noble. Wadlow the vintner, at the Devil, in Fleet-street, did lead a fine company of soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets. There followed the Vice-Chamberlin, Sir G. Carteret, a company of men all like Turkes; but I know not yet what they are for. The streets all gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the windows. So glorious was the show with gold and silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at last being so much overcome. Both the King and the Duke of York took notice of us, as they saw us at the window. In the evening, by water to White-Hall to my Lord's, and there I spoke with my Lord. He talked with me about his suit, which was made in France, and cost him £200, and very rich it is with embroidery.'

The Coronation.

'23d. About four I rose and got to the Abbey, where I followed Sir J. Denham, the Surveyor, with some company that he was leading in, And with much ado, by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into a great scaffold across the North end of the Abbey, where with a great deal of patience I sat from past four till eleven before the King come in. And a great pleasure it was to see the Abbey raised in the middle, all covered with red, and a throne (that is a chaire) and footstoole on the top of it; and all the officers of all kinds, so much as the very fidlers, in red vests. At last comes in the Dean and Prebends of Westminster, with the Bishops (many of them in cloth of gold copes), and after them the Nobility, all in their Parliament robes, which was a most magnificent sight. Then the Duke, and the King with a scepter (carried by my Lord Sandwich) and sword and wand before him, and the crowne too. The King in his robes, bare-headed, which was very fine. And after all had placed themselves, there was a sermon and the service; and then in the Quire, at the high altar, the King passed through all the ceremonies of the Coronation, which to my very great grief I and most in the Abbey could not see. The crowne being put upon his head, a great shout begun, and he come forth to the throne, and there passed through more ceremonies: as taking the oath, and having things read to him by the Bishopp; and his lords (who put on their caps as soon as the King put on his crowne) and bishops come, and kneeled before him. And three times the King at Armes went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that now he should come and speak. And a General! Pardon also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddals flung up and down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any. But so great a noise that I could make but little of the musique; and indeed, it was lost to every body. I went out a little while before the King had done all his ceremonies, and went round the

Abbey to Westminster Hall, all the way within rayles, and 10,000 people with the ground covered with blue cloth; and scaffolds all the way. Into the Hall I got, where it was very fine with hangings and scaffolds one upon another full of brave ladies; and my wife in one little one, on the right hand. Here I staid walking up and down, and at last upon one of the side stalls I stood and saw the King come in with all the persons (but the soldiers) that were yesterday in the cavalcade; and a most pleasant sight it was to see them in their several robes. And the King come in with his crowne on, and his sceptre in his hand, under a canopy borne up by six silver staves, carried by Barons of the Cinque Ports, and little bells at every end. And after a long time, he got up to the farther end, and all set themselves down at their several tables; and that was also a brave sight: and the King's first course carried up by the Knights of the Bath. And many fine ceremonies there was of the Heralds leading up people before him, and bowing; and my Lord of Albemarle's going to the kitchin and_eating a bit of the first dish that was to go to the King's table. But, above all, was these three Lords, Northumberland, and Suffolke, and the Duke of Ormond, coming before the courses on horseback, and staying so all dinner-time, and at last bringing up (Dymock) the King's Champion, all in armour on horseback, with his speare and targett carried before him. And a Herald proclaims "That if any dare deny Charles Stewart to be lawful King of England, here was a Champion that would fight with him;" and with these words, the Champion flings down his gauntlet, and all this he do three times in his going up towards the King's table. To which when he is come, the King drinks to him, and then sends him the cup which is of gold, and he drinks it off, and then rides back again with the cup in his hand I went from table to table to see the Bishops and all others at their dinner, and was infinitely pleased with it. And at the Lords' table I met with William Howe, and he spoke to my Lord for me, and he did give him four rabbits and a pullet, and so Mr. Creed and I got Mr. Minshell to give us some bread, and so we at a stall eat it, as every body else did what they could get. I took a great deal of pleasure to go up and down, and look upon the ladies, and to hear the musique of all sorts, but, above all, the twenty-four violins. About six at night they had dined, and I went up to my wife.'-Pepys's Memoirs.

25.-SAINT MARK.

This Evangelist wrote his Gospel about the year He died in the 8th year of Nero, and was buried at Alexandria.

63.

The custom of sitting and watching in the church porch on St. Mark's eve, still exists in some parts of the north of England. The witching time of night'

is from eleven to one; and the third year the watcher supposes that he sees the ghosts of those who are to die the next year pass by into the church.-For some remarks on the belief in apparitions, see T.T. for 1823, pp. 91-93.

