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"The utility of cultivating the arts of elegance, the delight they afford the human mind, the importance they maintain in the empire-of commerce, the splendour they diffuse round a throne dignified by the protection of genius and the support of virtue, were considerations which imus to solicit the privilege of Paying at our Sovereign's feet The

British Gallery of Pictures; a work commenced under the Royal patronage, and with permission humbly dedicated to your Majesty, &c.”

The task assumed by the undertakers is almost Herculean, but by no means unattainable, as is confirmed by the vast works recently achieved both in Literature and the Arts by persons less favourably situated in respect to patronage. Well, indeed, however, may the task be termed Herculean, which is to comprise a Series of descriptive Catalogues of the Picture-Galleries of these Kingdoms, illustrated by small engravings of the principal Pictures contained in them. The Pictures destined to compose one plate are selected from the same school, and from the same collection; and that no obstacle might arise to disconcert this part of their plan by the intervention of small collections and perplexing subdivisions, the Conductor has divided the Italian Painters into two great classes, under the denomination of the Schools of Upper and of Lower Italy.

Italy. The Schools of Germany, Switzerland, Flanders, and Holland, form the Third Class of the Catalogue. The Works of the Spanish Painters will be the Fourth: the Fifth the French; and the Sixth will contain a selection of the best Works of the British School.

And now, Mr. Urban, with your permission this subject shall be resumed and concluded in your next Number. A TRAVELLER.

Mr. URBAN,

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Jan. 14. HE underwritten was copied some years ago from a brass plate upon a very old tomb in St. Peter's Church-yard, Dorchester. Some of the verses seem to have been imitated by Pope, and may perhaps be not unworthy a place in your Magazine

"D. I. O. M. Maria Gollop, uxor D. Johannis Gollop, filia D. Philippi Stanly,

hujus Dorcestriæ Mercatorum, annos 29 nata, octenis nupta, Stroda in Netherbury, amœnæ sedis Gollopensis,

raptim mortua Maii 25, 1682, eodemque mensis die sepulta quo maritata,

tribus filiis unà hic sepultis totidemque apud vivos feliciter relictis, mortalitatis exuvias lætè deponens, lætioremque resurrectionem pientissimè expectans, Flebilis hic recubat fati sub tegmine:

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As the Schools of Lower Italy reFINDING that Mr. Nelson has left vived the Art of Painting, that class untouched the following subject, is assigned the first place in the Cata- I earnestly request from some of your logue, including the Works of the numerous Readers, who are friendly Painters of Florence, Siena, and every and well disposed to the prosperity other part of Tuscany, with those of and success of our Church EstablishRome and Naples. The almost insement, their information upon a subparable connexion of these Schools + makes the arrangement the more appropriate. The Schools of Bologna, Parma, Milan, Genoa, and Venice, and all the States North of Tuscany, compose the Second Class of Upper

ject of some novelty in the order of our ecclesiastical discipline, where there is evidently a clashing of interest.

The simple question which I have to propose is, in what manner, as a

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son of the Church, and a liege subject of the State, I may divide the twentyfour hours on the 24th day of Febru ary next; so that I may religiously observe the solemn Fast of that day, religiously also observe the Festival of St. Matthew, and rejoice with loyal joy upon the commemoration of the Birth-day of the Duke of Cambridge. Yours, &c. ECCLESIA PERSONA.

Mr. URBAN,

Jan. 12.

F that excellent Scholar and ele

Houblyn, esq. the Collector of a fa-
mous Library sold a few years ago
by Leigh and Sotheby.
Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

CARADOC.

Jan. 14.

Crespondents favour me with the

any of your numerous Cor

Christian name and place of residence of Burton*, father to George Burton, esq. who married Wright of Tissington, co. Derby, between 1650 and 1660? It is supposed that the latter

Igant Draftsman the Rev. Michael resided some years at Bakewell.

Tyson, B. D. who was presented in 1778 to the Rectory of Lamborn in Essex, and died in 1780, has any Epitaph in that Church, the communication of it, through the very useful medium of your Magazine, will be esteemed a singular favour.

Allow me also to ask for any biographical particulars of Robert

Yours, &c.

B. B.

* Probably George Burton, a younger brother of William the Historian, and of Robert, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy." He was lord of a moiety of the maior of Bedworth, in the parish of Higham, co. Leicester, and died in 1642, æt. 63. See the History of that County, IV. 635.-EDIT.

A METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, kept at CLAFTON, in Hackney.
From Jan. 1st to 21st, 1813.

