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Cat t \ .72 , .1? • nn • p 4 r %iv /T I , 4 4 elf _ 4:0 .• PRICE 7D. ~ ~. ST. PETER'S, WESTMINSTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In reference to the letters which have ap peared in your valuable. Journal, as to the rights exercised and claimed by the Dean, Chapter, and Officers of this collegiate church, it may not be un amusing to your readers, and particularly to those interested in the result of the intended inquiry, to advert to the origin of this very ancient establish ment, and to the interference which the Govern ment have, from time . to time, exercised over its internal arrangements, privileges, and immunities. It has been asserted by some historians that this church was first built towards the latter end of the second century, by King Lucius, and by others, that it was erected by Sebert, King of the East Saxons, in the beginning of the seventh century. It seems, however, most probably to have been built towards the middle of the eighth, as it appears by the Saxon Chronicle that the : S4xons took up their winter quarters in 839, 8.51, 872,. and 879, when it was forsaken by the monks and lay in ruins. In a M.S. in the Library of the Dean and Chap ter, will be found the names of several persons who presided there previous to the appointment of Flete, a monk of the Abbey ; , -in the ..rettfn of Henry the Sixth. Upon Dunstan's appointment as administrator of the Bishopric of London, he prevailed upon King Edgar to restore the monastery, and having obtained some lands, which formerly belong e d to th Church, he brought from Glastonbury, (where he himself had been abbot), twelve monks, and converted it into a small monastery of the Benedictine Order. What the PRIVILEGES WERE that Dunstan ob tained from King Edgar, or what HE (in his special favour, as in these times) VOUCHSAFED TO GRANT TO THE MONKS, is not known, but some charters were subsequently produced, particularising certain rights and privileges, as belonging to the abbot and monks, but which were ultimately proved beyond all doubt to be forgeries. The monastery received some benefactions at ilampsted from King Etheldred, in the year 986, and some lands were devised to it, by the will of one Leofwyn in 998, situtte at Kelvedon and Mar shall, Essex. About 1049 the old church uas pulled down and rebuilt by the Confessor, who endowed it with very large revenues, and many of the King's officers were also very liberal in their benefactions. As to the privileges granted by the Confessor, there is no record, but it is presumed they were only such as were granted to other religious houses; it is, how ever, stated, that he stipulated for its being 4 ' the BURIAL PLACE FOR HIMSELF AND HIS SUCCESSORS." William the Conqueror appears to have con firmed to the church most of the lands given to it by the Confessor, and in addition he gave the manors of Battersea, Wandsworth, and Pyriford, in Surrey, and of Wokington and Fering, in Essex. In 1245 the greatest part of the church was pulled down by King Henry the Third, with the view of its being rebuilt according to its present state, and previous to his death (1272), he completed the eastern part of the church, and gave to it several charters of privileges (among which were two fairs, to be held annually, in the Sanctuary, of 16 days each, and a market on Mondays, at Touthull, or Tuthill.) The rebuilding seems to have been in a great degree suspended until 1418, when the west part was carried on with great application, and a con siderable portion of it finished (except the two towers) about the year 1500. In 1502-3 the building Of Henry Vll.'s Chapel was begun, and the King gave several estates to the monastery, for the maintenance of three additional monks, two lay brothers, three students, twelve almsmen, and three old women to attend them. On the 16th January, 1539-40, this monastery, with the abbot and 24 monks, were dissolved. The yearly value at that time of rents, &c. accruing to the church, according to Speed, amounting to 3,9771.65. 4id., but by Dugdale, only to 3,1711. 