The Express.
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THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1851.

I It Horses bad been more essentially, deeply, pas-
sionately poetical, he would have been tranelatedl
I better. Poetry, like fire, will find its way through
everything. Thee, no English translation of an ode
in Horace ia equal to the translation of the " Atya" of
Catullus, by a scholar, some years ago, in Tars
Magazine. But where so much depend', as in
Horace, on delicate and concise finish—on pointed
and pregnant gram; where the metre is foreign to
our language, and the allusions alien from our
though', what can we expect? Hence, we know
' no translations worthy of the Roman, except
a few isolated ones by eminent men, such as
Milton's of the "Ode to Pyrrha;' Bishop Atterbury's,
of the " Queen in Melpomene ; Warren Haginge,
of the " Otium Dive* rand, let us add, as less known,
o the delighifal imitation of the "Donee grates eram
Tibi," by Moliere, in the pastorale of his " Amants
Magnifiques."
I Mr. Sewell's is a very peculiar attempt. He dis-
claims attempting to render the poetic grace ; he aims
r at once at literality and rhythmic flow. We certainly
I congratulate him on having most successfully avoided
the poetry—without great industry, nobody could
r have done it so well. As for hie book as a clues-book,
P we are ai a loss to perceive its value. It it be literal
o cocstruc'ion that his pupils are in want of, it would
be better they should be indulged in the familiar
" crib ''—or at least that Mr. Sewell bad written a
" crib" for them, if it did not meet his approbation I
for we certainly see no chance of their learning any
" rythm" from him or knowing more about
Ilmaer's music, than they might learn of that of his
. Sepphics from Canning's Knifegrintler—which, by
the way, Donaldson some years ago censured (with
all the severity of a Martino, Seriblerna) as a des-
, picahle jingle. Any youth who learns Horace from
Sewe l's performance will find the curse which Byron
bewailed fallen upon him for ever. We never saw
anything less like Pegasus than this ambling of
a pedant's mule.
Mr. Melville is evidently the "gentleman and
the scholar" of our last century comedies. Hs is a
work of love, and the love which he has felt himself
, he inspires in his readers. We see the influence of
our poets of to-day, both in his epithets and his
metre. Of course he cannot achieve impossihiliies—
but here, at all events, we have something of Horace—

The aides of the India:nen werehigit. emal everything which
might aid a man in mounting had Direfully been hauled en
board; besides she was terribly wslteided, which rendered
eke YURI more difficult. The boatmen, as they attempted
to hoard, wars thrust back by those long pikes with which
Indiana, n arc supplied, one of which was hurled with greet
force into the boat I was in, and asi ed • poor fellow's foot
to the bottom of the boat. Once more the li.utenant cm-
tionid our stout opponents saw lhi come tosses of oonouct
so illegal, ordering the marines, at the same time, to load.
At length, finding every argument wilier, and grail species
of miasik, including cold shot. thrown into the boats,
his patience became exhausted, sad he ordered half a d, z.n
muskets to be fired. 'Lis fire, though fatal to two men, had
I only the eff.et of exaeperating the Indisman's crew mote and
more. The captain now appeared for the first time, end,
hailing the boats, informed the lieutenant of the fatal affect
of his fire, throwing the whole responsibility upon hie
shoulders, and when questioned as to the state of his ship,
and whether the crew were not all in open mutiny, he re
plied that be did not consider them so, for the men were
ready to obey every order of his, save that of cuff Ting •
king's officer on board. and they were resolved, ore and all,
not to permit that. The lieutenant now panned, and ordered
the boats to lie off on their oars, and also sent to Captain
Owen for further instructions The boats continued to row
round the two Indiasen,but I fear not very waichtully,
towards midnight, when they were bailed and told that
they were then at liberty to search the ships, we found only
a few men on board the Woodford, and thorn of a very sorry
descrip.i-n."

A eorone,'s jury at Gravesend afterwards returned
• verdict cf wilful murder against the Immortalite's
lieutenant. He was tried at the Maidstone amine,
and, with some difficulty obtained an acquittal.
The crew completed, the Immortalite proceeded
to the Downs, and soon commenced cruising
in the Channel. In the coarse of June the crew
bore a share in the capture of L'lnabordable and
Le Commode, two Teasels intended to form part of
the Boulogne flotilla. During the summer the French
were strengthening the sea-line from Havre to Calais,
and it was the btuiness of our ships to give them all
possible interruptions. The Immortalite was en-
gaged in throwing bombs and otherwise humping
the workmen at the torte. Capt. Crawford relates
an anecdote which makes B3naparte a spectator of
his crew's gallantry on one of these occasions, and
attributes to him a torrent cf sacr,4 on observing the
effect of the British shots. The persuasion is so pit-
clonal:tie that without i.l-nature one cannot but believe
it true.

