And fpiteful Fates, to mock the more Of the old Romans and the new, Stern Lictors folemn fafces bore; The Princefs through each dreary room ; Great charms in Painting I difcern, And fick of blind devotion flies In Sculpture what avails the Science That bids all common fenfe defiance? Is not quite fit for her to tell; To know the whole, be pleas'd to look t In Pliny's fix and thirtieth book.) How Architecture's now difgrac`d By Vanity and want of Tafte! In the remains of the Maufoleum of Auguftus is a place lately made for bulls to be baited in; it was before this laft alteration a garden, and is mentioned as fuch by Mr. Whitehead in a beautiful Elegy in Dodsley's Miscellany. There is a whimûcal fimilitude between the long exterior garments worn by the ancient priests, as particularly reprefented on the Arch of the Gold/miths, and thofe of the modern Roman butchers. Herodian gives in his fift book a very curious account of the cuftom of carrying fire before the Empreffes, and of Commodus having allowed his fifter Lucilla, who had been the wife of the Emperor Lucius Verus, to preferve this diftinction notwithstanding her fecond marriage with Pompeianus.-Commodus afterwards marrying Crifpina, the jealousy of Lucilla at her being obliged to give place to the new Empreis led her into a confpiracy against her brother.-Ir is only in the houses of Princeffes that the modern diftinction of lights made, as above alluded to. . Ferunt amore captum quendam, cum delituiffet nocu, fimulacro cohæfifïe, ejusque cupiditatis effe indicem maculam. Cap. 5. VOL. XIII. Whea If old Vitruvius liv'd again, Could he from grief and rage refrain, To boastful coats of arms give place! At eve, by way of recreation, Some talk of wh-ring-fome of fainting, At old coquettes and fhrivell'd beanx And awkward limbs fcarce feem their own ; Difmember'd ftatues ill reflor'd An apt comparison afford : + Beneath whose skirts of fable hue A moral fimile comes pat in, Letters on the Slave Trade, first published in Wheeler's Manchefter Chronicle, and now republished, with Additions and Alterations, by Thomas Cooper, Efq. 12mo. Wheeler, Manchester. 1787. Supplement to Mr. Cooper's Letters on the Slave Trade. Eyre, Warrington. 12mo. THESE two publications are a very fkilful and vigorous attack on the Slave Trade: they are full of authentic information and mafterly reafoning. Thofe who are defirous of forming an opinion on this important matter cannot do better than perufe these tracts, which are evidently written by a man of parts well acquainted with his fubject. The Form of Trial of Commoners, in Cafes of Impeachment for High Crimes and Mildemeanors, as established by the Peers of Great Britain. Illuftrate with an accurate View of the Building erected in Westminster-Hall for the Trial of Mr. Hattings. To which is annexed an authentic Narrative of the Conduct of Warren Hastings, Efq. Folio. IS. Forbes. THIS pamphlet may have been of use to thofe who attended WeftminsterHall during the trial of Mr. Haftings. The materials which compofe it are entirely borrowed; particularly the account of Mr. Haftings, which is taken literally and without acknowledgment from the European Magazine for November 1782, where we have inferted a Portrait of him, from an original Painting by Kettle. The arms of the Brafchi family, one of which now fits in the Papal Chair, are stars, eagles, a lily, and a head of Zephyr or Boreas blowing upon it, which are ridiculously in troduced into the capitals of the columns in the new Rotunda of the Vatican Museum.→→→→ Every person of taste must be shock'd to fee fuch an abfurdity in a work so magnificent. * Michael Angelo Caravagio, an excellent Painter of Caricature. The ufual drets of the Cardinals is black coats lined with red, and red flockings. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES, From Mr. GOUGH's "Sepulchral Monuments,' &c. lately published. ACCOUNT of the FUNERAL of WILLIAM the CONQUEROR. THOUGH the Conqueror had no grave or monument in England, the circumstances that attended his death are remarkable. He had no fooner breathed his last at the abbey of St. Gervate, on a hill out of Rouen to the wett, than all his domeftics not only for wok him, but plundered his apartments fo completely, that his corpfe was left naked, and he would have wanted a grave, had it not been for the more grateful clergy and the archbishop of Rouen, who ordered the body to be conveyed to Caen, and one Herluin, a gentleman of the place, (pagenfis eques) from pure goodnefs of heart (naturali bonitate) took upon himself the care of the funeral, provided the proper perfons (polline tores & vefpiliones) and hired a carriage to convey it to the river, and thence quite to Caen. There the abbot and convent, attended by crouds of clergy and laity, came out to meet it. But as they were proceeding to pay the proper honours, they were alarmed by a fudden fire which broke out in a house, and destroyed great part of the city. The distracted people went to give the neceffary affistance, and left the monks, with a few bishops and abbots, to go on with the fervice; which being finished, and the farcophagus laid in the ground, the body ftill lying on the bier, Gilbert, bishop of Evreux, pronounced a long panegyric on the deceafed; and, in conclufion, called on the audience to pray for his foul. On a sudden starts up from the croud Afcelin Fitz-Arthur, and demands a compenfation for the ground he stood on, which he faid William had forcibly taken from his father to found his abbey on it; and in God's name forbids the burying him on his property, or covering him with his turf. The bishops and nobles having fatisfied themfelves about the truth of his demand, were ebliged to pay him immediately fixty fhillings for the grave, and promise an equivalent for the rest of the ground, which they afterwards gave him. They then proceeded to the interment: but in laying the body in the farcophagus, it was found to have been made fo fmall by the ignorance of the mafon, that they were forced to prefs the corpfe with fuch violence, that the fat belly burft, and diffused an intolerable stench, which all the fmoak of the cenfers and other fpices could not overcome. The priests ere glad to hurry over the fervice, and make the beft of their way home in no fmall fright. William Rufus erected to his father's memory a coftly monument, executed by the goldfmith Otho, to whom he caufed to be delivered a great quantity of gold, filver, and precious ftones; and the following epitaph, compofed by Thomas, archbishop of York, was put on it in gold letters. Qui rexit rigidos Northmanos, atque Bri tanos Audacter vicit, fortiter obtinuit, Et Cenomanenfes virtute coercuit enfes, urna: Sufficit & magno parva domus domino. Ter feptem gradibus fe volverat atque duobus Virginis in gremio Phœbus, & hic obit. In 1522, Peter de Marigny, bishop of Caftries, and abbot of St. Stephen at Caen, at the folicitation of a great cardinal, an archbifhop, and an Italian bishop, defirous to fee the remains of the Conqueror, opened his tomb, and found the body in the original fituation. The abbot caused a painting to be taken of it in wood just as it appeared. But in 1562, the Hugonots, not content with deftroying this painting, demolished the tombs of the Conqueror and his wife, with their effigies in relief to the life, and broke in pieces with their daggers the Conqueror's biere made of pierre de volderil, and supported on three little white pilafters. They expected to have met with fome treasure, but found only his bones, ftill joined together, and covered with red taffety. Those of the arms and legs were thought longer than thote of the tallet men of the prefent age. of thefe facrilegious wretches, named Francis de Gray de Bourg l'Abhe, gave them to Dom Michael de Comalle, religious and bailiff of the abbey, who kept them in his chamber, till Admiral Coligny and his reiftres ruined and deftroyed every thing there. ANECDOTES of EDWARD III. One THIS great prince, who wiped out the ftain of his premature accession to the crown of England by the unnatural intrigues of his mother, with equal glory fupported the king of Scots in his throne, on which his grandfather had placed him, and his own claim to O 2 the the crown of France, and after he had in two bloody battles exhaufted the blood of its beft fubjects, difmembered that kingdom of fome of its beft provinces. The first forty years of his reign were truly glorious. The decline of his life was diftreffed by the lofs of his confort and his gallant fon Edward prince of Wales, and the ambition of his fourth fon John of Gaunt; and finking into dotage, his affections fixt on unworthy objects, he clofed a life of fixty-four years, and a reign of fifty-fix (the longest of any of our fovereigns fince Henry III.) at Shene, June 21, 1377. His body was brought, by four of his fous and others of the nobility, through the city of London, with his face uncovered, and buried by his wife in Westminster abbey. "Dum vixit," fays Walfingham, reges orbis gloria & magnificentia fuperavit ;" which character in his hittory he greatly en, larges, contrafting his magnanimity with his affability, difcretion, moderation, munifi cence, and the mildness of his government. 