  brick»woric 
of  the  present  day.  On  an  iron  plala 
running  beneath  the  lights  of  the  laiige 
window  near  the  street,  seen  in  the 
plate,  is  a  boll's  bead,  the  crest  of  the 
Bulkeley  family,  and  the  inacriptioa« 

TV  OOD  BB  Voa  Vt  WHO  CAN  M  AeAIirST  vs? 

We  would  strongly  recommend  every 
visitor  of  Beanmarais  to  inspect  this 
curious  old  mansion,  uninviting  as  ita 
outward  appearance  may  b&  Honses 
such  as  these  are  unfortunately  be- 
coming daily  more  scarce  in  our  towns 
and  cities.  A  few  years  ago  a  finer 
mansion  than  this  was  destroyed  at 
Caernarvon  ;  but,  on  the  other  hand, 
a  similar  building  at  Conway  has  been 
lately  rescued  from  destruction,  and 
judiciously  repaired. 

Yours,  ace.    H«  L.  J. 


Sia  THOMAS  OaaSBAM  AND  TUB  EOTAL  BZCHANOB. 


THE  Visit  of  Queen  Victoria  to  the 
City  of  London  for  the  purpose  of 
opening  the  new  Royal  Exchaoge.  na- 
turally carries  back  the  mind  to  the 
olden  visit  of  our  first  female  Sovereign 
to  the  original  structure,  an  occurrence 
from  which  it  derived  the  name  it  has 
ever  since  borne,  and  which  is  the 
acknowledged  example  of  the  present 
solemnity. 

Now  that  the  Exchange  of  Sir 
Thomas  Gresbam  has  agaio  risen  from 
its  ashes,  in  renewed  magnificence  and 
beauty,  we  shall  take  the  opportunity 
thus  given  us  to  direct  the  notice  of 
our  readers  to  a  very  meritorioas  his- 
torical work,  Mr.  Burgoo's  "  Life  and 
Times  of  Sir  Thomas  Gresbam,"*  pub- 
lished a  few  years  ago,  but  not  noticed 
in  our  critical  columns  at  the  time  of 
its  publication.  It  is  a  work  upon 
which  the  author  bestowed  his  utmost 


*  '*  The  Life  and  Times  of  Sir  Thomas 
Greshsm,  Knt.  Founder  of  the  Royal  Ex- 
change ;  including  Notices  of  many  of  his 
Contemporaries.  By  John  William 
BvaooN."  8  vols.  Bvo.  Now  repub- 
lished at  a  reduced  price  by  Ei&ngbam 

WUSOB. 

6 


care  and  diligence,  and  for  which  he 
pursued  his  researches  into  every  avail- 
able source  of  information,  both  public 
and  private,  and  abroad  as  well  as  at 
home;  and,  though  we  might  have 
preferred  a  somewhat  different  treat- 
ment of  his  materials,  we  mean  one 
which  would  have  brought  his  bio- 
graphy into  a  more  condensed  and 
continuous  narrative,  and  have  given 
his  oiiginal  correspondence  and  other 
documents  in  their  integrity,  instead 
of  dishing  them  up  as  entremeiM,  yet 
their  intrinsic  value,  and  their  origin- 
ality, besides  their  being  derived  from 
the  State  Paper  OflSce  and  other  sources 
not  generally  accessible,  give  his  vo- 
lumes a  positive  claim  to  a  place  on 
our  historical  shelves,  at  the  same  time 
that  his  efforts  to  be  agreeable  will  not 
be  thrown  away  upon  those  who  read 
for  mere  amusement. 

The  fame  of  Sir  Thomas  Gresham 
rests  on  three  particulars.  In  the  first 
place,  he  was  our  earliest  native 
financier  of  great  ability  :  he  rescued 
his  sovereign  and  his  country  from 
the  hands  of  foreign  money-lenders« 
and  placed  the  profitable  as  well  as 


1844.]         Sir  nomas  Gresham  and  the  Royal  Exchange, 


48^ 


onerous  tuk  of  supporting  the  national 
credit  in  the  hands  of  our  own  mer- 
chants, thus  rendering  the  system  of 
loans  more  safe*  more  economical,  and 
more  *'  fructifying."  The  particulars 
developed  by  Mr.  Burgon  on  this  im- 
portant subject  lend  a  great  value  to 
nis  work. 

In  the  second  place.  Sir  Thomas 
Gresham  is  immortalised  by  his  grand 
monument^  the  Royal  Exchange,  a 
work  which  alone  might  have  sufficed 
for  the  memiry  of  another  man,  but 
which  in  justice  can  only  be  regarded 
as  an  inferior  item  in  his  fame ;  for  his 
greatest  and  most  patriotic  work  was 
the  foundation  of  Gresham  College, 
the  only  attempt  until  of  late  years  to 
form  a  university  in  the  metropolis  of 
England,  and  one  which,  though  little 
answering  the  intentions  of  its  founder 
in  modern  times,  may  yet  exercise  its 
influence  amidst  all  tne  hubbub  of 
modern  commerce,  now  that  it  has 
found  a  palace  of  its  own  (erected 
near  Guildhall  since  the  publication  of 
Mr.  Burgon 's  volume),  and  that  its 
objects,  it  may  be  hoped,  will  be 
carried  out  with  renewed  energies. 

Celebrated  as  the  name  of  Sir 
Thomas  Gresham  deservedly  is  as  the 
Founder  of  the  Royal  Exchange,  it  is 
but  little  known  that  his  grand  design 
was  hereditary,  having  been  enter- 
tained and  advocated  by  his  father^ 
Sir  Richard  Gresham. 

Stowe  has  recorded  what  the  habits 
of  the  City  were  before  the  erection 
of  the  Exchange.  He  states  that  the 
merchants  and  tradesmen,  as  well 
English  as  strangers,  for  their  general 
making  of  bargains,  contracts,  and 
commerce,  did  usually  meet  twice 
every  day,  at  noon  and  in  the  evening, 
in  that  ancient  seat  of  the  monied 
interest,  Lombard  Street.  "  But  these 
meetings  were  unpleasant  and  trouble- 
8ome«  by  reason  of  walking  and  talk- 
ing in  an  open  narrow  streete ;  being 
there  constrained  either  to  endure  all 
extremities  of  weather,  viz.  heat  and 
colde,  snow  and  raine,  or  else  to 
shelter  themselves  in  shoppes."  This 
inconvenience  had  been  long  felt ;  yet« 
such  is  the  influence  which  localities 
derive  from  esUblished  habits,  that« 
as  in  the  modern  case  of  the  cattle- 
market  of  Smithfleld,  which  has 
maintained  its  traffic  in  spite  of  its 
manifold  inconveniences  and  nuisances, 

GawT.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII. 


so  the  citizens  were  not  to  be  per- 
suaded to  desert  their  long- accustomed 
haunts  in  Lombard  Street.  When 
the  use  of  Leadenhall,  a  spacious  and 
convenient  edifice,  was  offered  by  the 
King  in  the  year  1534  or  1535.  the 
change  was  negatived  by  a  msjority 
of  the  Common  Council.  The  only 
condition  upon  which  an  Exchange 
was  to  be  accepted  was,  that  it  should 
be  raised  upon  the  site  of  the  very 
shops  which  had  already  afforded  their 
friendly  shelter.  To  this  object,  there- 
fore, the  views  of  the  promoters  of  the 
project  were  directed^  and  in  1537# 
Sir  Richard  Gresham  submitted  to 
Crumwell,  then  Lord  Privy  Seal,  a 
design  for  such  a  structure.  We 
gather  these  particulars  from  the 
following  letter,*  written  to  the  same 
minister  by  Sir  Richard  Giesham, 
shortly  before  the  close  of  his  mayor- 
alty in  1538. 

**  The  last  yere  I  shewyd  yonr  goods 
lordeihipe  a  platte,  that  was  drawen  howte 
for  to  make  a  goodely  Bursse  in  Lombert 
strette  for  marchauDts  to  repayer  unto. 
I  doo  sapposse  yt  wyll  coste  ii  u  11. 
[3,000/.]  and  more,  wyche  shalbe  very 
beaatyfull  to  the  citti,  and  allsoo  for  the 
honor  of  our  soverayngne  lord  the  kioge. 
But  ther  ys  seren  bowssis  in  the  sayd 
strette  belougyn  to  Sir  George  Monnocks ; 
and  excepte  wee  maye  parchesse  theaif 
the  sayd  Barsse  cannot  be  made.  Where- 
for,  yt  may  please  your  goode  lordshipe 
to  move  the  kyngs  higbnes  to  have  hys 
most  gracious  lettyrs  directyd  to  the  sayd 
Sir  George,  wyllinge  and  alsoo  com- 
maundyoge  hym  to  cawse  the  sayd  howssys 
to  be  solid  to  the  mayer  and  commonaltye 
of  the  city  of  London,  for  snch  prices  as 
he  dyd  purches  them  for;  and  that  he 
iawte  not  bat  to  accomplyshe  bys  gradoas 
commandement.  The  lettyr  mast  be 
sharpley  made,  for  he  ys  of  noe  jentyll 
nature  ;  and  that  he  shale  giffoe  farther 
credens  to  the  mayor,  I  wyU  delyuer  the 
lettyr,  and  handyll  him  the  beste  I  can  ; 
and  yf  I  maye  obtayngne  to  have  the  sayde 
howssys,  I  donght  not  bat  to  gather  oon 
M  pounds  [1 ,000/.]  towerde  the  balldynge 
or  I  departe  howte  of  myne  office.  Ther 
shale  lacke  noe  goode  wylle  in  me.    And 

*  This  letter  (which  is  preserved  in  the 
Cottonian  MSS.)  was  pablished  by  Ward 
in  his  Historv  of  Oreabam  College,  but 
was  iaaBMBIJMlBlA.  bf  himt  and  by 

m,  to 


490 


Sir  Tkawuu'Grahmm  tmd  iki  Rofal  E^chmge. 


INon 


tbof  our  Lorde  prderro  your  good  lordo* 
■hipo  in  protperou  hdthe,  long^  to  eon* 
^iieire.  At  London  the  xzt  daye  of 
Jaylly  [1 538] .  AU  youn,  att  your  lorde- 
■hipcf  oommaiidemcnt, 

'*  Rto.  GmitVAif.*' 

The  difficDlties  mentioDed  in  this 
letter  were  sufficient  to  defer  the  pro- 
ject for  many  years,  indeed,  it  may  be 
said  for  a  whole  generation,  for  it  was 
not  until  1564  that  it  was  effectively 
resumed  by  the  son  of  Sir  Richard 
Gresham.  Another  letter  is  preterred, 
foreshadowing  the  great  undertaking. 
It  is  addressed  to  Sir  Thomas  Gresham 
by  his  factor  'Richard  Cloogh,  who 
warmly  advocates  the  erection  of  a 
bourse  in  London,  from  the  utility  he 
had  found  in  that  of  Antwerp,  where 
he  resided.  The  letter  is  dated  from 
that  city,  the  3 1st  Dec.  1561,  and 
the  subject  is  incidentally  introduced 
among  other  topics  of  complaint  against 
the  London  merchants. 

*'ForindedeitismsnreIlthat 

wee  hive  so  gode  orders  si  wee  have, 
oonsyderyng  what  mien  wee  have  in  the 
aittey  of  London  ;  sache  a  companny  that 
do  stady  for  nothyng  ells  butt  for  their 
own  profett.  As  for  insampell :  oon- 
syderyng whatt  a  sittey  London  ys,  and 
that  in  so  many  yeres  they  have  nott 
fonnde  the  menes  to  make  a  Bourse !  but 
inaat  wallke  in  the  raine,  when  y t  raineth. 
more  lyker  pedlers  then  marchaots ;  and 
tn  thys  conntrie,  and  all  others,  there  is 
no  kynde  of  pepell  that  have  occasyon  to 
BMete,  butt  they  have  a  plaae  meete  for 
that  pourpose.  Jndede,  yf  your  bcsynes 
were  done,  and  that  I  myghtt  have  the 
leiure  to  go  about  bjtt,  and  that  you  wyll 
be  a  menes  to  Mr.  Secretary  to  have  hys 
favore  therein,  I  wyll  nott  doutt  butt  to 
make  so  fere  a  Bourse  in  London  as  the 
grett  Bourse  is  in  Andwarpe,  vrithoutt 
molestyng  of  any  man  more  then  he  shnlld 
be  well  dysposed  to  geve.  Herein  I  am 
Bomwatt  tedyus  ;  deayryug  you  to  pardone 
me,  for,  beyng  ownse  enteryd  into  the 
matter,  I  collde  not  stee  myselfe." 

Mr.  Borgon  has  with  great  proba- 
bility dated  Sir  Thomas  Gresham'a 
personal  exertions  in  the  erection  of 
the  Exchange  from  the  death  of  his 
only  .child,  a  youth  of  sixteen  years  of 
ftge,  in  the  year  1564, — an  eve'nt  very 
likely  to  have  directed  his  thoughts,  in 
that  age  of  munificent  benefactions,  to 
some  channel  of  great  public  utility. 
It  appears  from  the  minutes  of  the 
Court  of  Aldermen  that  on  the  4th  Jan. 
1564-5,  a  proposition  was  made  to 


the  coart  by  -Sir  Thomas  Grsahaoft 
(throoghhisservant  Anthony  Strynger) 
tiiat  a  Burse  should  be  built  in  London 
at  his  expense,  provided  a  site  wan 
found  on  which  the  edifice  might  bo 
conveniently  erected.  This  proposal 
was  thankfully  accepted  by  the  court; 
they  agreed  that  Sir  Thomas  should 
be  at  liberty  to  employ  such  Miramgen 
about  the  making  of  the  said  Burse  aa 
he  might  think  proper,  and  entrusted 
certain  of  their  number  with  the  task 
of  fixing  on-  the  site,  who  were  to  make 
their  report  on  the  following  Sunday, 
at  8  o'clock,  in  the  chapel  of  St.  Paura 
church,  where  they  were  in  the  habit 
of  assembling  before  sermon > time.  So 
strong  was  still  the  attachment  of  the 
merchants  to  Lombard  Street,  that  it 
was  determined,  on  the  present  occa* 
sion,  that  the  fittest  place  for  a  Burse 
would  be  the  ground  between  that 
street  and  Cornhill;  and  it  was  re- 
solved (on  Monday,  8th  Jan.)  that  the 
Merchant-Taylors  should  be  petitioned 
for  leave  to  pull  down  the  hoose  in 
which  Alderman  Harpur  resided,  and 
some  other  houses  adjoining,  for  the 
purpose  of  obtaining  a  commodious 
site.  To  this  scheme  it  is  obvious  that 
objections  again  arose,  for  it  was 
abandoned,  and  in  six  weeks  a  nego- 
ciation  was  opened  with  the  Dean  of 
Canterbury,  Dr.  Wotton,  for  the 
ground  on  the  other  side  of  Cornhill, 
on  which  the  Exchange  was  finally 
erected. 

Alderman  Rowe,  who  married  Mary 
Gresham,  a  cousin  of  Sir  Thomas, 
took  a  leading  part  in  these  negocia- 
tions,  and  at  eight  o'clock  in  the  morn* 
ing  of  the  23rd  July  was  waited  on 
in  his  mansion-house  in  Bisfaopsgate- 
street  bv  the  wardens  of  the  twelve 
principal  companies,  who  had  been 
summoned  for  the  express  purpose  of 
entering  into  arrangements  for  facili- 
tating the  erection  of  the  Burse.  In 
the  December  following,  the  be« 
nevolence  and  aid  of  the  Merchanta 
Adventurers  and  Merchants  of  the 
Staple  beyond  the  sea  was  solicited 
with  the  same  object.  The  sum  re> 
quired  was  specified,  namely  400 
marks ;  to  be  paid  within  two  months. 

*'At  Christmas,  1565,  warning  was 
given  to  the  inhi^tants  of  the  nouses 
which  it  was  proposed  to  remove  in  ordor 
to  erect  the  Burse,  to  vacate  their  dwstt* 
ings  before  the  ensuing  95th  of  MsRiV' 


.1 8*44.]         Sir  I%omai  Cftegham  Mmi  the  R»yU  Eifchknge. 


49! 


that  !■  to  Mj,  WoM  New  Year's  day» 
oldityle;  JeoffrejWaUwdaaandThonai 
Buiftor  being  appointed  to  ncgotiete 
with  the  eereral  houaeholdera,  and  talk 
with  them.  Precepts  were  issued  in  the 
mean  time  to  the  wardens  of  the  sereral 
companies,  for  levying  contribotioni  in 
aid  of  the  purchase  of  the  intended  lite. 
Mr,  Alderman  Jakeman  was  chosen 
Treasurer;  and  Sir  Thomas  White.  Sir 
William  Garrard,  Sir  William  Chester, 
Sir  John  White,  and  Alderman  Rowe, 
Commissioners  for  the  undertaking.  It 
waa  settled  that  by  the  ensuing  month  of 
May,  1566,  all  should  be  ready  for  the 
workmen '  to  fall  in  hand  with  the  founds* 
tion  thereof;'  and  that  the  Burse  was  to 
be  55  yards  in  length,  and  45  in  breadth ; 
to  extend  from  Walkeden*s  Alley  to 
Jaques*  house,  a  '  litle  old  house  in  Como- 
hill,*  inhabited  by  a  widow,  which  *  the 
eytie  was  driven  to  bye*  for  100  marks. 

'*  These  arrangements  bear  date  7th 
January,  1565-6.  On  the  9th  of  Pe« 
bmary  following.  Sir  Thomas  Gresham 
being  at  the  house  of  Mr.  John  Ryrers, 
alderman,  in  company  with  Sir  William 
Garrard,  Sir  WilKam  Chester,  Thomas 
Rowe,  Lionel  Duckett,  German  Cid,  and 
Thomas  Bannister,  most  frankly  and  Iot- 
^ogly  promised,  that  within  a  month  after 
the  Burse  should  be  fully  finished,  he 
would  present  it,  in  equal  moieties,  to  the 
City  and  Mercers*  Company.*  -  In  token 
of  his  sincerity,  he  thereupon  gave  his 
hand  to  Sir  William  Garrard ;  and  in  the 
presence  of  his  assembled  friends,  drank  a 
carouse  to  his  kinsman  Thomas  Rowe. 

"  Thirty-eight  houses,  of  which  some 
seem  to  have  been  cottages,  a  storehouse, 
and  two  gardens,  were  demolished  in 
order  to  make  room  for  the  Burse ;  and 
of  these,  thirteen  tenements,  the  store- 
house, end  one  of  the  gardens,  which  was 
eaDed  Canterbury  Garden,  belonged  to 
the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Canterbury,  and 
was  purchased  for  6001.  The  City  finally 
paid  to  the  proprietors  of  the  soil  for  the 
whole  numb(Br«f  housee,  9,906/.  6t.  %d.  to 
the  tenants,  for  their  laasea,  i,999/.14s.and 
in  legal  and  other  expenses,  101/.  16«.  6dL 
making  in  aU  3,539/.  \U.  2d.  When  the 
Ate  had  been  made  clear,  the  length  of 
the  area  from  east  to  west  on  the  Com^ 


*  Sir  Thomss  Gresham  and  his  widow 
appear,  however,  to  have  retained  some 
interest  in  it ;  but  immediately  after  the 
death  of  the  Lady  Greaham,  die  Royal 
Eiehange,  of  which  the  ref^ues  amounted 
to  the  clear  yearly  value  of  751/.  6s.  re- 
^rted  to  the  Corporation  of  the  City  of 
liondon  and  tlw  Mercers*  Company;  a 
patent  from  the  Crown,  bearing  date  tho 
3cd  Feb.  1614»  (19  Jamea  L)  confinsiag 
them  in  their  pimwioa  of  this  property. 


hin  tide  was  fonnd  to  be  161  fcet  6  inehee, 
and  on  the  Broad  Street  side  118  feet  6 
inches.  From  Conihill  to  Broad  Street 
on  the  Swan  Alley  side  was  196  feet ;  and 
on  the  New  Alley  dde.  149  feet  6  inches. 

"  The  materials  of  the  old  houses  were 
sold  for  478/.  3«.  4<f. ;  and  twenty  of  the 
principal  companies  contributed  1,685/* 
9«.  7a.  The  list  is  preserved  of  738  per* 
sons  by  whom  this  amount  was  subscribed, 
in  sums  varying  between  10«.  and  13/.  6s.  8J. 

"  The  foundation-stone  Gresham  laid 
with  his  own  hands  on  the  7th  June  1566 : 
on  the  ISth  it  was  resolved  by  the  alder- 
men to  petition  him  in  favour  of  the  Eng* 
liah  workmen.  Whether  they  were  suc^ 
oessful  in  their  suit  does  not  appear ;  but 
it  probably  did  not  much  dispose  Gresham 
in  favour  of  the  candidates  for  the  employ* 
ment,  that  one  William  Crow,  apparently 
a  bricklayer,  had  been  guilty  of  '  very 
lewde  demeanour  towards  Henrick,  the 
said  Sir  Thomss  Gresham*s  chief  work. 


I  If 


Of  this  Heiorich,  the  architect  of 
the  first  Royal  Exchange,  Mr.  Bargon 
states  that  his  Christian  name  no* 
where  transpires,  but  that  in  Greaham 'a 
correspondeoce  with  his  agent  Clongh 
he  is  invariably  termed  "Henryke/* 
It  may  be  doabtfal  whether  it  is  his 
baptismal  or  his  aaraame  that  ia  ac* 
tually  deficient.  He  paid  occaaiona| 
visits  to  the  works  in  Londoa«  and  ia 
the  iotenralSf  it  may  be  supposed,  wa^ 
engaged  in  superintending  tnose  which 
were  prepared  in  Flanders.  By  way 
of  episode  he  constructed  a  gateway 
(probably  in  the  Strand)  for  Secretary 
Cecill  (Lord  Burghley).  to  whom  Sir 
T.  Gresham  thus  writes  Dec.  26, 1567  ; 
"  Henricke,  my  workman,  dotfae  pre* 
tende  after  the  hollidaya  to  go  over 
sea,  and  not  to  be  heere  again  before 
AprilL  Therefore  I  desire  to  know 
you  re  honnor's  pleasure  hie  this  brioger^ 
whether  you  will  have  your  port  [gatej 
set  up  before  his  dcpartiire«  or  els  at 
his  return." 

Heiorich  waa  probably  a  builder  at 
Antwerp;  the  bourse  itself  imitated 
the  bourse  in  that  city  in  structure  as' 
well  as  object.  "  No  one/'  Mr.  Burgoa 
remarks,  "can  have  compared  the 
view  of  the  Exchange  at  CornhiUf 

t  Mr.  Buigon  has  given  copies  of  two^ 
old  and  rare  prints>  engraved  in  1569^ 
and  probably  for  Gresham  himself,  rem* 
eentug  the  odgiaal  ^>pearanee  of  the  Ei* 
change.  InoneofthMealofty  Conathiaa 
pillar,  sormoonted  by  a  graashopper,  ap. 


49S 


Sir  nomas  Gn^amand  the  Rajfd  Ssctange^  [Nor. 


with  that  of  the  Bane  at  Antwerp, 
withoat  being  stnick  with  the  eitra« 
ordinary  resemblance  which  those 
edifices  bore  to  one  another/'  Etcd 
the  stone  was  brought  from  Antwerp,* 
as  was  the  wainscot^f  the  iron,  and 
the  slate. I  Hulinshed  (or  rather 
Harrison)  states,  in  fact,  that  Grcsham 
"  bargained  for  the  whole  mould  and 
substance  of  his  workmanship  in 
Flanders."  This  is  confirmed  not  only 
by  the  general  tenour  of  Cloagh's  let* 
ters,  bat  by  one  remarkable  passage,^ 
the  date  of  which  is  Dec.  6,  1566 ; 
"And  as  touching  the  Bourse,  we  do 
now  begyn  to  shippe  some  part 
thereof,  and  before  Easter  we  trust 
all  shall  be  shipped  from  hence." 

The  timber  was  chiefly  brought  from 
one  of  Gresham's  manors  in  Suffolk. 
He  speaks  in  one  of  his  letters  of  "  my 
house  at  Rinxhall,  where  I  make  all 
my  provision  for  my  timber  for  my 
Bourse  {"  and  five  or  six  saw-pits 
which  he  used  are  still  discernible  on 
Battisford  Tye,  a  common  between 
Ringshall  and  Battisford. 

Another  passage  mentions  the  making 
of  the  queen's  "  picture,"  a  word  then 
nsed  for  a  carved  statue,  but  it  does 
not  describe  very  clearly  the  business 
to  which  it  refers.  "  1  have  received," 
says  Clough,  "  the  pictures  you  wryte 
of,  whereof  I  wyll  cause  the  Queenes 
majestie  to  be  made,  and  wyll  sende 
you  the  rest  back  again  with  that,  so 
toone  as  yt  ys  done."  Mr.  Burgon 
supposed,  from  this  passage,  that  the 
statues  were  all  made  in  England,  with 
the  exception  of  Queen  Elizabeth's, 
and  that  some  of  the  others  were  sent 
to  Antwerp  to  show  the  artist  in  what 
style  and  of  what  size  he  was  to  pro- 
duce  the  statue  of  her  Majesty.    It  is 

pears  rising  on  the  north  side  of  the  build- 
ing.  The  same  is  brought  into  perspective, 
but  of  dimensioDs  scarcely  if  at  all  inferior 
to  the  new  Nelson  Column  at  Charing 
Cross,  in  a  view  in  Knight's  London,  de- 
rived from  the  same  source. .  1 1  is  obvious 
that  if  such  a  pillar  ever  existed,.-and 
there  is  no  other  view  or  mention  of  it,— 
it  is  vastly  exa^erated  in  appearance ; 
but  we  are  rather  inclined  to  regard  it  as 
a  mere  ornament  to  the  engraving,  like 
the  shields  of  arms,  &o. 

*  Burgon,  ii.  U8,  120;  though 
Gresham  {ib.  107)  intended  at  least  to 
have  had  some  from  Norfolk. 

t  lb.  117.        X  lb.  120. 

i  lb,  118. 


poasible,  certainly,  if  heavy  maleriala 
were  shipped  one  way,  they  might  ba 
transported  backwards  and  forwards* 
but,  perhaps,  in  this  instance  the 
"  pictures  "  were  really  the  drawings 
or  patterns. 

The  Burse  being  finished,  the  mer- 
chants began  to  hold  therr  meetings 
within  its  walls  on  tha  82d  Dec.  156S. 
"The  form  of  the  building,"  saya 
Norden,  a  contemporary,  "is  quadrate, 
with  walks  round  the  mayoe  tmilding 
supported  with  pillars  of  marble,  over 
which  walkes  is  a  place  for  tha  sale  of 
all  kinde  of  wares,  richely  stored  with 
varietie  of  all  sorts."  There  were,  in 
fact,  walks  above  as  well  as  below ;  tha 
upper  part  of  the  building  t>eing  divided 
into  no  less  than  one  hundred  small 
shops,  from  the  rents  of  which  Gresham 
proposed,  in  part,  to  reimburse  himself 
for  his  outlay  in  its  erection.  Aa 
equal  number  of  vaults  were  also  dog 
beneath,  adapted  for  the  reception  of 
merchandise;  but  these  were  found 
to  be  so  dark  and  damp  that  they  booq 
became  of  little  value. 

Desirable  for  the  display  of  warea 
as  a  shop  must  have  been  in  a  place 
of  so  much  resort  as  the  Burse,  we 
learn  from  the  chronicler  who  inter- 
ested himself  most  in  the  history  of 
the  city,  that  for  two  or  three  years 
after  its  erection  the  shops  remained 
"  in  a  manner  empty."  Queen  Eliza«* 
beth,  however,  having  signified  her 
intention  of  visiting  the  founder,  and 
inspecting  his  edifice,  Gresham  nata- 
rally  became  anxious  to  improve  its  ap- 
pearance, and  render  it  fitter  for  the  re« 
ception  of  his  royal  guest.  "  He  went, 
in  consequence,"  says  Stowe,  "twice  in 
one  day  round  about  the  upper  pawne,  || 
and  besought  those  few  shoppe-keepers 
then  present  that  they  would  furnish 
and  adorne  with  wares  and  waxe  lighta 
as  many  shops  as  they  either  could  or 
would,  and  tney  should  have  all  those 
shops  so  furnished  rent-free  that  yeere,' 
which  other- wayes  at  that  time  was 
forty  shillings  a  shoppe  by  the  yeere; 

11  This  word,  which  is  not  admitted  into 
Johnson's  Dictionary,  and  the  spplication 
of  which  was  not  apparent  to  Archdeacon 
Nares  when  quoting  a  poetical  passage  in 
his  Glossary,  is  supposed  to  be  the  same 
as  the  German  bahn,  a  road  or  path,  and 
which  has  recently  entered  into  a  new 
compound,  the  eiiea^aAa,  i.  e.  maferrta^ 
a  railroad. 


1844.]  Sir  Thomiu  Greiham  and  the  Royal  Exciange. 


kad  within  two  ycrei  after  hee  raised 
that  rrat  auto  roars  marka  a  ytnt, 
■Dd  withiD  a  while  after  that  bee  raited 
his  Tent  of  eveiy  ihoppe  unto  fonre 
poDads  tenne  tbillings  a  fcere,  and 
then  all  ahoppea  were  well  faraiahed 
according  to  that  time;  for  then  the 
nillinera  or  haberdashers  in  that  place 
BOlde  moQie-trappea,  bird-cagea,  iboo- 
iag  horns,  lanthorns,  and  Jewea- 
trampea,  Ice.  There  were  alao  at  that 
time  that  kept  sboppes  in  the  npper 
pawne  of  the  Royatl  Exchange,  ar- 
moDrerB,  that  sold  both  olde  and  new 
am  oar,  apothecaries,  booke- sellers, 
goldsmiths,  and  glasse-sellers;although 
now  itia  aa  plenteous ly  stored  with  all 
kiode  of  rich  wares  and  fine  com- 
id;  particular  place  in 


Unl 


forrame   princes    dayly    send    to    be 
served  of  the  best  sort." 

It  was  Id  consequence  of  the  aeasou 
of  the  year  at  which  Queen  Elizabeth 
made  her  progress  into  the  city  that 
Gresham  required  the  aid  of  illumina- 
tion to  act  off  the  Burse  to  sdrantage. 
Stowe  relates,  that  on  the  23rd  of 
January,  1S70-1,  "  the  Queenes  ma- 
jesty, attended  with  her  nobility,  came 
from  ber  house  at  the  Strand,  called 
Somrraet  House,  and  entred  the  citie 
by  Temple-bar,  through  Fleete- street. 
Cheap,  and  so  by  the  north  side  of  the 
Burse,  to  Sir  Thomas  Oresham's  io 
Bisbopigate-strete,  where  she  dined. 


After  dioner,  her  Majestic  ratnrDing 
through  Corah  ill,  entered  the  Barae 
on  the  south  aide ;  and  after  that  she 
had  viewed  every  part  thereof  above 
the  ground,  especially  the  pa  woe, 
which  was  richly  faraished  with  all 
aorta  of  the  finest  wares  in  the  city, 
she  caused  the  same  Burse  by  an 
herralde  and  a  trompetto  be  proclaimed 
Taa  RoTAL  Excranoi,  and  so  to  be 
called  from  thenceforth,  and  not  other- 
wise." Such  is  the  brief  account 
which  has  been  transmitted  to  us  of 
the  events  from  which  the  Burse,  aa 
it  was  till  then  called,  dates  its  present 
name,  by  one  who  was  probably  an 
eye-witneaa  of  the  scene  he  deacnbea. 
A  bas-relief  represeoliug  the  Qneen'a 
visit  waa  placed  over  the  entrance 
through  which  the  had  passed. 

Sir  Thomas  Gresham's  atnictDre 
stood  for  exactly  a  century.  In  the 
great  fire  of  1666  it  shared  the  general 
destruction,  "The  Royal  Exchange 
itself,  (says  one  of  the  narratives,}  the 
glory  of  the  mercbaots,  is  now  invaded 
with  much  violence.  When  the  firo 
was  entered,  how  quickly  did  it  tqq 
round  the  galleries,  filling  them  with 
flames ;  then  descending  the  staira, 
compasseth  the  walks,  giving  forth 
flaming  volleys,  and  fitting  the  court 
with  sheets  of  Are.  Bv  and  by  the 
Kings  fell  all  down  on  tneirfacet,  an4 
the  greater  part  of  the  atone  building 
after  tben,  the  Founder's  itatne  alon« 


49ti  Sir7%omaM  Gnaiam  ^d  Ot  Btfml  £wekmgt.  [Sot. 

TCMuniag,*  wtth  m^  m  mmm  m  wu     ■■tfl  aboat  At  ytai  1735.  HwUuid, 
drcadfo]  u>d  utoniBhiag."  writiag  in    1739,  (peaks  of  then  •■ 

Tlia  architect   enptoycd  after   tha     havittB  bcni  ".  till  of  laU  itorcd  with 
fire  vu  Hr<  Edirard  Jennan,  and  the     the  richcat  and  cbokeat  aorti  of  mcr- 
natcrial  Portland  (toae.     The  ^'■i''ral     cbandtM  i  bnt.  tbe  nmc  being  oon  for> 
pUa  wa*  BDcfa  Bi  before,  tbe  arcbi-     labeo,  it  appear*  like  a  wildcmeas." 
tecturc  modified  to  tbe  VitrvTiaa  taite  Tbe  Rof li  Eichaafe  nndenreot  mi 

oftbedajr.  Its  appearaace  i«  ahowa  iaportant  repair  in  I7€r.  vheo  tbe 
in  tbe  anacied  bird's-ej-e  view,  (p.  weatiid*  wai  rebailt  Ob  tbii occatioa 
493,}  witb  wbicfa  we  are  faTonred  bj  hrliameDt  made  a  graot  of  10,0001. 
tbe  pabliibcr  of  Mr.  Borgoa'i  work.  Again  la  1810  aa  eitcasiTe  repair 
The  charge*  of  erectioa  (defrayed  io  took  place,  which  laaterially  aflccted 
MMCtica  t>7  the  Citf  and  Hemra*  tbe  appeataoce  of  the  principal  front. 
Conpao^,  tbe  joiot  trtiBteca  of  Sir  Tbe  old  ateeple  was  taken  down,  aitd 
Tbomai  Gr««ham'a  will,)  ainunoted  replaced  by  anotbct  of  leM  eleralion 
to  58,9621.  betidea  r,017t  II*.  for  and  a  different  form,  designed  by 
enlarging  the  ancient  tite.  Hr.  George  Snitb,  the  appearance  or 

The  gronnd  on  which  the  new  boild-     which  ii  ahown  in  tbe  »econd  engrav- 
ing atood  wa*  303  feet  in  length  from     ing.    By  referring  to  oor  Maguinefor 
ca*t  to  we*t,  and  171   Teet  In  breadth     Aagntt  1831,  p.  113.  the  reader  will 
from  notthto*outb,cooUiniag34, 713     find  a  detailed  arcbitedaral  criticiaiB 
•DperGcial    feet,    a    little    more    than     on  thl>  prodoction,  which   wa*  there 
3-4th*  of  an  acre.    The  King  laid  tbe     pronounced  to  be  one  of  the  be*t  «pe- 
firit  itone  of  the  colnmn  on  tbe  wnt     timeni  of  "  the  pepper  boi  order  "  in 
aide  of  the   north  entrance,  and  hi*     London.     Whatever  were  it*  merit*  or 
brother,  the  Duke  of  York,  (afterward*     demeriu  in  itkelf,  it  wa*  certainly  io- 
Jame*  11.)   that  on  it*  e**t  aide,   ia     graledinaibad  taateapon  theorigioat 
BeiDory  of  which  achiereiaent  thoae    design  of  Jerman  a*  we  ofUn  aee  exhi- 
two  eolomn*  bad  ro^al  or- 
■lament*  for  their  capital*,  a* 
imperial  crown*  and  aceptre*. 
Afterward*  Prince  Rnpertlaid 
the  first  stone  of  the  pillar 
on  the  east  side  of  the  south 
•Dtraoce, 

Tha  38lb  of  September, 
1669,  wa*  tbe  day  filed  for 
tbe  opcaiog  of  the  New  Ei- 
cbaage.  The  King  was  ex- 
pected, bnt  be  did  not  come. 
The  Lord  Mayor,  Sir  W. 
Tomer,  then  came,  "  and. 
walking  twice  roond  aboot  it, 
coDgratolated  the  merchant* 
on  their  *Change  again." 
There  were  ihaps  a*  before 
in  the  upper  floor,  like  those 
still  remembered  at  Exeter 
Change  in  the  Strand,  or  io 
our  modern  Bazaar*,  and 
their     prosperity     continued 

*  This  Interetting  incident  i*  mentioned  by  many  other  writers.  At  tbe  fire  of 
1838,  howerer,  Sir  Tbomu  Greshsm'*  Itatne  wa*  dsilrojed,  bnt  tli*t  of  Sir  Joba 
Barnard e*c*ped.  InoarTol.  X.  pp.  903,  437,  we  prescrted  *ome  reoord  of  tba*al« 
of  the  moat  Interesting  relic*  among  tbe  msterUI*  of  the  old  Eiebange.  Many  of 
lb«  roysl  •tame*  were  comp*r*tlTel7  perftot,  and  were  Mid  far  couiEderable  nm* ;  bat 
we  are  not  aware  of  tfaelr  preiant  IteaU.    Tbe  modem  slstaca  of  the  tbor  Qujtata 


18440 


Briiuh  JfcHeoiogkal  Jiiociatwn^ 


499 


bited  io  the'admiitore  of  the  Tarions 
period*  of  eccleeiutical  architecture. 

The  fire  of  the  10th  of  January^ 
1838,*  Was,  however*  the  sigoal  for 
the  remoTal  of  the  whole  of  the 
CaroleaD  bvilding.  Indeed  its  walla 
were  left  in  too  shattered  a  state  to 
be  worth  presenration.  The  new 
Royal  £ichange  has  been  built  on 
more  extended  as  well  as  deeper  foun- 
dations ;  and  we  trust  that  it  is  des- 
tined to  enjoy  a  proportionately  more 
enduring  term  of  existence* 

Mr.  Urban, 

IN  conversation  with  those  who  are 
generally  interested  in  antiquarian  re- 
searches, with  regard  to  the  recent 
meeting  of  the  British  Archcological 
Association  at  Canterbury,  1  find  some 
partial  misapprehension  existing  both 
as  to  the  objects  and  the  results  of  that 
meeting.  Whether  this  has  arisen  from 
the  very  ill-natured  and  unfair  remarks 
which  have  appeared  in  the  columns  of 
the  Atheneom,  or  elsewhere,  1  cannot 
determine ;  but  I  have  observed  that 
the  dissatisfaction  on  the  latter  point, 
namely,  the  conduct  and  results  of  the 
meeting,  exists  with  those  who  were 
not  present,  and  are  therefore  most 
likely  to  have  been  influenced  by  the 
reports  they  have  read.  Those  who 
were  present  appeared  to  agree  that 
their  time  bad  been  profitably  as  well 
as  agreeably  spent.  This  is  surely  sufli- 
cient  success  for  a  first  or  trial  meeting, 
with  respect  to  which  it  was  impos- 
sible for  those  most  conversant  with 
the  circumstances  of  the  immature 
Association,  to  calculate  either  upon 
the  numerical  strength  of  those  who 
would  attend,  or  upon  the  subjects 
which  could  be  brought  forward  for 
consideration. 

On  the  general  arrangements  of  the 
meeting  I  may  say  a  few  words  before 
I  conclude;  but  the  chief  object  of 
these  remarks,  (which  altogether  shall 
be  very  brief,)  is  to  point  out  that  the 
very  nature  and  intention  of  the  meet- 
ing seems  to  have  been  mistaken  by 
those  who  censure  it.  They  have 
hastily  formed  their  idea  of  a  pro- 
vincial antiquarian  meeting,  and  they 
quarrel  with  the  proceedings  at  Can- 
terbury because  thejr  do  not  find  them 
coincide  with  their  previously- con- 
ceived idea. 

*  Described  in  our  vol.  IX.  p.  230. 


The  grand  objection  made  is,  that 
the  attention  of  the  meeting  was  not 
confined  to  local  objects.  It  is  said, 
in  effect,  that  at  Canterbury  no  Clas- 
sical antiquities  should  have  been  in- 
troduced— no  Phoenician,  no  Egyptian. 
More  than  this,  it  would  seem  that  this 
exclusively  local  scheme  was  to  shut 
out  not  only  all  foreign  antiquities,  but 
those  of  Ireland  and  Scotland,  England* 
and  even  Kent  itself:  it  was  to  attend 
to  Canterbury,  and  nothing  but  Can- 
terbury. It  is  therefore  evident  that, 
by  those  who  can  have  conceived  such 
ideas,  the  character  of  the  meeting,  and 
even  of  the  Association  itself,  has  been 
entirely  misunderstood.  Their  argu- 
ment has  proceeded  upon  the  notion 
that  this  was  an  occasional  excursion, 
for  local  objects,  of  a  Society  established 
in  London,  and  carrying  on  its  usual 
business  there;  and  it  is  extraordi- 
nary that  they  should  not  have  per- 
ceived that  the  British  Archcological 
Association  was,  on  the  contrary, 
formed  on  the  plan  of  the  British  As- 
sociation for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  the  staff  alone  of  which  is 
existent  from  year  to  year,  and  which 
is  embodied  only  when  the  annual 
meeting  takes  place. 

Such  being  the  real  state  of  the  case, 
it  would  clearly  be  as  unreasonable  to 
insist  that  the  attention  of  the  British 
Archeological  Association  should  be 
confined  to  the  town  where  it  meets, 
as  that  the  attention  of  the  British 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science  should  be  confined  to  the  na- 
tural history,  the  geology,  or  the 
peculiar  manufactures  of  the  place  it 
incidentally  visits. 

The  only  mode  then  to  decide  the 
question  as  to  the  propriety  of  the  to- 
pics brought  before  the  British  Ar- 
chaeological Association  at  Canterbury, 
is  to  refer  to  the  proposals  with  which, 
the  Association  itself  is  set  forth.  It 
is  entitled  the  "  British  Archaeological 
Association  for  the  encouragement  and 
prosecution  of  researches  into  the  arts 
and  monuments  of  the  early  and  middle 
ages,  particularly  in  England.''  Here 
we  find  at  once  that  its  subjects  are 
not  to  be  sought  solely  at  the  place 
of  meeting,  nor  even  solely  in  England, 
but  only  "  particularly  in  England." 

Then  for  the  objects  of  the  Annual 
Meeting.    The  announcement  of  the 
Central  Committee  explains  them  ia| 
the  following  terms : 


496 


BrUiJi  Archieological  JtsociaUon. 


[Nor. 


'^Tbe  diSef  oljectg  of  the  meetiof  in 
to  promote  m  penonal  intcrcoane  between 
eotiquariea  and  hiitorical  inqoiren  who 
reiide  in  different  parte  of  the  conntrj  and 
abroad,  and  to  afford  a  week*s  amusement 
and  inatraction  by  the  reading  and  dis- 
eoatiDg  of  papers  on  antiqoarian  and  his- 
torical sabjects  before  the  different  sec- 
tions, and  visiting  and  examining  together 
the  antiquities  of  the  locality." 

Here,  again,  it  is  as  distioctly  stated 
that  the  "Tisiting  and  examining  to- 
gether the  antiquities  of  the  locality  " 
was  not  the  sole  object  of  the  meeting, 
but  only  one  of  the  means  proposed  to 
accomplish  the  general  purposes  of 
the  Association,  viz.  mutual  "  encou- 
ragement/' and  historical  and  anti- 
quarian "  research." 

To  the  charge  of  having  neglected 
the  antiquities  of  the  locality,  the  As- 
sociation may  triumphantly  reply.  The 
antiquities  of  Canterbury,  and  of  the 
county  of  which  it  is  the  capital,  re- 
ceived such  attention  as  a  provincial 
meeting  was  calculated  to  inspire.  To 
mention  first  those  early  antiquities, 
the  exhumed  relics  of  early  ages,  at 
which  it  is  so  easy  to  sneer,  but  of  which 
the  due  classification  and  appreciation 
is  perhaps  only  now  commencing, 
there  were  no  less  than  five  exhibitions 
of  relics  found  in  Canterbury  itself, 
besides  others  from  the  tumuli  at 
Bourne  and  on  the  Breach  downs,  from 
Sittiogbourne,  and  from  Dymchurch, 
all  in  Kent.  The  museum  to  which 
the  Association  made  a  visit  at  Or. 
Faussett's  was  of  antiquities  found  in 
Kent ;  and,  besides  all  these,  we  are 
informed  that  the  Secretary  had  in  pre- 
paration a  review  of  the  recent  Roman 
and  Saxon  discoveries  in  the  county, 
which  there  was  not  time  to  produce.' 

On  ecclesiastical  antiquities  there 
were  communications  relative  to  St. 
Margaret's  Rochester,  Lenham,  East 
Wickham,  and  Reculver,  all  in  Kent, 
beside  the  evening  lecture  by  Professor 
Willis  on  Canterbury  Cathedral,  and 
his  morning  recapitulation  in  the  edi- 
fice itself,  the  great  interest  of  which 
not  even  the  Athenaeum  can  deny. 
Moreover,  there  was  a  most  interest- 
ing communication  from  Mr.  Harts- 
home,  first  on  the  Castle  of  Dover,  and 
secondly  on  the  Block-houses  erected 
by  Henry  VIII.  which  are  chiefly 
on  the  Kentish  coast.  Lastly,  in  the 
historical  department,  the  most  re- 
condite and  elaborate  papers  that  were 
6 


produced  origioated  with  the  anti- 
qnities  of  the  county :  for,  after  firat 
mentioning  the  Rev.  Beale  Post's 
essay  on  the  place  of  Caesar's  Landing, 
a  question  exclusively  belonging  to  the 
coast  of  Kent,  and  Mr.  Puttock's  dis- 
sertation on  the  Roman  itineraries  in 
relation  to  Canterbury,  I  allude  par- 
ticularly to  Mr.  Stapleton's  essay  on 
the  succession  of  William  ofArqoes, 
to  Mr.  Croker's  investigation  of  the 
autobiography  of  the  first  Earl  of  Cork, 
and  to  Mr.  Wright's  report  after  ex- 
amining the  municipal  archives  of  the 
city.  The  first  of  these  was  chosen 
for  its  local  bearing  on  the  honour 
of  Folkstone,  of  which  William  of 
Arques  was  the  Domesday  lord ;  and 
the  second  for  a  like  reason,  because 
the  Eatl  of  Cork  was  a  native  of  Can- 
terbury. Yet  the  Editor  of  the  Alhe- 
ncum,  mot  hanng  been  pretent^  and 
judging  it  may  be  supposed  from  the 
mere  titles  of  the  papers,  perseveres, 
in  his  last  remarks  on  the  Association, 
in  reprobating  these  very  papers :-» 

"Are  papers,  we  ask  again,  on  'He 
Origin  of  Idolatry,'  on  *  The  Counts  of 
Gaianes  and  the  6arl  of  Oxford,'  on  the 
Shipping  in  the  Thames  in  the  time  of 
Henry  VIH.,  on  Lord  Cork's  lying  Auto- 
biography, on  bits  of  broken  pottery  from 
this  place,  a  Roman  tile  from  that,  and  on 
coins  of  Antonine  and  Trajan  from  ano- 
ther, are  sack  papers  of  a  /oca/  interest?* 

The  objection  here  made  to  a 
document  relative  to  the  Thames, 
the  ancient  highway  from  Canterbury 
to  the  metropolis,  as  well  as  the 
county  boundary,  is  a  proof  how 
confined  are  the  Editor's  notions  with 
respect  to  "  locality."  W ith  respect  to 
"The  Counts  of  Guisnes  and  the 
Earl[s]  of  Oxford,"  which  was  the 
same  paper  as  that "  On  the  succession 
of  William  of  Arques,"  and  the  Auto- 
biography of  the  Earl  of  Cork,  I  have 
already  answered  his  question  :  at  the 
same  time  that  I  do  not  admit  the 
necessity  for  the  papers  or  topics  of 
discussion  to  have  this  local  bearing 
as  a  ime  qma  non» 

I  will  now  proceed  to  make  the  very 
few  remarks  of  my  own  on  the  annual 
meeting  which  1  before  intimated; 
and  which  I  would  offer  rather  as 
hints  for  the  next  occasion  than  as 
censures  upon  a  first  experiment. 
(7b  be  continued,) 


497 


REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBUCATIONS, 


IHarUi  and  Corre$pondenc€  of  Jame9 
Harrii,  first  Earl  of  Malmeslmnf* 
Edited  hy  hit  Grandson,  the  third 
EarL  Svo.  Vols,  I.  and  IL 
THESE  volumes  contain  a  portion 
of  a  seiection  from  the  toI ominous 
diplomatic  papers  and  journals  of  the 
noble  lord  ivho  is  mentioned  in  their 
title-  page.  They  extend  from  his  first 
entrance  into  public  life  in  1767*  to 
his  departure  on  a  special  mission  to 
the  court  of  Berlin  in  the  eventful  year 
1793.  It  is  intended,  we  presume,  by 
some  future  publication  to  carry  down 
the  extracts  to  a  more  recent  period,  the 
noble  earl  having  been  subsequently 
employed  in  other  important  nego- 
tiations, and  having  continued  until 
his  death  in  1830,  occasionally  an 
actor,  and  at  all  times  an  interested  and 
recording*  witness,  of  the  most  event- 
ful scenes  of  that  eventful  period* 

As  the  son  of  the  author  of 
*'  Hermes,"  who  was  himself  a  cour- 
tier and  a  member  of  Parliament,  the 
gentleman  to  whom  these  volumes 
relate  entered  life  with  many  peculiar 
advantages.  He  was  born  at  Salisbury 
on  the  21st  April,  17^6,  and  received 
the  best  part  of  his  education  at  Win** 
Chester.  At  the  age  of  17  he  was  sent 
to  Oxford,  where  the  benefit  he  received 
may  be  estimated  from  his  account  of 
the  life  he  led.  "The  two  years  of 
my  life  I  look  back  to  as  most  on- 
profitably  spent  were  those  1  passed 
at  Merton.  The  discipline  of  the 
university  happened  also  at  this  par- 
ticular moment  to  be  so  lax  that  a 
gentleman  commoner  was  under  no 
restraint,  and  never  called  upon  to 
attend  either  lectures,  or  chapel,  or 
hall.  My  tutor,  an  excellent  and 
worthy  man,  according  to  the  practice 
of  all  tutors  at  that  moment,  gave 
himself  no  concern  about  his  pupils. 
I  never  saw  him  but  during  a  fort- 

*  The  earl  continued  his  journal  until 
a  fortnight  before  his  death.  In  calm 
anticipation  of  his  approaching  end,  he 
then  closed  it  in  1  farewell  passage  which 
is  printed  in  voL  I.  p.  xvi. 

Gent.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


night,  when  I  took  into  my  head  to 
be  taught  trigonometry.  The  set  of 
men  with  whom  I  lived  were  very 
pleasant,  but  very  idle  fellows.  Our 
life  was  an  imitation  of  high  life  in 
London  ;  luckily  drinking  was  not  the 
fashion,  but  what  we  did  drink  was 
claret,  and  we  had  oar  regular  round 
of  evening  card-parties,  to  the  great 
annoyance  of  our  finances,"  and,  pro- 
bably, also,  of  their  fathers',  or  at  any 
event  of  Mr.  Harris's  father,  who 
suddenly  stopped  his  son's  progress 
towards  an  Oxford  degree,  and  sent 
him  off  to  Leyden  "  to  study."  There 
he  remained  a  year,  spending  "  many 
hours  daily  "  in  writing  and  reading, 
and  the  rest  in  studying  the  History 
of  Europe ;  "  but  frequenting,  at  the 
same  time,"  as  much  as  possible, 
**  the  public  amusements  and  society 
of  the  Hague  and  Amsterdam."  Hit 
qualifications  for  public  employment 
were  completed  by  a  tour  on  the  con- 
tinent, and  his  attainment  of  hit 
majority.  Soon  after  these  desirable 
events  were  accomplished,  he  was 
appointed,  "through  Lord  Shelburne's 
interest,"  "secretary  of  embassy  at 
the  court  of  Madrid  under  Sir  James 
Gray."  Whilst  such  was  the  edu- 
cation of  our  diplomatists,  it  is  no  won- 
der that  they  were  out-manceuvred  by 
the  French  at  every  court  in  Europe. 
The  wonder  is,  that,  under  such  cir- 
cumstances, England  ever  possessed, 
as  in  the  case  of  the  gentleman  of 
whom  we  are  writing,  an  ambassador 
in  any  degree  able  to  cope  with  the 
rival  nation  in  the  practice  of  that 
system  of  profound  and  artful  trickery 
which  constituted  the  science  of  diplo- 
macy. In  the  instance  of  Mr.  Harris 
it  is  evident  that  he  had  a  peculiar 
aptitude,  it  may  be  termed  a  genius, 
for  the  work,  and  was  moreover  en- 
couraged by  the  success  of  his  first 
attempt.  After  this  young  gentleman 
had  been  at  Madrid  six  or  seven 
months.  Sir  James  Gray  "  left,"  and 
the  representation  of  Great  Britain  at 
one  of  the  principal  courts  of  Europt 
devolved    upon    Mr.    Harris.     This 

3  S 


498        Diarks  and  Corresp<mdence  of  the  Earl  of  Malmetbtaj.     [Nor. 


weighty  trust  bad  retted  upon  his 
youthful  shoulders  exactly  tweWe 
months  when  the  dispute  relating  to 
the  Falkland  Islands,  for  a  cause  not 
yerf  unlike  that  at  Tahiti  which  ocr 
castoned  our  recent  disagreement  with 
France,  produced  a  sudden  uproar 
between  the  two  countries.  Mr. 
Harris  entered  upon  the  business  as 
an  inexperienced  and  high-spirited 
young  Englishman  might  be  expected 
to  do.  The  ministry  at  home  thought 
the  matter  scarcely  worth  a  quarrel ; 
but  young  Mr.  Harris  fanned  the 
flame,  and,  fortunately  for  him  and 
for  the  country,  the  Spanish  govem- 
roent  were  timid  and  gave  the  re- 
quired satisfaction.  The  afiair  oc- 
casioned a  great  noise,  and  great, 
consequently,  was  the  triumph  and 
the  reputation  which  accrued  to  the 
boy- ambassador.  The  book  before  us 
opens  with  some  amusing  extracts 
from  Mr.  Harris's  Diary  during  his 
tour  in  1767  and  176S,  and  his  journey 
to  Madrid  in  January  1769f  and  then 
presents  various  despatches  and  letters 
connected  with  the  business  of  the 
Falkland  Isles. 

In  the  full  glow  of  his  first  success, 
Mr.  Harris  was  transferred  to  the 
court  of  Frederick  the  Great,  where 
he  resided  from  1771  to  1778.    The 

Srvjudices  of  that  monarch  against 
Agland  kept  the  ambassador  in  the 
back -ground.  The  first  partition  of 
Poland  was  indeed  a  circumstance  of 
which  he  desired  to  make  something- 
after  the  manner  of  the  "  Falkland 
Isles  "  question,  and  with  more  rea* 
•on — but  the  ministry  at  home  were 
weak  and  spiritless,  and  were  only 
induced  to  take  any  interest  at  all  in 
that  "most wicked  business"  because  it 
happened  to  be  out  of  the  ordinary 
course  of  things—*"  a  curious  transac- 
tion "  as  it  was  termed  by  Lord 
Suffolk,  the  Secretary  for  Foreign 
Affairs.  Mr.  Harris's  letters  during 
his  residence  at  Berlin  are  chiefly 
Taluabie  on  account  of  the  information 
they  give  os  respecting  the  condition 
of  Berlin  and  of  the  court  of  Prussia. 
Of  the  fomer  take  the  following  as  a 
picture  written  in  1773* 

**  Berlio  is  a  town,  where,  if  for  fit  may 
he  eoDstrued  honesif  there  is  neither  '  vir 
ybr/if  fifc  /etmina  ctnia.*  A  total  oor- 
mptioD  of  morals  reigns  throughout  both 
fexes  in  every  class  of  life,  joined  to  pe- 


Burioasness,  neoessarily  eansed  psrfly  by 
the  oppression  of  his  present  Biajesty, 
and  partly  by  the  expensive  ideas  they 
received  from  his  grandfather,  consti- 
tating  the  worst  of  human  characters. 
The  men  are  constantly  occupied  how  to 
make  straitened  means  support  the  ex- 
travagances of  their  life.  The  women 
are  harpies,  debauched  through  want  of 
modesty  rather  than  from  want  of  any- 
tiling  else.  They  prostitute  their  persons 
to  the  best  payer,  and  all  delicacy  of 
manners  or  sentiment  of  affection  are 
unknown  to  them.  Bad  as  this  descrip* 
tioQ  is*  I  do  not  think  I  draw  the  picture 
in  too  bad  colours.  I  came  without  any 
prepossession,  and  venture  to  suppose 
that  I  live  here  with  too  great  a  variety  of 

riople  to  be  blinded  by  prejudices.  AU 
can  say  in  their  favour  is,  that  the  ex- 
ample of  irreligious  neglect  of  all  moral 
and  social  duties  raised  before  their  eyes 
by  the  King, — I  say,  this,  joined  to  the 
success  of  all  his  undertakings,  and  the 
respect  he  enjoyed  tiiroughont  Europe, 
have  infatuated  their  better  judgment^ 
and  shown  them  vice  in  too  advantageous 
a  light."  (p.  97.) 

Of  the  aovereign  of  this  people — the 
Napoleon  of  Prussia — the  scattered 
traits  are  numerous  and  effective.  His 
flute-playing,  and  the  nervous  sensi- 
tiveness of  the  greatest  sovereign  of 
Europe  lest  he  should  give  utterance 
to  a  false  note,  are  the  subject  of  a 
curious  passage  at  p.  3.  His  snuff- 
taking  ("  he  takes  it  sot  by  pinches 
but  by  handfulis")  and  his  "mag- 
nificent collection"  of  snuff-boxes  are 
noticed  at  p.  6.  His  penuriousness, 
ill-temper,  tyranny,  mistakes  in  his 
commercial  projects,  hatred  of  England* 
and  contempt  of  France,  are  displayed 
in  innumerable  passages.  He  was 
subject  to  nocturnal  perspirations  from 
the  earliest  period  of  his  life,  and 
always  found  them  "  highly  beneficial 
to  his  health."  Upon  their  partial 
cessation  he  fell  ill,  slept  badly,  and 
was  dejected  in  spirits,  (p.  116.)  Under 
this  illness,  and  a  consequent  gout,  he 
continued  during  Mr.  Harris's  sojourn 
at  Berlin,  and  the  accounts  he  gives 
of  the  state  of  his  Majesty's  temper 
descrijbe  him  as  guilty  of  the  wildest 
«od  most  outrageous  freaks  of  passion, 
and  at  times  "  little  inferior  to  a  mad- 
man." Still  his  mind  remained  as 
active  as  ever.  "  His  views  I  am  con,- 
vinced,"  remarks  Mr.  Harris,  "  rove 
from  one  side  of  the  coatinent  to  the 
other,  and,  as  long  as  he  has  the  meana 


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IP  his  hands*  no  alliance  however 
close,  no  convention  however  eacred, 
will  be  able  to  place  bounds  to'  his 
ambition."  Of  the  general  character 
of  his  government,  Mr.  Harris  writes 
thus: 

*'  The  basis  of  his  Pmssisn  Majesty's 
conduct,  from  the  time  he  mounted  die 
throne  to  this  day,  seems  to  have  been 
the  considering  mankind  in  general,  and 
particularly  those  over  whom  he  was 
destined  to  reign,  as  beings  created  merely 
to  be  subservient  to  his  will,  and  con- 
ducive to  the  carrying  into  execution 
whatever  might  tend  to  augment  his 
power  and  extend  his  dominions.  ... 
He  has  all  along  been  guided  by  his  own 
judgment  alone,  without  even  consulting 
any  of  bis  ministers  or  superior  officers. 
...  In  the  room  of  the  first  [religion] 
be  has  substituted  anperstition ;  in  the 
place  of  the  latter  [morality,]  what  is 
called  in  France  Meniiment  /  and  from 
hence  we  may  in  some  measure  account 
for  that  motley  composition  of  barbarity 
and  humanity  which  so  strongly  marks 
his  character.  I  have  seen  him  weep  at 
a  tragedy,  known  him  pay  as  much  care 
to  a  sick  greyhound  as  a  fond  mother 
could  to  a  favourite  child;  and  yet  the 
next  day  he  has  given  orders  for  the  de- 
vastating of  a  province,  or  by  a  wanton 
increase  of  taxes  made  a  whole  district 
miserable ;  and,  what  will  perhaps  appear 
still  more  contradictory,  contribute  to  his 
own  brother's  death  by  continuing  to  him 
marks  of  displeasure  the  whole  dmo  of  his 
last  illness.  Again,  he  is  so  far  from 
being  sanguinary,  that  he  scarce  even 
suffers  a  criminal  to  be  punished  capitally 
unless  for  a  most  notorious  offence ;  yet 
the  last  war  he  gave  secret  orders  to 
several  of  his  army  surgeons,  rather  to 
run  the  risk  of  a  wounded  soldier*s  dying, 
than  by  the  amputation  of  a  limb  increase 
the  number  and  expenses  of  his  HwaiUU, 
Thus,  never  losing  sight  of  his  object,  he 
lays  aside  sll  feelings  the  moment  that 
is  oonoemed:  and,  although  as  an  in- 
dividual he  often  appears  and  really  is 
humane,  benevolent,  and  friendly,  yet  the 
insUnt  he  acts  in  the  royal  capacity  these 
attributes  forsake  him,  and  he  carries  with 
him  desolation,  misery,  and  persecution, 

wherever  he  goes His  immense 

increase  of  revenue,  the  gigantic  army  he 
maintains,  and  the  wonderful  preponde- 
rance he  bears  in  Europe,  will,  in  future 
history,  appear  incredible.  He  found  on 
bis  father's  death  a  revenue  of  13,000,000 
of  crowns,  a  treasury  of  16,000,000,  no 
debts,  and  an  army  of  50,000  men  ;  and, 
at  the  time,  this  was  reckoned  as  tie 
greatest  ^ort  of  economy.    He  has  now 


an  income  of  81,000,000  of  crownst 
three  times  that  sum  at  least  in  his  cof- 
fers, and  near  200,000  effective  men.  He 
undoubtedly  owes  this,  in  great  measure, 
to  his  superior  talents ;  yet  I  think  we 
may  find  another  cause,  in  the  character 
and  position  of  his  subjects ;  in  general, 
they  are  poor,  vain,  ignorant,  and  desti- 
tute of  principle. . . .  Their  vanity  makes 
them  think  they  see  their  own  greatness 
in  the  greatness  of  their  monarch.  Their 
ignorance  stifles  in  them  every  notion  of 
liberty  and  opposition,  and  their  want  of 
principle  makes  them  ready  instruments 
to  execute  any  orders  they  may  receive. 
....  His  Prussian  Majesty  hss  well  known 
how  to  take  advantage  of  this  character, 
by  keeping  them  at  a  most  awful  dis- 
tance. They  consider  a  word  or  a  smile 
from  him  as  a  boon ;  and,  by  never  re- 
warding them  according  to  their  merits, 
they  are  taught  to  believe  they  have  no 
merit  at  all.  The  superior  endowment! 
nature  has  given  him  over  them,  snd  the 
pre-eminence  which  he  constantly  affectSi 
makes  them  look  up  to  him  as  a  divinity, 
and,  although  they  feel  the  rod  of  iron 
with  which  they  are  governed,  yet  few  re- 
pine, and  none  venture  to  murmur.  At 
those  moments  when  he  lays  aside  the 
monarch,  and  indulges  himself  in  every 
kind  of  debauchery,  he  never  suffen  the 
instruments  or  partakers  of  these  excesses 
to  have  the  smallest  influence  over  him. 
Some  few  he  has  rewarded ;  discarded 
several ;  but  left  most  of  them  in  the  same 
situation  he  found  them."  (I.  141—144.) 

The  heir-presumptive  to  the  Pras- 
sian  throne  had  all  his  uncle's  vices, 
but  without  a  gleam  of  his  genias.  In 
person  he  was  tall  and  robust,  but 
without  grace,  and  having  more  the 
air  of  a  foot- soldier  than  that  of  a 
great  prince ;  in  his  manners  silent 
and  reserved  Sunk  to  the  very  depths 
of  a  debauchery  of  the  most  degrading 
kind,  he  expended  more  than  his  in- 
come upon  female  profligates  of  the 
lowest  description,  and  passed  his  life 
in  bacchanalian  revelry,  iu  the  adorn* 
ment  of  his  person,*  and  in  attention 
to  the  splendour,  but  not  to  the  duties, 
of  the  parade. 

Such  princes  were  well  calculated 
to  prepare  a  people  fitted  for  that  out- 

^  He  kept  a  favourite  valet  de  tkmk^tf 
by  name  Esp^re  en  Dien,  constantly  be- 
tween Potsdam  and  Paris,  for  no  other 
purpose  than  to  give  him  the  earliest  in- 
formation of  any  alteration  in  the  fashions. 
I.  128. 


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pouring  of  trrath  which  soon  after- 
wards so  furiously  descended  upon 
them. 

Iq  1777  Mr.  Harris  was  transferred 
from  Berlin  to  St.  Petersburg,  where 
he  remained  for  seven  years,  occupied 
during  the  greater  part  of  that  time  in 
the  most  persevering  endeavours  to 
induce  the  Empress  Catharine  to  give 
assistance,  or  at  the  least  counte- 
nance, to  Great  Britain  in  the  war 
with  France  which  followed  the  recog- 
nition of  the  independence  of  our 
American  colonies  by  that  country. 
Mr.  Harris  was  not  merely  unsuccess- 
ffil,  he  was  outwitted.  The  wily  and 
profligate  Empress  flattered  and  fooled 
him  "  to  the  top  of  his  bent,"  making 
him  believe  that  he  was  always  on  the 
eve  of  a  success  with  which  he  was 
never  rewarded,  whilst  Potemkin,  a 
master  of  craft,  used  him  as  a  sponge, 
throwing  him  aside  when  he  had 
squeezed  him  dry.  Still  the  mission 
was  useful  to  Harris,  and  the  letters 
in  relation  to  it,  here  printed,  are 
most  valuable  to  us.  The  farmer  gave 
him  an  insight  into  the  very  depths  of 
diplomatic  cunning,  and  the  latter  pre- 
sent to  us  an  authentic  portraiture  of 
another  of  those  tyrannies — they  do 
not  deserve  to  be  termed  governments 
•—with  which  Europe  was  afflicted 
anterior  to  the  French  Revolution 
Amongst  the  artifices  of  diplomacy 
which  Sir  James  (for  he  was  knighted 
in  1779)  lays  open,  is  that  spy  system 
by  which  his  opponents  and  he  him- 
•elf  endeavoured  to  outwit  each  other. 
They  bribed  almost  every  one  in  his 
household  to  obtain  a  sight  of  his 
papers,  or  the  temporary  possession  of 
his  keys,  and  probably  often  suc- 
ceeded ;  whilst  he,  on  his  part,  adopted 
the  same  artifices  towards  them« 
although  at  first  with  something  of  the 
disgust  of  a  novice. 

'*  I  obtatoed  the  infomstion  of  the 
conclusion  of  the  treaty,"  be  writes,  (I. 
430,)  **  from  the  confidential  secretary  of 
Mods.  Bedberodko.  I  trost  I  shall  keep 
him  to  myself,  since  I  have  lost  almost  all 
my  other  informers  by  being  outbid  for 
them  by  the  French  and  Prussians. . . . 
The  increasiDgand  avid  corruption  of  this 
court  is  not  to  be  conceived,  snd  my  ene- 
mies, not  only  becaase  they  divide  the  ex- 
pense amongst  them,  but  because  their 
respective  courts  pour  in  money  upon 
then,  have  a  great  advantage  over  me. 
They  are  also  much  more  adroit  at  this 


dfarty  business  than  I  am,  who  cannot  help 
despising  the  person  I  corrupt.'* 

His  picture  of  "  the  interior  of  the 
court "  of  the  Empress  exceeds  every 
thing  that  could  be  imagined  of  unre- 
strained licentiousness  and  dissipation. 
"  It  is  one  continued  scene*  of  intrigue, 
debauchery,  iniquity,  and  corruption." 
(I.  189)-  Entirely  possessed  by  the 
most  degrading  passions,  to  the  grati- 
fication of  which  Potemkin  was  the 
pander  and  thus  maintained  his  au- 
thority over  her,  she  changed  her  fa- 
vourites without  concealment  and 
without  shame  whenever  a  new  object 
pleased  her  eye ;  and  yet  this  woman 
was  addressed  by  the  persons  about 
her  "  as  a  being  of  a  superior  nature, 
and,  as  she  goes  near  to  think  herself 
infallible,  she  expects  to  be  approached 
with  all  the  reverence  due  to  a  divi- 
nity T'  To  the  credit  of  Lord  Stor- 
mont.  Foreign  Secretary  in  1781.  be  it 
remarked,  that  he  represented  to  Sir 
James  Harris,  who  took  his  share  in 
this  disgnsting  adulation,  and  upon 
one  occasion  makes  a  kind  of  boast  of 
his  proficiency  in  it,  that  he  "  was  not 
acting  up  to  the  character  of  an  Eng- 
lish minister  in  bestowing  such  ful- 
some incense  on  the  Empress."  (I. 
405).  Sir  James  admits  the  truth  of 
the  accusation,  and  rests  his  defence 
upon  the  conduct  of  hrs  adversaries, 
who  had  "here,  too,"  drawn  him 
from  his  "  system  and  principles  !" 

After  seven  years'  service  in  Russia 
Sir  James  Harris  was  transferred  to 
the  Hague,  where  he  was  called  nl 
once  into  the  active  practice  of  that 
science  in  which  experience  had  now 
made  him  an  adept*  The  object  of 
England  was  to  maintain  the  Stadt* 
holderate  against  a  strong  party  who 
were  desirous  of  converting  the  seven 
provinces  into  a  pure  republic.  French 
gold  and  French  intrigue  were  exerted 
on  thesideof  "the  Patriot8,"the  titleas- 
sumed  by  the  Dutch  democrats,  whilst 
England  and  Prussia  were  anxious  to 
maintain  the  existing  institutions.  The 
book  before  us  contains  valuable  ma- 
terials for  a  history  of  the  struggle,  in 
which  Sir  James  Harris's  conduct  waa 
that  of  an  active,  skilful,  aealous,  and 
not  over-scrupulous,  partisan.  Judged 
by  the  diplomatic  practice  of  that  pe- 
riod, nothing  could  be  more  praise- 
worthy. For  a  long  time  the  struggle 
seemed  hopeless ;  but  the  gold  of  Eng- 


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land  and  the  sword  of  Prassia  being 
thrown  into  the  scale  produced  a  sud- 
den and  complete  success,  which  glo- 
riously rewarded  the  exertions  of  Sir 
James  Harris,  and  destroyed  the  party 
of  "  Patriots,"— a  party  whose  chief 
claim  to  remembrance  rests,  as  Lord 
Malmesbury  seems  to  think,  upon  the 
invention  of  the  phrase,  '*  the  majesty 
of  the  people."  (H.  2190 

Sir  James  Harris's  services  upon  this 
occasion  were  rewarded  with  an  Eng- 
lish peerage  and  some  Prussian  and 
Dutch  honorary  distinctions,  after  the 
receipt  of  which  he  returned  to  Eng- 
land, and,  forsaking  for  a  time  the 
foreign  line,  gave  his  ancient  friends 
the  Whigs  the  benefit  of  his  prudence 
and  discretion — virtues  which  at  that 
time  •*  the  party  "  seems  especially  to 
have  needed. 

And  this  brings  us  to  what  will 
perhaps  be  regarded  by  many  persons 
as  the  most  directly  interesting,  if  not 
the  most  valuable,  parts  of  the  book : 
1.  Sir  James  Harris's  account  of  his 
interviews  with  the  Prince  of  Wales 
in  1785,  respecting  his  debts,  his  no- 
tion  of  his  father's  "  hatred  "  towards 
him,  and  his  wild  scheme  for  going 
abroad;    and,   2.  a  diary,   by   Lord 
Malmesbury,  of  transactions  respect- 
ing a  proposed  coalition  between  Pitt 
and  Foi,  with  a  view  to  stop  the  pro- 
gress of  revolutionary  principles   in 
1793.    The  domestic  interest  of  these 
papers  would  well  excuse  our  dwelling 
upon  them ;  but  we  cannot  do  more 
than  direct  attention  to  the  first,  which* 
we  will  add,  as  the  volumes  have 
neither  Index  nor  Table  of  Contents, 
may  be  found  in  vol.  IL  p.  121  and 
p.  126.    The  Diary  admits  us  into  the 
secrets  of  the  Whigs  in  1793.    The 
proposed  coalition  was  suggested  by 
Pitt,  and  was  anxiously  desired  by  all 
but  the  extreme  section  of  the  Whigs. 
"Mr.  Fox's  coach,"  to  use  Burke's 
phrase,   "stopped  the   way."    That 
great  idol  of  "the  party"  and  the 
Empress  Catharine  declared  with  his 
accustomed  fervour,  that  "  it  was  so 
damned  right  a  thing  that  it  must  be 
done ;"  and  yet,  by  his  general  conduct 
and   violent    speeches    in    favour    of 
France,  he  so  thwarted  it  that  Pitt 
either  changed  his  mind,  or  was  com- 
manded by  the  King  to  withdraw  the 
proposal.      Fox's    violent    and    ran- 
corous opposition,  and  his  leaning  to- 


wards republicanism,  are  here  set  be- 
fore us  in  a  way  which  will  surprise 
many  persons,  and  prove  the  real  ex- 
tent of  the  difficulties  against  which 
Pitt  had  to  contend.  Two  short  ex- 
tracts are  all  we  can  make  room  for. 

"  In  speaking  of  France  and  its  situa- 
tion, he  [Fox]  spoke  of  it  too  favourably 
and  too  moderately,  and  prepared  us  very 
evidently  for  the  motion  he  made  the 
Satarday  following  for  acknowledging  it 
as  a  Republic,  and  sending  an  ambassador 
there  ;  his  prineipUt,  too,  bore  the  itrong- 
est  marks  of  a  leaning  towards  Repub- 
licanism,  and  he  expressed  them  almost 
as  strongly  to  tur  collectively  as  he  had 
done  b^ore  to  me  alone  at  St.  jinne*9 
Hilt  and  in  St.  James's  Square.'*  (II.  474.) 

"  After  this  meeting  had  broke  up,  and 
when  nobody  was  left  but  [the]  Dake  of 
Portland,  Lord  Rawdon,  and  myself,  Fox 
came  in  with  the  speech,  which  he  had 
had  from  the  Cockpit.  He  disapproved 
it  highly,  and^  on  our  telling  him  our  de- 
termination [not  to  move  an  amendmentjy 
he  said  he  should  certainly  advise  another 
line  of  conduct  in  the  House  of  Commons ; 
and,  on  my  remonstrating,  he  with  am 
oath  declared  that  there  was  no  address 
at  thU  moment  Pitt  could  frame  he  would 
not  propose  an  amendment  to  end  divide 
the  House  upon."  (II.  475.) 

The  length  to  which  our  remarks 
upon  these  volumes  has  extended 
proves,  and,  as  we  hope,  justifies,  our 
sense  of  their  importance.  They  are 
valuable  materials  for  the  history  of  a 
period  full  of  great  moral  lessons.  We 
shall  be  glad  to  see  the  future  selec- 
tions, and  trust  that  the  noble  editor 
will  not  scruple  to  give  such  papers 
as  convey  "  the  whole  truth  "  in  re- 
ference to  the  public  events  of  his 
grandfather's  time.  Incomplete  pub- 
lication is  pre-eminently  unwise.  The 
truth  will  escape;  there  is  no  her- 
metical  sealing  by  which  it  may  be 
kept  in. 

We  regret  to  find  the  book  deformed 
by  a  good  many  typographical  errors ; 
tcute  se  suite,  I.  118;  vox  claman/ee 
in  deserto,  ibid.  542  ;  Aussian  instead 
of  Prussian,  II.  221  ;  Ais  instead  of 
Mis,  ibid.  222  ;  Carlue,  Raw<ier,  ibid. 
475 ;  and  many  others.*  Greater  care 
should  have  been  taken  in  a  work 
which  cannot  be  expected  to  be  re* 
printed. 

*  In  the  introductory  memoir  Mr. 
Harris's  appointment  to  the  court  of  Spain 
is  antedated  twelve  months. 


i02 


Rbvibw.— ilrc/itfolo^My  Vol.  XXX. 


[Nw. 


ArchiBotogia,  or  l#itecllB»eo«f  TVoelf 
rtlatimg  to  Aniiquiiy,  pMitktd  bf 
the  Society  of  Anliqumrim  of  Londtm* 
Vol.  XXX.  pt.  2. 

{Continued from  p  401.) 

31.  Letter  from  Jabez  Alties,  E$q. 
F.S.A,  deecrUnng  a  remarkable  Se^ 
pulckral  Vote,  md  other  AntiqniHe$, 
discovered  near  Scarborough,  and  pre^ 
served  in  the  Scarborough  Mueeum, 

The  smell  earthen  vase  which  was 
found,  together  with  an  arn,  in  a 
tumulus  at  Com- Boots*  four  miles 
N.w.  of  Scarborough,  is  a  very  curious 
relic :  it  is  2|  inches  high,  3  inches  in 
diameter,  and  is  perforated  by  15  per- 

fendicular  openings  through  its  sides, 
t  appears  to  us  that  this  must  have 
been  a  vessel  for  containing  incense, 
and  that  it  was  probably  accompanied 
with  some  other  apparatus  for  heating 
and  volatilizing  its  contents ;  and  Sir 
Richard  Colt  Hoare,  we  observe,  has 
given  the  same  appropriation  to  some 
specimens  of  a  similar  class  represented 
in  his  Ancient  Wiltshire.  The  whole 
line  of  coast  from  Flamborough  Head 
to  Whitby  is  rich  in  ancient  remains  ; 
particulars  of  the  supposed  British 
coflSn  formed  of  an  oak  tree,  and  of 
its  contents,  found  at  Gristhorpe  near 
Scarborough,  and  mentioned  by  Mr. 
Allies,  were  fully  detailed  and  illus- 
trated by  a  plate  in  oar  Magazine  for 
1834,  Part  II.  p.  G32. 

32.  7%e  Second  Patent  appointing 
Edward  Duke  of  Somenet  Protector, 
temp.  King  Edward  the  Sixth,  Intro- 
duced bg  an  Hietorical  Review  qf  the 
various  measures  connected  therewith. 
In  a  Letter  from  John  Gough  Nichols, 
Esq,  E.S.A, 

The  production  of  this  patent  is  a 
point  of  no  small  historical  value,  and 
the  history  of  the  document  has  been 
developed  by  Mr.  Gough  Nichols,  with 
considerable  critical  judgment.  "  Of 
the  higher  class  of  historians,  Burnet 
had  alone  acknowledged  its  existence, 
but  he  had  formed  so  inadequate  and 
incorrect  an  estimate  of  its  import 
that  bis  slight  notice  of  it  has  not 
attracted  the  attention  of  any  sub- 
sequent writer."  Burnet's  descrip- 
tion of  the  instrument  appears  to  be 
at  once  hasty  and  inaccurate. 
•  "  That  these  letters  patent  originated 
with  the  Protector  msy  be  well  ima- 


gined. He  would  natoraliy  deatre  the 
eonfirmation  of  his  aothority  by  a  foil 
court  of  Pkirl lament,  when  his  former 
letters  patent  bad  been  signed  by  seven 
councillors  only  besides  himself.'* 
"But  there  is  oneclaose,"  Mr.  Nichols 
shews,  *'  which  seems  to  countervail 
ail  the  rest,  and  which  may  well  have 
been  the  insertion  of  some  potent 
enemy,  perhaps  of  the  ex-chancellor 
(Wriothestey),  who  has  signed  as 
Earl  of  Southampton,  or  even  the 
subtle,  and  presently  successful.  Dud- 
ley,  though  personally  absent." 

This  important  clause  limits  the 
duration  of  the  Protector's  office.  The 
former  patent  had  delegated  it  to  him 
antil  the  King's  minority  should  ex- 
pire, on  his  reaching  his  18th  year. 
The  present  confers  it  daring  pleasure* 
until  the  royal  purpose,  by  sign  manual 
under  the  great  seal,  were  otherwise 
declared.  A  clause  so  dangerous  to 
the  duration  of  the  Protector  Somer« 
set's  office,  and  which  doubtless  must 
have  emanated  from  the  prospective 
intentions  of  an  enemy,  might  well 
arrest  the  final  ratification  of  the  in- 
strument, the  enrolment  of  which* 
Mr.  Nichols  shews,  was  delayed  in  a 
mysterious  way,  and  the  great  seal,  in 
all  probability,  never  appended.  Mr. 
Nichols  has  succeeded  in  proving  to  our 
perfect  satisfaction  that  this  curious 
state  document  was  in  the  possession 
of  Sir  Edward  Griffin,  of  Dingley, 
Northamptonshire,  Attorney-genenl  to 
Edward  VI.  whose  name  is  among  the 
signatures.  Hence  he  deduces  it  very 
clearly  to  the  hands  of  its  present 
possessor. 

In  our  estimation  the  recovery  of 
this  valuable  historical  evidence  is  the 
most  acceptable  fact  to  the  practical 
antiquary  which  characterizes  the  porw 
tion  of  the  Transactions  of  die  Society 
under  our  consideration. 

» 

33.  Extracts  from  Letters  from 
William  Roots,  Esq.  qf  Kingston-on- 
Thames,  to  fV.  R.  Hamilton,  V.P.  i^. 
dated  Dec.  20,  iSA3,andJan.  13, 1844, 
respecting  some  relics  of  remote  times 
found  in  the  bed  qf  the  River  Thames 
between  Kingston  and  Hampton  Courts 

We  are  happy  to  observe  in  this 
communication  very  strong  presump- 
tive evidence  to  shew  the  locality 
where  Caesar  really  passed  the  Thames, 
as  related  in  his  Commentaries ;  and 


1844.] 


Rbtiew. — Jrchmlogia,  Vol,  XXX. 


503 


this  corroboffttion  of  the  opinion  of 
Bome  of  oor  most  eminent  antiquaries 
is  jast  now  the  more  desirable,  as  a 
recent,  and  evidently  Tentoresome.  dab* 
bier  in  the  early  history  of  Britain  has 
not  scrupled  to  affirm  that  Cesar's  own 
account  of  the  matter  was  not  to  be 
credited,  and  that  he  had  mistaken 
the  Medway  for  the  Thames ;  and,  the 
better  to  support  this  hypothetical  and 
gratuitous  absurdity,  the  Trinovantes 
have  been  removed  by  the  same  hand 
from  Middlesex  into  Kent.  An  able 
refutation  of  this  unfounded  hypothesis 
will  be  found  in  another  place.*  We 
therefore  waste  no  time  upon  it,  but 
pass  to  the  facts  detailed  by  Mr.  Roots, 
who  says^ 

"It  has  long  been  m  ftiTOnrite  im*> 
presston  with  me  that,  in  accordance  with 
the  opinion  of  Horsley  on  the  subject, 
though  many  writers  were  opposed  to 
him,  this  was  the  spot  (i.  e,  immediately 
above  Kiugston)  at  which  Julias  Cssar 
effected  his  passage  across  the  Thames 
(b.c.  54)  against  Uie  troops  of  Cassive- 
UonuB :  the  distance  from  the  Kentish 
coast,  stated  at  eighty  Roman  miles,  very 
well  acords  with  this  locality  ;  and  the 
great  number  of  instruments  of  a  warlike 
nature  almost  ioTariably  found  on  the 
Middlesex  side  of  the  river,  seem  to  point 
to  the  result  of  a  well-contested  conflict 
on  that  bank.  It  is  dear  too  that  many 
of  the  brass  weapons  found  (and  they,  as 
may  be  imagined,  are  chiefly  of  that 
metal)  seem  to  bear  the  character  of  what 
Pliny  describes  as  a«  ealdariumt  that  is, 
cast,  and  not  beaten  ;  and  this,  I  am  told, 
is  generally  supposed  to  be  a  mark  of 
Roman,  as  distinguished  from  barbarian 
Ikbric.  Though  Cesar  might  also  have 
crossed,  or  attempted  to  cross,  the  Thames 
with  a  part  of  his  army  somewhat  higher 
np  the  river,  or  at  the  '  Coway  Stakes/ 
near  Chertsey,  I  think  it  is  still  more 
probable  that  this  spot  immediately  above 
Kingston  was  the  principal  scene  of  the 
conflict  on  Uiat  occasion.  It  was  early 
known  as  the  old  '  Moreford,'  or  great 
ford  of  the  river,  and  was  the  most  likely 
spot  to  be  designated  at  the  time  by  the 
author  of  the  Commentaries  by  the  words, 
*  Uno  omnin6  loco,  qud  flumen  pedibus, 
atque  hoc  sgrd  transiri  potest.'  (lib.  v.) 
I  shall  only  trouble  you  farther  with  a  list 
and  short  description  of  the  articles  here- 
with sent. 

"  No.  1.  An  iron  hatchet  head,  very 
perfect  and  sound  :  the  surface  coated 
with  rust,  bat  the  metal  quite  uninjared. 

•  Gent.  Mag.  for  June,  1844,  p.  60Q. 


It  was  found  near  Surbiton,  on  the 
Middlesex  side  of  the  river,  seven  feet 
ander  ground,  and  resting  in  blue  day 
nearly  two  feet  deep ;  it  lay  within  a  few 
feet  of  the  brass  missile  hatchets. 

'*  No.  9.  Two  missile  hatchets,  or 
hatchet  heads,  in  cast  brass.  Some  of 
the  more  recent  representations  of  similar 
instruments  are  given  in  the  plates  74 
and  75  illustrating  the  volume  of  an* 
tiquities  forming  part  of  the  Encylop^die 
M^thodique ;  and,  as  illustrative  of  the 
purposes  to  which  it  may  be  supposed 
they  were  applied,  reference  u  made  in 
the  accompanying  text,  p.  33,  to  a  pass- 
age  in  one  of  the  Epistles  of  Sidonins, 
the  date  of  which  must  have  been  about 
the  middle  of  the  fifth  century.  (See 
Epiat.  20,  lib.  4.)  In  describing  the 
arms  and  armour  bome  by  the  young 
Sigimer  and  his  barbaric  followers,  Si- 
donius  says  they  were  armed,  Maoceis 
uncatis,  missilibusque  securibus  dextne 
referte ;'  i.  e.  with  spears  fitted  with 
books,  and  missile  hatchets  in  their  right 
hands.  Some  of  these  missile  hatchet- 
heads  were  also  furnished  with  a  ring  or 
hole,  by  which  they  were  suspended  to 
the  warrior*s  person,  and  serving  also  to 
recover  them  when  thrown  at  an  enemy ; 
bat  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  these 
weapons  are  of  a  much  earlier  date  than 
that  of  Sidonius  or  Sigimer. 

**  No.  3.  A  brass  sword  blade,  still 
very  sharp  at  the  edges  and  point,  and 
requiring  to  be  handled  with  caution. 
There  are  four  small  holes  at  the  handle 
end.  The  length  of  the  blade  itself  is 
fourteen  inches  three-eighths ;  its  greatest 
width  one  inch  and  a  half.  The  part  let 
into  the  handle  is  two  inches  and  a  half 
long. 

"  No.  4.  Two  iron  spear-heads  much 
corroded :  one  of  them  is  ten  inches  long, 
the  other  eleven  inches  and  a  half  long. 

"  No.  5.  A  brass  brooch,  found  in 
the  same  locality,  about  18  inches  in  the 
blue  clay ;  the  spring  of  the  tongue  is  as 
perfect  as  when  new." 

Such  an  accumulation  of  ancient 
military  weapons,  at  a  spot  so  likely 
to  have  been  in  Cesar's  line  of  march 
when  he  forded  the  Thames,  accord- 
ing to  the  statement  recorded  in  his 
Commentaries,  is  in  our  view  sufficient 
to  set  the  long  doubtful  opinions  of 
antiquaries  as  to  the  precise  locality 
of  the  transaction  at  rest. 

34.  Letter  fnm  Albert  Way,  Esq. 
Director  S.A.  accompanying  the  copg 
of  an  Indenture  of  Leatejrom  the  Earl 
of  Bedford  to  Sir  fViUiam  CeciU,  qf  a 
portion  ofpatture  in  Covent  Garden. 


S04 


Thii  is  ao  aeeepttlble  docoMcnl  to 
OQr  mctropoUUa  topogimphf*  and 
•hewt  with  mnarkable  precision  the 
rural  character  of  the  great  thorough- 
fare  between  the  City  and  West- 
mioflter,  the  Strand,  and  its  vicinity, 
in  the  sixteenth  century. 

It  may  be  iotereftiog  to  extract 
some  of  the  claosea  of  the  original 
instrement. 

'*  This  Indenture,  made  the  vii*^  daye 
of  September,  in  the  twelfth  yeare  of  the 
retgne  of  our  Souersigiic  Lsdie  Elizabetht 
by  the  grace  of  God  Qoene  of  Englande, 
Frannoe,  and  leriande,  Defender  of  the 
Faith,  &c.  Betweoe  the  Right  Honorable 
Franncis  Earle  of  Bedforde,  Knight  of 
th*order  of  the  Garter,  and  one  of  the 
Lordcs  of  her  Ma**<*  prerye  Connsayll  of 
th'ooc  partie,  and  S*  ^'iUm.  Cedll  knight, 
Principall  Sccretarye  to  her  Ma***,  of  the 
other  partie,  witness jth,  that  the  said 
Earle  of  Bedforde.  for  the  goodvyll  he 
beareth  to  the  said  9  WOlni.  Cecill,  hath 
demysed,  graunted,  and  to  ferme  lettoo, 
and  by  these  p*ntes  dothe  dcmyse,  graunte, 
and  to  ferme  left  vnto  the  said  S'  Willm. 
CeciU  all  that  bis  portyon  or  peroell  of 
grounde  lyenge  io  the  east  ende  and 
beinge  percell  of  the  enclosnre  or  pasture 
oommnnely  called  Coveut  Garden,  situate 
in  Westm*,  which  porcyon  the  said  S' 
Willm.  Cecill  doeth  and  of  late  yeares 
hath  occupied  at  the  sulTeraunce  of  the 
said  earle ;  and  hath  bene  and  ys  nowe 
dyryeded  from  the  rest  of  the  said  en- 
closure called  CoTent  Garden,  on  the  west 
syde  of  the  said  porcyon  or  p'cell  nowe 
dcmysed  w*^  certayoe  stulpes  and  rayles 
of  wood,  and  is  fensed  with  a  wall  of 
nudde  or  earth  on  the  east  side  Tuto 
the  Gomuoe  high  waye  that  leadeth  from 
Stronde  to  S*  Gyles  in  the  fyeldes ;  and 
on  the  west  end  towardes  the  south  is 
fensed  w^  the  orchards  wall  of  the  said 
S'  Willm.  Cecyll ;  and  on  the  touth  end 
w*^  a  certayne  fence  wall  of  mudde  or 
earthe,  beinge  therebye  deryeded  from 
eertayne  gardens  belonginge  to  the  Inne 
called  the  Wbyte  Heart,  and  other  tene- 
mentes  scituate  in  the  high  streate  of 
Westm*.  comanly  called  the  Stronde  ;  to 
have  and  to  holde  the  same  portyon  and 
p*oell  of  grounde  so  devyded  and  bounded 
as  above  is  lymytted,  to  the  said  Sir 
Willm.  Cecill  knight,  his  execntors  and 
assignes,  from  the  feast  of  St.  Myehaell 
th'  Archangell  next  after  the  date  of  these 
p'sentes  roto  the  end  and  terme  of 
twentie  one  yeares  follye  to  be  complete 
and  ended  ;  yeldinge  and  payinge  therfore 
yerly  duryoge  the  said  terme  to  the  said 
fearle  of  Bedford,  his  heires  and  assignes, 
fyve  shilltoges  of  lawful  .money  of 
7 


RsnBW.^ilreAtfolayw,  Fa/.  JTXX. 


[Kor. 


at  the  fcMt  of  St. 
th'ArchangelL" 

With  regard  to  the  limits  of  Coveat 
Gnrden  as  defined  in  this  lease,  the 
writer  says  he  most  appeml  to  those 
who  are  verted   in   the  ancient  to- 
pography of  the  metropolis,  to  cxpinia 
the  position  of  the  varioes  hoandiriea 
described  in  the  document ;  hot  that 
he  wonld  offer  an  obsenratioa  on  the 
moiles  of  the  endoaorr,  whereby,  ia 
the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  property  so  im- 
mediately in  the  vicinity  of  the  city  of 
London   was   fenced,  even   where  it 
adjoined  the  great  highways  at  the 
very  entrance  of  the  metropolis.     It 
is  curious  to  compare  the  approaches 
of  London,  as  they  now  appear,  with 
their  aspect    nearly  three    centuries 
since,  as  set  forth  in  the  terms  of  their 
leases ;  and  to  view  the  advances  of 
civilizntion  and  luxury,  illustrated  by 
the  comparison   of  the    coospicooiis 
public  monuments  and  suitable  fences 
which  now  adjoin  Hyde  Park  Corner 
or  the  Cumberland   Gate,  with  the 
mod  walls  and  "  stulpes*'  which  pre- 
sented   themselves  to   the  visitor  of 
London  in  the  sixteenth  century  at  the 
gates  of  the  city.    At  that  period  the 
ancient  process  of  forming  walls  by 
means  of  indurated  earth  was  atiU 
extensively  employed :  in  the  eastern 
counties  this  was  called  dawbing,  and 
the  term  is  still  retained  in  Norfolk 
and  Suffolk ;  but  the  process  is  now 
used  to  any  considerable  extent  in  the 
more  remote  county  of  Devon  only. 
The  subject  of  the  cob- walls  of  the 
western  counties,  and  of  the  use  of 
concrete  generally  in  all  ages,  and 
particularly  in  Spain,  where  important 
ancient  structures  formed  with  mad 
walls  may  still    be  seen,   has  been 
curiously  illustrated  in  the  Quarterly 
Review,  vol.  Iviii.,  by  the  able  pen 
of  Mr.  Richard   Ford,  of  Heavitree. 
Sir  William  Cecil   had  his  dwelliog 
originally  built  by  Sir  Thomas  Palmer, 
in  the  time  of  Edward  VI.  upon  the 
site  of  the  parsonage  house  of  St. 
Martin's. in-the. Fields,  situate  in  the 
High  Street  at  the  south  end  of  Drary 
Lane.  Sir  William  had  bestowed  much 
pains  on  beautifying  this  his  abode, 
which  adjoined  the  property  of  the 
Earl  of  Bedford,  and  had  an  orchard 
contiguous  to  the  inclosure  known  as 
Covent  Garden,   a  portion  of  which 
was  leased  to  him  by  the  £arl.    TWft 


1844.] 


REViMWj^Archaologia,  Vol  XXX. 


portion  is  described  as  divided  by 
certain  stalpes  and  rails  of  wood. 
This  obsolete  term,  stalp«  is  now  re- 
tained only  in  the  dialect  of  Norfolk, 
and  is  used  to  signify  a  low  post  fixed 
as  a  boundary.  In  the  first  English 
dictionary,  which  was  compiled  in 
Norfolk  during  the  reign  of  Henry  VI. 
called  the  "  Promptorinm  Parvuloram/' 
this  word  occurs,  as  well  as  the  greater 
part  of  those  archaic  terms  which  are 
now  retained  almost  exclusively  in  the 
East-Anglian  dialect.  In  this  curious 
dictionary  is  found  "  stulp  or  stake, 
paJtUhu,"  The  same  term  is  used  by 
the  chronicler  Fabyan  to  denote  the 
bulwark  or  fence  at  the  approach  to 
London  Bridge  on  the  Southwark 
side,  where  he  relates  how  the  rebel 
Jack  Cade  drove  back  the  citizens  of 
London,  "  from  the  stulpes  in  South- 
wark or  brydge  fote,  unto  y*  drawe- 
bridge,  A.D.  1450." 

35.  On  an  Amity  formed  heiioeen  the 
Campania  of  F\»hmongeri  and  Gold- 
»mith»  of  London,  and  a  consequent  Par-' 
ticipation  of  their  Coat-Armowr,  By 
John  Gough  Nichols,  Eeq.  F.S,A. 

The  rise  of  the  fraternization  be- 
tween the  city  companies  above  named 
seems  to  remain  obscured  by  the  mists 
of  **  time-oot-of-mind  "  uncertainty, 
through  which  the  gleam  of  a  tradition 
referred  to  the  Crusades  cannot  be 
considered  as  affording  any  real  light. 
Civic  communities  sometimes  fra- 
ternized with  ecclesiastical  bodies,  as 
the  guild  of  Saddlers  with  the  Canons 
of  St.  Martin's. le-Grand.» 

Mr.  Nichols  has  elucidated  with 
elaborate  and  ingenious  research  a 
much  more  tangible  point  than  the 
origin  of  the  social  compact  between 
the  Fishmongers  and  Goldsmiths,  and 
has  satisfactorily  shown  that  the  per- 
sonal arms  of  individual  members  of 
one  or  other  of  the  companies  above 
named  were  formed  from  the  armorial 
insignia  of  the  two  fraternities,  va- 
riously combined  and  modified.  It 
may  therefore  be  presumed  that  the 
coats  of  many  private  families  may 
have  a  similar  origin.  The  day  we 
hope  may  not  be  very  distant  when 
much  more  of  the  rationale  or  ori- 
gin of  particular  heraldic  coats  will 


*  Kempc's  Hist.  Notioes  of  that  foun- 
dation, p.  76. 

Gsirr.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


505 

be  developed ;  it  will  be  found  with 
tolerable  certainty  what  bearings  were 
symbolic,  what  hieroglyphic — express- 
ing names  by  an  image,  what  purely 
distinctive— as  the  stripes  of  a  signal 
fiag.  For  such  a  task  we  think  the 
writer  of  this  essay  eminently  well 
qualified. 

36.  Description  qf  the  Refectory  of 
the  Priory  of  Great  Malvern.  In  a 
letter  from  Edward  Blore,  Eta.  D,C.L. 
F.S.A. 

By  this  communication  the  details 
of  a  rare  specimen  of  the  domestic 
architecture  of  the  14th  century  has 
been  preserved.  We  cannot  sufllciently 
deprecate  the  barbarous  feeling  which 
must  have  doomed  it  to  destruction. 
A  pretty  effect  is  attained  in  forming 
the  doors  of  this  edifice  by  the  plank- 
ing which  composes  them'  being  laid 
diagonally,  so  as  to  produce  a  number 
of  parallel  chevrons.  We  have  ob- 
served the  same  circumstance  in  an 
ancient  barn  door  at  West  Wickham, 
Kent. 

In  the  Appendix  we  have  several 
notices  of  curious  objects  of  antiquity, 
the  exhibition  of  most  of  which  has 
been  recorded  by  us  in  our  monthly 
reports  ofthe  society's  meetings.  The 
following  account  by  Mr.  Saull  of  the 
construction  of  the  wall  probably 
formed  in  the  later  period  of  the  Ro- 
man empire  for  defence  of  the  then  much 
enlarged  city  Londinium  Augusta,  will 
be  read  with  interest  by  the  inquirer 
into  the  practical  masonic  science  ofthe 
Romans.  The  foundations  described 
were  found  at  the  east  end  of  Bull  and 
Mouth  Street,  Aldersgate  Street,  in 
December,  1841. 

'*  The  portion  of  wall  exposed  to  view 
ran  vest  and  east,  and  its  continuation 
under  the  present  pavement  indicates  the 
exact  spot  where  stood  the  eatraace  into 
the  city  in  this  direction,  this  being  the 
northern  gate  until  about  a  centory  ago, 
when  Aldersgate,  which  had  sustained 
material  damage  in  the  great  fire  of  1666, 
was  taken  down.  At  the  depth  of  1  li 
feet  from  the  present  surface,  immediately 
resting  on  a  loamy  clay,  which  basevidently 
been  deposited  by  water,  was  found  a 
layer  of  angular  fiint  atones  as  a  base- 
ment ;  these,  no  doubt,  were  closely 
rammed  down.  This  mass  is  now  in- 
filtrated by  an  unctuous  brown  clay,  pro- 
bably the  effects  of  percolation  from  the 
circumjacent  earth.    These  flints  are  oon- 

3  T 


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tinMd  to  th«  h«i(lit  of  ono  foot  in 
incbett  dboTe  which  art  pUoed  Uyon  of 
Bft£nVr  uDcat  fttoaes,  imbedded  in  noQt« 
ing  or  mortar,  used  by  the  Romana  in  the 
oonatruction  of  buildlngi  intended  to  be 
permanent.  This  stone  is  chiefly  the 
Kentish  ragstone,  or  greensand  stone  of 
geologists,  abondant  in  the  neighboarhood 
of  Maidstone,  interspersed  with  dark 
brown  ferrnginons  sandstonei  an  upper 
division  of  the  same  geological  series  ;  this 
portion  extends  in  height  4  feet  6  inches, 
and  is  covered  by  two  eonrsca  of  tUes, 
laid  horisontally.  These  tiles  are  li  indi 
ia  thickness,  and  about  18  inches  by  IS 
inches  square.  They  are  embedded  in  the 
same  kind  of  mortar  or  grouting  which 
has  been  mentioned.  Above  these  tiles  is 
another  portion  of  wall  constructed  of  the 
ragstone  only,  extending  in  height  2  feet 
6  inches ;  orer  this  are  two  courses  of 
tiles  surmounted  bjr  another  course  of 
Kentish  ragstone,  the  pieces  of  which  it 
is  composed  being  smaller  in  siae  than 
those  below,  but  constructed  in  a  similar 
manner,  and  terminating  18  inches  under 
the  present  pavement. 

'*  This  foundation  wall  is  about  10  feet 
in  height,  and  gradually  becomes  narrower 
in  the  different  ascending  stagea,  the  flint 
basement  being  9i  feet  in  width,  the  flrst 
diTision  of  the  wall  abore  the  flints  9  feet, 
the  next  part  above  the  tiles  7  feet,  the 
next  stage  decreasing,  until  at  the  present 
level  it  is  only  6  feet  in  width.  This  con- 
itruction  was  admirably  adapted  to  aup« 
port  a  considerable  weight  above  the  anr* 
Isoe,  forming  altogether  a  solid  basement, 
and  even  now,  being  excluded  from  the 
atmosphere,  not  the  least  appearance  of 
decay  can  be  traced.  The  materials  of 
which  this  wall  was  composed  were  un- 
questionably brought  from  Kent,  and  pro- 
bably from  the  neighbourhood  of  Maid- 
atone." 

The  Bronze  Figure  of  an  Archer  in 
the  poasessioD  of  W.  Chaffrrsj  dis- 
covered in  1843  in  Queen  Street, 
Cheapftide,  near  Wailing  Street,  is 
represented  in  two  spirited  uutline 
views  by  Corbould.  The  height  of 
this  admirable  little  statue  is  about 
1 1  inches  as  it  stands  in  its  crouching 
position.  The  flgure  is  executed  in 
the  best  style  of  the  antique,  and,  we 
doubt  not,  is  a  relic  of  the  early  Roman 
occttpants  of  London.  There  can  be 
little  question  but  it  represents  the 
archer  Pandarus  aiming  an  arrow  at 
Menelaos,  as  described  in  the  4th  book 
of  Homer's  Iliad.  The  attitude  of  the 
archer  corresponds  perfectly  with  the 
text  of  the  po«t. 


This,  by  the  Greeks  uaaesQ«  the  warrior  baindaj 
Screened  by  the  shields  of  his  surroundiag 

IHends, 
tliere  asedltatsa  lh< 
nta  the  sharp  aiiowte 


New  wltfcAdlfePQSthf  yieldiaghenihsbwdab 
Drawn  toaa  ar^  aBdjoiaa  the  doubling  ead8«* 

The  Feroepa  Aiaod  in  tlia  bed  of  tha 
TbaaM  in  1840,  adorned  with  tlM 
headt  of  Cybela,  Mtrcvry,  Japitar, 
Venat,  Caraa,  Jano,  FallM,  Man. 
Diana,  Apollo,  Satnm,  and  of  tho 
horao,  boll,  and  lion,  hava  hnflled  tiho 
conjectures  of  Mr.  C.  R.  8«lth,  thoir 
poaacaaor,  aa  to  thair  approt>Hatioa« 
The  aarmtod  notehet  on  the  inner  aldn 
of  thia  relio  are  remarkable.  Tlic  per* 
fbrationa  at  the  ends  might  be  for  iKo 
simple  purpose  of  tying  the  lege  In. 

E ether  when  not  in  uac.  Sorely  thay 
ad  been  employed  by  the  kwrmtpm  or 
ofllciating  prieet,  when  aacrifieing,  to 
eiamine  the  entrails  of  the  victim. 

The  Society  of  Aotiqnarica'  Archss- 
ologia  still  contioata  to  collect  and 
preserve,  aa  in  a  comprehensive  mn« 
geum,  all  objeeta  which  may  illoatmtn 
arts,    mannera,  and    events  in  agtt 

f  laced  on  the  receding  lines  of  history, 
f  we  do  not  often  now  find  in 
these  Transactions  essays  displaying 
deep  reading  and  extensive  knowledge 
brought  to  bear  on  a  particular  point, 
at  least  much  is  deposited  in  atom 
which  may  be  turned  by  students  in 
history  to  good  account. 

A  CoUecium  qf  Old  Emgli$k  CMomt 
and  evrtovs  Bequni$  and  Ckariii^; 
extroeini  from  ih€  RfporU  mede  Ay 
ike  CoiumtMoaers  /or  Inquiry  intQ 
Chariiiei  in  England  and  WaU9.  Bg 
H.  Edwards.  8oo.   207  pp, 

THIS  important  little  volume  will 
be  found  to  contain  both  instruction 
and  amusement  in  a  considerable  da* 
gree;  and  all  drawn  from  the  moat 
authentic  aources.  It  forms  a  good 
companion  to  Blount's  "  Popular 
Tenures."  Mr.  Edwards  baa  been 
employed  by  a  large  parish  within  the 
Bills  of  Mortality  in  affairs  connected 
with  the  poor,  which  led  him  to  pt« 
ruse  with  attention  the  Parliamentary 
Returns  s  whence  he  haa  extracted 
much  interesting  matter,  and  armogad 


•  Homer's  11.  book  4,  line  14i,  et  seq. 
Pope's  translation. 


1#44.1 


RBTiBW.*-Edwurd8*s  Old  Englkh  CiutmM,  4rc. 


507 


it  ander  rMpeetlve  beftds;  such  as 
beqnesta  of  beef,  bread,  coals,  fish, 
beer,  tobacco,  plains,  miocepies,  plam 
paddings,  wine,  petticoats  and  flan* 
nels,  coals,  8cc.  Ice. 

The  Biddenden  Maids'  Charity,  with 
its  cakes  impressed  with  the  figures  of 
the  two  donors,  is  well  known ;  but 
the  accurate  particulars  can  only  be 
learned  as  recorded  in  the  Parliament- 
ary Report,  herein  abridged,  p.  60. 

Sooseof  the  "  twnefacttons"  are  un* 
salted  to  the  more  humane  taste  of  the 
present  age,  such  as  Bull  Baitins  at 
Wokingham,  Biddenham,  Prince's  Ris* 
borongh,  4tc.  The  gift  of  Cows  Is  one 
of  much  more  service  to  the  Indus* 
trioos  poor,  as  at  Bebington,  Wood- 
church,  and  West  Kirby,  in  Cheshire, 
Minehead,  Somersetshire,  and  Wad- 
desdoo,  Bucks. 

Ttie  gifts  for  mflmed  soldiers  and 
seamen  appear  to  be  either  superseded 
by  the  National  Establishments,  or 
might  with  propriety  be  paid  over  to 
their  benefit.  (See  p.  75  to  79.) 

There  Is,  however,  one  private 
charity  for  Shipwrecked  Seamen*  and 
for  other  good  works,  which,  from  its 
ettent,  may  now  be  considered  almost 
a  national  establishment,  as  it  is  a 
national  honour.  We  allude  to  Lord 
Crewe's  munificent  benefactions  at 
Bambtirough  Castle,  Northumberland. 

**  Te  hoty  towers  thst  thsde  the  wsve-wora 

•tsep, 
Long  tokj  ye  tesr  yeur  sged  brows  siibliiBe» 
TtooglH  hvrylBg  disst  by,  rdtntlcM  Ttaas 
Assail  yoa,  aod  the  wtoter  whirtwiads  ftlstp  i 
For,  Ar  Arom  bluing  Qraodeor's   crowded 


Her»  Charity  hatk  flx*d ber  chosen  acstf 
Oft  Ust^nlng  teSffU  when  the  wild  wtndi 
beat, 
WMi  kollew  hoM Bgs  rowid  your  andent  wans  I 
And  Pity,  at  the  dark  and  stormy  how 

or  oMnight,  when  the  «oon  ia  hid  on  high, 
Ksepa  her  tone  watch  apon  the  topmost  tower, 

And  tons  her  ear  to  each  expiring  cry  I 
Blest  if  her  aid  tome  ihinting  wretch  might 

save, 
And  natch  him,  cold  and  speechless,  from 
the  grave.**  Bowlm. 

The  large  sum  of  S46a{.  19$,  3tf.  was 
eipended  in  three  years  in  the  varioos 
objects  of  Bp.  Crewe's  munificence; 
which  embrace,  besides  the  relief  of 
shipwrecked  mariners,  the  augmenta- 
tion of  small  livings,  building  and  re- 
pairing churches,  schools,  exhibitions, 
apprentice- fees,  food,  medicine,  and 
surgery  for  the  poor,  6fcc. 


*'  So  extensive  a  charity  to  flow  tnm  a 
priTste  bounty  is  singular.  Men  in 
former  ages  were  canonised  for  trifling 
sets  of  benevoleaoe  compared  to  this. 
But,  although  the  rsaouroes  were  given 
by  Lord  Crewe,  yet  the  disposition  was 
not  of  his  arrangement  To  the  benevo- 
lent heart  of  the  Rot.  Dr.  Sharp,  the 
chief  part  of  the  blessings  deriTed  from 
his  Lordship's  will  is  to  be  attributed.*' 
p.  95. 

At  Brixton,  Devon,  is  a  consider- 
able quantity  of  fine  elm  timber,  on 
half  an  acre  of  land,  which  was  for 
many  years  a  playing  place  for  chil* 
dren.     Its  history  is  thus  preserred : 

"This  colony  of  elms,  regularly  dis* 
posed  into  walks,  wss  planted  in  Nov,  1677 
by  £.  Forteacne,  of  Spridlestooi  Esq. 
chorchwarden,  with  the  approbation  and 
oontribution  of  the  m^ority  of  estated 
parishioners,  to  the  intent  that  (when 
perfect  in  growth  and  sold)  lands  may  be 
purchased  with  the  money  for  relief  of  the 
poor  of  this  parish ;  and  that  posterity, 
reaping  the  adTantage  of  onr  benefaction, 
may  be  encouraged  to  provide  for  mors 
successions,  by  substituting  others  in  the 
room  of  these.** 

This  is  a  useful  hint  to  succeeding 
generations,  as  it  appears  that  in  1810 
91.  St.,  in  1811  15/.,  in  1814  9i  10s., 
and  in  1819  82/.  2f.  were  receiTcd 
from  this  estate,  (p.  106.) 

Some  whimsical  eccentricities  are 
recorded  :  as  Mr.  Green's  predilection 
for  yreen  clothes  for  the  poor  (p.  1 U), 
and  Mr.  Gray's  gift  of  grtf  cloth  for 
coats  (p.  112) ;  Mr.  Nicholson's  par- 
tiality for  his  own  name  (p.  188),  8cc. 

In  1705  Robert  Do  we  gave  50/.  to 
the  vicar  and  churchwardens  of  St. 
Sepulchre,  that  a  t>ell  should  be  tolled 
previously  to  every  execution  at  New- 
gate. The  sexton,  it  would  appear, 
wss  the  predecessor  or  assistant  to 
the  modern  Ordinary.  He  still  offers 
to  perform  his  duty,  which  is  alwaya 
declined.  He  used,  it  is  recorded,  to 
come  at  midnight,  and  give  the  con* 
demned  an  exhortation,  (here  inserted, 
p.  127>  from  Northouck's  History  of 
London) ;  and  on  the  morning  of  ex« 
ecution,  as  the  criminals  passed  by  St* 
Sepulchre's  church,  on  their  way  to 
Tybom,  the  sexton  tolled  his  bell, 
and  exhorted  all  good  people  to  pray 
for  the  sinners  going  to  their  death. 

Numerous  and  Taluable  are  the  be- 
quests for  the  encouragement  of  fe- 
male servants ;  as  at  Benford,  Canter* 


508 


Rbtisw.-— 2>c/Mre«  by  the  laU  John  Foster. 


[Nov. 


bory»  Exeter,  Gaildford,  Maidenhead, 
Oxford,  Reading,  Wargrave,  Ace.  All 
the  fMtrticulars  of  these  benefactions 
are  here  given  (p.  137  to  157)»  and* 
will  be  found  to  be  valnable  hints  to 
those  inclined  to  "  go  and  do  like- 
wise/* 

National  victories  arc  also  comnae- 
morated ;  as  the  Battle  of  Trafalgar, 
at  Bristol  and  Stroud  (p.  170.)  The 
widow  of  the  celebrated  circumnavi- 
gator  Capt.  Cook,  gave  10002.  to  keep 
clean  the  monument  to  the  memory  of 
her  husband  and  family  in  St.  An- 
drew's church,  Cambridge,  and  the 
residue  to  the  poor  (p.  172.) 

At  Harrow,  Wingfield,  Newmarket, 
Northampton,  Ottery  St.  Mary,  St. 
Margaret's  Westminster,  Wilton,  &c. 
are  benefactions  to  encourage  mar- 
riages (p.  177  to  197)  ;  as  also,  but 
more  particularly,  at  Bedford.  The 
bequest  is  part  of  the  numerous  bene- 
factions to  the  town,  the  gift  of  Sir 
Wm.  Harpor,  alderman  of  London. 
The  revenues  of  his  charity  amounted 
in  1819  to  6,815/.  and  are  regulated 
pursuant  to  letters  patent  6  Edw.  VL 
and  by  an  act  of  Parliament  33  Geo. 
III.  The  appo  rtion  ing  of  poor  maidens, 
schools  for  the  inhabitants  of  various 
grades,  apprentices'  fees  to  children, 
gifts  to  girls  on  going  to  service,  and 
other  benevolences,  are  all  derived 
from  this  important  charitv.  (p.  179 
to  188.) 

The  gifts  for  strewing  the  churches 
with  rushes,  straw,  or  hay,  as  at  St. 
Mary  Redcliffe,  Bristol ;  Clee,  Lincoln- 
shire ;  Deptford,  Kent  ;  Wingrave, 
Bucks  ;  Gleniield,  Jieicestershire  ;  and 
Old  Weston,  Huntingdonshire,  the 
particulars  of  which  are  here  given, 
(p.  216  to  220,)  will  be  found  curious 
and  interesting,  as  memorials  of  cus- 
toms now  obsolete  ;  as  will  also  the 
curfew  bells  at  Barton,  Lincolnshire  ; 
Cropredy,  Oxfordshire ;  St.  Margaret's 
and  Ringwould,  Kent ;  West  Rasen, 
Lincolnshire:  and  St.  Giles's, Norwich, 
(p.  223  to  228.) 

The  dressing  graves  with  floweis 
at  Grateley,  Hampshire,  and  Barnes, 
Surrey,  remind  us  of  the  more  modern 
custom  of  ornamentiog  the  graves  of 
our  departed  friends  in  tlie  numerous 
public  cemeteries,  now  happily  sup- 
planting the  crowded  churchyards  in 
our  populous  cities  and  towns. 

Perhaps  one  of  the  most  important 


and  prowptciivt  charities  recorded  in 
this  volume,  is  that  of  the  Rev.  W. 
Haobury,  rector  of  Church  Langton, 
Leicestershire.  The  founder's  views 
were  most  extensive  ;  as  they  embraced 
the  following  objects.  To  establish 
schools  for  ever ;  the  founding,  &c.  of 
an  organ ;  to  provide  beef  for  the 
poor ;  a  public  library,  a  picture 
gallery,  a  printing  office«  a  hospital ; 
and  professorships  of  Grammar,  Masic, 
Botany,  Mathematics,  Antiquity,  and 
Poetry.  A  stately  church  was  here- 
after to  be  built,  and  100,0001.  ex- 
pended on  it ;  and,  that  completed, 
another  should  be  built,  named  the 
Temple  of  Religion  and  Virtue.  A 
noble  mansion  was  to  be  erected. 
These  being  effected,  proper  lodgings 
for  the  professors,  schools,  hoapital« 
printing-office,  &c.  were  to  be  fur- 
nished, the  whole  forming  a  square  of 
200  yards  on  each  side,  &c.  The 
mere  abridgement  of  Mr.  Hanbury's 
extensive  views  occupies  27  folio  pages 
of  the  Commissioners'  Report.  Re- 
ference may  also  be  had  to  Mr. 
Hanbury's  own  account  of  his  in- 
tended charities,  8vo.  1 767 1  n  full 
abridgement  of  which  work  is  given 
in  Nichols's  Hist  of  Leicestershire, 
II.  685. 

It  would  be  easy  to  enlarge  on 
Mr.  Edwards's  amusing  collection 
of  charitable  benefactions,  as  almost 
every  page  would  warrant  a  notice ; 
but  enough,  we  trust,  has  been  said  to 
induce  our  readers  to  peruse  thia 
valuable  little  volume. 


Lecturei  by  the  late  John  Foster. 

SIR  JAMES  MACKINTOSH  has 
given  his  opinion  of  Mr.  Foster's  ta- 
lents in  the  following  ample  panegyric. 
"  I  have  read  with  the  greatest  admi- 
ration the  essays  of  Mr.  Foster, 
whom  perhaps  you  know.  He  is  one 
of  the  most  profound  and  eloquent 
writers  that  England  has  produced  ;" 
and  this  declaration  of  the  philosophi- 
cal critic  has  been  supported  by  the 
popular  voice ;  for  his  writings  have 
passed  through  many  editions,  and  ate 
referred  to  as  authorities  on  the  im- 
portant subjects  on  which  they  treat* 
The  present  Lectures  were  not  prepared 
for  the  press  by  the  author  :  the  editor 
gives  the  following  account  of  them. 

"  In  the  year  1822  Mr.  Fostfr,  in  com- 
pliance with  the  earnest  request  of  some 


1844.] 


Review.-- Zr€C/»re»  6y  the  late  John  Foster. 


509 


intimate  friends,  commenoed  the  deliTery 
of  the  Lectures,  from  which  the  following 
are  selected,  once  erery  fortnight,  (the 
months  of  Jnly  and  August  excepted,)  and 
continued  them,  though  latterly  at  longer 
intervals,  till  the  close  of  18S5.  His  au- 
ditory consisted  of  persons  belonging  to 
Tarious  religious  connections  at  Bristol, 
most  of  whom  had  long  known  and  ap- 
preciated his  writings.  With  such  a  class 
of  hearers  Mr.  Foster  felt  himself  war- 
ranted to  take  a  wider  range  of  suljects, 
and  to  adopt  a  more  varied  and  elaborate 
style  of  illustration,  than  in  addressing 
a  promiscuous  congregation.  All  the 
leading  ideas  of  each  discourse  were  com- 
mitted to  paper,  with  occasional  hints  for 
amplification,  filling  generally  tweWe  or 
fourteen  quarto  pages,  &c.  In  comparing 
the  original  MS.  of  a  lecture  on  Heb.  xi. 
6,  *  He  that  cometh  to  God,*  &c.  with 
the  same  as  published  by  the  Russian 
Tract  Society,  under  the  tide  of  *  How 
to  find  access  to  God,*  &c.  many  para- 
graphs (indeed  the  bulk  of  them)  are 
nearly  identical,  and  the  additional  mat- 
ter, chiefly  by  way  of  amplification ,  amounts 
to  about  one-fifth.** 

It  appears  to  us  that  the  present 
volume,  if  it  does  not  much  add  to 
the  high  reputation  of  the  author, 
will  certainly  not  diminish  it.  There 
is  much  of  the  same  sagacity  in  ob- 
servation, clearness  and  soundness  of 
reasoning,  elegance  of  illustration  and 
imagery,  and  simplicity  and  strength 
of  language,  as  in  the  former  works ; 
and,  where  the  subject  admits,  a  fine 
Tcin  of  poetical  imagination  is  opened, 
and  his  eloquence  is  expanded  so  as  at 
once  to  captivate  the  fancy  and  to 
move  the  heart.  As  in  all  collections 
of  separate  discourses,  there  must  be 
in  the  variety  some  that  will  strike 
the  reader  more  forcibly  than  others, 
and  leave  more  agreeable  or  perma- 
nent impressions;  so  we  should 
point  out  first,  two,  called  Character- 
istics of  Vain  Thoughts  and  Correc- 
tions of  Vain  Thoughts  ;  Lectures  vi. 
and  vii. ;  and  xiv.  Fallacies  operating 
against  Earnestness  in  Religion  ;  but 
those  on  the  diflferent  seasons  of  the 
year,  as  x.  xvii.  xix.,  3cc.  are  also  to 
be  admired  for  the  elegance  and  beauty 
of  the  inferences  and  illustrations. 
We  must  make  one,  though  too  short 
an  extract  from  one  of  the  discourses 
alluded  to  above.  (P.  86.) 

**  The  evil,  the  sin,  the  perniciousness 
of  90111  thoughts,  could  not  but  be  manifest 


in  a  mere  description  of  men,  if  at  all 
adequately  given.  Such  a  descriptioa 
would  necessarily  display,  as  a  miserable 
thing,  the  waste  of  the  activity  of  the 
thinking  principle.  Consider  that  we 
have  need  of  a  profitable  use  of  all  this, 
and  are  kept  poor  by  the  waste, — we  can- 
not afford  it.  The  sun  may  waste  an 
immense  proportion  of  his  beamSi  the 
clouds  of  their  showers,  but  thete  can  be 
spared.  There  is  an  infinite  opulence 
still  for  all  the  indispensable  purposes 
of  nature.  It  is  not  so  with  oar  think- 
ing faculty.  The  most  saving  nse  of  our 
thmking  power  will  but  imperfectly  suffice 
for  the  knowledge^  sound  judgment,  and 
wisdom  which  are  so  very  necessary  for 
us.  It  is  wretched  then  that  this  predous 
thing,  the  activity  of  our  thinking  spirit, 
shoidd  run  to  utter  waste.  It  is  as  if  the 
fine  element  by  means  of  which  your  city 
is  lighted  should  be  suffered  to  expire 
into  the  air  without  being  kindled  into  the 
light.  Again,  this  vanity  of  thought 
puts  us  practicaidly  out  of  the  relation  we 
are  placed  in  to  the  higher  objects  and  in- 
terests. We  are  placed  in  a  relation  to 
God, — Christ— a  future  world— to  an  in* 
finite  interest.  Now,  how  is  this  rela- 
tion to  be  recognised,  to  be  piacticaUy 
realised  to  our  minds  ?  How  eon  it,  but 
by  thought  of  an  appropriate  kind  ?  The 
sensible  connexion  of  the  mind  with  these 
great  objects,  its  contact  with  them,  must 
be  by  means  of  there  being  in  it  ideas  of 
these  objects,  ideas  in  a  degree  corre- 
sponding to  their  greatness;  certainly 
not  ideas  afone,  when  we  are  speaking 
of  a  saving  and  happy  connexion  with 
divine  objects,  but  at  all  events  ufecr. 
Now  how  are  these  important  and  solemn 
ideas  to  have  any  occupanev  or  hold 
of  the  mind  when  it  is  filled  and  dis- 
sipated with  all  the  varieties  of  thought  ? 
they  cannot  abide  on  the  mind,  nor 
come  to  it  in  such  a  state.  It  is  as 
when  in  some  regions  a  swarm  of  locusts 
fills  the  air,  so  as  to  exclude  the  sun,  at 
once  intercepting  the  light  of  Heaven 
and  devouring  what  it  should  shine  on. 
Thus,  by  ill-regulated  thought,  we  are  de- 
frauded of  what  is  the  supreme  value  of 
thought.  We  amuse  ourselves  with  the 
flying  chaff,  careless  of  the  precious 
grain.  And  then,  if  we  advert  to  the  im- 
portant matters  of  practical  duty,  it  is  in- 
stantly seen  how  ill  yain  thoaghts  will 
serve  us  there.  To  note  but  one,  the  duty 
of  imparting  instruction,  the  social  pro- 
motion of  wisdom.  What  will  ten  thou- 
sand of  these  trifling  volatile  thoughts 
come  to,  for  explaining  any  subject,  dis- 
entangling any  perplsaity,  rectifying  any 
false  notMHif 
maintaini— j 


S 1 0      RsTiKW.-^eroft'f  Oretk  md  Un6m  Orwmmmr  Ptmake.    [Nor. 

itt  the  teoM  of  conpaitlSve  McuHty* 
and  wondering  at  what  boman  natare 
can  endure.  All  tbU,  without  reliefer 
irariety,  withoot  the  slightett  compre- 
hension or  eense  of  atility*  formed^  and 
still  forms,  the  daily  laboor  of  hnn* 
dreds  of  thonsanda  of  poor  helplcea 
children.  Nay  more,  when  the  time 
for  delection,  or  constrving,  for  dm 
application  of  all  this,  eomes,  of  coarse 
the  labour  of  grammar  begins  ilrneeo  ; 
for,  to  say  a  thing  tAvt^Af  lAre^gAand 
the  same  thins  lodging,  to  repeat  like 
a  parrot  and  Tike  a  grammarian,  are 
two  different  operations  of  the  mind ; 
and  for  the  most  part  every  master, 
and  every  one  who  has  tanght  himself 
a  foreign  langnage,  knows  perfectly 
welt  that  all  the  nilce  and  inflcctiona 
learned  otherwise  than  bv  observation 
and  practice,  and  all  wnich  are  not 
immediately  em^lkrmed  Ay  Mi^  applied, 
are  of  very  little  use  indeed.  Bearing 
these  things  in  mind  (as  also  the  tkcl 
that,  when  the  chi*d  so  tanght  proceeda 
to  construe,  he  has  not  a  stock  of  fifty 
words,  but  must  look  out  almost  every 
word  in  each  sentence,  and  goesa  tha 
right  meaning  from  some  seventy 
others),  let  us  consider  the  proposed 
new  plan  of  instruction. 

The  same  grammar  serves,  and  for 
Lesson  I.  Mm§a  is  learnt :  the  child 
tells  the  Latin  for  ''  q^  a  Mase,  tp  m 
mum,  fo  sittset,"  &c.  and  feels  he  knows 
a  little.  Then  he  takes  Mr.  Pycroft's 
''Latin  Grammar  Practice,"  and  io 
Part  1.  he  learns  for  Lesson  IL  Alia,  % 
a  daughter. 


the  maa  gteiees  In  rseelleetioa  sad  re* 
sesfch  thmgh  sll  the  idle  crowd  of  his 
Usss  for  saythi^  ts  svaU  himt  It  were 
like  brtegfng  straws,  sad  festhen,  sad 
iMves  fo  OMSt  sa  socoaatwbea  silver  sad 
geU  sfu  ra^alffed.  Bach  a  psisoa  fosis 
sa  hmMHty  te  eoaecntrate  hfs  thoogbli  to 
say  parposs  ef  soclsl  wisdom  when  there 
is  a  partlealar  ocesikm  to  do  so,  sad  sa 
afcUsam  lepagasace  to  suke  the  sttempt. 
la  eeasequeaee  the  oommaaicatioa  of 
soeisl  life  will  coatribate  little  to  iiaprove- 
amats  they  will  be  dissipated  smong 
Mliagtopiest  they  will  be  ihsllow  end 
aapieitable  ia  fmportaat  ones ;  they  will 
toad  to  ran  qnito  faito  levity  sod  folly. 
Now,  if  we  aadssvoar  to  sarvey  la  oae 
asHsetlve  view  tiie  modes  sad  characters 
ef  this  evil  hshit  sad  Ita  cffecte,  we  behold 
ssmething  atteriy  ansoited  to  the  eoa« 
dMoa  of  the  immortsl  spirit  apon  esith, 
sad  fotslly  St  vsrisnce  with  its  high  des* 
tfaiy.  It  Is  aow  aader  a  great  sad  soleom 
appolatmeat  sdvaaciag  into  s  life  of  the 
ssms  darsthm  sa  that  of  its  Ctvstor.  And 
s  prevelHag  vsriety  of  thought  it  s  llsgraot 
iacoaiistency  with  the  astare  sad  obligs- 
tlans  of  this  swfol  predicameat.  Here  Is 
a  destiastioo,  of  the  msgaitade  of  which 
the  grestest  thoaghts  of  the  highest 
erestsd  bebg  srs  insdeqasto ;  sad  s  pre^^ 
vsiliog  maaaer  of  thlakiag  but  jast  worthy 
—hardly  worthy-of  a  creators  whose 
atmost  sease  of  interest  shoald  be  to 
smase  sway  s  few  yesn  on  esrth,  sad  then 
sink  in  the  dast  wholly  snd  for  ever/*  8ie. 

Many  other  valoable  thoughts  wilt 
be  found  in  this  discourse.  The  subject 
is  of  grsat  importaace,  and  the  dis* 
cassion  of  it  Is  such  as  might  be  es* 
peetod  from  the  ability  of  the  writer. 

0n9k   Gfwmmar  Pfciiei;   fa   tkm 

FoH^,—- Lessons  o/  Fveabml&n,  Om- 

BtruU^f  LsMoat,  and  eaiy   EnglUk 

JEeercifSt. 
Lalin  Grammar  Praetiee,  on  ike  $am€ 

Pkm,  with  am  Extract  from  Cm9ar. 

Bf  ik$  itto.  James  Pycroft,  B.A^ 

Jhm.  Calk  (ktfard. 

THEvalue  of  these  elementary  works 
will  be  readily  understood  by  the  fol- 
lowing eiempliftcation  of  the  old  way 
and  the  netD. 

By  the  old  way  an  unfortunate 
child  of  seven  or  eight  years  of  age 
"  begins  Latin"  thus  t  mum,  domtaas, 
kpiot  tec.,  and  all  nouns,  ■djectives, 
pronotttts,  rules  for  formation  of  de- 
grees of  comparison,  Propria  puB  ma* 
fOas,  and  all  the  test,  which  no  one 
can  think  of  without  hugging  himself 


Aqua,  m,  water. 
Ports,  «,  s  gste. 
Peons,  m,  s  festher. 
Posss,  m,  s  ditoh. 
Aquils,  m,  aa  esgle. 
Hstrona,  k,  a  mstron,  foo.  Oto» 

Of  course,  the  child  feels  he  knows 
more,  and  can  be  tsnght  to  say  the 
Latin  for  "of  eagles,  to  daughters,'* 
(tc.  till  he  is  surprised,  and  smiles 
with  delight  at  his  own  newly-dis- 
covered power.    Again,  for 

Lesson  III.  The  child  finds  he  can 
construe,  with  a  little  questioning  aad 
drawing  out,  "FUi€Bmatronarum-—JUm 
•io/roa«— o^aa  in  fond    pinna  amalm 

Lastly,  for  Lesson  IV.  (that  is,  the 
third  kind  of  practice  in  the  first  lesson 
of  Latin  grammar),  the  child  finds  he 


1844.] 


RByiiBW,*»FaniaW*«  Sirmons. 


511 


can  not  onlv  tarn  lAtin  into  English^ 
but  Englita  into  Latin*  and  renders 
with  litue  assistance  and  no  diction- 
ary, from  Latin  Grammar  Practice^ 
Part  in. 

^'  Tfie  matrtmt'^io  the  daughttrt-^hy 
ikB  feathers  qf  the  eaglee — in  the  waier  qf 
the  atch,  8fc." 

NowUiat  this  is  tht  wayto  teach 
grammar,  that  this  is  nature's  own 
way  to  teach  a  language,  that  this 
plan  combines  the  sound  public- school 
system  with  all  that  is  worth  adopting 
in  those  of  Hamilton  and  Ollendorff 
and  that  it  effectually  soWes  the 
problem  of  teaching  as  much  as  pos- 
sible in  the  least  possible  time,  a 
tery  slight  glance  at  Mr.  Pycroft's 
book  will  prove  to  the  most  incredu* 
lous. 

The  volumes  for  teaching  both  Greek 
and  Latin  are  on  the  same  principle, 
The  Vocabulary  consists  of  more  than 
2000  words.  The  words  selected,  be 
it  observed,  are  such  as  so  commonly 
occur  as  to  form  a  complete  vocabulary 
to  Valpy's  live  books  of  Caessr.  The 
lessons  of  the  Vocabulary,  Part  I.  Con* 
stroing  Part  IL  and  Exercises  Part  UL 
correspond  and  exemplify  all  the 
principal  parts  of  every  Latin  grammar 
equslly. 

Lastly,  the  Vocabulary  is  arranged 
so  that  the  words  shall  explain  each 
other;  and  that  synonyms  shall  not 
escape  notice;  for  instance,  the  follow. 
Ingwordsare  Injuxta-position— /#miM, 
iron ;  ferreue^  made  of  iron  ;  ferratue^ 
covered  with  iron ;  followed  by  aurvm, 
Mfftif,  9imtu$g^^lumbum,  phmbeui^ 
phmbeatue, 

Coneilium,  a  connciU  is  followed 
by  CoDfilium,  counsel ;  Porta,  a  gate, 
by  Porto,  1  carry  i  SiiMevo,  by  Sub- 
mioistro,  fcc.  &c. 

In  the  Greek  treatise  the  author 
has  classified  words  compounded ;  and 
words  of  similar  termination  and  cor- 
responding meaning,  to  an  extent  that 
nay  teach  the  niceties  of  the  language 
to  those  much  too  young  to  derive 
them  from  the  usual  sources. 

We  have  only  to  add  that  we  greatly 
desire  to  see  these  little  books  in  every 
school.  To  parents  preparing  their 
sons  for  school  they  are  invaluable ; 
any  governess  might  use  them.  We 
have  been  assured  by  a  friend  who 
has  adopted  the  system  that  it  enables 
him  to  teach  as  much  in  one  year  as  by 


the  old  method  he  can  teach  in  three^ 
and  that  too  with  the  greatest  en* 
tertainment  to  the  pupil. 

Sermon*  preached  in  the  Epieewai 
Chapel,  Dun^firiee.  Bw  the  Mev, 
W.  P.  M'Farqnhar,  A.M. 
THESE  discourses,  the  author  in- 
forms us,  are  intended  more  especially 
to  illustrate  Christian  truth  and  obli« 
gation  in  connection  with  some  of  the 
leading  annivereariee  of  the  Church  of 
England,  with  the  ordinance  of  the 
ministry,  and  with  the  mode  of  salva- 
tion by  faith  in  Jesus  Christ.  The 
Preface  to  the  work  still  fbrther  en- 
larges upon  the  author's  views  on  the 
subject ;  in  which  he  shows»  not  only 
that  the  Church  of  England  is  distin- 
guished by  prominently  setting  forth 
"Jesus  Christ  and  Him  crucified/' 
but  that  in  her  liturgical  services  she 
has  adopted  a  methc^  which  pre-emi- 
nently entitles  her  to  the  claim  of 
possessing  it.  She  not  only  hss  pro- 
vided for  the  exaltation  of  tht  Saviouf 
by  a  correct  theory  of  doctrine,  but 
she  has  equally  exalted  him  in  thoea 
practical  forme  which  are  in  continual 
recurrence  in  her  public  worship.  She 
has  made  Christ,  as  it  were,  tbe  Sun 
of  her  system,  cansing  her  services  to 
revolvs  continually  round  him,  as  their 
great  centre  of  attraction.  But  be  con« 
siders  also  that  the  Minister  of  the 
Gospel  should  co-operate  with  the 
Church  itself  in  the  object  which  she 
seeks,  and  second  the  Church  in  ad- 
vancing the  great  purpose  of  all. — ^ihe 
setting  forth  the  glory  of  the  Divine 
Redeemer,  The  discourses  are  weU 
adapted  to  support  these  views,  being 
sound  expositions  of  the  leading  doc- 
trines inculcated  In  the  preface,  under 
various  viewB,  and  appropriate  to  the 
different  festivals  and  sacred  days  ap- 
pointed by  the  Church.  The  style 
and  manner  in  which  tbey  are  written, 
the  exposition  of  doctrine,  the  selection 
of  authorities,  the  enforcement  of  du- 
ties consequent  on  belief^  assure  us 
that  they  are  intended  for  a  serious, 
devout,  and  intelligent  congregation, 
and  to  them  we  think  the  publication 
of  them  most  be  yrtry  acceptable.  The 
sure  mark  of  a  careless  and  idle  con- 
gregation is  their  saying  "We  have 
heard  that  sermon  before;"  the  equally 
sure  mark  of  an  attentive  one  is,  "  We 
should   like   to  hear   that  disoottfM 


512 


MisceUaneous  ISevutot . 


[Nor. 


agaiD."  We  do  not  iDtend,  however, 
to  limit  the  benefit  of  these  discourBes 
to  80  narrow  a  circle  as  to  one  Church, 
for  we  beiieTe  they  will  be  far  more 


widely  read,  and,  we  trust,  with  the 
benefit  of  a  j  aster  confirnation  of  the 
faith  and  a  more  perfect  obedience  of 
the  will. 


J  TYeatUi  on  ik§  Prmetieul  Druinagt  (^ 
Lwnd,  By  Henry  Hntchiason. — Contuns 
much  informition  that  ctnaot  fail  of 
being  usefol  to  owners  and  oocapiers  of 
wet  land;  giving,  with  a  fair  review  of 
different  modes  of  draining,  the  principles 
of  tile-draining,  and  deep-draining  for 
springy  soils.  Mr.  Hutchinson  prefaces 
■one  eridenoe  of  the  credible  geological 
fact  thati  east  "  from  the  range  of  hills 
which  run  from  the  north  through  York- 
shire, Derbyshire,  &c.  by  some  called  the 
'  Backbone  of  England,'  all  spring 
water  has  its  source  from  the  west.'* 


A  Cuun€  tif  BngUik  Readmg,  By 
tk€  Re9.  J.  Pycroft,  B.ji.  THn.  Coll. 
Or/ord.—'naM  little  book,  like  two  others 
of  the  same  author,  <*The  Student's 
Guide  to  Oxford  Honours,"  and  "  School 
Education,"  has  the  advantage  of  being 
founded  on  personal  experience.  Gray 
said  of  Boswell's  Corsica  that  it  showed 
that  any  man  might  write  a  useful  book 
who  had  been  placed  in  an  uncommon 
position,  about  which  the  world  was  cu- 
rious, and  who  would  fkithfully  relate 
things  which  he  had  witnessed.  So,  Mr. 
PycrofI  merely  asserts  that  on  such  and 
such  occasions  he  had  conversed,  in  such  a 
manner,  with  certain  young  persons,  who 
would  improve  their  minds  if  they  only 
knew  how,  and  that  stated  advice  has  been 
followed  by  stated  effects.  He  divides  bis 
book  into  general  remarks  on  systematic 
and  methodical  study,  **  how  to  remember 
what  we  read,"  "  mark  progress,''  "  keep 
a  common-place  book  ;'*  and  also  special 
instructions  for  the  study  of  history,  an- 
cient and  modem ;  philosophy,  moral,  po- 
litical, mental,  natural ;  physiology ;  the 
fine  arts,  painting,  sculpture,  architecture; 
travels.  Each  of  these  subjects  are  treated 
so  as  to  suit  *'  those  who  have  time  only 
for  a  short  course '' — those  who  study 
more  deeply,  as  at  the  universities,  for 
the  bar,  for  holy  orders, — as  men  of  taste, 
who  need  encouragement,  who  would 
know  the  history  of  literature,  who 
would  know  an  outline  of  the  more  com- 
mon topics  of  conversation,  &c.  &c. 

The  author's  argument  is,  that  a  man 
who  has,  after  much  wandering,  found  the 
path  to  knowledge,  can  guide  another  of  less 
talent  and  industry  in  a  shorter  space  of 
time.  He  remarks  that,  hitherto,  there 
has  been  published  no  work  fit  to  answer 
the  question  so  commonly  proposed  by 
Toung  persons  to  men  of  letters,  namely, 
8 


'  *  What  would  you  recommend  us  to  read  ?* 
The  proper  answer  is,  **  That  depends  on 
your  taste  and  curiosity ;"  and  the  work 
now  published  gives  plain  and  practical 
advice  in  a  common-sense  way. 

The  style  is  easy  and  perspicnons,  un- 
affected, and  equal  to  the  subject ;  there  is 
no  attempt  at  fine  writing.  Still  the  anec- 
dotes and  opinions,  both  of  the  author  and 
of  innumerable  men  of  letters,  makes  it  a 
very  interesting  book,  rather  after  the  style 
of  D' Israeli's  Curiosities  of  Literature. 
We  have  no  hesitation  in  recommending 
it  as  a  very  useful  companion  to  any  lover 
of  literature,  and  more  peculiariy  useful  to 
young  persons.  It  is  the  best  of  all  school 
prises,  presents  for  youth ;  because  the 
stories  make  it  "  an  excitement,"  and  the 
instructions  and  adrice  direct  Uie  endea- 
vours it  has  served  to  stimulate. 


Bnayt  on  90me  of  the  Propheeiet  tff 
Scripture,  By  S.  G.  Marsh,  AM,— 
This  is  the  third  Essay,  relating  to  the 
second  coming  of  Christ,  in  which  the 
author  examines  the  opinion  "that  at 
the  commencement  of  the  expected  millen- 
nium our  Lord  will  re-enter  the  world, 
and  reign  in  person  over  all  nations  for  a 
thousand  years.*'  —  It  is  the  antiior's  ob- 
ject to  prove  the  negative  of  this,  which  he 
does  to  our  mind  satisfactorily,  by  a  parti- 
cular examination  of  the  different  texts 
which  are  supposed  to  relate  to  the  sub- 
ject: and  lastly,  he  considers  the  Sist 
verse  of  the  3rd  chapter  of  the  Acts  of 
the  Apostles,  as  demonstrating  the  very 
contrary  to  the  doctrine  of  our  Lord's 
reign  upon  earth  for  a  thousand  years. 

L€Utm»  on  Ckemulry,  for  the  ute  qf 
PupUt  m  Schools,  Junior  Studentt  in 
the  UnivereUiee,  and  Readere  who  wieh  to 
learn  the  Fundamental  Prineiplee  and 
the  Leading  Facte,  By  William  H.  Bal- 
main.  IBmo. — This  work  is  written  in  a 
simple  and  explicit  style.  Commencing 
with  the  constitution  of  matter,  and  the 
atomic  theory,  Mr.  Balmain's  lessons  pro- 
ceed to  define  the  properties  of  all  the 
elementary  bodies,  metals,  &c.  in  a  useful 
and  satisfactory  manner,  and  the  value  of 
the  book  is  greatly  increased  by  diagremt 
of  the  decompositions  of  bodies,  which 
obviously  tend,  much  more  than  mere 
narratives,  to  impress  strongly  on  the 
mind  that  essential  department  of  chemical 
knowledge. 


1644.] 


MUceikneouB  Retiems. 


813 


JTUSiphuiitiiiVertiminBmgliik,  By 
Sir  L.  C.  L.  Branton,  Bart,  Tn  two 
Wilum€9  890.  pp.  gh.  930. — It  is  rather 
ivrprinng  that  tre  ha?e  hitherto  had  no 
English  translation  of  the  Septuagint 
pnblished  in  this  conntrj.  In  America, 
one  has  recently  been  made  of  it  bj  a 
Mr.  Thomson,  but  Sir  L.  Brenton's  is 
Independent  of  it,  as  he  nerer  had  an  op* 
portanity  of  seeing  it.  However,  he  has 
enjoyed  the  principal  adrantages  that 
might  haye  resulted  from  it,  as  a  friend 
(Mr.  Pridham),  who  had  the  opportunity 
of  comparing  both,  has  furnished  him 
with  some  observations  and  corrections, 
previous  to  publication.  Our  translator. 
Ire  presume,  is  a  son  of  Sir  Jahleel  Bren- 
ton,  of  whom  so  honourable  a  mention  is 
made  in  Mr.  Wolfs  **  English  in  France.*' 
He  has  filled  up  a  blank  in  our  Biblical 
literature ;  and  at  the  same  time,  it  is  due 
to  the  enterprising  publisher  to  say,  that 
this  work  is  an  addition  to  the  long  Bib- 
lical catalogue  of  Mr.  Bagster,  who  has 
earned  for  himself  the  appellation  of 
BihUopoU  in  its  highest  sense.  We  con- 
fess that  we  approach  the  subject  itself 
with  some  hesitatioo,  as  without  imposing 
tome  restraint  on  ourselves  we  should 
speedily  find  our  way  into  a  discussion  of 
the  merits  of  the  version,  its  several  edi- 
tions, and  the  importanee  of  its  readings. 
We  will  therefore  refer  the  reader  to 
CarpxoiTs  Introduction,  prefixed  to  the 
Oxford  edition,  the  materials  of  which, 
the  late  Bishop  liovd  considered  as  taken 
from  the  Dissertation  of  Hody.  Along 
list  of  references  on  the  same  subject  is 
siven  by  Mr.  Orme  (art,  Septuagint)  and 
ait,  Hartwell  Home  may  also  be  con- 
sulted. The  translator  has  proceeded  on 
the  basis  of  the  Vatican  Text,  (which  has 
received  the  commendations  of  all  learned 
men,  from  Morinns  to  Masch,)  with  oc- 
casional insertions  of  the  Alexandrine 
readings  in  the  notes,  by  which,  be  ob- 
serves, "  many  obscure  passages  are 
rendered  clear,  and  many  omissions  sup- 
plied.*' We  do  not  observe  any  notice  of 
the  labours  of  Messrs.  Holmes  and  Par- 
sons, the  Mill  and  Griesbach  of  the  Sep- 
tuagint ;  but  he  seems  rather  to  have 
avoided  annotation,  than  to  have  displayed 
It.  He  certainly  has  not  underrated  the 
▼alne  of  this  version  ;  and  we  may  remark, 
on  that  head,  that  the  additional  words  in 
Gen.  iv.  8,  as  spoken  by  Cain,  Let  ««  go 
into  the/ieid,  do  not  depend  upon  it  only. 
If  he  had  given  more  notes,  we  might 
have  learned  on  what  grounds  he  trans- 
lated Uvevfta,  in  Gen.  1. 8.  by  Spirit^ for 
as  the  word  is  anarthrous,  it  is  not  in  that 
passage  that  the  LXX.  will  help  us  to  inter- 
pret the  Hebrew  in  that  sense.  If  the 
reader  will  consult  a  notice  of  M.  Le- 

QsNT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


vesque*s  Btnda  de  P  hitioire  aneienne 
in  the  Magazine  for  1833,  he  will  see  that 
rendering  advocated  on  the  ground  of  paral- 
lel. On  Gen.  iv.  7,  a  verse  which  shews 
the  difference  between  the  two  versionSf 
we  would  refer  the  reader  to  some  re- 
marks in  Archbishop  Magee  on  the  Atone- 
ment. The  translator  seems  to  antici- 
pate, that  this  version,  being  now  render- 
ed into  English,  will  be  read  in  this 
country ;  our  idea  rather  is,  that  it  will 
serve  as  a  Lexicon,  or  as  a  companion 
to  Schleusner's  enlargement  of  Biel  on  the 
Old  Testament.  One  thing  is  certain, 
that  a  scholar's  Biblical  Library,  in  this 
country,  cannot  be  considered  complete 
vrithout  these  volumes.  We  only  wish 
that  the  translator  had  been  less  chary  of 
annotation ;  but  the  field  was  a  wide  one, 
and,  if  he  went  further  than  he  has  done, 
where  could  he  have  stopped  ?  It  is  not 
often  that  we  have  to  complain  of  reserve 
in  annotators ;  on  the  contrary,  non 
mUeura  eutem  is  a  motto  that  would  suit 
some  of  them  perfectly. 

Notices  of  the  Churehet  of  Warwick^ 
ihire,  Deanery  qf  Warwick,  Royal  8»o.— 
This  is  thefirstnumberofa  publication  ema- 
nating from  the  Architectural  Committee 
of  the  Warwickshire  Natural  History  and 
Archeological  Society,  and  contains  views 
of  the  interior  and  South-east  exterior  of 
St.  Mary's  Church,  Warwick,  together 
with  a  ground  plan,  all  extremely  well 
executed  in  lithography,  together  with 
twenty-four  pages  of  letter-press.  The 
work  commences  with  a  brief  review 
of  the  minor  Churches  or  Chapels  for- 
merly existing  in  that  town  or  its  pre- 
cincts, and  which  afterwards  became  in- 
corporated with  St.  Mary's  Church,  viz. 
All  Saints,  which  stood  within  the  walls 
of  the  castle,  but  of  which  no  traces  re- 
main ;  St.  Helen,  upon  whose  ruins  the 
Priorv  of  St.  Sepulchre  was  afterwarda 
fbunded ;  St.  Michael,  situated  in  the 
Saltisford,  whose  walls  still  remain,  and  a 
sketch  of  which  we  regret  was  not  given ; 
St.  John  Baptist,  in  the  market-place,  of 
which  no  traces  are  left ;  St.  Peter,  now 
standing  over  the  east  gate ;  St.  Laurence, 
situated  at  the  lower  end  of  West-street, 
on  the  south  side,  on  whose  site  a  quan- 
tity of  human  bones  and  a  Norman  capi- 
tal were  dug  up  in  1837 ;  St.  James,  still 
existing  over  the  west  gate;  St. 
Sepulchre,  formerly  connected  with  the 
priory  of  thst  name;  and  St.  Helen's,  but 
of  whose  existence  nothing  now  remains, 
save  a  corbel  of  sculptured  foliage  in- 
serted in  the  wall  of  an  outhouse. 

St.  Mary's  Church  has  been  so  folly 
and  ably  illustrated  by  Sir  W.  Dogdale 
and  Messrs.  Gough  and  Nichols,  that 

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little  hu  been  left  to  be  done  by  a  futare 
editor.  Nothing  of  this  chorch  is  known 
prior  to  the  Conquest ;  but  its  subsequent 
history  is  satisfsctorily  detailed  from  the 
reign  of  Henry  I.  when  Roger  de  New-  ' 
burgh  made  it  collegiate.  The  additions 
and  alterations  made  by  successive  Earls  of 
Warwick,  and  subsequently  to  the  fire  in 
1694,  are  described  ;  and  its  architectnral 
state  is  clearly  and  ably  defined.  Some 
interesting  extracts  from  a  MS.  inventory 
of  goods  belonging  to  the  church  in  1464, 
in  the  British  Museum,  are  then  added  ; 
and  also  others  from  an  account  roll  of 
the  income  and  expenditure  of  the  Church 
firom  1464  to  1465,  in  the  possession  of 
W.  Staunton,  Esq.  of  Longbridge.  The 
extract  relating  to  the  books  bequeathed 
to  this  Church,  to  be  used  by  John  Rous, 
the  antiquary,  is  interesting,  and  is  ren- 
dered still  more  so  by  the  publication  of 
the  indenture  corroborating  the  grant,  in- 
serted at  the  instance  of  Mr.  Staunton, 
whose  kind  assistance  in  imparting  in- 
formation from  his  antiquarian  stores  to 
topographical  works,  is  well  known  and 
appreciated. 

Many  useful  notes  are  added  in  expla- 
nation of  these  extracts,  but  there  still 
remain  various  obsolete  words  and  pas- 
sages, which  are  not  sufficiently  obvious 
even  to  the  antiquarian  reader.  In  a  few 
instances  the  contractions  of  the  Latin 
words  are  rather  defective. 

In  the  dreadful  fire  which  took  place 
in  1694,  "  sparing  neither  temples  or 
houses,"  only  two  of  the  many  brass 
plates  in  the  church  were  preserved,  vis. 
one  bearing  the  portraits  of  Thomas  Beau- 
champ,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  his  Count> 
ess — and  the  other,  Thomas  Oken,  (and 
his  wife,)  a  great  benefactor  to  the  town 
of  Warwick.  The  former  brass  has  been 
repeatedly  engraved,*  but  not  so  the  lat- 
ter. We  should,  therefore,  have  been 
much  gratified  had  a  vignette  been  de- 
voted to  the  representation  of  this  liberal 
and  benevolent  man. 

During  the  Civil  Wars,  it  is  recorded  in 
two  of  the  tracts  published  at  that  pe- 
riod, that  a  cannon  shot  was  fired  from 
the  summit  of  the  church  tower  against 
W^arwick  Castle,  then  in  a  state  of  siege 
by  the  King's  forces,  and  that  a  return 
shot  from  the  castle  knocked  off  one  of 
the  pinnacles.  It  is  also  stated,  that  sub- 
sequently Colonel  Purefoy,  with  true 
fanatical  zeal,  not  content  with  destroying 
the  cross,  mutilated  also  several  of  the 
noble  monuments  in  St.  Mary*s  Chapel. 

•  Not  effectively,  however,  until  the 
recent  publication  of  Messrs.  Waller,  who 
were  the  first  to  show  the  beautiful  pat- 
terns in  punctured  work  for  which  it  is 
remarkable. 


The  description  of  this  church  is  to  be 
continued  in  the  seoond  No.  and  we  find 
by  the  prospectus,  that,  if  Che  work  meets 
with  suitable  encouragement,  the  *'  Dean- 
ery of  Warwick**  will  be  followed  by  an 
account  of  the  other  churches  in  the 
county.  To  this  we  confidently  look 
forward,  not  doubting  from  the  splendid 
appearance  of  this  beginning,  and  from  the 
talents  of  the  Committee  in  selecting 
proper  materials,  that  the  **  Churches  of 
Warwickshire"  will  meet  with  ample 
support  and  patronage. 

To  the  casual  visitant,  ancient  country- 
churches  appear  nearly  to  resemble  each 
other  ;  but,  to  the  eye  of  the  practised  an- 
tiquary, a  great  dissimilarity  is  frequently 
exhibited  in  the  interior  as  well  as  the  ex- 
terior. In  the  remains  of  painted  glass  in 
the  windows  are  sometimes  to  be  seen  the 
portrsits  and  arms  of  benefactors  to  tha 
Church  hitherto  unnoticed,  and  occa- 
sionally curious  inscriptions  on  some  of 
the  ancient  bells,  brasses  and  engravings 
of  eminent  persons  on  obscure  flat  stones* 
and  paintings  nearly  covered  by  white- 
wash, &c.  There  was  a  splendid  speci- 
men of  painting  on  fresco,  on  the  western 
wall  of  the  Lady's  Chapel  in  St.  Mary*B 
Church,  now  totally  obliterated,  and 
which,  on  the  authority  of  the  late  Mr. 
Wells,  was  extant  in  the  middle  of  the  last 
century.  Another  has  been  lately  dis- 
covered in  the  church  of  the  Holy  Trinity, 
in  Coventry.  In  some  churches  are  door- 
ways and  arches  of  a  very  early  period, 
viz.  Kenil  worth,  Beaudesert,  Stoneley,&c. 
All  these  points  will  of  course  receive  due 
attention,  and  as  we  are  aware  that  draw- 
ings are  in  existence  of  several  ancient 
churches,  now  taken  down,  we  have  only 
to  hope  that  their  appearance  may  be  pre- 
served and  perpetuated  in  this  very  desi- 
rable publication. 


VinHny  Soeietie*  and  Lay  Readers : 
in  a  Letter  to  the  Bithop  o/  London, 
By  Presbyter  Catholicus. — Although  we 
have  no  room  to  make  extracts,  as  we 
could  have  vrished,  from  this  admirable 
Letter,  we  earnestly  recommend  it  to  the 
attention  of  our  readers.  The  subjects 
treated  of  are  of  importance,  and  the 
view  which  the  writer  takes  of  them,  to 
our  mind,  is  quite  correct.  The  Letter 
is  composed  in  an  easy,  pleasing,  and  ani- 
mated style,  and  has  much  dramatic  force 
and  interest.  It  is  written  by  a  person 
possessing  a  sound  practical  knowledge 
of  his  subject,  and  who  has  been  person- 
ally familiar  with  the  habits  of  the  poor, 
and  professionally  instrumental  in  re- 
lieving them. 


k. 


1844.1 


Miscellaneous  Revkws. 


515 


An  Enay  on  Cathedral  Wonhip,  By 
H.  D.  Ryder,  A.M,  — We  have  been 
much  pleased  by  the  perusal  of  this  Ks- 
say ;  and  we  hope  it  will  be  instrumental 
in  restoring  our  cathedral  worship  to  its 
proper  form,  and  giving  it  some  of  the 
due  splendour  and  popular  character 
which  it  formerly  possessed. 

A  Lttter  to  the  Rev.  A,  P,  Carr,  By 
Rev.  W.  Hildyard. — A  very  sound,  argu- 
mentative treatise  this,  and  not  easily  to 
be  answered.  Mr.  Carr  appears  to  be  an 
Evangelical  clergyman  and  preacher ;  and 
in  this*  Letter  Mr.  Hildyard,  who  seems 
to  be  a  scholar  and  sound  divine,  remon- 
strates with  him  on  doctrines  he  has  ad- 
vocated from  his  pulpit,  on  Baptism — on 
the  Apostolical  Succession — and  on  the 
real  presence  in  the  Sacrament :  on  all 
which  points  Mr.  Carr  appears  to  us 
clearly  and  indisputably  wrong. 

A  few  Words  to  the  Provoet  qfBton,  By 
An  Etonian.  2nd  Edition. — This  relates 
to  a  regulation  made  by  the  Provost  of 
Eton  to  prevent  any  clergyman  connected 
with  the  College  of  Eton  from  engaging 
to  perform  any  regular  clerical  duty  on  a 
Sunday :  whether  rightly  or  wrongly, 
must  depend  on  circumstances  and  state- 
ments of  which  we  are  entirely  ignorant. 

