to the me into extafies And bring all Heaven before mine eyes." IL-PENSEROSo.. Every window in the great church of Gouda was painted in a magnificent flyle: Scripture hiftories and characters were intermingled with Popifh legends, modern events, and heraldic ornaments, fo as to produce the happicft effect. They were all prefents from fovereign princes and ftates, corporate bodies, and diftinguifhed perfonages ecclefiaftical and fecular, and were chiefly executed by two brothers of the name of Crabeth, who were fettled at Gouda. Whether the fatellites of his High Mightinefs, the Grand Conful, have fpared thefe monuments of genius, I know not. I will tranfcribe the notes that I took of thofe paintings with which I was moft ftruck. 1. Liberty of Confcience. A noble piece, a prefent from the States of South Holland. A triumphal car is exhibited, behind which appears Faith, and Tyranny proftrate under the wheels. In the car fits a woman who reprefents Liberty, drawn by five women, who reprefent Friendship, Union, Conftancy, Jufiice, and Fidelity. II. The capture of Damietta in Egypt during the Crufades. A prefent from the Burgomafters of Haerlem. There is a very fine view of the fortrefs of Damietta, and of a ship in full fail, which on entering the harbour breaks the chain by which it was blocked up. III. The queen of Sheba's vifit to Solomon. This painting exhibits Solomon feated under a magnificent canopy, and the Queen prefenting him with rich gifts. A prefent from an abbefs, of whom there is a picture with her guardian angel behind her. IV. The confecration of Solomon's Temple, and Chrift adminiftering the Supper. A fplendid picture. A prefent from Philip the Second of Spain, and Mary of England, who are exhibited kneeling. V. Jefus fitting in the midst of the Doctors in the Temple at 12 years old. VI. The railing of the fiege of Ley den. VII. The woman taken in adultery. The day on which I arrived at Goùda being the anniversary of the entrance of the Pruffian army in 1787, the town was all in a buttle. In the evening there were fire works: and in the market-place was exhibited a most fplendid emblematical reprefentation of Orange had been rettored to its antient the means by which the House of rights, and the bleffings of which that mies of the Stadtholder arrogated to event had been productive. The enethemfelves the appellation of patriots; a term which has been fadly abufed in other countries as well as in Holland, and in none more than in our own highly favoured land. The Tories, who oppofed Sir Robert Walpole, affumed the name of Patriots; and we know how they made good their preteufions to that title on the downfall of the minifter. Lord North, during the American war, was vigoroufly oppofelves Whigs and Patriots; and yet, fed by a fet of men who called themto gratify their own felfifh ends, ferulition, which fickened the heart of pled not to form an infamous Coaevery honeft man, and of which the hour. The leaders of the Antiftadtcountry feels the fatal effects to this holderian faction in Holland, I have been affured, were no friends to popuoligarchy on the ruins of the cftablished lar rights, and only wifhed to raise an have only ruined themfelves and their government; and in the attempt they country. I had a political conference, through the medium of an interpreter, with fome Dutch labourers, who of them called himself a Patriot. I were at work in the great church. One defired to know what meaning he afonly anfwer in the gibberish of the fixed to the word. To which he could party, No Stadtholder." I endeahis compeers would have gained novoured to convince him, that he and thing by the depofition of the Stadtholder, unless they could have got into gifiracy. To which he replied with a their own hands the choice of the mavery arch look, "We the choice of the magiftracy! then I am fure the country would have a poor fet of magifirates. No, no, that would never do.' 66 jority of the inhabitants of Gouda our I ilept only one night at Gouda, and fet fet out next morning in the ftage for Rotterdam. I travelled the whole way upon a hard pavement; which, as the machine was without fprings, rendered the journey uncomfortable; and fo loud was the rumbling of the wheels, as to deprive the paffengers of the gratification of focial converfe. We travelled a confiderable part of the way upon a dyke; and many parts of the country were entirely under water. At the entrance into Rotterdam, the following infcription on the front of a large edifice caught my eye: " Armamentarium navale Republicæ Belgica." I went to an inn in the market-place, called the Swine's Hoof, oppofite to which is the ftatue of the celebrated Erafmus, executed in brafs. But I referve my obfervations on Rotterdam to a fature letter. THOSE of your readers who have not feen Utrecht with as laudable attention as