divine-and when I introduced you to each other, good Lord! what lore and logic followed-'faith, I thought halfa-dozen of such heads would set the world in flames, in a month, (lunar,) and I am not now sure that seven would not do the job.

I have a strong idea of publishing some of my doggerel; Longman and his host of adjuncts have offered me 6501. but I refused-not from vanity, (no, 'pon my honour,) but I wish to stand upon my own merits, and challenge the true opinion of the world.

An Oxford friend of mine (a M. A.) spoke to me the other day about your paper, hinting, that if you had any wish to retire from the conduct of it, a ́ ́ cool' 20001, would be at your service, -muttering something about advances on a contingency; I almost think I affronted him, for I laughed in his face, -I made the amende honorable as well as I could, however, by mentioning its high solicitation over the water.

But I must, pro tempore, nold my peace, for the Bath vellum is (are not you?) exhausted, and your friend D. is attending to his duties, near St. Stephens, so that I have not a frank for it; therefore, my dear believe me, Thine absolutely and for ever, W. B. L.

P. S. I fancy I must soon borrow a column or two in your paper, for the purpose of doing a good deed. There happen to be sundry worthy literati whose knuckles require to be rapped, and as I have had a rod in my pickling jar for some time past, I shall speedily make an application of it; you guess to whom I am making allusion,

therefore mum.

ANCIENT COIN.

stroyed by fire on the 1st January 1702, and rebuilt A. D. 1703. There is in each a hall and chapel.

Barnard's Inn.-An inn of chancery belonging to Gray's Inn, situate on the south side of Holborn, near Castle Street; it was anciently called Mackworth's Inn, as given by the executors of John Mackworth, Dean of Liucoln, A, D. 1453, about which time it is believed to have been made an inn of chancery.

cient and noble family of the Grays
having resided here from A. D. 1315,
until the latter end of the reign of
King Henry the Seventh. But, not-
withstanding this residence of the Grays,
it is observed from good authority, that
the students of the law held this house
by lease from the Lord Gray of Wilton,
in King Edward the Third's reign; and,
about eight years after, a bargain and
sale of the manor of Port Pool (or
Grays Inn), made to Hugh Denys, the
prior and monks of Sheene, near Rich-
Clement's Inn.—Also an inn of chan-
mond, got licence to purchase lands
in mortmain to the value of 1001. per (not so called from the well,) but both
cery, situate near St. Clement's Church,
annum; and, accordingly, they had the church, inn, and well from the
granted to them the said manor with
the appurtenances, four messuages, cated, Clement, a word signifying
pope to whom the church was dedi-
four gardens, one croft, eight acres of mild, and of which name there have
land, and which the said prior and been one bishop and many popes of
monks of Sheene possessed, and which
they devised to the students of the law Rome; it is believed that the church
was dedicated to Clement the First,
for the rent of 61. 13s. 4d. per annum, who was (according to Dr. Heylin's
as appears by the register of the house, Catalogue of the Bishops and Popes
and which they so held until the geof Rome,) the first after St. Peter, who
neral dissolution of monasteries by had the charge of the Christian church
Parliament, 30th Henry VIII.; which about the year of Christ 94. Mr. Stow
then coming to the crown was granted
to them soon after by the said king in says, the word Danes was annexed be-
fee, in the 32d Henry VIII.; the said other Danes were here buried. It is
cause Harold*, a Danish king, and
rent of 61. 13s. 4d. was paid to the supposed the students of the law had
king's use for one whole year as per
their inns or lodgings here about A. D.
accounts of the treasurers. Vid. Orig: 1478. It is said to have descended to
Jur. p. 172. and thus it has continued the Earls of Clare from Sir William
ever since.
Hollis, lord mayor of London, A. D.

the

The first reader of this house was

John Spelman, Esq. A. D. 1516, first
treasurer, A. D. 1530.

There are several coats of arms in
the hall, among which are those of
Lord Gray of Wilton; Sir Nicholas
Bacon, keeper of the great seal; Sir
Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam; and
Sir John Spelman, one of the judges
of the King's Bench.

