more

or less completely subdued; the Sicambri were among the number.

For Phraates, son of Orodes, sending his sons and grandsons into Italy to Augustus, see Strabo, vi. and xvi. and Tacitus, Annals, ii. 1. In the endeavour to restore the original words the Latin should suggest the Greek, and the Greek the Latin; also the number of letters in each line is to

be attended to. In the Latin the number of letters and points, for there is a point at the end of each word, averages from 69 to 60. In the Greek there are no points, and the number of letters averages from 39 to 30.

Some few particulars of the general state of preservation of this ancient inscription may not be uninteresting. To make these intelligible it may be necessary to state that the temple is described as lying north and south, being about 90 feet long by 50 broad. It was entered from the south; and at either end the antæ, i. e. vestibules or porticoes, occupied 20 feet of the length, so that the interior of the temple or cell, the thickness of the partition walls being_deducted, was about 44 feet long. The inscription, the letters of which were gilt on a ground of vermillion, is in the vestibule as the temple is entered, the three first columns on the left hand, the three following ones on the right. Each column had originally between 50 and 60 lines. The statistics of their preservation are thus :-the first column, beginning with " Annos undeviginti natus," retains 28 whole lines and portions of lines. The second, beginning "Patriciorum numerum auxi," 45 ditto. The third, "Honoris mei causâ," 41 ditto. The fourth, "Curiam et continens," 53 ditto. The fifth, "Mare pacavi a prædonibus," 53 ditto. The sixth, "Regis Phratis, etc." 41. The Greek translation, if the account is rightly apprehended, is in 20 columns or upwards; but whether the whole is on the east exterior wall of the cell, or part on the western exterior wall also, is not clearly expressed. Mr. Hamilton copied five whole columns, and portions of three others. The Greek columns he copied are much better preserved than the Latin ones. By removing a wall GENT. MAG. VOL. XXVIII.

much more it seems is capable of being recovered.

The title of the Latin inscription extends over the whole of the three first columns, and is in these terms:"Rerum gestarum divi Augusti quibus orbem terrarum imperio populi Romani subjecit, et impensarum quas in rempublicam populumque Romanum fecit; incisum in duabus aheneis pilis (obelisks) quæ sunt Romæ positæ exemplar subjectum." The Greek title is in one line on the east side of the exterior of the temple.

It does not appear from Strabo, who mentions in his 4th book the treaty of Augustus with the Britons, and the final adjustment of all differences, that the British kings themselves came to Rome on that occasion. We may collect from him that it was their ambassadors who came there, accompanied by some of the sons of the kings of the island, with whom also might be various of the nobles.

But who were the three British kings who entered into treaty with Augustus ? To a solution of this question we are enabled somewhat to approximate. Damno or Domno must be the Dumno whose name occurs on the coin of the Brigantes; and, as there appears to have been no Bellaunos or Belinos in the royal line of Cunobeline at this time, we may therefore conclude him king of the Iceni, predecessor, and perhaps father, of Prasutagus, the husband of the noted Boadicea. Tim, which we presume stands for Timan, we may consider the Themantius of the Chronicles, the father of Cunobeline.

The three kings may thus have been enumerated according to the position of their territories, from the north to the south, and we find from subsequent accounts of Roman transactions, 60 or 70 years afterwards, that these were the most powerful states of the island, and the sole ones of it that we authentically know possessed a coinage. The Belga, it is probable, were represented by the other tribes in the negociations, or possibly, being uncivilised and barbarous, took no part in them. Some traces of a pre-existing alliance can be found in the Iceni abstaining from hostilities on the arrival of the Romans, and from the circumstance that Germanicus's soldiers, shipwrecked

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on the coast of Britain, were sent back safe, which is supposed to have taken place on their shores. (Tacitus, Annals, ii. 24).

We have thus, as the reader is, without doubt, by this time sufficiently apprised, some considerable degree of information conveyed to us relating to Britain from the Angora inscription, which singularly enough for 150 years after it was first discovered was not recorded to contain a word relating to the island. What is also satisfactory, this inscription, as well as Dion, somewhat corroborates the accounts given by the British Chronicles of Cunobeline's father. Wherefore we are not without some reason for expecting that several preceding descents from Manogan through Beli Mawr and Llud which they give may possibly also be correct. The inscription places us in a much better position than if it had shewn the Chronicles to have been altogether forgeries. Their reputation is rising as far as the inscription and Dion are concerned, but still we want more complete eluci dations respecting them.

In illustration of the coins of Cunobeline it is easily seen that the inscription is of importance. In pointing out Timan, Timantius, or Themantius as the father of Cunobeline it leads us to a more correct reading of the legends of his coins. We may acquiesce that the words TASC, TASCIO, TASCIOVA, and TASCIOVANUS which are found on them are of a titular nature, implying sovereign or ruler, and need no longer look for the name of a person in those words, or suppose that person was Cunobeline's father. The inscription furnishes us with every reason to repute that the correct form of the name of his parent was Timan, and all interpretations must consequently be dropped which suggest another person in that capacity.

BEALE POST.

Maidstone, 11th June, 1847.

