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created by a gloomy atmosphere, and from the sufferings occasioned by inclement skies. The hearts of the benevolent will be induced, by their own feelings, to extend this preservation and relief to others, and guard them from those sufferings. This they will also do upon the higher and better principles of obedience and gratitude to Him by whom they are entrusted with the power to dispense his bounties. So shall every returning season bring them its proper pleasures, and its blessings. And this in particular, which completes the important space of time by which human life is measured, shall dispose them to the pursuit, and secure theattainment, of eternal happiness in a future state: for a few years will terminate all our enjoyments here, and close our eyes on the most enchanting scenes the earth can exhibit. Yours, &c. W. B.

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Mr. URBAN, Islington, Dec. 14. AVING lately observed that Capt. Manley has exhibited an invention for the relief of ships in distress, by means of a ball and rope thrown from a mortar on shore; for which invention he has been rewarded by a Parliamentary grant of £2000.; I hope, that with your well-known candour and impartiality, you will allow me to state, that, with the exception of a small, and not necessary addition, the invention originated with me: and was by me gratuitously communicated to the pub

His unerring will decides,

What is good or ill for thee.
On this truth eternal stand,
All events of future date,
Whether he with-holds or sends

A prosperous or an adverse fate.
Soon shall all terrestrial scenes

Pass away, and be no more; Soon shall we, who now survive, Follow those who liv'd before. Many a distant year elaps'd,

All their joys and griefs repos'd,
In the silent grave they sleep,
Where their tranquil days were clos'à :
Rest, till the celestial morn

Shall dispel the shades of night,
Wake the tenants of the tomb,
To the blissful scenes of light.

written in the Summer, on one of the most beautiful spots in this village, where every scene is extremely interesting to me, and adapted to the tenderest impressions of rural objects; which are confirmed and peculiarly augmented by their having been the subjects of a last letter (as it proves) to my dear departed son, of whose death I received the mournful intelligence a few days after that letter was dispatched.

The balmy sweetness of the early flowers, and fresh verdure of the Spring, the luxuriant foliage, the cooling shades, and reviving breezes of Summer, the rich and variegated tints of the fading leaves, and abundant produce of the Autumn, have successively afforded us (exclusive of all other advantages) a series of the purest and most refined pleasures, to charm and elevate the mind: Winter now arrives, with its stormy winds, its beating rains, and impetuous floods, to desolate the beauties of the preceding seasons, and put a period to the year. In this final stage of its existence, and under its expected rigours, we shall find the shelter of a warm and substantial dwelling, like the solid principles of Religion, in the final stage of our existence here, essential to our comfort and support. The appropriate pleasures of the advancing season of festivity, like the hope of those celestial joys which 66 are set before us," are also materially conducive to preserve or relieve us from the depression of spirits

From yon venerable tower,

Heard the chiming bells proclaim, This the Sabbath of your God;

Here adore his Holy name.
Here your grateful praises bring,

For the mercies he hath shewn ;
Here your fervent prayers shall gain,
All you hope to call your own.
So shall blessings crown your toils;
Anxious cares and troubles cease
Pleasure shall attend your steps;

Lead you to the paths of peace*.
Azure skies and fruitful showers
Shall revolving seasons give;
Comfort and content are theirs,
Who his faithful servants live.
Wealth and honours, pomp and power,
Wait alone on his decree;

Proverbs iii. v. 17.

W. B.

lick, above seven years ago, through the medium of the "Monthly Magazine" for November 1803, in a letter signed with my name.

Capt. Manby's addition to my invention appears to be only a grapple, which I consider as not necessary, for the following reasons: First, if the ball do not exactly reach the ship, the grapple is wholly useless: whereas, according to my original plan, if the ball and rope come any where near the ship, the crew may grapple them from on board. Secondly, if Capt. Manby's ball do reach the ship, in this case too the grapple is nearly useless, because, without its aid, the people on board will, of themselves, be sufficiently alert in catching and securing the rope, as the means of their salvation. At all events, Sir, allowing to Capt. Manby whatever praise may be due to him for his addition of the grapple, which has so fortunately secured to him the Parliamentary grant, I hope, at least, that the impartial Reader will allow me some small share of credit for the original and principal invention.

Sic vos, non vobis......."
Yours, &c.

JOHN CAREY.

