Charity is founded on the Christian religion, which inspires it, and suggests motives. Philanthropy, awakened and nourished by vanity and oftentation, courts public notice, while it che. rifhes felfithness, encourages mendicity, raifes diftinctions between man and man, and confines to Societies that principle of charity which is implanted in the heart; not to infift how it interferes with the province of the magiftrate and officers of Juftice, under the alledged pretence that they do not do their duty. The arguments lately banded about in the News-papers, refpecting the Society for the Suppreffion of Vice, ferve but to fhew how inadequate that Society is to the end it propofes. The religion of the laft age, confined to the Methodists, was fad and folemn, paffing sentence of damnation on all who were not in stantly converted by their experience. The Evangelical preacher and believer of the prefent age finds the expediency of being more all things to all men,' and, by a pleafant fmiling demeanour, may at leaft gain fome. The philanthropy of the prefent age, if it cannot make a convert, will be out of humour with him, and interrupt the offices of fociety by a four countenance and revolting manner: the philanthropist will even charge the failure of his favourite defigu, however abfurd and impracticable, on the difference of opinions held by his very coadjutors. The Slave trade must be inftantly abolished, becanfe it is murder; and we muft lay down our arms when we most want them, because the Chriftian religion inculcates Peace. B.

URBAN,

Od. 1.

Proton methaffy ante, & praifeworthy writer in your publication of September, pp. 814 and 815 (for praifeworthy I cannot but confider him), has condefcended to animadvert, at fome length, upon my ftatement, p. 803, in your lafi volume. I need not affure you, my good Sir, that the gentleman is rather too warm in his expreffions, when he charges Palamedes with attempting, under the mafk of kindness, to ridicule Senex, his wife, and his daughter. I need not, I trust, affure you, that Palamedes never in tended his complaint of the treatment fo ftated, as a Species of advertisement to the young gentlemen of the University of Cambridge, that they might infult that

ERMIT me to request an early in

amiable family with perfect fecurity."

No, Mr. Urban, no. Palamedes wrote that reprobated letter immediately, when he first heard the intelligence. His information came to him from a quarter he could not queftion; and he remembers well the poftfcript which he himself forwarded to you. Should any gentleman,-nay, fhould even the very refpectable, and, by him, ever to be refpected Senex himself-require, now, the name of his informant, Palamedes cannot consent to gratify fo tardy a curiofity: but, to prove to the praifeworthy writer in p. 814, 815, that Palamedes is no anonymous affaffin, I here cheerfully authorise you to com, municate my name and my prefent ad dress to any man who will honour me with the enquiry. I MEANT WELL; and I will not concede even to the gentleman (whofe perfonal acquaintance I am thus ready to acquire) the palm of honour for upright motives, and for affectionate attachment to the family of Senex.

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

PALAMEDES,

Sept. 27.

TN the Circulating Library of a fea

for the first time, Dr. Nathan Drake's

11. Part II.

Literary Hours," in 3 vols. the 3d edition, publifhed in the prefent year. In this work I found a long account of Robert Herrick, the Poet, with a reference, and indeed much that is copied, from fome articles regarding that writer, in your Magazine for 1796, p. 461, 645, 736: but perhaps the learned critic will be glad to know that there is a much more extended and fatisfactory account of him in your ingenious Printer's moft laborious and valuable History of Leicestershire, Vol. p. 631-634. The publick are, however, extremely obliged to Dr. Drake for bringing into notice the curious, and indeed feveral beautiful, extracts which he has produced. They remind me of a tafk, which, however voluntary in its origin, has long fince become a duty; and of which I am afraid I muft in truth attribute the delay as much to idleness as to important avocations. Yet I have never totally fufpended my attention to the fubject; and the materials which have gradually accumulated under my notice, and been arranged in my memory, will, I truft, make fome amends for the length of time elapfed in the performance of my undertaking. A fecond volume of

the

the Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum," with an improved, augmented, and in many parts re-written edition of the first volume, will, ere long, be ready for the publick; and as thele volumes will comprife not only all the names which are recorded as writers of English verfes (except the mere dra matic authors) by Phillips Wood, Langbaine, Winftanley, Jacob, Cibber, and Warton, or preferved by the induftrious refearches of Oldys, Percy, Ritfon, Pinkerton, or Ellis, but a variety of fcattered notices, both in old and modern books, I entertain a hope that the work, however humble the tafk of the compiler may be confidered, will form, if not an entertaining, yet a comprehenfive and ufeful compendium of biography on the moft exalted and refined of human arts. How very meagre and imperfect is every exifting collection, they who are converfant with thefe ftudies, well know; and even men of the most accurate memories, and the longest exercise in these researches, will find, though nothing new fhould be pointed out to them, great convenience in the juxta-pofition of fuch widely-difperfed materials. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

S. E. B.

Cape Look-out, Aug. 8.

