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METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND.
From November 26, to December 25, 1840, both inclusive.

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J. J. ARNULL, English and Foreign Stock and Share Broker,

1, Bank Buildings, London.

J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET,

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

FEBRUARY, 1841.

BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Derivation of the word Gas-Magical Medal-
Antiquarian and Genealogical Queries

114

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, by his Sons
Roman Altars, Coins, &c. found at Risingham, Northumberland, (with a Plate)~~~133
Anecdotes of French Ambassadors to England

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Meaning of Manredde-Character of the Vulgate...
Great Men natives of the South, in France and America
Memorandum on the text of Thomson's Seasons, by Mr. Bolton Corney
Mr. Hallam on the Literary History of the Turkish Spy......
Fielding's House at East Stower, Dorset-Judges' House at Dorchester
Niche found in St. Bartholomew's Church, near the Exchange
Bells of St. Nicholas, Newcastle-Arms borne by King Richard I.
PRIMITIÆ ET RELIQUIE, by the Marquess Wellesley, 1840
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-Kellett's Tricænium Christi, 1641
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Memorials of the Rebellion, in 1569, 161; Tyler's Primitive Christian Wor-
ship, 165; Hofland's British Angler's Manual, 169; Hawkins's Lost Angel,
ib.; Brayley's Topographical History of Surrey, 172; Chronica Jocelini de
Brakelond, 175; Miscellaneous Reviews-Murray's Ely Chapel, Loudon's
Derby Arboretum, Marryatt's Poor Jack, 177; Jebb's Divine Economy of
the Church, 178; Postans' Western India, Polack's New Zealanders,
&c. &c.

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FINE ARTS.-Shaw's Dresses and Decorations from the Seventh to the Seven-
teenth Centuries, 183.-Spreat's Devonshire Churches, ib.-Baily's Statue
of Sir Richard Bourke, ib.-Embellishments of the Library of the Chamber
of Peers, 184.-Painting in France....
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-List of New Publi-
cations, 185.-Cambridge University, 186.-Durham University, ib.-The
late Baron Bolland's Library, ib.-Bohn's Catalogue, 187.-Foreign Lite-
rary Intelligence
ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 188.-Numisma-
tic Society, 189.-Romsey Abbey, ib.-Runic Ring, Roman Antiquities of
Algiers, 190.-Foreign Antiquarian Intelligence, 191.-Cannon of the Mary
Rose

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HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Parliamentary Proceedings, 193.
News, 194.- Domestic Occurrences....

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Promotions and Preferments, 197.-Births, 198.-Marriages
OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Sir Charles Throckmorton, Bart.; Sir F. L.
Blosse, Bart.; Sir B. W. Burdett, Bart.; Sir H. D. St. Paul, Bart.; Sir
George Pocock, Bart.; Major-Gen. Hull; Col. Oglander; Rear-Adm. Tin-
ling; Capt. Horrie, R.N.; the Chevalier de Lawrence; John Whishaw,
Esq. F.R.S.; S. W. Sweet, Esq.; Henry Brandreth, Esq. F.S.A.; Mr.
Collingwood; the Baronne de Feucheres.....

Deaths arranged in Counties

199

201-215 215

Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 223; Meteorological Diary-Stocks 224 Embellished with Representations of four ROMAN ALTARS found at RISINGHAM, Northumberland; a View of FIELDING'S HOUSE at EAST STOWER; and an ancient Niche found in ST. BARTHOLOMEW's Church, London.

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

The following derivation of Gas, occurs in Gorton's Biographical Dictionary, art. J. B. van Helmont (who died in 1644). "His first literary production was a treatise on the Spa waters, printed at Liege in 1624. This piece is remarkable on account of the author having used the German term gheist, answering to the English Ghost, or spirit, to denote the air on which the properties of the Spa water depend. From this term is derived the modern gas, now so extensively employed." Mr. Gorton says of this person's son, F. M. van Helmont, that "he joined a caravan of Bohemians." should have said Gipsies, who are so denominated in some parts of the Continent.

He

G. E.'s sword, which he considers to be of foreign manufacture, and not a very ancient or handsome one, is probably of the age of the Empress Catharine, whose name, in the characters of her country, it bears.

