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"THE EDINBURGH GAZETTEER."

There existed at one time in Scotland a newspaper entitled The Edinburgh Gazetteer, which, having been published in troublous times, was not very long in existence. Falling in with an odd Number, I cut out and now send a rather smart attack upon the ruling powers, which probably you may deem worthy of preservation in your columns. The date is March, 1793:

66 ODE TO INSURRECTION.

"Hard-hearted Nymph, of unknown mien, By minister, alas! unseen,

Why turn'st thou a deaf ear?

See'st thou, unmov'd, Pitt's downcast eye, Dundas's melting modesty,

And Hawksb'ry's suasive leer? "Must patriot Rose, of every grace

Possess'd, who ne'er look'd man i' th' faceMust he too sue in vain?

And L-, who drove his conscience out, To make room for the K-'s no doubt, Dost thou his prayers disdain? "Thy heart of ice can nothing thaw? Nor Mulgrave's wit, nor Watson's law; Not Beauchamp, nor his brother? Can'st thou resist Drake's Orthian song; And Hawkins Browne, Sir William Young, And even John Anstruther?

"What malice in thy heart must lurk,
When even to consistent Burke

Thou canst, O Nymph! be rude!
Burke, by no pension ever bought,
The firmest friend in deed and thought
O' th'swinish multitude.'

"From east to west, from south to north,
What hosts of spies have sallied forth,
To court thee to be civil!
What frantic fury did bestir 'em!
Tramping from Cornwall quite to Durham,
From Durham to the Devil!

"From some Newcastle mine's recess,
Which solar ray did never bless,

"Tis said thou didst ascend;
"Tis said at Shields thou wert seen,
'Tis said at Dundee thou hast been,
And even the Land's End.
"Albeit, here it must be own'd,
That some assert thou wert not found,
And that 'tis all a hum;
They disbelieve the Proclamation,
Gods! what must be their situation,

Poor souls! i' th' world to come?
"Do not the wicked wretches know
The King can do no wrong? ergo,
He cannot tell a lie;
No-every thing that's good and great,
And honourable, take their seat
In the heart of Majesty.

"When then the King a Proclamation
Thinks fit to issue to the nation,

With thanks we must receive it;
And upon no pretence whate'er,
With either Why? or Wherefore? dare
Attempt to disbelieve it.

""Tis true, that none of us have seen,
O Insurrection! thy dread mien,
In any part o' th' nation;
But tho' we have not found thee out,
Thou dost exist, beyond all doubt;
Thus says the Proclamation.
"What are our vulgar, swinish eyes
To his Most Gracious Majesty's,

That see so far and wide?
By the rude rabble's view thy mien,
O Insurrection! was not seen
By the King alone espy'd.

"To him, of Freedom the defender,
Our lives and wealth we always tender,

As subjects ought to do.

Why, therefore, to his Majesty,
Our Gracious Sovereign, should not we
Entrust our eye-sight too?

"Yet as some do still exist,
Who, Goddess of my song, persist
In doubting thy existence;
Appear to their astonish'd sight,
And if it be alone from spite,
No longer keep thy distance.
"Appear to Richard Brinsley's eyes,
Ere in the Commons' House he rise,
To talk about Sedition;
Gods! what a triumph it would be,
To Pitt and all the ministry,

To see poor Dick's condition!

Shortly before his death, seeing the brethren filled with sorrow, the saint endeavoured to comfort them; and raising his holy hands, he blessed the entire island, saying: "From henceforth poisonous reptiles shall not be able to hurt men or cattle in this island, as long as the inhabitants shall observe the commandments of Christ." "From whatever it has arisen," observes the translator, "it is a singular fact that no snakes or vipers have ever been seen in Hy, whilst many of a very venomous nature are found on the opposite coast." (Book II. chap. 28.) In reference to "the popular tradition of St. Patrick and venomous creatures in Ireland" referred to by MR. J. DALTON (3rd S. iv. 82), I would suggest that the Irish would positively have been blessed by an oppor

afford an innocent diversion to their killing propensities, to United Irish violence:—

