ment; but at the fecond ledge, 40 feet ration, that was almoft heightened to floor, in the middle of which fuperftition by a charming found, like the dark dungeon at that height is an Eolian harp, which we both difconfpicuoufly dreadful, it is almoft im- tinctly heard at feveral intervals, unable to conjecture how it was occafioned. On the left of the entrance is a door to a fmall clofet in the wall fix feet fquare, feven feet high, quite plain except a niche, neither trough or hole; the floor on a level with the former. Encouraged by this reward of our boldnefs, we proceeded on the narroweft and most dangerous part of the lodge to the next ftaircafe door; onthe left of which is a winding paffage to a fink: the loophole by which it was lighted is broken away, perhaps by cannon, being towards a commanding hill; many other fractures appearing only on this fide of the tower, gives fome weight to this conjecture. Twenty-five ftone ftairs carry us to the prefent top of the tower: the buttreffes rife feveral feet higher; on one of them appear tteps, in three others is a large arched alcove; in a fifth is a round place exactly refembling an oven, five or fix feet in diameter and height, the mouth two feet fquare;" it is on a level with the paffage, which feems to have run round the tower. Projecting ftones for fupporting a-floor fill appear; the wall ten feet and a half thick, diminishing 18 inches t every floor. We here difcovered from whence proceeded the fweet found's heard in the Gothic chamber. The height of the three rooms is 52 feet. The remains of each buttress is 86 feet high, the main tower eight feet lefs. The mortar confifts of lime fand, finall fhells, and charcoal. On digging the foundation for a houfe near the Rev. Mr. Watkins's, in 1797, fome lead pipes were found in a direction from the village well to the caftle, about half a mile diftance. A Roman way is dif coverable, running through Mr. Savile's orchard and Mr. Shergold's gardens, but not in a direction to the caftle. practicable for grown people, and not many, I believe, have ventured farther than the top of the fecond faircafe. An enthufiaftical love of antique curiofities, however, emboldened me to attempt it, followed by a friend, and highly gratified we were on gain ing a door oppofite the fire place; here we found a fall room decorated in the Gothic manner, of which I fend a drawing, No. 2, it may give an idea of the perfect ftate of this tower. It is of an hexagonal form, and contained in the wall and one of the buttrelles, in length 12 feet, breadth at each end fix feet, and betwen the two middle pillars eight feet; it is arched, and ornamented with two crofs arches fupported on fix pillars, one at cach angle; on the two middle ones refts alfo a fifth arch, curioully carved, rendering the fpace more uniform. In the centre of each crofs arch is a circular key fione (fig. 1.) but not both alike. Figs. 2 and 3 fhew the order and exact ornaments of two of the pillars, all varying except the two on each fide of the entrance. Oppofite the door is a large loophole, height fix feet; the outfide is but fix inches wide, the infide 30 inches, the wall five feet thick; the triangular pieces on the arch furrounding it have been ornamented with various carvings, now much defaced. Against the wall under this window appears to have been fome fixture. A circular aperture pierces each fide of the buttres, 30 inches diameter on the infide, diminishing outwards to about 20 inches; the outward ftone forms a quatrefoile (fig 4.); round the outfide of each are eleven balls at regular diftances. In this room are two niches oppofite each other, about a foot and a half fquare, the top cut in the refemblance of a crown; one of them has a circle of fmall fquares refembling diamonds round it, probably the addition of a On Cateby hill, near Conifbro', was the ruin of a chapel, or hermitage, near ago Sir later date; no trough or cavity in the a wood, which three Yowing no pc bottom of either, but a finall hole Lionel Copley's fteward may M. BROWNE. -Mr. SEND you a fac-fimile of the fignature of one of Fortune's favourites, Don Manuel de Godoy y Alvarez de Faria, Prince of Peace, Duke of Alcudia, &c. &c. and generaliflimo of the Spanish forces. If you think it worth a place in your valuable Magazine, the infertion of it will oblige an occafional correfpondent. See Plate II. Having repeatedly heard the above title of Prince of Peace objected to, as profane, and bordering on the blaf-, phemous, I take this opportunity of obferving, for the information of luch of your readers as may be unacquainted with its origin, that it has no allufion whatever to the title given in Scripture to the Meffiah; but was granted to the Duke in confequence of his having concluded the late peace with France, and fhould rather be rendered in Englifh Prince of the Peace, than the Prince of Peace, as it univerfally is. Yours, &c. I. E. H. Mr. URBAN, March 24. Tof the following lines to the me- mory of the family of Roberts, on a * "Clauditur bic generis feries-Vos pace. fepulti, [mortis, Majorum cineres requiefcite; cum tuba Terribili clangore fores effringet ahenas, E tumulis exite, domufque intrate Piorum. O femper deflende mihi Pater, optima Mater, [tufque, Frater amate, vale; tibi, te mandante, Saxa paro, ftructoque libens hæc carmina bufto 1 Qualiacunque fero. Nos longè a rure paterno P. 193 Hiftorical Tour in Moumouthshire, Ite, pii cives, oro, memorefque meorum "W. H. R. C. E. P." A few lines of profe, from the fame fplendid work, are fo perfectly appro priate to the prefent times, that they cannot be too widely diffufed. Some entertaining anecdotes of a famous regicide, who was imprifoned and is bu ried at Chepftow, are clofed with this animated remark: "Henry Martin