The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-05 00:00:00

NEW LONDON MAGAZIA ES.

nt this moment. gave ri.t to rumours of a strange.
and we are willmg to think. an unfounded nature.
Government. it was reported. seriously cusitemplat-
ed s radical reform of the constituti tttt in its own
a great man. who Ought IWVIPT to have
dostiirlred the settled fmue of his unrivalled military
ttpl~ it by entering amongst illy tlt•lurbrd cabals
of cabinet 'polities, wmi polish -a mit Hf ihr chief pr...
pos.r of this reform. sod likely to be the powerful
imornment of it.
There is altos in tin' Nlagninir • variety of in-
structive stoisetilmientr, literninre, and some sm-
elts of great malt and I.ll6iinlit),

The periodical magessinea which, when well con-
ducted, nail such a f lof useful information and
entertainment to the miscellosurous stock of liters,-
ture for the public paints., seem tattier to acquire
new force, from the recent legielattee me:votive to
curb the public press, then in •wik en dismay un-
ti-r the the...mental weight of their accusuultitive pe-
u titles. The new year has udder' two to iite num-
ber of mantitly publications which the metropolis
*ends froth. The title of one (minted fur Bald-
win, Cradock, and Job) is," The Lyndon Mugu.
zine;" and of the other (polllolled by Gold mid
Northhouse) "lhe London Magazine, and Monthly The Literary Recollections in die Magnzine. by
critical „Nil Drimitie iteciew.,. •tim former Gold aud Northhousr. are rxtretur ly interesiiiig,
tomes an historical and entice' summary of public noel will, we trust, be colonsued in successive N um-
events to well-selected literury miscellames. b`"r4.
The following cannot fed to be read with min-
comprising Reviews eel the Drone, the Flue Al.,t
Selections from the winks of living Authors. and a glee] and sorted interest :--
fur proles/ties' of original matter upon a variety of J LITERARY RECOLLE.C'TIONS OF LONDON.
subjects. 'Elm latter timelier* any CRIIIIIPZiOn with I "Oh sweet to my snot is tb:it beautiful spot,
the parties or politics of the State, and, oith the Avookiag resnembrasiee Mustlir :If ."
l'Ontwoostrao.
reception of the sweessary foreign awl dusseette ~ lit So.(:tier's g.t 1 i•
it , s. ourco or Chapman, the roc-
intelligence, messes exclumvely to devote itself to .i• .., i',
lel,t RIM v., sit trati•htur of Hunter ; and Andrew
Literature, the Deward. and the Arts. Both ma- Marvell. rite wit slid patriot, whse
geezines Ropes! to he conducted with ability and i
could um holm. 1%:Ito would hallooed.
poverty Charles
*pint. Of the politics of Baldwin mid Cradock's tier Sectitidl
tluit tier Borough was the most claw eel grontel iii
publication, the following extract is a fair aud li- I the ntelroperlo ? And'yet it is undoubtedly so. Tlw
bend specimen:— Globe theatre was there, of which Shik-peare bun.
Third view of the constitution and character of self was d peoprieter, and 'or whi* lie voter his
Parlitunent, presents. to us, we are free to confers, plays. Globe-lane, in which it
.etistal, is Mill ex-
an augnet sell impoosig ituage ; and seems to intl. itaut, we believe, under that swine. It i. prothable
mate that orevereso esage, or even rash meddling, I that he lived near it : it is cerium that he mast
would e
„w bt unworthy and iniadiciou. treatment bare loot much there. It tools. certain Owl on the
of nit ination, that has been formed, may I Borough ode of the river. then aid still called the
say. by a superior agency to that of the intelli- Back ride, ice the seine lodging. having the same
genes of mato ; namely, in the womb of time, under I wardrobe, and some ere. with sober participatious
the influence of the natural fitness. of things. more remarkable. lived Beautuosat mind Fletcher.
.1 At the same time, a body so constituted is not In the Borough also, at St. Saviour's, he Fletcher
!sound—we tomtit to say is not eowdziowed—to lib- and Malisiuterr. in one geese: ill the some church,
solute immoveability. That which has been Woe I under a moinument sued effigy. lies Chaucer'. ems-.
duced by eirenrostetwes...which circumetancea have temporary, Cower; and from an
fashioned. endowed, and strengtltesied—ooght never t rough, the existence of which is still boasted. sod
to consider itself independent of circumstances. I the site pointed out by • picture and inscriptioss.
An inoilittiott which can appeal to the letter of co I Chaucer sets out his pilgrims and himself on their
%oiliest cleaner Of Code' of regulation, without find- l famous rood to coustsbury,,
lug itself sentenced to death for violation of its te- "To return over the water. who ovoid export
cure—hut which very justly considers the spirit of any tiring poetical from Ewa s,nithoeid ? Yet there
a constitution superior to the letter of a law, and was born the most pueticsl swell of poets. Spencer.
the authority of long and useful practice greater Pape w INI born within the sound of Bow.hell, in a
than that of isey one enactment :—such an institti- street no less anti-poetical than Lombard-street.
two, we say, has little right to regard any our pre- So was Grey, in Corrohill. So was Matto. in
sent moment as involving tts abeolute and uuchange. Bread-street, Cheapsidle. The presence of the same
able properties, or affect to consider its stature at- I great poet and patriot has given happy memories
tacked when it is suggested that it should coutitine to many parts of the metropolis. Ile liv-d in St.
its natural progress. All we mean to say is. that, Bride's Church-yard, Fleet-street; in Alorrsgate-
ire treating of the construction and condition of street, in Jewitostreet, in Barflies'', in litotholo-
Perlimmesit, it seems to us that little is proved by mew-close; in Holborn, looking back in Lie cob's
referring to the dry theory of Parliaments. This oni.erid.; in Holborn, near Bed Li.-.puny;
may form a plausible ground of attack for Ocoee in Seotland-yard; in a house kinking to St. James's
who hate and would destroy our existing conetitu- Park, now belonging to an ensinetit writer use legis.
lion ; but those who are of opinion that the nation ',llion, and lately occupied by 4 celebrated deioc
may be still well-governed on the present princi- and metaphysician; and he died in the Artillery.
plea of its goverionent—iii other words. that the I walk, Buithill-fields, and was buried in Si. Gilee'a,
strata of society may be staved to Ile ice their pre. Cripplegate.
sent order ; that mischief, in fact, would be done se Ben J moon. who was born' i.e Hartshorne-18mo
by disturbing them—such persons will look more near Charing-cross,' was at one time • master' of e
to experience and to circumstances, than to the theatre in Barbican. He appears slot to have visit-
