raving mad, being the work of our famous Cibber, father to the Poet and Comedian of that name. On each side the columns, scrolls resting on a cornice running over the side doorways. Inferior piers bound the line of work; they are rusticated; on their tops a lion and unicorn with shields of arms. Against these piers are other scrolls resting on the wall of continuation before the Hospital, which at this point turns in a circular direction until the parallel lines of ditto take their course. Material of the entrance, stone. On the general wall, which is of brick, with stone plinth and cornice, are introduced, at certain distances, stone ornamented pine-apples, and large ditto scrolls. It is much to be regretted that the name of the Architect of this Hospital is not on record.

Temple-bar, Fleet-street, erected during the years 1670, 1671, and 1672.-This design has always in our memory been laid under much obloquy and disregard; of late, careful ́attention seems getting the upper hand, as the face of the Western upright has been cleaned, and the hovels encroaching on its lines cleared away, presenting to the publick an object, long passed by unlreeded, which they now perhaps view with some degree of interest. Upon the whole, it will not be surprising if certain amateurs, busy in improving the architectural concerns of the City, should at length request of their brethren to allow the bar or grand gate of entrance into the city of London to stand, after they had so repeatedly sought to obtain its destruction.

Two stories mark the upright. First story large archway centrical, supported by piers, right and left postern gates arched, and supported by piers likewise. Between these archways, superior piers break forward rusticated. Above the postern arches, and ditto breaks, a dado with compartments. Over the centre archway large spandrils occur rusticated, with plain chamfers, verging from the striking points of the arch, the turn of which is a semi-oval, a form, some imagine, not calculated to give either an appearance of strength or beauty. To this arch a scroll key stone, and to the postern ditto plain key-stones. On the summit of the breaks, at the extremities of the line,

are griffins, with shields of arms appertaining to the City; that on the Northern side destroyed. Second story: it extends to the breaks on each side the centre archway, giving four Corinthian pilasters, and three spaces between them. Centre space: an arched window, its architrave kneed and turned with a scroll head; the glazing curious, being run in small ornamented compartments. Against the dado, a guideron shield with arms. In the spaces right and left of the window, niches; the grounds to them rusticated. Against the outermost pilasters, resting on the side dados, are large scrolls, their grounds foliaged, and their sweeping lines edged with a bold ornament, termed husks. Entablature with blockings, from which springs a circular pediment; in the tympanum a pedestal with compartments. Over the pedestal, foliage; and on the grounds at each side, continuation of ditto, foliage, though now nearly obliterated. This detail of parts applies to both the fronts. In the niches to the Eastern front, are statues of James I. and his consort Anne, both in their strict costume: the attitude of the King is commanding, that of the Queen gracefully elegant. The shield under the window contains the City arms. In the niches to the Western front, are the statues of Charles I. and II. arrayed after the manner of the Roman costume; and notwithstanding this preposterous method of dressing sculptural meinorials in draperies never worn by the personages intended to be represented, the statues before us are replete with character and inimitable skill. The attitude of the Royal Martyr is full of grandeur, and that of his son is remarkable for animation and true dignity. The countenances are admirable, and strong resemblances. Pennant gives the name of the Sculptor, John Bushnell, who died 1701. Here let me hint, that much damage has been wrought on these excellent sculptures; but when, or by whoin, is not ascertained. In the shield under the window, the Royal arms (Charles II.) The doors of the centre archway panneled, and topped with rich foliage, &c.-A survey of the interior of the chamber, over the archway, would afford no doubt some useful information.

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S. A. S. is offended (last Volume, p. 539) at my hasty criticism on the house built by 1. Jones, Greenwich, cruelly modernized;" and declares that "not a line in any of the four fronts had been altered," &c. ; yet, in the same breath, candidly owns that the interesting "balustrade in the Park front has been removed.". S. A. S. to sanction his superior judgment over that of the great Jones, brings in others with the same fellowfeelings as himself to applaud the

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improvement." Perhaps more cruel innovations on the same mansion will be pointed out; but of this hereafter. AN ARCHITECT.

