nal elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation;" but Lochlomond made amends in the evening. In the morning I was up at sunrise, and on board a steamer on Lochlomond, and saw the English coming up along the sides with guns, dogs, and baggage, to grouse-shooting. A gipsy-faced Highland girl told us that she had learned to crack with the English folk, from living at one of the Inns here. She kent we had a great deal of siller, because we could afford to pay 3s. for the packet; she had only 2s. herself in the world, and was going therefore to" feer," or hire herself, to the shearers for six weeks. The packet disembarked us at Dunbarton, where the jail is in the middle of the town, as in Stirling. The prisoners looked out between the bars, and asked us to buy the prison. A man going round as a crier, was beating a drum. We here

went on board another steamer. Leaving Benlomond, and passing Dunbarton castle in the middle of the river, we dropped down the Clyde to Glasgow. We had on board some ladies, who had been to Argyleshire and Arran for a visit, by themselves; a Highland gentleman or two in jacket, waistcoat, and trowsers, of scarlet plaid, of the Paul Pry make, and looking like huge salmon flies; a fiddler to play to the crew, and regulate the dance; newspapers; and evangelical pamphlets, setting forth the remarkable conversions of Miss Betsy and Miss Nancy so and so, by the mediation of two pious Scotch students. The personal details were minute and curious. From Glasgow, a beastly city, we coached to Modern Athens, altogether by river and land ninety miles in one day. Thus I finished my tour in the Western Highlands. J. FOSBROKe.

Rev. Robert Fleming, a learned and pious divine of the Kirk of Scotland, in a work published A. D. 1701, under the title of "An Epistolary Discourse concerning the Rise and Fall of the Papacy," &c. I then ventured to point out, drawing from thence an inference of the successive fulfilment of Prophecy.

The work referred to had indeed been before rendered so remarkable by the awful previous events of the French Revolution, and the tragical fate of the unfortunate Louis, which were therein considered as having been metaphorically prefigured, by the fourth of those vials of God's wrath, successively poured out by the seven angels (see Revelation, ch. xvi. ver. 8 and 9), as to give at that period an extensive circulation to a new and numerous edition published under the title of "An Apocalyptical Key." Still more remarkable was that of the subsequent invasion of the Papal dominions, designated according to the same system in the book above referred to, and that too near a century before it took place, by the 5th vial.

"The fifth vial, (ver. 10, 11,)" says he, "which is to be poured out on the seat of the beast, or the dominions which more immediately belong to and depend upon the Roman See, that I say this judgment will probably begin about the year 1794,* and expire about the year 1848; so that the duration of it, upon this supposition, will be for the space of 54 years. I do suppose, that seeing the Pope received the title of universal Bishop ↑ no sooner than A.D. 606, he cannot

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be supposed to have any vial poured out upon his seat immediately, so as to ruin his authority so signally as this vial is supposed to do, until the year 1848, which is the date of the 1260 years in prophetical account, when they are reckoned from the year 606. But yet we are not to imagine that this vial will totally destroy the papacy (though it will exceedingly weaken it),

* The date of Buonaparte's invasion of Italy.

Or if a bare title of this sort," adds Fleming, in another part of his work, "be not deemed sufficient to constitute the Pope Head of the Beast, we may reckon this from the year 608, when Boniface the Fourth did first publicly authorize idolatry, by dedicating the Pantheon to the worship of the Virgin Mary and all the Saints."

for we find this still in being and alive when the next vial is poured out."

Excuse me, Mr. Urban, if I may here appear to have trespassed in some degree on your patience by the above quotation, on the ground of its apparently introductory connection with what follows. We now proceed to the resumption of our main subject.

"The 6th vial," says Fleming, "will be poured out on the Mahometan Antichrist, as the former on the Papacy; and seeing the 6th trumpet, brought the Turks from beyond the Euphrates, from crossing which river they take their rise, this 6th vial dries up their waves, and exhausts their power, to prepare the way for the kings of the East to renounce their heathenish and Mahometan errors, in order to their receiving and embracing Christianity; for I think this the import of the text.” ↑ How striking, on comparison, agreeably to my former remark, are the features of those events now passing

606; and 18 years to be deducted from the reckoning by the Julian period, from 1866, brings the prophetical reckoning to 1849.

The learned author of the Apocalyptical Key substantiates the accuracy of his mode of reckoning by a species of corollary, deduced from various passages of Scripture, in respect to the prophetical years reckoned after this plan, each day for a year, and particularly points out its solution of the 70 weeks of Daniel in these words: "The famous prophecy of Daniel reaching down from the edict of Artaxerxes Longimanus in his 20th year (Nehemiah xi. 1 ver. to 10,) to our Saviour's suffering at Jerusalem, which was exactly 490 prophetical years, not Julian ones; the not distinguishing of which has hitherto confounded most interpreters." MASON CHAMBERLIN.

Mr. URBAN,

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of our author, though formed more than a century ago.

According to Fleming's prophetical reckoning, days are taken for years, as counted by the ancients, 12 months of 30 days each; three years and a half, or forty-two months equal to 1260 days; or a time, two times, and half a time. Prophetical. Days 360, a year or time.

