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those famous trees,—we, at least, endeavour to make it flourish by nourishing it on the wine of truth, philosophy, and wit;-and we can assure our readers that, if the public patronage be extended to us as that of the Romans to the plane-trees of Hortensius, it shall be with our Magazine as with those lofty trees, the purchased leaves shall be succeeded by others "more beautiful still." On these terms we confidently look for a renewed era of pleasant labour and prosperity;-an union which forms that magic fountain whence is derived the unfading youth of the public's friend and servant,

SYLVANUS URBAN.

LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS TO THE VOLUME. (All of which are printed as Vignettes.)

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Huts protecting the Bignor Pavements

Pavement of the principal Room at Bignor

Inscription on the Church Tower at West Bridgford, co. Nottingham

Interior of Stonehenge, from the East

Stonehenge, from the North

Old Chestnut Tree at Cotele, in Cornwall

Ruberslaw, and the birthplace of Thomson

Ancient Cruciform Mound in St. Margaret's Park, Herefordshire

Old Sarum, from the Devizes Road

Outer Entrenchments of Old Sarum

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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

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Historical Notes on the Retaining of Legal Counsel..

Discovery of Roman Remains at Kingsholm, near Gloucester

Sculptured Stone at Birstall Church, Yorkshire (with an Engraving)

The Bourne, or Intermitting Stream, of Croydon. By Cuthbert W. Johnson, Esq.

The Etymology of Stonehenge. By Edwin Guest, Esq. D.C.L..........

CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-The Repairs of Lambeth Church-The

Roches, and Viscounty of Fermoy-Richard of Cirencester-Postmen in the reign of

Charles I.-Historical Notes on the Culture of Beet Root-Early State of St. James's Park

-"Heydon with One Hand," and Elizabethan Duels-Sir Bevis Bulmer and the Mines of

Mendip Concealors, or Informers of Land concealed from the Crown

NOTES OF THE MONTH.-The proposed New Statutes of the Society of Antiquaries-Anni-

versary of the Asiatic Society, and the recent Discoveries in Assyria-Anniversary of the

Linnean Society-Prizes at the Society of Arts-Conversazione at the Architectural

Museum-Installation of the Earl of Derby as Chancellor of Oxford University-Prizes at

Cambridge-Sale of Louis Philippe's Spanish Pictures and of the Standish Gallery-Pic-

tures by J. M. W. Turner-Baron Marochetti's Statue of Richard Coeur de Lion-Pro-

posed Statue to Sir Isaac Newton at Grantham-John Knox's House at Edinburgh-Gift to

Trinity College, Toronto-Elections in the Royal Society-Queen's College, Cork-Mr.

Alex. Somerville-Mr. Britton's Wiltshire Collections-Mr. James Underwood...

HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.-Selections from the Correspondence of

Thomas Chalmers, D.D.-Poems by Edward Quilinan, 69; Pulleyn's Etymological Com-

pendium, by Merton A. Thoms, 70; The Odes of Horace, translated by F. W. Newman,

71: The Politics and Economics of Aristotle, translated by E. Walford, M.A. 74; Aker-

man's Wiltshire Tales-Dod's Electoral Facts-The Days of Battle, 75; The City of

Rome-Hill's Manual of Godfathers and Godmothers-Parker's Ten Sermons of Religion..

ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES-Society of Antiquaries, 76; Archæological Institute, 78;

British Archæological Association-Numismatic Society, 80; Kilkenny and South-East of

Ireland Archæological Society

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 81; Domestic Occurrences

Promotions and Preferments, 83; Births, 84; Marriages

OBITUARY; with Memoirs of the Earl of Ducie; Lord Dacre; Sir Charles Abraham Elton,

Bart.; Sir Montagu Chapman, Bart.; Sir Jonah D. Wheeler-Cuffe, Bart.; Sir John Hope,

Bart.; Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. Arbuthnot; Vice-Adm. Sir Francis Mason; Lieut.-Gen. Sir

Charles Macleod; Major-General Whetham; Sir Robert B. Comyn; A. F. Gregory, Esq.;

Culling Charles Smith, Esq.; Rev. Dr. Silver; Rev. G. L. Cooke, B.D.; John Lucius

Dampier, Esq.; Henry Mitcalfe, Esq.; Charles Tawney, Esq.; Benjamin Tulloch, Esq.;

Ludwig Tieck; Mr. James Carter

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MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

MR. URBAN,-I have somewhere read a statement that Nash's "History of Worcestershire" does not give a correct idea of the merits of Habingdon, on whose manuscript it is founded. I should be glad to learn from some correspondent of yours whether this is the case, and to what extent, and in what respect: in particular, whether Dr. Nash omitted much of Habingdon's matter, and whether Habingdon's MS. contains any and what pedigrees not in Nash's work, and where the MS. is to be seen. I am, &c. A. L.

