upon Christian principles, and to trace the progress of their influence from infancy to old age. These principles are beautifully illustrated in the person of an unmarried female, or, as the vulgate hath it," an old maid." The prejudice against these unfortunate females (unfortunate only from the persecution they suffer, and the injuries inAlicted on their helplessness) is most degrading to the moral sense of the young, by whom it is cherished, and in nine cases out of ten is perfectly unwarranted by the temper and habits of those whom they despise.

A bachelor on principle, who foregoes the comforts and happiness of domestic life, because they can only be attained by the infliction of sacrifices and privations on an amiable woman, deserves the respect and honour of the good; and the moralist is never more worthily employed, than in enforcing virtuous self-denial, and in rectifying wicked or absurd prejudice.

We recommend Mrs. Bowdler's work to the young more particularly, as a highly pleasing and instructive tale.

NICHOLS'S Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. VI. (Continued from p. 445.)

Among the biographical articles in this volume, is a very minute and accurate account of Dr. Goodenough, Jate Bishop of Carlisle, one of whose sermons before the House of Lords, provoked a well-known epigram, writien by living punster and poet. ""Tis well enough that Goodenough

Before the House should preach,-
For sure-enough full bad-enough
Are those he has to teach."

This article is followed by a life of Dr. Gerrard Andrews, Dean of Canterbury; but we could dispense with the character given of him in a quack publication, entitled, "Onesimus." The employment of newspaper reporters in Churches is one of the most impertinent intrusions of modern times. This is followed by the memoirs of John Eardley Wilmot, Esq. a very interesting article. The votaries of commerce will be gratified with the memoir of Sampson Gideon, of Belvedere, Kent, which is included in Mr. Eardley Wilmot's memoirs. This great capitalist died Sir Sampson Gideon, but his son was created Lord T

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The accounts of the Rev. Theophilus Buckeridge, and his sons; Richard Greene, Esq. the proprietor of the Lichfield Museum, with his correspondence; George Richard Savage Nassau, Esq., with particulars of the sale of his MSS at Evans's, will afford ample gratification to the friends and admirers of these gentlemen, and many interesting particulars of their contemporaries. The life of Dr. Treadway Russell Nash, given in the eighth volume of the "Literary Anecdotes," is now further illustrated by an extensive correspondence with Mr. Gough; and, in like manner, the life of that skilful herald and antiquary, John Charles Brooke, Esq. is improved by many letters from that much-lamented gentleman. In a letter dated May 22, 1778, Mr. Brooke says,

"In pursuance of a note from the Lord Chamberlain, we had yesterday a Chapter at the Office to consider of a proper ceremonial for Lord Chatham's funeral: to-day our report was made to him, and to-morrow is to be laid before the King in Council, for his approbation or alteration. It will be chiefly the same as that of Monk, Duke of Albemarle, with the omission of military trophies, to which Lord Chatham can have no right."

Mr. Gough notices this in the true style of an antiquary: "I expect a long account of Lord Chatham's funeral, if you are not smothered in the crowd, or a screen or half an aisle pulled on your head." In a subsequent letter is a passage which our editors observe cannot be passed without a remark. Mr. Brooke says, "I was obliged to you for the play-tickets; but my sisters had left town long before, and Í seldom go to plays." Our readers may remember that their Majesties were at the theatre the night Mr. Brooke and many others were smothered; but the question, a very natural one, was never answered, why were their Majesties allowed to remain ignorant of a catastrophe which took place before their arrival? Was this policy, impolicy, or avarice? With respect to Lord Chatham's funeral, Mr. Gough gives a singular report. "I am credibly informed that you attended an empty coffin to the ground last Tuesday, and that the real Lord Chatham has been disposed of quietly at Hayes long since. This is of a piece with burying the Duke of Marlborough pompously, and the taking him up again. Whose

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ashes have been disturbed on the occasion?" This appears to have been a mistake, but the banners borne at the public funeral of Lord Chatham are certainly in Hayes Church. About this time Mr. Gough appears to have been preparing his Topography, and derived considerable assistance from Mr. Brooke. They were both lively writers, and there is a charm in their correspondence which will be amply felt by all who delight in the recollection of deceased friends and past times.