2id. WESTMINSTER A BISHOP'S SEE. Upon the dissolution of this and other religious houses, the King determined to refound some of them, and having fixed on WESTMINSTER to be one, he made a new foundation, not at the first for a DEAN and PREBENDARIES, as Mr. Camden affirms, for by Letters Patent dated 17th Dec. 153940, he erected it into a Cathedral, to consist of a Bishop, a Dean and 12 Prebendaries, and appointed Thos. Thirlby Bishop, with all Middlesex, except Fulham, for his diocese; the late Abbot (Benson), was made Dean, the Prior, and five more of the 'Plonks, Preben daries, and four more the King's students in the two Universities. The Patent for the Endowment of the Dean and Chapter was not granted until August 5, 1542, but by this Settlement, THE CHOIR WAS CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED!!! On the 29th March, 1550, Bishop Thurlby sur rendered his Bishopric, and the diocese was re united to London. WESTMINSTER A CATHEDRAL CHURCH. On the dissolution of this Bishopric, which was made by The King's Letters Patent, and no notice taken in them of the Dean and Chapter, a doubt arose concerning the legality of their continuance, and this occasioned an Act of Parliament for its remain ing a Cathedral within that diocese. King Edward died the 6th July, 1553, and Cox, the then Dean of Westminster, soon felt the change of the times, for he was sent to prison on the 6th of August, released on the 19th of the same month, and only allowed to act as Dean fur about a week, when he was superseded, and in March following nine of the Prebendaries were also removed; WESTMINSTER AGAIN A MONASTERY. In 1556 this church was again changed late, a Monastery. It is stated that the Chafter, AND ESPECIALLY THE DEAN, at first refused a but the Queen was set upon the thing, and RR at last was persuaded to comply. This new establishment differed from that of the old monastery, the Abbots were not to continue for life, but only three years; there was to be Au Conge d'elire before the election, nor any 14,yal consent to confirm it. Queen Mary having died on the 17th Nov. 1555, and the first Parliament of Queen Elizabeth having given her all the religious houses erected or revived by her sister, the Abbot and Monks were removed from Westminster on the 110th July, 1559, and the Queen made a mew foundation, and again di rected WESTMINSTER To BE A COLLEGIATE CHURCH. She endowed it with all the lands that belonged to the late Abbot and Convent, and the foundation dillered but little from that of King Henry the Eighth ; she appointed DEAN, AND THE SAME NUMBER of Prebelglgries ; a School, with a Chief, and an unile Master, the same number of Scholars, " but the Quire had not quite so mangy persons belong ing to it." The CHARTER OF Q UEEN ELIZA BETH I3EARS DATE THE 21ST MAY, 1560, and the Commission to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Dean of St. Paul's, TO GIVE THE DEAN AND PREBENDARIES POSSESSION, was granted the 21st, and THEY WERE. INSTALLED ON THE 30TH JUNE, 1560. Westminster, l)ec. 18, 1827. PUBLICOLA. [To be Continued.] A black woman, walking possess ing the agility of a m on k ey in ' on all fours, Ambing, conversing freely in Creole French, a n d h aving t h e l ower li m b s ( vu l gar l y called legs) of the Ourang-outang, is advertised for exhi bition at New Okleans,—American Paper. Ic' ch.. 31.*1 Cy. "5 1 38 •••••••••• # o.f S' _.‘„,".".. 40 N.E. 5 9 Id, 1. F I. a declii 4 i t , n3iddlingrn , on Th l°l(l s e lit to that )cations. 50g. t°,. d as hig h Ai re iri en g, y boo, fsird ; 'Skins litters 1 evjf 1 .4 t last r. 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In Bvo. prise 2s. stitched. PUBLIC MEETING OF TIE JEWS. A meeting of the Jews was held at the city of London Tavern on Wednesday night, to consider an address, voted at a recent meeting, by the bre thren resident in London, protesting against the Ukase recently issued by the !Emperor of Russia. which imposed severe restrictions on the Jews resi dent in a certain part of the Russian dominions, and expressing their sympathy and compassion towards the parties subjected to the imperial restraints. Mr. M. E. Levy took the chair. The CHAIRMAN having briefly explained the ne cessity imposed on every member of the house of Israel to lift up his voice against the oppressions threatened in the Russian Ukase, proposed that an address, which he had drawn up, should be read to the meeting. The address was then read, which, after mentioning the promulgation of the obnoxious edict, declared the deep concern felt by the London Jews at the direful calamities which the Ukase had occasioned to their Russian friends, especially to the helpless widows and helpless orphans, who resided in the extensive dominions of the Emperor, and were exposed to the rigorous climate of Russia. It then deplored the exclusion of the religious functio naries, which deprived Jewish families of the com forts of religion. And concluded with a declaration, that it became the solemn duty of the whole house of Israel to avert such persecutions, which prevented them uniting once more as a family, and offering their united devotions to the God of heaven and earth. On the motion that the address be approved 01 being put, Mr. HERRMAN (a German Jew) rose, and pro. tested against the facts stated in the address. A JEjir,—We vont hear no more of your nonsense, sare !—.