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Jan. 1. Clouded and foggy. 2. Foggy and cloudy; some large indistinct features of Cirrocumulus early. 3. Thick fog in the morning. 4. Cloudy and foggy. 5. Cloudy and foggy; the Barometer fell at night, which became warmer with S. W. wind, so that the minimum of the Thermometer happened 11 P. M. and the heat increased through the night. 6. Cloudy and misty, with wind from the S. W. 7. Foggy and calm, windy and rain by night. 8. Foggy morning; fair day. 9. White frost, followed by rain. At night, about 7 o'clock, a Lunar Halo. 10. Clear frosty day. 11. Frosty and cloudy. 12. Cloudy and snow. 13. Some rain in the middle of day. 14. Cloudy. 15, 16, and 17. Cold and snowy. 18. Cloudy and snow. 19. Cold and cloudy. 20. Cold East Wind *. 21. Cold windy

day, and cloudy; a little snow by night. Clapton, 22d Jan. 1813.

THOMAS FORSTER.

The diurnal range of the Thermometer has been very slow for several days.

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Mr. URBAN, Shrewsbury, Oct. 14. AVING often been solicited by my antiquarian friends to make a drawing of the Roman Wall at Wroxeter, co. Salop, I have at last complied with their requests; and I do not know a more eligible repository for it than Mr. Urban's. This very curious remain of antiquity is situated in the Hundred of Bradford South, about five miles South East of Shrewsbury. The wall represented is 244 yards long, and about 14 yards high. The drawing shews the South side of the wall; the North side has a smoother surface, with rows or strata of Roman brick; under the second, fourth, and sixth strata of brick are holes, as for scaffolds. Roman coins are often ploughed up, chiefly of the lower empire, and are usually called Dinders, probably a corruption of Denarii. Several urns have been discovered three or four feet below the surface; also tesselated pavements, and sepulchral stones, inscribed, two of which are preserved in the library at the Free-schools in Shrewsbury, and another since discovered is placed against the vicarage house for the inspection of the curious. As I anticipate a hope that the venerable Antiquary to whom I bave inscribed the view, will visit this spot, and favour the publick with the result of his observations on this once famous city, which has never yet been properly noticed; I shall withhold any further observations for the present. Where can be found a person more qualified for such investigation, than he who walked 601 miles to ascertain the boundary of the Wall which once divided England and Scotland? Yours, &c. D. PARKES.

Mr. URBAN,

Bedford, Dec. 16. IN the Commentators to whom students in Divinity are usually referred for the history of the Canon of Scripture, no mention, that I recollect, is made of any version of the Psalms containing a greater number than one hundred and fifty. The Bishop of Lincoln (Tomline), in his Elements of Theology, vol. 1. p. 100, speaking of the Book of Psalms, says,

The Hebrew copies, and the Septuagint Version of this book, contain the same number of Psalms: only the Septuagint Translators have, for some GENT. MAG. January, 1813.

reason which does not appear, thrown the 9th and 10th into one, as also the 114th and 115th; and have divided the 116th and 147th each into two." His Lordship does not make the least allusion to an extra Psalm, which is in my copy of the Septuagint version, Cantabr. 1665. The title to that Psalm describes it, as "written by David's own hand, on conquering Goliath in single combat;" but it adds that this Psalm is bev To aplμs, meaning, I suppose, beyond the canonical number of 150.

As this Psalm is not to be found in our translation of the Bible, nor in the Psalter of our Liturgy, I presume it is generally deemed apocryphal. To those of your Readers who have not an opportunity of reading it in the version of the LXX, I' send the following attempt at a literal translation, having only ventured to supply a supposed ellipsis (of of me and to me) in the third verse:

PSALM CLI.

"Written by David's own hand, when he had fought with Goliath in single combat."

1. I was the least among my brethren, and the youngest in my father's house: I was the shepherd of my father's flock.

2. My hands formed instruments of musick; and my fingers played on the psaltery.

3. And who shall speak (of me) unto my Lord? The Lord himself, he hearkeneth (unto me).

4. He sent forth his messenger, and took me away from my father's flock: and he anointed me with the oil of his unction.

5. My brothers were tall and beautiful: but my Lord delighted not in them.

6. I went out to meet the Alien; and he cursed me by his idols.

7. But I having drawn out his sword, cut off his head: and I took away the reproach from the sons of Israel.

To Readers of the Bible I need not

point out the coincidence of each verse in this Psalm with the History of David. The word opyάvov, in the beginning of the second verse, is the same that is used in Ps. cl. 4, and in Amos vi. 5.; and the Prophet, probably alluding to this Psalm, says:

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