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DY JOSEPH VALLENCE BfiVAN$
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Motions of our Ancestors about
Matters and Things.
Jj\iracts from Jhtrirm’sjnntomy of Melan
* t'lthi: 7th foiioedition,primed at London,
in 1660 : pCge 240-59.
‘ MigTcasipu P? t\\e Air.
As a.longiwinged Hawk when he is first
whistled off the fist. imfim's a,, d
pleasure fdteMpth marty » circuit in
the air, still soaring higher and higher,
till he become to his fall pilch, and in the
• end when the game is sprung, comes down
amain, and stoops upon a sudden : so will
1, having now come at Ust into these am
ide fields of air, wherein I may freely ex
patiate and exercise myself for my recre
ation, a while rove, wander round about
the world, mount aloft to those alherial
orlis and celestial spheres, and so descend
to my former elements again. In which:
progress, 1 will fust see whether that fe
tation of the Iricr of Oxford be true, con
cerning those Northern parts under the
Pole} whether there be such a great rock
of loadstones, which may cause the nee
dle in the compass still to bend that way,
and what should be the true cause of the
variation of the compass, is it a mugneli
culrotk, or the pole-star, or some other
star in the bear; or amagnetical meridian;
of the nearness of the next Continent; or
sjome .other cause ; why at the Azoresit
lodfes directly north, otherwise not? ’Tis
lit to be enquired whether certain rules
may be made of it, and till we have better
intelligence, let our 1) Gilbert, and Ni
cholas Cabens the Jesuite, that have both
written great volumes on this subject, sa
tisfy these inquisitors. Whet lie r the .sea
be open and navigable b' * u “ ROI J ! Kl ' l,c »
M .ni- is me TiKcnest way, under the
Pole itself, which for some'reasons 1 hold
best; or by fretum Davis, or Nova >Zem
hla. Whether Hudson’s discovery be true
of a new-found ocean ; or that there be
any probability to pass by the straights of
Anlan to China, by the Promontory of Ta
hlS.‘ If there be, 1 shall soon perceive
whether ns hfattli. Kiccius the Jesuite hath
Witten, China and Cntaia he all one, the
great Cham of Tarlafy and the King of
China be the same . Xuntain and Quinsay,
and the c\ty of Cembalo be that new Pa
quin, or such a wall 41)0 leagues long to
part China from Tartary. Whether Gui
nea be an island or part of the Continent,
or that hungry Spaniard's discovery of
Terra Australis'lncognita, or Magellanica,
be as true as that of MercuriuS Uritannius,
or hi* of Ytopio, or his of Lucina.—
Ah 1 go by Madagascar, I would see
that great bird Jtuvkc, that can carry
a man and horse, or an elephant, with that
Arabian Phoenix described by Adricomius;
seethe I’cllicanes ot Egypt,’thoSe Scylhi
an Cry plies in Asia; and afterwards in
the, fountains of Nilus,
whether Herodotus, Seneca, Pliny and
Strabo give a true cause of his natural
flowing, or of Niger and Senega. I would
observe all those motions of the sea. and
from what causa thoy proceed, (Vein the
Moon (us the vulgar holdj or earth mo
tion, whiqfi Gjdiji ua in the lohrth dialogue
of his system of the world, so eagerly
proves, and firmly demonstrates; or w inds,
as sonyj.wiV*w Why-in that quiet ocean of
Zur, it is scarce perceived, in our llritish
seas most violent, in the Mediterranean
and Ked Sea so vehement, irregular, and
diverse ? Why the current in that Allan
tic ocean should still be in some places
Horn, in,some again towards the north,
and why they come sooner than go ? And
.so fronf Moahar to Madagascar in that In
Ulan ocean, the mcrclmnU come in three
weeks, they return scarce in three months
with the same or like winds: The conti
nual current is from east fa west 1 would
examine the Caspian sea, and see where
and hoW it exonerates itself, After it hath
taken in Volga, Jaxarc*. Uxns, and
great rivers ; at the mouth of Ohy, or
where ? What vent the Mexican lake hath,
the TitiCacan in Peru, or that circular
pool in the vale of Terspeia, hot in a cold
country, the spring of which boils up in
the middle twenty .foot square, and hath'
no vent hut exhalation: and that of Mure
.Wortuum in Palestine, of Tlnasttniene, at
Pcruzui'u in Italy : How is this water con
sumed, f>y the sun, or otherwise? And,
if 1 could observe what becomes of swal
lows, storki s, cranes, cuckuwcs, nightin
gales, redstarts, and many other kind of
singing birds, water-fowls, hawks, etc.