To the Editor of the Literary Chronicle.
As to the buildings,-the chapel is
SIR,-1 am ashamed to be so trou-supposed to have been erected soon
blesome to you and your readers, but after the inn was established: it is of
since I sent my letter, which appeared the Gothic order, and appears to have
in your last Chronicle, I have disco- undergone a thorough repair in 1699;
vered that on the reverse side of the
coin, found in Spa Fields, are these
letters,-D A V D. As it may throw
much light on the information which I
have already communicated, I trust
you will indulge me with this note's
insertion.

Your's, &c. P.

Londiniana,

No. XIX.

THE INNS OF COURT, &c. &c.

(Concluded from p. 237.) Grays Inn. Another and last of the ians of court; so named from the an

there are no burials in it, nor, conse-
The roof
quently, any monuments.
of the hall is finely built of oak timber
in the manner of Westminster Hall.

Serjeant's Inns.-Are two, the one
situate on the south side of Fleet Street,
opposite Fetter Lane; the other in,
Chancery Lane, on the east side, and
near the end adjoining to Clifford'

Inn.

Mr. Stow says these inns were tended solely for the use of the judges and serjeants.-(Vide prefatory remarks to these inns).

The one in Fleet Street was de

1539, who had it from one Cantlows, about the year 1528.

of chancery, situate on the north side Clifford's Inn.-Another of the inns of Fleet Street, by Saint Dunstar's Church, and so named as being he city residence of the honourable fanily of Cumberland descended, Robert of the Cliffords (from whom the Earls thereof by grant from King Edward de Clifford having the inheritance the Second, A. D. 1309, to hold by the service of one penny paid into the exciequer at Michaelmas; and it came to the king for certain debts due to hin from one Malcoline de Harley, estheater to Edward the First, on this sile the Trent; and the widow of the aid Robert demised it, A.D. 1337, to students in the common law for the rent of 101. and afterwards by a grant thereof to Nicholas Sulyard, Esq. principal of this house, and other seniors, in consideration of 600l. and 41. per annum, which is most probably continued to the lawyers ever since.

Harold's body was taken up and thrown into the Thames by order of Hardicanute, and was afterwards found by a fisherman and buried in this church-yard.

If he hasten not back to his desolate maid ;—
If the strings of conviction, with sorrows that
burn,
Do not check his career, and inspire his return.even of the principal care of the pro-
Oh die not, thou feminine suff'rer, in love!
There are trials and traits that their sweetnesses

'Go, gaze on that of the gazelle,

painter and the sculptor had galleries in which their works were exhibited, there was no place where the engraver could display the productions of lis talents, save in the window of a print. shop. This defect is now remedied, by the public-spirited exertions of Mr. Cooke, who has opened a splendid gallery in Soho Square, where upwards of four hundred of the best productions of living artists are displayed. We have not, at present, room to notice the prints separately, which we defer to a future number, but we most Hay-warmly recommend the exhibition to every amateur and patron of the Fine Arts. We quote an extract from the address prefixed to the catalogue, and have much pleasure in adding, that the exhibition is under the immediate patronage of his Majesty :