exhibits a striking inftance, that thofe who begin revolutions are ultimately facrificed by thofe who continue them; and that they who fhake off the due restraints of a legal and regular government, will fuffer greater oppreffion from thofe whom they contributed to elevate, than they even apprehended from the monarch they affifted to dethrone. His example is alfo a proof that the loudeft declaimers against tyranny and peculation, when raised to power, often become tife greatest tyrants and plunderers themselves; and affords a falutary warning to the people, that the abolition of ecclefiaftical eftablifhments leads to the extirpation of religion and morality and that vifionary fchemes of perfect liberty terminate eher in republican defpotifm, or in the tyranny of ufurped authority" In a lift of Mayors of Coventry, publifhed by Mr. Hearne at the end of his edition of Fordun's Scotichronicon, p. 1457, is this entry: 66 1567. This yeare the queen of the Scotts was brought prizoner to Coventry, and was kept in the mariffes [mayorefs's] parlor, and from thence went to Titbury," [Tuthury.] Thomas's Dugdale gives the date 1566;" but, as both years are evidently too early †, I with fome Coventry friend would point out, from their public or private Town records, what entries and dates are preferved relative to this Royal Captive. M. GREEN. Mr. URBAN, Hinckley, March 25. *Hiftorical Tour, &c. p. 390. unproductive unproductive feafons. The latter I believe to be very confiderable; but, if we have plentiful crops, we fhall fill have a deficiency. Whence can this arife? Mr. Pitt, in his general view of the agriculture of the county of Stafford, calculates the deficiency in an average feafon to be one third. Leicestershire wants more; and fome other counties perhaps as much. London contains one-feventh or one-eighth of the population of this kingdom; and produces no corn. Whence then the fupply? and what is the caufe of the fcarcity? The proverbial faying, that "no man is fo blind as he that will not. fee," is perfectly juft. This real fcarcity is owing to the confined limitation of the plough. You may fay, What makes meat dear? The fame caufe; as there is no grain for Theep on turnips; none for cows in the fall. Confider how many thou fand hogs would have been fed; but they are now almoft annihilated for want of food. The landlord fays, my tenants fhall not plough any, or but fuch a given quantity; and the leffer landlords are worfe than the greater in reftraining their tenants. If gentlemen would let their tenants plough a proper quantity of acres, the land would keep as much or more flock than if that was not the cafe. Some fay a general inclofure bill will caufe plenty; but what of that? in three or four years it is laid down again in grafs, and then where are all the advantages? We are fill the fame. The fcarcity has been greatly increafing for thefe feven years paft. It has been faid, the imports of corn for the laft year amounted to the enormous fum of ten millions of money. It is expected this year it will be confiderably more, and is likely to continue unlefs more land is converted into tillage; and that alone refts with the owners of land. When the numeris tenantry have a greater liberty of using the plough, plenty may return. Till then 1 am doubtful of any fufficient inland fupply to aufwer. our great confumption. I am a conftant reader, Mr. Urban, of your valuable Magazine, though not accustomed to write; and hope you will excufe any inaccuracy, of compofition. AGRICOLA. fhould have taken up the question of non-refidence in an oppofite point of view; nor am I furprized at the manner in which they have treated it, They have written about it in the manner that all Speculative perfons do about a matter they do not practically understand, and have not confidered in a practical point of view. Nonrefidence is a word which has been played upon as much as the word reform, as much as equal reprefentation, the rights of man, liberty and equality, or any other popular cry, to which an incomprenfible charm has been annexed without knowing either its meaning or confequences. To un derftand the evils of non-refidence, let us have them clearly and diftincity pointed out, in cafes where there is a regular and refpectable refident curate, It is, fir, abfolute nonfenfe to fay that the doctrine of a man under the name of a curate may not be as edify ing as that of a rector. It is abfolute nonfenfe to talk of ufing hofpitality, when it is a well-known fact, that-the income of moft livings affords a bare maintenance to the incumbent and his family, in the ftyle of a gentleman. "The church, God blefs it! (faid Lord Chathain) hath little enough;" and if your correfpondents knew how very finall a number of livings in the whole kingdom amount to the clear fum of 5001. each in a year t, they would not utter this egregious nonfenfe about ufing hofpitality. The plain truth is, that moft of the non-refidents are really fuch becaufe their benefices are too fmall to afford them a fupport; and they are getting their bread elsewhere, either by teaching fchool or other employment, while the churches are fupplied by perfons who have property and connections on the fpot; and to whom it is a manifeft convenience. In one word, fir, the church has exifted ever fince the Reformation without the enforcing of this ftatute; and yet without the, finalleft detriment or inconvenience; and I contend that to * In at least 99 cafes out of 100, the parfon is more in need of hofpitality than able to difperfe it., + Perhaps not five hundred in all; and what is gool. per ann. compared with most trades and profeffions? I am fatisfied, that if incumbents were always obliged to refide on their curs, the inftances of neglect would be much more numerous |