The account; only, in the language of arithmeticians, it is of a higher denomination. These however were private connections, which perhaps are beneath the notice of the public. But you had fome friendships of a higher kind, which involved objects the most important and momentous, the dignity of the Monarch, the welfare of the people. The effect of fuch a connexion we are entitled to trace, and it is probable your pride will be flattered while we trace it. You derived this, like other diftinctions, from a female title; and had it been exercifed only on female subjects, the petits Joupers of C-n or C -d Houfe, or had it only regulated the business of Brooks's or New-market, we should have looked on it as one of thofe trivial connexions, thofe humours of his idleness,' which, though ferious men might regret, it were rather cynical to blame. But you were almost the fingle member of his cabinet, when fubjects of the highest moment were agitated; fubjects, that were to mark his character as a fon, a p-e, and citizen. With eafy natures, and at a certain time of life, to be counfelled, is to be governed; you are therefore refponfible for the conduct of your illuftrious friend in all thefe characters. As to filial obligations, I am willing to allow, that from your own mind or conduct you could not eafily draw conceptions of their force; but poffeffing the imagination of a poet, you might have created a chara&er you never felt, and made your friend fome what a different fon to a father more indulgent than yours. In a public capacity it were an irkfome and ungracious tafk to retrace that conduct which you prompted, and would recall to our remembrance a period of national fear and uneafinefs which, we hope, no future time will equal. There were, however, fome advantages derived from thofe evils. Virtues and talents were dif played on which the people could build future truft; on both fides were fuch virtues and talents exhibited; the D. of Pd, with an integrity and a spirit worthy of his high character, fhewed that there were conditions on which he would not sloop to hold the highest station of the empire. In this intended first public act of adminiftration in which “ your little bark was to fail attendant, was to « Pursue the triumph and partake the gale.” It was not the money which the people regarded; to have paid your debts as an individual was a calculable expence on the revenue; but to have paid them as the debts of a copartnery, was as humiliating as it was corrupt, and led to an idea of connection, of which the danger could not be calculated. It has been the fashion of late to make allufions from a great ancient to a great modern name; and the hero of Agincourt has been quoted in vindication of youthful levities which maturer age is to cure. Have you had no part in this dramatic allufion? "Rob me the Exchequer the first thing you do." But you have lefs comedy in your figure, and more seriousness in your designs than Falftaff; and therefore fuch an advice from you excited graver emotions. In the fociety of diffipation, a young man risks more than his money; he ftakes his feeling, his principle, his fenfe of private virtue, and of public duty. But you are fkilful in the ridicule of fentiment, and will perhaps laugh at this as the cant of hypocrify. But no-you have of late affumed that tone yourself, and have preached from the Manager's box in WestminsterHall, and from your place in the Houfe of Commons. In WeftminsterHall, indeed, your fpeeches were exhibitions merely; and when you declaimed against ambition, venality, and the filial inhumanity of the Begum's ion, we conceived no more relation between the fpeech and the speaker Speaker than when mild Mr Benley perfonates a murderer, or honeft Mr Parfons reprefents a pickpocket. But do not carry this matter too far. An establishment of virtues is expenfive, and may puzzle even you to keep. In the Houfe of Commons, and applied perfonally to yourself, you must beware of talking fo much of the danger of lotteries and gaming, and of the confcioufnefs of honour, of principle, and of virtue. I know you don't allow much penetration to the country gentlemen; but they have memories, and know the meaning of thofe old fashioned country vocables. Be advised, Sir, to fafer pretenfions. Shut up your virtues, like greenhouse plants, to expand only in fun fhine; lock them up, as your friends the tradefmen do their bills, to be dif. charged in more fortunate times. Keep your purity and honour for the Secretaryship at War; or preferve your integrity and economy for the Treafuterfhip of the Navy. BRUTUS Extracts from Pennant's London. Tomb of the Tradefcants. IN the church yard of Lambeth, is a tomb which no naturalift should neglect vifiting, that of old John Tradefcant, who, with his fon, lived in this parish. The elder was the first perfon who ever formed a cabinet of curiofities in this kingdom. The father is faid to have been gardener to Charles I.'; but Parkinfon fays, "fometimes belonging to the right honorable lord Robert_earl "of Salisbury, lord treasurer of Eng 66 ralift hath made more than reparation, by giving to a genus of plants the title of Tradefcantia. The Museum Tradefcantianum, a small book, adorned by the hand of Hollar with the heads of the father and the fon, is a proof of their induftry. It is a catalogue of their vast collection not only of the fubjects of the three kingdoms of nature, but of artificial rarities from great variety of countries. The collection of medals, coins, and other antiquities, appears to have been very