The memoirs of the Right Hon. William Burton Conyngham, are original and curious. Among other instances of his love of antiquarian literature was his patronage of Mr.Murphy, in his travels in Portugal, and his mag nificent publication on the great monastic establishment of Batalha in that country. His very interesting corre spondence with Mr. Conyngham is here supplied by Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq. F.S.A. with a memoir of Mr. Murphy, containing many curious particulars of his works.

Omitting the other lives, which constitute no small part of the present volume, and may be reserved for our next article, we shall conclude the present with some notice of the extensive correspondence between the Rev. Samuel Denne, F.S.A. and Mr. Gough. Of Mr. Denne a memoir was given in vol. iii. of Mr. Nichols's "Literary Anecdotes," and his works came fre quently under notice in various parts of that work. He was one of Mr. Gough's most voluminous correspondents, and the letters now published will, we doubt not, be found curious and amusing. We must, however, conclude our present article with a few gleanings, from a store so ample that more cannot be reasonably expected. It will be sufficient if these shall lead to a more minute examination of the whole. There is, as may be expected, much antiquariau lore, many curious notices of eminent scholars and contemporaries, particularly of the learned members of Ben'et College, Cambridge, and a little of what we did not expect, grumbling at war and

taxes.

The peculiar temper of Mr. Masters is frequently noticed.

"Young Masters, as I understand, died consumptive. He was offended by the old man's desiring two of the Cambridge physi

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cians to go to Waterbeach (Mr. Masters's living) to consult upon his dangerous case : father and son, however, seldom conversed together in a friendly and affectionate manner, probably from their both having a perversity of temper, though once the former hinted to Dr. Colman he was greatly astonished where his son could acquire such a degree of obstinacy as was discernible in him. Till it was mentioned to me by Mr. James Currey, I was not apprised that tenacem propositi was the motto to Mr. Masters's arms. Qy? was it chosen by the bearer as characteristic of himself, or did it devolve to him with a device of a red lion rampant, with a brace of long tails erect, by hereditary right?"

"Tutor Masters has met with a disappointment. Bishop Yorke having collated beach, doubtless from a lapse of memory I know not whom to the vicarage of Waterthat he had encouraged Mr. Masters to believe that a son-in-law elect should be the successor of his son in the living. The Fellows expectant of the old-House, will have that such a severe stroke will shorten the days of the Rector of Landbeach, and be of course in their favour: but probably you and I may concur in opinion, that the heartstrings of the veteran incumbent are not of that tender, delicate fabric, as to be easily cracked. The mortification will unquestionably occasion, or rather, has more than once occasioned an effort of the lungs in a person who has always been in the habit of speaking his mind in a Stentorian style :

but I will venture to affirm that he has not lost an hour's rest by it."

Masters certainly outlived this disappointinent about four or five years, but was always at petulant variance with his learned contemporaries.

The following short notice of a once famous city patriot will probably be well understood by his contemporaries and descendants:

"The late Alderman Sawbridge was my school-fellow and co-boarder in the Master's house at Canterbury. I wish that his family may not have cause to regret that from a country gentleman he would become a citizen and eke Parliament man. So many contested elections as he was obliged to fight his way through, must have been attended with a very heavy expense: and report says that his alliance with an Alderman's daughter was not much to his pecuniary interest."