YOUR Correfpondent Rufticus, in

p. 612, wishes to know where an exact model of a fhip may be feen; I can affure him, of all the numerous models I have beheld, I have not feen an exact one, nor do I think it poffible, unless upon a larger fcale than those generally made for fhew or ornament. There is a model of a 64 exhibited at Greenwich Hofpital, but a moft wretched one. There are fome excellent ones in the Governors' rooin at Chrift's Hofpital, feen only when the fcholars fup in public; but they are imperfect. The best of the kind I ever faw was at the houfe of a nobleman in Bedfordfhire: it was a 50 gun frigate, the production of a French prifoner *, and a remarkable neat one of the kind; the hull, mafts, and yards were of bone, except the trenails and guns, which were brass; but this, though it might appear very well to a landfman, was far from being perfect; the architect had forgot the fails; therefore, if Rufticus had viewed it after reading Falconer's Shipwreck (a book he would find well

About 12 inches length of the keel,

worth his perufal), he would in vain enquire for the bow-lines, reef-tackles, clue-garnets, &c.

I have often wondered that fome. ingenious feaman has not made a ip for the infpection of the curious and rigged it properly, with its refpective fails; it would, without doubt, antwer their pocket better than the common fhews of hawkers; but it must be larger than thofe of two feet length of the keel. I would recommend four feet at leaft; fo that not only the guns and gun-tackles, with their truck and coins would be plainly feen, but the wheel and the machinery of the helm likewife, which would well anfwer the expectation and amufement of the curious. This alfo would be large enough to fhew the operations of reefing and furling manoeuvres, not common to landfmen; but unless it is the above fize, I will venture to fay it is impoffible to be perfect, for on a fmall scale, where can be seen the fmall blocks, catharpins, gun-tackles, port-falls, ftuddingfails, ftay-fails, brails, gafkets, &c. Was the owner of fuch a veffel to exhibit the fame in a cubical veffel of water, he might alfo, with a large bellows on one fide of the room, fhew the pofition of the tillar on each tack, the manner of wearing, and tacking, and by placing clay and fand at the bottom

might

shew the operation of letting go

and weighing the anchor, &c. all which motions would be gratefully beheld by every lover of Naval Tactics. That fuch a one may be made is the fincere wifh of NAUTICUS.

AYENNE has nearly 500 miles of

CAY

fea-coaft; the foil is in general of a very fuperior quality, but is better adapted for the cultivation of cotton, cocoa, annatto, and fpice, than for fugar or coffee. The almoft continual rains which fall there prevent them. procuring fuel for the manufacture of fugar, or preferving coffee.

Negroes, formerly flaves, who were emancipated by the late fyftem of government established in France in 1796, exceeded 13,000; but, owing to their late bad habits, are reduced to 11,000, although there were 1500 captured and carried in there fince; of the 11,000, about 5000 work as labourers ; and the able women and men get 7d. the boys

boys and girls 5d. fterling per day; blank days regularly flopped, and no allowance more of any kind is given to them; if fick, no medical attendance or nourishment whatever is afforded; but they are treated in that indifferent manner which labourers are in Europe, but without the advantage of relief from charitable inftitutions. About 5000 Negroes, who were formerly flaves, live in the vicinity of the town, and have given encouragement to 30 additional billiard tables (there are 40 in all, in town and the fuburbs). Thefe people plant caflava near to the town, where there is a very extenfive tract of unoccupied land, and are employed in this way and in taking cat and other bad foft fifh in the mud near the town, about three hours daily. They make a difh which is the farine (caffavaflour) of the fish mentioned, and country pepper; this is called pimentelle, and on this they make their repafts daily, contriving on all occafions to get taffia (low wines or rum only once diftilled), with which they are daily intoxicated. The clothing on the 11,000 people before-mentioned, at a fair valuation, is not worth fo many pence. Intoxication, want of cloaths, nourishment, medical attendance, &c. account for the decreale. The old well-difpofed Negroes are difconfolate, and earnettly with for the old fyftem.

Religion, none; there are two churches in town, the field artillery is in one, and the oxen for the army in the other; only one clergyman remained in the colony.

Produce, about 1150 bales cotton; 800 hhds. rocou, or annotto; 100,000 lbs cocoa; 80,000 lbs. cloves.