The  Vounff  Widow ;  a  Novel,  by  the 
author  of  The  Scottish  Heiress,  S(c.  Sfc. 
Svo.  3  vols.^Thia  is  a  very  clever  tale, 
full  of  interest  and  adventure,  abounding 
with  pathetic  incident,  and,  what  is  not 
always  the  case  in  modern  works  of 
fiction,  possessing  in  addition  a  great  deal 
of  genuine  wit  and  comic  humour.  The 
story  is  well  sustained  throughout,  the 
characters  are  admirably  drawn,  and  in 
perfect  keeping.  Jessie  Macoir,  the  young 
widow,  is  a  charming  delineation ;  there 
is  a  quiet  grace,  a  moral  beauty,  and  a 
fidelity  to  nature  about  her  which  are 
quite  delightful.  To  go  from  the  grave 
to  the  gay,  Mr.  Cosmo  PiUenweem  is 
equally  good  in  his  own  peculiar  way ; 
and  to  those  who  love  a  good  hearty 
hugh,  we  strongly  recommend  the  ac- 
count of  the  dinner  and  evening  party 
given  by  Mrs.  Pittenweem,  with  the 
TarioQS  incidents  and  mishaps  thereto 
belonging.  There  is  one  character  in  the 
tale  which  we  could  wish  to  have  been 
omitted,  that  of  Miss  Beechy  File;  we 
really  trust  for  the  sake  of  human  nature 
that  there  are  no  persons  in  the  guise  of 
women  popsessing  so  fiendish  a  spirit. 
Perhaps  also  the  feelings  of  the  reader 
are  too  much  drawn  upon  in  some  of  the 
pathetic  scenes ;  we  think  it  is  a  mistake 
with  writers  of  fiction  to  carry  the  vein  oi 


sadness  too  far,  and  to  leave  an  impression 
of  pain  upon  the  mind.  There  is  quite 
enough  of  misery  always  existing  in  real 
life,  without  heightening  its  colours  with 
the  pencil  of  imagination. 

The  Office  for  the  Administration  of 
the  Holy  Communion  according  to  the 
use  of  the  Church  of  Scotland.  4fo.— This 
work,  containing  the  office  for  the  Holy 
Communion  as  used  by  the  Episcopal 
Church  of  Scotland,  is  intended,  it  would 
appear,  to  form  a  companion  to  the  splen- 
did illustrated  edition  of  the  Common 
Prayer,  recently  published  by  Mr.  Bums, 
under  the  editorship  of  Mr.  Wm.  Dyce. 
It  is  brought  out  in  the  same  style,  with 
an  equal  degree  of  excellence  in  regard  to 
the  design  and  the  execution.  Each  page 
is  surrounded  with  an  elegant  wood-cut 
border,  and  the  initial  letters  are  also  or- 
namented. The  work  is  printed  through- 
out in  red  and  black,  and  the  musical  no- 
tation is  also  given.  The  publisher  is 
entitled  to  great  credit  for  the  production 
of  a  work  of  this  kind  in  a  style  of  em- 
bellishment at  once  antique,  appropriate^ 
and  tasteful. 


The  Jasper  Clouded,  and  the  Rainbow 
round  the  Throne.  A  farewell  Sermon. 
By  the  Rev»  A.  Wilmot.  Preached  at 
the  Church  qf  St.  James,  Ratcliff^'—TlaB 
is  a  very  eloquent  and  affecting  discourse, 
beautiful  in  language,  affectionate  in  sen- 
timent, just  and  sound  in  reasoning,  and 
in  every  way  worthy  of  the  occasion  which 
called  it  forth.  We  have  heard  of  Mr. 
Wilmot^s  eloquence  as  a  preacher  and 
zeal  as  a  pastor,  and  of  the  benefits  which 
his  ministry  effected  in  the  parish  to 
which  he  now  bids  farewell.  His  theo* 
logy  appears  to  us  sound  and  orthodox  ; 
and  his  learning  and  talents  such  as  to  de- 
mand justly  a  more  extended  field  thanhia 
last,  and  a  more  highly  educated  audience. 


Peril  in  Security  ;  a  Memorial  of  Na^ 
thaniel  Edward  Parker.  By  Samuel 
W.  Rix. — ^This  little  piece  of  affectionate 
biography  has  gone  through  a  second  edi- 
tion ;  a  proof,  at  least,  that  a  certain  circle 
of  readers  is  affected  by  its  narration.  It 
contains  the  life  of  a  young  man,  a  native 
of  Harleston  in  Norfolk,  who  was  edu- 
cated for  the  medical  profession,  who  dis- 
tinguished himself  during  the  promss  of 
his  studies  by  diligent  study  andexem-* 
plary  conduct,  who  left  London  and  the 
hospitals  to  practise  at  Macclesfield,  and 
who  thence,  first  feeling  the  symptoms  of 
incipient  consumption,  returned  home 
to  the  arms  of  his  parents  and  friends,  and 
died  in  the  29th  year  of  his  age,  with  deep 
religious  sentiments,  and  full  of  Christian 


516 


CNov. 


Wkmt  is  lAe  Ckmtkf  Ire.  J^  F. 

firmm  tke  FyrmeJL — IW  obfeet  of  tUa 
little  book  if  to  Ao«  tfaft  tko  Chvch  of 
Chrift  ifl.  1.  om;  9.  holf;  3.  catbolk; 
4.  Apoctolic ;  with  muriu  mm  the  Apo^ 
tolifid  SocccMioa.  It  ia 
cksriy,  aiMl  tetirfartoffly 


Fredefimaiiam  amd  EUetimm 
Bff  i.'^\  Menj,  E$q. — A  Tery  dear,  ablOy 
«]>(!  laminons  statemeot  of  tbe  trve  doe* 
trine,  in  opporition  to  the  Cahrinutic  doe- 
tHnet  adopted  b j  the  eraogelkal  tchool  of 
dirinsty. 

Tk$  PkrmO'Mapiet.  By  SpeneerHalL 
*— An  interesting  account  of  cxperimenta 
in  phrenologTt  and  the  proper  manner  of 
con d  acting  them. 

7%€  AdnaniagiM  and  Di$ad9antap9§  9f 
the  Feudal  Syifem,  By  H.  B.  Barry.— 
Tbia  Etaay  gained  tbe  priie,  and  waa  read 
in  the  Hbeldonian  Theatre,  Oxford,  Jnne 
1^3 ,  i  «4.i.  1 1  i«  written  with  weU-condnct- 
ed  and  fairarguinent»  and  knowledge  of  the 
ioterevting  lubject  on  which  it  treata. 

A  Sermon  preached  im  the  Parish 
Church  at  Wooler,    By  the  Hon.  and  Rev. 


to  the  hBpoftBBi  aahfeet  of  the 
Weekly  Ofcrtary,  m  eviMod  in  fhia  aUo 
diaoowM.  By  a  Weekly  OiatDry  aloM 
H  might  he  aaid  that  '*chaiifty  aerer 
iaileth;*'  for  it  aeta  «  a  perpalaal  ali- 
mnlos,  yet  ao  quietly  asd  ao  weodermiefyf 
aa  not  to  eihanat  itadf  by  violant  efbrtn 
or  andden  impnlaea.  Theeiiaeli  of  it  will 
be  well  seen  by  attentiaa  to  the  notea. 


Mfy  X*  A*  F* 
^A  Uttle  tract,  wiittea  with  maeh  hn* 
mo«r,  and  in  a  light  and  aportiTe  vbIm  of 
aatire.  When  we  name  the  Avthor  of 
'*  An  Apology  for  Cathedral  Service**  m 
the  Author  of  this  alao,  it  will  need  no 
other  letter  of  recoaamcadatioB. 


Homeeopaihy,  By  Edwin  Lee,  Msf.  Sd 
Edition. — ^Tbe  object  of  thia  pampblet  is 
to  show  that  in  moat  eaaea  homosopathy 
foilfi  in  effecting  what  it  promiaea ;  ad, 
when  it  does  seem  to  anooeed,  it  may  be 
aoconnted  for  from  the  efliecta  of  aneieited 
imagination  and  intellect 


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The  Eoelesiologist*s  Guide  to  the 
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tbor  of  the  Aaaooiation,  and  she  has  wel. 
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o'clock,  and  the  cW  t2**.?J*«''  «t  two 
Eari  of  Roaae.  Tho  luTw!!*^:*^  ^J  th# 
cU  stat«l  thai  •ppU^S*^^.'»>e  CoS! 


for  aid  in  condoctin*  mi^^LJ  ^  Owdnmato^ 
tive  balloona,  •aTSLrS?^**.**  on  «*• 
atructionato  th©  Com^^  MMied  lA. 
wich  to  afford  er^i^ra^/  •»  Wi^J. 
pose.  Areaolotion  £Slb2^/**,«»«|mr. 
the  Cork  Meeting,  nrthTL-^^Pt^dM 


mendation  of  aeveral  Sm*k^  ''****'  ^^^ 
destrableneaa  of  haW^^'^'  «tatui,  th« 
elevation  engiuTtS^J^tS*'^'^  "^^ 
Ordn^jce  Survey  of  Ir^j    i'»^  ^^ 
toaUy  been  done  in  them^^  !?  **^  ■«• 
of  Kilkenny,  so  aa  to  ^^    ,.^'  WHuity 
etieaanddi^JSrtei^^^ 
surveyed.    A  memorial  dJ.  J!^  «>«*^ 
advantage  of  mh  Indttos^!^  ^  *^ 
age.   road.nmking,  r^^SSSJ  ^  tS^ 
supply,  mining  operSi^^   ?  ^«t««w 
other  important  purpoott^h.??   ••twU 
aentod  to  the  GoveT^nt    .n^!J  ^"^ 
no  dUtinct  nsply  waarir^*    w  *  ^^''"^ 
had  been  recefvJd  JhafthS^' J?^^"^^ 
had  been  ordered  to^be  rn«^"*'?'  *^»^ 
«,pUcation  for  aid  in  the^nhS'^:.    '^ 
/rSf.  Forbea's  ^^^^  L  ttt"  ^ 
Sea,  had  been  favourably^eSiv^  £^ 
Majesty's  Minister.,  Lt^^.'^^J^^^^' 
had  been  granted  for  the  puT>o^.*^- 
copies  were  to  be  printed,  SO  of  ifclk 
were  t»  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of  fler 
Majesty's  Government  for  oreacBt-rt^^r 
various  foreign  bodies.  50  WSv^  5 
Prof.  Forbes,  and  the  remainder  tdlie^M 
to  the  public  at  a  conaiderable  reduction 
on  the  cost-price.    The  Government  had 
also  advanced  a  thousand  pounda  In  aid 
of  the   pubUcation  of  the  CaUlojmfc  of 
Stars  in  the  Southern  Hemisphere. 

The  Council  haa  transferred  the  jreolo 
gical  sections  of  railways,  and  Various  do" 
cumente  connected  with  railway  cuttings, 
to  the  Muaeum  of  Economic  Gool<»yon 
condition  that  they  should  be  open 'for 
public  inspection  and  use,  like  the  other 
departments  of  that  establishment. 

The  several  Sections  proceeded  witK 
their  business  on  the  morning  of  "^un. 
day :  our  space  allows  but  a  brief  enume- 
ration of  the  principal  topics  of  discus, 
aion,  but  we  prefix  in  each  case  the  namea 
of  the  presiding  officers. 


Section   A.    MaihtimatiaU 
Seienee.    President,  the  Barl  of  Rosae 


;  Vice- 


Presidente,  Prof,  Mac  Culligh,  Rev.  6r.  Ro- 
hinaon,  Rev.  Br.  WhaweU,  vtot.  WlieatalOM 
Bacretaries,  Prof.  BtovcUy,  Rav.  W.  Hey. 

Sir  D.  Brewster  gave  a  proviaiooal  re- 
port on  the  hourly  Meteorological  Ohaar.« 
vationa  carried  on  at  Invemoss,  at  the 
CKpena*  of    the  Awociation,    by  Hr, 


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Thomu  Mackenzie.  Papers  followed, 
**  On  the  Analogy  of  the  exiatencea  or 
forcea,  Light,  Heat,  Voltaic  and  ordinary 
Electricities^  by  John  Goodman ;  on  a 
principle  in  the  theory  of  Probabilities,  by 
Fh>f.  Yonng;  on  Diverging  Infinite 
Series,  by  the  same  \  on  the  defect  of  Elas- 
ticity in  Rigid  Bodies,  by  Mr.  £.  Hodg. 
Unson ;  and  others.  On  Monday  the  Earl 
of  Roasa  described  the  construction  of 
his  gigantic  Reflecting  TelaMX>pe,  now 
nearly  completed,  at  Birr  Castle,  King's 
county. 

Section  B.   CktmUhjf  and  Mhurqlc§w,  Pre 
rident,  Proliesaor  T.  Graham ;  Vice-rresldents, 
M arqueaa  of  Northampton,  Prof.  Grove,  Dr. 
Danbeay  |  Secretaries,  Dr.  L.  PlayAUr,  Mr.  K. 
SoUy,  Mr.  T.  H.  Barker. 

Papers  ware  read  on  the  mineral 
■prinn  and  other  waters  of  Yorkshire, 
hf  W.  West,  esq. ;  on  the  inflaence  of 
lifht  on  the  germination  of  Seeds  and  the 

SDwth  of  Plants,  bv  Mr.  R,  Hnnt ;  on 
r.  Phillips's  method  of  discovering  adul- 
teration in  Tobacco,  &c.  &c. 

Section  C.  Otology  and  Pkytieal  Geography . 
President,  Mr.  H.  Warbnrton;  Vice-Presi- 
dests,  the  Earl  of  Eoniskillen,  Sir  H.  T. 
Be  la  Btehe.  Mr.  R.  I.  Marchison  (Prssident 
Ibr  Geography),  Rev.  Prof  Sedgwick ;  Secre- 
taries, rr«r.  Ansted,  Mr.  B.  H.  Banbury. 

A  Report  was  received  from  the  Com- 
mittee for  registering  Earthquake  Shocks 
in  Scotland,  (during  the  last  twelve 
months  thirty-seven  have  been  registered 
by  Mr.  M*FarIane,  at  Comrie  in  Perth- 
shire) ;  papers  on  a  newly  discovered 
species  of  Unio,  from  the  Wealden  strata 
of  the  Isle  of  Wight,  by  Dr.  Mantell ;  on 
the  importance  of  preserving  Mining 
Records,  by  Prof.  Ansted;  on  Subter- 
ranean Temperature  in  Ireland  (under- 
taken at  the  request  of  the  Association), 
by  Mr.  Oldham,  Bcc,  On  Friday  some 
interest  was  excited  by  a  discussion  on 
the  geological  theories  of  the  formation 
of  the  Earth :  it  was  commenced  by  the 
Dean  of  York  offering  some  *'  Critical 
Remarks  on  certain  passages  of  Dr. 
Buckland's  Bridgewater  Treatise,"  and 
which  were  published  on  the  following 
day,  in  the  form  of  a  pamphlet  entitled 
**  The  Bible  defended  against  the  British 
Association."  He  attempted  to  explain 
the  present  appearances  of  the  earth  by 
the  operations  of  a  deluge  of  a  few  weeks' 
duration;  but  received  a  very  complete 
as  well  as  energetic  reply  from  Professor 
Sedgwick. 

Section  D.  Zoology  and  Botany,  President, 
the  Dean  of  Mancbester:  Vice-Presideots, 
Prof.  Owen,  Mr.  H.  E.  Stncklaod,  Mr.  W.  K. 
Spence,  Dr.  Falconer;  Secretaries,  Prof. 
AUman,  Dr.  Lankester,  Mr.  U.  Goodsir. 

Mr.  H.  E.  Strickland  read  the  report 
of  a  committee  on  the  Vitality  of  Seeds ; 
GufT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


Mr.  Peach  a  paper  on  the  Marine 
Zoology  of  the  coast  of  Cornwall ;  besides 
which  there  were  various  communications 
on  single  specimens  of  animals,  &c.  &c. 

Section  E.  Medical  Seienee.  President,  J. 
C.  Prichard,  M.D.;  Vice-Presidents,  W.  P. 
Alison,  M.D.,  H.  S.  Belcombe,  M.D.,  Q. 
Goldie,  M.D.,  T.  Simpson,  M.D  ;  Secretaries. 
Mr.  J.  Erichsen,  R.  S.  Sar^gent,  M.D. 

The  first  paper  read  was  a  report  on 
Asphyxia  by  Mr.  Erichsen ;  which  wai 
followed  by  a  paper  on  a  disease  of  the 
Tongue,  by  Dr.  Kenning. 

Section  P.  Statietice.  Preaident,  Colonel 
Sykes;  Vice-Presidents,  Sir  J.  V.  B.  John- 
stone, Bart,  Sir  C.  Lemon,  Bart.,  Mr.  T. 
Tooke,  Mr.  G.  R.  Porter ;  SecreUries.  Mr.  G. 
Haywood,  Mr.  J.  Fletcher,  Dr.  Laycock. 

Mr.  Porter  read  a  paper  on  the  Mining 
Districts  of  France ;  Col.  Sykes  an  ac- 
count of  the  rate  of  mortality  at  Calcutta ; 
and  Mrs.  Davies  Gilbert  sent  a  communi- 
cation on  Agricultural  Schools. 

Section  G.  Mechanical  Science.  President, 
Mr.  G.  Rennie:  Vice-Presidents,  Mr.  J.  S. 
Russell,  Mr.  E.  Hodgkinson,  Mr.  John  Taylor; 
Secretaries,  Mr.  C.  Vignolles,  Mr.  T.  Webster. 

Mr.  Hodgkinson  reported  on  the  grant 
made  last  year  for  examining  the  law  of 
the  defective  electricity  of  Iron  and  Stone ; 
and  Mr.  Scott  Russell  stated  that  the 
committee  on  the  Forms  of  Ships  had 
completed  its  labours.  It  is  suggested, 
from  the  result  of  experiments  made  with 
a  vessel  of  four  tons  measurement,  that 
the  trafe  form,  as  the  form  of  least  re- 
sistence,  may  be  adopted  with  great  ad- 
vantage in  the  construction  of  sailing  ves- 
sels, as  it  has  already  been  in  the  fastest 
class  of  steam  vessels. 

At  the  evening  meeting  on  Thursday, 
the  Earl  of  Rosse  resigned  the  chair  to  the 
Very  Rev.  Dr.  Peacock,  Dean  of  Ely,  the 
President  of  the  year,  who  then  delivered 
a  very   pleasing  and  eloquent  address. 
After  paying  due  acknowledgment  to  **  the 
courteous,  dignified,  and  able  manner*' 
in  which  the  Earl  of  Rosse  had  discharged 
the  duties  of  his  office,  he  alluded  to 
**  the  magnificent  works  which  are    ac- 
complished or  in  progress  at   his  noble 
residence  at  Birr  Castle.     Whatever  met 
the  eye  was  upon  a  gigantic  scale  ;  tele- 
scopic tubes  through  which  the  tallest  man 
could  walk  upright;   telescopic  mirrors, 
whose  weights  are  estimated  not  by  pounda 
but  by  tons,  polished  by  steam  power 
with  almost  inconceivable  ease  and  ra- 
pidity, and  with  a  certainty,  and  accuracy, 
and  delicacy  exceeding  the  most  perfect 
productions  of  the  most  perfect  manipula- 
tion ;  atmctures,  for  the  support  of  the 
telescope  and  its  machinery,  more  lofty 
and  massive  than  those  of  a    Norman 
keep ;  whilst  the  same  arrangements  which 
secure  the  stability  of  maiaef  which  bo 

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CNOT, 


ordinary  crane  coold  move,  provide  like- 
wise for  their  obeying  the  most  delicate 
impulse  of  the  most  delicate  finger,  or  for 
following  the  stars  in  their  course,  Uirough 
the  agency  of  clockwork,  with  a  movement 
80  steady  and  free  from  tremors,  as  to 
liecome    scarcely    perceptible  when    in- 
creased a  thousand  fold  by  the  magnifying 
powers  of  the  eye-glass.  The  instruments, 
which  were  mounted  and  in  operation  at 
the  time  of  my  visit,  exceeded  in  optical 
power,  and  in  the  clearness  and  precision 
of  their   definition  of  celestial   objects, 
the    mot^    perfect   productions   of  the 
greatest    modem    artists;    and    though 
jDUoh  had  been  then  accomplished,  and 
great  difficulties  bad  been  overcome,  by  a 
rare  combination  of  mechanical,  chemi^, 
and  mathematical  skill  and  knowledge,  in 
the  preparation  for  mounting  the  great 
telescope  of  six  feet  diameter  and  fifty- 
four  feet  focal  length,  yet  much  remained 
to  be  done  :  but  I  am  quite  sure  that  the 
members  of  the  Association  will  learn 
with  unmixed  satisfaction,  that  the  noble 
liord  has  entirely  succeeded  in  his  great 
undertaking — that  the  great  telescope  has 
already  made  its  essay,  and  that  its  per- 
formance is  in  every  way  satisfactory.  •  •  • 
Jt  is  now  more  than  sixty  years  since  the 
elder  Herschel,  by  the  superior  optical 
and  apace-penetrating  powers  of  his  tele- 
tcope,  began  a  brilliant  career  of  astro- 
nomical discovery ;  and  the  interest  which 
the  construction  of  bis  great  forty  4bot  re- 
flector, a  memorable  monument  of  his 
perseverance,   genius,  and  skill,  excited 
amongst  men  of  science  of  that  period, 
was  not,  if  possible,  less  intense  than  what 
now  attaches  to  the  similar  enterprise  of 
the  noble  Lord :  nor  were  the  expecta- 
tions which  were  thus  raised  disappointed 
by  the  result ;  for,  though  this  noble  in- 
•trument  was  generally  reserved  for  the 
great  and  state  occasions  of  astronomy 
only,  requiring  too  great  an  expenditure 
of  time  and  labour  to  be  producible  for 
the  daily  business  of  observation,  jet  the 
very  first  time  it  was   directed  to  the 
heavens  it  discovered  the  7th  satellite  of 
Saturn,  and  contributed  in  no  inconsider- 
able degree  to  the  more  complete  de- 
velopement  of  those  views  of  the  con* 
atroction  of  the  heavens  (I  use  his  own 
expression)    which    his    contemporaries 
never  soffioiently  appreciated,  but  which 
present  and  future  ages  will  probably  re- 
gard aa  the  most  durable  monument  of  hia 
fame.     It  ia  no  derogation  to  the  claims 
of  this  great  discoverer  that  art  and  know- 
ledge are  progressive,  or  that  a  successor 
abonld  have  arisen,  who,  following  in  the 
track  which  be  has  pointed  out,  shonld 
bring  a  oonsiderable  leal  and  more  ample 
■Mani  to  prepare  tht  way  for  another 


great  epoph  in  tl»e  history  of  aftronomicvl 
discovery ;  and  I  know  tiiat  I  do  not  mia* 
state  the  sentiments  of  the  accomplishe4 
philosopher  who  )ia<  succeeded  to  hif 
name  and  honoori,  and  who  throughout 
his  life  has  laboured  with  such  e;(emplary 
filial  piety,  and  aveh  diacingnished  suGcessi 
in  thi|  developement  m4  extension  of  hi| 
father'f  views,  that  no  Que  takes  a  dc^»er 
or  a  more  lively  interest  in  (tie  soocess  of 
this  noble  enterpriae,  ai^i  no  09a  rgoicei 
more  sincerely  in  the  vaat  9f9W^  ^ 
discovery  which  it  opens." 

The  President  then  nroce^ed  to  ma^ 
some  observations  on  the  ptate  And  prof« 
pepts  of  the  Aasooiatim} ;  and,  after  allude 
ing  to  deaths  which  have  oceorred  during 
the  thirteen  years  of  its  ezistenee,  among 
the  liat  of  its  foundera,-*^*  of  Mr.  W. 
SmiA,  who  first  received  at  our  meadngi 
Uie  ample  recognition  of  the  value  ^ 
those  original  and  unaided  researcheif 
which  entitle  him  to  be  considered  as  the 
father  of  Engliah  Geology ;  of  Dr.  Uoyd, 
Provost  of  Trinity  Colkge,  Dublin,  the 
father  of  our  excellent  colleague  Prof. 
Lloyd,  and  the  founder  of  that  truly  illoa- 
trioua  school  of  accurate  science  U  that 
university,  which  has  given  to  the  world  a 
Robinson,  a  Hamilton,  and  aM'Culloohi 
of  Sir  J.  Robison,  who  inherited  from  his 
father,  the  well-known  Prof.  Robison,  his 
taste  for  science  and  its  application  to  the 
arts  ;  of  Dr.  Henry,  one  of  our  most  dis- 
tinguished chemists,  and  only  second  In 
reputation  to  his  fellow  townsman,  Dr. 
Dalton,** — ^he  proceeded  to  pronoooce 
upon  the  last«named  philosopher  a  more 
extended  eulogy,  which  we  have  trans- 
ferred to  the  columns  of  our  Obituary, 

After  aome  remarks  on  the  reduced 
income  of  the  Association  in  the  latter 
years  of  its  progress,  and  on  the  princi- 
ples on  which  money  grants  are  made,  the 
Dean  of  Ely  thus  noticed  the  most  oneroua 
undertakings  of  the  Association  : 

'*  It  was  at  the  memorable  meeting  of 
the  Association  at  Newcastle,  a  period  of 
great  financial  prosperity,  that  it  was  ra<*> 
solved  to  recommend  and  to  undertake  n 
very  extensive  system  of  astronomical  re* 
duct  ions  and  catalogues  :  the  first  was  the 
republication,  under  a  greatly  extended 
and  much  more  complete  form,  of  the 
Astronomical  Society's  catalogue,  exhibit- 
ing the  latest  and  most  accurate  resa]ta 
of  Bfitronomical  observation,  reduced  to  # 
common  epoch,  with  the  permanent  oo« 
efficients  for  their  reduction,  which  tho 
Nautical  Almanac  does  not  supply,  tike 
second  was  the  reduction  of  all  tb« 
atars  in  the  Hiatoire  Celeste  of  Lalands, 
nearly  47.000  in  number,  containing  dm 
most  complete  record  which  existed  60 
yeara  ago  of  the  results  of  obtflftttiin. 


1844.] 


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and  affordinf  I  tli«refor«f  an  intenral  of 
time  so  ooQsiderable,  aa  to  enable  aa* 
tronomerty  by  comparing  them  with  their 
poaitioni  aa  assigned  by  modem  observa- 
tiOfls,  to  determine  their  proper  motions 
and  other  minute  changes,  dmost  inde- 
pendently of  the  errors  of  obserration.  A 
third  was  a  similar  reduction  of  stars  in 
the  Coelnm  Stellifemm  Anstrale  of  La- 
callle,  8,700  in  number,  which  had  as- 
sumed an  unnsnal  degree  of  importance 
from  the  recently  completed  snnrey  of  the 
aovthem  hemisphere  by  Sir  John  Herschel, 
and  the  establishment  of  observatories  at 
Paramatta  and  the  Cape. 

"  Another  work  of  still  greater  expense 
and  labour,  was  the  reduction  and  publi- 
cation of  the  Planetary  and  Lanar  Ob- 
iervations  at  Greenwich,  from  the  time  of 
Bradley  downwards,  which  was  undertaken 
by  the  Goremment  at  the  earnest  appli- 
cation of  a  committee  of  the  Associstion 
appointed  for  that  purpose,  and  acting  in 
conjunction  with  the  Royal  Society.  This 
great  undertaking  has  been  nearly  brought 
to  a  conclusion  under  the  systematic  and 
tigilant  superintendence  of  the  Astrono- 
mer-Royal. 

"  The  publication  of  these  works  must 
form  a  great  epoch  in  astronomy ;  and, 
though  the  expense  to  which  it  has  ex- 
posed the  Association  has  been  very  con- 
siderable, and  will  amount,  when  com- 
pleted, to  nearly  3000/.  yet  it  cannot  fail 
to  prove  a  durable  monument  of  the  salu- 
tary influence  which  it  has  exercised  upon 
the  progress  of  science.  The  catalogues 
of  Lacaille  and  Lalande  are  to  be  printed 
and  published,  as  is  already  known  to  you, 
tt  the  expense  of  Her  Majesty's  Govern- 
ment ;  and  the  first,  which  has  been  pre- 
pared under  the  superintendence  of  Prof. 
Henderson,  is  nearly  complete.  The  cata- 
logue of  Lalande  and  the  British  Associ- 
ation catalogue  were  placed  under  the 
ittperintendence  of  Mr.  Francis  Baily  ;*' 
to  whose  memory  the  speaker  then  paid 
a  (>assing  tribute.  (See  our  Obituary  of  the 
present  month.) 

"  It  was  the  same  meeting  at  Newcastle 
which  gare  rise  to  the  design  for  the 
greatest  combined  scientific  operation  in 
which  the  Association  has  ever  been  en- 
gaged for  the  extension  of  our  knowledge 
of  the  laws  of  magnetism  and  meteorology. 
It  was  the  publication  of  Col.  Sabine's 
Report  on  the  Tariations  of  the  magnetic 
intensity  at  different  points  of  the  earth's 
aurface,  and  the  map  which  accompanied 
it,  which  appeared  in  our  Tola  me  for  1837, 
which  first  enabled  the  celebrated  Gauss 
to  assign  provisionally  the  co -efficients  of 
his  series  for  expressing  the  magnetic 
elements  :  the  proper  data  of  this  theory 
are  the  raloea  of  the  magnetic  dementa  at 


given  points  uniformly  and  systematioally 
distributed  over  the  surface  of  the  earth  ; 
snd  it  was  for  the  purpose  of  supplying 
the  acknowledged  deficiency  of  these  datai 
and  of  determining  the  laws  which  regu* 
lated  the  movements  of  this  most  subtle 
and  mysterious  element,  the  Association 
was  induced  to  appoint  a  committee  to 
apply,  in  conjunction  with  the  Royal  So« 
ciety,  to  her  Majesty's  Government,  to 
make  a  magnetical  survey  of  the  highest 
accessible  altitudes  of  the  Antarctic  seas« 
and  to  institute  fixed  magnetical  and  me* 
teorological  observatories  at  St.  Helena^ 
the  Cape,  Hobarton,  and  Toronto,  in 
conjunction  with  a  normal  establishment 
at  Greenwich,  and  in  connexion  with  a 
great  number  of  others  on  the  continent 
of  Europe,  where  systematic  and  simulta* 
neons  observations  cotild  be  made,  which 
would  embrace  not  only  the  phenomena 
of  magnetism,  but  those  of  meteorology 
also.  Much  oi  what  was  then  anticipated 
has  been  accomplished,  much  is  in  pro* 
gress,  and  much  remains  to  be  done ;  but 
the  results  which  have  already  been  ob- 
tained have  more  than  justified  our  most 
sanguine  expectations.  Sir  James  Rosa 
has  returned  without  the  loss  of  a  man, 
without  a  seaman  on  the  sick  list,  after 
passing  three  summers  in  the  Antarctic 
Seas,  and  after  making  a  series  of  geogra* 
phical  discoveries  of  the  most  interesting 
and  important  nature.  The  scientific  re- 
sults of  the  first  two  years  of  this  remark* 
able  voyage  have  been  discussed  and  pub-* 
lisbed  by  Col.  Sabine  in  his  contributions 
to  Terrestrial  Magnetism  in  the  Transac- 
tions of  the  Royal  Society.  They  have 
shown  that  observations  of  declination , 
dip,  and  intensity,  the  three  magnetio 
elements,  may  be  made  at  sea  with  aa 
much  accuracy  as  on  land,  and  that  they 
present  fewer  anomalies  from  local  and 
disturbing  causes :  that  the  effects  of  the 
ship's  iron  are  entirely  due  to  induced 
magnetism,  including  two  species  of  it,— • 
one  instantaneous,  coincident  with  and 
superadded  to  the  earth's  magnetism,  and 
the  other  a  polarity  retained  for  a  shorter 
or  longer  period,  and  transferable  there- 
fore during  its  operation  by  the  ship's 
motion  from  one  point  of  space  to  another : 
that  in  both  eases  they  may  be  completely 
eliminated  by  the  observations  and  for- 
mulse  which  mathematicians  have  pro- 
posed for  that  purpose :  no  intensity 
greater  than  S'l  was  observed;  and  the 
magnetic  lines  of  equal  declination,  dlpi 
and  intensity,  were  found  to  differ  greatly 
from  those  laid  down  in  Gauss*s  Theo- 
retical Map,  the  northern  and  southern 
hemispheres  possessing  much  greater  re- 
semblance to  each  other  than  was  indi- 
oated  by  that  primary  and  oeceaaarily  im- 


524 


Liieraty  and  Sekwiific  InttlUgenee* 


[Nor. 


perfect  essay  of  the  theory.  The  range 
of  Sir  James  Rois's  obsenrationa  extends 
over  more  than  three-fourtbs  of  the  navi- 
gable parts  of  the  sonthem  seas ;  and  yon 
will  learn  with  pleasure  that  one  of  his 
most  efficient  officers,  lient.  Moore,  has 
been  dispatched  from  the  Cape,  with  a 
vessel  nnder  his  command,  to  complete 
the  remainder." 

The  President  then  sUted  that  "  the 
complete  organization  and  discipline  of 
the  system  of  magnetic  observations  was 
amply  tested  by  the  observations  made  of 
the  great  storm  of  the  S5th  Sept.  1841, 
and  mentioned  the  services  of  Mr.  Snow 
Harris,  Mr.  Birt,  and  Sir  J.  Herschel,  in 
this  department  of  scientific  inquiry.  The 
system  of  magnetic  observatories  was  at 
first  designed  to  continue  for  three  years 
only,  but  was  subsequently  extended  to 
the  1st  of  January  1846 :  for  it  was  found 
that  the  first  triennial  period  had  almost 
elapsed  before  the  instruments  were  pre- 
pared, or  the  observers  instructed  in  their 
duties,  or  conveyed  to  their  stations.  The 
extent   also    of    co-operation    increased 
beyond  all  previous  expectation :  six  ob- 
servatories were  established,  under  the 
zealous  direction  of  M.  Kupifer,  in  dif- 
ferent  parts  of  the  vast  empire  of  Russia, 
—  the  only  country  which  has  established 
a  permanent  physical  observatory.    The 
American    government    instituted    three 
others  at  Boston,  Philadelphia,  and  Wash- 
ington ;  two  were  established  by  the  East 
India  Company  at  Simla  and  Sincapore ; 
from  every  part  of  Europe,  and  even  from 
Algiers,  offers  of  co>  operation  were  made. 
But  will  the  work,  which  has  thus  been 
undertaken  with  such  vast  prospects,  be 
accomplished  before  the  termination  of 
the  second  triennial  period  ?  or  is  it  not 
probable  that  the  very  discussion  of  the 
observations  will  suggest  new  topics  of 
inqutrv,  or  more  delicate  methods  of  ob- 
servation ?     If  the  marcb  of  the  diuraal, 
monthlv,  and  annual  movements  of  the 
needle  be  sufficiently  determined,  will  iu 
secular  movements  be  equally  well  known  ? 
In  other  words,  shall  we  have  laid  the 
foundations  of  the  theory,   which  may 
even  imperfectly  approximate  to  the  theory 
of  gravitation,  in  the  accuracy  and  univer- 
sality of  its  predictions  ?   It  is  with  refer- 
ence to  these  important  questions,  and 
the  expcdiencv  of  continuing  the  observa- 
tions for  another  triennial  term,  that  M. 
Knpffer,  too,  addressed  a  letter  to  Col. 
Sabine,  suggesting  the  propriety  of  sum- 
moning a  Magnetic  Congress,  to  be  held 
at  the  next  meeting  of  the  British  Asso- 
ciation,   and  at  which   himself,    Gauss, 
Humboldt,  Plana,  Haosteen,  Arago,  La- 
mont,   Kairll,  Bacbe,   Quetelet,  and  all 
pther  pcrsoiu  who  had  taken  a  leading 


part  in  conducting,  oif^anisiiig,  oc  for- 
warding these  observations,  shoold  be  in* 
vited  to  attend.  This  proposal  has  been 
for  some  time  under  the  anxious  consi- 
deration of  your  Committee  of  Magnet, 
ism,  consisting  of  Sir  J.  HerschcL  CoL 
Sabine,  the  Astronomer  Royal,  Dr.  Lloyd, 
the  Master  of  Trinity  College,  and  myself; 
and  it  will  be  for  the  General  Comatiittes, 
before  we  separate,  to  decide  upon  the 
answer  which  must  be  given.  I  think  I 
may  venture  to  say,  that  there  would  he 
but  one  feeling  of  pride  and  satisfiiction, 
at  seeing  amongst  as  the  whole  or  sny 
considerable  number  of  these  celebrated 
men.  If  it  should  be  the  opinion  of  suck 
a  congress  that  it  was  expedient  to  ooa« 
tinue  the  observations  for  another  triea* 
nial  period,  and  if  such  an  opinion  wen 
accompanied  by  an  expositioa  of  the 
grounds  upon  which  it  was  founded,  there 
can  be  little  doubt  that  there  is  not  a  go- 
vernment in  the  civilised  world  whloh 
would  not  readily  acquiesce  in  a  recom- 
mendation which  was  supported  by  such 
sttthority. 

' '  The  last  volume  of  our  Transactions 
is  rich  in  Reports  on  Natural  Seienoe, 
and  more  especially  in  those  departments 
of  it  which  have  an  important  bearing  on 
Geology :  such  is  Prof.  Forbes's  R^ort 
On  the  distribution  of  the  MoUusca  and 
Radiata  of  the  ^gean  Sea,  with  particn- 
lar  reference  to  the  successive  aonea  of 
depth  which  are  characterised  by  distinc- 
tive forms  of  animal  life  and  the  relation 
between  existing  and  extinct  species.  Yon 
will,  I  am  sure,  be  rejoiced  to  hear  that 
Her  Majesty's  Government  hss  not  only 
secured  the  services  of  its  author,  in  con- 
nexion with  the  geological  survey,  but  has 
most  liberally  undertaken,  upon  the  appll* 
cation  of  the  Council,  to  defray  the  ex- 
pense of   printing  the  very   interesting 
work  upon  which  this  Report  is  founded. 
The  Report  of  Mr.  Thompson,  of  Belfast, 
on  an  analogous  branch  of  the  Fauna  of 
Ireland,  is  remarkable  for  the  minuteness 
and  fulness  of  the  information  which  it 
conveys.     Prof.  Owen  has  oontinaed  his 
Report  on  the  British  Fossil  Mammalia, 
which  was  begun  in  the  preceding  volume, 
and  towards  procuring  materials  for  which 
a  contribution  was  made  from  the  fnads 
of  the  Association.    I  regret  to  find  that 
a  class  of  Reports  on  the  recent  progress 
and  existing  state  of  different  branches 
of  science,  which  occupied  so  large  a  por- 
tion of  our  earlier  volumes,  and  which 
conferred  upon  them  so  great  a   value, 
have  been  almost  entirely  discontinned : 
if  the  authors  of  these  Reports  could  find 
leisure  to  add  to  them  an  appendix,  oon- 
taining  the  history  of  the  advances  made 
in  those  branches  of  science  dsudng  the 


1844.] 


JjUerary  and  SewiHfic  Intelligence* 


525 


lut  deead  of  yean,  they  would  confer  an 
important  benefit  on  all  persons  engaged 
in  seientific  inqairies. 

**  The  history  of  the  sciences  must  ever 
require  these  periodical  revisions  of  their 
state  and  progress,  if  men  continue  to 
press  forward  in  the  true  spirit  of  philo- 
sophy to  adrance  the  boundaries  of  know* 
ledge ;  for  though  there  may  be  impassable 
boundaries  of  human  knowledge,  there  is 
only  one  great  and  all- wise  Being,  with 
whom  all  knowledge  is  perfect,  who  can 
say,  Thus  far  shalt   thou  go,  and  no 
farther.    The  indolent  speculator  on  the 
history  of  the  sciences  may  indulge  in 
an  expression    of  regret  that   the  true 
system  of  the  universe  is  known,  that 
the  law  of  gravitation  is  discovered,  that 
the  problem  of  the  three  bodies  is  solved, 
and  that  the  rich  mine  of  discovery  is 
exhausted,    and    that  there    remain   no 
rich  masses  of  ore  in  its  veins  to  make 
the  fortune  and  fame  of  those  who  find 
them:    but  it  is  in  the  midst  of  this 
dream  of  hopelessness  and  despondency 
that  he  is  startled  from  time  to  time  by  the 
report  of  some  great  discovery — ^a  Davy 
has  decomposed  the  alkalies;  a  Dalton 
haa  discovered,  and  a  Beraelius  has  com- 
pletely developed,  the  law  of  definite  pro- 
portions ;  a  Herschel  has  extended  the 
law  of  gravitation  to  the  remotest  disco- 
▼erable  bodies  of  the  universe ;  and  a  Gauss 
haa  brought  the  complicated  and  embar- 
rassing phenomena  of  terrestial  magnet- 
ism under  the  dominion  of  analysis ;  and 
so  it  will  ever  continue  to  be  whilst  know- 
ledge advances,  the  highest  generaliza- 
tiona  of  one  age  becoming  the  elementary 
truthf  of  the  next.    But  whilst  we  are 
taking  part  in  this  great  march  of  science 
and  eivUixation,  whilst  we  are  endeavour- 
ing to  augment  the  great  mass  of  intel- 
lectual wealth    which    is    accumulating 
around    us,   splendid    as    may  be    the 
triumphs  of  science  or  art  which  we  are 
achieving,  let  us  never  presume  to  think 
that  we  are  either  exhausting  the  riches 
or  approaching  the  terms  of  those  trea- 
sures which  are  behind.     Still  less  let  us 
imagine  thht  the  feeble  efforts  of  our  phi- 
losophy will  ever  tend  to  modify  the  most 
trivial  and  insignificant — ^if  aught  can  be 
termed  trivial  and  insignificant  which  He 
haa  sanctioned — of  those  arrangements 
which  the  great  Author  of  Nature  haa 
appointed  for  the  moral  or  material  go- 
vernment of  the  universe.    Ftr  different 
are  the  lessons  which  he  taught  us,  by  the 
revelation  of  his  will,  whether  expressed 
in  his  word  or  impressed  on  his  works. 
It  is  in  a  humble  and  reverent  spirit  that 
we  should  approach  the  fountain  of  all 
knowledge ;  and  it  is  in  a  humble  and  re- 
verent tpiric  that  vre  should  seek  to  drink 


of  the  living  waters  which  ever  flow 
from  it.'» 

Mr.  John  Taylor  read  the  Treasurer's 
account,  from  the  15th  Aug.  1843  to  the 
26th  Sept.  1844.  The  receipts  (including 
a  balance  of  496/.)  amounted  to  2,657/., 
and  the  disbursements  to  2,S01/. 

On  Friday,  Sept.  27,  Earl  Fitxwilliami 
as  President  of  the  Yorkshire  Philoso* 
phical  Society,  gave  a  dinner  to  the  more 
distinguished  members  of  the  Associa- 
tion, and  in  the  evening  Mr.  Lyell  deli- 
vered a  discourse  on  the  Geology  of  North 
America.  On  Saturday,  Sept.  28,  at 
three  o*clock,  Lieut.  Carte  exhibited  some 
rocket  experiments,  and  his  invention! 
for  saving  life  in  case  of  shipwreck  ;  and 
in  the  evening  Dr.  Falconer  described  the 
gigantic  Fossil  Tortoise  of  the  Sivalik 
HUls,  North  India. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  General  Com- 
mittee on  Monday,  Sept.  30,  invitationa 
having  been  read  from  Bath,  Cambridge, 
and  Southampton,  it  was  resolved,  that 
the  next  meeting  should  be  held  in  Cam- 
bridge, to  assemble  on  the  19th  of  June. 
The  following  officers  for  the  ensuing  year 
were  then  appointed : 

Sir  J.  F.  Herschel,  Pren<l«a/.— Earl  of  Hard- 
wfcke,  Bishop  of  Nonrich,  Rev.  Dr.  Graham, 
Master  of  Cnrist's  College.  Rev.  Dr.  Ainalie, 
Master  of  Pembroke  College,  Prof.  Atrey, 
Prof.  Sedgwick,  Vice  Preii&nU.-^yi.  Hmk 
kins,  esq.  Prof.  Anstey,  Seeretariu.  —  Mr. 
Babtngton,  Local  Treaturer.  ^Co\.  Sykes, 
Mr.  L.  Homer,  Mr.  Hntton,  G^^ra  Aumtort. 
—Sir  H.  T.  De  U  Becbe,  Dr.  Bncklaad,  Dr. 
Daubeny,  Prof.  £.  Forbes,  Prof.  Graham,  Mr. 
Eaton  Hodgkinson,  Mr.  Snow  Harris,  Mr.  J. 
Heywood,  Mr.  L.  Homer.  Mr.  R.  Hatton,  Dr. 
Hodgkin,SirC.  Lemon,  Mr.  Lyell,  Marquess  of 
Northampton,  Earl  of  Hoase,  Prof.  Owen,  Mr. 
StrickUnd,  Rev.  Dr.  Robinson,  Sir  James  C. 
Ross,  Gol.  Sykes,  Mr.  W.  Thompson,  Prof. 
Wheatstone,  Mr.  H.  Warbnrton,  M.  P.  and 
Mr.  C.  Williams,  C^mncU, 

R.  I.  Murcliison,  esq.  and  Col.  Sabine,  were 
re  elected  General  Secretaries  ;  Prof.  PtuUips* 
Amttant  General  Secretary;  and  Mr.  John 
Taylor,  Treaturer, 

Oct,  2.    The  Comnuttee  met  to  con* 

aider  the  Grants  proposed  by  the  Com* 

mittee  of  Recommendations,  which  were 

severally  adopted,  as  follows  : 

Recommendations  involving  Grants  o/ Money, 
Kew  Observatory .  £ 

Establishment  190 

Barometrograph       SO 

JiathemaHrai  and  Pkysieal  Seiencf, 

BobinsOD,  Rev.  Dr.— British  Association 
Catatogae  of  Stars 615 

Robinsouy  Rev.  Dr.— Captive  Balloons  . .    M 

Herschel,  Sir  J.— For  Ala^etic  and  Me- 
teoro1(^cal  co-operation  . .     50 

Meteorological    Instruments   at   Edin- 
burgh (Bills)         lar.  ISr.  M . 

Hams,  W.  S.  esq.  —  For  Reduction  of 
Anemometrical  Observations    . .        . .     25 

Herschel,  Sir  J.— For  Nomendatnre  of 
Stars ..    10 

Ronaldfl,  F.  e8q.--For  Elactjcical  Ksptri- 
ment^atKew       50 


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mpfihtiipm  U  AgritMitwf  and  Us  ArU.  bia  analysis  of  Mineral  Wateft,  and  xe- 

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peratnre  In  Ireland       S  Society.  -     *     ** 

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That  Di^  Porebhammer'e  paper  on  Me*  the  nan  He  agea  to  that 

tMu>rphic  PhMuimeaft  In  the  ^  -  ^h  "^  iiriiioheme 


1844.] 


SojfdSoeieif  of  LittftOuM. 


M7 


employed  fa  edeoletiiif  the  Meeoiif » more 
particalarly  with  reference  to  the  feitiT«li 
of  the  Church ;  it  was,  therefore,  in  thoM 
times  en  important  part  of  the  knowledge 
necessary  for  ecclesiastics.    Among  the 
more  celebrated  writers  on  the  eompotut 
were  Hilperic  in  the  10th,  and  Oerland  in 
•thelltb  century.    It  was  to  these  two 
writerSf  both  of  whom  were  eminent  in 
medimtal  science,  but  whose  history  ia 
ivToWed  in  obsourity,  that  the  notices 
oontdaed  in  Mr.  Wrighfs  memoir  re- 
lated.    Of  the  treatise  of  Hilperic  (or,  as 
the  name  is  Trariously  written,  Helperio, 
Elpric,  Hilderic,  and  Chilperio)  many  ma* 
ouscnpts  remain,  several  of  them  in  the 
British  Museum }  it  was  printed,  though 
got  lirom  a  good  manuscript,  by  Pes,  in 
the   **  Thesaurus  Novus  Aneedotorum." 
The  date  of  its  composition,  as  given  hj 
Pes,  is  1090$   but  several  others  much 
earlier  were  supplied   by  Mr.  Wright. 
Hilperic,  notwithstanding  the  Prankish 
form  of  his  name,  was  apparently  one  of 
the    many   Anglo-Saxon  scholars    who 
visited  France  in  the  9th  and  10th  centu- 
ries.   On  the  contrary,  Gerland,  hitherto 
generally  considered  as  an  Englishman, 
Mr.  Wright  hss  ascertained,  from  care« 
fvl  research  among  the  various  manuscript 
tracts  on  the  eompotui,  to  have  been  a 
native  of  lx>rraine.    He  was  one  of  the 
first  mathematidaas  of  the  middle  ages ; 
and  his  work  on  the  eompohu  brings  for- 
ward  views  so  much  at  variance  with  those 
of  his   contemporaries,    respecting   the 
time  of  celebrating  Easter,  as  to  have 
eaused  its  proserip&n  by  the  Church. 

Maf  93.  1.  '*  On  some  Antique  Vasee 
and  FiigmentB  of  Pottery  in  the  British 
Museum,'*  by  Mr.  T.  Bnrgon.  The  mo« 
Quments  described  in  this  paper,  a  draw- 
big  of  which  was  hud  on  the  table,  ere  all 
of  that  kind  of  pottery  in  which  sig-sags, 
spirals,  and  concentric  circles  abound  i 
ornaments  which  invariably  indieate  re- 
mote antiquity.  These  ornaments  dis- 
tinguish tbe  Treasury  of  Atreus,  and 
other  architectural  remaina  at  Myoenn, 
oi  whose  antiquity  proofs  were  adduced 
by  Mr.  Burgon.  A  remarkable  evidenoe 
vas  given  of  the  antiquity  of  one  of  the 
oljeota  to  which  this  paper  related.  It 
is  a  beautiful  vase,  covered  with  the  peeu- 
liar  omamenta  already  described,  which 
was  found  by  the  writer  at  Athens,  in  a 
sepulchre  by  the  road-side  leading  to  the 
Academy }  and  so  remote  was  the  era  at 
which  it  had  been  deposited  there  (at 
least  3000  yeara  since),  that  the  earth 
fver  it  had  so  completely  resumed  the 
appearenee  of  virgin  soil  as  to  deceive  aa 
etvte  man  employed  in  excavating,  whose 
whole  liCs  had  been  peased  in  tiUing  the 
«tt  9i  Attiw      From  these  and  other 


facts  tending  to  tb«  seme  oeaeluslottii 
Mr.  Burgon  connected  the  style  of  pot* 
tery  which  distinguishes  these  monu- 
ments with  the  period  of  Cyclopsean  ar- 
chitecture, or,  in  other  words,  with  a  very 
remote  period  of  Grecian  history,  coeval 
with  the  heroic  ages ;  and  he  waa  thus 
enabled  to  accomplish  two  very  desirable 
olqects  in  archeology,  namely — 1.  to  fli 
the  approximate  era  to  which  thia  early 
pottery  beloni^i  and*  S.  to  confute  the 
erroneous  opinion,  that  the  ornaments  ea 
the  Treasury  of  Atveus  are  of  the  Bysaa- 
tine  times* 

S.  "  Oa  the  Palmyra  GvHader,''  by 
Mr.  h  CnUimore.     The  Pebnyvm  CyUa. 
der  belongs  to  the  oollection  in  ^kt  BiU 
tiih  Museum,  end  is  a  rare  specimen  of  a 
curious  class  of  antiques,  the  wrought 
signets  of  the  Orieatals.     It  beers  ug 
inscription,  but  is  exeeated  in  the  meeir 
perfect  style  of  Eastern  art.    The  subject 
represented  showp,  oa  one  side,  a  king  in 
the  Babylonish  costume,  receiring  homage 
as  a  divinity}    and,  on  the  other  side, 
three  royal  personages  |n  the  Egyptian 
costume,    worshipping    the   buU-hesded 
Isis,  or  Astarte.    Between  the  two  ori- 
ental figures  are  introduoed  astronomi- 
cal charaoters  pointing  to  the  equinoic 
in  Taurus.     These  may  refur  to  any  date 
between  the  8th  and  10th  centuries  a.  c.  f 
but  the  indefinits  epoch  is  reduced  to  a 
definite  one,  by  the  iatroductioa  of  the 
winged  soarab,  the  suppeeed  symbol  of 
tiie  erratie  Tboth,  over  the  two  rove! 
Egyptian  figures;    by  compering  whidi 
with  the  oppoeite  symbols  an  intermedi- 
ate date  is  obtained,  a.  e.  1013,  when  the 
erratie  month  Thoth  and   sign  Taurus 
would  eorrespondf   which  nearly  cola- 
ddea  with  the  era  of  the  foundatiea  by 
Solomon  of  Tadmor,  or  Palmyra,  in  the 
ruins  of  which  city  this  monumrat  wee 
found.      It  is  probable  that  this    mo- 
narch at  the  time  referred  to  had  lapsed 
into  idolatry,  and  might  perform  the  ido- 
latrous rites  of  the  Babjloniana  in  the 
magnificent  costume  of  that  nation.     It 
is  farther  to  be  remarked,  that  his  allies 
and  relations  by  marriage,  Rhamses  the 
Fourth  and  Osorkon,   were   about  tills 
time  present  within  his  territories,  and 
ia  that  part  of  Asia  where  Tadmor  If 
situated.    The  conclusion  to  which  Mr* 
Cullimore  arrived,  from  tbe  concurrence 
of  these  particulars,  was,  that  the  re- 
markable monument  under  consideration 
commemorates  a  congress  of  tbe  three 
sovereigns  mentioned  at  Tadmor. 

3.  A  second  paper  by  Mr.  CnUiaHire 
waa  read,  on  ^<  A  Comparative  Table  of 
the  Egyptian  Sueeession,  acoording  to  th« 
Monuments*  to  Meaetho,  Herodotus 
Diodoraa  Siealus,  lad  Enrtost|if  aee,  mi 


528 


Literary  aiul  Scientific  Intelligence* 


[Nov. 


OB  the  self-coimecdDg  principles  of  the 
Egypdan  syttem  of  Herodotus  sad  Dio- 
dorus." 

^  /me  13.  1 .  "  Remarks  on  a  recent  Pab- 
lieation  of  documeots    reUtiog    to    the 
NoiicUtiire  of  Rinacdni  in  Ireland  in  the 
ITthoeDtorr/'  in  a  letter  to  the  secre- 
tary from  Mr.  H.  Hallam.    There  exist 
three  original  works  on  the  mission  of  the 
Nnncio  Rinoccini: — 1.  The  Nnncio*s  Me- 
moirs ;  a  Latin  history,  compiled  by  some 
nnknown  person  after  Rinnccini's  death, 
and  comprising  translations  of  nearly  all 
the  letters  written  by  him  from  Ireland. 
S.  A  translation  into  Latin  of  the  Report 
written  in  Italian  by  Rinnccini  hiinself 
after  his  return  to  Italy.     These  works 
were  consulted  by  Carte  for  his  "  Life  of 
Ormonde,*'  and  by  Birch  for  his  '*  In- 
miiry  into  the  Transactions  of  the  Earl  of 
Glamorgan;*'   and  they  were  described 
by  the  late  Mr.  Rosooe  in  his  account  of 
the  Uolkham  Manuscripts,  published  in 
the  second  Tolnme  of  the  '*  Transactions 
of  the  Royal  Society  of  Literature."    3. 
The  original  Report  of  Rinnccini,  with 
his  Letters  written  to  the  Court  of  Rome 
dnitng    his    nnndature,    recently    pub- 
lished  by  Signor  Aiazzi.     The  object  of 
Mr.  Hallam*s  remarks  was,  first,  to  show 
the  gronndlesmess  of  the  statement  made 
by  the  Signor  Aiazn,  to  the  effect  that 
Mr.  Rosooe  had  mistaken  the  compilation 
caUed  the  Nnndo's  Memoirs  for  the  Re- 
port of  the  Nuncio  himself.    Secondly, — 
baring   admitted    some    particulars,    in 
which  Signior  Aiaxzi's  publication  throws 
light  on  the  history  of  the  transactions 
with  the    Roman  Catholics   in   Ireland 
during  the  period  referred  to, — to  give  an 
account  of  a  document  relating  to  those 
transactions,  which  has  not  yet  been  pub- 
lished.    This  document  (a  copy  of  which 
was  supplied  by  Mr.  Hamilton)  is  a  let- 
ter addressed  by  Charles  I.  to  the  Pope, 
which  Mr.  Hallam  conceiTCS  to  be  the 
same  with  that  mentioned  by  Rinnccini 
as  haTing  been  received  and  transmitted 
by  him  to  Rome  in  the  year  1G43.     Mr. 
Hamilton's  copy,  from  which  that  which 
accompanied  Mr.  Hallam's  remarks  was 
transcribed,  is  a  tracing  made  from  the 
original  in  the  Vatican  by  a  foreign  ho- 
norary membsr  of  the  Uoyal  Society  of 
Literature.     A  second  letter  is  appended, 
addressed  to  Cardinal  Spada,  signed  like 
the  former  by  King  Charles  I.,  and  bear- 
ing the  same  date,  tis.  Oxford,  2id  f)ct. 
1645.      Both  these  letters  were  designed 
to  accredit  at  Rome  the  mission  of  Gla- 


i.    Letter  from  Mr.  B.  Frrre  to  Mr. 
Hamilton.    In  this  letter  Mr.  Flrere  men- 
the    remarkable    fact,    that    the 
breed  of  sheep,  of  late  yean  so 
10 


much  improTcd  by  the  introjoction   of 
the  Spanish   race,  were,  50O  years  ago* 
held  in  such   estimation  in  Spain,  that 
some  of  them  were  imported  from  this 
country,  and  an  office   of   dignity  was 
created  by  the  King  of  Spsun  for  the  su- 
perintendence of  them,  with  the  title  of 
'*  Juez  de  Mesta  y  Pastoria."     Tlie  do- 
cument by  which  this  fact  is  established 
is  a  letter  written  in  1437  by  the  physi- 
cian of  the  Spanish  king  John  if.      It 
contains    the  particulars    of   a    dispute 
which  occurred  in  the  presence  of  the 
king  between  the  respectiTe  partiaansof 
two  gentlemen  of  rank  ;    when  a  sup* 
porter  of  one  of  the  parties,  Gomes  Car- 
nillOy  tauntingly  obserred,  that  Camillo 
was  not  the  son  of  a  "  Judge  of  Shep- 
herds.*'      The  taunt  was  taken  op  by  an 
advocate  of  the  daims  of  the  other,  Fer- 
nan  Sanchex  de  Tovar,  who   teOs   the 
speaker  that  he  understands  his  allusion, 
but  that  he  is  a  bad  marksman,  and  his 
arrow  recoils  upon  himself.     He  then  as- 
serts that  the  office  of  "  Juex  de  Mesta  y 
Futoria"  had  always  been  one  of  great 
dignity ;  and  that  he  who  now  refenid  to 
it  as  a  reproach  was  himself  descended 
from  the  person  who  first  held  that  office, 
which  was  created  by  the  King  Don  Al- 
fonso* and  the  title  conferred  on  Inigo 
Lopes  de  Orozco,  when  the  sheep  were 
brought  from  England  for  the  first  time 
in  the  transports  to  Spain.    The  dispute 
was  at  length  terminated  by  the  King's  or- 
dering both  the  disputants  into  custody. 
In  the  letter  which  narrates  it  are  eon- 
tained  numerous  details  illustratiTe  of  thie 
singular  but  characteristic  quarrel. 

3.  A  letter  from  Mr.  6.  vine,  contain- 
ing further  particulars  respecting  the  re- 
mains of  a  Greek  or  Roman  temple  at  Da- 
mascus, as  described  by  Mr.  Hamilton  in 
a  paper  printed  in  the  third  volume  of  the 
Society's  Transactions. 

Jun4  27.  At  this  meeting  (the  lasc 
of  the  session)  the  following  were  the 
readings: 

1.  "On  some  Ueuntt  in  Thucydidea, 
and  the  means  of  supplying  them  from 
satisfactory  sources,"  by  Mr.  G.  Burgee. 
Mr.  Burges  commences  his  paper  by 
stating  that  something  had  been  done  by 
Canter,  Barnes,  Mariiland,  Valckenaer, 
Hermann,  and  others,  towarda  restoring 
the  numerous  tMcwuB  in  Homer,  and  the 
remains  of  Greek  tragedy  and  comedy,  by 
the  aid  of  different  writers  who  have  pre- 
served the  misring  matter.  The  supply- 
ing of  iceuma  in  the  prose  writers  of 
Greece  had  likewise  engaged  the  attention 
of  various  scholars,  who  have  brought  for* 
ward  portions  that  had  dropped  out  from 
the  works  of  Herodotus,  Xenophon,  Plato, 
Plntarchi  Dio  Cassins,  Demottheacfy  and 


1844.] 


jirckkeeitife. 


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i 
I 


Othen,  but  which  had  been  found  in  the 
qpotetiont  of  subseiiaeDt  writera.  For 
Thucydidet,  howeYeri  not  only  hma  leu 
been  done  in  thii  respect  than  waa  re« 
quired  in  the  case  of  a  writer  that  haa 
oome  down  to  ua  in  a  atate  almoat  as  oor. 
mpt  as  JEschjlus  himself;  but  aome 
modem  editors  hare  rejected,  without 
reason,  supplements  Airniahed  by  Stob«us, 
Julius  PoUttx,  and  Suidas,  which  pre- 
ceding sdiolars  had  already  pointed  out, 
and  which  Mr.  Burges  haa  fully  confirmed. 
Re  then  proceeda  to  produce  some  of  the 
fruit  of  his  own  reaearchea. 

2.  Mr.  Cnllimore  read  a  letter  from  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Hincks,  adterting  to  aereral 
points  in  Egyptian  and  scriptural  chro* 
nology,  of  which  the  chief  related  to  the 
age  of  King  Mandouothph.  This  king  is 
referred  by  Dr.  Leemans  to  the  firat  ages ; 
by  ChampoUion  and  Roeellini  to  the 
twenty-first  dynasty ;  by  Mr.  Sharpe  to 
the  age  of  the  SaTtes  and  Persians.  Dr. 
Hinclu  obserred :  **  I  cannot  find  a  single 
character  in  either  of  the  inscriptions  re- 
lating to  King  Mandouothph  that  waa  not 
In  common  use  before  the  eighteenth 
dynasty,  and  this  makes  me  Tcry  confident 
Chat  he  reigned  then."  In  a  subsequent 
letter  he  remarks :  '*  I  am  quite  satlafied 
oHfthe  antiquity  of  this  King  Mandouothph, 
or  Montho^ph,  whoae  tableta  are  on  the 
Coaseir  road  (Burton'i  Bxeerpta  Hitro* 


g^fpMea,  pi.  liL  and  t.),  ai  prior  to  the 
twelfth  dynasty  (the  monumental  pre* 
decessors  of  the  eighteenth),  and  pro* 
bably  to  Papei  (a  monumental  predecessor 
of  the  twelfth)  :**  and  the  still  more  sub- 
sequent eiamination  of  a  tablet  attributed 
by  Roaellini  to  the  twenty- first  dynasty 
^o.  133  and  133  of  'The  Names  and 
Tltlea  of  the  Kings  of  Egypt  according  to 
the  Original  Monnmenta'),  has  led  him  to 
further  confirmation  of  theae  Tiews.  Dr« 
Hincks  also  proposes  a  corrected  reading 
of  the  date  440  in  the  Septuagint  trans- 
lation of  1  Kings  Ti.  1,  which  stands  4fM> 
in  the  Hebrew,  and  our  authorised  trans- 
lation, Tis.  the  640th  year,  this  being  the 
difference  between  the  date  of  the  ezode, 
B.c.  1667  (or  345  years  before  the  Egyp- 
tian canicular  era,  b.o.  1323),  and  that  of 
the  Temple,  B.C.  10S7,  as  both  are  stated 
in  the  patristic  system  of  Clement  of 
Alezandria,  which  he,  Dr.  H.  conceirea, 
deriTcd  from  the  original  reading  of  the 
Serenty,  as  abore  corrected. 

3.  A  letter  fh>m  Colonel  Leake  to  the 
Secretary,  with  a  corrected  copy  of  the 
Greek  inscription  on  the  great  stele  at 
Xanthus,  published  in  the  fourth  Tolome 
of  the  Society's  Transactions,  p.  257. 
This  copy  was  transcribed  by  Mr.  Fel- 
lows from  the  mould  obtained  by  him 
during  his  late  residence  at  Xahunts. 


ARCHITECTURE. 


Kbw  CauftOBBt. 

S^,  96.  A  new  chapel  of  eaae  for  the 
Fen-end  parts  of  WalpoU  parish,  which 
bus  been  some  time  building,  was  conse- 
crated by  the  Bishop  of  Norwich.  It  has 
neither  ateeple  nor  side-aides,  is  built  in 
the  Norman  style,  and  is  46  feet  long  by 
95  wide,  with  a  circular  apse  at  the  eaat 
end,  and  a  amall  restry  adjoining  the 
Borth  side  of  the  apse.  The  front  is 
plain,  consisting  merely  of  a  door,  sur- 
rounded with  a  circular  arch  and  lig-sag 
moulding,  and  two  windows  in  the  same 
B^le  above,  surmounted  with  a  turret,  in 
which  two  bells  are  hung  under  tig-sag 
arches.  The  roof,  which  Is  of  very  high 
pitch,  is  covered  with  scale  tiling,  and  the 
ridge  is  covered  with  an  optn  Jl^-de-lii. 
Four  small  windows  on  each  side  of  the 
chapel  are  divided  by  plain  flat  buttresses, 
and  five  spacea  in  the  apse  are  similsrly 
divided.  The  only  attempt  at  ornament 
in  this  oart  of  the  chapel  is  the  introduc- 
tion of  a  series  of  heads  and  carvings, 
rudely  executed,  beneath  the  nave  of  uie 

OsifT.  Mag.  Vol.  XXII, 


roof.  The  seatings,  which  fill  the  entire 
chapel,  leaving  only  a  amall  space  up  the 
centre,  are  all  open,  and  terminated  by  a 
finial  carved  in  oak  by  the  hand  of  Mr. 
Moore,  the  rector,  which  consists  gene- 
rally of  cluttered  leaves  disposed  some- 
what like  a  trefoiL  They  are  calculated 
for  aboQC  400  persons.  The  floor  is  com- 
posed of  tiling  with  raised  figures  and  in- 
scriptions —  Viffdaie  ei  Orate —  copied 
from  some  found  in  one  of  the  Noifolk 
churches.  Between  this  part  of  the  chapel 
and  the  apse  ia  a  fine  arch  spanning  nearly 
three  parts  of  the  entire  breadth  of  the 
chapel.  The  pulpit  is  let  into  the  wall  on 
the  north  side  of  the  chancel  arch,  and  is  of 
Caen  stone.  A  small  reading-desk  of  oak, 
well  executed  in  open  work  of  the  Per- 
pendicular style,  stands  below  it.  The 
roof  is  open,  consisting  of  plain  timber, 
with  leg-beams  resting  on  plain  brackets. 
Immediately  beneath  the  roof  is  a  mould- 
ing painted  in  ribbons  and  gilt  with  stars, 
and  along  ita  centre  course  are  eight 
verses  of  the  '*  TV  Deum/*  in  Latin. 
The  apse,  or  chancel,  la  very  small— 

3y 


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Architecture. 


[Nov. 


being  about  15  feet  by  12.  A  stone  altar- 
table,  mounted  on  three  steps,  and  sur- 
rounded at  the  upper  edge  by  a  kind  of 
dog-tooth  quatrefoil,  is  the  most  conspi- 
cuous object  here.  Four  small  windows 
of  stained  glass,  containing  figures  of  St. 
Katharine,  St.  Peter  the  Virgin,  and  ano- 
ther Saint,  twinkle  down  on  the  floor  of 
beautiful  encaustic  tiling,  and  lead  the 
eye  upwards  to  the  roof,  composed  of  four 
broad  flat  groinings,  radiating  from  a 
central  boss.  On  the  south  is  a  piacina 
on  a  twisted  column,  and  on  the  north  a 
credence  table  on  a  bracket.  Two  stone 
niches,  intended  for  seats,  face  the  en- 
trance to  the  vestry  on  the  nortb  side. 

The  expenses  were  limited  to  1400  or 
1500  pounds.  To  the  enthusiastic  feeling 
of  the  Rev.  A.  Moore,  the  rector,  who 
has  himself  worked  as  hard  as  any  la- 
bourer, the  principal  credit  is  due ;  and 
the  specimens  of  earring,  both  in  wood 
and  stone,  which  the  chapel  displays,  will 
be  lasting  evidences  of  his  skill  and  in- 
dustry. Except  in  a  few  minor  details, 
the  building  is  pretty  regular  in  its  style ; 
but  the  flnials  of  the  seats,  the  reading 
desk,  and  the  altar-table,  all  remind  ns  of 
other  periods  than  that  which  the  rest  of 
the  chapel  furnishes.  Mr.  Buckle  is  the 
architect. 

Sept,  30.  The  Bishop  of  Salisbury  con- 
secrated Trinity  Church,  Dil ton's  Marsh, 
Weitbury.  The  Bishop,  in  his  sermon, 
referred  to  the  enormous  amount  of  schism 
in  the  parish  (no  less  than  twelve  meeting- 
houses existing  therein),  which  his  Lord- 
ship acknowledged  to  have  in  great  mea- 
sure arisen  from  the  neglect  of  the  Church. 
The  building  is  of  Norman  design,  being 
cruciform,  the  eastern  end  circular,  and 
with  a  low  tower.  The  north  doorway 
and  font  are  very  good  ;  the  pulpit  ela- 
borate; the  seats  are  low,  open,  and  of 
good  design,  but,  by  a  strange  mistake, 
adapted  only  for  teate,  the  under  part  of 
the  seat  having  been  blocked  up  to  make 
sitting  the  more  convenient,  whilst  ineel' 
ing  t>  rendered  totally  impottibh .'  The 
windows  in  the  chancel  are  of  stained 
glass,  representing  the  Incarnation,  Cru- 
cifixion, and  Resurrection  of  our  Lord ; 
they  are  the  gift  of  Mrs.  Phipps,  of  Leigh- 
ton,  who  also  presented  the  altar  cloth. 
The  windows  in  the  transept  are  also  of 
stained  glass.  The  altar  is  a  massive  table 
of  wood,  supported  on  Norman  pillars. 

Oct.  1.  Homingtham  Church,  in  the 
county  of  Dorset,  was  dedicated  to  the 
worship  of  Almighty  God  by  the  same 
diocesan.  Tlie  sum  collected  at  the  of- 
fertory, being  above  40/.  wati  given  to  the 
Diocesan  Church  Building  Society,  there 
being  no  collection  for  the  church  itself, 
which  has  been  built  at  the  sole  expense 


of  the  Marchioness  of  Bath,  through 
whose  kind  liberality  one  of  the  parish 
churches  of  Dorchester,  All  Saints,  has 
received  additional  enrichment  in  the  gift 
of  the  West  Door.  The  Marquess  of 
Bath,  at  present  in  his  minority,  and  at 
Eton,  presented  in  person  at  the  altar 
rails  the  deed  of  endowment.  The  church 
was  built  under  the  direction  of  Mr. 
Wyatt,  the  diocesan  architect,  the  archi- 
tecture being  of  a  date  similar  to  the  old 
church,  t.  e.  of  the  15th  century.  The 
seats  are  all  of  oak,  and  open,  the  chancel 
seats  having  very  enriched  ends.  The 
font,  altar,  screens,  and  pulpit,  are  all  of 
stone,  the  roof  of  open  woodwork,  with 
carved  spandrils  and  corbels.  The  chan- 
cel windows  are  of  painted  glass,  and  ap- 
propriate texts  are  painted  on  various  parts 
of  the  walls. 

Oct.  2.  The  church  of  Co^ford  SL 
Mary,  Wilts,  was  consecrated,  having 
been  nearly  rebuilt.  The  old  tower,  and 
a  portion  of  the  south  wall,  belonged  to 
the  original  structure.  The  south  waB 
having  fallen,  in  the  course  of  1843,  whilst 
the  rubbish  was  being  removed  from  around 
the  foundations,  it  was  resolved  to  build 
an  additional  aisle.  In  carrying  out  thij 
intention,  it  was  found  necessary  to  take 
down  the  old  walls,  and  thus  various  frag- 
ments of  carved  stone,  clearly  indicating 
the  age  of  the  original  Church,  wer6 
brought  to  light.  The  date  is  supposed 
to  have  been  about  1000.  (See  the  "Me- 
morials of  Codford  St.  Mary,**  by  Dr. 
Ingram,  the  President  of  Trinity  College^ 
Oxford,  who  is  a  native  of  the  parish.) — 
The  additional  aisle  is  built  in  the  Deco- 
rated style,  which  pervades  the  entire 
building ;  Early-English  windows  are 
formed  on  the  north  side  of  the  chancel, 
and  the  east  window  is  Perpendicular. 
(If  this  account  be  correct,  the  pa- 
rishioners have  secured  a  very  singular 
variety  of  architecture  I)  The  east  window 
of  the  Church  is  filled  with  stained  glass 
of  various  alkgorical  and  heraldic  designs. 
It  contains  the  coat  of  St.  John's  College, 
Oxford,  patrons  of  the  living,  in  the  first 
light,  the  Queen's  arms  in  the  centre 
one,  and  those  of  the  diocese  in  the  third. 
The  east  window  of  the  south  aisle  con- 
tains the  arms  of  the  Rector,  and  the 
south  window  nearest  the  door  is  a  memo- 
rial window  to  Dr.  Ingram's  family,  with 
the  armorial  bearings,  and  an  inscription 
in  diagonal  lines.  A  beautiful  tablet,  de- 
signed by  Mr.  Wyatt,  and  according  with 
the  prevailing  style  of  the  church,  com- 
memoratcs  the  same  family,  and  is  placed 
over  the  south  door.  'Hie  fittings  are 
chiefly  of  stained  and  varnished  deal,  with 
oak,  as  far  as  practicable.  The  sittings 
are  open,  and  the  altar  and  pulpit  hang* 


1844.] 


Architecture. 


531 


ingg  of  crimson  cloth,  worked  by  some 
yquog  ladies  with  suitable  devices  and 
emblems.  There  is  a  square  niche  in  the 
north  wall  of  the  chancel »  for  receiving 
the  elements  prior  to  oblation. 

All  Saints*  Church,  Liverpool t  has 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  RomanistSi 
for  3700/.  It  was  only  a  church  ''  so 
called  '* — having  been  merely  licensed  by 
the  Bishop  for  the  performance  of  Divine 
worship. 

Oct,  2.  A  Church  at  Welshpool,  erected 
by.  subscription  in  honour  of  the  coming 
of  age  of  Lord  Viscount  Clive,  was  conse- 
crated (in  consequence  of  the  illness  of 
the  venerable  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph,)  by  the 
Lord  Bishop  of  Hereford.  At  the  con- 
clusion of  the  service  a  collection  was 
made,  which  amounted  to  the  sum  of 
210/.  7s.  }id.  There  is  room  for  1000 
persons  in  the  Church,  and  one-half  of 
the  sittings  are  free.  The  sum  of  6000/. 
was  subscribed  for  the  building,  but  this, 
it  appears,  is  not  sufficient  to  pay  the  cost. 
On  the  4th,  the  new  Church  at  Chapel 
Lawn,  in  the  parish  of  Clurif  Salop,  was 
consecrated  by  the  same  Bishop. 

Qct.  3.  The  consecration  of  the  parish 
church  at  Newton  Tony,  Wilts,  by  the 
Bishop  of  Salisbury,  took  place.  It  is 
intended  to  accommodate  more  than  230 
persons,  and  has  been  rebuilt  on  nearly 
the  same  site  as  the  old  one.  It  is  a 
picturesque  and  chaste  building,  from  the 
design  of  Mr.  Wyatt. 

The  new  church  at  Wood- green,  in 
the  parish  of  Tbttenham,  was  consecrated 
by  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London.  The 
hamlet  contains  a  population  of  about 
400,  and  the  church  affords  accommoda- 
tion for  about  half  that  number.  It  is  of 
the  Early-English  style,  and  has  been  con- 
structed under  the  superintendence  of 
Messrs.  Scott  and  Moffatt.  It  is  entirely 
of  stone,  Kentish  rag,  dressed  with  Brom- 
hill  stone.  The  pulpit  and  font  have  been 
carved  in  Fainswick  stone,  by  Mr.  Cox, 
of  Oxford.  The  service  for  the  Holy 
Communion  has  been  made  after  the 
fashion  of  that  lately  presented  to  the 
church  at  Malta.  The  roof  is  open,  and 
the  seats  are  open  also. 

Oct,  4.  The  old  Church  of  St.  Mary  the 
Virgin,  JItarllforough,  after  having  under- 
gone substantial  and  judicious  repair,  was 
re-opened  for  divine  service.  The  Lord 
Bishop  of  Salisbury,  attended  by  a  nu« 
merous  body  of  the  neighbouring  Clergy, 
including  the  Ven. Archdeacon  Macdonald, 
proceeded  from  the  residence  of  the  Vicar 
to  the  Church,  where  the  Corporation  of 
the  borough  aud  a  large  congregation 
(amongst  whom  were  the  Marquess  of 
Ailesbury,  witli  Lord  and  LadyE.  Bruce), 
were  awaiting  their  arrival.    The  fine  old 


Norman  door-way  at  the  west  end,  which 
had  been  closed  from  time  immemorial, 
was  now  thrown  open,  and  the  peals  of 
the  recently  enlarged  and  fuU-toned  organ 
welcomed  the  reverend  body  as  they  ad- 
vanced to  occupy  the  places  appointed  for 
them  at  and  about  the  altar.  The  prayers 
were  impressively  read  by  the  Vicar,  the 
Rev.  C.  W.  Edmonstone,  and  the  Bishop 
delivered  a  powerful  and  appropriate  dis- 
course from  Ps.  zv.  1.  At  the  Offertory 
a  collection  was  made  amounting  to 
80/.  I4s. 

Oct.  7.  The  Bishop  of  Salisbury  con- 
secrated a  new  church  at  North  Moor,  in 
the  parish  of  North  Pethertotif  and 
preached  the  Consecration  Sermon. 

Oct.  9.  The  new  Church  of  Clifton 
Hampden,  near  Abingdon,  was  used  for 
the  first  time  for  the  performance  of  pub- 
lic worship.  It  stands  on  the  site  of  the 
old  church,  and  has  been  built  at  the  sole 
expense  of  Henry  Gibbs,  esq.  the  lord  of 
the  manor  of  Clifton,  from  plans  prepared 
by  Messrs.  Scott  and  Moffatt,  of  London. 
One  of  the  south  windows  contains  a 
painting  of  St.  Michael,  to  whom  the 
building  is  dedicated ;  and  the  chancel 
window,  supplied  by  Mr.  Willement,  con- 
tains in  the  lower  part  three  large  com- 
partments, in  which  are  representations 
of  the  Baptism  of  Christ  by  St.  John ; 
the  Crucifixion  ;  and  the  Supper  at  Em- 
mans.  The  openings  of  the  head  are  occu- 
pied by  Angels  in  adoration.  At  the  base 
of  the  window  is  the  following  .inscription 
upon  a  scroll :  '*  Looking  unto  Jesus  the 
author  and  finisher  of  our  faith."  The 
pulpit,  altar,  and  font,  are  of  stone,  from 
the  chisel  of  Mr.  Cox. 

Oct.  10.  The  consecration  of  the  new 
church  of  the  Holy  Trinity  at  Hoisted, 
Essex,  which  had  been  delayed  owing  to 
the  fall  of  the  tower,  was  performed  by 
the  Bishop  of  London,  who  was  attended 
by  eighty-nine  clergymen.  The  Bishop 
preached  an  eloquent  sermon,  and  the  col- 
lection at  the  door  amounted  to  381/. 

Oct.  11.  St.  Paul's  Church,  Maccles* 
field  Common  (the  first  stone  of  which 
was  laid  on  the  leth  of  April,  1843),  was 
consecrated  by  the  Liord  Bishop  of  Ches- 
ter. It  is  situated  upon  an  elevated  plot 
of  land  to  the  north  of  Brook-street,  be- 
longing to  the  trustees  of  the  Maccles- 
field Grammar  School,  and  is  built  of 
white  stone,  in  the  Perpendicular  style. 
It  has  a  tower  at  the  west  end,  71  feet  in 
height,  and  this  is  surmounted  by  a  spire 
rising  70  feet  from  the  base  to  the  apex, 
making  the  whole  141  feet  in  height. 
The  Church  consists  of  nave  and  side 
aisles,  with  clerestory,  and  its  interior 
dimensions  are  about  120  feet  by  50  feet. 
There  are  seats  for  about  nine  hundred 


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if Wt^pMriAII  nt990TCh€9» 


[M«r. 


poMMy  of  whiok  Bore  tban  oiie*kall  ira 
free:  and  tbera  ii  bo  othor  diftiadioii 
between  the  free  aeats  aod  thoee  which 
are  to  be  let,  ezoept  that  the  latter  are 
indoeed  by  doore  and  the  former  are 
open  at  the  ends.  The  laati  are  ftniahed 
with  itall  elbowi  and  enriched  ftniak,  and 
there  are  twenty-two  on  eaoh  aide  the 
aiale.  The  altar  fcreen,  of  dark-colonred 
wainaooting,  it  qnite  in  keeping 
the  reit  of  the  boildinf ,  and  the 
on  each  aide  of  the  chanoel  add  mndi 
to  Uie  general  effect.  The  oommnnlon 
table  ia  covered  with  a  orimaonTelvet  doth, 
the  gift  of  a  lady,  and  the  commnnion 
aenrice  waa  presented  by  Edward  Procter, 
eaq.  The  reading^deak  ia  a  large  open  chair, 
with  iqaare  back,  and  a  chenib  svpporting 
the  book-board.  The  pulpit  ia  aopport- 
•d  by  a  pedestd,  and  ornamented  with 
roaee  and  battlemented  comicea*  The 
roof  ia  open,  finiahed  with  oak-ookrared 
paQoelling.  The  contract  prioe  for  the 
bnilding  waa  4,485/. {  bat  the  whole  cost, 
including  the  levelling  of  the  gronnd  and 
the  approachee,  and  the  hot-water  appa- 
ratat  for  heating  the  Chnrch,  will  be 
little  short  of  5,000/.  The  architect  is 
Mr.  Hayley,  of  Maneheater,  and  the 
bojlder  Mr.  John  Ef  ans,  of  Maodesfteld. 
Oct,  15.  The  new  church  at  Clifton- 
park,  Brittol,  was  consecrated  by  the 
the  Bishop  of  the  diocese.  It  is  designed 
in  the  Early- Engliah  style  of  architecture 
which  preTsiled  in  England  between  the 
years  1800  and  1850,  as  exemplified  by 
parts  of  the  cathedrals  at  York,  Salisbury, 
Peterboroogb,  Caiiisle,  and  Durham. 
Acconunodation  la  pronded  for  upward! 


ol   1,000  pwtons,   iMlidiBg   847 
aitdnga. 

OH.  16.  The  reotontlans  and 
pairs  in  the  dianoal  and  ehapela  of 
the  old  Nofman  chureh  of  St.  Joha 
the  Baptist,  Dreitet,  which  hsve 
in  pragrssa  during  the  laat 
now  oompkted,  and  tho 
of  divine  serviee  took  plaoa  thia  doj» 
Matin  aervioa  waa  eelabretad  at 
o'clock,  in  the  presence  of  a  very  m 
rena  eongrsgation.  The  litany  and  Coaa* 
mnuion  aatiine  at  eLsven 
ed  by  Uie  distant  dergy  and  oountry 
dents,  who  flocked  into  the  town  in  laijii 
numbers.  The  sermon  waa  preaehed  by 
the  Rev.  B.  T.  Phippa,  Reotor  of  DeviMi^ 
who  dilated  on  the  giievoos  mutilation 
that  had  been  Buffered  to  go  on  frons 

Cieration  to  generation  unheeded,  till  at 
t  scarcely  a  veatige  of  the  aneiettt 
Norman  areade  and  carved  woodwork  ro* 
mdned  as  a  guide  to  rsatoration ;  this  had 
been  happily  effected  by  the  akill  and 
intelligence  of  the  arohiteot  (Mr.  B« 
Penrey),  and  he  trusted  that  nothing  had 
been  introduced  that  had  not  the  atamp 
and  feeling  of  the  origind  founders.  Mr* 
Phipps  advocated  a  foil,  oarnest,  and  firm 
maintenance  of  the  entire  church  system, 
as  moat  cdculated  to  give  oonfidnoe  to 
friends,  and  to  pardyse  the  effbrts  of  tht 
sectarian  and  Romanist.  Daring  tho 
reading  of  the  Oisrtory  t^  selaolod 
deigymen  collected  the  alma,  whioh 
amounted  to  73/.  7s.  ^d.  After  which 
nearly  two  hundred  persons  reoalred  tho 
holy  communion. 


ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


eHtrncH  vaimtimo  at  tevro. 
As  Mr.  W.  Pearce,  statuary,  of  Truro, 
ivas  removing  a  portion  of  the  plaster  on 
the  north  side  of  St.  Clement's  Church, 
Cornwdl,  for  the  erection  of  a  tablet,  he 
came  upon  a  rudely  executed  painting, 
but  the  colours  well  preserved,  about  ISft. 
by  I  Oft.  inclosed  in  a  quatrefoil  border. 
It  is  thus  described  in  the  Western  Lu- 
minary :  *'  The  prindpd  figure  is  recum- 
beot,  and  he  holds  in  his  right  hand  a 
palm  branch.  By  his  side  stands  a  fe- 
mde  figure  in  royal  ermined  robe,  and 
holding  a  globe  and  cress.  Beneath  is 
an  antique  ship,  with  qudnt  high  fore- 
castle and  poop,  and  around  it  are  sport- 
ing a  number  of  mermdds  and  dolphins. 
In  the  upper  part  of  the  pdnting  are 
some  rade  representations  of 


^t... 


and  at  the  open  entrance  of  one  of  ttem 
is  shown  a  man  pulling  a  bdl  in  tho 
steeple,  by  means  of  a  leverage  something 
dmilar  to  that  by  which  we  see  oar 
smiths*  bellows  now  worked.  The  whole 
painting  exhibits  a  thorough  disregard  of 

Sroportion,  grouping  and  perspective.  It 
I  conjectured  that  the  dedgn  of  tho 
pdnting  waa  to  commemorete  the  return 
of  Admird  Hawkins,  of  Trewithian,  la 
the  adjoining  parish  of  Probus,  one  of  tho 
commanden  of  the  English  fleet  whidi 
conquered  the  'Invindble'  Armada; 
with  Queen  Elisabeth  welcoming  him 
home,  and  his  countrvmen  also  teatilyinf 
their  joy  at  his  return.^' — ^This  is  an  amuo* 
ingins>'"— ^'^  **-^  prevalent  indinatum 
in  w"  "Msh  every  thiog  to 

^hi  teaons  and  evoBtt 


■ 


1844.] 


Jniiquarian  Regearehes. 


538 


111  Iheir  Uitory ;  tnd  ako  A  Biore  iiB0om« 
mon  example  of  an  object  of  antiquity 
beini^  pott-dated  instead  of  ante-dattd. 
Ilie  painting  was  evidently  the  yery  pre- 
valent subject  of  St.  Christopher.  The 
upper  part  of  his  figure  alone  seems  to 
h«?«  been  uneoTtred,  and  thus  was  mis- 
taken to  ba  reeumbent.  The  supposed 
"fsmale  figure**  was  the  infant  Christ, 
holding  as  usual  tho  orb  and  cross.  The 
dolphins  and  other  aquatic  accessories 
are  also  the  conyentional  features  of  the 
'subject,  and  its  identity  Is  finallr  con- 
firmed by  the  hermit  tolling  his  bell  in 
the  background. 

MB.  ra0MAB*8  OOLLSOnOK  09  COINS. 

The  Tcry  fine  collection  of  Coins  and 
Medals  belonging  to  the  late  Mr.  Tho- 
mas, lately  sold  by  auction  by  Mr.  Leigh 
Sotheby,  comprised  such  a  suite  of  Syra- 
eosan  medallions,  all  in  the  highest  con- 
dition, and  executed  at  a  time  when 
numismatic  art  had  attained  its  senith, 
as  havB  neTsr  before  been  brought  to  the 
hammer;  a  surprising  accumulation  of 
CMcene  staters  in  gold ;  a  beautiful  series 
of  Asiatic  coins  in  electrum;  the  Kings 
of  the  Bosphoms  in  gold  and  silver ; 
coins  of  Alexander  the  Great ;  silver  coins 
of  the  Seleudda ;  a  wonderful  and  most 
valuable  series  of  the  Ptolemies  in  gold ; 
together  with  an  immense  assemblage  of 
Roman  gold  coins  in  the  finest  state, 
ranging  from  the  consulsr  times  down  to 
the  extinoQon  of  art  under  the  Emperors 
of  Bynnthim. 

The  fbllowing  is  a  list  of  the  prices  of 
some  of  the  most  important  articles : — ^Lot 
17,  gold  coin  of  Campania,  4U.  10».;  883, 
Julius,  83/.  10», ;  839,  an  unique  medal 
of  Commodus,  relating  to  Britain,  75/. ; 
silver  medallion  of  Carthage,  lot  381, 43/. ; 
medallions  of  Syracuse,  80/.  to  36/.  each  { 
fi30,  medallion  of  Hiero,  35/. ;  704,  me- 
dallion of  Annius  Verus,  34/.;  883, 
unique  and  unpublished  ooin  of  Alex- 
ander, in  silver,  118/. ;  1003,  didraehm  of 
of  PhiUppi,  in  gold,  30/. ;  1069,  medal  of 
Julia  TIti,  in  gold,  47/. ;  1893,  coin  of 
Matidia,  In  brass,  48/.  lOf. ;  1373,  drachm 
of  Pyrrhtts,  in  gold,  36/. ;  1480,  gold 
coin  of  Thebes,  83/.  lOs . ;  1498,  gold  di- 
drachm  of  Athens,  30/.  10#. ;  1500,  sil- 
ver  medalUon  of  Athens,  30/.;  8189, 
stater  of  Clasomene,  in  gold,  67/. ;  8138, 

SM  ooin  of  Ephesus,  101/. ;  8868,  coin 
myna,  in  silver,  38/. ;  8304,  Septimus 
Severus,  In  brass,  81/. ;  8405,  Nicocles, 
in  gold,  71/.;  2431 ,  goU  didraehm  of  An- 
tiochns,60/.;  8474,  Maxhnus,ingold,38/.; 
8548,  tetradrachm  of  Demetrius  and  Lao- 
dice,  in  sQver,  40/.  10s. ;  8855,  gold  coin  of 
Berenice,  with  unique  symbol,  166/.; 
8854,  Ptolany  IV.  la  gold,  175/,  fto.  The 


competition  throughout  was  most  spirited. 
The  sum  realised  by  the  sale  is  nearly 
17,000/.  and  we  are  happy  to  find  that 
many  of  the  rarer  and  more  interesting 
treasures  have  passed  into  the  collection 
of  our  National  Museum. 


SAXOK  CHUaCBIfl. 

Some  members  of  the  Cambridge  Cam- 
den Society,  who  have  been  touring 
through  the  north  and  out  of  Lincoln- 
shire, have  sent  reports  to  their  society  of 
the  discovery  of  seven  Saxon  towers^ 
St.  Martin's,  Waith ;  St.  Giles,  Scartho  | 
St.  Mary's,  Clee,  Holy  Trinity,  Swallow, 
St.  Nicholas,  Cabnrn  ;  St.  Mary's,  Roth* 
well ;  and  St.  John's,  Nettleton.  These  pa- 
rishes  lie  near  the  high  road  between  Louth 
and  Grimsby.  They  state  that  the  fouls  at 
Waith,  Scartho,  Uolton,  Cabum,  and 
Clee,  are  apparently  all  as  old  as  the 
towers.  They  are  rude  cylindrical  stones 
with  some  coarse  sculptured  ornament 
round  the  top.  The  tower  at  Bothwell  is, 
perhaps,  the  most  complete  example  of 
this  style.  The  belfry  windows  all  re- 
main in  their  original  condition.  The 
masonry  is  very  rough  sandstone,  widi 
large  quoins.  All  the  towers  are  of  two 
stsges,  and  have  neither  pilasters  nor 
staircase.  They  also  state  that  the  con* 
dition  of  the  Lincolnshire  churches  in  the 
Wolds,  and  espeotally  near  Spilsby,  is 
most  deplorable.  The  state  of  dilapidaF 
tion,  neglect,  and  utter  desecration  into 
which  they  have  been  suffered  to  fall  must 
be  seen  to  be  credited.  Many  of  them 
are  brick  rooms  in  the  Pagan  style,  reboilt 
in  the  lest  century ;  some  ere  quite  mo* 
dern,  literally  of  no  style  st  all.  The  pa* 
rishes  of  Raithby,  Eut  Keel,  Hundleby, 
Great  and  Little  Steeping,  FIrsby,  Irby. 
Gunby,  Langton,  Ashoy,  Soremby,  and 
Aswardby,  may  be  quoted  as  verifying 
their  remarks ;  and  the  fact  is  noticed  by 
them  in  the  hope  that  the  authoritief 
will  look  into  the  matter. 


Stone  Coflnt, — On  clearing  away  some 
earth  flrom  an  old  barn-yard,  connected 
with  the  fu-m  of  Broom  Park,  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Mid-Calder,  a  great 
number  of  stone  coffins  were  foond  a  few 
feet  below  the  sorface  of  the  ground.  On 
removing  the  lids  the  bodies  were  found 
in  good  preservation,  the  principal  bones 
being  perfectly  entire.  They  appear  to 
have  been  placed  in  their  coffins  without 
any  kind  or  covering,  as  no  habiliments  of 
any  kind,  or  anytliing  to  indicate  their 
rank,  condition,  or  occupstion  In  life, 
could  be  discovered.  The  coffins  consist 
of  slabs  of  stones  got  from  the  river, 
rudely  put  together  and  constnicM  en  the 
spot. 


534 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


FOREIGN    NEWS. 


FEAMCB. 

A  roral  ordonnance,  dated  from  £u, 
remiu  the  remiinder  of  the  punishment 
of  til  the  political  prisoners  in  France  who 
were  condemned  before  the  commence- 
ment of  the  present  year,  and  whose  im- 
Srisonment  would  not  have  terminated  in 
ue  course  before  the  first  of  January, 
1847.  The  same  act  of  clemency  is  also 
extended  to  twelve  political  prisoners, 
who  had  been  condemned  to  various 
terms  of  imprisonment  of  from  six  to 
twenty  years,  making  the  whole  number 
thus  nvoured  nearly  sixty. 

8WEDEK. 

Nearly  all  the  Swedish  provinces  have 
suffered  severely  from  inundations,  but  in 
the  greatest  degree  the  country  bordering 
on  the  river  Roeyo,  which  rose  13  feet 
in  less  than  an  hour,  rushing  in  torrents 
upon  the  large  village  of  Konradsfont  and 
its  environs,  which  were  quickly  sub- 
merged ;  sweeping  away  all  the  houses 
and  factories,  and  28  windmills,  and,  in 
fact,  leaving  nothing  but  a  mass  of  ruins. 
About  500  persons  are  said  to  have  pe- 
rished, and  the  loss  of  property  is  esti- 
mated at  800,000  rix-dollars. 

IKDIA. 

Sir  Henry  Hardinge  arrived  at  Cal- 
cutta  on  the  2dd  of  July,  and  was  imme- 
diately sworn  into  office.  On  the  next 
and  subseouent  days  he  held  levees  and 
durbars.  jPrior  to  his  departure.  Lord 
Ellenborough  was  entertained  publicly  by 
the  oAeers  of  the  army  at  Culcutta.     Ue 


embarked  on  the  1st  of  August  on  board 
the  steamer  Tenasserim,  and  immediately 
started  for  Sua;  and  is  since  arrived 
in  this  country,  and  been  advanced  to 
an  earldom.  A  mutiny  of  the  64tli 
Regiment  of  Bengal  Infantry  has  been 
repressed  by  the  decided  measures  of  Ge- 
neral Hunter,  and  produced  tbe  most 
stringent  proceedings  on  the  part  of  Sir 
Charles  Napier,  the  Governor  of  Sinde. 
The  colours  were  Uken  from  the  r^- 
ment,  and  forty  ringleadeia  placed  oo  tnal 
for  mutiny. 

rOLAKD. 

The  Emperor  of  Russia  has  issued  aa 
edict  by  which  the  division  of  the  king- 
dom of  Poland  is  changed  from  its  nr^ 
sent  number  of  governments  to  nvt. 
This  new  division  is  to  be  effected  by  tbe 
union  of  the  government  of  Sandomir 
with  that  of  Kielce,  under  the  deoonina- 
tiun  of  the  government  of  Radom,  and 
of  Poldachia  with  Warsaw,  imder  tbe 
denomination  of  Warsaw;  the  gowm- 
ments  of  Flosk,  Lublin,  and  Augustowo, 
are  to  remain  in  their  present  state. 

CHINA. 

Great  dissatisfaction  is  felt  at  the 
meddling  of  the  French  and  Americans 
in  the  now  settled  affairs  with  China.  It 
is  mentioned  that  Sir  H.  Pottinger,  prior 
to  bis  dejMUture  for  England,  had  inCio- 
duced  his  successor,  Mr.  Davis,  to 
Keying,  when  they  held  a  conversatioR 
without  the  aid  of  an  interpreter.  This 
is  considered  a  great  advantage. 


DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 


vfsrr  OP  TUB  king  of  the  French. 

We  have  this  month  to  record  an  event 
which  will  form  a  bright  page  in  the  annals 
of  England.  For  the  first  time  in  our 
history  n  reigning  monarch  of  France  has 
voluntarily  landed  on  our  shores.  He 
has  come  with  the  general  approbation  of 
the  great  nation  he  governs  so  sagaciously ; 
he  has  been  received  by  the  consort  of 
the  Sovereign  and  tbe  great  hero  of  his 
age  at  Portsmouth ;  has  been  welcomed 
wherever  he  ap]>eared  but  for  a  moment 
by  the  henrty  and  honest  ncHumations  of 
the  popular  voice ;  and  hns  been  met  at 
Windsor  with  something  dearer  than  even 
regal  magnificence,  the  affectionate  regard 


of  the  Queen,  and  the  respectful  homa^ 
of  her  court  and  government — homage  in 
which  honour  of  his  kingly  position  is 
blended  with  admiration  of  the  noble 
qualities  that  have  distinguished  his  me. 
morable  career,  as  an  exile,  a  prince,  and 
a  monarch. 

It  was  fixed  that  the  King  should  take 
his  departure  from  Eu,  in  Normandy, 
on  Monday,  Oct.  5.  He  embarked 
from  Tr^'port  in  Le  Gomer  steam-ship, 
accompanied  by  bis  son  the  Duke  de 
Montpensier,  M.  Guizot,  Admiral  le 
Baron  de  Mackau,  Minister  of  Marine 
and  Colonies,  attended  by  Le  Capitaine 
PelUon,   R.N,  and  Le  Capitaine  Page, 


1 


1844.] 


Domeitic  Oecurrencei* 


535 


R.N.  Aidei-de-Camp  to  his  Excellency; 
Le  Baron  Fain,  Chef  du  Cabinet  du  Roi ; 
Dr.  Fouquier,  Physician  in  attendance 
on  his  Majesty;  and  M.  Pasquier,  Sur- 
geon in  ordinary  to  the  King.  Le  Ge- 
neral Baron  Athalin,  Le  General  Comte  de 
Rumigny,  Colonel  Comte  de  Chabannes, 
and  Colonel  Comte  Dumas  were  Aides. 
de-Camp  in  attendance  on  the  King  ;  and 
Colonel  Thierry,  Aide-de-Camp  to  the 
Duke  de  Montpensicr. 

Of  course  all  was  expectation  and 
anxious  preparation  for  the  royal  visitor 
at  Portsmouth.  It  was  contrived  that  a 
sort  of  fleet,  as  it  were,  formed  of  the 
aquadron  of  experimental  gun -brigs  and 
one  or  two  ships-of-the-line,  and  some 
other  vessels,  should,  by  stretching  out 
for  some  miles  off  the  harbour  in  the 
direction  of  the  French  coast,  at  once  act 
as  heralds  of  the  approach  of  the  French 
yesaels,  and  as  a  sort  of  escort  to  his  Ma- 
jesty up  the  harbour.  The  St.  Vincent, 
120,  was  at  Spithead,  and  at  a  short  dis- 
taoce  from  her  was  the  Queen,  110.  There 
were  also  in  the  line  of  outlying  ships 
several  of  the  royal  yacht  squadron,  ex- 
tending far  out  in  the  horizon,  and  await- 
ing the  moment  when  the  appearance  of 
the  first  French  vessel  should  call  them 
into  activity.  The  fleet  of  gaily-decorated 
vessels  grew,  as  it  glided  slowly  on,  aug- 
mented every  minute  by  some  additions, 
by  large  and  small  steamers,  brigs,  cutters, 
yachts,  traders — in  short,  by  every  de- 
scription of  craft  that  floats  in  these 
waters,  not  to  omit  thousands  of  small 
Bailing  and  row  boats,  filled  with  ladies 
and  gentlemen  in  gay  attire,  and  remind- 
ing one  of  the  boat  fairs  in  the  rivers  of 
China.  As  soon  as  the  Gomer  had  an- 
chored, Sir  Charles  Rowley  sent  a  boat 
to  take  aboard  the  French  eorp9  diploma' 
tiquet  which  consisted  of  the  Ambassador 
(his  Excellency  the  Comte  de  Ste.  Au- 
laire),  the  Counts  de  Jarnac  and  de  No- 
ailles,  the  Baron  de  Talleyrand,  MM. 
de  Rabaudy,  de  la  Belinaye,  &c.  Hardly 
had  they  been  introduced  to  their  royal 
master  than  the  corporation  of  Ports- 
mouth came  aboard  to  present  their  ad- 
dress. The  Recorder  Mr.  Rawlinson 
read  an  address,  to  which  his  Majesty 
immediately  delivered  in  English  the  fol- 
lowing reply  : — 

"  Mr.  Alayor,  Messrs.  Aldermen  and 
Burgesses,  and  Gentlemen  who  now  sur- 
round me,  it  is  with  peculiar  satisfaction 
that  I  acknowledge  the  gracious  permis- 
sion of  her  Majesty  Queen  Victoria  to 
admit  you  to  present  to  me  this  address. 
1  have  heard  it  read  with  unfeigned  satis- 
faction,  for,  having  in  former  years  long 
enjoyed  the  shelter  and  hospitality  of  your 
generous  shores,  it  affords  me  the  highest 
gratification  to  be  able  to  express  the 


warm  feelings  of  my  heart  on  the  present 
occasion. 

*'  Last  year  her  Majesty  kindly  paid 
me  a  visit,  which  I  felt  as  a  great  favour, 
and  which  I  know  has  much  tended  to 
maintain  and  strengthen  the  friendship 
subsisting  between  the  two  countries,  and 
which  most  warmly  subsists  between  the 
hearts  of  the  two  Sovereigns.  My  wish 
has  always  been  to  promote  sincere  union 
between  my  countiy  and  yours.  When 
I  formerly  shared  your  hospitality,  I  long 
lamented  the  war  which  then  unhappily 
raged  between  the  two  nations.  I  blessed 
its  termination,  and  it  was  ever  roy  desire 
and  intention  to  cultivate  good  relations 
between  the  two  countries.  1  felt,  of 
course,  that  my  first  interest  vras  towards 
roy  own  country ;  but  I  felt  that  it  was 
much  more  my  interest  that  my  country 
should  be  at  peace  with  your  country,  and 
that  your  country  shoula  be  at  peace  with 
my  country.  I  felt  also  that  this  was  ne. 
cessary  no  less  for  our  mutual  prosperity 
than  for  that  of  mankind  and  all  the  world, 
inasmuch  as  no  country  can  increase  in 
prosperity  but  by  the  increase  of  the  pros- 
perity of  its  neighbours.  I  felt,  and  still 
feel,  it  our  mutual  interest  that  there 
should  be  no  feelings  of  national  jealousy 
subsisting  between  nations,  and  that,  if 
such  feehngs  cannot  be  entirely  destroyed, 
we  should  at  least  always  work  to  put  an 
end  to  them.  Such  has  always  been  my 
aim ;  and  I  account  it  my  very  good  for- 
tune to  be  again  visiting  your  shores,  and 
enabled  to  express  to  her  Majestv  my 
sincere  affection,  my  warm  friendship, 
and  my  gratitude  for  the  many  tokens  of 
friendship  she  has  bestowed  upon  me. 

'*  I  am  happy,  also,  on  this  occasion, 
to  be  able  to  express  how  much  I  am 
gratified  by  this  address.  I  assure  you 
the  recollection  of  the  reception  1  have 
met  with  in  England  will  never  be eflaced 
from  my  heart.  Long  may  we  all,  gen- 
tlemen, enjoy  the  blessings  of  peace.  Such 
is  my  aim  and  my  wish.  Depend  upon 
ii  I  shall  be  warmly  assisted  in  France  in 
its  maintenance  and  cultivation,  and  be 
assured  at  least  that  no  effort  on  my  part 
shall  be  wanting  for  it.*' 

His  Majesty  spoke  with  great  fluency 
in  the  purest  hnglish  accent,  and  evi* 
dently  with  much  feeling.  The  Recorder 
ventured  to  express  a  wish  that  his  Ma- 
jesty bad  a  copy  of  his  speech.  The 
King's  answer  was,  *'  I  have  no  copy — I 
have  improvised,  but  it  is  spoken  from 
my  heart.*' 

At  half.past  ten  his  Royal  Highness 
Prince  Albert  arrived  at  the  Victualling, 
yard,  accompanied  by  the  Duke  of  Wei* 
iington,  and  embarked  in  a  barge  to  wel* 
come  the  King,  who  immediately  aftef 
landed,  and  proceeded  at  once  to  the 


588 


Domaik  Oecmrrnicn. 


[Nof. 


nllway,  by  wbieh  ha  travelled  to  Fam. 
borough.  Her  Majesty,  accompanied  by 
the  Duchets  of  Kent,  and  attended  by 
the  Counteea  of  Gainsborough,  the  lady 
in  waiting,  and  by  Sir  Robert  Peel,  the 
Earl  of  Liverpool,  Earl  Delawarr,  the 
Hon.  Oeoige  Anaon,  and  other  principal 
officers  of  the  household,  awaited  the 
King's  arrival  at  the  grand  vestibule  of 
Windsor  Castle  at  a  quarter  past  two 
o*cloek.  Their  Majesties  embraced  af- 
l^tionately  at  the  moment  of  meeting, 
and  the  illustrious  party  proceeded  up  the 
grand  staircase ;  the  Queen  on  the  arm  of 
the  King  of  the  French,  the  Duchess  of 
Kent  with  the  Duke  de  Montpensier,  and 
M.  Ouisot  following  with  the  Earl  of 
Jersey. 

On  Thursday  the  Queen,  Prince 
Albert,  the  King  of  the  French,  the 
Duke  of  Montpensier,  ftc.  proceeded  to 
Claremont,  and  from  thence  to  Twicken- 
ham, to  the  house  formerlv  occupied  by 
bis  Majesty,  and  now  in  the  occupation 
of  the  Earl  of  Momington.  The  royal 
party  then  went  through  Hampton  Court 
to  Claremont  House,  and  then  returned  to 
the  Castle.whereagnind  banquet  was  served 
at  seven  o'clock  in  St.  George's  Hall. 

On  Friday  a  Chapter  of  the  Most 
Noble  Order  of  the  Garter  was  held 
by  the  Queen  in  the  Tbrone.room, 
when  the  King  was  invested  with  the 
insignia  of  the  Order,  by  her  Majesty. 
The  knights  present  were  Prince  Albert, 
the  Dukes  of  Cambridge,  Rutland,  WeU 
llngton,  Devonshire,  Buocleuch,  Beau- 
fort, and  Buckingham;  Marquesses  of 
Anglesea,  Exeter,  Lansdowne,  West- 
minster, and  Salisbury.  A  banquet  in 
honour  of  the  occasion  was  then  given  to 
100  guests  in  St.  George's  Hall. 

On  Saturday  the  Duke  de  Montpensier 
visited  Woolwich  Arsenal,  accompanied 
by  Prince  Edward  of  Saze  Weimar.  The 
Royal  party  honoured  Eton  College  with 
a  visit  that  day.  The  Mavor  and  Cor- 
poration of  London  attended  in  the  after- 
noon, and  presented  an  address  of  con- 
gratulation to  the  King  on  his  arrival  in 
thia  country;  to  which  his  Majesty  re- 
turned a  suitable  answer. 

On  Saturdsy  his  Majesty,  &c.  attended 
oiass  in  the  Chapel  at  Clewer,  and  in  the 
afternoon  walked  on  the  Terrace. 

On   Monday  morning  the  King  de- 

Srted  for  France,  accompanied  by  Her 
aiestv  and  Prince  Albert,  on  their  way 
to  the  Isle  of  Wight.  Having  arrived  at 
the  Gosport  terminus,  the  royal  party 
were  received  by  the  Duke  of  Welling- 
ton,  and  Major- General  Pakenham,  and 
proceeded  to  the  Intended  place  of  em- 
barkation, amid  the  cheers  of  the  multi- 
tude and  firing  from  the  batteries.  The 
X\ 


rain,  however,  oama  down  in  tormti, 
and  it  was  deemed  advisable,  from  tha 
stormy  state  of  the  weather,  that  hia 
Majesty  should  return  to  London,  and 
proceed  to  France  vid  Dover.  Having 
taken  leave  of  Her  Majesty  in  tlia  moat 
affectionate  manner,  the  King  entaiad 
the  train,  which  reached  Nine  Elma  at 
half.past  ten,  and  he  was  from  tfaenec 
escorted  to  the  terminus  of  the  Dover 
Railway  at  New  Cross  (where  the  oc- 
tagonal building  waa  at  the  time  in  flames), 
and  immediately  proceeded  by  apadal 
train  for  Dover,  at  which  phwe  he  iv- 
mained  during  the  night  at  the  Ship  Inn. 
On  Tuesday  morning  he  embariced  in  Le 
Nord,  one  of  the  French  Post-cAee 
steamers,  for  Calais,  through  aroogh  sea. 
His  Majesty  landed  safely  at  Cakla,  from 
whence  he  proceeded  that  evening  to  tha 
Chateau  of  Eu. 

The  last  time  Louis  Philippe  viailad 
England  was  in  1815,  durina  the  hnndfcd 
days.  When  Louis  XVIIL  went  to 
Ghent,  the  Duke  of  Orleans  took  relqge 
in  England,  where  he  remained  until  the 
battle  of  Wateiloo  enabled  him  onoa  moce 
to  return  to  the  Palais  Royal. 

Shortly  after  the  departure  of  the  King 
of  the  French,  the  Queen  and  Prince 
Albert  embarked,  and  on  the  foUowiqg 
morning  Her  Majesty  breakfasted  on 
board  the  Gomer.  Her  Majesty  was  re- 
ceived  by  Vlce-Admiral  La  Susse.  The 
royal  party  then  returned  to  the  ya^t  and 
steered  direct  to  CoweS. 

Sept,  88.  A  dreadful  explosion  of  fire- 
damp occurred  at  Haswell  CoUicfy, 
situate  in  the  verv  centre  of  the  great 
Durham  coal-field,  about  seven  miles 
from  the  city  of  Durham,  and  nine  liroai 
Sunderiand,  the  property  of  Meaars. 
Clark,  Taylor,  Plumer,  and  others^  It 
is  one  hundred  and  fifty  fathoms  deep, 
and  the  workings  are  in  the  well-known 
Hutton  Seam.  The  character  of  the 
mine,  in  respect  of  ventilation,  haa  alwmys 
stood  higb.  Not  a  soul  has  been  left  to 
tell  the  mournful  tale  of  how  the  accident 
occurred,  the  whole  of  the  men  employed 
in  the  working,  ninety-five  In  number, 
having  been  swept  into  eternity  without  a 
moment's  warning.  Four  men,  who 
were  at  the  bottom  of  the  shaft,  escaped, 
by  the  fire  having  burned  itself  out  befote 
it  reached  them.  Between  fifty  and  sixty 
carts  were  employed  in  conveying  the 
dead  bodies  to  the  places  of  interment. 
Fifty,  four  were  buned  in  the  buiying- 
ground  of  South  Hetton  Church,  the 
others  at  Easington  and  Haligarth  villa^;es» 
id>out  three  mifes  distant.  Haswell  col- 
liery is  one  of  the  most  extensive  in  the 
county  of  Durham.  It  employs  upwnrda 
of  300  men  and  boys. 


637 


PROMOTIONS,  PREFERMENTS,  &c. 


Gazette  Promotions. 

Btpi.  17.  William-Ttimer  Honoway.of  Nath- 
ooQit,  in  the  parish  of  Cam,  co.  Gloucester, 

Seat,  eldest  son  of  Samuel  HoUowaiTf  by 
Fancy  bis  late  wife,  daughter  (and  whilst 
livlnf^  co-heir  expectant)  of  Thomas  Hadley, 
both  of  Cam  aforesaid,  gent,  to  take  the  sur* 
name  of  Turner,  in  lieu  of  Holloway. 

Oct,  S.  On  the  recommendation  of  Field 
Marshal  the  Commander  in  Chief,  brevet  Ma« 
jor  John  Henry  Cooke,  half>pay»  Unattached, 
to  be  one  of  Her  M^esty'a  Hon.  Corps  or 
Gentlemen  at  Arms. 

Oct.  4.  4Sd  Foot.  Major-Gen.  the  Hon.  Sir 
Hercules  Robert  Pskenhain.  K.C.  B.  to  be 
ColoDel.~«5th  Foot,  Capt.  C.  E.  Gold  to  b« 
Miyfor.— Brevet.  Capt.  B.  O.  Wrench,  4th  Drag. 
Guards,  to  be  Mijjor  and  lieutenant-Colonel  in 
the  Army.— Sir  Robert  Smirks.  Knt.  James 
Pennethome,  esq.  and  Thomas  Cubitt,  esq.  to 
constitute,  with  the  Official  Referees  appointed 
under  the  Act  for  regulating  the  construction 
and  the  use  of  buildings  in  the  metropolis  and 
ha  neighhonrhood,  a  Board  for  the  examina- 
tion of  any  persons  who  may  present  them- 
selves for  the  purpose  of  obtaininra  certificate 
of  qualification  for  the  office  of  District  Sur- 
veyor within  the  limits  of  the  said  Act. 

Oct.  8.  6th  Dragoons.  Capt.  the  Hon. 
Henry  Crichton  to  be  Mijor.— 81st  Foot,  Ma- 
Jor  John  Byrne  to  be  Lieut.-Colonel ;  brevet 
Major  George  Baldwin  to  be  Major. 

Oct.  11.  Brevet,  Capt.  Gustavns  Thomas 
Hume,  4th  Foot,  to  be  Major  in  the  Army. 

Oct.  14.  Edward  Lord  Ellenboronch  created 
Viscount  Southam,  of  Southam,  co.  Gloucester, 
and  Earl  of  Ellenoorough,  co.  Cumberland.^ 
WiUiam  Henry  Draper,  esq.  to  be  Attorney 
General  for  Upper  Canada ;  Wm.  Morris,  esq. 
to  be  Receiver  General  for  Canada ;  li.  B. 
Fspineau,  esq.  to  be  Commissioner  for  Crown 
laiMls  for  Canada ;  James  Smith,  esq.  to  be 
Attorney  General  for  Lower  Canada ;  Dominick 
Daly,  esq.  to  be  Secretary  for  Canada ;  John 
Downie.  esq.,  to  be  First  Puisne  Judge  for  Bri* 
tish  Guiana ;  and  Francesco  Dalmas,  esq.  to  be 
Gsshier  to  the  Government  of  Malta. 

Oct,  IS.  James  Bellairs,  of  Haverfordwest, 
esq.  (in  compliance  with  the  last  will  of  Wm. 
Stevenson,  late  of  Stamford,  co.  Lincoln,  esq. 
to  take  the  name  and  arms  of  Stevenson  only. 
Oct,  19.  John  Kincaid,  esq.  late  Captain  in 
the  Rifle  Brigade,  to  be  Exooof  Her  Mi^esty's 
Guard  of  the  Yeomen  of  Her  Guard.~Col. 
John  Shelton  to  wear  the  insignia,  of  t^ 
seoond  class,  of  the  Order  of  the  Dooraoet 
empire. 

OH.  91.  James  Earl  of  Glasgow  to  b« 
Uentenant  and  Sheriff  Principal  of  the  shire 
of  Renfrew. 

Oct.  ai.  nth  Regiment  of  Foot,  Mi^or  John 
Gssemir  Harold,  ftrom  74th  Foot,  to  be  MiOor, 
vUe  John  Fordyce,  who  exchanges.— 23d  Foot. 
Oapt.  Charles  Crutchley  to  be  Bfajor.— Randall 
OossiD,  of  Thorp  Arch-hall.  co.  York,  esq. 
snd  Christiana  his  wife,  only  daughter  of  the 
late  William  Marshall,  of  Newton  Kyme,  in 
the  said  county,  esq.  sometime  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  of  theSd  West  York  Militia,  deceased, 
and  sister  and  sole  heir  of  William  Hatfield 
(heretofore  William  Marshall),  late  of  Laugh- 
ton-en-le-Morthen,  and  of  Newton  Kyme.  esq. 
to  take  the  surname  of  Hatfield,  in  Uea  of  Gos- 
sip; and  the  arms  of  Hatfield  in  the  firsi 
qoarter. 

Gbkt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


Ecclesiastical  P&ErE&MBNTS. 

Rev.  H.  Blayds,  to  be  a  Canon  of  Wells. 
Rev.  J.  Oollyer,  to  be  Archdeacon  of  Norwich* 
Rev.  Christopher  Wordsworth,  jnn.  D.D.  to  bo 

a  Canon  of  Westminster. 
Rev.  T.  Apperley,  St.  Paul,  Shadwell  R.  Middx. 
Rev.  T.  Barclay,  St.  Simon  New  Church  P.C. 

Bristol. 
Rev.  J.  Booth,  St.  Stephen,  8alford,P.C.  Man- 
cheater. 
Rev.  J.  Bradford,  Pinhoe  V.  Devon. 
Rev.  T.  Brayshaw,  Eastwood,  Keighley,  P.C. 

Yorkshire. 
Rev.  H.  Briant,  St.  PauPs,  Macclesfield,  New 

Church  P.C.  Cheshire. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Butcher,  to  the  District  Church  of 

Ramsbottom  P.C.  Bury,  Lancashire. 
Rev.  J.  B.  Csrter,  Marden  R.  Wilts. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Cartwright,  Winterbome  Danntsey 

and  Winterbourne  Earl's  P.CC.  Wilts. 
Rev.  W.  S.  Chapman,  Kemble  V.  Wilts. 
Rev.  W.  J.  Clayton.  Icklinjgton  V.  Camb. 
Rev.  A.  Clements,  St.  Jude  New  Church  P.C. 

Bristol. 
Rev.  H.  A.  Coles,  Mamham  V.  Notts. 
Rev.  A.  Coote.  Marsh  Gibbons  R.  Bocks. 
Rev.  J.  Cree,  Chaldon  Herring  V.  Dorset. 
Rev.  H.  B.  DarieSfSt.  George's  Church,  Hutane, 

P.  C.  I^uic. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Delawere,  Failsworth  New  Church 

P.C.  near  Manchester. 
Rev.  T.  Dixon,  Stockleigh  English  R.  Devon. 
Rev.  E.  Dodd,  St.  Giles's  with  St.  Peter's  P.C. 

Cambridge. 
Rev.  R.  W.  Greaves,  Tooting  R.  Surrey. 
Rev.  T.  R.  Green,  Byker  Dbtrict  Church  P.C. 

Durham. 
Rev.  J.  a  Gregory, Holt  R.  Wiltshire. 
Hon.  and  Rev.  A.  H.  Gore,  Witbcall  R.  Line. 
Rev.  J.  H.  Gossett,  Northam  V.  Sussex. 
Rev.  A.  Hackman,  St.  Paurs  P.C.  Oxford. 
Rev.  J.  Haigh,  St.  Paul's,  Huddersfield,  P.C. 

Yorkshire. 
Rev.  W.  W.  Harris.  Rudbaxtoo  R.  Pemb. 
Rev.  G.  Hawkins,  Honington  R.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  A  F.  Hart,  Amnderv.  Sussex. 
Rev.  J.  Hensman,  Christ  Church, Clifton  Fuk, 

P.C.  near  Bristol. 
Rev.  T.  Howes,  Moulton  Magna  R.  NorfMk. 
Rev.  H.  P.  Hughes,  Christ  Church,  Dolphin- 
holme  P.C. 
Rev.  R.  C.  Kennfcott,  All  Saints  New  Church 

P.C.  Monkwearmouth. 
Hon.  and  Rev.  T.  R.  Keppel,  North  Creake 

R.  Norfblk. 
Rev.  W.  D.  Uttlejohn,  Sydenham  V.  Oxon. 
Rev.  H.  Lowther,  Aikton  R.  Cumberland. 
Rev.  W.  Mallock,  Cheriton  Bishop^s  R.  Staff. 
Rev.  G.  W.  Manning,  St.  Jullot  P.C.  Cornwall. 
Rev.  H.  B.  Massey,  Shocklach  P.C.  Cheshire. 
Rev.  C.  Moreton.  Scissett  P.C.  Yoritshire. 
Rev.  F.  O.  Morris,  Nsfferton  V.  Yorkshife. 
Rev.  S.  Pagan,  Uverbridge  New  Church,  Bol- 

ton-le  Moors.  P.C.  Lancashire. 
Rev.  P.  H.  Palmer.  Woolsthorpe  R.  Line. 
Rev.  8.  Pearson,  West  Bilney  P.C.  Norfolk. 
Rev.  C.  Postlethwaite,  Grove  R.  Notts. 
Rev.  G.  Pretyroan,  Great  Culton  V.  Line. 
Rev.  P.  V.  Rohinson,  Landewednach  R.  Comw. 
Rev.  L.  H.  Rudd,  Roscombe  P.C.  Berks. 
Rev.  H.  SewelL  Burgate  R.  Suffolk. 
Rev.  D'Arcy  fifir,  Yoxford  R.  Suilblk.      ^ 
Rev.  B.  Smith,  St.  Mary  the  Less  P.  C.  Cam- 
bridge. 
Rev.  P.  Sockett,  St.  James's,  West  Bron« 

wich,  P.C.  Stitfbrdshire. 

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[Not. 


Rev.  A.  Thompson,  Hotham  R.  Yorkshire. 
Rev.  J.  Trevit,  Homdon-on-the-Hill  V.  Essex. 
Rev.  J.  Wallas,  Stain ton-on-Crosscrake  P.C. 

Cheshire. 
Rev.  T.  Watkins,  Llanvillo  R.  Brecon. 
Rev.  D.  Wheeler,  St.  Paars  P.C.  Wore. 
Rev.  W.  Williams,  Stokesay  R.  Herefordshire. 
ReVi  S.  J.  Wilson,  Weston  near  Nantwich  R. 
Rev.  C.  M.  Wimberley,  Kedding^ton  V.  Line. 
Rev.  H.  Wynter,   Etruria   District    Church 

Shelton  P.C.  Staffordshire. 


Chaplains. 

Rev.  J.  F-  L.  Rassell,  M.A.  to  Lord  Keane. 
Rev.  H.  Thompson,  B.  A.  to  the  Earl  of  West- 
morland. 
Rev.  T.  C.  Price,  to  Lord  Howden. 


BIRTHS. 

Ifoy  20.  In  the  Bay  of  Islands,  New  Zea- 
land, the  wife  of  the  Bishop  of  New  Zealand, 
a  son. 

Sept.  18.    At  Wobum,   the  Lady  Charles 

Russell,  a  dau. 19.  At  Tidmarsh  Rectory, 

the  Hon.  Mrs.  Atherton  Legh  Powys.  a  son. 

At  Swinnerton  Park,  the  wife  or  the  Hon. 

Richard  Cavendish,  a  dan. At  Dover,  the 

widow  of  Major  Charles  fiaillie  Brisbane,  late 

of  S4th  Reg^.  a  son. In  Berkeley-sq.  the 

wife  of  the  lion.  Henry  Fitzroy,  M.  P.  a  dau. 

30.  At  Preston  Candover,  Hants,  the  wife 

of  F.  Jervoise  Ellis,  esq.  a  son  and  heir. 25. 

At  Bisfield-house,  Mrs.  R.  F.  Wykeham  Martin, 

a  son. 26.  At  Barnstaple,  the  wife  of  the 

Rev.  H.  Luxmore,  of  twins,  a  son  and  dau. 

In  Bennett-street,  St.  James's,  the  wife  of 

Alexander  Bridg^e,esq.  surgeon,  a  dau.— 39.  At 
Anglesea,  Hants,  the  Hon.  Mrs.  R.  C.  Trench, 
a  dau. 

Lately.    At  Lyncombehill,  Bath,  the  wife  of 

John  B.  Cardale.  esq.  a  dau. At  Queen-sq. 

Bath,  the  wife  of  H.  N.  Goddard,  esq.  of  the 
Manor  House,  Cliffe.  Wilts,  a  son. At  Salis- 
bury, the  wife  of  w.  B.  Brodie,  esq.  a  son. 

At  Podymore  rectory,  Mrs,  Henry  Dij^by 

Serrell,  a  son. At  Buckland,  near  Farinfc* 

don,  Berks,  Lady  Throckmorton,  a  dau. At 

Westbrook,  Herts,  Lady  Georriana  Ryder,  a 
son. At  Oteley-park,  the  wife  of  C  K.  Main- 
waring',  esq.  a  son  and  heir. At  Bandon, 

the  Hon.  Mrs.  Bernard,  a  son. Near  Car- 
low,  the  wife  of  Capt.  Fitxmaurice,  R-  N.  a 
son— her  20th  child,  14  of  whom  are  now  living. 

In  Grosvenor-sq.  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Charl«s 

Stanley,  a  dau. In  St.  James's-pl.  the  wife 

of  Wm.  Cripps,  esq.  M.P.  a  son. At  Louth- 

hall.    Lady   Louth,  a  dau. At  Glevering, 

Lady  Huntingfield,  adau. The  Marchioness 

of  Ormond,  a  son  and  heir. In  Dublin,  the 

Hon.  Mrs.  Maude,  a  son. 

Oct.  s.    At  Montreal,  Sevenoaks,  Kent,  the 

Viscountess  Holmesdale,  a  son. At   the 

Vicarage,  Cleobury  Mortimer,  Shropsh.,  the 
wife  of  £.  M.  Moultrie,  esq.  of  the  Middle 

Temple,  Barrister-at-Law.  a  son. 5.  At  the 

Vicarage^  East   Brent,   Somerset,  the   Hon. 

Mrs.    William  Towry  Law,  a  dau. 6.  At 

Dartmouth,  the  wife  of  Jonas  Coaker,  esq. 

R.N.  a  son. At  Haversham- house,  near 

Hislathorpe,  the  wife  of  Geo.  Edw.  Wilson, 

esq.  a  dau. 8.  In  Grosvenor-sq.  the  wife  of  Sir 

Tlios.  Winningion,  Bart.  M.P.  a  dau. 9.  At 

Frant,  Mrs.  Michael  Smith,  of  Gordon-sq.  a 

■on. At  Portsmouth,  the  wife  of  M.  Boor- 

chier,  esq.  Lieut,  of  H.  M.  S.  Excellent,  of 

twin  sons. At  Honinaham  Hall,  Norfolk, 

I«dy  Bayninr,  a  son  ana  heir. 17.  At  the 

house  of  Sir  F.  Hamiltoo.  Bart,  in  Comber* 
Itnd-plaoa,  Mrs.  Henry  u.  Hamiltoo,  a  son. 
—-18.  The  Coantessof  ChichMtcr,  a 


30.  At  Matfen,Northamber1and,  Lady  Blackftt, 

a  dau. ^23.  In  London,  Mrs.  H.  Merewether, 

a  dau. 34.  At  Hatton,  Lady  PoUock,  a  sod. 


MARRIAGES. 

AprU  18.  At  Sydn-y,  WUIlam  Barker  Boy- 
dell,  esq.  of  Caer-Gwrle,  co.  Durham,  New 
South  Wales,  to  Mary  Phoebe  BrouKhton. 
eider  dau.  of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Australia. 

Mojf  ..  At  Hobart  Town,  Mr.  J.  w.Ro- 
barts,  publisher  of  the  Government  Gaxette, 
and  bite  of  Trnro,  to  Miss  Hardwicke.  niece 
of  Major-Gen.  Hardwicke,  of  that  colony.    , 

16.  At  Richmond,  New  South  Wales,  Uwis 
Duncan  Whitaker.  esq.  Justice  of  the  Pwo, 
son  of  Edmund  WhiUker,  esq.  late  of  Bmv 
ton,  Oxon,  to  Rebecca,  youngest  dau-  of  J»m. 
Cox.  esq.  of  Hobartville  House,  Justice  of  tHe 
Peace,  and  Warden  of  the  district. 

83.  At  St.  Helena,  John  Henry  Gtrnft 
Powel  Blachford,  esq.  of  the  Commissanat 
Department,  nephew  of  the  late  Gen.  Btocft- 
ford,  of  Kew,  to  Emma-Jane,  eldest  dau.  « 
J.  Moss,  esq.  of  St.  Helena.  , .~  _.^ 

June  8.  At  CalcutU,  Maj.  Ferdinand  Whyte. 
40th  Regt.  to  Henrietta.  Patricia,  widow  or 
Major  Sholto  Douglas,  and  sister-in-Uw  oi 
Sarah,  Marchioness  of  Queensberry.  . 

JiUtf  4.  In  Bombay.  Metcalfe  Larken,«sq.  w 
the  divil  Service,  to  Maria,  fourth  dao.^  w 
Hon.  James  Henry  Crawford,  Member  « 
Council  at  Bombay.  ,,   . ,  ,^^ 

25.  At  Georgetown,  George  »*"J"*J5I 
Montague  Browne,  esq  second  son  of  IMJJJ 
Rev.  t!  A.  Browne,  of  Montague  House,  Grna 
Sable,  and  grandson  of  the  late  Lieut.  Coi- 
Browne,  of  Newton  House,  Yorksh.  to  J«n 
Mackey,  eldest  dau.  of  Alex.  Mac  Uod,  esq. 
of  Tourama. 


Musson,  esq.  of  Paynter  Vale,  Bermuda. 

17.  At  Florence,  Alberic,  eldest  aon  ofw 
Marquis  Balbian,  of  Colcavmo.  Piwmontt 
to  Emilia,  younzest  dau.  of  &  Prwet  ***• " 
Hendon  House,  Hendon.  .    . .   „*iA 

30.  At  Stoke  Newington,  Frtdenck  i  "*» 
Nicholl,  esq.  of  Portland-pl.  to  Bhia-IfoJ«, 
dau.  of  William  Bode,  esq.  of  Stoke  N<y'?5; 

ton. At  St.  George's,  Hanover-so.  lUiPJ 

Bernal.  esq.  M.P.  to  Catherine-Isabella,  ooif 
dau.  and  heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  0»»xi*?f»„l2 

of  Newtown  Anner,  Tipperary. AJ  ^^ 

Dole,  Capt.  J.  Herbert  Clay,  29th  W- 
youngest  son  of  Ueut.-Geo.  Clay,  to  J|°'» 
third  dau.  of  P.  Boyd,  esq.  Baring-Crescm 

At  Dawlish,  George  Edward  Coryioa^m- 

son  of  the  Ute  J.  T.  Ooryton,  esq.  o' f«"5;^ 
Castle,  Cornwall,  to  Mary-Louisa-PfcpderjdJJ* 
of  the  Rev.  Charles  Phillott,  of  the  Ctew- 
Unds,  Dawlish,  and  Vicar  of  Frome  Seliwji 

^At  Hanxwell   Hall.    Frederick  Goryo" 

Christie,  esq.  18th  Prince  Albert's  Ugn*'^'* 
only  son  of  Sir  Archibald  Christie,  ."^i.";' 
Deputy-Gov.  of  Stiriing  CasUe,  to  AngiJ^ 
second  dau.  of  the  late  CoL  Coore.ofScrow" 

Hall,  and  Firby,  Yorkshire. At  StoneboMJ 

Lieut.  James  Jarvls,  S8th  Regt.  wn  of  /»f^. 
Jarvis,  esq.  of  Ledbury,  Herefordsh.  to  i^ 
belU,  only  dau.  of  the  late  James  Ko^'^^J^ 

Bequia,  St.  Vincent. At  Liverpool,  Kjoei^ 

Hall,  esq.  Lieut.  R.  N.  to  Teresa-Bndg«f 
second  dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Tunstall,  w- 
formerty  of  Preston-leSkerne.  Dnf^'^C. 
St.  James's.  Robert  Pryor,  esq.  of  Lmcojn  »^ 
inn,  barrister-at-law,  to  Eliiabeth;Caro»JJ« 
dan.  of  Wyrley  Birch,  esq.  of  Wretham-wj. 

Norfolk. At    Newington-green,  ^K' 

Thos.  Madge,  to  Eleanor,  dau.  of  Jtf*  'SlzSr 
esq.  of  ifiglibury-terricc. M  Cheiiwi 


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539 


Tinat  Wynne  Denton,  eMi.M.D.  of  Denblrb, 
to  Margaret-Alice^  only  dau.  of  the  late  John 

Colleyi  esq.  of  LiTerpool. At  Rini^tead, 

Willtaa-Henry»  eldest  son  of  J.  O.  La  Serre, 
esq.  of  Hackney,  to  Mary,  second  dan.  of 
Thomas  Wilkins,  esq.  of  Ringatead  House, 
Tforthamptonahire. 

at.  At  Naples,  Capt.  Lord  William  Comi>- 
ton,  R.N.  second  son  of  the  Marquis  of  North- 
ampton, to  Eliza,  dan.  of  Rear-Admiral   the 

Hon.  George  Elliott At  Roshall,   Wilts, 

John  Gale,  esq.  of  Ogboum  St.  Geoi^e,  to 
Miss  Thomson,  of  York-terr.  Regent's  Park. 

At  Col yton,  John  Latoysonere  dcarbrougb, 

esq.  of  Shaldon,  to  Marian,  only  child  of  Rear- 
Admiral  Impey,  of  Coly  Villa,  Devon. At 

Paris,  Joseph  Silvester  Godfrey,  esq.  of  High- 

Kte,  and  of  the  Middle  Temple,  barrister-at- 
r,  to  Mary- Anne-Priestley,  grand-dan.  of  the 

late  William  Maden,  esq.  of  Uncolnshire. 

At  Wantage,  J.  Zaba,  esq.  of  Paris,  to  Belinda, 
youngest   dau.   of  Robert  Church,  esq.   of 

Bishopstone,  Wilts. At  Beverley,  George 

Frederick  Smith,  esq.  of  Goldeo-sq.  to  Ann, 
second  dan.  of  the  late  S.  Shepherd,  esq.  at 
Beverley. 

22.  At  Beaulien  Hill,  Norwood,  Surrey, 
John  Coates,  esq.  of  Demerara,  to  Mary-Jane, 
eldest  dan.  of  the  late  Charles  Bingham,  esq. 

of  Beaolieu  Hill. At  Rendcomb,  Glouces- 

tersh.  Henry  Miller,  esq.  of  Preston,  Lane, 
to  Caroline- Anne,  eldest  dan.  of  the  late  Robt. 

Robbins,  esq.  of  Lincoln's-lnn-flelds. At 

Streatharo,  John,  younirer  son  of  Joseph  Daw- 
son, esq.  of  Streatham  ilill,  to  Mary,  younger 
dau.  of  the  late  William  Bousfleld,  esq. —  At 
Westminster,  Barnard  Wight  Holt.  esq.  of 
Abiogdon-st.  Westminster,  to  Sarah-Marga- 
ret, only  child  of  Dyer  Dew,  esq.  of  Walcot- 
place,  Kennington.— At  Cheltenham,  Evan- 
son  Alchorne,  esq.  to  Cordelia-  Sophia,  second 
dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  John  Conyers  Place. 

of  Mamhuli,  Dorset. ^At  Paris,  at  the  Chapel 

of  the  British  Ambassador,  the  ceremony 
having  been  previously  performed  according 
to  the  rites  of  the  Catholic  Church,  Aim<S  Fran- 
cois, Comte  de  Broc  de  la  l^veliere.  Chamber- 
lain of  the  King  of  Bavaria,  to  Louisa,  only 
dau.  of  the  late  George  Rowland  Minshnlt,  esq. 
of  Aston  Clinton,  Bucks,  during  many  years  a 

Magistrate  at  the  Police  Oflice,  Bow-st. At 

Newport,  I.W..  John  Stileman  Bostock,  esq.  of 
Ventnor.  to  Sarah,  dau.  of  the  late  Robt.  Hurst, 
esq.  of  Horsham  Park,  Sussex. At  Ply- 
mouth, Charles  Appleyard.  esq.  of  York- 
street,  Portman-sqnare,  to  Catharine-Eleanor, 
youngest  dau.  of  Captain  William  Philip 
I)aykin,  of  Oriel  Mount.  Totnes,  Devonsh. 
^— At  Huiwell,  Charles  Rivers  Freeliug,  esq. 
youngest  son  of  the  late  Sir  Francis  Freeling, 
Bart,  to  Louisa,  third  dau.  of  Iltid  Nicholl, 

esq.  of  Portland-pl. At  Edinburgh.  Jack- 

■on  Townsend,  esq.  of  Liverpool,  to  Pauliae- 
Frances,  youngest  dan.  of  Felix  Yaniewicx, 

esq.  of  Edinburgh. At  Ctirist  Church, 

Marylebone,  the  Rev.  Daniel  Moore,  M.A.  of 
Christ  Cbapel,  St.  John's  Wood,  to  Fanny- 
Henrietta,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late  George 
Lackington,  esq. 

24.  At  Kennington,  J.  H.  Thome,  esq, 
H.C.S.,  third  son  of  the  late  Joshua  Thome, 
esq.  of  Old  Stratford,  to  Sarah,  youncest  dan. 
of  the  late  James  Combes,  esq.  of  Aldgate 
—At  Christ  Church.  Marylebone,  Robert 
Deverell,  eldest  son  of  Robert  Pyper.  M.D. 
late  4th  (Royal  Irish)  Draruon  Guards,  to 
Harriette,  youngest  dau.  of  Capt.  Cuthhert 

Featherstone  DaW,  R.N.  C.B. ^At  Islington, 

Bdward  James  Gonly.  eldest  son  of  Gouly  de 
Cbaville,  esq.  late  of  Southern  Hill,  Berks,  to 
Bliiabetn- Frances,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
William  Hanson  Dearsly,  esq.  of  ShinAeld, 
Berks. ^At  Folham,  B.  F.  Foster,  esq.  to 


Mariana,  only  dan.  of  the  late  Chartei  Stmrt 

NixoD,  esq. At  Eaton,  Norfolk,  Daniel  Cnl- 

lington,  esq.  Jnn.  of  Craven-at.  to  Anna* Maria, 
dan.  of  John  Sherren  Brewer,  esq.  of  Mile-end 

House,  near  Norwich. At  Hall,  Thomao 

Adolphns  Kooblock,  esq.  to  Mary-Elixabeth, 
eldest  dan.  of  Thomas  Rennarda,  esq.  of  Cot- 

tingham. At  Chichester,  John  Hamilton, 

eldest  son  of  John  Burrill,  esq.  of  Cosham 
House.  Hants,  to  Cantline.  dau.  of  the  late  J. 

W.  Wilkinson,  esq.  of  Surbrook  House. At 

Dorking,  John,  second  son  of  the  late  Heath- 
field  Young,  esq.  of  Dorking,  to  CaroUne, 

goungest  dau.  of  James  Cheesman.  esq. At 
t.  Saviour's.  Southwark,  Philip  Roberts,  esq. 
of  Upper  Montagn-st.  Russell-sq.  and  Carey- 
st.  Lincoln's-inn,  to  Sarah-Rew,  only  dan.  of 
the  late  John  Rawlinson  Harris,  eaq.  M.  P.,  of 
Winchester  House,  Southwark. 

96.  At  St.  Pancras,  Alexander  Har.  esq. 
surgeon,  to  Jane,  eldest  dau.  of  John  Charles 
Bristow,  esq.  or  Ensemere  Hill,  UUeswater, 
Westmoreland. 

27.  At  Great  Baddow,  near  Chelmsford, 
Hunter,  eldest  son  of  William  Rodwell.  esq. 
of  Ipswich,  to  Mary-Packer,  dan.  of  James 
Bqggis,  esq.  of  Baddow  Court.  Essex,  and 
on&  grandchild  of  the  late  William  Packer, 

esq. At  Totnes,  Stephen  Francis  Shairp, 

esq.  banker,  Totnes,  to  Caroline,  eldest  dan.  of 

Charles  Michelmore.  esq.  of  Highfield. ^At 

the  Church  of  Charles  the  Martyr,  J.  C.  Lamb- 
ton  Carter,  esq.  Capt.  6ard  Regt.  son  of  the 
late  Col.  Carter,  44th  Regt.  to  Susan-Frances, 
second  dau.  of  Capt.  James  Lillicrap,  R.N. 

At  Battersea,  Adolphus  F.  Slade,  esq.  of 

Battersea-flelds,  to  Charlotte-Amelia.  eldest 
dau.  of  Hfnry  P.  Hulme,esq.  of  theClapham- 

road. ^At  Portsea,  the  Rev.   Robert  P. 

Hutchison,  B.  A.,  of  Corpus  Christi  Coll. 
Cambridge,  to  Catharioe-Bronncker,  second 
dau.  of  William  Atdeld,  esq.  of  Grove  House, 

Southsea,  HaiiU. ^At  Twickenham,  Edward 

Nathaniel  Conant,  esq.  eldest  son  of  John 
Edward  Conant,  esq.  of  Upper  Wimpole-st., 
to  Gertrude-Mary,  second  dau.  of  the  Rev. 
Charles  Proby,  Canon  of  Windsor  and  Vicar  of 

Twickenham. At  Westbory-upon-Trym, 

Edward,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Edward  Strachey, 
esq.  Bengal  Civil  Serv..  to  Elixabeth,  dan.  of 
the  late  Rev.  Wm.  Wilkieson,  of  Woodbury, 

Cambridgesh.  and  Bath. At  Clonfert,  the 

Rev.  Edward  1.  Phipps,  Rector  of  Devises, 
Wilts,  and  son  of  the  late  Thomas  Hele 
Phipps,  esq.  of  Leighton  Hoose,  to  Susanna^ 
Henrietta,  eldest  dau.  of  the  Yen.  I.  S.  But- 
son.  Archdeacon  of  Clonfert,  only  son  of  the 

late  Bishop  of  that  diocese. At  Chelsea, 

Ponsonby  Arthur,  eldest  son  of  the  Rer. 
Henry  Moore,  of  Ballyhale,  co.  Kilkenny,  to 
Augusta-Sophia,  youngest  dan.  of  Maior-OeOk 
the  Hon.  William  Henry  Gardner,  of  Cadogao- 
At  St.  Pancras,  Aunstus  Frederick 


e 


amilton,  esq.  of  Kentish  Town,  to  Mary, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  George  Richards, 

esq.  of  Bedford-pl.  Hampstead-road. At 

St.  George's,  Hanover-sq.  the  Rev.  Edward 
BaineSf  Rector  of  Blontisham,  Hunts,  to 
Cathanne-Bnlaria,  younmt  dan.  of  the  lata 
John  Baines,  esq.  of  Shooter's  Hill,  Kent, 
At  St.  Mary*s,  Islington.  John  Alex- 
ander Weir,  esq.  of  North  End,  Fulham,  to 
Mary-Anne,  eldest  dan.  of  Ur.  Venables,  Royal 

Art. ^At  Great  Malvern,  the  Rev.  Edward 

Otto  Trevelyan,  A..M.  of  Stogumber.  Somerset, 
younger  son  of  the  late  Yen.  Archdeacon  Tre- 
velyan, to  Emma,  only  dau.  of  Charles  Hors- 
fall  Bill,  esq.  of  Horthes  Hall.  co.  York.^ 
At  Stirling,  Capt.  C.  Thorold  Hill,  29th  Regt. 
Madras  Army,  to  Emma-Harriet,  eldest  dau.  of 
G.  E.  Rassell,  esq.  late  of  the  Madras  Civil 

Service. At  SI.  Pancras  New  Church,  Rich. 

James  Barrow,  esq.  of  Hawley-nMd,  Kentish 


540 


TowD,  to  Surmb.  third  ind  ytanfctt  dan.  of 
•tlieUite  Capt.  Churlei  Km,  But  India  Co.'a 
Bombay  Marine,  and  of  Rainacate. 

98.  At  Dublin,  William  CharlM  Brown, 
esq.  of  Manchester,  to  Harriett-Anne,  dan.  of 
Thomas  Cade  Battley,  esq.  barrister. 

99.  At  Budock,  J.  C.  Fitsmald,  esq.  Cant. 
R.N.  to  Mary,  eldest  dan.  of  John  Symonds, 

esq.  of  Stratton  House,  Fahnontb. At  8t. 

Stephen's,  Coleman-st.  William  Bden  Wad- 
dinprton,  son  of  James  Wadding:ton,  esq.  of 
London  Wall,  to  Jane,  dan.  of  the  late  William 

Melton,  esq. ^At  Kennington,  Mr.  Ford 

Hale,  Jan.  of  St.  John-street,  second  son  of 
Ford  Hale,  esq.  of  Cannon-st.  to  Elisabeth, 
second  dan.  of  Robf.  Nesham,  esq.  of  Spencer 

House,  North  Brixton. At  Chirwell,  Essex, 

Charles,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Charles  Pod- 
more,  esq.  of  Forent  House,  to  Martha,  eldest 
•dan.  of  James  Weddell  Bridger,  esq.  of  Bel- 
mont Chicwell. At  Salisbury,  the  Rer. 

Charles  Newby  Wawn,  of  North  Ferriby, 
Yorksh,  to  Emily-Margaret,  second  dan.  of 

the  Rev.  C.  H.  llodnon,  of  the  Close. At 

Tunbrid)^  Wells,  William  Crofts,  esq.  of  the 
Inner  I'^mple,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Rev. 
William  Crofts,  B.D.  Vicar  of  North  Orim- 
Btone,  Torksh.  to  Stephana-Sprini^tt,  eldest 
dan.  of  the  late  Joseph  Tapson,  esq.  of  Lon- 
don.  ^At  All  Souls',  Marylebone,  R.  L. 

Baker,  esq.  of  Bordesley,  Aston,  Warwicksh. 
to  Emma-Matilda,  dao.  of  James  Lanre,  esq. 

of  Old  Cavendish-st.  Cavendish-sq. William 

Williams,  esq.  banker,  Newport,  Monmoothsh. 
to  Miss  Collins,  dao.  of  the  late  J.  D.  Collins, 
wq.of  DuiTo'n.— — At  Upper  HoUoway,  Chas. 
Bowman,  esq.  of  Upper  Wobum-pl.  Tavis- 
tock-so.  to  Mary,  eMest  dan.  of  Robert  Lees, 

esq.  of  the  Hanley-road,  Hornsey. At  St. 

George's,  Hanover-sq.  John  Roberts,  M.D.  of 
Paris,  to  Anna,  relict  of  Charles  William  Tall- 
madge,  esq. At  Walworth.  Charies  Welt- 
bourne,  eso.  solicitor,  Tooley-st.  Southwark, 
to  Elixabeth,  youngest  dau.  of  P.  A.  Spence, 

eso.  of  Walworth,  Surrey. At  St.   Mary 

Abbott's,  Kensington,  Henry  Bingley  Clark, 
esq.  to  Julia,  eldest  dau.  of  'Diomas  Staveley, 

nq At   Hornsey,   Henry  Daniel,  son  of 

Daniel  Davies.  esq.  of  Warwick-st.  Regent- 
at.  to  Mary,  eldest  dao.  of  the  late  Thomas 

Wilkinson,  esq.  of  Crouch  End,  Hornsey. 

At  Leighton,  Beds,  Darid  Cowie.  esq.  of  Cal* 
cutta,  to  Caroline,  youngest  dau.  or  the  late 
Edward  Thomas  DeTerell,  esq.  and  niece  of 
4he  late  Edward  Lawford.  esq.  of  Leighton. 

At  (.lirist  Church,  Marylebone,  VmX.  Peter 

Hawker,  to  Helen-Susan,  widow  of  the  late 
Cspt.  Symonds,  K.N.,  and  dau.  of  the  late 
Ma|or  Chatterton. 

Laislp.  At  Bexley,  Charies  Edward  Beau* 
clerk,  esq.  to  Penelope,  dau.  of  the  late  Edward 

•Holkes.  esq. At  Manchester,  the  Rer. 

William  Nassau  Molesworth,  Incumbent  of 
Spotlanci,  Lancashire,  to  Margaret,  youngest 
Uau.  of  George  Murray,  esq.  o?  Ancoats  Hall, 

Manchester. At  Bath,  John  Andrew,  second 

son  of  J.  A.  Edwards,  esq.  late  of  the  Comp- 
trollers of  Army  Accomptn,  to  Julia,  third 
dau  of  the  late  Francis  fliJl,  esq.  of  Burton 
Hill,  Wilts. 

Sept.  9.  At  Peckham,  Mr.  Robert  FItiroy 
Holdemess,  to  Ellen-Louisa,  youngest  dau.  of 
the  late  Cspt.  Joseph  Andrews,  East  India 

Co  '8  Senrice. At   Roshall,   John   Henry 

Gale,  esq.  of  fhe  Manor-houne,  CVboum  St. 
George,  to  Miss  Thompson,  only  dau.  of  Mrs. 

Barilkt,   of  Rnaball  Cottage ^At   Lea- 

mington,  the  Rev.  Francis  de  Soyrea,  Chaplain 
to  the  Duke  of  Cambridre,  to  Andalusia, 
youngest  dan.  of  John  ntsgerald,  esq.  of 
Kwtlaod-pi. At  Leamington,  Capt.  Mere- 
dith. R.N.  to  Marian  D'Oyley,  widow  of  James 
.Bcalov  ttog,  caq.  of  Thomhill  Burk,  Sooth- 


[Not. 


amptonahire,  and  dm.  of  the  lata  I 
Blnl,  esq. 

8.  At  Leamington,  Qmt  WoodlUI,  47th 
Madiaa  Nat.  Inf.  to  Mary-Anne,  only  sanriTtaff 
dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  William  Henry  Lynch, 
Bector  of  Clarendon,  Jamaica.— At  Gam' 
berwell,  John  Jope  Rogers,  M.A.  Oxford,  of 
4he  Inner  Temple,  Bamster-at-Law,  to  Maria, 
eldest  dan.  of  William  Httchens,  esq.  of  Cam* 

berwell  GroTO. ^At  Sidmontb,  Capt.  Maa. 

aingberd,  R.N.,  to  Julia,  ablest  dan.  of  M. 
Outteres,  esq.  of  Belmont. At  St.  Maryle- 
bone, James  Arthur  Morgan,  caq.  aecond  son 
.of  the  late  John  Morgan,  esq.  of  Highbury, 
and  grandson  of  the  late  John  Nichols,  esq. 
F.S.A.,  to  Mary,  second  dan.  of  Joseph  Ander- 
son, esq.  of  the  Holme,  Regent's  Psrk At 

St.  Mary'a,  Southwark.  Howard  Jackson,  esq. 
to  Catharine-Hannah,  widow  of  J.  W.  Medley, 
esq.  and  second  dau.  of  the  late  Sir  George 

Moat  Keith,  Bart.  R.N. AtAylesfort, 

Frederick  William  Etheredge,  esq.  to  Mary. 
Nash,  eldest  dan.  of  Thomas  Spong,  esq.  of 

MiU  Hall. ^At  Old  Widcome,  Thoa.  Anstey 

Mansford,  esq.  of  Entry  Hill,  solictor,  thira 
son  of  John  Griffith  Mansford,  esq.  to  Anno> 
Jefferya,  eldest  sunriring  dan.  of  A.  Starii 

Symes,  esq.  Lieut.  R.N. ^At  Boldon,  tha 

Ber.  Thomas  Dalton,  son  of  Richard  Daltoo, 
esq.  of  Candover,  Hants,  to  Harriet,  dao.  ol 
the  Rev.  John  Collinson,  Rector  of  Boldon, 

Durham. At  Abbot's  Langley,  Herts,  Mnr- 

ray  Johnson,  esq.  of  Highgate,  to  Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  the  late  Capt.   Milbourne  Jackson, 

R.N.  of  Hill  Side.  Abbot's  Langley. At  SC 

George's,  Hanover-sq.  Russell  Riccard,  esq.  of 
the  Nunnery,  Southmolton,  to  Marian,  only 
dan.  of  the  late  R.  Hamer,esq.  of  Kenntngtoo. 

At   Hardeohuish,  Alexander  B.  Rooka, 

esq.  late  77th  Regt.  son  of  Capt.  F.  W.  Rooke. 
R.N.  of  Lackham  House,  to  Ellen,  dao.  or 
Thomas  Clntterbuck,  esq.  of  Hardenhutsh 
House,  Wilts. At  St.  Stephen's,  near  Can- 
terbury, the  Rev.  J.  Frederick  Fagge.  yoongeat 
son  of  the  Ute  Rev.  Sir  John  Fagge,  Bart,  of 
Mystole  Park,  Kent,  to  Rose-Emily- Ward,  4th 
dan.  of  the  late  George  Baker,  esq.  of  Bever- 
ley, St.  Stephen's,  and  grand-dan.  of  the  late 
Very  Rev.  Gerard  Andrewes,  D.D.  Dean  of 

Canterbury. The  Rev.  George  Edmundsoo, 

Vicar  of  Saintfleld,  to  Elixa,  eldest  dan.  of  the 
late  N.  S.  Machin,  esq.  of  Gloucester' pi.  Ckm* 
den  Town. 

4.  At  Melcombe  Rm^s,  the  Rev.  John  Sa- 
bine, of  Thorn  Coffin,  bomerset,  eldest  son  of 
the  late  Richard  Sabine,  esq.  of  Muckl^fbrd- 
house,  Dorset,  to  Mary-Anne- Hart,  eldest  dan. 
of  the  late  William  Talbot,  esq.  of  Broad 

Mayne,  Dorset. At  Hurst,  Sussex,  the  Rev. 

Frederick  Vincent,  Rector  of  Slinfold,  Hor- 
sham, to  Maria-Copley,  youngest  dau.  of  the 

late  Robert  Herries  Young,  esq. At  Kea- 

singland,  Capt.  W.  11.  Henderson,  C.B.  son  of 
the  late  Alexander  Henderson,  esq.  of  Stemp» 
ster,  Caithnesssb.  N  B.  to  Elisabeth-Martha, 
relict  of  Capt.  Lord  James  Townsend,  ILN.. 

of  Yarrow,  Norfolk. At  Handsworth.  Stai^ 

fordsh.  Georve  Hay  Donaldson,  esq.  of  Har». 
wood-sq.  to  Kmma-De-Blois,  youngest  dan.  of 

James  Rnssell,  esq.  of  Ecdwood  Courts ^At 

Cambridge,  the  Rev.  Robert  Phelpn,  D.D. 
Master  of  Sidney  Sussex  Coll.  to  Mary-Loraina, 
youngest  dau.  of  Julian  Shrive,  esq.  of  Len»- 
field,  Cambridge. 

5.  At  Askham  Rkhard,  Torksh.  the  Rrr. 
Feter  Jackson,  of  Sandal  Magna,  to  Jane,  das. 

of  the  late  Thomas  Rnssell,  esq. At  Brix- 

ton,  Lewis  William  Moncrief,  esq.  to  Sarah, 
dao.  of  the  late  Joseph  Lachlan,  esq.  of  Great 
Alie-sC.~^At  LIsndegai,  Camarvonah..  0». 
mond  Arthur  Wyatt,  esq.  of  Troy  HovacL 
Monmonthsh.  to  Louisa- Anne,  aeoond  da«.  of 
J.  Wyatt,  esq.  of  Lime  Grove,  near  Bangor. 


1844.] 


Marridges* 


541 


-'^At  Bndpole,  Donet,  Henry  AncuBtns, 
wcood  son  of  James  Temple,  eeq.  of  Brad- 

E^le,  to  Harriot,  llfth  daa.  of  Thomas  Collins 
oanselly  esq.  of  Wykes  Court,  Dorset. At 

Beverley.  Richard  uhampney,  esq.  solicitor, 
to  Racbel-Aone,  dan.  of  Pennock  Tigar,  esa. 

of  GroTe  Hoose,  near  Beverley. At  Pad- 

diofftOD,  the  Rev.  Towneley  Ward  Dowdior, 
Clerk,  of  Downton.  Wilts,  to  Blixabeth- 
Bamonson,  only  dan.  of  the  late  William 
Bamonsoo.  esq.  of  Beal,  Yorksh. At  Brix- 
ton, Mr.  Thomas  Nesham,  of  Harper-st.  only 
son  of  Robert  Neasham,  esq.  of  North  Brix- 
ton, to  Jane,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late  John 

Van  Voorst,  esq.  merchant. ^At  Hampton, 

the  Rev.  J.  l¥elstead  8.  Powell,  A.  M.  Incnm- 
bent  of  Norbiton,  Sorrey,  and  Chaplain  to  the 
Viscount  Massarene,  to  Oeorsina,  youngest 
dan.  of  the  late  Wentworth  Bayly,  esq.  of 

Weston  Hall,  Saflblk. At  Cheltenham, 

the  Rev.  Thomas  Parnell,  Vicar  of  Sto- 
verton  and  Boddington,  and  only  son  of  J. 
R.  Pnrnhill,  esq.  of  KlnffshlU,  Ofoacestersh. 
to  Anne,  only  dan.  of  the  late  Major  Johnson 

Wilkinson,  Madras  Art. ^At  lianaber.  Me- 

rionethsh.  George  Dlaxland,  esq.  of  Bromley, 
Kent,  to  Rebecca,  eldest  dau.  of  William 
Jones,  esq.  of  Glandwr,  Merionethshire,  and 

Crosby-sqoare. At  Teiarnmouth,  Comm. 

