Somers Town, O&. 7. "FORBEAR, good Tony! I cannot brook fuch cutting jeers, reproofs wrapped up in fenfelets fooleries; we are all frail at times, muft feel the lafh; I pray forbear, good Tony!"This, Mr. Urban, fhall be my motto, furnithed by your own columns, vol. LXX, p. 301. And my text may be found in the Purfuits of Architectural Innovation, No. XLIX. p. 519: "I have bestowed much confideration to determine whether Pancras, in his account of the new chapel, Tavintockfquare, p. 409, writes as one totally unacquainted with the mode of architecture he prefumes to illutirate, or directly means his communication as an infult to the caufe of Antiquity. He calls the building Gothic, meaning by this opprobrious term the ftyles of our antient architecture," &c. In this inftance the "Architect" compels me to expofe to public reprehention his unjuftifiable contradiction of facts well known to him as an Artift, whofe merit deferves that commendation which he would deny to poor Pancras, who, refting on a folid foundation, avows himfelf to be J. P. Malealm. It becomes abfolutely necellary for me, attacked on all fides, alfo to thew that J. M. (the colleague of Mr. Carter) has afferted what he cannot fupport; or fuch of your readers as recognize my manner in drawing, or ftyle in writing, will pronounce me too ignorant in, or infulting of, antient Architecture, to compile fuch a work as "Londinium Redivivum," or to felect fubjects for a fecond part of my Plates to illuftrate "Mr. Lyfons's Environs of London ;" and thus deprive me, prejudged, of a fair conteft for fame either as Author or Artist, exclufive of injuring my fortune, wafted in collecting, arranging, printing, and engraving. Before I proceed to my proofs, I fhall afk you, gentlemen, what can have induced you both to commit yourfelves to pofterity in this unfavourable point of view, charging me, a total firanger to you both, with ignorance and infult, when in truth I am the perfon infulted? Yet I am compel led to acknowledge you both far from ignorant in the antient art of forming windows, battlements, and ornaments. From what other caufe your obfervations have arifen, you only can explain. Mr. Urban has kindly permitted me GENT. MAG. October, 1802. to corroborate my defence by flight fketches, felected on the four of the oc cafion, of windows and abutments, or buttrelles, engraved on the annexed Pl. III. ; which I entreat of his readers to confult as a complete anfwer to J. M.'s enquiries, p. 490, of "where origi nals might be produced of which the windows, &c. in the new chapel were chafte imitations ;" and "where plain mullions are to be found crofting each other in the Chinese form without the leaft tracery, or even the characterittical trefoil head ;" and "where uniform piers, without breaks or embellishments of any kind, buttrefs up a façade, being capped with large fquare abacufes, and finished with hatched billets by way of crocket pinnacles ;" and Mr. Carter's words, p. 519, "pilafters with caps inftead of buttrelles." Nos. 3 and 11 are two windows in the new chapel; before we proceed farther, examine No. 1. Is not the mullion within it exactly copied in No. 11? Now, can J. M. fay, that he has never feen a reprefentation of No. 1. in Carter's elevation of the Weft front of Exeter cathedral? or Mr. Carter, that he has not only feen but drawn it for the Society of Antiquaries? No. 5, is a window on the North fide of the church at Sutton in Surrey, erected before the Saxon character was difufed, as the infeription given by Mr. Lyfons will prove. Can you, gentlemen, maintain your ground from this fample? We will now recur to No. 3, whofe mullions are exactly fimilar to No. 2, the great window over the entrance at the Weft end of Carfhalton church, Surrey. No. 4, is in Duffield church, Derbyshire; Nos. 6 and 8, in the Eaft end of St. Helen's, Bifhopfgate, and y in the veftry of the fame church: No. 7 is the Faft window of Bentley church, Derbyshire; and 10 is from St. Dunstan's, Fleet-ftreet. These examples ferve to fhew that numbers of antient windows are divided by plain interfecting mullions, without the decorations of either trefoil, quatrefoil, or cinquefoil; nay, I will refer my antagonis to the chancel of Dronfield church, Derbyshire, where in a large window the mullions interfect each other, and form various-fized fquares. As I confider myfelf unfairly at-. tacked, I will wield cleven buttreffes from the Monafticon, and the Beauties of England and Wales; and with them them beat down all oppofition, though church is a round tower, and in it a I am hunted and goaded for ufing the term Gothic, which the Architect delicately terms a vulgar epithet, an ignorant by-word, a low nick-name," and threatens to tear down this rag of prejudice, this feum of innovation." Be it fo; and may his nerves efcape irritation, and his perfon defilement, while difturbing fo filthy, offenfive, and vulgar a jade! But, Mr. Urban, he will furely in common juftice apply fome of his efforts against Mr. Carter, who fays, p. 13 of his Specimens of antient Sculpture and Painting, "On the face of the ftone on each hand is a Gothic turret embattled; above the battlement an arch rifes, finifhed by a pyramidical head or fpiracle, ornamented with crockets and a finial, having on each fide of it a Gothic pinnacle." Four other times doth this "rag" appear on the fame and the "low nick-name" page; is ufed