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368 Antiquities in Canada.-Margaret Cutting-Foreign Travel.

they had been erected by human hands. Sometimes they have found fuch ftones laid upon one another, and as it were formed into a wall. la fome of thote places where they found fuch fores, they could not find any other fort of flunes. They were not able to difcover any characters or writings upon any of these flones, though they made a very careful fearch after them. At laft they met with a large ftone like a pillar, and in it a fraaller ftone was fixed, which was covered on both fides with unknown characters. This ftone, which was about a foot of French meature in length, and between four and five inches broad, they broke loofe, and carried to Canada with them, from whence it was fent to France, to the fecretary of ftate, Count de Maurepas. What became of it afterwards they know not, but think it is preferved in his collection. Several of the Jefaits who have seen and handled this tone in Canada unanimoufly affirm, that the letters on it are the fame with thofe which, in the books containing accounts of Tataria, are called Tatarian characters; and on comparing both together they found them perfectly alike. Notwithstanding the queftions which the French on the S. Sea expedition asked the people there, concerning the time when and by whom thefe pillars were erected, what their traditions and fentiments concerning them were, who wrote the characters, what was meant by them, what kind of letters they were, in what language they were written, and other circumftances, they could never get the leaft e plication; the Indians being as ignorant of thefe things as the French themfelves. All they could fay was, that thefe fiones had been in thofe places from time immemorial. The places where the pillars food was 900 French miles wellward of Montreal *." Y. Z.

Ext a 7 of a Letter from S. P. drted Wickham-
Marker, June 6, 1781.

"I knew Margaret Cutting (who married to John Banyard) very well when he was fingle, after the married, and to the day of her death, which happened about eight years ago. She could fpeak, fing, eat, and drink Very well.

I fincerely believe the had no tongue (from the information of feveral of my neighbours of good credit, who are now living), but I never looked into her mouth: fhe was reckoned to have the fenfes of fmelling and tatting as perfect as other people." May we not guefs from the laft particular that the tafte refides entirely in the palate? For a farther account of her, fee Phil. Tranf. 1742. Lond Mag. XVIII. 270.

The truth of the ftory feems no longer Brubtful. This tame woman under her marFied name is the perfon mentioned by Squire foriey, in his painphlet on Vervain; and, if

fo, fwells the lift of thefe uncommon talkers without any right.

MR. URBAN,

Yours, &c.

Y. Z.

Aug. 15, 1781.

years, be thought worthy of a place in your F a few remarks, made in a Tour to the Continent in the courfe of the two laft other. valuable repofitory, the author would prefer that mode of communicating his ideas to any He means to fpeak from what he has obferved only, and will clafs every thing he has to fay under the following heads: ift, On the proper age for travelling. 2d, On the mode of travelling. 3d, On the proper feafons for vifiting the feveral countries.

riding, and fencing, which are fuppofed to
The two principal objects of foreign travel
are, either to learn the exercifes of dancing,
be taught in the greatest perfection abroad;
foreign countries. It happens that both the fe
or to enlarge the mind by
men and manners, only to be acquired in
a knowledge of
period of a man's life; that is to fay, a per-
fon at a proper time of life to pursue thefe
objects are feldom to be attained at the fame
exercifes would be too young to make the de-
fired advantage of company, and vice versâ;
for how can it be expected, that a boy of
eighteen years old fhould be fit company for
men in other countries, when he would not
clination to attend to his exercites?
be looked upon as fuch in his own; or that a
man of twenty-five would have time or in-

education, that fo much time is fpent at
It seems to be a great error in English
purpofe in his own country; whereas, if
fchool: a boy feldom learns French to any
two or three of the years ufually wailed at
fchool were spent in an academy abroad, for
the purpofe of learning the langeage of Eu-
rope, as it is juttly called, and the exercites,
with how much more cafe and fatisfaction
would a young man fet out upon his travels
at the age of four or five and twenty!

Another disadvantage Englishmen labour
under is the meeting their own countrymen
in great numbers at almoft every town on
the rest of Europe put together. This gives
the continent; for it is a notorious fact, that
in time of peace the English travel more than
encouragement to that bashfulness fo peculiar
to our countrymen, by making it unnecef-
young travellers wafle their time in com-
fary to frequent the company of the natives;
but it may be obferved, that though the
pany with one another, it feldom is the cafe
with thofe who are of an age to know why
they go abroad.