Dennis,  Royal  Navy,   to    Charlotte,   eldest 

dan.  of  Capt.    Parson,   R.  N. At    St. 

Pancras,  Josiah  Dimmock.  esq.  of  Stoke- 
npon-Trent.  to  Helrn-Macfcenxie,  youngest 
dau.  of  George  Stephen,  of  Camden  Town. 
——At  St.  Marylebone,  Joseph  Wilson,  esq.  of 
Clifford  House,  near  Sheffield,  to  Jane-Blixa- 
beth,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Griffith, 

esq.  of  Ue<lford-row. At  St.  Pancras  New 

Church,  Hen^y.son  of  George  Wells  Harrison, 
esq.  of  Sandwich,  Kent,  to  Betsy,  eldest  dau. 
of  the  late  Israel  Thomas,  esq.  of  Clapham 
Rise,  Surrey. 

7.  At  Exmouth,  John  Redman  Ord,  esq. 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Craven  Ord,  M.  A.,  of 
Greenstead  Hall,  Essex,  Vicar  of  St.  Mary's, 
and  Preb.  ot  Lincoln  Cathedral,  to  Christine- 
Aurora,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  William 
Kirkpatnck,  esq   and  grand>dau.  of  the  late 

Col.  Kirkpatnck,  Resident  of  Hyderabad. 

At  Windrusli,  John  Ciibboro,  esq.  of  Lypa- 
nisky.  Ring's  County,  Ireland,  to  Klixa,  renct 
of  Arundel  Roberts,  esq.  ana  eldest  dau.  of 
Lovell  Todd,  esq.  cf  Westfield  House,  near 

Bath. At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sq.  Lord 

William  Hervey,  second  son  of  the  Marquess 
of  Bristol,  and  Secretary  of  Embassy  at  Paris, 
to  Cecilia-Mary,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 
Vice-Adm.  Sir  Tnomas  Francis  Fremantle, 
G.C.B.,  K.M.T.,  &c.  The  marriage  was  also 
performed  according  to  the  rites  of  the  R^man 

Catholic  Church. At  St.  Georre's,  Hanover- 

■q.  John  Thomas  Jessop,  esq.  of  Mount  Jessop, 
Longford,  Ireland,  to  Maria- Lucy,  eldest  dau. 
of  Alexander  Copland,  esq.  of  Gloucester-pl. 
POrtman-square. 

9.  At  St.  George's.  Hanover-sq.  Lord  Beau- 
mont, of  Carlton  Hall,  Yorkshire,  to  the  Hon. 
Isabell-Anne,  eldest  dau.  of  liord  Kilmaine. 
Tlie  marriige  was  also  performed  according 
to  the  rites  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

10.  At  Strathtieldsaye.  the  Rev.  J.  Warren 
Hayes,  Rector  of  Aberneld,  son  of  the  late 
Sir  T.  M-  Hayes,  Bart,  to  Ellen,  second  dau.  of 
G.  E.  Be aucnamp,  esq.  of  the  Priory,  Berks. 

At  St.  George's,    Hanover-sq.   Norman, 

^est  son  of  Norman  Uniacke,  esq.  Mount 
uniacke,  co.  Cork,  to  Mary-Elisabeth,  dau.  of 
the  late  Col.  Drinkwater  Bethune,  of  Balfour, 
eo.  Fife. 

11.  At  Cheltenham,  the  Rev.  James  Norris, 
D.D.  President  of  Corpus  Christi  Coll.  OxAird, 
to  Caroline- Mary,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late 


Rev.  J.  J.  Hume,  Rector  of  West  Kington, 

Wilts. At  Deviies,  Wilts,  John  Lawrence, 

esq.  of  St.  Ives,  Huntingdon,  to  Anne,  only 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Lavender  Mannings, 
and  grand-dan.  of  the  late  Matthew  Rngeley, 
esq.  of  Potton,  Beds. 

13.  At  Lacock,  Thomas  Abdy  Fellowes,  esq. 
of  Lanrley-lodge,  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Fellowes. 
R.N.  Knt.  C.  Ii.,  frc.  to  Blixa-Sophia,  dau.  of 
Cant.  F.  W.  Rooke.  R.N.  of  Lackham  House, 

Wilts. At  St.  Mary's,  Bathwick,  George 

Stuckey  Lean,  esq.  third  son  of  James  Lean, 
esq.  of  Clifton,  to  Caroline-Mary- Anne,  second 
dau.  of  the  late  Charles  Harris,  esq.  Madras 
Civil  Serv.,  Senior  Member  of  Council  at  Fort 

Saint  Geoiye,  and  of  Bath. ^At  St.  George's, 

Hanover-sq.  Viscount  Grimston,  M.  P.  for 
Herts,  eldest  son  of  the  Earlof  Verulam,  to 
Blixabetii,  dau.  of  M^or  WeyUnd,  of  Wood- 

eaton,  Oxfordshire. At  Brixton,  the  Rev. 

Thomas  George  POstlewaite,  B.  A.,  of  Peters- 
field,  Hampshire,  to  Julia,  youngest  child  of 

the  late  T.  Sharp,  esq. At  St  Pancras. 

Henry  Mills,  esq.  of  the  Middle  Temple,  Bar> 
rister-at-Law,  to  Harriet,  eldest  dau.  of  John 
Blanshard,  esq.  deceased,  formerly  of  the  Hon. 
East  India  Company's  Service. 

14.  At  Trinity  Church,  Southwaric.  William 
Henry  Harris,  grandson  of  the  late  Aldermaa 
Harris,  of  Bristol^o  Harriet-Louisa,  younrest 
dau.  or  the  late  W.  Tucker,  esq.  of  the  Cus- 
toms.  At  Plymouth,  the  Rev.  H.  S.  Hulme, 

of  Cheadle,  Staffordshire,  to  Mary-Martyn, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Samuel  Symons, 

esq.  of  Terise,  East  Newlyn,  Cornwall. ^At 

Bruton,  Somerset.  Edward  Mitchell,  esq.  to 
Fanny,  relict  of  the  late  Rev.  S.  H.  Canan, 
and  third  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Wm.  Ireland, 
of  Frome,  Somerset. 

16.  At  Jersey,  Lieut.  James  W.  Oossett, 
R.B.,  son  of  Isaac  Gossett,  esq.  of  Jersey,  to 
Maria-Asia-Hull,  dau.  of  Lieut.  J.  K.  Wood- 
riff,  R.N.  of  Preston,  near  Weymouth,  and 
rrand-dau.  of  Commissioner  Woodriff,  R.N. 

C.B.  bite  of  Greenwich  Hospital. At  St. 

Georii^e's,  Hanover-sq.  Martin  Guise,  second 
son  of  Wm.  R.  Jolley,  esq.  of  Torquay,  to 
Lady  Henrietta,  widow  of  Sir  J.  Sykes,  Bart, 
and  dau.  of  Sir  B.  H.  Smyth,  Bart.  M.P.  for 
Colchester. 

17.  At  Qifton,  Capt.  William  Ashmead 
Tate,  late  Bast  India  Co.'s  Bombay  Eng.,  to 

Miss  Isabella   Prideaux,  of  Clevedon. At 

Plymouth,  Thomas  Bundle,  esq.  of  Montpelier 
House.  Weston  Peverell,  to  Mary,  youngest 
dan.  or  the  late  John  Sole,  esq.  of  Torr.— 
At  Kiogsteicnton,  Wm.  Marshall,  esq.  of  Ply- 
month,  to  Harriet,  youngest  dau.  or  the  late 

Samuel  Whiteway,  esq.  of  Oakford  House. 

At  Wotton,  second  son  of  Wotton  Isaacson, 
esq.  of  Mildenhall,  to  Elisabeth,  daughter  of 

William    Ward,  esq.  of   Huntingdon. AC 

Kennington,  John  Augustus  Cory,  esq.  of 
Durham,  youngest  sou  of  the  late  Robert 
Cory,  esq.  of  Great  Yarmouth,  to  Bmily-Anne, 
fourth  dau.  of  Joseph  Holl,  esq.  or  South 
Lambeth. — ^-At  Alverstoke,  Capt.  larcom, 
ILN.  to  Westmorelaad-Jane,  dau.  ot  Vice^ 

Adm.    M'Kinley. At   Loughborough,   the 

Rev.  T.  Bowles.  D.D.  Rector  of  Woodstock, 
and  domestic  chaplain  to  the  late  Duke  of 
Sussex,  to  Ellen-Mary,  youngest  dan.  of  tha 

Uite  Sir  William  Walker,  Leicestershire. 

At  Liverpool,  Roger  Dswson,  esq.  Tyddyn- 
roe,  near  St.  Asaph,  to  Barbara-Yelverton, 
eldest  dan.  of  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Finederic 
Powys,  and  cousin  of  Lord  Ulford. 

18.  At  Pensance,  the  Rev.  Edward  Cooper, 
of  Zeal  Monachorum,  to  Annie,  eldest  dau.  or 
the  late  Rev.  Thomas  Robyns,  Vicar  of  Mary- 
sCowa  and  Thruaatltone. 


542 


OBITUARY. 


Tbb  Dukb  or  GRArronr. 

Sept,  28.  At  bit  seat.  Button  Hall, 
Soffblk,  in  hit  65rh  year,  the  Most  Nuble 
George  Henry  Fitiroy,  fourth  Duke  of 
Grafton,  co.  Northampton,  Earl  of  Ar. 
lington  and  Euston,  Viscount  Thetford 
and  Iptwich,  Baron  Arlington,  of  Ar- 
lington, Middletex,  and  Biiron  Sudbury, 
CO.  Suffolk,  Hereditary  Ranger  of  Whit* 
tlebury  Forest,  Receivcr-General  of  the 
profitt  of  the  Sealt  in  the  Queen't  Bench 
and  Common  Pleas,  the  King*t  Game 
Keeper  at  Newmarket,  a  Truttee  of  the 
Hunterian  Muteum,  President  of  the 
Eclectic  Society  of  London,  &c.  flee. 

His  Grace  was  bom  on  the  14(h  of  Jan. 
1760,  whiUt  George  II .  was  still  the  reign, 
ing  sovereign  ;^  and  he  had,  therefore,  lived 
to  be  the  tubject  of  five  successive  mo- 
narchs.  His  father  was  Chancellor  of  the 
University  of  Cambridge,  and  that  cir- 
cumstance  led  to  the  son  becoming  first  a 
member  of  Trinity  college,  and  afterwards 
one  of  the  representMtives  of  the  Uni. 
versity  in  Parliament.  Lord  John  Towns- 
hend  and  Mr.  Mansfield,  afterwards 
Chief  Justice,  had  represented  the  Uni- 
versity  for  many  years;  but  Mr.  Fox's 
memorable  India  B>11  proved  fatal  to  their 
interests  ut  Cambridge,  for  several  of  their 
constituents  greatly  di.«npproved  of  the 
measure.  At  this  juncture,  in  1784,  Mr. 
Pitt  Twho  had  previoustiv,  but  unsuc-i 
cesftfuliy,  contested  the  University,  in 
1780.)  and  Lord  Euston  oflTered  tiiem. 
telves  to  the  learned  body,  of  which  the 
iormer  had  been  a  most  distinguished 
member,  and  the  latter,  if  he  had  no  other 
claim  to  their  support,  at  least  possessed 
the  recommendation  of  being  the  heir  ap- 
parent of  their  Chancellor.  Against  such 
opponents  tbe  Mnnsifield  and  Townshend 
interest  could  not  bear  up,  and  the  result 
of  the  contest  was  as  follows  :— 

Right  Hon.  William  Pitt  351 

Earl  of  Euston 292 

Lord  John  Townshend  . .  278 

Jamet  Mansfield,  esq. . . .  181 

It  it  therefore  sixty  years  since  the  de- 
ceased Duke  took  his  seat,  in  this  memor- 
able manner,  for  the  first  time  as  a  mem- 
ber  of  the  House  of  Commons.  On  the 
16th  Nov.  in  the  same  year  Tbeing  then 
in  the  2dth  vear  of  his  age;,  be  married 
the  Lady  Maria  Charlotte  Waldegrave. 
Her  ladyship  wna  the  second  daughter  of 
James  second  Earl  of  Waldegrave,  whose 
widow  (mother  of  the  Countess  of  Euston) 
married  the  Duke  of  Gloucester,  an  event 
"hich  is  considered  to  have  had  much  in- 


fluenee  in  producing  the  Royal  Marriage 
Act. 

In  1790  Mr.  Laurence  Dandas  stootly 
contested  hit  seat  for  the  University  witb 
him,  the  poll  being,  for 

Right  Hon.  William  Pitt     510 

Earl  of  Euston 483 

Laurence  Dundas,  esq... .     S(X7 

bat  from  that  time  till  1807,  being  • 
period  of  aeventeen  yewrs,  be  remained  in 
undisturbed  possession  of  that  mnch  envied 
distinction  witb  Mr.  Pitt  for  his  colleague. 
When  the  death  of  that  great  man  caused 
a  vacancy,  Lord  Henry  Petty  (now  tbe 
Marquess  of  Lansdowne),  Lord  Altborp 
(Earl  Spencer),  and  Lord  Palmerston, 
became  candidates.  Of  these  three  tbe 
first  named  was  returned  by  a  large  ma- 
jority. At  the  general  election  in  1807, 
Lord  Euston  again  found  himself  under 
the  necessity  of  encountering  a  formidable 
opposition,  presented  by  Lord  Palmerstoa 
and  Lord  Henry  Petty.  On  that  occa* 
sion  the  numbers  were: — 

Earl  of  Euston 321 

Sir  Vicary  Gibbs 312 

Lord  Palmerston 310 

Lord  Henry  Petty 265 

Thus,  during  seven-and-twenty  years,  be 
sat  for  CHmbndge,  nor  did  his  parlia. 
mentary  connexion  with  that  University 
cease  until  he  succeeded  to  the  peerage, 
on  thi  death  of  his  fiither,  the  third  Duke, 
which  event  took  place  on  the  14th  of 
March,  1811. 

It  must  not,  however,  be  taken  for 
granted,  that  during  the  whole  of  this 
t:me  he  gave  himselt  up  to  the  support  of 
his  colleague  Mr.  Pitt.  On  tbe  contrary, 
in  proportion  as  the  conduct  of  tbe  war 
against  revolutionary  France  became  more 
diflScuit,  and  the  embarrassments  of  his 
quondam  friend  thickened  around  his  bead. 
Lord  Euston  appeared  the  more  disposed 
to  withdraw  from  him,  and  cross  the  floor 
of  the  House  of  Commons,  in  order  to 
establish  for  himself  a  connexion  with  tbe 
political  adversaries  of  the  Minister.  Long 
before  the  death  of  Mr.  Pitt  Lord  Euston 
became  a  Whig  :  it  is,  however,  only  fsir 
to  state  that,  in  addition  to  whatever  other 
considerations  might  have  influenced  him, 
the  weight  of  his  tHthe r*s  authority  could 
not  have  been  altogether  without  its  effect. 
That  noble  Duke  had  retired  from  public 
life  for  some  years;  but  towards  the  close 
of  his  days  he  adopted  the  resolution  of 
again  attending  the  Uoyi^iiL ^ot^^^f  *n^ 
throwing  himself  ir  "'Oppo* 


18440 


Obituary.— 7Af  Marquess  of  DonegalU 


54S 


•ition — ft  coutse  in  which  the  son  thought 
it  becoming  to  co-operate. 

When  the  noble  Dnke  just  decesaed  was 
transferred^  the  Upper  House,  he  pur* 
sued,  as  mignt  be  expected,  the  MOie  line 
of  party  politics  which  for  some  yeara 
previous  had  governed  his  conduct  in  the 
House  of  Commons ;  but,  though  he  had 
quitted  the  Tory  ranks,  he  did  not  carry 
on  hostilities  against  his  former  associates 
with  the  earnestness  which  usually  cha- 
racterises one  who  has  changed  his  creed. 
On  the  1st  of  Feb.  1806,  he  became  a 
widower,  and  so  continued  to  the  end  of 
bis  days.  Lady  Euston,  therefore,  never 
lived  to  be  Duchess  of  Grafton,  but  her 
ladyship  lived  long  enough  to  be  the 
mother  of  eleven  children,  of  whom  aix 
survive. 

His  Grace  was  formerly  Lord  Lieu* 
tenant  and  Gustos  Rotulorum  of  the  county 
of  Suffolk,  but  was  obliged  to  resign  that 
appointment  on  account  of  his  increasing 
infirmities  some  time  since,  and  was  sue- 
ceeded  by  the  Esrl  of  Stradbroke.  He 
was  also,  previously  to  the  Municipal  Re- 
form .Act,  Recorder  of  Thetford.  His 
Gnce  was  elected  a  Kiiigbt  of  the  Garter 
in  1834. 

The  remains  of  the  late  Duke  were 
interred,  on  October  15,  at  Euston, 
Suffolk,  the  place  of  sepulture  of  all  bis 
ducal  ancestors.  The  late  Countess  of 
Euston  was  interred  at  GraUon,  North- 
amptonshire. 

The  children  of  the  Duke  of  Grafton 
by  the  lady  already  mentioned  were  as  fol- 
low. By  a  singular  fatality  the  five 
youngest  are  all  dead,  whilst  the  six 
eldest  survive.  1.  Lady  Maria- Anne, 
murried  in  1810  to  Sir  William  Oglander, 
Bart. ;  2.  Lady  Georgiana  Laura  Fitzroy, 
unmarried ;  3.  Lady  Elizabeth-Anne,  mar- 
ried in  1814  (as  his  second  wife)  to  her 
cousin  John  Henry  Smyth,  esq.  eldest  son 
of  the  late  Right  Hon.  John  Smyth,  by 
the  Lady  Georgiana  Fitzroy,  and  was  left 
his  widow  in  1822  ;  4.  Henry  now  Duke 
of  Grafton ;  5.  Lord  Charles  Fitzroy,  a 
Privy  Councillor,  and  M.P.  for  Bury; 
he  married  in  1825  Lady  Anne  Cavendish, 
eldest  daughter  of  the  firet  Ear]  of  Bur- 
lington,  and  has  issue  ;  6.  Lady  Isabella- 
Frances,  married  in  1824  to  Joseph  St. 
John,  esq.;  7.  Lord  William,  who  died  in 
1804,  aged  ten  ;  8.  Lord  Hugh.  George, 
who  died  in  1797,  in  his  2d  year ;  9.  Lord 
Richard -Jnmes,  who  died  an  infant  in 
1796;  10.  Lord  Richard- William,  who 
died  in  1801,  in  his  3d  year;  and  12.  Lord 
James-Henry,  who  died  in  1834,  aged  30. 

The  present  Duke  was  formerly  M.P. 
for  Ipswich  and  for  Thetford.  He  mar- 
ried in  1812  Mary- Caroline,  third  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Admiral  the  Hon.  Sir 


George  Cranfield  Berkeley,  and  has  issue 
William-Henry  Earl  of  Euston,  two  other 
sons,  and  two  daughten* 


Thr  Marquebs  of  Donegall. 

OeU  5.  At  Ormean,  co.  Antrim,  aged 
75,  the  Most  Hon.  George  Augustus 
Chichester,  second  Marquess  of  Done- 
gall  and  Earl  of  Belfast  (1791),  sixth 
Earl  of  Donegall  (1647),  seventh  Vis. 
count  Chichester  of  Carrickfergus,  co. 
Antrim,  and  Baron  of  Belfast  (1625),  all 
peerages  of  the  kingdom  of  Ireland ;  and 
second  Baron  Fisberwick,  co.  Stafford 
(1790):  K.P.;  a  Privy  Councillor  of 
Ireland,  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  County 
of  Donegal,  and  President  of  the  Belfast 
Academical  Institution. 

His  Lordship  was  bom  Aug.  13,  1769« 
the  elder  son  of  Arthur  fifth  Earl  and 
firat  Marquess  of  Donegall,  by  his  firet 
wife  Lady  Anne  Hamilton,  eldest  daugh. 
ter  of  James  fifth  Duke  of  Hamilton. 
He  succeeded  to  the  peerage  on  the  death 
of  his  father  Jan.  5,  1799.  He  was  no« 
minated  a  Knight  of  St.  Patrick  in  1821. 

He  married  Aug.  8,  1793,  Anna,  the 
reputed  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  May,  of 
Mayfield,  co.  Waterford,  Bart,  and  by 
that  lady,  who  survives  him,  he  had  issue 
seven  sons:  1.  the  Right  Hon.  George* 
Hamilton  now  Marquess  of  Donegall; 
2.  the  Very  Rev.  Lord  Edward  Chicbea. 
ter.  Dean  of  Raphoe,  who  married  in 
182 1  Amelia. Spread- Deane,  daughter  of 
Henry  Deane  O' Grady,  esq.  of  Stillor- 
gan,  CO.  Dublin,  and  Lodffe,  co.  Lime- 
rick, and  has  issue;  3.  Lord  Spencer* 
Augustus,  who  died  in  1825,  in  his  ^th 
vear ;  4.  Lord  Arthur,  who  died  in  1840, 
in  his  32nd  year,  unmarried;  5.  Lord 
Hamilton  Francis  Chichester,  who  mar- 
ried in  1837  Honoria-Anastasia,  daughter 
of  the  late  Henrv  James  Blake,  esq.  and 
sister  to  Ijord  Wallacourt ;  7.  Lord  John 
Chichester,  a  Lieutenant  in  the  87th 
Foot ;  and  8.  Lord  Stephen  Algernon 
Chichester,  born  in  1814. 

The  present  Marquess  (who  has  borne 
the  courtesy  title  of  Earl  of  Belfast)  is 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  co.  of  Antrim. 
He  was  formerly  M.P.  for  that  county, 
but  was  raised  to  the  House  of  Lords  in 
1841  by  the  title  of  Baron  Ennishowen 
and  Carrickfergus.  He  was  bom  in  1797, 
and  married  in  1822  Lady  Harriet- Anne 
Butler,  eldest  daughter  of  Richard  firet 
Earl  of  Glengall,  by  whom  he  has  issue 
Frederick.Richard  Eari  of  Belfast,  and 
one  daughter. 

The  remains  of  the  late  Marqaess  wefe 
interred  in  the  family  vault  in  (^irrickfer* 
gua  church. 


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544  Jolm  W.  Fkmi»f,  £«f .— StV  R.  J.  Mien,  Bmi,  [Nor. 

Jdmi  WiLtn  Fi.BiciMa,  Eiq.  M.P.        iMrri«d  in  1810  IMy  KflHunriM  Elin. 

/miy  19.  At  Atbem,  John  WilKi  betb  Cochrane,  dnaghter  of  the  EmA  of 
Fleming,  etq.  of  Stonehnni  Pnrk,  Hanp-  DnmioMid ;  2.  Tbomu,  bom  in  1819, 
•hire ;  and  late  one  of  the  Memberi  in  who  posaeasea  a  fine  eatat^Jn  DoraeC- 
Parliament  for  that  county.  ahire,  left    him    by  an   unSe ;  and  3. 

Mr.    Fleming  waa  deacended  in  the     Henry. Temple,    born    in    1888.      The 

male  line  from  Browne  WiUin,  esq.  of  daaghtera :  I .  Uonoria,  manied  in  1899 
Whaddon  Hall  in  Bnckinghamahire,  the     to  Jamea  F.  ArroRtron^,  eaq.  of  Gaa«I« 
celebrated    antiquary,  whose    wife    waa     Iver,   King's  County ;  2.  Katharine ;  3w 
Katharine,  daughter  of  Daniel  Eliot,  esq.      Harriet ;  and  4.  Charlotte, 
of  Port  Eliot,  in  Cornwall,  by  Katbiu         The  remains  of  Mr.  Fleming  were 

rine,  daughter  of  Thomas  Fleming,  eaq.  brought  home  for  interment   at   Nortk 

of  Stoneham.     Thomaa  Willis,  esq.  the  Stoneham.     The    aplendid   manaion  of 

ffnmdson  of  Browne  Willis  and  Katharine  North    Stoneham  ia  suppoaed  to  bnvw 

Eliot,  aasomed  the  name  and  arms  of  cost  him   100,00(M.     A    great   part    of 

Fleming  in  1737;  be  was  succeeded  by  the  first  building  waa  burnt  down  while 

hia  brother  John,  who  alao  took  the  same  in  the  course  of  erection,  and  the  whole 

name  and  arms  i  and  he,  dying  without  rebuilt  in  a  style  of  elegance  and  taate 

iasue  in  1808,  waa  soceeeded  by  his  cousin  which  render  it  one  of  the  great  arehU 

John  Willis,  esq.  the  gentleman  now  de-  tectural  omamenta  of  the  county.    Mr. 

eeaaed,  who  also  assumed  the  name  and  Fleming's  expenditure  in  the  town  and 

arms  of  Fleming,  on  inheriting  the  estate  neighbourhood  of  Southampton  averaged 

of    Stoneham.      He    waa    the    aon    of  18,000/.  a-year,  and  immediately  after 

Thomaa     Willis,    esq.    by     Catharine,  hta  departure  for  the  Mediterranean  the 

daughter  of  Colonel  Hyde.  lose  of  auch  an  expenditure  wia   aaoot 

Mr.  Fleming  senred  the  oflBoe  of  High  sensibly  felt.    Mr.  Fleming  was  one  of 

Sheriff  of  Hampshire  in  1817.     He  waa  the   largest  landed    proprietora    in  the 

first  elected  M.P.  for  that  county  at  the  county,  owning,  at  the  rime  of  hia  death, 

general  election  in  1830,  without  a  con-  15,000  acres;  and  so  richly  wooded  baa  it 

teat,  and  again  in  1886  and  1890,  but  not  always  been,  that  he  is  suppoaed  to  have 

at  the  Parliament  which  enacted  the  Re-  cut  no  less  than  300,000/.  of  timber  from 

form  Bill  in  1831.  first  to  last,  and  yet  left  the  whole  aa  full 

Upon  the  first  election  for  the  Southern  as  the  land  will  bear,  baring  regard  to 

diriaion  of  the  county,  after  the  Reform  proper  cultivation,  and  the  timber  in  the 

Act,  in  1838,  he  came  forward  single-  park  is  magnificent  for  age  and  aiie. 
banded  on  the  Conservative  interest,  and,  .»... 

though  not  returned,  polled  a  large  pro-         -     Rob-ot  Johnfom  Edev  Babt 
option  of   the   electora,    the  numbera         iTnl^^'^'w^^^^^^ 

***"«^» '®'  in  hu  70th   year.  Sir   Robert  Johnson 

Lord  Palmeraton 1627  Eden,  the  fifth  Bart.  (1672). 

Sir  O.  T.  Staunton 1548  He  was  bom  Oct.  25.  1774,  the  elder 

John  Fleming,  esq 1266  son  of  Sir  John  Eden  the  fourth  Baronet, 

In  1835,  nhen  there  were  two  Con-  (who  was  the  elder  brother  of  William 

aervative  candidates,  both  were  elected,  fi™t  Lord  Auckland,  and  of  Sir  Frederick 

the  poU  terminating  aa  follows  :  Morton    Eden,   K.B.    the    first    Lord 

Tnfcn  Fi^minir  mmn  I7iit  Hcnlpy,)  by  his  sccond  Wife  Dorolhca, 

John  Fleming,  esq 1746  .^^j^  daughter  of  Peter  Johnson,  esq.  Re- 

?•  i^-,^"P^"'  «■*! J2S  corder  of  York.     On  the  death  of  that 

£!  a   T"S!»n".;; 22;  ^«>"»«^  gentleman,  in  1811,  he  inherited 

Sir  O.  T.  Staunton 1450  j^j,  estates,  and  assumed,  by  royal  sign 

In   1837  there  was  another  contest,  manual,  the  name  of  Johnson  before  that 

which  produced  a  still  greater  majority : —  of  Eden.  He  succeeded  to  the  Bnronetcy 

John  Fleming,  eaq 8388  ^^^^  ^foh''^'*"  ^""^^^'j  ^"f  ^'  ^^'l' 

H.  C.  Compion,esq 2371  •"^Jl   ^8^41  he  succeeded  to  Beamish 

Sir  O.  T.  Staunton 2080  P*'^' »"  ,^\^  «»"!«  "'"J'^'  J"^  «*>«  ^^*»« 

Sir  J.  A.  Ommanney ....  1968  ?!^**.^«  ^^  ^'*  ° u^ ^?'^l'  ^.J'^''"  ^""^"l 

.--«.     .  .—     ^  Davison,  esq.  who  had  taken  the  name  of 

In  1841  Mr.  Fleming  and  Mr.  Comp.  Darison  in  1818. 
ton  were  rechosen  without  a  contest.  He         Sir  Robert  Eden  was  a  man  of  very 

resigned  his  seat  last  year.  retired  habits,  but  highly  respected  in  the 

Mr.  Fleming    mamcd  Chnstophena,  county  of  Durham,  for  his  attainments, 

dauffhter  of  James  Buchanan,  esq.  of  that  as  well  as  truly  beloved  for  hit  unbounded 

ilk,  by  whom  he  had  issue  three  sons  and  benevolence  and  charity, 
four  daughters.     The  former :  1.  John         Haring  died  unmarried,  he  hu  left  the 

Browne  Fleming,  esq.  bom  in  1815,  who  esUte  of  Windlestone  to  bis  cousin  and 
18 


1844.]     Sir  Neil  Menziei.^Sir  Joseph  WJtailey.^G.  Penn,  Esq.    545 


beir  male  Sir  Willitm  Eden,  Bart,  whoie 
gnndfather  was  created  a  Baronet  in 
1776,  and  who  has  also  now  succeeded  to 
the  older  patent  of  1678. 

Beamisn  Park  (which  is  in  the  parish 
of  Cbester-le- Street)  has  devolved  on 
John  Methold,  esq.  second  son  of 
Henry.  Methold,  esq.  by  Dorothea, 
eldest  daughter  of  Sir  John  Eden ;  and 
that  gentleman,  in  compliance  with  the 
will  of  his  uncle  the  late  Mr.  Davison, 
bos  taken  the  name  and  arms  of  Eden 
only,  by  royal  licence  dated  Sept  S6, 
1644. 


Sim  NsiL  MiNziBS,  Babt. 

Auff.  80.  At  Edinburgh,  aged  6i, 
Sir  Neil  Mensies,  the  sixth  Bart,  of 
Castle  Menxies,  co.  Perth  (1665): 
Lieut.-Colonel  of  the  Royal  Highland 
Perthshire  Militia;  Hon.  Secretary  of 
the  Highland  and  Agricultural  Society 
of  Scotland,  &c. 

He  was  the  son  and  heir  of  the  fifth 
Baronet  by  a  daughter  of  Duncan  OchiU 
tree,  esq.  of  Linsaig,  and  succeeded  his 
Iktber  in  1813. 

He  married  first,  in  1818,  Emilia, 
daughter  of  James  Balfour,  esq.  of 
yemie ;  by  whom  he  had  two  daughters, 
Cathorine,  and  Emilia- Frances- Bolfour- 
Boswell;  and  secondly,  Dec.  3,  1816, 
the  Hon.  Grace  Cooyers  Charlotte  Nor- 
ton,  eldest  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Fletcher 
Norton,  and  sister  to  the  present  Lord 
Qrautley.  By  that  lady,  to  whom  the 
precedence  of  a  Baron's  daughter  was 

f ranted  in  1831,  and  who  survives  him, 
)ir  Neil  bos  left  issue  a  son  and  beir, 
now  Sir  Robert  Menzies,  born  in  18i7> 
and  who  is  married  and  has  issue ;  ano- 
ther son,  Fletcher- Norton,  born  in  1819; 
and  a  daughter  born  in  1830. 

SlA  JOBBPH  WhaTLBY,  K.C.  H. 

S€pt.  8.  At  Englefield  Lodge,  Egham, 
aged  80,  Lieut- Col.  Sir  Joseph  What- 
ley,  K.C.H.  for  20  years  Groom  of  the 
Bedchamber  to  their  Mojesties  George 
IV.  and  William  IV. 

He  was  the  son  of  Edward  Whatley, 
esq.,  who  was  mayor  of  Bristol  in  1768, 
by  his  marrioge  with  Miss  Smith  of  the 
same  citv.  He  served  in  the  Royal 
South  Gloucestershire  militia,  of  which 
he  was  Lieut.- Colonel  for  many  years: 
and  having  been  for  nearly  twenty  years 
Groom  of  the  Bedchamber  to  the  Prince 
Regent,  Georffe  IV.,  and  William  IV.  he 
received  the  honour  of  Knighthood,  in 
1831,  from  the  hitter  monarch,  as  a  mark 
of  his  Majesty's  personal  esteem. 

Sir  Joseph  Whatley  waa  twice  married : 
first,  in  1790,  to  a  daughter  of  Richard 
Marchant,  esq.  and,  secondly,  in  1827,  to 

Gbmt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


Augusta- Charlotte,  daughter  of  Richard 
Thellusson,  esq.  of  Brodsworth,  York- 
shire, sister  to  the  first  Lord  Rendle- 
sham,  and  widow  of  Thomas  Champion 
Crespigny,  of  Ufford,  co.  Suffolk,  esq. 

Granville  Penn,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Sept.  88.  At  Stoke  Park,  Buckingham- 
shire,   aged   85,   Granville  Penn,    esq. 
F.S.A. 

Mr.  Granville  Penn  was  born  in  New 
Street,  Spring  Gardens,  Dec.  9,  1761, 
the  fifth  but  second  surviving  and  youngest 
son  of  the  Hon.  Tbomos  Penn,  esquire, 
(son  of  the  celebrated  founder  of  Penn- 
sylvania,) by  Lady  Juliana  Fermor,  fourth 
daughter  ot  Thomas  first  Earl  of  Pomfret. 
He  was  formerly  an  assistant  chief  clerk 
in  the  War  department,  for  which  office 
he  received  a  pension  of  550/.  He  suc- 
ceeded to  the  family  estates  in  1834,  upon 
the  death  of  his  brother  John  Penu,  esq. 
of  whom  a  memoir  appeared  in  our  vol.  1 1, 
p.  650. 

Mr.  Granville  Penn  was  the  author  of 
several  learned  works,  chiefly  on  theo- 
logical subjects,  and  of  which  the  follow- 
ing is  a  list : 

Critical  Remarks  on  Isaiah,  vii.  18. 
1799,  4to. 

Remarks  on  the  Eastern  Origination  ■ 
of  Mankind,  and  of  the  Arts  of  Cultivated 
Life.    1799, 4to. 

A  Greek  Version  of  the  Inscription  on 
the  Rosette  Stone,  containing  a  decree  of 
the  priests  in  honour  of  Ptolemy  the 
Fifth.     1802, 8vo. 

Observations  in  illustration  of  Virgil's 
4th  Eclogue.     1810,  8vo. 

A  Christian's  Survey  of  all  the  principal 
Events  and  Periods  of  the  World. 
2nd  edit.  1812,  8vo. 

The  Bioscope,  or  the  Dial  of  Life 
explained.     1814, 8vo. 

The  Prophecy  of  Ezekiel,  concerning 
Gog  the  last  tyrant  of  the  Church ;  his 
invasion  of  Ros,  his  discomfiture  and 
final  fall,  explained,  and  in  part  illustrated. 
1814,  8vo. 

Original  Lines  and  Translations.  181 5, 
8vo. 

Institutes  of  Christian  Perfection,  of 
Macarius  the  Egyptian,  called  the  Great. 
Translated  from  the  Greek.  Small  8vo. 
1816. 

An  Examination  of  the  primary  Argu- 
ment of  the  Iliad.     1821,  8vo. 

A  Comparative  Estimate  of  the 
Mineral  and  Mosaical  Geologies.  18SS, 
8vo.  Second  edition,  revised  and  en- 
laiiged,  with  relation  to  the  latest  publica- 
tions on  Geology.     1835,  2  vols,  8vo. 

Memorisls  of  the  Professional  Life  and 
Times  of  Admiral  Sir  William  Penn. 

Mr.  Granville  Penn  married  June  24, 

4  A 


Cop^  Thoma$  Forreil,  CB.^Capi.  P^Ur  FUher.         [No?. 

The  prises  taken  on  this  oecuion  mwtt 
very  dcftrly  purchMed,  no  lesa  tbui  10  of 
the  Britieb  being  IciUed  luid  wounded,  in- 
cluding among  toe  latter  Coptein  Forrest. 
The  enemy's  total  loss  emounted  to  87 
killed  and  wounded.  Sir  James  Saoma- 
res,  when  reporting  tbis  sanguinary  afidr 
to  the  Admiralty,  informed  tbetr  lordships 
that  *'  the  undaunted  bravery  displayed 
by  Captain  Forrest,  the  officers  and  men 
employed  under  bis  orders,  was  beyond 
all  pmise.i*  For  bis  gallantry  on  this 
occasion,  Oaptain  Forrest  was  imaso- 
diately  advanced  to  post  rank,  and  hds 
commission  dated  bade  to  July  25, 1809. 

On  the  9th  Feb.  1818,  he  was  ap. 
pointed  to  the  Gyane  88,  in  which  abip 
ke  accompanied  Rear- Admiral  Durham 
to  the  Ijceward  Islands  at  the  comoBence- 
ment  of  1814.  "  His  meritorious  eoo- 
duct,  not  only  in  assiduously  keeping 
sight  of,  but  Kpeatedly  offering  kettle  to 
the  Ipbigenia,  a  French  frigsta  of  the 
largest  class,*'  during  her  flight  from  the 
Venerable  74,  was  dulv  acknowledged  by 
that  officer  in  bis  public  letter  report- 
ing the  subsequent  capture  of  theenemy*e 
ship.  In  March  1814,  Captain  Forrest 
was  removed  to  the  Sybille  frigate ;  and 
subsequently  to  the  Peace  he  com- 
manded the  later  of  48  guns  on  the  Me- 
diterranean station  t  the  Isis  SO,  hewing 
the  flag  of  Sir  Lawrence  W.  Halsted,  nt 
Jamaica;  and  more  recently  the  How« 
and  the  Impregnable  104,  which  he  very 
recently  paid  off,  after  having  comssanded 
her  in  the  Mediterranean.  He  obtained 
the  insignia  of  a  C.B.  in  1816  j  and  wms 
ill  the  enjoyment  of  a  good  -  service  pension 
of  150/. 

He  has  left  a  family  of  eight  ehlldreit. 


546 


1791,  Isabella,  eldest  daughter  of  General 
Gordon  Forbes,  Colonel  of  the  29th 
Foot,  by  Murgnret,  eldest  daughter  of 
Benjamin  SuUivsn,  esq.  of  Cork,  and  bad 
issue  four  sons  and  five  daugfaten :  The 
former  were:  I.  John- William,  who 
died  an  Infant  in  1802;  9.  Granville 
John  Penn,  esq.  M.  A.  of  Christ  church, 
Oxford,  and  a  barrister  at  law,  who  has 
succeeded  his  father,  and  is  at  present 
unmarried;  3.  the  Rev.  Thomas  Gordon 
Penn,  M.A.  of  Christchureh,  Oxford ; 
4.  William,  also  M.A.  of  Christehurch, 
Oxford. 

The  danghtera:  1.  Juliana,  who  died 
in  1804 ;  9.  Sophia,  married  to  Colonel 
Sir  William  Gomm,  K.C.B.  and  died 
without  issue  in  1B97;  3.  Louisa. £ mily ; 
4.  IsabeUa-Mary;  and  6.  Henrietta- 
Adna. 


Capt.  Thomas  Fobebst,  R.N. 

Sept.  5.  At  his  estate,  South  Efford, 
in  the  parish  of  Aveton  Gifford,  Devon - 
abire,  aged  65,  Capt.  Thomas  Forrest, 
R.N.  Iste  of  H.  M.  8.  Howe,  a  Com. 
penion  of  the  Bath,  of  Balsdon  Lodge, 
Torquay,  and  South  Efford  House. 

He  entered  the  Navy  in  July  1795,  and 
had  his  Lieutenant's  commission  April 
89, 1 808.  He  served  ss  senior  Lientensn t 
of  the  Emerahl  frigate,  Capt.  (now  Lord 
James)  0*Bryen,  by  whom  he  was  cm- 
ployed  on  a  very  hasardous  service,  in 
March  1804.  He  was  accompanied  by 
80  volunteera,  on  bo^  the  Fort-Diamond 
armed  sloop,  with  directions  to  bear 
down  on  an  armed  schooner  which  had 
anchored  close  in  shore,  under  cover  of 
the  battery  at  8eron,  when  he  laid 
the  enemy^  schooner  on  board,  under  a 
heavy  fire  from  her  and  the  battery.  In 
the  perfornwnce  of  this  service  great 
Judgment  was  exhibited,  as  by  the  mode 
,of  doing  it  a  chain,  by  which  she  was 
fastened  to  the  shore,  was  broken,  90  feet 
of  which  was  left  hanging  to  the 
schooner's  bow.  The  crew  of  tbis  vessel 
(consisting  of  sbout  60  whites  and  blscks) 
finding  it  impossible  to  withstand  British 
intrepidity,  jumped  overboard  and  swam 
ashora,  whilst  the  exploit  waa  performed 
without  any  loss  on  our  part,  two  men 
only  being  slightly  wounded.  He  was 
naadea  Commander  Jan.  22,  1806;  and 
in  the  following  year  was  employed  in 
reguUting  the  Impress,  snd  acting  as 
agent  for  prisoners  of  war,  at  North 
Yarmouth.  His  next  appointment  was 
to  the  Prometheus  sloop  of  war,  snd  in 
July  1809,  in  command  of  a  detachment 
of  boats,  be  captured  three  Russian  gun. 
vessels,  each  mounting  two  long  eighteen 
pounders,  and  an  armed  transport  at 
FMerickaheim,  in  the  Gulf  of  FinUind. 


Capt.  Pstsb  FiSHsa,  R.N. 

Aug,  28.  At  Sheerness  dockyard. 
Captain  Peter  Fisher,  esq.  Post  Captain 
R.N.,  Superintendent  of  that  estabUah- 
ment. 

Csptain  Peter  Fisher  was  midshipmnn 
of  the  Culloden  at  the  taking  of  Matti. 
nique;  in  Howe's  action  in  179i;  in  the 
London  in  Lord  Bridport's  in  1795 ;  was 
Lieutenant  in  the  Northumberland  in  the 
operations  on  the  coast  of  Italy  and  atir. 
render  of  Malta  in  1800;  served  at  the 
landing  in  Egypt,  and  was  present  at  the 
subsequent  battles;  was  senior  of  the 
Burfleur,  and  wounded  in  Sir  Robert 
Calder's  action  ;  and  of  the  Ardent  at 
the  taking  of  Monte  Video.  He  was 
made  Commander  Dec.  27,  1808,  and  in 
that  rank  served  at  the  taking  of  the 
islands  Ischia  and  Procida;  and  eoa- 
manded  the  Meteor  bomb  at  the  siege 
of  Dantxic,  and  in  the  opemtions  ^inet 
South  Beveland.    He  wee  poeted  Feb. 


1844.]     Obitvart*— •^ommondS^  C.  Roht  R.N,— Major  Vrmaton,    547 


)9,  1814,  and  was  appointed  to  SbeerneM 
dockyard,  Dec.  17,  1S4I. 

The  circumstances  attending  his  decease 
arose  from  the  anxious  discharge  of  his 
onerous  duties.  The  utmost  activity  pre- 
vailed at  Shcemess.  The  Achille,  76, 
advanced  ship  of  the  line,  had  been  in  the 
basin,  and  was  masted  and  discharged 
with  the  tide.  It  was  whilst  overlooking 
this  dutv,  in  the  broiling  sun,  that  Cap- 
tain Fisher  was  observed  to  stagger  and 
fall,  and  be  Waa  immediately  taken  to  his 
liouse  Insensible.  His  body  wns  removed 
lor  interment  to  Waimer,  where  he  for- 
merly resided. 

ComicanDbr  C.  Hols,  R.N. 

Stpi,  4.  At  Barnstaple,  aged  63, 
Charles  Hole,  esq.  Commander  R.N. 

He  was  a  son  of  the  Rev.  William 
Hole,  and  was  bom  at  West  Buckland, 
near  Barnstaple,  Feb.  87, 1781.  He  en- 
tered  the  Royal  Navy  on  board  the  Atlas 
98  in  1795,  and  continued  in  that  ship 
until  Oct.  1799,  when  he  was  rated  mas- 
fer*s  mate  of  the  Stag  frigate.  On  the 
89th  Aug.  1800,  he  commanded  a  boat  at 
the  capture  of  la  Oudpe  privateer  of  18 
guns,  which  lost  sixtv-nve  men  before  her 
surrender.  Eight  davs  after,  the  Stag 
was  wrecked  in  Vigo  Iwy. 

Mr.  Hole  afterwards  served  in  the  Re- 
nown 74,  the  flag-ship  of  Sir  J.  B. 
Warren,  on  the  coast  of  Spain,  and  in  the 
Mediterranean,  where  he  was  removed  to 
the  Genereux  74  in  July  1801.  He  waa 
appointed  acting  master  of  the  Delight 
aioop  in  Sept.  following,  and  returned  to 
England  in  Lord  Keith's  flsg-ship  the 
Foudroyant,  during  the  peace  of  Amiens. 

In  June  1803  he  joined  the  Tonnant 
80,  commanded  by  the  late  Viscount  Ex- 
Dioutb ;  and  in  May  1804,  went  in  the 
CuUoden,  the  flag-ship  of  the  same  of- 
ficer, to  the  West  Indies,  where  he  was 
successively  appointed  acting  Lieutenant 
of  the  Howe  frinte  and  Harrier  sloop, 
both  commanded  by  Capt.  Edward  Rat- 
Bey,  in  the  early  part  or  1805.  He  waa 
present  in  an  undecisive  action  with  la 
Semillante  Aug.  8,  in  that  year ;  and  at 
various  captures  in  the  Java  sea.  His 
"  very  exemplary  conduct  *^  during  an  ac- 
tion which  terminated  in  tlie  surrender  of 
the  Batavian  frigate  Pallas  and  her  two 
eonsorts  in  July  1806,  was  highly  spoken 
of  by  bis  Commander,  the  present  Sir 
E«  Thomas  Trowbridge. 

From  Jan.  1807  to  Aug.  1818  Mr. 
Hole  served  aa  Sir  Edward  Pellew's  first 
Lieutenant  in  the  CuUoden  74,  Christian 
VII.  80,  and  Caledonia  12u.  on  the  East 
India,  North  Sea,  and  Mediterranean 
stations.  He  waa  then  promoted,  by  Sir 
Edward,  to  the  command  of  the  Badger 


sloop,  in  which  be  captured  1* Adventure 
privateer,  of  two  guns,  Oct.  SO,  1813. 
Previous  to  his  joinine  her,  he  acted  for 
about  two  months  as  Captain  of  the  Re- 
sistance frigate.  His  subsequent  ap- 
pointments were  to  the  Ouadiiioupe  and 
Pelorus  sloops,  which  last  he  left,  from 
ill.health,  in  Nov.  I8I4. 

Commander  Hole  was  married,  but 
had  no  issue.  One  of  his  brothers,  Lewis, 
attained  post  tank  in  Dec.  1813,  and  sur- 
vives him. 


Maiob  UaiinoK. 

/tme  87.  At  Kalka,  Bengal,  Brevet- 
Major  Lambert  B.  Urmston,  Captain  in 
the  31  St  Foot. 

Major  Urmston  was  the  fourth  son  of 
the  late  Capt.  James  Urmston,  of  the 
East  India  Company*s  maritime  service^ 
Major  Urmston*s  commission  as  Ensign 
was  dated  April  1,  1813,  and  that  as 
Lieutenant  May  II,  1815.  He  served 
the  campaigns  of  1813  and  1814  in  the 
Peninsula  with  the  45th,  including  the 
battles  of  the  Nive,  Orthes,  and  Tou* 
louse.  He  purchased  a  company  in  the 
38th  Feb.  18,  1888,  and  served  with  that 
regiment  throughout  the  Burmese  war, 
including  the  capture  of  Rangoon,  storm 
and  capture  of  the  stockades  of  Kem un- 
dine and  Kumaroot ;  battles  of  Rangoon 
Kolzein,  and  Pagahm-Mew ;  attack  and 
capture  of  Donabew,  Prome,  and  Ma- 
loon  ;  actions  of  Sembike  and  Napadee. 
He  served  the  campaign  of  1848  in 
Afighanistan  with  the  31st,  including  the 
actions  of  Mazeener,  JugduUuck,  and 
Teezen,  and  the  re-occupation  of  Cabnl, 

On  several  occasions  this  officer  waa 
sent  on  detached  service,  commanding 
himself  such  detachments ;  and  he  re- 
ceived the  handsomest  testimoniala  of  hia 
conduct  from  Oeneral  Pollock,  Brigadier 
Monteith,  and  from  his  own  immediate 
commanding  officer,  Colonel  Bolton.  By 
the  latter  his  death  was  announced  in  the 
following  very  handsome  terms  :— 

«*  Umballa,June2H,  1B44. 

**  Colonel  Bolton  feels  deep  regret  In 
having  to  announce  the  death  of  Major 
Urmston,  at  8  p.  m.  yesterday,  while  on 
his  way  on  sick  leave  towards  Kiea* 
sowlee.  In  him  the  commanding  officer 
has  lost  an  esteemed  and  faithful  friend, 
and  the  regiment  at  larffe  a  gallant  and 
good  officer.  When  to  these  well-known 
qualities  in  Major  Urmston  it  may  with 
truth  be  added,  that  be  waa  devotedly 
attached  to  his  profession,  and  that  be 
was  ever  truly  kind  and  considerate  to- 
wards all  subordinates  to  him,  and  In 
every  way  the  soldier's  friend,  Colonel 
Bolton  is  well  convinced  that  deep  sor* 


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row  will  be  felt  by  every  indiyidualof  the 
corps  mi  this  announcement.'' 

JoBN  Dalton,  D.C.L.  F.R.S. 

We  are  now  enabled  to  append  to  the 
brief  particulars  of  this  distinguished 
philosopher,  given  in  our  last  Magazine, 
p.  431,  the  following  more  connected 
account,  delivered  by  the  Very  Rev.  the 
Dean  of  Ely,  in  his  address  as  President 
of  the  recent  meeting  of  the  British  As. 
sociatioa  at  York : 

''  Dr.  Dalton  was  one  of  that  vigorous 
i»re  of  Cumberland  yeomen  amongst 
whom  are  sometimes  found  the  most 
simple  and  primitive  habits  and  manners 
combined  with  no  inconsiderable  literary 
or  scientific  attainments.  From  teach- 
ing a  school  as  a  boy  in  his  native 
village  of  Eaglesfield,  near  Cockermouth, 
we  nnd  him  at  a  subsequent  period  simi. 
larly  engaged  at  Kendal,  wnere  he  had 
the  society  and  assistance  of  (vough  the 
bUnd  philosopher  and  a  man  of  very  re- 
markable powers,  and  of  other  persons 
of  congenial  tastes  with  his  own.  In 
1793i  when  in  his  23rd  year,  he  became 
Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Natural 
Philosophy  in  the  New  College  in  Mosley 
Street,  Manchester,  a  situation  which  he 
eontinued  to  hold  for  a  period  of  six 
years,  and  until  the  establishment  was  re- 
moved to  this  city  (York),  when  he 
became  a  private  teacher  of  the  same 
subjects,  occupyin,'  for  the  purposes  of 
study  and  instruction  the  lower  rooms  of 
the  Literary  and  Philosophical  Society 
In  George  Street,  rarely  quitting  the 
scene  of  his  tranquil  and  unambitious 
laboun,  beyond  an  annual  vitit  to  his 
native  mountains,  with  a  joint  view  to 
health  and  meteorological  observations. 
He  made  his  first  appearance  as  an  author 
in  a  volume  of  *  Meteorological  Obser- 
vations and  Essays,'  which  be  published 
in  1793,  and  which  contains  the  germ  of 
many  of  his  subsequent  speculations  and 
discoveries;  and  his  first  views  of  the 
Atomic  Theory,  which  must  for  ever 
render  bis  name  memorable  as  one  of 
the  great  foundere  of  chemical  philosophy, 
were  suggested  to  him  during  his  ezaroi- 
nation  ot  olefiant  gas  and  carburetted 
hydrogen  gas.  His  theory  was  noticed 
in  lectures  which  he  delivered  at  Man- 
chaster  in  1803  and  1004>,  and  much  more 
explicitly  in  lectures  delivered  at  Edin- 
burgh and  Glasgow;  it  wm,  however, 
first  made  generally  known  to  the  world 
in  Dr.  Thomson's  Chemistry  in  1807, 
and  was  briefly  noticed  in  his  own  System 
of  Chemistry  .which  appeared  in  the  fol- 
lowing  year;  and  though  bis  daims  to 
this  great  generalization  were  subject  to 
some  disputes  both  at  borne  and  abroad. 


OBiTVA%Y,'^John  Dahon,  D.C.L* 


[Nor. 


yet  in  a  very  abort  time  both  die  doetrfM 
and  its  author  were  acknowledged  and 
recognised  bv  WoUaston,  Davy,  Berse- 
lius,  and  all  the  great  chembts  in  Europe. 

*'  But  the  atomic  theory  is  not  the  oolj 
great  contribution  to  chemical  aciemse 
which  we  owe  to  Dalton ;  he  diaeoverad 
contemporaneooaly  with  Gay-Iioasac,witk 
whom  many  of  hia  reseaicfaea  ran  paraUel» 
the  important  general  law  of  the  ex- 
pansion of  gaae^— that  for  equal  incre- 
menu  of  temperature,  all  gases  ezpand 
bv  the  same  portion  of  their  bulk,  besB^ 
about  three-eighths  in  proceeding  ffom 
the  temperatures  of  freezing  and  boiling 
water.  His  contributions  to  oseteoco* 
logy  were  also  of  the  moot  important 
kind. 

**  Dr.  Dalton  was  not  a  man  of  wfaal 
are  commonly  called  brilliant  talenta, 
but  of  a  singttlsrly  clear  understanding 
and  plain  practical  good  sense ;  his  ap- 
proaches to  the  formation  of  his  theoriea 
were  slow  and  deliberate,  where  every 
step  of  his  induction  was  made  the  object 
of  lonff-continued  and  persevering  thought; 
but  hts  convictions  were  based  upon  the 
true  principles  of  inductive  philosophy, 
snd  when  once  formed,  were  boldJ/ 
advanced  and  steadily  maintained.  It  ia 
always  unsafe,  and  perhaps  unwise,  to 
speculate  upon  the  amount  of  good  for- 
tune which  is  connected  with  the  Hme 
and  circumstances  of  any  great  diseovcrr, 
with  some  view  to  detract  from  thecredbt 
of  its  author;  and  it  has  been  contended 
that  Wollaston,  Berselius,  and  othere, 
were  already  in  the  track  which  wvM 
naturally  lead  to  this  great  generalisation; 
but  it  has  been  frequently  and  justly  re* 
marked,  that,  if  philosophv  be  a  lottery, 
those  only  who  plajr  well  are  ever  ob- 
served to  draw  its  pnses. 

**  Though  Dalton 'a  great  discovery,* 
says  the  historian  of  the  Inductive 
Sciences,  was  *  soon  generally  employed, 
and  universally  spoken  of  with  admim- 
tion,  it  did  not  bnng  to  him  anything  but 
barren  praise,  and  he  continued  in  hia 
humble  employment  when  his  fame  had 
filled  Europe,  and  his  name  become  a 
household  word  in  the  laboratory.  After 
some  years  he  was  appointed  a  Corre- 
sponding Member  of  the  Institute  ot 
France,  which  mav  be  considered  as  a 
European  recognition  of  the  importance 
of  what  be  had  done ;  and  in  1886,  two 
medals  for  the  encouragement  of  sdenoe 
having  been  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Royal  Society  by  the  King,  one  of  theaa 
was  assigned  to  Dalton,  *for  hia  deve* 
lopement  of  the  atomic  theory.*  In  16321^ 
at  the  meeting  of  the  British  Associatioa 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  which 
Yvas  held  at  Cambridge,  it  >vas  aanoonccd 


1644.] 


Obituary •—JVoficu  Bailif,  Esq.  F.R*S. 


549 


tiMt  the  King  had  bestowed  upon  Um  a 
peDsion  of  l&l. ;  at  the  preceding  meet* 
ing  at  Oxford,  that  Univenity  had  con- 
ferred the  degree  of  Doctor  of  LawB,  a 
ttep  the  more  remarkable  since  be  be- 
longed to  tbe  sect  of  Quakers.  At  all 
the  meetings  of  the  British  Association 
he  has  been  present,  and  has  always 
been  sarrounded  with  the  reverence 
and  admiration  of  all  who  feel  any 
svmpathy  with  the  progress  of  science. 
Ma^  he  long  remain  among  us,  thus  to 
remind  us  of  the  vast  advance  which  che- 
mistry owes  to  him.'  This  was  written 
in  1837,  the  year  in  which  a  severe  attack 
of  paralysis  seriously  impaired  bis  powers ; 
be  last  appeared  among  us  at  Manchester, 
when  he  received  the  respectful  homage 
of  the  distinguished  foreigners  and  others 
who  were  there  assembled." 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  tbe  inhabitants 
of  Manchester  the  following  resolution 
was  come  to  : — **  That  it  is  desirable  that 
a  simple  and  suitable  memorial  should  be 
placed  in  tbe  cemetery  at  Ardwick  over 
tbe  mortal  remains  of  this  illustrious 
philosopher  and  exemplary  Christian ; 
and  that  it  is  most  desirable  to  found  a 
professorship  of  chemistry  in  some  public 
place  in  Manchester,  to  be  named  the 
'  Daltonian  Professorship,'  one  object  of 
which  shall  be  to  illustrate  the  atomic 
theory,  and  the  discoveries  of  Dalton  in 
connexion  with  other  branches  of  physical 
science.'* 


FaANcis  Baily,  Esq.  F.R.S. 

jtmp.  30.  In  Tkvistock-place,  Russell- 
square,  aged  70,  Francis  Baily,  esq. 
D.C.L.  President  of  the  Astronomical 
Society,  Fellow  of  the  Royal,  Linnean, 
and  Geological  Societies,  and  Member  of 
tbe  Royal  Irisji  Academy. 

This  highly  respected  member  of  the 
scientific  world  was  the  third  of  the  five 
sons  of  Mr.  Baily,  banker,  of  Newbury. 
He  was  engaged  for  many  years  in 
the  business  of  the  Stock  Exchange, 
and  realised  in  that  arena  an  ample 
fortune.  He  was  elected  a  Fellow  of 
the  Royal  Society  in  1881,  and  the  main 
features  of  his  scientific  career  were 
sketched  in  tbe  following  terms  by  the 
Bean  of  Ely,  in  his  recent  address  to 
the  British  Association  at  York. 

**  Mr.  Baily  was,  undoubtedly,  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  men  of  his  time.  It 
was  only  in  1825  that  he  retired  from  the 
Stock  Exchange  \%ith  an  ample  fortune, 
and  with  a  high  chsracter  for  integrity 
and  liberality ;  but  his  subsequent  career 
almost  entirely  belongs  to  astronomy,  and 
is  one  of  almost  unexampled  activity  and 
usefulness.  The  Astronomiosl  Society 
waa  organixcd  by  him,  and  throughout 


life  he  was  the  most  considerable  contri- 
butor to  its  Memoirs.  The  catalogue  of 
the  Astronomical  Society,  the  funds  for 
which  were  contributed  by  several  of  its 
members,  was  entirely  formed  under  his 
superintendence,  and  we  arc  chieiy  in- 
debted to  bis  exertions  for  the  more  ample 
developement  which  the  Nautical  Al- 
manac has  latterly  received,  and  which 
has  added  so  much  to  its  usefulness. 
There  was  no  experimental  research  con- 
nected with  the  more  accurate  determina- 
tions of  astronomy  or  physical  science, 
which  was  not  generally  intrusted  to  his 
care:  the  publication  of  tbe  Pendulum 
Observations  of  Capt.  Foster,  which  were 
confided  to  him  by  tbe  Admiralty,  gave 
occasion  to  tbe  most  complete  series  of 
pendulum  experiments  which  had  ever 
been  made,  in  which  many  most  important 
defects  of  those  instruments  were  first 
brought  to  light :  he  undertook  the  repe- 
tition of  the  celebrated  experiment  of  Mr. 
Cavendish,  and  bis  discussion  of  the  whole 
question,  which  forms  a  recent  volume  of 
The  Memoirs  of  tbe  Astronomical  So- 
ciety, is  a  monument  not  less  honourable 
to  his  patience,  perseverance,  and  skill, 
than  to  the  sagacitv  and  accuracy  of  the 
great  philosopher  who  first  devised  it. 

'*  He  had  also  undertaken,  for  tbe 
Commission  of  Weights  and  Measures,  the 
conduct  of  the  process  for  forming  the 
new  standard  jmrd  from  the  scale  of  the 
Astronomical  Society,  which  he  had  him- 
self compared  with  the  imperial  standard 
yard,  destroyed  in  the  burning  of  the 
Houses  of  Parliament. 

'*  He  published,  at  the  request  of  tbe 
Admiralty,  tbe  correspondence  and  cata- 
logue of  Flarosteed ;  be  presented  to  the 
Astronomical  Society  a  volume  containing 
tbe  catalogues  of  Ptolemy,  Ulugh  Beigb, 
Tycho  Brabc,  Hevelius,  and  Halley,  with 
learned  prefaces  and  critic»il  notes,  show- 
ing their  relations  to  each  other  and  to 
later  catalogues.  His  preface  and  intro- 
duction to  tbe  British  Association  Cata- 
logue, and  more  than  one-third  of  the 
catalogue  itself,  are  printed ;  and  from  the 
critical  examination  of  the  authorities, 
upon  which  his  assumed  positions  rest, 
and  from  the  careful  distribution  of  the 
stara  which  are  selected  (more  than  8000 
in  number)  in  (hose  parts  of  the  heavens 
where  they  are  likely  to  be  most  useful 
to  observera  as  points  of  comparison,  it 
promises  to  be  the  most  important  con- 
tribution to  the  cause  of  practical  astro- 
nomy which  has  been  made  in  later  times. 
The  whole  of  the  stars  of  the  Histoire 
Celeste  are  reduced,  and  a  considerable 
portion  (more  than  one-fifth)  printed ,  but 
It  is  not  known  whether  the  introductory 
matter,  which,  from  him,  would  have  been 


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OBtT0AHt.«— Jlfr.  Robert  Tinftor. 


CNoT. 


■0  Iroportaiit,  wu  prepired  at  tbe  tioie  of 
Mf  death. 

•<  Mr.  Baily  wm  the  author  of  the  best 
Treatise  on  Lrffe  Annuities  and  Insurances 
which  has  yet  appeared,  as  well  is  of 
fe?eral  other  publications  on  the  same 
soliject.  His  tnowledge  of  the  mathe- 
matictans  of  the  English  school  was  rery 
ioand  and  complete,  though  he  had  uerer 
mastered  the  more  refined  resources  of 
modem  analvsis.  In  the  discussion  of 
tbe  Cavendish  and  other  experiments,  he 
freelj  availed  himself  of  the  assistance  of 
die  Astronomer  Royal  and  Mr.  De  Mor- 
gin  in  Uie  investigation  of  formuln  whicb 
were  above  his  reach ;  but  he  always  ap- 
plied  them  in  a  manner  which  showed 
that  ha  thoroughly  understood  their  prin. 
dple,  and  was  fully  able  to  incorporate 
tbem  with  his  own  researches.  In  the 
midst  of  these  various  labours  (and  the 
list  which  I  have  given  of  them,  ample  as 
it  is,  comprehends  but  a  small  part  of 
tbdr  number,)  Mr.  Baily  never  seemed 
to  be  particularly  busy  or  occupied.  He 
entered  freely  into  society,  entertaining 
bis  scientific  ai  well  as  mercantile  friends 
at  his  own  house  with  great  hospitality. 
He  was  rarely  absent  from  the  numerous 
scientific  meetings  of  committees  and 
councils;  be  wu  a  member  of  all  of 
them,  which  absorb  so  large  a  portion  of 
die  disposable  leisure  of  men  of  science 
in  London  :  but,  if  a  work  or  inquiry  was 
referred  to  him.  It  was  generally  completed 
In  a  time  which  would  seem  hardly  suf* 
fldent  for  other  men  to  make  tbe  prelimi* 
nary  investigation.  Most  of  this  was  un. 
doubtedly  owing  to  his  admirable  habits 
of  system  and  order,  to  his  always  doing 
one  thing  at  one  time,  to  his  clear  and 
precise  estimate  of  the  extent  of  his  own 
powers.  Though  he  always  wrote  clearly 
and  well,  he  never  wrote  ambitiously: 
and,  though  be  almost  always  accomplished 
what  be  undertook,  be  never  affected  to 
execute,  or  to  appear  to  execute,  what 
was  beyond  his  powers.  This  was  the 
true  secret  of  his  great  success,  and  of  his 
wonderfid  fertility;  and  it  would  be  dif- 
ficult to  refer  to  a  more  Instructive  ex- 
ample of  what  may  be  effected  by  practical 
good  sense,  systematic  order,  and  steady 
perseverance.'* 

The  will  of  Mr.  Baily  has  been  proved 
ill  Doctors*  Commons  by  John  Baihr  the 
younger  (nephew  of  the  deceased],  David 
Jardine,  and  Philip  Martineau,  esquires, 
tbe  executors.  Tne  will  is  in  the  hand- 
writing of  the  deceased ;  and,  after  the 
cUsposal  of  various  estates  in  several 
counties  to  several  of  his  relatives,  gives 
a  great  number  of  legacies  to  relations 
and  friends,  varyins  from  200/.  to  l,000t 
His  servants  are  all  well  provided  for,  in 


addition  to  mourning,  and  be  deaires  tbaC 
some  shares  in  the  Stock  Exchange  fo 
which  he  is  entitled  shall  be  given  frooi 
time  to  time  to  poor  members  of  chnt 
institution.  The  testator  has  not  been 
unmindful  of  the  various  chariuUe  in. 
stitutions  vrith  which  London  aboanda, 
leaving  them  many  legacies  varying  fruM 
200/.  each ;  including  the  Univeraitj  Col- 
lege Hospital,  Ring's  College  Hospital, 
Society  of  Foretsners  in  Distress,  thm 
Seamen*s  Hospital  at  Greenwicby  &c  9tem 
He  also  places  at  the  disposal  of  the 
magistrates  at  the  numeroos  pollce-aflleet 
in  London,  Westminster,  ana  the  bocongh 
of  Southwark,  20/.  each,  to  be  applied  to 
such  objects  as  the  magistrates  ahall  dees 
worthy. 

Ma.  RoBEET  Taylor. 
Stpt,  . .     At  Tours,  in  France,  i^ted 
52,  Mr.  Robert  Taylor,  B.A.,  notoriont 

as  a  blasphemous  lecturer. 

This  eccentric  man  was  the  son  of  n 
respectable  ironmonger  who  resided  many 
years  in  Fenchurch  Street,  amasaed  * 
fortune,  and  retired  upon  it  to  Enfield. 
To  his  youngest  and  fiivourite  son, 
Robert,  he  gave  a  good  education,  uid 
sent  him  to  St.  John's  college,  Cambrid^ 
where  he  was  esteemed  an  admirable 
scholar,  and  attained  the  degree  of  B.  A. 
in  ldl3.  He  took  holy  orders,  and  became 
Curate  of  Midhurst,  where  he  remained 
for  more  than  five  years.  It  was  at  a 
christening  that  he  first  expressed  his 
dissent  to  the  doctrines  of  the  Chorchp 
and  subset^uently,  litersllv  breaking  into 
infidelism  m  the  pulpit,  he  was  stripped 
of  bis  gown.  He  came  to  London  and 
associated  with  the  notorious  Carlile. 
^fr.  Taylor  took  the  Rolls-rooms^  in 
Chancery-lane ;  from  thence  he  proceeded 
to  the  Paul*s  Head.  Cateaton-streei. 
then  to  Founders'  Hall,  Lothbury ;  at  aU 
which  places  he  lectured  (or  preached,  aa 
Carlile  termed  it,)  his  favourite  doctrines. 
He  also  visited  several  provincial  towns. 
At  Leeds  he  was  confronted  by  Mr* 
Calvert,  a  clever  actor,  then  in  Mr* 
Cuinmin*s  company,  who  detected  Tay- 
lor*s  false  quotations  from  the  Latin  ec« 
clesiastical  writers^  and  induced  him  to 
beat  a  retreat. 

Taylor  was  a  constant  visitor  at  Lant*a 
Coffiee-house,  Clerkenwell-green,  where 
he  associated  with  Gale  Jones,  Wenman, 
and  other  well-known  characters  of  the 
day.  He  was  also  seen  at  Smith's,  High 
Holbom,  near  Great  Turnstile ;  and  at 
the  Globe,  Fleet-street.  In  the  summer 
bis  favourite  resort  was  Temple-gardens, 
where  he  distributed  his  traets,  and  soi^fat 
disciples.  Taylor's  followers  at  lei^th 
purcliased  for  him  Dr.  Bengo  Collier*a 


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551 


chapel,  in  Cannon-itreet,  City.  This 
place  Taylor  cbriatened  the  i\reopRgua. 
tiere  be  nn  riot,  and  at  the  instigation 
of  Alderman  Brown,  now  Chamberlain, 
then  Lord  Mayor,  he  was  prosecuted, 
and  committed  to  the  Compter.  There 
Carlile  brought  Miss  Bicharda  (since 
known  as  Mrs.  Dorey,  one  of  the  parties 
implicated  in  the  liarber  and  Fletcher 
forgeries,)  to  him  as  a  visitor.  Tavlor 
fell,  or  feigned  to  fall,  desperately  in  love 
with  the  lady,  and  gave  her  a  promise  of 
marriage ;  but  they  were  doomed  to  part, 
for  Taylor  having  been  tried  and  con- 
victed of  blasphemy,  Oct.  84,  1827,  was 
sentenced  to  two  years'  imprisonment. 
On  the  expiration  of  his  sentence,  be  re- 
turned to  his  old  lodgings  at  Mr.  RusseU's 
(a  law  stationer  in  Carey-street,  Chancery* 
lane),  and  there,  it  is  believed,  he  met  n 
lady  somewhat  stricken  in  years,  who 
subsequently  became  Mrs.  Taylor.  This 
wedding,  of  course,  roused  the  ire  of 
Miss  Kichards,  who  commenced  an  ac- 
tion for  a  breach  of  promise  of  marriage, 
and  recovered  2dO/.  damages,  to  avoid  the 
navment  of  which  Mr,  Taylor  and  his 
bnde  departed  for  Tours.  Though  some 
disparity  of  years  existed  between  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Taylor,  they  lived  very  happily. 
He  renounced  his  errors,  and  returned  to 
the  doctrines  of  the  established  church, 
and  had  latterly  practised  as  a  suigeon  At 
Tours, 


John  Ovebb. 

M/aMy,  In  Vauxhall -street,  Lambeth, 
John  Overs,  the  author  of  '*The  Even- 
ings of  a  Working  Man," — a  little  vo- 
lume lately  ushered  into  public  notice  by 
Mr.  Dickens. 

He  waa  bom  at  Birmingham,  July  8, 
1806.  His  mother,  a  superior  woman  for 
bar  station  in  life,  died  when  he  was  five 

J  ears  of  age.  He  always  remembered 
er  with  the  most  ardent  affection.  He 
received  a  very  limited  education,  and  at 
the  age  of  fourteen  was  apprenticed  to 
the  cabinet-case>making  business.  At  a 
very  early  period  be  devoted  his  hours  of 
leisure  to  composition  in  prose  and  verse, 
oontributing  occasion^  to  various  peri- 
odicals, especially  '*  Tait*s  Magasine'* 
and  ««  Croiksbank's  Omnibus.*'  About 
four  years  ago  be  was  seised  with  chronic 
pleurisy,  since  which  time  he  suffered 
much,  though  he  was  occasionally  able  to 
pursue  bis  ordinary  employment.  For 
the  last  twelve  months,  however,  he  waa 
a  confirmed  invalid.  During  bis  long 
illness  Mr.  Dickens  showed  him  invari- 
able kindness.  Through  him  Mr.  Overs 
was  introduced  to  Dr.  EUiotson,  whose 
constant  attention  he  also  experienced. 
Mrs.  OfecB'ia  l«ft  with  a  family  of  six 


children  totally  unprovided  for,  the  eldest 
of  whom  is  not  more  than  ten  years  of 
age,  the  youngest  only  two  months.  Mr. 
Newby,  the  publisher  of  '*  The  Evenings 
of  a  Working  Man,'*  has  undertaken  to 
promote  a  subscription  for  their  benefit. 


CLERGY  DECEASED. 

Fed.  80.  Aged  88,  the  Rev.  Thomn 
Barrow,  incumbent  of  Skerton,  near  Lan- 
caster. 

Aug.  9.  At  Thrumpton,  near  East 
Retford,  the  Rev.  Jokn  Wootton,  Curate 
of  that  parish.  He  was  also  Vicar  of 
East  Wyckham,  Lincolnshire,  to  which 
he  was  presented  in  1811  by  Mr.  Fer- 
rand.  In  the  early  part  of  his  life  he  waa 
Curate  of  Blaby  with  Coonteathorpe, 
Leicestershire. 

Auff.  81.  The  Rev.  Jokn  Youmff 
Rector  of  Killeshal,  co.  Tyrone,  brother 
to  Sir  William  Young,  of  Bailieborough 
Castle,  CO.  Cavan,  Bart. 

Lately.  The  Rev.  /enMt  W.  MayuirOf 
Chaplain  in  her  Majesty's  Navy. 

At  Magherafelt,  co.  Londonderry,  in 
his  85th  year,  the  Rev.  TAonurs  A^ond* 
Mam  Veteyt  Rector  of  that  parish  for 
37  years,  and  for  60  years  a  clergyman  in 
the  diocese  of  Armagh.  He  was  father 
of  Mrs.  Biathwayt,  of  Dyrham  Pkirk, 
Oloucestershire. 

Sept,  16.  Aged  79,  the  Rev.  Oeoryi 
Arthur  Bvani,  of  Newtown  hall,  Mont- 

fomeryshire,  and  Rector  of  Rudbaxton, 
Pembrokeshire.  He  was  of  Christ  church, 
Oxford,  M.A.  1793;  and  was  presented 
to  Rudbaxton  in  1804  by  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor. 

Sept,  17.  At  Harwich,  aged  41,  the 
Rev.  Thomat  Mutton  Vyvyan,  brother  to 
Sir  R.  R.  Vyvyan,  Bart.  He  was  the 
third  son  of  the  late  Sir  Vyell  Vyvvan, 
Bart,  by  Mary-Hutton,  only  child  of 
Thomas  Hntton  Rawlinson,  of  Lancas- 
ter, esq.  He  was  of  Trinity  college, 
Cambridge,  B.A.  1885. 

Sept,  20.  At  Southemdown,  near 
Bridgend,  the  Rev.  J,  E,  Morgan,  for 
twenty-three  years  Curate  of  St.  Bride's 
Msjor. 

Sevt,  88.  At  Lackford,  Suffolk,  aged 
63,  the  Rev.  Tkomae  BIH9  Boyere,  Rector 
of  Lackford  and  Hessett.  He  was  of 
Trinitv  college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1805  as 
I4ch  Wranffler,  M.A.  1808;  was  pre- 
sented to  Lackford  in  1807  by  Sir  C, 
Kent,  Bart,  and  to  Hessett  in  1813  by 
Mr.  Lcheup. 

Sept,  84.  The  Rev.  Danhi  Rowtandi, 
Vicar  of  Llanllwch,  near  Carmarthen,  to 
which  church  he  was  collated  in  1816,  by 
the  Bishop  of  St.  David's. 

At  Downhan,  near  Ely,  the  Rev.  WU* 


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Ham  Tildem,  M.A.  Cante  of  that  parish. 
He  wa8  the  second  son  of  the  late  John 
Tilden,  esq.  of  Ifield  Court,  Kent ;  and 
was  of  Sidney.  Sussex  college,  Cambridge, 
B.A.  1823. 

Sept.  26.  At  Totleven,  in  Sithney, 
Cornwall,  aged  33,  the  Rev.  Wiliwm 
^ortoM,  Perpetual  Curate  of  that  cbapelry. 
He  was  the  fourth  son  of  Henry  Bor- 
lase,  esq.  of  Helston;  and  was  of  St. 
Peter's  college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1831, 
Bd.A.  183.. 

SepL  88.  At  Aikton  hall,  near 
Carlisle,  aged  83,  the  Rev.  Riehard  FtU^ 
Rector  of  Aikton  for  sixteen  years,  and 
previously  for  forty.three  years  Vicar  of 
Warcop,  Westmorland.  He  was  of  St. 
John's  college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1784f, 
M.A.  1787. 

Oct.  19.  At  Holme  Head,  near  Ingle- 
ton,  Yorkshire,  aged  80,  the  Rev.  ITt/. 
iiMm  WailiTt  for  nearly  forty  yeors  Per- 
petual  Curate  of  ingleton.  He  was  for. 
merly  of  Pembroke  hall,  Cambridge, 
where  he  proceeded  B.D.  in  1804.  Ihe 
loss  of  this  venerable  clergyman  will  be 
extensively  and  severely  felt ;  for  he  had 
endeared  himself  to  all  classes  of  society, 
by  the  simplicity,  the  sincerity,  and  the 
benevolence  of  his  character,  as  well  as  by 
an  unwearied  endeavour  to  fulfil  his  pas- 
toral duties  for  the  benefit,  temporal  and 
eternal,  of  the  people  committed  to  his 
charge.  Mr.  Waller  succeeded  his  father 
in  the  incumbency  of  Ingleton,  previously 
to  which  he  had  for  some  years  been  ac- 
tively employed  in  tuition  at  the  then 
celebrated  school  at  Cbeam.  Amongst 
many  other  pupils  who  were  there  en- 
trusted to  him,  be  was  accustomed  to 
mention  with  peculiar  satisfaction,  the 
names  of  the  present  excellent  Bishop  of 
Ripon,  Archdeacon  Berens,  and  tbe  no 
less  amiable  Dr.  Macbride,  Principal  of 
Magdalene  hall,  Oxford,  author  of  some 
admirable  "  Lectures  Explanatory  of  the 
Diatessaron." 


DEATHS. 

LONDON  AND  ITS  VICINITY. 

Sept  3.  Capt.  Joseph  Hammell,  late  of 
the  9th  regt. 

Sept,  5.  Aged  55,  George  Thomas 
Thorpe,  esq.  formerly  of  the  Army  Pay 
Office. 

Sept.  9.  At  Islington,  aged  17,  Jane, 
younger  dan.  of  the  late  Philip  Chabot, 
esq.  of  Fashion-st.  Spitalfields. 

Sept,  1 1 .  At  the  residence  of  his  mo. 
ther,  in  College-hill,  City,  aged  31,  Mr. 
J.  O.  Kobinson,  eldest  son  of  the  late  Mr. 
Joseph  Ogle  Robinson,  bookseller. 

Sept*  13.    At  Five  Houses,   Clapton, 
aged  65,  Thomas  Hovell,  esq. 
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In  Great  Qeoige  tt.  WestmiBat8r,H«iuy 
Robinson  Palmer,  esq.  Civil  Engineer. 
He  was  the  favourite  pupil,  and  for  naany 
years  principal  assistant,  of  the  late  Mr. 
Telford,  Civil  Engineer,  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Institution  of  Civil 
Engineers,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
Vice-Presidents. 

Sept.  14.  In  George-st.  Portroan-sq. 
aged  80,  Charles  Haggerston  Stanley  Con- 
stable, esq. 

In  Sloane.8t  aged  86,  Elixabeth,  reliet 
of  Robert  Honeybom,  esq.  of  Dxshley, 
Leieestersh. 

Sept»  16.  Capt.  Robert  Madeod,  one  of 
the  earliest  members  of  the  Union  Clab, 
Tra(algar>sq. 

Aged  56,  Mr.  Moy  Thomas,  solicitor, 
for  more  than  35  years  Vestry  Clerk  of 
the  parishes  of  St.*  Mary  Woolnoth  and 
St.  Mary  Woolchuich  Haw. 

In  Augusta-pl.  Clapham-road,  aged  69, 
George  Favenc,  esq. 

Sept,  17.  Eliza,  wife  of  Osmond  Price, 

n.  of  Paris, 
n  Ormond.st.  Queen.sq.  aged  74,  Sa. 
rah,  relict  of  Thomas  Dale,  M.D.  of  I>e- 
vonshire  street,  Bishopsgate,  and  eldest 
dau.  of  the  late  W.  C.  Ueadington,  snr- 
geon,  of  Spitalfields. 

Sept.  SO.  In  Park-lane,  aged  77,  the 
Right  Hon.  Lucy  Elixabeth  dowager 
Countess  of  Bradford*  She  was  the  eldest 
daughter  and  coheiress  (with  Georgiana- 
Elixabeth  Duchess  of  Bedford,  Isabella- 
Elizabeth  Marchioness  of  Bath,  and  Lady 
Emily  Seymour)  of  George  4th  Viaoonnt 
Torrington,  by  Lady  Lucy  Boyle,  only 
daughter  of  John  Earl  of  Corke  and  Or- 
rery. She  was  married  to  Orlando  first 
Earl  of  Bradford  in  I788»and  left  his 
widow  in  1825,  having  had  issue  the  pre- 
sent Earl,  three  other  sons,  and  one 
daughter  (the  late  Lady  Lucy  Elisabeth 
Whitmore). 

Sept,  21.  At  her  mother's  house,  in 
Har1ey.st.  Anne,  widow  of  the  Rev.  Peter 
Still,  of  Cattistock,  Dorset. 

At  Horslydown,  aged  31,  Henry-Tho- 
mas, eldest  son  of  I^omas  Young,  esq. 
of  Dorset-terr.  Clapham-rd. 

Aged  34,  John  Burt,  esq.  surgeon,  only 
son  of  George  Burt,  esq.  surgeon,  of 
Cresoent-pl.  New  Bridge-st.  Blackfriars. 

Sept.  22.  In  Upper  Grosvenor-st.  aged 
64,  Nathaniel  Fenn,  es(|. 

In  Devonshire-pl.  aged  62,  Dr.  H. 
Young,  formerly  of  the  East  India  Co.*a 
Service. 

Sept,  23.  At  Brixton,  aged  38,  William 
£.  Browne,  esq. 

Aged  58,  Samuel  Emden,  esq.  late  of 
Park-road. 

In  Momiiigton.pl.  Hampstead*road, 
aged  82|  Misi  Louisa  Mary  Guy. 


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B^t.  S4.  Agfd  75,  Gmib*  WDford 
BalkleT,  esq.  lolicttor. 

Aged  56,  Bdwm  HiUSf  eiq.  of  CUre- 
mont-ttrr.  PfentoDvill*. 

i9i|»r.  S6.  In  Sonth  LamlMth,  aged  64, 
Blisabeth,  wife  of  John  Pittor,  e»q.  and 
yoongest  dan.  of  the  late  Thomas  Holmes, 
esq.  of  Ftann  Hill,  co.  Slijeo. 

At  Christ's  Hospital,  Edward  Homing 
Ske,  of  Unifenity  Coll.  Oiford,  eldest 
fOB  of  the  Rot.  Dr.  Rioe. 

Sipt,  97.  In  the  Strand,  aged  71,  Mrs. 
EUen  Hoolaton,  of  the  firm  of  Houlston 
and  Steneman,  Patemoster-row,  and  wi- 
dow of  Mr.  Edward  Honlston. 

Sift.  99*  In  Earrs-terrace,  Kensing- 
ton, Francis  Lndlow  Holt,  esq.  Ct.  C. 
and  Vice  -  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of 
Lancaster,  and  a  Bencher  of  the  Inner 
Temple.  He  was  called  to  the  bar  at  the 
Middle  Temple,  Jan.  87,  1809,  and  to  the 
tank  of  King's  Counsel  in  Trin.  Vac 
1B31.  He  went  the  North  Circuit,  and 
was  also  an  Eicheqnmr  Bill  Loan  Com- 
missioner. 

Stpt,  SO.  Aged  66,  Mary,  wife  of  John 
Bright,  esq.  F.L.8.  of  Brunswick-place, 
Brixton  HUl. 

Aged  86,  Robert  William,  second  son 
of  George  LoveU,  esq.  of  Ely-pl.  her  Ma* 
Jesty's  Inspector  of  Small  Arms. 

In  Cambridge-st.  Connanght-sq.  aged 
07,  liri.  Hey,  relict  of  William  Hey, 
esq. 

Off.  I.  At  Hackney,  Caroline,  dan.  of 
the  Rev.  Joseph  LiddeU  Fairar,  Vicar  of 
Cratfield.with.Lsxfield,  Suffolk. 

In  Saville.row,  aged  68,  Edward  Wal- 
pole,  esq.  He  was  the  third  and  youngest 
son  of  tile  Hon.  Richard  Walpole  (great- 
unde  to  the  present  Earl  of  Orford),  by 
Maigarst,  third  dan.  of  Sir  Joshua  Van- 
neck,  bert.  and  was  of  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge,  M.A.  1800,  having  previously 
taken  his  Bachelor's  degree  in  1797  as  of 
Trinity  Hall.    He  was  unmarried. 

Aged  77,  Sarah,  relict  of  the  Rev.  Tho- 
mas Waters,  D.D.  late  Master  of  £ma« 
nnel  Hospital,  Westminster. 

Oei.  3.  Aged  80«  Mary,  eldest  dau.  of 
the  late  Mrs.  TomUnson.  formerly  of  Tri- 
nity-st.  and  sister  of  Mr.  John  Tomlin- 
son,  of  Portland-sq. 

Oei.  5.  At  Roehampton,  aged  43,  Alex- 
ander Speirs,  esq.  of  Elderslie,  Lord* 
Lieutenant  of  Renfrewshire,  and  late  M.P. 
for  Richmond,  from  1837  to  Feb.  1841. 
He  has  left  a  son  and  dan.  both  yonng, 
as  his  only  heirs  to  his  extensive  estates 
in  Renfrewshire. 

At  Hollo  way,  aged  65,  Maria-Margaret, 
wife  of  Benjamin  Pitts  Capper,  esq.  late 
of  the  Alien  Office. 

In  Quality^court,  Chanoery-lane,  aged 
84,  Mr.  John  Wright,  for  many  years  one 

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of  the  Measengert  of  the  Court  of  Bank- 
ruptcy. 

Jane,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Isaac  Bux- 
ton, esq.  M.D.  Physician  to  the  London 
HospitaL 

In  Pont-st.  Belgrave*sq.  of  scsrlet  fever, 
Emily,  aged  7,  and  Ben  James,  aged  5, 
children  of  Benjamin  Badger,  esq.  barris- 
ter-at-law. 

Oct,  6.  At  the  house  of  her  brother»in- 
Uw,  Mr.  Henry  Toplis,  of  St.  PauFs 
Church -yard,  Mary,  youngest  dau.  of  the 
late  Alien  Hurrell,  esq.  of  Arkesden, 
Essex. 

Oct.  7.  Aged  73,  Edward  Phillips,  esq. 
of  Connaught-terr.  Edgware-road. 

Aged  43,  Mary,  wife  of  Jeken  Elwin, 
esq.  of  Pembroke-sq.  Kensington. 

Oei.  9.  At  Tnmham  Green,  Sarah,  re« 
lict  of  Philip  Booth,  esq.  of  Maughams, 
Waltham  Abbey,  Essex. 

At  Knowle  Lodge,  Hempstead,  aged 
58,  John  Alexander  Thwaites,  esq. 

At  the  Manor-house,  Brixton,  the  resi* 
dence  of  her  son,  aged  73,  Elisabeth,  wi- 
dow of  Francis  Bennett  Goldney,  esq.  of 
Willow  Brook,  Eton. 

Ann,  wife  of  John  Docksey,  esq,  of 
Doughty-st 

At  the  residence  of  the  Governor  of  the 
Queen's  Prison,  after  giving  birth  to  a  son, 
Emily,  wife  of  Capt.  J.  Hudson,  R.N. 
Gov.  of  that  establishment. 

Oei.  10.  At  his  mothei's  house,  Lans- 
downe-terr.  Netting  Hill,  aged  89,  Fre- 
derick Oliver,  esq.  of  Aldermanbary. 

William  Addams,  esq.  of  WappingWall, 
and  late  of  Rotherhithe,  Surrey. 

In  Saville-row,  Anna,  wife  of  the  Rev. 
Robert  Synge,  Rector  of  Walwyn's  Castle, 
Pembrokesh.  and  sister  of  Sir  W.  Webb 
Follett,  M.P.  her  Majesty's  Attorney* 
General. 

In  Prince's-st.  Cavendish-sq.  aged  93, 
Charlotte,  relict  of  Thomas  Howard,  esq. 
M.D.  of  Uxbridge. 

Oei.  13.  In  Salisbury- st.  Strand,  aged 
32,  Mark  Oswald  Rainals,  esq.  late  of 
Colombo,  Ceylon,  son  of  the  late  John 
Rainals,  esq.  Consnl-Gen.  of  the  United 
Ststes  at  Copenhagen. 

In  Thirza-place,  Old  Kent-road,  aged 
97,  Esther,  reUct  of  WUUam  HaU,  esq. 

Oei.  13.  Hannah,  widow  of  Charles 
Smith,  Patemoster-row,  London. 

BxDs.— 5r;»#.  10.  At  Apsley  House, 
aged  93,  Charlotte,  relict  of  the  Rev.  Ed- 
ward Orlebar  Smith,  Rector  of  Holcutt. 

Oei.  8.  At  Cranfield  rectory,  Susanna, 
wife  of  the  Rev.  James  Beard,  and  eldest 
dan.  of  the  late  B.  Wilson,  esq.  of  Ard- 
wick,  Lancashire. 

Oei.  8.  At  Ampthill  Cottage,  aged  91, 
Mr.  David  M'Lauchlan. 

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BxBK8.^*(M.  4.  At  Benham  Pftirk, 
the  semt  of  Frederick  Villebou ,  eaq.  Ca- 
roUoe,  the  wife  of  Cbarles  Bacon,  esq. 
of  Elcott. 

Oct.  7.  AtTitnen  Park,  Suniuiig  Hill, 
aged  58,  Harriet,  widow  of  Jacob  Ricardo, 
esq. 

BocK8.^S!»f.  SO.  At  Pamham  Royal, 
Ann,  wife  of  Hngli  Kinnaird,  eaq.  of  ner 
Majesty's  Household. 

Oct,  6.  At  Slough,  Prances,  wife  of 
James  Bedingifield  Bryan,  esq.  M.D.  dau. 
of  Philip  Palmer,  esq.  of  Cippenham 
House,  and  gr<uid-dau.  of  the  late  Sir 
Charles  Harcourt  Palmer,  Bart*  of  Daw- 
ney  Court. 

Oct.  8.  At  Horton,  aged  73,  Elisabeth, 
relict  of  Evan  Evans,  esq. 

Cambridge. — Sept.  89.  At  Ickleton, 
aged  41,  John  Hanchett,  esq. ;  and  on 
Oct.  15,  at  the  same  place,  aged  67»  his 
mother. 

Oct.  3.  At  Wisbech,  aged  76,  Elin. 
beth,  relict  of  Ralph  Arahbonld,  esq. 

Co&NWALL. — 5csp/.36.  At  Truro,  aged 
65,  Mrs.  Thomoion. 

Oct.  1.  At  Newlyn,  near  Peniance, 
aged  80,  Thomas  Leah,  esq. 

\}%yov.—89pt.  27.  At  Teignmouth, 
£lisa.Catharine-Hewton,  youngest  dan. 
of  the  late  A.  P.  Lake,  esq.  R.N. 

Oct.  %.  Aged  59,  H.  M.  Ford,  eaq.  so- 
licitor,  Southemhay,  Exeter. 

Oct.Q.  At  Southland,  Torquay,  Katha- 
rine, wife  of  Wm.  Pollard,  esq.  and  eldeat 
dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Jelinger  Symons, 
esq.  Rector  of  Whitbourne,  Durham. 

Oct.  10.  Aged  79,  John  Sillifant,  esq. 
of  Coombe. 

Do&BBT.— Sgi/.  29-  At  Sherborne, 
Ann,  relict  of  John  Ensor,  esq.  late  of 
Her  M^esty's  War  Office. 

Sept.  30.  At  Sherborne,  aged  69,  Miss 
H.  Sherren. 

Lately,  At  Piddle* Trenthide,  aged  79, 
Isaac  Abbott,  esq. 

Oct.  6.  At  Sherborne,  John  Bartlett, 
esq.  of  the  Royal  Cornwall  Militia. 

0C/.7.  At  Westhay  House,  Hawk- 
church,  aged  8S,  Mrs.  Teropleman,  sister 
of  the  late  Admiral  Sir  Wm.  Domett. 
G.C.B. 

DvKRxu.Sept.  18.  At  Burden,  near 
Darlington,  aged  83,  Margaret,  relict  of 
John  Waldy,  esq.  of  Yarm,  Yorkshire. 

EssBX.— 5€p/.  17.  At  West  Ham, 
Mary,  third  dau.  of  the  late  Joseph  Cley- 
pole,  esq. 

Sept.  18.  At  Dovercourt  Lodge,  Elisa. 
beth,  third  dau.  of  the  late  James  Cle- 
ments, esq.  formerly  of  Harwich. 

Sept.  19.  At  Wanstead,  Esther,  wife 
of  William  Birch,  esq. 

Sept.  23.  Aged  74,  John  Church,  esq. 
attomcy.at-Uw,  of  Colchester. 


At  Fairy  Croft,  Saffron  Walden, 
69,  Cbarles  Fiske.  esq. 

Sept.  24.  At  Fingringboe,  aged  67, 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  El^  Clarke,  esq. 

Sept.  27.  At  Great  Warley,  aged  9S. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Latter,  the  last  remain- 
ing sister  of  the  Rct.  Mr.  Latter,  numy 
years  Rector  of  Great  Warley. 

Sept.  29.  At  Colchester,  at  the  resi- 
dence of  her  brother-in-law,  the  Rer. 
D.  B.  Wells,  aged  44,  Anna-Franoes, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  John  Tweed* 
esq.  surgeon,  of  Booking. 

Sept.ZO.  At  Higham  Lodge,  Waltham- 
Btow,  aged  38,  Elin-Maria,  wife  of  £•  A« 
Lloyd,  esq* 

Oct.  3.  Aged  71,  Sarah,  wife  of  the 
Rev.  W.  Weare,  of  Epping. 

Oct.  7.  At  Upminater  Hall,  aged  55, 
Champion  Edward  Branfill,  esq.  late  Capt. 
in  the  3d  Dragoons,  and  for  many  yeen 
Deputy  Lieut,  and  a  Magistrate  of  \ht  oo» 

Gloucbbtbb.— Sipf.  23.  At  Cliftoai, 
aged  73,  Robert  Ball,  esq,  co.  Wicklow^ 
Ireland. 

Sept.  28.  At  the  residence  of  his  father« 
Perryway-Tilla,  Eastington,  aged  21,  Wil* 
liam*Aln«d,  son  of  R.  M.  Stratton,  esq. 

Aged  63,  Miss  Catherine  Handley,  of 
Bristol. 

Latelp,  At  Clifton,  Mary-Ann,  wife  of 
John  Tylee,  esq.  of  Derizcs. 

Aged  67,  Phillipa  White,  esq.  aolidtory 
Tewkeabury. 

Oct,  3.  At  Clifton,  aged  1  year  and  10 
nontha,  Georgiana,  youngest  dan.  of  the 
late  Rer.  George  Majendie. 

Oct.  7.  At  Cheltenham,  aged  64,  Joeeph 
OTcrbury,  esq.  a  Magistrate  of  the  county. 

Oct.  9.  At  Cheltenham,  George  Hyde, 
esq.  of  Melbury-terrace,  Doimetsq. 

Oct.  10.  At  RedUnd,  Mary- Ann,  se- 
cond dau.  of  the  Rev.  W.  Knight,  Rector 
of  St  Michael's,  Briatol. 

HAVTS.—Sept.  13.  At  Odiham,  John 
Angas,  second  son  of  Francis  Cole,  eaq. 

Sept.  20.  At  Andorer,  Elizabeth,  wife 
of  P.  H.  Poore,  esq.  M.D. 

Sipt.  22.  At  Southsea,  aged  77,  Har- 
riaon  Deacon,  esq. 

At  Chawton-house,  aged  13,  AnnabeUa* 
Chriatiana,  dau,  of  Edward  Knight,  jun. 
eaq, 

Sept.  26.  At  her  brother's  residence, 
Pen  ton,  aged  55,  Mrs.  Callaway. 

At  the  residence  of  his  parento  al  Win- 
chester, Mr.  Fitsroy  Coldongh.  He  was 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  Ist  Life  Guards. 

Oct.  10.  At  Ringwood,  Caroline,  dan. 
of  the  late  Henry  Oake,  esq. 

Oct.  11.  Aged  95,  Col.  Peter  BcaTcr, 
of  Penton  Mewsey. 

H  KRTs.-^Sept.  23.  At  Waterford,  aged 
33,  Mary- Ann,  wilk.iif  Charlea  Squire, 
esq.  and  dau,  '"^rd,  eaq. 


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Oct.  !•  Aged  44,  Ann,  widow  of  George 
Kaott,  esq.  of  Bohnn  Lodge,  East  Barnet. 

Hekhvokd.^- Sepi.  35.  At  Hereford, 
aged  80,  Mrs.  Elisabeth  Lane,  sister  of 
the  Ute  James  Lane,  esq.  of  Hereford. 

Kbnt.^^ii^.  30.  At  Canterbnry,  aged 
77,  Mary,  relict  of  Lieut.  James  Dewhirst, 
Royal  Art.  Driyers. 

Sept.  7.  At  Ramsgate,  aged  77,  WiU 
liam  Sharp,  esq.  retired  Commander  R.N. 
(1830). 

Sept.  16.  At  Dorer,  aged  19,  Elizabeth 
Anderson,  of  Chesham,  youngest  dan.  of 
the  late  Rev.  W.  Anderson,  of  Bristol. 

Sept.  17.  At  Ramsgate,  aged  62,  Ceci* 
tia  Pilgrim,  of  Atherstone,  Warwickshire, 
relict  of  John  Edward  Pilgrim,  esq.  of 
PentonTille. 

At  Frinsbnry,  Rochester,  aged  86,  B. 
Young,  esq. 

Sept.  19.  At  Dover,  Major  Charles 
Baillie  Brisbane,  late  of  34tli  reg.  He 
receiTed  his  commission  of  Ensign  1816, 
Lieut.  1819»  Captain  1825,  and  brevet 
Major  1838. 

Smt.  20.  Aged  79,  John  Willis,  esq. 
of  Woodnesborough. 

Sept.  22.  At  Nightingale  Vale,  Wool- 
wich, aged  49,  Joseph  Briggs,  esq.  of  the 
Roal  Military  Academy,  late  of  Sloane-st. 

Sept.  25.  At  Sydenham,  aged  74, 
Anne,  relict  of  the  Rev.  John  Still,  Rec- 
tor of  FonthiU)  and  Prebendary  of  Salisbury. 

Sept.  26.  At  Woolwich,  aged  52,  Com- 
mander Roger  Carley  Curry,  R.N.  He 
was  made  Lieut.  Jan.  1810,  and  appointed 
to  the  Contest  sloop,  Dec.  1812.  He 
was  wounded  when  commanding  the  boats 
of  that  vessel  and  the  Mohawk,  at  the 
destruction  of  the  American  schooner 
Asp.  In  June  1820  he  was  made  first  of 
the  Egeria  24,  on  the  Newfoundland  sta- 
tion, from  whence  he  returned  home  Com- 
mander of  the  Pelter  gun-brig.  H  ob  - 
tained  the  rank  of  Commander  in  1832, 
and  was  appointed  inspecting  Commander 
in  1834. 

Sept.  29.  At  Maidstone,  aged  78,  Ed- 
ward Peale,  esq. 

Lately.  At  Tonbridge,  aged  49,  the 
Hon.  Sybella  Mary  Harris,  sister  to  Lord 
Harris. 

Oct.  2.  At  Sonthborough,  aged  49* 
Eliza,  widow  of  Major  Gavin  Youngs 
Judge  Advocate-Gen.  Bengal  Army. 

Oct.  5.  At  New  Charlton,  aged  74,  De- 
borah, relict  of  John  Peake,  esq. 

At  Margate,  aged  54,  George  Frederick 
Du  Pasquier,  esq.  of  Thistle  Grove,  Old 
Brompton,  and  of  the  Ordnance  Office, 
Phil  Mall. 

LANCABtBR.— ^^/.  15.  Aged  82,  Ben- 
jamin Barlow,  esq.  of  the  Sparth,  near 
Rochdale. 
'  Sept,  24.  At  the  house  of  the  Rev.  Jo- 


nathan Brooks,  Rector  of  Liverpool,  aged 
68,  Harriet,  widow  of  William  SUtham, 
esq.  Town  Clerk  of  Liverpool,  and  dan. 
of  the  Rev.  Henry  Heathcote,  formerly 
Rector  of  Walton-on-the-HiU. 

Oct.  3.  At  Hurst  House,  Sarah,  third 
dan.  of  the  late  Richard  Willis,  esq.  of 
Halsnead. 

Lbicbbtbk. — Sept.  18.  At  Barrow- 
upon-Soar,  aged  59,  Elizabeth- Storer, 
wife  of  Major-Gen.  William  Gray. 

LiNCOLK. — Sept.  23.  At  the  vicarage, 
Swinderby,  Mary,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Walter 
J.  Clarke. 

S^t.  24.  At  Ganby  Park,  aged  41,  Al- 
gernon Langton  Massingberd,  esq. 

MiDDLBSBx.  —  Sept.  19.  At  South 
Lodge,  Edgware,  aged  60,  John  Augus- 
tus Thrupp,  esq.  of  Spanish-pl.  Manches- 
ter-square. 

Lately*  At  West  Drayton,  Commander 
Joseph  Batt.  He  passed  in  1820,  waa 
made  a  Lieut,  in  1827,  and  a  Commander 
in  1840.  Was  Senior  Lieut,  of  the  Vesu-. 
vius  steam-sloop,  and  promoted  to  Com- 
mander for  his  services  at  the  capture  of 
St.  Jean  d' Acre. 

Oct.  9.  At  Moorcroft  House,  Hilling- 
don,  aged  73,  Ann,  widow  of  James  Stil- 
well,  esq. 

AtFriern  Park,  Finchley,  aged  3,  Anne- 
Charlotte,  only  dan.  of  the  Rev.  H.  L, 
Yentris. 

Norfolk.— 5ie>p^  29.  Aged  87,  Ro« 
bert  Bygrave,  esq.  of  Norwich. 

Oct.  1.  Aged  66,  Mary,  wife  of  John 
Culley,  esq.  of  Cossey. 

Northampton. — Sept.  12.  At  Oun- 
dle,  aged  53,  Ann,  wife  of  Chas.  F.  Yorke, 
esq.  of  Peterborough. 

Sept.  25.  At  Gnilsborough,  aged  72, 
Miss  Anna  Oliphant. 

Lately.  At  Peterborough,  aged  70, 
the  widow  of  Dr.  Marsh,  Bishop  of  Pe-> 
terborough,  who  died  May  1,  1839. 

Oct.  1 .  At  Hellidon,  aged  32,  Thomaa 
Cleaver  Canning,  eldest  son  of  Robert 
Canning,  esq. 

Oct.  9.  Sarah-Bridget- Eliza,  widow  of 
John  Smith,  esq.  of  Oundle. 

At  Fawsley,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  William 
Lee,  esq.  of  Chesham-st. 

Oxford. — Sept.  13.  At  Henley-on- 
Thames,  aged  78,  Edward  Chandler  Wee- 
don. 

Sept.  14.  Aged  72,  Douglas  Thomaa 
Howard,  esq.  formerly  a  Lieut,  in  the  Ox- 
ford Militia. 

Sept.  21.  At  Oxford,  aged  6,  Adam* 
Sedgwick-Conybeare,  youngest  son  of  thtt 
Rev.  Dr.  Buckland,  Canon  of  Christ 
Church. 

Sept.  23.  Lady  Ellen-Catharine,  wife 
of  J.  W.  Fane,  esq.  of  Shirborn  Lodge. 
$be  was  third  dau.  of  the  Earl  of  Mac* 


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eletfield,  by  hb  first  marriage  with  Miaa 
Edwardi,  eldest  daa.  of  Lewia  EdwardSf 
esq.  of  Talgarth ;  and  was  married  in 
1829  to  Mr.  John  W.  Fane,  eldest  son 
of  John  Fane.  esq.  of  Wormsley,  Ozon, 
and  nephew  of  the  eighth  Earl  of  West- 
moreland, by  whom  she  leares  a  son  and 
daughter. 

Sefit.  26.  At  Oxford,  aged  66,  Mr. 
Wrighte,  printseller. 

At  Lee -pi.  Oxford,  aged  99$  Elizabeth- 
Anne,  wife  of  Capt.  E.  V.  P.  Holloway, 
of  the  Madras  Army* 

Oct.  13.  At  Blenheim  Palace,  the 
Most  Noble  Jane  Dnchess  of  Marlbo- 
rongb.  She  was  the  eldest  dan.  of  Oeorge 
8th  Earl  of  Galloway,  by  Lady  Jane 
Paget,  Sd  dan.  of  Henry  1st  Earl  of  Uz« 
bridge,  and  was  married  in  1819  to  her 
cousin  (through  hia  mother,  a  dau.  of  the 
7th  Earl  of  Galloway)  the  preaent  Dnke 
of  Marlborough,  by  whom  she  has  left 
issue  the  Marquess  of  Blandford,  two 
other  sons,  and  one  daughter. 

Salop. — Sept.  11.  At  Ponteaford, 
near  Shrewsbury,  Stanes  Brocket  Brocket, 
jun.  barrister,  eldest  son  of  Stanea 
Brocket  Brocket,  esq.  High  Sheriff  of 
Essex,  and  a  Bencher  of  the  Middle 
Temple. 

Lately.  At  LudIow»  aged  80,  Mary, 
widow  of  John  Sheward,  esq. 

Somerset. — Sept.  S4.  At  Milrerton, 
aged  66,  Judith,  widow  of  George  Ansty, 
esq.  of  Russell-sq. 

Lately.  Sophia-Catharine,  eldeat  dan. 
of  Gen.  Charleton.  Royal  Art  of  Bath. 

At  Bath,  Miss  Cogswell. 

At  Hnish  Champflower,  aged  61,  Alex. 
Webber,  eso. 

At  Westhill  House,  Wlncanton,  Cato* 
line,  wife  of  John  Gatehouse,  esq. 

Oc/.  1,  At  the  house  of  Edward  Dyne, 
esq.  of  Bruton,  Hsrriet-Thrale,  wife  of 
Thomas  Helton  Keith,  esq.  of  the  Grore, 
Highgate. 

Oct.  3.  At  Taunton,  aged  75,  Mary 
widow  of  Malachi  Blake,  M.D. 

At  Bath,  Frederick,  youngest  ion  of 
W.  Q.  Wright,  esq. 

Oct.  4.  At  Bmton,  aged  19,  JuUa- 
Sarah-Toogood,  eldest  dan.  of  the  late 
Thomas  Sampson,  esq. 

Stapford. — Lately.  At  Bilston,  Mr. 
Thomas  Bnieton.  After  lesTing  numerous 
legacies  to  his  relatives,  500/.  to  the  Wes- 
Icyan  Chapel  at  Bilston,  and  coaaiderable 
sums  to  yarious  chspels  belonging  to  the 
•'  PrimiUre  MethodisU,'*  he  has  directed 
that  the  residae  of  his  property,  which  it 
Is  supposed  will  amount  to  upwarda  of 
SO.OOO/.,  ihall  be  equally  dirided  between 
the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  the 
Wcsleysn  Missionary  Sodetr,  the  Lon- 
d""    i^i—innMij  Society,   the  Wolrer- 


hampton  Difpemtfy ,  the  BlflBfawhtm  (!•• 
neral  Hospital,  the  Queen's  Ho^pttal, 
Birmingham,  and  the  Asylum  Ibr  the  Deaf 
and  Dumb  at  Edgbaston. 

SupTOLK.— 5^/.  17.  At  the  vlearage, 
Kessingland,  Mary-Pellew,  wttb  of  the 
Rot.  D.  G.  Nonis,  Vicar,  and  yonngeel 
dan.  of  the  late  ProTOSt  F.  Wallif,  of  Hn* 
liihx,  NoTa  Seotia. 

Sfpt.  88.  At  Hopton,  iged  86,  IdettL 
Allen  Walker. 

3ept.  89.  At  Ipswich,  AnnA-Maila. 
second  dau.  of  the  late  Paul  Smith,  saq. 

Surest.— A'lp/.  14.  i^ed  85,  Wll* 
liam  Bryant,  esq.  late  of  Reigate.  Mr* 
Bryant  was  an  admirer  and  collector  of 
Topography.  He  assisted  Mr.  Bray  la 
the  History  of  Surrey,  and  caused  to  be 
engrared  aereral  plates  as  additional  illna- 
trations  for  that  work.  There  Is  also  a 
priTste  portrait  of  Mr.  Bryant.  He  po»- 
sessed  property  In  Tarious  parts  of  the 
county  of  Surrey;  as  the  adTowioB  of 
Chipsted,  which  he  sold  to  Wm.  JoUfe, 
esq.  (see  Bray,  ii.  849) ;  in  1808,  a  sisth 
share  of  the  manor  of  Broadham,  ift  the 
parish  of  Oxted  (ii.  888) ;  and  also  the 
manor  of  the  Upper  Court  Lodge,  in  the 
parish  of  Woldingham  (ii.  419). 

At  Batteraea,  Ann,  wife  of  George  El* 
son,  late  of  Northampton,  and  fomerlj 
the  wife  of  the  late  IK^lliaoi  Hall,  esq. 
banker,  of  DaTcntry. 

Sept.  16.  At  Petersham,  aced  88,  Ma* 
ria*Theresa,  relict  of  Joaepk  Qoordei, 
eaq.  of  Tnrnham  Green. 

Sept.  81.  At  Richmond  Hill,  aged  76, 
Capt.Matthew Smith,  R.N.  Heentered the 
aerrice  in  1779,  waa  made  a  Lieutenant  la 
1794,  Commander  1801,  Capt.  S4th  April, 
1808.  He  commanded  the  Milbrook,  In 
the  expedltbn  against  Ferrol,  under  Sir 
J.  B.  Warren ;  he  engaged  and  beat  Ut 
a  French  privateer  of  very  auperlor  foree, 
after  an  ution  of  nearlr  two  honra,  for 
which  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Commander.  Aa  Captain,  he  oonmanded 
the  Comus  and  Nymphen  IHgatea*  He 
recdved  a  good-aenrioe  pension  of  IM, 
Jan.  14, 1839. 

Sept,  96.  At  her  brother*i  realdeaee. 
Carsbalton,  aged  45,  Mary^Anne^  dan.  of 
the  late  William  Charrington,  eaq. 

Sept,  88.  At  Chertaey,  aged  50,  MfS* 
Henry  Street. 

Oct.  1.  At  the  house  of  her  aon*ln» 
law,  the  RcT.  Barton  Bouchler,  Cheam* 
cottage,  aged  87*  Mary,  relict  of  the  Rev. 
Nathaniel  Thombury,Rector  of  ATeniag* 
Glouoestersh. 

Oct.  8.  At  Epsom«  aged  18,  the  Hon. 
Chariotte  Bowea  Lyon,  daa.  of  the  latot 
and  alster  of  the  present.  Lord  Glamia. 

Oct,  8.  At  Frensham  Hall,  aged  63» 
Edward  James  Baker,  esq. 


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OH.  10.  kt  hofim  Tootiaf I  ■ged  78, 
Viitar  Donnay,  cm. 

Oel.  18.  At  KI]igtt«m<»itpoa«TlitMety 
•gtd  €6t  Stnli,  reliot  of  G«OTfe  Roots, 
Mq.  of  tho  Chuic«7  BWf  aiid  Rooordtr 
of  tiiat  pl«oo« 

8n»t«.->A>pl.  11.  At  BrifbtoB,  Dr. 
Thomas  Boat  Pitt. 

S^t,  15.  At  Brighton,  acod  67,  Tho« 
maa  Atkint,  asq.  lata  of  Walthamstow, 


Sept.  17.  At  tha  reaidanoa  of  hia  hro- 
thar-in-law,  William  John  Mthfall,  aaq. 
Brighton,  Mad  99,  Pnuiklln,  joungaat 
■on  of  Mr.  Joaaph  Lancridga. 

SipL  88.  At  St.  Laonard'a*on-8ca, 
llMmaa  Oomarflnrd  Bartnuni  aiq.  of  Lin- 
aola'a-lsni  yoangar  ion  of  Thomaa  Bar* 
tnuB,  aaq.  of  Bolton-it.  Ploaadlllj. 

S^.  89.  At  tha  Frlarm  Winobalaaa, 
1^  50,  Safak-Oniteia,  wilb  of  RIahard 
SnlamaB,  ^aq. 

Oel.  9.  At^honaaofLadjTiryidab, 
Old  fitajna,  Brighton,  Carolina,  wlfa  of 
J.  O.  B.  Hndion,  aaq.  of  St.  QaorgaV 
tarr.  Hvda  Vtrk, 

Oaf.  6.  At  Brixton,  of  apoplaiy,  agad 
64,  Sarah,  wlft  of  Sir  Oao.  Hattar,  Pain* 
tor  to  Har  Msjaaty*  Sha  dlad  tnddenlj 
whilst  Tidtingharnlaces.  Vardict,  «•  Diad 
hf  tha  Tiaitation  of  Ood.** 

Oei,  8.  At  Brighton,  Elitabath,  widow 
of  John  Vallanoa,  aaq.  of  Hora  Honaa, 

HOTO. 

Oal.  11.  At  Brighton,  agad  74,  Thonua 
Tonrla,    asq.  Iste    of    Landport,   naar 


Waswi OK.^^1.  7.  At  tha  R«?as* 
httit,  naar  Birndngham,  Esthar-Catha- 
rina,  lyngaat  dan.  of  tha  lata  B«f.  Wil- 
liam wabb,  Vksaf  of  Ashbonm,  Dariiyih. 
and  niaaa  of  tha  lata  John  Lows,  asq.  alio 
of  tho  Raranhnrst. 

Agpl.  16.  Jano»  wife  of  ^mUam  Wallis, 
asq.  of  Erdington  Granga,  and  aldaat  dan. 
oflhalata  Llaiit..Gd.  M'Oonall,  of  Lock- 
garry,  Ptofthshlra. 

liicpf.  17.  At  Laamlngton,  tho  Hon. 
Anna  Camaroa,  widow  of  the  lata  Donald 
Camaron,  of  Loehial,  sister  to  Lord  Don* 
farmllna,  and  annt  to  Lord  Abercromhy. 
Sha  waa  thaddaat  dan.  of  Sir  Ralph  Abar- 
eromby,  by  Mary- Anna,  danghter  of  John 
Menslea,  of  Pismton*  eo.  Perth,  aaq. 
cnatad  Baroneaa  Abereromby  In  1801  % 
aha  waa  married  in  1795,  and  baeama  a 
widow  In  1889. 

Ajpl.  84.  At  Leamington,  agad  79, 
Jamaa  Bnaton,  aaq.  for  many  years  Col- 
laator  to  tha  Ezdaa. 

101^97.  Emma,  wUb  of  ^nuiam  Hand- 
lay,  aaq.  of  Barforo. 

oipi*  88.  At  tna  hoasa  of  his  brothef, 
Kanllworth,  agad  60,  Charias  Sttewisf, 
aao.  laia  of  LandoBft 


Oct,  4.  At  Leamington,  aga^  &7,  Capt. 
William  Manning,  Hon.  Company^  Ser^ 
Tice,  of  Eoston-tq. 

Od.  10.  At  CoventrVf  EUsabath,  Irifa 
of  John  Twist,  esq.  Solldtor. 

WasTMonaLAND.— 5(q»f.  99.  At  Bvr« 
row  Hall,  Emma,  eldest  dan.  of  WUUam 
Baker,  esq.  of  Thames  Ditton. 

WitTB.-**5q»l.  14.  Thomas  Bayly,  aaq« 
of  Warminster. 

Stnt.  81.  At  Sammi  aged  79,  Jamaa 
Lewis,  esq.  of  Wheeler-pl.  Hataratoclt 
HUl. 

Sept.  89.  In  tha  Close  of  SaUsbary^ 
aged  78,  Miss  POrtman. 

Sepi.  98.  At  Tlsbory,  agad  58,  John 
Rogers,  esq. 

Wones8Ttm.-'5qpf.  19.  Agad  dS, 
Mary,  widow  of  WUlUun  Dnncombe,  eaq. 
of  BromsgroTe. 

At  Ameria  Conrt,  Penhora,  Chariaa 
Hodges,  esq.  formerly  of  Clifton. 

Oct,  5.  At  Great  Malrem,  aged  79, 
WHliam  Wall,  aaq.  of  Worcester. 

Yonn. — Sept.  7.  At  Newton  Kyma, 
sged  45,  ^V^am  Hatfield,  esq. 

Sept.  16.  And  37,  ^iU^<n>  third  son 
of  the  late  Godfrey  W.  Wentworth,  asq. 
of  Wortley  Park,  near  Wakefield. 

Aged  86,  Thomaa  Milne,  aaq.  of  CUn 
HUl,  near  Halifax. 

Sept.  92,  At  Raywin,  near  ttnll,  aged 
79,  iMbella,  relict  of  Daniel  Sykas,  esq* 
formerly  M.P.  for  that  town. 

At  Broom  Hall,  near  SheiBeld,  agad  XBg 
Jnlia,  dan.  of  Samnel  Newboald,  esq. 

Sept.  30.  At  Gisbom,  J.  Sykes,  esq. 
of  Bniton-st  son  of  the  lata  &•  Sykea^ 
eaq.  of  York. 

WALta.— >5g9l.  96.  Lydia,  Ivtfe  of 
Chas.  Williams,  esq.  of  BiUgroTa,  Pont- 
ypool.  

Sept  30.  Agad  83,  Daniel  WHBam, 
aeoond  son  of  the  fter.  Dr.  Hunheai  Rao* 
tor  ot  Llan^llin,  Montaomerysn. 

Lately.  AtAbery8twlth,aged63,Manr» 
relict  of  J.  Compaon,  asq.  of  Panldgh* 
boose,  Wastbnry,  Wilts. 

Ocf .  8.  At  Bttriaa  Cottage,  near  Neat]l« 
the  residence  of  her  son-in-law,  WiUiaaa 
Gilbertaon,  eso.  sged  53,  Elisa,  widow  of 
FVands  Bramah,  CM  Engineer. 

ScoTiAND.— 5<pf.  17.  At  Bdinbnrghy 
Margaret,  dan.  of  the  late  Sir  William 
Honyman,  Bart,  of  Armadala  and  Oraem* 
say. 

S^t.  81.  At  Bdinbnrgh,  of  scarlal 
ferer,  aged  5,  Alexander* Adam ;  and  on 
Sept.  84,  agad  6,  Isabella- Heriot.  child- 
ran  of  Lient.-CoL  Howden,  Madran 
annr. 

Sept.  88.  At  Broihertoi^  Klncardina- 
shire,  for  which  county  he  was  a  Magi^ 
trate  and  Dapnty-IisBt.  agsd  67^  Ji 
Scott,  asq. 


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Sept.  97.  At  BMtfield  Honae,  Ia- 
narkah.  aged  73,  Ann,  wife  of  Junes Grmy 
Buchanan,  eaq. 

Inii.AND.~S!9i/.  S.  Mr.  M^Kni^^t, 
of  Barlochan,  aged  101,  in  poaaeaaton  of 
all  hia  facnltiea  escept  hearing. 

Snt,  9.  At  Lord  Carbery'a  aeat,  Caa. 
tie  Freke,  near  Cork,  aged  70,  Percj 
ETana  Freke,  eaq.  hia  lordahip'a  brother. 
He  married  in  1797  Dorothea,  dan.  of 
the  Rer.  Chriatopher  Harrey,  D.D.,  of 
Kyle,  CO.  Wezfonl ;  bj  whom  he  had  a 
nnmerona  fiunilj,  and  hia  eldeat  aon, 
George  Patrick  Evana,  eaq.  bom  in  1801, 
ia  now  heir  preaumptiTe  to  the  peerage. 

S^L  13.  At  Abbejleic  rectory,  at  a 
Tery  adyanced  age,  the  Hon.  Martha 
Wingfield,  great-annt  to  the  late  Yiaconnt 
Poweraoonrt,  and  aiater  to  the  Hon.  Col. 
Edward  Wingfield. 

S^i.  15.  At  Ballymacoll,  co.  Meath, 
aged  18,  Gertrade-EUsabeth,  youngeat 
dan.  of  the  Baron  de  Robeck. 

Sept.  19.  At  Dublin,  aged  70,  Jamea 
Morria  Drought,  eaq. 

Sept.  93.  Aged  17,  Miaa  Morria,  dan. 
of  Capt.  Morria.  She  waa  drowned 
whilat  bathine  in  the  hatha  at  the  quay  of 
Weatport  Her  companion,  the  dan.  of 
Capt.  Heniiworth,  had  a  narrow  eacape. 

Ldt€ip.  Lieut.  Joaeph  Wright,  of  the 
ooaat-gnard  aerrioe.  He  waa  a  Tolnnteer 
in  the  Maida,  in  1807,  at  Copenhagen ; 
midahipman  of  the  Neptune,  at  the  cap- 
ture of  Martinique,  the  Saintea,  and 
French  line-of-battle-ahip  Hautrolt,  in 
1809.  He  also  aerred  in  the  boata  of  the 
Caator,  in  cutting  out  a  priTateer  from 
Moijat,  near  Barcelona. 

In  Dublin,  aged  45,  Mr.  J.  S.  Bella, 
the  celebrated  comedian. 

Oct,  4.  At  DnbUn,  Chriatopher,  relict 
of  Capt  Irwin,  late  of  the  88th  re^. 

Oct,  6.  At  the  Vice- regal  Lodge, 
Phoenix  Park,  Dublin,  the  Right  Hon. 
Maria.  Rebecca  Lady  Heyteabury,  wife 
of  the  Lord  Lieutenant.  She  waa  the  3d 
dau.  of  the  late  Hon.  William  BouTcrie, 
by  Lady  Bridget  Douglaa,  3d  dau.  of 
Jamea  14th  Earl  of  Morton;  waa  mar- 
ried in  1808  to  Sir  William  A'Court,  now 
Lord  Heyteabury,  and  haa  left  iaaue  one 
anniring  aon,  the  Hon.  W.  A'Court 
Holmea,  M.P.  and  one  unmarried  dau. 

Oct.  10.  At  Cttltn,  CO.  Down,  aged 
55,  William  Caima,  eaq. 

Irlb  or  Man. — Oct.  9.  In  Caatle 
Town,  aged  39,  Michael  Spencer,  eaq. 
formerly  a  Capt.  in  the  39th  regt. 

J  nuBEY. Sept,  14.  WUliam  Prior 
Johnaoo,  eaq.  late  of  Stock  Honae,  Eaaex. 

EAar  iMniBB.  —  Jime  13.  At  Delhi, 
Lieut.  J.  S.  Hawka,  Adjutant  of  the  7th 
Nat.  Inf. 

/ame  15.    At  AUyhur,  aged  43,  Major 


Jamea  Saonden,  50th  Nat.  Inf.  aeeond 
aon  of  the  late  Capt.  Nathaniel  Saandera, 
of  Harwich.  He  waa  on  the  eve  of  ra« 
tumiog  to  hia  natire  country,  after  an 
abaence  of  24  yeara  in  the  aerrice. 

Jume  S8.  At  Agra,  AmeliaL-AugUBta, 
wife  of  Capt.  Towgpod,  Adjutant  of  the 
35th  Light  Inf.  and  dan.  of  Col.  Moore, 
of  the  aame  r^[t. 

Jmne  30.  At  Calcutta,  aged  30,  An- 
drew  M'Queen  Dunlop,  eaq.  of  the  Bank 
of  Weatem  India. 

Julp  1.  At  Hydrmbad,  Sciade,  CupL 
Lewia  HalUday,  siSth  regt.  He  receiTeid 
hia  commiaaion  of  Enaign  18S5,  UMU 
18S6,  and  Captain  1830. 
rrJuiy  5.  At  Umballn,  aged  96,  Lient. 
Frederick  Jamea  Elaegood,  Interpreter 
and  Quartermaster  of  the  41at  Bengal 
Nat  Inf. 

Juijf  S3.  Aged  18,  on  hia  paaaage  to 
Madraa,  Frederick,  youngest  aon  of  John 
Neale,  eaq.  of  Caatle  HiU,  High  Wy. 
combe,  a  Cadet  in  the  East  India  Co.'a 
Serrice. 

Juip  31.  At  Ahmednugger,  lient— 
Col.  Chariea  John  Deahon,  H.  M.  17th 
reg.  He  reoeiTcd  hia  commiaaion  of  En- 
aign 1817,  lieut.  1885,  Capt.  1886,  Ma- 
jor 1837. 

Aug,  4.  At  Doaandah,  Bengal  Pro- 
aidency,  aged  S7,  Richard  John  Graham, 
eaq.  eldeat  aon  of  Sir  Robert  Grmham, 
Bart,  of  Eak,  Cumberiand,  lient.  78d 
Nat.  Inf.  and  A^j*  to  the  Ramghur  Uiffit 
Inf.  Battalion. 

At  Ahmednugger,  aged  86,  Frederick 
Auatin  Richardaon,  eaq.  Aaaistant  Sur- 
geon to  the  Eaat  India  Company,  laat 
aunriTing  aon  of  Major  Richardaon,  of 
Creaawell  Park,  Blackheath. 

Jup,  18.  At  Madras,  aged  51,  Hen- 
rietta,  wife  of  Lieut. -Col.  Henry  Moberty. 

At  Bangalore,  Capt.  John  W.  Baiid, 
15th  Huasara,  aon  of  the  late  Dr.  Baird, 
of  the  Eaat  India  Co.'a  Service,  Bombay. 

At  Colabah,  Bombay  Presidency,  Dr. 
Jamea  Jephaon,  recenUy  appointed  aur- 
geon  of  the  Lunatic  Aaylnm  at  Colabah. 

Aup.  13.  At  Surat,  on  hia  wmy  to 
Bombay,  for  England,  William  l^rot 
Boyd,  eaq.  Political  Commiaaioner,  and 
reaident  at  Baroda,  eldeat  aon  of  Edward 
BoTd,  eaq.  of  Merton  Hall,  Wigtonsh. 

ABROAD,^~Marek  4.  At  Wellington, 
New  Zealand,  William  YitruTiua  Brewer, 
eaq.  barriater-at-law,  aecond  aon  of  T.  G. 
Brewer,  esq. 

Jtme  9.  Aged  92,  on  board  the  Citf 
of  Derry,  bound  for  Hong  Kong,  WiU 
liam  James,  chief  officer  of  that  ship,  and 
eldeat  aon  of  the  Rer.  J.  F.  Churton,  Co- 
lonial  Chaplain,  Auckland,  New  Zealand, 
and  grandaon  of  W.  Churton,  esq.  of 
Sutton  Court  Lodge,  Chiswi^k. 


1844.] 


Obitvaby. 


559 


June  19.  At  Sydney^  Francis  Kemble, 
Mq. 

Aug,  9.  On  the  Toyage  home  from  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope,  aged  43,  Thomas  M. 
Turner,  esq. 

Lately,  At  Boulogne- sor-Mer,  aged 
IS,  G.  L.  Gilbert  Cooper,  youngest  son 
of  the  late  Col.  Gilbert  Cooper,  East  In- 
dia Co/s  Nat.  Inf. 

Sept.  8.  At  Hofwy],  in  Switzerland^ 
Gtoorge  Taylor*  esq.  surgeon,  Kingston- 
on-Thames. 

Sept,  14.  At  Zante,  Deputy- Assistant 
Commissary-Gen.  Tennent. 

Sept,  15.  At  Liege,  Jessie,  eldest  dan. 
of  the  late  John  Wigstone,  esq.  of  Trent 
Park,  Middlesex. 


S^t.  19.  At  Verey,  Canton  de  Vand, 
Switserland,  Nathan  Dunn,  esq.  Proprie- 
tor of  the  Chinese  Collection,  now  exhi- 
biting near  Hyde  Park  Comer,  and  latd 
of  Philadelphia. 

Sept.  20.  At  Paris,  William  Pember- 
ton,  esq.  of  Sussex-pl.  R4^nt*s-park»  and 
Alderman's  Walk,  New  Broad-st. 

At  Valetta,  Malta,  on  her  return  from 
Palestine,  aged  36,  Sophia,  wife  of  Amed^ 
Augustus  Comti  de  Torri. 

Sept.  81.  At  Madeira,  Ueut.  James 
Gordon  Caulfield,  eldest  son  of  Msjor- 
Gen.  Caulfield. 

Sept.  30.  At  Boulogne,  aged  S7»  Jane, 
wife  of  Samuel  Pratt,  esq.  of  Bentinck- 
terr.  Regent's  Park. 


TABLE  OP  MORTALITY  IN  THE  METROPOLIS. 
(Including  the  District  of  Wandsworth  and  Clapham.) 
Firom  the  Retume  Ueued  hy  the  Regietrar  Oeneral, 
DsATHB  Rboistseed  from  Septehbbb  28  to  October  19,  1844>  (4  weeks.) 


Males         1930  )  .^ofui 
Females     1876  ]  "^^ 


Under  15 1980^ 

15  to  60 1164  f 

60  and  upwards        660  ? 
Age  not  specified       2j 


3806 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  CORN,  Oct.  22. 

Peat. 
#.    d. 
34    9 

PRICE  OF  HOPS,  Oct.  25. 
Sussex  Pockets,  6L  Ot.  to  7/.  12f.^Kent  Pockets,  71.  Ot.  to  11/.  15s. 


Wheat 

Barley. 

Oats. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

«.    d. 

t.    d. 

9.       d. 

«.    d. 

».    d. 

49    7 

36    4 

21    8 

41     5 

34    9 

PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW  AT  SMITHFIELD,  Oct.  SO. 

Hay,  3/.  iOt.  to  5/.  Be Straw,  U  8s.  to  U.  I2ff.— Clover,  4/.  10«.  to  6/.  6s. 

SMITHFIELD,  Oct.  25.    To  sink  the  Offal—per  stone  of  81bs. 


Beef. 2f.  6d.  to  4«.  Od. 

Mutton S#.  Sd.  to  4f.  Od. 

Veal 3s.  4<2.  to  4s.  4J. 

Pork St.  Od,  to  4«.  Od. 


Head  of  Cattle  at  Market,  Oct.  21. 

Beasts 3849    Calves     97 

SheepandLambs   30,010    Pigs      348 


COAL  MARKET,  Oct.  25. 
Walls  Ends,  from  16f.  6d.  to  23*.  9d.  per  ton.  Other  sorts  from  15i.  Od.  to  19s.  6<f* 
TALLOW,  per  cwt.— Town  Tallow,  45«.  Od.      Yellow  Russia,  43r.  6d. 
CANDLES,  It.  Od.  per  doz.    Moulds,  9s.  6d. 

PRICES  OF  SHARES. 

At  the  Ofilce  of  WOLFE,  Brothers,  Stock  and  Share  Brokers, 

23,  Change  Alley,  Comhill. 

Birmingham  Canal,  158. EUesmere  and  Chester,  62. Grand  Junction,  162 

Kennet  and  Avon,  10^. Leeds  and  Liverpool,  640. Regent's,  25f. 

Rochdale,  62. London  Dock  Stock,  115. St.  Katbarine*s,  117. East 

and  West  India,  137.  -^—  London   and  Birmingham    Railway,  214. Great 

Western,  71  pm.-«— London  and  Southwestern,    76. Grand   Junction   Water. 

Works,  90. West  Middlesex,  127. Globe  Insurance,  141. Guardian, 

49|. Hope,  7i. Chartered   Gas,  67. Imperial   Ghis,    85^. Phoenix 

Gas,  iO.^-^London  and  Westminster  Bank,  264.—*- Reversionary  Interest,  104. 

For  Prices  of  all  other  Sharesi  enquire  as  above. 


6M 


MBTBOROLOOICAL  DIARY,  bt  W.  CART,  Straiid. 

Jvy^M  Bipimkfr  86^0  Oplo^  85, 18U,  hoik  imdmriM. 


Fihr«iheit*f  Thmi* 


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do.  do. 

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do.  do. 

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slCFain,douy. 

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fair,  doudy 
do.  l]g.m.  d9. 
do.  rain 
hea«do.cioa. 
do.do.do.fair 
doudy,  raw 
do.  fiur 
do.  do. 
fkir,  doudy 
do.  do.  rain 
rain 

do.  doudy 
fog,  fair 
heavy  rain 
rain,  doudy 


DAILY  PRICE  OF  STOCKS. 


i 


^£ 


889i 


o 


889 


9495  pm. 


-8881 


96  pm 
94  pm 


9694pin.   74 
74 


888i9496pm.   74 
96  pm.     75 


11806i 

18806 

14806 

15806 

168051 

17806 

18806 

19805 

81805 

88804) 

8S804 

iS804 

85803 

86808) 


Ex.  Bills, 
;fl000. 


74 
74 

76 
74 

74 


'-  tFU    |IUI.  •«* 

888  9496  pm.   75 

889  75 

889     94  pm 

-889     94  pm 


969ipBi. 
888|  96  pm. 


75 
75 
75 
75 
75 
75 
74 
76 
73 
75 

74 

887  >9391  pm.   71 
886|9193p«.   78 

:  93  pm.     78 

!  91  pm.     71 

887  08  90pm.  73 


I 9493  pm. 

888§  9395  pm. 

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J.J.ARNU 


76  pm. 
76  pm. 

74  pm. 
76  pm. 
76  pm. 
76  pm. 
76  pm. 

76  pm. 

77  pm. 
77  pm. 
77  pm. 
77  pm. 
77  pm. 
77p«i. 

77  pm. 
76  pm. 
73  pm. 

75  pm. 

78  pm. 
71  pm. 
73  pm. 
71  pm. 
71  pm. 
73  pm. 
71pm. 


114)887  9198pm.  78    70pm. 
LL,  English  and  Foreign  StoJtAnH  share  Broker, 
bers,  Lothbary. 


9,  9*  KXCHOLS  ANT 


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GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 

DECEMBER,  1844. 
By  SYLVANUS  URBAN,  Gent. 

CONTENTS.  '*«■ 

Minor  Cor&vbpomdbncxh— Site  of  the  manufactory  of  Faience — Roman  relics 
at  Kingston — Origin  of  Chelsea  and  Greenwich  Hospitals — Stulp  or  Stoop — 
The  Ballad  of  Earl  Oswald •• 562 

PosMS  ov  Rural  Life  in  thk  Dorset  Dialect  :  by  W.  Barnes 563 

On  the  Site  of  Anderida:  by  the  Rct.  Beale  Post 577 

Mistaken  Date  at  Fittleworth,  Sussex,  (friM  a  CW/)    • 582 

Examination  of  Lord  Keeper  Littleton 583 

Letter  of  Lord  Sinclair,  from  Newcastle,  in  1644 584 

Biddulph  HaU,  Staffordshire  (mtha  Plate) ibid. 

On  A0ADEI11R8  (concluded)  —  Agassis,  Balfe,  Handel,  Herschel,  Brunei,  &c. 
—Voltaire's  sojourn  in  England — Richelieu's  Policy  towards  the  French  Aca- 
demy— Moli^re — Monuments  to  Illustrious  Frenchmen — General  Bertrand 
— Latter  History  of  the  French  Academy,  and  Great  Names  excluded. 585 

The  Three  Shirlbts  (concluded) 594 

The  Prince  of  Wales's  Plume— Badge  of  the  Ostrich  Feather—The.Bla^k.Prince's 
Epitaph— Badge  of  the  Gorget ....'...:..     598 

Sale  of  the  Duke  of  Sussex's  Collection  of  Manuscripts 599 

Rbtrospectiye  Review. — Stanyhurst*s  First  Four  Books  of  Virgil 603 

REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 

Letters  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  edited  by  Miss  Agnes  Strickland,  609 ;  Hewitt's 
History  of  the  Hundred  of  Compton,  610;  Dunkin's  History  of  Dartford, 
612;  Firchett*s  King  Alfred,  616;  Thomas's  Psychologist.  617;  Johns's 
Anglican  Cathedral  Church,  Jerusalem,  618;  Flower's  Sunday  Evening 
Musings,  619 ;  The  Forget  Me  Not,  620 :   Miscellaneous  Reviews 621 

LITERARY    AND  SCIENTIFIC  INTELLIGENCE. 

New  Publications,  622  ;  University  of  Cambridge   627 

FINE  ARTS.— Historical  Album— The  Eariiest  Engraving,  628 ;  Statue  of 
Alderman  Rowney,  at  Oxford,  629  ;  Monument  to  Bishop  Butler,  630  ; 
Foreign  Statues > 630 

ARCHITECTURE.— Oxford  Architectural  Society— St.  Edmund's  Chspel, 
Walpole,  631 ;  English  Church  at  Malta,  632;  Restoration  of  Church  of 
St.  Mary,  Bury,  633 ;  New  Churches 634 

ANTIQUARIAN  RESEARCHES.— Cambridge  Camden  Socity,  634  ;  Roman 

Ruins  near  Weymouth 635 

HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE.— Foreign  News,  637- Domestic  Occurrences      638 

Promotions  and  Preferments,  639 ;  Births  and  Marriages 641 

OBITUARY ;  with  Memoirs  of  Lord  Western ;  Sir  Thomas  Tancred.  Bart. ;  Sir 
James  Martin  Lloyd,  Bart. ;  Adm.  Sir  John  P.  Bcresford ;  General  Dunne  ; 
Major-Gen.  E.  R.  J.  Cotton;  Col.  Deshon ;  C.  E.  Brarifill,  Esq. ;  Arthur 
Atherley,  Esq. ;  F.  L.  Holt,  Esq. ;  E.  E.  Deacon,  Esq. ;  Adam  Bromilaw, 
Esq. ;  Dr.  Hodgson,  Dean  of  Carlisle ;  Rev.  Henry  Card,  D.  D. ;  Ven.  Arch- 
deacon Bathurst ;  George  Lloyd,  Esq. ;  Peter  Coxe,  Esq. ;  Rev.  George 
Coxe  ;  Mrs.  Henry  Siddons;  Mr.  Gattic 645—654 

Additions  to  Obituary 654 

Clergy  Deceased ••  661 

DratbBj  arranged  in  Counties • •  •  • 664 

Registrar-General's  Returns  of  Mortality  in  the  Metropolis— Markets— Prices 

of  Shares,671;  Meteorological  Diary-Stocks 672 

Embelliihed  with  a  View  of  Biddulfr  Hall»  Staffordshire. 


662 


MINOR  CORRESPONDENCE. 


An  Old  Correspondent  would  be  thank- 
M  to  be  informed  where  he  will  be  Ukelj 
to  find  any  account  of  the  establishment 
or  existence  of  a  mannfactorf  of  the 
earthenware  commonly  called  Faience ^  in 
the  island  of  Majorca.  Tradition  in  Italy 
oommonly  asserts  the  fact,  and  places  the 
nanufactory  in  the  1  Ith  century ;  and  the 
name,  MajoHea^  seems  to  bear  testimony 
to  the  truth  of  the  tradition. 

J.  P.  suggests  that  the  Roman  weapons 
found  near  Kingston,  and  mentioned  by 
Mr.  Roots  in  his  letters  inserted  in  the 
30th  volume  of  the  Archseologia,  may 
haTC  been  the  remains  of  some  conflict 
between  the  Britons  and  the  Romans, 
upon  the  latter's  invasion  under  Clauditu, 
Other  we^ons,  &c.  found  near  Kingston, 
have  been  referred,  with  great  probability, 
to  that  period ;  and  ezuvise  of  warfare 
have  also  been  found  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  Coway  Stakes — ^the  most  pro- 
bable place  of  Csesar  8  passage  (See  Man- 
ning and  Bray).  Moreover,  we  may 
presume  that  wherever  Caesar  passed  the 
Thames,  he  was  not,  after  having  so  done, 
much  resisted  by  the  Britons ;  who,  it 
would  seem,  were  astonished  at  the  daring 
courage  shown  by  the  Romans  in  crossing 
the  river. 

£.  B.  P.  begs  to  correct  a  little  mistake 
in  Mr.  Parry's  communication  on  Church 
Bells,  page  486.  In  speaking  of  Nell 
G Wynne,  Mr.  P.  says,  "to  her  sponta- 
neous and  disintereated  urging  charity 
owes  Greenwich  if  not  also  Chelsea  Hos- 
pital." It  is  supposed  (but  upon  what 
authority  I  do  not  at  the  moment  re- 
collect,) that  Chelsea  Hospital  owes  its 
origin  to  the  persuasive  eloquence  of 
Nell  Gwynne.  This  supposition,  I  re- 
member, formed  the  groundwork  of  a 
very  interesting  scene,  perhaps  the  most 
effective  one,  in  Jerrold*s  clever  play  of 
'*  Nell  Gwynne,'*  which  was  performed  at 
Covent  Garden,  in  January,  1B33,  with 
a  success  that  has  not  of  late  years  at- 
tended our  dramatic  productions.  Green- 
wich Hospital  is  certainly  under  no  obli- 
gation to  either  Charles  II.  or  Nell 
Gwynne.     The  former  erected  a  small 

Sortion  of  the  present  edifice,  with  the 
esign  of  buildings  va/are — not  a  koepUaL 
It  is  to  William  III.  (at  the  instance  of 
bit  Queen,  it  is  said,^  that  we  are  indebted 
for  the  oomptetaoB  of  this  noble  building, 


and  the  still  nobler  purpose  to  which  it  it 
devoted. 

GuLTRLiius  is  referred  to  our  Septem- 
ber n«Bsbar«  p.  302,  and  our  Oct.  nomberv 
p.  409,  or  ioT  fuller  inatmctions  to  the 
Arch^ologioal  Jouroa),  No,  III.  lor  the 
method  of  rubbiiig  impressions  of  se. 
pulchral  plates,  or  other  sculptured  sur- 
faces. 

T.  A.  B.  obaenret  that  Mr.  Way,  in  hia 
notioe  of  a  lease  from  the  £arl  of  Bedford 
to  Sir  William  Cecill,  of  a  pasture  in  Co* 
vent  Garden,  informs  us,  "  the  obsolete 
term  stulp  is  now  retained  only  in  the 
dialect  of  Norfolk  ;"  aaquoted  m  Novw* 
bar  number,  p.  505.  It  is,  however,  verj 
generally  used  in  North  liancashire  and 
the  adjoining  parts  of  Westmorland, 
though  pronounced  stoop,  and  in  the  stg* 
oification  of  a  post  for  the  support  of  a 
gate.  As  late  as  the  beginning  of  last 
century  I  find  it  written  stnlp  in  title 
deeds  of  this  district.  Stolpe,  in  Snio- 
Gothic,  if  interpretedy^^cniM. 

J.  £.  remarks  that  the  same  word  is  the 
common  term  for  ''  a  post  *'  in  the  neigk- 
bourhood  of  Halifax,  only  it  is  pronoaneed 
as  if  it  were  written  stoop.  He  remem- 
bers very  well  making  use  of  the  word  tea 
years  ago,  to  designate  a  post  in  Green. 
street,  in  Cambridge,  when  a  friend,  a 
native  of  Berkshire,  who  was  walking  with 
him,  was  at  a  loss  to  know  what  it  meaatt 
and  he  was  obliged  to  explain. 

F.  requests  information  on  the  follow- 
ing point : — The  ballad  of  Earl  Oswald  ia 
found  in  the  third  volume  of  Evans's  Old 
Ballads,  in  the  edition  of  1784.  It  is  in 
volume  IV.  in  the  edition  of  IB  10. — Is 
this  ballad  taken  from  any  old  collection  ? 
If  not,  whence  comes  it  ?  Is  it  by  Mickle, 
who  has  had  the  credit  of  being  author  of 
several  ballads  in  volumes  III.  and  lY* 
of  Evans's  Collection  ?  See  Gent's.  Mag. 
O.  S  ,  Vol.  LXI.  p.  638.  It  is  true  that 
Mickle  has  been  rindicated  from  sneh  a 
charge;  and  it  has  been  statad  that  he 
had  declared  that  he  was  not  the  author 
of  those  ballads.  See  Gent's.  Mag.  O.  S. 
Vol.  LXI.  p.  801.  F.  inclines  to  think 
that  he  must  have  been  the  author  of  the 
above  ballad :  if  so,  his  plsgiarism  is  of  a 
most  barefaced  character,  as  it  is  eaiy  to 
perceive  from  whence  he  (Miokle),  or 
whoever  was  the  author  of  Earl  Oswald, 
borrowed  words  and  smtimeHfs, 


THE 


GENTLEMAN'S  MAGAZINE. 


Poems  of  Sural  Lift^  in  the  Dorset  Dialect  :  toUk  a  Dissertation  and 

Glossary.     By  William  Barnes. 

WITH  the  same  delight  with  which  a  botanist  discovers  a  new 
flower  of  beanty  and  fragrance,  and  draws  it  from  its  solitary  and 
nnfreqaented  abode  to  be  known  and  admired  ;  or  as  the  astronomer, 
amid  the  surroanding  splendonr  of  innumerable  worlds,  sees  a  new 
ooBStellation  of  no  inferior  brilliancy,  at  once  attracting  his  adraira* 
tion  and  rewarding  his  labours  ;  so  we  too  have  felt  when  unexpectedly 
we  discovered  under  the  rude  coTCring  of  a  primitive  and  provincial  dialect, 
and  in  a  remote  part  of  a  distant  county,  a  vein  of  poetical  feeling 
which  in  its  kind  we  can  scarcely  think  surpassed  by  any  previous  in- 
spirations of  the  Muse  who  presides  over  the  scenes  of  rural  life.  We 
know  little  of  the  aothor,*  but,  if  we  judge  of  him  by  his  work,  we  can 
believe  that,  unknown  to  the  learned,  and  unpatronized  by  the  great, 
be  has  ''warbled  his  native  woodnotes  wild,**  winning  his  way  to  the 
hearts  of  all  who  heard  him,  until  the  fame  of  his  genius  spread  be- 
yond the  limits  of  the  valleys  which  gave  it  birth,  by  the  simple 
sweetness  of  his  verse,  the  purity  of  the  sentiments,  the  delicacy  of  the 
thoughts,  and  the  elegance  and  propriety  of  the  imagery.  Such  are  the 
qualities  that  distinguish  the  noble  and  successful  works  of  genius  from 
the  mere  desires  of  the  will,  the  efforts  of  the  memory,  or  the  common 
power  of  verbal  imitation.  We  have  heard  that  Mr.  Barnes  is  a  person 
possessing  very  large  stores  of  self-acquired  erudition  ^  but  the  mention 
of  these  is  beyond  the  scope  of  our  present  purpose  ;  our  business  with 
him  is  as  a  poet,  and  we  shall  egregiously  fail  in  the  estimate  we  have 
made,  if  we  do  not,  in  the  specimens  we  are  abont  to  produce,  satisfy  our 
readers,  that  in  this  small  and  single  volume  is  a  strain  of  poetry  abound- 
ing in  such  natural  and  simple  beauties,  at  once  appealing  to  the  under* 
standing  and  affecting  the  heart,  as  would  do  honour  to  the  greatest 
names  in  our  poetic  annals,  such  as  Crabbe  would  have  delighted  to  listen 
to,  and  even  Burns  himself  would  not  have  disdained  to  own. 

Poets,  like  all  other  persons,  must  have  their  thoughts  strongly  affected 
and  acted  on  by  the  sympathies  of  their  own  times,  and  by  the  minds  of 
their  contemporaries )  hence  arises  imitation,  often  insensibly  acquired, 
and  a  kind  of  conventional  manner  of  thought  and  expression.  The  poets 
of  one  age  take  their  tone  from  Cowley  or  Donne, — of  another  from  Pope 
or  Addison, — and  the  prevailing  spirit  of  our  own  time  is  far  too  striking 
and  prominent  not  to  be  felt  by  alt  within  its  reach  ;  it  is  too  remarkable 
to  be  overlooked,  perhaps  too  powerful  to  be  resisted,  and  in  many  respects 
too  fascinating  not  to  be  willingly  obeyed.  But  we  are  bound  in  fairness 
to  say,  that  in  Mr.  Barnes's  poems  we  can  trace  no  footsteps  of  the  sub- 
missive or  sequacious  follower  of  any  poetic  school  or  model,  but  that  of 
true  nature  and  passion.  The  poet*s  heart  is  at  home, — his  scenery  is  all 
domestic, — his  circle  of  description  of  home-growth,  confined  to  his  own 

*  Although  Mr.  Barnes  has  been  hitherto  unknown  to  his  Reviewer,  he  has  long 
been  a  valvsUe  oontribntor  to  this  Maga2me.-*£oiT. 


564  Barnes*8  Poems  of  Rural  Life  [Dec 


fields  and  boundaries  ;  and  the  little  village  scenes,  the  honsehold 
and  employments^  the  innocent  pleasares^  the  gentle  sorrows  and  jojB» 
the  rural  pastimes,  the  business  or  the  amusements^ — he  places  before  us, 
and  throws  into  a  dramatic  form,  and  invests  with  personal  interest,  are 
all  drawn  from  the  characters  of  those  familiar  to  lum.  His  language  too 
is  not  brought  from  a  distance  to  decorate  or  adorn  the  native  complexion 
of  pastoral  life  ;  it  is  twin-born  with  the  subject,  and  between  the  thought 
and  expression  is  nothing  discordant  or  unsuitable.  What  there  is  of  poetry 
in  this  volume  is  the  genuine  offspring  of  poetic  sensibility  and  power  ^ 
sensibility  in  seizing  the  poetic  aspect  of  things,  power  in  expressing  it  in 
the  truest  and  most  affecting  manner,  without  any  artifice  to  allure,  or  any- 
trick  to  surprize, — without  undue  exaggeration  of  feeling,  without  cumber- 
some or  superfluous  display  of  imagery,  and  without  false  affectation  of  sen* 
timent.  It  is  a  pure  and  genuine  spring  of  poetry  gushing  clear  and  bright 
from  its  native  source,  rolling  along  its  channel  by  its  own  energy  and 
strength,  and  imparting  a  reaJ  and  permanent  pleasure  by  a  faithful  reflex 
and  mirror  of  those  feelings,  images,  and  associations,  wliich  ave  mMt  in 
accordance  with  the  best  disposition  of  our  minds,  with  nature,  and  with 
truth.  The  faculty  of  the  poet  is  to  apprehend  forcibly  and  quickly 
that  which  is  poetic  in  the  varied  scenes  of  life  and  nature>  to  feel  it 
deeply,  to  describe  it  correctly ;  while  his  genius  throws  its  rich  unex- 
pected lights  upon  different  parts  of  the  picture)  like  those  bright 
moments  of  the  varied  sky  which  open  for  an  instant  the  long-extended 
landscape,  and  the  prospects  that  seem  at  once  formed  and  illuminated  by 
a  sudden  encliantment.  Such  as  this,  are  those  divine  glances  of  the  keaH 
which  are  received  into  the  inanimate  forms  of  nature,  which  breathe 
into  the  creation  a  new  pulse  and  life,  and  which  thus  forraf'a  beautiful 
chain  of  impressions  and  images  on  the  mind.  In  these  poems  of  Mr. 
Barnes's  there  will  be  found  many  little  home  touches  and  descriptions  true 
to  nature,  which  the  poet's  observing  eye  has  caught,  and  his  faithful 
pencil  portrayed,  which  give  life  and  reality  to  the  scene,  please  by 
our  familiar  acquaintance  with  them,  and  yet  almost  startle  us  like  un- 
expected acquaintance,  when  we  see  them  in  description.  Such  are  the 
graphic  touches  of  Goldsmith  and  Crabbe  that  have  given  permanent 
life  and  charm  to  their  creations  of  humble  life,  and  such  we  meet  dis- 
played with  equal  truth  in  Mr.  Barnes's  poems.  We  allude  to  such 
little  incidents  as  in  the  following  picture,  of  a  cottage  family  moving 
their  abode ;  among  the  chattels  packed. 

An*  at  the  very  top  a- tied, 

The  chiidem*s  little  $tuols  did  lie, 

WC  lags  a-tum'd  towardi  the  tky, 

*  * 

Or  in  the  poem  of  the  "  Woody  Holler." 

When  whisslen  baoys  an*  rottUen  ploughs 
Wer  ftQl,  an'  mothen  wi'  ther  thm 
Shrill  taicea  cald  ther  daten  in 
Vrom  w&*k^o  in  the  holler. 

Again  in  the  poem  of  Whitsuntide;  or  the  milkmaid's  description  of 
the  holiday  frolics. 

And  Sammy  Stubbs  cottie  out  o*  rank 
And  kissed  I  np  agien  the  bank, 
A  sasay  obap ;  I  han't  vaf^'«d  en 

Not  eet ;  tn  thart  I  han*t  a-zeed  en, 

_  » 

The  sly  subdued  manner  in  which  the  *'  Uav^n  oon's  Fortun  a-tould  ** 


1844.3  ^  ^^  Dorset  DiaUct.  565 

19  written  is  excellent,  and  the  firm  belief  of  the  two  milkmaids  in  the 
gift  of  the  wizard,  notwithstanding  the  denials- 
Zoo  Poll  zed  she'd  a  mind  to  try 
Her  BkiU  a  bit,  if  I  woo'd  Tust ; 
Though  to  be  sore  she  didden  trust 
To  gipsies  any  muore  than  I. 

With  what  a  natural  image  and  iliostration  a  very  important  truth  is 
given  in  the  following  lines,  as  all  who  know  country  life  roust  acknowledge. 

Tis  wrong  Tar  women's  han's  to  clips 
The  suU  an'  reap- hook,  spiardes  an'  whips. 
An'  men  abrode  shood  le&ve  by  right 
Oone  f&ithful  heart  at  hnom  to  light 
Ther  bit  o*  tier  np  at  night ; 

An*  hang  upon  the  hedge  ta  dry, 

Ther  snoW'White  linen  when  the  ikg 
In  winter  ie  C'Clearht* 

There  is  a  pretty  simple  story  called  "  Ilead^n  ov  a  Headstaone," 

A  little  mftid  mnn'd  np  wi'  pride 
To  see  me  there,  an'  push'd  a-side 
A  bnnch  o'  bennits  that  did  hide 

A  yess  her  faether,  as  she  zed, 

Pat  up  above  her  mother's  head.  Sic. 
*  •  *  * 

Wher's  faether  then,  I  zed,  my  chile  ? 

"  Dead  toOf**  she  anewer*d,  wV  a  tmilef  Ace. 

In  that  one  line,  with  its  sweet  simple  pathos,  the  whole  heart  of  child-- 
hood  is  displayed  ;  as  in  the  following,  a  very  common  occurrence  shews- 
it  only  wants  to  be  observed  and  recorded,  that  it  may  please  3  giving  to 
the  poet  a  lesson  of  instruction,  that  native  flowers   are  lying  neglected 
under  his  feet,  while  he  is  too  often  in  search  of  remote  and  foreigu- 
ornament.    It  is  the  poem  called  ^*  Maple  Leaves  be  yoUer.'* 

Zoo  come  a-long,  an'  le's  injfty 
The  liste  fine  weather  while  da  stAy ; 
While  thee  can'st  hang  wi'  ribbons  alack 
Thy  bonnet  down  upon  thy  back  ; 
Avore  the  winter,  cuold  an*  black, 
Da  kill  thy  flowers,  on'  avore 
Thff  bird'CMffe  ie  a-took  in-door, 
Though  miaple  leaves  be  yoUsr. 

We  mnst  not  extend  these  pleasing  extracts,  nor  be  farther  beguiled  by 
the  enjoyment  their  selection  affords ;  but  we  cannot  help  adding  one  more, 
and  that  an  exquisitely  simple  and  affecting  picture,  finished  in  one  stroke* 
It  is  from  the  poem  called 

THE  RUOSB  TBAT  DBCKSO  RBR  BUS  AST* 

An'  then  her  ehe&k  wi'  youthTul  blood 
Wer  bloomen  as  the  ruose's  bud ; 
Butnowy  as  she  wi'  grief  da  pine, 
'Tis  piale's  the  milky  jessamine. 
But  Roberd  'ave  a-left  behine 

J  little  hiahy  we  kwfiace. 

To  smile  an'  nessle  in  the  pliace 
Wher  the  niose  did  deck  her  breast* 

On  the  dialect  in  which  the  poems  are  written  the  author  thus  observes. 


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566 


Barnes's  Poem$  of  JRural  Life 


[Dec. 


