net peculiar to the mind of man-it is equally perceptible in the body-it is vifible in every part of the crearion, fo far as human faculties can penetrate. In the vegetable world this remark is manifest, and the power of accident, or the force of art on rature, will appear from the flightest obfervations. In thort, Nature, which way fo ever we look, is capable of fuch influence, and is frequently fo deformed, or altered by the hand of Fate or of Art, when affitted by that of Time, that the effects are aptly faid 2ɔ be a fecond nature. And to revert this, or to restore nature to its primitive fiate, is Loown to be a talk too frequently beyond the art of man to perform. Yet, notwithflanding the narrownefs of the profpc& of fuccefs, or the unthankfulnefs of the office-of an advifer-admonither Seventh and his fucceffors. Nor do I re member a fingle circumstance to fhew that either of the Rofes was made a badge of the Cavalier party in the time of Charles I. The revival of its uf, I have always heard attributed to the accidental analogy of the title of Duke of York refiding in the perfon of James II.—a trifling and ridiculous analogy; but fuch an one as the weak zealots of a party are always fond of catching at. what an abfurd length this was carried by the Jacobite taction, all who remember the late reign may easily recollect. Το Without pretending, however, abfolutely to decide upon this point, it is enough for me to fogget it to the confideration of thote among your readers who are well verfed in every thing relative to the history of their country. Yours, &c AN ENQUIRER. * This Gur› efpondent's obliging Offer is bigbly acceptable. --a dictator-et cætera-et cætera-numerous are the attempts which are made in these characters; and perhaps for this reafor, that there are almost as many people of Infcription on a neat Marble Monument lately learning and confequence who think themselves qualified for an advifer, admonisher, or a dictator, as there are readers of no learning who judge themselves to be capable of acting without a director. But current applanfe muft, and moilly will, decide on the merits of the writer; and it would be well if praton, or good common fenfe, would lay hold on and determine for the reader. All he BABBLER has to fay for himfeit on this bead is, that he has a few things, and tome of them, he prefume, of no mean importance, which he is defirous of laying before the public; and health and time may permit In to add to his prefent flok ia hand. Shotron, June 7. MR. URBAN, M. E. Aug. 12. Conflant reader of your Magazine, the A only one that maintains a refix clable aok as a literary publication, begs leave to Fry betore its learned correfpondents an apparent overfight in Dr. Johnson's Life of M.rus, which he is equally furprized to meet with there, and to find unnoticed by the keen and tharp-fighted Remarker on that perform Dr. Johnfen, after mentioning an ancefor of Milton who forfeited his cflate in the wars of York and Lancatter, adds, "Which fide ke took I know net; his defcendant inheted no veneration for the bite Rofe." Now that the White Rofe thould be a very familiar emblem of arbitrary power and the Stuart family, to Dr. Johnfou, I do not at all wonder; but that he should conceive it as having any thing to do with the caufe against which Miton engaged, can only, I imagine, he imputed to that temporary inattention or forgetfulness to which the greateft writers are liable. The contest between the Rofes, was that of one branch of the royal family againfi the other; and was entirely obliterated by the ction of both thofe branches in Hen.y the erected in the Carbedral at Gloucester. "To the Memory of WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D. For more than xix Years Bishop of this Sce. A Prelate Of the most fublime Genius, and exquifite Learning. Both which Talents He employed through a long Life, In the Sapport Of what he firmly believed, The CHRISTIAN RELIGION. And Of what he cficemed the beft Eftablishment of it, The CHURCH of ENGLAND, Was confecrated BISHOP of Gloucefter, Died at his Palace, in this City, And was buried near this Place." Beneath the entablature is the head of the Bishop in a medallion. MR. URBAN, July 16. N your Anecdotes of Sir Hugh Middleton (fee Gent. Mag. for June, p. 256), you mention "he left a certain number of thares to the Goldfmiths Company;" it thould have been added. “and that Company are in poffelion of a very fine original portrait of Sir Hugh, in high prefervation." The Goldimiths Company have feveral other paintings, well deferving of public notice, and which were cleaned about two years fince by Mr. Roma. A defcriptive catalogue of them, as well as of the