LOVE LETTERS MRS. PIOZZI, WRITTEJN WHEN SHE WAS EIGHTY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY. " Written at three, four, and five o'clock [in the morning] by an Octogenary pen; a Heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old, and, as H. L. P. feels if to be, all your own." Letter VI. 3d. Feb. 1820. " Too old, by Heaven V— Twelfth Night. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE. MDCCCXL1II. LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI. C. ADI.AHD, PRIVTKR, BAIlTUOtOMKlV CI.OHK. LOVE LETTERS MRS. PIOZZI, WRITTEN WHEN SHE WAS EIGHTY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY. " Written at three, four, and five o'clock [in the morning] by an Octogenary pen ; a Heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old, and, as H. L. P. feels it to be, all your own." Letter VI. M Feb. 1820. " Too old, by Heaven V— Twelfth Night. LONDON JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 4, OLD COMPTON STREET, SOHO SQUARE. MDCCCXLIII. PREFACE. Before producing the evidence of the genuineness of the following Letters, it seems proper first to remind the reader of some of the principal incidents in the life of Mrs. Piozzi, and to give a few particulars respecting Conway. Mrs. Piozzi's maiden name was Hester Lynch Salusbury. She was the daughter of John Salusbury, Esq. of Bodvel, in Carnarvonshire, where she was born, in 1740. She received a " classical" education, that is, she was taught Greek and Latin, of which, it seems, she had a gentleman's knowledge, a phrase, which, though of higher pretence, is yet understood to imply something less than a scholar s acquaintance. In 1763 she married Henry Thrale^ Esq. an eminent brewer, of Southwark; and, in 1765, she ap- pears to have first become acquainted with Dr. Johnson, who was introduced to Mr. Thrale by Arthur Murphy ; — an introduction which, in all probability, was at least as much desired by Mrs. Thrale as by her husband ; for being M133149 6' : PREFACE. both witty, and, what is called, a " blue-stocking" lady,* she was partial to the society of men of wit and learning, and Dr. Johnson was then in the meridian of his fame. Mr. and Mrs. Thrale were greatly pleased with the con- versation of Dr. Johnson ; and he, being no less flattered by their kindly attentions, became a frequent visitor ; and at length, in 1779, took up his residence with them, apartments being fitted up for him, both in their house in Southwark and their villa at Streatham. By the death of her husband, on the 4th May, 1781, Mrs. Thrale was left a widow, with four daughters ; and from this period, from whatever cause, her friendship with Dr. Johnson began to decline : perhaps the sprightly widow might not relish the Doctor's conversation so much as she did Avhen a wife ; and perhaps the great moralist, in giving her advice, not only as her friend, but as one of the executors of her late husband's will, might speak too freely to be agreeable. In an opinion which he expressed of her, after Mr. Thrale's decease, he said that, " if she was not the wisest woman in the world,, she was undoubtedly one of the wittiest ;" and it is not unlikely that the fact became more strikingly apparent to him after she had become a widow : the wit of a lady in her weeds always arrests at- tention more forcibly than her wisdom. Though the friendship between Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale began to decline on the death of her husband, the • The first printed specimen of Mrs. Thrale's talents, — " The Three Warnings," imitated from Fontaine, appeared in 1766, in the " Miscellanies," published by Miss Williams, a blind lad)-, whom Dr. Johnson had kindly received into his house. PREFACE. 7 Doctor still continued to visit Streatham. He, however, felt that he was no longer the welcome guest of former years; and, writing in 1782, observes in a tone of regret, that he had (< passed the summer at Streatham, but there was no Thrale." Mrs. Thrale's last interview with Dr. Johnson was in the spring of 1783, previous to her departure for Bath, where she intended to fix her future residence. They con- tinued to correspond for upwards of a twelvemonth after ; but Dr. Johnson having written to her on the 8th July, 1784, a letter of friendly though earnest expostulation, de- precating her marriage with Piozzi, — in answer to one which he had received from her, informing him that it was irre- vocably settled, — she took offence ; and thus theirfriendship terminated. This marriage gave rise, at the time, to many facetious remarks and epigrams, the staple of which was chiefly an allusion to " Thrale's Entire." Dr. Johnson, on hearing that it had actually taken place, remarked, from Virgil, " varium et mutabile semper femina," — a character which, being understood as applied to the lady individually, and not to the Sex, may mean that u She was always a flighty and fickle woman." It is generally considered that some of Mrs. Piozzi's anecdotes of Dr. Johnson, published in 1786, the year after his decease, received a little heighten- ing in the bearish parts, in consequence of his disappro- bation of her marriage with Piozzi ; and her subsequent publication of the Doctor's letters to her, in 1788, appears to have been intended rather to show how highly he once thought of her, than to increase his reputation. Except in connexion with Dr. Johnson, what is known 8 PREFACE. of the life of Mrs. Piozzi is generally uninteresting; and though a person of considerable celebrity during the life of her first husband, and of no small note as a literary lady, during the Bozzy and Piozzi squabbles over the re- mains of Dr. Johnson, her personal history seemed quietly sinking into oblivion, notwithstanding the friendly endea- vour to preserve it in the Piozziana, till the attention of the " reading world" was again recalled to it, by the recent publication of Madame D'Arblay's Diary, which presents us with a few vivid traits of her character as the forward, clever, patronising wife, and the not quite broken-hearted widow of Mr. Thrale. Shortly after her marriage with Piozzi, she proceeded with him to Florence ; and during her residence there, she contributed several pieces to a work entitled the " Florence Miscellany," — the joint production of " a few English of both sexes, whom chance had jumbled together at Florence, and who took a fancy to while away their time in scribbling high panegyrics on themselves, and complimentary canzonettas on two or three Italians, who understood too little of the language to be disgusted with them." * She returned with her husband to England, in 1788; and, in the year following, published her " Observations and Reflections made in the course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany." In 1794, appeared her " British Synonymy;" and in 1801 she published, in two volumes quarto, embellished with her portrait, her greatest • Gilford's " Baviad," preface, 1701. PREFACE. 9 but least read work, entitled, " Retrospection, or, a Review of the most striking and important Events, Characters, Situations, and their Consequences, which the last 1800 years have presented to the View of Mankind." It is Ancient History in dishabille, in a dimity morning gown, her slippers down in the heel, and her front awry ; and Modern History in a cotton gown, and pattens, just re- turned from shopping, with a new cambric pocket-handker- chief, three yards of pink ribbon, a cake of Windsor soap, and an ounce of all-spice in her reticule. On the death of Signor Piozzi, which happened in 1809, it has been said that she adopted one of his relations, to whom she intended to bequeath her property, to the injury of her own family. Whether she persevered in her inten- tions or not, the writer has not been able to learn; neither has he been able to ascertain in what year she first became acquainted with Mr. Conway, with whose beauteous " clay" and " majestic" figure she appears to have been as much enamoured in her old age, as she was charmed in her younger days with the mind of an "old man eloquent," Dr. Johnson, Avhose body was cast in one of nature's rudest moulds. It is not, however, probable that she was ac- quainted with