720, two years or times.
180, half year or half a time.

key to another character in the "Private is one I should have least expected to Memoirs of Sir Kenelm Digby." It

have identified,-that of Mauricana, or Manricana, as perhaps Sir Kenelm originally wrote it.

This was a lady of consequence in the Court of Madrid; to whom Sir Kenelm Digby devoted his attentions, in consequence, as he says, of some remarks of Lord Kensington, afterwards Earl of Holland (Arcadia in the Memoirs), that the philosophic Knight appeared indifferent to the charms of the Spanish ladies.

"To reduce you out of your error," he told his friend I will, for a while, make truce with higher contemplations, and let down my judgment to make love to a mistress; in which I dare, beforehand, promise myself such success, that, for the future, you shall have no cause to pity any servant of the Muses for learned modesty; and, because I will leave you no colour for new exceptions, I will apply myself to the service of that great and fair lady, for whom you continually sigh, because you receive from her so small encouragement to continue that hitherto unlucky affection of yours; and am so confident of the favour that my learned patronesses may procure me (it being their custom to insinuate themselves with secret sweetness into the most rebellious minds, and to tame the

* The Muses, of whom he had been before talking.

knight, which title he would still maintain by all the real service that it might challenge from him, and should attend mindful with singular delight of the great favour she had done him; but that his affections had once been, though unfortunately, engaged elsewhere with too great force, to place them upon any other object; and that, for the present, he was obliged to attend the Prince his master, into whose service, in an honourable place, he was now received. But all that he could say availed no more to the cure of her mind, than the speeches of ignorant standers-by do, to bring health to one that lieth burning in a violent fever; so that, when he left her, she remained wedded to sorrow and despair; and not long after, seeing she could not have him whom only she thought worthy of her, she left the world, that afforded to her but a constant succession of continual torments, and consecrated the rest of her days to a worthier spouse, among other vestal virgins of noble quality."

Now for the development of this inamorata's real name, great part of which, in pursuance of Sir Kenelm's plan, pointed out in your Magazine for April, is preserved in her fictitious title. It is furnished by a passage in one of Howel's published letters to Sir Kenelm Digby, which, from its commencing with a mention of the final rupture of the Prince of Wales's projected Spanish match, must have been written about the beginning of April

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"I send you herewith," he says, letter from the paragon of the Spanish Court, Donna Anna Maria Manrique,* the Duke of Maqueda's sister, who respects you in a high degree; she told me this was the first letter she ever writ to man in her life, except the Duke her brother. She was much sollicited to write to Mr. Thomas Cary, but she would not. I did also your message to the Marquesa d'Inojosa, who put me to sit a good while with her upon her estrado, which was no simple faYou are much in both these ladies' books, and much spoken of by divers others in this Court."

vour.

The name is Manrique, not Maurique. "Don Manuel Manrrique" was one of the performers at the grand Masque of the Spanish Court, at Easter 1623.-Nichols's Progresses of James the First, vol. IV. p. 863.

The younger son of Lord Carey, afterward Earl of Monmouth, and brother to the second Earl. He was one of Charles's Grooms of the Bedchamber, and continued in that post until the unfortunate Monarch's death, very soon after which he died. From various sacrifices to the Muses, he has been frequently styled a Poet.

Epistola Ho-elianæ, p. 238.

The Duke of Maqueda I find among the performers at the Bull-fight exhibited in Madrid at Pentecost 1623, for the entertainment of the English Prince Charles. His "entrie," says the historian of the contest, "both in respect of his qualitie, as also for the valour and aspect of his person, might well have stirr'd up envie in the Romaine Triumphes, for the Duke lookt like one of the Cæsars, or rather indeed he might more properly have been their patterne and example." On meeting the bull his antagonist, "the Duke of Maqueda made such a thrust, that the beast being batterd and sore goared with it, he revenged himselfe in such a strange fashion upon his horse, that he ranne him quite through, from one side to the other, and the Duke beheld the assault given on the one side of his horse, and the horne of the bull as it came out at the other; and the poore brute beast gave so many twitches and wrenches, enforced with paine and griefe, that the Duke was fayne to use all valour and dexteritie to prevent his owne falling; whereat we were all much afraid." §

Of this perilous pastime the Duke's sister and her deceitful English knight were doubtless both spectators.

The Marchioness d'Inojosa, the other lady who was honoured by a particular share of Sir Kenelm Digby's gallantry, was the wife of a nobleman who, at the time Howel wrote, was absent as Ambassador Extraordinary in J.G.N. England.

§"Two Royall Entertainments," &c. reprinted in Nichols's Progresses of King James the First.

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Mr. URBAN, Walthamstow, Nov. 21. THROUGH the wide circulation which your Miscellany has given to my wants, I have had some thousands of Forms of Prayer sent to me, so that I have now every Form, either printed or MS. before mentioned; and soon expect to make my collection complete from 1544 to 1820, a period of 276 years!

Of that Form spoken of by J. F. (vol. XCVII. ii. p. 517), as wanting in the Lambeth Collections, I have a duplicate copy; as also of many other Forms, which an inspection of the Archiepiscopal Library has shown me are not there. These I should be happy to exchange for the Lambeth duplicates of those Forms which I have only in MS., if I know how to effectuate so desirable an exchange. J. W. NIBLOCK.