GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER, 1834. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Nevern Cross.-History of Westminster School.- PAGE TUDOR'S TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA, MEXICO, &c. ST. GILES'S CHURCH, OXFORD (with a Plate)....... son the Bookseller, 463.-Letter from Prior to Tonson.... MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS, NO. IV.-Letters of Addison to Ton Considerations on Joshua's Miracle.... Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, No. I... Conflagration of the two Houses of Parliament (with a Plan).. Anglo-Saxon Literature-Thorpe's Glossary to Cædmon-Lazamon. Lady Chapel, and St. Mary Overies, Southwark.. Font at Corbeny, near Rheims (with a Cut). 450 451 462 464 465 470 477 483 486 487 POETRY.-Sonnet on Lawrence's Portrait of Lady Peel.-Anacreontis Fragmenta 488 RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-Dunbar the Poet.... 489 Pordage's Poems..... REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 495 Wilmot's Lives of the Sacred Poets, 497.-Correspondence of Bp. Jebb, 500. -Henderson on New South Wales, 501.-Woodhead's Exposition of the Creed, 502.-Walker's Physiognomy, 503.-On the influence of Speech, 504. Oriental Fragments, 504.-Green's History of Framlingham, 505.—D'Israeli's Revolutionary Epick, 506.-Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, 307.-Martin's History of the British Colonies, 509.—Aspinall's Sermons, 511.-Sermons by Burton and Howels, 512.-Miscellaneous Reviews, 512-517.-THE ANNUALS-Oriental Annual-Landscape AnnualHeath's Picturesque Annual-Friendship's Offering-Comic Offering..515-518 FINE ARTS.-Reviews, 519-Musical Festival at Birmingham.. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 520 ..... 521 New Publications-Learned Societies, &c..... ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Discoveries in South America, &c. ...... 524 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 525.-Domestic Occurrences, 526.-Promotions, Births, and Marriages OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Donna Francisca of Spain, 531.-Mr. Justice Jebb, 532.-Rt. Rev. Dr. Doyle, 533.-Vice-Adm. Sir R. King; Gen. Sir J. Doyle, 534.-Rear-Adm. Sir R. Seymour, 536.-Rear-Adm. Sir B. H. Carew, 537.-Col. J. D. Morgan, 539.-Lieut. Shipp, 540.-P. M. Case, esq.; Patrick Heatly, esq., 543-S. T. Coleridge, esq., 544.-Rev. Dr. Tatham; Mr. Thelwall..... CLERGY DECEASED, 550.-DEATHS, arranged in Counties. 529 549 555 Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 559-Meteorological Diary-Stocks 560 Embellished with a View of ST. GILES'S CHURCH, OXFORD; a Representation of the FONT at CORBENY, near Rheims; and a Plan, showing the CONFLAGRATION of the two HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. 3 1* Radimenta,"* Barry's Aposodoras," ** * for latura Brevis Reforma's, * Carmen Viagrammata," Martialia Epgraminata, Juvenal, An English Introduction to the Latine Tongue, for the Use of the Lower Forms in Westminster School. There is also advertised, "A General Examination of the common Greeke Grammar, according to Dr. Busby's Method, chiefly intended for young Beginners in the Greek Tongue, in the Free-school at Newark-upon-Trent," South, who hap pened to be monitor on the day of the execution of Charles I. read the usual Mt Guildhall Chapel, to which he was a great benefactor. Mr. MARTIN would be obliged by any information relative to the following Members of the Royal Academy, viz John Baker, painter of flowers; Jcha Gwynn, architect, a native of Shrews bory; Richard Yeo, medallist: Edn und Garvey; Elias Martin, Stephen Elmer, and Theopsius Clarke, Associates: Ca not, Chambars, and Ravenet, Associate Engravers. We are obliged by Mr. SCATCHERD'S communication of the antient Seal of the Bardets. We are compelled to defer for another month the Correspondence between Spon and Pere la Chaise; together with the Memoir of the Rev. John Harriman; and some other articles. We have not room for the letter signed ISCARIUS. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. TOUR IN NORTH AMERICA AND MEXICO, &c. BY HENRY TUDOR, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW. 2 vols. WE will not accompany Mr. Tudor through the different stages of his Travel which have been so often traversed before, but rather join him whenever any circumstance of curiosity attracts our attention, or any novelty calls for remark. We do not think that a country, and especially such a country as America, is soon to be exhausted by the diligence or activity of travellers; if it is, they must bring to their journey a power of observation, and a fund of knowledge, which can avail itself of all opportunities, separate what is valuable and rare, and be prepared, at once to ascertain, upon what inquiry should be directed, and in what manner pursued. We believe that Dr. Johnson somewhere says, " It is by staying at home that a man must learn to travel"—a hasty and superficial traveller will find all barren to him from Dan to Beersheba; while a man of science and philosophy will feel his steps arrested and his curiosity detained, as soon as he passes over the boundaries of a new country, by phoenomena that he never witnessed, by facts that he cannot explain or arrange, and by analogies that he had never noticed or compared. We will now briefly mention what has struck us of most interest and novelty in Mr. Tudor's volumes, and detach the remarks from the body of the narrative. Mr. Tudor is neither a scholar nor a man of science, but he has the activity and enterprize and industry of the traveller. His curiosity is always awake, his views of society and government are rational and moderate, his philanthropy warm and unaffected, his love of nature ardent, his taste good, and on the whole his narrative is instructive and amusing. There is no pretension about it, no affectation of knowledge which he does not possess, no bigoted or unreasonable attachment to his own country, and no equally absurd preference of the institutions and manners of others. His book may instruct, and cannot offend. * At p. 154, we find a more particular and curious account of that singu * Mr. Tudor says, ' most travellers go to see the famous Cypress tree at the village of Atlixco, measuring 76 feet in circumference. It possesses I believe the largest girth of any that is known, with the sole exception of the Baobab of Senegal, which is a few feet thicker.' Now this proves first, that Mr. Tudor never saw this tree himself; secondly, that he has borrowed what he writes from Humboldt; and thirdly, that he