MR. URBAN,-As every memorial, however minute, of the admired Cowper possesses its interest, I submit to your readers a Greek line which I discovered a few days since at the base of the pedestal which supports a bust of Homer in the wilderness of Weston Underwood. The line has recently been so obscured and concealed by weeds and briars, that it has escaped observation. A worthy clergyman in an adjoining parish, to whom I submitted it, with much promptitude and felicity, discovered it to be a line in the Odyssey, the First Book, the 308th line, admitting only a slight variation: in the original it stands thus

" Ως τει πατηρ ὦ παιδί, και λησομαι αυτού;”

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on the pedestal of the monument it appears―

« Ως τε παις

πατρι кас OUTOTE

λησομαι αυτού.” Cowper thus translates the line very literally—

"Who as a father teaches his own son

Has taught me, and I never will forget." With more elegance, but with greater latitude of interpretation, Pope renders it"So fathers speak (persuasive speech and mild) Their sage experience to the favourite child." Cowper's inability to forget his great master in song, he assimilates with that of a dutiful child to a beloved father; his favourite recollections continually reverting to his cherished author precluding forgetfulness. In concluding let me invite attention to the state of the three commemorative Urns in Weston Grove. Two of these upon the borders of the Wilderness are in very fair condition, and the inscriptions, with a little aid of the memory, fair and legible. The third, standing in the heart of the Grove, I regret to say, is in a very dilapidated

and precarious state; by wanton mischief and levity only, as I apprehend, its position is so much out of the perpendicular, that a hand or a walking-stick might push it from its pedestal. These classic memorials, in conjunction with a lion and the aforesaid bust, constitute the only reminiscences of the Poet now remaining at Weston. Yours, &c. THOMAS WELTON. Olney.

MR. JONATHAN HINDLE remarks that two effigies of Knights Templar (as supposed) Sir Robert de Stiveton, of Kildwick in Craven, and Adam de Middleton, of Ilkley, are described and portrayed in Whitaker's History of Craven. They appear to have died nearly at the same time, about the year 1306 or 1307; and our Correspondent inquires, In which expedition to the Holy Land were they engaged?

Our friend Dr. Doran fell into an erroneous expression at the close of his article on "The Daughters of Charles I." in our last number, which has called forth the remarks of more than one correspondent. When he stated that on the death of Henrietta Duchess of Orleans

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was extinguished the female line descended from Charles," he should rather have said, "such was the end of the last surviving daughter of Charles." Henrietta left, as is well known, two daughters,

... married to Charles II., King of Spain, and Anne-Mary married to Victor-Amadeus II. of Savoy, King of Sardinia. The latter only had issue, and her present representative is the hereditary Prince of Modena, in right of his mother, the eldest daughter and coheir of Victor-Emanuel, King of Sardinia. (See Mr. C. E. Long's Royal Descents, 1845, p. 1.)

GROTIUS, referring to last number of Gent. Mag. p. 591, line 20th (in continuation of paper on "Leadhills ") begs to correct two erroneous words inadvertently inserted from a preceding sentence:delete "and buckets." Ladders have been introduced at Leadhills, but never buckets. A. B. G.

June, p. 670. The late Mr. L. W. Wyatt died on the 14th February. Besides the noblemen and gentlemen mentioned in his memoir, he was employed by the Earl of Denbigh, Viscount Curzon, Lord Selsey, Lord Bolton, and General Wemyss. Among his property sold at Christie's was a view of London Bridge, painted by Clemendt de Joughe, ao 1650: it was sold for 301, 98.

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

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HISTORICAL REVIEW.

THOMAS MOORE.

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P.

THE second portion of the Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore is now before the public. In the first two volumes was detailed as far as brief memoir, from two to three hundred letters, and a year of diary could give it-the course of the poet's life, from his birth on the 28th of May, 1779, to the year of his hegira from England in 1819, under pressure of the unfortunate "attachment," resulting from the fraudulent conduct of his deputy in Bermuda.

The interval between those two dates is marked by many an interesting incident. Moore was born in Dublin, at a humble hearth, and of honest Roman Catholic parents. His father, the proprietor of a well-frequented wine-store, was helped to gentility by the greatness of his son, whose influence, when he was the idol of drawing-rooms, procured for his sire a barrack-mastership. But the greatness of the son was, in no common degree, the work of his incomparable mother. She discerned the qualities of her boy, and, eagerly and unweariedly moved by nothing but her great affection, not only afforded him all facilities for their development, but used even a loving constraint in order that the facilities, which she could procure but at sacrifices such as only mothers can make, should be wisely and profitably employed.

Moore, like Tasso, began his love for song on the very breast of the mother who nursed him. He warbled through his pleasant childhood; ceased not either to sing, to play, or to court

Vols. I. II. III. and IV.

the muse during his creditable career at school and his highly honourable course at college; and finally brought with him from the university his translation of " Anacreon," as a proof that the young student, yet in his teens, was both a poet and a scholar.

