⚫up are of a correspondent description; the space formed by the oak and laurel wreaths being appropriated to the reception of Sir Philip Broke's armorial bearings. The cover of the cup is surmounted by Sir Philip Broke's family crest-on a wreath, a Badger, proper. The handles are in imitation of knotted oak.

The taste which Mr. Bevil had displayed, in the manufacture of the cup, pointed him out, to the Committee which had the management of the County subscription, as a proper person to execute their more important order. He was accordingly requested to furnish the Committee with designs; and, having presented several, one was selected, of which we shall here insert a description.

The piece of plate, which is to be round in its form, of the diameter of 36 inches, and to be manufactured en frieze, will display a series of splendid and classical decorations, appropriate to the occasion, and calculated to render it, as a commemorative present, highly worthy of the Suffolk hero's acceptance. The tout ensemble of the design has been thus described:-

"A deep and highly-wrought border, formed into four principal compartments, relieved by a bold and rich scroll foliage, interspersed with naval trophies and devices, with four large escallop shells forming the recess for the chief designs, executed in basso alto relievo.

"IN THE FIRST SHELL-An Allegorical Represen

tation of the two Nations in the Combut. "Britannia, mounted on a sea horse, holds the trident of Neptune in one hand, whilst she hurls her thunder on the American eagle that is expiring at her feet.

"SECOND SHELL-Neptune receiving the successful Warrior.

"The Commander of the Shannon, accompanied by Britannia and Liberty, with their appropriate emblems, is borne triumphant through the sea, in a car, drawn by sea horses. Neptune, in the act of receiving the warrior, presents him with a naval coronet of victory. Fame also appears in the groupe.

"THIRD SHELL-The Triumph of Victory. These form a groupe of emblematic figures, with victory holding the laurel in the centre. FOURTH SUELL-Commerce secured to the World by British Prowess.

"The four quarters of the world are represented as concentrating their mutual advantages under British protection.

"In the interior of the scroll borde, are four figura tive representations of Fortitude, Wisdom, Justice, and Peace, intended as characteristics of the British nation in the contest.-Whilst Fortitude appears in her fleets and armies, Wisdom and Justice direct her, in the senate, to the only honourable object of warthe establishment of peace.

In the centre of the whole is a spirited representa tion of the action between the Shannon and Chesa peake, encircled with a chorus of tritons and sea nymphs.

"At the upper part of the plate, encircled by a rich foliage of palm branches, are the armorial bear ings of the County of Suffolk, with those of Sir Philip Broke; and, at the bottom, in a corresponding space, is an appropriate inscription."

We have thus brought our Memoir of the life and services of Sir Philip Broke down to the spring of 1814.-At present, Sir Philip is not in the enjoyment of a command. On his return to England, the Shannon, from constant, long-continued wear and tear at sea, was unfit for turther service, and it became necessary that she should be paid off. Lord Melville, in consequence, wrote to Captain Broke, proffering him the command of one of the new ships, built to match the large American craft, misnomered frigates; but his wound was not then sufficiently healed to allow of his immediately serving again; in addition to which, his many years' absence from home, required that, for a time, he should devote his attention to his own private concerns. He was, therefore, induced to decline Lord Melville's polite and flattering offer, and to request a short relaxation, before he should again embark.

We have the pleasure of knowing, that Sir Philip Broke's health is now perfectly re-established; and, without wishing him to be taken from his domestic hearth-without wishing him to be robbed of the sweet solace of those enjoyments to which he had been so long a stranger-to which his arduous toils so well entitle him- his grateful countrymen will hail, with joy and exultation, the Suffolk hero's return to act-> ive life; confident, that, under his auspices, "the proud old British Union" will continue to float triumphant.

T. H.

HERALDIC AND GENEALOGICAL PARTICULARS.

