Of sweet solicitude, and props his head
Even with her own white arm; until at length
The sliding pillow is replaced;--but ere
His cheek may press on its uneven down,
Her delicate hand hath smoothed it.-(What a
theme

No careless smile doth light up. All that art,
Most finished art, can give, it there has given ;
But the high mind, what pencil may portray!
Aye-there art fails.

Yet powerful is the skill, whose impress thus
Can stamp an untold value on the span

For those who love to weave the pictured spell, Of worthless canvass which that frame enshrines

And fix the shadows that would else depart,
From all but memory, on the tablets fair
Of the divine Euterpe.) Her blue eyes
With tenderness grow darker as they dwell
Upon the wreck before her ;-and a tear,
Collecting 'neath their fringes, large and bright,
Falls on the snow of her high heaving breast.
Too well divineth he the voiceless grlef
Which breathes in each unbidden sigh, and
beams

Nor warrior's, stateman's, sage's head it is.
But though of one yet dimly known to fame,
(Careless to pierce the shadowy cloud-that the

sun

Duke, Marquess, &c. came to congratulate him on his new dignity.

At length, I am a Knight! exclaimed the young gentleman; and I have only to purchase a cross and a ribbon. He flew to the who keeps a large assortment of foreign Palais Royal, entered the shop of a jeweller

orders, and asked for a cross of the order of the White Bear. The jeweller replied, that he had not got it. The Marquess informed me it was a scarce thing, thought the Knight, as he quitted the shop. He by turns enquired at every jeweller's shop in the Palais Royal, with no better success; when he at length met with a friend, who gave him sufficient proofs of the trick by which he had been duped. He hastened to the hotel of the obliging Marquess, but alas! he had set out on the preceding evening for Constantinople.

VARIETIES.

night at noon-day—or at least Milton's darkness visible! In vain we provided ourselves with telescopes, helioscopes, pieces of The French journals mention, that in the smoked glass, and pricked paper-In vain epartment of Gers, a piece of brass has been we thronged to the bridges at the risk of ound in the heart of a block of stone which seeing our watches and handkerchiefs eclipsvas lately dug out of a quarry near the city ed! All our hopes were disappointed. f Auch. It is conjectured that this piece of We may, however, shortly expect a scienrass must have been buried in the quarry, tific narrative of this sublime spectacle:-it where the stone has been forming, for up-will probably reveal circumstances which wards of two thousand years. Some philo-have escaped vulgar eyes. Philosophers ophers have asserted that the art of making promise a much grander effect twenty-seven rass was known even before the deluge!! years hence; and those who may live to see On the night of the 19th of August last, the 20th century, will enjoy an eclipse in There was observed between Lyons and Greperfection. oble, in the direction of the north-west, a neteor of a serpentine form, extending to he length of 80 toises. The phenomenon ontinued visible for about two minutes, and hen disappeared without detonation, leaving chind it innumerable stars of fire. Naldi and his daughter have made their ebuts at the Opera in Paris, in Mozart's losi fan Tutte.

STIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF PAUPERS IN

PARIS, IN 1819.

First arrondissement, 3,542; 2d arronissement, 4,434; 3d ar. 4,197; 4th ar. ,952; 5th. ar. 6,175; 6th ar. 7,155; 7th r. 5,399; 8th ar. 11,979; 9th ar. 9,629 ; Oth ar. 8,882; 11th ar. 6,730; 12th ar. 3,283;-Total, 85,357 paupers of both

exes.

MODE OF WARFARE PRACTISED BY THE
YUEN TARTARS,

It is a melancholy instance of the superstitions which prevails in Holland, that the announcement of the eclipse produced a kind of panic among the ignorant class of the people. Many were of opinion that it would occasion a remarkable change in the order of the seasons, or some dreadful revolution in the universe. M. Bourjé, a mathematician of Zealand, published a little pamphlet, with the view of tranquillizing the fears of his countrymen. He observed, that during the eclipse the moon would still be several leagues distant from the sun; and he adds with great naiveté, that consequently no disaster can take place in the Heavens.