Scotus, will thank him for the anecdotes and corrections in p. 394. The politeness of his manner encourages me to hazard a correction on his fpelling the name of a town which he calls "Bafleduc." The Dutch call it Herrtogen-bofch, the Lord's wood; the French, Bois-le-duc, the Duke (of Brabant)'s wood. The game of mail was certainly cricket. CORNUBIUS. Mr. URBAN, Edinburgh, July 1. IN my moments of relaxation from the fatigues of public duty and profeffional avocations, it is my frequent cuftom to take up a volume of your inftructive and amufing Mifcellany. Having juft received from my bookbinder the first volume of the Gentleman's Magazine for the laft year, I obferved a letter, p. 200, on the fubject of which you would long fince have heard from me had it not before efcaped my obfervation. I allude to an epittle from Mr. Hutchinfon, the ingenious author of the Biographia Medica, in anfwer to a letter of Dr. Soemmering, of Francfort on the Mayne, in which the Doctor expreffed his doubts of the veracity of my late worthy and much-lamented friend, Mr. Charles Darwin. Having patronized this young philofopher during his too fhort abode in this univerfity, and heing in habits of the clofeft intimacy with him, I was the companion, and, I may add, in part, the director of the experiments conducted for the purpose of afcertaining the ditünguishing characteristicks between pus and mucus. I am equally well acquainted with Dr. Soëminering, and was greatly pleafed with his affiduity and attention to philofophical enquiry during his ftay here. Should not, however, the ftrong and unobjectionable arguments of Mr. Hutchinfon remove from his mind every doubt of the truth and accuracy of the experiments, I will, in a future Number, bring forward incontrovertible teftimonies of their being really and fatisfactorily made. I will alfo at that time, Mr. Urban, fubjoin my real name, which, without poffelling a great portion of vanity, I inay declare is pretty well known to the philofophical and medical part of the world. A. D. THE PURSUITS OF ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION. No. XXXVII. HINCKLEY. A$ S for the church here, we have to remark, that it is a good ftructure, but has had its fhare of modernization, by garret windows, a common brick porch, dilapidated parapets, and by bricking up in part the compartments of the Welt window, which are all too manifeft to call down our cenfure for fuch disfigurements. The interior is fimply grand, and is for the most part ftanding unaltered. This is praifeworthy; but the unpleafant part of my office obliges me to condemn the incumbrances of pews and galleries; the decoration of pending buckets, the childish modern font, and the trim of the altar-piece, &c. &c. In juftice to the art of feulpture in the 17th century, and to the due veneration paid to ancefiral names, let me point out the monument of JOHN ONEBY, on the North fide of the chancel, as meriting much attention and regard. KENELWORTH CASTLE. I here look on the agreeable fide of my inveftigating labours, in having the extreme fatisfaction to beftow commendation, being fo much confirained to utter unwelcome truths. Thefe important ruins are now in thofe guardian hands, which, from the anxious folicitation for their prefervation every where made known on the walls, feenis to enfure their future fafety from wan ton disfigurement. This example of protection to fuffering Antiquity, if generally The gateway entering into this town from Coventry has lately been "new-cafed" and "reformed," as Wren has it; and this with a witnefs; not made out by the Roman and Grecian pickings, but the purblind copyings from our national art under the paroxyfm of modern improvement. And, in order that this metamorphofed gateway might not come under the fentence of being declared (at any future period) "in the way," a road has been made on one tide for this purpose. Yet, had this object been a pure and magnificent antient erection, like thofe gateways at York which have been proclaimed by fome of its unnatural fons "nuifances," and "only worthy to be taken down," we should not have had to much attention paid to its welfare. But here fome one or other has had the opportunity to fhow his contempt for antient workmanship, by his vanity in improving on their remains. The other gateway, leading to Stratford upon Avon, waits, no doubt, the like innovating hour: at prefent it is a valuable relick, as appearing in its own native guife. The great church has been re-built in the Roman and Grecian ftyles in part and furprize is the more excited to find the Eaftern chapels and their beautiful tombs unaltered, than at viewing the models of the Roman and Grecian fchools at the Weft end. The Cattle has the next demand on my Antiquarian opinions. Advancing, therefore, I faw on my left a church, whereon is fet forth