THE 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 382.] 



JUNE I, 1828. 



[5 of Vol. 55. 



'"•'7CER'« INN. 



WICKI.IFFE'S CHAIR. 



CHAUCEirs INN, CAMEUBUHY. 

 This Inn, so celi-brated by the fatliei- of English poetry in his " Canteibnry Tales,'' is 

 still standing, and is situated on tiie north >ide uf the HijcIi-sUcet, opposite to St. 

 Margarer's Church, in a narrow lane, anciently called l.e Merccrie, now Mercery-lane, 

 from that trade having been principally carried on there. Before the civil wars of Charles I. 

 there was a colonnade on each side of it, like that formerly on London Bridge. The 

 other honses in the lane are the most ancient of any ip the city of (Janterbiiry ; and thig 

 house, sanctified by genius, is held in due reverence by the inhabitants and travellers. 

 WICKLIFFEs CHAIR, AT LUTTEKWORTH. 

 With a relic of the Father of our Poetry, we present our readers with another of 

 the parent of our religions Refonnation. This chair is still preserved at Lutterworth 

 as that in which Wicklift'e, on being seized, while preaching, with paralysis, was 

 conveyed home, and in which he subsequently died. His table is also iu being; and 

 both confer interest and celebrity on a town otherwise inconsiderable. 



For the MoiUlihi Magazine. 



TOPIC OF THE MONI'H. 



The French Crusade against the 



Spanish Const tution. 



THIS crusade is of the deepest im- 

 portance to all the nations of Eu- 

 rope; inasmuch as the result of it must 

 either remove altogether, or rivet 

 more strongly, (for a time at least.) 

 those fetters which have been forged 

 for them at the reval' And imperial 

 conventicles of Lajbach, Troppau, 

 Verona, and other plac; s. The dread 

 of such another slinking of their 

 thrones, and tramplina; upon their 

 majesty, as that which they expe- 

 rienced from Bonaparte, has, in the 

 mean time, united them together by 

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the strong tie of fear; and, though the 

 union of so many kings, a;;ainst the 

 interests and wishes of their people, 

 and the intelligence of the age, be 

 both unnatural and unprecedented, 

 yet the bond of union is in its owr> 

 nature .so strong, and it lias the addi- 

 tional strength of so many large and 

 powerful armies (the remains of those 

 which were organized against Napo- 

 leon), that itsc(mtiiiuance may, should 

 they succeed against Spain, be longer 

 than would, a priori, have been ima- 

 gined. 



During the last fifty years, tho 



grounds and reasons (such as thoy 



arc) of European warfare have been 



wholly changed. Up to the comuience- 



9 D uirut 