OLIVES: Curious fact in Botany. Letters from Provence, mention the total failure of the olive plantations in that part of France. It has, indeed, been remarked, that for upwards of half a century, the olives From the Pekin Gazette of the 26th of March 1817.) have shewn a tendency to emigrate. The In order to act effectually against certain soil of Provence now appears to be entirely ountaineers, in a late engagement, the ruined, and no hope is entertained there of artars were ordered to advance, each carry- the future cultivation of olives. For the g a bundle of thorns, to enable them to last fifty years, none of the young shoots ard off the arrows and stones which were have risen to above five or six feet high. It thrown at them. When they had advanced is the same in the adjacent countries, which Evithin gun-shot of the enemy they were or- have all suffered more or less from the cold ered to fall back on their first position. of late years. Two-fifths of these plants have his manœuvre was repeated for six succes been cut down to the very roots; and three Ave days, when the mountaineers having ex-years will scarcely suffice to enable them to austed their stock of arrows and stones, fell attain maturity. The olives of Marseilles n easy prey to the Tartars. When the latter and Var were some time ago in excellent ttack a town, they are accustomed to seize condition; but all have perished. he inhabitants of the adjacent places, and ake them march before them to the walls of he town. Every horseman appropriates to imself ten villagers, whom he dispatches to rocure provisions and fuel, or stones and arth to fill up the ditches of the fortress. he peasantry are employed night and day this labour. Those who work slowly, or ho do not procure sufficient quantities of rovisions, are massacred. When a town is ken, all the inhabitants, old or young, rich poor, who oppose the victorious party, re slaughtered without mercy, and indisriminately.

Pun.-At the commencement of the late eclipse, a gentleman in the country (who would undoubtedly belong to that class denominated, by the writers of the directions for observing the sun on that occasion, inserted in the Courier, “ Common observers,”) had not been provident enough to procure before hand two pieces of glass to be smoked secundum artem, and being at a distance from any place where they might be purchased, was in great perplexity. His friend, who was by, coolly advised him to break one of his drawing room windows for the purpose; for," said he, "you ought to spare THE ECLIPSE.-From a French Journal.no panes to promote the advancement of ae eclipse, which was so impatiently looked ar from the Shetland Isles to the shores of A shocking accident lately occurred at ae Adriatic, has at length been seen. Whe- Cologne. The keeper of a menagerie had ber it was too much spoken of before-hand, put his head into a lion's mouth, which he r whether in this, as in other things, we was accustomed to do to shew the tameness ve grown more fastidious than our fore- of the animal; suddenly, however, the naathers, we know not; but certainly very tural ferocity of the lion became roused, and - v were satisfied with the effect of the grand the man was so dreadfully mutilated that he Helipse We expected complete obscurity-almost instantly expired.

science."

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.

SEPTEMBER, 1820.

Thursday, 14-Thermometer from 41 to 74.

Barometer from 30, 12 to 30, 01.
Wind S. W. and 1.-Light clonds gener-

ally passing, with faint sunshine.
Friday, 15-Thermometer from 53 to 67.

Barometer from 29, 88 to 30, 05,
Wind S. W. 3 and 4.-The middle of the day
cloudy, with rain; the rest generally clear.
Saturday, 16-Thermometer from 44 to 65.
Barometer from 30, 11 to 30, 15.
Wind W. b. S. 2 and 1.- Morning clear;

the rest of the day generally cloudy.

Rain fallen,05 of an inch. Sunday, 17-Thermometer from 46 to 66.

Barometer from 30, 15 to 30, 05. Wind S. W. 2, W. and N. W. .-Generally cloudy: about ten in the evening it began to rain. Monday, 18-Thermometer from 49 to 52.

