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Mr. Mortimer has been twice married, and has a numerous progeny now living. Two of his fons, by his first wife, are in the naval fervice of their country. The eldeft, John Mortimer, was lately promoted to the rank of Mafter and Commander, from being First Lieutenant cn board his Majesty's fhip, The Excellent, in the glorious engagement of Lord St. Vincent with the Spanish Fleet on the 14th of February 1797. The youngest, George Mortimer, is First Lieutenant of the 96th Company of Marines, in the Portimouth Divifion.

We conclude with a fincere wish, that

our Author may long enjoy the fatisfaction of knowing that in the opinion of candid critics, he has long fince been intitled to that reputation, which he expreffes himself, in the following paffage of the Introduction to the laft Edition of his Student's Pocket Dictionary," fo anxious to obtain: "In compiling this Work, I have followed the bias of that inclination which has constantly directed my pen to fubjects of general utility, having been always ambitious to establish a folid rather than a splendid literary reputation." J. P.

EGHAM CHURCH.

[WITH A VIEW. ]

EGHAN is a large Village in the the First. This family appears to have

county of Surry, feated on the road from Staines to Farnhamn, and is 18 miles from London. The Church is an ancient ftructure, and the Parfonage Houle was formerly the feat of Sir John Denham (father of the poet), who was a Baron of the Exchequer in the reign of James

been much connected with the town, there being an alms houfe built, and endowed by the above-mentioned lawyer, for old women. Near the town is Rumney Mead, where King John figned Magna Charta.

ACCOUNT

OF

THE CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF CHARRETTE,

THE BRAVE, THE UNFORTUNATE VENDEAN ROYALIST GENERAL.

T laft Charrette was dif

A covered by a corporal of

the Chaffeurs of the Mountains, of which .corps our infantry was compofed. Travaux, our General, alfo perceived him, and gave orders that not a shot should be fired. The corporal caught hold of him by the skirts of his jacket, and endeavoured to ftop him; but Charrette, who at that fatal moment had left his customary prefence of mind, kept running, and dragged the corporal after him till he came to a hedge, over which he attempted to leap, but fell into the midft of it, and was taken out in a state of infenfibility, being entirely exhaufted by his long continued efforts to escape. A little water thrown in his face having reftored him to his fenfes, the first words

he fpeke were, Whofe prifoner am I?' -- Fravaux,' was the answer. So

much the better,' faid he, he is the only man worthy to take me.' He was armed with a carbine and two piftols, which he had discharged in the previous action. His drefs was a green jacket with the fkirts turned back, and embroidered with four fleur-de-lis in gold; a pink waistcoat, a fafh of white filk with gold fringe at the ends, half boots, and a round hat with a handkerchief over it. He had been ftruck by a ball, which had grazed his forehead over the left eye; and had been wounded in the left arm by the burting of his carbine. As he was too

weak to walk, he was put on a horse, and conducted to the Château de Pontde-vie, where he paffed the night in the General's room, under a ftrong guard. He ate and chatted all the night, and, in fhort, fupported that character of fortitude, which he had acquired in fo many

trying fituations. The next day he was taken to head quarters at Angers, whence he was conveyed to Nantz, and there tried and fhot.

"Before his punishment, the executioner afked, if he would permit him to tie a bandage over his eyes? 'No,' anfwered Charrette, I have looked death

often enough in the face, to be able to brave him.' Being afked by General Travaux, why he had not emigrated, when he had found an opportunity? I had fworn,' faid he, to put the King upon the throne, or perifh in the attempt I have kept my oath."

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JAMES WHITE, ESQ.

N the course of last month was found

him to be put under the care of the

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Arms, a public houfe in the parish of Wick, Gloucefterfhire, about fix miles from Bath, JAMES WHITE, ESQ. a Gentleman well known in the literary world. He was educated at the Univerfity of Dublin, and was esteemed an admirable scholar, and possessed of brilliant parts. His conduct for four or five years paft has been marked by great wildnels and eccentricity. He is laid to have conceived an ardent affection for a young lady, who, he fuppofed, was as warmly attached to him; but (as he imagined) fome plot had been contrived to wean her regard, and to fruftrate all his future profpects in life. He attributed the failure of his application for patronage and employment from the great to the machinations of thofe plotters and contrivers, and even fupp fed their influence upon the London book. fellers prevented his literary talents being more amply rewarded. The winters of 1797 and 1798 he paffed in the neigh bourhood of Bath, and many perfons noticed in the pump-room, the streets, or vicinity of the city, a thin, pale, emaciated man (between 30 and 40), with a wild, yet penetrating look, dreffed in a light coat of Bath coating. His means of fubfiftence were very fcanty, and he obliged the cravings of nature to keep within their limits: he has been known to debar himself of animal food for months, and to have given life a bare fubfiftence by a bifcuit, a piece of bread, or a cold potatoe, and a glass of water. Unable to pay his lodgings, and too proud to ask relief, he would many nights wander about the fields, or feek repofe beneath a hay-ftack; almoft exhausted, he once took refuge in an inn at Bath, where his extraordinary conduct, and his refufing every fuftenance, alarmed the mistress, and impelled her to apply to the magistrates: they humanely ordered

