two ounces were swallowed, he dashed the cup upon the floor, and cried out, "I am poisoned." With incredible speed, he leapt down the two flights of stairs, and rushed frantic into the kitchen, where the servants seeing him look strangely wild, laid hold of him, but not the force of three persons could hinder him from leaping on a dresser, and taking from the shelf a roll of butter, which he furiously devoured to al lay the torture of his stomach. Mr. and Mrs. Armitage sent to know, what was the matter; when their daughter returned for answer, that two of the servants were on the floor, and that young Thornton, gone stark mad, was eating butter. They came down, when they found him lying on the kitchen floor, frequently vomiting a white fluid, with torrents of blood, and pale as death, unable to articulate. The mother was in fits, and some part of the family had locked themselves up. At last one was found to run to the nearest apothecary, who came, and thought it was best to bleed the youth, and put him to bed. Sir RICHARD JEBB was sent for, who said, he had never seen such a case, or read of a similar accident; adding, that had he swallowed vinegar to correct the alkali, the benefit would have been great, but as it was, it had saved his life, if he recovered. He was blooded night and morning for a week, in all thirty times. For three weeks his only food was linseed oil, and the passage of the throat being closed, he was supported by injections. He recovered, however, after about four months' confinement, but, as may be naturally imagined, not a little reduced. (To be concluded in our next.)

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MEMOIRS OF MR. VALENTINE GREEN.

[Concluded from P. 325.]

We have now to speak of Mr. Green as an author. His His.
tory of Worcester, with sixteen plates, engraved by himself after
his own drawings, we have already noticed. As a juvenile pro-
duction it does him considerable credit. In 1796 he published an
enlarged edition. In 1782 he printed a letter to Sir Joshua
of the Polite Arts in
in France, at
the Time of their Establishment under Louis XIV, compared with
their present State in England; in which their National Import-
ance, and several Pursuits, are briefly stated and considered."
At that period the Shakspeare, Historic, and Poet's Gallery did not
exist

Reynolds, intit
intitled, "A Review of the

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His next work was a compilation called, Acta Historica Regi

narum Angliæ, formed on the history of the Queens of England subsequent to the Norman conquest, down to Queen Anne, inclusive. This publication was brought forward under the patronage of her majesty, and is made considerably interesting as a work of art, by the many rare portraits it contains of the a cestors of the first families in Great Britain, amounting in number to nearly one hundred. It was begun in 1786, and completed in 1792, with a French translation, by the late Chevalier Sausuiel. Lastly" An Account of the Discovery of the Body of King John, in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, July 17, 1797." A quarto pamphlet embellished with a representation of the body of the king as it appeared on opening the tomb, is properly an addendum to the foregoing work.

In 1775 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London. After having rendered the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. many valuable and disinterested services, he addressed them a memoir in 1799, shewing with great modesty and truth, his paramount claims as a candidate for their secretaryship.

In 1804 he was chosen keeper of the British Institution for promoting the fine arts in the United Kingdom. A situation of no inconsiderable importance to the interests of the artists, as far as regards their concerns with their patrons and the public. It is unnecessary to say how much any such institution must benefit by the talents and experience of the veteran, whose memoirs we now conclude with great admiration of his persevering genius and unwearied labour, “adversis temporibus."

Note. Although we have asserted, on the authority of Mr. Green, that he is a native of Warwickshire, a learned and worthy friend writes to us thus:-" You say he is a native of Warwickshire. This is not accurate. He was born in Hules-Owen, which is partly in the county of Salop, and partly in that of Worcester. There were three brothers, all artists. One, an engraver, died early. Amos, the eldest, excelled in painting flowers. I have seen some beautiful poseys of his: he also drew well; the late Rev. Partby, of Stoke by Nayland, his friend, had a room adorned with his drawings in water colours. I have been with Mr. Amos Green, at Mr. Hilton's, who was well acquainted with all of them. The eldest was the friend and companion of Mr. Dean, a gentleman of fortune, who admiring his taste, requested him to reside with him. Mr. Valentine Green has been unfortunate from the present state of Europe so detrimental to artists, and he has been a great sufferer by the baseness of a partner."

ON THE REGALIA OF ENGLAND.

BY THE REV. MARK NOBLE, F. Å. §. OF L. AND E.
[Continued from P. 204.]

Tat republicans affected to treat such matters with the most ineffable contempt and derision. The inconsiderable portion of the late monarch's once splendid Jewel-House was sold, I suppose, to Dutch merchants; after being broken to pieces, the precious metals in which they were set, together with the royal plate, were melted into coin, bearing the Common-wealth sṭamp; what plunder they had obtained belonging to his majesty, before his death, had been coined indeed, but with the same type and legend as the king had used, only, to distinguish it, they placed, as a mint-mark, the letter P. for " Parliament," which letter was within a circle.

Whatever dislike the republicans had to crowns and sceptres, their general, and in the end their master, Oliver, had none. He flattered himself that the army grandees would fall into his ideas of restoring royalty, by consenting to his taking the kingly of fice; agitated, perplexed, and mortified at their denial, when he was reluctantly to refuse the object of his wishes, the crown, hê fainted.

