Month. Noon. 11o'clock Night. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. Fahrenheit's Therm. Fahrenheit's Therm. in. pts. Dec. o 33 29, 79 cloudy 11 32 40 33 87 foggy, snow 12 35 42 46 63 do. cldy. rain 13 44 50 42 28, 97 42 29, 82 rain 42 cdy.fr.cdy.rn. 24 43 48 47 85 do. do. do. do. 25 50 50 40 J. J. ARNULL, Stock and Share Broker, Throgmorton Street, London. J. B. NICHOLS AND SONS, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. FEBRUARY, 1855. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.--Seal of the Archdeacon of Ely-Robert Hare the Antiquary- Michelet's Women of the Revolution PAGE 114 115 Letter of a Chaplain in the American Army, written during the War of Independence 121 The Old Church in Old Egypt 130 132 .... 136 143 .... Articles of Surrender of the City of Cork, in 1649, to the Parliament, with The Writings of Mrs. Jameson The Englishwoman in Russia ..... .......... 146 153 165 CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-The Complutensian Septuagint versus the Vatican-The Office of Cuneator or Die-graver to the Royal Mint; the Manor of Lilleston, now Lisson, holden in Serjeanty by the tenure of keeping the King's Dies-Hatton Garden; Bloomsbury; Underground Sewerage in Holborn 1661-How far Ledwich assisted in the compilation of the Monasticon Hibernicum-The Canon-Counts of Lyons; Mechanical skill of M. de Montmorillon; Families of Saladin and D'Urfé-Disinterestedness of Spon. NOTES OF THE MONTH.-Foreign Copyright-India Writerships-University of CambridgeNew Museum at Oxford-The Burnett Prizes-Horticultural Society-Architectural and Archæological Society for Leicestershire-Surrey Archæological Society-Somerset Archæological Society-Spalding Club-King's Pamphlets in the British Museum-Mexican Antiquities-Memorial of Professor Edw. Forbes-Library of Cardinal Mai-The National Gallery-Martin's Belshazzar's Feast-The Talbotype and the Collodion processes-Polychromic Print of the Sistine Chapel-Hiram Powers's Statues-Bath Medals-Stained Glass Windows at Markbeech-Mr. Crofton Croker's Collections-The Westminster Play HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.-Autobiography of the Rev. William Jay, 171; Bartlett's Jerusalem Revisited, 173; Bell's Annotated Edition of the English Poets, 174; Bohn's British Classics, Standard Library, Antiquarian Library, and Scientific Library, 175; Lee's Inspiration of Holy Scripture, Pearson's Infidelity, its Aspects, Causes, and Agencies, Foot's Christianity, Bishop Jackson's Witness of the Spirit, Turner's Metrical Version of the Psalms, Miller's Second and Third Seals, 176; J. E. Taylor's Moor of Venice-Cinthio's Tale and Shakspeare's Tragedy, ibid., The Flower and the Leaf translated into French verse by Chev. de Chatelain.. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.--Numismatic Society, 177; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, ib.; Roman Remains near Ipswich HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News... Promotions and Preferments, 180; Births, 182; Marriages OBITUARY; with Memoirs of The Earl of Leitrim; Sir Roger Martin, Bart.; Sir Alexander Cray Grant, Bart.; Sir Gilbert Affleck, Bart.; Sir Arthur B. Brooke, Bart.; General the Right Hon. Sir James Kempt; General Huskisson; General Yates; Lieut.-General Sir Henry Goldfinch, K.C.B.; Lieut.-General Arnold, K.H.; Major-General Adams, C.B.; Brig.-General Du Plat, K.H.; Vice-Admiral Arthur, C.B.; Rear-Admiral Garland; RearAdmiral Pateshall; Commander Baynton, R.N.; Lord Cuninghame; Lord Robertson; Lord Rutherfurd; Sir Adam Ferguson; William Howe Windham, Esq.; Wyndham Goold, Esq. M.P.; Rev. M. J. Routh, D.D.; Rev. Chancellor Raikes; Rev. Jeremiah Smith, D.D.; Rev. John Oxlee; Abraham John Valpy, Esq.; Mr. Thomas C. Banks: Captain Manby; M. Leon Faucher; William Russell Macdonald, Esq.; James Nisbet, Esq.; J. J. Chalon, Esq. R.A.; Mr. W. H. Bartlett; Mrs. Liston; James Thomson, M.D... .......187-21 4 CLERGY DECEASED DEATHS, arranged in Chronological Order .... Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets, 223; Meteorological 177 179 179 183 214 216 224 By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. MR. URBAN,-About nine years since I made a few notes on Vol. XXIV. (New Series) of your Miscellany. They were mislaid, but having since found them it has occurred to me that, notwithstanding the lapse of time, they may not be altogether uninteresting, especially as I well know your laudable anxiety for full and accurate information. Vol. XXIY. p. 179. With reference to the Seal of Robert Tinley, Archdeacon of Ely (exhibited 9 April, 1845, to the British Archæological Association), I may state that this seal is still used by the Archdeacon of Ely for sealing probates, letters of administration, warrants of induction, marriage licences, &c. &c. The matrix, which is of silver, is in the custody of Clement Francis, esq. M.A. the Deputy Registrar of the Archdeaconry. It has been a little battered, so that the more modern impressions are not quite perfect. A notice of Archdeacon Tinley will be found in Athen. Oxon. i. 352. P. 181. As to Mr. Hodgkinson's conjecture concerning the ownership of a psalter of the thirteenth century which has the autograph "Robert Hare, 1561," I may be allowed to suggest that it once belonged to Robert Hare, esq. son of Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls. Robert Hare was a good antiquary, and being of the