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tertains how often thefe presents fhall be I diftributed, viz. five times; i. e. fhe fhall be five times married. The marriage is here expreffed by the diftribution of those prefents, which usually accompanied its celebration. Meurfius propofes to read real, the three Parce. But the expreflion is accurate as it ftands. For the Parce were each of them concerned with these threads, or spindles, as Virgil fpeaks, around which the threads were rolled:

"Talia fæcla, fuis dixerunt, currite, fufis, "Concordes ftabili fatorum numine, Parcæ."

The threads and fpindles are both men. tioned in a parallel paffage-μίτωσι χαλά xéwv cτgéμbwr. -585.

Virgil was very converfant with the poets of this period. He read Lycophron's Caffandra with fingular delight; imitating often, as his custom was, the most admired paffages in that poem.

HORNSE Y.

[ WITH A VIEW OF THE CHURCH. ]

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and in ancient records is called the Church of St. Mary Harinjy, or Hornfey, and is a Rectory.

Within the limits of 'Hornfey, near the diftant hill fhewn in the Plate, there was a chapel, called Our Lady of Muf. well. This place takes the name of the Well and the Hill, Moufewell Hill, for there was on the hill a fpring of good water, where flood an image of Our Lady of Mufwell, which was a continual refort for pilgrims, from a great cure performed by this water upon a King of Scots.

This parh (faith Norden) ftands "near the Bishop of London's words or parks of this place, which heretofore had and ftill retains the name of Horney The manor, or chapel, called allo Parks, a place memorable in our hiftories Pinfenall Hill, with its appurtenances, for the meeting together of the Nobles was fold in the 19th Elizabeth by Ann in the 10th of Richard II. in an hoftile Goodwyn to William Roe, who built a Tanner, to rid the King of thofe traitors good houfe on the fcite. Highgate was he had about him, namely, Robert De the boundary of Hornfey Park; the firit Vere, Duke of Ireland; Alex. Nevil, gate was erected about 400 years ago to Archbishop of York; and Michael Dereceive toll for the Bishop of London, la Pool, Earl of Suffolk, and others who upon an old road from Gray's inn-lane had confpired to murder the Duke of to Barnet being turned through that BiGloucetter, and the Earls of Arundel, fhop's park. Warwick, Derby, and Nottingham.

In this park (faith Norden) there is a hill or fort, called Lodge Hill, feeming, by the foundation, rather to have been a cattle, whereon fometimes flood a lodge when the park was replenished with deer. With the ftones which came from the ruins of this place the Church of Hornfey is faid to be built.

The Church is dedicated to St.. Mary,

AGRICULTURAL

A MEMOIR by G. T. GOODENOUGH, Efq. on the great utility of fteeping the Seed of Barley and Oats, was lately read at the Board of Agriculture. By that it appears, that the practice of #eeping the Seed, of Spring Corn for about thirty hours is highly beneficial, eluting an equal and uniform vegetation,

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In Hornfey are many pleafant refidences:

Mitchell, Efq. has a bandfome manfion; and John Mayhew, Eiq. a delightful cottage and pleasure grounds: Edward Gray, Efq. has a capital villa and plantations near the town; the New River winds, beautifully round his plea fure grounds, and through the village of Hornley.

IMPROVEMENT.

and thereby preventing fuch Corn coming up at different times, which is fo often the cafe on itiff foils in dry leatons. This is a hint very well worth the attention of all Farmers.-Mr. Goodenough has been in the practice many years, and reaped confiderable advantag● from it.

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EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

TABLE TALK;

OR,

CHARACTERS, ANECDOTES, &c. OF ILLUSTRIOUS AND CELEBRATED BRITISH CHARACTERS, CHIEFLY DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, (MOST OF THEM NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.) (Continued from Page 91.)

KING CHARLES II.

THOUGH this Monarch, it is very well known, paid very little regard to the effentials of religion, there can be now no doubt but that he was, in point of faith, a Roman Catholic, though by no means in the degree his brother James was. Lord Bolingbreke, in his "Dif. fertation on Parties," makes this diftinction between them: "His Majefty fipped from the Chalice, but his brother drank from it to the very dregs."

He was converted to this religion when he was abroad, as it is fuppofed (on the authority of Sir Robert Southwell, communicated to him by James, Firft Duke of Ormond) whilst he was at Cologne, in the year 1655; where he had much private conference with Peter Talbot, a noted Catholic, and who was dispatched by him in a very fecret affair to Madrid, fuppofed to be that of imparting to the King of Spain his affent to the Ronan Catholic religion.

This certainly followed, that his Majefty did, the fame fummer, pafs incognito to Brullels, where a private treaty was concluded with Don John of Auftria, then Governor of Flanders, "That all his fubjects in the French fervice, or elfewhere abroad, fhould go into the fervice ef Spain," upon which his Majesty was paid three thousand crowns per month, when perhaps, in a whole year, he had not received two thousand pounds from all his friends in England.

It was on the Pyrenean Peace, concluded between France and Spain in the year 1659, that Charles rested all his hopes of restoration. For this purpofe he difpatched the Marquis of Ormond to Thouloufe, there to expect the coming of Cardinal Mazarine, in order to difpofe him in favour of his Majefty; the Cardinal, who, it afterwards appeared, regarded but little the King's intereft, took another route; fo the Marquis, mifling him, was obliged to go by Berne and Bayonne to the place of treaty, where Sir Henry Bennet, afterwards Lord Arlington, his Majesty's Minifter, was difpofing all things, and particularly on the Spanish fide, for his Majesty's comingVOL. XXXI. MARCH 1797.

