LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS. [Those marked thus * are Vignettes printed with the letter-press.] PAGE View of Exeter Hall, Strand *Carving of Arms, and Niche, in Hornsey Church, Middlesex *Lock of the iron chest in Hornsey Church 9 .13 14 *Dryburgh Abbey, the Burial-place of Sir Walter Scott. Church of St. Dunstan in the West, London. *Ground-plan of the Old and New Churches of St. Dunstan's *Armorial emblem of the Trinity at St. Dunstan's.. ..114 .... .201 .209 .213 ....... . 216 .291 .297 .298 ..301 Newbigging Chapel, co. Northumberland..... ..305 Old Tower and Mansion House of Cresswell, Northumberland... *Map of Western China.. ib. .319 View of Oxford Castle... .401 ..... *Earthwork, or ancient Fortification at Laceby, Lincolnshire. Sepulchral Brass of John Daye, the Printer, at Little Bradley, Suffolk.....417 Ruins of the Nunnery at Iona ..408 .497 Bridge and Chapel of Morpeth, co. Northumberland... .505 Cockle Park Tower, Northumberland.................... ib. *Plan for raising the Royal George or other sunken Vessels. PREFAC E. In closing our Volume for the year 1832, it is impossible not to take cognizance of the great political change which has been effected during that period. In the conducting of our Miscellany we have always endeavoured to stand aloof from violent party feeling, and to judge of public measures solely by their probable effects, and the motives of their promoters. Well knowing that a governing power must be lodged somewhere, we have felt assured of the immutable axiom, that, for the benefit of all, it should be based in justice, and executed with vigour. This is the life principle of every permanent government, and especially essential to a constitutional Monarchy. Where indeed can power be more confidentially entrusted than to a restricted Monarchy, in alliance with a tolerant and apostolically constituted Church, which has so long and successfully withstood the absurd and unscriptural pretensions of Popery, and the fastidious and insinuating scruples of schism, with no other reapons than the sword of the spirit and the word of truth? It will at once bellowed that such a Church must compose a portion of that impregnable foundation against which it is predicted that "the gates of hell shall not prevail," and a close connection with her must strengthen the secular government. The monarchy by these means becomes a sort of theocracy, and the experience of manifold mercies manifested to us as a nation, in the stupendous and unparalleled contest with the hydra of revolution and the ambition of Napo leon, must have fully demonstrated to every thinking mind, that we, like the Israelites of old, have had our cloud to guide us by day, and our pillar of fire by night. It follows, therefore, by the plainest reasonable deduction, that to preserve the alliance of the Crown of Great Britain with the Protestant Reformed Church, to uphold the dignity, respectability, and mildly-asserted ascendancy of that Church, is to ensure for our welfare the favour of its Almighty founder ; while the converse of this position would be to make expediency our idol, and to set the immediate protection of Providence at nought. Our future Legislators will, we trust, well consider these fundamental principles of government; if disregarded, anarchy, unstable democracy, and dismemberment of the Empire, must be the infallible result. On the subject of amendment in our Parliamentary Representation, that great master of our national jurisprudence, Judge Blackstone, has the following pertinent remark :- -“There is hardly (with us) a free agent to be found but what is entitled to vote in some place or other of the kingdom. Nor is comparative wealth or property entirely disregarded in elections; for, though the richest man has only one vote in one place, yet, if his property be at all diffused, he has probably a right to vote at more places than one, and therefore has many Representatives. This is the spirit of our Constitution; not that I assert it is in fact quite so perfect as I have endeavoured to describe it; for, if any altera tion might be wished or suggested in the present frame of Parliaments, it should be in favour of a more complete representation of the people." It will remain therefore to be proved by the working, as it is termed, of the Reform Bill, whether this more complete representation has been effected; whether patriot talent, unendowed with the less noble qualification of wealth, has an equal chance as formerly of admission to the Senate; and more especially, as in all great changes the brute mob contribute an active and powerful share of agency, whether care has been taken that they shall be excluded from such an influence on the institutions of the country as may tend to affect their dignity and permanence. In all the restless eagerness for change which the noisy heralds of the march of intellect have endeavoured to arouse, by pandering to the passions and imposing on the credulity of the people, a strong conservative spirit has been demonstrated in favour of our ancient architectural structures devoted to ecclesiastical or other purposes; as if the Public entertained something of a prospective prudence derived from former experience