WITHIN a few days the adve perhaps at all times, have in this city rarely been feen to the fame extent, and in the fame for ms, as on the late occafion, the triumph of that fyftem of politicks, which we can defcribe only by the name of Jacobin politicks, will in few inftances be found to have been more complete. Those who know the state of parties in this city, with the characters of fome of the principal actors and leaders, will be at no lofs for proofs of this remark; and those who judge at a distance will require probably no other proofs than that which they will derive We have faid, in a from the event itself. "In this view of things it would not be refpect, it would he prefumpti n in us, if cates for Jacobin principles have had a complete triumph at Norwich, Hertford, and Nottingham, in the event of the elections held at each of thofe places for members to ferre in the new parliament. The extraordinary proceedings at Nottingham (which will not furprize fuch of your readers as know that the Corporation is almoft entirely compofed of Diffenters,) will doubtless hereafter become a fubject of examination before the proper tribunal. But the very refpectable gentlemen who have been rejected at Norwich, and in the county of Hertford, have appealed from the decifion of the electors in thofe places to the good fenfe, virtue, and patriotifm, of every wife and họDeft man in England. The example which thefe events may give to the reft of the kingdom (as is obferved in one of thefe appeals,) is much to be apprehended. To counteract the ill effects of fuch an example, and to repress the triumph of republicanifin, by fhewing friends whofe virtues, publick and private, by what means it has been obtained, and on what deteftable principles it is founded, I truft you will preferve, in your valuable Mifcellany, the final, fpirited, and truly conflitutional addreffes of Mr. Windham, Mr. Frere, and Mr. Baker, to their late refpective conftitnents. AN ANTI-JACOBIN. we were to dwell on our own individual loffes, and the concern which we must feel at being deprived of an honour, which one of us had fo long enjoyed, and which we bad both fo eagerly folicited. What we may be allowed to regret (and no termis can he too ftrong to do just ce to our feelings in that refpect,) is the feparation from thofe have long endeared our fituation to us, and painful, than at the moment when it was To the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freemen, and Freeholders, of the City of NORWICH. "Gentlemen; We truit it will not he thought the language of difappointment (we are fine it is not that of profumption), if we fay that we regret the event of the late content lefs on our own account, than with a view to the effects which it is likely to produce in this city, and the example which it gives to the kingdom at large, We have declared our opinion from the beginning an opinion which our adverfaries will be the faft to diffent from-that this has been a great political conteft; in which, we are now compelled to add, that victory rests entirely on their fide. -a deduction made for the cffe As of money, and of thole arts, which, though practifed to defer Mr. BAKER's ad, estill next month, With From want of room, we are competes fav you, Bottom?" SHAKSPEARE. WE have received much pleature in reviewing former topographi'cal works of this writer, who keeps up the ball of curiofity and narrative to the last. "Having had the pleasure of feeing many antiques of various ages and people, it naturally excited a defire of proceeding in farther research; and the eye, unfatiffied with feeing, induced a wish to see the greatest of all the curiofities left us by the Romans, THE WALL; the wonderful and united works of Agricola, Hadrian, and 'Severus.".... "What aftonishment muft arife at the fight of the grandest production of Art in the whole island! the united work of a Commander in Chief and two Emperors, aflifted by thres powerful ar-mies, and aided by a long series of years!" -....“I confulted all the authors I could procure; which strengthened defire. But I found they were only echoes to each other. Many have written upon the fubject; but I could difcover that very few had even feen it, and not a foul had penetrated from one end to the other. Befides, if those who paid a tranfient vifit chofe to ride, they could not be minute obfervers. Poor Camden travelled it till he was frightened, ran away, and wrote haftily. Horfley was weary, and retreated; but wrote more correct. The judicious Warburton, whom I regard for his veracity, rode on, defifted, and then remarked, He believed he had trod upon ground which no foot had ever trodden fince the Romans.' He also tranfcribes Horfey, whom Mr. Gough profeffes to follow. vied the people in the neighbomhood of the Wall, though I knew they valued it no more than the foil on which it tood. I wished to converfe with an intelligent refident, but never faw one. I determined I en to fpend a month, and fifty guineas, in minu elv examining the relicks of this firth of wonders; began to form my plan of operations, and wrote my fentiments to an emment printer in London, for whom I have a fogular regard; but, re-eiving no aufwer, I gave up the defign, and, as I thought, for ever; destroyed my remarks, clofed with regret all my books of inte ligence, and never durft open them, lest it should revive a strong inclination, which 1 culd not gratify. About four