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LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS.

[Those marked thus * are Vignettes printed with the letter-press.]

View of Exeter Hall, Strand

*Carving of Arms, and Niche, in Hornsey Church, Middlesex.

*Lock of the iron chest in Hornsey Church

Roman Remains found in Southwark

Waltham Cross restored ...
*Stretham Cross, Cambridgeshire.
Old Hungerford Market, Strand.

* Bust of Sir Edward Hungerford

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*Dryburgh Abbey, the Burial-place of Sir Walter Scott.. Church of St. Dunstan in the West, London. ....

*Ground-plan of the Old and New Churches of St. Dunstan's

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*Armorial emblem of the Trinity at St. Dunstan's.. Newbigging Chapel, co. Northumberland........

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Old Tower and Mansion House of Cresswell, Northumberland. *Map of Western China......

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.319

View of Oxford Castle...

.401

*Earthwork, or ancient Fortification at Laceby, Lincolnshire.

..408

Sepulchral Brass of John Daye, the Printer, at Little Bradley, Suffolk.

..417

Ruins of the Nunnery at Iona

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Bridge and Chapel of Morpeth, co. Northumberland......

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Cockle Park Tower, Northumberland........

ib.

*Plan for raising the Royal George or other sunken Vessels.....

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In closing our Volume for the year 1832, it is impossible not to take cognizance of the great political change which has been effected during that period. In the conducting of our Miscellany we have always endeavoured to stand aloof from violent party feeling, and to judge of public measures solely by their probable effects, and the motives of their promoters. Well knowing that a governing power must be lodged somewhere, we have felt assured of the immutable axiom, that, for the benefit of all, it should be based in justice, and executed with vigour. This is the life principle of every permanent government, and especially essential to a constitutional Monarchy. Where indeed can power be more confidentially entrusted than to a restricted Monarchy, in alliance with a tolerant and apostolically constituted Church, which has so long and successfully withstood the absurd and unscriptural pretensions of Popery, and the fastidious and insinuating scruples of schism, with no other weapons than the sword of the spirit and the word of truth? It will at once be allowed that such a Church must compose a portion of that impregnable foundation against which it is predicted that "the gates of hell shall not prevail," and a close connection with her must strengthen the secular government. The monarchy by these means becomes a sort of theocracy, and the experience of manifold mercies manifested to us as a nation, in the stupendous and unparalleled contest with the hydra of revolution and the ambition of Napoleon, must have fully demonstrated to every thinking mind, that we, like the Israelites of old, have had our cloud to guide us by day, and our pillar of fire by night. It follows, therefore, by the plainest reasonable deduction, that to preserve the alliance of the Crown of Great Britain with the Protestant Reformed Church, to uphold the dignity, respectability, and mildly-asserted ascendancy of that Church, is to ensure for our welfare the favour of its Almighty founder; while the converse of this position would be to make expediency our idol, and to set the immediate protection of Providence at nought. Our future Legislators will, we trust, well consider these fundamental principles of government; if disregarded, anarchy, unstable democracy, and dismemberment of the Empire, must be the infallible result.

On the subject of amendment in our Parliamentary Representation, that great master of our national jurisprudence, Judge Blackstone, has the following pertinent remark :-" There is hardly (with us) a free agent to be found but what is entitled to vote in some place or other of the kingdom. Nor is comparative wealth or property entirely disregarded in elections; for, though the richest man has only one vote in one place, yet, if his property be at all diffused, he has probably a right to vote at more places than one, and therefore has many Representatives. This is the spirit of our Constitution; not that I assert it is in fact quite so perfect as I have endeavoured to describe it; for, if any altera

tion might be wished or suggested in the present frame of Parliaments, it should be in favour of a more complete representation of the people." It will remain therefore to be proved by the working, as it is termed, of the Reform Bill, whether this more complete representation has been effected; whether patriot talent, unendowed with the less noble qualification of wealth, has an equal chance as formerly of admission to the Senate; and more especially, as in all great changes the brute mob contribute an active and powerful share of agency, whether care has been taken that they shall be excluded from such an influence on the institutions of the country as may tend to affect their dignity and permanence.