It was stated, at the commencement of the preceding Memoir, that, from a pedigree now in the possession of the family, the Brokes appear to trace their decent from Willielmus de Doyto del Brooke, the son of Adam Lord of Leighton, in Cheshire, pre viously to the reign of King Henry IIL From this

Wm. descended Thomas de la Brooke, of Leighton, who married the heiress of John Parker, of Copenhall, and had issue, 1st. John of Leighton, ancestor of the Brookes of Leighton, the Brookes of Norton, created Baronets in 1662, the Brookes of Meire, &c. 2d. Ralph Broke, of Namptwich, who had issue. 3d. Robert, who married Jane Scudamore, of Herefordshire and 4th. Sir Richard Broke, of London, Knight, Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the reign of King Henry VIII. from whom Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke derives his descent. This Sir Richard married Miss Leeds, and had several sons, of whom the eldest was Robert, of Nacton, in Suffolk, who, by Elizabeth, heiress of the Holgraves, of Sussex, had Richard, also of Nacton, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Jermy, of Brightwell, in Suffolk, Knight, and was father of Robert Brooke, of Nacton, who, about 1602 married Eliabeth Waters, of Wimbledon, in Surrey, and had 4ssue Sir Richard, of Nacton, who, by Mary, daughter of Sir John Packington, Knight, had four sons, of whom Richard, the secoud, and Packington, the fourth, died unmarried.--Sir Robert Brooke, of Naeton, the eldest son of Sir Richard, was created a Baronet by patent, bearing date May 21, 1661. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Lionel Talmach, Bart.; but dying in 1693-4, without any male issue, the title became extinct. He left three daughters his co-heirs.William Brooke, the third son of Sir Richard Brooke, of Nacton, and Miss Packington, was of Dartford, in Kent, and was killed at Tangiers, on the 8th of March, 1660. He married Priscilla Fielder, of Dartford, and by her had Robert, who succeeded his uncle, Sir Robert, at Nacton, and was twice married. By his first wife, Anne, his cousin, the youngest daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Brooke, Bart. he had no surviving male issue. By his second, Eliza

* This is, probably, the gentleman alluded to in the following passage of the Magna Britannia, vol. v. page 205.-"Sir Robert Broke's skill in the laws of the nation, raised him to the high dignity of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in the reign of Queen Mary I. and enabled him to compose an Abridgement of the Common Laws of England; which is so well done, that it hath been of great account ever since."

beth, daughter of Sir John Hewytt, of Waresley, in Huntingdonshire, Bart. he had three sons: 1st. Robert, who died unmarried in 1719: 2d. Philip, of Nacton, grandfather of Sir Philip: and 3d. John, who was rector of Hintlesham, from whom there are descendants now living.

Philip Broke, of Nacton, the second (but eldest surviving) son of Robert Brooke and Elizabeth Hewytt, married, in 1732, Anne, daughter and coheir of Martin Bowes, of St. Edmund's Bury, Esq. and, by that lady, who died in 1754, had six daughters and one son, the late Philip Bowes Broke, of Nacton, Esq. who was born May 18, 1749. He married Elizabeth, daughter, and at length heir of the Rev. Charles Beaumont, of Witnesham, in Suffolk, Clerk, M. A. and died Aug. 22, 1801, having had issue, by his lady, who still survives, three sons and five daughters. The sons are, 1st. Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, Bart. of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland, born at Nacton, Sept. 9, 1776, who married Sarah Louisa, daughter of Sir William Middleton, of Shrubland Hall, in Suffolk, Bart. Nov. 25, 1802. By this lady Sir Philip has had the following issue: Philip Broke, born Jan. 15, 1804; Louisa, bora 1805; William, born Dec. 20, 1807; George, bora April 26, 1812, who are all living, and a son, Charles, and two daughters, Harriet and Louisa, who died infants.

Charles Broke, the second son of the late Philip Bowes Broke, is a Lieut. Colonel in the army, now in the Peninsula: and Horace George, the third son, is a Captain in the army, and Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Clinton, now also in Spain.

Of Sir Philip's sisters, the eldest was married to Edward Turnor, of Stoke Rochford, in Lincolnshire, Esq. but is now dead. Mary, the second, is now the wife of Gen. J. Leveson Gower. Anne, the third, and Thurland, the 5th, died unmarried; and Anna, the 4th, is now living.

ARMS.-Or, a cross engrailed per pale, gules and

sable.