years clapfed, when my family agreed with a gentleman and his lady to visit the Lakes. They enlisted me of the pary, in which they found no difficulty, because the temptation lay in the neighbourhood of that wonder which had long engaged my ideas. I have given a fhort (ketch of my approach to this famous bulwark; have described it as it appears in the prefent day, and stated my return. Perhaps I am the first man that ever travelled the whole length of this Wall, and probably the last that ever will attempt it. Who then will fay, he has, like me, travelled it twice! Old people are much inclined to accufe youth of their follies; but on this head filence will become me, left I thould be asked, "What can exceed the folly of that man, who, at feventy-eight, walked fix hundred miles to fee a shattered Wall!" Proface. "This firft, and most remarkable piece of Antiquity in the whole fland is known by feveral names, fome of them erroneous. It bore that of Agricola, which is now lolf. The Pitts Wall; but this feems inconfiftent, for they had no concern with the Wall, except to pull it down; and I think it fhould rather bear the name of the man who built it up. Sometimes Hadrian's Wall; but I cannot fee why a bank of earth fhould bear the name of a Wall. Oor idea of a wall comprehends an erection of brick or ftone. Perhaps Hadrian's Bank would be more in character, as agreeing with the materials of which it is compofed, Severus's Wall is more proper, because he erected the flone wall, part of which is remaining. It is often called The Roman Wall, and, by way of pre-eminence, The *“Thirteen months elapfed after we had refolved upon our journey, when our friends declined the adventure; but we, having fed upon the imaginary but delightful repast, could not relinquish it. I procured for my felf the exclufive privilege of walking, which, of all the modes of travelling, I prefer. My daughter rode behind her servant; and we agreed not to impede each other on the way, but meet at certain inns, for refreshment and reft. I was dreffed in black, a kind of religious travelling-warrant, bug divetted of affuming airs; and had a budget of the fame colour and materials, much like a dragoon's cartridge-hex, or postman's letter-pouch, in which were depofited the maps of Cumberland, Northumberland, and the Wall, with its appendages; all three taken out of Gough's edition of the Britannia; alfo, Warburton's map of the Wall, with my own remarks, &c. To this little pocket I faftened with a strap an umbrella in a green cafe, for I was not likely to have a fix weeks tour without wet, and fung it over that shoulder which was the kaft tired. And now, July the 4th, 1801, we begin our march.” (pp. 107-109.) GENT. MAG. July, 1852, Wall. Wall. That man is born a favage, there needs no other proof than Severus's Wall. It characterizes two nations as robbers and murderers. Nineteen in twenty of our 'race fuftain half this character during life. feat, and the embattled part the back. At the foot of the Wall, on the North, a ditch ran parallel.” (p. 22.) On its length, 70 miles, were 18 Some individuals correct the crude paffions, Rations, or cities, 81 caftles, called by adhere to juftice, and avoid whatever is worthy of blame.” (pp. 1, 2, 3.) "Our eld hiftorians always term the Scots Barbarians: to this I affent. They forprifed the innocent, murdered them, laid waste their country, took the property, and left the place. Allow me, with out the aid of Dr. Johnfon, to illustrate the word Barbarian. Julius Cæfar, Agricola, Antonine, Severus, &c. went one ftep farther than the Scots; they furprifed, ordered, plundered, and kept poffeffion. Our venerable ancestors too, the Saxons, Danes, and Tormans, who came over in fwarms, butchered, robbed, and poffeffed ; although they had no more right than have to your coat. Whoever deprives an unoffending man of his right, comes under this word. It follows, no war can be juftified but that of defence. It is an old remark, that "idleness is introductive of mifchief." The Pits, now Highlanders, confirm this remark. Strangers to commerce, to the arts, and, from the barrenmels of the country, almost to agriculture, they led a life of indolence.. Their chief avocations were hunting, bafking in the fun, procuring fuel from the heath, and 5th from the water. In fome of thefe, the women bore a part. Idleness of body promotes idleness of mind. They were favage, voracious, domineering, except to Their chiefs, who were as favage as themBelves, but to them they paid implicit obedience. Servility is the attendant upon a mird debafed. Men thus fuated must feel the effects of want. Nature and neceffity made them courageous. At the beck of the chief they entered the LowJands, which they fometimes robbed; but oftener joined the inhabitants in partnerthir, and penetrated the borders between Scotland and England; and, when not oppofed, killed, burnt, and pilfered, at pleafure; then returned, finging in Erfe, their native tongue. While the Britons were fupine, or quarreling with each other, or while their power was withdrawn from the frontiers, and employed against other enemies, the Scots and Picts made their inroads. Booty was the word; but this could not be had without blood. This aftonishing rampart, the production of three eminent perfons, and at three different periods, was defigned to remedy the mifchiefs defcribed." (pp.7-10.) "The Wall was about eight feet thick, and twelve high, to tie battlements, which role about four more; fo that, viewed in profile, it would appear much like a chair, the main part forming the the country-people, from their dif tance, Mile caftles, about four between every ftation; and about 330 turrets, or watch-towers, at the diftatice of about 308 yards each. The time employed in finifhing thefe united and almoft immortal works it is impoffible to tell; nor could they be completed for fo fmall a fun as 100 millions of our prefent money, exclufive of the land they occupy, which is more thau 5 fquare miles, or 3000 acres. Confiantine (not the Great) first neglected it, and the Picts broke in. In the reign of Theodofius the Romans withdrew from Britain, A. 1). 