295. The Hiftory of Cumberland, Part I. at length appears; and, we are told, it is "to be completed in four parts," the price of each 115. 3d.: fo that the editor or editors is or are at laft become explicit in their demands, and his or their propofals, 'dated Carlifle, Jan. 3, 1792, for fix parts, at 6s. 6d. to four parts, at 11s. 3d. fee p. 202 of this volume. The execution of their work remains to be examined. The title of the hiftory, together with an account of the materials whence it was wrought, feem referved to the conclufion of the whole. The introduction follows a copious lift of fubfcribers, and opens with telling us that Strabo calls the Brigantes, who inhabited the diftrict now called Cumberland, graffatores, robbers and plunderers. We are of opinion, that the original term, Answ, should have been given, and not a double tranflation of it into Latin and English; not to mention that the paffage in Strabo, IV. p. 206, has no reference to Britain, but to the Brigantii about Brigantium in the Alps. Still lefs do we incline to deem the Roman accounts confufed and contradictory, or Tacitus's account of Cartifmandua's condu&t fabulous. This is a way of cutting a knot unworthy a writer who has any character to fupport. It is fapping the foundation of all hiftory in the lump. But zeal for the honour of his countrymen is to cover all the faults of our hiftorian. Nor is the printer lefs careful in his department, when he prints the imperial purple, which Hadrian affumed, in Italicks, p. 2; and for caflocks, the nomi native plural, caflock's, the genitive fingolar, p. 7, n. Extracts from modern writers, and from manufcript letters of eminent antiquaries, are lugged in by head and shoulders, without tafle or feJection. Cæfar, Tacitus, and Strutt, are put on a level. As to prints, poor Nehalennia, copied from a rude fketch of Mr. Gale's, inftead of many modern prints of her, looks like a full-dreft lady in a hoop, fhort apron, cloak, and lappets (p. 10). The hiftorian perfifts in his errors about Egleftone on the Tees, in Durham, making it the fcene of the battle of Dergietane, rather Dog fane, Dawfton, near Jedburgh, between Ethelfrich and the Scots. He calls Matthew of Westminster, or Florilegus, Florigellus Wefimonaft. p. 17, n.; and, p. 42, makes Bp. Giblon quote Summar's inftead of Somner's gloffary. P. 260, He held it in King Edward 1. for in the reign of King Edward I. Such inGENT. MAG. Supplement, 1793 correctnesses should not appear in a wellwritten or well-printed work. Typographical errors are innumerable, particularly in the Latin *. The introduction contains the Roman, Britif, and Saxon hiftories of Cumberland, with the border hiftory, and lift of knights of the fhire, in 42 pages. Then follows an account of Cumberland in general, and Camden's defcriproin of it, p. 45 (Clarenceaux, p. 46), beginning with the barony of Gilfland, chiefly taken from a copy of Denton's MS. in Mr. Milbourne of Armathwaite's poffeffion (the original being in Lord Lonfdale's), brought down to 1610. Then follow the parochial accounts of Lanercof, the remains of whofe abbey are defcanted on; and we are told of cherubs heads ornamenting pilafters that fupport the canopy of a rich; of an open gallery, or colonade, running round the upper part of the whole edifice, fupported on fing e pillars, "without any dead space or interval;" of embrazured battlements; of efcurchions. P. 60, we have viduity for widowhood. Mr. George Smith, the frequent correfpondent of our mifcellany, having communicated to us a Roman infcrip tion from this abbey, the following account is given of him: George Smith, Esq. was a native of Scotland, a man of genius and learning, but of an affuming air, iritable temper, and fufpicious principles as to religion. After being fome time an affiftant in fome feminary of learning in or near London, he lived with and affifted Dr. Defaguliers in his philofophical experiments. Marrying foon after, he engaged in an academy at Wakefield, afterwards lived near Brampton, and finally fettled at Wigton, where he lived on a fmall annuity. He inftructed fe * Ceduuallam Juvenem-ab Allanią ufque cornubiam, p. 16, n.-Rex Will'mus cognome-Dedit-RanJohnn—EtWill'mo fatri eadem. P. 109, 1. 