have now to add the results of a recent examination of the remains of the conventual and collegiate establishment. The buildings seem to have constituted little more than one principal court, on the north of which was the church, on the east the refectory, with the dormitory above, and the cellars below, and on the south and west the residence of the provisor, with the other officers and servants of the house. A few detached buildings stood to the south and north-west, and the gardens were principally to the north and east.

The church, as has been observed, has been totally destroyed, and its site is now occupied by the yard of a dealer in fire-wood. Two engravings, however, of this building are extant; one by Israel Sylvestre, taken from the north-west, the other by Jean Marot, from the south. Along the wall, too, of the wood-yard, once the wall of the southern aisle, traces of the situation of the windows were to be observed, as also at the eastern extremity of the aisle, where a window of what was a detached chapel still remains. This edifice consisted of a central and two side aisles, with a triforium and clerestory. A short wooden lanthorn surmounted by a spire, rose from the roof over the fourth window from the eastern end; and a square tower of three stories, never completed, stood on the south side of the church at the eastern extremity, between that building and the refectory; it was proba. bly the staircase to this tower that contained the double screw. western end of the church was never terminated, and three unfinished compartments carried up to above the clerestory windows, with a longer range of unfinished compartments in the aisles, remained an unsightly spectacle till the Revolution. The style of this edifice was that of parts of Amiens, or of the eastern end of Lincoln Cathedrals. The windows both of the aisles and the clerestory, the latter being the taller of the two, consisted of two principal lights, the mouldings of which run up to the head of the principal arch, and included a circular quatrefoil, while they themselves were each divided into two lights by a central shaft, and had

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a circular quatrefoil in their heads. Each of the four lights thus formed had a trifoliated head. The windows of the aisles were surmounted by crocketed canopies; the tracery of the window that remains at the east end of the south aisle is flowing, but from the engravings that of the other windows was not. The mouldings, as is generally the case in all Parisian buildings of this century, were rather open, and the capitals of the shafts were sculptured in small bunches of leaves of great delicacy. The roof appears to havebeen tiled in lozenge-shaped compartments, and had a curious appearance. No remains existing of the piers of the nave, or of any of the more considerable internal portions, there are no means of judging what the effect of the interior was; but, arguing from the portions of the exterior which still remains, there are no doubt that it was of superior workmanship, and a good specimen of the architecture of that period.

The refectory is still entire on the eastern side of the great court, and forms an interesting example of the solid and severe conventual architecture of the 14th century. This building consisted of a vast hall on the ground floor, extending throughout the whole length and breadth of the building; of a series of chambers, or else of one large dormitory above; and over this of an immense loft formed by the highly pitched roof. The dormitory story, between the refectory and the roof, had been much altered previous to the Revolution, for the engraving by Marot which represents it, and which is borne out by the details of the eastern side, differs widely from the western side of the building as it now stands. The hall, on a level with the court, is divided internally into three long arcades by two rows, each of sixteen light shafts, which support a quadripartite pointed vaulted roof of stone, while the vaulting ribs rest against the lateral walls upon corbels, figuring each a semi-capital of one of the central shafts. On the eastern side of this building is a series of seventeen windows, of two and three lights alternately; those of two lights having trifoliated heads, and a circular qua

trefoil in the head of the principal arch. The mouldings of these windows are of remarkable boldness and simplicity; so are the vaulting ribs of the roof, and thus form valuable specimens of the epoch of their foundation. On the western side of this hall, which formed the grand refectory, there were originally no windows, as we see by Marot's print, but only a series of quatrefoliated openings in the head of each arch, of a very extraordinary design, and such as is believed not to exist elsewhere. Two such openings as these remain at the southern end of the hall; but all those on the western side were removed during the 18th century, and replaced by a series of elliptical headed windows, one in each arch; and these again have been since blocked up. There were also, originally, three contiguous archways on the western side, forming the entrance; but these have long been removed, one only doorway remaining. Buttresses of three stages were on each side, with gargouilles at top. Two fire places were at the southern end, and a large lavabo of the 18th century was against the eastern wall.

The capitals of the central shafts are of curious design, being simple string mouldings, cut through where the internal angle of the vaulting touches the top of the capital, so that each vaulting rib appears to come down to the lower string of the capital, after having been somewhat crumpled in its course. The effect of this is very bold and striking. A few faint traces of colour on the shafts shew that they were painted of a salmon or light pink tint, and, on some, words seem to have been engraved. The word GVLAI is very visible on one of the northernmost shafts. The dimensions of this magnificent hall are 212 feet by 41, and 17 feet in height: the height of each shaft is 8 feet, the diameter 10 inches, and the height of each capital 10 inches.

