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acknowledges that glafs windows there 
were but of late introduétion. He wrote 
"hs Survey in the laft year of Queen Eli- 
zabeth's reign. The Cornifh houfes then 
feemed to be on the fame ftile and footing 
with the modern Scotch hovels, without 
chimneys or windows: the fmoke went 
out at a hole in the roof, or at the door. 
MR. GRAY. 
At the time the life of Mr. ey was 
firtt publifhed, the late Lord Ortord fent 
the following remarks in. a letter to a 
friend, dated April 25, 1775. They 
have never heretofore appeared in print. 
<¢ You are too candid in fubmitt:ng to 
my defence of Mr. Mafon. It istrue, I 
am more charmed with his book, than I 
almoft ever wes wth one. I find more 
people like the grave ltters than thofe of 
humour, and fome think the latter a lit- 
tle affe€ted ; which is as wrong a judge- 
ment asthey could make; for Gray never 
wrote any thing eafily, but things of hu- 
mour. 
ginal turn; and though from his child- 
hood he was grave and referved, his ge- 
nius Jed him to fee things Judicroufly 
and fatyrically ; and though his health 
and diffatisfaétion gave him low foirits, 
his melanciioly turn ‘was much more mie 
feéted than his pleafantry in writing. 
You knew hm oe ugh to know Iam in 
the right; but the world in general al- 
ways wants to be told how to think, as 
well as- what to think. ‘The print, YT 
agree with you, tho” hke, is a very dif 
agreeable likenefs, and the worft cies 
of him. It gives the primrefs he had 
when under conftraint: and there is a 
blacknefs in the countenance, which was 
like him. only the laft time I ever faw him, 
when I was much ftruck with it; and 
‘though I did not apprehend him in dan- 
ger, it left an impreffion on me that was 
very unealy, and almoft prophetic of what 
TL heard but too foon aficr leaving him. 
Whiton drew the picture under much fuch 
impreffion, and I could net bear it in my 
room. Mr. Mafon altered it a little; but 
fil it is not well, nor sige any idea of 
the determined virtues of his heart. It 
jaf ferves to help the readers to an image 
of the perfon whofe genius and inregricy 
they muft admire, if ¢ ‘hey are fo happy as 
to have a talte for either.’ 
THE TREBAN. . 
’ The treban, cailed alfu the warrior’s 
fong, is a tune of great antiquity among 
the inhabitants of Wales: the words to it 
are in ftanzas of three lines, each of ‘even 
fyllables. The Treban of South Wales, 
Humour was his natural and ori-* 
“ capacities, 
Extraéts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [| Sept. f, 
called Trebax morgaurg has the fame cha- 
racter, but is ramets: to be lefs ans 
cient. 
MICHAEL CHRISTIAN FESTING. 
Fetting, whofe life is written in the laft 
volume of Sir John Hawkins’s Hiftory of 
Mofic, was a remarkable in{tance of what 
induftry and economy are capable of ef- 
feing. He died in 1772, poffefled of 
tie fum of Soool. acquired almoft exclu- 
fively by teaching mufic, 
SOUND. 
It is the opinion of fome that the found _ 
of words may be imprifoned and let loofe 
fo as to articulate, Of this perfuation the 
Papifts endeavour to avail themfelves when 
they produce, as they are faid to do, a 
mott precious relic, the Hab! of Jofeph, 
the hufband of the blefled Virgin, uttered 
by him when fetching a ftroke with his 
axe, hermetically fealed in a glafs phial.— 
See Bifhop Wilkins’s Secret and fwift Mefs 
fenger, Ch. xvii. 
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA.  - 
tis a fat related by Archbifhop Uther, 
in his Treatife de primordiis > Ecclefiaruam 
Britannicarum, abd attefted by an original 
patent yet remaining in the Tower of 
London, that in the reign of Edw. TIT. 
Jonn Bloeme, of Londen, pretended a re- 
velation from Heaven, enjoining him te 
make fearch at Glaftonbury for the body 
of Jofeph of Arimathea: and that the 
King, influenced by the enthufiafm of the 
man, granted him leave, by patent, dated 
Tune gih, in the roth year: of his reign, 
to dig within the abbey precincts. What 
“was the event of the fearch, and where 
was the {pot prefumed to be the burial- 
place, is not recorded. 
SIR HORATIO PALAVICINI. 
Sir Horatio was colle&or of the pa- 
pal taxes in England in the time of 
teen Mary, upon whofe demife he 
abjured the Romifh chureh, and retained 
the treafure due to the Pontiff, Among’ 
the ancient charters in the Britifh Mu- 
feum are Queen Elizabeth’s letters patent, 
with the great feal annexed, declaring 
that‘ Horatio Palavicini, a Tebte Ge- 
noefe, had lentto the Queen 33,374/. 45.44. 
for the greater fecurity, of which to Sir 
Horatio, the following noblemen endorfed 
the letters in their individual and private: 
Bromley; the chancellor ; 
Lord Burghley; Leycefter ; Sir F, Knol- 
lvs, Sir Chriftopher Hation, and Sir Fr. 
Walfingham. 
| MATTHEW PRIOR. 
Prior’s epitaph, by himfelf, prefixed to 
his Poems beneath his print, 
&* Nobles 
