LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS TO THE VOLUME. Those marked thus are Vignettes, printed with the letter-press. View of the Free Grammar School of St. Olave's, Southwark ..... PAGE 15 33 * Representation of a Cross, cut in the chalk-down at Whiteleaf, Bucks. 61 * Cross on a Rocking-stone, in the Mountains of Auvergne.. * Cross erected on the Cholera Mount near Sheffield * Cross on the graves at Carlsrhue and Baden. * Seal of St. Olave's School. View of Theobalds Palace, Herts * Entrance to Littleton Sepulchre, Somerset View of the Gate-house, Westminster, and Wall remaining in 1836 .. Two Views of Thornton Abbey, co. Lincoln * Monumental Inscriptions in Thornton Abbey... Portrait of Richard Pearson, M.D........ Reliquary in Shipley Church, Sussex.. * Roman Urns found in Whitechapel. * Coin of the Emperor Carausius Figure of Britannia on a coin of Hadrian... 62 63 64 144 147 177 237 281 285 358 369 371 408 409 ... 489 583 605 611 Ancient Mansion in South Petherton, Somersetshire ...... View of the Western Gate of the Roman Lindum, found under the Walls of Lincoln Castle ...... * Monument at Britford, Wilts * Representations of the Ancient Lyre and Cithara... WE have little to observe in our present address to our Readers, but to thank them for the patronage which they continue to our Work. As we have received no intimation to the contrary, we may justly presume that our plan continues to receive their approbation; and that the manner in which it is carried into execution, in its various departments, shows no want of activity in collecting materials, nor care in the disposition of them. In a Miscellaneous Work, like ours, the task of selection forms one main province of attention, -ubi vidit avenam, lolium, crescere Inter triticum, selegit, secernit, aufert sedulo. As regards particular books, we have had great pleasure in introducing Mr. Richardson's excellent Dictionary of the English Language to the attention of our readers; a work founded on principles philosophically just, and exhibiting a more correct and copious view of our language, in all its ages, than has ever been given by preceding lexicographers. It is also our intention to continue our selections from the learned and interesting "Diary of a Lover of Literature;" as well as to add our slender contributions to the illustration of Boswell's Life of Johnson, till we have accompanied that work to its close; for the original may be considered as a central point, round which, for the period of half a century, the literature of our country is collected. Our Retrospective Reviews will present much that is curious in old English Poetry; and it is indeed a department of our Magazine to which we wish to draw the attention of our readers. For the rest, we shall proceed in our course undique nitendo -endeavouring to keep pace with the increasing knowledge of the age, and the exertions of our rivals and contemporaries. Ingens cura mi' cum concordibus æquiparare. July 1836. SYLVANUS URBAN. E PLURIBUS UNUM. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. DR. DIBDIN'S REMINISCENCES OF A LITERARY LIFE. DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE........ Free Grammar School at St. Olave's and St. John's, Southwark (with a Plate) - PAGR Christ's Miracles on the Maimed...... Sculpture and Painting of St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster (with a Plate). Literature of Scandinavia, and its connection with the British Isles..... Lord Brougham's Discourse on "Natural Theology". Richardson's New English Dictionary.... The Ryknield Street.-New Scientific Expeditions. Davidson's History of Axminster Church, 49.-Caveller's Specimens of Gothic Architecture, 51.-Tymms's Family Topographer, 52.-Spiritual Despot- ism, 53.-St. John's Egypt and Mohammed Ali, 55.-Chester's Lay of the Lady Ellen, 57.-England, Russia, and India, 58.-Anti-Slavery Reports, 59.-Temperance Societies; Holland's Cruciana, 60.-Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 64.- -The ANNUALS; Oriental Annual; New Year's Gift; Heath's Picturesque Annual, 68.-Landscape Annual; Friendship's Offering; New Year's Token; Angler's Souvenir, 69.-Forget-Me-Not; Christian Keepsake, 70.-Literary Souvenir; Drawing-Room Scrap-Book; Flowers of Loveliness, 71-Tilt's Comic Almanac, 72.-Beattie's Scot- land; Bond's Triumph of Truth; Graham's Vision of Fair Spirits....... LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. New Publications, 73.-Learned Societies, 74, 75.-Sale of curious Auto- graphs and Literary Agreements, 76.-Sale of Mr. Heber's Manuscripts, 77.-Prologue and Epilogue at Westminster School ........ ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES-Society of Antiquaries, &c... .. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 83.