A lefs favourable fpecimen of his talents is preferved in the original language by Crefcimbeni:

Irat, & dolent me partray

S' yeu non vey elt' amour deluench,
E non fay qu'oura la veyray,
Car fon trop noftras terras luench.
Dieu, que fes tout quant ven & vay,
E forma queft' Amour lunch,
My don poder al cor, car hay
Efper veder l'amour de luench.
Segnour, tenes mi per veray
L'Amour, qu'ay vers ella de luench;
Car un ben, que m'en eftay,
Hai mille mals; tatt foy de luench.
In d'autr'amours non jauziray,

S'ye non jaie deft'amour de lunch, Qu' na plus bella non en fay En luce, que fia ny pres ny luench. Folquet de Marfeilles, fon of a rich Genoele merchant, eftablished at the emporium of Provence, was, diftinguished for the elegance of his verfes and the fweetnefs of his voice. He reckoned among his patrons the names

of Alphonfo 11. King of Arragon, Ray

mond V. Count of Tholoufe, and our Lion-hearted Richard*; the latter of whom added to his numerous accomplishments the talent of compofing in the Provençal language. But the court of Beral, Vifcount of Toulouse, was the favourite refidence of our trouba dour, whither he was attracted by the confort of his patron. On the death of his illuftrious friends, which happened at no great intervals of time, he fell in to a religious melancholy, and entered into the order of the Ciftercians. In the new character of prieft he was not lefs diftinguished, but far lefs amiable; and in the exercife of his minifterial of fice, when he afterwards became Bishop of Touloufe, he is reprefented as into lerant, perfidious, and avaritious. Dantet, who perhaps was poffeffed of little Impartiality in the allotment of his poetical rewards and punishments, alligas him a feat in the dwellings of happines; and Petrarch mentions him with equal refpe&t:

Folchetto ch'a Marfiglia il nom ha dato,

Ed a Genoa tolto, & a l'estremu "Cangio' per miglior patria habito e ftato. Trionf. d'Amore, cap. IV. Crefcimbeni prefents us with the following extracts from his poems:

# See Lord Orford's Catalogue of Noble Authors, art, Richard I.

+ Paradifo, canto IX.

GENT. MAG. Qäeber, 1793.

Quant diz hom, qi en sui, & qi ben vai,
Mas cel qel diz non faben qes ben lover,
Eai benenanza: non pod nalh bom bener
De nulla ren, mais daizo cal cor plai,
Per qeu vam mas un paubres per iois,
Dun rie fei joi qes tot lan confiros, &c.
Si fet me fui a tard aperceubay,
Aifi cum eel qa tot perdut & jura
Qa mais non joe. A gran bonaventura
Men dei tener, car men foi conogatz
Del grant enian, qamor vas me fazia,
Qa bel femblant ma tengut en fadia.
Mais de dex ans a lei de inal debtor,
Qades promet mas an non pesaria.
Qa bels femblanz que fals amor aduż
Setrai vas lei fols amanz e fatura,
Qel farfollon, qua tan fola natura,
Qes fen al foc per la clartat qe luz.
Mas en men part e fegrai autra via,
Qom mal pagaz queftieres na men partira,
E fegrei laib de tot bon fofridor, &c.
Donna fperanza e paar ai de vos;
As men conort & cran fai de nes.
Yours, &c.

A NATURALIST'S STRAY.

FAINTING under the fatigue of

travelling, on the 25th of laft Joly, along the burning fands of the road leading from Gofport to the capital, I turned afide to feek relief beneath the opacous umbrage of the pines fet thirty years fince by the hero of Culloden. In that wood prevails perpetual even ing; its fombrous awning intervening between the zenith and the earth, and its ever-verdant underwood excluding the horizontal rays: dorr-hawks (caprimulgus europeus) love it; and moths enjoy it: dorr-chaffers leave the neighbouring fern-beds for it, and within the darksome interfices fail victims to the hunger of the dorr-hawks; a young bird of which fpecies I beheld devouting them. Horfe-emmets, in crowded columns, marched acrofs my path, and flies, in an infinite variety, affailed my perfon; but, undaunted, I purfued the undulating way before me, admiring and comparing, as I glided cautious on the flippery ward, the varied forms, tints, and cones, of nearly all the kinds of coniferous trees known in England. I was amuted by fquirrels leaping from bough to bough, and by rabbets feud. ding beneath the yews and laurels; the rufiling thus occafioned, and the unceafing buzzing of the flies and beeties, were the only intrufions on the filence of the fcene; for the plumy people and the winds were mute. A profufion