In all the restless eagerness for change which the noisy heralds of the march of intellect have endeavoured to arouse, by pandering to the passions and imposing on the credulity of the people, a strong conservative spirit has been demonstrated in favour of our ancient architectural structures devoted to ecclesiastical or other purposes; as if the Public entertained something of a prospective prudence derived from former experience of times of persecution and state convulsion; as if they recollected the havoc of works of art which attended even a salutary reformation of Religion, the desecrating impieties which were enacted during a period of fanaticism and democracy; as if they foresaw a day when the just balance of the three ancient constitutional elements, if now vacillating, would be regained, and the old structure would arise, like some recently renovated Gothic fane, more beautiful and symmetrical for the efforts to repair it, more firmly seated for the wanton endeavours of its enemies to undermine and subvert it.

In the general although somewhat artificial cry for innovation, we have not ourselves escaped, nor indeed expected to escape, without attack. Because we have refused to depart from our steady course, and to pander to that taste which seeks rather for momentary amusement than solid instruction, we have been designated as dull; "sleepless ourselves to make our readers sleep!" Pass but a few short years, and we shrewdly suspect that we shall be able to turn the point of the jest on our opponents, and that old Sylvanus Urban will be taken from the shelf, and consulted for just and unbiassed views of "the age and body of the time, its form and pressure," when the ephemeral gentry who now carry their heads so high will have sunk into one long oblivious undisturbed repose. To conclude-we shall not deviate one jot from the principles and objects we have defined for our line of action, well contented with the approbation of the truly patriotic, the just, and the good, those rocks of eternal adamant, against which the surges of party spirit spend their fury in vain.

December 31, 1832.

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

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On the invention of Letters............
THE ENDEAVOURER-Mnemon of Constan-
tinople.

lery-Gresham Commemoration, &c. 61-65 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES..

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SELECT POETRY.......

19

Memoir of Sextus Julius Frontinus......... 21
Historical Researches concerning the Bank
Charter, and the Currency..

28

Expenses of the King's Mews, t. Rich. III. 34
On Rood Lofts..

...

Classical Literature.

35

35 ............. 37

On the Radicals of the Greek Language.
On the Analogia Linguæ Græcæ....
Professor Scholefield's Eschylus. ............ 33
Review of New Publications.

Archeologia, Vol. XXIV..........

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45

Hodgson's History of Northumberland...... 49

Historical Chronicle.

67

Proceedings in Parliament......
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Foreign News 71-Domestic Occurrences... 73
Promotions, &c. 75.-Births & Marriages. 76
OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Princess
Louise; Earl of Scarborough; Lord
Brandon; Count Woronzow; Lord Eldin;
Hon. E. Monckton; Sir J. Mackintosh;
Gen. Sir W. Williams; Adm. Sutton;
Adm. Oughton; Jeremy Bentham, esq.;
Rev. H. Hetley; Rev. G. Burder; Dr.
J. Thackeray; N. Bruce, esq.; J. Tay-
lor, esq. &c......

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77

Bill of Mortality.-Markets.-Shares.... 95
Meteorological Diary.-Prices of Stocks.... 96

Embellished with a View of EXETER HALL, Strand;

Representations of ROMAN REMAINS found in SOUTHWARK; and of some ancient
CARVINGS in HORNSEY CHURCH.

By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

Printed by J. B. NICHOLS and SON, CICERO'S HEAD, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster; where all Letters to the Editor are requested to be sent, POST-PAID.

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MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

MR. URBAN,I should feel obliged to any of your Correspondents to inform me, through the medium of your Magazine, the particulars of the wreck of the Hunter Cutter, off the Hasbro' Sands (Norfolk Coast), and whether the officers and crew of that vessel were all lost, or, as has been generally reported, were prevented by smugglers on the coast from effecting a landing, and consequently drowned; also whether Captain Manby's Life Boat had been invented previously to the loss of the Hunter? for in a poem now in my hand on the wreck of the Hunter, by the niece of the Lieutenant (Ostler), I find these words:

"And the Life-boat, alas! had not yet come to light."

