sion on the mind as is produced by the real object. This is undoubtedly true; but it is no less true, that, in a professed view of any particular scene, the great and leading features should be faithfully preserved. I am sorry to say this is not the case with the View of Roche Rock and Church, given in your Magazine for March. The Writer of this has frequent occasion to visit them, and can assure you that the Rock rises from a dry common, scattered about with moor-stones, on which there is no pool of water, nor even any small rill; - that its form is very different from that represented in your Plate, as may be seen from a more faithful though tasteless Engraving of it in Norden's Survey of Cornwall; that the walls of the antient Hermitage, built on the summit of the Rock, are still very discernible; that the Rock is more lofty than the Churchtower; that the proportions of the Tower are different from those in your Plate; that it has no tree near it, nor any stair-case at either corner of it;-in short, that the View given in your Magazine does not, in any one respect, resemble the original. If I am not misinformed, an Artist from London was in Cornwall during the Summer of last year, and took Views of the Rock and Tower from two or three different points. Engravings from his Drawings would, I doubt not, be well received by the Publick. The Correspondent who signs himself H. D. your last Supplement, deserves the thanks of all Antiquaries for the just censure he has past on the removing Armorial Bearings from the buildings in which they were originally placed, without such removal being properly recorded. Where such removal is into a Church, an entry of it might be made in the Parish Register. A notice of it in your useful Repository would also be proper in that as well as in every other case, as sad experience shews how little care is too often taken of Parish Registers. Yours, &c. B. FORSTER.' in Mr. Benjamin Forster was brother to "the excellent English Merchant" lamented in vol. VI. p. 616; as was also Thomas Furley Forster, esq. who died, at Quendon, Essex, March 26, 1806, aged 71; and to whose memory the following elegant tribute was written by his Brother (at that time in his 76th year): "Life's business past, in this sequester'd spot The call of Friendship fix'd his happy lot: Unanxious to obtain the vacant stare, The notice which the vulgar make their care. Of wealth ev'n to his utmost wish possess'd, And with the power of blessing others bless'd. When failing harvests rais'd the peasant's fear, When want alarm'd, his ready hand was near. Where scarce a spring for many a mile was found, Or, buried deep, diffus'd no comfort round, He from the soil bid hidden waters burst, Where now the wearied peasant slakes his thirst. This glen through which the streams of comfort flow'd; His crook conducting in the shadowy vale, P. 290, note, 1, 26, for "work," r. "worth." P. 296. Sir Richard Hoare, in one of the greatest Bibliographical Curiosities of the present day, a Catalogue of his own extensive and splendid Topographical Library at Stourhead (a handsome octavo volume, of which the impression was limited to twenty-five copies, seven of them on large paper), after noticing Mr. Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," most handsomely and appropriately adds, "I cannot dismiss this article without recording in a more particular manner this splendid a Work that would do Work, for the origin and publication of which the World stands indebted to the zeal of an Individual honour to the exertions of a Nation. It is to be hoped that Mr. Gough's plan, begun with such energy, and executed with so much ability, will, at no distant period, be completed; for his Work terminates with the Fifteenth Century. The same Artists who drew and engraved a great part of the Tombs and Effigies are still living; but in vain may we expect to find again any Individual with the means, zeal, and ability, requisite for the prosecution of so great an undertaking. May I indulge a hope that the Society of British Antiquaries will undertake the taska task worthy of their attention, worthy of the enlightened Body of Men of which it is composed, and worthy of the British Empire? It might be taken up after the conclusion of the Volume of Vetusta Monumenta, now in a course of publication." The honourable and learned Baronet will see, by a reference to Anecdotes," p. 296, that ample the Sixth Volume of these " Sepulchral Monuments" materials for a Continuation of the " are deposited in the Bodleian Library; and there can be little doubt that the CURATORS OF THE OXFORD PRESS Would meet the wishes, if such they should fortunately be, of the SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. P. 299, end of 1. 2, add "of." Literary History of the XVIIIth Century" P. 300. In the " the Rev. John Brand is too striking a feature to be passed over unnoticed. This industrious Investigator of hidden curiosities was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne about 1743, and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he took his Bachelor's degree: but left College in 1774, on being presented, by Matthew Ridley, esq. to the Curacy of Cramlington, a Chapel of Ease to St. Nicholas at Newcastle, from which it is distant about eight miles. While at the University, he published a Poem "On illicit Love, written among the Ruins of Godstow Nunnery, 1775," 4to. The spot where this poem was written is the burial-place of the afforded celebrated Rosamond, mistress of Henry II. whose history has afforded subject for various productions both of the amorous and elegiac kind; but perhaps none in which the criminality of an unlawful passion is more forcibly exposed, or chastity recommended in a warmer strain of poetry, than in this production by Mr. Brand. The sentiments are glowing and just, the imagery is animated, and the poem is in general beautiful, pathetic, and