old religion, was particularly solicitous for the conservation of devo. tional and monastic MSS. I have given a brief notice of him in the Annals of Cambridge iii. 45. P. 389. In a notice of a work on Slymbridge Church, Gloucestershire, allusion is made to William Cradock, Rector of that parish, who had been tutor to Addison at Magdalene College, Oxford, and an anecdote is related of Addison, when Secretary of State, being at Cambridge and requesting to see his former master, who replied that "it was the duty of the pupil to wait upon the master;" whereupon Addison rode on. I presume Cambridge is put by mistake for Oxford, but whether the mistake (if there be one) is yours, or occurs in the work under review I cannot say. I have never met with any notice of Addison's being at Cambridge, either when Secretary of State or at any other period of his life. P. 475. In Mr. J. D. Parry's Notices of Dunstable, he eumerates amongst the natives of that place Elkanah Settle, the poet, and Sylvester Daggerwood, the actor. Now I apprehend that, as certainly as Elkanah Settle was a real person, Sylvester Daggerwood the actor was a mere creature of the imagination of that It With respect to the Holy Loaf, the subject of Mr. Noake's letter in our last number, p. 47, we observe that it has recently engaged the attention of several correspondents of Notes and Queries, and that in the number of that paper for the 16th December last there is a communication regarding it from the very competent pen of the Rev. Dr. Rock, the author of "The Church of our Fathers." appears to have been for many centuries an observance distinct from the bread used for the sacrament of the holy communion, though probably originating from the provision of that requisite by the Christian community. Parishioners were liable to supply it in turns; and when it was taken to the church, having been blessed by the priest, it was cut into portions and distributed to the faithful. In some parts of France, on certain high festivals, the Holy Loaf is still made, several feet round, and solemnly borne to the church decorated with flowers and ribbons; and relics of the same custom may be traced in other parts of the Christian world. Mrs. Green, author of Lives of the Princesses, is preparing for publication the Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, and inquires for any existing in private collections, or in printed works of not very usual occurrence. She also inquires what has become of the originals of the letters to and from the Queen of Bohemia and other members of the Palatine family, published by Sir George Bromley in 1787. The arms of Bishop Creyghton (inquired for in p. 2) were, Ermine, a lion rampant azure, as they appear on his tomb in the church at Wells. Cambridge, Dec. 1. MR. URBAN,-With reference to the paragraph respecting Dr. Abdy (Dec. No. p. 595) I have to inform you that the same is incorrect in the following particulars. His Christian name is John Thomas, and not J. L. He had vacated his fellowship at Trinity Hall previously to his appointment as Regius Professor of Civil Law. The Professorship is in the gift of the Queen, by whom Dr. Abdy was appointed Professor. Yours, &c. C. H. COOPER. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. THE WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION. Les Femmes de la Revolution. Par Jules Michelet. Paris, 1854. "MY best wishes and compliments to your naughty lady, though I know she does not love me," exclaims Dr. Johnson in writing to Boswell; and such is the greeting which M. Michelet may always expect from this side the Channel: he most assuredly does not love us, but it is one of the hard conditions to which eminent merit must submit, that those it most dislikes and despises will persist in offending its delicacy with intrusive admiration and applause. With respect to the writer before us, his varied stores of knowledge must always insure respect, and the fact that a work of his chanced to fall in with popular feeling in England has made him more of a favourite among us than perhaps would be the case, were his opinions, political and religious, more accurately known. But to turn to the little work before us. We have all of us observed in thrifty families a coat that has seen service on the shoulders of the pater-familias cut down into a jacket for one of the olive branches that flourish around his table.. The garment in its new form, though every art of clipping and basting, letting out and turning, has been exhausted upon it, never for a moment deludes the discerning spectator into the belief that it was originally designed for its juvenile wearer. Something of this same kind may be perceived in this volume: most of the articles here presented to the reader were written for and appeared in M. Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Française, and now being remodelled and developed, with the addition of a few that are entirely new, have been collected together for the especial edification of the women of France. They have, however, scarcely sufficient substance to form an independent work, and, in their present more exalted position, have the air of being somewhat out of place. The origin of the compilation is as follows: M. Michelet has cast the eye of criticism on the behaviour of his countrywomen, and finds to his sorrow that in the performance of their duties they do not nearly attain the high standard he has fixed for them. Since the beginning of the century, indeed, they have steadily pursued a retrograde path, and now, if we may believe him, their days pass away in all the nothingness of languor and ennui. A great occasion, their censor is willing to admit, might arouse them to sacrifice the substantial advantages of their position, but he fears that to part with the world of elegant trifles which in the present state of manners constitute the poetry of women, would be more than their patriotism could sustain. Nor is this all, for we learn further that in the years preceding '48, being then Professor of History at the Ecole Normale of Paris, he looked anxiously round on the brilliant crowd of young gentlemen who encompassed his chair a crowd not only charming and sympathising, but of the most penetrating intellect ever seen: notwithstanding all this, however, the majority of them split on one and the same shoal-an excess of cultivation, a boundless curiosity, a flightiness of intellect, an ephemera devotion for this or that system, a weakness for ingenious Utopias which, promising a world of harmony attainable without struggle or combat, and thus rendering useless every privation, would banish from the earth the necessity of self-sacrifice and the occasion for self-devotion. Pondering over these evils, M. Michelet has hit upon a remedy: viz. the self-sacrifice above mentioned; and his plan is, first to arouse the mothers of France to a sense of the importance of this duty, who will then, he thinks, inspire it in the coming generation. The lesson they must inculcate on their sons is, "To love, but not selfishly; to prefer the world's happiness to their own." This daring plan of regenerating his country women, and through them the country at large, our author proposes to carry out by means of the little volume before us; and his readers are entreated not to suffer their attention to be distracted by the various biographical anecdotes it contains-some of which, indeed, are not altogether fitted for their perusal-but to fix their minds steadily and thoughtfully on its first and last pages, the former of which portray the new ardour which in the year '89 the women of France infused into the revolutionary enthusiasm, and the latter the reaction which, led away as they were by a blind sensibility, they subsequently contributed to bring about. It cannot be doubted that in France, as elsewhere, the spirit of self-sacrifice is neither so ardent nor so generally diffused as it might be; and, if M. Michelet's little book can in any way create or increase it, it has our hearty benediction. As to the form in which the spirit when aroused should display itself, perhaps no two persons will be of precisely the same opinion. Few will, we think, coincide with M. Michelet in wishing to direct it to the foundation of a Red Republic. Those however who desire to derive inspiration from our author's philosophy, must seek it in the book itself, as we design confining ourselves to that portion of the work which he deems of least importance, and which apparently he designs as the honey that is to render palatable the absinthe-cup of reproof. Having joined the ladies of the Halle in their march to Versailles, and played eavesdroppers to the Mrs. Caudles of La Vendée while dinning into the ears of their distracted spouses the ruin, both temporal and eternal, that would ensue on their purchasing even a foot of the national property, we enter the salons of the Revolution, and are presented to two of the deities which preside over the place-Madame de Staël and Madame Condorcet. Of Necker's celebrated daughter M. Michelet tells us little, and of that little nothing which was not well known before: on Madame Condorcet he is scarcely more diffuse. From his narrative, however, meagre as it is, we draw a slight sketch of that lady. Of noble birth, and a Canoness, she became at the age of twenty-seven the wife of Condorcet, who was then fifty-nine. It has often been remarked that in affairs of the heart our lively neighbours surmount difficulties which to Britons would be insuperable, and such was the case in the marriage before us. The lady informed her intended husband that she was attached to another, but that her attachment was hopeless; and this trifle the philosopher deemed not of sufficient importance to disturb the projected arrangement. Cold however as was his exterior, great warmth of feeling lay beneath. He was, as D'Alembert expressed it, a "snow-capped volcano," and the real affection which he entertained for his wife at last inspired her with a corresponding affection, or perhaps we should say with a friendly regard, for her Letters on Sympathy, written after some years' experience of married life, betray the yearnings of a heart not entirely at ease. If her duties however were irksome to her, it must at least be admitted that in the hour of trial she fulfilled most strictly their requirements. The great failing of her husband was timidity: and we know that there is such a thing as To be frighted out of fear, and in that mood The dove will peck the estridge. In some such mood Condorcet spoke out boldly and vehemently against the Constitution of '93, the result of which escapade was a sentence of proscription. The imprudent philosopher took refuge in a boarding-house near the Luxembourg, on the principle that proximity to the danger was most likely |