bearings; more honorable additions could not be made. On Dec. 29, 1800, our gracious monarch raised this nobleman to the rank of Viscount Fitz-Harris, of Hurn-Court, in the county of Southampton, and Earl of Malmsbury. Honours never better deserved; for, to the firmness of this noble lord, we owe our present advantage ground, to sit on our high clift, and scorn the proud, the insulting, the general foe.

It would naturally be supposed that other residences than the Close in Salisbury would be desirable: his lordship has made happy selections. Brook-wood, in Alresford parish, in Hampshire, is a pleasant seat, and has a park. It is classic ground. Here the melancholy Muse of Mrs. Smith lamented, in pathetic strains, the frowns of Fortune, chiefly occasioned by her weak husband, whose idle, silly conduct took this seat from their offspring. Brook-House has several charming residences near.The Grange, built by Inigo Jones, once owned by the wise, the elegant, the profligate fainily of Henley, is now possessed by the Drummonds. Chilton-Candover and Abbotstone, the latter belongs to the Marquis of Winchester. The other seat of Lord Malmsbury is Park-Place, near Henley, ön Thames, in Berkshire, late Field-Marshal Conway's, who, in the grounds, placed the Druid temple, brought from Jersey, presented by the inhabitants of that isle to the general, their governor, as a grateful me morial. I remember Lord Leicester, the president of the society of antiquaries, taking a model of it to Somerset-Place, being then with his lordship on a visit. We conveyed it carefully in the carriage. Park-Place boasts more pleasing accompaniments.Holland has improved the seat. Here, if fine collections of books and paintings can please, and who but must be pleased with such? they, who view the place, must be charmed. The library of the late Mr. Harris has been greatly and judiciously augmented by his son, Lord Malmsbury. The author of Hermes, in portrait, by Stewart, seems still to preside. The other portraits, particularly interesting, are the king and queen, at full length, by Reynolds: his majesty in his parliamentary robes; both presented by the sovereign. Catherine II. Empress of Russia and Paul I. when grand duke, both given by her imperial majesty. Frederick III. of Prussia. An original of the Protector Oliver, sent to Governor Hammond for his vigilance in preventing the unhappy monarch, Charles I. from effecting an escape, whilst at Carisbroke castle. The first earl of Shaftesbury, chancellor of England, a maternal ancestor of the noble owner of C-VOL. II.*

the mansion. This is by Greenhill. Anthony-Ashley Cooper, who by his profound abilities, gained an earldom. He had a mind fitted to comprehend the greatest mysteries, and to fathom the most abstruse sciences, but he had so crooked a policy, and was so turbulent, that he became a most dangerous subject. There are also portraits of Lord Malmsbury and his countess, both by Reynolds. These are most select pieces representing characters every way opposite, but the contemplation of their features will ever interest every intelligent mind! To describe the pictures, the furniture, &c. within, or the beautiful scenery without, would trespass too far. His lordship, on July 28, 1777, married HarrietMary, the elder of two daughters of Sir George Amyand, Bart. sister of Sir George Amyand, Bart. LL. D. who, having married Catherine, the sole child of Velters Cornewall, of Morcas-Court, in Herefordshire, Esq. obtained the royal licence to adopt the surname, and arms of Cornewall. Sir George several times represented the county of Hereford, in parliament, and is a trustee of the British museum. The countess' sister is Anna-Maria, married to Gilbert, Lord Minto, the present governor-general of India, a nobleman universally respected. The issue of Lord Malmsbury, is James-Edward, Viscount Fitz-Harris, Catherine, both born at Peterborough, the latter received her name from her imperial sponsor. Thomas-Alfred, Frances, and George: the last died an infant.

These notices will give some, I flatter myself, suitable ideas of a family, now raised to an elevated rank. May the title of Malmsbury descend to the latest posterity, and may the coronet, as it passes from parent to son, never lose its original lustre.

THE nature of man and wine is dissimilar, says Alexis-

Ο μεν γαρ απογηρασκων αηδης γινεται

Lib. ii. p. 36.

for we hate old men, but we like the oldest wine. In the above

verse read απογήρων.

Panyasis, lib. ii. p. 37, is made to say

Οινος γαρ πυρι ισον επιχθονίοισιν ονειας

but for πυρι ισον read τι περισσον.

This poet adds that wine is an excellent remedy for every care; and Amphis thinks we owe that which distinguishes us from brutes to the grape. There seems, says he, to be a reason in wine, for some who drink water are fools. If you have drunk too much, let the evil correct itself—take another cup. Antiphanes tells us DIVE TOY DIVO EŽEλavvy. Lib. ii. p. 44. After the last word insert και τω δει noww x. T. λ. Dalechamp has a note on this recipe, so excellent and so much followed-Lib. 10. Alceus.

è capite depellat alius.

Lib. ii. p. 40.