CREST of Honourable Augmentation, granted by Royal Warrant.-Issuant from a naval crown Or, a dexter arm embowed, encircled by a wreath of laurel proper, the hand grasping a trident erect of the first.

CREST of the family. On a wreath, a badger proper.

MOTTO. Sævumque tridentem servamus.

Vide EAST ANGLIAN, vol. I. page 86.

HORACE.

It is wonderful to observe the conformity between vegetation and the arrival of certain birds of passage. I will give one instance, as marked down in a diary kept by me in Norfoik, in the year 1755. April the 16th, young figs appear; the 17th of the same month the cuckoo sings. Now the word kokkur signifies a cuckoo, and likewise the young fig; and the reason given for it is, that in Greece they appeared together. I will just add, that the same year I first found the cuckoo-flower to blow the 19th of April.

To the instance of coincidence of the appearance of the cuckoo, and the fruit of the fig-tree in Greece and England, I will here add some coincidences of the like nature in Sweden and England.

Linnæus says, that the wood-anemone blows from the arrival of the swallow; in my diary for the year 1755, I find the swallow appeared April the 6th, and the wood-anemone was in blow the 10th of the same month. He says, that the marsh-marigold blows when the cuckoo sings: according to my diary, the marsh-marigold was in blow April the 7th, and the suckoo sung,

THE REBEL DUKE OF MONMOUTH. Dr.Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph, in a letter to Dr. Fell, Bishop of Oxford, dated July 16, 1685, the day after the execution of the Duke of Monmouth, gives the following particulars, relating to that unfortunate nobleman.

I told your Lordship in my last the Bishop of Ely was appointed by his Majesty to attend the Duke of Monmouth, and to prepare him to die the next day. The Duke wrote to his Majesty respresenting how usefull he might and would be, if his Majesty would be pleased to grant him his life. But if it might not be, he desired a longer time, and to have another divine to assist him, Dr. Tennison, or whom else the King should appoint. The King sent the Bishop of Bath and Wells to attend, and to tell him he must die the next morning. The two Bishops sate up in his chamber all night, and watcht while ho slept. In the morning by his Majesty's order, the Lords Privy-Seale and Dartmouth brought him also Dr. Tennison and Dr. Hooper. All these were with him till he died.

They got him to owne the King's title to the crown, and to declare in writing that the last King told him he was never married to his mother, and by word of mouth to acknowledge his invasion was sin; but could never get him to confess it was a rebellion. They got him to owne that he and Lady Harriot Wentworth had lived in all points like man and wife, but they could not make him confess it was adultery.

He acknowledged that he and his Duchess were married by the laws of the land, and therefore his children might inherit, if the King pleased. But he did not consider what he did when he married her, He confest that he had lived many years in all sorts of debauchery, but said he had repented of it, askt pardon, and doubted not that God had forgiven him, He said, that since that time he had an affection for Lady Harriot, and prayed that if it were pleasing to God, it might continue, otherwise that it might cease; and God heard his prayer. The affection did continue, and therefore he doubted not it was pleasing to God; and that this was a marriage, their choice of one another being guided not by lust, but by judgment upon due consideration.

They endeavoured to shew him the falsehood and mischievousness of this enthusiasticall principle, But he told them it was his opinion, and he was fully satisfied in it. After all, he desired them to giv●

him the communion next morning. They told him they could not do it while he was in that error and sin. He said he was sorry for it.

The next morning, he told them he had prayed that if he was in an error in that matter God would convince him of it; but God had not convinced him, and therefore he believed it was no error.