believes there is only one Baobab Tree in Senegal. Mr. Tudor should have mentioned that at the village of S. Maria del Tule, 34 leagues from Mexico, between S. Lucea and Tlacochiguacya, is a trunk of a Cypress tree 118 feet in circumference, larger than the Dragonnier of the Canary islands, and all the Baobabs of Senegal. Mr. Tudor's observations on the age of the Aloe flowering, are not correct. But what can he mean by the Cedars of Lebanon, 50 feet round, in Mexico!!! Verily, they must be reserved for a second temple more glorious than Solomon's. We should like, however, to have seen his Manita tree, Arbel de las Manitas in the Botanical garden at Mexico, which bears a flower like a human hand, &c. Mr. T. shows no acquaintance with Natural History, so essential to a traveller, in any of its branches of Zoology, Botany, or Mineralogy. " " Srey innke ɛ "a tee "ingus, 200 30 seh you when the tune og to the priniest at 1 Nas aptauna tieg were fed with nexus and memade, bagering we are the operation of dancing, that WORK HORASATA terkana ih mogong and dancing were repeated fun tent to be the the 4 wank gokar, Varesio often intera.xed with other spinbut bị bám weselation furg became an established exercise in Their pracaypes in this practice are to be found in Mom mnd the cone who went out with her with timbrels and dances; sud that when deptbuch returned from his victory over the children of Ammo, las drupliter entoe out to meet him, with timbrels and dances; mul after the victory of David, the women came out of all the cities of Tarar! wingong wind dancing, and the daughters of Shelah came out to daus in danika The faculty of dancing, they say, as well as that of stoying, was undoubtedly created for the honour and glory of the Creator, and therefore it must be devoted to his service, in order to answer that purpose. Lastly, they ask 'What among all the variety of religious devotions by which mankind attempt to worship the eternal God, is more calculated to inspire the soul with heavenly sensations, and give us an idea of the worship of angels? How far from this harmonious worship are the dull attempts of a congregation wherein but a small portion of the people are engaged, while the far greater part are entirely silent, inactive, and unconcerned.' After having thus given the outline of the tenets maintained by this community, we cannot withhold affording a glance at the practice that accompanies them, which for singularity and absurdity surpasses every thing we ever remember, and seems to show that there is no limit to the caprices of their imaginations, or to the wildness of unenlightened fanaticism, which thus bursts forth equally in the distant solitudes of the New World, and in the long-civilized metropolis of the greatest empire in the Old. "We arrived (says Mr. Tudor) just in time to see the procession of these fanatics pass along, in solemn line, to their places of worship. The men dressed in drab, after the fashion of Quakers, whom they much resemble in appearance, walking two abreast, led the way, followed by a long train of females attired principally in white, and the rest in gray, with close white caps on their heads, gowns without shape, high-heeled shoes, neckerchiefs, and white pocket handkerchiefs hung very formally over one of their arms. On reaching the church the men filed off through one door, and the women through another, and immediately arranged themselves on parallel benches on each side of the room, in separate and opposite divisions. A considerable space in the centre of it, dividing the two foremost benches of each sex. The men and women thus dressed and thus seated, and with a solemnity of aspect and deportment heightened by perfect silence, and with an absolutely motionless attitude of body, presented an appearance and excited a feeling of something mysterious and supernatural. The women in particular, many of whom were elderly, very meagre in figure, and of a sickly and cadaverous hue, and withal dressed in ghostly white, looked like beings of another world. There was something about them that inspired a sensation of awe. The spectacle was altogether startling. One might almost have imagined it, as indeed the thought so struck me at the moment, to have been a scene of the Day of Judgment, and that these were departed spirits just risen from their graves, shrouded in their sepulchral garments, and awaiting their final doom. After a death-like pause of some duration, one of the elders slowly arose from his seat for the purpose of addressing the meeting, on which the whole assembly immediately stood up. During the continuance of the vocal part of the service, they were incessantly moving their feet, alternately raising each foot in a kind of dancing step, but without changing their position. This was accompanied by a grotesque inclination of their bodies from side to side, in a manner so truly ludicrous, though carried on with the utmost gravity, as to require, on the part even of those who were more inclined to weep than laugh, the strongest exertions of self-command in the repressing their risible faculties.*** After a pause of two or three minutes, one of the elders exclaimed Let us labour,' when they all suddenly stood up, and now commenced an exhibition that beggars all description. Each sex began immediately to remove their own benches from the centre of the apartment where they had been seated, to the side of it, placing them together as closely and compactly as they could, so as not to impede the extraordinary evolutions that were on the point of beginning. This being accomplished, the men walked up to a range of pegs, lining the wall on their side of the room, and to my utter astonishment, nay I may almost say consternation, as being done in a church, though belonging to the Shakers, every man pulled off his coat with the greatest coolness imaginable, and appeared in his shirt sleeves. utterly unlooked for circumstance so startled me, that I literally thought they were going to burlesque their own religion, and I instantly turned my eyes towards the female portion of these strange worshippers, naturally expecting no less than to see them, in imitation of the men, divest themselves of some part of their habiliments, and that their gowns at least would be dispensed with; however, I am happy to say, for the sake of decency, that the example was not followed. The men having now retired to the side of the room previously occupied, formed themselves into parallel lines as if in military column, the women observing the same order on their side, and with their faces This |