person. To my great comfort, there was a door to get to our coaches without returning again, to the seven hundred and sixty pilgans; for that number was feasted to-night, besides the ladies I saw above. The order, the plenty, the cleanness, and I may say elegance, in which they are served, is prodigious."

This delicate ceremony of washing the feet, it is unnecessary to say, is a hypocritical and offensive affectation of the real humility of our Saviour when he washed the feet of his apostles. Lady Pomfret describes the ceremony of the pope's washing the feet of thirteen pilgrims at the church of St. Peter's: at the upper end of the room was a throne erected for his holiness, who was brought there in an open chair in all his robes. Of these he divests himself in the sight of the people; and having taken off his triple crown, descends in a white linen vestment, attended by the prelates, who carry what is necessary for the office he is about to perform. On one side are seated the thirteen pilgrims, drest in close woollen habits, with square

caps of the same: their feet rest on another raised bench, between which and the rail, covered with scarlet cloth, there is room for the pope and his attendants to One of the latter carries a silver pass.

gilt vessel- of water, in which the pope puts the pilgrim's feet, one by one: then takes a towel from another of his prelates, wipes them, kisses them, and having received a palm from a third, gives it into the hand of the poor priest, in sign of peace, and passes on to the next.

Since these letters were written, the public has had too many tours on the continent, and too many descriptions of the various works of art, ancient and modern, which Italy once contained, to make it allowable for us still farther to extend this article by extracts. Lady Pomfret's descriptions have all the appearance of accuracy: her remarks are sagacious and acute when men, manners, and superstitions, are the subject of them, and denote a cultivated taste when applied to works of genius and art.

WHEN men who have filled the more important stations of life leave a character behind them either for abilities or eminence, the posthumous publication of their letters may be useful. Under other circumstances the utility of such a publication may be fairly questioned.

Mr. Granger wrote a Biographical History of England' and his friends, and such among the literati of his day as were inclined to encourage him in the prosecution of it, transmitted scraps of Intelligence. Some answered frivolous inquiries, and others were so kind as to correct mistakes for him when the work appeared. Of such materials the volume now before us is composed. A large portion of it is occupied by the letters of Mr. Thomas Davies, his bookseller, of which, scarce any one appears to have been worthy preservation. The subjects of them are of a nature both private and uninteresting. One blames him for not correcting sheets on a Sunday; two or three more invite him to dinner; another raises the purchase-money of the work; and a sixth gives bishop Warburton's opinion of it. Others are about its sale, the chance of a second edition, or the

support or discouragement the work had met with. Surely these are not ingredients for literary history. But there is one sentence which may perhaps be worth recording. Mr. Granger, it seems, in 1776 had published a single sermon, on which occasion his bookseller writes thus to him: If you think proper, we can cancel the title-pages of the third edi tion, and print new ones, and call it the fourth and so add your advertisement, of which I greatly approve.'

At p. 78 we have the following anec dote of Mr. Granger:

that Mr. Granger was very anxious to obtain "It appears from many circumstances, a living within a tenable distance of Shipiake, and not under the annual value of 2001 One of his friends, in 1775, sent him a list of 64 of the bishop of Winchester's preferments, with their value in the king's books, and the names of the then incumbents; and hopes that some or other of them may come into his possession, through the influence of his noble patron with the bishop; though he expresses a doubt of his success if he retained Saplake. Long lists of the chancellor's gitts, and memoranda, to enquire the names and ages of the incumbents, and a quere if any living (not less than 2001. a year) within

miles of Reading or Henley, and in the gift of the crown, be like to be vacant soon, by the removal or age of the incumbent,' are proofs of a strong desire to succeed in this pursuit."

In a subsequent page is one of Dr. Johnson's letters. There are others from Messrs. Thomas Warton, Mason, and Pennant, of as little consequence: and thirty-one pages in another part of the work are occupied by a number of bishop Barnet's letters, because bishop Burnet was connected with the family of one of Mr. Granger's correspondents.

The two most curious letters in the collection, we believe, are Mr. Fenn's (p. 116) about protector Somerset, and the short one of Horace Walpole on Mr. Granger's death. A part of the former

we transcribe.

"I have been lately looking into all such of our histories of England, and lives of great men, as I could procure, to see what character, upon the whole view of them, might fairly be affixed to protector Somerset. The result is, I do not think they have done him justice; most indeed allow him many good qualities, but there comes a counterbalance of various charges of extravagance and maladministration, warranted indeed by the acCusations of his enemies, but I believe little deserved by the duke.

"The reason I undertook the search was this: looking over some old and thrown-aside writings, I found a roll, which upon examination proved to be the duke of Somerset's cofferer's account of all moneys by him received and disbursed to the said duke's use, from April 1, 1548, 2 Ed. VI. to Oct. 7, 1551, 5 Ed. VI. The length of that part of the roll which relates to the receipts is about eight feet and a half; of that which contains the disbursements 32 feet; the whole length 31 feet and a half; breadth one foot four inches.

"I am thus particular, to shew you how much it contains; it is written in a fair lawhand, and was drawn up by an order, dated Au. 5, 1532, 'from Rychard Sackyyle, knight, chancellor of the courte of the augmentations and revenues of his highmes Crowne, and sir Walter Mildmaye, knt. one of the general surveiors of the said courte.' It is examined and signed by both of them.