When he was upon the scaffold, he profest himself a Protestant of the church of England. They told him he could not be so, if he did not owne the doctrine of the Church of England in the point of non-resistance, and if he persisted in that enthusiastic persuasion. He said he could not help it, but yet he approved the doctrine of the church in all other things. He then spoke to the people, in vindication of the Lady Harriot, saying she was a woman of great honor and virtue, a religious godly lady (those were his words). They told him of his living in adultery with her. He said, no; for these 2 years last past he had not lived in any sin that he knew of; and that he had never wronged any person, and that he was sure when he died to go to God, and therefore he did not fear death, which (he said) they might see in his face. Then they prayd for him, and be kneeld down and joind with them. After all they had a short prayer for the King, at which he paused, but at last said Amen. He spoke to the Headsman to see he did his business well, and not use him as he did the Lord Russell, to give him two or three strokes; for if he did he should not be able to lie still without turning. Then he gave the executiouer 6 guineas, and 4 to one Marshall a servant of Sir T. Armstrong's that attended him with the King's leave: desiring Marshall to give them the executioner if he did his work well, and not otherwise. He gave this Marshall overnight his ring and watch; and now he gave him his case of pickteeth; all for Lady Harriot. Then he laid himself down; and upon the signe given, the headsman gave him a light stroke, at which he locked him in the face; then he laid him down again, and the headsman gave him 2 strokes more, and then laid down the ax, saying, he could not finish his work; till being threatened by the Sheriff and others then present, he took up the ax again, and at 2 strokes more cut off his head.

CURIOUS NEST OF RATS.

In a letter from Dr. Wallis to Dr. Smith, in the Bodleian Library, dated Oxford, Dec. 20, 1677, the following curious circumstance is related.

I was this day shewed a nest of young rats, which were yesterday killed in a wood-house belonging to University College; which, because of somewhat extraordinary, I thought not amiss to acquaint you with. They were seven in number; two of them well nigh at their full growth, the other five somewhat less; bat (which seemed very unusual) all heir tails were interwoven like so many strings in a

breade, from the rump to the little ends of the tails, so that they could not part. And by that means the man who first found them, (in a nest made of moss, on a bench among the wood) might as well have taken them alive, for by reason of this entanglement they could not go away. The old one, which it seems had continued to feed them to this bigness, did leap with great fury at the man who came to destroy them, but was beat off by him, and the young ones destroyed. Had he been so wise as not to have killed them, it had been a sight worth preserving.

NEW CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE.

Messrs. Desormes and Clement lately presented to the French Institute a very singular substance discovered in the ashes of sea-weed, by M. Courtois, saltpetre manufacturer in Paris. Many experiments have already been made on this curious matter, but its nature is not yet ascertained with certainty. It has properties so peculiar, that it is not known in what class of bodies it ought to be arranged. Its most remarkable property is to produce a superb violet vapour by the action of a mild heat. At the ordinary temperature, it has the appearance of a metal; but about the 70th degree it melts, and almost immediately rises in a violet vapour. Red heat, oxygen, and carbon do not act upon it. It is produced by muriatic acid as well as by phosphorus. It directly attacks the metals and combines with them without effervescence; it combines in like manner with oxides, and forms with them combinations almost all soluble in water. With ammoniac it pro duces an intangible fulminating powder.

NEWLY-INVENTED HYGROMETER.

M. Baptist Lendi, of St. Gall, has invented a new bygrometer, of which the following description is given In a white fint bottle is suspended a piece of metal, about the size of a hazle unt, which not only looks extremely beautiful, and thus contributes to the ornament of a room, but likewise predicis every possible change of weather, 12 or 14 hours before it occurs. As soon as the metal is suspended in the bottle with water, it begins to increase in bulk, and in 10 or 12 days forms an admirable pyramid, which resembles polished brass; and it undergoes several changes, till it has attained its full dimensions. In rainy weather, this pyramid is constantly covered with pearly drops of water; in case of thunder or hail, it will change to the finest red, and throw out rays: in case of wind or fog, it will appear dall and spotted; and, previously to snow, it will look quite muddy. If placed in a moderate temperature, it will require no other trouble than to pour out a common tuinbler fall of water, and to put in the same quantity of fresh, For the first few days must not be shaken.

ANECDOTES OF MARSHAL SAXE. Madame Favart died about 50 years of age.She was a bad actress, had a shrill voice, and her acting was low and vulgar; she was only supportable in low characters, and that not for a long time. She played a Savoyard girl, exhibiting the feats of the marmot admirably; this was her true talent.It was with this that she made her fortune, when she first appeared upon the stage in 1749: she was then called Mademoiselle Chantilly; she danced and sung, and her dance in sabots turned the heads of all Paris. She had just quitted the company of players which the great Maurice de Saxe always had as an appendage to his victorious army. Midmoselle de Chantilly's great celebrity was, indeed, derived from the passion with which she had inspired this hero; a passion which she never could return. This part of her romantic story gives occasion to some curious moral reflections. The hero of France, the conqueror at Fontenoy, and Laufeldt, the handsomest man of his time, was passionately in love with a little creature who was half distracted at being obliged to be his mistress for the sake of the money. She was herself desparately smitten with a journeyman pastry-cook, a very ill-made man, by name Favart, who deserted his master's shop to write songs and comic operas, such as were at that time the rage.

