FLY LEAVES. No. XXXIV. Bezaleel Morris. HE only notes hitherto appended THE to the various editions of the Dunciad, by Alexander Pope, are those flowing from the humour of Scriblerus, and the perspicuous gathering and labour of the Rev. W. Warburton. Some future editor may forego the taciturn system of some of his predecessors, and not uniformly pass the way-faring stranger, damned into fame for the purpose of crowding the temple of Dulness, by candidly identifying the real, from the proclaimed shadows made important by the satire of the poet. Of Bezaleel Morris, it is first stated, he was "author of some satires on the translation of Homer, with many other things printed in newspapers," while Scriblerus makes his existence doubtful, by declaring Bezaleel "carries forgery in the very name," and then thrusts him into a plurality of Curll's "phantoms." The name of Bezaleel Morris, as a poet, may be traced for thirty years, without any apparent conjunction with Curll, and therefore, possibly, a human form bearing baptismal honours, and certainly not a phantom. a phantom. He An Epistle to Mr. Welsted, and a Satyr on the English translation of Homer, Bickerton, 1721. "sold An Epistle to the falsely celebrated British Homer. Advertised as by the booksellers of London and Westminster," April, 1742. *Of these waifs and strays,'" some congratulatory verses to his Grace the Duke of Dorset, on his return to England," first printed at Dublin, occur in the Gazetteer, 11th October, 1735. + Curll published the minor poems of Pope, on single folio leaves, which are now of very rare occurrence. In that manner appeared, 1719, the lines "to the ingenious Mr. Moore, author of the celebrated worm powder," with a stanza, which it may be fitly hoped was never afterwards printed. Splendid talents will catch at doubtful wit, notwithstanding the proclamation "Want of decency is want of sense." Philosopher too soon! and Bard too late! By him he's more than argument abus'd, And more perversely than religion us'd. Smart Pope comes now-yet not so sterne as these; He proves more kind, treats him with grace and ease, And makes him spruce, the beaus and belles to please: So gentle female habits, heretofore, N the Numbers for October and N ents November last, your Correspond "Clericus," and "X. Y. Z." have sent forth opinions to the world on the subject of the Apocrypha, directly opposed to those in the Sixth Article of our Church. The decision therein pronounced, like all the other points decided in the 39 Articles, rests on grounds not to be shaken by the puny theologians of the present day; and had your Correspondents read Gray's Key to the Old Testament, Bishop Tomline's Elements, or the Prefaces in D'Oyley and Mant's Bible (not to mention the larger works on the Canon, the very sight of which is sufficient to throw us of these degenerate days into hysterics), I am inclined to think they would not have hazarded such opinions. But as it is, I trust the well-known orthodoxy of your principles will readily procure the admission into your pages of this hum ble effort in defence of the apostolical doctrines of our Church. Your above-mentioned Correspondents seem to have fallen into two crrors. The first of these is, considering the Apocrypha as a whole. They speak of it as if all its parts were of equal authority, or either as if it were but one book, and not a mere arbitrary collection into one volume, of writings possessing very different degrees of credit and authority. Now here it must be recollected that such an assumption is perfectly untrue, nay, that the Apocrypha, as it is introduced in the larger editions of the English Bible, is not complete; for in the Syriac, and in the most ancient MSS. of the Septuagint, particularly in the Alexandrian and Vatican, there is a third book of Maccabees, and a fourth book of Maccabees is added in a few other MSS. The different writings composing the Apocrypha were written in different languages, and at different times; and some are mere translations and abridgments, the originals being lost. Accordingly, in the Calendar of Lessons, our Church makes a distinction between the different books, not allowing either Book of Esdras, or of Maccabees, the Addition to the Book of Esther, the Song of the Three Children, or the Prayer of Manasseh, to form a part of the public instruction of the Church Service. The Church of Rome itself never lost sight of this distinction in the several books; for, even in the arrogance of her infallibility, she never dared to admit into the Canon of Scripture the Prayer of Manasseh, or the Third and Fourth books of Esdras. If, therefore, such a distinction is well founded, the recognition of one of the Books could not (as Clericus supposes) confer authority on the whole