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Gentleman s Magazine:
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Historical Chronicle.
{Volume LXXVII.
E PLUEIBVS UNCTM.
Mr. Urban, DoBors Commons, goes on, through the rest of his Letter,
Inly 20. to be sometimes very severe, and some
^SK*^* HEN vnti did me the times very smart (1 suppose I must, in
^?R?R^^ favour of inserting the civility, so call it), upon " thefabrica
7>K ?R short notice which ap- tor of the Report," " the impartial He-
^ W pearedhiyour'lastNum- porter's talents at garbling," and " the
ij^ V£ her, I was not without fabricated Report, to which Dr. Mil-
tier has given currency by his signa
3Vt JVv a private explanation ture.'' In a subsequent Letter, the same
from Mr. Le Mesurier, imtight have charge is " repeated, and positively as
saved me some pain in the public per serted" again, though in terms rather'
formance of a promise, already perhaps guarded aud equivocal , and, in a late
too lung delayed from similar motives. pamphlet*, this ready Polemics renews
It has, however, produced no more the original attack, referring to " the
effect than the former intimation of garbled account of Dr. I^orence's
the (ame kind, which Dr. Milner gave Speech, whi<#) the Roman Catholicks
at my request. I must, therefore, pro have published in their impartial ac
ceed as 1 can, to discharge what 1 con count of the Debates, and which Dr.
sider as a sacred debt ofjustice. IMever, Milner has adopted." Thus, in every
Sir, have I thought it worth while to shape of controversy, in the fugitive
answer any mis-ltauraentosmySpeeches miscellany of a Mazazine, and in his
in Parliament, or any comment founded more formal publication (though, per
on luch mis-tiiteinent, by which I alone haps, Mr. Ijrhan, not likely to circu
could be injured. 1 have sutterad not late fa widely, or to live so long, ac
a little in. that way; but it was mv your pages) he persists in a sweeping
own arson J have not the (ame right accusation of falsification and forgery
K> leave the character of another un against the whole Catholic Body in ge
protected, where mv name has been neral, and Dr, Milner in particular ;
made the vclucle of au unjust impu and 1 am the witness whom he calls,
tation. over and over again, to prove his cafe.
With the charitable view, as he pro In this exhibition of me, as a fort
fesses, of clearina me from having anv «>s deluded accomplice turning King's
concern in a fraud, Mr. Le Mesurier has evidence, mv fiend, I doubt not, be
advanced, on my alledged authority, a lieved that he was. doing me honour.
most serious charge against the whole He wished,, probably in tenderness, lo
body of Human Catholicks*. He represent me as lei's criminal than I
slates, as front me., not only " that I might be supposed, in my wicked en
disavow the report of inv Speech," deavours to protect fan), political de
which his' antagonist Dr* Milner had gradation and oppression, three millions
quoted ; and " that it is not at 1 (poke of my fe.low-s»ibj«ct», fa>m whom I
it; but that the liomani/is have tie'ified moll conscientiously differ in religious
my arguments lo answer their own pur opinion. In t+fFirne Ipu it nf < 'hnltian
poses. And this" (he lakes occasion banevojence he hastened to draw out of
to observe, Mr. Urban) " wii| give the n>"d, where \ was flouiide'viii,
your readers a pretlv denr idea of what " a man of mv size and emimnee,"
Is the impnriialitv'of this boasted lie- as he truly and f eetiouftv describes)
n of the Debaies on 'he Caiholic me,' for your readers, .Mr. Urban,,
nestion." My Heverend Friend then must know, that I wa^ born lo be one
' * Gent. Mag. for January, 1807,p. 33. * The Sequel, &c. &c. pp. Oi and €i.
ot
604 Dr. Laurence's Conversation with Mr. Le Mesurier. [July,
of Serjeant Kilely't great men. How and what was forgotten would be flip- -
ever, I am afraid, thai, in spile of all plied by those who had let it elcape
h's [ijous efforts, I most even slick from their , own stock of reasoning on
where I am : since, in relating the the (ame subjects." Whether I illus
conversation to which he alludes, I trated this by any instance, 1 am .not
shall be obliged to own, that although lure ; but, had I rccol'ected the words,
J certainly declared ihe He-port of mv the onstage in quell-on would hate, as*
Speech not to contain wjiai I spoke f vrdfd me our very much to the pur
(and who Tt-port dots?); although 1 pose. Mv friend then asked me, whether
d-d then disavow, as hot h before and I agreed with Dr. Milner in bis doc
since I have dilnvnwed to tnanv, the trines Concerning Oaths, a> affected by-
arguments as they there stand ascribed views otpfudetice and expediency : and
to me; vet I never hinted, or meant 1 told him, that I decidedly did, ac
to hint, at any txriife but that of venial cording to mv understanding of Dr.
error; and most indisputably not at Milner's nie of the term?.- "-Consider,
any wilful and dishonest perversion. I ton," added I, " that, to prevent mis
most also confess, in regard to the pas apprehension,, he gives an example in
sage of t(te 1!' port nmie immedtaten in the. cafe of a promise to return a
ones! ion, that, not remembering the sword; and,, though, you -may fit d
wi ids of it, \ d-d moli distinctly ex fault with (be expression, yoii ought
press nay general concorrence in the i-QI to post) the meaning os am man
stilill.V'ic" of Dr. Miloer's doctrines beyond that which is .sairH analogous
concerning Oj. Its I (hall now. Sir, to hisou4i.c!ear explanation." " VA ell/'
)av before voor readers all thai actual I v* continued he, " but do \ou (told that
pal-', d between Mr. Le MeUirier and a prnmile or oath pray be broken, if
myself. it. obstructs any good evidently greater
It was in last November, tin tina the or to i hat, vftect. " Yes," I replied,
heat of » rnnfelled election tor the Lini- " as,- 1 niwlejrlianil it. Put the second
verfitv of Oxfords 'tha« kit. Le Me- cale of the pi^iuiiie to return the Iwm.d,
fiirier bastefeinp from the place of if i he demand is made, when it is ne-
polling, and_ I hurrying towards it,. cciserv; Cir you to defend the hie of
accHeannliy met'. He stopped me with, your Suvesei^i, or. of, auv tnn<»ceiit
" Yon are the verv man that I parti person." " No ;" interrupted Mr. Le
cularly wanted to sire?' .On my an M«fnriera " thai case is. n.ol appbed to.
swering that I was always glad to (i-e that doctrine by pr. Milner." This \
him, and enquiring what now was h-s adrnitu'd ; but cnmendeil myself, that
particular business with me ; he in ft would apply. He then,' in kind
formed me, th-o he was reierred to me compalliort. to my ignorance, I pre-
in his controversy with |}r. Milner. I fome, informed me, 1 meant the rule,
verv sincerely told him, that 1 knew th-atn seller evil i- to be incurred in,
nothing about his controversy, and preference to a grea'er. I acquainted
had not even hgartl as it. " Leli me, him, thru I knew the rule was some
theti," said he, "do ton own the times so expressed, and , candidly al
Report of your Speech <«t i bo Catholic lowed that, it was better so 10 express
Petition. puWilbed bv Cothell und it, because it was so, less liable to mis
Martin? Is it coi Fect ?" "Certainly construction ; st.il I thought,, that, at
not,"- aiisverod I ; " h is verv deli cti.veV bottom, the meaning would be found
perplexed, and confused. Whete the lo be the -same. He laughed ; assetted
main topic of an argument is to he the difference with much seeming tri
traced, the peculi.tr turn of it is com- umph, when I put an end to the con
pleiely lost; as must he ic-mmonly versation by laying, that I (htnld be
more or less expected, and uo>.s much happy to meet him on the (object
more likely to happen, on a tuhject lo when we had leisure, but that was not
extensive, and involving u discussion of the place for such a discussion, -I bad
ib tnanv of onr constitutional laws, then in mv m od an imperfect recol
since the Reformation, audio much of lection of a passage in Aristotle's/ Nico-
ecclesiastical hist»ry from a more remote machean Etlii'- ks, which s.-.ys, that a
period ; especially, too, where the me lesser evil, in comparison of a greater,
mories that preserved it were fore to is reckoned us a positive . good ; and
give it a tincture fiotn the o.i inions this is made the foundation of Mr.
which would be there necessarily Le Mefurier'e; rending of- the rule by
mingled with whatever was received ; Bishop Taylor, who, bv the bye, quotes
" Itomijh.
i8o7'] Chess Parlies- at the Eon- Francis I;.ger,oti's. ^6e^
" R'umijh Canons," im ihnfe subjects, as -Each Committee had a separate room,
gliiilv a- Dr. Mi'her hi'urlelf ' a long \>av apart from each 01 her ; and
From that ttrOtiKlu, til! tin- following a cIh is-hoaitl' « aa 1 land heh >e each
Easier, 1 thought no more of -hrs oour Committee, wiiti die !toer>i piece*,
veriauon ; 1 and then, lieoi,; again at while and i>l:n k.un clber nde, regularly
Oxford, I 'casually Irani d, rq mvnrre.it arranged on il»e eonrd:
aflnpilhment, what had been | affing, In a m .idle room, l-etween each
in the mean 'imp,' in y irr Magaiiire. •coivntV'iee-rooft., #** pl-u ed a ti piirate
For the present, Mr. I'r'ian, I (hall ■chefs-Load with' all ils. pi-fu*. <liiie
leave lhis narra-tloe, with'iti! a cmn- and bl 10k, rfeiujarlv artwlgtf'p.; ai'.d ijiis
niejt, :o you awl yonr read- x<, that intermediate chefs board i\ .s 1'uiiimim
>'ou. may consider >thet'lter <|r; ^f/r 10 bo'h in relation 111 tb<'. game;' being
ftlelhrier was warranted hi'poWiftitmg the km v braid ai whlch ifeegarne really
what he has done on this lubjejct,' lrv was p';i\ 1 (I, and iip'U'; which jt ivjatly
(nch a loose conversation, at Inch a iwas decilfi (1 : b"1 .■■ •> incomers of either
tiiiie, in fitch a place, without any Committee Here penoi n'tl lo go into
farther crjfnmiirrrnthm 'vvf: tl me,' or thecomni"ii rnont lr.. or into the room
ariv (lifclnfure of i > i s intention to use -appropriated to each oilier, dining the
niv authority in acy manner, Though Con jn ua nee of the "mriesi
"lie knew ^here a letr r would reach As loon as C/Omtnitti' A, hSd decided
me anv day iit tfie week He h'.is de- upon its move, ai d had made it on its
fired your readers t" jtidse iheittiman own board A, Monti* n* Caima. and
Caiholiclcs hv Hieii- eoridu ~V rel]i etina ^another gentleman with hurt, wentiiito
the impartial Re-, in • Ilh.,11 recpiesiihe tlte middle room B, to iticcoinmon
Roman -Calls"licks, in c-« 1 >cl« 'ii *r and chefs-board B. made ihe move upon
'piiriflian 'chariiv, Won tojiidae Pr>ies- the common tvoard B, and f'n, going
tani controversialists by ">lr. L" Me- throiiich mat room, went: into 'the
iurhr's statement (d ihe result ot this fart hell room C, to CommiUee C, !at1-
'conversation. nounced the move of Commhw* A,
With your (leriorfftnn, M? L'.htn, to Committee C, in room C, aud law
I (hall endeavour; in \rVurr nex Num 11 retrularh made on board C, waited
ber (and, I trull, at no great len..'th>, I , know the move of Coium'ifee C,
to let v'nir readers know yeliat I d d t'nv that also made on board C, re-
in substance lav, in thai part of 1 1 1 v . turi'i-d and made the move of Coii\mi«
Speech which has been so much can tee C, iuNrooui B, upon chefs-hoard B,
vassed hy these dongn'v disputants ill and, soing through that. tnidole. room
your M'igaz-nc. F. Laur'enc/e. J}, announced ihe. inoye n! Commiit^e
A . I,, Conintii ice A, lit iiig in romn A,
' CilKSS and made the move deieiinmed upon
-TMIECheft-pariics .,1 ihe Hon. Fran- by Coinmi'-tee (.', and alre.'dv made on
A i'is R.'Kgeftnu's, vvnjch so onc'i board C, in com inittee- romn A., 011
interested the amateurs of illn same at board A.
P-iris, were, in iheir manner, erttne'y Thee two ijtuit'ctiian followed f>ws
liew, 'inalmueh as ihev were plavsrl by "manner thrmi .1 all the moves of all
two lepari'te Coounittees, confuting the several ga,nes.
each of feveral persons, and 001 hylut'sle In oiiiMIe room B, ai l-o^id H, fat
persons only, fitting n\ er the Curie board the' ^eiitleman' tvho is editor of ihe
Opposite to each Other. ' S'-'iitiigimes <s Hcliees," wiih another
Hence, each Committee had an op. gemlemati airiateur, \ and these wrote
port u imy of conferring prhatetv ami dowr\ and reg ltcnd each move as it
in secret, amongst! its leveral member, was m.ule through each game, as well
of reasoning upon the moves, and of as 0 sih all the several gimes.
talking over'and eombinimr fie whole There were nluall.v pi ivetl three
plan, arrangement, and f\ttem us 'heir clines each night; and 'lie Hon. Mr.
game, without the intervention or pri Kaerton gave, at his own house, ten or
vity of the adverse Cou'mj'tee. twelve pariies, during his continuance
The manner was as fulinwa: there al Paris.
were two Committees ; one, consil'ud '1 tie games varied usually from ahont
of Monsieur Gutllaiii'ue Le Proton, and thirty-fix to iiftv-two moves upon
/ix'orleyen other gentlemen; 'heotirer, eiiherfide. They are h ft in SIS. with
of M.ol'f Carlier, and fix or seven other Monsieur Cilma and the editor of ihe
gentlemen, ail first-rate players. " Sl'uiugcmcs d'Echecs,' aud will pro
bably
6o& History of John Dean.—Horticultural Mints. [July,
bably be printed, with some curiouj period of life, the publication referred
conclusions of games, as a supplement to by J. VV. with all ihe ardour ofyouth, •
to another volume of the " Slialu- particularly the recital given by Dean
gewes dEchecs." of bis sufferings and adventures in Ma
dagascar, subsequent to the shipwreck
Mr. Urban, • J*!y 10. pf theSofleK ; anil it is probable that I
•"I^HE subject of John Dean's per felt the more interested in his narrative^
il trait at the India-house, (see vol, from one of mv relations having been
LXIV. pp. 919, IO98, H83,) being, an officer of the Prince William lndiar
after lying dormant near 1.3 years, at man, Capt. Langwonh, at the time
length revived bv the publication of Dean was taken off the island by that
J. W s letter in your Jail, p. 530', has fliip, on her passage to Bombay. At
led me to suppose, that a reference J. W. appears 10 have access to the
to what has been formerly inserted in pamphlet which, I believe, is but a
that valuable Miscellany respecting this small one, and is now become very
man may not be unacceptable to many scarce, he could, I have no doubt, con
pf its readers ; therefore, for ibe sake of fer an obligation oil many constant
those who may not bp poll'efikl os tlie readers of the Gentleman's Magazine,
early volumes, I have taken the pains by communicating some of the most
of transcribing every paragraph in which remarkable passages iu it. The circum
I basre sound any mention of him, or stance excited no inconsiderable decree
of the famous law-suit, wherein he apr of attention at the time. Amicus.
pears to have been the only material
witness on behalf of the Last India. Mr. Urban, June 10.
Company. They are as under t HT'HE following extract fiom " Bar.
Vol. Xil, p. fio'l, November 1, J 7*3. -I row's Travels in China," p. ptSfo
** Came on at Guildhall, before Lord merits the consideration of all your
Chief Justice Lee, the Cause that has de horticultural correspondents; it is
pended so long between the East India closely connected with the subject
Company and Capt. Francis Goftling, started by J. Redwo), p. 231, and sup
late commander of the Sussex India- man, plemental to that of J. Delver, p. 400 ;
concerning the loss of the cargo of the said who recommends it to your notice
Slip. The trial lasted till Jive next morn- with a view of prompting experiments
tag, when the Jury gave a \erdict for the for procuring farther informs lion on-
Company for 30,2051. the point in question.
Vol. XIII. p. 273. May 13, 1743, " The
Court of King's Bench delivered the opi The ingenious people of China
nion of the Judges in the great cause, " have a common method of propa*
wherein the Eist India Company were gating several kinds of fruit-trees,
plaintiffs, and Capt. Gosling defendant'; which, of late years, has been prac
by which the verdict for 3O,C0Ql. obtained tised with success in Bengal. The
by the plaintiffs is set aside, and a nefr method it simply thi>: they strip a ring
trial granted." of bark, about an inch in w)din, from
Ib. p.38.3, July 12. " Before the King's a bearing branch, surround the place
Bench, was tried the cause between Capt. with a hall of sat earth, or loam, bound
Coiling and the East India Company; and fast to the branch with a piece of mat
a verdict was given them for os.oool. ting ; over this they suspend a pot, or
Ib. 6lO, Nov. 16. « The Court of Di horn, with vyater, having a small hole
rectors of the East India Company agreed in the bottom just sufficient to let the
to allow John Dean, the only surviving water drop, in order to keep the earth
sailor of the Sussex India (hip, an annuity constantly moist. The branch throws
of 100I. and sol. to his wife, mould the new roots into the earth just above the
survive him.
V..1. XV. p. 109, February, 1715. place where the ring of bark was
John Dean, the only surviving sailor of the stripped off. The operation is per
Sussex India ship, was appointed, by the formed in the Spring, aud the hrarteK
Directors of the East India Company, an is siiwu off and put into the ground at
Elder, in the room of Mr. Adams, de the fall of the leaf. The following
ceased." year it bears fruit."
Vol. XVII. p. December 17, 1 know not whether the following
1747, " Died, in the East India Com remark on the communication of T. C,
pany's hospital at Poplar, John Dean, the p. 400, is worthy of any notisce.
only survivor of the mariners who re J am not confident, but, J think.
mained on-boarj the Suflex Indiamah." I have observed, " the profusion ot
l ean remember reading, at an early small specks. 011 Apples, which render^'
them
1807.] Disease in /fpple-Trees.-^Clergyman's Recreation. 607
them unsightly for present use and un Agricolæ, fructusque feros mollitecolendo.
til for keeping, the appearance of which , . , Viro. Georg.
ieems to intimate the effect of hail" Bv John Lawrence, A. M. Rector of
upon fruit the produce of Apple-trees Yelvertoft, in Northamptonshire, and
not in the least injured by the white sometime Fellow os Clare Hall, hi
downy Infect *, or, lo far as 1 Cambridge. The fourth edition. Lon
could observe, tainted in the smallest don, printed for Bernard Lintott,, he?
decree by the disease coinmouly (1 tween the Temple Gates in Fleet-
know not how truly) laid to have been street, 17(6."
imported from America above twenty The title-page to the second part is,
years ago. This disease certainly dis *' The Gentleman's Recreation ; or the
figures and injures the trees exceed Second Part of the Art ef Gardening
ingly ; and, very probably, will improved : Containing several new
shorten their duration ; but it does not experiments and curious observation's
nuieh injure their produ ness. relating to Frn ii-Trees ; particularly a
Daich codling tree deeply infected and new method of building walls with
much disfigured and injured, with a horizontal shelters. Illustrated tvilb,
Counties* multitude of knots, sometimes copper plates.
cankering, bat which generally are Si quid novisti rectius istis,
covered over with new bark, has, for Candidus imperti ; ii rion, his utere
nearly all the time I have mentioned, mecum, Uor. '
been so full of Apples as frequently lo
require supports for ils borne down By John Laurence, M. A. Rector of
branches. I know of no effectual re Yelvertoft, ill Northamptonshire, To
medy for this evil, but I have checked which is added, byway of Appendix,
it, and very considerably, by brushing a new and familiar way to find a mod
off the white down, clearing of the exact Meridian Line by the Pole-Star ;
red stain underneath it, and anointing whereby gentlemen may know the true
the places infected with a liquid mix bearings of their houses and garden-
ture of irain oil and Scotch Ihaff, walls, and regulate t heir clocks and
£>i quid novifli reSiius, &c. watches, &c. ; by Edward Laurence,
Yours, &c. i J. Uelver. brolher to the author of this book.
London : printed for Bernard Lintott,
Mr. Urban. July CO. between the Temple Gates in Fleet
I REMIT some particiilarscoucerning Street, 17 16."
the Rev. Mr. Laurence's work on At the end of the Appendix is affixed
Gardening, for the purpose of filling the under advertisement :
up a chasm in the account of hortfcul- " Lordships surveyed,' and maps drawn
tural authors sent to you by the late in of the fames timber measured and valued,
genious Mr. Richard Weston, of Lei with other artificers' work, anil dialling
cester, vol. LXXVT. p. 10S0. in all its parts, performed by Edward Lau
Mr. Laurence's aforesaid work was rence, brother to the Author of this book.
published in two parts, and I possess He is to be heard of when in London at
both bound in one thin octavo volume. Mr. Senex's at the Globe, in Salisbury
Court.—N. B. In Winter, and at such
The title-page of the first is as follows ; times as he is pot surveying, gentlemen
"The Clergyman's Recreation : fliew- may have their sons or daughters taught
ing the pleasure and profit of the Art of accompts at their own houses, after a
Gardening.— natural, easy, aud concise method, with
Quart agite, o proprios generatim discite the use of the globes and maps, and ail
cultus, other useful pans of the -rtathematicks.."
It is remarkable, that in the two
* This alludes to a most destructive In above-copied title-pages the rev«renrl
fect of the Aphis kind, which has lately in Author's surname is spell differently,
fested apple-trees. It appears like a white and the initial letiers of his audition
mould, and when robbed leaves a purple transposed in the last. As his brothers
ftain. The following is said to be an ef surname is (pelt with thein, L imagine
fectual remedy, which has been tried with that Laurence was the real name.
great success.—Take three ounces of The first part has one coppcs-pbie,
flower of brimstone, mixed in a quart of
goose oil, or any. common oil, and with which exhibits a perspective vieiv (of a
a small brush lay it on the place where garden, adorned with £r»OD,laiii* and
. the whiteness is seen. Edit. statues. ,S. Grit-din sculpt.
Ih:
6oS. Anec dotes of Mr. Laureritrev—^Veryard's Travels, [juty*
The second part has a frontispiece publish anv theological work, but never
and three ' other copper-plates. The have been able to obtain any insinua
frontispiece shews us a Fruit-Garden, tion on that point. VtnTu'MKCs.
with a gentleman and a clergyman con
verting in it. Two plates (hew the * t
proper dtfpolal of trees in gardens, and Mt Urban, June?.
another the form of training a vine VERiAKD, in his Travels in
against a wall ; but thai form is totally France, Italy, &c. publilheri in
different to the one now in rile.' Each 1701, thus laconically describes the
pa.rl of the work has a long preface French character :
prefixed to it ; and the fir II has the fol " The FTench are, generally speakings
lowing approbation : very curious, confident, inquisitive, credu
" Mr. Lintott. So far as 1 am judge, lous, facetious, rather, witty than wile,
there is more ot" the art of gardening in eternal babblers ; and, in a word, they are
this little tract than in all that I have yet at all tim.es whai an Englishman is when
seen on this Cubje6t. L. Loyb. he is half drunk. They, are likcw il'e cere
March 15; J713\" monious and full of their compliments,
The'Uev. Mr. Laurence describes the especially when it is for their interest;
methods he took for ameliorating and but take heed they cost you not too dear.
No people have a bettet opinion of their
planting his own garden ; and lie writes King than 'tlie French. 1 was once (he
in so interesting and Ample a (Me, tliat addsj in company with a Priest at Parts,
lie arrests the imagination us the reader, who, hearing bis King's conduct blamed,
and engages, him to attend to the pro left the room pafsionapely, uttering the
gress of his labours from the sow words of the Roman orator, Sit JacriUgus,
ing the trees to gathering the sinit. fit J'tir, Jit Jiagitioruin omnium princ'ep&i;
He obliges us to admire his perseverance at eft bonus iui-pcrator : Let him be sacri
in conquering obstacles, aud makes our legious, a ihiet, a ringleader of all vice?
mouths water at the descriptions of his he. is nevertheless a good prince" .(lUv
fruits. It cannot be doubled but that rally, a good emperor.J
since Mr. -Laurence's time many im Tne above-mentioned Traveller re
provements have been made in the lates the following circumstance -as
mode of managing fruit-trees; bin, not having occurted at Toulouse, while he
withstanding, I dare to affirm, that was there : .■
his Svork contains many observations " There happened during our fltiy in
worthy to be held in remembrance, and this City a very, odd accident, which was
much advice entitled lo the attention as folioweth : A compaiw-of thieves, de
of modern gardeners and orcharding. signing to break into"* certain shop of tl\e
Moreover lo crown all, there are senti town in the night-time, opened' a hole
in the side of a brick-wall big enough for
ments interspersed in the courle of his one to eriter-; but, as they vtete at v.'o:!f,
work, thai discover him to have been a notwithstanding tire utmost dexterity, ittfe
man of singular piety, good-fense, and ncit'e alarmed the people Within ^ - U'i*b
'.ingenuity. getting up and perceiving whcreabCut
As his works were upon sale al Mr. they were opening their pailuge, expe6tett
White's in Fleet-street not a great them in the Ibop. The hole being finished,
many years ago, I am surprised that one of the night-walkers came in with his
Mr. Weston was never in posteffion of legs foremost, whom the .people within
a copy. The copy in tny bands is in leized when his body was half through
a large clear print, and on very good and held him last in the .hole, that lie
paper. could neither move forward or. backward.;
Perhaps, Mr. Urban, ane of your and the passage being quite stopped up the
Northamptonshire correspondents 'will others .without could by no means let
do me the savour of informing me, him at liberty. In the mean while one
■whether Mr. Laurence was interred at of the servants of -the house called the
Yelvertofl; and, if he was, whether watch, from the chamber window ; but
before they could get thither tnerio^ues
there is anv- memorial of him in his were all tied .excepting him in the hole,
■ church? Also, whether the rectorial whom they found without an head. For,
garden there continues in the form in , it l'cems, his companions finding it im-
which he left it; and any of his trees poiiible to get him thencse had cut it ofi,
extant in it? As there is a passage in and carried it away with them, that he
■his fitst preface, intimating"a probabi might not be known, riT drawn by
lity of his on'etingJo the. wnild a worJi threats and promises to discover, the reft,
011 a divine subject; I have' made fre who were at least, ten or twelve iu num
quent enquiry, whether he ever did ber."
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1 807. J Epitaphs on the Family of Shakspeare. «' 609
•Mr. Urban,. Shrewsbury, May^Q: Arms—-Or, a bend Sihle, .charged
AS you -have Ib faithfully recorded with a tilting spear of 1 he first, the point
the birth-place of Shakspeare, upwards. Crest, a falcon displayed pro*
V- 3, 1 am induced <o send you a per, grasping in its talons a spear Or.
N. E. view of the Chbroh at Strat- Inscription on the Monument,
forc-upon- Avon, in which his mor
tal.remains ore interred. IVDICIO PYLTVM, QEKIO SOCBATt.M,
. Thie venerable structure is situated Amr MARONEM, [pVs HA.BET.
on t hi- Southern eittreniityflf the'town, TEARA TEG1T, POPVLVS MCSRF.T, OLYMf
and the church yard ia bounded on the STAY, PASSENGER J WHY GOE5T THOV B?
Eastern side by the river Avon) on ilie SO FAST? [iJEATfl H-ATH PLAST
banks of which are some fine elms; READ, IF THOV CANST, "WHOM ENVIOVS
thefl* have a pleating effect; vet they WITHlit TliJS MONVMENT, SHAKS
Obstruct a distant view As the rmildtng; 9VICKPEARE, NATVRE
WITH WHOM
This Church, which was formerly coi^ DOTH DECK YJSD1DE, WHOSE N^M*
T03XBE,
legfate, is dedicated to the Holy Tri FAR MORE THEM COST j SltiTH ALL Y*t
nity; it is spacious and* handsome, its HE HATH WRITT
.length being from Hail to Weir I07 LEAVES LIVING ART, BVT PAQETO SERV8
feet. The Nave; is supported' on each ,: HIS' WlsT.
fide by six hexagonal pilhrs, termi OnriT Ano. Do'. 1616.
nated by pointed arches. . Tlie Chan ÆtATl'58 D1E 23 Ap'.
cel, which is of later date than the On the stone which covers his grave
other pan oi the building, is light atid are the following' lines, (aid . £0 have
elegant. On the North side the Chan- been written by himlelf:
fel was the Crypt, or Charnel-hoUie, " Good Fremd, tor Iestjs sake for--
filled with human bones; this build-
in* was t:ik*r..(lo«vn in 1800, ami the t To D. BEARE. .. . , ,,r , .
bones covered with earth. VV irtuii the i3Li:STF. B'E Y'e, M*Att y't SPARES THE?
Church are many monunjenial memo STONES,
rials worthy of notice ; hot here I shall
■ confine myself to those which relate to And cvrst be he y'tmoves myBones."
Shakspeare, as being more immediately Oi bra Is p Lite fixed to a stone is
'Connected with the- present .subject. tjwhiff
-J .- Againllthe Nortb wall of theOhancel " Here lvetii interred the eodyf.
is aii humble monument erected to the of Anns, wife of Mn. William
memory ofthe greatest Drama tic Poet the SlIAKESPEARt, WHO DEP'TED THIs'lIFE
Vyarld ever produced. The Poet is re THE 6th DAY OF AUGUST, '1023, BElN-fit *
presented with a cushion before him, a OF THE AGE OF 67 YEARS. ... T
pen iu his right hand, and his left setting Vbera.tu mater.tu lacvitamq ; dedist'i,
'. a scroll.
fin r 11 TLt. This u..n
bust :»is fixed under
..„>t„, an
.... i-Væ mihi
. f-pre. tatito mimer'e i.c:Saxa dabo
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arcb between two Corinthian columns, Quam mallem, amoueat lipidem, bones
supporting the entablature, above Angel' 'ore'
which' are his arms, surmounted bv a Exeat uc Christ! Corpus, imas^o tua, '
Death's head. "On each side the arms Scd nil vota valent, venias cito Chrilte re-
. a small figure, each in a sitting posture, silrget, . [petet;'.'
One holding sii bis left hand a 'spade ; Claiisa lieet tumulo mater, et astra
the other with an inverted torch In his On a fl u stone. Arms—three lat
-left hand, and . in his riiht hand a he s heads erased, impaling Shakspeare:
■ scull. The bust " of.- Shakspeare was
formerly coloured to resemble life-; but Hall, " Hf-eRe lyeth y'e body of Johs
in 179S, at the request of \lr. Malone, DAVGHTER Gent. Hee marr-'.i,Susanna y'r
AND COHEIRE OF. WlLl.
it was judiciously cleaned, aud coloured Shakespeare, Gent. JJee decease?
white. The forehead is full and lofty, Nov'f.R -JS, AO. 1035, AGF.D OO.
the crown of the head hald, the nose Hailius hie situs ist, mchca celeberrimus
inclining to aquiline, fVbeanl pointed ; arte,
at first fight there Icems a disproportion Expe'ctans regni gaurjra tæta Dei ;
in the upper lip ; ibis, may be orva- Dignus erat mentis qui Nestor* vinceret
- stoned by the mustaches, or whiskers, arYni*.
far if taken in profile it is a very r.. go- In terns orsirles fed rapit ænua dies.
lar and expressive countenance. The Neinmglo<|uiddesif;adesindiifima consul
dress a doublet, over thai a loose gown Et vitæ coniitem nunc, quog,. mortis
without sleeves. .. v- hahet."
Gent. Mag. JJy, 1807. On
6ib Shakspeare Epitaphs.—Dr. Robert Mapletoft. [July,
On another stone : Arms, per pale, to Pembroke Hall, and was there
baron and femme quarterly, Hi aud made Pell iw January 6, 1630; and
4Uh a chevron, between three eagle's in or about 1(533 was appointed Chap
heads, erased ; 2nd and 3d a Buck's lain to Bishop Wren. He was one of the
head cabolled, surmounted by a cross University Preachers in 1641, and was
patee, in the mouth an arrow ; 2nd some time alter one os the Proctors of
Hall, quartering Shakspeare ; Hie Univeifity. In 1(544 (being then
" Heere resteth y'e body or Tho- Bachelor in Divinity) he was ejected
MasNashe. Esg. He mar'.'Elizabeth, from his fellowship for not' taking the
tHS DAUG*. AND HEIRE OF JoiIN HaXL, covenant. After this he retired and
Gent. Hi died April 4th. a. 1617, lived privately among his friends, and
Aged 53." particularly with Sir Robert Shirley in
" Faia manent omnes ; hunc non virtate Leicestershire, where he became ac
carentem quainted with Dr. Sheldon, who waj
Vt neque divitiis, abstulit atra dies ; 1 afterwards Archbilhop of Canterbury*
Abstulit ;at referet lux ultima ; iiste viator, He had afterwards a private congrega
Si peritura paras, per male parta peris." tion in L'ncoln, where he used 10 offi
On another Hone. Anns—On a ciate according to the Liturgy of the
lozenge, Hall; impaling Shakspeare : Church of England ; this had like to
" Hef.re lyeth y'e body of Su have produced him much trouble, but
sanna, Wife to John Hall, Gent. it being found that lie had resoled a
Ye DAVGI1TER OF WlLLlAM SllAKF.5- considerable sum of money offered him
ff.are, Gent. She deceased yc 1 1th by his congregation, he came off safe.
of July, A° 1649, aged 66." On the Restoration J»e returned to Cam
This is all that now remains respect bridge, and was reinstated in his fellow
ing Shakspeare's daughter. I was in ship, and was presented bv the Crown
formed, that the lip taph was pur Angus! 1st, iCfJO, on the death of Dr.
posely obliterated ; and the Inscription Newell, to the Prebend os Clifton in
for a Richard Walts, a person no way Lincoln Cathedral, to which he was
related to the Shakspeare family, placed installed August 23, 1(560: and then
on the stone. Dugdale has given the resigning it, he was nlfo on the fame
Epitaph as under. day installed to the sub-deanery os the
" Witty above her fexe, but that's not all ; same church, which he resigned in
Wife to Salvation, was good Mistress Hall. l(>71 ; and about the same time he be
Something of Shakspeare was in that, but came Re6tor of Clayworlh in Notting
this [blisse. hamshire, which living he afterwards
Wholy of him with whom (he's now in exchanged for the vicarage of Sohain
Then, Passenger, hast ne're a teare, in Cambridgefliire. In 1661 he re
To weepe with her that wept with all ? signed his fellowlliip, and about that
That wept, yet set herfelfe to chere time was invited bv Archbishop Shel
Them up with comforts cordiall. don to be Chaplain to the Duchess, of
Her Love shall live, her mercy spread York, then supposed 10 be inclining
When thou hast ne're a teare to shed." to Popery, and in want of a person of
These, Mr. Urban, are all the me Dr. Mapletoft'* primitive stamp to keep
morials of the family of Shakspeare, her steadv to her religion ; but he could
in the Church of Stratford-upon-Avon ; not be prevailed upon to accept the
and as I transcribed them on the spot, appointment. In 1(564 he was elected
lean, with confidence, vouch for their Mailer of Pembroke Hall, and became
accuracy. Yours, ike. D. Park.es. Doctor in Divinity, and was bv the
KiiiR August 7, 1607, promoted to the
Mr. Urban, June 30. Deanery of Elv. He lerved the office
ROBERT Mapletoft, D D. was of Vice chancellor of the University of
born at North Thorefby in the Cambridge in 1671, and died at Pem
county of Lincoln, in the beginning broke Hall August 20, 1077. His re
of the year l(j|f>. of which place his mains, according 10 his own desire,
sath r, Henry Mapletoft, was many were deposited in a vault in the chapel
viars Rector. He was educated at the os that college, near the body of Bishop
f e grammar school tf L'u h*, and Wren the founder os it, his honoured
admitted of Queen's College in Cam friend and patron, without any me
bridge. When he had taken the di- morial.
pr e of Birhelor of Arts he removed Dr. Mapletoft lived very hospitably
* bee ihc comruun seal of this ltuod, at Elv, and wherever he resided ; ami
?. jsq. was esteemed fur the many pious and
charitable
1807.] Biographical Memoirs of Dean Mapletoff. 611
eharitable acts in his life-lime ; and, toft, executors,- on the 22d August,
at his death, after many gifis, legacies, 1677. Exira6ted frotn the Registry of
and charitable donations, he bequeathed the University of Cambridge June 21,
to the University 100/ towards pur 1774, by H. Hubbard, registiary.
chasing Golius' Library of Oriental The above particulars are taken
hooks for the University Library ; and chiefly from Benthant's History of ihe
in cafe that design was net executed, Church of Ely, the Lincoln Chaptet
then to some permanent university use, Book, and from Pembroke College
at the discretion of the Vice-chancellor Records of their Masters and Fellow*.
and the two Professors of Divinity; In a MS note on ihe latter, in my
100/. to poor widows, chiefiv clergy possession*, the lands in Coveney, given
men's. His benefactions to the church to the College, are stated to be 28/. per
nf Klv were, to ihe Dean and Chapter annum, and said to be for sounding two
for ever all His clole called hundred Exhibitions and a Catechetical LcSiure,
acres in the Wash in the town of Co- aud buying some books for the Library.
veney, for the increase of the singing Bentham also mentions some lands
men's stipends, and on condition that (liven bv Dr. Mapletoft to Queen's Cvl-
thev should frequent early prayers in lege ami Pembroke Hall, for a Cateche- -
the Cathedral. He also bequeathed tical Lecture ; but this latt particular
to the (ame church his library of books, not appearing in his will, I durst not
and 100/. toward fining up a place to insert it in the above memoir. J. E.
receive them and furnishing it with The above is a copy fiom the origi
more hooks ; to each of the Pre nal, presented to Espin, master of Dr.
bendaries a ring of 20s. to each Minor M'pleiost's school, by the Key. Mr.
Canon and Schoolmaster -20s.- to each Emeris.
Singing-man and Verger 10s. and to The executors of Dr. Mapletoft were,
the Choristers os. each. John Mapletoft of London, M. D.
In a codicil to his last will, signed and Peter Mapletoft of Stamford, Gro
1 7 th dav of Angus), lf>77, he gives so cer and AUlerman; but what relations
the use of the town of North Thorcfbv, they were 1 cannot make out. Finding
in the.county of Lincoln, his two cot from the will that they had power toast
tages and one messuage, with all his as thev thought proper, they appointed
lands in the fame town and fields of the, trustees, and by a deed granted power
fame for ever, lo be fettled upon trus to them of increasing or diminish
tees, for and towards the maintenance ing ihe number of free scholars from
of one fit person to teach Ihe scholars time to time as they thought proper,
there to read, lo learn them their cate according to the rife or fall of ihe es
chism and instruct them in it, 10 wiile, tate in value. The yearly rent at this
to cast accounts, and to leach them lime is 42/. exclusive of a, single school
their accidence, and to make them lit room and garden : ihe number of free
for the grammar school, according lo scholars is 21. The above execu
the rules and orders which he or his tors gave the piece of ground in a
executors should prescribe ; and al (b street called Padehole, where the school
gives all those his lands, meadow, and now stands. The number of trustees
pasture in Stlifleeiby lo ihe use of the is eight at ibis period, and when these
town of Louth for ever, for and to are reduced to three, ihese three survi
wards ihe maintenance of one fit per vors elect six others to be added to
son lo teach the children there in like themselves, as ordered by the deed. I
manner as in his gift to North Tho- have seen accounts of Louth in different
refby per omnia. He gives likewise to gazetteers, &c. which mention a cha
the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of rity school lor 40 poor children ; but
Pembroke Hall, lands in Coveney for it does not appear that such an inAitH-
ever, on condition that they pay yearly tion ever existed. The present muster
for ever to two poor scholars to be of Dr. Mapletoft 's school is ibe pet Ion
called his Exhibitioners 4/- each, and whogivestheaboveacronnt. T. Espin.
that thev lay out yearly iOs in good The present master of ihe Grammar
books for (he Library of the t'.tii! college. school is the Rev. T Orme, D. D.
The vvill, with iwo codicils, was F.S. A. who succeeded ibe Rey. Mr.
pr >ved before Thomas Page, km. Emeris, \\, A. Mr. Emeris resigned
Vice-chancellor of the University of it Ibme few years since.
Cambridge, and administration gr-.nted
to John Mapletoft and Peter 'Maple- * Rev. Mr. Emais.
, Mr.
6ia Mary £>neen of Scots.—The Projector. [July,
Mr. Urban, 4prd\T. too severely hlained. The nun, for
r\ 'H li portrait of the Que-, n of Seats example, who prefers his own coun-
X a described in \ our bit, p. 535, try to eaery other, and thinks it fupe.-
leems.to have been. copied in the print rior lo every other, is usually reckoned
in a French biliory, Vi-juon inv. Mni- a fort of poli i c > '. btpot. This exeltr-
ette excod. cui'i |,n\ ii. regis. Augustus five fondness for one's .own. country
Thuanns, iib S6. Tne variations, as may certainly be earned too far, and
far as memory serves, are the. more is al wins etc. e.i. too far, when we
modern character, oi the dreis and forget that me inhabitants of other <-
ciO'.' n, and the. habits of the connnil- nations, if nor our fellow subjects, are
sjouers and oiher aiiil'tar.is, and her as- ai seall our fellow creatures, and equailj
' siii.-nu tutties. The Queen i« kneeling eii'i led to the offices of humanity, ft.
erect to a, i. !.•<•',; ; an ) the executioner, is carried too far, likewise, when we
a rush o .t..^ en. i£i"r, !.;vu.g his left reject viliiile improvements in the stata
hand. ot> her left Ih.'u ,.t. i holding of society, or in the arts or sciences,
the a\e erect in hi» n hi vhm i. merely liecaiise they, have not origt-
UnfJe.r her, 'f JViu-te Wrfslr.'. riyne nated from ourselves. 'Hut, on the
ji /•'// ";']'■ , ''o'jfi( * uuirtui '• sn\i 'a soy, ejher hand, a certain degree of reserve in,
flf par\a mm ii'icr le Ju !•$*'( ro.wvetl* favour os ourown countryiarai her bene
fit ces.dir<iprS u.'ips t,;s txempUs dt licial than hurtful. It forms no incon-
. 1'iinc'enne Efii/'e.' fiderable proportion of the union which
T ie la'd 1 iu n of ©ranger men- is necestary for the defence aud iude-1
tions« heua f. ef ni a. i oval, wi'h « peudence of nations: and perhaps no
ic;» elinlan'in •..> her execution, a latjse man can be cordially and rationally
Via f i'.c. ', ft ■ " 1'here are Copies of attached to the land which gave him
it in M ■ ceiins' History,;'' and there birth,' if helloes not consider it as
is a in, livrca print of her going lo the bell in the world. Whether lie
execution over her head are two an- he right or wrong in this opinion, the
'c.is a ih pihns (o"eof theaimels in thtq effect will be the (ame, that he will
pr:m holds a crown of laurel, another have a constant desire to make h|i
a palm) Tuere are also two neat prims country what he wishes to represent it ; '
o> her., which represent her execution, and the lame prejudice existing in the
hy Huieti (Q Marieite) and Vignon, minds of the inhabitants of other
the former an Svo. is very scarce. Tiie countries, there will be a uralftiip
4to. print h\ Bi'irlao has the dale of sitried from which each may protii,
he execution, ws " Martyrum p«J)a Although the ;zrartd question of iiiperi-
tji lbS7." The biliory to which the oritv wa\ never he satisfactorily decided,
Jjri.ii' in quefiinu belong-. v,>s Kmanoel When I consider the many circum-
Meteten's " Uistatw Bulgica," in low stances attached to the history and ac-
Dmcb, 2 vols. sol (.'<>■. l ">U7, Aoiit. tual.liaie of our o vn country, of which
1018; i ra, 1 11a: ed into almost all the we are apt to make our boast, I observe
iioro;>can tanguases. and into prench, none so often repeated as. the flourilh-
Hav«v lfil8. The Author, who was a ing aud untkalied state of our manu-
lueichant.. sparred neither cost imr pains fjctures; and' rnv readers will not be
to perfect hit work, t hunch hi? ere surprized thai my attention should be
dulitv led him into several uniiakes, caught bv (hi* particular in our list of
fyhich wets not corrected till in a fourth national bjestiitfts, wlu-o ihey reflect
edition. " Rawjiufon's Ctitalo^ue of t .at it-is on manu'act,ures chiefly that
Historians.". the whole tribe of PkojectoRS have
. —1 so loiTg einnloyed their geums.
