and charged the jury accordingly, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full sum of five hundred guineas with costs of suit. 346] Without a rival stands, though March still lives. William Douglas, third Earl of March and fourth Duke of Queensberry, to which title he succeeded in 1778, was born in 1725. He acquired an unenviable notoriety, by the most unrestrained course of debauchery in all its forms. He was the intimate friend and associate of Sandwich; but did not, like him, suffer public affairs or employments to seduce him one moment from the continued course of vice, which he pursued with more of zeal and earnestness than is too frequently exerted by good men in the prosecution of objects the most laudable. Sir N. Wraxall, who knew him intimately by almost daily intercourse during the last seven years of his life, observes of him that, like Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, he pursued pleasure in every shape, and with as much ardour at fourscore as he had done at twenty. After exhausting all the gratifications of human life, towards the close, he sat down at his residence near Hyde Park Corner, a spectator of the moving scene of life and dissipation at its fullest tide. His person had become a ruin, not so his mind. Seeing only with one eye, hearing very imperfectly, and that only with one ear, nearly toothless, and labouring under multiplied infirmities, he possessed his memory and all his other intellectual faculties in their full vigour. During the later years of his life, he existed by artificial means, under the constant superintendance of a medical man, who was driven to bring an action, in which he succeeded to a very large amount, for remuneration for his services and the repulsive offices they involved. He died in 1810, leaving an immense property, real as well as personal, in regard of which he left a will, which required the aid of chancery. In addition to sums and presents of great value to Mademoiselle Faginani, the reputed daughter of an Italian Marquis of that name, afterwards Marchioness of Hertford, he settled on her the sum of £150,000; while George Selwyn bequeathed to her £32,000, each of them believing himself to be her father. The late Marquis of Hertford pur sued a similar career, with even more unbounded means of indulging his habits of unbridled license; and for the honour of the British peerage, we hope that with him is extinct that series of noble voluptuaries, who render almost credible the excesses of the Romans as too graphically described by the pen of Petronius. 695] At Med'nam lies. EXTRACT FROM GROSE'S ANTIQUITIES. Here remain, still standing, the walls of the north aisle of the abbey church; it is in length sixteen yards, and in breadth four. It seems by this, to have been a neat stately building, well wrought with ashlar work; the windows high and spacious. It probably consisted of a body, and two aisles and chancel, and had a tower at the west end. The house that is now called the abbey-house, seems to have been patched up after the dissolution. Since Browne Willis wrote, most of the remains he mentions have fallen or been taken down; the adjacent grounds elegantly laid out and planted; and the abbey-house repaired, and made again conventual by a society of gentlemen who lived together in a kind of monastic statetheir abbot was a noble. The rules observed by these monks have not been published; but, from some of them which have transpired, we may suppose they were not quite so rigid as those of their brethren of La Trappe. This was indicated by the motto over their door; which, carved in large letters, still stands thus: "FAY CE QUE VOUDRAS." 700] Dashwood shall pour, &c. There was for many years in the great room at the King's Arms Tavern in Old Palace Yard, an original picture of Sir Francis Dashwood, presented by himself to the Dilettanti Club. He is in the habit of a Franciscan, kneeling before the Venus de Medicis, and a bumper in his hand, with the words "matri sanctorum " in capitals. For some time the grossness of the picture excited considerable indignation in the minds of the better portion of the public; but that feeling subsided with the recollection of the individual, and the picture still remained until lately among others belonging to the Club in their room at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's Street, and has become with the entire collection matter of history and art only, and a not unuseful record, and it may be hoped warning, of the more flagrant outrages upon decency of the men of that generation. 