Conway before the 4th October, 1813, the date of his first appearance in London, from the Theatre Royal, Dublin. He is mentioned in one of her letters, of the 4th May, 1818, given in the Piozziana;* and, from * " Mr. Conway had a flaming night of it." — Piozziana ; or, Recollections of the late Mrs. Piozzi, by a Friend, 1833. This is the only notice of Conway which occurs in the Work; the compiler of which must either have been 10 PREFACE. the warmth of her attachment in 1819-20, as expressed in the following letters, it may be conjectured that the flame had not then been long kindled. She died at Clifton, on the 2d May, 1821, in the eighty-second year of her age. Perhaps no other woman ever left behind her, in her own writing, such indisputable evidence of a green old age, as is afforded by the following letters. She seems to have retained till her eightieth year her bodily as well as her mental activity; for, as we learn from the account, printed in the Piozziana, of her fete, given at the Lower Assembly Rooms, Bath, on the 27th January, 1820, two days before the date of the fourth of those letters, " Her flow of disciplined animation seemed inexhaustible, and her strength equally so ; for she had previously opened the ball with Sir John Salusbury, and danced with astonishing elasticity." William Augustus Conway, the gentleman to whom those letters were addressed, was of respectable family, a circumstance to which Mrs. Piozzi alludes in letter 5th, when noticing ({ la grossierte de la conduit de Mademoi- selle," — probably " Mrs. Stratton's eldest granddaughter," from Avhom it would seem that he had asked some token of remembrance. He made his first appearance on the London stage, at Covent Garden, on the 4th of October, ignorant of Mrs. Piozzi'.s attachment to Conway, or have been careful to conceal it. Mrs. Piozzi seems to have been extremely reserved in speaking of her loves, to her friends. In the " Piozziana," there are no anecdotes of Thrale, Piozzi, or Conway. To her friends she appeared only intellectual : not a word of the " clay." PREFACE. H 1813,* as has already been observed, in the character of Alexander, in the tragedy of Alexander the Great. In the course of the same season he played Othello, Jaffier, Romeo, Henry V., Coriolanus, and other characters, in the first line of tragedy, and was favorably received. Subsequently, however, he declined in popular estimation ; the successful career of Kean, who made his first appear- ance at Drury Lane on the 26th January, 1814, threw him into the shade as a first-rate tragedian. His handsome face and noble figure, though producing a favorable im- pression when first seen, were insufficient to secure him a permanent reputation. His " beauteous clay" was not animated by the fire of genius ; and too high an opinion of his own qualifications, probably founded on a conscious- ness of the beauty of his person and encouraged by the flatteiy of female admirers, appears to have caused him to neglect the true means of deserving approbation as a candidate for popular favour. On Miss O'Neil's appear- ance, he frequently played Romeo and Jaffier to her Juliet and Belvidera, but without adding to his reputation : in such parts it was generally remarked how tall he was, — a tolerably certain indication that he was not great : the figure was conspicuous, but the genius which made Mrs. Pritchard appear "genteel, and Garrick six feet high," was wanting : had he possessed it, his height would not have been so apparent. " Mr. Conway," says a gen- * Miss Stephens, now Countess of Essex, made her " first appearance on any stage," at the same theatre, as Mandane, in the opera of Artaxerxes, but a few days before, and " was received by every part of the audience with the most rapturous ami enthusiastic applause." 12 PREFACE. tleman who had frequently seen him in his principal cha- racters, " like many other artistes, seems to have mistaken a love of his art for ability, and consequently soon sank in public opinion, the press being inimical to him. His per- formance of Romeo to Miss O'Neil's Juliet, his chief character, was almost respectable, but nothing more ; his youth and beauty were its all. He failed to touch the heart. He was, beyond doubt, one of the most Apollo or Adonis-looking men ever created ; he was full six feet high, and his face, of the most manly beauty, corresponded with his incomparable figure." Such was the person who in his twenty-seventh year appears to have captivated Mrs. Piozzi, heart and soul, and to have inspired the Sibyl of four-score with the feelings of a Sappho of twenty-six : " 'Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And raised such tumults in my breast; For while I gazed, in transport lost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost." From 1817 to 1821, his engagements appear to have been chiefly at provincial theatres. In the latter year he appeared at the Haymarket as Lord Townley in the Provoked Husband, and as Irwin in Every One has His Fault ; but though his performance of both characters was favorably spoken of at the time, he had ceased to attract. Disgusted both with town and country, which would not receive him at his own estimate, he went to America on a theatrical speculation, but there met with no better suc- cess. The press was unfavorable to him, and persecuted him with gibes and sneers, which arc worse to bear, by a PREFACE. 13 person who has too high a conceit of himself, than sober, though severe criticism. His mind, which was more like that of a sensitive sentimental lady, than of a man, sank under the storm of paper pellets ; from an actor he became a devotee, and applied himself to the study of theology with the view to taking orders. His despondency, however, increased ; and in a voyage from New York to Charleston, he threw himself overboard and was drowned, just as the packet was crossing the bar of Charleston, and as the other passengers were sitting down to dinner, on the 24th January, 1828. He had declined going down to dinner, telling the captain that he " should never require dinner again." He had been silent and reserved during the passage ; speaking to no one, but always acknowledging attentions or civilities with politeness and gratitude. Though the weather was exceedingly inclement at the time, his dress was thin summer clothing, as if he were insensible to the severity of the cold. The body was reco- vered ; his gold watch and money were found in his pockets ; and in his pocket-book was a bill of exchange indorsed to his mother. His melancholy fate, which it is impossible not to deplore, may serve as a warning to all young men who aspire to fame in any profession whose object is to please the public ; teaching them not to form too high an estimate of their own qualifications, nor to mistake the admiration of doating old women for the standard of public taste : if they do, their anticipations are most certain to be blighted, — and then, " In the end there comes despondency, or madness." 14 PREFACE. His effects were brought back to New York by the captain of the packet, where they were sold for the benefit of his relatives in England. The Surrogate's warrant for the sale is dated, New York, 17th March, 1828. Among other things sold were the originals of the letters now presented to the public, and a copy of the folio edition of Young's Night Thoughts, illustrated by Blake ; in which Conway had written the name of the person by whom it had been presented to him, — his " dearly attached friend, the celebrated Mrs. Piozzi." The letters were purchased by a lady of the name of Ellet, a native of Western New York, but at present residing in Virginia, and in her possession they still remain. They were shown to several persons, and were lent to a gentleman with permission to take copies, and use them as he might think fit. Of this per- mission he availed himself; and from his copies, which were sent to England about three months ago, this edit to pri?iceps of Mrs. Piozzi's love letters has been printed. That they were faithfully transcribed is authenticated by the following affidavit, which, together with the copies of the letters, is in the possession of the publisher : " Maketh oath that the Seven Letters copied on these sheets are true copies made by himself from the originals, some of which had the Post Office Stamps and Marks : that they are faithfully copied in every particular, without omission or interpolation of one word or words, except the few underscored with red ink : and that these copies agree with the originals in every respect as to spelling, punctuation, capitals (whether in whole words, or initial letters in the middle of sentences,) or PREFACE. 