This journeyman pastry-cook stole away the mistress of Marshal Saxe, one night during the siege of Maestricht, and carried her off. The night of their escape, it is to be presumed, was very tempestuous, since the bidges of communication between the Marshal's army and Lowendall's corps, which was on the other side of the river, were carried away; and it was feared that the enemy might take advantage of this circumstance, and falling upon Lowendahl's corps, destroy it entirely. M. Dumesnil, who was distinguished at that time by the appellation of the handsome Dumesnil, and who died of his expedition to the parliament of Grenoble, came to see the Marshal early in the morning. He found him sitting upon his bed much agitated, with his hair dishevelled, and appearing in great afiliction. He began to console him, saying: the misfortune is undoubtedly very great, but it may be repaired.'— •Alas! my friend,' replied the Marshal, there is no remedy, I am undone! Dumesnil eontinued endeavouring to reanimate his courage, and console him for the disaster of the night, It may not,' said he, be attended with the consequences which we apprehend. Still the Marshal was disconsolate, and continued to say the loss was irreparable. At length, after about a quarter of an hour had passed in this way, the Marshal began to perceive, that all M. Dumesnil had said, related only to the bridges, when he exclaimed: Pshaw, who could have thought that you were talking only of these broken bridges! it is a petty inconveienee which may bo re

paired in three hours; but Chantilly is gone! they have taken Cantilly away from me "The hero, who'n the most important military operations never could deprive of an hour's sleep, was altogether cast down and heart-broken at having been descrted by a litde coquette.

Soon after Chantilly's first appearance at Paris, she married her pastry-cook, who was now become an author and a poet, and went with him into Lorraine. The great Maurice, enraged at a resistance which he had never before experienced, had the weakness to request a lettre-de-cachet to carry the husband away from his wife, and to compel the latter to become his concubine; and, what is very remarkable, the lettre-de-cachet was granted and exccuted. The husband and wife were obliged to bend to the yoke of necessity; and little Chantilly was at the same time the wife of Favart, and the mistress of Marshal Saxe. She was even the cause of this hero's death. He had carried her to Chambard, and she was with him the night on which he was seized with his last illness; an illness which carried him off in a few days.-Historical and Literary Memoirs of Baron Grimm and M. Diderot.

PICTURE OF FAIR ROSAMOND. Samuel Gale, the antiquary, accidentally purchased a fine picture of the beautiful Rosamond. It would gratify curiosity to know, who was the artist, whether the painting be yet extant, and, if so, where it has been deposited. In a letter to Hearne, his brother antiquary, Mr. Gale thus describes the picture .—

It is painted on a pannel of wainscot and represents her in a three quarter proportion dressed in the habit of the times, a straight body'd gown of changeable red velvet, with large square sleeves of black flowered damask facings turned up above the bend of her arins, and close sleeves of a pearl-coloured sattin, puffed out, but buttoned at the wrist, appearing from under the large ones; she has several rings set with precious stones on her fingers. Her breast covered with a fine flowered linen, gathered close at the neck like a ruff. Her face is charmingly fair, with a fine blush in her cheeks. Her hair of a dark brown, parted with a seam from the middle of her forehead upwards under her coifure, which is very plain, but a gold lace appears above it, and it is covered with a small cap of black silk. She is looking very intensely upon the fatal cup which she holds in one hand, and the cover in the other, as going to drink it. Before her is a table covered with black damask, on which there lies a prayer book open, writt in the ancient black character: the whole piece is extremely well preserved. I take it to have been done about Heury the 7th's time. You'll excuso this excursion which nothing but so beautiful a lady