is an Annunciation. This, as well as a Crucifixion (a fine piece) and a Naming of St. John Baptist, have an embattled heading to the table; the latter, or a similar table, has been copied by a craftsman whose scheme the embattled heading would not suit, and it is instructive to see how the man nevertheless preserved the effect of it by inserting above the curtains which enclose the scene a vallance, with serrations of the same number as the crenellations of the original. One of these tables Mr. Hildeburgh believes to be unique, in that it includes, not two (as a few do) but, three separate scenes: as the main scene a Resurrection, and above it the Appearances of Our Lord to His Mother and to St. Mary Magdalene. This representation of the former Appearance, again, Mr. Hildeburgh believes to be, in English work of this kind, unique. The Appearance to St. Mary Magdalene here, and in two other examples dealt with in the paper, follows the pattern which gives Our Lord a spade, as if He actually appeared in guise as a gardener, and one of them gives Him a hat, and shirt-like robe-indicating the garden by palings. In these figures of the Magdalene she is shown holding a tress or tresses of her long hair, a characteristic

view is given of "Barking Church, Suffolk Co., England," reinforcing a kindly appeal for aid in its restoration which is permitted to be made, an editorial note informs us, since the architect's plans have been approved by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

(ON Jan. 16, at the American Art Galleries, New York (see The Times of Jan. 18), the sale was begun of a Kipling collection made by a British owner A copy of the "Letters of Marque' (suppressed by Mr. Kipling, all except four copies) was sold for $10,000-а record for the American market. A first edi

tion of 'Plain Tales from the Hills,' with an inscription (one of five extant copies of the first issue) fetched $5,000.

Two Hundred Years Ago.

From The London Journal, Saturday, January 20, 1727-8.

On Monday laft his Excellency Horatio Walpole, Efq; His Majefty's Ambaffador to the Court of France, landed at Dover, and arrived here on Tuesday in the Evening.

Hildeburgh identifies a rather quaint and charming figure of a saint in a crown which had been taken for St. Barbara, and for Spanish work, though the peculiar fastening of the cloak, which may be observed in sevéral English instances, points to England. Another remarkable piece of carving is a head of St. John Baptist.

OUR readers will find much to interest them if they take in hand the January number of Old-Time New England. First, there is a paper by Mr. Charles J. Cornelius about early American doorways. The designs of these are based on the Renaissance patterns used in seventeenth and eighteenth century England, but with differences arising not only in general, in America, but also from one locality to another and again from their execution in wood instead of stone. Several of the examples pictured are extremely pleasing. Our correspondent Dr. Henry C. Mercer contributes a long instalment, with eleven excellent illustrations, of his work on 'Ancient Carpenters' Tools' dealing with awls and augers and boring bits. He makes the observation that the larger bits used by the Roman carpenter resemble in their lanceolate tops the tops of the large auger and reamer bits of the modern pumpmaker and carpenter. A

the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Foundrefs of Westminster School, was held the Annual Meeting of Gentlemen educated there, when were present several Noblemen, and the greateft Appearance of Gentry that ever was feen on the like Occafion, who were diverted with fine Orations and Extempore Epigrams; and when Dinner was over the

Company adjourned to the College where the King's Scholars acted the Play of Phormio in Terence, with great Applaufe.

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On Wednesday the 10th Inftant, Mr. Fenn, who hath the Care of Peter the Wild Boy, brought him to fee the Vicar of Hemelhemfted, Hertfordshire; The Vicar hath a pretty of his late Majefty, after Sir good Painting Godfrey, which he took down, and waved and fro before Peter's Eyes, who looking upon the Picture very earnestly and with great Concern, cry'd out with a deep Sigh, King George! King George! and fnatching it into his Hands, kifs'd it feveral times with a great fhew of Affection.

Deaths. On Sunday in the Afternoon died fuddenly Mr. Rowley, Master of Mechanicks to his Majefty, famous for his inventing that curious Machine the Orrery.