Adventures were now plentiful as blackberries.
Two boats were sent out one night to attempt the
destruction of the piles and machinery for building
Fort Imperial on the enemy's coast. They carried
ex.'s sod a barrel of powder, primed and fused, ready
to be slung on the machinery. The night we. pitchy
dark and the captain in command, after some pulling,
found himself unexpectedly at the pier head, a dis-
tance much too short to be pleasant ; he therefore
gave directions to pull immediately off shore. The
oars were scarcely dipped in the water, when a
fire-ball gleamed from the mole, an I lit up
the water for a quarter of a mile. Before
the men could bend twice to their oars, grape sod
musketry whistled over their beads, and instently
ell the batteries wi'hin the buy opened a fire. Fmta-
uat,ly the boat's crew escaped, and, baton. returning,
m inaged to destroy three of the four piles which they
had come out to seek.

Shortly alter this adventure tho Immortalite cap-1
tured a lugger, achnyt and dogger, with which Mr.
Midshipman Crawford was sent to the Downs, and
was blown to sea. The company was for some time
engaged in trying to blow up the French flotilla with I
the newly-invented " coffers", a sort of long range,
which blew op old colliers and the like with terrific
expedititon, but never seemed to thin the shipping of
the enemy. C ,pt. Crawford seems uncertain whether
to conelude that the ships were not damaged thcrebv,
or whether damaged ships were replaced during the
night with new 0-. CM.
After alloy skirmishes with the Boulogne flotilla.'
the Immortalite was ordered, in January, 180.5, to I
join the Melpomene off Havre, anti cruise westward,
war having broken out with Spain. Here they cap-
turd a Spanish brig, and were afterwards provok-
ingly occupied with a day's hard chase of a vessel
which, when ciught, proved to be nothing but an I
EugliA privateer, afraid of losing her men if rho en-
countered a king's ship. Towards the end of June,
the old Boulogne station was resumed, and in the next
month the ship had a warm brush with a division of
the flotilla.

After the defeat cf Mack, and the fell of Ulm. it
was expected that Lord Cathcart would be compell.d
to re-embark, and the Immortalite was ordered, it.
January, 1806, to proceed to the Elbe, to take charge
of transport... Wellington, then Sir Arthur Wehee.
ley, recently returned from India, and junior major-
general in Cathcart's army, was, it is said, the only
officer who, in the council of war, opposed the retro-
grade movement of the British. His opinions were
regarded by the veterans let thore of a hot-headed
young man, unacquainted with European warfare,
and fresh from India, where he hail been accustomed
to see a host of Asiatics routed by a handful of Euro-
pean soldiers.. By the 15th of February, the last
transport had left the Elbe, and on the 17th the Im-
mortalite received Generals Don and Finch on board,
and sailed to. England.

Tee Immo:it/lite was now thoroughly worn out
with weather and bard knocks, and Commodore
0 sen and his crew were transferred to the Clyde, a
fir-built frigate, of 38 guns. Crawford now became
lieutenant, did not long remain with tbenew ship,
'lnt joined the Royal George, and railed witith a con-
voy to the Mediterranean, with Sir Hugh Dalrymple
and General Edward Page. and his staff on beard.
At the end of October he met Lord Collingwood at
Cadre, and gives a description of the admiral as he
stood in his glory. The Royal Gorge now joined
Sydsey Smith's fleet, which enter, d the Dardnneilee,
and, remaining before C..natantinople for some days,
eame away bootless. Our author now returned to
Cadiz and thence to England. While off Ushant he
received his commission as lieutenant of the Sultan.
Hie new vessel was ordered to join the Cadiz fleet,
then under Admiral Purvis, just before intrigle had
transferred Spain to the power of France, by the
treaty of Bayonne. The junta at Seville had con-
cluded a peace with England, and British vessels'
were now welcomed in Spanish ports. The Sultan
was for six weeps at Port Mahon, in Minorca,
where nine of the crew were struck dead by a flash
of li4httirg, and twice that number were seriously
injured. From Mahon the Sultan proceeded to the
Gulf of Genoa, to interrupt the coasting trade, the
only commerce the enemy ventured to carry on, and to
keep the French on the qui rine. A settee, loaded
with charcoal, was the only prize gained in this set,
vice, at the cost of a man killed, after which the ship
sailed fur Toulon, to assist in the blockaile of that
harbour.