O y* δεδωκως τ' αγατα, τον μεν ων

Πεποιηκεν, οιεται χάριν τινα

Εχειν ἑαυτῳ.

God is paid when man receives,

To enjoy is to obey. POPE.

Read, in the first line, τ'αγαθα ταυτα, τοτε μεν ὧν.

Alium Calicem

Lib. ii. p. 36. Mnesitheus assures us that, for the good he does, Bacchus is every where called a physician. After ιατρον, for de read ndn d'n.

At the commencement of this book, p. 35, there are five very elegant lines by Diphilus, who styles the god of wine, the wisest and best friend-he, who alone is able to make the humble man think highly of himself, the morose man smile, the weak hardy, and the fearful bold.

Philoxenus makes wine speak all languages oivos παμφωνος, and why it is called oinos in Greek is accounted for by, Colophonius Nicander, who says that one, whose name was Oineus, having poured the juice of the grape into capacious cups, called it Oinos. Ovov Exλnoɛ, p. 35, read exλniσσɛ. Our word wine, the Teutonic or High German wein, the Latin vinum, and the Greek vinos, have very nearly the same pronunciation,

After so much drinking, a little eating may not be unacceptable:-it shall be amusing, if not satisfactory.

Lib. i. p. 6. Pithyllus skinned his tongue that he might have a more exquisite enjoyment of his food-goσελuтgouv TNY yλwooav, which follows, should be read wgosλurgour, and trans

lated prætegere, which this glutton did also, for the same purpose.

In the same page, for ποτε ηρωτημένην read προσήρωτημένης iterum atque iterum. The anecdote to which this belongs is droll, and will strongly remind the reader of an old acquaintance, Joseph Miller.

Phanias says that Philoxenus the poet, who was devoted to good living, being invited to sup with Dionysius, observed that a large mullet was placed before the latter, and a small one before himself. Not well pleased with this distinction, he took it up and put it to his ear. Dionysius asking the reason, Philoxenus replied, that he had a particular enquiry to make about a certain affair at sea, but was sorry to find that, being caught so young, the little mullet was quite unable to satisfy him; however, added he, that one before you, being older, knows all about it. Dionysius laughed, and sent the large mullet to Philoxenus.

July 8.

CLERGYMEN AND COURTESANS.*

MR. EDITOR,

I SUPPOSE the title of this paper has already alarmed you; that you find it difficult to anticipate by what unaccountable association of ideas' persons of sentiments and pursuits so dissimilar can with propriety be joined together; and that you have nearly determined, that an article so eccentric is not admissible in the Monthly Mirror. So much the better; for whilst I have novelty to recommend my communication, I am sure to escape the mortification of reading, in your answers to correspondents, that my remarks are common place.

Clergymen and courtesans ! say your fair readers.-O, the writer is about to recommend the pious conduct of parsons to the imitation of young men of fashion; and severely censure the wicked

*We insert this paper of Nestor, without in any way lending ourselves to the opinion it contains. There may be some sense in it---there is certainly much singularity. Edit.

ness of those abandoned wretches, who frequent the lobbies of the theatres. Not exactly so, Mr. Editor; "the iron has already entered the souls"* of many females who have deviated from the paths of virtue, and I have no angry epithets in store, to aggravate the sufferings of susceptible minds. Nor is it my intention to give unqualified praise to the pious sons of the church; for even the clergy are not always animated with that zeal, which the importance of the cause in which they are engaged demands: the stated routine of church service is all which is thought necessary to the proper discharge of their duty; their exertions sel dom extend beyond the pale of consecrated ground. Those, who have so much respect for the forms of religion, as to attend the places of public worship, have their reward in the instruction they receive; the wilely arts of the enemy of mankind are exposed to their view, the invitations of the gospel are held out to them; their hopes are animated, and they pursue the christian course without yielding to temptation; but how are those circumstanced, who have never had the advantage of religious instruction? those on whom the seductive arts of fraud and flattery have been practised successfully? the frail-unfortunate-pitiable femaleswho are never blessed with the conversation or advice of the virtuous part of their own sex-and whom the unjust prejudices of society oblige all good men to avoid? Fallen from virtue-neglected, if not despised by the religious part of the communitytheir hopes of future happiness are obscured, the intoxicating draught of vicious pleasure is their only preservative from despair, and the frothy ribaldry of inebriated debauchees their only medium of acquiring knowledge. This brings me to the immediate object of this letter. It is my wish, that these unhappy females, who are so unlikely to court the means of public religious instruction, should receive the consolations of the clergy in their own habitations:-for it should be remembered that they are sent "to call sinners, and not the righteous, to repentance." A good churchman should despise the ridicule of the frivolous, and the prejudices of the uncharitable and the unkind :-" angels will rejoice over every sinner that repenteth :" and it will be creditable to their characters, and honourable to the church, that clergymen

"He gave a deep sigh---I saw the iron enter into his soul," Sterno's Captive.