Arable objects for Scottith provincial county of Suffex; the rapid and ufepieces. ful mail-coach, and exhibitions of whale-fifhing,and hat-making,are feen upon different London pieces, &c. II. Others afford reprefentations of the great and useful undertakings of the prefent times; fuch as the iron-bridge over the Severn, on the Colebrook-dale halfpenny; reverse, the inclined plane at Ketley: Thames and Severn canal piece, have a barge failing; reverse, a maffy acqueduct bridge: a Kent halfpenny, on the union of Appledore, has a wind-mill, the miller, and his houfe; the great ironworks of Wilkinfon are differently pourtray'd on his currency. It is to be lamented, that among the few ftruck for Scotland, not one comes under this defcription. How ornamental and honourable would it be, for fome of them to bear the fi gures, and perpetuate the dates of the erection of the greateft foundery in the world at Carron; the northbridge at Edinburgh; the elegant bridges at Perth and Glafgow; the great quay at Aberdeen; or the vast and useful acqueduct over the Kelvin, fupporting, at a ftupendous ele vation, one of the greatest canals in Europe! III. Striking emblems of that fpirit of industry and commerce, which characterizes the present times, and especially the British nation. One payable at Ipfwich, has "may God preferve the plough and fail;" a team in a field, and a fhip in full fail, coming into view behind a headland a weaver is at work u pon a Haverhill coin; reverfe, a plough and fhuttle: fhips in full fail are meet infignia of the trade of Liverpool, Tarmouth, Shields, Portfea, and the Cinque Ports; as a fheep, reverfe, a woolen weaver, is of the manufacture of Rochdale; and a hopplantation of the best product of the : IV. Illuftrious characters and remarkable men, in British. hiftory have now their features tranfmitted to "diftant climes and ages," upon common currency; which, perhaps, conveys "the charge of Fame," better than expentive medallions. Newton, Shakespeare, Johnfon, Howard, Howe; and the founders, or greatest benefactors of Bath, Southampton, Lancaster, &c. are honoured upon pieces of general circulation; on this department, however, it must be obferved with regret, that the portraits are, in general, far from being accurate; though, perhaps, not lefs fo than the effigies of Roman Emperors, are given by the degenerate mintages of the lower Empire; the fcarce ones of which are collected with fo much eagerness and expence, without regard to the contemptiblė or deteftable characters of their proto-types. Ours are not lefs worthy of being ftyled the In this refpect alfo, Scotland creeps at more than her ufual distance be hind the Sifter Kingdom. Why are the features of Buchanan, Napier, the admirable Crichton, Hume, Robertfon, Cullen, and Reid, configned to the fugitive materials, and faithlefs charge of paper and canvas, and not a fingle medal ‡ recording their likeneffes to pofterity. V. Some, laftly, are merely curious; the engraver James has been very fuccefsful in two landfcapes upon the oppofite fides of his Dudley token; and his elephant upon the Pope.-Verfes to Addifon on his Dialogues on Medals. Pidcock Befides the meed of merit given to diftinguished Englishmen on provincial coins, many elegant medals have been ftruck of them. See Snelling's plates. Pidcock exhibition pieces, is at leaft as well reprefented as the fame animal is by old Roman artists, upon denarii, of the family Cacilia, or upon thofe of Julius, and of Auguftus. ་ I fhall conclude this paper, with earnestly foliciting the attention of all companies and individuals, who may henceforth be difpofed to em-, ploy the artifts of Birmingham, London, &c. to fabricate coins for them, to the foregoing obfervations, which, I humbly flatter myfelf, will be approven by every perfon of tafte who has made the medallic art a study; and it is much to be wifhed, that particular injunctions were given to the engravers, to have the figures on the piece much bolder and higher raised than is ufually done, which is effect ed by having them more deeply cut into the dye; and the dotted circle by which the figures on the field are protected, fhould be much stronger, and more elevated; the fhapes of even most of thefe pieces which f have commended, are too thin and broad; they should be increased in thickness, even though their circumference fhould be thereby diminished. 