Gandy, and Alexander. In Sculpture, among many other respectable works, the beauty of a Venus, and the solitary grief of a monumental figure, add to the high credit of Nollekens, Banks, Flaxman, and Garrard maintain their accustomed eminence.

We here close our remarks, in the course of which an earnest endeavour has been used, with fallible judgment, but candid investigation, to ascertain, as far as the objects of discussion allowed, the due estimation of English artists, and place their works in the proper scale of comparison with those of other schools.

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The sanction given by time to the pictures of artists long deceased, must justly be allowed to add something to their value; and to those who have acquired no other method of judging, it is every thing but it is lamentable to behold the mind, through a consciousness of ignorance, fearful to admit any suggestions of the attainments of living artists, and its avenues, in a manner, blocked up even against an inclination to believe the honours of our native country.

EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON.

MR. EDITOR,

THE following account of a most extraordinary phenomenon of nature, may be depended on for its authenticity. This singular man is probably still alive-he was living, to the writer's knowledge, six years ago.

In the village of Ditcheat, four miles from Shepton-Mallet, Somersetshire, in the year 1765, a woman of the name of Kingston, was delivered of a stout boy, without arms or shoulders. He possesses, without the usual appendages of arins, all the strength, power, and dexterity of the ablest and most regularly made men, and exercises every function of life. He feeds, dresses, and undresses himself, combs his own hair, shaves his beard with the razor in his toes, cleans his shoes, lights his fire, writes out his own bills and accounts, and does almost every other domestic business. Being a farmer by occupation, he performs the usual business of the field, fodders his cattle, makes his ricks, cuts his hay, catches his horse, and saddles and bridles him with his feet and toes. He can lift ten pecks of beans, with his teeth; with his feet throws a large sledgehammer farther than other men can with their arms; and he has fought a stout battle, and come off victorious. In 1789, he married a young woman. These facts are notorious in most parts of SomerYours, &c.

setshire.

L. N.

HERALDRIC COMMUNICATIONS.

NUMBER IV.

IList of Dukes, continued from page 281.]

DUKES CREATED DURING THE REIGN OF THE STUARTS, INCLUDING THOSE CREATED BY WILLIAM THE THIRD.

Ann. Reg. Ann. Dom.

In the Reign of James the Second.

4 Jac. 2-1687-8-James Fitz-James, illegitimate son of King James the Secend, by Arabella Churchill, daughter of S. Winstan

Churchill, Knt. and sister of John Duke of Marlborough was created D. of BERWICK.

In the Reigns of William and Mary.

Gul. & Mar.1689-Charles Powlet, Marquis of Winchester, was created D. of BOLTON.

1 Gui. & Mar.-1689-Frederick Armand de Scomberg, was created D. of SCOMBERG for life, with remainders to Charles his

5th son,
and Mynhardt his 2nd son, and their heirs
males successively.

-William, first-born son of Anne, daughter of K. James

the Second (by her husband, Prince George of Denmark), who was born 24th July, 1689, and died 30th July, 1700, was created D. of GLOUCESTER.

6 Gul. & Mar.-1694-Charles Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, &c. was created D of SHREWSBURY.

Gul. & Mar.-1694-Thomas Osborne, Marquis of Caermarthen, &c. was created D. of LEEDS.

6 Gul. & Mar.-1694-William Russel, Earl of Bedford, &c. was created D. of BEDFORD.

6 Gul. & Mar.-1694-William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, &c. was created D. of DEVONSHIRE.

6 Gul. & Mar.-1694-John Holles, Earl of Clare (husband of Margaret third daughter and co-heir of Henry Cavendish, second

Duke of Newcastle) was created D. of NEWCASTLE.

In the Reign of Queen Anne.

1 Anne.--1702--John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, &c. was created D. of MARLBOROUGH,

2 Anne.--1702-3-John Sheffield, Marquis of Normandy, was created D of NORMANDY.

2 Anne.-1702-3-The Duke of Normandy was created D. of the county of

BUCKINGHAM.

Anne.——1705—--Ralph Montagu, Earl of Montagu, was created D. of

MONTAGU.

3 Anne.--1706-George, Electoral Prince of Brunswick Lunenburg, was created D. of CAMBRIDGE, and afterwards became king, by the name of George the Second.

5 Anne.--1706By act of parliament the title of Duke of Marlborough,

&c. was limited, in case of failure of male issue of

John Duke of Marlborough, to his daughters, and their heirs males successively, in order of seniority. 1707- -Union of England and Scotland, from which period the peers created, are created peers of Great Britain.

7 Anne.——1708——James Douglas, Duke of Queensberry, in Scotland, was created D. of DOVER.

9 Anne.

-1710--Henry Grey, Marquis of Kent, was created D. of

KENT.

10 Anne.--1711-James Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton in Scotland, was created D. of BRANDON.

DUKES CREATED DURING THE REIGNS OF THE BRUNSWICKS.
In the reign of George the First.

1 Geo. 1-1715--Robert Bertie, Marquis of Lindsey, &c. was created D. of ANCASTER and KESTEVEN.

1 Geo. 1-1715--Evelyn Pierrepont, Marquis of Dorchester, was created D. of KINGSTON.

2 Geo. 1-1715--Thomas Pelham-Holles, Earl of Clare (son of Sir Thomas Pelham, Bart. by Grace, sister of John Holles Duke of Newcastle) was created D. of NEWCASTLE, with remainder in default of heirs male of his own body, to his brother Henry, and his heirs male.

