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Boutell, A.M. (with Engravings)

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Dryden's Quarrel with Flecknoe: by Peter Cunningham, Esq.

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NOTES OF THE MONTH.-Portrait of Mr. Amyot-Bradford's "Complaint of Verity"

-Appendix to the Report of the Commissioners on the British Museum-Musical

Commemoration at Windsor-Lord Mayor's Show-Glastonbury Abbey-Mediæval

Exhibition of 1851-A Ragged School suggested in 1715 by Robert Nelson-Michael

Angelo's portrait of Vittoria Colonna-Intended Exhibition of Sacred Incidents-

"Imagination "-Recent Theological Works-Sea-Bathing Infirmary....

MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.-Wills and Inventories from the Registers of Bury St.

Edmund's, 632; Jesse's London and its Celebrities, 635: Getty's Notices of Chinese

Seals found in Ireland, 636; Tite's Catalogue of Antiquities found at the Royal Ex-

change, 637; John Howard and the Prison-World of Europe, by Hepworth Dixon,

638; Merryweather's Glimmerings in the Dark-Blackburn's Nineveh........

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.-Universities of Oxford and Cam-

bridge-Chronicle of Jean le Bel........

ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries-Archæological Institute, 640;

Architectural Society of the Archdeaconry of Northampton-The Bedfordshire

Archæological and Architectural, and the Yorkshire Architectural Societies. ..

HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 643; Domestic Occurrences

Promotions and Preferments, 648; Births and Marriages

OBITUARY: with Memoirs of The Duke of Palmella; Dr. Stopford, Bishop of Meath;

Lord Rancliffe; Lord Stanley of Alderley; Lord Leigh; Chief Justice Doherty; Sir

Henry T. Oakes, Bart.; Sir G. B. Hamilton, K.C.H.; Major-Gen. Sir E. G. Stannus;

Rear-Adm. Trollope; Major-Gen. Sir P. Ross; Major-Gen. Wingrove; Lieut.-Col.

Fullerton, C.B.; Lieut.-Col. J. W. King; John Fane, Esq.; G. Croker Fox, Esq.;

John Jardine, Esq.; Thomas Hodgson, Esq.; Rev. George Thackeray, D.D.; P.

W. Banks, Esq.; Dr. Neander; Mr. John Ray; Mr. Charles Harman; Mr. William

Barraud; Mr. J. S. Walker; Mr. Gale; Miss Biffin.

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BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

Embellished with Engravings of an ANGLO-NORMAN DOORWAY-ARCH at Tottenhill;
Examples of NORMAN COFFIN-SLABS; a WINDOW AND DOOR, and PISCINA
AND SEDILIA, at WINCHELSEA,

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

C. inquires," Can any of your readers inform me whether the clown in the pantomimes or at the Circus during the early part of the reign of Geo. III. was named BUCKHORSE? or was Buckhorse a character in one of the plays acted about that time? The name occurs more than once in the Letters of Junius, and the following extract from that writer seems to imply that Buckhorse was the Grimaldi of that period, and well-known as a comic actor. It was asserted that Lord Hillsborough was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1768, to correct the blunders of Mr. Pitt's administration. "This," says Junius, "puts me in mind of the consulship which Caligula intended for his horse, and of a project which Buckhorse once entertained of obliging the learned world with a correct edition of the classics."

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The Rev. H. HASTED, Rector of Horningsherth, in Suffolk, kindly writes to us in allusion to the question respecting the date of BISHOP BEDELL'S institution to that rectory, pointed out in our Magazine for November 1850, p. 479, as follows:"I referred to the parish register, and I find it there stated in a list of rectors to have been in 1615; and that this is correct is proved by the register in his own nice handwriting, the first entry of which is in February 1615, and the last in May 1628. There is also in the church chest a deed with his signature and his seal, mentioned in Mr. Tymms's History of St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmund's, page 124, and engraved in the " Proceedings "' of the Bury and West Suffolk Archæological Institute."

ANCESTORS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.Sir W. Hankford. The writer of the article under this head in our number for November 1849, desires to correct the assertion (p. 492), that the "monumental effigies in incised brass of himself (Sir W. H.) and Sir Richard, his grandson, still exist." This is not the case. In Gough's Sepulchral Monuments there is direct and particular evidence that in 1786 not a vestige of these brasses, effigies, or inscriptions remained. The statement that the effigies still exist was made on the authority of" Manning's List of Monumental Brasses remaining in England, 1846," and the inference to that effect in Lysons's Devon, vol. ii.