There are several inaccuracies in the loosely-worded passage sent us by VIATOR, from Mackay's "Thames and its Tributaries;" but these votaries of the write-with-ease school are scarcely worth criticism. We believe that the scaffold for the execution of Charles the First was erected in the public street before Whitehall.

The Proclamation of the Pretender, offered by T. M. K. we should be happy to insert, if unnoticed by any modern writer, and not very long.

EBORACENSIS requests information as to the origin of the dedication of the Church at Frodingham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which is the only one he has ever heard or read of being dedicated to St. Elgin. Is he sure that the name is not Elgiva, a frequent female name among the Anglo-Saxons?

The Rev. RICHARD WALKER, B.D. Fellow of Magd. Coll. Oxford, intending to publish an enlarged edition, with amended text, of Budden's Life of William Waynflete, would be glad to be informed where the metallic copper plates of Chandler's Life of Waynflete are to be found, as he wishes to reproduce the engravings, as an illustration to his work.

H. of York has sent a drawing of a copper medal in his possession, having on one side figures of Venus with a harp, and

Iris, as a boy, with a bow and arrow, both seated on the ground; and on the reverse a magical square of seven figures; but either the medal or his drawing is erroneous in one place, viz. the third square in the second row, which he has delineated to be 43, whereas, to make the number correct, it ought to be 48. Then this square will be what is called a magical square of seven, making 175 perpendicularly, horizontally, and diagonally. Of the history or purpose of this medal we know nothing.

W. B. D. D. T. asks for information respecting Thomas Greenhill, M.D. author of a History of Embalming, published at London in 1705. Noble, in his continuation of Granger, gives no further particulars than could be gathered from the titlepage of the volume itself.

W. D. would feel obliged if any of our correspondents could inform him, 1st, what family, if any, had Sir Chas. Denton, M.P., who, with Col. Smith, M.P., was taken prisoner, by Cromwell, at the capture of Hilsdon House. 2d, What issue, if any, had Geo. Denton, Esq. born 1650, son of Col. Geo. Denton, in arms for Chas. 1st. 3d, The issue, if any, of Sir Alex. Denton, M.P. who, together with John Hambden, represented Wendover in the first Parliament of King Charles I. Also if any armorial bearings and monumental effigies are to be found of this ancient family, and what and where?

EBORACENSIS is informed that the song commencing "Tobacco is an Indian Weed," alluded to in Censura Literaria, VI. p. 43, note, and of which two lines are quoted in one of the Waverley Novels, will be found in Playford's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to purge Melancholy, 1707, vol. i. p. 315, in D'Urfey's Pills, &c. 1719, vol. iii. 292, and in Sedley's New Academy of Compliments. The same Correspondent asks, who was Thomas Maude, who wrote and published some poetical trifles, towards the conclusion of the last century: where was he born? What profession, if any, did he follow? When did he die ?-Is it known for a certainty where Robert Baston, a poet, temp. Edw. I. and Edw. II. was born? What writings of his have come down to the present time? and are any of them to be met with in print?

THE

MAGAZINE.

GENTLEMAN'S

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, written by himself, and edited by his Sons. 3 vols. 1840.

WE have been in some doubt in what manner to present such a view of the work before us to our readers, as would afford them some knowledge of the talents and character of the writer, without entering into the minuter details of his private history, or attempting an analysis of his public and political life. Had the book reached us with all the gloss of novelty fresh upon it, and did we possess the space which those works have, that appear at more distant intervals of time than ours, we should undoubtedly have attempted an abridged review of the interesting narrative of Sir S. Romilly's life, and given the autobiography, as far as we could, in his own language: but to attempt such a plan in our crowded and confined pages, would be vain, and instead of presenting the living and animated form, we should be able to exhibit but a meagre and lifeless skeleton. The Memoirs of Sir S. Romilly are divided into three several portions: the first is a narrative, in two parts, of the events of his earliest years, from 1757 to the close of 1789. The first part bears date 1796, two years previous to his marriage: this he has carefully revised and corrected. The latter part, dated in 1813, seems to have been more hastily written. This narrative is followed by a series of letters to his brother-in-law Mr. Roget, commencing in 1780, and ending in 1783. No original materials exist, from which it would be possible to continue Sir S. Romilly's life during the sixteen years which elapsed from 1789 to the beginning of 1806. This interval has been filled up with some letters to friends, a diary of a short visit to Paris in 1802, and an unfinished narrative belonging to the history of his life in 1805. The largest part of the work is a journal of his Parliamentary Life, extending from the beginning of 1806 to the close of it in 1818. The editors lament, that of one part of their father's life no account is to be found in this volume. Of his labours in the study of the Law, of his gradual rise and ultimate success in his profession, their pages contain scarcely any mention; although abundant materials remain, which certify the intensity of his labours in his profession, he has left none which show the mode by which he rose, or the eminence which he reached. They further add, that they wish the portrait of their father to be entirely drawn by his own hand; and they add, in the warm and honourable language of filial affection and duty,

