Lift of Books, -with Remarks. $74 Rufupie, and Reculver the Regulbium, of the Romans. He produces many ingenious arguments in refutation of the opinion that Rutupia was an inconfiderable place in the time of Cæfar, and investigates, with great precision, the situation and limits of antient Cantium. Concerning Regulbium, or Reculver, he obferves, that it is mentioned only in the Notitia of the provinces, which feems not to be more antient than the time of Theodofius the Younger; but he thinks it incredible, that a place equal to Rutupiæ in Gize and apparent antiquity, fimilar in its castle and city, and to appearance intended for the fame ufe, fhould not have been known at a more early period. This filence of ancient writers induces him to fufpect that there exifled formerly two places under the name of Rutupiæ, and that when the Roman empire declined in Britain, one of them was called Regulbium." Dr. Battely fixes the origin of Rufupi, or Richborough, as far back as the epoch of commerce in this island; and with respect to Regulbium, or Reculver, he thinks that "the confular denari, the coins of almoft all the emperors from Julius Cæfar to Honorius, particularly the brafs coins of Tiberius and Nero, fharp, and in ap pearance fresh from the mint, which have been found at this place, afford inconteftible evidence that it is likewife of great antiquity." In fort, if any place in Britain can properly be ftyled claffic ground, Richborough, or Ru tupiæ, may certainly claim that honour; the oysters of the Rutupian bay were in high esteem at Rome † ; two of their generals, whofe tumuli it is fuppofed ftill remain, were buried near that city, and it has been fung or defcribed by poets, hiftorians, and geographers §. Then, indeed, its walls were washed by a navigable river, or rather arm of the fea, through which all veffels failed from the Downs to London,instead of doubleing the North Foreland. Now-feges efi ubi mare fuit, the river Stour being not half a stone's caft wide, occafioned by the inning the land on each fide of it; and of the cattle, once fo renowned, nothing remains but venerable walls, twelve feet thick, but whofe height cannot be afcertained, as it is no where ehtire. The eastern fide has been deftroyed by the fall of the cliff, the remander is ruinous and overgrown with ivy. Rugged however as it is, it is justly prized by antiquaries, who have reafon to congratulate themfelves that a late project for paving the streets of Sandwich with the ftones of it was rendered abortive, not by the tafte or compunction of the proprietor, but by the strength of the cement. The mouth of this haven, or æltuary, which then extended from Ramfgate cliff to Walmer, about four or five miles in breadth, was, according to our author, the place where Cæfar landed, and feems to agrée much better with his own defcription than either Deal or Dover *. We are afterwards entertained with a particular account of Roman coins, and other antiquities, discovered at Reculvert. The whole of this treatife evinces the author to have investigated the ancient writers with great attention, and that he has drawn from this fource a variety of ingenious and plaufible arguments for the antiquity of the places of which he writes. It ought likewife to be obferved, that in the course of thefe refearches he has thrown new light on many paffages in the Roman historians and poets. As a fhort fpecimen, we fhall add our author's account of the famous grave of Laberius, well known to antiquarians. And now I am on the subject of fepu'chres, I fhall beg leave, fays he, to digrefs to the grave of Laberius, which our Kentish men have so often boafted as an honour, contending for the dead Liberius with as much fpirit as the Britons fought with him in his life time. Allowing that this brave mili. tary tribune was flain there, and buried under a green barrow, yet I cannot agree with Camden, in regard to the origin of the name, as he thinks that the place was called ful-ham, from it's being the ftation or houfe of JuJius, and the barrow, Jul-laber, as being the grave of Laberius. Indeed, if the name of this tribune had been Julius Laberius, the conjecture would See this point fettled, p. 308. For these the reader is referred to P. 353 Lift of Books .was have been more probable; but it w 42. The FEMALE ADVOCATE; a IN the introduction to this poem, which is dictated by the most fervent and rational zeal for the privileges of Caf. de Bello Gall. v. 11. At prefent it is but 156, owing to the falling or digging away of the chaikpit, on which it is placed, at one extremity, and to the encroachments made upon it, by ploughing, at the other. Dr. Harris calls it 70 paces long, and 20 over," or 175 feet by 50. It is not exactly fo, but approaches nearly to the S. E. and N. W. There is a view of this barrow among the late Dr. Stukeley's unpublished plates. Now the efate of Robert Colebrooke, Efq. Second fon of Heneage Earl of Winchelfea, to which title he fucceeded, on the death of his nephew, in 1712. He died without iffue in 1726, Lord Wey. mouth above-mentioned married 'his fifter.