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As he was wholly unaccompanied, he paffed the great part of the morning in writing letters to his numerous friends, and directions to thofe who had the care of his affairs, for their conduct, in cafe of accident to a life which was about to be expofed to peculiar danger; and in difpofition foftened by these employments, he rose from his feat, and walked to the window, feeking for fome object to call off his attention from confiderations which, however natural, he did not think proper to occupy his mind, at a time when the welfare of his country, and his own thirst for glory had induced him to exchange eafe, affluence, and fafety, for toil, difficulty, and danger, He had not remained at the window above two minutes, before he faw a very genteel young man, plainly but neatly dreffed in a blue frock and white, wait coat, go out of the fame inn where he himself refted, and after paufing a few moments, as if irrefolute which way to go, pafs haftily down the ftreet on one fide, and after a very short ftay return as quickly on the other, and re-enter the inn, from whence he again fallied in five or fix minutes, and repeated his former courfe. Curiofity, arifing from the difturbed and agitated air of this youth, induced the General to attend to his motions for an hour or two, during which time he had made fuch a number of thefe excur fions, and exhibited fuch figns of perturbation and diftrefs, that the General could no longer refift his inclination to gain fome intelligence which might account for this extraordinary behaviour; and he accordingly ordered his fervant to fuin mon the mafter of the houfe, under pretence of giving orders for his dinner. The hoft foon appeared; and, after difpatching the leaft confequential part of his bufinefs, he made fome diftant enquiries of him about his other gueft, but could obtain no other information, than that the gentleman came there late the preceding evening on a poft-horfe, had appeared at fome times thoughtful, and at others difturbed; had made no mention of his intention to depart, and had juft ordered his dinner. After a moment's confideration, General Harcourt charged his hoft with a meffage to the young gentleman, purporting, that a fellow-traveller, detained by indifpofition, and quite alone, would ef teem it as a favour if he would partake of his chicken with him: an invitation which was readily accepted; and Mr Mandeville, the name by which he had d-fired to be announced, entered, foon after, the apartment of General Harcourt, and expreffed his thanks for the honour conferred on him, and his apologies for his dishabille, in terms which would have interested the worthy General firongly in his favour, if he had not at firft fight received an impreffion which needed no other prepoffeflion. As the conversation naturally turned on the journey of each, and that fubject drew from the General a full account of his deftination, it feemed incumbent on Ed. Mag. Feb. 1796. the young traveller to be equally communicative; but he rather avoided an explanation, though he appeared more embarraffed than referved, and to want that encouragement which was kindly given him by the General, in affurances, that though he fought not to extort from him any circumftance wbich he might think it prudént to conceal, yet that if his apparent anxiety arofe from any of the common difappointments of life, he might fafely unbofom himself to a man, who, having fhared in the calamities of human nature, had a heart to feel, and at least to pity, the diftress which he was unable to relieve. Thus foothed, Mr Mandeville informed his kind companion, that he was a friendlefs orphan, who had been deprived of both his parents at a very early period. of his life; that he had been liberally educated by a fifter of his father, who he had alfo very lately had the misfortune to lofe; that the care of his perfon, and the very feanty remains of his father's. fortunes, had, at her death, devolved on her's and his father's elder brother, who was a country fquire of little underftand-ing, and lefs humanity; and who had placed him, againft his inclination, to learn a profeffion which he abhorred, and had abfolutely forbid him to think of any other way of life, on the pain of his. withdrawing from him his protection that notwithstanding his total diflike of his fituation, he fhould have perfevered in his endeavours to conquer this aver fion, but that a hopeless_love-entangler. ment had made it neceffary for him to: quit at once the object of his paffion, and the feat of his diffatisfaction; and that he was now on the ftream, doubtful what courfe to fteer; but inclined, and thus far on his way to Portsmouth, to enter into the fervice of his country as a private foldier or failor; to either of which ftations he had much rather fubmit, than put a cruel reftraint on his inclinations on the one hand, or involve the object of his paffion in his diftreffes on the other. This communication, the truth of which the General found not the leaft reafon to doubt, induced him to become at once the patron and protector of the unfortunate youth. He told him, he applauded his refolutions, as the efforts of a virtuous mind, though, perhaps, the generality of the world would not be ready to fubfcribe to his prudence; that he had too much delicacy to afk for farther particulars, and would even decline $ inquiring |