fkill, and at the fame time form, from the nature of the performance, a fudy to expand and fimate the minds of thote Artifis devoted to the purfints of buioric compolition. The whole body, without oue diffeming voice, eagerly entered into the laudalie propotal and for with a Penton was drawn up, and by the Prefident himself prefen ed to their Roval Paron. When this Tapetiry was torn 'down in order to its removal, it cannot be ourwife concluded, but that the hands of, thofe low and ignorant fpiris who wait at Innovation's call to flyen havock and deftraction, ou this, occafion' wrought much damage in dragging it down to the vaults under the chamber, where it was to be depofited. Report fays, that at one time, while the Tapeftry lay in the Cotton-garden, thefe very harpies to whom the care of this treafire was committed were about to throw the whole urafs into the river, to get rid at once of fo much "fith" and "rags." Well, in thefe vaults the Tapestry remained fafely flowed for about a year, when, from damps, and furrounding dirt and rubbish, much injury fiili accrued to the miferable remains. Since which period this Tapestry has been removed into one of the ruined groundfloor offices to the Houfe of Lords, where, in one prodigious heap, it now exifts. Interior of the Houfe of Lords. Entirely difmantled of its furniture, which, as already obferved, now decorates the new Houfe in the Court of Reques. The walls covered with common blue paper, and a painted canvas dado, &c. This place is ufed for occafional Conferences. Interior of the Prince's Chamber. Difmantled alfo, and is become a mere Lumber-room. A portion of the South end of the Court of Requests has been portioned off for a Robing-room for his Majefty (fuch being the ufe of the Prince's Chamber); and here is feen the furniture of the Prince's Chamber, difpofed about in much the fame fathion as there difplayed. The Tapeliry belonging thereto, the moft excellent of all the collection, has been, however, cut into bits; and fmall portions are fuck about to patch up holes and corners, not occupied by a painted dado fimilar to that in the new Houfe of Lords Hence it may be confidered, that thofe drawings made by my friend J. C. in the year 1799, from the feveral Tapefiries previous to their removal, will at a future day, it is not improbable, be held in fome estimation. Interior of St. Stephen's Chapel and its Cloifiers, We are now "arrived at the moi important part of the prefent forvey, undertaken, in truth, hat. the flate of thefe particular objects might be brought to public a tention with more effect; therefore, the fubJects gone over may be understood as introductory matter to what will now come into d-fentlion, under the heterogeneous heads. Relioration, Innovation, Improvement, Neceffury Additions, and Neceffary Dilapidations. North fide of the Cloitiers. Cleared of the menial apartments. Eaft fide. Untouched; remaining as in my first furvey, in its original order. South fide. Untouched; all the requeftionary offices fill filling this whole range. Well fide. Cleared of the menial offices, in like manner as on North fide, and the outlet to Old Palace-yard flopped up. A fire-place has been introduced. The exterior fronts of the Cloifter next the area, untouched, excepting on the North, where to the gallery a bowwindow has been pushed out; and, fetting afide the innovation, not without due attention to the Architecture of the fcene. The fiwali Chapel in the area is changed from a fenllery into a Houfekeeper's room; one remove, it is confuled, from the lowest degree of lay perverfion of a place to facred. The interior has undergone feveral refiorations, which may be itemned in this way. The Wefl end, heretofore a blank, being, about to be altered, a difcovery, we are told, was made of an open-worked fcreen with a doorway. This fereen is on view, and forms the Weft end of the Chapel. The coppers, ovens, finks, &c. removed;, and as one divifion of the defign_and a few veiliges of the mullions of the windows remained, notwithstanding all the havock and change, and by a reference to an engraved view of this interior in a reflored flate, by J. Carter, as published by the Society of Antiquaries 1795, a general restoration has been attempted. It may be faid, that from fo many documents, there could be no danger of error in the undertaking. But, as fome malign influence eyer attends the vain purfuits of mor tal tal