valuable. Zoology was in their time but in a low ftate, and credulity far from being extinguished: among the eggs is one fuppofed to have been of the dragon, and another of the griffin. You might have found here two feathers of the tail of the phoenix, and the claw of the ruck, a bird able to truffe an elephant. Notwithstanding this, the collection was extremely valuable, especially in the vegetable kingdom. In his garden, at his house in South Lambeth, was an amazing arrangement of trees, plants, and flowers. It seems to have been particularly rich in thofe of the east, plants were called after his name: and of North America. His merit thefe the Linnæan fyftem has render- and affiduity must have been very ed almoft obfolete: bu: the great natu- great; for the eaftern traveller muit 66 land in his time; and then unto "the right honourable the lord Wot"ton, at Canterbury, in Kent; and laftly unto the late Duke of Buck"ingham." Both father and fon were great travellers: the father is fuppofed to have visited Ruffia and moft parts of Europe, Turky, Greece, many of the eastern countries, Egypt, and Barbary; out of which he introduced multitudes of plantsand flowers, unknown before in our kingdom. His was an age of florifts: the chief ornaments of the parterres were owing to his labours. Parkinfon continually acknowledges the obligation Many 3 F 2 have The have labored under great difficulties which evidently were introduced here by the induftrious founder. collection of curiofities were removed by Mr Afhmole, to his Museum at Oxford, where they are carefully preferved. Many very curious articles are to be feen; among others, feveral original dreffes and weapons of the North Americans, in their o riginal state, which may in fome period prove ferviceable in illuftrating their mnaners and antiquities. from the barbarity of the country and North America had in his time been but recently fettled. Yet we find the names of numbers of trees and plants ftill among the rarer of much later times. To him we are alfo indebted for the luxury of many fine fruits; for, as Parkinson obferved, "The choyfeft for goodneffe, and "rareft for knowledge, are to be had "of my very good friend Mafter John Tradefcante, who hath won66 derly labored to obtaine all the ra"reft fruits hee can heare off in any place of Christendome, Turky, yea, 66 or the whole world." He lived at a large houfe in this parish, and had an extenfive garden, much vified in his days. After his death, which happened about the year 1652, his collection came into the poffeffion of the famous Mr Elias Ahmole, by virtue of a deed of gift which Mr Tradefcant, junior, had made to him of all his rarities, in true aftrological form, being dated December 15, 1657, 5 hor. 30 minutes poft merid. Mr Afhmole alfo purchafed the houfe, which is ftill in being; the garden fell to decay. In the year 1749, it was vifited by two refpectable members of the Royal Society, who found among the ruins fome trees and plants, The monument of the Tradefcants was erected in 1662, by Hetter, relist of the younger. It is an altar tomb at each corner is cut a large tree, feeming to fupport the flab : at one end is an hydra picking at a bare fcull, poffibly defigned as an emblem of Envy; on the other end are the arms of the family on one fide are ruins, Grecian pillars, and capitals; an obelisk and pyramid, to denote the extent of his travels: and on the oppofite, a crocodile, and various fhells, expreffive of his attention to the study of natural hiftory. Time had greatly injured this monument; but in 1773 it was handfomely restored, at the parish expence; and the infcription, which was originally defigned for it, engraven on the ftone. As it is both fingular and historical, I prefent it to the reader : Know, ftranger, ere thou pafs, beneath this ftone. Liv'd till they had travell'd Art and Nature through, Of what is rare, in land, in fea, in air: Henry Henry VII. his Chapel in Westminfter Abbey. In order of time I must pass into the beautiful chapel of Henry VII. nearly the rival in elegance with that of King's College, Cambridge. Who can look at the roof of either without the highest admiration! Henry, finding the chapel of the Confeffor too much crouded to receive any more princes, determined on the building of this. That of the Virgin was facrificed to it; alfo an adjacent tavern, diftinguithed by the popular Gign of the White Rote. Abbot Ilip, on the part of the king, laid the first ftone on February 11th, 150. The royal mifer fcrupled no expence in this piece of vanity. By his will it appears, that he exprefsly intended it as the mausoleum of him and his house, and that none but the blood royal fhould be interred in this magnificent foundation. It was built at the expence of fourteen thousand pounds. In the body of this chapel is the fuperb tomb, the work of Pietro Torregiano, a Florentine fculptor; who had, for his labor and the materials, one thousand pounds. This admirable artift continued in London till the completion of his work in 1519. But the reigning prince and Torregiano were of tempers equally turbulent, fo they foon separated. To him is attributed the altar tomb of Margeret countess of Richmond, with her figure recumbent in brafs. Henry VII. had made a special provifion for this tomb in his will, for the images and various other ornaments, which were to decorate this his place of ref. The tomb itself is, as he directed, made of a hard Bafaltic ftone, called in the language of thofe days Touche. The figures contained in the fix bas reliefs in brafs on