Dr DUCAREL" Obliged as I am to you for your intelligence that some of the Ducalerian vicarial notes are deposited in the library at Somerset place, though I have not the shadow of a hope that the ordination of the vicarage of Sutton, cum capella de Wilmington, is among those MSS. The

COLLEGE DISCIPLINE

WILLIAM HEY,

Esq. "At an algebraical lecture (before tutor Masters), present Aynsworth, Hey, and others, a problem was delivered from the chair, that the lads were to solve if they could. Will. seemed to be as busy with his slate and his pencil as either one of the party; but, alas! upon the tutor's asking for the slate, to see in what manner the proof was worked, he was struck with astonishment; and after uttering some of his shrill hems, quoth he, I perceive, Hey, that with your is equal to a flight of birds!" The case was, that Will. who was an excellent shot, had been sketching not a+ and c-d, but himself with a gun levelled, a pointer in an attitude proper, and a covey of partridges on the wing. Such an abuse, such a profanation of a lecture-room, merited a severe imposition; and the task enjoined was, that Hey should the next morning repeat a hundred lines in Homer to the indiguant tutor. The culprit, in a tone of humiliation, asked where he was to begin. Homer was brought from the shelf in the adjoining gallery, and after some demur the verse was marked at which the punishment was to commence; but no sooner was the catchword sounded, than Will. who had a retentive memory, improved by practice at Eton, repeated the verses more expeditiously

than Masters could read them, for I need not remind you that Bobby had not the credit of being an expert Greek scholar. The penalty, however, being paid, the offender had a right to a dismissal; and thus ended a scene that was somewhat farcical."

In one of Mr. Denne's Letters, dated Aug. 7, 1797, we are introduced to a gentleman, then of very early age, but of promise, as an antiquary, which has been amply fulfilled, Henry Ellis, Esq. now principal Librarian of the British Museum, and Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries. At this time Mr. Ellis was at Oxford, and (absolutely born

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an antiquary and investigator of past times and past characters) was making some curious discoveries respecting that noted Jacobite and convicted papist, Obadiah Walker, who appears to have added to his other sins that of a notorious purloiner of antiquarian manuscripts. It is needless to add that Mr. Ellis has since conferred many superior obligations on the lovers of literature in various important branches.

Of the justly celebrated Dr. Horsley, perhaps we cannot have too many characteristic anecdotes. Mr. Denne contributes the following. He had informed his correspondent that Dr. Horsley, than Bishop of Rochester, political sermon in Bromley Church; was said to have preached a fervent there was, however, very little politics in it, and it was only distinguished for its length, which extended to an hour and a quarter: but what was most remarkable, not one of the congregation seemed dissatisfied with the uncommon length of the sermon, the subject of which was the false prophets that had then arisen, and the text was "The people wondered." Mr. Denne adds, Bromley-house and a single cow under that the Bishop sometime after "left The other anecdote, to which we can the care of one female domestic!" only briefly advert, related to a meeting held in 1798 at Lambeth, of the primates and prelates, in order to take into consideration what ought to be the conduct of the Clergy in that alarming period, when the whole country was arming to resist an invasion. Dr. Horsley was zealous in maintaining that his brethren ought forthwith to be trained to the use of arms. Cir

cular letters were afterwards issued from their respective dioceses, and Horsley, the several Bishops to the Clergy of upon this point, declared that he meant to speak out his own mind very plainly, and that he desired to be fully and clearly understood, that in so dangerous a crisis, "his country will have a right to his best services, in any and in every way, even if the best service to be performed by him should be to level the musket or trail the pike." Mr. Denne gives the names of several Clergymen in his diocese who wore cockades instead of roses in their hats, but this enthusiasm, for such it certainly was, did not last long.

(To be concluded in the Supplement.)

ROYAL ACADEMY.

(Continued from p. 448.)

LIBRARY.

961. The New Church of St. Dunstan in the West, and the proposed improvement of Fleet-street, now in progress. J. Shaw.The tower of the Church is the only portion of the building which is visible; this is a lofty elevation in the pointed style, after the Boston model. It commences with a square tower of solid appearance and large dimensions, rising in several stories, and splayed at the summit into an octagon lantern pierced with windows in each face, and accompanied with four pinnacles above the angles of the tower. The design, as far as can be judged, is correct, and the detail good. The "improvement" consists in placing the tower on a line with the old houses on the north side of Fleet-street, and building in the same line, on the site of the old Church, several houses and (what appears to be) an entrance to Clifford's Inn in the Tudor style. The whole, as far as the architect is concerned, is creditable to Mr. Shaw, but we cannot let this opportunity pass of expressing our disapprobation of the scheme of destroying the Church, and exhuming numerous bodies for the sake of gaining a fiue prospect, or removing an angle in a street.

