European Magazine FOR OCTOBER, 1813. [Embellished with a Portrait of GEORGE SCHOLEY, Esq. Lord Mayor of London.] London: PRINTED FOR JAMES ASPERNE, No. 82, CORNHILL, And may be had of all the Booksellers in the United Kingdom, This Publication is found to be a most acceptable Present to Friends abroad; as it not only contains Portraits and Views, together with the Biography, Anecdotes, Literature, History, State Papers. Parliamentary Journal, Gazettes, Politics, Arts, Manners, and Amusement of the Age; but also, Intelligence Foreign, Domestic, and Literary; Births, Marriages, and Obituary; with a Monthly List of Bankrupts, their Attormes and Meetings; Prices of Canals, Docks, Fire-office, Water-works, Bridges, and Institution Shares; with the Rates of Govern. ment Life Annoities; Loan for the year 1813; Course of Exchange and Bullion; also the highest an lowest Daly Prices of Stocks, published by authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, &c. &c. Persons who reside abroad, and who wish to be supplied with this Work every M:mth, as published, may have it sent to them, FREE OF POSTAGE, by Mr. THORNHILL, of the General Post Office, at No. 23, Sherborne-lane, to the Cape of Good Hope, America, and every Part of the West Indies, at Two Pounds Eight Shillings per Annum.-To Hamburgh, Lisbon, Gibral tar, or any Part of the Mediterranean, at Two Guineas and a Half per Annum, by Mr. SERJAENT, at No. 22, Sherborne-lane 3—and to any Part of the East Indies, at Fifty Shillings per Annum, by Mr. Guy, at the East India House. N.B. All Letters must be POST PAID, and a Reference for the Payment in England - THE 3d of August and 2d of September last, we received two papers, upon which we have paused longer than, but for the following circumstances, their ingenious contents ought to have allowed. The first of these is entitled "ANCIENT LONDON;" the second, "GRESHAM COLLEGE:" both of these subjects, the Author will see, have been anticipated in the VESTIGES, especially with respect to quotations, &c yet we consider those parts that do not contain repetitions of passages already to be found in the work adverted to, to be so important, that if J. N. will suffer those to be obliterated, they shall either be interwoven in our antiquarian researches, or, as separate articles, be, as occasion offers, inserted. N. on the late Mr. Huntington; Allhallows; G. M.; Neuniskos; No. VI. on the Analysis of English Idioms; Miscellanea, No. IV. On Gaming & Smoke; a Word-Catcher: Golden-Lunc; and Old Ballads, No. 1X. in our next. We entirely agree with Bab. L. and therefore shall suppress her poetical allempt. The article of Laeries would best befit a newspaper; but even there it would be subject to the duty as an advertisement. We shall be very happy to hear again from T. B. *This month's Number contains sixteen extra pages of letter-press. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN from October 9 to October 16, 1813. Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Beans! INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barl. | Oats Beans Esser 90 049 656 036 854 4 Middlesex 92 948 656 733 1160 1 1 Durham 79.500 " 429 856 3 049 1032 6660 664 0 & Rutland 95 000 049 933 700 171 237 1076 0 Northumb. 78 964 046 630 1100] of Derby 852 051 000 Hants Cumberl. 32 662 333 300 Stafford 233 1100 0 Salop 036-500 062 837 8:00 468 10 Wilts 0 Hereford 052 5 11 1058 o Warwick 104 1100 057 245 076 6 051 10 27 800 0 Berks 90 519 455 056 561 10 95 000 048 634 362 0 400 015 328 864 6 WALES. N. Wales 100 0100 0152 000 000 0 US. Wales 87 400 052 720 400 0 VARIATIONS OF BAROMETER, THERMOMETER, &c. at Nine o'Clock A.M. By T. BLUNT, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, No. 22, CORNHILL. 1813 Barom Ther. Wind Obser. 1813 Barom Ther, Wind Obser. EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR OCTOBER, 1813. MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE SCHOLEY, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. [WITH A PORTRAIT, ENGRAVED BY T. BLOOD, FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY 8. DRUMMOND, A.R.A.]. AS, on former occasions, it has been of YORK. At an early age he was our custom to gratify the readers of our Monthly Publication with a Portrait of the distinguished citizen appointed to bear the first civil office in the METROPOLIS, we now present them with a good Likeness of the Chief Magistrate of the current year. It is engraved from a Painting by S. DRUMMOND, A.R.A. and does credit to the pencil of that correct artist. With the resemblance of his person we here give such an account of his character and connexions as from our own knowledge, or the favour of his intimate friends, we have been able to procure. The account indeed is, and should be, a brief one, as not embracing the life of the individual, which requires the most authentic documents, and can only be estimated at its close; but merely the circumstances which led him to the attainment of civic honours. The age we live in supplies characters in abundance that demand celebrity for splendid achievements. The career of the peaceful citizen is seldom remarkable for brilliant incidents: but it exhibits instances of commercial success, to which all may aspire; it proves that industry is the source of opulence, and private worth the surest foundation of public esteem. The Right Hon. GEORGE SCHOLEY is a native of Sundal,* in the county SANDAL is a hamlet and parish in the West Riding of the county of York, still distinguished by the ruins of Sandal Castle, once famous for being the Bower in which Thomas Earl of Warren, called the Wife, stealer, concealed the Countess of Lancaster; still more famous