the fides, are strong proofs of the skill of the artist. The figures fuit the fuperftition of the times: St Michael and the devil, joined with the Virgin Mary and Child St George with St Anthony, 3 F2 and his pig: St Chriftopher, and perhaps St Ann: Edward the Confeffor, and a Benedictine monk: Mary Magdalen, and St Barbara : One pretence is and feveral others. a refpect to his grandmother, whofe bones he left flung into an ordinary cheft. He and his quiet neglected queen lie in brafs on an altar tomb within the beautiful brazen precinct; his face refembles all his portraits. I have feen a model, a still stronger likepefs, in poffeffion of Mr Walpole; a buft in tone taken from his face immediately after his death. A stronger reluctance to quit the poffeffions of this world could never be expreffed on the countenance of the most griping mortal, The peaceful pedant James I, his amiable Henry, and the royal rakish Charles, the fecond of the name; the fullen mii-treated hero William, his royal confort the patient Mary, Anne, glorious in her generals, and George II. repofe within the royal vault of this chapel. No monument blazons their virtues it is left to history to record the busy, and often empty tale of majesty. George I. was buried at Hanover; his fon caufed a vault to be made in this for himself, his Caroline, and family, and directed the fide-board of her coffin, and that of his own (when his hour came) to be conftructed in fuch a manner as to be removed, fo that their loving duft might intermingle, Palace of Whitehall. Immediately beyond Canon Row began the vast palace of Whitehall, which was originally built by Hubert de Burgh earl of Kent, the great, the perfecuted jufticiary of England, in the reign of Henry III. He bequeathed it to the Black Friars in Holborn, and they difpofed of it to Walter de Gray archbishop of York, in 1248. It became for centuries the refidence of the prelates of that fee, and was ftiled York-house. In it Wolfey took his final leave of greatnefs. The profufion of rich things; hangings of cloth of gold and of filver; thousands of pieces of fine Holland; the quantities of plate, even of pure gold, which covered two great tables, (all of which were feized by his cruel rapacious master) are proofs of his amazing wealth, fplendor, and pride. Henry deigned to purchase the palace from his fallen fervant; the ancient palace of Weftminfter having fome time before fuffered greatly by fire. From this time it became the refidence of our princes, till it was almost wholly destroyed by the fame element in 1697. Henry had an uncommon compofition: his favage cruelty could not fupprefs his love of the arts: his love of the arts could not foften his favage cruelty. The prince who could, with the utmost fang froid, burn Catholics and Protettants, take off the heads of the partners of his bed one day, and celebrate new nuptials the next, had, notwithstanding, a strong tafte for refined pleasures. He cultivated architecture and painting, and invited from abroad artists of the first merit. To Holbein was owing the most beautiful gate at Whitehall, built with bricks of two colours, glazed, and difpofed in a teffellated fafhion. The top, as well as that of an elegant tower on each fide, were embattled. On each front were four bufts in baked clay, in proper colcurs, which refif.ed to the last every attack of the weather: poffibly the artificial ftone revived in this century. Thefe, I have lately been informed, are preferved in a private hand. This charming ftructure fell a facrifice to conveniency within my memory as did another in 1723, built at the fame time, but of far inferior beauty. The laft blocked up the road to Kingtreet, and was called King's-gate, Henry built it as a paflage to the park, the tennis-court, bowling green, the cock-pit, and tilting-yard; for he was extremely fond of athletic exercifes; they fuited his ftrength and his temper. It was the intention of William duke of Cumberland, to rebuild the beautiful gate, first mentioned, at the top of the long walk at Windfor, and for that purpose had all the parts and ftones numbered; but unfortunately the defign was never executed. Effex (by his The tilt-yard was equally the delight of his daughter Elizabeth, as fingular a compofition: for, with the trueft patriotism, and most distinguished abilities, were interwoven the greateft vanity, and the most romantic difpofition. Here, in her fixtyfixth year, with wrinkled face, red perriwig, little eyes, hooked nose, fkinny lips, and black teeth, fhe could fuck in the grofs flattery of her fa voured courtiers. fquire) here told her of her beauty and worth. A Dutch Ambassador affured her majefty, that he had undertaken the voyage to fee her majefty, who for beauty and wisdom excelled all other beauties in the world. She laboured at an audience to make Melvil acknowledge that his charming miftrefs was inferior in beauty to herself. The artful Scot evaded her quefiion, She put on a new habit of every foreign nation, each day of audience, to attract his admiration. So fond was the of drefs, that three thousand different habits were found in her wardrobe after her death, Mortify-. ing reflection! in finding fuch alloy in the greatest characters. She was very fond of dancing. I admire the humour the fhewed in ufing this exercife, whenever a meffenger came to her from her fucceffor James. VI. of Scotland: for Sir Roger Afton affures us, that whenever he was to deliver any letters to her from his mafter, on lifting up of the hangings, he was fure to find her dancing to a |