968. Perspective View of the proposed Stables to Penrhyn Castle, designed by M. J. Hopper. J. J. Franks. --This appendage to the principal design, which was noticed in our Mag. for June 1830, p. 541, is in the Norman castellated style, and has the air of a donjon tower, the entrance a massive gateway with machicolations. The entire structure, if constructed on the scale which the drawings display, will be a singular building for the present age, and at all events will possess considerable grandeur.

984. View of the National School-house at Plaistow, Essex, erected in 1831. G. R. French. This is a neat and respectable building in the Tudor style of domestic architecture. It is situated at a short distance from a very chaste and unassuming parochial chapel recently erected from Mr. Blore's designs in the latest style of our ancient ecclesiastical buildings.

1008. The New Schools of Christ's Hospital, about to be erected, from the designs under the direction of Mr. Shaw. J. Shaw, jun.-As far as a correct judgment can be formed from a drawing, this design is even more creditable to the taste and judgment of the architect, than his newly erected Hall for the same establishment. The Schools consist of a plain elevation, in two stories above the ground floor, and a series of dormer windows in the roof. At each end

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is a projecting wing or tower; and on the ground floor an arcade, occupying the space between the projections. The materials red brick, with stone dressings.

1024. Interior of St. George's Church, lately erected at Ramsgate. H. E. Kendall. -This is a handsome interior, but unfortunately disfigured by the intermixture of styles. The lancet arch prevails, but the critical eye is offended by tracery and ornaments of a later period.

1026. Sketch of the New Church at Highgate, now erecting, from the designs and under the superintendance of L. Vulliamy.— We caution Mr. Vulliamy against the adoption of flimsy ornaments, and warn him in a friendly way to quit the Wyatt school. The spire of this Church is a chaste and elegant design; its simple but impressive character shows that the architect is capable of better things than some parts of one of his Churches would lead us to believe. A spire on Highgate Hill will be a fine object; the value of such an ornament to Harrow has been acknowledged for ages, and the erection of the present seems dictated by the best taste and the purest feeling.

1065. South-west View of the Organ and Screen erecting in Peterborough Cathedral, from designs by Mr. Blore. G. Moore.-A noble rood-loft screen of stone, worthy of the best days of pointed architecture. If the original equals the drawing, it will be unquestionably the finest piece of modern screen-work in existence. The architect has evinced the most correct taste in the style he has chosen. The screen occupies the orthodox situation, being in a line with the eastern wall of the transept. The Cathedral being in the Norman style, Mr. Blore must either have built a Norman screen, or have adopted the architecture of a period which should be the least at variance with the main structure. As no specimen of a Norman screen exists, it would have been a hazardous undertaking to have invented one, Mr. Blore has therefore judiciously adopted the earliest specimen of the pointed style in a perfect state. design consists of a pointed central entrance, chastely enriched, and sided by niches with projecting canopies, covered with others of a more lofty and pyramidal form. The finish is a frieze and cornice; from the former hang shields of arms, emblazoned. The detail assimilates with the magnificent tombs at the high altar of Westminster, which owe their restored beauty to the hand of Mr. Blore. We should be happy to lay this screen before our readers at some future period.

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1067. Hackney Church of England School. W. M. Brookes." Church of England School;" what must "Hackney Dissenting

School" be? for it appears that such a rival exists. Judging from the building, we should think a misnomer has occurred, and that this is the opposition establishment, having every appearance of a regular meeting-house. Why was not the pointed style employed for a scholastic building connected with the Church? We shall ever set our protest against pseudo-Grecian colleges and schools, from whatever quarter they may

come.