Barometer from 29, 72 to 29, 86. Wind N. 1, N. b. W. 8 and W.-Generally cloudy till the evening, when it became clear. Continually raining till 11 o'clock A. M.

Rain fallen in the night 1 inch, and ,725 of an inch.

Tuesday, 19-Thermometer from 37 to 54.

Barometer from 29, 99 to 30, 17. Wind N. 3. and N. W. .-Generally clear; light clouds passing. Rain fallen,125 of an inch. Wednesday, 20-Thermometer from 30 to 53. Barometer from 30, 11 to 29, 65, Wind S.W. 2, 3, and 4.-Morning clear, with a white frost; the rest of the day cloudy, with rain from 2 till 10 P. M. Ice as thick as a shilling this morning.

On Friday the 29th, at 11 minutes 30 seconds after 8 o'clock, the second satellite of Jupiter will emerge from an eclipse.

On Saturday 30th, at 2 minutes, 3 seconds after 11, the 1st Satellite of Jupiter will emerge from an eclipse.

Edmonton, Middlesex.

JOHN ADAMS.

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ERRATA.-In the last verse of " The Calm," in our
last Number, for "pregnant lash" it was printed
"frequent lash;" and for "our greeting,” “one
greeting."

In our next, we commence "Wine and Walnuts, "the cockney gossip of the last century, from original sources.

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moment clapping his hands most violently,
at the next stretching himself out as if dead.
Finally, he ran up to the feet of the old man,
and hid himself under his legs, so as to
shew only his head. The people called him
Grimaldi, an appellation that appears to have
belonged to him by usage, and it is a singular
coincidence that the surname of the noblest
family of Genoa the Proud, thus assigned by
the rude rabble of a seaport to their buffoon,
should belong of right to the sire and son,
whose mops and moves afford pastime to
the upper gallery at Covent-Garden.
grotesque glory, and, while-
"Thus did the pageant proceed in all its
Amazed the unlearned, and made the learned
'These labor'd nothings in so strange a style

6

smile.'

strain of hyperbole, hint that their halles are even the finest in the world, though they are "The historians of Rouen, in the usual very inferior to their prototypes at Bruges and Ypres. The hall, or exchange, allotted to the mercers, is two hundred and seventytwo feet in length, by fifty feet wide: those for the drapers and for wool are, each of them, two hundred feet long; and all these are surpassed in size by the corn-hall, whose length extends to three hundred feet. They are built round a large square, the centre of which is occupied by numberless dealers in which we chanced to visit them was a Friday, pottery, old clothes, &c.; and, as the day on interesting scene. when alone they are opened for public business, we found a most lively, curious, and

species of historical importance, as it became the foundation of a right, asserted even in our own days. My account of it is taken The legend is romantic; and it acquires from Dom Pommeraye's History of the Life miracles performed by him, and, among others, that of causing the Seine, at the of the Prelate.-He has been relating many time of a great inundation, to retire to its channel by his command, agreeably to the following beautiful stanza of Santeuil :—