of times of persecution and state convulsion; as if they recollected the havoc of works of art which attended even a salutary reformation of Religion, the desecrating impieties which were enacted during a period of fanaticism and democracy; as if they foresaw a day when the just balance of the three ancient constitutio eil elements, if now vacillating, would be regained, and the old structure would arise, like some recently renovated Gothic fane, more beautiful and svmetrical for the efforts to repair it, more firmly seated for the wanton endevours of its enemies to undermine and subvert it. In the general although somewhat artificial cry for innovation, we have not ourselves escaped, nor indeed expected to escape, without attack. Because we have refused to depart from our steady course, and to wander to that taste which seeks rather for momentary amusement than solid instruction, we have been designated as dull; sleepless ourselves to make our readers sleep!" Pass but a few short years, and we shrewdly suspect that we shall be able to turn the point of the jest on our opponents, and that old Sylvanus Urban will be taken from the shelf, and consulted for just and unbiassed views of "the age and body of the time, its form and pressure,' "when the ephemeral gentry who now carry their heads so high will have sunk into one long oblivious undisturbed repose. To conclude-we shall not deviate one jot from the principles and objects we have defined for our he of action, well coatented with the approbation of the truly patriotic, the just, and the good, hose rocks of eternal adamant, against which the sures of party spirit spead their fury in vain. December 31, 1832. 3.73 GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. London Gaz.-Times-Ledger Brit Trav.. Record-Lit.Gaz. Norwich, Oxf.,Portsm.,Preston, Sherb., Shrewsb., Southampton,Truro, Worcester 2Aylesbury, Bangor, Barnst. Berwick, Blackb., Bridgew, Carmar., Colch., Chesterf Devizes, Dorch., Doncaster Falmouth, Glouc., Halifax Henley, Hereford, Lancaster, Leaming, Lewes, Line) Lichf. Macclesf. Newark Newc. on-Tyne, Northamp. Reading, Rochest., Salish. Shields, Staff., Stockp., Sun derl.,Taunt.,Swans., Wakef. Warwick, Whiteh., Winches. Windsor, Wolverha., 1 each Ireland 61-Scotland 37 Jersey 4-Guernsey 3 Review of New Publications. Archæologia, Vol. XXIV.... 45 Hodgson's History of Northumberland...... 49 ... 60 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE-New Publications Historical Chronicle. 66 67 Proceedings in Parliament..................... 68 ............ 77 Bill of Mortality.-Markets.-Shares...., 95 Embellished with a View of EXETER HALL, Strand; By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT, Printed by J. B. NICHOLS and SON, CICERO'S HEAD, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster; where all Letters to the Editor are requested to be sent, POST-PAID. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. MR. URBAN,I should feel obliged to any of your Correspondents to inform me, through the medium of your Magazine, the particulars of the wreck of the Hunter Cutter, off the Hasbro' Sands (Norfolk Coast), and whether the officers and crew of that vessel were all lost, or, as has been generally reported, were prevented by smugglers on the coast from effecting a landing, and consequently drowned; also whether Captain Manby's Life Boat had been invented previously to the loss of the Hunter? for in a poem now in my hand on the wreck of the Hunter, by the niece of the Lieutenant (Ostler), I find these words: "And the Life-boat, alas! had not yet come to "Had that noble invention then fearlessly sailed, "But was there triumph o'er his manes; 's crew? Let such wretches then be told That Heaven's probation shall unfold All to their cursed dark soul's view!" The circumstances of the Life-boat mentioned above, and the horrid insinuation in the poem on the death of Captain William Ostler will, I hope, justify in some measure my claiming your indulgence to the insertion of this letter. CLIO. In A. J. K's notices of Crosby Place, in our last Number, a passage, p. 505, is rendered illegible by an accidental derangement of the type, which passage should run thus: of which the Hall, the immediate subject of this notice, affords so beautiful an example, and a most noble entrance-porch or oriel. Here we may be allowed to remark, as so much has been ingeniously said by a tate antiquary," Scc. Also at p. 506, paragraph 4, for Sir John Crosby was no patent feudatory of the Crown, read potent feudatory. H. P. inquires" on whom the Barouetcy in the family of Philipps has devolved by the death of its late possessor, Sir Rowland Henry Philipps Laugharne.' H. P. is requested to inform us of the date of Sir Rowland's death. In the last edition of Debrett's Baronetage it is stated that "Rowland Philipps, who took the name of Laugharne, was great-grandfather of Rowland Heary Phillips Laugharue, esq. in whom (if living) this title appears to be vested [having devolved to him on the death of Lord Milford in 1823]; but the Editor is not aware that he has hitherto assumed, or proved his Mr. JAMES LOGAN inquires if any corres- Of the chambered cannon called patterers, SENECTUS observes, "Among the good " |