The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

LONDON, Sept. 5.
DESCRIPTION of the silver cup, presented to Mr. Alderman Wilkes which was first used yesterday at the Globe tavern. "On the upper part according to ancient custom; the city arms with the "dagger" in the first quarter, are curiously embossed. Beneath is a noble bas relief, very highly finished, which seems to hint an idea of the meaning of the "dagger" or "short sword," in the city arms, different from what the Antiquarians have hitherto suggested, either of the "dagger," as alluding to that with which Sir William Walworth, a Lord Mayor of London, in the time of Richard II. killed Wat Tyler : or, as others suppose, to the " short sword" of St. Paul. The subject of the bas relief is the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. He is represented gracefully covered with the toga fallen at a base of a pedestal which supports a statue of Pompey the Great. Brutus, Cassius, and the other noble Romans, conspirators for their country, form a circle around the body, their "daggers" still reeking with the tyrants blood, after the godlike stroke. raised to Heaven, but every eye fixed on Brutus, who is in the attitude of congratulating Cicero, on the recovery of the public liberty and pointing to the prostrate and expiring usurpor. Beneath the bas relief are the following words :
" May every tyrant feel
The keen deep searchings of a Patriot's steel ! "
CHURCHILL.
The figure of Brutus is particularly bold and striking, and the capital of the whole groupe. On the opposite side is an inscription in an oval of oak leaves, "The gift of the City of London to Alderman Wilkes. 1772" -The Cup is very elegant, and does great honour to the several Artists employed. It is reported that the Bas-Relief was designed by Mr. Wilkes.