apostles. This done, upon the fourteenth | burst into an extravagant fit of joy; at one of August the Virgin was laid in a cradle of the form of a tomb, and was carried early in the morning, attended by her suite of either sex, to the church of St. Jacques; while before the door of the master of the guild was stretched a large carpet, embroidered with verses in letters of gold, setting forth his own good qualities, and his love for the holy Mary. Hither also, as soon as Laudes had been sung, the procession repaired from the church, and then they were joined by the governor of the town, the members of the guild, the municipal officers, and the clergy of the parish of St. Remi. Thus attended, they paraded the town, singing hymns, which were accompanied by a band. The procession was increased by the full great body of the inhabitants; and its impressiveness was still farther augmented by the children shouted aloud for their favourite (Mr. Turner tells us) the present entry to the numbers of the youth of either sex, who as- Grimaldi; the priests, accompanied with halles, that the annual ceremony of deliver"It was on the top of a stone staircase, sumed the garb and attributes of their patron bells, trumpets, and organs, thundered out ing and pardoning a criniinal for the sake of saints, and mixed in the immediate train of the mass; the pious were loud in their ex- St. Romain, the tutelary protector of Rouen, the principal actors. They then again re- clamations of rapture at the devotion of the was performed on Ascension day, according paired to the church, where Te Deum was Virgin; and the whole church was filled with to a privilege exercised, from time immesung by the full choir, in commemoration of the victory over the English, and high I have told you enough of this foolish story, mass was performed, and the Sacrament of which it were well if the folly had been a un non so che di rauco ed indistinto.'-But morial, by the Chapter of the Cathedral. alministered to the whole party. During the worst. The sequel was in the same taste the service, a scenic representation was and style, and ended with the euthanasia of given of the Assumption of the Virgin. A all similar representations, a hearty dinner." scaffolding was raised, reaching nearly to the top of the dome, and supporting an Castle of Arques attract the attention of azure canopy intended to emulate the span-our agreeable traveller; but we must pass Near Dieppe, Cæsar's camp, and the gled vault of heaven; and about two feet below the summit of it appeared, seated on a splendid throne, an old man as the image of the Father Almighty, a representation equally absurd and impious, and which could alone be tolerated by the votaries of the worst superstitions of popery. On either side four paste-board angels of the size of men floated in the air, and flapped their wings in cadence to the sounds of the organ; while above was suspended a large triangle, at whose corners were placed three smaller angels, who, at the intermission of each office, performed upon a set of little bells the hymn of Ave Maria gratia Dei plena per Secula,' &c. accompanied by a larger angel on each side with a trumpet. To complete this portion of the spectacle, two others, below the old man's feet, held tapers, which were lighted as the services began, and extinguished at their close; on which occasions the figures were made to express reluctance by turning quickly about; so that it required some dexterity to apply the extinguishers. At the commencement of the mass, two of the angels by the side of the Almighty descended to the foot of the altar, and, placing themselves by the tomb, in which a pasteboard figure of the Virgin had been substituted for her living representative, gently raised it to the feet of the Father. The image, as it mounted, from time to time lifted its head and extended its arms, as if conscious of the approaching beatitude, then, after having received the benediction and been encircled by another angel with a crown of glory, it gradually disappeared behind the clouds. At this instant a buffoon, who all the time had been playing his antics below,

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nature of the work. To these we now
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The volumes before us are the fruits of
three distinct tours, in 1815, 1818, and
1819; that of 1818 being the longest and
most inquisitive. The author sets out with
an account of Dieppe, and certainly draws
a more novel and interesting picture of that
Town, than we have before seen in any
English writer. Among other topics, he
dwells on the suburb called Pollet and its
inhabitants, of whom the description is
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are laborious and charitable, and zealous for the honor of their country, in whose cause in defence of whom they once threatened to they often bleed, as well as for their priests, throw the Archbishop of Rouen into the river; and were well nigh executing their threats."

Dieppe itself was a despotic Seignory belonging to the Archbishops of Rouen, to one of whom it was assigned by our Richard the 1st. The church government seems to have been of the most oppressive and obnoxious sort; the prelate-lord not scrupling to convert even the wages of sin into a source of revenue, as scandalous in its nature, as it must have been contemptible in its amount, by exacting from every prostitute a weekly tax of a farthing, for liberty to exercise her seem strange after the record of so disgraceprofession. The annexed extract will not ful a fact.