Vita S. Columbæ, Abbatis Hyensis, qui diem obiit anno 597. Vide Acta Sanctorum, Junii ix, Bollandi, pp. 180-236; Surii, 144-161; Colgani, 321-514; Mabillonii, t. i. 361-366; Canisii Lectiones Antiquæ, i. 674-708; Messinghami Florilegium Insula Sanctorum, Parisiis, 1626; Joh. Pinkerton, Vitæ Antiquæ Sanctorum qui habitaverunt in ea parte Britanniæ nunc vocata Scotia, Londini, 1789; Migne, Patrologia, t. lxxxviii. Paris, 1850. The Life by Adamnan has recently been edited by Dr. Reeves, with notes and dissertations, for the Irish Archæological and Celtic Society, Dublin, 1857, and has been translated from the text edited by Reeves, with copious notes, Dublin, 1860.

Lib. I. De Propheticis Revelationibus. Cap. i. De virtutum miraculis brevis narratio. The history of his miracles is continued in the second book. There is no economy in the miracles, prophecies, and visions recorded in the biographies of saints written in the seventh century. They are

αμμοκοσιογάργαρα.

"Sed neque quam multæ species, nec nomina quæ sint, Est numerus; neque enim numero comprendere refert. Quem qui scire velit, Libyci velit æquoris idem Dicere quam multa zephyro turbentur arena: Aut ubi navigiis violentior incidit Eurus Nôsse quot Ionii veniant ad litora fluctus." Like St. Bernard, this saint " appears to have been somewhat addicted to the practice of denouncing and invoking on those who had incurred his displeasure the judgments of heaven." ("N. & Q." 2nd S. viii. 229.) We find, cap. xxii. De malefactorum interitu, qui Sanctum dispexerant, Colg. p. 355.

Among his works of mercy may be mentioned as an instance of his miracle-working faith, the restoration to life of a man who had died by the bite of a serpent. (O'Donellus in Colgano, p. 411.)

"Si se forte cava extulerit mala vipera terra,
Tolle moras, cape saxa manu, cape robora, pastor,
Ferte cito flammas, date tela, repellite pestem."
Vida Poeticorum lib. iii. 421.

"Scripsit hic magnus Dei propheta multas prophetias. Sed vereor inter has numerari aliquas, quæ non sint genuina ejus opera. Ego solum paucas recensebo, quæ ipsi certius attribui videntur. Prima sit prophetia de adventu Anglorum, et Hibernia per eos expugnanda," &c.— Colganus, p. 472.

"Then (by the invasion of Ulster by John de Courcy) was fulfilled the prophecy of Columba, the Irishman, who in times long past foretold this battle: So much Irish blood,' he said, 'shall then be shed, that their enemies in pursuing them will wade up to their knees in blood.' . It is also reported that a prediction was committed to writing by the same prophet, purporting that a needy and broken man, a stranger from far countries, should, with a small company, come to Down, and take possession of the city without the leave of the governor.

He also foretold several battles and other events, all of which were clearly fulfilled in the acts of John de Courcy, who is said to have had this book of prophecies, written in the Irish tongue, in his possession, and to have valued it much, considering it as the mirror of his own deeds. It is also written in the same book, that a young man with a band of armed men should assault and break down the walls of Waterford, and take the city with great slaughter of the inhabitants; and that he should then pass through Wexford, and at length enter Dublin without any opposition. All this was evidently fulfilled in Earl Richard. The saint also predicted that Limerick would be twice evacuated by the English, but the third time they would retain possession of it. Now, truly it has been twice given up." &c.-The Vaticinal History of the Conquest of Ireland, by Giraldus Cambrensis, Bohn's edition, p. 279.

