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Ah! more I feel thy influence round,
'Mid pathlefs rocks, and mountains rude,
And all yon deep opake of wood,
And falling waters' folemn found,

Than if enthrin'd aloft I faw thee ftand, Glittering in robes of gold, and fhap'd by Phidias hand.

Oh might my prayer be heard! might I, Faint ev' in youth, here fix my feat! But, if too cruel Fate deny,

In fcenes fo bleft, a foft retreat ;. If ftill ingulpht in life's rude wave, Its boifterings I muft vainly brave, Oh! might I find in peaceful age Some corner for a hermitage:

There fteal from human cares and vulgar ftrife!

In freedom there enjoy the waning hour of

life.

CXLIV. TRIPOS POEM on MAPS.

In our last number we noticed the pic ture-gallery in Emanuel College. It would occupy too much room, and encroach too much on the original plan of this work, to notice all the portraits at Cambridge. The following, however, fhall be mentioned, as well on account of the originality of the fubject, as the lines of the tripos poem with which it shall be accompanied.

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Over the ftair-cafe, near the entrance of the public library, is a fine full-length portrait by Reinagle. The fubject is the late Mr. John Nicholson, commonly called Maps, and well known in his day for keeping a useful circulating library. He was further useful in the University, by furnishing, for a fuitable reward, lame poets with verfes, lame orators with declamations, and lame preachers with fermons: these he used to fell to academics, who had more money than wit, having first purchased them of others, who had more wit than money.

Ah! potius tribuens tua, Maps, munufcula, fummus

Prodeat orator Cicerone difertior ipfo.

The tripos is a paper containing the names of the principal graduates of the year. It alfo contains two copies of verfes, written by two of the under-graduates, who are appointed to that employment by the Proctors. The following are extracted from one of thefe poems, the fubject of which is this Maps: the whole of the poem is very characteristic of the man, as the following extract is of the portrait, except that in the latter Maps is reprefented with the books in his hands: Et quamvis humeris graviter tibi Mufa, mathefis

Incumbant, Sophiæq: omni farragine preffus

* From felling maps about the country, his former occupation.

Incedas, et feffa labat fub pondere cervix, Frons tua læta tamen, mira eft tibi gratia ri fus.

Et veluti quondam fylvas Rhodopeius Orpheus

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Immitefq: tigres et faxa fequentia duxit,
Vox tua fi noftras veniat fortaffe per aures,
Te fubito petimus properi, oblitusq: laborum
Quifq: tibi fua facra refert et numen adorat.
Tho' on thy fhoulders prefs the heavenly
Mufe,

And Mathematics, and the pondrous load
Of every science, till thy weary neck
Almoft fuccumbs, ftill chearful is thy face,
Still in thy fmile a grace. A's Orpheus once
Led woods, and tigers, and obfequious ftones
So let thy cheering voice but reach our ears,
We run to greet you, and our toils forget,
Eager to blefs, as due, thy facred powers.

One fingular circumftance attending Maps's employment in the University was this; the gownfmen and he lived in the exercife of conftant depredations on each other. The fact feems to be, that the former began firit to crib the books of the latter, and the latter was, therefore, compelled to make reprifals, or, otherwife, he muft at length have had an empty shop.Maps's tricks came under the act of fe defendendo; fo that, though the gownsmen were often obliged to watch him like a fharper, ftill he was allowed, by general confent, to have deserved the character of

an honeft man.

NO. CXLV. EXTRACT from MR. THOMAS BAKER'S MS. HISTORY of ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, in the BRITISH

MUSEUM.

In the last month's Magazine was inferted a letter of the late ingenious Mr. Peter Whalley, Editor of Ben Jonfon's Works, to Dr. Rawlinson, the antiquary. The following extract, from Baker, at once completes his narrative, and rectifies a common miftake about the ROUND CHURCH in Cambridge.

"In his time, Hugh Balsham's, or Hugh Norwold's, (for it was done with the confent of Hugh, bishop of Ely), William Twylet founded a chantry in St. Mary's chapel in St. Sepulchre's church; the duty whereof was to be difcharged by a brother. of St. John's: for the which he gave lands to the house in the town and fields of Cam

bridge. The charter, being without date, time, for most of the grants or charters, unwas probably given in Hugh Norwold's der Hugh Baltham, are dated, whereas the

older charters are without date. Whereever we place it, St. Sepulchre's was then a parish church; and this falling in the period of time before the Jews were banished Cambridge, (for in a tranfcript of a grant to Will. Twylet from the