5 from bottom, Flario. P. 147, 1.3 from bottom, Plute. P. 58, n. pr' genem-excar't. P. 86, enfignia-nymbus. London Antiquarian Society, p. 92, for Society of Antiquaries of London. P. 105, the fall of timber had opened it (the Roman ftation) out. P. 11c, l. 16, a forced road. P. 149, 1. 8, Maxentious. P. 164, n 1. 2, alplafter. P. 186, l. 10 from bottom, Napono, in 1. 3 is Maponus. P. 187, 1. 2 from bottom, Numen, which Teftus interprets to be quafi Nulus Dei, for nutus. P. 201, 39, Pica for Pisa. veral veral perfons in that neighbourhood in The account of the Roman ftation at Burdofwald is taken from Mr. Horfley, and all his in'criptions there crouded into one quarto plate, without many new copies. Only two of 25 are now at Netherby, and five at Rookby; it is not faid where the reft are. In Roman anti. quities our hiftorian is not to be depended on; he overloads us with the accounts of former antiquaries, and adds nothing to them. Bew or Bueth cafle follows next, and its Runic crofs is a prominent feature in its hiftory. The accounts of it, by Bp. Nicolfon, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Armftrong, are fit given; and then the prefent author's, who adopts the idea of its being Danish on the authority of fimilar monuments in other parts of the kingdom, as Wales and Scotland. But no good drawing of it is given . The other parishes in Efkdale ward are, Kirk Cambock S, Walton, Irthington, Bramp ton, Farlham, Denton, Heyton, Warwick, Wetheral, Cafle Carrock. *Of whom fee particulars p. 85, n. Where, by-the-bye, the Danes never penetrated. The hand elevated in a teaching posture fhould be a bleffing posture. No religious dutics are performed here, nor has it had minifters fince 1386; the church ■ is destroyed, and the church of Carlife, who had the impropriation, covenant to keep it up. A prefeript payment, the Latin of which we imagine to be redditus prefcriptus, and the more correct tranflation a prefcribed or preferiptive payment, is called, in the note p. o, a prefcription. No lift of incumbents: Carrew, Carlaston, Ainflable, Croglin, Kirkoswald, Renwick, Alfon, Melmesby, Oufby, Atdingham, Langwathby, Kirkland, Edenball. Salkeld, Lazonby. The account of Naworth castle feems to be better drawn up than either that by A South-eaft view, Pennant or Grofe. drawn by Robert Carlifle, and engraved by L. Beuge, is given. In the difeription of the chapel, we apprehend, the feat of the lord of the cattle is, by mistake, given to his domefticks. Speaking of Mr. Wm. Reav, a native of Denton, and fon of its rector, whofe fermons were published for his relief while curate of Batterfea, where he died 1756, the author of the Biographia "He who Cumb. is introduced, faying, withes his mind to be strongly imbued at once with good principles, and a good tafle for compofition, let him give his nights and days to the reading of English fermons. Ainong the foremost of thefe we place thofe of Benfon, Fothergill, Seed, and Reay." This is a mixture we should not have expected. The three gold hekels, as they are called, from their refemblance to the ring fixed to the plough-beam found in Hayton parish (p. 151), are the fame kind of inftruments as thofe fo frequently dug up in Ireland (fee Archæilegia, II. 40, pl. III.; Camden, Britannia, IIĻ 476, pl. XXXIII). We cannot entertain a very favoura ble opinion of the tatte of the Dean and Chapter of Carlfle, who refufed Mr. Howard's fufficient compenfation for the ruins of Wetheral a bey, which they chofe to apply to rebuild a prebendal house at Carlile (p. 156). We have Tanner's account of the regifter, &c. of this priory, which do not feem to have been looked into by our editors. "In a description of Corby it would be doing a piece of injudice to it, as well as to an ingenious man of tatte [Henry Howard, Efq.], who, like Shenstone, fcattered around it fundry apt quotations and infcriptions [from Milton, Horace, &c.] not to notice them" (p. 169). Of Cumwhitton parith it is obferved, that "there is great fimilarity of charac ter and fameness of difpofition in the people. No manufatory, nor any public road but for colliers. The markettown affords them, now and then, intercourfe with the rest of mankind. Politicks and foreign occurrences never difturb their thoughts; and not till this year 11792 1792 has a