MR. URBAN, Wirksworth, May 24. THE following continuation of my list of writers in the Quarterly Review has been delayed longer than I intended, principally from a wish to render it as complete and accurate as I could. I have not as in my former

communications* stated (except in a few instances) my authorities. The articles in the recent numbers of the Review being for the most part contributed by writers now living, the authorship generally can only be ascertained from private sources,-from similarity of style,-or from references made by the authors themselves. I have mentioned no name, however, without having I believe good authority for it; the list might have been much extended had I been guided by

mere rumour.

It has been a source of great gratification to me to know that the papers you have previously published in your valuable Magazine, have directed attention to many of the early articles of the Quarterly, and that some of the most beautiful essays have been sought for and again read, from a knowledge of the author, or the celebrity of his name. The information which they have elicited also, from others has been the means of correcting errors in the appropriation of some articles. Lord Brougham, for instance, in the recent edition of his Historical Sketches of Statesmen, has taken advantage of the correction of one of your correspondents, and has justly awarded to the late Sir Robert Grant the honour of writing the celebrated article on the life of Pitt, which in the previous edition was attributed to Mr. J. H. Frere. Another gratifying result of these humble notices is, that they have called forth your Ruddington correspondent in the same field, whose more copious illustrations of the Edinburgh Review will I hope soon be continued, and to whom I am indebted for much information respecting the writers of the Quarterly. At a future occasion I may furnish you with some additions to my former lists, the authorship of several articles having transpired since they were published.

Yours, &c. T. P.
QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. LXI.

Art. 1, p. 1. Versailles. By Mr. Croker.

Art. 6, p. 42. Secret History of the Court of England. By do.

* See our vols. xxiii. and xxiv.

Art. 1, p. 1. Railroads in Ireland. By Sir F. Head.

Art. 2, p. 61. How to Observe. (Martineau.) By Mr. Croker.

Art. 6, p. 457. Head's Narrative. By do.

Art. 7, p. 166. Lord Lindsay's Travels. By Rev. H. M. Milman.

Art. 2, p.341. Beale's Whale Fishery. By Sir John Barrow.

Art. 4, p. 88. Papal Conspiracy. By Rev. H. H. Milman. Art. 7. p. 526. By Rev. W. Sewell. Art. 9, p. 223. Political Affairs. By

Mr. Croker.

Oxford Theology.

Art. 1, p. 1. Printer's Devil. By Sir F. Head.

Art. 10, p. 283. Conduct of Ministers. By Mr. Croker.

Art. 7, p. 527. Lord Wellesley's Poems. By do.

Art. 8, p. 234. Travellers in Austria, &c. By Rev. H. H. Milman.

Art. 2, p. 340. Hallam. By do. (?) Art. 7, p. 194. Voyages, &c. By Sir John Barrow.

Art. 9, p. 581. The Privilege Question. By Mr. Croker.

Art. 8, p. 537. Chinese Affairs. By Sir John Barrow.

VOL. LXVI.

Art. 3, p. 64. Alexandria. By Rev. W. Sewell (reprinted).

Art. 7, p. 190. Lord Chatham. By Mr. Croker.

Art. 8, p. 564. Sir Samuel Romilly. By do.

Art. 4, p. 418. Wrangell's Expe dition. By Sir John Barrow.

Art. 3, p. 374. Modern English Poetesses. "This charming article was written by the late Henry N. Coleridge." Vide Frazer's Mag. June, 1846.

VOL. LXVII.

Art. 1, p. 1. American Orators. By Mr. Hayward.

Art. 2, p. 53. Medical Reform. By Sir B. C. Brodie.

Art. 3, p. 79.

Mr. Croker.

Art. 7, p. 481.

By do.

Lord Dudley. By

French Revolution.

Art. 4, p. 117. Romanism. By Rev. W. Sewell.

Art. 9,

By do.

p. 541. Romish Priests.

Art. 5, p. 171. Lord Ashley.

Infant Labour. By

Art. 7, p. 203.

Church of Scotland.

By Dr. James Browne.

THE plan of precedency in this country is anomalous, inconvenient, and infinitely embarrassing. The whole table requires revision. The revision would be extremely simple, and that the Crown has the power to make such revision no one can doubt. Early precedent and modern practice alike confirm its powers, from the interpolation of viscounts to the squeezing in of the knights of St. Michael and St. George.

With regard to men the question of precedency does not materially signify, and all sorts of courtesies are exercised amongst them with a careless indifference; such, for instance, as allowing members of Parliament, and officers of a certain rank in the army, to walk out of the room before common esquires, to which they are in no way entitled. The softer sex, however, are more sensitive on this subject; and we should always be desirous of doing honour where honour is due. It is for this purpose that I submit that the peeresses should all walk out according to their respective rank, and the dates of creation; and that, after the junior baroness, the eldest daughter of the premier duke, married to a commoner or unmarried, as the case may be, should take her place; and so on, through the peerage, in simple succession. Some sort of lesson must, of course, continue to be learnt by the Amphitryons of the day, but nothing can be more inconveniently complicated, or in its effects more absurd, than the present arrangement; when, for instance, if a duke's daughter marries the eldest son of a baron, she remains for sometime in a state of abeyance, with a rank above that of her unmar

* An article on this subject in the 51st vol. of the Quarterly, inadvertently attributed to the Bishop of London, was written by Mr. Fishlake.

his daughter-in-law, by becoming a peeress, sinks immediately below the level of those whom she had just preceded. Yours, &c. L.