five times on p. 38. Being a moft unfortunate wight, I have faid that the roof of the chapel is fupported by cluttered columns. The Architect retorts in his odd way, "I never found columns made ufe of but to fupport arches adapted to doors, windows, fideailes, groins, &c." Pray, Mr. Architect, if columns are made ufe of to fupport fide ailes, do they not connect with those of the middle aile, and confequently fultain the roof? But let us hear what his friend Mr. Carter has inferibed under two of his etchings: " View of an uncommon piece of fculpture in the South tranfept of Gloucefter cathedral; it projects from the wall between fome columns at the entrance into the South aile of the choir;" and again, "Baffo relievos on the capitals of the columus fupporting the lantern of Ely cathedral." Thefe confiftencies help me out exceedingly; and the Architect's " et cetera" shall be filled with my cluttered columns fupporting the roof. It was much againft my will that I was drawn into this controverfy; but, thinking it poffible fome injury might arife in the fale of my prefent and future publications from unanswered infinuations, I have taken the pains to prove that the windows, battlements, &c. &c. of the new chapel are chafte imitations. Any enthufiaftic flights that may be iffued in retort or anfwer, in any shape what ever, will be received in filence. Yours, &c. J. P. MALCOLM. Mr. URBAN, Gloucefter, June 29. F it come within the given scheme of your materials, I would willingly recommend to the perufal of your readers the following lines, inferibed on a monument in the parith-church of Quedgley, in the county of Gloucefter, written by the Rev. Charles Jafper Selwyn, of Blockley, in the county of Worcester, to the memory of his relation, Thomas Hayward, efq. Upon a farcophagus, that fupports two urns of white marble, it is thus written: "Sacred to the memory of THOMAS HAYWARD, efq. of Wolftrep manor, in this parish; who, by a wife and impartial adminißration of juftice, ferved his country on the bench, and in the fenate, with candour and difcernment, dying the 14th of March, 1781. Ard alfo his truly amiable wife, MERCY, fecond daughter of Charles Parfons, efq. of Breedom, in the county of Worcester; by whom he had iffue Thomas, who died an infant, Frances, Charles, and William. Here refts in peace, confign'd to native duft, [croft, This honour'd pair, who, faithful to their Saw age advance without one figh or tear, fpent year. Soften'd 1822.] Receiving the Sacrament for Civil Qualifications. 915. Soften'd at once, and happily refin'd, trod, And lov'd their neighbour as they lov'd The reverend and worthy author of thefe lines died Sept. 10, 1794; whofe character is jufily delineated in your Obituary, vol. LXIV. p. 869. Mr. URBAN, IF Sept. 2. F the converfation as related by your correfpondent, p. 499, be frictly true, would not the purpofe of public benefit have been better fulfilled, as well as the duty of a confcientious clergyman better performed, by con veying that information to the Board of Excite? That diligent and refpe&ta ble body would have taken proper meafures to come at the fuct; and, had there proved even a well-grounded fufpicion against Mr. Gauge, they would doubtless have removed him from his fituation, or perhaps have difcharged him from their employ. But this method would not have been altogether attended with that publicity which the nature of the cafe required, in the judgment of the Prefbyter, nor have given him fo fair an opportunity of holding up to execration an heretical fect; however it might have teftified his genuine patriotifim, a regard to the public weal. I am no advocate, Mr. Urban, for an abuse of the Sacrament; and such Í confider the reception of it for the mere purpose of a civil qualification. I regret that what are ftyled "the symbols of redemption fhould be proftituted to a perjured wretch;" and I can truly pity the really confcientious Clergy, who are required to adminifter them to fuch, whether among the higher or lower claffes of fociety. A facred teft for a civil qualification is doubtlefs an inconfiftency; but I do not apprehend that the great body of the Clergy are difpofed to confider it as a matter that ought to be removed; though they may feel its impropriety in certain cafes which may come under their notice and obfervation. Surely, Sir, if any allowance is to be made in this refpect, it ought to be on behalf of a poor drudge of an Excifeman, whofe bread probably depends on fuch a conformity; and whom nothing less than the cravings of for in any other way, could have indua family, which he is unable to provide ced to prophane the "fymbols of redemption." It a little remarkable, that neither the Prefbyter, nor his appears Anabaptift, as they are pleafed to call neighbour Mr. Scrupulous, however much they may be hurt at this poor him (though they ought to have known that fuch a term is not strictly appropriate to the BAPTISTS, but is confidered by them as a term of reproach,) receiving the Sacrament as a qualification; yet they have expreffed the facred rite fhould be required at no alarm, no painful apprehenfion, if their hands by any prophane, blafphepiring to a place of honour or of profit. ming, atheistical drunkard, who is afhere; but if a man who prays and No, fir, no qualms of confcience fings, and reads his Bible, fhould ap tion," confcience is greatly harafled, pear to take the " fymbols of redempand "tremblingly alive at every pore;' that, fhould it fall again to their lot fo much.fo, that we are informed to qualify another of this defcription, they would never be able to quiet their confciences on the occafion." Let me of that man, who, while he receives his not be thought to advocate the caufe bread from Government, gets up and preaches againft her establishment of Religion; and I would hope that there are few if any fuch to be found. · But the charge here made is not confined many fuch cafes, fays the Prefbyter, to an individual; but that there are "is not to be doubled." Permit me to reply, I do very much doubt the byter refers; and if he is in poffeffion accuracy of the cafe to which the Pref tions he has made, let me call upon of facts to fubftantiate the reprefenta time and place, that due enquiries may him to give farther information of be made, and the offender expofed for his temerity. 39 roufe the attention of Government the the tenor of the Prefbyter's reafoning, that the object he is defirous of promoting is fome further reftrictions upon the Diffenters as fuch; the propriety of which measure would lead me into a difcuflion too long for your limits. With thanking you, Mr. Urban, for your indulgence, I will only remind the Prefbyter, that the Clergy fometimes fail in the duties of their profeffion; and to this, perhaps, more than to any other caufe, may be afcribed the number of abfentees from their churches. A Friend to Candour and Impartiality. HE ladies' drefs feems to be a neTH ver-failing fubject with the newspapers; whatever public affairs may demand attention, the drefs of the dear creatures muft never be forgotten; and fo much is this now become a national affair, that at the commencement of the nineteenth century, and in a very enlightened age, there are two or three publications which appear monthly to teach the ladies how to put on their clothes; and in the intermediate time, between three or four hundred paragraphs, fquihs, and farcafins, are printed in the newspapers for the fame laudable purpofe-to clothe the naked. It is therefore quite unneceflary for me to contribute my mite, or to trouble you with remarks on a fubject fo common and fo hackneyed. My maxim with dress is, to let it alone; it will always find its level; and, whether besoming or abfurd, no fashion latis long; and what is not of long duration may, I think, be tolerated by us men, who, whatever our opinion may be of cersain articles of drefs, are not obliged to wear them. But yet, Mr. Urban, the dear creatures do fometimes adopt fuch whims as one cannot help criticifing on a lit le; and a fashion has just come to my knowledge, which feems fingular enough to merit a place in your mifcel laneous annals of the times. This, Sir, is a fpecies of NECKLACE made of common black pepper, or, as it is called in the language of the kitchen-allpice. I really don't joke-you may fee them in every fhop; the all-fpice is first boiled, then ftrung with beads alternately, and when cold the all-fpice becomes hard as before-and necklaces of this compofition at prefent adorn the fair necks, and are pendent from the fair bofoms, of our fair ladies. Now, in the name of wonder, Mr. Urban, who invented this? or why, out of all the fubftances in the creation, animal, vegetable, or mineral, fhould all-fpice be chofen for a purpose hitherto executed by diamonds, by pearls, and by artificial beads of a thoufand beautiful hues? I have in vain queftioned all the females of my acquaintance as to the origin and uses of this Weft Indian produce, taken from our broths and our foups to exalt female beauty; but I can get no anfwer, no rational account, why all-fpice is preferred, or why grey peafe would not have been full as becoming, and more patriotic as growing in our own lands. If any of your correfpondents, therefore, can illuftrate this invention, I fhall think myfelf very much indebted to him; and fo, I doubt not, will moft of your readers, whether they have or have not heard of all-spice necklaces. If I may be allowed, on fo important a matter, to hazard a conjecture, I would prefume that fome medicinal virtues may be expected from this invention; but yet I confefs that my conjecture receives neither firength nor good manners from the confideration of the ufes to which pepper is ufually applied. We all know what it does in gingerbread, and what in broth ; but how it is to operate round the neck we are yet to learn, Still I am unwilling to give up this conjecture; for we know that many medicines ufually taken inwardly, fuch as bark and opium, may be ap plied outwardly to produce an effect which is commonly lefs violent than when fwallowed. Who knows, therefore, but all-fpice may be medicinal in a necklace? and who knows but that this may be the beginning of a new fyftem of female medicine, in which the most difagreeable drugs, which were formerly with great difficulty rendered palatable, may now be made ornamental, and that in time a fine lady may prevent all the evil confequences of colds caught at routs, balls, dances, by going to public places dreft in a courfe of phyfic? Fevers, for example, fo frequently the fatal confequence of midnight air, might be prevented by inftructing the frifeur to ufe James's powder inftead of Marefchal; and, to prevent leffer but fill very inconvenient, complaints of irregular living, and dancing, and jaunting |