The remainder of the period embraced by Captain
Crawford's reminiscences includes a number of gallant
services in the Mediterranean and on the Spanish
coast, in the Malta and Tigre, until the year 1815,
which brought him the reward of a commander's
commission.

The incidents he commemorates exhibit him as a
brave and meritorious officer, such as have always I
distinguished our naval service; but they so closely
resemble the common experience of seamen that it is
not clear on what grounds they have bet n selected as
the theme of two volumes. The 'ketches and
anecdotes of distinguished commanders which are
promised In the title-page, we have looked for in vain.
I unless the few sentences abovequoted concerning Corn-
wallis, as many more relating to Colllngwood, atd the
occasional allusions to his various captains, sre to be
accepted as such. Neither is poverty of matter
compensated by vigour or elegance of style. Capt
Crawfora's sentences are more than ordinarily slo-
veoly, and occasionally so inaccurate as to be unin-
telligible. It is impossible that fourteen years' naval
service on a European coast, in time of war, should
not afforded abundant material for two readable

volumes. Selection and comprer;;;;hOW;ver, would
be necessary, instead of which the work under
revoew reads very much like one long quotation
from the "Nary List." At the same time there
is every internal evidence that Captain Crawford's
book presents a faithful picture of the state of our
naval service in the late war, end the arduous f zer-
dons by which the position of our maritime itfluence
is maintained.

Bertha; a Roasanee of the Dart; Agee. By W. B. MAc
Cu.e 3 vote. Newby.
Mr. Mao Cabs, k .own in London for his uscciation
with the labours of the daily press, and more eaten-
sivel, as the author of a catholic history of England,
has in these volume' sought to recommend a few of
Mt objects of his relietous preferenoe, by inrroumliog
time with the interest of pictoreegue deveriEdion sad
glowi^g iticident. Ilia middle•sge biehops are not

the mailed horsemen of the chroniclers, but cars worn
pastors, sorely perplexed by the goats which mingle
with their A An, and dying, upon occasion, rather than
connive at error.