hofpital,

hofpital, there is mention of a house then in poffeffion of a Jew; and, about the fame time, there is an original concerning the fale of a house in that parish, belonging to Molley a Jew) gives good ground to believe, that it was not a Jewish fynagogue, as Dr. Caius and others fupposed it to have been. The Jews were banished England, as well as Cambridge, after Hugh Balham's death, in the 18th of Edward the First. In the 19th of his reign, we find him difpofing of fome of the houfes in the Jewry at Cambridge to Roger Marcount and others. But it is certain, from an inquifition taken in the third year of this king's reign, that St. Sepulchre's in the Jewry was then a church belonging to the prior and convent of Barnwell, in proprios ufus; and yet higher in the last year of Henry the Third there is an original grant of a house in St. Sepulchre's parish to Galfridus de Alderhethe, perpetual vicar of St. Se pulchre's church; fo that it was then a vicarage, and was, no doubt, a parfonage many years; and in the oldeft accounts that I have feen it is always a church."

NO. CXLVI.-SERIA LUDO. With ferious truths we mix a little fun, And now and then we treat you with a pun.

EPIGRAM by the late MR. GILBERT

WAKEFIELD.

The following original epigram, by the late Mr. Wakefield, was fent by him to a friend. The subject of it was Mr. Fofter, formerly of Cambridge, who, on account of his rapidity in converfation, in walking, and more particularly in the exercife of his profeffion, was called the fying barber. He was a great oddity, and gave birth to many a piece of fun in the univerfity, but was an inoffenfive honeft man.

Tonfor ego: vultus radendo fpumeus albet, Mappa fubeft, ardet culter, et unda tepet. Quam verfat gladium cito dextra, novacula lævis

Mox mea tam celeri ftrinxerit ora tu. Cedite, Romani Tonfores cedite Graii;

Tonforem regio non habet ulla parem. Imberbes Grantam, barbati accedite Grantam; Illa polit mentes, et polit illa genas.

NO. CXLVII.-EPIGRAM ON A SKILFUL

PHYSICIAN.

The following is a tranflation made by an apothecary. The original, in Latin, was by a physician. The subject was a gentleman, many years ago of CamMONTHLY MAG. No, 112.

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NO. CXLVIII.-MR. COLERIDGE.

The poetical abilities of Mr. Coleridge, formerly of Jefus College, are well known. He obtained one of the prizes at Cambridge, and but one, for a Greek ode. Being once in company with a perfon who had gained two prizes, the latter carried himself with an air of fuperiority and triumph, and seemed to estimate his own abilities above Coleridge's, in the A perfon in ratio of at least two to one. company growing, at length, indignant at the vaunting airs of the conceited young fellow, exclaimed, "Why zounds, Sir, a man's leg may as eafily be too big for the boot, as your's just fitted it.”

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NO. CL-LINES for a LADY's POCKETBOOK, by CHRISTOPHER SMART, formerly of PEMBROKE HALL.*

Of all returns in man's device
'Tis gratitude that makes the price,
And what fincerity defigns
Is richer than Peruvian mines.
Thus eftimate the heart's intent,
In what the faithful hands prefent.
This volume foon fhall worth derive
From what your industry shall hive,
And then in every line produce
The tale of industry and use.
Here, too, let your appointments be,
And fet down many a day for me;
Oh! may the year we now renew
Be ftor'd with happiness for you;
With all the wealth your friends would
'choose,

And all the praise which you refuse;
With love, fweet inmate of the breast,
And meeknefs bowing to be bleft.

We have already had occcafion to mention Smart as having obtained the Seatonian prize five times; that is, every time he offered himself a candidate: indeed, he always thought himfelf certain of fuccefs, and used to call the Seatonian prize his Kiflingbury eftate. The prize, as every body knows, is paid from the rents of Mr. Seaton's eftate at Kiflingbury, which are forty pounds per an

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N. N., in ftating the violence of Rohinfon against King James, afferts, that, in his Syllabus of Lectures on Non-con formity, he gives into the monstrous opinion, that James was acceffary to the

This trifle of Mr. Smart's we have been fe. voured with by his daughter, Mrs. Lenoir; we have taken fome liberty with the two laft lines. Mrs. Lenoir has alfo communicated fome poetical pieces of her own to the Monthly Magazine, and has given fome very pleafing fpecimens of her poetical abilities in her novel lately published, entitled Village Anecdotes.

death of his own fon. Henry was faid to be an amiable youth, and highly to difapprove the conduct of his father; and that there was fuch a report propagated, on his fudden death, may be feen in Hume; and that Lord Orford believed it (as afferted by N. N.) may be true. But we folicit N. N. to refer to the Syllabus alluded to, and he will there find, that he has led the readers of this Magazine into a miftake in regard to Robinfon. Speaking of James, indeed, he fays, "The tyrant was fuppofed to be poifoned;" but this is a different thing from faying he poisoned his own fon; the moft diftant hint at fuch a dreadful crime not being once made. Robinson was too cautious, and, we apprehend, too well informed on the fubject. It is as creditable in N. N. to fet right a mifrepresentation, as it is difhonourable to propagate one; and moderate men's miftakes may be as injurious as the "lies of either Whigs or Tories." We take the liberty of requesting N. N. to read Robin. fon's book with his fpectacles on, or not to quote from memory, where an attack is intended.

