given in our vol. LXXIV. p. 1005, from the old tranflation of Froiffart, we shall here give it from the prefent. "It was reported that the King of Navarre was fond of women, and had at this time a very handfome lady for his miftrefs, with whom he occafionally amufed himself, for he had been long a widower. Having paffed a night with her, he retired to his own chamber, fhivering with cold, and faid to one of his valets, Prepare my bed, for I want to lie down and repofe myfelf a little. When ready, he undreffed himself and went to bed; but he was no fooner laid down, than he began to fhake, and could not get warm. He was of a great age, about 61, and accuftomed to have his bed well warmed with heated air, to make him fweat; and that practice he had long continued without any vilible harm. He ordered his fervants to warm the bed as ufual; but this time, either by the will of God or the Devil, it turned out unfortunate, for the flame, fome how, fet fire to the fheets, and it could not be extinguifhed before they were deftroyed, and the King, who was wrapt up in them, horridly burnt, as far as the navel. He did not inftantly die, but lingered on in great pain and mifery fifteen days, for neither furgeon nor phyfician could apply any remedies to prevent his death. Such was the end of the King of Navarre, which, however, freed his poor fubjects from the tax he would have laid on them." Our readers will perceive a difference in parts of the two tranflations. very The fituation of England, with refpect to its internal divifions, the defperate ftate of the affairs of the Duke of Lancatter, and all that related to the Duke of Ireland and his partifans, were perfectly known to the King of France and his Council. To gain more information on thefe fubjects, the King, by the advice of his uncles, refolved to invite the Duke of Ireland into France, and to fend to him at Utrecht, where he had refided, proper paffports for his coming thither, and for remaining as long as it fhould be the King's pleafure, and to return whenever the Duke fhould pleafe. It was neceflary to fend fpecial meffengers, and that his paffports fhould be particularly made out, otherwife the Duke would not quit Utrecht, for he knew he was in the ill graces of the Lord de Coucy (who was a great ba ron, and of high birth in France); and not without caufe, for, to fay the truth, he had very fcandaloufly treated his Duchefs, the daughter of the Lord de Coucy. This certainly was the principal reafon that had blafted his character in France and elsewhere, for he was there as much hated and defpifed as in England. When this matter was difcuffed in the Council of France, the Lord de Coucy_ftrongly oppofed it, but they gave fo many realons for the advantages that might be reaped from the Duke's coming, (that) he yielded indeed, as the King willed it, he could not fay more. The King, being young, was defirous to fee the Duke of Ireland, becaufe he had been told he was a gallant knight, and that the King of England's love for him had been unbounded (a good knight, and alfo by cause it was fayd howe he was fo beloved with the Kynge of England. Bourchier.) knight and a clerk, who was one of the King's notaries, were sent to feek him. The Duke of Ireland was very much aftonished when he first heard the King of France wished to fee him, and had many ideas what could be the caufe of it. Having confidered the paffport, he found he might fafely go to the King in France, and return to Utrecht when he pleafed. He therefore left Utrecht, in company with thofe who had been fent for him, and continued his journey till he arrived at Paris, for the King then refided at the cafile of the Louvre. The Duke was well received by the King and his uncles; and the King was defirous he would fix his refidence in France, and had an hotel appointed for him to live in and keep his fate. He had wherewithal to do fo handfomely, for he had brought immenfe fums of money with him from England, and the Contable of France was fill much indebied to him for the raufom of John of Britany, as the whole had not been paid. The Duke of Ireland made frequent vifits to the King, who entertained him well; and he was invited to all the feafts, tilts, and tournaments." (p. 596.) The Earl of Arundel was fent with a fleet against France (p. 627), and had feveral fkirmishes with the Rochellers. This volume clofes with the affairs of Brabant and Berry. We hope, ere long, to refume our Review of the IVth volume of this entertaining Hiftory, History, which will be more particularly interefting to our countrymen from the affairs of Scotland and Eng land detailed in it. ble to fyftem. Faith is kept alive by fyftem. The Chriftian Religion has its Articles, whether called the Articles of the Church of England, which has only adopted them, or the Articles of the Gospel, whence the borrows them. Morality alfo has its Articles, all its virtues and principles being founded upon dogmas both in the writings of the Apoftles and the Philofophers; the incitements only being refpectively different. The