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Lehre, Gefchichte und Kirchenzucht der Freunde, die man Quäker nent, entworfen auf Verlangen ihrer Verfamlung wegen der Leiden in London. Ahrifs der Urfachen des Aufkommens und Verfalls der Völker, nebft einigen Bemerkungen über Finanz-Systeme, befonders über das bisherige Finanzwefen der Franzofen und Britten. Extracts from the Port Folio of a Man of Letters.. THE FIRST OF MAY-(Communicated). whatever plunder they had acquired *. The latter, therefore, fhould feem to have been the most natural occafion of feftivity. Mr. Tollet conceives the celebration of May-day to have been derived from our * Millar on the English Gov. ch. vii. In other parts of Europe the fame feafons were felected for the meetings of the National Council. "In France the vernal meetings were originally in the beginning of March, but afterwards, from greater attention to the cares of husbandry, they were delayed till the firft of May." Ibid. + See Mr. Tollet's Opinion concerning the Morris Dancers upon his window" in Malone's edition of Shakespear, at the end of the first part of King Henry IV. Voį, vi. p. 263. Qlaus Olaus Magnus, de Gent. Sept. " that after their long winter, from the beginning of October to the end of April, the northern nations have a custom to welcome the returning fplendor of the fun with dancing, and mutually to feaft each other, rejoicing that a better feafon for fishing and hunting was approached." Mr. Tollet proceeds: " in honour of May-day the Goths and Southern Swedes had a mock-battle between fummer and winter, which ceremony is retained in the Ifle of Man, where the Danes and Norwegians had been for a long time mafters." This mock battle brings to my recollection four very defcriptive lines on Spring; I quote from memory, and do not recollect where I met with them; the last line is, I fear, incorrectly given: Winter's wither'd clutches hold thee Doating on thy youthful charms; Summer, longing to enfold thee Pulls thee to bis ardent arms. Thefe lines are not quoted, however, as having any reference to the mock-battle of the Goths: the poet doubtless meant merely to reprefent the uncertain foftness of the season; the alternation of mild airs and pinching frofts which characterizes the youth of the year: Thomfon fays of Spring, As yet the trembling year is unconfirm❜d, Deform the day delightless. Mr. Tollet's account of the origin of May-ports is plausible: if it were poffible that the prefent celebration of them were at all connected with the following circumftance, the May-pole might in deed be called the tree of liberty. After the Syracufans had obtained their celebrated victory over the Athenians, a tree was hung round with arms by way of trophy; this formality was annually repeated in Syracufe in commemoration of the deliverance, and the custom has defcended from generation to generation for more than 2200 years! The folemn proceffion has ceafed, but a tree is erected on the first of May before the fenate-houfe, and during the whole month no man is allowed to arreft a debtor. A few years ago, thofe citizens who were at that time under arreft were fet free, that they might partake of the public joy, and endeavour to fatisfy their creditors *. * See Holcroft's tranflation of Count Stolberg's Travels through Germany, &c. vol. ii. page 458. In the cantons of Uri, Schweitz, and Underwalden, each individual (before the late Revolution) who had attained the age of 14, formed a member of the fovereignty, who met every year on the firit of May, in a general council of the nation, in order to form laws and elect magiftrates. The Swifs had no fhare of Syracufan fpirit, or they would have commemorated the birth of their independence, by appointing the first of Janu ary for their general council: it was on the first of January, 1307, that the three heroes, SLAUFFACH, FURST, and ARNOLD, formed their renowned confpiracy against the tyrant emperor Albert, "and liberated their country by feizing and fending out of their territory all their imperial governors." Is not the mayor of fome corporation towns in this kingdom elected on the first of May ? HOGARTH. (Communicated.) In the year 1780, Mr. Walpole pub. blished his anecdotes, in which he has introduced Hogarth's catalogue and character. The volume printed at Strawberry Hill, he (with the preceding part of his work) prefented to Mrs. Hogarth. The books were accompanied with the following handfome apology for his ftrictures on the genius of her husband†. * See Mifs Williams's Tour in Switzerland. The reader will think that fuch affertions as the following, demanded an apology. "His (Hogarth's) works are his history ;' as a painter he had but flender merit.-In colouring he proved no greater a mafter; his force lay in expreffion, not in tints and chiaro fcuro." Anec. of Painting, vol. iv. p. 160. have written the foregoing lines, after hav How was it poffible for Mr. Walpole to ing feen the pictures of Marriage a la Mode! Supplement to Hogarth Illuftrated, by John Ireland, volume 3d, and laft. Another proof of Hogarth's uncommon powers, as a painter, has appeared fince the publication of the volume from which the above letter is extracted. On the death of a widow lady in the parish of St. James's, Weftminfter, it being neceflary to remove the goods from the houfe which the inhabited, twelve paintings from Butler's Hudibras,” there were found hanging upon the stair-cafe which, on being cleared from the dirt that had been accumulating upon them for more than half a century, exhibited evident and internal evidence of being the first thoughts for the twelve prints which were engraved by that great artist, and published in the year 1726. The pictures have been removed to Mr. To Mrs. HOGARTH. Berkeley-Square, 07. 4, 1780. "Mr. Walpole begs Mrs. Hogarth's acceptance of the volume that accompanies this letter, and hopes the will be content with his endeavours to do juftice to the genius of Mr. Hogarth. If there are fome paffages lefs agreeable to her than the reft, Mr. Walpole will regard her difapprobation only as marks of the goodness of her heart, and proofs of her affection to her husband's memory, but The will, he is fure, be fo candid as to allow for the duty an hiftorian owes to the public and to himself, which obliges him to fay what he thinks; and which when he obeys, his praife is corroborated by his cenfure. The first page of his preface will more fully make his apology; and his juft admiration of Mr. Hogarth, Mr. Walpole flatters himfelf will, notwithstanding his impartiality, ftill rank him in Mrs. Hogarth's mind as one of her husband's most zealous and fincere friends." John Ireland's, No. 3, Poet's Corner, Paface Yard, where they have been feen by many of the best judges of the works of Hogarth, who almoft unanimously agree, that no other artift could have marked the characters with equal fpirit. The dirt, with which they have been fo long covered, has, in fome degree, been a prefervation, as they have efcaped the repeated ravages of picturecleaners. The drawing is accurate, the co louring fingularly harmonious-and, in two or three of the fcenes, which are by torch light, fplendid, and fuperior to Schalcken. They difplay a ftrong proof of the progreffive improvement of genius, for the last fix, are, in every refpect, fuperior to those which precede them in the feries. Sir Joshua Reynolds, and many of our firft artifts, as well as Hogarth, continued improving until the laft. MONTHLY MAG. No,'XLII The fingular distractions of mind of the Comte de Brancas, the prototype of Bruyere's Abfent Man, are noticed in Curiofities of Literature. But there is a circumftance related of La Fontaine by Furetiere, which, if it be true, is more fingular than any other of the kind. Furetiere fays, that La Fontaine attended the burial of one of his friends, and fome time afterwards he went to visit him, and was, at first, fhocked at the information of his death, till, recovering from his furprife, he faid" It is true, now I remember I went to his burial! KEN. Ken, who was deprived of his bishopric of Bath and Wells, by King William, for refufing the new oath of allegiance, retired and devoted himself to literary purfuits. He compofed an Epic of 13 books. He had a very lively tafte for mufic and poetry, and fang a hymn every morning to his lute, which he had compofed the preceding evening. It feems, that this chaunting of hymns was less an expreffion of his piety, than an exhalation of his bile, and a foother of his political difappointment. He thus alludes to his custom : Eased of my facred load, I live content; |