(Laughter.) Mr. HERnmAN, however, loudly insisted on being heard on any 'points he chose to speak to; and, in order to keep to some point, he asserted that no Jews were to be found in the interior of Russia ; and that therefore it was absurd to vote an address about people who were not in existence. Mr. COHEN rose to dissent from certain state ments contained in the address : and was proceeding to express his reasons for doing so, when interrupted by the CHAIRMAN, who inquired if Mr. Cohen had any amendment to propose. Mr. CoHEN.--Yes, Sir, I object to the word "justice" being substituted before " mercy."—(A laugh.) CHAIHMAN.-Vill you propose any written reso lution ? Mr. COHEN made several attempts to write a re solution, proposing an adjournment, but he made so many blunders hi framing his amendment, that the gravity of the Meeting was overset. At length the gentleman who silenced the eloquence of 4 pre ceding speaker rose, and moved, that Mr. Cohen should not again address the Meeting. The motion was seconded, and carried with a loud shout. The CumumAN.—Mr. Cohen, you are not to speak any more this evening. —(Loud laughter.) The oratory of the Meeting having been c hecked by the above resolutions, something like decorum was established ; and the address was read, para graph by paragraph ; and ultimately approved of. After some other business had been gone through, the Meeting broke up. The death of the late Rev. ARTHUR YOUNG, by accounts received from Russia, appears to have been oc casioned by fatigue and exhaustion, in travelling homeward through that country. He had been to the Crimea for the purpose of selling a large tract of land, to the extent of 9,000 acres, granted to him some years ago by the Court of St. Petersburgh, in which, we und erstan d, h e succeeded. Mr. YOUNG made his will before h e l e f t E ng l an d, and ap pointed Captain Exitaucur and a Mr. PATTERSON, of Witham, his executors.. His entailed estate, Bradfield hall, and other lands, devolve to his sister, Miss YOUNG ; the greater part of his other property he has left to two children ; now infauts......Suffah.lieralcl. /~ /J/ ' el (Tel-11 s„ ""; , fr') 4 • • • ,‘, EVERY NIGHT Bboit i s • - 7' t•s7.,a• Nod .; ARK. Lonatii;' itie 17. It was Cowper, we believe, the amiable, but hypochondriacal Cowper, who first broached the doctrine, that " God made the country, but man made the town ;" a remark, which, however true in its literal acceptation, evinces, in its spi rit, as much narrowness of mind as we ever re member to have met with. We do not say this from any disrespect to the country, far f rom it ; we love its streams, its mountains, and its peacefulness ; its rosy maidens with their red arms—which put the author of " Table Talk" into such extacies—but of which we profess a rather qualified admiration ; its sunny slopes, its melody of winds and waters, its rich sparkling varieties of landscape, its songs of birds " from morn •to dewy eve ;" more especially that most inspiring • poetic and magnificent of God's creatures, a mountain eagle on the wing—. all these, in their due seasons we admire, but when put in competition with " the town" and its countless intellectual advantages—they fade, we think, into absolute insignificance. The " country" appeals chiefly to the eye, the " town" to the mind. The one, though it per haps purifies and refines, enfeebles abstracts and dissipates the imagination; the other con cen 7 trates strengthens and brings into immediate play all that is valuable about it. The one is an elegant luxury, a welcome but effeminate relax ation after the mind has been kept on the stretch by the other. " The town" alone teaches us rightly to know ourselves, it inculcates humility without derogating from self-respect, , : - ruhs - off the rust engendered by scholarship or seclusion, enlarges (if its lessons be well applied) the kind: : Tier feelings of nature, and above all enforces a practical and continuous benevolence, deep seated—for it rests on principle, without which all feeling is contemptible—but far from ro mantic or indiscriminate in nature. " The town" is the only true touch-stone of desert. Every thing here rises or sinks in due time to its level ; it is the Ithuriel spear, at whose magic touch all that is false or affected in character falls off; and the man himself stands revealed in the nakedness of his majesty or his meanness. No nobility is here recognised but that stamped by God him self on his creature—the nobility of mind. The enthusiasm which a condescending aristocrat, or a provincial prodigy, awakes in their respective neighbourhoods, is totally unknown to " the town." We ate here so glutted with aristo cracy and intellect, they assume daily such varied forms and patterns, they are so little of a novelty—so little of a " black swan," that we estimate them proportionately, and can even gaze at the sun (metaphorically