some of them are only seen in summer,
pome in winter; some are observed in the
.■mow, and at no other times, each have
their seasons, in winter not a bird is in
Mnscovie to be found, hut at the spring,
in un insla .t the w oods and hedges are
full of them ■ How comes it to pass ? Du
they sleep in winter, UkeGesuers* Alpine
mice; or do they lie Ida iuthe bottom of
lakes and rivers, tpiritum contiuentei ? of
ten so found by fishermen in Poland and
ticandavia, two together, mouth tc mouth,
wing to wmg; and when the spring comes
they revive again, or if they be brought
into a stove, or to the fire-side. Or do they
follow tne sun; whence they come whi
ther they go, as yet we know not. We
aec them here, some in summer, some in
Winter.
Many strange places, in creeks, havens,
promontories, straiglits,iake.sbathes, rocks,
been ruined or swallowed, battles fought,
creatures, sia-nionsters, minerals, vegculs.
Zoophiles were fit to be considered in
such an expedition, and amongst the rest.
Vert mumms wohderful palm, (that bear*
etli fruit* to eat. Wood to burn, bark to
make ropes, wine and water to drink, oil
and sugar, and leaves as tiles to Oliver
houses, flowers for clothes, £jfu. ]; that
that fly in Hispaniola, tnat shines like a
torca in the night, that one may w ell'sec
to write; those spherical stones in Cuba
which nature hath so made, and thosi
like birds, beauts, fishes, crowns, swotxls.
ssws, pots, etc. usually found in the metal
mines in Saxony. Many rare creatures
an i novelties each part ot the world as
fimls ; amongst the rest, I would know'
lor a certain whether there he any such
men os Leo Suavius in 'us comment on
araceUns and Uagumut records in his
s escrqniQi, of Mutcuvte, that, in Lucomu
jl*'province u» ttussia, he last, asleep as
<*ead*fl wmter, the 27th of No vein-
ber, like frogs and swallows, benumbed
with cold, but about the 24th of April, in
the Spring, they revive again, ..and go
about their buiinesk.
I would have a convenient to des
cend and see What is in the bowels of the
earth ; do stones and metals grow there
still ? How come firre trees to be digged
out from tops of hills, as in our mosses
and marishes all over Europe ? How come
they to dig up fish bones, shells beams,
iron-works, many fathoms under ground,
’ and-anchors in mountains far -remote from
all seas Anno 1460, at Berna in Switzer,
land 50 fathoms deep a ship was digged
out-of a mountain, wltere they got metal
ore. in which were 48 carcasses of men,
' with oilier merchandise. 'I hat such things
are'ordinarily found in tops of hills, Aris
totle insinuates in his meteors, and famili
arly in the Alpes, «uth Blancauns the Je
suite, the like is to be seen Came this
from earthquakes, or from Noah’s floml, as
Christians suppose, or is there tt vicissi
tude of sea and land, as Anaximenes held
of old, the mountains of 1 liessa.y would
become seas, and seas again mountains ;
The whole world belike should he new
moulded, when it seemed good to (hose
all-commanding Powers, and turned inside
out, as we do hay-cocks in harvest, top to
’ bottom, or bottom to top: or as we turn
apples to the lire, move lie world upon
his centre; that which is under the Poles
now, should be translated to the Equinoc
’ rial, and that which is under the torrid
zone to the circle Artiquc and Antartique
. another while, and so be reciprocally war
med by (lie sun . or if the worlds be infi
nite, and every fixed star a sun, with his
! compassing planets, cast three or four
. worlds into one ; or else of one old world
. make three or four new, as it shall seem to
. them best What is the centre of the
! earth ? 1* it pure element only, as Aristo
. tie decrees, inhabited with creatures,
, whose Chaos is the earth; or with Fairies,
, as the woods and waters arc with Nymphs,
r or as the air with spirits ? Dionisiodorus,
a mathematician in Pliny, that sent a letter
, ud tnperot after he was dead, from the
. centre of the earth, to signify what dis
- tance the same centre w-m fr..n. the wiper
t ncits ot the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums
. might have done well to have satisfied all
i these doubts. Or is it the place of hell,
. as Virgil in his xCneides, Plato, Lucian,
. Dante, and others poetically describe it,
. and as many of our Divines think ? What-
C soever philosophers write (saith Surius)
. there be certain mouths of hell, and places
. appointed for the punishment of mens
i souls, ns at llccla in Island, where the
. ghosts of dead men are familiarly seen,
f and sometimes talk with the living : God
( would have such visible places, that mor
tal men might be certainly informed that
i there be such punishments after death,
and learn hence to fear God ! Kranzius
r subscribes to this opinion of Surius, (out
f of the authority belike of St Gregory, Du
, rand, and the rest of the schoolmen, who
derive as much from Etna in Sicily, Lypa
ra, llycra, and those sulphureous Vales
nian islands) making Terra del Fuego,