organization of fchools and fchoolmafters, propofed by Mr. L. originates from his obfervations on the effects of regular arrangement in the THE unwearied application of this management of the affairs of the Sogood lady to the conduct of education ciety of Friends, to whofe fmall com 16. A comparative View of the n new Plan of Education promulgated by Mr. Jofeph Lancafter, in his Tracts concerning the Inftruction of the Children of the Labouring Poor of the Community, and of the Syftem of Education founded by our pious Forefathers, for the Initiation of the young Members of the Established Church in the Principles of reformed Religion By Mrs. Trimmer. in general, in all its branches, deferves munity they are more applicable than every praife that our concern for the to a larger one. Chriftianity is the rerifing generation and the caufe of God ligion of the Church of England; but and Religion can beftow. With a high not of the Quakers, who entirely dif repect for Mr. L. and his talents, the allow its two Sacraments, and fubfticonceives that his plan, in its full ex- tute the impulfes of their own fpirit to tent, cannot fland, on national ground, the revelations of the Holy Spirit, and together with the fyftem of religious thus fall into incoherences of doctrine education founded at the Reformation. and formalities of practice. Dr. TalShe is folicitous to fee the preference bot drew up a View of the Duties of given where it is justly due; yet, withа "Chriftian Schoolmatter;" and Dr. o defiring to deprive Mr. L. of any Bell, in the fecond edition of his "Expart of the credit he may reafonably periments on Education," has favoured claim for contributing to the improve the publick with "A Scheme of a ment of children of the lower orders, School on the Model of the Mule Afyby providing what is generally wanted lum at Madras," of which he was one in moft fchools, a better method of of the directors and fuperintendants. fchool-management and tuition. His Of both thefe Mrs. T. gives abstracts, generalizing plan is too much like the and then contrafis the different charac affected liberality of the prefent times, ters of a fchoolmafter formed on the and approaches too much to the fuper- principles of each, and the probable ficial education of the French Revolu- effects of their inftructions on thofe tionifts, who leave out the grand fun- who are educated by them. In the fordamentals of Religion and Chriftia- mer mole, religious and moral princi-. pity, and fubfiitute to them a philofo- ples will be inculcated; in the latter, phical fyftem of no efficacy or reltraint. only learned by rote, without comMr. L. quotes Scripture, in this place, ment or illuftration, and only partially. juft as his preachers quote it in their In this way both are infenfibly brought meetings, by rote. The fyftem of re-into difufe and neglect; and Irreligion wards and punishments is fuch as one would not expect from a perfon of Mr. L's perfuafion, being more capable of infpiring ambition and vanity, fhame and difgrace, than thofe unworldly men are fuppofed to cherish. But perhaps we fhould check the phrafe, as no men understand the profits and pleafures of the world better in their way, the gain and the enjoyment being the fame, though obtained by different means, and by the femblance of felf-denial. To return to the fubject before us. Men egregiously deceive them felves if they conceive that both Religion and Morality are not reduci and Immorality gain ground by degrees, lefs rapidly than under the French Philofophy, but not much lefs effectually; and the Church of Eng land lofes her character and credit by both being drawn into contempt and oblivion. 17. On Virgil's Two Seafons of Honey, and his Seafon of fowing Wheat; with a new and compendious Method of inveftigating the Rifings and Settings of the Fixed Stars. By Samuel Lord Bishop of St. Afaph, F. R. and A. SS. Addressed to Mr. King, as eminently well qualified to judge of the Soundness of the Argu ments, 20. The Student's Guide through Lincoln's Inn: containing an Account of that Honourable Society, the Forms of Admiffon, keeping Terms, performing Exercifes, Call to the Bar, and other useful Information. By Thomas Lane, Steward The Second Edition. ments, and the Truth of the Conclufions, THIS latest pocket volume affwers they contain, and to appreciate the Me- all the purposes announced in the titlexits of the whole, and as a Small Tel-page; but when we come to the conmony of cordial Regard and Esteem." clufion, we find our way blocked up THE difficulty is, to reconcile Vir- by a blank leaf pafied over the direcgil's two feafons of honey with the tary, which should follow the dif three defcribed by Pliny, XI. c. 14, tances from Gloucefter, and the land 15, 16. His Lordship concludes, that and water carriages;" and we are left as the trina mellis vindemia is men in the dark as to the gentlemen and tioned by Varro, as quoted by Heyne, tradefmen in the city and its environs; three honey harvests actually obtained without any abatement in the price in