1825.] 
URN 
FOUND IN THE BED OF THE SEVERN. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: 
N looking over the articles of your 
Magazine published on the Ist‘ of 
April, I was much surprised to observe 
. a description of the above spécimen of 
antiquity, accompanied by a drawing 
reduced from one of the copies of the 
original, which was executed by myself 
on stone. 
I must own that, at first sight, I was 
rather pleased, than otherwise, with its 
appearance in your pages; but, upon 
consideration, I cannot but think that 
an undue liberty has been taken on the 
art of one of my friends, for none 
(riafortenstely for me) have been dis- 
posed of except within my own circle 
of friends. : 
The description was written, and the 
drawing was made by me, from the an- 
tique itself (within half a mile of the 
spot where it was discovered). 
Now hed a person bought one of 
these drawings from the Lithographic 
Establishment, where they are to be 
purchased, without doubt he might 
have done whatever he pleased with it : 
but it is under very different circum- 
stances that he has acted: Any one 
may now purchase.a drawing and de- 
scription of this singular piece of anti- 
quity, and likewise all the valuable in- 
formation contained in your Magazine 
for April, for the cost of one of these 
drawings alone. 
But enough—’tis useless to com- 
plain; let me hope to derive, if possi- 
ble, some benefit from this error on the 
part of my friend, as I trust, Sir, with 
your usual liberality and discernment, 
you will aliow insertion to the pre- 
’ ceding. 
The information which, if you grant 
me the above request, I hope to obtain 
from some of your numerous scientific 
readers, is the probable date of this 
vase ; it is to be observed, that another, 
of exactly the same dimensions, but 
having different figures engraved on its 
internal surface, was found about the 
same time, in the same situation, and 
very near to it, but not in the river’s. 
bed,—a well, of three or four feet dia~ 
meter (probably of Roman construc- 
tion), and human skulls, and bones, as 
also a few coins, within the line of the 
new road between Cheltenham and 
Ledbury. 
Urn found in the Bed of thé Sevérn.—Foreign Affiirs. 
427 
If my complaint and request obtain a: 
space in your next number, it may, in 
some measure, compensate for the un- 
due liberty which has caused me thus 
to address you, and to subscribe myself 
your’s, &c. Francis Wuisnaw. 
Limehouse, April 1825. 
[We deem it an act of justice to give in- 
sertion to the complaint of: this correspon- 
dent. At the same time we trust he will 
give us complete credit for not haying the, 
slightest suspicion that the communication 
was surreptitious. It came to us in the 
usual mode of transmission ; and we should 
have deemed ourselves as unpolite as im- 
politic if we had neglected so acceptable a 
communication. That it was anonymous 
was a circumstance too usual to suggest a 
doubt that it was unauthorized. |—Eprr. 
— a 
TOPICS OF THE MONTH. 
‘ha month of May has not been 
unfruitful of Topics for: popular 
animadversion—various in the degrees, 
as in the species of interest they were 
respectively calculated to inspire. Some. 
of these have had reference to the 
deepest interests of humanity; others 
to the rights, and the prejudices of our 
fellow citizens; others again to local 
arrangements and precautions of po- 
litical economy, and some to the pro- 
gress of national refinement and the 
sentiment of taste. We will select a 
few of these as they present themselves 
to our view: and first, that we may 
avoid the necessity of a separate article 
on politics, we will say a word upon 
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 
TuerE has been little under this 
head to excite attention, except ‘tu- 
mours of preparations for the gaudy 
mummeries of etiquette and supersti- 
tion to be exhibited at the Coronation 
oF Cuartes X. at Rueims; and the 
splendid embassy of the Duke of Nor- 
thumberland; whose reception, if we 
may believe reports, has been scarcely 
as enthusiastic as his preparations have 
been magnificent; and who, at any rate, 
may be expected to purchase from the 
French nation an additional portion of 
that envying hate, which even the court~ 
gratitude of Bourbonism will not repine 
at his bringing back with him, in reward 
for shewing how far an English noble 
man can eclipse, in splendour and ex- 
pense, the princes of their native land. 
In anticipations of this gaudery we, 
however, shall not indulge, as it will 
312 be 