Collection, of which such Book was a part, that Collection being in itself purely arbitrary. This leads me to the second error of your Correspondents, viz. that a bare quoting or alluding to another book in Scripture stamps Divine Authority on such Book. But such a circumstance would add no more authority to that particular Book (and much less to the whole Collection into which it was arbitrarily incorporated) than St. Paul's quotations from the heathen poets, Aratus (Acts xvii. 28), Menander (Corinth. xv. 33), and Epimenides (Titus i. 12), stamp a divine authority on their several works so quoted, or than the mention of the names of Jannes aud Jambres (2 Tim. iii. 8) by the same Apostle, and the prophecy of Enoch (mentioned by St. Jude (xiv.) stamp the authority of inspiration on the several books in which such parts are mentioned. Nay, our Lord himself, in his divine form of prayer, is generally admitted to have, in some respects, only condensed the matter of the Jewish liturgy; yet the prayers of the synagogue never claimed on that account to be received as inspired. It is not the bare quoting of these several books, but their being quoted as of divine authority, which can authorize them to be considered as revelations from God. And this is the very mistake into which Clericus has fallen; for without adverting to this necessary condition of quotation, he has paraded a correspondence between a saying of our Lord, and the 30th verse of the first chapter of the 2d Book of Esdras, as a proof not only of the divine authority of that Book, but of the whole Apocrypha: and all this is done as a discovery, which is slily intended to correct the mistaken Authors of the 39 Articles! Why, if necessary, scores of passages might be produced from the Apocrypha, corresponding more or less with passages in the New Testament. But the eclat of the whole proceeding consists in selecting the quotation, which is to do such wonders, from this said 2d Book of Esdras; this book being shrewdly suspected by critics to have been published after the promulgation of the Gospel, by some one who wished by this means to aid the Christian cause. On the general question of the Apocrypha, I would entreat your two Correspondents to examine the five following points, with respect to the seve ral Books of this Collection, viz. their genuineness, authenticity, incorruptness, integrity, and credibility. On comparing this evidence with that which can be produced on these same questions for the authority of the several Books of the Old Testament, they would see that there was no ground, as respects the Apocrypha, on which to found the sixth and last great question of inspiration, or divine authority. For that of the Old Testament, however, we have sufficient proofs, first, in the authority of the Jewish Canon; and, secondly, in its recognition by Christ and his Apostles and of both these evidences of divine authority the Apocrypha is entirely destitute. In conclusion, I must express my regret that some of your Correspondents do not seem to think that the Church of England is placed at the exact point of propriety between Popery and Dissent. Hence proceed the opposite wishes of uniting with Methodism on one hand; and on the other, in conformity, I suppose, with our good friends the Papists, of admitting the Apocrypha with its beauties and defects; its truth, its fiction, and its nonsense, all together, into the divine Canon of Scripture. Surely if at any time, the present is a time, when such attempts ought to be forborne ; when we ought especially to guard against any hazard of marring the apostolical «beauty of holiness," and Scriptural simplicity, which belong to our own venerable faith, by any adoption of the unfounded principles of its enemies. PRESBYTER ORTHODOXUS. Mr. URBAN, THE Jan. 22. HE gentleman who, at the last, meeting of the Catholics, expressed such indignation that Protestants would not adopt those views of Popery which its disciples wished to propagate concerning it, may probably feel a curiosity to know the reasons why one person at least feels disposed to doubt them. They are these. 1. That the British Catholics are not authorised to expound their faith; Popes and Councils alone being competent to it. 2. Because their own champion Mr. Butler has felt himself obliged to omit a passage in the Creed of Pius IV. (when giving that creed as the authorised belief of a Papist), which is of vital importance, as binding every member of that faith to procure that all under him shall hold, teach, and preach," the faith of Popery, "quantum in me erit;" that is, to the utmost of his power. 3. Because from the mutilations and alterations of ancient authors, and the forgeries of documents, unless they read the works of Protestants, where these things are exposed, no Catholic, even the most learned, has any chance of arriving at a thorough knowledge of his own religion. 