ations, xieties f ce which In our rning is CONTENTS. HISTORY OF WINES, by Cyrus Redding. COLERIDGE'S POETICAL WORKS. Mr. Coleridge's Ballad of the Dark Ladie, 13.-Youth and Age, PAGE 2 3 11 14 ib. 23 31 hich the Can POEMS, by the Rev. J. MITFORD-Inscription intended for the Terrace in Rich- 43 44 Fion REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. FINE ARTS.-Royal Academy, &c.... LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 45 73-80 80 85 New Publications, 83.-Learned Societies, 84.-Installation at Oxford, &c. DEATHS, arranged in Counties ཚ ཚ 100 107 108 Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 111-Meteorological Diary-Stocks 112 and Representations of some ENCAUSTIC TILES found at EXETER. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. The Diary of a Tour from Norfolk to Liverpool, communicated by a Tradesman, is written with good sense (except when he condescends to describe his individual fare at the inns), but it scarcely possesses sufficient originality of information or remark to merit the honour of passing sub prelo. The communications of T. C., J. A., and J. H. B. shall be inserted when we can find space for them. H. B., of Mansfield, is referred on the subject of his letter to some chapters in a a book called, "The Harmony of Language,' by W. Mitford, Esq. the historian of Greece. FITZ-ROSE remarks, "Matthew, sixth Viscount Kingsland, died issueless, and the titles are supposed to be extinct. The Hon. John Barnewall, stated in March, p. 329, to have succeeded as seventh Viscount, died unmarried many years previous to his father's decease. “Your correspondent, M. page 479, is mistaken in stating that the title of Baronet, granted in 1806 to Sir Hugh Bateman, of Hartington, co. Derby, is now extinct. Sir Hugh was succeeded by his grandson, Sir Francis Edward Scott, Bart. son of his eldest daughter, Catherine Juliana Bateman, by Sir Edward Dolman Scott, Bart., of Great Barr, co. Stafford. "Lord Teignmouth, (p. 552,) was created a Baronet of England under the designation of Sir John Shore, of Heathcote, co. Derby; this corrects a misstatement in Debrett's list of Baronetcies merged in Peerages, Lord Teignmouth's baronetcy being there described as Shore of Teignmouth, co. Devon." J. P. inquires for an account of the Rev. John Hildrop, A.M., who was rector of Wath, near Ripon, in 1742, and author of an ironical and witty "proposal for repealing certain statutes called the Ten Commandments; "besides other pamphlets. G. in turning over an old newspaper for another purpose, lately met with the following notice of the official activity of Crabbe's father, which he thinks may be interesting to those who have lately perused the Poet's Life.-" Sunday last were seized near Martlesham, by Mr. John Church, Mr. George Crabbe, and Mr. Samuel Aldrich, of Aldeburgh, three bags, containing near 1000 yards of muslin, upwards of 600 yards of lace, 130 yards of silk gauze, some tea and other goods, from three foreigners who were set on shore from a Dutch Hoy, at or near izewell; and the above-mentioned Mr. Church and Mr. Crabbe, with the assistance of another officer, have seized the said Hoy near Harwich, and carried her to Aldeburgh, where the goods are lodged in the Custom House."-Public Advertiser, Tuesday, April 7th, 1767. In answer to ANTIQUARIUS (May, p. 458), Mr. WM. HORTON LLOYD offers the following extracts from a MS. pedigree of Radclyffe in his possession, founded, he believes, on those in Whitaker's Whalley, with additions and corrections (as supposed) by the late Mr. W. Radcliffe, Rouge Croix, and he also refers to the pedigree of Sandbach in Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. 3, p. 56. The blazon of Sandbach is not a "fess Sable," but "Sable, a fess," &c. Ormerod, from Booth's pedigrees, gives the field azure. By the Cheshire pedigrees, it appears that Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard de Sanbach, son of Thomas de Sandbach, was wife of John Legh of Booths, and they had issue Maud, dau. and heiress, who was wife of Richard Radclyffe of Ordeshall. This is confirmed by the pedigree of Legh of Booth, in the 3d vol. of Ormerod's Cheshire. Sir John Legh of Booths (father of John above-mentioned), married Maude, dau. of Sir John Arderne of Aldford, who gave her a moiety of Mobberley; but she does not appear to have been his heir, although her greatgrandson, who was possessed of that moiety of Mobberley, quartered her arms. Sir John Radclyffe, son of Richard and Maud Legh, married the dau. and heir of Robert Trafford, of Trafford; and he was probably the owner of the silver seal, because a later generation would have quartered also the Trafford arms: and the four quarterings of the seal agree with those which he would be likely to marshal in the same order. ERRATA.