402; and the Wall, after having remained in perfection 200 years, went to decay, and was never after effectually repaired. Some good ftories, and fuitable obfervations on them, are told of the ftate of the border, and the debatable ground in fucceeding times, till the latter was divided between the two nations, 1549. "Had there been no other argument for a Union between the two kingdoms, the blood which cried from the borders was fufficient. Much has been faid, both for and against it; but one fhort remark will decide the question. If the members of a vaft family are obliged to refide together, whether is it better to live upon equality, and in harmony, promoting each other's intereft, or, each to do the other all the mischief in their power? It may be faid, 'the Scots loft their fovereignty? They did, juft as a little tradefman lofes bis, who, having pursued his business upon his partnership with a greater, and multiplies own account, with small gains, enters into his accumulations tenfold.” (pp. 93, 94.) "Thus we have wandered through the long feries of 1500 years; have feen the rife, meridian, and fall, of the grandeft work ever produced by European hands; have obferved, with a melancholy eye, the depraved ftate of human nature, the defection of law, of the power to protect, and the inftability of property; but, with a fmile, have feen the termination of a quarrel which had continued fifty generations. This fhort inference may be drawn from the whole: that protection on one other, are the foundations of all just go fide, and liberty and obedience on the vernment." (pp. 103, 104.) Of Liverpool Mr. H. obferves, that "the fireet is crowded with shipping i the file of business is amazing, and is enough to ruin Briftol and eclipfe London." (p. 122.)-At Heysham, "Upon the crown of a rock, joining the church-yard, is a flat, thirty yards diameter, which precipitates into the fea, where ftand the remains of a chapel. In this repofitory of the dead was taken up a stone coffin, which now lies above ground, and feems to fit a corpfe five feet ten, and to have flood the teft of a thousand years. A hollow is cut in the hard grit, for the head, neck, shoulders, &c. Upon this bare rock is a level part, fix yards by three and a half, in which have been cut fix hollows, or coffins, in a row, in the form of the human body, about twelve inches deep, with a groove round each, to admit a lid. This was probably the depofitary of one family, who, inftead of finking, may be faid to ife into the grave. The Weft fide of this rock is washed by the waves, and elevated about fifty feet above them. Thefe receptacles of the dead look like half a dozen mummies, in rank.” (pp. 130, 131.) Receptacles must be like catacombs, and the bodies in them like mummies. The paffage 8 miles over the Kent fands (p. 132-139) is truly interefting; allo, the defeription of Winder mere (p. 141-146.) At Penrith the father and daughter parted, he for the Wall, fhe for the Lakes. Antiquaries as we are, we wifh they had kept together. A mile from Shewenfhields is the famous Bufy Gap, about 29 miles fronì Newcastle, fo called from the frequency of the Picts and Scots breaking through this gap, and furprising the Romans and Britons, and afterwards of the Mofs troopers; "a break in the mountain over which the Wall ran now filled up by a common field-gate, two yards and an half wide." The feats of the Mofs troopers have been greatly exaggerated; but "a more dreary country than this can fcarcely be conceived. I do not wonder it fhocked Caniden. The country itself would frighten him, without the troopers." (p. 229.) "The ftation Borcovicus, now House Steads, is much elevated; declines to the South; the ramparts are plain. A very large Suburb feems to have been added to this populous City, now reduced to one folitary huufe; the whole about fifteen acres. The curious obferyer, I believe, may count twenty freets. The population, perhaps, could not he lefs than two or three thoufand fouls. From the melancholy relicks en the fpot, it must have been graced with fome elegant buildings. A Temple, no doubt, was one. I faw the fquare base of a large pillar, with a circular fhaft proceeding from it, fourteen inches in diameter, curioully moulded. Another, of a different form, with a square thaft eighteen inches diameter; noble remains of fifteen hundred years! which loudly declare the days of antient fplendour. The Caftle ftood at the corner, North-west, within the Station; was itself moated round, as were also the Station and the Suburbs, feparately. Joining the Wall, within, are the remains of a Court of Juftice, about twelve yards long and fix wide. In the Weft corner was the judge's feat, fix feet