27 84 급 82급 3호 483 90 91 901 914 914 914 99 17 200 1 pm. 812 9 12 pm. 11 13 pm. 91 90 14 17 99급 17종 13 12 pm. 1 2 pm. 12 14 pm. 92 92 914 1004 17 2018 2 pm. 18 14 pm. New South Sea Annuities, July 6, 80; 20, 81. South Sea Stock, July 11, 92; 17, 92. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, Bank-buildings, Cornhill, late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. [PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 1, 1831.] London Gaz.-Times- Ledger D 0 Norwich, Oxf.,Portsm..Pres. ton. Sherb., Shrewsb., Southampton Truro, Worcester 2... Aylesbury, Bangor, Barnst., Berwick, Blackb., Bridgew.. Carmar., Colch., Chesterf, Devizes, Dorch., Doncaster, Falmouth. Glouc., Halifax, Henley. Hereford, Lancas ter, Leaming Lewes, Line. Lichf. Macclesf. Newark, Newc. on-Tyne, Northamp.. Reading, Rochest.. Salish Staff., Stockport, Taunton, Swansea, Wakef., Warwick, Whiteh., Winches., Windsor, Wolverhampton, 1 each. Ireland 61-Scotland 37 Jersey 4-Guernsey 3 AUGUST, 1831. Original Communications. Memoir of James Northcote, Esq. R.A.....102 Opening of the New London Bridge.........126 Classical Literature. ........138 Gardiner Family On the Greek Moods....... On the Structure of Dictionaries............ .139 Theatre of Tauromenium...... ...140 Hurwitz on the Hebrew Language.............ib. Review of New Publications. Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Croker........141 London Pageants....... 145 Tour through South Holland..........................................147 Jones's Sermons.-The Alexandrians..........ib. Annals of My Village...... ..154 ...............ib. | .162 Works of John Knox, by M'Gairn...........155 Embellished with a Portrait of J. NORTHCOTE, Esq. R.A.; an Engraving of the CROWNS By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by J. B. NICHOLS and SON, CICERO'S HEAD, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster; where all Letters to the Editor are requested to be sent, POST-PAID. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. An OLD SUBSCRIBER remarks, with reference to the statement of A. S. (March Magazine, p. 207), that "Lord Bantry's grandfather, Richard White, esq. was proprietor of the Bantry estate when Smith wrote his History of the County more than eighty years since. A. S. may be correct in supposing the Whites to have sprung from Limerick. Simon White, esq. was Mayor of Limerick in 1696, having served the office of Sheriff in 1684. The name of White frequently occurs in the list of Mayors of Limerick, viz. Robert White in 1213, John White in 1255, &c. &c. The pedigree of Sir J. J. White Jervis (as given in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage), states John White the Baronet's ancestor to have settled in Ireland temp. Charles II. and that he was elder brother of Richard White, of Bantry, the first settler; but I think the descent from Simon White, of Limerick, 1696, more probable." C. K. says, "In your Mag. for June, p. 503, your Correspondent L.L.B. is mistaken in stating that Richard Annesley (the usurping uncle) succeeded only to the Irish honours; he was sixth Earl of Anglesey, and seventh Viscount Valentia, but by a strange fatality (or perhaps retribution for stifling the rights of his elder brother's son) his son the late Lord Valentia, afterwards Earl of Mountnorris by creation, could never obtain his seat as a Peer of England, through a suspicion of forgery in the certificate of his father's marriage. His claim as Earl of Anglesey being rejected, notwithstanding Lord Mansfield and other eminent Peers spoke and voted in his favour, his Lordship applied to the Irish House of Peers for his writ as Viscount Valentia, which after a solemn hearing was granted, thus placing him in the unique situation of being in England an illegitimate, in Ireland a legitimate, son." A YOUNG ANTIQUARY is informed that the coin found on the site of the "Blue Boar's Head" in Eastcheap, is a Dutch stenner, passed for about a penny English. Many of the same type were coined during the latter half of the seventeenth century, but without a date. A gold ear-ring of similar workmanship to that of which a figure is communicated by Mr. JERDAN in our number for March, p. 209, is engraved in the Archæologia, vol. xvIII. p. 72. This was found at Athens; the animal's head is that of a bull, but the other ornaments very nearly correspond with those of Mr. Jerdan's ring. H. inquires when Col. Boden, the founder of a Sanscrit Professorship at Oxford, died, . and where any biographical particulars of him may be found? P. J. observes, "In Matthison's Letters, translated from the German by Anne Plumptre, and published in 1799, I have met with the following passage. Speaking of Lichtenberg of Gottingen, the wittiest writer in all Germany,' the author says, the publication of his (Lichtenberg's) Illustrations of Hogarth's Prints is at length obtained, though not without much intercession on the part of his friends. This is undoubtedly the most brilliant production of his wit, and is at the same time an imperishable monument of the genius and industry of our country, before which the British illustrators of their admirable bumourist must hide their diminished heads.' (Letter xxxvii. p. 405.) I should be glad to learn if the work here noticed has ever appeared in English?"