ing gallantry, fuch as fornication, adultery, &c. which are extremely harth and unpolite, and which we therefore have exchanged for tendreffe, fille de joye, demirep, affair de cœur, and other graceful diminutives. There is one phrafe in particular which fums up the whole bufiefs of gallantry, and is foft and mellifluous to the chafteft ear; I mean faux pas, which furely deferves all the praife bestowed on it, although fome claffes of men, fuch as divines, proctors, and judges, ftill make ufe of the harfh words noticed above. There feems, likewife, this peculiar advantage in the faux pas, that it means nothing very difreputable, which the other words are thought to imply very ftrongly; on the contrary, the perfons who may have committed a faux pas fuffer very little injury, except perhaps lofing the manvaife honte, and are fill treated with fo much refpect in the polite circles, as to be encouraged to treat thofe of the old fchool, and PROJECTORS especially, with a proper degree of hauteur, and finally to confider the affair as a mere bagatelle, not worth remembering. But as fome words are introduced to fupply the place of others, fo there are allo a few phrafes which have been very conveniently adopted in lieu of thinking. The je ne fçai quoi is onè of the moft ufeful of thefe, and applicable in a thousand inftances of tafte, opinion, fentiment; or rather where talte, opinion, and fentiment, happen not to be at hand. Whether a man, a book, a picture, or a houfe be defcribed, it is liked or difliked for a certain je ne fçai quoi, and there the bargain ends; for what the je ne fcai quor is, or means, no perfon will be fo rude 29 to enquire even of themfelves; whatever it may be, however, it has been the caufe of much buying and felling, of marrying and being given in marriage, and of all thofe fudden changes which take place, from the diflike of a gown, to the rejection of a lover and owing to its being held facred from explanation or inquiry, it is, to ufe the phrafe of the advertising faculty, one of the "moft pleafant, fafe, mild, and effectual remedies," for fickle tempers that ever was invented. The advantages of fuch a refource muft, indeed, be obvious to any perfon. who will confider the miferable fiate to which many would be reduced, were they to be obliged to account for their attachments and averfions in plain and intelligible language. From all that has been advanced, therefore, although we may not precifely hit the canfe of this invafion on our language by foreigners; yet we may difcover that the kind reception they meet with, and the frequent ufes to which they are applied, are rather, upon the whole, a matter of neceffity than choice. An able advocate might alfo fay fomething of modefty and refpect for the English language in the perfons who encourage thefe intruders; for furely every lover of the language of a people of reflection and, virtue, muft regret that it fhould be employed to make folly confiftent, and crimes blamelefs; and must be pleafed with the tacit ridicule of any contrivance to defend that by jargon which is irreconcileable to fenfe, Mr. URBAN, Southampton-ftreet, dents communicated lives of Heralds and heraldic writers, who died before the commencement of the 18th century. As it is now clofed, may a continuation of the lives of authors of that defcription, during the laft hurdred years, be expected? Who did Major Carmichaell marry. In a painting of his arms I find him impaling the royal arms of France, with a batoon finifter? I Yours, &c. D. Mr. URBAN, Feb. 3. HAVE much pleasure in obeying the call of Scrutator, vol. LXXV. p. 1212, by fending you the following infcription from a mural tablet at Beenham, Berks. Yours, &c. VIATOR. [At top, on an open book, is, reconditum eft quod mortale fuit Thomæ Stackhoufe, A. M.. qui pro Chriftianâ fide- Ex hac vitâ, gratâ alterius vice. O&tobris Idibus, A. S. MDCCLII.. Mt. Mr. URBAN, Shrewsbury, Dec. 7. YOUR YOUR ingenious correfpondent, Mr. J. P. Malcolm, having given you a South-Well view of the church of St.. Pancras. LXXV. P. 993, has induced me to fend you (Plate I. fig. 1.) a North-Eatt view of the fame ftructure, taken fome time back. The hillory of it, mentioned by Mr. Malcolm, could not fail of being very acceptable to many of Mr. Urban's readers; and I hope there will not be any obftacle to its appearing in a future Magazine. The epitaphs, &c. fubjoined, were copied from tombs and grave-flones in the church-yard at the time the view D. PARKES. was taken. On a handfome monument on the S. W. fide, in the church-yard, is the following infcription: ELIZABETH, wife of MICHAEL BOURKE, efq. died Sept. 7, 1784, aged 74: Oh! loft and mourn'd, admir'd and lov'd through life, [wife, Thou beft of women, and thou faithful Farewell tis mine thy virtúes to deplore, To linger here, and feel thy aid no more; 'Tis mine to wait till my remains are led To this bleft tomb, where refts thy lan. guid head; [free, Then fhall thy husband (from that anguish Thy death has left him) reft in peace with thee. GENT MAG. February, 1806. 