It is said his highness had prepared a crown; this I think is very probable; but if so, it was easy for him to dispose of it again to the jeweller he employed, paying for the setting, and his trouble in obtaining the precious stones with which it was adorned. Oliver, in the portrait initials of his patents, &c. is represented in robes of state, and a sceptre in his hand.

Happily monarchy was restored in the person of the legal heir. Nothing remained of the old regalia as I have sufficiently shewn, In the account given, May 29, 1660, by the Earl of Dorset, for all that was immediately necessary to provide for the king's use, are items for a crown and for a sceptre; the sum named for these was 9001.; the robes are not included. This sum for such costly articles is very small, The silver plates of all sorts and sizes were estimated at 2000l. which were to be purchased. Charles II. was restored, or at least returned to his capital on his natal day, May 29, 1660, and he was crowned April 23, 1661; between these two dates all things necessary for the solemnity of the

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ronation were provided. These were two crowns, one of them called St. Edward the Confessor's, in remembrance of the one so named, kept at Westminster, with which the former sovereigns had been crowned. The veneration in which all the monarchs after the Conquest held St. Edward the king, sufficiently accounts for this, and it is well known that one of the greatest of them, Edward I. named after him, offered at his shrine the regalia and coronation chair of the kings of Scotland, which he had brought from that kingdom, and his son Alphonso offered also the golden coronet and other personal valuables of Llewelyn, prince of Wales. We may presume that an ancient crown which at least had the kingly saint's name, had been kept at Westminster, and used at coronations. St. Edward's staff, or long ancient sceptre, such as we see upon one type of his money; the crosses of metropolitans, and crosiers of bishops, were long enough like the old sceptres to walk as supports. Our kings had two sceptres, one ending in a cross, the other a dove, expressive of religion and mercy. It is well known that our queens consorts had used to bear the sceptre in their hand, and thence perhaps, it being found more graceful, was adopted by the monarch; their's generally, if not universally, ended fleury. The dove is very ancient, but not always the termination, for sometimes it is like the maces of old times, and Henry VI. has two sceptres, and, copying the French fashion, one of them ends with the hand of justice. The other parts of Charles II.'s regalia at his coronation, were the state swords, the two rings, the armilla or bracelets for the arms, the patina, chalice, spoon, ampulla, wedge, or mark of gold. These were all of the precious metals, with or without jewellery. I do not notice the coif, the caul, tissue-hose, sandals, supertunica, taffaty, shirt, mantle, and gloves; all which were, except the taffaty and shirt, used, but were of a nature to be of no great intrin sic value.

It does not appear that Charles II.'s consort, Catharine of Braganza, ever was crowned; her bigotry prevented the ceremony, as it must have been performed by Protestant prelates, and in the vernacular language; she, however, had a crown, I pre

sume.

It is well known that James II. took the greatest care that the ceremony of his coronation should be performed with the utmost splendour and the exactest manner. Sandford, Lancaster he rald, drew up the whole ceremonial, and it was just published TxU

with what was then most costly engravings, when he lost his dominions. Mary of Modena, his queen, was crowned with him; for her majesty's use there was an ivory sceptre with a dove; no crown is mentioned; a proof that one had been prepared for Queen Catharine of Braganza; but she had a diadem to wear as she went to the coronation, being a fillet of gold adorned with diamonds. It was noticed as remarkable, that the imperial crown being too large for James II.'s head, it was near falling, but was prevented by Sir Charles Sidley, bart. the wit. When the monarch expressed his thanks, he replied-" Sir, it is not the first time my family have supported the crown.' Yet he was one of the first to desert the self-devoted king. This being noticed, with his answer to his sovereign on that occasion; he, alluding to his daughter's dishonour, and her reward, said "Why! His majesty has created my daughter a countess, I cannot, therefore, do less than assist in making his a queen."

As the regal power was jointly given to William and Mary at the revolution, it was necessary that an augmentation should be made in the regalia; an imperial crown was therefore had for her majesty, not the same as what is used for a queen consort, but as a regnant one equal in form to that of the king her husband, and co-sovereign. There was also provided for her majesty, an, orb, and sceptre, such as the king had, with all the lesser articles, except such as were improper for her majesty's use, as a lady.

Even the matrimonial crown was not offered to Prince George of Denmark, consort to Queen Ann, so that no regalia was necessary on his account. Her majesty had previous to the coronation, a diadem to wear on the day of the solemnity, but preceding to her majesty's receiving the crown of St. Edward,and the imperial crown, and it being found that it was too heavy, and probably also, too large, this latter crown was new set, so that the queen might wear it in parliament with ease and safety. The Duchess of Marlborough, who so shamefully acted the base ingrate to her royal mistress, acknowledges how careful her majesty was in her expenditure, particularly in purchasing jewels, adding but little to what she had previous to the commencement of her reign. It must, however, be acknowledged that William presented Queen Mary's, his Consort's, to her; the only act of real kindness he ever condescended to bestow upon her.

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