-P. 563. Two clergymen are here combined; the Rev. Edward Stanley Rector of Alderley, Cheshire, and brother to Sir J. T. Stanley, is, we are happy to say, still living. Erase therefore "and of Alderley, Anglesea, esq." P. 570, b. 31. For Brackley Moreton, read Brackley. P. 597. Last line, read Kelly. P. 639. The total given of the sale of Armour is that of the last day only; the "tottle of the whole" was 29957. 78. P. 649, a. 6, read the Rev. George Bland. P. 652. Sir Henry Trelawney was generally called Sir Harry, and his name spelt Trelawny. P. 666, for Hill read Still. T GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. HISTORY OF WINES. BY CYRUS REDDING. 1833. 8vo. "FACUNDI calices quem non fecere disertum ?"-W! o would not be eloquent, when discoursing on that which is every where described as the mother of Pleasure, and the nurse of Eloquence, olvos máμpwvos. Mr. Cyrus Redding is a true Dionysiack. He is deep in the mysteries of Bacchus, knows the very penetralia of the divine cellar, and can trace the history of all Wines from the days of Noah, down to our degenerate times of adulterated port and sherry, brewed in the Domdaniel caves of fire. We never read a more delightful book. We smacked our lips at every page; we tasted, or seemed to taste, the raspberry flavour of his Burgundy; the violet aroma, delicate and fine, of his La Fitte. We had such visions of sunny vineyards, and purple clusters, and foaming vats, and mantling goblets, and beautiful nymphs wreathed with viny tendrils, and waggons reeling under their fragrant and luscious load, and 'paterâ spumantia vina capaci;' and then we believed that we were seated at tables pil'd in regal state, and by the sideboard, "Astabat domini mensis pulcherrimus ille We sipped, we tasted, we inhaled the aromatic bouquet. We distinguished the seve, we acknowledged and approved the veloute, and we smacked our lips at the pateux ;—but, save the mark! it was, after all, nothing but a day dream. It was a momentary touch of the thyrsus of the god. We woke sobered, and saw our jug of SMALL BEER standing by us. We never taste Champagne-cream; our lips are never purpled with the rich blood of the Garonne, except at our Publisher's table, at the settling the halfyearly accounts,-a day much to be esteemed!! Mr. Redding does not enter into the history of ancient Wines; but we learn from him and others enough to assure us that the wine which graced the table of Augustus, would soon have been dismissed from that of George the Fourth. What would his Majesty * (God bless him!) have thought of mixing salt water with Barnes's claret; or putting into his bottle of Romanè Conti a certain quantity of hepatic aloes? What would he think of boiling, stewing, mixing, and pouring honey into his delicate white Hermitage; or of giving a delicious flavour to his Champagne, by means of rosin, pitch, wax, the smoke of the fumarium, tar, spikenard, pine-leaves, bitter almonds, the juice of the wild cucumber, and the hairy skin of a he-goat? No wonder Augustus could never get through more than a pint, though he put in as much honey as the liquor would take up. There is a good story, at p. 320, of Mr. Redding's book, of George the Fourth being taken in, with regard to some fine wine, by some of his old courtiers, who drank it all out, and palmed some city brewage on the unsuspicious monarch. No wonder that his ancestor Julius was always sick after dinner. No wonder that Polyphemus was made drunk so soon; for it is supposed that the wine which Ulysses gave him was Thasian; that, Ulysses-like, he did not tell the giant that it required to be mixed with twenty-four parts of water, before it was palatable, and that it would have killed any one, but him who possessed such magnificent powers of digestion. The Mareotic wine was of great excellence; it was white, light of digestion, and rather sweet, but apt to affect the head. Horace mentions that Cleopatra used to drink more of this than well beseemed a lady and a queen in fact, the word he uses means little less than that her Eminence was furiously drunk, till Cæsar sobered her: Mentemque lymphatam Mareotico, redegit in veros timores Cæsar.' We have not time to enumerate the qualities of the various wines of Greece, which are immortalized by her bards. The Thasian we have mentioned; then came that of Lesbos, which Aristotle pronounced to be more agreeable than that of Rhodes, dov & Aérßios: and the Byblian grape, and that from Phenice, and the Mendæan, famed for its diuretic qualities; the Cretan, oivos àvoóopos, for its fragrancy like flowers; and the Magnesian, soft and light; the mild Chian, which had the same preeminence among Greek wines, as the Falernian among the Roman; the perfumed Saprian; the Peparethan, very bitter; the dry and stimulating Pramnian, eschewed by the dainty Athenians, so called ȧnò тоυ πрavveir, from softening the ferocious; and the wonderful Herian juice (in Arcadia) which rendered the men fools, and as a natural consequence the women prolific; and the vineyards of Myndus and Halicarnassus, the former of which places was called aλμoñóris, because the inhabitants mixed so much salt water with their grape-juice, as caused gripings and