regt. third son of Underwood Price, esq. of London. Also, in the action, (besides those named in June, p. 678), Capt. Moulds, of the 10th regt. April 15. At Geneva, in her 73rd year, Eleonora-Magdalene, wife of the Right Hon. Wm. Wickham, dau of Mons. Louis Bertrand, Professor of Mathematies in the University of Geneva. She has left one son, Henry Louis Wickham, esq. barrister-at-law, who married in 1830 a granddaughter of Abp. Markham, and has issue. April 24. At Neuwied-on-the-Rhine, aged 58, his Highness the Prince de Wied, a General in the Prussian Service, and Colonel of the 29th regiment. He was succeeded by his only son, Prince Herman, now in his 23rd year. May 6. At Frankfort, Arthur George Lambert, the youngest son of Lieut.-Col. Sir Charles Dance, K. H. June 2. At Paris, Mr. G. Brunton, editor of the Edinburgh Patriot. At Bruges, S. Sawrey, esq. late of Bloomsbury-square. Lately. At Boulogne, the wife of T. Grady, esq. of Belmont, Limerick, niece to Dr. Arthur Smyth, Archbishop of Dublin, and aunt to Viscount Guillamore, late Chief Baron of Ireland." At Coblentz, Germany, aged 32, Maurice Fitzgerald, esq. eldest son of the Knight of Kerry. BILL OF MORTALITY, from May 25 to June 20, 1836. Christened. Males. 878 Females 928 1806 Buried. Whereof have died under two years old...260 Between 2 and 5 107 50 and 60 115 AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, by which the Duty is regulated, June 16. Wheat. Barley. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, June 20. Smithfield, Hay, 37. 15s to 47. 4s.-Straw, 17. 10s. to 17. 16s.-Clover, 41. 4s. to 57. 5s. Beef.. Mutton.. Veal... Pork.. SMITHFIELD, June 20. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. Walls Ends, from 18s. 6d. to 21s. 3d. per ton. Other sorts from 15s. Od. to 18s. 3d. 218. PRICES OF SHARES. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, Birmingham Canal, 204. Ellesmere and Chester, 80. Grand Junction, India, 109.- Hope, 6. Independent Gas, 485. General United, 35.- 22. pany, 38. Guardian, 374. Canada Land Com For Prices of all other Shares inquire as above. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. New South Sea Annuities, June 2, 89%. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, 1, Bank Buildings, Cornhill, late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and ARNULL. J. F. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMEN GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. AUGUST, 1836. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-On Marble Coats, &c...... PAGE 114 POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF HIS OWN TIME, BY SIR N. W. WRAXALL, BART. 115 NEW RECORD COMMISSION-Postscript to No. V...... Dr. Tournay; Wm. and James Moncrieff; Sir J. Stoddart, 129.-Hon. T. Painting of St. George in Dartford Church (with a Plate). MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS, No. XVI. Anecdotes and Letters of Charles Johnston, author of "Chrysal"....... On the Coinage of Henry III. ... Saxon Coins found in the County of Wicklow. Coin of William the Conqueror.-Origin of "God Save the King" On the Primitive Language of Britain Account of St. Nicholas's Church, Guildford. Mr. Rosser's Description of a Mummy of the Egyptian Ibis. Memoir of Sir Thomas Lunsford Numismatic Discoveries at Exeter-Roman Coins-Caurausius.. POETRY.-SONNETS, BY THE REV. J. MITFford.. Rich's Account of Koordistan, 163.-Gwilt's Notices of H. Smith, 168.Surtees' Society; Wills and Inventories, 170.-Legh's Music of the Eye, 172.-Bowles on King Charles's Martyrdom, 174.-Bowles's Account of Wm. Chillingworth, 175.-Hatchett on the Spikenard of the Ancients, 176. Chatfield's Tin Trumpet, 177.-History of the Ancient Palace of Westminster, by Britton and Brayley, 178.-Bell's History of British Quadrupeds, 179. Chapman's Greek Harmony of the Gospels.... Miscellaneous Reviews....... LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 123 127 133 134 135 138 140 141 143 144 145 148 154 157 ib. 158 161 182 182-184 185-189 190 191 FINE ARTS.-Royal Academy-Exhibition of the Designs for the New Houses of Parliament, &c. 191-195 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. - Proceedings in Parliament, 196.- Foreign 205 207 220 Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 223.