It has

IT is much to be regretted that the care of our ancient and venerable religious buildings is not intrusted to men better able to appreciate and preserve their various beauties than the generality of their present guardians. I am more particularly led to make this observation, from having noticed, as I passed through Coventry last week, that the beautiful Church of St. Michael, in that City, had been defaced by the erection of a high brick chimney, at the upper end of the North side, obtruding itself upon the view at all the points from which that noble edifice is best seen. been erected, I suppose, in consequence of some plan for warming the Church, which may perhaps have been necessary; but the Churchwardens are highly inexcusable, that they did not endeavour to accomplish their purpose without destroying the symmetry of the building; the more so, too, as they might doubtless have been assisted by the advice of an eminentAntiquary, their townsman, whose name frequently graces your pages, I mean Mr. T. Sharp: he would have taught them how to combine elegance with utility, and to make their alteration subservient to the purest style.

This unaccountable negligence is another proof of the truth of an old adage; but we, Mr. Urbau, know better how to value Mr. Sharp's abilities.

VIATOR.

Jan. 14.

IN N perusing Mr. Coxe's valuable History of Austria," vol. I. p. 478, note, Prebislana is mentioned,

The Hulsean Prize for 1812 has been adjudged to Mr. DANIEL GUILDFORD WAIT, student of St. John's College, Cambridge, for his "Inquiry into the Religious Knowledge which the Heathen Philosophers, derived from the Jewish Scriptures."

The following is the subject of the Hulsean Prize Essay for 1813: "Ou the Magi who came to adore the newborn Jesus, and on the Star which directed their way."

Speedily will be Published.

Mr. J. S. HAWKINS'S History of the origin and Establishment of Gothic Arits Principles, and an Investigation of chitecture; including an Inquiry into the Mode of Painting upon and Staining Glass.

A View of Society and Manners, taken in an excursion to the North-west parts of Ireland, in 1812. By J. GAMBLE, esq. author of "Sketches of History, &c. in the North of Ireland."

The Rev. Mr. EUSTACE'S Classical

Tour; a work which will exhibit a comprehensive view of modern Italy.

Captain A. J. Von KRUSENSTERN'S Voyage round the World, by command of Alexander I. translated from the German, with charts, plates, &c.

Don Emanuel, a Poem in three Cantos, with Notes. By MATTHEW NEWPORT, esq. late of Trinity-college, Dublin.

A critical and satirical Exposition of the Errors and Prejudices of Mankind, as they have prevailed from time immemorial, and are still cherished by certain classes of Society in the present enlightened age, &c. Translated from the Original of J. B. SALGUES, first published in Paris in 1811.

The Magistrates' Manual, comprising the duties and power of a Justice of the Peace, with a copious collection of precedents of Warrants, Convictions, &c. By Mr. TOONE, of Brentford.

An Introduction to Medical Litera

ture, including a System of Practical Nosology. By Dr. THOMAS YOUNG.

Mr.

Mr. R. LANGFORD's Treatise on Merchants' Accounts, with Notes, and many alterations from the former editions.

Preparing for Publication.

A Third Volume of "CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS."

An Essay on Gothic Architecture, with fifty-nine engravings. By Sir JAMES HILL, bart.

Mr. BRITTON'S "History and Antiquities of theCathedral Church of SALISBURY; illustrated with a Series of Engravings of Views, Elevations, Plans, and Details of that Edifice; also Delineations of the ́antient Monuments and Sculpture; including Biographical Anecdotes of the Bishops, and of other eminent Persons connected with the Church."-He is also collecting for LINCOLN Cathedral.

The Third Part of WILD'S "Cathedrals," containing an Illustration of the Architecture of the Cathedral Churches of Lichfield and Chester, on sixteen Plates engraved in Aquatinta by Dubourgh; and accompanied by an Historical and Descriptive Account.

Collections from the Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Gods, of Athenæus, translated from the Greek. By the late THOMAS EAGLES, esq.

A Collection of the most beautiful Poems of the Minor Greek Poets, as preserved in the Anthologies of Brunck and Jacobs, in Stobæus, &c. Translated by the Rev. R. BLAND, and others, with notes and illustrations.

Critical and Biographical Notices of the British Poets, with Occasional Selections from their Works. By THOMAS CAMPBELL, esq.

Letters written in a Mabratta Camp, descriptive of the character, &c. of that singular people, with Engravings. By T. D. BROUGHTON, esq. of the East India Company's service.

An Essay on the Philosophy, Study, and use of Natural History. By Mr. CHARLES FOTHERGILL.