of Peruvian funs (bypericum calycinum*) diffufed their rays upon my path, and the odorous exhalations of the firs revived my ftrength. Thus infpirited I gained the fummit of Shrubs-hill. Sudden, I burst into the blaze of day! and feemingly into the middle region of the atmosphere, I beheld a towering edi fice, and a view of heaven, earth, and water. The Belvidere will long perpetuate the memory of the illuftrious prince who raifed it; and the twentythree thoufand trees befide it will enable a future prince to fay, with Solomon, The beams of our houfe are cedar, and our rafters of fir." I afcended to the parapets of the tower, and looked afar, methought I faw the awful dome of St. Paul's, and the venerable minarets of Westminster, in the clouds: the limits of the profpect were too extensive to fcan with perfpicuity; therefore I withdrew my obfervation nearer to my ftation, and confined it to mine own particular purfuit. I noticed deer basking in the fun; I faw ftrings of wood-pigeons circling around the pinnacles of the pine-wood; and I marked fish-devouring herons impelling their feathered fails from the neighbouring heronry to the capacious lake that fills the valley's womb. This lake was a fplendid mirror at that time, when moft meaner refervoirs were dry; notwithstanding the margins want the fringe of thofe aquatic plants that check the flow and retard the evaporation of the pellucid element. A fisherman of the meres would fmile at my denominating the Virginia water a lake, but he would admire that an excavation fix miles in circumference should be preferved in plenteous and perennial replenishment by a mere ftreamlet. My admiration at the circumftance was fuch, that I made an endeavour to trace the ftreamlet to its fource, but I became loft in the receffes of a foreft. I traverfed waffes that exhibited an uncommon appear ance; the late fulminating heat having rendered the fward perfe&ly exanguious, whilft the beds of fern and tufts of furze continued particularly verdurous. At length two rows of aged holms guided me to Cranbourn; the wood adjacent fhowered down leaves. I gazed aloft, and difcovered the unufual incident to have arifen from the injury the foliage had received from blights. Gil

One of the few plants that will flower

under trees.

5

Pin has pronounced these trees the finest in Windfor foreft †, but they are advancing rapidly in decay, and perhaps their decline has been accelerated by the ill-advised step that was taken about fix years ago with a view of preventing the trees from being ftolen. The meafure was, cutting a fquare piece out of the trunk of every tree, and fearing the foreft mark on the main wood within the cavities. The bark of fome has fwelled a ljule, but it will be found in the end that every tree has received its death wound. Forfyth's compofition might retard the decay, if it could efcape being rubbed off by idlers and animals: but fuch a hope cannot be entertained. As I have alluded to Mr. Gilpin's mention of Windfor Forest, I muft add, in justice to scenes that much delighted me, that, notwithstanding my prejudice in favour of his works, I think he has been very precipitate, as well as very faftidious, in faying that there is litle fcenery left here. He has also done amifs in not naming the abbey, at which, he fays, the Conqueror used to fleep when he had been hunting hereabouts.

To have paffed Cranbourn Lodge, without viewing the infide, would have been the act of ftupidity. I craved admittance, and obtained it. In the hall I furveyed the models of Fort William in Scotland, and of Life in Flanders. Above ftairs, I paraded along the Soldier's Gallery, in front of horse and foot warriors of every nation, depictured in their various uniforms; but the fight of them, and of fome battle-pieces, reminding me of the horrid fcenes trans acting on the continent, I preferred contemplating the peaceful woods and happy plains of Berkshire, of which the windows of the lodge command a grand view. As lord-warden of Windfor Foreft, the Duke of Gloucester holds this lodge for life; but, his royal highnefs preferring to it another that he has in New Forett, this ftands unoccupied and unfurnished; infomuch that there are few chattels in it, but the heirlooms left by William Duke of Cumberland, who refided here. Of thefe, the models and military paintings are fome, others are a reprefentation of the Spanish gold works, rendered motory by clock-work, a few pictures, that greatly want restoration, and fome foreign arms ornamented with feel-work, ivery, and false

"Forest Stenéry," vòl. I. p. zzz. gems;

gems; all which curiofities I leave to be more particularly defcribed in the hundredth and fixty-third volume of The Gentleman's Magazine, by an an tiquary vet to be begotten. Cranbourn house and park was formerly the domain of the Earl of Ranelagh, who endowed the free-fchool that terminates the noble vifta in front.

