ceafe to flow. The indelible ftamp of the first paffion which ever entered my heart, the fweet confeflion of thy mutual love, my fixed admiration for thy virtues, all, all bind my affections to thy memory with chains that never can be loofened.

"O that I could bury myfelf in impenetrable fhades, where nothing fhould witnefs my complaints, or interrupt the luxury of my forrow! there, in fancy, would I look upon thy beautiful figure, obferve thy attitude, thy air, thy movement. Oh, I would live again in those happy times when thou haft fo tenderly fighed at my departure; when thou haft welcomed my return with love and joy, which breathed in thy looks, in thy words, in thy fweet carelles.

"In the filence of night my thoughts follow thee through the wide immenfity of the empyrean, and I trace thy bright pathong the ftars. There does thy virtue fhine in a clothing celemal beauty; there thy foul, gifted with new powers, enjoys fullness of its defires: there doft thou join in the fong of the , contemplate heavenly things, and adore the Supreme Ping; there too doft thou offer pure fupplications in favour of thy heller; and learn, from the facred book of definy, the defign of our feparation, and the period of our final re-union.

"O excellent and ever beloved fpirit, if, beneath thy mortal form, thou didst attract and hold all my affections, how ravishing must thy beauties now appear! I will yield to the tranfporting hope, that, in heaven, thou wilt give thy felf to him who poffeffed thee on earth. My love, my Marianne, look upon me, open thy arms, fay thou wilt be mine to all eternity! My foul flies to meet thee, never, never more to experience feparation," P. 137.

The whole forms a volume from which may be derived much entertainment. But we mult again protest against introducing into the English language the vile cuftom of translating odes, fatires, and the moft beautiful poems of all kinds, into profe. It is our boast to translate poets as poets.

ART. VII. The Hiftory of Great Britain connected with the Chronology of Europe: with Notes, c. containing Anecdotes of the Times, Lives of the Learned, and Specimens of their Works. Vol. I. Part. II. From the Depofition and Death of Richard II. to the Acceffion of Edward VI. 4to. 366 pp. il. Is. Cadell, &c. 1795.

OF

F Mr. Andrews's work we have already commended the form, and, as far as it had proceeded, the execution*. The more we contemplate it the more we are inclined to wish, that

*Brit, Crit. Vol. IV. P. 417.

the

the undertaking announced in our last number, of continuing Dr. Henry's History, upon his plan, may not fuperfede the intentions of the author refpecting this book. It fhould be confidered, that as thefe Chronological Sketches, fo far as they are carried, fubfift with Henry's Hiftory, and obtain a separate fale, the one not interfering with the other; the fame may be expected with refpect to all the reft. They are works intended for different purposes, and calculated for different readers. This, a book of convenient reference, with fhort and detached accounts intended to prefent the history of Europe, at one view, as parallel with that of England: that, a connected and regularly compofed hiftory, devoted to Great Britain alone. The anecdotes which enliven this work, thofe excepted which refer properly to our own country, will all be out of place in that book; and, on the other hand, a minute detail of particulars, connected and carefully digefted, will be required in the continuation of Henry, totally different from the whole plan of thefe tables. Our advice to Mr. Andrews therefore will be, upon the most mature deliberation, that in carrying on one work, he should not fo employ his matter as to abforb the proper fubftance of the other; but in whatever order he may think fit to execute the two defigns, ftill to keep them both diftinct; and to have the fecond in due preparation, at a proper interval, to fucceed the first. We conceive, from what we have heard, that his intention is to proceed first with the continuation of Henry: but though we rejoice to understand, that the completion of that work will thus be placed in the hands of an impartial writer, we cannot confent, for the fake of that profpect, to relinquith our agreeable and chatty chronological tables of general hif

tory.

Having thus offered our advice, and spoken, if we mistake not, the general wish of the purchasers of this work, we shall proceed to give one or two fpecimens of its entertaining matter. Under the article commerce and manufacture we select the following curious paffage.

"Notwithstanding the hoftile turn of the 15th century, commerce on the whole florifhed, and the merchant-veffels of England increased. Of this fome idea may be formed from the feizure which Edward IV. made, at one time, of 2470 tons of fhipping from one trader alone, viz. William Canning, of Bristol. One of thefe veffels measured 900 tons, one 500, and one 400*.