and those frequent volcanoes in America,
that fearful mount Hecklebirg in Norway,
an especial argument to prove it, where
lamentable screeches and bowlings arc
continually heard, which strike a terror
to the auditors; fiery chariots arc com
monly seen to bring in the souls of men in
the likeness of crows, and devils ordinari
ly go in and out. Such another proof is
’that place near the Pyramids in Egypt,
whereoncp ayeurdead" bodies arise about
March, and walk, and after a while hide
themselves again; thousands of people
come yearly to see them. Hut these and
such like testimonies others reject,as fa
bles, illusions of spirits, ana they will
have no such local known place, more
than Styx or Phlcgeton, Pluto’s court, o
that poetical Infermts, wltere Homer’s
soul was seen hanging on a tree, to which
they ferried over in Charon’s boat, or went
down at llertnione in Greece, which is
the shortest cut, (saith Gerbnlius) and be
sides there were no fees to be paid. Well
then, is it Hell, or Purgatory, as Bellar
. mine, orasltusca will (for they have made
maps of it) or Ignatius purler ? Fraciscus
Hibera will havi hell a material and local
fire in the centre of the earth 200 Italian
miles in diameter, as he defines it out of
those words. But Lcssitts will have this
local hell far less, one Dutch mile in diam
eter, all filled with lire and brimstone :
because, as he there demonstrates, that
space cubica-ly multiplied, will mske a
sphere able to hold eight hundred thou
sand millions of damned bodies (allowing
each body six foot square) which will a
bitndanlly suffice. But if it be no material
tire, as others argue) it may be thereo'r
elsewhere, fur sure somewhere ilis. 1 will
end the controvcrsic in Austin’s words.—
Better doubt of things -concealed, than <o
contend about uncertainties, scarce the
meek, the contentions shall never find.—
Whence proceed that variety of man
ners, and a distinct character (as it were)
to several nations ? Some are wise, sub
tie, witty.; others dull, sad anil heavy ;
some nig, some little, some soft, ami some
hardy, barbarous, civil, black, dun, white,
is it from the air, from the soil, inlluenct
of stars, or some other secret cause ? Why
doth Africa breed so many venomous
beasts, Ireland none ? Athens owls, Crete
none ? Why' hath Daubs and Thebes n.i
swallows, as well us the rest of Greece,
Ithaca no hart s, Pontes, asses, Scythia,
swine ? Whence come (his variety of com
plexions, colours, plants, birds, heas's, me
tals, .peculiar to almost every place ? Why
so many thousand strange birds and beasts
proper to America alone; were they cre
ated in the six days, or ever in Noah’s
ark ? if there, why are they not dispersed
and found iu other countries? ft i> a
thing hath long held me in saspence ;
no Greek, Latin, Hebrew ever heard of
them before, and yet as differing from our
European animals, as an egg and a ches
nut; and which is more, kinc, howes,
sheep, S-c, till the Spaniards brought them
were never heard df iivthose parts? How
comes it-to pass, that in the same site, in
one Latitude, to such ne arc the I‘eriaci,
ttobre should be such difference of soil,
complexion, color, nipt aI, air, £'c. The
Spaniards are whue, and so are Italians,
where as the inhabitants about Caput bomr
spei are blackmores, and yet botli alike
distant from the .'Equator : nay, they that
dwell in the same parallel bite with there
negroes, as about the straights of Magel
.an, are white colored, and yet some in
Presbyter Johns country in -.Ethiopia are
dtm { they in Zuilan and Malabar parallel
wth them again black. Our climes breed
i lice, cuiue to the Azores, by a secret vir- I
Uie ot lieu air they at e instantly consum- •
ed, and all our European vermfne almost i
saith °o6lius. Egypt is watered with j
Nilus not far from the aea, »w\ yet there i
it seldom or never rains: Klrodes, an Isl- i
and of the game-nature, yields not a cloud, i
and yet our inlands ever dropping and in- i
dining to rain The Atlantic ocean is i
still subjec' to storms, but in Del Zur, or |
Marie pacifico, seldom or never any.— |
Bohemia is cold, for that it lies all along
to,the north. Hut why should it be so
!ipt in Egypt, or there never rain ? Why
should those E esian and North-eastern
winds blow continually and constantly so
long together, in some places, at set times,
one way still, in the dog-days only ; here
perpetual drought, there dropping show
ess, here foggy mists, there a pleasant air;
here terrible thunder and lightning, at
such set seasons, here frozen seas all the
year, there open in the same latitude, tp
the rest no such thing, nay (poke oppo
site is to be found ? Sometimes, (as in
Peru) on the one aide of the mountains it
is hot, on the other cold, here snow, there
wind, with infinite such. Fromundus in
his meteors will excise or solve all this
by the sun’s motion, but when there is
such diversity to such is Perioeci, or arc of
very near site, how caul hat position hold ?