-Meteorological Diary-Stocks 224 Embellished with the Representation of a Painting of ST. GEORGE, in Dartford Church; and of the MUMMY of an EGYPTIAN IBIS. The Plate of Carfax Church, Oxford, omitted last month, is given with the present Number. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. MARBLE COATS. THE Editor of the Loseley MSS. ought to feel thankful when any serious or real error in his volume may be pointed out to him and corrected. Happy as he feels to have afforded subject of amusement and research even to hypercriticism, which is generally employed in pursuit of nothing, he can hardly plead guilty to the charge so gravely preferred against him. The statement which he made relative to Henry VIII. with eight gentlemen of his privy chamber, repairing to Rochester attired in marble coats, to meet the Lady Ann of Cleves, was derived from the old Chronicles; and that the King affected an incognito visit in a plain habit is evident from their statements; therefore, when the Editor said, narratively, and not strictly glossarially, that these coats were "perhaps of a plain stone-colour," he did not, he hopes, err against matter of fact and common sense. The ingenious critic, P.C.S.S. should, perhaps, have suggested that Mr. Kempe might have said, of sober hue, of a mottled stone colour." The omission of this more precise form of description appears to be "the head and front of his offending;" but, had he adopted it, P.C.S.S. would have lost the amusement the passage has afforded him, and the readers of the Gentleman's Magazine the benefit of his elaborate and erudite researches. The Editor of the Loseley MSS. now takes leave, in his turn, to propose a query, really "for the sake of information." Did Du Cange find, even in the jargon of the middle age, so barbarous a term as " Marbrinus Pannus," or is it the coinage of the critic's brain? In the edition of Du Cange in the Edi "coats tor's possession, the glossarist certainly defines "Marmoreus Pannus" thus: Tunica de quodam panno marmoreo spisso cum rotis et griffonibus. Alibi Casula marmorei coloris. Marbré appellamus quod variis coloribus interstinguitur." But, on the barbarous term Marbrinus (if it had any previous existence to the publication of the July number of the Gentleman's Magazine), the edition he quotes is silent. It may, perhaps, be of some service to the critic's animadversion to point out that the Glossaire de la Langue Romane says, "Marbre sorte d'etoffe de differentes couleurs, de marmor, en bas Latin marbretus." Hence the Marbrinus, perhaps, of P.C.S.S. Hence one might suggest to the critic, by a slight corruption, the name of the celebrated Mambrino (q. d. Marbrino), because he might wear a mottled surcoat and a marble helmet, in order that his enemies might be astonied! The old classic writers are rather against P.C.S.S.; for Virgil and Lucretius use marmoreus in the sense of uniformity of colour. Certainly the Dictionary of the French Academy defines "Etoffes Marbrées"-(not Marbrés, however), as the critic quotes. The Editor of the Loseley MSS. allows that he ought to have written coats of a motley colour; and he truly adds, that, for the herd of "good-natured" hypercritics, "Motley is your only wear." J. R. refers G. L. F., who inquires in p. 2, as to the author of "Vindiciae contra Tyrannos," to Bayle's Dissertation on the subject, appended to the last volume of his "Dictionnaire Historique," of every edition; to Deckerus de scriptis Adespotis, with a letter from Bayle at the end," Amst. 1686, in 12mo; to "Placcii Theatrum Anonymorum et Pseudonymorum," Hamb. 1708, folio; and the "Supplementum Mylii, 1740;" and, finally, to Barbier's "Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes," 2d edition, 1822, 1827, 4 vols. 8vo. All these volumes are in the British Museum; but the Dissertation by Bayle sets the question at rest, and proves incontestably that Hubert Languet was the author. Placcius and Barbier only copy Bayle, who is instar omnium; and your Correspondent need not go further. H. Languet principally derives his arguments from the Bible, to which his opponents equally refer. A Reader of the Gentleman's Magazine will esteem it a great favour if the Editor of that useful periodical would inform the poet Thomson, referred to in the last him where the Greek verses, written by series of Notes on Boswell's Johnson, are to be found; and if the letter of Cave, from which a quotation is made, has been printed?