Round *Mona's dragon fall the slain; Would see how vain ¶Daufynydd's force His spirit man in vain shall bend. IV. A lion in pursuit of prey; A hurricane's tremendous way; Mona, the modern Anglesey. Arderydd, in Scotland. It is mentioned in the Triades as the scene of a battle between Gwenddolan ap Ceidiaw and Aeddan Tradawg, on one side, and Rhyddarch and Cael (or the Generous) on the other, in which Rhyddarch was victorious. The allusion here intimates that the conflict was severe and sanguinary; and Merddyn Wyllt, the Caledonian Bard, deplores most pathetically, in his Poem of the Orchard, his treatment from this Rhyddarch, King of Cumbria, for siding against him in this battle. Bryn Derwyn, unknown, if not the Berwyn, an extensive mountain in Merionethshire, and the scene of many encounters at different times.. § Cefn Gelorwydd.-The situation of this ridge is also now unknown. || Evionydd. The district of rivers in the southern parts of Carnarvonshire. ¶ Daufynydd, a pass between two hills, but where is not known; there are several passes in Wales, described by the word Drws, literally a door, as Drws Ardudwy, Drws y Coed, &c. &c. Insatiate Insatiate as the spreading flame; * It was no impolitic thing in the princes of Britain, and of other countries, in past times, to make their Bards foretel a successful issue to their warlike enterprises. The people in general believed them inspired, and a confidence in the prophecy very materially contributed to its happy accomplishment. The English historians dwell much upon the prophecies of the two Merlins, Taliesin, and others, some of which are still extant; but this custom of foretelling ceased upon the ascension of the House of Tudor to the throne of Britain, and the reason is obvious. † Aberfraw, in Anglesey, the regal residence of the princes of North Wales. Dinevor, once the delightful abode of the sovereigns of South Wales, now the property of the Rice family, descended from the great Sir Rhys ap Thomas, who so powerfully assisted Henry VII. at the decisive battle of Bosworth. The late Lady Cecil Talbot, daughter to Earl Talbot, descended in the female line from the princes of South Wales, and mother to the present nobleman, was created, in 1780, a peeress, by the title of Baroness Dinevor. § Mathraval, the ancient seat of the Reguli of Powis, now the property of Lord Clive, in right of his lady, the only sister and heiress of the late Earl of Powis. || In reading these ancient fragments, the circumscribed geography, the limited intercourse, and the general ignorance of the times, ought to be considered; indeed, a perpetual state of hostility almost precluded any knowledge of internal concerns; so much so, that a Powisian Bard describes the English as “the foe that speaks a barbarous tongue;" and so rare among our ancestors was a knowledge of English, that some of them who had acquired it had the addition of Sais (English) given them, as Cynotig Sais, Einion Sais, &c. God V. God-to whom my voice I raise- At God's right hand my king repose. *Rhôs and Penfro, two cantreds in Pembrokeshire. + Lloegr, England. Flemddwyn, a Saxon prince, against whom Urien, King of Cambria, and his son, fought the battle of Argoed Llwyfaen. The name of the ancient drinking-horn among the Britons, a curious and beautiful specimen of which is now in the great hall at Penrhyn, the seat of Lord Penrhyn, in Carnarvonshire. OBITUARY. OBITUARY. LORD PENRHYN, DIED JAN. 21, 1808. HE sixteenth tribe, some THE times in our MSS. called that of Maelor, and of March, from the property of the founder being on the marches, or borders of Wales, has, in our day, given to its country two names, which has done honour to its records-the late Thomas Pennant, of Downing, esq., by his researches in the fields of science; and Lord Penrhyn, by his exertions in the province of improvement, which a happy union of mind, means, and the peculiar situation of his pro who had a grant of lands in Jamaica during the protectorate, where he settled, and created the transatlantic opulence of this branch of the family. He was returned for Petersfield in the first parliament of his present majesty, which he vacated in 1767, and took his seat for Liverpool, for which place he was again elected in 1768, 1774, and 1784. When his commercial experience and sound judgment are considered, a great trading town was never more ably and faithfully represented than that of Liverpool; and the House of Commons never contained a member of greater integrity and independence than Lord Penrhyn. In 1765 he married Anne Su. sannah, daughter and sole heiress of Lieutenant-General Warburton, of Winnington, in the county of Chester; and in right of her grandmother, Anne, second daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert Williams, of Penrhyn,bt. became possessed of a moiety of that estate (the eldest, Frances, Lady of Lord William Russell, second son of the Duke of Bedford, having died without issue.) The other moiety the property of the Yonge family, by the marriage of Gwen, the youngest, to Sir Walter Yonge, of Escot, in Devonshire, bart., was purchased of them by John Pennant, esq., his lordship's father; so that, by a peculiar good fortune, this compact property became again united in the persons of its noble proprie tors. When his lordship became an occasional resident in Wales, he had reached that period of life, when Nature, generally speaking, prefers repose to business, ease to exertion; and was in possession of such a fortune as would justify, in the eyes of many, an indolent and luxurious enjoyment of the remainder of his days. Yet, thus situated, did this true patriot begin labours that would have appalled other minds at five-and-twenty, and became as indefatigable in the various paths of quarrying, building, planting, and cultivating, as if his support had depended on his personal efforts; and he soon had the encouraging satisfaction of seeing his estate become as beautiful and attractive a feature on the countenance of Arvon as his exemplary life will be an epoch in its history. |