Though the principal object of this tour has been to examine the rich and curious Ancient Architecture of Normandy; and though by far the largest portion of these volumes is devoted to the illustration of that interesting inquiry; the collateral parts, the historical debris, and the remarks on customs, manners, costume, and internal eco-extent of their acquirements. To the pre-which good sense had banished from most

"Three-fourths of the natives of this part of the town are fishermen, and not less of Dieppe by their name of Poltese, taken effectually distinguished from the citizens from their place of residence, than by the difference in their dress and language, the simplicity of their manners, and the narrow

"Many uncouth and frivolous ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies of the middle ages,

nomy, are written in so agreeable a style, sent hour they continue to preserve the that the general reader will find as same costume as in the XVIth century; much to please him, as the antiquary wearing trowsers covered with wide short to admire, in Mr. Turner's labours. ford room for the legs to move, and woollen petticoats, which open in the middle to afSome botanical notices will also be waistcoats laced in the front with ribbands, met with; but the charm of the whole and tucked below into the waistband of their lies in the easy gentlemanly way in trowsers. Over these waistcoats is a close which the facts, gathered by an en- coat, without buttons or fastenings of any lightened perception and an elegant kind, which falls so low as to hide their feeling for the fine arts, are commu- petticoats and extend a foot or more benicated. It is like being in company usually of cloth or serge of a uniform coyond them. These articles of apparel are with persons of taste and understand-lour, and either red or blue; for they inter-it. The ceremony I consider as curiously

ing: they not only take up such matters as are most worthy of attention, and reject what are trite and frivolous; but they place in the clearest view what they do take up, and adorn whatever they deem deserving of their regards.

This is the character of Mr. Turner's

diet every other variation, except that all the seams of their dress are faced with white silk galloon, full an inch in width. To complete the whole, instead of hats, they have on their heads caps of velvet or colored cloth, forming a tout-ensemble of attire, which is evidently ancient, but far from unpicturesque or displeasing. Thus clad, the Poltese, Norman Tour; and we are the more though in the midst of the kingdom, have desirous of stating it impressively, the appearance of a distinct and foreign cobecause it would carry us to an incon-lony; whilst, occupied incessantly in fishvenient length, to display the principal ing, they have remained equally strangers to merits of his publication in our limited the civilization and politeness, which the pages; and we are compelled to leave progress of letters during the last two centuries has diffused over France. Nay, scarcethe most important circumstances, in ly are they acquainted with four hundred order to select those most readily sepa- words of the French language; and these rable for our review. We are thus they pronounce with an idiom exclusively made defaulters by the omission of the their own, adding to each an oath, by way architectural investigation into the of epithet; a habit so inveterate with them, round, and more modern pointed styles that even at confession, at the moment of of building in Normandy; which throws seeking absolution for the practice, it is no uncommon thing with them to rear they much light upon their contemporary, ec- will be guilty of it no more. To balance, clesiastical antiquities, in England and however, this defect, their morals are incorare thrown upon selections of a miscel-rupted, their fidelity is exemplary, and they VOL. IV:

other parts of France, where they once were common, still lingered in the archbishop's seignory. Thus, at no very remote period, to cast burning flakes of tow from the vaultit was customary on the Feast of Pentecost ing of the church; this stage-trick being considered as a representation of the descent of the fiery tongues. The Virgin, the great idol of popery, was honored by a pageant, which was celebrated with extraordinary splendor; and as I must initiate you in the well pleased to receive a detailed account of mysteries of catholicism, I think you will be illustrative of the manners of the rulers, of the ruled, and of the times; and I will only add, by way of preface, that it was instituted by the governor, Des Marêts, in 1443, in honor of the final expulsion of the English, and that he himself consented to be the first master of the Guild of the Assumption, under whose auspices and direction it was conducted.-About Midsummer the principal inhabitants used to assemble at the Hôtel de Ville, and there they selected the girl of the most exemplary character, to represent the Virgin Mary, and with her six other young women, to act the parts of the Daughters of Sion. The honor of figuring in this holy drama was greatly coveted; and the historian of Dieppe gravely assures us, that the earnestness felt on the occasion mainly contributed to the preservation of that purity of manners and that genuine piety, which subsisted in this town longer than in any other of France! But the election of the Virgin was not sufficient: a representative of St. Peter was also to be found among the clergy; and the laity were so far favored that they were permitted to furnish the eleven other

