tal Magazine. During his residence in America, he has been employed in the re-publication of the English Magazines, and had reduced that business, with the aid of steam-presses and steam-navigation, to so well-ordered a system, that the public have received these periodicals within a month of their original appearance in Great Britain. Aug. 23. At Boulogne, aged 50, Thos. 2nd son of Thos. Prichard, esq. of Ross, Herefordshire. Sept. 2. At Nice, aged 45, Thomas Pickering Robinson, esq. eldest son of the late John Robinson, esq. formerly of Hull, and afterwards of Field House, near Burlington. Sept. 3. At Brussels, aged 51, Ralph Nicholson, esq. of Wyndham-pl. Bryanstone-square. Sept. 9. At Milan, aged 43, Lady Elizabeth, wife of George Granville Harcourt, esq. M.P. for Oxfordshire. She was the eldest child of the present Earl of Lucan, by Lady Elizabeth Bellasyse (previously Duchess of Norfolk); was married in 1815, and had issue an only child, now Lady Norreys. Her ladyship, in company with her brother, Lord Bingham, and his lady, had been present at the coronation in the Duomo, and on her return to her hotel she was attacked by fever, under which she sank, after only two days' illness. BILL OF MORTALITY, from Aug. 28 to Sep. 25, 1838. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, by which the Duty is regulated, Sep. 21. Beans. Peas. Kent Pockets...... 31. Os. to 7. Os.-Sussex.............. 31. 5s. to 51. 10s. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, Sep. 22. Smithfield, Hay, 31. Os. to 51. 15s.-Straw, 17. 16s. to 21. 4s.-Clover, 31.3s. to 67. 158. Beef...............2s. 6d. to 4s. Od. .3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Od. SMITHFIELD, Sep. 21. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. Mutton.... COAL MARKET, Sep. 21. Other sorts from 16s. 6d. to 22s. Od. Walls Ends, from 18s. Od. to 24s. Od. per ton. PRICES OF SHARES. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, Birmingham Canal, 200.- Kennet and -Rochdale, 104. 23, Change Alley, Cornhill. 221. Ellesmere and Chester, 80. Grand Junction, Avon, 264. -Leeds and Liverpool, 670.- Regent's, 161. -London Dock Stock, 60.-St. Katharine's, 106.-East and West India, 108. -Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 200.--Grand JuncGlobe Insurance, 1434. tion Water Works, 62.--West Middlesex, 95. Guardian, 35.-Hope, 5.- Chartered Gas, 544.-Imperial Gas, 494.Phoenix Gas, 224.- Independent Gas, 48.- -General United Gas, 29.--Canada Land Company, 29.- Reversionary Interest, 133. For Prices of all other Shares inquire as above. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, 1, Bank Buildings, Cornhill, J. B. NICHOLS AND son. 25. PARLIAMENT STREET GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER, 1838. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Defoe's "Preparation for the Plague "-Johnson's ON PARADOXES: Cicero; the Greek Sophists; Erasmus; Heinsius; Berkeley; THE HOTEL DE CLUNY, at Paris (with a Plate) ALMANAC-MAKERS: John Partridge; John Gadbury; Vincent Wing; Richard Saunders; &c. &c.. Glossary to the Zetland Dialect. Expenses at Eton College, temp. Philip and Mary... PAGE 458 459 472 482 486 429 490 The Creation and Oath of a Herald at Arms. .. 491 Destruction of the Nave of St. Mary's Overy, Southwark 492 On the word Tascio on British Coins.... 493 On the proposed Monument to Chatterton at Bristol... 494 On a Roman ticket of freestone found in North Wiltshire (with a Cut). 495 496 Translation of the Ode on Athelstan's Victory at Brunanburgh. ib. RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-MIDDLE-AGE LATIN POETRY. Collections of Grimm and Haupt, Hilarius,--John de Garlande.............. 500 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Historical and Genealogical Account of the Clan Maclean, 505.-Perceval's Account of the Misfortunes of the Dauphin, 508.-Mant's Discourses on the Church and her Ministration, 511.-Irons's Lectures on the Apostolical Succession, 512.-The Pictorial History of England, 513.-Scatcherd's Memoirs of Eugene Aram, 516.-Aristotle's Ethics, by Brewer, 519.Hase's Public and Private Life of the Ancient Greeks, 520.-Sanctuary Registers of Durham and Beverley, 521.-Miscellaneous Reviews......... LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. New Publications. 526.-Surtees Society, 528.-London University, Huddersfield College, Tiverton School, Kensington and Westminster Literary Institutions, the MSS. of the Library of Berne, &c. &c. ...... ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. Mr. Spry on the etymology of Truro, 531.-Sepulchral Stones found at Hartlepool (with a Cut), 536.-Roman Handmill found at Halifax, &c. &c...... 524 529 536 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 537; Domestic Occurrences 538 Promotions, Births, 541; Marriages..... 542 OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Lord Carrington; Lord Farnham; Rt. Hon. CLERGY DECEASED, &c. &c...... 545-559 Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 567.-Meteorological Diary- Embellished with a view of the HOTEL DE CLUNY, PARIS; &c. 559 568 MR. URBAN, MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Hull, Oct. 6. I HAVE this moment perused the letter of your Correspondent Mr. James Crossley, in the last number of the Gentleman's Magazine, and would beg through you to refer him to the volume of your work for the year 1825, April and July, where are to be found some extracts from the very curious and interesting volumes which he mentions. They are there communicated by Mr. W. Hamilton Reid, but that gentleman does not state the source whence he derived them. Some of these extracts have also been transferred from your pages to those of the Youth's Magazine, which may be deemed an additional evidence of the interesting nature of the volume. I would state for the satisfaction of such of your readers as may not be able to obtain a sight of the original work, which is extremely scarce, that the larger and by far the more interesting portion of the work was republished with notes and observations by the late Rev. John Scott of Hull, under the title of "Narratives of Two Families exposed to the Great Plague of London, A.D. 1665; with conversations on religious preparation for Pestilence." Seeley, 1832. This passed through two editions in