in diameter, and quoined with ftone, ten courfes of which remain. It is not early to furvey thefe important ruins without a figh; a place once of the greatest activity, but now a folitary defert; inftead of the human voice, is heard nothing but the winds. In the farm-house, down in the valley, the jamb which fupports the mantle-tree is one folid ftone, four feet high, two broad, and one thick, complete as in the day the workman left it, as in the plate annexed; which may alfo be found in Warburton's Hiftory of the Wall, plate III. p. 60; and in Gough's improved edi tion of Camden's Britannia, vol. III. plate xvii. p. 245. There are alfo many curious figures, all Roman, in this Station.” (pp. 235-237.) "At Bradley-ball, a fingle farm-house, I confider myself in the middle of the kingdom, between the German Ocean and the Irish Sea; confequently, upon the most elevated ground between both, and diftant, in a trait line, by land, about fifty miles from each. We mult allow, from the convexity of the globe, a rife of one hundred and fifty yards; and the mountain on which I ftand will perhaps give a rife of forty more. It follows, I am elevated one hundred and ninety yards above the Yea. The profpects are not grand, but extentive, and rather aweful." (p. 240.) "The works at Cambeck fort, the antient Petriana, are wholly gone; for a gentleman, who, like other wife men from the Eat, had acquired a fortune in India, recently purchated the estate on which this caftle food for 130,000l. stocked up the foundations, and erected a noble houfe on the fpot. Other Stations preserve the ruins, but this only the name, and is the firft which has been facrificed to modera taste." (p. 271.) "Upon the fpot of Edward the Third's departure at Bugb, Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk, proprietor of the land, erected a monument 28 feet high, 1685, declaring the event in Latin. Time and the weather have reduced this monument, and the fragments now lie round the fpot. Lord Lonfdale is proprietor of the estate by exchange of property with the Duke, and, i was informed, "By easy marches I arrived at Birmingham Aug. 7, 1801; after a lofs, by perfpiration, of one tone of animal weight; an expenditure of forty guineas, a lapse of thirty-five days, and a walk of fix hundred and one miles. As fo long and folitary a journey on foot was, perhaps, never wantonly performed by a man of feventyeight, it excited the curiofity of the town, which caufed me frequently to be stopped in the street to ascertain the fact. I fall, to fatisfy all whom it may concern,' give the journal of the day, in the following table." (pp. 339, 340.) 18, Sat. Stanwix 19, Sun. Burgh (return from Boulness)· 20, M. High Wallton 21, Tu. Twice Brewed 22, W. Harlow Hill 23, Th. Newcafle Walwick Chefters 25, Sat. Glyn Velt 34, F. 26, Sun. Hesketh 17 22 15 14 22 I re- 18 turn 22 18 28 19 20 9 3 3 nifhed from the Wall and Stations where they were placed. Some few have been preferved by the connoiffeur, in dufty lum," ber-rooms, which feldom fee light; but more are converted into flabs, fteps, and' lintels, others for viler purpofes; but all neglected, and many more deftroyed. The few that remain are nearly obliterated; and, were they not, they are written in half-characters, and in Latin, not easy to understand; and, being unacquainted with the Latin tongue, it might feem prefumption in me to artempt it. Befides, with what fuccefs could I explain that about which the Learned themfelves differ? And, if they could he explained, what do they amount to? only that fuch a regiment or company refided in a certain" place, when all are equally unknown; and, to the generality of readers, nothing is more dry. When he has laboured through a parcel of miferable letters, what is he the wifer? I allow, a ftone of fuch antiquity becomes a curiofity; but a piece of antiquity, when not understood, finks in value; and ftill more, if not of moment. The hungry enquirer, who can reJifh a dry huk, may find in Warburton all which have been difcovered in latter ages, to the number of one hundred and fiftytwo; alfo in my friend Mr: Gough's edition of Camden's Britannia. I defign' this work a prefent to a bookfeller. As it will be cheap to him, I wifh it cheap to the purchaser. I would have it fweet as the apple; but, if I load it with parings, like putting garlick into his repaft, it will fwell the book, the price, and the disgurt."? (pp. 323-325.) [fo; "Thus hath he, WALL, his part difcharged And, being done, thus WALL away doth go." SHAKSPEARE. 115. Anguis in Herba. A Sketch of the true Character of the Church of England, and ber Clergy, as a Caveat against the Mifcorfraction of artful, and the Mifconception of weak Men, on the Subject of a Bill about to be brought into Parliament for the Revifal of certain Statutes concerning Non-refidence, &c. &c. By James Hook*, M.A. F.S.A. THE object of this excellent pamphlet, inferibed by the author to "the fober Senfe of his Country," is, to expofe the defigns of the Methodists, who, under the difguife of Evangelical preachers, are labouring to undermine the Church of England, and of Infidels and avowed Jacobins, who labour 21 equally to plunder it, each availing it, 26 17 2, Son. Preston 25 5, W. Newcastle under Line 6, Th. Wolfey Bridge 7, F. Saltley, near 24 26 601 I have treated but little of Roman inferiptions, or of Legions, and Cohorts, for feveral reasons. They are all totally va |