"Think of had much better be filent. Extras from the Parish Regifler of 106 Glamorganshire Longevity.-Milton's MS.-The Wisemans. [Feb. drink nothing but water in general: above once a week, feldom or never mány families never eat any animal food quors are almoft unknown except to ufe any malt liquors, and fpirituous lifome of the richer inhabitants. The cottages are well-built of stone, and thatched, and are very frequently whitewashed with new flone-lime within and without. Cleanly habits prevail, and flannel is generally worn next the body. The fea air from the South is fuppofed to contribute much to health. Howard, in one of his publications (I washing with new ftone-lime, as one of remember) highly recommends whitethe very best prefervatives against infection, and of health. "I VAN YORATH, buried a Saterdaye, the xvii (day of the month not very legiBe daye of July, anno Doni-1621, et anno regni regis vicefimo primo, annoq; ætatis circa 180. He was a fouldier in the fight of Bofwoorthe, and lived at Lantwitt Major, and he lived much by fishing." JOHN SHERREY was buried the vijth daye of December, anno Dom. 1623, age 102." In another place, the fame person is thus registered in Latin: "JOHANNES SHERREY, fepultus fuit sep timo die Decembris, anno Domini 1624. Etat. circa 104." "ELIZABETH YEORATH, the wife of Edmund Thomas, was buried the 13th day of February, in the year of our Lord God 1683, age 177." There are other inftances of longevity in the fame Register. This parish, and the neighbourhood for many miles around, have afforded many remarkable inftances of very great age within the memory of many living. In the belfry at Lantwit Major there is an infcrip. tion, on a blue marble flab, with the age 129, the name Matthew Vafs. The adjoining parith, to the North, of Lif worney, has feveral infcriptions with ages of 100. In the parish of St. Donats, joining Weftward, there is now living one John Harry, who is upwards of 112 years of age. The air The whole Vale of Glamorgan affords very numerous inftances of longevity. It is an open country, dry foil on a limestone bottom, fertile, lies along the Bristol channel, the coaft rocky, no marshes, sheltered to the North and North-eaft by a chain of mountains at about fifteen miles diftance. is clear and temperate. Lantwit Major (a town) is in latitude 51° 24'; but, what feemingly contributes moft to the health and frequent long life of the inhabitants, is their fimple diet, confifting of good wheat bread, milk, cheele, butter, vegetables, and their very Lantwit Major is almost a mile diftant, Westward, of Lanmaes. An inftance, feemingly, of longevity being hereditary. Mr. EDWARD WILLIAMS. Mr. URBAN, To add an additional leaf to the glory, of one of the greatest ornaments Mr. URBAN, Jan. 6. NE of your correfpondents (vol. ONE with that any gentleman would favour LXI. p. 885) having expreffed a him with any intelligence refpecting the family of Wifeman, in Effex; I beg leave to acquaint him, that the following infeription is, engraved on a handfome mural monument in the parish. church of St. Bennet, Paul's wharf: "Hic fitus eft D'nus Roв. WYSEMAN, cq. au at. D'ni Tho. Wyfeman, de Rivenal, in agro hoc pro amore, quo virum coluit, mortuo vidua triftiffima monumentum pofuit. Sætatis fum 74, Obiit Aug. 17°, anno {falut. 1684." Above the part which contains the infeription, there is a buft, executed with fome degree of elegance; and in the corners of the marble tablet on which the buft is fixed are two coats of arms; one, I prefume, of the Wifemans, the other, of the Wisemans quartered with the Norths. The name of this gentleman, which is fpelt with ay upon the monument, is fpelt with ani in the account given of him in that amufing book, "The Life of Lord Keeper North, written by Roger North;" fo that, I prefume, the orthography of the name varied, but that the Wyfemans and the Wifemans of Effex were the fame family. The account given of Sir Robert, in the book, is this: "His Lordship (Lord Keeper Guildford), by means of his acquaintance in the Lord Grey's family, found an opportunity to bring forward a match for the younger of his fif ters, Elizabeth, with Sir Robert Wifeman, a civilian, and Dean of the Arches; and this was through Mr. R. Grey's wife, who having acquaintance with, and being much respected by the Knight, never left till, through decent steps and formalities, the match was made; and his Lordship advanced the portion. Sir R. was an old man, but very rich, and withal a moft juft and good natured perfon. He made no other fettlement than by a hond to leave her portion doubled; and faid, that it not being prudent to exceed the ordinary measure in the cafes, he would do no more; but he would not have it 1bought bis intentions were confined to that. After divers years living very happily together, this gentleman left her at his death near 20,000l. And it was egregious to obferve the more than brotherly correfpondence his Lordship maintained with Sir Robert; for, Le frequently made him prefents, which the other contentedly fwallowed, and advised him in his money-matters; and not feldom, when he fcrupled venturing to thare in