Honourable the Lord Mayor, Judges, &c. on Sunday, May 26, 1799, being the firft Sunday in Trinity Term. By Thomas Bowen, M. A. Chaplain of Bridewell Hofpital, and Minister of Bridewell Precinct, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor. TEXT, Philip i. 27, 28. 269. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper a Feaft upon a Sacrifice: A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on Sunday, July 6, 1799, being the Day appointed for adminiftering the Holy Communion to Members of the Corporation. By the fame. TEXT, 1 Cor. v. 7, 8. 270. The Days of Vifitation: A Sermon, preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, before the Lord Mayor, &c. the Artillery Company, and Temple Bar and St. Faul's Diftria Military Affociation, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1799, being the General Faft. By the fame. FROM Hofea ix. 7. 271. A Sermon, preached before the Honourable Haufe of Commons, at the Church of St. Margaret, Westminster, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1799, being the Faf-day. By be Rev. Thomas Hay, D. D. Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. FROM Ifa. viii. 13, 14. Rev. Peter Bulmer, of Thorpe, near Wainflete, whofe fermons are noticed with approbation, LXII. 551, 1023. 275. Vindication of the Church of England, intended as a Refutation of the Arguments advanced by Mr. Twogood in Support of the Principles on which be grounds bis Diffent. By T. Andrews. THIS being old ground, already gone over, we must content ourselves with tranfcribing our author's motto, tranflated for general ufe: "The rudder of life is the law of God." 275. A ferious Perfuafive to the due Observance of the Faft-day: A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Richmond, in Yorkfhire, Feb. 8, 1801, being the Sunday before the late General Faft. By James Tate, M.A. Master of the Free Grammar School of Richmond, and late Fellow of Sidney College, Cambridge. THIS fermon, from Joel i. 14, 15, is, we understand, Mr. Tate's first profe publication. It is very pleafingly dedicated to Lord Loughborough (now Earl of Rolyn), the liberal patron of the Wallis family (of hiftrionic celebrity), and the promoter of Mr. Tate's fortunes, upon his marrying one of its junior branches, by infuring to him the maftership of Richmond tchool upon the demife of Mr. Temple. Mr. Tate's language is chafe and nervous; his flowers of rhetorick are well chofen and preferved; his argu nents are found. In an unaffuming Advertisement, the preacher briefly ftates the motives which induced hin to print his difcourfe; which concludes with an animated eulogy upon the charitable character of the English Nation. We folemnly recommend to this worthy Divine to write the life of his venerable predeceffor. In a few fhort years more the memory of that truly good man will otherwife inevitably peFith. Heroes, ftatefmen, philofophers, libertines, have all had their historians; but of how few modeli worthies of obfcure exiftence do any literary accounts remain! And yet fuch men are the furelt and beft patterns by far for the generality of mankind to emulate. We know Mr. Tate has the power to do Mr. Temple justice, we trutt he retains the will. 277. A Word to the Alarmifts, on the Peace. By a Graduate of the Unverfity of Cambridge. THE THE publifher of this pamphlet is one of thofe "every day" mortals, who, to be attended to, must make a bufile. In 1798, the Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner, commented in justly fevere terms upon his "Cambridge Intelligencer." [See Anti-Jacobin for 7th and 14th May, 1798.] In 1801, the British Critic took up the cudgels, and renewed the difcipline of 1798, on account of fresh provocation. The anonymous author of the prefent little tract, whofe expreffions are certainly more courtly than any in which Mr. Flower indulges himself, with more prudence than fkill, thus volunteers his fervices in his vindication: "One of the confequences of the state of alarm in which the public mind has lately been kept, has been the prevalence of what may be called a fyftem of literary terrorism. Certain felf-erected guardians of polite literature [qu. how would this graduate have Reviewers appointed?], ander the pretence of defending the caufe of religion, morality, and regular government, feem to have formed a kind of a regular plan of hoftility against all freedom of difcuffion on fubjects the most important to human nature, and of traducing all thofe who prefume to differ from their standard of opinions, by accufing them of the worst defigns, in language that fets all candour and decency at defiance.-That fuch criticks, whofe chief diftinction feems a pert vulga rity of ftyle, and a liberal ufe of the coarfeft dialect of Billingsgate, fhould ever have been favourites of any part of the British publick, is a circumstance that can only be accounted for from the prevalence of political alarm: the effects of the degree of reception they have met with from the publick may, I think, he traced in the progrefs of a fpirit very different from that candour and liberality which ufually diftinguish the polished and well-educated claffes of an enlightened nation.