To these prophecies may be added that in the first book of Adamnan, cap. 49; the holy man's prophecy regarding the battle fought many years after in the fortress of Cethern, and the well near that place (in O'Donellus, cap. 95). "The

Tertius Liber, De Angelicis Visionibus. habit," writes Moore in his History of Ireland, p. 239, "of invoking and praying to saints was, it is

evident, general among the ancient Irish Christians." It may, however, be remarked that of Columba's Hymns (vide Colgan. 473-76) none is addressed to angels or saints. Colganus, in his Trias Thaumaturga* (vol. ii. of his Acta Sanctorum, Lovanii, 1645), inserts four other Lives of Columbkille, through whose ministry Iona became "the luminary of the Caledonian regions": 1. By Belfortius, pp. 321-25; 2. By Cumineus Albus, 325-31; 3. By Capgrave, 332-35; 4. By Magnus Odonellus, 389-446. For an account of this apostle of the Picts see O'Halloran's Hist. of Ireland, ii. c. 5; Ussher's Britann. Ecclesiar. Antiq., cap. v.; and Stevenson's edition of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, cap. iv., where the reader is referred also to Dr. O'Connor's Notanda de S. Columba.

Adamnan's other work, viz. De Locis Sanctis is printed in Mabillonii Acta, Sæc. iii. 499-522. This Itinerary (which was also published in Gretser's works) furnished Bede with his principal memorials, de Locis Sanctis. Cf. his Hist. Eccles. lib. v. c.16; Hist. Littéraire de la France, iii. 650; Struvii Bibl. Histor. i. part 11.; Basnagii Obs. in Canisii Lect. i. 675; Fabricius, Vossius, vol. iv.

In the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters (ad annum 703) are the following remarks, with which I must conclude:

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Of Adamnan's works we have still remaining 1. His Vita Columbæ, which is a remarkable piece of biography, in the purest style of Latin then in use. Mr. Pinkerton says that, "among the Irish writers, Adamnan has given in the Life of Columba the most complete piece of biography that all Europe can boast of, not only at so early a period, but through the whole middle ages.' 2. His account of the holy places in Judea, from the relation of Arculph, a French bishop, and which he presented to King Alfred. An abridgement of this was given by Bede, but Mabillon has published it at full length. There are other prose tracts and poems in Irish, which are ascribed to him, but these have not yet been published or translated. BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM.

SCOTT'S "LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL."

In the fifth note to his first canto of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott quotes a short Latin poem from the Heroes ex omni Historiâ Scottica of John Jonston, which, in Longman's edition, 1816, and probably in other editions, is misprinted and mispunctuated, so as to be untranslatable. I have collated it with the original

* This is evidently the original of the rare work mentioned by Lowndes, s. v. Patrick, viz., "The Life of the glorious Bishop St. Patricke, Apostle and Primate of Ireland, together with the Lives of the Holy Virgin St. Bridget, and of the glorious Abbot St. Columbe, Patrons of Ireland."

in the British Museum, and should be glad if you would assist me in my wish to do Jonston what is but bare justice. I have also taken the liberty of accompanying the Latin text with an attempt between translation and imitation, which is at your service:

"VALTERIUS SCOTUS BALCLUCHIUS. "Egregio suscepto facinore, libertate Regis, ac aliis rebus gestis clarus, sub Jacobo V. A° Christi 1526. "Intentata aliis, nullique audita priorum

Audet: nec pavidum Morsve Metusve quatit.
Libertatem aliis soliti transcribere Reges:
Subreptam hanc Regi restituisse paras.
Si vincis, quanta ô succedunt præmia dextræ!
Sin victus, falsas spes jace, pone animam.
Hostica vis nocuit: stant altæ robora mentis,
Atque decus. Vincet, Rege probante, fides.
Insita queis animis virtus, quosque acrior ardor
Obsidet, obscuris nox premat an tenebris?"

Heroes ex omni Historiâ Scotticâ lectissimi,
Auctore Johan. Jonstonio, Abredonense
Scoto, 1603.

Sir Walter Scott, Lord of Buccleuch, in obedience to a command by letter from James V., then a minor, attempted to rescue him out of the custody of the Earl of Angus, and the other Douglasses.

An Imitation of the Latin Verses of John Jonston. Things not essayed by others-generous things Unparalleled he perils; Fate and Fear

Assault his soul, but fail to triumph there; And freedom, wont to be the gift of kings, If conqueror, to his sovereign Buccleuch brings: (Rich thy reward, O loyal succourer!) If-Hope a traitoress-conquered-then, Despair Pays the life forfeit for high venturings.

Against him goes the battle; still, to yield The sanguine honours of "The Skirmish Field " Needs not the knight who takes a prince's part!