15 passages marked emphatically by single or double dashes, sepa- rated from each other, whether between words or passages, or underneath them, — in short, that the copies are literal in every sense of the word ; that the handwriting was large, clear, and distinct, apparently written with a broad-nibbed pen pressed firmly on the paper, and that the points were all marked with pecidiar care, exactly in this manner • 1 and of this size."* "Sworn before me the 14th September, 1842, at New York, Joseph Strong, Commissioner of Deeds." On these letters it is unnecessary to make any length- ened remarks. That Mrs. Piozzi was in love, and that she wished to be loved again by the object of her affection, is beyond doubt, if her own words have any meaning. In the sixth letter indeed, where she exhorts him to u exalt his love," she seems most significantly, though figuratively, to invite him to bestow his love upon herself, — typified as "the flower produced in colder climates, which is sought for in old age," — in preference to the i/oung " China Rose, of no good scent or flavour," for which he seems to have had a partiality. Of what kind her love really was, it would be needless to speculate : it certainly was extraordinary at her age, whether Platonic, or Epicurean, — of the Academy, or of the Garden : " Matrona procul June abite casta." When she informs him that her heart was only twenty-six years old, and all his own, it can only * Fac-similes of Mrs. Piozzi's writing are given in the Piozziana, 1833; where an account will also he found of the cause of her writing so firm and distinct a hand. 16 PREFACE. be concluded that she wished him to believe that her feelings towards him were those of a loving woman of that age. While she desired, however, to persuade him of this, we would fain believe, for the honour of human nature, that she only deceived herself without convincing him. — Her scriptural and religious allusions deserve the severest reprobation: they are very much like those of a female Cant well, employing religion as a mask to cover her real intentions in seeking the conversion of a hand- some young actor : if she were sincere in her religious admonitions, she was most certainly doating, in both senses of the word. London, IQth January, lSI.'i. LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI. LETTER I. Weston super Mare, Somersetshire,* 1 Sept. 1819. Three Sundays have now elapsed since James t brought me dearest Mr. Conway's promise to write to me the very next — and were it not for the newspaper which came on Tuesday the 24 August — sending me to rest comfortable, tho' sick enough, and under the influence of laudanum — I should relapse into my former state of agonizing appre- hension on your account — but that little darling Autograph round the paper was written so steady, and so completely in the old way, whenever I look at it my spirits * Weston Super Mare is a sea-bathing place, about nineteen miles south- westward of Bristol. It used to be much frequented in summer by fashionable people whose usual residence was at Bath. Weston is described in a letter of Mrs. Piozzi's, at page 110 of the Piozziana. t Mrs. Piozzi's footman. 18 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI revive, and Hope, [true Pulse of Life,) ceases to intermit, for a while at least, and bids me be assured we soon shall meet again. — I really was very ill three or four days ; but the Jury of Matrons who sate on my complaint acquitted the Apricots which I accused, and said they all but two, proved an alibi. Some of the servants who were ill too, found out that we had in Bessy's * absence got some mildewed tea that lay in a damp closet at the last lodging. — We are now removed to a palace — a Weston palazzino, where we propose receiving Mr. Conway and the weeks are within count now. Mrs. Stratton writes to me affectionately, asking after your health and engagements, of which I know no more than little Angelo, but the Bath people say we are sure of you. Poor H. L. P. however, who knows that we are sure of nothing in this world, and that we are all of us too careless of the next where we might make Sure of every thing ; can only cry ; and pray for our happy meeting to him who first directed us to meet each other. Now praise my Powers of Recollec- tion. I observed here a Superannuated Beauty, 15 or 20 years younger than myself or so ; but sick and dropsical ; her legs hanging over her shoes and the People * " Bessy" was Mrs. Piozzi's maid. It will be seen subsequently that she displayed great commiseration, as in duty bound, for the sorrows of ber mis- tress. The jury of matrons sitting on the octogenarian lady's case, and the alibi of the apricots, " all but two," are very much in the style of Dr. Monsey's anecdotes. TO W. A. CONWAY. 19 said she was a Methodist. There were Daughters with her one approaching- to pretty all of different names I think, but my ears caught the word Brereton among them : and Mrs. Kemble's * 1st Husband's Face came to my mind. I asked the old Lady if there was any Relationship? Dear Madam, was her Reply — Poor William was my Brother. Now I did never see that man but twice in my Life ; once acting Jaffier, and once Prince Hal and his Sister says he died in 178 1 — so when or where I saw him, Heaven knows. I remember he was awkward in his Person, and beautiful in his Countenance, and his Father or Uncle had my Maiden Name by some Accident — Owen Salusbury Brereton. Mercy on me ! what a Magic Lanthorn this World does exhibit ! here one Set of Figures, then a Remove : all those go away, now another Set of Figures, different in their Dresses, their Characters, their Employments Thus perish Friends, Years, Moments from our view, Some mourned, some loved, all lost; too many, yet too Few. Did I not once predict that dear Mr. Conw T ay would * John Kemble is said to have married the widow Brereton in the expec- tation of receiving a large sum from a nobleman, whose daughter was in love with him. 20 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI live to an extreme old Age ? Your Sibyl has always been right, and it was natural I should think so. The Oak and Cedar are said by Naturalists to take the deepest Root of all the Trees ; and when these Fancies cross your memory Threescore Years hence, do not forget the Old Friend of your Young days, should you live to those of Methuselah ; none more true, none more tender, nor more disinterested will you Ever find, than H. L. PIOZZI. Covvper the Poet says, in reply to a Friend who begs pardon for writing so seldom; "Why, Sir, I infer nothing from the silence of a Correspondent but that he wishes me to be silent too." I do not, you see, infer that: I keep on pelting you with Letters which tell you nothing you knew not long ago : unless it comes into my head to give Information of Old Doctor Whalley's wife run- ning away from him, and his fine House ; and settling herself in the little Village of Freshford. Various Con- jectures—all disgraceful, of course, are in circulation ; and some strange Pamphlet has been written — which you perhaps have seen advertised as Letters from Amoroso. — The Lady escapes Censure, but her Secession pro- vokes strange Enquiries. You, however, and / can do nothing better than keep resolute Silence, remembering Scrub's Admonition, to say nothing till there comes a Peace. Summer is gone —has left her Card, pour prendre TO W. A. CONWAY. 