man, plain tranfums have been run half way up the windows to their complete disfigurement, and without the moll dittant authority from antient example. This, ftroke must be fet down to the account as an improvement. And further, a fireplace has been made on the North fide; another improvement alfo. The groined cieling untouched, it being with the capitals to the columus in a flate of good repair in 1791. taken by one Dineler, who accompanied the firft Duke of Beaufort in his progrefs through Wales into Ireland, till preferved in the library at Badminton. Now, not to mention the difference. between the arms on the fhield of this ftatue (Ar. on a chief Az. 8 crolles pattée fiché of the field) and thofe acknow ledged to have been borne by Richard Strongbow on his fhield (Or, 3 chevronels Gules) the ftory raifed on this figure, if without feeing the drawing one may admit its evidence, is one of more inttances of the mifreprefentations of our antient monuments. We all know, that many people, and in particular profeffional men, are in the habit of calling our antient interiors, "The dark and glooray piles. I thall treat you with the correction of ignorance and fuperfiition." This of inch a mifreprefentation by the hand humour for giving pleafant epithets of Sir R.'s faithful draftfman and your arifes most certainly from prejudice, as it old correfpondent J. C. nearer home in is evident that the windows, or openings our own ifland, at Overton Longuefor light, to fuch works, were fo abund- ville, near Péterborough; where Bp. ant, that no more than a very narrow Kennett was hewn a ftone figure of pier was conftructed between each, by a knight lying proftrate in armour, way of place for the characterific but with what they called his puddings or trefs, as is to be fee in the neighbour- guts twifted round his left arm; "of ing Abbey church, &c. &c. which a tradition was kept up among the people there, that this was the body of the Lord Longueville who went out to meet the Danes coming to destroy that place; and in his first conflict with them, had fuch a wound in his belly that his guts fell out but he took them up in his hand, and wrapt them round the writ of his left arm fought on with his right hand till he killed the Danish King; and foon after fell himself. The improbability of this fact, dated by Mr. Peck for fün A.D. 870, fo firongly firuck the late Mr. Cole, that he wrote in the margin of his Defiderata Curiofa, VI. 19, Where will you ineet with tombs fo antient ?" The drawing (Pl. II.) will at once unravel the mystery, and fhew that the supposed bowels were a part of the armour, This phantom of imagined obfcurity, and its abhorred tendency, however, appears only in certain places, and on certain occafions; for here, in St. Ste phen's lightfome and elegant Cloitter, the various windows have been flopped up to two thirds of their heights, and filled with opaque or ground glafs, furrounding coloured menied compartments in the Roman or Grecian tyle. In fhort, the most fombre hue is every where diffufed, and the most delightful architecture of thefe Cloifters utterly thut out, and hid from view! yo orna AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued). Mr. URBAN, June 1. OUR readers of taste and lovers of aniquity will rejoice with me, that Sir R. C. Hoare has begun his publications, and continued them with fo much fpirit. In the Introduction to his Tour in Ireland, which I have just perufed with much pleafitre, he recites the Irish tradijon, that Richard, Earl of Clare, furnamed Strongbow, had a fon, whom, for fuppofed cowardice in giving way in the conflict at Odrane, he cauled to be put to death by his body being cut off in the middle; a circunftance expreffed in his figure by the fide of his father's monument in Christchurch, Dublin, in a drawing GENT MAG. July, 1807, 66 and After this difcuffion, the English and Irifh cafes will not be thought diffimilar. A fracture of an uncertain date in the fta the of young Strongbow may have fug gefted the tale of his death, or of the death of any other youth who, like feveral inflances in our own country, may have been laid by the fide of his father, as at Berkeley. Such a tradition is neither fo extenfive mor fo inveterate as the fkeleton under a figure in a living fiate paffing for a faft of 40 days, in the enthufiaftic imitation of our Saviour's fait. Whatever may be the mufe of young Strongbow's death, the place