Who can give a reann of this diversity
of Meteors; that it inould rain stones,
frogs, mice, etc. rats which they call Lem
merin Norway and art manifestly observ
cd by the inhabitants o descend and fall
W'ith some Incident f.hiwers, and like so
many locusts, consume ill that is green. —
Leo Afer speaks as ninth of locusts, about
Fez in Harbary there beinfinite swarms in
iheir fields upon a suddn; so at Arles in
France 1553, the like rappenod by the
same mischief, all theirgrass and fruits
were devoured.
If the Heavens be peretrable, and no
lets, it were not amiss ii) this xrial •fro
gress, to make wings, and fly up, which
that Turk in Bosbequins, nade his fellow
citizens in Constantinope believe he
would perform : and soroi new-fangled
wits, me thinks, should sometime or Other
find out: or if that may not le, yet with a
Galilies glass, or Icaromenippus’wing in
Lucian, command the Spheres ami Hea
ven, and see what is done among-lhcm.—
Whether the stars be of that b.gaess, dis
tance, as astronomers relate, so many in
number; or as Gulilie discover! by his
glasses, infinite, and that viulactea, a
confused lig'ht of small stars, likeso many
nails in a door : or all in a row Ike those
12000 isles of the Maldives, in the Indian
ocean ? Whetherthey he thicker parts of
the orbs, as Aristotle delivers; op so -ma
ny habitable worlds, as Democritus ?
whether they have light of their own, or
from the sun, or give light round ? Whe
ther light be of their essence ; and that
light be a substance or an accident ? whe
ther they be hot by themselves, or by ac
cident cause heat; whether there he such
a precession of the .Equinoxes, as Coper
nicus holds, or that the eighth sphere
move ? Besides, an terra sit antmitn ?
which some so confidently believe; from
which all other souls of men, beasts, de
vils, plants, fishes, &?c. are derived, and
into which again, after some revolutions,
they return, as all philosophical matter in
matenan pritnum. And that every star in
heaven hath a soul, angel, or intelligence,
to animate or move it- Or to omit all
smaller controversies, as matters of less
moment, and examine that main paradox
of the earth’s motion, so ninch in question.
If the earth move, it is a planet, and shines
to item in the moon, and to the other
planetary inhabitants, as the moon & they
lo ns upon the earth ; but shine she doth,
as Galilie, Kepler, and others prove, and
then per consequence, the rest of the
planets are inhabited, as 'Well as the
moon. For if the firmament be oP such
an incomparable bigness, as these Coper
rical giants will have it, so vast and
full of innumerable stars, as being in
finite in extent, one above another, some
higher, some lower, some nearer, some
farther ofi’, and so far asunder, and those
so huge and great. Why may we not
suppose a plurality of worlds, those infi
nite stars visible in the firmament to be
so many suns, with particular fixt centres;
to have likewise their subordinate planets,
as the sun hath his dancing still round
him ? But to avoid these Paradoxes of
the earth’s motion (which the Church of
Borne hath lately condemned as heretical,
our latter mathematician's have rolled all
tlic stenes that may be stirred : and to
solve all appearances and objections, have
invented new hypotheses, and fabricated
new systems of the world, out ol their
Dcdalwan heads. Rceslin censures all,
and Ptolomens himself as insufficient: —
one olfcnds against natural philosophy,
another against optic principles, a third
against mathematical, as not answering to
astronomical observations: one puts a
great space betwixt Satnrmis’ orbe and
the eighth sphere, another too narrow.—
In his own hypothesis he makes the earth
as before, the universal centre, the sun to
the five upper planets, to the eighth
sphere lie ascribes diurnal motion, eccen
trics, epicycles lo the seven planets,
which had formerly been exploded; ami
so.
Dim vifanl vtnili villa in contraria cun-nut,
as a tinker stops one hole and makes two,
he corrects them, and doth worse himself;
reforms Hume, and marrs all. la the mean
time, the world is tossed in a blanket a
mongst them, they hoise the earth up and
dJHvu fixe a hall, make it stand and go at
their pleasures; One saith the sun stands,
another he moves; a third comes in, tak
ing them all at rebound. And so whilst
these men contend about the sun tunl
moon, like the philosophers in Lucian, it
is to he feared, the sun and moon will
hide themselves, and be as much offended
as site was with those, and send another
message to Jupiter,by some newfangled
Icaromenippus. to make an end of all those
curious controversies, ami scatter them
abroad.