Thofe who have travelled, and amongst nien, that before the age of four or five and other things have obferved the conduct of our countrymen, will perhaps agree in opi

Kalm's Travels, III. 125. This could not be beyond Lake Superior. Captain CarEr went much farther, near 1400 English miles Weft of Montreal. EDIT.

twenty

twenty few learn any addrefs, diveft themfelves of national prejudices, or acquire any taste for the fine arts, all which it is the bufinefs of travelling to effect It fhould feem therefore (if education be a matter of any confequence) that the ornamental part of it fhould be directed in the following manner: let thofe who are intended to have a complete education, be fent to an academy in France or Switzerland at the age of fixteen, there to remain two years in order to learn French, and attend to their exercifes; the univerfity, and perhaps one of the inns of court, may be thought of afterwards; but what is called the grand tour, if intended to be made with any profit, ought certainly to be deferred to the age of four or five and twenty. Yours, &c. X. Y. Z. .P. S.. The remarks on the two other heads will be furnished in time for a fubfequent magazine..

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has been defervedly cenfured; but the thought, whether good or bad, was not his own. Dr. Warton, in The Adventurer, No 63, fuppofes that it was copied from an old Latin Elegy on Henry Prince of Wales; but I have no doubt that the following lines of Crafhaw (a favourite author of Pope's) furnished him with this paerile conceit:

"Enough;-if thou canft, pafs on,
For now, alas! not in this one,
Paffenger, whos'er thou art,
Is he entomb'd, but in thy beart."

I believe it is not generally known, that the elogium on the Hon. Simon HarcourtWho ne'er knew joy but friendfhip might divide,

Or gave bis father grief but suben be diedis likewife ftolen from fome one of the following epitaphs:

-Complete in all but days, refign'd her breath,

Who never dijahey'd but in ber death.”

In St. Mary Magdalen's, Bermondsey. "Eelov'd, admir'd, and loft, thy parents pride,

died."

Who never gav ft them grief but when you
On Mifs Lucy Hippelley, in St. Thomas's
Church, Salisbury.

LUCIA JULIA PRISCA

Vixit annos XXVI.

Nibil unquam peccavit
Nifi quod mortua eft."

I do not know the exact date of the two

English epitaphs above quoted, perhaps therefore they may have been borrowed from Pope; but the Latin one he might have found in Montfaucon's Antiquities. GENT. MAG. Auguft, 1781.

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Before I conclude, let me add a word or two more on the fubject of imitation. Dr. Johnfon, in his late admirable Lives of the Englih Poets, speaking of Mr Hammond, oblerves, that his elegies" have neither pallion, nature, or manners." They certainly have neither of the latter; and whatever of the former they contain is the paffion of a Roman, not of an Englishman. It is furprifing, that the caufe of this defect efcaped this claffical and moft judicious critic. In short, thefe elegies are almost all, if not tranflations, very clofe imitations, of Tibullus. In the whole number there are but four original. Of this any one may be convinced, who will take the trouble to compare thefe poems with those of the Roman Knight. For the fatisfaction of your claffical readers, I will fubjoin a lift of thote elegies which Hammond has copied. HAMMOND. El. I.

TIBULLUS.

Lib. 11. El. IV. 1—38.

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II.

12.

13.

S Lib. I. El. XI.

Lib. I. El. I. 45-52 Lib. 111. El. VII.

S Lib. I. El. I.

Lib. I. El. V. 31—34•

By the foregoing table the reader will obferve, that of Hammond's Elegies the 10th, 14th, 15th, and 16th alone appear to have been unborrowed. It is, however, but just to add, that this unfortunate and amiable poot, though he has no pretenfions to the title of an original writer, must be acknowledged to have been a very harmonious and elegant verfifier.

MR. URBAN,

A

Yours, &c. U. A. F.

