things with two meanings, of which, I am afraid, we have always a tendency to take the worst. Such at leaft has been my cafe. I am immenfely rich, and I have tried to act accordingly, but, from what ever caufe, I have not fucceeded either in my own opinion or to the fatisfac tion of the world. I am wretched in plenty, and I crave amid profufion; yet what is there which I have onitted to do that, in my poor way of thinking, was requifite in order to act according to the immenfity of my riches? In the first place, I contrived that my wealth fhould be no fecret to thofe who might be mot hurt by feeling their inferiority; and this, let me teil you, required a good deal of ingenuity. I invited all my old acquaintances, not to make them partakers of my happinels, or renew the bonds of amity, but to dazzle and to confound them by a difplay of my furniture, and my equipage, my china and my plate; and I tarved them into evening dinners, that they might be convinced of the inferiority of that man who is fo mean as to eat when he is hungry, and has fo much of the low mechanick in him as to fatisfy mature at fated periods. And when I had thus gratified my pride, and, to the heft of my know ledge, excited their euvy, which I highly prized, I gradually withdrew from them, and I was enabled to do this the more genteely as, while I firove to convince thein of the difference between us, it never once entered into my head who made that difference. I contrived, moreover, fuch little infults and mortifications as I knew they would feel. I dropt the friendly fmile at meeting, and returned their falute with a grave referve; in fhort, in a few months I practifed fo many acts of refined unkindness, as to difband whole corps of early acquaintance, and determined to allociate with fuch only as were my equals or fuperiors, for it did not become me to forget that I was “immenfely rich," and must “act accordingly." the friendship of an inferior? Still I could not altogether pleafe myfelf in this affair, although as they dropped off one by one I became more used to it. I certainly difliked them, but I could not tell why; that is, I could not give them a reafon, for I was confcious to myself that I had no ground for diflike but the difference in our fortunes. My pride, therefore, I much regretted, had nothing in it manly and dignified. it was poor, fheer, vulgar pride, that had no other foundation than in wealth, which was in my cafe neither the reward of induftry nor of understanding; and wealth, I well knew, could not purchafe one drop of blood, nor one atom of merit, to give me the fuperiority. However, in one way or other, I got rid of them, and thought it a happy riddance; for what connexion could there be at table between men of hundreds and men of thoufands! In the fecond place, as to my relations, I had fomewhat more trouble, and was obliged to devife many expedients to keep them at a proper dif tance. With my company it was impoffible they fhould allociate, because no man has a right to affront his company. Yet I was not forry to admit them for once, that I might confound them with my magnificence, and fhew them that it does not fignify" to whom related or by whom begot." They were not my equals in any refpeét; and as I was not to be influenced by any confiderations of a family which I could not ennoble, I looked with equal contempt on the evidence of a parith regifter, and the blank leaf of a family Bible. One method, therefore, I took to be relieved from the vifits of fuch people, was by contriving that my country-houfe fhould be too far from town to admit their vifits being often repeated, and at the fame time took care to have it, known that "I kept no houfe in town." This, and the accustomed coolnefs with which they were received when by any accident they got access to the prefence, foon delivered me from their It mortified me, however, no a lit- perfecution. I know not how it comes tle in this bufincfs, that I could not about, Mr. PROJECTOR, but there is contrive any plaufible pretexts for dif a wonderful pride in poor relations; carding my old allociates. Some of they will not fubmit to any kind of them were men of great perfonal treatment as they ought to do, and worth, fome men of talents, and fome had rather be indebted to their own inmen who had flewn me much friend-duftry for a morfel of dry bread, than ship. But of what use, thought 1, is owe a feast tò a man who perhaps can my lend lend money to government, or fhake the three per cents. Such pride is quite infufferable; and I left them to enjoy the fruits of it. As to my fentiments and moral conduct, I perceived a gradual change coming on, which I hope was likewife acting according to the immenfity of my riches. In my early days, I had been noted for my regular attendance at church, and there, I confefs, I found fometimes my equals and fometimes my fuperiors, which was not then fo great a difficulty to difcover. Now, if