THE PftO.IECTCi;. No. LXXII. 1 am not, however, about to enter
Good, si comminuas, vilem vatirjatur ad into a representation of the existing
affem. - ' prosperity of me manufactures of Great
Al ni id fit, r.oid habe.t pulohrl coqf'.ruc- Britain. Mv reatit^s,(t,^m convinced,
tus ac£iv".is .? Hon. do not expect such fulijcc)^ tp, be. in-
"One farthipg lefi'en'd, you the mats ra- trodocetj in ibis, pap/r. .Jfj iwtve no-
• | dace. ., - . tiling new to adv.oice .,n iheiftate of our
And if not leffen'd, whence can rise its Ji,.cl;S) our woollens, our imn works,
'. , ue • Francis. or out .potteries. He! udieii.weare
"fO ATIONS, as well as individuals, congratuittiititc one another on the imr
A ' are subje6l to a species of self- provemems introduced bi late, years til
conceit, for which they are sometimes these .f.nuks, there « put majinfac-
' tuis
1807.] THE PROJECTOR, N° LXXII. 613
ture which I observe , has a decided There ate various oiher points ill
1Preference in ail our thoughts, at least if which ihis ' .nuifaciurg ihhY s from
anguage be liie expression of 'bought, thole ol Lji 'Ulnire, Vo.flhire, or
upon which i wi!h 10 offer a few remarks. WarwV ktii it. One \erv Hnkin j dif
And this is the manufacture'of n(o- ference la, unit' many peri >n< who
Jjky, which is supposed to employ a have manufactured a very nieat nua,H-
liioch greater ntimiier of hands than titv of' money, are 10 fu itom U'h.g
any other whatever. There are lo few desirous to find s'matk.i tor :t, as ihe> -
-persons., indeed, in this kingdom who Liverpool, Manchester, and i'.i-.n. g-
are not in one way or other employed tiam men do, that they beco-it ex-
in this manufacture, that the moment ceeditulv anxious to hide |* from the
we hear or read of anv person's death, know ledge of everv huma'> beii g ; and
the first and molt important question is, are so far from being proud of theh pro
what nimiey did lie make? Ai.d if this duction, that it is with great reluctance,
be answered in the negative, if it turns and often with visible pain, that they1
out that he has U'fi few simples ot can be compelled to brins forward the
his ingennity behind him, it is con smallest simple of what thev have been
cluded, wi.boui anv farther enquiry, making. Yet, perhaps, while they
that he mutt have been a very bun- are thus affecting lecreev, aud what
gline hand. Ibme people would iliiuk humility,
Friends who meet after long separa yon cannot affvont them snore than by
tion are always desirous to have this supposing thai their tiock on hand 15
important question mutually resi.lvcd, not immense, arrjl that they are infe
what money they have made? and it rior in that re'pect to any of their,
is wonderful how much the dnutinu- neighbours. Of all this, my readers
ance of their friendflnp, its fervency must remember verv strikinc inli mces
and cunttancy, ivj'l frequently depend a very siw yea t ago, w hen ttie late
011 the answers given, isa gentleman minister. Mr. Pitt, determined for a
who has lived many years in London, particular reason 10 know the exact
returns to pay a vilii to his name state of 1 help manufactures, and to com
place, be the distance' what it may, pel the belt workmen to produce eveiy
hoivever ri mote to all appearance from vear a cenaui proportion of their
tile buttling world, whether in the goods. T''e reluctance with which
depth of the vallev, or on i tie lep of some, nbeve i th'S order, and tike YnanV
the mountain, he will always find artifices winch others invented lo evade
some whole, curiosity will lead them it, may perhaps app. ar as a proof that '
to make immediate inquiry into the they are pla n, otiaf. cted men. who
state of the above-mentioned manu do noi wish to make a pa .tde of their
facture; aud he "ill he received with industry, who " do good bv stealth,
welcome or coolness in proportion to and blush Lo find it lame." But we
the fa Jiples he is aWe 10 produce : such must not give them efrdit far lo much
aversion do mankind entertain against of the le't-deuvny, fpnit. The truth
idleness in (his business of making mo- is, they aeiieially six a time when ihey
pev ; and Inch is t tie r opinion of the stiali brins; their rxoods to m.t'ket, hut
naiure of this * manufacture, particu whether from delaying \tn< ti 1 e too
larly In London, ih'til they cannot con long, or neglecting 10 keep heir own
ceive how anv man can fail from anv appointment, it has in, > 1 ry many in
oilier leafon than idleness. stances happened, thai they have gone
This notion, however, is not per out of the world without performing
fectly cone 'i ; and the error proceeds their promise.
frotri conf'deriuis the manufacture of A|l this in the ca'e of anv other
■ money as. hearing a clnfc, resemblance maumacture ivould tie \erv i'oivivUi ;
io that of cotton, or wool, or any becaule eiloT he oar'o t .would be
■ oihrr article in which (bine persons loll, the article »«>••!J, link id'apiice, or
are emploi ed for the benefit of other it would he rn't'e Ipoded .byvloj'g
persons. Rut. the oafe is different in keeping On the contrary, the maker*
the making of money, as here everv of mono 'lave :>$. perSc; liietu-
man works for utmlelf, aud has his rity that their sr<i'-d. will not; he the
own particular an and mvlierv, which worse for keeping ; and >he great ware
lie is not itrv desirous oi communicat house in Threadn. 'die-street, w^-ere
ing, at leail befuje he leaves oil' husi- they are accuilomed to deposit iheir
iielj. surplus flock, is uot only guarded
' " a^auift
6 i4 THE PROJEC TO R, N° LXXII. [July,
against all accidents that befall other produced in a space os time so short
manufactures, but has ; this singu as to appear very wonderful.
lar property, that the goods depo As there is much secrecy preserved
sited increase io bulk and value with in the use anil construction os the ma
out any visible aid. Still, if it should chinery bv which money is made, it
be thought that to manufacture, an ar is not in my power to give a very clear
ticle which is not destined for the delcription of it. There are wheels
market, is an instance of industry with within wheels, aud many secret springs
out advantage j and a way to turn and movements which cannot be
manufacturers into a fort of amateurs made familiar without a trial, which
lather than professional men, the ob is rather expensive. That the whole
jection may be answered by observing is very ingenious we cannot doubt. I
that, although the goods are in many have been allured by gentlemen con
cases warehoused for a very long time, versant in these machines, ihat the ma
a market is at length found. In most nufacture of an immense sum of mo
cases, immediately on the death of ney, which may he completed in a
the senior manufacturer, the junior sew hours, will often hinge upon a
' tranches of his workshop bring the small movement, imperceptible to
whole to market, and that with, the every eye that has not studied it ; and
greatest success in disposing of their that ihe motions of the whole are so
goods. It has often been observed, rapid as to be almost invisible to all
that a quantity so great as to have ta but the manufacturer. The operation
ken an industrious manufacturer all of CARDuig is described as being very
his life to accumulate, has been got curious, and the use of horses h;is
rid of with the greatest ease in less than greatly facilitated the labour, when it
a year. becomes necessary to make money out
This, I know, will appear very sur of lands and houses. There are seve
prizing to persons who are not ac ral manufactories established at New
quainted with the slate of the markets market, Epsom, and some other parts
in this great metropolis, where heavy of the kingdom, where the whole is
articles of the kind mentioned may be performed bv horses, and where ef
disposed of for a mere trifle, and in fects are produced which the inhabit
the shortest possible space of time. The ants of London, with all their boasted
purchasers, in these cafes, are a parti town-made articles, cannot pretend to
cular description of persons, who pre rival. On the other hand, in the me
fer money readv made to the trouble of tropolis, there is a very large concern
making it themselves, although some of this kind established, wbrked bv a
of them are esteemed manufacturers in .different species of niachinerv, which
a certain degree, but they are subject they cMftoc/is, I know not for what
to so many fluctuations that, in the reaiiin. In other manufactures) it is,
course of a day, they have been known usual to state the number of hands em
to exchange the business of buyer and ployed, but here the principal opera
feller, payer and receiver, perhaps an tion is done by heads ; which for that
hundred times. purpose are carefully emptied of the
And the mention of this last species accustomed contents, and filled with
of manufactures brings to my recol battles, sieges, sea-fights, treaties, and
lection that, although the making of embassies, which are regularly changed
money differs in many respects from every day or ostener as may be wanted.
other trades, yet in others it bears a One objection against our common ma
very close resemblance, and perhaps in nufactures, that they are hurtful to
nothing more than the various projects health, is (aid to be obviated here, where
introduced of late years to shorten la sitting is carefully avoided, and lying
bour, by the employment of machi preferred as an easier posture, and that
nery. This, in the cafe of the manu in which more work can be done in a
facture of money, is by some reckoned given time. With this exception, how
an innovation ; but it is my business ever, I do not conceive that, in point
to state facts. Undoubtedly the mak of health, this manufacture has supe
ing of money was formerly a tedious rior advantages. From constantly ly
operation : it was accounted an ho ing iu one position, many of them beJ
nest and very industrious business ; but come lame, and some so deaf as to be
lince the introduction of machinery, unable to answer to their names.
the end has been somehow or other With respect, however, to that de
scription;
*8o7,] THE PROJESTOR, N° LXXII. 615
scription of manufacturers chiefly in beings who have so strangely mistaken
tended in this paper, those who are what themselves were made for, or
continually making ihe article without have so grossly miscalculated the profit
bringing it to market, or delaying the and loss upon the labours of their lives.
bringing it to market until they are It having been asserted above that
prevented bv death, their character the article which is the subject of this
mud be considered as verv singular, paper does not suffer by keeping, it
and not to be paralleled in the cafe of may be necessary to add that, al
any other manufacturers. What should though this be true so far as respects
we think of a maker of linens who money itself, yet if long pent up it
should fill his warehouses from time frequently affects the possessors in a
to time, with no olher view than to very unpleasant manner. Even their
look on them now and then, count bodies have been known to be injured
the bales, and amuse himself with the by it, and it has been ascertained that
thoughts that one day or other he they have suffered diseases similar in
would bring them into use ; but in the appearance to those which affect per
mean time feel miserable if a sew yards sons who cannot command the means
were to be requested of him for any of a generous diet. But it goes far
necessary or benevolent purpose ? If ther, and brings on a train of disorders
such a man in answer should plead with which the poor are unacquainted j
that the making of money differs from restlessness, anxiety, narrowness, and
every other article, it will be sufficient other complaints about the chest, and
to require him to staie wherein that a general contraction of all that in
difference lies, or whether there is, in other men is expanded and liberal.
truth, any difference between one use Whether all this arises from pernicious
less article and another. effluvia in the article, or from some
These persons are nevertheless enti defect in the constitution of the patient,
tled to some degree of compassion. Af 1 shall |eave to the determination of
ter having for so many years fixed the faculty. I have only to add, that
their affections on a species of amuse the appearances on dissection, have
ment which they must quit, aud being geneiallv exhibited a moderate propor
utterly unacquainted with any higher tion of brains, a great deficiency of
pleasure than that of surveying the heart, and no bowels at all.'
growing slate of their manufacture, it
is really somewhat hard to be removed Mr. Urban, Surrey Chapel, May\%.
into a slate of existence where, accord T AM much obliged to your corre-
ing to the best authorities, no such fpondent A Looker On, for his obser
thing is permitted, or even known, as vations on a paper I sent to .your Ma
making of money. It is much to be gazine, as a respectful echo to the be
regretted that our new philosophers, neficial exertions of the Rev. Mr. Reid.
when, some years ago, they were Perhaps I did not sufficiently explain
proving how wrong we had been in all mvseli on that subject, as it regards 'the
our nations as to a future state, did not caution which 1 readily admit ought
provide some state orother which might to be paid to' the Vaccine vesicle.
form a continuation of the present, and Though I always give four punc
in which our favourite pursuits might tures, and sometimes even more, when
go on without any material interrup 1 have nothing but preserved matter
tion. As things are at present, aud (which is very apt to fail) ; yet I never
without the smallest probability of any use the lancet so freely for the com
new heaven of this sort, we ought not munication os the disease to others, so
to refuse some small share of pity to a9 to create the least inflammation
those who have been so unfortunate as besides trut which" belongs to the dis
to employ their whole lives in making ease itself. . Those coarse scratching!
money, for themselves to count, and a id (tarings os the arms that some have
for their successors to spend. If we been guilty of have at times produced'
add to this the important sacrifices ne dangerous ulcers, and have been at
cessary in order lo carry on this ma- tended with very bad consequences in
nufaelure, the loss of reputation, the deed. But I believe it is the opinion
many privations the manufacturer is of the most experienced Iooculators,
subject to, and the total absence os en that, though there may be but one
joyment or satisfaction, we may surely vesicle, not the least danger will ac
conclude that there are sew human crue, if, by very gentle punctures round
thst
616 Rev. R. Hill onVacclnat'u n.—^Curious Piedlftiotis, sjulj%
that vesicle the Vaccine, fluid be dis appear, were actually recorded in the
charged, whicli would Otherwise, na Jioyal Library ai Paris, in a book en
turally discharge itself. And nttl 'inly titled " l$ttr Mirabilis ;" from which .
the protecting consequences of the Cow it was extracted about 40 years since
Pock will be prcf'eived; but, is, (as is bv Sir John Lawson, Hart, of Brought
sometimes the cafe) 1 lie efflorescence or Hail, in Yorkshire.
inflammation runs high, it will con " Tiie administrators of this King-
siderably alleviate sucti an infl.niiinaiioil tlom (France) shall be so blinded that,
without giving the least interruption to they (hall leave it with'tu l defenders,
the regular progress of the Vaccine " Tile baud of God (hall extend it
disease. And indeed I am so far sa self over them, and over all the rich.
tisfied of the iruih of this remark, that '■ All the Nobles shall be deprived
I have frequently adviled parents lo as os lh< ir estates.
sist Nature in the discharge of the '• A division shall spring up in the
Vaccine fluid, that the inflammation Church of God, and there stia.l be two
may be lowered, 'provided ihe utmost husbands; the one true aud the oilier
caution be taken ihat the (light punc adul'erous, The legitimate husband
tures be made wiih loch care, as not lliail be put lo flight:
lo produce the lead taint of blood. I "There shall be a great carnage;
am satisfied respecting ihejullice of this and.as great an cllnlion of blood as irj
remark, having never heard of the least the da\ s of I he Gentiles.
inconvenience, or ill success, from the " The Universal Church; and all
many thousands of instances which the world, (hall deplore the ruin and
have been under my notice, ever since destruction of a most celebrated t ' i i v»
the discovery has been published to the capi.al and mistress of France.
the world. It may not be ani'ss to " 1 lie altars of ilie Tern;.le (hall be
drop another hint on the fame subject. destroyed ; the H«lv Virgins, outraged,
The S nail Pox will never be banished (hall fly from their uional:ei ies.
from ibis Country, while mercenary '* Tne Church Pallors shall he dri
Apothecaries and interested Quacks have ven from i heir feais ; and tiie Church
it in their power to keep alive this lu shall be stripped of her temporal goods,
crative, though destructive, disease, " But at length the Black Ea^ieand
whenever they can find people weak the Lion (hall appear, coming from far
enough to accept of t heir poisonous in countries. ,
oculation. Tliough we are in hope " Woe be to therj Oh ! City of
the Legislative Bodvvwill soon (auction Opulence !—Thou (halt at P.ist rrjuice ;
the Vaccine discovery, and endeavour but I hi ne end shall come.
to promote the practice of h for the ge " Woe be to thee, Oh, City of Phi
neral good; yet it certainly must be losophy ! —thou shall be subjected.
done with caution. For if a free " A Captive King, bumbled even to
people have a right to choofe.-what they confusion, (hall at last recover his
even ignoraully may suppose lo be best crown."
for themselves ; yet, how far they may
have a righ' to introduce an inficlious " There is now living at GiH'mgham,
plague among others, «hich now, Kent, a moll eccentric old gentleuiany
through the blessing of God, may be who assumes to himself the faculty of
so easily avoided, is quite another second sight, and has for several years
question. If, therefore, the Legislative predicted the fate of Empires, ar$l the
Body have not sufficient power to fall of Bonaparte.
etlabiifli Pefi-houses, and to adopt such •' At the time of this declarations
regulations as it respects quarantine there was a general expectation of peace,
when needed, w hile other nations may which was really ratified : but this old
.beseemed, we (hall, in a gnat 1 mea gentleman stood firm in the opinions
sure, be subjected to the ravages of the he delivered, and speaks with exulta
old disease. R. II in..' tion of (ome recent events which have
confirmed them.
Curious Prebictioks. " Before the Treaty of Amiens was
rTpHE following remarkable Predic- concluded, he declared that it would
X lions of Cesairei Bishop of Aries, not last, and that this country ought
in the year 512, which the events of not to expect it ; for, fa d he, Buona
the French Revolution have Co amply parte must be a greater man than he
fulfilled, however curious the fact may now is, and it will be by opposing this
country
1807.] Curious VrediElionu—Illustrations of Horace. 617
country that he will become (b ; he and of one of the Coruelii. However,
will go on, becoming higher and nothing is to be inferred from hence
greater, and will make victory till he concerning the pedigree of this Celsus.
conies to the confines of Russia, where Torrentius speaks of a qmntmtu '
will be fought the last ureat battle, in which he possessed, that had on one fide
which Buonaparte will fall and die ;— a Mercnrius Petalatus, with the legend
his deaih will bring to light a greater L. pa Pi. CEL3 I, and- on the other a
General than he has ever been, wbo lyra ; but justly leaves it undecided,
will really perform what Buonaparte whether it denoted the Celsus Albino-
pretended to do, when he acquired vanus to w hom this short epistle, and
power, make the nations of the world the humourous caution against the
happy. This General, he fays, will fate of the Æsopian crow . in the
be a descendant of David, who will epilile to Julius FloYus, are addressed,
tarn his attention to the Jews, gather and whole lyra, as I then observed,
them all together, and, leading them seems not to have been peculiarly cap
home to their own country, lay the tivating either to his contemporaries or
foundation of their future greatness; to posterity. • }
that at that time all Christendom (hall What we know for certain concern
be subdued to him, and the fate of this ing this Celsus is confined lolely to
country be the fulfilment'of the 27th what Horace himlelf occasionally in
of Ezekiel. The period when thele forms u> of him. He appears to have
great events will take place will be, been one of the exoteric friends of
when three years and a half are passed our Bard ; I mean of that fort of good
after the time of the highest exaltation, friends, with whom one can neither
and the last honours attained by Buona avoid being acquainted, nor, to a cer
parte ! ! !—(Chatham Paper.)' tain degree, familiar; whom we have
found because they fought us, and
Mr. Urban, . Jiily IS. ' whom we retain for fear of their doing
HAVING long been a scoffer at the us mischief ; whose friendship we are
pretensions of the friends of As not sain to boast os, though they on
trology, I have been lately put to the all occasions make mitch of ours : in
blush bv two very singular predictions short, with whom we associate during
of Mr. Francis Moore, Physician ; or of our whole lives, do them go d offices,
the author of the Almanack which slill and receive others in reiurn fiotn them,
is published under his name. Your rea and are reckoned amongst their friends
ders (hould recollect, that the work from by all the wo:ld, though they have
whence the following extracts are made never once come near our hearts. Cel
was issued from the press in Septem sus, at the time when Varns, Virgil,
ber last. They occur in (he observa Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tibullus, aud
tions at the close of the month of Properlius, ought to have struck all
April. such pretenders dumb, had the vanity
"This month is ushered in with to pass himself off for a Poet, and, in
scurrilous and lying aspersions, vilify quality os private secretary to Tiberius,
ing jnd affronting Ibme person or per had the ear of one of the first men of
sons of hinh station." the slate. Thele two titles were suffi
It requires no Œdipts to apply this. cient to gain him a kind os respect,
The following is decisive: anil to draw from our Poet (who was
" Near this time the Turkish Empe fond of his ease, and did not willingly
ror dies, or, it may b?, he hides his eneage with wasps, who, though they
head: his people are tumultuous ; if make no honey, can siing to some pur
he can save his life, let him ; I give pose,) an epistle, w hich hasjust enough of
him fair warning of it." the air of familiarity to make such a
Yours, &c. T. Mot, F. S. M. man as Celsus esteem it a Friendly oite.
The old commentator, CroquiuS,
Illustrations op Horace. who probably was (hocked that Ho
Book I. Epistle VIII. race mould (av so much harm of him
To CELSUS Al.BINiiVANOS. self in this epistle, traces an ironv run
Introduction. ning through the whole of it, and ima
CELSUS was the surname of two gines that Horace only gives him'elf
reputable families at Rome ; so manv slaps on the lace, th.it ( elfus
namely, of a branch of the Papirii, * A hait denarius.
Gbjit. Ma«. July, 1806. ..• ' ma/
618 Illustrations of Horace, Book I. Epistle VIII. [July,
mav fuel them. Molt of the later ex ear of Ce'iiis. But inelhinks he in
positors auree with him in tins lopuoli- tended to lav neither mote nor left
lion, ' without farrier investigation. than what every one that understands
Baxter, if 1 am not in Oaken, is the the language mult perctive in the
firll who perceives the lymptoma of vvotds. We put in contrast, with ihou,
ni- 1 inch >lv, or, as ( would rather implies ail the rest of the world: A*
chute lo call it, hypochondria, in thou shalt I.ear the fortune thai seems
what our Poet fays of his ill humour ; to son Ic upon thee, so will the world
for i lie phylicans, I b-beve, will al hear thee . if thou behaved modestly,
low Hint i lie effects prqduced hv this then must envy be sil<-nt, and thou
;i<ni|))a in on ihe mind, especially in wilt reap the applause of thy friends,
peiiims of a delicaie nervous system, and the esteem of th,e world : but if
cannot be better described- However, thou allow ii to make thee insolent,
I hold it urn improbable, that' ihe and to turn thy head, then, wilt thou
fimke, fidis vffendar mrduis, irascar have everv man against thee, thy best
amicis, &.<•. is applicable 10 Cellos; fri nils w ill retire, and the red connive
anil that Horace made him this per to work thy downfall, &c. VV. T.
fectly lam liar statement of the then
Condition of his bcxlv and mind, mere Mr. Urb^n, June 11.
ly for ilie lake of introducing in s Imle "\7 0UR benevolence, 1 persuade
sarcasm, which the young gentleman + myself, will readily induce von to
might perhaps have merited by an ill- inform \our Headers, that the Special
liuied leufibilily at what our Poet had Committee, appointed on the 20th of
lately wrinen of him lo Ju:ius Florus. February l ist, to farther the Subscrip
Romæ Titus amem, ventojks, Tibure tion for establishing a Fund os Endow
Romam."] Tie reproach that Horace ment for the London Hospital have,
pere calls on him Tel! in his own per w:ti heartfelt satisfaction, acknow
son, he had already s me vears beIb e, ledged the success which has attended
in the V.Ith Sa'ire of the second ihi-ir exertions in the prosecution of
Book, pm into the. mouth of one of the important object entrusted to their
his vallajs : . care The Publick has afforded the
Romæ ru* optas, ahscnt^m ntfiiais nrbem most liberal support, and h.is realised
Tullis ad ajlra, let-is. thole expectations so justly entertained
of its benevolence, by the large dona
The hypochondriac humour, then, of tions received from several CorporateBo-
.which he here complains, was nothing dies, and from many charitable iudivi-
new to him ; — though ihe cafe may <lu i Is.
be verv naturally explained,, without The benefactions from £. s. d.
accusing Horace os- an unmanly versa- firms and individuals,
.tiliiy. Besides, it is to be remarked, reported to the dale of
as ihe reason whv he particularly the Anniversary, on
names Tibnr here, that he probably the 8th of April last,
possessed a piece or two of ground in amounted to - - - - 14,850 5 •
this beautiful district, or . a small (arm, Th lie from different cor-
that belonged to hi* Sabine estate ;-and porateBodies, comput
so that passage is to be understood in ing ihe value of ,')0t)0!.
the life of him that is ascribed to Sue three per cent, consols.
tonius, where it is laid, that bestdes his soni Lloyd's Cosset-
Sabine villa, he had one at Tibur ; houle 4,177 10 0
which, unless it be explained in this Annual Donations from
manner, Horace's own words, in the ditto 302 0 0
Xth Ode of the Second Book, would Ditto at the Anniyersary 4,142 3 6
he in contradiction to it. S'nce the Anniversary to
Ut tuforluntm,sic nos te, Celfe, fc- May 1, 1807, - : - 1,722 5 0
remusJ\ Baxter, who, from pure soli-
,ci'ude to give Horace all that belongs 25,194 3 6
to him, lends him likewise some os
his own, thinks he had here pecu The sum os 4!42l, a*, Gd. above
liarly in mind Tiberius and the rest staled, as received at the Anniversary,
of his cvmites ; and lays we solely out has been paid to the general account
-ofnrbanity, in order to. obviate harsh of the Hospital, and noi to the account
ness from' the moral he whispers in the of the. Eadowruent Fund, aud. uiay
itfof.] Report of the Committee of the London Hospital. 6ig
be considered as subject lo an Appor contribution? will complete the noble
tionment for the current expenses of work in which Inch progress has been
the Hospital as customary. A part ma '*; with this view, they have soli
only can be applied to the En cited many of (he Clefgv lo preach
dowment Fund, as soon as this Ci/m- sermons in their respective churches
mitiee have made an arrangement oh for the benefit of this Charitv, hoping^
that subject with the House Commit that when its still prefling wants are
tee aud Treasurer ol the Hospital. A more generally Known, this favour
balance of 21,0521. is therefore left io_ will be cheerfully accorded.
the Account of these Sublcr ption*. The Committee have availed them
Of the subscription for the E ndow selves of the kind offers of sev eral n eii
ment Fund, about 13,800!. has already cantile houses, tiV forward letters and
been paid lo the different Bankers, and papers to their establishments in the
the Treasurer has invested the following Eafi Indies ;' and they are preparing to
sums : • lend Addresses to the Governors of
In the purchase os 20001. the Presidencies' i here. Thev earnestly
three per cent, con hope, that the friends of the Hospital
sols, at 6211. - -■- - 1247 10 0 will continue their zealous exertions
Do. of 25 India Bonds 2562 10 8 to increase the number os indiv dual
Do. 4 Exchequer Bills, subscriptions among their acquaint
Of 5001. each - - - . 2008 8 9 ance.
Do. 6 Exchequer Bills, Thev feel confident, that it is only
of 10001. each - - - 6130 10 4 necessary to make the true situation of
this Charitv generally known, to, in
11,948 14 9 duce thole liberal and benevolent per
Since the date of this Report, a fur sons who. have not vet subscribed, to
ther Investment h:is bet n made of afford it their strenuous support ; and
50401. in the purchase of 80001. 3 per thev look forward with unabated con
cent. Consols, at s)3 per Cent. fidence to th ii period, when this spa
These munificent benefiictinns afford cious building wilt be enabled to re
trie strongest assurances of the public ceive the numerous poor objects who,
lan,ction to this important object ; but crowd to it every week for admittance.
notwithstanding the amount of the Thev , cannot close this Report,
sums asread v subscribed, it is indispen without pledging themselves to attend
sably necessary to declare, in the most with the utmost care to the due appro*
explicit terms, to the friends of ihe priation of this ?ddi'ioriat income, and
Hospital, and to the publ ck at large, to the adoption of such arrangements'
that the object in wew, and which is of œcnnomv and order, as are calcu
of (uch vast importance to the comfort lated ■ to make it productive of the
and relief of the lufferin.' poor of this grea'efl possible g'.'d to the distressed
metropolis and its neighbourhood, is ohiect- for whose relief ii is subscribed.
hut half attained ; it is necessarv to de The Committee, therefore, highly
clare, that ifbtbing fliort of 30001., per sensible til the encouragement which
annum additional income <an form a they have hitherto received, earnestly
permanent fund for the London Hos solicit the farther patronage of afl
pital ; loofcina forward, afer this ranks ol the community, hoping that
sum is realzied, to the an mini exertions thev will combine in co-operatio,n
of its friends at the Anniversary. w:th them in a cause of Co much im
From the liberality of the Citv of portance.
London, and Various Corporate B;>- Thomas Rowcroft, Chairman.
d es, to whom the Committee has pre
sented Petitions, much is expected ; Mr. Urban, July 1.
but thev beg to suggest, that a siring J H.WE just been reading a most
appeal should be made to those bene gr,icin|iis acknowledgment of a sold
volent persons who cannot, with con medal transmitted by 'he Royal Hn-
venience, give so l.irge a sum as thir'y roisie S'leie v to the illustrious Emperor
guineas; declaring, that everts sul•scrip- of al! the Rnffias Alexjuder the First.
/ton, however small, « HI he most graie- ■The teller is written by bis Majesty'a
fullv received. Your Committee cannot ow n han't, .and is an admirable trans
doubt, hut that numbers will follow cript of his own great and good mind.
the good example (et them by their 1 ffiou'd feel myself altogether un
countrymen, and that their beneficent worthy of a recent instance of his Im
perial
620 Amiable CharaBer os the Emperor of Russia. [July,
Perial Majesty's goodness and conde rejoice in the favourable opinion gene
scension 10 wards myself, if I did not, rally entertained of this work, as ap
through ihe fame channel, communi- pears from the large number of copiea
cate the following fh»rl account of a which have been abeadv circulated.
transaction which tends to shew, that His Imperial Majesty's character is
the letter alluded to is by no means a considerably heightened", by the consi
solitary proof of the goodness of deration Bnder what peculiar circum
heart which distinguishes the character stances he was pleased to no ice the
of that amiable Monarch. work: in question. On the point of
About two years ago, I ventured to setting out for his Army, the Christian
publish an edition of ihe New Testa Hero shews himself not inattentive
ment in iwo quarto volumes, with the to the concerns of Religion, or lo the
Observations of that excellent Divine, pretensions of thole that, in a very
the Rev. Mr. Burkiit, newly arranged, hmnble way, are desirous of promot
abridged and altered, rather in the ing its interests.
style and language, than the sentiments, May we not hope that, through the
of that pious author. blelling of Divine Providence, he will
1 was encouraged by some Ruffian return victorious and triumphant over
merchants (who assured me, thr>t his the great Adversary to human happi
Imperial Majesty would noi be offended ness, the disturber and destroyer of (he
at ii) to fend him a copy of ihe work : peace, good order, and tranquillity of
they being aware, that his Majesty is a the world ? , S. G.
reader of i tie English language, aud
also of the English Bible. Mr Urban, June 23.
I readily listened lo their advice; but THE following strictures claim a
little did 1 conceive that the effect place in your prelenl volume, as
would be such as my humble offering resulting from a review of the last:
actuallv produced ; until, a few weeks P. 87, col 1, I. antep. we' stiould, as
ago, I received a. message from the in p. 391, read " 7atlon."
friend who suggested my fending the P. 184, col. 1. 1.51. for "dean of the
book, requesting me to meet a gentle Arches," we should substitute " Chan
man lately returned from St. Peters cellor of London."
burg. P. 210, church notes from *• Crud-
On my arrival, he instantly congra well" appeared in pp. 2a"—24 of your
tulated me on his Imperial Majesty's volume for 1801.
gracious acceptance and approbation P 212, col. 1. 1. 17, 18. for '* rector
of my volumes ; and putting into my of Banhury" we should substitute " vi
hand a verv elegant and valuable pre car of Farnborough, co. Warwick."
sent, he delivered me a message from P. 30(). The fortunate discovery of
the Emperor, Ib Battering, as even to the Inlt portion of the " Monument of
enhance the worth of the precious the Cnjauds" supplies the defects, and
jewel itself, which accompanied it. corrects the inaccuracies in ihe inscrip
" His Imperial Majesty wimes you tions, as printed in p. 575 of your vo
. to wear this ring*, as a testimony of lume for 1788. In that for 1802, pp.
his Majesty's high opinion of the meri 1022—3, your indefatigablecorrespond-
torious labours of that pious work ent on the " Pursuits of Architectural
which you sent to St. Petersburg." Innovation" has not forgotten lo notice
I mav possibly be charged with va *• Holy Ghost Chapel."
nity in reciting (what must needs be P. 312, col. 1, i. 81.' The " period
very satisfactory to me) the gracious ical publication," here alluded to, is the
message delivered to me on this occa 78'hvolume of the PhilofophicalTrans-
sion , but I had rather submit to i his aclions, part ii. for 1788. where occur,
charge, than to the imputation of un in pp. Sly—237, " Observations on
grateful insensibility. I hope, how th.- Natural History of ihe Cuckoo; by
ever, that nothing will tempt me. Ki Mr. Edward Jenner;" who is probably
forget to whom the praise is due, if the since celebrated discoverer os the
anv of our well-intended undertakings sovereign antidote 10 the Small Pox.
are crowned with prosperity and good This p;irt os the Phil. Trans. for that
success : I have still greater reason to year was not noticed by vour reviewer.
The " Observations" are truly curious
* A large sapphire, enrichedi by a and interestina, and reflect no small
number of diamonds, of much value. credit on the sagacity of the ingenious
author,
l8o7-l Striflures on the'1 Gentle! jan's Magazine" for 1806. 621
author, whose " paper on ihe migration " British Critic," in March, 1803, has
pf birds,'' promised in, a note on p, 220, the following palfage relative to it:
would be a valuable 'acquisition, to any " Mr. ('oates has, with unwearied as- ,
pnblica'iou. siduiiy, gathered all that could prove
1 P 32C), col. 2, 1. 56, 57, we should interesting to the inhabitant* ol Head
read " Ssiddington ;" and refer to 1782, ing; to whom, we have nodoubi, his
pp 244—6 ; and io 1790, p. 481, col. 2. work will be extremeh grateful : and
P. 4gf>, rol 2 Charles Buthurjl no it contains also numerous articles verv
ticed in your Obituary for 1786', p. 622, useful lo general readers." But the
col. 2, as ''many \ears a respectable most characterise account of it seems
bookseller in Fleet-street," was jienetally to he that given bv the " Monthly Ker
reputed a baronet, though he did not viewer" in May 1804, in these words:
choose to assert his tide. "The author before us appears sub y
P. 502, col 2. The leuer relative to lo have comprehended the nature of his
the fao ed ring given hv Queen Eliza province, and to have ("pared no labour
beth to the Earl of EHex, appeared in which was requisite in order properly
1804, pp. 1017, 1018 The two copies to execute the undertaking in which he
will coirect each other. engaged. He is intiiled to praise, for
P 517, col. lfj. we should for his diligence in collecting facts, for his
" Pecock," substitute •* Pecnck." judgment in sorting them, for the
P. 521, col. I, 1.84. The name of accuracy with which he weighs them,
this ingenious anil! (hould not be con and for the fidelity and impartiality
cealed. He was a distinguished archi which throughout distinguish his nar
tect in the reign of George 1. and named rative." v
N.cholas Hawklinore ; of whom there P_ COO, col. 1, 1.24. " Dorsetshire"
is an account in the fourth volume of and ■' Sliroplhire" should change places.
Walpnle's Anecdotes, in which the P. 6'73, col, 1 , I. 37- " The Oracle"
print of this extraordinary machine is is flatly contradicted in No. 11,520, of
noticed. Two plates ol it were pub the " General Evening Poll," for
lished on Mav 17, 1739- Thursday, June 19, 1806, in the last
P. 530, col. 2. The manor-house at column. Utrum kvrurn?
Woolsthorp is engraved in 1778, p. 64. P. 770, col. 1, I. 41, for " Charles'*
P. 599,. col. 2 The historical work read " Christopher."
here mentioned has not surely, since its P. 774, col. 2. The marriage recorded
publication, met with thai nonce to in 1. 36, 37, 38, is believed to be a
which it is deservedly intiiled ; it never fiction.
having yet been reviewed by Mr. Ur P, 776. col 2, I. 46, 47. Should we
ban. The " British Critic has, rather not reail " at Tusmore, IVlorth Oxford*
hypercritically, charged 'he ingenious Jliire, William Fermor, Esq.' r See p.
author with a degree of affectation in 91, col. 2, U 20, of your current vo
his mode of spelling the word " Abbot," lume.
which is undoubtedly more according P. 781, col. 1, 1. 51, for "New'rV
to etymology than " Abbot," howefer we (hould substitute " Nettle" ; the
countenanced at present. The former latter b-ing. in consequence of an euaie
is authorized by those eminent anti bequeathed to him, the mime exchanged
quaries Billiop Tanner and Browne for that of " VanSittari," which he
Willis, throughout their works ; so that bore when married to the deceased.
it cannot now be deemed an innovation. Sec 1805. p. 874, col. 2.
While the " History of Reading" was P. 790 col. 2 I. 7. Read " Inm/s."
preparing for the press, ihe design was The' •' Infirmary Sermon," noticed in
dnlv commended in I79I. pp. 1001, this column, is registered in 1747, p:
1088 ; and at the end of the index to 548.
that year, the author's acknowlege- P. 79 1, col. 1, 1. 12. Read "col. 2."
ments are returned. He is attain noticed P. 802, col. 2, I 46, for " 179fi''
in 1792, pp. 8, 213, 1180; and in substitute " 179 ;." Two correspond
1801, p. 1123, he applies, in vour In ents in 1797, p- I 109, give an account
dex Indicaioruis.for information, which of Sir William Keyt.
he appears from p. 323 of his history to P. 808, col 2. I. 15, lrj. Read " was
have gained. A correspondent in 1802, sure must soon happen."—I. IS, " /hen
p 620. announces an opinion, that the his."—I. SI, '* I70f."—I. 22, for " Cy
subscribers to it " have very sufficient prus," substitute " spices." See p. QS6,
reason to be satisfied" with it : and the col. 1.
P. 942.
6li StriBures on (( Gent. Me t."— Medical Reform, f fuly,
P. Q42. The note here brings 16 The remaining strictures on your last,
Blind a somewhat similar mistake in the volifnie llilift be reieived lor another
title-page of the late Bishop Smallwell's month. In jour preletu volume, p.
Thanksgiving Sermon in l~S4,in which 182, coh I, I. 9 for " Cambridge" we
vie meet with " Thursday, July 30," (litluld (iiblti'ute " Oxford ;" and, in
instead of" Thursday, July SQ." p. 294, col. 2, I. 3fi, we should read
P. 'Q/71. The account here a-rt| in " Ncwcome," and in 1.34. " Bcau-
Ihe -next pa«e will correct !he mistake clerck." ScRUTAToft.
suggested in 'p. 1212, col. 2, i. IA, 'of
vour volume for 1805, relative 10 iliis Mr. URBAN, June 16.
much to he regretted Lad\, who in r"|"?HK liarl of Gosford'l cafe and
1806, p 985, col. 2, is erroneously JL Col. Riddels'i attempt to relieve
ftvied " the Hon." are but similar to things that occur
'P. 987, col. I, 1. If), " ihe Hon." daily with parties of less consideration.
should here aH'o be eraled. See p. 2(j4, Whilst maladies are conducting us by
col. 2, I: 37, 8,0; where relerences How degrees to a jtrave, what stiunld
might ha\ebeen made to 1798. p. 914, prevent a look round after any more
And to 1802, pp. 1003 4. 5. effectual means of cure? The phy
P. 087, col. 2. 1 [6, 17. Tue cri sician is urtred lo give an opinion; when
tique, here referred to, in p. 944 of vol. he has (poken honestly, and declared
Lull, appears from vour succeeding vo himself unable to Ihye, other persons
lume, p. 56.5," col. I. to have been ac-' (call ihem quacks, pretenders, or what
knowledged by Dr Horfleyas his own. you pleale) if they flatter us with far
The writer of the Letter in p. 856, col. ther aid, will he listened to. This is
2, of the firmer volume, relative to human nature; besides, the most en
his Charge, was ArchdVacon Tdwnfon; lightened rtien know that chance or ex
as he also «as of that relative 10 the periments h'Jve brought every remedy
letters to Piiefiley in 178s), p. 884. imn tile ; altd the molt extensive medi
P. 987, col. 9,'\. 37, for " nine" we cal abilities, respecting ah individual
should read " seventeen," as first primed patient, meet in that Doctor accidentally
in 1784; as the " Remarks," I. 38, veiled in the greatest number os the
Were in I7S6. The " Short Strictures same cases.
on Dr. Priestley," which form No. iii A labourer last SummerwaS scratched
'of 1 lie " Appendix" to the Seven'leeu near the (lo rh'tr hV a dog role thorn,
Letters, were cotiithuniaated to Dr. ca'led in the Country CaiiftrT-fairr.
Horflcy bv Dr. Townfon without his lv;ccr!ive paui ensued. The (kin fora
name' as appears- from Mr. Chnrlon's ciiisi tviatile distance puckered up In
■ imprfcilive account of the latter, pro- red lines, as rays from a centre, aud the
fixed td his posthumous volume (in ihe man roared for agoitv. Applications
Evangelical History. from a surgeon were unavailing: after
P. 087, col. 2, I. A0, for " dcah" hours of distress, an old w oman rubbed
we should subflklute " tr itdatioo.' powdered chalk and soft strap into an
P ()80, col. 1, i. 31. Toe Sermon ointment, covered the whole inflamed
for tin- Propagation of lire Gd'pel was part with it, ajid iherebj gave the poor
in I79.A, on Maith. mi. 18, l<); and fellow* immediate eale.
that for the Charily Children, i. 43, 44, The season is al hand when such
was in 1 7fj3 lurching briers are 10 do mischief; and
IMd. I. Afj. for '• ibid." rerwl " Kii." vour irt ioiaiion of ihis remedy may en
Hid. col 2, I. SA. A circular Letter title the GeTulfsnan's Magazine to
to the Clergy of 'tv Diocese of Roches thanks for some pretty lady's finger
ter is pri'O'ed in 1798, po, 386, 7, 8. perhaps laved from a surgeon's knife.
P. 996, 7. Your hiolical corre But, whilst etery man has an un
spondent will probably receive full sa doubted right to leek heahh where it
tisfaction, if he will have recomfe to the may he found, I would alk, what the
" Chronological Di deration" prefixed lalked-of fried: eta1 reform shall enforce?
Jo " The Evaogel cal History and Har Are the men bred to that profession to
mony, bv Mattrie* Pilkinglon. LI, B. be bound, not to interfere, e. S. an apo«
Loud. 1747- "folio. See also your sub thecarv with a doctnr, a druggist with
sequent pp. 1 1 27, 8. an apothecary, a'rfiah-mMwife with a
P. 1000, 7. Another biblical cor surgeon, the la'tcr with any of the
respondent m.i\ be referred lo p. 633 of aforesaid worthies'? Antl /et Col. Rid-
your volume ior 1803. dell or my old woman may come in,
super-
1807.] Architectural Innovation, No. CX. 64.3
supersede all legitimate prescriptions," a new House of Lords. The Tapestry
cheat the undertaker of his hope, aud of the d seat of the Spanish Armada,
enable the patient to start for a new wiih all the rest of the furniture from the
race. • . • old House, is removed into the present
A very serious aggravation would" one ; aud as. it, is an exceeding lofty
be made to sickness, could I mit at interior, the Tapestry, in order that it
will employ, any one to raise me from might run with tjie line of cornice, is
its bed ; and moll likely mv choice now placed many feet higher than
might never fall upon this or that par heretofore (too high indeed for mi
ticular physician, endowed with all the nute investigation). The intermediate
qualifications of Dr. Harrison's well- space, from the bottom of the'Tapeliry
meant reform. Dr. H. must discover, to the floor, made out with painted
in the matter of public opinion, a dif canvas, in imitation of common houle-
ficulty beyond his reach, and beyond wainteoting.
the reach of any Parliament ; for, Interior of the Painted Chamber.
however the Legilj.ature at his desire Sad reverse of its firmer, and in truih
may hamper the children of Escnla- of its latier (late (described in mv first
pius, every seventh Ion of a seventh survey.) A' the East end, the win
son. cum muttis a!iia, .(all of them self- dows are deprived ot their mullious ;
dubbed Doctors, although not so high and -two new dividing deal frames, to
ly graduated,) will put in claims, hold thr glazing, are let up instead of
claims admitted and cherished, for a full then). The other windows untouched.
share of practice. VV. I5. Some few feet of the Western extre
mity of the. Chamber partitioned oH for
Architectural Innovation. a thoroughfare. The curious chim
> No. CX. neypiece being 'aken away (more pro
Royal Palace, Westminster. bable destro '. ed), a mean modern one
(Continued from p. 534.) supplies its place. The Tapeflry, our
INTERIOR of the Great Hall*. enchanting Tapestry, removed, aud the
A The door- way (temp Charles I.) wall covered with common wrapper
on the Bill fide near the Southern ex stice;s of blue piper ; and that this
tremity of ihe Hall, flopped up. In substitute might be done as easy, and
lieu of this thoroughfare, two new no doubt as clu-ap as possible, the
doorways have been cut through the many decorations, and in, particular
Weft fide of the Hall ; that North the beautiful ornaments al the spring
wards is for the convenient access to ing of the arches of the fide windows,
the new coffee-houses on this part of li ne been all pared away, or otherwise
the exterior of the building ; theoiher, ,g.o' rid of.
