ham, upon the death of the Prince of "Tu dormis, volitantque qui folebant F. Queen, B. HI, Canto 11, and which Into that cave he creepes, and thenceforth there Refolv'd to build his balefal manfion MR. URBAN, T.S. THE fuggeftions which have arifen in confequence of the publication of Macpherfon's Othan and Evans's Specimens of Welsh Poetry, have fummoned the attention of the learned to fubjects into which the eye of investigation had never before penetrated, or the hand of curiofity attempted to explore. Having lately been in the li But where is the occafion of this laft line? It is extremely beautiful, but totally unnecellary, as he had mentioned the "Tu dorinis" in the preceding lines. This elegant compofition feems to have fuggefted thofe claffical verfes quoted by Dr. Warton in his Effay on Pope, Vol. II. upon the Death of Marcus; and it may perhaps give the reader no fmall pleafure when I inform him they were written by his ingenious brother Mr. T. Warton, Fellow of Trin. Coll. Oxon. It is with the high-brary of the Louvre in France, for the eft opinion of their tafte in polite learning, I mention them both, and there fore take this opportunity of pointing out fome images, which the former in his Ode to Fancy feems to have in part borrowed. He addreffes her thus: O Nymph with loofely flowing hair, See Spenfer, Beck III. Canto 12, where Britomart redeems Amoret, and fees Fancy in the enchanted chamber: His garment neither was of filke nor fay, But payoted plumes in goodly order dight, Like as the fun-burnt Indians do affray Their tawny bodies in their prowdeft plight, &c. &c. In another part of this fine Ode, where the Beggar is defcribed as taking fhelter under the mouldering towers of an Abbey, "And trembling left the tottering wall Should on her fleeping infants fall." Were 1 called upon to felet from the compofitions of all the poets, both ancient and modern, the most beautiful and pathetic lines, I fhould without hefitation fix upon thefe-but I am inelined to believe that Dr. Warton firit conceived the thought from perufing Spenter's defeription of jealousy in the purpofe of examining fome fcarce books for a friend, I was agreeably furprised at the fight of fome old French Poems and Romances, together with fome Welfhand Italian--and as, in the former part of my life, from having been fituared in Merioneththire, I acquired the Welth language, and where indeed the Welsh dialect is still retained in greater prefervation than in any other country, from this circumftance I was induced Poems, which I should have finished, to tranflate a part of one of the shortest had not bufincfs which I could not omit, and avocations that were not to be difpenfed with, obliged me to defift. But may this prove an ufeful hint to all examiners into antiquity who may ever vifit thofe claffical regions, from whence I have attempted to transplant the following fhort though fragrant Sower-I could not however quit the library without copying the following lines, which were written, in French, upon the back of this and fome other concomitant manufcripts. Note. This, together with fome other manufcripts of the fame kind, formerly be longed to the library of that celebrated antiquary Scipio Maffei, of Verona. The LAMENTATION of LLYWARCH-HEN, the Bard, upon the Death of GwLAITH, an Old Welth Chief. SON of Beli Mawr, the beams of thy glory are fet, thy wide extended hall shall no longer give thelter to heroes that quaff the fparkling mead, who glad'ned at thy prefence. A fjence that is only introduced by by death here spreads her contagion; to us the days of forrow are at hand; and thy cup-bearer treads no longer with alacrity. The trembling rings of the harp forget to vibrate; the pote of victory no longer at the waving of the hand of thy bard wakes the foul from her manfion with enchantment. The foot of time, which we cannot hear, has trodden upon thy fhield, and already has his hand defiled with ruft thy corflet moift and red with blood, whilft over thy war-worn helm the fpider fcatters the thin web of oblivion. But let this be thy folace. The journeying Aranger shall not pafs by the spot of thy re without recollecting (as the hallow blaft moves the herb that trembles at its breath) the force of thy arm, and the heartfhaking thunder of thy footsteps. The tale that Fame has told of thee fhall lead him far from his path to enquire after thee, and fhall delay him attentive at thy grave; whilst the blue-eyed damfel of his bed at each returning day thall view the fun with averfion, and caft a longing look over the plain for her Loid's return, and weep that the fees him not. The eagle of battle (to which thou wert like) mangling her prey on thy tomb, fhall oft mark with her princely foot where thou lieft (thou that wert her feeder) and shall flap her firm-fet wings as the bears the neighbouring torrent, rushing near thy corfe. Oft at eve thall thy farher fay in remembrance of thee, "My fon, my fon," and bid thy