this charge of book-fealing [against Sir Tho, Bodley], or, to give it the lofteft name, book-coveting, is only a jocular one. He might make the fame allowance for our Cambridge collector [Bp. Moore, of Ely]; but one might point out enough light fingered antiquaries in the prefent age to render fuch a charge extremely probable, againft earlier ones. Dr. Rawlinfon and his friend Umfreville lie under very trong tufpicions; and the collector of the Wilton treasures made. as free as Dr. Willis with his friend's. coins." P. 158. Dr. Richard Walker [of Magdalen College, Oxford] was removed from his fellowship by the prefident and fellows [1762], for holding above a year two ecclefiaftical prefers ments, taxed, according to his own account, together at 37 marks in the ancient valors. He appealed to the vifitor [Bp, of Winchester], and was reftored, on this plea, that beneficium "ecclefiafiicum in the ftatute being in "the fingular number, and he having "no preferment separately taken above "the yearly value of 20 marks, his "fellowship ought not to be vacated." Dr. Ambrofe Kent, for having, in a letter dated March 18, 1769, expreffed his difapprobation of the decree, was fentenced to forf it half a year's pro+ fits of his fellowship." P. 172. "If it were worth while to record the progrefs of enthufiafm, Edmund-Hall has lately deserved a place here, by, the devotes turlupinades of fome of its members." P. 263. "The Rev. Mr. Owen Manning vica of Godelming [Surrey] has made large and well digetted col lections for this county, with a particular illustration of its Domesday; a fac fimue of which he has caufed to be engraved in 13plates, by T. Pouncey. This first inftance of the plan proposed to government for the publication of this curious record has been imi. tated in one other inftance . From the judgment and application of the learned editor of Mr. Lye's Saxon Dictionary, we may expect the most perfect model of county history." P. 264. To the views of Guildford may be added an etching of Trinity. Hofpital, price 3d. with a defcription, fold at the Hofpital. P. 289, note. This ingenious artift [Canot] ended his life 1777, over Dr. Nah's Worcestershire. come by the unremitting applicationwhich he bestowed on Mr. Paton's four views of the Sea-fights between the Ruffians and the Turks." P. 306, note. Mr. Baskerville, agreeably to the fingularity of his opinions, was buried under a windmill in his garden, on whofe top, after it fell into difufe, he had erected an urn." Other particulars of this extraordinary man, omitted in his life in the New Biographia, may be found here. P. 319. Near 33 pages are occupied by the titles only of the fervice-books for the ufe of Sarum. P. 373." If any man was born for the fervice of antiquity, it was Dr. Stukeley. Benet College, Cambridge, which boasts of having trained the great Parker to revive the ftudy of antiquity with that of humanity, in the 16th century, educated Stukeley in this, to trace our antiquities to their remoteft origin. Other antiquaries have obligations to the fame foundation and while I erect this monument to the votaries of antiquity, can I forget to acknowledge, that my paffion for their purfuits was fottered within those venerable walls ?"-Sit tibi tuta". quies. Hic locus etatis nostre primordia novit, Artibus, et noflræ laudis origo fuit §. We cannot better clofe than with this extract, in which the author comes home to his own bofom. Wales, the iflands on our coafts, Scotland, and Ireland (where the ftudy of antiquities has been but little cultivated) occupy about one third of this volume; and of Scotland it contains a curious old map (never before engraved), from a MS. of Harding's Chronicle, in the Bodleian Library, Arch. Seld. B.26. 78. The Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir William Howe in a Committee of the Houfe of Commons, April 29. 179, relative to his Conduct during his late Command of the King's Troops in NorthAmerica: To which are added, Some QBfervations upon a Pamphlet entitled Let ters to a Nobleman. 