Southwards, is for a ready pass into ft may be proper in this place to
Old Palace Yard. These cuttings advert to the circumstances that have
through the general wall, and the new attended "the fate of this extraordinary
avenues attached to them, have been Tapestry (so minutely detailed in .my
done without reference to the Archi fust, fin wy). When it became gene
tecture of the structure : and the work rally understood thai it was to be taken
people have at. the fame time ei'.her from the situation it their occupied, an
destroyed or walled up several curious Ar. ill (if distinguished abilities, and ho
antient windows doors, &c. All ibis is noured >vi:h t he tiile ors Royal Acade
fariherin proof, thai nothing must stand mic an, full fraught with the import
in the way of fascinating improvement ; ance of the vast assemblage of' objects
even the much-loved stalking horse, therein contained, delivered-, in a full
nefinraiion, is put on the left, or dark meeting of the Roval Academy, his
fide of neceffzty, on these occasions sentiments relative to the merits of the
The new door-ways present to rhn in work, and its inexhaustible store of
terior of the Hall no more than com coltureic information ; and at the tame
mon square-tieaded appropriate coHee- time submitted the following proposi
house, sliding doors, comfortably co tion : That they, 35 members of the
vered with baise, and Jiadde.d with Institution, should present a netitiou to
brass headed nails ! the Throne, humbly requesting that
Court of Requests. Converted into the said Tapestry might be graciously
heliowed on them, in order to be pre-
* Consult, , as. usual, »oU LXX p. 33, lerved in the Academy, t ere to re^
»f this Miscellany. i main as a lasting memorial of imitative
Cull,
624 Architectural Innovation, No. CX. [July,
skill, atid at the (ame lime form, from those drawings made by my friend J.
the nature of the performance, a study C. in the year 17QQ, from ihe several
let expand aud stimulate the minds of Tapestries previous to their removal,
thole Arutts devoted to ihe pursuits of will at a future dav, it is not improba
hilioric composition. Tlie whole body, ble, he held in Ibnu* estimation.
without, one dissenting voice, eagerly Interior of St. Stephen's Chapel and
filtered into the laudable proposal , and its Cloisters. We are >iow arrived at
for hwilh a Petition was drawn up, the nioli important part of the present
and bv lite President himself ptelen'ed f 1 1 r■■ e ■ , undertaken, in truth, that
lo their Kova! Patron. the (late of these particular objects
■ When thi* Tapestry was lorn down ntijjht be brought to public attention
in under lo its removal, ii cannot be wilh more estect ; therefore. 1 l»e sub
othrrwiie concluded, but that ihe jects gone over may be understood as
hands of ihule. low and ignorant f pi introductory matter to what will now
rn s who wait al In nova I ion s> call 10 come inlo dilcnlrinn, under the hete
flv on hairock and destruction, on rogeneous beads, Restoration, Innova
tins occasion wrought inucli damage tion, Improvement. Necessary Addi
in tlraggiiitf it down to ilie vaults tions, ami Necrjsary Dilapidations.
unties' the chamber, whsre ii w;js Norm Tide 01 the Cloisters. Cleared
to he. deposited. Report lavs, that of ihe menial apartments. East fide.
at one time, while ihe Tapestry lav in Untouched ; remaining as in niv first
the Cotton-garden, these very harpies survey, in its original order. South
to whom the care of this treasure 'was fide. Untouched; all the requcjiionary
commuted were about to throw the offices still rilling this whole range.
whole mass into the river, to get rid Well fide. Cleared of the menial
at once of Ib much " filth" and " rags:" offices, in like manner as on Norlh
Well, in these vaults the Tapestry re side, and the outlet to Old Palace-yard
mained safely stowed for about, a year, stopped up. A fire-place has been in
when, from damps, and surrounding troduced.
dirt and rubbish, much injury still ac The exterior fronts of the Cloister next
crued to the miserable remains. Since the area, untouched, excepting on
which period this Tapestry has heen ihe North, where to the gallery a bow-
removed into one of ihe ruined ground- window has been poshed out ; and, let-
floor offices to ihe House of Lords, ling aside the innovation, noi without
where, in one prodigious heap, it now due attention to the Architecture of
exists. the scene. The small Chapel in the
Interior of the House os Lords. En area is changed from a scullery into a
tirely dismantled of its furniture, Housekeeper's room; one remove, it
which, as already observed, now de is confessed, from the lowest degree
corates ihe new House in ihe Court of os lay perversion of a place so sacred.
Requests. The walls covered with The interior has undergone several re
common blue paper, and a painted storations, which may be itemed in
canvas dado, &c. This place is used this way. The West end, heretofore a
for occasional Conferences. blank, being about to be altered, a
Interior of the Prince's Chamber. discovery, we are told, was made of
Dismantled also, aud is become a mere an open-worked screen with a door
lumber-room. way. This screen is on view, and
A portion of the South end of the forms the West end of the Chapel. The
Conn of Requests has been poitioned coppers, ovens, sinks, &c. removed ;
eff fora Ilobing-room for his Majesty and as one division of the design and
(such being ihe use of the Prince's a few vestiges of ihe nlullions of the
Chamber) ; and hercis seen the furniture windows remained, notwithstanding all
of thePrirwe's Chamber, disposed about the havock and change, and bv a refer
in much the some fashion as there dis ence 10 an engraved view of this inte
played. TheTapefirv belongingthereto, rior in a restored state, by J. Carter,
the most excellent of all the collection, as published bv ihe Society of Antiqua
has been, however, cut into bits ; and ries 1795, a general restoration has
small portions are stuck about 10 patch been attempted. Ii may be laid, that
up holes and corners, not occupied by from so many documents, theie could
a painted dado similar to that in the be no danger of error in t'ie undertak
new House of Lords. - ing. But, as some malign influence
Hence it may be considered, that ever attends the vain pursuits of mor-
Northwestern
University
Library
GentMati. July adoy.tt.U.p. 62.
1807.] ArchiteSiural Innovation.—Loi\g\it\\\\tTomh,\ 625
tal man, plain transnms have been taken by one Dineler, who accompanied
run half way up the windows to their the first Duke of Beaufort in his progress
complete disfigurement, and without through Wales into Ireland, -still pre
the molt dillant authority from amient served in the library a t Bad min ton. Now,
example. This stroke nrufl.be set down not to mention the difference between
to the account as an improvement. And the arms on the shield of this statue
further, a fire-place has been made on (Ar. oil- a chief Az. 3 erodes pattee
the North fide; another improvement filche of the field) and those acknow
also. The groined cieling untouched, ledged to have been borne by Richard
it being with the capitals to the' co Strongbow on Ms shield (Or, 8 che-
lumns in a |siate of good repair in vronels Gules) the story raised on this
1791. figure, if without seeing the drawing,
We all know, that manv people, one may admit its evidence, is one of
and in particular profi-liiunal men; are more instances of the misrepresenta
in the habit of calling our antirnt in tions of our antient monuments.
teriors, " The dark and gloomy piles I lliall treat you with the correction
of ignorance and superstition." This of such a misrepresentation by the hand
humour for giving plealant epithets of Sir ll.'s faithful draftsman and your
arises most certainly from prejudice, as it old correspondent J. C. nearer home in
is evident that the.windows, or openings our own island, at Overlon Longue-
for light, to such works, were fbabund- ville, near Peterborough ; where Bp..
ant, that no more than a very narrow Kennett was shewn a stone figure of
pier was constructed between each, by a knight lying prostrate in armours
way of place for the characteristic but with what they called his puddings of
tress, as is to be seen in the neighbour (•uts twisted round his left arm; "of
ing Abbey church, &c. &c. which a tradition was kept up among
This phantom of imagined obscurity, the people there,that this was the body of
and its abhorred tendency, however, the Lord Longueville who went out to '
appears only in certain places, arid on meet the Danes coming to destroy that
eertaio occasions ; for here, in St. Ste place; and in his first conflict with
phen's lightsome and elegant Cloister, them, had such a wound in his belly
the various windows have been stop that his., guts fell put : hut he took
ped up to two thirds of their heights, them up in his hand, and wrapt them
and filled with opaque or 'ground round ihe,. wrist of his left arm ; and
glass, surrounding coloured orna fousihl-oti 'with his right hand till he
mented compartments in the lioman killed the Danish King ; and soon after
or Grecian llvle. In short, the most sell himself. The improbability of this
sombre hue is every where diffused, fact, dated by Mr. Peckforpm'A.D. 87(V
and the moft delightful architecture so strongly struck the late Mr. Cole, that
of these Cloisters uttetly shut out, he wrote in the margin os his Deside
and hid from view 1 rata Curiosa, VI. 1 9, "Where will you
An Architect. meet with tombs so antient J" The
(To he continued). drawing (PI. II.) will at once unravel
ihe mystery, and shew that the supposed
Mr. Urban, " June I. bowels were a part of the armour.
YOUR readers of laste and lovers of After this discussion, the English and
antiquity will rejoice with me, Irish cases-win not be thoughtdissimilar.
that Sir R. C. Hoare has begun his A sractureofan uncertain date in the sta
publications, and continued them with tue of young Strongbow may have fug*
so much spirit. In the Introduction gested the tale of his death, or of the
to his Tour in Ireland, which I have death of any other youth who, like
jost perused with much pleasure, he several instances in our own country,
recites the Irish tradition, that Richard, may have been laid by the side of his
Earl of Clare, surnamed Strongbow, father, as al Berkeley. Such a tradition
had a son, whom, for supposed cow is neither so extensive nor so invete
ardice in giving way in tile conflict at rate as the skeleton under a figure in a
Odrane, he caused lo be put to death living state pasting for a f.ist of 40
by his body being cut oft in the middle ; days, in the enthusiastic imitation of
a circumstance expressed in his figure onr Saviour's fail.
by the fide of his father's monument in Whatever may be the eause os young
Christchurch, Dublin, in a drawing Strongbow's death, the place of his
Gbut. Mao-.. July, 1807.
626 Ffos affeBed by the Sun.—" Ignoramus." [July,
•r his father's burial remains unset- Mr. Urban, March SO.
tied. ^ Leland determines it to be in /~\N broking into the Monthly Ma-
the-Chapicr>houfe at Gloucester. Tin- \J aazine for the present month of
tern Abbey continued to shew it June, 1 find a writer, -under the ug-
me from 1761 to 1807, when it was namre of D. M. P. vtry kindly, in p.
recovered - from the rubbish and 410, commnnicating to the publick
brambles by the «ood laste of the some particulars relating t» the come-
then Duke of Beaufort. The two bo- dy of Ignoramus. His principal ob-
dies are, said to have contained more ject is, as he himself declares, 10 flat*
bones than belonged to two persons, an anecdote ; namely, that Mr. Rug-
But, as his shield exhibits no arms to gle had made use of the Trappolaica
discriminate it, we may refer so far to of Battislu Porta ; and for this he giv es
the authority of L land. One of his- a reference to the Harleian manuscripts,
family certainly ivas the founder of this All that he has said, with the ex-
beautiful bouse of religion. ception only of au error which 1 (hall
' The Longueville dress may bear presently notice, had, together with a
some resemblance to that of Ross, in great deal more on the subject, and au
the Temple Tchurch, supposing the extract verlalim from the manuscript,
cape of the habit drawn down to enter he thus refers to, been already disclosed
the hands-: the furebats of both figures bv me to the wprld in a life of the Au-
are in a style of superior elegance, thor, which 1 had in the year 1787
Yours, &c. D. H. prefixed to an edition of the comedy
*i itself, with noies, (hen published by
Mr. Urban, Worcester, June 25. me; ami it is evident, from the mate-
IT is a curious and somewhat extra- rials tiled for his facts, that he could
ordinary fact, that the common not have so exactly followed my track,
fly, which sports about with so moch if he had not leen and made use of my
seeming sprighilinef's in the rays of the • edition. That he has not spoken from
sun, whose presence seems almost necel- original materials is certain, from the
fary to its very existence ; yet, when following circumstance, which will at
confined in it only for a few minutes, once abundantly (hew his ignorance,
is.deprived of its life. 1 was led to the and how little his assertions can be re-
knowledge of this singular fact, by ac- lied on.
cidentally turning a wine-glass over a Speaking of the translations of Ig-
fly that had rested in a window where noramus, he mentions one by R. Co-
the fun (hone ; when, to my great as- drington in 1662, and another by Ed-
tonistWent, in a few minutes 1 per- ward Ravenfcroft, under the title of
ceived the fly violently agitated ; and "The English Lawyer," in 1678.
fallingon its back in seeming strong con- Both these weie noticed by mej but
vulfions, it died. I frequently repeated to them he has' thought fit to add a
the experiment, but found the refills third, which he describes as forming a
invariably the fame. Thinking the thin folio, and which appeared in
fun's rays in pasting through the glass 1736, with the following title, " Igno-
mightincreaseihelieat,andbethecause, rami Lamentatio super legis comrnunis
I inclosed a sty, in a small box covered tranjlutionem ex Latino in Angticum."
with a course gauze, and exposed it to Whether his ignorance of Latin in-
the fun ; bijt yet it was destroyed. But dneed him, from finding the words
if, at the moment when it stems to be Ignorami and tranjlutionem in the
making its last struggle, it should be above tit'e, to suppose it a translation
shaded from ?the fun, it will quickly . of the comedy, 1 cannot tell ; but it is.
recover iss farmer gaiety, and may again plain he could never have seen it, for
serve for the experiment. This is the the tract to which he refers, and a copjr
more extraordinary, because, when not of which is now before me, is not •>
confined, they ^will .continue a long comedy, but a poem of 150 lines,
time in the fun "without any apparent written on occasion of the Act of Par-
inconvenience. Perhaps, by inserting liament, passed that vear or thereabouts,
the above in your interesting Miscel- directing that all Law proceedings in
lany, some os your^hilosophical natu- future should be in English : nor is it
ralists will explain the cause, which a translation, but in Latin, the origin
no doubt will greatly please many of nal language in which it was written,
your readers, and- much oblige as will appear from the first six lines.
Yours, &c. T. S-LV-ST-K. which I hero scad you :
"Eft
1807.] Comedy of " Ignoramus.1'—Heraldic Observations. 627
" Eft currens mundus dcmens, ego James was created Earl of Ormond in
credo, rotundus, [Frenchum t 1328. Query, as the family are never
Konne eft Nonfensum veterem discardere designated by the title of Carrick, and
Nonne peregrinum scelus Utlagare Lali- rank as Earls from 1328p not 1S15,
num t - [guns .' was that tide forfeited f
Et duo J)i/lringas super ambas facere lin- 1 am, &c. G. V.
lex fi mutetur, mihi Prœmunire videtur.
Non dat eontentum jurabo Parliamm- Mr. Urban, July 10.
,' turn." A PROFESSED admirer of the
As the writer above-mentioned has science of Heraldry requests per-
invited other bibliographical corre miTion 10 enter his protest, in your
spondents to furnish farther particulars, valuable work, against an innovation
1 hereby inform himandthepublick, that visible to almost every observer of car«
a complete account of the author, Mr. ria&es, &c. in the present day.
Ruggle, and his comedy of Ignoramus, How exceeding irksome must it then
as far as could be traced from the in appear to one who anxiously wishes to
formation of his only descendant then continue the appropriate blazonry ap
and (iill living, and from the evidence of pertaining to the different ranks in this
manuscript authorities, will be found United Kingdom free from abuse and
in the edition of the comedy of Ignora the assumption of unwarranted , and
mus, published by me in octave in false decorations, contrary to .the laws
1787 ; some copies of which may dill of arms.
be had of Messrs. Nichols, the present An error is crept in of late in the
Printers and Publishers of the Gentle mode of displaying mottoes, connected
man's Magazine. with armorial bearings. Instead of
John Sidney Hawkins. their being borne at the bottom ps the
shi,eld, on a picturesque escros, in con
Mr. Urban, July 7. formity to the antient correct usage,
WILL any of your Correspond or sometimes over the crest, as com
ents inform me bow the arms monly the cafe in Scotland ; a circle is
of a wife are to be borne, who is an erroneously painted, inclosing the arms,
heiress to the estate of her mother, but on which the motto is written ; which
whole father has issue male by a second method should be strictlv confined to
wife? Should the arms of the lady's our orders of Knighihood, viz. Garter,
mother be borne on an escutcheon of Bath, Thistle, and St. Patrick, which
pretence, without her paternal arms ? encircle the arms of the respective
An instance in the Peerage will best Knights, with the motto of the Order.
elucidate my meaning: the prelent Vis Sometimes, to heighten the absurdity, a
count Southwell married Miss Berke buckle is introduced,, thereby intrench*
ley, whose mother was the daughter ing on the order of the Garier. . ,
and heiress of S'r William Compton, Yours, &c. H. C..B.
and whose property is now polleiled
by Lady Southwell. Her Ladyship's Mr. Urban, Har-kmy, JuneS6.
father has, however, male issue by a ACORRESPONDENT, whose sig
second wife. Should hit Lordship bear nature is A. H. p. 417, expresses
on the escutcheon of pretence the arms his disapprobation os some positions
of Compton solely, or th« arms of which he has extracted front a final1
Berkeley quartered with Compton ? volume which 1 have lately published,
To both methods there appear objec intituled " A Summary View of the
tions. Lady South'.vell unquestionably Evidence os the Chiistian Revelation."
bears Berkeley, quartering Compton, 1 have there asserted, p. US, that " the
but whether her Lord can bear on an Law of Moses as a system os positive
escutcheon the arms of Beikeley, a fa- . institutions and mental discipline has
mil v still surviving in the male line, is answered its end : it it dead : it is
-what 1 wish to ascertain. If his Lord abolished. The believer in Christ has
ship bears Compton only on the es no more to do with the institute of
cutcheon, any Herald, 1 conceive, in Moses, as a rule of life, than with the
succeeding times, would lay from the precepts of Pythagoras, or Confucius ;
anus, <hal his Lordship married an or, to use the still more energetic illus
heiress of the name of Compton. tration os the Apoftle, than a living
Edmund Butler was created Earl of man with a dead carcase."
Carrick in 1315, aud his eldest son J have read your Correspondent's ad
dress
$2.$ ' Mr'. T. Belsham on the Mosaic Institute. [July,
dress with much attention ; but, I con- tion. This is a doctrine so explicitly
fess that, whether it be owing to the asserted, and so strongly insisted upor\
obscurity of his expression, or to the hy the Apostle, that I am surprized
dullness of my own apprehension, I do that your Correspondent soould enter-
not, exactly see where the jet of his ob- tain a doubt about it. But, perhaps,
jection lies. What 1 mean to assert is, he may not have been in the habit of
that the Christian Religion, as it is re- paying much attention to the epistolary
presented in the Christian Scilptures, parts of the New Testament, and may
js a complete code of faith and prac- not be familiar with the Apostle's
lice : and that a person might be a phraseology. In the very passage to
very sincere, enlightened, and useful which 1 nave referred, in the sentence
Christian, who had never read the books upon which your Correspondent "ani-
of the Old Testament : that no precept, ntadveris, Rom. vii. I —6; the" A po s-
whether ceremonial or moral, is obli- tie comparts the connexion between '
gatory upon Christians, because it is the Jewish nation and their law to
contained in the Mosaic institute: the conjugal relation ; in which one of
that of this ceconomy all the cere- the panics, namely, the Law, being
jnonial institutions are entirely ab- dead, the other party, viz. the Jewish
rogated ; but that its theological doc- Nation, is now at liberty lo marry
trines, being eternal truths, and its again, that is, to embrace the Christian
moral precepts, being of universal dispensation* No figure can more
obligation, are, as such, received into clearly express the entire abolition of
and constitute an essential part of the the Jewish ceconomy even to the Jews
Christian ftvligion, and are, for this themselves. And in the close of the
reason, binding upon all believers in fame chapter the Apostle represents
Christ ; and not because they were de- the Jenisli Law under the notion of a
liven ;!' from Mount Sinai, or enjtraven dead carcase fastened to a living man,
by the finger of God upon tablets of from which he is released by the grace
stone. And if a person believing in of the Gospel. But it would be endless
the divine mission of Christ upon thi to produce quotations from the writings
evidence of his resurrection acts up to of Paul to prove that the Jewish œco- '
the spirit of his Christian profession, 1 nomy is completely annulled,
would not hs'litate to acknowledge The Decalogue consists chiefly of
him as a Christian ; even though, on moral precepts; which, being of uni-
account of the difficulties which abound versa! obligation, are adopted into the
in the Jewish scriptures, and which, Christian code. A" far as they are of
perhaps, he mav not have had an a ceremonial nature, they are abolished
opportunity of discussing, he should with the rest of the ritual law. The
-not be able to satisfy his mind concern- Jewish sabbath of the seventh day is
ing the divine legalist! of the Jewish superseded by the' Christian festival of
law-giver ; or, at least, that the Pen- the Lord's day ; and though all allow
tateuch contains a perfectly correct ac- that, it is the iticji (pen fable duty ' of
count of divine communications. children to honour their parents, sew,
In my judgment 'the objections 1 suppose, under the Christian difpen-
againft stv divine legation of Moses ad- faiioti, would expect to live a day the
mit of a very fair and satisfactory solu- longer on that account. What your
tion ; but X have no right to expect Correspondent means by the broad as-
that the solutions which are Tatissac- sertion, " that there is not one law of
tory to me, .will, in every instance, be the whole ten that is not at this instant,
satisfactory to others ; and, -therefore, I by universal consent, the governing
do not' (eel myself authorised to deny code of all nations," and what evidence
the hOhourable. title of Christian to'one he mav have of the fact, he best knows ;
who seriously and practically believes to me it appears to exceed all compre-
5n the mission and the resurrection of henfion and belief.
Jesus, because he thinks differently Your correspondent observes, " that
from me cqncerning the legation of the Decalogue forms a part of the Li-
Moses, and holds art opinion which I turgy at the Chapel where I have the
'judge to be erroneous. honour to officiate on the Sunday ap-
' That Christ fulfilled the Law, is a propriated to the Communion.'' It
fact which admits of no dispute; arid, does,so: and it is there rehearsed as
if St. Paul is to be credited, he, bv his the law which God gave to the Jiws.
death, terminated the Mosaic dispense- -Jt is succeefled by the summary of
i8o7-] " Londinium Redivivum."—York Cathedral. 619
Christian morality which Jesus gave to os Hamlake, Trufbut, and Belvoir, ac
his difci|>!es, to love God with all their cording to the decision of James 1. ;
hearts, and their neighbour as them who awarded the anrient Barony of
selves. In all this I lee mi contradic linos without anv addition to William
tion to the doctrine which 1 have ad Cecil, and the Earl of Rutland to enjoy
vanced npon.the authority- of the Apes- , the title of Lord lions of Hamlake, &c.
-
tie, concerning 1 abolition
the i i . of the The present- Earl of Castle Stewart i«
■Jewish Law, , the lineal descendant of Andrew Slew-
Your correspondent adds, " I have art, Lord Ocliiliree, first Lord of the
strong fears and hopes that! have mil- Bedchamber to James VII. of Scot
understood you." 1 cannot return this land ; who, with, the approbation of
compliment : whatever it may mean, as the King and the content of his eldest
I cannot in this instance understand him son, the Master of Ochiltr.ee, Ibid hii
at all. I hope, however, that I have BarOny to bis cousin, Sir James Stew
now expressed myself upon .the subject art, Eirl of Arran, who thereon as
of your correspondents animadversion^ sumed the title oi" Ochillree. As the
in a manner not easy to be misunder Earl of Arran's issue is. now extinct,
stood by any one who is really desirous Qu. " Does the Barony revert again to
of information. As to those who are tjie representative of the above Andrew
determined to eavil, nothing which I Stewart, Lord Ochillree, who resigned
could say would give them satisfaction ; the title, ami was created in 1518 Baroa
nor can any thing which they may Castle Stewart, in Ireland, and whole'
write give me a moment's uneasiness.. lineal descendant is the present Earl of
Relying upon your candour for the in Castle Stewart?"
sertion of the defence where you have Yotus, &c. A Constant Reades.
admitted the charge, 1 am, Mr. Ur
ban, Yours, &c. Present State of York.
Thomas Belsham. (Continued from p. 2Q8 )
The Cathedral.
Mr. Urban, F.nji Bourn, June 24. PLAN. Tne usual form, a Croli.
sN returning thanks, through the At the West front three entrances ;
r medium of vour agreeable Miscel the principal one is into the centre Aile
lany, to J. P. Malcolm, for the amuse of the Nave, and the other two en
ment conveyed in bis " Londinium trances are into the fide Ailes of diito.
liedivivum," I heg leave to mention A fourth entrance is into the South
what I conceive to be a few deficiencies. transept; and a fifth dt o into the.
In his elaborate description of West North transept at its North West aor
minster Abbey no mention is made re gle, being the original pass into the
specting the height of the Lantern, the Church from the Archbiuinp's Palace.
Western Towers, »r the Turrets of the In the Nave aud i*> licle> Ailes there
North Front ; I rather think, also, are not any particular1 decorations in
that the dimensions of the Cloisters are point of arrangement, excepting the
not given. Monument of Archbishop Roaet.. In
The^ltiturle of the Cross on the sum the Transepts, the several iinall Chapels
mit of St. Paul's is stated by him to be occupying the Eastern Ailes, io disiifl^
fix feet. On. " Does he mean the whole guilhed by means of rich open-work
Cross, or only to the intersections ?" oak screens, have been of late obli
I have also observed, in perusing his terated ; the (aid screens being, like
entertaining work, that while the wise, either destroyed, or thrown in
length and breadth of the several lumber-holes, &c. It is to be pre
Churches is carefully and minutely sumed, that if bare, walls in one situa
given, the height of their respective tion are to be preferred to appiopriate
. Steeples is entirely neglected. appendages, by way of furniture and
It is true Hx suntnngæ; but a satis necessary accommodation, we (hall
factory solution of these remarks would shortly see the Choir screens, stalls,
be highly gratifying to Senex. &c. &c. got rid of also, that the fa-
brick may become like an empty houle,
Mr. Urban, June 7. an object for speculation in what way
PERMIT me to enquire whether, a new possessor may vnprove, beautify,
by the late decision relative to the and frelh set out, ajry particular place
Barony-of Roos, the Duke of Rutland therein, in order there to perform Di
retain} the .secondary Barony of Roos vio? Service, At the South Well an-
V
630 Present State of the Cathedral of York. [July,
gle of the South Transept, is the en way broke through the South wall, no
trance into a small building of two more than a common thoroughfare into
stories, which building is attached to the Church; The inner or second Vestry
this part of the Transept. The lower is the place wherein the Dignitaries ar*
story contains certain Records ; the robed, Chapter business jlone, and
upper llorv is the Library belonging to where the sepulchral relirks ofthe an-
the Cathedral ; a light, cheerful, com tieut Archbishops *, and other curiosi
modious chamber, and fit for such an ties, are deposited. There is a Cham
occasion ; being ready and at hand for ber over this Vestry. The pass to the
all those who may occasionally repair Treasury, salely vt ailed up, and which
there for study or informal'.>n. At the office is now used as a Chapel for early
North East angle of the North Tran prayers : an entrance 10 it has been
sept, is the entrance into the avenue cut through the wall, at the East side
leading to the Chapter-house. This of the South Transept.
avenue is rather singular, running The entrance to the Choir is through
first Northward ; and then, suddenly one of the most superb Choir (creens
turning to the East, forming two lines in the kingdom. The arrangement
at right angles, pastes immediately of the Choir, as usual, in stalls, arch
into the Chapter-house ; and, what bishop's throne, pulpit, open screens
is deserving of note, this house, parting off the fide Ailes, &c. The
taking an octangular figure, does not Feretory (a place for shrines) behind
stand parallel with the lines of the ave the High Altar, with the said High
nue, or with the main building, but Altar, destroyed some lew years back ;
inclines some degrees to the South. hence the Choir becomes lengthened,
As no Church business is ever trans and has its termination in the fine per
acted in this splendid erection, it is at forated screen, which gave the East
present convened into an office for the end of the Feretory. Eastward of the
Clerk of the Works, wherein 10 make Choir is, as usual, Our Lady's Chapel,
his working drawings necessary in the which has been thrown open (many
restorations of the Weft front, now years pull) to the side Ailes; doing
going on. The avenue has its uses away in some degree the very idea of
also, being filled with the finished this part of ihe general arrangement.
pieces of new masonry preparatory to This most transcendent portion of the
their being wanted in the said restora fabric is little estimated, otherwise than
tions. In fact, it is a convenient us being a proper sort of repository for
Mason's shew-room. In the Ailes on timber, masons' templets and moulds,
each side of the Choir, are entrances the Church engine, &c.
"(down flights of steps) into a curious The late Lord Burlington, wholived
Crypt, consisting of three AiletWeft and in the davs of contempt snd aversion
East, and sons Ailes North and South manifested against our Architectural
arid which is immediately under the Antiquities, mull needs, by wav of
Eastern half of the Choir. Against the giving a lasting proof of his ama/cur
West wall of the Ciypt is a reservoir of skill in Grecian architecture, defiga
■water, and near it a curious lavatory. and bring about the execution of a new
This" place serves for the storing up of Pavement in that style, as it is called,
liullding articles, remnants of rich 01k which extends over the Nave, tran
fcreens, &c. In the above North Aile septs, the choir, its ailes, &c. Our
is a door-way, once entering into a Lady'sChapel. being deemed, no doubt,
Chapel on the ex'erior of the Church, a sjxit insignificant and of no inlerrjl
which has been destroyed many years. by the Noble Proseffionalifl, has been
In the aliove South Ai'eis adoorway en left unsullied, as the old pavement re
tering into the outer, or first Vestry, and mains much in its original state.
from thence is a pass into the second When it is considered thatourChurches
Vestry, communicating with the Trea were formerly paved and embellished
sury. Thesf ihree rooms are constructed with small square ornamented tiles,
out of an elevation on the exterior ofthe • embossed or indented grave - stones,
•Chi.rch on this side. In the first Vestry rich and delicate brasses, &c. ; surely
is a beautiful small Conduit * (in'full re- we, who profess to admire the works of
• qtiisilidn) ; and it may he observed that our remote Artists, must behold the
' this room is now, by means of a door- Noble Lord's enormous, unmeaning,
* Engraved in Antient Architecture, * Taksn cut of their cofins. , . _
masonic
1 807.] Duelling.—Anecdotes of the Author of " Chryfal." 63 1
masonic contortions, vulgarly called In a past volume the author of
•• Frelts," as obje6ls at once frightful, " Chryfal, or the Adventures of a
•ml diametrically opposite toall the rules Guinea," was an object of enquiry.
ofjuli proportion aud due symmetry. He was an Irish gentleman named
Antiquarians have in this innova Johnson, and lent over to the Temple
tion another deep cause of regret ; that to study the law. Conviviality, and a
is, the sacrilegious despoil of graves turn to satirical observations, in time
containing the ashes ol the renowned left him but few friends ; although,
characters of the sacred pile, the re having been employed in the concerns
moval or utter extermination of their of a petty German State preserved for
memorials, and thole other professional him a certain countenance amongst
excesses ever gone into in such a public men in the great offices. This
business as new paving a Church *. connexion had enabled him to serve
It may he allied, Whv on these many ; and a countryman, the respect
occasions is such unbounded liberty able Luke Sparks, of Covent Garden
given for licentious havock ? or, why Theatre, bad a son appointed through,
is one particle of decaying; rponality his influence lo Bombay as a writer
suffered to lie disturbed ? But these are (I am speaking of more than fifty years
questi cms, I fear, which can not rationally, pall; when these appointment! were
or con(iileollv with religious principles, not sought after as al present). In the
be correctly or hnueltlv answered. decline of life he naturally turned to
' ' J c. that part of the world for aflillance
(To be continued; the Wbst Front where lev eral of his planting had grown
iu our next.) rich ; and, probably, promised himself
especial help from an old Temple ac
Mr. Urban, . ■ June 7. quaintance, GeorgeMacartney, become
THE daily prints tell us at times of a Lord, and Governor of Madras. His
University prizes being adjudged ; voyage out was unfortunate, . in the
but the performances ieldoin meet the Brilliant, Capt. Mears, wrecked on or
public eye. ' Two of thole announced near Johanna, in the Indian Sea. I
jud now, viz. " On Duelling," and law Mr. Johnson at Bombay comfort
" Plata, Fluvius," 1 should expect must ably entertained in the house of old
be, from circumstances and season, os Luke Sparks's son, then a Counsellor
particular interest to more than your of that Presidency, in 1782. Shortly
humble servant. The Gentleman's after, as I have been told, the author
Magazine would, doubtless, be 0|ien of " Chryfal'' died in Bengal, or
to these compositions. Their insertion upon bis voyage to that country from
would be so complimentary to the Bombay.
Writers, that only a willing concur " There is a tide in the affairs of men
rence can be reckoned upon from them. » * ' * •
With respect to Duelling, suppose Is'bound in shallows or in miseries."
the practice retained, there is one pro gave This, intelligent aud pleasing writer
posal of late which has pleated me very in his life a pretty fair illustration
much—loading one pistol with powder of Shakspeare's lines. W. P.
only, and the other with powder and
ball* The seconds then draw lots for Mr. Urban, July 6.
the hap-hazard choice from under cover, IN looking ot er the account you have
A repeated loading of the pistols should printed in vour useful Miscellany
subject both principals and seconds' to for the ltist month, pp. 500 and 501 , of
the punishment of Outlawry. the late Dr. Nathaniel Cotton, I beg
I have one objection 10 England leave to take this opportunity of cor
making settlements on the River of recting a typographical error which ap
Plate ; we must meet with the Ameri pears therein, p. 500, col. 1, line 7
cans, who, beyond all doubt, will de from the bottom : for rminhabited read
spoil Spain of her possessions from the inhabited. I should not have troubled
North. Must not the consequence be you again upon' the subject os this im
Was J Can the cobweb intervention of perfect memoir, but for the fake of
Portuguese captainships upon the Coast adding to it a short extract, which, since
of Brasil keep either in check i my last, I accidentally met with from,
a funeral sermon, if it may be so called,
• Recollect the new paving of Salisbury for the worthy but unfortunate Mr.
Cathedral ; St. Csorjs's Chapel, Wind Wru. Cowper/by the Rev. Sam. Great-
sor; *c. *c. head,
632 Dr. Cotton.-Cowper.-LyttonFsl;;i//y.-Strathmore.[JuIy,
head, of Newport Pagnel ; which con given upon his monument. William
tains, perhaps, more interfiling and Kobinson Lytton married a Miss Hey-
unvarnished information about that sham, of Siagenhde, in Hertfordshire.
unhappy but respectable person than The above mistakes, in addition ta
all that has been furnished bv the pen the one corrected in' p. 278, struck me
of Mr. Haylev in his cosily quartos. on reading over the account given by
The preacher fays, |). 13 and 14, " He your correspondent Heratdicus llert- .
iufl'ertd it (his despair) 10 be alleviated futdienfit ; and had he not said that the
by conversation with a pious aud hu Pedigree was taken vnth great accuracy
mane Physician al St. Alban's, under from the inscriptions upon the Monu
whole care he had happilv been placed ; ments from Chauncy and Salmon, &c.
he began to lake some pleasure in shar I Ihould not have troubled you with
ing dailv the domestic worship which them. Yours, &c. .
was laudably practised bv Dr. Cotton.
The comfort he enjoyed in the profit Mr. UrSan, June 12.
able conversation of his heloi etl 1'hy- S F"aConllant Reader," vol. LXXVI.
iician induced him to prolong his flay p. 496, will take the trouble of look
at St. Alban's for K.velve months after ing into DebreltV Peerage for 1805,
his recovery." I recommend to vou ■ p. 533, he will fee thai I was not wrong
the preceding extract, as affording in laving that the Earl of Sirathmnre's
some information with respect to the name is Lyon Howes I had likewise
Doctor's domestic (economy, and his the honour of knowing at school an
attention lo his unfortunate patient*. Honourable' Mr. Bowes, who wascajled
Yours, &c. B. theEarlof Strathmore'slbn. v\ hai Jiarl
of the family this alluded to 1 know not.
Mr Ujiban, March 10, Permit me 10 add here, that D. in
HAVING observed in -p. 273, the his answer to Senex, vol. LXXVI.
correction of an error in the ac p. 512, has merely cavilled at this cor
count of ihe Lvtton family given in respondent's having alledged that tnol-
toI LXXVI. |>* 1197, I am induoed toes, in his opinion, were worthier of
to fend you the cnrreblion of a few a place on a tomb stone than a banner.
more errors. Senex asked ihe meaning ot the motto,
The last of .that antient family was '* Touch not the cut, but the glove;" if
Lytton Sirole, not Strode Lvtton, this old gentleman can remember the
who died in 1 7 1 0 : not a bachelor, for arms he saw on the carriage he alludes
he married .Bridget Moflyn, eldest to in p. 400, perha|js 1 may be,able to
•slighter of Richard Moltyn, Esq. of find out for him the meaning of the
Pembedw, in Flintshire; as appears by motto , as it most likely took rile from
the inscription on hi£ monument, and Come family incident.
bv Salmon.. I.yiton Strode, look, the Beaumont Lodge, Windsor, vol.
name of Lyiton, and, by his will, save LXXIV. p. 1008, is now the property
•lie Lytlo'n estate lo William Robinson, of Viscount Ashbrooke.
Esq. <tot his ufule, but his coulin, '■laving purchased the works of Shef
" Consanguinco fno." The expression, field, Duke of Buckingham, 1 find that
that the family mansion is, perhaps, ihe last Duke (Edmund, not Edward)
the only house in the County of Hen- died in 1735, when the title became
ford remaining, in its original liatc: I extinct. His e|>iiaph, written by the
do not understand ; of the old houses immortal Pope, is well known. Ed
engraved in ("hanney there are several mund Sheffield, the great urandfather
remaining in their original state : as of the Inst Duke of Buckingham, was
Ball's, New Place now called Gilllon created Earl of Mnlgrave by Charles I.
Park, Hyde Hall, Bradfield, Breot, By his first wife he had issue fix * sons
Peliiam, &c. In the Pedigree, Sir Row and nine daughters ; by his second wise he
land Lyttnn's second wife was not had three sons and two daughters. Any
lteliecca Chapman (that was her mat- biographical correspondent would ob
den name), hut Rebecca relict of Sir lige me by saying who the children by
Richard Lucy, of Broxborne, Knt. the second marriage married. S. H. C.
It was Sir Georae Strode, and not his
slither Sir Nicholas, who died in 1707 ; the* Three of these sons were drowned in
passage of Whitgist ferry over the
and it was Sir George's son. Strode" Humber. Another son was drowned in
.Lvtton, who married Bridget Mofivu,. France ; another broke his neck in a new
as has been mentioned above. Tire ridihg-'houl'e which his father had made
name of Sir George's sitll wife is not out of an old consecrated chape} ! '. '.
, • Mr.
iSo/.j Biographical Memoirs of Sir Roger Nevvdigate. 633
Mr. "Urban, - June 24. part of his plans for the enlargement
THE Obituary of your last volume, of the hall, he used to ftv pleasantly,
p. 1 173, anticipated me in the " he did as impudent'
impudent a thine
thing as ever'
account it was mv intention to give of was attempted ;" cutting through the
the late incomparable Baronet of Ar- ' malsy wall os the original house built
bury ; and the necessity of an imme by Sis Edmund Andeifon, to form
diate communication being thus su three ample Gothic arches, and intro
perseded, I have neves found leisure duce a gjderv, or side aile ; which has
and heart to take np a subject where I ' a striking effect in one of the noblest
have much to regret, and every thing to dining rooms in the kingdom.1 The
admire. But one or two mistakes re library and drawing room, both with
quire to be let right; and it would at arched ciehngs, are allb justly admired.
the fame lime be injustice to the living The cicluig of 1 lie Library is decorated
as well as to the deceased,' not to add a with paintings copied from the baths
few circumstances more in memory of , of Livia.
departed worth '• Vipel-iitsemper in ilia demo pa/rius
Sir Roger Newdigate was born rxosjct di/ciplma" Among the literary
May30, 1719, and was, consequently treasures at Arbury there are letters by
not' " upwards of 88," but in his 87th Archbishop Sheldon (of whom there
year at the time of his deceale. The is an excellent portrait in the izallerv
MS account of Oneen Elizabeth's en by Sir Pe.er Lely), bv KiOiop Pell, anil
tertainment at Harefield, which had other eminent divines ants learned men,
been " unfortunately loll," was acci which reflect almost equal credit on'
dentally found a few years ago hi a thole who wrote and thole whd received
volume of " Strype's Annals ;" to the them. The letters of Bishop Fell, in
amazement and joy of the worthy pro particular, who wrote a very fair and
prietor, who for many years had been rather large hand, among ihe custom
« bunting for it in vain. ary topics of epistolary correspondence,
A lover of virtu and an excellent together with (hong marks of superior
classic from his early days, he made it talents, contain such unexpected and
his business in both his tours on the unstudied effusions of a truly Chrillian
Continent to sketch anfient ruins, heart, that ii is almost impollible to
buildings, statues, and landscapes, read them without tears These deli
chiefs. Inch as are not to be found in cate touches cannot be separated from'
books of Antiquities and Tiavels : and the passages where they occur without
1 two ample folios, the produce of his in losing 1 heir effect. A specimen or two,'
defatigable and accurate pencil, enrich not altogether remote or dslimilar,'
the library at Arbury. He also brought Ittav be ihert. Towards the end of
hone some curious antique marbles Chirle^ lid's reign, alluding-. 'to the
and vases of exquisite workmanship, dangers which were foteleeti and
(some of them erigfa-ved in" Piratiest/' dread ,d, he fays, ''.It will become us to
where his name several limes occurs), he severe to ourselves, but to none be
and calls from the rnost admired statues sides." And attain, " Let us endeavour'
at Rome and at'Florence, and copies of to make ourf-lv-s capable of Divine
many celebrated pain'tinus, particularly mercy, and thru wefhall surety nave it."