Under this hall is an immense cellar of the same dimensions, with a series of short shafts arranged the same as those above; the vaulting is here semicircular and quadripartite, but, the earth having accumulated to some depth, it is impossible to ascer

tain the exact dimensions of this part of the building.

Above the refectory, the dormitory, which had its ceiling formed by plain beams running across the building and resting on the outer wall, was lighted by a series of seventeen windows on each side; those on the west being of two lights with trifoliated heads, and a circular quatrefoil; those on the eastern of one light with simple trifoliated heads; these windows have long since been all altered into square-headed ones. The loft above the dormitory is a fine example of the timber work of the 14th century. A row of sixteen light central uprights runs down the middle, from each of which two cross beams are thrown out to the rafters on each side, and also two from each upright to the other. The rafters are set at about seventeen inches from each other, and the whole forms a lofty apartment. At the northern end is a large circular window composed of five circular cinquefoils surrounding a smaller cinquefoil in the middle; and above this at the top of the gable were two small windows of one light, each trifoliated. There were, no doubt, similar windows at the southern end, but these have been altered into one large square window. Such a constant current of fresh air was, however, kept up by this system of ventilation, aided by numerous small dormer-holes in the roof, that the timber (white oak) is as fresh and sound as on the first day of its erection.

All the other buildings of the conventual college were destroyed; the refectory now serves as the depôt for spare scenery and decorations used by the city of Paris on occasions of public rejoicing: the cellar is converted into the bonded warehouse of the Octroi for oil; the dormitory at present contains the archives of the city of Paris; and the loft is let out to a washerwoman, who finds it a most admirable place in which to dry her linen. The municipality, with that itch for destruction which is one of the curses inflicted on all revolutionary bodies as a punishment for their sins, cannot leave this venerable building alone, but are entertaining thoughts of turning it into a barrack for the muni

Baron Bolton, of Bolton Castle, in 1797.

The following is supposed to be a pretty correct list of Mr. Maude's publications:*

1. Wensleydale, or Rural Contemplations, a poem; 4to. 1772. See the Gent. Mag. for that year, p. 232.

2. Verbeia, or Wharfdale, a poem, descriptive and didactic; 4to. 1782. [Here Mr. Maude had a handsome seat, Burley Hall, where he occasionally resided.]

3. Viator, a poem; with notes historical and topographical; 4to. 1782.

4. The Invitation, or Urbanity, a poem; 4to. 1791.

5. The Reaper, a Collection of Essays, published originally in the York Chronicle, 1797, reprinted in two small volumes, 12mo. but never published.

6. Accounts of several Places in the North of England, in Grose's Antiquities.

Yours, &c.

L. R.

MR. URBAN, Petersham, Surrey. IN the Obituary of remarkable persons noticed in the 68th volume of your Magazine (1798, Part 1st. Page 447) was recorded the death of Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy. It is there stated that he had then lately returned from a voyage round the world, an account of which was printed and published at the expense of the Board of Admiralty after his death. The following brief notice will perhaps prove acceptable to some of your numerous readers.

* E. M. describes Mr. Maude's works as follows, stating that they form a quarto volume, dates 1780 and 1782, illustrated with plates.

The volume contains Wensley Dale, dedicated to the Duchess of Bolton. Wharfdale, dedicated to Edwin Lascelles, Esq. Viator, dedicated to Sir George Saville. Account of Ilkley Church. Of the Cowthorp Oak 1774. Life of Sir Isaac Newton, with an engraving of his house at Woolsthorpe. Sketch of Francis Grose, Esq. Parallel of Wharfdale and Wensleydale. On Longevity. Order of the House at Denton by Thomas Lord Fairfax. Descent of the Lord Perciyes (in verse) by Me Wm. Peeris, clarke, and Preiste to Henry, 5th Earl of Northumberland. A few minor Poems; and a few Dissertations in prose.

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After Vancouver's return from his long and persevering Voyage of Discovery, he resided frequently at the old Star and Garter on Richmond Hill, a spot for which, as well as for its immediate neighbourhood, always expressed a marked preference. For some years before his death he occupied a cottage in the village of Petersham, where he employed himself in preparing for the press the account of his voyages. It was during this period that he was grossly insulted in the streets of London by the late Lord Camelford. His lordship had been an officer on board Captain Vancouver's ship, was notorious for his violence, if not insanity, and was afterwards killed by Mr. Best in a duel, the particulars of which were fully detailed in your Magazine for March 1804. In consequence of his aggression against Vancouver, the latter thought proper to apply to the then Lord Chancellor, Loughborough, for his protection. The Chancellor having in consequence directed a note to be sent to Lord Camelford, requesting him to call upon him at his house in Bedford-square, he accordingly went, and apparently in a very excited state. He was shewn into the library, where Lord Loughborough was alone. Lady Loughborough, however, hearing of this visit, became somewhat nervous and alarmed, and requested a friend of the family, who was then in the house, to watch carefully at the door of the library, and if he should hear any noise, or angry words, to enter the room without ceremony, and pounce upon the hostile visitor! The meeting, however, proved a pacific one; and the result was that Lord Camelford was bound over in a large sum to keep the peace, his relative the late Lord Grenville becoming his security.

