GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. ........... ...... MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Portrait of Chaucer-Genealogical Inquiries- .......... ON ANCIENT DOMESTIC FURNITURE.-Sales at the Pryor's Bank, Fulham, On the number of Mankind originally created ...... Original Letter of the notorious Thomas Paine...... Epitaph of Morgan Powell, B.D. at Cranley, co. Heref.-" Sidon" proverbial. ...... Antient and Remarkable Signs in Norwich and its vicinity Vindication of the Literary Character of Bishop Hurd RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-Dolarny's Primerose, 1606.... Manners and Household Expenses of England in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, 51; Gliddon's Appeal on the Monuments of Egypt, 53; The Liber Landavensis, 55; Lewis's Illustrations of Kilpeck Church, 57; Pu- gin's Principles of Christian Architecture, 59; Richardson's Literary Leaves, 62; Worrell's Edwy, an historical Poem, 64; Sankey's Sermons, ib.; Walker's Pathology, 65; Remarks on Fotheringay Church, 66; Views and Details of Stanton Harcourt Church, 67; Examples of Encaustic Tiles, 68; Warwick's House of Commons, 69; Hewitt's Tower Armories LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. - New Publications, University Intelligence, Royal and Botanical Societies, &c. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, Numismatic So- ciety, Ancient Artillery, &c. at the Tower.... HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 85.-Domestic Occurrences. ...... ........ Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 119; Meteorological Diary-Stocks 120 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. One of our correspondents wishes to be informed, from what writer the French extract on the Treaty of Westphalia in Gent. Mag. 1821, April, p. 319, is taken? Or, if that cannot be pointed out, can the information contained in that passage be supplied from any other writer? The Rev. IRVIN ELLER, author of the History of Belvoir Castle, informs us that the portrait of Chaucer in that mansion, which he still judges to be of considerable antiquity, is not painted in oil (as inadvertently stated in our Oct. number, p. 370, note) but in crayons. Since our note was written, we have seen a fac-simile from the original in the British Museum, in Mr. Shaw's "Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages." C. W. asks for information respecting the descendants of Odardus de Logis, who was baron of Wigton, in Cumberland, in the time of Henry I., and who, according to Camden, founded the Church there. O. O. asks whose son was Robert Chaworth; whose daughter married Sir Nicholas Wilford, (Maitland writes it Wyfforde) Lord Mayor of London in 1450; and also the names of the father and mother, grandfather and grandmother of the said Robert Chaworth? He has examined Thoroton's Pedigree of Chaworth, under Annesley, but can find nothing relating to him, nor yet from the Pedigrees in the College of Arms. M. A. L. will feel obliged to any reader of the Gentleman's Magazine for notices respecting Anthony St. Leger, Esq. of Slindon, co. Sussex, of whose will, dated 6 Oct. 1539, and proved at Chichester, the following is an abstract. "Anthony Sentleger, Esquyer. My body to be buried in the church of Slyndon 'before the pict' of o'r Lady.' I bequeath' to the church of Slyndon a basin and ewer of pewter. To the mother church of Pagham, xxd. To the cathedral church of Chichester, xxs, and they to haue for my soll a solempne masse ther. I will haue xxti prists to say masses, dirige, at the day of my buriall, and eu'y of them to have viiid. To the repairs of Houghton brige, xs. To Antony Sentleger, my leases and lands in Slyndon, and xx1i, and fyfty shelings in money to by hym a black gowne and cote, and xls in mony to by his wif a gowne of black.'" Among the witnesses is Sir Anthony Seyntleger, Knyght (of the Garter, Lord Deputy of Ireland, temp. Hen. VIII., and an active agent in the dissolution of the monasteries.) M. A. L. is not aware of any previous settlement of the pears to have died sine prole (unless indeed the Anthony S. named in the will was his son), it is probable that the connection of the family with the county ceased on the death of this individual, who, doubtless, belonged to the house of the Viscounts Doneraile. Cartwright makes no mention of him. SUSSEXIENSIS begs leave respectfully to suggest to the Registrary of the University of Cambridge the propriety of publishing a new edition of the Graduati Cantabrigienses. The last edition of this very useful book of reference was published with great care and ability, in 1823, by the late amiable and highly esteemed Registrary, Wm. Husler, Esq. M. A., Fellow of Jesus