Senfible correfpondent in your Magazine for June, p. 266-7, attacks Mr. Warton for his perpetual and fevere cenfures of the Puritans. But can we expect that a critical hiftorian of the progrefs of tale fhould omit any opportunity of expofing the doctrines of thofe barbarous and factious fanaticks, who obstructed the revival of polite letters, by a profeflional enmity to every fpecies of elegance? The fame correfpondent thinks it unhcoming that Mr. Warton fhould with to refrain "the metrical labours of Steinhold and Hopkins to any fociety of Chriftians, whether manufacturers and mechanics, or otherwife." I have examined the controverted feétion in the third volume of Mr. Warton's Hiflory of English Poetry, the purport of which feems to be this: A congregation of Calvinifts, under whom we may alfo include Methoditis, Anabaptifts,

and

and Independents, ufually confifts of manu facturers and mechanics; and to the meanness of fuch a congregation Mr. Warton feems to think the miferable flanzas of Sternhold perfectly well adapted. He therefore wishes this mode of pfalmody was fent back and reftrained to that church in which it firft originated at Geneva, and to which it feems fo properly to belong. It is certainly better calculated for the fpiritual confolation of tallow-chandlers and taylors, than for the pious ufes of the liberal and intelligent. Pfalm-finging and Republicanifm naturally go together. They feem both founded on the fame levelling principle. The Republicar Calvin appears to have been of opinion, that all people fhould fing in the church, as well as at in the ftate, without diftinétion or inequality. Hence his neceffity of a vulgar and popular pfalmody. There is much philosophical truth in a ludicrous faying of King Charles the Second, that the Prefbytt rian Worship was not fit for a Gentleman. Yours, &c. No PSALM-SINGER.

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"The Rev. Mr. Hagemore of Calthorpe, Leicestershire, died the 1st of Jan. 1746, poffeffed of the following effects. [He had zool. per ann, and roool in money, which (he dying inteftate) are fallen to a ticketporter in London; he kept one fervant of each fex, whom he locked up every night; his laft employment in an evening was to go round his premifes, let loofe his dogs, and fire his gun. He loft his life as follows; going one morning to let out his fervants, the dogs fawned upon him fuddenly, and threw him into a pond, where he was found breast high; the fervants heard him call for affiftance, but being locked up could not lend him any.] 30 gowns and catrocks; 58 dogs; 100 pair of breeches; 100 pair of boots; 400 pair of thoes; 80 wigs, and always wore his own hair; So waggons and carts; 80 ploughs, and used none; 50 faddles, and furniture for the manage; 30 wheel-barrows; walking-flicks fo many, that a toyman in Leicester-fields bid his executors 81. for them; 60 horfes and mares; 200 pick-axes; 200 fpades and thovels; 75 ladders; 240 razors."

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He died by a fall from his horie. EDIT.

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praife or cenfure I have acquired, will be re"The hour is hafting, in which, whatever membered with equal indifference..

....

Time, who is impatient to date my laft paper, will thortly moulder the hand that is now writing it in the duft, and ftill the breast that now throbs at the reflection: but let not this

be read as fomething that relates only to another; for a few years only can divide the eye that is now reading from the hand that has written.

Alfo to the memory of

BENJ. BROWN of this parish, who died 22 Oct. 1777, aged 66 years. If no fhining qualities adorned his life, Chearful Integrity and diligent Goodwill rendered him always defireable to others, and comfortable to himself. This monument is infcribed by Their forrowing Relict and Sifter

MR. URBAN,

M. H."

Aug. 4.

Y a difquifition in your agreeable Mif

Bcellany the names of the original wri

ters in the "Biographia" were firft exactly known. I fhould be glad to trace out, in like manner, the various authors of The Univerfal Hiftory;" and for that purpose send you with certainty the names of the gentlemen who wrote the firft feven volumes. The Propofals and Plan were published O&. 6, 1729. Yours, &c. M. G. COMPILERS of the UNIVERSAL HISTORY. Vol. I. Mr. Sale, tranflator of the Koran. II. George Pfalmanazar. III. George Pfalmanazar, Archibald Bower, Capt. Shevocke, Dr. Campbell.

IV. The fame as vol. III.

V. Mr. Bower.
VI. Mr. Bower,

Rev. John Swinton,
VII. Mr. Swinton,

Mr. Bower.