- -At the same time, the Reader of Sylvanus Urban's Magazine would express a wish, that the able writer of those Notes would bring together the anecdotes of Thomson he alludes to. The story of Thomson's marriage must be an impudent fabrication. Thomson's nurse (had he a nurse?) told George Chalmers,-Chalmers told Mr. Taylor,-and Mr. Taylor tells the story to the public. Who can for a moment believe it? Errata.-P. 64, b. 1. 21, for " Decimus Lapides," read "Decimus Lapis."-P. 107, L. 22, for " Rigby Hall," read" Riby Grove." GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF HIS OWN TIME. BY SIR N. W. WRAXALL, BART. 3 Vols. WE confess that we were not amongst those who joined in the general abuse of Sir Nathaniel Wraxall's Memoirs of his Own Time, when that work first made its appearance, as if it were altogether unworthy of credit. Amidst much useful and entertaining information, there were certainly some circumstances, stated as facts, which had been picked up amongst the gossips of clubs and dinner parties, but no one could peruse that work without feeling convinced that there was a great deal of truth mixed up with certain errors and misstatements. We should think that Sir George Osborne was nearly right, in the proportions of truth and error, when he stated, in a letter to Sir Nathaniel Wraxall: "I have perused your first edition again with much attention, and I pledge my name, that I personally know nine parts out of ten of your anecdotes to be perfectly correct Perhaps we may almost entirely attribute the outery which was raised, and the charges of falsehood which were made when the work in question was first published, to its having been a sort of tableau vivant of persons either then in existence, or who had recently been conspicuous on the theatre of life. Thus the family of George the Third were incensed at his portrait-the friends of Pitt and Fox neither approved of the picture of the former, or the censures on the political and private character of the latter and the son of Charles Jenkinson (who was certainly a jobber) was displeased at the just likeness drawn of his father. The descendants of Lord Bute were implacable, and the present Marquis of Lansdowne threatened to prosecute. Sir N. Wraxall might haye said with Horace : "Sunt quibus in Satira videar nimis acer, et ultra Legem tendere opus The posthumous volumes now before us are much in the style of the former ones, with perhaps more erroneous inferences, and certainly with many unfair and extravagant suggestions relating to the political conduct of men, who were neither guilty of corruption on the one hand, nor of petty intrigues on the other. For instance, there is, we are sure, a most unfounded charge, to say the least of it, made against Mr. Pitt, of having accepted money from Lord Carrington; but we will venture to assert that if there ever was a statesman who had a thorough contempt for money, or who would disdain more to accept pecuniary assistance, he was that person. His character, and his whole life, gave the denial to such a supposition, and yet Sir N. Wraxall does not hesitate to insinuate that such was the case. We will repeat his own words : "I believe that Mr. Smith claimed a collateral alliance with the family of the same name, one of whom was ennobled by Charles the First, under the title of Carrington; an English barony, which expired under Queen Anne early in the last century. Whether the fact be so or not, I have been told that Pitt intended to raise his friend a step higher in the Red Book; and that when his administration suddenly terminated in 1801, Lord Carrington was on the point of being created Lord Wendover. Several years earlier, on Pitt's becoming Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, he had conferred on Lord Carrington the government of Deal Castle, situate in the immediate vicinity of his own residence at Walmer. Such When Mr. Pitt went out of office, his debts, we believe, amounted to 40,0001. We always understood that four of his friends-Sir C. Long, Bishop Prettyman, Mr. Steele, and Lord Carrington, lent him each 10,000l. to pay them off.-ED. |