The King anfwered, fmiling: "Dear Duras, thus it is that men frequently judge falfely of their neighbour; he is more fenfible man than you and many others imagine.' a This fpeech of the King's made great impreffion. People exerted all their ingenuity, but in vain, to decypher the purport of the conference between the Farrier and the King and the minifter Baobefieux. The vulgar, always credulons, and confequently fond of the marvellous, took it into their heads, that the impolis which had been laid on by reafon of the long and burdenfome war, were the real motives of it, and drew from it happy omens of a speedy relief; but they, nevertheless, were continued till the peace. The fpirit-feer having thus taken leave of the King, returned to his province. He received money of the Minifter, and a firict command never to mention any thing of the matter to any perfon, be he who he would. Roullet, one of the best artifts of the time, drew and engraved the portrait of this Farrier. Copies are fill exifting in feveral collections of prints in Paris. That which the writer of this piece has feen, reprefented the vifage of a man from about 35 to 40 years of age; an open countenance, rather penfive, and had what the French term phyfionomie de caractere. R Mr. URBAN, -D. London, Jan. 16. S your Magazine is ever upon the parted worth, and rescue it from that oblivion which generally attends thofe characters whofe inferior fiation precludes the enrolment of their merit in the annals of their country; I have yielded to the impulfe of my feelings In foliciting the infertion of a biographical narrative of a dear and valued Brother-a Brother, Mr. Urban, whofe fignal conduct on the capture of Buenos Ayres ftands recorded in the Official Report of that excellent officer General Beresford whose private character was marked with every virtue which can enpoble the nature of man, and raife him to as high a degree of perfection, as his fiate may be faid to be fufceptible of. In a word, he was a youth In whom fern Courage with foft in the early part of life, the infantine traits of that martial fpirit and nobility of foul which are the fure indications of pre-eminence in a military career. The anxiety and folicitude of his pa rents to avail themfelves of fuch indications, and to inftil into his youthful breaft every fublime precept of a moral tendency, was rewarded by the grateful reflection and intellectual fatisfaction derived from that gratitude and filial affection which he invariably manifefted towards them; from that enlarged mind-that foftened heart-that generofity, juftice, and probity, which were the fprings of every action of his life; and from that fcience, fkill, and zeal evinced in his military capacity, and to which General Beresford publicly paid a tribute. On finishing his education under the praife-worthy and refpected Dr. Valpy of Reading, he was, in the year 1796, admitted into the Royal Academy at Woolwich. With his accustomed affiduity and attention, he paffed with rapidity through the various claffes; and in the commencement of the following year, received a committion as Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery; this he relinquifhed towards its clofe, for a commiffion of fimilar rank in the Corps of Royal Engineers. He was immediately ordered to the fortrefs of Gibraltar, where, for upwards of two years, he reaped the benefit of ferving under Colonel Fyers, fure to be reflected on thote officers whofe ability, experience, and fkill, who have the good fortune to fall under his immediate command. is From thence he returned to England. But an eager defire of improv ing himself by a thorough knowledge of the practical duties of his profeffion, added to an earneft endeavour to ferve his Country, impelled him to volunteer for the expedition which thortly after fitted out against Ferrol. On the fail ure of that expedition, he proceeded up the Mediterranean, and joined the army of the immortal Abercromby. The eternal glory and honour acquired by that Army is univerfally açknowledged. It was the proudest boast of the foul of my ever-to-be-lamented Brother, that he participated in their dangers and exertions. He difembarked with the firft body of the troops, and remained in the country until the final evacuation of Alexandria, in the fpring of 1803. His conduct