21 Conge, elegantly engraved on our hearts. Here comes the first of Autumn's three following months : DRIPPY SNEEZEY NIPPY To be succeeded by Winter, WHEEZEY SLIPPY FREEZEY SHOWERY HOPPY Till Spring returns, BOWERY and Summers, POPPY FLOWERY us this year, CROPPY. Is not this as good as Floreal and Prairial ? Messidor and Thermidor? * I think it is — and so thinks Mr. Brady ; who stole it from me, silly Stuff as it is ; and put it in his Clavis Calendaria how obtained Dieu le scait — but there are worse Tricks in the world than that. Every one is looking anxiously towards London till the projected Meeting shall be past; but /feel much more immediately and sincerely interested in our own meet- ing after such cruel Illness and Dangers, and a Silence that has shaken my Courage more than all the Savage Shoutings of this new fangled Reformation. My heart has been hoping lately to hear more of Conrad; whose dress I feel familiar with, as having admired it in the Hero of the North : This new Tragedy has perhaps * la the reformed Calendar of the French Republic, Floreal, Prairial, Messidor, and Thermidor were the names of four newly-apportioned months, between the 19th of April and the 18th of August. 22 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI precluded our favourite yEthiop ; and Mr. Pope is no longer in your Company to play the Sage. My Paper, the Courier, took notice of the burst in favor of Loyalty which your audience elicited ; and I was glad Mrs. Weston got a portion of the Applause. Good Night! and God bless my dearest and most valued Friend ! for whose perfect Recovery and long continued Happiness I will pray till the Post comes in : — Yes ; and till Life goes out from poor H. L. P. 1 would keep up my Spirits as you wish me and your Spirits too. But hoio can I? Send a Newspaper at least. Oh for a Breath of Intelligence, however Short, respecting Health and En- gagements. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY, Esq., Post Office, Birmingham, TO W. A. CONWAY. '^3 LETTER II. Weston super Mare, near Bristol, Thursday, 7 Oct. 1819. I write — like my dearest Friend — a brief Communica- tion ; not to beg letters ; the last \ * broke my heart : but to tell you that having directed mine to Mrs. Rudd, 4 1 , Gerrard Street, I fear it will not be received safely. My Fear arises from This. I wrote to fine Mr. Divie Robinson, Villiers Street, in the Strand, and bade him when he sent my Stock of Wine to Bath, put \ a dozen Bottles of the very same in a Basket and deliver to Mrs. Rudd, 41, Gerrard Street, Soho. His clerk now writes me word she cannot be found does not live there, &c. So perhaps the Postman may say so too. James does not know the people nor I either ; but they are Grand Folks, Friends to Sir James Fellowes : I have written to the Clerk again to day, and suppose you will get your little paltry present of six Bottles at least ; but I am uneasy for my Letter, which you and your Mama went halves in. The Date, Wednesday 6 Oct r - — make them ask • In the original, the word "hall'" is obliterated, and the numerical sign, |, inserted. 24 LOVE LETTERS OP MRS. PIOZZI for it. I wish my beloved Friend to keep his spirits up, but have enough to do on his dear Account — to keep up my own. Yet shall not the one alleviating Drop of Comfort, as you kindly call my letters ; — ever fail. Mrs. Stratton saw the horrid Paragraph inserted in the Courier * she writes with all possible Tenderness, and, I really do believe, True Concern. Mr. Bunn's elegant Expressions of Friendship pleased me too. How will you get your Things from Birmingham to Bath ? for Bath at last will be your home and mine : Would we were there ! I grieve that Changes in Shuttleworth's Arrange- ments will chace you from your old haunts but dont go far off your old and honored Mistress. The Storms of yesterday and to-day are terrific ; was I happy, I should call them Magnificent : so do our own private feelings operate on Views of Nature and of Lan- guage. Your being shut out by ill health from Fortune and from Fame is very affecting indeed. Dieu nous a donne la Sante pour lui Servir ; presque personne n'a manque d'en faire mauvais usage. Quand il envoye la maladie pour nous corriger, prions lui que sa Grace toute puissante nous rende ses chatimens salutaires. Suffer nothing that you are not obliged to suffer, however ; we * The following paragraph, which appeared in the Courier of the 28th Sep- tember, 1819, is most likely the one alluded to: " We regret to hear that Mr. Conway, the actor, is in a state of dangerous illness. He has been com- pelled to relinquish his engagement at Birmingham, after a long confinement there, and is now in London under the care of Mr. Astley Cooper." TO W. A. CONWAY. 25 shall get through the dusky Night, and enjoy a bright morning after all. Your Youth and Strength are in full Perfection, but 'tis on God's favour I depend for your Recovery. Whose Gifts indeed are those of Y T outh and Strength? Body and Soul? his only. And wicked as the World is, I hope it is not necessary for the warning of others — that Y t our incomparable Talents should be shown them in a state of subjugation. My Heart assures me 'tis a momentary Chastisement ; for what at last is one year out of 70 — the regular life of a Common Man ? Oh, There is yet much for you to do much to enjoy : and many a day of Care for others, — now un- thought on. How did I ever dream — in 1791 — that fretted as I was about my own affairs; a Baby just then born — or — not born, should in the year 1819 take up the whole attention of H. L. P. — My Daughters, none of them were married, — and Sir John Salus- bury, not yet in the world ; which I thought every hour crumbling round me. Here am I, however, praying most fervently for your Restoration to all that makes Life desirable, and giving God thanks for the Power he lends me of affording solace to the finest Soul, the fairest Emana- tion of its Celestial Origin that ever was inclosed in human clay. — Such Clay ! but we must all be contented to bear our Cross. — The Paschal Lamb Type of our blessed Saviour ; was ordered to be eaten with bitter 3 26 LOVE LETTERS OF MBS. PIOZZI herbs : cum amaritudinibus,* and have I then, been all this while complaining? Complaining of God's favours? Pain and Death? without advice from Pain, would man be good? He will find it difficult enough, even with the help of the monitor and without Death should we not be good in Vain ? If it be hard for the Rich to go to Heaven, it must be harder for the always Healthy. Let us take Things as God sends them, and be thankful. Dear Hope, A cordial innocent as strong Man's heart at once inspirits — and serenes. She sweetens Pains and Sorrows into Joy, and sends me smiling (thro' my Tears) to Rest. Good Night ! — God send his Angel to watch over you, and grant us yet a happy meeting by the 20th of Octr. H. L. P. Bath is the Place where you must seek your final Rein- statement as you say: Bath was the place where you sought and found a Friend. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY, Esq., No. 41, Gerrard Street, Soho, London. * It seems deserving of remark that this curious expression, at least to a Latin scholar, is a literal translation of the original Hebrew, (Exodus, xiii. 8,) a language with which Mrs. Piozzi had some acquaintance. Conway, on leav- ing the stage, applied himself to the study of Hebrew, and had attained to a considerable knowledge of that language at the time of his decease. Can he have acquired his taste from Mrs. I'iozzi ? TO W. A. CONWAY. 27 LETTER III.* Wednesday, 29 December, 1819. Accept, dearest Mr. Conway, of a real Christmas Pye : it will be such a nice thing for you when, coming late home, there is no time for a better supper; but Bessy begs you will not try to eat the crust : it will keep for weeks this weather. The Fleece should be a Golden one, had I the magic powers of Medea: but I do think I was Baby enough to be ashamed last night of owning I had not Three Pounds in the House, except Your money, laid by for my Benefit Ticket, which shall be replaced before that day comes because the Manager's Box resembles Proserpine's bough, in Virgil ; where Uno avulso non deficit alter. Farewell ! our happy days are * This, and the following letters, appear to have been written at Bath, Conway being there at the same time, on a theatrical engagement. 