the same year. It was my impression that Mr. Scott had stated it as his opinion in his preface to the "Narratives," that Defoe was the author of the work. I find, however, that he has not. I have more than once heard him state that such was his conviction. I have by me the copy of the work which the late Mr. Scott possessed, and I have seen another copy in a private library in London, which had evidently belonged to the family of Defoe; two of their names appearing on the title-page with the date (I believe) of the very year in which the work was published. Yours, &c. JOHN SCOTT. INQUISITOR cannot discover, either in the British Museum, at the Bodleian, or in other public libraries, a copy of the book quoted in White's Discovery of Brownism, (1605, 4to.) and entitled, in the margin of p. 13, "A Discourse of Certain Troubles and Excom. &c." by "G. J." The author was GEORGE JOHNSON; and the tract relates to the English refugees at Amsterdam. As there is not a copy even in the Dissenters' libraries at Cripplegate and Finsbury, the tract must be very rare; but, if in existence, he requests to be informed. W. of Darlington communicates the two following curious English inscriptions on the bells of Gainford Church, co. Durham, inquired for in our vol. V. p. 2:— 1st bell. SAVNT CWTBERT SAF WS VNOWERT [unhurt?] 24 bell. ++HELP MARJ QWOD ROGER OF KYRKEBY." This Roger of Kirkby was instituted Vicar Hic jacet humatus Roger Kyrkby uocitatus The third bell is modern, made by "S. S. Mr. MANGIN remarks:-" The quantity of Roman coins exhumed in Britain, is, literally, incalculable in some parts of the west of England, as well as in the north; so great, that the pieces have no price. I wish to inquire, How came they to be thus disposed of? Some have imagined that they were flung down as offerings to the shades of the dead: some, that they were lost by the owners through accident, or let fall in the hurry and perplexity attending the enforced departure of the Romans from Britain! They have been supposed, by others, to be the contents of shop-tills, or of the money chests of mercantile persons. Likewise it has been thought that they were thrown away as being useless, and no longer currency at the commencement of each new imperial reign. But were this the fact, surely the material of which they are chiefly composed might (and, no doubt, would) have been recast. I have often put these queries and positions to various reflecting and deeply learned persons in Bath, especially to Mr. HARRIS, SO widely known for an extensive acquaintance with classic antiquity, and his magnificent cabinet of ancient coins; but to no purpose. I, accordingly, beg leave to repeat my earnest request for the favour of a satisfactory explanation." By an unintentional omission, we neglected to notice that the Roman bronze head, lately found at Winchester, and represented in the plate in our last number, is in the possession of Mr. Drew, jun., cutler, of that city, who has made some perfect casts of it for sale. In our next number we hope to give some further account of the recent Roman discoveries at Winchester. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Works of Art and Artists in England. By G. F. Waagen, Director of the Royal Gallery at Berlin. 3 vols. Murray, 1838. WE consider this work, as relates to the fine arts in England, and particularly to painting, to be one of the most important which has been published. The author, Dr. Waagen, as his translator observes, unites a profound knowledge of the subject, with such an accuracy of judgment, refinement of taste, and nicety of discrimination, as claim the highest respect for his opinions, delivered as they are with a conscientious impartiality, and an enthusiastic love and admiration of all that is beautiful and noble in the whole domain of the fine arts. Dr. Waagen also derives no small advantage from his being a foreigner, coming to the critical survey of our possessions in art, with a mind totally uninfluenced by the force of long received and established opinions; and without any prejudices to mislead, any caprices or fashionable opinions to submit to, or any fear of giving offence to the possessor, which so often impairs our confidence in the judgment of the critics of our own country. Dr. Waagen confesses that, though Mr. Smith proves himself, in his excellent Catalogue Raisonnée, to be a refined connoisseur, yet that many of his opinions on pictures to which he cannot assent, proceed more from regard to their possessors,* than from want of better judgment. We must add also, that all the judgments in Dr. Waagen's letters were formed on the spot, and committed to paper before the freshness and force of the impressions were impaired. Dr. Waagen brought to this country such recommendations, from the hand of royalty itself, as to ensure the civility of the "surly porter," and to throw back the hinges which too reluctantly open to the amateurs of our own country, and reveal the noble treasures which princely wealth has collected, with a yet more princely and enlightened munificence and liberality; assuredly to more than one of our nobles, may be applied the praise which that fine scholar P. Victorius applies to Cosmo de Medicis, the Duke of Florence.-" Supellectilem illam egregiam relictam sibi a majoribus, suis diligenter servare, et semper aliquos studiosè conquisitis et magnis sumptibus paratos, ipsis addere, multosque et omnium lectissimos illi civibus suis, cupiditatis hujus rectissimæ explendæ desiderio flagrantibus passim dari.” We trust that in England our picture galleries, the knowledge of whose treasures are not only gratifying to the curiosity of the public, but necessary to the improvement of the student, will not be liable to a sarcasm, similar to that which called the libraries of some wealthy Italians, not ßißiolikas but Bißiorágovs. To the possessors themselves, the admission of scientific and enlightened persons to view and judge of their collections, will always be of the highest value. No individual judgment, however estimable or renowned, is implicitly to be trusted, in matters requiring such delicacy of feeling, accuracy of eye, and extension of knowledge. We all know * Catalogue Raisonnée of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters. 8vo. 7 vols. By John Smith. |