"If they had departed from this course, it would have been, not to record his triumphs in his profession, or to relate the influence of his eloquence; but to describe some few of those scenes which live in the memories of them all, when, in the intervals of relaxation from his labours, and in the midst of his children, he sympathised with their pursuits, par

took of their enjoyments, added by his gaiety to their mirth, and to each in a different way was scarcely less a companion than a father. This gratification, however, they have not ventured to allow themselves, and as they neither pretend to write his life, nor affect to possess the impartiality which should belong to those who undertake that task, they have

deemed it necessary, with whatever reluct- must, they are aware, be in many respects ance, to confine themselves strictly to the unfinished, and, in some, scarcely more course they have laid down for their con- than an outline; but many considerations duct, and to which alone they felt them- have induced them to offer it, imperfect selves equal. The portrait they present as it is, to the observation of the public. " Of the different divisions of the work which have been enumerated, there is not one that will fail in the perusal to bring both interest and instruction; but to our mind, the chief beauty of the narrative, and if we may so express ourselves, the delightful bloom and freshness of its early pages which describe the opening life of the writer, is that on which we should longest wish to dwell. The later period of Sir S. Romilly's life, when he had risen to political and legal eminence, will appear under a different phase to different minds. Some are still alive, who were arrayed both with him and against him in the field of politics: some who were his rivals at the bar: some who as statesmen maintained opinions and belonged to parties at variance with his and there are some, we believe, who, while they admit the general justice of his remarks, yet deprecate the severity of his judgments on certain of his competitors and rivals. But we have observed, in the acquaintance which we have had either personally or through books with those who have been distinguished in the walks of public life, and whom we have been accustomed to see engaged in the arduous struggle of political warfare; that, however displeased we may have been with the distant sternness of their manner and the peculiarities of their temper, as exhibited to their opponents; and the guarded jealousy and watchfulness with which they protected themselves; yet, when we were permitted to enter the doors of their private life, to see them with the armour of warfare laid aside, and accompany them into the bosom of domestic endearments, and the unrestrained intercourse of friendly society; we confess how imperfect, and often erroneous, is the view of character which is gained only in the exhibition of public life, and how worthy even our most implacable opponents are of our esteem. In his own beloved retirement, the proud repulsive haughtiness of Chatham broke out into the sunniest smiles, and was softened into the sweetest and most playful affection; and the somewhat Roman virtue,* and cold, stoical character of Romilly (for such indeed, many who knew him have described him to us), was exchanged for that of a man grateful for the blessings with which his home was filled, and looking for his happiness and recreation in the tenderest endearments of conjugal and parental love. whole picture indeed of his early situation, of his feelings during the opening morning of his life, of his young ambition, his maturer resolves, his virtuous self-denial throughout, his well-directed and assiduous studies, his warm affections to his family, his filial regard, are told with a plain and reserved simplicity, that win our confidence and esteem as coming with the weight and authority of truth, and holding out an useful lesson of instruction to those who may not have attained the conviction, that almost all the difficulties, however gigantic they may seem, that beset our steps, will gradually disappear before a well-grounded confidence in our exertions, and a determined perseverance in the path that is to lead to success. It was this rich and noble patrimony,—a firm reliance on him

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*This is the expression which Mr. Southey uses, when speaking of Sir S. Romilly in one of his letters printed in the Correspondence of Mr. Wilberforce.

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