common origin of the Neustrian Normans, of
the Lowland Scots, and of the Saxon and
Belgian tribes, who peopled our eastern
shores of England."
The great bell of Rouen Cathedral, called
Georges d'Amboise, weighed 33,000 lbs. Its
diameter at the base was 30 feet, its height
10, and 30 stout ringers could hardly per-
suade it to swing. But, says our author,
"after all, this great bell proved, like a great
book, a great nuisance: the sound it uttered
was scarcely audible; and, at last, in an at-
tempt to render it vocal, upon a visit paid
by Louis XVIth to Rouen in 1786, it was
cracked. It continued, however, to hang, a
gaping-stock to children and strangers, till
the revolution, in 1793, caused it to be re-
turned to the furnace, whence it re-issued in
the shape of cannon and medals, the latter
commemorating the pristine state of the
metal with the humiliating legend, monu-
ment de vanité détruit pour l'utHite.'”
After dwelling on the pomp and power of
former times, the picture of the present con-
dition of the Archbishop of Rouen in parti-
cular, and of the Gallican church in general,
is extremely illustrative of altered times.

"The present archbishop is the Cardinal Cambacérés, brother to the ex-consul of that name, a man of moral life and regular in his religions duties. He was placed here by Napoléon, all of whose appointments of this nature, with one or two exceptions, have been suffered to remain; but I need scarcely add that, though the title of archbishop is left, and its present possessor is decorated with the Roman purple, neither the revenue, nor the dignity, nor the establishment, resemble those of former times. The chapter, which, before the revolution, consisted of an archbishop, a dean, fifty canons, and ten prebendaries, besides numberless attendants, now consists but of his eminence, with the dean, the treasurer, the archdeacon, and twelve canons. The independent annual income of the church, previous to the revolution, exceeded one hundred thousand pounds sterling; but now its ministers are all salaried by government, whose stated allowance, as I am credibly informed, is to every archbishop six hundred and twenty-five pounds per annum; to every bishop four hundred and sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence; and to every canon forty-one pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence. But each of these stipends is doubled by an allowance of the same amount from the departiment; and care is taken to select men of independent property for the highest dignities. From the foregoing scale, you may judge of the state of the religious establisliment in France."

As a further developement of the same subject, we copy another passage. "The laws of France do not recognize monastic vows; but of late years, the clergy have made attempts to re-establish the communities which once characterized the Catholic church. To a certain degree they have succeeded: the spirit of religion is stronger than the law; and the spirit of contradiction, which teaches the subject to do whatever the law forbids, is stronger than either. Hence,

"The articles among the manuscripts, most valued by antiquaries, are a Benedictionary and a Missal, both supposed or nearly the same date, the beginning of the twelfth century.”

LODGE'S PORTRAITS.

Parts V. VI. VII. VIII, IX, and X. The arrangement of the portraits in these six numbers is as follows;

most towns in France contain establish- | troduced himself in the act of humbly pre-
ments, which may be considered either as senting his work to his royal namesake. I
the embers of expiring monachism, or the am mistaken, (adds the author,) if any
sparks of its reviving flame. Rouen has now equally early and equally well authenticated
a convent of Ursulines, who undertake the representation of a King of England be in
education of young females. The house is existence. The Historia Normannorum is
spacious; and for its neatness, as well as for incomplete, both at the beginning and end,
the appearance of regularity and propriety, and it does not occupy more than one-fifth
cannot be surpassed. On this account, it is of the volume; the rest is filled with a
often visited by strangers. The present lady comment upon the Jewish History.
abbess, Dame Cousin, would do honor to the
most flourishing days of the hierarchy: when
she walks into the chapel, Saint Ethelburgha
herself could not have carried the crozier
with greater state; and, though she is some-
what short and somewhat thick, her pupils
are all wonderfully edified by her dignity.
She has upwards of a dozen English heretics
under her care; but she will not compromise
her conscience by allowing them to attend the
Protestant service. There are also about
ninety French scholars, and the inborn an-
tipathy between them and the insulaires, will
sometimes evince itself. Amongst other spe-
cimens of girlish spite, the French fair-ones
have divided the English damsels into two
genera. Those who look plump and good-
humoured, they call Mesdemoiselles Rosbifs;
whilst such as are thin and graver acquire the
appellation of the Mesdemoiselles Goddams,
a name by which we have been known in
France, at least five centuries ago. The
Ursulines and sœurs d'Ernemon, or sœurs de
la Charité, who nurse the sick, are the only
two orders which are now protected by go-
vernment. They were even encouraged under
Napoléon, who placed them under the care
of his august parent, Madume Mère.-There
are other sisterhoods at Rouen, though in
small numbers, and not publickly patro-
nized.