A naturalift may be certain of find ing himself enchanted in a foreft; for Tome enchanting object or other, fome allurement congenial to his tafte, is fure to entice him into devious paths, and caufe him to fo get his original engagements and purfuits; fo happened it to me. At Cranbourne I relinquished the intention of meandering farther after the fiream, because I had fellow-travellers expecting my return to the Wheattheaf inn near the pine wood; but, behold! when 1 defcended down upon, Winkfield plain among the cattle, an enchanter, in the form of a herdsman, put me upon the fcent of a woodcock. The fcent was irretiftible, and I fet out upon it a way quite oppofite to the one -leading to the Wheatsheaf. I paffed at fome distance a new houfe that is being built by a female botanist, on a plan hogularly tasteful and commodious: the Southern part is to be a winter repofitory for plants, and the Northern a fummer dwelling for the lady; the idea pleafed me exceedingly, but I hope the gardener will be watchful of the flues and ftoves. Botany is one of the most useful, rational, healthful, and reputable, amufements a lady can attach herself to; therefore, oh! ye winds, infects, damps, and frofts, enter not into this greenhoufe! I also went in fight of Fernhill, a handfome feat formerly the property of Sir Francis Knollys, the laft baronet of that name; when his widow died, the crown took poffeffion of it as an efcheat till the law fhould afcertain the right bear; a point that was last *Spring determined in favour of a refpectable Smithfield butcher, and of a gentlewoman, who has lived hitherto upon a hundred a year, and is now, at the age of feventy-odd, come into pof.. feffion of eighteen hundred per annum ! It is remarkable, that this fame lady bas a claim on the Angel eftate in this foret, the title to which has been liti gared by other claimants one with the other feveral years. When I was in formed of this, I faid unto myself, -quotha! this good old lady wil fetch out her arm from the Eastern boundary

of the foreft to the Weftern; from the Northern to the Southern will the extend her claims. I wish I were of kin to her; but, although I am not, it is my hope, that he may fnatch from the rooks their prey, and obtain the valves of the oifter whilft fome part of the animal remains

within them.

I was now got into a very long and very hot lane, in which was fhewn me a crazy houfe that has been a public one, known by the fign of the Golden Hatchet; at which Queen Anne used fometimes to eat bread and cheefe when fatigued with riding. This lane brought me into another country; the face of Nature had changed fuddenly; I had left a park-like fcene, and I emerged into a heathy wild. The adventitious circumftances of every prefent element was changed. The foil was of another quality, the water of another colour, and the air of another fcent. The alteration was unforeseen, by reafon that the hedges of the lane had bound meadows and corn-fields. I was bound to Bracknall, and the unlimited appearance of Afcot-heath evinced it to be almoft impoffible for a wandering ftranger to find his way to fe obfcure a place without a guidd. A thepherd-boy lay lounging on the blooming heath-Robs, and him I engaged to render me the fervice needed. The natural fubject to begin a converfation on with a fhepherd was heep, a fubject on which I made no doubt a fhepherd would prove converfible; but my companion was one of thofe fort of lads who fhew a referve which one knows not whether to impute to fulkinefs, flynefs, ftupidity, or hynefs: he feemed counter-part, or own brother, to the wire-haired brindied cur that followed him: the oaf never grinned once; and a grin upon the countenance of a clown exp effes the fame trait as is marked by a dimple on the cheek of a belle. Although I know he was thinking all the way of the tefter he was to have, he appeared to accompany me with unwillingnets, as if he was rendering me an incompensable favour. This was fupercilioufnefs in ruftic life. However, by dint of afking queftions, and exerting patience, I learnt, that the fmall fheep feeding upon thefe wild. yield more wool than the Wiltshire fheep, by reafon that their belles are woolly; and that 16 or 17 of them afford a tod of excellent wool. They are hardy, being seldom taken up but when intended to be feared or fold.

Their flesh is fweet, partaking of the nature of the Baghot mutton; but the best, like the best of all other good things, is fold away to diftant places. Arrived at Bracknall, I immediately

difmiffed my guide, who took the promifed fix-pence without faying a word; a bow he could not make, by reafon the covering of his head had lost its brim. (To be continued.)

THE

H. OF LORDS.
March 20.

HE Duke of Clarence prefented, a petition from the Weft-India planters refident in England, and another from the fhip-owners and merchants of Liverpool, to defer the revival of the confideration of the abolition of the flave-trade, which flood the order of the day for to-morrow, until Wednefday, the 10th day of April. His Royal Highness concluded with a motion to defer the queftion accordingly; which was agreed to.

In the Commons, the fame day, the Houfe balloted for a Committee on the Sudbury election.

Report was made from the Ludgerfhall Election Committee in favour of the fitting members.

Mr. Bafard brought up the report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the cafe of Mr. Petrie, the petition ing candidate in the Cricklade election, who had been arrested; and moved, that he be discharged out of the cuftody of the theriff of Middlefex, which was carried unanimoufly.

H., O F LORDS.

Their Lordships read a few private bills, and heard counfel farther in the cafe of Lord Daer.

In the Commons, the fame day, report was made from the Sudbury Cominite, that Mr. J. C. Hippifley was duly elected, and that Mr. Smith's petition was not frivolous or vexatious.

H. OF LORDS.
March 22.

The Duke of Norfolk, after a few icords relative to canals, moved, that the execution of the Standing Orders of the 11th of March fhould be difpenfed with during the prefent feffion of pafliament. The motion was agreed to,

In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Yorke prefented a bill relating to the conduct of returning officers on elections