Reports on the Strata of Great Britain, with more particular relation to the Lime-stone, Iron, and Coal Strata. By Mr. H. SMITHERS, Colliery-surveyor, of Bristol.

A Practical Treatise on Cataract. By Mr. STEVENSON, Oculist to the Princess of Wales.

A Translation of Scarpa's Treatise on Hernia, from the original Italian. By Mr. J. H. WISHART.

LUCIEN BUONAPARTE is revising his poem of "Charlemagne, or Rome Delivered," to bring it into a fit state for the press. A Poetical Translation in English will accompany the original French.

Mr. EDWARD PUGH, of Denbigh, proposes to publish by subscription, Cambria Depicta, or Pictures of North Wales, with views in aquatint, coloured after

nature.

Mr. WILLIAM BULLOCK is arranging the materials of a work relative to the most recent discoveries in Natural History, with coloured engravings.

Mr. WATSON, author of Strictures on Book-keeping and Accounts, proposes publishing by subscription British Proof Tables of Calculation; being an important improvement of calculation.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

To a few of our valued Correspondents we recommend a little more care in rendering their communications fair and legible, as the surest means of their being printed correctly.

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A CONSTANT READER having read, in our last Volume, Part ii. page 36, the account of an experiment made by Captain Layman of the Navy, before the Board of Agriculture, in June last, on the strength of different sorts of wood, upon pieces of twelve inches long and one inch square, wishes to know, What bearing was allowed? whether more or less than one inch? as the whole experiment depends on that circumstance, and which is not stated in the account. Something depends also on the thickness, or rather breadth, of the hook used to suspend the weights.

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THE fate of Sir Philip Sidney's Defcuce of Poesy" has been rather singular. A very neat edition of it was published by Dr. Warton in 1787, accompanied by Ben Jonson's "Observations on Eloquence and Poe-. try," but that excellent little Volume fell in a manner dead-born from the press; and at the end of more than 20 years, nearly the whole impression (originally no more than 250 copies) were consumed by a calamitous fire.

The present very beautiful Edition from the Bulmer Press (which we have not till lately seen) was printed in 1810, and for some considerable time was offered to public sale; but is already among the libri rariores. Though published anonymously, it is now no secret that the Editor was a Noble Peer, who, inheriting the mild virtues of a venerable Father, possesses also the literary talents of a still more illustrious Relation; and who, in a calm unambitious retirement, has diligently cultivated the Muses and the Graces. Prefixed to this very elegant Volume are five beautiful Sonnets by the Noble Editor.

2. Verses on several Occasions; by Edward Lord Thurlow. Vol. I. 8vo. PP. 114.

THE Verses which form the first part of this- elegant little Volume (printed at the Bulmer press in usum Amicorum) are those alluded to in the preceding article, as prefixed to Sidney's "Defence of Poesy;" and we are happy in being able to indulge our Readers with a specimen or two. The Volume opens with a beautiful Sonnet, "On beholding the Portraiture of Sir PHILIP SIDNEY in the Gallery at Penshurst" which is followed by another,

"To the most noble Prince the Duke of DORSET :

"And thou, heroic Lord, whose noblest [light,

name

The sacred Muses mention with deAnd crown with girlands of eternal fame; [thou requite;) (The which with princely love do

GENT. MAG. January, 1813.

That hast from thy great Ancestors by right

The love of Poets for inheritance; This shall pursue thy virtue to the height, [of chance, And lift thee up beyond the reach That never Time shall rend, nor Envy spoil [days;

The golden trophy of thy restless But sweet endeavour of enduring toil [ing praise: Shall still be crown'd with everlastSo clear Antiquity revives in thee, The living Record of Nobility."

And a third,

"To the Right Hon. the Earl SPENCER, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter.

"Not all, that sit beneath a golden roof, In rooms of cedar, O renowned Lord, Wise though they be, and put to highest proof,

To the sweet Muses do their grace afford; Which if they did, the like would them accord

The mighty Poets to eternity, [cord,
And their wise acts in living verse re-
And build them up, great heirs of me-

mory,

Which else shall in oblivion fall and die; But Thou, that like the sun, with heavenly beams

Shining on all, dost cheer abundantly The learned heads, that drink Castalian streams; [from me, Transcendant Lord, accept this verse Made for all time, but yet unfit for thee."