Beatrice, whose adventures introduce us to the
principalnovel, •
personages of this is an interesting
girl, of course in her seventeenth year, who, with her
attendant, Agates, site one fine evening by the banks
of the Aschaff, and wooden who or what she can be.
She is surrounded with state and riches becoming al
duke's daughter, and with as many guards as the
child of the emperor. And yet she feels that she is I
neither of these. Her father comes to the castle un- I
expectedly, and leaves without farewell ; he neither
wears the garb of a knight, nor carries the shield of a
freeman. Nis look, manners, and bearing show that
he is illustrious, and yet he bars no mark of au' ho-
rity. She remembers two other scenes, the climate of
Italy and the borders of the Lego Maggiore. More,she
remember, a boy, with light blue eyes and flaxen hair,
whose form will appear unbidden among the scenes
of childhood. His name was Magnal. Agatha re-
peats the word with astonishment, and startles a
young man—Magus's himself, nowlluke of Saxony—
who happens to be rowing by, jumps out of the boat
and protests his business is to seek her out and de-
clare his love. Agatha is prudent, and the lovers
reasonable. Magnus being, f r some unknown cause,
a forbidden word at the castle, it was agreed
unanimously that this meeting do adjourn for one
week. Magnus re-enters the boat, and Beatrice re-
turns to the castle to find Bianca, her all but deserted
mother, in a dark room, according to her wont, pros-
trate before a large crucifix, praying and weeping.
Beatrice, too, has row a SOTIOW, for she has heard from
Agatha that she can never b. Magnufa bride. Sympathy
increases confidence, and the mother can now entrust
to the daughter, henceforth a woman, the story of
her own misfortune. In her youth re.e bad seen and
loved the young Eberhard, with whom the mysterious
wisdom of her father had forbidden her all commuLi-
calico. Robber hordes, assisted by troops of the
emperor, had defeated the papal troops commanded
by her father; a special body of these approached the
old man's castle, and soon Eberhard appeared and
offered her safety upon her con ent to become hie wit..
She was now carried off t) the Lego Maggiore, where
Eberhard was oily known by the designation of
Manfred. He had been a kind husband, but the
reason of these long painful years of mystery she could
not divine. The fair Bt a'rice, in no wise consoled by a
story which rather increased then explained her original
mystery, was next day seized by armed panderers of
Henry, King of Germany, who had been enamnured of
her beauty, rescued by the retainers of a good abbot,
recaptured and carried to Frankfort. I' this impe-
rial city Henry is discovered closeted wilt the Arch-
bishop of Mayenee, and seeking to p: r-uade him to
assist in obtaining his divorce from his wife Bertha.
Confined in the castle at Frankfurt, Beatrice is visited
by a diegused confidential messenger from .Msgi.ua,
who assures her that at a signal her lover, who
watches her chamber from the opposite church tower,
will hasten to Ler protection. She is shortly visited
by the king, Harry of Germany, and repulses the
wretch by faith and prayer. The Empress Agnes
and Queen Bertha, mother and consort of her
tempter, visit her shortly after, who know the inten-
tions of the king and the relent:in of his victim to
Magnus. From Beatrice, Bertha learns the
intention of Henry to apply for a divorce. Mother and
wife resolved to oppose this intention by an appeal
to Rome. At a parliament summoned to Frankfort
the papal legate appears, and delivers the judgment
of Rome, declaring the marriage of Bertha and the
king valid and indissoluble. Henry, upon hearing
the message, makes an ostentation of eubmisaiveness
to the church, and becomes outwardly re c melted to
his wife, but inwardly vowed vengeance on wife,
Imother, and Rome. While this is going on in Frank-
fort, Beatrice has been removed to the fortress of
Erzegebinge. From this prison Magnus now deter-
' mined to attempt her rescue by assault, and applies
to Otho of Bavaria, his uncle, for an armed
I force ; but fleet relative nas been declared
a traitor by the monarch, who envies Lis estates
and power. A vivory gained by the uncle enables
the nephew to deliver the Ranter, which fails, and
Magnus is taken prisoner. Brought before the king,
the young duke is required to nuounee his coronet,
and refusieg. is escorted to the fortress of F.berhara,
the father of Beatrice. Henry, to promote h e plans,
makes war upon the Saxons and B..varians, whom he i
defeate, and makes a poor prior bishop, in order
afterwards to set him up as a pope. The description
of this prelate's death, superaat ural and eulplurous, re-
minds one of that of Dr. Paust, descrikd in the Rilks-
books of Germany. The father of Illative, the grand-
father of Beatrice, now suddenly turns up, rescues his
'grandchild from the fortress. A courtier knight, But-
en-, was despatched be the king to attempt the corrup-
tion of the queen, and so promote his divorce. Ruetzer,
repulsed with contempt, returns to Frankfort, where
some solemn ceremony was to be performed after
high mese. Here, in the pretence of lords, bishops,
and counts, William, B.ehop of Utrecht, reads the
sentence of excommitnacatitm against Pope Gregory
VII., which is to remove the spiritual obetacle to
Henry's plans. At the moment of (Ling this a cur-
tain rises and discloses three figures to the glee of
the officiating bishop. They are Rims, Bea' rice,
and the Pdgrim, the father of the first. Terse
words, " Eberhard ! Manfred ! ltutbert !" gavel
the biography of the priest, for William of Utrecht
had borne a'l these names, and this is the matt;
of mystery, the husband, f‘ther, and son-in-law
to the three who confronted him. The guilty man
had broken his priestly vows, entered into un•
lawful engagements, and led a life of hypocrisy
for years. Terror-stricken by the apparition,
aLci tilled with horror, as his life of crime ruched
through his brain, ho felt that the vengeance of
heaven had overtaken him, and died with fearful
pogo, unabsolved. At the same time the excarn-
munication of Henry arrives from It eine, and he is
deposed from his throne. Magnus, of course, regains
his liberty, and rejoins Beatrice, who, to reward so,
much devotedness—enters a convent.
Mr. Mao Cabe's book will doubtless entertain those
into whose hands it may fall, while only the least-
informed can be in danger of accepting his work as a
true picture of the " du k ages."