With his "Anacreon" in his portmanteau, a few guineas that could ill be spared, but which were joyfully contributed by his self-denying parents, and a scapula duly fortified by saintly blessing to protect its wearer from all harm, young Moore came up to London to keep his terms at the Temple. His talents had made friends for him in Dublin, and these friends loaded him with introductions to the great coteries of the metropolis. The already accomplished minstrel was welcomed at every princely threshold whereat he presented himself. When he surfeited of royal and noble banquets and regally furnished bedchambers, he could with the gay ease of Alcibiades adapt himself to other circumstances; and he slept, as tired men sleep, in his little apartment in George-street, Portmansquare, for which he paid six shillings a-week; and he dined, as hungry men can dine, with poor French exiles, and after French fashion, at nine pence the repast.

A commoner led the poet to Lord Moira, and the peer conducted him to the presence and patronage of a prince. The hopes born of the familiar intercourse which followed kept Moore alternately happy and anxious for a long course of years. It was perfect felicity

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Thomas Moore.

to him to sing to crowds of noble,
beautiful, perhaps weeping, women.
These he loved to deeply move; but
for "he-hearers," as he calls them, he
had undisguised contempt. He sang
on in hope that some guerdon in re-
turn would be flung to the minstrel;
but when he found that peeresses cared
not to influence their lords in behalf
of the singer, and that lords abounded
in promise but altogether lacked per-
formance, he wished all his proud but
"at the devil,"
unprofitable patrons
and spoke with justifiable bitterness of
the people who could "value the silk,"
while they neglected "the poor worm
who wastes himself in spinning it out

to them."

At length, however, the laureateship was in 1803 offered to, and for a moment accepted by, him. It was accepted for the sake of enabling him to devote what trifle of salary was to be picked up, amid the leaves of the laurel and the links of the chain, to the relief of his parents. But, if he loved these well, he loved not liberty less, and accordingly he shook the court wreath from his brow almost as soon as he had assumed it. Lord Moira thought he had mistaken his vocation, and his lordship admirably illustrated his sense of appropriate patronage by offering the poet the office of registrar-half magistrate, half clerk-at Bermuda. Moore almost justified the appropriateness of the offer by accepting it. But he was influenced by thoughts of the narrowed circumstances of the "dear ones of his heart" at home; and, hoping to find for them content and competence in the "still-vexed Bermoothes," he set off to erect his bower and theirs beyond the Atlantic. This step was followed by momentous The poet, disgusted consequences. with the details of his official duties, left them to be performed by a deputy, quitted the island, travelled through a portion of the States, and in 1806 gave to the world the result of his experience in his celebrated and popular collection of "Epistles and Odes." The work was furiously attacked by Jeffrey. The poet dragged his critic into "duello;" nobody was hurt; the adversaries became warm friends; the "Edinburgh" obtained a new contributor; and, instead of exchanging shots, Moore sent "articles" to the

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North, and Jeffrey answered them by
draughts that were infinitely preferable
to those of Helicon.

Awaiting office, the poet took in
hand a lyre, which he swept to some
profit and to his undying glory. In
1807 opened the series of "Irish Me-
With
lodies," which was continued at in-
tervals until the year 1834.
these his name will live for ever. In
them he showed that erotic poetry
might be refined, and convivial poetry
be made decent, without a sacrifice of
tenderness or vivacity. The Melodies
will yet delight millions when the au-
thor's mistake in 1808, "Little's Poems,"
will be forgotten or forgiven. In 1811,
however, he achieved the work of his
He won the
youth of which he had most reason to
be proud and grateful.
heart (and he must have been an irre-
sistible wooer) of a fair girl, who was
as good and gentle as she was fair;
portionless withal in worldly goods,
but richly endowed in all womanly
virtues. When Moore made her his
wife he secured sunshine to his house
for ever.

Their first home was at Queen's Elm, Brompton, and a little "Barbara' in due season arrived to enliven their hearth, there and elsewhere, during five brief years-and then she died, at an age when children are most reluctantly parted from. All of her that Heaven could spare, to use a phrase of Dryden's, lies in a modestly-indicated grave in the retired churchyard at Hornsey. When we last saw, a few evenings since, the resting-place of the poet's child, the buttercups were growing on it in serried clusters, and the lingering rays of the setting sun addressed to it, as usual, their warm "good night."

But, in the meantime, the Bard withdrew to Kegworth in Leicestershire, spurred to work by the hopelessness of obtaining political preferment, and cheered too by the compact with Power, the music publisher, that for the next seven years five hundred pounds annually should repay in gold all that the minstrel could give in song under the guise of Irish melody. It was altogether a happy time. It had its clouds, for political expectation was extinguished; and Lord Moira, protesting against being "oblivious" of his protegé, sent him a basket of game, and

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