With the 15th Emblem ends the firft book. The 4th Emblem of B. II. in five-feet couplets, is marked by vigour of thought, language, and rhythm. The next Emblem with a print of Cupid at a table (pread with gold, and, under, this motte, non omne quod hic m cat, aurum efl, 1 muft tranfcribe entire. The unnaxed harmony of the whole (which alone would diprove the vulgar error of the roughness of our verfes before Waller's time), and the fimple energy of the ex, ceffions, with one or two unfortunate interruptions of that horrid fault which I have already men tione ! I have caused the obloquy he has been loaded with, claim for it very high praise. Prov. xxiii. 5. Wilt thou fet thine eyes upon that, which is not? For, riches make themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle. to read a defcription of a place that renders all the charms of London but I confefs I do not know very well fo infipid. I really wish to answer this; faid, he can have no clear notion of the how, efpecially to one who has fo often happiness of a retired life, or of any provincial pleafures. But furely fomething must be faid to fo very kind a Falle world, thou ly'ft; thou canst not lend friend, who feems to fhare in all my fatisfactions. The least delight: Thy favours capno gen a friend, They are to flight: Thy more n, pleatures make an end To plesfe at night. Poor are the wa ́t that thou fupply'st; And yet thou vaun 'ft, and yet thou vy'st "My place is diftant from the metropolis nearly 260 miles; and, if you come by Pierfbridge, vou must turn off at the two-mile ftone from Castle Auckland, and two miles more of very ir With heaven: fond earth, thou boaft ft; falfe regular road will bring you to my gates. world, thou ly ft. Thy babbling tongue tells golden tales Of lafting pleasure; Thou afk'ft the confcience what the ails, There's none can want where thou fupplv'ft: What well-advised ear regards What earth can fay? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Thy cunning can but pack the cards, Thy game at weakest, still thou vy'st ; Thy tinfel bofom feems a mint No change, no measure; Vain earth, that falfely thus comply'st Here, if you look round, you will find my villula, or villulet, for I cannot well call it a villa from its miniature, fituated as in a vaft amphitheatre, bounded by high hills on every fide, through which a beautiful river winds, at about 20 miles from the fea; the defcent from, and elevation to, my house, being nearly equal, which makes it very bealthful, and not too much expofed. "The Spring, indeed, and the Autumn winds, are here fometimes very fevere, but the Summer and Winter ones more mild and temperate. Many old people here live to the end of the century, and fome of my own family have reached that period. "The house flands in the centre of a plantation of my own rearing, moftly of forett-trees and flowering thrubs of every kind, both foreign and domeftic, with a fmall but pleafing terrace before it, confiderably elevated above the reft of the garden, and rich with various evergreens and flowers. Behind it, in the other front, is a fmall grafs plot with a forest walk well bordered with various kinds of fhrubs and trees, affording both a cool and pleafing shelter from almost every wind; and on each fide, towards the offices, are two corre fponding fponding courts, communicating with two fmall kitchen-gardens, one for falJad-herbs, the other for roots, &c. Thirty-fix fruit trees of various kinds alfo difpofed upon the walls and round the houfe, which not only have a pleafing effect, but prove very beneficial in their season. "The offices are detached from the body of the houfe, and effectually hid by plantations full-grown, with Chinefe and other feats every where difpofed to take in feveral large and pleafing views; fome of which are well cloathed with wood, and others very extenfive. Adjoining to the two courts are two Roman fuggeftia; and betwixt thefe, but less elevated, is a small prætorium, joining to the houfe. This overlooks all the finest part of the country, and alfo the river Were, which runs before it, with the cathedral church of Durham, a noble Gothic building, as the principal point of view. On this fide of my houfe I have a profpect, from my dining-room windows, of upwards of 500 beautiful inclofures in a moft picturefque fituation, truly paftoral, in all the fcenes of agriculture. I can truly fay, "Here the ploughman near at hand "In the village front is an open view without the appearance of any incio. fures, the town extending a full half mile long, and near a furlong wide, all of green turf, in beautiful verdure moft part of the year. There is a bowling green before the house, and in the cen tre of the town; the whole being nearly in the proportion of a Roman circus: and here frequently are both horfe and foot races. Many other fports