[124] He has recently (1816) published an octavo volume
entitled
“Histoire des
Polypiers, Coralligenes Flexibles, vulgairement
nommes Zoophytes. Par
J.V.F. Lamouroux. From one of his Epistles,
I subjoin a fac-simile of
his autograph.
[Illustration: Lamouroux]
[125] The medallic project here alluded to is one
which does both the
projector, and the arts of
France, infinite honour; and I sincerely
wish that some second SIMON
may rise up among ourselves to emulate,
and if possible to surpass,
the performances of GATTEAUX and AUDRIEU.
The former is the artist to
whom we are indebted for the medal of
Malherbe, and the latter for
the series of the Bonaparte medals. [Has
my friend Mr. Hawkins, of
the Museum, abandoned all thoughts of his
magnificent project connected
with such a NATIONAL WORK?]
[126] See post—under the running title Bayeux.
[127] See page 172 ante.
[128] It is described in the 2d vol. of the AEDES
ALTHORPIANAE; forming the
Supplement to the BIBLIOTHECA
SPENCERIANA: see page 94.
[129] Goube, in his Histoire du Duche de Normandie,
1815, 8vo. has
devoted upwards of thirty
pages to an enumeration of these worthies;
vol. iii. p. 295. But
in Huet’s Origines de la Ville de Caen;
p. 491-652, there will be
found much more copious and satisfactory
details.
[130] I am furnished with the above particulars from
a Notice
Historique of Moysant.
[131] [A copy of this Roman Edition of 1542, of equal
purity and amplitude,
is in the library of the Rev.
Mr Hawtrey of Eton College: obtained of
Messrs. Payne and Foss.]
[132] When I was at Paris in the year 1819, I strove
hard to obtain from
Messrs. Debure the copy of
this work, UPON VELLUM, which they had
purchased at the sale of the
Macarthy Library. But it was destined for
the Royal Library, and is
described in the Cat. des Livres Imp. sur
Velin, vol. i. p. 263.
[133] [Twenty-eight years have passed away since I
kept my terms at
Lincoln’s Inn with a
view of being called to THE BAR; and at this
moment I have a perfect recollection
of the countenances and manner of
Messrs. Bearcroft, Erskine,
and Mingay,—the pitted champions of the
King’s Bench—whom
I was in the repeated habit of attending within
that bustling and ever agitated
arena. Their wit, their repartee—the
broad humour of Mingay, and
the lightning-like quickness of Erskine,
with the more caustic and
authoritative dicta of Bearcroft—delighted
and instructed me by turns.
In the year 1797 I published, in one large
chart, an Analysis of the
first volume of Blackstone’s
Commentaries—called
THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS. It was dedicated to