''The  nislie  dialeoft  of  Dofwtihife ist 
with  little  TuiaCioii,  that  of  mott  of  the 
westem  ptrti  of  England ,  which  were  in- 
cluded in  the  Idngdom  of  the  West  Saxons, 
the  oonntici  of  Saner,  Hanta,  Berfca, 
Wilti,  and  Donet,  and'parta  of  SoBMfiet 
and  Devon,  and  hu  come  down  hy  inde- 
pendent deioent  from  the  Saxon  dialect 
wUch  ov  loreSitiwn,  tlie  foDowera  of 
CenKe  and  Cynric,  Poita,  Staf ,  and  Wiht- 
gar,  brought  from  the  south  of  Denmark, 
their  inland  teat,  which  King  Alfred  calb 
<  Eald  Saexen,'  or  Old  Sa^oy,  m  what 
is  now  Holstein,  and  the  three  islands 
Nordstrand,  Bnsen,  and  Heiligoeland  (see 
Tamer's  History  of  the  Anglo-Saxons)  ; 
as  the  dialects  of  some  of  the  eastern, 
middle,  and  northern  coonties,  which  for- 
merly constituted  the  kingdoms  of  the 
East  and  Middle  Angles,  Uie  Mercians, 
the  Northumbrians,  the  Deiri,  and  Bcr- 
nicians,  might  baTc  been  derived  im- 
mediately from  that  of  the  founders  of 
those  kingdoms,  the  Angles,  who  came 
from  Anglen,  or  Old  England,  in  what  is 
BOW  the  duchy  of  Slesrig ;  and  it  is  not 

This  dialect,*  the  author  says,  is  spoken  in  the  greatest  purity  in 
the  yillages  and  hamlets  of  the  secluded  and  beaatiful  Vale  of  Blackmere  ; 
bat  in  the  towDS  the  poor  commonly  speak  a  mixed  jargon,  violating  the 
canons  of  the  purer  dialect,  as  well  as  those  of  the  English.  If  the  reader 
Irishes  to  pnrsne  the  subject  further^  and  enter  more  deeply  into  the  nice- 
ties of  grammatical  construction,  and  the  peculiarities  of  the  provincial 
language,  he  vrill  find  the  general  outline  given  in  the  author's  Dissertation 
well  worthy  of  attention.  We,  however,  must  rest  contented  with  having 
shown  for  what  reason  Mr.  Barnes  has  preferred  using  his  native  form  of 
speech  in  his  poems ;  and  we  now  proceed,  from  the  form,  to  some  few  re- 
marks on  the  matter  and  sentiments  in  the  poetr}%  which  are  fully  borne 
out  by  the  poems  themselves,  and  which  must  propitiate  the  fa  von  r  of  all 
who  read  them,  for  the  simplicity  of  the  manner  and  the  goodness  and  pu- 
rity of  the  principle. 


oidy  cndihle.  but  moat  Kkdy,  tfaat  tiie 
Saxons  of  Holstein  and  the  Angles  of 
Slesrig  might  speak  difftrtni  dialects  of 
the  oommon  Teutonic  tongue  eren  in  Den- 
mark. .  .  .  The  Dorset  itialect  is  a  broad 
and  bold  shape  of  the  English  language, 
as  the  Done  was  of  the  Greek.  It  is  rich 
in  humour,  strong  in  raillery  and  hyper- 
bole, and  altogether  as  fit  a  vehide  of 
matie  feeling  and  thought,  as  die  Doric  Is 
found  in  the  Idyllia  of  Theocritus.  Some 
people,  who  may  have  been  taught  to  con- 
sider it  as  having  originated  from  eormp^ 
Hon  of  the  written  English,  may  not  be 
prepared  to  hear  that  it  is  not  only  a  se- 
parate offspring  from  the  Anglo-Saxon 
tongue,  bmi  purer  and  more  re^uiar  ikam 
the  dialeet  wMek  it  chosen  at  the  nationml 
tpeeeh,  Pmrer,  inaamnch  as  it  uses  many 
words  of  Saxon  origin,  for  which  the  Eng- 
lish substitutes  others  of  Latin,  Greek,  or 
FVench  derivation ;  and  more  regular,  in- 
asmuch aa  it  inflects  regularly  many  worda 
which  in  the  ***^r^  language  are  irre* 
gnkr." 


"The  author  thinks  his  readers  will 
find  his  poems  free  of  slang  and  Tice,  as 
they  are  written  from  the  associations  of 
an  early  youth  that  was  passed  among 
rural  funilies  of  a  secluded  part  of  the 
county,  upon  whose  sound  Christian  prin- 
dples,  kindness,  snd  harmless  cheerful- 
ness, he  can  still  think  with  delight :  and 
he  hopes  that  if  his  little  work  should  fall 
into  the  hands  of  a  reader  of  that  class  in 
whose  language  it  is  written,  it  would  not 
be  likelj  to  damp  his  lo?c  of  God,  or  hurt 
the  tone  of  his  moral  sentiment,  or  the 


dignity  of  his  self-respect ;  as  his  inten- 
tion is  not  to  show  up  the  simplicity  of 
rural  life  aa  an  object  of  sport,  but  to 
utter  the  happy  emotions  with  which  his 
mind  can  dwelt  on  the  charma  of  rural 
naturr,  and  the  better  feelings  and  more 
hsroiK'ss  joys  of  the  snalLfiBrm-hcwse  and 
hsppy  cottage.  As  he  has  not  written  for 
readers  who  have  had  their  lots  cast  in 
town-occupatioos  of  a  highly  civilised  com- 
munity, snd  can  Dot  sympathise  with  the 
rustic  mind,  he  can  hardly  hope  that  they 
will  understand  either  Us  poems  or  his 


•  The  DorMt  dialect  retains  more  abstnat  noons  than  the  national  speech,  of  the 
pattern  o(  growth  and  dearth,  formed  from  verba  and  adjeetivas  by  shortening  their 
long  vowels,  and  aflixing  M  or  <  to  them ;  aa  htowtA  or  biooth,  from  blow,  the  bloaaom 
of  trees ;  dn'M,  dryness  or  drought,  from  dryg  lewth,  shelter,  from  iewi  heft,  weicht. 
ftnsi  the  Ttrb  «v  he —  ^•^ 


1844.] 


til  ih€  Bwrmt  Dialed. 


667 


tiont  of  nmy  of  the  moat  polished  lui* 
gnagei,  md  has  heard  from  the  pithy 
■entenoef  of  ▼Ulage  pabiarchs  tmtha  which 
he  has  since  found  expanded,  in  the  weak 
wordiness  of  modern  composition,  into 
paragraphs.  If  his  verses  should  engage 
the  happy  mind  of  the  dairymaid  with  her 
cow,  promote  the  innocent  erening  cheer- 
fuhiess  of  the  funily  circle  on  the  stone 
iloor,  or  teach  his  rustic  brethren  to  draw 
pore  delight  from  the  rich  but  frequently 
overlooked  sources  of  nature  within  their 
own  sphere  of  being,  his  fondest  hopes 
will  be  realised." 


intention ;  since,  with  the  not  uncommon 
notion  that  every  change  from  the  plough 
towards  the  desk,  and  from  the  desk  to* 
wards  the  couch  of  empty-handed  idle* 
ness,  is  an  onward  step  towards  happiness 
and  intellectual  and  moral  excellence, 
they  will  most  likely  find  it  very  hard  to 
conceive  that  wisdom  and  goodness  would 
be  found  speaking  in  a  dialect  which  may 
seem  to  them  a  fit  vehicle  only  for  the 
animal  wants  and  passions  of  a  boor; 
though  the  author  is  not  ashamed  to  say 
that  he  can  contemplate  its  pure  and 
simple  Saxon  features  with  gratification 
after  reading  some  of  the  best  composi- 

We  now  proceed  to  corroborate,  by  raffident  specimenSj  the  favoorable 
opiDioQ  we  Lave  formed  of  Mr.  Barnes's  genius^  aod  to  repay,  so  far  as  we 
can  in  this  manner,  the  debt  of  latitude  we  owe  him,  for  the  unexpected 
delight  we  have  received. 

CAllK  il-TUEKBV  TOLLIA. 

The  copse  ha*  got  his  shiady  boughs, 

Wi'  blackbirds*  evemen  whissles  ; 
The  hills  ha'  sheep  upon  ther  brows, 

The  summerleize  ha*  thissles. 
The  me&ds  be  giy  in  grassy  Miy, 

But  O  vrom  hUl  to  holler. 
Let  I  look  down  npon  a  groun* 

O*  cam  a-tnmte  yoUer. 

An*  pease  da  grow  in  tangled  beds, 

An*  be&ns  be  sweet  to  snuff,  O ; 
The  tiaper  woats  da  bend  ther  heads, 

The  barley's  beard  is  rough,  O ; 
The  turnip  green  is  fresh  between 

The  earn  in  hill  or  holler, 
But  rd  look  down  upon  a  groun' 

O*  wheat  a-turnte  yoUer. 

*Tis  merry  when  the  brawny  men 

Da  come  to  reap  it  down,  O, 
Wher,  glossy  red,  the  poppy  head 

'S  among  the  st&*ks  so  brown,  O  ; 
*Tis  merry  while  the  wheat's  in  hile, 

Ar  when,  by  hill  ar  holler, 
The  leftzers  thick  da  stoop  to  pick 

The  ears  so  ripe  an*  yoller. 

TH«  IVY. 

Upon  the5s  knap  I'd  sooner  be 
The  ivy  that  da  dim  the  tree, 
Than  bloom  the  giyest  ruose  a-tied, 
An'trimm*d  upon  the  house's  side. 
The  ruose  mid  be  the  m&idens*  pride. 

But  still  the  ivy's  wild  an'  free  : 

An*  what  is  al  that  life  can  gi'e 
'Ithout  a  free  light  heart,  John  ? 

The  crcp^n  sbiade  mid  steal  too  soon 
Upon  the  ruose  in  i'temoon. 
But  here  the  zun  da  drow  his  bet 
Vrom  when  da  rise  till  when  da  set, 
To  dry  the  leaves  the  rlin  da  wet; 


568  Barnes's  Poem$  of  Rural  Life  [Dec. 


An'  eremen  Air  da  bring  along 
The  merry  diavy-maidens'  smig, 
The  xong  of  tree  light  hearts^  John. 

O  why  da  voke  so  oTen  chain 

Ther  fno^n  mindi  var  lore  o*  gAin, 

An  gi'e  ther  innocenoe  to  riie 

A  little  in  the  wordle*i  eyea  ? 

If  pride  ooo*d  riie  nt  to  the  skiea. 
What  man  da  TaUee,  God  da  slight. 
An*  al  ia  nothto  in  His  sight, 
*lthoat  a  honest  heart,  Joha. 

A  ng^y  fiace  dn't  bribe  the  brooks 
To  show  it  back  yoang  hansom  looks, 
Nar  crooked  voice  intice  the  light 
To  cast  ther  znmmer  shiades  upright. 
Noo  goold  can  bline  onr  Miaker's  zight. 
An'  what's  the  odds  what  cloth  da  hide 
The  bnzzom  that  da  hold  inside 
A  free  an'  honest  heart,  John  ? 


The  following  poem,  with  its  bright  and  genial  description,  is  one  of  oor 
great  favourites. 


I 


MAT. 

Come  oot  o'  door,  'tis  Spring  1  'tis  Miy  1 
The  trees  be  green ;  the  TieFs  be  gAy ; 
The  weather's  fine ;  the  winter  blast, 
W*  al  his  tndn  o'  clouds,  is  past ; 
The  sun  da  rise  while  To'ke  da  sleep, 
An*  tiake  a  longer  higher  sweep 
Wi'  cloudless  fiace,  a-fling^n  down 
His  sparkUn  light  upon  the  groun'. 

The  Air  is  warm  and  soft ;  come  drow 
The  winder  oben ;  let  it  blow 
In  droo  the  house  wher  vire  an'  door 
A-shnt  kept  out  the  cuold  STore. 
Come,  let  the  vew  dull  embers  die, 
An*  come  out  to  the  oben  sky. 
An'  wear  your  best,  Tar  fear  the  groun' 
In  colors  gAy  mid  shiame  your  gown. 
An'  goo  an*  rig  wi'  I  a  mile 
Ar  two  up  auTer  gelt  an'  stile, 
Droo  sunny  parricks  that  da  lead 
Wi'  crooked  hedges  to  the  mc&d, 
Where  elems  high,  in  stiately  ranks, 
Da  grow  upon  the  cowslip  banks, 
An'  birds  da  twitter  Trom  the  sprAy 
O'  bushes  deck*d  wi'  snow-white  miy ; 
An*  gil'cttps,  wi'  the  diasy  bud, 
Be  under  er^ry  step  ya  trud. 

We'll  wine'  up  roun'  the  hill,  an'  look 
Al  down  into  the  woody  nook. 
Out  wher  the  squire's  house  da  show 
Hisself  between  the  double  row 
O'  shiady  elems,  where  the  rook 
Da  build  her  nest,  an*  where  the  brook 
Da  creep  along  the  meads,  and  lie 
To  catch  the  brightness  o*  the  sky, 
An'  cows,  in  water  to  ther  knees. 
Da  Stan'  a*whisken  off  the  Tlees, 


1844.3  te  *^  ^^ortet  Dialed. 

Mother  o*  UoMomi,  »n'  ov  «1 

That*!  gnen  a-iridd  Trom  iprias  tfl  hi  i 

Tha  (Ookoa  tram  boruid  ths  ■«■ 

Da  cMme  wl  ]fy  to  (tag  to  Ikw, 

An'  inieett  nut  Id  giddf  flight 

Da  (how  tber  colonrt  br  thy  Hght. 

Ob  1  wbea  at  Uita  mr  flMhlf  qre* 

Shall  ihnt  upon  ths  lid'a  an'  (ilei, 

Mid  inmmer'i  ntlmj  diet  b«  gone. 

An'  wlntiT'i  doudi  be  comon  on  i 

NaT  mid  I  dri',  upon  the  eth, 

O  1  thj  (weet  Ur  aj  liatnt  breath  i 

Alaiaen  1  mid  want  to  likj 

Behine'  tar  thee,  0 1  flowrj  Miy. 

BOB  THB   FIDDLBK. 

Ob  I  Bob  the  fiddler  It  the  prida 
Ochapaan'  Mliden*  TW  an'  widei 
Hay  etnt  ktp  up  •  merrr  tide 

Bat  Bob  li  in  the  middle. 
If  merrr  Bob  da  eome  atora  j«, 
He'ill  dng  a  lOng,  ar  tell  a  itoiy  t 
Bat  if  tOD'd  ace  en  in  bii  gbir; 

Jiitlet  CD  hate  a  fiddle. 

Em,  let  en  tuck  a  croud  below 
Hii  chin,  an'  gt'ebii  tilt  a  bow, 
'£'11  drite  hii  elbow  to  an'  tto, 

At  mlrpoUi . 
Hit  Tvrn  *tiil  let  off  twenty  piair, 
An'  miake  'em  dince  the  gmnn'  dirt  bian, 
An'  hop  drant  like  rieat. 

Long  life  to  Bob,  the  tery  lanl 
O'  meth  at  meny  tdit  an'  pola,  - 
Tar  when  the  croud  da  lelte  hii  jowl 

Thai  al  be  in  the  dompi. 
Zoo  at  the  dince  tootber  tear. 
At  ShUliatM  ar  HaMlbor'^, 
Mid  Bob  be  then  to  mlake  'em  itir, 

In  merry  jlgi,  ther  ttnmpi. 

Thii  little  Iwllad  poem  ii  in  the  very  spirit  tad  bomour  of  Burns.  The 
foUowing  poaienes  some  qntlitJea  which  that  great  and  genuine  poet  might 
kKTe  pndiiced  with  ftdvaotage  more  often  than  he  did. 


The  ^n  woak  tree  that'i  In  the  deD  t 
ne^i  aoo  tree  I  da  lore  ao  well. 
Var  In  Mik  tree,  when  1  wer  jonnc, 
I  have  a^Um'd,  on'  I'te  a-iwnng, 
An'  plck'd  the  ncori  that  wer  ipread 

AboDtbelc 

An'  jilt  be 
Vkaridh 


An'  I'te  a 

Tbat'anot 

Zooldj 


'athefi 


Barne8*a  Poems 

An'  evwn^tt  Ut  da  b* 

The  merrj  diairf-m. 

The  song  of  free  1: 

O  why  da  voke  lo  ofc: 
^lier  pinin  mindi  var  i 
J^jk  gi'e  ther  inDOoence 
J^  little  in  the  wordle's  < 
Jf  pride  ooo*d  rtae  ub  tu 

What  man  da  Tallee. 

An*  al  ii  nothto  in  !I 
*IUiont  a  honest  b' 

J^  uglj  fiace  cln*t  bribi 

^o  show  it  back  joodk 

^ar  crooked  To*ke  intiv 

*^o  cast  ther  rammer  ^l 

j4oo  goold  can  bline  on 

An*  what'B  the  odds 

The  bnzaom  that  dn 

A  free  an*  honest  l 


The  foWo^ 
eat  favour* 


S.  9 


%^ 


m«  with  its  bright 


MA 

cat  o»  door,  'tis  Si 

trees  be  green ;  tbt- 

^  weather's  fine  ;  the 

^1  bis  tridn  o'  cloud > 

^  sun  da  rise  while  v. 

'<m  f;iake  a  longer  high' 

cloudless  fiace,  a-tl 

^parkl^n  light  upon 

^ir  is  warm  and  snf 
grinder  oben;  let  it 
f^K)  the  house  wbci 
^fst  kept  oat  the  cu 
■«»  let  the  vew  dull 
^OXSkt  out  to  the  ()! 
•^    ^e^x  your  best,  v.» 
^lors  gfty  mid  Shi. 
7^  ^oo  an'ngwi'  1  . 
Jj^  op  auvcr  ge.1t  , 

r»  *tt°"y  parricks  t 
\^fOoV€d  hedges  t 
elems  high,  in 
upon  the  c(<  - 
Y^jj-t,j  da  twitter  \ 
0}ieB  deck'd  wi* 
1 1  •©«?■•  wi*  thr 

^aer  cvVy  step  % 

^-  ^ne'nprouti 
•**«  into  the  w< 


^^^t%eT  the  squirt 

^       f^^  between  thf 

'^^sfd  her  nest, ;, 

t^^jLp  along  the 

^^^fcthebrigL. 

^'^f^,  in  water 

«  ft.whiskeu 


j:'' 


I 


t844.]  fa  t^  IhriH  DlaUd.  &  7 1 

THl  WBtTl  ROAD  UP  ATBXmT  TBS  HILL. 

When  high  hot  luiif  da  fCrik  right  aown, 
An'  ham  our  tweatf  IUmii  hrowBy 
An'  sunny  hnng^  that  he  nl|^ 
Be  back'd  hy  hiUa  fo  hlne  '■  the  thy ; 
Then  while  the  heUa  da  iweetly  ehaem 
Upon  the  champin  high  neek'd  team, 
How  Urely,  wi'  a  friend,  da  leem 
The  white  road  np  alAirt  the  bilL 

The  tweUdn  downs,  wi'  eh&ky  tracka 
A-elimmin  up  ther  tunny  hacVff 
Da  hide  green  meida,  anrsedgy  brooka. 
An*  dumpa  o'  treea  wi'  gloaay  rooka, 
An  hearty  vo'ke  to  lafe  an*  Aig, 
An  churchea  wi'  ther  beQa  to  rii^, 
In  pariahea  al  in  a  atring 
Wi*  white  roada  up  alMrt  the  ItiUa. 

At  feftat,  when  unde'a  rolw  da  oome 
To  apend,  the  da  wi*  we  at  huome, 
An*  we  da  nut  i^on  the  buoard 
The  beat  off  al  we  can  aTTuord, 
The  welder  oona  da  iSklte  mf  ameike, 
An*  younger  oona  da  ^y  an'  Joke, 
An*  in  thAefemeaal  our  toIko 
Da  bring  em  gwUn  alAirtthe  biUL 

Var  then  flie  green  da  swarm  wi*  wold 
An'  young  ao  thidc  as  aiieep  in  Tuold. 
The  Dillia  in  the  b]ack8mith*a  ahop 
An'  miah-green  waterwheel  da  atop» 
An*  hionesome  in  the  whettwrighf  a  ahed 
'S  a.]eft  the  wheelleaa  waggon  bed, 
While  swanne  o'  oomer  friends  da  traad 
The  white  road  down  aMiit  the  UU. 

An'  when  the  windte  road  ao  white, 
A-dimmen  up  the  hilla  in  sight, 
Da  leSd  to  pliasen,  eaat  ar  west, 
The  vust  a-knoWd  an*  lo?'d  the  best. 
How  touchin  in  the  sunaheen'a  glow 
Ar  in  the  aMades  that  clouda  da  drow, 
Upon  the  sunbum'd  down  below 
'S  the  white  road  up  a/Mrt  the  hill. 

What  pir^  hoUers  now  the  kog 
White  roada  da  windy  rouB'  among, 
Wi'  diary  cows  in  woody  nooka, 
An'  hAymii^ers  among  ther  pooka. 
An'  houaen  that  the  treea  da  screen 
Vrom  sun  an*  sight  by  boughs  o*  green. 
Young  blush^  beauty's  huomes  between 
The  white  roads  up  a/Airt  the  hills. 

When  wintry  weather's  al  a-done. 
An'  brooka  da  aparkle  in  the  sun, 
An*  niiay  builden  rooka  da  Tlee 
Wr  aticka  toward  ther  ebm  tree. 
An'  we  can  hesf  Wrde  sing,  and  sea 

Upon  the  boughs  the  b«ds  o'  sprmg. 

Then  I  don't  envy  any  king, 
A-Tield  wi'  heal&an'  snnaheen, 
Yar  then  the  eoweiip^a  hangte  fliv'r, 
A-wetted  in  the  iMif  itewV, 


5  7'i  BtniM'a  Poem  of  Rmnl  Life  (Dec* 

Da  grow  wi*  Ti*leU  tmet  o'  mdl, 
That  mftident  al  da  like  to  well ; 
Aa'  drashea*  afp,  wi'  tky-blae  8haD« 

Da  lie  in  moafy  ncsta  amoag 

The  tharas,  wbfle  tk«  da  aag  ther  aong 
At  erenen  in  the  laaiheen. 

An*  God  da  miake  hia  win'  to  blow 
An*  ninto  Tal  var  high  an*  low, 
An'  tdl  hie  marnen  ton  to  riee 
Tar  al  aUk* ;  an  gronn*  an'  ekief 
Ha*  oolon  var  the  poor  man*f  ejce ; 

An'  in  oar  trials  He  it  near. 

To  hear  onr  mnoan  en'  see  oar  tear, 
An*  tarn  our  clonda  to  tnntheen. 

An*  many  timeiv  whan  I  da  vind 
TlUnge  goo  awry,  an*  Toke  nnkind, 
To  see  fiie  qoiet  veedto  herds 
An*  heer  the  singen  o'  thebirdsy 
Da  ttill  my  sputrit  mnore  than  words. 

Yar  I  da  aee  tiiat  'tis  onr  sin, 

Da  miake  oon*s  sonl  so  dark  *ithin, 
When  God  wood  gie  vs  sonsbeen.  I 

Tax  wooDLAvna.  j 

O  qpread  sgen  your  leaves  an'  llow*rs,  | 

Lnonesome  woodlands  I  sonny  woodlsnds ! 
Here  nndemiath  Uie  dewy  show^ 

O'  warm-iird  spring  tiflM>  many  woodlands. 
As  when,  in  drong  ar  oben  gronn* 
Wi'  happy  bnoyish  heart  I  Toan* 
The  twitt*ren  birds  a-bwldin  ronn' 

Yonr  high-boagh'd  hedges,  sonny  woodlands* 

Ya  gie'd  me  life,  ya  gie'd  me  jAy, 

Lnonesome  woodlands,  sanny  woodlands ; 
Ta  gie'd  me  health  as  in  my  pUy 

I  Funbled  droo  ye,  sonny  woodlands. 
Ya  ne*d  me  freedom  Tar  to  roTe, 
In  liry  mead,  sr  sMady  grove, 
Ya  gi*ed  me  smilen  I'Vmiiy*!  lore 

The  best  or  si  5*t,  sonny  woodlands. 

My  TOst  shiU  skylark  whiver'd  high, 

Lnonesome  woodlands,  sonny  woodlands. 
To  sing  below  your  deep>blae  sky 

An'  white  spriog*clouds,  O  sonny  woodlands. 
An'  boughs  o'  trees  that  oonoe  stood  here, 
Wer  gloujr  green  the  hi^py  year. 
That  gie'd  me  oon  I  loT*d  so  dear 

An'  now  ha  lost,  O  sunny  woodlsnds  ! 

O  let  me  rore  agen  unspied, 

Lnonesome  woodlands,  sunny  woodlands. 
Along  your  green-bough'd  hedges'  dde. 

As  then  I  rambled,  sunny  woodlands. 
An  wher*  the  missAn  trees  oonce  stood, 
Ar  tongues  oonce  rung  among  the  wood. 
My  memory  shall  mi^e  em  good. 

Though  you've  a-lost  em,  sunny  woodlands ! 

JIMXTT'i  nXBBOMS. 

Jian  ax'd  what  ribbon  she  shood  wear 
I'thin*  her  bonnet  to  the  flair. 
She  had  oon  white  a-gie'd  her  when 
She  stood  at  Miairy's  chrissinto ; 
She  had  oon  drown,  she  had  oon  md, 
A  kipsiake  Trom  her  brothtr  daad. 


.;  .SJ 


1844.] 


tfi  ike  DwHi  Diateci. 

That  ihe  did  like  to  wear  to  goo 
To  lee  his  griaye  below  the  yew. 

She  had  oon  green  among  her  stock 
That  I'd  a-bo'te  to  match  her  frock  ; 
She  had  oon  blue  to  match  her  eyes 
The  color  o'  the  summer  skies, 
An'  he,  tho*  I  da  like  the  rest, 
Is  Mik  that  I  da  Uke  the  beat, 
Bekiase  she  had  en  in  her  hiair 
When  Tnst  I  wi'k'd  wi'  her  at  (lair. 

The  brown,  I  said,  woo*d  do  to  deck 

Thy  hiair ;  the  white  woo'd  match  tby  neck ; 

The  red  woo'd  mlake  thy  red  che'ak  wan 

A  /Ainken  o'  the  gi'er  gone. 

The  green  woo'd  show  thee  to  be  true ; 

But  eet  I'd  sooner  see  the  blue, 

Bekiase  twer  /Aick  that  deck'd  thy  hiair 

When  Tust  I  wi'k'd  wi'  the  at  iiair. 

Zoo'  when  she  had  en  on,  I  took 
Her  han'  'ithin  my  elbow's  crook, 
An'  off  we  went  a/Airt  the  weir 
An*  up  the  mead  toward  the  fiair ; 
Hie  whfle  her  mother,  at  the  geate, 
Call'd  out  an'  bid  her  not  st&y  liaite  s 
An'  she,  a  smilen,  wi'  her  bow 
O'  blue,  look'd  ronn',  and  nodded  JNTo. 

RITBKS  DON*T  OI*B  OVT. 

The  brook  I  left  below  the  rank 

Or  alders  that  da  shiade  his  bank, 

A  mnnen  down  to  dr€Te  the  mill 

Below  the  knap  's  a-runnen  still. 

The  crSpin  daes  an'  wiks  da  Till 
Up  years,  an'  miake  wold  lAings  o'  new. 
An'  To'ke  da  come,  an'  lire,  an'  goo, 
But  liTers  don't  gi'e  out,  John. 

The  leaTes  that  in  the  Spring  da  shoot 
So  green,  in  fal  be  under  root ; 
MHy  flow'rs  da  grow  rar  sune  to  bam, 
An'  milk-white  blooth  o'  trees  da  kern 
An'  ripen  on,  an'  Tal,  in  turn. 

Tlie  moss-green  water-wheel  mid  rot ; 

The  miller  die  an'  be  Target ; 

But  riTers  don't  gi'e  out,  John. 

A  Tew  shart  years  da  bring  an*  rear 
A  miid,  as  Jean  wer,  Tonng  an  fiair ; 
An'  Tewer  summer-ribbons  tied 
In  Zunday  knots,  da  fiide  beside 
Her  cheik  aTore  her  bloom  ha  died : 
Her  youth  won't  st&y.    Her  mssy  look 
'Sa  fiad^n  flow'r,  but  time's  a  brook 
That  nerer  da  gi'e  out,  John. 

An'  eet,  while  IMngs  da  come  an*  goo, 
God's  lore  is  steadTast,  John,  an'  true. 
If  winter  Trost  da  chill  the  groun', 
*n8  but  to  bring  the  summer  roun* : 
ATs  well  a-lost  wher  He's  a-TOun ; 
Yar,  if  'tis  right.  Tar  Christes  siake, 
He'll  gi'e  us  mnore  than  He  da  tiake  ; 
His  goodness  don't  gi'e  out,  John. 

JKAN's  WBDOBN  dab  IK  MAKNBV. 

At  laste  Join  ooue  down  stairs  a-drest, 
Wi'  weddin  knoll  npoii  her  breett, 


673 


574  Bamaa^  IVm»^lhMl£i/e  [Dae, 

A-bliuhin,  while  ft  tear  did  He 
Upon  her  banen  ehe&k  hale  dry  i 
An'  then  her  Boberdt  dri-en  nigh 
Wi'  t'othen,  took  berhaa'  wi*  pride 
To  miake  her  at  the  church  hli  Oridt, 
Her  wedd^  dae  in  manien. 

Wi*  Utty  Toot  an*  beUte  heart 
She  stepped  up  in  the  new  light  eart. 
An'  took  her  bridem&id  uf  to  ride 
Along  wi*  Roberd  at  her  nde  { 
An'  uncle's  mlare  leokM  ronn*  wi'  pride 
To  see  that,  if  the  cart  war  yqU, 
Twer  JenA7  that  *e  had  to  poll. 
Her  wedd^n  dae  in  marne*. 

An*  ant  an*  uncle  stood  stock  stQl 
An'  watch'd  em  trottdn  down  the  UH  ; 
An'  when  tha  tnm'd  off  out  o'  groun' 
Down  into  lianct  two  tears  rinn'd  down 
Ant's  fiaoe,  an'  nnde,  tamen  nmh\ 
Sigh'd  oonee  an'  stamp'd  off  wi*  hia  stick, 
Bekiase  did  touch  en  to  the  quick 
To  piart  wi'  Jeln  #Aik  maiveii. 

"  Now  JeSn'afrfOve,"  Ton  mvtisr'd,  "  wa 
Shall  mnope  lik'  owla  'iikask  a  tree  i 
Var  she  did  sst  ua  al  agog 
Var  fim,  avore  the  bnmen  log." 
An'  as  'e  sot  an'  t&Vd,  the  dog 
Pat  np  his  nose  a^iUit  hia  thighs, 
But  cooden  miake  en  term  hia  eyea, 
Jefln's  wedd^n  dae  in  maraea. 

An'  then  the  nMghkoiira  nran'  «a  al 
By  oonea  an'  twoa  begun  to  cal. 
To  meet  the  young  To'ke  when  the  mkn 
Mid  bring  em  back  a  mair&ed  piair : 
An'  al  o'm  sed,  to  Robcrd'a  smare 
Ther  had  a-vell  the  fiarest  fiace 
An'  kindest  heart  in  al  the  pliace, 
Jean's  wedd^  dae  in  aoamen* 

THS   SKT  A-CLBABSH. 

The  dreTte  scud,  that  auvcroast 

The  summer  sky  is  al  a^past, 

An'  softer  Air,  a«blow^  droo 

The  qulT'r^n  bougha«  da  shiake  tha  Tfw 

Lute  rftin-drapa  off  Uic  learea  lik'  daw  4 

An'  piaviours  al  a-gettte  dry, 

Da  steam  below  the  sunny  lit  j 
That's  now  so  tssI  a-clear^ 

The  shiades  that  wer  a-bst  below 
The  stormy  cloud  agen  da  show 
T^er  mockin  shiapea  below  tha  Ught ; 
An'  house- walla  be  a-lookte  white, 
An'  To'ke  da  stir  oonee  muore  in  aigbt ; 

An'  busy  birda  upon  the  wing 

Da  whiver  roun*  the  bougha  an'  ahig 
To  see  the  sky  a-clearin. 

Below  the  hill's  m  ash  i  below 
The  ash  white  elder  flow'rs  da  blow  $ 
Below  the  eUer  Is  a  bed 
O'  RoUn-Hoods o'  bhrnhte radt 
An'  there,  wi'  H—ahai  al 


1844.]  In  $ki  D&mt  DialM.  6;S 

The  hAfuiftkerfi  wi'  Moh  a  enp 
O*  drink,  da  smUc  to  lee  hold  up 
The  liin,  an*  aky  a-dewto. 

Mid  blushen  mAidana  wi*  thar  lOAg 
Long  diu  ther  whita-atamm'd  riakaa  amon| 
The  lon9*back*d  wialea  an'  n«w*miade  jfowt, 
By  brown-ateinin*d  treea,  an*  doty  broou  i 
But  have  noo  cal  to  ipwUa  thar  looka 

Bt  work  that  Ood  eood  ntver  niake 

Thar  weaker  haa*a  to  ttndartiake, 
Though  aklea  mid  be  a*elearln« 

'Tb  wrong  tar  women's  han*s  to  dipa 
The  rail  an'  reap-hook,  ipiardei  an*  whip! ; 
An'  men  abrode  ahood  leaf  e  by  right 
Oone  faithfhl  heart  at  huom  to  light 
Ther  bit  o*  vier  ttp  at  niffht  | 

An*  hang  upon  the  hedge  to  dry 

Ther  anow-whlte  Unen,  when  the  iky 
In  winter  it  a-dearin. 

O  rammer  dotei  when  the  brook'a  a-alidte 
So  dow  an*  amooth  down  Ida  aedgr  bad, 
Upon  thy  brode  leavea  lo  aiafe  a-riden 
The  water^B  top  wi'  thy  yoller  head, 
By  blaek-rin'd  allers. 
An'  weedy  diallen, 
lliae  then  doat  iloat,  goolden  rammer  dote. 

The  gray-bongh'd  withy'a  a^leiinte  lowly 

Above  tiie  water  thy  leaTea  da  hide ; 
The  benddn  bnlmdif  a-awAyin  8lowly« 
Da  skirt  in  rammer  tiiy  river's  side ; 
An'  pereh  in  shoals,  O, 
Da  Till  the  holes,  O : 
Wher  thee  dost  float,  goolden  rammer  dote. 

O  when  thy  brook-drinkin  flow'r's  a-blowen 

Hie  bnmin  rammer's  apsettAn  in ; 
The  time  o*  creenneas,  Uie  time  o'  mowAn, 
When  in  die  hAyviel',  wi'  ranbnmt  skin. 
The  TO'ke  da  drink,  0, 
Upon  the  brink,  O, 
Wher  thee  dost  float,  goolden  rammer  dota. 

Wi'  yarms  a-spreaddn,  an'  dieitks  a«blowin» 
How  prond  wer  I  when  I  Tust  cood  swim, 
AMirt  ttie  deep  pliaee  wher  thee  bist  growin, 
Wi'  thy  long  more  vrom  the  bottom  dim  i 
While  cows,  knee-high,  0» 
In  brook,  wer  nigh,  O, 
Wher  thee  dost  float,  goolden  aommer  dote. 

Or  d  the  brooks  droo  the  meada  a-windin, 

O?  d  the  meXda  by  a  river'a  brim, 
Ther'a  nnon  ao  flair  o*  my  own  heart'a  vindAn, 
Aa  wher  the  mftidens  da  lee  thee  awlm, 
An'  Stan  to  tiake,  O, 
Wi'  lonff-stemm'd  riake,  O, 
Thy  flow'r  afloat,  goolden  anaimer  dote. 


I  GOT  TWO  riXL'a. 


I  got  two  vid's,  an'  I  don't 
y/fhtX  wjnire  mid  have  a  bigg«r  shim. 
My  little  sammer*leise  da  stratdk 
Al  down  the  hangin,  to  a  patch 
O'  meld  between  a  hedge  an'  rank 
Or  damsf  aa'  a  rivar  bank. 


576  Banei'B  Pom  c/lUnl  Li/e 

Whtr  yoUcr  dotes  In  ipraadte  beds 

O*  floattn  leavet  da  lift  ther  heads 

By  bendte  buUrvslics  an'  ledga 

A-swAyte  at  the  water's  edga, 

Below  the  with  j  that  da  spread 

AIMrt  the  brook  his  wold  grey  head. 

An*  eltrot  flowers,  milky  white. 

Da  cateh  the  slAnt^n  eremen  light ; 

An*  in  the  nkiaple  bonghs,  along 

The  hedge,  da  ring  the  blackbird's  loag ; 

Ar  in  the  dae,  a*Tlee-te  droo 

The  leafy  trees,  the  hnosse  gookoo 

1>a  sing  to  mowers  that  da  set 

Ther  dves  on  end,  an*  stan*  to  whet. 

Vrom  my  wold  honse  among  the  trees 

A  Uane  da  goo  along  the  le&se, 

O*  yoller  gra^  down  between 

Two  mishy  banks  Tar  erer  green. 

An*  trees,  a  hang^n  anTerhead, 

0a  hide  a  trinkl«n  nllybed, 

A-coTer'd  by  a  bmdge  Tar  hoes 

Ar  man  a-Toot  to  oome  across. 

Zoo  wi'  my  hnomeetead  I  don*t  kiare 

What  sqnire  mid  have  a  bigger  shiare. 

We  must  give  one  more  poem  and  then  mamts  de  tmkuU^we  have 
performed  oor  task,  of  which  the  real  difficulty  has  been  to  form  a  adec- 
tion  where  excellence  was  so  abundant,  and  where  the  beaatiea  of  tiie 
pages  we  passed  orer  seemed  almost  to  reproach  ns  for  oar  partiality. 

aVKMSm  BTBMBN  DANCB. 

Come  out  to  the  parrick,  come  oat  to  the  tree, 
The  mAidens  an*  chaps  be  a-wlitin  var  thee : 
Ther's  Jim  wT  his  fiddle  to  pUy  as  some  reels ; 
Come  oat  along  wi*  nS|  an*  fling  op  thy  heels. 

Come,  al  the  long  grass  is  a-mow*d  an'  a  -carr'd, 
An*  the  toif  is  so  smooth  as  a  baoard  an*  so  hard. 
Ther*s  a  bank  to  sit  down,  when  y'ave  dioced  a  dance  droot 
An*  a  tree  aoTer  head  Tar  to  keep  ofl"  the  dew. 

Ther  be  rnoses  an*  honeysneks  hangen  among 
The  bashes,  to  pnt  in  thy  wiaste ;  and  the  aong 
O*  the  nightengiale*s  he&rd  in  the  hedges  al  roan' ; 
An*  111  get  thee  a  glow-worm  to  stick  in  thy  gown. 

Ther's  Miary  so  modest,  an*  Jenny  so  smart. 
An'  Mag  that  da  love  a  good  rompee  to  her  heart : 
Theirs  Joe  at  the  mill  that  da  sing  Innny  songs. 
An*  shart-laggid  Dick,  too,  a-waggen  his  prongs. 

Zoo  come  to  the  parrick,  oome  ont  to  the  treoi 
The  maidens  an*  chaps  be  a  wlUten  var  thee ; 
Ther's  Jim  wi'  his  fiddle  to  pUy  as  some  reels ; 
Come  oat  along  wi*  us,  and  fling  up  thy  heels. 

We  hope  soon  to  see  Mr.  Barnes  again,  appearing  with  lenorated 
powers,  and  taking  a  bolder  and  wider  flight ;  and,  as  he  has  soccessfoHy 
tried  his  provincial  dialect^  we  could  wish  that  he  would  doff  his  peasant's 
garmento  for  the  future,  and  appear  clad  like  his  brethren  the  other  Bards 
of  England ; — ^for  in  the  old  Gudewife's  words^ 


Te  maanna  wear  the  donted  shoon, 
Te  are  no  like  a  conntry  loon, 

My  Bflly. 


2 


Bot  gi'  yonr  tartan  jnst  a  fk'. 
And  pat  your  bonnet  on  and  a'. 
And  yon  're  as  gade  as  any  lor*, 

MyBfUy. 


k. 


1844J 


SiU  of  ^nderida* 


677 


Mr.  Urban,  ^n!^*^' 

Oct.  30. 

SHOULD  yovL  consider  tbe  follow* 
ing  observations  as  likely  to  illustrate 
the  subject  of  which  they  treat,  they 
are  much  at  your  senrice. 

Yours,  &c.        Bbals  Post. 

SOME  doubts  and  difficulties  occur 
with  regard  to  the  position  of  this 
place,  the  question  of  whose  situation 
Is  not  so  smooth  and  flowing  as  its 
name.    It  has  not  the  advantage  of 
being  mentioned  in  the  Itineraries  of 
Antoninus,  but  occurs    in  those  of 
Richard  of  Cirencester,  and  is  one  of 
the  stations  mentioned  in  the  Notitia 
Imperii.     It  was  the  chief  city  of  the 
widely  extended  district  anciently  called 
the  Forest  of  Anderida,  which  reached 
120  miles  in  length,  and  was  accounted 
30  miles  wide.    This  the  Britons  called 
Coit  Andred,  the  Saxons  Andredswald, 
the  Normans  Andred  or  Walda.    Da- 
fell,  in  his  "Castles  of  Kent,"  styles  it 
the  Forest  of  Androgens,  meaning  an 
allusion  thereby  to  the    History  of 
Geoffrey  of  Monmouth. 

Anderidathe  City,  the  Caer  Andred 
of  the  Britons,  and  the  Andredes- 
ceasterof  the  Saxons  in  their  Chronicle, 
must  have  been  a  place  of  considerable 
importance.  It  gave  its  appellation 
to  the  forest ;  and  three  cohorts  are 
mentioned  in  the  Notitia  which  may 
have  derived  their  names  from  it,  or 
from  its  district,  Andreciani  Milites, 
sect.  4,  Anderetiani,  sect.  64,  and 
Andericiani,  sect.  65 ;  though,  as  there 
was  an  Anderidum  in  Gaul,  the  pre- 
sent Mende  in  Acquitaine,  some  one 
or  more  of  those  may  have  been  named 
from  that  source.  Tnere  were,  without 
doubt,  many  cultivated  and  populous 
spots  within  the  compass  of  this  forest 
tract,  and  Regnum,  or  the  present 
Chichester,  the  Portus  Adurni  also, 
as  well  as  the  Portus  Magnus  and 
Portus  Novas  of  Ptolemy,  must  have 
been  within  its  limits,  or  upon  its 
outskirts. 

However,  Anderida,  wherever  it  was 
situated,  was  taken  and  sacked  In  the 
year  492  by  the  Saxon  forces  under 
clla  and  his  son  Cissa,  and  its  in- 
habitants put  to  the  sword.  It  would 
appear  that,  in  consequence  of  Heogist 
having  obtained  the  kingdom  of  Kent, 

Gent.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


other  bodies  of  Saxons  began  to  bear 
hard  on  the  parts  of  Britain  imme. 
diately  to  the  west.   Some  years  before 
the    death   of  Hengist,  in  488,  the 
Saxons  bad  become  possessed  of  the 
whole  of  the  sea  coasts  of  Sussex, 
with   the   exception  of  the   city   of 
Anderidas  which  at  last,  by  all  ita 
brave  defenders  perishing,  as  well  as 
by  ito  obstinate  resistance,  like  Sa- 
guntum  and  Numantium  of  old,  wat 
destined  to  leave  a  melancholy  interest 
to  posterity.    In  the  year  above  noted 
the  Saxons  made  the  greatest  possible 
effbrta  to  capture  this  place,  as  the 
Britons  did  on  their  part  to  defend  it. 
During  the  time  ft  held  out  they  col. 
lected  in  large  force  in  the  parts  of  the 
forest  of  Anderida  nearest  adjoining, 
whence  issuing,    they   harassed    the 
Saxons  by  such  repeated  attacks,  by 
night  as  well  as  by  day,  that  they  com* 
pelled  them  to  raise  the  siege  for  a 
time,  till  by  fighting  they  drove  them 
back  to  the  woods.    AAer  a  while  the 
Britons  again    issued   and   renewed 
their  attacks;   but  the   Saxons  this 
time  divided  their  army,  and  with  one 
division  kept  the  Britons   in  check, 
and  with  the  other  maintained  the 
siege,  till  at  last,  they  took  the  town  by 
storm.    According  to  Henry  of  Hunt- 
ingdon, when  it  was  captured  they 
slaughtered  all  the  inhabitants  from 
the  least  to  the  greatest,  and  so  de- 
stroyed the  city  that  it  was  never  re- 
built; and  the  place  where  it  stood  con- 
tinued to  be  shown  to  the   passers 
by. 

In  his  second  book  he  narrates  the 
events  of  this  Saxon  war,  as  do 
Matthew  of  Westminster  and  Flo- 
rence of  Worcester  after  him ;  though 
both  in  much  less  detail,  particularly 
the  last. 

Camden's  account  is,  that  it  con* 
tinned  in  this  state  of  desolation  till 
the  reign  of  Edward  the  First,  (Henry 
the  Third,  a.d.  1243  J  when  Sir  Tho- 
mas Alboger  (Fitz  Aucher,  though 
Weever  has  Alboger,  p.  289,)  first 
founded  a  Carmelite  monastery  here, 
whence  Newenden  sprang  op,  and  r^ 
ceived  Its  name,  importing  "  the  New 
Town  in  the  Valley,"  as  if  in  remem- 
brance of  its  ancient  predecessof. 
Could  this  account  be  depended  upon, 
there  would  be  an  end  at  once  of  the 

4E 


S78 


SiU  of  Anieridm. 


inqoiry  at  to  its  ftitnation ;  bot  Cam- 
deo  does  not  qoote  his  authorities,  and 
reasons  perhaps  may  be  shown  to  the 
contrary.  Lambarde*  Sclden,  Plot, 
Harris,  and  Hasted,  unite  with  him 
in  his  opinion,  as  also  some  later 
writers. 

Nevertheless,  as  might  be  eipected, 
this  is  not  the  only  argument  for  plac- 
ing Anderida  at  Newcnden.  A  good 
shew  of  argument  there  must  needs  be, 
since  so  many  antiquaries  of  emi« 
nence  and  reputation,  both  of  former 
and  recent  times,  have  embraced  the 
opinion.  The  reasons,  then,  for  New« 
cnden,  appear  to  be  these,  which  we 
may  review  for  the  purpose  of  eiamin* 
ing  if  they  are  placed  on  just  and  true 
grounds ;  and  the  rather  as  it  may  be 
suspected  that  some  very  considerable 
mistakes  are  miied  up  with  them. 

1st.  The  statement  of  Camden  above 
mentioned.      2nd.   its    having    been 

Siven,  as  it  is  said,  in  the  year  791  by 
Ling  Offa  to  the  Monks  of  Canter- 
bury, by  the  name  of  Andred.  3rd. 
That  there  is  still  a  farm  in  the  parish 
of  a  nearly  similar  name;  that  is, 
Arndred.  And  4rb.  That  it  is  placed  in 
a  part  of  Kent  traditionally  supposed 
to  have  been  anciently  within  the 
boundaries  of  Sussei ;  whence  it  might 
be  supposed  the  better  to  agree  with 
Henry  of  Huntingdon's  narrative. 

With  regard  to  the  answers  with 
which  the  above  are  to  be  met :  some 
persons  endeavour  to  prove  that  Cam* 
den  is  in  error  from  a  passage  in  Gildas, 
which,  however,  is  so  loosely  worded 
that  it  will  be  better  to  decline  taking 
advanUge  of  it.  It  is  as  follows: 
"  On  the  shore  of  the  ocean  on  the 
South  coast,  where  their  vessels  fre- 
quented, as  they  (the  Saxons)  were 
feared  like  wild  beasts,  they  (the 
Romans)  placed  towers  at  intervals  to 
overlook  the  sea."  Gildas,  Hist.  c. 
18. 

Here,  what  places  Gildas  means 
is  not  clear.  He  does  not  certainly 
mean  Anderida,  which  is  generally 
considered  a  city,  and  from  which,  or 
from  its  district,  several  cohorts  are 
supposed  to  have  been  raised.  Perhaps 
he  does  not  mean  Roman  Stations  at 
all,  but  signal-places  or  watch-towers 
merely. 

^  In  the  like  manner,  the  retired  situs- 
tion  of  Newenden,  at  the  head  of  a 


deep  inlet  of  tiie  tea,  aa  it  fuiiamly 
was,  cannot  be  adduced  as  an  aiiga- 
ment  that  it  is  not  the  site  of  An- 
derida.   We  know  not  for  certain  Ibat 
it  was  so  placed  that  it  could  com- 
mand a  good  view  of  what  passed  on 
the    British  Channel    to  watch   the 
Saxons,  though,  as  the  Romans  in  the 
time   of  the  Notitia  seem    to  iMve 
economised  their  forces,  and  in  this 
part  of  the  kingdom  disposed  theoa  for 
that  purpose,  there  seems  to  be  aome 
reason  to  suppose  so. 

Thus,  we  must  dismiss  two  osoally 
received  arguments  in  this  case.  What 
appears  chiefly  to  remain  to  us  are  the 
following : 

Istly.  As  to  Camden,  the  distances  in 
the  fifteenth  Iter  of  Richard  of  Ciren- 
cester, which  take  from  Dover  to  the 
port  of  the  river  Lemana  10  miles, 
another  10  to  the  station  he  caUs 
Lemanus,  and  from  thence  35  to  An- 
derida, appear  to  shew  that  he  is  mis* 
taken,  notwithstanding  some  of  those 
numbers  may  require  trifling  cor- 
rection :  Newenden  is  by  no  means  at 
so  considerable  a  distance  from  Dover. 
The  advantage  of  seeing  Richard's 
Itineraries  the  older  antiquaries  of 
course  did  not  possess. 

Again,  the  Anderesio  mentioned  in 
the  Chorography  of  Ravennas,  about 
the  year  636,  as  one  of  the  cities  of 
Britain,  would  seem  to  be  Anderida ; 
and  affords  a  strong  presumption  that 
it  might  not  be  lying  at  that  date  so 
utterly  waste  and  desolate  as  sup- 
posed. 

Further,  Newenden  is  mentioned  by 
its  name  as  a  manor  in  Domesday 
Book,  therefore  Camden's  assertion 
cannot  be  literally  true ;  and  hence,  if 
it  be  Anderida  revived,  it  must  have 
been  revived  at  a  much  earlier  date 
than  he  supposes.  This  has  been  per- 
ceived, and,  accordingly,  the  idea  of 
Newenden  originating  from  the  Car- 
melite Priory  has  been  dropped. 

2ndly.  In  regard  to  Offis's  alleged 
grant  of  the  site  of  Anderida  to  the 
see  of  Canterbury,  the  circumstance 
of  the  donation,  were  it  so,  could 
hardly  have  escaped  Somner,  the  re- 
gistrar of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  his 
day,  and  the  person  so  eminently 
versed  in  their  records,  that  it  may  be 
said,  without  fear  of  contradiction,  no 
one  has  at  aU   equalled  him  since. 


1844.] 


Site  ofAndtnda. 


679 


The  grant  it  alluded  to  by  Twine,  de 
Rebus  Albionicis,  p.  102,  and  may  be 
found  briefly  noticed  in  Dugdale's 
Monasticon,  toI.  1.  p.  19#  thus : 

"  In  the  year  of  our  Lord  791 1  B^ing 
Offa  ga?e  to  the  church  of  Canterbury 
Ottefordy  and  fifteen  plough  lands  in  the 
nroTinoe  of  Kent  named  Yechanii  for  the 
food  of  tJie  monks.  Perhamstedei  Ro- 
king,  and  Andred  for  pannage  of  swine. 
Panmalingdene,  Sandherst,  Suthelming- 
dene,  and  in  the  woods  which  are  csIImI 
Bocholte  and  Blean  Heanhric  ;  and 
another  (pannage)  between  the  torrent 
named  Eorthbuman  and  Aghne,  Orga* 
riswiketreow ;  and  the  pasture  of  one 
flock  near  Theningden,  and  fifty  swine  at 
Binnam  Smede." 

Twine  gives  the  details  in  much  the 
same  words,  variations  of  orthographv 
only  excepted,  and  informs  us  he  took 
these  particulars  from  the  Book  of 
Donations ;  belonging  to  the  Dean  and 
Chapter,  of  course,  though  he  does  not 
mention  that  circumstance. 

Now  there  is  every  reason  to  sup- 
pose that  Somner  himself  furnished 
this  note  of  the  grant  to  Dugdale, 
having  been,  as  it  la  known,  a  large 
contributor  to  his  work.  It  is  certain 
that  he  was  perfectly  well  acquainted 
with  the  work  of  Twine,  as  he  quotes 
him  frequently.  Did  this,  therefore, 
prove  Anderida  to  be  Newenden,  no 
one  would  have  been  sooner  aware  of 
it  than  himself,  yet  on  the  contrary 
he  does  not  even  refer  to  this  circum- 
stance, but  is  inclined  to  place  Anderida 
elsewhere ;  see  his  Ports  and  Forts,  p. 
103.  We  therefore  may  be  fully 
justified  in  following  his  example,  as 
there  could  not  be  a  better  judge  in 
this  matter ;  and  we  now  possibly  may 
be  able  to  point  out  the  misconception 
which  exists  in  regard  to  this  grant. 

By  consulting  the  Valor  Ecclesiasti- 
cus  of  Henry  VIII.  as  published  by 
the  Record  Commission,  page  6,  what 
Offa  gave  to  the  monks  under  the 
name  Andred  appears  most  probably 
not  to  have  been  the  site  of  Anderida, 
but  a  manor  and  lands  they  had  in 
the  Weald  called  Walda,  in  the  account 
of  their  estates,  the  precise  situation 
of  which  seems  not  stated.  Andred 
and  Walda  were  synonymous,  as 
Andred  was  a  general  name  for  the 
Weald.  An  estate  belonging  to  a 
monastery  in  the  Weald  might  easily 


be  entered  as  an  item  in  their  list  of 
lands  as  Andred,  without  any  allusion 
to  the  city  of  Anderida ;  and  in  this 
case  it  would  seem  there  is  nothing 
else  to  answer  to  their  above  estate 
of  Walda,  in  the  early  grants  to 
the  monastery  collected  in  Dugdale'a 
Monasticoo,  p.  10  to  22,  but  this  of 
Andred.  This  estate  of  theirs  ap- 
pears to  have  been  large,  aa  its  value, 
23/.  6t.  \\\d,  shews,  compared  with 
others  in  the  Valor  Ecclesiasticus.  It 
is  true  the  Valor  also  shews  they  had 
the  manor  of  Newenden,  as  we  like* 
wise  know  from  other  sources ;  but 
there  seems  no  reason  necessarily  to 
connect  it  with  Anderida,  as  they  may 
have  first  built  this  place  in  the  midst 
of  the  wild  and  desolate  region  in 
which  it  was  situated,  though  not 
from  the  ruins  of  the  above-mentioned 

city. 

A  manuscript  of  Thome  the  chroni- 
cler, entitled  Evidences  of  Christ 
Church,  Canterbury,  extant  in  the 
Library  of  Benet  College,  Cambridge, 
(see  Bernard's  CaUlogue,  No.  1344, 
and  printed  so  far  back  as  the  year 
1651  in  Twysden's  Decem  Scriptores, 
page  2219,)  fully  bears  out  the  views 
afforded  us  by  the  Valor  Ecclesiasticus, 
and  as  it  does  not  appear  how  ita 
authenticity  can  be  doubted,  and  as  it 
has  been  seen  what  the  usually  re- 
ceived  evidence  of  the  grant  amounta 
to,  it  may  finally  settle  this  point. 

The  words  are,  "  In  the  year  of  our 
Lord  791,  I,  Offa  the  king,  give  to  the 
church  of  Canterbury  the  kS  plough 
lands  I  hold  in  the  province  of  Kent, 
in  my  own  right,  in  the  places  here- 
inafter named,  that  is,  at  Lecham, 
Phanstede,  and  Rochinga ;  and  in  the 
forest  called  Andred,  pannage  of  swine 
in  these  places,  Dunwalingden,  Sand- 
hyrste,  and  Swithelungden ;  and  in 
the  woods  which  are  called  Bocholt 
and  Blean,  at  Heanhric ;  and  another 
(pannage  of  swine)  between  the  tor- 
rent named  Neorthbumham  and  Ha- 
ganetreow  ;  and  the  feed  of  one  flock 
near  Teningden,  and  of  SO  swine  at 
Binnansnede.  This  my  donation  I 
give  free  to  the  church  of  Christ,  with 
all  that  of  right  belongs  to  it,  and  dis- 
charged of   all  secular  service    and 

regal  tribute." 

In  theoriginal  Latin  itiathoss  ''Anno 

Domioioe  Incaniationia  DCCXCI  Ego 


S80 


^ie  efJhierUkL 


[Dec. 


Offa  Rex  ecclesis  Cliristi  Cantnarue 
terrain  juris  mei  xt  aratrorum  in  pro* 
Tincift  Caatis  in  hia  post  nominatia 
locii,  id  est,  Lecham,  Pbansteda»  Ro- 
chingft,  et  in  salta  qui  dtcitar.  Andred 
pascna  porcomm  in  his  locis  Dan- 
walingden,  Sandhyrste,  Swithelnng- 
den,  et  in  syWis  qa»  dicantnr  Bocholt 
et  Blean,  Heanhric«  et  aliod  inter 
torrentem  nomine  Neorthbnrnham  et 
Haganetreow,  et  paatnm  nnias  gregis 
jnxta  Teningden  et  1  porcornm  Bin- 
nansnede.  Hanc  prsdietam  dona- 
tionem  concedoliberam  ecclesis  Christi 
cnm  omnibas  rite  ad  earn  pertinentibus 
ab  omni  secnlari  serricio  et  regali 
tribnto." 

Hence  we  may  conelode  tbat  neither 
Twine  nor  Dngdale  have  faithfnlly 
given  the  purport  of  this  grant,  arising, 
as  we  may  presume  from  the  incorrect 
insertion  m  the  original  donation  book 
of  the  monastery. 

3rdly.  As  to  the  farm  Amdred  in 
Newenden,  thought  to  be  a  relic  of  the 
name  Anderida,theOrdnanee  and  other 
maps  hsTe  Amden  or  Harnden,  which 
materially  alters  the  case  i  and  in- 

aniries  on  the  spot  confirm  this  to  be 
le  proper  appellation.  There  is, 
however,  another  place  in  this  vici- 
nity mentioned  in  connection  with 
Newenden,  and  thought  to  bear  on 
the  point  of  its  being  Anderida,  that 
is,  Anderdown.  By  referring  to  Har- 
ris, we  find  this  to  have  been  the  hill 
opposite  Reading  Street  across  the  flat, 
but  as  he  does  not  tell  us  on  which 
aide,  its  exact  position  does  not  ap- 
pear I  but  it  cannot  be  nearer  to  New- 
enden  village  than  five  miles,  and  may  be 
seven.  The  remaining  argument  for 
Newenden,  namely,  of  having  been,  as 
it  is  said,  anciently  within  the  limits 
of  Sussex,  would  be  corroborative,  could 
otherwise  good  proof  be  shewn  that  it 
is  Anderida,  in  which  case  only  it 
could  apply. 

We  must  now  refer  to  what  evi- 
dence the  place  Itself  furnishes. 

General  estimation,  on  the  authority 
of  Plot,  Harris,  and  Hasted,  considers 
that  there  are  two  earthworks  there  ; 
one  the  Castle  Hill,  supposed  the  ci- 
tadel, the  other  the  Castle  Toll,  lying 
dose  to  it,  to  the  south,  supposed  the 
town  or  city  of  Anderida :  but  whe- 
ther there  ever  waasueh  an  earthwork 
•a  this  laal  appeait  a  little  doubtftil. 


Certain  it  is,  that  neither  of  these 
places  presents  the  remains  of  the 
stone  walls  we  might  have  expected 
to  have  met  with  where  there  had 
been  a  Roman  city  or  fortress.  To 
this  it  may  be  said  that  the  walls  were 
destroyed.  But  the  foundations,  would 
they  not  remain}  Dr.  Hania  wm 
sensible  of  this  objection,  for  he  antH 
cipates  it,  and  informs  us  that  fros 
the  general  want  of  stone  in  this  dis- 
trict Uie  foundations  have  probably 
been  removed ;  as,  he  erroneously  adds, 
those  of  the  Carmelite  Priory  hare 
been,  a  far  more  recent  building.  He 
was  not  aware  that  these  continued  im 
existence,  as  indeed   they  do  to  the 

S resent  day.  As  this  fact  therefore 
as  come  to  knowledge,  reasoning 
from  a  parity  of  circumstances,  it  is 
much  more  likely  that  the  foundations 
of  the  city  of  Anderida  should  remain^ 
if  it  were  situated  at  the  Castle  T6^ 
being  more  remote  from  roads  and 
modern  population.  In  regard  to  tile 
walls  of  the  supposed  citadel  at  Castle 
Hill,  he  himself  fomlshes  an  answer 
in  another  place,  by  observing  that  the 
remaining  embankments  there  have  a 
complete  and  well  finished  appearance. 
Therefore  they  have  been  alvraya 
earthworks:  and  as  such  it  appears 
by  Dr.  Plot's  papers,  and  his  own  ac- 
count, had  been  continually  ploughed 
down  lower  and  lower,  uiongh  the 
same  has  been  discontinued  in  later 
times,  the  spot  having  been  long  con- 
verted into  pasture.  Had  the  founda- 
tions of  the  stone  walls  been  removed, 
the  ground  must  have  been  opened  for 
that  purpose,  and  would  have  laid 
about  in  neaps  together  with  the  rub- 
bish in  great  confosion,  not  displaying 
the  regularity  of  which  Dr.  Harris 
speaks,  and  which  in  fact  exists. 

A  visit  to  Newenden  will  much  tend 
to  dissipate  the  idea  of  its  having  been 
Anderida,  and  will  convey  the  impree- 
sion  that  the  claims  put  forward  for 
this  place  have  been  greatly  exagge- 
rated. The  part  of  the  parish  sup> 
posed  tbe  former  site  of  tne  citv  and 
citadel,  that  is  the  Castle  Toll  and 
Castle  Hill,  occupies  the  extremity  of  a 
neck  of  land  intervening  between  the 
the  rivers  Hexden  and  Rother,  whoae 
conflux  took  place  here.  In  their 
former  state  both  these  rivers  must 
have  been  at  the  least  a  quarter  of  a 


1844.] 


Sih  <^  AndirUm. 


581 


siile  wid«;  and  the  Rother  proliably 
acceded  that  breadth.  They  are  now 
BO  longer  ettaariee,  but  are  re- 
duced to  small  rivere.  At  to  the  spots 
5roposed  for  investigation,  the  Castle 
'oil,  properly  The  Tolls,  the  reputed 
eite  of  the  city,  is  so  like  any  other  two 
fields  of  arable  land,  is  so  uniformly 
level,  and  is  so  devoid  of  any  remains 
of  building  materials,  or  discoloration 
of  the  soil,  as  to  suggest  much  doubt, 
not  only  whether  it  has  been  a  city, 
but  even  an  ancient  eamp.  It  is 
usually  supposed  an  intrenched  in« 
closure  of  eighteen  or  twenty  acres, 
or  affording  strong  evidence  of  having 
been  one.  At  the  present  time  it  shows 
no  indications  whatever ;  and  it  seems 
an  embankment  was  only  professed  on 
the  east  side  by  its  first  deecribers, 
and  the  rest  conjectured.  This  may 
have  been  one  formed  on  the  point  of 
land  to  prevent  a  landing  near  the  ad- 
joining fort }  or  this  may  have  been 
eonfuMd  with  a  ridge  or  prominence 
at  the  edge  of  Uie  marsh,  as  is  Are- 

2uently  met  with.  The  name  given  of 
Jastle  Toll,  which  would  appear  signi- 
ficant, on  reference  to  the  map  of  Los- 
senham  estate,  of  which  the  lands  here 
are  a  part,  is  found  to  be  the  appellation 
of  the  Castle  Hill  only.  These  fields 
are  styled  therein  no  otherwise  than 
"The  Tolls/'  which  will  not  be  consi- 
dered to  apply  to  a  military  work. 

In  the  liae  manner  Dr.  Harris  re- 
presents the  Castle  Hill, — properly,  the 
Castle  Toll,  here  however  styled  ac- 
cording to  its  acquired  name,— as 
comprising  five  or  six  acres.  This  in 
reality  applies  only  to  the  field  in 
which  it  u  situated,  which,  according 
to  the  above  map,  is  six  acres,  two 
roods,  and  thirty-five  perches,  since  the 
area  of  the  interior  of  the  earthwork, 
which  is  a  square  with  rounded  corners, 
is  only  about  half  an  acre.  A  detailed 
account  of  this  fort,  with  a  plan,  will 
be  given  in  "TheMilitary Antiquities  of 
Kent."  It  is  the  fortified  work  men- 
tioned by  Kilburne  as  destroyed  by 
the  Danes  in  893f  at  which  time  we 
are  told  they  constructed  a  stronger 
one  at  Appledore,  nearer  the  sea  by 
seven  miles,  and  then  an  insular  situa- 
tion, where  they  for  awhile  maintained 
themselves* 

Both  the  Tolls  and  the  Castle  Hill 
are  situated  at  the  extremity  of  a  neck 
of  land  at  the  former  junction  of  the 


rivers  Hexden  and  Rother,  and  no 
vestiges  of  a  road  are  observable  con- 
necting them  with  the  main  land. 

Newenden  is  thus  perhaps  suf- 
ficiently cleared  away,  which  leaves 
an  opening  for  substituting  some  other 
place,  if  our  doubts  are  satisfied  with 
regard  to  it,  Pevensey  Castle  appears 
to  have  the  best  claims  to  our  atten- 
tion, which  is  the  remains  of  a  stone 
fortress  of  Roman  origin,  as  the  solid 
elliptical  towers  and  layers  of  Roman 
bricks  shew,  and  is  of  some  consider- 
able extent,  as  it  incloses  about  eleven 
acres  of  ground.  The  form  of  it  is 
irregular,  and  subsequent  to  the  time 
of  the  Romans  a  strong  Norman  keep 
has  been  added  in  the  interior  of  it. 
The  correspondence  of  its  situation 
with  the  Itineraries  of  Richard  is  shewn 
elsewhere  $  and  (6r  a  description  of  thia 
place  tbe  reader  may  be  referred  to 
king's  Munimeota  Antiqua,  where  he 
will  find  an  admirable  one. 

It  has  been  remarked,  that  An- 
derida  having  been  garrisoned  in  the 
time  of  the  Notitia,  there  is  some  pre- 
sumption, though  not  necessarily  a 
certainty,  that  it  was  so  situated  as  to 
have  a  commanding  view  of  the  sea, 
and  capable  of  being  occupied  to  ad- 
vantage against  the  Saxons.  Were 
this  the  case,  Pevensey  would  have 
been  extremely  well  adapted.  The 
port,  Bwarved  up  in  modern  times,  and 
consequently  lost  to  the  British  Chan- 
nel, lay  before  the  castle,  and  was 
perfectly  protected  from  the  South- 
western gales,  the  most  dreaded  oa 
this  coast:  while  signals  from  the 
high  promontory  of  Beacby  Head,  doae 
adjoining,  would  have  informed  the 
garrison  and  vessels  at  anchor  here 
of  what  was  transacted  on  the  ocean 
for  a  long  distance  round.  A  place 
better  suited  to  the  purpose  ooula  not 
have  been  wished ;  unlike  Newenden, 
from  which  they  could  see  nothing 
that  transpired  in  the  British  Channel, 
whose  situation  likewise  would  have 
required  nearly  a  day's  navigation  to 
get  out  to  sea. 

Some  have  an  idea  that  the  walls 
of  Anderida  were  razed  to  the  ground 
at  the  time  the  citv  was  captured; 
but,  on  turning  to  tne  authorities  we 
have  before  mentioned,  nothing  ap- 
pears to  countenance  the  opinion. 
Henry  of  Huntingdon's  words  are« 

they  ao  deatroyed  th«  city  that  it 


«< 


582 


Mistaken  Date  at  Fittleworth,  Sussex. 


[Dec. 


WM  never  rebuilt  again."  He  says 
nothing  about  the  walls.  Why  should 
not,  therefore*  the  walls  of  Anderida 
remain  yet  standing,  as  well  as  those 
of  some  other  Roman  stations,  and  be 
in  equally  good  preservation  as  those 
of  Pevensey  are  ?  We  have  reason  to 
believe  that,  although  breaches  were 
made  in  the  walls  of  Recnlver,  Rich- 
borough,  and  Lymne,  and  portions  of 
them  thrown  down  by  their  con- 
querors, yet  that  they'  have  chiefly 
been  dilapidated  by  being  removed  for 
building  materials.  If,  therefore,  the 
walls  of  Anderida  have  by  any  circum- 
stances escaped  this  spoliation,  their 
S resent  existence  is  only  what  might 
ave  been  expected. 
In  regard  to  the  name  Pevensey,  we 
find  that  there  is  great  reason  to  sup- 
pose that  Anderida,  about  A.D.  600  or 
soon  after,  had  become  altered  to 
Anderesio,  in  which  form  we  find  it 
in  the  work  of  Raven nas.  About  200 
years  afterwards,  in  the  work  of 
Nennius,  among  the  twenty- eight  cities 


of  Britain,  the  one  styled  Pensa'  vel 
Coit,  that  is  Pensa  otherwise  Coit,  is 
mentioned.  This  name  appears  to 
connect  itself  much  with  Pevensey^ 
which  by  the  country  people  is  called 
Pembsey,  extremely  similar  in  sound ; 
it  connects  itself  slightly  with  An- 
derida, by  its  alias  Coit,  or  the  forest, 
Anderida  having  been  the  principal 
forest  city  or  town  in  Britain,  and 
Anderida  the  town,  and  Andred  the 
forest,  being  often  mentioned  in  con- 
nection with  each  other.  When 
the  British  language  declined  in 
use,  it  is  not  surprising  a  change  of 
name  took  place ;  or  it  may  have  re- 
ceived the  name  Pensa  from  some 
circumstances  of  its  situation. 

The  foregoing  appears  most  relative 
respecting  the  situation  of  Anderida. 
Should  the  inquirer  not  acquiesce,  not 
only  must  a  new  site  be  found  for  it, 
but  some  suitable  Roman  port  or 
station  for  Pevensey,  where  there  is 
every  reason  to  suppose  there  has 
been  one. 


DATS  AT  LKS  OE  LTOH,  IN  THB  PABI8R  OF  F1TTLBW0RTH|  SVS8BZ. 


IN  his  History  of  the  Rape  of  Arun- 
del, Mr.  Dallaway,  when  noticing  an 
estate  called  Lee,  or  Lygh,  in  the 
parish  of  Fittleworth,  now  belonging 
to  the  Earl  of  Egremont,  added  the 
following  note : 

Over  the  door  of  the  present  farm  is  an 
instance  of  the  character  of  the  Arabic 
numerals,  aa  first  introduced  into  this 
kingdom.  *'  l«91."  (1491.) 

With  his  customary  inaccuracy,  Mr. 
Dallaway  here  wrote  1491,  instead  of 
1492.  Mr.  Cart  Wright,  in  his  second 
edition  of  the  same  volume,  silently 
corrected  this  error,  retaining  Mr. 
Dallaway's  words,  and  adding  this 
fac-simile  of  the  whole  date. 


Mr.  Cartwright,  however,  thus  per- 
petuated a  much  greater  error  than  he 
corrected,  and  made  the  matter  worse 
by  his  far  from  careful  fac-simile.  It 
mmv  be  confidcntiv  asserted  that  either 
author,  if  they  had  been  as  much 


characterised  by  their  antiquarian  re- 
search as  they  unfortunately  were  by 
a  deficiency  of  that  necessarj^  element 
of  a  good  topographer,  might  have 
mounted  to  the  very  earliest  examples 
of  Arabic  numerals,  without  finding 
any  resembling  in  form  those  Mr. 
Cartwright  thus  exhibited.  As  we  know 
not  into  what  elementary  or  encyclo- 
pcdiac  works  the  error  may  not  be 
copied  in  these  days  of  historical  com- 
pilation, both  literary  and  pictorial, 
we  have  thought  it  desirable  to  take 
this  public  notice  of  an  inscription 
which  in  itself  would  not  be  deserving 
of  so  much  notice,  and  after  giving  a 
more  accurate  representation  of  the 
date,  for  which  we  are  indebted  to 
Mr.  F.  A.  Malleson,  of  Polborough, 
we  will  add  an  explanation  of  the  mis* 
apprehension. 

The  date  is  1593.  It  is  clear  that 
an  error  was  made  by  the  stone-cut- 
ter, not  uncommon  with  unpractised 
hands,  of  reversing  the  figure  6,  aAer 
which  he  cut  it  again  the  correct  way, 
and  very  probably  attempted  to  obli- 
terate his  first  production  by  some  ce- 
ment, or  other  material,  which  haa 
long  since  perished.  The  stonea 
themselves^  for  thero  are  two,  sioular 


1844.} 


ExmiiHatim  of  Lord  Keeper  LUtlelon. 


io  tbcir  intentioD,  and  in  their  error, 
are  Etill  perfect,  and  th«  cuttiog  of 
the  inter iptions  sharp.  They  are 
•labs  or  oolitic  saodstoDe,  which  tnust 
have  been  brought  from  aome  diBlaoce, 
and  are  let  into  a  nail  of  red  brick, 

The  Fittleworth  date  hat  therefore 
to  be  added  to  the  more  famous  "Col- 
chester date,"  Bod  various  others, 
which  liave  from  time  to  lime  misled 
the  views  of  in ei peri e need  palteogra- 

At  the  date  U92  the  eaUte  of  Legh 
beloDged  to  Joha  Lord  Luoile;,  nbo 
had  inherited  it  \a  right  of  hit  wife, 
the  co-heiress  of  the  Earls  of  Arundel ; 
and  to  him  or  his  tenant  mutt  be  at- 
tributed the  erection  of  the  mansioi). 
Dalliway  aays  that  it  was  parcel  of 
the  estates  ofLordLumleyin  1610;  by 
which  he  means  that  after  that  lord's 
death,  which  occurred  April  II,  1609, 
it  was  returned  by  inquisition  aa 
a  parcel  of  his  estates. 

Ma.  UsBAK.  Ocl.  9- 

THE  following  are  copies  of  two 
original  documents,  which  perhaps 
may  be  deemed  worthy  of  preserving. 
The  first  is  the  original  minute  of 
the  examinatioQ  of  Lord  Litrleton, 
Lord  Keeper  (signed  by  hit  own  hand, 
and  attested  by  the  hands  of  the  Lords 
present),  during  the  iiDportant  period 
when  the  Earl  of  Strafford  was  in- 
dicted for  high  treason  before  the  new 
Parliament.  A  sitnilar  impeachment 
was  also  preferred  against  the  Lord 
Keeper  Finch  and  Sir  Francis  Winde- 
baake,  one  of  the  Secretaries  of  State  ; 
bat  tbeac  persona,  haviog  been  appriaed 


of  their  intended  apprchcnaion,  fled  to 
the  Continent, 

The  letter,  written  subseqaently  to 
the  taking  of  Newcastle  by  atorm,  baa 
no  address,  but  evidently  refers  to  the 
ditpulea  then  eiisting  between  the 
PresbyCeritint  and  the  Independents, 
when  the  latter  were  endeavoariog  to 
gain  the  ascendancy. 

Yourt,  &c.     W.  Raioaa. 
"  TKexatainafioni  of  the  Right  Honor- 
able Edward  Lord  Littleton,  Lord 
Keeper  of  the  Greate  Seale  of  Eng- 
land, talc  en  the   6th  dale  ofAprill, 
before  the  Eartes  of  Bathe,  Etsex, 
and  Clare,  and  the  Lords  Wharton 
and  Lord  Seymo-. 
"To   the    first   ioterrogatorie    bee 
sayth,  that  the  speeche  att  the  Counsell 
boarde,  touching  the  layng  down  ship 
monie,  was  not  longe  before  the  pro- 
position made  in  the  Howae  [of]  Com- 
mons for  the  13  subsediet. 

"To  the  2d  hee  sayth,  that  bee  did 
desire  the  Lord  Finche  to  move  the 
King  not  to  dittolvc  the  Parliament, 
but  prorouge  onelie.  And  hee  did 
move  his  Maiestie  aceordingiie  in  pri- 

"  To  the  3d  hee  sayth,  that  the  Eatic 
of  Strafford,  presently  upon  his  coming 
into  the  Counsell  Chamber,  under- 
staniling  his  Maiestiea  resolution  to 
diiaolve  the  Parliament,  went  up  to  the 
King  and  spoake  privatelie  with  him 
before  hee  made  the  motion  to  heave 
the  Lords'  opinions  touching  the  dis- 
solving the  Parliam'. 

"To  the  4th  hee  sayth,  that  Secre- 
tarie  Windebanlie,  being  the  Puisne 
Counsellor,  did  first  gire  hia  opineone 


584 


iMmr  •f  L9rd  SmeUrj^^JHalfi  HdL 


(pee* 


for  dissolving  the  Fsrliament,  sffinnuig 
the  Howse  of  Commoos  would  give 
nothing*  and  besides  woald  strike  at 
the  soveimigntie. 

"£o.  LiTTLSTOlC*  C.  8* 

"  In  ikepnmme*  ^f 

*'  Hb.  BATVOIf. 

Esssx. 

CULEB. 

p.  Wbabton  • 
Fe.  Sbtmovb.'' 


**  Coppy  of  a  L're  from  the  Lo'  Sin* 
Clare  and  Sir  Wm.  Armyn/' 

"  Right  Honorable* 

"  Wee  know  not  any  better  use  you 
or  wee  can  make  of  the  great  Baccesse 
wherewith  it  hath  pleased  God  to 
blesse  oar  attempts  against  this  towns 
dien  to  make  it  evidente  to  the  world, 
that  tmth  and  peace  are  the  utmost  of 
oor  desires  and  designee ;  for  this  pur* 
pose  wee  mnst  uncessantly  renew  oar 
former  desires  to  you,  that,  all  other 
ai&ures  whatsoever  set  aside,  you  will 
ioe  farre  take  to  heart  the  setliog  of 
matters  of  religion,  the  worship  of  Qod. 
and  government  of  his  house  in  this 
kingdoms,  as  you  may  in  your  owne 
and  oar  names  become  earnest  soUi- 
citors  with  the  Assembly  of  Divines 
to  pat  that  bosinesse  to  a  period ;  and 


with  the  Parlt.  that  where  the  foan.- 
dac*on  is  layed  by  the  Assembly,  thei 
authoritybe  not  wanting  for  the  ooos- 
pleattng  of  the  worke.    Noe  greater 
encoaragcae&t  then  this  can  come  to 
the  hearts  of  ail  those  that  are  engaged 
in  this  canse  with  yoo,  nor  can  any 
meanes  be  soa  povrafoU  to  ranoTe 
these  great  pieindices  raised  againat 
our  cause,  by  the  aboandance   and 
variety  of  secteryss,  separatists,  and 
schismaticfcs,  livjpg  amongst  us,  to  th« 
mat  scandall  of  the  gospeil  and  pro- 
fessors thereof.    This  being  done,  wee 
may  with  the  greater  confidence  expect 
a  blessing  upon  oar  endeavours  for 
peace,  for  which,  as  noe  saccesae  can 
alter  our  desires,  soe  wee  are  confident 
you  are  usein^  all   expedition   pos- 
sible for  expediting  your  propositMna 
thereof,  that  they  may  be  dispatched 
to  his  Majesty,  whose  favourable  ac^ 
ceptance  is  earnestly  prayd  for  ther^ 
unto,  by 

"  Your  afiectionate  Friends 
and  Servants, 

"  SiNCLARB,  J.P.D. 

"  Newcastle,  S3rd  October, 
1644." 

Sir  WlDiam  Armyn^s  signature  is  not 
added ;  nor  is  the  meaning  of  the  letters 
which  follow  Lord  Sinc&dr's  sfgnatars 
apparent. 


BIDDULPU  HALL,  STAFFORDSHIRB. 
(WUk  a  PMe.) 


ft 


BIDULPH  being  in  the  confine 
of  the  shire,  joioeth  unto  Cheshire, 
within  less  than  two  miles  of  Congle- 
ton;  and  is  a  goodly  manor,  where 
Francis  Bidulph,  lately  deceased,  a 
gentleman  of  an  ancient  hoase,  and 
taking  his  name  of  the  place,  hath 
lately  there  builded  a  very  state-like 
and  fair  new  house  of  stone/' 

Such  is  Sampson  Erdeswick's  ac- 
count  of  Biddulph  Hall,  written  in 
1598. 

Francis  Biddulph,  the  founder, 
married  Isabella,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Giffard,  of  ChillingtoD,  and 
had  issue  Richard  his  son  and  heir. 

The  manor-house  of  Biddulph  was 
garrisoned  during  the  civil  war,*  and, 
in  consequence,  demolished.  At  a 
Committee  of  Sequestrations  at  Staf- 

*  Hsrwood's  Srdeswiek,  Edit.  1644, 
p.  7.  ' 

8 


ford,  March  91,  1643-4,  it  was  or* 
dered,  "  that  the  remainder  of  Bidi> 
dulph  House  bee  preserved,  according 
to  Mr.  Biddulph's  own  desirs,  to- 
ward the  repayringe  of  a  little  old 
house  of  his,  not  above  two  miles 
from  it.t" 

After  the  Restoration,  Richard 
Biddulph,  of  Biddulph,  esq.  having 
married  the  heiress  of  Goring,  of  Bo- 
decton,  (commonly  called  Burton,) 
in  Sussex,  removed  to  that  place, 
where  they  remained  in  1817*  (See 
their  Pedigree  in  Cartwright's  Rape 
of  Arundel,  p.  282.) 

The  ruins  of  this  Elizabethan  man- 
sion now  remain  in  the  state  re- 
presented in  the  Engraving. 


t  Ibid.  p.  4. 


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Hemiilns  offil,hltifph  Hnfl. 
St,tf'fhrM-hire. 


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l«44.]       Agasni.—Bd^e.^Hm^itl,  Henekel,  and  Brunei. 


585 


On  ACADBMISS. 

/»  eimiimu^ionfiwit  p.  S60. 

YET,  with  this  Tivid  conscioasness 
of  trespass,  I  still,  on  reflection,  feel 
bound,  ere  I  wholly  resign  this  foreign 
field  of  illustration,  to  solicit  leave,  and 
supply,  in  rapid  transit,  an  important 
omission  in  that  department  of  my 
undertaken  subject.  I  mean  a  nance  of 
existing  celebrity,  and  of  eminence,  in 
cognate  pnrsaits,  scarcely  inferior  to 
the  illustrious  Cuvier,  which  cannot 
Im  passed  over  in  promiscuoos  allu- 
sion to  the  number  of  writers  who, 
from  having  adopted  the  language,  are 
reputed  natives  of  France.  The  Che- 
valier Louis  Agassis,  a  Swiss  natu- 
ralist, and  professor  at  Neufchatel, 
has  acquired  the  highest  European 
reputation  by  various  works,  but  more 
especially  by  his  "  Recherches  sur 
les  Poissons  Fossiles,"  now  completed 
io  six  volumes  4to  of  letter- press,  and 
•ix  more  of  plates,  in  folio.  It  is  a 
publication  of  unsurpassed  merit  on 
the  matter.  Mr.  6.  A.  Mantdl  refers 
Io  it  with  just  eulogy,  in  his  "  Medals 
of  Creation,"  a  very  interesting  ele» 
mentary  treatise,  crowned  with  a  hu- 
morous and  characteristic  letter  from 
Mr.  Thomas  Hood,  in  which,  how- 
ever, I  may  passingly  observe,  that 
the  epigraph — "  Vincit  omnia  amor," 
there  ascribed  to  Ovid,  belongs  to  Vir- 
gil, who  says  in  the  tenth  Eclogue, 
verse  69 — "  Omnia  vincit  amor,  et 
nos  cedamusamori."— It  was,  indeed, 
natural  enough  on  such  a  topic  to 
think  only  of  the  great  chanter  and 
Appointed  sMM^er  of  love,  as  Ovid  as- 
sumes to  be — 

*'  Me  Venus  artificem  tenero  pr«fecit 
amori." 

J>tArU  AMMndi,  lib.  i.  v.  8. 

Nor  can  I  overlook  the  pretensions 
of  France  at  this  moment  to  a  country- 
man of  my  own,  Mr.  Balfe,  whose 
operas  enchant  the  Parisians,  and  of 
whom  thev  speak  as  one  of  themselves. 
His  "PuiU  d'Amour"  had  at  first 
attracted  attention  ;  and  of  his  more 
recent  "  Quatre  Fils  Aymon,"  the 
musical  reviewer,  H.  Berlioz,  remarks, 
"  Cette  musique  est  pleine  de  vivacity, 
de  verve,  et  d'entrain."  England,  in 
his  conception,  could  produce  nothing 
equal ;  and,  in  truth,  our  fame  in  the 
art  stands  on  the  lowest  scale.  Yet 
some  misgivings  of  the  author's  na- 

Gbnt.  Ma«.  Vol.  XXII. 


tionality  have  transpired,  but  are 
repelled  as  irreconcileable  with  his 
superior  merit.  "  Cette  jolie  musique 
serait-elle  d'un  Anglaia?"  is  the 
question  asked  in  admiration,  and 
resolved  by  an  answer  of  incredulity. 
A  few  years  ago  I  had  occasion  simi- 
larly to  strip  our  neighbours  of  bor- 
rowed plumage  io  the  person  of  an 
eminent  mechanician,  Mr.  James  Col- 
lier, a  native  of  Staffordshire,  but  long 
resident  in,  and  on  his  death  claimed 
by,  France.   See  Gent.  Mag.  for  June, 

1837.  p.  584. 

Although,  no  doubt,  in  a  much 
inierior  degree  as  to  contributing  num- 
bers, or  conferred  lustre,  the  fame  of 
Great  Britain  has  yet  occasionally 
been  irradiated  by  borrowed  light,  and 
extended  by  alien  genius  in  arts  and 
science.  I  need  only  cite  the  namea 
of  Handel,  of  Herschel,  or  of  Brunei ; 
and  no  higher  names  could  be  pro- 
nounced. Handel,  or  Haendel,  is,  in 
fact,  the  sole  musical  renown  which 
England,  and  that,  as  just  observed, 
not  by  birth  but  adoption,  can  array 
in  parallel  with  the  numerous  celebri- 
ties of  Ital^  and  Germany.  Of  Her- 
schel, origmally  a  musician  also,  M. 
Arago,  Secretary  of  the  Parisian 
Academy  of  Sciences,  fcc.  says,  that 
he  was  one  of  the  greatest  astrono- 
mers of  all  times  and  all  countries. 
His  interesting  report  of  the  discovery 
of  the  sixth  and  seventh  satellites  of 
Saturn — the  former  on  the  28th  of 
August,  and  the  latter  on  the  17th  of 
September  1789*  adverted  to  at  p.  259 
of  the  Sept.  number  of  this  Magazine  by 
me,-* >may  be  read  in  the  Philosophical 
Transactions  for  1789.  page  350,  and 
for  1790,  page  10.  Brunei's  marvel- 
ous achievement  can  be  only  matched 
by  the  Canal  of  Languedoc,  the  opera- 
tion, again,  not  of  a  native,  but  of  an 
Italian  •»  Pietro-Paulo  Riquetti,  an- 
cestor of  the  Prince  de  Chi  may.  See 
"Lalande's  Tralt^  des  Canaux  de 
Navigation,"  Paris,  \77S»  folio,  and 
Gent.  Mag.  for  January  1642,  p.  35. 
The  family  name  of  Mirabeau  was 
identically  thatof  this  Italian  engineer} 
but  the  great  orator's  ancestors  had 
been  esUblished  in  France  for  many 
preceding  centuries,  of  which  the  cele* 
brated  democratic  leader  was  not  less 
proud  than  his  haughty  father,  the 
misnamed  "Friend  of  Man."  No 
doubt  again  can  exist  that  among  the 

iF 


^S6  Voltaire  s  sojourn  in  Englctnd, 

victims  of  Louis  the  Fourteenth's  in- 
tolerance, several  in  history,  literature, 
and  mathematics  competently  used 
our  language  ;  but,  as  in  the'ir  mili- 
tary services,  even  those  of  Schom- 
berg,  Ruvigny,  or  Ligonier,  no  in- 
stance can  be  produced  of  signal  emi- 
nence, so  the  refugees  have  not  to 
beast  of  any  elevated  name  in  our  in- 
tellectual annals.  The  fictitious  Psal- 
manazar  (Gent.  Mag.  for  Oct.  1838, 
p.  380)  wrote,  with  the  raciness  and 
familiarity  of  a  native,  our  tongue, 
though  born  and  educated  in  Langue- 
doc.  And  Voltaire,  too,  during  his 
sojourn  among  us,  from  1726  to  1729,* 
published  his  £ssays  on  the  Civil  Wars 
of  France,  and  on  Epic  Poetry,  sub- 
jects connected  with  his  Henriade,  as 
well  as  the  dedication  of  that  poem, 
in  English,  his  knowledge  of  which, 
then  little  cultivated  in  France,  he  per- 
verted into  an  engine  of  detraction 
against  our  stage.  Still  he  occa- 
sionally renewed  his  attempts  of  com- 
position, not  very  successfully,  indeed, 
if  we  are  to  judge  by  what  Walpole 
records  of  his  letter  to  Lord  Lyttelton, 
"  written  in  English,  but  not  a  word 


of  it  in  tolerable  English."  (Walpole's 
Letters  to  Sir  H.  Maon,  vol.  i.  p.  21, 
ed.  1843.)  And  in  1773.  »n  ^^ 
eightieth  year,  on  receiving  from  the 
late  Joseph  Cradock  a  copy  of  tie 
tragedy  of  Zobeide.  partly  denwd 
from  "  Les  Scythes/'  one  of  the  feebie 
productions  of  the  Pa/riarcV*  old  h*, 
the  homage  was  thus  ackaowledgw-. 
embodied  in  a  com  pi  imenUry  letter 
not  apparent  in  Voltaire's  pubUshed 
correspondence : 

"  Thanks  to  your  Muse,  a  fonaga  coppff 
shines,  ^^. 

Tamed  into  gold,  and  coined  in  •Mn»f 
lines.*' 


*  The  exact  period  of  Voltaire's  stay 
in  England  is  not  defined  by  his  biogra- 
phers ;  but|  from  his  Correspondence,  I 
mfer  that  he  arrived  there  in  September 
or  October  1726.  On  the  16th  of  this 
latter  month,  he  gives  his  friend  Thierry 
his  address  at  '*  Milord  Bolyngbroke's  ;*' 
and  his  last  letter  from  London,  where  he 
lodged  in  St.  Martin's  Lane,  is  dated  the 
16th  of  April  1729,  with  a  conclusion  in 
English  of  no  decorous  tenor.  But  it 
astonishes  me  to  find  Condorcet,  the 
Secretary  of  the   French  Academy   of 


The  thought,  with  many  of  the  ex- 
pressions, are  perceptibly  borro^^ 
from  Lord  Roscommon's  well-knows 
and  spirited  comparison  in  his  Art  ol 
Poetry : 

"  The  weighty  buUion  of  one  sterling  Imj^ 
Drawn  throughFrench  wire,  would  Oiroap 
whole  pages  shine.*' 
The  French  Academy,  instituted  bf 
royal  ordinance  the  24th  of  Janoary 
1635,  did  not  enter  on   its  fancUooi 
until  the  10th  of  July  1637.  «»  «'^' 
quence  of  the  opposition  of  the  r*r- 
liament,    grounded    on    the    fear  oJ 
subjecting  to  the  already   orergrowa 
authority    of    its     patron,    Cardisw 
Richelieu.     No  one   more   than  the 
superb  and  not  unlearned  churchawu 
was  competent  to  appreciate  or  anxiop* 
to  enlist  this  great  moral  influence  m 
the  service  of  the  SUte,   to  which,  w 
to  the  legitimately  concentrating  fof** 
of  rule,  he  sought  to  bind,  in  conspir)^^ 
action,  all  the  faculties  of  intellig^ot 
man.     In  fact,  the  identity  of  know- 
ledge and  power  is  expressed  id  the 
common  idiom  of  France— an  obserrt* 


ScieneeB,  affirming,  in  his  biography  of 

Voltaire,  that  Newton  no  longer  lived       .         »•  u  i  u  ..  i.««h#re 

when    the  poet   arrived   in    England—     ^lon  which  1  have  not  seen  elsewlierc 
"  Newton  n'existoit  plus  ;*'  whereas  our     —but   exemplified  in   the  phrsje*  oi^ 
illustrious  philosopher's  life  was  prolonged     "  Je  nc  saurais  "  and  "  Je  ne  pourraii, 
to  the  20th  of  March*  in  the  following     which  are  convertible  terms,  of  lodn- 

criminate  or  synonymous  use;  •*» 
indeed,  is  Horace's  Latin  sentence,— 
"  Nescit  vox  missa  reverli,"  where 
nescit  is  perfectly  equivalent  to  ne^ 
(Hor.deArtePoetica,390).t  Atlengtl*. 


year,  or  six  months  posterior  to  Voltaire^s 
visit  to  our  shores, — by  no  means  a  volun- 
tary one,  it  would  appear,  nor  ever  re- 
peated. From  a  person  of  Condorcct's 
scientific  eminenoe,  and  his  bounden  ob- 
ligation of  inquiry  into  every  circum- 
Btsnce  of  ihe  Hie  he  was  writing,  it  is  sur- 
prising to  discover  the  least  aberrance 
from  fact  in  the  relative  dates  of  two  such 
events  as  the  death  of  Newton  and  the 
residence,  so  influential  in  its  conse- 
quence, of  Voltaire  in  England. 


t  So  likewise,  in  the  language  of  the 
middle  ages,  we  find  riches  identified  tf 
syaonyoious  with  nobility  and  power, " 
they,  more  or  leas  in  operation,  or,  st  in* 
Btruments  of  attainment,  mast  ever  bCi 


L- 


1 84^.]  Richelieu's  Policy  towards  the  French  Academy, 


587 


however,  as  a  compromise,  the  attribu- 
tioDs  of  the  privileged  body  were  re- 
stricted to  the  sapervision  of  the  Ibd- 
guage,  its  improvement  and  extension. 
"  A  la  charge  que  ceux  de  la  dite  as- 
sembl^e  ne  connoistront  que  de  rorne- 
ment,  embcllissement,  et  augmentation 
de  la  langue  fran^aise,  et  des  livres 
qui  seront  par  eux  faits,  et  par  aultres 
personnes  qui  le  desireront  et  vou- 
dront."  Such  is  the  literal  tenor  of 
the  registered  edict,  which,  in  versatile 
construction,  became  a  powerful 
weapon  of  attraction  or  repulsion  in 
the  despotic  Cardinal's  hands,  and 
chained  to  his  car  every  writer  on 
popular  subjects,   or  such  as  would 

though  not  as  then  in  name,  aud  as  equi- 
valent terms,   not  only  in  Spain,  where 
the  rieot  hombrei  constituted  the  earliest 
nobles,  and  are  presented  to  us  in  history 
ss  the  primitive  types  of  rank  and  autho- 
rity, (St.  Simon,  xiz.  p.  146,)  but  also  in 
France.      For    the    expression    **  riches 
hommes*'  bears  the  same  construction,  I 
have  observed,  in  the  old  Chronicle  of  the 
heroic  and  sanctified   Louis  IX.,  by  his 
friend  and  fellow-crusader,  Jean  Sire  de 
Joinville,  whom  that  monarch  was  always 
happy  to  have  as  a  guest,  '*  k  cause  du 
subtile  sens  qu41  connoissoit  en  lui;" 
and   the  coeval  annals  of  Geoifrey  de 
Ville-Hardonin  (1675,  folio)  employ  the 
epithet  in  similar  acceptation.     The  only 
edition  that  exhibits  the  genuine  text  of 
Joinville  is  that  of   1761,  folio.     Less 
grave,  but  far  more  entertaining,  than 
Ville-Hardonin,  their  distinctive  charac- 
ters will  find  a  parallel,  and  may  be  clearly 
retraced,  in  their  successors  Froiasard  and 
Monstrelet.    M.  Guizot,  in  his  "  Course 
of  Lectures  on  (he Civilization  of  France," 
(tome  iv.  p.  149 — 175),  delectably  expa- 
tiates on  the  principles  and  rule  of  St. 
Louts,  whom,  with  Marcus  Aurellus,  he 
describes  as  the  only  recorded  examples 
of  truly  conscientious  sovereigns. — **  les 
deux  seals  princes  qui  aient  fait  de  leors 
croyances  morales  la  premiere  r^gle  de 
leor  conduite,*'  a  {number  much  too  li- 
mited, I  trust  and  believe,  little  as  the 
crown  may  be  supposed  promotive  of  its 
wearer's  morality.   The  late  Dr.  Arnold's 
admiration  of  the  high  standard  of  Chris- 
tian excellence  manifested  in  the  life  of 
St.  Louis  is  forcibly  expressed  in  the  bio- 
graphy of  that  learned  divine,  (vol.  i.  p. 
146.)    This  biography,  I  fear,  will  expose 
its  object  and  author  in  various  instances 
to  no  lenient  criticism,  while  in  others, as 
fsr  as  Arnold's  sentiments  are  concerned, 
the  highest  commendation  is  due. 


entitle  the  authors  to  admission  into 
this  assembly,  which  soon  became  the 
summit    of    literary     desire.*      Ac- 
cordingly few  have  been  the  names  of 
renown  that  are  not  discoverable  in 
its  register,  when  its  limited  number 
is  taken  into  consideration ;  but  un- 
fortunately among  these  few  is  that  of 
Moli^re,   not,   it  appears,   from    the 
undue  appreciation  of  his  genius,  but 
in   lamented   obedience  to  an    early 
(1641)     and     imperative    regulation, 
which  excluded  all  stage- players  from 
the  company.    There  can  be  no  doubt 
of  the  Academy's  wish  for  so  tran- 
scendant  a  glory ;  and  we  are  assured 
that  he  was  urgently  pressed  to  re- 
move the  impediment,  by  no  longer 
presenting  himself    on  the   theatre; 
but  he  declined  the  invitation,  on  a 
not-very-intelligible  scruple  of  honour. 
"  II  y  a  un  point  d'honneur  pour  moi 
k  ne  point  quitter"  replied  Moli^re  to 
fioileao*    "  Et  quel  point  d'honneur  f 
rejoined   the    satirist.      "  Vous   bar- 
bouiiler  le  visage  d'une  moustache  de 
Sganarelle,  pour  venir  snr  un  theatre 
recevoir  des  coups  de  b&ton  ?"  (See  the 
edition  of  Moli^re  by  Bret,  1773#  tome 
i  670   It  was,  in  fact,  this  subjection  to 
blows,  a  disgrace  solely  efFaceable  by 
death  in  our  neighbours'  legislation  of 
honour,  which,  even  in  dramatic  sem- 
blance,  dictated  this  proscription  of 
actors.  Yet  several  authors  of  celebrity, 
though  not  actors,  are  not  to  be  found 
on  the  academic  rolls,  such  asQuinault« 
Regnard,  Le  Sage,  (the  author  of  Gil 
Bias!)    Dofresni,     Saintfoix,    Beau- 
marchais,  without  adding  Piron,  whose 
epigrammatic   epitaph  alludes  to  his 
exclusion,  the  just  penalty,  however. 

*  Little  patient  of  opposition  as  the 
Cardinal  was,  even  after  the  surrender  of 
La  Rochelle,  the  last  stronghold  of  the 
Huguenots,  he  respected  the  Edict  of 
Nantes,  subsequently  violated  by  Louis 
XIV.  an  act,  we  may  blush  to  observe, 
eulogised  by  Madame  de  S^vign^,  La 
Fontaine,  and  most  other  persons  of  lite- 
rary eminence;  but  these  two  are  con- 
fessedly unmatched  in  their  respective 
lines  of  distinction.  And  the  great 
minister  is  the  more  entitled  to  praise  for 
this  forbearance,  when  we  know  that  a 
few  years  precedingly  the  province  of 
B^am  broke  out  into  open  insurrection, 
because  Louis  XIII.  had  modified  the  in- 
tolerant laws  which  weighed  so  severely 
on  the  CsthoUcB  of  that  principality. 


588 


Moliire, 


[Dee. 


of  the  oatrtgeoua  licentioasDeM  of  hb 
poems. 

**  Ci-gtt  Piron  qoi  ne  fbt  rien. 
Pas  m^me  Acad^micien." 

Fibre  d'EglaDtine,  who  considered 
himself  the  heir  to  M chore's  genios* 
aod,  as  such,  continaed  the  "  Mis- 
ADtbrope/'  though,  like  many  other 
BQCcetsors,  a  very  degenerate  one,  and 
utterly  incompetent,  as  Napoleon 
observed,  to  sustain  his  assumed  cha- 
racter, vainly  offered  himself  as  a 
candidate  for  the  Academy,  a  rejection 
for  which,  with  his  colleague  in  the 
Convention,  the  his$ed  actor  CoUot 
d'Herbois,  he  signally  avenged  him- 
self during  the  epoch  of  terror,  when, 
like  their  associates  in  evil,  they  shone 
under  some  arrogated  names  of  an- 
tiquity; and,  as  the  savages  of  the 
Sooth- Sea  Islands  proudly  strut  in  the 
most  distinguished  of  our  names,  these 
miscreants  arrogated  those  of  most 
glorious  recollection  in  Greek  or  Ro- 
man annals,  as  if  to  present  in  more 
prominent  relief  the  contrast  of  their 
usurped  and  inborn  characters.  To 
this  Fabre  1  owe  a  long  imprison- 
ment in  1793  and  1794,  now  full  half 
a  centurv  past,  but  of  no  easy  oblivion  ; 
and,  if  1  indulged  a  thirst  of  revenge, 
I  had  it  in  abundant  gratification,  for 
his  execution  and  my  liberation  (the 
fruit  of  a  bribe)  were  nearly  simul- 
taneous. It  was  he,  likewise,  who 
proposed  and  procured  the  adoption 
of  the  new,  or,  as  he  magniloquently 
called  it,  nature's  calendar,  while,  in 
disregard  of  her  diversified  order  of 
climates,  his  nomenclature  imposed 
the  name  ofNiv^,  or  month  of  snow, 
indiscriminately  on  the  month  of  De- 
cember, in  Europe,  where  it  was  per- 
fectly applicable,  and  in  the  torrid 
lone  or  tropics,  such  as  the  Gold 
Coast,  Senegambia,  Bourbon,  Mar- 
tinique, and  other  French  possessions, 
where  snow  is  unseen;  but  the  ^e- 
public,  one  and  indivinble,  recognised 
no  deviation,  physical  or  moral,  from 
her  ordinances  :  death  or  submission 
was  the  alternative. 

Molidre's  almosi  unrivalled  genius 
must  command  universal  acknowledge- 
ment ;  but  can  any  Englishman  con- 
cede the  unapproached  superioity 
claimed  for  it  by  his  countrymen,  with 

?uite  as  much  unanimity,  as  we,  and 
may  add  the  impartial  Germans, 
contest  the  palm  of  pre-eminence  for 


Shakspere  ?  Oa  a  preriovt  ooenNid^ 
1  quoted  M.  Snard's  emphatic  eology  y 
and  I  find  one  of  the  poet's  best 
editors,  M.  Aoger,  (GBovret  deMoli^, 
1 81 9*  9  tomes,  8vo.)  expreeting  hia 
admiration  in  equal  strain  of  eiitlitt* 
siasm.  "Moli^re  no  rencontre  en 
aocnn  temps,  en  adenn  lien,  ni  teulc 
nl  vainqneor.  La  Grto  et  RoiBa 
n'ont  rien  qui  putssent  lot  Hn  com- 
part :  les  peoples  nooveani  n'ont  rien 
qo'ilslnipoissentopposer :  eoz-v#mea 
le  reconnaissent,  sans  peine."  On  the 
15th  of  last  January,  the  anniversary 
of  his  birth  (1621I)»  the  monvment 
at  Paris  in  celebration  of  it  WM 
inaugurated  with  all  corresponding 
pomp  and  solemnity.  The  only  repa- 
ration in  the  power  of  the  repentant 
Academy  to  make  for  the  absence  of 
this  illustrious  name  from  its  list,  was, 
indeed,  rather  tardy  in  recollection; 
for  it  was  not  till  1778,  or,  one 
hundred  and  five  years  posterior  to  hia 
death,  that  his  bust  was  placed  In  the 
saloon  appropriated  to  the  sixty  com- 
memorative poKraits  of  the  deceased 
most  distinguished  academicians,  with 
the  well-known  expressive  inscription 
chosen  from  many  presented  on  the 
occasion.  It  is  the  composition  of  the 
dramatist,  Bernard- Joseph  Sanrin. 

"  Rien  ne  manquait  k  sa  gloire :  il  mui- 
quait  k  la  ndtre."* 

(See  Grent.  Mag.  for  March,  1641, 
p.  249')  At  the  inftugnration,  the 
Prefect  of  the  Seine,  M.  de  Rambuteao, 
Who  presided,  hesitated  not,  in  lan- 
guage consonant  with  that  jnst  quoted 
of  M.  Auger,  to  assume  the  undisputed 
pre-eminence  by  all  nations  of  Moli^re. 
"Aucon    peuple  ne    loi  dispute    le 

*  Mr.  HaUam,  in  his  « Literatare  oT 
Europe, "  vol.  iii.  page  574,  eBconatera 
these  hyperbolical  enlogies  with  one  of  at 
least  equal  intensity  on  Shakespeare^ whose 
name,  he  maintains,  *'  is  the  greatest  in 
oar  literature:  it  is  the  greatest,*'  he 
adds,  "in  all  literature.  No  man  ever 
came  near  him  in  the  creative  poireis  of 
mind,  &c.**  Mr.  Hallam  then  enmne- 
rates  the  most  illostrioas  of  the  imagina- 
tive sons  of  genius  that  have  adorned 
every  age,  and  oondndes  by  dedaring  that 
"one  man  has  fhr  more  than  svrpassed 
them  all.*'  Thus  the  English  and  Preach 
vie  with  each  other  in  extolling,  almost 
beyond  human  perfection,  their  respective 
champions.  It  was  similariy  that  tiie 
Greeks  asserted  for  Ho"*—   — •»-*  natu 


I844J 


fireneh  Mmmmeid$  to  tUmtrkm  Men. 


589 


Erettiicr  rafigf*'  was  the  assertion  of    not  a  rival  to  oppose  to  the  object  of 
is  enthasiasm,  foodly  re-echoed  by    their  admiration,  W9,  too,  should  join 
his  excited  auditory ;  and,  if  ire  had    oar    concurrent  yoice.*     Our  loans 


now  was  of  vnlrersal  admission — hk 
poetlo  sapremsoy. 

'Ofiffpot 

X&ftfpos. 

Anaieifta  VHermm  Poet^rumt  a 
Brunek,  torn.  i.  p.  833. 

Propertins  demands  an  equal  homage 
again  for  '^^rgil— 

"  Cedite  Roman!  scriptores,  oedite  Grail : 
Nesdo  quid  magis  naacitor  Iliade." 

Lib.  li.  eleg.  S5. 

And  Milton's  claim  of  pre-eminence  has 
not  been  lesa  urgently  maintained.  In 
comparison  to  himi  according  to  Dr.  Sa- 
muel Barrow,  whose  tribute  (not  quite 
equiyalent  to  one  from  his  namesakef 
Isaac)  usually  precedes  the  "Paradise 
Lost,**  Homer  and  Tirgll  sink  Into  the 
mere  songsters  of  the  "Battle  of  the 
Frogs,"  and  of  the  '*  Gnats  and  Shep- 
herd:**— 

**  Haec  quicamqae  leget,  tantom  ceeinisse 
putsbit 
Mieonklem  mas,  Yirgllium  euUoes." 

Nor,  though  applied  to  different,  yet  almost 
equally  fanciful,  indulgences  of  mind,  are 
this  pretensions  of  Lucretius  for  his  hero 
leu  eztraYsgant— - 

"  Qtti  genus  humannm  ingenio  superavit, 

et  omneis  [sol." 

Restinzit  stdiss,  exortns  sicvt  sethereus 

Lib.  ili.  1057-8. 

Even  fbr  Newton,  Pope's  proposed 
epitaph,  aUusire  to  the  scriptural  creation 
of  light,  passes  all  bounds  of  warranted 
panegyric.  I  could  easily  extend  these 
OTerwcening  manifestations  of  national 
partiality,  more  or  less  fostered  by  every 
people;  but,  except  Homer,  Shakeqpere 
would,  I  belieye,  unite  the  m^rity  of 
independent  soffirages  for  the  primacy  of 
genius.  Whether  from  prqudice  or  jus- 
tice, Homer  will  still  be  "the  first  in 
Urthv  the  first  in  fiune."  Lord  Chester- 
field's great  fsTourite  was  the  "  Henriade," 
because  of  its  good  sense,  in  which  Mil* 
ton's  miyestic  sublimity  appeared  to  his 
Prandkified  lordship  utteriy  defioient ;  but 
cahn  reason,  though  most  desirable  as  a 
moderator,  is  not  the  inspiring  source  or 
gemunattng  element  of  epic  grandeur,  nor 
often,  indeed,  the  presiding  principle  of 
erea  tosi  soaring  aspirations* 


*  Molidre's  monument  Is,  I  beHere^ 
the  first  homage  rendered  to  genius  in 
literature,  science,  or  the  arts  in  the 
French  metropolis ;  but  the  example  and 
consonance  of  feeUng  had,  on  the  first 
announcement  of  the  project,  roused  the 
prorinces  to  an  emulous  imitation,  la 
offering  a  similar  tribute  to  those  whose 
birth,  or  otter  fair  claim,  associated  their 
memories  to  each  localitr.  I>i]on« 
honoured  by  the  birth,  and  M esuz,  dig- 
nified by  his  pastoral  residence  as  bishop, 
have  both  raised  a  memorial  to  Bossuet. 
Cambrai  equally  commemorates  its  ac- 
complished prelate,  F^nllon ;  as  Montbar 
does  Buffon,  the  child  of  its  soil.  To  the 
following  distinguished  men,  monuments 
sre  also  in  act  or  project  of  execution,  by 
their  natifc  towns  or  districts.  To 
Montesquieu  at  Bordeaux  ;  to  Montaigne 
at  Perrigeux ;  to  La  Fontaine,  at  ChAteau- 
Thierry  ;  to  Racine  at  La  Fert^-Milon  ; 
to  Malherbe.  at  Cien ;  to  Peter  Comeille 
at  Rouen,  where  Thomas,  his  brother,  or 
their  nephew,  FonteneUe,  should  not  be 
forgotten  I  at  Amiens  to  Gresset;  to 
Hyadnthe  de  St.  Pierre,  (who  was  the 
first  to  claim  this  posthumous  honour  for 
his  countirmen  preferably  to  theancientSi 
who  had  long  been  its  exdusire  objects,) 
at  Havre,  where  one  is  already  in  con- 
templation for  the  lately  deceased  Casimir 
Delarigne;  and  at  Aries  is  another,  by 
anticipation,  for  La  Martine.  Pascal's  is 
st  Clermont,  where  the  admirable  Mas- 
sillon,  its  bishop,  cannot  in  gratitude  be 
oyerlooked,  as  ne  hitherto  has  been ;  an 
oblivion  not  chargeable  to  Marseilles  to- 
wards her  sanctified  prelate,  Belsunce, 
whose  conduct  during  the  desolating 
pestilence  of  1730  should  place  him  high 
m  the  ranks  of  the  beatified,  (see  St. 
Simon,  vii.  116,)  and  confers  eternal 
honour  on  the  order — ^the  calumniated* 
though     certsinly    not   altogether   irro- 

Iiroadiable,  order  to  which  he  had  be* 
onged — "  the  Jesuits."  Curier's  monu- 
ment fitly  adorns  his  native  Montb^liard  s 
and  Lyons  has  not  forgotten  the  obliga- 
tions  of  her  industry  to  the  humble  me- 
chanician, Joseph  Jacquard,  the  French 
Arkwright,  yet  fju,  very  far  indeed,  from 
meeting  an  equal  retribution  fbr  his  in- 
genious inventions.  Had  he  accepted  the 
repeated  invitations  of  Mancheswr,  the 
fruit  would  have  been  more  commensurate 
with  his  deserts.  Cailli^  of  no  higher 
parentage,  a  peasant's  son,  the  first  and 
probably  sole  recorded  European  who  has 
entered  the  long^sought  TUnbonctou,  Is 
represented  la  marble  at  his  native  villsge 


590 


Monument  to  MoUire, — General  Bertrand. 


[Dec. 


from  him  htve  been  numerons,  though 
ill«reqoited,   if   we   credit  Pope«    by 


of  Mant^,  in  the  ancient  Nirernais  or 
O^partement  dea  Denz  S^vrea ;  and 
Saintei,  a  town  where  a  portion  of  my 
boylih  daya  waa  pasaed  under  tnition,  haa 
raiaed  a  due  teitimonial  to  her  citizen, 
Bernard  de  PaUssy,  to  whom  the  xm- 
proTed  potteriea  and  porcelain  of  France 
were  to  much  indebted  in  the  sixteenth 
century.  Miramont,  a  village  of  Gaacony, 
ia  embellished  with  the  statue  of  Mar- 
tignac,  whose  moderate  policy  so  little 
suited  the  ill- advised  Charles  X.  to  whom 
the  abandonment  of  it  and  his  dismissal 
became  fatal,  though  his  eloquence  still 
nobly  protected  the  ministers  who  over- 
threw and  succeeded  htm.  A  just  tribute 
is  in  preparation,  too,  for  the  iogenious 
ChampolUon,  the  younger,  at  Figeac, 
(Dept.  du  Lot;)  and  Geneva  is  en- 
deavouring to  make  some  amends  to 
Rouaseau  for  the  neglect  and  persecution 
of  the  most  celebrated  of  her  citizens 
during  his  life.  But  it  is  to  be  regretted 
that  France  has  yet  left  inadequately  re- 
tributed  the  memory  of  the  most  glorious 
of  her  sona  of  genius,  the  rival  of  New- 
ton, Descartes.  Some  attempt,  but  a  very 
unauitable  one,  exists  at  Tours,  where, 
in  1793, 1  with  difficulty  escaped  a  forcible 
transmission  to  the  armies  then  assembling 
on  the  frontiers,  because  my  accent,  or 
rather,  according  to  the  French  idiom, 
which  applies  the  word  as  distinctive  of 
a  foreign  one,  my  freedom  from  accent, 
betrayed  no  ^en  origin,  or  consequent 
right  of  military  exemption,  under  the 
age  of  five-and-twenty ;  which,  however, 
io  a  few  subsequent  months,  did  not 
secure  me  from  the  penalty  of  my  birth  as 
a  British  subject,  n  long  inanreerationf 
during  the  fearful  regimen  of  Robespierre, 
precedlDgly  adverted  to. 

Although  seduced  by  the  attraction 
of  the  matter  into  so  prolonged  an 
enumerstion,  1  must  express  a  hope  that 
Toulouse  bears  in  remembrance  the  re- 
flective renown  of  Fermat's  scientific 
attainments  on  her  annals,  and  will 
acknowledge  her  sense  of  them  by  a 
corresponding  public  demonstration.  He 
was  at  once  a  magistrate  of  enlightened 
judgment,  a  profound  mathematician, 
and  of  excellent  private  conduct.  His 
manuscripts  are  in  course  of  preparation 
for  the  press  at  this  moment,  backward, 
of  course*  from  the  subsequent  advance  of 
science,  but  unsurpassed  in  his  day. 

The  citizens  of  Ch&teauroux,  in  the 
province  of  Berry,  now  the  Departement 
de  PIndre,  have  emulously  resolved  to 
commemorate    the  noble   constancy   of 


Gibber  and  others^  who  erue(fled  hiai« 
(Dunciad,  1.  132.)  He  had  himseiC 
however,  borrowed  quite  as  largely 
from  the  Spanish  stage ;  but  of  him 
most  truly,  indeed,  might  be  asserted, 
in  the  words  of  Johnson, 

«  Nihil  tetigit  quod  non  omavit.*' 

The  monument  erected  to  the  poet's 
memory  is  appropriately  placed  near 
the  Theatre  Fran9ais,  at  the  foaotain 
forming  the  angle  of  the  Rue  Rieke- 
Ueu  and  the  Roe  TVoverat^,  now  in 
consequence  called  "  la  Rue  Fon* 
tttine-MoUh^ ;"  and  we  are  assured 
that  the  fifty-eight  windows  of  the 
opposite    houses    were    let,    at    one 


their  townsman,  General  Bertrand,  to  his 
renowned  chief — 

" Cuifidua.... 

It  comes,  et  paribus  curis  vestigia  figit.*' 

JBneidf  vi.  158 ; 

The  undevious   adherent  of  Napoleon's 
fortunes,  in  every  alternation  of  fate  and 
trial  of  fidelity,  from  the  sands  of  Egypt 
to  the  rock  of  St.   Helena,  his  name  is 
now    perpetuated  in   honourable  associ* 
ation  with  that  which  is  destined  to  en- 
dure while  the  records  of  time  shall  sur- 
vive. With  thoae  who,  like  me,  have  had 
the  gratification  of  meeting  this  preten- 
sionless  and  amiable  personage  in  society, 
and  were  aware  of  his  public  services,  not 
less  than  his  private  worth,  the  impressed 
recollection    must  be    most    favourable. 
His  wife,  and  companion  at  St.  Helena, 
was    the    daughter    of   General   Arthur 
Dillon,  who  was  executed  the  14th  April 
1794,  under  a  fictitious  charge  of  con- 
spiracy, when  some  discovered  letters  of 
mine,  though  foreign  to  politics,  nearly 
exposed  me  to  the  same  fate.    Thia  Ar- 
thur, with  his  brother  Theobald,  massa- 
cred on  the  S8th  April  179S,  by  his  own 
soldiers,  were  brothers  of  Charles  twelfth 
Viscount  Dillon,  who,  on  inheriting  the 
title,  changed  his  creed  and  country.  (See 
Gent.  Mag.  for  November  1841 ,  p.  493.) 
The  majority  of  the  above-mentioned 
personages,  as  members  of  the  F^ncb 
Academy,  may  appear,  for  that  reason, 
entitled  to  this  passing  notice ;  bnt  I  can- 
not conclude  without  recording  an  act  of 
royal  munificence  and  disinterested  re- 
cognition of  genius  beyond  the  Sovereign's 
own  dominions.    The  eminent  artist.  Von 
H&enel,  has  just  completed  the  statues  of 
Shakspere  and  Molidre,  destined  as  fitting 
decorations  for  the  royal  theatre  of  Dres- 
den, in  Carrara  marble,  by  order  and  at 
the  cost  of  the  Saxon  King — a  most  ore* 
ditable  act,  surely. 


1844.] 


The  French  Academy* 


591 


hundred  francs  each,  to  those 
anxious  to  witness  the  inaugura- 
tion. This  expensive  curiosity  will 
remind  the  reader  of  Horace  Walpole's 
statement  of  the  sums  paid  for  a  view 
of  George  the  Third's  coronation,  and 
the  still  more  costly  indulgence  of 
hearing  Sheridan's  speech  on  the  trial 
of  Hastings. 

The  French  Academy,  with  all  simi- 
lar royal    establishments,   was  sup- 
pressed during  the  reign  of  Vandalism 
in  1793 ;  but  in  1795  it  formed  one  of 
the  constitutive  branches  of  the  newly- 
created  Institute  C25th  October.)     On 
the  re-organization  of  this  absorbing 
body  of  intellectual  culture  by  Napo- 
leon, the  23rd  of  January  1603,  the 
first  class,  that  of  Science,  consisted 
of  57  members,  with  two  secretaries, 
and  eight  foreign  associates,  of  whom 
the  English  were.  Sir  Joseph  Banks, 
Dr.   Maskelyne,    and    Charles   Fox! 
with  Sir  William  Herschel.    The  se- 
cond   class    represented    the   former 
French  Academy,  of  forty  members, 
many  of  whom  were  the  survivors  of 
the  old  company,  though  some  few 
were  excluded  on  political  objections. 
One  secretary  was  added,  and  the  pre- 
sent one  is  M.  Villemain,  the  Minister 
of  Public  Instruction.  The  third  class, 
also  of  forty  members  and  a  secretary, 
with  sixty  foreign  or  national  corre- 
spondents, replaced   the   "Academie 
des  Inscriptions  et  Belles  Lettree," 
and  had  attributed  to  it  general  lite- 
rature.   The  fourth  class,  appropri- 
ated to  the   Fine  Arts,  consisted  of 
twenty -eight  members,  eight  foreign 
associates,  and  thirty- six  correspond- 
ents.    A  fifth    class,  suppressed   by 
Napoleon, — that  of  Moral  and    Po- 
litical  Science,    little    congenial,   we 
may  believe,  in  cultivation,  to  the  im- 
perial policy,— has  since  been  restored ; 
and  the  five  classes  still  constitute  the 
edifice  of  the  National  Institute,  with 
little    alteration   in    their    respective 
compositions.     It  was  simply  as  a 
member  of  it  that  Bonaparte,  on  his 
return  to  Paris  after  his  first  memoia- 
ble   Italian  campaigns,    in  December 
1797.  received  all  the  honours  lavished 
on  the  conqueror. 

It  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  add 
here  the  result  of  some  curious  calcu- 
lations made  in  1838,  by  M.  de  Cha- 
teanneuf,  a  literary  gentleman,  on  the 
duration  of  studious  life,  founded  on 


the  ascertained  ages  of  nine  hundred 
members  of  the  four  old  Academies. 
The  medium  length  of  individual  life, 
it  appears,  was  67  years  and  10 
months,  and  of  academic  existence, 
26i  years  ;  while  the  average  years  of 
the  members,  when  elected,  were  be- 
tween thirty -nine  and  forty.  Of  685, 
147  were  natives  of  the  southern  pro- 
vinces; 156  of  the  eastern  and  north- 
ern; 122  of  the  central ;  and  of  the 
capital  alone  231.  Twenty- nine  were 
of  foreign  birth.  In  1838  two  of  the 
old  Academicians  only  survived,  Cas- 
sini  and  Pastoret,  both  since  de- 
ceased. (See  Gent.  Mag.  for  May 
1838,  page  475.) 

From  their  foundation  to  the  pre- 
sent day,  these  societies,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  Vandalic  interval  above- 
mentioned,  have  derived  their  chief 
support  from  royal  or  legislative  libe- 
rality, though  more  largely  dispensed 
to  the  French  Academy,  previous  to 
the  Revolution,  than  to  the  others.  As 
the  most  aristocratic,  however,  (for  it 
usually,  and  by  regulation,  numbered 
six  members  of  noble  or  princely  birth 
in  its  bosom,)  it  was  the  first  assailed, 
both  in  its  finances  and  existence. 
Still  for  the  three  years  preceding  its 
abolition,  (1790 — 1793,)  the  company 
received  an  annual  grant  of  25,000 
francs,  partly  distributable  in  pensions 
to  the  poorer  associates.  This  endow- 
ment had  been  considerably  greater ; 
for  it  did  not  appear  seemly  that 
those  who  adorned  and  instructed 
cultivated  life  should  themselves  be 
denied  its  necessary  enjoyments. 

**  Turpis  enim  fama,  et  contemptns,  et  acris 

egestas, 
Semota  ab  dalci  vita  stabiliqae  videntnr." 

Lueret.  lib.  iU.  65. 

The  Revolutionary  shock  greatly  af- 
fected the  revenue  and  comforts  of  se- 
veral members,  as  the  Abb^  Morellet 
sensitively  relates  in  his  Biography,  (i. 
p.  429,)  with  many  interesting  details 
on  the  suppression  of  the  Academy,  and 
his  own  good  fortune  in  saving  the 
portraits,  and  other  heir-looms,  or 
memorials  of  fame,  attached  to  the  in- 
stitution, from  decay  or  destruction. 
Marmontel  also  feelingly  dwells,  in  his 
Memoirs,  (livre  xi.)  on  the  loss  to 
himself  of  his  stipend,  rather  an  ample 
one,  as  secretary,  the  Minister  Ca- 
lonne  having  advanced  it  from  1200 
to  4600  livres.    Originally,  while  the 


f9S 


D*.ifairi«rl>-4%t  Ikmek  Acudmif. 


two  Academict,  thote  of  Scknct  and 
Belles  Lettrct,  had  fixed  peoeione  for 
their  mennben*  their  brethren  of  the 
French  Societv  weie  only  paidaccord- 
ing  to  attendance*  and  the  highest 
nmoant  scarcely  reached  401.  a-year, 
on  which,  however,  it  was  not  difficult 
lo  live  in  Paris,  where  nameroas  an* 
nexed  offices  generally  more  than 
donbled  the  sam.  Most  of  theo,  be- 
•idee*  were  of  more  elevated  social 
condition  and  independence  than  the 
other  Academicians.  Yet  we  fiad 
D'Alembert,  the  literary  dictator  of  the 
capital,  refusing  the  presidency  of  the 
Academv  of  Berlin,  pressed  on  him  by 
FredericK,  with  a  stipend  of  20,000 
livres,  or  SOOi.  and  again  decliniog  the 
(cdncation  of  the  Uzarowitz  Paul, 
though  solicited  by  the  Empress  Ca* 
Iherine,  in  an  autograph  letter,  to  un- 
dertake it,  at  an  appointment  of 
100,000  livres,  a  flattering  offer,  which 
Lord  Brougham,  in  his  "  Character  " 
of  that  famed  sovereign,*  erroneously 
transfers  to  D'Alembert's  Cyclopedian 
colleague  Diderot;  while  the  philo- 
•opher's  revenue,  as  he  affirmed,  in 
reply  to  the  Prussian  invitation  com- 
municated by  the  Marquis  d'Argens, 
did  not  exceed  1700  livres.  Still,  with 
this  slender  annuity,  he  expressed 
himself  satisfied  and  comfortable, 
enabled  even  to  exercise  occasional 
acts  of  liberality,  and,  like  Pope's 
Man  of  Ross, 
"  PMstng  rich  wltb  sixfypoandM  s-ystr.'' 

His  office  of  Secretary  to  the  French 
Academy,  at  a  later  period,  pro- 
vided him  with  an  apartment  at  the 
Louvre,  and  increased  his  income. 
Although  the  special  correspond- 
ent of  Voltaire,  he  was  the  least 
indiacrset  of  his  disciples ;  and  the 
phrensied  atheist  Natgeon  felici- 
tated his  phibsophic  brethren,  that 
their  chief  had  died  in  time,  for  he  had 
already  betrayed  symptoms  of  back- 
sliding. "  II  est  mort,  et  il  en  ^tait 
temps  i  car  il  aurait  fait  le  plongeon." 
He  was  personally  much  liked,  and, 
though  rather  sarcastic  of  tongue,  was 
kind  of  heart.f 

*  Stoteimen,  First  Series,  page  378. 

t  In  1747,  O'Alembert  pubUshed  his 
«  Raiexioni  sur  U  Cause  G^n^rale  des 
Tents,**  in  4to.t  which  had  obtained  the  prise 
pronoaed  for  the  subject  by  the  Academy 
of  Berlin,  and  dedicated  it  to  the  Prussisn 
4 


On  the  201k  of  iflgfoat  1790  the 
first  retrenchment  of  the  FVench  Aca- 
demy's endowment  occurred,  when  it 
was  redoced«  as  I  have  stated,  to  atboat 
lOOOl.  though  that  of  Science  vtm 
natntaiaed  at  80,000  francs,  or  3,9001. 
and  the  BcUes  Lettres  obtained  44. OOO 
francs,  or  4,7601.  annually.  By  tlM 
same  legislative  decree,  1 10,000  franca, 
or  4,400<.  were  assigned  to  Uw  Royal 
Library,  and  6,700  livres,  or  390/.  to 
the  Observatory,  then  under  the  sk- 


monsrch  in  the  foUowiag  spirited 
allusive  to  Frederick's  eariy  ceveer  of 
litsry  glory,  then  crowned  by  Uie  peace  of 
Dresden,  the  25th  December,  174&,  after 
bsving  despoiled  Blaria  Teresa  of  Siloale 
nnder  the  most  unwarranted  pieteaoes, 
in  sMrked  discord  with  the  political 
rality  of  his  own  Anti^Mkckunel — 


*'  Hkc  ego  de  ventis»  dam  veatonm 

alls, 

Palantes  sgit  Anstriscos  Fredecicus,et  erlri. 
Insignia  lanro,  rsmmn  praeteadit  oUtk.' 


r> 


This  treatise  at  onoe  opened  the 
to  him  of  the  AcsdeBBy,  of  which  he 
wards  declined  to  be  President ;  but  to  it 
I  can  discover  no  reference  in  the  writers 
now  engaged  in  eiploring  the  theory  and 
laws  of  storms  in  £urope  and  America — 
Colonel  Reid,  Mr.  Redfidd,  Mr.  Espj, 
and  Proleasors  Dove  and  Loomis.  At 
that  period,  phyaical  seleaoe,  it  is  true, 
had  made  smsll  sdvanoes  ia  those  branehti 
^msgnetism  and  eleotridty->nraet  con* 
nected  with  the  phenomena  of  sMteopS- 
logy;  nor  does  D'Aiembert  sppear  in 
after-life  to  have  devoted  auRh  taaaa  to 
their  cultivation.  Moreover,  the  wotic 
itself  seems  rather  the  oompkiinentor  oo> 
roUary  of  his  prerious  **  TniU  de  rB%«i- 
libre  et  du  Mouvementdes  Fluides*'*  poh- 
Uihed  in  1744, 4to.  StiU  it  presenU  some 
views  entitled,  I  conceive,  to  more  notice 
than  these  gentlemen  have  bestowed  on 
them.  Colonel  Rdd,  I  find,  dwells  st 
considerable  length,  in  the  dgfath  disptar 
of  his  volume,  on  the  iaterMting  recital 
m  this  Msgasine  of  the  meaaorabls  har- 
ricanes  that  desolated  the  West  India 
islands  during  the  month  of  Odeber, 
1780 ;  but  some  vsrisnoe,  I  peroeivet  has 
been  observed  between  the  log4iook  of 
the  Albemarle,  then  st  Barbadoes,  and 
the  report  of  that  catastrophe  in  this 
journal  at  the  time.  Few  writers  have 
been  more  successful  than  Mr.  Snow  Usr- 
ris  in  elucidating  the  theory  of  winds,  and 
defining  the  application  and  eieot  of  ea* 
perimental  anemometers*  sueh  as  these 
constructed  by  Mr.  Osier,  grofmast 
Whewell,  &c. 


1W4.] 


^fihe  Frmuh  Academy  ^ 


59S 


perinteadeBM  of  Lilande.*  It  !•  ca« 
rioos  eaongh  thai  th«  decree  of  enp- 
prestioD«  the  8th  of  Auguet  1793*  of 
the  French  Academy^  wai  paued  oa 
the  report  of  Abb^  Gr^goire, "  because 
it  bad  not  admitted  in  its  body  Mo« 
lidre,  LeSage,  Dafresny,  Pascal,  fionr- 
dalone,  the  two  Rousseaus,  (Jean- 
Baptiste  and  Jean-Jacqaes,)  Regoard^ 
Helv^tias,  Diderot^  and  Mably;" 
rather  a  discordant  mixture^  it  miiat 
be  acknowledged— while  it  was  on  a 
Bubeequent  report  of  the  same  Abbtf 
that  the  National  Institute,  which  in- 
eladcd  the  French  Academy  as  a  con- 
•titnent  department,  was  established 
the  96th  October  1795.  The  members 
composing  this  assembly,  since  its  for- 
mation in  1637»  amount  to  373,  of 
whom  probably  30  were  writers  of 
first  eminence ;  perhaps  50  more, 
men  of  secondary  distinction ;  and  the 
remaining  293,  persons  little  indebted 
for  their  association  to  literature,  and 
generally  the  possessors  or  creatures 
of  rank  and  power.  Thus  we  find,  on 
analysing  the  enumeration,  one  prince 
of  the  blood,  Louis  de  Bourbon- Cond^« 
Comte  de  Clermont,  who  so  cruelly 
▼isited  on  the  poet,  P.  C.  Roy,  his  ven- 
geance  for  a  poignant  epigram  on  the 
prince's  utter  nullity  as  an  Academi- 
cian ;  (see  Gent.  Mag.  for  March  1841, 
p.  251.)  thirteen  cardinals;  four  arch- 
bishops of  Paris;  sii marshals;  twenty 
ministers  of  state ;  with  many  addi* 
tiooal  dignitaries,  ecclesiastic  or  civil ; 
whilst  among  the  excluded  we  discern 
not  only  the  above  recited  names,  of 
whom  some  were  of  transeendant 
merit,  but  several  others  of  celebrity. 
It  will  be  sufllcient  to  mention  Des- 
cartes, Rotrou,  de  Rets,  La  Roche- 
foucauld, (who  was  deterred  by  the 
fear  of  having  to  pronounce  the  usual 
public  address  of  admission,)  Manage, 


*  Respecting  the  Obsenratorr,  and  its 
oslebrsted  superintendent,  I  take  the  li- 
berty of  referring  to  a  letter  under  my 
signature  to  Professor  RoMnsos,  arising 
ont  of  a  eirewnstaaoe  that  occnrred  at  the 
late  meeting  in  this  city  of  the  British 
Sdeatific  AssociatioD,  and  Inserted  in  the 
Lomdtm  lAUfry  Oazitie,  No,  1399,  page 
619,  (for  September  23,  1843.)  The  Pro- 
Isssor  is  one  of  the  pillars,  and  a  distin- 
gnisbed  ornament,  of  the  Belfut  Aca- 
demy; and  the  editor  of  the  excellent 
weekly  periodical  happened  to  be  present 
OB  the  occasion  refaied  to. 

Gbiit.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


St  BM,  Antoine  Arnault,  Nicole^ 
Malebranche,  Pklaprat,  Vertot,  Rollin, 
Vauvenargues,  D'Aguesseau,  8t.  Si- 
mon, Louis  Racine,  the  Abb^  Prev6t, 
Malfilatre.  Gilbert,  Raynal,  Beaomar- 
chaiSf  Rivarol,  Palissot,  Mercier^ 
Millevoye,  &c.  To  these  more  or  less 
distinguished  men  of  letters,  now  de- 
ceased, some  passing  advertence  is 
discoverable,  as  occasion  offered,  in 
this  Magaxiae ;  but,  amongst  the  living 
writers,  we  search  in  vain  on  the 
Academical  roll  for  B^ranger,  Lamen- 
nais,  Balzac,  de  Vigny,  Berryer, 
Alexandre  Dumas,  Sainte  Beuve,  Ea- 
gdne  Sue,  although  never  did  the 
Society  stand  more  in  need  of  such  an 
invigorating  admixture  of  talent  or 
spirit.  The  Abb^  Barthelemy,  in  the 
memoirs  of  his  life,  prefixed  to  the 
*'  Voyages  do  Jeune  Anacharsis,''  (p. 
14,  edition  of  1810,)  states  that  the 
Jesuit,  Father  Mai  re,  in  a  moment  of 
confidential  impulse,  told  him  in  his 
youth  that  the  Academies  would  de- 
stroy religion ;  and  the  observation, 
he  adds,  deeply  struck  him, — "ce  mot 
ne  m'est  jamais  sorti  de  la  Ute."  This 
Jesuit,  however,  was  by  no  means  a 
favourite  with  our  learned  Abb^. 
Again,  Frederick  Carl  Schlosser,  in 
his  History  of  the  Eighteenth  Cen- 
tury, part  II.  chap.  iii.  §  6,  speaks  very 
slightingly  of  academical  institutions, 
which  he  generally  characterises  as  an 
assemblage  of  persons  urged  by  vanity 
to  display  their  powers  of  speech  or 
erudition  in  superficial  essays,  though 
he  acknowledges  the  services  con- 
ferred on  the  language  and  history  of 
his  country  by  the  academy  esta- 
blished at  Manheim,  under  the  Elector 
Charles  Theodore.  Fontenelle,t  on 
the  other  hand,  who  was  secretary  of 
the  Academy  of  Sciences,  an  associate 
of  that  of  Belles  Lettres,  as  well  as 
of  the  French  Academy,  with  several 
foreign  ones,  prided  himself  more  on 
these    honours    than    on    the    most 

t  The  oft- quoted  dedaration  of  this 
literary  patriarch,  '*  that,  were  his  hand 
fall  of  truths,  he  would  not  open  it,*'  has 
always  struck  me  as  little  demonstrative 
of  the  prudence  it  seemed  to  inculcate. 
It,  in  fact,  defeated  its  own  olject ;  for  it 
tainted  with  fallacy  every  sentence  he 
uttered,  and,  by  an  obrions  inference, 
made  him  the  conscious  propsgator  of 
deception  and  delosion.  The  lesson, 
therefore,    overshot  its   mark;  but   its 

4  O 


594 


The  Three  Sktrteye. 


[oeCm 


pompous  titles  or  highest  dignities. 
"  De  touB  les  titres  da  monde.  je  n'ea 
si  jamais  ea  que  d'une  esp^e-— des 
titres  d'Acad^micieos ;  et  ils  o'ont  ^t^ 
profsD^  par  aueuo  autre  plus  moudain 
et  plus  faatoeux/'  are  the  emphatic 


exprestioiii  of  the  ceWbrated  C6a« 
tenariaB.  Our  George  III.  also, 
we  are  assured  by  Lord  EtdoD»  *'  was 
a  great  friend  to  academical  ednea- 
tioQ."  (Life  of  Lord  Eldon,  vol.  ii. 
394.)  Yours,  kc.    J.  IL 


THE  THREE  SHIRLETS/ 
CConHmtfd/nmf*  483  J 


SIR  Thomas  had  at  length  been  re- 
leased from  his  captivity,  and  before 
we  follow  Sir  Robert  on  his  return  to 
Persia  it  may  be  as  well  to  give  the 
sequel  of  ki»  history. 

During  the  first  year  of  his  im- 
prisonment he  wrote  frequently  to  the 
English  ambassador  at  Constantinople^ 
entreating  him  to  obtain  his  release. 
It  seems  that  this  said  ambassador, 
although  an  Englishman,  must  have 
had  the  heart  of  a  Turk,  or  else  he 
must  have  cherished  a  secret  enmity 
for  the  unfortunate  Sir  Thomas;  Ae 
made  no  emwer  to  tko»e  leiien,  but 
told  the  bashaw,  whose  prisoner  he 
was,  "  to  use  him  according  to  his 
discretion."  The  bashaw  had  been 
privately  informed  that  he  was  a 
prisoner  of  great  importance,  for  whom 
a  large  ransom  might  be  expected,  and 
he  was  removed  to  Constantinople ; 
but  though  the  place  was  changed 
there  was  no  change  in  the  severity  of 
his  imprisonment;  he  was  conveyed 
thither  upon  a  mule,  with  a  chain 
about  his  legs,  and  another  about  his 
waist,  and  often  had  his  legs  bound 
under  the  mule's  belly.  Again,  after 
his  arrival,  did  he  write  to  the  English 

point  wss  relished^  snd,  though  by  no 
means  so  fearful  of  truth  as  it  would 
bespeak  him,  its  vogue  and  circulation 
flattered  his  vanity.  No  one  previous  to 
Fontendle  had  been  at  ooce  a  member 
of  the  three  French  Academies,  nor  was 
the  triple  honour  enjoyed  by  any  other 
man  of  letters,  (for  mere  titulars  of  high 
rank  are  out  of  the  question^,  until  1787, 
when  Bailly,  the  future  and  unfortunste 
mayor  of  Paris,  was  similarly  compli- 
mented, as  was  Condorcet  afterwards. 

•  ErraU  in  ''The  Three  Shirleys" 
!n  the  Magaaine  for  November.  Page  488, 
(note,)  for  Wordnporik  read  Wadsworlh, 
P.  482.  Stowe't  Chronicle,  add  in  a  note, 
"  Stowed  Chrooiele  coa^tiraerf  by  Howes, 
--sUo  mentioiwdin  Bsk«r*t  Chfoniole." 


ambassador,  telling  him  of  the  cr«el 
treatment  he  was  Boffering>  and  en- 
treating "  that  he  would  not  leave 
him  in  his  calamity,  nor  saffcr  him, 
being  his  countryman  and  a  gen  tit  • 
man,  to  spend  his  hope,  his  youth, 
nay  his  life,  in  a  prison  amongst  in- 
fidels." The  ambassador  "  flatly  sent 
him  word  that  Ae  %eould  mtiiher  meddle 
nor  w^ke  with  him  /" 

The  day  after  his  arrival  he  was 
brought  before  the  bashaw,  who  asked 
why  he  had  come  upon  them  in  that 
hostile  manner,  against  the  law  of 
arms  and  condition  of  the  league 
between  both  kingdoms. 

There  seems  no  reason  to  blame  the 
Turk.  Sir  Thomas  was  acting  in  a 
manner  that  perfectly  justified  those 
whose  country  he  had  invaded  either 
in  detaining  him  as  a  prisoner,  or  even 
in  putting  him  to  death ;  but,  for  his 
countryman,  what  excase  can  be 
made? 

Sir  Thomas  made  somewhat  false 
excuses  to  palliate  his  offience,  and,  on 
being  asked  what  ransom  he  would 
pay,  answered  that  he  knew  no  reason 
why  he  should  pay  any,  and  on  the 
contrary  he  claimed  compensation  for 
the  wrongs  he  had  sustained.  The 
bashaw  told  him  that  his  acts  had 
been  unjustifiable  and  violent;  that,  if 
he  had  been  worthy,  his  own  am- 
bassador would  not  have  abandoned 
him ;  and  finally  sent  him  back  to  his 

I>rison,  protesting  that,  unless  a  very 
arge  ransom  was  paid,  his  head  should 
be  speedily  cut  off.  Sir  Thomas  offered 
half  the  sum  that  was  demanded,  but 
not  the  slightest  notice  was  taken  of 
the  offer,  and  his  treatment  was  far 
worse  than  it  had  ever  been  before. 
So  cruel  was  it  that  now  often  and 
often  he  prayed  for  death,  and  had 
fullv  prepared  his  mind  to  meet  it. 
Perhaps  it  was  imagined  that .  the 
desired  ri^nsom  would  be  extorted  by 


1AI4.] 


The  Thru  Bhifkys. 


m 


this  atvcrityy  or  it  might  hftv«  pro- 
ceeded ft-om  some  ramoars  having 
reached  the  bashaw  of  the  real  name 
and  fiimily  of  the  prisoner. 

All  the  letters  Sir  Thomas  had  sent 
to  England  by  vartoas  hands  appear  to 
have  failed ;  but  at  last,  when  nearly 
three  years  had  passed,  the  news  of 
his  sad  condition  by  some  means 
reached  his  father,  and  it  will  easily 
be  imagined  that  the  good  old  knight 
lost  no  time  in  bestirring  himself  to 
eflfect  the  ransom  of  his  son.  Letters 
from  the  king  to  the  emperor  were 
sent,  and  money  not  spared  by  the 
father,  and  by  these  means,  after 
much  hesitation  and  many  delays,  the 
weary  captive  was  once  more  restored 
to  liberty.  After  much  delay  he  was 
finally  released,  and  left  Constanti- 
nople about  the  middle  of  February 
1606.  One  of  the  two  servants  who 
had  shared  his  captivity  accompanied 
him,  the  other  was  dead.  He  had 
fallen  a  Tictim  to  the  hardships  they 
had  been  obliged  to  undergo.  (At 
one  time  they  were  in  want  of  every 
necessary  ;  their  place  of  con6nement 
was  a  little  shed  about  two  yards 
square,  and  they  had  neither  clothing, 
bed,  nor  fire,  and  the  scanty  food  they 
had  of  the  worst  possible  description.) 

When  the  poor  weary  captive  found 
himself  once  more  in  the  paternal 
home, — and  possibly,  too,  often  during 
the  long  hours  of  his  captivity, — ^the 
thought  may  have  crossed  his  mind 
that  he  had  won  no  great  increase  of 
fame  by  his  unfortunate  expedition, 
that  he  had  impoverished  himself  and 
his  father,  and  that  his  younger 
brothers  would  still  rank  higher  than 
himself  in  the  estimation  of  the 
world. 

And  now  to  return  to  Sir  Robert 
and  hisTheresta. — During  eleven  years 
their  liyes  flowed  on,  doubtless  with 
the  mingled  materials  of  joys  and 
sorrows  that  attend  the  path  of  most 
in  their  earthly  pilgrimage.  But  of 
these  Joys  or  sorrows,  of  what  they 
did  or  how  they  lived,  we  know 
nothing.  They  were  probably  partly 
Hving  in  Penta ;  but  in  one  account, 
where  the  name  is  briefly  mentioned, 
it  is  said  that  he  returned  to  England 
with  his  wife,  where  he  lived  many 
years,  "much  affecting  the  Eastern 
nabit  and  manners :"  one  has»  there- 
fortg  a  good  right  to  imagine  that  they 


came  to  England  again  after  the  death 
of  the  old  Sir  Thomas  Shirley ;  the 
more  likely,  since,  be  it  remembered, 
they  had  left  their  infant  boy  at  Wts- 
ton.    Perhaps  they  came  and  stayed 
on  long  visits  with  their  brother  Sir 
Thomas,  who  after  a  time  married ; 
and  perhaps    they    sometimes    were 
staying  in  that  old  grey    house  at 
Isfield,  where  a  sister  would  love  to 
listen   to    the    wondrous    stories    of 
Eastern  lands  that  they  could  tell,  and 
would  teach  the  beautiful  Circassian 
how  to  be  a  good  domestic  English  wife. 
And  years  roll  on,  and  again  we 
find  Sir  Robert  Shirley  appearing  at 
the  court  of  E^land's  monarch  as 
an    ambassador  from    Shah    Abbas. 
This  would  prove  that  England  had 
not  been  entirely  their  home,  but  that 
they  had  again  returned  to  Persia.    It 
was  in  the  year  1 623.    Very  minute 
details  are  given  of  the  reception,  and 
of  some  strange  circumstances  that 
happened,  by  Sir  John   Finett,  Mas- 
ter of  the  Ceremonies  at  the  Court  of 
James  1.      "Sir  Robert  being  drest 
entirely  in  the  Persian  habit,  took  off 
his  turban  and  laid  it  at  the  King's 
feet,  and  made  his  speech  of  entrance 
kheeling,  till  the  King,  willing  him  to 
arise  and  cover,  he  did,  and  presented 
his  letters  of  credence,  written  in  the 
Persian    tongue,  and   nn-understood 
for  want  of  an  interpreter,  no  where 
then  to  be  found  in  England."    He 
goes  on  to  give  somewhat   lengthy 
details  of  this  and  other  successive 
audiences  which  took  place    during 
the  month  of  February  1634.      Sir 
Robert  must  have  remained  a  year  in 
England,  for   Finett's  account    con- 
tinues  in  April  1625,  "I  conducted 
the   Persian  ambassador.  Sir  Robert 
Sherley,  from  his  lodging  at  Tower 
Hill  to  an  audience  of  his  Majesty  at 
Whitehall." 

In  1625  Charles  I.  succeeded  to  the 
throne.  Now  a  man  who  like  Sir 
Robert  Shirley  had  enjoyed  so  many 
years  of  unexampled  favour,  and  that 
too  at  the  court  of  an  Eastern  despot 
like  Shah  Abbas,  cannot  be  supposed 
to  have  escaped  having  also  enemies, 
and  in  all  probability  during  his 
absences  these  enemies  failed  not  to 
make  good  use  of  the  time  to  weaken 
his  influence  with  the  monarch.  A 
new  fiivoorite  of  the  name  of  Mahomed 
Aly  Beg  had  begun  to  rival  hin  in  the 


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good  gnctt  of  8hih  Abbas;  b«t» 
bttidet  aa  entmyatthe  Pe»Un  court* 
Sir  Robtrt  bmd  other  McnuM  at  hone. 
These  were  the  East  ladia  merchaoti^ 
who  were  greatly  alamed  at  certaia 
negociatiout  goiog  on  with  Spain  oo 
tbe  subject  of  an  ciclnsm  trade  in 
silk.  "  About  the  middle  of  Febmary 
1625/'  says  Sir  John  Finett.  "  the 
■serchants  of  tha  East  India  Coaspany 
aignified  to  his  Miyesty  that  a  ship 
long  held  for  lost  had  than  arrived  at 
Portsmouth,  and  brought  in  her  an 
ambassador  from  tha  King  of  Psrsia." 
The  merchants  defrayed  his  expenses, 
and  were  very  aniiooa  to  have  more 
honours  if  possible  paid  to  him  than 
had  been  required  for  Sir  Bobert 
Shirley. 

Sir  Elobart,  who  suspected  that  thu 
was  a  plot  of  the  merchants,  went  to 
visit  the  new  ambassador,  and,  in  order 
to  have  this  matter  eiplained,  shewed 
to  him  his  letter  of  credence.  A 
strangely  violent  scene  on  the  part  of 
the  Persian  ensued :  he  snatched  away 
the  letters  from  Sir  Robert's  hand, 
tore  them,  and  attacked  the  astonished 
ambassador  with  such  fury  that  the 
pntlemen  present  were  obliged  to 
interfere.  The  Persian  then  accused 
Sir  Robert  of  being  an  impostor,  and 
said  he  had  counterfeited  tne  hand  of 
tiie  King  his  master.  The  affair  of 
course  made  much  stir,  and  Sir  Robert 
desired  that  he  might  be  sent  back 
into  Persia  in  order  to  have  the  matter 
ascertained.  An  embassy  accordingly 
iras  sent  to  the  King  of  Persia,  Sir 
Dormer  Cotton  was  appointed  am- 
bassador, and  with  him  went  Sir 
Robert  Shirley  and  a  splendid  and 
numerous  soitew  The  Persian  went 
at  the  same  tisse,  but  not  in  the  saaM 
ship.  They  were  too  late  to  sail  with 
the  India  fleet,  and  did  not  go  till  ten 
months  later,  March  1626.  The  re- 
maining part  of  Sk  Robert's  history  is 
to  bs  found  in  the  travels  of  Sir  Tho- 
mas  Herbert,  who  accompanied  the 
ambaasy  to  Psrsia.  **  On  the  S9th  of 
November,  168^"  says  Herbert,  "  we 
came  to  an  anchor  in  India,  Nogdi  Beg, 
the  King  of  Persia's  ambsAsador,  gave 
up  the  ghost,  having  poisoned  himself 
wilfully,  in  four  days  feeding  only  upon 
opium.  The  truth  is  he  dared  not  to 
•ee  his  master,  nor  plead  his  defence 
ag*iMt  his  advecaary.  Sir  Robert 
fihiilay." 


Ha  gtvca  a  cnriow  and 
deecriptiaa  of  their  laceplMia  by  Shah 
Abbas.  Tha  ambaasador,  through  his 
interpreter,  asade  knowa  tiia  raaaaa 
of  hia  ooauag,  which  ware  to  aoa- 
gratulata  tha  King  of  PMaia  npoa  his 
vietoriaa  with  the  Turk,  to  reaaw  tha 
traflk  of  ailk  aad  oAar  tfainti  ^  ^^ 
aafit  the  merchants,  aad  to  aee  fik 
Robert  Shirley  porga  himaetf  fram 
those  imjmtations  laid  on  himby  Na|h 
di  Bag  taa  lata  ambassador. 

Nothing  could  at  irat  ha  asoragrs^ 
cioas  than  tha  Shah.  ThatNogdiBec 
had  doaa  Sir  Robert  an  iajary  he  did 
not  appear  to  question.  Ha  obaarvad 
that  it  vras  itall  for  htm  he  pnboaad 
hiBMelf,  for  had  ho  coosa  to  the  oowt 
ha  would  have  cut  his  bodr  iata  aa 
maay  slices  aa  there  ba  daya  tn  a  year* 
and  burnt  them  in  the  maffkel-placa. 

But  after  this  first  iatenriew  it  ia 
quiu  dear  that  thoee  anemica  I  befaia 
alluded  to  had  been  basy  with  the 
King.  The  English  ambassador  ocvar 
again  snoeeeded  in  seeing  Shah  Abbaa. 
All  passed  through  the  hands  of  tha 
fiivourite  Aly  Beg.  There  is  ao  ao> 
couat  of  Sir  Robert's  having  been  ahk 
to  get  access  himself  to  the  King,  who 
had  treated  him  as  hb  own  son  for  so 
maay  years,  and  who  had  ao  repeat- 
edly eipressed  himself  as  being  deeply 
indebted  to  his  bravery,  his  aid,  and 
his  couasel  in  the  discipline  of  his 
troops,  and  in  many  other  important 
services. 

Probably  Mahomed  Aly  Bi«,  who 
Herbert  calls  "a  most  pragmatical 
pagan,"  had  too  well  ooatrived  to 
poison  the  mind  of  the  Shah»  and  by 
false  representations  and  intrigues  now 
managed  to  prevent  Sir  Robisrt  froas 
obtaining  any  private  interview. 

Desirous  to  get  the  business  which 
he  had  come  upon  done  and  to  depart. 
Sir  Dormer  tried  to  get  some  answer 
through  the  &vourtte.  It  vrae  then 
but  too  plain  that  thia  awn  iraa  Sir 
Robert's  bitter  enemy. 

He  said  he  knew  the  Kmg  cand 
not  for  him,  and  that  hia  embassiea 
andmemagca  to  tknpriacea  of  Ghristear 
dom  were  fiM*ged.  "  And  when,"  says 
Herbert,  "  our  Lord  Assheseador  taM 
him  Sir  Robert  Sherley  had  the  Kin^s 
letter  of  credence  or  firman  to  testily 
the  troth  of  it,  and  that,  if  be  were  aa 
impostor,  he  were  the  veriest  fool 
living  to  unjfrtake  a  journey  of  that 


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ItBgth  and  danger,  knowing  witiutl 
Um  Kiog't  uma^tfx  tht  pagan  an* 
•wirad  not,  bnt  told  him  at  their  n«it 
awtiog  he  would  giTe  him  ampler  ea- 
tieftction,  and  entreated  him  for  a 
eight  of  8ir  Robert'e  teetimonial  letter 
or  credence  eigned  by  hie  King,  Shah 
Abbae,  in  lepi&an.  He  bid  him  hiok 
npon  it,  and  teU  htm  if  it  had  the 
image  of  a  connterfrit.  The  malicioQe 
IvroQrite  ikomghi  U  had,  bnt,  being 
uncertain,  craved  it  to  show  the  King, 
which  he  did  (if  we  may  give  credit 
to  an  enemy  and  an  infidel)  two  daye 
after/'  He  told  Sir  Dormer  Cottonthat 
the  Shah  had  bamt  the  lettere  in  a 
rage,  denied  them  for  tme,  and  wiehed 
flmt  Sir  Robert  Shirley  would  leave 
the  kingdom.  Not  one  of  the  gentle* 
men  of  die  embaeey  believed  thie  to 
have  any  truth  in  it.  It  wae  very 
unlike  the  conduct  of  a  prince  of  the 
ehamcter  of  Shah  Abbae.  "  For  my 
own  part,"  eaye  Herbert, "  I  am  verily 
pereoaded  the  King'e  eeale  and  firmane 
were  true,  and  that  either  Mahomed 
Aly  Beg  joggled  with  him  (for  we  bed 
but  hie  wora  for  all  we  knew,  and 
never  more  came  into  the  preeence  of 


the  King),  or  he  might  forge  other 
letters  to  show  the  King)  else  why 
kept  he  them  two  daye  witihout  de» 
livery?  or  he  might  have  slandered 
Shah  Abbas  to  say  he  burnt  them." 

What  made  it  a  perfectly  clear  caae 
to  them  was,  the  King  himeelf  having, 
on  the  first  hearing  of  the  story,  at 
once  admitted  that  an  injury  had  been 
done  to  Sir  Robert  by  llogdi  Beg. 

Sir  Robert  Shirley  meanwhfie  wae 
deeply  grieved  and  afiected  by  this 
strange  and  moet  unlooked-for  treat- 
ment, and  eo  much  did  he  take  it  to 
heart  that  he  fell  eick  of  a  fever  and 
died.  He  was  buried,  for  want  of  a 
fitter  place,  at  the  door  of  hie  own 
house  at  C^hin  *■  that  house  which 
had  been  the  sure  and  eafo  aeylum  for 
Chrletiane  of  all  nattone,  for  he  was 
long  the  channel  through  which  their 
complainte  were  made  known  to  Ab- 
bae.f 

But  the  malice  and  hatred  of  his 
enemy  did  not  even  eod  with  the  life 
of  the  man  who  had  been  hie  victim. 
His  faithful  and  loving  Theresia  had 
watched  andcomforted  her  lord  through 
hie  illnees,  and  at  the  time  when  he 


*  <*  In  lesse  then  e  fortaigkt  after  our  entering  Cashyn  he  gave  thlflTmiiereble  end 
fickle  world  an  mUmmm  eo/t,  in  his  greet  dimscteriok ;  snd  (wtnttng  e  fitter  pboe  of 
burial)  we  entombed  him  under  the  threshold  of  hie  owoe  boose,  Id  tills  dtie,  wlthuut 

much  oeremonie Ranck  mee  with  those  thet  honour  him,  end  in  thathee 

wants  the  goilded  trophies  and  hieroglyphics  of  honow  to  iUostrsto  hb  wretched  ee- 
pnlehre,  (Ua  vertoe  can  out-breve  these  babbtee  of  Tsnitie  i  and  till  some  wiU  doe  it 
better,)  aeoept  tkk  mlUmm  emsHs  es^prettfo  ftom  him  who  so  long  tiuvil'd  with  him» 


'*  After  land  sweets,  and  many  a  storm  by  see, 

This  hillock  aged  Sherley'a  rest  most  be; 

He  well  had  viewed  armes,  men,  and  Miions  straegef 

In  dirers  lands^desire  so  mekes  as  range. 

Bet,  tnrainr  coorse,  whilat  th'  Persian  tyrant  he 

With  wenHnspaSraed  charge  hoped  gmd  would  be. 

See  Fortune's  soom ;  mider  this  door  he  Ijas 

Who  Hviag  had  ao  pines  to  rest  his  eyes — 

With  what  sad  though  maa's  mind  loag  hopes  do  twins, 

Lsam  by  saolher's  lease,  bat  not  by  thine.  ^ 


Fset  enntfaSes  terraq;  marieq;  laboies 


▼iroe^  hehiSas,  diversss  noatlae  gantm 

Contsmplaas ;  plaseiS  sic  novitatis  amor. 
Deinde  retro  relegens  cars&  midata  tjraano 

UniUq ;  Persamm  dnm  pladtora  refert, 
I^tdibrinm  fi^i,  tegitor  snb  Smine  testi, 

Viventi  nnDos  cni  modo  limis  erate 
Qnam  deplorandus  spes  longas  inehoat  arsis 

Mens  homxnnm ;  exemplo  sed  sine  disee  too." 