I a. fine one of the famous Transpira In an earlier le ter, after a visit at Ar
tion of Raphael, which adorns the bury, he' says, " he was pleased to have
saloon at Arbur\ ; a room of admira- seen his 'rfend ' happy with his family
hle proportion aud beauty, with a bow about him : B01 this gives me, in. re
whitlow and deling in he richest style gard to mv function, greatest iat'sfae-
of Gothic architecture ; finished a lew tion, seems you constant in the duties
years before his death. He new-cast of religion, beginning and ending you*
and rebuilt the whole house, on the day in the le; vice of vour *s ker."
site of an ansent priorv, in the Gothic The la'e worthy 'B.vot-e: :t':: not
style, in which he modestly pfof'-ss-d deaendr >le from the Vi,;.!.ihl( exam-le
himself mere.lv' au humble im'ta'or; of it -, venenhU' ant elVr-* ' Co'2!!ar,t
but the models which he studied were
of prime excellence, the D'vi.tity
School at Ox'ord, Henry VJith.a * bir Richard Ncvnwj/ue, <"!...a,
Chape', and King'" College Chape! in law, who w„s S'r .'!.ogr.j'$ gi g,
Cambridge. In accomplishing, one father, and died in ID; a,
Gent. Mag. July; 1*507. ■ of
634 Biographical Memoirs of Sir Roger Newdigate. [July,
of Chilvers Coton on Sunday, " Cha- against On both our countryman most,
pel-i'iuie"'in his own house was puno unmercifully passes his censures, be-
tu ill v announced, aud the prayers of caule liiev do not authorize his wan
the Chinch read every morning and derings ; aud no less sreelv upon every
evening. He used 10 observe, thai the other wnter, aivtent and modern, upon
infinite honour of heing allowed la ap the subject, who hav£ presumed to dif
pr'oach me Almighty with the appella- fer from him. He enlarges greatly
tion of" Father" was not, in general, upon Livy's rock and vinegar, which
snlficieinlv regarded ; and conlitien'ly arc not found in Polvbius, whole .ac
with h'S own sense ,os duty, as well as count of the interruption which Han
with- 1 he devout wonder expressed by nibal found in his descent, is nothing
an A}iotile on the kindred consideration more than what is frequent in thole
of our being " called the ions of mountains of eternal snow, and is cal
God it was alwavs his practice, in led an Aual'jnche ; when, on the fuell
repea ing the Creed, to incline his ing of ihe snows, the whole fide ol a
bods, at the name of the Father Al- steep mountain Hides down in a mass
niighiy, -without omitting ihe custo- from ihe height of a mile or more,
. marv honour at the name of Jesus and half or mote in width, and carries
, Christ. along with it earth, trees, and the
Having twice crossed ihe Alps (one roads, which are all artificial, cut in
of die iwo objects, the Ocean being the fides of sleep ascents; leven or eight
the other* of which he tiled 10 (ay no feet wide only sometimes, aud with 4
one could have an idea without feeing perpendicular precipice on the fide,
them) his curtofitv was excised by where the torrents roar amongst bro
Win aker's account of Hannibal's pat- ken" rocks below, often an hundred
sage o\er thole mountains-; but, being \ards or more, along the course of
dissatisfied with Come parts of the route which alone all the roads in the Alps
there assigned him, particularly where are made. Such an one Polvbius de
the author leads him from Lyons to scribes as having fallen more than once
Geneva (every liep, as he said, out of upon the road that Hannibal was to
his wav) lie himself drew up a suc pals, which stopped him one day, and
cinct, and, if one unacquainted with was made passable bv his pioneers for
the subject may be allowed to sav so, the army the next morning. To this
a satissa6lorv account of the march of Whiiaker has preferred Livy's rock
the Carthaginian ; conducting him from aud chilm of an immense depth ; and
Lyons up the river 10 SeilTel. thence because this was not wonderful enough,
to Martigni, and I'q iq the Great St. he has introduced an earthquake,
■ Bernard, and to Aoufle (Augusta), of which nobody ever heard of but him
which in his own tour he had many self: and yet he and 'Livy and all the
drawings. But perhaps his own words rest agree in the lime fixed bv Poly
on this interesting and controverted bins for the remedy, that it cost only a
point of antient history will not be un dav's delay.
acceptable. "Yet, with all his wild aberrations,
" Whilaker has indeed afforded much and wild conjectures, Whitaker is
amusement, and indeed information, highly to be commended, .far having,
not with lla tiding his insolent and dogma in general, better understood and morfe
tical style ; suffering a lively imagination closely followed his great original,
to lead him astray, and then falling than any who have preceded him.
foul upon Polybius, the fountain-head Polybius describes the country as fullv
os intelligence, who actually lived in inhabited, but by barbarian hordes of
the time, and pallid the Alps on pur marauders, and therefore gives only
pose 10 examine the course of'Hanni- one infallible rule of ihe march, that
bal ; and on Livy, who, more than a it was roa^a tov ororajuov, all ihe wav
centurv after him, gives little more to ihe very foot of the steep ascent,
than a 1 ran 11a I ion of Polybius, with which, Whitaker ablv demonstrates,
the addition of names of people, as must have been the great pal's of the
known in the time of Augustus, but grand St. Bernard. He has also made
not two hundred years hi fire; and a very lucky discovery from Strabo,
some idle tales, in his own taste, which which is all his own, and very im
Polybius expressly warns his reiders portant, that the river Arve was an-
tientlv called Druenttus. The Druen-
* 1 John iii. 1, tia of Livy, of which Polybius takes
DO
l8o?.] Chancellor Bow'es.—H \drophobia. —Mrs. Ayliffe. 635
no notice, has led all the modem airing their horses, in the fame stupid
writers ailrny to the great torrent Du state, where 1 observed him hum ihe
rance, &i. &c. bin if the Ar\ e was his bridge, in company with an intelligent
Druenlia, in which Hannibal loft young gentleman, who coincided in.
mam men, it lies directly in i he road in v opinion, and went and railed ihe
pointed out by Polybttis, and recon hue and ert, A mud dog ! A mud dog t
ciles and confirms ImiiIi accounts He immediately had numerous pur
" I tnink, bv v 1 1 i s Ions; dole ol Han suer-, but lie made a gond run os it;
nibal I have had m\ full revenge of \ on till a soldier with a long pole, ar last
for vour Lectures upon Smyth aud came up with hnn, and, on giving him
Noviell ; so adieu. Your afk-ctionate two blows therewith, he howled ter
and obl'i'ed humble servant, ribly, but the ibiid blow did for him.
Arbury , Dec. 1 4, 1 80 1 . R. N EW n I GATE . " During his ptrlccu'ion he never barked.
(To be concluded in our nexi.) Having learned mv ideas on the
nature oi the Hydrophobia from some
Mr. Urban, Hurley Jl Jnlu 14. of Mr. Urb n's volumes, 1 have but
THE late Lord ('hance'lnf B >wes jud found them as quoted from Hugo
was reined to the famib or that Mevnill. esq of R< ai Hey, late master
name residing al Btad ey hall, in ihe of th< buck-pounds 10 his M'jesty.
county of- Durham, descended 'roni Though ah mv rational expectations
Sir George Bowes, of Strealham castle are still only in the land of promise,
(who bravely w ithstnod the rebellious noi hing realised ; yet 1 am always happy
Ear s of Westmorland and Northum when I can do un King and Country
berland in the reign of HI zabeth) by service. Yours, &c. T. Osb'irnk.
his first wife, the daughter of Mal-
lory, efq.'and consequently very dis Mr Urban, July 15.
tantly related to the present Earl of PERMIT me to rectifv a mistake m
Slralhmore and Kinghorn, \\ ho is ma vour account of mariiages foi June
ternallv descended from the above-men last. " You fay, " Al Si. George's Ha
tioned Sir George by his second wife. nover-square, by special licence, ihe
If any of your Correspondents will Rev G Sav age, F. A S. vicar of King-
inform me who me the 'descendants of ston-cum-Richmond, and rector of St.
the celebrated Sir John Marlcy, who Mary A dermarv, London, lo Mils At-
was Governor of Newcastle ttpon-Tyne liffe." It should be Mrs. AyI sse. relict
in the time of Ihe civil wars, and w is of the )aie much-'el'pected Thomas
buried in St. Nicholas Church, ihev will Ayliffe, esq. ol Surhiion Lodge, near
confer a great savour on Kingston, Surrey, daughter of the iate
Yours, &c. De Arcubus. John Hill, L L. D. tector of Thorpe
Malveibr and Ke'marfli in the county
Mr. UrBj>n, Kensington, June 26 of Northampton, and prebend of Wind
GOING through H\de Park on sor ; and niece of George Hill, elq. his
Wednelilav home to Kensington, Majesty's premier serjeant at laiv; a
soon after I had entered the P.irk, I ob lady ofa very ci 'tiliderable fortune, mild
served a dog m ar me in a more melan manners, and benevolent disposition.
choly wav than we generally lie that Yuh may rely upon the accuracy of
sprightly creature: vet\ dirty anil black this st lenient
about the nose and mouth, like a i ig Your Publication seems to me to be
that had been routing; which caused conducted with considerable ability ; to
me, at a cautious distance, lo ohlerve contain verv excellent remarks on the
him. ' He went down into the narrow p sting occurrence- of 'the dav, and to
channel on the fide of the foot-path, b'~ the very belt veh'cse hf conveying
and walked down it ier\ fl w, bin did cenfoies on muses in our Church esta-
not stop to drink , just l e got to the bbfh nen , or th'' manner of perform
bottom, the 1 1 o'clock relic coming ing its I,ic laments and ceremonies, &c.
by, I advise,; the serjeant lo (hoot him, I was late'v C'lled niiou to,vti< a p trifb-
but he would not ; he uetu:\ shook bis chiirch toiva ds the North-VWli end of
tail, and would have gone wuh them ; the town I' is a very small edifice*
but on the serjeant putting him back, nincli fuia"er than Chaoe's ot ease ge
he went down from the new bridje all nerally ave. I believe I ni.iv I".y it is
along the boards thai inclose thuwaer, the smallest place os worship, att died
but never drank. He remained near to the Chinch of Eiu and, in the Me
the road where the Troopers were tropolis, Small, however, at it is, it is
the
636 Improprieties in a Church.—Miscellaneius Remarks. [July,
the only church belonging to the which, according to common compu-
largest and iih.11 opulent parish in tlvs taiion, will lake more than I0O vears ;
capua I, or any pan ol his Majesty's do- when, according; 10 St. Makichy, Po-
minions—a parish which, on the low- perv, or the world, is to be at an end.
est computation, contains (iO.OOO fouls. ( Yours, $cc. B. I. B.
There is no font for baptism, no room — mt
for depositing the dead bodies on trof- Mr. Urban, July 6.
scls, after the usual wav ; no aile to T SHOULD esteem it as a great favour
contain them. They are plat ed in the 1 from any one conversant in such
mod indecent manner on the pews. At things, to fay if a Farm, time imme-
ihe time I visited this scandal lo our morial, never paid tithe, or any kind of
church and nation, there were no fewer modus, and though no reason can now
than five corpses placed in the manner he given whv it never paid; whether
described j ' eight children, with their the Landlord of such a farm i? justified
sponsors, &c. to be christened ; and rive in refusing payment of tithe for that
Women 10 he churched ; all within farm. Different opinions have been
these contracted dimensions. . A com-- given, but metelv ip/c dixit, without
moo bason was set upon the Commit- anv satisfactory reason being alledged
nion-tahle for1 site baptisms, and the on either part. -B. 1. B.
chi!d'en ranged round' the altar ; but — m
the Godfathers arid Godmothers in Mr. Urban, July It.
pews, in (b confused and disorderly a TV/TR- J'OHW KirbV, enquired after
wav, that ii was impossible for the Mi- iVJL in p. -log, was of Wtckham, in
nistcr to fee many of them, or address Suffolk; and is called painter ui Ipswich,
aud require ihe,m io make the responses by Mr. Grove, in his " Dialogue he-
which ih ■Rub.rickduects. Not to men- tween Wo! fey and Ximenes," p. 124.
tinn the danger of the dead and the The " Suffolk Traveller" was compiled
living being thus confined together, and from other books by his friends, and
the peculiarly delicate litnruion ol wo- reprinted, with many alterations and
men immsdately after child-birth ; a'l huge additions, bv several hands, 1764,
reve'rence for the sacrament of baptism ; 8vo. One of his sons was Perfpee-
all solemn and awful reflections from live Painter to the King, and author
hearing one us the finest services ever of" ATreatiseon Perspective." The
composed, and on an occasion the moll father was patronised bv the late Sir
interesting to the heart that can he ima- Joseph Avloffe, who first suggested to
gilled, are entirely clone away, and ihe him the thought of copying monu-
mind filled' with hor'or and il fgust. meius, arms, views, &c. in his Tour
A Cosstakt RtADER. th rough Suffolk ; and had a number
■ — of his drawings ; but only Twelve were
Mr. Urban, March lfi. engraved by Wood, with an historical
IN vol. LXVII. p. 8. I requested of account of them, and published 1748 ;
your learned Correspondents some viz. Clare priory and castle, SuaUury
accoum of ihe hieroglyphical deserip- priory, Bungay church, priory, and
tions of the Irish prophet St. Malachy, castle, C/iriJi's Hospital, Ipswich, St.
under the fignaluie of 1. A. This was James's and the Priory church, Bury,
obligiiiily answered bv X. Y Z Now Lavcnham church, Blilhburgh church,
I with to request from the same sue- and priory, and monuments of Tho-
rary gentleman, or any other, the mas Howard, second Duke of Nor-
names of those who have filled ihe pa- folk, of his family, and his second
pal chair since Pope Pius VI. The wise, of her son Henry Howard Earl
second from him i'i the hieroglyphical of Surrey, and his wife', and of Henry
characters, is marked Canis and Co- Fitzroy Duke of Rutland and Soiuer-
luber, a dog and a snake, or serpent ; set, and base son os Henry VIII tb,
and which I think must be his pre- in ffamlinsham church ; where is ano-
sent Keverence and the Emperor of ther, for Thomas Duke of Norfolk
France. However this he, surely St. beheaded bv Queen Elizabeth, and one
Malachy ' was a true prophet. His de- of his wives, not engraved. One of
scu'ptions are turprizing and wonder- Lord Bardolph, in Dunnington church,
fill, and impoffitile to have been wriiten was addetl lo this set ; the subscription
without inspiration. Thirteen from price of which, with the account, was
Canis and Coluber are yet to come; one guinea. D. H.
QUAN
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638 Hawkins versus Smith..-*—Topographical Queries. [July,
Mr. Urban, TMJiehl Street, Manjions, I (hall be glad to receive any
loth July. hints from your Correspondent9 on
MR. John-Thomas ..South having this subject : mentioning the names,
.without my knowledge, and since situations, sizes, and features of any
I cnneeUd the sheets, made alterations, old houses, and specifying if they have
omissions, and insertions, in the letter- been described and engraven,; or where
press of hrs " Antiquities of Westmin drawing1- may be obtained represent
ster," which was written bv me; I in- ing the same.
silted on withdrawing my name, and Actuated bv a, wish to furnish the
the Dedication of the Work to the puliltck with the moll ample and accu
King. He has since published the rate information I can procure respect
honk, with a dedication for which he ing everv (object I undertake lo illus
had no permission, and with an ad trate, 1 am induced to trouble you and
vertisement attacking me personally ; your readers with the above queries ;
], therefore, hereby give notice to I tie and feel persuaded that 1 stiall expe
pnbliek, that, with the advice of my rience the assistance of ihofe who are
Council at Law, I am preparing a capable of affording it ; and the (rood
1'atnphlet in mv own vindication ; that will of all who, like myself, wish to
it is in very areat forwardness, and n. ill lee every subject connected with the
appear with all possible speed. In the arts, manners, and customs of our An
mem time, I trust you will fee the cestors carefully and accurately defined
justice of postponing anv Review of his and developed. J. Britton.
work in votir Magazine, till the Thole
cafe is thus bid before 'he publck. Mr Urban, June 8.
John Sidnky Hawkins. PERMIT me 16 enquire of yon, as
of one of the public gu irdians of
Antiquities, if in the alterations now
making in the East fide of Bifhoptiiale
Lancashire. Sticet Within, it is intended to demo
AT the end of '• Enfield's Essay lish the church of St. Eihclbnrga,' one
towards the Hiflorv of Liver of the few that escaped the great fire
pool," the Author observes, " that a of London in 1 6*66, and which now
plan for the Hillorv of Lancashire has appears to stand in need of a thorough
been drawn up, and some materials for reparation. Th« paristi is, like ihe
the purpose collected by a gentleman church, very small ; and ihe parishion
who has abilities every way equal to ers, of whom I fought information,
the undertaking." The obje6t of this were ignorant how far the plan of im
communication is to enquire who was provement extended. A. B.
the gentleman here alluded to, and
what is become of the materials he EPITAPH
colleaed ? Said lo le written by Louis XVIII.
Henry VIIth's Chapel.
In the Will of Henry Vllth, that D. O. M.
Monarch refers to " a plat" of his Hie jacet
chapel at Westminster, signed with his ' reverendissmius vir
own hand. This drawing would Henrictjs Essex Edgeworth
prove an interesting curiosity ; and de Firniont,
should any one of your readers know Sanflæ Dei Ecclesiæ facerdos,
where it is deposited, or likely to be Vicarius General, Ecclef.Parifiensis, &c.
found, I hope he will have the good
ness to favour me, orihepublick, with Redemptoris nostri vestigia temns,
the information ; as I am preparing oculus suit cæco,
for the next part of my " Architectu pes claudo,
ral Antiquities," a history and descrip pater pauperum,
tion, with several illustrative prints, lnœrentium eonfolator.
of that splendid edifice. Ludovicum XVI™,
Antibnt Domestic Architecture. ab impiis rebellibnlque fubdilis
Having been for some time past col morti deditnm,
lecting memoranda, documents and ad ultimom cert.imen roboravit,
drawings, calculated todefine t!ie dates, strenuoq;Martvri cce;os apertos ostendit.
styles, and peculiarities of Old English J£ uiauibus Regjcidarum
miri
i8o7-]' Epitaph on Dr. Edgeworth.—Peerage.—Bijbops. 639
mira Dei protectione ereptus, Mr. Urban, June U).
LudovicO XVIUa "TpHE rapid increase of the English
ail se euin vocanti uhro occiirrens, JL Peerage has, within thele lew
ipfi per decem annos, years, been very great. The present
regiæque ejus familiæ, Peerage consists, at this time, of nearly
neciiou et fidelirws lodslibus, 300 Peers, viz.
exemplar virtutum, . Peers of the Royal Blood . 8
levamen nialorum, Dixkes. ... 18
lete præbuit. M.irqiiiHes 12
Per mukas et varias regiones Earls 94
temporum calattmate actais, Viscounts 18
illi, quern (oluin colebai, semper limilis Barons '. 137
pertransit benefaciendo. Peeresses..' 11
Pleuus tandem bonis operibus
obiit 2Q8
die 22° men sis Maii, A. D. 1807. Of which nearly 200 have been made
ætatis vero liiae 64. by his prelent, Majesty.
R. I. P. Yours, &c. J. S. Browne.
Mr. Urban, July 10.
HAVING already presented yoiir readers with the List of Englilh Prelates
temp. Geo. MI. 1 Mattel imself that a List of the present Prelates, with,
their respective translations, will be equally acceptable. J. S. Browne.
Names. Bishoprics. •
Dr. Hen. Baihurst 1805, Morwich.
Hon. Dr. S. Bar-
rington — '1769, Landaff. 1782, Salisbury. 1791, Durham.
Dr. Richard Bea-
don — 1789, Gloucester. 1802,Bath&Wells.
Dr. John Buckner 1797, Chichelter.
Dr. Thomas Bur-
gels — 1803, St. David's.
Dr. William Clea
ver — 1787, Chester. — 1800, Bangor. — 1806, St. Asaph.
Dr. W F W.
Cornwalb — 1794, Bristol. 1802, Hereford.
Hon. Dr. J. Corn- 1781, Lichfield
wallis — and Coventry.
Dr. Tho. Dampier 1802, Rochester.
Dr. John Fisher 1803, Exeter. — 1807, Salisbury.
Dr. Richard Hurd 1774, Lich &Cov. 1781, Worcester.
Dr. G. I. Hont-
ingsord — 1802, Gloucester. , ,
Dr. J. Luxnioore 1807, Bristol.
Dr. Spencer Madan 1792, Bristol, — 1794, Peterboro'.
Dr. H. W.'Majen-
die — • 1800, Chester.
Dr. W. Markham 1770, Chester. 1776, York.
Dr. Charles Moss 1807, Oxford.
Hon Dr. B. North 1771. Lich.&Cov. 1774, Worcester. 1 781, Winchester.
Hon. Pr. George
Pelham — 1802, Bristol. — 1807, Exeter,
Dr. Beilbv Porteus 1776, Chester — 1787, London.
Dr.JohnRandolph 1799, Oxford. — H06 Bailor.
Dr. Ch. M. Simon 17y2, Norwich. 1805, Canterbury.
Dr. G. P. Tomline 1 787 , Lincoln.
Hon. Dr. E. V.
Vernou — 1791, Carlisle^
Dr. Rich. Waison 1782, Landaff.
Hon. Dr. James
Yorke —. 1774, Si. David's. 1779, Gloucester. 1783, Ely.
Mr.
•5t4°> Countess of Albany.—-Epiiapb on Dr. Scott. [July,
Mr- UR3AN, July SO. former mistress " Countess of Albany,"
AWISH that so useful a Repository his daughter by her " Ducht-ss of Al-
of intelligence as the Gem le- bitiv and, according to Viator A«
mao's Masaziue may descend to poste- before-mentioned very intelligent let
rity us free Irons mistakes as ihe nature ter, it appears, that his widow is styled"
of Inch a compilation will admit of, " Dowager Counted of Albany.'' I
and particularly from Inch as may lend am informed, that die entered a second
to mislead ilie futnie Historian or (Bio time into the marriage state with an
grapher, induces me to take ihe liberty Italian nobleman, and was very lately
of recurring to aji erroneous article tn resident at Florence. An antlfentic
the Obituary, wlti.li .has remained account "f ihe Smart family, subse
near ten years, corrected in part anly. quent to their last' attempt upon the*
It is as follows.- Vol LXVlt. .p.i!)S3. llvrime «f these kingdoms, remains a
" Died, JOA. II, 179?, at Koine-, in deli t'-raliim.
her 71H year, Maria Matilda, Dowager tjome curious anecdotes of Charles
Duclvls of Albany, natural daughter Elwjrd and his female companion
to the last Pretender to the Eiulifh (then called Miss Walkinshaw), during
throne." A very sensible letter, signed their residence in France, have appeared
, Viator A, inserted in the following in " Mac Allester's Letters," nubl(shed
Number, p. 1000, clearly proves, that in 17(17. Amicus.
this person was nut Dowager Duchess
of Albany, nor natural daughter of Mr. Urban, July 23.
the lale Pgaiender, aiihough the error, IN ihe Laiin inscription, p. 48 I , in;
had been adopted by all the newspapers, I. 24, read us lot habuerit j" and
hut the writer does not inform us who in I. 31, r. " xi C. februarii."
Jhe really was. Now, 1 have in my At the special' request of the friends
possession a MS memorandum, which of the decease,!, 'he Latin is now to
I have reason to believe was intended' be substituted for the English ; of which,
to be submitted to the .Editor of the last ihe following is a copy :
Gentleman's Magazine, as a correction " Sacred lo the memory of Robert
of the before-mentioned article, but, Scott, M. D, This gentleman's ex-,
through inattention, was omitted to ceileut natural parts, and a liberal edu
be sent at the proper time, and after cation, suited 10 the office of a Physi
wards loll sjght of. The writer's known cian, bv a wise nib of his time, and all
general accuracy affords a strong pre his ample means ol improvement, ac?
sumption us iis being founded on fact. quired, at an early age, a rich fund of
The following is a transcript of it : professional skill. He employed- it
"Died, October 1, 1767, at Rome, hon.miably. in ibis t-uva aud its w-
in her 71st year, Maria Matilda Walkin ciuiiies, more (or, nfvfuli)eJii than euio-
shaw, who had the title of Countess of tiliuent. With care and alacrity he
Albany conferred on her by Charles Ed leaded all who applied sur his aids in
ward Stuart, the late Pretender to' the '
British throne., and by whom the Duchess their afflictions, and langhl them, by
of Albany (so created by virtue of his piety and e,\ampW,
his own to bear them wilh.
ioriiiude. His placid equa*
pretended royal prerogative), who died at dimity, candour, and urbanity ;, a
Bologna in 1" 89, was her daughter. Her
sister, Catherine Walkinshaw, who had hnppv union of extensive learning
formerly held the appointment of House with au obliging temper, and of much
keeper at Leicester House, many years, modesty with great merit ; endeared
during the life of Frederick Prince, of linn to all. who knew him! To their
Wales, and until the decease of the Prin general regret anil loss (of ihe pom et-
cess Dowager, died * at her house in peri l 1 1 y ) , he tiled suddenly,, bv the
Little Maddox-street, Hanover-square, on burl) of a blood-vessel,. Feb. 19, Ifc07,
the 11th of November, ifQi." aged 31." ., . .'
There seems a liranae confusion of
titles ttmonsst the female connexions of + -)-+ A ReaDF.H I'OR A QUARTER Of
the late Pielender (Prince Charles Ed A Century would be much obhged by a
ward, as he- is now usually called), his correct List of l/,sh Deans ; and, if man
ned, .the names of their Ladies. We pro
* The death of this sister was not no posed this Correspondent's sormea Ques
ticed in the Gcsuuary of the Gent. Mag. tion.; but cannot help its not being an
although it appeared in most 01 ajl of the swered.
newspapers. The Drawing of Westerham is-' re
ceived, and shall be used.
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•8. Calender of Flora, for January 1807 ; compiled from Ohfervatwns made, from </«
1st to the Sift of thai Month, at Market Bofworth, in the County us Leicester, and
its Piciaity ; intended os a Record of the extraordinary hiflorefceuce of thai SeaJbnJ,
tPy J. Power, Sen. Fellow of the Royal Med. Society of Edinburgh Printed at
Hinckley, by W. Ward.
*TsjHlS is a very interesting pamphlet, and reflecls credit both on the com*
" piler and on the provincial press from which it appears, Mr. Power hat
arranged the Plants which he describes under five heads: I. L'nnaeati Name;
2. EnglisiS Name; 3. Native Place of Growth j 4. Usual Time os blooming in,
this Country ; 6. Where observed in Bioom. ■
Our Botanical Friends will doubtless have recourse to the original ; but we
shall gratify the general Reader by copying the -English Name's only of thole very
numerous testimonies to the mildness of the month of Janoarv.
Vernal star-headed Chick- Red currant Clammy campion
Autumnal ditto [weed Black currant Lobel's catchfly
Strawberry spinach Gooseberry Cuckow flower
Common yellow jasmine Sweet violet Clammy lychnis
Common white ditto Dog's violet Great stitch- wort
Oriental speedwell Pansie Sweet-scented mignionette
Ivy-leaved ditto Great yellow violet Upright ditto
Field ditto Common ivy Portland spurge
Corn ditto Lesser periwinkle Sun spurge
Three-leaved vervain Greater ditto Common myrtle
Officinal ditto. Sea holly Nectarine
Common rosemary Common fennel Common laurel
Red valerian Common carrot Apricot [Isold
Lamb's lettuce, or corn sal- Spotted hemlock Golden-flowered fig-mary-
Spring crocus [lad Fool's parsley Scarlet ditto
Annual meadow-grass Wild chervil, or cow-weed Shewy ditto
Cultivated oat, in bloom Common parsley Striped flowered ditto
Ditto, feed ripe Jan. 2d Cow parsnip Common drop-wort
Fuller's teasel Lauristintis Damask rose
Hairy teasel Guelder role Chinese rose
Peril's bit dromon chickweed Common raspberry
Sweet scabious Virginian spider-wort Ditto, fruit ripe
Goose-grass, or cleavers Common snowdrop Common bramble
Sweet-scented wood-roof Common daffodil Wild strawberry
Cornelian cherry Jonquil Wood ditto
-Marsh scorpion graft Orange-flowered Aletris Chili ditto '
Evergreen alkanet Leek Barren ditto
Officinal lung-wort Great nasturtium Goose-graf1! cinque-foil
Common borage Tree evening primrose Great-flowered ditto
Cretan bugloss Rose-coloured ditto Common avens
Comfrcy - leaved heund's- Early dwarf heath Greet celandine
Venus navel-wort [tongue Irish heath Yellow-homed poppy
Primrose Mezercon Common poppy
Cowslip . Hairy Daphne Gum cistus
Auricula Spurge laurel Branching larkspur
Polyanthus Scarlet Fuchsia Variegated monkshood
Corn pimpernel Common rue Common fennel-ftowe*
Pyramidal bell-flower Sweet bay Hepatica
Great bell-flower Daurian rhododendron Garden anemone
Blue throat-wort Box-leaved Andromeda Common ditto*
Tooth-leaved winter Cherry Common Arbutus Wood ditto
Trumpet honeysuckle. Garden Hydrangea Pheasant's eye
Common woodbine London pride Pile-wort
Mountain jasione , Officinal soap-wort Spear leaved crowfoot
Great mullein Basil-leaved soap-wort Common ditto
Bastard mullein Sweet William Winter hclleboter
Purple mullein Carnation Christmas rote
Willow-leaved Sox thorn Chinese pink Green hellebore
* " I am informed, by Lady Eleho, that she left a profusion of this plant in bloom,
n the isth of January, at Lord ElsL»'t feat at Bsanstone, in ft*g Lothian."
Gtxf . Mao. Juts, 1897. ' ' Stinking
642 Review of New Publications. [Mr,
Stinking hellebore, orBear's- Charlock . White colts-foot
Common columbine [foot White mustard Common groundsel
Wood sage Garden raddifh Purple ditto
Common hyssop Horse-shoe crane's-bill Flax-leaved star-wort •
Common lavender Scarlet ditto Savory-leaved ditto
Pennyroyal Hooded ditto Greatrflowered ditto
Ground ivy, or Gill Striped geranium New Holland ditto
White archangel Bloody ditto New England ditto
Purple ditto Lancashire ditto Late-flowering ditto
Hemp-leaved dead-nettle Herb-Robert Woolly-leaved Cineraria
•Black horehound Holly-hock Red-lcavcd ditto
Common white ditto Common marshmallow Hybrid ditto
Common mother-wort Common mallow Marsh ditto
Common thyme Whorl-Howercd ditto Common daisy
Wild ditto Curled-leaved ditto French marygold
Common balm Vervain mallow African ditto
Common eye-bright Tree ditto Red Zinnia
Bell-flowered chdorte Althæa srutex Indian Chrysanthemum
Scarlet ditto Bladder Ketmia Corn ditto
Common snap-dragon Glaucous fumitory Garden ditto
Ivy-leaved ditto Common furze Ox-eye ditto
Three-leaved ditto Yellow lupine Common feverfew
Broom-leaved ditto Kidney-bean Common chamomile
Common yellow ditto Tuberous-rooted bittervetch Corn chamomile
Oriental Cellia Sweet pea Stinking ditto
.Mountain Erinus Garden bean Lavender cotton milfoil
Spring whitlow-grafs Great-flovrered Tutsan Sweet maudlin ditto
6aden cress Common ditto Silver-leaved ditto
Shepherd's purse Cultivated scorzonera Sneeze-wort ditto
P arple candy-tuft Ox-tongue Picris Common yarrow
Sweet alyffon Common sow-thistle Many-flowered I'un-flowex
Rock ditto Common dandelion Purple Rudbeckia
Common honesty Orange-flowered hawkweed Cut-leaved ditto
Water cress . Wall ditto Whorl-leaved tick-seeded
Winter cress Smooth Crespis sun -flower
Officinal hedge mustard Blue Catananche Blue-bottle Cyanus
Wall-flower Milk thistle Scabious ditto
Brompton stock Cultivated artichoke Common niarygold
Ten-week Itock Common carline thistle Common passion-flower
Dame's violet Purple-stalked Eupatorium Common nettle
Tow*r wall-cress Common tanfey Nut tree *
Turhep Fan-leav'd ditto Common yevr
Rape Annual Xeranlhemum Prickly butcher's broom
Brocoli and other varieties Wave-ieaved ditto Officinal pellitory.
"In the preceding list no plant has been inserted which was sheltered in any store,
preen-house, or frame ; rmmy were observed in the fields and hedges in their native
places of growth ; but by lar the greater part were the ornamental inhabitants of the
parterre t the nectarine and apricot may certainly be considered as forced. It may ap-
pearrsingular that so many natives of the Cape, and of still warmer climates, which
are in this co.untry usually considered as inhabitants of the green-house or dry stove,
should be found so situated ; it may therefore be necessary to observe, that they were,
for the mast part, the surplus of art over-stocked green-house, which had been planted,
in the borders to take their chance ; and as no trosts of consequence occurred till the
first week in January, they continued to flourish and bloom, with unabated vigour, till
<:ut .off by rather severe frost in the early part of the month; a great variety of the
.Cryptogamia class, usually blooming at tbhi season, arc omitted, as not offering any
deviatioa from the usual course of vegetation. The native place of growth of eadii
plant, and iis usual time of blooming in this climate, has been inserted; ar.d as the
bloom ingsnf some of them at this season seems to border on the maivtllous, the place
in which the observation was made has been added, as giving all the additional weight
to the facts in lay power to osier; where no such information is- given, the remark was
Stilill ir mjr Tliurn garden. Two observation's only are recorded which did not fall under
, my own notice, but for which most respectable authority is given."
F/iini- Hw*«*«-g*Mt contrast lictwixi (Jja; jtiji(j£i'ixj.',e of 'W .-r-' "<ih and (be
•rfSyil'llaie" of vcgeiatiiMi," Ms. Pownr ha? h-cc iu4sv-tj .V »b.44u7. ■(torn Mr.
White'*
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White's Natural History of Selborne, and •his Naturalist"* Calendar, hi* observa
tions made in the corresponding month diiriivga period of 25 years, viz. from
I7O8 to 1793.;" a list containing only the following varieties:
Mellebarus.hyemalis Corylus avellana Lamium album
■fœtidus Anemone Hepatica Lonicera Periclymenjum
Primula Polyanthus (elatior) J?rinjula yulgaris Ranunculus repeats
Bellis peretisis 1 Ujeat europaeus J.egntodon Taraxacum
Daphne Mezerepn Cheiraotbu* Cfcci.ri Crocus vernus
Viola tricolor incanas Helleborus viridis
JLamiutn purpureum Hellcborus niger Veronica agrestis
Senecio vulgaris Galanthus nivalis Fragatia stcrilis.
JSO. Conversation : a Didaelic Poem, in neither complying with the vices of the
Tirec Parts: Bij William Cooke, EJ'n. great, however familiar or seductive, nor
AFTER the opinion we have given with their frivolities, however general
of a former edition of this valuable or imposing. His mind was compounded
JViem, in vol. LXVJ1I. |>. 878, we of pure and simple elements, which inse
shall now onlv present to our Readers parably mixed in his business, his friend
the Author's new Dedication: ships, and general intercourse with mat-
kind ; and it was often no less pleasing to
-"To Jomn Svmmoss, Esq. F.R.S. &c. his friends, than to the lovers of virtue ia
" Dear Sir, When this Poem was origi general, to fee with what superior lustre,
nally published, it was by implication in thole plain, but prepossessing colours out
scribed to our late worthy and ever to be shone the glare of fashion, and she accom
lamented friend, adder the character of modating varnish of modern morals.
Eugenio *. As the intimate and Joyed " A mind thus fraught with the love
friend 9s that excellent man, you will, \ of truth and inquiry, never yielded to the
am sure, receiveany testimony to his vari apathy of repose, or the indolence of care
ous and exalted merits with the most cor less dissipation ; his leisure hours were
dial affection. The subject is so consoling therefore frequently employed upon some
to me, that it would be repressing ray curious, or useful literary subject; amongst
feelings, as well as my respect for the pub- which were particularly noticed, his " Re
lick, to whom Mr. Morgann was to great marks on the Slave Trade," and his " Es
an ornament and example, to produce a say on the Character of Sir John Falstalf."
second edition of this Poer;i, without thus In the first will be found the seeds of most
announcing lji$ name, and attempting a of those arguments, which have since been
ilight sketch of his character. so successfully urged in favour of the rights
** With a view of general knowledge, of Humanity ; and in the latter, the spirit
and a large and early acquaintance with of the Poet himself breathing through his
the higher circles of society, Mr. Mor- Commentator. I have often read with
.gann availed himself of both, for the lau pleasure and improvement the character
dable purpose of forming his mind, im of Shakespear, as drawn by Dryden, Pope,
proving his morals, and polishing his taste. Johnson, and others ; but in Morgann
AU that he read, heard, or law, suffici we feel him commanding every passage
ently valuable to .be noticed, became his from the head to the heart ; and the apo
own, where, by a peculiar touruure of logy which he assigns to Aristotle, for his
mind, they received such a happy and ap name being imroperly used by " his
propriate organization, as to render every wretched officers, Rymer and other com
thing new, pleasing, and diversified ; mentators," is one of the most luminous
jience he was the charm of every society and critical defences of Shakespeare's not
lie mixed with; particularly as his con- being bound by the unities, which per
Tersation was enriched with the greatest haps has ever been produced. It is, as
urbanity of manners, and the happiest has been elegantly said by the late ingeni
arts of badinage and pleasantry. ous Mr. Seward, " the portrait of Homer
" As a man he stood detached from the painted by Apelles ;" and must make all
general contagion of the age he lived in, amateurs of the Drama lament, that he
had not employed more of his leisure
* " Maurice Morgann, Esq. a gentle hours in the fame literary pursuit-; we
man descended from an antient and re should then fee our great Poet of Nature
spectable family in Wales, Under secre illustrated, as he lhould be, by the Critic
tary of State lo the late Marquis of Lans- pf Nature t>nd congenial taste.
4own, during his first administration, and " Jft has been objected to Mr. Morgann,
afterwards. Secretary to the Embassy for that he had rather a predilection for an
ratifying the Peace with America, 1783, over-refinement on subjects of taste and
&c. <Sc. He died in March ] 802." [See literature ; and perhaps he was somewhat
$«Bt> Sfr»«. vol. LXX.VI. 590.3 inclined to thiSr—what shall I call it ?—
defect ?
644 Review of New Fublicationsi
defect?—oh, no! no!—it was the luxu- friend, a man «f similar talents. Master
lunee ......of an
a finetimagination branching up- Samuel Hooper, from the cowribuv
— such
on infinite variety of views> ?s lioM of- l(je |at(, Mr Asile prom tha
made it sometimes difficult for him to fet materials, and the miserable prints, one
tle on the close point—.but when he gained would not have expected encourage
that point, which he gencrally^'d, with ment fur a second edition . hut the ar
what elegance and perspicuity did he supr rangement it laid to be " much impro
port it ! with what energies did the heart
speak ! nay, even when he missed it, he ves by collecting together those treatise!
led us through such a delightful labyrinth of which the subjects are similar, from
of fragrance and flowers as diversified the their dispersion through the four origi
pursuit, and induced us to forget the dis nal volumes, and adding several cu
appointment. rious articles from MSi>. or scarce
• Malim cum Scaligero errare quam tracts." The first is, Mr. Grose's rule*
eum Clavio recte sapere,' was the ex for drawing caricatures, add an essay
clamation of some critic on a compari on comic painting; the second, on the
son between two popular mathematici arraignment and execution os the late
ans ; and a similar impression most peo traitors, executed at Worcester Jan. 27,
ple must occasionally seel, who were in lClS, containing many curious parti
the habits of living with Mr. Morgann ; culars of the conduct of Digby, two
indeed, it was difficult to fay what would Winters, ore. concerned in the Gun
have been bis failings, but by the virtues powder Plot, no where else to be met
In which he principally excelled.
" Such was the Friend to whom we have with, describing their latter end ; the
third, a parallel between Robert Deve-
often listened with the most gratified at reux Karl of Essex, and George Vil-
tention,—whether on the excursive—va
riegated wing of fancy, or on the firmer liers Oulte of Buckingham; the fourth,
Vasts os moral inquiry ; for he was in all till of James the 'Second's Army, lying
situations " a man" (to use the simple at Hounslow heath, 1686, styled "An
yet energetic words of Sir Philip Sidney) Invincible Army," but (hewing *' the
' possessing high-erected thoughts seated wonderful hand of Prmidence in de
in a heart of curtesy.' Vale! feating the boailed.il rengih of such an
" Having thus discharged my duties to Army, expelled lo bring this obllinate
the dead, let me now pay my respects to Nation in dutiful subjection to the See
the living ; not by entering into a detail of Home," as. the Communicator ob
ed panegyric on your good qualities' and serves. The two next papers are, Fii»
classical attainments, which I know your Stephens's description of London in
delicacy would resist, but by assuring you the twelfth century, and Sir Thomas
with great truth, that some of what 1 es Chalnnrr's relating to the military state
teem the best traits ol this Poem owe of ihe city in the reigns of Henry VI II-
their 6iigin to the many agreeable and in and Elizabeth j ihe sixth, an account
structive points of view, your manners
and Conversation have atsoidcdme; and of the expences of Sir Robert Sydney
that the names of two such respectable Kail of Leicester, hv bis Steward, now
characters to grace this little production fi/H l'r,nie(l i as ls ,hc nef '> describing
of mine shall it ever rcmembeied with lhe ceremonies appointed tr» be oblerv-
pridc and satisfaction by, dear Sir, your f*d iU C-mrt on various occasions, temp,
most faithful and obliged humble servant, Henry VII. Tie story of Sir Thomas
W. Cooxt." Erpinjiham, in the style of the original
collector, is followed by Dr. Bncnan'a
90. The Antiquarian Repertory ; or. Mis account of Carr Earl of Somerset,
cellaneous djj'cmblage of Topography, with a good portrait ; but moll of
}ii/ory. Biography, Cnjtoms, and Man the prints in this volume are executed
ners i intended so illupratt and preserve in a stv'e much below its dignity, or
several valuable Remains of old Times: indeed" the reputation of any engraver
chiejiu compiled by or under the Direc
tion of Pranci* Grose, £fq P.R. 'aud but the pewter cullers in the service of
:J,S. Thomas Astlc, Esq. P.R. and the original publisher. Many of the
AS. and other eminent An'iquaries ; articles have little or no connexion
adorned with numerous fiews. Portraits, with British Antiquities ; and others
anil Monuments. A new Edition / utitk miijht easily have been spared. Among
mttny valuable Additions. Jit Four Vo- such as ought positively to have been,
bimr.s. 4/0. excluded, must be reckoned that fla
THIS work, of which only the first grant instance of human depravity
volume i; yet repubbstied, was begun which could only be repealed by one
bv Capt. G. sot the emolument us his W whom the discovery was gratifying
- ' 91 - *
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91. A Sermon, preached by John Wells, friendly societies; but sltew* the prin
Soldier in the Firji Hegiment of Guards, ciple on which the poor's relief is
at the Baptist Meeting-hou/e at Quarn- founded — Industry and (Economy,
don, in Leicestershire, on Thursday, These, he thinks, are bejl promoted by
January 8, 1807. To which is prefixed payment of wages in the gross, and
[amxed] ashort Account of the Author's thus inducing labour. "A few years
Conversion.
THIS conversion, like all of the since, no class of the community were
so immoral, or had such bad charac
fume kind, wa> effected by hearing ters, as stage-coachmen and soldiers;
preaching in the chaprt al Toitenham- but the establishment of mail-coaches
eourt-road, and caking some books, < made it advifeable for the proprietors
ami gojjg to pray in Hyde-park. The of other coaches to change their system
sermon is of ihe » iw call. of management ; it was necessary 10
discharge their servants for irregularity;
92. Observations on the Necessity of intro they did In ; and I am informed a con
ducing ajufjicient Nuinlcr oj respectable siderable reformation has taken place
Clergymen into the West Indies, and the
Expediency of tjtablijlting for that Pur- in their general character. The cha
p'lje, by Sulfmplion, a College in this racter of the soldiery is also greatly im
Country, in which Persons way be fitly proved ; a military man is no longer
educatedfor the Clerical Funitton in that met with dread * ; he is courteous and
Part of the British Empire. obliging, the protector of individuals
IT is not easy 10 account why, mi as well as of the country ; and, in
of the Colleges in the two Universities, artnv point of morality, I greatly fear the
"fit and able men to ler\e God in is more correct than the peasan
Church and Siate" may not be found able try ; should it be Ib, it is not a favour-
without the Philanthropic Society tin- feature of the. times. But if stage- ■■
dertaking -he important concern of c- .coachmeh are reformed by the exerc.fe
vilizing the Negroes,
tig tlie iNegroes which should of .he just authonty of the.r lUpenors,
have been done before the Slave-trade so may the peasantry.'
was abolished. The Author of these 94. Janson's Stranger in America.
