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trait to be re-engraved, and prefixed to his 
Biography. | : 
RANK OF SOVEREIGNS, 
In 1504, Paris de Craffis was thafter of 
the ceremonies to Pope Julius II. and 
publithed the following table of precedence: 
1. The Emperor of Germany. 
2. The King of the Romans. 
Be a — France. 
4. — Spain. 
Aragon. 
6, ——————— Portugal. 
7. —————— England. 
3, ———-—. Sicily. 
Q. wt Scotlands 
————~ Hungary. 
—————— Navarre. 
— Cyprus. 
Bohemia. 
Poland. 
—— Denmark. 
- The Republic of Venice. 
The Duke of Britanny. 
—— Burgundy. 
. The Elector of Bavaria. 
Saxony. 
Brandenburg. 
The Archduke of Auftria. 
23- The Duke of Savoy. 
24. The Grand Duke of Florence. 
Who is mafter of the ceremonies to Chi- 
aramonte now? If he were to undertake 
the publication of a new table of prece- 
dence, and to arrange the remaining Eu- 
ropean lovereigns, not by the preferences of 
his partiality, but by the impreffions of 
experienced power, how would he place 
the firft dozen? What changes have three 
hundred years made in the diftribution of 
relative importance ! Would it not be 
nearly thus ? 
1. The Firft Conful of France. 
2. The Emperor of Ruffia, 
a nee Germany. 
4. The King of Great Britain and 
Ireland. 
5. The King of Pruffia. 
6. — Sweden. 
7-— Spain. 
3.—— Denmark and Norway. 
9+ —————-———. T wo Sicilies, 
10. — Portugal. 
TI. —-— Sardinia. 
32. The Duke of Saxony. 
Next, ftrike our from the original lift all 
the non-entitics, and confolidated poten- 
tates, and it will probably appear that 
Great Britain has neither advanced, nor 
receded, a ftep in the {cale of European im- 
portance, during this whole interval—An 
obferyation confolatory to thole, who fet on 
the ftability of her independence a hisher 
Walue than on her relative aggrandifem:nt, 
Montuiy Mac. No. 73, 
33. SS = 
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From the Port-Folio of a Man of Letters. 
_ permittat. 
425 
PARADISE REGAINED B.IV.115. 
Mr. Wakcfield has done well to fuggeft 
reading, ; fi 
“¢ On citron tables of Atlantic ftone.” 
The marble now called by the Italians 
gialls antico, is marked with flany veins 
of alight yellow or cétroz colour, and was 
much ufed tor tables oy the antients, who 
called it pyropa@cilon (Pliny xxxvi. 8.), 
and Syene marble, trom its place of origin 
at the foot of Mount Arlas. 
; FAIRFAX. } 
Drayton, in his Epiltie to Henry Rega 
nolds, Eiq. concerning ‘* poets‘and poefie,”” 
after enumerating the original writers, thus 
gOes on : 
Others again here lived in my days, 
That have of us deferved no lefs praife 
For their tranflations, than the daintieft wit 
That on Parnaflus higheft thinks to fit. 
He then proceeds te name Chapman; 
Sands, Silvefter, Alexander, Drummond, 
the two Beaumonts, and Browne. Atthe 
time this epiftle firft appeared, Fairtax’s 
Godfrey had already gone through one, if 
not two, editions; as it lends or borrows 
the form of ftanza employed in the Barons 
Warres, it could hardly have efcaped the 
attention of Drayton. How can his chil- 
ling filence then be accounted for? Per- 
haps Fairfax is an afiumcd or feigned 
name ot fome one whom he mentions, the 
temporary difguife of apprehenfive modef- _ 
ty. In 1593, was licenfed Godfrey of 
Bulloign, Englifhed by R. E. Efq. ard a 
manu(cript veifion of Taffo by Sir George 
Turberville is noticed by Warton. 
TEMPORA MUTANTUR. 
Bernardino Mendoza, ambaffador of the 
Spanifh at London, in 1580, complained 
that Sir Francis Drake interfered with 
their maritime jurifdi€lion, by a contra- 
band approach to their Indian coafts. 
Queen Elizabeth immediately became the 
herald of a jacobinical liberty of the feas ; 
contending, Maris et aeris ufus omnibus effe 
communis, nec jus in oceanum populo aut pri- 
vato cuipiam poffe competere, cum nec nas 
ture nec ulus publici ratio occupationem 
Camdeit. 
/ WAR FOR RELIGION. 
The very arcanum of pretending reli- 
gion in all wars, fays Selden, is, that fome-~ 
thing may be found in which ail men have . 
intereftj. Inthis, the groom has as much 
intereft as the Jord. Were it for land, 
one has a thoufand acres, and the’ other 
but one who would not venture fo faras 
he that has a thoufand, . But religion is 
equal to both. Had all men land alike 
by an agrarian law, then all men would 
fay they fought for land. ; 
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