66 omnes Hic erat (fays an old Chronicle in the Cottonian library, cited by Weever) fos mundane militie, fub quo militare erat regnare, proficifci proficere, confligere, triumpbare. Hic vere Edwardus quamvis in boftes terribilis extiterat, in fubditos tamen mitiffimus fuerat & gratiofus, pietate & mifericordia omnes pene fuos præcellens anteceffores. Milles fays, "It is reported that his Queen made it her dying request, that he would choofe none other fepulchre than that wherein her body fhould be layed." This he had from Froiffart, who mentions two other dying requests made by her. "When the good lady knew that the muft die, the fent for the king, and when he came he drew her right hand out of the bed, and putting it into his right hand, the good lady Jaid, We have lived all our time together in peace, joy, and profperity, I beg you at this parting to grant me three favours.' The king in tears replied, Afk, madam, and it fhall be done and granted.' She then requested, that he would difcharge the money due from her to foreign merchants, that he would pay her legacies to the feveral charches both at home and abroad and to her fervants, and that he would choofe no other place of burial, but lie by her in Westmins fter abbey.' All thefe he promised to fulAl. The good lady then made the fign of the true crols on him, and commended the King and her youngest fon, Thomas, who flood by him, ta God, and presently after the refigned her foul; which, fays the honeft writer, I firmly believe was received by the holy angels, and conveyed to heavenly blifs! for never in her life did the do or think any tning which thould endanger her falvation!" Thus died this queen at Windfor, on the vis gil of our Lady, in the middle of August, 1369." It is remarkable of this prince, as well as his grandfather, that we hear of no natural children of his, though Walfingham feems to afcribe his death to fome amorous indulgences of his dotage with Alice Price. The pleasures of his youth were the chace and building, in which he paffed all the time he could fpare from government and conqueft. DIRECTIONS given by RICHARD 11. alout his FUNERAL, FROM the will of this unfortunate king (the first who had the permiffion of Parli.ment to make a will) it appears that he had erected this monument to himfelf and his beloved confort in his life-time. His directions about his funeral, the arraying of his body, and the proceffion, are no less curious. It was to be celebrated more regio, with four herfes in four feparate places; two with five lights in the two principal churches to which his body might happen to be carried; a third in St. Paul's church; and the fourth, in a ftyle of fuperior magnificence, full of lights, in the church of Wettminster. The proceffion was to travel fourteen, fifteen, or fix. teen miles a day, as the stations fuited, furrounded by twenty-four wax torches, day and night, to which an hundred more were to be added when it paffed through London. But if he chanced to die within fixteen, fiftcen, ten, or five miles of his palace at Westminster, thefe herfes were to be fet out for four days together, in four principal intermediate places; or if there were no places that anfwered this defcription, then in four other proper places, as his executor's fhould determine; and if he died in his palace at Westminster, then one very folemn herfe for four days; but on the last day ftill more honourable exequies. If his corpfe fhould happen to be loft at fea, or by any other accident, which God for hid! ab bomiafpectibus rapiatur; or fhould he die in a part of the world whence it could not eafily be brought to England, the fame direc tions touching both the funeral and monu ment were nevertheless to be obferved. His corpfe was to be arrayed in velvet or white fattin, more regio, with a gilt crown and fceptre, but without any ftones, except the precious ftone in the ring on his finger, more regio, of the value of twenty merks of Englith money. Every catholic king was to receive on the occafion a prefent of a gold cup of the value of £45. English money; and his fucceffor, provided he fulfilled his will, Was was to have all the crowns, gold plate, furniture of his chapel, certain beds and hangings; and the rest of his jewels and plate was to be applied towards furnishing the buildings he had begun at the nave of the abbey church at Weftminster. DEATH OF SIMON DE MONTFORT, EARL of LEICESTER, SIMON DE MONTFORT, Earl of Leicefter, being flam at the battle of Evesham, his head, hands, feet, and privities cat off on the field by Roger Mortimer, and the former fent