* with Remarks. 375 her fex, and feems intended to celebrate those "female geniuses whora "Mr. Duncombe omited, as well as thole, who have obliged the world with their literary productions fince "the publication of his poem," the author mentions fome who have "Started up fince the writing of this "little piece," viz. Mrs, Chapone", Mils More +, Phillis Wheatley (a nel gro), and a lady (anonymous) whofe poems were printed for G. Robinsonj in Pater-Noiter Row. The heroines in whose honour this able advocate has now drawn her pen, with a spirit, an energy, which few of either lex have equalled, are Queen Catherine Parr (fixth and laft wife to K. Henry VIII.), Lady Jane and Lady Cathe rine Gray, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Thomas More's three daughters, pars ticulary Mrs. Roper, the Countess of Pembroke, the three daughters of the Protector Duke of Somerfet, the five daughters of Sir Anthony Coke (of whom the eldest was mother to the great Lord Bacon), Margaret Duches of Newcastle, Mrs. Anne Killegrow (immortalifed by Dryden), Lady Rachel Ruffel, the Hon. Mrs. Monk (or Miranda), Lady Chudleigh, Mis. Conftantia Grierfon, Mrs. Barber, Mrs. Chandler (lifter to the Rev. Dr. Chandler), Miis Jones (of Oxford), Mrs. Mary Matters (of Oley, Yorkhire), Mrs. Cooper (author of the Mujes Library), Mrs. Sarah Fielding (author of David Simple, &c.), Mrs. Eliz. Tollett, Mrs. Charlotte Lennox, Frances (otherwife Mts. Griffith), Theodofia (a devotional writer, uns named), Mrs.Greville, Miis Wheately, Mrs. Macaulay, Mrs. Anna Williams (the blind poetels), Lady Pennington (the unfortunate Mother), Mrs. Montague, Mrs. Celefia (of Genoa, Mr, Mallet's daughter), Mrs. Catherine Talbot, Mils Roberts, Mes. Pye (both thefe, however, are unnamed); and Mifs Aikin, now Mrs. Barbauld. And the advocates for female worth, whom this fair writer alfo celebrates, are Mr. Duncombe (abovementioned), Mr. Seward, Canon of Litchfield, • See her "Letters on the Improvement "of the Mind." This lady, however, (as Mifs Mulfo) was celebrated for her poetical talents in the Femincad. + See her "Search after Happiness." These two in Italics are mentioned only in the notes. $1 his lady is alfo mentioned with aplaufe by Mr. Warton, in his late Hiftory of English Poetry, p. 107. author 376 Lift of Books,with Remarks. two ano author of "The Female Right to Literature," in Dodley's Miscellanies, with Philander, and· nymous friends of the author. It is no more than justice to fay, that each of the above portraits feems drawn from the life, the skill and precision with which the features are diftinguished (in fo large a group, no easy task!) being equal to the glow and beauty of the colouring and the short but very judicious notes, annexed happily, complete and illuftrate each piece. Grieved we are to hear this amiable writer, both in profe and verfe, complaining of "years of ill health," of "languor, and unceasing pains," and with all the ingenious and worthy of her own sex, and with all the generous and just of ours, most a dently pray, that "her faded health" renewed may enable her (as the wishes) to "purfue the glorious toils unwearied," in that "retirement," that" ftudious eafe," which the loves, and that the may live to receive, from fome other advocate of either fex, as juft and as elegant a tribute as she has here bestowed! For the truth of what we have faid we shall appeal to the following ex-. tracts, taken partly from the fentimental, and partly from the defcriptive or panegyrical part of the poem: "Thrice glorious hour, when truth's unclouded ray Bursts on the mind in all the blaze of day! For, O! what more than pompous trifles, all Thofe things we purblind mortals feience call! [breast, In youth, when new-born fpirits fire the Of health, and hope, and vanity, poffefs'd, With vig'rous steps the arduous road we trace, But foon are weary'd in the dubious chace; Errors, on