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Malaga, April 23. FEW volumes of books belonging to the late Sir Richard Worlley, baronet, (which with other effects were captured laft war by the French, and condemned here), having lately fallen into my hands by purchafe, I find one among them which forms no contemptible treat to the curious Antiquary; but which, from its nature, as containing partly the copies of domeftic documents, decyphered from the originals, become (as is stated) almost unintelligible, demands, iu liberal juftice, reftitution to the Family.

It is a folio manufcript, done with much elegance of penmanship, bound of Deeds, Charters, &c. in the archives up and lettered on the back, " Copies

of Sir Richard Worfley, bart." I have packed it up, and thipped it to your addrefs.

The Family will, no doubt, thankfully reimburse you the portages and charges of reception and delivery of the book. My expenditure in the purchafe and fhipment may be calculated at about a guinea; which, if they chufe to pay, you may place in the hands of the benevolent Mr. Neild, to be applied by that Gentleman towards the relief of thofe unhappy objects of his philanthropic care and attention, the poor and diftreffed Prisoners.

My taking the liberty of troubling you, to whom I am a perfect ftranger, on this occafion, will, perhaps, find fome confiderable apology, in the nature of the commiffion which I impofe upon you, it being directed to enable your accomplishing an act of liberality and another of charity. But the more immediate motive proceeds from my

having been for feveral years paft a conftant reader of Mr. Urban's Mifcellany, who may, perhaps, find in the faid volume fome things that are curious, and worthy of finding a place in the Gentleman's Magazine; nor do I apprehend any impediment to his making a free ufe of thein, on account of their remote antiquity; which muft reafonably be fuppofed to preclude any caufe of objection on the part of Sir Richard's Family. One original document is to be found in the volume; it is a letter from the great Duke of Somerfet, in tolerable prefervation,

I am very relpectfully, Sirs, your mott humble fervant, DUNCAN SHAW. To Mers. Nichols and Son.

Mr. URBAN,

Sept. 24. Tos dyres, it in onanercial HAT the immenfe importance of

point of view, was duly appreciated in this country at the beginning of the lafi Century, will appear by referring to your vol. IX. p. 653; where a very fenfible Correfpondent has clearly pointed out the great facility with which it might be attacked by a very fmall force; the town of Buenos Ayres, containing about 500 honfes, and the inhabitants very rich, being at that time defended only by 20 gans in a fmall earthen fort furrounded with a ditch, there being no ftone, and the Spaniards too lazy to make bricks.

belief, their plains being from 50 to 80 "The fertility of the country exceeds leagues in circumference covered with all forts of cattle; fo that one device to keep off an enemy is, to drive to the shore-fide

fo great a number of bulls, cows, and hories, that they fuppofe it impoffible to force a way through them. This town is fo finely fituated for commerce, being but 60 days from Peru, that no place un

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der Heaven is fo capable of increasing the trade and riches of Great Britain; and the Spaniards, though they might be alarmed at our first fettlement there, would find many conveniences in it. The ships that go from Spain to this Colony gain above double what the merchants do who fend their goods in the Galleons, and have their returns much fooner.

"The Country, being very heathful, would fuddenly abound with inhabitants, who would enter on the Spanish improve ments, and have many other ways of acquiring riches."

Mr. URBAN,

M. GREEN.

Enfield, Sept. 5.

Wants Cathedral foon en die

Paul's after the funeral of the late Lord Nelfon, contemplating the fituation in which the body lies, a thought prefented itself to my mind which may probably have occurred to many others. I could not help exclaiming, as I beheld the lofty dome over our heads, This is Nelfon's tomb, and the only tomb worthy of fo great a Hero!"