Observations is afraid to trult the edu (Continued fromp. 54.1.)
cation of young men to the spot where
they are to be employed, because they WE resume the labours of Mr. Jan-
cannot lie brought up in that strictness son with an interesting article, his de
of manners, and habits of self-denial, scription of Washington, the Federal
which ate requisite in 1 tie clerical cha City and Seat of Government; and
racter, nnlels they could be kept in to consols that we are not a little sur
tal seclusion from all society- The ex prised at some parts of the information,
pediency of educating Negroes or Mu which it affords.
lattoes in such a College would require " The foundation of the present scat of
much consideration. The consequence government of the United States was one
which thev would derive from having of the last national objects of the distin
had R learned education in Europe will The guished character whose name it bears.
enable them to do incalculable mischief Americans ingratitude of a certain portion of
if thev should turn nut ill. Wiih the is one of thetofoulest that great and good man,
stains upon their cha
white inhabitants they would have no racter. After successfully fighting their
influence ; but as schoolmasters aud battles, through a seven years' War, con
catechills they would be particularly tending with the choicest troops of Europe,
useful. and gaining them independence, he re
signed his commission to that Congress
133. A Letter to Samuel Whitbread, Esq, which appointed him their commander
M. P. on the Sttl<je& of the Poor Laws. in chief, and rciiied to the. peaceful shades
By T. Jarrold, M. D. of Mount Vernon. A short time only was
IT is not necessary to, proceed be he allowed for the enjoyment of tranquil
yond the two first pages to discover lity and domestic pleasures ; for, on the
that the sentiments of the Doctor are formation of tlie federal constitution, he
in consonance with those of the M. P. was called, by the unanimous voice ofthe
He praises with reason the establish delegates who ratified that compact on be
ment of Sunday-schools, from their half of their fellow citizens, to fill the first
good effects among the manufacturers post in the executive department of the
atStockpnrt: but disapproves the idea • We know not wAen he was. Edit.
of a poor's bank, to which he prefers ' State.
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State. For his military services he had To resume Mr. Janson's very enterr
' already disclaimed pecuniary recommence, taining description of the buildings
requesting his country to discharge only projected in the citv of Washington :
those expences winch the emergencies of " On my return to London, the first
war had incurred. The office of the Pre general enquiry of iny friends is re
sident is by law limiccri to the term of four specting this tar-famed place. The de
years ; at the expiration of which time, scription of it by interested scribblers
when Washington again looked forward may well serve to raise an Englishman's
for ihc enjoyment of his favourite retire curiosity, and lead him to fancy the
ment, his farther services were a second capital of Columbia a terrestrial para-
time called for more loudly and unani disc. The entrance, or avenues, as they
mously that: before. Four years more he are pompously called, which lead to the
devoted to the service of Jus Country; in American seat of government, are the,
which time he beheld the foundation of worst roads I passed in the country ; and
the federal city, the permanent feat of I appeal to every citizen who has been
government ; and he survived to fee the unlucky enough to travel the stages North
legislators of America convened at the Ca and South leading to t)ie city, for the truth
pitol. It was about this time that the of the assertion, I particularly allude tp
>*rencb frcliijn began tx» raise its clamours, the mail stage road from Bladcniburg to
which pjefiderit Washington soon quelled, Washington, ami from thence to Alexan
by his energetic measures ; but the disaf dria. In the winter season, during the
fected in secret reviled him for laving their fitting of Co..gtcss, every turn of your
country from the merciless fangs of a set waggon wheel (for 1 mult again observe,
of monsters, who would have enslaved that there is no such thing in the country
them, under the specious pretext of Jibcr- as wdiat we call a stage coach, or a post-
tyand equality. They insinuated thai -tic chaise,) is for many miles attended with
liad pitched on a spot for the seat of go danger. The roads are never repaired ;
vernment near to his, estate of Vernon, in deep ruts, rocks, and stumps of trees,
©riser to instance its value ; though they every minute impede your progrofs, and
well knew that his private property was often threaten your limbs with dislocation.
ten- fold greater than his private expences. Arrived at the city, you are struck with
His choice, 1 believe, was directed to one its grotesque appearance. In one view
object only ; the capital is built in the from the Capitol hill, the eye fixes upon
centre of the United States.'' a row of uniform houses, ten or iwe{ve in
The indignity that was (hewn to number, while it faintly discovers the ad
/Genera! Washington, we are told, was jacent tenements to be miserable woodep
refen'ed by Mr. Frssenden, the Hutli- structures, consisting, when you approacji
rirns of America ; that lame Mr. Fes- them, of two or three rooms one above
sciylen who deceived the lane tte- another. Again, you tee the Hotel, which
vietvers of London, in his " Terrible was vauntingly promised, on laying the
foundation, to rival the large Inns in En
Tractoratioii ;'' who, in a note, gives gland. This, like every other private ad
the following character of a man w hom venture, failed : the walls and the roof
Mr. Janlon stvIt'S "the leader of what remain, but not a window! and, instead
is called the Jrjsnsim'wn Monocracy." of accommodating the members of Con
" Duane is said to ha*c set up for a pa gress, and travellers of distinction, as pro
triot at Calcutta, and commenced his use posed, a number of the lowest order of
ful labours as Editor of a newspaper, by Irish have long heltl the title of naked pof-
exerting himself to foment a quarrel be Jtjjiw, from which, were it ever to be
tween the civil and naihtary departments. come an object, it would be difficult to
Sir John Shore (now Lord Teignmouth), eject them. Turning the eye, a well-
who then commanded, paid so little regald finished edifice presents itself, surrounded
to l]he rights of man, that he merely re by lofty trees, which never selt the stroke
warded him with a kind of wcoden-horti- of the axe. The president's, houses tl^e
cal promotion, which is not thought to offices of state, and a little theatre, wfcere
confer any great honour on thole who are an itinerant company repeated, during a,
the subjects of that kind of elevation. He part of the last year, the lines of Shake
was then sent to England, from whence speare, Oiway, and Dryden, to empty
be was imported, to teach Americans li benches, terminate the view of the Penn
berty' and equality under the auspices of sylvania or Grand Avenue. Speculation,
Emperor Jefferson. Huane fays, that he the life of the American, embraced the
was' kidnapped by Sir John, having been design of the new city. Several compa
invited to breakfast. But the man is so nies of speculators purchased lots, and be
given to lying, that we wish our readers gan to build handsome streets, with an
to place no dependence On that part of ardour that loon promised a large and po
pulous city. Before they arrived at. the
attic
iS©7*.] Review of New Fubiicationt. 647
attic story, the failure was manifest ; and The President's house is situated one mile
In that state at this moment are the walls from the Capitol, at the extremity oi
of many scores of houses begun on, a plan Pennsylvania Avenue. The contemplated
of elegance. In some parts, purchasers streets of this embryo city are called ave
have cleared the wood from their grounds, nues, and every State gives name to one.
and erected temporary wooden buildings ; That of Pennsylvania is the largest ; ir
others have fenced in their lots, and at fact I never heard of more than that and
tempted to cultivate them ; but the steri the New Jersey Avenue, except some
lity of the land laid out for jhe city is such, houses uniformly built, in one of which
that this plan has also failed. The coun lives Mr. Jefferson's printer, John Harri
try adjoining consists of woods in a state son Smith, a few more of inferior note,
•f nature, and in some places of mere with some public-houses, and here and
iwamps, which give the scene a curious there a little grog-Jhop* This boasted ave
patch-work appearance. The' view of the nue is as much a wilderness as Kentucky,
- noble river* Potomack, which theeyecan with this disadvantage, that the soil is
trace till it terminates at Alexandria, is good for nothing. Some half-starved cat
Tery fine. The navigation at the river is tle browzing among the bushes, present
jfood from the bay of Chesapeak, till the a melancholy spectacle to a stranger,
near approach to the city, where bars of whose expe£tation Kas been wound up by
land are formed, which every year en the illusive description of speculative wri
croach considerably on the channel. The ters. So very thinly is the city peopled,
frigate which brought the Tunisian em aud so little is it frequented, that quails
bassy grounded on one of these shoals, and other birds are constantly sliot within
and the barbarians were obliged to be a hundred yards of the Capitol, and even
landed in boats. This is another great during the sitting of the houses of con
disadvantage to the growth of the city. It gress. Ten yeais ago Mr. Weld, speaking
never can become a place of commerce, of the President's house, tells us of its
while Baltimore lies on one side, and being then erected j and of an hundred
Alexandria on the other ; even admitting acres of land left sor pleasure-ground, and
the navigation to be equally good—nor a park, or mall, to run in an Easterly direc
can the wild and uneven spot laid out into tion towards the Capitol—that the build
streets be cleared and levelled /or building ings on cither side of this mall were all
upon, for many years, even with the most to be elegant of their kind, and that
indefatigable exertions. The Capitol, of among thewumber it whs proposed to have
which two wings are now finished, is of houses built at the public expence for the
fcewn stone, and will be a superb edifice, accommodation of public ministers. This
worthy of its'name. The architect who traveller then proceeds with informing us
built the first wing, left the country soon that other parts of this city are appointed
after its completion ; the corresponding for churches, theatres, colleges, 41c. 1st
part was carried on under the direction nearly the lame flute as Mr. Weld law the
of Mr. Latrobe, an Englishman * ; from city so long ago, it still remains, except
whose taste and judgment much may be indeed that some of the few houses which
expected in finishing the centre of the were then building are now falling to
building; the design of which, as shewn ruin, the unfortunate owner having been
to me by Dr. Thornton, is truly elegant. ruined before he could get them roofed.
* "Mr. Benjamin Latrobe is the second son of the late Rev. Mr. Latrobe, minister of
the Moravian Chapel in Fetter-lane, London, a man highly esteemed and respected,
not only by his own society, "but by all to whom he was known. His maternal rela
tions were natives of America. lie received his education at the school of the United
Brethren at Fulneck in Yorkshire, and afterwards went to prosecute his studies at their
seminaries at Nieslcy and Barby in Germany. On his return, he resided for some years
in London, where he held a situation in the Stamp-office. During this interval he
introduced himself to public notice as the translator of the " History of Counts Struen-
see and Brandt," and " Anecdotes of Frederic the Great of Prussia." Mr. Latrobe par
ticularly excels in the art of design, and to this talent he is probably indebted for bis
appointment to th." situation he holds in America, of which country he has been an
inhabitant, 1 believe, about twelve years. His brother, the Rev. Christian Ignatius
Latrobe, one of the present ministers of Fettei-lane Chapel, is distinguished for his
knowledge of music ; and their maternal uncle, Mr. John Antes, by birth an Ameri
can, and now resident at Fulneck, is well known for his mechanical genius, having
received several premiums for inventions and improvements from the Society of Arts.
This gentleman lived many years in Egypt, w»iere he made a personal acquaintance
with the celebrated Bruce, then engaged in his expedition to discover the source of the
Nile. There too he underwent the severe discipline of the bastinado; the particulars
of which.tranfaction, together with various observations on the country, were published
by him, about the year 180J.." Neither
643 Reoiew' af' New 'Publim'tioniz ' [Julyz .
Neither park, nor mall, neither churches, under the mortifying Circumſtihce of daily;
theatres, nor colleges, could I diſcover ſo witneffing whole 'rows oſ the ſhe'lls of his
vlately as the ſummer of 1'806. A ſmall houſes gradually falling to pieces."
place busindeed been erected ſince Mr.
Weld viſited Waſhington, in the Pennſyſ Let us trow tum to the ſtate oſ the
vania Avenue', called a Theat'e, in which Americau Navy.:
Mr. Green and the Virginia company of " lt his becn afferted that a-ſeventy
cornedians were nearly 'fiarved the only four gun ſhip was burltling on the' waters
ſeaſon it was occupied. and were obliged of the Potomdclt, from' which giteutn
to go off to Richmond during the very ſtance no doubt was entertained oſ iſ!
height of the fitting of Congrcſs. Pulzlic Channel being deep enough for ſhips of
offices (an each fide of the Prefident's any burthen. This, like moſt travellers'
houſe, uniformly-built oſbricſſk, may alſo, exaggerations, is not truebnoſhip of th'e
perhaps, have been built ſubſequent to line, nor \even a frigate, was ever coni
that period. That great manlwho planned ſtrutted on'the Potomztck. .'l'he ſhip car
the City, and after whom it is named, cer penters employed by Government have
tainly entertained the hopes that it would enough to do to repair thoſe already built,
at ſome future period equal anticnt Rome moſt oſ which 'te in a ſtate of decay. l
in ſplendnur and magnificence. Among ſaw the plank and ſome of the timbers oſ
the regulations for building were theſe the frigate called the United States, built,
that the houſes ſhould be oſbriclt or ſtone at Philadelphia,not twelve years ago, as
'l-thc walls to be at leaſt thirty feet high, rotten, that they crumbled to powder on
and to be built parallel to the line of the being handled. The timber oſ America
'ſtreet The Preſident's houſe is certainly is not ſo durable as that of Europe. The
a neat but plain piece of architeEture, only part of this City which continues to
built of hewn ſtone, ſaid to be oſ a better increaſe is the Navy-yard; but this circum;
quality than Portland ſtone, as it will cut ſtance is entirely owing to the few ſhips
like marble, and reſiſt the change of the oſwar which the Americans have in com
ſeaſons in a ſuperior degreel Only part miffion being ordered there to be fitted
of it is ſurniſhed'; the whole ſalary oſ the out and paid off. Tippling ſhops, and
' Preſident would he inadequate to the ex houſes of rendezvous for ſailors and their
pence of completing it in 'a ſtyle of ſuita doxies, with anumber of the loweſt orde'
ble elegauce. Roorris are fitted up for oſ traders, conſtitute what is 'called the
himſelf, an audience chamber, and Navy-yard. On my laſt viſit to this yardgl
apartments for Mr. Thomas Man Ran ſound ſix frigates, diſmantled and laid up
dolph, and Mr. Epps, and their reſpective in ordinary, ant-l one nearly equiſiped 'for
families, who married two of his daugh "ſea, for' the purpoſe of carrying back the
' - ters, and are members 'of the houſe of 'I'uniſian embaſſy to Barbary. A ſmall
repreſentativcs. The ground around it', veſſel of war, pierced for no gons, httd
inſtead of beinglaid out in a ſuitable ſtyle, juſt been launched. Mr. Jefſerſon, two
remains in its anti'ent rude ſtate; ſo that, years ago, adopted an idea of his own, in
in a, dark night, inſtead offinding your order to raiſe the'credit of the Ameriean
way' to the houſe, you inay, perchance, Navy, and for the deſtruction oſthe powers
fall into a pit, or ſtumble over a h'eap oſ of Barbary. This is, to builda number
nibbiſht The ſence round the houſe is of ſmall veſſels of about too tons-burden,
_ of the meanefi ſort; a common poſt and to be called gun-beats, each oſ which is
tail encloſure. This parſimony deſtroys provided with two heavy pieces of ord
- every ſentiment of pleaſure that ariſes in nance-bne at the ſtent, and the other at
_the mind, in viewing the reſidcn'ce of the tho-ſtern. Though the inutility of theſe
Preſident oſ a nation, and is a diſgrace to mockeries oſ men of war has been 'mani
the country. Among the ſufferers by the ſeſted on many oceaſtons, yet the Preſt
' Waſhington ſpeculation is Mr. Thomas dent perſiſts in riding his naval hobby
Lawli, who inveſted the greateſt part oſ the horſe, even in Kentucky 37 where ſeveral
money-he obtained in India in building gun-boars are building on the river Ohi'o.
near the Capitol, where he ſtill refides, One oſ them was nearly loſt on a voyage
to the Mediterranean-ct-belng, the Whole
* Of this gentleman, who is ſon of the voyage, to uſe a ſea phraſe, *' wet and
late Biſhop of Carliſle, andbrother to under water." Another, gun boat, No. l.
Lord Ellenborough, lord chief juſtice of (thus they are named, to No. 8,) in) hur'
the' Court ot King's Bench, and who, early ricane in _South Carolina, was driven
in life, went to the Eaſt lndies under the 'nearly a mile into the woods. Theſe veÞ
patronage oſ Mr. Haſiings, obtained ſcls muſt be very unmanageable in action.
through the intereſt of the Biſhop, and It would not be amiſs 'iſ the projectbk
there acquired a ſplendid fortune, ſome could invent a piece oſ mechaniſm whiCh
intereſting aneedotes ire given by Mr- Jan would quickly turn them round ; for, in
ſon, p. 'sit-157. - this caſe, they might as we turn a wheel,
firſt
[807.] limit-22, ofNew Maximian-I 649'
or about wooed. 133. 6d. ſlcrlinjtzſi-r'tolſſv
firſt preſent the head gunntnd then, while
lttvus lodding, by n magic' touch, in a ſc mttch more than 'he yearly charge oftwd
cond give a flcm ſhot-'i Thus tht-ſe nim line oſhattle ſhips in the Engliſh nxvy,
ble had redoubtcd gun-boars might chance munned, and wrth a year's proyiliohfl.
to beat off an Algerine or Tripuline rotrer. This too was a war yyear; in pence,
Added to theſe, the Americans have a their appropriatiun will hardly 'mount to
ſrig-ate and -two or three ſmall veſſels of a third uſ this ſum."
war in the. Meditertaneant. and which ..
bp'flitute their Nuvy. Oue oſ their fineſt
The deſcription oſ an Emhaſſ from
higates, in attempting'to bombard 'i*ripoli,
Turns; the extraordinary con nd tiſ
grounded; and et'ery exertion ofthe crew
the Turkiſh negotiatt'r, and the drunk
to get her off proved ineffcctual. She enneſs itſ lti' attendants; a deputation,
from the Cicek and Ot'age lnditms,v
was taken pufieflion of by the armed buttts
oſ the Barharians, and the whole crew their tippet-rance in the Houſe of Rd.
led into flnvery, where they endured prel'e'itatives, their ſongs, a dance of
greater hardſhips, and bore haavier bur SNVHLWS in the Walhiitgton Thcntre."
thens, than their own domeſtic Negro and the ſudden death of one oſ theici
flaves." clitefs, are particnhrly intereſting. '
*' Alexandria Was about eight years ago
a very flouriſhing place; but the great
A chapter un the Law inſpire: no
hfl'es ſuſtained from the capture of Ame very ſni'titmtble idea nt' its 'active in
rican veſſels by the French in the Weſt Antericn z and another. on t te Drnma.
lndies, oceaitioned many ſuilures. In the affntds very little encntiragement to the
year tlioa, the yellow fever, which broke ſorts and daughters of Theiþis.
out there for the firſt time. ſwept ofi'a '5 Charleſton has proved a grave to the
number of its inhabitants. Theſe (ht-cks theatrical 'corps in America. The high
havr ſo deeply affected 'the mercantllc in ſalaries given there, from the great plenty
tereſt, that the town has but two or three oſ money, and riches of the principal in
fltips in little
ereſiis the trade with uſ
proſpect Great Britain
its ever ;and habitants, who an: great amateurs, drew
attaining
thither numbers of perſormers on the eit
to its former proſperity. 'ſhe rim igation' piration of their en'g'tgenie'nts with the
'oſ' the, Potomack, on whoſe banks the Northern managers. Among thoſeofemi- 1
town is built, is very good. [queſtion 'tence who ſell a ſacrifice to an tmwhole
whether alinc of buttle thipmight not ſhine climute, we have te lament -Mrs..
come
of the up from which
wctharfs, the ſea,
is aand of zzag Wrighten, then married to Mr. Pownal,
lie altmqſide
diflance
a druggiſt in New York, 'nd one of her
miles. Six miles higher on this river is daughters, who 'as following the mo er
'the city of Waſhingtun, but a bar impedes in the ſame line of ſinge buſineſs. iſ'
the navigation up to the navy-yard of the Broadhurfl's denth 'me attended with me
Government. The following appropria lancholy circumſtances. Vtewing with
tions were made by the government of the 'dread the havoclt made among 'he perfor
United
year States
when theyforwere
theat Nzny for T'ſſipol't'.
war with '305. a mers, ſhe intreated her mother to ſpend
the ſick-ly mnnths with heron Sulltvan's
_ Doit'au L'c'ttr Ill-hid, a place at thoſe times of gret! ru
Pay and ſuhſinence ofoffi ſutt, and to permit her to decline n prof
cers. and pay of ſeaman 415..573 fered engage-ment 'as firſt weal perforate"
Prtwilious utmost; '0 in the eonecrts at the public gardens,
Medicines, inſtruments, ' The part-nt refuſed to acqnicſcc, 'nd the
hoſpital dores .- to.7so victim prognoſticuted the fatal conſequen
* Repuirs of v-efi'cls 411,9u A) ccs. She entered upnn 'he duties oſ her
The cur of manner MJQB 00 engagemcnt-ſhnga few nights-was then
Cloath' for the tnarlnes tfivsdd taken ill, and in a few daYs expired. 'ſo
Military ſtore-storm: nmritics miss this young and accompliſhed female mufl
Medicine and hoſpital (tares who be added Miſs Fontcnolle, who firſt ap
&mingent expences 8,4)9 peared in Motory M'Gilpin at Count-gur
Navrysrds,docks, elerits,&c.6'o,ooo den, and wht-ſe remains are interred nt
W Charlcſttm. in theliſt'of deaths in th"
' i,235.7g0 no place are alſo the names of Mr. William;
ſon, and Mr. ttnd Mrs Jones, from the
"Though the Anterican Navy is ſcarce Saliſbury theatre, Mrs. Kenna, and her
ly twelve years oldſ'yet the reader w;ll ſon, U riſing young ador. Mr. Jones had
perceive, by this charge, that the repztits riſen to eminence in the late Mr. Edwin"
ire nearly equal to the pay nndfi/ljf/t' ſtyle, and was acting-manne" under Pla
ent' nf the officer',' omit/te pay. Wit/te
' mt'n." ſſ* V
cide. Jones was ſucceeded in his mannge
mcnt by Mr. Yiliicrs, a young 'man oſ
con-r. Mr', Juiy, 1807.' ' \- * v - Superior
- T
<?5» Revitw of New Publicaliont, 0¥»
fjVjiexi^r address and «ducAtion,-who, from hous* to prevent w hich, the .manager^
qjs wo account, left a very genteel fa- are conflanUy making unavailing rempn,-)
mj.ly anif- good: connections to become a. strances.".; . ( To lat continued.) ,
player in America. His real name was
nut Villiers
ji£- v uiicisu ;, ui'-iu
aiui, from
and, uum theme fame
lame. motives
iihhivc* „, TM~,, n ■ . . Mrshod. ofrovermne - , . ,
whichl". probably influencedj u-
him to •••• fls.
conceal . . Smplural
„. r , , .•" 6,„ „ ,B ami . ■■■
•*t
that . Æ-
of his V_-i
family, r
I j i-
decline i
making j .u
the to-J. truettnp
„ * Children
^ ,. i
' Ivine
a p, the, SulijTonto
^ ,
...
J,scovery.
discovery. ,, was
He " a good, low, comic ? ac- Sertnnn -urmrlted
of a Strtnnn ^imtrlied
T at Hawley
Flaw eyJ Squared
Square
1
',' studying Nature in all he attempted j Chapel, \Ui rt r. By W. Vipondi. »
\ he was a great favourite. In the
and TWO Sermons fcv this vomifr
summer of 180.4, he came as far as New thndilt have been fully noticed in pp'.
York on the bulincfs of his theatre, and 5f>\ —.555. The present one, on a verjt
was proceeding up the Hudson riverto Al interesting subject, is lints introduced;'
bany, where the Old American Company " That i he general mcdiodof educating
v>ere performing, when he was suddenly Children differs widely from the Scriptu
seized wijhisickiicss.and lander) at a small ral plan, must be evident to all who seri
'Sffn [Called lifnpus, where he died, with ously copsider the subject. Whether the
the most violent, symptoms of the yellow following Sermon be calculated to lead
fever, imbibed during his short stay at New Parents to just views us this important
York* ' From this mortality, (he Ameri subject, and to a strict attention to the
can stage is at present somewhat depreci best interests of tbeir Children, judiciausj
ated ; arid it is not to be expected that Eng readers must determine. If it be, the
land can spare a supply of such performers Author trusts, that the Publick will re*
as have been hist tia'tned. with the celerity ceive it cordially : ifjiot, his caruefl wish
with which n Carolina climate may carry is, that it may fink into deserved con
them off. At New York Cooper has tempt !" . , t ,.s
lately -been invested with the theatrical Wiihout etiterinj into tlie drctrinal
command, having rented the theatre of part of Mr. Vipond's Discourse, some
the proprietors: from his taste in selection,,
added .to. his abilities in performance*, extracts (hall be sriveti which are cre»
muchtispxpctted. The deajtjh of Wignal di table to the Preacher. 1 -• ' ^
has>tbrpw.n:fh«, direction of the Philade|< " We are not to suppose that the Apostle
phia company, into the hands. of Wrarren,. intended to forbid necessary, or even (e-
who, is,well qualified for the arduous, un- vere correction ; but, l , all needless seve
Aertgkin^;. ,Wignal was. also, cat oft" sud rity. Never impose on them a painfu)
denly, He had recently married Mrs. task,.but when it is really, necessity ; and,
fylerry., andin.a verji sew tqojiths.she.was, li poiliblc,. always give them a reason for
latt,:in a tUte of second .widowhood. . eveyt .commaudjv which has the appear*
. ."-j.Wiliiarqs, who acquired, considerable ance oTjt'^yerity : tWs cannot be .done.. in
lwerary u^r^ty in. London under the as their insane.^,,.but should be attended to
sumed name of Anthony Tasquin, . and as early' as' .possible. This will" greatly
wlio has since been seduced to the .drudg tend to( conciliate t|ieir .ei^eem atid love j
ery of editing a.,rjoston ne»',fpape/y 'm his aptTjyheri this is done, yout, commands
late publication intituled ** The American^ wjirbe easy j the lieaviest1 yoke will ap
Drama," shows that he ppl{eiied:bu't little pear' liLtht to theoi, and instead ot beings
information on the subject. JJe^ffnone-. irritated, oj discouraged, they will obey
ou|iy asserts, tliat ' the first theiuripi) epm- you with puVasure, 2. Never punistj youf
y&y- on, record, who enacted ip.jSlurc'* children jor your .own pleasure, but for
Aaie/ina, is a little troop who. came,'.from, their profit S^oriie parents are notoriously
the*West,' Indies,- the ULanage.nient .Of. culpable'' bcijC : fond of displaying .thetf
whiatr devolved upon a performer, of the, power, ''and exercilliig their, authority ;
mine ofiHiHam, who tiavclled and per-! their children aje .called, to thei^Jjar likj
twrmcd .in jail principal towns,' With, criminals' upon the most, trifling occasions-
iouiewhat/ rjas>rc correctness hi reprobates and after, a few. aufterc. and. merac/
ltu%,cui\0K!..™f smoking segars, .aud drink,-, ing e\pr'eH)onsj are punished in a ni4nj
iric, . in the, American theatres. . 'thefithif ner which ,o,ngUt never to be "done, but
custom is, ipoiV sailie,\(4iat abated—the, in. capital Ciisesl. Such* a tine" of cbriducil
Icajity pr^ctty.c..Increases, 'she lobbies of especially -v\'h^n strangers are present-,
all' AruEricauuhcatr.es ace pro; used wiihi j5efpe,iks.'th"e parent a. tyrant ';. and is di-
bar-rooms, f.o which the men resort bfti rectly calculated. to . juort ify. and, pn>v«ke '
tween each-act to drirk,, and- from which. the chili'.. t Let ytiur cliildutn scc._tbat.yQu
th«*ladie> are regaled, in thair seats with have no pleasure its puilisliing .(fie n't at alt ;
glasses of their favourite beverage, . Thus, and. that, when you are under the necesi
avLthe fall of the curtain, the dufnhtg fel- lity of doiug'itj you have no desire to. cx-
Iqws arc in a state of intoxication, S pol'elhem.' 3. Never continue the punish-
\ng, is a still greater evil in a crowd ment longir .than is jealljf peedsul t^bring'
theaa
i *fc>7.] Relriew of New fubffcathm. v« 6$t &
tHeMVferefentancjYnd'fu'bmissinn. Many made more acqaaintcd with' flie BiBWi'^
children are' irritated even to desperation, 1 lie practice, that too much prevail*,' bf*'
by being punished for a"n improper length almost discarding the Bible in some semi-' *
of time : despairing of restoration to fa naries of learning, is insufferable ! Hu- '
vour, they become the most obstinate re man compositions, however, good, bear '
bels ! As soon as an offending child hum vety little proportion in real value to the I
bles himfelfand becomes penitent, a Chris Bibk'.- I am persuaded that incalculable ;
tian parent is bound by his religion, as advantages would arise from making. chil-:t
well as reason, to forgive, and restore his dren well acquainted with the Scriptures •
child to favour again. /Ynd this ought while young. Infidels would not rind i.t ,
always to be done in* "a way that is calcu so easy a. matter to corrupt
curjupt the
sue minds
minus of
ot
lated to convince the child that the parent our youth, h, if they were well acquainted. ,
feels a far -greater pleasure in forgiving with the word of <Ood ; Injtj haying a verK j
than in punishing. 4. .Never withhold quaintance with it, their etteenY
sligfit acq'uainta
from your children, the encouragement and veneration for it is small ; and* a few"
they deserve. This greatly tends to dis plausible objections' railed by a witty'infi-
courage and provoke them.' ' The appro dcl will shake thetr faith : and finding thfe*v
bation of a parent is, in the estimation of Bible unfavourable to their sinful propen- '
a child, a very great reward. It encoura sities, they are soon brought to disbelieve;,
ges them to obey your command*, and to or at least disregard it entirely." - '< »
endeavour to pleale you/ ' The hope of Mr.Vipond's Address both to Parents
reward sweetens labour,' and is one of and Children injudicious j and to those.,
the principal springs of exertion. This who alledge that " ih.-y have delayed
hope a wife parent will nqt disappoint,
because that would tend-to destroy it : he too long—that iheif authority overrheir1
will rather use every lawful and prudent children is loll," lie properly replies, '
means to keep it alive. At the fame time " This indeed furnishes matter of- the ,
your children must be taught that it* ts _ deepest regret and sorrow ; but still fhere.
their «!uty to obey you «•/(tour any reward ; is ht'pe. The bitter consequences of your
and that the rewards youi 'bestow' upon past neglect will follow you, and"*('tis^
them are so many proofs of "your affection probable) embitter all ybuT future' Hays ^
and favour. 5. Be not difficult to' be but still something may be dbrie: Bf'rea-'
pleased. This is a great fault in a'parent, soning, by ihtreating, rfnd by' mildly'&nd
and has the most unhappy influence upon cautfouAy endeavouring* to exert your au-*
the mind of a child. If your children thority, you may yet recover your jhftu- '
endeavour to please you, and you are sa ence (at least. in part't, and' preserve your"
tisfied they intended it, you ought, to be families from utter ruin, I f: you cannot i
pleased ; yea, even though you disap do ail you would, -neglect not to dA<all>>'
prove of the action itself! You may easily you caii., ; and lament the past folly by'
shew that you are pleased with the inten which .you are now fettered. Lose 'not a
tion, though you discountenance the ac single hour, bat in:nicdi»!fjy enter upon,
tion. If children find, after several at your duty in the njnne.ol the Lord.". . ,
tempts to please their parents, that they
are not pleased, they will be discouraged, ,g6. Case os the Bjslmp is Oxford" 'a$i'-n£{
and not likely soon to attempt it 'again : she Parish os Ptddington, in a Cuusc vs
but if they hnd their attempts.succ'efsful, Simony; n traded sftin East's Reports
they will lie encouraged to persevere.". . . . . for ' Easter' and Trinity Terittt, "•sob,
" A general acquaintance with the word li'ith an dpyentHx,- idniniifing the Kn-
of Truth is of the utmost importance. dowmentsoj Ambrosdcn and Plddirigtorf?
Even thole parts_ of Scripture generally A CHAI'KL i:i .the tnwnlhip of
styled Historical, contain 1'uch a rich va»- Piddingtn'n was endowed, in I428, by
riety of important narratives delivered in a deed execu'ed by the ihetl Inipropria-
a style Ib simple, ai.J yet so striking, that tor ofthe reclorv, the then Vicir, and
they can hardly sail to. interest a young the Inhabitant* of • the township, and
mind ; and the vices of. men are lo re confirmed by the Diorelim; whereby,-*
corded as to make them appear mure odi in consideration of a yearly payment to'
ous, when viewed in connexion with their she Vicar, it was provided, that thei
conl'equeuces and punishments, by far, Cunte of the laid chapel should re-,
than they would have appeared, had the reive all the tithes doc to the Visas
inspired w riters reasoned upon, their ifn- from the slid Iriiiatiitatoh). and' should
-ptopriety. Domestic scenes :ire here repre
sented in a style limply elegant, and truly be appoiii'ed bv them ; under which
affecting. .The young reader will find deed they continued iO' exercise ilie
pleasure in viewing them* arid pleasure power of appoininienl and prcfenia-
will lead to profit. I cannot help lament ijnn. In 1797 C767). «» Act palled
ing that the riling "generation are not ijjr itjcloling upen lands in the town-:
ship ;
652 \ Revfew of New Pub'ficd'iom; ', with', -<
_ i
zsoz-i awe MdLQIZiziLRUWÞWHPrc/'ffwntr- so;
- . .G,\7,5,12T5.l*;(tpmorroxs.
Whilehbll, . _
' IGHT Hon'.1 FranclsſſLOrd _,John Vttillant, _eſq.'£_eni0r ofythe ſon!
common plquders
erectedajudſige of the
of the Ciryfot' London!
Sheriilſsflquyh vie?
Apn'l 15, Napier, Appointed-his'Ma:
jefiy's high commiih'one'r to thc_61eneral
Aſſemblyof thc__(}h_uſirch of Scti'tlandſk'
Long, doe. 54; and William) di. Jiilicn'Ara
bin, viii] of' the li'th-et Temple,- admitted'
one of tlicct Four vonſſimon illa-riders of,tliq
Mr. William Olivgi, jun. advocate), tojbc
ſheriffidepute of the ſhire ctdl" 'Roxbtirglta
rite his father, relished. ct ct
City of, London, me Vafilpnt. .
\
Win-tun,
vacate, 111.'1119:hitDavid
appointed Boyle,Solici'tor-ſi
Maiſeſly's are, Adz' > .E£CLES[ASTHZAL PREFERMZNTQL
EV. dunitiel_ſſWli.re, M. A-. rector , of,
gfineral in Scotl;tnd.*-,-._lohn-llay
et'q. advocate, Forhcsſ
appointed. ſheriff-tlepute'oſſf -_ lBrighnyell, c .Oxloid, Harnpſtead)
the ſhire of Pertl'i, ſivicr Colquhoun. A perpetual curacy, zdcilz-ſcxrvicc war-ſ
Wooden. . -'- _ _- - -
Queen's polace, May 13. Right "on,
Richard Earl oſ Clancarty, ſworn of hisſi Rer. G. XV. Oriſlow, _VViſ1ey,R., and,
Purſortl V. Stint-5 vice Buſkgrt, dec. _
Majeſty'> moſt honou rable PrityCouiiciL Rcv. lVilliam Vincent, _D. D. lflip R,'
Jonah B.trringtnn, eſtrl Ll..-D._judge of the co.,0xll_:rd, von his own pruſcntation, 1as
HighCourtoſAdmiraltyinlrel.md,ltnighted. bean
- Rev.ofJohn
Wctiminſter, L'iſl? Cope,
R.>bc'ts, M.A. dcc.
Dymeirchionſi
Queen's palqcc,_May 2), Right llmi." V. inctFl'ntſhirc, rit-e Ellis, dcc. , 5
Henry Pierrepont, ſwarn of his'Majeſty's
moſt honourable Privy council. Rev. Richard Gooch, Froſtenden R. co.
[White/vall, [May 23. Right Hon. George Cambridge, '
Earl of Crawſurd, appointed, lieurenant Rcv. Anthony
dlethorpe, Saleby Eikrigg,
V. co. rector of oireſſ
Lincoln, Atl
and ſheriff-principal of Fiſeſhire. ,
' H'Ili'ehall, lWay 30. Right Rev. Dr. Birch, ilec. 3, ) .'_
John Fiſher, Biſhop of Excter, tranſlated Rev." Philip Du Val Aufrere, Bacton V.
to the ſee of Saliſbury, 'vic'c- Douglas, dec 99. Norfolk. '
Foreign office, Downing-fl-rect, June I; Rev. William Wright Wilcoc_ks, Bamey
Right Hon. J, Hookham Frere, appointed V. co. Norfolk. ,
his Majeſty'senvoy extraordinary and mi Rev. Thomas Hydc, rcctor of St. Mar
niſter plenipotentiary to the Court of Pruſ tiu's, Oxford, llcllidon V. co. Northampt,
fia; and George Jackfon, eſq. to berhis .Ret'. Samuel Smith, late. chapluin tq
Majeſty's ſecretary of legation at that Court. the Houſe of Commons, to a canonry of_
W'hitehall, July II Right Rev. Dr. Chriſt Church, Oxford, vicr the Biſhop v
of Bangor, rctctigncd. -
George Pelham, Biſhop oſBriſiol, tranſlaj
ted to the ſee of Exeter, vice Dr. Fiſher, Rev. J. Dutis, chaplain to the Govern
prpmoted to that of Saliſbury, ' mcnt chapel at Portt'mouth, King's Laugz
_ . -<-- ley' V. Hens. -
CrVrL PROMOTioNs. Reir. J. Parker, M. A. Riccall prebend,
RlFFIN
cordeſ of WILSON,
theſiboroughcſq. clcctcd
of New Windrc in York catherlntl, Fire Prelton, det'.
R'ev. Nicholas Simons, M. A. St. Mad.
ſor, vice Villiers, reſignedſi * garet R. inand
refigned; Canterbury,
Minſtcr V.viceinChampneys,
the Ille ſ
Rev, Theophilus Lame, LL.B. prehend?
ary of Hcreſord, elcctcd maſter oſ, the 'ſhamet, vice;>Doclſworth= dcc. ,
grammar-ſc'hool on Leffiſham-hill, Kent, Rev. Thomas Milnes, Agnes Burton
rim Thornhill. dec. _ - with Harpham R. annexed, co.l'ork; and
Rev. YV.'Bayley, M, A. elected maſter Rev. John Forth, Weſt Hefiertmi R. in
of Midhurſt ſchool, Suſi'ex, vice the Rcv. the ſame county; 'both vice Dade, dec.
Dr. Wooll, appointed head- maſter of Rev. H. C. Carleton, B. A. P'uſton-up;
Rug'ny ſchool, co. Warwick. on-Srour perpetual curacy, co. -Gl0uccſ
Rev, 'Francis- John - Hyde Wollaſton, ter, vice Homer, dec. .
B. A', Jackſonian profeſſor at Cambridge,. Rev, H. Anthony Pye, M.A. Cirenceſj
elcEted maſter of Sidney college, in- that ter perpetual curacy, co. Glouccſter, Hiſ
Univerſity, vice Elliſton, rlec. - v Willcs, icſigned. - 5
Henry Holland, eſq. appointed one of _ Rev. llenry Biſhop, M. A.- Ardlcigh V.
the Policc magiſtrares for the borough of Eſſex, z-irc Kelly," reſigned. '
Southwark, m'rc Smith, rcſigned. Re'. William Douglas, d1anoellor and
The Earl of Dartmouth, elected a vice canon of Saliſbury, to a preberidal ſtall in
preſident' of the Society oflArts, Manu Weſiminflcr, vice Rev. Thomas Hughcs,
ſactures, and Commerce, vice. the Duke appointed a reſidentiary of St. Paul's.
of Richmond, dcc.; and Mr. 'Thomak Rev. E. W. Eaſtcourt, Shipton-Moync
Woodfall, elected allillant-ſecretary to the R. year 'l'ethury, vice Bowen, reſigncd.
ſaidEdward
Society,Morrisſeſq.
vice CharlesM.P.
Comhc, reſizned.
for Newþorſſt, Rev. Sidney Smith, lecturer at the Royal
lnſtirution, London, Foſton R. on. Yarlt.
co. Cornwall, and' ſon-in-law to L'ord Rev. Richard Whittingham, Potton V.
Erſkine, appointed
uirc Pepys, religned.a maſter' in uChancery,
ſſ 4 co. Bedtord, vice Afilcck, dec. R .
\- on'
66a Ecclesiastical Preferments.— Dispensations. [July,
Rev. Richard Smith, M. A. Hutton- Rev. George-Frederick Nott, B.D. Stoke
Wannesley otherwise Marston R. near Canon cure, Devon, vice Buller, dec.
York, vice Preston, dec. Rev. Arthur Farvell, B.A, St. Martin's R.
Rev. Samuel Shipley, M. A, Ashborne near Looe, Cornwall, n'cePowlett, resigned.
V. with Mapleton R. co. Derby, vice Rev. John Jope, St. Ive's R. Cornwall.
Webb, dec. Rev. William Baker, S.C.L. Gerrans R,
Rev. Philip Howes, M.A. SpixworthR. Cornwall, vice Jope, resigned.
co. Norfolk, Dice Longe, dec. Rev. Richard Dods, M. A. Fleet R. co.
Rev. Bcnce Bence, LL. B. Kelsale with Lincoln, vice Ashley, dec.
Carlson and Thorington RR. Suffolk, vice Rev. R. Morres, Great Chiverell R. co.
Golding, dec. ; and Beccles R. in the Wilts, oiVe Lawrence, .resigned.
fame county. Rev. Joseph Thompson, curate of Ford,
Rev, Hush Thomas, M.A. Llysvaen R. Lanchester Cur. in the diocese of Dur
in North Wales. ham, vice Walker, dec.
Rev. John LeeMartyn, M.A. St. George Rev. Thomas Jennings, vicar of Dorm-
the Martyr R. Queen-square, Bloomlbury. ington, St. Peter's V. and St. Owen's R,
Rev. Christopher Cookl'ou, Chcrry-Wil- (consolidated), in the city of Hereford,
linghamV. near Lincoln. vice Freeman, dec.
Rev. Robert Jones, B. D. Soulderne R. Rev.Thomas-Ellis Rogers, LackfordR.
co. Oxford, tire Horseman, dec. co. Suffolk, vice Graves, dec.
Rev. James Barker, B.A. Newmarket Rev. George Gordon, of Sedgebrook,
St. Mary R. with Woodditon V. annexed, precentor of Exeter, Horbling V. co. Lin
in the diocese of Norwich. coln ; and the Rev. Henry-Kaye Bonney,
Rev. Thomas Lloyd, M.A. Lewesden V. M. A. Naffington prebend, in Lincoln ca
CO. Northampton, vice Goodwin, dec. thedral ; both rice Lodington, dec.
Rev. 'William Hardyman, B.D. Great Rev. Frederick Apthorp, M.A. vicar of
LuffenhamR. co. Rutland, vice Asfleck.dec. Bicker, co. Lincoln, Gumley R. co. Lei
Rev. Mr. Kenrick, Teinton Regis pre cester, vice Gordon, resigned.
bend, in Salisbury cathedral; and Rev. Rev. Edmonston, Pottern V.
Martin Whish, Bedminster and Abbot's Wilts, vice Douglas, resigned.
leigh VV. with the chapels of St. Mary Rev. James Blackburn, M.A. appointed
Redclift and St. Thomas, in Bristol; all afternoon lecturer of St. Nicholas's, in
vice Spry? dec. Newcastle, vice Forster, resigned.
Rev. John Edgar, M.A. Spexall R. co. Rev. Robert Hughes, B. D. Yelford R,
Suffolk, vice Gunning, dec. co. Oxford, vice Pearce, resigned.
Rev. Charles Mules, Pampisford V. Co, ' Rev. John Brooke, M. A. Whittlesford
Cambridge. V. co. Cambridge.
Rev. George Turner, Kettleburgh R. ' Rev. Francis Erefwell, B.D. Walding-
co. Suffolk. field Magna R. Suffolk, vice Boyce, dec.
Rev. James John Hornby, Southrepps Rev. —, Bushby, to the lectureship
R. co. Norfolk. of St. John's church in Leeds, co. York,
Rev. John Smythies, M. A. Alphcton vice Flint, dec.
R. Suffolk. Rev. J. B. Sams, of Bury, Honington R,
Rev. Robert Clifton, B.A. to a minor Suffolk*, vice Saffery, dec.
canonry of Worcester cathedral, vict Har Rev.Ph.Dodd, St. Mary-at-Hill and St.
rison, dec. AudrewHubbardR. London,tnccBrand,dee.
Rev. Stephen Sloane, B. A. Gedney R.
co. Lincoln ; and Rev. Wm. Barker, Sil- Dispensations.
verton R. Devon ; b th vice Rathleigh, dec. REV. Edward Waldron, to hold Hamp-
Rev. George Stephenson, M.A. curate to.n-1-ovett R. with Ruibock R. both
of Bishopwearmouth, Kelloe V. co. Dur co. Worcester ; the formersice Douglas, dee,
ham, vice Longftaff, dec. Rev. H. Quartley, M.A, to hold Hitchen
' Rev. A. Cotton, M.A. Girton R. -co. R. co. Northampton, with Wolverton V.