ev'ry fide, befet us round, And foon our anxious fearching minds confound. [clouded ray Thrice glorious hour, when truth's unBurfts on the mind in all the blaze of day! Thrice glorious hour, her ardent vot'rics cry, And pant for life and immortality." The characters that we fhall felect are thofe of Mrs. Montagu and Mifs Talbot, both equally dear to virtue and the Mules. "Say, MONTAGU *, can this unartful verfe [hearfe? Thy genius, learning, or thy worth, re Mrs. Montagu, author of the "Ef fay on the Genius and Writings of Shakefpeare, compared with the Greek and Freach Dramatic Poets." fhewn, And prov'd thy foul congenial to his own. By the above, our fair panegyrift, we fee, is acquainted with the life, as well as the writings, of this excellent effayift; a life, to which all literary fame, however great, must be fubordinate: we fhall only add, that, if Mifs Scott had recollected, the without doubt would also have introduced, a namefake of her own, and the filter of Mrs. Montagu (Mrs. Scott), the author of Millennium Hall*, the History of Sir George Ellifon, and the Life of Theodore Agrippa d'Aubignè. With the following character the reader may compare one of the fame lady (by a lady also) in our Magazine for June, 1772. "TALBOT, did e'er mortality enfhrine [than thine? A mind more gen'rous, meek, or kind, Delightful moralift! thy well-wrote ‡ page Shall please, correct, and mend, the rifing [mifs, age; Point out the road the thoughtless many That leads thro' virtue to the realms of blifs. Fain would my foul thy fentiments imbibe, And fain thy manners in my own transcribe. In this work the late Lady Barbara Montagu (fifter to the Earl of Halifax) was alfo faid to have had a share. Mrs. Catherine Talbot, only daughter of the Rev. Edward Talbot, archdeacon of Berks, and preacher at the Rolls (younger fon of Dr. Talbot, bifhop of Durham). This truly excellent lady was bleft with the happiest natural talents: her understanding was vigorous, her imagination lively, and her taste refined. Her virtues were equal to her genius, and rendered her at once the object of univerfal love and admiration. She was the author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Weck, and of Elfays on Various Subjects, 2 vols. Her writings breathe the nobleft fpirit of Chriftian benevolence, and difcover a more than coin. mon acquaintance with human nature. Rather writ, for written. Catalogue of New Publications. far and wit were but thy fecond praise, know'ft to rife by still fublimer ways; [ provid, Thy angel-goodness all who knew apHonour'd, admir'd, applauded too, and lov'd! Fair fhall thy fame to latest ages bloom, And ev'ry Mufe with tears bedew thy tomb." 43. The MATRON. An Elegy. Johnfon. BY the conclusion of this poem (which is the character of a good woman, and is as follows) the reader may form a judgment of the whole. "To pity prone, her pity she deny'd, When fell the fainted villain, virtue's foe; Who wore her facred femblance but to hide [know. A blacker guilt than common villains "With no unfocial rigid notions fraught, Oft the misfortune of the honeft breast; The chearful tale (fo happy was her thought) Grew doubly chearful when by her expreft. "When pleas'd the youths upon the vocal green, [and fong, When pleas'd the nymphs, the rural dance A kind fpectatrefs of the fairy scene; She fmild, remembering once herself was young. "Such chearful manners with fuch goodnefs join'd, [alone, None faw but warmly prais'd, nor prais'd Infenfibly they copied, pleas'd to find That happiness and goodnefs were but one. "And when the foul its native region gain'd, From every interrupting evil free ; All who had known her generous forrow pain'd, [me. All who had known her wept a friend with "No black-plum'd hearfe, no midnightblazing train, convey'd; Th' unconscious earth, back to its earth No falfe encomiums rais'd a juft difdain, Which, meant to honour, ridicule the dead. "But artless fwains th' involuntary sigh, Still heave as oft as by her door they pafs; The big tear starts into the virgin's eye, Bent on her humble grave o'ergrown with grafs. "What tho' no mourners blacken all the ftreet, -No hatchment tells its owner is no more, No vain donations, with caprice replete, Betray the folly of life's latest hour: Yet by her much-lov'd memory fecur'd, Her fav'rite trees to rend no haud fhall dare; The martlets, to her friendly roof inur'd, Shall hang their clay-netts unmolcited there. GENT. MAG. 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