trasted with the milder and less stre-mixed excellence than his Venus and nuous faith of Silas, which finds its Mars.' The style of beauty is pervent in the startling emotions of won- fectly national, though of such a nader. The sketch for his Chevy Chase,' ture, that no person could wish it less by Mr. Bird, is a strong and vigorous so; we did indeed 'see Helen's beauty effort of his genius, rough, like the in a brow of Egypt,' understanding tumulus of departed heroism, yet con- the words, however, in a different sense taining, within its unpolished exterior, from what was intended by the great the remains of the heart that was dar-master from whom the expression is ing to design, and of the hand that was extracted. For the eye which gives strong to execute. We were also high-the great fascination to this exquisite ly delighted with the Satan and Ithu- painting, we must say to the readerriel,' of the former of these artists: a performance, of which it may be said It will assist thy fancy well.' with justice, that it breathes the very Enchanting, however, as is Mr. soul of Milton, striking the soul back ter's Cleopatra, she is not the classical upon itself in the fearfulness of subli- Cleopatra of antiquity; she is not the mity, and charming the attention by the Cleopatra, whose style of beauty has exquisite tone of fancy which breathes been transmitted to us on the imperishthroughout. The Titanian form of able medal; we miss the Lion Port, 'Hell's mighty Paramount,' and the the awe-commanding face,' before angels 'severe in youthful beauty,' which the unconquered soul of a Cæ- The degree of perfection which the are delineated and grouped with exqui-sar could bow in vassalage, enchained Art of Engraving has attained in this site felicity, and the colouring and chi- by a sublimity of beauty worthy of his country, will, it is presume 1, fully sancaroscuro of the piece are accordant to own nobility of spirit, and not by the tion any attempt at bringing the producthe strain of sublimity which ennobles luxurious glance of an engaging syren. tions of living British engravers more imit. The figures of the mortal Drama The Queen of Egypt and the enslaver mediately under the notice of an enlightened and generous community. tis Personæ have, perhaps, hardly of the world's enslaver was, we believe, The professors of this interesting and enough of the beau ideal to bring to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare, of Beau-highly useful art, have long feit the neces our recollection the state of unalloyedmont and Fletcher, and not the Cleo-sity of establishing some means of direct happiness before the fall. Jack Cade patra of Dryden. Having now gone communication with its patrons and adentering London,' by J. Cawse, is a through most of the best pictures in mirers, and have to regret the little opporspirited and effective piece; it brings the British Gallery, we shall take our tunity hitherto afforded to the members back to our remembrance all that 'soul leave of the Institution, merely observ-of the profession in general, of becoming of him' which characterizes the story as ing, that with all its excellencies, and less with the merit and excellence of nuacquainted even with the nature, much told by our own beloved Shakespeare. with all the good which we know it has merous contemporary works, the display The bonnet rouge forming the stand-been the means of producing in the of far the greater number of their proard of the ragged and tumultuous professional world, we could have ductions being necessarily confined to troop; the mock majesty, and down-wished that it had been rather more the libraries of the affluent, the folios of glancing dignity of the ignorant and exclusively confined to the higher the collector, and the private studies of upstart demagogue; the hail Morti- branches of painting. W. H. PARRY. the artist. mer,' and doffed bonnet of his obsequious companions, are all represented with an infinite vein of humour, which cannot be traced but by ocular serutiny. There is, perhaps, not quite WHATEVER difference of opinion enough of the disgusting concomitants exist as to the state of the Fine which are met with in scenes of this na- Arts generally in England, it must be ture; it is more like a representation of acknowledged, that in the particular such an occurrence in a masque of the branch of Copper-plate Engraving, we M. BELZONI'S EXHIBITION. Elizabethean age, where the characters have, during the last half century, are supported with all the humour and made the greatest advancement, if not M. BELZONI, to whose enterprising animation necessary, yet without in reached the highest pitch of which it is exertions we are indebted for some cufringing on those rules of decorum, capable. This improvement has dif-rious and highly interesting discoveries the absence of which would have confused itself universally, and its advan-in Egypt, has prepared an exhibition verted the palace of a maiden queen tages are felt, not only in perpetuating of a very novel character, which repreinto a parallel with the precincts of prints from the best paintings, but even sents two of the principal chambers in Thames Street. The Quarrel between in all works where embellishment or or- the Egyptian tomb, in which he was Pistol and Pym' needs no stronger nament is wanted. Our magazines no the first European that ever penetrat commendation than merely observing, longer contain heads of individuals cu- ed. Having been invited to M. Belthat it is by the same artist, and well riously engraved,' as they were former-zoni's private view, on Friday, we catr worthy of him. We could not but be ly announced, but good portraits, finish-not, though at so late a period, pass it delighted with Mr. Hayter's Cleo-ed in a style which was then quite un- over without a slight notice, promising known. Impressed with this convicto resume the subject. The two apart tion, we have long felt that while the mests M. B. has selected for represent

patra:' it is a very pleasing production, and is possessed of much more up

EXHIBITION OF ENGRAVINGS

may

BY

LIVING BRITISH ARTISTS.