But why should the sun and moon be
angry, or ta!;e exceptions at mathemati
cians and philosophers? when as the like
measure is offered unto God himself, by a
company of Theologasters; they we not
contented to see tire sun and moon, fnta-’
sure their site and distance in a glass,
calculate their motions, or visit the moon
in a poetical fiction, or a dream; not m
jest, but in good earnest these gygautical
Cyclops will transcend spheres, heaven,
stars, into that Empyrean heaven; soai
higher yet, and see what God himself
doth. The Jewish Thahnudists tike upon
them to determine how God spends ins
whole time, sometimes playing with'Levi- '
athan, sometime overseeing the world, '
etc. like Lucien’s Jupiter,that spent much' -
of the year in painting butter-flies’ wings,'
and seeing who offered sacrifice ; taling
the hours when it should rain, how much
snow should fall in such a place, which ’
way the wind should stand in Greece, e
which way in Africk. In the Turk’s Atco- «
ran, Mahomet is taken up to heaven, upon s
a I’egassus sent a purpose from him ; amd 1
after some conference with God is set on t
ground again. The Pagans paint him&man- a
gle him after a thousand fashions; our here- t
tics, schismatics, and some schoolmen, t
come not far behind ; some paint him in c
the habit of an old man, and make maps
of heaven, number the angels, tell their 1
several names, offices ; some deny God <
and his providence, some take his office
out of his hand, will bind and loose in I
heaven, release, pardon, forgive, and be I
quarter-master with him ; some call his I
G idhead in question, his povycr, and altri- 1
bales, his mercy, justice, providence;—
they will with Cecilius, why good and
bad are punished together, war, fires, 1
plagues infest all alike, why wicked men
flourish, good are poor, in prison, sick,
and ill at case. Why doth he suffer so
much mischief and evil to be done, it he
be able to help ? why, doth he not assist
the good, or resist bad, reform our wibs,
it he be not the author of sin, and let
such enormities he committed, unworthy
of his knowledge, wisdom, government,
mercy, and pr-oviclcnce ; why lets he all
tilings be done by fortune and chanrt
Some, by visions and revelations, take up
on them to be familiar with God, and lo
be of privy council wi'h him; they
will tell how many, and who shall be sav
ed, when file world shall come to an end,
what year, wliat month, ami whatsoever,
else God hath reserved unto himself, and
to hisangels Some again curious plum
tactics, will know more than this, and en
'quire with Epicurus, what God did before
the world was made ? was he idle?| Where
did he bide ? What did he make the world
of? why did he then make it, &. not before?
If he made it new, or to hiive an end, how
is he unchangable, infinite, which as our
Saviour told his inquisitive disciples, are
not fit’fbr them to know. Butlioo! lam
now quite out of sight, I am almost gid
dy with roving about; 1 coaid-have rang
ed farther yet; but lam an infant, and
not able to dive-into these profundities,
or sound these depths ; not able to un
derstand, n«:cn less to discuss. 1 leave
the contemplation of these things lo
stronger wits,that have belter ability, and
happier leisure to wade into such philoso
phical mysteries -. for put case 1 were as
able as willing, yet what can one man do ?
I will conclude with Scaliger—when God
sees his time, he will reveal lln-se myste
ries to mortal man, and shewthal to some
few at last,which he hath
For 1 am of his mind, that Columbtts-did
not find out America by chance, but God
directed him at the time lo discover it: it
as contiagent to him, hut necessary lo
God; he reveals and conceals to whom,
and wnen'iie will. And which onerud of
histories and records of former times,
God in Itis providence'to check curpre
sumptuous inquisition, wraps up all
things in uncertainty, bars us from long
antiquity, and bounds our search with
in the compass of some few ages—
Many good things are lost, which our
predecessors made use of; many new
things are daily invented, to the public
good ; so kingdoms, men, and knowledge
ebb and flow, are hid and revealed, and
when you have all done; as the preacher
concluded, jVihil eat sub sole novum. But
my melancholy Spaniels quest, my game
is sprang, and t must suddenly come down
and folio w.
From the Liverpool Mercury, Aug. 31.
THE KING.