paintings in the other halls and public buildings in the city of London, among which are MANY valuable ores, would be very acceptable, and I think not beneath the attention of fome ingenious aruift to give. W. B. he had propofed, that the commiffioners fhould not be members, was, because debates ran fo high, and the times were fo contentious, that almost every gentleman had taken either one fide or the other; and therefore if they were chofen, their conduct in that fituation would be A liable to mifconftruction. His Lordship then proceeded to the nomination; and after fuggefting, that from the very na MR. URBAN, Doncaler, June 10. IN digging out the ground to make a cellar in this town a few months ago, a Roman votive altar was found about fix feet deep below the common furface of the adjacent ground, covered with what appeared to have been caft earth, which probably had been thrown there upon fome former revolution in the place many centuries ago. The drawing herewith fent you of it is fufficiently exact; the infcription is perfectly legible, and before them, they must be men of diffethe whole ftone has efcaped through all rent lines of life, he propofed for the araccidents with very little mutilation. The my accounts Sir Guy Carleton and Mr. B antiquaries in this country have given Bowlby; he had next, he faid, looked u's no fatisfactory explanation of the in- to the law, and to thofe of that profeffcription, and we thould be glad of the fron who were moft in the habits of fetopinion of the more learned refpe&ting it. tling accounts; and for thefe, he faid, he I am one of your oldeft readers, H. S. had gone to Chancery, and he should [See the plate annexed.] Debates in the laft Seffion of the laft liament, continued from p. 312. May 1. ture of the accounts that would come naine C Mr. B-g rofe fuddenly, and comPar-plained of the infult offered to the Houle, as the most daring attempt that ever was made to fink them in the cftimation of the people, and to annihilate their best THEorder of day HE order of the day being called, the privileges, he period, therefore, that the noble Lord would nominate but one perDfon at a time, that the committee might pafs their judgment on that one, before they took a fecond into confideration. This produced a long and warm debate. tre on Ld N-th's bill for a commiflion of accompts, previous to which his lordfhip withed to fay a word or two relative to the mode of proceeding: he had given notice, he faid, on moving for leave to bring in the bill, that the commiffioners fhould not be members of cither Houfe of parliament; this was not without precedent. He referred to a commission in 1667, when Sir Ch. Herbert was chairman of the commit-, tee above flairs appointed to prepare the commiflion bill; that he made the proper report to the Houle; that twenty names were then given in and balloted for, and thus reduced to nine; and that Ld Brereton, Sir John Saville, Sir Wm. Turner, and fix others, were chofen. Col. E-re begged to know if the noble Lord in the blue ribbon had any proof, that the gentlemen named were not in parliament? And Mr. Poys rofe to enter his caveat against fuch a precedent. The Speaker then left the chair, and Lord N-th declared, that in moving the commiffioners not to be members of pailiament, he had no intention either to take away or to abridge any of its privileges, or to infinuate directly or indirectly, that there were not within thefe walls men of as much integrity and ability, as much honour in themfelves, and as much zeal for the public welfare, as any men in the kingdom; and that the only realon why GENT. MAG. Auguft, 1781. Mr. B-ke was lor fuffering the noble Lord to proceed, and for feeing the whole dramatis perfonæ, that the Houfe might Ejudge of the farce by the characters of the actors. F Gen. Con-y was for not proceeding a ftep farther, till it was firft determined whether the commiflioners fhould be members or firangers, and made a motion for that purpote. Mr. R-g-y thought this method of proceeding to unfair, that, if the right hon. gentleman pert.fted in his motion, he would take the tenfe of the House upon it. The noble Lord had previously mad : an opening, when that matter might Gproperly have been debated, boren not a word was faid about it. Now the commitrce is formed for the purpofe of nomi ating commitioners, all on a fudden gen lemen difcover an inclination dipere that which fhould have been fettied at the proper time. This utege, he thought, un candid to the noble Lord. to Mr. T. T-nip-d feconded the general's motion, and charged the noble Lord with having offered the grofleft infult to parlia ment that ever member dared to attempt. Col. b-re coincided in