4to, 35. H. Baldwin. Of the pamphlet here mentioned an account was given in our laft volume, P. 504. Sir W. Howe feems to have been as dilatory in repelling this attack at home, as he was (if the charge be true) in attacking the common enemy abroad, it now being a year § Necham de japientia div, laudib, in Leland de script, p. 240. and and half fince this "Narrative" was given to the House, and a year fince the "Letters" in question were publithed. "The Narrative," we are told, " contains a detail of thofe material operations of the war, which may either lead to an impartial judgment on the general conduct of Sir William Howe, or obviate mifconceived opinions concerning particular events during his command in America." "In the courfe of the great variety of business," fays the general, ❝ which fell to my lot during fuch a wide and extensive command, faults must undoubtedly be perceived; but none, 1 hope, which can be fufpected to have arifen from want of zeal, or from inactivity. In all military tranfactions, but more particularly in thofe of America, where the nature of the war, in all its points, is without example, the happiest commander will be he who efcapes with the feweft blots." any other. If, however, the affault had been made, and the lines carried, the enemy (he fays) would have göt off without much lofs; and no way had we, that I could ever learn, of cutting off their retreat by the Croton bridge. I cannot conceive the foundation of fuch an idea." On the fubject of the winter cantonments, his answer to the objection," that he ought not to have trusted the important poft of Trenton to the Heffian troops,” if clearly underftood, he thinks, will be fatisfactory. "Military men (ke adds) will certainly understand it. The left was the poft of the Heffians in the line, and had I changed it upon that occafion, it must have been confidered as a difgrace*, fince the fame fituation held in the cantonments as in the camp. And it probably would have created jealoufies between the British and Heffian troops, which it was my duty carefully to prevent. "Col. Donop, who commanded the two pofts, was perfectly satisfied with his fituation, and fo was Col. Rhall †. They both had timely information of the intended attack: the number of the enemy, I was credibly informed, did not exceed 3000 [Our two at Trenton and Bordentown, five miles diftant, were upwards of 3000, with 16 field pieces]; and if Colonel Rhall had obeyed the orders I sent to him for the erecting of redoubts 1, I am confident his poft would not have been taken." The evacuation of Boston, March 17, 1776, four months after the receipt of the Secretary of State's order to abandon the town, and to move the army to New-York, is the firft material occurrence here difcuffed. For this delay, and for the removal of the army to Halifax, (to the north instead of the fouth,) the reafons given in his letter of the 21st of March, 1776, he apprehends, are fatisfactory. He then haftens to the action at Bedford on Long Island, August 27, and endeavours to exculpate himself from the charge of unneceffarily lofing time by breaking ground, and not carrying the lines by torm. The lofs of 1000, or perhaps 1500 British troops, in carrying thofe lines, would have been (he fays) but ill repaid by double that number of the enemy, could it have been fuppofed they would have fuffered in that proportion." Nor will he allow (for reafons here affigned) that carrying the lines, would have been followed by the defeat of the rebel army. Why an intended affault was not made on the enemy's right, in the engagement at the White Plains, Oct. 28, by the Fihans, Sir William "declines to explain for political reafons, and no other.". We are led, therefore, to conclude that the Heffans refuted to obey his orders; a circumftance which feems to deferve enquiry as much as But, Sir William, had they not befte d'fraced themselves (though you decline to explain it) at the White Plains? We fhall here difmifs the Narrative; but are bound to add briefly what Sir William alleges in anfwer to fome of the charges which we extra&ed from the " Letters" above mentioned. I." The impracticability of the coun try" he fupports by the opinions of Earl Cornwallis, Maj. Gen. Grey, and every military man he ever converfed with on the fobject. II. "The loyalty of the people, and the affiftance they gave to the British arms," he infilts, are mifreprefented. In the former, from a variety of inftances given, he was often iniftaken; and in the latter it always fell fhort of promife and expeciation. III. Instead of “ 40,874," ins whole force in 1777 was " 20, 121;" and Washington, inflead of " 18,000, militia included," had upwards of 28,000," and "militia included, † So much the worfe; they were falfly fe ure, Another inftance of Heffian difubed ruce. 80,300." 