another cut-and-hacked attempt at improving on our national works. Without entering into particulars, 1 paffed on to the gate of entrance into the Cafile; a modern work, culled from the weeds that grow without the fences of our remote architecture. Within its walls are fome curious pieces of armour, not altogether undeferving of notice. Pacing along fome new-cut road trenches, I came within ken of the Cafile itself. On the left is a tower, whofe plan is See Wren's Parentalia. made out by feveral parts of circles in a moft uncommon way. In the centre is a noble gateway leading into the great court; and on the right is a tower formed by 12 fides. Thefe with the various turrets, walls (excluding from my notice the modern offices ranging from the gateway to the left tower) rushed into my prefence in all their antient fort, grand, terrific, and unperishable. Bending my courfe through the double ward of the gateway, a fearful pafs! I entered into the great court, where looking to every tower, nook, and wall (turning my back on the modernized front of the manfion, occupying one fide of the court), the romantic days of Warwick's famous earl returned to call before me the prancing feeds, the badged yeomen, the fquires, knights, and Sir Guy himself, to march the lifted court around, where glittering armour, banners, lances, fwords, and thields, made up the fplendid preparation for the martial ports or the hoftile field, in friendly jouft or deadly combat. As for the face of the habitable part of the manfion, it has been fo accommodated to modern ideas of fuppoted fuperior tafle to the former lords. of this cafile, that I not only for bore to delay a moment to note down any of its improvements, or, from a new fort of porch in the innovating ftyle, to enter within the porta's, where, from fuch fpecimens of the revival of our antient architecture, I could not expect to find either the great hall, the lord's or the lady's arrafed chambers, the fretted roofed bowers, or the like withefles of its original arrangement. As for porters, halls, lobbies, faloons, dining-parlours, fmoking-rooms, billiard-rooms, cardrooms, dreffing-rooms, powderingrooms, and all the other long etcætera dragged in from the precedents of French and Italian villas, I own, my eves are fo familiarized to fuch diftinguifhments, and-fach appellations are fo rung in my ears in all corners of the kingdom, from the princely dome to the tradelman's fnug box, that the founds pall on my fenfe, and their forms ficken in my fight: therefore, I returned at leifure through the embattled limits, to behold the front of the caftle overhanging the river. This view beyond all denial is truly fublime, and likewife truly hiftoric, as its commixture is moft grand, and has but little known the force of the "iron arm" to restrain it of the right to tell the ftory of its renowned age. Condemning in fome degree the demolition of the old bridge in the fore-ground of this enchanting picture, yet it ftill remains to contribute its mite of record to this Warwick tale, marvellous and ftrange! AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued.) under fome difficulty in what manner to difpofe of his property on account of the ftatute of Mortmain; and that he defires fome information on the fubject. I, therefore, fubjoin an abftract of the act, which, with a few obfervations, will, I apprehend, be fufficient for your correfpondent's purpofe; and, at the fame time, anfwer à general one. By the 9th Geo. II. c. 36, no lands or tenements, or any eftate or intereft therein, or money or perfonal eftate (other than floek in the public funds), to be laid out in the purchase of lands or tenements, or any eftate or intereft therein, can be effectually given or conveyed to any perfon or body, or anywife incumbered for any charitable ufe, unlefs in tlie following manner: 1. The gift or conveyance mult be by deed indented. zdly. It must be fealed and delivered in the prefence of two or more credible witnefles, twelve calendar months at least before the death of the donor or grantor (including the days of the execution and death). 3dly. It must be enrolled in Chancery within fix months after the exc cution. 4thly. It must be made to take of f:& in poffeffion for the charitable ufe intended immediately; without any power of revocation, or claufe for the benefit of the donor or grantor, or of any perfon elaiming under him. Nor can any fiock in the public funds be given or transferred effectually to any perfon, to be laid out in the purchafe of any lands or tenements, or any eftate or intereft therein, for the benefit of any charitable ufe, unlefs in the following manner: It. The flock muft be transferred fix calendar months at leaft before the death of the donor or grantor, incluGENT. MAG. July, 1801. ding the days of the transfer and death. 