port of his pretended miffion. This little work was dispersed all over the kingdom, and, it is believed, was, in a confiderable degree, conducive to the filencing that Apostle and his fatellites. He foon after employed himself in anfwering a pamphlet of Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, who, with another Gentle, man of far inferior learning and abili ties, had made, in their works, very free with the character of an eminent Statefman, whom, from his youth, Mr. M. had enthufiaftically admired, namely, the late Right Hon. Edmund Burke. This work, which for realons not neceffary here to state, has not been published, was a confiderable time in Mr. B.'s hands, and is alluded to in a letter inferted in this Magazine for July 1797, Vol. XXXII, page 6. A fmall tract was published about this time, upon Judicial and Profane Swearing, by Mr. M.; and alfo a great variety of other pamphlets and tracts, ferious and humorous, at different periods, in fupport of Government. SIR, Mr. Mofer had been fome years in the commiffion of the peace for Weftminfter. In the year 1798 he was appointed a Magiftrate for the four Counties, and one of the Deputy Lieutenants for Middlesex. In that fitua tion he acted at the Public Office, Queen-square. Some time after the death of Mr. Sergeant Kerby, in confequence of removals occafioned by that event, Mr. M. was appointed to the office in Worship-itreet, where he now acts, Since this last appointment, we underftand that the duties of his fituation, in which he is indefatigable, engross nearly the whole of his time: therefore he has been obliged to confine himself to thofe publications that are to be found in this work, which are the relaxations of his few leifure hours; though we are informed he has by him feveral larger works, the product of periods when he was more difengaged, which we hope he will find fome future opportunity to give the public, RICHARD ROLT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE. To the Account of this Author, in your last Magazine, might have been added the following particulars : In a Poem called "THE PASQUINADE," published in 4to. in 1753, and containing fatyrical notices of the writers of the times, Mr. Rolt is thus mentioned: "They faw their bards and critics all On which laft line is the following note: "Mr. ROLT, Author of the Westminster Journal, in which our Author, in the same fentence with Mr. Fielding, had been treated with abuse: likewife of feveral poems and pamphlets now forgotten; fuch as The Rojciad, Cambria, The Theatrical Contest, A Reply 10 Mr. Fielding's Difcourfe on Robberies, A Monody on the Death of the Prince, and the Golip's Chronicle in the Old Woman's Magazine. Our Author, with much juice, has joined in the fame line Ben Sedgley, of Temple Bar, fometimes the father of Mr. Rolt's pieces, and who is very proud of being eiteemed an author, placing himself much higher than his predeceffor Ward, a publican celebrated in the DUNCIAD, though not poffelled of even half his talents. Ben being really a very dull fellow, and remarkable for nothing but emptying a tankard." On Mr. Rolt's death. the following lines appeared in one of the public papers, as an epitaph on him: "ONCE all too bounteous in this world to live, Above receiving, and vet prone to give; But, when reduc'd by pain and forrow's Scorn'd by each well-drets'd, intamous ingrate; this. All deat to woe, to goodness all remifs, PIND. NEM.. στροφὴ ά. Οὐκ ἀνδριαντοποιός εἶ μ', ὥςτ ̓ ἐλιονύσοντά μ' ἐργάζετ σθαι αγάλματ ̓ ἐπ ̓ αυτᾶς βαθμίδος ὁλκάδος, ἐν τ ̓ ἀκάτῳ, γλυκεῖ ἀοιδα, λοισ ̓, ὅτι Λάμπωνος υἱὸς Πυθέας ευρυσθενής νική Νεμείοις παγκατίου ςέφανον. ματέρ' οἰάνθας οπώραν. I am no ftatuary, skill'd to place Which, could I form them with an artist's hand, But go, iweet ode; Ægina quit; Sail in all fhips, with every pinnace flit: And fay, that Lampon's valiant fon Hath the Pancratian chaplet won; That Pytheas' conquest fame proclaims, PYTHEAS had defired Pindar to write an ode on his victories, and had fignified his intention of paying him for his trouble. The poet made his ufual demand. But it chanced, that the hero was avaricious, as well as vain; a lover of money, no lefs than a