-It will be happy if the peace thould oblige fuch Criticks to keep their venom within their own breaks; for, fhould any circumftances give them an afcendant over the public mind, it is not difficult to forefee, that all free and manly difcuffion will be over whelmed beneath the rubbith of (si difant) Anti-Jacobin and Britif criticism." Mr. Canning, Mr. Nares, and Mr. Gifford, will know how to treat fuch anonymous afperfions. We refpect their patriotic labours, we admire their zeal, we venerate their caufe. Every truc-born Englishman, whofe heart glows with love for his matchlefs country, will applaud the bold and open procedures of the gentlemen here fhamefully vilified: he will not haftily reject the productions of their pens, or the profound lucubrations of their heads. This unowned pamphlet is well writ ten in point of ftyle; but contains no information, and is wholly deftitute of argument. It is a rafh effufion of political fpleen in a moment of intoxi cation: but "Nefciamens hominum fati fortifque futuræ, Et fervare modum, rebus fublata fecundis! Turno tempus erit, magno cùm optaverit [emque Intactum Pallanta; et cùm fpolia ifta diOderit." emptum 278. An Apology for differing in Opinion from WITH folid argument and great pleafantry (for nothing is here fet down in malice") the benevolent Phy fician attacks our Brother Criticks for their pertinacity; and more particelarly for a very violent oppofition to Vaccine Inoculation. It would ill become us to enter the lifts on fuch an occafion, in what might be termed a civil war; but, having originally felt it an incumbent duty to enter a cautionwhat we were fearful might not have ary protest against the hafty adoption of been fufficiently confidered (vol. LXIX. pp. 380, 417), with equal readiness our eyes were opened to unanfwerable conviction (vol. LXX. p. 640) ; and we are now zealous converts to the Jennerian fyftem, fo ably illuftrated in our lafi, p. 1095. The pernicious doctrine of recommending to Nurfes "a table-fpoonfal of brandy" is candidly and ably expofed. The fcale of the progrefs of Temperance and Intemperance, accompanying this article, has already appeared in our vol. LX. p. 399. If the Charitable Infiitutions of this metropolis needed any vindication, it might be enough to fay, that Ferrier, Clarke, Stanger, Barnard, Col"The writings of Barrington, Percival, quhoun, Neild, Hawes, Willan, and other Philanthropists, criminal as this epithet feeling heart, that, without the exercife of may appear to Reviewers, prove to every beneficence beneficence, in the formation of charitable inftitutions, the poor of London must have died of want or disease, and often under their miferable complication." The character of the worthy author of this pamphlet, as a man and as a phyfician, is too thoroughly established to be affected by the wanton attacks of envy or of malice. 279. Letters from Mad de Sevigné to her Daughter, the Countess of Grignan. Tranflated from the French. By Mrs. Mackie. 3 vols. 12mo. MRS. MACKIE tells us, "that her veneration for the memory of Madame de Sevigné, her knowledge of the language, and her acquaintance with the hiftory of the time in which her originai wrote, led her to imagine that the could give her fair countrywomen a more juft idea of this favourite author than they had hitherto the means of receiving through the medium of tranflation,' And on an impartial comparifon of the prefent work with the English Sevigné, which first appeared in 1768, we find the has both amply and ably performed what the profefles. Mrs. Mackie's tranflation in eafe and elegance would pafs very well for an original; and to thofe who cannot read French it must be a mof acceptable prefent. But there is another point in which Mrs. M. deferves great commendation for her judgment and taste. By a judicious compreffion, without injuring the fenfe, or omitting a fingle fentiment which is calculated to pleate or inform the general reader, he has reduced her tranflation into half the limits of any preceding one, and thus put it in the power of all to become acquainted with this model of epiftolary correfpondence. Did our limits permit, we should be happy to give a fpecimen of the tranflation, which, though we are forry to obferve it disfigured by typographical negligence, appears worthy of the elegant original. 