There is a great variety of beautiful and valuable wood for furniture: there was a Swedish fhip taking in a load of it for London, making a fecond voyage with it.

White inhabitants not employed in the government or adminiftration, 1000; a great number of old military men, mofily very refpectable, many very old, but all chagrined and poor, in confe

quence of their being deprived of their

former refources.

Government-Victor Hughes is not only fupreme, but is without council, comptroller, or any check whatever on his conduct; he has augmented the impofts tenfold; he is carrying on an extenfive mercantile bufinefs, and with the authority he poffeffes to relax or

infift on the duties, he procures every thing that is defirable. His meafures, as formerly, are rude and arbitrary; he will not allow a planter to kill his own cattle, but infifts on their being fent to his butcher, who accounts to the planter as he pleafes, and if he fpares him five or fix pounds of his ox it is a favour. Hogfhead of fish, barrells of herrings, &c. are opened on the quay and infpected, before a planter can convey it to his plantation: this is a precaution to get the 10 per cent. import duty. Planters by this delay are often detained one and fometimes two tidesa Duties on imports and exports 10 per cent. even on lumber and provifions.

o and

Fortification, has been strong; the old town is walled round, and has a deep ditch; nothing has been done to the works during the late war, they are now in a ruinous ftate, moft of the guns difmounted; they depended on the want of water, there being only two and a half fathom within cannon-fhot of it.

Garrifon, confifis of about 1200 nien, of whom 800 are Europeans, 400 black; they are badly clothed and fed; the black troops get falt fifh and farine, fometimes herrings, and corn roafted in the ears. There is a Chief of Divifion there, but Vidor is at the head of every thing.

Cloves are very much cultivated, and ́ do not require more care than coffee, are very productive: a garden 200 yards by 150, produced 400 lbs. last year, and was the firft time of their bearing; it was expected to make 600 lbs. this year. The Republick has a very extenfive clove walk, which will, it is expected, produce 50,000 lbs. this year.

Birds, more different fpecies here than in any place I ever was in a collection of 420 was lately fent by Victor to Madame Buonaparte, and another of the fame kind remains; they are beautiful.

Quadrupeds, a great number of dif ferent fpecies; fmall deer in abundance. O&. 6.

Mr. URBAN,

от

NOT having time at this moment to

enquire with particular exactitude how my opinion has been formed, I fhall only fuggeft in general terms, why I fuppofe that Horfa has nothing to do with Kit's Coity Houfe; but that it is folely a memorial of the death of Catigern, and is, in fact, defignated by thofe words as the place of his fepulture.

Kars

Kazi zoby houre, which as to

(i. e. tode) means in Saxon death, will make the conftruction be the houfe of the dead Catigern. I believe that I am not quite correct in my Saxom orthography, and I have, where I now am, no Saxon books to refer to, but it is an habitual conviction in my mintl, that the above is the fair explanation. The Saxon T is fo like a C, that the miftake could eafily have happened from fome legend on the ftones now

obliterated. d. This is only fuggefted in order that f literary perfon may investigate this inatter further, who has more leifure than MOUTH CANTIUS. This will alfo explain Horfted,

Horfe

is not correct. When I faw the tomb (which was in 1799), I read the infeription as follows:

"In this church weare maried John Beresforde, alias Barforde, of the countie of Darbie, efq'yre, and Margaret, his wyf, whofe fonne and daughters, Thomas Barforde, Elizabeth and Marie Barforde, lye buried heare, and died, videlicet, the faid Thomas the 23 of .. 1556, the faid Elizabeth the vii June, 1584, and the faid Marie, the wife of .... Roper, of Kent,

efq'yre, the xx of September, 1584. Totius

mundi via."

Round the tomb, bears faliant, the arms of Beresford.

The following pedigree will illuftrate the infcription, which is one, amongst many, omitted by Sir Henry Chauncey. It was probably the marriage of Elizabeth Beresford, the mother of John, with the celebrated Sir Thomas Pope, lord of the manor of Tittenhanger, which led this branch of the Beresford family into Hertfordshire.

there.

of Arcluyd, co. Ceft. efq. ob. 16th March, 1467. Buried at Bentley.

Anthony Beresford, of Broadlowash, co. Derb. gent. fon and heir, died the Tit of March, 30th Hen. VIII. fe fed. of divers eftates in Bentley, Thorpet, Dovebridge, Alfope, Flag, & Chelmorton, co. Derb. -Vide Efc. 33 Hen. VIII.