-Domestic Occurrences, Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 103-Meteorological Diary-Stocks 104 2 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. MONTGOMERY MARTIN'S History of the British Colonies.-We regret that the number and urgency of other articles in the Review department will prevent us from laying before our readers, in the present Number, a more extended notice of the fourth and fifth volumes of this original and valuable publication. We, however, congratulate its author on the completion of his Herculean task; and on his having been also enabled to supply the British public with a new and enlarged edition of the first volume. GAULOIS remarks: "After the numerous services rendered to Anglo-Norman literature, and the elucidation of its antiquities, by the late respected Abbé de la Rue, the concluding remarks on the last of his lucubrations, contained in the Obituary of your last Magazine, appear to be unmeritedly severe. It is desirable that such grave charges should not go forth to the world unsupported by sufficient evidence. It is not only a justice due to the memory of the venerable antiquary, that these errors, if they exist, should be pointed out; but it would render a service to the admirers of Norman literature, if the writer would favour them with his reasons for dissenting from the learned Abbé, and demonstrate the existence of those errors." We give R. d. C. the inscription he inquires for from Gainford Church, Durham. It is in raised letters on a brass plate within the altar rails: [tus Hic jacet humatus Rogerus Kirkby voca- Crimina tergendo precat ubiq. reus. (We are aware this somewhat differs from Hutchinson, vol. iii. p. 222, but believe it to be the more correct.) The second line, which might be thought to allude to some dignity of mysterious grandeur, signifies merely that the deceased was Vicar of the church of Gainford, to which he was instituted in 1401. We cannot furnish our correspondent with the inscriptions on the two bells, which he believes to be in Longobardic characters; but must refer him to some friend near the spot. A remarks: "In the second volume of Burke's Commoners (page 491), is a note referring to the family of Dr. Sacheverell, as connected with a junior branch of the Tates of De la Pré. The compiler is correct in stating that Warburton was in error in making Bridget Tate the mother of Dr. Sacheverell. The monument in Salisbury Cathedral clearly shows that Susanna, the widow of Sacheverell's father, remarried the Rev. Mr. Tate, the Vicar of Preshute, and that she died in 1722, aged 72. A reference to the Register of St. Peter's, Marlborough, at once establishes the fact, that this Susanna was the mother of Sacheverell "1673.-Henry, the sonne of Mr. Josh. Sacheverell, Rector of this parish, by Susanna, his wife, was borne Feb. 5, and baptized the 17th day of the same moneth." Sacheverell's father succeeded Nicholas Profit, and was buried Jan. 21, 1685.Profit was buried Nov. 16th, 1669. There are baptismal entries of eight children born during the period of Mr. Sacheverell's incumbency. The shield on Mrs. Susanna Tate's monument, bears a saltire charged with five water-bougets, (Sacheverell), below which is the coat of Tate, both impaling a lion rampant. 66 J. R. of Bishop Wearmouth, states: "I am in possession of a French manuscript of 662 pages, being a collection on various subjects of general history, and which appears to have been prepared for publication, from the Indexes, &c. This MS. shows a great deal of research, and is stated to have been made by "Le Chevalier D'Oliveyra," and has the date of Hackney, ce 23 September, 1778." In one part of the MS. speaking of a Miguel Lopes Ferreyra, he says, Il épousa ma Soeur D. Marie Anne Thérese d'Oliveyra, dont il eut plusieurs enfans, qui vivent encore." In another place, in naming the Countess of Yarmouth the favourite of King George II. who died in 1765, he further says, "Du Vivant du Roi celle Dame aiant demeurée longtems dans mon voissinage à Knightsbridge." Can any of your Correspondents inform me, who "le Chevalier D'Oliveyra " was, and if he published any works?"-J. R. is referred to Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, 717, for a list of the Chevalier's works. His Memoirs of Portugal gained him great reputation; but his own personal history, and his treatment from the Inquisition, may be best gleaned from "Le Chevalier d'Oliveyra Brulé en Effigie comme Héretique, comment et pourquoi? Par Lui-même. London, 1762." In the Obituary for Dec. last, p. 647, of the Countess of Antrim,-one of the daughters, Lady Charlotte-Elizabeth, was married on the 29th Aug. last to John Osborne, esq. son and heir of Sir John Osborne of Chicksands, Bart. |