"  Some  Tesres  Travels  into  dirers  psrta  of  Asb  and  Afiri^pw,  by  Thomes  Hisrbml 
Travels  began  Anno  1636." 
t  Matooim'B  Hist,  of  Ftnda,  voL  L 


m         The  Three  Shirle^s.^The  Prince  of  Waleie  Plume.  [Dfee. 


was  lying  dead  by  her  side,  and  she  her- 
self very  weak  from  long  illness,  a  plot 
was  laid  by  the  treacherons  Mahomed 
to  rob  her  of  all  that  she  possessed. 
He  hired  two  men,  one  a  Dutch  painter 
who  had  been  for  twenty  years  in  the 
Shah's  service,  and  the  other  a  Fle- 
ming, one  Crole  by  name,  to  pretend 
that  a  debt  was  owing  to  them,  and 
on  this  pretext  they  got  a  warrant  to 
enter  the  hoose  and  seize  the  goods. 

Fortunately  a  faithful  and  honest 
gentleman  of  the  name  of  Hedges  had 
discovered  the  plot  in  time  to  warn 
the  Lady  Theresia.  She  was  greatly 
astonished,  knowing  well  that  it  was 
utterly  false.  Tearing  up  with  her 
trembling  hands  a  rich  satm  quilt,  and 
hastily  collecting  her  most  precious 
jewels  and  valuables  and  a  small  ca* 
binet,  she  committed  the  packet  to 
his  care.  No  sooner  was  he  gone 
with  his  treasure  than  "the  pagan 
sergeants''  with  John  the  Fleming 
entered  her  chamber,  and  carried  away 
everything  they  could  find  of  any 
value.  They  took  vests,  turbans,  a 
rich  Persian  dagger,  all  the  horses  and 
camels,  and  other  things.  They  made 
a  nerrow  search  after  the  jewels,  for 
they  knew  well  he  had  many,  and« 
not  finding  any,  "mad,  angry,  and 
ashamed,  they  departed  unsatisfied/' 

The  faithful  Hedges,  when  the  storm 
was  past,  restored  to  the  Lady  The* 
resia  all  her  jewels  "  of  double  value 
now,"  observes  Herbert,  "for  I  do 
not  think  her  fortune  would  otherwise 
have  made  op  fifty  pounds,— a  small 
revenue  for  so  deserring  a  lady." 
This  beautiful  but  now  roost  unhappy 
lady  is  never  spoken  of  but  with  re- 
spect and  admiration.  Herbert  calls 
her  "  the  thrice  worthy  and  undaunted 
Lady  Theresia,  his  faithful  wife  ;"and 
adds,  "  Her  faith  was  ever  Christian, 
her  parents  so  and  noble,  her  country 
Circassia."  And  old  Fuller  speaks  of 
her  as  being  "  very  valiant,  a  quality 
considerable  in  that  sex  in  those 
countries."  Herbert  hints  that  she 
ended  her  days  at  Rome.  Perhaps 
she  might  retire  to  a  convent;  but 
nothing  more  is  mentioned  of  her 
afterwards. 

Sir  Dormer  Cotton  died  soon  after 
Sir  Robert  Shirley,  "  after  some  dis- 
pontents,  and  fourteen  days'  sickness 
...  on  the  23rd  of  July,  l628.  They 
obtained  a  dormitory  for  his  body 
among  the  Armenian  Christians  who 
resided   there  « •  •  And/'   adds   Sir 


Thomas  Herbert,  "after  a  moBth's 
stay  in  Cashin,  where  we  left  buried 
our  two  ambassadors,  the  King  sant 
each  of  us  two  long  coats  or  vests  of 
cloth  of  gold  in  sign  of  favour ;  mad, 
after  mach  attendance  upon  Mahomed 
Aly  Beg,  we  got  licence  to  depart,  wMi 
letters  for  our  safer  travel.  He  de- 
livered to  Qs  withal  a  letter  to  cnut 
gracious  King  from  the  King  of  Persia, 
sewed  np  in  a  piece  of  cloUi*of-goldu 
fastened  with  a  silk  strings  after  their 
fashion." 

Such,  briefly  given,  is  a  sketch  o^ 
"  the  romantic  lives  of  the  three  bro- 
thers/' in  which  "the  lofty  and  cou- 
rageous spirit  of  noble  ancestry  shone 
forth."  The  last  Shirley  of  Wlston 
was  a  great  sufferer  for  his  loyalty  to 
Charles  L  and  adherence  to  the  royal 
cause.  Wiston  passed  into  other 
hands.  An  old  saying  still  records 
the  effect  this  had  on  its  former  master, 

"Shirley  of  Preston 
Died  for  the  loss  of  ^^ton.'* 

At  the  Restoration,  Charles  IL 
conferred  a  baronetcy  on  the  family, 
in  token  of  gratitude  for  ii&  services, 
but  only  two  Shirleys  lived  to  enjoy 
the  honour.  Both  the  male  branch 
and  baronetcy  became  extinct,  and 
the  name  has,  I  believe,  ceased  to 
exist  in  Sussex. 


Mb.  Urban, 

I  HAV£  been  kindly  reminded  by 
ny  friend  Mr.  Wiluuixnt  that  I 
post-dated  in  some  degree,  in  my  note 
on  the  royal  badge  of  the  Ostrich 
Feather  (Oct.  p.  384),  the  period  at 
which  the  three  feathers  appear  first 
combined  in  what  is  now  called  the 
Prince  of  Wales's  Plume.  He  points 
out  to  me  that  they  are  so  joined  in 
the  Stall- plate  of  Edward,  afterwards 
Edward  the  Fifth,  in  St.  George's 
Chapel,  Windsor,  and  on  the  monu- 
ment of  Arthur,  eldest  son  of  King 
Henry  VII.  in  Worcester  Cathedral. 
Mr.  Willement  long  since  suggested, 
in  his  "  Heraldic  Notices  of  Canter- 
bury Cathedral,"  (p.  47,  note,)  that 
the  badge  of  the  Feather  will  most 
probably  be  found  to  bear  a  genealogi- 
cal reference ;  and,  as  all  the  children 
of  King  Edward  the  Third  appear  to 
have  used  it,  it  may  have  been  derived 
from  their  mother  rhilippa. 

With  respect  to  the  Black  Prince's 
epitaph,  whilst  censuring  die  general 
inaccuracy  of  former  copies^  I  ought 


1944.]        The  Black  Prince* s  BpUapi.^Badge  qfthe  Gorget.        59i^ 

Profond,  which  is  given  in  the  copy 
inserted  in  the  Prince's  will^ — for  the 
words  of  this  poetical  epitaph  formed 
a  part  of  his  testamentary  injunctioos. 
(See  Nichols's  Royal  and  Noble 
Wills«  and  Nicolas's  Testamenta  Ve- 
tnsta.)  In  line  23  the  word  cekUien 
was  perhaps  substituted  by  the  en- 
graver for  celeiiieu,  which  would  be 
another  form  of  celestUl,  1  ought* 
adopting  the  technical  phrases  of  the 
time,  to  have  described  the  engraver's 
work  as  "  hatched  and  abated  ;"  for 
snch  are  terms  applied  to  the  like 
work  in  the  contract  for  the  magnificent 
monument  in  the  Beauchamp  Chapel 
at  Warwick. 

With  reference  to  another  subject* 
that  of  "  the  Gorget/'  worn  by  the 
soldiers  of  the  Duke  of  Clareuce* 
(Oct.  p.  375,)  I  have  also  to  acknow- 
ledge the  assistance  of  Mr.  Wills- 
MBNT.  The  figure  or  representation 
(in  cloth,  of  course,  as  before  men- 
tioaed,)  of  a  Gorget  was,  in  fact,  the 
badge  of  the  Duke  of  Clsrence ;  and 
the  use  of  it  was  continued  by  his 
grandson  Henry  Pole,  Lord  Montagu, 
as  represented  from  that  nobleman's 
standard,  in  the  Excerpta  Historica* 
p.  318,  though  the  editor  was  not  pre- 
pared to  give  its  name  or  any  expla- 
nation of  it.  The  meaning  of  the 
passage  in  the  Paston  Letters  there- 
fore is,  that  the  Duke  of  Clarence,  to 
manifest  his  adherence  to  his  brother 
King  Edward,  placed  the  White  Rose 
of  York  above  his  own  badge  of  the 
Gorget. 

Yours,  &c.    J.  G.  Nichols. 


to  have  stated  that  it  was  carefully 
printed*  in  Stothard's  "  Monumental 
£ffigies."t 

I  must  also  do  an  older  author, 
John  Weever,  the  justice  to  say  that 
in  his  "  Funerall  Monuments "  he 
has  given  an  accurate  version  of  the 
Black  Prince's  epitaph,  in  rhymes  re- 
sembling mine;  and  sometimes  still 
closer  to  the  original,  as^ 

My  besuty  great  Is  all  qolte  gone ; 
My  flesh  is  wasted  to  the  bone ; 
My  hoaae  is  narrow,  now,  and  throng ; 
Nothing  bat  tmth  comes  from  my  tongue. 

This  gives,  I  believe,  the  true  im- 
port of  the  last  line,  "  En  moi  n'a  si 
verite  non,"  which  in  modern  French 
would  be  "  En  moi  il  n'y  a  rien  que 
la  verity."  For  the  latter  couplet, 
then,  in  my  version  might  be  substi- 
tuted this, — 

My  house  is  very  strait  and  low, 
Nothing  bat  trath  is  in  me  now. 

In  line  14  of  the  French  the  words 
Per  fond  were  engraved  in  error  for 

*  The  only  inaccaracies  I  detect  are, 
Hsme  for  tiame  in  the  prose ;  and  e$t  for 
Mfe  in  line  21.  On  my  part  I  find  I  have 
omitted  the  8f  between  daquiittnie  and 
OaUi,  It  is,  perhaps,  doobtful  how  far 
either  copy  is  perfectly  accurate  in  com- 
pounding words,  the  original  itself  being 
sometimes  uncertain. 

i*  The  article  on  the  Black  Prince,  it 
may  be  remarked,  was  the  only  one  which 
Mr.  Stothard  wrote  and  printed  himself. 
The  other  descriptions  were  prepared, 
many  years  after  his  destb,  by  his  brother* 
ia*lawMr.  Kempe. 


SALE  OF  THE  DUKE  OF  SUSSEX'S  LIBRARY. 


THE  Sale  of  the  very  large  and 
valuable  Library  of  H.  R.  H.  the  late 
Duke  of  Sussex,  has  occupied  a  large 
portion  of  the  time  of  Messrs.  Evans, 
in  Pall  Mall,  during  the  late  season. 
It  was  chiefly  rich,  as  is  well  known, 
in  biblical  and  theological  literature  ; 
and  some  of  its  more  important  trea- 
sures have  been  described  in  the 
Bibliotheca  Sossexiana,  by  T.  J.  Petti- 
grew,  esQ,  F.R.S.  and  F.S.A.  his 
Royal  Highness's  Librarian. 

The  Sale  closed  with  the  Duke's 
collection  of  Manuscripts,  whicb^  in 
regard  to  Biblical  MSS.  was  certainly 
ft  very  fine  and  extensive  one^  having 


been  the  result  of  constantly  collecting 
daring  twenty- five  years, — probably 
the  finest  that  was  ever  dispersed  by 
auction.  Of  the  most  important 
volumes  we  now  append  an  enumera- 
tion, together  with  the  prices  given 
and  the  names  of  the  purchasers.  As 
in  the  case  of  the  Bright  MSS.  we 
have  added  the  letters  (b.  m.)  to  those 
which  were  either  purchased  for  the 
British  Museum,  or  have  been  sub- 
sequently added  to  the  national  library. 
We  believe  that  several  of  the  lots 
purchased  by  Mr.  Paj'ne,  have  been 
since  transferred  to  Sir  Thomas  Phil- 
lipps. 


a^le  of  the  Ddh  of  Jhiii0'$  Zdkary.  [Dm. 

36.  Biblta  8«ort  Litiaft,  of  tk«  IStii  Century,  with  UtamiMtod  faulftdt ; 
aise  8i  inc.  by  6.    From  Lord  Stnagford*!  libnry  .    Booii#      15    0 

63.  Dnoftle.  Initnictioiis  from  NiooUo  Doiwto,  Dogo  of  Venioey  1596y 
with  an  iUomiiuited  frontiapieoe.    4to.        ....    Boone       9    9 

68.  A  Ftoreian  work  on  the  Wonders  of  the  Creation,  itated  to  be  C«b- 
winTs  Aia^  «/  wwkhlupmi,  but  in  reality  by  a  later  author,  withmlniatnrea, 
■mall  folio     .......    Rodd  (b.  u,S      10    d 

'  80.  Ejpoaition  rar  TApocalypie;  a  MS.  of  the  14th  Century,  illuttrated 
with  ie?enty  palntioga,  and  with  illuminated  eapitala ;  liae  lOJ  inc.  by  7 
(BiU.  8umez.  L  908.J Tho^M      SO  10 

01.  Apoealypeii,  UermanieA,  eum  Oloaaia :  14th  Cent,  on  vellum,  with 
feurleen  jjlumiaitiona  the  aiie  of  the  page ;  liie  l^  inc.  by  104  (BibK 
8ueex.i.948) Rodd(».M.)        0  10 

90.  Aqguetinua  de  Civitate  Dei  t  15th  Cent,  with  miniaturas,  fte.  8  vela. 
17i  inc.  by  19 :  from  Mr.  WiUiama*a  collection  (Bibl.  Sussex,  i.  138, 

Mo.  70)         ......  .    Rodd  (b.  m.)      93    0 

91.  Augustinns  de  Civitate  Dei:  15th  Cent*  with  illuminated  title-pege 
andinitiaU;  lOinc.  by  11    .....    Rodd(B.  m.)      39    • 

94.  Beds  Bxpositionea  in  ETangelium  S.  Lnett  et  Acta  Apoatdorum :  the 
text  in  red,  and  commentary  in  bliu;k,  with  illuminated  initials  i  15th  Cent 
15  inc.  1^  1 1.    From  the  Meerman  collection  (BibL  Snaaex.  i.  118,  No.  47) 

Pickering      17  10 

95.  Biblia  Saera  Hebraica,  cum  punetis :  two  Tofaunea,  in  the  German 
ehameter.  Written  by  Meyer  the  aon  of  Rabbi  Jacob  the  Scribe,  in  the 
jmt  5059  (a.d.  1S99.)    FoTBieriy  In  the  Meerman  Library  (Bibl.  Suaeex. 

1.  pp.  8-*lS.)    ......    Duke  of  HamUton    157  10 

96.  BiUe  Hiatori^e :  with  68  miniatures,    14th   Cent.  19  ine.   by    13 

Rodd(B.  M.)        9    5 

97.  La  Bible  Mondial,  tranalatte  en  Fransoia,  with  miniaturea,  15th  Cent. 
11  i  inc.  by  8^.    From  the  Towncley  collectiott  (Bibl.  Suasex.  i.  801.) 

Rodd  (b.  m.)      98  10 

100.  Biblia  Sacra  Hebraica,  cum  punctia :  in  4  Tolumea :  written  in  two 
eolumna,  at  Avignon,  1419, 10^  ine.  by  7i     .  .    Sir  la.  L.  Goldamid      17  17 

101.  Biblia  Sacra  Hebraica,  cum  punctia:  in  the  Italian  character,  in 
three  eolumna  t  a.d.  1493.    14  ine.  by  11.    (Bibl.  Suaaex.  i.  13,  No.  8) 

Rodd(B.M.)      41    0 
108.  Biblia  Seem  Hebraica :  in  the  Italian  character,  1448,  9|  inc.  bj  7^. 
Ftom  the  WiiliaaM  ooUeotion,  and  aaid  to  have  been  taken  out  of  the 
Vatican  by  Junot      ......    Rodd  (b.  m.) 

104.  Biblia  Sacra  Latina :  of  I4th  Century,  lOi  inc.  by  7.  (Bibl.  Suaaex. 
I.  71,  No.  6)  ......  .    Thorpe 

105.  Biblia  Sacra  Latina:  of  IBth  Cent  llj  inc.  by  7i  (Bibl.  Suaaex. 
i.  68,  No.  I)  .....  .    Thorpe  (b.  m.) 

106.  Biblia  Sacra  Latina:  of  14th  Cent  11  inc.  by  7i.  (Bibl.  Sussex. 
I.  71,  No.  5) H.  Bohn    SI  ISt.  6d. 

107.  Biblia  Sacra  Latina:  of  13th  Century.  19  inc.  by  18|.  From  Mr. 
Brockett's  Ubrary.    (Bibl.  Sussex,  i.  74,  No.  11)   .  »    Rodd  (b.  m.) 

108.  Biblia  Sacra  Latina :  in  five  laige  volumes,  80i  inch,  by  14i,  of  15th 
Cent         •  .  •  .  ,  .    Sir  F.  Maddoi  (b.  m.) 

109.  Biblia  Sacra  Latina  i  of  14th  Cent.  13|  inc.  by  9i,  (Bbl.  Sussex. 
I.  80,  No.  14)  ......  .    Boone 

110.  Biblia  Saera  Latina :  I4th  Cent.  14  inc.  by  9.  (Bibl.  Sussex.  L  75. 
No.  13)    .  •  .     H.  Bohn 

111.  Biblia  Saera  Latina  t  a  French  MS.  of  15th  Century,  with  44  mini- 
aterea,  and  many  hundred  lUnminated  Capitab,  19|  Inc.  by  13^.  (Bibl. 
Suaaex.  i.  86,  No.  15) Rodd  (b.  m.)      98  10 


34  10 

15  10 

8    6 

It.  6d. 

65    0 

15  15 

10  10 

80    O 

•  In  tUa  MS.  waa  thia  memorandum :  <«  Iste  Liber  eat  Monaaterii  Saacti  Matthim 
de  Mnriano,  quem  Ego  Nioolaua  Prior  Mon.  S«**  Matthiie  de  Muiiano  emi  pro 
d^*.  Mon*.  predo  Ducatoram  novem  auri,  anno  D.  M.cccobD4j.  ip'mqne  menu 
propria  rubricavi  et  miniari."  Thia  note,  however,  haa  no  referonoe  to  the  MS.  in 
the  volume,  but  la  written  on  part  of  an  index  on  paper,  which  belonged  to  aome 
other  copy  of  the  aame  work. 


1844.]  The  Duke  of  Su$ies*i  ManuBcriph.  <01 

£   $. 

119.  Biblift  Sacrt  Lttiiit;  4  toU.  executed  in  the  Netherlendi,  1419. 
8iie  17i  inc.  by  ISi.    (Bibl.  Sanez.  i.  91,  No.  16)  .    H.  Bobn      13    0 

113.  BibUa  Seem  Belgica,  cum  Htstoria  Scholaetica:  Flemish  MS.  of 
15th  Century,  with  miniatures,  15  inc.  by  11.     (Bibl.   Soisex.   i.  S44.^ 

Thorpe  (b.m.)      11  11 

118.  BreTiarinm  Romannm,  with  miniatures  and  illuminated  borders,  15th 
Cent.  13  inc.  by  9^.     (Bibl.  Sussex,  i.  178.)  .     Rodd  (b.  m.)       41     0 

133.  Evang^Ua  IV.  Armenioi:  said  to  be  written  a.o.  1S51,  5|  inc. 
by  4.     (Bibl.  Sussex,  i.  875)  ....     Rodd  (b.m.)       1015 

139.  Holy  Life  of  Abraham,  with  Prayers :  in  embossed  binding,  with  S8 
small  circular  drawings,  oovered  with  glus,  4  inc.  by  3^    .  Pickering      S5    0 

145.  HorK  dinnue,  of  the  14th  Century,  with  46  miniatures,  5iinc.  by  4. 

Rodd  (b.  m.)      11     5 

155.  Dueale.  Instruotions  of  Andrea  Gritti,  Doge  of  Venice,  to  Nicolao 
Manrooeno,  Capitano  ofVicensa,  1580.  4to.  with  illuminated  frontispiece. 

Molteno      8     15 

187.  Horn  BeatsB  Virfinis,  com  aliis  officus.  **  This,*'  says  Mr.  Petti- 
grew,  'Ms  the  most  exquisite  of  all  the  illuminated  works  I  have  seen :"  it 
has  seventeen  large  miniatures,  and  superb  borders,  initials,  &c.  ]5tb  Cen- 
tury, 9|  inc.  by  6}.  Presented  to  the  Duke  of  Sussex  by  John  Webb,  esq. 
(BibL  Sussex,  i.  185,  No.  189.)    Mr.  Baker  of  Islington  .  .     835    0 

800.  Ciceronis  Opera  Varia  Philosophies  et  Oratories :  illuminated,  and 
with  three  miniatures,  13§  inc.  by  lOj  .  .    Payne      82    0 

808.  Chrysostomi  Omeliv,  Graec«,  14th  Cent.  lU  inc.  by  8i      .    Payne        5    0 

803.  Chrysostomi  Homilise  super  Evangelium  S.  Joannis,  Latind,  11  inc. 
by  8i.    Written  by  John   Whetham,  monk  of  Sheen  in  Surrey,  in  1496 

H.  Bohn        9    0 

815.  Croniqne  ou  Histoire  Ancienne  du  Monde,  13th  Cent,  with  paintings 
by  Greek  artists :  14^  inc.  by  10     .  .     Sir  F.  Madden  (b.  m  .)      30    0 

817.  Croniques  de  France,  appelte  Croniques  de  S.  Denys,  depuis  lea 
Troiens  jusqu'A  la  mort  de  Charles  V.  en  1380.  With  40  miniatures.  I6i 
inc.  by  18      .  •  .  .  .     Rodd  (b.  m  .)      41     0 

886.  Duns  Scotus  in  libros  IV.  Sententiarum,  4  vols.  15  Cent.  Executed 
for  Ferdinand  King  of  Naples;  from  the  Meerman  collection,  11|  inc. 
by  10}.  (Bibl.  Sussex,  i.  170,  No.  117.)        .  .    Rodd  (b.  m .)     105    0 

831.  Evangelica  IV.  Latina,  of  the  9th  Cent,  size   10|  inc.  by  7i. 

Duke  of  Hamilton      30    Q 

841 .  Gratiani  Decretum,  cum  Glossa,  8  vols.  14th  Cent,  with  miniatures ; 
19  inc.  by  18.  .....  .  Rodd  (b.  m.)      3110 

849.  Historia  del  Vecchio  Testamento :  in  the  Venetian  dialect,  14th 
Cent  with  519   miniatures.      13  inc.    by  9}.    (Bibl.    Sussex,   i.  838.) 

Sir  F.  Madden  (b.  m.)      80    0 

854.  Memoires  des  Qoatre  Campagnes  de  sa  Majesty  {Jame§  Me  Stcond,) 
sous  Vicomte  Turenne,  traduit  sur  I'original  Angtois  conserve  dans  le  Col- 
lege des  Ecossais  &  Paris.  (At  the  end  of  the  volume  is  the  autograph  of  the 
Queen  Mother,  Maria,  and  of  Secretary  Caryll,  dated  1704  ;  in  old  French 
red  morocco,  with  a  Cardinal's  arms  on  the  sides.)  .    Thorpe        3  19 

867.  Pentateuchus  Hebraicus,  sine  punctis ;  a  vellum  roll  44i  ftet  in 
length,  4i  inc.  in  breadth  .     Sir  1.  L.  Goldsmid      18  18 

868.  Another,  47  feet  in  length  .  .     Sir  I.  L.  Goidsmid        8    0 
88a  Joseph!  Opera,  Latind.  13th  Cent.  17i  inc.  by  13.  a  MS.  formeriv 

in  the  monastery  of  S.  Maria  de  Camberone  Rodd  (b.  m.)       19    5 

898.  Liber  Precum.  Psalmi,  Latanic,  etPreces;  dated  1684,  with  fine 
miniatures,  and  portrait  of  Sigismund  King  of  Poland,  kneeling  before  our 
Saviour ;  sise,  6|  inc.  by  4|.  (This  MS.  descended  from  the  royal  family 
of  Poland  to  the  Princess  Mary  Clementine  Sobieski,  the  wife  of  the  first 
Pretender,  and  was  procured  from  the  effects  of  her  son  the  Cardinal  of 
York.)  .  .    Sir  F.  Madden  (b.  m.)      73  10 

894.  Lyves  and  Dethes  of  the  Martyres  :    15th  Cent.  7  inc.  by  5 

Egan        6  14 

308.  Memoirs  of  the  Family  of  Charles  O'Conor  of  Bdanagare,  with  an 
historical  introduction,  8  vols.  4to.  and  one  8vo.  .  .    Rodd      10  10 

313.  Pentateuchus  Hebraicus  et  Chaldaicus :  13th  Cent,  in  the  Spanish 
character,  in  three  columns,  with  illuminations  at  the  commencement  oi  each 

Gbnt.  Mao.  Vol.  XXI.  4  H 


602  The  IhA§  of  8u$hm$  MMmmHpU.  [Dm. 

£.   t. 

book  :  9  iae.  by  6i.    (Bibl.  Soitez.  i.  14,  No.  8.    **  UnqvattionaUy  out 

of  the  most  splendid  Hebrew  ManuicripUeTer  ezMUtod.")  •    Rodd  (b.  m.)    Ill     O 

314.  PenUteoebiu  Hebraicus,  cum  puactit  t  in  the  Spanish  character,  in 

two  eolumns,  9}  inc.  by  7.    (Bibl.  Sussex,  i.  16,  No.  4.)  .    Thorpe  (b.  k.)      90    0 

315.  Pentateocbns  Hebraicus,  cum  punctis,  5  Megilloth  et  Heptorah. 
15th  Cent,  in  the  Oriental  rabbinical  character,  caUed  Raahi,  in  two  columns ; 

T|  inc.  by  5^  with  illuminated  borden        •  .     Sir  F.  Madden  (b.  m.)      37     0 

319.  Copies  of  Correspondence  of  Field-Marshal  Keith  with  iiord  J.  and 
Lor-  E.  Drummond,  concerning  the  affairs  of  the  Russian  empire,  in  1748, 
175\  and  1756   .......    Piokeriag       6    6 

3V0.  The  Koran  in  Arabic,  with  a  Fenian  interlineary  comment ;  dated 
1150  of  the  Hejira  (a.d.  1738).  8ise  10|  ino-  by  6i.  Formerly  Tippoo 
8ultaun*s,  and  presented  to  the  Duke  of  Sussex  by  Major-Gen.  Ogg.  (Bibl. 
Sossei.  i.  267,  No.  S.)  .  .  .  .     Sir  I.  L.  Goldsmid      IC  16 

325.  Lettres  d*EsUt  slgnte  par  Louis  XIV.  et  Colbert  Marquis  de  Torcr, 
4  Mobs.  l'Abb4  Pomponne,  ambassadeur  de  France  4  Venise,  depuis  1705--- 
1710,  2  Tols.  ......    Rodd  (b.  m.)      S3  10 

396.  LiTio,  la  Tersa  Deoa.    Written  at  Venice  in  1464.    15  ine.  by  11 

Rodd(B.  M.)      98    0 

399.  Machaxor,  Hebrew  Prayers  for  FestiTals  and  Fasts  throughout  the 
year,  written  at  Regensburg,  a.m.  5985  (a.d.  1595),  8  toIs. 

Sir  I.  L.  Ooldnnid      90 

331.  Maimonidis  Moreh  Nevochim,  Directorium  Perplexorwn,  Hebraio4{ 
I9th  Cent,  in  the  Spanish  character,  19  inc.  by  8^  •    Thorpe      13    0 

334.  MartelU  Insularium ;  latter  part  of  Uie  xfth  century,  with  maps, 
coloured  and  gilt,  13^  ino.  by  9^.  •  •  .  .    Thorpe      71     0 

337.  Menagii  Etymologicon  L!ngu«  Grecc,  and  Menagii  Dialecti  Lingua 
Grscc.  Two  volumei,  autograph ;  the  former  bequeathed  by  Menage  to 
Simon  Valhebert       .......     Payne        9    9 

342.  Missale  Romanom,  of  the  15Ui  Cent. ;  with  miniatnree.  15  inc.  by 
lOi Sir  F.  Madden  (b.  m.)      10  10 

354.  Origenis  Homelie,  a  Qenesi  ad  Ezekielem,  Latind.  Dated  1163; 
■ixe  19i  inc.  by  19§.  Formerly  belonging  to  the  monastery  of  S.  Maria  de 
Camberone  ......    Thorpe  (b.  m.)       16    O 

355.  Orloge  de  Sapience  :  15th  Cent.  13  inc.  by  9  .    Rodd  (b.  m.)      19  18 

365.  Pentateuchus  Hebraicus,  cum  punctis :  in  the  Italian  character,  15th 

Cent.  13  ine.  by  9,  from  Mr.  Wiliiams*s  library    .  .    Thorpe  (b.  m .)       95    4 

366.  Pentateuchus  Hebraicus,  cum  punctis,  cum  Targum  Onkelos  et 
Commentario  Rashi,  &c.     In  the  Spanish  character,  15th  Cent.  19  inc.  by  8 

Sir  I.  L.  Goldsmid 

367.  Pentateuchus  Hebraicus,  a  roll  98  feet  in  length       .  Rodd 
868.  Another,  on  brt.v  i  \frican  skins,  153  feet  in  length. 

Sir  I.  L.  Goldsmid 
S69.  '  ■"    '     ■  139  feet  in  length. 

Sir  I.  L.  Goldsmid 

370.  ■ .  144  feet  in  length  .    Thorpe 

874.  Petrarch«  Bucolica,  14th  Cent.  10|  inc.  by  8  .     Rodd  (b.  m.) 

377.  Platonis  Timsus,   Latins  redditus,   19th  Cent.    Hi  inc.    by  8^. 

Sir  F.  Madden  (b.  m  .) 

380.  Psalterium  et  Antiphonarium,  9  vols,  in  very  large  charactera,  for  a 
eboir,  with  many  miniatures.  Executed  at  Louvaine  in  1492  by  Francis 
Weert,  for  the  monastery  of  Tongerloo.     93  inc.  by  15       .    Thorpe  (b.  m.)       19  10 

381.  Psalterium  Latinum  :   9th  or  10th  Century,  imperfect :  13|  inc.  by 

9i  (Bibl.  Sussex,  i.  101,  No.  35)     .....    Payne      30    O 

382.  Psalterium  Latino-Gallicum,  14th  Cent;    10)  ino.  by  7i.     From 

Mr.  Watson  Taylor's  library  ....     Rodd  (b.  m.)      39    O 

384.  Rama-yana,  an  Epic  romance  in  Sanscrit :  written  on  about  700  se- 
parate leaves  of  glased  paper,  with  water-colour  paintings  on  the  reverae  of 
most  of  them :  size  of  the  leaves  15  ino.  by  8|  (formerly  belonging  to  Col. 
James  Todd)  .  .  .  .  .     Sir  F.  Madden  (b.  m.)      63     0 

400.  MS.  Book  of  Prayen  used  by  the  Spanish  Priests  for  the  purpose  of 
converting  the  Mexicans ;  containing  the  Pater  No8ter»  &c.  in  Christian 
hieroglyphics  mixed  with  Asteck  ;   brought  from  Mexico  by  Mr.  Bullock. 

Thorpe  6/.  7f .  BtL 


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1844.]    Retbospectiyi  IlBTiBW.->Staxiyhar8t*8  Virgil^  8fc»  603 

431.  NoTiim  TestameDtnm  GnBcam,  written  in  1995,  by  '*  Theodore,  the 
ftUow-coiintrfinan  of  the  Saints,"  imall  4to.  8|  inc.  by  6^ :  not  containing 
the  dispnted  paisage  in  St.  John*8  Epistle,  nor  the  Apocalypse.  (BibU  Sussex. 
L  43,  No.  2.)  •••*••  •     P^yne      70    0 

438.  New  Testament,  ascribed  to  WicUffe,  7i  inc.  by  5  j.     .    Pickering  *      91    0 

481.  A  Collection  of  upwards  of  800  Letters,  chiefly  in  Latin,  a  few  in 
Greek,  addressed  to  Sibrandus  Lubbertus,  Professor  of  Theology  at  Franequer, 
and  President  of  the  Synod  of  Bolswerd,  dated  from  1580  to  1625,  in  3  toIs. 

Dawson  Turner      18    0 

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Tkefintfaur  Book$  qftJU  jSneid  of  Virgily  in  Heroic  Ftfrte,  with  other  J\rmuMi4 

Poemt,    By  Richard  Stanyhnrst. 

RICHARD  3TANYHURST  was  bom  in  Dablin,  of  ts  liich  city  his  father  was 
Recorder*  He  was  educated  in  grammar  learning,  and  .came  a  commoner  in 
University  College,  Oxon,  1563.  At  two  years'  stand.  \^,  and  at  the  early  ago 
of  19,  he  astonished  his  contemporaries  by  his  Commentaries  on  Porphyry,  to 
the  great  admiration  of  learned  men  and  others.  He  afterwards  returned  to 
London,  and  became  a  student,  first  of  Furnival's  Inn,  and  afterwards  of  Lin- 
coln's Inn.  After  spending  some  time  in  the  study  of  the  common  law,  he 
returned  to  Ireland.  He  married  Genet  or  Janet,  third  daughter  of  Sir  Christo- 
pher Barnewall,  of  Turvey,  Kt.  grandfather  of  the  first  Viscount  Kingsland. 
His  wife  died  in  childbed,  aged  ]9j  26th  Aug.  1579,  and  was  buried  at  Chelsea ; 
an  epitaph  by  her  husband  occurs  among  his  poems.  Anthony  Wood  says,  "  He 
went  beyond  the  seas,  being  then  a  married  man,  and  in  the  Low  Countries, 
France,  and  other  nations,  he  became  famous  for  his  learning,  noted  to  princes, 
and  more  especially  to  the  Archduke  of  Austria,  who  made  him  his  chaplain  (his 
wife  being  then  dead),  and  allowed  him  a  plentiful  salary.  He  was  accounted 
by  many  (especially  by  those  of  his  persuasion)  an  excellent  theologist^ 
Grecian,  philosopher,  historian,  and  orator.  Camden  styles  him  '  conditis* 
simus  ille  nobilis  Rich.  Stanihurstus,'  and  others  of  his  time  say, — that  he  was 
so  rare  a  poet,  that  he  and  Gabriel  Harvey  were  the  best  for  iambics  in  that 
age. 

Harvey  thought  so  highly  of  Staniburst's  poetical  powers,  as  to  class  him 
with  Spenser  and  Daniel.  "  I  cordially  recommend Jto  the  deare  lovers  of  the 
Muses,  and  mainly  to  the  professed  sonnes  of  the  same,  Edmund  Spenser, 
Richard  Stanihunt,  Abraham  Fraunce,  Thomas  Watson,  Samuel  Daniel* 
Thomas  Nashe,  and  the  rest,  whom  I  affectionately  thanke  for  their  studious 

*  This  identical  MS.  was  purchased  some  years  ago  by  Rodd  at  Sotheby's  rooms 
for  II.  If. ! 


604  RxTftoBPSCTivB  Reviisw.  [Pe& 

eDdeaTonrs  commeadably  employed  in  eariching  and  polishiog  their  native 
tongue."  Nashe,  however,  did  not  seem  to  like  the  company  he  was  placed 
in»  for  he  remarks — "  Stanyhurst,  the  otherwiBe  Inarwd,  trod  a  fool,  lumber- 
ing,  boisterous,  walloping  measure,  in  his  translation  of  Virgil.  He  had  nerer 
been  praised  by  Gabriel  Harvey  for  his  labour  (f  tkereim  he  had  not  beem  to 
famouily  abeurd,*' 

Stany hurst  is  said  to  have  gone  to  Antwerp,  where  he  professed  alchymy 
and  the  philosopher's  stone,  but,  not  succeeding,  he  went  to  Spain  and  prac- 
tised physic,  A  letter  has  been  preserved  from  him  to  Lipsius,  dated  from 
Madrid.  He  died  at  Antwerp  in  1618.  Wood «  thinks  that  one  William  Stany. 
hurst  who  died  in  January  1665  was  his  son ;  but,  if  he  was,  he  was  not  born 
in  lawful  wedlock.  Mary  Stanyhurst,  the  mother  of  Archbishop  Usher,  was 
the  poet's  sister,  and  the  uncle  and  nephew,  though  differing  widely  in  their 
religious  opinions  and  profession,  entertained  much  affection  for  each  other. 

Stanyhurst's  translation  of  the  four  first  books  of  Virgil  was  originally 
printed  at  Leyden  in  1582, 4to. 

In  this  translation,  Mr.  Park  remarks,  "Stanyhurst's  endeaTonr  seems 
to  have  been  to  render  the  sound  an  imitation  of  the  sense ;  but  he  wanted 
taste  and  skill  to  accomplish  his  purpose  with  agreeableness."  And  Mr. 
Southey  observes,!  "  As  Chaucer  has  been  called  the  '  well  of  English  unde- 
filed/  so  might  Stanyhurst  be  denominated  the  common  sewer  of  the  language. 
He  is,  however,  a  very  entertaining  and,  to  a  philologist,  a  very  instructive 
writer.  His  version  of  the  first  four  books  of  the  ^neid  is  exceedingly  rare, 
and  deserves  to  be  reprinted  for  its  incomparable  oddity.  It  seems  impossible 
that  a  roan  could  have  written  in  such  a  style  without  intending  to  burlesque 
what  he  was  about,  and  yet  it  is  certain  that  Stanyhurst  seriously  meant  to 
write  heroic  poetry."  Besides  these  books  of  Virgil,  Stanyhurst  translated 
some  of  the  Psalms  into  Sapphic,  and  Asdepitd,  and  other  metres,  and  some 
epigrams  from  Sir  Thomas  More,  and  other  oddities.  Stanyhurst's  Virgil  was 
■o  scarce  that  a  copy  sold  for  twenty  pounds  J  and  at  HorneTooke's  sale  an  im- 
perfect copy  brought  fifteen  pounds ;  the  present  writer  never  saw  but  one.  la 
1836  a  very  limited  reprint  was  made  at  Edinburgh,  which  itself  is  now  rare. 
This  was  made  from  the  Drummond  copy  in  the  University  Library.  Perhaps 
the  following  specimens  will  be  sufllcient  for  most  of  our  readers ;  at  least,  they 
will  give  them  an  insight  into  what  George  Steevens  named  "  that  great  repo- 
sitory of  ancient  vulgarisms,  Stanyhurst's  Virgil  ;"f  ^and  Gifford  calls  him, 
"  the  sport  of  all  the  writers  of  that  age."    See  Ford's  Works,  I.  p.  Ixxxi. 

B—A— W.  J.  M. 

Our  first  extract  is  taken  from  the  opening  of  the  poem. 

I  thst  in  old  season  wyth  reeds  oten  bsrmonye  whistled 
My  rural  sonnet ;  from  forrest  flitted,  I  forced 
Thee  sulcking  swinker  thee  soile,  though  craggie^  to  sunder  : 
A  labor  and  a  travails  too  plowswains  hartily  welooom  ; 
Now  manhod  and  garboils  I  cbannt,  and  martial  horror. 
I  blaze  thee,  captayne,  first  from  Troy  dttie  repairing, 
Lyke  wandring  pilgrim  to  famosed  Italic  trudging. 
And  coast  of  Lavyn  ;  soust  wyth  tempestuus  horlwynd, 
On  land,  and  sayling  by  gods  predestinate  order. 
But  chiefe  through  Junoes  long  fostred  deadlye  revengment. 
Martyred  in  battayU,  ere  towue  could  stately  be  buylded, 
Or  gods  there  setled  ;  thence  flitted  thee  Latine  offspring, 
The  roote  of  old  Alban ;  thence  was  Rome  peerles  inhaunced. 

•  Wood's  Ath.  Ox*  ed.  BUm,  vol.  ii.  p.  265. 

f  See  Southey* 8  Omniana,  part  1,  p.  192. 

t  See  Ritson*8  Bibliog.  Poet.  p.  351,  and  see  Censura  Litenria,  vol.  1.  p.  410, 
This  eopy  was  Sir  F.  Freeling's. 

S  See  Reed's  ShaksperSi  vol.  zvi.  p.  138.  Stanyhurst  says  his  tranriation  waa 
*<  Opus  dsesm  dierum,** 


1 844.]  Staoyhunt's  Ftr^  Four  Books  of  Virgil,  Stc.  605 

,  The  next  quotation  we  make  from  the  second  book,  in  the  story  of  the 

I  Trojan  Horse,  p.  31. 

Bat  Capys  and  oothera  diTing  more  deepley  to  bottom, 

Warilj  suspecting  in  gifts  thee  treacherie  Greekish, 

Did  wish  thee  woodden  monster  weare  drowned,  or  hatbonred 

In  scorching  firebrands  ;  or  ribs  too  spatter  asunder ; 

Thee  waTcring  commons  in  kim  kam  sectes  ar  haled 

First  then  among  oothers,  with  no  smal  coompanie  garded, 

Laocoon  storming  from  princelie  castel  is  hastning, 

And  a  far  of  beloing ;  what  fond  phantastical  harebraine, 

Madness  hath  enchaunted  your  wits ;  you  townsmen  unhappie ! 

Weene  you,  blind  hodipecks,  th^e  Greekish  narie  returned, 

Or  that  their  presents  want  craft  ?  is  subtil  Ulysses 

So  soone  forgotten  ?    My  lief  for  a  haulfpennie,  Trojans, 

Either  heere  ar  couching  soom  troops  of  Greekish  asemblie, 

Or  to  crush  our  bulwarcks  this  woorck  is  forged,  al  houses 

For  to  prie,  surmounting  the  towne :  soom  practis  or  oother 

Heere  lurcks  of  cooning :  trust  not  this  treacherus  ensigne  ; 

And  for  a  fol  reckning  I  like  not  barrel  or  herring ; 

Thee  Greeks  bestowing  their  presents  Greekish  1  feare  mee. 

Thus  said :  he  stout  rested,  wilh  his  chaapt  staffe  speedily  running, 

Strong  the  steed  he  chargeth,  thee  planck  ribs  manfully  riving. 

Then  the  jade,  hit  shiYcred,  thee  Tauts  haulf  shrillie  rebounded. 

With  dush  clash  buzzing,  with  drooming  clattered  humming  : 

Had  gods  or  fortun  no  such  course  destinie  knedded, 

Or  that  al  our  senses  wear  not  so  bluntly  benummed, 

Thear  sleight  and  stratagems  had  beene  discoovered  easly. 

Now  Troy  with  Priamus*  castel  most  stately  remaining. 

But  loe,  the  mean  season,  with  shouting  clamorus  hallow, 

Of  Troy  towne  the  sheuheards  a  yoncker  mannacled  haling. 

Present  too  Priamus  ;  tnis  guest  ful  dilie  did  offer 

Himself  for  captive,  tbearby  to  coompas  his  heasting, 

And  Trojan  dttie  to  his  Greekish  countrie  men  open. 

A  brasse  bold  merchaunt  in  causes  daungerus  herdie. 

In  doubtful  matters  thus  stands  bee  flatly  resolved. 

Or  to  cog,  or  certain  for  knaverie  to  purchaa  a  Tybume. 

The  Trojan  striplings  crowding  dooe  cluster  about  him, 

Soom  view  the  captive,  some  fnimping  quillities  utter,  &c. 

The  burning  of  Troy.  p.  54. 

This  said,  with  darcksoom  night  shade  quite  clowdie  she  vannisht, 

Grisly  faces  frouncing,  eke  against  Troy  leaged  in  hatred, 

Of  saincts  foure  deities  did  I  see. 

Then  did  I  march  plainely  thee  castel  of  Ilion  uplaid, 

And  Trojan  building  quite  topsie  turvie  remooved. 

Much  lik  on  a  mountain  thee  tree  drie  withered  oaken, 

Slies*t  by  the  Clowne  Condon  rusticks  with  twibbil  or  hatchet. 

Then  the  tre  deepe  minced,  far  chopt  doth  terrific  swinckers, 

With  menacing  becking  thee  branches  palsye  before  tyme. 

Until  with  sowghing  it  grunts,  as  wounded  in  hacking, 

At  length  with  rounsefal,  from  stock  untruncked,  it  harssheth. 

The  Visit  to  Prince  Helenas.    Third  book,  p.  75. 

Theese  toyes  sheepratled  mourning,  griefs  newly  refreshing. 

Thee  whilst  King  Helenus,  with  a  crowding  coompanie  garded. 

From  towne  to  us  buskling,  us  as  his  freends  freendly  bewelcom'd, 

Us  to  his  new  cittie  with  curtesie  cherefiil  he  leadeth. 

With  tears  rief  trickling  saucing  eech  question  asked, 

I  march  on  forward  ;  and  yoong  Troy  finely  resembling 

Thee  big  huge  old  monument,  and  new  brooke  Zanthus  I  knowledge 

With  the  petit  townegats  favoring  the  principal  old  portes. 

Also  my  companions  in  country,  citty  be  frolick. 

Into  the  verie  palace  the  prince  theim  wholy  receaveth. 

With  whip  cat  bowling,  they  kept  a  merrie  carousing. 

Thee  goulden  mazurs  up  skinckt  for  a  bon  viage  hoysing, 

There  we  did  al  tojoome  two  dayei ;  then  a  prosperous  hizUng 


RBTBoincriTK  Rzmw,  [Dae* 


DMcriptioQ  at  MtBt.    Third  book,  p.  Si. 


Lfke  ^erd  pitch  ikorehuii,  or  tuh  lUiiie  ndphar 

Flawnce  to  ths  itum  towriug  thee  fire  like  ■  pellet  ii  hailed, 

lUgd  rocki  np  nJdng  i  and  fatt  oT  BonnteD  ynDted 

From  Toote  ap  he  jof  leth  t  eloani  hadge  tlag  molten  he  romrth ; 

With  nwta  not  (nutbliu,  in  bottom  fluh  hrie  kindliag. 

Hen  wr  that  BnecUdu,  irith  belt  hanltblulad,  here  horbRM^t, 

Dluc'd  with  thlt  aqaieinKi  mkI  nuMin  harden  of  Atne, 

Which  preaeo  him  nailed  from  breeched  tUauuT*  *tU  heateth, 

Ai  oft  ai  the  giant  hii  brold  lydi  oroompeled  aUrelb, 

So  oft  Sieil  al  itdTerith,  Uianrith  flakai  imaakye  beepereUod, 

That  night  in  bmat  to  u  poolie  bag*  gliaitlje  lit  trndred. 

TheCfclopt  (p.  88.) 

Load  the  lowbie  bnjed  with  bellowing  moniteTon*  eeeho. 
Thee  water  bee  ilulceth,  with  his  oatcrjM  Italia  trembUth, 
And  with  a  thick  thond'ring  thee  rjeide  for^e  £tna  rebounded. 
Then  raai  (ram  monntajnt  and  woods  thee  rowoaJTal  helawarme 
or  Cjclopan  Inrdeni  to  the  thoara  in  coom^anie  cloifring. 
Far  we  hi  them  diitiimt ;  oi  grimW  and  vainlj  b 
Up  to  the  akf  reilchiog,  thee  breeUierDe  twuh  ii 
A  foick  moaat  fulaoom,  for  light  moite  ^Ije  re«> 
T^vei  of  loftjre  dpen,  with  tbicken'd  miUtitnd  oi 
Of  Jore'a  great  foreit,  or  woods  of  mightje  Diani 
Pear*  thear  m  enforced  with  forcing  ipetdiaea  ht 
Too  twap  of  unr  cablea,  and  fal  to  the  ku  at  ave 

Heere  loa,  being  leaped  from  rangh  tempeataaui 
Mf  father  AnchiMS,  in  caiea  mj  aocniCom'd  help 
I  looae  i  A  mj  father,  wil  jou  torsak  me,  thni  en 
Hj  tojrlj  and  mj  triTalli,  when  thee  did  I  malate 
Nor  propheting  Uelenui,  when  he  foretald  dange 
Foivpake  thia  burial  monming,  nor  filthie  CgIkoi 
Thia  was  last  mjr  liboor,  thee  knot  clupt  of  min 
^^m  thence  God  mee  shoov'd  too  thii  joor  grat 
Thas  father  .£n>aB  lolf  to  the  companie  list'Dini 
Uil  long  dririe  Tiadge,  and  God'i  let  doatinie  cha 
At  leng&i  kept  he  nteiMe,  with  finnished  hiatotie 

Dido'*  Speech  to  her  Sister  is  thna  poetically  exprei 
Sliter  jtn,  I  nurreile,  what  dreimi  mee  terrlfis  i 
What  newcoom  travaller,  what  gneit  in  my  hatbc 
How  brave  ha  dooth  court  it  I  what  itrength  and 
I  belcTe  It  csrtala  (ne  jet  hold  I  it  TRinel;  report 
That  fro  the  great  linnadge  of  goda  his  pettegre  f 
Feare  she**  pitfle  craTens.  Good  God  l  what  de 
Hath  the  man  endnred.'  what  bickriogs  bitter  be 
Had  I  not  (oresnaffled  mj  mind  hf  lotarie  prami 
Not  to  joke  in  wedlock  too  do  wight  earthlj  mj 
When  mj  first  feloihip  bj  morther  beaitlj  waa  e< 
Had  1  not  *aeh  daliaance.  inch  pipUng  bed  gle  n 
Haplj  thii  one  faultie  treapes*  might  bring  me  to 
An  (to  the  mj  meaning  and  mind  1  doe  plainly  •■ 
Sinee  the  death  of  mj  hnsband,  too  wit,  the  Sich 
Since  my  croel  hrootner  defilde  the  domestical  all 
Ontj  this  od  gallaot  hath  bow'd  mj  phanaie  to  V* 
And  mf  looTe  hath  gained ;  the  skorcht  iter 
But  tnt  with  nngeaonee  let  the  earth  mee 
Or  Father  Omnipotent  r* -^  Ajnf 


nnipotent  r 
u  rtaitiff' 


1844.]  Stanyhnnt'i  Pim  Four  Booki  of  Virgil,  «c.  007 

Ean  that  I  thai  thy  ttatutef  ^6  ihameCut  Chaititie,)  eanceL 
Hee  that  first  me  yoked  for  wife  did  canie  my  first  looTe, 
Hardly  let  him  ihrowd  it,  close  daipt  in  grave  let  it  harbour. 
When  ihe  thus  had  spoaken,  with  tears  her  breast  she  replenisht. 

Dido  thus  upbraids  i£aea8  (p.  102). 

And  thonghtat  thou,  Ikithleaae  coystreU,  so  imoothlye  to  shaddow 
Thy  packing  practise,  from  my  soyle  privily  sUncking  ? 
Shal  not  my  liking,  ne  yet  earst  faith  plighted  in  hand-daspe, 
Nor  Didoes  burial  from  this  crosse  journey  withholde  thee  ? 
Further,  in  a  winter's  sowre  storm  must  navia  be  lannefaed  ? 
Mind'st  thow  with  northern  bluster  thee  mayne  sea  to  tFaversa, 
Thow  cruel  hart  haggard  ?    What  if  hence  too  countrye  the  paasaga 
Thou  took'st  not  stranged  ?     Suppose  Troy  dttie  remained. 
Through  the  sea  fierce  swelling,  wonldst  thou  to  Troy  cittie  be  packing  ? 
Shun'st  thou  my  presence  ?    By  theese  tears,  and  by  thy  right  hand. 
Since  that  I,  poore  caytieffe,  nought  els  to  myself  doe  rriioquish 
By  the  knot  of  wedlock,  by  loovn's  solemnitiei  sealed, 
If  that  I  deserved  too  fore  soom  kindness,  or  annye 
Part  of  my  person  to  the  whillon  pleasur  afoorded. 
To  my  state  empayring,  let  yeet  soom  mercye  be  tenderd. 
I  doe  crave  (if  to  prayers  as  yeet  some  nouke  be  reserved) 
Beat  down  thy  purpose,  thy  mind  from  joumye  reclayming. 
For  thy  sake  in  Ubycal  regions  and  in  Nemod  hateful 
I  live ;  my  Tyrian  subjectes  pursue  me  with  anger. 
For  thy  sake  I  stayned  whillom  my  chastitie  spotlesse. 
And  honor  old  batterd,  to  the  sky  with  glorie  me  lUting. 
And,  now  guest,  wheather  doe  ye  skud  from  deaths  fit  of  hostace  ? 
That  terme  must  I  borowe,  sith  I  dare  not  cal  the  myne  husband. 
Why  do  I  breath  longer  ?    Shall  I  live  til  dtie  my  broother 
Pigmalion  ransack  ?  or  too  time  I  be  prisoner  holden 
By  thee  Getul  I&rb  ?    If  yeet  soom  progenie  from  me 
Had  crawld,  by  the  fkthered,  if  a  cocKney  dandiprat  hop-thumb, 
Prettye  lad  ^neas,  in  my  court  wantoned,  ere  thow 
Tookst  this  filthye  fleing,  that  thee  with  phisnomye  lykened, 
I  ne  then  had  reckoned  myself  for  desolat  owtcaste. 
•  •  •  ♦ 

P.  104.    Whilst  he  thus  in  pleading  did  dwel,  shoe  surly  beheeld  him ; 

Heere  she  doth  her  visadge  thear  skew,  cache  member  in  inchmeals 
In  lonff  mummye  silence  limming;  then  shrewdly  she  scoldeth. 
No  goddes  is  thye  parent,  nor  th'  art  of  Dardanus  olFspring, 
Thou  peijnrde  faytoure !  but  amydst  rocks,  Caucasus  haggish 
Bred  the,  with  a  tiger's  soure  milck  unseasoned  udder*d. 
What  shal  I  dissemble  ?  what  poincts  more  weightye  reserve  I  ? 
At  my  teara  showring  did  he  sigh  ?  did  he  winck  with  his  eyelid  ? 
Ons  did  he  wepe  vanquisht  ?  did  he  yield  ons  merde  toe  loovemate  ? 
What  shal  I  first  utter  ?    Will  not  graund  Juno  with  hastning. 
Nor  thee  father  Satume  with  his  eyes  bent  rightly  behold  this  ? 
Faith  quite  ia  ezUed.    Fro  the  shoare  late  a  nmagat  hedgbrat, 
A  tar-breeche  quystroune  dyd  I  take,  with  phrensie  betrashed 
I  placed  in  kingdom,  both  ships  and  companye  gradng, 
Woe  to  me  thus  stamping,  sutch  braynsick  foolerye  belching. 
Mark  the  speake,  I  pray  you,  wel  coucht.    Now  sothtel  Apollo, 
Now  Lydan  fortuns,  from  very  Jnppiter  hev*nlye, 
A  menadng  message,  by  the  gods'  ambassador  uttered. 
Forsooth,  this  thye  visadge  with  care  salneta  CeUod  heapeth, 
Their  brayns  nnquieted  with  this  baldare  be  busing. 
I  stay  not  thy  bcMly,  ne  on  baw  vaw  tromperye  descant. 
Pack  toe  soyl  Italian )  crosse  thee  seas  {  fish  for  a  kingdom ; 
Verily  in  hoape  reat  (if  gods  may  take  duelye  revengement). 
With  gagd  rocks  coompast,  then,  vaynely  Dido  redting, 
Thou  shalt  bee  puniaht.     lie  with  fire  swartish  hop  after, 
When  death  had  untwined  my  soule  from  carcas  his  holding, 
1  wil  as  hobgobling  foloe  thee ;  thou  shalt  be  soare  handled. 
I  shal  hears,  I  doi2)t  not,  thy  panp  in  iymbo  rdated. 


608  Retrospective  Review.— Stanyhunt's  Vtrgil,  SfC.         [Dec* 

We  have  now,  we  think,  given  specimens  enough  of  the  author's  style,  and 
only  add  a  few  examples  of  single  lines.    As, 
P.  8. — And  the  sea  salte  foaming  wythe  brave  flantadoe  dyd  barrow. 
P.  3. — ^Tbeese  flaws  theyr  cabbans  wyth  stur  snar  jarrye  doe  ransack. 
P.  10. — Rough  the  sea  flows  forward,  thee  land  with  snamoise  enhaunting. 
P.  14. — Pigmalion*s  riches  was  shipt,  that  pinchepeny  butcher. 
P.  95. — ^This  reason  her  sturriog  thus  spake  she  to  Cocknye  Cupido. 
P.  33. — ^Whearto  shal  I  take  me  forlorne,  unfortunat,  hoaplost  ? 
P.  39. — His  midil  embracing  with  wigwag  circuled  hooping. 
P.  75. — Him  by  his  fires  altars  killing  with  Skarboro  warning. 

P.  78. — ^Than  to  be  surprised  by  Scylla  in  dungeon  hellish, 

Whear  curs  barck  bawling,  with  yolp  yalpe  snarrye  rebounding. 

P.  94.— You  to  him  bee  spoused ;  thee  truth  with  pillo  toy  ferret. 

P.  107. — Thee  winds  scold  struggling,  the  threshing  thick  crush  crash  is  owt  borne, 
Thee  boughs  frap  whurring,  when  stem  with  blast  bob  is  hacked. 

P.  111. — What  shal  I  doe  therfore  ?  shal  I  now,  like  a  castaway  milckmad^ 
On  my  woers  formoure  bee  fawning  ? 

P.  113. — Quod  she,  shal  he  escape  thus  ?  shal  a  stranger  give  me  the  slampun  ^ 
With  such  departure,  my  regal  Siegnorie  frumping  ? 

P.  141. — Loud  dub  a  dub  tabering,  with  frapping  rip  rap  of  ^tna. 
A  clapping  fierbolte,  such  as  oft  with  rownce  robel  hobble. 

P.  14S. — Of  ruffe  raffe  roaring,  men*s  hearts  with  terror  agrysing, 

With  peale  meale  ramping,  with  thick  thwack  sturdily  thundring. 

An  endeavoured  Description  of  hie  Mietreeee, 

Nature  in  her  woorking  soomtime  dooth  pinch  like  a  niggard, 

Disfiguring  creatures,  lims  with  deformitie  dusking. 

This  man  is  nnjoyncted,  that  swad  like  a  monster  abideth, 

Shee  limps  in  the  going,  this  slut  with  a  cammoised  hauck*s  nose. 

And  as  a  cow  wasted  plods  on,  with  an  head  like  a  lute- case. 

Theese  faultes  fond  hodipecks  impute  too  nature,  as  if  she 

Too  frame  were  not  habil  gems  with  rare  dignitie  lustring  I 

Wherfor  in  advisment  laboring  too  cancel  al  old  blots. 

And  to  make  a  patterne  of  price,  thee  maistree  to  publish 

For  to  shape  a  peerelesse  paragon  shee  minded,  asembling 

Her  force  and  cunning ;  for  a  spirt,  lands  sundrie  refusing, 

And  with  al  her  woorckmates  travailing  she  lighteth  in  Holland , 

Round,  too,  the  Hage  posting,  to  the  world  Marie  matchless  avaunctn^ 

In  bodie  fine  fewterd,  a  brave  brownetta ;  wel  handled ; 

Her  stature  is  coomly ;  not  an  inch  to  superfluus  holding, 

Gratius  in  visadge ;  with  a  quick  eye  prettily  glanncing ; 

Her  lips  like  coral  rudie,  with  teeth  lillie  wlut,  eevor*d. 

Yoong  in  age,  in  manners  and  nurture  sage  she  remaineth, 

Bashful  in  her  speaking ;  not  rash,  but  watchful  in  annswer. 

Her  looks,  her  simpring,  her  woords  with  curtesie  sweetning ; 

Kind  and  also  modest ;  liking  with  chastitie  lincking, 

And  in  al  her  gesturs  observing  coomly  decorum. 

But  to  what  eecd  labor  I,  me  to  presse  with  burden  of  ^tna. 

Thee  start  too  number,  poincts  plainely  uncounctabil  opning  ? 

Whust  1  not  a  woord ;  a  silence  such  a  task  impossibl  asketh. 

Her  vertn  meriteth  more  praise  than  parly  can  utter. 

Of  Tjfndarue,  that  Jrumped  a  gentleman  for  hating  a  long  noee,  deUvend  by  ike 

former  author  {Sir  Thomae  More)  in  Latin. 

Tyndarus  attempting  to  kis  a  faire  lasse  with  a  long  nose, 
Would  needs  bee  finish,  with  bitter  frumpery  taunting. 
In  vain  I  doo  ooovet  my  lips  too  linck  to  thy  sweete  lips : 
Thy  nose,  as  a  stickler,  toe  toe  long  us  parteth  asunder. 
Heere  the  maide,  al  bashful,  the  unsav'rie  saucines  heeding  ; 
With  choler  oppressed,  thus  shrewdly  to  Tyndarus  aunswer*d  ; 
Sith  my  nose  owtpeaking,  good  Sir,  your  lip.Iabour  hindreth. 
Hardly  ye  may  kisse  mee,  where  no  such  gnomon  apeeretb. 
6 


609 


REVIEW  OF  NEW  PUBLICATIONS. 


Letten  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scoli.  Edited 
hf  AgDes  Strickland.    2  voU, 
IF  this  work  had  no  other  recom- 
mendation than  that  of  being  the  most 
complete  collection  of  the  letters  of 
Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  and  of  those 
relating  to  her,  it  would  be  a  valuable 
one.    A  history  so  complicated  and 
obscure  in  parts,  so  darkened  by  mys- 
terious plots,  so  inyolved  in  conflicting 
interests,  and  so  conducted  through 
circumstances  half  concealed  by  fear, 
and  changed  by  personal  views    of 
various  kinds,  needs  every  assistance 
that  can  be  afforded,   nor  should  a 
single  paper  or  document  be  omitted 
in  a  case  where  a  word  lost  or  altered 
might  affect  the  character  of  the  par- 
ties, the  sincerity  of  their  motives  and 
views,  or  might    throw   inextricable 
confusion  into  the  whole  fabric  of  the 
history.     But    Miss    Strickland   has 
earned  higher  praise  than  merely  that 
of  a  diligent  compiler:  she  has  ar- 
ranged the  text  with  clearness,  and  il- 
lustrated  it  with  knowledge  and  judg- 
ment. 

The  two  great  points  of  controversial 
interest  in  Queen  Mary's  history  are 
those  connected  with  the  murder  of 
Darnley  and  the  plotting  against  the 
throne  and  life  of  Elizabeth.  As  re- 
gards the  former,  Miss  Strickland 
vindicates  the  innocence  of  the  Queen, 
and,  we  think,  with  preponderating 
evidence  in  her  favour.  The  other  is 
a  more  complicated  question,  because 
it  involves  this  very  doubtful  point — 
how  far  both  the  adherents  of  Mary 
and  her  enemies  may  have  acted  from 
opposite  motives,  yet  both  involving 
her  name  in  their  acts.  Was  she 
guilty  ?  is  the  first  qaestion^to  what 
extent  ?  is  the  second ;  for  Elizabeth's 
apology  for  proceeding  to  the  last  ex- 
tremity of  power  rested  on  its  neces- 
sity, as  connected  with  the  safety  of 
her  own  life  and  the  security  of  her 
throne;  and  this  was  so  assiduously 
inculcated,  so  widely  spread,  and  so 
firmly  believed,  that  it  certainly  ap- 
pears, not  only  that  there  was  no 
popular  or  national  feeling  against  the 
execntion  of  Mary,  but,  on  the  other 
GxNT.  Mao.  Voi..  XXII. 


hand,  that  the  news  of  her  death  was 
followed  by  a  general  rejoicing.     If 
this  was  the  case,  it  certainly  seems 
to  show  the  general  belief  that  plots 
dangerous  to  the  Sovereign  and  to  the 
religion  of  the  country,  and  formidable 
from  the  persons  engaged  in  them,  were 
connected  with   the  Scotish    Queen, 
known  to  her,  and  encouraged  by  her. 
This  is  ever  the  language  of  the  mi- 
nisters, and  also  of  Elizabeth  herself, 
who  places  the  argument  in  her  con- 
versation in  the  short  compass  as  to 
whose  life  should  be  sacrificed— her 
own  or  her  rival's ;  and  when  we  re- 
collect that  Mary  had   assumed  the 
title  of  Queen  of  England  as  well  as  of 
Scotland,  and  was  the  rightful  suc- 
cessor,  we  shall  at   least    have  the 
channel  to  the  Queen's  fears  and  ani- 
mosities open  before  us.     When,  also, 
we  recollect  the  great  and  vital  strug- 
gles then  taking  place  in  Europe  be- 
tween the  Catholic  and  Reformed  re- 
ligions, the  intense  hatred  of  the  Papal 
power  to  the  Sovereign  that  sate  on  the 
revoltedthrone,  and  the  constant  threats 
of  assassination  which  kept  the  Queen 
and  her  ministers  in  such  alarm  that 
an  associaton  was  formed  specially  for 
her  personal  protection, — keepingthese 
things  before  us,  and  knowing  also  that 
Mary  owned  her  guilty  participation 
in  plots  for  the  invasion  ofthe  country,* 
though  she  rejected  all  attempt  on  the 
life  of   her  sister  Queen,t  we  shall 
scarcely  wonder    at    the  manner  in 
which  the  final  scene  was  closed.  The 
people  saw  not  a  martyr,  but  a  traitor, 
led  to  the  block,  and  Elizabeth  in  her 


•  See  vol.  i.  p.  S44— 248. 

t  *'  Let  your  wicked  murdereee  know 
bow,  with  hearty  sorrow,  her  vile  deserts 
compel  these  orders ;  and  bid  her,  from 
me,  ask  God  forgiveness]  for  her  treacher- 
ous dealings  towards  the  savionr  of  her 
life  many  a  year,  to  the  intolerable  peril 
of  my  own  ;  and  yet,  not  contented  with 
so  many  forgivenesses,  must  fault  again 
so  horribly,  far  passing  woman*s  thought, 
much  less  a  princess's."— Strong  language 
this,  which  occurs  in  a  letter  of  Elisabeth 
to  Sir  Amiss  Pawlet,  u.  p.  929. 

4  I 


610 


Hewett*8  History  of  the  Hundred  of  Complon. 


[Dec, 


^1^^1*8  death  saw  the  remoTal  of  the 

gf^at  central  poUrt  roaod  which  poK- 

tical    iosarrectionf    foreign  invasion, 

domestic  treason,  and  spiritual  threats 

^nd    intrigoes  were    continnally  re- 

ToWinS* 

To  assist  her  readers  in  tracing  a 

clear  view  throngh  the  eventful  details 
of  this  history.  Miss  Strickland  has 
given  a  very  lucid  and  historical  in* 
troduction  of  sixty  pages,  and  she  alio 
accompanies  the  letters  with  a  Chro- 
nological Sonunary  of  the  Events* 
whicn  we  have  found  of  great  advan- 
tage where  the  history  is  conducted 
through  private  and  public  letters, 
state  papers,  negotiations  of  states- 
men, and  correspondence  of  ambas- 
sadors. In  vol.  i.  p.  129«  &c.,  will 
be  found  an  interesting  discussion 
on  "the  forged  love  letters  and  the 
siWer  gilt  casket,"  as  connected  with 
Bothwell;*  at  p.  194  as  to  whether 
the  Duke  of  Norfolk  and  Mary  ever 
met.  One  of  the  most  extraordinary  and 
interesting  discussions  in  the  second 
volume  is  that  which  relates  to  Eliza- 
beth's desire  to  have  Mary  privately 
nuurdered,  and  not  publicly  tried  and 
executed;  see  pp.  229^-232.  This, 
if  true,  is  indeed  the  foulest  and  most 
bloody  spot  upon  her  lame*  and  even 
such  as  might  account  for  the  up- 
braidings  and  misery  of  her  closing 
days.  At  p.  2U  Miss  Strickland 
touches  on  the  question,  which,  she 
says,  was  asked  "  by  that  great  his- 
toiical  antiquarian.  Sir  Henry  Ellis," 
as  to  whether  Elixabeth  was  not  really 
betrayed  by  her  ministers  when  the 
warrant  for  the  death  of  Mary  Queen 
of  Scots  was  actually  executed;  a 
question  naturally  arising  from  her 
letter  to  James  VI.,  in  which  she  says, 
'•I  would  you  knew  (though  not  felt) 
the  extreme  doloar  that  overwhelms 
my  mind  for  that  mUerable  accident 
whteh,  far  contrary  to  my  meamny,  kmth 
brfaOen.  .  .  Thus  assuring  yourself  of 
ne,  that,  as  I  knew  this  was  deserved, 
99t,  if  I  had  meant  it,  I  would  never 
lajr  it  on  others'  shoulders ;  no  more 
will  I  (not)  damnify  myself,  that  thought 
it  not," 

At  p.  388  will  be  found  a  letter. 


Our 


which,  though  anonymous*  deserves 
atlenftaon,  as  it  shows  tbit  strong  party 
feeling  that  prevailed  in  the  coantrv 
against  the  Scotish  Queen.  One 
tence  is  as  follows : — 

"Itcsnaot  bebet  «ia  Seeti^ 

is  appointtd  to  be  ths  sMms  te  ovettfarov 
reUgion,  and  to  sdvaaes  stt  Papistiy. 
good  Qoaen's  life  ii  the  only  impr  ^'* 
and  what  vill  not  Papistry  do  to  z^n 
any    impediment?    when   Efiaabeth 
dead,  two  kingdoms  johied  in  Mary,  m 
security  is  there  for  Christeia?  . '. 
is  tme  merey  to  deliver  so  maaj-^^to 

liver  the  earth    fiomadevouih^, 

uaiiiliigt  destroying  maaster  of 
fdBMs^  &&  .  .  .    WiU  Bl 

England  and  assll  sabjset  ta ..^ 

traitonss— a  seeker  of  tbe  tiis  af  her 
ssviour— one  irritated  tjfmtr-vk^  « 
I  say  sU  in  one  word»--Seotish  Qaaen 
But  we  must  now  refer  the  reader 
the  volumes  themselves*    which    we 
trust  he  has  already  seen  an  ^^ 
worthy  of  his  attention. 


hat 
.  It 
4e. 


9*9 

to 


*  See  also,  as  to  the  murder  of  Dam- 
Wy,  BothwsU's  Cenleasion,  voL  i.  p.  308, 


The  Hietery  and  AnHqmtiee  of  the 
Hundred  ef  Condon,  Berha,  A 
William  Hawett,  Jan.  8po.  pp.  ^ 
164. 

IF  it  has  not  been  without  some 
regret  that  we  have  seen  our  Countr 
Histories  degenerate    from  folio    to 

2uarto,  and  the  splendid  tomea  of 
^rmerod,  Surtees,  and  Whitaker  auc- 
Deeded  by  those  of  Bainea  and  Glover, 
or  others  almoat  unknown,  what  ehnll 
we  say  when  we  have  Uie  htatory  of 
a  hundred  presented  to  us  in  a  thin 
octavo  volume,  and  ornamented,  iMyt 
with  the  works  of  Turner  and  Dewint, 
of  Blore  and  Lekeux,  but  with  coarse 
woodcuts,  or  the  vilest  blotchings  ever 
printed  in  lithographic  chalk?  And 
yet  we  are  free  to  admit  that  there  la 
a  mean  which  ought  to  be  observed  in 
these  matters;  for  the  magnificent 
folios  above-mentioned  were  beyond 
all|but  wealthy  purchasers,  and,  more- 
over, very  unwieldy  to  handle,  and 
therefore  on  both  accounts  more 
likely  to  be  treasured  on  the  shelvea  of 
little  frequented  libraries,  than  to 
diffuse  general  information.  We 
would  not  object  to  the  quarto  form, 
such  as  Daliaway's  Sussex,  or  the 
lighter  folio,  such  as  Hunter'a  South 
Yorkahire :  but  we  do  think  that  some 
little  dignity  is  beoomiag  to  To- 
pography, and  moreover  that  well. 


]  8  44.]         HeweU*i  Hidory  of  tht  Humlred  ^  CompUm. 

executed  plates  ere  very  desirable, 
iBasnach  ae  considerable  inforinstion 
is  to  be  derived  from  them,  indeed^ 
we  bave  not  yet  had  any  one  Conaty 
History  at  once  amply  and  artistically 
iUmtrated.  The  Leicestershire  of 
Mr.  Nichols  is  by  fiur  the  foremost  in 
the  farmer  quality,  but  a  small  pro- 
portion only  of  his  engravings  are 
chancteriaed  by  artistic  merit,  or 
even  correct  drawing.  The  specimen 
which  Mr.  Gage  £»kewode  gave  of 
a  History  of  Soffolk,  in  his  "  Hundred 
of  Thiogoe/'  is  we  think  the  model 
upon  which  County  History  shouM 
be  executed :  complete  in  its  pedigrees^ 
its  church  notes,  and  above  all  in  its 
illustrations.  But  we  are  preaching 
to  a  barren  generation* 

We  have  no  wish,  however,  to 
speak  ungratefully  of  Mr.  Hewett's 
"  Hundred  oCCompton/' — always  ex- 
cepting hie  wretched  lithographe; 
taking  it,  for  such  it  ie,  as  a  hasty 
ricetch,  the  work  of  a  very  young  maa^ 
somewhat  too  eager  for  his  appearance 
before  the  public.  Could  Mr.  Hewett 
have  allowed  himself  further  time* 
we  have  no  doubt  his  zeal  and  his 
talents  would  have  achieved  some- 
thing better.  We  perceive,  however, 
that  he  wants  an  acquaintance  with 
Latin,*  which  is  a  great  drawback  to 
an  historical  antiquary.  On  his  terrir 
tonal  history  we  have  little  to  remark, 
except  that  it  might  have  been  de- 
tailed  with  greater  clearaess  and 
precision ;  pedigrees  he  has  none,  nor 
any  epitaphs.  The  parishes  described 
are,  Aldworth,  Compton>  East  Ilsley, 
West  Ilsley,  Cbilftin,  Catmere,  and 
Famboroogh. 

It  is  in  his  investigation  of  the 
early  antiquities  of  the  Berkshire 
downs  that  Mr.  Hewett  is  most  suc- 
cessful. He  proposes  a  new  site  for 
Calleva,  the  capital  of  the  Attrebates, 
namely,  Streatley,  a  locality  which  Sir 
R.  C.  Hoare  considered  to  possess 
such  characteristics  a»  proved  "that 
a  Roman  station  formerly  existed  on 
this  spot:"  and  since  it  was  visited 
by  that  eminent  antiquary, 

'*  fiesh  discoveries  have  been  frequently, 


011 


end  still  sre,  msde  in  these  fields » 
hundreds  of  Romsn  coios,  of  gold,  silver, 
end  brass,  having  been  ploughed  up : 
these  are  chiefly  of  Yaleas,  Constans, 
Valentinian,  Carausius,  Probus,  Gratian, 
and  Constantine  the  Great." 

Another  point  is  the  site  of  the 
Battle  of  Ashdown,  fought  between 
Alfred  and  the  Daaes  in  Uie  year  871. 
It  has  been  placed  in  various  couaties ; 
and  even  the  Berkshire  antiqoariea 
are  not  accordant  as  to  its  precise 
locality.  "  Mr.  Wise,  whose  opinion 
is  most  accredited,  ^xw  JSscesdune  at 
Ashdown  Park  near  Lam  bourn; 
Lysonsf  at  Ashampstead ;  and  Bishop 
Gibson  at  Aston."  Lysons,  however, 
had  observed,  that  the  name  appears 
in  Domesday  Book,  under  the  form  of 
Assedone,  as  part  of  the  Hundred  of 
Nachededorne,  correspoadiag  to  the 
modern  Hundred  of  Compton;  and 
Mr.  Hewett  follows  up  this  opinion 
by  asserting,  that  the  open  hills  in 
the  vicinity  of  East  Ilsley  must  be  the 
site  of  this  event,  and  that  the  manor 
of  Ashridge  is  a  remainder  of  the 
former  designation  of  the  whole  ad- 
joining downs. 

From  this  decisive  battle,  says  Mr. 
Hewett,  the  Saxons  applied  to  these 
d3wnsthe  name  of  Hilde-lasg,  or  the 
battle-field,  from  whence  is  derived 
the  present  Ilsley. 

Whether  this  etymology  ie  correct 
we  will  not  determiae.  The  name  is 
written  in  one  paesage  of  Domesday 
Book  "  Hildeslei,"  in  others  Hislelei 
and  Hisleleu.  But  of  the  town,  "  the 
famous  Nachededorne,"  which  is  said 
to  have  stood  near  the  site  of  the  mo« 
dern  Ilsley  (p.  41)  ;  to  have  been  ut- 
terly destroyed  by  the  Danes  (p.  42) ; 
and  to  have  been  abandoned  for  ano- 
ther site,  when,  "  notwithstanding 
this  new  town  was  founded  on  the 
very  hill  whereon  the  single  thorn  still 
grew,  the  old  name  of  Nachededorne, 
hemg  fiwnd  inconvemmHy  Umg,  was 
shortly  abolished  for  that  of  Hi  Ides- 
ley  "  (p.  43,) -of  this  "  famous  town" 
we  do  not  believe  one  word.  Nachede- 
dorne was  the  name  of  a  manor  held 
in  royal  demesne  by  the  Conqueror, 


*  Tkisissbownbv  die  way  in  which  f  This    name    is    printed   <' LyKm** 

his  extracts  from  Domesday   Book  are  thfougheut  Mr.  Hewetc*8  volume,  a  «bad 

printed.    He  talks  of   Hugo    Coumi  ot  ooa^^UsMnt  te  the  most  msvitorions  of 

Bfafiord,  &&  &c.  his  pcedeoMMmi  la  Berkshire  topography 


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and  sach  a  manor  not  unaatarally 
gave  name  to  the  Hundred. 

In  some  of  hia  etymological  expla- 
nations Mr.  Hewett  is  certainly  not 
very  perspicaous.  Thus  of  Lowbo- 
rongh  he  says,  "  Its  name  appears  to 
be  a  corruption  of  the  two  Saxon 
words  hleaw,  a  hill,  and  hergh,  a  for- 
tress ;  and  of  Cuckhamsley,  that  it  is 
obviously  corrupted  from  the  old  Saxon 
name  hCeaw,  signifying  in  that  lan- 
guage au  elevated  country,  or  a  large 
estate."  But  we  believe  it  will  be 
found  that  low  had  generally  a  sepul- 
chral meaning,  as  Mr.  Hewett  him- 
self shows  was  the  case  with  Cuck- 
hamsley,  written  in  ancient  records 
Cwicchelmeshlawe,  that  is,  the  tumu- 
lus of  Cwichelm,  who  is  supposed  by 
Mr.  Hewitt  to  have  been  that  Cwich- 
elm,  the  brother  of  King  Kynegils, 
slain  on  the  downs  in  battle  with  King 
Edwin,  A.n.  626.  In  this  magnificent 
barrow,  which,  placed  upon  a  hill  up- 
wards of  800  feet  above  the  level  of 
the  sea,  rises  to  the  height  of  twenty- 
one  feet,  and  measures  in  circumfer- 
ence 140  yards,  excavations  have  been 
lately  carried  on,  resulting  in  few  dis- 
coveries ;  but  Mr.  Hewett's  descrip- 
tion of  the  formation  of  the  barrow, 
which  was  composed  of  large  layers 
of  turf  placed  in  horizontal  strata,  is 
remarkable.  In  the  centre  was  found 
"an  immense  oaken  stake,  bound  with 
twigs  of  willow  and  hazel."  This  stake 
presented  evident  traces  of  the  action 
of  fire,  as  did  some  large  bones. 

Afler  describing  a  British  camp 
called  Perborough  Castle,  Mr.  Hewett 
says, 

'*  Several  names  of  adjoining  localities 
have  reference  to  this  ancient  intrenchment, 
and  its  occupation  by  the  Britons  and  Ro- 
mans ;  thus  Vaullen  (the  name  of  a  large 
wood  now  destroyed)  signifies  a  fortified 
town  ;  and  Catioeoi9  (Caerlow),  a  town 
where  beacons  were  lit.  Sir  R.  C.  Hoare 
says  he  always  found  the  term  Cold  Hot* 
hnur  in  the  vicinity  of  a  Roman  road.  This 
name,  derived  from  the  British  words  col^ 
a  hillf  and  arbhar  an  army,  also  desig- 
nates a  9iaiio  mUitarU.  There  is  a  farm 
so  called  near  Perborough  Castle,  and  also 
at  West  llsley.'* 

Here,  without  entering  dogmatically 
on  that  slippery  field,  etymology,  we 
may  presamc  to  doabt  both  Mr.  Hew- 
ett's  interpretation  of  Callocots,  and 
ita  imputed  identity  with  Caerlow.    It 


appears,  however,  very  probable  thai  it 
is  from  the  Roman  eottocaia,  and  more 
particularly  as  it  is  supposed  that  GM 
Harbour  itself  had  the  meaning  of 
$tatio  colloeala» 

We  shall  now  have  given  eome  idea 
of  Mr.  Hewett's  book.  It  will  be  re- 
membered that  the  History  of  Wilt- 
shire was  divided  by  Sir  Richard  Hoare 
into  the  Ancient  History  and  the  Mo- 
dern. Under  a  similar  divisioo  of 
subjects  we  should  be  inclined  to  assign 
a  considerable  share  of  merit  to  tiiis 
contribution  of  Mr.  Hewett's  to  the 
ancient  history  of  Berkshire ;  towards 
the  modern  history,  many  of  his  ma- 
terials ate  doubtless  of  value,  bat  there 
is  such  a  want  of  lucid  arrangement, 
such  evident  marks  of  haste  and  im- 
perfection, which  the  long  series  of 
addenda  tends  to  confirm,  that  we 
must  still  regret  he  did  not  take  more 
time.  Above  all,  he  might  have  ga- 
thered some  idea  of  the  capabilities  of 
modern  art,  if  only  from  the  iltostratcd 
newspapers. 

The  History  and  Aniiquitiea  of  i^srf. 
ford,*  with   Thpographicai    Notiem 
of   tlie   neighbourhood.     By    John 
Dunkin,  Genileman,  M*A,Sm 
WITH     what    amazement    would 
Camden   and  Stukeley,   and  Horsley 
and  Sir  Richard  Colt  Hoare,  have  re- 
ceived the  information  adopted  by  Mr. 
Dunkin  in  the  introduction  to  hiis  vo- 
lume, that  the  state  of  the  Trinobantes 
was  in  the  hundred  of  Hoo,  that  pen- 
insular tract  of  Kent   lying  between 
the  Thames  and  Medway,  composed 
of  Cowling  and  Cliff  marshes,  the  high- 
lands about  High  Halstow,  and  the 
fiats  of  the  Isle  of  Grain  ! 

Now  would  not  the  assertion  of 
Csesar  himself,  that  he  led  his  army 
towards  the  territories  of  Cassivclan* 
nus,  which  were  divided  from  the  ma- 
ritime states  (meaning  those  of  Kent) 
by  a  river  eighty  miles  distant  from 
the  sea,t  nor  the  express  mention  that 
Cassivelaunus  sent  missives  to  the 
states  of  Kent,  urging  them  to  attadt 
Caesar's  encampment  constructed  for 

•  This  title  is  of  the  illominated  order. 
The  illuminator  in  the  name  Dartford  has 
unfortunately  used  the  uncial  C  '"•**HL 
of  D ;  the  word  stands,  therefore,  Cart* 
ford  I 

t  Conuient.  lib. 


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he  protection  of  bis  fleet,  (at  the  spot 
most  probably  where  Richborough 
castle  now  stands),  nor  the  relation  of 
Tacitus  relative  to  the  revolt  of  the 
Trinovantes,  whose  capital  was  Cama- 
Iodnnum»  Colchester,  or  Lexden,  in 
Essex  :  *-— woold  none  of  these  cir- 
cumstances, we  say,  protect  Caesar 
from  the  suspicion  that  he  had  mis- 
taken the  Medway  for  the  Thames, 
and  that  his  march  of  eighty  miles 
ought  to  be  shortened  by  half  the 
distance,  that  he  might  ford  the  Med- 
way and  not  the  Thames,  and  attack 
the  stronghold  of  Cassivelan,  not  at 
Verolam,  but  in  the  marshes  between 
the  Cray  and  Daren t,f  where  some 
brick  rubbish  of  buildings  of  the  15th 
and  16th  century  (we  speak  ad- 
visedly) indicate  to  the  conviction  of 
Mr.  Dunkin  a  Roman  station. 

We  have  already,  in  our  review  of 
Archseologia,  had  occasion  to  observe 
on  the  indications  of  the  spot  where 
Caesar  really  did  cross  the  Thames  be- 
tween Kingston  and  Hampton  Court  ;t 
and  we  now  shew  how  strongly  this 
discovery  confirms  the  hint  of  Sir 
Richard  Colt  Hoare,  in  his  observa- 
tions on  Caesar's  second  campaign  in 
Britain.  He  says,  "The  first  ford  of 
the  Thames  is  at  Richmond,  as  nearly 
as  possible  eighty  miles  from  Rich- 
borougb."^  Sir  Richard  is  also  very 
express  in  his  definition  of  the  territory 
oftheTrinovantes;  they  were,  he  tells 
us,  "  the  inhabitants  of  Essex,  a  small 
part  of  Hertfordshire  and  Middlesex, 
under  their  capital  Camalodunum  or 
Lexden,  which  afterwards,  in  the  time 
of  Claudius,  was  removed  to  Col- 
chester."|| 

However  carefully  Sir  Richard  Colt 
Hoare  considered  the  localities  he  was 
pointing  out  as  safely  to  be  inferred 
from  the  authority  of  the  Roman 
writers,  it  appears  never  once  to  have 
occurred  to  him  that  the  most  im- 
portant transactions  of  Caesar's  cam- 
paign might  have  taken  place  in  the 
marshes  and  uplands  of  the  hundred  of 
Hoo,  and  near  the  course  of  the  "  silent 

*  Tacit.  Ann.  Lib. 

t  Introdact.  p.  six.  et  passim. 

i  Letters  frota  WiUtam  Roots,  esq.  of 
Kingston. 

i  Introd.  to  translation  of  Giraldas 
Cambrensia,  p.  Ixxxii, 

II  Ibid. 


Darent,  stained,"  according  to  Mr* 
Dunkin,  "  with  SritUh  blood." 

Mr.  Dunkin  appears  to  us  rather 
unfortunate  in  his  remarks  on  Roman 
antiquities : — he  refers  to  an  examina- 
tion made  by  Mr.  Kempe  and  Messrs. 
Nichols,  some  years  since,  of  the  re- 
mains of  the  Watling  Street  on  Dart- 
ford  Brent,  and  gives  an  etymology  for 
the  word  fVailing,  as  on  the  authority 
of  Mr.  Kempe,  (an  extract  it  appears 
from  a  private  note  of  that  gentleman,) 
quite  different  from  that  which  Mr. 
Kempe  has  himself  communicated  to  the 
Archseologia.  We  suspect  that  Mr* 
Kempe  may  not  have  much  desired 
this  use  should  be  made  of  a  mere  con- 
jecture of  the  moment.  Mr.  Dunkin, 
however,  evidently  impugns  his  au- 
thority when  he  removes  Noviomagua 
from  Hoi  wood  Hill^  to  Dartford, 
bringing  of  course  the  Regni  of  Ptolemy 
from  the  confines  of  Surrey  into  the 
district  of  Kent. 

Mr.  Dunkin,  as  his  work  on  the 
hundreds  of  Bicester  and  Ploughley» 
in  Oxfordshire,  has  shewn,  is  an  ac- 
curate, zealous,  and  intelligent  chroni- 
cler of  our  Anglo-Norman  antiquities 
and  ecclesiastical  foundations  before  the 
Reformation ;  but  he  is  not  at  home 
in  the  classic  ages :  we  therefore 
gladly  leave  Ciesar  to  find  his  way  out 
of  the  hundred  of  Hoo,  whither  he 
has  been  conducted  in  Mr.  Dunkin's 
preliminary  notes,  throwing  not  only 
the  Britons  but  a  host  of  established 
antiquaries  into  confusion,  and  turn  to 
Mr.  Donkin's  description  of  Dartford 
parish  church,  which  we  quote  some- 
what at  length  as  happily  illustrating 
the  economy  of  our  parochial  edifices 
in  the  olden  time. 

''  The  situation  of  the  pariah  church,  at 
once  blocking  up  the  end  of  the  street  and 
the  approach  to  the  bridge,  is  so  mani- 
festly inconvenient  aa  to  convince  the  moat 
incredulous  that  the  selection  of  aite  muat 
have  arisen  from  conviction  that  no  other 
possessed  correspondent  advantages.  The 
ford  of  the  Darent  was  too  important  to 
be  overlooked  as  a  military  post  during 
the  murderous  incursions  of  the  Saxons 
and  Danes ;  consequently  a  atrong  maasive 
fortor  tower  was  erected  on  the  banks  of  the 
river,  immediately  contiguous  to  the  Wat- 
ling-atreet,  to  aerve  at  once  as  a  defence 
of  the  ford  and  a  stronghold  for  the  in- 


f  Archieologia* 


f 


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hahftaati  of  tibe  town.  On  tha  aontham 
tide  of  tbift  tower  tha  peoole  tut  na- 
tnnlly  ■fteimrdt  erected  tlieir  chwch, 
and  in  ttmei  of  war  and  depredation  car- 
ried thither  their  Talnablet  at  a  place  of 
eontpiete  tecvrity.  When  Cranqninity 
ptefailedf  the  tower  became  tiie  can- 
paailB  of  the  parish  ehnreh.  The  lint 
StooA  adiflea  nay  he  reeeonahty  aap* 
poaad  to  have  emm/ttiA  of  a  nam  and 
dhnaal  only ;  yet,  itandiiig  aacardiag  to 
tha  aawiiatl  poinCa,  the  aontb-wealeim 
^ffffiff  naoeaaarily  proiacted  itaaif  npoB 
tha  liw  <tf  the  Watlljag^ttreet.  In  thoia 
•§ai»  the  presence  of  the  sacred  edifice 
was  consioered  an  ampk  counterbalance 
to  any  little  inconTcnience  arising  from  a 
slight  incfination  in  the  road.  At  a  very 
aariy  period,  tb»  Saxon  kinfi,  then  lonto 
af  the  doBMin,  gare  l>artford  ehnreh 
the  aatewment  of  the  see  of  Ro- 
and  it  ia  ^teesd  aaong  those 
in  DomaMiay  Book.  In  ISSO, 
ly  sftca  the  rsnonitation  af 
Baekel,  Yaat  aultitndaa  of  all  claasaa 
flocked  on  pilgrimage  to  hia  tomb,  and 
Dartford  became  the  first  resting  place 
fifom  London  to  Canterbury:  tUs  evi- 
dently led,  in  the  time  of  Henry  III.,  to 
flie  ereetion  of  a  chapel  on  the  southern 
aide  of  the  diancel,  and  to  the  dedication 
•fan  altar  therein  to  St.  Thomas  of  Can- 
larbBfjf  for  the  use  of  the  pilgrims.  In 
llw  same  reign,  the  Emperor  of  Germany 
una  Bsairied  by  proxy  in  thia  ehnreh  to 
laabella,  the  Ung's  siater.  The  sndant 
isbrie  having  (Ulai  to  dosay,  or  been,  ad- 
indged  too  mean  for  the  magnificent  ideaa 
of  the  age,  the  present  greatly  enlarged 
•difioe  was  projected  in  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward the  First.  The  church  was  pro- 
posed to  consist  of  a  naTc,  three  chancels, 
and  side  aisles,  although  It  was  evident 
thia  objeet  eonld  not  be  accomplished 
without  earrring  the  western  end  of  the 
aonth  aiala  right  athwart  the  andent  road, 
and  thereby  apparently  blocking  up  tha 
■treet.  Ais  tnoonvenience,  however, 
teems  to  have  been  conaidered  subordinate 
to  the  advantages  of  having  a  church  worthy 
of  the  town,  and  calculated  to  arreat  the 
attention  of  strangers.  The  ecclesiastics 
pressed  forward  the  rebuilding,  and  the 
south  aisle  was  evidently  completed  in  the 
iSme  of  the  first  Edward,  from  the  cha- 
racter of  the  architecture  of  some  of  tha 
windows.  The  great  western  window,  of 
tiu  middle  aisle,  clearly  bespeaks  itself  to 
ha¥a  been  constructed  in  the  reign  of  Ed- 
ward tha  Second;  while  the  records  of  tha 
churah  of  Rochester  state  those  at  the 
east  end  of  the  three  chancels  to  have 
been  inserted  by  the  bishops  Thomas  de 
WolAam  and  Hamo  de  Hethe,  temp. 
Edward  III. ;  the  arches  of  the  nave  are 


skont  tha  same  age,  and  tha  aortb 
windowa  display  traoary  of  a  aoaaewhat 
later  period.  It  was  on  the  addition  of 
thia  northern  aisle  to  the  church  that  tbe 
architect  entertained  the  bold  ooncepticMa 
of  exhibiting  St.  Thomases  ahar  to  the 
devout  pilgrim,  by  cutting  lofty  ar^ea 
through  the  eastern,  western,  and 
waOa  of  the  ancient  Saxon  tower, 
the  reaeval  of  that  aMar  at  the 
atiea,  and  the  oanvenien  ef  tha 
itealf  into  a  aetf  rp  roam,  thoaa  areb 
been  Mocked  up,  but  the  solidity  of  the 
edifice  they  uphold,  and  the  aymnsetry  of 
their  several  architectural  members,  atill 
attest  the  care  and  skill  with  whidi  tibs 
design  was  carried  into  effect.  T^ 
principal  repair  dtiriag  the  Ibllowing 
century  was  tnat  of  re-covering  the  dhnrA 
with  lead,  circa  1470,  and  eaaily  effected 
by  the  vohintary  offerings  and  donationa 
of  tha  AddiAil.  But  townrda  tlie  InOv 
end  of  the   leign  of   Bdwsvd   IV.    the 


aa  to  call  the  apadal  attention  ef  tha  pa- 
rishioners to  the  subject,  and,  bv  the  aid 
of  donationa  and  beneCifttiona,  the  repair 
was  not  only  effected,  but  another  atory 
added  to  heighten  the  tower,  thereby 
divesting  it  of  ite  former  heavy,  sqnat, 
military  character.  The  edifice  having 
thus  assumed  its  present  fbrm,  and  pro^ 
jeeting  Ihr  into  tiie  road,  the  footpath  waa 
carried  round  thenorth  side  of  the  efawrch, 
and  the  eross  emoted  hard  by,^ 
the  devotion  of  the 


a  tum-atilc  at  eaeh  end  of  the  path. 

"  No  ftiriher  external  alteration  of 
portance  was  effected  from  that  period 
until  1792,  when,  the  commerce  of  the 
country  having  greatly  increased,  it  waa 
adjudged  advisable  to  widen  the  road,  by 
taking  down  the  western  comer  of  dte 
soutii  aiile,  and  re-bnildfaig  it  in  its  pre- 
sent circular  form.  At  the  same  tinse  the 
footpath  was  made  on  the  south  aide  of 
the  church,  and  the  tum-stUes  leading 
into  the  ohureh-yard  seflseved. 

/n#sHor  e/  <Aa  CShereA.--'*  In  CethoUc 
times  the  whole  body  of  the  church  waa 
open,  and  aU  classes  of  individuals  kaelt 
indiscriminately  amongat  oach  other  for 
divine  worship.  There  were  in  Dartford 
Church  at  least  four  altars.  The  high 
altar,  dedicated  to  the  Holy  Trinity,  oc- 
cupied  the  place  of  the  present  communion 
table,  and  the  window  above,  probnbiT 
from  a  painting  therein,  bore  alao  Hm 
name  of  St.  Trinity  window.  8i^  T^nniai 
qf  Chnferfttiry's  iliar  stood  against  the 
east  wall  of  the  north  chancel,  now  called 
the  parish  vestry ;  and  St,  Jlfory't  altmr 
occupied  the  space  below  the  painting 
of  St.  George  and  the  Dragon  in  the 
Virgin's  chapel.   In  the  great  chancel  alao 


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615 


itoo4  «n  image  of  tlw  Vifgiii,  celled  oar 
OMrLadifiifFUy,  and  in  the  north  wall  an 
arch  called  the  S^akhre,  in  which  the 
cmcifiz  waa  laid  from  Good  Friday  to 
Easter  day,  and  in  reTcrence  whereof  John 
Morley  caused  a  taper  of  fonr  pounds  of 
wax  to  he  proTided  to  be  set  in  the  church 
of  Dartford  before  the  sepulchre  at  Easter 
erery  year.  An  image  of  St.  Anthony  with 
a  liyht  burning  before  it,  is  mentioned  in 
the  will  of  Thomas  Barnard ;  and  the 
aU&r  of  St.  dfm  in  that  of  William  Land, 
who  ga^e  3«.  ^d.  thereunto  in  1504.  A 
rood  loft  or  narrow  gallery  stretched  across 
the  e  St  end  of  the  nave  just  abore  the 
present  screen  ;  upon  it  was  placed  a  If^ty 
crucifo  called  the  rood,  and  before  the 
rood  bung  a  lamp  candle  called  the  rood* 
light.  The  staircase  and  a  door-way 
leading  to  it  still  remain.  There  wasalso 
the  gnild  of  jfll  Saintt  remembered  in  the 
will  of  John  Oakhnrst,  to  whose  sustenta- 
tion  he  gare  €#.  Sd.  A.D.  1440 ;  and  a 
'*  Freretre**  mentioned  in  the  wili  of 
lliomas  Chapeleyn,  34  Hen.  VIII.  a.d. 
1549.  A  cross  or  cmcifiz  also  stood  in 
the  south  side  of  the  church." 

The  taste  which  onr  ancestors  in- 
dulged for  decoratiog  the  walls  of  their 
churches  with  the  extraTagant  storiee 
of  saints,  as  they  are  detailed  in  the 
Golden  Legend  and  other  black-letter 
authorities,  is  well  known.  The  legend 
of  St.  George,  the  Lady,  and  the  Dra- 
gon, painted  in  frescoe  on  the  east  wall 
of  the  south  aisle  of  Dartford  Church, 
has  been  described  at  length,  ac- 
companied by  a  plate,  in  oar  to  I.  VI. 
Aug.  1836,  p.  134.  Let  a  stanza  there- 
fore of  the  old  ballad  here  suffice. 

'*  Thus  did  the  dragon  erery  day 
Untimely  crop  some  virgin  flower, 

TUl  all  the  mains  were  worn  away, 
And  none  were  left  him  to  devour, 

Saving  the  king's  fsir  daughter  bright. 
Her  father's  only  heart's  delight." 

The  triumph  of  St.  George  over  the 
dragon  and  the  lady  herself  are  well 
known. 

The  history  of  the  Priory  of  Preach- 
ing Sisters  at  Dartford  is  careAilly 
traced  by  Mr.  Dan  kin  to  its  dissolu- 
tion in  1534.  He  haa,  however, 
omitted  to  notice  its  connexion  with 
the  Dominican  Friars,  which  gave  the 
nuns  the  appellation  Pnackmg. 

**  It  had  long  been  renowned  as  the 
principal  nunnerv  for  the  education  of 
the  female  nobiuty  and  gentry  in  the 
county  (Kent),  and  the  nuns  devoted 
themselves  entirely  to  that  object,  oom- 
biaod  with  the  lervioe  ci  their  Eedeemcr. 


The  surrender  was  solely  effected  Vr  fbt 
wUl  of  the  king,  whose  power  was  evidentty 
unlimited  over  the  Royal  foundation  at 
Dartford.  They  were  called  white  auna 
from  the  colour  of  their  hood  and  tuBfe, 
which  nevertheless  vras  formed  of  ooano 
grey  cloth,  and  they  wore  a  white  wimple. 
At  the  dissolution  they  were  prohibilad 
from  wearing  this  costume.** 

One  of  the  nans  in  her  habit  ie  some* 
what  coarsely  delineated  in  the  illami- 
aatcd  title  to  the  Toinne.  The  foU 
lowing  paaeage  deseribet  the  existiiig 
remains  of  Dartford  Priory. 

"The  situation  of  the    several  con* 
ventual  buildings  may  be  tolerably  well 
aacertained  from  the  present    remains* 
disfigured  as  they  are  by  the  alteration  of 
ages.      Hie  building  was  quadrangular; 
one  of  the  priacipal  entrances  still  eriste 
in  the  pile,  which  once  constituted  the 
eaatem  front  of  the  monaateiy.    A  north- 
eaat  view  of  this   building  was    drawn 
anno    1739,  and    engraved  for   Grase*e 
antiquities,   from  wklch  it  appears  that 
there  was  then  an  embattled  tower  over 
the  gateway,  ornamented  with  octagoa 
pedestals,  which  once  supported  the  statuei 
of  St.  Mary  and  St.  Margaret,  and  that 
an  embattled  parapet  ran  idong  the  whole 
front ;  this  tower  was  taken  down  by  Mr. 
Sears,  the  present  tenant,  about  1998, 
one  of  the  pedestals  is  staading  in  front 
of  the  house.    On  the  south,  but  near  ta 
the  western  side  of  the  quadrsagje,  wag 
another  entrance,  doubtlcas  ornamented 
somewhat  like  the  former,  whioh  led  from 
the  side  of  the  hill  into  the  great  road  to 
London  ;  possibly  the  refectory,  kitchen, 
&c.  may  luive  stood  in  this  part,  as  weQ 
ss  the  apartments  allotted  for  the  residence 
of  the  friars  who  superintended  the  cele- 
bration of  divine  service.    The  church  of 
the  convent  was  situated  on  the  northern 
aide  of  the  monastery,  and  from  its  height 
and  magnitude  sheltered  the  rest  of  the 
edifice  from  the  odd  blasts  iasniag  from 
the  marahes." 

A  faint  idea  of  the  Priory  Chnrch, 
Mr.  Dnnkin  thinks,  may  be  gathered 
from  a  model  represented  as  borne  in 
the  hand  of  the  founder.  Attached  to 
the  seal  of  a  deed  in  the  archives  of 
the  Leathetaellers'  Company  it  ap- 
pears (if  each  a  representation  mignt 
be  depended  on,  which  we  doabt,)  to 
have  consisted  of  a  nave,  choir,  tran- 
septs, and  low  tower,  snrmonnted  by 
a  spire. 

Mr.  Dunkin's  volume  is  a  respectable 
contribution  to  Kentish  topogrmphy» 
with  the  eioeption  of  that   portion 


6ii 


Rsmv.— Rtdetff  JBiy  JlfrtL 


[Dec. 


vhidircfen  to  the  early  British  aod 
Roman  period,  and  which  he  appear* 
aoiaevbat  iiicooeklerately  to  have  ia- 
terpolatcd  amoog  bt«  own  collections. 
Similar  volames,  with  the  aid  of  ord- 
Dance  sarrers^  would  accomplish  for 
the  topof  raphy  of  the  realm  all  that 
tgphrmtvrj  rtrndtn  coald  desire. 


Kmg   Affrtd:    a    Poem.     By    John 
Fitchett.     %  rofs. 
THIS  is  a  Tcry  extraordinary  pro* 
doctioo  of  talent  and  iodnstry  united. 
The  poem  was  begon  at  an  early  age 
by  the  aothor«  coottooed  daring  his 
life,  and  wss  unfinished  at  his  death, 
and  all  this  wrooght  in  time  reclaimed 
from  the  studies  of  a  laborious  pro- 
fession.    The    author's    enthusiastic 
admiration  of  the  rirtoes  and  genius 
of  Alfred  the  Great  iospired  him  with 
the  idea  of  his  illustrious  theme*    His 
editor  says,  "Hie  work  must  be  con- 
sidered not  merely  as  a  poem,  but  as 
a  biography  of  the  mooarch,  a  history 
of  hi«  age,  and  an  epitome  of  the  an- 
tiqnities,  topography,  mythology,  and 
civil  and  military  condition."    Almost 
•very  spot  he  celebrates  he  visited, 
and  drew  from  ocular  inspection  the 
truth  and  power  of  his  descriptions ; 
his  investigation  in  books  and  anti- 
quities of  the  period  was  unremitting. 
Little  less  than  forty  years  elapsed  in 
this  great  effort.     He  pursued  his  la- 
bours silently  and  diligently,  shunning 
publicity.     But    to   one    person,   his 
friend  the  late  Dr.  Drake  of  Hadleigh, 
he  submitted  his  poem,  and  attended 
to  his  strictures  and  advice,  except  in 
one  material  instance,  which  was  "  to 
remodel  and  condense  the  whole  work." 
Yet,  as  it  is.  Dr.  Drake  calls  it  an  Her- 
culean labour,  and  says,  "  Had  it  been 
found  in  the  centre  of  the  loftiest  py- 
ramid of  Egypt,  it  might  have  been 
considered  as  a  specimen  well  worthy 
of  the  massive  character  of  that  land 
of   wonders,   and   of   the   shrine    in 
which  it  was  inclosed/' 

Now  we  presume  that  there  are  two 
things  attending  eytry  literary  pro- 
duction  ;  the  first  one  necessary, — that 
it  should  be  written  ;  the  other  de- 
sirable,— that  it  should  be  read:  but 
who  is  to  read  a  poem  as  long  as  all 
the  former  epics  of  the  world  put  to- 
gether? and  who  can  hope  that  the 
genius  of  any  man,  however  inspired, 
would  continue  oo  unflagging  wing 
7 


thitNigh  an  alBOflt  «Bl«ited 
Had  Dr.   Drake  been  the  jmfidoas 
friend  he  is  deacrilied,  we  mn  quite 
sure  of  the  advice  he  oaght  to  have 
given  to  the  aathor.  if  be  was  deter- 
mined to  carry  his  plan  into  execQti<jfi 
of  describing  the  virtues  and  rhararfg 
of  Alfred,  which  is,  to  give  a  nazrative 
of  the  historical  parts  in  clear  and 
elegant  prose,  and  to  adorn  the  other 
parts  that  admitted  it  with  the  charm 
of  poetical  fictioa.    How  many  boon 
of  mistaken   labour  vroold   thsa  have 
saved!   and  what  refreshment  would 
this  change  from  the  plain  character 
of  history  to  poetic  elegance  have  gsvea 
to  the  reader  t    But  the  fates  denied 
this,  desirable  as  it  would  have  tieen, 
and  consequently  we  have  a  very  good 
poem, — we  mean  good  in  auuiy  re- 
spects,— which  employed  the  whole  Ufe 
of  a  clever  and  studious  man,  and  vvhick 
no  one,  now  Mr.  Barker  of  Thetford 
is  no  more,  vrill  ever  think  of  reading. 
We  ourselves,  though  not  avoiding 
labour,  have  eschewed  so  violent  a  de- 
mand on  our  strength,  and  have  con- 
tented ourselves  with  doing  as  they 
say  the  dogs  do  on  the  banks  of  the 
Nile,  that  is,  with  lapping  here  and 
there  in  the  poetic  stream  as  we  oaove 
along  its  shores,  tasting  aa  we  go ; 
and  we  must  say  that  in  general  we 
have  been  surprised  with  the  correct- 
ness, and  even  elegance,  which   has 
been  preserved  throughout.   There  are 
of  course  tedious  passages*  there  are 
inharmonious  lines,  there  are  flat  or 
inelegant  expressions,  but  that  theie 
are  not  ten  thousand  times  more  is 
our  only  wonder.    The  versification 
seems  founded  on  that  of  Milton,  but 
with  a  touch  of  the  manner  of  later 
poets.    Perhaps  there  is  something  re- 
minding us  of  Madoc,  in  the  following 
extract : 

Meantime  the  royal  table  it  {Nrepsred 

For  samptnoos  rerehry,  and  all  the  chieft 

Haste  thither  aa  proposed,  iriwm  glad  tlie  )dnt[ 

Greets  as  thejr  enter  his  capacioos  tent. 

And  soon  along  the  spacioos  board  are  nngtd 

The  mailed  heroes,  Tenerable  priests. 

And  beanteoas  females,  wives  and  daogfaters 

Ikir 
Of  many  a  chief  in  hig^hest  honour  held. 
At  one  extreme  the  noble  monarch  sate 
(On  either  hand  a  sacred  bard)  and  pledged 
The  fall  regale  aroond.    The  spIeaMdame 
Rings  with  the  notes  of  Joy,  and  ^fWlvB 
Shines  on  each  conntenanoe;  th*^^"^*-^* 
Wake  solema  harmonies  or 
AndF-  " ""^gf 


1844.] 


Thomas's  PtyckologiBt 


617 


Eidli  M  some  mnnwurinff  riTer  iprwdi  her 
streams  [passed 

Gay  glittering  on  the  fireshened  fields.    So 
Cheerful  the  hours  till  in  her  mid  career 
Night,  through  the  wide  pavilion  of  the  sky, 
Sailed  calm,  and  her  dark  robe,  o'erspread  with 

gold. 
Hang  high  on  all  the  earth,  her  sUtely  brows 
Crowned  with  the  crescent  moon,  while  solemn 

heard 
Along  the  tranquil  air  the  murmuring  sounds 
Of  waves  that  fTom  the  tide-uplifted  sea 
Boiled  on  the  a4|acent  shores. 

We  mutt  find  room  for  one  de- 
scriptive picture. 

Whom  kind  the  king  indulges,  and  at  turns. 
Of  many  a  sylvan  nook  or  shadowy  bank, 
0*er  whose  bower'd  copse  the  roots  of  ancient 
Or  yellow  aMer,  or  the  willow's  veil,      [oaks. 
Pendant  o'erhang  upon  some  mossy  knoll 
Would  rest  a  moment,  and  regard  the  spot 
In  curious  pleasure,  as  for  knowledge  meet ; 
Or,  tired  with  rushing  among  tangled  brakes. 
Beneath  some  spreading  beech- tree  laid  along. 
Glad  they  repose,  and,  as  they  gaxe  around. 
Or  upward  throw  a  passing  look  to  gain 
A  glimpse  of  azure  sky,  or  breathe  more  ftee 
The  close  and  thicken'd  air  $  or  lean  beside 
Some  moss'd  elm's  trunk,  they  mark  the  objects 
To  this  lone  scene  peculiar ;  scarcea  breath  [wild 
Disturbs  the  gurgles  of  the  glitt'ring  stream. 
Whose  runnels  of  brown  water  from  the  moor, 
Again  into  the  lower  marish  glide 
With  not  unpleasing  music,  which  alone 
Talks  to  the  solitude  of  this  still  wood, 
'Less  on  the  bank,  the  springing  grasshopper 
Chirps  a  shrill  sound  that  draws  the  startled 
Or  when  at  times  the  hid  wood-turtle  coos  [ear » 
From  her  sole  nest,  not  distant,  tho'  unseen. 
So  tells  the  note  breath'd  o'er  the  drowsy  air ; 
Perhaps  on   some  near  oak,  o'er  its  curled 
Hoary  with  age,  the  fresh-green  mistle-  [boughs 

toe 
Swings  from  its  airy  root,  depending  low 
And  waving  pendulous  to  ev'ry  breeie 
Tliat  gently  murmurs  thro*  the  quiv'ring leaves. 
Then  the  green  woodpecker  they  spy  at  work, 
Whose  snapping  bill    taelu  with    unwonted 

sound; 
Then  conscious  of  the  stranger's  sight,  alarm'd 
Floats  the  blue  Jay  fTom  off  her  high  hung 
Or  from  some  ivied  hollow-sided  tree,    [nest ; 
Whose  venerable  horns  a  moment  draw 
A  fixed  look,  or  call  the  pointing  hand. 
Sudden,  unmasked,  the  lonely  owl  abashed 
Skims  from  her  silent  seat,  and  o'er  the  glade 
Spreads  her  white  wings  with  wkUtitiny  hoot ; 
Stirr'd  by  which  cry  the  Sitting  vermouse 

wheels 
Mid  the  dim  alleys  of  the  gloomier  glades. 
Nor,  witnessed  thus,  whlto  in  some  thicket's 

cell  [seen. 

The  intruders  shroud,  deeming  themselves  nn- 
Seems  this  lone  scenery  wanting  peopl'd  life. 
Of  their  retreat  aware,  the  wily  foi. 
With  ears  erect,  and  eye  back  tum'd,  away 
Slinks  to  his  esrthy  lair ;  while  from  yon  brake 
W  the  gfsen-scaled  lisard  gUdes, 

T.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


To  bask  awhile  amid  the  noontide  beams. 
Yet,  seeing  man,  retires ;  and  farther  on. 
Beside  yon  mossy,  clear,  fresh  water  fount. 
Slow  welling  from  its  deep  and  gravell'd  nook. 
The  dark-furr'd  badger  creeps,  avoiding  view. 
If  so  he  may,  of  unaccustom'd  man. 
To  seek  still  shelter  in  his  burrow'd  cell. 
Far  at  the  brouk's  extreme,  mark  I  where  yon 
Of  dappled  deer,  led  by  one  antler'd  guide,  [herd 
Walk  unsuspici<jus  following  one  by  one. 
And  to  the  streamlet's  marge  approach  to 

drink, 
From    out  the  laund  where  ancient  hollies 
Evergreen  shelter  of  their  glossy  leaves,  [yield 
By  coral  chaplets  made  more  beautifyu. 
And  backed  by  groves  of  silver-sided  birch. 
They  browse  elate  the  young  and  Juicy  twigs, 
And  upward  toss  with  joy  their  ontstretch'd 

necks. 
And  snuff  the  woodland  air ;  then  sudden  throw 
On  every  side  their  wildly  peeping  looks 
From  fiiil-black  eyes,  that  seem  to  flash  with 

fire. 
When  seen  alkr  the  strangers  stretch'dat  rest. 
With  hasty  start,  alarm'd,  o'er  bank  and  brake 
And  blossom'd  furxe,  and  brushwood  thickets 

green, 
They  dart,  till  lonely  coverts  they  regain. 
Wild  goats  too  here  their  white  and  shaggy 

coats 
Of  silvery  hair  show  sparkling  in  the  sun,  [te. 
Marked  for  a  moment,  bounding  o'er  the  vert« 

The  above  is  a  good  specimen  of  the 
author's  merits  and  defects ;  shewing 
a  very  attentive  observation  of  nature, 
but  too  minutely  and  laboriously 
copied,  till  image  obstructs  image,  and 
the  whole  picture  is  OTercharged,  and 
heavy. 

The  PiffcholoffUl :  or,  wkence  i$  a  hunth 
ledge  of  the  toul  derivable  t  8fc»  By 
F.  S.  Thomas. 

THE  object  of  this  poem  was  to 
bring  back  a  friend  who  had  strayed 
into  unfounded  fancies  regarding  the 
materiality  of  the  soul*  and  attached 
undue  influence  to  the  planetary  bodiea 
over  the  destiny  of  man,  to  the  pure  doc- 
trines of  Christianity.  A  praiseworthy 
design ;  but  would  it  not  have  been 
better  executed  in  prose  ?  To  this  we 
give  the  author's  answer,  as  we  are 
unable  to  give  a  satisfactory  one  of 
our  own.  He  says,  "  It  may  be  asked, 
why  such  serious  considerations  should 
be  set  forth  in  verse  ?  the  reply  is,  that 
poetry  is  the  natural  language  of  the 
soul,  when  thought  wanders  among  the 
heavenly  bodies;  that  more  forcible 
and  lasting  impressions  are  made  by 
the  beauty  and  harmonv  of  verse  than 
could  be  effected  by  the  more  sober 

4K 


r 


618 


Johns's  Angrt9am  Catkedrml  CkmrA,  Jenuahau 


form  wbertin  we  usaally  convey  oor 
thoQghta;  and  that  poetry  alone  ad- 
mits of  such  rapid  revolatioo  of  images 
ms  are  necessary  to  eiemplify  the  be- 
wilderiog  influences  of  metaphysical 
and  psycholcgicsl  absurdities,  as  pro- 
pounded in  the  systems  of  former 
times."  That  the  author  can  frame 
his  reasoning  into  a  poetic  shape  is 
no  small  praise,  that  is  not  to  be  with- 
held ;  bat  he  ia  occasionally  careless, 
as 

*'  Itambliiig'-stnyiiig— OTor  kiagdons  sweep- 
ing." 

where  a  foot  is  wautiag. 
Again, 

'  Sleep,  wbmt  firest  UiOtt-^here  boldest  then 
llby  balm  V* 

the  accentuation  is  faulty;  and  in 
the  following  couplet  the  rhyme, 

*'  A  msss  of  souls— coadensinir  u  they /all, 
▲ad  yet  distinct— end  so  diTisift/e." 

But  we  have  no  wish  to  dwell  on  such 
imperfections,  which  a  little  care  and 
attention  on  the  author's  part  will 
remedy.  We  now  give  a  short  speci. 
men,  but  all  we  can,  of  the  general 
cast  and  spirit  of  the  versification. 

•*  I  left  the  Tempter  then,  that  evil  one. 
In  all  the  pride  of  fancied  conquest  won  t 
His  speech  yet  flila  mine  ear,  as  it  was  mesat 
To  fill  my  heart,  with  rage  and  discontent ) 
Aa  then  with  flilse  but  r^pid  eloquence. 
With  fraudulent  desire  but  sure  pretence. 
And  with  the  soni^,  the  minstrelsy  of  hell, 
The  Foe  of  Heaven,  and  men,  and  God,  did  tell 
A  worthless  life  bestow*d — with  libellous  rage 
Be  did  misprint  creation's  title-pafe ; 
lie  promia'd  men  a  brighter,  mental  light, 
With  it,  of  ftitnre  things  a  fiiU  insight. 
Withholding  hope,  gainsaying  future  bliss, 
He  gare  despair  in  all  its  bitterness, 
ShowM  lurking  death  contained  in  every  bower, 
Told  plaguea  concealM,  poisons  i  n  every  Sower} 
He  masked  the'trath,  and  fraudrnlly  entwin'd 
A  raylesa  gloom  upon  my  spirit's  mind. 
Of  worlds  decayed  he  told— of  stars  outbamM« 
Of  nations  lost, — dominions  overturned. 
Be  told  of  man,  at  first  created  free, 
Now  wrapt  In  death  and  foul  putridity  ; 
Of  lifie  snbdu'd,   the  tongue  of  friendship 

h08h*d. 
Of  love^tiesTtom,  and  heart's  aff^ion  cmsb'd ; 
Of  noble  minds  and  ardent  spirits  gone, 
And  Inst  in  realms  of  dark  oblivion. 
Of  budding  flowers  be  told,  withered  and  past, 
And  strewM  sere  leaves,  by  death *a  untimely 

blast. 
Which  made  their  lives  and  loves  a  hollow  Jest, 
And  qnench'd  their  hopes  of  everlasting  rest. 
Be  told  how  time  and  death,  and  deep  distress, 
Shsald  make  thia  world,  thongh  throog'd,  s 

wilderness, 


Whees  aeiigkt  bat 

refer 
To  BBsn*s  wide  grave  sad  Batv»^l  scpulcbie ; 
Bat  spake  not  peace,  nor  biiaafal  prospects 

gsve,  [waiei 

Nor  sKDM  death's  ftars,  aor  lit  Ns  glcnnag 
Nor  tieacon  held  tognide  the  wanderer  o'er ; 
Nor  pohkted  he  to  Heavest^  etenul  dMve."* 

This  shews  that  the  author  ia  able 
to  dotha  his  Ihoughta  in  poetic  lao- 
gnage  {  let  him  tfaercfora  take  a  aaort 
poetic  theme,  if  he  wiahes  to  be  read, 
and  admired. 


7%e  Anglican  Cnthedrnl  Churek  ^f  St. 
Jnimn,  Mount  Ziam,  JeruwUmu  Bf 
J.  W.  Johns,  Arddi^ei,  #Wis, 
eletftm  piaiM, 

THE  erection  of  thia  chorch  arose 
from  the  eipression  of  a  desire  on  the 
part  of  the  London  Society  for  pro- 
moting Christianity  amongst  the 
Jews,  to  make  a  decided  effort  on  be- 
half of  the  ancient  people  of  God  at 
Jerusalem.  In  furtherance  of  this  ob> 
feet,  a  piece  of  ground  waa  purchased 
or  the  erection  of  a  church  and  mis- 
sion house.  A  portion  of  the  build- 
ings was  commenced  on  the  16th  Feb. 

1840.  but  the  church  was  not  pro- 
ceeded with  until  after  the  appoint- 
ment of  the    author  as  architect  in 

1841.  On  the  13th  of  Dec.  in    the 
year  the  trenches  for  the  foundation 
were  laid  out,  and  the  next  day  their 
excavation  began.    The  nature  of  the 
soil,  however,  rendered  it  necessary 
for  the  architect  to  excavate  to  e  con- 
siderable    depth,    through      rabbish 
formed   of  the   materials    of  varioua 
buildings  which  from  time  to  time  had 
occupied  the  site.   "Such  uncertainty 
of  soil  and  rubbish  existed,"  says  the 
architect.  "  that  you  could  not  form 
any  conjecture  as  to  which  the  next 
blow  of   the  pickaxe    would    alight 
upon :   it   was  impossible  to  foresee 
whether  it  would  be  a  portion  of  a 
ruined  chamber,  loose  rubbish,  some 
part  of  a  destroyed  arch,  (perhaps  in 
an  inverted  position,)  a  portion  of  & 
broken  floor,  or,  as  in  some  cases.    « 
small  portion  of  tolerably  solid   nia- 
sonry,  and,  if  so,  this  would  probably 
rest    upon    loose    rubbish.     Finding 
such  an  unsolid  substratum,  I  deter^ 
mined  at  once  to  proceed  down  to  the 
rock,  and  thus  obtain  a  foundation 
again*'  in  might  descend 


1844.1 


Review.— Flower's  Su^iay  Svenmg  Musings. 


61* 


and  the  atorm  beat  without  fear  of 
its  being  removed." 

Oa  the  28th  Jaa.  1842,  the  first 
stone  was  laid  by  Bishop  Aleiander,  on 
the  rock  of  Moant  Zion,  at  the  depth 
of  thirty-five  feet  from  the  surface, 
and  the  work  proceeded  until  the  lat 
Nov.  which,  beiug  All  Saints'  Day, 
was  chosen  for  laying  the  first  stone 
of  the  superstructure,  which  was  done 
by  Mrs.  Aleiander. 

In  an  architectural  point  of  view 
this  church  will  rank  far  below  the 
humblest  of  our  cathedrals,  the  ill- 
fated  St.  Asaph ;  and  the  majority  of 
oar  village  churches  far  eieeed  it  in 
dimensions :  nor  can  we  view  the  com* 
ponent  features  of  the  building  with 
unqualified  admiration. 

The  ilUdefioed  cruciform  plan,  aad 
the  arrangement  of  the  seats  in  what  is 
intended  for  the  transept,  is  greatly  at 
variance  with  every  cathedral  struc- 
ture. In  fact,  the  transepts  are  merely 
projections  from  the  centre  of  the 
building,  polygonal  externally,  circular 
within,  and  the  roofs  break  in  a  very 
unharmonious  style  against  the  central 
portion.  The  choir  (not  yet  built)  will 
be  less  broad  than  the  nave,  and  appa- 
rently of  an  earlier  style ;  and  it  will 
be  terminated  with  an  apse. 

In  lieu  of  a  central  tower,  four  very 
tall  pinnaclesspring  up  most  unaccount- 
ably, and  without  any  apparent  use.  In 
truth,  the  anomalies  of  the  design  arise 
from  the  architect  having  attempted 
to  give  an  extraordinary  effect  with 
very  humble  means;  whereas,  if  he 
had  followed  our  ancestors'  good 
sense,  he  might  have  raised  a  building 
ih  which  simplicity  would  have  pro- 
duced a  pleasing  appearance,  which 
an  affectation  of  style  has  failed  to 
accomplish. 

The  nave  has  a  roof  of  lofty  pitch, 
of  timber,  without  a  tie-beam,  and  is 
not  ceiled.  So  far  the  design  is  good. 
The  windows  are  triple  lancets,  follow- 
ing the  Temple  church  ;  though  so 
large  a  proportion  of  opening  is  un- 
necessary. The  omission  of  buttresses 
gives  the  exterior  an  entirely  modern 
character. 

During  the  progress  of  the  works 
many  interesting  discoveries  were 
made,  and  amongst  the  rest  of  an 
ancient  aqueduct,  partly  constructed  of 
masonry  and  partly  hewed  out  of  the 


solid  rock,  which  may  have  served  to 
supply  the  ancient  city. 

The  account  given  by  Mr.  Johns 
of  his  operations  in  forming  the 
foundations  is  worthy  of  attention, 
and  shews  what  mighty  works  are 
buried  in  the  rubbish  of  the  Holy  City, 
and  what  an  interesting  period  may 
be  anticipated,  when  the  buried  city 
of  Solomon  will  be  dugout  of  its  ruins- 
Mr.  Johns  has  merely  touched  on  a  sub- 
ject so  replete  with  interest  to  the  Chris- 
tian antiquary,  but  he  adduces  sufficient 
evidence  of  the  rich  antiquities  still 
buried  under  the  rubbish ;  which,  for 
ought  we  know,  may  contain  relics  of 
the  first  Temple,  as  the  usurping 
mosque  of  Omar  does  of  the  last  and 
smaller  edifice. 

We  refer  to  the  volume  itself  for  the 
author's  account  of  the  discoveiies, 
and  for  some  curious  information  on 
the  prices  of  labour  and  stone  in  the 
country ;  and  to  his  illustrations  for 
the  very  picturesque  appearance  of  the 
labourers,  "  the  hewers  of  wood  and 
drawers  of  water  "  of  the  present  day. 
The  illustrations  are  principally  per- 
spective views  of  the  church,  prettily 
etched  and  tinted,  as  well  as  several 
pictorial  representations  of  the  scenes 
of  the  architect's  labours. 


Sunday  Evening  Mutings,  ^e.     Bg 
W.  B.  Flower. 

THERE  is  something  to  praise  in 
the  poetry  of  this  volume,  and  much 
in  the  feeling.     Let  us  quote 

ANOXL  ▼I8IT8. 

What  mean  these  strange  unearthly  sounds, 
That  break  the  stilly  hour  of  night, 

As  thoagh  some  fairy  harp  were  touch' d 
By  bands  unseen  to  mortal  sight ! 

And  as  around  my  couch  they  float, 

What  comfort  hangs  on  every  note. 

These  strange  mysterious  harmonies 
(Thst  are  at  times  to  mortals  given). 

These  notes  that  consoiation  bring, 
They  are  the  minstrelsy  of  Heaven  ; 

And,  as  they  trance  the  listening  ear. 

It  seems  that  Heaven's  whole  choir  is 
nesr. 

No  fairy  harp— but  music  sweet 
Of  spirit  forms — of  heavenly  birth. 

These  blest  angelic  companies. 
That  hover  round  the  ibiogs  of  earth 

Alike  in  dark  and  sunny  day, 

And  cheer  man  in  his  heavenward  way. 


620 


REViBW.^^TAe  Forget  Me  Not. 


FAITH. 


Oh !  when  I  mourn  that  I  am  weak. 
And  cannot  senre  my  God  arighti 

Then  o'er  mj  pathway  dark  and  drear 
Faith  sheds  a  ray  of  heavenly  light. 

By  mystic  water  well  I  know 
Baptismal  grace  to  me  was  given. 

And  I  became  a  child  of  God, 
Desdn'd  inheritor  of  Heaven. 

And  when  mid  hope  and  fear  I  take 
The  sacramental  bread  and  wine, 

Tis  Faith  which  tells  me  Christ  himself 
Is  given  to  sinful  heart  of  mine. 

And  when  I  mourn  o*er  hopes  decay*d, 
And  pleasures  numbered  with  the  past, 

Faith  points  me  to  another  world, 
Where  joy  and  peace  for  ever  last. 

Forget  Me   Not;   a    ChrUtmas,    New 
.   Year's,  and  Birthday  Present,  for 
1845.     Edited  by  Frederic  Sbuberl. 

AGAIN  we  have  to  welcome  this 
seasonable  visitor,  "The  Forget  Me 
Not."  This  little  book  appears  to 
"floBfish  in  immortal  youth."  All 
other  works  of  the  class  have  almost, 
if  not  quite,  ceased  to  appear,  whilst 
this  has  stood  the  test  of  nearly  five  and 
twenty  years,  and  will  be  as  acceptable 
to  the  maidens  of  the  present  generation 
as  it  once  was  to  their  mothers.  The 
volume  for  1845  has  ten  engravings,  of 
which  we  prefer  the  "  Flower  Girl,"  by 
M.  Madoo, "  The  Hermit  of  the  Rock," 
by  H.  Gastineau,  "The  Magvar  and 
the  Moslem,"  by  D.  Roberts,  and 
"Aurora's  Fan,"  by  Janet  Lange. 
The  first  is  a  very  clever  historical 
composition,  a  prison  scene,  with  sol- 
diers in  the  costume  of  the  I7th  cen* 
tury,  painted  by  a  French  artist,  and 
beautifully  engraved  in  line  by  J. 
Carter.     "The  Magyar  and  the  Moa. 


lem "  ia  an  Oriental  iDterior*  vith  ft 
fine  effect  of  light.  "The  Hermit:  oi 
the  Rock "  has  likewise  great  merit  ; 
it  ia  a  moonlight  scene,  across  the  bay 
of  Naples,  and  the  engraving  is  ireil 
executed  in  line  by  J.  Godfrey. 

With  regard  to  the  literary  contents 
of  this  volume.  Miss  Pardoe'a  tale  of 
the  Magyar  and  the  Moslem  ia  by  far 
the  best.  Aurora's  Fan  oiay  cUum  urn 
small  share  of  attention  as  a  light  and 
lively  sketch.  At  the  close  of  the 
volume  there  are  two  original  letters^ 
one  from  the  Princess  Charlotte  of 
Wales  to  Lady  Charlotte  Bury,  a&d 
the  other  from  Mrs.  Siddoos  to  her 
niece  Miss  Fanny  Kemble.  There  is 
also  an  interestiog  note  of  Sir  Waller 
Scott's  to  the  late  Mr.  W.  Goodhash. 
which,  as  a  literary  curiosity,  we  shall 
extract : 

<*  Sir  Walter  Scott  ought  before  now  to 
have  returned  to  Mr.  Goodhugh  hia  best 
thanks  for  the  Library  Maoual,  from 
Sir  Walter  is  sure  he  will  receive 
information.  For  the  improvement  of 
other  edition  Sir  Walter  would  feoommead 
the  expunging  the  note,  p.  151,  respectaie 
the  novel  of  Waverley  having  been  offeied 
to  leveral  booksellers  for  85/.  or  301.  No 
such  offer  was  ever  made,  but  Mr.  Coa* 
stable,  who  wss  in  the  secret  of  the  author, 
offered  500/.  for  the  work  while  ia  pro« 
gress,  which  the  author  declined,  thii^iDg 
if  it  was  worth  that  sum  it  was  worth  more. 
Sir  Walter  has  also  the  honour  to  ac- 
knowledge Mr.  Goodhagh's  grsmsnertcal 
work. 

"  No,  94,  6fusse»  Place,  Regents  Pmri, 
May  13." 

We  have  not  many  remarks  to  make 
OD  the  poetry.  The  most  pleasing 
specimen  we  find  to  give  is  the  fol- 
lowing sonnet,  by  J.  F.  HoUiogs. 


A  mehmcholy  spot  I    The  wasted  stone, 

Spoiled  of  the  record  which  its  tablet  bore ; 
The  crumbling  wall,  by  moss  and  weed  overgrown, 

And  the  grey  lichen,  with  iu  vesture  hoar, 
All  speak  of  desolation,  wild  and  lone, 

And  oold  neglect  of  names  revered  no  more; 
fiat  'neath  that  silent  turf  a  treasure  hes, 

More  rich  than  Ind  or  Araby  displays,— 
Zeal,  winged  and  ready  for  her  native  skies  ; 

Love,  tuned  for  deathless  and  angelic  praise ; 
And  Faith,  which  ev'n  below,  ber  raptured  eyes 

Fixed  00  the  dutant  goal  with  stedfast  gaze ; 
And  Hope,  which,  resting  in  the  womb  of  earth, 
Awaits  in  peace  a  new  and  holier  birth. 


1844.] 


MiicetlaneouB  Retnewf. 


62  i 


An  AlphaM  ^  EmkUmM.  By  the  H^. 
T.  B.  Marray,  M,A.  ISmo.— This  alpha, 
bet  consists  of  a  series  of  woodcatSf  Tery 
neatly  engraTed,  representing  a  variety  of 
BQbjects,  but  each  turned  to  some  point 
of  proitable  and  religious  instruction,  in 
simple  and  unambitious  Yerses.  The  fol- 
lowing is  a  specimen : 

Hbk. 

Well  done,  brave  bird  1  extend  thy  wing ; 

Indulge  a  parent's  mood ; 
Beneath  that  feather'd  cOTcring, 

How  safe  will  be  thy  brood ! 

Ko  felon  hawk  shall  seize  them  there ; 

Thou'dst  hold  the  wretch  at  bay, 
And  send  him  wheeling  through  the  air. 

To  seek  some  other  prey. 

Let  children  think  of  this,  and  know 

What  pains  a  parent  takes, 
Encounters  danger,  suffers  woe, 

All  for  those  children's  sakes. 

May  they  refrain  from  language  rude, 

Mor  snow,  by  acts  unkind, 
That  bard  and  cold  ingratitude 

Is  harboured  in  the  mind. 

Let  Christians  in  this  emblem  scan 
Their  Saviour's  constant  love,* 

Who  for  our  sakes  became  a  man, 
Aud  left  His  throne  above. 

He  wept  to  see  a  wicked  race 

His  fost'ring  mercy  spurn, 
Behind  them  throw  His  proffer'd  gracCi 

And  still  refuse  to  tum.f 

How  oft  would  He  have  brought  them  in. 

His  rest  and  peace  to  share ; 
But  they  preferr'd  the  paths  of  sin 

To  Hia  Almighty  oare. 


Th€  Holy  Land :  Iting  Sketehei  qfth» 
Jewi  <md  ^ihe  Land  qf  PalHtime,  com* 
piled  from  ike  bett  aouren,  ftp*  890.  pp. 
9iii,  447. — A  compendious  little  volume, 
the  object  of  which,  as  the  advertisement 
states,  is  "  to  present  the  reader  with  a 
general  view  of  Jewish  history,  manners, 
and  customs,  and  also  of  the  aspect  and 
productions  of  Palestine."  It  fbrms  one 
of  the  series  called  "The  Christian's  Fa- 
mily Library."  There  is  no  display  of 
authorities,  but,  in  those  parts  of  the  sub- 
ject which  are  the  least  trite,  they  are 
often  given  in  the  shape  of  extracts.  We 
think  the  compiler  has  rather  erred  in  ihe 
arrangement,  in  relating  the  revolt  of  Bar- 
chocbebas,  and  tlie  sufferings  of  the  Jews 
down  to  the  present  day,  not  in  the  course 
of  the  history,  but  in  a  subsequent  chapter ; 
and,  though  this  is  done  avowedly,  we 
cannot  see  the  reason.  It  may,  however, 
have  been  convenient  to  postpone  that 
part  of  the  narrative,  on  account  of  con- 
sulting writers  on  the  subject.  The 
modem  history  of  Palestine  is  given  at 
some  length,  down  to  the  arrival  of  Bishop 
Alexander,  at  which  event  it  appropri- 
ately— we  might  almost  say  tefMcaUy^^ 
terminates.  We  certainly  know  of  no 
volume  of  the  sise  which  contains  so 
much  information ;  and  no  inconsiderable 

Sart  of  it  is  devoted  to  the  state  of  the 
ews  in  various  countries  since  their  dis- 
persion. 


Pnne^U$  of  Education  practically 
conndered.  By  M.  A.  Stodart./ep.  890. 
pp.vi,  2Bl, — A  book  replete  with  good 
sense  and  good  feeling,  and  well  deserving 
the  attention  of  parents,  teachers,  and 
even  nurses,  and  elder  brother  and  sisters 
too.  The  only  blemish  we  have  noticed 
is  in  the  style,  viz.  a  period  of  no  less 
than  fifteen  lines  at  page  132.  Some  of 
the  principal  topics  discussed  are,  defects 
in  female  education,  lifeleu  style  of  teach- 
ing, religion,  moral  culture,  school  books, 
physical  training,  maternal  influence, 
schools  and  governesses.  Concerning  the 
latter  persons,  the  authoress  pointedly  re- 
marks, at  page  276,  that  '*  excellence  in 
the  art  of  teaching  would  be  more  rea- 
dily found,  if  the  remuneration  for  excel- 
lence were  fixed  at  a  higher  rate." 


•  Matt.  zadU.  37.     t  Luke  zix,  41-45. 


Sunday  Afternoons  at  Home.  By  the 
Author  of  **  Ckriat  our  Example**  ^c. 
fep.  %vo,  pp,  xitf,  334.  It  would,  we 
think,  have  been  better  to  say  in  the  title- 
page,  '*  by  the  Author  of  the  Listener," 
as  it  is  the  principal  production  of  the 
writer.  The  volume  consists  of  a  collee« 
tion  of  easays,  intended  for  persons  "  be- 
tween childhood  and  maturity,"  for  whom 
«  something  lighter  than  the  sermon>book 
or  the  doctrinal  treatise  is  in  demand ;'' 
and  to  whom  the  author  would  not  offer  a 
religious  novel,  as  being  "  a  species  of 
reading  essentially  worldly."  When  we 
remind  our  readers  that  this  volume  is  by 
the  author  of  <'The  Listener,"  perhaps 
we  have  said  enough  ;  for  it  would  be 
superfluous  to  praise,  and  venturous  to 
condemn. 


5acrameii/a;  Inetruction*  By  the  Re9. 
C.  Bridges,  M,A,  fcp.  8vo.  pp,  r.  137.— 
The  author  states,  that    '*  being  called 

Sain  to  revise  his  work  on  '  The  Christian 
inistry '  for  a  new  edition,  he  was  na- 
turally led  to  a  more  full  consideration  of 
the  chapter  on  sacraments,  as  involving  a 
subject  of  special  moment  and  interest. 
And  as  his  proposed  enlargements  soon 
exceeded  the  prescribed   Unite   of  Ue 


A 


«M 


N0m  PmUiiMiimu. 


,  ha  WW  iaiMid  to  plete  hiaaelf 
to  pre  tktm  in  a  aeparate  fonn;   itiU 

C'wenring  tbe  title  of  the  ehepter,  which 
the  sew  edition  het  BuiDly  formed  the 
fenn  of  this  little  work.**  (Preface,  p.  t.) 
The  character  of  the  original  work  ii  too 
well  kBOWQ  to  require  any  new  obeerrap 
lione ;  the  additions  chieilf  relate  to  ex- 
Sating  coBtTOTcniea,  and  to  the  pablica- 
tioos  in  which  thcf  oeeiKpf  a  prominent 


CkrUHtmU^  In  Nvrth  Hiim,  By  tk§ 
Aft.  Mr.  WilkinaoB,  JHuihmmy./tp,  8ee. 
pf,  #.  419. — ^Thia  work  hai  beoi  nader- 
taken  aa  a  tort  of  companion  to  Mr, 
Hoagh*s  History  of  Chriatianity  in  Souik 
India.  It  oommenoea  with  the  miaaion  of 
Ziegenbalg  and  Plutcho,  to  TYmmfuHmr, 
from  Frederick  IV.  of  Denmark.  The 
varied  hiatoriee  of  Brown,  Martyn,  Bn* 


chMan,  BiAop  MiddlBtott, 
are  oompriaed  in  thia  aoconnt.  A  part  mt 
the  anbiect  ia  caat  into  a  geographical 
form,  in  order  to  abow  the  atate  of  diSer- 
eat  plaoea  of  importance,  and  the  cir* 
cnmatancea  which  have  happened  there. 
It  ia  gratifying,  in  reading  thia  book,  to 
meet  with  the  namea  of  peraona  whom  w« 
haTC  known  and  retpected ;  nor  are  we 
acquainted  with  any  Tolnme,  or  indeed  ▼o- 
Inmee,  containing  ao  much  inlbrmatiiw 
on  the  points  it  relates  to.  The  •'  Tint 
to  the  Misnons  of  Jangeraand  Barriporvt" 
(p.  304—314,^  doea  not  give  the  date,  or 
the  name  of  the  bishop,  and  the  expre»> 
sion  December  ioii  is  too  TSgne  to  supply 
the  delect.  We  woald  also  obserre,  that 
at  p.  2,  the  misplacing  of  a  comma  makes 
"  Frederic,  the  fourth  King  of  Denmark,** 
instead  of  •'  Frederic  the  fourth,  King  of 
Denmark**'  as  it  oogbt  to  ha?« 


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VNZVSIISITY  or  CAMBIULDOS. 

The  friends  of  Lieut.-Geoeral  Sir  V«r0^ 
pine'Maitland,  K.C.B.,  lata  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  forces  in  Sooth  India, 
being  desirous  of  testifying  their  respeot 
and  esteem  for  his  character  and  principles, 
and  for  bis  disinterested  aeal  in  the  cause 
of  Christian  truth  in  the  Easti  have  raised 
a  fuDii  for  the  institution  of  a  prize  in  one 
of  the  universities,  and  for  the  establiab- 
ment  of  two  Native  Scholarships  at  Biabop 
Corrie's  Grammar  School  at  Madraa»  such 
prize  and  scholarships  to  be  associated  with 
the  name  of  Sir  Peregrine  Mattland.  The 
founders  of  the  prize  have  commiasioiied 
P.  Cator»  esq.  M.A.,  of  Trinity  coUeg«, 
Cambridge,  and  the  Rev.  H.  Venn,  B«D., 
of  Queen's  college,  Cambridge,  to  commi»- 
niccdc  with  some  English  university  re- 
specting the  proposed  prize. 

In  pursuance  of  the  foregoing  scheme 
the  sum  of  1000/  is  offered  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge,  for  the  purpose  of 
instituting,  a  prize,  to  be  caUed  '*  Sir  Pe- 
regrine Maitland's  Prize,"  f6r  an  English 
Easay  on  some  subject  connected  with  the 
propagation  of  the  Gospel,  throuf^  mis- 
sionary exertions,  in  India,  and  other  parts 
of  the  heathen  world.  It  is  suggested,  1  • 
That  the  prise  should  be  given  once  fai 
every  three  years,  and  should  consist  ef 
the  accruing  interest  of  the  princip^  sum 
during  the  preceding  three  years.  8.  That 
the  subject  should  be  given  out  in  the 
Michaelmas  term  by  Che  Vioe-Chancellor, 
and  ths  exerciies  sent  in  before  the  divi- 
sion.of  the  Easter  term.  3.  That  the 
candidates  ft>r  the  prise  sbonld  be  Bache- 
lors of  Arts,  under  the  sUnding  of  M.A. 
at  the  time  when  the  subject  is  givcB  out. 
4.  That  the  examiners  for  the  prise  shonld 
be  the  Vice-Chancellor  and  tma  other 
members  of  die  university,  either  Masters 
of  Arts,  or  of  degrees  superior  to  the  de- 


pee  of  Master  of  Artsi  -to  be  nominated 
by  the  Vice- Chancellor,  and  approved  by 
the  Senate,  and  that  their  names  should 
be  announced,  together  with  the  subject  of 
the  easai*  5.  That  the  essay  be  printed 
at  the  expense  of  the  successful  candidate, 
and  that  fifty  copies  be  distributed  to  each 
of  the  three  following  institutions : — ^The 
Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel 
in  Foreign  Parts ;  the  Church  Missionary 
Society;  and  Bishop  Corrie's  Grammar 
School  at  Madras. 

It  is  fbrther  proposed  to  give,  besides 
the  interest  of  the  1000/.'  before'  men- 
tioned, tbi6  sum  of  lOOf.  for  the  first  prize. 
The  subject  ef  the  essay  to  ^e  ^ven  out 
before  the  end  of  the  present  Michaelmas 
term. 

mv,  5.  The  Rev.  Robert  Phelps,  D.D., 
and  Master  of  Sidney  Sussex  college^  was 
elected  Vice-Chaocellor  for  tte  ensuing 
year. 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Seaton's  prize  of  40/. 
for  a  Master  of  Arts  who  shall  write  the 
best  English  poem  on  a  sacred  subject  was 
adjudged  to  the  Rev.  Thomas  Rawson 
Blrks,  M.A.  (B.A.  1834),  Feltow  of  Tri- 
nity college.  Subject— ••«#/*«-.»'  This 
is  the  second  year  Mr.  Birks  hss  obtained 
the  prise. 


fVUUmm  2VI/.— A  letter  frosa  Friburg 
speaks  of  a  litsrsry  dissovsry  eonneoCed 
with  Willism  TeU.  Tlw  existsaoe  of  this 
porsoBsgc,  which  has  hitherto  apptaied 
giMSt-mythological,  has  from  this  diseo- 
very  become  an  historical  fhet.  A  copy  of 
liatin  Terses,  written  immediately  after 
the  battle  of  Morgarten,  has  jast  beea 
found,  in  whioh  his  name  is  mentioned  in 
precise  terms.  It  is  there  stated  that-Tell 
was  one  of  the  tiiree  warriors  who  took 
the  oath  of  Gmthli  in  the  commencement 
of  the  fourtseoth  eeatury.  His  name  re- 
plsoes  that  of  Waiter  Furst,  erroneously 
mentioned  by  the  chroniclers  of  the  time. 
As  to  the  famous  atory  of  the  apple  and 
tlie  arrow,  nothing  is  said  ef  it  hi  the 
poem. 


A  Caialo§m€  Aetfoanit  hss  been  pnUish- 
ed  of  the  valuable  CataUn  and  CastiUan 
manuscripts  existing  inthesevend  libraries 
of  Paris— a  work  whieh  haa  been  prooeed- 
ingf  under  the  direction  of  the  various 
MinistBTS  of  FnhUe  Instmetion,  since 
1838,  by  Senor  Engenio  de  Ochoa— « 
literary  Spaniard,  the  Editor  of  the  Un. 
published  Spaniah  Poetry  of  the  FifUenth 
Century^o  form  a  companion  to  the  late 
M.  Manan's  Catalogue  of  ~  " 
scripts. 


630 


Fine  Arts. 


[Dec. 


the  period,  coneeals  ptrt  of  it,  and  re- 
Uevet  the  reit.  It  htm  the  advanUge, 
alao,  of  lupportiiig  the  figtre,  thfe  i:ias- 
liTeness  of  which  may  be  estimated  from 
thefMt  that  theUo<:k  from  which  it  is 
cut  originallf  weighed  more  than  three 
tons,  like  right  hand  rests  within  the 
front  of  the  Test,  while  in  the  left  is  a  roll 
of  paper.  The  features  have  been  derived 
from  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Rowney  in  the 
Oottncil  Chamber. 


MOKUMINT  TO  BtSICOP  BTJTLSB. 

The  late  Dr.  Bntler,  Bishop  of  Lichfield, 
was  interred  in  St.  Mary's  church, 
Shrewsbury,  where  he  was  for  many  years 
the  highly-esteemed  Head  Master  of  the 
Royal  Free  Grammar '  School,  and  who 
raised  it  from  a  state  of  comparative  ob- 
Bcmrity  to  rank  equal  with  the  first  public 
school  in  the  kingdom.  To  erect  a  suita- 
ble tribute  of  respect  to  his  memory  a 
public  subscription  was  entered  into  (see 
oar  vol.  XIII.  p.  205),  and  the  commit- 
tee formed  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  the 
wishes  of  the  subscribers  into  effect  en- 
trusted the  design  to  the  late  Sir  F.  Chan- 
try, but,  his  death  happening  shortly 
after,  the  completion  of  the  work  was 
tnnsforred  to  E.  H.  Bailey,  esq.  R.  A. 
The  monument  arrived  at  Shrewsbury 
(Oct  29),  and  was  taken  into  St.  Mary's 
church,  where  a  pedestal  of  Clee  Hill 
marble,  of  Grecian  design,  had  been  erect- 
ed for  its  reeeptiott.  The  site  chosen  for 
the  monument  is  in  the  eastern  end  of 
the  chapel  of  the  Holy  IVinity,  between 
the  monuments  of  the  Rev.'  J.  Jeud- 
wine  (late  Second  Master  of  Shrewsbury 
School)  and  Thomas  Sutton,  esq.  The 
figure  is  of  fine  statuary  marble,  of  life 
abe,  and  weighs  upwards  of  three  tons. 
The  Bishop  wears  his  episcopal  robes, 
and  is  in  a  silting  posture,  with  his  head 
resting  on  the  fore  finger  of  his  left  hand, 
while  his  right  arm  hangs  by  the  side  of 
his  chair,  and  he  has  the  appearance  as 
if  engaged  in  deep  meditation.  The  artist 
has  caught  the  exact  expression  of  his 
ooantenance,  and  the  whole  appearance  is 
ftrikiogly  baautifol. 

rOABIOV   aTATUXf. 

The  inauguration  of  the  bronze  statue 
in  honour  of  the  uoibrtnnate  Admiral 
Dumont  d*UrvllIe  took  place  at  Cond^- 
sur-Noiruau,  hit  native  place,  on  the  S5th 
Oct.  The  sUtue  it  bv  M.  Molchnecht, 
and  represents  the  celebrated  narigator 


in  the  uniform  of  a  rear-admiral,  hoUing  a 
pencil  in  one  hand,  and  a  telesoope  in 
the  ^ther,  aspersoni^ng  at  once  the  dis- 
coverer and  the  writer.  The  monument 
erected  by  the  Geographical  Society,  to 
the  same  ill-fated  chief,  was  inangututed 
on  the  1st.  Nov.  at  the  cemetery  of  Mont 
Pamasse.  Schwanthaler*8 statue  ofGoethe, 
after  having  been  drawn  in  a  sort  of  con- 
tinued triumphal  procession  from  Its  place 
of  debarkation  up  to  the  gates  of  Fraikk- 
fort,  was  inaugurated  in  that  city  on  the 
dSd  Oct.  amid  a  crowd  of  citit^ns  and 
stranger»-^he  latter  including  the  diplo- 
matic body,  and  the  deceased  poet's  friend, 
the  Chaneellor  de  Mfiller.  A  marble  slab 
bearing  the  inscription,  "On the 88th  of 
August,  1749,  was  born  in  this  house 
John  Volfgang  Goethe,"  has  been  placed  ta 
front  of  the  house  of  his  natirity.  The 
statue  is  in  bronze,  and  colossal ;  and  re- 
presents the  illustrious  writer  in  an  eriMt 
attitude,  his  eyes  turned  heavenward,  and 
his  face  wearing  theexpreaslon  of  profound 
meditation.  His  costume  is  the  modem 
one  of  daily  life, — its  narrow  and  unpic- 
turesque  characters  relieved  by  the  rich 
and  ample  folds  of  a  cloak  worn  above  it. 
His  right  arm  leans  upon  the  trunk  of  ut 
oak-tree ;  and  the  left,  which  droops  bj 
his  side,  holds  in  the  hand  a  laurel  crown. 
The  pedestal  is  square,  and  adorned  owl 
the  four  sides  with  bas-reliefs.  Those  on 
the  face  are  composed  of  three  female 
figures,  personifying  the  Natural  Sciences^ 
Lyric  Poetry,  and  Dramatic  Pbetry.  Hie 
three  other  sides  represent  chanctars  ia 
the  principal  of  Goetne's  works. 


Mr.  D.  C.  Rbad,  of  SaUsbury,  whoee 
masteriy  etchings  are  never  seen  without 
admiration  by  any  one  able  to  appreciate 
their  great  merits,  is  now  preparing  a 
volume  of  etchings  from  nature,  intended 
to  illustrate  the  beauties  of  English  scenery, 
of  which  he  proposes  to  publish  about  fifty 
copies,  under  the  patronage  of  tht  Ron. 
Sidney  Herbert,  M.P.  The  collection  will 
consist  of  twenty*five  etchings  from  ori- 
ginal sketches  made  in  the  open  air.  no 
object  of  the  author  is  twofold  :  to  repre« 
sent  the  picturesque  features  of  Eoglisb 
scenery  so  far  as  they  may  be  made  the 
subjects  of  Undscape  painting,  and  to 
illustrate  the  various  elTects  of  light,  froia 
sunrise  to  sunset,  which  arrest  the  mCtc^. 
tion  of  an  intelligent  spectator  when  view, 
ing  the  beauties  of  nature. 


S31 


ARCHITECTURE. 


OXVO&D   ARCHITECTUAAL  SOCIETY. 

Oct.  30,  Mr.  Pttrker  read  a  few  short 
notes  oil  X^ODgWittenbam  Church,  Berkg, 
calling  attention  to  the  curious  leaden, 
fbnt  of  the  thirteenth  century,  the  open 
timber  porch  of  the  fourteenth,  and  the 
Tery  remarkable  piscina  and  monument 
combinedl,  of  the  time  of  Edward  II.  In 
this  curious  example  the  usual  water- drain 
is  perfect,  and  in  front  of  it  is  a  small  re* 
cumbent  iigure  in  chain-armour.  This 
has  been  engraved  in  the  Journal  of  the 
British  ArchsBological  Society. 

Nov.  13.  A  Letter  was  read  by 
E.  A.  Freeman,  esq.,  of  Trinity  College, 
from  G.  G,  Scott,  £sq.,  mentioning  soma 
supposed  Saxon  remains  at  Great  Maple« 
stead.  Es$ex. 

A  raper  waa  read  by  S.  W.  Wayte, 
esq.  ot  Trinity  College,  on  Coutances 
Cathedral,  giving  an  abstract  of  the  history 
of  that  church  by  the  Abb^  Delamere  s 
and  following  his  authority  he  endeavoured 
to^  prove  that  the  present  fabric  is  the 
onginal  work  of  ]Bishop  Geoffrey  de 
Montbray,  the  founder,  in  the  eleventh 
century.  He  shewed  from  the  records  of 
the  Abbey  that  the  church  was  in  con- 
tinual  use  throughout  the  thirteenth 
century,  the  time  assigned  by  Mr.  Gaily 
Knight  for  its  reconstruction,  and  there- 
fore could  not  have  been  rebuilt  during 
that  period.  Mr.  Parker  made  a  few 
remarks,  pointing  out,  by  a  comparison 
with  other  buildings,  the  great  improba- 
bility, not  to  say  impossibility,  that  such 
an  elaborate  sp^simen  of  Gothic  archi- 
tecture could  have  been  executed  at  that 
remote  period,  and  attributed  the  greater 
part  of  the  present  structure  to  the  latter 
half  of  the  fourteenth  century,  when  it  is 
recorded  that  it  received  extensive  "re- 
pairs and  restorations*'  after  the  serious 
damage  it  had  sustained  during  the  siega 
of  the  city  in  1356. 

J.  E.  MilUrd,  esq.  of  Magdalene 
College,  read  a  few  remarks  upon  the  low 
sfde-windowsi  and  the  oblique  openings 
through  the  walls  of  chnrches,  usually  by 
the  side  of  the  chancel-arch.  He  thought 
these  might  fairly  be  classed  together, 
as  the  y  probably  had  some  reference  to 
the  elevation  of  the  Host,  though  the 
exact  manner  in  which  they  were  used  is 
uncertain.  He  recapitulated  eight  distinct 
theories  respecting  them,  mentioned  a 
nnmber  of  examples,  and  shewed  draw- 
ings of  several. 

Some  very  beautiful  drawings,  by  Mr. 
Sharpe,  to  illustrate  his  Architectural 
Panllels,  were  exhibited  and  much  ad- 


mired. Also  some  sketches  of  Staoton- 
Haroourt  Church,  Oxon,  by  J.  M.  Deriok, 
Esq.  prep^ed  for  the  second  edition  nf 
his  working  drawings  of  that  church.  And 
a  design  for  the  restoration  of  the  east  end 
of  Dorchester  Church,  by  Mr.  Cranstoun, 
accompanied  by  a  report  on  the  present 
state  of  the  building,  and  estimates  for  the 
repairs  of  the  several  pfurts* 


ST.    ED1IUND*S    CHAPEL,   WALPOLI, 
NORFOLK. 

Mr.  Urban r^Permit  me  to  correct  a 
few  errors  in  your  account  of  the  chapel 
of  St  Edmund,  Walpole,  given  in  yonr 
Magazine,  p.  529* 

I  am  at  a  loss  to  understand  whether 
the  absence  of  steepU  and  side  aisles,  and 
the  west  front  having  '*  merely'*  a  door,  &c,' 
are  intended  to  convey  censure  or  not,  aa 
it  will  be  recollected  that  the  smedler  Nor- 
man chapels  of  antiquity  were  never  pos- 
sessed of  either  of|these  appendages ;  wit- 
ness Adel,  Yorkshire ;  Kiipeck,  Hereford- 
shire ;  East  Ham,  little  Tey,  and  Copford, 
Essex ;  Wisten,  Sussex  \  BarfrestooA  ; 
and  many  other  examples  in  Kent. 

The  double-arched  bell  gable  with  the 
chevron  ornament  is  a  well-authorized  ar- 
rangement ;  and  the  altar,  from  a  genuine 
fragment  of  the  Norman  age,  preserved  at 
Great  Durham  in  the  county. 

The  four  small  windows  from  which  St. 
Kstharine,  St.  Peter,  the  Virgin,  and 
another  saint  are  said  to  **  twinkle,"  are 
filled  with  paintings  in  glass  of  our  Saviour, 
St.  Peter,  the  patron  saint  of  the  mother 
church,  St.  Edmund,  the  king  and  martyr, 
in  honour  of  whom  the  chapel  i/i  dedi- 
cated, and  St.  Katharine,  who  was  pa- 
troness of  a  neighbouring  chapel,  now 
destroyed — by  which  it  will  be  seen  that 
the  subjects  of  the  glass  are  not  chosen  at 
random,  like  most  modern  specimens. 

Lastly,  the  architects  are  your  well- 
known  correspondents,  Messrs.  J.  C  and 
C.  Bucklen.     Yours,  &c.  E.  I.  C. 

Detcripiion  (ffthe  Chapel, 

The  building,  which  forms  a  very  suc- 
cessful example  of  the  revival  of  the  Anglo- 
Norman  style  of  architecture,  consists  of 
a  chancel  with  a  semicircular  east  end,  16 
feet  in  length  by  14  feet  in  width  ;  and  a 
body,  42  feet  6  inches  in  length  by  25  feet 
6  inches  in  width,  in  the  clear  dimensions. 

The  sacristy  on  the  north  side  is  square, 
and  crowned  by  a  lofty  pyramidal  roof. 

