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parts irt different ftyles and movements, which deftroy the 

 efFed of each other ; recommends the avoiding of all ex- 

 cefl'es of all kinds, as har.-ony, literally and liguratively, 

 implies juft proportion ; celebrates the good tafte which is 

 manifeft in the Royal Academy at Madrid, in the public 

 diftribution of premiums to artifts in painting, fculpture, ar- 

 chitefture, ard engraving ; to which I'.ave been added poetry 

 and eloquence. It is propofcd, in addition to all thefe arts, 

 to eftablifh an academy, or fcicntific body of muCc. 



In the courfe of this lalt canto there is an animated cloge 

 on Haydn. 



" Solo a ta mutr.er, Hayden prodigiofo," &c. 



" To thee alone the mufes have confign'd 

 A genius ever fertile and refin'd ; 

 So new thy ftrains, fo copioiifly infpir'd. 

 That curiofity is never tir'd ; 

 Thy works a thoufand times repeated, ftill 

 With rapture nev/ experienc'd ears can. fill. 



To footh, to calm, or noble deeds infpire. 

 Thy fancy ftill is fed with heaven's own lire. 

 In every trait a judge profound can find 

 Some erace or beauty of a higher kind ; 

 Exprtflion touching, modulation new. 

 In themes whicli none but gifted men purfue. 



Surrounded by thy countrymen renown'd, 

 In thee alone the liftening world has found 

 A power to intereft, and render dear 

 Each fweet vibration of th' enraptur'd ear. 

 'I'o diftant climes the happy means convey, 

 As hght and heat fent forth from folar ray. 

 And while thefe infpirations wide expand. 

 Conferring honours on thy native land." 



SPAITLA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Tunis, anciently called " Sufetela," reprefented by Dr^ 

 Shaw af. one of the moil remarkable places in Barbary for 

 the extent and magnificence of its ruins. Here are found a 

 triumphal arch of the Co'ir.thian order ; a pavement of large 

 black ftone, with a brea'.l-high parapet on each fide, which 

 leads from the arch to the city ; a beautiful portico at the 

 end of the pavement, opening into a fpacious court ; the 

 ruins of three contiguous temples, cf which the columns, 

 pediments, and entablatures are entire, &c. &c. Spaitla is 

 pleafantly fituated upon an eminence, (haded all over with 

 juniper-trees; no miles S.W. of Tunis. N. lat. 35" lo'. 

 E. long. 9° 10'. 



SPALATRO, a fea-port of Dalmatia, fituated on a 

 peninfula, with a good harbour ; the fee of an archbifhop. 

 The harbour is large and deep, and well frequented by 

 foreign veffels, which come for merchandize from Bofnia, 

 fuch as iron, hides, wrought copper, wool, blankets, bees- 

 wax, orpim.ent, filk, cotton. Spalatro is built on the ruins 

 of Dioclefian's palace, for an account of which fee Salona. 

 Without the walls is a fulphureous fpiing, ef confidcrable 

 fervice in chronical difeales. N. lat. 43° 22'. E. long. 



16= 45'- 



SPALDING, an ancient and refpeftable market-toivn 

 in the wapentake of Elloe, parts of Holland, and county 

 of Lincoln, England, is fituated 8 miles W. from Holbeach, 

 4.1 miles S-E. from Lnicoln, and 101 N. from London. 

 Being in the midft of a fenny diftridt, and .almoft encompafled 

 by the river Welland, and an ancient drain called the Well- 

 lode, and having numerous other drains in its vicinity, Spal- 

 ding has been, with fome degree of propriety, compared to 

 a Dutch town. Though thus fituated, and not apparently 



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ccfngenial to healthfulnefs, its claim to antiquity is teftified 

 by many remains difcovered in and about the town. That it 

 certainly exifted before the foundation of CroylSnd abbey, is 

 evinced by king Ethelbald's charter to tbatmonattery,defcrib- 

 ing its bounds as extending " ufque ad aedificia Spaldeling." 

 Prior to the Conquell the manor was the property of Algar, 

 eail of Mercia ; but was granted by the conqueror, with the 

 whole of the divifion of Holland, to his nephew, Ivo Tail- 

 bois, who erefted a caltle here, of which the moat was to 

 be diilinguifhed in 1 746, in that part of the Caftle-fields 

 called Coney Garth. In the year 105 r, Thorold de Bu- 

 kenhale f(>unded and endowed a priory here, and made it a 

 cell to Croyland ; but the inhabitants were forced to aban- 

 don it after the Conqueft, through the oppreflion of Tail- 

 bois, who about 1074 gave the church and manor to the 

 abbey of St. Nicholas at Anglers, whence fome BendiAine 

 monks were fent over, and it became an alien pi lory. It 

 was in fucceeding times a monaltery of great confequence. 

 From this place Egelric, abbot of Croy-land, made a firm 

 caufeway, named Elrick-road, through the mailh called 

 Arundel foreft, to Deeping, being an extent of twelve miles. 

 It was formed by driving in piles of wood, which were 

 covered with gravel. This road is now diftinguifhedby the 

 name of " The Gravel." The conventual church not being 

 fufiiciently large, the prior pulled it down in 1284, and built 

 the prefent parifh church, winch is a light ftruilure, with a 

 handfome fpire, having crockets at the angles : the porch 

 appears to have been added about the end of the 15th 

 century. A free grammar-fchool was eredled in the reign 

 of Elizabeth, by the will of John Blanch. Another, called 

 the Petty fchool, was founded in 1682, by Thomas Wel- 

 lefley ; here is alfo a blue-coat charity-lchool. An alms- 

 houfe for twenty-two perfons was founded in 1590 ; and 

 another for eight widows in 1709. 



For many centuries Spalding has been the principal feat of 

 jurifdiftion for the divifion of Holland. In the Saxon times 

 the courts of law were held here by the earls ; and fubfs- 

 quent to the Norman Conqueft, the priors were inverted with 

 thejudicial authority : even capital offences were cognizable 

 in the conventual court. But at the difiblution of religious 

 houfes, the power of deciding on life and death was removed 

 from all fuch inferior courts. Since that time a court of 

 feffions has been held here ; for which purpofe a town-hall, 

 or court-houfc, was erected, at the expence of Mr. John 

 Holftan, at the north-weft end of the market-place ; the 

 upper rooms are ufed for the quarter-fellions, the courts- 

 leet and baron, and the courts of requeft and fewers ; the 

 lower part of the building is let out for (hops, and the rents 

 appropriated to the ufe of the poor, conformably to the 

 will of the donor. Spalding, fince the river Welland has 

 been made navigabie to the town, has had a good carrying 

 and coafting trade. Barges of about 40 tons burthen come 

 up to the centre of the town, where are quays and fpacious 

 ftore-houfes : but velfcls requiring a larger draught come 

 only to Bofton Scalp, nine miles diftant. Attempts have 

 been made to introduce manufaftures into Spalding, but 

 without fuccefs : the town derives its chief fuppoit from 

 agriculture, and the extenfive grazing carried on in its neigh- 

 bourhood. Wool confequently form.s a very prominent ar- 

 ticle in its trade ; and fome of the manufacturing towns of 

 Yorkfhireand Norfolk are fupplied from hence. A market 

 is held on Tuefdays, and five fairs annually, befides two 

 ftatutesfor hiring fervants. In the population return of the 

 year 181 1, the number of houfes was ftated to be 951 ; the 

 inhabitants 4330. 



A literary fociety was eftabhlhed at Spalding in the begin- 

 ning of the laft century, under the aufpices of Mr. Maurice 



Johnfon, 