Italy, and that the vernal was one; for this defalcation. that it is not true that the lumber of the bees continued in Italy to the heKiacal rifing of the Pleiads, though they might not wake fo early as the acronychal rifing of Archifus; and it is diffi cult to account for Pliny's mistake. However that be, Taygetis finking. berfelf in the fea, to hide herself from Pifcis, is a juft defcription of the evening fetting of the ftar, and can be underfood of nothing elfe; and this can defcribe no honey feafon but the firft, when they took the honey of the Howers denominated by Pliny anthitem, as the third, or that of the ling, sericetum. Subjoined is an account of the method used by the Bishop in the investigation of the rifings and fettings of the fixed ftars, which he takes to be his own, not having met with it in any writer upon the fubject-far Lefs operofe, both in the conftruction of the figure and the calculations, than the method by the Nonagefime, which he had been long in the habit of uling. 18. A Monody on Admiral Lord Viscount A PLEASING effufion of this 19. The Gloucefter New Guide; containing tory, antient and modern, Trade, Build- A THE refpectable and extenfive encouragement beltowed on a well-intended endeavour having far exceeded this modest author's most fanguine expectations, he has properly expreffed his gratitude, by adopting feveral improvements which have been fuggefte by others, or occurred to his own re flection; particularly by inferting a few biographical sketches of illuftrious and eminent perfons, members of this Society, who have acquired dignities and diftinction in the Seats of Juftices, or in the Councils of the Nation." neat Ground Plan, a pretty little vignette of the Stone Building, and two Plates of Fac Similes, are the embellifhments of the volume. A confiderable part of this Inn was the manfionhoufe of William de Haverhill, trea furer to King Henry III.; who being attainted, the King gave this houfe to Ralph Nevill, Bishop of Chichester, himself and his fucceffors, in which who built a fine manfion here for he died 1244; and it was the refidence of his fucceffors till the reign of King Henry VII. when it was held by Francis Suliarde, a bencher and a judge; whofe fon William had a leafe of it for of Queen Elizabeth, to the Benchers 99 years, which was fold, in the reign of Lincoln's Inn, a title which is traced back to the reign of Henry I. when it exifted as a college for profeffors and ftudents of the municipal law, deriving its title from having been the refidence of the Earls of Lincoln. Since that time the college has been much enlarged, particularly in the reign of King Henry VIII; and the gatehouse built built and adorned with armorial bearings by Sir Thomas Lovell. The chapel was built by Inigo Jones in five years, and confecrated in 1623. The windows are ornamented with paintings of the Prophets and Apofiles, in a ftyle of fuch fuperior excellence, and in fuch wonderfully fine prefervation, as would hardly be credited by thofe who have not lately feen them. They contain alfo the armorial bearings of a few noblemen, and of the fuccef five treasurers from 1680 to 1805. In the Eaft window are the arms of the Society, Azure, femé de fer de Moline Or, on a dexter canton Or a lion rampant Purpure; which were placed there in 1702, inftead of thofe of the Earl of Lincoln, which, till the year 1700, had been used on all occations inftead of the proper arms of the Inn. The bell (a remarkably fine-toned ne) was brought from Cadiz in 1596, by the Earl of Effex, having been part of the fpoil acquired by the English ander that gallant Peer and the Lord Effingham. The beautiful Cloifters underneath have lately been railed in; the ground being now referred for the interment benchers only. Here Thurloe, the fecretary of fate to Oliver Cromwell, was buried, with the following in fcription: "Here lyes the Body Died Feb1y 27. 1667. year of his Age." newed about ten years fince, and other repairs performed, under the direction of Mr. Wyatt. Henry Colfer, Elq. in 1658, left 121. a year for ever, for a fermon on the first Wednesday in every month; and, in 1768, Bp. Warburton founded the courfe of Lectures, which were begun in a moft mafterly flyle and manner by Bp. Hurd, and have been conftantly continued by Bp. Halifax, Bp. Bagot, Dr. Apthorpe, Dr. Nicholfun, Dr. Layard, and Archdeacon Nares. A preacher and chaplain are appointed by the Society; and divine fervice is performed here with the utmost propriety and regularity. The Hall, an elegant Gothic ftructure, 62 feet long and 32 broad, was built about 1506, and the lantern added in 1552. The interior i ris fpacions, and well proportioned; and is ornamented with Hogarth's fine painting of Paul before Felix. "Lord Wyndham, Baron Finglafs and Chancellor of Ireland, left by his will 2001. to be expended in ornamenting the hall by any means the treasurer and benchers fhould approve. Lord Manffield, who had an intimate acquaintance with, and perfonal efteem for Hogarth propofed that the 2001. fhould be applied