Cardinal Mazarine however prevailed; the Treaty between these two Crowns was concluded in November; but contained not one fyllable relative to his Majesty's reftoration, or in any degree to his perfonal advantage.

As his laft refource, and in order as it is fuppofed to form fome alliance to fupport himself, a match was propofed to the old Princefs of Orange for his Majefty, with the Lady Mary, her third daughter, and one of the aunts to the late King William (then Prince of Orange); but the old Princefs had fuch little hopes of his Majefty's change of fortune at that time (though it fo fuddenly followed), that the excufed the matter "on her being wholly under the protection of the States General, and that all things of that public nature ought to begin with them.

This Lady Mary was afterwards married to the Count of Embden, and proved the fruitful mother of many children.

It was Francifco de Melo, Ambassador then (1659) in London (and who dreaded the effects of the Pyrenean Peace, if England did not prevent them), who told General Monk, the King's prime agent, that if the king should be called home, the Spaniards would contrain him to furrender Dunkirk before they would let him go out of their hands.

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It was this fame Ambaffador that poffeffed General Monk of the advantage of marrying the Infanta of Portugal to the King; that the high confideration of Tangier and Bombay fhould be given, with the free trade of all their dominions, and fome millions of cruzadoes. the fame channel Mr. Morrice (the then confidant of General Monk) was engaged; and when he become Sir William Morrice, and Secretary of State (though originally but a private Gentlemen of the northern provinces), he negotiated the treaty of marriage, and the whole of it was managed through his office; fo that it was the General firft propofed this match to his Majefty, although it was oftenfibly carried on by Lord Chancellor Hyde, who had at firit the credit, and afterwards the difgrace of it.

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Of King Charles's attachment to theCatholic Religion, even in the affair of his marriage, the following Anecdote is related by Sir Robert Southwell, who had it from James Duke of Ormond:At the time that the marriage was in treaty for his Majefty with the Infanta of Portugal, he faid that the Lord Chancellor Clarendon fpoke to the Lord Treasurer and himself (the Duke) to attend his Majefty in that room, which they called "the Clofet of Thomas Chiffins," where the rarities flood. Here my Lord Chancellor opened to his Majesty, not only what the Spaniards had objected as to the barrennels of the lady propofed to him in marriage, but what he had from other hands. He did moft folemnly remonstrate the infelicity of fuch an event to his whole kingdoms; that the treaty was not advanced fo far but that his Majefty might wave it; and, that his Majesty might not be to feek for a wife, be propofed fome others who were German ladies. Upon this the King faid, the German women'were foggy, and that not one of them would pleate him for a wife; that his accufation muft needs some all from the malice of the Spaniards; and fo bid his Lordship, without more icruple, to proceed in the treaty.

SIR GEORGE DOWNING,

(Refident at the Hague to Oliver Grom

well and Charles II.)

After the Pyrenean Peace, and after the cold anfwer which King Charles the Second received from the Princeis of Orange relative to a match with her daughter the Princefs Mary, the King's affairs feemed to be truly desperate; yet, juft at this very time, the cloud began to burst and open a pallage to his reitoration; as he had fcarcely returned to Bruffe's when he had an intimation from Thomas Howard, the youngest brother of Lord Carlile, that his brother-inlaw Sir George Downing, then Refident at the Hague, would be glad to have a private conference with any person whom his Majefty much trufted, and wifhed it might be the Marquis of Ormond.

In confequence of this, on the February following, the Marquis went to the Hague, where Sir George, meeting him in fecret, told him, that, by the courte and revolution of things in England, which he well obferved, his Majetty muit fuddenly be rettored; and that, whatever particular undertakers might pretend to them, it would be, in truth, the work of

the whole nation; that they could no longer bear the tyrannies they lay under; and, by feeing no other cure of the evil, the calling home of his Majesty was irrefiftible.

He fhewed various grounds for this opinion; and only prayed, that for the good-news fake, of which probably he was the first informer, he might find faveur hereafter; fo far as to live only in peace and quiet, for he should pretend

to no more.

The event turning out foon after as this wary Statefman had predicted, he was continued in his Embassy after the Rettoration.

Some time after this, being one day afked, which of the two fykems of Government he liked beft? his answer was in the fellowing candid manner: "Je fais le tres bumble ferviteur des evennements.”

N. B. For most of the above articles we are indebted to Lord Montmories "Hiftory of the Irish Parliament."

CHARLES LORD WHITWORTH.

When this Nobleman had compromised the famous dispute between the Court of England and Peter the First, relative to the arreit of the latter's Ambaffador for debi, and which, but for the fingular addrets of Queen Anne and this able Minister, might have involved England in a war, his Lordship was invited to a ball at the Count of Peterburgh, and was further honoured by being taken out to dance a minuet with the Czarina.

His Lordhip, though he had a perfonal intimacy with this very extraordinary weman long before the could have any poffible chance of a diadem, ftill approached her with all the respect due to her exakted flation; which the Empres perceiving, just before they commencal the inim.et, the whifpered him, "What, my Lord, have you forgot little Kate?"

OCTAVIO MAY

(The original Inventor of Watered Taffera).

There was about the beginning of the laft century an Englishman of the arre of Octavio May, who fettled at Lyo. . He was a man of very good capacity, and great diligence in his trade, but, by a chain of unlucky events, was brought into embarraffing circumftances.

In this melancholy ftate,standing one day at his fhop-door, brocding over his mitfortunes, he happened to put a little tutt of raw filk into his mouth, and grinding it for fome time between his teeth, with

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