'Impressed with these feelings, the engravers, whose names are herein mentioned, have united for the purpose of bringing their works more immediately before their patrons and the public at large, and have invited their brethren in the profession to co-operate with them, by sending their works to be exhibited.'

and may, ing, give a grand idea of the splendour tragedy should not be acted, of the whole sepulchre. The figures perhaps, judge of his feeling when he The circumare cast in plaster of Paris, from im- hears how very soon his declared wishes pressions taken on the spot, and paint-have been frustrated. ed with great exactness and fidelity, stances to which this has given rise are, we believe, new in the history of the from drawings made at the same time. I examining this curious monument, drama, and are likely to afford much it is as impossible not to observe the occupation to the Lord Chancellor and The rudeness of the figures, as it would be the gentlemen of the long robe. unjust and unreasonable to compare question is, whether a published play the paintings which have decorated its can be legally brought on the stage walls for nearly three thousand years, without the consent, or rather in defiWe are unwilling ance, of the author. with the finer specimens of modern art. We cannot now enter into details, but to anticipate the decision of the law, one of the finest painted groups in the but we suspect that it may be acte, whole sepulchre, consists of four fi- although the acted play cannot cergures, and represents the reception of tainly be published without an invasome distinguished personoge, by Osi-sion of copyright. At an early hour ris, the great divinity of the Egyp-on the evening that the tragedy was tians. Osiris is seated on his throne produced, hand-bills were plentifully of state, supported by pillars, on feet; distributed through the theatre, of he holds a book in each hand, and in which the following is a copy :his left the flail also. King Psammis, with his name on his belt, is presented to him by the Egyptian Apollo Areuris, who has the head of a hawk.

The public are respectfully informed, that the representation of Lord Byron's tragedy, The Doge of Venice, this evenBe-ing, takes place in defiance of the injunetion of the Lord Chancellor, which was not applied for until the remonstrance of the publisher, at the earnest desire of the noble author, had failed in protecting that drama from its intrusion on the stage, for which it was never intended.'

hind Osiris is a female figure, supposed to be the goddess Buto, with a cage

and bird over her head.

The circulation of this bill excited considerable surprise, and the fact which it disclosed tended to account for the lateness of the hour at which The plot of the trathe curtain rose.

Benintende, Chief of the Coun-Mr. Powell
cil of Ten,

Michael Steno, a young Patri

cian,
Israel Bertuccio,
Philip Calenda-

ro,
Dagolino,
Bertram,

Mr. Willmott

Mr. Wallack

Chief
Conspira-

Mr. Bromley

Mr. Meredith

tors,

Mr. Barnard

Angiolina, wife of the Doge,

Marianna,

Mrs. W. West
Miss Smithson

We have seldom regretted the loss of Kean so much as on the present occasion, for the character of the Doge is as much in his peculiar line as if it had been written for him, and, in his hands would have created a powerful effect. Mr. Cooper, however, sustained it very creditably, and displayed considerable judgment in the part; in many of the

scenes he merited and received much

applause; and in the delivery of one passage, the cheers were thrice three times repeated; we are, however, aware that this was principally owing to the sentiment; the passage we allude to was in the last scene, when the Doge is brought to execution, and he is reproached with his unheard-of crime; he replies

There's not a history

But shows a thousand crown'd conspirators The whole tablet is surmounted by Against the people; but to set them freeBut the most reOne soverein only died, and one is dying.' the winged globe. markable feature of the whole embellishment, is a procession of captives; Mr. Wallack, as the chief conspirator, consisting of red men, white men, and played the character well, and gave negroes. The red men are supposed some of the fine passages of the noble bard with good effect. Mrs. West supto be Egyptians, the black-bearded men as Jews, and the tattoed as Per-gedy has been so amply detailed in our ported the character of Angiolina very sians. Among the Egyptian curiosi- review, that we have now no occasion ably, and displayed much pathos in ties, of which M. B. has collected a to re-state it. It has been much cut the scene before the senate, where she large quantity, are varieties of idols of down for the stage; and the curtail pleads for the life of her husband. stone and wood; a mummy, opened ments have not been judiciously made. Messrs. Barnard, Bromley, and Thompin England a short time ago, and The manager seemed to be aware of son, were also entitled to praise; inwhich is the most perfect that has been this, as in the bills of that and preced-deed, all the performers exerted themdiscovered the mummy of an Egyping evenings, there was the following selves to the utmost. The tragedy was tian priest; and a manuscript on PaThose who have perused "Marino pyrus, measuring twenty-three feet. These are a few of the varieties in this Faliero," will have anticipated the necesvery interesting exhibition, which af-sity of considerable curtailments, aware fords ample conjecture to the curious, elaborate research and study to the antiquary, and abundance of moral reflection to the philosopher.

