knew him, Coleridge had published volumes. I recollect his telling me of his offering a collection of poems to a bookseller in the west end, who recommended him to write some warm

love pieces as the most saleable. Coleridge did not follow the advice, though much distressed for money at the time, and spoke of it with indignation. I can add nothing stronger to show that Coleridge did not produce any great effect on the Morning Post, than the choice the booksellers made of Lane and their neglect of Coleridge. Neither can I add any thing to his own letters in your last Magazine, Mr. Urban, to shew that, as far as money went, he was much overpaid for any thing he ever did for me. It was not between us a question of profit and loss. I regarded him as a man of extraordinary endowments, shipwrecked by habits, a baby in worldly affairs; and I had a pleasure in assisting him. I inserted in the last Magazine Coleridge's letter about 80l. between him and Wordsworth. I never paid or gave Wordsworth any money for services. What that letter alluded to, I cannot tell. I published it to shew the confusion of Coleridge's memory on money affairs. He never thought of money except when a necessity for it occurred, and then he applied to the readiest quarter, often to me; and such applications never failed, except twice; once when Mr. Street, as half-proprietor of the Courier, must have paid half the 50l. mentioned in the last letter in your last Magazine; and once when Coleridge resided with Mr. Morgan, near Chippenham, I being at the time far from London and much engaged. Coleridge never kept money a day. When he received a sum, it went to pay debts; it was dispersed as if it were a troublesome encumbrance, about which he could not bear to have his mind disturbed.

This subject leads me to an important feature in his character. When he went to Germany, the Antijacobin publications accused him of deserting his wife and children. In his " Literary Biography" he alludes to these charges.

He never deserted them in the sense

which the words imply. On the contrary, he always spoke of them to me with esteem, affection, and anxiety. He allowed to them the greatest part of his income, but that was sometimes insufficient for their comfortable subsistence, and he himself was usually more distressed for money than they were. This is the impression made upon me: Coleridge could not endure the cares of a family. Money was often required, and hints were as often given that he might earn abundance by his writings. In excuse for his retiring from his family, then at Keswick, he said to me one day, among other things, that he was worried about domestic affairs: that he was perpetually teased, among other things, about the cow; the cow this and the cow that, he making two syllables of the word (kee-ow); the kee-ow was unwell; the kee-ow was going to calve, &c. he pronouncing the word peevishly. He never liked what may be called tavern or large dinner parties. small quiet domestic circle, that he enjoyed; to be in a family where he could read and think and write, and walk and wander, both in body and mind, without care or calls of duty. I at times passed successive days with him when we were alone, and I never heard a sentiment or a word from him, either on morals or religion, that was not of a mild, honourable, a charitable kind, such as would have become any clergyman. He regretted that the Church of England did not yield a little to include in its bosom many of the Dissenters, who differed slightly from it; but he was full of horror at the thoughts of Catholic ascendancy, the evil consequences of which he pointed out by reference to principles, and still more by reference to history.

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*** Thus, then, I have disposed of the two assertions that Coleridge made the fortune of the Morning Post and was insufficiently rewarded. In your next number, Mr. Urban, I will give some anecdotes of him highly honourable to his memory, and in themselves of public interest.

THOSE who have once visited the village orné of Stourton, will not forget its pleasing and delightful appear ance. The houses, all inhabited by the married servants, or immediate dependants, of the tasteful lord of Stourhead, have been generally rebuilt or remodelled; and, covered with roses, jessamines, and various kinds of clematis, they breathe of sweetness and of peace. In the midst is the village inn, where the same benevolent spirit, with a truly public hospitality, has provided a large accession to the conveniences generally afforded at a small village, and where the tourist, attracted by the beauties of the adjacent domain, most liberally thrown open to his footsteps, is placed in the most convenient situation for enjoying the objects of his pursuit.

But, above all, the neatness of the Church, and the charms of its situation, enhance the delightful associations of Stourton. The churchyard possesses a beautiful prospect from its inclosure, extending over a wellwooded and undulated scenery, thickly covered with laurel.

The Church, which is dedicated to St. Peter, consists of a nave extending from the turret to the belfry fortythree feet six inches; and from the choir to the altar twenty-eight feet nine inches: its total breadth is thirtyone feet from the north door. It has one side aisle to the north, and a family pew projecting to the south. Its exterior appearance will be seen from the Plate; in the interior its original architecture is encroached upon by alterations in the Grecian style.

It contains many memorials to the family of Stourton, which are faithfully recited in Sir Richard Hoare's History of the Hundred of Mere. On one tomb are two effigies sculptured in stone, and recumbent on a richlydecorated base; of which the historian has given a plate. There is another effigy of stone, representing a female figure, habited in an antique

dress, which lies recumbent on the edge of a window-seat in the north aisle, but it is hidden from view.

After the Family of HOARE became possessors of the estate which the Barons of Stourton had held for so

many centuries, their sepulchral memorials naturally formed a sequel to those of their predecessors on the river Stour. Of these, the following exist within and without the walls of the parish church.