2dly. It must be made conformable to the fourth regulation as to lands, &c. Exceptions as to purchases of any eftate or intereft in lands, and transfers of ftock made really and bona fide for a full and valuable confideration, actually paid at or before the making of the conveyance or transfer; and alfo in favour of the two univerfities, and the colleges of Eton, Winchefter, and Westminster. By this act your correfpondent will perceive, that, in order to found a charity of the defcription he has propofed, he muft entirely diveft himself of the property he would appropriate for the purpofe; and, for a time, in the uncertainty of its being effectual. Provided, however, it should consist of perfonal chattels, and your correfpondent thould think proper to bequeath it for any charitable ufe, without re-. quiring it to be invested in land, he is ftill, notwithflanding this ftatute, at full liberty to make fuch a bequeft: but, even in this cafe, I would recommend him, averfe as he may be to forms of law and to lawyers, to avail himself of proper profeffional affittance. If un willing to give trouble to lawyers at prefent, I fhould prefume he would be. equally difinclined to occafion them any hereafter. I once thought that a great deal of good night be done by bequeathing a decent fam, annually, to thofe who fhould give the greatest proofs, within fome certain district, of honefty, induftry, and conjugal virtue; and I think fo full, provided the plan of fuch a donation were to be founded on wifdom as well as benevolence. That the morals and happinefs of a whole parifh might by fuch means be highly promoted, there feems to be but lule doubt. I leave it, without farther commendation, to the confideration of your correfpondent, affuring him that, if he fhould think ferioutly of it, I fhould be happy to reader him any af fiftance in my power in devifing a plan capable of effecting his benevolent intentions. Mr. URBAN, Z. June 4. c. 36, which was enacted to deftroy at Mr. URBAN, Clofe of Sarun, July 3. PERFECTLY coincide with the opinion of your correfpondent J. R. p. 128, in your Magazine for February laft, that after all the comments, notes, and criticifngs on the works of Shakspeare, there is ftill wanting a farther illuftration of him by exploring the fources from whence he derived the fubjects of his wonderful dramas. And I entertain the hope that fome one or other of his most able commen ders, at leaft to fuch of them who, like In your review of new publications tators will ere long carry his refearches into this wildernefs of wonders,and trace them from the impervious recefs of fabulous and hiftoric origin through the wilds of fancy, the labyrinth of genius, and the meanderings of enthufiaftic imagination, to the cultivated plains of poetic retinement and dramatic excelfence. Mrs. Lenox hath, it is true, led the way, but the hath left many a wondrous tale untold." The late Mr. Garrick was indefatigable in thefe refearches, and had made a tolerably good collection. Had he lived fomewhat longer in the enjoyment of that leifure which he ardently looked for ward to, we fhould, even yet, have been deriving from him a continuation of our wonted admiration and delight from his publication of them under his own illuftration and remarks. He hath more than once intimated this to me, and I have in fome fmall degree been an humble contributor. Amongst the reft was the following tranflation of the ftory of King Lear and his three daugh ters, from the Latin hiftory of Geofry of Monmouth, an old monkifh hiftorian of the twelfth century; to which I fubjoin a letter of Mr. Garrick's conveying his obfervations upon the fubject. Polibly one with the other may aflord amufement to fomic of your rea that the loved her father better than her own foul. To whom her father replied, fince you elleem my old age in preference to your own life, I will marry you my deareft daughter to any youth you shall Britain for a portion. Then Regan the choofe, and will give you a third part of fecond daughter, like her futer, endea vouring to wheedle him into kindness, anfwered, with an oath, that he could not otherwife exprefs her temiments than by declaring, that the loved him far above every other human being. The credulous old man then promised her the fame ho nour as he had given to her elder fister, and to marry her with a like portion of a third part of the realm. But Cordeilla, the younge, when the found that her father had been thus duped by the fattery of her fifters, had a mind to try him by ano ther kind of anfwer. Is there any where, fir, faid fhe, a daughter who will fay that the loves her father more than the ought to do? I believe no fuch one would be found, unless the withed to conceal the truth under profeffions in which the could not be in earneft. I have always loved you as a father, and always meau to do fu. In |