GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. -Arrangements of the Magazine - Identity of Charles Lloyd-The Custom of Hodening-Family of Metcalfe.... HORACE TWISS'S LIFE OF LORD ELDON....... Further Remarks on the Pottery called Samian NOTES ON BATTLE FIELDS AND MILITARY WORKS. No. II. The Devil's Anecdotes of John Callow, the Medical Bookseller Remarks on the Coif de Mailles and Chaperon Account of Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire........... Submarine Forests on the Norfolk Coast Derivation of the name of the Devil's Dyke, &c.... Picture of Sir John and Lady Donne at Chiswick Account of Gorhambury House, Hertfordshire (with a View) On a Portrait of Baltazar Castiglione, with a Collar of SS... Account of the Castilion Family Remarks on the British Archæological Association Stone commemorating a Duel fought at Canterbury 1695 (with a Cut) 48; Ruins of St. Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury The Despatches and Letters of Lord Viscount Nelson, edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, 49; Roberts's Life of James Duke of Monmouth, 52; Mrs. Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy, 53; Hecker on the English Uni- versities, 54; St. Bonaventure's Life of Christ, 55; Christie on Holy Virginity, 57; Hildebrand, or the Days of Queen Elizabeth, 58; Re- searches on Light, by Robert Hunt, 59; The Thornton Romances, edited by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. 60; The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church : Homilies of Elfric, with a Translation by Benjamin Thorpe, Esq. 61; Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, &c. ib.; Mis- ........ ...... LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. University of Oxford, 69; University of Cambridge-Westminster School, 70; Royal Society-Botanical Society, 71; Civil Engineers-Royal Society of Literature, 72; Syro-Egyptian Society-John Aubrey ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Numismatic Society, 76; The Coin Forgers, 77; Cambridge Antiquarian Society-The Canterbury Museum, 78; Antiquities at Radipole, Dorset HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 80; Domestic Occurrences Promotions and Preferments, 88; Births and Marriages OBITUARY; with Memoirs of the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester; the Countess of Berkeley; the Earl of Limerick; Lord Saye and Sele; Lieut.- Gen. the Hon. Sir R. L. Dundas; Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Cameron; Major- Gen. Sir Leonard Greenwell; Col. Sir C. W. Dance; Sir S. G. Higgins, K.C.H.; the Dean of Limerick; Mrs. Hofland; W. S. Boyd, Esq.; W. 92-103 Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets-Prices of Shares, 111; Meteorological Diary-Stocks.. Embellished with a View of the RUINS OF GORHAMBURY HOUSE, Hertfordshire, ...... ........ MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. With an anxiety that our pages should be the vehicle of as large a quantity of useful information as their dimensions will allow, both for present intelligence and future record, we have made some slight modifications of arrangement in our present Magazine. It has been thought that our list of New Works, though we have endeavoured to make it an impartial catalogue of all that was published of real importance, has still been a less interesting feature than the space it occupied was worth, particularly as the same information may be gathered (with a little more trouble) by consulting The Publishers' Circular, or Bent's Literary Advertiser, papers freely diffused and generally accessible. The space thus gained will hereafter, we trust, be found to be supplied by matter of greater interest. It is our purpose to devote our attention with unabated perseverance to the advance of historical knowledge, whether as developed by the researches of literary men, or by the accidents of time and local changes. To all that concerns ancient literature, ancient art, or ancient architecture, we shall continue to pay a constant attention. Our record of local changes will be extended, with a particular attention to public buildings and public institutions, and arranged under counties in alphabetical order. For this new feature we respectfully invite the co-operation of our correspondents, either by their own pens, or by the communication of provincial newspapers. Since the obliging reply of I. I. appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for September last, p. 226, L. L. H. has examined minutely into the Life of Wm. Taylor, of Norwich, respecting Charles Lloyd. L. L. H. thinks that Charles Lloyd was "the intimate friend of the lake poets, the Coleridge and Southey, Lloyd and Lamb and Co. of the Antijacobins." That Charles Lloyd was the "intimate friend" of Robert Southey is evident, from the Life of Wm. Taylor of Norwich, I. 226, 232, 274-5, 520. That he was the "intimate friend" of Charles Lamb appears from the second volume of Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, which ascribes to him the work entitled "Poems in blank verse, published in conjunction with those of his friend, Charles Lamb, 1798, 12mo." This identity is further strengthened by Watt ascribing to Charles Lloyd two other works,-1, "Lines on the Fast;" 2, "Letter to the Antijacobin Reviewers," both of which are mentioned by Robert Southey, in a letter contained in the Life