Extracted from private Correspondence
DUBLIN, August 20
The levee was unequalled, both in point
of numbers and of rank, by any levee lha.
has been held within the memory of man,
in this country Carriages from an early
hour up to three o’clock, thronged the
great avenues leading to the -Castle.—
About one o’clock his Majesty’s carriages,
preceded by a squadron-ol dragoons, drove
up. It was not without difficulty that he
was able to pass. The spectators, who,"
crowded the windows and the streets, re
peated those animated cheers which have
followed the chariot whec's of the King
wherever he appeared in this country.
At this levee were seen crowding round
the throne, persons who, not many weeks
ago, we'e the most active and violent lea
ders of a complaining people—persons
who for many yeais stood opposed to the
will of tiie Castle, and who, in return, were
frowned down by the face of power—al
most always in this country', dark, gloomy.
■ t aml unpopular.
The grave and unobtrusive Quakers al
so appeared on this occasion in the Royal
presence. They seemed anxious to sail
down the tide of fashion ; they suffered
their hats to be taken oil’ before they
went into the presence of the King ; they
will perhaps the next time lake ofi’ their
fiats tlicmselves. The greatest novelty of
the day was the approach of the Homan
Catholic Bishops. 1 here can, 1 think, be
no doubt ofhis majesty'spartiality towards
tiie Catholics—how -else can we account
for the gracious reception which tiieir
-clergy received? This is the first time
-since the reformation that the Catholic
Church in Ireland may be said to have
reared its head; and on this day', unwreck
ed, almost unaffected by the stormy pro
secution of three hundred years, it has
raised-its mitred head in all the pomp and
splendor of its ancient power. It is cer
tainly a fact worthy ofabservalion, that the
Catholic hierarchy, unpatronised and un
salaried. known to the law for centuries
past only as objects of punishment and
degradation, should at length appear in
the presence o< royalty—unbroken in spi
rits —undiininishcd in numbers and in
splendor—and in point of moral influence
standing infinitely higher than they did
before the r. formation—than they did b t .
fort die enactments of those persecuting
laws which have so long disgraced the
English Code.—A vast number ofaddriss
es have been presented at the Levee—the
King received them ail in the most graci
ous manner. 1 stu l ed in ray last letter tha .
the Earl of Fingul was to be made one of
the knights of St. Patrick; I was correc.
in the His Lordship, previ
ous to the Levee, was introduced to his
■Majesty amongst other noblemen ; he re
ceived lire honor of Knighthood, and was',
invested with the Insignia of the order
The Catholics, I think with justice, stiz<
»pon this circumstance, as affording ano
dier proof of the Itoyal regard for their
body. Before the Levee, his Majesty sent
fur tke Earl of FingaJ, and or as pleased to
express towards that nobleman the high- U
est esteem; his Majesty assured his Lord- h
ship that he always felt the utmost regard L
for the Irish Catholics ■, he ahvaya enter- b
tained a high opinion of their steady loy- c
ally, and the opportunities afforded him 1
of looking with his own eyes on their con- t
duct, fully justified bis most ardent anti- t
cipalions <
Knights of St. Adr/cfc.-r Previous to the 1
Levee this day, his Majesty held an inves- 1
titure of the most illustrious order of St, ]
Patrick, which was attended by his grace <
the Lord Primate, and several officers be- 1
longing to the order. The following‘no- \
bleinen were introduced, when eacli re- <
ceived the honor ofKniglithooi, and were 1
invested with the insignia of the order i
Lord Craves,-as proxy fir bis Royal High- ;
ness the Duke of Cumberland, who was i
introduced between the two senior knights
the Marquess Cony ogham, and the Karl i
O’Neill. .The Marquess of Donegal, his
Excellency the Earl Talbot, the Karls of
Ormonde, Meath, Roden, Court own,- ami
Finga), were subsequently introduced be
tween the two junior knights. Sir Willum
Itctham, Ulster King of Arms, bearing the
ribbon and badge on a blue velvet cush- !
ion.
Ills majesty afterwards held an inves
lure of the most honorable order of die
Rath, when Admiral tbc honorable Thus.
Pakenham, K. It. C. and Sir .lohn Elley,
K O. R. received the honor of knight
hood.