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thefe precautionary means as he ought
to have done, he, in letters to fome per-
fons in Bath, complained of "the undue
interference of magifterial authority, and
this unconftitutional infringement of the
liberty of the fubject!" When his mind
was more compofed, and his health partly
recovered, he behaved with more mo-
deration, and, though apparently fenfible
of the good intended him, he ftrongly
fufpected that his imaginary hot of
enemies had again been plotting.
was about this time that he published
his "Letters to Lord Camden on the
State of Ireland;" the elegance and
ftrength of his language, the fhrewdnets
of his remarks, and the perfpicuity of
his arguments, were generally admired.
A fmall fubfcription was privately raised
for his relief; and, though given to him
with a degree of delicacy, he could
scarcely be prevailed upon to take it but
as a loan. He then left Bath, nor had
the writer of this account heard of him
till he learned that the Coroner's inquett
had been called to determine on his pre-
mature death. This unhappy Gentle-
man had refpectable relatives refiding in
Bath; but who poffeffed no influence
over his paffions, nor means of control.
ing his conduct.

The following is as accurate a Lift of his Works, as we have been able to ob tain:

(1) The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero against Caius Cornelius Verres, tranflated, with Annotations, 4to. 1787.

(2) Conway Cattle; Verfes to the Memory of the late Earl of Chatham; and The Moon, a Simile, 4to. 1789.

(3) Earl Strongbow; or, The History of Richard de Clare and the beautiful Geralda, 2 vols. 12mo. 1789.

(4) The Adventures of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancafter, 3 vols, 12mo. 1790. (s) The

(5) The Adventures of King Richard Cœur de Lion. To which is added, The Death of Lord Falkland, a Poem, 3 vols. 12mo. 1791.

(6) The History of the Revolution of France, tranflated from the French of M. Rabaul De Saint Etienne, 8vo. 1792.

(7) Speeches of M. De Mirabeau the Elder, pronounced in the National Af fembly of France. To which is prefixed, A Sketch of his Life and Character, tranflated from the French, z vols. 8vo. 1792.

(8) The Letters to Lord Camden, al ready mentioned.

ORIGINAL LETTER

FROM

PHILIP MORANT TO DR. MASON, OF CAMBRIDGE.

REV. SIR,

AVING accidentally met with the

HA

following original Paper relating to S. Harfnet, Archbishop of York, which I thought might be of use to you, I have made bold to fend you a copy of it; and the more, because it relates to a particular not taken notice of by any hiftorian; namely, his being Master of the Free School at Colchester. He did not hold that employment above two years. The paper is as follows:

"Our comendations remembred, and whereas we lately received letters from you touchinge Mr. Harfnet, fellowe of our Colledge. We thoughte good in tyme convenient to make aunfwer to the fame. This therefore may certifye you concerninge thofe pointes you requested of us, namelie, his fufficiencye to teache in the Latin and Greek tounges, as well proafe as verfe, with his honeft behavioure and converfation, that we do knowe and promife in his behalfe, that he is very able and fufficient to performe thofe duties, as alfo of a good name and honeft converfation amonge us. In fignification whereof, we, the Prefident and Fellowes of the Colledge have feverallie fubfcribed our names to thes our letters; and fo, with our hartie commendations, we with you farewell. From Pembrook Hall the thirde of May, anno 1586.

Henry Farr

Lancell Andrewes Rob. Robinfon

Henry Golde

Samuel Farr
Roger Dod

John Beauchampe
John Gravel
Paul Birkbick

Thomas Pechee

Nicholas Felton
Thomas Mudd

Richard Streate

Henry Brampton
Ralphe Rowby
William Tubman
Richard Harvey
S. Harnett.

In dorfo,
To the Righte Worshipfull
our very frends the Bayliffs
and Aldermen of the Towne
of Colchetter."