and games are alfo exhibited here annually on the 29th of June, in imitation of those of Rome, or the Olympiad, probably as relicks of the former, who, in the neighbourhood of this place had once a ftation called Vinovium*. "Near to this village is alfo a manifeft Roman circus, all good ground, and two miles in compafs; which, as being in the neighbourhood of the camp, is fuppofed to be that of Albinus, his principal camp being at Alclunum, now Auckland, and the undoubred Bino * Binchester. vium of Ptolemy. This (circus) I procured to be reflored, in the year 1778, by a fubfcription of the neighbouring gentlemen, and it is judged to be the fineft piece of race-ground in the North of England. "The body of the building is but fmall, confifting only of a principal and rustic floor; the ruftic, or foundation part, is formed into a parlour, kitchen, ftaircafe, pantry, cellar, and fervants room. In the parlour are two alcoves, the one for books, &c. the other for a bed. In this fmall room is alfo an elegant mufeum in the shape of a pyramid; the bottom part is a fcrutore with commode drawers, and the upper part is full of the works of the most eminent Englith poets, with their heads in mezzotinto on the infide of its folding doors*. Before the window is a large library-table full of fine prints and curious books, together of very great value, and not eafily eftimated. In the alcove alfo is a library of many books, chiefly of hif tory and fciences. On each fide, in the podgio part, are foles for cloaths and linen. Here likewife is a curious cedar cabines, full of drawings and original MSS, fome of them ineftimable, and feveral of them ready for publishing. Thefe, with many more already made public, are the works and labours of upwards of thirty years of my retired study, and most of them in this place. "In the adjacent kitchen are likewife two fimilar alcoves, anfwering to thofe in the parlour; in one of which is a folding bed, and in the other a commodious dreffer, with all things neceffary for ferving up a dinner. The entry on this fide, as well as to the parlour, is covered with an arcade, or portico, of four arches each, which connects both courts wah the two front parts of the garden, one way leading to the terrace, the other to the foreft-walk and pretorium. "The principal fory is entered by a flight of fteps from the outfide, with an half space from the terrace, which ferves to dine upon in Summer, having ftone feats on each fide, and an abacus, or balluftrade, which anfwers very well both for a fideboard and dumb-waiter. Here I can moft pleafantly enjoy a view of the town, the Roman camp, and the evening fun. "My first room is a small vestibule, *Now the property of William Emm, efq. of Bishops Auckland. adorned adorned with medallions of the twelve Cæfars; and through this, on one fide, you enter the drawing-room, and, on the other, the staircafe. Right forward is my dining-room, and over the door this motto, tranfpofed, in Greek characters, to render it more difficult to read: "Mihi vivam quod fupereft ævi." "The ftaircafe is ornamented with my own works, particularly a large fcheme of the univerfe, the vifible cre ation, the fun, moon, and fyftems of the planets and comets, &c. In the drawing-room are all the faculties of human knowledge reprefented by a curious collection of prints, difpofed in twenty feven large compofitions, 500 being felected for that purpofe, and elegantly framed *. At one end of this room, parted off from the other with two Doric pillars, is a Roman triclinium; the fofa is compofed of fix large mattreffes, fix pillows, and four large cushions; in all, 16 parts; moftly used for holding books, and eafter reading. In the other end is a handfome, but plain, chimney-piece, in the tablet of which Vulcan is reprefented forging the arms of Eneas, with Venus fitting by him. In the cieling of this part is the fyftem of the Sun, decorated with the reprefentation of the four Seafons, and other antient historical figures. That of the fofa part is the fedes beatorum, or fupreme heaven, with the bours and times difpofed around it. In the cove of both parts are reprefented, as on medallions, all the human paffions, after Le Brun. On each fide of my triclinium, in two tablets, and facing each other, are the following mottos from Lord Lanfdown: "Early and vain into the world I came, Big with falfe hopes, and eager after fame, Till looking round me, ere the race began, Madmen and giddy fools were all that ran; Reclaim'd by time, I from the lifts retire, And thank the Gods-who my retreat infpire. "Happy the men, of mortals happiest he, Whofe quiet mind from vain defires is free, Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; How fweetthe nora! how gentle is the night! How calm the evening! and the noon how bright!" "The dining-room is elegantly fit