Mr. URBAN, Under Salisbury Plain. N my presentation to the living

"This Hill, though once a rugged spot,
And deem'd uufit for tillage,
Is now become the poor man's lot,
And Garden of the Village."
ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION,

No. CLI.

Pointed Style of Architecture, during the reign of Henry VI., &c. and Henry VII. continued. ST. George's Chapel, Windsor, erection to Edward IV. therefore we may well enter upon it in discussion, as an example succeeding that of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Comparatively, St. George's Chapel, in the external lines, is rather of a plain cast: the West front is chiefly made out by the West window, which is worked with fifteen divisions of mullions, and six tier of transoms, combining with the tracery in the arched head, to give the whole filling-in a pure architectural character. In the dado,

the door of entrance, and on each side of the door, compartments. Above the arch of the window, three niches, and on each side of the said window octangular turrets, King's College Chapel wise; but their faces wholly without decoration, except at the finish, where is found battlements, &c. The continuance of this Front, in the exterior of the ailes

ON side, I found North and South, is likewise of the

about six acres of my glebe land incumbered with furze, &c. of no value whatever, and indeed a bone of contention between the poor, which of them should have most of the produce for fuel, to which they had no sort of right. As this ground sloped towards the South, and appeared to be a rich sandy loam, I gave it to the poor for one year for cleansing. A very luxuriant crop of - potatoes rewarded their industry. I have now divided it between the same people, who pay me after the rate of 4. per acre, and express themselves obliged beyond measure.

I have been thus particular, thinking it may be the means of inducing other Clergymen, so situated, to benefit themselves, and their poor parishioners.

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same plain aspect.

South Front. Buttresses are still retained to the aile story, but are dispensed with in the window story of the nave; flying buttresses make a part of the work, they springing from the aile story, to the piers of the nave story. The mullions and tracery of the windows architectural: the battlements to the aile, and parapet to the nave stories, perforated. The octangular chapels, by way of transepts, and those others of the like plan, at the Western extremity, have no decoration of any kind at their angles. At present, the finish to the buttresses, and pinnacles to the parapets, is stunted off: in Hollar's Views the work was complete, each having an iron vane, or small banner of arms, set up for that purpose; and if my memory is not very treacherous, 1, in my early years, wit

* Known by the name of Furze Hill,

nessed

nessed appearances of this sort. A series of vanes on such decorations was, at the period of Architecture under our discussion, a common and appropriate distinction, and with those studious in these matters this assertion will have its due weight: but we are hastening to a more important part of our Rise and Progress, when this article of embellishment will be taken up on a more direct point of investigation, and by one so lately called upon for that purpose in this Miscellany *. The heads of the several windows have the conjunctive sweep.

Interior. This Chapel could not have been finished until the middle of the reign of Henry VII. as is so conspicuous by its style, and as Sir Reginald Bray, Architect and Privy Councellor to Henry, had so great a share in the undertaking. If it is held that the exterior is not remarkable for high adornment, the interior in this respect is amply gone into; as every face of the walls is wrought with superb enrichment, either architectural or ornamental. The clusters of columns for the springing of the groins are minute, as at King's College the transoms to the windows have each a line of small battlements. At the cills of the windows, a succession of half angels with shields, serving as a kind of entablature: a strong character át this period. Below the angels, to the point of the arches of the side ailes, the space contains compartments: the ogee head of the arches belonging to them, worked right and left into small circular ditto, another strong feature, and run into most spaces that required enrichment necessary to accord with the rest of the design. The architraves to the arches, like the small clusters of columns, with their capitals, are but little attended to, as every exertion was bestowed on the more interesting portion of the building (as it should seem), the groins. To speak, therefore, of the groinwork of this Chapel, more immediately in the nave and choir, they are of a composure peculiar to the building; the general construction, or great outline of which, spring in their ribs, and diverge as usual to a longitudinal line, not a centrical line,

* See p. 239.

as was the general practice, but preparatory to that in the centre. This line, therefore, the centrical one, and the other correspondent to it, contain within their bounds, from the natural direction of the ribs, a variety of circular (great and small) and triangular compartments; each of the longitudinal fines embellished, at the several intersections of the forms breaking in upon them, with innumerable ornamental devices, both religious, and of the Tudor cast (confirmation that Henry did much here) in crowns, roses, portcullises, fleurde-lis, &c.

