greater energy to the dominion of the Fantastic order, than the general appearance of the new building called the church of this town. The archited in this his defign convinces us, along with the many who have publicly defcribed its walls, that he had King's College chapel, Cambridge, in his eye; but how has he departed from the refined original? or, to fpeak more the language of our amateur illaftrators, how has he improved upon its imperfect features? King's College chapel we define to be one entire rocin, with doors and windows on each fide, and at each end; between the windows, columns at a certain height fupport the groins, which compole the finish over head and on the exterior of the ftructure, North and South, are a fucceffion of fmall chapels intended as fepulchral repofitories for great and illuftrious characters. Now let us conpare Tetbury's prefent ecclefiaftical arrangement (as triumphant over the late church which bore its name). We find the plan laid down into three ailes, a large one in the centre, and a fmaller one on each fide; clustered columns divide thefe ailes, and from their capitals spring the fove ral groinings. That fcientific charm pervading our antient religious buildings, in all fituations and in all directions, manifefted in every decoration and in every enrichment, the incomprehenfible Three in One is in no inflance more impreffively brought forward to our fight, than in the difpofure of the three ailes of a church; Weftminster abbey, for infiance, as at A. their propor A B tions governed by a given pointed arch within a triangle (in dotted lines) as circumfcribing the exterior of their walls. Tetbury in the first inflance, fwerving from the fingle aile of King's college chapel, has dopted three ailes; and here, fcorning any thing like a fuperftitious tendency as bearing towards the Trinitarian form, thus gives its theorem, gde out, or fyftematifed as at B. An oblong boundary (by dotted lines) gives their fection. Certainly by this mode there is a reform, but from what? Why perfect geometrical figure, pro-' found reafon, and found judgment. We fee the fide ailes with the regular pointed arch, while the centre one, to keep pace in height with the others, is fpun out to fuch an extreme flatness of fweep, that furely nothing but prepoffeflions in favour of the Fantallic order could have bent the architect's ind from the rules of true tafte, by antient example. Burfting from one establifhed maxim, we must not be furpri fed at feeing the enlightened profeffionalift converting the ufes of his exterior chapels, by copy from King's college chapel, into long avenues or paffages for the convenience of getting to the pews within the church. Tetbury's doorways, cornices, battlements, are poor and nean in their lines, while in the buttrefles and window tracery, particularly this latter enrichment, attempts are made to render them monfrous elaborate, in a redundancy of wire-drawn mouldings, without end or meaning. King's college chapel, in its exterior decorations, poffeffes a regular combination of objects, no one trenching by its obtrufivenefs on the other's right in chafte appropriation and fine effect. The interior of this exalted chapel increases as in order due, by each enrichment ftill bearing additional luftre, carried on to that degree of juft excefs, which our imagination (from view of what had already met our fight without the, chapel) had taught us to expect; we are gratified beyond our withes, and, to crown this feficity of art, we find no diforganized parts to reduce our admiration from that point to which it had been elevated. This architectural criterion will fcarce allow us to make farther comparifons; yet, as our fubject must be set forth, however unpleasant the task, we fhall purfue the thread of our narration. Tetbury's interior, then, has columns without ornaments, or the proper turns to conflitute capitals; groins without the leaft pretenfions to tracery or any devices, and compartments on each fide of the building under the windows drawn out with a few mouldings only, of fize fo enormous, that reference to example would be altogether vain and ufelefs. At the Wefiern extremity of the church we fee dead fee a gallery, placed against a wall," decorated after the manner of the Fantastic order. In the middle of the centre aile, the pulpit is fet up (modern ufage), and before it, to partake of the new difpofure of things, the font meets the eye; they both are strongly fhaped after the fiyle of the faid Fantaftic order. I must confefs that I can give but a very imperfect account of the altar, as being fo very inconfiderable in formation, as barely to attract the leaft notice; a common table, and a few plain pannels behind, with rails before it, being as much