28 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI marked most Classically with White,* you see. ■ — What a delightful one was yesterday for your really obliged, as faithful H. L. P. Send back the waistcoats if they dont suit ; and we will change them for unmade-up Stuff. No Letters returned from No. 13. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY, Esq. * The ground was covered with snow. TO W. A. CONWAY. 29 LETTER IV. 29 Jan. 1820. Half-dead Bessy, — more concerned at what I feel for you, than what she feels for herself; brings this note. Mrs. Pennington* left me in real Affliction; and if she found no Billet at the Elephant and Castle, directed to her from King's Mead, will carry home a half-broken Heart. Let my Maid see you, for Mercy's Sake. ' Lord, Ma'am,' said She, e why, if Mr. Conway was at Birmingham you would send me; and now he is only Three Streets off, — Go I will if I die upon the Road, rather than see you swallowing down Agony, and saying nothing but how well you are, to everybody, when I know you are wretched, — beyond telling.' ( Written outside. ) Instead of Bessy, James goes ; but let him at least see and speak to you. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY, Esq., No 5, King's Mead Terrace. • Mrs. Pennington, of Clifton, was an intimate friend of Mrs. Piozzi's. She is frequently mentioned in Anna Seward's Correspondence as the " beautiful and agreeable Sophia Weston." — Piozziana. 30 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. V10Z7A LETTER V. Midnight of the 2d, and Early Morning of the 3d Feb. 1820. I would not hurry you for the World Take your own Time, and do it your own way ; or rather suffer Nature to do it that has done so much for you : more, I do think, than for any mortal Man. See what a Scar the Surgeon, however skilful, would have made in that beautiful Neck, while Nature's preparation, thro' previous Agony, made suppurating Ease come on in/ felt ; and the wound heals almost without a Cicatrix does it not ? ? ? So will it be with the mind : my own hasty Folly and my " Violent Love outran the Pauser Reason." Whilst I am advising my beloved Patient, however, to turn the Torrent of his Fancy toward the past occurrences of human Life ; the Dear pathetic Letter now in my Bosom — forced me on the same method this forenoon, when my Heart really sunk at the Thought of such coarse conduct la Grossierete de la Conduit TO W. A. CONWAY. 31 ds Mademoiselle par egard a votre Faraille (Superieure a la Sienne des Deux cotes Je scais ce que je dis ;) me fait fremer. Nor could I conceive how you could wish for a Remembrance they did well to deny it no Honour could result to them from Recollection of such behaviour. We shall meet at Mrs. Eckersall's this Evening — for 'tis now Two o'clock, and 1 solemnly promise to command — as you bid me — both Tongue and Eye. — Who I wonder was that Tall Man I met at my last Party ! his Aspect shocked and haunted me like a Spectre so apparently Majestic in Misfortune. The Master of the house was pointing me out to him as if to win his attention, but no look, no smile ensued. He was not like you, except his lofty carriage Yet I kept on thinking — so will my Conway stand when next I see him. It was an odd Feel ; and your distress presented itself so forcibly to my imagination at the moment, that my Mind instinctively understood — All was indeed over. That nothing should strike my fancy at Dorset Fellowes's, I played at Loo, and lost my Money. He called on you, he says, and Mrs. Eckersall made kind Enquiries very kind. Her son has been to King's Mead Terrace too : Every one loves you Bessy cries ; but begs me not to lose my life between my scorn of your Tormentors, and Tenderness for your Health. I was 32 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI unwell to-day, meaning Tuesday, and poor Fellie was too sick to make one, even of their own Family Party. Morning, Thursday, 3d Feb. I have had some sleep; and am now on my knees giving God Thanks for the power he has lent to you, to resolve against Sinful Dissi- pation. Oh spare the Soul which HE thus deigns to preserve ; Oh keep that Person pure, which his good Spirit will one Day inhabit — throwing a Radiance round. Accept my best Acknowledgments for having promised me so sweetly that you would try to rise superior to all low- Desires. Nor doubt those pious Wishes to obtain ; Since but to wis/i more Virtue, is to gain. We see Pleasure often represented as a beautiful Lake covered with Flowers but the Gratification of mere Appetite among Coarse Females, is a Pitfall covered with Weeds. Such grovelling Dispositions are well won- dered at by Rousseau, who says, " Us sont tres contents ces Messieurs la quand ils peuvant cueillir d'une Boitche affamie les Tendres Baisers de L'Amour." — Shun all such mad Companions, dearest Conway. They are Erect in Stature, prone in Appetite ; Patrons of Pleasure, posting into Pain. Keep your fine Intellects clear, and use them rightly; Improve the Talents committed to your Trust; and love your anxious trembling tender Parent ; your TO W. A. CONWAY. 33 more than Mother, as you kindly call your affectionate H. L. PIOZZI. Do not stir out : do not tempt Heaven or Heaven's King, who by your abscess has saved your precious life so prayed for by poor H. L. P. — read Pennington's Letter and mine to Her ; and send it to the Post. — I tear open my Letter to say the present King* is in immediate Danger of Death — Inflammation on the Lungs in conse- quence of this same Cold which is killing Bessy, and has killed the Duke of Kent.f * George IV. f The Duke of Kent died at Sidmouth.on the 23d January, 1820. George III. died on the 29th January; and on the 1st February the following bulletin respecting the dangerous illness of his successor was issued from Carlton House. " The King has been attacked with inflammation of the lungs. We hope a favorable impression has been made on the complaint; but his Majesty still continues severely indisposed. William Knighton. Matthew John TlERNEY." 34 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI LETTER VI. Thursday Night, 3 Feb. 1S20. I came away as early as I could — but 'tis 11 o'clock, so I will go to bed that Bessy may believe me asleep: and try to rest herself, — poor Thing ! Now however, I rise to say how the Evening at EckersalPs passed off. Mrs. Stratton and her eldest Granddaughter came early ; so I returned their Salutation much as usual only refusing the Hands J could not touch and talked with Mr. Fuller about ancient Thebes, its hundred Gates, &c. The young Lady's airy manner such as you describe rightly, contrasting with your own cruel Situation quite shocked me. — No crying, no cast down Looks, no Whimpering, as last year changeful as the weather or the wind, she seems at perfect Ease Mrs. Stratton not so : Waddling up to me in the Course of the Night, she said she wanted Talk with me : — Im- possible, was the Reply My Life is spent in such TO W. A. CONWAY. So a crowd of late : c but on a particular Subject, Mrs. Piozzi :' ' Lord Ma'am who can talk on particular Subjects in an Assembly Room ? And the King ill beside ! !' So there it ended : and for me there it shall end. You and your Favorite have changed Characters. 