throughout the whole period uniformly met with Character of Captain George-William Kennett. with the unqualified approbation of Major Bryce (the commanding Engineer), whole difcrimination and eminent profeffional abilities are well known. Soon after the arrival of that garrifon in England, he was ordered to Athlone, where he continued to receive the approval, and merit the high opinion, of the officers under whom he ferved. In 1804 he was promoted to the rank of Captain. Although at this moment he enjoyed that felicity which emanates from a beloved and refpected fociety; although his fituation was fuch, as to conflitute a foundation for the beautiful and folid ftructure of contentment; yet, in his ideas, every circumftance, of however eligible a nature, muft yield to the active duties of a perfon whofe life is devoted to the 'fervice of his King and Country. "A gen'rous ardour boil'd within his breaft, Eager of action, enemy of rest." He exerted every nerve to accompany the Expedition under the command of Sir David Baird and Sir Home Popham, defined against the Dutch Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope; and was gratified with the appointment of Second in the Engineer department. The brilliant fuccefs of that expedition was followed by another against Buenos Ayres, under the orders of General Beresford and Sir Home Pophain. In this, Sir David Baird was pleafed to nominate him to the diftinguished fiation of Commanding Engineer. It was then that a field of action was opened to his talents-a field wherein the confidence repofed in him by his General (I may venture to affert with truth) was not difappointed-a field wherein he laboured affiduoufly to difcharge his duty with honour to himfelf and fatisfaction to all, General Beresford deputed him to precede the army in the Narciffus frigate, in order to reconnoitre the Enemy's pofitious on the Plata, and obtain every poffible information, pre vious to his (the General's) arrival. In this duty he acquitted himself with infinite credit. On the arrival of General Beresford and his gallant little army, it was determined to direct their attempt against Buenos Ayres (the capital of the Spanish Provinces in that quarter of the globe). The army debarked near Point de Quilmes, and immediately proceeded to the village of Reduction, where they were met by the Enemy in far fuperior numbers, and confilling principally of cavalry. The British, led by a brave, able, and skilful General, braved and furmounted every dif ficulty. "So much of zeal their Country's caufe infpir'd; So much a great example fir'd."— They gallantly attacked the enemy; and victory, as ufual, encircled their brows. The Spaniards fled with precipitation over the Rio de Cheulo, and deftroyed the bridge to fecure their retreat. On the following morning my brother reported the Enemy's position, his probable firength, and the total want of cover, to protect the British from the fire of the Enemy on the oppofite bank. The General, with his cultomary ability, immediately inftituted a fuccefsful mode of attack. The Spaniards then retired to the City, and capitulated. In teftimony of his approbation, General Beresford returned my brother thanks in General Orders; acknowledged (in his report to the Secretary of State) the intelligence and zeal which he manifefted; and, as a further mark of his approbation, he appointed him his Military Secretary. In this capacity, the dear and excellent youth endeavoured to conciliate the affections of the inhabitants, and exercised thofe nameless acts which may be termed its auxiliaries. Notwithstanding the hoft of troops brought by the Spanish General Liniers from the oppofite fide of the Plata, for the purpofe of attempting the re-capture of the City, and alfo of the complete infurrection of the inhabitants; yet every thing that could be expected from exertions at once noble and, heroic, would doubtless have been achieved by the British arms: but the ftate of the weather and roads abfolutely prevented the operations of General Beresford, and paved the way to the lofs of a conqueft, obtained by 1500 men in the worst feafon of the year-in defiance of comparative myriads of troops-and of a City containing 70 000 inhabitants, unanimously averle to the government of a nation whom they deemned heretics in Religion, and