younger brother hear, as he tells of thee. Thy brother's blood, like that of the lion's whelp, thall kindle and crouch for the conteft, and long to fucceed thee. As wandering to pay thee my tribute of grief, I diftinguith the flow and tremulous accents of thy fire. He yet lives. The fall of Orwan, by the prowefs of thy fpear, the. infanguined waters of Tanad, through memory fparkle in his deepfunk eyes. My heart is weighed down at the painful pleafure of his fighs, and the deepened luxury of his mourning. Thy white fleed that of old fnuffed the buxom breeze in the vale, oft lonely fraying ear thy grave, crops the long tall grafs that qui vers over thee: where is now the rattle of his hoofs, where his flowing mane, the pleafure of the field, and the lightning of his eye, at the downfall of his enemies? Many are they whom Fate has overtaken, whole names memory shall never recall, whom no future bard fhall awaken from filence or cali to remembrance, when the Hirlas horn thall open the hearts of pofterity and of the yet unborn. Nevertheless the evening and the morning fun thall gild their graves with his rays, the winter's wind thall rudely falute their wafting limbs as it paffes in its course to thake the turrets of Aberrffraw, and agitate the fullen waters of But thee, danger oft has met in the tented field, and fed difmayed; Snowdon and our mother Mona have refounded the clath of thy deeds; and the cot - tager on their heavy-hanging brows at midnight has started at the found, by the finks ing blue taper, whilft his trembling confort lulls her waking and affrighted babes to their broken flumber. Still visible are the prints of thy fteeds upon the fand of Deudraeth. The hours of life are paft, and death only has been thy conqueror. MR. URBAN, UPO OXONIENSIS. July 3. [PON reading the Extract from M. Watfon's Sermon, p. 495 of your Magazine, it recalled to my memory a moft remarkable paffage in one of Abp. Tillotson's Sermons*, printed in 8vo, 1703, Vol. XIX. p. 431, which runs thus: "I remember there is a very odd paffage in Mr. Herbert's Poems, which, whether it be only the prudent conjecture and forefight of a wife man, or there be fomething more prophetic in it, I cannot tell. It is this: Religion fands on tiptoes in our land, By letting in them both, pollute her streams, The meaning of it is this, that, when the vices of Italy fhall pass into France, and the vices of both fhall over-fpread England, then the Gospel will leave thefe parts of the world, and pass into America, to vifit thofe dark regions, which have fo long fat in darkness and the shadow of death. And this is not fo improbable, if we confider, what vaft colonies have been tranfplanted out of Europe into thofe parts, as it were on purpofe to prepare and make way for fuch a change. But however that be, of wickednefs reigu among us, we confidering how impicty and all manner have too much caufe to apprehend that if we do not reform and grow better, the Providence of God will find some way or other to deprive us of that light which is fo abufed and affronted by our wicked and lewd lives; and God feems now to fay to us, as our Lord did to the Jews, Yet a little while is the light with you; walk while you have the light, left darkness come upon you." * We have been furnished with this fame extract by another correfpondent, whofe remarks on it thall appear next month.Abp. Tillotson's Letter to Ld Shrewsbury on his return to Popery is already printed in Birch's Life of that great Prelate." EDIT." Thanka Thanks to a kind Providence, which ftill permits us to enjoy the light of the Gofpel in its pureft difpenfation, though our fupremacy over the colonies is by its afflicting hand, through the infatuation of counsellors, the depravity of commanders, and the unexampled treachery of great men, loft and annihilated. Commercial loffes, however, confider ed in a religious view, may prove the happy means of stemming the torrent of luxury and diffipation, which pervades all orders and degrees of men, and of reviving fober principles and better morals amongst us. Bad as they are at prefent, there feems to be no probability of the candlestick's being removed from Great Britain to America, where the most bitter and fcandalous perfecutions are daily practifed by thofe who profefs themfelves to be followers of the meek Jefus, and his divine precepts of charity and forgiveness of enemies. From malice, and efpecially from malice under the dijguife of religious zeal, good Lord deliver us, MR. URBAN, A. B. THE Lewis Difney Fytche, Efq; and the Bishop of London, which had been affirmed in the Court of King's Bench upon a Writ of Error, and which came before the House of Lords, on Friday the 30th of May, where the faid judgment was reverfed by 19 against 18 votes, having been the fubject of much converfation, and not feeming to be perfectly understood, I take the opportu. nity of fending you a fhort account of the matter as it appears to me; and if I have