Several Irish Noblemen were nlso se
lected as pages on tile occasion, and ma
«y noblemen and gentlemen were appoin
ted Esquires,
The King held a drawing room on Tues
day evening week. The presentations
were numerous. At a lute hour his ma
jesty retired, being much (aligned, and
supposing that he had seen the whole of
the company; but when it was intimated
that more had arrived, he immediately re
turned, solicitous to prevent any disap
pointment. After twelve o’clock a cold
collation was served up, and the tnagnifi
ounce of his majesty’s plate excited uni
versal admiration.
flis Majesty visited the Theatre on
Wednesday The number of tickets was
limited ; yet so great, war the anxiety ex
cited, that crowds assembled at the house
at three in the afternoon. At one period
it was announced that the King' was com
ing ; the curtain rose, and the hand be
gan “ God save the King.” It was a false
alarm, and the performance was disconti
nued amidst much laughter at the mistake
A little before eight his Majesty enteicd
the Royal Bov, attended by Mr Harris and
Mr. Farren, who each held a branch with
candles. The box was fitted up elegantly
with crimson cloth Earl Talbot and «-
ther noblemen were with his Majesty
The audience rose and hailed him jvith
acclamations : his Majessy bowed repeat
edly, and hats and handkerchiefs prolong
ed the testimony of respect His Majes
ty was dressed in the Windsor unifom,
Sc appeared in excellent spirits. The per
formances w ere the Duenna and St Pa
trick’s JJay. Previous to the farce, an
Irish piper was led on the stage, and, a
chair being placed for him, he sat and
played some national airs, including.
“God save the King,” “Saint Patrick’s
Day,” and' “The Sprig ol Shillela,” at
which his Majesty appeared much pleas
ed. When his Majesty rose ; n retired,
the applause was loud and incessant.
On Thursday his Majesty visited the Li
nen Hall, accompanied by a Noble retinue.
Lord Oriel conducted the King along the
galleries, which were lined with ladies and
- gentlemen, to the ware-room of Messrs.
Ooulson, who have been for many years
manufacturers to his May’- sty. The room
was hung with paintings, descriptive of
the various process used from the sowing
of the flax, to the completion of the
manufacture. In the centre of the room,
a cloth of the most exquisite workman
ship Was spicad, with which the King ap
peared highly pleased. At the ton and
bottom are interwoven the Royal Arms,
in a temple of honor, and in the centre,
and along the side, are representations of
the several foreign orders with which his
Majesty bus been piesented, as well as
■ those of Great Britain. His Majesly re
mained a quarter of an hour viewing the
various fabrics prepared lor his inspec
tion. lie expressed the pleasure the ex
hibition afforded him, and took leave of
the proprietors la the most gracious man
ner.
■His Majesty nest visited the Bank of
Ireland, where splendid preparations had
been made by the Directors. His Majes
ty was conducted, in the first instance, to
the great Cash-office. On this occasion
a gallery was erected, which went round
the whole, covered with red cloth, and
completely filled with elegantly djvssod
females. He next inspected the Tians
fer-office, and the Armory, and rooms
where the machinery casts off the notes.
With the latter he was particularly pleas
ed, and by bis questions and remarks,
evinced a thorough knowledge of the
arts. His Majesty was next conducted to
the proprietor’s room, where tables were
splendidly laidfor 180 persons, and filled
with every delicacy and the choicest
wines. Immediately under the statue of
the late Monarch, a chair of state was
placed for his Majesty. Every tiling which
luxury could demand; or genius invent,
was profusely supplied. Mis M.je.siy ex
pressed to the Governor his great appro
bation of the beauty and system of the
establishment.
In the evening, his Maj’esty honoured
the Lord Mayor and Corporation with
his presence .at dinner, in the magnifi
cent apartment lately constructed in the
rear of the Mansion-house, for the pur
pose. The room is circular; 100 feet in
diameter, without any support but the
externa] walls A splendid throne was
prepared for his Maj’esty. The numerous
guests arrived generally by seven- The
gallery was completely filled by the fe
male rank and beauty of the metropolis,
whose brilliant fancy dresses and tower
ing plumes formed a splendid and facinat 1
iog coup d’ail. HU Majesty was received
at the Mansion-house by the Lord Mayor it,
aldermen, & the internal guard was com
posed of gentlemen, in elegant uniform, Si ‘
with battle axes The Baltle-ase Guard was
also in attendance. In the great drawing
room? bis Majesty conferred the honor
of knighthood upon the Recorder and
