ij% GRECIAN AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Nov. 2, 



Other till they reached the fkies, and till, by the fmalU 

 nefs of their fize, and poornefs of their relief, they have 

 even almoft eluded the eye entirely. Thus has the co- 

 lumn, which was originally grand, from its mafEve di- 

 menfions, and fublime from the limplicity of its parts, 

 been degraded into a puerile and ninny ornament. — 

 Thefe have often been huddled together into clufters that 

 exhibit not the flighteft mark of that dignity which 

 formed their only chara£teriftic feature at their birth. 

 The infide of St. Paul's dome afFords a moft ftriking 

 proof of the painful efforts that have been required to 

 pervert thefe ornaments from their original ufe, and to 

 group them together into an incongruous mafs for 

 ferving purpofes that they never were capable of an- 

 fwering. St. Stephen's, Walbrook, that ftruclurc 

 which has been fo highly praifed, affords another fpe- 

 cimen of an abortive attempt at mimicking the light- 

 nefs of Gothic archite£ture, while the Grecian ftile of 

 ornaments were to be retained. — But this I fhall have 

 occafion to confider at fome future period. 



ON OMENS, ALBANICUS. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



Sir, 



1 PRESUME it may not be un-entertaining to many of 

 your contemplative readers to caft their eye upon the 

 following very remarkable coincidences of political 

 events, in refpeft of circumftances, times, and per- 

 fons, from which, however, I am very far from pre- 

 tending to draw any particular inferences with refpeft 

 to the intention of Divine Providence, which in its final 

 caufes and government, muft ever be infcrutable to the 

 hu nan undcrftanding. 



Among George Ballard's MSS. in the Bodelyan Lib- 

 rary, Oxford, there is ah original letter from Dr Geo. 