280. Defcription d'un Pavè en Mofaique decouvert dans l'ancienne Ville d'Italica aujour dbui le Village de Santiponce, pres de Seville fuivie de Recherches fur la Peinture en Mofaique obes les Anciens, les Monumens en ce genre qui n'ont point encore ête publiés. Par Alexandre Laborde. Paris, 1802. -Defeription of a Mofaic Pavement difcovered in the antient City of Italica, now the Village of Santi Ponzo, near Seville. To which is fubjoined, Dif quifitions on the Art of Painting in Mofaic among the Antients, and Monuments of that Kin.. which have not yet been published. By Alexander Laborde. Paris, 1802. fol. THE defcription of this Mofaic was to have made part of a picturesque journey in Spain, and not to have been publifhed fo foon; but the importance of preferving fuch fine fpecimens of the art, which are apt to be deftroyed as foon as difcovered, rendered it advifeable to anticipate this work. The Spanish Government has published all that could be met with; but the prefent is the moft interefting, from its reprefenting the interior architecture of the Circus, the colours of the factions, the place of the prefident, and the oblique on which the carceres ftood, at leaft fince the time of Caracalla, and perhaps fomewhat before. It was found, Dec. 12, 1799, in a meadow belonging to the convent of St. Ifidore; and the care of one of the religious, and of Don Francifco Spinofa, an advocate of Seville, faved it from being more damaged. Italica gave birth to Adrian, Trajan, and Theodofius, and to Silius Italicus the poet. Coins, inferiptions, bas-reliefs, and flatues, found there are here exhibited. The centre of the Mofaic reprefented a Circus with its interior architecture and races, and three fides furrounded by a double row of circles, in which are the nine mufes, different animals, and allegorical figures. Near the place where the Circus terminates is an infcription, and behind it two piers of a door looking towards the country, and probably the hall or baths of a palace. Pl. I. is the general plan. Pl. II. the heads of Clio and Euterpe. Pl. III. the buft of Thalia is loft, and only a mark left. Pl. IV. Terpsichore is accompanied by a building, perhaps a dancing-room. Erato, Plate V. is reciting verses, and holds a branch of laurel. Pl. VI. Polyhymnia has a harp. Pl. VII. Calliope, with a grave countenance, and her right-hand on her bofom, has by her an open book, as if reciting verfes. PI. VIII. reprefents Urania. Cirens, the buildings of which are rePl. IX. gives the elliptic form of the ftored in an elevation, Pl. X.; and in the centre of the ellipfe is the feat of the prefident. Pl. XI. exhibits the fports; the cha riot overturned, and one horfe loofed from from it brought up by a man, the driver wounded and fupported, and the prize held up and adjudged to his rival. The prætor elevates the mappa near the pillar or goal furrounded by a victory. Pl. XII. gives the tingle horfeman, and another with a led horte. Both the two laft and the man are overthrown. Thefe are the Jingalatores and defultores. PI. XIII. has a round with a racehorse. Pl. XIV. One or two of the feafons of the year, representing the factions, Whole colours are collected fiom diptychs, &c. Pl. XV. Pl. XVI. reprefents the circular part of the Circus oppofite to the carceres, wherein the fhews of gladiators were given, whofe names are here over them. Pl. XVII. contains fragments of baked earth found near Velitri, reprefenting the chariot-races. PI. XVIII. compares the plan of the Olympic Cirens with that of Caracalla. Pl. XIX. gives a Centaur in a round, which our author calls the "Genius of the Circenfan Games," holding in one hand a cup, in the other a torch; though we do not fee the juftnefs of the allufion here to thofe articles or in the battle of the Centaurs and Lapithæ, where they were only the first offenfive weapons each could lay hold on. Two Centaurs appear on an altar infcribed GENIO CIRCI FACTIO RUSSATA, at the end of this chapter. The Appendix on Mofaic painting among the antients illuftrates it by a variety of citations. The principal Mofaics in Spain are the floor of St. Michael's church at Barcelona, probably a temple of Neptune. Two others, not very remarkable, a little way from that city. Another out of Murvadro, the antient Saguntum, reprefenting Bacchus on a tiger, deftroyed, but preferved by drawing, and restored in Mofaic in the archbishop of Valentia's library, with en older, confifting of a border and a rude rondeau of Neptune in his car, found at Puy, with three good pieces of feulpture. This laft deity occurs on many Mofaics in the decline of the art. A Mofaic of two children, found in a bath at Ilche, antiently Illici, publifhed in the beautiful work of Cavapillis on the kingdom of Valencia. Two others at Jumella and Riclves, near Toledo, are also published. Pl. XXI. gives one found in the palace of Auguftus at Tarragona. 