The Petrov, Baroisetage. and .I(,4htage of Great Britain
and Ireland By C. R. DOD. 1851. Whittaker.
This is the eleventh yearly publication of a work of
reference, in which it wss for the list time attempted
to give an account of all the titled clews of tile state.
Its predecessors had been content to notice those who
possessed hereditary distinctions, omitting any ref...r-
enoe to the thousand officers who, ujudges, privy 1
councillors, and knights of different classes, are en-
waged in the various services of the state. Mr. Dad
judged rightly, as the event has proved, that the,
public find at least gaits as much pleasure in the per-
sonal history of living objects of their esteem as in
perusing dry genealogies, which ascend beyond the'
Conquest.
Tae preparation, year by year, of such a volume is
an arduous duty. In the intervals of publication a
large number of individuals are added to the several
ranks. Bishops are translated, judges resign and
are replaced, while births, deaths, and marriages, oc-
curring among seven or eight thousand individuals,
render great changes neoemary in every edit on.
One addition just made to this " Peerage" calls for
especial notice. It is an index of the inlerior titles
of living peers, whether borne by eldest acts or not.
This important list, consisting of 720 ti les, is pre-
ceded by aa article on some et the difficulties arisi,g
out of the use of these inferior titles. The article has'
interest enough to ju.tify lengthened quotation.

TUN 12111111101 TITLIII OF LIVING Pain.
Behr* this laden was produced is Iwil, it we. intros. ible
is any work relating to the p.ersge, to ascertain why end
how some hundreds of well-known titles bad di•app‘ &red.
A law r. adore might int:gine that they wens extinct; °then
sight confecture that they had nietged in higher honours.
Bat by what superior titles they had beta eclipsed, or where
t►y were now to be found, no bank could tell. Reads,*
would ask themselves what has biome of Lord Hammier
No such seine a to be found in toe latest peerage broke.
Where is Lord Moire, a h-te L Ord Meryb)rougb, Lord
Olenlynn, Lord Arden, L,rd Barbaro, Lord Bed, rd, Lord
King, Lard Oriel, Lord Farad, Loed Prudhoe, Lord Bd•
disbary, and other well-rt numb, red persons ?" .*,onsetune
the courtesy titles bone by eldest sons might be a:owed to
waist the ruder is these difilculties. But they would •telp hie
in soma the Instances above.mentioned,nor in• multitude of
analogous eases, for peers of high degree often enjoy lutes
or setenteen inferior titles, while only sae toooses knows
through the medium of an eldest ; the, the hake to Atha
ties 17; the Debts of Argyll and Hamilton have cane 15 ; lbe
Marquis el Bata he 16; the Duke of Bouleuel 15 • the
Marquis of Hastings 12
.; the Doke or Norg motherland,
with the Marquises of Abereces, BedelimeN /louder.
Landsdowne, and Lothian, each 11 ; the Duke of Metres