—[Lichtenberg's Illustrations of Hogarth's Prints consist of 12 volumes in 12mo,-and are illustrative of a set of 75 of the principal works of Hogarth, uniformly engraved on a large 4to or small folio size, by Ricpenhausen. Lichtenberg's work has not been translated into English, but some of his criticisms are noticed in the "Biographical Essay on the Genius and Works of Hogarth," prefixed to the Edition of Hogarth's original Works, published by Mr. Nichols, folio, 1822. EDIT.] H. H. remarks, "Des Cartes (April, p. 304,) was not altogether singular in his fancied invention of immortality. I am not acquainted with Mr. Godwin's works, but I recollect that the author of Pursuits of Literature,' who bestows some pages of ridicule on him, though not on this account, adverts to his having entertained the same notion as the philosopher. In a common mythological fable, when the Divinity is solicited to graut an immortality on earth, the prayer is attended to; but unluckily, from the suppliant having forgotten to ask perpetual youth, the whole business spoiled.” ERRATA. was Part i. p. 366. For Athbay read Athboy. P. 379, for Dunamore Castle, co. Galway, read Dunamou Castle, co. Roscommon.P. 464, for borough of Killalla read Killeleagh. The new Church at Shrewsbury, described in our last Supplement, p. 594, is in the head lines and the Index incorrectly called St. Mary's. It is in the old parish of St. Mary, but is dedicated to St. Michael, as stated in our Corres +'s letter. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. AUGUST, 1831. MEXICAN ANTIQUITIES. ON examining the various engravings of " Mexican Antiquities, designed by A. Aglio,' "* the antiquary cannot fail to be struck with the resemblance which the ancient monuments of the New World bear to the monumental records of ancient Egypt. The eye of the antiquary falls with familiar recognition on the same graduated pyramids; on marks of the same Ophite worship; on picture writing like the early Anaglyphs of Egypt; and on a hierogly. phical language of a similarly symbolical and phonetic description; on vestiges of the worship of a similar Triune and solar deity; on planispheres and temples; sculptures and statues, which though characterized by some distinctions peculiarly American, exhibit a great analogy in posture and gesture to the sculpture of Egypt. " While surveying these monuments, it is a circumstance calculated to excite the greatest surprise, that so excellent a judge as Robertson, the historian of America, should have been deceived into the belief, that "there is not through all the extent of New Spain any monument or vestige of building more ancient than the Conquest;" that the temple of Cholula was nothing but a mound of solid earth, without any facing or any steps, covered with grass and shrubs;" and that "the houses of the people were mere huts built with turf, or branches of trees, like those of the rudest Indians." He again notices, with slighting indifference, "a gold cup in the hands of the Earl of Oxford," as the only valuable relic of Mexican antiquity;" and referring to the chronological wheel (giro del mondo) for computing time, published by Gemelli Carrieri, and republished in the fourth volume of the present splendid collection, he coldly says, if it be genuine, it proves that the Mexicans * Published in 7 vols. folio, and noticed in our vol. C. ii. 355. had arbitrary characters, which represent several things besides numbers." I shall defer what I have to say on Mexican astronomy; for the present only remarking the depreciated value Dr. R. sets upon a monument so sublimely indicative of a people advanced in some respects, as Dr. R. is inconsistently compelled to admit, beyond the point of the European civilization of the Conquerors, especially in regard to its regular posts, its roads, its supply of water, and its police. The historian had probably not seen the map of Ancient Mexico in Mr. Bul. lock's possession; had he done so, he would have inferred that the city of Mexico possessed advantages still superior to the accuracy and rapidity of its posts, and the copious supply of its water (both proofs of high civilization), in the admirable order of its municipal regulations, and parochial distributions. In fact, the volumes before us supply abundant proofs that the people of New Spain, at the time of the Conquest, were advanced infinitely further than the Doctor (betrayed apparently by the Spaniards, who wished to keep him in the dark,) was inclined to admit. The roads, aqueducts, and bridges near Tlascola, are magnificent and stupendous. Vestiges of important architecture exist