ted up with a cimfon emboffed paper, and fome remarkable good paintings, * All these are in Mr. Allan's possession. particularly one by Old Wyks *, and two small ones on copper. Here is one of myself, a half-length, with an orrery before me; another of the moon's rifing in a Milton's evening; the fellow of it, a Stonehenge with the aurora bsrealis; likewife a fun and moon's eclipse *; three night-views of the last comets; morning, noon, and night, three good paintings on plate-glafs: and feveral meteoric fcenes*, &c.; molt of them well framed, and regularly difpofed. The chimney-piece is well carved in flone, with a chaplet of oakleaves and acorns in the tablet, and boys, in bafo relievo, on each fide, re. prefent the arts and fciences. On the fideboard-table is painted, in perfpective diftortion, Charles the Fifth, with his fecretary Maximilian. "The original building was only defigned for a retirement for ftudy; but now two fmall cubicula, as wings, are added to it; the one defigned as a bedchamber, the other as a laboratory other experimental philofophy. The for the purposes of mechanical and one window of the new apartments views the fummer fetting fun, and the other the winter rifing one; and the other windows the reverse. "Here I have perfect tranquillity, though in a village, having no houte nearer than a hundred yards. "I have one feat in my dining-room where I can imagine myfelf in the midst of an American forest, well wooded on all fides, and mixed with beautiful inclofures, and an Indian town on each fide my gates, which are adorned with yew-trees. There are two weeping willows, which are trimmed every year, and conftantly throw out new branches like the polypus, and fo thick and flexible as to reprefent the Egyptian god Acanthus pouring out fo many ftreams of water, beautifully bending to the ground. In almost every part of my garden I have a retreat from bad weather, and shelter from every wind, and, at the fame time, commanding moft pleafing views, one of my village, another of an extenfive park, and alfo a provincial one, terminated by the finest hill in the county at the dif tance of twenty miles. "Plenty of fuel is to be had from the adjoining common; and good falmon is caught frequently within half a mile of my house. * These are all in Mr. Allan's poffeffion. • When "When I indulge myfelf with poetic ideas I can naturally conceive myfelf with an Olympus before me, a Mount lemus on one fide, and a Parnaffus on the other. "Now, notwithstanding your afto. nishment at my love of a retired life, tell me if I have not just reafon to exult à little in what I feel in fuch a delight ful fituation, and to give up as much of my time as I can preferve to myself, centered in fuch pleafing circumstances, in which no human joy is wanting? "If all mankind would endeavour to cultivate fuch objects as are in their own power, and be content with their private ftation and fituation, every huinan being would foon have its thare of well-earned happinefs. But thofe who are attached to the pleafures of the town, I fear, can have no juft idea of the calm and ferene fenfations of fuch a life. "Befides all this, I have in agitation to erect a Gothic tower on one of the highest hills in the country, and have been feveral years preparing materials for it; when that is done, you may expect to hear a farther account of my amufements *. THO. WRIGHT." Mr. URBAN, March 6. THE HE ingenious Hiftorian of Honiton, in your last month's entertaining Mifcellany, is, I apprehend, not perfectly accurate in his tranflation of the old French word honi. I am informed, on authority of the most refpectable kind, that boni is not a fubftantive fynonymous with bonte, but a participle from an old Norman verb bonir, fignifying to hifs, hoot at, or fhew fome mark of indignity to another. Indeed, the rules of conftruction demand that boni fhould be confidered as a paffive participle, not a fubftantive. And the legend of the Garter, literally tranflated, is, "Let him be hiffed (or put to fhame) who thinks ill of it." I do not recollect having feen in your Mifcellany the infcription which Philippe Egalité (the wretch!) put, humouroufly enough, on his manege at Belle Chaffe, HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PANSE †. G. *He erected a tower at Middlefton for an obfervatory, but did not live to complete it. He left a very small perfonal estate. His chief fupport in retirement was an annuity paid him by Lord Bottetourt; but how acquired is not known to the editor. Panfer, to drefs, or currycomb, a horse. A Freeschoole he built, and two Almes-houfes of fame; [the same. Who entended to geve lands to mayntain But fodaynlie he died in this towne of Brancafter; So the right of all was in Elizabethe his fifter. Which buildinges for ever his godly Matron did affure, [purpofe to ensure, With four