fecurities, his Lordship took his money, and paid him the intereft. All which, together with frequent intercourfe of vifits, and friendly, may fay learned, converfation (for both were judges in their refpective courts), kept the old man in good humour, ending as I have hinted." P. 306. It appears, from p 85 of the fame book, that Lady Wifeman afterwards. married the Earl of Yarmouth. I thought that this short account of an eminent perfon might prove not an unacceptable addition to the familyhistory enquired after. Is it in the power of any correfpondent to fupply any information refpecting the family and defcendants of Attorney general Noy? A. B. Tranflation of one of the Letters of Bifari, "fur divers Endroits d'l'Europe, d'Afie, et d'Afrique." F Athens, July, 1788. ROM the moment of my arrival here my mind has been inceffantly in an agitation that is easier felt than expreffed. The fingle idea of being in Athens is a point where fo great a number of agreeable thoughts are united, the pleafure is fo extremely exceffive, that I am fometimes induced to believe it but the paroxyfm of a dream. What! do I breathe then the fame atmosphere that was infpired by Solon, by Democrates, by Pericles, by Socrates! The very idea gives me a new exiftence, My imagination takes flight, and, croffing on the wings of Time the ages that feparate me from thofe celebrated men, brings me inftantly into their prefence, I walk with them, I join the people; and in every thing I find fomething that fills me with aftonishment, Sweet delufion! why cannot I enjoy thee longer! Alas! thou haft difappeared; thofe ruins too plainly announce that Athens is no more. Reafon regains its feat; I look about me, and am overcome with furprize and confufion. Do I then tread under-foot the athes of fo many illuftrious Athenians! Oh! Heavens, why ought the great to pay the fame tribute to Nature as thofe of an inferior order! Here, Pleafure and Reafon fpoke by the mouth of the virtuous Epicurus; there, Plato, the antiable Plato, taught Philofophy and Humanity. Cruci Sylla! why deprive pofterity of the facred fhades of the academy! Here, Aristotle difcuffed in his walks the profoundest queftions of metaphyficks and morality; there was the Areopagus; here was the Ordeum. Yon fiately and unaltered temple is the temple of Thefeus; it feems to have been raifed but yesterday. Thofe fuperb ruins belong to the temple of Minerva to the Acropous! to the Pantheon! This This place, however, would be highly interefting, independent of its ruins, This feat of the exploits of the most illuftrious nation of antiquity, whofe unequalled genius illumined that of Rome, where heroifin, the arts, and the fences, were carried to the highest fummit of perfection that human-nature can a'tain this delightful place prefents to the imaginatica fcenes ever new and charmning. My heart, fo forcibly is it penetrated with them, beats with the utmost emotion. The fweeteft meJancholy fucceeds to thofe delightful ecftafies. I love to give way to it; and, in confequence, put an end to my correfpondence. Mr. URBAN, Lichfield Clofe, Feb. 9. Fplete with found reafoning, upon a fubject interefling to the whole world, fhould not be with-held from the pub lick, I have prevailed upon Mifs Seward to permit my tranfcript of a letter on French politicks, fent to Mifs Helen Williams a few days before the tidings of that demoniac tranfation, the murder of the depofed and blameless Louis, reached this nation. I remain, Mr. Urban, yours fincerely, HENRY WHITE. From Mifs SEWARD to M HELEN WILLIAMS at Paris. Lichfield, Jan. 17. "I am truly forry for the fad flate of your health, and for the inevitable af tion of your gentle spirit. Ohen do I regret that you left our yet, and, I truft, long to continue, happy country, for the regions of anarchy, tumult, and murder. See what it is to destroy the chain of fubordination which binds the various orders of national fociety in one common form of polity! that gradatory jun&tion which can alene give vigour and effect to the laws, extent and circulation to commerce, and create mutual love and mutual dependence amongst the various ranks of men! It Jays thofe whole fome and neceflary reftraints upon the headftrong paffions of the vulgar, which forms their belt and trueft liberty, and without which, as the rafh experiment in France evinces, all is ferocious conteft, that appals the fpirit, and withers the nerves, of Legiflation. O! that France had poffeffed the wif. dom of knowing where to ftop, and the 'virtue to fcorn a tyrannous revenge! that, emerging from the gloom of op preffion, and the bifenefs of fervility The had not rushed into the yet worse extreme of wild levelling! that the had not been milled by thit fpecious, that mifchievous Sophift, whofe abfurd and impoflible system of equality feeks to kindle the fatal fame of felfish ambition in every heart! Beneath the prostituted name of Freedom it abandons all mankind to the dominion of their own fierce defires; Tyrants, under whofe fcourge and injuftice the fum of public mifery is greater far than it was under that fallen Monarchy, which, by hereditary claims, not by the