theory in question, when they contemplate mos- ed a tavern called the Sun and M 0000 ,in Aldeirs.
sures of retortnitig ulteration. We confess we be. gate.strert : and is Worn to have frequented. with
loug to the last class; but we confess further, that Beaumont and others, the famous one called the
we consider the present to be one of those moments Mermaid, which was in Cornhill.
of crisis, which decide every thing as to the future to The other celebrated resort of the great wits
fate of nations; when a change, mind a great change of that time was the Devil Tavern, its Fleetwtreet.
too, must take place, the only point doubtful being close to Temple-bar. Bess Jonson lived also its
whether this change shall be one of recovery or of 8„ii„,e,,„„,,,,e5,e; where Mato„ afterwards lived;
death. %Ve shell soots see that b°ol PATlhnoent It is in the 'wont from the cl...avers Of Christ's
and the Ministers perceive that circumstances indi- Hospital lulu St. Beritiotornew's. Aubrey gives it
cote the necessity of making a great revolution in as a corenron opinion, that at the tune when Jon-
the administration of public affairs ; the dispute I son's father-in-law made him help him in loss busi-
between she parties only relates to the side towards ' new of bricklayer, he worked with his toot hoods
which this revolution ought to lean. upon the Lincoln's lon-garden wall, which looks
" The warm feeling excited in the country by upon Chancery-lane, and which erects old enough
the forcible dispersion, by the Magistrates calling to have some of his illustrious brick stud mortar still
in the soldiery to their aid, of a meeting of the po- remaining.
palace at Manchester, held at the call of hunt the Under the cloisters in Christ's Hospital (which
radical reformer—which disorrsion was not effected stand its the heart of the city, unknown to most
without bloodshed—is, we believe, the true reason persists', like a house kept invisible for young and
of this early muting of Parliament. Ministers learned eyes) lie buried a multitude of prisons of
soon made common cause with the Manchester till ranks; tor it was once a monastery of Grry
Magistrates, by the replica which they dictated to Friars. Among them is John of leoriromi, floe of
the Regent. when addrews, praying the illeestiga- the prisoners taken at the battle of Aguicourt.
Lion of the affair, were carried from counties, towns, Here also lies 'Thomas Burdet, ancestor of the pie-
and corporations, to the throne ; and still more par- sent Sir Francis. who was put to death in the reign
ticularly, as well as more obnoxiously, by dismissing of Edward the Fourth, for wishing the horns of a
from his situation of Lord Lieutenant of the county favourite white rug, which the liiog lead killed, in
of York, that most respectable Nobleman. Earl the body of the person who advised him to do it.
Fitzwilliam. on the ground of his Wong been pie- I And here, too (a sufficing contrast) lies Isabella,
strut at a meeting of the freeholders of his county, t wife of Edward the Se I—
nhere he coincided with the assembly in the prolific- I " She, wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs.
ty of petitioning the throne to cause an inquiry to wow tore the bowels of her mangled mate."—Gail.be instituted into the 51ancliester trausactiona.—By Her • mate's' heart was buried with her, and
taking this step, Ministers seemed tooninnunce to the i placed upon her bosom ! a thing that lucks like
astonished country, that they intended to bring the I the fantastic incoherence of a dream. It is well
point to a direct issue between the two extreme we did not know of her presence when at school ;
parties: themselves the serviinto, and dependants or after readsiag one of Shalcapeare's tragedies, we
of the Crown, dm one side—stud the mob of uncut- should have run twice as fast round the cloisters at
gloved manufacturers, and ignorant and malignant night lime as we used. Camden, • the nourrice of
anarchists. on the other: in other words, that the I antiquities' received part of Ins educat iiiii in, this
stake on the hazard of the die was to be despotism 1 school ; acid here also. toot to mention a variety of
or revolutionary anarchy. lii striking a blow of others known in the literary world, were hired two
indignity at one of the most distinguished and re- 1 of the most powerful and deepoipirited writers of
spected Noblemen of the land, they cleared the I the present clay ; whose visits to the cloisters we
way for the hostile advance of their rude and exits- I well remember.
perated enemies, trampling down respectability of In a palace on the site of Hatton-garden. died
I
rank, sod dedregarditig all claims of character;— Jolt's of Gaunt. Brook (louse, at tlw corner of the
at the same time. they seemed bent upon removing street of that name in Holborn, was the residence of
whatever might break the force of the shock. and the celebrated Sir Flake Greed'', Lord Brook.
determined to bring power alone into action agoinst the ' friend! of Sir Philip Sydney.' In the Mme
distress and delue 00000 ,as well as against discontent street. died, by a voluntary death. of poison, cleat
and rebelltoo. The country felt uppalled mid of- tztraorditotry person, Thomas Cliatterton—
fended at these inilliantons: they were regarded us " The sleepless boy, who perished in his Twilit."
of the most sinister import : and perhaps a more WoRDSWORTR.
vivid and genetal sets t i ttt riot of disapprobation and He was buried in the workhouse cue Snot-lam ;
alarm was never experienced in the public mind, —a circumstance at which one case lisolly help
than that which was every where expressed when feeling a movement of indignation. Vet what
this measure of insult and rowlociess became known. coatis' beadles and parish officers know about such
The announced determination of Ministers to add a being? No more than Horace Walpole. lit
to the military force of the coontry, consoled, in Gray's loin lived, and ;411 Gray's Inn-garden meth-
point of time, with the dismissal of Earl Fozwile toted, Lord Bacon. Its Soutluimptoiwtow, Hol-
born, pee a heels and double cause for regret :it born, Cowper was et fellow-clerk to an lionowy
corroborated the idea already entertained of the with the future Lord Chapcellor "rlitirlow. At the
temper and intentiosts of the Administration—and Fleet•strett corner of Chancery-lane, Cowley. we
'hewed that she emlployment of arms to put down
.oreet ►
believe, tow born. 111 Salisbstry.court, Fleet-
discontent, was decimal by them more adopted to , wee the house of Thornita Sackviele, first
the circumstances of the country than the adoption I Earl of Dorset. the precursor of Sinner'', and one
of retrencluneut. The state of the public feeling a the SWIMS of the first regular English tragedy.

