July 6. At Coppet, near Geneva, aged 73, Capt. James Tweedale, late of the Hon. East India Company's Service. July 7. At Madeira, in her 20th year, Emily Margaret, eldest dau. of the Rev. Thomas Shore, granddaughter of the Rev. R. Twopeny, Rector of Little Casterton, Rutland. At Frankfort-sur-le-Main, aged 39, George Acland Barbor, esq. of Fremington-house, Devon. July 19. At Paris, Jane T. Wilson, eldest dau. of James Wilson, esq. Chief Justice, Mauritius. July 26. At Paris, Catharine, wife of S. N. May, esq. formerly Judge of the Supreme Court at Mauritius. Aug. 2. At Paris, aged 17, Louisa Charlotte Yea, second and youngest dau. of Robert Grant, esq. of Monymusk, Aberdeenshire. At Ostend, aged 15, Jeramina Bryan, eldest dau. of Lieut.- Col. Bryan. Aug. 5. At Naples, Bernard Brocas, esq. of Wokefield Park, Berks, and Beaurepaire, Hants. He was formerly a Gentleman Commoner of Pembroke college, Oxford. He formed a very large collection of ancient armour, which was sold a few years ago at the Queen's Bazaar, Oxford-street. Aug. 9. At the residence of W. R. Harris, esq. Oporto, in his 27th year, Edward, only son of Samuel Foot, esq. of Salisbury. BILL OF MORTALITY, from Sept. 3 to Sept. 24, 1839. Females 613}1207 Females 494 1001 Whereof have died under two years old...302 AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, by which the Duty is regulated, Sept. 20. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Peas. Sussex Pockets, 21. Os. to 31. Os.-Kent Pockets, 21. 28. to 47. 4s. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, Sept. 23. Hay, 31. 5s. to 47. 15s.-Straw, 17. 18s. to 21. 4s.-Clover, 4l. 5s. to 6l. Os. 6d. SMITHFIELD, Sept. 23. To sink the Offal per stone of 8lbs. Beef......... Mutton............................. Lamb.. .3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. Veal Pork... .4s. ........... ...... ..4s. 4d. to 5s. Od. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, Birmingham Canal, 185.- Kennet and Rochdale, 112. 222. -Ellesmere and Chester, 82.- Grand Junction, Avon, 28.-Leeds and Liverpool, 750.- -Regent's, 12. -London Dock Stock, 644.- -St. Katharine's, 107.--East -Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 187.- Grand JuncWest Middlesex, 993.-Globe Insurance, 131.Hope, 5.- -Chartered Gas, 574. Imperial Gas, 514.-Independent Gas, 50.- -General United Gas, 39.- -Canada -Reversionary Interest, 135. and West India, 107. tion Water Works, 68.. Guardian, 36.Phoenix Gas, 291⁄2. Land Company, 30. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, 1, Bank Buildings, Cornhill, late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and ARNULL. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER, 1839. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. -Anecdotes of Lady Hester Stanhope.-Countess THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR THOMAS HANMER GOETHE'S TABLE-TALK.-Tieck.-A. Humboldt.-Byron.-Shakspeare.-Sir ...... The Biography of Ralph Aggas in the New General Biographical Dictionary.... 465 The Historian Gibbon, errors in his Autobiography.-His character of Louis XVI. His style and language, and proficiency in French.-English writers in French, and French in English.-The House of Duras.-Duke of Sussex. -Mr. Fox.-La Tour d'Auvergne.-P. L. Courier.--Personal appearance of Gibbon.-Voltaire and M. le Franc.-Character of Henri IV.-Conduct of the French Revolutionary Tribunal.-Lord Brougham's Statesmen.- ........ Effigy of Robert Duke of Normandy not of the period of the Bayeux Tapestry. -William of Poitiers and the Battle of Hastings ADVERSARIA.--Keeping faith with Heretics.-Ireland and Popery RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. - Poems by George Tooke Jesse's Summer's Day at Hampton Court, 489; Taylor's Manual of Ancient History, ib.; Repton's Works, by Loudon, 491; Ladies' Flower Garden, by Mrs. Loudon, 493; Letters from Ireland, by Charlotte Elizabeth, ib.; De- bates on Canada in 1774, 497; Woodgate's Bampton Lectures, 499; Ada, Tale, by C. Needham, 501; Billings's Carlisle Cathedral, ib.; Godwin's Churches of London, 503; Revue de l'Architecture, 504; History and Topography of Ashbourn, 506; Mabinogion, Part II. 507; Jefferson's Guide to Naworth Castle, 509; Lindsay's Etymology of Southwark, 512; ........ FINE ARTS.-Bust of Mr. Clarkson, &c. .. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-New Publications, 520.-Harrow School, 522.-Royal Kensington Literary and Scientific In- stitution, ib.-Hammersmith Institution, ib.-City of Westminster In- ...... ...... ...... -482 482 484 484 514 519 527 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Whale skeleton in Durham Castle, 526. -Roman Causeway, 527.--Roman Pavement at Stamford HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 528.-Domestic Occurrences 529 Promotions and Preferments, 533.-Births, Marriages. .... OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Runjeet Singh; the Earl of Lauderdale; the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe; Gen. Sir James Steuart, Bart.; Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart.; Sir Robert Clayton, Bart.; Sir C. S. Smith, Bart.; Sir J. W. H. Brydges, Knt.; Lt.-Gen. Need; Thomas Roberson, Esq.; Mrs. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. A Constant Reader remarks, that "In the Obituary notice of the late extraordinary character, Lady Hester Stanhope, her birth is dated in March 1766, instead of 1776. The marriage of her parents, which took place in December 1774, produced three daughters, the eldest of whom was Lady Hester. Her father (the late eccentric Earl Stanhope) after the death of Lady Mahon, which happened in the year 1780, married again, and by his 2nd wife had three sons, of whom the present Earl Stanhope is the only survivor. Lady Hester Stanhope always manifested a masculine understanding, great talents for business, and very strong personal feelings. Her great skill and address in effecting the removal of her halfbrothers from the extravagant plans of education and future destination avowed for them by their very singular father, gained her the high esteem of her mother's noble family, and, combined with her naturally strong attachment to her eminently distinguished uncle, Mr. Pitt, won her the much envied station of being received into his house, and being permanently established there as his beloved and most favoured female relation; a condition that, with her particular views and turn of mind, might perhaps be fairly represented as the nearest the summit of human happiness that any mortal could attain; but, alas! it was but transient; Lady Hester was doomed to witness the rapid decline of Mr. Pitt's health, and finally to sustain the dreadful shock of his loss, which carried with it the utter reverse and extinction of all her comforts, prospects, and aspirations in this world. Such a prostration of all her hopes and expectations, at an early period of her life, may be received as reasonably accounting for the eccentricities of her subsequent conduct." P. 436. The dowager Countess of Pomfret, recently deceased, was not the lady described in this page, but the widow of George the third Earl. She was the daughter of Trollope Browne, esq. was married in 1793, and left a widow in 1830, having had no children. P. 454. Admiral James Douglas was born in 1756. He was twice married; first in 1793 to Elizabeth, widow of Am. brose Riddall, Capt. R.N. and daughter of Robert Scott, Capt. R.N. by whom he one son, James, who died unmarried in India in 1818. Mrs. Douglas having died in 1819, the Admiral married se condly, in the following year, Frances, widow of William Blathwayt, of Dyrham Park, co. Glouc., esq. and daughter of William Scott, of Great Barr, co. Stafford, esq. This lady survives him. W. P. S. has made the seal of Anne Countess of Devon, recently found at Exeter, the text for a genealogical disquisition which is much beyond our capabilities of insertion. All that it appears requisite to put on record upon the occasion seems to be that it is a large round seal, bearing this legend: Sigillum Anne Courtenay, Comitisse Devanie; and that it is handsomely engraved, with the arms of Courtenay impaling Talbot, supported by two lions, and surmounted by an angel, showing that it belonged to Anne, daughter of Richard Lord Talbot, and wife of Hugh fourth Earl of Devon, who died in 1422. She afterwards remarried John Botreux, esq. and died Jan. 16, 1440. This seal was found, in company with several flat, short-necked glass bottles and pots, in the foundations of an old house in Catharine street, Exeter, the property of Mr. Sellers, coachmaker. The same Correspondent desires