Cambridge, vice Fisher, dec.
• Rev. Matthew Place, Hampreston R. co.Rev. Bucks.
Charles Isham, M. A. rector of
co. Dorset, vitte Harbin, dec. Polebrook, to hold Oundle V. with Pole-
Rev. W. J. Rees, M.A. eurate of Stoke- brook R. both co. Northampton.
Edith,' co. Hereford, Cascob R. co. Radnor. Rev. James Dashwood, M. A. to hold
Rev. John Buckworth, B.A. Dewibury Lortg Sutton V. co. Lincoln, with Doding-
V. CO. York; vice Powlev,'dec. ton R, co. Cambridge. -
Rev. Valentine. Hill, Wells R. Norfolk. Rev. Richard Whish, M.A. rector of
Rev. Edward Drewe, ■ht.B. Broadhem- West Walton, Norfolk, to hold Whichford
bary V. Devon, vice Simons, resigned. V. co. Warwick.
Rev. Favell Hopkins, M:'A. Duxford Rev. George Biggs, M. A. to held Up
St. John V. co. Ca-mbridje; vice Crefwcll, ton-Warren R. with Hales-Owen V. both
resigned. in the diocese os Worcester.
Pro-
[ 663 J
PllOCEEDINes IN THE FlKST SESSION OF THE FOURTH PARLIAMENT OT
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 180?.
House of Commons, June 20. them, and demanding the justice which
Viscount Newark, on rising to move an the late Ministers had a right to claim ;
Address to his Majesty, descanted in a namely, that, if those paflages were meant
feeling manner on die virtues,of the So as charges, they should be fairly brought
vereign ; and observed, that by availing forward ; and if as insinuations, they
himself of the only constitutional mode of should be made clear. He begged to be
collecting the sense of his people, the considered as deeming his Majesty's Speech;
House had bucome the organ of expressing the Speech of the Ministers by whom it
the public opinion. The Country had, was advised, and who alone were respon
beyond all question, (hewn its determina sible for its contents ; and however fever*
tion to support his Majesty in the exercise the expressions he might find it his duty
of his prerogative, and in his efforts to to use on this subject, he trusted they
withstand every unconstitutional innova would not be misconstrued to mean any
tion. He then adverted to the different thing derogatory from-that respect which
topics in the Speech ; expressed his hopes, he was always ready to pay to the Sove
that the reverses we had experienced were reign. But the Mover and the Seconder
only partial and temporary ; was happy had concluded their speeches, as his Ma
to hear that the enquiries commenced in jesty's Speech concluded, by calling for
the last Parliament would be prosecuted Unanimity. Intone point alone he feared
In the present ; and concluded with the that he could 'Ingres with them, that
following remark on his Majesty's Speech: there never was a more awful crisis ; that
" He calls on us to cherish among our the Country was never in greater danger ;
selves a spirit of union and harmony ; and and that there never was a greater demand
when, I would ask, was ever such a sug for unanimity and eo-operation, if they
gestion more seasonable, or more impres could be obtained : but, while the word
sive ? We have still an arddous confli6t " unanimity" was on their lips, they in
to sustain ; we have to withstand and coun troduced topics which must necessarily
teract the hostility of a powerful, invete produce division. They had called the
rate, and rancorous Foe ; and have surely attention of the House to the late dissolu
need of all our united energies for the tion of Parliament ; and both had con
attainment of a secure and honourable tended, that the power of dissolving Par
peace."—His Lordship then moved the liament was an indisputable prerogative
Address of Thanks to his Majesty, which, of 1 he Crown, given for the advantage of
as usual, reiterated the sentiments of the the subjects ; but neither of them had
Speech. stated that this, like every other preroga
Mr. Hall seconded the motion ; and ob tive, was subject in its exercise to be con
served that his Majesty had asserted the sidered by Parliament. Alluding to the
just rights of the Constitution, and of our measure relative to the Catholics, he said,
civil and religious establishments, and he had scarcely recovered from the asto
felt himself obliged to combat with firm nishment which it had occasioned. He
ness those whom he had lately called to noticed the complaint of the last Speaker,
his Councils. He submitted to the House, that undue influence had been used by
what a monstrous conclusion must be the late Ministry ; but it was evident that
drawn from the extraordinary assertion, the present had used such influence by
that the King could have no conscience wholesale. Unless Parliament were to>
but what was in the keeping of his Minis fay at once, that the prerogatives of the"
ters ! The voice of the People had been Crown ought to be curtailed, and that
sufficiently expressed by the general con Parliament should be rendered permanent,
currence which dictated their Addresses it could never be contended that any dis
from every part of the Kingdom. The solution was better timed than that which
measure proposed by the late Ministry was took place under his Majesty's lale Minis
unwise and uncalled-for ; and the refusal ters. At the end of a Negotiation which
of his Majesty was necessary, to prevent left little hope of a Peace, it was surely
the abolition of the Constitution. 1 H« advisable to shew the Enemy and the
concluded with calling upon theOpposition Allies of the Country, that the King, the
Members to feel for the situation of the Parliament, and the People, were deter
Country, the safety of which was at stake, mined to unite in withstanding all the
and ia the support of which all parties essorts of an unrelenting Enemy. Nes-er
*rtre equally interesttd. did greater unanimity prevail than on that
Viscount Hoitick said, there were in the occasion. But the Gentlemen opposite,
Speech, as well as the sentiments of the by the diffjlution which they had advised,
two Gentlemen who hadjust spoken, pas had created an infinity of public and pri
sages so extraordinary, that he could not vate inconveniences ; they had produced
defer calling the attention of the House to the utmost disunion ; and, instead of unit>
664. Preeeedings in the press i Seffion of Parliament. [July,.
>ng the people* they !had, kindled religious fensed to be. He then proceeded to cen
animosities, set man against man,, -ahd sure the restoration of the Inspecting Field
brother ngaiitst. brother : they, had. let the Officers to the Volunteers ; and iflkcd
'people of Ireland against the .people .of. whether the allusion in the Speech to the
England, by shewing,.the great, body of close connexion about to be formed with
Irisli that the English were unfavourable our Allies, was meant to inlinuate, that
10 their claims. Such conduct would be the late Ministers had neglected to do their
at any time criminal ; but, when it was duty on this subject ? He deprecated the
considered with rcfeici.ice to the neceijity introduction of the topic in the Speech,
that existed for making a due tmpreiiion which alluded to our reverses in Egypt,
on. our Allies, it became still moie it?.— and the rupture with Turkey; recom
He then detailed the advantages which mended a system ofcoaciliHtion to be pro
he conceived would haveai ifcnso the pub- posed for Ireland:; and observed, that, if
lick from the number of private bills which, he w.ae an enemy to the pralent Adminis
had been introduced in the l^tL. Patha? tration, it was because he was convinced
silent, and brought almost to the last stage, that such,an Adrhinistration was pregnant
when it was dissolved. He added, thai with the greatest dangers to the King and
the late M misters were about to propole tlie Constitution; He concluded by mov
tome expedient for the rel,cf of. the India ing an Amendment to the fame effect as
Company; ,but these, and all their other that in the House of Lords (fee p. 578.)
acts anil intentions, had been frustrated The Ckauteltor of the Exchequer fol
by the dissolution.. Aud for what purpose lowed LordHowick through all the points
had all these mischiefs been occalioned i on which he had touched. He insisted,
The inconvenience of dissolving the Par that his Majesty's advisers would have
liament, at such a tinie was particuiaily been culpable, if they had let a moment
great ; it was indeed an event which pass without causing an appeal to be made
Ought not to be tolerated in constitutional to the People; and that the circumstances
times.—The I louse were now told, that which Lord H. had brought forward to
they were called together merely for a condemn the measure, were in themselves
month, to w jud up the business of the last a lustilication of it. He meant to strew
Parliament, If a month, would be, suffi that the sums voted by the last Parliament
cient for- that purpose in the present Par for the Public Expenditure had been pro
liament, a month would have been suffi perly applied by the present Ministers;
cient for inn the last. The late Ministers adverted to the probable consequences of
■would scarcely have obje6ted to their own affording those indulgences to "the Cathor
measures. No necessity, therefore, did lies which the line Ministry had endea
pxiil. Why then, did they take this step ? voured to obtain for them ; denied that
In order that an appeal Ihould be made to any blame was -intended to be thrown on
the People, as it was staled in his Majes the late Ministry for the rupture with Tur
ty's Speech, while recent events were fresh key, or our. failure in Egypt; contrasted
la their recollection ; in other words, the restoration of too Inspecting Officers,
during the prevalence of that bale cry, who were necell'ary, with 300 Surveyors
which, it was hoped, would have an in of taxes,, appointed by tlve late Ministry,
fluence on the Elections, lie defied any who 'Weft unnecessary, and whose ap
other interpretation ..to . be ;tnade of this pointments were unauthorised ; aud con
proceeding-}, although, in Jais Majesty's cluded with hoping, that, as theroiwere
(Speech.there was something (ike. au at? no gi 911rids for the amendment, the House
tempt, at this, and in theVil'count's Address would reject it. ' ..
much more. His Lordship next entered, Mr. Wtndham contended, at some length,
at great length into a defence- of Ministers that the late dissolution was illegal ; and
for bringing forward the measure relative had been effected by the present Ministers,
to the Catholics ; .and asscited, that no who availed themselves of a public delu
persons, except thole whe , had only, the sion, of which the Pt oplealready repented,
capacity of &xhM»; egt^djhejiyL-ve^ that it ; General Craufurd, Mr. D. jBrotratt,
was.inco^ryjatibie w/th,Jtbi,..Cwctiawon Mr. Canning, Sir A.HMefiry, and Mr.
Oijtlr. ;. and he wondered, fhovy. Ministers Jiatiiurfi, spoke in warm terms in favour
could, with,.cammoH aece^njy^.aiitrtjthat ot the Address ; and Mr. Grattan made a
iiiS.aisIalo.tion iiad/be^n-rqndereu necessary vigorous defence of the late Ministry, ia
i% the mainteria»ce o£;the just rights of the course of which he ridiculed tlve cry
she Crown ana the tcu,^ principles of the that had been raised os " No Popery ;" and
^Constitution.—-In allusion, to^sooie cora,- observed, that the Irish people were to*
pliments which had beep, paid by Mt, wise to put a serious corrjtment on so sense
Half to Mr. ,P|tt,.his Lwofhip, 'said, hi less a text. . '•• '?
'should belie thewhole of his political tife, At six the House divided ;• when there
Jjreje he, ."to consider him as the. exjttaotdi- were, For the Amendment 15,5—Against
jiary Statepajan which,jjf tj/fa bteft,fSH«r iU50—M.ajpfity in favotutuf Ministsia lflS,
1 807J Proceedings in the pn rent StJJion of Parliament. 66$
June 20. ing a pension of 1O00L a yeas to Gtfieral
Mr. Bankes obtained leave for a Bill, Sir J. Stuart.
prohibiting the granting of offices in rever Lord Cn/itcreagh, after a Very elaborate
sion, or for joint lives, with benefit of panegyrickon the gallant and meritorious
survivorship. services of that brave Officer, moved the
Mr. Pen el-al rose to put the House in grant, which was agreed to nem. con.
possession of the plan he proposed to adopt Leave was given, on the motion of Mr.
in regard to the Private Bills which Roje, to bring in . Bill to continue the
dropped through the late Dissolution. A American Trade Bill.
little delay, he was confident, would be
attended with no erabaralfrneot to any June So.
individual. He intended to propose, that The Chancellor of the Exchequer movei
a Committee should be appointed on each for the revival of the Committee of Fi
of those Petitions where evidence had nance. He had adverted to the original
been taken ; and thnt Committee would formation of the Committee, and was de
ascertain, from the minutes of the evi sirous to keep as closely to it as the nature
dence already taken in the last Parliament, of the circumstances would admit ; and
that it was precisely the same matter. as the rule had been, that no one should be
Thus would all differences be materially on the Committee who formed a part of
done away, and the B ils ■would then be his Majesty's Government, to that rule he
brought in upon the ultimate determina should adhere. The House would recol
tions of those subsequently constituted lect that much had been said by the late
Committees. Ministers on granting places in reversion.
Lords H. Petty and Hmviek, and Mr. He had very lately come to the knowledge
Curwm, resisted the Resolution. of as extraordinary a grant of a reversion, as
Mr- C. Lefevre moved, that the debate had ever been heard of. A very short time
be adjourned till to-morrow. since the late Ministers granted, in rever
The House divided, when the amend sion, the places of Collector, Comptroller,
ment was negatived by a majority of 164 Aic. of Buenos Ayres, though they knew
to 76. at the time the place was not then in our
Sir H. Mildmay called the attention of possession. There was another appoint
the House to the misrepresentations against ment, which be thought fully as excepti
him, founded on the 4th Report of the onable, the appointment to the patent
Committee of Military Inquiry. He de office of Gazette Writer in Scotland ; that
tailed the nature of the bargain into which office was created by the late Administra
he had entered with Government foraffign- tion, and given to one of their friends with
ing his house and grounds for the use of a salary of 300i. a year. Ever since 17BS(
the troops at Chelmsford ; and solemnly this business had been done by three news
declared that he had never interfered in paper writers in Edinburgh, who had
the awards and valuations of the survey ' been appointed to the office by Mr. Pitt,
ors, which were extremely moderate; but, on the express condition that no expence
if any man thought it otherwise, he was whatever ssiould thereby accrue to this
ready to submit to a re-valuation, or to country ; and they had been perfectly sa
explain in any way that the House should tisfied therewith, and actually owned that
think fit to direct. He concluded by they made an advantage of about 200/. a
moving that a copy of the Memorial he year from the service it was of to their pa
bad presented this day to the Commis pers. Yet those men were turned out by
sioners of Military Inquiry he laid before the late Administration, for the purpose of
the House. appointing one os their own adherents,
Mr. S. Bourne vindicated his conduct. with Ib considerable a yearly salary. There
Mr. Martin justified the Report of the were, he said, a great number of others \
Commissioners. , , but he could assure the House he did no*
Mr. Canning considered the charge as mean to go through them all. [A loud
false and unfounded. laugh.] l ie would not mention the pro
Lord Houick declared he was not satis fessors of medical surgery and medical ju
fied with the explanations given. risprudence ; for he never before heard of
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, such offices, and therefore he did not pre
he was perfectly satisfied of the falsehood tend to understand what they meant.
of the imputations against his Friend. There was one more gran', however, that
Lord // Petty justified Mr. S. Bourne. he could not omit trv notice, which was
After forne observations from Mr. O. that of a pension, during pleasure, to a
lf\ Du>id<a, Geneial Hope, Mr. T. Carsui, Civil and Criminal Judge in Scotland.
Mr. A/hley, &c. the motion was agreed to. This was only not carried into execution,
The House then resolved into a -Com because those who were to do it hesitated,
mittee on his Majesty's Message, respect- from a doubt whether they could- legally
Gt-NT. Mao. July, 1807. fcseerui
9
f$66 Parliamentary Intelligent •.—London Gazettes. [July,
become parties to such a transaction. He Rutherford ; and for Ireland, Mr. Grattan
would now read the names of the Com and Mr. L. Foster. He then moved, that
mittee as thev stood ; and point out, as he a Committee be appointed to consider
Went on, those who were on it before, what regulations and checks may be es
and those who were not. Mr. Bankes, tablished to controul the public Expen
was on the former ; Mr. Biddulph, was ; diture in Great Britain an'd Ireland j and
Mr. Leicester, not ; *.Ir. Alderman Shaw, whether any further improvements may
not ; Lord H. Petty, was ; Mr. H. be made therein, by retrenchments and
Browne, was ; Mr. Grattan, was ; Mr. other means, &c.
Joddiel, not ; Mr. H. Addington, not ; Lord H. Petty defended the late Admi
Mr. Leslie Fnster, not; Lord A. Hanilton, nistration.
was ; Mr. H. Thornton, was ; Mr. VV. Mr. Canning made some severe com
Cavendish, not; Mr. Alderman Combe, ments on the late Ministers, in bestowing
was ; Mr. N. Calvert, not ; Mr. T. Bar places and pensions ; and after some re
ing, not ; Mr, Brogdea, was ; Mr. marks from many Members,
H jlme Sumner, not; Mr. P. Carew, not; Lord Hourick objected to Mr. Leicester,
Mr. i!uthers;>rd, not ; Mr. Ryder, not ; and proposed Mr. Sharp ; on which the
and Mr. Ellison, not. He had wished to House divided, when there were—For
name seme Gentlemen particularly for Mr. Sharp, Ayes 149—Noes 244—Majo
Scotland and Ireland, and those were, rity for Mr, Leicester 95.
for Scotland, Lord A. Hamilton and Mr. .(To be continued.)
INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE f ROM THE LONDON GAZETTES,
.£ Juiis 20. This Gazette contains a Let tavia ; the Terpsichore leading the fleet
ter from Capt. Barrie, of the Pomone, through the very intricate navigation in a
giving an account of his having taken and moll judicious manner, preceded by the
destroyed part of a convoy of the Enemy, Sea Flower. I directed the frigates and
from Nantz, bound to Rochfortj laden brig to enter the Roads between the Island
with naval stores, &c. on which affair, of Ourust and Java, the line of battle
Lord Gardner observes, great credit is de ships taking a more circuitout paflige.
rived by Capt. Barrie, as well as the Offi On discovering us as we approached, the
cers and men employed on this occasion. Dutch National frigate Phcenix, Avantu-
" This service Lieut. Jones performed rier and Zee Ploeg brigs, two of their
with great judgment. and gallantry; and Company's armed (hips, and two armed
fortunately without less, though the grape brigs, immediately ran on shore, followed
from the shore and gunbrigs pasted by the merchantmen; the William cor-"
through and through his boat. At about vette having previously struck to theTerp-
half past 11, the boats got up with the fichore, on passing Ourust. The shoal
easternmost brig, and by half past two, water prevented our anchoring sufficiently
they were all (14 in number) in our pos- near to sire with effect on the batteries or
sesikm, except one which drove on shore, the ships on sliore. The boats of the
and was lost." squadron accordingly assembled alongside
the Terpsichore, which, with the Sir
June 27. This Gazette announces the Francis Drake, had been placed as near
blockade of the port of Dantzic, by the as possible to cover them, and were led' in
naval forces of his Swedish Majesty. to destroy the enemy's (hips by Capt3in
FleetwoodPcllew, under a heavy fire from
j^dmiraliy-osfice^ JuLy 4. Letter from the strips 'and the batteries. On approach
Sir E. Pellew, B.iTt. to Vv . Marsden, Esq. ing the Phœnix, the crew abandoned her,
dated Culloden., Batavia Roads, Nov. 28.' and on boarding (he was found scuttled.
Sir, Their Lordships have been already The guns were immediately turned on the
apprized of my .intent ion Of proceeding to other thips, \\hilethe boats were destroy
thi-s quarter in search, of the French squa ing the remainder, when slie was also set
dron, which T had been led to believe on sire aiid burnt, with the whole of the
would have jc'nr'Mjis- appeared in the enemy's armed force, and nearly 20 mer
Alia-ttc seas. I was .joined off the island chantmen. The gallant conduct of Capt.
«f Eugenio, kin' the 23d instant, by his Fleetwood Pellew, Lieut. Wm. Fitzwil-
Majesty's strip Sir. Francis Drake ; and liam Owen, commander of the Sea Flower,
proceeding; through the Straights of Suwda and Lieut. Thomas Groule, first of th,e
with the ships Culloden, Powerful, Rui'- Culloden, the officers, seamen, and ma
seli Belliqueux, 'Sir Francis Drake, Terp rines employed under their command in
sichore, and Sea Flower, ort the "26th, this important duty, is deserving of every
captured, off Eantain, the Dutch Com praise. The service was directed with
pany^ armed brig Maria Wilhelmipa. On great coolness and judgment, and exe--
the following morning we arrived off Ha- cuted in the most steady, zealous, an I
active
1 807.] Interesting Intelligence ] rom the London Gazettes, 667
active manner. Though exposed to the duced to be the bearer of any communi
continued fire of the enemy, happily with cation with such enemies. Having been
little effect, the only loss sustained being informed by you of the co-operation which
one marine killed, one marine and three was likely to exist between us and the
seamen wounded. The enemy's two re Mameluke Beys, I availed myself of this
maining line of battle (hips had unfortu in our message to the enemy : he seemed,
nately quitted this anchorage, or must however, to be indifferent to it. Of ci
inevitably have shared a similar fate. The ther message or letter I have heard no
Dutch Admiral was left at Batavia. I more, and have reason to apprehend that
have landed the prisoners upon parole, the unfortunate Arab has been beheaded.
under an assurance from the Governor From the I2fh to the 18th aothing extra
that they shall not serve again, until re ordinary occurred. Relying on the ap
gularly exchanged. The necessary de proach of the Mamelukes, every exertion
struction of the William corvette has de was continued in getting up stores, am
prived me of an opportunity of rewarding munition, and provisions, from the Lake.
the services of Lieut. Owen on this occa On the 15th, the enemy gave our right
sion ; I therefore beg leave to recommend flank considerable annoyance, by two
him and Lieut. Thomas Groulei first of guns'in separate batteries on the opposite
his Majesty's ship Culloden (who were ap side of the riyer; of these it was necessary
pointed to lead the divisions on this ser to dispossess them. Major M'Donald, 78th
vice) to their Lordship's protection. regiment, was detached across the river,
£. Pelliw. in front of Aboumandour Mosque, before
day-light on the l6lh, with ,250 men.
Downing-street, July 17. Dispatches, Lieut. Robinson, of the Tigre, accompa
of which the following are copies and ex nied the Major with 40 seamen, whose
tracts, have been received by Viscount services were particularly valuable. He
Castlereagh, from Major-general Fraser, made a circuitous march, and arrived in
commanding in Egypt. rear of the batteries by dawn of day ; he
Extract os a Letter from Gen. Steivnrt to captured and completely destroyed them,
Gen. Fraser, dated Rosetta Lines, April 1 9. and fired several rounds into the town
From the great extent of the town (Ro from their own guns; he then sent the
setta),' it was- found impossible that our guns, with 12 camels and a considerable
small army could invest more than one- number of tents, across the river. The
half. A line Was accordingly taken up enemy received reinforcements, the Major
from the Nile to the front of the Alex retired, and effected this service in equally
andrian gate, thence retiring towards the good style: although under fire from the
plain, where our dragoons were posted. enemy, he re-embarked the whole of his
A mortar and some guns were brought detachment in the best order, and had
into play early in the afternoon ; these only four men wounded. I have .particu
were answered by the shouts of the Alba larly to state, that much of the good for
nians from their walls, and by incessant tune which attended this enterprise may
discharges of musketry through the loop be attributed to Capt. Hallowell ; by his
holes and crevices, which were innume exertions a sufficiency of small craft were
rable. In conformity with your instruc discovered under water, were raised, and
tions, Capt. Hallowell and I sent, on the during the dark of the night of the 15th
8th instant, a summons, and favourable were so well prepared, that nearly the
terms, to the civil and to the military whole of the detachment was conveyed
Governor, accompanied by an address to from shore to shore at one turn. Twenty- .
the inhabitants. We were requested by site armed fellahs, who formed part of a
the former, in their answer, to await their large body detached against us from Cairo,
receiving instructions from CairO ; . for were yesterday captured near El Hamet.
which purpose a temporary suspension of They had killed their own chief, and were
hostilities was proposed. It not being ex wandering near our post more with a view
pedient to accede to this, we continued to to plunder than of hostility. We have
batter the town ; and by the 10th had done gteat damage to the town, and have
two mortars, two 12-pounders, a howit not thrown less than 300 shells from mor
zer, and a fi-poimder, in play ; on the tars alone. The indifference, however,
l dth, a work for five 6-pounders, and 3-2- of the enemy to the miseries which are
pound carronades, was completed, imme unavoidably caused to the inhabitants is
diately opposite the Alexandrian gate. manifest. Although his force be said not
Skirmishes on our left were in the mean to exceed^ 300 cavalry, 800 Albanians,
'tiiiie frequent. The summonses were re and .1000 armed inhabitants, yet, from
peated to the Albanian Chiefs on the ' the extent and the peculiar nature of his
1 2th. Our flag of truce was thrice fired' lines of defence, to attempt an assault is
at ; and it was only by means of a great decidedly riot an adviscable mcHsirrc. Our
reward that a common Arab could be in- success will depend on the arrival cf the
'.Ma
668 Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. '[July,
Mamelukes, in conjunction with whom a' forced to 100 rank and file, to Harriet
force may be immediately thrown, on the village. While crossing the plain, th'e
opposite side of the Nile : the doing this at latter detachment, under Capt. Reinack's
present is impossible. Our enemy is strong orders, was suddenly attacked by 200
in cavalry—we have none ; and the Delta cavalry, and', as it should appear, was
is peculiarly calculated for that arm. In with little opposition routed ; two-thirds
the mean time the post of Harriet be- were cut in pieces.. Report of this reach
crm.es of greater value, as our friends are ing me by 1 1 A. M. I detached Lieut.-col.
expected to approach ; every art (hull be M'Leod, with two companies of the 7fcth
made to retain it. W. Stewart. reg. one of the 35th, a picquet of dra
Th!al of killed, wounded, and mij]iit%,fsum goons under Capt. Delancy, and a six-
the 6'tA lo the ISlhoJ' April inclusive. pounder, to reinforce the post, and take"
1 Serjeant, 5 rank and file, killed; 1 the command. Two more companies
Bligadier-general, ] Brigade-major, 1 Cap followed in the afternoon, with a day's
tain, 1 Lieutenant, fi Serjeants, 60 rank provision for his whole force, ammuni
and file, 5 horses, wounded. tion, &c. ; all which arrived safely. On
Officers wounded.—Brig.-gen. Stewart, the arrival of the reinforcement, the
commanding; Lieut. Richard Cult, of the enemy retired towards Dileg ; and I re
35th reg. Brigade-major ; Capt. Jodderel, ceived assurance from the Lieutenant-
of 35th reg. since dead ; Lieut. Hems- colonel, before fun-set, of the perfect se
worth, of the 31st light infantry battalion. curity of his post. He had detached
BxeraCt of another Letter, from the fame three companies, the dragoons, and a
to thefame, dated Camp, Eastern Hrights, three-pounder, under Captain Tarleton's
Alexandria, April- 25. orders, to the plains on the right, and
The events which have attended the had reinforced the centre post by a com
service on which this army has been en pany of the 351I1 regiment : the average
gaged, have been of a peculiar nature, strength of these companies was 60 rank
and the result h is been as peculiarly un and file. During this day, the enemy
fortunate-. The expectation of the junc made no movement against eur lines at
tion of the Mamelukes had chiefly in Rosetta, but sent reinforcements to Ha-
duced me to persevere in the attack of met from the town by the right bank of
Rosetta. Every exertion was continued the Nile. I visited the post of Hamet du
to be made, by such artillery as we could ring the night of the 20th, and confirmed
command, in reducing the enemy to fur- my former instruction to Lieut.-colonel
render, but without effect: the mistaken M'Leod, that he should defend the post ,
ground upon which we were acting, re to the utmost. I at the fame time con
specting- the Mamelukes, and the general certed measures for a general retreat on
deception of our informers, were now the succeeding night, unless certain intel
about to become manifest. On the lf)th, ligence of the Mamelukes should arrive on
the enemy left his position opposite Ha-' the 2 1 ft. About seven on the morning of
met, and, eroding the river near Elfine, the 2Vft, I received the following express
established himself there. He advanced ' from Major M'Leod : " The cavalry were
from Uibet against Harriet on the same not to be seen this morning; but, to my
day, and, attacking Major. Vogelsang's utter astonishment, from 60 to 70 large
position en the left, was repulsed with germs, and a large brig, are now coming
loss. A diversion was made at the fame down the Nile upon us. I do not know
time at Rosetta, in a sortie against the left what to fay of this ; it appears, undoubt
of'our lines, by about 86 cavalry and 200 edly, it reinforcement to the enemy, and
infantry. The 3;>th regiment and the one of considerable magnitude. I take it
dragoons were engaged ; they repulsed the for granted they have gun-boats among
enemy with much spirit, and drove "him them. I must make preparation, and be
' as usual- to his walls. The 3Tuil had in ready to retire upon you. Let me know
tins aff'iir two killed, and 14 wounded. as soon as possible." My answer, imme
I this even'ng detached the light compa diately dispatched, was not received, the
nies of the 3Mh, and of De Roll's, 10 dragoon being unable to penetrate to the
the post of El Harndt, under the com post. The reins;)! cement also, which had
mand of Captain Tarleton of the former. marched .under the orders of your airi-de-
His orders were' to drive the enemy across cam,« Ciprnin A'Court, was obliged to re
the Nile, either during that iught, or turn. N.Jt a monv.nt was to be lost in
early next mornirrg. On attempting to breaking up from the position before Rg-
effect th's I'm c on the 2l>th, the enemy setta, and in supporting the Harriet de
was found to he powerful in cavalry, and tachment. The advance upon us "of a
Cipt. 'sVleton retired. As he retreated, strong body of cavalry in that direction,
he div dt l his 'detachment ; he directed prevented my detaching single corp<
the march of his own company to the ' their relief, ants it was necesljry that the
itft position, and sent Do Roll's, rejn- whole array should move" together. The
field
1807.] Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. 669
field guns Were 6rst withdrawn from the the army should continue its original re
batteries ; all camels were laden with am treat. This was resumed in the fame good
munition and indispensable stores ; the ori^er as befote. The left being .fianked
carronades and mortars kept up their by the Lake, the enemy ceased to'purfue
fire on the town to the last moment that us. Our casualties during this retreat did
could be spared, and were then destroyed not exceed fifty killed and wounded, and
and buried; all spare ammunition and none were captured. The loss of our
stores were set sire to, and blown up. enemy was considerable, but we made
The picquets remained in, their fleeches no prisoners. By fun-set we arrived at
until the field train-, the wounded, and the depot. Lieut. Tilly, with his usual
the stores, were assembled in the plains, activity, had, in consequence of my ex
under the charge of the 7Rth and De press in the morning, safely embarked all
Roll's regiment, which formed a square provisions and stores. Having left ottr
round them. The brave 5 .">tli ' then re wounded aud our 12;pounder on-board
treated, followed by the picquets. The germs here', and refreshed the army, we'
enemy, sallying from the town in all di advanced to Edko, and took up our former
rections, surrounded our square ; but the position about two in the morning. On
bold front which the 3:>th kept, under the the 22d, the whole of the stores, which
command of Capt. Riddle, ami the flank were at Edko, were safely embarked for
ing position os the light infantry battalion, the Caravansera, when the army marched
under Major Q'Keefe, on the heights of for that post, and arrived in the afternoon
Aboumandour, prevented iiim from ma without oppositiont On the ' succeeding
king any impression. Nothing could sur day the troops embarked for 'Aboukir's
pass the steadiness of the troops you had Wells. The Caravansera was blown up
entrusted to my command. The 35th re under the direction of Capt. Haltowell.
giment fired by its wings and platoons re Nt> certain intelligence has reached me
tiring ; and the 78th with its front rank respecting the fate of the detachment
kneeling, as during the movements of a under Lieut,-col. M'Leod. The general
field-day. Under the ditaction of Col. report confirms their defeat in the sorer
Oswald, who regulated proceedings in the noon of the' -2 1st, and states many of th'em
rear, 1 felt confident of the good cpnduct to be prisoners. On this I will make no
of the whole. About ten our little army comment. Every step which a fense of
advanced across the sandy plain, in a di duty could dictate was taken' in order to
rection for the Lake Edgo, and the right secure the post of Hamet ; and it will, I
of the Hamet position. We arrived there sincerely trust, 'appear to you that none,
about one, under continual fire, and astsr which prudence could suggest, were omit
a sultry march ; our loss was not, how ted, in order that a junction should bfc
ever, considerable, the greaser body of formed with the detachment. That our
the. enemy beisg kept at a distance by unfortunate comrades,did their duty, must
the fire of our artillery from the flanks of not be doubted ;" that all' was lost, save
the square. To my surprise, not tin in honour, when they surrendered, must allo
dividual of the Hamet detachment joined -not be doubted. W. Stewart;
us in this inarch, nor could firing be Killed, wounded, and m?'/i7i°', from the lQtk
heard in that direction : our last, accounts to the 2 1ft of April inclusive.
of their proceedings left them warmly en Total—5 rank and/ file, killed; 1 Cap
gaged near to the villagers Hamet, on the tain, 3 Lieutenants, 10 Serjeants, 65 rank
Rofetta side. Failing to meet them on the and siie, 7 horses, wounded ; i Lieute
shore of the Lake, it was necessary, in nant-colonel, 2 Majors, 10 Captains, is
some manner, to retrace our steps, and to Lieutenants, 4 Ensigns, 2 Staff, 30 Ser
look for them nearer to El. Hamet. This jeants, 15 Drummers, 733 rank aud tile,
could be effected by gaining some sand 26 horses, missing.
hills, which were' about a mile on our Officers wounded.—light infantry batt.
left. Our march was accordingly directed Lieut. Arthur, of the 35th.—35th reg.
towards them ; the light infantry now .Licuts.Da'lyand Phillet.—78th reg. Capt.
leading the front of the square advanced H. H. Dick.
with activity, .and the enemy who occu Officers miffing.—Royal Artillery, Lieut.
pied them dispersed in all directions. Dunn.—20th Light Dragoons, Capt. John
Prom thole hills, which completely com Delancey ; Assistant-surgeon Gibson.—
manded a view of the plain and Hamet Light infantry batr. Capts. Taiieton (of
position, the enemy were seen to be in the 35th) and Reinach (of De Roll's reg.) ;
possession of the latter, and not any ap Lieuts. Westerman (of the 3 5th) and Rouif-
pearance of our detachment in the former. sillon (of De Roll's reg.)— 1st batt. Sith
It was apparent they had either effected a reg. Capts. M'Ailister and Pike ; Lieuts.
separate retreat to Edkp, or' been com Wilkinson and Walker.—2d batt. 7sfti
pletely defeated: in either case it was ad reg. Lieut.-col. Patrick M'Leod ; Captain
visable, under all circumstances, that Colin-C. Mackay.; Lieuts. W. M; Dick,
John
670 London Gazettes.—Foreign Intelligence. [July,
John Ma'theison, Malcolm M'Gregor, ' Letter from Sis S- Auchmuty to the Right
Christopher M'Kae, Alex. Gallic, Phi- Hon IF. Windham, dated Monte Video,
neas Ryrie, and Archibald Christie ; En ' April 26. ' ' '
sign Joshua Gregory ; Assistant-surgeon Sir, Since clofihg my letter of this
Alex. Leslie.—De~ Roll's reg. Major C. Vo- morning's date, I have received a dis
gelfang; Brevet Major Moher ; Capts. Ry- patch from Lieut.-col. Pack" at Colonia,
hiner, Muhler, Barbier, andTucks; Lie'uts. Informing' me that the enemy, 1000
Gouguelberg, Frey, and Ledeguve ; En strong, had made an attempt oil his post,
signs Stetter, Muller, and Sonnenberg. at one" in the morning of the I2d instant.
&gneral Return os Prisoners taken i-y the The attack commenced on an advanced
Enemy, transmitted by Major-gen. Era guard, and immediately after on the line,s.
ser, May 20. Th« troops on duty supported the post
2 Majors, 8 Captains, Q Lieutenants, until the corps got under arms, whieh
3 Ensigns, 3 Assistant-surgeons, 25 Ser they did with great alacrity, and instantly
jeants, 8 Drummers, 485 rank and file. repelled the assailants, and pursued them
Officers, prisoners of war,—Capt. De- to the village of Real, about three miles
laocey, of the 39th Light Dragoons ; Al- from the town. At day-light no enemy
fi stant-lurgeon Gibson, of ditto ; Lieut. was to be seen for many miles. We had
Dunn, of the Royal Artillery ; Capt.M'Al- not a man killed in this affair. I am sorry
lister, of the 35th reg. ; Capt. Macfory, to add, that Major Trotter (Commander
of the 7 8th reg. severely wounded; Lieu IS. ' of the light battalion) was wounded in the
Matheison, M'Grcgor, Gullie, and Hyrie, ' body, aud Capt. Willgress .(of the artil
of ditto ; Major Vogeisang, of De Roll's lery) has the bone of his arm shattered.
reg. ; Brevet- major Mohcr, of ditto ; Cap The enemy's loss is unknown. Eight
tains Reinach, Ryhincr, Barbier, and killed and as many wounded were left on
Tucks, of ditto; Lieut. Rouiffiilon, of the field. As Col Pack reports that his
ditto ; and Lieuts. Gouguelberg and Frey, works are in a respectable stale of defence,
of ditto, both severely wounded. and as the reinforcement would reach him
Officers prisoners, lut not. al Cairo — immediately after the date us his letter, I
Lieut. Walker, of the 35th reg. ; Ensign am under no apprehension for the safety
Gregory, of chc 7 8th reg. wounded ; As of his poll. S. Auchmuty.
sistant-surgeon Leslie, of ditto ; C;.piain [This Gazette aMb contains an account
Muhler, of De Roll's leg. severely wound of the capture of a large Spanish gun-vef-
ed ; and Ensisrns Muller and Stetter, of sel, by the boats of the Scout, and of the
ditto, both severely wounded. Morgiana, belonging to Lord Colling-
N. B. There are also prisoners of war at wood's fleet, in the Streights, on the.
"Cairo LieuuTynmore, Lieut. Love, and 2 1st of May; one man was killed, and
three privates, of the Royal Marines, who another slightly wounded, belonging to
were carried away from the- Caravanfera the Scout. The Scout, Morgiana, and
ky the Bedouin Arabs ; Capt. Vicenzo Redwing, had completely scoured the
Tabsrna, of the Guides ; and Mr. Forbes, Gut ; and, in the course of a fortnight,
6s the Commissariat Department. had taken and destroyed 1 8 vessels.]
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j London Packet Ipfw.2, Kentish 2
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Clielmsford 2 CONTAINING Winch.—Wore.
Cornw.—Covent. York 3, Jersey
I Meteorological Diaries for July & Aug. 1807 6§8 Methodist Baptisms.—Sir Christopher Wren 72g
'Colonel Riddel] on his Treatment of Fevers 090 TheProj ECTOR.a period/Paper, N LXXI11 Hid
Some Account of the Rev. Jchn Laurence 700 Serious rleflections on the present Times . . 733
Evangelic Preachets— Bp. Hough—Mr.Rofeoe ol Architectural Innovation, N° CXI. ibid.
Q Elizabeih'svYardrobe-MilceLCorrections70'.! Utility of Ladybirds— Lincoln Cathedral . 736
Dr. Laurence's Statement of his own Speech 703 Review of New Publications; viz.
Topographical Description of Chertscy, Sorry? 05 Rev.W. Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, &c. 737
Biographical Memoirsof Sir Roger Newdigate ib Bp.of Meath'sStrmou for Magdalen Hospital 741
Dublin Report on Plan of Medical Reform 706: Janson's Stranger in America continued . . 740.
Intended Demolition of City Gates at' York 710I Crabb'sPrecepior.—OldFriends in newDrcss 7s 1
Increase of Methodism—Johanna Southgate 7 1 1 Penman's Let'.er to the Freemen of Sat>dwich7S2
Enthusiasts—Leaden Countcrs--©.ueer Names? 12; Conspiracy detected—Index Indicatohius ib.
Mr. Browne's proposed Pillar for LordNell'on 7 13 Select Modern Poetry for August 753 —757
Mr. Le Mefuricron Oaths of RomishChurch 714 Correct List of the present House nfCommons758
Moderationrecommended— PublicEducation7i(> Proceedings in the late Session of Parliament 762
CowpeT*sVersion of Henriade .' —Superstition? 1 7 Interesting Intel), from the London Gazette 7 66
Critique on new Music of " BsggaVs Opera" 71 8 Abstra6t of the principal Foreign Occurrences it.
The Utility of Hebrew Learning insisted on ibid. Treaty of Peace between France and Rusiia ?<3s
lllu'strations of Horace, Book I. Epistle IX. 710 Buonaparte's Speech to the Legislative Bodv 770
On the miraculous Cureof Winnefred White 720: Proclamation of President of the United States? 7 1
Dr. Lettsom's Forty-third Letter on Prisons 7-2] Country News—Domestic Occurrences ... 773
Mr. Neild's Remarks on llchester Gaol . . 722 AdditionsandCorrections informerObiluarics 7 7 7
Mildewed Seed Corn—Tancred's Exhibitions 72.1 biographical Skeich of the late Ld. Avflnmore ib
Epitaphs at, and some Account of, Harwich 725 vlarriagcs and Deaths of eminent Persons 770
Absurdityttf blS2oniiigundeservingChara'crers72''i Theatrical Register—Bill of Mortality, Ice. 791
Sir Charles Giwdy—Heraldic Observations jasj Prices of the Markets—Prices of the Stocks 79;
Embellished with a View of the Old Church atChertsf.y, Surrey; and with
a Design of a Pillar in Honour of Lord Nelson.
Er $ r L V A jy U S URBAN, Gent.
P rimed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Tted-Lion Passage, Fleet-street, London ;
where all Letters to the Editor are desired to be addressed, Post-taio. 1807
MsTEORffltooicAL Diary for July 1807. By Dr. Pole, Bristol.
0 • "hermom.l Barom.
ss'ft
a-
ac S sz"0 ^3Si
00
WEATUIR.
& S (j c
\ 59 62 ' 30- 4 mostly cloudy
a 62 65 SO- 4 Sitto
a S8 fir 30- 4 ditto, some Tight rain
4 63 0 30- 4 cloudy at times
5 60 7 1 30- 4- ditto
e 58 7Q 30- 6 clear
r. 48 64 30- 8 ditto
60 6g 30-10 ditto
9 66 7i 30-10 ditto
10 6s 7g 30- a ditto
11 6.) 80 30- 2 cloudy at times, a little rain, high wind ,
12 67 75 29-19 moilly cloudy, some rain, lightning, high wi»l
la 67 75. 30- 1 very cloudy at times
14 62 66 30- 3 steady rain
1$ 66 73 30- 3 cloudy
16 67 73' 30- 3 mostly cloudy
w 65 72 30- 5 mostly cloudy, eveu. light rain
ss 62 71 30- 6 cloudy at times
19 63 72 ■30- 6 mostly cloudy, f»me very light rajn
So 6s 71 30- 3 ditto
21 68 73 30- 3 mostly cloudy
it 67 85 30- 1 mostly clear, even, very cloudy, some rain
23 65 7* 29-19 mostly cloudy, even, rain 1
2* 69 74 .30; 0 mostly cloudy, showery, high wind
23 67 6s . 30- 1 mostly cloudy, some showers
»6 6:, 69 30- 1 ditto
a? 66 67 30- 2 cloudy, heavy rain, thunder
98 66 7-3 30- 3 mostly cloudy, some very light rain
«9 65 65 30- 1 very rainy
SO 65 67 29-17 mostly cloudy, some very light rain - . .
31 67 64 29-17 cloudy, considerable rain
The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight A. M . are 64 14-31 ; those
of July 1R06 were 03 ; July 1805, 6l{ ; and July lfiOl, 62 —Quantity of rain this
month is 4 inches il-loorhs; that in July 1806 3 inches 87-looths; July 1805,
2 inches 6o-100ths; July 180-1, 3 inches 78-IOOths; and July 1803, g4-100ihs.—,
The rain this month exceeds the preceding by 4 inches 6-looths.
The thermometer on the 2-2d stood at 85, which is within one degree of the greatest
heat we have experienced during the last four years. ,
Wheat harvest commenced about the middle of the month. The late abundant
rains have revived the verdure of the high ground, which lately exhibited a very rusty
" appearance.
Ma i Eo.ioLo(iiCAL Table tor Au'gult 1807. By VV. Cahy, Strand.
Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. |) Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.
o'cl.: Night-
I Barom. Weather ofDay Month. o'cl.8 Morn. o'cl.1 Night.
e Noon. Sarom. Wreathes
3 in. pts. in Aug. 1807 . in. pts. in Aug. 1807,
?