2 On a plain grave-flone: MR. URBAN, AN OBSERVER, Dec 22. feience at Naples has published DISTINGUISHED man of an Account of a rifit he paid to Pompeii fince the late refearches ordered by the Queen of Naples. The principal particulars of his ftatement are as follows. A TRAVELLER. "In a fearch begun about feven years ago was difcovered the capital of a pilafter, which was fufpected to be the lateral front of a grand portico. Laft winter the works were refumed at that place, and the correfponding pilafter was found. The brafs hinges of the door have been removed to the Mufeum of Portici. The habitation into which it leads is large and commodious, and richly or:mented with paintings and mofaic-work. The building is formed of fquare ftones, fo nicely fitted and cemented, that be taken for a fingle would paffage which ferves for the entrance is 12 palms long, and 10 wide. It leads to a court, the walls of which are covered with ftucco of various colours.The capitals and cornices are in good prefervation; and I there obferved a rofe, which is a mafter piece 1 and green: they have been removed to the Museum. The kitchen contained a great quantity of utenfils, moftly of iron inlaid with filver with inconceivable perfection. But what moft ftruck me were five candelabræ painted in frefco on a ground of an extremely brilliant yellow: I fcarcely knew how to leave the room which contained this mafter-picce of tafte and elegance: they are fupported by fmall figures, whofe attitude, drefs, and drapery, are to exquifitely graceful, that they might ferve as models to all the belles in the world. In this houfe, as in moft others of the antients, you find no window opening towards the street. was ftruck with the fragments of a chariot which is ftill remaining in the coachhoufe: you may perfectly diftinguish the wheels and the bra's ornaments of the chariot itself.-Clofe to this habitation is feen a door that conducts to another, and which, to judge by its exterior, will not farnifh fewer beauties whenever it fhall be permitted to be opened." piece both of defign and exécution. All the apartments are decorated with beautiful paintings on a red, blue, and yellow ground. You there fee likewife detached columns, with flowers, candelabræ, and ornaments, in the beft ftyle. To the left are two apartments, which were probably thofe of the mafter and miftrefs. The painter gave a free fcope to his imagination in all the pictures, which I beheld with inexpreffible delight. Nothing can be more pleating, among others, than a dance of perfons in marks; and nothing more graceful than a little bird pecking at a basket of figs. In the centre of the court is a ciftern, the implu vium of the Romans. On a marble pedeftal is a young Hercules feated on a Hind of bronze. Thefe two pieces, one of which weighs about twenty pounds, and the other forty, are of the most finifhed workmanship. The water fell from the mouth of the hind into a beautiful couch of Grecian marble. Behind the pedestal was a table, the yellow feet of which reprefent the claws of an eagle. Thefe perfect works have likewife been conveyed to the Mufcum. A lateral corridor on the right leads to a fecond court, which was furrounded by piazzas, as is proved by the octagonal columns covered with ftucco. In one of the apartments are obferved two Bacchantes holding thyrfi-Above the window, to the right, is a painting of Europa, of great beauty: fhe is quite naked, and is feated on the bull, which is plunging into, the fea. Beneath is a young man carrying, a bafket of fruits: he is faifing himself on tiptoe; and this attitude required of the artist a strongly-marked expreflion of the mufcular fyftem. On the oppofite fide a beautiful female, dancer excites admiraration fhe is holding and ftriking two cymbals; her veil, which floats behind her, produces a very fine effect. On proceeding into the adjoining hall, the first thing that ftruck me was a magnificent pavement of the most precious African marbles. The cieling reprefents Venus between Mars and Cupid. this hall were found a fmall idol of bronze, a gold vafe weighing three ounces, a gold coin, and twelve others of copper, with the effigy of Vefpafian. In the hall the left, fragments pic of In ares, painted on wood, half carbonized, were diftinguishable: they were inclofed in kind of niches; this was the bedchamber; eight fmall columns by which it was fupported may still be feen; they are of bronze, and to their fummits fill adhere fome pieces of gilded wood, which probably formed a canopy. On the lateal wall were painted two priests with long beards, and cloathed in robes of blue Mr. URBAN, Jan. 6. HE laft learned editor of Camden, Tin his additions, vol. II. p. 452, fpeaking of Hereford Cathedral, fays I "Befides the monument of Cantilupe, and many other bifhops in this Cathedral, here are thofe of Sir William Pembridge, one of the earliest knights of the garter, who died 1375," &c. &c. In the Beauties of England and Wales, now publishing, under "Herefordfhire," p. 475, we are told, In the South aile of the nave is an interefting though mutilated tomb, in memory of Sir Richard PEMBRUGE or BRYDGES, an ancestor of the Lords Chandos, who was knight of the garter in the time of Edward the Third," &c. an The knight of the garter of the Penbrugge family in Edward the Third's time was certainly named Richard; but I do not think there is any good authority for writing him with alias, and confounding the family of Penbrugge with that of Brydges; neither do I think there is any good authority whatever for flating the defcent of Brydges Duke of Chandos from a marriage of Sir Thomas Brugge, with Alice, drighter and coheir of Sir Thomas Berkeley, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Thomas Lord Chandos, and eldeft fifter and coheir of Sir John Chandos, Lord Chandos, "Knight of the Garter," as it is given in our Peerges. Sir John Chandos, Knight of the Garter in Edward the Third's time, was 1 |