a chevron the third, interfperfed with the triangular fretté, rofes, and other ornaments. It is alfo decorated with chalices, artfully made at every fection of the fione, fo as to conceal the joint" (p. 72). The defcription does not correfpond with the print of it, but rather with that of the arch of the choir. double nebulé, with heads, the fecond, one of antient coins found in Ireland, and in the poffeffion of the late Matthew Duane, Efq. They contain fome curious and valuable things, and fhould be inferted in a new edition of Simon, which is much wanted, and from which every coin not minted in Ireland, or not immediately connected with its hiftory and antiquities, fhould be excluded. The writer of this work has The next fection is a differtation on an edition of Simon, on this plan, under the Ogham characters, and alphabetic confideration" (p. 122) Mr. L's conelements of the antient Irish; in which jectures on the coins in his plate are fanthe pretenfions of the Irish language and ciful in many inftances. It is not easy letters to a Phoenician origin is explain to make two hands on fig. 3, or to aded. The inconfiftencies and contradicti- mit the reafon of those on numbers 5, 7, ons of the writer on the Ogham infcrip- and 8; they may as well be mintmarks tion on Callan mountain as well as the as penal or amputated hands. The infive contradictory interpretations of the fcriptions on the reverses of 7 and 8 are infcription, are properly expofed. Sup- probably mint-mafter's names, and pofing the Callan infcription genuine place of coinage. N° 8 is called the (which no one can believe, but that the earlieft infcribed coin that has yet whole is a fraud, and the contrivance of fome artful impoftor, there is the ftrongeft ground to fufpect (469, 471), Mr. L. is of opinion that the Ogham Charac ters were a fort of fhort-hand, or of magical ufe, like the Northern Runes, and feveral others, of which he has given alphabets; and that the alphabetic elements, and, with them, the tra letur and Irish Ogum characters, were communicated from Ireland to Iceland, in the 8th or between the 6th and 9th cen turies; and that, as the judicious and accurate Llhuyd obferves, the Irish had their letters from the Britons, who had theirs from the Romans, and the Saxons got theirs from the Britons and Irish. In difcuffing the queftion of antient Irish coins, Mr. L. fuppofes that Tacitus, in remarking that Ireland was more frequented by merchants than Britain, inclines to think that hiftorian took up haftily Craffus' account of its good harbours, and, the inference of its trade therefrom. He fhews there are no mines of filver or gold for coins of thofe metals. The original Celtic inhabitants had neither the ufe nor names for any metals; the Belga, or Firbolgs, had both, and communicated them to Ireland, where the firft mints were fet up, in the 9th century, by the Oftmen, whofe coins are found there.- "6 In 1767 was published a Supplement to Simon, confifting of two additional plates, and occurred;" and yet 7, an infcribed coin, The ruins of Athaffel, an Auguftinian priory, founded about 1200, are engraved and defcribed pp. 133. 134. A very rude figure, called a female one, from its ruins, is engraved pl. 6 of Mr. Walker's Effay on Irish Drefs. In treating of Irish architecture Mr. L. obferves, that "from every evidence fupplied by antiquity it is certain the Irifh had neither domeftic edifices nor religious ftructures of lime and ftone antecedent to the great Northern invafion in the 9th century." "Four centuries had alinoft elapfed before the dedication of altars, ftatues, or churches began in Ireland. In this interval the Gofpel was propagated in this ifle by Greek miflioners, or their difciples. It was in the 6th age churches were anointed with chrifm; and in 787 reliques were placed in them, and the affi affumed the name of fome faint or patron. Our altars were of wood in 1186, and incapable of chrifmation; for the councils of Adge, 506, and of Epaon, 517, forbad the holy oil to be applied but to ftructures of ftone. Here are proofs of our churches being gene rally of wood even in the 12th century; and that their confecration was folely by prayer, agreeably to the cuftom of the pureft ages. The Britons, who fymbofized with the Irish in religious tenets, had only wattled and wooden churches. The antient chapel at Glaftonbury, preferved in Spelman's Concil. I. 11. and that of Gree[n]-fted, in the county Effex, exhibit fpecimens of the old Irifh and British ftyle. On the contrary, the Anglo-Saxon church, founded by an elève of Rome, early adopted the maffes, ftations, litanies, finging, reliques, pilgrimages, and other fuperftitious practices, flowing, in a full tide, from that imperial city, and with thefe that mode of building peculiar to them. Hence the