cad the Earl of Weyesee, each 10; the Dukes of Beaufort
end Buckingham, each 9 ; while smaller numbers octet is
profusion throughout the pimp. Nor cos it be forgotten,
that ie the come of all viscounts sod barons. the inferior or
additional honours vested in them are never borne me courtesy
titles by their ions. And even acnon.est the see end title
actually used by eldest sons no certainty *elite; thee the heir
apperert of the Lansdowne f.mily in alternate gent ration is
eryled Earl of Kerry; and Men the well known title of
Shelburne diaappean from view ; the eldest son of the late
Marquis of Lotitisn was called Lord Jedhurgh instead of
Earl of Aocruns, the heir to the De La Warr title is cow
celled Lord West, not Viscount Centalepe : and there are
upwards of 20 peers whose hire apparent or grandsons one
tithe which have no existence gel:never amongst the family
honours, or are only el.rived from these by indirect coarse
Of some modification of the real title, such as occurs in the
cases of Lord Moepeth, Lord Matson, Lord Inverter* Lord
Trafalgar, Lord Castle- \Veneto. Lard Courtensy. L ,rd Haw
tinge, Lord Cory, Lord Cecil. Ltrd Bingham, Lord Bernie,
Lord Phipps, Lord Forbes, Lord North, Lord Talbot, Lord
Crichton. de. Furthermore, many peers heppen to have
no male is•ite to enjoy these courtesy distinct:ons; there is
no Lord Howie k, DO Lord Dune •nnen. no L erd Clive, &c.
At present 101 peers are in this state without sons, a number
which it fully one-third of the whole body possessed of the
privilege; for it does not extend below the rank of earl.
In three and a multiplicity of other fast., therefore, the
reader was left in total ignorance respecting the rate of some
of the most famous names in history. They were to be
found neither amongst extinct nor existing titles.
In the creation of new peers, also, it was frequently im-
portant to ascertain with facility whether or not the title
selected was already in the p cannon of another as a sub-
ordinate designation ; but such a search was scarcely possible
to any but proteesienal genealogists, and, even to them,
only aft. .r great trouble end a lengthened investigation.
Thus, in all probability, it was not extengirelv known in
1838, when Lord blotting's was raised to the p. erste, that
there was already a Baron lidethnim in the mite m of the
Duke of Richmond ; nor were the public very generally
in 1839, when Lord Montragle received his title, that there
was already a Barony of Monteagle in the piessesioa of the
Marquis or 8140.
The curious reader may observe, in CPS'iri his aye over
this list, that the following are the only English counties at
present unappropriated as titles :—Dorset, Middlesex. Mon-
mouth, Sures:. aad York, which last two have usually had
royal possessor,. The following important rifteff are also
unappropriated : Birmingham, Brighton, Cheltenham,
Greenwich, Lambeth, London, hlarylebone. Southwark,
Norwich, Plymouth, Wolverhampton, the leis of Thanet,
and the Isle of Wight.
The Wowing Scotch counties are in the gems state
Avr, Banff, Clockmannon, Crom;:rty, Dumbarton, F.rfar,
Kinross. Kirkcudbright, Linlithgow, Perth, Andrew,
and Wigton. . . .

fent W.W.I' counties are vacant—Flint ant M. rioneth ;
and finally, the Irish counties of Fermanagh, King's County,
Monaghan, Queen's County, and Weefori, are likewise
un ccupied as titular designations.
To this ettutneraios it any be added that there are many
instances of the same title being held by different rennin at
once; them there are 3 L.r.fs Boyle, 3 lords Bruce, 4 lords
Douglas, 3 Lords Orey, 4 Lords Hasailv.n, 3 Lordell stinn, 3
Lo•ds Hay, 3 Lords Herbert, 2 Lords Ilill,3Lords Holland, 4
Lords Howard, o Lords Stewart or Stuart,to gether with du-
plicate' in abundance, snd many reeemblarces mesh scan Earl
of Bandon and a Boron of Bandon Bridge, • Dalian and a
Delamtre, a Baron J.dbargla and a Baron of Jedburgh-
Fora., a Bowmont sad a Stisament, a Queensberry and a
Queensbury, a Margu4 of Dumnies and en Earl of Dam-
frtesehire, Duke of Devnnobire and an Karl of Devoe, a
Ferran, a Fernrz, and a Formed, a Gitord and a Guilford,
an Invenirie and an Inverary,• !Helmut' and a Melon's I,&e.
Tone instances prove the impertaece of literal accuracy is
the use of tiles; but the following lbt, showing the grease-
, vation of ancient orthography among mode ra peerages. will
save the reader from some mistakes to wbkh persons in
I general even very liable. Amongst noble farni!ies the pro-
per spelling is Anglesey, not Angkor', Cavit.lld, not Caul-
, field •' Cloning% not Cluomel; Feildieg, not Fielding ; Done-
-11 gall, act annaitsl; loges re not Iragesttie ; Kingsale, not
Kinsale; Littleton, not Littleton; Midirton Viert.), not
Middleton (Baron); Milltown (E.rl). sat Milton (Vint.);
Fi not Ft :graham; Mount-C."ONQ, net Manza-
nillo! ; Nsvili. not Neville; filuntagu, not AI /stage.;
Knoteri, not Boseberry ; Winchilsets, nit Winchels,a, &c.