4. Because those declarations are contradictory to the authorised creeds, as Mr. Butler or t from whom he quoted, felt, when he suppressed the above passage. 5. Because they are contradictory to the practice of that Church, which established the Inquisition in 1814, and only 10 years ago some of the higher ranks of British Catholics expressed themselves favourable to the Inquisition, as Llorente, its late secretary, declares (Southey's Vindiciae, 421.) 6. Because the case of the priest Gandolphy (see Mr. Croly's publication, Popery and the Popish Question") shows that every artifice is practised to give false representations of Popery. A SHROPSHIRE Curate. Mr. URBAN, Manchester, Jan. 21. N the choir of the Collegiate Church of Manchester is a flat grave-stone divided into two compartments, the upper portion surmounted with the arms of Fitz Roy in a lozenge, surrounded by those usual emblems of mortality, a skull, cross bones, and candle nearly extinguished, winged hour-glass, and scythe; and beneath this inscription: "Lady Barbara Fitzroy, eldest daughter of the most noble Charles Duke of Cleveland and Southampton, died Jan. 4, 1734." The lower_compartment contains the arms of Dawson, with the following: "Here are deposited the remains of William Dawson, esq. who died on the 17th day of August, 1780, and in the 60th year of his age. He desired to be buried with the above-named lady, not only to testify his gratitude to the memory of a kind benefactress, although he never reaped any of those advantages from her bounty to his family which she intended, but because his fate was similar to hers, for she was disowned by her mother, and he was disinherited by his father." In Mr. Barret's papers, now depo sited in the library of Cheetham's Hospital, the following notice of Mr. Dawson occurs: "This gentleman was buried agreeably to his request in the following dress, ruffled shirt, and cravat, night-cap of brown fur, morning-gown striped orange and white, deep crimson-coloured waistcoat and breeches, white silk stockings, and red morocco slippers. In his bosom was put a folded piece of white paper, which inclosed two locks of He cut from the heads of two boys that died, for whom Mr. Dawson had a great regard; they being the children of Mr. Cooper his steward, with whom Mr. Dawson lived, and likewise became his heir at his death." to From the Manchester family of Dawson proceeded the hero of Shenstone's ballad, and in the notices of those executed during 1746, the relations of the unfortunate "Jemmy Dawson " are uniformly stated have been respectable and wealthy. But by what means the fortunes of the Dawsons became connected with those of Lady Barbara Fitzroy, that we should thus find her sharing the grave of so eccentric a personage, I am unable to discover. The Peerage merely states that Lady Barbara was the daughter of the Duke of Cleveland by his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Pulteney, and that she was born Feb. 7, 1695-6. X. L. D. Elizabeth probably died young, for no tree; The one gave her life and beinge, but the She on her orchard like a due distil'd, secure; The greater is his losse, but that hee knew For nyne brave sons she educated saw, In arts, in armes, in courtshype, and in law, Only for refuge, but for recreation; Besides six daughters whome her prudent care THE following pieces wethe wife of ductions of Margaret, the of John Keigwin of Mousehole in Cornwall, esq. and daughter of John Giffard of Brightley in Devon, esq. some account of whom will be found in your Magazine, vol. xc. ii. p. 36, and were written before her marriage in 1666, at which time she was about eighteen years old. The first is addressed to the memory of her grandmother Joan, daughter of Sir John Portman of Orchard, co. Somerset, and wife of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham in that county, knt. the ancestor of the Right Hon. the Earl of Egremont. By Sir John Wyndham she had a numerous family, of whom Sir Hugh and Sir Wadham Wyndham attained the dignity of the Should keepe the tree y' should in Eden Bench. Of the six daughters mentioned by her, Joan the eldest, married John Giffard, and was the mother of the writer of these pieces; Margaret was the wife of John Courtenay of Molland; Florence, of John Harris of Hayne, co. Devon; Rachel, of Thomas Moore of Halisbury, co. Wilts; and Margery, of Thomas Carew of Crocomb. The allusion to the Orchards applied to the name of the seat of the Wyndham and Portman families; and, excepting the strained metaphor of the "dew distill'd," which occurs twice, the verses do some credit to the taste and feeling of so