"Had that noble invention then fearlessly sailed, They might have been sav'd from the perilous sea. A husband-a father had not been bewailed,

And a sister been still from insanity free." I should also be glad to know the particulars of the late Captain William Ostler who was unfortunately missing from his ship at the Cape of Good Hope a few years since; for in a poem on that melancholy event, I find these ambiguous lines, written by a nephew deeply interested in the severe affliction of the Captain's widow:

"But was there triumph o'er his manes; Or, was there paltry hope of gains

By any of the

-'s crew?

Let such wretches then be told
That Heaven's probation shall unfold

All to their cursed dark soul's view!"
The circumstances of the Life-boat men-
tioned above, and the horrid insinuation in
the poem on the death of Captain William
Ostler will, I hope, justify in some measure
my claiming your indulgence to the insertion
of this letter.

CLIO.

In A. J. K's notices of Crosby Place, in our last Number, a passage, p. 503, is rendered illegible by an accidental derangement of the type, which passage shuuld run thus: "of which the Hall, the immediate subject of this notice, affords so beautiful an example, and a most noble entrance-porch or oriel. Here we may be allowed to remark, as so much has been ingeniously said by a late antiquary," &c. Also at p. 506, paragraph 4, for Sir John Crosby was no patent feudatory of the Crown, read potent feudatory. H. P. inquires" on whom the Baronetcy in the family of Philipps has devolved by the death of its late possessor, Sir Rowland Henry Philipps Laugharne." H. P. is requested to inform us of the date of Sir Rowland's death. In the last edition of Debrett's Baronetage it is stated that "Rowland Philipps, who took the name of Laugharne, was great-grandfather of Rowland Henry Phillips Laugharne, esq. in whom (if living) this title appears to be vested [having devolved to him on the death of Lord Milford in 1823]; but the Editor is not aware

that he has hitherto assumed, or proved his right to it."

Mr. JAMES LOGAN inquires if any correspondent can inform him whether a law of Edward the Confessor, reported in Sammes' "Brittania Ant. Illust." in favour of the Armoricans be considered as still in force? This curious enactment was induced by national relationship. "Britones vero Armorici cum venerint in isto regno, suscepi debent, et in regno protegit sicut probi cives. De corpore hujus exierunt quondam de sanguine Britonum hujus."

The

Of the chambered cannon called patterers, (noticed in part i. p. 451) there are two other figures in the 5th volume of Archaogia, pl. xii.; one representing a piece which was dragged out of the Goodwin Sands in 1775, and the other copied from a Spanish work on artillery, by Diego Veano. Mr. King, who wrote the description, endeavours to assign their age to the fourteenth instead of the sixteenth century, notwithstanding several reasons to the contrary which may he detected in the course of his arguments, besides others which are obvious. form of the crown, which surmounts the arms of Portugal, (impressed on the Goodwin Sands cannon), assimilates to that of King Henry VII. engraved in the Gentleman's Magazine vol. CI. pt. ii. p. 120. The device of the armillary sphere, which is also impressed, originated at the same æra. variations in the arms, of a fleur-de-lis and rose, are perhaps nothing more than the arbitrary insertions of the founders, whose heraldry as seen on old bells, &c. was frequently very free. It is possible, however, that they constitute the mark of cadency of some junior branch of the royal house of Portugal. Mr. King was not aware that these cannon were formed for the purpose of discharging stones.

The

SENECTUS observes, "Among the good old customs which have fallen into disuse, that of inscribing texts from Scripture in or upon our public buildings, seems one that is worthy of revival. In old village churches such inscriptions are still to be met with, but I believe few modern religious edifices have any thing beyond the Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, and Creed, But it is in other buildings also that an appropriate sentence might be of great importance-if, for example, in all our Courts of Justice, the words "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour" were painted so conspicuously as to meet the eye of every witness when he stood up to take the oath, would not the force of the command thus appropriately introduced have a beneficial effect? It might in some cases check intended perjury, and in all would inspire that reverence for sacred things which none but reprobates can totally lay aside."

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