805] And those old wreaths, which Oxford once dared twine. The minuteness with which the poet has entered into the characters of the Oxonian professors, may be ascribed to a visit which in the summer of 1763 he paid to the University of Oxford, in company with his friends Thornton and Colman, in order to be present at the Encænia, which that year derived additional lustre from the installation of the Earl of Lichfield; and on occasion of which Dr. King delivered the celebrated oration mentioned in a preceding note. Colman, during the excursion, published a few numbers of a paper which he called Terræ Filius, from the assumed name of the ancient Pasquin of the University, and in which he designated the Triumvirate, of which he constituted a part, by the following appellations, himself as Dapper the genius, from being the author of some essays so entitled and written by him for the St. James's Magazine; Thornton as Rattle, the fluent student, from his volatile and desultory habits of composition, and conversation; and Churchill Tiddy Doll, on account of the unseemly exhibition he made of a gold-laced hat. The circumstance of this publication having been attributed to our author, was thus noticed in the second number of it. "The ministerial and anti-ministerial characters in the University, whose ideas of wit and humour are almost entirely absorbed in port and politics, will have it that I am one or other of the supposed authors of the North Briton; since it is generally reported that the Reverend Gentleman, having snapped the last cord of poor Hogarth's heart-strings, will come down in his laced hat, like General Churchill or Tiddy Doll, and being a member of the University of Cambridge, it is taken for granted that the convocation will take this public opportunity of admitting him ad eundem." One of the best, if not the very best, of Wilkes' compositions was his observations on the reprimand addressed by Sir John Cust, as Speaker of the House of Commons, to the Mayor of the City of Oxford and some electors who had been convicted of bribery, in which, by way of aggravation of their conduct, the Speaker said," you had at all times the example of one of the most honoured and respectable bodies in Europe before your eyes; their conduct in every instance, but especially in the choice of their representatives in parliament, being well worthy of your imitation." Wilkes in these observations, after ironically recapitulating many incidents in the political history of the University as well worthy of imitation, thus concludes: "When their Chancellor the Duke of Ormond was attainted of high treason, was it worthy of imitation' that the university chose for his successor a man equally disaffected, his own brother, the Earl of Arran? In the late reign, the conduct of the university, particularly of the Vice-Chancellor, in the affair of the students who had publicly drunk the Pretender's health on their knees, was so infamous that the government could not wink at it. Even so mild a prince as George II. was at last forced to a severity painful to his nature, but which the public good rendered necessary, against the most inveterate enemies of his person and family; was the conduct of Oxford then worthy of imitation? "Methinks, I still hear the seditious shouts of applause given to the pestilent harangues of the late Dr. King, when he vilified our great deliverer, the Duke of Cumberland, and repeated with such energy the terrible redeat. Was the conduct of the University, at the opening of the Ratcliffe library, by their behaviour to the known enemies of the Brunswick line, and their approbation of every thing hateful to liberty and her friends, worthy of imitation? When I was told of all times, and every instance, in which Oxford has been exemplary in her couduct, I have been led to consider those two instruments of slavery,-the Oxford decree in the time of Charles II. and the recognition at the accession of James II. as being both, or either as far us in them lay, an absolute renunciation of Magna Charta." THE THE FAREWELL. HE goodness of the intention must here atone for the deficiency in the versification, and strength of argument for flow of poetry. The question in discussion, between the poet and his friend, has been a standing topic of disputation for ages; we who have lived to see the wildest theories of the schools attempted to be reduced into practice, and have witnessed the cosmopolitical efforts of Anacharsis Cloots, the sublime orator of the human race, together with the termination of his career, are tolerably competent to decide upon the madness, if not the wickedness, of the attempt to counteract one of the most powerful and beneficial instincts implanted in our natures, the love of Father-land. We make no apology for quoting from the poetry of the antiJacobin, a masterly exposure of that pretended universal philanthropy, which involves an entire neglect of the practical duties of the social and domestic affections. After an invocation to the "nameless Bard," the many languaged author of that powerful combination of much learning and sound criticism, with a considerable portion of prejudice and caprice, “The Pursuits of Literature," the author of the verses entitled New Morality, thus proceeds: "If vice appal thee, if thou view with awe, Insults that brave, and crimes that 'scape the law ;— Yet, these may rouse thee!—With unsparing hand, |