Anglo-Saxon fabricks had under them crypts for reliques; they were fupported by arches and columns,adorned with the images of faints, and legendary ftories: their fhape was crucifix; and they had oratories, and altars in the ailes, and they were capable of chrifmation, according to the canons before cited. The Irish Oftmen, being converted in the 9th century, embraced the faith of their countrymen in England. We find them, in fubfequent ages, correfponding with Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, and fending to the metropolis of that fee their bithops for confecration. This predilection might naturally be expected among people iffuing from the fame country, and connected by affinity and language. Accordingly, the firft ftructures of the Oftmen in Ireland, and the first buildings with mortar, were This is a fatal mistake in an antiquary for every body knows that Greenfted church was built in the AngloSaxon times, as a refting-place for the body of St. Edmund; and that is a perind long enough for it to have lafted, ftone-roofed chapels for reliques have defcribed already that moft cu one at Glendaloch, to inclose the ques of St. Kevin. Let the learned der compare the fculptural ornament the undercroft at Canterbury with t of our chapel, and they will be conv ed of the truth of what is here advanc (p. 142-145). We confefs ourselves not convinced the comparifon. Mr. L. proceeds mention another ftone-roofed cha near the cathedral of Killaloe, a dou ftone-roofed church of St. Doulach, b built over the bodies of faints; and compare the cryptical fepulchres and of tories defcribed by Gregory of To and Bede with Wilfrid's needle und Ripon minfter. He adds a chapel ne Portaferry church, an antient crypt in a ifland in the Shannon, not far from Kil laloe, and, as of the greateft_magni tude and beft architecture, Cormic chapel at Cafhel. The chapels at Porta ferry and Killaloe are fuppofed the oldef that at Glendaloch is referred to the 9: century, perhaps the 10th: the cree lated tower at Doulach, if not a late addition, to the 11th century. The ag of Cormac's chapel ftill remains to be al certained. It is compared, for orname to St. Peter's at Oxford, faid to be buil by Grymbald about the end of the g century. The church of Cafhel exifted in 1134, and was rebuilt in 1169, both times pofterior to the chapel, which therefore, will have been erected befor the introduction of the Norman and Go thic ftyles, for in every refpect it is pure ly Saxon (p. 152). [To be Continued.] ceived to the ufe of the plaintiff, and which the defendant promifed to pay. The defendant faid, he made no fuch promife; and thereupon iffue was join sed. The plaintiff is a merchant in LonRon, and the defendant an auctioneer. Mr. Ellice, in this action, fought to recover the fum of 400l. which he had depofited in the hands of Mr. Chriftie, on the fale of an eftate, which did not turn out to be agreeable to the conditions of fale; and of courfe the contract was void, and the plaintiff entitled to recover back his money. It had been ladly decided at Guildhall in the cafe of a poft obit bond which did not anfer the defcription given of it in the terms of the fale, that the defendant was bound to refund the money he had rived on that acccount. The defendant was employed to fell an eftate belonging to a Mr. Perdue. A moft flaming defcription was published of this eftate, the greatest part of which was entirely without foundation. The plaintiff reading the printed account of it thought it a terreftrial paradife; and withing to retire from bufinefs and the bifle of the world, and to spend the remainder of his days in tranquillity and peace, immediately ran to the defendant without taking time to go down to the country to view it, as he was afraid he might lofe it: the auctioneer affured him that every thing was agreeable to the terms of fale. Mr. Erfkine faid, he did not wish to make any harfh obfervations on the conduct of Mr. Chriftie, who might have been impofed upon himfelf, and who was a very useful man to many caffes of the community. When the plaintiff examined the eftate he was perfectly disappointed, faw he had been impofed upon, and was determined to have nothing to do with it whatever it might coft him. Among other things it was ftated in the terms of fale that this was a freehold moft beautifully fituated, the land in the highest cultivation, and in a most delightful part of the country within fight of the Ille of Wight, the Needles, and Lymington River. That there was upon this eftate a fine new-built houfe, and a luxuriant garden and orchard, abounding with the most choice fruits. It appeared clearly in evidence, that when the houfe was examined it was above a century old. When the plaintiff looked into the orchard for choice fruit, he found a few