as at the Royal Academy; except, however, the members of that body, their ftudents, and any artifts who exhibit with them, for whom the admiffion will continue free, as well as for any other artist the Royal Academy fhall recommend." P. 37.

"The different artifts fhall not be paid till twelve months after Montague House has been opened; and if, contrary to my expectations, the plan fhould not be atiended with fuch fuccefs as to induce the truftees to continue it longer, the attempt fhall cease at the end of the first twelve months, and the artists, inftead of receiving the price ftipulated for their performances, fhall only receive in proportion to the fum levied during the year: in which cafe, thofe performances fhall remain the property of Montague Houfe; or, if the artist thinks the fum too inadequate, he fhall receive back his own works.

"But fhould the plan be fuccefsful the first twelve months, little doubt can be entertained of its being attended with increased fuccefs every year; fince new objects of curiofity will be added every quarter to the establish ment; fo that it is probable it will in a fhort time produce a fund capable of enabling the truftees to commence the galleries I have propofed erecting."

P. 39

"The plan I have offered is fimple and eaty, and although ftill capable of improvement, is, in its prefent ftate, neither burdenfome to government or to individuals; is far from being injurious to commerce, or a clog to the operations of the war; and, without a poflibility of its being detrimental, it offers a probability of advantages, far more than equivalent to the objection against entrance-money." P. 52,

IX. Anecdotes and Biography: including many modern Characters in the Circles of fashionable and official Life, felected from the Portfolios of a diftinguished literary and political Character lately deceased. Alphabetically arranged. By L. T. REDE. 8vo. pp. 461. 75. Pitkeathley.

EXTRACTS.

AMERICA.

1. "THOSE writers who maintain that the New World was peo

pled by the inhabitants of the northern part of Afia, which region they named Scythia, have this queftion to answer: Why do we not there find thofe horses, bulls, camels, animals of fo great utility, nor any other belonging to our continent? The Americans were unable to manage horles, and yet the Scythians were in the continual habit of riding.

2. "Beyond the Obi, in the immenfe regions of Tartary, is a great river, called Kayonia, which receives the waters of another, known by the name of the Lena. At the Kevania, where it difcharges itself into the Frozen Sea, lies a large island, frequented by a vaft number of people,who refort to it for the purpose of killing certain amphibious animals, which are found there in great abundance, which the people of the country call Bebemus. Thefe creatures are frequently feen afleep on the ice in the Frozen Sea. The hunters or fishermen often get upon the ice for the purpose of killing their prey. Great affiduity is requifite upon this occafion, therefore the hunters commonly take their wives with them to affift in the chafe. It frequently happens that whilft thefe poor people are engaged in this business a thaw comes fuddenly on, by which this immenfe plain of ice is inftantly broken into many floating islands. Upon fome of thefe the hunters are frequently wafted to the fhore, from which they originally ventured; but, when the wind blows from the shore, thefe unfortunate men are never feen again by their countrymen; whether they perifh through hunger and cold at fea, or are driven to fome other coaft, is unknown.

"It is not at all improbable but fome of thefe floating islands may have been driven towards the point of North America, which lies at no great distance from that part of Asia which projects into the fea of Tartary. probable is, that the Americans, who What renders this opinion extremely inhabit the parts here alluded to, have exactly the fame complexion and features with the Tartars who live upon the island mentioned as fituated at the mouth of the Kavania, and precisely the fame fpecies of beafts and animals as are found on the borders of the fea of Tartary, that are feen in the mot northern parts of the continent of America." P. 21.

ALEX.

ALEXANDER CRUDEN, M. A. "WHO died in November 1770, at Ilington, was one of thofe remarkable characters, that, while they excite the laugh in us, draw the nerve of pity and compaffionate regard on the infirmities of human nature. His Concordance to the Holy Scriptures, dedicated to the late Queen Caroline, will ever remain a monument of his attentive faculties, and his usefulness to mankind. The publication of his adventures, and fome other remarks, prove that he was not touched with the infane malady, as Sir William Lee, the chief juftice, fuppofed, when he laid his action of damages againft his own fifter, for falfe imprisonment, at 10,000l.; for, after this, he lived in the habits of correcting for the prefs; and feveral Greek and Roman claffics for their accuracy in publication are indebted to him alone. In the year 1754 we find him, on application to Mr. Sheriff Chitty, nominated a candidate for the city of London, and addreffing them in hand-bills, acquainting them that he was Alexander the Corrector, and that his election would pave the way for his being a Jofeph. In 1762, he was active in behalf of a condemned criminal in Newgate, and fucceeded to the fatiffaction of all. However fome parts of his character may appear of the whimsical kind, his main drift was entirely of the ufeful; but we cannot help repeating here a circumftance but little known:

"He was in great esteem at one time of life with the famous Dr. Bradbury, a zealous diffenting clergyman. The Doctor had, one evening, prepared an excellent fupper for feveral friends; at the moment it was ferved on the table, Mr. Cruden made his appearance in the room, heated with walking; the Doctor's favourite dish, a turkey, was fmoking at one end of the table, and, before the company could be feated, Cruden advanced, put back his wig, and, with both hands plunged in the gravy, he calmly washed his head and face over the bird, to the no fmall mortification of the jolly doctor and his company. It was this conduct that proved fo fatal to his action against his fifter at Weltminfter Hall; for, on Bradbury's evidence alone refpecting it, Judge Lee stopped all further proceedings: on which Mr. Cruden faid, 'My Lord,

'don't believe a word that man fays; 'he is very well at Pinners' Hall in the pulpit, but he is not a proper evidence in this court'." P. 104.

REMARKABLE DREAM OF AN ITALIAN MUSICIAN.