Reflecting fill farther on the fubject, I am now induced to fuggeft to you that it may be doubtful how far the intended Monument will have the grand effect which is expected. The fituation certainly renders it probable that an elegant monumental ftructure immediately under the centre of the Dome, may harmonife with the original defign of the Architect: but is it not equally probable that fuch a ftructure, when compared with the magnitude of the Dome, will appear not only diminutive, but, on fome future unforeseen occafions, act as an obfiruction? Perhaps a much more happy effect might be produced if the arms, with the motto of the departed Hero, were beautifully wrought in mofaic work on the floor. Thele might be furrounded by the following, or any other more proper Infcription, comprehending the exact date of his death.

"This lofty Dome to Britain's Sons shall

tell,

How glorious Nelfon for his Country fell; This glorious Tomb, as lafting as his Fame, To endless time shall confecrate his name: For every Briton, as it ftrikes his eye,

Will think on a digon's tomb and heave

a grateful figh."

Perhaps your Correfpondent who writes fo well on the fubject of Architectural Innovations may concur with me in opinion that a regular firucture, like that of St. Paul's Cathedral, is not quite fo well adapted for the difplay of monumental fplendour as the irregular Gothic, in which the eye is accustomed to the contemplation of detached ornaments in every direction,

If a doubt refpecting this circumflance fhould occur to those who are much better judges than myfelf, they will immediately perceive that the arms of the Hero alone would have a very fine effect, without infringing, in the malleft degree, on the original defign of Sir Chriftopher Wren. They might, indeed, be inclosed in a flill larger circle of molaic work; which, like the shieid of Achilles, would not only receive the Epitaph, but, in feparate compart ments, admit either a reprefentation or narration of the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, &c.

After indulging in the preceding thoughts at the grave of Lord Nelson, I was irrefiftibly led to the remains of that greater Hero, and yet more-to-belaniented Patriot, now lying in Weftminster Abbey, whom, but a fhort time before, I had seen in good spirits * in

the

the Pump-room at Bath. Here I confider myself as treading on claffical ground, and you will not be furprised that I fhould have felt an impulse to complete an imperfect tribute to his memory, which had occupied my attention on a former occafion. The following Infcription was the refult, which is at your fervice: perhaps it may contain fome fentiments and ex preffions not unworthy of attention from thofe who may be engaged in preparing a better, either for his Tomb or his Statue.

"Behold the Likeness of that Man, To whofe incomparable Wifdom and Eloquence,

To whose unfhaken Firmnefs and
Refolution,

Magnanimity and Perfeverance, it was chiefly owing that we are now in full poffeffion of all the Rights and Privileges peculiarly attached to the

Name of Britons; The Likeness of that Man By whofe tranfcendant Talents as a Statefman and Legiflator, Under the guidance of Divine Providence it was ordained

That whilft the Revolutionary Demon Of an Ufurped, a Perjured, and a Regicide Empire,

Stalking like a Giant with Garments rolled in Blood,

Was treading and trampling whole Nations down,

The beloved Conftitutions of Great Britain and Ireland Were united, confolidated, and preferved. Reader! if haply thou afpireft to be confpicuously good or great, If, during thy Intercourfe with the World, Thou haft often been misrepresented and traduced,

If thy beft and thy worthieft Actions have ever been afcribed to Motives which thy Soul abhors,

Let the Subject on which thou art now contemplating fink deep into thy Bosom; for it affords an interefting and an inftruc

tive Leffon to thee.

Mr. URBAN,

THE

Sept. 24. HE Corporation of London having unanimously approved of Mr. Bubb's Design for a Monument to the memory of the late illufirions Statefman Mr. Pitt; and having directed their Committee to make an agreement with that ingenious Artiti for carrying the plan into effect; your readers will doubtless be gratified with the following defcription of his Plan.

The inafly fubftance on which the figures in this compofition are placed, is intended to reprefent the Illand of Great Britain, and the fur rounding waves. On an elevation, in the centre of the illand. Mr. Pitt appears in his robes, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the attitude of a Public Orator, to characterize his abilities, and defcribe the effects of his administration. Mercury is introduced Cominerce, and the patron of Policy: on the right, as the reprefentative of the profperity of Commerce under Mr.