The  chapel  is  entered  by  a  doorway  at 
the  west  end,  beneath  a  lofty  window,  the 


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ttMp  gable  bflhig  ftunoAuntedl  by  an  ap- 
propriate beU-cote  of  two  cmnpartmeate* 

All  tiiesa  featurea  con^t  of  ilnelf 
wrought  maaonrj,  enriched  with  aig-sag 
and  other  characteristic  ornamentSi  and 
acttlptored  capitals.  * 

ISach  aide  of  the  nave  ia  diyided  into 
four  bays,  formed  by  ahallow  battresses 
terminating  in  a  corbelled  cornice^  etery 
dlTiBion  being:  pierced  by  a  plain  welUpro* 
portioned  window.  There  are  four  win- 
dow's oT  similar  form,  but  smaller  dimen- 
aiona,  in  the  chancel,  with  buttresaea  and 
sculptored  corbels.  The  high-pitched 
roofs  axe  eorered  with,  nticolatea  tiles, 
and  ridged  by  a  fleur-de-lis  cresting.  The 
walls  are  of  Suffolk  white  brick,  and  the 
dressings  and  ornaments  of  Caen  stone. 

The  general  effect  of  the  interior  is  very 
striking,  and  the  loftiness  of  the  open 
roof,  whidb  spans  the  nave  bj  a  single 
arch,  gives  the  idea  of  much  greater  mag- 
nitude than  the  chapel  actually  possesses. 
The  deep  colour  of  the  timbers  is  en- 
livened by  the  light  which  glimmers 
through  the  loops  in  the  upper  part  of  the 
east  and  west  gables.  The  moulded  cor- 
nice on  each  side  is  richly  painted,  and 
ixiscribed  with  versicles  from  the  Te  Deum 
u  far  as  to  the  end  of  the  Ter-sanctvs. 

The  circular  font,  near  the  west  en- 
tr^ce,  is  elevated*  upon  steps,  and  en- 
riclied  with  Norman  ornaments  and  an 
appropriate  legend  in  Lombardic  cha- 
racterf .  The  pulpit,  which  rests  upon  a 
corbel  in  the  north-east  angle,  is  of  stone, 
and  circular,  witK  a  series  of  arches  upon 
slender  shafts.  The  seats,  which  are  of  a 
later  style,  are  ranged  on  each  side  of  the 
nave,  and  the  flnials,  together  with  an 
elegant  prayer-desk,  have  been  beantifnlly 
carved  bv  the  Reverend  Arthur  Moore, 
Rector  of  the  pariah.  There  is  also  a  very 
good  oak  lectern,  which  is  placed  upon  the 
itep  leading  to  the  chancel. 

The  chancel  arch  is  a  handsome  spe- 
cimen of  Norman  design,  and  has  a  little 
ornamental  recess  over  it.  Hie  altar- 
place  IB  laid  with  encaustics,  and  the  rest 
of  the  floor  of  the  church  with  ornamental 
tiles,  in  good  patterns  and  of  Lynn  manu- 
facture. The  stone  altar  presents  no  other 
enrichment  than  tiie  Norman  star  orna- 
ment in  the  cornice,  and  a  crnciform 
device  in  relief  on  the  fVont.  On  the 
south  side  are  a  double  sedilia  and  piscina, 
and  a  credence  in  the  north  wall  by  the 
aide  of  the  doorway  leading  into  the  sa- 
oriity. 

The  painted  glass,  which  consists  of  a 
«ii^  figure  in  each  window,  ia  a  very  fair 
apecimcn,  by  Mr.  Wailes,  of  Newcastle. 
llie  colours  are  deeplv  toned,  and  shed  a 
ivbdned  light  over  this  part  of  the  in* 
terior,  the  good  appearance  of  which  ia 


eompletod  by  tin  ^eeiliiif «  vUehkai^* 
ported  by  semioireBlar  arehat  and  ribm» 
The  chapel  haa  been  provided  Ibr  Am  no* 
connaoibtion  of  180  persona. 

BKOLIBH  CHVRCa  AT  MAUtA. 

The  new  chnrch  of  St.  Paul,  at  Malte, 
which  has  been  built  at  the  ac^  azpeoaa 
of  the  Qneen  Dowager,  was  oonaeoratod 
on  the  1st  Nov.  by  the  Lord  Biabop  of 
Gibraltar.    Tlie  body  of  the  ohnrch  and 
the  portico  are  not  much  unlike  those  «f 
St.  Martin's-in-the-Flelda  in  their  cstarior 
aspect.    The  internal  effect  is  atiH  bottar. 
It  has  a  semicircular  chancel,  and  la  di» 
vided  into  a  nave  and  two  side  aislaa  hy^ 
two    rows    of   beantifal  Coftetblsn  ptt* 
lars.    With  the  exception  of  two  pawa* 
one  for  the  Governor  and  the  atiiar  far 
the  Admiral,  the  seats  are  all  open,  witk 
backs.    The  general  interior  appaansioa 
is  that  of  a  very  handsome  BngUrii 
There  is  also  a  splendid  organ ;  b«fr 
is  of  most  importance  la,  that  tfao 
struction  is  such,  that  the  alii'htest 
nation  of  voice  will  be  beard  from  one  and 
to  the  other.    A  beantifsl  statae  of  Vhitti, 
presented  by  Lord  Howe,  who  was  in  ^r 
Majesty's  suite,  has  been  ref^ed  a  pkaa 
either  in  or  outside  the  chnrch,  on  a  ploa 
of  its  resembling  too  mnch  a  Roman  Ga* 
tholic  custom.    It  haa  been  plaeed  In  the 
Garrison  Library.   The  Commnolott  plnte, 
of  diver  gilt,  is  the  gift  of  Liettt.-Qea. 
Sir  H.  F.  Bouverie,  the  late  Goremor, 
and  other  benefactors.    The  fbmltnre  of 
the  interior,  together  with   the   oi^gMi, 
bells,  &c.  were  provided  by  a  suhicriptian, 
at  the  head  of  which  stands  tiie  preaesir 
Governor,  the  Hon.  Sir  P.  Sloait,  and 
the  principal  Engliah  inhaldtaatai  aided 
by  friends  at  home.    The  font,  of  wdiitB 
Carrara  marble,  ia  the  gift  of  the  late  J. 
W.  Bowden,  caq.     The  great  Bible  waa 
given  by  the  late  Counteaa  of  Denbigh^ 
the  Prayer  Book  by  the  Countoaa  of  Mef* 
field,  and  the  hooka  for  the  CoaaaMnlon 
were  given  by  the  Rev.  J.  Ryle  Wood 
and  the  Rev.  Philip  Mnlea.    I^e  ebniA 
is  to  be  called  the  Bngliah    CoKegialt 
Chnrch  of  St.  Paul  in  MalU.     It  alandn 
on  a  commanding  site,  overlooking  the 
Quarantine  Harbour,  and  has  a  apira  900 
feet  in  height,  and  300  feet  abovo  the  level 
of  the  sea,  which  makes  it  a  eonapienova 
object  to  ahips  making  the  iahuKi  tnm 
the  north  or  ttom  the  weat.    The  day  of 
consecration  waa  looked  upon  by  tho  Eag- 
liah  residents  as  an  occasion  of  national 
aa  well  as  religious  interest.    At  half-put 
tan  the  chnrch  was  filled,  and  at  drvwa 
the  Biahop  arrived  at  the  ebnrdi,  nooad 
which  he  walked  in  proccsaton  with  the 
Governor  on  his  right  hand. 
Admiral  Sir  Edward  Owen, 


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AreUt^cimre. 


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in-Cbitf  IB  tiie  MedHemmflm,  ott  fait  left, 
tb«  dergy,  chril,  military^  and  xnTal  offi* 
cen  foUowug.  Thej  thea  entand  the 
church,  and  the  Ghaaetllor,  who  wm  re- 
presented on  this  oocasion  by  Sir  Stephen 
Glynne,  Bert.  M.P.  having  read  a  request 
from  the  Governor  to  the  Bishop  that  he 
would  consecrate  this  church,  the  coase* 
cnmtion  prooeeded  in  the  same  manner  as 
in  England.  The  prayers  were  read  by 
the  Rer.  Archdeacon  Le  Mesnrier,  the 
leesons  by  the  ReT.  T.  6.  Gallwey  and 
the  Rer.  G.  P.  Badger,  the  Communion 
serrioe  by  the  Bishop,  the  epistle  by  the 
Rev.  Philip  Mules,  and  the  gospel  by  the 
Axcbdeaoon.  The  Te  J)€um,  the  chants, 
and  the  psalms  were  beautifiiUy  sung,  and 
the  anthem,  '*  O  Lord,  our  Grovemor,** 
was  given  with  great  effect  by  the  ladies 
who  voluntarily  assisted  in  the  services, 
the  choir  being  led  by  Mrs.  W.  Frere. 
The  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Bishop 
from  Ephesians  ii.  19,  93,  *<  Now,  there- 
fore, ye  are  no  more  strangers  and  fo* 
reigners,*'  &c.  The  collection  at  the 
offertory  was  by  far  the  largest  that  had 
ever  b^  made  in  Malta,  amounting  to 
nearly  120/.  On  the  Sunday  following 
the  Bishop  preached  in  the  morning,  and 
the  Holy  Communion  was  administered 
to  about  one  hundred  and  twenty.  In 
the  afternoon  he  administered  the  sacra- 
ment of  baptism,  the  infant  daughter  of 
the  architect  Mr.  Scamp  being  the  first 
person  baptised.  The  child  was  named 
Adelaide  after  the  royal  foundress  of  the 
church,  and  was  baptised  in  water  brought 
from  the  Jordan.  The  sermon  in  the  af- 
ternoon was  preached  by  the  Archdeacon, 
and  that  in  the  evening  by  the  Rev.  Sir 
Cecil  Bisshopp,  Bart. 

CBCRCH   RKSTOBATION. 

One  of  the  finest  restorations  recently 
accomplished  is  that  of  the  parish  church 
of  St.  Mary,  in  Bury  St.  Edmund's. 
This  church,  in  the  Perpendicular  style, 
the  entire  messurement  of  which  is  S13 
feet  by  68  feet,  is  remarkable  for  the 
lightness  and  elegance  of  its  columns, 
and  its  roof  is  the  glory  of  the  '*  open 
roofo  '*  for  which  the  Suffolk  churches  sre 
£smous.  About  eighteen  months  since  it 
was  discovered  that  this  incomparable 
structure  was  in  the  greatest  peril,  the 
ends  of  the  timbers  being  rotted  off,  and 
the  whole  weight  resting  between  instead 
of  upon  the  wails ;  and  the  parish  having 
undertaken  the  substantial  repairs  of  the 
fabric  at  an  expense  of  1,700/.  the  occa- 
sion was  embraced  to  remove  the  intru- 
sions, and  to  repair  the  ravages  of  time  as 
well  as  the  more  cruel  injuries  of  a  bar- 
barous age.  The  works  included  in  this 
undertaking  have  been — the  removal  of  a 

^tTMao.  Vot.  XXII. 


gallery,  which  cut  is  two  the  fine  vista  of 
the  nave ;  the  complete  restoration  of  the 
carved  work  of  the  roof,  every  figure  of 
whieh  is  a  specimen  of  high  art;  the 
freeing  of  the  pillars  and  tracery  of  the 
windows  from  their  manifold  coats  of 
whitewash,  and  substantially  repairing 
their  defective  parts  ;  the  entire  renewsl 
of  the  great  west  window,  in  which  the 
trm*  of  the  neighbouring  gentry  are  in- 
serted; a  new  window  of  great  beauty 
over  the  ehancel  arch,  (presented  by  H. 
P.  Oakes,  esq.)  representing  the  Martyr- 
dom of  St.  Edmund  ;  a  richly  carved  font 
in  Caen  stone,  ^the  gift  of  the  Patron,  J. 
Fitsgerald,  esq.)  a  pulpit  and  lectern,  in 
osk,  of  great  boldness  and  correct  style, 
to  supply  the  place  of  a  Vitruvian  M 
and  Hn  in  mahogany ;  and  a  door  screen 
or  lobby,  elaborately  carved,  with  plate- 
glsss  panels  ;  besides  the  clearing  away  of 
various  boardings  and  partitions  in  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  church,  the  vestry 
(formerly  one  of  these)  being  now  con- 
veniently placed  in  the  tower.  Some 
(but  not  all)  of  the  pews  have  given  place  to 
open  seats  with  poppy-head  bench -ends, 
flndy  carved  by  Mr.  Nash,  by  whom  the 
restorations  of  the  roof  have  also  been 
executed.  The  whole  of  the  works  have 
been  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Cotting- 
ham,  whose  research  and  taste  in  supply- 
ing the  deficient  parts  of  the  figures  is  ad- 
mirable. The  cost  of  these  noble  per- 
formances, exclusive  of  the  parish  charge, 
has  been  upwards  of  2,000/.  of  which 
sum  the  subscriptions  are  as  yet  full  one- 
third  deficient ;  but  it  is  hoped  that  the 
zealous  incumbent,  the  Rev.  C.  J.  P. 
Eyre,  will  not  be  disappointed  in  his  reli- 
ance upon  the  right  feeling  of  the  public 
for  the  supply  required. 


The  Consecrated  Chapel  erected  at  the 
Nnnhead  Cemetery,  Peekham:  by  Tho- 
mas Little,  y/rcAt/ec/;  a  Lithograph  Print, 
by  T.  S.  Boys.^Tbis  chapel  is  octagonal, 
with  a  square  or  equilateral  approach,  and 
a  transeptal  chapel  to  the  right  of  thst 
approach.  In  front  is  a  Urge  porch,  of 
dimensions  sufficient  to  receive  carriages. 
It  will  be  understood  that  we  are  describ- 
ing it  merely  from  the  print  with  which 
we  have  been  favoured,  and  in  which  it 
presents  a  handsome  appearance.  The 
windows  are  of  the  Decorated  style,  and 
the  porch  has  ogee  arches  and  walls  faced 
with  paodling,  with  lofty  pinnacles  in  the 
style  of  the  Somersetshire  churches.  On 
the  whole,  the  structure,  though  not 
strictly  '*  ecclesiastical*'  in  its  appearance, 
but  more  resembling  an  ancient  Baptistery^ 
is  pleasing  in  its  general  effect. 

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Antiquarhn  Snearches. 


New  Chu«chis. 

Oct.  18.  The  Lord  Bishop  of  Llandaff 
consecrated  a  church,  bailt  four  years  ago 
under  the  benevolent  auspices  of  the 
Church  Pastoral  Aid  Society,  in  the  popu- 
lous parish  of  Trevethin.  This  simple 
edifice  is  intended  for  the  use  of  Pont- 
newynydd  district,  where  a  large  popula> 
rion  has  been  brought  together  within  the 
last  few  years  by  means  of  the  Pentywyn 
and  Glynos  Company.  The  cost  of  erec- 
tion has  scarcely  exceeded  750/. ;  that 
sum  haying  been  raised  by  voHintary  con- 
tributions, aided  only  by  the  excellent 
Pastoral  Aid  Society,  the  whole  of  the 
fittings  in  the  body  are  free.  The  gallery 
consists  of  pews,  which  are  let.  The 
church  has  been  endowed  by  the  munifi- 
cence of  Edward  U.  Phillips,  esq.  Tros- 
ment  Cottage,  Pontypool,  and  is  dedicated 
to  St.  Luke.  Liberal  contributions  have 
also  been  made  towards  building  new 
schooUrooms. 

Nov,  7.  The  Far  Forest  Church, 
Bewdleyt  was  consecrated  by  the  Bishop 
of  Hereford.  Her  Majesty  granted  nearly 
four  acres  of  the  Crown  land,  as  a  site 
for  the  church  and  parsonage -ftouse,  and 
also  for  a  garden  and;  burial  ground. 
Her  Majesty  the  Queen  Dowager  was  a 
liberal  subscriber,  and  grants  amounting 
to  3007.  were  made  by  the  Diocesan  and 
the  London  Church  Building  Societies, 
The  estimated  cost  of  the  church  and 
panonage-house,  inclnding  deeds  and 
oouTeyance,  was  about  2000/.,  of  which 
about  1800/.  has  been  collected,  but 
beyond  this  a  fund  is  required  to  com- 
plete the  arrangements,  and  to  increase 
the  endowment  (which  at  present  consists 
only  of  a  joint  annual  sum  of  30/.  each, 
ceded  by  the  patrons  of  the  endowments 
of  Ribbesford  and  Rock  from  the  tithes 
of  their  respective  parishes.  A  commo- 
dious and  neat  school-house,  the  private 
property  of  the  Rev.  J.  Cawood  ;  having 
tor  some  yean  been  erected  close  by,  it  is 
contemplated  to  purchase  it  when  the 
funds  will  admit.  For  this  purpose  the 
•nm  of  350/.  will  be  required ;  100/.  has 
already  been  received. 

Nov,  9.  A  new  church  at  FamAam, 
Surrey,  was  consecrated  by  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  Winchester.  It  is  in  the  Nor- 
man style,  and  capable  of  accommodating 
500  peraons . 


mow  ommcH  rom  iamaica. 
A  church  has  been  sent  out  to  Jamaics, 
as  a  specimen,  as  many  of  the  kind  are 
likely  to  be  required.  The  pilaiter  tmp^ 
ports  are  o#  cast  Iron,  on  which  are  IfacesI 
the  frame-roof,  of  vrrought  iroa,  of  mm 
ingenious  eoostruotion,  combining  great 
strength  witli  simplicity  of  aiTaageu*eat ; 
the  whole  is  ooiwred  with  comgatad  iron, 
and  the  celling  fbrmed  of  panelled  com- 
partments, corered  wiA  Mt,  to  act  as  a 
non-condnetor  of  heat.  Tbe  body  of  Hm 
ohureh  is  65  feet  by  40 ;  the  ohaae^,  9« 
by  111 :  a  robing-room  and  vealry  ate  at- 
tached. The  windows  are  glkaed  with 
plate>  glass,  one  eighth  of  an  imds  m 
thickness  i  the  two  chanoel-wiadowa  and 
four  olhen  are  of  stained  glass.  !%•  coat 
of  this  iron  church  is  1,0001. 


OLABOOW  CAnta»BAl«. 

The  removal  of  the  accumulated  aet!  at 
the  north  side  of  thie  cathedral,  to  ^ke  ex- 
tent of  seven  feet  and  a  half,  ahosn  the 
fine  proportions  of  the  Tenenble  pile  to 
great  advantage,  and  when  the  improve- 
ment is  earned  aU  around,  embracing  t^ 
removal  of  the  unseemly  raifinga,  and 
other  obstructions,  the  building  will  akow 
quite  another  appearance.  A  drain  has 
been  run  close  to  the  foundation  of  that 
portion  already  put  to  rights,  and  an 
asphalte  pavement  is  being  laid  down. 
The  opening  up  and  glasing  of  the  oM 
windows  in  the  magnificent  crypt  haa 
brought  to  view  its  groined  arehea  and 
elaborate  workmanship.  On  the  roof  of 
the  whole  thirty-six  compartments,  be- 
twixt the>«ibs  of  the  groined  archee,  and 
along  the  range  of  eolnmns  next  to  It* 
south  door,  are  found  quotatiotts,  in  tbe 
Oid  English  character,  from  ScripCnre. 
In  a  plain  space,  jost  above  thearrh  of  the 
southern  door,  is  this ; 

**  Holy,  holy,  holy  is  ye  lord  of  hoetea, 
ye  holl  world  is  full  of  his  glorie.*' 

The  following  are  in  the  diAsrant  cob- 
partments : 

**  Keipe  thy  tnng  from  eviU,  and  thy 
lippes  that  they  speik  no  gyll.  Baehew 
evile,  and  do  good." 

**  The  lord  is  neir  unto  tham  that  ar 
of  a  contreit  hart,  and  luve  such  as  nr 
aliickit  in  spireit.  Great  ar  ye  Uabblaa 
of  ye  richteons,  but  ye  lord  deliverech 
tham  out  of  all.*' 


ANTiaUARIAN  RESEARCHES. 


CAMBRinOI    CAMDKN   SOCIKTT. 

Nov.  7.  The  Report  of  the  Committee 
stated  that  thirty- four  new  candidates, 
proposed  since  the  last  meeting  in  the 
Easter  term,  were  added  to  the  list  of 
members* 


During  the  long  vacation  the  third 
volume  of  the  Ecclesiologist  has  been 
brought  to  a  close;  and  the  Committee 
have  resolved  that  the  publication  shall 
not  be  continued  in  the  name  of  the 
society.    A  wish,  howerer,  has  baea  ex- 


ia44.] 


Aniiqmarian  Rewurckei^ 


655 


by  toine  mMnbert  of  the  socraty 
to  ouTf  an  the  work  in  a  new  wriei : 
whateTer  arrangement  of  this  kind  if  con* 
lented  to  by  the  Committee,  care  will  be 
taken  that  dte  society  shall  not  be  eom- 
pioaiised  to  the  Yiews  ezpreeied  in  it. 

The  8d,  3d,  and  10th  parte  of  the  in* 
etnunenta  Ecdesieetica  have  been  pnb- 
Ikhad  aiDce  the  leet  meeting. 

The  7th  nmmber  of  the  Churches  of 
Cambridgeehire,  which  will  contain  All 
8aints\  Hadingfield,  is  on  the  eve  of  ap* 
peering. 

The  working  drawings  of  the  chancel 
of  AU  Saints',  Hawton,  Nottioghamshire, 
are  expected  to  be  ready  in  the  course  of 
the  present  term.  It  is  proposed  to  pub- 
lish in  a  similar  way,  by  subscription,  the 
beantifal  church  of  Heckiugton,  Lincoln- 
ahire. 

The  Committtee  have  now  in  their  pos« 
ssesion  full  working  drawings  of  three  ^ n* 
dent  churches,  sd^cted  to  senre  as  mo- 
dels for  the  colonies.  The  three  churches 
are  TeTersham,  Cambridgeshire  ;  Arnold, 
Nottinghamshire  ;  Longstanton,  Cam- 
bridgeshire. Tracings  of  the  last  have 
been  forwarded  to  the  United  Stat<>8. 
Tracings  from  the  former  are  preparing 
fbr  New  Sonth  Wales  and  New  Zealand. 

A  grant  of  10/.  has  been  made  towards 
the  restoration  of  the  church  of  St.  Mary, 
Wymeswold,  Leicestershire. 

The  Committee  lastly  announced,  that 
a  new  Architectural  Association  has  been 
snceessfnlly  established  in  the  archdea- 
conry of  Northampton,  under  the  patron- 
age of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Peterborough. 

A  paper  on  '*  Architectural  Drawing, 
considered  as  the  handmaid  to  the  study 
of  Ecclesiology,**  was  read  by  the  Rct. 
Philip  Freeman,  M.A.  He  commenced 
by  insisting  on  the  Talue  of  a  knowledge 
of  mouldings,  and  explained  the  method 
of  drawing  their  outlines,  in  section  or 
elcTation.  He  then  proceeded  to  propose 
a  nomenclature  for  the  science  of  mould- 
ings, referring  to  the  ingenious  work  of 
Professor  Willis  on  the  subject.  The 
latter  part  of  the  paper  was  devoted  to  an 
examination  of  Hogarth*s  propositions 
with  respect  to  beauty.  Mr.  Freeman 
then  applied  these  principles  to  the  pheno- 
mena of  the  various  styles  of  mouldings, 
and  showed  that  the  decorated  forms 
answered  all  Hogarth's  conditions  tor  the 
highest  beauty  and  grace.  Whence  he 
concluded  that  this  might  be  regarded  as 
another  argument  in  justification  of  the 
society's  belief  thst  decorated  was  the 
most  perfect  style  of  church  architecture. 

The  President,  alluding  to  the  change  in 
the  future  management  of  the  Ecclesiolo- 
gist,  announced  in  the  report,  said  that 
this  arrangement  had  been  long  contem- 


plated. The  society  would  hsneefbrth  be, 
beyond  all  questioning,  what  it  was  desira- 
ble it  should  be,  an  Architectural  Asso- 
elation,  and  nothing  more. 

ROMAH   RUINS  NBAR  WXTM OUTH. 

At  a  meetiog  of  the  Oxford  Ashmoleaft 
Society,  Nov.  11,  Dr.  Bockland,  baring 
introduced  to  the  notice  of  the  members 
some  drawings  of  ancient  gold  torques 
(sent  by  the  Rev.  T.  Lawrence  of  St. 
John's  College,)  found  Oct.  1 1  on  Tan 
Hill,  Wilts,  imbedded  in  earth,  about  18 
inches  under  the  turf»  and  weighing  rather 
more  than  S^  os.  Troy ;  proceeded  to  give 
a  detailed  account  of  the  remains  of  many 
Roman  buildings  recently  discovered  near 
Weymouth ;  and  of  which  he  gave  some 
information  to  the  British  Archaeological 
Association  at  Canterbury,  (see  p.  413,) 
and  of  which  some  earlier  account,  by  Mr. 
Wame,  was  given  in  our  Feb.  number,  p. 
185. 

The  neighbourhood  abounds  with  vestiges 
of  Roman  occupation.  The  large  military 
station  and  Roman  walls,  Roman  camp, 
and  amphitheatre  at  Dorchester,  con- 
tiguous to  the  gigantic  British  triple  camp 
of  Maiden  Castle,  are  well  known.  The 
situation  of  Weymouth  Bay  and  Wey- 
mouth Harbour,  close  to  the  sheltered 
road  of  the  Isle  of  Portland  (Vindelis), 
and  the  distance  of  Dorchester  from  any 
other  port,  must  have  rendered  Weymouth 
a  most  convenient  and  necessary  naval 
station  during  the  residence  of  the  Romans 
in  Dorsetshire.  The  nearest  rising  grounds 
on  the  north-west  and  north-east  of  Wey- 
mouth are  strewed  with  fragments  of 
Roman  buildings,  tesserae,  bricks,  pot- 
tery, and  tiles,  and  small  Roman  copper 
coins  ;  and  Mr.  Medhurst  has  discovered 
the  foundations  of  several  villas,  of  a  Ro- 
man temple,  and  of  a  Roman  road.  Dr. 
Buckland  supposes  these  villas  to  have 
been  occupied  by  the  families  of  Roman 
officers  or  civilians  connected  with  their 
great  military  establishment  at  Dorches- 
ter. The  most  remarkable  discoveries 
made  by  Mr.  Medhurst  in  1843,  and 
visited  in  October  last  by  Dr.  Buckland 
and  Mr.  Conybeare,  were  foundations  of 
a  temple  on  &e  summit  of  Jordan  Hill, 
and  of  a  villa,  a  quarter  of  a  mile  distant 
in  the  meadow  between  this  hill  and  the 
village  of  Preston.  The  temple  appears 
to  havfe  consisted  of  a  cells  94  feet  square, 
surrounded  by  a  peristyle,  the  walls  of 
which  inclosed  an  area  110  feet  square. 
In  the  earth  which  occnpies  this  peristyle 
Mr.  Medhurst  found  more  than  four  sacks 
of  bones,  and  many  boms  (chiefly  of  young 
bulls),  also  many  Roman  coins,  fragments 
of  Roman  pottery,  cement,  &c.  Near  the 
centre  of  the  south  wall  were  the  founds- 


636 


JniiquarittA  Researches. 


[Dee. 


tions  of  stepf,  indicatiDg  the  ascent  to  the 
door  of  eotruice ;  and  four  fieet  in  advance 
of  this  wall  are  the  foandatioAa  of  four 
■mall  colami^.    A  layer  of  cement,  which 
probably  supported  a  pavement  that  hat 
been  removed,  occupies  the  interval  be- 
tween these  pillars  and  the  foundation  of 
the  south  front  walL     Within  the  temple, 
in  the  south  corner,  was  a  dry  well  four- 
teen  feet  deep,  that  had  been  filled  in  a 
very  curious  and  unexampled    manner. 
It  was  daubed  all  round  with  a  lining  or 
parjeting  of  clay,  in  which  were  set  edge- 
wise (like  Dutch  tiles  round  a  fire-place) 
a  layer  of  old  stone  tiles,   which,  from 
their  peg-holes,  appear  to  have  been  used 
or  prepared  for  use  on  roofs  of  houses ; 
at  the  bottom  of  the  well,  on  a  substratum 
of  clay,  was  a  kind  of  cist  formed  by  two 
oblong  stones,  and  in  this  ci&t  two  small 
Roman  urns,  a  broad  iron  sword  21  inches 
long,  an  iron  spear-head,  an  iron  knife 
and  steel-yard,  two  long  irons  resembling 
tools  used  by  turners,  an  iron  crook,  an 
iron  handle  of  a  bucket,  &c.  but  no  bones. 
Next  above  this   cist  was  a  stratum  of 
thick  stone  tiles,  like  those  which  lined 
the  well ;  and  upon  it  a  bed  of  ashes  and 
charcoal ;  above  these  ashes  was  a  double 
layer  of  stone  tiles  arranged  in  pairs,  and 
between  each  pair  was  the  skeleton  of  one 
bird,  with  one  small  Roman  coin  ;  above 
the  upper  tier  of  tiles  was  another  bed  of 
ashes.     Similar  beds  of  ashes,  alternating 
with  double  tiers  of  tiles,   (each  pair  of 
which  inclosed  the  skeleton  of  oue  bird 
and  one  copper  coin,)  were  repeated  16 
times  between  the  top  and  bottom  of  the 
well ;  and  halfway  down  was  a  cist  con- 
taining an  iron  sword  and  spear-head,  and 
nros  like  those  in  the  cist  at  the  bottom 
of  the  well.    The  birds  were,  the  raven, 
crow,  buzzard,  and  starling  ;  there  were 
also  bones  of  a  hare.     Dr.  Buckland  con- 
jectures that  this  building  may  have  been 
a  temple  of  Esculapius,  which   received 
the  votive  offerings  of  the  Roman  families 
and  invalids  who  visited  Weymouth  for 
Bca-bathing  and  for  health.     The  bones 
of  young  bulls  found  in  the  peristyle  being 
those  of  the  victims  offered  in   ordinary 
sacrifice,  while  the  smaller  birds,  whose 
bones  are  found  so  remarkably  arranged 
in  the  well,   may  have  been  the  votive 
offerings  presented  by  those  who  received 
their  cure  from  sea  air  and  sea  bathing, 
and  possibly  from  the  mineral  waters  of 
Radipole    and    Kottington,    all    in  the 
salubrious  vicinity  of  a  temple,  which  there 
fs  such  prosessional  reason  for  supposing 
to  have  been  dedicated  to  Esculapius. 

Dr.  Bock  land  then  described  the  re- 
mains of  a  villa  in  a  meadow  between 
Jordan  Hill  and  the  village  of  Preston, 
and  exhibited  specimen^  of  tiles,  boUi 


atone  and  brick,  and  various  bones  and 
the  daw  of  an  ««gl«*  found  in  the  mini 
of  this  villa.  In  some  fields,  alao,  near 
Radipole,  on  the  north-west  of  Wey* 
month,  Mr.  Medhnrst  has  discovered 
Roman  urns  and  human  bones,  and  con- 
jectures the  spat  in  which  he  found  them 
to  have  been  uae»d  as  a  cemetery.  The 
contiguous  fields  are  covered  wiUi  frag- 
ments of  Roman  bricks,  pottery,  and  aop* 
Ser  coins.  One  gold  coin  of  ConstAutiAe, 
iscovered  here  some  time  ago,  is  in,  ^ 
possession  of  Mr.  George  Frampton. 

Mr.  Duncan  expressed  his  approbation 
of  the  supposition  that  the  remains  of  tiie 
large  building  are  those  of  a  temple  of 
Esculapius ;  but  he  was  unable  to  account 
for  the  pieces  of  money  found  with  the 
skeletons  of  the  birds,  &c.  [We  may  re- 
mark that  it  is  to  be  r^retted  that  Dr. 
Buckland  did  not  lay  bare  the  wKole  area 
of  the  supposed  Temple.] 

Dr.  Buckland  made  some  other  rcmarka 
in  support  of  his  hypothesis,  and  then 
noticed  the  opening,  a  few  years  ago,  of 
a  Celtic  barrow  near  Dorchester,  con- 
taining a  human  skeleton,  within  the  riba 
of  which,  in  the  region  of  the  stomack, 
some  seeds  of  the  wild  rasf^eny  wet-e 
found :  these,  on  being  planted  by  Dr. 
Lindley,  bad  not  lost  their  powere  of 
vegetation. 

A  number  of  Roman  antiquities  hate 
lately  been  discovered  at  Bavay  (Nord). 
Among  them  are  a  gold  medal  of  Vespa- 
sian, a  large  ailver  medal  of  Domitia, 
bearing  on  the  reverse,  **  Divi  QMaris 
Mater,*'  representing  a  warrior  standing 
on  the  prow  of  a  galley  with  an  owl  at  hia 
feet,  and  several  medals  of  the  ordinary 
size,  in  gold  and  silver,  of  Caligula,  Nero, 
Vespasian,  Domitian,  Trajan,  and  other 
emperors.  There  is  also  a  statuette  in 
bronze  of  Harpocrates,  represented  as  a 
half-naked  child,  having  a  scarf  falling 
from  the  right  shoulder  over  a  part  of  hts 
body  to  the  left  side.  On  the  head  is  the 
lotus,  on  the  back  a  quiver,  and  on  the 
shoulders  wings.  On  the  right  arm  is  a 
small  cruse  suspended  by  the  handle,  whfle 
the  fore.finger  is  placed  on  the  lips.  With 
the  left  hand  he  leans  on  a  knotted  staff, 
round  which  a  serpent  entwines,  ^fear 
him  is  a  bird  resembling  a  goose,  at  ^ 
feet  a  hare  or  rabbit,  and  on  liia  led  a 
hawk. 


At  Parma,  the  theatre  of  the  ancient  city, 
has  just  been  discovered  at  a  cooai^orable 
depth  in  the  earth,  and  in  a  remarkaUa 
state  of  preservation.  The  government 
has  ordered  researches  to  be  made,  and 
has  purehased  sereiial  honaoa  nhiA  stand 
in  the  way  of  the  opentioiu 


HISTORICAL  CHRONICLE. 


FOREIGN    NEWS. 


diusttont 


hive  appeared  in  the 


On  the  13th  Not.  an 
imponancs  took  place  in  ihe  palace 
Madrid.  Queen  Chriltin*  wal  that  da; 
married  in  her  private  apartments  to  the 
Dnke  of  RTaniaret,  better  known  as  M. 
Munui.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
hy  Ibe   Patriarch  of  the   Indiei,   in   the 

Sreserwe  of  the  Ministers  of  the  Crown, 
I  does  not  appear  that  the  foutig  Queen 
WIS  present.  The  great  object  of  the 
Queen  Mother  in  causing  her  marriage  to 
be  Irgalised  is,  that  her  children  may  be 
dects^d  legitimate.  Conspimciei  are  atill 
prevalent  in  various  paruof  this  unhappy 
country. 

The  Porte  have  determined  to  place  in 
a  state  of  defence  the  entrance  of  tbe 
BosphorUB  on  the  Black  Sea  and  the 
Dardanellea.  Inatruclions  have  been  re- 
ceived from  Government  by  Sir  Stralturd 
Canning,  to  obtain  the  immediate  and 
unconditional  payment  of  the  sum  of 
2,0001.  which  t^c  Turkibh  Government 
had  acknowledged  to  be  due  to  Sir  Bald- 
win Walker,  but  which,  on  tbe  most 
frivolous  pretence,  it  bad  afterwirds  re- 
.  fused  to  liciuidate. 


some     PfPe". 


has  travelled  ueitwHrd.     On  the 


A  dreadful  lire  broke  out  at  Claustbal, 
a  mining  town  in  tbe  Hirli  Forest,  on 
Oct.  16,  in  tbe  night,  iind  in  Ibe  short 
space  of  a  few  hours  destroyed  a  church 
and  levenl  public  officei,  swept  away  SIS 
dwelling  houses,  and  a  great  number  of 
stables  and  barns,  and  left  3.000  of  tbe 
Inhabitants  without  a  roof  to  nhelter 
tliem  from  the  rigour  of  a  northern  win- 
ter, to  which  the  town  of  Claustbal, 
owing  to  its  siluntion  on  tbe  top  oT  ■ 
mountain,  is  patlicularty  eipoied. 

Tbe  coronation  of  Ihefr  M^csties  was 
celebrated  on  ihe  39th  Oct.  in  the  ralhe- 
dral  at  Stockholm.  In  tbe  evening  the 
city  waa  illuminated,  and  their  Majesties, 
accompanied  by  Ihe  youthful  branches  of 
the  royal  family,  went  through  the  streets 
in  an  open  carriage,   amidst  load  accb* 


night  of  the  IBib  and  I9tb,  it  descended 
on  Lake  Krie,  and  nearly  destroyed  Ihe 
toirn  of  Bulinlo.  Many  vessels,  steamen 
as  well  as  sailen,  perished  at  the  aame 
timet  and  the  human  victims  are  reckoned 
at  from  one  to  tno  hundred.  The  storm 
pissed  DnloLskeOnurioandlbe St.  I«w. 
rence,  visiting  -Montreal  and  Quebec, 
and  everywhere  levelling  buildings  auve 
sinking  ships. 


The  Italian  papers  are  filled  with  ac- 
counts of  the  ravages  and  alarm  oc- 
casioned by  (he  torrents  of  rain  which  have 
lately  fullen  in  Tuscany.  Florence  ha* 
been  (he  »cene  of  an  inundation  uid  to 
be  unparalleled  there  since  the  year  1740. 
Tbe  Arno  swept  down  from  (be  moun- 
tains, on  tbe  night  of  the  Snd  and  3cd 
Nov.  with  tbe  impetuosity  of  a  torrent, 
burst  its  barriers,  and  in  an  instant  laid 
Ihe  lower  parts  of  (be  city  under  water — 
in  many  places  to  a  depLb  of  seven  or 
eight  feet.  The  iiihatntants,  taken  un- 
awares,  bad  no  opportunity  of  escape, 
and  remained  shut  up  in  their  house*, 
wanting  provisions,  and  trembling  for 
.L_:-  1...-.  T-L.  ; — .juspension  bridge 
■'■    "  "     of  lEe 


IS  been  carried  away,  tbe  Bridge  ol 


Jeivellers  is  threatened  with  destiuctioi  . 
many  houses  are  ssid  to  huve  fallen,  and 
many  lives,  it  is  feared,  huve  been  lost. 
Tbe  ivHter  invaded  the  natebousei  of  the 
Customs,  and  destroyed  merchandise  Xa 
an  enormous  nmoonl.  Great  rears  were 
entertained  for  Piss,  whose  situation 
exposes  it  more  than  that  of  Florence  to 
the  dsnger  ;  and  great  appreben^ioos  for 
the  lidings  to  be  expected  from  tlw 
country.  The  plains  of  Tuscany  neigh, 
bourin^  tbe  river  were  so  many  takes; 
the  railroad  from  Leghorn  to 


Pisa'  « 


d38 


Domesiie  Oicmrreaeet. 


»nd  the  road  from  Ajaocio  to  Butia 
oompletely  destroyed.^— In  iba  Fyienees, 
the  avideiioei  of  a  levare  and  eaflv  winter 
art  mingled  with  the  affects  of  the  same 


elementel 
deep  in  tW 

oreawamped 


DOMESTIC  OCCURRENCES. 


Oef.  t8.  Her  Majeety  ptvceeded  Hi 
Itate  to  the  opening  of  the  new  ftoyttf 
Bwhanoi,  She  was  accompanied  by 
H.  R.  H.  Prince  Albert  (who  wore  the 
ttiriform  of  Cnptaln-generiil  and  Colonel 
of  the  Royal  Artillery  Company),  by 
Yiaeounteas  Canning,  as  Lady  in  wait- 
ing, and  the  Earl  of  Jersey,  the  Master 
Ofthe  Horse.  Her  suite  were  carried  in 
ail  other  of  the  royal  carriages,  and  the 
carriages  of  the  foreign  ambassadors  and 
the  cabinet  ministers  joined  the  proces- 
•lon.  The  Lord  Mavor  and  civic  autho- 
ritlel  waited  to  receire  her  Majesty  at 
Temple  Bar,  and  presented  to  her  the 
city  sword.  The  Lord  Mayor,  and  many 
of  the  Aldermen,  afterwards  preceded 
ber  Majesty  on  horseback.  Standing  fbr 
the  eompaniea  were  erected  in  the  Foul- 
trr  and  St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  and  every 
Mber  available  place  was  fitted  up  for 
the  accommodation  of  spectators.  A 
general  holiday  was  observed  in  the  city. 

Having  proceeded  up  the  steps  of  the 
Bxchange,  her  Majesty  was  conducted 
round  the  quadrangle,  (into  which  the 
nembers  of  the  Common  Council  arid 
their  kdies  had  been  admitted,^  and  then 
up  the  great  staircase  to  Lloya*s  rooms. 
One  ot  these  was  fitted  up  as  a  Chamber 
of  Presence,  with  a  temporary  throne, 
where  an  address  was  presented  to  her 
Maiesty  by  the  corporation,  to  which  her 
Majesty  graciously  replied,  ond  then  an- 
iiounced  to  the  Lord  Mayor  her  intention 
to  create  him  a  Baronet,  in  commemora- 
tiot)  of  the  day.  In  the  principal  apart- 
meftt,  which  is  that  intended  for  tbe  Un. 
derwriters,  ninety- eight  feet  long  by  forty 
wide,  a  sumptuous  dejeuner  was  pro- 
vided, at  which  her  Majesty,  Prince  Al- 
bert, the  Duchess  of  Kent,  the  Duke  and 
Duchess  of  Cambridge,  and  a  few  others 
of  the  principal  guests,  were  seated  at  the 
eross  ubie.  uracewas  said  by  the  Bishop 
^  London.  Three  toasts  were  given  by 
Clw  Lord  Mayor,  namely,  tbe  Queen, 
Prince  Albert,  Albert  Prince  of  Wales 
and  tbe  Royal  Family.  Her  Majesty 
then  retired ;  after  which  the  Lord  Mayor 
arid,  *'  Her  Majesty  has  commanded  me 
to  give,  Prosperity  to  the  City  of  Lon- 
don.** During  the  repast  a  medal  was 
diacribiitcd  by  Mr.  Lambert  Jones,  nearly 
aa  large  aa  half-a-erown,  having  on  one 


aide  the  profile  of  the 

aeHbed  *•  Royal  Eacba^gc  opened  bf  hs 

Majesty  Queen  Victnria,  Oct.  98^  ISM.' 

On  the  revene,  tliree  abtcMa,  ' 

arms  of  the  City,  Sir  llMMBn! 

and  the  Mercers*  Coospany : 

by  an  inscription,  **  First  Ham.  kH  by 

his  Royal  Higfanesa  Prineo  AlbcR,  Imm- 

ary  17,  1842." 

Having  descended  aguin  to  tkt  qua- 
drangle, her  Majesty  proeeeded  to  ck» 
wbere  her  statue  ¥rill  bo 
centre,  and  then  said  in  sa 
'*  It  is  vaj  royal  will  and  pU 
this  building  be  hereafter  csiWd  Tbi 
Royal  Exchange.*'  At  whom,  hsb' 
past  two  her  Majesty  took  ber  deynaiB. 
in  one  of  her  ordinary  carriages. 

Oct  90.  An  immense  mulUtode  «ai 
assembled  on  the  Cheshire  ahore  of  tk 
Mersey,  to  witness  the  hiying  of  the 
foundation  stone  of  the  docks  for  tbe 
town  of  Birkenhead — a  place  wlri^, 
ated  by  the  necessities  arising  out  ci  tbt 
overflowing  commerce  of  tbe  port  of 
Liverpool,  and  the  exhaustion  of  tbe  ac- 
commodation on  the  opposite  sboees,  is 
springing  into  sudden  life,  with  all  the 
stately  establishmenta  and  magaificcvt 
accessories  of  a  full-grown  city.  The 
town  occupies  the  ancient  vilkge  of  tbt 
same  name,  Woodside,  Tfmoniere,Monk^ 
Ferry,  and  other  plaoea,  not  very  ombj 
years  since  picturesque  sites  on  the  aborc 
opposite  to  Liverpool.  A 
it  was  proved  in  a  court  of  law, 
Philip  Kgerton  states,  tbat  Bii 
was  not  entitled  to  the  name  of  -rilly 
town,  or  even  hamlet,  not  ^''■^Tainttf 
three  inhabited  bouaea.  In  1801,  the 
number  was  siiteen,  tbe  next  ten  ycen 
added  one  more,  and  the  ten  tbat  followed, 
three — making  the  whole  houses  in  16SI. 
twenty.  Ten  years  more,  and  tbe  twenty 
were  increased  to  400,  the  next  ten  sandie 
the  reckoning  1 ,500,  and  tbe  laat  tbsec 
ban  raised  it  to  2,300,  ooeupving  an  ex- 
tent of  street  exceeding  thirty  nulca. 
The  works  now  adding  (meat  of  wbsck 
were  enumerated  in  our  Oct.  nmntwi. 
p.  417)  are  on  a  scale  of  nearly  unri veiled 
magnitude.  From  tbe  loog  solitary  Wml^ 
lasey  Pool  will  be  formed  a  scries  of 
docks,  tidal  harbour,  harbour  of  tvfqge. 
with  beaching  ground  for  sBiU  etift,  a 


1844.] 


1.;* 


r 


vMt  floatifig  pool  of  13(^  ftsfos  opening 
out  of  the  Sdal  harbour,  preaoncing  r  line 
and  water  level  of  6.000  ^rde,  applicable 
to  tlie  purpoies  of  wharfs,  yards,  landing* 
places,  graving  docks,  warehouses,  See. 
£igbt  rulways  are  to  have  their  centre  in 
Birkenhead,  uniting  it  with  all  parts  of 
the  kingdom ;  and  the  dock  acooromoda- 
tion,  as  laid  down  in  the  plans  now  in 
progreas  of  execution,  exceeds  in  extent 
that  of  the  first  conineroial  port  in  the 
world.    There  is  no  parallel  to  this  sud- 
den  creation,  save  in  those  transatlantic 
cities  which  have  risen  up,  as  if  by  magic, 
in  the  heart  of  the  American  forest ;  and 
there  are  certain  features  in  the  structure 
of  Birkenhead  which  distinguish  it  ho- 
nourably from  them,  or  probably  from  any 
other  example.     Rapidity  of  movement 
haa  not  been  allowed  to  supersede  com- 
pleteness of  arrangement.     The  commts- 
sioaera  of  the  town  began  their  work  with 
a  complete  system  of  drainage.  '*  Enor- 
raotts  streets, '  it  is  said,  *<  have  been  pro* 
jected,  and  dulv  sewered,  prepared  for 
water,  and  all  the  luxuries  that  modem 
refinement  could  conceive,  before  a  single 
house  was  erected."     The  sewerage  so 
provided  by  anticipation,  exceeds,  it  is 
said,  in  extent,  the  entire  length  of  sewer<> 
age  contained,  up  to  this  time,  in  the 
united  towns  of  Liverpool  and  Manches- 
ter;  and  in  the  very  heart  of  their  rising 
city,  where  the  value  of  the  ground  may 
be  reckoned  by  the  inch,  with  a  noble 
contempt  of  economy,  in  providing  for 
the  well-being  of  the  humble,— the  com- 
missioners have  given  it  away  by  the  acre, 
to  lay  out  an  extensive  park  for  the  re- 
creation of  the  labouring  man.    The  ce* 
remonyat  the  Dock  was  performed  by 
Sir  Philip  Orey  Egerton,  M.P.  for  South 
Cheshire,  after    which  a  banquet    was 
given  in  the  teresinua  of  the  Chester  and 
Birkenhead   Railway.     Six  hundred  gen- 
tlemen sat  down,  of  whom  about  two  hun. 
dred  were  invited  gueata.    The  chairman 
waa  Mr.  John  Laird,  an  eminent  ship- 
builder; over  whose  bead  hung  a  portrait  of 


hia  lntW»^  latoWIUiMV  LiM,aqggeatar 
of  the  Birkenhead  works ;  the  viee-ehsir- 
man  waa  Mr.  William  Jackaon.  Among 
the  principal  gueata  wore  the  £arl  ol 
Essex,  Lord  Bateman,  Lord  Lilford,  Sir 
William  Massey  Stanley,  Mr.  Edward 
John  Stanley,  of  Alderley  \  Sir  Edward 
Cust;  several  membera  of  parliament, 
without  distinction  of  party,  and  other 
gentlemen  of  influence  in  Ckeshire,  Lan- 
caahira  and  Liverpool. 

MBCSNT  SALES. 

The  manor  and  advoweonof  Biifce»- 
bead,  Cheahire,  the  flonriahing  rival  of 
the  port  of  Liverpool,  with  other  valuable 
property  situate  there,  haa  just  paaaed  by 
purchase  into  the  handa  of  Wm.  Jack<» 
son,  esq.  of  Birkenhead.  The  proprietor 
of  it  was  F.  R.  Price,  esq.  of  Brynypyt » 
CO.  Flint,  and  the  piuehaae  nooey  ia  said 
to  be  150,000/.  The  manor  of  Birkenhead 
and  the  estates  possessed  there  by  the  Price 
family,  were  acquired  tw  the  marriage  of 
Francis  Price,  eaq.  of  Brynypys»  gseal 
grandfkther  of  the  present  representative, 
with  Alice,  only  daughter,  and  eventually 
heiress  of,  John  Cleiveland*  esq.  of  Bir^ 
kenhead,  Mayor  of  Liverpool  in  1703, 
and  M.P.  for  that  town  in  1710. 


The  manor  and  township  of  Noctorum, 
Cheshire,  has  been  recently  disposed  of 
by  the  proprietor  John  Wilson  Patten, 
es|i.  M.P.  to  Mr.  William  Vawdrey  of 
Liverpool  for  37,000/.  The  estate  was 
acquired  by  the  Patten  family  under  the 
will  of  Dr.  Thomaa  Wilson,  Prebendary 
of  Westminster,  and  Chaplain  and  Sub- 
alnoner  to  George  II.,  oiily  son  of  the 
Venerable  Bishop  Wilson. 


The  Thoniton  Hall  esUte  in  Cheshire 
has  recently  been  purehased  bv  Mr.  John 
Langan,  better  known  in  the  sporting 
world  as  «<  Jack  Langan.**  for  9,000/.  It 
adjoins  the  domain  of  Sir  Wm.  Stanley 
Massey  Stanley,  Bart,  of  Horton. 


PROMOTIONS,  PREFERMENTS,  &o. 


GaXSTTS  PaOMOTIONB. 

Apf.  ao.  Richard  Bsrkinsoa,  of  Hezgreave* 
park  sad  Tburgarton  Priory,  hoth  of  Notting- 
nam,  esq.  eldest  boo  of  John  Fsrkinson,  of 
Ley-ilelds.  in  the  said  county,  eaq.  hy  Anne 
his  late  wife,  one  of  the  sisters  of  Ricbard 
Milward,  late  of  HexsrresTe-park  aforesaid, 
esq.  deceased,  in  compliance  with  the  last  will 
of  his  maternal  ancle  the  said  Richard  Mil- 
ward,  to  take  the  name  of  Milward,  hn  lien  of 
Ikrklnsoo,  and  use  the  arms  of  Milward. 

Oct,  as.  William  Cartwriffht,  esq.  to  be 
Lieat.-Colonel  ot  tae  Northamptonshire 
militia. 


pel.  98.  The  Right  Hon.  WttUaas 
of  Postford  Uoose,  Surrey,  Lord  Mayor  of  tae 
City  of  liondon,  and  the  heirs  male  or  hb  hody, 
created  a  Baronet. 

OtU  M.  Geonre  WilHam  PeatkerBtoBhau|Eh» 
eaq.  to  be  her  M^Jea^'a  OOnsol  at  Havra-de- 
Grace. 

Od.  ao.  Rarl  of  SUenborongh  to  be  a  Knight 
Grand  Cross  of  the  Bath.  M^or-Generaia 
James  Dennis  and  Thomas  VaUaat  to  be 
Knighta  Oommanders  of  the  said  Qrder. 
Iieut.-Coi.  Edward  James  Smith,  Bengal  Bng. 
and  Liieat.-Col.  John  Gartn  Drommond,  of 
Bengal  N.  Inf.  to  be  Cqmpaoions  of  the  soM 
Order. 


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tfiitaA  *4 -^t    Vi^'^Tjk. — V.   ifta  Trr:     •!£ 
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MilfT«-  */*l-*rftr<«fcfr«rt  Iln*^*.  **-. 'f  Creft- 

■ad  i«a/t>r  *r^  wrm*  nl  in«i^. 

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#«^  t*>  V  #>«^  '.f  H*T  M«>Mty*«  H  ::i.  <  crps  c€ 
(j#w«  W-mnk- at .  A  r  ow . 

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b*'  Ma;'ff.-^Vi  foot,  t^af-t.  f#*-/nr^  G'rr«   to 
|j#  Ma/or-Hr^fM.  Ms;^   fto6.  Frrat-^,  C9d 

yiw.  31,  Wfiiur0i  H«^$rj  Moore,  r«|.  to  be 
f(lip» notary  &Jari«trat#  for  il/r  Ma^tt*s  2<44- 
||#mrf.i«  in  tb«  talkiMiUl  I«Ud4«— :lt^  Fvoc, 
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ff/»m  »5Kh  p'-<>t,  t/>  b^  Wi^or.  rtct  brr%  et  Lint.* 
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Naval  PftrreftMCXT^. 

T«  l«  V.atiaiu.  (twpft  Mtanl^. 

Ta  A#  r§(irrd  Captakm,  Joikhua  Treaf^. 

Ta  h0  CimmamtUr;  1\  VL  Kden,  J.  C.  H 

aoii,  E,  A  iltivrr, 
Ta  A#  tftUrtd  CommatuUn,  JoaejA  Masioo, 

Rolf^rtionea,  llrnry 'nrrenij,  FrAncisBcaa- 

m#>nl«  Mamurl  r  (;artcr.  Iliomaa CuJI. 

In  ron*«v|firfwv  (;f  Ibe  Viait  of  tbe  Kinf  of 
tba  f  renrb,  and  Her  Mai«atv*a  Viait  to  Ports. 
fiMHilli,  (orfitiiander  W.  11.  liall,  of  tbe  Vic- 
toria ar./1  Altiert  Yacht,  to  beCafrtain  ;  Ueat. 
Wm,  l4ififbam,  of  tbe  mm«,  to  be  r^»- 
$tMin\**r.  A\*tt  to  tbe  rank  of  Commutrndrr, 
iJoiit.  T.  hmltU,  (\n\i)  flaf-lieuteoaot  to  the 
tdinU  of  tl)^  Admiralty  oo  receivinf  the  Kini^ 
oflhmtfrfnthi  U«ut.  R.  Joora  (b.  1«3),  tbe 
offlU'er  In  rmnmand  of  t))e  Victory  oo  tbe  aospi- 
tiuun  viali  of  bar  MajeaCy  {  Ueat.  J.  C  l*reToat 
(1«»A;,  llaf 'Urutaitaiit  fo  the  OMmuuidcr-iii- 
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Eer.  J.  H.  KeadaO.  Laalircry  T.  ConnraB. 
Eer.  J.  B.  Marsdea,    Mrwradm  Ma^M  ▼. 

BbcLs. 
Eev.  W.  Matbias  Cborrb  of  Bnrtie  is 

ton  P.C.  SooMrMtsbire. 

Eer.  W.  Merkr,  Endboxtoa .    ^  _ 

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Somerwt.  ... 

Eer.  P.  Nind.  Soalbstcke  V.  QiJbad^fV. 
Eer.  A.  E.  Frnaxaglon  St.  Ji 

stow,  P.C  Esaex. 
Eer.  B.  POte.  Wdrerlom  B. 


Ber.  J.  Pratt,  SI.  9lepkni%CoieBiaB  Street,  V. 

Loodon. 
Eer.  J.  a  ProbT,  Fkr«bani  PC.  MMk. 
Ber.  B.  B-  ProAer,  Qaccaboiongh  VJ-ric^_^ 
Eer. J.  B.  EcrnanbOB,  Oueby.  mmr  atuotatf. 


Eer.  J.  BJcfaaTdaofu  the  new  District  Cbiifck 
of  Mustmrr,  Lancashire. 


1844J 


BirUur^Mamages. 


641 


K«v.  J.  Suht»s»  UndMoMd  P.C  I>ertqnli. 
Bev.  F.  Sdt,  the  N«w  Church,  SoathCown  P.  C. 

Suffolk. 
Re^.  T.  U.  Sotbeby,  Mflvtrtoo  com  Luirford 

BudrlUe  V.  Somenetahin. 
Rev.  R.  N.  SattoD,  Kelham  and  Averham  RR. 

Notta. 
Rt¥.  W.  ThompsoB,  Gatcombe  R.  Iileof  Wight 
R«T.  R.TinUne:,  Wcafc  WorUnrton  R.  Devoa. 
Rev.  T.  Trollope,  Crowmanh  Gilford,  R»  Oxon. 
RtT,  B.  Waldeg^raTe,  Barford  9t.  Ilartiu  R. 

itnr  SalishurVk 
R«T.  W.  W.  Wdah,  WithieU  Florav  P.a  Som. 
Rev.  C.  P.  Wilbraham,  Audler  V.  Steflbrdib. 
Rev.  O.  Wylie^  Newnham  R.  Hants. 


Chaplains. 

Rar.  T.  ColdwelL  to  the  Duke  of  Grafton. 
Rev.  J.  W.  Watts,  M. A.  to  the  Sari  of  Wal- 

de^prave. 
Rtv«  R»  U  Webber,  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of 

Guiana. 


Civil  Paipsemsnts. 
Hr.  Alderaan  Oibba  to  be  Lord  Mayor  of 


Alderman  Wm.  Hunter  and  Alderman  Thomas 
MdMy  to  be  OitriA  of  I«oadon  and  Mid- 
dlesei. 

ThofBaa  BIdaey,  esq.  to  be  Alderman  of  BiU 


llnnrate  Ward. 
P.O.  Ma 


iooB,  eoq.  to  be  Alderman  of  Portaoken 
Ward. 

Rrt.  J.  MoiiM,  M.  A.  to  be  Head  Master  of 
Appleby  Grammar  School*  Leicestershire. 


BIRTHS. 


OcL  LI.  At  Briffhtoa  the  ?rife  of  W.  H. 
ICyves,  esq.  of  Ryves  Castle,  co.  Limerick, 

a  son. 13.    At  Portland-pI.  the  Countess 

of  March*  a  dan. 18.  The  Countess  of  Sand- 
wich, a  son. 19.    At  Clifton,  the  wife  of 

Major-Gen.  Whish,  a  dan. 31.   At  South- 

amploo,  the  wife  of  Commander  A.  L.  Mont- 

Kimefy,  R.N.  a  dau. 22.  At  Ham  Hall,  in 
e  CO.  of  Stafford,  the  wife  of  J.  Watts  Russell, 
esq.  a  son.— —At  Whiligb,  Sussex,  the  wife  of 

Geonr*  C.  Courthope,  esq.  a  dau. 23.  The 

w\ftof  the  Rev.  Dr.  Mortimer,  Head  Master 

of  the  City  of  London  School,  a  son. At 

Prankftnt,    Lady   Downie.  a  son. 24.  At 

Caen,  the  Countess  ot  Cavan,  a  son. 20.  At 

Chawton-house,  Hants,  the  wife  of  Edward 

Knightjon.  esq-  a  son. At  Castle  Bernard, 

CO.  of  Cork,  Viscountess  Bernard,  a  dau. 

In  Upper  Harley-st.  Lady  Lee,  a  dau. At 

Hyde  Park-rate,  Kensin^on,  the  wife  of  Capt. 

Charles  Forbes,  a  son. 99.    At  the  Vine, 

Hants,  the  wife  of  W.  Wiggett  Cliute,  esq. 
M.P.  a  dau. 

IgtMf,  AtBowden-hall,  Gloucestershire,  the 

wife  ofC  B.  Hunt. esq.  a  son. At  Minterne- 

honaa,  Dorset,  Lad v  Theresa  Digbv,  a  dau. 

In  Belf^raTe-aq.  Laay  Mary  Howaro,  a  dau. 

In  South-st.  Park-lane,  Lady  Kilmaine,  a  son. 

At  Dowlaia-house.  Lady  Charlotte  Guest, 

a  dau. At  Cheltenham,  the  wife  of  Capt. 

Broogrhton.  R.N.  a  dau. At  CliflT-liaU,  War- 

wickM*  the  wife  of  Thomas  Cave  B.  Cave,  esq. 

a  son. In  Oxford-sq.  Mrs.  Jonathan  Peel,  a 

80ii.^-~At  GnntoA-park,  Norfolk,  the  Hon. 

Mrs.  Sanderson,  a  son. lu  Dublin,  the  Wife 

of  Sir  J.  Nn«nt,a  dan. 

No9, 1.  In  Salktrksh.  the  wife  of  R.  Cann 
Li|>pinoott,  esq.  of  Over  Court,  Gloucester- 
shire, a  son. At  Ford  House,  Devon,  the 

wiJMIs  of  Hfniry  Cartwright,  esq.  High  SherllT 

of  the  CO.  a  dau. 4.  At  Eaton-pl.  London, 

the  wife  of  T.  D.  AcUmd,  esq.  M.P.  a  dau. 

GsMT.  hf  AO.  Vol.  XXJI. 


At  Shaffldd*  the wifeof  the  Hon.  W.  WaUesley. 

a  aon. ^At  Wraxhall,  the  wife  of  Charles 

CoathuDt,  esq.  a  dau.^ — S.  At  Wimpole-st, 

Lady  Mary  Hood,  a  dau. ^At  Studley  Castle^ 

the  wife  of  Sir  F.  Goodricke,  Bart,  a  son. 

At  Flintham  Hall,  Nottini^bamshire,  the  wife 
of  J.  B.J.  Uildyard,esq.  ason.— 4.  In  Brook- 
st.  Gro8venor<6q.  the  wife  of  J.  A.  Hankey, 

esq.  a  dau. 5.  At  Dyrham  Park,  the  Hon. 

Mrs.  Trotter,  a  dau. ^At  Dalmahoy,  Lady 

Aberdour,  a  son.    ■  6.  In  Belgrave-sq.  lAdy 

Louisa  Cavendish,  a  son. 8.  At  Weliinffton 

Vilfak.  aiflon,  the  wife  of  Sir  Christopher  R. 

Ligliton,  Bart,  a  dau. At  Brigrhton,  Lady 

Headley,  a   dau. 9.  At  Riymaden   Psrk, 

Westmoreland,  the  wife  of  Wm.  Wilson,  esq. 

a  son. 11.  In  £aton-p).  the  wife  of  Sir  Wm. 

Heathcote,  MP.  a  son. IS.  At  Torquay,  the 

wife  of  Sir  John  B.  Homwood,  a  dan. 15. 

At   Batheaston,  Somersetshire,    the  wife  of 

Capt.  &  C.  Dacrea,  R.N.  a  aon. 16.  At  Inch* 

brakie,  Perthshire,  Hon.  Mrs.  Graeme,  a  dau. 

17.   At  Ickleford   House,  near  Hitchin. 

Herts,  the  Hon.  Mrs.  F.  Ryder,  a  son. ^At 

Ashley  Purk,  Surrey,  Lady  Fletcher,  a  daa.^-*- 
18.  At  Orosvenor-pl.  Viscountess  Forbes,  a 

dau. W.  At  Dalkeith  Palace,  the  Duchess 

ofBuccleud),  a  dau. 


MARRIAGES. 

Juljf  8.  At  Madras,  John  Gonninf  Sey- 
mer,  esq.  Actinn^  Principal,  Diocesan  Insti- 
tution.  tnird  son  of  the  late  Georg^e  Seymer, 
esq.  of  Dorsetshire,  to  Avice,  widow  of  Capt. 
H.  J.  Offilvie,  of  the  2lst  Madras  Infantry. 

15.  At  Calcutta.  Charles  Dovle  Patterson, 
esq.  lOth  Rert.  to  Amelia-Matilda,  third  dau. 
of  Thomas  urey,  esq.  Surgeon.  R.N. 

Sept.  S.  At  Bahia,  BraxU,  William  Douglas, 
esq.  third  son  of  the  late  Archibald  Douglas, 
esq.  Advocate,  Bdingburgh,  to  Mary,  second 
dau.  of  Richard  Latham,  esq.  niorchant« 
Bahia. 

5.  At  Flettoo,  the  Rev.  William  Roe  Waters, 
only  son  of  the  Rev.  W.  Waters,  Rector  of 
Rippingale,  and  Dunsby,  Lincolnshire,  to 
Jane,  second  dau.  of  the  Kev.  £.  &  Theed, 
Rector  of  Fletton,  Hunts,  and  Vicar  of  Selling, 

Kent. At  Stonehouse,  Devon,  Kenneth 

Macaulay,  esq.  of  the  Inner  Temple,  voungest 
son  of  the  Rev.  Aulay  Macaulay,  Vicar  of 
Rothlcy,  Leicestershire,  to  Harriet,  only  dau. 
of  the  late  William  Woolcombe,  esq.  M.  D.  of 
Plymouth.  ^ 

7.  At  Calcutta,  C.  Bruce  Skinner,  esq.  Bar- 
rister-at-Law,  to  Lonisa^Gertrude,  dau.  of 
Thomas  Bruce  Swinhoe,  esq.  Solicitor  to  the 
East  India  Company. 

8.  Near  Thun,  Switierland,  Robert  Gregan, 
second  son  of  the  late  Muor-Geo.  Robert 
Crauford,  to  Fanny-Louisa,  eldest  dau.  of  the 
late  Vice-Adm.  Thomas  Wooley. 

10.  At  Kettering,  the  Rer.  G.  H.  Wood- 
cock, M.  A.,  Emanuel  college.  Cambridge, 
eldest  son  of  the  late  Rev.  George  Woodcock, 
Rector  of  Caythorp,  UDColnanire,  to  Ellen- 
Annette,  sixth  dau.  of  Thomas  Marshall,  esq. 
solicitor,  Kettering.— ——At  Steeple  Aston, 
Oxfordshire,  Major  Arthur  Ogle,  son  ot  the 
Rev.  John  Sarfle  Orle,  of  KirkJey  Hall, 
Northumberland,  to  Caroline- Amelia,  dav.  or 
the  late  Vice-Admiral  Lecbmero,  oi  Steeple 
Aston. 

11.  At  Cambridge,  the  Rev.  Bdward  Thorn- 
ton Codd,  M.  A.  Rccleshall,  Slaffordsh.  to 
Sarah,  only  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  D.  Copaey, 
and  dau. -in-law  of  the  Rev.  Professor  Challis, 
M.A,  the  Observatory.  Cambridge. 

12.  At  St.  Mary-de-Lode,  Oroucester,  the! 
Rev.  Edward  Bleed,  B.  A.  Corato  of  Syresiiam, 
to  Mary.Watkins,  only  dan.  of  the  late  Thomas 
Fowler,  esq.  of  Cirencester. 

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IB.  At  Berne,  «nd  nfterwinli  aecordinr  to 
the  rites  of  tke  Bomen  Catholic  Cbojrdi,  <Sipt. 
Henry  Smith.  RN. C.B. to  Aooe, dau. of  the 

late  Sylvester  CodtigiD,  esq.  of  Dublia. At 

KenniDjitoDf  Adolpnas,  yoanzest  eoa  of  the 
late  Samuel  JUxon.  esq.  or  Clapham*  to  Louisa, 

youngeet  dau.  of  D.  O.  Pretyinan,  esq. At 

Brighton,  Duncan  Stewart  lu>bertson,esa.  of 
CarroDvale,  to  Harriette- Anne- Mary,  tnird 
dau.  of  the  Hon.  Col.  Ogilvy,  of  Clova,  Wotlier 

of  the  Earl  of  Airlie. At  Brixton.  Arthur 

Hills,  esq.  of  Woodside,  Norwood,  to  Anne- 
Jane,  eldest  das.  of  Henry  Gastinean,  esq.  of 

CoM  Harbour-iane,  Camberwell. At  Credi- 

ton«  DeTon.  the  Rev.  James  Deans,  M.A. 
Assistant  Minister  of  Crediton  Church,  to 
Eltei^Mary,  eldest  dau.  of  Geone  Tanner,  esq. 
x— At  Almondbury,  Thomas  Lancelot  Reea, 
esq.  of  Downham  Market,  Norfolk,  to  Ellen- 
Beckwith.  eldest  dau.  of  Benjamin  North 
Rockley  Batty,  esq.  of  Fenay  Hall,  near  Hud- 
dersfield. ^At  Edinburgh,  Alexander  Dun- 
lop,  esq.  Advocate,  to  Eliza-Esther,  only  dau. 
of  John  Murray,  esq. William  Charles  Lam- 
bert, esq.  of  Knowie,  Dorset,  to  Acmes-Grove, 
eldest  dan.  of  the  late  William  Helyar,  esq.  of 
Goker  Court,  Somerset. 

19.  At  Clifton,  Charles  Henry  Scott,  esq. 
11. D*  of  Southsea,  Hants,  to  Susan,  second 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  David  Stewart  Moncrieffe, 

Rector  of  Loxton,   Somerset At    Hull, 

George  Johnson,  esq.  surgeon,  to  Maria-Eliza- 
beth, eldest  dau.  of  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Bromby, 

Vicar  of  Hull At  St.  Marylebone,  Alfred 

Alexander  Julius,  of  Richmond,  Surrey,  to 
Eliza-Julius,  second  dau.  of  Major-Gen.  James 

Alexander,  of  the  East  Indi%  Co.'s  Service. 

At  St.  Marylebone  New  Church,  George  W.  F. 
Cook,  esq.  of  York.st.  Portman-sq.  son  of  C. 
J.  Cook,  esq.  of  Burntwood,  Surrey,  to  Selina- 
Emily,  only  dau.  of  W.  H.  Weaver,  esq.  late 

Royal  Art. At  Newnham,  co.  Northamp., 

Edward  James,  esq.  M.  D.,  of  Kington,  to 
Mary- Elizabeth,  only  dau.  of  Thomas  West, 

esq.  M.D.  of  Newnham. At  Shaston,  Henry 

Bennett,  esq.  St.  John's  coll.  to  Caroline- 
Emma,  dau.  of  John  Raymond,  esq.  of  Shaftes- 
bury. 

ao.  At  St.  James's,  Piccadilly.  Lieut.-Col. 
Alder,  Bengal  Army,  eldest  son  of  the  late 
Thomas  Alder,  esq.  Comptroller  of  Customs, 
to  Mary-Anne,  widow  of  James  Watts,  esq.  of 

Tichboumest. ^At  St.  George's,  Hanover- 

sq.  Bertram  Mitford,  esq.  to  Anne,  youngest 
■ister  of  the  late  Sir  Francis  Ford,  Bart. 

ai.  At  Southampton,  Wm  Wake,  esq.  son 
of  Charles  Wake,  esq.  of  Kitford,  and  grand- 
MD  of  Sir  Wm.  Wake,  Bart.,  of  fourteen 
Hall,  Northamptonshire,  to  Margaret-Ann, 
eldest  dan.  of  Mr.  H.  Fricker,  of  Southamp- 
ton.^^—At  Dartington,  the  Rev.  Wm.  Mai. 
lock,  B.D.  Rector  of  Cheritou  Bishop,  Devon, 
to  Margaret,  only  dau.  of  the  Yen.  R.  H. 

Froude,  Archdeacon  of  Totnes. At  West 

Hoatbley,  Sussex,  Tavid  Jennings,  eldest  son 
of  the  late  David  ienniiigs,  esq.  of  Fencburch- 
at.  and  of  Hawkhurnt,  Rent,  to  Maria,  third 
dau.  of  John  Turner,  esq.  of  Gravetye  Manor, 

West  lloalhlpy,  Sussex. At  St.  George's, 

Hanover-sq.  £<lward  Hoijg,  M.D.to  Klizabeth, 
relict  of  the  late  M.  M.  iJcrkheim,  esq.  of  the 
United  Mates. —  At  Tetbury.  Cha«»..Willism. 
youngest  son  of  R  )bert  Taul,  esq.  of  Tetbury, 
to  Anite,  J«ecoiiii  surviving  dau.  of  the  late 
Wm.  Mabkvlyne,  esq.  oflHk'iV)  Park,  Wilts. 
U.  At  a.el>«ea,  ifie  Rev.  Edgell  w')att  Ed- 
gell.  Ri'ctor  ui  iNorth  Cray,  Kent,  Mccond  bon 
of  E.  V\  yatt  Edgelt,  eMi.  of  Milton -pi.  Surrey. 
to  ihe  Hun.  H»  i.rietta  Otway  Cave,  youngest 
dan  of  tbf  Uaruuc»»  Bra)e^  and  the  late  Henry 
Otway  (;a>e,  e»q.  of  Hlaiurord  Hall.  Leicester- 
shire.  At  ;?t.  Marylebone,  Henr)-  TulTuell, 

esq.  M.  P.  to  the  Hon.  Frances  B)ng;,  second 


d«it«  of  Gen*  Ltrd  BtrOBwd.  acattdaKpt 
to  G.  Byng,  esq*  M.P.  for  MidmcacK.      'CnH 
W.  B.  SacUing,  R.  N.  of  Itighwood  Lod§it, 
Romsey,  Hants,  to  Elizabeth,  eldest  daiLAf 
the  late  John  Barry,  esq.  of  MJontagu^t.  Rns- 

sell.sq. At  Filton,  the  Rev.  I^rd  WUnan 

Somenet.  Canon  of  Bristol,  eldest  survivwr 
son  of  Henry  fifth  Duke  of  Beaulokrt,  um. 
uncle  of  the  present  Duke,  to  Fraaces,  widow 
of  the  late  Mr.  Cornelius  O'Calhtfhan.  of  Bal* 

lynahincb,  co.  Clare. At  Rendlam,tbe  Rev. 

Stanley  Miller,  Vicar  of  Tanniogton,  to  Aaoa- 
>Iaria,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late  James  Row* 
land  Morgan,  surgeon. 

S5.  At  Seead,  the  Rev.  Geo.  Sherard.  of 
Stackerton,  to  Mary,  second  dau.  of  the  Rev. 

G.  W.  Deubeney,  Seend,  Wilts. ^At  Bristol, 

Major  Robt.  Brereton,  late  of  the  iSd  Royal 
Highland  Regt.  to  Anne,  eldest  dao.  of  the 
late  Thos.  Maingy,  esq.  of  Havlet,  Haute  ViOo, 

in  the  island  of  Guernsey. At   Taanton, 

John  Farquhar,  esq.  of  Bridgwater,  to  Mary- 
Winifred,  eldest  dau.  o(  Henry  Upham^  esq*  tti 
Taunton. 

26.  At  Steeple  Ashton,  Byam-Edward,  aon 
of  Baldwin  Duppa  Duppa,  esq.  of  Hollii^- 
bourne  House,  Kent,  to  Mary-AnBe-Oatharwe, 
eldest  dan.  of  Walter  Long.  esq.  of  Rood  Ash- 
ton, M.P.  for  WilUhire. ^At  Peckham,  Fna- 

cis  Lucas,  Barrister,  of  the  Middle  ToH^e.  to 
Priscilla,  eldest  dau.  of  William  Tindall,  esq. 

of  East  Dulwich,  Surrey. At  St.  ftncams, 

Alfred  Ray,  esq.  of  Oxford-terr.  to  IsabeUa- 
Charlotte,  second  dau.  of  the  late  William 

Lord,  esq.  of  Calcutta. At  the  Roman  Gash- 

olic  Chapel.  St.  George*s-fielda,  and  aubse- 

2nently  at  St.  James's  Church,  St.  James's, 
reorge  Forbes,  eso.  3d  Light  Dragoons,  aoa  or 
Col.  Forbes,  to  Eliza-Joanna,  eldest  dmo.  of 
Richard  Kelly,  esq.  of  Cleveland-row,  St. 
James's,  and  of  New  Ross,  co.  Wexfonl.-— — 
At  Bishopsgate  Church,  Jean  Baptiste  Martel, 
of  Bonlogne-sur-mer,  to  Ann-GarroH,  eldevt 
dau.  of  William  Johnson,  taq.  Common  Coon- 
cil,  ward  of  Bishopq^te,  City  of  London.*—— 
At  Newark,  the  Rev.  J.  G.  Bossell  Vkar  of 
Newark-upon-Trent,  to  Julia,  eldest  4m.  of 
George  Hodgkinson,  esq.  of  the  above  place. 

At  Upton -on 'Severn,  co.  Worcester,  H^ry 

Robert  Harrington  Cary  Elwes,  esq.  late  CapC 
in  the  12th  Regt.  son  of  Robert  Cary  Etwee, 
esq.  of  Great  Billing,  Northamptoo,  aand 
nephew  of  the  Earl  <i(  xarborongb,  to  Caroline^ 
Eliza-Cecil,  dau.  of  Cbarlea  Strode,  esq.  lieat.. 
col.  of  Herts  Militia,  of  the  Heath,  West  Uptoo- 

27.  At  St.  Marylebone,  G.  A.  Macftma, 
esq.  of  Berners-st.  to  Thalia,  eldest  daa.  of 
Heinrich  Andrae,  esq.  of  the  IMh  Regt. 

28.  At  Chariton.  Joseph  Gilioli,  esq.  M.P.« 
and  LL.D.,  of  London,  to  Ellen-EUiaoethv  ae> 
cond  dau.  of  W.  T.  Hillyer,  esq.  of  Blackhealh. 

At  Scarborough,  Lieut.  Ley,  R.N.  tollai?, 

only  dau.  of  the  late  Joseph  Jackson,  esq,  of 
that  place. 

SO.  At  Crediton,  George  Hazel,  esq.  of  South- 
roolton,  to  Emily  Ardeo,  youngest  dan.  of  Woi. 
Francis,  esq.  of  Winstout  Houacu  Cn^losu 

Oct.  1.    At  St.  Alban's,  the  Rev.  WOMna 
Serocold  Wade,  only  son  of  the  Ute  Rev.  Wii. 
liam  Wade,  formerly  Kector  of  Lilley«  Hvts 
to  Elizabeth  Mary,  elder  dau.  of  John  Samd 

Story,  esq.  of  St.  Al ban's. At  St.  Georvr's, 

Hanover-sq.  Algenion  Wm.  BeHioghaaa>eJdsst 
son  of  Algernon  UreviJle.esq.  of  North  UfiaMa, 
late  Capt.  in  the  Rifle  Brigade,  to  Maiv«i«t, 

Soungcat  dau.  of  Alexander  PetU*  esq. -Al 
tepney,  Frederick,  thirti  son  of  George  Gxcca  , 
esq  of  Blackwall,  to  Elizabeth,  only  4Uv,  o/ 

the  late  Dr.  Fletcher,  of  Stepney. At  S«. 

Heller's,  Jersey,  Edward  Marshall  Whit««  ea«x. 
of  Her  Majesty's  Oflice  of  Wooda  and  Forwt^ 
to  Maria-llarriet,  youngest  dau.  of  Commts. 
aary-Geo.  Drake.^^At  Liverpool^  Um 


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Kobert  0«ne  PitteAflon.  B.C.L-,  ItoctororMel- 
merby,  Cumbertend,  to  Catherine-WlffiQ, 
ArarCh  d«ti.  of  the  Ute  James  Carrick,  esq.  of 
GImsfow. 

9.  At  Tyoemooth,  the  Her.  Ralph  Glutton, 
B.D.  Fellow  of  BfziDaanuel  Collm,  to  Isabella!, 
dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  Robert  KiHce,  M.A,of 
'Welwyn,  Herts. —  At  All  Soul's,  LAneham* 

Klace,  William,  second  son  of  Sir  B.  C.  Brodie, 
art.  to  Maria,  third  dan.  of  the  Hon.  Capt. 

Waldegrare,  R.N. William  Edward  Hum- 

ble,  esq.  M.D.,  of  Isling^ton,  eldest  son  of  Wll- 
lism  Hamble,  esq.  M.l>.,  F.OS.,  of  Monmouth, 
to  £liza-Ann.  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  J.  Neville, 

esq.  of  Hi{(hbury-pl. At  Skendleby,  John 

Hallett  Fletcher,  esq.  of  Woodthorpe,  Lincoln* 
shire,  and  Pagnam,  Snsaex,  to  Sarah-Vere, 
yimngest  dau.  of  John  Holland,  esq.  of  Sken* 

illeby  Thorpe,  Lincolnshire. At  Broadwater, 

Sussex^  Charles  Lushingtoo*  esq.  formerly 
M.P.  for  Asbburton,  to  Jaiia,  widow  of  the 
late  Thomas  Teed,  esq.  of  the  Hnrst-hoose, 
Moulsey. 

3.  At  Horton  Kirby,  Georf^e  T.  Parkinson, 
second  son  of  G.  H.  Pariiinson,  eso.  of  Raquet- 
court,  to  Elitabeth,  second  dau.  of  Mr.  James 

Riissell,  of  Horton  Kirby. At  Plymouth, 

Charles  Oahau,  esq.  R.N.  to  Eliza- .Mary, 
eldest  dau.  of  Ftederic  Bone,  esq.  of  Oxford- 

St.  Plymouth. At  Northboume,  Kent,  John. 

the  only  son  of  William  Henderson,  esq.  of 
Felderland,  Kent,  to  Laura-Catherine,  youngest 
dan.  of  the  late  H.  P.  Hannam,  eso.  of  North- 

bourne-court. At  St.  Pancras,  Alfred  George 

Field,  esq.  surgeon,  of  Reading,  to  £liu- Bar- 
row, dau.  of  tne  late  John  Lainson,  esq.  of 
Eoston-sq. At  Greenwich,  Robert  Whit- 
more,  second  son  of  the  late  Major  Clarke. 
R.M.,  to  Marxaret-Elixabeth,  eldest  dau.  of 
Lieut.  Rouse,  R.N.,  Greenwich  Hospital.-^— 
At  St.  Pancras,  John  Malcolm,  eldest  son  of 
Edgar  Corrie,  esq.  of  Purley,  to  Fanny,  only 
dan.  of  William  Wynne,  eiMj.  of  Euston-»q.— — 
At  South  Stoneham,  Hants,  the  Rev.  Thomas 
M.  Calmont,  of  Highfleld,  in  that  parish,  se- 
cond son  of  the  late  Hugh  M.  Calmont  esq.  of 
Abbey  Lands,  co.  of  Antrim,  to  Emily-Geor- 

S'na.  youngest  dau.  of  Frederick  Hill,  esq.  of 
m  Polygon.  Southampton. William  Essex, 

esq.  of  w>raon-st.  Gordon-sq.  to  Mary,  third 

dau.  of  the  late  Joseph  Thrupp,  esq. At 

Pinner,  the  Rev.  Charles  Augustus  Fowler, 
M.  A.,  son  of  Capt.  R.  Merrick  Fowler,  R.N., 
of  Walliscote,  Jterks,  to  Emily-Matilda,  eldest 
dim.  of  Sir  William  Milman.Bart.  of  Pinner 

Grove. ^The  Rev.  A.  W.  Taylor,  Rector  of 

Sloke  Newington,  to  Elizabeth,  eldest  dan.  of 
Richiird  Heathfleld.  esq.  of  the  same  place.— 
At  Vienna,  Lieut.  Percy  Isaacson,  of  his  Im- 
perial  Maiesty*s  3d  Drag,  and  Aide  de  Camp 
to  Gen.  Count  St.  Quentin,  son  of  Stuteville 
Isaacson,  esq.  R.N.  to  the  Baroness  Sophia 
FtMlststtky,  dau.  of  the  late  Baron  Francis 
Podstatzkv  Tonsein,  of  Litteutscbitz. 

4.  At  Westerham,  Albert,  fourth  son  of  Sir 
John  Henry  Pelly,  Bart,  of  Upton,  Essex,  to 
Barbara-Ellen,  eldest  surviving  dau.  of  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Streatfeild,  of  Cbartsedge,  Kent. 

5.  At  St-  Manrlebone,  Richard  Price,  esq. 
of  Highflelds  Park,  Withyam,  Sussex,  to 
Bmfly,  dan.  of  Thomas  John  Burvoyne,  esq. 

of  Stratfbrd-pl. At   Camberweil,   Robert, 

youngest  son  of  the  late  Robert  Bartram,  esq. 
of  Buckminster,  Leicestershire,  to  Clara-Mary, 
eldest  dau.  of  William  Foot,  esq.  of  the  Coborg- 
Road,  and  Her  Majesty's  Customs,  Ix)ndon. 

^At  St.  Mart in's-in  tbe-Fi elds,   Charles 

FItsroy  Miller  Mundy.  e8<i.  of  the  Hon.  East 
India  Company^s  Military  Service,  to  Louise- 
Orth,  eldest  dau.  of  J.  N.  Orth  Waldeoer,  esq. 
of  Buflblk-st.  Pall  Mall  East. 

7.  At  HolbetOD,  Devon,  the  Rev.  Wm.  Ed- 
I9ard  Vigor,  son  of  Wm.  TIgor,  esq.  late  of 
WMtehifl,  to  Louisa  Macdonald. 


•.  At  Thorpe,  neivr  Vorwich,  ths  R«v.  H. 
R.  Somen  Smith,  Rector  of  little  Bentley, 
Bssex,  to  Ohroline,  dau.  of  Robert  Gilbert,  esq. 

of  Thorpe. -At  Bermondsey,  J.  Kingsfbrd, 

esq.  of  K»sex-st.  third  son  of  K.  Kingsford, 
e.«q.  of  Hackney,  to  Emma,  only  dau.  of  H. 

Dudid,  esq.  of  Easthall,  Sydenham,  Kent. 

At  St.  James's,  Piecadtlty,  Herbert  Minton, 
esq.  of  HArtshill.Stain»rdsaire,  to  Mary,  widow 
of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Browne,  of  Christ's  Hos* 

pital. At  Clapham,  Thomas  Gabriel,  Jon. 

esq.  of  Cbipham -common,  and  Lambeth,  to 
Mary-Dntton.  only  child  of  Charles  Pearson, 
esq.  the  City  Solicitor.—— At  Amudel,  Henry 
Edmund  Marsh.of  Morden  College,  Blackheath  » 
to  Sophia-Jane,  eldest  dan.  of  George  Smith, 
esq.  of  Church  Hill,  Haslemere. 'At  Tarn- 
worth,  the  Rev.  W.  Metcalfe,  of  Redenhall- 
with-Harleston,  Norfolk,  to  Mary,  eldest  dau . 
of  Thomas  Bramhall,  esii.  of  Tamwortb,  Staf- 
fordshire.  At  Cheltenliam,  George  French, 

of  Uttcoln's-inn,  esq.  Barrister*  at-Law.  to 
Emma,  youngest  dan.  of  the  late  Robert  Law, 

esq.  of  Laoriston,  in  the  co.  of  Cork. At  St. 

George's  Hanover-sq.  Samnel  Bullock,  young- 
est son  of  S.  F.  Bullock,  esq.  of  Pickwell,  Leic. 
to  Selina-Crossley,  only  dau.  of  the  late  Wil- 
liam Irwin,  esq   of   Leicester. ^At  Litch- 

borough,  Northamptonshire,  Thomas  Hedges 
Graham,  esq.  eldest  son  of  William  Graham, 
esq.  of  Abingdon,  to  Harriet- Ella,  second  dau. 
of  the  late  Rev.  William  Church,  of  Hampton, 

Middlesex. At  Aldstone  Moor,   the   Rev. 

Octavius  James,  A.M.,  to  Jane-Katherine- 
Helen,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Capt.  Bowlby. 

R.A. At  Islington,  Charles  Claridge,  689. 

of  Her  Majesty's  Customs,  to  Julia  Sophia 
Squires,  niece  of  S.  Squires,  esq.  of  Mulbarton 

Hall,   Norfolk. At   Edinburgh.  William 

Eustace  Shearman,  of  the  91st  Argyllshire 
Regt.  to  Agnes  Crawford,  the  second  dau.  of 
the  Hon.  ^imes  Wilson,  Chief  Judge  of  Mau- 
ritius.  At  Bristol,  James  Catto,  esq.  mer- 

cliant.  Liverpool,  to  Sophia,  second  dau.  of 
Francis  Amey,  esq.  Collector  of  Excise,  Bris- 
tol, formerlv  of  Belfhst. 

9.  At  Exeter,  Edward  Dawes,  esq.  of  the 
Bure  Homage,  Hants,  to  Mrs.  Musgrave 
Harington,  aau.  of  the  late  Yen.  Archdeacon 

Thomas. ^At  St.  Goorge's,  Uanover-sq.  H. 

Ashton,  esq.  eldest  son  of  the  late  John  Ash- 
ton,  esq.  of  the  Orange,  Cheshire,  to  Made- 
moiselle Clement  de  la  Bretagne,  niece  to  the 

late   Marshal    Jonrdan. At  Brandon-hin, 

John,  son  of  Wm.  Danger,  esq.  of  Congres- 
bury,  to  Eliza,  third  dau.  of  Cbaries  VIning, 
esq.  Bristol. 

10.  AtTunbridge  Wells,  the  Rev.  Robert 
Merry,  A.M..  Fellow  and  Tutor  of  Jesus  coll. 
Camb.  and  Vicar  of  Guilden  Morden,  to  Mary- 
Anne,  youngest  dau.  of  the  late  E.  Rees,  esq. 

of  Clifton. At    Norwood,  Surrey,  George 

Hansard,  esq.  of  Lincoln's  inn,  Bairister-at- 
Law,  and  youngest  son  of  James  Hansard,  esq. 
of  Uendon,  to  Amelia,  eldest  dan.  of  Nathaniel 

Dando,    esq. At   Bath,  George-Frederick, 

youngest  son  of  J.  T.  Simes,  esq.  of  Highbury 
wk,  to  Jane,  second  surviving  dau.  of  the 
late  Rev.  T.  D-  Hardinge,  D.D.,  of  Dnndrum 

Castle,  CO.    Dublin. At  Homsey,    John, 

eldest  son  of  John  Henry  Taylor,  esq.  of 
Crouch  Hin,  and  Parliament-st.  to  James- 
Catharine,  youngest  dau.  of  James  Young,  esq. 
of  Horstmonceux.  At  Paddington.  James 
Miller,  esq.  M.D.,  to  RosetU,  only  child  of  the 
late  William  Mitchell,  esq^.  of  Oapham  Rise, 
Surrey. At  Faringdon,  Berks,  John  Robin- 
son, esq.  late  of  Gray's-inn-sq.  to  Mary,  dau. 
of  R.  W.  Crowdy,  esq.  of  the  former  place.— 
At  Tissington,  DerbVshire,  the  Rev.  Robert 
Fityrer.lncumDent  of  Emmanuel  Choreh,  Cam- 
berwell,  to  Frances,  youngest  da«.  of  the  late 

William  Fletcher,  esq.  of  Tissington. ^At 

the  Friends'  Mectiog-hoose,  DarubgtoD,  Kfh 


644 


Biarriagei. 


bert  BtrcUy  Fox,  of  F«mii,  CornwaU,  to  Jane- 
Onrney,  dan.  of  the  late  Jonathan  Backbonse, 
of  Polam  Hill,  Darlington.— At  Hendon, 
John  Rodbard  Rodbard,  esq.  eldest  ion  of  Re- 
ginald Henry  Rodbard,  esq.  of  Backwell  Hill, 
near  Bristol,  to  Sarah,  only  dau.  of  William 

Boris,  esq.  of  Brent  Lodce.  Hendon. ^At 

Shiriand.  the  Rer.  Charles  Rolf,  H.A.,  Rector 
of  SbadoKhnnt,  Kent,  to  Lydia,  yonnfest  da«. 
of  Thomas  Oldham,  esq.  late  or  Morton^ 
Derbysb. At  Hereford,  the  Rev.  "W.  Ton- 
kins, Vicar  of  Little  Hereford  and  Ashford 
Carbonell.  to  Helena,  younrest  dau.  of  the  late 
Capt.  Price,  R.N.-«^At  Wicknor  Pferk,  the 
•eat  of  John  I^vett,  esq.  Huf  h  Montgomery 
Campbell,  esq.  of  the  Royal  »cots  Greys,  son 
of  the  late  Charles  Montgomery  Campbell,  esq. 
of  Bennington  Park,  Herts,  to  Isabella-Matilda, 
youngest  dau.  of  the  late  Hon.  Robert  Ken- 
nedy, and  niece  of  the  Marquis  of  Ailsa. 

11.  At  Harrietsham,  William  Bills,  esq.  of 
Qneenboroogh,  to  Sarah-Alice,  third  dan.  of 
James  Johnson,  esq.  late  of  Down  Court,  Dod- 
dington. At  West  Farleigh,  Frederick  Wim- 
ble, esq.  of  the  Rectory,  Bast  Mailing,  to  Ann, 
dan.  or  the  late  John  Miller,  esq.  of  Yalding. 

19.  At  Kensington,  Wiltiam  Beloe  Rix,  esq. 
of  Matching.  Essex,  to  Laura-Anne,  third  dau. 
of  the  late  William  Bond,  esq.  of  Ashford, 

Kent. At  Stoke,  Lieut.  Charles  Murray,  of 

the  75th  Reg.  son  of  the  late  Major-Gen.  James 
P.  Murray,  c.B.  and  grandson  of  the  late  Gen. 
the  Hon.  James  Murray,  of  Beauport,  near 
Hastings,  to  Ann  Mitchell,  eldest  dau.  of  Ro- 
bert Scott,  esq.  of  Outland,  near  Plymouth. 

14.  At  St.  George's,  HanoTer-sq.  the  Hon. 
Frederick  Paul  Methuen,  eldest  son  of  Lord 
Methuen,  to  Anna-Horatio-OsroUne,  only  dau. 
of  the  Rev.  J.  and  Mrs.  Sandfbrd. 

13.  At  Wedmore,  Somerwt,  the  Rev.  Wm. 
Aldrit,  B.D.  late  Fellow  Commoner  of  St. 
Mary  Magdalene  college,  Cambri(lge,  and 
Head  Master  of  Wells  Cathedral  Grammar 
School,  to  Miss  Batt,  of  Theale-house,  in  the 

same  co. ^At  Bishop's  Cannings,  near  De- 

vizos,  the  Rev.  A.  Longworth  Dames,  Vicar  of 
Kenton,  Devon,  to  Susanna-Emma,  eldest  dau. 
of  Thomas  Brown,  esq.  of  Horton,  Wilts.—— 
Charles  Richard  Jones,  esq,  M.D.  of  High 
Blckinrton,  to  Chsrlotte-Caioline.  only  dau. 
of  the  Rev.  Wm.  Palmer  Stawell,  Rector  of  the 

same  place. At  Plymouth,  Capt.  CoUing- 

wood  Fenwick,  76th  Reg.  to  Bllen>8usan, 
youngest  dau.  of  Sir  Gordon  Bremer,  Bart. 

K.C.JS. At  St.  George's,  Hanover-sq.  Wil- 

liam-Kdwsrd,  fonrth  son  of  Charles  Hayman, 
esq.  of  Axminster,  to  Henrietta-Maria,  eldest 
dau.  of  John  Rodwell,  esq.  of  New  Bond-st. 
and  of  Xorwood.  Surrey .^^At  Inverness, 
Patric  Park,  esq.  sculptor,  of  Bmton-street, 
Berkeley-sq.  to  Robins,  dau.  of  Robert  Car- 
ruthers,  esq.  of  Inverness.— At  Wells,  So- 
merset, the  Rev.  Miles  Branthweyte  Beevor, 
Vicar  of  Henley,  SnfTolk,  and  only  surviving 
■on  of  the  Rev.  Geo.  Beevor.  Rector  of  Wilby 
and  Hayham,  Norfolk,  and  of  Willingfaam  and 
North  Cove,  Suflblk.  to  Margaret,  second  dau. 
of  the  late  Rev.  John  Fedttar,  Vicar  of  Gar- 

stunr  Church  Town. At  Clapham,  John 

Bradley,  esq.  of  Kirby  Lonsdale,  to  Bather- 
Matilda,  yoonrest  dau.  of  John  Holland,  esq. 

of  Clapnam  Oommon,  Surrey. ^At    Alver- 

stoke,  Hsnts,  Humphrey  Blackmore.  esq.  of 
Wilton,  Wilts,  to  Sarah,  eldest  dan.  of  thelate 
Richard  Welfbrd,  esq.  of  Marlborough,  Wilts. 

At  Camberwell,  Henry  William  Waddell, 

esq.  of  Her  Majesty's  Customs,  to  Elisabeth 
Douglas,  youngest  dan.  of  John  Holmes  Gib- 
son, esq-  of  Lombard-st.  and  of  Grove  House, 

Ramsgate. ^At  St.  Pancras,  the  Rev.  John 

May,  of  Uanwdl,  to  Elleo,  dau.  of  Isaac  Sea- 
brook,  esq.  of  Rcgent-sq. At  KiUamcy,  S. 


Hunter  Chi 
feasor  of  Ml 
Academy, 

Ellen,  dau. 

KiUamey.- 

bertJennini 

the  Middle^ 

dau.  of  John 

molton,  and 

—-At  Gulvml^ 

Batten,  M.A.  Mi 

to  Anna-Marias, 

James  Gsme. 

mouth,  and  nteoe    of  3^>9epl^ 

lance. At    IRAimbar^h,,    t. 

Strong,  second  soil  o#  tne  Re' 
Rector  of  Brsmpton  Abbo 
to  Matilda,  thirvfl  Aao.  of  rh&^ 
Dondas,  Bart.  fyT  3eecbwood. 

16.  At  Hamptcni  Btebofp,  1 
Rev.  Edward  C.  Evans,  Incoi 
under-Dinmore»  ytptu^gest  fii^ 
Evans,  esq.  of  Evton  nail,  II 
Frances-Mary>  eloest  dan.  of 
Sir  John  S.  Peyton.  R.N.  K./V 
mouth,  John  SibbaK^  «».  of 
Commander  R.N.  to  Miss  T^plci 

late  Ueut.  T^plen,  R.N. ^At  T> 

St.   Marylebone,    Pyederic*  C 
Madras  Art.  to  SUxaAeCA.  eldes 
late  WilUam  Plunkett,  esq.  Dei"^ 
of  the  Board  of  Bxclse. 

17.  At  Paignton,  Sooth  l>em,l 
esq.  4Sth  Rtft.  son  of  the  lat^L '^ 
Eyre  MassyTof  Rjrersdale,  Tin 
grsjidson  fA  the  fourth  Lord  Mspr 
etta-Jane,  dau.  of  Uent.-«V.  /.  / 

late  48th  Regt. At  Si.  Pancras, 

lock,  esq.  of  High  Bemrh,  to  Helen, 
of  P.  de  Wint.  esq.  ot  Upper  Oo^^ 
Blrt's  Morton,  R.  Broolrtf,  esq.  ^f 
House,  Broomsberrow,  to  kJoat-Um 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  J.  Tbackwell,  Rectw 

Morton. At  Islington,  John,  eidey 

John  Fune,  esq.  of   Kensington,  » 
eldest  dau.  of  Richat^  Hodgson,  esq  <\ 

bury-pl. At  Kencot,  Oxfordshire. 

Arthur  Ncate,  Rector  of  Alvwc^Aj&'f 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Richard  Borr* 
and  niece  of  Sir  W.  Bnmaby,  »f 
Belfast,  Robert  Leslie  OgiJb»  «»«•>',  J 
CO.  of    Londonderry,    to  BJ^^\i 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Major  lUitKj. ' 
Panther,  co.  Down.  .^^  ^i 

19.    At  Chelsea,  George  Bannistfr._ 
Brompton,  to  Elin-auA,  serosa/**"  * 
Fissson,  esq.  of  Chelsea  CoIkg«vrr  . 
Marylebone,   Arthnr  Kennedy  F«|J*^ 
Barrister.at-Law,  ind  eldestjoa  Jjjf^, 
Forbes,  esq.  of  Newstone,  camj^    , 
and  of  CraJg-a-Vad.  coonty  of  I>9JJ'  \ 
phemia,  eldest  daa.  of  the  1^  ^,i^ 
A^j.-Gen.  of  the  BenpJ  Any.-rTj' *i. 
Thomas  Henry  Mty. esq.  to ^n^,,, 
dau.  of  B.   Bndley,  esq.  of  JfTfi-- 
Glamorgansh. — At  Bieter,  ™3Pfi 
esq.  to  Susan-Jtne,  third  A^Ovfi, 'ij  :i 
esq.  of  Mount  Kadftrd,  t'f^''Z»ta' 
Marylebone,  Heart  Ede,  ess.  »on  «  °j.i 
Ede.  esq.  Consul  of  Wmtrk,  to  HjwJ^^ 
of  the  fate  Charles  Monn,  of  *w^ 
POrtman-square.  . .     .i^  a^. 

n.    At  MamWe,  Worceilirfhim  «« ."[i, 

Q.  H.  Kyre,  to  Cedlli,  pi"l?*TVW 
late  Rev.  H.  ^.  Hill.  Rector  of  J^JtjJjpi 

county. At  Mfcnli^Bdintfd  Whirt* 5   , 

M.D.of  BrightOD,toBiu,MOiwddiiJ^ 

tote  Charles  Nash.  Mq.o/Biffiei«)»f'/^  ' 

At  Hvthe,  Southunptoi),  *f««ja;  ; 

esq.  of  Sidmouth-Jt.  lioodos,  to  H*"^ 

eldest  dau.  of  R.  Browne^  esq.,  ti*-  \ 


645 


OBITUARY. 


LOEO  WSSTREM. 

Nov,  4,  At  bit  seat,  Felix  Hall,  near 
Kelvedon,  Essex,  aged  77,  the  Right  Hon. 
Charles  Callis  Western,  Baron  Western 
of  RivenhalJ,  in  the  same  covntj. 

His  Lordship  was  born  Aug.  9,  1767. 
He  was  descended  from  a  family  long 
settled  in  Essex,  and  was  the  only  survi< 
Ting  child  of  Charles  Western,  esq.  of 
Kivenhall,  by  Frances- Shirley,  daughter 
and  heir  of  mlliam  Bolland,  esq. 

He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Cam- 
bridge. HaWng  entered  Parliament  for 
the  borough  of  Maldon,  in  1790,  be 
attached  himself  to  the  old  Whi^  pt^rty. 
He  was  re-chosen  for  Maldon  m  J  796 
and  1802 ;  but  defeated  in  1806  by  Benja. 
min  Gaskell,  esq.  another  Whig,  who 
polled  31  Totes  to  Mr.  Western's  29.  In 
1807,  however,  Mr.  Western  had  29  YOtes 
and  Mr.  Oaskall  only  27,  and  he  con- 
tinued to  sit  for  Maldon  throughout  that 
Parliament. 

In  1812  Mr.  Western  successfully  con- 
tested the  county  of  Essex,  the  polling 
being  as  follows  :•— 

J.  A.  HonUon,  esq. .  .  1417 
C.  C.  Western,  esq.  .  .  1351 
Montague  Burgoyne,esq.      339 

After  he  had  been  re-chosen  without 
opposition  in  1818,  1820,  and  1826,  in 
1830  there  was  another  contest.  The  re- 
suit  was  as  follows :  — 

Sir  J.  T.  TyreH,  Bart.  .  2637 
C.  0.  Western,  esq. .  .  2556 
W.  L.  Wellesley,  esq.    .    2301 

Mr.  Wellesley  persevering  in  1831,  Sir 
John  Tyrell,  the  Tory,  was  thrown  out, 
and  Mr.  Western  placed  at  the  head  of 
the  poll  :^ 

C.  C.  Western,  esq.  .  .  2367 
W.  L.  Wellesley,  esq.  .  2250 
Sir  John  Tyrell,  Bart.    .     1707 

During  the  long  period  of  42  years, 
whilst  he  sat  in  the  lower  house  of  Parlia- 
ment, Mr.  Western  often  took  an  active 
part  in  its  business,  particularly  on  the 
Corn- laws  and  the  Currency  question.  If 
not  the  author,  he  was  one  of  the  leading 
promoters  of  the  Com  Bill  of  1815;  and 
he  ever  remained  a  staunch  advocate 
for  protection,  opposing  as  strenuously 
the  proposed  fixed  duty  of  the  Whigs  as 
he  did  the  doctrines  of  the  League  i  and 
only  last  year,  on  the  formation  of  tbe 
Protection  Society,  he  liberally  contri- 
buted  to  its  funds.  With  respect  to  the 
cvrreiicy,  he  was  opposed  to  the  principles 


which  have  of  late  years  been  adopted  i 
he  attributed  much  of  the  embarrassment 
and  distress  which  have  at  different 
periods  prevailed  to  this  cause;  and  he 
endeavoured  most  laboriously,  both  by 
his  speeches  and  his  pamphlets,  to  en- 
force his  own  views  on  this  subject. 

Mr.  Western  steadilv  supported  the 
J^beral  party  in  their  long  struggle  tor 
reform  of  parlisment ;  and  he  contributed 
to  the  ultimate  triumph  in  1831  ;  but  the 
passing  of  the  Reform  Bill  cost  him  his 
seat  for  Essex.  On  the  division  of  tbe 
county,  under  tbe  provisions  of  that  mea- 
sure, he  became  a  candidate  for  tbe 
northern  division,  but  was  defeated  by  Sir 
John  Tyrell  and  Mr.  Baring,  the  num- 
bers being,  for 

Sir  J.  T.  Tyrell,  Bart.  .  M48 

Alexander  Baring,  esq.  .  2280 

C.  O.  Western,  esq.  .  .  2244 

Thomas  Brand,  esq.  .  18i0 

This  drcamstBTice,  it  was  understood, 
induced  Lord  Melbourne,  as  a  reward  for 
Mr.  Western's  long  and  consistent  ser- 
vices, to  call  him  to  the  upper  house 
immediately,  by  tbe  title  of  Baron  Western 
of  RivenhsJl ;  and  his  political  friends  in 
the  county  also  testified  their  esteem  for 
him  by  presenting  him,  at  a  public  dinner 
at  the  Shire  Hall,  attended  by  400  gentle- 
men, with  a  splendid  piece  of  plate. 

On  bis  elevation  to  the  peerage,  his 
Lordship  assumed  for  tbe  supporters  to 
bis  arms,  Dexter,  a  lion  or,  gorged  with  a 
collar  azure,  therefrom  pendent  an  es- 
cutcheon charged  with  the  arms  of 
Western  ;  and  Sinister,  a  reindeer  gules, 
attired  argent,  gorged  with  a  coronet  or, 
therefrom  pendent  an  escutcheon  charged 
with  the  arms  of  Shirley.  The  last  was 
allusive  to  his  descent  from  two  sevenl 
branches  of  that  ancient  family ;  his  pa« 
temal  great-grandfather  Thomas  Western, 
esq.  having  married  Mary,  second  sister 
and  CO- heiress  of  Sir  Ricnard  Shirley  of 
Preston,  eo,  Sussex,  Bart,  and  his  ma- 
ternal grandfather  Mr.  Bollan  baving 
married  Frances,  sister  of  Sir  Thomas 
Shirley,  of  Oathall  in  Wivelsfield.  in  the 
same  county,  Bart,  which  Sir  Thomas 
also  married  Anna- Maria  Western,  aunt 
to  Lord  Western.*  Lord  Western  sold  tbe 
estate  of  Preston  (near  Brighton)  in  1793. 

Lord  Western  has  latterly  lived  in  com- 
parative retirement,  seldom  taking  part  in 

«  Sir  Thomas  Shiriey,  of  Oathall^ 
was  created  a  Baronet  in  1786,  and  that 


646    Sir  Thomas  Tancred,  BarL-^Sir  Tftomas  Martin  Lloyd,  Bari.  [Dec* 

ever,  at  the  general  election  of  1796  he 
was  again  chosen,  and  sat  fn  that  Parlia- 
ment, and  that  of  1803,  until  Feb.  1806, 
when  he  accepted  the  Chiltem  Hundreds. 
At  the  general  election  in  the  same  year 
he  was  again  returned,  and  in  1607. 

He  was  also  Lieut.. Colonel  of  the 
Sussex  militia,  until  the  disbandment  of 
the  corps.  He  was  one  of  the  oldest 
sitting  magistrates  in  the  county. 

He  was  created  a  Baronet  bjr  patent, 
dated  Sept.  30,  1831. 

Sir  James  Martin  Lloyd  was  twice 
married  ;  first,  Jan.  20,  1785,  to  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  William  Green,  of 
Eccleshall,    Norfolk;    she   died  Feb.  7. 

1811,  having  bad  issue  three  daughters, 
of  whom  one  only,  Rebecca  Martin,  sur. 
vives.    Sir  James  mairied  secondly,  ^ot. 

1812,  Elizabeth-Anne,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Colston  Carr,  and  sister  to  the  Uce 
Bishop  of  Worcester,  and  the  late  Sir 
Henry  Carr,  K.C.B. ;  by  that  lady  he 
had  no  issue. 

His  body  was  interred  at  Lancing  on 
the  Ist  Nov.  The  number  of  mouroen 
who  left  the  house  was  180.  The  work- 
people  and  all  the  old  men  wore  bUck 
round  frocks,  silk  hat-bands,  and  glo\-es. 
The  school  children  were  also  drei»cd  ia 
black  frocks,  with  white  tippets  ;  and  a 
substantial  repast  was  provided  for  all  that 
went  to  the  house.  The  aervants,  SO  in 
number,  also  followed,  and  were  supplied 
with  three  suits  of  mourning  each. 

Admiral  Sir  J.  P.  Berbsfoed^  Bart. 

Oct.  2.  At  Bedale,  Yorkshire,  altera 
long  illness,  aged  75,  Admiral  Sir  Jolia 
Poo  Beresford,Bart.  K.C.B. and  G.CH. 

He  was  born  in  1769,  and  was  the 
elder  brother  of  Field  Marshal  Lord  Vta- 
count  Bercsford,  they  both  being  illegiti- 
mate children  of  George  first  Marquees 
of  Waterford,  K.P.  They  both  received 
for  arms  those  of  the  Beresford  family* 
differenced  bv  a  bVdure  wavy  ermine,  in 
lieu  of  a  bordure  engrailed  sable. 

Sir  John  at  an  early  age  entered  tbe 
navy,  in  the  year  1782,  and  was  made 
Lieutenant  in  1790,  and  Commander  in 
1791<.  In  1795,  while  commanding  tbe 
Lynx  sloop  on  the  American  station,  he 
captured  La  Cocarde,  of  14  guns.  On 
the  25th  June  in  the  same  year,  he  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Post  Captain, 
some  time  previous  to  which  he  had  been 
appointed  to  the  Hussar  of  34  guns,  and 
assisted  at  the  capture  of  la  Prevoyaute 
a  large  frigate,  and  la  Raison  of  13  guns. 
He  was  soon  after  appointed  to  both 
those  captured  vessels,  in  succession,  re- 
moving from  the  Prevoyante  to  la  Rai&<A 
in  May  1796,  the  latter  vessel  having 
been  then  increased  to  30  gun$.     On  the 


the  debates  of  the  House  of  Lords.  A 
great  portion  of  his  time  was  sedulously 
devoted  to  practical  improvements  in  farm- 
ing, and  he  was  well  known  throughout 
the  kingdom  as  one  of  those  leading 
spirits  who,  while  he  stood  forward  to 
assert  the  claims  and  defend  the  rights  of 
agriculture,  sought,  by  judicious  improve- 
ments and  experiments,  to  set  an  example 
for  advancinc"  it  as  a  science. 

His  Lordship  was  also  the  chairman  of 
quarter  sessions  of  the  county  of  Essex. 

As  he  has  died  unmarried,  the  peerage 
18  extinct.  It  is  stated  that  the  bulk  of 
his  fortune  is  left  to  a  distant  relative, 
and  that  the  Rev.  Sir  John  Page  Wood, 
Bart,  is  his  executor.  His  rental  in 
Essex  is  estimated  at  9000/.  per  ann. 
His  body  was  interred  in  the  familjr  mau- 
soleum,  at  a  short  distance  from  his  seat. 

Sir  Thomas  Tancrrd,  Bart. 

^^vff'  29.  At  Spa,  Belgium,  aged  64», 
Sir  Thomas  Tanered,  the  sixth  Bart,  of 
Boroughbridge,  Yorkshire,  and  late  of 
Egypt  House,  Isle  of  Wight. 

He  was  the  elder  son  of  Sir  Thomas 
the  fifth  Baronet,  by  Penelope,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Ashton  Smith,  esq.  of  St. 
Marylebone ;  and  succeeded  to  the  title 
when  an  infant,  on  the  death  uf  his  father 
in  1782. 

He  married  April  25,  1805,  Henrietta, 
second  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Offiey 
Crewe,  of  Muxton,  co.  Stafford  ;  and  by 
that  lady,  who  died  in  1837,  he  had  issue 
bis  son  and  heir,  now  Sir  Thomas  Tan- 
ered, another  son,  and  a  daughter. 

The  present  Baronet  was  born  in  1608, 
and  married,  in  1839,  the  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  Prideaux  John  Selby,  esq.  of 
Twisell  House,  Northumberland. 


Sir  James  Martin  Lloyd,  Bart. 

Oct.  2i.  At  Brighton,  aged  82,  Sir 
James  Martin  Lloyd,  of  Lancing,  Sussex, 
Bart. 

He  was  born  May  21,  1762,  the  only 
son  of  James  Lloyd,  of  Lancing,  esq.  who 
died  in  1798,  by  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Edward  Martin,  and  grandson 
of  James  Lloyd,  esq.  also  of  Lancing,  by 
Mary,  daughter  of  Walter  Bartelott,  of 
Stopham,  esq. 

He  was  for  many  years  M.  P.  for  Stey- 
Ding.  He  was  first  returned  in  1790,  but 
dedared  not  duly  elected;  again  in  1791, 
Sir  John  Honywood  having  made  his 
election  lor  Canterbury,  but  was  a  second 
time  declared  not  duly  elected.  How- 
title  became  extinct  with  his  son  Sii 
William  Warden  Shirley  in  1815.  See 
Shirley's  Memoirs  of  the  Shirley  Family, 
4to.  1841,  p.  247. 


1 844. ]      OBiTaARY.r-i<iiit/ra{  Sir  J.  P.  Beresfori,  Bart* 

25th  August  following,  she  captured  la 
Vengeance,  a  large  frigate.  On  the  2d 
Feb.  1800,  wbeo  commanding  I'Unit^, 
ef  18  guns,  on  the  Leeward  Islands  sta- 
tion,  he  captured  la  Perseverance  priva- 
teer of  16  guns;  and  in  1801,   in  the 

IDiana,  he  assisted  in  the  capture  of  the 
islands  of  St.  Bartholomew,  St.  Martin, 

&c.   On  the  renewal  of  hostilities  in  1803, 

ho  obtained  the  command  of  the  Virginia, 

fi  frigate  of  the  largest  class ;   but,  that 

Bblp  being  paid  off  in  Aug.  1804,  be  was 

then  appointed  to  the  Cambrian,  of  simi- 

lar  force,  and  sent  to  the  Halifax  station, 

where,  in  the  summer  of  1605,  he  cap- 
tured the  following  privateers:  Matilda, 

of  20  guns  and  9j  men ;  Maria,  of  14 

guns  and  60  men ;  and  a  schooner,  of  6 

guns  and  70  men. 

Iq  the  spring  of  1807,  Captain  Beres- 
ford  commanded  the  Illustrious,  of  74 

guns,  o£r  Cadiz;  and  in  the  ensuing  sum- 
mer the  Theseus,  another  third-rate,  em- 
ployed in  the  blockade  of  Rochefort. 
On  the  2l6tFeb.  1809,  when  off  1  Orient, 
in  company  with  three  line-of- battle  ships, 
he  fell  in  with  a  French  squadrpn,  con- 
sisting of  8  sailof-the-line,  one  ot  them 
a  three-decker ;  and,  by  his  spirited  con- 
duct, prevented  their  forming  a  junction 
with  the  ships  in  that  port  ready  for  sea. 
The  enemy  after  wards  anchored  in  Basque 
Roads,  where  they  were  blockaded  by 
Rear- Admiral  Stopford's  squadron,  of 
which  the  Theseus  formed  a  part,  until 
the  month  of  April  following,  when  an 
attack  was  made  upon  them  in  A\x  Road, 
to  which  they  bad  retired,  by  a  division 
of  Lord  Gambier's  fleet,  preceded  by 
some  fiie-vessels,  under  the  command  of 
Lord  Cochrane,  the  result  of  which  was 
the  destruction  of  one  80  gun-ship,  two 
74*s,  and  one  of  56  guns,  and  several 
others  were  driven  on  shore,  and  dis- 
abled. 

Early  in  1810,  Capt.  Beresford  was 
appointed  to  the  Poictiers,  a  new  74,  in 
which  ship  he  served  for  some  time  on 
the  Lisbon  station,  and  was  then  ordered 
to  the  coast  of  North  America.  He 
•ailed  from  Portsmouth,  in  company  with 
Sir  John  B.  Warren  and  squadron,  Aug. 
14,  1812;  previously  to  >Ahich  he  had 
acted  as  proxy  for  his  brother  at  an  in- 
stallation of  the  Knights  of  the  Bath, 
and,  as  is  usual  on  such  occasions,  re- 
ceived the  honour  of  knighthood  prior  to 
the  ceremony. 

After  a  gallant  action  of  fifty  minutes, 
on  the  I8th  of  October  following,  Sir 
John  P.  Beresford  captured  the  Ame- 
rican ship  WuKp,  of  20  guns,  and  retook 
the  British  brig  of  war  Fiolic,  which  had 
been  taken  by  the  former  a  few  hours 
before.    The  Poictiers  subsequently  as- 


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•isted  at  the  capture  of  tbe  Herald  letter 
of  marque,  mounting  10  guns ;  tbe  High- 
flyer, American  privateer,  of  5  guns; 
and  tbe  York- town,  of  20  guns.  Towards 
the  latter  end  of  ldl3,  the  Poictiers  re- 
turned to  England,  and  was  put  out  of 
commission. 

On  his  return  to  England  he  was  se- 
lected by  the  Admiralty  for  the  honour 
of  escorting  Louis  XVIH.  to  Calais,  on 
that  monarch's  restoration  to  the  crown 
of  France.  In  the  following  months 
May  7,  1814,  he  was  created  a  Baronet 
of  the  United  Kingdom,  and  on  tbe  4th 
of  June,  he  was  advanced  to  the  rank  of 
Rear- Admiral.  He  soon  after  hoisted 
bis  flag  in  the  Bombay,  of  74  guns,  from 
which  be  subsequently  removed  into  tbe 
Duncan,  of  the  same  force.  About  the 
same  period  he  bad  the  honour  of  kissing 
hands  on  being  appointed  a  Naval  Aid* 
de-camp  to  H.  R.  H.  the  Prince  Regent, 
then  on  a  visit,  in  company  with  tbe 
allied  Sovereigns,  to  the  fleet  at  Porta- 
moutb. 

On  the  I2th  Aug.  I8i9.  Sir  John  P. 
Beresford  was  nominated  a  K.C.B. ; 
and  early  in  the  following  year  he  hoisted 
his  flag  in  the  Dover,  of  28  guns,  as  Com- 
mander-in-Chief at  Leitb.  He  attained 
the  rank  of  Vice- Admiral  in  1825,  and 
that  of  Admiral  in  183B.  He  was  nomi- 
nated by  King  William  IV.  a  Knight 
Grand  Cross  of  the  Royal  Hanoveriaa 
Guelphic  Order  in  May  1836. 

Sir  John  P.  Beresford  was  for  many 
Sessions  a  Member  of  the  House  of 
Commons,  having  sat  for  Coleraine  from 
1812  to  1823,  when  he  was  returned  for 
Berwick,  and  in  1826  was  elected  for 
Northallerton,  for  which  borough  he  sat 
in  the  Commons  till  1832,  when  be  was 
elected  for  Coleraine  by  tbe  casting  vote 
of  tbe  mayor ;  but»  on  a  petition  of  Aider- 
man  Copeland,  was  compelled  to  give  up 
his  seat. 

In  1835,  on  Sir  Robert  Peel  succeed- 
ing to  the  administration  of  the  govern- 
ment, Sir  John  was  appointed  one  of  the 
junior  loids  of  the  Admiralty,  and  con- 
tested the  borough  of  Chatham  with  the 
Hon.  Captain  Byng,  the  result  of  tbe 
election  placing  him  in  a  majority  of  25. 
Since  the  termination  of  that  Parliament, 
he  had  retired  altogether  from  public 
affairs,  residing  mostly  in  retirement  at 
bis  seat  in  Yorkshire. 

Sir  John  Poo  Beresford  was  throe 
times  married :  first  to  Mary,  daughter 
of  Anthony  James  Pye  Molloy,  Capt. 
R.N.  She  died  in  the  West  Indies,  in 
July  1813,  leaving  him  an  only  sou,  now 
Sir  George  Beresford,  Bart.  Sir  John 
married,  secondlv,  Aug.  17,  1815,  Hen- 
rietta, youngest  daughter  ol  Henry  Peirse, 


048    OsiTVAMr.'^Omitrml  Duiuie.^M^f.^Gmu  S.  R.  J.  Otttmu  [Dae. 


of  Bedale,  eo.  York,  etq.  by  Cfaariotto. 
Orace,  daughter  of  John  second  Lord 
MonsoD ;  and  by  that  lady,  who  died  in 
18S5,  he  had  issue  two  sons  and  four 
daughters,  viz.  2.  Harriett.  Charbtte;  3. 
Mananne-  Aimmints,  who  died  an  infiuit 
in  1818;  4.  Georgiana;  5.  Uenry-Wil- 
Uam;  &  John-George;  7.  Marianne- 
Catharine.  One  of  the  daughters  was 
married  in  1843  to  the  Rer.  Anthony 
HamiDond.  His  third  wife,  to  whom  he 
was  married  May  S6,  1836,  was  Amelia, 
widow  of  Samuel  Peecb,  esq.  dtoghter 
of  the  late  James  Baillie,  esq.  and  cousin 
to  Col.  Hugh  BaUlie,  M.F. 

Gemekal  Dunne. 

(ki.  •  At  his  seat,  Brittas,  Cloneslee, 
Queen's  Co.,  in  his  82nd  year,  Edward 
Donne,  esq.  almost  one  of  the  oldest 
Generals  in  the  British  Army. 

He  was  the  descendant  of  an  ancient 
fismily  who  haTe  been  seated  at  Brittas 
from  time  immemorial.  His  great-grand, 
father,  Charles  Dunne,  esq.  of  Brittas, 
married  Alice,  daughter  of  General  Nu. 

Ent,  who  fell  at  the  siege  of  Derry,  and 
I  father,  Francis  Dunne,  esq.  married 
Maigaret,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of 
Nicholas  Plunket,  esq.  of  Dunsoughly 
Castle,  CO.  Dublin,  by  whom,  besides 
the^subject  of  the  present  memoir,  he 
had  issue  two  sons,  Francis,  a  Colonel  in 
the  Army,  and  Nicholas,  killed  during  the 
FVench  revolutionary  war  at  the  storming 
of  Fort  Du  Rhio,  and  four  daughters. 

General  Dunne  was  bom  14tb  Oct. 
1763,  and  entered  as  an  Ensign  in  the 
96th  foot,  9th  Sept.  1780.  He  proceeded 
to  join  that  regiment  in  America,  but 
before  he  reached  Carolina  the  British 
Army  was  taken  at  York  town.  Oi^tbe 
34th  Dec.  1783,  he  was  reduced  on  half* 
pay,  but  early  in  the  following  year  he 
eichanged  on  full  pay  to  the  56th  regi- 
ment.  On  the  34tb  May  following,  he 
was  promoted  to  a  Lientenantcy  in  the 
74th  foot,  but  in  the  succeeding  month  of 
Jane  he  again  went  on  half-pay ;  from 
which,  however,  in  December  of  the  same 
year,  he  exchanged  to  the  full-pay  of  the 
14th  Light  Dragoons.  On  the  6th  July, 
1785,  be  obtained  a  Company  in  the  44th 
foot  t  on  the  30tb  Sept.  1791,  a  Ma- 
jority  in  the  7th  Dntgoon  Guards ;  and  on 
the  31  St  December,  1793,  a  Lieut-Colo* 
nelcy  in  tbe  latter  regiment.  On  the 
26th  Jan.  1797,  he  received  the  brevet 
imnk  of  Colonel,  and  in  March,  1798,  was 
appointed  Brindier- General  on  tbe  Staff 
in  Ireland.  The  services  rendered  by 
him  daring  the  rebellion  of  the  Utter 
Tear  were  moet  important,  and  gained  for 
him  considerable  merit  and  distinction. 

In  July,  1799|  Gen.  Doone  cmbaiked 
II 


for  HoUand,  where  he  noiBied  notfl 
nearly  the  doae  of  the  year  hXkma^, 
Aboat  that  period  he  was  sppoiotei 
Colonel  of  the  Pembroke  FeaciUe  O- 
valry,  and  soon  afterwards  his  dsbc  igun 
appears  on  the  half-pay  list 

On  the  85th  Sept.  1803  he  nmni 
the  rank  of  Major- Geneml,  with  wbek 
he  served  on  the  Irish  Stsff  sevenl  j«in; 
and  on  the  S5th  July,  1810,  he  wis  t^ 
pointed  Lieut..  General.  The  isnk  of 
General  he  attained  on  the  I9thJiilf,18il, 
and  he  was  allowed  to  retire  froai  tbe 
service  by  tbe  aale  of  an  nnattached  Con* 
mission,  Nov.  11, 1831. 

Such  is  a  brief  outline  of  the  gn^sd 
rise  and  services  of  this  dittingvii^ 
officer.  He  had  for  many  ytan  bem 
almost  altogether  resident  on  bis  eitrti 
at  Brittas,  enjoying  the  sodal  iaicr. 
course  of  his  friends  and  ndgbboan,  bf 
whom  he  was  much  and  dt^nedly  b^ 
loved. 

General  Dunne  married  38th  July,  1801, 
Frances,  youngest  daughter  of  Siaos 
White,  esq.  of  Bantiy  House,  eo.  Coi^ 
sister  of  Richard,  first  Earl  of  Bsatiy, 
and  niece  of  the  Viaeountess  Loi^gamUe» 
by  whom  he  has  left  issue  five  loai  td 
one  daughter,  namely :— I.  Ftaodi,  ht 
a  Captain  in  the  10th  rtgiment  of  fosc; 
8.  Edward,  a  Barriater-at-Uw;  S.  Ro- 
bert,  in  Holy  Orders;  4.  Rkhsrd,  u 
officer  in  the  Army ;  and,  5.  Cbariei,  n 
officer  in  tbe  Army ;  and  Frances  JtM. 


MA^oa-GfNeRAL  £.  R.  J.  Cotton. 

Oct,  3.  At  EtwaU  Hall,  Derbftbin. 
in  his  67tb  year,  Mi^r.  General  E^ei* 
Rowland  Joaeph  Cotton. 

He  entered  the  army  at  the  sge  of  19» 
in  1797,  as  Ensign  in  the  5tb  foot  b 
1799  he  served  as  Lieutenant  intbeeipe* 
tion  to  tbe  Helder,  Gamperdown,  ssd 
other  places  in  HoUand.  He  becaoe 
Captain  in  1803,  and  served  at  Gibcsbv. 
in  Minorca,  Malta,  and  at  AlenDdfiiaD^ 
Rosetta.  As  brevet  Major,  in  1809,  b< 
served  in  Spain,  and  received  tbe  rmba 
Colonel  from  the  Spanish  Commander.iB- 
Chief  for  his  bravery.  He  was  st  Cb* 
siege  of  Tarragona,  and  at  tbe  taking  a 
Bellpuig,  Medas,  &c.  When  brsvrc 
Lieut.-Colonel,  in  1813,  while  coomr- 
ously  defending  an  important  position,  be 
was  forsaken  by  tbe  Spaniards,  takca  pn* 
soner,  and  sent  to  France.  He  was  hbe* 
rated  at  tbe  peace,  but  continued  in  m- 
vice  until  1817,  in  which  year,  baring  taf- 
fered  much  from  hard  serriee,  be  rttirc4 
on  balf.pay.  He  became  brevet  CoUmI 
in  1830,  and  subsequeaay  Mmor.Gffwial 
23d  Nov.  1841. 


1844.1      Omsrat  OmAm— > 

/«jy  SI.  At  Abmednugger,  East  In- 
dies,  of  •ptsmodic  cholem,  aged  40,  Lieut. 
Colonel  Desbon,  17th  foot. 

lie  WM  the  eldeet  eon  of  Major  P. 
Desbofi,  forineriy  of  tbe  4M  end  late  of 
the  8Mli  Liffbt  Infiintiy.  He  entered  tbe 
Sernee  in  1817  aa  Ensign  in  tbe  8&tb  re* 
giment,  obtained  bis  lieutenancy  in  1885, 
and  an  unattacbed  company  In  1896,  tbeee 
several  steps  br  purchase ;  and  waa  ap- 
pointed  to  tbe  80tb  regiment,  wbicb  corps, 
then  stationed  in  India,  be  immediately 
joined,  and  continued  serving  with  it  until 
Its  return  to  England  in  1897i  at  wbicb 
period  be  was  promoted  to  a  majority  by 
purchase. 

Major  Deshon  then  exchanged  into  the 
17th  regiment,  and  joined  it  in  Bombaj, 
where,  on  arrival,  be  fbund  it  comprising 
part  of  tbe  "  Army  of  tbe  Indus,*'  as* 
serobling  for  service  in  Sdnde,  under  the 
command  of  the  late  Lord  Keane.  He 
abared  In  tbe  several  operations  during 
tbe  arduous  and  brilliant  campaign  in 
Aflgbanistan,  and  was  present  at  the 
storming  and  capture  of  the  fortress  of 
Obuanee,  for  which  be  received  the  ho« 
norary  distinction  of  tbe  Dooran^e  Order. 
After  tbe  occupation  of  Cabul,  tbe  Bom* 
bay  portion  of  tbe  force  being  ordered  to 
return  to  India  through  Beloocbistan, 
M^jor  Deshon  commanded  part  of  bis 
regiment  in  tbe  storming  and  capture  of 
Khelat.  when  bis  name  was  again  ho- 
nourably mentioned,  and  for  wbicb  he 
was  promoted  to  a  Lieut. -Colonelcy  by 
brevet.  In  1941 ,  the  head-quartere  ol  the 
17tb  regiment  being  ordered  to  Aden,  in 
Arabia,  Lieut. -Colonel  Deshon  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  command  of  tbe  wing  re- 
mdaing  in  Bombay,  which  duty  he  con- 
tinued to  perform  until  his  premature 
death. 

Lieut.  Colonel  Desbon  possessed  the 
highest  attribute*  of  a  soldier  ;  devoted  to 
tbe  service,  the  interests  of  those  under 
bis  command  were  ever  identified  with 
bis  own,  whilst  bis  calm  and  conciliating 
manner,  combined  with  bis  firm  and  im- 
partial  conduct,  secured  him  tbe  eonfi* 
denoe  and  esteem  of  all  those  who  had 
the  good  fortune  to  serve  with  him.  He 
haa  left  a  widow  and  young  family  to  de- 
plora  bis  irreparable  loss. 

CnAMnoN  Edwaid  Branfili.,  Esq. 

Oct,  7.  At  his  seat,  Upmtnster  Hall, 
Essex,  Champion  Edward  Brenfill,  esq. 
a  magistrate  and  deputy-lieutenant  for 
that  county. 

Mr.  Branfill  was  the  only  son  of  tbe 
Iste  Champion  Branfill,  of  Upmtnster 
Hsll,  formerly  of  tbe  7th  Light  Dragoons, 
by  Charlotte,  daughter  of  the  late  £d- 

GsNT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXIL 


Bdnyard  BranfiH,  Af . 


540 


ward  Brydges,  esq.  of  Wootton  Coare, 
Kent,  who  married  Jemima,  daughter  and 
co-heiress  of  W.  Egerton,  LL.D.,  grand* 
son  of  tbe  second  Eari  of  Bridgewater. 
Mr.  Branfill  was  nephew,  on  bis  mo- 
ther's side,  to  the  late  Rev.  Tymewell 
Brydges,  claimant  for  tbe  barony  of  Chan. 
dos,  to  Sir  S.  Egerton  Brydges,  well 
known  in  the  literary  world  as  a  writer  of 
considerable  genius  and  extensive  erodi* 
tion,  and  to  the  late  Sir  John  W.  Head 
Brydges,  of  Wootton  Court,  who  served 
in  Portugal  on  tbe  staff  of  Lord  Beres- 
ford,  and  who  married  the  Lady  iMbella, 
daughter  of  the  late  Marquess  of  Water- 
foro.  Though  nearly  connected  with  fami« 
lies  of  distinction.  In  Kent  as  well  as  Es- 
sex.  It  is  in  the  latter  county,  in  which  bis 
residence  and  property  were  situated,  that 
Mr.  Branflirs  merits  as  an  active,  tntelli- 

gent,  and  usefol  member  of  society,  are 
est  known,  and  it  is  there  that  his  eariy 
decease  will  be  most  severely  felt  aa  • 
public  loss. 

Mr.  Branfill  served,  during  the  war,  in 
tbe  Srd  regiment  of  dragoons,  in  which  be 
attained  tbe  rank  of  Captain.  With  that 
distinguished  corps  be  took  part  in  some 
of  tbe  Peninsula  campaigns.  On  tbe  es« 
tablisbment  of  peace  be  retired  from  tbe 
military  service,  preferring  tbe  less  aedve, 
but  not  less  useful,  duties  of  a  country 
gentleman  and  magistrate. 

On  two  occasions  Mr.  Branfill  offered 
himself  as  candidate  for  tbe  representarion 
of  Essex,  on  what  is  usually  termed  tbe 
liberal  interest.  He  was,  however,  of  too 
independent  and  disinterested  a  mind  to 
attach  himself  to  any  party.  He  advo* 
cated,  without  reference  to  rival  preten- 
sions to  power  and  patronage,  those  poli- 
tical views  which  be  believed  to  be  most 
conducive  to  the  happiness  of  bis  fellow* 
subjects  and  to  the  prosperity  of  bis 
country.  Perhaps  no  man  ever  offered 
himself  for  tbe  discharge  of  parliamentary 
duties  more  entirely  free  from  personal 
ambition,  or  tbe  vanity  of  soliciting  public 
distinction.  Those  feelings,  which  con. 
stitute  tbe  motives  of  so  many,  wera  most 
repugnant  to  bis  disposition,  and  to  the 
simple  and  retired  habits  of  bis  life. 

During  tbe  agitation  of  the  tithe  con- 
mutation  question  he  published  several 
pamphlets,  distinguished  for  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  subject,  and  for  close 
reasoning.  On  all  subjects  his  opiniooa 
were  founded  on  the  original  conceptiont 
of  bis  own  reflecting  mind. 

He  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  tbe  late 
Hev.  Anthony  Egerton  Hammond,  Rec- 
tor of  North  Leach,  Qlouceatenhiret  by 
whom  be  baa  left  issue. 

He  died  under  a  full  conviction  of 
Christian  fisith  and  hope ;  and  he  experi« 

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650      A.  Atherle^s  Esj.—F.L.  Holt,  Eiq.—E.  E.  Deacon,  Esq.  £Dcc. 


encedf  during  a  protracted  illness,  that 
ebnsolation  atid  peace  which  can  proceed 
|h>m  no  other  source. 

Aethor  Atherlky,  Esq. 

Oct,  31.  At  Tower  House,  Brighton, 
aged  74,  Arthur  Atherley,  esq.  formerly 
M.P.  for  Southampton. 

Mr.  Atberley  was  formerly  a  member 
of  Trinity  college,  Cambridge,  where  he 
took  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1705.  He  re- 
presented  Southampton  in  several  Parlia- 
ments,  and  was  first  returned  in  1806, 
but  lost  his  seat  in  the  following  year. 
He  was  again  elected  in  1812,  and  sat 
until  1818.  Being  a  zealous  promoter  of 
Reform  of  Parliament,  he  was  returned 
again  at  the  head  of  the  poll  in  the  elec- 
tions of  1831  and  1833.  In  1835  he 
retired  from  public  life,  much  against  the 
wishes  of  a  very  numerous  body  of  the 
electors  of  Southampton,  of  which  town 
be  was  a  native,  and  for  some  years  a 
Borough  Magistrate.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  also  in  the  Commission  of 
the  Peace  for  the  Counties  of  South- 
ampton and  Sussex,  was  a  member  of 
Brooks's,  and  an  original  member  of  the 
Fox  club,  whose  principles  he  followed 
throughout  his  whole  life.  As  a  Mem- 
ber of  Parliament  he  was  consistent,  in- 
corruptible, and  successful  in  securing 
the  tnorough  confidence  of  his  consti- 
tuents:  as  a  Magistrate  he  was  upright 
and  bnmane;  as  a  private  gentleman,  be 
was  beloved  by  a  large  circle  of  his  ac- 
qoaintance. 

Mr.  Atherley  married,  June  2,  1793, 
Lady  Louisa  Kerr,  fourth  daughter  of 
William-John  filth  Marquess  of  Lothian, 
K.T.  Her  Ladyship  died  June  23, 
1819,  having  had  issue  six  children. 

Miss  Sydney  Atherley,  his  second 
daughter,  is  the  second  wife  of  Col. 
Samuel  Long,  nephew  to  the  late  Lord 
Farnborough,  and  widower  of  the  Hon. 
Louina  Emily  Stanley,  a  daughter  of  the 
present  Earl  of  Derby. 

Fbancis  Ludlow  Holt,  Esq. 

Sept.  29.  At  bi8  residence,  Euri's  Ter- 
race,  KenMngton,  Francis  Ludluw  Holt, 
esq.  Queen's  Counsel,  Vice-ChHUcellor 
ol  the  county  palatine  of  Lancaster,  and  a 
bencher  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

He  USA  the  sun  of  a  clergyman,  and  was 
called  to  the  bar  by  the  bonounible  society 
ol  the  Middle  Temple  the  27tb  Jan.  1800. 
He  enjoyed  an  cxtenitive  practice  for 
ftiMuy  years,  and  in  Trinity  Vunition  1831 
rose  TO  the  raiikol  a  King's  Counsel. 

He  rec»ived  the  nppoinfmeut  of  V'ce- 
ChMitCelkirof  Lmieaf^hire  from  Lord  Bex- 
ley  on  the  rerirement  of  Sir  (jiffin  WtUon 
in  thye^ ;  at  the  period  of  bis  death,  there. 


fore,  he  had  held  the  office  nearljr  twenty 
yeara.  His  successor  in  H  i«  Horace 
Twiss,  esq.  Q.  C. 

Mr.  Holt  married  a  niece  of  Mr.  Join 
Bell,  the  well-known  publisher  uid  pro- 
prietor  of  the  Weekly  Messenger,  of 
which  paper  he  was  for  many  ^eofs  the 
principal  editor.  He  was  also  the  aotbor 
of  several  legal  works,  amongst  which  we 
may  name,  A  Treatise  on  the  Law  and 
Usage  of  Parliament  in  cases  of  PriY9ege 
and  Contempt,  published  in  1810;  The 
Law  of  Libel,  in  which  ia contained  a  ge- 
neral history  of  this  Law  in  tfae  ancient 
codea,  1812,  8vo. ;  Reports  of  Gnaesat 
Nisi  Prius,  in  the  Common  Pleas,  frooD 
1815  to  1817;  A  System  of  tbe  Shippiog 
and  Navigation  Laws  of  Great  Britain, 
1820.  2  vols.  8vo. ;  and  an  Appendix, 
182i;  The  Bankrupt  Laws,  as  established 
by  the  New  Act,  6  Geo.  IV.  ch.  16.  In 
three  Parts.  1827,  8vo.  He  wrote  also 
one  or  two  dramatic  pieces,  and  published 
**  The  Land  we  live  m,"  a  Comcsdy,  1805. 
In  the  earlier  parr  of  his  professional  career 
he  went  the  Northern  circuit,  bat  alter  a 
few  yeara  he  resigned  the  circuit  practice 
altogether.  He  held  for  some  time  the 
office  of  an  Exchequer  Bill  Loan  Com- 
missioner. 

The  character  of   this  gendeman  in 

firivate  life  has  been  thus  described  by  a 
eading  journalist : 

**  He  was  in  every  respect  one  of  the 
most  amiable  men  of  his  age.     He  lived 
by  one  rule,  that  of  the  Christian  Gospei 
He  was  warmly  and  sincerely  ploiu,  askd 
carefully  obedient  to  the  revealed  kwa  of 
God,  in  the  uniform  and  dailj  ptacrire 
of  exBct  truth,  scrupulous  justice,   and 
abounding  charity.     In  all  tbe  relations  of 
domestic  life  his  conduct  iras  governed  by 
the  same  unerring  rule,  an  affectianate 
relative,  a  steady  friend,  and  most  liberal 
contrbutor  to  all  who  were  in  need,  s«e%- 
ness,  or  any  other  adveraity.     In  socien- 
be  was  eminently  distinguished  bj    bts 
sound  judgment,  his  fini>bed  taste,  and 
his  overflowing  court eay  and  good    ho- 
roour;  abounding  himself  in  tbe  inilk  cf 
human  kindness,  and  diffusini^  bis  our. 
benevolence  and    cheerfulness    over    aB 
around  him.'* 


E.  E.  Deacon,  Esq. 

Oct.  16.     At   Harrogate,  in  tbe  6?kid 
year  of  his  age,  Edward  Brastua  _ 
esq.,  barrister-at-law,  of  the  Inner  T< 
pie,  and  of  MichaePs  Grove,  Broaapton. 

He  was  called  to  tbe  bar  by  tbe  abort 
society  23rd  June,  1814,  and  prarriaed  as 
a  special  pleader,  and  In  tbe  eomsDOQ  Uw 
eourtn.  He  went  tbe  Nortbrrn  cireuff « on 
which  and  at  the  Cheshire  aiid  LapfTfcsldn 
quarter  sessiuna  his  name  stood  in  bigb  rr> 


1844.]  Adam  Bromiiow,  Esq, — t)r.  Hodgson.-^Rev.  Henry  Card.     6.')1 


put«.  ,  He  had  ceased,  however,  for  seve- 
ral years  bark  to  go  the  circuit,  and  con- 
fined hinself  chieflv  to  chamber  practice. 
H9  WEB  an  able  and  extensive  Uw  writer. 
Amongst  his  works  may  be  mentioned 
The  Law  and  Practice  of  Bankruptcy,  as 
altered  by  the  Act  6  Geo.  IV.  c.  16.  Ib27, 
2  vols.  8vo. ;  a  welUdieested  Treatise  on 
the  Game  laws,  published  in  1831  :  A 
Digest  of  the  Criminal  Law  of  Eng. 
land,  in  two  large  octavo  volumes  in  the 
aaoie  year;  Reports  of  Cases  in  Bank- 
ruptcy, in  conjunction  with  Edward 
Cbitty,  esq.  four  vols,  1833—7;  A  Letter 
to  Sir  James  Graham  on  the  Bill  for  the 
more  effectual  JElegistration  of  Voters, 
1837,  8vo. ;  and  A  Guide  to  Magistrates 
out  of  Sessions,  including  a  Digest  of  the 
Poor  Laws,  1843,  8vo.  Mr.  Deacon  had 
just  before  his  death  concluded  his  circuit 
for  the  revision  of  the  lists  of  voters  in 
the  boroughs  of  the  west  riding  of  York- 
shiK,  to  which  he  was  appointed  by  the 
Lord  Chief  Baron  at  the  last  summer 
assises,  and  the  duties  of  which  office  he 
bad  discharged  in  several  previous  years. 

Adam  Bromilow,  Esq. 

Nov,  9.  At  his  residence,  8,  Wilton 
Place,  Knightsbridge,  in  the  41st  year 
.  of  his  age,  after  a  short  illness,  Adam 
Bromiiow,  esq.  barrister .at-law. 

He  was  son  of  William  Bromiiow,  esq.  of 
St.  Helen's,  Lancashire,  and  was  called  to 
the  bar  by  the  honourable  society  of  the 
Inner  Temple  16th  Nov.  1832. 

He  commenced  his  professional  studies 
as  a  pupil  under  Nassau  William  Senior, 
esq.  now  one  of  the  Masters  in  Chancery, 
and  was  one  of  his  most  favourite  pupils. 
iJis  practice  was  confined  entirely  to  con- 
veyancing, and  his  opinion  as  a  real -pro- 
perty lawyer  was  looked  upon  with  the 
greateat  respect. 

He  married,  Feb.  27,  1838,  Frances- 
Anne,  daughter  of  Admiral  Sir  Rosa 
Donnelly,  K.C.B.,  and  sister  of  the 
Doweger  Lady  Audley,  by  whom  he  has 
left  issue  two  children.  He  lost  two 
other  children  within  a  month  of  hia  own 
death. 


Db.  Hodgson,  Dean  op  Caruble. 

Oct,  10.  In  Lower  Grosvenor-street, 
the  Very  Rev.  Robert  Hodgson,  D.D. 
Dean  of  Carlisle,  Rector  of  St.  George's , 
Haopvcr-square,  and  F.R.S. 

Dr.  Uod^n  was  a  nephew  of  Bishop 
Forteus.  He  was  a  member  of  St.  Peter's 
college,  Cambridge,  where  he  graduated 
B.  A.  1795,  aa  fourteenth  Wrangler,  M.A. 
1798,  D.D,  1816.  He  waa  collated  by 
hia  uncle  to  the  rectory  of  St.  Geoige*s, 
Hanover-square,  (ann.  value  1550/.)  in 
1803 ;  was  appointed  one  of  the  Chaplains 


in  Ordinary  to  the  Ring ;  and  to  the  vi- 
carage of  Hillingdon  in  Middlesex  (value 
489/.)  in  1810.  The  latter  he  resigned 
in  18 . .  He  was  also  for  some  veara 
Chaplain-  General  of  the  army,  which  ap- 
pointment he  resigned  during  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  Duke  of  Wellington.  In 
18^0  be  waa  appointed  Dean  of  Cailisle, 
and  installed  on  the  22d  of  June. 

Dr.  Hodgson  vrote  the  Lite  of  Dr. 
Beilby  Porteus,  Bishop  of  London,  pub- 
lished in  1811.  8vo.,  and  also  edited  tha 
Bishop's  works,  in  6  vols.  8vo. 

He  also  published  these  sermons  s 

1.  A  Fast  Sermon.     1803. 

2.  For  the  Sons  of  the  Clergy.     1804, 

3.  In  St.  George's  church,  on  its  being 
re>opened  for  Divine  Service,  1807. 

4.  Before  the  Corporation  of  the  Tri- 
nity House,  1811. 

5.  In  the  chapel  of  St.  John,  Withyaro, 
Sussex,  on  the  third  annual  festival  of  tha 
Dedication.     1842. 


Rev.  Henry  Card,  D.D.  F.R.S. 

Aug,  4.  At  the  vicarage,  Great  Mal- 
vern, aged  65,  the  Rev.  Henry  Card, 
D.D.  F.R.S.  Vicar  of  that  parish,  and  of 
Dormington,  co.  Hereford. 

Dr.  Card  waa  a  native  of  Egbam,  in 
Surrev,  and  was  educated  at  Weatminster 
school,  whence  he  removed  in  1797  to 
Pembroke  college,  Oxford.  For  soma 
years  of  his  early  life  he  resided  at  Margate. 
He  proceeded  to  the  degree  of  M.A.  in 
1805.  He  waa  presented  to  the  vicanun 
of  Great  Malvern  in  1815,  by  £.  T. 
Foley,  esq.  and  to  that  of  Dormington,  ia 
1832,  by  the  Hon.  E.  F.  Foley. 

He  was  the  author  of  several  publics* 
tions,  via. : 

The  History  of  the  Revolutions  of 
Russia  to  the  Accession  of  Catharine  L 

1803.  8vo. 

Historical  Outlines  of  the  Rise  an4 
Establishment   of    the    Papal    Power. 

1804.  8vo. 

Thoughts  on  Domestic  or  Private  Edu- 
cation.    1807. 

The  Reign  of  Charlemagne,  considered 
chiefly  with  reference  to  Religion,  Laws, 
Literature,  and  Manners.    1807.  8vo. 

Literary  Recreations,  or  Moral,  His- 
torical, and  Religious  Essays.  1809.  8vo. 
2d  edit.  181 L 

Beauford,  or,  a  Picture  of  High  Life ; 
a  novel  in  two  volumes.    1811. 

An  Essay  on  the  Holy  Eucharist.  1814. 

A  Dissertation  on  the  Sacrament  of 
the  Lord's  Supper,  or,  the  Refutation  of 
the  Hoadly  Scheme  of  it.     1821 .    8vo. 

The  Uses  of  the  Athanesian  Creed 
explained  and  vindicated.    1825.  8vo. 

A  Letter  to  the  Duke  of  Wellington 
on  the  reasonableness  of  a  Church  Re« 


652    Ven.  Arckdeaeon  Batlmrii^G.  Ltayd,  Biq^^P,  Cotte,  Btq.    fOec. 

2  ToU.  8vo.  In  tfaii  wofk  the  aatbor 
gave  Yeot  to  all  the  cipresnoiis  of  dinp- 
pointed  ambition,  which  had  been  fo- 
mented  during  the  Whig  adminiatration, 
bj  the  noo-prefennent  of  the  aged  BUhop 
hif  fitther  to  lopie  richer  aee :  nor  wa» 
this  feeling  aati^ed  without  the  fwther 
publication  of  a  Sopplcmeot,  whiA  was 
entitled,  ^  An  Eaeter  Offera^  for  the 
Whigs,  from  Archdeacon  Bathnrsty  being 
a  Supplement  to  the  Memoira  of  the  late 
Bishop  of  Norwich  {  consisting  of  Letten. 
hitherto  suppressed,  from  and  Co  the 
leading  Members  of  the  late  Whig  Go. 
vernments,  and  other  naatters  onittcd 
before,  illustrative  of  their  petsonal  and 
public  conduct.'*  1842.  8to.  It  eon. 
tains  refusals  and  apologies  frons  Bea  in 
office,  such  as  many  have  been  condemned 
to  receive,  but  few  have  had  tbe 
to  publish. 


form,  and  its  fitness  to  the  Present  Time. 
1830.    8vo. 

A  Dissertation  on  the  Antiquities  of 
the  Priory  of  Great  Malvern ^  in  Worces- 
tershire 183^.  4to.  (Reviewed  in  our 
Vol.  III.  N.S.  p.  180.) 

Dr.  Card  had  been  tor  some  time  lin- 
gering  in  a  dangerous  state  of  health,  in 
consequence  of  an  accident  which  occurred 
to  him  in  stepping  from  one  steam -packet 
to  another,  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and 
which  rendered  the  amputation  of  his  left 
leg  necessary. 

Vbn.  Abcbdeacon  Bathurit. 

S€pt.  10.  At  Cheltenham,  tbe  Ven. 
Henry  Bathurst,  LL.D.  Archdeacon  of 
Norwich,  Rector  of  North  Creake, 
Norfolk,  and  of  HoUesley,  Suffolk. 

He  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  lUght 
Rev.  Heonr  Bathurst,  Bishop  of  Nor- 
wich, by  Miss  Coote,  daughter  of  the 
Dean  of  Kitfenora.  He  was  for  some 
time  a  Fellow  of  New  College,  Oxford. 
In  1805  his  father  became  Bishop  of  Nor- 
wich, and  the  first  preferment  he  received 
from  him  was  the  Chancellorship  of  that 
church.  In  1806  he  was  collated  to  the 
rectory  of  Oby,  in  Norfolk,  (snn.  value 
690/.}  In  1809  he  resigned  the  Chancel- 
lorship  for  the  rectory  of  North  Creake 
(ann.  value  1077M 

In  1814  the  Bishop  appointed  him 
Archdeacon  of  Norwich, 

After  tbe  death  of  his  brother  Robert, 
on  Christmas  day  1838,  Archdeacon 
Bathurst  was  presented  to  tbe  rectory  of 
Hollesley  Rvalue  830/.),  bv  Mr.  Bolton, 
on  reltnquiftbing  that  of  Oby  to  that  gen- 
tleman's  son,  who  at  the  same  time  re- 
ceived from  the  Bishop  the  rectory  of 
Docking,  which  had  been  held  by  the  Rev. 
Robert  Bathurst.  Of  this  transaction, 
which  did  not  pass  without  some  public 
animadversion,  Mr.  Batburst's  explana* 
tion  will  be  found  in  his  Life  of  his 
Father,  vol.  i.  p.  315. 

Archdeacon  Bathurst  published  as  fol- 
lows: 

A  Sketch  of  the  Ecclesiastical  EsUblish. 
ment,  in  a  Sermon  preached  at  Yarmouth, 
at  the  Archdeacon's  Visitatiou.  1809. 
4to. 

Thf  true  Spirit  of  the  Cfaurdi  of  Eng- 
land,  considered  in  a  Charge  to  the  Clem 
of  the  Arehdeaconrv  of  Norwich.  1815. 
Reprinted  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Me- 
moirs of  his  Father. 

Thoughts  arising  from  Present  Affiura  ; 
a  Sermon,  preached  on  Thanksgiving-day, 
Jan.  18,  1816,  in  Norwich  cathedral. 
(Also  republished  in  his  Life  of  Bishop 
Bathurst.) 

Memoirs  of  the  late  Dr.  Henry  Bat- 
hunt,  Lord  Bishop  of  Norwich.    1837. 


GsoRos  Lloyd,  Esq. 

Oct,  19,  1843.  At  Godraah,  Thebes, 
aged  28,  Oeorge  Lloyd,  esq.  Vice  Pre. 
sident  of  the  Literary  Society  of  Egypt, 
established  at  Cairo. 

Mr.  Lloyd  was  born  in  ladia,  and 
educated  in  Germany.  He  waa  tbe  «Dly 
son  of  Major  Sir  William  Uoyd,  of  Brva. 
estvn  near  Wrexham.  Though  he  left 
India  when  a  youth,  he  was  au^galaily 
well  acquaintea  with  the  character  of  tbe 
people  of  that  country,  and  the  OMidifiea- 
tions  it  had  undeigone  from  Enropcaa 
associations.  He  bad  devoted  Biseh  tisae 
to  the  study  of  Middle  Age  hiatoiy.  and 
particularly  to  the  influence  of  Sanurenic 
science  ou  European  dvilisatioa ;  aad 
latterly  to  Egyptian  antiquities. 

In  1840  he  edited  a  *'  Narradva  of  a 
Journey  from  Caunpoor  to  the  Booemdu 
Pass  in  the  HimaLsvan  Moontains,  Ac. 
by  Major  Sir  W.  Lloyd,  and  Capt.  A. 
Uerard's  Acooont  of  an  atfiempt  to  pe- 
netnte  to  Garoo,  &c.  with  a  Letter  Irxim 
the  late  J.  G.  Geiard,  esq.  delaUi^  s 
Visit   to   the     Sbatool   and    "^ 


Passes,"  8  vols.    (See  the  Athcneom. 
No.  6U.)    In   im  an  '«  Aocomt  at 


Koonawur,  in  the  Himalaya,  by  Ui«  hxa 
Capt.  Alex.  Gerard.*'  (See  tbe  Atbe* 
neum,  No.  733.) 

PSTBR  Coxs,  £•«. 

Jan.  22.  In  Wilmot-atrect,  Bmm- 
wick-souare,  aged  91,  Peter  Cose,  caq. 

Mr.  reter  Coxe  was  one  of  tie  soot 
of  Dr,  Coxe,  Physician  to  the  Kiiv's 
Household  in  the  reign  of  Gtorgathc 
Second.  He  was  brother  of  th«  Vca. 
William  Coxe,  Archdeacon  of  Wska,  the 
well-known  historical  author,  and  to  the 
late  Rev.  George  Coxa,  who  dM  os  thtt 
apth  of  July  laa^  and  IB  hdcfly 


1844.]  OmTVAMrj^ni  Rev*  Oeor§$  Qmi.^Mn.  Hmi^  StddoHS.  US 


oar  Sept.  Maguine,  p.  386.  Mr.  Peter 
Cose  WM  educated  at  the  Cbeiter-boDse, 
to  which  be  was  admitted  at  the  age  of 
ten,  on  a  presentation  promised  by  George 
II.  and  performed  by  Oeoiige  III.  but 
left  that  school  (at  his  own  instance) 
when  only  thirteen.  He  was  formerly  an 
•inineiiC  auctioneer  in  London,  but  bad 
for  many  years  retired  from  business. 

Mr.  Coze  published  anonymously,  in 
1807,  a  litUe  poem,  entitled,  **  Another 
Word  or  Two;  or,  Arebitectural  Hints, 
in  Lines,  to  those  Royal  Academicians 
who  are  Painters,  addressed  to  them  on 
their  Re-election  of  Benjamin  West,  esq. 
to  the  President's  Chair,  10th  Dec.  1806. 
By  Fabrida  Nunnes,  Spinster.  With 
Notes,*'  &c. 

And  in  1809,  a  political  work,  entitled, 
**  The  £ipos^;  or,  Napoleon  Buona- 
parte Unmasked,  in  a  eondensed  state- 
ment of  his  Career  and  Atrocities." 

In  1823  he  published  "  The  Social 
Day,  a  Poem,  in  four  Cantos."  It  is  a 
handsome  volume  in  royal  8ro.  illustrated 
br  thirty,  two  plates  by  the  best  artists  of 
the  day,  and  anticipating  in  beauty  andcom- 
bination  of  art  many  of  the  best  annoals 
of  late  years.  The  subject  was  siwgested 
by  a  visit  to  Higfagrove,  near  Ruislip, 
the  residenee  of  J<3in  Humphrey  BabD^ 
esq.  on  the  western  borders  of  Middle- 
sex, adjoining  Hertfordshire.  The  poem 
was  finished  in  1815,  and  delayed  until 
1823  by  waiting  for  the  works  of  the  se- 
veral engravers.  The  designs  had  been 
•pontaneottsljr  contributed  bv  many  of  the 
best  artists,  including  Wilkie  (who  gave 
<«  The  Broken  Jar"),  Smirke,  Stothard, 
Alexander,  &c.  &c.  The  author,  it  may 
be  presumed,  was  relieved  of  a  consi- 
derable propoitioo  of  the  expense,  by 
having  •  list  of  more  than  600  subscribers, 
though  many  of  them  died  during  the 
long  time  the  book  was  in  preparation. 
The  frontispiece  is  bis  portrait,  engraved 
by  £.  Scriven,  from  a  miniature  painted 
in  1807  by  Andrew  Robertson. 