lover of praife. He objected to the fum as exorbitant, and added; that he could purchafe for much less money a coloffean ftatue. The poet, not a little piqued at a remark, that affected to prefer the fculptor's art to his own, replied; that a statue was a thing fixed upon its pedeftal, from which it could never move. His poetry was not ftationary, but progreffive. It darted, with the rapidity and effulgence of lightning, from the shores of the Propontis to the pillars of Hercules. Regions, wrapped in Cimmerian darknefs, were enlightened by it. But what end will your ftatue ferve? will it, like my ode, immortalize your me. mory? No. Time will foon commit its ravages upon it. Curiofity will foon be fatiated with the fight of it. Your name and your achievements will be obliterated together. The mercenary combatant, who had demurred, complied. The ftipulated fum was paid without hesitation or delay. But the poet, who retained his chagrin, was determined to open his ode with an allufion to this conference. It remained for the illuftrious victor to comment at difcretion. We are accustomed to confider the autumn as the feafon of decline. The poets delighted to confider it as the feafon of maturity. This is expreffed by οπώρα, that by φθινοπωρίς. μὴ φθινοπωρὶς ἀπ νέμων χειμερία καταπνιά δα. μαλίζον χρόνονο Y. Ragland Castle, Monmouthshire. 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RAGLAND CASTLE, MONMOUTHSHIRE. WITH A VIEW, ENGRAVED FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING TAKEN ON THE SPOT IN THE YEAR 1783. TH BY JOSEPH MOSER, ESQ. HE obfervation of Pope, founded, however, upon the fentiment of an Author that lived more than a thoufand years before him, "That gold's but fent to keep the fools in play; For fome to heap, and some to throw away;" may, with propriety, be applied to architecture. One race of men build -another race dilapidate and deftroy. This reflection very naturally occurs as we vifit thofe auguft veftiges of ancient caftles &c. that now, even with their ruins, adorn that romantic country South Wales, which they were probably built to awe and fubjugate; and however we may, in thofe that have fallen into decay from the filent operation of the corroding tooth of time, lament the trantitory ftate of fublunary grandeur, yet, as we view their magnificent fragments, we feel the fame kind of melancholy confolation as in contemplating the tombs of eminent perfons who have fallen in the regular grada tion and courfe of nature. But it is far otherwife when we behold, in the rains of the nobleit monuments of art and ingenuity, the infanity of popular tumult, and the devaitation of civil war. We confider the fall of thefe buildings with the horror that we do wilful and malicious homicide, that we do the affaffination of great and eminent men facrificed to the frenzy of the times. The Castle, a view of which, as it appeared in 1783, is annexed, comes fully within the fcope of the latter part of this obfervation. The vettiges which were then proferved gave, though a faint, a correct idea of its former magnificence. The interior decorations of the grand hall and the rooms' I reflect on with pleasure, as, from the talte difplayed in their various ornaments. the chimney-pieces for inftance, fupported by caryatides, I conjecture that Inigo Jones, or fome other travelled architect, had given the defigns. The general effect of this Castle, by day, was frikingly grand and romantic; but at night, the broad mofles of the deepest fhadow enveloping the lower parts of the interior, while the upper were relieved by catching lights and reflexes from the moon-beams darting through the broken windows and arches, and fivering the tops of the ivy and other clinging plants, produced an effect fo fubiinely grand and aweful, that though it is in the power of genius to conceive its impreffion on the imagination, it is not in the power of language to exprefs its force. In fuch a fcene in that dead and filent hour, there leelaed to be Till the mind burft with thinking." "Room for meditation even to madness, With refpect to the hiftory of this once celebrated caftle, which gives its name to a fall village fituated betwixt the 4. river |