1803.) 
What a pity Young did not write epi- 
grams! He compofed but ong—-and that 
againft Voltaire. 
ENTRIES IN THE ALBUM OF THE 
CHARTREUX. 
The following entries were written in 
the album of the Grande Chartreufe, near 
Grenoble, in Dauphine, by the late Mr. 
Wilkes, and the prefent Earl of Briftol, 
Bifhop of Derry. — - 
‘¢ T had the happinefs of paffing the en- 
tire day of July 24, 1765, in this roman- 
tic place, with the good fathers of ‘the 
Grand Chartreufe; and I reckon it among 
the moft agreeable of my life. I was 
charmed with the hofpitality and polite- 
nefs I met with, and edified by the con- 
verfation of the Pére Général and the Pere 
Coadjuteur. The favagenefs of the woods, 
the gloom of the rocks, and the perfect 
folitude, confpire to make the mind pen- 
five, and to lull to reft all the turbulent 
guilty paffions of the foul. I felt much 
regret at leaving the place and the good 
fathers, but I carry with me the livelieft 
fenfe of there goodne!s. J. WiLKES, Anglais. 
See fome verfes by Wilkes, on vifiting the 
Grand Chartreufe, publifhed in the Morning 
Chronicle about eighteen months ago. 
<¢ If fecond thoughts are beft, fecond 
vifits, at leaft arenot always fo. I arrived 
hereon Saturday, 25th of Auguft, and was 
obliged by an accident to continue here 
forty-eight hours; perhaps, as Richard 
fays, *1 ouflived their liking.—The 
General refufed me the fight of the li- 
brary, and the cook the neceflary food. 
T quit this place, to ufe a fafhionable ex- 
preffion, more penetrated with cold than 
with the civility of the houfe: more load- 
ed with compliments than with food— 
And after feeing two fwaggering Capu- 
chins pafs through the portico, with their 
paunches as full as their wallets, I can- 
not help recollecting a Scripture-expreffion 
—‘ He hath filled the hungry with good 
things, and the rich he hath fent empty 
away.’-—As to the good fathers, they al- 
ways remind me of Virgil’s fentiments on 
the inhabitants of the fhades below, 
quam vellent xthere in alto 
Nunc et pauperium et duros perferre 
labores ! Lal a 
Frederick Harvey, Bifhop of Derry. 
ORIGIN OF ENCYCLOPEDIAS. 
The fir man who conceived the idea 
of an univerfal dictionary of arts and 
{ciences, under the title of Excyclopedia, 
was Andrew Matthew Acquaviva, Duke 
of Atri and Teramo, in the kingdom of 
MonTHLY Mac. No. 97. 
Extraéts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
41 
Naples, who, like many other primitive 
benefactors of the republic of letters, has 
not been fufticiently known to pofterity. 
It is rather unaccountable that not even 
Tirabofchi has given a detailed Notice of 
him, in the Hiftory of the Italian Litera- 
ture, and that Moreri, who gives in his 
great Di€tionary no lefs than forty-four 
names of the illuftrious family of Acqua- 
viva, has fcarcely mentioned, among 
them, that of the fubjeét of this article, 
who is, perhaps, entitled to more honour 
than any of his anceftors or defcendants. 
A full account of him, however, may be 
found in Mazzucchelli’s Itahan Writers, 
vol.1. p.118. and trom this fource we 
know that he was born in 14.563 that he 
was a gallant officer under the Emperor 
Maximilian of Auftria. and afterwards 
an intimate friend of Pope Leo X. and 
other eminent literati of his age; and that 
he died in 1528. 
ANCIENT ENGLISH SPORTS, &c. 
Hentzner, a German, who vifited this 
country, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 
gives fome curious particulars refpeéting 
London :—** There is (fays he) a place 
built in the form of a theatre, which 
ferves for the baiting of bulls and bears ; 
they are faftened behind, and then war- 
ried by great Englifh bull-dogs; but not 
without great nfk to the dogs, from the 
horns of the one, and the teeth of the 
other, and it fometimes happens that they 
are killed on the fpot: frefh ones are din- 
mediately fupplied in the place of thofe 
that are wounded or tired. To this enter- 
tainment, there often follows that ‘of 
whipping a blinded bear, which is per- 
formed by five or fix men ftanding circu- 
larly with whips, which they exercife 
upon him without any mercy, as he cannot 
e(cape from them becaufe of his chain ; 
he defends himfelf with all his force and 
{kill, throwing down all who come within 
his reach, and are not active enough sto 
get out of it, and tearing the whips out 
of their hands, and breaking them. At 
thefe fpe€tacles, and every where elfe, the 
Englifh are conftantly f{movkirg tobacco, 
and in this manner :—They have pipes on 
purpofe made of clay, into the farther 
end of which they put the herb, fo dry 
that it may be rubbed into powder ; and, 
putting fire to it, they draw the fmoke 
into their mouths, which they puff out 
again through their noftrils, like funnels, 
along with it plenty of phlegm and de- 
fluxion from the head. In thefe theatres, 
fruits, fuch as apples, pears, and nuts, ac- 
cording to the feafon, are carried about to | 
be fold, aswell as ale and wine.” 
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