S. Harfnet was fon of William Harf net, a baker, in Botolphs-freet, in this town. Upon perufing the register of St. Botolphs paper, I found that the faid Samuel was baptized June 20, 1561.

I have by me a very great quantity of pamphlets relating to the History and Antiquities of England, particularly from the year 1637 to 1688. If any of them fhould be of ufe to you, I should be ready to communicate them to you.

And I fhould be extremely obliged to you if you would be fo kind as to examine when John Baftwick was admitted into your College, and how long be con, tinued a member of it. He was born in 1593; fo that I guess he must have been admitted into Emmanuel College about 1608, 1609, or 1610. I mean the fame perfon that was afterwards such a turbu, lent incendiary.

I fhould likewife be very much obliged to you if you would be pleafed just to mention which of the fellows of Caius College I could but apply to in order to know when Richard Brady, M. D. was admitted into that College, took his degrees, was chofen Mafter, &c.

Begging the favour of you to excufe the trouble, I remain, Sir,

Your moft obedient humble fervant,
PHIL. MORANT.

Colchester, Aug. 26, 1740.

ΤΟ

SIR,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE.

THE following Account of THE THEATRE OF SAGUNTUM, tranflated from the Latin, and corrected by an eminent literary Character, was lately found amongst the papers of a deceafed friend. As I cannot learn that it has ever been printed, I fend it for infertion in THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, and am

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EMMANUEL MARTINI TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND HONOURABLE ANTONY FELIX ZONDADARI, ARCHBISHOP OF DAMASCUS, AND PONTIFICAL LEGATE TO THE CATHOLIC KING.

HEN we lately converfed together thing drawing out another as ufual in converfation, mention happened to be made of the Theatre at Saguntum; which, when I faid I had in every particular defcribed in a draught thereof taken by me, you expreffed a defire of feeing it, together with certain fhort notes or ob. fervations added by me, not fo much for the fake of fhewing my learning, as explaining of a very obfcure matter. Be hold it therefore, most honoured Sir, reftored and brought to light from the darkness of oblivion, although in tattered and obfolete cloathing. The true and priftine ftructure whereof, traced out by all its veftiges, I fhall confecrate to late pofterity in as brief a manner as I can.

The Theatre of Saguntum is fituate in a moft fit and healthy place; for it opens itself against the North and the riting Sun, adjacent to a moft pleafant valley, which a river flows befide, and has the Eastern fea in profpect. It is defended from Southern and Western blafts by the interpofition of a mountain, by which it is furrounded, and, as it were, embraced in its bofom: wherefore it admits only the Northern and Eastern vital breezes to breathe upon it; the rett, that are hurtful to human health, being entirely excluded; which Vitruvius admonishes, in the first place, to be taken care of in building theatres: for when the minds of the fpectators are overflowing there with the greateft pleature, their bodies, being unmoved and captivated and allured by delight, have gaping paffages and open pores, into which the furrounding winds easily enter, which, if they be noxious and unhealthy, or any ways infected, may bring deftruction by their blaft; therefore their force from the South is to be avoided: for when the Sun fills the curvity of the theatre with its fcorching heat, the air fhut in

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in the hemicycle, and having no power

:

tinual turning, circumaction, and whirling rotation. From whence it comes to pafs, that the bodies being exhaufted of their natural moisture, are burnt up, and being overheated, fall into difeafes. Moreover, our theatre is, by the difpofition and nature of the place, prepared for founding, which is very neceffary therein; for the voice being collected by that curvity and embrace of the mountain climbing with increase up to the fummit, ftrikes itronger upon the ear with a diftinct termination of words, which I myfelf experienced; for Emmanuel Mignana, a moft worthy Gentleman, and molt near to me in all friendly offices, recited to me fome verfes of Afinius out of the fcene in Amphitruon, which I heard very well from the top gallery or cavea, which, as I live, filled me with incredible pleafure; for thofe rocks are vocal, nor that only, but five times founding and thus much for the pofition of the theatre. Now as to the ftructure- The ambit then of its hemicycle, which the Greeks call Primetron, has 564 of our palms or fpans, or three quarters of a Roman foot; and, measuring its diameter, the line being drawn from each horn, it has 330 and an half of the like palms or fpans. The height of the theatre, from the orchestra to the top gallery, is 133 palms and an half; but, to the top of the remaining fummit of the decayed party wall, 144 palms and an half: also the diameter of the orchestra hath 96 palms; from which it is certain the defcription of the whole theatre arifes, as it were, from a center; therefore the name orchestra was allotted by the Greeks, becaufe in the Greek theatre it had been a place deftined for dancing and gefticulations; yet among the Kemans it had quite another ufe, at least from what Ĉ. Atilius Serranus and L. Scribonius