"Nuns are thus increasing and multiplying, but monks and friars are looked upon with a more jealous eye; and I have not heard that any such communities have been allowed to re-assemble within the limits of the duchy, once so distinguished for their opulence, and, perhaps, for their piety and learning,"

Part V. Anne Hyde Duchess of York, by Sir Peter Lely; Secretary Walsingham, by an unknown artist; William Villiers Viscount Grandison, William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, James Stanley seventh Earl of Derby, and William Seymour first Marquis of Hertford, by Vandyke.

Part VI. Lord Keeper Coventry, by Jansen; Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex, by Holbein; Algernon Percy Earl of Northumberland, Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of Henry VII, Matthew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury, Walter first Lord Aston, by unknown hands.

Part VII. William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury, by Holbein; James Stuart Duke of Richmond, and William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, by Vandyke; Arthur Lord Capel by Jansen; George Monk Duke of Albemarle, by Lely; and Margaret of Lancaster mother of Henry VII, by an unknown artist.

Part VIII. Sir Henry Wotton, by Jansen; William Lord Russel, by Lely; Sir John More, and John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, by Holbein; Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, by Mark Gerards; Cardinal Pole, by Titian.

Before we conclude (reserving the second Part IX. Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafvolume for notice in our next Number) it ford, Lucy Percy Countess of Carlisle, Franwould be disgracious in a Literary paper cis Russell fourth Earl of Bedford, Dorothy not to advert to the public library at Rouen, Sidney Countess of Sunderland, and Anne which, besides containing 70,000 volumes, Countess of Bedford, by Vandyke; and has recovered some of the ancient stores of Thomas Egerton Viscount Brackley. the Religious Houses, so wantonly wasted, Part X. Henry Spencer first Earl of Sundispersed, and destroyed during the revolu-derland, by Walker; Elizabeth Cecil Countion. These wrecks, as might be supposed, tess of Devonshire, by Vandyke; Fulke relate chiefly to theological topics and scholas- Greville Lord Brooke, Robert second Lord tic divinity; but there are about 800 manu-Brooke, Edward first Lord North, and Spenscripts, said to be of very considerable value,cer Compton second Earl of Northampton, though as yet unarranged and uncatalogued. by unknown painters. Mr. Turner, says, Among those pointed Though we find nothing particular to say out to us, none interested me so much as of any of these engravings, viewed simply in an original autograph of the Historia Nor- that light, we may generally observe, that they mannorum, by William Jumieges, brought cannot be otherwise considered than as spefrom the very abbey to which he belonged. cimens of a rich variety in the improved There is no doubt, I believe, of its anti-state of the graphic art, and peculiarly well quity." suited to the character of portrait.

Mr. Turner gives a tracing of the first paragraph of this singular document, and also a fac simile of the initial letter, like a P, in the top part of which Jumieges " has in

This eulogium indeed is due to the whole of the plates; for it is in very few that we discover an occasional dryness of manner, and a multiplicity of folds, arising probably in