Sir Thomas Pope, knt. 2d hufb. Will dated 6th Feb. 3d and 4th Philip and Mary; proved 6th May, 1559, in Cur. Prærog.

Sir Hugh Paulett, of Hinton St. George, co. Somerset, knt. oh. circ. 13 Eliz.

9 Eliz.

at

Mary, dau. and co-heir, aged one year and a quarter at the death of her father. (Vide Esc. 9 Eliz.) She married Roper, efq. of Kent, and oh. 20 Sept. 155. Buried at North Mimms.

GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. No XX. Mr. URBAN,

April 6.

As concluded the tubject of the Ionic S in, laft Number, p. 111, was capital, the entablature, as affigned by Vitruvius or Grecian architecture, is now to be defcribed and, though the term is modern, vet is eligible enough, under a due difcrimination between the Vitruvian and Italian appropriation. In the former, it comprizes like members both for the Ionic and Corinthian manner, called by our mater epiftylia et eorum ornamenta; in the latter, its affignments are understood to characterize not only the Doric, but also the appropriates of the Corinthian, diftinct from thofe of the Ionic, giving this generally only denticules, and to the Corinthian modillions; but they are not established on any known precedents of Grecian authority, nor well fettled in practice. In reality, the rich modil lions of the moderns tend more to luxuriance and the carver's profit than to excellence of eurithmy.

The first of the three conftituents of the entablature is that which comes immediately on the capitals of the columns, which in marble, or other ftone works, is compofed of a series of pieces as numerically diftinct as the columns that fupport them, though neither the Latins nor we have a proper name for them and Vitruvius therefore adopted the Greek epiftylium, with its plural to exprefs the aggregate of them. A due attention to this will facilitate the right understanding of fome future documents, when the Doric manner comes under difcuffion. This continuation of epiftyles, meeting each other right over the middles of the capitals, is barbaroufly called by our workmen and by the French architrave; which is combated in No. III. p. 516, vol. LXXI.; alfo the paffage that here occurs, collocatis non ad libellam, &c. fully difcuffed. No. IV. pp. 704, 793, ibid.

Vitruvius increafes the commenfurate height of epiflyles, by which are regulated the heights of every member in the entablature, accordingly as the columns increase in abfolute height, governed in this by his erroneous notion of optical effects, combated in No. VII.. vol. LXXI. p. 1179, and very ably by Perrault in his treatife on the five kinds of columns.

As then we may reafonably reject our mafter's progreffive increafe of altitude, it remains to adopt a medium

height of epiftyle between his exceffive height and his loweft of 30 minutes. Now, although Perrault, as a commentator on Vitruvius, is freely cen fured in thefe letters, it by no means follows that the writer of them flands pledged to prove him to have been an incompetent architect; on the contrary, is charmed with the power of of his rea foning againft Vitruvius on, optical ef fects in architecture, and is very fenfible of the propriety of feveral improve ments he has introduced into the art, and especially in the point in question, by establishing a rule to give two diameters to the height of all entablatures in every kind and every height of column whatever. With a pleasant and full conviction of its propriety, P--t-- adopts this rule. But in the character and fymmetries of his components of the entablature he followed not Vitruvius in his treatife alluded to. Vitruvius, then, pursuant to rules he received from his Athenian mafters, regulates every member of the entablature by divifions of the height of the epiftyle, whatever that height may be. Let us then adopt fuch an height of epiftyle, which, when divided as our mafter directs, will furnish each member the height he or ders, and will bring their fum or aggregate to juft 120 minutes, or two diameters this height of epiftyle is found to be 38 minutes. To avoid prolixity, his divifions of equal parts fhall be given at once in minutes, in which a fmall liberty is taken with the fractions of a minute, to render them more manageable, by giving. and taking fmall frac tions of a fraction.

The lower fafcia of the epiftyle 8 minutes, middle fafcia 11, upper fafcia 13, cymatium 5; total of these just 38. The frieze he orders to be, e, when plain, a quarter lefs than the epistyle, when ornamented, a quarter more; but as an high frieze has always a more pleafing effect, and is feldom lefs convenient, we may take the height 47, from which 63 are to be deducted for its cymatium, leaving for the naked the frieze 41 minutes. The band for the denticules 11 minutes, its cymatium deducted 2 minutes, leaving the height of the denticule 9; the corona alio 11, its cymatium deducted the Sima (called by us cyma recta) 121, total, of frieze and cornice 82 minutes + 38 — 120 minutes, or two diameters, for the whole entablature. The projectures of all

of

1