In clofing, we remark, that Cole's intimation that Robinfon had not read King James's Works was equally inaccurate as his other affertions; as those who are acquainted with his works, and King James's, might have fhewn him. The fact is, Robinson read King James's betters for ferious purpofes, and King James to make fun of. And thus every particle advanced by Cole and N. N about Robinfon is inaccurate.

NO. CLII.-TIT FOR TAT.

A gownfman faying once in company with Robinfon, that he had just been to hear a certain clergyman-the moft admired preacher in the univerfity-and launching out enthusiastically in his praite; "Ah! (aid Robinfon dryly) the gentleman fprung from a difenting family: (which was the fact.) The tag-end of a Diffenter makes a rare churchman."

The word fag-end reminded the gowniman of a very appofite paffage fomewhere, on the origin of the band, which is fometimes feen ftuck on the black coat of a Diffenting minifter. The paffage nearly amounts to this, that when the Old Whore* left our country, he was obliged to pack up her ornaments and trinkets in hafte, and ran away with only her fmock on.

* In allufion to a paffage in the Revelations, which the Proteftants have applied to the church of Rome.

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A TOUR in DENMARK, by PROFESSOR OLIVARIUS, of KIEL in HOLSTEIN.

(From Le Nord Literaire, &c.)

HIS Tour was performed by M. Kuttner, whofe Letters upon Iceland are in high estimation, and who has lately published a Tour in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and a part of Italy, made in the year 1797, ani published in the German language in 1801. This enlightened and judicious traveller, according to profeffor Olivarius, feems never to lofe England out of fight, which he knows almoft as well as his native country, Germany; and to which, fays the profeffor, he appears to refer every thing, as to a fort of standard; but, he adds, "we fhall, agreeably to our plan, sometimes take the liberty to rectify our guide, and almost every where intermingle our own reflections with his."

The author, on his arrival at Kiel, proceeds to visit the famous canal, which unites the Baltic and the North Sea, and which becomes more and more frequented every day; and will be more especially fo, in the time of a maritime war. This canal communicates immediately with the Baltic on the East fide, and with the Eyder, on the Weft fide, by means of fix fluices of equal magnitude. Our traveller inspected the fluice of Knop, and expreffes his doubts whether he has feen any thing in England, or even in Holland, more handsome, more commodious, and better constructed than this fluice. He faw a large veffel pafs through, the expediting of which was performed with equal eafe and celerity; and it only took up about half an hour to work the veffel into the lower part of the canal. It is this canal with the Eyder, which feparates Slefwick, a Danish duchy, from Holtein, a duchy of the Empire, as is indicated by an infcription to be read on that gate of the town of Rendsburg, by which we quit the limits of the Empire: Eidora, Romani terminus Imperii.

On the way to Knop, we difcover the Chateau of the Count de Baudin, fituated on the banks of the canal, decorated with a fine garden, part of which is in the English ftyle, and furrounded by a vaft park. This ftructure, is, unquef tionably, one of the most magnificent poffeffed by any lord in the ftates of Denmark; the architecture is in a good style.

"I cannot difcover the caufe," fays M. Kuttner, "whence proceeds that fmiling and agreeable air which the environs of this fluice of Knop, diffuse; but its refreshing afpect, the elegance of its construction, the care, the extream neatnefs with which the business of it is condusted, all this joined to the beauty of the circumjacent places, which, doubtlefs, contribute fomething to the general effect, throw into the landscape at large an inexpressible chafm. In other respects the canal has nothing very extraordinary in itself; and the way, or paths that border upon it, are not to be compared with thofe of the fame kind that I have feen in England."

It muft, however, be confeffed, that it would be difficult to find, any where, a more diverfified and more agreeable promenade than that which ftretches along the canal from Knop, to its efflux into the Baltic, for the space of about a small league: fea and rivers, barks and veffels, woods and meadows, corn-fields, and gardens, a chateau, magazines, cottages, &c. &c. form a complete affemblage, to charm the perfpective, and to fealt the eyes.