With either issue, his young lord's appeal He brought the bravery of his blood to sealAnd only shades, not darkness, sweep his heart. JOHN HENNING.

2, Princes Street, Bedford Row, W.C.

feels satisfied that he is right, but it may be that, after all his trouble, he is mistaken.

The Colonels, Captains, Doctors, Misters, and Misses, who suppress their Christian names, stand very little chance of getting into any Biographical Dictionary, and must expect to be confounded in catalogues with persons with whom they have no affinity.

own steward, he left so large an estate that his successor employed four to look after it, who soon reduced it to so low an ebb, that the present possessor has been obliged to put it to nurse; and he himself makes five saucers supply the place of forty substantial dishes."

The tract itself is a singular record of the extravagance of the menials in great families; all their tricks are pointed out with infinite minuteness, and it is full of pithy and useful remarks. It would be desirable to learn who the pattern nobleman was, as well as the individual who records his virtues.

haps Mr. Spurgeon has studied George Herbert, and has metamorphosed some of his quaint thoughts. The latter thus concludes his brief poem "Jesu: "

"I sat me down to spell them, and perceived, That to my broken heart he was I EASE YOU, And to my whole is JESU."

with four pages of title and advertisement. Smollett wrote an account of the siege, not included in his works. Is this the answer? Where can a copy of Smollett's pamphlet be seen?

The last tract worthy of notice in the volume is one of a very odd description, bearing the title of "Great News from Hell, or the Devil foiled by

verse:

ABUSE OF THE STEWART'S TABLE: SIEGE OF CARTHAGENA: SQUINTING VENUS, ETC. At the sale of the library of the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., which contained a great number of exceedingly curious books, in many of which the owner had written notes, there was a volume of tracts which ultimately fell into my hands, the articles composing which I should very much like to obtain information about. The first is "A Treatise on the Use and Abuse of the Second, commonly called the Stewart's, Table in Families of the first Rank. In four parts, &c." It is printed at London "for the Author, and sold by Mr. Cooper, the Bottom of Clarges Street, Piccadilly, and by all the Booksellers in London and Westminster. (Price 6d.) 8vo."

It is inscribed to the memory of the Right Honourable the L-d E-o, who died in the year 1740. This noble personage, whoever he was, is represented in the body of the tract (p. 49) as having his establishment in the county of Surrey :

"He was, when living, his own steward, had one ox, four sheep, and one calf all eaten up in his house every week; he seldom came to town but when the business of his king and county called him thither. By being his

brated Miss Betty Wemyss, the little Squinting Venus, to the no less celebrated Miss Lucy C[oope]r." London, 1760, 8vo, pp. 62.

Mr. Sharpe, in a MS. note, observes, that the last mentioned female figures in Dr. Dodd's novel of The Sisters under the name of Miss Repook. He says nothing, however, either about the Squinting Venus or Bess Weatherby, who from the text, appears to have been a tavern-keeper of note at the time, much patronised by the "fast" It is full of all kinds of gentry of both sexes. scandal. It contains the following attack upon Whitfield, who is described as preaching in a conventicle,

"Mounted aloft in a rostrum, raving and bellowing like a mad ox to about threescore old decrepid men and women, who were humming and turning up their eyes at his pious ejaculations with all the devotion imaginable. The subject of his discourse, I remember, was upon purity of heart (a very pretty creature to handle a subject of this sort). He very often, to convey his strong idea of purity, made use of the compound expressions' milkwhite righteousness,' 'sky-nurtured piety,' 'dove-coloured goodness.' In endeavouring to show the necessity of what he called saving faith, he said it was as much impossible for a good Christian to live without it, as it was for a fish to live upon treacle (a charming simile indeed); and in exhorting his long-chin'd congregation to repentance, he bid them always be ready, for who knows,' says he, but the day of judgment may come by night?'"

J. M.

ARMS.-Wanted, family for the following arms. They occur on an isolated brass shield on the E. wall of the N. chancel aisle of Allhallows Barking. No inscription remains. It is presumed the shield has been recovered from some lost monument, and placed on the wall for preservation: