lief, the military triumph of Britannia, who appears seated in a car, and is surrounded by soldiers carrying spoils, &c. in the nature of the antient Roman triumphs. A figure of Victory surmounts the pediment, and those of Mars and Minerva support it on each side. Beneath it is the following inscription:

VICTORIÆ WATERLOENSI PRINC. SENAT. POP.QUE F. F. "To the Victory of Waterloo. The Prince, the Parliament, and the People, erected this."

The decorations of the original Pantheon have sunk beneath barbaric violence and the weight of years; but they are supplied in the model with tasteful elegance. A rich entablature surrounds it, which is supported at equal distances by double Corinthian columns. Between each pair of these are niches, which contain the figures of the most celebrated heroes of this nation, beginning with Egbert and Alfred, and ending with Abercrombie and Moore. The top of the entablature is ornamented with allegorical figures of the Virtues and Arts which flourish in this Country.

The interior of this Temple of Victory is an hemisphere of 100 feet in height, and the same in diameter. It is lighted from the apex by an eye or open circular window, which has a singular and happy effect. Underneath this, in the centre of the Temple, is placed the statue of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the pedestal of which is supported by figures representing the four quarters of the world, and is adorned on its four sides with appropriate carving. On one of these the Prince is deciding in council on the continuance of the war with Napoleon; on another he is receiving the congratulations of the Foreign Princes and Generals who visited this Country on the termination of the first war; on the third Capt. Percy is laying at his feet the eagles and other spoils captured at Waterloo: the front pannel is reserved for an inscription.

Facing the Prince's statue is that of the Duke of Wellington; his head is crowned with laurel, and he bears a Marshal's staff in his hand: Mars and Minerva, emblematic of valour and military skill, support his pedestal. Six other statues, under ornamented canopies, are placed at equal distances round the Temple. These represent

the Marquis of Anglesea, Lord Hill, Generals Ponsonby, Picton, &c.; and a much greater number of busts and medallions of distinguished officers adorn the intermediate spaces. Even the meanest of our combatants who gave his life or shed his blood in the evermemorable day of Waterloo is not for. gotten in this National Monument, as the inside of the doors are to be lined with bronze, on which the whole of the official returns of killed and wounded in that engagement is to be engraved. In different compartments of the attic story, immediately below the cu pola, are bas reliefs, representing the former victories of the Duke, as well as the decisive one of Waterloo.

Some persons have objected to the proposed Temple, that it will want height, though it is proposed that the eye of it should stand 130 feet from the earth; and have expressed their partiality for a pillar. To insti tute a just comparison between these two kinds of Monuments, we must chiefly consider which of them is best calculated to represent the events intended to be recorded, and which of them is the most beautiful in itself. On neither point can there be, in my opinion, a moment's doubt. It has been shown how admirably the proposed Pantheon or Temple of Victory is calculated to commemorate in ge neral and in particular those exploits of our immortal Hero, and of his fellow combatants, to which we are indebted for all that is dear in life; whilst a Pillar, like the Monument near London Bridge, can only present a general, and that a mouldering re presentation of them; or, if carved in detail, as on Trajan's Pillar, they can never be surveyed without the help of wings or scaffolding. In the next place, a Pillar which supports nothing is by no means a graceful object; whereas the original Pantheon, under all its disadvantages, is the admiration of all beholders. The Model of the Waterloo Monument, now at No. 28, Old Burlington-street, decorated as it is, has charmed every description of persons who have viewed it. Some, indeed, of those who acknowledge its beauty as an edifice, object to it as a National Monument, because, they say, it is copied from a Church. True it is that the Pantheon at Rome has been, in the middle ages, turned into a Church;

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but every one knows that it was not built for one; and there is no person of taste who has seen it, that does not think it better calculated for a Repository of Illustrious Personages, to which purpose it now begins to be applied, than for the worship of the Christian Religion. 1. MERLIN.

Mr. URBAN,

June 5.

S no one has answered the in

Caradoc, in your last Volume, p. 487, after Dr. Nicholas Bound, I am induced to send you such particulars as I have met with respecting him, though they are but slight, and though the interest may now be somewhat weakened by the republication of one of his Works, which was probably intended to be accompanied by

some account of the Author.

Dr. Nicholas Bounde was of Peterhouse, Cambridge, A. B. 1571-2, A. M. 1575, elected Fellow of his College in 1570, upon the vacancy made by Tho. Binge. On the 3d of Sept. 1585, being then S. T. P. he was instituted to the Rectory of Norton in Suffolk. In 1587 the fellowship which he had vacated was filled up by the election of Thomas Moigne, On the 19th of July, 1577, he was incorporated Master of Arts of the University of Oxford; and died the 8th Feb. 1607.