vices of the King, had for ages been corrupt and oppreffive to an excefs which demanded a brave refiftance. as he But the different talents and tempers of men, both inherent and acquired; the comfort, protection, and profperity, of civilized fociety; the difpenfations of Providence in the vegetable, the animal, and the rational, univerfe; the filent leffons of Natural Religion, an. the precepts of Revelation, are all the reverse of Paine's equalizing creed, which has transformed an amiable and fweet-tempered people, whole first lineration was not only justifiable but noble, it has transformed them into a dire banditti, fpurning every legal restraint. Behold them baft ling the mildest and mo indulgent Monarch that ever fat upon their throne, and forging, in their demoniac wfh of his deftruction, thofe incredible treafons, which he had neither the courage to plan, nor, watched was, the power to negotiate! confifcating their property, and dooming them to deftitute banishment, who had fed from the fcenes of fanguinary tumult and unpunished murder, where none could be fure that he, or the, might not be the next viċtiom! bullying and ftigmatizing, with the molt, infolent contempt, every ftate where the happier principles of fubordinate govern ment unite a people as one family! repaying, with the bafe ingratitude of fomenting difcontents here, our generous forbearance to take that advantage of their fit confufion, which their treachery and broken engagements with us in the American war would, on the principles of retaliation, have justified ! destroying the freedom of their own prefs while they boat of liberty! avenging, by profcription, all converfation which prefumes to cenfure their fierce democratic fyftem! menacing wh with brutal indecency, in their Con Ventional Affembly, the few, few pleaders for mercy, who, confcious that their lives would probably expiate the benevolent attempt, deferve ftatues to their memories! This is the nation to which the amiable Helen Williams has rafhly committed herself; where her golden lyre mufl not be frung, at least to gentle themes; where the fweet creations of her fancy muft not arife, or, arifing, be neglected; whofe very life, if the is fufpected of pitying the falfely accufed, and greatly unfortunate, may even now be marked out for the dagger of the affathin. Warned by the ingratitude of the bloody Democracy to their primal deliverer, the brave Fayette, O! return, while yet you may, to the bofom of your native country, which has foftered your talents, and enrolled your fame! In fpite of the defperate incendiaries who infeft her cities, and feek to plunge her in the calamities and guilt of France, I trust the has yet fanity enough to proft by SAVING WARNING, inftead of following RUINOUS EXAMPLE; to maintain fedfafily her wife fubordinatous; to fhun the exchange of real freedom, the offspring of falutary refraint, for that nominal liberty which renders every man the flave of his own depraved defires, that, in the body politic, enables the feet to ufurp the place of the head, transforming manual artificers and rude pealants into statesmen, feeding their ambition at the price of their peace, to the deftruction of commerce, the fatal neglect of agriculture, the PALSY OF THE LAWS! How little can military victories avail to recompenfe fuch evils! The tire, which led the French to the brink of that chaos into which they are fallen, you yet, my dear friend, call the rifing fun of Liberty. So I deemed it once, nay, long, and voluntarily * and publicly hailed its dawn with the best powers of my imagination and of my heart; but, to my great regret, it proves, "A meteor flaming lawless thro' the void;" ominous of fpreading ftrife and mifery. There were few generous minds that did not rejoice in the first efforts of France for her liberties; but, from the time the enslaved her King, by denying * See a Sonnet on the French Revolution in the Gentleman's Magazine for Auguft 1789. 109 him the privilege of quitting the country if he did not like the crown on the fon to fufpect the want of virtue and terms the annexed to it, there was reathe abuse of power. A!! Europe knows, have allowed, either of accepting the that, inftead of the choice the ought to zen, or of quitting the French territories, Conftitution, or of living as a private citi he has, from the earliest period of the Revolution, been a prifoner with a fword at his throat. I always condemned upon the glories of the original emancithat tyrannous coercion as a deep stain pation; yer, til the execrable maffacies came on. I was willing to hope the af grace the principles they professed: but ferters of Liberty would not utterly dif that coercion ought early to have congreat or good was to be expected from vinced every one that nothing genuinely Synods, capable of facrificing, to narrowciples of that Freedom, whofe difciples hearted and cruel policy, the vital prin they called themselves. You tell me that the Court-treafons rendered the maffacres of the 10th of Auguft neceffary. None of those imputed treafons are proved; they never wore the femblance of probability, the meek character of Lewis