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Libo,

Libo, the Curule Ediles, following the fentence of the fuperior Africanus, alfigned the orchestra for the feats of the fenators in that therefore, in the most honourable place, fet the Prince or Prætor in his ftall, the veftiges whereof remain in the middle of the orchestra to the podium; afterwards were placed the vetals, priests, ambaffadors, fenators; and, left the prospect of the ftage fhould be taken away by any objects standing before them, it was very carefully contrived to a nicety that the pavement of the orchestra, from the Prince's ftall, fhould arife gently and by degrees into an acclivity up to the lowest ftep of the equestrians, the pavement being lowered and cut away by degrees into a circle, in the manner of a belt, by placing and fixing the feats: a fpace being left between the orders of the feats a little more advanced that it might afford the coming in and going out, which I believe no one has hitherto taken notice of; and indeed it had flipped me, unless, having called for diggers, I had not bid them remove the earth with which the whole orchestra was buried. From the bottom of the orchestra the equeftry broke forth, or 14 fteps fet apart for the equeftrian order, by the Rofcian and Julian theatric laws, to the feventh of which steps two vomitories afford paffage, which there fore is wider, left by the ftraitnefs of the place the equeftrian multitude should be preffed, but might pour themselves into their feats with fiee paffage. And becaule this theatre is founded in the hardest ftone, whole stubbornneis deludes the attempts and induftry of art, the equeftry has only two doors in it, which, when they are not fufficient to admit the number of the knights, there are added from thence a double ladder, in the open and fpreading place of which the bottom fteps go under the arch in the profcene itfelf. A precinction or inclofure referves the highest step of the equestrian order by which name the ancients called the ftep that was doubly higher and broader than the reft, which as it were begirt and inclofed the reft that were fmaller, which the Greeks called Diazomata, for they were a fort of tranfverfe girdles, from whence they are by fome called belts, that is, they are breaks and little beds of steps running circular; which are fo inferted, that the diftinctions of the fenatorian, equeftrian, and plebeian orders might appear manifest to the eyes by that divifion, nor any Communication be between them: after

wards follow twelve steps of the populace in à higher and more remote place, in which fat fpectators of the plebeian order, which they call the upper gallery or cavea. Into thefe feats very many paffages lead, and thence to the inner arches or nest of chambers; alfo the upper portico, whofe ufe was twofold, that it might have where the people might retire themfelves if any fudden torm or fhower should interrupt the plays; and that the theatre beneath might be defended from the injury of waters and filth. That portico hath eight fore doors, and as many back doors oppofite, yet oblique, and which mutually face each other; that by the wind admitted through them the theatre might be refreshed, nor the air unmoved grow torpid and ftagnant. Into thefe doors a flight of seven steps afford afcent, breaking out from the lowelt ftep of the equeftrians at the orchestra, not indeed interie&ted therefrom and va. rying, as in moft amphitheatres, but in a direct leading and continuity; by which it comes to pass that they form wedges very long, from the loweft feats to the top, very pleasant to the eyes of the fpectators; and thefe ftairs were ways between the wedges to afcend or descend; for whereas thofe degrees or steps of feats were higher than a man's ftep, and not without the greatest difficulty to be climbed, thefe ftairs are contrived nicely for the purpose, by placing a third step between every two, unlets where the precinctions or inclosures intervene, for there four are inferted. The breadth of the highest of thefe is three palms and an half, and the height of the steps a palm and an inch and an half, which twofold meafure the degrees of feats exhibit. Thefe ftairs are fo made that the multitude, fo feated, might have an easy exit, and as it were at hand where to turn themselves, left, being there inclofed, they might be driven to undergo the neceffities of the body. Moreover, thofe that were fhut out of the wedge, or excuneated, to ufe a theatric expreflion, beheld the shows ftanding. There is that difference between the inner doors and outer, that the inner are fquare and open wider, and the outer are arched and leis. There is befides an upper portico 15 palms broad and a quarter, and twelve palms and a fpan high, therefore the breadth is greater than the height. Wherefore? For this reason, that left while they are crowding in or going out, they should labour in the ftrait of the portico. Which portico does not reach to the angles of the theatre,

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