1810.] 
happy Raleigh; had he magnanimously 
dismissed him frorn trial, since he had no 
other evidence than suspicion of his guilt, 
nor condemned him to punishment be- 
cause his companions were concerned ; 
it is probable the hero had ever after 
struggled to make more comfortable to 
this prince an uneasy throne. That such 
sentiments of policy were familiar tu 
James in those cases apon which reason 
would coolly decide, we cannot doubt. 
They are so obvious, that it must only be 
amind blinded with. passion, that will 
Mot act upon them; or the character 
must be strikingly abandoned, who:n, 
when applied, they will notretorm, But 
be that as it may, the sentiments of 
James when speaking of the injustice of 
an apposite practice, leave him no 
excuse for the verdict against Raleigh; 
and shew the eniptiness of moral theory, 
however noble, when our actions flow 
from the passions which we possess. 
In his speech to the parliament which 
assembled immediately after the disco- 
very of the gunpowder-plot, he delivers 
himself thus: “ That though religion had 
engaged the conspirators inso criminal 
an attempt, yet we ought not to involve 
all the Roman catholics in the same guti't, 
or suppose them equally disposed to com- 
mit such enormous barbarities. Many 
holy men have concurred with that church 
in her doctrines, who never thought of 
dethroming kings, or of sanctifying as- 
Sassination. The wrath of heaven is 
denounced against crimes, but innocent 
error may obtain its favour; and nothing 
can be more hateful than the uncharitable- 
ness of the-puritans, who condemn alike 
to eternal punishments even the most 
inoffensive proselytes to popery.” For his 
own part, headds, “ that conspiracy, how- 
ever atrocious, should never alter in the 
least his plan of government: while with 
one hand he punished guilt, with the 
other he would still support aud protect 
imnocence.” 
age 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the Magazine for last month, your 
correspondent, W. Weene, requests 
some of your readers will inform him of 
the best method of preparing the com- 
position which is now used for varnishing 
coloured drawings and prints, so as to 
make them resemble paintings in oil. 
I do not pretend to assert that the fol- 
“Towing is the best method of preparing a 
composition for that purpose; but I have 
used it, and found it answer. Take of 
* Montary Mac. No. 198, 
Varnish for-coloured Drawings and Prints. 825 
Canada balsam one ounce, spirit of 
turpentine two ounces: mix them toge= 
ther, Befure this composition is applied, 
the drawing or print should be sized 
with a solution of isinglass in water; and, 
when dry, apply the varnish with a 
cainel’s-hair brush. 
Chatham, W. W. 
March 20, 1810. 
oe are 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
WALKS in BERKSHIRE.—No. IIT, 
(Continued from page 216. ) 
VENUE village of Wargrave is not ale 
together “ unknown to fame,” if by’ 
that character may be justly expressed the 
species of celebrity acquired by the cir- 
cuimstance of having afforded a residence 
to the late lord Barrymore. The house 
in which that gay nobleman lived is not 
large; but it is seated on a most attrace 
tive spot, and presents an object of cons 
siderable interest when! viewed from the 
winding shores of the Thames. The gare 
dens extend in a gentle slope to the 
water-side ; and various spreading trees, 
and tufts of shrubs, form shady recesses, 
doubly inviting from the contiguity of 
the broad and deep stream of the yreat 
English river. Here, with rank, afilu- 
ence, and health, the three great objects 
of human aspiration, it would appear 
that a man might be ‘the happiest of 
his kind,” if the correctness of taste 
allowed him to derive his enjoyments 
from domestic intercourse, a lettered 
ease, and the exercise of philanthropy. 
But, according to the punning assertion 
of a comic writer, (who, as a punster, 
should certainly be interdicted from 
writing any thing but farces) “men will 
sometimes prove giddy ina world that is 
always turning round ;” and it was the 
affliction of the nobleman on whom [ore 
tune, in one of her brightest moods, be- 
stowed this choice spot as a residence, 
to experience a vertigo that destroyed 
his relish for all those fine arts which 
sooth and dignify existence ; unless box- 
ing, horse-racing, aud back-sword play. 
ing, must be so entitled. I crave mercy 
of his memory ! he built a play-house in 
the village, where Delpini “ made faces;” 
and his lordship mimicked, at second- 
hand, the mistakes by which himself was 
characterized. . 
But the feverish gaiety of the hour is 
over. The villa has another master ; and 
the materials of the theatre have assisted 
in raising the workhouse of a neighbour 
ing parish. Nor would 1 advert in un- 
gentle language to the memory of a 
Q2T nobleman, 
