Dr. Stewart, late of Southampton, physician; who died in 1796, aged thirty-eight.

Near this is a superb monument for Lord Hawke, who died Oct. 17, 1781, aged seventy-two. The battle with the French admiral, Conflans, on which his lordship's fame was founded, (which took place Nov. 20, 1759, in the bay of Quiberon, and defeated a projected invasion,) is elegantly displayed in white marble.* Appropriate decorations, in various kinds of fine marble, are introduced. The epitaph contains the following character of the gallant admiral. "The bravery of his soul

This action was more memorable on account of the terrific cir cumstances in which it was fought, than any other of equal magnitude in the annals of heroic achievement. At the moment of its commencement, a dreadful storm darkened the face of the heavens. The sea was rolling in tremendous waves, which on all sides were dashing themselves into foam on treacherous rocks and shallows unknown to the English pilots. Conflans endeavoured to avail himself of all the advantages arising from the local knowledge of his pilots, who were well acquainted with the navigation of the shallows. He directed them to steer in such a manner as to decoy the English among the rocks. Yet the Royal George, with Hawke on board, kept approaching the Soleil Royal, which bore the flag of Conflans. Intent only on her prey, she passed on without heeding the shot of the other ships. The sea was dashing over her bows; and, as she came rapidly nearer, she appeared as if she had been actuated by the furiousness of rage. Her pilot, seeing the breakers foaming on every side, told the admiral that he could not go further without the most imminent danger from the shoals. "You have done your duty in pointing out the danger," said Hawke; "but lay me alongside the Soleil Royal." The Superbe, a French ship of 70 guns, per ceiving what was intended, generously interposed between her commander and admiral Hawke's vessel, and received the whole fatal broadside which the Royal George had intended for the Soleil Royal. The thunder of the explosion was succeeded by a wild shriek from all on board: the British sailors gave a shout of triumph, which was instantly checked by a far different feeling; for, the smoke clearing away, only the masts of the Superbe, with her colours flying, were seen above the water, and in a moment they were covered by a roll of the sea, and seen no more. But the Soleil Royal was spared: she escaped to the shore, where she was afterwards burned.

was equal to the dangers he encountered; the cautious intrepidity of his deliberations, superior even to the conquests he obtained. Whenever he sailed, victory attended him. A prince, unsolicited, conferred on him favours which he disdained to ask."*

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At the south-east end of the church is the buryingplace of the Fleming family. The principal monument is that of Sir Thomas Flemyng, knight, who was in " pecial grace and favour" with queen Elizabeth and king James I. "He was first sergeant-at-law, then recorder of London, then solicitor-general to both the said princes, then lord chief baron of the exchequer, and after lord chief justice of England." He was born at Newport, in the isle of Wight; and died on the seventh of August, 1618, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. He was father of fifteen children, seven of whom survived him.

A whole-length figure of the knight in his robes, decorated with the insignia of his offices, reclines on the monument: his lady is represented in the same attitude beneath, with the hood and ruff and extravagant waist of the age.

The character given of lord chief-justice Flemyng, ennobles him with an honour above that which his offices conferred. It is said of him, that he always " feared God." This is the scriptural description of a good man, comprehensively including every human excellence. It is added, "that God still blessed him, and the love and favour both of God and man were daily upon him."+

* Lord Hawke inhabited an old mansion at Swathling, opposite to the bridge, which was taken down some years ago, and the materials were sold by auction.

t Have we many modern epitaphe thus expressed ?

Many of Judge Flemyng's descendants are buried near this monument. In the windows of the church is various painted glass, in which several figures may be distinguished, but these we must leave to the antiquary.

North Stoneham is a rectory, under private patronage. The population of the village, in 1801, consisted of 675 persons; in 1811, of 662 persons.

North-Stoneham was the birth-place of the Rev. Edward Holdsworth, an elegant scholar, author of some classical dissertations on Virgil, and of a Latin poem, esteemed as a master-piece of its kind, entitled Muscipula, the Mouse-trap;* of which there is an English translation, by Dr. John Hoadley, in the fifth volume of Dodsley's Miscellanies. In 1715, when he was to be chosen into a fellowship at Oxford, he resigned his demyship in Magdalen college, and his pupils, on account of his being unwilling to swear allegiance to the Hanover family. The remainder of his life was spent in travelling with young noblemen and gentlemen as a tutor. He died at Lord Digby's house at Coleshill in Warwickshire, in 1747.

An answer to this poem was printed, under the title of ΧΟΙΡΟΧΩΡΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ, sive Hoglandiæ Descriptio; a satirical piece, referring to our land of hogs, and Bevis's exploit in destroying the boar, and dedicated to the redoubtable Dr. Sacheverell.

Quitting Southampton by the first road on the right, we descend along an easy slope, commanding a fine view of the woody banks of the Itchen, to the handsome bridge erected across that river, by a private company, to shorten the distance between Southampton and Gosport and Portsmouth. This speculation produces a very moderate profit to the shareholders: it has been a considerable accommodation to the public. The bridge, when the tide is full, commands a range of delightful scenery, in which the town of Southampton, the ancient farm at Northam, the groves of Bevis mount, Portswood, and the site of the ancient Clausentum, are conspicuous parts.

About eight and twenty years ago, the Rev. Richard Warner was struck with the probability that this place was the actual site of the ancient Clausentum. He was led to examine whatever had been written on the subject, and to compare it with the observations that occurred to him on actual inspection; attending nicely to those local circumstances, which so greatly assist an inquirer in matters of this nature. The result was, that he ventured to pronounce, without hesitation, that Bittern farm was the spot on which the Clausentum of Antoninus's Itinerary formerly stood.

The circumstances which particularly weighed with Mr. Warner, in fixing this conclusion were, the evident vestiges of Roman labour, to be discerned in the fortifications of the place, the fragments of Roman bricks, and the many coins, which had been, from time to time, found in this neighbourhood.*

The discoveries made at Bittern, in the formation of the bridge over the Itchen, and of the road connected with it, fully confirmed whatever Mr. Warner had previously advanced as conjectural.

An account of these discoveries, with an engraved plan of the situation, has been published in the first volume of the Hampshire Repository; and a further account, by. Sir H. C. Englefield, bart. in the second volume. This, with considerable additions, has since been republished in the second edition of that gentleman's elegant work, entitled, A Walk through Southampton.

The antiquities discovered, were, numerous Roman

See Warner's Attempt to ascertain the Situation of the Ancient Clausentum.