In the choir, the groin-work takes some variation in point of superior enrichments, as the great circular combination of compartments, bearing in horizontal line with the centre of each pier, is dropped down into a pendentive, , or hanging inverted sweeping pinacle: another character of Tudor originality. In the side ailes, the groins are in the entire Tudor mode, with half circles, which, at their centrical junctions, produce in the spandrels a small circular compartment. The half circles of these groins are in two tier of compartments.

The late window and monumental innovations have already been descanted upon (see vol. LXXV.'p. 819.)

The stalls in the choir are of the most elaborate and curious contrived forms (they rising in canopy above canopy) that we have left among us.

Henry the VIIth's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Again let me quote from Ward's "London Spy." "It is the admiration of the universe, such inimitable perfection appears in every part of the whole composure, which looks so far exceeding human excellence, that it appears knit together by the fingers of Angels, pursuant to the direction of Omnipotence!" And until of late, it was hailed as one of the "Wonders of the World." Be this as it may, others there are, who seem to behold the Chapel for no other purpose, but to counsel how they may mutilate and destroy certain parts, in order (as it is given out) that they may have an opportunity of restoring (that is, disfiguring) the original features of the design. We feel its powers with other sensations: the illustration thereof being connected with this

stage

stage of our Progress, will answer the best purpose, as the "composure" before us had arrived to the utmost stretch of art; in truth, it went no farther the bow of Genius broke; Novelty hurried on the fatal hour, and all became one Architectural night!

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Plan: an oblong of five divisions; at the West front, a porch, or tipple entrance; at the East front, three cants of an octagon: the four first divisions, North and South sides, have ailes, the fifth has ailes also, and the three cants are done into small chapels. Thus far the plan has produced some new ideas, as is found in the porch, and the side ailes, they being stopped in their circuit round the Eastern end of the Chapel. The other novel particulars are the windows, which project from the line of wall; the four first (side ailes) take half circles, or bows, and the five others (Eastern circle) each are run out into angular bows. In lieu of buttresses, octangular turrets are raised between each window.

Exterior West Front. The porch has three arches, entering from the Eastern aile of the choir of the Abbey Church, from which rise a flight of steps to a landing, giving the pass, right and left, to the side ailes, and in front, to the three entrances into the Chapel. The cieling is an arched head (new character), and, with the side walls, is entirely filled with small compartments. By the refined skill of the Architect, Sir Reginald Bray, but a small portion of light is admitted, in order that, by such an admirably contrived dark fore-ground, the blaze of the Chapel itself might rush upon the senses of visitors with the greater effect, at once to inspire awe and sacred admiration! My friend John Carter has just informed me, that the master workman to the Chapel's restorations, as they are termed, observed to him a few days past, that he was "bringing about every means to give more light to the porch, but he had hitherto been baffled in each contrivance; one of which was, to knock up for the purpose a sky-light in the centre of the arched cieling!" The West window takes in the whole width of the Chapel, and is a most noble and interesting work; fifteen divisions of mullions, and five heights

of transoms. The tracery is in continuation, filling-in the arched head with architectural forms. On each side the window, octangular turrets (containing staircases) their upper parts full of compartments; which upper parts have lately been destroyed.

South side. The four first circular windows (bows) have flat or square heads (new character) divided by mullions into ten small divisions, the heights are on four tiers of transoms indeed the windows are literally a combination of the small Todor compartments, perforated into lights, to contain the glass, &c. The dado is in two stories, filled with square diamonds, and eight turned sweep compartments. The space above the head of the windows, filled with compartments. Parapet destroyed. The other windows, in angular bows, are in their lights worked similar to the succeeding ones. The windows to the upper story of the Chapel are, in the usual way, raised with a Pointed head, five divisions of mullions, and three tiers of transoms ; the tracery architectural. The space above the windows, filled with compartments in three tiers, of the most rich and delicate work: the parapet destroyed. The several turrets, in their heights, have the faces filled with corresponding compartments, dados and spaces, to the aile windows, as far as where the parapet commenced; they then take a dado of their own, as preparatory to niches, which niches, in their canopies, rise to the finish of the turrets, turned off with an ogee cap, or cupola; the extreme point destroyed. As the form of this extreme point has caused much speculation, in what manner it was originally carried up, I shall wave my opinion, as it is expected J. Carter, in his survey of the present restorations, will give some light into this problematical business. The statues in the niches destroyed. From each turret springs to the piers of upper windows, flying buttresses, composed of two arches, one pedimental and one ogee cornice to them between the two arches, a most beautiful perforation of circular compartments.