for being the place where Richard Duke of York assembled his troops initiated into the habits of business in the old bank at Leeds, in that county; whence he was removed to the house of the late Alderman Stephenson, near the Old Swan Stairs, and has lived under the same roof near forty years. In the same house he commenced, in 1785, a partnership with the late Alderman Sawbridge. In that year he married Hannah, the only daughter of Robert Exam, Esq. a member of the corporation of this city; from which union he has surviving issue, Mr. William Stephenson Scholey, Miss Scholey, and Miss Caroline Exam Scholey. At the commencement of the Volun teer System, he was one of the first to step forward, not only in offering his own personal service, but by clothing and engaging every young person in his mercantile concern that was capable of bearing arms: and has, from his first introduction into life, manifested, on every occasion, the most unequivocal proof of his firm attachment to our present most excellent establishment in CHURCH and STATE. To his constant industry and great frugality (excepting when called upon to alleviate the wants of others), and to a generous and steady perseverance in the exercise of all social duties, may be attributed the high and dignified station to which he was almost unani antecedent to the unfortunate battle of Wakefield. In the contiguous town it appears that the family of his lordship has resided for several generations, upon a small property, the rental of which he has, for many years, given up as a provision for the maintenance of a widowed sister and hèr children. 1 mously elected by one of the most numerous and respectable Commonhalls ever convened in the populous and commercial CITY of LONDON. It is observable, that our worthy magistrate was, in the year 1804, returned to serve the important office of sheriff, in conjunction with his friend William Domville, Esq. both unconnected with party. And though neither of these gentlemen were then, or at the period of their quitting the office, members of the corporation; yet, in 1805 and 1806, each was chosen an alderman without contest, and so placed in regu. lar rotation, as to succeed each other in the high honours of the civic chair. With respect to his lordship's conduct in on general urbanity and moderation displayed in the necessary, though some times painful, exertion of POWER; his regular and constant attendance in the seat of justice; his cheerful compliance with the applications of his fellow-citizens for convocations of the common council and his becoming reception of the chief municipal magistrate of our sister island indeed, we might appeal to the whole tenor of his indefaligable exertions; but we mean not to panegyrize or enlarge on subjects so well known both to his constituents and the public. Yet it will be allowed us to mention one strong meritorious trait of his attention to the comfort of the laborious classes of the community, in superintending the average price of GRAIN, regardless of the resentment of the wealthy, or the obloquy of the inte rested. Combining authority with benevolence, and leaving an example of useful interposition to his immediate successors, he has persevered in what he has correctly conceived to be strictly within the line of his magisterial duty, and, at the present juncture, IMPERA TIVELY NECESSARY. Being now so soon to retire from the eminence to which, by public favour, he has been raised, and about to relinquish his delegated trust, after the conscientious discharge of its various duties to the best of his ability, with the utmost gentleness of manner and the least possible offence, having provoked no censure and intrigued for uo applause; he may, we think, expect with calm confidence to obtain from his liberal constituents, of every description, a fair and candid of his endeavours and moappreciation tives, and a kind acceptance of his past services. ASSIZE OF BREAD. COMPARATIVE OBSERVATIONS respecting Prima Ceres unco glebam dimovit aratro : Nec plus Hesperiam longinquis messibus ullæ, HESE mottoes, the first adverting to food cORN, which, cultivated by the plough, was secured to the people by the Sicilian laws relative to agricul ture; and the second allusive to the fertility of that luxuriant island Sicily, and also of Sardinia, both of which combined to supply the granaries of Rome, the mistress of the world; seem to us appositely to introduce the few observations which we shall comparatively have occasion to make, respecting the Chief Magistrates of ancient times and the present Lord Mayor of LONDON. It will here be necessary to state, that it was, in Rome, one of the duties of the Prætor Urbanus, vel Major,* an officer annually chosen, and in colonial districts called Prefectus,† to regulate the price To calculate this of CORN, and, consequently, to settle the assize of BREAD. with accuracy, and determine it with justice, he had the assistance of two minor officers, who were termed Prætores Cereales, who were, as is adjectively intimated, to provide corn, or, at least, to make periodical returns of its quantities, as they were brought to market, in order to guide their superior, with respect to his correctly striking the equitable balance betwixt the prices of coRN and BREAD. The leges Frumentaria formed a code, which was considered as the true standard for the regulation of these and all superThe Romans, alvenient circumstances relating to that important article. * Fenest, de Mag. Rom. c. 19. + Because he united the civil and military commands. These returns, fairly written and subscribed, were hung up in the Forum, and also in the porch of the public granary. |