Henry Hoare, with Jane Benson his wife, were buried without the walls of the church; and, till within these few years, their tombstones, exposed to the weather, became dilapidated, and threatened decay. They were, however, restored, and placed under cover, with a sarcophagus on each tomb, by the late worthy Baronet; who also restored the ancient cross, and erected a family mausoleum in the churchyard adjoining, which are both seen in our view.

The name of Henry Hoare, the first settler at Stourton, has been thus recorded by an inscription placed to his memory by his widow:

"To the pious memory of HENRY HOARE, Esquire, son of Sir Richard Hoare, sometime Lord Mayor, President of Christ's Hospital, and Member of Parliament for the City of London.

"His character is too great to be described, and yet too good to be concealed. His love of God and mankind were so ardent that he sought all opportunities of honouring the one and doing good to the other. He was strictly pious himself, without being censorious to others; truly humble without affectation; grave without moroseness, cheerful without levity; just beyond exception, and merciful without reserve. God blessed him with a good understanding, which he improved by conversing with the best books and wisest men, and by a constant course of serious meditation. He lived under a settled habit of private charities, and bore a noble share in all those public acts of piety and mercy which have continued the blessings and averted the judgments of God. Hence he was honoured with the esteem of all good men, and with the friendship of many of the most distinguished by their high rank and great merit. He had a well-grounded and therefore an inflexible zeal for the faith,

discipline, and worship of the Church of England.

"He gave by his last will two thousand pounds for erecting and encouraging Charity-schools and Workhouses; the profits and produce of two thousand pounds more to be applied yearly, for ever, in purchasing and giving to the poor the Holy Bible, the Common Prayer, and

the Whole Duty of Man; and left one thousand three hundred pounds to other charitable uses. His soul went to God March the 12th, 1724, in the forty-eighth year of his age.

"He married JANE, daughter of Sir William Benson, Knight, by whom he had eleven children, of which two sons and three daughters now survive. This monument was erected at her expense, being now his mournful widow, as she was his most faithful and affectionate wife."

After the death of this munificent and public-spirited citizen, his widow resided at Stourhead, and, in the same spirit of charity which breathed so fervently in the breast of the husband, she made several charitable and religious bequests in favour of the parish of Stourton. She was interred in an arched grave without the eastern wall of the church, where a simple memorial records her birth and death :

"In the same situation, and parallel with the grave of his mother, was deposited, by his own special order, the body of her son, Henry Hoare, Esquire, whose memory is commemorated by a handsome monumental tablet and inscription within the church, erected by order of his executor and son-in-law, Sir Richard Hoare, of Barn Elms, Bart. In the year 1817 these tombs, by a long exposure to the weather, became so dilapidated, that Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in gratitude to his grandfather and generous benefactor, ordered the tombs to be repaired, and a porch to be built over them,

'Sic cineri gloria sera venit!"" On the same wall, and adjoining to the aforesaid monument, within the church, is the following inscription to the memory of Henry, son to the late Henry Hoare, Esquire :

"Henry Hoare, Esquire, to whom this memorial is erected, married, first, Anne, daughter of Samuel Lord Masham, by whom he had a daughter, who died in 1735, aged eight years. By his second wife, Susan, who deceased in 1743, daughter and heiress of Stephen Colt, Esquire, he had three sons and two daughters: 1. Henry, who died soon after birth in 1729; 2. Henry, born 22 December 1730, who died at Naples in 1752; 3. Susanna, born 15 April 1732, married, first, to Charles Lord Boyle, afterwards Lord Dungarvan, eldest son of John Earl of Cork and Orrery; secondly, to Thomas Lord Bruce, now Earl of Ailesbury; she died in February 1783; 4. Colt, born 11 November 1733, who died in May 1740; 5. Anne, born 27 June 1737, who, being married to Richard Hoare, of Barn Elms, in the county of Surrey, Esquire, and

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The earth embellish'd on these banks of Stour,
With grateful reverence to this marble lean,
Raised to the friendly Founder of the scene.
Here with pure love of smiling Nature warm'd,
This far-famed demy-paradise he form'd;
And, happier still, here learn'd from Heaven
to find

A sweeter Eden in a bounteous mind.
Thankful these fair and flowery paths he trod,
And prized them only as they lead to God."

The third and remaining monument, which is placed within the rails of the altar, records the memory of Hester Lyttelton, daughter of William Henry Lord Westcote, since created Lord Lyttelton, and wife of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. :

"To the memory of the Honourable Hester Hoare, wife of Richard Colt Hoare, Esquire, of Stourhead, in the county of Wilts, and daughter of the Right Honourable Lord Westcote, of Hagley Park, in the county of Worcester, who died on the 22nd day of August, in the year 1785, in the twenty-third year of her age."

This beautiful monument was sent

from Italy, and represents a sarcophagus of Egyptian granite, surmounted by an urn of foreign marble, with two weeping boys.

The excellent Baronet, whose death we have now to lament (see the Obituary of our present number), alike estimable as the paternal landlord and the munificent patron of literature and art, was interred beneath the Mausoleum erected in the churchyard; upon which is placed a tablet thus inscribed :

HOC SEPULCHRETUM
SIBI ET POSTERIS

RICHARDUS COLT HOARE

FIERI CURAVIT

ANNO MDCCCXIX.

We trust we shall be excused in ap