moral. Mr. Brand, however, does not appear to have much cultivated his poetical talent, and had already begun to devote himself to researches into the Antiquities of his native Country. In 1777 he evinced a general knowledge of antient manners and customs by publishing "Observations on Popular Antiquities, including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to every Chapter of that Work; as also an Appendix, containing such Articles on the subject as have been omitted by that Author," 8vo. This work is dated from Westgate-street, Tyne, where the Author then resided. He afterwards continued to augment his materials by subsequent and more extensive researches; and left immense materials, which were purchased by some spirited Booksellers, and have since been judiciously incorporated by Mr. Ellis of the British Museum, and given to the Publick in two handsome quarto volumes. About the time of the publication of his "Popular Antiquities," Mr. Brand was admitted a Member of the Society of Antiquaries; and in 1784 was presented by the Duke of Northumberland, who, if we mistake not, had been his earliest friend and patron, to the Rectory of St. Mary-Hill. In the same year he was elected Resident Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, on the death of Dr. Morell; the duties of which office he performed with uncommon ability, and to the entire satisfaction of the Society, who continued to re-elect him annually until his death. In 1789 he published "The History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne," 2 vols. 4to, a very elaborate work, embellished with Views of the Public Buildings, engraved by Fittler at an expence of 500l. In the sale, however, from various circumstances, and particularly the death of his Bookseller, he was peculiarly unfortunate, notwithstanding its high merit as a piece of local history. Mr. Brand also communicated many Papers on subjects of Antiquity to the Society, the principal of which are printed in the Archæologia, vols. VIII. X. XIII. XIV. and XV. He was twice prosecuted by common informers for non-residence, having let his Parsonage-house when he went to reside in the Society's Apartments at Somerset-house, although none could exceed him in the punctual discharge of his parochial duties, both on Sundays and Week-days. After the late regulations respecting residence, he constantly slept in the Rectory-house. He always took much exercise; and on the day before his death had a long ramble with two much-valued Friends, with whom he parted in the evening, apparently in perfect health, Sept. 10, 1806. He rose next morning about seven o'clock, his usual hour, and went into his study, when his servant took him an an egg, which he usually ate before he went to Somerset-house. P. 300. Owen Salusbury Brereton, esq. was elected F. R. S. 1798; 1798; and was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on the 22d. He left the bulk of his fortune, after the death of his Widow, to Mrs. Brand, sister to Sir Harry Trelawny, bart. who was his ward. After the death of Mrs. Brand, in 1799, his estates went between the eldest son of the late General Trelawny and the second son of Sir Harry Trelawny. He had an estate in Flintshire; and was Constable of Flint Castle, a sinecure place. P. 304. Of Joseph Cooper Walker, esq. a Correspondent of Mr. Urban's thus speaks in 1787: "He was born in Dublin, of respectable parents, who are still living; and received his education in the City which gave him birth. Though prevented, by a delicate constitution in his tenderest years, from pursuing with sufficient ardour those studies which are requisite for a College course, yet by his own abilities and assiduity, with the assistance of private tutors, he has acquired a competent knowledge of the dead as well as some of the living languages, viz. French, Italian, and Spanish; and, from the publication which has introduced him to our notice, he seems not to be unacquainted with the Irish; but of which he laments (see his Preface) his knowledge is as yet rather confined. That he has a turn for Poetry, his Life of Carolan* clearly evinces, as it is natural to conclude that some of the anonymous trauslations he there introduces are his own. To all these, we are informed, he unites the fashionable accomplishments of the age. At an early period of life he was put forth into the world. While almost a boy, he got an employment in his Majesty's Treasury of Ireland, where he has arrived to the rank of Third Clerk in, we believe, the upper or Mr. Conyngham's department. Though fond of the favourite amusements of the age, he pays the strictest attention to the duties of his office; whilst in office, he is the man of business; after the hours of business, his time is devoted to pleasure or books, 'in his retirement forgetting the town, in his gaiety losing the student.' He has drawn a slight but masterly yet modest sketch of himself, in his elegant little Preface affixed to his "Memoirs of the Irish Bards." In the Summer of 1785 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy; and on the 17th of March following (the day appointed by the Charter for a General Meeting of the Academy) he was chosen one of the Committee of Antiquities. Since his admisssion into that learned Body, he has not been inattentive to the duty he owed it, having delivered in, as we were informned, some Essays, with the subjects of which, however, we are unacquainted. In order to promote the prosecution of his studies, he obtained, he informs us in his Preface (omitting, however, the year), with the approbation of the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, freedom of access to their valuable Library; and in the commencement of the present year [1787] he appeared, for the first time, in the character of an Author. Perhaps I ought not to omit, that our Author is a Bachelor; that his age seems to be See Gent. Mag. vol. LXXXIV. Part II. pp. 29, 121. about |