whofe principles and politics they were taughtio confider as erroneous or finifter. On the morning of the 19th of Aus guft, General Beresford drew up his men in the great fquare of the City, and offered the Enemy battle; but the leffon they had received but a few weeks before, operated too flrongly on their minds, and left an indelible impreffion of the proud valour and invincible intrepidity of their challengers. No; their ignoble fouls preferred the defpicable and difhonourable warfare of firing from windows and tops of houfes. General Beresford, under fuch circumfiances, and devoid of every probable object of fuccefs by either offenfive or, defenfive operations, had no other refource than capitulation. After his refolution was taken, and meatures adopted for carrying it into effect, how great and deplorable an affliction! how doubly painful it is to experience a lofs! Almolt at the very inftant of a ceffation of hoftilities, a fhot difcharged from a neighbouring window, carried in its flight the fate of my unfortunate relative. He received it in his breafi; fell into the arms of his General; Struggled for a few moments, and refigned his breath. heart, "Life at length forfook his heaving [depart.' Loth from fo fweet a mantion to Thus fell this excellent character, in the prime of life, the full vigour of health, in the high road to honour and preferment; mafier of every accomplithment, and poffeffed of every divine attribute; whole affable manners, naildnefs of difpofition, and general philanthropy, procured him the love and efleein of all ranks of fociety and whole courage, fcience, and ability, commanded the respect and admiration of his brethren in arms. Some author has advanced, that "no man can be great in his public character, who is not good in his pri vate one." Could the world have perceived the deep afflictions of the family could the fentiments of the heart, and the feelings of the foul, be legible in the countenance! then, indeed, a fure and certain teft would fill exift of the very fuperior excellence of our loft relative. A fincerely afflicted brother finds a momentary confolation in this fimall tribute of affection to the memory of a dear and deeply-lamented friend." Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, HENRY KENNETT. Wolverhampton, Jan. 12. BE E pleafed to inform Antiphona (LXXVII. 1107), that, although I am an advocate for the fupernatural cure 2 of Winefrid White; and that though I can fee no greater impropriety in Chrift's working a miracle at the requeft of his Blefled Mother now, than when he wrought that of changing water into wine, through the fame inducement, at Cana in Galilee (John ii. 3); finally, that though, in my opinion, the fuppofition of our wants and requests being known to the Blessed Spirits, no more implies their omnifcience, than the admiffion of their knowing when finners are converted implies it, (fee Luke xv. 7); nevertheless that I do not defend the miraculous legend which he or the (Antiphona) has detailed, as appears by my pamphlet (p.8, 3d edit.) and that I do not acknowledge this legend to be the tradition of the Church of Rome;" although it has incautiously been admitted into the Sarum Breviary. The reafon of this difference is, that for the former fact I have the teftimony of my own eyes, and of the eves of hundreds of other people; while for the latter I have only the unauthenticated account of Robert of Shrewsbury. In a word, Sir, it appears to me that, if Antiphona wishes to attack my "Authentic Documents concerning the miraculous cure of Winefrid White" with any effect, it is incumbent on him or her to prove one of thefe three things: that Winefrid White was not afflicted during three years with that dreadful malady, an enlargement of the vertebræ and a paralytic affection, which baffled the skill of her phyfician and her furgeon, and gradually reduced her to the most wretched flate of debility and fuffering that a human creature can well be fuppofed to exist in ;-or elfe, that she was not fuddenly and perfectly cured of all her dreadful maladies, and reftored to the perfect ufe of her limbs, on June 28, 1805. by once bathing at Holywell; and that he has not continued perfectly well and active in her limbs, fo as to be able to walk, ron, and work, as well as moti young wo men of her age, from