I went to church I faw no perfons to whom I could fpeak with propriety; it was letting my felf down; and I began foon to perceive that a place deferted by perfous of fortune, fike myfelf, could be no place for me. I withdrew, therefore, as gradually as I could, for I did not with to be perceived while ftealing off. I firft dropt the afternoon fervice, and then the, morning, because I difcovered that the former interfered with the hours of riding, as much as the latter did with the hours of fleeping. Ten years before this, I fhould have been altonifhed if any one had told me this; but I know not how it was, the duties of the pillow and the faddle became now paYamount to all others; and there were not wanting books, as well as men, to tell me that religion is to be claffed among the prejudices of education. The church, therefore, I got rid of in Jefs than half a year; and this was followed by many confequences which convinced me that I had not mifinterpreted the pleating voice, You are immenfely rich act accordingly." Among thefe confequences, I confefs that I began to look with indiffe rence on my wife, not because the was lefs beautiful, lefs affectionate, or in fact lefs a favourite with me; but I could not help reflecting that he had not brought me a filling, nor a fingle alliance of which I had not, in my prefent fate, caufe to be ashamed. I 'confidered with deep regret, that if I had not been fuch a fool as to marry carly merely because I liked the wo man, I might have now flood candidate for the proudeft fhe among my connexions. Many women of family, I forrowfully thought, would have been glad of a husband who could afford to let them spend five or fix thoufand a year without calling them to any account, and without ‘a rational enjoyment n return. But thefe re new flections, however judicious and praifeworthy, came too late; and my only confolation was, that my wife began to be as heartily afhamed of her relations as I was, and, to do her juftice, fpared no expenfe in proving to the world that he was born to a&t according" to the“ immenfity of riches;" and indeed the fometimes acted (purpofely to pleafe me, I fuppofe,) as if our riches were not only inmenfe but inexhauftible. Although, therefore, I had no reafonable pretext for parting with my wife, I difcovered by the influence of example, that an intrigue could do me no harm; and accordingly I amufed my leifure hours, and employed my loofe cafh, in improving the fortune of an amiable young lady belonging to one of the theatres, who, although accounted beautiful in the eyes of the world, and particularly in her own eyes, was, I verily thought in my confidering moments, no more to be compared to my wife than the witch of Endor. But the connexion was genteel in its nature, and gave me a certain eclat and reputation among the fashionable world, of which, I imagi ned, my character flood very much in need. But without troubling you with any farther detail of my progrefs, which you may perfectly comprehend from the preceding circumftances, I muft now come to the purpofe of my letter, which was to requeft, that, as you are a PROJECTOR, you will have the goodnefs to contrive fome scheme for the benefit of those who poffefs riches, but happen to have arrived at them fo fuddenly and with fo little meritorious effort, as to have none of that requifite preparation which teaches how to handle them. I have done all that money can do, yet my deficiencies are fo great, and I know fo little how to employ my flock, that I am convinced that I pafs with the world for a proud, ignorant fellow, who has forgot every thing that is good, without learning any thing in its room that is becomingly bud. I never give an entertainment without making blunders enough to convince my guests that I have not been used to fuch ex penfes. The very furniture of my houte is unknown to me by name; and at my own table I am afraid to help my friends to a difh, left they should ask me what it is called. My rooms, therefore, are filled with thing'umies, and my table covered with what-d'yc-call- ums. ums. I can do nothing with a good if If then, Mr. PROJECTOR, you can lay down rules for growing rich so gradually that the world fhall not perceive that one has ever been poor; you can infiruct gentlemen in my fi tuation how to lay out their property fo as to have fome little character in return; it will be one of the nobleft projects in your budget. If not, I fhall begin to think my fyftem is radically wrong; and that I ought to have begin by doing good, before I attempted to do great things. I am, Sir, DIVES ET PAUPER. yours, Mr. URBAN, O&.9. ORD Winchelfea fays, in a note have the honour to entertain; but I of his common place book, "This can diftinguish the fuperior respect paid I had often been told of the wonder- day, 27th March, 1721, I faw the auction finished, and all Mr. Kemp's fine collection of antiquities difperfed I remember almoft the beginning