Notes.

UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF

WARREN HASTINGS.

(See ante p. 21).
V.

Daylesford house 24th May, 1807. My dear Baber

I suffer so much from the least exposure to the sun, that though I have bespoke a frank purposely to write to you to day I am scarcely able to avail myself of it. This indeed is the principal cause of my having so long deferred my acknowledgment of your most kind letter of so long a date past as the 6th of this month. Indeed I read it with an interest that would not suffer me to answer it in the midst of ordinary occupations, and yet less with a mind enfeebled, as mine almost continually has been, and now is, by this ungenial weather.

I cannot describe to you with what mixed sensations of sorrow, admiration and pleasure I dwelt on the affecting narrative of the sickness and aggravated calamity of your dear daughter. No compensation can atone for such a loss as she has sustained; but to a heart so affectionate as yours, and to a spirit so pure, it must be a lasting source of reflective consolation, that you have child endowed with such powers of fortitude yours derives from her piety, and the sense of that resignation which she owes to the will of God in all his dispensations. Such a habit of thinking will be a certain pledge for her strict observance of all the duties of life, and bind her to them not less by affection than by principle.

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I do not know how other men are; but I feel my religious dependance more strongly confirmed by a single exemplification of the influence of true devotion in a well formed mind, than by all the sermons of the bishop of London.

You have seen, in the paper which I sent to our friend Toone, the strong accordance of my opinion with yours on the character and causes of the late dreadful calamities in the Carnatic. I cannot tell in what way that composition may be applied to use; but I wrote it with a hearty desire, and a conception, that it might be of use. But of this I

forbearance. If some active and strong are not taken to impress on the belief of our native subjects, civil as well as military, the conviction that our government holds in abhorrence the design which has been imputed to them of overturning their religious faith, and imposing ours upon their consciences in its stead, the consequences may prove fatal: not immediately perhaps, but in the event of the next war that we are engaged in. I suppose the business will be taken up by the new Parliament. I wish it may. Surely it will not be considered a state secret. Its publication is the first thing essentially necessary,

Let me hear from you again soon, and let me know what latest accounts you have. received from Ireland. Adieu, my excellent

friend.

My most dear friend,

I dare not answer your letter in any other terms, than to thank you for it; and I would, if I could, offer more than the simple expression of thanks, for your remembrance of me at such a time.

I hear that you are at Cheltenham. A very respectable and common friend of ours gave me that information, and told me at the same time, that as you went there solely for retirement you should decline the society of your dearest friends, until your mind had recovered a part of its lost tranquillity.

Mrs. Hastings and I are, I may say, alone, having only Mr. Anderson's son with us during the temporary confinement of the wife of his preceptor, who is our neighbor: and we expect to be alone as long as we are permitted to continue in the country. We both think that this house could afford you all the advantages of retirement, without the inconveniences of the plan which you have chosen for it, and with some gratification to us. With some? My mind is so feeble, that it cannot express its own purposes or sensations; but I cannot lose the little time I have in corrections.

recourse to it. To this proposal whatever your other objections may be, let not that of trouble be one. That would be injustice. At any rate write to me, and let me know how you are: but be not too precipitate in declining our proposal.

Too much accustomed as I have been to murmur at slight indispositions, I have been punished with a real illness. For some hours I suffered acute and unremitted pain; but I am now, and have been some days past, perfectly free from it; and only experienced that diminishing languor which always attends convalescence. A little of this I am sensible of at this moment, more I think, in my mind than my body, and have more than once sought relief to both in the indulgence of a sick chair, since I began this letter.

Mrs. Hastings mistaking a slight remaining lassitude for inability would have written to you in my stead. She has equally participated with me in your past sufferings, and is equally anxious to be able to contribute to their alleviation. This letter therefore is as much hers as mine almost, though my name only will be subscribed to it.

May heaven bless yon, my valuable friend, and prosper to their best effect the exertions of your own fortitude.

