PREFACE. So little change has taken place in any circumstances relating to the progress of those branches of literature or science with which we are more particularly related, since we last addressed our readers, that we find ourselves nearly circumscribed to the duty of thanking them for the continuance of their support, and hoping that they will not permit the aspiring emulation of younger rivals to induce them to neglect the claims or forsake the acquaintance of their older and long-established friend. Among our present papers, we have found the "Portfolio of a Man of Letters" to have been well received, and widely read; recalling to our minds, in its character or style, the "Diary of a Lover of Literature," which was reluctantly concluded some time since. We may also mention that it is now our full intention to commence our Glossary of the local words used in the Eastern Counties, which may form. a contribution to an Archæological Dictionary at once more accurate and extended than has as yet been given to the world; and which has been either fortunately or judiciously delayed till local glossaries of provincial expressions have been more generally formed; on the accuracy and fulness of which the Archæological Dictionary must depend, as general histories do on the existence of particular documents, public records, and papers of private families. Every river must be fed by its tributary streams: and on this head we may congratulate the public on the projected publication of the Stuart Papers, by command of her Majesty, parts of which we believe will soon appear under very careful and able editorship; and which will for the first time afford authentic materials for that period of our history, that has hitherto been little better than a wild and romantic story of rash adventures and hair-breadth escapes, under unexampled instances of suffering, loyalty, and courage. That which is printed, is fixed for ever: and we consider it of the utmost importance that every document connected with authority should as speedily as possible be removed from the danger of future loss, and placed under the faithful protection of the Press. No nation can boast a nobler descent than ours, or one whose annals are adorned by brighter examples of public and private virtue; but the first step in our remembrance of our forefathers' deeds should be that of piously and gratefully preserving them from the casualties of time, the chances of neglect, and the injuries inflicted on them by the ignorant or the designing, by stupidity, neglecting what it cannot understand,—or by artful and malicious cunning, which has too often destroyed for the purpose of concealing its frauds, and obliterated that which would have detected its wilful misinterpretations or indolent mistakes. It should be, if possible, placed out of the power of the future historian to say, what is recorded of one of his predecessors- "I have written my history, and your documents come too late." S. URBAN. E PLURIBUS UNUM. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. .......... MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Who was G. L. Author of "The World to Anecdotes of Julian Clement, the Court accoucheur, temp. Louis XIV... Newly discovered Autograph of Shakspere (with a Fac-Simile) Plan recommended for the restoration of the Portland Vase PAGE 3 Diaries and Correspondence of James Earl of Malmesbury, Vols. III. and IV. 49; De Foix, by Mrs. Bray, 51; Sermons, by Archdeacon Manning, 52; Macray's Manual of British Historians, 53; Player's Sketches of Saffron Walden, 55; Mrs. Loudon's Lady's Country Companion, 56; Hunter's The Maniac, &c. ib.; Eolus, ib.; Hunt's Life of Rev. E. Pearson, 57; Faber's Poems, ib. ; Bushe's View of the Evidence of Christianity, ib.; Power LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. University of Oxford, 58; University of Cambridge-Royal Asiatic Society- Royal Geographical Society--Museum of Economic Geology, 59; London ARCHITECTURE.-Oxford Architectural Society ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-British Archaeological Society..... HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.- Parliamentary Proceedings, 68; Foreign News, 70; Domestic Occurrences.. Promotions and Preferments, 71; Births and Marriages...... OBITUARY; with Memoirs of the Marquess of Downshire; the Earl of Aber- gavenny; Lord Carbery; Lord Harris; Very Rev. Sir Herbert Oakeley; David Ker, Esq.; Admiral James Carpenter; Lieut. Gen. Northey Hopkins; Major-Gen. G. J. Reeves; Rear-Admiral Poulden; Rear Adm. Ñ. D. Cochrane; Capt. Edward Blanckley; Lieut.-Col. James Anderson; William Kemble, Esq.; John Edwardes Lyall, Esq.; Henry Boys, Esq.; John Merritt, Esq.; John Walker, Esq.; Mr. Thomas Hood; Lady Stepney; Regina Maria Roche; Mr. Michael Nugent; Professor Henderson; Thomas Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis, 103; Markets- Prices of Shares-Meteorological Diary...... Embellished with a Restored View of the GATEHOUSe op Clerkenwell Priory, |