AT SAWTREY. COMMUNITY mal: 爽氣 AT SAWTREY. Sigillum FROM THE VISITATION OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE," THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, 1849. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Captain Cuttle-The House of Douglas-Theophilus-Genealogical inquiries and memoranda.. Life and Letters of Thomas CAMPBELL; edited by William Beattie, M.D. A Dissertation on the site of Moridunum, and a description of High Peak Hill, near Sidmouth (with two illustrative Plates) PAGE 114 115 .... THE VISITATION OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE, 1613 (with two Plates) The Stowe Catalogue: by Henry R. Foster The Crest of the Howards Notes in Buckinghamshire-Bletchley, Fenny Stratford, Simpson, Newton PIOZZIANA, No. II. Anecdotes, Criticisms, &c. by Mrs. H. L. Piozzi . REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Third Edition, 161; Kemble's Saxons in England, 170; The Christian Life, a Manual of Sacred Verse, by Robert Montgomery, 173; Bishop Ken's Prayers for the Baths of Bath, 176; Miscellaneous Reviews .... 137 146 150 154 156 158 178 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.—Journey to discover 181 187 198 OBITUARY: with Memoirs of The Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; The Earl of Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets, 223; Embellished with a VIEW and PLAN of HIGH PEAK HILL, near Sidmouth; and with several SEALS and ARMORIAL ATCHIEVEMENTS from the VISITATION OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE, MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. B. remarks that it has escaped the notice of the reviewers of Pepys's Diary, and has not been pointed out by the editor, that Mr. Charles Dickens appears to have derived the name of one of his most successful and popular impersonations from that work. At p. 190 of vol. i. of the new edition, we read, under the date of 8th February, 1660-1, "CAPTAIN CUTTLE, and Curtis, and Mootham, and I, went to the Fleece tavern to drink ; and there we spent till four o'clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the manner of life of slaves there." MR. URBAN,-Mr. Macaulay, in his History of England, vol. ii. p. 118, in allusion to the then (1685-6) Duke of Hamilton, calls him "the HEAD of the princely house of Douglas.' This is altogether a mistake. William eleventh Earl of Angus, created (1633) Marquess of Douglas, was twice married. By his first marriage he had (besides other issue) a son, Archibald Earl of Angus, of whom hereafter; and by his second marriage he had (besides other issue) a son William, created Earl of Selkirk, who married Anne, (in her own right) Duchess of Hamilton, and who, upon the petition of the Duchess, was created (1660) Duke of Hamilton for life. Of this marriage all the subsequent Dukes of Hamilton are descended. Duke William died 1694, and is the Duke referred to by Mr. Macaulay. Archibald Earl of Angus, above mentioned, died in his father's lifetime, having been twice married. He left (besides other issue) a son JAMES, who, upon the death of his grandfather in 1660, became second Marquess of Douglas, which title he enjoyed till his death in 1700. He was twice married, and had (besides other issue that predeceased him) 1. Archibald third Marquess and only Duke of Douglas; and 2. Lady Jane Douglas, married to Sir John Stewart of Grandtully, Bart. On the death of Marquess James, he was succeeded by his only surviving son Archibald, who was created (1703) Duke of Douglas. He married Margaret daughter of James Douglas of Mains, and died (1761) without issue. Upon his Grace's death the dukedom became extinct, but the titles of Marquess of Douglas, &c. &c, which were limited to the heirs male of Marquess William, devolved upon James George, seventh Duke of Hamilton, as representing William Earl of Selkirk and Duke of Hamilton above mentioned. At the same time the whole ESTATES of the Douglas family devolved upon Archibald, only surviving son of Lady Jane Douglas, sister of the Duke, on her marriage with Sir John Stewart, who was created (1790) Baron Douglas of Douglas. By his son that title and the whole estates are now enjoyed. From the foregoing statement it will be seen that, until the lapse of seventy-seven years after the time referred to by Mr. Macaulay, the Dukes of Hamilton did not in any way represent the family of Douglas. Even now they do so in the male line only, Lord Douglas being the lineal representative, and in possession of the whole of the Douglas estates. Yours, &c. D. We are requested by the Rev. RICHARD WALKER, B.D. Fellow of Magd. College, Oxford, to announce that he is preparing for publication an English translation of Theophilus's Greek Paraphrase of Justinian's Institutes, with Notes. This work possesses the following testimonia veterum; "Theophilus, antiquus satis jurisconsultus, Justin. Institutiones Græce vertit, addiditque cetq. quo libro nullus extat ad eos Justin. libros intelligendos aptior. Anton. Augustinus. Hæc Institutiones (Theophili) sunt utilissimæ tironibus ob doctrinæ sobrietatem mira perspicuitate conjunctam. Gregor. Majansii jurisconsulti Hispani Epistolæ, p. 246. It would be very obliging to Mr. JAMES LOGAN if any information could be given respecting the late Rev. William Townley, M.A. Vicar of Orpington, Kent, to which he was presented in 1816. His father is presumed to have been John Townley of Norton, near Daventry, whose father was Daniel Townley, of Hanging Houghton. The above William died Sept. 1847. T. W. P. asks whether any of our readers, conversant with French heraldry, can favour him with the arms of the Deroubaix family. A Seigneur de Roubaix was present (as an attendant on the Duke of Burgundy) at the marriage of our Henry V., and a family of the name bearing arms was residing in the neighbourhood of Lille and Roubaix at the outbreak of the great Revolution of 1789. ERRATUM.-P. 80, col. 2, for Nov. 24 read Nov. 23. Page 89. Bishop Mant's second curacy in Hampshire was Crawley, not Sparsholt. Brownlow was the Christian name of the son of his rector, Mr. Poulter, of Buriton. The son, it is believed, succeeded the father in the rectory. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell. Edited by William Beattie, M.D. 3 vols. 8vo. IN these days, when biography has become so favourite a species of composition that few private gentlemen are lost to society without being shortly recovered in the form of a goodly octavo, it would certainly have been an omission to be deplored had not the memory of Thomas Campbell been transmitted to posterity; and whether it should be consigned to the luggage train, or to a lighter conveyance, seemed to be the only matter for consideration. Certainly a family coach, like that of Lady Brute's, may be overloaded by too great an anxiety to provide against contingencies; and it may be that Dr. Beattie, in his honourable zeal to do justice to his friend, may have somewhat fallen into this amiable error, which he will discover when by-and-by an order issues from Paternoster Row or Fleet Street to some one of the best hands in the employ, to reduce his goodly volumes into the more convenient and popular size of a couple of crown octavos. It is true that the young poet may be said to "have lisped in numbers," and the bees of Helicon seem to have settled on his infant lips ; * but whether it was necessary or admissible to introduce these rudimenta pueritiae of Master Campbell to the public, we have some doubts; and the same may be said of some of the early correspondence. Such things are unprofitable in themselves, and act with prejudicial effect on the other and better parts of the work. A bulky book is always a serious affair: we pause before we have courage to begin-as if it was a painful operation to undergo; and besides, though the lives of people of the present day, by the late marvellous conquests over time and space, far exceed those of our ancestors, yet we seem to have less leisure than they, in the tranquillity of their slower progressions, possessed; for the vacant spaces are more than filled up by redoubled activity of mind, by the urgency of additional wants, and the rivalry of contending interests. We think that we are approaching a time when literature will demand a distinct class of labourers to clear its superabundant fields, called abridgers; and the old folio, like the extinct Saurian family, will be recognised only on the public walls of the Museum. . That it is well to be a luminous writer, and not at all necessary to be a vo One of the earliest notices of Campbell's poetical talent has not been mentioned by Dr. Beattie; it occurs in his namesake Alexander Campbell's Introduction to the History of the Poetry of Scotland, i. p. 343. (1798.) "The Edinburgh Magazine has been occasionally supplied with the productions of our rising Scottish poets for several years back. Mr. Leyden (to whom I have in a former part of this work acknowledged my obligations) stands forward as a principal contributor to this miscellany, which he has from time to time enriched with the happy effusions of his fancy. I am informed the initials prefixed to a pretty set of verses in said Magazine for May last, T. C., is a young gentleman of my name, a native of Glasgow. I have seen in MS. several of this poet's fugitive performances, that impress me with a high opinion of his poetic talents."-REV. luminous * one, is a truth that authors and publishers would do wisely in remembering: but we must say, in justice to Dr. Beattie, and in allusion to the volumes before us, that, with some stubborn objections to the extent of his work, we are still glad that it has come from his hands; and we believe that no one could have executed it so well as himself. It was a task that to be executed with propriety required some delicacy and discrimination. Where there was much to praise, there was something also to excuse ; where there were virtues to be boldly brought forward, there were failings to be lightly passed over: and he who was most intimately acquainted with the poet was the one most likely to perform his voluntary duty with the best assurance of success. So far as we were acquainted with Campbell, we have nothing to object to the fidelity of the portrait; and by those of his more intimate friends, both male and female, we have always heard his name coupled with terms of affection and respect. Of his domestic life we know very little, as our acquaintance did not begin till after the death of his wife, and he was living as a "gentleman about town," as whimsical in his manners and eccentric in habits as that class of persons often are. In conversation he could be animated, liveÏy, and eloquent, especially when he got on his favourite topic-abuse of all publishers, living or dead,-whom he looked on as a tribe of monsters,-vampires feeding on the flesh and blood and brains of authors; and then the chorus of indignation would close with the diapason, And Campbell starves that Constable may dine. But all this, though he would never believe it, was an absolute dream, a delusion of a discontented pocket or a distempered brain: for the London publishers are, in fact, a most useful, intelligent, and respectable body of gentlemen, living at their ease, having their country houses at Wimbledon or Hampstead, or elsewhere, keeping their carriages, giving their Sunday dinners to those who would otherwise have none, sending their families duly to the parish church, buying in a few thousands a year in the Three Per Cents, and whose lives would be most enviable, were it not that they are perpetually harassed by the vexatious demands, the exaggerated claims, and the absurd proposals of the whole excitable brood of clamorous and impertinent authors, who in perpetually successive streams, male and female, keep issuing forth from The caves of poverty and poetry,† and form always the terror, and sometimes, alas! the ruin, of these good unsuspecting men-the Tonsons, the Lintots, and the Dodsleys of the age. A brief and bare outline of the poet's life, for those who are quite unacquainted with his history, might soon be drawn. His ancestors had long been settled in Argyleshire. His father was a merchant at Glasgow, who suffered from those vicissitudes to which trade is always liable. Thomas Campbell was born in 1777, being the youngest of a large family of brothers and sisters. His school and college days were passed in his native city, where he was early distinguished for genius and learning. *When in one of his speeches at Hastings's trial, Sheridan, seeing Gibbon present, turned round, and, looking towards him, spoke of the presence of the great historian, &c. a friend said to him, "How could you think of praising such a person as Gibbon ?" "Why," said Sheridan, "what did I say?" "Why, you called him a luminous historian." "No, no," said he, "I called him a voluminous historian."- REV. † Vide Pope's Dunciad, b. i. v. 33.—Rev. |