crabs. When he came into the houfe, he faw nothing of the Ifle of Wight or the Needles: he might as well feek for a needle in a bundle of hay. He at laft got into a garret that was made for billiards, which was a very fit place for a number of cue men, and for nothing elfe. When he took a peep out at one of the garret windows, fure enough he perceived the Ifle of Wight mixing and contending with the blue fky. It was ftated that the roads in the neighbourhood of this eftate were extremely good. He faid this put him in mind of the defeription given of roads by Mr. Serjeant Davy on the trial of an indictment. He faid, "there were three roads, the upper road, the lower road, and the road in queftion, which I fhall file the feathered road, because none but the fowls of the air can fly over it." The roads about this eftate, were of that defcription-they were impaffable. It was ftated to be richly fringed with plantations-it turned out to be laced with an old wooden fence. It was alfo ftated in the terms of fale, that there was a patent water clofet : this turned out to be a night ftool,. which ftood in the paffage behind the door with a barrel of water and a pipe, which might be fcoured out by any perfon that liked fuch dirty work. It was ftated, that the new-built houfe was fituated on a most beautiful lawn. This turned out to be a gas-plot about 42 feet wide, and then there was a lane and not a lawn. This grafs-plot was called the vegetable billiard table. This is a fpecimen of a few of the items, and to thew how the estate correfponded to the terms of fale. Although most of the things about this eftate were mitreprefented, yet fome of them were truly and jufily defcribed. It was faid, that this houfe was very compactly built: that was ve ry true, for the roofs were fo low, that a man was in danger of knocking out his brains againft the ceiling, and the prefent eating-room was the kitchen of an old farm-houfe. Lord Kenyon faid he was rather furprifed, after what had several times been decided in that court, to hear any more of the language of auctioneers, exaggerating every thing they defcribed. If the jury were of opinion that the plaintiff was deceived, there was an end of the caufe. Mr. Mingay was juft beginning his fpeech for the defendant, and admitting that his client had a little over-painted it, when the jury began to fhake their heads fo fignificantly, that the learned counfel did not chufe to proceed. Verdict for the plaintiff-400l. A true and accurate Account of the Trial, between the Countess Dowager of Cavan, as Prochein Amie for her Daughter, the Right Honourable Lady Elizabeth Jane Lambert, and Richard Tatterfal, as a Proprietor of a Newf paper called the Morning Poft, before Lord Kenyon, and a Special Fury, July 9, 1792. I have the honour to attend you on this extraordinary caufe, for fo you will find it to be, as counsel for the plaintiff, lady Elizabeth Lambert, the daughter of the late earl of Cavan, for fhe has hd the misfortune to lofe her father. She is a young lady, unmarried, of about the age of nineteen. You will be furprifed that a perfon of that defcription fhould appear as a plaintiff in this place; but the feels herfelf compelled by the moft irreftible of all force, a fenfe of injured honour, to apply to a public court, and to a jury, to refcue her yet untainted character from the fouleft and the most cruel imputations that can be made upon it; and not only for that, but for that fort of fatiffaction which you fhall feel that you ought to give her in point of damages; a confideration which would not enter into her mind, or that of her friends, but that every perfon of feeling, and every perfon of unaerftanding, muft perceive that the re-eftablishment of her character, which the demands at your hands as a point of juftice, muft neceffarily be in fome proportion to the damages which you pronounce by your verdict. Gentlemen, I told you that this young lady has the misfortune to be without a father; that is a great one; but it is compenfated confiderably by the excellent character, conduct, and uncommon good fenfe of a very affectionate mother, under whofe protection, at the time of the publication of these fcandalous libels, he was at a public place, I think at Southampton. Gentlemen, fome of you may have feen, all of you may have heard of her uncommon beauty, which is undoubtedly the theme of the public; but if you knew her, gentlemen, you would know that he is entitled to far greater praise. Iftate a truth when I fay, what all who are acquainted with her know, that fhe was juftly the pride and boaft of her family, and the joy of her acquaintance. Such a perfon, for fuch fhe was, at her time of life, in her fituation in the world, was in the enjoyment of that calm fatisfaction. which is the refult of an happy