Eckenforde is the firft town of Slefwick that we meet with, after quitting the Empire on the fide of Kiel, from which it is distant about three miles and a quarter. The coup d' ceil which this little town prefents to the traveller, who, at the extremity of a large and fine foreft, from the height of a mountain, discovers, all at once, its walls washed by the waters of the sea, is truly ftriking. Its commerce does not anfwer to the beauty of its fituation; it is inconfiderable; veffels of a certain fize are notwithstanding built here, but it is mostly to fall them in other ports, where they are fometimes employed in the navigation of the Antilles.

The fecond town of the Duchy, about three miles and a quarter from the former, is the capital of it, and bears its name. Slefwick is a very agreeable city, and of fuch a conftruction as the author has feldom feen elsewhere. One might

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fuppofe it a capital of fome democratical canton of Switzerland. In fome parts you would doubt whether you were within the precincts of a town; hardly any thing being to be feen but rural groupes, lands and orchards adj ining, or feparated, it may be, by an alley, which contains only buildings, on one fide, and on the other, ruftic objects fo interfperfed, that we can no longer difcern buildings. This capital, however, contains one very long treet, which composes almost the whole town; but in this very street many houfes are compleatly feparated from the others, and have no other limits but a court and a garden. These houfes have, at the fame rime, a very rural aspect; most of them are very fmall, and have but one ftoryand fometimes they confift of only a ground floor. The greater part are built of wood and of bricks, which does not prevent the effect from being very chearful and gay; this refults from the neatnefs of the inhabitants, and the custom they have of painting them. The glas windows are fo neat, fo well polished and fo transparent, that the author tells us he fancied himself, all on a fudden, tranfported, fometimes into England, and

fometimes into Holland.

Slefwick extends in length at leaft half a mile; but, after what has been said of it, it may be readily conceived that its population cannot be confiderable. In the winter feafon here is a concourse of the nobleffe-and it fares the better for being the refidence of Prince Charles of Heffe, in his quality of Stadtholder of the Duchies of Holftein and of Slefwick. Here is a tolerable fort of theatre, but very little commerce. The cathedral church (where, by parenthesis, the fair is held, as is practifed in certain cities of Germany) is one of thofe Gothic buildings remarkable for their antiquity, and for conveying an impreffion of the talte of past ages. We fee here an immenfe number of figures in wood, reprefenting entire hiftories of the bible, and which are decorated with a rich gilding. In fuch a multitude, however, we can diftinguilh fome figures tolerably well defigned and fculptured. The caftle of Gottorp, inhabited by the Governor or Stadtholder, is not far from the city, here you enjoy a fine profpect. On gala days there are often more than one hundred perfons who go to court.

Flensburg, fituated about four miles from Slefwick, is the most commercial and important city of the Duchy, and even

of the whole Danish monarchy, next to Copenhagen and Altona; it is pretty large and well-peopled. The streets are crowded with paffengers, and every thing here denotes the appearance of activity and industry. In order to judge of its extent and the beauty of its fituation, it would be advifeable to take the prospect of it on the fide of Apenrade, at the defcent of the hill. It is, in fact, a delightful coup d'œil. Flensburg, like Slefwick, chiefly consists of a long freet, but with houfes peculiarly neat; and poffefsing a charm fcarcely to be estimated, which is that their gardens are encompaffed by a great walk or alley which terminates in, and leads to, the port or harbour. Here, in the middle of his garden, the merchant may walk, extending his views to the harbour, the bay, the hills of the oppofite fhore-and, what interefts him the mot, he may recognize his own vesfels, in a manner, before his own doors. The harbour is good, fecure, and commodious, and most commonly filled with veffels. If the inhabitants are richer at Flensburg than in many other commercial cities, it is chiefly because here they poffefs the art of uniting economy with induftry;-they come pretty near the Hollanders in this refpect, as, likewife, in many others.

Our traveller here makes a little excursion to vifit the ifle of Allen, poffeffed by the Prince d'Auguftenburg, brother in law of the Prince Royal, and his ufual residence in the fummer feafon.

This excurfion proved

to be one of the most agreeable imaginable, owing to the fertility and induttrious cultivation of the country which he traverfed, and which, he fays, greatly refembles Ireland in the goodness of the roads or ways, the variety of profpects which it affords, and lafly, for the neatnefs which reigns throughout the houfes, and breathes the air of eafy contented circumftances. We obferve here, two chateaux of the prince, and the little town of Sonderburg, whose trade is not very confiderable.

After this agreeable excurfion, we fpeedily fall again into the high road, and arrive at Apenrade, a fmall, pretty town, very populous, and containing inhabitants in eafy circumftances. As in general the towns of Slefwick may be affimilitated to thofe of Holland, the refemblance here appears moft confpicuoufly ftriking. The houses, chiefly remarkable for their neatnefs, are of no great height, are com modiously laid out, often painted, and

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