as well as literally) without being blinded by its beams. The consequence is, that every candidate for fame is at once taught to know his exact value with the public, and, undimmed by the mists in which vanity so often enshrouds an inexperi= enced intellect, to assert his claims accordingly, There is nothing so fatal to a man of genius as the exclusive society of the country. Even in its more inhabited scenes it is bad ; in its solitudes it is really intolerable, The same small spirits cluster together and twinkle in its towns ; and should a star of greater splendor appear in their horizon, they do all in their power to dim his rising lustre ; and when this is vain, " applaud him to the very echo" immeasurably beyond his desert. Intellect thus easily acknowledged soon relaxes its exertions, and having no further point to gain, is thrown ,back on itself; flies to its vanity for its daily food, and Like Cato gives its little Senate laws, And sits attentive to its own applause, Emulation is the only spur to genii 4 a ; and this, dormant in "the country, 'flourishes to an unlimit ed extent iii " the town." To " the town" then, after all, must merit look for its award—to the same town which, when the provinces had re jected him, adopted Johnson as its own--which fostered and matured the genius of Burke— which first discovered the merit of Opie—which welcomed Garrick, Kemble, and Kean, and will do the same with every individual who, however inglorious in birth or deficient in address, has talent, good conduct, and perseverance to re commend him. It is of this town that the author of the " Every Night Book" has here ventured to treat. He has described in spirited language its various scenes of aniusement, its places of patri cian and plebeian resort, and has even introduced us to its most abandoned scenes of debauchery, without (no slight praise) exciting one impureidea. His account of Vauxhall—of the flash houses— and the smoking Divans, are particularly cha racteristic, and may serve as a good guide to those who are in the habit of frequenting them. His knowledge of the West End, however, is, we suspect, rather limited, a sort of " terra r pene incognita," the geography of w hi c h h e d oes not very clearly understand, or sure l y h e wou ld not have contented himself w ith ; GI .ng us that Almacks is a place f o r d anc ing—the Argyll Rooms for music—and th a t b ot h are d u ll. His account of the " Cyder Cell ar " i s st ill more de ficient. This plaee abounds with classical and convivial associations, and should have been bit off with proportionate gusto. Here Porsoi John Ker,mblae acted criticised a is s ed a butt raiisneid. was in the habit of relaxing from the fatigu es and o o fstuilpyi;e,,hertebe painter, Joh Euri pidesto4opr.v \ai Dr, la the " Shakspeare for ger i es " t o Capell LofFt - icott u . rney ; here P Surely these arr praised m censes deserve a line. Moreover, over, there is no mention made of a place, now, we suspect, un known to the generality, perhaps even to its next door neighbour, but once a haunt of " great mark and likelihood." It • was in the little back room of No. 19, Great RUSR —e II -street, C o vent-Garden, then a book-shop, belonging to the well-known Toni Davies, that Boswell heard a growl resem bling thunder, and on turning round discovered an animal -- never more than half-tamed,---busy quarrellino.t, with a ti m id-looking author, which animal proved, on minute inspection, to b e 1)r. Johnson. At this shop that intimacy commenced, which the biographer has handed down to all succeeding ages, in his fascinating and amusingly-conceited life of the great Lexico grapher. In this very shop too, Gibbon, on returning from the Continent, first renounced Catho licism, and scrawled on a dirty scrap of paper the heads of his two first chapters of the Roman History. But alas! " hol:v are the mighty fallen," this noted Sh o p —after having figured for upwards of half a centu ry, and furnished the inside of the heads of half the Lite rati of the day, is now content with furnishing the outside, and lingers on a private existence as a hatter's —as such, the author thought, perhaps, that it lay without the limits of his research; nevertheles s , h e should have devoted, at least, a line to its memory. But our limits warn us to a conclusion ; l et it Y. to say, that" London after Dark," is a hl , lit e ‘ up an suffic d illustrated in this little volume. Nv e • could give ex t rac ts in corroboration of our op inion but we know of no isolated one sufficiently h '• • it is the pervading spirit of the whole,e aracterisneL.. titular excellence of parts, that this remark we refer 01 we approve, a w ith this re aders to tile book i t se lf, DOR SET S HIRE. 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