He was the Author of several Works, most of which are enumerated in your last Magazine, p. 429. Of these, "The Doctrine of the Sabbath plainly laid down," &c. first published in 1595, made a considerable noise. In this (which was enlarged with additions in 1606) the following opinions are maintained: 1. That the Commandment of sanctifying every seventh day, as in the Mosaic Decalogue, is moral and perpetual. 2. That whereas all other things in the Jewish Church were taken away (Priesthood, Sacrifices, and Sacraments), his Sabbath was so changed as it still remaineth. 3. That there is great reason why we Christians should take ourselves as strictly bound to rest upon the Lord's Day, as the Jews were upon their Sabbath; it being one of the moral Commandments, where all are of equal authority. New Church Hist. lib. 9. sect. 20. Heyliu's Extraneus Vapulaus, Lond. 12mo. 1656, p. 117.

The two following passages from

clared, for a doctrinal point, that the first day of the week, which is the Lord's Day, is wholly to be dedicated to the service of God; and therefore we are Bound therein to rest from our common and daily business, and to bestow that leisure upon holy exercises, both publick and private."-Heylin's Hist. of Abp. Laud. Lond. fol. 1671, p. 195.

The English Puritans having sped so ill in a course of violence, were grown so wise as to endeavour the subverting of that fort by an undermining, which

they had no hope to take by storm or battery. And the first course they fell upon, besides the artifices lately mentioned, for altering the posture of the Preacher in the Spittle Sermons, and that which was intended as a consequent to

it, was the design of Dr. Bound (though rather carried under his name, than of his devising) for lessening, by degrees, the reputation of the antient festi

vals.

The Brethren had tried many ways to suppress them formerly, as having too much in them of the su perstitions of the Church of Rome; but they had found no way successful till they fell on this-which was, to set on foot some new Sabbath Doctrine; and by advancing the authority of the Lord's Day Sabbath, to cry down the rest. Some had been hammering on this anvil ten years before, and had procured the Mayor and Aldermen of London to present a petition to the Queen for the suppressing of all plays and interJudes on the Sabbath Day (as they pleased to call it) within the liberties of their city. The gaining of which made them hope for more, and secretly to retail those speculations which afterwards Bound sold in gross, by publishing his Treatise of the Sabbath, which came out this year, 1595. And as this book was published for other reasons, so more particularly for decrying the yearly festivals, as appears by this passage in the same, viz. That he seeth not where the Lord hath given any authority to his Church, ordinarily and perpetually, to sanctify any day, except that which he hath sanctified himself.' And makes it

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Mr. URBAN,

D. A. Y.

June 9.

N the vale of Aylesbury, and in the richest part of that pasturage, which ever since the days of Draytou (and perhaps long before) has been celebrated for the value of its soil and produce, is now standing, in a melancholy state of ruinous dilapidation, a Chapel, which, from the fragments of old sepulchral stones still remaining, was evidently the burial-place of the Earls of Lichfield for many ages.

I am informed that neither the proprietors of the surrounding estate, nor its occupiers, give themselves any trouble about the matter; but that the edifice and its contents are suffered to crumble into dust, without any attempt to restore or preserve them. It is certainly to be lamented, that, when an income of four or five thousand pounds per annum descends to the heir of an antient house, it does not carry with it something like an admonition of the reverence and respect which is due to the ashes of bis forefathers; and I hope it may be allowed me to complain, that, when Sectaries are every day increasing in numbers, and evincing that they also increase in riches, by the sums which they voluntarily contribute to the erection of Meeting-houses and Conventicles, none of which do I see falling into decay or disuse, there should be so much carelessness on the part of the Members

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of the Establishment with regard to the condition of their Churches and Chapels. Perhaps, Mr. Urban, the condi known to the noble family whose an tion of Quarrendon Chapel may not be cestors, although not made food for crows, have their "sconces every day liable to be knocked about with a dirty shovel." But, as your Magazine is very generally read, this notice of the circumstance may possibly fall into the hands of some person who may think it worth while to apply evil which is rapidly gaining ground some remedy to this instance of an amongst us an entire neglect of sacred edifices, and disregard for antient worth! Perhaps, also, some of your Readers will be able to inform me who was Sir Harry Lee, knight, whose lady was buried at Aylesbury in 1584, with the following very singu lar lines inscribed upon her monument: "If passing by this place thou doe deTo know what corpse here shry'd in [marble lie; The sum of that which now thou dost require, This sele'der verse shall sone to the [descrie. Entombed here doth rest a worthie

sire

Dame,

[bloud; Extract and born of noble house and Her sire Lord PAGET hight of worthie

fame,

realme;

Tho bretheren had she, Baro's of this [floud. Whose virtues cannot sinke in Lethe [he hight, To whom she bare three impes, which A Knight her freere, Sir Harry Lee [spight: First two bei'g yong, which caus'd their John, Henry, Mary, slayn by fortune's pare'ts mo'e, [her years:

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ders rest;

possest."