1 Pl. XXII. exhibits the border of the Seville Mofaics, reprefenting Venus ftopping her horses, and Adonis holding the quivers and hunting-spears. Pl. XXIII. of the original fcale, the fragments of the ftatues beforemen tioned, two male torfos, and a female figure; which, with many other five fraginents, are preferved in the Alcazar of Seville. The religious intend to profecute the fearch, and there is good hope of fuc cefs. Many individuals have done the fame in other towns in Spain with equal fuccefs. Lord Cunningham brought from Saguntum a rich coile tion of medals and other valuable ar ticles. From this very handsome fpecimen, we are encouraged to hope that the "Picturefque Voyage" of Spain (for every country has now its Picturefque Voyage) will be executed in a ftyle fuperior to the feveral others, and on a larger fcale of plates. Mr. Lyfons may be faid to have fet the fashion of M faics among ourfelves, and promises a rich flore in addition to the two famples he has already published; and has only fufpended his defign to give more faithful reprefentations of the "Roman Antiquities of Bath" than have yet been attempted. FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. M. Ameilhon, member of the National Inftitute, is about to publish the text and tranflation of the Greek inscription found at Rofetta, which was partly published by him two years lince. He is alfo printing volumes and 26 of the Hiftory of the Lower Empire, in continuation from Le Bean. The Pope has ordered, at his own expence, fearches to be made for antiquities at Nettuno. They have found the hand of a coloffal ftatue, and the tail and part of the furniture of a broaze horfe; paved faloons of Mofaic, dec rated with paintings much damaged, except a head in perfect preservation. No difcoveries, are allowed to be cat ried out of the territory of Rome. Citizen Clavier will shortly publish a French translation of Herodotus. Batbie du Bocage, who drew the maps for Barthelemy's Anacharfis, has undertaken the geographical part of the work. He has already collected excellent materials for the plans and maps that are to accompany the text. FAREWELL FAREWELL TO MINORCA. Written in 1782. Indeed fuch neceffary knowledge, As none would find in any College; CAP'D from the fierce and fiery No not (though fome may think I rant), Of shot, and fhells that burft each hour; Safe from the ruthless rage of war, Thank Heav'n! without a single scar; Yet (and I fpeak it with a figh, Which none can feel fo well as 1,) By many a hoftile hand opprefs'd, Apd fpoil'd of all I once poffefs'd, Except one little Gem, which few Its real worth scarce ever knew; A Gem, I value above measure, Which, finding here, is all my treasure ; I now, Minorca, bid adieu To many a heavy hour and you. Ye Dons and Donnas too, farewell, And every bright, bewitching belle: Farewell, ye flaunting Rohafilias, Fandangos, and ye Sefquidilias ; For I no more, with hape fo taper, Shall fee the Signioras caper; Nor ever more these ears shall hear The twanging of the hoarfe guitar: Thou cordial drop, which chance oft fent me, Farewell renown'd Aquardiente. And you, ye Sobrieffados ton, Oh take my long and last adieu. Ye too, each fat and frouzy friar, Who love, if Fame be not a liar, Whatever tends to fill the belly, Ragouts, or foup of vermicelli, And ere your eyes are feal'd with sleep, Swill, one and all, potations deep; No more fhall I (ah woe is me!) Your lofty mount of Taura fee. Such fcenes, in cold indifference laid, Will foon upon the memory fade: Far other I shall ne'er forget, But cherish with a fond regret, (For Pleasure's ever mix'd with Pain ;) When I reflect that ne'er again Shall I, at noon or eventide, Accomplith'd DRAPER fit befide, And, drawing from his claffic ftore, Hear him defcant on antient lore; Or tell, (nor vain indeed the boaft), When plac'd on India's fultry coaft, With many a hoftile troop in view, He fought, nay more, he conquer'd too: But left he might (as Heroes may) Be of forgetfulness the prey, Juft to his merits, just to fame, Manilla has embalm'd his name. Adieu to every warlike scene, Farewell the Soldier's martial mien; No more fhall the eternal found Of drums and fifes my thoughts confound; In you, my favourite Trin. Coll Cant.; Once more adieu, for we must fever, Where one exifts, not lives, awhile; THE MAID OF BUTTERMERE, A BALLAD By the Gentle Shepherd, of Witham, Effex. WEET Mufe, the child and friend of woe Sweet lyre, to forrow ever dear, O may your fofteft accents flow, Delights its lonely head to rear; So bloom'd the maid of Buttermere. As 'scapes the bud the clouted fhoon, And many a wand'ring footstep near; So'scap'd through Nature's dangerous noon The grace and charm of Buttermere. As fome rude townsman passes by, And plucks the flow'r to all fo dear; So one rude hand, one keener øye, Pluck'd the fair flower of Buttermere. If, by true paffion led astray, Thy bofom felt Love's tender fear, Who shall not mourn the fatal day, That crush'd the pride of Buttermere ? The wounded flower shall still furvive, Shall bloom and charm fome future year; But who fhall bid that heart revive, That beats fo fad at Buttermere? O rack'd by ftorms, by tempefts toft, By fell repentance, torn, and fear, On fome wild strand the Spoiler loft Shall mourn the wrongs of Buttermere. For MARY many a tear fhall fall, And heav'd be many a figh fincere; R. M. R. |