"Amongst the accounts of buildings, Somerset-house is very particularly men tioned; there is the expence of every article; the whole cost 10,0917. 9s. 2d. but was not completed at the duke's death; had it been so, more artists' names might probably have been added to Mr. Walpole's catá logue.

Thomas Magnus, prebendary (afterwards I suppose the gerat doctor), was retained by the duke in 1548, at an annuity of 15. 11s. 2d. as his chaplain. I believe two other clerks are mentioned the next year at larger salaries.

There was expended on Syon-house, within the time of the above account, 5,540 18s. 10d.

"I beg you would never delay a letter for want of a trank; the oftener I have postage to pay, the greater the pleasure to your very obliged, &c.

"JOHN FENN."

Mr. Walpole's was the following.

"Arlington-street, April 16, 1776. "You will be concerned, my good sit, for what I have this minute heard from his rephew, that poor Mr. Granger was seized at the

communion-table on Sunday with an apo

plexy, and died yesterday morning at five.

"I have answered the letter, with a wordof advice about his MSS. that they may not fall into the hands of booksellers." He had

been told by idle people so many gossiping stories, that it would hurt him and living persons, if all his collections were to be printed; for, as he was incapable of telling an untruth himself, he suspected nobody else; too great goodness in a biographer ! "Yours, &c.

"HORACE WALPOLE."

The correspondence relating to the history," ends with p. 420. It is followed by some letters upon other subjects, and afterwards by miscellanies, some of which are believed not to have been the produce of Mr. Granger's peu.

The notes of tours are meagre. The best are perhaps those which relate to the journey from Bayonne toward Ma

drid.

July the 9th, we left Bayonne, and entered upon our journey towards Madrid; having sent two of our men before with the chaise towards Pampiluna. Two or three leagues from Bayonne,we began to mount the Pyrenees; we travelled about ten or twelve leagues the first day, and came to a very good French inn at night, where we found our mea which we had sent before. We had a French woman in company with us, who was eternally gay, and seemed to outdo the gaiety even of the French themselves. She was the same after the most fatiguing day's journey, and even without resting at night. Though she rose by three, four, and five in the morning, or without having rested the whole night, she had the same spirits remaining. She was an instance of the freedom of the French women's behaviour, which had no reserve, no restraint from modesty; but she seemed to make it a maxim to say whatever she thought, and do whatever her inclination prompted

her to.

"On our second day's journey, Mr. Boyle and I mounted the chaise, which had two more wheels put on at a distance from those behind, to break the jolts, and keep it from overturning. It was drawn by six oxen, which go slow and sure over those steep mountains, and had three men to drive it; and those dreadful ways require both skill and care in the drivers. We took some bread and wine, by way of breakfast, at a little house in the Pyrenees, where the queen of Spain lodged in the year 39, as we were inforined by an inscription over the door. The inn We came to this night was altogether in the Spanish way; we entered into our chamber through the Spanish, which leads likewise to the kitchen, &c. It was so cold here (as it is almost all the year in the Pyrennees) that we were forced to have a fire made, though in the month of June.

"I should have remarked before, that we entered on the Spanish territories this day, which have nothing remarkable by way of boundary but a small fountain. Just by they shewed us a little rising ground, where the

dauphin of France was married to the Infanta in a tent erected for that purpose. The Pyrennees, with all their frightful precipices, have greater beauties in them than I saw besides in France and Madrid. They are covered with a tine verdure, are full of trees, have several corn-fields on the sides of them; and the valleys are interspersed with pretty villages, which, together with the distant prospect of the mountains appearing one above another, made a charming romantic scene.

"I happened once to fall aleep in the chaise in passing over the mountais; and waking all on a sudden where the road was very narrow, on the brink of the highest precipice I saw on those mountains, I looked least half a mile distant from the top, and down on the valley beneath, which seemed at immediately conceived such a horror as I never knew before; for, being so near the edge of a precipice, though in no danger of failing, it immediately raises the idea of it.

"The third day at night we came to Pampiluna, which is the first town in the Spanish dominions, and the only one worth remark ing which we met with on our journey to Madrid. It is pretty well fortified, and looks pretty enough at a distance, but has but little elegance in its streets or houses when you come to examine them. Upon our coming hither, we seemed to be in a new world; the habits, the aspect, the language of the people, being all new to us; and when we came to our inn, the furniture, &c. seemed to be in the fashion of the last century.

"The day we came hither was but two days after a bull-feast; and was on one of the days of the fair, which is kept here for several days after the feast. Here we bought us a case, with a knife, fork, and spoon, which we were informed we should have occasion for on the road, there being no such things to be found in the Spanish inns: and, indeed, if it had not been for the precaution of our mus leteer, who took care, where any thing was to be got, to carry a little flesh or fowl with him, we should have wanted even necessaryprovisions; as we were in several of those houses where they had only a little bread and nasty wine.

"It was odd enough, when we came late` into some of our inus, to see the muleteers all lying along asleep, upon the cloths belonging to their mules (as these people never lie in a bed), and the people of the inn running about almost naked to put things in order for us, and perhaps half a dozen people dispatched to several parts of the place, some for provision, othels for beds, which in the Spanish inus are mattrasses loid upon a bag of straw; though sometimes I have been forced to take up with a blanket thrown over the latter for å bed.

"We met with few things worthy of ob servation, and as few beauties either natural, or artificial as it is possible, I believe, any where again in the whole world to meet with