confidered, together with the inevitable detection of judges. Suborned witneffes and forged fuch attempts. The accufers are the dare, and few with, to detect their falpapers are easily procured where none lacv. crimes thou haft practifed against the Unhappy, injured Lewis! all the Conftitution, forced upon thy acceptexcercife of that diffentient power with ance on pain of death, were, first, the which it had ITSELF invested thee; and next, the calling upon thy devoted life. For doing their duty, they were guards to repel a tumult levelled at thy butchered in thy fight; and, for the natural defire of felf-prefervation, thou infamous tribunal of MOCK-JUSTICE! art arraigned before the vengeful and thy cruel country to feek thy life. Per- The DEEP DAMNATION of thy taking off;" or or of that barbarous, lonely, and lifelong, imprisonment, which forme of thy perfecutors have advifed as a more politic revenge on thy unreal guilt than the bow-firing, the dagger, or the axe. You confefs the turpitude of the Sep. tember maffacres, but allege that they were perpetrated by three wretches, more dire and infamous than the Roman Triumvirate, with about fifty more, acting as their inftruments in that work of death; that a general confternation had gone forth, no one knowing how far the plan of murder extended: but that thofe villains have not yet been brought to juftice proves that Roland fpoke truth, when he afferted to the National Affembly, that "THEIR LAWS WERE IN THE SLEEP OF DEATH." Wretched, wretched Conftitution, again which that dreadful charge is truly brought! Then fhall infátiate Tyranny range on Till each man drop by lottery." Fly, dear Helen, that land of carnage! from the pernicious influence of that equalizing fiftem, which, inftead of diffufing univerfal love, content, and happiness, lifts every man's hand against his brother. Politicks are almoft as much the general theme here as with you. The reflefs ambition of our fe&taries; the defperation of our gamefters and fpendthrifts; the arrogant theories of empiric philofophers, who love fpeculative lyf. tem much better than experienced policv; thefe dangerous propenfities were beginning to diffufe, with alarming fuccefs, the venom of ungrateful and rebellious pride amongst the ever eafily dazzled vulgar; but I truft the fpirited and timely exertion of our Legiflators, and the public reafonings of true Wif. dom, have thoroughly awakened our populace to their real intereft. Never do I remember fuch an univerfal glow of Loyalty, fuch a grateful and fervent fenfe of the bleffings of our balanced Government, as feem now to pervade all the orders of British fociety. The frailty of human-nature confidered, we have certainly no more right to expect perfection in Government than from individuals. In every perfon, in all inflitutions, much of evil will be found intermingled with the purcft virtue. The preponderance of good, which is declared to be enough for Heaven, ought to be enough for us; but in Democracies the preponderance of evil is inevitable. Inceffint ftruggle, fantastic giddy change, edicts written on fand, and hopes built on moraffes; thefe are the effects of their radical in ftability. May England be preferved from the dire experiment! Adieu, my dear friend! Love and refpect your country half as well as I love and refpect you, and we fhall foon ceafe to view you in a ftate of cold ali-, cnation, and of impending danger!" OGIER OF DENMARK. his exploits perhaps not fo much. GIER is well known by name; by The remote period in which he lived, and the different taste of earlier times, have spread a duty veil of antiquity over then, bordering on oblivion. Ogier loft Baldwin, his favourite fon, by the hand of the fon of the Emperor. 'He was the firft-fruit of his love, and the darling of his heart; the delightful memorial of his youthful years. After an unfuccefsful attack of revenge on the life of the murderer, confined in the palace of the Archbishop Turpin, he was obliged to reprefs his parental anguifh, and, refting in the confcioufnefs of a righteous caufe, he waited to fee whether his procefs would be brought. on in this period of exiflence, or deferred to the tribunal of eternity. The fortunate iffue of a fingle combat with the giant Bruhier, important and decifive to the fate of France, in which Ogier came off conqueror, procured him at length the wifhed-for opportunity for giving vent at will to the tormenting emotions of his heart. murderer of his Baldwin is delivered into his hands; the father is now to be his judge; the confent of Charles the Great, and the undiffembled unanimity of a whole affembly, are on his fide'; his pain may now burft forth; for, his heroilm only yielded to his humanity. Who could here expect any other iffue than that which feemed favoured by the very nature of the cafe? Ogier's fword is drawn; every eye is fixed on its ftroke; at this moment its decifive edge muft fall, and— The Alas! our tears fell before on the bleeding heart of the blameless father; but now we gaze at his magnanimity. The beams of his majestic mind dry his moiftened cheeks, and our routed compaffion terminates in amazement. The |