WARREN HASTINGS.

To Edward Baber Esqr. Cheltenham.

VII.

Daylesford house 31st Decr. [1807].

I thank you heartily, my dearest friend, for your affectionate letter, and benevolent wishes. You have forestalled a part of mine in the pleasing intelligence which you have given me of the birth of a son to your daughter, rendered a source of more than common happiness by its proving the accomplishment of his father's wishes. It is so far more than mine had suggested for you. May it be propitious, and be the forerunner of every other domestic blessing to both parents, and may you, my friend, live many years in social comfort, health and the possession of all your faculties to the last! I look upon my race as nearly run. I once wrote my own epitaph, and willing to allot myself a full allowance, I assumed sixty as the round number of years which I was to live, and left a blank for the unit with which I might close the broken period. I have exceeded all that I could I ave imagined, and am now pacing on in my 75th year, and unless I can eke out five more, my epitaph will have cost me much labor of fancy

for nothing, as it will in any other event be too long by a foot in the capital verse, nor will it be possible to shorten it. In every other consideration I bear with the prolongation of my age, and am happy that my friends bear with my infirmities, one of which I have been displaying with a witness in this letter. I am ashamed to have filled it with so much of myself.

I did not think that I should ever feel a joy in Bonaparte's successes but I do just now, and it is no impeachment of my patriotism. I rejoice that God has made him the avenger of the spoliation of Poland, and I am glad that he is employed at such a distance, and on such a work, as will exempt our nation for some years to come from his machinations. I hope the news from the Carnatic, which seems to be of American importation, is of Amern, fabrication also: yet it will not surprize me, if it proves true. I grieve to see every thing conducted in that quarter exactly as I wish it were not, and specially ly to see men appointed to the first offices there, not because they are fit for the offices, but because the offices are convenient for them.

It is probable that I may run to town for a day or two, merely to see my friends, and look about me. I shall indulge myself in the hope of being able to persuade you to be the companion of my return. You will have much to see, and to admire.

Mrs. Hastings, thank God, is well, and desires to be remembered to you with all the kindness, and with the fervent wishes for your happiness that the season dictates, and which I can attest, she waits not for seasons to feel.

I can venture to say the same for our other inmates, Charles and Mrs. Imhoff.

Adieu, my friend. I beg you to present my best respects and good wishes to your sisters; and, if you had not promised it, I should have desired you to keep me alive in the memory of friend Osborne. Let me know, whether the trees are grown round the temple. You know that this is an essential property of the habitations of the Bramins, as it was of those of the Druids:

PRINTERS.

(See cliii. 453).

TOKENS.

(See ante p. 3, 25).

Wills, etc., at Chester, 1811-1820, Part I., A-L, yields the following additional names. As I said in my note at the reference, it may turn out, upon further investigation, that some of those described as printers" calico printers. As before, "Ad." preceding the date signifies letters of administration; otherwise the date is that of a probate will.

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MS. LIST OF TOKENS,
circ. 1680.

The Tokens in this Extract are only those which apparently either are not recorded in Williamson's edition of Boyne or else show some variation from it.

The references which are made to Mr. W. Gilbert's specimens refer to the articles which have recently appeared in the Numismatic Chronicle, entitled Unpublished Seventeenth Century Tokens in the Collection of William Gilbert.'

1 Dec., 1818.

1 Aug., 1820.

25 Sept., 1819.

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(St. Bartholomew the Less Lane). The Cock Alehouse adjoining the Church of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange. (Strype Edn. 1720. Ι. ii. 123). This church was known as "St. Bartholomew by the Exchange," or "St. Bartholomew the Less" (Harben's Dictionary of London ').

Thos. Longsdon, of Manchester, printer

31 March, 1812.

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many before the middle of the eighteenth century.

R. STEWART-BROWN.

Strype says that the part of Houndsditch in Bishopsgate Ward Without extended to the Blue Anchor.