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East front. A continuation, in the octangular finish of the Chapel, of all the particulars brought forward, on the South side; which, taken to

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Yours, &c. "Madam,

I. I. C.

"Since Anna visited the Muses' seat, (Around her tomb let weeping Angels wait) Hail thou, the brightest of thy sex, and best; [come guest. Most gracious neighbour *, and most welNot Harley's self, to Cam and Isis dear, In virtues, and in arts, great Oxford's heir; Not he such present honours shall receive, As to his Consort we aspire to give.

gether, afford a design the most magnificent, and of a cast wholly new and extraordinary.

The mouldings to the plinths and cornices are but few, but those making out the flying buttresses multiplied to a degree beyond precedent. The ornaments are numerous, but extremely minute, and shew the Tudor devices to their fullest extent, without any fanciful display of foliaged ideas, as was so conspicuous on all the preceding

erections.

I cannot conclude this first part of my comments on the Chapel, without adverting to workmen who are, at this inclement season of the year, restoring the Eastern upper great window; I noticed (from the interior) the whole of the mutlions, transoms, and tracery, knocked away from the opening of the window; and when such supports (to say no more of them) of three centuries standing were destroyed, the said opening was left quite unsupported, either by upright timbers or other necessary aids usually applied in the most common undertaking, where original portions of an upright are supposed to want making good, or ahering. AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued.)

Mr. URBAN, Dec. 10. FTER Mr. Prior had published A the folio edition of his Works, he printed, singly, Four Poems: 1. The Conversation, a Tale. II. Colin's Mistakes, written in imitation of Spenser's style. III. Verves spoken to the Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley, in the Library of st. John's college, Cambridge, Nov. 9, 1719. IV. Prologue to the Orphan, represented by some of the Westminster Scholars, at Hickford's Dancingroom, Feb. 2, 1719-20, spoken by the Lord Duplin. It is extraordinary, that this third poem should never have appeared in any recent edition of his works that I have seen *. It

*This pleasing Poem was incorporated, in 1779, by the Writer of the present Note, with the concurreace of Dr. Johnson, in the Collection of the English Poets at that time undertaken by the London Booksellers; as, at the same time, were several other detached Poems of Mr. Prior. See our vol. XLIX. p. 551. EDIT,

"Writings of men, our Muse to day
neglects,

To pay due homage to the softer sex:
Plato and Tully we forbear to read,
And their great followers, whom this konse
has bred,

To study lessons from thy morals given,
And shining characters impress'd by Hea-

ven.

Science in books no longer we pursue,
Minerva's self in Harret's lace we view.
For when with Beauty we can Vartue join,
We paint the semblance of a form divine.
"Their pious incense let our neighbours

bring,

[King;

To the kind memory of some bounteous With grateful hand, due stars let them [praise;

raise,

claim;

To some good Knight's, or holy Prelate's+
We tune our voices to a nooler theme:
Your eyes we bless, your praises we pro-
[name.
Saint John's was founded in a Woman's
Enjoin'd by statute, to the Fair we bow,
In spite of time. we keep our antient vow;
What Margaret fuder was, is Harriet
Harley now."

Epitaph on DRYANDER, by a Friend
und Admirer, to whom he gave the
last book in SiR JOSEPH BANKS'S
Library, before he left it for ever,
See an account of him, p. 398.
"Bencash this bunable tombstone lie
The mouider ng bone of honest Dry,
A learnd Swede of Linné's school,
Long used o er Botany to rule,
Plantarum genera, et speciis,
Varieties ud usque decies.

Full many an author well he knew,
From Tournefort to Jussieu ;
Gerarde and Johnson, and all such;
From Tabermontan, in High Dutch,
Down to the secrets which we come by
in the receipts of Mother Bumby
For current Coins he well could barter,
Whether Chinese, of Municheow Tartar;

* The seat of this noble family is at Wimpole, in Cambridgeshire.

+ Sir Thomas White was the Founder of St. John's College, Oxtord; and their greatest benefactor, next to him, was Archbishop Laud.

Persic,

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