544 Mr. Dyer 
confequente, that the reVerfe of a medal 
fhould often explain fome verfes of a poet, 
and that the verfes of a poet fhould unfold 
the defign or the infcription on a medal. 
One of our Englifh artifts has availed 
himfelf of this parallelifm of defiign, and 
given an elegant edition of one of the 
Latin poets: Elegant, I mean, in refer- 
ence to engravings, accompanied -with 
copper-plate coins, illuftrative of the 
poet f. 
On this fubjeét it would be very eafy 
to multiply quotations: but I fhould un- 
avoidably exceed my limits, and be in 
danger of merely repeating obfervations 
already made fo well by Mr. Addifon, 
and therefore familiar to your readers. 
I fhall fatisfy myfelf from a furvey of the 
s¢ Three Series of Medals,” brought for- 
ward by Mr. Addifon, to deduce one 
general obfervation, which is, that as 
the medallic art, and the art of poetry, 
as practifed by the ancients, reflect light 
on each other, fo modern poetry, by a 
comparative view of their qualities, ma 
derive to itfeli confiderable embellifhment, 
provided it indulge not in unnatural 
imitations, and incongruous imagery, and 
content itfelf with imitating the manner, 
rather than the matter of the ancients, 
otherwife it will lie expofed to the cen. 
fure, 
Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam 
Jungere fi velit, &c. 
II. I proceed to the fecond obje&t of 
his effay, which is to confider the me- 
dallic art in reference to medern times. 
Among perfons acquainted with an- 
cient and modern coins, I run no hazard 
of being contradicted, or charged with 
bigotry, when affirming, that the medals 
of antiquity are very fuperior to the mo- 
dern. At prefent we feem rather ambi- 
tious of making new coins, than of col- 
lecting old ones. ‘To give this propenfity 
then a ufeful direction, and with refpect 
to antiquity, to carry the imitative art 
fo far only as confifts with propriety, 
would deferve commendation. To keep 
alive the remembrance of important 
events, whether they regard the caufe of 
literature and humanity, of public liberty, 
and of public happinefs, or to defcribe 
ufeful inftitutions, public buildings, or 
national cuftoms, fome way or other con- 
neéted with the intention of ftriking the 
medal, would be no lefs honourable to 
the prefent times, than ufeful to pofterity . 
and the parties concerned would not be 

} Horatii Opera, Londini Aéneis Tabulis 
incidit Johannes Pine, 1733. & 
of Coins. [Sup. 
expofed to the imputation of ufelefs ins 
genuity or of perfonal vanity. 
Inftead of writing a differtation on the 
fubject, I fend a medal by way of illuftra- 
tion, together with a fhort account of 
its origin and object. 
June 3, 1796, was a memorable day 
to the freeholders of Herefordfhire; feve- 
ral confider it as the zra of their inde- 
pendence. The chara€ter of that county, 
beyond many other counties in England, 
naturally inclines to independence, in 
confequence of the number of {mall free- 
holds, into which it is divided, and the 
productive quality of the land. 
Notwithftanding this, through the in- 
tereit of great families, the county had 
been long reprefented in parliament by 
perfons who had not efpoufed the interefts 
of the people, and one (Sir G. Cornwall} 
had recently expofed himflf to fufpicions 
detrimental to his popularity. Thefe 
circumftances, together with the critical 
fituation of public affairs, and the im- 
patience of the people on account of the 
high price of corn, which they fuppofec 
to procecd from the war, agitated the 
minds of the yeomanry, and they deter 
mined to do themfeives juftice. _ 
Accordingly, a few days before the 
Jaft general election, the people of the 
county rofe, as it were, by.one general 
impuife. Till the Wednefday previous 
to the eleétion, they had done nothing 
actively. The day of election, however, 
being fixed for Friday the 3d of June, 2 
meeting of highly refpeétable and patri- 
otic freeholders affembled, who finally 
determined to nominate candidates, to 
afford the people an opportunity of ex- 
prefling their fentiments to the old mem- 
bers. The perfons in contemplation 
were, Colonel JOHN SCUDAMORE, Capt. 
SYMMONDs, and RoBERT BIDDULPH, 
Efg. all equally entitled to the cha- 
raéter of friends to liberty, and only pre- 
ferable one to the other as accidental cir- 
cumftances might render them more or lefs 
the objeéts of public confidence. 
Confiderations of long and acknow- 
ledged fervices rendered every preference 
in favour of the name of SCUDAMORE 
natural; and the recent injuftice heaped 
on Mr. BIDDULPH, at his late conteft 
for Leominfter, excited a general indig- 
nation in the breafts of the people. It 
was, therefore, determined to put thefe 
two gentlemen in nomination, to the pre- 
fent exclufion of Capt. SyMMONDs, the 
obje&t of their equal attachment, and of 
their future hopes. 
The yeomanry of Herefordfhire con- 
fidering 