"TARTINI, a celebrated mufician, who was born at Pirano, in Iftria, being much inclined to the ftudy of mufic in his early youth, dreamed one night that he had made a compact with the devil, who promised to be at his fervice on all occafions; and during this vifion every thing fucceeded according to his mind; his wifhes were prevented, and his defires always furpaffed by the aflistance of his new fervant. At last, he, imagined that he prefented the devil with his violin, in order to discover what kind of a musician he was; when, to his great aftonishment, he heard him play a folo fo fingularly beautiful, and which he executed with fuch fuperior taste and precision, that it furpaffed all the mufic which he had ever heard or conceived in his life. So great was his furprife, and so exquifite was his delight upon this oc cafion, that it deprived him of the power of breathing. He awoke with the violence of his fenfation, and inftantly feized his fiddle, in hopes of expreffing what he had just heard, but in vain; he, however, then compofed a piece, which is, perhaps, the best of all his works; he called it the Devil's Sonata; but it was fo far inferior to what he had fancied in fleep, that he declared he would have broken his in ftrument, and abandoned mufic for ever, if he could have found any other means of living," P. 117、

impoffible to fix his attention to any thing worthy purfuit. After thrice running away, and being difcovered by his father's valet crying Flounders about the streets of Deptford, he was fent to the Weft Indies, whither Fofter accompanied him. On their return to England, a good-natured fratagem was practifed to obtain a temporary fupply of money from old Montague, and at the fame time to give him a favourable opinion of his fon's attention to a particular fpecies of erudition. The ftratagem was this: Foster wrote a book, which he entitled The Rife and Fall of the Roman Republics. To this he fubjoined the name of Edward Wortley Montague, jun. Efq. Old Wortley feeing the book advertifed fent for his fon, and gave him a bank-note of one hundred pounds, promifing him a fimilar prefent for every new edition which the book fhould pafs through. It was well received by the public, and there. fore a fecond edition occafioned a fecond fupply. It is now in libraries with the name of Wortley Montague prefixed as the author, although he did not write a line of it. Mr. Fofter was afterwards chaplain to the cele. brated Sir William Wyndham; he then went to Petersburgh in the fuite of the English ambaffador. Many years afterwards he became acquainted with the Duke of Kingston, and, on the demife of his Grace, the Duchefs appointed him her domeftic chaplain; he accompanied her on her first visit to Petersburgh, and the Emprefs, who had known him before, gave him an appointment in the academy, annexing a ftipend out of her privy purfe. This appointment he held a fhort time, and died in the eighty-fixth year of his age." P. 150.

hearing of a vacancy in the fee of Cork, immediately fet out for court, and claimed the royal promife. The Queen, aftonished at the request, for a time remonftrated againft the impropriety of it, and what the could never think of as an office fuitable to him. It was however in vain; he faid the royal word was paffed, and he relied on it. Her Majefly then faid, he would take a few days to confider of it, when, examining into his character, and finding him a fober moral man, as well as an intrepid commander, the fent for Lyons, and gave him the bishopric, faying at the fame time, the hoped he would take as good care of the church as he had done of the ftate."

.

"Lyons immediately fet out for his bifhopric, which he enjoyed for above twenty years with great reputation to himfelf, never attempting however to preach but once, and that was on the death of the Queen. On that melancholy occafion, he thought it his duty to pay the laft honours to his roval mittrefs, and accordingly mounted the pulpit in Chrift-church, in Cork; when, after giving a good difcourfe on the uncertainty of life, and the great and amiable qualities of the Queen, he concluded in the following warm but whimsical manner: Let thofe who

feel this lofs deplore with me on this 'melancholy occafion; but, if there be any that hear me who have fe cretly wifhed for this event (as perhaps there may be), they have now got their with, and the devil do them "good with it."

Imbofs the mountain flope; or the wild

afh,

With rich red clusters mantling; or the birch

In lonely glens light-wav'ring; till behold

The rapid river fhooting through the gloom

Its lucid line along; and on its side The bordering paftures green, where the fwink'd ox

Lies dreaming, heedlefs of the numerous flies

That, in the tranfitory funfhine, hum Round his broad breast; and farther up, the cot,

With blue light fmoke afcending: images

Of peace and comfort, the wild rocks around

Endear your fmile the more, and the full mind,

Sliding from scenes of dread magnificence,

Sinks on your charms repofing: fuch repofe

The fage may feel, when, fill'd and half opprefs'd

With vaft conceptions, fmiling he re

And Ariel o'er the flow-fubfiding furge Singing her fmooth air quaintly: fuch repose

Steals o'er her fpirits, when, through ftorms at fea,

Fancy has follow'd fome nigh-founder'd bark,

Full many a league, in ocean's folitude

Tofs'd, far beyond the cape of utmost Horne

That ftems the roaring deep; her dreary track

Still Fancy follows, and at dead of night

Hears, with strange thunder, the huge fragments fall

Crafhing, from mountains of highdrifting ice

That o'er her bows gleam fearful; till at laft

She hails the gallant fhip in fome still

bay

Safe moor'd, or of delightful Tinian, (Smiling, like fairy ifle, amid the wafte)

Or of New Zealand, where, from fhelt'ring rocks,

The clear cafcades gufh beautiful, and high

The woodland fcenery tow'rs above the maft,

Whofe long and wavy enfign streams beneath.

Far inland, clad in fnow, the moun

tains lift

Their fpiry fummits, and endear the

more

The fylvan fcene around; the healing

air

Breathes o'er green myrtles, and the poe-bird flits

Amid the fhade of aromatic fhrubs, With filver neck, and bluey-burnith' wing." P. 11.

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