news-paper entered the parif, and now one folitary Cumberland pacquer has been introduced. No tafle for Science or polite literature; books are regarded as puerile amusements. They are trialy honeft, credulous, and fuperftitious; delight in athletic exercifes, and are tenacious of old cuftoms. Tea, though a luxury, fealing in upon them, is held in fuch deteftation with Jome, that they would rather cherish a ferpent than admit a tea kettle. The people in gene. ral exhibit a ftriking refemblance of the moft antient inhabitants in their blunt honefty, fierce honour, and rufticity of manners" (p. 177). Whether the writer of these obfervations infinuates praife or blame by them, we cannot help think ing the Cumwhittonites happy in the want of the luxuries which gain fo little ground among them. But fuch is polite topographical writing. Befides the typographical errors with which this work abounds, we cannot help obje&ing to the abridged way of writing which perpetually occurs, as if the expence of printing and paper was not fufficiently provided for. The engraving of the Roman altar at Nunnery, referred to p. 186, faces 225. No lift of priors of Wetherall, or prioreffes of Armathwaite nunnery; nor does any ufe feem to have been made of the registers of religious houfes. At Kirkofwald, Camden fays, was long kept the word wherewith Hugh Morvill and his affociates murdered the Archbishop of Canterbury. The paf fage cited from CAMD. LOND. ha et mea memoria diu enfis," &c.; whereas all the Latin editions, from the fourth, where it was first inferted, read "in falli memoriam." Speaking of the reftoration of the Derwentwater eftare, it is qnferved, “let the diffatisfied and clamorous at this time recollect how many acts of munificence have marked this reign; among which, the difpofition to the American Loyalists are not the leaft" (p. 216). Biography in Kirkolwald and Wetherall is interced 60 and 10 pages diftant, in p. 221. Near 20 pages are wafted in proving Long Meg a Druidical circle, when references to the feveral authors whofe works are cited would have been fufficient. No account of the foundation of Skinwith abbey in Kirkland (p. 260); nor does fuch a name occur in Tanner. Was it a cell or grange to Wetherall ? Of the Luck of Edenball (p. 269) fee cur vol. LXI. pp. 721, 995, 1079. Its being a chalice (and againft that appli cation its fhape militates) is denied; and fo is the opinion that the Duke of Whar ton was author of the ballad intituled "The Drinking-match of Edenhall." This part is adorned with twelve cop per plates, and two maps of reads. We with we could commend the drawings or the engravers. The EDITORS, for fo they chufe to ftyle themfelves, though they are not far out of the reach of conje&ture, return their humble thanks to those who have affifted them, but with to have their names concealed. The publiber concludes with hoping he may affure his benefactors that the work will meet with no other delay than fuch as is unavoidable, and neceffary to give it all the correctnefs and elegance in his power. In this hope we heartily concur; and that he will confider our Atrictures as intended folely to promote his own views. 296. The Causes of the prefent Complaints fairly flated, and fully refuted. r THE author argues, in a fummary way, against a change in the prefent fyftem of government, particularly of parliamentary reprefentation, from the diforder unavoidable on frequent more numerous popular elections throughout the kingdom, and the infringement of the treaty of Union, which he thinks, with the late Lord Chatham, ought to be held facred. He quotes the ftatute-books, to prove that no pofitive law, to compel the right of affembling parliaments annually, was enacted till 1641; and that, till 1694, they were not limited to any particular term, and then only to three years. He confders the repeal of that act, and the enacting of the feptennial act, as a work of mere neceffity, the Pretender being at that time (1715) returning officer for Scotland. 