the aforefaid day down to the prefent date;-or, laftly, that fuch an inflantaneous, perfect, and lafting cure of an ascertained, inveterate, and terrible diforder, has been known to have taken place in fome former infiance,, and can rationally be fuppofed to have taken place in the prefent infiance, by a fingle immerfion into cold water, or by the fafcination of a warm imagination? Yours,&c. J. MILNER P.S. P.S. I fhould fuppofe that the Urns defcribed by your Correfpondent Alfred Hadfield (p. 1097), from the circumftance of their falling to duft on being expofed to the air (which argues that they were not baked in an oven, but barely hardened in the fun), were Britifh, not Roman Urns. Having feen feveral of the former, accompanied with mis-shapen beads and other rude ornaments, dug out of the British barrows in Dorfetfhire, I have uniformly found them to anfwer the defcription of your Correfpondent; whilft thofe which I have feen dug up clofe to the Roman City of Winchester, and which are proved to be Roman by the fibulæ, coins, &c. accompanying them, are of the most durable compofition, as well as of the most elegant fhape that can well be imagined, greatly furpaffing the best fort of Wedgewood's black J. M. ware. Mr. URBAN, Stamford, Jan. 1. THE HE parish of Edenham in Lincolnfhire comprizes the townships of Edenham, Grinifthorpe, Elthorpe, and Scottlethorpe; and the fite and demefnes of the Abbey of Vaudey, or de Valle Dei. The whole parish contains about 6424 acres of land; the whole of which, except about 160 acres, is the property of his grace the Duke of Ancalter. The village of Edenham is fituate about eleven miles North from Stamford, and three miles Weft from Bourne. The Parish Church, fituate in Edenham, was formerly appropriated to the abbey of Vaudey; and is now a perpetual curacy in the donation of the Duke of Ancafter, who is Impropria1 tor of the parish, and proprietor of the Church-vard. The Church, dedicated to St. Michael (a South-West View of which is engraved in Plate II.) confits of a Nave, with North and South Ailes, a handfome square Tower at the Weft end, and a Chancel at the Eaft end of the Nave, and a South entrance Porch. The length of the Tower is 18 feet, of the Nave 71, and of the Chancel 36 feet; total 125 feet. The length of the North Aile is 75 feet, of the South Aile 65 feet 6 inches. The breadth of the Nave is 19 feet, and of each of the * See an engraving of thefe in the Vetufta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries, Vol. II. GENT. MAG. January, 1808. Ailes 13 feet 6 inches; total breadth 46 feet. And the breadth of the Chancel is 18 feet. The Ailes are each divided from the Nave by four arches; and a fmaller arch, or doorway, feparates the North Aile from the Chancel. The arch which feparates the Chancel from the Nave is circular, with round mouldings; that which feparates the Nave from the Tower lofty and pointed. The arches between the South Aile. and Nave are pointed, deeply moulded, and fupported by clustered columns, the finaller fhafts of which are completely relieved from the main fupports. The arches which feparate the North Aile from the Nave are pointed; but, as well as the columns which fupport them, are of workmanship plainer than, and inferior to the others. The Font, which is circular, is furrounded by eight attached columns, with ornamented capitals fupporting fmall arches; and feems (as indeed Fonts generally are) more antient than any other part of the Church, In the front of the Porch are two antient fhields, on one of which may be traced, crufilé botoné fitché, a lion rampant finifter; and on the other, feme of fleurs de lis, a lion rampant, Beaumont; impaling three garbs, Co myn. The parapet walls of the South Aile and Porch are ornamented with a Frieze, compofed of fquare compartments with quatrefoils and various other fanciful devices. The Tower and fome part of the Church feem to be of the time of Henry VI; the refidue of an earlier date. The Weft door of entrance to the Church through the Tower is a flat pointed arch, with quatrefoils in the groins. There is on the floor of the South Aile a blue marble (which feems to have been one of the fides of an old tomb) ornamented with plain fhields in quatrefoils; and there are feveral other large flones on the floor, from which braffes