July a Aug. e 0 0
97 60 29,98 fair 12 62 72 64 29,76 fair [at night
28 79 ,67 30,01 fail- 13 63 79 66 ,7'i great fall rai*
29 74 66 29,70 cloudy 14 66 73 61 ,6s Uir
30 '74 64 M cloudy 15 62 71 66 30,00 showery
31 69 AS M rain J J6 67 76 66 ,23 fair
A.I 72 *7 ,81 fair 17 64 76 64 ,17 fair
2 74 56 1 .89 'air ' 18 6» 73 60 ,03 fair
3 73 5; !1 ,87 ,«s showery 1 19 61 78 67 29,93 fair
72 59 fai." j 20 1 66 73 66 ,9-2 cloudy
69 53 i ,90 clouriy 1 21 I 67 78 1 67 ,85 cloudy
71 59 i ,85 fair | 22 i 64 79» 1 67 ,84 fair
69 60 : ,90 rain , 23 1 69 78 ' 67 ,85 fair
6 68 61 : ,90 rain : 24 1 66 69 1 64 ,87- rain
9 63 56 fair i 2J 61 74 | 60 '29 ,93 faic
65 55 30,00 fair 26 62 74 i 61 30,00 fair. "
.l.t 74 61 29,82 fair ! 1 1
Northwestern
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Library
Mr. Urban, July 31. fresh attacks, but are subdued as quick
^£ i& iS£ iflf A VING received a let- ly as they appear, until the cause is
ter from a near relative destroyed ; and in the mean lime the
tlt'lir! næ me to refer to patient continues to gain appetite and
^ H your Magazine, p. 429, strength, and even the medic nes ihem-
^£ I there read with some selves prove nutritious, aud invigorate
w vjv vt^ v,x surprise niv statement the system. I have frequently con
?R i*R ^ « Srt cf lne |ilte s7ari of Q„f. versed with Medicul Men eminent in
ford's cafe, as published in the Bath their profession, who candidy told me
Herald. 1 certainly did intend to have tliev conceived 1 was in posselfion of a
that matter made as public as possible; valuable nostrum, and allowed that
but, finding the family averse to it, many cures 1 had performed had ex
though all bearing the" strongest testi cited their astonishment , but, finding
mony to the accuracy of my (laiement, from my conversation that I proceeded
I complied with ilnir wislies, and suf on a (sstem, instead of an unvaried
fered ihe matier to fall, as I thought, nostrum, h !ve expressed au anxious
into oblivion ; and I can assure you, wish that the sulyect might come be
the epigram of the learned wag would fore a Committee of the House osCoiu-
have done no more than produce a mons ; as lo valuable a discovery might
smile of contempt ; but the statement be of the greatest use to mankind in
having found its way into your valua general. During the t ine the malig
ble Magazine, I trust you will, for the nant Fever raged at Gibraltar, conscious
above reason, acquit me of being in that my medicine would have saved the
any way instrumental to its having lives of al least seyen out of ten of our
made its appearance, by the publica brave fellows »ho sell sacrifices to that
tion of this letter. crml disease, I attempted to interest
Now, Mr. Urban, as it is my wifli some persons of distinction to endea
to promulga'e to the world the arcana vour to have my system investigated.
by which I have, under Divine Provi But, not being a regular-bred practi
dence, performed some cures, many tioner, all in v efforts were in vain, and
of which appear incredible, the vouch thousands of my fellow-creatures (us-
ers of which are in my posselfion, and fered, whose lues might have been
which 1 am ready to produce, " bear saved to their country. It is not long
ing confirmation strong as proof of since ii was mentioned in ihe House of
Holy Wra:" Be it known to the Commons, that not less than eight
Royal College of I'hvficians, as well as thousand of our troops died in one year
to the world at large, I have ascertained, of the Yellow Fiver in ihe Well Indies!
and am willing to prove before ihem, Is it not then an object of the first
that, by a counteraction to Antimony, magnitude, to try by every means to
.depriving it of all its deleterious and subdue so dreadful a disease ? 1 ihink
baneful effects, combining it with oilier 1 have discovered the means, and am
medicines, and tempering them in such willing to communicate to Go\ern-
manner as occasion may require, making meut my secret—nav more, have no
them act and counteract each other, I objection lo attend either a Naval or
can subd ue every species os Fever known Military Hospital (or both) under the
in this country in a few hours ; bin as inspection of two reun'ar, but liberal-
some fevers proceed from long-rooted mind d. Medical Men ; and, to prove
disease in the intestines, and frequently the safety, as w. II as the efficacy of
from worms, these will return with my medicines, I will take the lame I
May
700 Col. Riddell on Fevers.—Rev. John Laurence. [Aug.
mav fiii'l ii reqnisrc to give a patient dening. &c. and for his orthodoxy and
in the worst stage os a malignant fever. 1 berality as a Divine, in the 8vO vo»-
] shall now endeavour, Mr. Urban, to lorne, intituled, " t hr'liian Morals,
give some idea ol the fyHem an which and Christian prudence," puh'ill-.ed
J have hitberto acted, and which prac when he was rector o( Yel.eriott;
tice convinces me more every day is London : printed lor John Kn.'pton,
just; and 1 am fixed firmer in my 1717. This is the work to which you
priucipbs, sroin observing tlut the late refer. Ii is * little body of found prac.
celebrated Dr James was of the fame tical Divinity, equally free from the
wav »f thinking, as some passages in Socinianifm of that day, and from the
his Medicinal Dictionary will prove. I Fa tali I'm of the present, vulgariter Cal
have for some years p:i (1 laid it down vinism. The author of it must have
as an axiom, that all disease originates been a very learned, and, what is more,
in the stomach and int. (lines ; which, an i menial U pious priest. The edition
if a' tacked in an early (lage by proper of his Gardening in mv pollWfion
medicines, that will act only on the coniains a copper-plate of him, by Ver-
offi nd'Iig matter contained therein, the tue, taken from an original painting,
disease aives wav tp i heir ettects as if large as life, now at Pallion, Duiham,
by enchantnieni ; and such medicines the residence of his grandson, John
1 profess to have discovered, as 1 can Goodchild, Esq. Laurence, I believe,
make appear by numerous cafes, wi:h- is the orthography. He wasa prebend
onl having recourse lo the various me of Salisbury ; and was offeied by the
thods of lonuiing the human bodv, Lord Bishop of Durham the choice of
such as bleeding, blistering, cupping, either the livingof Hanghton, near Dar
leeches, (i t ma, sweating, fkc. &c. to lington, or Bishop- Wcreuioinh. He
all which the patient submits with wil accepted the latter, and there be re
lingness iirtf! confidence, because custom, sided during the remainder of his life.
dining a series of \ears, has confirmed His only son, John Lamence, iva*
the practice. H'therio no man has rector of St. Mary Aldi rmanbury, and
been bold enough, openly atid avow had also a living in Ellex. He also
edly, to attempt a reform of a system was a lover of a garden.
sanctioned bv so learned and formidable His thiee daughters were married !
ft bodv a« the I'rofAssois of the Medi- Elizabeth to Goodchild, of Pallion ;
ca) An ; and it may be asked how I Penelope, to Pemheiton, of Bam-
d.irc pie'iime to obtrude my opinions bridge Holme ; and Mary, to Dale, pf
m\ the workt, knowing the many re- Durham..
put il.le eh rioters I fha|l have to op» Yours, &c. John Stonehouss.
pos me ? I reply, in respect of my
system I confess myse'fati Enthusiast j Mr. Urban, Aiipvjl 15,
bin ni\ f Enthusiasm ar es f oin the I AM informed that the Rev. John
flmiiiieli convictiop iha' J lime tern, Laurence, enquired alter in your
and can be, the happy meaps f reliev l.ilt number, p 60K, was buried in the
ing the woes, ai d pi rhai s pro'onging chancel of Bishop- Wearinouth church,
the lives, of tnv sel owereatures ; and, in the county of Durham ; and that a
whilst hiindrids daily thank me for the stone w ith au inscription was laid down
ease and bgrirfit 'hey exp■ rienpe, I (eel over the spot : but that (bine years af
a conscious pr de ih.it places, me fir terwards the (ione was turned, 10 save
abo e the shafts of the envious, or the the expence of a new one, and an in-
jeers of ine. ignorant: fcriplion to the memory of some other
Y iuis &c. John Riddell. person cm on the other fide "f it. He
was p-es n td t» that retlory in 1721,
Mr L'jmsan ISlnwhistcr drig.CQ. anil I e'd ii nil his death, in 1/32. The
T"\i ri-oK to the query »' Ven umuus, insertion of this in your Magazine may
1 p. C: 7, respecting' the hn procure a copy of the Epitaph.
LinreiH'e, yi"' are welcœne lo the fol Yotfrs, isic. S. R,
lowing ii.s.ruiat'oii. Being my ma*
(ernal reat-gran.lftiher, bis w ork- fell
into my hands manv yea 6 ago. He Mr. Urban, Exeter, July 19,
has alwav s stood high in my esteem, YOU mention in p. 826, three tin-
for i he nia«\ exceller)1 lentiurents djs- educated persons being licensed
pe>*l mr"i gh wE.it I rmy call his to preach ihe Gospel. E'S^t l,ien
tlumcstic life, tiie iwu \ plumes on Gar laiiied the fame at our Quarter Pesi
.' ' \ sions
i8o7«] Evangelical Freaehers.-Up. Hopgh.-Afr.Refcoe. 701
lions last week ; and I am told, that by Chester," by a titular Catholic Bishop,
the laws of our country they could nut has excied i Aicadrs umlo !
be refused. s'. 1015. The elegant Epitaph on
Wlien a privilege becomes an evil, Rilhop Hough .iiipeaied in p. 340 of
and such it surely is, the greatest, to vour volume fur 1746; and the twa
have the Holy Scriptures explained, or copies will serve lo correct ejeh other,
rather I should say perverted, by those A hird ropy, now before me in MS;
^norjivt men ; something should be represents it as compoied by Chancellor
thought of, is their preaching mult Smalridge, aud not by Archdeacon
be suffered, to counteract it ; and I Totile as mentioned by Dr. N ilh in
^vould recommend; for this' purpose, p. clvi. of the Appendix to the tenuid
M' George S VVatts'sSermon* preached volume of his '• History of Worcetier-i
before the University ofOx surd—" Re stvre," aud in p. 1014 of your Mis
ligious enthusiasm considered." Those, cellany. In the MS. before me ilia
sermons, if delivered hy'a good , readier name of Tut e was originally written
in every parish chu^co, would, 1 am as its author, and that of Smalridge
firmly persuaded, do both Religion and afterwards subst. toted. In the laid
the Slate much food. MS. Bp. Hough's mother is described
Let it .not be thought' that this is as " daughter of John Rvrrh of Lea-
written to benefit Mr. \Vatts : 1 have croft, in the;" and four lines afer we
not the happiness of his acquaintance, should read " B llesley ;" and in tha,
nor did I ever lee him ; but I have read, next line '• lCiQ " The said MS. also
and admired hi- sermons. Mmy peo adils " Hound Lady I.ee"s figure on
ple would, if thev »ere to read them, the Medallions.: Bv me sle «as in-
consider those Evangelical preachers, I tirely beloved, aud by all oli er persons
think, in a different, point of view to esteemed and valued for (icr good un
wh it thev do at present derstanding, sweet apd even temper,
The "Evening Mail" reports the courteous aud easy carriau'e, unblame-
f< illowina (|>eech of Mr Sharp, on a able life, and prudeiu and exemplary-
late trial, June 24. 180?. Bein^crofs- conduct in even condition aud circum
exan'i ned bv Mr.Garrow, he laid, " he stance. Jo. Worcester."
wa.'an adherent to the tenet* ofJohanna P. 1029, note, 1.1. "September"
Soutligute ; and that lie considered what should be " August ;" and " Jtnie"
she had written was dictated under stionld be " July."
the immediate inspection of Heaven." " P. 1030, col. 2, I. 22, for " Lord"
Mr. Sharp said likewise, that '*' the read " Mr ."
Country would be thto vn into confu P. I0'i2 The exquisite lines by Mr.
sion in Match; April, or May, and Rofcoe are not from a correct copy ;
that all who were sealed in a book and the l ist verle of the sixth stanza
which Johanna held would have in lhould (land thus :
struments put into their luinds, io de " And the Bee brought his honey tr*
stroy those who were not sealed." If crown the repast."
sltch, Mr. Urban, were the promises The four following stanzas should
made by Johanna, what must we think immediately succeed :
of thole who received the seals on those «l Then close on his haunches, so solemn
conditions? Should it not be a cau and wise, [skies ;
tion to aP, not to have any dealings The Fro^ from a corner look'd up to the
with them? for whom may they not And the Squirrel, well pleas'd-such diver
think it their religion to dcjlniy ! sion ts fee, [from a tree.
Yours, Sic. Ve'ritas. Mounted high overhead, and look'd down
Then out came the Spider, with fingers si>
fine,
Mr. Urban, Aug. 22. To (how his dexterity on the tight line (
THE remaining strictures on your From one branch to another his cobwebs
last volume, promised in p. 0'22 he strung,
of vour I ill month, now await you. Then, quick as an arrow, he darted along;
P. 1007, col. 2, 1. 18. Is not the
Canon, of Tongres, here mentioned, But just in the middle, oh, shocking to tell !
From his rope in a moment poor Harle
the redoubted author of the " History quin fell; [Ions he spread
of the Life of- Reginald Pole," which Yet he touch'd not the ground, but his ta-
in 1770 occasioned as niiirh rotvtrn- Mung suspended in air at the end of a
yerly as the Jate " History of Win thread.
Thai
702 ^. Elizabeth's Wardrobe.—Dr. Laurence's Speech. [Aug.
Then the Grasshopper came with a jerk occupied more than two hours in the
and a spring, [was his wing ; delii erv. I (hall not even quote at full
Very long was his teg, though but short length the single passage on which 1
lie look but one skip, and was soon out of am compelled to comment ; trusting
fight, [the night. that your readers, if they find it neces
Then chirp'd his own praises the reft of sary, will take the trouble of turning
With steps so majestic, &c. to your Magazine for last September,
P 1074, col. 2, I 20, read " Tim- where he may fee it extracted and
peron as allo in the "Index cf inCerieu in Dr. Milner's letter. It will
Jiames." be mj study 10 be as brief as I can,
P. 1 104, rot. S. With regard to Q. consistently with justice to an injured
Elizabeth, Mr. Granger, in his " Re individual, and a numerous class of
marks an Dress, &c." at the end of her my fellow subjectscalumuiated through
»»ign, writes thus : " As the Queen him.
left no less than three thousand d iffe r- In my former letter 1 observed, that
fnt habits in her wardrobe when she the passage in question would furisilh
•lied, and was pnsselled of the dresses a verv apposite illustration of the sort
•s all countries, it is somewhat ilrange of falsehood, which I mentioned to
that there is such au uniformity of Mr. Le Mesurier, notarising from me-,
dress in her portraits, and that she dilated fraud, bin accidental confusion.
should take a pleasure in being loaded My defence of Dr. Milner, in iheReport,
with ornaments." He refers to Carte, begins wilh a reference to an attack
Fit. 702, whose words are : " Besides which never was made, and which,
a vast quantity of jewels and plate, the indeed never could have been made.
left hehirid her an infinite number of 1 am represented as stiyinz. " The de
clashes, no less titan 3000 robes ; not finition of an Oath, on which the learned
having had the heart to give or leave DoSlor (Duigenan) has been sosevere,
the least thing to her ladies or old ser if it had been fully and fairly quoted,
vants." is strictly true, and accurately confor
P.■ M43. Mr. Falconer's Translation mable to the most rigid principles of
os the Peripluj os Hanno was reviewed ethics and morality;" and 1 then go
in pp. /(Jo—70, of your vol. for I797- on to st;te, from Dr. Milner, the four
P. 1 1 tig—70. As to Mr. Mason, it cases in which Canonists deny the
may nut be aruiss to recur to vour validity of promissory Oaths. ^Jow,
volume for 1804. pp.' 222.3; and to Sir, it happens, that in all the pam
the *' British Critic," xxii. 377—3*4. phlet there is no definititn of an Oath,
P. H74, col. I, I. 20. The refer but one which Dr. Milner does not
ence to \\ anon is not right. What give as his own, but professedly bor»
Hfcnutd it he ? rows from Dr. Johnson. On this it
P.. 1175, cot. 2, 1. If), for " Dur is perhaps needless to fay, Dr. Duige-
ham" read " W< Itminlier." iiau was not severe. He did not in the
P. I1CJ7. From an Epitaph in ihe most remote degree allude to it, nor to
eliancel of Fdbrigne Church, in Nor any passage of the context near it : or,
folk, printed in Neve's " Monu indeed, os tile particular work in which)
ment* Anglfcarro, from i(ir>0 10 1718," it liands. On my part, so far was I
p. it Appears that F. izabelh, a foul erroneously ascribing to him any
daughter of Sir Rowland Litton, was such imaginary i severity, that I ex-
the first wife of Thomas Windham, prefflv produced the four cases from,
Eiq. who died in his 82d year in 1653;. the C.aiionisti, as containing principles
Yours, &C SCRUTATOR. which he would not deny, because he
(To le continued.) must know them to have been, in ef-
se6t, sanctioned and confirmed by some
Mr. Urban, Aue. 24. of the moll eminent leachers of our
^JN resuming the explanation which own church. In this respect let 'hie
J 1 have reluctant! v 'been obliged >« do him justice'.
riiake, 1 think it essential in the still The truth is, ihe learned member
jilace lo relieve vonr readers from the confined himself as Mr. Le Mesurier
possible apprehension that 1 am going does, to a single quotation ftoin one
tii drag them through a review os the part a'one of Dr. Milner's publication,
whose, or, indeed, any considerable the Supplement, addrellcd 10 Mr.
part of the grosser errors to be found ;n Reeves. He reprobated as abnmina*
l|ie tlctailed Report of a Speech which Lie, what he, in common with Mr.
Le Mesurier,
j?o7-] 2>. Laurence's Statement of his own Speech. 703
Le Mefurier, is pleased 10 suppose the glance around the house over the .top
plain, naked, unqualified doctrine of of his spectacles 1 and, finally, suc
Dr. Milner, that " in all cufes the keep ceeded in drawing forth the iioily ape
ing ofan Oath is a matter of expedi probation of all those who considered
ency." And to prove this, he iclied on him as the champion of their can le.
the very fame extract which Mr. Le He then- proceeded with ihe rest of the
Mesurier his contlantly used, begin- sentence, and in the close pronounced
iiiag and-ending exactly as my reverend the word " expediency," with a signi
fr end gives it in your Magazine for ficant tone, which was not lost on the
January. The essence of the whole is majority of his audience. The cheer
comprized In the concluding position ing:, were renewed ; aud w4ien they
there cited, which 1 shall therefore re ceased, he repeated the conclusion in
peat in this place ; and, to shew my the fame mode, and with similar ef
fairness, without changing one of the fect. Tncre was a certain originality
Iialicks and Capitals with which it is in the manner of the learned member,
there decorated and distinguished. It which led me to believe without helita-
runs, " that every human law, and lion, that all was his own. But my
every promise, or other engagement, reverend friend cries, No : " Dr. Dui*
hoicevtr santlioned by an Oath, must genan took it from my pamphlet. "—<■
necessarily turn upon the cardinal t ir- Aud to think, that he could have co
tue of Prudence, which implies that it pied Dr. Duigenan, he calls " putlfhg
depends, as to the obligation oj'fulfilling a fort of flight upon .him." Hating
it in such and such circumstances, upon known and respected him nearly forty
the que/lion of expediency."—You lee, years, I lliould he sorry now to offend
Mr. Urbin, with what happy dexte him. So I shall not dispute bis claim
rity the eye is carried over the first to the honour which he covets of hail
words, which only include in the posi ing been the prototype of Dr. Dnige-
tion all the principles oflegislation, as nan. He must excuse me, however,
well as the validity of all promises or if I cannot on that account consent to
engagements ; an ordinary reader might retract or vary one word which 1 uttsred,
otherwise have been a little puzzled, I .shall not take shelter behind the
lie might, with some appearance of commodious screen which he so kindly
reason, ha\e doubted whether the great oilers me, of a " supposed Speech,-*
and expanded wisdom, which is thus and " fabricated Report." Nor,
laid to govern all human institutions, in truth, do I perceive any reason that
could be meant to be identified wiih I mould ; though I have now again
the pet'y prudence and narrow expedi read his attack on the wicked Reporter.
ency, which are the pretexts ot' base- Since my reverend friend then will
Biinded and interested men. Then, have it so, Mr. Urban, he certainly
Sir, how admirably placed is the dark is implicated in the accusation, uhii-ii
mass of Roman type, from which the 1 shall not denv myself lo have brought
attention is irresistibly attracted, to the against Dr Du gei an. It was, as tie
brighter points of the sharp cut Iialicks trulv states it to have been, that " eff
at the word Prudence! How con having made a charge which is n<|t
veniently in that intermediate shade is warranted, either by the leuer or ihe
funk the little circumstance, that the spirit of the pall'iic/vin question ; and,
Piudence intended is no less than one in order to do this, having taken Hie
ofihefour cardinal virtues, so called words out of the context." Mv proi/f
as being the hinges on which all the of this accusation simply consisted in
minor virtues move and turn. Really reading the sentence which immediate
1 have seldom known two awkward ly follows that with which Dr. Du ge
phrales in one lenience so well managed, nan concluded ; and which contains
without a syllable of observation be- the author's ow n interpretation of hi«
finwed upon either of them through- own meaning. " After all," suhjoirti
Otr the whole commentary. . Dr. Milner, " this is faying no mote
The advantage which the arts of the than that the eternal and IMMU
press thus afforded to my reverend TABLE LAW OF NATURE, OR RATHER
friend, his learned fellow-labourer and OF G'D. IS PAUAMoUNT TO AU. SUB
rival • attempted to derive to himself SEQUENT OBLIGATION*, wliich K'f mas/
from similar tricks of debate. He tuke upon onr/elves, whenever t»e>(
marked the word " Prudence' wiih a APPEAR TO MILITATE AGAINST EACH
peculiar emphasis ; paused ! call a other." This, according to the ukj-
dcr*
t)r. Lauretite's Statement os his own Speech. ("Aug.
dern fashion of punctuation, which de tholie Doctrines, and whom no man
lights in breaking down periods into that kn»«s him will believe to be
detached sentences, is sepa>atcd frorti Inote and careless . in estimating the
■what goes before by a lull stop : but, solemn obligation oT an Oath), ad
fifty years sitrre, it would probably have mitted distinct!) across the Hnule, that
been uni ed to it bv the flight con in Inch a cale an Oath would not be
nexion of a colon. Y- 1, point ii aa obligatory. On this I lined ; and then
you will, it is manifcslli a part, and a declared, that it was not mine, but
most important part too, of the con Dr. Milner'- own illustration of his
text, ptoftlledly added to qualify and doctrines contenting the Prudence to
explain the preceding proposition. Mr. he a| plied in conlideiiug the obliga-
Le Mefnrier has taken upon himself to lions of Oaths, to which ib much ob
assert, that '* Dr. Milner could not, jection had been made. •' This," I
withou/ tbffkmg, have brought forward added, " is the txpediency ; and it is
as coming from himself, the charge his own word in reference to this very
-attributed to me : becatile, truly, "his case, of which Dr. Milner speaks.'*
own words mull have flared hirri in the Mr. Le Mesurier cursorily notices, that
face." In my opinion the blush should . it is put very differently in the Speech,
be transformed to the countenances of from what it is in the Pamphlet. It
his adversaries, for having suppressed , mav be so literjllv, but, I am sure,
words of his' which they could not not est'emially. My reverend Itientl
lo< k in the face. Something to this has pissed it by, " because," as he tells
eflect 1 did, at the time, address lo the us, " it will lave time to fay at once
learned nu mber in the House of Com that it dees not at all apply to the que£-
mons ; as mv reverend friend insists oh lion." And he is right, availing him
hat iny his full slt."re »f the compli self as he does of the confusion of the
ment, 1 h>e g'uen it 10 him in the Report, iii beginning with the four
ma nni r whit h I presume he v ill most cases of tlte Canonists. Understanding
approve, in terms the molt nearly re it as in connexion with them (whkh,
sembling 1ns oh n. however, is hardly a fair construction
Defirltitt still luriher to guard him of the Ut port, imperfect as it is), easv,
self against any possible misconstruc indeed, was the triumph lo fliew that
tion, Dr. Milner, in his pamphlet, in- a stale of Lets designed for one, or fay
flatttly pulses lo another innde of illus two call's at most, will not alwavs il
trating his meaning !>v the supposition lustrate four cafes. It would have been
©sa particular case, or rather two caics more worthy of my reverend friend if
arising out of one and the lame pro he had tak. n the trouble lo inform us
mise. If you have engaged to leturn instead, what was the reason that be
a sword which vut have detained, is it never surfeit a hint of it to escape itis
Tour duty lo do so, shoind you be pen, when he is writing about the
iatisfied that some fatal use would he place wheie it dors apply, and is in>
made of it ; or -should the Weapon be troduced by the utuhor lo limit trre
necessary ot the moment to yourself, fense of the general terms Prudence aud
for the purpose as defending the life of Expediency. A little argument too
your Sovereign, or, indeed, os anv might have been useful to satisfy us, if
other innocent person? This of course he could, that to omit this was to give
hod been otnitied by Dr Duigenan. the whole context enlite.
But 1 did not read it from lite original Yours, &c. F. Laurence.
work'. I here shui the Honk. It (Tu le concluded in our nexi )
feemed fair enough to employ a little
art in counteracting a grant deal. There Mr. Urban, August 14.
could be no doubt that a ready assent A FARM not having paid tithes
must be giVeti to such Cases ; but 1 (see p. 636) is no reason for ita
conceived, that it would be more rtet paying them ; the old law, maxim
strongly expressed if this were taken for holds good, nullum tempus occurrit er-
c a forced construction of mine, which clefi*; an extmpiion must be proved,
knight be afierwards contended lo be a and the onus probandi attaches . to the
total departure from the text. Tlte occupier. 1 believe there are few but
event answered mv expectation. The At Church Lmds which have an ex
torney General, Mr. PercevAI. (w hom emption. Clericos.
tio man that has heard of him will P.S. It does not affect the tpttliion
I'uinect os ueinjr too favourable lo Ca- that a demand has nut been made.
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Mr. Urban, August 1, 18C6. pleasures of a country life: he had the
ANNEXED is a View (see Plate utmost aversion to a mean (lav ish de
I.) of the old parochial church pendence on the great, as appears by
of Chensev, in. Surrey ; the body of the following lines in One of ht»
which, in consequence of decay, has poems i / - ,
recently been taken down, aud is now " Were I to ciuse the mail 1 hate,
.rebuilding in the modern Gothic style. Attendance and dependence be his fate-i
As Chertsey is a place -of some auti- Were { to curse him still once more,
qaity, a siiort description may not May he be always proud, aud always
prove unacceptable to your readers.. poor."
It deriyes its name from " Ctroti In- The old building has been,mucli im
sula," according to one authority ; and proved by its present propr etor, Rich
from " Cæsqrea" agreeable to another, ard darkest]., the preset) i worth v Cham
feeing on th? banks of the Thames berlain of London. Part ol the original
hear tl^e pUce where Julius Cæsar structure is carefully preserved ; which,
crossed the riier on his invading this in addition to the new buildings aud
countrv ; but on this point historians taste displayed in the disposition of the
differ. In the vear 666, soon afier the grounds, affords a pleasant retreat from
Saxons were converted from Paganism, the fatigues of a town life.
FiitltWftld, a petty prince of Surrey, CheVtfj'V has a weekly market on
under IVulpher, king of the Mercians, Wednesday; and is d'slant from town
founded a monastery of Benedictine about 20 miles. Ricrard SAttiH.
Monks, Which was pillaged and de *»* We are obliged to C. V. for a /*-
stroyed by the invading Danes. It was cond drawing of the fame thurch.
soon after rebuilt by King Edgar, in
the tenth century, who granted it Memoirs.,rr/Sir Roger Newdigate^
many privileges. It underwent the (concludedfrom p 635.). .
fate of the religious houses in the reign THE best Classics, and Homer in
of King Henry Vlil. on the 6th of particular, the father and fountain
July, 1540 ; when its annual revenues, of them, seemed as familiar to him.
agreeable to Tanner's " Notiliu Mtmas- when he was on the other side of four
tica" were 7441. 12s. a considerable score, as if he was just come from Ox
sum in those days, to support twelve ford or Westminster. " My morning
monks. walks ore rin i ch abridged in length and
The unfortunate King Henry the time; but you will still find me, like
Vlth was buried here, but removed old Laertes, jgirvfytvi' ata yj»cv at*un<l
to Windsor by order of Henry the creeping about my firrn and garden,
Vllth. . and seldom going beyond the park paW,
Scarce any remains of the Abbey are but happy that my eyes have not y*t
visible, except mere fragments of wall ; failed me'*." At a later period, in con
a .stone, arch, supposed to be of the origi versation, he suggested as a motto for
nal structure, fell down a few weeks Buonaparte,
mice, in a state osdecay.. O-j* oceiln xaia igya, Kt^anet toi j3f«Ji/j
A cell for worship was erected by UKVf. ■ . - . '
the Monks on St. Anne's hil), some re Horace fays, Ra.ro, I fay
mains of which are now extant.
I have not. been ar^e to trace the tfynquam amecedefjtem fceleRum
erection of the late Church ; but,, in Defcruit peds puena claudo."
Ihe year '1910, Abbot Rutherwyck of In Theology , particularly 'in the wri
the monastery, endowed a vicarage, ting'! of our elder divines, he was very
with house and curtilage adjoining, wAl read ; arid one of his late" ">oiks
and gave it lo John Siorith, then vi was the composing of a Harmony of
car, which he anil his successors enjoyed. the Gospels, divided into short sections,
A handsome structure was erected on with contents of each, followjnr, in
the site of the old abbey, by Sir Nicho great measure the' plan of a neat book,
las Carew, master of the Buck-hounds which seems to be little known, by
to lying James. The town is plea John Hind in' lCS2, dedicated to the
santly situate near the Thames, and L'ulv Anne Twifden, widow of Sir
celebrated for being the retirement of William Twifden, a family connected-
Con-ley the Poet, who refused many by inie; riarriage with the N'ewdigates.
preferments at Court, to enjoy the * Letter, Nov. 19, :
Gent. Mag. dugtjft, 1807^
706 Biographical Memoirs of Sir Roger Newdigate. [Aug.
" Is these and other productions of by his Grace the Duke of Portland,
learned leisure were not. suffered to tra then Marquis of Titchfield, Lord
vel beyond his own Library (for he Charles Spencer, Lord Willoughby de
said modestly, " My flimsy performan Broke, the present Bishop of Dur
ces I have never had courage to expose ham §, and others. Regretting that
to any one but you •,") they were not this inestimable collection of statues,
without effect on the mind lo employ which the University, highly to their
ed. ** The fragrance of them" doubt honour, as be observed, had caused to
less, to borrow an expression of the ex be engraved among the Oxford Mar
cellent B|>. Ridley, *' accompanied him bles, was not yet disposed to advantage,
to Heaven !" and thinking the Radcliffe Library a
To the University of Oxford he was very suitable repository for them, it*
a steady friend and frequent benefactor. December 1805, he made an' offer to
The admired cast of the Florentine boar the University of the sum of two thou
in Queen's college library, the Floren sand pounds, for the purpose of remov
tine Museum, and other books in the ing them into that elegant building,
library of Ulliversity college, Piranesss and repairing some of the best of ihem,
works in the Bodleian, aud thole ex which might be selected for the most
quisite specimens of anlient sculpture, conspicuous situations. . The design
theCandelabia in the Radcliffe Library, was approved, the money paid, and
(which cost 18001.) were some of his Mr. Fiaxman was engaged to carry the
donations. And when the fire-place plan into effect, when some unexpec
in the hall of University college waa ted difficulties were thrown in ihe way
removed (rom tlie centre, and the of it : by which, as he expressed him
who.e hall fitted up at considerable ex- self, " my hopes «f the accomplish
pence in 1766, tie contributed the ment of my wish during my stay with
chiuinev-piece, an elegant Gothic flone you are frustrated." But, he added, #
work, on which his arms are suspen " the general approbation" [of the Rad
ded, impaling those of Conyers for cliffe Trustees, in whom the Library is
Lady Sophia Newdigate, who painted vested, the Chancellor of ihe Universi
and gave the arms of Alfred on the ty, &c. Sic] " and good will to my
screen at the lower end of the hall f. plan, have made me completely happy.'*
In 1755, being then one of the Bur At the fame time he (poke of himself:
gesses for the University, he was ho " I thank my good God, my prayer is
noured by the Countess Dowager of heard ! I am unwell, but have no par
Pomfret (who was aunt to Lady New ticular complaint, but a general defail-
digate now mentioned) with a com lance, gradual decay, increasing weak
mission to intimate to the University ness ; but by his great mercy my road
her Ladyship's intention of presenting down hill is easy. I have only to look
them with the statues, bustos.and other one way, and to pray, Lord, let thy
antiquities, which had been purchased servant depart in peace V Letter, July
out of the famous Arundel collection, 21, 1806.
• by William Fermor, Lord Lemplter, 5e had not, however, lost all relish
father of her deceased husoand, j"ho- sur earthly comforts. His intellectual
mas Fermor, Earl of Pomfret J. This powers were still active and vigorous j
noble donarion was accepted by the and he had as much enjoyment as ever
University with all possible marks and in friendly society and conversation.
expressions of gra'itude ; and at the " My time is (hon, and I grudge all
public encænia, July 1756, the Coun that prevents or delays my seeing my
tess was complimented, in a set oration good friends."
and in a full theatre, by the late Mr. Some of his benefactions in bis own
\Varton, professor of poetry, as well immediate neighbourhood should be
as by other compositions, some in verse mentioned. Besides providing constant
and some in prose, which were spoken employment for the poor in spinning,
♦ Letter, March 18, 1803. ,
t See Wood's Annals by Gutch, vol. ii. Q48. Fasti, ]>. 236. Hist, and Antiq. p. 1 59.
and ib. 153. n. his contribution of tool, towards the repairs of Queen's College after
the fire in 1778.
".' X Se*: his,letter trt the Vice-chancellor, together with the lefer of thanks from the:
TJnnvi Sty to ihe Counted;,. "4c. in Word's Annals by Gutch, \y\. ii. p. 807—8li.
{ Hj ./ration on this occasion is among the Lanldjjwu MSS. No. 82fl» y
1807,] Biographical Memoirs i >/ Sir Roger Newdigate; 707
he annually distributed among them, With a penetrating judgment and re
on Si. Thomas's dav, not less, it is ligious miud, he all alons law and ao?
believed, than to the amount of four knowledged the hand of Providence in
hundred pounds, in food,- cloaths, and the great events, which, during ths
money. He built a large and very ele last fifteen \ears, hiive taken place in
gant Poor-house in Chilvers Oton, the world. •' It has pleased God," h»
at the expence oftwo thousand pounds; siid (August 29, 1801.) " to stretch
/and also erected there a handsome forth his arm, and 10 cover us wiih
school for thirty boys and twenty girls, his adaman i< e ihield, against all the
with commodious apartments adjoin malice of o. r enemies on evetv side;
ing to the right and left, -for ihe master and now he has added the bleilings of
and mistress. And for the support and plenty. How linle do wa deserve, and
benefit of this institution - chiefly, he now deeplv should we leel and adore,
bequeathed six shares in ihe Coventry his goodnels !" Ata later period, af
Canal, the dividends amounting to ter the disasters of Austria and the death
about one hundred pounds a year, 10 of Mr. silt, he laid, " I have no sto
be disposed of in books and cloaths, in mach to talk of Ministry. We are in
the iaiaries of ihe teachers, &c. He the great disposing hand of the Almigh
.also left donations to all .the ijunday ty, who has overthrown our brightest
schools in the neighbourhood, and up hopes, and will not suffer the interfe
wards of fifteen tmudred pounds to rence of man, but relerves to himself
public hospitals. the disposal of Empire." Feb. g, 1806.
Another of his testamentary bequests The Society of University College,
was ihe sum of one thousand pounds where he was educated, having desired
to be vested in the public funds, in to have his portrait to hang up in their
the name of the Vice C hancellor and hall, he engaged a very good hand to
the Mailer of University College, for copv a w hole length by Romney,
the time being, in trust, part of it to painted when he was seventy-three,
go for an annual prize for English judging it too late to sit again to a
verses on antient sculpture, painting, painter. While the work however,
find architecture, and the remainder to which is extremely well executed, was
accumulate as part q{ a fund towards in its progress, he was prevailed upon
the amendment of the lodgings of the to fit to Mr. Kirkby ;-and the ingenious
Master of University College. The artist committed to the canvas an admi
prize being connected in its object with rable likeness of him, three quarters
his benefaction to the University, was length sitting, which, to thole who
brought forward in his life-time ; when knew him in latter days, does every
Jie expressed two conditions only, that thing hut breathe and speak.
✓ there should be no compliment to him "1 sliall not attempt to delineate a
self (" if there is, it will make me sick'*); character, which these lew facts will
and that the number of lines mould more justly exhibit ihan any words in
not exceed fifty. When he was asked, my power to employ. He was, 1 be
•' Will you not allow another fifty ?" lieve, the last surviving coætaneous
" No, no," he said ; " I wo'nt tire them friend of two performs ever dear to all
,}n the Theatre." Recurring to the sub who -knew them, Dr. Winchester and
ject afterwards, he observed, " Our Dr. Townso11 ; and he had a high re
great fault is want of compression. The gard for them both. In person he wag
best of Horace's odes and the finest above the middle size ; a true English
Psalms are seldom more than about that Gentleman, of polished manners, and
len.gih.'' With the *' elegant compo of the old school. There was about
sition-1 of Mr. Wilson, geutleman com- him a dignified affability ofdeportment;
monerof \lagdalen college, which ob and at the first interview with a friend,
tained the first prize, he was highly his fine open countenance was lighted
pleased : it " fully answered his intent up with a blended radiance of intelli
. and, expectation, which was to intto- gence and benevolence, which those
d<ice the subject to the public ear of the who saw it often cannot adequately de
University, and to recommend the ge scribe, but no one who once law it
neral idea, leaving the Muse al liberty will ever forget. When his last nialadv
£in suture] to expatiate upon some fa came upon him, which was a'icnded
vourite object, still confined within fif through God's mercy wiih little bodily
ty lines, that viofajlidium siinuld fstll up- suffering, thole who were near beheld
ou the heaters." Letter, Ju?ie2(5, 1800'. him, as itorctune, affectionate, pious,
and
708 Report on Dr. Harrison's Plan of Medical Reform. [Au g.
and resigned, " longing;," as he ex not received any education to qualify
pressed himself, " tn h;ive the cnriain them for the exercile of the subordinate
closed." And on Tuesday, Nov. 25, branches of Medicine, act as Physi
about half past eleven at night, " wijh- cians, to the injury of ihe publick,
out a pang or struggle, he I r at bed bis and well-inliructed practitioners j and
last »." R. Churton. that, though means have been success
fully deviled for protecting from en
MEDICAL REFORM. croachment the professions of Law and
To Dr HariISON. Divinity, that of Ptnlick is Hill open
"Sir, Dulhn, Dec. le, 1806. to every intruder.
*' I AM directed by the King and «• Your Committee beg leave to slate
Queen's College of Phvficiins in Ire the irregularities which appear to thf-n
land, to transmit to you the inclosed to exis in the practice os Medicine,
copy of a Report made to ihem by a the causes and injurious consequenceJ
Committee of their Members, to of Inch irregularities, and the mean*,
whom were referred vonr letters, and ncoessirv for their correction or re
the plan of Med'oal Reform. And I moval.
am desired to request, 1 ha' you will be " The principal irregularity seems to
pleased toconfider the said Report as ex originate from a waul of a proper dis.
pressing the opinion of ibe College on erirq'naiioii between the respective du
thai subject. I have (be honour 10 be, ties and privileges of Physicians, Sur
Sir, your moll obedient bumble ser geons, and Apothecaries, and from
vant, Hugh FerBuson, slegijier. the intrusion of Empirics, who exer
7??/ order of Ihe Ki"o: and Quest's cise, with litile controul the duties of all
College of Phyjieiatis, in Ireland." the professions.
•' Report. " In Ireland, Surgeons are very ge
" Your Commutes, having taken nerally employed in Medical cafes,
into consideration the papers received though thev of en, from the peculiar
from the meeting of the faculty, held and necessary mode of their education,
it the house ns the R'ght Hon. Sir are not qualified for such practice. In
Joseph Banks, beg leave to Report, m.mv parts of 1 be country, hardly any
that distinction in made betw een the Physi
'"The impor'nnt connexion which cian ai d Surgeon. In Dublin also,
subsists between the due exercise of although this evil does not exist ;„ the,
Medicine and 'be health of the Pub- fame degree, yet the Surgeon practises,
lick, with the experience of these in cafes purely Medical, claims the
countries, where the progress °f Medi treatment of diseases formerly consi-
cal Science appears lo have kept puce dernl to be within the province of the
with the protection aff rdid to its col Phvfic'an, and ih'nks it his right 10
tivutors, evidently poims out, that be called in to consultation in cafes
Medicine should be pros lied bv per strictly Metlica1, where the Physician
sons suitably educated ; and that the was first employed, thereby affecting to
branches of Plivfiok, S-'rpery, and controul his practice.
Pharmacy, should bs practised, as far " Apothecaries also continually act
as ex'flipn circumstances will iidmit, as Physicians, and receive fees, which
dis: i nelly from e.ich other are regu'arly staled bv their Corpora
'• Bu' '« is evident, that comnle'e ir- tion, wi'h injury to the puh'ick' and
Tefcnl 1 • itv prevails both in profession nnd regular practitioner, since their eduea.
practice ; for not onlv i>- the necessary lion is limited almost totally to the ope.
separation os the profession little ob rations of Pharmacy, nnd cannot, qua.
serve , but also persons who hue lify them 10 distinguish and treat dis,
* The f.'ll >wjng not qcs of Sir Kogcr Newdigate in the earlier volumes of Gent. Mag.
fr~i' here not tmpropetlv he referred to :
\JT W. p. '07 He wss chostn Steward of the anniversary meeting of the indepen
dent Eh-- r-jr-r Westminster.'
Vol. XVTI. p.270. Vice Preside:! • of the Middlesex County Hospital for.the Small Pox.
Vol. XIX. p. ;6.r>. honorary clcjriee of D. C. L. conferred on him, on the opening of
the Badcl ffe Library.
Vol. '<XI. p. ()2 Member for the Univetsit,y in room of Lord Cornbury, a Peer, p. 41,
Vol XLIX. p. 5"2. Speech against the motion for granting farther relief to Protes
tant, stissmtiag .Ministers and Schucil-rr^asteis, Edit
eases ;
i8©7-] Report on Dr Harrison's Flan of Medical Reform. 709
eases ; and their absence from their ward the purposes of Medical know,
proper business, while engaged abroad,. ledge, and promote the general interests
frequently defeats the intention of the of the profession.
Phvsician towards his patient, by oc- -'Gthlv, The grantnz of Licences
cartoning various neglects in the prepa- or Certificates by Teachers in Mid-
ration of medicines. wifery, (which, in their operation, be-
"With regard to Quacks, whose come virtually Diplomas,) importing,
gross ignorance is notorious, though that thole who have luch are entitled
their number is not lo grcai in this to act as Accoucheurs, although thev
country as in England, yet they do may not have received a regular proses-
much mischief, bv imposing upon the sional education, or possess anv legal
credulity of the ignorant, and distribut- qualification authorizing them to plac
ing their nostrums. life either Medicine or Surgery.