The Drama.

DRURY LANE.-With a promptitude
'honourable to the industry,' at least.
(as the play-bills term the production
of the new melo-drama) of this esta-
blishment, Lord Byron's tragedy of
Marino Faliero was produced at this
theatre, on Wednesday night. Those
who have read his lordship's preface
or our notice of the play, will have
seen the wish of his lordship, that his

apology:

that conversations or soliloquies, however
beautiful and interesting in the closet
will frequently tire in public recital. This

intimation is due to the ardent admirers

of Lord Byron's eminent talents, and will,
it is presumed, be a sufficient apology
for the great freedom used in the repre-
sentation of this tragedy on the stage of
Drury Lane Theatre.'

It has not been merely to conversa-
tions and soliloquies that the pruning
knife has been confined, but the
tragedy has been much shorn of its
poetical beauties. The following is a
list of the dramatis person :-
Marino Faliero, the Doge,
Bertuccio Faleiro, his Nephew, Mr. Thompson
Mr. Cooper
Lioni, a noble Patrician and
Mr. Foote

Senator,

:

not received with the enthusiasm we had anticipated, and there was some slight disapprobation. We almost suspect this was owing to our national prejudices, for which we have been so much reproached, that of having murders and executions exhibited before us on the stage, while, in other countries, they are always done behind the scenes. In this tragedy, the curtain falls when the executioner has raised his sword to give the fatal blow. At t e conclusion, Mr. Russel came forward and addressed the audience as follows:

must rest until the Lord Chancellor decides the question, which we hope he will soon do, as it involves a question of the utmost importance as to literary property.

On Tuesday, a new drama in three acts was produced, entitled Mother and Son,' from the pen of Mr. Moncrief. It is founded on a very trivial incident, and is not rendered very in teresting in the way in which it is managed. Harley had a bustling character, which he, of course, played well, and Miss Smithson gave a good support to the piece, which was well received.

played a tune; he also took up, by
the same means, a table, two flags, a
basket containing a bottle, and a glass.
The two last articles he placed on the
table, helped himself to a couple of
glasses of wine, and then drank the re-
mainder from the decanter. He then
waltzed, and, with the most perfect
self possession, kept time with the
music. He finished by placing the
toe of one foot in his mouth, while
suspended from the top of the
proscenium by the hook and staples
which attached his other foot to it. In
this fearful exploit he received inuch
applause, not unmixed with dread and
anxiety.

theatre, and Miss Copeland, displayed" their comic powers to much advantage. Several novelties are said to be in preparation, among which is included, a novel melo-drama, founded on Lord Byron's tragedy, which, from the known talents of Mr. Dibdin, we doubt not, he will dramatise very successfully.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. -The performances at this theatre, on its opening, were of that popular cast which are well calculated to ensure a continuation of the patronage it has long enjoyed. The house has been splendidly decorated, and opened with two new pieces and the much admired melodrama of the Secret Mine.