purgings and flatulency. The finest Roman wines were the Massic, and Falernian. Martial calls it 'immortal.' That it was very strong, like a strong rich liqueur, appears from the epithet of indomitum,' bestowed upon it by Persius, and by Horace declaring that it required mixing with water, quis puer ocius Restinguet ardentis Falerni It kept well; for Damasippus, when Cicero dined with him, gave him Falernian of 400 years old, and when the great man tasted the first glass, he nodded to his host and said, "Bene ætatem fert." Horace appears The Greek wines are divided into two classes, όλιγοφόροι and πολυφόροι, as they wanted a greater or less proportion of water. The wine mixed with sea-water was called Oivos baλasávos. Horace speaks of the Chian as Maris expers.' In his twenty-first ode of the third book, he speaks of Vina languidiora,' an epithet, we believe, not elsewhere to be found, except in the 16th ode of the same: Bacchus in amphora languescit mihi.' The universal voice of antiquity is in favour of the complete supereminence of the Falernian grape. "Ac Methymna ferax Latiis cessere Falernis."-SIL. ITAL. 44 et quo te Carmine dicam Rhætica? Nec cellis ideo contende Falernis."-VIRG. "Si Bacchi cura, Falernus ager.-HOR. Besides all the prose writers. It also appears that it was of an amber colour. "Condantur parco fusca Falerna vitro." (Martial, pp. 11, 40.) Summa laus Falernis a vini Colore dictis, MELLI FULGORE PERSPICUIS. (Ruellius de Succino.) Some modern critics have considered it to be like a rich Madeira. to have had a cask in his cellar of 36 years standing. Besides these, there were the inferior wines; there was the Sabine, nobile vinum, the Surrentinum, Albanum, and Setinum, (the favourite of Augustus,) and the wine recommended by St. Paul to Titus, for his stomach; the Nomentanum, like claret; the wine of Venafrum, of Spoletum, of a bright golden colour; the Sicilian Mamertinum, the Pollium of Syracuse, the growth of Cæsena, Liguria, Verona, the wines of Marseilles and Narbonne, the violet scented grape of Vienna,' and the rich Muscat of Languedoc. That the ancients were as fond of wine as we are, seems quite clear; and as they drank theirs free of duty, no wonder that they did not stint themselves to a pint. Melchisedec drank his wine. Homer is very eloquent in its praise; he calls it Tórov Ociov, a divine beverage; and Horace intimates that he indulged pretty freely in his cups, Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus Homerus." Nestor warmed himself with generous libations of wine eleven years old, ἑνδεκάτω ἐνιαυτῶ: and Ulysses is described as indulging in old sweet wine, ofroi waλaïov ždvarоio. Achilles drank wine and water, when he dined en garçon; but when he had friends, Zoporepoũ dè képaipe, he brought in his Magnum bonums. And even Nausicaa was allowed a cellaret at her command; for she and her young ladies sat down to their bottle, of the "vinum virgineum ;"-which we hope was Cowslip. The prices of the ancient wines seem to have varied, like ours, according to quality and to age. The very worst kind appears to have sold for little more than one pound the hogshead; but about double that price, or eight pounds the ton, seems to have been the common value. In the year A. C. 63d. (we wish he had lived then) was an excellent vintage. And wines were laid in at 100 nummi the amphora, which is about seven pounds the hogshead. An amphora of the best Chian was sold for a thousand nummi, or eight pounds, eleven shillings and five pence. The servants were allowed about a pint and a half each daily; the Romans, as would be induced by their climate, generally drank their wine cold, but a few preferred hot negus; old debauchees, whose stomachs could no longer bear liquors cold, drank hot wine. Thence Nero was called Caldus Nero, and Tiberius had the nick-name Biberius Caldus. Calidum bibebant ! Augustus was forbidden by his physician to drink warm wine and water. The vinum decoctum was that which was first boiled, and then cooled in snow; this was a refinement of Nero's upon the old custom, of putting lumps of ice or snow into the wine. The favorite water was that which came from the aqueduct, called Aqua Martia; it was distinguished for its splendor and purity. Propertius says, lib. iii. 7. 26. "Temperat annosum Martia Lympha merum.” Seneca was afraid of these iced wines; he thought they produced a schirrus in the liver. "Quid tu (he says) illam æstivam nivem, non putas Caldum obducere jecinoribus?" Wine was drank at all their meals, breakfast, dinner, and supper;-Axрárioμа, "Apiorov, Aeiπvov; of these, the dinner was the lightest, and sometimes was taken without wine, for which reason Varro calls it, Prandium Caninum; the expression "Cœnæ Tempestivæ," appears to apply to the stated hours of the meal, and not to the duration of it, or the manner in which it was performed: The supper hour among the Greeks, was later than that of the Romans, which was 6 antequam advesperasceret.' But we must now descend from |