of Wm. Taylor of Norwich, I. 274. That Charles Lloyd was not "the Rev. Dr. Lloyd, a dissenting minister, who married a sister of the late Sir James Smith," the Life of Wm. Taylor of Norwich affords external evidence, for we find, vol. i. p. 520, that Charles Lloyd's sister married the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, (the brother of the poet, Wm. Wordsworth.) This agrees with the account contained in Burke's History of the Commoners, vol. iv. p. 113, (edit. 1828,) or in the more recent one of 1844, p. 753, from which I extract the following genealogical account ol Charles Lloyd:-Charles Lloyd, of Birmingham, co. of Warwick, is a lineal descendant of the family of the Lloyds of Doloboan. He was the eldest son of Charles Lloyd, (a memoir of whom is in Gent. Mag. xcviii. i. 279,) who married Mary, only daughter of James Farmer, esq. Bingley House, Birmingham. Charles Lloyd (the subject of the present inquiry) was born 12th Feb. 1775, and married April 24, 1799, Sophia, daughter of Samuel Pemberton, esq. of Birmingham, and had issue 5 sons and 4 daughters. In the British and Foreign Review, xvii. 232, it is stated that Charles Lloyd "settled at Brathay in Cumberland." Among other works he published a "Poem on the Death of his Grandmother, Prescilla Farmer, 1796, 4to." L. L. H. has been unable to ascertain whether or not Charles Lloyd translated "Alfieri's Tragedies," attributed to him in the British and Foreign Review, xvii. 232, Lord Byron's Works, vii. 277; but to Charles Lloyd, L.L.D. in 2nd vol. of Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica. The references to Charles Lloyd in the Life of Wm. Taylor of Norwich are as follows: Vol. I. 222, 225, 226, 227, 231, 232, 233, 274, 275, 520, 522. W. J. T. is anxious for information relative to the practice of "Hodening," or carrying a horse's head in procession, formerly observed in Kent, at Christmas Eve; more particularly, whether the custom still exists, &c. A CONSTANT READER asks for the de.. scent from younger sons in the last two generations (1640-1720) of the family of Metcalfe, of Nappa, Yorksh. (Whitaker, Richm. vol. i.); the object being to ascertain who was nearest to the head of the house on the extinction of the elder male line in 1756. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon. By Horace Twiss, Esq. 3 vols. IF there is any branch of literature which of late years has extended itself more widely, and borne richer fruit than it did of old, we think that it has been that connected with the biography of those eminent men who lived in the present age, or in that immediately preceding it. It is true that some evil has come along with the good; and that those graceful testimonials which the hand of friendship has given to departed worth and talent, have been accompanied by very heavy and tiresome commentaries on the actions and sayings of ordinary people; as every handsome and splendid procession has also an attendant mob, impairing its lustre, and impeding its way. Because we have a clever life of an orthodox and dignified clergyman, it is not necessary that we should also wade through the prolix correspondence and very ordinary sayings of a dissenting minister; or, because we delight in tracing the discoveries and watching the labours of a Watt or a Dalton, it does not follow that we must derive equal pleasure from a tedious narrative of a provincial artisan. Among, however, the most useful as well as delightful works of the kind that have appeared, we think those connected with the profession of the law are entitled to peculiar eminence; and we should consider such works as the lives of Romilly and Horner and Mackintosh, as text-books for those to study who aspire to the same honours of the profession which they reached, by the same arduous and honourable means. Such works as these are, like statues or pictures, representations of the men themselves, speaking as it were with a living voice, and in authentic words of encouragement exhorting the youthful student to labour, patience, and hope. Every succeeding page of such personal history comes on us with a lighter and brighter hue; we see as we advance difficulties disappearing, disadvantages overcome, and a new and unexpected pathway opened up the hills. Examples like these stimulate our flagging energies, they cheer us in our toilsome labours, they breathe vigour into our exhausted hopes, and bid us not despair of achieving anything, however discouraging or remote, which the genius or patience of others have accomplished before us. What is a volume of biography, but an invitation to the company of the dead, in which we listen to them, as they detail the impressive history of their past lives, confess their failures, recount their struggles, their victories and triumphs; recal the memory of the long years of painful suspense and disappointment in their youth; and the honourable records of the growing prosperity of their after-life? Thus, to the youthful candidate for legal eminence, does the voice of Mansfield and Hardwicke, of Thurlow and of Camden, appear to speak, animating him in his progress, cheering him during the long anni silentes of his early life, and appearing as friendly stars to light him during his hours of solitary study at home, or inglorious and reluctant leisure abroad, saying, or seeming to say, "Nunc animis opus, Ænea, nunc pectore firmo." |