+ Lait Number of the Adventurer. 64. Reports

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Of this valuable work it would be prefumption in us to attempt any further account than what is given of it in the modeft bat expreflive words of James Clitherow, Efq. the worthy editor:

"Thefe Reports begin with Michaelmas Term 1746, in which he was called to the bar, and there are fome of every Term, except two, to Michaelmas 1750, from whence there is an interval to Michaelmas 1756 without one. The reafon of this moft probably is, that during that period he refided chiefly at Oxford, and had much of his time taken up in compofing his Lectures, which he began to read in 1753, and in preparing for which he had been for fome years before principally employed. This accounts for his want of leifure to revife fuch rough notes as he might have taken during that period, and to fit them for publication, while they were fresh in his memory. In the three following years he attended the bar only in Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, on account of his Lectures; confequently there are, among thefe Reports, none of the Eafter and Trinity Terms of thofe years; but from thence they continu, in a regular feries, except one Term, when he was indifpofed, and the two Terms immediate preceding his being promoted to the bench, when he attended the Court of Exchequer ly; which circumftances fufficiently evince hat thefe Reports 'were all (except one) taken himself. That one is of the Arguments of St Tho. Clarke, Mafter of the Rolls, Lord Mansld, Chief Juftice of the King's Bench, and he Lord Keeper Henley, delivered in the Cort of Chancery in Hilary Term 1759, on deer'mining the interesting caufe of Burgess a Wheate; and which, as appears by a remark fubjoined to it, was communicated to him by that great and able lawyer Mr. Fazakerly, but was all tranfcribed in his own hand. The Editor hopes the Arguments are reported correctly; but, as they are only a copy, probably made by a clerk, it is pofible there may be fome errors in them, which the candid reader will excufe, and lament with him, that by the dreadful conflagration of the houfe of the noble Lord above-mentioned in June last, a correct note of that argument was loft, among his other very valuable ma nufcripts, which his lordthip had in the mott obliging manner given permiffion to the Editor to examine Sir William Blackitone's Note-Book with, and correct any errors that might be found in it. For this mark of ef

teem for his late departed brother, and the kind manner in which it was offered, the Editor thinks himfelf happy in having an opportunity of publicly expreffing his own and the family's moft grateful acknowledge

ments.

"Fortunately for thofe whofe intereft is concerned in this publication, and (it may perhaps be added without impropriety) for the public too, the manufcript Note-Book, containing this Report, efcaped the fame fate. It was delivered a few days before by

the Editor to Mr. Juftice Ashurst, to com municate to Lord Mansfield, and happily had not been fent to him.

"The ftate the Editor found this work in greatly alleviated the trouble attending the publication; but, as he had reafon to think the learned Judge had not given it the last revifal he intended, he has thought it his duty, before he made it public, to read the whole over with attention, and to correct any literal errors or omiffions which the most accurate writer may be liable to.

"It has afterwards gone through a fecond revifal by a gentleman of the profeffion, who, at the Editor's request, undertook to examine the quotations from Reports and other Authors, in order to give the world as complete a copy as pofuible, and that nothing might appear throughout unworthy of the compiler.

"How far he has fucceeded in that attempt, the Editor muft leave to the determi

nation of the candid reader. As the work of Mr. Justice Blackstone, he has no doubt but it will be received by the gentlemen of the profeffion, for whofe ufe it was intended, with a particular degree of regard.

"Whatever errors may be found in the publication, he takes the demerit upon himfelf, hoping that the merit of the work will due allowance will be made for the Editor's atone for any defects on his part; and that total ignorance, till now, of the business of publication, a tak he did not undertake as a volunteer, or as thinking himfelf peculiarly qualified for, but as being called upon to engag in it, not only as a labour of friendship, but as a duty incumbent on him as executor the author, and guardian of his infant children. JAMES CLITHEROW. Bofon House, Feb. 20, 178r." From the well-known and highly eftablished character of Mr. Juftice Blacktone, not only as a confummate lawyer, but as an elegant, correct, and inftructive writer, any farther encomium on thefe Reports as unneceffary. The Preface to them contains an accurate account of his Life by Mr. Clitherow, which thall be epitomifed in a future Magazine.

65. The History of the Isle of Wight, 40. If muft give every lover of our anti quities great pleafure to fee this freth in

tance

ftance of enquiry after them conducted through the generations of a family who have been fettled on the fpot, whofe hiftory is here deduced, for three centuries. Sir Richard Wo.fley, Bart. here prefents the public with the refalt of his father's and grand-father's onervations on the Ifle of Wight, considering the publication of them as "a difchange of filial duty." He acknowledges the very great afliftance he has received from the gentlemen of the ifland, who have a'lo contributed at a very confiderable expence to adorn the work with engraved views of the refpective feats.