Captain Vancouver did not live to see his "Voyages of Discovery," &c. published, which were afterwards completed, from his manuscripts, by his brother. He died at Petersham when forty years of age, and was buried in the churchyard of that parish, a humble and almost unnoted headstone marking the place of his interment with the simple inscription

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This circumstance having been noticed to the Hudson's Bay Company, whose extensive commercial pursuits throughout the interior of the Indian countries of North America have been pushed beyond the Rocky Mountains into those regions of which Vancouver was the discoverer, a tablet has been recently placed to his memory in the Church of Petersham with the following inscription:

IN THE CEMETERY ADJOINING THIS CHURCH WERE INTERRED, IN THE YEAR 1798, THE MORTAL REMAINS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER, R.N. WHOSE VALUABLE AND ENTERPRISING VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN,

AND

ROUND THE WORLD,

DURING FIVE YEARS OF LABORIOUS SURVEY,
GREATLY ADDED

TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWKEDGE
OF HIS COUNTRYMEN.

TO THE MEMORY

OF THAT CELEBRATED NAVIGATOR THIS MONUMENTAL TABLEr

IS ERECTED BY

THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. Yours, &c.

MR. URBAN,

Cork, April 13. IN reply to the enquiry of R. M. transmitted by you, as to the authority on which it is stated in page 371 of your Magazine for February, that, "in 1804, on the threatened invasion of England by Bonaparte, our Ministers, and more especially Mr. Pitt, seriously contemplated the fortification of London," I must express my surprise that your correspondent did not notice the reference to Mr. Alison's History of Europe, volume v.I am glad, however, of the opportunity to be more precise on the subject, for it was in 1803, not 1804, that the parliamentary discussion occurred, when "Colonel Crawford urged, says Mr. Alison, (p. 160) the great danger of the capital, and Mr. Pitt added the great weight of his authority on the same side... "It is in vain to say, observed he, that you should not fortify London, because our ancestors did not fortify it, unless you can show that they were in the same situation that we are. If the fortification of the capital can add to the security of the country, I think it ought to be done, &c." The Secretary at War (Rt. Hon. Charles Yorke,) said, that

he agreed perfectly with Colonel Crawford in most, but not all of his observations. "It would be a libel, continued the Minister, on the people of London to think of fortifying their metropolis, when we had a fleet containing 80,000 men, and such an army as never before was heard of in this country," &c. Ministers, therefore, it would appear, were not favourable to the plan; and for Ministers, in the article referred to by R. M. we should read, "many M.Ps.- and more especially Mr. Pitt, &c. The sentiments of this eminent man, which it was my chief object to indicate, and on which your correspondent also more particularly dwells, as assuredly would the French orators in their recent debates, had they been aware of them, are unequivocally expressed, it will be thus

seen.

On this occasion, however, the subject was more incidentally than directly introduced, as the immediate question agitated was the Military Service Bill, from the 18th to the 22d July, (1803); but, on the 2d August, Colonel Crawford brought it on more formally, in his motion relative to the Defence of the Country, embracing a much more extensive system of fortification. Scarcely, we may now regret, had the gallant officer proceeded beyond a few opening sentences, when Mr. Frankland moved the standing order of the House for the removal of strangers; and the gallery remained, in consequence, closed on the reporters; so that, with the exception of an ample speech by Sir Philip Francis, supplied no doubt, by himself, we have only a few words on the general topic, in the Parliamentary History. (Vol. 36, p. 1680, &c.) Finally, Colonel Crawford withdrew his motion; but I well recollect that, at the time, some of the Ministers were known not to be adverse to the plan of fortification as applied to the metropolis; though opposed by the majority. Had Mr. Pitt been just then in power, the result might have been different; but he did not resume the helm of government till the following May, (1804) when the alarm of invasion had considerably subsided, although the mighty host destined for that purpose, ostensibly at least, still presented its menacing front at Boulogne, and did not advance into Germany, to gather the