The company is

COVENT GARDEN.-One of the most splendid melo-dramatic spectacles we have ever seen was produced at this SURREY THEATRE.-Mr. Dibdin theatre on Monday evening. It is en- commenced his summer campaign on SADLER'S WELLS commenced its titled Undine, or the Spirit of the Wa- Monday; and, although the house has season on Easter Monday, with three ters, and is founded on a German fairy only been closed three weeks, yet he new dramatic pieces: the first, a balromance of that name, by the Baron has been so industrious, as to have en- let, Leon and Lisette, does much credit de la Motte Foque, which has been tirely changed its face, by elegant and to the taste of Mr. St. Albin; the translated by Mr. Soane. The follow-chaste decorations. The proscenium dances were elegant and chaste, and ing is an outline of the story:-Undine presents a beautifully receding balus-executed with graceful skill by the is a Naiad, whom Kuhleborn (Farley), trade, supporting trophies which sur- performers. The second piece, a methe King of the Waters, had stolen from round the royal arms, backed by a lodrama, called The Mountain Hut, her father's care in her infancy, and bright horizon.-The ceiling forms or the Tinker and his Son, translated placed in the cottage of a fisherman. the concave of a perforated dome, from the French, excites a lively interThere she grows up to be a blooming through which a clear sky apparantly est, and is well sustained by a very beauty, apparently born to blush un-lights the whole structure; the pre- competent company, many of them seen,' for Kuhleborn, by his power, fills vailing hues of which are pale violet, from the theatres royal. The third, an the surrounding forests with spirits and stone colour, blue, and silver, with a extravaganza, called Easter Hunting, goblins, which deter all access. Sir light-blue drapery round the side of or the Johnny Newcomes at Epping, Huldibrand, a chivalrous knight, how- the galleries.-The upper boxes and is a very laughable burlesque upon ever, penetrates the forest, and, after gallery-fronts are embellished with al- cockney sportsmen. various adventures, arrives at the cot- ternate fancy patterns of trophies, scroll too numerous for individual remark, yet tage, where he beholds and loves the work, and Arabesque ornaments.- we cannot pass ovet in silence Mr. fair Undine. He succeeds in rescuing The dress circle is elegantly fronted Keely's Clemmy, a pauper apprentice, her from his thraldom, in spite of the with groups, in relief, of stone colour, which he played with much truth and exertions of the Water King and his hatched with silver, executed in a mas- most divertingly. Mr. G. Smith, Mr. chief goblins, and conveys her safe to terly and classic style, expressing in Paine, and Miss Johnstone, are among the castle. The subject affords a fine compartments en-suite, the stories of the vocal performers, and the very opportunity for the scene painter, and Venus and Adonis, Hypomenes and great exertions of the new manager, Grieve and Pugh made the most of it. Atalanta, Pan and Apollo, Judgment Mr. Egerton, in every department, The submarine grotto of Kuhleborn, of Paris, Daphne, Acteon, Phaeton, merit, and will, no doubt, receive the the colonnade of the palace, and the Dancing Nymphs, Satyrs, &c. The support of the dramatic public. chrystal palace itself, which is afterwards spandrels of the dome and architecture converted into a temple of the free phi- of the ceiling are also relieved with sillosophers, are matchless efforts of scenic ver hatchings. These, however, are art. The characters were well sustained not the only attractions of the Surrey by Farley, Abbot, Grimaldi, Mrs. Da- Theatre, which has always had supevenport, and Miss Dennett; the piece rior patronage, even when its inferiority was received with the loudest appro- as to decoration was manifest. The bation, performances of the evening were the The length to which we have extended the terrific and eventful melo-drama of review of Lord Byron's tragedy, and the Bishop Fifty Weddings and Nine and Forty of Winchester's Life of Fitt, must be our apoloMurders;' an interesting melo-drama-gy for the omission of several articles prepared tic spectacle, intitled Alonzo the Brave for the present number. and the Fair Imogine,' and founded upon Monk Lewis's celebrated poem. After which, a new comic burletra was produced, intitled The Two Gregories,' in which Fitzwilliam, Mr. Watkins, who has been re-engaged at this

In the course of the evening another novelty was exhibited; that of the Sieur Davoust, who presented the audience with a March Aurienne, traversing the cone of the proscenium with his head downwards. In performing this extraordinary feat, Davoust seemed perfectly at ease. He threw a line down on the stage, and then drew up a drum, on which he

COBURG THEATRE. This house,. which has also received considerable decorations during the recess, opened with new pieces, which appeared to give much satisfaction to the audience.

TO READERS & CORRESPONDENTS.

A. G. on the Plagiarisms of a popular living poet, Mr. Parry's Criticism on Miss Dance, and Portraits of Living Dissenting Ministers,'

No. III. in our next.

The favours of L., J. R. P., G. A. N., and have been received.

The review of Ruding's Coinage will be resumed.