Other Sonnets, of not inferior merit, are ddressed to "the Earl of MOIRA;" to "a beloved Friend;" to "Lord HOLLAND;" to "the Earl of GRANARD, descended from the Sidneys, through the great houses of Rawdon, Hastings, and Spencer;" "On the divine and never-ending memory of Sir PHILIP SIDNEY, who was mortally wounded in the battle of Zutphen 1586;” and “A Song to Sir Philip Sidney.”

Of" Hermilda," the principal Poem in the Volume, Lord Thurlow says,

"The subject has been taken from a sketch, which I have seen, of a very accomplished Writer, whose verses have

*"His Grace being descended from Thomas Lord Buckhurst, Lord High Treasurer of England, whose Tragedy of Gorboduc is very highly praised by Sir Philip Sidney."

often

oftendelighted the Publick. He desired to bring the Paladins of France into the East; to recount the heroic exploits of King Arthur, the wars of Persia, &c. But," his Lordship adds, much too diffidently, "there are so many faults in my Poem, that I do not mean to continue it."

Thus far we had proceeded, when, glancing at the pages of a respectable Contemporary, we find our own ideas so fully expressed, that we scruple not to transcribe what "The British Critic" has so well expressed:

"There can be no doubt of the ability of prosecuting to its termination what is here so happily commenced; and we are induced to express an earnest desire to see a Poem continued, of which we are able to produce such stanzas as the following:

"The golden morning now had hardly gone,

My**, from her chamber in the East, And with an angel's eye scarce look'd upon [least ; The vallies and the hills from night reWhen she, for whom a thousand lovers moan,

Yet of all women cares for love the least, Hermione, along the valley speeds, Where Nilus flows amid his subject meads.

"I well believe Aurora made a stay, To gaze upon the rival of her beams; So lovely from her helm th' unsullied ray, And from her shield, and all her armour streams; [they, 'But far more fatal, and more bright than Her face in beauty her brave pomp be

seems;

Her face, that full of glory, and desire, Mix'd virgin sweetness with heroic fire."

The curious Reader may see six other stanzas in the Review we are now quoting. The Critic proceeds:

"It is unnecessary to add, that the Fairy Queen is constantly present to the Poet's imagination, and that knights, damsels, giants, and aërial beings are the themes of song. The Reader will every where be impressed with the rich powers of fancy, the ingenuity of contrivance, and beauty of language which mark this production, and will unquestionably unite with us in the eager wish to see more from such a pen."

"On the Departure of the Earl of MOIRA, to the Government of INDIA.

"Not, India, that thy fruitful bosom glows [birth; With all that of the golden Sun batli Not that the Ganges to thy Ocean flows, Whose praises have been heard through all the Earth; [they are No, India, not for these, though gifts Of peerless beauty, and of sacred praise, But for what else God hath assign'd thy share,

Thy happiness above the skies I raise: That Thou, beneath Britannia's gentle sway, [held,

In honour, and in peace art still upWhose noblest sons thy equal balance weigh,

And wield the sword, by which thy foes are quell'd;

And chief, that now the world's fair light is gone, [own!" To rule thee, and to make thy bliss his

3. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books; by the Rev. William Beloe, Translator of Herodotus, &c. Vol. VI. 8vo. pp. 484. Rivingtons.

THE Bibliographical World cannot fail of being highly gratified on the completion of this Work of deep research and eminent utility; of which we have already had more than one opportunity of delivering our opinion.

In our vol. LXXVII. p. 737, we noticed the peculiar circumstances under which the earlier parts of this instructive Collection appeared; and shall now transcribe the very respectable Compiler's ingenuous narrative of its progress and termination.

"When I began to print the first Volume, I had no determinate idea either of the extent of what I meditated, or of the particular subjects which my undertaking was to comprehend. I intended to avail myself of the advantages of my situation, of my access to some of the greatest literary treasures in the world, and to publish, from time to time, such miscellaneous matter as might either contribute to elegant amusement, or be useful to those engaged, as I myself then was, in literary pursuits.-My first two Volumes were accordingly of this kind, having no particularly professed or apparent object, but comprehending, as it. Literary Anecdotes, and not wholly destiis presumed they do, a variety of amusing

tute of curious information.-How I was

deprived of these advantages, will be found detailed in my first Volume; and upon the most serious reflection, divested of all self-partiality, and if I may use

the