fcore and twelve acres land for the To the bringinge upp of Youthe and reliefe of the Poore Let us praise their proceedinge-God fend the World more! In June he dyed, that monthe the thir teene, [queene. The eight and thirtie of Elizabethe our Richard Stubbs, Richard Buntinge, and The Grove, Barnard Mr. URBAN, CuAle, Feb. 13. HE love of juftice, which you have constantly fhewn, induces me to trouble you with the following anfwer to what the gentleman, under the figna ture of R. G. in your vol. LXII. p. 1105, was pleafed to infinuate to the publick. ac 1 have to lament, that an involuntary and unfortunate delay has happened in the publication of the remaining part of my Hiftory of Durham. The MS. when completed, was, with the confent of the editor, placed in the hands of a literary gentleman for his revifal and correction; but, by his family enincrease of fortune, and by his neceffary gagements, in confequence of a great journeys to Bath and Briftol, on count of his health, he withheld the MS. and prevented its going to the prefs, unwilling that the conclufion of the work fhould appear lefs perfect than the former parts, which he had regularly attended to, even in the laborious exercife of correcting the prefs. In confequence of this delay, I am now harraffed with expenfive fuits, on the event of which depends all ability, as to time, of performing my obligations to the circumftance was not unknown to R. G. publick. I am induced to believe this though the writer's perfon and real name are concealed from me by a fignature which covers him from perfonal *See the arms, pl. 11. fig. 3, 4 applications, applications, and leaves me no other means of anfwering him, but through the channel of your Magazine. I flatter mstelf the above relation will fatisfy R. G. and the publick, that there refs no caufe why I fhould be prevented coming forward with the Hiftory of Cumberland, until I shall have diffolved the fetters of profecution. As to the plates in the Hiftory of Durham, &c believe, on comparifon with the fubjects, they will be found to refute R. G's affertion, which is expreffed with more acrimony than juftice, and fomewhat inconfifient with the language of a gentleman. Mr. Bailey, the dratiman and engraver of most of them, is thought to work corre&t; and, happily for him, he is an artift, removed by fortune to a height much above the reach of shafts, that might wound the credit of a common mechanic. I beg leave to remark to fome of the generous contributors towards the Hiftory of Cumberland, who mentioned Buecafle in your vol. LXII. p. 1074, that the fuppofed Roman fation the.e -form thed materials for the obfervations of Horley, Ward, and other antiquaries, and is not a new difcover". Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, W. H. March 10. KNOWIN'S, from a confiant perual of your excellent work, your fondnets for local anecdote and information, I take the liberty of fending to you an infcription for a tomio fune to the memory of the late Dr. Eie, many year the pious Curate of Wily, Wits. The Doctor, from the acts which thirtytwo years will tellify, both of piety and benevolence, might exclaim with Ho race, more "I have railed a work durable than biafs, which time cannot deftroy." But, as we all know time does, more or lefs, you will accept the above from Your's, &c. R.S.T. "S. M. JOHANNIS EYRE, S.T.P. Stirpe generofa ortus, morbus generofus ipfe, Literis humanioribus bene imbutus, Divinis admodum Summum gradum Ecclefice Adornare idoneus, Per annos 3 2 vicarii munere apud Wilyenfes folo 24 die Octobris, auno 1792, GENT. MAG, March, 1793. Mr. URBAN, March 7, 1793. Have just acceived your Magazine for February, and take the firfl oppor.. tunity to return iny thanks to a Southern Faunif, for having referred me to White's 29th Leitor on the Natural Hiftory of Saiborne for talis, which frongly corroborate my ideas, respecting the utility of planting by the fide of navigabl: Canals. I beg leave to hure sour Corrcipondent, that a should have been very ready to have quoted fo excellent an authority, had I recollected the contents of Mr. White's 29th Letter; at the fame time, I acknowledge the having read that very ciathical and entertaining work at the time it came out, and am not at all unwilling to confefs that many of the argaments in my lait may have been drawn from that fource; though, I alture him, I was not in the imallest degree aware of it at the time I committed them to paper. The troubleforenets of the drippings of the trees to the men and hories in wet fummers would (1 should apprehend) be abundantly compenfated Ly the advantages accruing to them in dry and hot fummers; and as to the poffibility of their being injurious to the commodities conveyed, I fhould conceive that all fuch commodities as may be injured by wet will be carefully protected, whether |