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" An Answer to a Letter from a Clergyman, &c. 4to. 

 Lond. 1688." 



" A Short Discourse concerning the reading his Ma- 

 jesty's late Declaration in the Churches, set forth by the 

 Right Reverend Father in God Herbert [Crofts], Lord 

 Bishop of Hereford. 1688. 4to." 



" The Legality of the Court held by his Majesties Ec- 

 clesiastical Commissioners defended. Their Proceedings 

 no Argument against the taking otf Penal Laws and 

 Tests. Lond. 1688. 4to." 



" The King's Right of Indulgence in Spiritual Matters, 

 with the Equity thereof, Asserted. By a Person of 

 Honour and Eminent Minister of State lately deceased 

 [Arthur Anneslev, Earl of Angleseal. Printed by Henry 

 Care. 4to. 1688." 



BiBLIOTHECAB. Ch£THAM. 



ALBERONI, ON THE PARTITION OF TURKEY. 



There was published in 1736 (London, 8vo.), 



" Cardinal Alberoni's Scheme for reducing the Turkish 

 Empire to the Obedience of Christian Princes : and for a 

 Partition of tlie Conquests. Together with a Scheme of a 

 perpetual Dyet for establishing the Publick Tranquillity." 



Of the authenticity of this production I can 

 learn nothing. It is represented as " translated 

 from an authentick copy of the Italian MS. in the 

 hands of the Prince de la Torella, the Sicilian 

 Ambassador at the Court of France," and a por- 

 trait is prefixed of the Cardinal. 



Whether genuine or the reverse, the tract is 

 remarkable : for had the great powers united in 

 the dismemberment of Turkey in the manner then 

 suggested, Russia never could have attained the 

 position she now indubitably possesses. 



The first proposition was the creation of the 

 empire of Constantinople, whereof the Duke of 

 Holstein Gottorp was to be ruler, — the succession 

 being limited to heirs male of the body only. His 

 dominion was to consist of the Turkish possessions 

 in Asia and Africa, with the province of Romania 

 in Europe. 



Now for Russia : 



" The dominions of her Czarish Majesty being already 

 of great extent, and as that extraordinary Princess has 

 given the most shining proofs that publick liberty is her 

 principal view, with a sincere desire of propagating re- 

 ligion, we have the greatest reason to conclude she will 

 look upon the conquest of Asoph and Tartarj' as a rea- 

 sonable compensation for her pretensions to the new 

 conquests." 



She is then called upon to restore " her part of 

 Finland to the crown of Sweden, as an expedient 

 that will conduce very much towards preserving 

 the tranquillity of the north." France is to 

 get " Tunis ; " Spain, " Algiers ; " Portugal, 

 " Tripoli." 



Great Britain being a trading country, " will 

 not permit her people to enlarge their dominions." 

 She is to be contented with " Candia," and the 

 city of Smyrna. Holland acquires Rhodes and 

 Aleppo. 



Poland, having been " a rampart to Christen- 

 dom," is to have Moldavia, and all the country of 

 the Budzian Tartars : — the crown to be " heredi- 

 tary in the House of Saxony," as the only remedy 

 that " can prevent those evils that will inevitably 

 attend all their future elections." 



Alberoni was born March 30, 1664 ; and died 

 June 25, 1752. According to the Biographie 

 Universelle (Paris, 1811, vol. i. p. 399.), the Testa- 

 ment Politique, published in his name after his 

 death, was written by Maubert de Gouvest. Now 

 the Scheme above noticed was published in 1736, 

 during the lifetime of the Cardinal ; and as he 

 survived its appearance sixteen years, it may not 

 unreasonably be presumed that he must in some 

 way or the other have either seen, or have had 

 notice of it. J. Mr, 



ENGLISH AND FOREIGN ARCHITECTURE. 



Some time since ("N. & Q.," !•» S. x. 484.) 

 an anonymous writer inquired to what date he 

 might assign those foreign chui'ches which, had it 

 been their fortune to have stood on English 

 ground, would have been classed with Early En- 

 glish remains. I believe the Early English style, 

 in all its peculiar purity, is not to be found out of 

 our island ; and I have the authority of Professor 

 Whewell for supposing so, who writes, in his ad- 

 mirable Architectural Notes on German Churches, 

 Src.: — 



" It seems to me a most curious fact, that the English 

 architects should have gone by a path of their own to the 

 consummation of Gothic architecture, and should on the 

 road have discovered a style full of beauty and unity, and 

 quite finished in itself, which escaped their German 

 brother artists." — P. 8. 



And from other passages in the same work, 

 Professor Whewell seems to infer that the Gothic 

 tastes of the twelfth century grafted themselves 

 on the old Romanesque, and, gradually obtaining 

 the mastery, burst into perfection in the " Deco- 

 rated" style. The fact that this intermediate 

 step is wanting in foreign architecture makes a 

 perfect parallel view of the rise and progress of 

 the Gothic architecture at home and abroad, to a 

 certain degree, impossible. Should my table be 

 of any use, however, to your readers, it is at their 

 service ; and I insert it with the more pleasure, 

 because I hope that the Notes of the architectural 

 contributors of "N. & Q." may lead to a more 

 perfect understanding between architects, — En- 

 glish and foreign. 



My authorities have been Bloxam's invaluable 

 Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture ; 

 M. Schayes' Histoire de L Architecture en Belgique, 

 an extremely useful guide to all lovers of archi- 

 tecture travelling in Belgium ; and M. de Ca«- 

 mont's A. B. C. de L' Architecture, published three 

 years since in Paris, which catches the prominent 



