1810.] 
A wife, by every nuptial virtue known, 
And faithful partner, once of Henry’s 
throne ; 
To Seyniour next her plighted hand she 
yields, 
(Seymour, who Neptune’s trident justly 
wields, ) 
From him, a beauteous daughter blest her 
arms, 
An infant copy of her parent’s charms. 
/hen seven short days this tender Hower had 
bloom’d, 
Heaven, ia its wrath, 
resuin’d ; 
Great Kath@rine’s merit in our grief 
appears, 
While tair Britannia dews her cheek with 
tears 3 
the mother’s soul 
Our loyal breasts with rising sighs are 
torn 
With saints she triumphs, we with mortals 
mourn. 
Many original portraits of Katherine 
are known to exist. One at Lambeth 
palate, another at Newnliam Paddox, 
a third at Stowe, a fourth at Strawberry~ 
hill, and a fifth in the possession of a 
clergyman in Norfolk. She had many 
€ulogists among her contemporaries; and 
her character and talents have always 
been duly appreciated. Ina very scarce 
tract, by Ulpian Fulwell, entitled, “ The 
Fier of fame,” 1575, is a curious 
poem, ‘in prayse of the renowned ladye 
Queene Catherin Par.” It commences 
with Fame ¢alling an assembly of re- 
nowned women, by order of “ Dame 
Virtue.” Vhe assembly beimg formed, 
Dame Virtue decrees, that “ one among 
the rest should bear the chiefest mace,” 
upon w%.ch some propose Penelope, Cor- 
nelia, &c. but i being answered that 
they “ by Fate im earthly clod were 
stayde :” 
46 At last by lot the cryer sayd, 
Where is that nobie dame, 
That was the eighth king Henries wife, | 
And had K. P. to name.” 
Queen Elizabeth being present, an- 
swers, that her ** mortall lyfe had run the 
fatall race.” Upon this the whole troop 
of Dame Virtue, Dame Pacience, Paleas, 
ihe Muses, the Graces, &c. &c. break 
out into “ paynefull playnts,” and ‘* dole- 
ful dollors,” but are coinforted by Dame 
Virginiiic, who informs them, that Q. 
K. P. ‘* had yelde her seule unto the 
heavens, yet left on earth, her fame ;” 
and that her name, in books of fame, for 
ever shall remain: and she finally pro- 
poses that they 
$§ Should let queene Katherin Par enjoye 
Fame fur her vertuous race, 
And unto queene Elizabeth 
Damie Virtue yelde the mace.” 
On the present State of the Cotton Cotontes. 231. 
I shall new take leave of Sudeley Cas- 
tle, and of Katherine Parr ; and shall ev- 
deavour very soon to give YOu Sule 2c 
count of Hailes Abbey. Adieu. 
To the Editor of ihe Monthly Te enne. 
SIR, 
OU would greatly oblige a constant 
reader of your aie iniscellany, 
by the insertion of a few remarks on Ud - 
dy’s Immaculate Stereoty pe edition of 
Hume and Smiollett’s History of England, 
(as the public is informed) now publisi- 
ing in Numbers, 
The external appearance of the work, 
and respectability of the historians, de- 
termined me to subscribe to it, in full 
expectation of possessing an excellent 
history of my country, or at the least a 
tolerable one, from the pompous Jan- 
guage on the covers of the nunibers; but 
you may guess my disappointment whes 
L assure you, that in each number, con- 
sisting of thirty-two pages, the first and 
second excepted, I have discovered four, 
five, and sometimes six, errors, on only 
reading them over “eursorily ; besides 
others which may have escaped my ne- 
tice. If any of your numerous corre- 
spondents can inform me, whether it 45 
possible for so many errors to be coins 
mitted im the stereotype, or whether it is 
not rather a name imposed on the pub- 
Jic, as [ am much inclined to believe, 
shear information would much oblige, 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
OBSERVATIONS on the PRESENT STATE Of 
the COTTUN COLONIES, 
(Continued from page 117.) 
AVING already ascertained the 
real state of the colonists, it be- 
comies a matter of moment to determine 
the causes which have conduced to that 
condition, There are a variety of them, 
Those. events which have so long derag- 
ged the whele world, may be considercd 
as one yeneral class. Besides these, 
there are particular causes which hase. 
more directly promoted the depreciation 
of colonial produce. Vhe consequences 
of the protracted war form the first 