80,300." XII. " The Chesapeak expedition," or invading Pennsylvania by fea, he defends, from the impoffi*bility of maintaining the communication for provifions through fuch an extent of country, with the force then at his command. For his not attacking that general in his strong post at Middlebrook, reafons are given in the Narrative, drawn from the circuit that must have been made, no profpect of forcing him, &c. And the difficulties and the risk of paffing the Delaware, from the want of fufficient mean's, were too great On the whole, Sir William feems to relt his defence on the want of fufficient force, having in 1777 made a requifition of 15,000 men to complete his army to 35,000, and only 2,900 being fent. As one particular intance in which he was duped, he mentions 66 Jofeph Gallaway, Efq; (a lawyer by profeffion,) formerly Speaker of the Affembly of Pennsylvania, and afterwards a member of Congress, who came over to the King's army in Dec. 1776," fpecifying his liberality to this refugee, and fhewing how his confidence was mifplaced, and therefore withdrawn from this " nugatory informer."-We shall probably foon have occafion to resume this fubject, as the letter-writer has already announced a reply. 79. The Abbey ofKilk hampton; or, Monumental Records for the Year 1980. Faithfully tranfcribed from the original Inferiptions, which are fill perfect, and appear to be drawn up in a Style devoid of fulfame Panegyric, or unmerited Detraction; and publifhed with a View to aftertain, with Precision, the Manners which prevailed in Great-Britain during the luft Fifty Years of the Eighteenth Century. The 5th Edition, with Additrous. 410, 35. jewed. Kearly, SOME truth, and a little wit, larded with much ill-nature, are fully fufficient to furnish a pleafing repaft to the palate of the million. We are therefore more concerned than furprised at the rapid fale of thefe imaginary epitaphs. Like Jupiter and Venus in a clondy night, a few bright characters Mine forth amidst the general obscu ty. Preferring panegyric, when deferved, to fatire, however juft and pargnant, one of these thall fuffice for a fuecimen; and the rather, as we can, without fcruple, fill up the blanks, firft obferving, that, on the fite of the church of Kilkhampton, which was vifited by Mr. Hervey, the Meditator, in 1746, the author fupposes an abbey to have been erected in 1783, and that the most honourable perfonages were there interred. "Hallowed by the Interment of Georgiana Countefs Spencer, Poffeffed of every charm that could captivate admiration, Adorned with every perfection that could add dignity to the elegance of her accomplishments, Though the exalted loveliness of her virtues Will fecure ber a diftinguished place in the annals of Fame, Yet the filial piety of a much-loved daughter May be allowed to dedicate this monumental pillar to her memory." Long may it be before this is realifed! Upon the whole, this executioner, this literary hangman, deferves, in our opinion, a teltimony as difhonourable as any of the characters that he has interred in his abbey. In fociety thieftakers and thief killers are most neceffary perfonages; but furely these are offices which, defpifed by the honourable and the honeft, will only be filled by those who have neither honour nor honefty themselves. And, as a cafe in point, that adroit fulfiller of the law, Jack Ketch himself, for a notorious breach of it, has lately been fentenced to the gallows. 80. Travels through Spain, with a View to illuftrate the Natural History and Phyfical Geography of that Kingdom. In a Series of Letters. By John Talbot Dillon, Knight and Baron of the Sacred Roman Empire. 