us to mention, that a deposit of 2000 Roman coins, all of the Lower Empire, of Gallienus, Salonina, Postumus, Tetricus, Probus, Claudius 2nd, or Gothicus, and one, a rare QUINTILLUS CONCO. EXERC. . in exergue T. Also a Tacitus, MARTI. VICTORI. was found this year near Kingskerswell, near Newton Bushel, a mile from the Roman Camp on Milbourne Down, Devon. They were mostly small brass and billon. He also adds, "we still continue to dig up Roman coins here, but none of last May, near the Post Office, struck at any great interest, excepting a Numerian Karnuntum in Pannonia (exergual letters, KAB), a Valerian of billon, a Vespasian in the Bouhay, Antoninus near the Guildhall, another on the Friars'-walk, a Gratian (AVGG. AVG) rare, Hadrian (St. John's tia, AVG . with a galley, &c." Bow), a beautiful Postumus (billon), LætiWe have before intimated our opinion that our correspondent reposes too full a confidence in the workmen of Exeter, particularly in respect of Greek coins. ERRATA. P. 133, for Judd, read Juda. 2nd col. line 7, after has quoted, read a part. Line 20 from bottom, for Romans, read Ionians, THE MAGAZINE. GENTLEMAN'S The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. Speaker of the House of Commons; with a Memoir of his Life. To which are added other Relics of a Gentleman's Family. Edited by Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart. 1838. THIS is one of those miscellaneous volumes, that the Greeks would have called Κέρας 'Αμαλθειας, οι Πέπλον, οι Λέιμων; and, though such volumes may not produce much impression on the public mind, which requires things of greater pith and moment, yet are they of useful service to the interests of literature. "Minutæ istæ admonitiones nequaquam sunt vel ad alendum studium inhonestæ, vel ad oblectandum frigidæ fovendumque animum." They serve to correct erroneous statements, or up, ? furnish important materials in other works; their value consists in their affording original and authentic documents; supplying many a small, but important link that was wanting, and filling up many an unsightly crevice with information that was previously withheld. Thus they derive an additional importance by the symmetrical beauty and finish which they give to what was defective; and, by a few delicate touches, and supplementary colours, complete the hitherto imperfect picture. In this way, the general body of literature becomes gradually filled from the same sources from which it originally rose. Of late years, the value of such original documents and family records has been duly estimated; and papers which have long reposed in the cabinets of the curious, or been buried in the lumber-rooms of our rural halls and dilapidated mansions, or been entrusted to the care of the old housekeeper and her favourite niece, have been rescued from their ignoble bondage; and brought forth to throw new and unexpected light on many complicated questions, and contradictory or contested statements. We have an instance before us, taken from the Mackintosh Papers,* as regards the intrigues of Bolingbroke, and the conduct and character of Hanmer with their assistance, the Editor of the present volume has been enabled to compose a Life of his relative that is well worthy of perusal ; and such as must be approved, for the temperance of its judgments, the sufficiency of its knowledge, the soundness of its opinions, and the correctness and animation of its style. The Life of Hanmer is the leading feature of the volume, but it possesses also, in other parts, much to interest and amuse those, who, like ourselves, revert with delight and curiosity to the elegant and various literature of the times to which it relates. Those who can endure nothing but profound investigations, and leading questions of erudition, need not open this volume. "Abeant procul, atque alia sibi oblectamenta quærant," but we can smile when we recognise in these pages the features and characters of our old and well-known friends, when we see in Prior's official letters his natural disposition of * Mr. Mackintosh kindly permitted Sir H. Bunbury to see his father's invaluable collection of papers: "The extracts from which,” he says, “will be found to throw additional light on the political intrigues of the last years of Queen Anne, and the beginning of the reign of George the First." |