The Hiftory is divided into feven chapters. Chap. I. contains A General Defcrip of the fland, Soil, Produce, Trade, &c. Ch. II. its Military Hiflory and Invafions. Ch. III. Succellion of its Lords. Ch. IV. its Wardens and Gorernors. Ch. V. the Boroughs of Newport, Newtown, and Yarmouth. Ch. VI. Religious Houfes. Ch. VII. Parifh Churches and Chapels, Manors and Seats. To the whole is fubjoined an Appendix of go original deeds, &c.

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tive county in particular, are much in debted, has here, with great labour and expence, arranged the materials that have been collecting for near 200 years by Mr. Thomas Habington (or Abington), of Henlip, who was condemned (but pardoned) for the gun-powder plot, his fon William, the Rev. Dr. Thomas, editor of Dugdale's Warwickshire, &c. and the late Bp Lyttelton. The expence of this (he tells us) he was the better enabled to fupport (being in poffeffion of a confiderable real estate) as he lived within bis income, and by inclination, as well as profeffion, was refrained from elections, borje-racing, fox-bunting, and fuch other pleafures as are too frequently the ruin of our country-gentlemen." The work is truly what he modeftly ftyles it, Parochial Collections," a complete History being a burden to which the "houlders" of any one man, however fupported, must be "unequal." The Roman roads, one of which only came near Worcestershire, the ancient hiftory and defcription of the county, with the changes of property fince the Norman conqueft, number of its inThe plates are, 3 views in the ifland, habitants (about 70,000), husbandry, &c. by Anthony Devis, engraved by Thomas are the chief subjects of the Introduction. Vivares, 7 places of feals, &c. 16 views This is followed by catalogues of the ef of feats, &c. befides vignettes, drawn and cheators, and Caftr. Commifi, from 43 engraved by R. Godfrey in fo miferable a Edw III. to 21 Edw. IV. of theriffs, from ftyle, that they are far below the recom the Conqueft to 19 Geo. III. of knights of pence of fo munificent a patron as we are the thire, and other members, from 23 led to believe the prefent editor to have Edw. I. to 1777, an accounrof the bishopbeen, from the general report of the total_rick‡ (near 3000l. a șert), the diocele, expence of his book. Care has however been taken to do juftice to Appuldorcumbe (the editor's feat), which Devis drew and Mazell engraved, and Swainfton by Fither and Watts This deficiency in the plates of a valuable book is the more to be lamented in the prefent age, when we have fuch a variety of good artifts, and when we reflect that fome of our county hiftories derive more recommendation from their prints than their narrative.

66. Collections for the Hiftory of Worcesterfhire. By Treadway Nath, D.D. F.-4. S. Vo.. I. Imperial Folio.

THIS induftrious Antiquary †, to whom the public in general, and his na

*Rector of St. Peter's, Droitwich.

the church (whofe prent income is about 40col. a year), an act copy of Pope Ni, cholas's Valor, as far as relates to this diocefe, accounts of bishops and archdeacons procuration &c. and alfo of the hundreds, forefts, ri-ers, rare plants, coins, and coinage, a a fac fimile copy of Domesday, so far a relates to this county, engraved on xi plates, an example which we wish to ee followed throughout the kingdom. We cannot pretend to travel with our au thor from parifh to parith, or from church to church, nor does an history of property, or the defcent of manors, which conftiture the chief part of fuch collections, afford much entertainment to any but the heirs or poffeffors. A county-hiftorian," fays

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+ "I had often times wished that fome one would write the hiftory and antiquities of the County. I propofed the undertaking to feveral perfons, offering them all the affittance in my power. I invited the Society of Antiquaries to choofe a proper perfon, promifing to opon a fubicription of three or four hundred pounds. Failing of fuccefs in all my applications, I offered my own fhoulders, however unequal, to the burden." Introduclion, p. i.

In the Introduction, p. xxxiv, it is faid, "the Bifhop of Worcester collates to St. Martin's, London, alternately with the dean and chapter of Canterbury." This is a mistake for "St. Michael's Royal," to which Bishop North collated the late Mr. Fenton in 1774.

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