been mistaken in any point or circumftance relating thereto, I fubmit to the correction of any of your correfpondents better acquainted with the affair than my felf: HE judgement of the Court of Common Pleas in a caufe between by the parties concerned, he thought proper to refuse institution and induction to Mr. Eyre, upon which Mr. Difney Fytche inftituted a fuit against the Bifhop called a Quare impedit; and the Bishop, by his plea, infifted that the bond was fimoniacal and within the meaning of an Act of Parliament made the 31ft year of Queen Eliz. and therefore that the prefentation was void, and the matter coming on to be argued in the Court of Common Pleas, that Court was of opinion that the bond was good; the Bishop afterwards removed the caufe to the King's Bench, which Court were alfo of the fame opinion; notwithftanding which, upon the Bishop's bringing his Writ of Error in the Houfe of Lords, the judgement of the Court of King's Bench was there reverfed, by a majority of ONE vote. L. W. Chichester Peterborough. Rochefter Worcester For AFFIRMING the Judgement, Earl of Dukes of Lewis Disney Fytche, Efq; being, in right of his wife, patron of the Rectory of Woodham Walter, in Effex, in the diocefe of London, and the fame becoming vacant by the death of the Rev. Foote Gower, M. D. in May 1780; Mr. Difney Fytche prefented Mr. John Eyre to the Bishop of London, having firfttaken a bond in the penalty of 3000l. with a condition from Mr. Eyre to refign at any time on the Patron's request, which is commonly known by the appellation of a general refignation bond, and this Vifcounts anfaction being avowed to the Bishop Earls Mansfield Richmond Ancafter Portland Northumberland Fitzwilliam Bathurst Stormont Howe Lords Lords King Chedworth Sandys Grofvenor Amherst Brownlow don, until the beginning of June, when the Influenza became general: there were then buried in one week 560, which is near 1oo more than in any preceding or fucceeding week of the year; the burials ran high in the two following weeks; after this time the town became fo healthy that for 21 weeks the chriftenings exceeded the burials on an By this decifion of the Houfe of average nearly as 32 to 28, the christLords, the bond in queftion was deenings not running higher than ufual at Loughborough Walfingham Sydney 18 clared to come within the Act of 31ft of Elizabeth, and confequently the next turn of the prefentation became forfeited to the crown, and the clerk rendered incapable of holding the living. Thefe penalties falling upon partics innocent of any wilful offence againft law, it very much redounds to the honour and juftice of the Lords Commiffioners of the Great Seal, and deferves to be publicly known, that their Lordships immediately and unanimoufly concurred to prefent no other perfon to the said rectory than whom Mr. Difney Fytche fhould nominate. He accordingly recommended to their Lordships the Rev. Peter Fisher, Vicar of Staindrop in the county of Durham, who, in confequence thereof, has been prefented and inftituted to the Rectory of Woodham-Walter. A bill alfo was immediately brought into the Houfe of Lords, by Lord Bathurft, which paffed that Houfe, to indemnify all patrons and incum bents who, at the time of the above mentioned decifion, were parties to any bonds of refignation, from the penal confequences in which they were now made liable to be involved. But which bill was thrown out of the Houfe of Commons, on the fecond reading, on the motion of Lord Surrey, from an apprehenfion that the general words of this quieting bill were capable of a conruction which would extend to legalize the decifion of the Lords in future, as well as indemnify patrons and incumbents already engaged in bonds of refig nation. A new bill therefore is intended to be moved in the next Seffion of Parliament; in the mean time, all exifting bonds are open to the penalties of the 31ft of Eliz. however well advifed the parties were before they entered into them. MR. URBAN, THE year 1782 appears to bear thic fame degree of health as feveral of the preceding years, fiuce the improvements in the city and fuburbs of Lon that time; this is a circumstance unparalleled fince London firft became populous. On examining the meteorological account of this year, it appears that there fell in the first half, or comparatively rain. In the fucceeding, or healthy unhealthy part of the year, 12 inches of part of the year, there fell rather more than 16 inches. The rain of the whole year exceeded that of 1781, by more than one third. The fain of 1781 being 18 inches, that of 1782 28.65 inches. The wind was variable and no way remarkable. The healthy part of the year being very wet, it was confequently much cooler than the fame months are in a dry feafon. in December, the burials began to rife When the rains ceafed, which was again to their usual standard. There were two violent ftorms during and the other on the 16th of Auguft, this time, one happened