two Sheriffs: whereupon the former <
delivered, in the name of the Cor
jiflration, a suitable and affectionate ad
dress. As his Majesty entered the dining
oom, the whole assembly rose, and the <
band played “ God save the Kiag.” “His
Majesty walked up the middle of the
loom with towering dignity, supported by
be Lord Mayor, who conducted
ns throne.” Grace being Sa ;,i ■
Lord Primate, the Lord \l avor X
Ins Majesty to soup, but his‘ vi'fl
observing some of the guests uJJX
he in the most corniest ndinj II
took the ladle and helped .the Urd «
tenant and others- The Kintr,
drank tire health of his
l-ord Mayor and Lieutenant. i
being; removed,, the Lord Mayor rosX
proposed the health of ( »(Jur mo-t fl
ons Sovereign, who had honot.rcd'tl.M
iiis Corporation of the city
with his presence.” The mast W B
ceived With the roust enthusiastic an tB
Ilis Majesty here rose, and having bX
m a gracious manner to those arou,rX
and also to the ladies hv the galluX
down amidst thunders of applause ’■
band struck up the national anthem I
the whole vocal slrengtli of the Ci ifl
eluding Miss Stephens, joined dX
whicit appeared to give great salislaX
to his Majesty, as lie kept lime
hand upon the table. Ili a Majesty ■
having taken wine with all those iii-.S
ately about him, imimaitt’d his wish X
tiie, an.l the t cccssary a. ran
tog made, at a few minutes
o clock his Majesty stood up, and,
edhy the Lord Mayor and all IheGieX
fiueis (f Stale, proceeded dawn
trees the room, all the company stl
mg. 7 lie Lord Mayor returned to I
company. Many appropriate toasts X
drank, and concluded with (hutg.u-iH
the Lord Mayor, “Our most
verign, George the Four'll, The KinX
liifciAMi.” 7'he hand again plajeu -H
save the King” and the company senX
ed. I WI
On Friday hi.s Maj< sty visited the
lin Society, alter wlik'h he left my, X
Slant 1 , the scat of the Marquis ufUnX
ham. jPI
A numeiotis m .-eting was held on
day week, of the Nobility , Clrrgy.X
others,the Lord Mayor inthe CfaiiH
the purpose of raising a subscription h]
testimonial, to commemorate his
ty’s visit, when it was re.-olved thi.tX
National Tes.iinonial he erected Wki
lie subscription, and that a subsci ;B|
for this purpose be forthwith opeuciHk
In the course ot a f yy niiiin.'res, the Bk.
sciiption l.sts were filled to the amKt
of several thousand pounds. W
[The following is an extrret
London Clone; and as a envio., i
paniment, we hav? put aft; it, dia iH|
on ’he death of Sheridan by Moor, l &
eaders will perceive many personal
s ions to his Majesty, which do i,m ct
port with the compliment that lie cnBH
vored to pay,.] W
“ Dublin , Avgust 21—The King
to the 7 hcatre to-morrow tverm
play and farce selected by his M.
bath from the pen ol the late
Drinstey Sheridan ” S
Prlncijiibm fitucuhse v'ris Uo:u^B
Vks, grief will have way—b it the
falling tear K
Shall be mintrl.il with deep
on those, By
Who could bask in that Spirit’s u.er'Bt
career, »
And yet leave it thus lonely an,| y Kb:
its close:— H
Whose vanity flew round him K 1
By the odour his fame in iu »-
time gave;— ■e
Whore vanity now with quick mt
tire dead, pi
Like the Ghole of the Last, conic
feed at iiis grave! fl 1 '
Oh! it sickens the heart to see
hollow, S|
And spirits so mean in the great aH
high ■ born; K
To think what a long line of titles
follow B
The relics <;f him who died—fricniUß.
and lorn! B,
How proud they can press to the
array . B
Os one, wliom they slut lin’d in his
ness and sorrow:— B
How bailiff’s may seize his last blanket, tH.
Whose pall shall be held up by
to-morrow! B.
And Thou, too, whose life, a sick r’H
cure’s dream, B
Incoherent and gross, even grosser
Were it not for that cordial and
mg beam, , ( H
Wliich his friendship and wit o cr
nothingness cast; — K
c
No, not for the wealth of the land
supplies tliee B,
With millions to heap upon fopper
shriiu; —
No, not for the riches of all who
thee, X
Tho’ this would make Europe s '' |r '
opulence thine; K.
Would I suffer what —tv’n in the iicsß
that thou hast— B
All mean as it is—must have consctw
ly huniM,
When 'the pittance, which shame b&B
wrong from tliee at last, B
And which found all his wants at
end, was return’d!* B
“ Was this (lien the fate!”—future
will say, . ~
When some names shall live but m
lory’s curse;
When truth will be heard, and these
of a day ~
Be forgotten as fools, or remember u •'
worse: — jB
« Was this then the fate of that
edman, X
“The wide of the palace, the
and the hall, . , ■
“ The orator—diamatisl —ministrei B
“ Through each mode of the Iy re > H
was master of all! ■
“ Whose mind was an essence, coift-H
pounded with art „ ■
m From the finest and best of all o " H
men’s powers:—
“Who ruled, like a wizard,the * Bl H
the heart, vr'r-.f B
**And could call up its sunshine. cr "■* ■
down its showers! B