Coll. ; and when it is considered how large a number of Degrees has been annually conferred since that time, the necessity of such a republication will be at once apparent. The edition of 1823 begins from the year 1659, but in any future edition it would be highly desirable, for the purposes of biographical inquiries, that the work should be carried much higher, in fact, as far as any written records remain in the Archives of the University, of Degrees having been conferred. CYDWELI says, as J. R. enquires for any account of the family of Robertson, of Strowan, in Perthshire, I would refer him to Mr. Napier's "Life and Times of Montrose," where some scattered notices may be found. It is there mentioned (p. 267), that "the very day after he declared himself (in the Highlands) he was joined by eight hundred men of Athol, including the gallant Robertsons, commanded by the tutor of Strowan, the brother-in-law of young Inchbrakie," Patrick Graham, Montrose's cousin. At p. 401 occurs a letter to this person, where we are informed in a note, that he was Donald Robertson, and "one of Montrose's most faithful and efficient colonels throughout these wars. Mr. N. adds, that the commissions to him are yet extant. At p. 298 Mr. N. specifies some information he has received, concerning the battle of Inverlochy, from James Robertson, Esq., lineal descendant of the tutor of Strowan, who led the Atholmen upon that occasion." 66 a The reply of CYDWELI to J. R. is again unavoidably postponed. The communication of MISERRIMUS is very acceptable to the party to whom it was addressed, and he is requested to continue his assistance. Dec. p. 562, line 1 of col. 2, for East GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. WORDSWORTH. POEMS OF THE FANCY. POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION. FEW readers of English poetry can be ignorant of the distinction which the poet, whose name we have placed at the head of this article, endeavours to establish between the Fancy and the Imagination-as faculties or powers of the human mind and some have perhaps exercised their critical perspicacity in attempting to ascertain with what consistent accuracy the poet, in the composition of the poems, arranged under the heads respectively of these two supposed faculties, may have observed his own distinction. For our own parts, we must candidly confess, however the confession may derogate from our pretensions to a nice perception and lively sensibility, that if we had not chanced to entertain some long-cherished preconceptions of our own upon the classification of poetical imagery, we should have been so satisfied with the beauties so profusely scattered through these poems, and our minds so absorbed in the contemplation of them, that we should have cared little to investigate, whether they were intended by their author to be considered as the progeny of the one faculty or the other. In the course of our brief dissertation, we shall have occasion to present (to the no small gratification, we doubt not, of many readers of the Gentleman's Magazine,) some few choice specimens of the passages with which we have been more particularly delighted. That elegant and ingenious writer, Mr. Dugald Stewart,* appears to have been the first who, in modern days, proposed to place the Fancy and the Imagination over separate provinces, and to assign to each a peculiar jurisdiction. The professor, after a lapse of about forty years, was followed by Mr. Taylor,† of Norwich; who, without animadverting upon the refined speculation of Mr. Stewart, expounds to us a discrimination of his own. It is very remarkable—that this latter experiment is cited and commented upon by the POET, while the former, though an earlier and more elaborate effort, is not even referred to, and was, not improbably, either forgotten or unknown. If the POET had taken into his consideration the opinions of the Professor, he would, it may be believed, have found no occasion to start the objection, which he urges in limine against those of Mr. Taylor, viz. that the author's mind "was enthralled by etymology.” Objections of this kind are too frequently intended (though they cannot here be suspected of being so) to supersede the trouble of a more careful and minute examination, and also to mark the mind of the individual, against whom they may be advanced, with the character of being too partial and limited in its views to deserve any greater share of attention. For our own parts, however, we should not be discouraged by any fear of a similar imputation from resorting to etymology, and availing ourselves of its assistance, if it would serve our purpose so to do, nor shall we, at * Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, ch. v. |