form, the eastern part has a flat scheme arch, which springs so awkwardly from a very elevated quarter of the more ancient Gothic one, that the crown of that segment is but just raised above the pointed top of a Gothic window, at the eastern extremity: finally, to destroy all idea of unity, an additional aisle has been added, surmounted with a pointed arch, the vaulted part of which is ornamented with light moulded ribs, springing diagonally as if from groins, and having pateras at the point of every intersection. If the other parts of the building corresponded with this aisle, the church would form a beautiful model.

The additions to the churches, are likewise distinguishable by the open part of the windows; those of later date deviating from the original style.

Notwithstanding these violations of uniformity, we cannot but admire the boldness of those architects by whom the enlargements were made, for their skill in constructing the arches of communication; as, in some of the churches, a new aisle has been erected on 'each side of the old one.

On inspection, it clearly appears, that, in making these communications, the workmen broke through the outside wall of the church, and scooped out arches in the apertures, raising pillars to support the remaining mass: but from thence it is evident that

these columns were not in any instance whatever, in the original construction of the building. The fractured ends of the bands that sprung from the flat pilasters in resault, show where they were broken off to form the openings. The very circumstances of breaking through thick walls, supporting ponderous *roofs of solid stone,-constructing arches in the excavations thus made, and placing massive pillars between them,-seem to prove that nearly the whole of one side wall of the edifice was taken down, and sometimes the other. This, apparently, must have been the case. The pillars could not have been left between the places hollowed out, and afterwards moulded into their present form; because every arch must, necessarily, have had its hances and its spandrels, together with its squares or parallelograms, to sustain the superíncumbent pressure. In some churches,even the added aisle has had pilasters and bands, which have been broken by the formation of subsequent arches.

With the exception of St. Helier's church, there is hardly one that possesses any monumental memorials worth noticing; and even the few in that temple are comparatively modern. The ancient inhabitants of Jersey were in general too poor, or too unam*bitious, to affect

"The storied urn, or animated bust."

Their utmost attempt at sepulchral fame, was con. fined to a flat stone, or a low sarcophagus, with the rough effigy of a human being engraved on it, and a plain legend, beginning with the old Norman Cy gyst, or with hic jacet, round the edges.

How vain soever, during life, of their petty feudal distinctions, they wisely thought, with the French poet,

“Qu'un jour dans le monde vaut mille ans dans l'histoire." In fine, what is worldly grandeur? Solomon says: "One generation passeth away, and another genera❝tion cometh." "All go unto one place: all are "of the dust, and all turn to dust again."

A celebrated modern author says, "On jete un

peu de ter re sur la tête, et en voila pour jamais.” "Let vanity adorn the marble tomb,

"With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, "In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome."†

I may say, with Dr. Pope, in his celebrated moral song,

"If a thousand years hence here lies W. P,

"Be found on my tombstone, what is it to me!"

Sic transit gloria mundi ought to be a memento mori

* Chateaubriand.

+ Beattie's Minstrel,

to every human being. Happy are they who consider this solemn truth, and act accordingly!

PRIVILEGES.

Mr. Falle says, "there would be no living in this "island, for English subjects, without great freedoms "and immunities." His observation is very just: Jersey is situated in the very grasp of France.

The annals of history show how exposed the island is to constant attacks from enemies. In war time, its regular foreign trade is materially injured: the internal commerce cannot be very considerable, in a country where so many live on their own inheritances. Its manufactories are few, and extremely limited in extent. Every man is a soldier, and the inhabitants are frequently under arms. The coast round the island is guarded by them nightly throughout the year; and they are summoned to assemble, completely accoutred, on every alarm. Frontier places are usually favoured with particular privileges, to counterbalance their various inconveniences; and no country ever merited distinguished marks of royal beneficence more than Jersey.

See COMMERCE.

There is not any existing record respecting the privileges of this island before the reign of King John; it is therefore impossible to ascertain those that it possessed under the preceding monarchs, or under its more ancient sovereigns. That monarch gave to Jersey and Guernsey a body of constitutions, consisting of eighteen articles, Two great privileges are therein granted; one, that no process, in either of the islands, commenced before any magistrate of that island, can be transferred out of it, but must be decided there. The other, that no person, convicted, out of the said islands, of felony, is to forfeit the inheritances he may have in them, so as to deprive his heirs of their natural possession. This does not however extend to crimes committed in either island, and decided there.

The two foregoing articles seem to have been inserted to show how completely independent these islands always were of the English courts of judica

ture.

Few provinces indeed enjoyed, at one time, privileges so great, and so favourable, as Jersey. The preambles of its several charters recite the motives that induced the kings of England to grant them : as, firstly, to recompense the steady and zealous loyalty of its inhabitants; secondly, to engage them to