A belief in fairies, spirits, and witchcraft, with a variety of other superstitions, is still prevalent among the mountaineers of Monmouthshire and Breconshire, particularly those who speak no other language than their own. This belief, however, has much decreased since the great influx of strangers which the introduction of the iron works has occasioned; and it is rapidly wearing out as the English language becomes more general; but yet many of the mountains and dingles are supposed to be haunted by these supernatural beings. Dafydd ap Gwillym, a bard of the 14th century, says,

Ydoed ym mhob gobant
Ellyllon mangeimion gant :

There are in every little dingle an hundred wry-mouthed goblins. We cannot wonder at this extensive and universal belief in fairies among the unlettered children of Cambria, when we see that enlightened monarch, James I, and the learned Sir F. Bacon, maintaining their existence; and such was the general credence the whole English nation gave to the tales of these tiny beings, that Reginald Scot, the only man of his age who had sufficient sense to see the folly of it, and boldness to deny it, was by the king, and all the divines of the land, treated with contempt, and his book publickly and contumeliously burnt. It is a circumstance but very little known, that to the superstitions of Breconshire are we indebted for the amusing sprite of "The Midsummer Night's Dream,' and that the fairy Puck is not wholly the creation of Shakspeare's imagination. In the vale of Clydach, in Llanelly, near Crickhowel, is a small dingle called Cwm Pwcca, i. e. the valley of the goblin, it having been from time immemorial the persuasion of the common people that it was the haunt of a fairy. They say the elf Pwcca appears to travellers at night, leads them astray to the brink of the precipice, then bounds over the Clydach, laughing at their folly. This traditional tale was probably conveyed to Shakspeare, as were many others, particularly the characters of Sir Hugh Evans, and Flewellyn, by Richard Price of Brecon, son of the celebrated antiquary Sir John Price, of the Priory, and a MS. pedigree of that family notices him as the friend and correspondent of our immortal bard.— Note to Arthur, a Poem!'

While on this subject, we subjoin a remark of Mr. Aubrey's:'Before printing, old-wives' tales were ingeniose: and since

printing' came in fashion, till a little before the civil warres, the ordinary sort of people were not taught to reade; now-a-dayes [1686] bookes are common, and most of the poor people understand letters: and the many good bookes and variety of turnes of affaires, have putt all the old fables out of doors: and the divine art of printing and gunpowder have frighted away Robingood-fellow and the fayries.'—Aubrey MS. *28. 1825.-DOMINIQUE VIVANT DENON DIED, ÆT. 84.

He was born in a small town in Burgundy, of a noble family: destined to shine in courts, he was at first named a page of the chamber. The king, at an early age, appointed him gentleman in ordinary, and soon after, secretary of embassy; in this quality he accompanied Baron Talleyrand to Naples, and during the absence of the ambassador remained as Chargé d'Affaires, in which post he had several opportunities of displaying a rare superiority of talent, and a depth of conception, which, lying concealed under an inexhaustible fund of wit and humour, was not even suspected to exist, till the wit and courtier vanished, to make room for the diplomatist. His wit and gaiety were proverbial. Devoted to the arts with a passion that knew no limits, his mornings were entirely occupied, in Italy, in improving himself in the study of the Fine Arts, and particularly in drawing, as if he had had the presentiment that one day he should have the good fortune to render his talents of use to society, in rescuing from the ravages of time, and the still more bar

I 'In the old ignorant times, before woomen were readers, the history was handed down from mother to daughter, &c.; and W. Malmsburiensis picks up his history from the time of Ven. Bede, to his time out of old songs, for there was no historian in England from Bede to him. So my nurse had the history from the Conquest downe to Cha. I, in ballad. The price of writing MSS. before the use of printing, was xxx3 per quire.'-(Aubrey MS.)-War ton, in his Anglia Sacra, says- The use of [written] books was granted to particular persons for life, upon bond to restore them to the publick society; and excommunication was pronounced against any person who should alienate a book given to a religious society.'

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barous hand of ignorance, the treasures of remote antiquity. Selected by Buonaparte to accompany him to Egypt, he by turns wielded the sword and handled the pencil, and it was difficult to say whether he excelled in arts or arms. His stock of gaiety never left him, even in the greatest reverses, and under the severest privations: it was not an insensibility to suffering, but an enlightened philosophy, that bore him up under evils for which there was no remedy. Many instances are recorded of Denon's humanity and feeling, on crossing the Desert. They who have visited his cabinet at Paris, will recollect the terrific picture of the Arab dying in the desert of hunger and thirst: the sketch was taken from nature by Denon, whose modesty would not suffer the painter to tell the whole of the story. Denon returned with Buonaparte to France, and prepared his immortal travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, during the campaigns of this General: it would be totally unnecessary here to descant on the merits of a work which has obtained the highest suffrages, and been translated into almost all the languages of Europe. Napoleon said one day, on looking over Denon's work, 'If I lost Egypt, Denon has conquered it.'-Napoleon rewarded our traveller's attachment and superior talents by appointing him director and administrator-general of the museums and medal-mint. No medals were allowed to be struck, of which the design and execution had not received the approbation of Denon; and to this cause is to be attributed the uniform superiority of the Napoleon medals, in beauty of execution, over every other collection in the world. When it was proposed to erect a column in the Place Vendôme in honour of the grand army and the battle of Austerlitz, which was to be composed of cannon taken from the enemy in that campaign, Denon was appointed to superintend its execution. The column of Trajan, at Rome, was intended as the type, but Denon has greatly surpassed his model. On the fall of Na