with effigies and infcriptions feem to have been torn away. The Pews, apparently coæval with the Tower, are of oak, open at the ends, perforated in the form of quatrefoils at the fides, and ornamented with carving of pointed arches at the ends. In the Church-yard are remains of feveral antient tombs, One, a flone in in the form of a wedge, at the North door, very old, is the recumbent figure of a lady refting her head on a cushion ;with her hands clafped in the attitude of prayer. Another on the South fide of the Church, at the Eaft end of the South Aile, is an altar-tomb of flone, divided, in the front, into four compartments, which are feparated by crock eted pinnacles, and each compartment decorated with rich and fanciful tracery, inclosing a shield of arms. The firft and fecond fhields have a feffe charged with three croffes botoné; the third has a bend between fix martlets; and the charge upon the fourth is nearly effaced, but appears, by an Harleian Manufeript, No. 6829, to have been, quarterly, 1 and 4 a chief indented, Neville; 2 and 3, three dolphins naiant, Simeon. On the tomb are the recumbent figures of a man in armour and his wife at his right fide. His feet reft on a monkey. She is upported at the head by angels, has a canopy over her, and monks in cowls at her feet. This, in the Harleian MS. No. 6829, is faid to be for a Neville of Grinthorpe and his wife; but it is more probable it was for a Simeon who married the heir-general of Neville. Poffibly thefe tombs were removed out of the Church. at the time when a part of it was rebuilt. I do not think they were originally defigned efpecially the beautiful one for Simeon and his wife, to be exposed to the weather, and a thousand accidents and mifchievous fports, in the church-yard At the Eaft end of the North Aile are two tablets of black marble bordered with military and naval trophies; at the top of which, within a garter, furmounted by an Earl's coronet, is a hield of 25 coats, wiz. 1. Argent, three battering-rams, barways, in pale, proper, armed and garnifhed Azure; Bertie 2. Or, fretté Azure; Willoughby. 3. Ermine, five chevronels Gules, on a canton of the fecond a lion paf fant Or; Orreby. 4. Gules, a crofs moline Argent; Beck, 5. Gules, crufilé fitché and three round buckles Or; Rofceline. 6. Sable, a eros ingrailed Or; Ufford. 7. Argent, three pallets vavé, Gules; Faloines. 8. Sable, a maunch Or. 9. Argent, a chief indented Azure; Glanville. 10. Lozengy, Or and Sable. 11. Per pale, Azure and Gules, a lion rampant Argent. 12. Barry of eight, Or and Gules. 13. Argent, a chief Azure. 14. Gales, a lion rampant Or, a crefcent for difference Argent. 15. Azure, three garbs Or; Cyvelios Earl of Chefier. 16, Azure, a wolf's head erafed Ar gent; Lupus Earl of Chefter. 17. Chequé, Or and Azure. 18. Per pale Or and Vert, a lion rampant Gules. 19. Or, three chevronels Gules, label of three points Azure. 20. Sable, three garus Argent. 22. Or, a lion rampant double-tailed Sable. 23. Gules, a feffe dancette, between fix crifes moline Or. 24. Barry of fix, Ermine and Gules, three crefcents Sable. 25. Quarterly, Gules and Or, in the dexter a mullet Argent; Vere. on a On one fide are the fame quarterings with the addition of chief Argent, a lion paffant Gules, within a garter furmounted by an -Earl's coronet. On the other fide Bertie, Beke, Ufford, and Vere, quarterly, with an inefcutcheon, qua erly, Argent and Gules; in the first and fourth quarters a fre Or; over all a feffe Azure, Norreys of Rycate, within a garter, furmounted by an Earl's coronet. At the bottom, quarterly, 1. Bertie, Vere, 3. Ufford, 4. Beke, 5. Wil loughby. 6. quar erly, Ift and 4th, Gules a lion rampant Or: 2d and 3d Sable, a frei Or; all within a garter, and furmounted by an Earl's coronet. On the first tablet is the following infcription: "Hic jacet Robertus Bertie, filius Pe regrini (Baronis de Willughby, Beck, & Erefby, regnante Elizabethâ in Daniam primo Legati, Anglorum deinde per Belgium militantium Generalis, copiis demum auxiliaribus Henrico Galliæ Quarto fubmiffis Præfecti) qui au&tis ipfe cumuBaro de Willughby, Beck, & Erefby, Maglatifq. Honoribus, Comes de Lindsey, nus Angliæ Hæreditario - Camerarius, Georgiani Ordinis Eques nobiliffimus, Carolo Primo à Confiliis fanétionibus, Conftabularii Magni poteftate femel func. tus, |