'Tis not a year and quarter since dear Conway, accepting of my Portrait sent to Birmingham, said to the Bringer ■' Oh if your Lady but retains her Friendship: Oh if I can but keep her Patronage 1 care not for the rest.' And now, when that Friendship follows you thro' Sickness and thro' Sorrow; now that her Patro- nage is daily rising in Importance : — upon a Lock of Hair given or refused by une petite Traitresse, hangs all the happiness of my once high spirited and high-blooded Friend. Let it not be so. EXALT THY LOVE : DE- JECTED HEART and rise superior to such narrow minds. Do not however fancy she will ever be punished in the way you mention : no, no ; she'll wither on the thorny stem, dropping the faded and ungathered leaves : — a China Rose, of no good Scent or Flavour false in apparent Sweetness, deceitful w r hen depended on unlike the Flower produced in colder climates, which is sought for in old Age, preserved even after Death, a lasting and an elegant Perfume, a Medicine, too, for those whose shattered nerves require Astringent Remedies. And now, Dear Sir, let me request of you 36 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. PIOZZI to love yourself and to reflect on the necessity of not dwelling on any particular subject too long, or too intensely. It is really very dangerous to the Health of Body and Soul. Besides that our Time here is but short ; a mere Preface to the great Book of Eternity : and 'tis scarce worthy of a reasonable Being not to keep the End of human Existence so far in View that we may tend to it either directly or obliquely in every step. This is Preaching but remember how the Sermon is written at three, four, and five o'clock by an Octogenary pen a Heart (as Mrs. Lee says) 26 years old: and as H. L. P. feels it to be;— ALL YOUR OWN. Suffer your dear noble self to be in some measure benefited by the Talents which are left me ; Your health to be restored by soothing consolations while / remain here, and am able to bestow them. — All is not lost yet You have a friend, and that Friend is Piozzi. I must go to bed. That Booby, James, not dreaming how things stood; waked my poor — perhaps unrefreshed correspondent yesterday; I was extremely sorry, and now beg your Pardon for helping to torment him whom I would die to serve and desire to live only that I may serve. There was much talk at Dorset Fellowes's about the true Falernian wine, of which accept a Bottle: 'Tis a rarity ; I likewise send a Partridge. Miss Williams TO W. A. CONWAY. 37 was right, Miss Wroughton asked kindly for you last night, said Mr. Hicks would cure you, &c. &c. The Courtneys all enquired for MY CONWAY, all who seek favor from me, ask for you. All but WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CONWAY, Esq., No. 5, Kino's Mead Terrace. 38 LOVE LETTERS OF MRS. IMOZZI LETTER VII. Late o' Monday Night, 28 Feb. ] 820. I was happy to see my Dear Friend's handwriting, as soon as I came home, and the Tickets. I must certainly have another Box secured in my name if you have no Objection. You see by the enclosed how they will insist on coming to what they call my Places. My Welch Friends however have more Wit. Mr. and Mrs. Lutwyche gave me Two Bank notes for Two Tickets, and they must have Front Seats in the next Loge to where I sit myself. Mrs. Stratton and I have had our Talk : the result is to Me a Proof that your Happiness has on this occasion been Heaven's peculiar Care. Her last words to me when we were interrupted — were — 'If you do love Mr. Conway, dearest Madam, teach him to despise her.' ' Tell him so yourself,' said I — ' after the 1 1 of March : but let us not shake his shattered nerves till then, my own can hardly bear the Conversation for tho' I thought her false TO W. A. CONWAY. 39 and unfeeling, my Belief could not stretch itself to what you inform me now : nor will my mind be easy till he is Assured of her unworthiness either by your Hand or Tongue.' Est il possible? is all my Wit could suggest in answer to her story. — Fuller and Brandt are gone ; There were no Proposals of Marriage made. — She will fade like the China Rose, as I said she would and so let her. Come in the Morning. You will Sleep better to night, you will indeed, than either Mrs. Stratton will, who has endured such insults; or her whose Indig- nation swallows every other sense — except that of her affectionate and all subduing Admiration of You. H. L. P. 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THE YORKSHIRE DIALECT, exemplified in various Dialogues, Tales, and Songs, applicable to the County, with a Glossary, post 8vo. 1839, Is " A shilling book worth its money ; most of the pieces of composition are not only harmless, but good and pretty. The eclogue on the death of " Awd Daisy," an outworn horse, is an outpouring of some of the best feelings of the rustic mind ; and the addresses to riches and poverty have much of the freedom and spirit of Burns." — Gents. Mag. May, 1841. THE HALLAMSHIRE (a part of Yorkshire) Glossary, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, post 8vo. price 5s It also contains Thoresby's Catalogue of Yorkshire Words, and Watson's un- common words used in Halifax. DICK and SAL, or Jack and Joan's Fair, a doggerel Poem in the Kentish Dialect, third edition, 12mo. price 6d TOM CLADPOLE'S Journey to Lunnon, told by himself, and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his Uncle Tim, 18mo. second edition, price 6d TYNE SONGSTER, containing a Choice Selection of Songs in the Newcastle Dialect, 12mo. Newcastle, 1840, Is LANCASHIRE DIALECT, or Tummus and Meary, being the Laughable Adventures of a Lancashire Clown, by Tim Bobbin, 12mo. Is GLOSSARY and ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY of OBSOLETE and uncommon Words, Antiquated Phrases and Proverbs, illustrative of Early English Literature, comprising chiefly those not to be found in our ordinary Dictionaries, with notices of Ancient Customs and Manners, by W. Toone, thick 12mo. bds. 1834, 5s (pub. at 10s 6d) A very useful volume in reading our early Poets and Dramatists. /. R. Smith, 4, Old Compfon Street, Soho. 7 POPULAR ERRORS in English Grammar, particularly in Pronun- ciation, familiarly pointed out by Geo. Jackson, 12mo. 3rd edi- tion, with a coloured frontispiece of the " Sedcs Busl)iana, ,, 6d AN INAUGURAL LECTURE on the Utility of Anglo-Saxon Lite- rature, to which is added, the Geography of Europe by King Alfred (Anglo-Saxon and English), including his account of the discovery of the North Cape in the Ninth Century, by the Rev. Dr. Ingram, professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, 4 to, Oxf. 18U7, Ids. 5 s MIRROUR of JUSTICES, written originally in the old French, long before the Conquest, and many things added by Andrew Home, translated by W. Hughes of Gray's Inn, 18mo. 1840, cloth, 2s A curious, interesting', and authentic treatise on ancient English" Law. PUBLICATIONS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. HISTORIE of the Arrival of Edward IV. in England, and the finall recoverye of his Kingdomes from Henry VI. 1471, edited by Bruce, 4to. cloth, I As KYNG JOHAN, a Play, by John Bale, (now first printed) edited by J. P. Collier, 4to. cloth, 14s ALLITERATIVE POEM on the Deposition of King Rich. II with a glossary — Ric. Maydiston de Concordia inter Rich II. et Civi- tatem, London, edited by Wright, 4to. cloth, 14s PLUMPTON CORRESPONDENCE ; a Series of Letters, written in the reigns of Edward IV. to Henry VIII. by the Plumptou Family of Yorkshire, edited by Stapleton, thick 4to. cloth, \l lis 6d ANECDOTES and TRADITIONS, dlustrative of Early English History and Literature, derived from MS. sources, edited by Thoms, 4 to. cloth, 1 1 Is POLITICAL SONGS OF ENGLAND from the reign of John to that of Edward II. edited and translated by Wright, thick 4to. cloth, 183!), 14s ANNALS of the First Four Years of the reign of Queen Eliza- beth by Sir John Hayward, now first printed and edited by Bruce, 4to. cloth, Ss ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS, viz. 1. A Brief History of the Bishoprick of Somerset to the year 11/4. — 2. Curious Collection of Charters from the Library of Dr. Cox Marco, now first pub- lished by Rev. Jos. 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They seem to he stored with abundant materials, and the single volume before us is a valuable sample of their national interest, and which throw a light upon public events hitherto imperfectly appreciated." — Lit. Gaz. Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda de Rebus Gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi nunc primum typis mandata curante J. Gage-Rokewode, 4to. cloth, 9s " There is one publication which the Society may well be gratified at having been the means of adding to the materials for the History of England, the Chronicle of Josceline de Brakelond, a work edited with singular care and judgment, and unique in its character, as affording an illustration of monastic life more vivid and complete than can be found in any work with which the Council are acquainted." — Report of the C. S. 1841. Chronicle of William he Rishanger of the Barons' Wars. The Miracles of Simon de Montfort, edited from MSS. in the British Museum, by Halliwell, 4to. cloth, 10s 6d Narratives Illustrative of the Contests in Ireland, in 1641 and 1693, edited by T. Crofton Croker, 4to. cloth, Ss 6d The Latin Poems, commonly attributed to Walter Mapes, collected and edited by Weight, 4to. cloth, 400 pp. 15* The appendix contains some very curious pieces of poetry (many first printed) in Anglo-Norman, French, Scotch, and English, from the thirteenth to the six- teenth century. * # * The above are all the volumes yet published by the Society, the succeeding ones will be on sale as they appear. PUBLICATIONS OF THE PERCY SOCIETY, 1840-41, ELEGANTLY pkinted in post octavo. Old Ballads of the utmost rarity, now first collected and edited by J. P. COLLIER, 5s Rowley's Search for Money, reprinted from the Edition of 1609, 2s 6d Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage, from an unique copy, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 3s A Selection from tlie Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, edited by Halliwell, 9s The King and a Poor Northern Man, from the edition of 1640, 2s Historical Songs of Ireland, illustrative of the Struggle between James II. and William 111., with Introduction and Notes, by T. C. Croker, 5s Collection of Songs and Ballads relative to the London Prentices and Trades, and London Generally, edited by ('. .Mac k \y, 8s Early Naval Ballads of England, collected and edited by J. O. Halliwell, 4s 6d Robin Goodfellow ; his Mad Pranks and Merry Jests, full of honest mirth, 2s 6d Strange Histories, consisting of Ballads and other Poems, principally by Thos. Deloney, 1607, 4s 6d Political Ballads, published in England during the Commonwealth, edited by Thomas Wright, pp. 300, 6s Pleasant History of the Two Angry Women of Abingdon, with the Hu- mourous Mirth of Dicke C'oomes and Nicholas Proverbs, a Play, by Henry Porter, 1599, edited by the Rev. A. Dyce, 4s The lioke of Curtasj'e, an English Poem of the XlVth Century, edited by J. O. Halliwell, 2s 6) Historic Sites, and other Remarkable and Interesting places in the County of Suffolk, by John "Wodderspoon, with Prefatory Verses by Bernard Barton, Esq., and a Poetical Epilogue by a " Suffolk Villager," improved edition, fine wood-cuts, post 8vo. pp. 332, closely printed, and containing as much matter as many 12s volumes, cloth, 6s 6d Principal Contents :■ — Framlingham Castle — Staningfield — Rookwood — Mrs. Inch- bald — Aldham Common — the Martyr's Stone — Westhorpe Hall, the residence of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk — Ipswich— Wolsey's Gate and Mr. Sparrowe's House — Rendlesham — Redgrave — Bury St. Edmunds, the Abbey — David Hartley — Bp. Gardiner — Geo. Bloomfield — Wetheringset — Haughley Castle — Grimstone Hall — Cavendish, the Voyager — Framlinghara Church, the , burial place of Surrev, the Poet — Bungay Castle — Dunwich — Aldborough — Wingfield, and the Old Halls of Suffolk. •' This is really a most interesting volume : and we say so, not merely in the common-place expression of newspaper reviews, but under the deep impression of the very high value of Mr. Wodderspoon's production. — The authorappears to have been both an ardent and industrious collector of information connected with those places in the county of Suffolk, remarkable as having been the scenes either of events of historical importance, or of the struggles of genius. Mr. Wodderspoon is a gentleman of considerable literary attainments, and from his connection with the county of Suffolk, has been eminently qualified to execute his task with gratification to his readers, who, we trust, will be nume- rous, and with credit to himself." — Wilts and Gloster Standard. A JOURNEY TO BERESFORD HALL, in Derbyshire, the Seat of Charles Cotton, Esq. the celebrated Author and Angler, hy W. Alexander, F.S.A., F.L.S., late keeper of the Prints in the British Museum, crown 4to. printed on tinted paper, with a spirited frontispiece, representing Walton and his adopted Son Cotton in the Fishing House, and vignette title page, cloth, 5s Dedicated to the Anglers of Great Britain and the various Walton and Cotton Clubs. Only 100 printed. 12 Valuable and Interesting Boohs, DOMESDAY BOOK for the County of Warwick, translated, with the original on the opposite page, by AV. Reader, 4to. only 100 printed, Coventry, 1835, Ids. 7s (pub. at 21*) A brief Dissertation on Domesday Book, compiled from various authorities, is prefixed to the translation — also, a List of the Saxon Possessors in the time of King Edward the Confessor — an Alphabetical List of the Landowners after the Norman Invasion, with Biographical Notices — The names of the persons who held under these Landholders — and to complete the arrangement, a copious index of the Ancient and Modern Names of Places is added. BIBLIOTHECA CANTIANA, a Bibliographical Account of what has been published on the History, Topography, Antiquities, Customs, and Family Genealogy of the County of Kent, with Biographi- cal Notes by John Russell Smith, in a handsome 8vo. volume, pp. 3/0, with two plates of facsimiles of Autographs of 33 eminent Kentish Writers, 14s. large paper, 1/. Is 1837 Contents — I. Historians of the County. II. Principal Maps of the County. III. Heraldic Visitations, with reference to the MSS. in the British Museum and other places. IV. Tracts printed during the Civil War and Commonwealth, 1640-1660. V. A Chronological List of all the Local, Personal, and Private Acts of Parliament (upwards of 600, ) which have been passed on the County, from Edward I. to Queen Victoria. VI. Works relative to the County in general. VII. Particular Parishes, Seats, Customs, and Family Genealogy, in alphabetical order. The work also comprises a notice of every Paper which has been written on the County, and published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Gentleman's Magazine, Archwologia, Vetusta Monumenta, Topographer, Antiquarian Repertory, and numerous other valuable publications, with a copious Index of every person and place mentioned throughout the volume. " This volume belongs to a class of great utility, and requires much diligent research and attention in all its parts to render them what they ought to be. We congratulate Mr. Smith on the performance of his task. His work is a sine qua non to every Kentish Library, and one which the general historian and antiquary will do well to consult. It seems to us to be very accurate and complete, and we are sure that it contains much curious and valuable information — local, bio- graphical, TOPOGRAPHICAL, ANTIQUARIAN, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, STATISTICAL, and national. We recommend it heartily." — Literary Gazette, Nov. 4, 1837. " The industrious compiler of the volume before us has shown how largely the history and antiquities of Kent have alreadj r occupied the attention of To- pographers and Antiquaries ; and, by exhibiting in one view what is now before the public, he has at once facilitated the researches of future writers, and has pointed out how ample a field still remains for their labours. The volume con- tains a complete catalogue of all the printed works relative to the county, "in- cluding, with respect to the most important, not only their titles in length, but also useful particulars which serve as the guide for collation, in ascertaining whether a book is perfect, or the principal divisions of the contents, the number of pages, lists of plates, &c. We must also mention that it is rendered more readable and interesting by the insertion of memoirs of the Kentish authors, and the plates of their autographs." — Gentleman's Magazine. HENSHALL'S (Rev. S.) Specimens and Parts ; containinga History of the County of Kent, and a Dissertation on the Laws from the Reign of Edward the Confessor to Edward the First, 4to. with a map of Kent, from Domesday Booh, hds. 1798, 3s THE VISITOR'S GUIDE to Knole House, near Seven Oaks in Kent, with Catalogue of the Pictures contained in the Mansion, a Genea- logical History of the Sackville Family, &c. &c. by J H. Brady, F.R A.S., l2mo. 27 wood-cuts by Bonner, Sly, Sfc. cloth, 4s 6d — LARUE PAPER, 10s. " A very interesting guide toone of the most remarkable old family mansions or we might even say, palaces, in England. The biographical notices of the J. R. Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho. 13 portraits are very curious, and the descriptions of old trees, and other particulars in the park and gardens wiil amuse the gnrdener; while the architect will be in- structed by the engravings of different parts of the house, and of the ancient fur- niture, more particularly of the fire-places, fire-dogs, chairs, tripods, masks, sconces, &c." — J, C. Loudon, Gardener's Magazine, Jan. 1840. ILLUSTRATIONS of Knole House, from drawings by Knight, en- graved on Wood by Bonner, Sly, &c. 8vo. 16 plates ivith descrip- tions, 5 s POCOCK'S MEMORIALS of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Thanet, 8vo. three plates, 1800, bds. 3s HISTORY and Topographical Survey of the Isle of Sheppy, 12mo. price Is FREEMAN'S History and Antiquities of Bromley in Kent, 12mo. bds. 2s 6d POLL BOOK for the Eastern Division of the County of Kent, 1832, 8vo. bds. price, 3s POLL BOOK for Eastern Kent, 1837, 8vo. bds. 3s. original price, 6s POLL BOOK for the City of Canterbury, 1835, 8vo. 2s LIFE and HISTORY of BETTY BOLAINE, the Caterbury Miser, 8vo. portrait, price \s RICHARDSON'S GREENWICH : its History, Antiquities and Public Buildings, \2mo.Jine wood-cuts by Baxter, cloth, 2s THE FOLKESTONE FIERY SERPENT, together with the Humours of the Dover Mayor ; being an ancient Ballad full of Mystery and pleasant conceit, now first collected and printed from the various MS. copies in the possession of the inhabitants of the South-East coast of Kent, with Notes, t2mo. Is BRIEF ACCOUNT of Ancient and Modern Westminster, by W. Bardwell, Architect, 8vo. two Views of the old Gate-house, 1839, Is MANCUNIENSIS, or an History of the Towne of Manchester and what is memorable concerning it, by R. Hollingworth, Fellow of Christ College, Manchester, 1656, now first printed, 12mo. engraved title page with arms and a map of Manchester and Sal- ford, about 1650, cloth, 1839, 2s 8VO. LARGE PAPER, cloth, 3s 6d NEWCASTLE CHAP BOOKS, a very curious collection, in 1 vol. 12mo. new half morocco, 5s Contents — History of the Earl of Derwentwater — History of the Lambton Worm, also the Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heugh — History of James Allan, the celebrated Northumberland Piper — Newcastle Songster, a collection of curious and interesting Local Songs, chiefly in the dialect, 4 parts — History of Sir Robert Bewick and the Laird Graham — Long Pack, a Northumberland Tale 100 years old — History of Tynemouth, its Castle and Priory, Sec. — Jemmy and Nancy, with Daft Watty's Ramble to Carlisle — Factor's Garland and Tragedy of Sir James the Rose — Singular Life and Adventures of David Haggart the Murderer, executed at Edinburgh, 1821 — History of Stoney Bowes, otherwise A. R. Bowes, a notorious character in the North of England, M.P. for Newcastle, Sheriff of Northumberland, &c. — History of Carlisle, Ancient and Modern, also, Carlisle Yetts, a Poem, and five others equally curious. 14 Valuable and Interesting Boohs, TRIAL of the WITCHES at Bury St. Edmunds, before Sir M. Hale, 1664, with an Appendix by Charles Clark, Esq., of Totliam, Essex, 8vo. price \s " The most perfect Narrative of anything of this nature hitherto extant."' — Preface. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Philip Flower, daughters of Joan Flower, near Bever (Belvoir), executed at Lincoln, for confessing themselves actors in the de- struction of Lord Rosse, son of the Earl of Rutland, 16° 18, Svo. price Is One of the most extraordinary cases of Witchcraft on record. ACCOUNT of the Trial, Confession, and Condemnation of Six AVitches, at Maidstone, 1652 ( ; also the Trial and Execution of three others at Faversham, 1G45, Svo. price Is LIFE of SIR PHILIP MUSGRAVE, Bart, of Hartley Castle, Governor of Carlisle, now first printed from an original MS. by Rev. G. Burton, Vicar of Edenhall, 1669-1683, 8vo. 2s The Life of this celebrated royalist is replete with interest, not only to the in- habitants of Cumberland and Westmoreland, with which counties he was more immediately connected, but to all who value the history of bye-gone ages and the Biography of those illustrious persons who have shed glory on the Annals of our country. A SERMON at the Funeral of Anne, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, at Appleby, April 1-1, 16/5, by Edward Rainbow, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. To which are now added, Memoirs of the above celebrated Countess of Pembroke and Bishop Rainbow, post Svo. 2s " A very interesting addition to our local literature." — Carlisle Patriot. TRIAL and LIFE of Thomas Cappoch (the Rebel Bishop of Carlisle) Svo. Carlisle, 1839, Is NARRATIVE of the Siege of Carlisle in 1644 and 1645, by Isaac Tullie, now first printed from a MS. in the British Museum, with notes by Jefferson, port. 8vo. Carlisle, 1840, 2s The Genuine Account of the Life and Trial of Eugene Aram, Schoolmaster of Knaresborough, who was convicted at York, 1759, for the Murder of Daniel Clark, to which are added Mr. Aram's Plan of a Celtic Lexicon, and other Literary Remains, 12mo. Is This tract (a reprint of the edition of 1759) contains the original account of one of the most extraordinary trials in our criminal calendar. The culprit was a man of no common talents and attainments, and his defence is admitted to be a masterpiece of ingenious reasoning. LIFE of William Viscount Barrington, compiled from Original Papers by his brother, Shute, Bp. of Durham, royal 4to. privately printed, bds 1814, 4s 6rf MEDALLIC HISTORY of NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, translated hy Miss Scargill, from the original MS. intended to have been published by the late Government of France, Svo. bds. 1820, 2s J. R. Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho. 15 JUST IMPORTED. RECUEILD'OPUSCULES et de Fragmens en Vers Patois, extraits d'ouvrages devenus fort rares (par Gustave Brunet) square 12mo. Paris, 1839, only 120 copies printed, 2s 6d DISCIPLINA CLERICALIS, auctore Petro Alphonso, Ex-Judaeo Hispano, 1 100. 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EL CANCIONERA DE JUAN ALFONSO DE BAENA, o Coleccion du Antiguos Trobadores Espanoles ineditos, in the press Une publication d'un immense interet pour la litterature Espagnole — Comme cette publication sera faite aux frais de 1'editeur (M. Francisque Michel) et d'un savant Bordelais, elle ne saurait etre un objet de speculation : aussi, le tirage devant etre restreint au nombre des souscripteurs, on invite les personnes qui voudraient encourager ce travail a se faire inscrire en cette qualite chez J. R. Smith, 4, Old Compton Street. Le Cancionero de Baena formera quatre volumes petit in 8 vo. 24 francs en papier ordinaire, et de 48 francs en grand papier. %* A prospectus may be had on application. JERUSALEM : a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism by Moses Mendelssohn, translated from the German by M. Samuels, 2 vols. 8vo. bds. 1838, 4s 6d (pub. at 20s) 16 Valuable Books, J. R. Smith, 4, Old Camp ton Street, Soho. 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Contents of No. I. for September. — Address — D' Israeli's Amenities of Lite- rature — Cambridge Antiquarian Society — Woodham's Heraldry — Douce's Library in tbe Bodleian — Henshaw's Meditations — Ashmolean Society — Faeries — Stradlingi Epigrammatum — Christmas Carols — Old Ballads — Dr. Simon Forman's Diary — Shaksperiana — Isaac Walton — Varieties, &c. &c. Contents of No. II. for October. — Reviews of Pugin's Principles of Christian Architecture — Leatham's Poems, and D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature — Loss of the " Marye Rose" at Spithead, 1545 — " Joky will prove a Gentillman" — Grasco-Egyptian Mummy — Origin of I. H. S. — Description of Raskelf Church — Fountains Abbey in the Olden Time (with a plate) — Nismes — She Would and She Would Not — Roman Inscriptions in France and Africa — Percy Society — Chalmers's Library, &c. &c. All Communications and Books for Review to be addressed to the Editor of the Archaeologist, to the care of the Publisher, J. R. 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