to Wigmore caftle, by leave of the king the trunk was carried away on a weak old Ddder, covered with a torn cloth, to the abbey church of Evetham, and, wrapt in a fheet, committed to the earth, before the lower ftep of the high alter there, with his eldest fon Henry and Hugh lord Defpencer, who fell with him. But fhortly after, fome of the monks alledging that he died excommunicate and attainted of trea on, and therefore did not deferve Chrifti n burial, they took up his corpfe, and buried it in a remote place, known to few. One of his hands being carried into Chefhire by the fervant of one of the king's party, was, at the elevation of the host in the parish church, miraculously lifted up higher than the heads of all the affiftants, notwithstanding it had been fewed up in a bag, and kept in the bearer's bofom. One of his feet was carried by John de Vefcy, the founder, to Alnwic abbey, where continuing feveral months tacorrupted, the monks made for it a filver shoe. It had a wound between the little and the third toe, made either by a knife or fword, in the mangling of the body. The diftant fight of this foot wrought infant cures. A canon of Alnwic, who fwore the earl was a traitor, loft first his eyes, and then his life. "Think," cries out the monk of Mailros, who relates this ftory," what will be the glory of this foot at its rejunction to Simon's body after "the general judgment, from the compa"rifon of this foot before that great event, which difplayed fuch healing powers "through the filver fhoe, out of which "went invifible virtue to heal the fick." The other foot was fent, as a mark of contempt, by the victor to Llewellin prince of Wales, who had formed an alliance with this earl, and married his daughter. Though it is not to be doubted that this alfo was endowed with a power of working miracles, they were not fufficiently authenticated to be recorded, His other hand was preferved with great reverence at Evesham, where it may fairly be prefumed to have wrought miracles; "for God, continues my author, "does not fo juftify one part of a man by "thefe powers as to leave another part "without the fame." This chronicler, in his enthufiafm for the earl, compares him with his namefake Simon Peter, celebrates his exemplary vigilance and habit of rifing at midnight, his abftinence, and his moderation in drets, always wearing haircloth next his fkin, and over it at kome a rulet habit; and in public, blovet or burnet; and his conftant language was, that he would not defert the juft defence of England, which he had undertaken for God's fake, through the love of life, or the fear of death; but would die for it. Juftly therefore did the religious prefer his thrine to the Holy Land; and his favourites the friars minor celebrated his life and miracles, and composed a fervice for him, which, during the life of Edward, could not be generally introduced into the church. Matthew Paris and the author of the Annals of Waverly pretend, that at the inftaut of his death there happened extraordinary thunder and lightning, and general darkness. "Sicque labores finivit fuss vir ille magnifi"cus Simon comes, qui non folum fua fed "fe impendit pro oppreffione pauperum, affectione juftitiæ, & regni jure. Fuerat utique literarum fcientia commendabilis, "officiis divinis affidue intereffe gaudens, "frugalitati deditus, cuifamiliare fuit in noctibus vigilare amplius quam dormire: "conftans fuit in verbo, feverus in vultu, maxime fidus in orationibus religioforum, "ecclefiafticis magnam femper impendens "reverentiam." Thefe are the words of Matthew Paris, who adds, that he had a high opinion of bishop Grosteste. * Ipfius "confilio tract-bat ardua, tentabat dubia. "finivit inchoata, ea maxime per quæ meri "tum fibi fucrefcere æftimabat:" that the bishop promifed him the crown of martyr, dom for his defence of the church, and foretold that both he and his fon would die the fame day in the caufe of juffice and truth. His profeffions of religion (for he and all his army received the facrament before they took the field) and his oppofition to the king's oppreffive measures, made him the idol of the monks and the populace. Tyrrel fays he had feen at the end of a MS, in the public library at Cambridge certain prayers directed to him as a faint, with many rhyming verfes in his praife, and the pope was obliged to reprefs thefe extravagances. certainly was poffeffed of noble qualities; but amid the prejudices of antient writers in his favor, and the violent declamations of the moderns against him, it is not easy to decide whether ambition of the public good was the He motive |