at Cholula, Otumba, and Tlascola. Temples of beautiful and novel form, and adorned with exquisite arabesque, remain at Oaxaca, Kochichalco, Guitusco, &c. Palaces worthy of potent and wealthy sovereigns exist at Miztlan. Tezcose is nearly covered with the remains of ancient buildings. Pyramids of four times the base of the Egyptian are seen at Teopantepec, Tortuza, Alvar, and are scattered over the surface of Central America; while that Pompeii of South America, Palanque, exhibits not only excellent workmanship in its remains of palaces, temples, and houses, but beautiful sculptures, hieroglyphics as elegant as the Egyptian, and to all appearance as scientifically constructed and contrived as the Chinese; in short, such design, skill, and execution in the architect, as will not shrink from a comparison with the works of at least the earliest ages of Egyptian power. The dress of the Tultecan people, if they are the Tultecans who preceded the Mexicans by six centuries (a query?) as represented in Mr. Aglio's plates, resembles the Egyptian. There is an ornamented apron, sustained by a baldric descending from the abdomen, and covering midway down the thigh, analogous to the same portion of Egyptian costume, and originating possibly the Roman military apron and Scotch philibeg. In many cases, the head-dress, although more eccentric (indeed it is somewhat Arabesque) than the Egyptian, is generally constructed of the same symbolic materials. The breast-plate and collar, to which a mimic sun is sometimes similarly suspended, is precisely the same as those worn by the Egyptian kings and heroes. Frequently the mimic tail of an animal, indicative of ancient origin, and often seen attach ed to sculptured Egyptian heroes and demigods, is appended to the Mexican hero or Tultecan conqueror. The sandals, with the occasional exception of Arabesque ornament, resemble the military sandals of the Greeks and Romans. The head-dress, or crest, often consists of the solus, the bullrush, birds, animals' heads, agricultural and musical instruments,-like the Egyptian, from whence the crests of Heraldry, as we have shown in a former paper in the Gentleman's Magazine, October 1825, are derived. The Tultecan heroes are represented on couches precisely Egyptian in their model; namely, constructed so as to represent animals, and supported by animal claws. Over the heads of these deities, tablets of hieroglyphics, expressive of their titles and qualities, are similarly arranged; and devotees are offering to them in the same posture, and with the same gesture as exhibited on Egyptian paintings, pots, and baskets of flowers (whence came the legend of the gardens of Adonis), among which flowers the manitas or handplant of Guatemala appears to have been a favourite. The hand may have been symbolical of rule in the [Aug. New World, as it was at Rome, and as indeed the hand and arm were in Egypt. One of the most striking of these analogies is, that actual adoration is paid, and infants are devoted or presented to the Egyptian Tau or cross; and that this cross is every where multiplied in the architectural forms, ground plans, and ornaments of the Palencian city. The names of the chief towns of the Tultecans and Mexicans may also be adduced in further proof; for Atlapallan, Huetlapallan, mean Red Sea, Old Red Sea. Tulan reads Amaguemacam, Veil of Paper or Papyrus; Chicomistoc, Seven Dragon Mouths, or the Nile. All these circumstances would go to show an origin derived from Egypt. Still there are, in the midst of the above analogies, marks of a primary distinction and difference which are not to be overlooked. 1. The nose, lip, and ear jewels would seem to be of Indian extraction; the armlets and anklets are entirely American. The temples, some surmounted with fire vases, distinguished by pyramidal and double roofs, by staircases cut in the Conoidal terraces, resemble the Javanese; the ornamental parts of the sculptured costume,—of some of the inner doorways; and especially the external sculptures of the "Temple of Flowers" at Oaxala,—are decidedly Moorish or Arabesque. The royal mode of sitting is Hindoo. Reference to the physiognomy of the sculptured persons is made elsewhere. It may be sufficient to say that the physiognomy is different from any people with which we are acquainted; though bearing an exaggerated resemblance to that of the Cherokees and other Indian tribes. The receding forehead, and conical form of the head, according to the principia of physiognomy, would indicate idiotism; did we not know that the characteristic is not genuine; and that the modern Mexican savages artificially model the heads of their children into this form. But as to the predominant, physiognomical, and physical character of the persons represented, we are not aware of any analogy, ancient or modern. The present Mexican Indians resemble their Mexican ancestors; but neither bear any resemblance to their Tultecan predecessors, if they were Tulte |