ADDENDA TO

"THE TRIANGLE AN EMBLEM OF THE TRINITY."

[Olla Podrida, p. 149.]

Since the publication of the Olla, I have met with three medals confirmatory of my view that the triangle was used as an emblem of the Deity:

One, of Pope Clement XI. the bust by "Jo. Hameranus." Reverse, a female figure (Religion) looking up to Heaven, where appears the Triangle in glory, whose rays shine on her, and breaking or separating the inscription, "FIAT PAX SUPER ISRAEL." In the exergue, "1701."

Second, the bust of an ecclesiastic, inscribed, "CAREX CAB. OULTREMONT. D. G. EP. PR. LEOD. DELICIÆ CIVIUM." Engraver, "JACOBI." Reverse, a column surmounted by a globe and cross, to which a female is suspending a coronetted shield. Armorial bearings : a crowned lion rampant, between two clouds the Triangle, from which rays of glory stream on the column. Inscription, "LUX ORTA EST JUSTO ET RECTIS CORDE LÆTITIA."

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Third (which may be a coin, in silver). Obverse, five glorified saints standing in line, fronting or facing the spectator:—to the spectator's extreme left, a bishop with his crosier giving his blessing, attended by a bird, a female, a warrior leaning on his sword, another warrior unarmed, a second female. Inscription, "ss. MARTIN' EP. VINCENTI' M. HERMES M. CHRYSANTH' ET DARIA MM. TRANSLATI." Reverse, an outer inscription, "A MAX. GAUD. EX COMIT. DE KVENBVRG, ARCHIEP. ET PR. SAL. SED. AP. LE. GER. PRIM." In the upper part of the field a Triangle in glory. Within, the word "DEO." At the sides of the Triangle, "FUNDATORI, AUCTORI, CONSERVATORI." Below, "PRO GRATIA GRATIÆ.” Beneath, a shield of six coats, surmounted by an archiepiscopal hat with six tassels, and an inner circle of inscription: "FUNDATI ARCHIEPTUS SALISB. UNDECIMO SÆCULO."

ADDENDA TO

THE NOTICE OF MR. RICHARD MILES.

[See Olla Podrida, page 15.]

LETTER FROM C. W. LOSCOMBE, ESQ. TO RICHARD SAINTHILL.

8, Prince's Buildings, Clifton, Bristol,

March 4th, 1844.

MY DEAR SIR,-Just before your kind present reached me, another attack of gout visited me, which the next day and for some others kept me in my bed, or I should not so long have delayed my acknowledgements.

I was much pleased with your account of Mr. Miles, although I never knew him, my connexion in that way having begun with Matthew Young. But I will tell you a story of him, much to his honour, and fully confirming all your praise of him.

Lord Mountnorris placed his son Lord Valentia with Miles, that he might obtain a knowledge of medals. After Lord V. had left him, he called on him, when Miles offered to make him a present of a parcel of medals that had been valued at fifty guineas. His Lordship declined the present, and made some observations on the value of them, when the other replied, "It is a poor compliment, but you may as well take them, for they are now of no value to me. I sent them into the country to a well-known collector, who returned them expressing a doubt as to their being genuine. Now, though I have myself no doubt that they are true, I shall never offer them for sale again."

This was told me by Lord V. himself. I should have said the late-. I am, dear Sir,

Yours truly,

C. W. LoscOMBE.

ADDENDA TO

NATURAL HISTORY OF CROWS.

R. SAINTHILL TO L. C. WYON, ESQ.

[This letter should have been printed in page 296 as a continuation of the Natural History of the Crow, but unfortunately it got mislaid, and has only now turned up.]

Cork, 27th July, 1852.

MY DEAR LEN.-As you were unable to get me the French medals, I suggested (you may remember) "dabs of lead," but you thought the depth to be brought up was no dabbling matter. I was cogitating over my difficulties this morning, on my walk of two hours, for we have got a shift of wind of north by west, and the sun also very civilly kept behind a cloud, so that it was quite reviving, and I kept along the road towards Carrigrohane Castle, which, you will recollect, is a recent cut, and is free from all trees, &c. and so open to every wind that may blow from the four quarters of the heavens. (By-the-bye, if you were to engrave "the rising sun on a medal, where would you place it on the medal? right or left of the spectator's vision ? This was another matter that occupied my thoughts. It is on the Cork Exhibition medal.) And the late low meadows by this road being just cut and cutting, the sniff of the new-mown hay was very pleasant. Hay and lavender are popular perfumes, agreeable to every one. In one field where the hay was in long beds, and no work-folks, the cleared space was ermined by our old friends the crows, but in a differential mood from those of other days; for here there were no preferential spots, and they were soberly plodding about as quiet and diligent as Dutchmen. Sometimes, indeed, when an elder seemed to hit on a good lot, up came some idle youngster, or perhaps a brace of them, shuffling along and fluttering their wings, and piteously, crying out, like the trained beggar children, "I am so hong-ger-ry!" On which the (we are to presume) parent birds very coolly, considering that they were come to man or woman's estate, took to their pinions, and left them to dig for themselves or remain "hong-ger-ry:" and though, at first blush,

this may seem a little pebbly-hearted, yet, when you recollect that, most probably about next Valentine's day, or six months hence, these youngsters will be thinking of forming connexions and establishments of their own, it surely is high time that they should be taking lessons of domestic economy, or they will make a pretty mess in their household arrangements; worse, even, than David Copperfield.

So, as I thought on my concerns, it occurred to me that you could take casts in nice pink wax from the dies of these two medals. In its fluid state, I presume, the wax would find the bottom, which is all I want of the medals. Kindest regards to Madame.

L. C. Wyon, Esq.

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Yours truly,

RD, SAINTHILL.

PATTERNS BY THOMAS WYON.

ADDITION TO THE LIST OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS WYON, CHIEF ENGRAVER OF THE ENGLISH MINT, A.D. 1816.

[See Olla Podrida, vol. i. page 22.]

WHEN I drew up the memoir of my deceased friend, in 1817, which subsequently appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, I omitted, by the wish of his father, then Chief Engraver of the Seals, any mention of the patterns which Thomas Wyon had engraved. On re-printing this memoir in the Olla Podrida, I thought it proper to repair this omission by inserting them according to their dates, but find I overlooked three; and, as they are all of extreme rarity, I avail myself of this opportunity to render the list of Thomas Wyon's works as complete as I can.

PATTERN FOR A SOVEREIGN OF GEORGE THE THIRD.

Obverse, His Majesty's bust, looking to its left, and laureated. Inscribed, "GEORGIUS III. DEI GRATIA.”

Reverse,―The royal arms in a square ornamented shield, surmounted by what may be termed a high but narrow crown. Inscribed, "BRITANNIARUM REX FID. DEF." And beneath the shield, "1816."

My specimen is struck in silver.

This bust is worked up in a very elaborate manner, quite in the style of a gem, and with great depth of relief; on which account I understood that it was objected to by the moneyers, who considered that it would give great trouble in coining, and in consequence the die was laid aside.