At

Yet, as doctor Henry judiciously obferves, there were few veffels of great bulk built in either district of the island. James Kennedy, bishop of St. Andrew's, is as much celebrated for building a large

At this obfcure period a wonderful light at once illumines the commercial fyftem of England, and whofoever may wish to know even the fmalleft particulars of the imports and exports of the day, may have his curiofity completely gratified by confulting a very fingular treatise, compofed at the beginning of the 15th age, and ftyled, De Politiâ Confervativâ Maris, It is written in verfe, and may be found in Hakluyt's Collection, and in Entick's Naval History,

"In this curious work each nation of Europe is described in its turn as to its commercial connection with England. The trade of Scotland to Germany he speaks of as confiderable, but he adds

- If they would not our friends be,

• We might lightly+ ftop them in the fea."

"Of the Genoefe trade he speaks well. They bring with them, he writes, befides other merchandize,

• Cotton, roch-allum, and good gold of genne,
And then be charged with wool again, I wenne;
And woollen cloth of ours, of colours all‡, &c.'

"But much lefs favorably does the author treat the trade of Venice and Tuscany. Their galleys, he fings—

• Be well laden with things of complacence

All spicery and grocer's ware,

With fweete wines and all manner of chaffare;

Apes and japes and marmufets tailed,

Nifles and trifles that little have availed.'

"The limits of this work will hardly allow any more quotation from this excellent treatise, which concludes with a moft forcible and pathetic exhortation to England, reminding her of her natural bulwark the fea, and conjuring her ever to maintain there her fuperiority, The following are the clofing lines;

• Keep then the fea the walle of Engelande
And then is England kept by Goddes hande.
Then as for any thing that is withoute
England were at her ease withouten doubte.'

Perhaps no work ever more deserved the attention of the mer chant, the antiquary, or the politician, than the De Politiâ,' which yet is but little known, and very feldom quoted." P. 173.

fhip called The Bishop's Berge,' as for building and endowing a college, [LINDSAY. DRUMMOND.] And John Taviner of Hull was highly indulged with privileges by Henry VI. in 1449, because he had built a fhip as large as a great carrack.' [RYM: FŒD:]

+ Eafily.

Although the manufacturers of England had fo much improved in making cloth, that the ftates of Europe were glad to purchase their goods; yet they could not use all their wool, but were still forced to fell great quantities of the raw material to foreigners.

The

The account given by Mr. A. of the Secret Tribunal of Weftphalia, which, fince the publication of Herman of Unna, has fo much excited the public curiofity, is fhort, bus seems to have been collected with care; it certainly is given. with great diffidence.

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"Some may think that the humanity of this emperor [Maximilian] in filencing and annihilating the odious inquifitorial tribunal of the Judicium occultum Weftphalia,' or, in the German tongue, the Wemium,' deferves to be recorded, as well as his military accomplishments; one would wish to elucidate the ftrange mystery of that court, which dates its origin as high as the days of Charlemagne. But the accounts given of it are fo inconfiftent, so obscure, and so incredible, that they cannot be easily arranged within hiftorical regulations.

"There seem to have been judges, counsellors, and executioners, all confounded together, and all bound by the moft folemn oaths to execute the decrees of the fraternity, even against their nearest connections. The greatest noblemen (even princes, we are told) thought themselves happy to be admitted among these dreaded judges, yet the name of even one of them has not defcended to pofterity.

"They received accufations from familiars like thofe of the inquifition; after accufation, a fummons, couched in terms of awful horror, was hung on the gate of the culprit. This, like a vifit from the holy office in Spain, caufed an immediate defection of every friend and neighbor; if it was not obeyed, it was twice repeated. If ftill neglected, the ftubborn recufant was fuddenly found to disappear, having been carried off by the Secret Tribunal's emiffaries. The courts were held at midnight, in ruined caftles or abbeys, or in the center of thick forefts. The accufed after examination was permitted to go to his home (as it was known that he could not escape), and each witness whom he had named as neceffary to his caufe was then fummoned by the Secret Tribunal. Like the Freemasons, these mysterious judges had private tokens by which they knew each other. The parties fummoned were always expected to wait in the street before their own door at midnight, and they foon found a disguised judge attending to guide their fteps.

"The decifions of this most tremendous court had the credit of being generally equitable, at leaft fuch was the awful fenfation which it infpired, that none dared to murmur.

"The above account the author has collected from hiftories, treaties, and dramatic works of the Germans. It is so eccentric, that he hefitated whether or no it fhould appear. But the general belief of this court's existence, which pervades every German work, will, he hopes, plead his excufe." P. 233.

From Brantome our hiftorian felects the fong of triumph made for the repulfe of the Duke of Bourbon from Marseilles in 1524. We fhall infert it for the fake of the piece itself, and of Mr. Andrews's tranflation.

"Renzo or Lorenzo de Ceri, a celebrated Italian partisan (although afterwards unfortunate at the taking of Rome in 1527), was

one of the most active defenders of Marfeilles. Brantome has preferved the fong of triumph made on the repulfe of Bourbon. It is