fituation and an innocent mind. I have a right to add, too, that the might entertain, and probably did, prospects of preferment in marriage, which no young woman in the kingdom was better warranted to entertain. At that time, gentlemen, what muft have been her feelings? How muft her mother, and her relations, and friends, have been fhocked, when on a fudden fhe was held forth in a newspaper, of which the defendant is the proprietor, and for which publication he is anfwerable, when they read repeatedly, I think in five or fix different publications, at different times, for two months, toge ther, peated. " ཡ Gentlemen, you will be told, probably, and with great truth, by my learned friend, who is counfel for the defendant, and who never omits any thing that may be of ufe to his client, you may be told, that he must have been fuppofed to have lived at a diftance, and not to, have known of this publication, or have had an opportunity of ther, in this very newfpaper, that this young lady was charged with being fo forgetful of every thing that was due to the pride of her fex, that the, conde fcended to be a proftitute to her own fervant. That he is fo defcribed, you will find in this newspaper, the Morning poft, in Auguft and September, and four several times, on different days, in October, the charge perpetually re-contradicting it; it may be faid, and. my learned friend will not fail to fay it, that one or two, or, if you pleafe, three publications of this fort might have crept into this paper, twice in Auguh, and once in September, the three firft times of the publication, without the knowledge of the defendant; but you will hardly believe that Mr. Tatterfill, who refides, as I underland, in or near Newmarket, has nor his own newfpaper fent to him; he must have feen this; and I afk you, was he not called upon when he fet his eye on any one of them, inftantly to write up to the Editor to complain of what he had done, to stop any fuch thing for the future? Ought he not inftantly to have written to the lady that was offended? Ought he not to have asked her pardon, and to have told her that the very firft moment it appeared to his knowledge he put an end to it? Gentlemen, I am very glad that the learned counfel who opened the plead ings, ftated to you the expreflions that were made ufe of I will not repeat them, the purport of them is what has been ftated, charging a young lady of character with eloping with her footman. Gentlemen, I have another reafon for not repeating them, becaufe they are, full of ribaldry and obicenity. I Gentlemen, I call upon you, and I know you will attend to my requeft, that you will attend to them when read by the officer of the court; and I afk you, before you give your verdict in the prefent caufe, to take the feveral papers, to read them, to confider them, and to do justice upon them. Gentlemen, with refpect to the defendant, Mr. Tatterfall, and how he comes to be called upon as chargeable, it is my duty now to ftate to you: Mr.. Tatterfall, you all know, probably, is a person who by induftry, diligence, good, fortune, and eminence in his line of bafiness (all to his honour I fpeak, it) has attained a very confiderable fortung, with which, I understand he has retired, or at leaft in a great degree, to a diftance from this great town. Gentlemen, you all know that various are the ways in this great town of making property productive perhaps, gentlemen, it is a national difgrace, for It is the caufe of what I am now complaining, and of many fuch things which ought to be complained of, and which are daily felt as injuries, that the profits of a great number of daily papers are extremely high; and men that have been in bufinefs are not contented with the ordinary intereft of money, and, on that account, I mention it not to his difgrace, he has become a proprietor of a fhare in the Morning Poft. Hib. Mag. Aug. 1792. Gentlemen, when I make that obfervation in this cafe, do not hold it ne. ceffary to make it as against a proprietor, becaufe I hold that as he is in law anfwerable for his publication, fo in common fenfe, and in the univerfal feelings of mankind, and in natural juftice, he is the fit perfon to be called upon :-How often does it happen, my lord, and you gentlemen, to be called upon to try a gentleman for mifchief done by his angry or inebriated coachman; the owner is perfectly innocent; but the damage must be remedied for the fake of the public, and he is bound to make it, good:-The cafe of the proprietor of a paper of this kind finds in a different predicament, and is more anfwerable for a proprietor of a newfpaper knows (nay, it is because he knows it, that he buys a fhare of them) that they are full of public and private defamation, and, in order to increase the fale, and to keep up their heads U among |