2 Geo. 1-1716

-Ernest Augustus, brother of K. George the First, was created D. of YORK.

2 Geo. 1-1716-Henry Bentinck, Earl of Portland, was created D. of

PORTLAND.

4 Geo. 1-1717-18-Philip Wharton, Marquis of Wharton, was created D. of

WHARTON.

5 Geo. 1-1719- -Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester, was created D. of

MANCHESTER.

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5 Geo. 1-1719-James Brydges, Earl of Caernarvon, was created D. of

CHANDOS.

5 Geo. 1-1719--John Campbell, Duke of Argyle, &c. in Scotland, and Earl of Greenwich, &c. in England, was created D. of GREENWICH.

5 Geo. 1-1719--Erengard Melusina de Schuylenberg, Duchess of Munster, &c. in Ireland, and Countess of Feversham, &c.

6 Gec. 1-1720

in England, a favourite, &c. was created Duchess of KENDALE for life.

-Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Earl of Dorset, &c. was created D. of DORSET.

6 Geo. 1-1720--Scroope Egerton, Earl of Bridgwater, &c. was created D. of BRIDGWATER.

12 Geo. 1-1726--Frederick Lewis, eldest son of George Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, and grandson of K. George the First, was created Duke of Edinburgh, &c. and afterwards became Duke of CORNWALL,

12 Geo. 1-1726-William Augustus, youngest son of George Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, and grandson of K, George the

First, was created Duke of CUMBERLAND.

In the Reign of George the Second.

30 Geo. 2-1756-Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, was created Duke of NEWCASTLE under Line, with remainder of the latter title, in default of heirs male of his own body, to Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, and the heirs male of his body, by Catherine his wife, daughter of the Duke's brother, Henry Pelham. -Edward Augustus, second son of Frederick Lewis Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, and grandson of K. George the Second, was created D. of YORK and AL

33 Geo. 2-1760

BANY.

In the Reign of George the Third.

5 Geo. 3-1764--William Henry, brother of K. George the Third, was created D. of GLOUCESTER and EDINBURGH.

6 Geo. 3-1766--Henry Frederick, brother of K. George the Third, was created D. of CUMBERLAND and STRATHERN.

6 Geo. 3-1766-Hugh Percy, (beforetime Sir Hugh Smithston, Bart.) Earl of Northumberland (who married the daughter and heir of Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset, who was son and heir of Charles Duke of Somerset, by the daughter and heir of Joscelini Percy, Earl of Norhumberland) was created D. of NORTHUMBERLAND.

7 Geo. 3-1766--George Brudenell-Montagu, Earl of Cardigan, (who married the youngest daughter and co-heir of John Mon

tagu, second Duke of Montagu) was created Duke of MONTAGU.

25 Geo. 3-1784-Frederick, second son of K. George the Third, was created Duke of YORK and ALBANY.

29 Geo. 3-1789

-William Henry, third son of K. George the Third, was

created D. of CLARENCE and ST. ANDREWS.

39 Geo. 3-1799-Edward, fourth son of K. George the Third, was created

D. of KENT and STRATHERN.

39 Geo. 3-1799--Ernest Augustus, fifth son of K. George the Third, was created D. of CUMBERLAND and TEVIOTDALE. [To be continued.]

HAIL

SELECT SENTENCES.

No. iv.

pure friendship!-thou art something which none can truly taste, but those of warm passions, and a refined genius.

"Nice Honour was surely thy sire,

"Soft Sympathy calls thee her child,

"Enthusiasm gave thee her fire,

"Sensibility nurs'd thee-and smil`d.”

Love begins with love:-no warm passion ever succeeds an ardent friendship.

Do some wise men know, that even prejudices, and follies, may result from sensibility? and that the reason they are not prejudiced and foolish, may have been that they were insensible?

Some men talk sensibly, and act foolishly: some talk foolishly, and act sensibly. The first laugh at the last, and the last cheat the first.

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet, like some other poisons, properly and artfully applied, has as salutary an effect in commerce and society, as in medicine.

The man of humour, the droll, he who enchants the whole listening circle with the spirit and fire of his wit, if another, who excels him in the same way, is introduced into the company, will not only appear less, but will shrink into nothing. Thus, if let the beams of the sun into your room, they will put out the fire.

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Are we not all ready to confess our faults in the plural? yet, who does not deny them in the singular?

What nice distinctions are to be made in the characters of mankind? Contempt for money, and profusion, have the same line of separation between them that virtue and vice have.

There are things which we are in doubt whether to call very good, or very bad, though we are sure they are one or the other. As "wit is nearly allied to madness," so there is but a very narrow boundary" between the utmost excursions of wit and the first sallies of phrenzy. When Milton talks of "visible darkness,” of “prodigies produced by nature," of "death that lives," and "life that dies," we know he has reached the last verge of propriety-we are apt to doubt if he has not passed it-so, when Pope supposes Newton to be shewn by angels, at a monkey is by men, our taste is as much in doubt about his propriety, as our judgment is about that of Milton.

"Friendship is to love, what an engraving is to a painting."True: the brilliant colours of the painting fade; the print always remains the same, till it is annihilated.

Taste is not dangerous, except when the pursuit of its objects is the constant employment of our time.

Persons must love something in common, before their love for each other can be durable. What, except VIRTUE, can we love, without fearing that jealousy, or opposition of interests, will diminish the warmest friendships.

Q. Z.