on July 16th, the laft of which deftroyed my electric fpike, fo that I can give no account of the degree of electricity that fhewed itfelf during this time. markably unfavourable to plants and The first part of the year was reanimals, the fruits being almoft generally deftroyed, and the corn much da maged; many cattle perished for want of grafs, which did not fpring till many weeks later than ufual. It can fearce be fuppofed that the weather which was half of the year eould any way contrifo injurious to vegetation in the first bute to the extraordinary degree of health of the 21 fucceeding weeks, but it may be conjectured that the Influenza acted as a kind of temporary prefervative, or had cleared the conftitutions of the inhabitants from the feeds of diftempers for a time; however, this is given only as a conjecture, and as fuch remains to be refuted or confirmed by those who have it in their power to examine the effects of former Influenzas, or can procure a comparative flate af the health of any town where this diftemper was general laft year. It may be proper to observe that it is well known there are many objections to the bills of mortality, if they are confidered as abfolute and unerring regifters of births and deaths; but in this cafe they certainly may be depended on as comparative ftates of the health of this or any other year. T. H. W. MR. URBAN, laft THE The fecond Earl, when Mr. Finch, was chofen Member for the county of Surrey, on a memorable conteft in 1710, Sir Richard Onflow infifted en bringing in Sir Scaweh with him houfekeeping, was greatly miffed on his death, which happened 29th June, 1757. He married Mary, daughter and heir of Sir Clement Fisher, of Packington in Warwickshire, which his fon, The third Earl, made the place of his refidence; he laid out a great deal of money on improving and ornamenting the house and park. He was chosen Member for Leicestershire, in December 1739; for Maidstone in 1741, He married Lady Charlotte Seymour, fecond daughter of the Duke of Somerfet, 6th Oct. 1750, and died May 5, 1771. His fon, The fourth and prefent Earl, was born. 15th July, 1751, and in Dec. 1781 married Mifs Thynne, eldest daughter of Lord Viscount Weymouth. He alfo makes Packington his place of refidence. Yours, H. The following are the Inflructions of the Corpo ration of London to their Reprefentatives. To the Right Hon. Nathaniel Newnham, Lord; Mayer, Frederick Bull, John Sawbridge, Efqrs. and Sir Watkin Lewes, Knight, didermen, this City's Reprefentatives: Gentlemen, HE late repeated impediments which the trade and commerce of this country experience from taxes laid immediately on the trading part of the nation, justly raifes the moft alarming doubts in the breaft of your conflituents. The Livery of London conceive they are, from their experience in trade, well warranted in apprehending the moft mifchievous confequences from that part of a Bilk now pending in Parliament, which propofes a Stamp Duty on all Receipts at and above forty shillings. The least confideration of the poffible operation of this tax, will deferv edly draw on it the epithets of oppreffive, injurious, and partial. The Livery of London are not led to this application more by the oppreflive burthen of the propofed tax on themfelves, than the the honeft induftrious tradefman in different infapportable effects which it will have on parts of this kingdom. felf, but this being refented by the gentleman of the county, they fupported Mr. Finch and Sir Fra. Vincent, and carried their election, notwithstanding Sir Richard's great intereft. Mr, Finch was again chofen in the Parliament 12 Anne, and in that which met 1.G. I. and continued to reprefent the county till the death of his father in 1719 He was made Matter of the Jewel Office in 1711, and continued in that employment by Geo. I. but refigned it when his father gave up the Your conftituents, with the deepest conDutchy of Lancaster. What was the cern, look on this unprecedented tax as an difguft I do not know, but he became extenfion of the late oppreffions on trade, an active oppofer of the Court, and and tending to deftroy thofe hopes which continued fo many years, as the protefts the late peace gave them room to entertain of which he often figned prove. He a restoration of the commerce and trade of lived at Alburyt, and at laft refided this once flourishing nation. It is the feed conftantly there, where he acted as a of a tax which will grow up with little affittJuftice of Peace, much to the benefit of ance from any Minifter who wilhes partially the neighbourhood and the county at to prefer one intereft of this nation to another, to the ultimate and total annihilation large. His plain, but hofpitable, of trade and commerce. 4. M. voi. 11.815.11.457- IV. 176.177 +Albury is now purchased and inhabited by the Hon, Capt. Finch of the navy, one of the prefent Earl's brothers. EDIT. Your Conflituents therefore moft earnestly + She used 28th May, 1740. |