or more than comes to its fhare of appropriation. As for the detail of mouldings, and what finall number of ornaments have their place on the walls, they are entirely diftinct from our antient architecture; a meer collection of modern common house plinths, dado's, architraves, cornices, and foliage, both in the Chinefe, and fantaftic fillagre mode of carving, more fit for the trim of a cheese-cake houfe, than to be ufed in the reconstruction of this, fo fpacious an edifice, as the dimensions of its lines fufficiently demontirate. My opinion of the merits of this new church is given, not from memory, or a few trifling memoranda, but from thofe fure guides, in a bufinefs of this nature, in addition to the fentiments imbibed at the time of furvey, sketches taken of the feveral particulars above defcribed. Here, then, is no deception; therefore, from fuch documents, and from thofe prefumptions which a man affumes who (peaks within the pale of his own profefsion, I enquire, upon what grounds, knowledge, or capability, do fome writers announce, that the prefent church at Tetbury is a beautiful edifice of the first tafle, and compofed after the finest examples of our antient edifices by initations the most chake and the mot correct? In truth, this groveling at the fhrine of modern art, by fulfome adulation and falfe recitals, is become fo prevalent with tourists and amateurs, that were I not, through the afliftance of our friend Mr. Urban, to exert my best endeavours to hold up to view this Arange infatuation in its real colours, I fhould combine in the forming of thofe deftructive fnares which every where furround the welfare of our Antiquities. Thank my ftudies, I wash my hands of impuiations fuch as thele: from fuch like errors I am free. Mem. The tower and fpire of the church are the remnants of the original building. CIRENCESTER CHURCH. Had the feveral fums of money expended in the employ of tearing out, from the various windows of this edi fice, the religious and historical paintings, for the unmeaning purpose of cramming them all into the Weft and Eat great windows, been applied to the neceffary repair of the front of the fuperb South porch, what celebrity would have attended the names of thofe who might have brought about fo defirable an end! A hafty ftare, at a jumble of figures, arms, &c. which fo lately illutrated their original and appropriate fituations, and now bound in the limits of two windows, will never make amends to, or fatisfy the eager attention of, the curious traveller, for the lofs of the aforefaid porch, which, from its dangerous ftate, fo fearfully indicates a speedy downfall. Can T, who am devoted to the arts, fuppofe myself qualified for entering on the practice of the law, to reap its emoluments, and to enjoy its honours? Thus a ftudent in this learned profef fion may fay, alfo, on his part, or think which is molt probable], Can I profit, or turn to account, those fmatterings which are to be picked up from among painters, draughtfinen, and engravers? I, the Architect, am warned to remain true to my calling; there fore, I declare, I am fo advited. How anfwers my Man of Law?"Sir, Sir, as I can, upon occafion, direct the purfuits of the great and learned, I can alfo direct the pencil, and the graver; and, ftill farther, can direct the removal of any hiftoric relicks in our churches, as has been done at Cirencefter, or elsewhere, whoever may have been the improvers, in order to farther the new fyftem of church arrangement; of more importance to general information than humouring the fan cies of fame Antiquaries, in attending to a "pack of old walls," fuch as mark the South porch of Cirencetier church, or elsewhere, as aforefaid. Henceforth I shall follow the dictates of that uni verfal genius with which Nature has bleffed me."-I cry your mercy, good Mr. Director. AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued) the character or profeffion of the Eftablifhed Clergy-when they themselves have that relpect for it; which he thinks a devotedness to "rural sports," fo as to qualify a perfon to write a fcientific treatife on it, does not argue, nor is it compatible with the decorum and occupation which fhou attach to both. A FRIEND TO THE CLERGY, Mr. URBAN, Aug. 10. THE Jaw, Arderne, or, if LIST OF THE MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, FOR THE SEVERAL COUNTIES, CITIES, BOROUGHS, & IN ENGLAND, WALE, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, ALPHABE TICALLY ARRANGED. * Those proted w Italics were not in the lift Parliament. Thofe marked thus (*) are new for the x fpectiv: Places. All the reft are re-elected. The figure after the name news in how many Parlaments the Member has ferved. 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