of his er Mr. URBAN, March 20. ON looking into the Monthly Ma gazine for the prefent month of June, I find a writer, under the fignature of D. M. P. very kindly, in p. 410, communicating to the publick fome particulars relating to the come or his father's burial remains unfettled. Leland determines it to be in the Chapter-houfe at Gloucefter. Tintern Abbey continued to fhew it me from 1761 to 1807, when it was recovered from the rubbish and brambles by the good tafle of the then Duke of Beaufort. The two body of Ignoramus. His principal obdies are faid to have contained more bones than belonged to two perfons. But, as his thield exhibits no arms to difcriminate it, we may refer fo far to the authority of Leland. One of his family certainly was the founder of this beautiful house of religion. The Longueville drefs may bear fome refemblance to that of Rofs, in the Temple church, fuppofing the cape of the habit drawn down to cover the hands: the furcoats of both figures are in a style of fuperior elegance. Yours, &c. D. H. Mr. URBAN, Worcester, June 25. T is a curious and fomewhat extra fly, which ports about with fo much feeming fprightlinels in the rays of the fun, whofe prefence feems almoft necef fary to its very existence; yet, when confined in it only for a few minutes, is deprived of its life. I was led to the knowledge of this fingular fact, by accidentally turning a wine-glafs over a Ay that had rested in a window where the fan fhone; when, to my great af tonishment, in a few minutes I pereived the fly violently agitated; and falling on its back in feening firong convulfions, it died. I frequently repeated the experiment, but found the refult invariably the fame. Thinking the fun's rays in palling through the glass might increase the heat, and be the caufe, I inclofed a fly in a final box covered with a coarse gauze, and expofed it to the fun; but yet it was deftroyed. But if, at the moment when it feems to be making its laft ftruggle, it should be fhaded from the fun, it will quickly recover its former gaiety, and may again ferve for the experiment. This is the more extraordinary, because, when not confined, they will continue a long time in the fun without any apparent inconvenience. Perhaps, by inferting the above in your interefing Mifcel lany, fome of your philofophical naturalifts will explain the caule, which no doubt will greatly please many of your readers, and inuch oblige Yours, &c. T. S-LY-ST-R. ject is, as he himself declares, to ftatean anecdote; namely, that Mr. Ruggle had made ufe of the Trappolaica of Battifta Porta; and for this he gives a reference to the Harleian manufcripts. 1 All that he has faid, with the ex-ception only of an error which I fhall prefently notice, had, together with a great deal more on the lubject, and an extract verbatim from the manufcript he thus refers to, been already difclofed by me to the world in a life of the Author, which I had in the year 1787 prefixed to an edition of the comedy felf, with notes, then published by me; and it is evident, from the materials ufed for his facts, that he could not have fo exactly followed my track, if he had not feen and made use of my edition. That he has not fpoken from original materials is certain, from the following circumftance, which will at once abundantly fhew his ignorance, and how little his affertious can be relied on. Speaking of the tranflations of Ig. noramus, he mentions one by R. Co. drington in 1662, and another by Edward Ravenfcroft, under the title of "The English Lawyer," in 1678. Both thefe were noticed by me; but to them he has thought fit to add a third, which he defcribes as forming a thin folio, and which appeared in 1736, with the following title, "Ignorami Lamentatio fuper legis communis tranflationem ex Latino in Anglicum." Whether his ignorance of Latin induced him, from finding the words Ignorami and tranflationem in the above title, to fuppofe it a translation of the comedy, I cannot tell; but it is plain he could never have feen it, for the tract to which he refers, and a copy of which is now before me, is not a comedy, but a poem of 150 lines, written on occafion of the Act of Par liament, paffed that year or thereabouts, directing that all Law proceedings in future fhould be in English: nor is it a tranflation, but in Latin, the origi nal language in which it was written, as will appear from the first fix lines, which I here fend you: "ER |