young a female at the period in which she lived. Her sister And all in freshest flowre of their age, store. Faythfull and happy, fruitfull, full of days, prayse, For 'twas not fitt an orchard here below growe. MARGREAT GIFFARD." On my sister Elizabeth. Heare sleeps his sweetest saint, So like unto her Saivour Wass hiss child, Wise hertted, humble, milde; With eight sisters more, Christ did powre MARGREAT GIFFARD." REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1. Sculptured Metopes discovered amongst the Ruins of the Temples of the ancient City of Selinus in Sicily. By William Harris and Samuel Angell, in the Year 1823. Described by Samuel Angel! and Thomas Evans, Architects. Lond. fol. pp. 56. Plates. Priestley and Weale. AMONG the earliest establishments of the Greeks in Sicily, was a colony from Megara in Attica, who settled in the vicinity of Mount Etna, and founded a city called Hybla Megara. In the 32d Olympiad (650 B.C.) descendants of these Greco-Sicilians built Selinus, on the South-west coast of the island. During 250 years this new city continued to flourish, and attained to considerable splendour. But becoming involved in the was of Greece, and local discords, it was dismantled by Hannibal, the son of Giscon, in the g2d Olympiad; and was afterwards engaged in rebellions petty against the Carthaginians. They, upon the success of the Romans, determined to make a last stand at Lilybæum. "In the execution of this plan, the extinction of Selinus was decreed; the city was demolished, and the inhabitants were removed to Lilybæum. This catastrophe was final, and Selinus never afterwards found a place in the page of ancient history." P. 24. That interesting and tasteful traveller Denon (whom our authors appear not to have consulted), speaking of the three known temples, says, that at the largest we seem to behold the work of Giants. Every column is a tower; every capital a whole rock. ("Sicily," p. 177.) The ruins occupy the summits of two opposite hills. On the eastern are three Temples (those visited by travellers and described by Denon, &c.) of massy magnificence and very grand appearance. The largest of these Temples is infinitely superior in plan, execution, and materials to that of Agrigentum. It is octostyle pseudodipteral. It is eight feet longer than the latter, and thirteen feet narrower. The shafts of the columns are formed by single blocks. The cella is divided in its width by two rows of Doric columns, like the great Temple at Pæstum. The capitals of certain of the columns are to be seen at Pæstum, GENT. MAG. January, 1827. the Temple of Diana at Syracuse, and the Greek Temple at Pompeii. The distinction of these capitals is the echinus of a considerable curve, and great projection, with a concavity immediately below the annulets (pp. 30, 32). The central Temple is hexastyle pe ripteral. Our authors found four courses of masonry under the pavement, and immediately under the lowest course was a layer of sand, about four inches deep, placed upon the solid rock (p. 31). What could the reason be of this intervening layer of sand? to absorb moisture?-The third Temple is hexastyle peripteral. frizes of the pronaos and posticum sculp"This Temple had the metopes of the tured, while those of the peristyle were all plain, a peculiarity of which it is believed this Temple affords the only example." P.32, Here we shall observe, that the Selinuntine Temples do not appear to have been ever in a finished state; and to this cause, not to any peculiarity of design, we attribute the plain metopes. On the western hill, our authors first discovered the remains of three Temples, that is to say, they succeeded in making out the plans and architectural details of three more Temples, which have never heretofore been published. The principal Temple, the most ancient of the three, is supposed to have been the one alluded to by Herodotus, as dedicated to Jupiter Agoreus. It is hexastyle peripteral, with seventeen columns on the sides,―a proportion, it is to be believed, not to be found in any other ancient example. It is worthy of remark, that in this Temple the columns of the fronts are of a greater diameter than those of the sides, and the intercolumniations are wider; a in some measure, the great disproportion, in mode adopted for the purpose of correcting, reference to other Temples, of six columns on the fronts to seventeen on the flanks. The columns are of heavy proportion, with a decided entasis, and have only sixteen flutings; the entablature is heavy, and has a very remarkable peculiarity, the mutules over the inetopes being only half the width of those over the triglyphs, and containing only half the number of gutta." P. 33. The second temple is hexastyle peripteral, with thirteen columns on the |