the fame idea. He was for putting a truncheon into the hands hands of Gen. Carleton; but by no means difgracing him, by turning him into a clerk. fides; for in that cafe business could never go on; the animofity of the one fet would operate upon the irritability of the Ld N--tb was for taking the fenfe of other, and rage and rancour would take the Houfe on the propofitions, and de- place of fober inveftigation, and wife and ferring the nomination of the reft of the deliberate decifion. The Ld Advocate, committioners till that point was de- A after arguing the point with great inges nuity, adverted to the characters of the perfons named, on whofe integrity he paffed the higheft encomiums. cided. ment; if to keep the chair, then to take it the other way, and the noble Lord to proceed with his nomination. B Mr. C-nw-ll was for deciding the queftion, by voting the chairman to leave the chair, or not leave the chair. If it Sir Fl-ch-r N-rt-n could not help were carried to leave the chair, then the thinking it an extraordinary way of comcommiffioners to be members of parlia-plying with the petitions of the people to promote economy in the public expenditure, and to diminish the influence of the Crown, to frame a commiffion, Mr. D-nn-g entered ferioufly into creating new placemen at the nomination the tendency of the bill. He confidered of the minifter; to be paid large falait as a formal renunciation of the powers ries, with a power to employ as many afcribed to parliament; as not only an ap- fecretaries, clerks, meflengers, &c. &c. parent, but a fubftantial abdication of the C as they in their pleafure fhould think fit. rights of the Houfe to redrefs the peo- He infifted, that the rights of parliament ple's grievances. He infifted, that it was could not be conftitutionally delegated; neither wife nor warrantable, nor confo- they were perfonal, and could only be nant to the conftitution of parliament, to perfonally exercifed. The prefent prodelegate on any occafion thofe rights, pofition, therefore, he was perfuaded, was which belonged to the Commons of Eng-illegal, and amounted to a betraying land, to any other perfons whatever; Dof their trust. but admitting that the Houfe might delegate its powers, Did the noble Lord, he afked, give the leaft ground for hope, that he wished to delegate thofe powers to fuch hands as were proper to be entrufted with fo extraordinary a delega-E tion? Without queftioning the honour, integrity, and ability of the intended commiflioners, Was it not fair to conclude, that all the commiffioners whom the noble Lord intended to nominate would be placemen, placemen now, or placemen in future? He withed, he faid, the noble Lord might be fuffered to proceed with his nomination, that the Houfe might know the full extent of the noble Lord's intention to deprive the House of thofe rights with which it was conftitu tionally invested. Ld Advo-te of Scotl-d infifted, that the delegation, if fo it might be called, was neither unprecedented, nor unparliamentary; that it was founded in wildom and found policy. Suppofing, he faid, the commiffioners were to be nominated from one fide of the Houfe or the other, Would they not in either cafe be equally exceptionable? Thus, while the, report of one defcription of men in the Houfe would be deemed factious, the repert of the other would be pronounced a mere fcreen for ministers. And ftill worfe would be the refult, were they to be a mixed number of members on both I The Sec. at War cited many precedents where the Houfe had appointed committees like that under the prefent bill, not to decide, but to enquire into facts, and to report the fame to the Houfe, that the appointment of the prefent commiffioners by no means amounted to fuch a delega tion as Sir Fl-tc-r had faid was itudioufly to be avoided. Mr. F-x enforced with much energy the principal arguments of Sir F1-ter rt-n, which he held as high autho rity; and cited an inftance from the Ro F man Hiftory, where a Roman delinquent efcaped by appointing a creature of his own to be his accufer. Mr. M-fi-d prefumed, that in the precedent referred to by the noble lord in the blue ribbon in 1667, there was a Speaker in the Houfe; but the record was filent as to his objections to the bill then before the Houfe! At two o'clock in the morning the Houfe divided; For Mr. Ord's leaving the chair, 173 Against it, 195 Ld N-th then infifted, that the committee fhould proceed to approve or difH approve the nomination of the perfons whom he intended to name; but Mr. F-x remonftrated against it at that late hour; and it was finally agreed, that the chairman do report the progrefs, and the committee have leave to fit again. (To be continued.) |