Th. Gentleman's Magazine. January, 111.51.

b.- One hundred and treaty years utter its rota nab-
ment by Cave, this magazine, the especial organ of
Listorical and antiquarini literature, confines the
moving tendencies of the present age, and seeks to
renew its vigour by shying itself with the riling
literary spiri:e. New contributor, pour fresh life into its
columns, the records of the past are used as well as
contemplated, and a connection is established between
antiquarian research and the living interests of oar
own day. Mr. Peter Cunningham exemphGes in this
number that the cake and charm of popular writing
are not .inimical to accurate investigrion, by giving
an article on Nell Gwynne, in which we dud facts
ns laborio'y collected, yet tiaently told. A inuage
illustrative of the theatre ander Chad. s IL, will give
an idea of the earlier portion of this new memoir
of a royal favourite.

TIIE KINU'B THEATRE.

The eonthaty of actors at the King*, Theatre included, at
the first openirg of the hose., Trenphilus Died, Charles
Hart, Michael Idol un, John LICY. tchola. Butt, William
Cartwright, William Winterenall, Walter Clue, Robert
Shatterell, and Edward Kynaelon, among the chief male
performer; and Mn. Corey, Mrs. Ann Slushed!, Mrs. Ho-
ler ea Marshall, Mn. E suited, Mrs. W , Mrs.
Uphill, Mrs. Keep, end Mrs. Hughes ?thong the female
pertonners. Joe Haines, the low comedian, and Carden
Goodman, the lover of the Duchene of Cleveland, were sub-
leguent accessions to the stock of wore, as Mr.. Boa tell sad
Mrs. Ellen Gwyn were to the company of actresmx
Bird belonged to the former race of snots, and did not
long survive the Recoratios. Hart and Chan had been bred
up se boys at the Blechman to act women's pins Hart,
who had served as captain in the King's troops, rose to the
summit of his profeesion, but Clue wee unfortunately killed
while his reputation was still on the incream. Molina had
pl.yed at ti.e Cockpit Theatre before the Civil Wan, and
Lad served as a captain under the King, and afterwards in
the same capacity an Flanders, where he received the pay of
a major; he was famous in lago and Cassius. Lacy, a native
of Yorkshire, was the Irish Johnstone and Tyrone Power of
his time. Burt had been a biy lint under Shank at the
Blackfriars, and then under B. eaton at the Cockpit; and
w.• famous beton the Civil Wars for playing Clarieue, in
Shirley's flay of 'Love's Cruel v ;" and after the Restora-
tion squatty famous as Othello. Cartwright and Wintenhall
bad belonged t the private house in Salisbury.conet. Cart-
wright was celebrated as Falstaff, and as one of the tire
kings of Brent ord, in the faros ot "The Rehearsal." Wia-
urseall played Master! eader, he which D.nnie, the critic,
commended him highly; and was celebrated for his Cokes,
in Ben Joanne's .11,nnolossew Fair." gnat:mil had been
' quartermaster in Sir Robert Dsliison's regiment of horse, is
which Hut had been a lieutenant, and Bart a throat.
Byrue.tou was f.mous in female parts, lot which, indeed, he
continued celebrated long titer the introduction of women
en the stage. Such were tee actors at the King's House
when Nell Gwyn came among them.
Mrs. Corey (the name Miss hal then an improper mean-
ing, and the women, though single, were called Mistresses)
played Abigail), in the "Scornful Ltd," of Beaumont and
Fletcher ; S mprmis, in J °neon's " Catiline ;" and was the
original Widow 'Necklace., in Wycherley " Plain Dealer :"
Pepys calls her Doll Common. The two Ma:shall+, Ann
and Rebecca (to whom I have already had occasion to refer),
were the younger daughters of the well.known Stephen
Marshall, the primbyterien divine, who preached the sermon
at the !unseal of John Fyne. Mrs. Uphill was first the mice-
tress and than the wife of Sir Robert Howard, the poet. Mrs.
Knipp was the wile of a Smithfield horse-dealer, and the mis-
tress of Pepr Mrs Burin, better known as Pre, was the
mistress of since Rupert, by whom she Lad a daughter.
and Me. &Mall was famous to, playing Statira to Mrs.
Birry's Roxara, in L. 6'4 'mgr.-salve tragedy of " Alexander
the Great." Bach were the actresses wheel Nell came among
them.
The deems were magnificent and early, but little or
no attention was paid to esteem,. Ti.. King, the Queen,
the Duke, and several of the richer nobility, pica
their cormati .0 suits to the actor.; and on extraordinary
occasions a play we quipped at the tepees, of the King.
Old court draws were csntributed by the gentry, and birth-
day suits continued to be presented as late as the reign of
George 11. •