brated artift, that they might at once in the purchafe of a painting by this celeperform the intention of the teftator, and encourage the fine arts. Hogarth painted the picture; and, folicitous to learn if it met the approbation of the benchers, waited on them for that purpose, when he was invited to dine with them- -a fayour feldom conferred but on legal of ecclefiaftical characters, and generally members of the Society. The picture was placed in the hall in the year 1750. It is 14 feet wide, by 10 feet 6 inches high." In the windows and pannels are the arms of the dignitaries and other members of the Society. The exterior has lately received a thorough repair, and is covered with patent fucco. In this hall the fittings of the Lord Chancellor are held during the vacation. 2 lity, with various parts of Gloucefterfhire, and of the neighbouring coun ties. There is nothing peculiarly friking in his defcription of the towns, or of the pleafing and romantic fcenes the county of Brecon, where he t an early opportunity of informing us that he is a proprietor of land. In Pembroke and Caerinarthenshires he dwells more on the manfions of LordCawdor and Mr. Paxton; the latter far ecliples the proudeft of the Cambrian manfions in Afiatic e pomp and fplendor." After a view of ftriking fcenes in the Salop, &c. he enters North Wales. The information contained in this work is prefumed to be fufficiently accurate to make it pleafing guide to future tourists in the fame direction. the counties of Worcester, 22. Subftance of the Bishop of Rochester's Speech in the Houfe of Peers, on Friday May 23, 1800, in the Debate on the third Reading of the Bill for the Punishment and more effectual Prevention of the Crime of Adultery. (See LXX. p. 1241.) IT is impoffible not to be convinced by the found and powerful reafoning of this energetic fpeaker, with whom we perfectly agree that "juftice, not compaffion for the guilty, is the great principle of legiflation. The fpeeches of Lord Auckland, on the fame fubject, May 16 and 23, on the bill as amended by him, the fubftance of the arguments on which are printed in one connected fpeech, contained arguments not lefs cogent, though delivered in milder language. With the fubftance of the fpeeches of Lord Mulgrave, in reply to the two preceding, we do not accord. 23. The Sorrows of Seduction, in Eight Delineations. With other Poems. Second Edition, with confiderable Additions. THE Author of thefe Poems, as we 7 learn from himfelf, "depending on his own counfels and exertions, is, at a diftance from the Metropolis, purfuing Icompetence in a laborious walk of life;" and we are so pleased with the evidently good intentions of his little book, that we heartily with he may not be difappointed in his purfuit. Neither his intereft nor his tranquillity," he fays, will be affected by the fate of the prefent publication." This relieves us from the apprehenfion of wounding either his feelings or his pocket, when we candidly tell him, that Poetry is not his forte. We are glad, howeve to fee that he has arrived at a fecor edition; for his fubject is certainly we chofen; the goodnefs of his heart apparent; and the ftory, well told but it is much too profaic. There are however, fome good fentiments inters fperfed. Af A few lines fhall be felected But for afflictions, we were proud an Egalem frail, Too proud for man, too weak for forrow' To them alone we noble virtues owe, Theeye refign'd, and Fortitude's firm brow They urge the foul from Life's tumultuou fhore, [more To feek the clime where they fhall rage no And though they lour, the beams of Hop arife, [fkies. Light on her courfe, and fteer her to thr In the hour of diftrefs, the unfortu nate Maid exclaims, "Ah! fad my doom! Each thought involves me in terrifi gloom; Meek Innocence appears in fmiling mient As fair fhe moves upon the village-green Eyes me afkance, then from me pityingt [the mourns." turns, And leaves me wretched, though my fath "Would time return," the fighs, "wher in Life's morn I joyous pluck'd the rofe without its thor Would time return, and to my breaft reftor The innocence and joy I felt beforeTime ne'er returns-and ah! it leaves behind Remembrance feft'ring on the guilty mind Remembrance from the paft with dread controul, [foulThe woes of years pours on the fin-ftain'd Thus Heav'n decrees" By fhame and grief opprefs'd, [reft." Beneath the fhade fhe gives her limbs to Among the minor poems, a Sonnet intituled Ruins" has fome merit :, "On thefe dun walls, and ivy-circledy tow'rs, [lime, Eve, flow defcending, her foft radiance Through the ftill foliage of the oak fub[of time. pours, While Mem'ry, mufing, wings the lapfe "Gay Jollity once wak'd these walls to mirth, [neighbouring plains; Thane, once famous, now is swept When the proud Thane reign'd o'er the The [mains. his name re from earth, And fcarce, a veftige of "Now, as its lord, full low this manfion lies, [decay; Now, where the nettle and the nightThat feem'd to plead exemption from fhade rife, [ing fway. Enthron'd, fell Ruin holds her moulder"Before |