410. This work, which confifts chiefly of tranflations from Don Gullierme Bowles's Introduction a la Hiftoria Natural y a la Geographa Fifica d'Efpagna, is divided into two parts. The first comprises the author's' journey to Madrid by way of Navarre, and a defcription of the Northern parts of Spain, including the remarkable objects in Caftile, Arragon, and Bifcay. In the fecond part he traverfes Eftre. madura, Andalufia, Grenada, Murcia, Valencia, and Catalonia. Particu larly curious is his account of the locufts which ravaged Eftremadura in 1754, 1755, and 1757; but it is too long for infertion. Our readers Peed not be reminded that this gentleman is the fuppofed author of -the Letters. ODE to the DESERT. Written on a four-So, in the thirty vales below, ney through the Deferts of Thebais, September, 1777 By Eyles Irwin, Efq. (See P. 528. T HOU wafte from human fight retir'd," Where nought is feen to chear the eye, Nor tree, nor herbage blefs the ground, Save, where the deer, whom fears affail, At noontide heat, and midnight cold, But chief, whence lies our daily track, Difcover'd fprings he taught to flow! HORACE, B. 1. Ode xi. Paraphrafed. B E not concern'd, The length of life to know! Who fix'd the shore Has boundel time And more content to die! Chilham, Kent, 08. 9, ASTER. HUS in a wood two pilgrims turn'd afide, Mifs each their way, as each from each divide; Their path is different, but their error's one, By that mifguided, but by this undone. A A SONNE T. ASTER. Heart that late knew Love's extatic joy, And oft with rapture beat to Beauty's lyre, Now fecks the Mufe, now courts Apollo's fire, No longer favour'd by the wanton boy. Some cruel fiend, that lives but to destroy The blifs which mutual paffion doth inspire, Has spent in abfence his revenging ire, And balanc'd pleasure with a long alloy, Unless the God again will point his dart, And bid my soul with amorous passion glow, By memory doom'd to feel reflection's fmart, At every pore my pungent grief will flow. O beauteous Venus! aid a willing heart; Direct thy fon his miffive shaft to throw. October 14, 1780. H. This with was not granted: we fell in with a party of wild Arabs, and, what was molt extraordinary, on the very day that this Ode was written. This meeting, fo dreaded by us. was, in all probability, the caufe of our prefervation. Thefe foes to man, by an unexpected. turn, became our friends. They were our guides when our people were at a lofs for the road; they led us to the fprings, and fupplied us with food, when our water or provifion failed us, i What an inconteftible evidence is this of the weakness of human opinions! of the vanity of human wiles !* + This feems not quite accurate, as the mamma fell, and the rocks flowed, in the wilderness of Sinai, on the Fattern or Arabian fide of the Red Sea, after the Ifraelites had croffed it. Deferts of Thebais are on the Western or Egyptian fide. EDITOR, Be all my foul with thee pofleft; Plato of old this doctrine taught, Well worthy his exalted thought: Thrice happy fage, first born to prove The uncorrupted joys of love! Fir'd with the fame delightful theme, A western bard extols thy fame: On Tyne's fair banks, with ofiers crown'd, The youth's enraptur'd lays refound. From Jove thy high defcent he lings, Worthy the race of gods and kings. Nor lefs could Friendship's name inspire Her own a life more dear to fave: Delighted ftill to fix her feat To wipe Affiction's falling tear : K. Wit, Sculpture, Painting, in one pile expire, Gave Love her empire, and to Peace a reft; And trumpet's clangours fhock the vaulted sky; Where valorous knights, with glittering ar mour grac'd, [pac'd; Whofe feeds high-mettled round the circle There Beauty reign'd, there Beauty's power was feen, [ícene. There Love gain'd empire, and adorn'd the The field where erft, impel'd by brutal ftrife, Ambition pointed at a brother's life; Revenge talk'd ghaftly o'er the wide domain, And dy'd with kindred blood the hostile plain; That field great Edward * made the plain of peace, [creafe; Reflor'd loft Knighthood, bade the arts enHis bright example all the court infpir'd, The charms of Beauty all their bosoms fir'd; They fought renown, that gain'd the fair-one's [toils: And Beauty blefs'd them for their former Worth, worth alone, could gain their beau fmiles, Lines left by the late Reverend William Scott at Pelling-Place in Berkshire, the Villa of Mr. Pigott, with the Intent that they foula be cut with a Diamond on a Pane of Glufs in Mr. Pigott's Parlour Window. NVY, if poisonous eve E Through this window dare to pry, To thy forrow thou that find All that's generous, good, and kind, Epitaph in Welwyn Church-Yard. ~AY, can I e'er forget the warmth divine That from thy heart did through thy conduct fhine; SAY Thy juftice, charity, and power to move By fott perfuafion, undiffembled love; With a i the virtues which enrich'd thy mind, To make thee happy, and to blefs mankind. † M.fs Steele. + Edward III. |