Having  been  favoured  with  a  memoir 
of 

Thb  Rev.  QsoaoB  Coxe,  M.A. 
subsequently  to  the   publication  of  our 
September  number,  we  are  enabled  to 
append  the  following  particulars  : 

Deprived  of  his  fiither  at  a  very  early 
age,  he  was  educated  partly  at  Winches- 
ter and  partlv  at  Eton ;  and,  being  de- 
signed for  holy  orders,  became  a  member 
of  the  University  of  Cambridge.  Be- 
fore,  however,  he  obtained  any  prefer- 
ment, he  was  engaged  as  tutor  to  eoose 
young  men  of  lamily,  whom  he  accompa- 
nied at  differeBt  times  in  that  capacity  to 
the  principal  ooaotriee  of  Europe,  and 
whnaa  fritndiliip  andnffectioa  he  retained 


to  the  end  of  his  life.  Of  a  handsome 
person  and  pleasing  address,  he  was  in* 
variably  received  with  fsvour  at  the  courts 
which  he  visited,  and  thus  he  beeama 
acquainted  with  many  remarkable  persona 
who  were  either  eminent  for  literary  ta«« 
lent,  or  had  distinguished  tbemselvea  in 
the  public  affairs  of  that  interesting  pe* 
nod.  On  hie  final  return  to  England,  Mr. 
Coxe,  whoee  ability  and  services  in  the 
eapacity  in  which  he  bad  been  epgMed 
were  warmly  appreciated,  obtsined  a 
living  in  Ireland,  which  he  afterwards  ex* 
changed  for  one  in  England,  and  he  waa, 
eventually,  in  1810,  presented  to  the  small 
living  of  St.  Michael,  at  Winchester,  in 
the  neighbourhood  of  which  be  afterwaids 
residea. 

Although  not  possessed  of  the  enuoent 
qualities  which  distinguished  bis  brother 
the  Archdeacon,  Mr.  Coxe  evinced  that 
taste  for  literature  and  the  fine  arts  whidi 
he  continued  unostentatiously  to  cultivate 
as  long  as  his  faculties  permitted  him  tode* 
rive  enjoyment  from  any  outward  obfccts 
or  pursuits.  With  the  most  benevolent  dis- 
position, a  courteous  address,  a  mdodious 
voice,  and  a  clear  and  retentive  meiiiory 
of  the  remarkable  characters  and  inci* 
dents  which,  in  early  life,  had  eome  ua« 
der  bis  observation,  bis  oonversatioo  waa 
rendered  agreeable  and  instructive ;  and 
he  retained,  at  a  very  advanced  age,  a 
vast  fund  of  anecdote  relating  to  the 
countries  in  which  he  had  lived,  and  the 
persons  with  whom  he  bad  associated. 
But  the  great  charm  of  a  character  which 
will  long  be  remembered  and  revered  by 
many  who  enjoyed  his  friendship  and  pro^ 
fited  by  his  kiodnees,  was  its  remarkable 
simplicity  and  single-mindedness,  adds4 
to  the  most  upright  moral  conduct,  found- 
ed on  the  religion  which  he  profeased* 
He  lived  and  died  in  humble  relianee  on 
the  promises,  and  belief  in  the  tnitha,  of 
that  blessed  religion}  and  his  noemory 
will  long  be  cherished  in  the  retired 
sphere  in  which,  for  so  many  years,  hie 
benevolence  and  charity  were  exercised. 

Mr.  Coxe  married  Manr,  widow  of 
Capt.  Lyon,  who  was  killea  in  action  at 
the  battle  of  Banker's  Hill,  and  mother 
of  the  late  Lieut.- Gen.  Sir  James  Lyon, 
K.C.B.y  by  whom  he  left  no  issue. 

Mas.   HXNRT   SlDIX>N8. 

Oct  84.  in  London,  Mrs.  Henry  Sid  - 
dons,  for  masy  years  the  principal  actwai 
at  the  Tbeetre  iioyal  of  Edinburgh. 

Mrs.  H.  Siddons  was  the  daughter  of 
Mr.  Marray,  formerly  of  Covent  QordeB 
Theatre «  and  tbe  wife  of  Mr.  Henry  Sid- 
dons, son  of  the  immortal  Mrs.  Siddoiw. 
She  acted  soreral  aeaaoBs  at  CofMt  Otf - 


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About  the  year  1811  Mr.  H.  Siddons 
became  lessee  of  the  Theatre  Royal, 
Edinburgh,  which,  aided  by  the  talent  of 
himself  and  his  wife,  the  excellent  acting 
of  her  brother,  Mr.  Wm.  Henry  Murray, 
and  the  powerful  coadjutorsbip  and  pro- 
fessional services  of  all  the  Kembles,  be- 
came a  highly  profitable  speculation, 
which  it  has  continued  to  be  up  to  this 
day.  Mr.  Henry  Siddons  died  in  1814, 
leaving  his  widow  with  four  children.  On 
this  emergency,  Mr.  Murray,  Mrs.  Sid- 
doos*s  brother,  came  generously  forward, 
and,  with  the  most  disinterested  motives, 
offered  to  conduct  the  theatre  on  behalf 
of  his  sister  and  her  children.  This  gen- 
tleman performed  his  task  with  such  suc- 
cess that  in  a  very  few  years  the  Theatre 
Royal  of  Edinburgh  became  the  sole  pro- 
perty of  Mrs.  Siddons.  Fortunately  for 
Mrs.  Siddons,  or  rather  for  her  manager, 
theatricals  in  Edinburgh  at  this  time  re- 
ceived a  considerable  fillip  from  the  pro- 
duction of  the  dramas  founded  on  the  Wa- 
verley  novels,  and  the  Edinburgh  man- 
agement at  this  time  cleared  many  thou- 
sands of  pounds.  In  1890  Mrs.  Siddons 
retired  from  the  stage,  to  the  very  great 
regret  of  the  Edinburgh  public.  Her 
secession  from  the  theatrical  world  was 
the  more  regretted  because  she  was  in  the 
prime  of  life — at  least,  her  acting  and  per. 
Bonal  appearance  were  as  racy  and  fresh 
as  in  the  heyday  of  her  youth. 
-  Mrs.  Siddons  was  on  the  stage  what 
she  was  off  it,— -every  inch  the  lady. 
Her  LadyTownley  was  exceedingly  good, 
her  Laetitia  Hardy  better.  Her  Juliet 
was  pretty  in  the  extreme,  but  in  it 
there  was  nothing  to  astonish,  though 
much  to  vdmire.  She  spoke  her  say 
with  pretty,  plaintive  tenderness,  but 
seemingly  more  by  dint  of  professional 
study  than  innate  feeling.  She  also  ex- 
celled in  the  characters  of  Viola,  Ophelia, 
Perdita,  Rosalind,  and  Portia.  Mrs. 
Siddons  was  the  original  Jeanie  Deans  in 
Sir  Walter  Scott's  '*  Heart  of  Mid-Lo- 
thian,** and  so  incapable  was  she  of  ap- 


pearing on  the  stage  anything  but  (JU  ladgt 
that  the  character  was  jocularly  announced 
as  *'  The  Honourable  Miss  Deans  by  Mn. 
H.  Siddons.'* 

As  in  her  professional  character  Mn. 
Siddons  was  justly  esteemed  as  an  sctreu 
of  talent,  judgment,  and  taste,  so  in 
private  life  she  was  respected  for  her 
integrity,  and  admired  for  her  fascinstio^ 
powers  of  conversation. 

Mrs.  Cowell,  Mrs.  Siddons's  sister, 
died  on  Monday,  the  28th  October, 
in  Cork,  just  four  days  after  her  lamented 
relative. 


Ma.  Oattie. 
Nov,  1.3.  At  Reading,  aged  70,  Mr. 
Henry  Gattie,  the  actor.  He  was  bora 
about  1764,  and  was  originally  brougbt 
up  to  trade.  Being  a  good  singer,  be 
made  his  debut  on  the  stage  in  rool 
characters,  and,  after  various  perfora^ 
ances,  was  engaged  at  Bath,  where  be 
came  out  as  Paul,  in  Paul  and  Vtrainig, 
His  musical  abilities  met  with  little  en. 
couragement ;  but  in  old  men,  Fiencb- 
men,  and  footmen,  be  soon  becaoe  s 
favourite,  and,  being  engaged  at  the  Lf» 
ceum  in  1813,  played  there  the  sane 
line  of  characters  with  equal  applasse. 
From  the  Lyceum  he  removed  to  Dmrj. 
lane,  where  be  continued,  we  believe,  oil 
his  leaving  the  stage,  having  added  no- 
thing to  his  fame,  excepting  by  his  per- 
formance of  Monsieur  MorUea,  in  the 
farce  of  Momieur  Tonsofi.  Excellent, 
however,  as  was  Mr.  Gattie*s  acting  is 
this  piece,  it  is  tbe  opinion  of  many,  that 
the  late  Mr.  Mathews  pUyed  it  with  in- 
finitely  more  humour  and  pathos.  Hs 
afterwards  kept  a  tobacconist's  shop  ia 
Oxford,  where  his  dry  humour  made  bim 
a  great  favourite  among  the  coUecians. 
Various  eccentricities  have  been  attiibutsd 
to  Mr.  Gattie  by  one  of  bis  biographers; 
but  as  they  are  altogether  of  a  persons! 
and  private  nature  we  do  noc  ieel  out* 
aelves  justified  in  relating  them. 


ADDITIONS  TO  OBITUARY. 


TbL.  XV.  p.  426.  On  the  death  of  Brj- 
gadler- General  E.  ST.  Michell,  which  took 
place  at  J«iffa,  in  Jan.  I&ll,  at  the  close 
of  the  operations  that  terminated  in  the 
evacuation  of  Syria  by  tbe  Egyptians,  the 
officers  of  the  staff  and  detachments  who 
bftd  served  under  his  orders  resolved  to 
consecrate  to  his  memory,  in  the  bastion 
of  Sir  Sidney  Smith,  at  Jaffa,  where  hit 


remains  were  interred,  a  testimony  of  their 
esteem  and  of  their  deep  regret.  To  csny 
into  effect  their  intention  it  was,  however, 
necessary  to  obtain  permission  fron 
Constantinople,  tbe  tomb  beirig  iaclo»ed 
within  tbe  walls  of  a  Turkish  iortrrss. 
This  caused  some  delay,  but  bv  the  kind- 
ness  of  Sir  Stratford  Canntii^,  ber  Majes- 
ty's ambassador  at  tbe  Porte,  tbe  necesssry 


1844.] 


AddkioM  to  OUtuary, 


655 


autboritjr  was  at  length  procured.  The 
grave  is  in  tbe  left  flank  of  the  bastion, 
oversbodowed  bv  a  fig-tree,  and  opposite, 
on  tbe  interior  face  of  the  parapet  in  front 
of  it,  is  placed  a  tablet  of  white  marble  of 
lar^e  dimensions,  bearing  the  following  in- 
scription, preceded  by  two  lines  of  Arabic 
poetry.  The  object  of  the  latter  is  to 
claim  from  every  one,  whatever  be  their 
creed.  Christian,  Moslem,  or  Druse,  the 
respect  that  is  due  to  the  distinguished 
dead,  and  may  be  thus  translated  :  *'  This 
narrow  gmve  contains  the  remains  of  one 
whose  fame  during  life  was  widely  ex- 
tended. Let  all  respect  it,  for  he  was 
of  those  who  have  rendered  their  period 
illustrious.*'  The  English  inscription  is 
as  follows : 

'*  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Brigadier. 
Geneml  Edward  Tbomns  Michell,  of  the 
Roval  Artillery,  commanding  the  forces 
of  oer  Britannic  Majesty  in  Svria,  Com- 
panion  of  the  Order  of  the  Bath,  Com- 
mander of  Isabella  the  Catholic,  and 
Knight  of  St.  Ferdinand,  and  of  Charles 
III.  of  Spain,  who  died  at  Jaffa  on  the 
24th  of  January,  1841,  Mx,  54.  He  was 
distinguished  b^  high  and  noble  qualities, 
by  long  and  bnlliant  services,  and  by  the 
affectionate  regard  of  all  who  knew  him. 
Tbe  officers  of  her  Britannic  Majesty's 
forces  serving  in  Syria,  in  testimony  of 
their  esteem  and  regret,  and  to  render  sa- 
cred the  spot  where  his  remains  repose, 
have  erected  this  stone  to  his  memorv." 

Vol..  XVII.  p.  677.  A  very  handsome 
monument  has  been  erected  at  Dum- 
Dam,  near  Calcutta,  by  the  corps  of 
Bengal  Artillery,  to  the  memories  of 
those  officers  and  men  of  that  regiment 
who  felt  at  Cabul  during  the  insurrection 
there  in  1841,  and  the  subse<|uent  retreat 
in  January,  1842.  The  inscription  which 
it  is  to  bear  is  as  follows :  '*  Sucred  to  the 
memory  of  Captain  ThowoMNichoU,  Lieut. 
CAarlet  Stewart,  Serjeant  MulAall,  and 
tbe  non-commissioned  officers  and  men  of 
the  1st  troop  1st  brigade  Bengal  Horse 
Artillery,  who  fell  in  the  performance  of 
tbeir  duty  during  the  insurrection  at,  and 
retreat  fiom.  CuduI,  in  the  months  of  No- 
vember and  December,  1841,  and  Jnnuitry, 
1842,  on  which  occasions  of  unprecedented 
trial  22  officers  and  men  upheld  in  tbe 
most  noble  manner  the  character  of  the 
regiment  to  which  they  belonged.  This 
gallant  b>tnd  formed  tbe  oldest  troop  in  the 
Bengal  Artillery.  It  had  previously  been 
distinguished  on  numerous  occasions,  have 
ing  served  in  Egvpt,  in  the  Mahratta  and 
Nepaul  wars,  and  in  Ava.  Sacred  also  to 
the  memory  of  J^ieut.  CharUt  Alexander 
Oreem,  B.A.,  who  perishrd  in  command 
of  a  detail  of  Shah  Shoojah*s  mountain 
train,  and  whose  gallant  conduct  emu- 


lated that  of  bii  comrades.    Also  to  the 
memory  of  Lieut.  Richard  Maule,  Artil- 
lery, who  was  killed  at  tbe  outbreak  of 
the    Affghan     insurrection,    November, 
1841 :  and  likewise  of  Lieut,  jt.  CkritHe^ 
of  tbe  same  regiment,  killed  in  the  Kyber 
Pass  on  the  return  of  tbe  victorious  army 
under  the  command  of  Major- General  Sir 
George   Pollock,   G.C.B.,    &c.    of  the 
Bengal  Artillery.    As  a  tribute  of  admi« 
ration,  regard,  and  respect,  this  monument 
is  erected  by  the  Artillery  regiment. 
**  Forris  cadere,  cedere  non  potest.'* 
Vol.  XVIII.  p.  423.     The  will,  with 
six  codicils,  of  Lard  Roeemore,  was  proved 
in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury, 
by  the  Hon.  J.  C.  Westenra,  son  of  the 
deceased,  one  of  the  executors  named  ia 
the  will,  power  being  reserved  for  the 
Hon.  Henry  Robert  Westenra  (another 
of  the  deceased),  and   Arthur  Gamble 
Lewis,  esq.  Tbe  deceased  give  his  estates 
in  King's  county  to  his  sons.  To  bis  wife 
be  gives  all  diamonds,  trinkets,  jewels,&c. 
His  furniture,  glass,  chins,  cabinets,  pUte 
(and    also    the   plate  purchased    of  the 
*<  Caimes  family'*),    are   to  descend  as 
*'  heirlooms.**  In  a  codicil  he  enomeratea, 
tbe  whole  of  tbe  plate,  which  takes  up 
seven  closely-written  pages.     His  horses 
and  dogs  are  directed  to  be  sold  by  public 
auction ;  but  bis  paintings  of  favourite 
dogs,  horses,  &c.  and  hunting  pictures, 
he  gives  to  his  son  John,  desiring  that 
they  may   be   carefully   preserved.     To 
three  of  his  servants  he  gives  legacies  oC 
10/.  each,  to  several  others  51.,  and  to 
'*  an  old  and  faithful  '*  servant  30/.  a  year 
for  life.     In  tbe  last  codicil  he  directs 
that  his  estate  called  *'  The  Bog  of  Mo- 
nieva"  be  sold  by  auction.    The  will  was 
proved  here  under  8U0/.  to  include  pro- 
perty in  England  of  that  value  only.  , 
P.  537.     Tbe  will  and  codicil  of  the 
Marqueu  Welleeley  viere  proved  by  John 
Thornton  Down,  esq.  tbe  sole  executor, 
who  has  a  legacy  of  1,000/.  He  bequeaths 
to  Alfred  Montgomery,  esq.   his  private 
secreUry,  1,000/.  "  in  regard  of  his  affec* 
tionate,   dutiful,  and  zealous  services;" 
and    the  residue  of  bis  property  to  his 
wife,  Mary.  Ann  Marchioness  Wellesley. 
By  the  codicil  he  gives  to  bis  secretary 
(Mr.  Montgomery)  ell  his  manuscripts ; 
**  And  I  desire  him  to  publish  such  of  my 
papers  as  shall  tend  to  illustrate  my  two 
administrations  in  Ireland,  andUk  prohct 
my  honour  against  the  elander  of  Mel- 
bourne  and  hit  pillar  of  elate  ^  0*  Connell/^ 
To  Lord  Brougham  he  leaves  **  Homer,'* 
in  four  vols.,  and  earnestly  desires  him  to 
assist  in  publishing  hisMSS.,  saying,  "  I 
leave  my  memory  in  bis  charge,  confiding 
in  bis  justice  and  honour.'*      To  £arl 
Grey  "  my  George,  carved  on  an  ame- 


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CDm. 


tliTStj  and  worn  by  Oeoige  the  Second/* 
To  his  tmlet  he  leaves  his  wearing  appstel, 
robes,  stars,  &c.  '*  for  his  kindness  during 
my  illness."  The  property  wae  sworn 
nnder  6.00(V. 

P.  543.  The  will  and  three  codicils 
at  the  Right  Hon.  Wa%hingtim  Marl  Fer- 
rtn  have  been  proved.  In  bis  will  he  ap- 
points W.  Matthews,  esq.  sole  executor ; 
but,  in  a  codicil,  revokes  that  appointment, 
and  names  his  Royal  Highness  the  Duke 
of  Sussex  (since  dead)  and  £.  J.  Shirley, 
esq.  executors,  to  whom  he  bequeaths 
1001.  each  to  purchase  a  ring;  to  his 
grandson  be  gives  500/. :  to  another  a  full- 
length  portrait  of  himself;  and  directs 
his  executors  to  offer  his  libraiy  to  his 
grandsons,  at  a  fair  valuation,  and,  in  case 
they  should  not  become  purchasers,  to 
sell  the  same  by  auction.  His  conserva- 
tory is  to  be  pulled  down  and  disposed  of 
in  the  same  manner.  To  bis  late  wife's 
sister  100/. ;  to  bis  adopted  child,  Eliza 
Davey,  1,000/.;  to  two  of  his  servants 
legaoiea  of  200/.,  free  of  legacy  duty. 
The  property  is  sworn  under  90,000/. 
From  the  effects  of  a  paralytic  stroke,  the 
deceased  was  unable  to  sign  his  will,  and 
made  bis  mark  instead ;  but  he  appears  to 
have  recovered  from  its  effects,  for  the 
codicils  are  signed  **  Feners,**  in  a  firm 
bold  hand. 

Vol.  XX.  p.  89.  Probate  of  the  ^vill 
and  codicil  of  the  Duke  of  Manehtster 
was  granted  by  the  Prerogative  Court  of 
Canterbury  to  the  present  Duke,  the 
sole  executor  of  the  deceased.  By  the 
win  he  bequeaths  to  his  daughter.  Lady 
Elizabeth  Steele,  5,000/. ;  to  bis  daugh- 
ter, Caroline  Calcraft,  3,000/.;  and  bis 
library,  paintings,  plate,  furniture,  and  re- 
ddne  of  his  property,  ot  whatever  descrip- 
tion, he  gives  to  his  son.  He  also  gives 
to  his  doctor  500/.,  and  to  bis  valet  50L 
a  year  for  life,  free  of  legacy  duty.  By 
the  codicil  he  bequeaths  to  his  daugh- 
ter, Caroline  Calcraft,  2,000/.,  in  addition 
to  the  legacy  in  his  will,  making  5,000/. 
The  property  is  sworn  under  60,000/., 
and  the  probate  bears  a  stamp  of  750/. 

P.  201.  The  will  of  the  late  JUghi 
JUt,  Chrittcpher  XAp9eombe,  Bithop  of 
Jemaic^i  has  been  proved  in  Doctors* 
Commons,  by  Mary  Harriette  Lipscombe, 
the  widow  of  the  deceased,  and  sole  ex- 
ecutrix named  in  the  will.  The  will 
(which  is  extremely  short)  bequeaths  the 
whole  of  his  prooerty  (including  valuable 
library,  jewels,  plate,  and  paintings  by  the 
old  masters)  to  John  Edwards,  esq.,  Re- 
ceiver General  of  Jamaica,  Henry  Lips- 
combe,  esq.  London,  and  F.  Mayow,  esq. 
Jamaica,  in  trust  for  bis  "  dearly  beloved 
wife."  The  property  within  the  povinoe 
of  Canterbury  was  sworn  under  &000/. 
12 


P.  540.  The  lafee  ftr  MMAem  ITaadr, 
Bart.,  bequeathed  to  Lady  Wood  as  •■- 
nuity  of  1,500/.,  with  his  carriages,  horaea, 
plate,  furniture,  wiaes,  aod  pietnres; 
20,000/.  he  directs  to  be  wreated,  and 
the  yearly  revenoc  to  be  attacbed  to  the 
Baronetcy ;  and,  after  a  few  li^gaoea  on 

erovided  for,  he  directs  (he  fenauidcr  of 
ia  property,  real  and  penonal*  to  be 
equally  divided  amongst  bis  fiwo  diiidreo. 
P.  GIO.  Dr.  Bowoitod^  Bvhopof  iMh. 
field,  having  died  intestate*  letters  of 
administration  of  his  estate  were  granted 
by  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbary 
to  Joseph  Bowstead,  esq.  brother  sad 
next  of  kin,  by  whom  the  persoaal  estate 
was  sworn  to  be  nnder  10,000/. 

P.  654.  The  wUl  of  Sir  Jomeo  SUm, 
late  Chamberlain  of  the  dty  of  f^^y^A^^ 
was  proved  by  bis  nephew,  John  Shaw, 
A.  W.  Roberts,  esq.  (the  banker^,  Ben- 
jamin  Scott  (chief  clerk),  and  A.  Qofdon, 
esq.,  who  all  have  a  legacy  of  lOOL  each. 
He  directs  that  he  may  be  buried  ia  the 
vault  of  Sir  John  Cass,  in  Aldgate 
church ;  or,  if  that  should  be  incoavooicatv 
in  St.  Lawrence,  Old  Jewry,  and  a 
tablet  placed  above  his  grave.  He  git 
to  his  nephew  2,0001.,  and  to  two  _ 
nephews  500/.  each  ;  to  Portaokea  school 
100/. ;  to  St.  Botolph*s  school  lOOCi  to  Aid. 
gate  school  100/. :  to  the  academy  in  SSU 
marnock  (Scotland)  the  interest  of  200/. 
for  prizes,  and  to  the  poor  of  the  same 
place  the  interest  of  500/. ;  to  the  acadeay 
of  Riccarton  (Scotland)  the  interest  of 
100/.  for  prizes,  and  the  interest  of  SSOL 
for  the  poor  of  that  place.  He  hnqiwrlu 
to  the  corporation  of  the  city  of  London 
his  paintinrs,  among  which  he  enumerates 
portraits  of  himself,  tbe  Queen,  Prince  of 
Wales,  Princess  Royal,  and  Duke  of 
Wellington.  The  property  ia  sworm 
under  60,000/.,  and  the  residue  is  be- 
queathed  to  his  nephew,  John  Shavr. 

P.  663.  Probate  of  the  wilt  of  Mr.  A. 
G.  HodgUj  the  eminent  distiller,  of 
Church-street,  Lambeth,  vfo»  grantod  to 
his  widow  and  executrix.  The  property 
was  sworn  under  160,000/. 

Vol.  XXI.  p.  90.  Tbe  will  of  WiUiaa 
the  Second,  King  qf  ike  KHkeriamde, 
Prince  of  Orange  r^assau,  and  Grand 
Duke  of  Luxemburg,  has  been  proved 
in  Doctors*  Commons  by  bis  present 
Majesty,  William  King  of  the  Nether. 
lands  (son  of  the  deceased),  under  the  no- 
minal sum  of  100/.,  to  enable  the  effecta 
(lying  in  England)  of  his  late  Majesty  to 
be  collected.  It  dirides  the  sun  of 
101, Sid/,  and  all  other  propeny,  between 
his  royal  consort,  Anne  the  Qiand 
Duchess  of  Luxemburg  (sister  of  the 
Emperor  of  Russia),  and  his  childnn, 
William  (the  present  King),  *' 


18M0 


AidiHoM  to  OMfMty. 


«57 


Fraderick,  Mid  Sophia.  The  will  is 
dated  ia  1897,  and  it  signed  in  a  bold  firm 
band. 

P.  910.— At  a  first  ssisioaal  meet. 
mg  of  the  Pharmaoentical  SocietT,  held 
Jan.  10,  1844,  Mr.  Payne,  V.P.  de- 
livered  an  address,  contsining  the  foU 
lowing  partienlars  respecting  the  late 
President,  WUUmm  AiUn,  esq.  F.R.S. 
*'  He  was  born  on  the  I9th  Aug.  1770, 
his  father,  Job  Allen,  being  a  silk-weaver 
of  eminenee  in  Spitalfields.  The  son, 
showing  a  taste  for  ehemieal  studies,  was 
placed  in  the  establishment  of  Joseph 
Gnrney  Beran,  inPloagh*conrt,  Lombard- 
street.  He  manifmted  great  industry, 
and,  his  prenoas  edncation  having  been 
somewhat  neglected,  he  obtained  a  know- 
ledge of  the  Latin  language  by  rising  at 
four  o'doek  every  morning,  a  praotioe  of 
industry  which  he  pursued  even  until 
within  the  last  few  years.  He  ultimately 
beoame  the  leading  partner  of  this  firm, 
and,  entering  into  partnership  with  Luke 
Howard,  a  name  distinguished  in  science, 
ha  established  the  celebrated  laboratory  at 
Plaistuw.  He  was  professor  of  ezperi- 
Boeatal  philosophy  at  Guy's  Hospital  and 
the  Ro^  Institution,  his  coadjutors  being 
the  late  Dr.  Babington  and  Dr.  Maroct. 
Hia  sdeatifio  eflbrts  and  productions 
always  showed  the  interest  which  he  took 
in  the  claims  of  natural  and  revealed  re- 
ligion, in  conneotion  with  all  human  pur- 
suits. His  talents,  as  a  philosopher, 
brought  him  in  connection  with  the  most 
eminent  men  of  the  day,  amongst  whom 
were  Sir  Humphrey  Davy  and  Dr.  Daltoo, 
aa  well  as  Mr.  W.  H.  Pepys,  with  whom 
he  made  an  interesting  series  of  ezperi- 
ments  on  atmospheric  air  and  other  gases, 
in  which  be  proved  the  identity  of  the 
diamond  with  charcoal.  Their  investiga- 
tions also  eitended  to  the  effects  of  con- 
gelating  mixtures,  and  they  frose  50 lbs. 
of  mercury  into  a  solid  mass.  At  the 
latter  part  of  his  life  his  philsnthropie 
exertions  occupied  the  chief  part  of  his 
attention,  and  at  a  full  age  he  died,  re- 
elected in  all  countries  where  those  exer- 
tions made  him  praotieally  known.  His 
character  showed  that  Christian  prin- 
ciples were  compatible  with  the  pursuits 
of  the  philosopher;  that,  in  fact,  religion 
was  the  only  superstructure  on  which 
morsl  worth  and  bcnevulence  can  be  raised, 
and  that  the  ssfest  road  to  happiness  and 
distinction  was  to  exemplify  these  prin- 
ciples in  daily  life.  Towards  the  com- 
Slaints  of  his  profession  the  ears  of  Wil- 
am  Allen  were  always  open ,  and ,  although 
his  increasing  age  and  infirmities  pre- 
vented his  frequent  attendance  at  Uieir 
meetlDgs,  he  frequently  gave  his  at* 
tsadanea  at  the  oonndl.** 
OsNT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXII. 


P.  891.— Dr.  Beekwitk  bequeathed  his 
ample  fortune  in  aid  of  the  various  cha- 
rities and  public  institutions  in  York, 
During  his  hfetime  he  made  the  generous 
donation  of  3,000/.  to  the  funds  of  Dame 
Middleton*s  Hospital  in  Skeldergate ;  and 
by  his  will  he  has  bequeathed  more  than 
40,000<.-*Yorkshire  Philosophical  Society, 
10,000/.  ;  York  Dispensary,  SOOO/.  {  pa- 
rishes of  St.  Mary,  BishophiU  Senior, 
St  Mary,  Bishophill  Junior,  and  St.  Mar- 
tin*le-Gnmd,  each  200/.,  the  interest  to 
be  applied  to  the  purchase  of  coals  at 
Christmas,  600/. ;  Wilberforee  School  fbr 
the  Blind,  5000/. ;  Church  of  England 
Sunday  Schoola  in  York,  1000/. ;  Blue 
Coat  Boys'  School,  9000/. ;  Grey  Coat 
Girls'  School,  9000/. ;  Infant  School  out 
of  Skeldergate  POstem,  1000/. ;  Dean  and 
Chapter  of  York,  for  a  new  peal  of  bells, 
and  the  remainder  to  repair  the  Chapter- 
house, 5000/. ;  York  Chsrity  Trustees,  in 
augmentation  of  St.  Thomas'  Hospital, 
out  of  Mieklegate-bar,  9000/.;  for  the 
foundation  of  a  penitentiary  in  York, 
5000/.  Some  of  the  above  charities, 
which  have  legacies  under  5000/.,  are  ap- 
pointed residuary  legatees  of  the  testator'a 
personal  estate,  from  which  it  is  probable 
they  will  derive  fiirther  considerable  bene- 
fit. In  accordance  with  the  munificent 
bequest  for  the  bells,  the  Minster  Resto- 
ration Committee  have  directed  an  emi- 
nent bell-founder  (Mears,  of  London)  to 
complete  a  peal  of  19  musical  bells;  the 
tenor  bell  to  be  53  cwt.,  in  the  grand  key 
of  C.  When  this  peal  shall  have  been 
completed,  the  city  of  York  may  boast  of 
possessing  the  finest  peal  of  12  bells  in 
the  kingdom. 

P.  31 1 ,  319.  The  late  rsigning  Dmk0 
of  Sas9  Coburg  and  Gotka  commanded 
the  5th  corps  of  the  allied  army,  and 
Mayeiiee  was  surrendered  to  his  arms. 
After  hia  return  from  the  Congress  of 
Vienna,  his  time  and  attention  were  de- 
voted to  the  welfare  of  his  people,  and  to 
the  personal  superintendence  of  the  edu- 
cation of  his  two  sons :  to  the  former  be 
gave,  in  the  year  1819,  of  his  own  free  will, 
a  representative  constitution.  He  was  a 
Mrarm  patron  of  the  arts,  and  baa  left 
behind  him  monuments  of  his  taste  and 
liberality  in  the  erection  of  the  pahwe 
and  the  castle  at  Coburg ;  the  chateaux  of 
Rosenan,  where  Prince  Albert  was  bom, 
of  Caleoberg,  and  Heinhardsbrunn ;  the 
great  school  at  Qotha,  and  the  two 
splendid  national  theatres. 

P.  319.-^The  will  of  the  Marqu^m  of 
Wmeh$9t€r  was  proved  by  Henry  Beau- 
mont Coles,  esq.  one  of  the  executors, 
?Dwer  being  reserved  to  Sir  John  Walter 
oUen,  Bart.,  the  other.  The  will,  which  Is 
very  short,  and  dated  1843,  gives  nearly 

4P 


ttS 


dUMmM  to  miHihry. 


by  eo«rtny  B«ri  vT  WUUbirv),  a»«  Blar- 
^en  «f  WiachMter.  T»  hic  txacmiw 
90Uf.  each ;  to  butter,  bo«t«keefcr.  aad 
■May  other  Miianf ,  aniMicics  aad  lega- 
cfOT  Tftryiag  fivm  101.  to  l€M.  Tbe  per- 
■B—ity  it  tvpora  «Bdor  18.0001. 

P.  3l4.^Tbe  will  of  Sir  P^wteU  Bmt>^ 
4tf/  vts  iifOted  by  Sir  Bdanod  AotfobM, 
B.  Aotrobot,  joo.  M.P.,  B>  Majonbooks, 
«i4  W.  M.  Cooltbwrtt,  ecq.  tbe  cxoeolen. 
It  givM  to  his  wife,  L«dy  Bordett,   bit 
owaiiioo  ia  St.  JaBifli*a.pteee,  pUtr.iSOOI. 
|Mr  ooonm,  Mooey  at  hii  banker**,  ear* 
ria^ea.   bortes,   aad    mooey  seaored  on 
oitatii,  aoMoatiog  to  a  princely  incoaM ; 
to  bit  two  danffbtert,  Mitt  Boidett  Contta 
nnd  Mrt.  Cave,  I0,0mw.  eaeb:  to  Miat 
Meradith,  livinf  with  Miaa  Contta,  ftOOt 
at  a  tokoo  o#  bit  cateea.    To  bit  nepbewt 
and  otber   relativet  aeveral  ie^faciea  are 
given,     lie  givet  to  bit  tteward  8501.  and 
vteommanda  hit  IWmily  to  continae  bim 
in  thoir  temoe.    To  bit  botler,  groooit, 
and  gaiiwikwipar,  annnititt  varying  Croat 
SO/,  to  50/.  per  annnni  for  life,  and  all 
bit  aervanta  a  ycar*t  waget  aad  a  tnit  of 
aonming.    To  one  of  bit  grooms,  ntited 
Hovand,  ba  girea  an  annnity  of  3QI.  a 
y«ar»  conpled  with  a  reqnett  that  be  will 
take  apacial  care  of  a  terrier  dog.    ne 
ffaaidna  and  balk  of  bit  property  it  given 
eqoaUy  between   Lady  Burdett  and   bit 
oon.      Tbe  property  was   awom    under 
l«0,o0O/.^Tbe  wiU  of  Lmdf  Bmrdett  bat 
nteo  been  proved,  by  the  tole  ezecator, 
John  Pafbinaoo,  eaq.  of  Liacoin't  Inn- 
Mdi.    Tbe  ataonnt  of  personal  property 
it  avrorn  under   10,000/.     Her  ladythip 
baqooatha  her  Urge  tilver  inkttand  (the 
gift  ot  her  mother)  to  Sir  Francit  Bnrdett. 
To  Mn.  Otway  Cave,  the  whole  of  her 
plate  beariag  her  (Lady  Bardett't)initialt. 
To  Biltt  Bnrdett  Contto, ''  all  papers  and 
bozet  sealed  and  locked  in  Stratton-ttreet 
nnd  the  Strand,"  together  with  the  por- 
trait of  bar  **dear  huthand,"  by  Shee. 
Her  jewellery  and  trinkett  to  be  divided 
betwnen  her  danghtors.    The  cash  at  her 
baober't  to  be  divided  among  Lady  North, 
Tisconntesa  Saadon  (children  of  her  •*  late 
beloved  titter*'),  Mrt.    Cave,  and  Mrs. 
Trevanion  (her  danghtert),  snbject  to  a 
legacy  of  50/.   to   Miss   Meredith,   and 
other  legneiea  to  godsons,  goddaughters, 
oarvants,  fte.    The  above  property  was 
bet  Lady«blp*k  private  property,  she  not 
having  lived  to  enjoy  the  largo  fortune 
left  her  by  her  hnsbaod,  which  socoonts 
fbr  the  odmparttlively  small    sant  under 
which  the  personalty  was  swoni.     The 
will  was  dated  In  October,  1M43. 

P.  41».  The  will  of  the  Ute  M^rqitHM 
^/fat/iH{^  was  proved  hy  the  Marchioness 
(inid^ir  ifi'^km  deMMd),  Sir  Cbtrtet  A. 


Hatlingtf  uuta 
of  tba 
of 

iCaeillHIKtbe 
The  dtctnifi  giwt  to  hda  wife  TvSOM.  ter 
pcovidiag  her  and  her  ywaager  chaUivr 
with  a  asdtabie  retidenoa;  aM  omaiaBii  of 
1,000/.  a  year,  beat 
aad  the  cboiee  of  faraltmeite*  at 
Qutio,  Soodandf  or 
money,  tbe  tmn  of  8,0001.  Imf»n^  T 
bte  tone,  on  attstnbig  nge,  nmd  to  hn 
daogblert  on  atttiang  tbahor  Or  dor  «' 
Marriage,   taau  varying  fifona  AJSOoL  tc 

9,0001.     The  tete  mocb-l ■iiiil    Lodr 

Flora  Hastingt  Is  baqni 
Tlie  residue  is  given  to  bis 
and  other  branchea  of  bin  Ibnnily.  Tht 
fottowing  pnssageoecnrs  in  tbn  will : — *•  U 
it  thonU  plesoe  Alaaigbty  God  to  take  th' 
whole  of  my  diHdren  to  bimaolf,  1  tras: 
my  Sovereign  will  confsr  tbn  tMe  eo  xy 
eideat  titter,  to  pmputnnlti  my  loo^  fine  <i 
anoeatora.'*  Tbe  pcraonal  propofty  » 
twom  under  the  large  anm  of  1 4^,00$^. 
The  will  it  extremely  loqg.  wmA  baaii  duto 
in  183& 

/Md.  Tbe  win  and  codbsil  of  the  bie 
FsfTOimf  Sidwmmik  bnve  beam  piwred  ir 
Doctors'  Commons,  by  Thooana  Giimstac 
Bncknall  Bstconrl  Thomas  Hotirint.  w^ 
William  Townaend,  osqri.  The  wfl  ii 
dated  in  1841 ,  and  givea  nearly  tlie  wbek 
of  his  property  to  his  ton  Leonard  Ai' 
dington  (now  Vtsoeont  SidnkonA),  to  Ear. 
Powis  **  the  fnll-length  portmits  of  Gcevfe 
the  Third  and  QneenCbariottOi**  and  tke 
remainder  of  bis  pictvres  (wbieh  are  cos- 
tidered  one  of  the  fiaest  ooHections,  i«- 
dnding  many  by  the  old  maateiv,)  to  ht 
son.  To  valet,  hntler,  bonsekeeper,  ftwt- 
men,  grooms,  and  a  boat  of  other  da- 
meatics,  legacies  varying  from  51.  to  9C¥V. 
The  codicU  is  dated  1843.  Tbe  peraoaai 
property  was  sworn  nnder  35,000/.  Al^ 
a  few  unimportant  legacies,  bo  gives  the 
residne  of  his  property  to  hit  ton. 

P.  428.  The  will  of  Xortf  Jr«mt«>  ha« 
been  proved  in  Doctors*  Commoos.  His 
lordtfaip  gives  to  his  wife,  GhnrloCte 
Maria,  his  mansion,  carriagea,  wiso«  eeve. 
ml  anifles  of  pUle,  and  tbe  aunt  of 
10,000/.  To  bis  daughter  Charlotte 
6,400/.  He  observes  >^**At  my  see 
Edward  Arthur  Wellington  Kesme  is 
entitled  to  a  pension  of  8,000/.  a  year 
from  Government,  I  consider  btmoofi. 
ciently  provided  for,  and  beqneatb  him  my 
Ghiitiiee  sword/'  To  hia  aon  G«Ofge 
Keane  he  gives  •*  tbe  sword  given  me 
by  the  Kin^  of  Cahul,  and  the  Laboie 
mntehlocks  and  artilkfy  mqdela  brought 
from  India."  To  his  ton  Hnotey  Fmc 
Keane  his  '*  (3uteb  awoni  and  '6Uodc 
rifle/'       H-     I  ■      s;-^^«My  collar, 


iM4.] 


MdiiliM  ia<Mtu»i/. 


659 


llhtQ4»  lull  btrigB  -of-  the  Ordtr  af  Hie 
Batik  will  hAW  to  h»  ^Mrea  up  to  tlie 
Hehdd^  Ofioe,  but  my  dUi^r.tttrs'Me 
mf<oma  propertji  AiidJ  bt^^umtb  theni  to 
my  wif«."  U«  giros  to  hit  sods  *  bond 
ot  JLioH  Viriaa  for  10.000/.  To  bift  eve- 
ottton  4e  give*  2,00CU.  to  purchMe  « 
comptay  in  one  of  ber  Mejeary'e  regi- 
MMii  lor  hiA  MNi  Joh«v  And  direoti  tbam 
U  i^ply  an  additional  S,O0uf.  for  his 
bene&t  tiU  sueh  company  is  obtained.  To 
his  «^  faithful  scnFaot,  Ricbaid  Uayman/' 
>N)0/.  Tha  remainder  of  bis  property  is 
bequeathed  to  his  wife  and  two  soos, 
Huisey  and  Georgo  Keane,  The  exe- 
cutors appointed  are  Konald  Macdonaldi 
esq.,  Geoigo  Keane,  esq.,  and  Chsries 
Uopkiaaon,  esq.  (the  banker).  The 
property  is  sworn  under  45,000/.  The 
will  is  short,  and  bears  date  July,  1814, 
the  month  before  bis  death. 

P.  430.--The  will  of  Xerii  WkUaee 
was  proved  in  Doctors'  Commons  by  Sir 
Oharles  Miles  Lambert  Monck,  Bart*, 
£.  W.  Hassell,  esq.  and  W.  Nsnson, 
Mq.  the  executors.  His  lordship  gives 
to  Thomas  Maclean,  esq.  and  his  wife, 
both  of  Carliale,  5,000/.  each,  and  legs. 
«ies  to  various  branches  of  his  family, 
friends,  executors,  servants,  and  many 
other  persons.  He  directs  two  busts  of 
himself  to  be  executed  in  marble  by  Mr. 
Campbell  the  sculptor  (from  a  cast  taken 
by  that  gentleman),  one  to  be  given  to 
his  executor.  Sir  Charles  M.  L.  Monck, 
and  the  other  deposited  in  Featherstooe 
Castle,  and  considered  as  an  heiiwloom ; 
all  the  plate  and  pictures  in  the  castle  sre 
also  to  descend  as  heir.looms.  He  ex- 
presses a  strong  desire  that  this  building 
nay  **  never  be  unoccupied,  but  tenanted 
hv  (hose  who  have  an  interest  in  it.'*  He 
observes  that  seversl  parcels  of  jewellery 
will  be  fofiid  packed  and  addressed  by 
bimself  to  various  parties,  and  desires  bis 
executors  to  forward  them  to  the  perMUs 
to  whom  they  are  addressed  ss  soon  after 
bis  death  aa  may  be.  He  also  directs  the 
interest  of  100/.  to  be  paid  yearly  to  a 
clergyman  of  the  Church  of  England  at 
FeaUierstone  i  who  is  '*  to  read  prayers 
once  on  every  Sunday,  and  administer  the 
saorament  at  least  four  times  in  every 
year."  The  will  is  very  long,  and  the  per- 
sonal property  ia  sworn  under  45.000/. 

P.  a38«  The  wiU  of  the  Ute  Bari  •/ 
JLieflMds/«  baa  been  proved  by  William 
£arl  of  Xioosdale,  the  Hon.  Henry  Cedl 
liowther  (sons  of  the  deeeased),  and  Sir 
John  Berkete,  Bsrt.  The  deoeasfd 
gives  a  very  laige  portbn  of  bia  property 
to  bia  wife  (who  died  in  his  li f  eti me) .  To 
his  eoMsia,  Mary  FYmnces  Thompson, 
10,0001.  t  but  by  hk  codicil  be  cevokes 
bit  lc8»y»  nn^  gwot  bar  m  mnaity  of 


1,0001.  per  annum  insleadi  Tobia  friend 
ihfl.Hon.  G.  O^Callsiebaii.  9,000/.  By 
the  eodiciU  to  Ms  son  Cecil  and  femily  ^in 
.addition  to  the  benefit  rbey  receive  by  tne 
will),  aO,000/.  Hia  lordship  observea, 
**  My  domestics  and  servants  are  eo  nn- 
roerous  that  it  would  be  next  to  impussi* 
ble  to  name  them  separately  ;'*  and  desires 
his  exerntofs  tocompenwta  tbem,  leaving 
the  amounts  to  their  discretioft.  He  de- 
sires to  be  buried  at  Lowthcr,  in  a  **  pri^ 
vate  manner/*  Tiie  will  is  venr  k>ng,  and 
dated  in  1836.  The  personal  property 
was  sworn  under  the  huge  sum  of 
100.000/. 

P.  534.  TkM  w'di  of  Sir  Htnrp  HtU/brd 
has  been  proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court 
of  Canterbury,  Doctors*  Commons,  by  bis 
son  and  sole  execator.  Sir  Henry  Ualford, 
Bart,  to  whom  he  has  bequeathed  the 
whole  of  his  property.  The  personsl  pro- 
perty was  sworn  under  9,000/.  The  will, 
which  bears  date  in  1833,  is  in  the  hand- 
writing of  the  deceased,  and  is  extremely 
short ;  only  occupying  half  of  the  lint  ssde 
of  a  sheet  of  letter  paper. 

Vol.  XXII.  p.  213.  The  will  of  the 
late  IT.  Bsci/ord,  esq.  of  FontbiU,  was 
proved  by  his  daughter  Sasan  Eupbemla 
Duchess  of  liamilton  and  Brandon,  and 
Richard  Samuel  White,  esq.  of  Lincoln^s 
Inn,  solicitor.  The  penonal  piopefty 
was  sworn  under  80,000/.  He  directs 
that  his  body  should  be  embalmed,  placed 
in  a  chest,  and  deposited  in  a  tomb 
erected  in  that  part  of  his  garden  near 
**  Lansdowne  Tower.'*  His  fireehold  aftd 
leasehold  estates,  picturest  money,  pkie, 
and  articles  of  virtik,  he  gives  to  tbe 
Duchess  of  Hamilton.  To  bia  executar 
and  solicitor,  Mr.  White,  a  Irgacy  of 
500/. ;  and  legaciea  and  annuitieaof  sbmII 
amount  to  several  of  his  servants.  Tbe 
will  is  written  on  one  side  of  a  sheet  of 
foolscsp,  and  is  dated  in  J  842. 

P.  316.  Jompk  BonaparU'^  wiil^  ae. 
cording  to  the  Philadelphia  Ledger, 
among  ita  numerous  minor  lepactee,  givte 
tokens  of  remembrsnoe  to  friends  in  tbe 
United  Smtes  whom  he  loved;  among 
others,  to  the  late  Judge  Hopkinson )  Dr. 
Chapman,  who  was  bis  physician;  Mr. 
Wm.  Short,  and  Mr.  Charles  J.  inger- 
soil.  Tbe  executors  were  Judge  Hop- 
kinson and  Mr.  Louis  Msilliard,  who  for 
vary  many  years  enjoyed  his  nnlimitad 
confidence,  as  bis  will  in  terms  declares, 
and  who,  by  Judge  Hopkioson's  deatb, 
remains  sole  executor  of  the  will. 

P.  431*  Tbe  wiU  of  /oaitea  atkoh- 
JMdf  esq.  late  M.P.  for  Birmingham, 
hss  passed  the  seal  of  the  Preragstive 
Court  of  Canterbury.  It  occupies  a  very 
few  lines*  and  gives  tbe  whale  of  hia  pr^. 
perty  to  hit  two  son^  in  imaiiy  tbt  fol« 


M 


Pp.  i31,  648.  TW  will  of  Ar.  J^km 
Dmiiom,  ot  Manchcaltr,  has  bees  uioprf 
an  lAKUMt*  CouBom,  by  WiUiui  NwM, 
M.  Peter  CUrc,  esq.  and  the  Rev.  W« 
Joan,  the  eneaton,  cack  ol  whooi  Imm  a 
IflfHicy  of  oinotedi  goincM.  Tko  de* 
OMMcd  gircs  tW  nn  of  %000l.  to  kit  ex. 
•cttCoffv  '*  to  foood  %  Piufcwwihip  of 
CbemiMiy  at  OxIM**  (bol  tbta  is  aftar* 
wards  rerokcd).  To  tbt  Sodcty  of 
PHend«  at  Wigton,  Cuanberiand,  3001. 
To  the  idiool  of  tlie  SodHj  of  FriendB 
at  Ackwoffth,  York  (attcndad  br  deccaacd 
for  twenty  fean),  dUOf.  To  Ur.  Henry, 
late  of  Mancbesier,  but  now  of  Hertford, 
all  bis  ■anuscripta,  &e.  His  goM  and 
silver  medala  pnatated  to  bin  *'  by  tke 
Royal  Sodctaca  of  Ijoodon,*'  be  be. 
ouMtba  ID  ibe  Maacbeater  PhiloaopUeal 
Institution,  of  wbicb  be  was  PresideBt. 
To  bis  bonsekeeper  be  giveaSOOf.  and  tbe 
renainder  of  bta  property  to  various  lela. 
tiooa.  Tbe  personal  property  is  sworn 
under  4U)0/.— Tbe  provision  in  tbe  wiO 
(dated  l>ec.  22,  1H41)  lekitive  to  tbe 
foundation  of  a  Profeasonbip  of  Cbemittiy 
at  Oxford,  is  as  follows :  **  I  also  give  and 
bequeatb  to  my  execnton  tbe  sum  of 
^OOOL  and  I  request  my  exeeutors  to 
found,  endow,  or  support  a  Profeasorsbip 
of  Chemistry  at  Oxiord,  for  tbe  advance* 
Bsent  of  tbat  science  by  lectures  in  wbicb 
the  Atomic  Theory,  as  propounded  by 
me,  together  with  tbe  subsequent  dis- 
ooveries  and  elucidations  thereof,  shall 
be  introduced  and  explained/*  ~  How. 
ever,  in  a  oodidl  (dated  96tb  June,  1S4J), 
Dr.  Dslton  revoked  this  bequest,  with 
tbe  obj««t,  it  ia  believed,  of  increasing 
tbe  number  and  amount  of  several  legades. 
In  tbia  codidl,  be  directs  tbe  2,0O(M.  to 
fell  into  tbe  general  residue  of  bis  effects, 
and  among  other  legades  givea  tbe  sum 
of  100/.  to  Dr.  Daubeny,  Profcator  of 
Cbemiatiy  and  Botany  in  this  University. 
It  is  thought  tbat  one  of  Dr.  Dal  ton's 
motives  in  making  this  bequest  was  to 
testify  tbe  ^tification  be  felt,  to  the  laat 
period  of  bia  life»  at  tbe  reception  be  met 
with  from  tbe  Univcrrity^  at  a  time  when 
he  obtained  tbe  distinction  of  a  Degree 
of  D.C.L.  during  tba  meeting  of  tbe 
British  Association,  at  Oxford,  ia  1B39, 
and  as  an  acknowledgment  to  Dr.  Dan- 


lOOL;  teta< 


:^TotbeF4 
Park  Street,  Bii 
MewMcclisv 

bam.  100^;   I 
Meetiog.boMe  at  ike 

to  tbe 

lOOf. :  to  tbe 

pensary,  100/.;  ^of 

direets  to  be  paid  fnm  of 

Tbe  peapccty  bas 

laige  sum  of  TOJOOOL 

valae  of  900/.  ia  afivd  to  tbe  pro^tf . 

Vol..  XXII.  p.  »43.  TtelateJMf' 
Gr^fivm  was  Lord-LieatosHat  ef  Ssnd 
from  tbe  year  1790  to  witUa  s  jmt^ 
bia  death;  and  Ibe  folAowuv  tastiMSV > 
borne  by  a  paper  pnUiiriMd  IB  tbat  coi^ 
to  tbe  *' urbanity,  imButiality.lale^'' 
bnaiaess,  and  deciaiosi  with  whick  ue 
dutiea  of  bis  ofioe  w«m  ptaforme'^  Oe 
all  occasions  wben  the  inteiert  «f  ^ 
county  demanded  tbe  peeaiisr  stteatifli 
of  tbe  magistraey,  be  wna  leady  to  w^ 
tbem  in  consultation.  And  ae  oM  «» 
was  present  at  tbe  irat  aaeeli«g  ^  ^ 
Agiicnltural  AssodaUoa,  can  iorr^}^ 
interest  wbicb  be  took  in  its  »^.'|^ 
portent  objects,  and  the  nnaiisctfd  ^ 
ness  with  wbicb  be  commended  sb^  ^ 
couraged  tlie  bumble  eompetiton  fir  ^ 
rewards  of  tbe  society.  In  poiitiml  i* 
bis  Graee  was  a  constant  firieod  toJ»< 
cause  of  the  people;  bis  votes  la  P*"** 
ment  and  bis  influence  in  the  coaaty  ««« 
steadily  directed  to  tbe  proasotioa  of  0*^ 
and  religious  liberty ;  aadwewdlr«*^ 
ber  tbe  cordiality  with  which,  at  a  IUf»« 
aseetiag,  before  Reform  mm  in  Uf^ 
wben  some  one  ia  ^e  crowd  pioposw^ 
put  tbe  Corporation  of  Bury  ia  tkeMf' 
ostegory  with  thoae  of  Gatton  sad  0» 
Sarnm,  bis  Grace  n^ed^-Witb  aU  «7 
heart.  His  subsequent  votes  ea  the  I^ 
Ibrm  Bill  proved  tbet  this  waa  no  aasietf  • 
lag  profesioB,  and  tbe  sncriiee  of  htf 
borough  patronage  was  cbearfoUy  mi^^  "^ 
tbe  shrine  of  tbe  Gonstitatfon.*' 

P.  MS.  Tbe  late  JfarfUMl  <^/>^ 
ptUl  was  always  a  resident  bmdlonii  s>^ 
was  a  kind-hearted  and  htnevoleBt  id*'' 
Circumsianffmdte^A'^  Jeta  controlt  ^ 
kte  year  -•>  etUdtf  t*^ 


1844.] 


Oier§f  Demtutd. 


661 


moM  kii4kiHf  4Mii«t  bntdurliir  Ids  Hfe, 
a  greater  number  of  independent  and 
wetltby  yeomanry  wtirt  ereated  on  the 
0ofiegall  propefty  tbin  wooM  probubly 
be  fomd  on  any  other  Irieh  estate  \  and 
whentfer  and  bo  tbr  m  the  bte  BiarqoeM 
did  iflterfcre  about  hie  eatates,  bia  Inter- 
ftiMnoe  mu  tafariably  in  fa?oar  of  Us 
tenantry,  and  showed  a  kindly  and  gentla 
diapoeition  on  his  part.  During  his  life 
BeiftMt,  in  partlcalar,  asflQaaed  the  pori« 
tion  wbieh  it  now  boMs,  as  the  most  en. 
terprising  and  successful  commercial  town 
in  Ireland  ;  and,  though  the  credit  of  this 
ie  due  to  her  merebanta,  and  not  to  tho 
Bfarquess,  It  fi  only  Mr  to  him  to  lav, 
that  be  was  most  willing  to  assist,  in 
every  wtv  he  cooM,  Co  promote  the  proa, 
periff  Of  the  town.  In  all  worka  of 
eharity  also,  his  name,  and,  while  bis 
age  and  health  permitted,  bis  countenance 
and  personal  co-operation,  were  freely 
lent  on  every  useful  occasion.  The  late 
Marquess  was  a  Tory,  but  not  a  bigoted 
one.  He  was  a  warm  supporter  of  Caro* 
Hne,  tbe  ill-fated  Queen  of  George  the 
Fourth,  and  voted  for  her  firmlv.  Tbe 
pveamt  Marquess  is  a  steady  Whig. 

The  committee  of  the  Hospital  for  Con- 
•umplion  and  DIeeases  of  the  Chest,  at 
Brompton,  have  received  a  donation  of  16S 
guineas,  collected  as  a  testimonial  to  the 
mmtioff  of  JokH  WUli&m  Bowdem,  esq.  of 
Wimbledon,  who  died  of  abscess  of  the 
lungs  a  short  time  since. 

Mr.  /.  ^ereourf ,  who  formerly  resided  in 
tiie  parish  of  Betttondsey,  has  bequeathed 
to  the  churebwardens  of  that  parish  the 
sum  of  1000/.  Three  per  Cent.  Consols 
upon  trust,  to  pay  the  interest  (80/.) 
amongst  twenty  poor  honest  widows  of  tbe 
parish  who  have  never  received  parochial 
relief,  19  of  whom  were  to  be  tbe  relicts 
of  tanners  and  leatherdressers,  the  distri- 
bution to  be  made  yearly  on  the  91st  of 
JJeosmDer. 

J&kn  Seotft  esq.latetipstaif  of  theQueen*s 
Bench  in  Ireland,  who  died  atRathmines, 
on  the  «tb  of  August  last,  has  by  his 
last  will,  dated  tbe26tb  of  June,  1844,  de- 
vised to  tbe  Rev.  Thomas  Blacker  Owens, 
of  Mount  Oiunville,  near  Drogbeda,  derk, 
and  Kenny  Scott,  of  Ormond  Mills,  eo. 
Kilkenny,  esq.  his  real  estates,  situate  in 
tbe  counties  of  Weiford  and  Kilkenny, 
and  fn  tbe  King's  County :  and  also  tbe 
sun  of  5900/.  or  thereabouts,  vested  in 
l^weniment  Three  and  a  Half  per  Cent* 
•tock,  in  trust,  after  the  decease  of  hfs 
vriib,  Letitia  Scott,  to  form  a  charitable 
fbBd,  to  be  called  "  tbe  Ann  Scott's, 
•tberwiae  Bowers,  Charluble  Fund  ;*'  and 
tboreout  and  thereby  pay  the  yearly  sum 
of  150/.  sterlinr  to  the  Sisters  of  Charity, 
wtabBahod  in  KUkeBay,  to  be  apfdled  by 


tbem  In  ebaritable  purnosei,  undsr  Hie 
suporintendenee  of  the  CathoUo  Bbbop  of 
Kllkeniiyi  and  In  trust  to  pay  the  sum  of 
50/ »  yeatly  to  tbo  Benevolsnt  Socfoty  of 
KilkoiBy,  ft>r  chmftable purposes;  and  to 
pay  the  like  sum  of  50/.  yearly  to  tbe  Cba* 
rftable  Society  of  Knkenny,  for  cbatftobla 
purposes;  and,  aa  to  the  luiidue  oftte 
rents  of  Us  real  ealmtea  and  divldendt  of 
tbe  said  stobk,  In  trust  to  pay  over  the 
same,  in  equal  shares  and  proportions)  to 
the  Protestant  Bishop  of  Ossory  and  to 
the  Catholic  Bishop  of  Kilkenny,  and 
their  successors  tbt  ever,  for  tbe  purpoae 
of  paying  tbe  same  yearly  to  and  amongst 
twenty  reduced  merebaats  and  gentlemen, 
resident  in  the  city  of  Kilkenny,  ten  to  be 
selected  by  tbe  Bishop  of  Ossory,  and  ten 
to  be  selected  by  the  CathoUe  Bishop  of 
Kflkeany,  in  manner  In  said  last  will  rw- 
dted. 


CLERGY  DECEASED. 

Ma^  15.  At  Garden  Hill,  near  L)ub« 
Un,tbe  Rev.  Hupk  WMU,  M.A.,Curato 
of  St.  Marv's  in  that  cit^.  Mr.  White 
was  a  model  of  tbe  Christian,  tbe  schobir, 
and  the  gentleman.  He  was  the  author 
of  tbe  following  works,  which  breathe 
the  moot  fervent  piety  and  Christian  de* 
votedncsa,  and  of  asoat  of  which  many 
thousands  have  been  sold:  Meditations 
and  Addresses,  chiefly  on  the  subject  of 
Prayer;  Twenty  Sermons,  praaebed  In 
St.  Marv's  Chapel  of  Ease,  iS84,  Svo.  t 
Practieal  Reflections  on  the  Second  Ad* 
vent;  Address  to  Voung  Persons  on 
Confirmation  ;  Pfi>fession  and  Prsotioe^ 
Svo.  1S40,  Some  of  bis  serBons  were 
also  puMiabed  in  tbe  coUectioB  entitled 
««  Tbe  Irish  Pulpit." 

Awf.l.  At  Calcutta,  the  Rev.  IFt//ioiil 
Hunter  Rau,  M.A.,  Ministor  of  Sti 
James's  Church  in  that  eity.  He  was 
of  Trinity  college,  Cambridge,  B.A.» 
1S29. 

Sept,  8S.  At  Brighton,  tbe  Rev. 
/SNiev  iteMuen  WeMk,  Chancellor  of  tbe 
diocese  of  Chiebestor,  and  Cuiute  of  Bur* 
wash,  Susses.  He  was  brocber-in-law 
to  the  late  Dr.  Sbuttleworth,  Bishop  of 
Chichester,  and  leaves  his  widow  surviv- 
ing. His  death  was  suddenly  ooeasioned 
by  a  spasmodic  affectioo  of  tbe  heart,  with 
wbieb  be  was  seined  whilst  walking  in  tbe 


Sept.  30.  At  Haverfordwest,  Med  77« 
the  Rev.  O.  W.  Gvl/ir,  Curate  of  Rud. 
boxton,  Pembrokeshire. 

Oet.  4.  Tbe  Rev.  C^kmriee  8i,  George, 
Perpetual  Curato  of  GbMnevin,  cow 
Dublin. 


668 


Clhfyjf  IJtC€t$€U^ 


IPec 


<M.  5.  At  Pl7«oatb,  aged  44,  tht 
Rer.  WU&$m  5«itrJBrrv,  Vicar  of  More, 
bfttb,  Dvrontlrire,  and  Perpetutl  Cortte 
of  Upcon^  SomencC.  He  wm  the  leeoiid 
•on  of  Montagite  Baker  Bere,  eso.  of 
Morebtth,  by  liii  fint  wife  Arnie,  eldett 
dtoghtcr  of  tbe  Rev.  T.  E.  CUrke,  of 
Trimlet  Hnute,  SomefBet.  He  wu  for- 
narly  of  EoMuiuel  college,  Cambridge, 
B.AI  1823,  and  was  insci toted  to  Upton 
to  1096  and  to  Morebath  in  1832;  and  he 
married  Mary  Bmilf,  second  daoghrer  of 
the  Rev.  John  Sprye,  Vicar  of  Ugbo* 
foutfb,  and  has  left  itsae. 

Aged  79,  the  Rev.  MwUkew  TmuiM, 
for  97  years  incttnbent  of  Helper,  Derby, 
thire,  in  the  gift  of  the  Vtcar  of  Duflleld, 

Oc/.  6.  At  Boulogne-snr.mer,  the 
Rev.  Thomta  Ckarie*  Ord,  M.A.  of 
UniTersitycoll.  Oxford,  Rector  of  Galby 
and  Vicar  of  Norton,  Leicestershire.  He 
was  the  youneest  son  of  the  late  Rer. 
JsQies  Ord,  of  Langton  hall,  Lieicester. 
shire;  and  was  instituted  to  both  his 
lirii^i  in  1826. 

At  Market  Weighton,  Yorkshire,  aged 
60,  the  Rev.  Jtiekard  Cooke  Winpenmy, 
Vicar  of  that  parish,  to  which  he  was  in- 
stituted in  1820. 

Oei,  10.  In  Bryinston -street,  aged  77, 
the  Hev.  Tr^fuiU  LooeU,  Rector  of  St 
Luke's,  Middlesex,  and  formeriy  Arch, 
deacon  of  Derry.  He  was  presented  to 
St.  Luke's  in  1813  by  the  Dean  and  Chsp- 
ter  of  St.  Psul's. 

In  Finsbory  Circns,  London,  aged  75, 
the  Rev.  Jotiak  Pratt,  B.D.  Vicar 
of  St.  Stephen's,  Colenwn.street,  and 
formerly  for  many  years  Secretory  to 
the  Church  Missionsnr  Society.  He  was 
of  St.  Edmund  ball,  Oxford,  M.A.  1796, 
B.D.  1808;  and  was  elected  Vicar  of  St. 
Stephen's,  Coleman.street,  in  1826  by  the 

ftriahioners.  His  son,  the  Rev.  Josiah 
^rett,  has  been  elected  by  the  parish, 
loners  to  succeed  him. 

At  Farebam,  the  Rev.  Thomat  Ed- 
mund Hitcoek,  formerly  of  Queen's  col- 
lege, Cambridge,  B.A.,  1825. 

Oct,  13.  At  Gravesend.tbe  R«*v.  WU- 
Ham  Armttromj^f  Rector  of  Stanford-le- 
Hope,  Essex.  He  was  of  Jesus  college, 
Cambridge,  B.A.  1795,  as  9th  Wrangler; 
and  was  presented  to  his  living  in  1801  by 
Trustees. 

At  Hinxwortb,  po.  Hertford,  aged  51, 
the  Rev.  John  JLqfont,  Rector  of  that 
place,  and  of  St.  Anne*8,  Sutton  Bon. 
nington,  Notts.  He  wns  of  Emanuel  col. 
lege.  Cambridge,  B.A.  1820,  M.A.  1823; 
and  was  presented  to  bis  living  in  1827  by 
the  I  jord  Chancellor. 

At  Rochester,  aged  25,  the  Rev.  John 
Fnller  Spong,  B.  A.  Curate  of  Eastry  and 
Worth. 


Ill  LrfMMdvi,  ^iB^*  48t  tsw  Mcf « Maoi 
MUiard^  B.A. 

Oct,  16.  AtHethaiwn,  Norfolk,  w^ 
71,  the  Rer.  Tkmmm&  ff^pHnf  Bndii, 
Rector  of  BeiglrtoM,  HorfcMt.  He  «a 
fomerly  of  Gonviite  «id  CMcscolkft 
Gkinbridge,  B.A.  1796,  M.A.  ISHh  vi 
was  presented  to  Beigbtoii  in  1821  lif  I. 
FMloveB,eaq. 

Od.  17.  At  FiankfofftoathellHM 
the  Rev.  Hemty  GrigUkM,  of  Penhearktr. 
formerly  of  <2^een'a  college^  CisbMr 
B.A.  1828. 

Oct.  18.  Iq  Londoa,  aged  77.  t^ 
Rev.  Bvwttt  AtywoMi,  M.A.,  of  W«« 
Binford.  He  was  a  descendant  of  tk 
Rev.  OUver  Heywood,  Domestic  C1B^ 
lain  to  Sir  John  and  l^ady  Hewter.  « 
York,  and  in  the  tioie  of  tbe  Coomoi- 
wealth  one  of  the  Minioien  appota*^ 
by  the  Plarliament  to  preaeh  ta  Ytrk 
Minster. 

Od.  20.  At  Wiabecii,  nt  an  wkmai 
age,  the  Rev.  /oA«  RmwrnU  CkHttopktr*^ 
LL.B.,  Rector  of  Onufisby,  and  Vkk 
of  Eagle,  Uncolnshif^.  He  was  for- 
nerly  of  Corpua  Chrbti  college,  Cto- 
bridge,  LL.B.  1794;  and  wns  iBsmi< 
to  both  bis  livings  in  180O. 

Oe/.  23.    At  AyUtoneHiU,inhis4dri 

Sar,  tbe  Rev.  Jameo  Ahrmham  Htrm 
.A.,  Curate  of  St.  Owwi*a,  Hereto*^- 

Oei.  25.  Aged  81,  tbe  Rev.  H^ 
CnUtonf  of  Arncliife,  fonnerir  of  Skloe; 
Snssex  college,  Cambridge,  o.A.  1T9)< 
as  14th  senior  optiine,  M.A.  1791^ 

Oct,  26.  At  Swansea,  aged  33,  t^ 
Rev.  John  Koni,  late  Rector  of  Si 
Paul's,  Lincoln,  to  which  he  waipre* 
sented  in  1835  by  the  Aiehdeseon  oi 
Lincoln. 

At  Penmorfa,  near  Cardigan,  age^  <•> 
the  Rev.  Dmmd  Tkomn  /oner,  Hector 
of  Llangoedmore.  He  was  formirlT 
Chaplain  to  the  Hudson's  Bay  Compftfiy< 
and  for  18  years  a  missionary  at  the  K«^ 
River  settlements.  He  has  left  three 
orphan  children. 

Oef.  27.  At  Mayiield,  Soasex,  ag«^ 
58,  the  Rev.  John  Kirhy,  Vicar  of  tint 
parish.  He  was  of  St.  John's  colleg«' 
Cambridge,  B.A.  1810,  M.A.  1813,  tW 
was  instituted  to  the  vicarage  of  Mayfie^i 
on  his  own  petition,  in  1810. 

At  the  vicarage.  West  Wyeoobe. 
Bucks,  the  Rev.  JTaiter  RamhinJokMit** 
Curate  of  that  parish.  He  was  of  Tri< 
nity  college,  Cambridge,  B.A.  1^« 
M.A.  1819. 

Ac  Averharo,  Notts,  aged  55,  the  R<^* 
Thomao  Mmn^ra  SM/ion,  M.A.,  S^ 
dean  of  Lincoln,  and  Recror  of  ArerhsB 
with  Kelham.  He  was  the  younger  son 
of  John  Manners  Sutton,  esq.  (ddeft 
90n  of  Lord  George  Manners  Sutton) 


ia44.] 


CUrfU  Hecsoiei. 


m 


by  ^me  JIftiiMrs,  nattuMl  dftugbter  of 
John  Marquess  of  Granby ;  and  nepheur 
to  the  lAte  Arcbbiabop  of  Canterbury 
wid  lord  Manners*  He  was  of  Trinity 
college,  Canbridge,  fi.A.  1813,  M.A. 
1^17.  DurinfT  tbe  time  that  bis  cousin, 
the  prtsent  Viscottnt  Canterbury,  was 
Speaker  of  the  Hoiisa  of  Commons,  Mr* 
Manners  Sutton  was  bis  chaplain>  from 
wiu4d|  he  was  presented  to  a  prebendal 
stall  in  Westmioster  Abbey  t  in  1831  be 
e«chikiiged  bis  sUU  with  tbe  Rev.  Lord 
John  Thynne  for  tbe  sub- deanery  of  Lin* 
eolii.  Barici^  tbe  time  he  held  ibat  dig- 
»ity^  hein)^  rerf  musical,  be  devoted  him. 
>^f  ofaieily  to  the  improvement  of  the 
choir  in  Lincoln  cathedral;  he  obtained 
to  increase  of  stipend  for  all  tbe  roein- 
hers  of  tbe  choir,  and  ao  estra  assistance 
both  in  the  number  of  lay-vicars  and 
chanters ;  be  also  was  the  composer  of  a 
"  Kyrie,"  •*  Sanctus.'*  &c.  Mr.  Manners 
SuUon  was  greatly  beloved  and  respected 
both  in  Lineoln  and  at  bis  benefice,  to 
which  he  was  presented  in  1837.  He 
married  in  1826  Lucy  Sarah,  only  child 
of  tbe  aev.  H.  S.  Mortimer,  Vicar  of 
Thfowley,  Kent,  but  had  no  issue. 

Aged  33,  the  Rev,  Peter  John  WaiJker^ 
*i9n,  M.A.  Vicar  of  Charlton  Hore- 
thorne,  Somerset,  to  which  he  was 
presented  in  1840  by  tbe  Marquess  of 
Anglesey.  He  was  of  £manuel  college, 
Cambridge,  B.A.  183i. 

At  Brongbton,  Lancashire,  aged  8i, 
the  Rev.  Peier  Wileonf  late  of  Thurstas- 
ton,  Cheshire. 

Oci.  29.  At  Cheltenham,  the  Rev. 
Fleetwood  ParkJkmret,  Curate  of  Ripple, 
Worcestershire. 

Oct.  30.  Aged  68,  the  Rev.  Tkmnae 
I>avie*f  Rector  of  Bayton,  near  Bewdley, 
to  which  be  was  presented  in  1816  by 
Lord  Chancellor  Eldon. 

Tbe  Rev.  Thomas  Steele,  Perpetual 
Curate  of  Littleborough,  in  the  parish  of 
Rochdale,  Lancashire.  He  was  of  St. 
John's  college,  Cambridge,  a.A.  1609, 
and  was  presented  to  Littleborough  by 
the  Vicar  of  Rochdale  in  1816. 

Oct,  31.  At  St.  Andr6  de  Fontenay, 
Bear  Caen,  aged  81,  the  Rev.  Hobert 
Bvatt9f  formerly  successively  Vicar  of 
Goodworth  Ciatford  and  Wherwell, 
Hampshire.  He  was  formerly  Fellow  of 
Jesus  college,  Oxford ;  was  presented  to 
Goodworth  Ciatford  in  1833  b^  Wm. 
Iremonger,  esq.  and  to  Wherwell  in  18. . 
by  the  Prebendary  of  that  place  in  the 
eatfaedml  ehureb  of  Winchester.  He  was 
lather  of  the  Rev.  WiUiam  Evans  of 
Piisey,  near  Faringdoo. 

At  Belle  Grove  Mouse,  aged  72,  tbe 
Rev.  George  Remulk  Rector  of  Grey, 
stoadt  NorthiUBberland.  <He  was  formerly 


of  Emanuel  college,  Cambridge,  M»A. 
1804 ;  and  was  presented  to  Greystead  hy 
the  Governors  of  Greenwich  Hospital  in 
1818. 

At  Tuxford,  aged  71,  the  Rev.  John 
Jtfasoa,  Perpetual  Cunte  of  BotbamstalU 
and  CbspUiiii  to  tbe  Duke  of  Newcastle, 
who  presented  him  to  Bothamstall  in 
1812. 

Nov.  2.  At  East  Tilbury,  Essex,  the 
R«v.  WilUam  Thomae  QoodchUd,  Vicar 
of  that  parish,  to  which  he  was  presented 
by  tbe  Lord  Chancellor  in  1832. 

At  Petrockstow,  Devonshire,  aged  55, 
the  Rev.  John  Knight,  Rector  of  that 
parish,  and  of  the  adjoining  parish  of 
Huish,  to  both  which  he  was  presented 
by  Lord  Clinton  in  1825. 

Nov,  3.  At  his  residence  near  Ratban* 
gan,  CO.  BLildare,  aged  83,  the  Very 
Rev.  Arthur  John  Preston,  Dean  of 
Limerick. 

Nov.  4f.  At  High  Ackwortb,  York- 
shire, aged  77,  tbe  Rev.  Thomaa  Bell,  late 
of  East  Hsrdwick. 

At  Corsley,  Wills,  aged  52,  the  Hev. 
Robert  Clavey  Griffith,  Rector  of  Corsley 
and  Fitield  Bavent,  both  in  the  patronage 
of  the  Marquess  of  Bath.  He  was  in- 
stituted to  the  former  in  1816,  and  to 
the  latter  in  1825. 

Nov.  5.  In  New  Ormond  street,  aged 
Z\,  Edward  Brabant  Smithy  M.A.  Michel 
Fellow  of  Queen's  college,  Oxford. 

Nov.  7.  At  Bowness,  Westmorland, 
the  Rev.  Rowland  Hill,  third  son  of  the 
late  Rev.   Robert  Hill,  of  Hough,  and 

frandion  of  the  late  Sir  Rowland  HUI, 
{art.  of  Hawkstone,  Salop.  He  was  of 
Brazenose  college,  Oxford,  M.A.  1802. 

Nov.  8.  At  Oakham,  aged  29,  the 
Rev.  Charles  Green,  M.A.  late  Scholar 
of  Christ's  college,  Cambridge,  B.A. 
1836. 

At  Stondon,  Beds,  nged  78,  tbe  Rev. 
John  Hall,  Rector  of  that  parish  for  35 
yesrs,  Vicar  of  Sbitlingtoo  for  28  years, 
and  for  24  years  an  active  and  zealous 
magistrate  of  that  county.  He  was  for- 
meriy  of  St.  John's  college,  Cambridge, 
B.A.  1791.  M.A.  1794;  and  was  pre- 
sented  to  Shitlington  by  Trinity  college 
in  1816. 

Abe.  11.  Aged  64,  the  Rev.  Charles 
Manesty,  Rector  of  Purlcy,  Berks.  He 
WHS  of  St.  John's  college,  Oxford,  M.A. 
1798;  and  was  presented  io  Parley  in 
1800  by  the  Lord  Chancellor. 

Nov.  12.  At  Llanynyg,  DeuMghshfre, 
aged  49,  the  Uev.  RUis  Roberts,  Vicar 
of  that  parish,  to  which  he  was  collated 
by  the  Bishop  of  Bnngor  in  1824. 

Nov,  13.  At  Aston  Rowant,  Oxford* 
shire,  aged  86,  tbe  Rev*  John  HoUand, 
Vicar  of  that  parish.     He  was  of  Balliol 


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C9U«ge»  Oxford,  M.A4  17Bd ;  and  was 
presented  to  his  living  in  179^  by  the 
Lord  Chancellor. 

Nov.  14.  Aged  75,  the  Rev.  Edward 
Menrj/  Grtenit  of  Lawford  Hall,  Essex, 
and  Rector  of  Birch  Parva,  in  that 
county. 

At  Durham,  aged  80,  the  Bev.  •Tomet 
Fr§deric  Towtuaid,  B.A.  of  University 
college,  Oxford,  second  too  of  the  Rev« 
George  Townaend,  M.A.,  Canon  of 
Durham. 


DEATHS. 

Jt«0KD0N  A.ND  ITS  TIOXNITT. 

Sipt.  20.  Mr.  Ross,  the  Comedian.  A 
little  before  the  Christmas  of  last  year  he 
was  engaged  by  Mr.  Webster  for  the  Li- 
verpool Theatre.  On  his  journey  thither 
he  caught  a  severe  cold,  and  in  May  he 
returned  to  London,  and  at  his  own  re- 
quest was  conveyed  to  Guy's  Hospital, 
where  be  died.  Mr.  Ross  for  many  yean 
supported  his  aged  father  and  mother. 
He  has  left  a  widow,  but  no  children. 
Mr.  Eoas  was  a  member  of  the  Drury* 
lane  Theatrical  Fund. 

Oct.  7.  At  Chelsea,  aged  71*  Job 
Baseley,  gent,  son  of  the  ute  Rev.  H. 
Baseley,  of  Kibworth  Beauchamp,  Leic. 

Oct  11.  At  Upper  Tulse  Hill,  aged 
7fi»  William  Jennett,  esq. 

Oct,  13,  In  Upper  Seymour-st.  aged 
68,  William  H.  Sharpe,  esq. 

Oct.  14.  In  York-road,  Lambeth,  aged 
65,  Elizabeth,  relict  of  Dr.  Waite,  of 
Woodford. 

Pet.  15.  In  Cobom-streat,  Bow^road, 
aged  63,  James  Thomson,  esq. 

In  Bromley-st.  near  Stepney,  aged  65, 
Mr.  Samuel  Henwood,  late  of  Mount 
Parade,  York,  and  many  years  a  resident 
at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and  bro- 
ther of  James  Henwood,  esq.  of  Hull. 

In  Fisatherstone-st.  City-road,  aged  65, 
Andrew  Ramsay,  esq.  late  of  ArtUlery- 
pi.  Finsbury-sq. 

.  Oct.  16.  In  Grafton*st.  east,  aged  45, 
Harriet,  widow  of  Andrew  Cochran,  esq. 
late  ot  St.  Petersburgh. 

Agrd  34,  Edwin  EUis,  esq.  of  Lower 
Tnlse  HiU. 

In  Hanover-st.  Peckham,  ^ed  48,  Wil- 
liam Walters  Footner,  esq. 

At  Brompton,  Mary,  wife  of  Francis 
Tesey,  esq. 

Oct.  17.  Julia,  wife  of  Frederick  E. 
B.  Scott,  of  Myddelton-sq.  Pentonville, 
and  third  dau.  of  the  Rev.  £.  W.  Grio- 
Md«  of  Brighton. 

At  Croydon,  agad  77,  Christian  Tawke» 
fliq. 

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At    W*niii«f«|a|l-      MJM      kmmm     Maria 

Slater. 

Oct»  19.  la  Harpur<ft.  (lueen-aauare, 
aged  81,  Mrs.  Knight,  relict  of  Levis 
Knight,  esq.  formerly  of  the  iaUad  of  Ja- 
maica* and  latterly  of  Sonthamptoa. 

At  Hempstead,  Robert  Watta,  esq.  ai 
the  General  Post  Qftoe. 

Oct,  20.  In  Dover-at.  agiad  &4»  Ba- 
bert  Buahe,  esq.  of  Trinidad, 

At  the  house  of  her  Bon-in-law»  Wil- 
mer  Harris,  esq.  Hackney,  afedS?*  Han- 
nah, widow  of  Joseph  Harria»  aaq.  of 
Richmond. 

Aged  45,  in  Tavistock-plaoe,  RaaseU- 
sqnare*  Mr.  Geoi^ge  Homoastleft  of  the 
Theatre  Royal,  Drury-laaa. 

In  London,  aged  85,  William  Wallu. 
eaq.  He  waa  the  last  aurriviag  aon  of 
the  late  Taverner  Wallis,  eaq.  of  Whit- 
church  Villa  (now  Wallis  Qonit\  nmi 
Whitchurch,  Oxon,  who  was  diainlMrited 
of  the  Barton  Pynaent  Batate,  SoiMnet 
by  his  uncle  Sir  Wm.  Pynseat.  Bart,  in 
favour  of  Wm.  Pitt,  first  £axl  «l  Chat- 
ham. 

In  Northumberland- street,  Nmr^rosd, 
aged  41,  Barbara  C.  C.  yauogeat  dao. 
of  the  late  Rev.  John  GoUinson,  ^Vicar  oi 
Kirkharle,  Northumberland. 

In  G  ouoester*pl.  Portaaan-aq.  a«d£d, 
EUzabeth,  relict  of  Samnel  Wad,  mq. 

Oct,  24.  In  Belgravo-aq.  aged  •^ 
William  Knight  Dehany,  esq.  late  Solici- 
tor to  the  Excise. 

In  Weymouth-st.  Portland>pl.  aged  Be, 
Mary,  reUct  of  Robert  Stone*  esq. 

At  the  house  of  a  ftiead*  Tonriagten. 
pL  Mary,  wife  of  GriflfUh  Moxria,  eaq.  oi 
Bamet,  Herts. 

Agad  80,  Thomaa  Holding,  «aq.  of 
South-st.  Greenwich* 

Oct.  25.  At  Greenwiok,  Grao»»  wUt 
of  Charles  Wynne,  eaq.  of  Garthmeilie. 

Oct.  87.  At  her  danghter'a  koaae. 
Middlesez-pl.  aged  87,  Catherine,  xriict 
of  Michael  Hajmanf  eaq.  of  ClemeatVian. 

In  Craven-st.  aged  68,  Mary,  wifo  oi 
William  Lewis  Lewis,  eaq.  lata  of  Oaae* 
burgh -St.  Reg0nt'a*Park. 

At  Kensington,  Marion,  relict  of  Je^^ 
Nathaniel  Rind,  esq.  suigeon,  Eaat  India 
Company,  and  formerly  superintendent  of 
the  government  lithographic  press,  Cal- 
cutta. 

Agad  66,  Thomas  Uoaegpod*  eaq*  eer. 
geon,  Blackman.at.  Soethwark. 

Aged  35>  the  Hon.  Arthur  Aaa^dev, 
eldest  aon  of  Viscount  Valentine.  lie 
married  in  1836  Flora-Mary,  daughter  utf 
R.  A.  Macdonald,  esq*  of  Clanronakl,  e»d 
niece  to  the  Earl  of  Mount  E^cr  B^lie, 
and  has  left  iaane  two  danghteca  ee^  ea« 
son. 

Oct,  88.    Aged  31,  Emasa,  mh  oi  Jo« 


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wph  Sottmes,  atq.  of  Fftrk-itreet,  Groi- 
Tenor-sqnare. 

At  Kensington  Palace,  aged  70,  Sophy, 
third  dan.  of  the  late  Lient.-Oen.  Wrn- 
yard,  and  for  many  yean  Bedchamber  Wo- 
man to  her  late  royal  highnen  the 
Prineeas  Angnsta. 

Oei.  99.  In  Bryantton-st.  Frances, 
wife  of  Edward  Tegart,  esq.  Inspector- 
Oen«  of  Army  Hospitals. 

In  Spencer-st.  Northampton-sq.  aged 
69,  Thomas  Baxter,  esq. 

At  Clarence  Cottage,  Gloneester-nte, 
•R^S^t's  Park,  aged  58,  Miss  Elisabeth 
Monitt. 

Oct,  30.  Aged  59,  John  Finch,  esq. 
of  Perejr-st.  Bedford-sq. 

At  Albany-road,  Camberwell,  aced  60, 
John  Haile,  esq.  Paymaster  and  Parser, 
R.N.  ofl806. 

LatHff,  At  Brompton,  Mrs.  M«  B.  Al- 
len, wife  of  Capt.  C.  D.  Alien. 

In  Union-st.  BlackMsrs-road,  aged  80, 
Hen.  Morland,  brother  of  the  celebrated 
pamter  of  that  name. 

Mr.  Wm.  Griere,  the  eminent  scene- 
painter  of  I>niry-laDe  Theatre. 

At  Holywell-st,  Milbank,  aged  89,  Mr. 
W.  H.  Keating,  of  the  band  of  her  Ma- 
jesty's  Theatre,  the  Philharmonic,  and  An- 
cient Concerts,  &c. 

At  Eaton-sq.  Mary,  dan.  of  the  late 
William  Chatfield,  esq.  of  Croydon. 

In  Harper*st.  Queen-sq.  aged  80,  the 
relict  of  Lewis  Knight,  esq.  late  of  South- 
anapton. 

^09.  1.  At  the  house  of  her  nnde,  H. 
H.  Lindsay,  esq.  Stanhope-terrace,  Hyde 
Park-gardens,  Janet,  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
Capt.  James  Harvey. 

Ellen  Maria,  eldest  dan.  of  H.  H.  Mor- 
timer, esq.  of  Upper  Tooting. 

At  Grove  HiU,  Camberwell,  aged  88, 
Mrs.  Grill,  relict  of  Claes  Grill,  esq.  for. 
merly  his  Swedish  Majesty's  ConsnUGen. 
in  this  country. 

^09.  8.  Lieut.  WiUiam  Vosper  (1796) , 
of  the  Military  Department,  Greenwich 
Hospital. 

At  his  mother's  residence  at  Hackney, 
aged  81,  Richard  Miguel,  youngest  son 
Of  the  late  Anthony  Jones,  esq.  of  King- 
ston, Jamaica. 

Ai»9.  3.  George  Mitchell  Tweedle,  esq. 
of  Wood-house,  Wandsworth. 

At  the  house  of  his  son-in-law,  R.  H. 
Lloyd,  esq.  Upper  Tooting,  aged  57,  Wil- 
liam Borradaile,  esq.  eldest  son  of  the  late 
Btchardson  Borradaile,  esq.  of  Bedford 
UiU. 

In  London,  aged  19,  Anna,  dau.  of 
Matthew  Pennefather,  esq.  of  New  Psrk, 
Casbel,  Tipperary. 

No9.  4.  At  Claphami  aged  76,  Jamei 
Haoisy,  eaq. 

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Nw,  5.  At  Larender-hill,  aged  79, 
Samuel  Greenwood,  esq. 

At  Fitsroy-sq.  aged  86,  Thomas  Abbott 
Green,  esq. 

Nov,  7.  At  Stroud  Green,  Homsey, 
aged  68,  William  Pattinson,  esq. 

Aged  70,  Anne,  wife  of  John  Uderton 
Burn,  esq.  solicitor. 

Not,  8.  At  Hammersmith,  aged  71  a 
Sarah,  relict  of  J.  F.  Hilditch,  esq. 

At  Conduit-street,  John  Stevenson,  esq. 
the  eminent  surgeon-oculist. 

Not,  9.  In  Brook 'St.  Grosvenor-sq. 
aged  33,. James  John  Best,  esq.  Major 
unattached,  late  of  84th  Reg.  youngest  son 
of  the  late  Capt.  Thomas  Best,  of  86th 
Regt.  and  grandson  of  the  late  Thomas 
Best,  esq.  of  Park  House,  Boxley,  Kent. 

Nov,  9.  At  New  Charch-st.  Lisson 
grove,  aged  86,  Jane,  wife  of  J.  W« 
Tracy,  esq. 

Nov.  14.  At  South  wick -crese.  Hyde 
Park,  Mary,  wife  of  Matthew  T.  D.  De 
Yitr^,  esq. 

At  Hackney,  aged  61,  Hylton  Dennis 
Hacon,  esq. 

Beds.— Oc/.  86.  At  Luton,  aged  81, 
Mary-Anne,  wife  of  Gibbon  N.  Walker, 
esQ. 

rfov.  7.  At  Bedford,  John  H.  Gow, 
esq.  late  of  Bexley  Heath. 

Berks. — Oct,  Tl,  At  Reading,  Mary, 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Nathaniel  Fenn, 
esq.  of  Botolph-lane,  London. 

Bucks. — Oct,  30.  At  High  Wycombe, 
aged  77,  William  Winter,  esq. 

Nov.  5.  At  Claptons  House,  Woobnm, 
aged  47,  P.  J.  Fromow,  esq. 

Cambridge.  —  Oct,  3.  At  Wisbech, 
aged  75,  Elizabeth,  relict  of  Ralph  Arch- 
bould,  esq. 

Cheshire.  —  Oct,  6.  At  Lea  Hall, 
aged  85,  Mary,  relict  of  Rev.  Thos. 
Wright,  Rector  of  Market  Bosworth, 
Leicestershire. 

Oct.  80.  At  Neston,  aged  64,  Joseph 
Lyon,  esq. 

Oct,  89.    At  the  house  of  her  brother, 
R.  Ardeme,  esq.  of  Tarporley,  aged  84, 
Susanna,  relict  of  Samuel  Hall,  esq.   of 
Castle-court,  Budge-row,  London,    so- 
licitor. 

Oct.  30.  At  his  seat.  The  Old  HaU, 
Mottram  en  Longendale,  Moses  Hadfield, 
esq.  an  active  Magistrate  for  the  county 
of  Derby,  and  the  last  survivor  of  three 
brothers  who  have  succeeded  to  that  pro* 
perty.  He  succeeded  to  the  estate  only 
about  a  year  back,  on  the  death  of  his 
elder  brother  Samuel  Hadfield,  esq.  a 
Magistrate  for  the  county. 

Xa/cfy.  At  Pnlford  rectory,  Ellen, 
dau.  of  the  late  Joseph  Parr,  esq.  of  War- 
rington. 


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CoKicwALL.<— JVbo.  8.  At  lYeTadlocVy 
near  Lannceston,  aged  48,  Mn.  Hocken, 
relict  of  Henry  Hocken,  e«q. 

Cumberland. —  Nov,  10.  AtCarlialei 
aged  79 1  Miss  Elisabeth  Pearson. 

Derby.  —  Oci.  20.  At  Chesterfield, 
aged  58,  Gilbert  Crompton,  esq. 

Oci.  28.  At  Somercoates,  aged  39, 
William  Sylrerwood,  esq. 

Devon. — Oct.  14.  Aged  64,  Sosannah, 
widow  of  the  Rer.  Samuel  filackall.  Rec- 
tor of  North  Cadbury,  and  Preb.  of  Wells. 

Oct.  15.  At  Budleigh  Salterton,  Har- 
net,  wife  of  William  Nation,  esq.  of  Ese* 
ter,  and  eldest  snrriving  dan.  of  Alex- 
ander H.  Hamilton,  esq.  of  the  Retreat. 

Oct.  18.  At  Torquay,  Clara- Jane,  dau. 
of  the  late  Evan  Thomas,  esq.  of  Llwyn- 
niadoc,  Brecknocksh.  and  formerly  of 
Sully,  Glamorgansh. 

At  Buckfastleigh,  aged  50,  James  Cole, 
esq* 

Oct.  19.  At  Plymouth,  aged  57,  Ca- 
tharine, wife  of  Commander  Mould,  R.N. 
and  dau.  of  the  late  Mr.  Oummoe,  of 
Treluckey,  in  the  parish  of  Cuby. 

Oct.  26.  At  Manley,  near  Tiverton, 
aged  65,  Henry  Manley,  esq.  an  active, 
judicious,  and  highly-respected  magis- 
trate of  Devonshire. 

Oct.  SB.  At  PnsUnch,  aged  55,  Ale- 
thea-Henrietta,  wife  of  the  Rev,  J.  Qouge, 
and  dau.  of  the  late  Rev.  T.  Roger,  of 
Back  way,  Herts. 

At  Stoke  Damerel,  aged  75,  John  Wood 
Nelson,  esq.  of  Hyde  Park  Gardens. 

Lately,  At  Plymouth,  at  an  advanced 
age,  LadyPellew,  relict  of  Sir  Edward 
Pellew. 

At  Torquay,  Katharine,  wife  of  W. 
Pollard,  esq.  and  eldest  dau.  of  the  late 
Rev.  Jelinger  Symons,  Rector  of  Whit- 
bourne,  Durham. 

Nov,  1.  At  her  son's  residence,  Ot- 
tery  St.  Mary,  aged  70,  Sarah,  relict  of 
Wm.  Taylor,  esq.  of  Ven  Ottcry. 

Nov.  7.     E.  I.  J.  C.  Bluett,  esq. 

At  Stonehouse,  Mary,  relict  of  Thos. 
Simpson,  esq.  M.D.,  R.N. 

Nov,  9.  At  the  residence  of  his  father- 
in-law,  Gen.  Walker,  Lime  Park,  Sid. 
month,  Capt.  T.  L.  Jenkins.  Sd  W.  T. 
Reg.  youngest  son  of  the  late  William 
Jenkins,  Vicar  of  Sidmouth. 

At  the  residfuce  of  her  parents.  Ply* 
mouth,  Anne-Elisabeth,  wife  of  N.  C. 
Stephens,  esq.  of  Truro. 

At  FoUaton  House,  Isabella,  third  dau. 
of  Stenley  Cary,  esq. 

Dorset.— Oef.  6.  At  Sherborne,  aged 
60,  John  Bartlett,  esq.  formerly  Lieut, 
in  the  Koyal  Cornwall  Militia. 

Oct.  18.  At  Westhay  House,  Hawk- 
ehuroh,  ag«d  89,  C.  Templeman,  esq. 
surviving  hia  wife  a  few  days  only. 


Oet,  91.  Aged  10,  Thonat  CMK.ciq. 
of  Halstock. 

At  Wimbome,  «gcd  78,  WtUianCatfie. 
man,  esq. 

Oct,  94.  At  Lvdtham,  agad  M,  1^ 
drew  Christian  Boode,  eaq. 

In  his  70th  year,  Thomas  FVbeks.  aq 
of  8herix>nie,  Dttnctriiire.  For  levm 
years  he  filled  th«  honourable  ofict  « 
Clerk  of  the  Peaee  for  Dorsetshire,  oa 
for  nearly  half  a  ecntbry  steward  to  tb 
Earl  of  Digby,  bflsidea  eoaduettag  i  {**- 
fessional  bwinets  of  cotttidcnble  fluif^:- 
tude,  ift  the  most  uptiglit  a»d  hooosnt^'' 
manner.  His  body  was  interred  is  tk 
&mily  vault  at  Maraton. 

Oct.  28.  At  WirabOTM  Ifinslcr,  Min 
eldest  dau.  of  the  late  Rsr.  Jamas  Minr 
Vicar  of  Avebvry,  Wilts. 

Nov.  6.  At  Tumwood,  Mary,  wife  ^ 
Major-Gen.  Sir  Dudley  Bt.  Leger  BX 
Knt.  C.B.  and  K.T.S.  mud  widow  ofMffi 
Davis,  esq  of  Tumwood. 

DuKHAM.— iSTov.  3.  At  Hsrtk|»»^ 
aged  39,  CaroUne-Praoocs,  wifeofCkm- 
topher  Davison,  esq.  lata  Mayor  of  tb* 
borough,  and  dau.  of  the  late  Major  T.V- 
HasweU,  3d  Buffs.  (See  Obit,  for  Mr 
1839,  p.  47.)    She  was  married  in  1^ 

EsBKZ.— Oef.  14.  Aged 84, Jsaenw- 
phila,  wife  of  Roger  Sturley  Nann, «? 
surgeon,  of  Colchester,  and  eldest  dtt. : 
Thomas  Joseph  Turner,  esq.  of  Sttt«^ 

Oct,  25.  At  Brooklands,  Oakky,  •?« 
66,  John  Bailey,  esq.  M.  D.  fonacHt  t 
Harwich. 

Oct.  n.  At  Upton,  aged  GS.  Aw 
relict  of  John  Henry  Wackerbarth,  en 

Nov.  5.  Aged  19,  Elisabeth,  ttced 
dau.  of  the  Rev.  J.  Groenvrood,  Pi^ 
Rector  of  Colne  Engaine. 

GLOucBSTsm — Oct,  17.  At  Cbrfw- 
ham,  Mary- Anne,  widow  of  Capt.  Ortt*- 
sill,  R.N.  formerly  Commander  of  b^ 
Majesty's  ship  Proepero,  yonager  dis.  •' 
the  late  Christopher  Speaeer,  e^-^ 
Hanwell,  Middlesex,  and  aister  of  t^ 
Rev.  Charles  Spencer,  Vicar  of  Biifc^T ' 
Stortford. 

Oct.  9\.  At  Westover  Hoase,  Bltt»« 
aged  38,  Mary,  wife  of  Pirwidi  ^^ 
Mantell,  esq. 

Lately,  In  his  58th  year,  fro"  » 
accidental  discharge  of  hto  gan  whiM  oo' 
shooting,  Lieut.-Col.  Charica  Davte.  • 
Bicknor  Court,  Glouceaterali.  a  di*s- 
guished  oAoer  of  the  Hon.  B.  !•  ^  * 
Bombay  Establishment. 

At  Cheltenham,  aged  64,  Joseph  Over- 
bury,  esq.  . 

At  Gloucester,  aged  49,  Joseph  F^ 

esq.  ,      . 

Nov,  4.    At  the  Hotirella,  Brfitolt  "T 

77,  Joseph  HelHoar,  esq. 

At  Bristol,  aged  70,  John  Rith,  m- 


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iVb».  8.  At  CHftoB,  i(td  IB,  Legh- 
Richmond,  seoond  ion  of  the  Rev.  James 
MimhaU,  Rector  of  St.  Mtry-le-Port. 
and  grandson  of  the  late  Rev.  Legh  Rich- 
mond. 

Hants. — Oei,  8.  At  Yarmoath,  aged 
63,  Capt.  Richard  Neslen,  son  of  the 
late  John  Mealen,  eso.  of  Bnrgh  Castle, 
SolTolfc. 

Oei.  SI.  At  Lymington,  aged  71,  Mary 
Lees,  widow  of  the  Rev.  William  Hooper, 
B.D.  fojrmerly  Rector  of  Moor  Monkton, 
Yorksh.  and  perpetual  Curate  of  Milton. 

Oct.  23.  Aged  45,  Anne,  wifs  of  Sa- 
muel St.  Barbe,  esq. 

Oei,  86.  At  Winchester,  aged  (i3, 
Elttaheth,  wife  of  John  King,  esq.  of 
Southampton. 

Oei.  87.  At  Sonthsea,  aged  51,  Geo. 
Henry  Arnold,  esq.  of  Ashby  Lodfl;e,  oo. 
Northampton,  and  Mirables.Ule  of  Wight, 
Deputy  Lieut,  lor  the  co.  of  Northamp- 
ton, and  a  Magistrate  of  the  counties  of 
Warwick  and  Northampton. 

Oei.  31 .  At  Winchester  College,  Geo. 
•eoond  son  of  the  Rev.  Prebendiury  Cor- 
nish,  Vicar  of  Kenwyn  and  Kea,  Corn- 
wall. 

Hbabvohd.— ATov.  6.  At  the  rectory, 
Bishopatone,  aged  40,  Uvedale  Price,  esq. 
of  MongeweU  House,  Oxon. 

Kent — Oei.  80.  At  Boughton  place, 
on  a  visit  to  his  brother  T.  Rider,  esq. 
aged  75,  Ingram  Rider,  esq.  of  London. 

At  Gravesend,  aged  60,  Mary-Elizabeth, 
dau.  of  the  late  John  Thomas  Atkyns,  esq. 
and  wife  of  Major-Gen.  Charles  Palmer, 
m«oy  years  Member  of  Parliament  for  the 
city  of  Bath. 

Oei.  3U  AtWoolwicb,  aged59,  CH>t. 
James  Eyre  Thomson,  Royal  Mariaes. 

Oei.  88.  At  Bexley,  Anne,  youngest 
dau.  of  the  late  Christopher  Chapman,  esq. 
of  Sntton-at-Hooe. 

Oei.  83.  At  the  Vicarage,  Stoke, 
aged  86 »  James  Pearson,  esq.  late  Col- 
ioetor  of  Excise,  of  Rochester. 

Oei.  84.  At  Tunbridge  Wells,  Char, 
lotte,  wife  of  the  Rev.  Baden  PoweU,  Sa- 
vilian  Professor  of  Geometry  in  the  Uni- 
varsity  of  Oxford. 

At  Dover,  aged  49,  J.  H.  Waldnck,  esq. 
of  Naw  Bond-street,  London. 

Nmf.  I.  Jane,  wife  of  Charles  Wilks, 
jun.  esq.  kte  of  Greenhithe. 

Abe.  2.  At  Hawkhnrst,  aged  89,  Elisa- 
bath-Maryt  wife  of  U.  Young,  eaq.  of  the 
Bombay  Civil  Service. 

Moe,  4.  At  Dover,  aged  78,  Joseph 
Pannell,  gent,  late  of  Cnllompton,  Devon. 

N99.  6.  At  the  Priory,  Ide.  aged  SI, 
Mary,  relict  of  Edward  White,  esq. 

Nkfv,  8.  At  Sevtnoaks,  George  L. 
Austen,  esq.  fifth  son  of  the  late  Francis 
M.  MmaHrnkf  aaq.  of  Ki^pington. 


LANOAaTBft.— Oe/.  12.  Aged  38,  Han- 
nah, wife  of  Thomas  Wrigley,  esq.  of  Tim« 
berhurst.  near  Bury. 

Oct.  88.  Aged  83,  Anne,  wife  of  Jo- 
nathan  Mallaliea,  esq.  of  Lower  Brough- 
ton,  near  Manchester. 

Lbickstbr.— Oc/.  10.  Isabella,  wife 
of  Sir  George  Duckett,  B&rt..and  niece  of 
the  late  Gen.  Floyd.  She  was  married  in 
1810. 

Oct,  18.  At  Anstey  Pastures,  near 
Leicester,  aged  26^  John  Frewea,  esq. 
youngest  son  of  the  late  John  Frewea 
Turner,  esq.  of  Cole  Overton  Hall,  and 
of  BrickwaU  House,  Northiam,  Sussex. 

Oei.  14.  At  UUesthorpe,  Sarah,  wife 
of  William  Gillson,  esq. 

Oei.  19.  At  Withoote  Hall,  aged  18 
months,  Elizabeth-Mary- Harriet,  dau.  of 
the  Rev.  Edw.  Quenby  Ashby. 

Nov.  7.  Aged  58,  Ellen,  wife  of  Mr. 
Joseph  Wagstaff,  of  Warrington,  solicitor. 

liaieiy.  At  Knighton,  aged  44,  Ellen 
L.  Townsend,  third  dau.  of  the  late  Rev. 
R.  L.  Townsend,  O.D.  of  Bishop's  Cleeva* 

Lincoln.-- Oc/.  13.  Aged  76,  at  Kir- 
ton  Lindsey,  Martha,  second  dau.  of  tha 
lata  Rev.  Booth  Hewitt,  Vicar  of  Caistor 
and  Rector  of  Rothwell. 

Oct.  18.  At  Moultoo,  Mr.  Thoroton 
Pocklington,  a  farmer  and  grasier  of  much 
opulence  and  strict  integrity. 

MiDDLKSEX. — Oct.  13.  AtWhetstona, 
aged  48,  John  Robert  Williams,  esq.  of 
Lambeth  Hill,  Doctors*  Commons. 

Oei.  28. — At  Lower  Edmonton,  aged 
73,  J.  A.  Chappell,  esq. 

Oei.  85.  At  Winchmora-hiU,  aged  63, 
Mrs.  M.  R.  Yallowley,  relict  of  Jacob 
Yallowley,  esq. 

Oei.  29.  At  Cowley,  Miss  Elisabeth 
Dagnall. 

Monmouth.  —  Oei.  17.  At  Castlg 
House,  Chepstow,  aged  87,  Msry- Julia, 
wife  of  B.  M.  Bradford^  esq.  Coroner  for 
Chepstow. 

Oei.  81.  At  Blaenavon,  aged  78,  Mrs. 
Hannah  Pearce. 

Nov.  8.  At  Mount  Ballsn,  near  Chep- 
stow, the  wife  of  Major  Gen.  Sir  Edward 
Keynton  Williams,  K.C.B.  and  dan.  of 
the  late  J.  Hawker,  esq.  of  Plymouth. 

Norfolk. — Oei.  8.  At  the  house  of 
her  brother  the  Rev.  J.  Day,  of  Hetherset, 
aged  78,  Mrs.  Collett,  of  Bungay,  relict 
of  S.  CoUett,  esq.  late  of  Foxhall,  Suffolk* 

Oei.  88.  Ag»l  66,  John  Freame  Raa*- 
ney,  esq.  of  Great  Yarmouth. 

Oei.  84.  At  East  Dereham,  aged  98, 
Jane,  relict  of  Rev.  Charles  Sbeaid  Level 
Molineux,  Rector  of  Garboldisham. 

Oei.  85.  At  Stoke  Ferry,  aged  63, 
Henry  Steele,  esq. 

Oei.  86.  At  Tunstead,  aged  83,  EUsa. 
beth,  relict  of  Th^mu  Maak,  Mq. 


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NomTBAinToii. — Sepi,  77.  Al  Bug- 
brookc.  •gtd  SSf  Aona-Mam«  widow  ^ 
John  RuskU,  esq.  C«pt.  ol  tlM  Tovccttor 
Troop  of  Ycomaory. 

No9'  ^.  At  Walfrtve,  Mary  Aju,  wife 
of  the  Rev.  Jobii  Cox. 

Abr.  5.  At  Poterborough,  aged  81, 
Eleanor,  widow  of  tbc  Rev.  Henry  n«e- 
man.  Rector  of  Alvaltan. 

NoarauumKiLLAirD. —  Oct.  SI.  At 
Newcastle.on-Tyne,  Mr.  Wiilian  GiU 
Tbuvpson,  autbor  of  aona  poetical  and 
other  piecea,  and  was  repoitar  for  tba 
fftwcmttU  CkronirU;  which  sitvation 
he  had  filled  for  twenty  yeara  or  more. 
On  the  recent  occasion  of  Mr.  Untt  being 
entertained  at  Oatcibead,  he  was  required 
to  report  the  proceediagi.  He  attended, 
but  after  the  dinner  he  repaired  to  a  pnblie 
bouse,  so  that  he  was  incapable  of  copying 
his  notes.  That  day  and  the  fbUowiag 
passed,  and  the  proprietors  were  under 
the  necessity  of  procuring  a  report  else- 
where. Thompson  was  accordingly  dia* 
charged.  He  subsequently  applied  to  be 
reinstated,  promising  amendment,  but  his 
application  was  refused ;  and  on  the  Mon- 
day following  (Oct.  SI)  he  left  the  office 
of  hb  former  employers,  the  Messrs. 
Hodgson,  went  to  a  public  house,  where 
he  drank  some  beer ;  from  thence  he  pro- 
ceeded to  the  Literary  and  Philosophical 
So^ety,  and,  hanog  taken  out  a  book, 
went  home  with  it ;  returned  again  to  the 
society,  and  obtaioed  the  key  of  the  water- 
closet  from  the  librarian.  He  repaired 
thither,  and  with  his  pen-knife  inflicted 
several  deep  wounds  on  his  throat,  which 
caused  his  death.  He  lay  for  a  whole 
week,  when  his  daughter  bringing  back 
the  book,  the  librarian  asked  her  for  the 
key  of  the  water-closet,  saying  her  father 
had  taken  it  away  a  week  before.  The 
child  replied,  her  father  had  been  missing 
a  week  ;  search  was  then  made,  and  the 
body  of  the  deceased  was  found. 

Oct,  S3.  At  Shawdon  Hall,  aged  32* 
Mary-Anne,  dau.  of  William  Pawsoo,  Esq. 

Notts. —iSTw.  2.  At  West  Park  House, 
Cotham,  William  Bailey,  esq.  fi.A. 

Oxroao.— ATor.  6.— At  Market  Dray- 
ton, Sarah,  wife  of  Capt.  Horner,  late  of 
55th  Reg. 

Salov.^  Stpt.  30.  At  Shrewsbury, 
aged  39i  Greaville  Jones,  esq.  Uta  of 
CSnest^r. 

Ocf .  24.  Edward  Hosier  WilUama,  esq. 
of  Eaton  Mascott, 

Ocf.  26.  At  Ludlow,  Catharine,  eldest 
dan.  of  Geor|t  Henry  Brown,  esq.  of 
Marine-sq.  Brighton. 

JVoe.  5.  At  Eaton  Masoott,  Frederick 
Williams f  esq. 

SoMERSBT, — (ki.  14.  Susannah,  reliot 
q{  Rev.  Samuel  BlackaU,  Rector  of  North 


Gadbary,  adcldtst  dmmJoi^BtntUU  Imt 
Lewis,  esq.  formerly  of  Cliffeon,  sad  e 
the  ialaad  ol  JaoMicw. 

Oei»  16.  At  Rait  Brsat,  Ae  Ron.'Mn 
Wm.  Towry  Law,  'wtfe  «f  ttm  Htm.  c. 
Bev.  W.  T.  Law,  Cbsmeeltor  of  the  ^»'^ 
of  Bath  and  Walla.  Sb«  vnav  f ovtk  du 
of  the  late  and  aister  of  the  present  I^. 
Gimwas,  naniad  in  183 1 «  nod  hsdasv 
ncrons  fiusily. 

Oct,  21.  At  Flaz-Boartoo,  agoJ  "^ 
Saimb,  eldest  dan.  oltbe  UMm  Jaaies  Sp- 
row,  esq. 

Oei,  23.    At  Green  Pnrk,  Bath.  E'^. 
beth,  relict  of  John  Collibee  Horton.  E^. 

Ocf.SO.  At  Widcombo-crewent,  Ba  ^ 
aged  34,  James  Frederic  Elton,  esq.  i^' 
of  40th  R^.  third  son  of  Jnoob  Eltoo.  es. 
of  Witham,  Essei.  and  nopftow  of  lhel@ 
Adm.  Sir  WilUam  Yoangr*  G.C.&  c- 
Vice«Admiral  of  Eagiaiid. 

At  Mootagne  House,  Bsidl,  Mary,  r;  '" 
of  J.  M.  R.  Deere,  Esq.  and  dan.  of  ^ 
late  John  Cane,  Esq.  Ittoo  Coart,  Mci- 
iiMraihahire. 

Lately.      At  Bath,   a|^   BS,    MrH 
Lamb,  widow  of  CoL  Willinm  Lamb, 
the  Bengal  Establiahment. 

At  the  house  of  Edwrsvd  Dyne,  ef, 
Braton,  Haniet.Thrale,  wife  of  Those 
HUton  Keith,  eaq.  of  the  Grove,  '.Higkgt^ 

At  Wookey,  Joaepk  Taylor  Coles,  of^ 
paper  maker,  of  WeUs,  brother  of  C*. 
ODfes,  of  the  same  place,  and  one  of  t^ 
magistrates  of  Somerset. 

Aov.  2.  At  an  advanced  age,  at  CW 
Edith,  eldest  dan.  of  the  late  Robert  C^- 
ner,  eaq. 

Aev.  13.  AtBarrHoeae,  nenrTaoBt^S' 
aged  58,  Col.  Sir  Charles  Webb  Vaset, 
K.H. 

STArroan.— Oc/.  30.  AgodK,  M«fi^ 
Ellen,  wife  of  J.  Watts  RnaaeU,  £»I  "< 
Ham  HaU,  and  BigginHonse,  NorthaailiO- 

At  Burton^n-Trent,  ^ed  39,  Cksri<» 
James  Allsopp,  Esq. 

Suffolk.— Or/.  15.  At  KesatngbaH. 
aged  17,  Henry.WiUiam,  aeoodd  too  o( 
the  Rev.  D.  G.  Norris,  Vioar  of  the  sbfl«e 
parish* 

At  Ipswich,  aged  &8,  Horace  TffO^' 
esq.  formerly  a  suigeon  at  GisliaghaiB' 

SvaaKT.-~Orf.  10.  At  Lower  Tooda^t 
aged  7S,  Peter  Dormay,  esq. 

Ocf.  IG.  Aged  34,  Edwin  iSBis/  esq 
of  Lower  1\Use-hill. 

Oet.ll.  At  Croydon,  Christian  TsrV4 

esq.  aged  77. 

Oei.  S4.  At  Epsom,  aged  102,  Mir7) 
widow  of  George  Pluiston,  esq.  of  Sevev' 
oaks. 

OH.  29.  At  Woodbridge,  Alice,  ^ 
infant  dau.  of  Ross  D.  Mangles,  esq.  M-^' 

Ner  ^     -^*  '•^de  House,  Gmldford. 


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JSo9>  6,  At  Ntttfidd,  MrSi  HtniioD, 
aged  72. 

SussBx.— Oc/.  7.  At  Br%fatoo,  Mary 
Wliitwortli  Uoyd,  eldest  dan.  of  the  late 
Cept.  Whitwortli  Lloyd,  R.N, 

0<i.  11.  At  Brighton,  Miis  Dobie,  dao. 
of  the  late  Jamea  0obie,  esq.  aolioitov,  of 

I'fNldoQ* 

Oct,  18.  At  the  Glovceater  Hotels 
Brighton,  aged  69,  Col.  William  Spear, 
man* 

Oc/.  19.  At  Brighton,  Jane,  the  wife 
of  William  Orr,  esq.  of  Rnssell-pl.  Fits. 
roy*sq.  London. 

Oct.  S3.  Near  Fletching,  aged  68, 
H.B.T.  Crosier,  esq.  late  of  the  Bombay 
Civil  Service. 

At  Brighton,  aged  80,  Capt.  Edward 
Lorkin  Walford. 

Oct.  S6.  At  St.  Leonard'a-on.Sea, 
aged  14,  Charlotte,  second  dan.  of  the 
late  George  More  Nesbitt,  of  Caimhill, 
Lanarkshire. 

Oct.  S9.  At  the  Friars,  Winchelsea, 
aged  50,  Sarah  Cartels,  wife  of  Richard 
StUeman,  esq. 

Oct,  31.  At  Brighton,  Jsmea  Blaok- 
ledge  Brackenbury,  esq.  of  Manchester. 

JLattl^.  Mr.  Thomas  Roxton,  a  very 
old  inhabitant  of  Brighton,  worth  some 
10,000/.  having  lived  alone  for  many 
yearsy  denying  himself  every  comfort, 
and  preparing  what  food  he  did  indulge 
Itk  himself.  His  property,  under  a  will 
made  six  years  ago,  goes  to  his  sister's 
children,  but  they  are  not  to  be  found. 

Aov.  4.     In  Sussex-sq.  Brighton^  Eli* 
zabeth  Anne,  wife  of  R.  Carr  Foster,  esq. 
iVev,  7.    J«  Constable,  esq.  of  Storring- 
ton,  an  old  and  respectable  inhabitant. 

Nov,  9.  The  wife  of  J.  G.  Gibson, 
esq.  of  Sandgate,  near  Storrington. 

Waawick.— 5i^.  5.  Aged86,6eoige 
Wakefield,  esq.  of  Minworth  Graves. 

Orl.  10.  Aged  31,  Joseph  Simons, 
esq.  M.D.  of  Rugby,  eldest  son  of 
William  Simons,  esq.  of  Ullesthorpe. 

Oct.  21.  At  Leamington,  Catharine, 
relict  of  Thomas  Finlow,  esq.  of  Barton^ 
on-Trent,  and  dau.  of  the  Biev.  T.  lAcas, 
formerly  Vicar  of  Kenilworth. 

Oei*  95.  At  Leamington,  Richard 
Radcliflb,  eaq.  the  excellent  and  nniver- 
sally-respected  Town-clerk  of  Liverpool. 

Oct,  91,  At  Coventry,  aged  33,  Georgi- 
ana  Maria,  wife  of  J.  B.  Twist,  esq. 

WiiTa.— Oef.  27.  Aged  71,  Mary,  re- 
lict of  John  Slade,  esq.  for  neariy  half  a 
centsry  a&  eminent  soUoltor  practising  at 
Bevitts. 

Xe/e/y.  At  Hartgrove,  Mary,  dan.  of 
the  Ule  Rev.  Philip  RUeont,  of  Hooks- 

tnKid. 

Abe.  8.    At  Amesbnry,  aged  65,  Finn- 

d§  Stephen  Longy  esq. 


Not^  10.  At  Wootton  Basiett,  aged 
80,  BHsabeth,  relict  of  Thomas  Neate, 
esq.  of  Salthrop. 

WoacESTXK.— Ocf.  91.  At  Great  Mat- 
¥sm,  aged  ^,  Robert,  second  son  .of 
Charies  Horsfall  Bill,  esq.  of  Storthes 
Hall,  la  the  oo.  of  Yorir. 

0€t.  98.  At  Cpton-ttpon-Sevem,  aged 
85,  Mrs.  Ann  Pearce,  formerly  of  Cowes- 
den  Han,  relict  of  Mr.  John  Pearce,  of 
Severn  Stoke. 

Oct,  30.  At  Upper  Wick,  near  Wor- 
cester, Sophia,  wife  of  the  Rev.  William 
Dewe,  Curate  of  Weston*on-Trent. 

At  Malvern  Wells,  aged  67,  Eliza,  re- 
lict of  Gen.  Humfrey. 

York.— Ocf.  6.  At  Wadsley  Housci 
near  Sheffield,  aged  66,  William  Smith, 
esq.  recently  of  Little  Bowden,  Northamp. 

Get,  7.  At  Cleethorpes,  Alfred,  only 
son  of  Dr.  Hannath,  of  York.  His  re- 
mains were  interred  at  Killingfaolme. 

Ocf.  10.  Aged  86,  WilUam  Haden, 
esq.  of  Clifton,  near  York. 

Oct.  19.  At  Kingston-npon-Hull,  aged 
64,  John  Marshall,  esq.  late  of  Leyton- 
stone,  Essex. 

Oct,  16.    At  Clifton,  near  York,  Ed- 
ward Henry  Dodd,  esq.  eldest  son  of  the 
late  Major  Thomas  Bodd,  Royal  Art.  se- 
ecretary  and  aide-de-camp  to  the  Duke 
of  Kent 

Oct,  19.  At  Middleham,  aged  34,  Ca- 
therine-EUxabeth,  wife  of  the  l&v.  WilUam 
AtthUl,  of  Brandiston  Hall,  co.  York, 
Sob- Dean  and  Canon  Residentiary  of  the 
Collegiate  Church,  Middleham. 

Oct.  93.  At  her  father's  residence, 
Yarm,  Mary,  wife  of  Major  Lowe. 

Oct,  30.  Near  York,  Sarah,  eldest  dau. 
of  the  Rev.  Wilfred  Hudleston,  late  Rec- 
tor of  Handsworth. 

At  Guisbom,  J.  Sykes,  esq.  of  Bruton- 
st.  London,  son  of  the  late  G.  Sykes,  esq, 
of  York. 

Lately.  At  Caley  Hall,  aged  71, 
Prances- Elizabeth  Brandling,  of  Lans* 
down-ter.  Cheltenham,  relict  of  Charles 
John  Brandling,  esq.  of  Gosforth. bouse, 
Northumberland,  M.P.  for  Newcastle. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  William  Hawkes- 
worth,  of  Hawkesworth,  co.  York,  esq. 
and  was  left  a  widow  without  children, 
Fbb.  1,  1896. 

Nw.  9.  At  Sutton,  Sophia.Alethea« 
wife  of  the  Rev.  Nicholas  Walton,  incum- 
bent of  that  parish,  and  eldest  dau.  of  the 
late  John  Green,  esq.  of  Roxby,  Lincoln- 
shire. 

Disney  Alexander,  esq.  M.D.  of  Lupset. 
near  Widcefield,  a  gentleman  distinguished 
by  his  professional  talents. 

Walbs.—OcI.  13.  At  Llygodig  House, 
Montgomeryshire,  Charles  Mil  ward  Do- 
Tsston  Hamphreyi,  esq.   coroner,  only 


670 


Obitvaky. 


[Dec 


MB  of  the  late  Charles  Hnmphreya,  esq. 
of  Fennant,  and  nephew  of  the  late  Capt. 
Frederick  Jones,  of  Brecon. 

Oei.  S7«  Charlotte,  and  for  more  than 
50  years,  Uie  devoted  wife  of  Henry  Allen, 
eaq.  of  the  Lod^,  Breconshire,  and  only 
surviving  sister  of  the  late  Lieut. -Gen. 
Sir  Edward  Howarth,  K.C.B.,  K.G.,  of 
Banstead,  Surrey. 

Lately,  At  Carmarthen,  William  Phil* 
lips,  esq.  merchant,  aged  73.  He  was 
for  many  years  one  of  the  most  respect- 
able timber  merchants  in  South  Wales. 
In  the  year  1841  he  was  High  Sheriff  for 
the  county  of  Carmarthen ;  he  had  also 
been  Mayor  of  the  borough  of  Carmar- 
then, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
one  of  the  Aldermen. 

At  Ynisycwm,  near  Lanelly,  in  his 
70th  year,  Samuel  Broom,  esq. 

Nov,  3.  At  Fontriffeth,  Frances,  only 
dau.  of  the  late  Thomas  Mostyn  Edwards, 
esq.  of  Cilcen  Hall,  co.  of  Flint. 

^^ov,  8.  At  the  firyn,  near  Swansea, 
aged  56,  Thomas  Eden,  esq. 

ScoTLAKD. — Get.  10.  At  Edinburgh, 
aged  38,  John  Shedden  Fatriclc,  esq.  of 
Hessihead,  F.R.S.E. 

Oct.  16.  At  Minefield,  in  Appin,  K. 
B.  aged  S6,  John  Kermack,  esq.  eldest 
■on  of  John  Kermack,  esq.  writer  to 
the  signet,  of  Broughton*pl.  Edinburgh. 

Nov,  2.  At  Polmont,  near  Falkirk, 
James  Gray,  esq.  one  of  the  proprietors, 
and  for  many  years  manager,  of  the  North 
British  Advertiser. 

Ikbland. — Oct.  8.  AtKildare,  liewls 
"VldoUe  Kelly,  esq.  late  of  the  13th 
Royal  Lancers,  second  son  of  the  late 
Capt.  Thomas  Kelly,  of  New  Abbey, 
county  Kildare,  brother  to  the  late  Ma- 
jor Ponsonby  Moore  Kelly,  of  the  24th 
reg.  and  cousin  to  the  late  Col.  Kelly,  of 
the  Royal  Life  Guards. 

Oct.  16.  At  Dublin,  Mary  Anne,  relict 
of  the  Rev.  Roger  Forde,  Rector  of 
Cmmlin,  co.  Dublin. 

Oct.  18.  At  Dublin,  Elizabeth,  widow 
of  R.  E.  P.  Coote,  esq.  of  the  Royal  York 
Crescent,  Clifton. 

Oct,  S6.  At  Simmon  Court,  Donny- 
Vrook,  George  Howell,  esq.  of  Moles- 
worth-st.  Dublin. 

Nov.  4.  At  Blackhall-pl.  Dublin,  Mary- 
Ann,  relict  of  Capt.  Irwin,  late  of  the 
88th  reg.  and  dau.  of  the  late  James  Gell, 
Ciq.  of  Peeling,  in  the  co.  of  Sussex. 

J«R8XT.— ae<.  23.  At  St.  Helier's, 
Jersey,  aaed  49,  Lieut.  John  Shirreff. 

East  lNDUs.^-y«/y  27.  At  Chitta- 
goiig,  Tlionas  John  Hogue,  esq.  youngest 
son  of  the  late  Arthur  Hogue,  esq.  of 
Barrow-bouae,  Somersetshire. 

jituf.  3.  Near  Dinapore,  Capt.  WU- 
Uam  Thomas  Wilson,  of  the  58th  Reg.  of 


Bengal  N.  I.,  ton  of  MijoNGea.  IboM 
Wilson,  C.B.,  of  the  Hon.  Coofuy'i 
Service. 

At  Allahabad,  aged  96»  Dr.  W.  M 
H  C  S 

Au^.  25.  At  Almorah,  Uaa,  Cbria 
Vernon  Brown,  of  the  82d  Begt  of  Bo- 
gal  N.  I.,  son  of  Mr.  Geoige  Brows,  Itft 
of  New  Boad-at. 

Auff  28.  At  Calcutta,  Frederick  Got. 
Hawkes,  esq.  aged  26,  son  of  Dr.  Uawkti 
of  London. 

Aug.  29.  At  Secunderabad,  iged  S. 
Clarence  Begbie,  Senior  Ensign  of  tbe  14 
Madras  N.  I.,  son  of  John  B«gb»fC^ 
of  CamberweU. 

Sept,  10.  At  Calcutta,  st  tl»  ns- 
denoe  of  his  mother,  aged  16,  Ed«^ 
Harvey,  fourth  son  of  the  lito  Fial<is 
Mello,  esq. 

Sept.  13.  Of  dyienteiy,  st  Hosawk. 
Bengal,  aged  36,  Brevet  Capt.  Horr 
Coffin  Reynolds,  Adj.  40th  R«t.  ISI 
fourth  son  of  the  late  Wm.  R«pob 
esq.  of  Malpass-honse,  MonmoatbsbiR. 

Sept.  19.  At  Lalee,  near  Ahocdibii 
aged  37  f  Capt.  Osbert  Davenport  Ott)ef 
1st  Bombay  European  Regt.  (Vosilim; 

Abroad.— ifa^  19.  AtMaddn,Ne< 
Sooth  Wales,  Campbell  Forbei,  c^ 
youngest  son  of  the  late  Major  Arts* 
Forbes,  of  Stirling  Castle. 

May  28.   At  Sydney,  New  South  Wik^^ 

aged  21 ,  Emily- Agnes,  third  daa.of  Jv^ 
Elliott,  esq.  late  of  Great  Ormoad-^ 
Bloomsbury. 

Sept At  St.  Jbine's,  Cu^ 

William  Amherst  Hale,  eaq.  late  Ci(>t<3 
the  52nd  Light  Infantry. 

Sept,  19.  At  Goderich,  Upper  dss^-i 
Henry  Hyndman,  esq.  Sheriff  of  ^ 
Huron  District,  youngest  son  of  tbe  ^Ji' 
Col.  H.  Hyndman,  of  the  Hon.  Bastlsa 
Company's  Service. 

Sept.  23.  Charles,  eldest  son  c^  Edn' 
Wilkinson,  esq.  of  Dorset-sq.  RegcaC) 
Park.  He  was  crossing  tbe  St^lA^J^" 
with  three  companions,  when  a  vw^' 
tornado  burst  upon  them,  and  all  Ip^ 

Oct.  5.  At  Geneva,  Lieut. -Ges.  ^ 
Eustace,  late  of  the  Royal  Engineen.  n? 
commissions  were  dated  as  follows :  I^^' 
8th  May,  1790;  Capt.  2nd  Sept.  V.^- 
Major,  3rd  Oct.  1798 ;  Ueut.-CoL  5?i 
Sept.  1803  ;  Col.  1st.  Jan.  1812;  }i^ 
Gen.  4th  June,  1814;  and  Lieot.-Cei 
22nd  July,  1830.  , 

Oct.  8.  At  GibralUr,  MsMrtha,  «tft  « 
Denzll  Ibbetson,  esq.  Depoty  Consul*''^ 
GeneraL 

Oct.  9.  At  Bnissels,  Aane,  «tft  ** 
Charies  F.  Alder,  esq.  of  Coaham  U^ 
Hants.  . 

At  Prague, aged  59,  tbe  Wnc$0^ 
Ansslm  of  Tour  and  TUb« 


1844.] 


Obituary. 


671 


Oct,  13.  At  Paris,  Dr.  Wyu,  tecond 
son  of  the  late  James  Wjsei  esq.  Sargeon 
on  the  Madras  establishment. 

Oef,  14.  At  sea,  aged  44,  Capt.  Sunp- 
son,  of  the  Llan  Ramney,  of  Hall.  He 
had  been  ten  years  in  the  above  shipt  and 
formerly  commanded  the  Victory.  He 
was  highly  esteemed  as  a  commander  in 
the  emimtion  serrice,  and  his  loss  will  be 
deeply  felt. 

Oef.  28.  At  Bonlogne-sor-Her,  aged 
65,  Samnel  Fothergill  Lettsom,  esq.  son 
of  the  late  Dr.  Lettsom,  of  GroTe  Hill, 
Camberw^t 

Latelf.  At  Madrid,  Edward  Bell 
Stephens,  esq.  for  many  years  connected 


with  the  London  press,  and  at  the  period 
of  his  death  Madrid  correspondent  of  a 
contemporary  jonrnal. 

At  Paris,  aged  76,  Madame  Charlotte 
de  Grouchy,  widow  of  the  celebrated 
Cabanis.  This  lady,  distinguished  for  her 
amiable  qualities,  Uved  in  the  society  of 
the  most  remarkable  philosophers  of  the 
conclusion  of  the  18th  and  of  the  begin- 
ning of  the  19th  centuries.  She  was 
sister  to  Marshal  Grouchy,  and  sister-in- 
law  to  the  celebrated  Condorcet. 

JVbv.  9.  At  Saulieu,  France,  on  her 
way  to  Naples,  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Reid,  relict 
of  Nerile  Raid,  esq.  of  Runnymede,  Berlu. 


TABLE  OF  MORTALITY  IN  THE  METROPOLIS. 

(lodading  the  District  of  Wandsworth  and  Clapham.) 

"^ntm  tkt  ReNrtu  Uiued  by  the  RtgUtrar  Cfenerai, 

DSATRS  RfiGiBTEAED  from  OcTOBEA  26  to  NovEMBBH  16,  184i,  (4  weeks.) 

Under  15 2020^ 

l&to60 1239  (m^ 

60  and  upwards        691  /^^ 
Age  not  specified      12  3 


Males         2035  i  ofw^o 
Females     1927  J  *^^ 


AVERAGE  PRICE  OF  CORN,  Nov.  19. 

«•    d, 

37    7 

PRICE  OF  HOPS,  Nov.  22. 
Sussex  Pockeu,  6/.  St.  to  6/.  Ot.— Kent  PockeU,  7/.  Os.  to  12/.  Ot, 


Wheat. 

Barley. 

Oats. 

Rye. 

Beans. 

«.     d. 

s.     d. 

«.    4. 

«.    d. 

«.    d. 

49    4 

36    7 

22    8 

33    1 

36    2 

PRICE  OF  HAY  AND  STRAW  AT  SMITHFIELD,  Nov.  SS. 

Hay,  3/.  i5t.  to  5/.  lOt Straw,  W.  lOt.  to  1/.  l5t.^Clover,  4/.  lOt.  to  6/.  0». 

SMITHFIELD,  Nov.  22.     To  sink  the  Offal_per  stone  of  81bs. 


Beef. 2s.  44.  to  4«.  Od, 

Mutton 2<.  6rf.  to  4r.  Od. 

Veal .3f.  Od.  to  4f.  %d. 

Pork 3#.  Od.  to  4#.  Od. 


Head  of  Cattle  at  Market,  Nov.  18. 

Beasts 3609    Calves     91 

SheepandLambs   27,990    Pigs      470 


COAL  MARKET,  Nov.  22. 
Walls  Ends,  from  17«.  td.  to  23*.  Od.  per  ton.   Other  sorts  from  16i.  6^.  to  20f .  td. 
TALLOW,  per  cwt.^Town  Tallow.  43*.  6d.      Yellow  Russia,  42f.  6<f. 
CANDLES,  It.  Od.  per  doz.    Moulds,  9#.  6d. 

PRICES  OF  SHARES. 

At  the  Office  of  WOLFE,  Brothbbb,  Stock  and  Share  Brokers, 

23,  Change  Alley,  Cornhill. 

Birmingham  Canal,  158.^-— Ellesmere  and  Chester,62.—— Grand  Junction,  ]6t 

Kennet  and   Avon,  10|. Leeds  and  Liverpool,  640. Regent's,  25i« 

Rochdale,  62. London  Dock  Stock,  115. St.  Katharine's,  117. East 

and   West   India,  137.  ^—  London    and  Birmingham    Railway,  214. Great 

Western,  71  pm.—— London  and  Southwestern,    75. Grand   Junction  Water- 
Works,  90. West  Middlesex,  127.' Globe  Insurance,  141. Guardian, 

49i. Hope,  7^. Chartered   Gas,  67. Imperial   Gas,    85| Pbemix 

Gas,  40.— ^•London  and  Westminster  Bank,  26}.— Reversionary  Interest,  104. 

For  Prices  of  all  other  Shares,  enquire  as  above. 


672 


^fETEOROLOGICAL  DIARY,  by  W.CARY,  Stbakb. 

P)r9m  OeMtr  26  to  No9ember  25, 18M,  both  imelmtht. 


FthitnhdV*  Therm* 


s 

2; 


^2 


Oct. 


«7 
88 
89 
30 
31 
N.  1 

8 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

»l 
9 

10 


47  58 
47  51 
49  55 
45  50 
43  ,  50 

47  53 
45  50 
43  .  45 

40  41 
43  ;  45 
43  '  44 

48  I  45 

41  50 

49  5i 


49 
44 


54 

45 


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30 
31 


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i-6 


i   CO 


203 
^04 


2041 
5804^ 

6805 
7804 
8805 


11805 
18805 
13805i 
14 


15805 
16805 
18805 
198054 
80806 
81806 
206 


99i 
99} 

99 

991 

99| 

991 

99| 

99| 

99j 

99i 

99^ 

99i 

99i 

99i 

991 

99| 

99i 

991 

99| 

99} 

991 

99i 

99} 


47 


45 


8 


m.  pts, 
89,98 


45  30,88 


•  15 


45   89,95 


45 
45 
43 
41 
41 
40 
48 
48 
47 
49 
47 
41 


,88 
,68 
.34 
.37 
,86 
•  19 
.30 
,39 
,  03 
,  18 
88,98 


Weather. 


cloudf,  run   | 
do.  fair 
foggy,  do. 
fair,  ddy.  rain 
fain,  do.  fhir 
fiur,ftlght.nin 
I  cly.by.m.wd. 
ii  heavy  rain 
clouy.  ftltnin 
flo.  foggy        ^ 
fair,  do.  , 

do.  cloudy 
constant  rain 
cly.  heavy  do.' 
do.  rain 
fair^const.do. 


Fahrenheit's  Therm. 

o-SlIt 


WcatWr. 


34  |:aLr.by.do^' 
44  jjconstBiit  n: 
50  •do.do.do" 

05  'do.  do. 

06  '  cloudy 
28  |,do.iIigkt:i' 
34   do.  do.  6o. 
27  , 1  do.  do.  U 
81  I  fair,  cloaitj 
18  ^o.  do. 
SSffoegy 
20  ifdo.  clood? 
Id^ldo.do.  ' 


03 

,6, 


do.  do. 
fiurdo. 


DAILY  PRICE  OF  STOCKS. 


u  s 


100  108 

loot  108| 

100  108 

99}  iOli 


lOOi 
lOOi 
100} 
1001 
100| 
100} 
lOOj 
100} 
100} 
100} 


108 

108} 

108} 

108} 

108} 

108} 

108| 

108} 

108} 

108} 


100  j  108} 

100^  108^ 

100}  108| 

100}  108| 

lOOj  i08ii 

100}  108^' 

100}  108^ 

100}  108} 

100}  1108} 


100} 


108} 


Ex.  Bills 
j^lOOO. 


98  pm. 

98  pm. 

9088  pm. 

90  pm. 


85  pm. 


86  pm. 


83  80pm. 

7578  pm. 

7579  pm. 


7680  pm. 

80  pm. 

886}  78  83  pm. 
,888  18380  pm. 

8183  pm 

,888  ;  83  pm. 

, 8083  pm. 

8l88»m. 

887     85  pm. 


78 

71 

68 

64 

65 

65 

65 

66 

64 

66 

63 

61 

60 

56 

58 

57 

57 

60 

64 

60 

68 

60 

60 

60 


69  p«. 

67  ps 
63  pa 

66  pe 
63  pa 

63  ps 

63  ps 

64  ps- 

66  ps 

60  pE 
59  pE 

56  p 

oiJpc 

56  po^ 

59  pa 

60  pic 

65  pH' 

61  pD 

68?^ 
60  pn'- 
€2  \'~ 

68  pis 


J.J.  ARNULL,  English  and  Foreign  Stock  and  Share  Broker, 

—  3j,  Bank  Chaoahera,  Lothbuiy. 


INDEX 


TO  ESSAYS,  DISSERTATIONS,  AND  HISTORICAL  PASSAGES 


•  • 


1 


1 
> 


1 

y 

1 

a-' 


7%e  Principal  Memoin  in  tks  Obituaet  are  dittineify  tntered  in 

thi  "  Index  to  the  Etsayt.'' 


Itf; 


Acadimie  Fran^aiee,  notice  of  140 

^eademiea,  on  137»  585 

Acadmmfft  French^  meeiins  of  297»  591. 

exdusiunt  of  tbe  593 
Adair ^  W.  Eeq.  memoir  of  S13 
Adamacn,  Rev,  /.  common -place  book 

of  40 
Agaene  585 

Albert,  Prince f  marble  statue  of  309 
Alburn^  Hitioricai,   presented   by  Louis 

Philippe  to  the  Queen  698 
Alfred,  Prince^  cbristening  of  419 
Allen,  TV,  Beq.  memoir  of  657 
Anderida,  site  of  577 
Angoulime,  Due  d",  memoir  of  315 
Antiquaries^  Northern  Soeiely  of  1% 
Antiquaries,  Society  of,  proceedings  of  75 
Arabic  date  at  Lee,  Suisei  589 
Archaeological  Ateocialion,   meet  in gt   of 

78,  187,  306,  407.     at  Canterbury  493 
Arches  in  the  walli  of  aisles  360,  450 
Architectural  Society,    Oxford,    annual 

meetini;  of  79.    papers  read  at  631 
Artnillat  Roman,  gold  306 
Armour,  Ancient,  sale  of  78 
Art  Union,  meeting  of  subscribers  of  997 
Art  Unions^  legalization  of  194 
Arte,  Society  rf,  dittribution  of  rewards  70 
Aeaph,  St,  and  Bangor,  union  of  sets  of 

193 
Asiatic  Soeiely,  anniversary  of  68 
Athena,  ruins  of  191 
Atherley,  A,  Eeq,  memoir  of  650 
Athlone,  Earl  of,  memoir  of  903 
MeMlbeCt  Panorama  of  185 
Hacont  Lord,  a  candidate  of  the  Lincei 

139 
Badge  of  the  Gorget  599 
Baity,  F,  Esq,  memoir  of  549 
Balfe,  the  composer  583 
Banh  Charter  Bill  194 
Banhruptey  Laws  Amendment  Bill  193 
Barbados,  History  qf,  prepurin?  996 
Barnes's  Poems  of  Rural  Life  563 
Bamett  Battle  o/ 951,  376 
Barrire,  putilUnimout  138 
Barrows,   in  Greenwich   Park,  cleared 

away  190 
Barton,  C.  Esq,  memoir  of  915 
Bathurst^  yen.  4rchd.  memoir  of  659 
Battle  Fields,  notei  on  949 
Bavay,  Rnnian  »Diiquitiet  at  636 
Hayley,  Ven,  Arehd.  memoir  of  395 
Bayne,  Dr,  IV.  •/.  memoir  of  393 
Beaumaris,  ancient  mansion  at  486 
Beekjord,  W,  Esq.  memoir  of  909.    will 

of  659 

GiMT.  Mao.  Vol.  XXIL 


Beckwith,  Atq/or-Gen,  9F,  H,  memoir 

of  91 

Dr.  will  of  657 

Bells,   Church,  on  483,     correction  in 

communication  on  569 
Benson,  R,  Esq.  memoir  of  393 
Bereeford,  Adm,  Sir  J.  P,  memoir  of  646 
Bessb&reugh,  Earl  qf,  n»emoir  of  87 
Biddulph  Hall,  Siaffordthire  584 
Birkenhead,  public  works  at  417.  laying 

of  foundation  stone  fur  docks  at  638, 

sale  639 
Blaauw,  Mr,  research  of  1 14 
Black  Prince^  epitaph  of  389,  599 
Blamphayne'heuse,  6 re  at  310 
Blood  Royal,  cohtrtrs  of  the  961 
Bokhara,  mission  to  308 
Bonaparte,  Joseph,  memoir  of  315.    will 

of  659 
Booksellers*  Provident  Retreat  997 
Bospherus,  defence  of  entrance  of  637 
Boufden,  fK  J,  testimonial  to  661 
Bowes,  T,  Esq,  memoir  of  95 
Bowstead,  Dr,  administration  of  estate 

of  656 
B(nfle,  Vice' Adm.  Sir  C,  memoir  of  318 
Branfill,  C.  B,  Esq.  memoir  of  649 
Brasses,  metallic  rubber  for  309 
Breakneck  Stairs,  ancient  wall   at  the 

foot  of  189 
Brenlon,  Viee-Adm,  Sir  J.  memoir  of  90 
BHght,  Mr.  sale  of  his  MSS.  147 
Bristol,  worthies  of  979 
—  St.  Stephen's  Church  306 
British  Association,  14th  meeting  of  590 
Bromilow,  A.  Esq.  memoir  of  65 1 
Bruee^  Mr.  W.  D.  his  proposed  History 

of  B'irbAdos  189 
Brunei  585 

Buckeridge  Street,  notice  of  419 
Buckland,  Dr.  Roman  ruins  described 

by  635 
Bnnvan,  Souihey's  edition  of  15 
Burdett,  Sir  F.  will  of  658 
Bury  St.  Edmond'St  improvement  at  304 
Butler,  Bp,  monument  to  630 
Cabul,  monument  to  ufficfrs  who  fi^Il  at 

655 
Cambridge  Camden  Society,  Report  634 
.  St.  Michael's, Cuiifeftftional  at49 
— —    Umiversily,    medals    awarded 

67.     priz>*  eMJiys  189,  697 
Campbell,  T,  Esq.  memoir  of  913 
CandUs,  price  of  1 1 1,  993, 335, 447.  559, 

671 
Canoe,  ancient,  discovered  189 

Canonica,  L.  memoir  of  lOO 

4R 


674 


IndcM  to  Bat^^i  4rc. 


Card^  Dr.  ff.  memoir  of  651 
Cmrdif  Guile,  wall  of  306 
Carep,  JliqjoT'Gen,  Sir  O,  memoir  of  98 
Canf^  Rn,  H.  F.  memoir  of  436 
Catemmi,  ifqff'Gen.  ^r  W*  memoir 

of  807 
Catalan  and  CattiKan  MSS,  Cfttiloffue 

of  687 
Chamberlain,  Sir  H.  memoir  of  807 
Chamwood  Forett,  consecration  of  a  Cii« 

tercian  monastery  in  417 
CheUea  Hospital,  erection  of,  to  whom 

indebted  568 
Ckeyni,  family  of  8 
Cmd'hed  Pnvilege,  The  83 
Christina,  Queen,  marriage  of  637 
Church,  temporary,  Kentish  Town  406 
Church  Restoration  633 
Churc/tes,  New  73,  304, 529,  634 
CVrca««uiii«,  enter  Erbend  308.  defeat  Che 

Ruiisians  416 
Cistereian  Monks,  consecration  of  a  mo- 
nastery for  417 
Clastic  Juthors,  early  editions  of  143 
Clausthal,  dreadful  fire  at  637 
Clifton  Hoc,  CO.  Bedford  155 
Cloeeekoo,  situation  of  1 53 
Coals,  price  of  1 1 1, 883, 335, 447, 559, 67 1 
Coffins,  stone,  533 

€)oke,  Ladif  M.  reminiscences  of  886 
Cole,  Hon,  J.  O.  memoir  of  804 
Collier's  Shnkespeare,  remarks  on  48 
Cologne,  Bridge  of  303 
Condorcet,  tribute  tu  Newton  138 
Confessionals,  in  English  Cburches  41, 

33k!,  450 
ConoVff^  Col.  publicly  executed  308 
Constables  of  France  148 
Cemumption,  Hospital  for  82 
Conversational  powers  of  the  French  and 

English  856 
Coombett  Sussex,   circular   aperture    at 

41,  338.     not  a  confegsionnl  450 
Copiftight  Ad,  International  896 
Com,  average  price   of  111,   833,   335, 

447.559,671 
Com  Lau»^  resolutions  respecting  194 
Cotton,  Mqj.-Gen,  E.  R.  J,  memoir  648 
Cowa^  Stakes,  the  place  uf  Caesar's  pat- 

■age  over  the  Th^imes  568 
Coxe,  Retr.  O.  memoir  of  653 
—  Peter,  Etq.  memoir  of  658 
Crueiflsnon,  date  of  867 
CUrran,  epitaph  to  384 
D*Alembert  598 
Dalton,  Dr.  /.  memoir  of  43 1,  548.   will 

of  660 
Davis,  Mr,  introduction  of,  in  China  534 
Deacon,  E,  E.  Esq.  memoir  of  650 
Decorative  Art,  report  on  301 
Deshon,  Col,  memoir  of  649 
D*Este,  Sir  Augustus f  claim  of,  to  the 

Dukedom  of  Sussex  193 
Devonport  Mechanic/  Jnttitute  405 
nietionarp  of  the  French  Academy  141 
Dn^lematists,  language  of  857 


D'ltraeli,  Mr.  arttde  to  the  QQUteriy 

Review  by  886 
Dissenters'  Chills  Bta  194. 19S 
DonegaU,  Marquess  of,  memoir  543,660 
Dorset  Dialect,  poems  in  663 
Dum^Dum,  monument  erected  at  66} 
Duncan,  J.  S.  Esq.  memoir  of  97 
Dunne,  Gen.  memoir  of  648 
Earl  Oswald,  ballad  of  568 
Eden,  Sir  R.  J.  Bart,  memoir  of  M4 
Edward  Earl  ^  SaUsbwj,  son  of  mi 

Richard  III.  377 
Ellenborough,  Lord^  reeall  of  41S.  »• 

vanced  to  an  earldom  534 
Elsfield,  Confessional  at  49 
Engraving,  earliest  688 
Ethnological  Society,  anniversaiyofTO 
Eton  college,  foundation  stoae  0^  ** 

buildings  at  98 
Eveljfn,  John,  glass  inscribed  by  lU 
Exchange,  Royal,  and  Sir  T.  CmJtf 

488.     opening  of  638 
Faience,  earthenware  commooiy  f^- 

568 
Fair,  Capt.  H.  memoir  of  101 
FeodalUjf  of  the  Anglo- Sajnsu,oa\»^^^ 
Ferrere,  Earl,  will  of  656  ^,. 

Fiennes,  Elizabeth,  to  whom  muv^  •- 
Fine  Art^,  royal  commission  of  IW   ^ 
Ftres,  destructive  196,    in  HsnoTtf'^ 
FUher,  Capt.  P.  memoir  of  546 
FUtleworth,  mistaken  date  at  583 
Fleming,  J.  W.  Esq.  memoir  of  W 
Flood,     See  Inundations. 
For^gn  Writers  ff  French  859 
Forgery  of  brass  seals  188 
Forrest.  Capt,  T.  ni<*moir  of  546 
Fourcroy,  chemist  259 
French,  King  of  the ^  visit  of  534 
French  tongue,  univerasliiy  of  ih«  i*^ 
Galileo,  w*  mber  of  the  liitcci  140 
Galwey,  Rear^Adm.  memoir  of  4^ 
(?aj»i5«er,  iWr  J.  memoir  of  319 
Garsington,  supposed  ronfetti«>tisl  U ' 
Gatlie,  Mr.  memoir  of  654 
Geddes,  A.  memoir  of  434  . 

Geographical  Society,  anniversary  tf** 
Gillespie,  Rev.  T.  memoir  of  4S» 
Clanvile,  Judge,  e Af^y  of  864         ^ 
Glasgow  Cathedral,  iroprovem*""*'". 
Gloucester,  Bp.  of,  and  Mr.  BtU**!*^ 

respondence  between  157 
Godshill  Chrnch,  fresco  in  338 
Gorget,  badge  of  599 
Gr^on,  East,  new  church  »*  ^^  ^j 
Grafton,  Duke  qf,  memoir  of  543,  »J 
Oravesend,  fire  at  1 96  «  i**i 

Greenwich  and  South^Eastem  «»*^ 
treaty  between  419  , 

Greenwich  Hospital,  erection  of,  to  v 

indebted  562 
Greenwich  Park,  barrows  in  190 
Gresham,  Sir  Thomai,  tod  lU  »•" 

Exchange  488 
Grey,  Lord  Richard,  notice  of  $«* 
Grijith,  Sir  W.  wife  of  836 


/mbj  lo  EiiOjfi,  4*^, 


675 


Hat/trd,  Sir  H.  wUl  of  659 

Haiiamf  Mr,  and  the  Bp.  of  Gloueeit#r« 

correspondence  between  157 
Hamp9i§ad  Ugaih,  Incloinre  Bill  of  79 
Handel  585 

Harecuri^  Mr»  J.  bequett  by  661 
Hardinge,  Sir  H,  tworn  into  ofBce  534 
Harfordf  Mr,  sale  of  properC j  of  198 
Harrold,  Mr,  notice  of  858 
Hfulam^  Dr,  J.  memoir  of  389 
HaMtingi^  Marquesi  qf,  will  of  658 
Hay  and  Straw,  price  of  HI,  883.  335, 

447,  559,  67 1 
HHnrothp  Dr.  memoir  of  329 
Henry  VII,  number  of  temporal  peeri 

in  bit  Artt  parliament  338 
Heme* a  Oakp  facti  on  151 
Herschei  585 

Hodyee,  Mr.  B.  G.  will  of  666 
Hodgeon,  Dr.  memoir  of  65 1 
Hole,  Comm,  C.  memoir  of  547 
Holiie,  Vice-Mm.  memoir  of  488 
Hoist,  T.  Van,  memoir  of  99 
Holt,  F.  L.  Eiq.  memoir  of  650 
//«/»,  price  of  1 11, 883,  335, 447, 559,671 
Hunter,  Mr.  new  illutcrationi  188 
Huntingfleld,  Lord,  memoir  of  316 
,    Hurley  Church,  confeirional  at  41 
^    Hurricane,  dettrucilTe  637 
IlluMiriaus  Men,  fWncA,  monumenti  to 
589 
.    /n<fuf,  affairs  of  1 96 
I   Inundationt  in    the  United  States  309. 

in  9weden  534.     in  Italy  637 
,    Inverurie,  fK  A.  Lord  22$ 
*    Iron  Church,  for  Jamaica  634 
^   I$ly,  battle  at  4 16 
'    liert,  Roman,  to  Canterbury  8 
,.    Javelin-headi,  iron,  discurered  190 
'   •/etcj*  iMerary  Institution  184 
'    Johnston,  Sir  W.  memuir  uf  89 
'^    — — ^  A,  Esq.  memoir  of  813 

Johnstone,Maj,  -  Gen.F.  J.  T.  memoir  of  99 
'   Joinvilie,  Prince  de,  attack  on  Mugador 
*"       416 

Keane,  Lord,  memoir  of  486.   will  of  658 
Kettle,  J.  Eiq.  will  of  660 
'^  KitmsHhy,  county  of  Devon  265 
^   King,  Col.  C.  roumoir  of  380 
i^     Kintore,  Earl  ^,  momoir  of  803 
'^  LoJUte,  M.  memoir  of  87 
H>'  Lambton,  R.  L.  Esq.  memoir  of  818 

Latin,  Pronunciation  of  858 
^    Latfoisier,  execution  of  137 

.   Le  CUrc,  literary  cbaraeter  of  157 
i' '   Lee,  Suites,  date  at  588 
i>  Leeds  Parochial  Division  Bitt  193 

Lenham    Church,   coitfetsionai    at   41. 
1^       painting  found  in  450 

Leominster  Church,  Sedilia  in  360 
o^>^^  Libel,  Law  of,  Bill  193 

Lineei,  The  139 
i"^^^    Lincoln  City  Priaon  303 
i^'  Lindsay,  Hon.  H.  memoir  of  804 
UfKombe,  Bp*  will  of  6&6 


IMeraiure,  Royal  Soeieiy  tf,  papers  of  586 
lAUleton,  Lord  Keeper^  eianlnation  of 

885 
Liverpool  and  Birkenhead,  pnblio  works 

at  417 
lAvery  CoUan  and  Badgei  375 
Lloyd,  G.  Esq.  memoir  of  658 

•  Rav.  Dr.  a  ditsentinfp  minister  99^ 

——-  Sir  J.  M.  memoir  of  646 
— -  -  Dr,  W.  issue  of  338 
Lockhart,  Mr.  /.  /.  letter  from  338 
Lonsdale,  Earl  qf,  will  of  659 
Louis  Philippe,  viiit  of  534 

■  Album  presented  by,  to 

the  Queen  688 
Louis  Xiy.  reign  of  33 
Looeday,  Lieut.'Gen.  memoir  of  9I 
Lowther,  Sir  J.  memoir  of  806 
Luke's,  St.  impruTement  of  organ  at  338 
Lynn  Jrchiteetural  Society  303 
Maearius,  Bp,  forged  seal  of  188 
MaUland  Prize  instituted  687 
Malcolmson,  Dr.  J.  G.  memoir  of  98 
Malta,  Eiiglitb  eburch  at  638 
Malvern,  Great,  church  tiles  at  85 
Manchester,  Duke  rf,  will  of  656 
Manchester  and  Sal/ord,  subscriptions 

for  public  walks  at  4 1 6 
MargareVe,  St.   Church,  Westminster^ 

proposed  removal  of  860 
Maridunum,  journey  from  847 
Market  fFeston  Church  304 
Maxwell,  Sir  J.  Bart,  memoir  of  817 
Medical  Practice,  bill  fur  regulating  307 
Mahomet   Mi,    going    to   Mecca    308. 

treaty  with,  and  pretended  retirement 

of  416 
Meniies,  Sir  N.  Bart,  memoir  of  545 
Merivale,  J.  H.  Esq.  memuir  uf  96 
Meteorological  Diary  118,  884,  336,  448, 

560,  678 
Metomie  Cycle,  value  of  ibe  38 
Metropolitan  Improoements,    Holbom 

and  Oxford -ttrret  419 
3iieheU,  Rrig.-Gen.  £.  T.  inscription 

to  his  memory  654 
Mite,  Roman,  length  of  886 
Miles,  Com.  J.  memoir  of  381 
Mitchell,  Dr.  /.  memoir  of  438 
MkHs,  bas-relief  from  hall  of  306 
Mogador,  attack  of  416 
Atotthre  588.     monument  to  590 
Monk,  Bp,  and  Mr,  Hallam,  cor  respond^ 

enre  between  157 
Montaigne,  epitaph  on  148 
lforfii0fit/€r,  murder  of,  at  Phlladelphia308 
Morocco,  proceedings  in  81,  196 
ilf<»f^a/ily.  Table  of  111«  883,  335,  447i 

559, 671 
Mountnorris,  Earl  of,  memoir  of  485 
Murray,  Hon.  J.  E.  memoir  of  316 
Mutiny  o/HAth  Bengal  Ii^antry  534 
Napier,  Sir  C.  proceedinp  of  416,  534 
Napoleon,  an  Italian  860 
Nath,  Dr.  T.  MSS.  of  886 


676 


Index  lo  £Myf«  ifC. 