of the collection, having feen many of thefe things in the hands of old Mout. Galliard at Angers, in the year 16762 and afterwards faw them much increased at Paris an. 1683, when Monf. Galliard. was governour to the late lord Carteret, to whom he fold them for an annuity of 2001. and Kemp bought a great many of them in the prefent Lord Carteret's minority. Mr. Kemp, has valtly fince increafed their number; he being dead, his brother fold them." A Venetian gentleman of the name of Gierolamo Belotto, was another purveyor (as you thould have faid infiead of furveyor) of medals and other rarities of virlu to the Antiquaries of that day, and is mentioned as the friend of the Italian Cicerone Nicola Francefco Haym; from the former gentleman, his Lordinip fays he purchafed a moft admirable medal of Antinous, for which he took iny duplicate. Diadumenian in part, at three guineas -full large brats. ANTINOOY. HP OC. Head with the lotus . RL. 10. Antinous on horfehack, under the image of Mercurius queftris; in his left hand a caduceus." I have tranfcribed this note for your antiquarian readers, conceiving this fine medal to be unpublifhed. In the Duke of Devonshire's collection, I believe, there is one of Autinous with the title of Bacchus. Your correfpondent R. G. is pers feetly welcome to a perufal of the common-place book; and I will take fome opportunity to have it conveyed to him. Perhaps it may be in his power to inform me of fone particu ars of this Lord Winchelfea, whether his collection of antiquities was difperfed at his death, as I conceive them to have been; and whether his Lordfhip was the furvivor of Dr. Stukeley*, which, from the above note on Mr. Kemp's fale, I think could not have been the cafe, as his Lordship must at that date have exceeded the age of 65. I have fealed this letter with a gold ring feal, found in a garden at the parifh of Pulborough in the county of Suflex, (fig. 3). The impreflion is a pelican in her piety; the letters E. S. are engraved on the infide. I believe Bp. Fox, in the time of Henry VIII. ufed this device for his creft. The ring, from its fashion and the form of the letters, feems of the age of Charles I. Some of your heraldic readers may perhaps have the goodness to inform me if this creft has been worn fince the time of Henry VIII. and by what family; and for which information I hall be much obliged. S. D. Fig. 4. is a copy of the little car ving by Edward Longley, the felf-taught artif, noticed in p. 798.—The original is pot a flint, but a fpecies of alabatter. EDIT. I Mr. URBAN, Conftantinople, July 25. AM a conftant reader of your valuable Mifcellany; and, in proportion to the amufement and infiruction bassador), and by devoting his eldest fon Baron Henry Herbert to fight our battles under the conduct of Sir Sidney Smith, with whom he ferved as midshipman of Le Tigre during his late command; the cellation of which the British factories in this empire have to deplore equally with the removal of his brother from this milkon. Upon this ground, Mr. Urban, I may be allowed to feel it may be interelling to the relatives of thele families in England and Ireland, as well as to the numerous friends and relations of the deceafed in most parts of Europe, and to the amateurs of genealogical refearch, who confult your infractive pages, to lay before the publick fuch information as it has fallen in my way to collect concerning this eftimable character, confifting of his pedigree, and the epitaph that marks the place where his remains have been depofited in the Latin church of St.. Mary's in the fuburb of this city, commonly called by the Greeks and Europeans Pera. I am, with cordial greeting, Mr. Urban, your countryman, ARCHEOLOGUS. "D. O. M. S. V. Piis Petri Philippi, L. Baronis ab Herbert I derive therefrom, I feel an intereft in Romni imperi Cæs3, Augi ab intimis con its fuccefs, and a defire to contribute a mite towards its fupply of knowledge. We have lately loft a valuable member of our European colony in this place. Baron Herbert of Rathkeal. The Emperor and King's internuncio, and minifter plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Porte, departed this life, after a fhort illness, on the 23d of February, at 4 o'clock A. M. This gentleman, not lefs diftinguifhed by his diplomatic talents than by his focial virtues, has an additional title to our regret, as being defcended from a British stock of noble and illuftrious parentage, an origin and connexion he was proud to acknowledge and to juftify by an almoft patriotic attachment to our common Country and countrymen, cemented ftill farther by the marriage of his fecond daughter, Mifs Conftance Herbert, to our laft worthy and most refpected chief in the Levant, John Spencer Smith, efq. his Majefty's minifter plenipotentiary to the Porte (ditplaced by the late minifters at home to accommodate the Earl of Elgin as am * Lord Winchellea died Jan. 1, 1730; filiis, ac luftris |