297. The Debtor and Creditor's Affiflant; or, A Key to the King's Bench and Fleet Prifons; calculated for the Information and Benefit of the injured Creditor and the unfortunate Debtor, including Newgate, Ludgate, and the Three Compters. To which are added, Reflections on perpetual Imprisonment for Debt, and Outlines of a Bill for abolishing the fame, &c. &c. THE author tells us, in his preface, that his "aim is to give an account of the two firft of these prifon, as far as concerns their government and respective accommodations with regard to prifoners, of which the greateft part of the publick have but a very imperfect idea; and to prevent, if poffible, infolvent debtors from being thrown into prifon, whea when it can only tend to fix unthinking creditors with an enormous load of cofts." We recommend this as an ufeful and in forming little work. The Society for the relief of fmall debtors have, with 29,3841. difcharged 12590 prifoners, and relieved their wives and children, to the amount, all together, of 43,700 perfons, at an average of 45. for the men, and no more than 135. each on the whole. Many creditors are cruel and abfurd enough to confine their debtors, at an expence exceeding the original debt. The total number of persons confined for debt in the different gaols of England, on the laft ftatement, was 1957, befides 100 crown debtors. The num. ber of wives belonging to them was 1300, and children 4088. 298. A familiar Treatife on the Sacrament; with an Appendix on the Expediency of a Correction of our present Tranflation of the Scriptures. By George Hagget, M. A Rector of Beachamwall, Norfolk. A PLAIN and fenfible account of this moft folemn rite of Chriftianity, confidered as a pofitive command of the Divine Founder. Mr. H, offers his fentiments on a new tranflation of the Bible with candour; and concludes with a juft obfervation on the conduct of the friends of reformation, whofe "violence, acrimony, and not difcountenancing the ruinous machinations of defperate and unprincipled men, who contend under their banners, their careleffnefs as to all confequences, when put in competition with the advancement of their favourite plans, have made, to the body of the people, the very name of reformation fufpicious and hateful. If the Church and State defcend to pofterity unamended by the prefent generation, thefe, in my opinion, are the men to whom it is chiefly to be imputed." a 299. A Sermon delivered in the Parifb-church of St. Laurence Jewry, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Worshipful the Court of Aldermen, Sept. 28, 1793, previous to the Election of Chief Magiftrate for the City of London. By the Rev. Thomas Wrench, M.A. Chaplain to bis Lordfip: FROM Rom. xiii. 4. Mr. W. takes occafion to commend and enforce good government and good education; and concludes with a panegyrick on the Phi. Janthropic Society. 300. A Narrative of Tranfactions relative to a Sermon preached at Brighton, Auguft 18, 1793; with foort Extracts from the Sermon, and occafional Remarks, ByVicefimus Knož, D.D. Mafier of Tunbridge School, and late MR. K's attempts at humour and declamation are in vain, while he does not permit the obnoxious fermon to anfwer for itfelf. He fhould have laid it before the publick at the firft, and it would have pleaded his caufe better than 20 pamphlets of as many pages as the prefent will do-if the controverfy, or the occafion of it, be deemed interefting to the publick 20 days longer. 301. A charitable Marfel of unleavened Bread, for the Author of a Letter to the Rev. William Romaine, intituled, "Gideon's Cake of Barley meal," being Reply to that a Pamphlet, MR. R's character ftood not in need of a defence from the rancorous attack which we noticed p. 936, and which will derive too much confequence from the prefent defence. The author apologizes for troubling the publick, by the refentment he felt on feeing his anta gonif's pamphlet had gone through a fecond edition, with large additions. 302. Réflexions fur le Procès de la Reine, Par une Femme. A favourable reprefentation of the character of the late Queen of France, written with remarkable force and ele gance, and afcribed to Madame Stahl, daughter of the celebrated Neckar. 303. A Letter to the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of France, now refident in England, the prefent Crifis. AFTER obferving that France has had no Conftitution fince the Revolution of 1789, and propofing a general amnefty after the regicides fhall be put to death, or driven out of the country, the author recommends the Conftitution of England as a model for the future go. vernment of France, and urges religious toleration. 