Oa the demolition of Liii' house. part of the grown) •
was occupied by the ctiebritrti theatre built after
the Esstonitints, at which Bettertun performed.
and of which Sir William Drneenant was manager.
Lastly. here was the house and printing-office of
Richardson. In Bolt-court, not fir distant. lived
Dr. Johnson, who resided also for sotne time in the
Temple-. A list of his tutmerotts whet. residences
i+ to he found in Boswell*, Cungteve died in -
Surrey-street, in the Stt and. at his own house. At
the corner of Beaufort-buildings woo Lilly's, the
perfumer. at whore house The Tatkr was pub.
lisped. In Maiden-lime, Covent-garden. Voltaire
ludged while in London. at the sign of the White
Peruke. Tavistock-street was then, we believe the
Bond-street of the fashionaltje world, rs Bow-street
was before. The change of Ittis-•tt Pet. Rout fashion
10 the phut., with the throne still 111 attendance.,
reminds one of the spirit of 'the 13eggat's (tom
Bottum's Coffee-I the resort of the Ins ofQiireit
Aone's time, was in Russell-street—stye believe, near
where the Iltimmunis now stand. We think we re-
eullect froth:44 that in the same street, at one
of the cornets of Buts-street, was the tavola where
I).yden held regal pn.seo•hiti of the arm-chrir.
The whole of Covent-gaiden Hr classic ground,
Ruin its association with the draw talc and other
wits of the limes of 1).o., mot Pope. .Rattler
perhaps died, in Ita-e-street, and was buried
in Covent-garden Clt us where Peter Pirs-
lilt the other day followed loin. in Leicester-
riusre, on the site of Miss Linwood's exhibition
and utlivr houses, was the toetit-isinmiun of the
Sydney', Earl of Leice.ter, and the Estut;y of Sir
and Algernon Sydney.

• The Temple most haeg had unstop rowituwat insuales.
A g them, it is believed, was Chaneer, who iroh• said,
tipttu the streonth of an nit( recut , t., hare bttu hued 2e.
fort beating a Frauriocan Prise, in Ileot.sta eel.
(T• be rent lussaiLl