NeU  Cwgmu,  pUy  of  569 
Nttktrimndi,  Kimg  ^,  «ill  of  6&€ 
A««Mu<iif  ra*l«By  commanicaiion  fo  196 

St.  NicholM'i  cburcb  at  848 

NwM(,  Cmpi'  T.  anwaQineiii  to  6&& 
NitktUtt,  Ewnferwr,  vittl  of  01 
NieMmg,  Cnm,  J,  U.  memoir  of  390 
NielMi,  J.  conmunicatitfiit  by  75 
AoefonMH  sftle  of  639 
N^rtkem  /imUqmarua^  Society  of  78 
Nwrthem  Ckmrtk  rf  Mngkmd  Seh^ti^  at 

RoMall  Hall  183 
Nmftmi,  Adm.  Sir  C  £.  menioir  of  89 
NumUwuUU  So0kt^t  prvcecdinst  of  69 
li^mmhemd  Cfwuiay,  coaaecraied  cbapcl  at 

633 
(yCmneiif  D*  tentenoe  on  89.    revcnal 

of  aenteoce  415.    pivcccdioft  in  Iie- 

laiMl418 
(TFerrali,  5.  ji.  Esq,  roenoir  of  433 
Orgmns  ofiMe  Lntdvn  ChMrchu  145 
OfiMy'f  Orphan^  %\%jir$  of  S63 
Oven,  J,  merouir  of  551 
Orford  ArekUe€iurai,S0eieijff  proceed* 

inctor63l 
Offn-d  Umiveniif^,  comnemoraiion  at 

67.    Pnse  Eaiayi  189 
Paimimg,  Chmrch,  at  Truro  539 
PoTitka  (ScoiUmd)  Bill  79 
Parbameni,  proceeding  in   79^    193. 

pronif^ation  of  415 
Parma f  ancient  theatre  at  GZQ 
Pa$9aver^firH,  date  of  tbe  40 
Pemn^  CramilUf  Siq.  memoir  of  545 
Pemriee,  Afr.  sale  of  pictures  uf  300 
Percy  Society,  meeting  of  189 
Petkett  S.  memoir  ol  99 
Philadelphia,  riots  at  80,  308 
Pickering,  Atit9  E.  memoir  of  St6 
Pitrcebridge,  Roman  inscription  near  94 
Pigoii,  Sir  G.  memoir  of  S05 
Plat  Goch,  Beaumaris  486 
Poland,  new  diTtsion  of  534 
PoHHeal  Priionert  in  Frame,  remission 

of  punishment  of  534 
Poor  Law  Amendment  Bill  195,  196 
Poff  Ofiee  inquiry  195 
Pottery,  Samian,  on  tbe  35 
Poweroeourt,  f^Uc.  memoir  of  426 
PowiM,  Earl,  bill  respecting  sees  uf  Ban- 
gor and  St.  Asaph  79 
Prince  qf  Walet'e  Plume  598 
Prometheus  Vinetue,  on  a  passage  in  479 
Pruesia,  King  ^,  fired  at  308 
Queen,  accouchement  of  310.    Wsit  to 

Scotland  419 
Pact  Cups,  modern  406 
Bailwaye  Bill,  second  reading  of  195 
Rain,  rarages  from  torrents  of  637 

Hay  Society,  objects  of  183       

Bead,  Afr,  JD.  C.  etchings  c^ 
RichardtoH,  Mr.  on  funiif 
Richeliev 

Acai' 
Boade, 


Bmnmm   Rmin»,    dlseovcrtd  nesr  Vm 

mouth  635 
BmomU  Hall,  school  at  183 
JEossmorr,  Lord,  irill  of  655 
Romgkam,  barrow  at  369 
Rommey,  Jtld,  statne  of  6^ 
Barkmryke  Cluk,  oseetiog  of  189 
/Kfpo/  Jeademy,  exhibition  at  73 

-  Coat,  quanering  of  961 

-  Exckmmge,  opening  of  638 
BuMtM,  Emperor  ^,  visit  of  Bl 
Sain,  recent  639 

Sammn  Pottery,  oa  the  35 
Sandferd^Oreas,  ancient  mansion  n 
Saviile,  W,  accident  at  eiecotton  c 
Saxe  Cokurg  and  Gotkm,  Duke  «f . 

moir  of  657 
Sajrom  Ckurckee  533 
Saxomy,  MRng  of,  visit  of  Bl 
£eora5«nit,  on  tbe  16 
Sck^er,  gallery  picture  of  30*2 
Sckolefield,  J,  Eeq*  memoir  of  431. 

of  fo'59 
5iriii^e,  proceedings  in  416,  534 
Scott,  Mojor-Gen,  E.  memoir  of  4 

/oJU,  will  of  661 

SculptoTo,  Britiek,  at  Rome  70 
Sculptured  Shrine  found  at  Ywrk 
Seal  o/Macariuo,  forged  188 
Seaman  of  Norwich,  7am  11  j  i^f  3 
Shaktpere,  editions  of  49.      con^ 

emendations  on  the  text  of  I  i: 
Shop,  DruiOical  temple  near  381 
Sharee,  price  of  III,  923,  335«  4- 

671 
5Aatp,  ;9ir  j:«illof656 
Shelley,  Sir  T.  memoir  of  905 
Shirleyt,  the  three  47S,  594 
Shortt,  Mr. on  the  origin  of  **  Xt>< 
Siddout,  Mrs,  H.  meonoir  of  65d 
^iifjRMiM,  Fise.  wilt  of  658 
Sinclair,  Lord,  letter  of  584 
Smith,  J.  and  H,  murdered  30^ 
-^—  JohUy  affinity  of  S26 
Smithfield,  prices  at  111,  2^3. 

559,  67 1 
Snodland,  Roman  building^s  nt 
SouthEastem  Railway  Cawnposey 

the  Greenwich  Railway  4  lo 
5etifA  YTai^er,  turnpikes  ofy  bill 

lating  194 
Southey,  editorship  of  Bunyasrt 

posed  monument  to27  1,  301 
Spitalfields  School  of  Demig^o   1  i 
Stafford  Castle,  account  of  IB 
Stanyhurst,  fint  four  booRs  of  ^ 
Slate  Trials,  Iri^h  89 
Statues,  foreign  630 
Stephen,  St,  Church,  Bristol   3« 
Stocks,  price  of  119,  SS4,  336^ 

679 

Siuart,  James,  memoir  of   lO  1 

^tubbs,  Lt.^  Gen,  Sir  r.  »^  wn^ 

lp»  the  terror  -*'—  ~©a  s 

"^Dutki,  t»i 

194 


Index  to  Essays,  SfcJ 


677 


Stustr^  ttatae  of  the  Duke  of  303.    lale 

of  his  library  599 
Suitan  Coidfield^  account  of  870 
Swedent  coronation  at  637 
Swinejft  J^t.  G.  memoir  of  100 
Tahiti,  proceedings  at  309 
•*  Taking^  Right***  before  childbirth  947 
Taliow,  price  of  1 1 1,  893,  335,  447,  659, 

671 
Tancr^d,  Sir  7*.  memoir  of  646 
Tangier^  bombarderi  308 
TavUtock,  effiicy  of  Judge  Glanvile  at  864 
T<nrjf  for*  Mr*  R,  memoir  of  550 
TV//,  ^tn.  diftcoTery  connected  with  687 
Temporary  CAacrcA,  erection  of,  at  Kent- 
ith  Town  406 
)   TexoM,  annexation  treaty  rejected  196 
Thomuu,  Mr.  sale  of  coins  of  306,  533 
Thompson^  yiet-Adm,  N,  memoir  of  808 
ThomkUif  Sir  J.  proposed  picture  of  8  * 
ThmyU9m  Haii,  sale  of  639 
;    7^/cf ,  oniamenul,  at  Great  Malvern  85 
/    TbAe,  family  of»  descent  of  8 
Tomett  J.  Bwq,  memoir  of  94 
.    Tem/tsuon,  Otm.  R.  memoir  of  381 
.  (.  TrufHpingtcn,  confessional  at  48 

Turki9h  Gtvtmmgnt,  debt  due  by,  to  Sir 

B.  Wallcer  637 
I7/i/rr,right  of  baroneti  to  the  arms  of  381 
.   UrmstoHt  Major,  memoir  of  547 
.    VertmiUt,  portraits  of  3 1 
'.    VoUaire^  sojourn  in  Enf^Und  586 
*;    WalUutt  Lord,  will  of  6o9 
','   WalfUt  St.  Edmund's  chapel  at  631 

Wdmerp  Copt,  experiment  by  309 
'      fyatiimg  Street,  derivaiion  of  8 


fFatiom,  Sir  C,  Bart,  memoir  of  488 
iVeapotu,  Roman  568 
WeUeeley,  Marq.  will  of  655 
Wellington,  Duke  of,  fiaing  uf  statue  of, 

in  front  of  the  Royal  Exchange  197 
West,  original  iketches  for  stained  glaii 

8,  114 
Weetmintter  Bridge,  design  of  an  iron 

bridge  for  303 
Weitem,  Lord,  memoir  of  645 
H^eymoiuih,  Roman  ruins  near  635 
ff^hatteift  Sir  J.  memoir  of  545 
^f^ite.  Lt.'M.  W.  G.  memoir  of  93 
Wigney,  L  N.  memoir  of  95 
Wilbraham,  Hon,  R.  B.  memoir  of  804 
Willeeborougk,  epitaph  at  868 
WHeon,  Mre.  R.  memoir  of  436 
H^tUshirt  Tapograpkieal  iSenV/y,  meeting 

of  68 
ff^ehester,  the  college  of  St.  Elixabeth 

at  198.     Hospital  of  St.  Mary  Magda- 
len at  379,  450 
Winckeeier,  Marq.  of,  will  of,  657 
fflmdsor  Little  Park,  facts  on  151 
fViee,  Rear»Mm.  fK  F.  memoir  of  808. 

dale  of  bis  death  338 
ffitktr,  (7.  on  the  Fire  of  London  144 

■  "  Salt  upon  Salt"  43 

Iff^olff",  Dr.  mission  to  Bokhara  3U8 
Wood,  Sir  Matthew,  will  of  656 
ffbodchurchf  restoration  of  church  of  81, 

186 
WortUtff  Hon.  C.  S.  second  son  of  Lord 

Wbarncliffe  114 
Wffcltf,  John,  identity  of  136 
Wpndham,  W.  Esq.  memoir  of  93 


INDEX  TO  BOOKS  REVIEWED. 


^  jiids  to  Catechetical  Theology  61 
Akerman^a  New  Testament  63 
jirehmologia,  vol.  axx,  878,  398>  508 
.^  JfalmaiHf  Lessons  on  Chemistry  518 

Baniitcr,  Domestic  Music  2^9 
-  ;   jBany,  Feudal  System  516 
|'\-  Beveridge,  Calrin  Society  881 
>' '"  Brag,  Mrt.  Courtenay  of  Walreddon  57 
^^  Bnmdon^  Gothic  Architecture  288 
'\^  Benton,  The  Septuagint  513 
"[,  Bridget,  Sacramental  Instruction  681 
**•/.,  Broekedon'e  Italy  390 
e'"'*'  Buttar,  Lay  Lectures  169 

^  Bungan**  Pilgrim* $  Progrett,  by  Godwin 
and  Pocock  308 


W 


,  Church  Choral  Service  177 


Oi\ 


>%i  Ckurchet  of  Warwiehshire  513 
^'^^  .>  Oaimo  of  Labour  883 

Cornwall,  Barry,  English  Songs  393 
Cornwelt,  Young  Composer  890 
.  ■>  Craig,  Philosophy  of  Training  60 
''■%,Datent,  Raik's  Grammar  890 
'-*'  ^    Denisan,  Inward  Call  898 

,  ,M  Deecant  upon  Railroadt  516 
^  'l\^jyitraoU,  Coningfiby  63 
J  0  Doctrine  of  Changes  61 
f!^lhmkin,  HUtory  of  Dartford  618 


Dunlop,  Anti.Duel  891 

Dgce,  Remarks  on  Collier's  and  Knight's 

editions  of  Sbaktpere  48 

Worki  of  Skelion  287 

Edtnund  Somers  S^ 

Edwards,  Old  Englitb  Customs  506 

Elliott,  Horse  Apocalyptica:  889 

Erdetwick'i  Staffordshire  388 

Etheridge,  HorsB  Aramaic n  890 

First-horn,  The  3 

FUchett,  King  Alfred  616 

Flftgel,  Literarische  Sympathien  889 

Flower,  Sunday  Evening  Musings  619 

Forget  Me  Not  680 

Fbsberrg,  Hymns  and  Poems  397 

Foster,  Lectures  508 

Gamer,  County  of  Stafford  388 

Goarrier,  What  is  the  Church?  516 

Greenwood,  G,  Tree  Lifter  53 

Greg,  Sermon  516 

Halt,  Pbreno-Magnet  516 

Halsted,  Miss,  Richard  III.  873,  377 

Harness,  Rev.  TT.,  The  First- burn  3 

HarwoocTs  Staffordshire  388 

Hewett,  History,  &c.  of  Compton,  Berks 

610 
ffildgard,  LeUer  toRer.  A.  P*  Carr  515 


678 


InJbx  i0  Booki  Rivtewed. 


Hilit  Praotleal  Sermoni  178 

HoUingtwortKt  Hiit.  of  Stowmarkflt  165 

Holy  CbmmiuiiMi  fSeoichJ  515 

Hmtiiam,  M-t,  Tcxu  885 

Bum,  Poetical  Works  S86 

Huiehhuamt  Drain tg«  of  Land  51  f 

liraeVs  Ordinanees  516 

Jamet,  Roic  D'Albret  69 

Je$ie,  E,  Scenes  and  Tales  49 

Johne§,  Human  Race  991 

Johns,  Anglican  Church  of  JeniialeB61 5 

Lane,  Koran  987 

Lee,  Homciopatby  616 

— -  Natural  History  991 

Leigh,  Walks  in  the  Country  397 

Li/e,  and  other  Poems  171 

Lockhart,  Memoirs  of  Bemal  Dlu  178 

M}fhrquhar,  Sermons  511 

Afalmeeburp  Correspondenee  497 

Manual  ffDevoHon  60 

Marvet,  ConTersations  990 

Marriott,  Sermons  60 

Marsh,  Prophecies  of  Scripture  519 

Mathews,  Poema  on  Man  179 

Mensehf  Buphrosyne  176 

Merry  on  Predestination  516 

Meiedlfi,  Temporal  Prosperity  999 

Mexico,  Preicott's  Conquest  of  339 

Milnest  R,  M.  Palm  Leaves  55 

Murray,  Alphabet  of  Emblems  691 

North,  Sermons  177 

Palm,  The  Weekly  Offertory  516 

Proseott's  History  of   th«  Conquest  of 

Mexico  339 
Pyer^,  English  Reading  519 
■  Greek  Grammar  510 


Pffcroft,  LatiA  Grammar  SIO 
Railways,  Descant  upon  516 
Rix,  Peril  in  Security  515 
Rodolph,  the  Voyager  176 
Ryder  on  Cathedral  WonUp  51S 
Sandy,  Mesmerism  58 
School  and  Collego  Guide  991 
Skellon,  /.  Dyoe's  Poetical  Worluof  ST 
SmUh,  Lists  of  Parliamentt  S99 

Treatise  on  Foreit  Treci  60 

Stodart,  Principles  of  Bdoeatioo  691 
Strickland,  Mary  Queen  of  Scots  609 
■  Queens  of  England  899 

Sunday  Afternoons  of  Home  681 
The  Country  in  1890,  W 
The  Holy  Land  691 
The  Young  mdawSlS 
Thomas,  The  Psychologist  617 
Tooke,  W.  Churehill's  Pbemi  161 
Vvedale,  Antedilurian  Patrisrcbi  9fi 
flsiting  Societies,  Ac.  514 
Warier,  Sermons  168 
Warwickshire,  ehurebes  of  513 
fratertoUf  Natural  Histeiy  985 
Watson^  on  Confirmation  177 
Weale,  Papen  on  Arehiteetufc  S9S 
WeoMT,  Complete  View  of  VwatfsB^ 
fThai  is  the  Church  o/drWf  61 
tFUberferee^  Archd.  R.  S.  Cbsrr  fV 
fnikinson,  Christianity  in  Nortb  b* 

699 
Wilmot,  Farewell  Sermon  515 
Wincheiier,  St.  Elizabeth's  eoliccf  it  1" 
Wingfield,  Spiritual  Thoughts  61 
Yearslcy,  Aural  Sunrery  177 
Zaretfa^  and  other  Poems  170 


INDEX  TO  BOOKS  ANNOUNCED. 


Ahhey  Church  180 

jibell.  Napoleon  at  St.  Helena  178 

jtbercrombie,  Saered  Truth  518 

Jets,  of  7  and  8  Victoria  519 

Mam,  Peace  Reading  Book  699 

Adams,  Flowers  695 

Adamsen,  Joseph  and  his  Brethren  518 

Adcoek,  Englneer*s  Pocket  Book  697 

4fioai  and  Ashore  QS 

Aimsworth,  Travels  517 

Akerwtan,  Ancient  Coins,  fte.  516 

■        New  Testament  64 
Afford,  Prose  Hymns  180 
Alison,  Frae  Trade  64 
— —  Poor  Laws  ^Scotland  699 
Allen,  The  Widow's  Son  519 
Allpein,  DaTenant  on  Jottifioation  403 
Analysis  of  Kanfo  CHMc  ^Pure  Reason 
699 

Ammal  Register  his 

Anstod,  Geology  405 

Asutruiher,  Lamartine's  Joeelyn  404 

Apel,  German  Language  6S 

Jfostolie  Age  in  BHiain  684 

4^heeario^  Act  66 

Artkkskl^  Qmob's  Baaoh  995 


Arnold,  Fragment  on  the  Cbarch  69 

Spelling  404 

Arthur  Arundel  404 

Aungier,  French  Chronicle  of  Loo^a^ 

BabrU  PhhuU  lambicm  CXXllL  ^ 

Babylonian  Princess  66 

Backhouse,  Narrative  64 

Bacon,  Norfolk  Agiiculturs  590 

fianks.  Sir  Joseph,  and  the  iM  ^ 

ci«^5l6 
Barker,  The  Victory  404 
Barnes,  Apostolic  Church  694 
Barrett^  Poenu  994 
'-  Psalms  590 
Barrington,  British  ArcUtcctnic  40$ 
Barr,  Encaustic  Tiles  405 
Barth,  Poor  Heniy  619 
Bartlctt,  Walks  64 
Bateman,  Why  do  Too  Belleire  ?  6S4 
Bates,  Ecelesiattical  History  517 
Bayley,  Shipping  Interctt  409 
Baylis,  Arithmetic  64 
Beale,  Vale  of  the  Towey  99 
Beard,  Latin  made  Easy  295 
Bell,  Mathcmatic  Tables  405 
— —  Brittth  Cmstacf a  695 


n 


InieM  to  Booki  Atmauneed. 


<79 


ermei^  The  PotteM  084 
9mnHit  on  Inflanoiation  119 
'rmard.  The  NemetU  617 
?«!»  Lew  and  Fact  181 
^-  Air9.  Six  Thousand  Yean  Ago  405 
-  ^ekergiHht  Thirty- nine  Artielts  688 
"trd.  Sermon  180,  S94 
rkSf  Poiir  Prophetie  Bnpiret  64 
irthda^.  The  295 
^hop  if  Oimte€$i€f^9  Charge  618 
iMh^^rics  in  the  C^hnUi  403 
faek/vrd.  Orphan  of  Waterloo  M 
fandt  The  Aleth  Kedah  695 
-  leninfftim,  Caunien,  The  Keepiake  6i6 

— -—  Heath'i   Book  of 

Beautv  686 

'tJMf  Man  and  hU  Guide  40S 
4/le(d,  Algeria  699 
iomJUldf  Sermon  994 
loodeworthf  Poems  65 
-  ofmeckaee.  Reformers  699 
9fMiy»  Arckd,  H.  K.,  Cbarfe  65 
^      jck  of  Moiioea  405 

^oo6  ^  OnuimMf  696 
,:^»oJ^^PMlm«403 
'«;^otiril#,  Burke's  Corrttpopdenoe  178 
..^fyd.  Hist,  of  litereure  519 
^^  .-lydy  Juvenal  66 
^^    — — ^  Sermons  179 

0|f<f,  Aschylus  and  Sopboelei  66 
'^^  ramkaU,  Arekbp.  Works  517 
-"'^    r#ciit  St.  Liocia409 

^TMier,  The  H— -  Pamllj  tQ 
*'_ , ,  ^^— -  The  Home  ^^ 
'^'Jreretan,  Battle  of  the  Nile  518 
'     reniamf  Septuaflnt  Vcrsioq.  translated 

■^     -ridgee.  Sacramental  Instruction  180 
— [^frt^  yinv  of  Greek  Pkiioeepl^  63 
^  ^  frt^Aam*  on  Health  995 

;roM^Aam,  JLofd,  Britiih  Constitution  63 
"  •»  ^^  ■      I     ,.  ■■  on  Instinct  696 

irown^  The  Star  of  Attegbei  694 

trowno^  Am  icbrii t  5 1 8 
:'•-  \7rowHingt  Convict  Ship  639 
.<«>^  -^rmeiMnKfA,  Psalms  590 
i '  ^     ?r«ice»  Barbados  996 
Jf  **^Jj^*^t  f^oUaee,  and  The  Bard  403 
;v^^^ruehaa»«mf  HufeUnd's  Manual  519 
,  ai  ''irpani,  Poctieal  Works  994 

Suehiept  L.  Apuleli  Madaoreosis  de  Deo 
f4^  ^    Socrates  619 
buidf^  Quekman,  Botanical  Guide  181 

BuU.  EngUsb  Tbeolofical  Works  6S3 


9 


JBtuiUek,  Pbarmacj  66 
^Bunhtrg,  T«o  Sceptics  180 


Pyrenees  517 
Anpe  Boleyn  518 


.^,Purdert  Memoir  of  f .  H.  Burder  699 

^^^^Bnieher,  Plain  Discourses  694 

tsiorjj' Butler,  Voom9  619 

^  ^'   Caiabretla,  Land  of  Promise  404 

ClB/«#rf,  Anthems  996 

CaMn,  Aphorisms  180 

Campbeil,  Memoirs  of  D,  Naimith  64 

Cttrmi,  Baptism  64 


jf9 

S95 

% 


Ctnierbarif,  Jikp,  of,  Charfe  684 
CarUn,  Rose  of  TistelOn  694 
Car^fUf  EoienoB's  Bssays  699 
Carpenior,  Pictorial  Notices  405 
■  Popolar  CydopcMiia  67 

■  ■  Zoolon  895 

Catiermole,  Heath's  Picturesque  Annutl 

696 
Ceeii,  SermoDi  179 
CAeei5crf ,  Building  Act  404 
dofiter.  Church  Catechism  I80|  403 
Chamoek,  Insolvent  Debtors'  Act  519 
Chrietmat,  Peipge's  Anecdotes  180 
Churches  of  Yorkshire  296 
Church  and  People  518 
Chume,  Katsekopfs  130 
Churion,  Pearson's  Works  ^3 
aotms  of  Labour  993 
Oarke,  Glaobrecht's  Anne  519 
— —  Sermon  994 
Claridgef  Hydropathy  404 
ao$e.  Reply  996 
Co6AaNi,  Pictorial  Guide  to  517 
Cocktom,  Sylvester  Sound  518 
CoiOf  Durer's  Passion  of  Christ  405 
Coleridge,  Andenl  Mariner  180 
CWIoTuice  180 
Csf^AeKfi,  Maariee  68 
Cemenmlofi  C>fflee§  408 
OmeersefiMM  en  Inttinei  619 
CoHvoeathm,  Book  off  1606|517 
Cooketkg,  Sermons  994 
Cooper,  Ani^Ucan  Church  65 

■  Church  Muiie  405 
^■^-^  Epistle  to  the  Romans  510 

■  Introduetoiy  Address  695 
■    Osteology  519 

Cooper' t  Novels  66 
Comer,  History  of  China  64 
Cornwall  Pofytechnie  Society  405 
Cotietlo,  EiiKlishwomen  999 
CMfiM^AaiWy  Smiths'  Director  181 
Coiirell,  Don  Carlos  994 
Court  at  Bavenna  65 
Constance  D*0^le^  180 
Cft^beare,  Sermons  65 
Cojp,  Agricultural  Cheroistiy  696 
Qraig,  Corporal  Punishment  409 
Ctaik,  History  of  British  Commerce  699 
— -  Sketches  624 
Craven,  Hyde  Marston  66 
Creepkgny,  Enchanted  Rose  994 
CruikMhankp  Bachelor's  Oivn  Book  996 
— —  John  Manesty  404 
Cumjfngkame,  Recollections  of  China  409 
Onrioeitiee  ^Modern  Travel  697 
Cuvier  and  Zoology  67 
Daunt,  Saints  and  Sinnen  404 
Daoies,  New  Medical  Biii  695 
Davit,  Voice  from  Africa  409 
Dawson,  Elements  of  Music  181^  405 
Day,  Hours  of  the  Church  180 
D'Aubigne,  Rome  64 
De  Conde,  Valenciennes  Lace  405 
De  Garag,  Isthmtu  of  Tehuaotcpec  409 
PHifrtag  404 


680 


Index  io  BotAi  AnnouneeJL 


Deverewtt  Lord  WharncUffe's  Catholic 

Bequest  623 
Dewar,  German  Protestantism  179 
Diekenif  Martin  Chusslewit  995 

Orers's  Evenings  $95 

DifflcuUiet  of  a  young  Clergyman  6S3 

DiMtent  179 

Doyle^  The  Two  Destinies  65 

Z)»'an{/?e/<f,  Short  Sermons  518 

Drummondf  Hist,  of  British  Families  63 

Dufton,  on  Deafness  66 

Dunkin,  Hist,  of  Dartford  402 

/>tf fin,  Coal  Trade  181 

Dunn,  Memoirs  65 

Etui's  Proselyte  Reclaimed  65 

BdUhLetUe  180 

Edmeiton,  ^ymns  in  Sickness  403 

Edmond,  Religion  the  Life  of  Man  518 

Edwardi,  Education  893 

■  Providence  394 
Elephant,  The  519 

BUis,  London  Missionary  Society  517 

Vergil's  English  History  402 

Ehhu,  Noah  403 
Emenon,  Eisays  629 
English  Sainii  180,  294,  518,  684 
Eothen,  or  Traces  of  Travel  402 
£pi»ilet  <tf  Si.  Cyprian  293 
Eulensiein,  German  Exercises  295 
Evans,  Family  Prayer  179 
Ewing,  Book  of  Job  403 
Exercises  in  ArHhmeiic  405 
Esley,  First  Chapter  of  Genesis  403 
Fabcr^  Sir  Lancelot  403 
Family  Drawing  Book  405 
Faraday t  on  Electricity  519 
Farnham,  Oregon  Territory  517 
Farren,  Contingencies  293 

■  Liabilities,  &c.  625 

Fawceti,  History  of  Book  of  Common 
Prayer  624 

Feather sionhaugh,   Escursion     through 
the  Slave  States  64 

Feiling,  Tales  from  the  German  518 

Fielding,  Akermann's  Manual  of  Colours 
626 

Ftneh,  Boundaries  of  Empires  622 

Fisher's  Drawing-room  Scrapbook  626 

— —  Juvenile  Scrapbook  6*i,7 

Finwilliam,  Earl,  Burke's  Correspond- 
ence 178 

Ftve  Tales  qfthe  Old  Time  295 

Ftinder,  Field  of  Honour  180 

Fontainier,  Narrative  64 

Fifrd,  Laiidicea  518 

Fouqui,  Wild  Love  404 

Fowler's  St-rroons,  518 

Fownes,  Chemistry  67,  519 

Francis,  Fluwer  Garden  295 

Frastr,  The  Dark  Falcon  518 

Ffiedlander,  Amber  AVitch  404 

Fullarlon,  Currencies  293 

Gale^  Railway  Legislation  623 

Gambler's  Wife  6?4 
Garbett's  Sermunt  65,  294 
^trdener,  LicLig's  Chemistry  519 


Genevewa  9f  BtabaaU  66 
Geographical  Society,  Index  to  iflinu:i 

293 
Gibbins,  Polynesia  65 
Gibbons,  Buildings  Act  404 
Gibson,  Short  Services  284 

■■  Club  Sermons  65 
Gilbert,  on  the  occupations  of  tbel] 

lish  517 
Giles,  S.  Bonifacti  Opera  623 
Gil^,  VigilantittS  179 
Glenny,  Garden  Operations^ 
Glimpses  ^the  Wonderful  6S7 
CrotitAy,  Memoir  of  517  ,, 

Goodwin,  Dr.  rAom«,Tcfttiiei.fc  ^i 
Gore,  Mrs.  The  Popular  Member  *^ 
Gould,  Grahame  Family  223 
Grady,  Queen's  Bench  67 
<;raAam*«Graefenberg  181         ,., 
Grant  homy  Facts  in  Medicine,  4f.  ♦ 
Gravesend,  Guide  to  AOi 
Gray,  Genera  of  Birds  67 
*~  Mammalia  181 
^-—-Zoology  181 
Greek  P/uloeophy  402 
Greenhow,  History  of  Oteff^  ^* 
Greening,  Chitty  on  PleadlnC  ^-^ 
Gregg,  Prairies  293 
Gresley,  Henri  de  Clermont  29>   ^ 
Grijfith,  iK  P.  Natural  Syiieo  ^.  i 

chitecture  296  (^  j 
Major  Df  Journey  f^o•t^ 

to  Marseilles  623 
Gertrude,  Philip  Randolph  4W 
Guano,  Instructions  foro5iug*» 
Guy,  Forensic  Medicine  625 
Gwilliam,  Peep  at  Windsor  Csii.«  ♦ 
Hacketi,  Plutarch  63 
Hagreen,  Ipswich  293 
HalUy,  The  Sacraments  403 
HalHweU,  Archaic  and  Pro"*" 

tionary  625 
HaUted,  Miss,  Richard  III.  W 
Hamilton,  Hommopatby  519 
— — — -  Sermon  65 

Pine  Apple  6«6 

Hand-book  of  Mesmerism  181 

to  the  Shd^Spa  6S3 

rf Bathing  t9^ 

Hankinson,  Sermons  623 
— — —  Poems  624 
Hare,  Annual  Register  S95 
Harrington,  Contecratw"  ^ 
Harris,  Diaries,  &r.  I7B 
Harwood's  Sf  aflFordshire  ^03 
Mashm,  Perran-ZabMl«>ej>*^^,t.  I 
Haweis,  Sketches  of  the  Refcr" 
Hawkins,  Wars  of  Jeb«r«li  4(w 
Hay,  Western  Barbary  64         ^ 
Haydon,  Lectures  on  Psin""*  * 
Hazlitt,  Criticisms  on  Aft '»' 
Heard,  French  Dictionary  *53 

Sptflliiig-book  404         ^. 

Hearn,  The  Romans  slisll  c^*^^ 
Henslow,  Suffolk  Population  ^f;,^, .I 
Hewett,  History  of  CooptoPi  ^ 


IniiX  to  Bo^ki  Atmomiced. 


S81 


UickU^  DeiBiMtlMBet66 
HUdtbrand  66 

HUi^  Tune-book  996 

BRsi^rieta  Buoff  899 

HUtorieal  RrbUt  40S 

MTiftorjf  ^Enghmd  S99 

Hoar€t  Grape  Vines  405 

Parochial  SUiUtlcf  403 

Hocken  on  Naphtha  695 

Hodgacn^  Sermon  994 

Hofiand,  EmUy's  Reward  519 

Holy  Commtmton  403 
'   Holy  Land  293 
'   J/ome«,  on  Intolrency  Act  404 
.^  Hooker^  Flora  Antarctica  67 

•  Hope,  Scripture  PrinU  67 

•  Etaaya  180 

Horlock,  Exposition  of  the  Parables  693 

•  Horrey,  Law  of  Insolvents  404 
'    HorsUy,  Eiblical  Critieism  993 

^  Hovenden,  Ephemerides  694 
How  eon  the  Church  Educate  Ike  P^Uf 

J        63 

Howardp  Mary  Spencer  694 
Howell f  Terms  of  Commttuion  65 
:     Howin,  W.  German  Eiperiencea  64 

■^ .  Maty,  History  of  Sweden  516 

My  Unde  the  aockmakcr  5 1 9 


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,  .1 


t> 


u 


Houelen,  Texas  293 
Hullah,  Psalm  Tune-book  696 
Hkii^,  Ufe  of  Sir  H.  Palliser  63 
Hunt,  One  Faith  994 
Hunter,  on  Shakespeare  181,  995 
Hpam,  Candidate  for  Favour  518 
/iN/nrestioNe  o/  Ireland  693 
/n^ram.  Algebra  519 
Jniieff,  Mre.  Memoir  of  699 
Jrby  and  MangM  TraveU  64 
IrUh  JgricuUural  Society  405 
Irith  Mattert,  Memoranda  of  S98 
'  Iron,  Sermons  403 
'  Jlalpt  Trip  to  993 
Jveri,  Prinoe  of  Asturias  409 
Jaekeon,  Sis  Sermons  179 
-  Jamee,  A|pincuurt  694 

Nicholson's  Poems  518 

■  Pritchard*B  Missionary  694 

'  —  Rose  d'Albret  66 
Jamefoa,  Practical  Measures  517 
JarvU,  History  of  the  Church  617 

Holy  of  Holies  180 

Jeqgreton.  Eye  Diseases  181 
J^^h  Matico  as  a  Styptic  181 
'  Jf{ft  Sermons  518 

Jeney  993 
:  /iW,  The  994 

'    /oAju,  Church  of  Jerusalem  67 
*  Johneon,  Annual  Register  995 
JoAsMieii,  Chemistry  181 

-  Travels  64 
Jmee,  Tecnmseh  694 

.  Courtship  Detailed  66 

Journal  of  Statistical  Society  517 
JZttt,  Helpi  to  Pastoral  Visitation  693 
um  Setnita  65 
iT,  MAt.  YOL,  XX1I« 


ICaue,  Ireland  179 

Kayal,Eastem  Traveller's  Interpretcr995 
Keane,  Courts  of  Bequests  695 
Kelfy,  library  of  Travels  64 

Syria  and  the  Holy  Land  517 

Kemp  on  Trade  179 

Kennetfy,  Latin  Grammar  J  80 

KerTf  Building  Societies 

Key,  Philological  Papers  404 

jr/a/fow«M,  Guide  to  German  181 

Knight,  Architecture  996 

iCoA/> Scotland,  Glasgow,  8ie.  64 

— .  Ireland  179 

Kohlrausch,  History  of  Germany  63 

Laiug,  Atlas  Priie  Essay  999 

Lambert,  My  Crotchet  Sampler  996 

Last  ^  my  Love  S94 

Lawson,  The  Ocean  Tribute  403 

Leatham,  Poems  65 

Lee,  Theses  of  Erastus  65 

Leigh,  Xor<f,  Walks  in  the  Country  994 

Lent  Lectures  179 

Life  ^  FaUh  994 

Lister,  Beauty  and  the  Beast  518 

LUile  Booh  of  Nature  6«6 

JJoyd,  Dahlmann's  English  Revolatlon 

179 
Lockhart,  Bernal  Dial  178 

Log  Cabin  999  ,      ^^ 

Londonderry,  March,  of,  Narimtlve  64 

Long,  Lady  C.  Sir  Roland  Ashtott  995 

Longfellow,  Hyperion  65 

Lord  Chatham  Roused  179 

Lord  and  the  Vassal  63 

Low,  Landed  Property  696 

Loyd,  Bank  of  England  179 

Lucy  Hardinge  b\9 

Lumley,  Factory  Acts  404 

,  Poor  Law  404 

Lushinglon,  A  Great  Country's  Little 

Wars  64 
McCarthy,  The  Free  Lance  404 
AfCfltt/,  Apology  180 
Maedonneli,  Whig  "  Crisis"  179 
Mac  Farlane,  Indian  Empire  516 
Macgregor,  Commercial  Statistics  64 
Mackenzie,  Architectural  Antiquities  67 
Maenamara,  Practical  Treatise  695 
Maephersen,  Edward  the  First  180 
Maginn,  John  Manesty  404 
Maid  (^Honour  694 
Mamzer,  Gaelic  Psalm-Tunes  181 
Maiiland,  Discourses  65 
Mt^or,  Walton's  Angler  519 
Manning,  Penitents  and  Saints  180 
— ^—  Sermons  518 
Manson,  Hamilton's  Tune-book  405 
Mantell,  Medals  of  Creation  181 
Manzom,  1  Promessi  Sposi  694 
Marryat,  Settlers  in  Canada  409 
Marsden,  Eight  Discourses  693 
Marsh,  (hrysostom  179 
Marx,  Decrease  of  Disease  181 
Maskell,  Ancient  Liturgy  993 
Massacre  at  FFairaw  299 

4S 


681 


Indi*  to  Booki  Announced. 


Masiertt  lee-book  696 

JIfaltcrm,  Usei,  &e.  of  History  403 

Majnoeli,  fihtaiii  394 

JHoj^f  Law,  &c.  of  Parliftmcnt  66 

Meai0r,  Egypt,  ftc.  393 

Jk§ediealFro/es9im,ThBPuhMe  and  ibe6S& 

Medico- Chirurgieai  TraMMoetioiu  635 

ilfr^7/,The  Blefting  in  ibe  Curse  IdO 

■  The  Word  in  Season  180 

MerreU,  oo  Gaano  179 

Jlierrifieid,  Cenuino  on  Painting  636 

Meikodut  AHmi$Ur$  403 

Me^er,  British  Birds  405 

Brititb  Garden  Fruit  636 

Muekhhurgh^  Index  to  the  World  64 

MilUr,  on  Mortc^aget  395 

— -^  Principles  of  Surgery  685 

MUi,  Five  Sermons  65 

JUmuaurei  from  the  National  GaUery 
181,  405 

Jfinltfm,  Wax  Flowers  405 

MiicheU,  Ajax  of  Sophocles  395 

Modem  Syriame  1 79 

MoUoy,  Validity  of  Presbyterian  Marri- 
ages 64 

Momter  Teieocope$  636 

MoHiagHOt  Psalms  65 

Montgomery,  Law  of  Kindness  518 

Moore,  German  interpieter  404 

Morriton,  Crime  and  Insanity  403 

Morning  Exereieet  394 

Mortloek,  Scripture  Trslimony  65 

Morwemtow,  Follow  Me  404 

Mooaie  Workers,  The  519 

Mnnro^  Voyage  of  Life  394 

Murray,  Alphabet  of  Emblems  634 

Mueieat  Treatury  636 

My  Churchy t$rd  404 

Mysterious  Man  66 

Nati0HaiGaliery,Wn»tuTe%  from  1 8 1 ,405 

Neale,  Sbepperton  Manor  634 

New  Merchant  8eaman*s  Act  635 

NewhaU,  Emi|rrant's  Handbook  403 

Nawman,  British  Ferns  67 

— —  Elementary  Geometry  6'i6 

Newnham,  Agriculture  530 

Newton^  Ret.  /.  Letters  518 

Nieol,  Geology  of  Scotland  405 

Nicolas,  Nf>lson  Dispatches  633 

Ntehuhr,  Hiitory  of  Rome  63 

Niemeewicz,  Captivity  in  Russia  393 

Noel,  Protestant  Thoughts  518 

Norah  Toole  66 

Novello,  The  Psalmist  896 

Nursery  Ditties  65 

Nursery  Nhymes  634 

Nursery  Songs  and  Hymns  580 

(y  Flanagan,  Black  water  393 

Old  Painters  h\6 

Onwhyn,  Sue's  Mysteries  of  Paris  395 

Outline  of  Social  Systems  63 

Overs,  Working  Man  i95 

Owen,  Needle«kork  896 

Owens,  Lecture  on  Education  63 

Oxem/ord,  Tales  from  the  Germao  518 


Page,  Incendiariim  683 
Paley,  Baptismal  Fonts  405 

■  Ecclestol«»gist's  Guide  530 
Palmerstan,  Speech  on  Slare  Trade  403 
Parkes,  Domestic  Economy  181 
Parsons  and  Widows  894 

Patmore,  Poems  65 
Paton,  Compositions  67 
Peaks,  Cartouche  66 

■  Naval  Strength  of  France  64 
Fearsem,  Adversaria  Hesyebiana  293 
Peel,  Sir  R,  Speeches,  May  6  and  34,  64 
Pennington,  Greek  Language  396 
Peppereome,  Cutaneous  Diseases  66 
Percy,  Three  Sermons  180 

Peier  Partty*s  Annual  837 

Petrie,  on  Guano  179 

Pettit,  Classical  Geography  403 

PetzhMt,  Agricultural  Chemistry  5 SO 

Pickering,  The  Grandfather  180 

Pigott,  Three  Springs  634 

Pike,  Antichrist  Unmasked  394 

Pinnock,  First  Latin  Grammar  404 

Pitcaim,  Christ  our  Rest  633 

Polhilt,  Works  64 

Police  List  b\l 

Polygraphica  Curiosa  396 

Poole,  History  of  England  633 

Poor  Law  Report  517 

Porter,  Ireland  517 

post  Office,  Administration  of  64 

Po$tans,  Facts  and  Fictions  394 

Present  State  ofjgriculture  in  Chester  6^6 

Prichard,  on  Harbours  181 

'  illustrations  to  Physicai  His- 

tory  of  Mankind  519 
Prior,  China  and  the  Chinese  517 
Pritchard,  Missionary's  Reward  634 
Private  Bills  (CommonsJ  519 

(LordsJ  519 

Psalms  qf  David,  The  180 
Pugin,  Glossary  67 
Pusey,  Sermons  518 
Pyer^,  English  Reading  66 
«-  Greek  Grammar  66 

■  Latin  Grammar  66 
Pyer,  Wild  Flowers  180 
Quid  pro  Quo  180 
Rabelais,  Works  395 
Radelfffe,  Atbanaslan  Creed  403 
Rambles  by  Rivers  517 
Rebecca  Nathan  395 
Reddall,  Latin  Synonymes  180 
Reeds  Shaken  394 
Refofmalien  in  Europe  518 
Reid,  English  Dictionary  519 
Renaud,  Greek  Construing  395 
Reuben  Ramble's  Travels  517 
Revelations  of  Russia  393 
Rham,  Dictionary  of  the  Farm  67 
Rhymes  for  a  Royal  Nursery  634 
Richardson,  Zoology  181, 'i95 
Rigby,  Dyfemenorrlima  66 

Rtmbautt,    Westminster    Abbey     I>«ily 
Service  405 


Index  id  Bdoh  Announced. 


683 


kiiter^  French  Gran  mat  395 
JiobtrU,  Youth  of  Briiaiii  S9S. 
RiUnmon,  Trantlation  of  Horace  S94 
Rohson,  Exercises  for  Teachin|f  Greek 

dib 
Roeh/erd,  Sue's  Mysteries  of  Paris  S95 
Rolph,  on  Emi[^ration  179 
RmDam,  French  Revolution  999 
Rowbetkam,  Companion  99$ 
Rowe,  Dtforders  of  'fVomeu  66 
Rutteli,  Ipswich  393 
Sadgrove,  IiisoWency  Practice  519 
Si.  John^  Encaustic  Tiles  405 
SamU,  Lives  of  the  Englfsh  65 
Sampton,  Lusus  Seniles  519 
5am  Slick  in  England  634 
Sehloaer,  History  of  the  18ih  Century  63 
Sckolar'sHelpblB 
Scotland,  Queen's  Bench  67 
Stager,  De  Rarig^nan  on  Jesuits  403 
8eiu$,  Fouqu^'s  Sintram  405 
SeweUt  Chrttiian  Politics  394 
Shinier,  Mortnlif y  of  Exeter  633 
ShcUejf,  Rambles  393 
Sherwood,  John  Marten  1£0 
Skoberi,  Forget  Me  Not  637 

Popery  393 

Shortrede,  Lof^srithmic  Tahles  396 

Slharne,  War  in  France  63 

Sidney  Moreom  66 

Silver,  Diseases  of  the  Rectum  404, 635 

Simmt,  Practical  Tunnelling  530 

Simpson,  ClaTerhouse  393 

— —  Lectures  393 

on  Health  395 

Simpeon,  Sermons  179 

Sinclair,  Charge  65 

Sinneit,  Picture  of  Paris  633 

SJtelton,  Illustrations  of  the  Chateau 

D'Eu  6321 
Skinner,  Educational  Essays  403 
Sleeman,  Rambles  633 
Slick,  High  Life  in  New  York  395 
Smith,  B.  Glossary  67 

Dictionary  634 

— —  Inquiry  65 

Life  of  Moore  393 

■  Parliaments  393 

-^—  Religion  of  Ancient  Britain  64 

-  Sermons  65,  518 

Sue's  Mysteries  404        * 

Smpih,  Cycle  of  Celestial  Objects  626 
— *-*-  Pathology,  ftc.  181 

■  Historic  Fancies  IBO 

Soiheby,  Oberon  394 

Southed,  Life  of  Bell  633 

Spalding,  D'Aubign^*s  Hist,  of  England 

633 
Spooner,  on  the  Sheep  67 
SlaHlejf^  Life  of  Dr.  Arnold  63 
^/ule^fAeiVavy  517 
Steam  Engine  396 
SteggaU,  First  Lines  66 
Stephen,  Hist,  of  Church  of  Scotland  633 
New  Coromentarios  635 


Stephens,  Book  of  the  Farm  530 

Stone^  l*etty  Sessions  635 

Stopford,  Pacano-Papisnrus  403 

Story  Without  a  Nome,  The  518 

Stoughton,  Windsor  in  the  Olden  Time 
403 

Strickland,  Little  Downy  66 

Sue,  Mysteries  of  Paris  395 

Sumner,  Bp,  J.  B*  Charge  403 

Sunday  jifternoons  894 

Sure  Mercies  of  David,  The  5 1 8 

Surin,  Spiritual  Life  683 

Swain,  Cabinet  of  Poetry  634 

Sweetser,  Mental  Hygiene  66 

Talbot,  Pencil  of  Nature  181 

Prostitution  393 

Tales  of  a  Lay  Brother  66 

Tattersall,  Building  Act  404 

Tayler,  Tractarianism  683 

Taylor,  Anglican  Church  634 

Textile  Mant^aetures  396 

Thaer,  Principles  of  Agriculture  636 

Theory  of  Money  1 79 

Thieme,  Black's  German  Dictionary  635 

7%i«rry,' Merovingian  Era  634 

Thirwall,  History  of  Grtece  178 

Thoiuck,  Sermons  179 

Them,  Rhymes,  8ie.  403 

Thomas,  Psychologist  393 

Tlwmpeon,  Algebra  396 

»  Annals  of  Medicine  519 
-  Life  of  Buonaparte  403 

J%omton,  China  178 

7W<f,  Church  of  St.  Patrick  65 

Thmlin,  Missionary  Journals  517 

Tomlins,  Poems  518 

7*oiimfeR<f,  House  of  Commons  178 

Tregelles,  Revelation  179 

THumphs  ^Time  66 

Trip  to  Italy  393 

Trollope,  Questions  on  Acts  of  the  Apos« 
ties  65 

Young  LoTC  634 

Tr0f4«r,  Algebra  519 

7\ieker,  Camp  and  Cabinet  395 

7\imer,  Singing  Book  405 

The  Crocus  394 

Twies,  Life  of  Lord  Eldon  178 

Tyas,  Sentiment  of  Flowers  635 

Uncle  Peter,  Fairy  Tales  634 

Ure,  Supplement  to  Dictionary  636 

Urquhart,  Reflections  517 

Venn,  Discussion  with  Waterworth  518 

yieiniiy  of  Leamington  403 

Vincent,  Letter  63 

yiiUing  Societies  394 

Waddmgton,  Hebrew  Martyrs  180 

Walker,  Kaemts's  Mineralogy  636 

ffTillace,  Free  Church  403 

True  Age  of  the  World  516 

ff alter  Gay  ton  180 
fFaUon,  The  Alpaca  395 
Warburton,  Crescent  and  CroM  634 
Ward,  Christian  Church  179 
Warmington,  Christian  Ethics  66 


684 

fFkrren,  Ulnti  to  OffanUti  405 
ff^aieriom,  Ornitbolofj  181 
WaUrworikf  Diicatiion  518 
ffTtisan^  on  Confirmation  65 

■  *  Lasarut  179 
fykit,  Glasgow  Mortality  993 
9feal€t  Papera  on  Arcbitecture  590 
fTeaUk  tk€  Name  •fike  Beati  666,  179 
ff^ebsier.  Domestic  Economy  181 
Wedgwoodf  Geometrical  Demonstration 

181 
WtUingifm  Ditpatchet  6S9 
WeUt,  Insolvent  Act  404 
White  Lady,  Tht  180 
?F%«7e  on  the  Teeth  181 
WTiitHrou,  Religion  994 
WkUekead,  Isle  of  Wight  179 
WkUiier,  Ballads  518 
B^tddingion,  Spain  64 
HUberftreetArtkd.  S,  Amer.  Church  517 
■  Sermons  179 


Inde9  h  Poetry* 


WUkimcn,  Sketcbai  64 

WUliamt,  Ancient  British  Chorcb  517 

■  Goepel  NarratWa  179 
'  Primaiy  Charge  65 

BVliM,  Decrease  of  Disease  181 
FTi/lmefl,  Sermon  180 
fyUiomt  Consolations  634 
— — —  New  Royal  Exchange  693 

■  Oor  Actresses  63 
WingJUld^  Sermons  693 
VTomf,  a  Speech,  May  30,64 
'  Sequel  395 
fFbodkeme,  Parochial  Sermon  65 
Wright,  AnecdoU  Literaria  519 

■  Physical    and  Intellectual   Life 
633 

Wyaitf  Lachrymae  Eccleslm  403 
Ka^es,  Winter  in  Italy  393 
Young,  Pilgrim  Fathers  516 

■  Providence  of  God  402 
Yifung  fFidow  394 


INDEX  TO  POETRY. 


Angel  VieiU  619 

Bamei*e  Poems  in  the  Dorset  Dialect 

564 
JBamett,  A/iu,  Sleep  398 
Biaek  Prince,  Epitaph  on  383 
CavaUmr'e  Forewett  41 
Deaik  of  a  Friend  173 
Delot  56 

Elgin,  Lord,  Unea  on  387 
FaUk  620 
Ftrtt'bom,  The  5 
Greaf  Oak,  The  397 
Hen,  The  631 
King  Alfred  6X6 
Moeeee,  The  173 
May  Morning  61 


Memnon  in  tke  Britiek  Aftnnmi  171 

Mioriieippi,  On  the  388 

Modem  jftkene  57 

Pheenix,  The  381 

Poemt  in  the  Donet  DUUeet  564 

Ptyekologiet,  The  617 

Salt  upon  Salt  43 

Six  years  old  386 

Skelton,  Extracts  from  331 

Songs  393 

Sonnets  630 

Spring,  To  the  61 

Stat^knrst,  first  four  books  of  Virfil  605 

Tkougkts  on  tke  Avon  386 

Thmb  of  Lotus  hi 

Warkwortk  170 


INDEX  TO  NAMES. 

tncladiag  Promotiosf,  PrafermenU,  Binhi,  MutU(m,  and  DeatbL—Tlia  longer  ArUelea 
of  Death!  art  enterMl  in  the  preceding  Index  lo  Euays. 


Abbott,  B.  M.  434. 

1.554.    J.  313 
Abdy,  Mrs.  300 
Aberdour,  Lord  83. 

Lady  641 
Abington,  338,  440 
Aebeson,  V'ss  84 
Acland,  Mrs.  641 
Acton,  J.  107 
Adam,  Lady  1 1 1 
Adams  310.  C.313. 

F.  106.     M.  445 
Adamson,  J.  337 
Addams,  W.  658 
AddUon.  M.  A.  443 
Addy,T.  106 


Agnav,  J.  433 
ATltenbead,  M.  830 
Ainsworth,  T.  301 
Akarman,  M.  330 
Alohorne,  £.  539 
Aloock,  R.  83 
Alder  643.    A.  670 
Alderson,    E.  818. 

R.  J.  430 
Aldharo,  W.  H.  83 
Aldricb,  C.  110 
Aldridge,  M.  330 
Aldrit,  W.  644 
Alexander,  D. 

E.J.64' 

199. 


Alford,  H.  J.  85 
Alfred,  Lady  430 
Allan,  J.  440 
Allen,  C.  670.  H.A. 

109.  H.H.E.83. 

J.  444.  M.  B.  665 
AHix,Capt.86 

Allnutt,W.85,308 
AWes,  Mrs.  431 
Alloway,  Mrs.  444 
Allsopp,  C.  J.  668 
Alsager,  E.  B.  301 
Alstuii,  T.  R.  338 
ey,  S.  643 

ttf    J.  85, 
M.311 


Andenon  434.  E. 
106,  555.  H.  311. 
J.  J.  338.  M.540. 
R.  W.  434.    8.  B. 

D.  105 
Andrae,  T.  649 
Andreaen,  C*  S.  J. 

301 
Andrewes,E.G.  84 
Andrews,  A.  S.  399. 

E.  L.   540.     M. 
431 

Annealey,  A.Ij.  640. 

G.R.L.318.  Ho. 
A.>A$Ii.4SS 

670 


L 


Indi*  to  Kama*  <S6 

AnMll,  C.  106  E.  W.  540.  R.  L.  Battley,  H.  A.  640  Biddle,  L.  819 

Antty,  J.  556  540.  W.  433.  W.  Batty,  £.  R.  649  Biddttlph,  A.  446 

Anitie,  C.  446  H.  443  Baam^artner*  E.  C.  Bit,  C.  334 

ApliD,  8.  484  Baldook,  W.  H.  107       O.  334  Biggt.E.  J.  800.  W. 

Apperlcy,T.537  Baldwin,  O.  537       BaTentoek,  E.  489       640 

Appleyard,  C.  539  Balfour,  £.  J  99  Bawtree,  S.  J.  488  Bisnell,  C.  M.  909 

Archbould,  £.  554,  Ball,  L.  M.  313.  R.  Ba&ter,  T.  665  Bill,E.  105, 539.  R« 

665  554  Bayley,  E.  981.    G.        669 

Archduke  Rainer  Ballard,  A.  S.  331         541.  T.  557.  W.  Billa,  W.644 

446  Balls,  J.  S.  558  484  Bingham,  B.  A.  H. 

Areher,  C.  H.  640  BaIiton,G.  86  Bayne,    Mn.    817.       801.    M.J.  559 

Armistead,  W.  900  Bamford,  M.  A.  86        W.J.  817  BirohSll.    C.  817. 

Amitrong,  W.  668  Baird,  J.  W.  558        Bayiiing,  Lady  538        E.  554.  E.  C  538 

Amall,S.484  Banks,  N.E.  A.  483  Beaeb,  W.   H.  H.  Bird,  T.  H.  640.  W. 

Arnold,  O.  H.  667  Banning,  Mrs.  481        328  948 

Arthur,  B.  440.  M.  Bannister,  C.  P.       Beard,  S.  553  Birks,  T.  R.  311 

483.  R.  480,  640       105.    G.  644         Beare,  F.  880  Birnie,  J.  R.  108 

Asb,;N.818  Barclay,  T.  537.  T.  Reaseley,  J.  664  Birtwhlstle,    J.  B. 
Asbburnham,  H.          F.  483                     Beauchamp,E.541.       199 

338  Bardgett,  J.  386  F.  M.  388  Bischoff,  E.  538 

Ashby,  E.M.H.667.  Barharo,M.86  Beattelerk,C.B.S40  Bishop,  J.  818 

S.  640  Barker,  B.  W.  443.  Beaumont,  F.  640.  Bissbopp  883 

AsUnfton,  H.  199         E.  105,  389*    •'•       Lord  541  Blachford,  J.  H.  G. 
Ashton,  H.  643             445                         Beaver,  P.  554  P.  538 

Ashtown,  Lady  888  Barlow,  A.  890,331.   Beckett,  E.  488  Black,  J.  L.  310 

Asharst,  C.  481  B.  555.     E.  313.   Beckwith,  H.  443  Blackall, S.  666,668 

Astley,R.  319  M.A.  381.    Mrs.  Bedford,  H.  8i8,  Blackbume,  R.  84 

Atfieid,  C.  B.  539         481.    W.  O.  310      387  Blackett,  Lady  538 

Atber,  M.  A.  319  Barnard,  C.  A.  398.  Beebe,  F.  314  Blackmore,  H.  644 

Atkins,  A.  331.    T.       M.  J.  313  BceTor,  M.  B.  644  Blair,  A.  R.  334 

557.    W.  311  Bambridge,  J.  108  Begble,  C.  670  Blake,  M.  556.  Mrt* 

Atkinson,  A.  331  Barnes,  H.  A.  481.  Bell,  A.  C.  808.  C.       800 

Atkyns,  M.  E.  667        H.  E.  818.J.  W.       881,318.    H.J.  Blakeney,  R.  P.  640 

Atthill,  W.  669  85.    W.  437  644.  Miu  881.  T.  Bland,  G.  199 

Attree,  W.  W.  310  Barney,  M.  A.  B.       663  Blanshard,  H.  483| 
Attwood,  E.  881            981                         Bellairs,  J.  537  541 

Aobin,  T.  II 1  Baron, T.  106  Benbow,  J.  3 10  Blatch,  E.  446 

Austen,  G.  L.  667  Barrett,  C.  331  Bennett,  E.  S.   86.  Blaxland,G.  541 

Austin,  A.  R.  313.  Barrington,  Lady  H.  801, 880, 648  Blayds,  H.  537 

M.  107.  W.H.86       800  Benson,  A.  M.  109.  Bleasby,A.R.B.  105 

Aylward,  A.  F.  313  Barrow,  G.  N.  480.       E.  331  Blennerbassett,J.P« 
Ayre,  J.  J.  314             M.  999.     R.  J.  Bent,  M.  440  480 

Backhouse,  J.  644.       539.    T.  551  Bentall,  T.  388  Blewert,E.  880 

W.  106  Barry,  E.  648.  J.  A.  Bentley,  R.  J.  84.  Blood,  W.  989 

Bacon,  A.M.  494.       483  T.  A.  313.    W.  Blount,  Lady  84 

C.  554.    L.  314  Bartlett,  A.  103.  E.      399  Blosam,  M.  J.  319 

Badger,  B.  J.  553.       S.  444.    J.  554»  BcDwell,  Capf  •  800  Bluett,  E.  L  J.  C. 

E.  553.  T.  J.  801       666.     R.  H.  489    Bcre,  W.  B.  669  666 

Bage,  R.  900  Bartram,  R.  643       Berkeley,  J.  R.  P.  Blagravf,  J.  H.  499 

Bagot,M.444  Bartrum,  T.  C.  557       83.    W.C.  86  Blundell,    C.    314. 

Bagshawe,  A.  A.  Bukerville,  Mrs.       Bernal,R.310,  538       R.  W.  447.     S. 

319  900  Bernard,  H.  86.  Hn.       493.    W.438 

Hague,  D.  493  Baskett,E.  449  Mrs.  538.    Lady  Blumn,  H.  335 

Bailey,  U.J.  311.  Bauatt,  J.449  918.  Visct'ss64t  Blunt,  B.  P.  480 

J.  666.  Mrs.  84.  Rasiaett,  A.  E.  990  Berry  J.  S.  901.  T.  Blythe,  E.  313 

R.  K.  811.    W.  Bastard,  T.  H.  85        640  Boaden,  C.311.  H, 

668  Bates,  E.  319  Bertie,  H.  W.  640         F.  110 

Bdrd,  J.  105, 917  Bateson,  M.  494       Berryman,  J.  107  Bockett,  J.  901 

Baines,  C.  E.  539.  Batho,  J.  107  Best,  J.  J.  665.    S.  Bode,  B.  L.  538 

£.  539.    M.  86  BattUcombe,  S.  105       101  Boggis,  M.  P.  539 

Baker,  E.  557*  E.J.  Bathnrst,  E.  S.  83.  Bethune,  M.E.541  Boldero,  M.  A.  331 

356.  .  H.  F.  490.       S.  E.  480  Bett,  T.  S.  441  Bolding,  T.  999 

J.  O.  A.  84.  J.  R.  Batt,  J.  555.     Miss  Bevan,  C.  488  Bolton,  M.  484 

106.    M.  A.  110.       644  Bevere,  E.  85  Bomford,  T.  109 

M.900|901.    R,  Batten,  H.  644         BcTiogtoo,  A,  498  Bondi  S,  A*  644 


686 


Index  io  Namts, 


Bone,  E.  MT.  643 
Boode,  A.  C.  66b* 
Booth,  E.  3S6.  E. 
,S.  338.  J.  537. 

L.  C.  86.  P.  441. 

S.  553 
Borlase,  W.  559 
Borradaile,  W.  665 
Borrer,  J.  4S3 
Bdrrect,  W.  P.  420 
Bontell,  Gen.  1 10 
Bostock,  J.  S.  539 
Boultbee,  E.  85.  R. 

M.  108 
Boulte,  J.  441 
Boucher,  C  313 
Bourcbier,  C.  327. 

Mri.  4i2l,538 
Bouifield,  M.  539 
BouYerie>  Hon.  E. 

P.  83 
Borill,  J.  86.  S.  86. 

W.  424.  W.J.200 
Boville,  M.  85 
Bowden,  J.  W.  440 
Bowlhy,  G.  U.318. 

J.  K.  643 
Bowles  640.  T.  541 
Bowman,  C.  540.  J. 

F.  314 
Boycott,  J.  H.  M. 

199 
Boyd,  P.  538.    W. 

S.  558 
Boydell,  W.  B.  538 
Boyle,  A.  313 
Boynton,  Mri.  200 
Brabaxon,  Lord  446 
Brace,  M.  A.  85 
Brackenbury,  J.  B. 

669.    W.  110 
Braddy,  C.  420 
Bradley,  £.  644.  F. 

310.  J.  644 
Bradly,E.  104 
Bradford,    A.   109. 

Dow.-C'tts    552. 

J* 537*  «.  '!'•  83. 

M.J.  667 
Brady,  W.  S.  R.  83 
Braids,  M.  SOO 
Braise,  Mrs.  200 
Bramab,  E.  557 
BrambalUM.  643 
Bramwell,  A.  440 
Brancker,  J.    424. 

'  M.  J.  84 
Brandon,  H.  G.423 
Brandlin(»  F.  £. 

669 
BrauflU,  C.  E.  554 
Braisey,  R.  J.  217 
Bray,  W.  P.  326 
Braysbaw,  T.  537 
Bremer,  E.  S,  644 


Brenan^P.  310 
Brereton,  A.  M.  85. 

R.  642 
Brett,  W.  640 
Brettell,  H.  A.  108 
Brewer,  A.M.  539. 

W.  V.  558 
Brewin,  E.  422 
Briant,  H.  537 
Bricknell,W.  G.437 
Bridge,  Mrs.  538 
Bridger,  M.  540 
Bridges,  A.  331 
Bridgman,  £.  A. 

422 
Brings,  J.  199,  555 
Bright,  M.  553 
Brinton,  £.  222 
Brisbane,  C.B.  555. 

Mrs.  538 
Briitow,  J.  539 
Britt,  T.  330 
Broade,  C.  332 
Brock,  O.  202 
Brocket,  S.  B.  556 
Broderip,  J.  S.  420 
Brodie,   Mrs.    538. 

W.  643 
Bromby,  M.  E.  642 
Brook, Mrs.  300,421 
Brooke,  R.  644.  U. 

443 
Broom,  S.  670 
Broughton,  M.  P. 

538.    Mrs.  641 
Brown,Atd.420.  C. 

eS^.    C.  B.  312. 

C.V.  670.E.321. 

J.  83.  L.  E.  430. 

M.  105,  106.    S. 

E.  644.  S.  S.3I3. 

T.  M.  811.    W. 

203.    W.J.  540 
Browne,  A.  A.  314. 

D.   A.  314.    G. 

M.  M.  538.  H.  S. 

644.    J.  R.  331. 

LadyC.  104.    M. 

106,  643.    T.  C. 

438.    W.  E.553 
Bruce,  E.  442.  Hii. 

R.  310.    L.  423 
Bruere,  Mrs.  328 
Brueton,  T.  556 
Brugef,  E.  445 
Brunt,  J.  4:t9 
Bryan,  A.  E.  83.  F. 

554.     R.  G.313 
Bryant,  W.  556 
Bttccleuch,  Duchess 

641 
Buchanan,  A.  558. 

Mr<.  84 
Baek.R.  H.K.  199 
Buckell,  F.  314 


Buckland,  A.  8.  C. 

555 
Buckle,  T.H.  662 
BuckiiiU,  W.S.  199 
BuckstoDe,Mrs.2l8 
Budd.  E.  U.  86.  H. 

104 
Bull,  E.  219.     H. 

437 
Buller,  Mrs.  421 

Bullock  420.H.  199. 

J.  W.  438.  S.  643 
Bulkly,  G.  W.  553 
Bunbury,  C.  J.  F. 

86.    T.  310 
Bruce,  J.  313,313 
Bunster,  J.  104 
Bardon,  E.  106 
Burdwood,  T.  199 
Burgoyne.E.  643 
Buris,  S.  644 
Burkinyoung,  C.  J. 

333 
Borland,  W.  109 
Born,  A.  665 
Barnaby,    £•    644. 

S.  A.  107 
Burne,  W.H.  219 
BurrauJ,  M.  317 
Burrell,  M.  199 
Burridge,  E.  421 
Burrill,J.  H.539 
Burrowes,  J.  A.  640 
Burt,   G.  330.    J. 

553 
Burton,  VV.  W.  640 
Bush,  F.  R.  313 
Bushe,  R.  644 
Bushman,  C.  108 
Busk,  J.  H.  107 
Bussell,  J.  C.  642 
Buston,  J.  557 
Buivine,  J.  442 
Batcher.  J.  U.  537. 

R.444 
Butler,  F.  M.  221. 

S.329.  W.J.  199 
Butson,  S.  H.  539 
Butt,  E.  H.  444 
Buxton,  J.  553 
BygraTe,  R.  555 
Byng,  F.  643 
Byrne,  J.  537.    W. 

A.  423 
Byron,  J.  83.  R.  W. 

310 
Cadman,  Mrs.  311 
Cairns,  W.  558 
Caldecott,  J.  218 
Caldwell,  E.  312 
Callaway,  Mrs.  554 
Callis,  G.  W.  661 
Calmont,  T.  M.  643 
Calvert,E.S.P.423. 

ll.U.42^,  J.  107 


CamerMi,D.L4:4. 

Hod.  A.  557 
Campbell,  C.^' 

E.  110,433.  a 

333.    U>  M.  &U 

L.C-311.  W.fr 
Camuccibi,  447 
Cann,  A.  66 
Capel,  J.  D.  1  : 

M.423 
Capper,  M.  M.  *''' 
Cardale,  Mn.  Si; 
Cardew,A.D.'i. 
Carew,  Hod.  R.  2 

314 
Carey,  E.  338.  I 

311 
Carlyon,  E.  ^ 
Carmicbael,  W) 

311 
Carnac,Mn.90 

Carne,  A.  M.  644 

Carpenter,  C ' 

M.  A.  313 
Carr,  M.  :{I4 
Carrick,C.W.6^ 
Carringion,  & ' 

313.     F.313 
Carrs.  A.  2S0 
Carslake.J.H.B. 

Carruihers,  R.  ^ 
CaKer,  J.  B.  J 

J.  C.  L.  S39. 

441.    S.F.6^ 
Cartwrigbt.  C. 

313.    J.  H.  3 

Mrs.  641.  M. 

313.  W.2o:. 
Carver,  R.  3^!) 
Gary,  J.  666.  i 

221 
Casey,  E.  H.  iM 
Cassan,  F.  541 
Castleman,  W. 
Castell,J.2ia 
Caswall,  Mn.4 
Catto,  J.  64) 
Caul,  J.  C.  314 
CaulBeld,  J.  G. 
Canning,  T.  C 
Caran,   Couu( 

641 
Cave,  Mrs.  641 

314 
CaTendifh,  H>  i 

Mrs.  558.    i 

641 
Cay  ley,  C.  D. 
Cecil,  J.  B.  33* 
Ceely,  F.  W.  4 
Chabot,  J.  55  J 
Chadwick,  U . 
Chamberla  n,  1 

423.  W.  C  i 
Qham.bcrs.J.U 


Indei^  to  Namei» 


ChMnptlB,A.310 
Champiiey,  R.  541 
Chaimell,  P.  lo4 
Chaplin,  E.  M.  85 
Chapman,  A.  667. 

E.  J.  312.  L.M. 

220.     W.  S.  537 
Chappfll,  J.  A.  667 
Cbarlesworth,  E. 

312.    J.  420 
Charleton,  S.C.  556 

Cbarrington,£.l05. 

M.  A.  556 
Chase,  T.  H,  200 
Cbater,  N.  218 
Cbacfield,  M.  665 
Chattock,  T.  333 
Cheeiman,  C.  539 
Cheeswright,  H.  C. 

424 
Cherry,  W.  E.  85 
Chester,  R.  B.  330 
Chetwode,  223 
Cbetwynd,  W.  104 
Chichester,    A.  A. 

314.  C.Sll.CH'ss 

538.    Earl  of  83. 

Lord  422 
Chinnery,  Mrs.  200 
Cholmondeley,  J.G. 

G.  424 
Christie,  F.  G.  538. 

J.  201.  M.  E.  84. 

Mrs.  311.    S.  H. 

644 
Christopher,  A.  M. 

W.202.   M.F.202 
Christopherson,   J. 

R.662 
Chrystie,  W.  220 
Chudleigb,  Major 

220 
Church,  B.  539.  H. 

E.  643.    J.  554 
Churchill,  M.  108 
Churton,  E.  86.  H. 

P.  86.    H.B.W. 

83.     W.  J.  558 
Chute,  Mrs.  641 
Chuyier,  G.  A.  106 
Clarices,  R.G.H.  83 
Clarid^e,  C.  643 
Clark.  £.423.  E.R. 

314.     H.B.  540. 

J.V.  326.  T.  666. 

W.  331 
Clarke,  C.  S.  83.  E. 

554.  M.&55.R.  W. 

643.  W.N.  313 
Claughton,    Hoo. 

Mrs.  421 
Clay,  J.  H.  538 
Claytou,  W.  J.  537 
Cleave,  W,  O.  446 


Cleaver,  E.  228 
Clegg,  S.  644 
Clement,    M.   313. 

W.  T.  313 
Clements,  A."  537. 

£.  554.     J.  328. 

M.  312 
Clendinuiiif,    Mn. 

421 
Clerk,  T.  C,  B.  S. 

199 
Cleypole,  M.  554 
Clibborn,    J.    541. 

T.  C.  110 
Cliffe,  H.  S.  421 
Clifford,  W.  J.  C. 

420 
Clifton,  J.  T.  420. 

H.W.  202.  W.  P. 

311 

ClippertoD,E.R.423 
Clissold,  S.  106 
Clive,  E.  640 
Clonmeil,  Countess 

84 
Clowser,  M.  104 
Clutferbuck,E.540. 

E.  F.  84 
Clutton,R.640,643 
Coaker,  Mr<.  538 
Coates,  J.  539 
Coatbupe,  Mrs.  641 
Cohb,  E.  85 
Cobhe,  H.  C.  199 
Cobler,  T.  H.  86 
Cochran,  A.  644 
Cochrane, —  421 
Corkcroft,  J.  445 
Cockerell,  H.  85 
Codd,  £.  T.  641 
Co§an,  A.  L.  313 
Cogswell,  Miss  556 
Coke,  G.  311 
Cohen,  A.  85 
Colclough,  F.  554 
Coldbam,  G.  85 
Coldwell,  T.  641 
Cole,  Hun.  H.A.83. 

J. 666.  J  .A.  554. 

V.  M.  86 
Cules,  H.A.  537.  J. 

S.  86.   J.  T.  668. 

T.  105 
Cullett,  Mrs.  667 
Colley,  A.  F.   446. 

M.  A.  539 
Cullard,  T.  106 
Collier,  T.B.  313 
Colling,  H.  U.  424 
Colliiif,  C.  640.     J. 

84,438.   Mi«$540 
Colliiison,  B.  C.  C. 

644.     H.540.    J. 

199,311 


Colli,  J.  F.  640 
Coimer,  C.  £.421. 

£.  668 
Colquhoun,  Mrs.445 
CoUyer,  J.  537.   R. 

640 
Combes,  S.  539 
Compson,  M.  557 
Compton,  Lord  539 
Conant,  E.  N.  539 
Conner,W.H.B.640 
ConoUy,  J.  200 
Conran,  J.  331 
Constable,  C.  H.  S. 

552.J.669.M.332 
Conyers,  C.  S.  539. 

M.  104 
Cook,  G.W.F.  640. 

J.  103,314.  R.K. 

84 
Cooke,— 220.  J.  H. 

537.  Mrs.  200 
Cooksoii,C.439.  M. 

422 
Cookwortby,  J.  C. 

202 
Cooper,  E.  541.   G. 

L.  G.  559.  H.  M. 

218.  J.440.  M.R. 

424.  W.  H.  424 
Coore,  A.  538 
Coote,A.537.  E.670 
Cope,  K.W.  199, 3 10 
Copland,  M.  L.  541 
Copley,  E.  M.  106 
Copsey,  S.  641 
Corbett,  R.  423 
Corfe.J.  422 
Corke,  E.  200 . 
Corles,  H.  423 

Cornish,  G.  667.  M. 

202 
Cornwallis,      C'i*ss 

200 
Corrie,  J.  M.  643 
Cory,  J.  A.  541 
Coryton,  G.  E.  538 
Coiserat,    E.    313. 

O.  P.  420 
Costigan,  A.  642 
Cutton,C.310.  G.V. 

440.  H.331.  Hon. 

W.H.S.421.  M.E. 

424.  Mrs.420.  $. 

108 
Coulson,  Hon.  Mrs. 

421 
Coulthard,  J.  444 
Coulton,  J.  662 
Court  hope,  G.  C. 

641 
Cowan,  G.  B.  316 
Coward,  E.  108   T. 

423 


687 

Cowd,  G.  919.    G. 

329   * 
Cowie,  D.  540 
Cowland,  W.  216 
Cowling,  A.  421 
Cowper,  R.  108 
Cox,  E.  A.  M.  312. 

E.  W.  424    J.E. 

«5.     M,  A.  668.  • 

R.  538.    T.  312, 

424.     W.  A.  200 
Coxe,  G.  326.    R. 

L.  110 
Cracknell,  J.  N.  85. 

W.  P.  328 

Cracroft,  Weston  85 
Crafer,  E.  83 
Craig,  J.   E.  201. 

Mrs.  84 
Cramer,  H.J.  219 
Crampton,  A.  A. 

312.  P.C.  202 
Cranston,  £.  424 
Crauford,  R.G,641 
Craven,  Countess 

311 
Crawford,  M.  538. 

Mrs.  421 
Crawshay,  A.  423 
Creasy,  E.  H.  220 
Crec,  J.  537.       T. 

422 
Creigtoo,  A.  O.  314 
Cremer,  R.  M.  199 
Creyke,  £.  G.  203 
Cricbton,  Hon.  H. 

537 
Cripps,  Mrs.  538 
Crispin,  W.  640 
Crockford,  W.  104 

Crofts,  E.  218.    W. 
540 

Croggon,  A.  333 
Crompton,  G.  666 
Crookc,  E.  G.  421 
Crosse,  J.  83,    M. 

A.  E.  502.      R. 

J.  644 
Crow,  F.  A.  83. 640 
Crowch,  J.  423 
Crowdy,   M.   64.1. 

W.  202.     E.  H. 

221 
Crowe,  M.  218 
Crosier,  H.   B.  T. 

669 
Cruse,  M.  A.  86 
Crutchley,  C.  537 
Cubitt,  T.  537 
Cuertoii,  L.  423 
Cull,  T.  640 
Culi«y,  J.  555 
Cullington,  D.  539 
Camming,  J.  C.  223 


68d  Indes  to  Name$* 

Caroplifii  A.  830  DaYiton,  C.  P.  0$6    De  Torri»  OVt%  559    I>nuBnoiid»  J. 

Cundy,  S.  104  Davy,  J.  J.  434          De  Tuylt,  Baron  4SJ        639.     Mn.  9Q 

Cunliffe  -  Liflter,  J.  Dawes,  E.  643.    H.   Devit,  0.110  DryMlale,  G.  417 

83  330                         DeTerell,E.540.J.R.    Dociey   Couiit«a 

CunDlnsbam,  G.  A.  Dawney,  Mrt.  490        439.  R.  539  481 

H.  G.  314  DawtODi  J.  539.  R.   De  Vitr«,  M.  6tfS  Dackelt,  J.  6^ 

Cunyfigbane,F.909  541                         Deiv,  A.A.85.  S.M.  Dodid,  E.  MS 

Currie,  G.  A.  801.  Day,  J.J.  63                  539  Dnflleld,  R.  D.«i 

J.  313.   L.  329.  Daykln,  C.  E.  539     Dewe,  S.  669  2>offy,  M.  S02 

R.  W.  439  Dayman,  G.  438        Dewhirst,  M.  555  Daneoabe^  J.  ai 

Curry,  R.  C.  5S5  Deacon,  H.  554          De  Wint,  H.  644  M.  557.    W.  13 

Cunham, SOO  Dealtry,  E.  109          Dickenson,    E.  Vi.  Dundas,  G.  6U 

Curteia,  S.  326  Deane,  F.  H.  801.       312.    Mn.481  Hon.  H.  310.  i 

Cuat,W.P.  85  G.387.  G.W.881    Dickinson,    H.  W.  644.     Mn.4.: 

Cuttill,  M.  G.  de  Deans,  J.  64?                488.    J.  H.  85  DttDlop,   A.  S14. 

L.808  Deanley,  E.P.539   DIckonson,  E.  218  A.  649.   A.ILft 

Dacrea,  Mrs.  641  De  Broc  de  laTu.  Dickson,  G.  110  558.  J.439.  ;4i 

Dagnall,  E.  667  veliere,  Comte      Dig^by,   Lady   641.  Donn,  J.  313.  > 

Dainty,  Mra.  420  539                             Mrs.  311.   W.  U  559 

Dakeyne,  J.O.  311  Debarry,  A.  E.  318       106  Danne,  J.R.  31 

Dale,  A.  480  De  Carteret,  J.  D.   Dilmas,  H.  334  Danaf^d,  W.  J. 

Dales,  S.  443, 552  199                          Dimmock,  J.  541  S0«.     W.  T.  ^. 

Dalmas,  F.  537  De  Caitro,  Mrs.  108  Dineley, G.  103,3 1  J,  Da  PASqaicr,  F.  :i 

D'Alen^on,  Duke  Deck,  H.  480                640  Dappm»  B.  E.  SC 

200  Decoeurdouz.  G.  199  Dinsdale,  J.  328  Da  Pre,  D.  3U 

Dalton,  H.  G.  200.  Deedes,  S.  220            Dix,  G.  R.  106  Durbisi,  —  44fi 

J.  221.  J.  C.  200.  Deere,M.A.330.  M.  Dixon,  H.  M.  440.  Dath^.  H.A.:& 

T.  540  668                             T.  537.  T.  C.  84  Duval,  L.  32t 

Daly,  D.  537.     H.  De  Groucby,  C.  671    Dobie,  Miss  669  Pyer,  £.AL  31A.  .* 

539  Debang,  W.  K.  644  Docksey,  A.  553  85 

Dames,  A.  L.  644.  De  Home,  L.  422      Dodd,B.537.  £.  H.  Dyka,  O.  H.  ir 

G.  448  DelaBecbe,Lady33       669  P.  H.  490 

Damunt,  A.  312  Da  la  Bretaene,  C.   Doid^e,  R.  219  Dyne,  F.  B.  319 

Dance,  C.  M.  313.  643                         Dolben,  L.  387  Dyott,  W.  H.  i 

C.  W.  668  Delacour,  Mrs.  333    Dolman,  C.  484  £aaM>iuon,EX»* 
Dando,  A.  643  Delafteld,  J.  85          Donkin,  W.  F.  312  ISarle,  C.  44i.  L 
Daney,  J.  640  Delafosse,  D.  C.  83.  Donald,  W.  331  310 
Danger,  J.  643  R.  M.D.I  10         Donaldson,    G.  H.  Eastlake,  C  4£4 
Daniel,  L.  338  Delaware,  J.  H.  537       540.   U.202.   W.  Ed«,  H.e44.  J.i- 
Dantell,  C.   446.  De  Lisle,  F.  J.  202       106  Eden,  T.  670.  T.i 

M.  106  J.  802                    Doolan,  R.  W.  C.  640 

Dansey,  R.  J.  208  Delves,  W.  424               199,  310  Edsar,  A.  42: 

Danvers,  C.  105  DeMauley, Baroness  Dormay,  P.5d7,668  Edge,  T.  W.  44' 

Darby,  W.M.  312  104                         D*Ossuna,Duke447  £d£eU»  E.W.M. 

Darlington,  M.  C.  De  Moteyna,  Hon.  Douellan,  M.  199  £dger»  E.  3U 

481  Miss  801                 Douglas,  C.  H.  199.  Bdgvortb.  T.4:. 

Darke,  J.  830  Dennis,-'541.J.639       G.  F.  222.   H.  P.  Edieston,    A.  ^ 

Daubeny,  £.  446.  Dennlstoun,     Mrt.       538.    Lady  421.  Capt.  901 

M.642  421                              Lady  J.  J.  421.  Edaonda,  J.  li. 

DaTenport,  U.  109  Dennett,  E.  202            Mrs. 311.  W.64I  J.  P.  420 

Darey ,  R.  202  Denny,  M.  33 1           Doune,  J.  2 1 8  Edaaandaon,  G.  :^ 

Davidson,  C.  84.  J.  Denton,  R.  A.  199,   Doveton,  E.  86.  J.  Edwacda.    E.  4.^v 

220  422.  T.  W.  539          640  F.  670.    J.  ->. 

Davies,  A.  107.    C.  Derbisbire,  K.  Ill     Dowding,  T.W. 541  817.     J.  A.  54 

e^Q.     D.  D.84.  Dering,  F.  314           Down,  L.  F.  B6  J.S.  326 

D.  423.     D.  H.  Derkbeim,  E.  642      Downie,     J.    537.  Egaa,T.  H.2v3 
540.    E.  H.  K.  De  Robeck,  G.  £.       Lady  641  Elan,  B.  A2i 
330.    J.  326.  M.  558                           Dowson,  E.  L.314  Eldridge,  R.  44: 
£.  E.  423.  R.  84.  De  St.  Lea,  M.  108     Drake,  M.  H.  642  Eliott,  Q.  U.44J 
T.  663.     U.   B  De  St.  Remain, C.B.   Drapei,  W.  H.  537  Ellen borougb,  Er 
537.    W.  T.  K.  A.  424                     Drapes,  J.  L.  314  of  537, 619 
640  De  Sayres,  F.  540      Drought,  J.  M.  558  £|lerton»   C  C.  li 

Davis,  B.  85,802.  Desbors,  C.  J.  558     Drumlanrig,  Vis-  331 

J.  640  Des  Vceux,  Lady421       countess  31 1  EUice,  J.  64J 


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Elliott,  B.  539.  E. 

A.  670.    H.916. 

R.  SOS,  443.   W. 

H.  SOI 
Ellii,  C.  A.  44S.  B. 

644,  668.    Mn« 

106,638 
Elscffood,  F.  J.  658 
EltOD,  A.  556 
Elton,  J.  F.  668 
Elwcty  H*  R.  xi«  Ca 

64S 
Elwln,  M.  553 
£md«n,  S.  55S 
Emeiy,  A.  85 
Enfield,  F.  SSO 
Eni^all,  J.  105 
Enter,  E.  107*    J* 

554 
EntwUtle,  W.  88 
Erntt,  H.A.SOS 
Esdaile,  J.  SSS 
Estcourt,  W.  O.  B. 

420 
Essex,  W.  643 
£tberid8e,F.W.540 
Eustace,  H.  670.  L. 

109 
Evan,0*  109 
Evtnf ,  C.  4SS,  4S3. 

D.  101.  £.  199f 
311,554,640.  E. 
C.644.  G.A.551. 
J.  83.    R.  663 

Everard,  B.  J.  84 
Everatt,  A.  86 
ExtOD,  R.31I 
Eyde,  A.  G.  4SS 
Evre,  E.  4S8.  G.  H. 

'644.     Mrs.  4S1 
Facge,  J.  P.  540 
Fairfax,  M.  333 
Fairies,  8. 4S I 
Faitbfull,  C.  G.  84. 

E.  SOO.    F.  SOO 
Falcon,  J.  310 
Fulford,  Cape.  SOI 
Fane,J.  4S1.  J.C. 

314.   Lady  555 
Farebrutber,  8.  3S7 
Farqabar,    E.  SOS. 

J.  643.    Lady  84 
Farisb,  H.  440 
Farlar,  E.  8S9 
Farnall,  Mrt.311 
Farnell,  M.A.  86 
Farran,  A.  S17 
Farracd,  J.  84 
Farrar,  C.  553 
Farren,  J.  W.  P.  83 
Farrer,  F.  E.  444 
Faston,  E.  S.  644 
Faulkner,  H.  85 
FaTcne,  G.  559 
Fayrer,  R.  643 

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Ft&thentonbattgb, 

G.  W.  639 
Feetban,  A.  4SI 
Feilde,  J.  G.  4S4 
Felix,  R.  R.  449 
Fell,  R.  559 
Felloifef,T.A.541. 

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Fenn,  M.  665.    N. 

55S 
Fenton,  P.  S18 
Feniviek,    C.  644. 

H.  901 
Ferard,  K.  440 
Fergaton,H.R.640 
Ferraby,  J.  86 
Ferrers,  Earl  314 
Ferriday,  A.  108 
Featinif,  F.  3S6 
Ffooks,  T.  666 
Field,  A.  G.  643 
Filmer,  Lady  490 
FilKoD,  P.  F.  313 
Fillis,  H.  494 
Finch,  J.  665 
Finlow,  C.  669 
Finney,  J.  104 
Firman,  J.  P.  490 
Fisber,  S.  199,  9S0. 

T.J. SOO.  W.I06 
Fiske,  C.  564 
Fison,  J.  108 
Fitsf(erald,  A.  540. 

J.C.540.  S.F.SOI 
Fitxicibbon,  G.  441 
Fitxberbert,  A.  444 
FiU-Herbert|  Mn. 

491 
Fiumanriee,  Hon« 

Mrs.  491.    Hon. 

W.  E.  88.  J.  490. 

Mn.  538 
Fitxroy,  Hon.  Mn. 

538 
Flemini^,  J.  105.  V. 

640 
Fletcber,  B.  649.  F. 

643.    J.  B.   643. 

Lady  900,64 1.M. 

330.  M.  M.  334. 

R.  311 
Flower,  Hon.  C.  990 
Flowers,  W.  H.  l99 
Flntoft,  G.  109 
Fofparty,  M.  439 
FolUott,  M.  919 
Fonblanque,  R.  A. 

494 
Foot,  C.  M.  643 
Foote,  C.  993.  C.  A. 

314.    *£.  86.  W. 

W.  397 
Footner,  W.  W.  644 
Forbes,  A.  A.  C. 

446.    A.  K.  644. 
XXIL 


C.670.    G.  649. 

J.  199,  90a  J.  G. 

85.  M.  85.  Mn. 

641.    R.  313.  8. 

909.  Vii'tess  641 
Ford,  A.  314,  649. 

H.   M.  554.    J. 

666.    L.  G.  106 
Forde,  M.  A.  670 
Fordbam,  G.  F.  3S9 
Fordyce,  J.  310,537 
Forrest,  Mn.  4S0 
Forteseue,  A.  399. 

Hon.  Mn.  311 
Foabery,  H.  W.  909 
Foster,  A.  917.    B. 

F.  539.  £*A.669. 

H.437 
Foulis,  J.  319.    H. 

640.    T.  A.  319 
Fowke,  E.  399 
Fowler,  C.  A.  643. 

J.C.4S4.  M.330. 

M.  W.  641 
Fox,C.319.E.319. 

M.  313.     R.  B. 

644.     W.  313 
Foxton,  G.  3S6 
Framptou,  Lady330 
Francis,  E.  C.  84. 

M.  P.  493 
Fraser,  G.  104.  Hn. 

F.  G.  84.  Lieut. 

C.  85 
Fraderick,  R.  104, 

106.    T.  106 
Freke,  P.  E.  558 
Frecland,  F.  A.  819 
Freetini;,  C.  R.  539 
Freeman,  E.  668.  J. 

85 
Freeth,  J.  E.  919 
Fremantle,    Capt. 

83.    C.  M.  541. 

Sir  T.  83 
French,  E.  86.    6. 

643.  M.  4S9.  M. 

M.3I3.W.J.9S3 
Prere,  E.  J.  108 
Fricker,  M.  A.  649 
Fromow,  P.  J.  665 
Froude,  M.  649 
Fry,  E.  E.  449.  W. 

S.  449 
Fiver,   F.  D.  314. 

W.  V.  440 
Fuller,  Mn.  901 
Forxe,J.644 
Fyffe,  H.  199 
Gabb,  J.  A.  336 
Gabriel,  T.  643 
Gaban,  C.  643 
Gale,  J.  539.  J.  H. 

540 
GiUndo3n,640 


681 

Galwey,  T.  490 
Gardner,  A.  S.  539* 

L.  396.    R.  490 
Gardiner,  M.  P.  334 
Garey,  S.  E.  86 
Garland,  S.  909 
Garner,  A.  104 
Garnett,  W.  103 
Garrard,  C.  490 
Garratt,  J.  494 
Gartbome,  M.  918 
Gukell,  Miss  103 
Gastineau,  H.  649 
Gatehouse,  C.  556 
Gandin,  G.  103 
Gavao,  H.  310 
Gavey,  H.  440 
Geary,  H.  110 
Geddes,  K.  399 
Ged|;e,  J.  430 
Gee,  R.  83 
Gentle,  W.  103 
Gibbs,Ald.  641 
Gibson,  E.  D.  644. 

H.43l.Mn.669. 

W.  445 
Gifford,  H.  494.  R. 

107 
Gilbert,  A.  491.  C. 

643.    E.  918.  J. 

319 
Gilder,  W.  445 
Giles.  F.  433 
Gilioli,  J.  649 
Gill,  G.  86 
Gillson,  S.  667 
Girdlestone,  J.  G. 

86.    S.  8.  909 
Gladstone,  Mn.  491 
Giasfrow,  Earl  of 

537 
Glaisber,   J.    901. 

J.  S.  399 
Glenlyon,  Lady  999 
George,  G.  199 
GUssons,  Mrs.  449 
Glynne,  Hon.  Mn. 

490 
Goddard,  A.   314. 

Mn.  538.R.438. 

W.  445 
Godfrey,  D.R.  199. 

J.  8.  .539.    M.  L. 

439 
Godlie,B.G.H.105. 

G.  A.  105 
Godson,  W.  C.  493 
Gold,  C.  E.  537*  W« 

G.310 
Goldfinch,  E.  M.  A. 

331 
GoUinf ,  E.  339 
Goldney,  E.  553 
GoMsmid,  £.  E.  86* 

H.84.    J,  901 
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890 

GoardM,M.T.  556 
Good,  J.  P.  85 
GoodcliU(i,W.T.<>6S 
Goodwin,  E.    313. 

H.  640 
Goodricke»Ladj641 
Gooton,  A.  318 
Gordon,  A.  $j.  107* 

E.P.85 
Gore»  A.  H.   537. 

Hon.  C.  B3.  Hn. 

G.  438.  J.  R.  O. 

901 
Gorton,  J.  H.  44) 
GoMeit,  J.  H.  537* 

J.  W.  541 
GoMip,  R.  537 
Chioge,  A.  H.  666. 

J.  339 
Goalbum,  E.  83 
Guuld,  J.  86 
Gouly,  E.  J.  539 
Gow,  J.  H.  665 
Gowtr,  Lady  489. 

M.  A.  801 
Grady,  Mitt  801 
Graeme,  Hon.  Mrs. 

641 
Graham,    E.    488. 

£.S.388,439.M. 

881.    R.J.  558. 

T.  H.  643.  W.  H. 

640 
Grant,  J.  B.  311.  J. 

F.  84.    J.J.  313. 

J.  M.  33*     «.  «• 

880.  J.  R.441 
Grantham,  A.  3 14 
Gray,  E.  S.  555.  H. 

M.  444.    J.  670. 

M.85 
QivatreXi  M.  338 
Gr«aret,L.84,800. 

R.  W.  537 
Green,  C.  663.    E. 

104.     E.  K.  440. 

f .  648.    G.  640. 

J.  801.     M.  E. 

445.    R.  481.  8. 

484.T.318.T.A. 

665.  T.  R.  537 
Greene,  E.  H.  664 
GreentiII,M.  A.666 
Greenwfiod,    A.   P. 

80I.E.666.  S.665 
Gregory,  A.  488.  J. 

C.  537 
Gretg,C.  109 
Greville.A.W.B.648 
Grey,  A.  M.641.C. 

B.  480 
Grieve,  W.  665 
Griffith,  H.  104.  J. 

E.   541.      R.  C. 
663 


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Griiltbt,  A.  330.  H. 

668 
Grill,  Hn.  665 
Grimitoo,Viftct.541 
Groire,  D.  104.    £. 

H.  313 
Gnibb,  P.  644 
GfyllU,  C.  640 
Gubbint,  Mrs.  800 
Goett,  Lady  641 
Gnilebaud,  H.  L. 

199 
Guile,  W.  V.  318 
Gunner,  M.  M.  481 
Gttntborpe,J.A.S08 
Gumett,  T.  800 
Guthrie,  J.  314 
Gtttteret,  J.  540 
Guy  800.  L.M.  558. 

W.  A.  483 
Guyenette,  F.J.818 
Guyon*  L.  108 
G»ilt,C.  E.  441 
Haekblock,  W.  440 
Hackman,  A.  537 
Hacon,  H.  D.  665 
Haden,  W.  669 
Hadfield  483.    M. 

665 
Hageny  J.  800 
Hacsard,  W.  M.  R. 

86 
Hagarty,  J.  443 
Haig,D.48l 

Haiffh,  J.537.    R. 

E.  808 
Haile,  J.  665 
Hainet,  fi.  311 
HaiK,  T.  86 
Hak«,  H.  199 
Hale,  £.    444.     F. 

540.    J.  0.484. 

T.  H.  889.  W.  A. 

670 
Halfhyde,  A.  880 
Hall,    D.  440.    E. 

553.    J.  663.   M. 

J.  819.   Mrfi.  84. 

R.  538.    S.  665. 

W.  H.640 
Hallcn,  C.  388 
Halliday,  L.  558 
Hamer,  M.  540 
HamiUon,A.J.  539. 

C.  85,  817.  J.  F. 

800.      Lady   48. 

Lord  483.    Mrs. 

538.    S.  387, 444. 
Hammell,  J.  558 
Hammond,  1.   107. 

M.  443.     T.  881 
Hamond,  Mrs.  481 
Uanhury,  R.  86 
Hanchett,   J.  554. 

Mn.  554 


Handeoek,  R.  438 
Handley,    C.    554. 

W.  557 
Hankey,  Mn.  641 
Haniyn,  T.  S3 1 
Hannam,  L.  C.  643 
Hanoath,  A.  669. 

J.  107 
Hanny,  J.  665 
Hanaard,    G.    643. 

L.  G.  439 
Hanson,  Mrs.  311. 

W.  B.  83 
Han»ay,W.W.311 
Harben,  M.  440 
Hardcastle,Mf«.481 
Hardin|;,A.  A.484. 

J.  881 
Hardinge,  H.  199. 

J.  643 
Hardwick,  J.  890 
Hardwicke,  Earl  of 

480.      Lord  640. 

Miss  538 
Hardy,  C.  W.  311. 

E.  C.  85 
Hare,  R.  K.  85 
Harioffton,  C.  108. 

M.  643 
Harkneu,  M.  A.  84 
Harmood,  E.  484 
Harold,  J.  C.  537 
Harries,  W.  109 
Harrinson,  J.  84 
Harris,C.M.A.54I. 

Hun.  S.  M.  555. 

L.  C.  488.     M. 

105.    R.  D.  199. 

S.  85.   S.  R.  539. 

W.  644.    W.  C. 

83.     W.  H.  541. 

W.  W.  537 
Harrison,  C.    388. 

E.  331.    H.  541. 

J.  105,  310,  444. 

J.  W.  830.    Mrs. 

669.    R.J.  311. 

W.  T.  105 

Hart,  G.  F.  537.   C. 

801 
Harte,  W.  803 
Hartley,  £.  R.  313 
Hartree,  S.  M.  488 
Hartihornc,  J.   W. 

103.    T.  483 
Harcwell,  C.  668 
Harvey,     £.     670. 

W.W.  199 
Harward,  Mrs.  800 
Hasberwood,  W.  P. 
Ha»lew(K>d,  W.  P. 

314,  480 
Hassall,  T.  440 
Hasting,  E.  888 
"  ^  F.  109 


Ratebard,  F.  C  S6 
Hatfield,    R.    &37. 

W.  557 
Havelock,  H.  640 
Harrey,  J.  A.  662 
Hawker,  P.  540 
Hawkea,  F.  G.  670 
Hawkey,  C.  901 
Hawkins,  C.H.  4^. 

G.537.     U.  109. 

Mrs.  901 
Hawks,  J.  S.  558 
Hawksley^  J.  333 
Hawtrey,  H.  313 
Hay,  A.    539.     G. 

A.  M.  334.  J.  M. 

334 
Haydoa,  H.  444 
Hayes,  E.  357.    J. 

W.  541 
Hayley,  C.  S.  421. 

T.  433 
Hayman,     C.    66i 

W.  £.  644 
Haynes»  M.  86 
Hayter,  S.  557 
Hayward,  Mrs.  S£0 
Head,  M.  338 
Headley,  Lady  641. 

W.  86* 
Heath,  A.  C.  31? 

J.  M.  83.  M.  St. 
Heatbcote.  £.  4il 

M.    441.       Mts 

641.     W.  445 
Heathfield,  K.  643 
Hehhcrt,  G.  444 
Hehdeo,  E.  Stii 
Hector,  J.  S17 
Helene,  J.  C  386 
Hellard,  J.4\2 
HelHcar,  J.  666 
Uelyar,  A   G.  314. 

W.  G.  64S. 
Hcmery,  J.  640 
Hemming,    A.  I. 

330 
Henderson,  J.  643. 

W.  H.  540 
Hensman,  J.  537 
Henville,  C.  B.  %A 
Henwood,  S.  644 
Hertsel,  G.  389 
Herrey,  Lord  54 1 
Heseltine,  R.  802 
Hepburiie,  A.  D.  1 08 
Hesier,  C.  85 
Hewlett,  J.  «17 
Hewitt,  B.    B.    311. 
M.  667.      T.    H. 
801 
Hey,  Mrs.  553 
Heygate,  Mra.  311 
Heytesbury,    Lady 
558 


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Hejwood,  B.   663. 

^.  104.  L.  S9S 
HeywoHb,  L.  494 
JHibbert,  W.  3S8 
Hick,  M.  A.  86 
Hicki,  A.  85 
Higgtnt.  J.W.  4S0 
Hig^otoii,  S.  483 
Hii^bam,  E.  C.  86 
Hitditcb,  S.  665 
Had>ard,Mrt.641. 

R.  C.  199 
Hill.  A.  85.      C.  T. 

539.  C.  644.  E. 
310.  E.  G.  643. 
H.  490.     J.'9I9, 

540.  M.666.  R. 
663 

HUlUrd,  N.  C.  443 
HiUier,  P.  390 
Hills,   A.  643.    £. 

553 
Hinder,  E.  E.  643 
Uinchliff,£.  331 

Hinde, ^33 

Hine,  V.313 
Hiusmmn,  £.  106 
Hippctley,  M.  200 
Hint,  S.  84  T.311 
HirtUnd,  313 
Hirtscl,  C.  313 
HUeock,  T.  £.  663 
Hislop,  £.  £.  E.  85 
Hitcbeiis,  M.  540 
Hoar,  F.  331 
Hoare,   Lady  311. 

Mn.  421 
Hobson,  W.  801 
Hocken,  Mrs.  666 
Hodding,  J.  R.  448 
Hodge,   B.  T.  85. 

C.  V.  199 
Hod^et,   C.  557. 

Mrs.  333 
HodgkinsoOf  G. 

643.    G.  F.  317. 

Lieut.  86 
Hodg»kiii,Mrf.33l 
HudgtoD,£.M.  540. 

L.  311.    M.644 
Hooion,  F.  C.  334. 

H.  J.  199 
Hoirden,  J.  H.  55* 
Hog,  M.D*  0.540 
Hogg,  E.  643 
Hogue,  T.  J.  670 
Holbrook,  J.  337 
Holdeii,  Mrf .  333 
Holderneti,   R.  F. 

540 
Holding,  T.  664 
Holdftwortb,  J.  84 
HolCf  N.  J.  B.  303 
UpD,  E«  a.  541 


HoUtad,  J.  663. 

M.  644.      S.  V. 

643.    W.  B.313 
Hollingwortli,  M. 

318 
Hollowly,  £.  A. 

556.      F.  V.  434. 

W.  T.  537 
Holroaii,  W.  199 
Holmes,  C.  F.  434. 

A.  E.  313 
Holnieidale,ytoc'ii. 

538 

Holt,  B.W.  539.  F. 

L.  553 
Hombenley,  J.  86 
Honie,Coaiiteu  300 
Hornet,  Mr».  300 
Hooey  born,  R.  551 
Honyman,  M.  557 
Honywood,    L*    L. 

301.    Lady  641 
Hood,  Lady  64 1.  S. 

103 
Hook,  A.  445 
Hoole.T.  331 
Hooper,  A.  C.  314. 

H.  333.    J.  801. 

M.  U  667.      W. 

H.443 
Hoopper,  R.  L.  83 
Hooten,  R.  H.  333 
Hupe,T.  C.  no 
Hope   Vere,   Miss 

803 
Hopkins,  D.  440 
HopkinsoD,  0. 483 
Hoppe,  C.  389 
Hopper,  £.  £.  434 
Hoidern,  H.  444 
Horn,  G.  H.  103 
Horncastle,  G.  644 
Home,  C.  86.    T. 

640.  W.  199 
Horner,  F.  J.  86. 

S.  668 
Horieman,  J.  437, 

438 
Horton,  C.W.313. 

£•  668.      S.  L. 

333 
Hoseason,  J.  C.  640 
Hosegoodn,  T.  664 
Hoiking,  W.  420 
Hoskins,  J.  W.  336 
Hoskyn,  C.  £.  640 
Hougb,  T.  G.  P. 

800 
Houghton,  W.  H. 

440 
Hounsell,  H.  541 
Houliron,  £.  553 
Houlton,  G.  F.  334 
HoTeU,  J.  5^8 


Howard,   C.  553. 

P.T.  555.   Lady 

641 
Howcutt,  J.  433 
Howden,  A  A.  557 
Howell,  G.  670.  H. 

430 
Howelli,  J.  333 
Howlett,  A.  311 
Howes,  T.  537 
Huddleston,  S.  669 
Hudson  C.  557.    E. 

553.    J.  338.    R. 

319.     W.  B.  86 
Huet,  A.  311 
Hughes, 300. 

A.  86.  C  H.  199* 

C.  M.  300.  D.  W. 

557.  E.  105, 640. 

H.  430.      H.  P. 

537 
Hulbert,  F.  433 
Hulkes,  P.  540 
Hulme,  (C.  A.  539. 

H.  S.  541 
Hnmble.W.  E.  643 
Hume,  C.  M.  541. 

G.  T.  537.  J.  338 
Humrrey,  E.  669 
Huropbery,Mrs.  84. 

C.  M.  D.  669 
Hunt,  L.G.H.  444. 

Mrs.  641.  R.  317. 

S.  fi.  801 
Hunter,  J.  101.    J. 

C.  439.     R.  438. 

W.  108,  808,  641 
Honting6eld«  Lady 

538 
Horrell,    £.     389. 

M.  339,  553 
Hurst,  M.  433.    S. 

559.    T.T.  816 
Hurwiis,  H.  387 
Httskisson,  J.  86 
Hutcbins,G.W.80l 
Hutchinson,  B.  V. 

801.   M.  103.   R. 

483.     R.  P.  539 
Huth,  E.  334 
Hutton,  C.  F.  199. 

S.  314.     W.  311 
Hyde,  G.  554.    M. 

433 
Hyndman,  H.  670 
Ibbetson,  M.  670 
Illingworth.  H.335 
Impey,  M.  539 
Ince,  J.  C.  103 
Indedon,  R.  85 
Incholson,  J.  318 
Ingestre,  Lady  800 
Ingledew,  A.M.314 
lDglsrield,P.M,38l 


691 

Innei,  J.2I7.  Lady 

445 
Innis,  T.  86 
Irvine,  C.  C.    440. 

J.  110 
Irwin,  C.  558.    M. 

A.  670.  S.C.643 
Isaacson,    «-   541. 

P.  643 
Ives,  £.837.  H.311 
Jaeksou,  £.  540.  H« 

540.    J.  83.    M. 

648.   M.W.443. 

P.  540 
James,  E.  199,  2999 

648.  G.  823.    H. 

106,483.  J.  318. 

0.643.    W.883, 

431. 
Jameson,  A.  438 
Jancey,  F.  443 
J' Anson,  L.  A.  800 
Jarman,  J.  83 
Jarvis,    £.  G.   83. 

J.  538 
JauDcey,  H.  85 
Jeffery,  C.  380 
Jekvll,  Mrs.  331 
Jellicoe,A.  J.  104 
Jcmmett,  A.  M.  86 
Jenkins,  C.  F.  800. 

J.  443.      T.  L. 

666.  W.  336 
Jennett,  W.  664 
Jennyngs,  D.  648. 

J.  K.  481 
Jepbson,  J.  199,558 
Jessop,  J.  443.    J. 

T.541 
Jeune, .—  199 
Jewel,  M.  319 
Jewell,  —  109 
Jodrell,  M.  105 
Johns,  J.  W.  83 
Johnson,  A.  C.  648. 

C.  W.  301.    G. 

643.  J. 31 1, 443. 
M.   540.      8.  A. 

644.  S.  M.  333. 
W.  199.  W.  P. 
558.    W.  R.  662 

Johnston,  J.  433 
Johnstone,  C.  640. 

Lady  434.  M.44S 
Jolley,  M.G.  541 
Jolliire,J.l08.  Lady 

800 
Jones,    A.  N.  313. 

A.V.433.  C.300. 

C^.  («.  199.    L.  R. 

644.  E.  333,  445. 

£.  G.  104,    817. 

F.  A.  444.     F.  M. 

483.  G.  800, 668« 


692  Inie»  i0  NmMi. 

H.J.  314.    I.  SS»  Kinslake,  J.A.  199.   Larken,  E.R.   IS.  Ltadiayy  If .  66S 

4S4.  J.31I.  J.W.       R.  A.  481  M.  538  LippencoU,  iff*. 

199.  M.B4.  M.A.   Kin|riford,  J.  €43       La  Serre,  J.G.  539        641 

312.    M.  C.  SOO.    Kmpton,M.IX309   Latham,  C.  A.  86.  Litter,  Hoo.  H31 9. 
M.E.  313.    Mn.   Kinnaird,  A.  554           M.  641  J.  4S0.   J.  C.  83. 

84.     R.3S6,54I,   Kirby,  B.E.  433.  C.    Latimer,  D.  801  L.  H.801 

640.     R.  M.  665.       108, 488.  J.  668.   Latter,  E.  554  LitUedale,  J.  397 

8.80a  T.D.668.       J.M.440.  R.440  Laurence,  S.  318  Uttkjohii,  W.  D. 
W.  480.  439.  W.   Kirkpatrick,  C.  A.    Laurie,  P.  482  537 

H.  386  541  Law,  E.  643.  E.  L.  Litton,  M.  L.  84 

Jortin,  W.  L.  83        Kna^sSf  M.A.L.  85       481.  F.800.  Hon.  Livetay,  G.  W.  318 

Jocelyn,  R.  483         Knapp,  J.  M.  109         Mrs.  538, 668.  H.  Lloyd,  E.  M.   554. 
Jouraeau,  J.W.  313  Knight,  A.  C.  554.       S.  338  E.  M.  A.  981.  J. 

Judson,  J.  E.  3 IS  A.  M.  2 17.  H.  C.  Lawrell,  C.  L.  318         808.  M.  W.  669. 

Jttke^-.640  488.  J.663.  M.A.  Lawrencc,J.A.8l6.       W.  816.     W.  H. 

Julius,  A.  A.  648  554.    Mrt.   64l«       J.  541  C.  86 

Kaines,  M.  314  644  Layard,  M.  A.  109  Lock,  J.  S.  484 

Karr,  A.  104  Knipe,  F.  109, 331    Lay,  G.  P.  83.  M.J.  Locke,  Mrs.  490 

Kay,  J.  83  Knoblook,T.A.  539       84,  800  Loekyer,  E.  M.  9$. 

Kealy,  L.  S.  314        Knott,  A.  555  Lea  318  E.  S.  441 

Keane,  J.H.  313       Knowlea,  E.  L.  819  Leach,    G.  A.  423.  Locock,  H.  917 

Kean,  H.  83  Kortright,  C.  E.  K.       T.  484  Loder,  C.  108.    H. 

Keatinf ,  W.  H.  665       83  Leacroft,  R.  B.  199       440 

Keatinge,  L.  313       Knyfton,  Mrt.  881    Leah,  T.  554  Lofty,  W.  F.  397 

Keati,  R.  488  Kynnenley,T.S.444   Lean,  O.  S.  541  Logan,  J.  443 

Kealy,  T.  86  Labouchere,  Mn.     Leathes,  F.  311  Loggin,  W.  C.  899 

Keith,  H.T.  556,668       800  Le  Blanc,  —  318  LongBeld,  J.  640 

Kelly,  E.  J.  648.  J.  Lachlan,  S.  540         Leehroere,C.A.  641  Long,     P.   S.   66$. 

199.    L.  v.  670.   Lackington,  P.  H.   Le  Conteur,  E.  6.        M.  A.  C.  496 

M.E.L.  488.    W.       539  313.     F.  J.  313  Longman,  W.  313 

83,199  Lacon,  H.  J.  313.   Lee,  A.  443.  E.555.  Lord,  J.  C.  648 

Kemble,  P.  559.  H.       J.E.  85  H.  B. 3 IS.  J.  448.  Lorn,  Marqaev 488 

313  Lacroix,  A. 802, 541       Lady641.M.8l8.  Lotcombe,  6.  900 

Kemp,  J.  440  Laffer,A.  817  M.    V.    105.    T.  Lousada,  G.  86.  G. 

Kempe,  Mn.  800       Lafont,  J.  668  106  £.  B.  901 

Kendall,  J.  108.  J.   La  Grange,  C.  801     Leei,  M.  540  Louth,  Lady  538 

H.  640.    N.  108,   LaiMon,  E.  B.  643.  Lefroy,  G.  B.  484  Lovekin,  P.  107 

199  J.  86,  105  Leicester,  Dowager  Lovell,  A.  444.     R. 

Kennedy,G.M.  314.   Laird,  W.  801  Countess  of  389.       W.  553.     T.669 

J.  M.  644  Lake,  B.  3 14.  E.  C.       Counte&s  200  LoTcridge,  Miss  331 

Kenney,  E.H.  808         H.  554  LHgh,  W.  105  Lowe, M.  668 

Kennicott,R.C.537   Legge,  R.  E.  819      Lemon,  J.  328.    T.  Low,  W.  318 

KentyJ.  668.   S.L.   Lalande,  Adm.  Ill       421  Lowndes,    S.   499. 

441  LaMark,  J.  333        Lendrom.M.L.  313        W.441 

Kenyon,  C.  O.  484     Lamb,  M.  668  Leney,  F.  318  Lowther,  H.     537. 

Keppel,  £.  S.  311.   Lambert,  A.81 9.  E,  Lennard,  M.  334  Mn.800 

T.R.537  481.    W.C.  314,  Lennox,  Lady  84  Luard,  H.  G.  319 

Kermack,  J.  670  648  LeppingwcU,T.  W.  Lucas,  E.  105, 441. 

Kerr,  Hon.   L.  M.  Lamotte,  M.  108  801  P.  648.    J.  108. 

109  '     Lancaster,  T.B.  199  Leslie,  Count  445.        R.H.106.   S.  311 

Kerrison,  E.  C.  314   Lance,  J.  E.  31 1  C.  W.  86.  E.  819.  Lugger,  E.  C.  909 

Kershaw,  T.  A.  83     Landmanu,  Mn.  J.  T.  484  Luke,  R.  103 

Kettle,  J.  445  881  Lester  445  Luscombe,R.J.3l3 

Kettle  well,  H.  108     Landon,B.85.S.331   Le8tourgeon,E.L85  Ln8bington,C.643. 
Kerill,  W.  T.  640      Lane,  E.  555.  J. D.  Lechbridge,  E.  B.  C.  M.331.  H.31S 

Keys,  S.  540  311.  T.  386.  W.       441  Lutwyche,  H.  86 

Kilmaine,  Hon.  L       481  Lettsom,  S.  P.  671  Luxmore,  Mrs.  538 

A.  541.  Lady  641    Langdon,  A.  105       Ley  648.  F.  0.423.  Lynch,  J.  R.  3SO. 
Kinoaid,  J.  537          Langham,  W.  640         J.  P.  483  M.  A.  540 

Kind,  M.  664  Langhorne,  J.B.  85  Lewis,  J.  557.    M.  Lyndon,  S.  439 

King,E.667.H.888.   Langley,  H.J.  103.       664  Lyne,   £.  O.   314. 

J.  109.    L.  481.       M.  J.  318  Liember,  E.  A.  318       H.  801 

Mn.  219,31I.R.   Langridge,  P.  313,  Lighten,  Mrs.  641  Lyon,  Hon.   C.  B. 

918.    S.D.  484         557  LiUey,  J.  199  556.  J.  669,  lifi» 

KiPgdoDy  9,  N.  83    Larsci  £•  M.  540      lilUmpi  S,  F.  539      330 


InieM  to  Noma.  698 

Lgrttleton»Ltdy800  MiQiaft]d,C.H.49S   Meetkaka.  Mm.  84  Money,  A.M. 313 

MacauUj,  K.  641     Maotford,  T.  A.  540   Meik,M.L.  M.A.  84  MonningtOD,  G.  83, 

M'Cullob,  £•  105      Mantell,  M.  666       Melgund,  VUcount  420 

MaddUoD»  C,  J.  85  Marcb»  Counteti          85  MoiiteUb»  B.  909 

M*Dermott,  J.  918      641                         Melin,  Mrs.  444  Montgomery,  Mn« 

M«edonald9J.B.84.  Markham,  H.S.  438    Mallerth,  6.  108  641 

L.  643                    MarkUnd,  E.  S.494   Mellitb,  W.  909  MontKtor,  J.  M« 

MacdougaU,  P.  L.  Marks,  H.  A.  314     Melmotb,  J.  P.  919  314 

314                         Marlborough,   Du-   Mellon,  J.  540  Moon,  F.  G.  641 

M'Dougall,    S.  A.       cbeiaof556           MeWille,  E.  C.  918  Moor,E.  J.  199 

108                         Marriott,  A.  C.  909   Mensiei ,  C.  199  Moore,  D.  490, 539. 

Macfarren,G.A.649  Mariden,    E.   311.   Mercer,  C.  86.  E.F.  G.P.319.  H.109. 

M'GiUycuddy,     A.       J.  B.  640                    909  J.  397.  J.A.  909. 

999                         Manb,  H.  E.  643.  Mereditb,  ^  540  M.33I.  P.A.539. 

McGregor  103               J.  334.  J.  B.  490.   Marewetber,  E.  M.  W.199.  W.H.640 

Maebin,E.  540             M.  H.  421.  Mrs.       A.  491.   Mrs.  538  Moran,  H.  644 

M'lntosb,  £.  494          555                          Merivale,  Mrs.  311  Moiebead,  C.49I 

Maclntyre,  H.E.  85  Marshall,  E.A.  641.  Merriman,  J.  918  Moreton,  C.  537 

Mack,  £.  667                H.L.  313.  J.  669.   Merry,  R.  643  Morewood,  R.  319 

Mackenaie,  J.  494.       L.  R.  667.     W.   Metcalfe,  W.  199,  Morgan,A.  109,396. 

K.  S.909                   541                             643  A.M.649.  E.319. 

Mackle,  G.  J.  445      Marson,  J.  A.  398      Meyler,  W.  640  J.A.540.  J.E.551. 

M'Kinly,  W.J.  541   Martell,  J.  B.  649     Michael,  A.499  W.  990 

Mackintosh,  J.  S19  Martin,  G.  B.  640.   Micbelmore,  C  539  Morland,  H.  665 

M<Koight558               J.  333.    M.  313.   Micklethwait,  J.H.  Morlev,  M.  84 

M'Laine,  M.  445          Mrs. 84,333, 538.        199  Morrii,  C.917.  FJl, 

M'Laucblan,    D.     Martyr,  £.  P.  398      Midwinter,  N.  490  314.F.0.537.J.B. 

553                         Matkelyne,  A.  642     Mildmay,  £.  S.  J.  105.L.86.  M.664. 

Maclean,  R.  N.491   Masken,  T.  R.  499        420.  L.449.  Mrs.  Miss  558.  T.396, 

M'Leod,    A.    310.  Mason,  ^311.    J.       311  438.  W.  537 

A.  L.  640.  J.  M.       663                          Mill,  T.  H.  V.  917  Morritt,  E.  665 

538                         Massey,  C.  H.  901.   Millard,  E.  669  Morse,  J.  106.  J.H. 

Maolcod,    J.    107.       H.  E.  537               Miller.  A.  644.    H.  199 

Lady  446.  R.  559  Massingberd,    ^          539.     H.  M.311.  Morson,  A.  L.  443 

Macmeikatty  M.  A.       540.    A.  L.  555         J.  643.    S.  642  Mortiaier9E.M.665, 

314                          Massy,  J.  644             Mills,  H.   541.     J.  G.  437.  Mrs.  641 

M'Pberson,A.901   Matcban,  C.  H.  N.       991.    W.  G.  423  Morton,E.of  83.  J. 

M'Quhal,  P.  640            334                         Milman,  E.  M.  643  313.  W.  84 

Madden,  J.  333         Matbias,  W.  640        Milne,  M.  J.    902.  Mosley,  A.  399 

Maden,M.  A.P.539  Matson,  J.  319              T.  557.  W.490  Mostyn,  C.  B.  440. 

Magion,  J.  640         Matthew,  C.  916       Milward,   R.  444,  F.  909.  Sir  P.  84 

Magna  J,  M.  A.  C.  Matthews,  B.  333         639  Mottrani,  £.  398 

107.    W.  639        Maude,  E.  M.  1 10.   Mincbin,  K.  P.  499  Moubray,  G.  640 

Magttlre,J.W.55l       H.  314.    Hon.      Minnitt,  R.  85  Mould,  C.  666.    J, 

Mabony,  M.  E.  644       Mrs.  538                Minshull,  L.  539  <»41 

Maingy,  T.  649         Maule,  J.  922             Minton,  H.  643  Moultrie,  Mrs.  538 

Maitland,  T.  399       Maunsell,M.B.  319   Mitchell,  —  499.  Moyle,  J.  G.  85 

Mainwaring,    Mrs.  Maxey,  Mrs.  441           E.  54K    H.  199.  Moysey,  E.  8.  330 

538                          Maue,  C.  B.  330           Mrs.918.  P.  199.  Mudge,A.330.  P.P« 

Majendie,  G.  554       Maxwell,  P.H.  441.        R.  643  901.  T.  538 

Malcolm,  J.  B.  319       S.  441                      Mitford, B.3 14,649.  Muggeridge,  R. 339 

Mallilieu,  A.  667       May,  E.  84.    Mrs.       F.  86.    J.  P.  86.  Mulgrave,  Earl  494 

Mallard,  E.  919            329.  J-  644.  S.J.       L.  444  Mundy,  G.F.M.643 

Mallock,  W.    537,      644.    T.  B.  493.    Moberly,  H.  558  Muntx.  G.  F.  491 

649                            T.  H.  644               Mockler,  Mrs.  900  Mure,  A.  999 

Mander,  M.  104        Maynard,  D.  499       Moffatt,  £.  110  Murray,  A.  493.  C. 

Manesty,  C.  663        Mayne,  J.  110            Mogg,  H.  H.  199  644.E.E.3 14,649. 
Mangles,  A.  668        Mayor,  M.  666           Moilliet,  L.  W.9I9        F.  310.    Lady  8« 
Mauley,  J.  85.    H.  Mayow,  E.  398           Molesworth,  M.  T.        901.  M.  540.  W« 
666                         Meade,  R.  437               929.W.313.W.N.        494.     W.  C.445 

Manning,  A.  541.  Mead,  G.  104                540  Musgrare,  J.  109 

F.  £,  640.  G.  W.  Meads,  H.  199           Molineux,  J.  667  Musson,  A.  538 

539.    W.  557        Medley,  C.  H.  540.  Monck,  C.  8.  314  Myners,  A.  G.  493 
Mansel,  J.  C.  901.      Mn.  441                 Moncrief,  L.W.  540  Napier,  L.  A.  314« 

B.P.490            McffOD,  A.C.  4S1     Moacrkffei  8, 649  M.  €40 


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Newball,  G.  S.  SSO 
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NicolU,  J.  199 
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NUon,  M.  539 
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Noel,  M.  S.  86 
Nolan,  G.  330 
Norcott,  H.  J.  4S4 
Norman,  E.  86.  H. 

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Norrit,  H.  W.  668. 

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666.    J.W.3I0 
Nurtey,  A.  327 
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Nuttall,  J.  P.  443 
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Ofilby,  R.  L.  644 
Ogilvic»A.641 
Ogtlry,  H.  A.  M. 

64S 
Oirle,  A.641 
0*Hara,  H.  SSS 
O'Hanlou,  H.  M. 

SI7 
Oldbam,  L.  644 
Olipbant,  A.  555. 

Mn.SOO 
Oliver,  F.553.4. 199. 

R.   A.  640.     S. 

103,  SOI.     T. 

331.  W.SOS 
O'Neill,  F.  334 
Ord,  E.  M.  107.  J. 

R.  541.      T.  C. 

668 
O'Reilly,  C.  4SS.  L. 

C.  SOO 
Ormond,  Marcb'u 

538 
Ormtley,  A.  1 10 
Orr,  J.  669 
Orridge,  J.  33S 
Oibornr,  C.  J.  310. 

C.  J.  538 
Otier,  £.  L.  441 
Oswald,  A.  4S4 
Otter,  H.  C.  4S0 
Ottley,  O.  D.  670 
Otway  Care,  Hun. 

H.  64S 
Overbury,  J.   554, 

666 
Orerend,  H.  640 
Owen,  A.  C.  445. 

H.  4S0.    J.  199 
Pttdwick,M.  330 
Paean,  S.  537 
Pa^e,  J.   443.      S. 

104 
Paipet,  Mn.  421 
Pakenbam,  C.  E. 

334.    Sir  H.  R. 

W7 


Pakin^on  J.S.S01 
Palmer,  H.  3S8.  H. 

R.   55S.      Mn. 

SOO.    P.  U.  537. 

W.  313 
Pannell,  J.  667 
Panting,  R.  4S0 
PappletoD,  W.  B. 

SOI 
Par«ien,  Count  4S4 
Park,  A.  SOS.     P. 

644.    R.  A.  SOS. 
Parker,   Col.  SSO. 

J.  SOS.      W.  85. 

640.    W.H.  I99» 

SOS 
Parket,   E.  H.  SOI. 

W.J.  83 
Parkhunt,  F.  663 
Parkin,  M.  R.  314 
Parkinaon,  G.  T. 

643.  J.  SOS.  443. 

R.  639 
Parmeter,  J.  D.  83 
Parnell,  Mn.  84. 

T.  541 
Parr,   E.  665.     T. 

334.    Mn.  440 
Panon,  C.  541 
Parsons,  H.  J.  437. 

J.  85,  3S7 
Paterson,  G.  280. 

R.  SOO 
Patrick,  J.  S.  670 
Patten,  C.  313 
Puttenson,  R.  C 

643 
Pattenon,C.D.64l. 

H.  83.  R.  C.  4S0 
Patiioson,  W.  665 
Paul,  C.  W.  64S 
Pawaon,  M.  A.  668 
Payn,  H.  801 
Payne,E.M.G.2l9. 

H.  b68.      H.  £. 

86.  Mn.  311 
Peacock,  J.  106 
Peake,  D.  555.    E. 

C.   313.      T.   C. 

313 
Peale,  E.  555 
Pearce,  A.  669.   H. 

667.    J.  86,  105. 

J.  S.  D.  313 
Pearman,  £.  S.  SOS 
Peane,  A.  Sie.    L. 

S.  644 
Peanon,A.  481.  C. 

M.  801.    £.  666. 

J.  667.      M.  D. 

643.     S.  537 
Pecbell,  Lady  440 
Peddar,  M.  644 
Pedd^ 
Pmt' 


SSI.  J.H.W.  85. 

Mra.641 
Pellew,  Lftdy  666 
Pelly,  A.  643.      T. 

3S5 
P^mberton,  C.  SSI. 

E.  L.  423.     E.  R. 

83.     R.423.   W. 

559 
Penford,  E.  106 
Peniston,  E.  A.  333 
Peene£itber,  A4665 
Pannell,  R.  C.  640 
Penethoroe,  J.  537 
PcnniDfT,  U.  3S9 
PenninptoOf  A.  R. 

640 
Fteiiny,  A.  4S3.  R. 

334.     R.  B.  86 
Penaon,  R.  K.  SOO 
Pepys,  Mra.  84 
Period,  P.  311 
Perry,  H.J.4S3 
Perring,  J.  P.  331 
Petit,  £.  481 
Peiley,  Mrs.  311 
PeUT,   Hon.   Mn. 

481 
Petty,  M.  64S 
Peyton,  J.J.W.  3S9 
Pbelps,  R.  540 
Pbilipps  R.  M.  439 
Pbilipt,  B.  I05.    E. 

A.  314.  S.  A.  445 
PbiUippa,  M.S.B.F. 

48S 
Pbillips,  E.  553.  E. 

C.W.  86.  H.  1 1 1. 

S.670 
PbiUott,  M.  L.  P. 

538 
Pbippa,  —  I  OS.    E 

539 
Pickaid,  H.  I  OS 
Pierrepoinc,      Miss 

313 
Pif^otc,  H.  199 
Pigoii,  F.  SOS.  M«. 

104,  480 
Pilgrim,  C.  555 
Pilkington,  R.  W. 

109 
Pim,  J.  819 
Pinfold,  Miss  SIS 
Pinhorn,  M.   103 
Pinsent,  Mn.  S81 
Piper,  O.  85 
Ptpon,  M.  313 
Pitt,     T.  B.    557. 

W.  G.  801 
Pittar,  £.  553 
Pittman,  E.  C.  S.S 
Plaskeu,  Mra.  311 
Plaaton»W.W.8l9 
Pltoderleatb  SOQ 


Index  to  Nami$» 


PlMdell,  C.  443 
Pteitton,  M.  668 
PJunkett,  £.  664. 

Mn.  84.  W.  328 
Pocklin|:ton,T.667 
Pocock,  H.  C.  111. 

W.  85 
Pod  more,  C.  540 
Pole,  A.  C.  480.  E. 

310.    R.640 
Pollard,  G.  199.  K. 

554,666.  Mn.  321 
Pollitt,  J.  311 
Pollock,  J.  S.  327. 

Lady  538 
PonBonbj,Lady31 1  • 

Mrs.  421 
Pook,  J.  423 
Poole,  J.  313 
Poore,  E.  554 
Pop«9  M.  424 
Porter,  T.  104 
Porteut,  W.  330 
Portroan,  Miu  557 
Pottlethwaito    537. 

T.  G.541 
Potbuiy,  J.  M.  420 
Potter,  R.  424 
Poontney,M.S.423 
Powell,  B.  331.    C. 

328,  667.  J.  101. 

J.  W.  S.  541 
Powyt,  B.  Y.  541. 

HoD.E.442.Hn, 

Mn.538.P.U201 
Poyter,  C.  109 
l>rat,  J.  201 
Pratt,  H.  310.    J. 

659, 640, 662.  M. 

447 
Prcedy,  W.T.3I3 
Prentice,  A.  105 
Pres^rave,  M.  311. 

S.  Ill 
Preston,  A.  J.  663. 

Hon.  Mrt.    421. 

R.  640 
Pretyman,  G.  537. 

L.  642.    W.  202. 
Prevoft,  J.  C.  640 
Price,  D.422.E.538, 

552.  H.644.   H. 

I.  441.  R.  643.  T. 

216.    T.  C.  538. 

U.  667 
Priddam,  E.  442 
Prideaos, .'.  541 
Prieiiley,  H.  L.  109 
Prtnceai  DoiinaMa- 

ru  PiKiiacelli   dl 

Monte  Leone  335 
Pritcbard,  R.  420 
Prilcbett,  M.  44 1 
Pritt,  A.  328 
Probj,  £.  E.  423. 


O.  M.  639.  J.  C. 

640 
Probyn,  E.  442 
Proctor,  M.  106 
Prole,  L.  106 
Prosser.  W.  103 
Protber,  £.  R.  640 
Protbero,  S.  327 

Prowden,  J.  217 
Prower,  J.  E.    M* 

201.    J.M.640 
Pryor,  J.  421.    R. 

538 
Puget,  —422 
Pogb,M.B.A.  104 
Pulley.  D.  421 
Pulmmn,  R.  219 
Pultford,  L.  84 
Punibill,  J.R.  541 
Purvis,  G.T.M.640. 

J.  108 
Pyke,  W.  443 
Pym,  S.  420 

Suincey,  S.  219 
ackham.H.E.  420 
Radcliffe,C.M.330. 

R.  669 
Rae,E.  105,217 
Raikes,  H.311.  R. 

201 
Ratrobacb,   D.  W. 

313 
Rainals,  M.  0.553 
Rainey,  E.M.  644 
Ransay,    A.    664. 

Lady  84 
RansbotbaiD ,— 200 
Ranee,C.  M.  423 
Randall,  J.  V.  221 
Randell,  M.  422 
Rankin,  A.  P.  M. 

334.    D.  M.  334 
Ranney,  J.  F.  667 
Raphael,  E.  440 
Rasbleigb,  Mrs.  84 
Ratbdowne,  Earl 

314 
Rawlinson,  G.  314, 

H.  C.  420 
Rawson,  B.  104 
Ray,  A.  642.  G.  311 
Raymond,C.  E.200, 

642 
Rea,  E.V.421 
Reade,  H.M.  314 
Reader,  H.218 
Ready,  H.  314 
Reed,  C.  86.  T.84. 

T.  L.  642 
Rees,G.  O.  200.  J. 

311.     M.A.  643. 

M.  R.  86 
Reeve,  £.  P.  201 
Reeves,  S.  330 
Rcidf  HoD.Mrs.671 


Remnant,  E.  85 

Rennardt.M.  E.539 
Rennell,  G.  663 
Rennie,  A.  334 

Revell,  J.219 
Reynardson,  J.  B. 

640 
Reynolds,   G.  327. 

H,C.670.  M.312. 

T.  V.  E.  222 
Rboadei,  T.  221 
Riccard,  R.  540 
Ricardo,    H.    554. 

Mrs.  420 
Rice,  D,  443  E.  H. 

553 
Ricb,  J.  666 
Riebardi,    C.   421. 

J.  219.    M.  539. 

Miss  106 
Ricbardson,  F.331. 

F.A.  558.  J.  640. 

M.L.422.  W.312 
Rickett,  J.  313 
Rideout,     G.    222. 

M.  669 
Rider,  1.  667 
Ridley,  Lady  3 1 1 
Ridden,  J.  330 
RUbton,  F.  M.  424 
Rivers,  M.  218 
Rivinirton,  Mrs.  84 
Rii,  W.  B.  644 
Rixon,  A.  642 
Roacb,  W.  H.  420 
RobarU,  E.  J.  421. 

J.  W.  538 
Robbins,  C.  A.  539. 

H.  312.    J.  106 
Roberts,   C.  L.  B. 

313.  E.  541,663. 

J.   540.    P.  539. 

W.439 
Robertson,  D.S.642 

E.G.  201.    F.  F. 

109 
Robinson,     C.    M. 

833.     £.  85.     E. 

A.  423.    J.  643. 

J.  A.  110.     J.O. 

552.     Miss  444. 

P.  V.  537 
Robins,  R.  J.  S.  422 
Robison,  A.  202 
Robson,  M.  S.  443 
Robyni,  A.  541 
Rocbe,  D.  201 
Rocheftter,  Bisbop 

of  201 
Rocbfort,  E.  327 
Rodbard,  J.  644 
Rodney,  A.  312 
Rodwell,    H.    539. 

U.  M.  644 
Ropis,J.2l9,557. 


695 

J.  J.  540.    T.  E. 

551 
Rokeby,  L.  33 
Rolf,  C.  644 
Romilly,  Lady  31 1 
Rooke,  A.  B.  540. 

CM.  313.    £.S. 

541 
Rookes,  R.  329 
Roose,  E.311 
RooU,  S.  557 
Roscow,  R.  S.  332 

Rose,T.538.W.2l6 
Ross,  —  664.     A. 

333.  B.  85.  Mri. 

421.    8.  313.  W, 

H.661 
Rosimore,  Baroness 

441 
Rotherbaniy  R.  K. 

421 
Roibwell,  W.  445 
Rotton,  J.  R.  83 
Rouse,  M.  E.  643 
Rowan,  E.  199 
Rowlands,  1).  551 
Rowlandson,  £.  314 
Rowlatt,  M.  328 
Rowley,    C.    640. 

M.  A.  199 
Rowsell,  J.  T.  200 
Rudd,    J.   B.    108. 

L.  H.  527 
Rundall,  J.  424 
Rundle,  T.  541 
Ruoley,  R.  310 
Rusbton,  J.  641 
Rusilion,M.M.C.84 
Ruisell,  A.  M.  668. 

E.  85,643.  E.H. 

539.  E.  de  B. 

540.  6.  314.    J, 
201.     J.  540.    J. 

F.  L.  538.    Udy 
538.     L.  424. 
Lord  A.  G.  313. 

SiL*    09.       111.     £• 

668.     Mn.   641. 

R.  85,312 
Russia,  Alesandrina 

Grand   Ducbess 

of  335 
Ruxtun,  T.  669 
Ryder,   Hon.   Mrs. 

641.     Lady  538 
Ryle,  J.  C.  199 
Ryley,  H.  421 
Ryun,  E.  F.  201 
Ryves,  L.  M.  202. 

Mn.  641 
Sabine,  J.  540 
St.  Barbe,  A.  667 
St.  George,  C.  66l 

St.JobD,  L.B.A.S. 
200 


ImiiM  U  Hmmni 


Mb,  g.  I.  An 

Salnan,  W.  &  499 
Salt,  F.  641 
Salvin*  C.  319.    B. 

107 
8UBpMD|  J.  S.  T, 

556 
SaBttelsoo,  B.  314 
Sanday,  J.  396 
8andeiiiaiitT.F.493 
Sandenofi,   Hon. 

Mrs.  641.    Prof. 

446 
8and«ieh«  Countcu 

641 
Bankcy,  J.  490 
8aDtoaie,T.  443 
Baamaresy  Hon.  J. 

83 
fiamideit,  J.   556. 

Mn.311.  R.S14 
SawKy,  E.  85 
Sayer,  L.491 
Scaiilan,J.  F.444 
Scarlia,S.  891 
Scarbroagh,    J.  L. 

539 
Scbenk,  C.  399 
Seobcll,  M.  £.  C 

499 
Sehofleld,  J.  990 
Bchontwar,J.8.310 
Scott,  A.   M.  644. 

C.  H.649.    C.J. 

493.    £.493.    J. 

557,644.    J.  S. 

314.    J.  M.  314. 

Lady  333.    Mrt. 

800.    R.  103.  T. 

86.    W.670 
Seratton,  H.  Ill 
Seabrook,  E.  644 
Seafrave,  £.  84 
Searrim,  W.  443 
Seale,  J.  399 
Searle,  O.  397 
Sedley,  A.  G.  490 
Sftlby,G.  313 
Sallon,  H.  397 
Senbouie,E.  H  .3  J  0. 

J.  L.  439 
Serrell,  Mrs.  538 
SeCoiiy  J.  H.  339. 

Lady  84 
Sewell  H.  537.    L. 

M.  330 
Seymer,  J.  G.  641 
Seymour,  G.  H. 

199.     H.  310. 

Mils  491 
Sbacklock,  E.H.  84 
Sbadforth,  F.  901 
Sbadwell,W.L.444 
Sbalrp»  F.  M.  U0» 

8.  r.  539 


SbakHpear,  A«  449 
ShaniioDy  ^-«  110 
Sbapley,  J.  C.  809 
Sbarpe,  W.  H.644 
Sharp,  G.  449.    J. 

541.    W.  555 
Sharwood,  M.  980 
Shaw,  H.  T.  446 
Bbearmaiif  W*  E. 

643 
Shobbeare»  E.  990 
Shelley,  M.  D.  801. 

F.  83 
Shelton,  J.  587 
Shepard,  J.  P.  R. 

490 
Sbephard,Mn.  900 
Shepherd,  A.  441* 

539 
Sheppard,  W.  C. 

314 
Sherard,  G.  649 
Sherren,  n»  554 
Sbeward,  M.  556 
Shewell,  F.G.  310. 

L.  M.  85 
Shield,  R.  S.  819 
Shiffner,  M.  109 
Shirley,  Mrt.  900 
Shirreff,  J.  670 
Short,  C.  105.    F. 

449 
Shrive,  M.  L.  540 
Sbuckhurfh,  A.  C« 

333 
Shute,  Mn.  84.  W. 

A.  199.    J.  494 
Slbbald,  J.  644 
Sidney,  T.  641 
SiEinond,  Mri.  334 
Sillifaut,  J.  554 
Sillitoe,  T.  439 
Simei,  G.  F.  643 
Simon,  L.  398 
Simons,  J.  669 
Simpson,  -^—671. 

C.  499.  E.  G.424. 

F.  R.  429.      M. 

666.    W.  217 
Sinnett,  E.  P.  107 
Sirr,  b'Arcy  537 
SitweU,  C.  445.    S. 

A.  421.    W.  916 
Skinner,  C.  B.64I 
Skarray,  E.  313 
Slade,  A.  F.  539. 

M.  669.     M.  E. 

C.499 
SUder,  A.  E.  313 
Slater,  A.M.  644.  C. 

333.    M.  A.  903 
Slauirhter,  E.  208 
Sleed,  E.  641 
Sleifh,  Mrs.  311 
f^\i»p\^,  H.  J.  lot 


Sloai,  F.  L.  483 
Smallpieoe,   C.  H. 

909.    G.  S.  444. 

Mrs.  991 
Smales,  Mrs.  90O 
Smart,  R.  490 
Smirke,  Sir  R.  537 
Smith,  A.  M.  556. 

A.  F.  494.      B. 

537.    €.553.    E. 

107,  801.    B.B. 

663.    E.  H.  800. 

£.  J.  639.    F.M. 

891.     G.  F.539. 

G.U.  H.80I.H. 

553, 649.     H.  M. 

85*  H.  R.  B.  643. 

J.  108,  537.    J. 

D.  443.      J.  G. 

499.    J.  L.  110. 

J.S.319.  M.dl3, 

556.     Mrs.  538. 

S.  B.  E.  555.    S. 

J.  643.      T.  498, 

640.      W.    199, 

490,  669 
Smyth,  W.  86 
Smythe,  P.  M.  423 
Smytbies.  W.  Y. 

311 
Snare,  R.  443 

Snewinc,  G.  557 
Soames,  E.  664 
Sobey,  C.  313 
Socket,  F.  537 
Sole,  M.  541 
Somerset,  Ld.  648, 

V.  H.  P.  483 
Somenrille,  Lady 

84.446 
Sorsby,  •— ^  83 
Sotheby,  T.  H.  641 
Southcote,  H.  441 
Southey,  W.  490 
South  wood,  T.  A. 

819 
Soyers,  S.  499 
Spaeth,  E.  398 
Spalding,  A.  421 
Sparrow,  R.G.  331. 

S.  668 
Spearman,  W.  669 
Spiers,  A.  553 
Spence,  £.  540 
Spencer,  M.  558 
Sperllng,H.G.W.85 
Spink,  J.  E.  E.  339 
Spitty,  E.  330 
Spong,  J.  F.   662. 

M.  N.  540. 
Spooner,  R.  199 
Spottiswoode,J.640 
Spratt,  S.  319 

Spiy,W.438.  R.W. 

no 


Spofsea,  J.  199 
Spari^D,  J.  314 
Bparlio^,  J.  SSI 
Sqaires,  3.  S.  643 
Sqoire,  ICA^  554 
Stafford,  S.  I03 
Suinfortb,  J.^^40 
Stamper,  Mrs.  SSI 
Btanbroacfa,  £.  D. 

499 
Stanhope,  W^.8.  444 
Stanley,  Han.  Mrs. 

538.    O.  640 
Blanafield,  J.  481 
Starr,  L.  L.  331 
Statham,  H.  555 
SUvelcy,  J.  540 
Suwell,  C.  C.  644 
Stear,  E.  R.  315 

Steele,  H.  667.   M. 

313.    T.663 
Stephen,  H.M.  541 
Stephens,  A.  444. 

A.R.666.E.B.671 
SterlioK,  J.'4S« 
Steuart,  C.  A.  83 
Stevens,  L.  481.  K 

83 
Steven80D,H.J.31 1 . 

J.537,665.  W.107 
Stewart,  A.  110.  E. 

B.  199.  H.  W.  S. 

199.  P.B.  314 
Stileman,  S.C.  557, 

669 
StiU,  A.  559,  555. 

P.  109 
Stilwell,  J.  555 
Stirling,  E.  M.  446. 

H.J.314.M.313. 

S.  446.  T.G.  313 
Stogden,  T.  819 
Stokes,  C.W.  481 
Stooehoose,  W.  B. 

480 
Stone,  J.107.M.664 
Stopford,  J.  J.  640. 

L.  C.  86 
Storey,  C.F.S.  30O 
Story,  £.  M.  648. 

M.493 
Stow,  J.  893 
Strachan,  SirJ.  106 
Straehey,  E.  539 
Strancways,  Lady 

314 
Stratton,  W.  A.  554 

Streatfeild,B.E.643 
Street,  U.  556 
Strode,  C.E.C.  648 
StronK,L.644.  T.L. 

199,  480 
Stroud,  H.  H. 
3tuart|  £,  443,  H« 

917 


Inie€  to  jMmm.  607 

Stttjckey,  B.  8«          Tenpleman,  C  666.  Tom,  M.  903  Twinr^  IL  B.  4fO 

SuckllDC,  W.a  64S       Mn.  554.  N.  103   Torokint,  W.  644  Twininj;,  W.  B.  85 

Suf cleD,F,444.  Mn.  Templer,  A.  S13        TomkioBon,  A.  311  Twist,  E.  557.    G, 

490.    H.489          TenltOD^B.  83          Tomlin^J.  85  M,669 

Sttmnen,  M.  4S3     Tenpant,  W.  4SI       Tomlioion,  M.  553  Twopeny,  T.  N.  83 

SttBd4riaiHl»E.S16,   Ttiinepf,  *- 559        ToBptoD,R«  M.  84  Twynam,  M.  A.  423 

387.  G.H.C,4S3.  JbackwcU,  ▲•  L.     Jomtcin.  Baronetf  Tyacke,  M.  319 

Sartcct,  Mn.  491          644.    Mn.  84            643  Tylee,  M.  A.  449, 

Bnttpn,  R.  N.  641.   Tbecd,  J.  641            Tooth,  E.  SU  554 

T.  M.  669              Thellttion,M.A.I07  Tottenbani,  J.  314  Tyler,  Mrs.  311 

SuttOD,  S.M.  447      Tbetiger,  F.  83          Towen,  6.  L.  493  1>odale,  T.  W.  439 

Swale,  M.  |09           Tkeitoa,  J.  916         Towgood,  A.  A.  558  Tynte.  Mn.  421 

{9«ayne»  J.  108          Tbierepf,  A.  E.  104   Toorle,  E.  J.  491.  TyrreJI,  S.  901 

Sireetlaud,F.B.814  Thierry,  Mad.  334        T.  557  Uiiderwood,  L.   B* 

^wioboe,  I^  0.  641    ThirkiU,  F.  R.  107    Towniend,E.L.667.  314 

Syer,  B.  31 1.  B.  B.   Thomaa.  B.  541.  C.       B.  M.  540.  J.539.  tJoiaeke,  N.  541 

101                             J.  666.  C.  M.900.       J.  F.  664.  J.S.  83  Uphan,  M.  W.  649 

Syke9,H.397. 1.557.       E.  109.    O.  399.   Towte,  J.  B.  901  Upjohn,  C.  M.  44 1 

J.669.  J.  W.  104.       M.  199,  559.    P.  Towtey,  F.  B.  314  UptoivJ.396.  L.494 

I4ady541                   919.    W.  319        Tracy,  J.  665.  Mn.  Urauton,  M^.  446 

Sylvarvood,  W.  686  Thoiaaaoo.E.F.  447       800  Uibome,  H.  M.  909 

8ynet,A.J.540.  B.  Tbonnptoii,  A*  44S,  Travan,H.314.  J.  Uwher,  S.  83 

A.440.  J.M.397.       538.    C.  H.  446.       918  tJltexnare,   E.  A. 

Mn.  84                      C.E.494.E.900,  Traoey,  J.  640  319,313 

^mondt,  A.49a  H.       319.    E.  H.  83,  Trelawoy,  Mn.  491  Vade,  R.  H.  640 

106.H.S.540.  M.       489.  H.  538.  Miti  Trenayne,  J.  998  Vale,  C.  E.  319 

540                           540.  Mn.  84,554.  Treocb,  Hoo.  Mn.  Valentine,  J.  900. 

^iQona,  M.M.  541       W.  490,641.   W.       538  G.  M.  437 

Synfe,  A.  553               0.668                   TreYelyao,E.0.539.  Valiant,  T.  639 

TUbot,  H.  339.  M.  Thomfon.  J.  644.       J.T.438  VaUanee,  E.  557 

A.  H.  540                  J.  B.  667.    Miu  Trerenen,  E.  331  Vann,  Hannah  107 

Tallmadfe,  A.  540.       539                        Trevit,  J.  538  Vaniittart,  Mn.993 

M.  314                  Thomhnnr,  N.  556  Tricton,  Mn.  31 1  Van  Stiauhensee, 

l^ner,  E.  M.  649.  Thome,  G.  F.  333,  Tiollope,   A.   909.  C.  T.  640 

W.  H.  333                  446.    J.  H.  539.       T.  641  Van  Voont,  J.  541 

Tannocb,  J.  901            W.  493                   Trotter*  Hon.  Mn.  Van  Zuylen  Van 

Taplen,  MiM  644       Thonihill,J.B.110.       641.T.M.D.901  Nyevelt  de  Gaei . 

Tapeon,  8.8.  540           T.  104                   Tiyon,  A*  W*    i*  beke,  Baron  El- 

Tarhutt,  A.  C.  86     Thornton,  F.  999.       A.  331  phege  86 

Ttrte,  M.  104                G.    490.    M.  A.  Tucker,  H.  L.  541.  Vardoo«  F.  C.  644 

Tassinari,  O.  491           491.    S.  311              J.K.311.M.33I.  Vaseall,  S.S.  84 

Tulock,  P.  644         Thorpe,  G.  T.  559         R.  901  Vaof  hao,  E.  445 

Tate,  Y/Ji.  541          Tbonild,  Mn.  491      Tttck6ekl,  A Jtf.900  Venablet,  M.A.  539 

TathaoH  M.  85.  T.   Tbrpekmorton,          Tudfaall«M.B.901.  Ventriet,  A.C.  555 

D.  F.  85                      Lady  538                     T.  318  Ventry,  Lady  84 

Tatteisall,  8.J.  917  Thrupp,  J.  A.  555.  Tudway^M-SU  Verily,  R.  999 

Tatton,  L.  499              M.  643                    Tuffnell,  H.  649  Vernon,  E.  494 

Tanbmn,Mn.  491   Tharey  918                Tulk,  L.  S.  493  Veiey,  Udy  84.  M. 

Taunton,  F.U.  909.  Thttrnall,E.W.9l9  Talloch,A.M.  83  644.    T.A.  551 

T.  330                    Thuntan,  8.  918       Tally,  A.  E.  499  Viean,  G.  C.  109 

Taytor,  A.84.  A.W.  Tbwailef ,  J.  A.  553   Tunetall,    M.  669.  VilUen,  Mn.  328. 

643.  E.499.  F.J.   Tigar,  R.  A.  541            T.  B.  538  Hon.G.  AF.  310 

83.  G.559.  J.31 1,  Tildcn,  W.  559          TornbaV,  T.  538  Vigor,  W.  £.  643 

643.    J.  W.  108.   Tiley,  W.  6.  319       Turner,  A.  499.  C.  Vincent,  F.  83, 540. 

L.919.  Udy49l.   Tilly,  C.  199                  M.  499.    J.  107,  O.  P.  86 

MA.  330.  8.666.   Tlndall,  P.  649             498.    J.  C  313.  Vlning,  E.  643 

T.8S.    W.900       Tinkler,  J.  499             J.  F.  667.    Lady  Visaid,  A.  333 

Tawke,  C.  644, 668  TknUng,  E.  641.  B.       494.  M.  649.   T.  Voase,W.445 

Teage,  J.  441                 B.  85                          559.  W.  H.  429.  Von  Lung,  A.  494 

Tebhe,  M.  104           Tinne,  P.  F.  334          W.  537  Von  ScheU,  Baron 

Teed,  T.  643             Todd,  E.  439.    R.   Tumour,  E.  J.  109.  447 

Tegart,  F.  665               108                             Mn.  900  Voeper,  W.665 

Teignmotttb,  Lady    Tol,  H.  L.  399            Turquand^W.  J.499  Vyvyao,  T.  H.  551 

490                         ToUemacbe,  W.  S.   Tireed,A.F.  554  Wackerbartb,  J.  H. 

Temple,  H.  A.  541        311                         Tweedle,  G.  M.  665  666 

G£NT.  Mag.  Vol.  XXll.  4  U 


698 

Waddelt,  H.W.  644 
Waddingtoo,  W.E. 
•  S4« 

WAde,A.L.909.G. 
65.  L.440.  W.S. 

Wagner,  Mn.  444 
WagBUff,  E.  667 
Wait,  E.  T.  166 
Waite,  E.  644 
WaiBwright,W.430 
Wake,  W.  649 
WakefteM,  G.  669 
Waleot,  J.  499 
Waldegn?e,M.643, 

8  641 
Waidener,  UO.  643 
Waldaek,  J.  H.  667 
Waldy,  M .  5M 
Walfbrd,B.B.  314. 

E.  L.  669 
Walker,  A.  3 19,556. 

C.  901.   D.  R.G. 

901.    E.M.  541. 

1.310.    J.B.  85. 

J.M.  107.    J.  P. 

314.    M.  A.  665. 

M.  B.  449.   Mn. 

990.     S.  M.  330 
Wall,  P.444.  W.557 
Wallace,  J.  490.  W. 

493 
Wallas,  J.  538 
Waller,  W.  3 1 1,559 

Wallit,  J.  557.    W. 

644 
Walmetlej,  E.  444 
Walpole,  E.  553. 

Mrf.  84.    R.  83. 

R.  H.  V.  640 
Walrond,  B.  334 
Watib,  E.  339.   H. 

909.    W.W.641 
Walton,E.9l9.E.N. 

999.  J.  110.439. 

S.A.  669.  T.T.  86 
Wanklin,  J.  443 
Watd,  A.    109.    E. 

541.     H.  C.  494. 

J.  916.     R.  86  ' 
Warington,  D.  R. 

444.  E.E.C.  499 
Warneford,  —  199 
♦Warner,  E.  L.  314. 

M.  A.M.  319 
Warwell,  P.  P.  319 
Waterbouie,G.  916 
Watera,S.553.W.R. 

641 
Watford,  A.  399 
Watherttone,  J.  D. 

490 
WatberttoD,  P.  J. 
<     663 


Indes  io  Nam$t4 


Watkint.  G.N.  916. 

T.  538 
Wattou,  A.  313.  D. 
86.  G.B.  104.  J. 
%^,  330,  490. ,  Sir 
F.  83 
Waiii,  E.  H.  917. 
J.  108.  J.W.641. 

H.A.  649.  R.  644 
Wawn,  C.  N.  540 
Wcally  S.  991 
Weaver,  S.  E.  649 
Weare,  8.  554 
Webb,C.319.C.E. 

909.  E.C557.J. 

103.    W.T.439 
Webber,  A.  556.  J. 

85.    R.L.641 
Webeter,  J.  85 
Weedon,  B.C.555 
Welbank,  R.  990 
Weleb,  J.  R.  661 
Welcbnan,  M.  833 
Weir.  J.  A.  539 
Weiatt,  —  83 
Welford,  S.  644 
Welland,  C.  106 
Wellboume,  C.  540 
Welland,  A.  990 
Welletley,  Hn.  Mn. 

641.  LordC.  313 
Wellington,  W.  909 
Welib,  George  199 
Wentwortb,  T.900. 

W.557 
Were,  H.  85 
Weatall,  F.  J.  397 
We9t«C.3l9.  C.  E. 

494.  J.  R.  85.  M. 

E.  649.  Mn.  318 
Wetenbatl,  ^311. 

M.  M. 311 
Weylaiid,  E.  541 
Whalley,  E.  330 
Wharton,  8.9 18 
Wbeeler,D.  538.  G. 

86 
Whipham,  T.  917 
Wbitb,  Mn.  641 
Whitaker,L.D.538 
Whitby,  A.  499 
White,  A.  919.    E. 

311.    E.  M.  649. 

H.  311,398,661. 

J.  199.    M.  667. 

M^    B.    108.     P. 

554.    W.  L.  819 
Whitehead,    T.   C. 

490 
Whiteboute,W.331 
Whiteburtt,  C.  H. 

199 
Whiteley.  E.  334 
Whttew8y,H.  541 


Wbitaeld,  E.  644 
Wbitmore,  Lady 

490 
Whitty,  W.  917 
Wbyte,  F.  538.    R« 

901.    W.J.  85 
Wilberforce,  Archd. 

640 
Wilbrabao,  C.   F. 

641.  Mn.  84.  W. 

110 
Wigttmie,  J.  559 
Wild,  E.  644 
WUder,  G.  L.  104 
Wilkie,  D.  909 
Wilkieton,  E.  539 
Witkinion,  A.  541. 

C.  539, 670.    £. 

J.  314.  J.  901 
Wilkinson,  M.  540 
Wilkins,  M.  539 
Wilki,  C.  667 
Williams,  CD.  331. 

E.  330,  449.  aC. 

494.    E.  H.  668. 

E.  R.  909.  F.668. 

H.E.85.  J.  103. 
•   J.<R.667.L»557. 

Lady  667-     Mn. 

84.  O.  G.31I.R. 

199,^95.  S.  900, 

391.  W.  31 1/538, 

540.     W.J.  313 
Willyams,  H.  199 
Wilmot,  A.  M.  109. 

S.  909 
Wimberlfy,  C.  Bl 

538 
Wimbusb,     M.    A. 

397 
Willim,  C.  339 
Wlllink,  W.  W.  900 
Willis,   F.  443.    J. 

555.  M.  397.     8. 

555 
Wills,   E.  U.  314, 

499.  G.  314k  499. 

H.  990 
Wilson,  A.  C.  643. 

J.  54l.]Irs.  538. 

641.    P.  663.    8. 

494.     S.  J.  538. 

W.  T.  670.    W. 

W.  C.  84 
Wimble,  F.  644 
Wing,  3.  84 
Wingate,  L.  919 
Wingaeld,G.A.I04. 

Hon.  M.  558 
Winkworth,  J.  900 
Winnington,   Lady 

538 
Winpennv,    R.    C. 

669 


WinetaDl«y,     C  G. 

333.     J.  W.  901 
Wintle,  W.  H.  31 1 
Wiuter,  E.  493.    J. 

311.     W.€SS 
Wise,    H.    S.   445. 

M.  I08 
Wtthera,  A.  S9B 
Wtthinffton,  K.  990 
Witby,  R.  107  • 
WoUceck,  F.  331 
Woilett^  E.  J.  493 
Wood,  A.  SI 7.     A. 

J.  314.       A.   M. 

105.     J.  C.  490. 

M»  333*      P*    Wf. 

919.    T.493 
Woodcock,  G.   H. 

641 
Wodehoose,  G.  420 

WoodfaU, 540 

Woodforde, 331 

Woodgate,  S.  314 
Woodbams,  C.  339 
Woodland,   R.   R. 

900 
Woodbonse,  J.  494 
Woodriff,  M.  A.  U. 

541 
Woods,  J.  991 
Woodward,  M.  107 
WookH>mbe9  H.  83, 

641 
Wooley,  F.  L..  641 
Woollcombe,   H. 

490 
Woollet,  J.  49S 
Woolner,  E.  M.  494 
Wootton,  J.   55 1  • 

T.  W.  991 
Wordiwonb,  C. 

537 
Worrell,  J.  339 
Wor»ley,S.90l 
Wortham,  J.  105 
Wortley,  Hon.  C. 

103 
Wray,  G.  199 
Wrench,  E.  O.  537 
Wright,  C.  J.  105 

F.  443.       G.  tu 

493.    H.  991.  J. 

86,199.553,558. 

J.  S.  449.  M.  665. 

M.  A.  919.     W. 

Q.556 
Wrigbte,  -^ —  556 
Wrigley,  H.  667 
Wroogbton,   M.  P. 

A.  499.  Mn.  84 
Wyatt,  L.  A.  540. 

O.  A.  540 
Wyche,J.T.P.438 
Wye,  CdU  103 


I 


Index  to  Namei, 


Wyld,  J.  445 
Wylde,  J.  106 
Wylett,  H.  J.  919 
Wylie,  G.  641 
Wjmer,  G.  P.  199 
Wyndbam,  Hon. 

Mn.84.  Mra.4«0 
Wynne,  F.  643.  G. 

664 


Wynter,  H.  538 
Wynyard,  S.  665 
Wwe,   —  671. 

M.  J.  389 
Wytbe,  T.  M.  84 
Yallop,  A.  D.  493 
Yallowley,  M.  R. 

667 


Yaniewiet ,  F.  539 
Yarde,  Mn.  830 
Yorke,  A.  555.     G. 

M.  430 
Young, 83.  B. 

555.    C.  M.  339. 

£•   555*      £•  M* 

667.   H.  553.  H. 


699 

T.  559.    J.  106, 

539,  551.      J.  C. 

643.    M.  C.  540. 

W.  W.  431 
Yoanger,  A.  317 
Yule,  £.  A.  M.  483 
Zaba,  J.  539 
Zornlin,  J.  J.  3S9 


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View  of  Stafford  Casde  ..... 

*  View  of  the  New  Churchat  East  Grafton,  WUto 
Oniamental  Tiles  in  Great  MalTem  Church  (Rate  III  ) 

View  of  an  Ancient  Mansion  at  Sandford  Orcas,  co.  Somerset    . 

*  Sculpture  found  in  St.  Nicholas  church,  Newcastle 

*  Plan  of  Gladmore  Heath,  the  field  of  the  Battle  of  Bamet 

*  The  Tower  of  Hadley  Church,  Middlesex,  and  carved  Date  thereon 
Effigy  of  Judge  Glanvile  in  Tavistock  church,  Deronshire 

*  Sedilia  in  Leominster  church,  Herefordshire      .  • 

*  Tomb  found  in  a  Barrow  at  Rougham,  Suffolk  . 
Portions  of  a  sculptured  Shrine  found  at  York  . 
Druidical  Temple  near  Shap,  Westmoreland 

View  of  Plas  GAch,  a  mansion  of  the  Bulkdejs,  at  Beaumarais 

*  View  of  the  second  Royal  Exchange        .... 

*  Front  of  the  Royal  Exchange,  as  altered  in  1880 

*  Arabic  Date  at  Lee,  in  Fittleworth,  Sussex 
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