T. inquires whether the ARMS of a family were ever considered to be ap

pendant as it were to the possession of THEIR CHIEF MANOR, so that they passed therewith to a purchaser. He mentions two instances which seem to lead towards that conclusion. One of Jenkyn Smith, the great benefactor of the town of Bury St. Edmund's, the arms attributed to whom are those borne by the Bretts of Hepworth, whose manor of Brett in Hepworth he purchased. The other is that of the Druries, whose tau he thinks was derived from their purchasing the manor of Talmaches or Taumaches in Hawsted, in Suffolk, formerly in the possession of the Beckenhams and Talmaches.

In the memoir of Sir W. W. Dixie, Bart. given in our Magazine for Oct. 1850, p. 434, several corrections are required. He was the 8th, not the 7th Baronet, was born on the 16th Oct. 1816, and was consequently in the 34th year of his age. He was the elder son of Sir Willoughby-Wolstan-Dixie, (his father was not named William) by Belle-Anna, younger daughter of the Rev. Thomas Adnutt (not Allnutt), Rector of Croft, Leicestershire. He succeeded his father Oct. 23rd, 1827. He has left and had issue three (not two) daughters; 1. AliciaFrances-Anna; 2. Louisa-Julia-Mary; 3. Emma-Georgiana. His only brother the Rev. Beaumont Dixie, M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Rector of Market Bosworth (born Nov. 6, 1817) having died unmarried Nov. 1, 1846, the title is inherited by his uncle Capt. Sir Alexander Dixie, R.N. now 9th Bart. who married in 1818 Rosamund-Mary, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Dixie Churchill, Rector of Cadeby, Leicestershire, by whom, who died in 1831, he has surviving issue three sons: 1. Alexander-BeaumontChurchill Dixie, M.D. who is married and has issue four daughters; 2. Richard Dixie, also married, and has issue one son; 3. Wolstan - Fleetwood-Dixie; and two daughters. Sir Alexander Dixie married 2ndly Rebecca, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Barnjum, but has no more issue.

P. 442. The wife of Mr. Brumell was Miss Williamson, not Wilkinson.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.-Mr. Leake's communication has been received, and is intended for insertion.-We are much obliged to "A new Subscriber."

ERRATUM. In p. 488, col. 2, line 18 from the bottom, for "perfect knowledge" read "perfect love."

THE

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

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HISTORICAL REVIEW.

AN EVENING WITH VOLTAIRE.

COMMUNICATED BY THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRAYBROOKE.

MR. URBAN, Audley End, Nov. 2. MY grandfather, Mr. Richard Neville Neville, of Billingbear, Berks, during his residence at Geneva in 1772, was entertained at Fernay by Voltaire, and recorded the particulars of the visit in his journal. Perhaps they may interest some of your readers, in which hope I have sent you a literal transcript of the portion of the MS. relating to the interview.

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"Last Saturday, July 4th, 1772, we supped with Voltaire by his own appointment. My relation Tronchin had told him my desire of seeing him, and received the following answer :-Je suis bien malade, mais cela ne fait rien; venez tous deux ce soir sans cérémonie; si je suis mort, Madame Denis vous donnera à souper; si je suis en vie, nous boirons ensemble.' My son' preserves the original as a precious relic. Fortunately for us, not a soul was with him but his own family, consisting of Madame Denis his niece, Mons. and Madame Fleurian, Père Adam the Jesuit, and a poor little subdued soul, Mons. Durry, his secretary. These, with Tronchin, my son, and myself, formed his whole audience; yet did he seem as well pleased and as communicative as he could have been in a circle of admiring authors. From his note I was afraid we should have found him in low spirits, but on our return home Mons. Tronchin told us he always holds that language, that, should he dislike his company, he may have a better pretence for leaving the

The late Lord Braybrooke.

Still existing at Audley End.

Yours, &c. BRAYBROOKE.

room. In fact he is famous for having a colic at command, and being seized frequently with it. This explanation raised our vanity, which had been a little tickled before by Madame de Fleurian's telling me she had not seen her dear papa (as she calls him) in such spirits for a great while. I will endeavour to recollect some of his sentiments, and put them down as they

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Speaking of Dryden's Ode, he called it 'La plus belle Ode écrite depuis Pindar.' He wished it had been well set to music; we told him it had, by Handel; he seemed delighted. Í asked him what he thought of Pope's on the same subject; he answered, Comme d'un carrosse coupé, trainé par deux petits chevaux noirs, fort jolis, suivant de loin un char triomphant, attelé de six chevaux blancs,' &c.

"Speaking of Pope himself, he said he had 'ni gaité, ni tendresse, ni imagination, mais qu'il avait du goût, qu'il savait faire de beaux vers, et choisir toujours le mot le plus propre, et qu'il avait aussi-that best and wisest art,

This was the person whom Voltaire once introduced to a friend, in the following words:" Monsieur, j'ai l'honneur de vous presenter le Père Adam, mais gardez vous bien de croire que c'est le premier des hommes."

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the art to blot.' the Rape of the imagination, he glâcé,' &c.

Upon our mentioning Lock as a proof of said it was 'plât,

"Boileau and his Lutrin fared no better than Pope and his Rape. He would scarcely allow Boileau any other merit than that of having taught the French to write good verses. But the Dispensary came off in great triumph, nor would he even admit any part of the merit of that poem to have been due to the Lutrin. To us this seemed a flagrant instance of the force of jealousy in rival authors.

"He said he had spent three months with Swift, that he was morose et plaisantait serieusement.'

"He spoke well of Arbuthnot, and of Gay as the most amiable of companions.

"The Duchess of Queensberry he had always found belle, brillante, et fière.' I told him she was so still, and repeated to him Horace Walpole's Epigram upon the occasion,—

To many a Kitty, Love his car
Would for a day engage;
But Prior's Kitty, ever fair,

Obtained it for an age.
He perfectly well remembered Prior's
Ode, and was so well pleased with
Walpole's use of it, that he made me
repeat the epigram three times.

"Of all authors, living or dead, he detests Rousseau most. Il est fou d'orgueil, un cynique qui a tout le fiel, non pas de Diogène, mais de son chien.' It seems Jean Jacques wrote him a letter, which ended, 'Bref, je vous haïs; et je vous haïs comme un homme que j'ai cherché à aimer.' Their great quarrel was chiefly founded on their different sentiments about having a playhouse at Geneva.

"I could not help telling him I wondered that the author of Merope could admire Cato; J'avoue,' said he, 'qu'il est froid, mais de cette glace Addison a fait un superbe diamant.' He then said that he had censured fully the foolish love scenes and farfetched conspiracies so introduced in Cato, in his preface to Zaire. He can speak as freely of crowned heads as of authors.

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Possession contre laquelle je n'aurais pas troqué mon Fernay.' He told, admirably well, the fable of the Eagle, Cat, and Wild Sow, and when ended, cried Voilà l'histoire de la Maison de Savoie.'

"He charged my son to remember that he had it from his mouth, that not four months ago the King of Prussia had sent him 'un poëme en quatre chants contre les Confédérés, signé Frederick.' Various were his gestures to express the absurdity of the King's treating such a subject at such a time, and on being asked, if at least the verses were good, he said, 'J'ai reçu de lui des vers qui étaient vers d'un poète, ceux-ci sont des vers d'un roi.'

"I think we shall yet see strictures on Lord Clive's defence,- J'ai donné tant de millions à mon secrétaire, tant à un favori, tant à un autre, tant à une maitresse; que voulez vous de plus, Messieurs?'

"We had some talk of Admiral Byng, and great indignation was expressed by Madame Denis, and assented to by nods from Voltaire, against a nephew of Byng's, who had told Voltaire his uncle deserved his fate, and he was glad of it.

"He is convinced Lord Bolingbroke would have persuaded Queen Anne to have declared the Pretender her heir had she lived a few months longer, but exculpated Harley from any such thought. He observed, that we had not had an Englishman on the throne since Edward the Confessor; and on its being remarked that France and most other kingdoms drew the origin of their princes likewise from Germany, 'Il est vrai,' said he, 'l'Allemagne est le pays aux rois, mais Louis XV. s'est bien Gallicisé.'

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"He was reserved about Russia and Poland, and the partition of the latter. He only said the King of Prussia would take good care of himself, and that the King of Poland would be a certain gainer by the arrangement, as he would at least have a house to sleep quietly in, which he had not done since he wore a crown. With regard to Russia he had some apprehensions, his Cathos (so he calls the Empress) was not quite so easy, but probably the reports in the papers were without foundation.

"Talking of Garrick, he said, he wished he could see him act before he

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