ANSON. FROEENIUS. member the time in which I might have been ftruck out of the commiffion for having in my poffeffion even the fhadow of difaffection. ANSON, the perfevering ANSON, graces the lower end of the room: a head painted when he was a captain, before the year 1742, when he began his celebrated voyage. This was the bequest of my uncle James Mytton, who well knew the refpect I had to the two illuftrious brothers of Shugborough. Lord ANSON was fortunate, but his good fortune was the refult of merit, not of chance. During his naval administration, and during that more arduous one under John earl of SANDWICH, the commerce of BRITAIN in every part was uninterrupted! our colonies protected! our acquifitions fecured! and, in the latter war, when we had all the world to combat, our fquadrons were every where! The fuperior genius of the man difpofed our fleets fo as to gain all thofe advantages, without neglecting, without weakening the domeftic fafety of BRITAIN, which must ever acknowlege his falutary strength of mind, and bury his foibles in oblivion. His blemishes were thofe of the private man: his high qualities, public benefits. In his active days No navies yawn'd for orders on the main. I HAVE Very few other pictures. I may boaft of an admirable head of Frobenius, the printer of the celebrated Erafmus, by Holbein; it is exactly the fame with that of Hatfield. (See Journey to London, p. 408.) I will repeat what I said respecting that illuftrious typographer. He is dreffed in a black gown, lined with fur. Frobenius was a native of Franconia, but fettled at Bazil, in Switzerland, Switzerland, of which city he became a citizen. He was a man of confiderable learning, and the finest printer of his time. Erafmus refided a long time with him, attracted by his perfonal merit, and his admirable skill in his profeffion; for to him we are indebted for the most beautiful edition of the works of his illuftrious friend. Frobenius died in 1527, and was honored by the fame hand with two epitaphs, one in Greek, the other in Latin. THE next is a fmall half-length on copper of Saint Charles Borromeo, praying before a crucifix. That illuftrious prelate was an ornament to his church. He is reprefented in his cardinal's dress, with a wan and meagre countenance, the effects of his fincere aufterities. Thofe alone ought not to have given him a place in the kalendar: his genuine piety, his benevolence, his great deeds of charity, furnished him with the fulleft clame. Add to this, his courage in facing the peftilence which raged in Milan, his native city, in all its horrors. He adminiftered to the diftreffed every comfort, fpiritual and temporal. Like Mar'feilles's good bishop,' he escaped, and received his heavenly reward November 3d, 1584. Or unknown portraits I have two. One is of an officer, I think by de Gelder, a pupil of Rembrandt's. It is much in the style of his mafter. The figure is ftanding, with a good military countenance. In one hand is a long fword, the point refting on the floor; on his head is a hat and feathers; his body is armed to the waist; below are long skirts of buff; his helmet is on a barrel, the colors furled, and refts against the wall; his fhield and war-faddle near them. De Gelder was born in 1645, and died in 1727. SAINT CHARLES UNKNOWN POR TRAITS. CABINET OF TYDDIN UCHA'. THE other is of a Low Country foldier; a fmall full length; a moft graceful figure of a young man leaning on a chair, with an emptied glass in one hand, and on the floor a flagon, and near is his white hat and feathers; his hair long; he is in a buff coat, a broad leathern belt, with a cloak flung carelessly over one arm; he has vast boots, and a long fword hanging down from his fide. A SMALL, but neat infide of a Flemish church; and a fine painting of a white grous, hung by one foot from a tree, with fome plants near the foot. Thefe are all the paintings I can boast of. The laft is by Ryfbrack, a painter born at Antwerp about the middle of the last century. I MAY Conclude with a very neat drawing by Mofes Griffith, of the antient gardens of Llanerch, in the Italian tafte of the middle of the last century, made by Mr. Mutton Davies, after his return from Italy; they were fine (in that ftyle), decorated with waterworks, ftatues, dials, &c. &c. emitting water, to the astonishment of the fpectators. The original of the drawing is from an old large picture in my poffeffion. Downing may boaft of a good and numerous collection of foffils and minerals, partly collected by myself, partly by my fon in his extenfive travels; many of the fpecimens are elegant, and most of them inftructive. ABOVE a mile from Downing is Tyddyn Ucha', a farm-house belonging to our family. In the last century it was inhabited by my grandfather, during the life-time of his father. My uncle John Pennant, and two of my aunts, were born there. I have often heard it faid, with pride, that once three baronets were 9 entertained |