304. Trvproduçou Diou Adwais. De* plurimis mendis purgata, et notis illuftrata, à Thoma Northmore, A.B. et Societ, Antiq. Lond. Se THE poem, of about 700 lines, on the Taking of Troy, by Tryphiodorus, who lived between the reigns of the emperors Alexander Severus and Anaftafius, or between the beginning of the third and the beginning of the fixth centuries, derives more merit from the elegant tranflation of it by Mr. Merrick, 1741, than from any intrinfic excellence of its own. The original has fuffered much from the * Is this strictly claffical? negligence of tranfcribers, who have drawn down on it the charge of obscurity. It was first published at Venice, by Aldus; from whofe edition that of Bafle, 1569, was copied. Janiot epubhed it at Paris, 1557, with a Latin tranflation and notes; Neander, in his Opus Aureum, Lipf. 1577; H. Stephens, among his Greek poets, 1569, copied by Lectius, in his Colletion of Greek poets, 1606. Frischlin's edit. Francf. 1688, is the best and most correct. Mr. Merrick was a lifted by this in his edition of the Greck, with Frifchlin's Latin tranflation fubjoined to the English, and by a MS. furnished by Reimar, and by the notes of Danfqueius on Tryphiodorus, Francf. 1614. A fubfequent edition was pub. lifhed by Bandini, at Florence, 165, with various readings from two MSS in the Medicean library; and from thefe two latest editions Mr. N. has formed his, which gives only the original Greek, and notes at the end; in which last he acknowledges his obligations to Mr. Wakefield. Mr. N. has alfo juft published 305. Plutarch's Treatise upon the Diftinction between a Friend and a Flatterer; with Remarks. However highly the moral writings of Plutarch have been efteemed, both in antient and modern times, the best apology, perhaps, for a new tranflation of this piece is, that it was intended by the tranflator as a relief to his mind under the lofs of an amiable wife, to whofe brother it is infcribed. The remarks are principally made up of copious extracts from Cicero's Lælius tranflated by Melmoth, from Pope, Milton, &c. &c. Mr. N. tells us (n. 31), that he has fome intention of publifhing the original of this his favourite treatife, in the Correction of which his friend Mr. Wakefield has affifted him. He ao announces as fpeedily to be published by him, aflified by a reverend prelate, a new and improved edition of "Mr. Grey's Supplement to the Tour through Great Britain." 306. The Siege of Berwick, a Tragedy, by Mr. Jerningham, as performed at the Thea tre Royal, Covent Garden. "IN the reign of Edward III. Sir Alexander Seaton refufed to furrender the town of Berwick, even at the peril of lofing his two fons, who, being taken prifoners in a fally, were threatened with immediate death unless the town was delivered up." Mr. J. fuppofes the two funs of Seaton to have been taken, and permitted to come back to their father, to tell him that unless he agreed to furrender the town, they were to be bound to pillars and expofed to the arrows of the garrifon. In the mean time the governor makes a fally, fights and kills the enemy's general, and refcues his fons. The management of the tragedy is as ufual; and we obferve that Mr. J. adopts a different meafure in his lines from what other play-writers have been accustomed to do. The prologue and epilogue are both of his own writing, and the play is dedicated to Mrs. Pope, in compliment to her good acting in the part of the governor's lady. In the epilogue the author pays the following compliment to his country: "Goes your complaint to this-that we display A tale unfuited to the modern day?, Does this fam'd inland then produce no more The bright atchievements of the days of yore? Avert thethought!-ftill antient glory tow'rs, And warm heroic virtue ftill is ours. 307. Corrections in the Review of Stonehenge, a Poem. P. 913, note, 1. 1, read Sir William serningham. L. from bottom, for set r. fought; . 5, for dam r. dome; 1. 7, for me with r. with me. P. 924, col. 1. 1, 23, r. Modern Art "quits; 1. 6, for chief r. chiefs. Col. 2, 1, 22, for now r. no; 1. 32, for forget r. forgets. *** F. 932, for " twice. Lezou,” r. Lerou," |