1101. Design for a Cottage, to be built in the neighbourhood of Putney, for N. Carlisle, Esq. J. Buckler.-Mr. Buckler is equally successful in the cottage as the mansion; domestic architecture is his forte, and being so, it is superfluous to add that this is not of the class which its title might seem to indicate, but a pleasing and correct specimen of the rural buildings of the Elizabethan age.

1104. View of the Interior of Walsall Church, as rebuilt. F. Goodwin.-A naked specimen of the Wyatt school. The roof is intended for an imitation of the fanwork groining of Henry the Eighth's time; but as only the fan-like form is preserved, and the tracery and pendants are omitted, it will be seen that it is any thing but a pleasing design.

In domestic architecture, instead of the Gothic villas which formerly incumbered this room, as mementos of the degraded state of the national taste, some excellent specimens of the Tudor style of building are exhibited. In particular, several designs by Mr. P. F. Robinson for mansions in different parts of the country, are in a most correct taste, and do great honour to that gentleman's antiquarian skill.

There are various designs for churches exhibited, which are creditable to the state of the arts in the present day. Indeed, both in domestic and ecclesiastical buildings, in the Pointed style, every return of the exhibition shows a decided improvement in the taste of the architects of the day. Happy for our colleges and our cathedrals, if this taste had prevailed forty years back, the designs and fopperies of Wy Wyatt would never have disgraced the country! E. I. C.

PANORAMA OF BOMBAY.

An interesting panoramic view of Bombay was opened for public exhibition on Monday the 6th June, at Mr. Barford's, in Leicester Square. Bombay is situated on an island about twenty miles in circumference, and the present view is taken from Maza. gong Hill, a short distance from the Black Town. The artist has embraced a considerable portion of the island in his picture; and the objects are of a varied and extremely picturesque character. The immediate foreground is occupied by numerous orientally constructed villas on the slopes of the hill. To the south-east appear the Black

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Town with its groves of cocoa palms; and the town, or fort of Bombay, forming the extreme distance. The surrounding objects and figures are very numerous, and skilfully introduced; but in the subject of the picture there is little to connect the mind of the spectator with those historical or local associations, for which some of Mr. Burford's views have been pre-eminently distinguished, if we except the old-fashioned building, which overlooks the harbour, called in the catalogue the Belvidere ; and this produces an interest, on count of its association with the literature of our country. It was formerly part of a Portuguese Convent, and is remarkable from having been the residence of the unfortunate Mrs. Draper, the Eliza and fair correspondent of our sentimental and romantic Laurence Sterne. His "dear Eliza," as the moralizing Sterne (himself a married man) often calls her, was a native of Arenjo, and was the wife of Mr. Daniel Draper, a counsellor of Bombay, and in 1775 Chief of the Factory of Surat. During a short stay in England, for the benefit of her health, she became acquainted with Sterne, and their correspondence took place previous to her departure for India, in 1767. On her return to Bombay, she had the weakness to listen to the seductive arts of an officer in the navy, to whom, although closely watched, she contrived to escape by means of a rope-ladder, from one of the upper apartments of the house represented in the picture. She soon, however, repented the sacrifice, and died somewhere on the coast, the victim of her seducer's baseness.

COSMORAMA, REGENT STREET.

This is one of the most pleasing exhibitions in the metropolis, and it is equally remarkable for the scenic talent which is manifested in the different views. During the last month an entire change of subjects has been effected, consisting of the Grand Chartreux, near Grenoble, a very picturesque old convent, surrounded by the most romantic scenery; the interior of the magnificent cathedral of Cologne, which may rank amongst the finest Gothic structures in Europe; the Pyramids of Egypt, and Sphynx; the Monastery of Mount St. Bernard; the great fire of Edinburgh, &c. &c. In the representation of the memorable conflagration of the Scotch metropolis, the rolling volumes of thick smoke, intermingled with occasional flashes of light, effected by mechanical skill, appear to present to our eyes the awful reality,-so complete is the picto

rial illusion.

The 16th and 17th Numbers of the English School of Painting and Sculpture contain several good subjects, in which the characters are in general well preserved. Pl. 4 and 5 of Marriage à la Mode; Wilson's