"Other irregularities remain to be "ythly, The want of a regular in-
mentioned, arising from the improve spection os medicines, weights, and
dent facility with which DepreeS are me fares, ke^t in Apothecaries' (hops,
obtained from certain Scotch Universi- by Physicians pppointed to discharge
ties, upon a certificate merely, and that duty.
without any previous education. The " 8thly, The want of properly de*
fame evil prevails with respect to tefti- fined Laws in Charitable Instiiutlotis,
monials so readily granted to Accon- for regulating the admission and dis-
cheurs unqualified . to prjf-lile Medi- charge of patients, and for dilcriminat-
cine, from Lying-iji Hospitals, and ing between Medical and Surgical
teachers in Midwifery, who thus ac- cafes.
q 1li re certain introduction to families, "Serious consequences will be the
and general Medical practice. result of" the abuses now stated ; the
"The causes of thele irregularities public interests will materially suffer,
seem lo your Committee to arise, since it must h.ippen that, from inca-
lfl, From want ofcompetent restrictive pahility of discriminator", without a
powers, in the College of Physicians in guide to direct, and imposed/ upon by
Ireland, to prevent the intrusion of mat presumptuous confidence which
unqualified persons into the practice of too frequently accompanies ignorance,
Men cine. individual* will confound the unquali-
2dlv, The almost exclusive possession fied Pretender with the informed and
of Coumv Hospitals, and other Cba- well-educ.ited Physician; that prae.i-
ritablc Medical Institutions, by Sur- tioners of regular education and correct
geons; who, through Parliamentary manners will be depiived of that pub-
arrangements, are made necessary to lie confidence to which they sre Ib
such esiahliflimerits, and their attend- justly entitled ; and thai Medicine will
ance insured by salaries ; although it gradualh cease to b: considered as an
appears upon enquiry, that a very con- object of pursuit deserving theattention
siderable proportion os the dileales ad- of men of scientific acquirement* or
mit ted there are purely Medical, and mental abilitv : and that a profel&on
• therefore such as the Surgeon, by his hitherto deemed liberal and honour-
■ education, has not been instructed to able, ivliich has materially, benefited
treat. mankind be important discoveries and
" 3dly, A want of the appointment improvements, is in danger of (inking
f>f Phylicians to the Medical Charitable into decline.
Institutions, conjointly with the attend- "The remedies for such important
jug Surgeons. evils are lo he sought sur by means
" 4thly, A wapt of the appointment likely to gain the approiiat iu of the
of Phylicians in the Army Medical publick ; without which, nothing es*
Department, to act conjointly with fectual can be accomplished. Your
the Surgeons, who, by filling solely Commiltee .iiere-ToreproDC.se:
such situations, have acquired an tin- " 1st, That the powers of the Col-
due influence over the leading men in lege ->f Physicians be extended, bv ob-
the country wb,o hold military (ia- taining a ratification of their Charter
tions. • bv Act of Parliament, the provisions
". 5thlv, The want of a Medical of the Charter beins; so modified as lo
Hall, Library, and Endowments tiiuj- meet the existing diUi^utijes.
lar lo thoie of ihe College of Surgeons, " 2dly, The adoption of article 1(1
ytjjete Phylicians flight meet, to fp.r- pf Dr. Uariilau* w\»u, which ,lii.uts
the
ifto Report on Medual Reform.-—York City Gates. [Aug.
tilt |>r;i£tice of Mediciue to Graduates gularity, of Patients in Medical an^
in Medicine. other Charitable Institutions, and for
"Sdlv, The holding out induce discriminating between Medical and
ments to country practitioners to be Surgical crises.
come Licentiates of the College of " Your Committee have thus stated
Physicians. Physicians so licensed, lo the principal irregularities which pre
be entitled Extra-licentiates. vail in Medical practice, their causes,
4tbly, Tile publication of a Lift and ihe means which seem to them
twice in the year of all those who have necessary lor thrir correction. They
become Licentiates, or Extra-licen conclude by observing, that however
tiates, in fix or more newspapers great the abuses, or deep-laid the causes
through the country. which produce them, much may be
" 5thiy, The adoption of means done towards their removal ; and to
likely to procure the appointment to t hi * end, they are con sklent that pre
County Hospitals, and other Charita sent circumstances will materially con
ble Institutions, of Physicians, Mem tribute, if allisted by ro operation and
bers of the College, in conjunction unanimity among the Members of the
with -the Surgeons, and to ensure the Medical profession."
attendance of the Physicians by salaries.
" Otlily, A Parliamentary Grant for Mr. Urban, June 18, 3»'clock.
completing an Hospital, in which WITH a mixtuTe of surprize and
Clinical Lectures subservient to a indignation, which at this mo
School of Medicine may be given, and ment agitates my feelings as strongly
in which a Library may be established as ever the conduct of any of the bar
for the use of Students, conformable barian innovators, alias 'improvers,'
to the tenor of the Act, 40lh of the of the present day, ever ruffled the
King (1800); the fgtul appropriated temper of your invaluable correspond
bv that A61 having hitherto proved in ent the " Antiquary," I take up my
sufficient for those purposes. pen to direct the attention of your
" 7thly, The appointment of Physi readers lo the legal controversy now car*
cians in the Army Medical Depart rying on between the Archbp. of York,
ment in Ireland. and the Mayor and Corporation of the
" Rtfiiy, The providing a HJ1 for City of York. It seems, from the re
the Members of the College to meet, port of a cafe argued yesterday in the
furnished with a Library, and other Court of Chancery (as given in the
means of promoting Medical Science. British Press of this day) that the Arch-j
" Qthly, That no man should prac, bilhop had filed a Bill for an Injun©,
tise Midwifery, who is not regularly tion to restrain the Defendants from,
educated as a Physician, Suvgeon, or " demolishing, or pulling doy>n, the
Apothecary, according to the new re gates of the City of York ;" thole ve
gulations, who shall not have practised nerable edifices, in which the science,
half a year in a Lying-in Hospital, and ihe ingenuity, and the taste of out
■who shall not have received a Licence forefathers, are so pre-eminently dis
from the College of Physicians lor that played. The cause of moving for the
purpose. Injunction is stated to be, that ' the,
" lOthly, The appointing Inspec PIj in tiff apprehended some injury, or loft
tors of Apothecaries shops, from of property, from the removal of the,
among the Members of the College of gates in question, as he had a prescrip
Physicians, so modifying the obliga tive right to the toll of a great annual
tion to be taken by them as lo suit it fair, called Lammas Fair, held for the
to present circumstances. sale of cattle in the city of York ; and
" 1 1 thly, That the exemplification of that the Mayor has been accustomed,
Patents £:>i Quack Medicines be regu from time immemorial, to deliver up
lated otherwise than heretofore : That lo the Archbilliop, on each fair day,
the Colleges of Physicians be made ac the kevs and gates of the City, in order
quainted in a satisfactory manner with that the cattle might be prevented
the composition of the preparation, from passing without the' payment of
arid that the Patentee shall have the the toll : —it was farther alledged, (ha*
exclusive right to the profits of the he, the Archbilliop, would suffer loss
file but for a limited time. and inconvenience, by the want of the
" 1 Stlily, The adoption of rules for gates, and would find difficulty in col-
the adunlsioa and discharge, with re iecling the toll, which would not be so
productive
1807.] City Gates at York.—Increase of Methodism. 711-
produclive to him, if the gates were easily obtained, and with whom it rests
taken down as the Defendants in she granting and refusing them."
tended ; and had aciuidtu commenced He must be btil very htUe acquainted
such pulling down at one os the Gates." with the laws of toleration, not to
Now, Mr. Urban, I cannot but know that it rests with the Magistrate
hope that the paltry and insignificant at the Quarter Seflions to grant fuel*
reasons here given for staying the pro licences to all who may apply ; pro
gress of the ruthless destroyers who vided they are willing to lake the Oaths
have begun the demolition of the an- of Allegiance demanded of them. This
tient and most interesting defences of he might have known to have beer*
die city of York,—I cannot but hope, the cafe from what he discovered in
I fay, that ihefe are not the true rea the public papers, " of three mecha-i
sons ; but that a concealed love of the sics who, feeling themselves inspired,
beaut}', and of the art, of our amient had applied to the Magistrates lor li
Architecture, has been a principal in cences to preach, and who had accord
ducement to the application. What ! ingly been referred to the Clerk's of
can nothing but the apprehension of fice." Siill he grants, that " toleration.
pecuniary loss, lead the dignitaries of is liberal and" political ;" bm that
our Church to extend a saving arm, ' such' toleration is now become
when the hammer and the axe of that lerublc."
monstrous abortion, misnamed " im It was once granted, that the very
provement," are uplifted to destroy ; belt of laws are liable to abuse. But
when the bite and Imseless feeling will your Correspondent tell us how we
■which dooms whatever is old aud ve are to draw the line? If the M-ais-
nerable a " nuisance," is with giant trate is to determine who is weak, ig
like strides stalking from one extre norant, or enthusiaftieal, toleration is
mity of the kingdom to the other, and at an end ; aud if such preachers are
overthrowing whatever is beautiful in wicked enough to violate their oaths
building, because, forsooth, the lapse after tliev hale taken them, by their
of centuries may have crumbled some turbulent 1 or seditious harangues,
1 the
■fragments into dust ? Forbid it, Hea Law is sufficiently powerful lo correct
ven ! In th;s respect, however, let them for their crimes. But, if he has
what will be the truth in regard to power to go a step farther, and deny
motive, there is still something u.iined. the'e enthusiasts, whether real or sup
Whilst the dispute lasts, the interdicted posed, the protection of the I .aw, they
edifices are preserved ;and time may im are immediately exposed to all the ven
prove the direction and tone, which I geance of the Conventicle Act; and
trust vour more able correspondents will then, instead of an intolerable tolerah
assist me in spreading through the ex tinn, we shall have an intolerable perse
tensive province of York. Oh ! how cution.
wi'h raptures' did I dwell 'on the inter IR<I, however, vour correfjxindent
esting structure beneath whole princely P. P. considered the subject more ma*
porials I entered York City, when pro- turely, as a friend to the Edahlithed
sessional business called me to the Church, he would have considered
North but two short vears ago. Who that such folly and enthusiasm as he
has not heard of Mickle-Bar Gate ? wishes to bring under the caftiga ion of
and who that has heard of it can name the Law, had much better be 1st to
Its equal ? Ye civic Desolators, could itself, as in due lime it woufcl walk il»
the spirits of your progenitors burst own ruin. Amond others i f thts (ort,
"their cerements, and rile from their he tetv | n perly complains of that mi
hallowed tombs, how would they serable visionary J anna Si^tkiatt.
point their fingers in fearful scorn at Excessively dilgustinp a- her aboin lia
the debated perceptions which ve thus ble pretensions may be in ca'Iine her
display 1 ►>•%»• place The House of God; yet. 'esve
her quile alone, „mt a ew more vision-
Mr. Urban, My 15. ary tales and enthusiastic reverie- will
OUR correspondent P P.. from soon fettle matters ; especially v. lit i flic
-» Walworth wishes 10 know, *' un- and her comrades h.u-e exposed '•em-
'der the present rapid and alarming in- selves a li'tie fanh.-r, hi filing Oieir
creiie of M" hoJifm, and ether relia - imaginary tokens of protection, at a
ous sects, how ;t comes to pass that shilling er>ch, ainonj these who are
iige.net.* "Sot these- Conventicles are sj- weak enough io l<elie*c in. hur pie,
tended
•j 12 Enthusiasts.—Leaden Counters j—'Queer Names. [Aug.-
Undet) million. Perhaps, as far as others against whom they make such
this, it mipht be the province of the loud complaints, neither would Jo
Civil Magistrate to administer proper anna at her Wheelwright's fliop, nor
correction for a fraud, (the Laws being the "Calviniltic Union" people iti
sufficiently strong against the tricks of their Assembly room, nor a thousand
soothsayers .tad fortune-tellers) without more such places, exist; as bung the
violating the sacred laws of tolc'ratiqtu least caulc of any future alarm.
which have been the cause of Inch pro A Friend to Toleration.
sperity and peace to the Nation for near a
century and a half. Mr. U«ban, June 1 1 .
Your correspondent has a further 'T'HE leaden coins mentioned by
complaint to lodge against an Afl'em- E. S. S. p. SO.f), were, I be-<
bly-rooni at Keunington being con lieve, uieiely some school-boys' relicksj
verted, as he calls it, into " a Cal- I remember having moulds of plaster
vinistic Union," as well as the Wheel of Paris, with which I formed lea- ten
wright's shop occupied bv Joanna counters ofa similar kind. The <Uath's
Southgate. I am very happy that he head buttons mentioned bv Chtonon-
feels himself so shocked at these mid hototiihologes were very different from
night revels, as to suppose that the ser what E. S. S. supposes. There were
vice of God mould never afterwards be two forts of buttons known to ih = lay-"
performed upon such a wicked spot. lors, death's head and bastets; the for
However, instead of bringing a let mer were covered with ftos silk, dU
of railing accusations against the sup verging in quarters from I he centre,
porters of such places, as though like the rushes at the bottom of a chair j
Church and State were in immediate dan the latter were woven something like
ger from them, it might be much more baiket-work, and were not confined
to the purpose to conliderwhat is the real to black, but were indifferently of any
cause of such a supposed formidable colour to suit the cloth. E. W.
tliffent. The Established Church has
not only all the support the State can Mr. Urban, August 2.
tgive her.; ljut her Ministers have the IN perusing your entertaining vo
opportunities of acquiring all the eru lumes- for some years past, 1 could
dition that our Universities can afford. not avoid the trifling employment of
Strange that, after such helps and be- noting the following queer names.
i\e6cial advantages, (he should have to They may afford some of your readers
complain of being in danger from a an opportunity of enquiring by what
sect of weak-headed enthusiasts, whose means certain persons came by names
very names are to be treated with such which are destined afterwards to be the
- sovereign contempt ! Shall I go too sport of wicked wits, of which num->
far if I should hint that such high and ber I have the honour to be One.,
zealous advocates for the Chureh be Mr. Goliglilly killed by a fall from
• advised to look at home for the cause? his horle, ,
Thele Separatists are by no means se Mr. Mould, cheesemonger in New
cret in their different charities, in their gate-street.
instruction of youth, aud in the pains Mr. Fry, ^ocAbroker, married to
they take to propagate their sentiments, Miss Slock.
and enlarge their 'connexion^. Why Jane 1'ipplc—a nurse.
do not the Clergy follow their exam .Tnhn juniper, patentee for Essence
ple, and use their efforts also to regain of Peppermint.
their lost credit among the people ? In Solomon Wiseman, found drowned
short, if the people in many places are in Sleaford New River.
gone from them, why do not they Mr. Kettle, a irei/i-founder.
fetch them back again ? Fools and Savage Bear, eiq.
wise, good and bad, among all parlies,
will naturally be found ; but, when Mr. Urban, Norwich, April 18.
the Clergy have all the advantages in INCLOSED I have sent you a small
their favour thsy could possibly wish drawing (sccPlalell.) of iheground-
for, excepting the rod of persecution, platl and elevation of one of the de
without the spirit of prophecy it signs, with a copy of the letter (Je-
may easily be foretold, thai, is rhey scribing it, which I lent to the Noble
u«e but propel v excited to bi as zea men and Gentlemen of the Committee
lous in their religious deportment as sou erecting a pillar to the memory, of
* the
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Pz'llar pmpomz zhffimurnf' lord NTELSUN
1 807 .] Mr. Browne's proposed Pillar for Lord Nelson. ' 7 1£
the" laie Lord Nelson in the coiintv of approached bv three Tiiumphal Arches
Norfolk. Thta is die design from ot entrance, each of Which is dedicated
which a model five feet high was exe to one of the three gie.it victories, the
cuted in (lone, by Mr. J. Gushing, of Nile, Copenhagen, . and Trafalgar ;
this city; and which Mr. M.uchet anil wtlhill the Temple, opposite to
mentions in February, page 12(i. Un each of these entrances, is an arched
fortunately, as 1 he subscription (amount recess for the rereption of tablets orna
ing only to tOOOl.) is not thought ade mented with appropriate Iciilptore and
quate 10 the raising a monument os trophies, bearing inscriptions record
sufficient magnitude,' it is generally ing the particulars of these glorious
imagined it will not be carried into actions. In the I'pandrils of the arches,
execution ; but, should yon think this and in the hie^e of the entablature
design worthy a place in your Reposi within the Temple, are ornamented
tory, your inserting it will very much shields and tablets lor inscriptions, giv
oblige Arthur Browne. ing an account of other gallant ex
.'* My Lords and Gentlemen, ploits of this great man. These inscrip
" The idea of raising a column, or' tions and sculpture being within the
monument, to the memory of the great building, would be preserved from the
Nelson, is so noble in iis sentiment, weather, and those injuries and incon
and so congenial to the withes and veniences which they ate subject to
expectations of the County which gave when exposed to the atmosphere in
him birth, that it cannot fail to reflect this climate.
honour on you, to whom the promot " The three exterior elevations of this
ing the means and directing the under- , design are similar to each other, and are
taking has been confided. each of them ornamented with font
" Knowing the interest you take in massive rusticated pilasters, with niches,
this affair, I am in hopes yon will par trophies, ice. &c.
don an obscure individual (who is nei " in the Composing of this design,
ther an artist nor an architect), hut I have, with the inmost. .mention to
wfco has the honour of the County œconnmy, avoided all delicacy and
much at heart, for presuming to ob minuteness of ornaments. 1 have en
trude his ideas and some designs on deavoured to unite a pleasing propor
your notice. tion with the greatest degree osllrength
•• When it was in contemplation, a and durability, ami lo render it au ap
few years since, to raise a monument propriate monument lor recording in a
in honour of our gve.it naval victories, conspicuous manner the three great
on occasions in which it was mention victories.
ed it was usually called a Naval Pillar, '* As it is designed on geometrical
by which the ideas of the rjubfick in principles, all i:s parts supporting each
general leetned then to have been di other, and all of iheni tending ami,
rected 10 expect a building, of which pressing to one centre, there is reason
the pillar or column should be the to conc lude it would be very strong, and,
leadings principle; and,- in some de like the Pantheon at Home,, or the
gree, both then and now, to have Egyptian Pyramids, endure for ages,
given that form a preference to the er until the entire decomposition of
Temple, the Triumphal Arch, the Obe the materials it is built with.
lisk, or to any os the structures which "Thus, while it riles above surround
the Antients usually erected to the me ing objects as an emblem of British
mory of their Heroes. greatnels, and while the page of His
" In the drawings which accompany tory shall inform posterity of this great
this, 1 have, in order lo meet this display os courage and magnanimity of
idea, endeavoured to associate and our Norfolk Hero; it would remain a
combine the characteristic principles laliing monument os the high lenl'e
of them all, and to unite them in one which the County has entertained of
design, of which the Obelisk or Pillar him."
will be the leading fraturr.
" The ground-plan is of a triangular Mr. Urban-, Ww'<? t""*™11"'
form, with a small hexagon Temple in
the Im sement or lower division, in the Till'' attempts)!' Dr. Milner (lee vol.
centre of which }s a pedestal, wiih a LXXV1. p. llOi)) to explain
statue of L'>rd Nelson ; this temple rs awav tltcoaih which lie has taken as a
Gknt. M.\a. August, 1SU7. B.liiup of the iiomiih Church i> to
fairs
3
7*4 Mr, Le Mesurieroa Oaths of the Romisti Church. [Aug.
rMraoidinary, the fallacy is s<i bare rendering of " herelicos et rtbelles pro
faced and gross, that l" cannot but pnffc profequor et impugnabo." Now
think that Mr. Chnrton has palled it hilt, as to Dictionaries, Dr. M. thought
over much too lujlulv : 1 mult there- he was safe in confining his enquiries to
foretroublevon Qiortly upon the subject. them, and to (Xaj/icat authors ; because
The first thins which strikes me is Dictionaries are ordinarily cotnpiM
the insolence wilh which Mr. Churton wilh a view to the CluJJics only ; and
is treated : " When tin: Orator next in the Atiguflan. age, which is the
attempts to translate the Latin Poniiri- Clajsical age, Persecution in its modern
cal, let me beg of him to make use of fense was not thought of, or at leall
his Dictionary. On looking into Ainf- had no word appropriated to it at
worth for the word perfequor, he will Koine. But even here he is unfor
find ' idem ac profequor ;' and that, tunate. 1 will lake the mod ap
among all its ilifferenttenses, when taken proved perhaps of all the Latin Dic
atone, not one of them corresponds tionaries, one drawn up by a Roman
with that of our English word perse- Catholic, aud a priest too, Facciolati,
ciitc." Here is a discovery indeed ! or rather Force,Uini : and, in his Lexi
But now, even in this short (jiace, con, 1 find " persequor" rendered " tn-
there are two frauds attempted. Fuji, fequnr, inferior, ttt/y.u," — (the very
why ate we to go to Ainsworth ? Is it word in Greek for " persecute ;")
to Ainsworth that the Pope or the Car- again, " ulcisci, odiffe, execrare,"
dinals, or the Romish Priests, resort which the Doctor may render " curse,"
or the tense of their Pontifical? Dr. or «' damn," or " anathematize," if he
Miltier knows it is not : and I will pleases.
relently tell the reader where it is that -So much for die Doctor's reference
hey go. But secondly, he refers us to Dictionaries. But, bad he referred
here to " idem ac profequor," as if it its to where he ought, if he had one
had been given hy Ainsworth as a ge alom of good faith, or good meaning
neral and approved fense of the word in him, to have referred us, he must
"profequor." But this is so far from have (topped fliort- in the very act.
being the case, that if the reader looks Had he gone to the writers of the ele
into any laie Editions of Ainsworth venth and twelfth centuries (the age
(mine is that of 177J), he will find when the oath Witt drawn up), he would
no such words in the body of the work : have flood (elf-convicted iu an instant.
but in the "Index vbcum vitandarum," Pafciiall II. i he very Pope who (or
that is, of bad Latinity, I rind it as a his predecessor, Gregory VII.) first,
singular inllattce of the use of the word imposed the oath, speaks thus in a
bv one author. " Idem ac profequor. letter to the Count of Flanders, where
Veil. Piterc. ii. 7-" And this too you he is stirring him up against the Empe
fee, Sir, is mentioned as an ipiproper ror Henrv IV. whom that Pope had
use. Ainsworth. I grant, is defective deposed : " LJbique, cum poteris, Hen-
in this calf, aud for an obvious reason ; ricuni Ilareficorttm input el ejus f'au-
though he lias in his fifth sense " lo re lores pro civibus perfeqnaris" " Nul-
venge." But as tlio word is joined wilh Itim profecto gralius Deo f.icrificiuin
" impugn/do",—" perfequor et impug- quarn si enm impugnes." Apud
nala ;"—let us fee what Ainsworth says Binnium, Epist. 7, anno logs)." That
of " impugmi :" 1st, to sight against, to is, " This Henrv, the Head of Here
impugn ; iind, to let upon, to attack." tics, aud all who savour him, you tmtll
Now, therefore, even as far as Ains- persecute to the utmost of your power."
worth goes, one would litink Dr. M, has •' There is no sacrifice more grateful to
no great remit for hnalting. But he goes God, than to attack him, or impugn
on : " He (Mr Ciiurton) will learn bv him, or resifl him." Whatever be the
pt rvsingcbijjical authors, that it is as pro- 'meaning of " impugno," wil 1 • Dr. M.
i>er lowrite
„i ._>■ 'perfequi benefitiis,'
-i- it ■is;. asare'per-' fay, that in■ this... cafe the Pope meant
ft> qui• gludio" n cSuppose ..•
we " perjirqm■ beneficiis," and not. *' fierft-
now to be told that the signification of a qui gladio ?" Can he have better au-
verb may be varied by the noun which thoriiv than the iii/'alliblc Head of the
is joined t" it for the renj purpose of Church ? ■
quatifi/iug it f But what does it mean But further, without insisting on
when it has no (itch omul, when "ta the construction of this' domineering
ken alone," as Dr. M. lavs, and refer- Pontiff, let us po back to ihole fr<nn
rinj lo herelicos ct rebel!: s? heretics and whom he took the word, to those from
rebels? The. c|ueliit»n if, what is the ; whom
li?07^1 ^e Mesurier on Oaths of the Romish Church, y i $
whom T should iwve thought that any mistaken In his understanding "thai
Bishop would have taken the meaning the obnoxious clause in question is now
of the word. What (ay the Latin omitted by the express permiHion of ihe
Fathers? What fays the Vulgate Pope ;"or Or. M. would not have failed
Translation of the Bible^ that per- to tell us so. As to what the Doctor lavs,
sect and authentic record of the "thateveryCatholicHisliopdiselaitpsias
word, according to the Council of lhe/a/e(mark,notihepreseiii)Popehirni
Trent? In them what is the fense of self publicly disclaimed, the odious sense
"persequor ?" Let Dr. Milner, if he of the oath." It is, in the first piace,
can, blush when he consults Matth. hard to tell what fense is meant under
v. 11 and 44, x. 23, xxiii. 34; the word "odious." But where is the
Luke xi. 49, xxi. 12 ; John v. lC, J'olemn AB, the Bull, by which such
xv. SO, &c. ; in all which passages Disclaimer was made? Until that, at
the word "persequor" means "perse- leojl, is shewn, the oath must be taken
cute," and is so translated by his own according to its impart, as originally
Doctors in the version usually called imposed ; and Dr'. M. and any other
the Rheins Testament." Has he for- Catholic Bishop, in interpreting it
got " Saule, Sattle, quare me perse- otherwise only make themselves liable
queris?" "Saul, Saul, why perse- to an An'alhcma, according to his own
culejl thou me i" Lactantius, a Latin doctrine in his, late Charge. See " Pas*
.Father, has written a book, " De Mot- toral Letter of John B (hop efCastabal-
libut Persecutorum." Did he mean la," published by Keating and Co. p. 10.'
the " persecutors" or the " benefactors" *** AmVertoDr AnicrMceinournext.
of the Church ? In the very beginning — —
he speaks ot Nero as one who "primus Mr. Urban, Stamford, July 25.
pfrJiaUus Deij'ervos, Petrum cruet as- \ BOUT two centuries nj>o., a tract
fixit." It this plain enough? or, did XX was published by a dissolute I'oel,
Wcro mean to " benefit'' Petw by cru- called, " Knaves falling out, true men
cifying him? A few lines further the come by their goods :" it is impollible
Father, speaking of certain notions to witness the controversy in the Gen-
about Nero, as if he was to return tleman's Magazine between a Clergy*
upon earth, adds the reason, " ut quia tnan and a certain Catholic Doctor, or>
primus per/coitus eft, idem etiem novi/- Titular Bishop, withont hoping that
ftmus per/'cqualuT ;" that as he was tiie 'he result will terminate'flmilar to the
first " perjeculor," so lie should be the deduction of the Pamphleteer. I n one
last ; and here the word is most smelly, instance poor Greene has the advau-
to use Dr. M.'s own words, " taken 'age;, he exposes knavery in decent,
alone." . though " good; set terms,,; and with a
Lastly, I have yet other more fa- considerable portion of caustic humour
tourite authorities.} even those of mo- ancl good temper ; hut, as if every thing
dent Papists. Dod (the accurate, the connected with Religion was to he car-
laborious Dixl) the favourite Hillo- ried by virulence, we have Dr. Mitner
rian of Dr. M. translating this verv charging his opponents with falsifying
oath (Eccl. Hist. vol. 1. p. 2si5.) ren- evidence, or withholding it from ig-
ders it "resist and persecute." And norance : Mr. Le- Mesurier, in return,
even in these days, Sir John Throck- distinguishes the Titular Bisliop by very
morton (Considerations, p. 150) not hard names ; a third, under the signature
only translates it "persecute," but re- of P. C. denominates the Poper) Hero a
probates the oath for that very reafmn. blasphemer : " By my troth, gossip.
Aster this, Sir, I must leave it to these be bitter words."
your readers to decide whether in this It is really painful lo fee Religion
instance they (hall attribute Dr. Mil- thus unsettled ; to see the, servants of
ner's false assertions to insincerity or Truth thus upon a sea without rudder
ignorance. 1 will not hesitate to (ay, or eompaslfj or, like Noah's dove, seek-
that if, in taking his lipilcopal oath, ing a resting-place in vain: and while
he underlined by the word " peisequar" the declarators and expounders of the
»jiy thing else than *' t will persecute," Scriptures are thus dvided, how (hall
he'grosily prevaricated, and acted con- the Hearers he fixed in pay faith ?
trarv to what Ive call the, third com- These revreiid gentlemen, however
snandment. Tuo-ta/ts.Ls MesUrikr, they mav differ on oiher points, agree
P. S. Sir John Throc^inorton (C«»* admirably in the sent* and order of
fideratiuni, p. 14U) imast evidently be attack, they send and prove with Breat
regularity •
7 16 Moderation recommended.*—Fublic Education, r_^yg«
regularity : allernis diectis is the order; firfl Public Schools, that ibe, vice of
and one month ue have the rejoinder Swearing is so generally practised,"thai
and the next the reply. Dr. Johnson we are conlimiajfy Ihocked with the
said, he seldom re.id history, lor it was prophanetses* of evert the junior bovs ?
merely the annals of blood. 1 presume Let it not be atleirged in excuse, that
he was (peaking of Ecclesiastical his- in a great number of boys it isimpom-
tory. On one (ide we are presented, ble to prevent it. If I am not misiu«
with the (laughter of John Forrest and formed, it is prevented in much larger
Robert Southwell ; on the other with Schools : al that' npble institution
the martyrdom, as it is called, of John Christ's Hospital, where the discipline
Hufs and Jerome of Prague:—utrian is what it ought to be in every public
hvrum? is the only question. For Seminar) , decency of buijiiiage and de
my part, I lia> e no lalic. lor the faggot, portment is exhibited by* the boys,
whether it be liuhied by the hand of widely, different front what are' to be
Alary or Elizabe h. There seem, how- found in some other Seminaries, gene-
ever, a sulricieut number who have, rally reckoned more genteel and supe-
and-let them diare all the honour and the rior in rank. .
horror such principles merit. For me,. The (ame laxity of discipline in our
who have little opinion of the efficacy of Universities is doubtless the cause of
tongue-wordiip, who think Religion the dissipation and- immoral conduct
should be in the heart rather than in so frequently complained os.
the mouth, what is it to me, or to To these evils it is surely lime to ap-
*hy body else, whether John of Prague ply a remedy, if we would wish our
or John Forrest suffered from per- Schools and Colleges to produce men
seeming bigotry two centuries since, of moral worth as well as men oflearo-
duringan unparalleled revolution in the ing ; for this purpose, it (cents requi-
Church ? Are these things so desirable site that the Slafiers and Superiors in
that we should wish the practice to be places of Public Education should he.
restored ? When will Christians cease invested with such a degree of autho-
to hate one another ? 1 did hope lhat rity and independence as (hall induce
bigotry, whether Papal or Proleslant, them to pay no respect to one scholar
had sunk never to rise again. Cran- above another on account of his' pa-
iner and Ridley perished by a stick of remtage or expectations ; but to correct
the fame faugnt which they had bound vice and immorality if found in the sort
for others a just reward far persecut- of a Peer, with the fame severity as he
ing bigotry. Thave, for one, no taste would do were he the son ."©Man ob-.
for either the stake or the guillotine, (cure trader. The odious and barba-
Mr. Le Mel'urier and Dr. Milner are tons custom of fagging should1 also be"
welcome to both ; aud I can discover abolished ; a custom productive in'mariy
nothing in the peaceful spirit of the instances of serious evils, and by -no ,
Golpel that encourages either. . means to be reo<Miciled with the free
Yours, &c. Asper. and liberal spirit os our genius and
» civil polity ; a custom which loo often
Mr. Urban, July L'O. creates a cruel and arbitrary temper, and
MUCH has been laid,- and much exhibits in future life the petty tyrant
written, on ibe subject of lvluca- "s his school fellows 'transformed into
lion; the advantages of a Public ihe- oppressor of his fellowmen.
School have by some persons been lire- I" hopes that these hints 'may pro*
iiuoullv aliened, aud its difad vantages duce something on (o important a sub*
have been as forcibly described by ject from the pens of some osyOur Cor-
others.— It. must, however. I fear, be respondents liiore equal to the task, I
allowed thai, if we look f:>r .a moral request your insertion of this,
and religious Education; some of our Yours, &c. Semilis.
Public' 'Schools will appear in a very. —' ■ •
disacb antoseoiis point of view; a lax- Mr.. Urban, July 31.
iiy fif i1i.lctr>lihe, very irconlistent with 'I "I1K Hiog'anhrr ofthe Poet Cowper,
the jii'etiiion of those Establishments, ., JL in bis Itte of that delightful writer,
is too prevalent j and while suekis the inforinsus.t'iai.lohnCoivper.tlie Poet's
case, it is in, vain we look for stticttief'i brother, ensraged to tranllaie Voltaire's
of conduct in tl>e pupils.—Is it not, I. " Herrriadp," in which he was assisted
would ask, a disgrace to those who' bv hi» brother William, who informed
have l he superintendence osiumc os our Mr. ilajley lhat he translated two Can-
I ^07.] Cowper's Version of He. iriade I—Knighthood, Zic yij
tos of the Poem. Mr. H. then say;., who shook off the yoke of their super-
" This fraternal production is (aid 10 smions than they generally are.
have appeared in a Magazine of the Your* &c. ' ' "%..
yen,: I769. 1 have discovered a rival Part ofthcOjfice ofihe Eleven Thousand
and probably an inferior translation
si) pulliflied ; but .the joint work of From the Horæ sec. Us. Saruiu."
the poeiical brothers lias hitherto elu AnTIPHOXJ.
ded all my researches." O vos undeha millia,-,
Now as every production ofihe inter Puellæ gloriosæi .' ., :
esting Cow per 'must he valuable, Mr. Virginitatis lilra,
Hayley will confer a great savour on the Martyriique roi'æ;
admirers of 1 he Poet by explaining -in In vita me dcfimdite, ■'■ ' .,
what Magazine of the year 1759 he Pratbendo mihi juvamen ; ;
In morte vos ostendice, . ■>■' *
found the Poem which he supposes a Supernum ferendo folamen.
rival and inferior translation ; and whv Pers. Orate pro nobis, Sponsæ Dei Electee,
he forms such a supposition ; as it seems Jtejp, Utadvestrum consortium valeamm
rather improbable that two tranllations pervenire. < .
of the fame Poem should appear In two Oratio, ., , ... ;
periodical publications ofthe fame year. Brevi'ir. Rum. Reform. .,,
The writer of this is in polsefiion of a Da nobis, qua?sumus, Dimiine Deus
Magazine for the year 1759, which con nolter, Sanctarum Virginum et Martyrma
tains the first five books of that Poem ; tuarum Urfuiæ et Sociarum ejus palmar
and another of the vear 1-760, in which incessabili devotione venerari, ut quas
are the remaining five; and he would digna mente non possumus celebrare, hu-
he glad to ascertain whether this is the milibus saltern frequentemus oblequiis_j
translation by the Cowpers or not. per Dominum, &c.
Yours, &c. Investigatus. Hortcl. Avimæ.
See. Us', anlirj. Eccles. liomfin.
Mr. Urban, Aug. 5, O preclaræ vos Puellæ,
IF H. C. B. (whose letter appeared in Nunc implete meum velle ;
p. 627.) had taken the pains to exa Et dum mortis venit hera,
Subveriite tine moia ; . •
mine the dirl'erentordersof Knighthood, In tarn gravi tempestute • ■_. „
he would have found, that the entrench Me precautem defenlate
ment complained of was not at all ana A Dasnionum injur'ia. .
logous to the honourable distinctions Vers. Pia Mater Ursula, l'ponsa Christi
(moled. I am no friend to innovations decora.,
ol anv kind, but cannot help regarding lisp. Cum mis ss.'a'ibus, semper pro no
the aflnniption of the girdle as a very bis ora.
innocent appendage to armorial bearings. "' . . ' , Oremus.
Please to propose the following rnolte Deus, qui affluentiffimsa bonitatis
for translation: tuff prudentia° Bcatissimam Urfulam cum
Tauquam ttifpicalussum vinco. undecim millibus Virginum triumpho
Yours, &c. Felix. Martyrii cororiare dignatus es ; concede
propitius, ut carura precibtis ac mentis,
cum iplis Ui æterna beatirudine eoilocaJi
Mr. Urban, April ee. meraamur ; per Dominum, &c.
AS a correspondent in p. 'JOS fa
voured thepublick with the .names Mr. Urban, , May 18.
of many of the Roman Catholic Saints IN Peacock's " Compendious Geogra-
whose festivals were observed in this phical Dictionary ' is the following
K'ngdom prior to the Reformation ; article.
perhaps it may not be dilagreeable to ; *' Cleer, St. a Parish of Cornwall, re
some of your readers, to peruse the de markable for a piece of Antiquity called
votions which were addressed to those the other Half Stone ; which indeed ar;c
Saints in their public services. 1 have two stones fixed in the ground, and by
now sent you part oftheofticeof the Ele- mortises ia each seem to. have btrji foj-
fen Thousand Virgins, and can commu merly joined together. On buth are cu
nicate several oilier curious specimens of rious Diaper-work carvings, with the fol-
tdilatroussuperstitionwiihsoinefltetcheii lcrwjog inscription upon one of them, ir»
os the history of tin- Saints they were very antique characters : " Doniert ro]&
addressed to ; and probably the present vit pro animal' This poniert, or D..9--
generation," when -tl.wv reflect t>n the garthj King of Cornwall, was drewnvd
iitmmiii x ot their anrelors, tvili he stunt A. D.'isa."- -.■ « •»
inure *raielul to the memory of thole 1 Allow
7 1 S Critique on Modern Must t of " Beggar's Opera.'* [Au£.
Allow me to enquire of any corre Opera, between the Beggarand the Play?
spondent who may know any thing of er, with 0 scene or two, are dispensed
this place, wheiher these stones with with : hence the piece shouM be no longer
the inscription are still 10 be seen, termed the Beggar's Ooera, but the
which (if it be the case) is certainly a Newgate Opera. The mil part of trie
great piece of antiquity, and some Overture re-let. All the airs, in some
public form of the (ame (I think) degree, hare been altered, excepting
ought to be preserved. the two first* : their movements broken
Yours, &c. £>. £>■ *. into, and rendered lame and disgusting ;
symphonies added, and an imitation of
Mr. Urban, May 9. modern non - delcript accompani
FROM you »H grievances seem 10 ments lacked to each that confuse,
leek redress; whether thev arise and altogether overwhelm the original
from " innovations" in moral rectitude, song. Certain magic characters in the
<lillrest'ed humanity, Literary pursuits, melodies, marking the essence of each
Architectural pursuits, or the general composition, and moll admirably
interests of Antiquity ; finding in you a ke pi up iti the basses set for the tie-
righter of wrongs, or at least, a kind calion by that verv excellent and able .
friend who listens with pity to each fad composer,' Dr. Pepulch, who with
complainant. Permit ttte also to uii- Gay made the general (election of air«,
'bosoth iny feelings, wounded in the are all expunged, and the present mo
tendercst part by the mad triumph of notonous method rf counterpoint sub
modern infuriated Music over thesubtiiiie stituted. To sum up this innovating
and tender llraius of the last age, when inharmonic mass, in order to make the
each melody was clear anil perfect, measure of audacity compleat, Han
and composition in scores the very del's grand march in Rinaldo, adapted
acme of Itarmonv and sweet delight. to " Let us lake to the* road," is
I am led to this diiclol'ure ofmy sen changed for a noisy ridiculous common
timents, from having attended the per parade march, with double drums and
formance of the Beggar's Opera at Co- trombones (instruments of clambar
vent Garden Theatre, May 1, 1807; and confusion), to the utter contempt
which hits thus been laid ufider the for the memory of that wonderful man,
hand of firkle improvement and drama and his immortal compositions.
tic change. lithe public ear or the /ay?e of modern
From the first appearance of this composers are so vitiated, rather lav
Oper^ until within these four or depraved, tiiat nothing but a din of
five fears (the date, I am told, discordant instruments, and rapid exe
of its present metamorphosis), it has , cution, can go down, without one sen
deservedly been a constant and nndi- timent to soothe the soul ; at once
iiiinilhed favourite with the town. throw the Beggar's Opera aside as de-
The characters well drawn from life ; Jpicaitc, and of too vulgar a cast for
situations natural; satire just; the airs our refined intellects; and let not its
most of them national, simple in their once fair fame he trampled upon, as a sa
notes, mid few accompaniments : the crifice to novelty and fashion, and the
upper instruments generally in unison absurd musical mania of the present
with the long, while the lower part, day.
or baft; glides in magic combination Yours, Sic. J. C.
along the pleasing whole, its being the
principal, or indeed the only real ac Mr. Urban, fulg'7-
companiment. On this foundation was OUR prelent translation of She sa
this excellent operatic olio railed to a cred writings are, on the whole,
piich of celebrity hardly ever before very cxtfllent ; buti as has been ob
or since equalled. served, there are some things to be
From these considerations, it might corrected. Also many expressions, for
be thought, that no man wottM 'have wain of explanation, cause infidelity.
had the presumptive idea of attempting What pity it is, Mr. Urban, that
to better, or improve, this enthroned Hebrew learning is not more insisted
prize of harmony j but the deed is * The gentleman who coridrscaukd to
done: and this lite sum of all the lend- th« band did not undsr-ratc his abi
disorganising aft. lities by making his appearance until
Thj Prologue, or Chorus to ijie thul'e were lung.
i 8o7«] Utility of Hebrew Learning.—Hornet illustrated. 71$'
mi and cultivated ? I will mention a Eastern part of the Itoman Emp're, 011
few things that have occurred to me. affairs committed to him by Augustus.
Mr. Voltaire triumphed much, no It is the completest model of a recom
doubt, when he thought he had found mendatory letter to a person of distinc
ai» error in the Mniaicat account of tion of any that I know. It is in u
creation ; faying there were three si) Ik that nothing but an intercourse
nights and days before any could be, with polite company can give; and,
as the fun was not formed until the under the a|<pearance of the greatest
fourth, the caule of all light. But ease and frankness, every word is
Moses fays, God divided the light from weighed as in a diamond scale. No
the darkness the . first day. This was one ever knew better than Horace what
sufficient to cause night and day. was becoming himself, the person with
Now if the fun was, as huih been hi whom he had 10 do, and him whom
therto held, a globe of fire, this could he intended to serve. The more ear
not be. This is the reafiwi 1 have ever nest he was in his recommendation (as
held, that the fan is a globe 9s light, we see from the conclusion of the
and hot of fire. It is truly the Mofai- epistle), the more delicacy was neces
cal account. I have heard the eighth sary to a man of Tiherius's character.
verse of the third chapter afford scoffs Too much importunity, too warm a
to such philosophies as Voltaire ; strain of praise, would only have hurt
" They heard the voice of tile Lord his young friend : as coldness, pride,
God waiting in the garden in the cool reserve, and distrust, were atwavs
of the day." It certainly is an improper striking features in the character of Ti
expression. But the .original Hebrew berius ; even in his youth, when he
is just Ihe reverse, and truly sublime. was in his prime, and when the re
T''e Ilebrew is, Le ruah hajora, in gards he drew upon himself from alt
•he breeze, or wind of the day. Thus tides held his natural vices in restraint,
iti Pfahns, civ. Al kanepe ruah, on the and stilled them for a time in his bo-,
wings of the wind. In chap. iv. 26, som. .As little would it have been pro
it should be as in the margin ; " And per for Horace to have allumed. an air
men began to call themselves by ihe of importance, and to have spoke in
name of the Lori." This explains the tone of a man who thought his re
what follows in vi. 2. The Ions of God commendation of some weight from
saw- the daughters of men ; meaning bis connexion with several great per-
ihe descendants of Seili (aw the smages, and from ihe good footing he
daughters of Cain. I will trouble was on with Atigtillus himself, to a
you, Mr. Urban, with no more at pre-~ young nobleman, who, though far
sent, but that such unexplained ex from the ex|>ectaiinn of succeeding to
pressions are, to mere linililh readers, Augustus in the Empire, yet, as the
gre.it stumbling-blocks. Such instances eldest son of the all-powerful Livia, was
also show how presumptuous the one ol the foremost persons in the State.
immense concourse of Evangelical This, however, was not all that Ho
Preachers are, in attempting lo correct race paid attention to. He mult natu
the errors of our Church. By the rally on this occasion Ciy something to
bve, would it not be an admirable law, Tiberius that would flatter his self-love,
that no man applying for a licence without looking like flattery : and Ho
should succeed without he engaged that race, who with all his Arisiippic dex
110 one should preach there, who could terity in dealings with the great, knew
not read the original languages of the how to keep himself alwavs clear of the
two Testaments. Should we then anv fordid character ofa flatterer, was like
snore hear, in this country at least, of wise determined to fav . nothing but
Papist?, Calvinisis, Methodists, with a what in fact all Rome must ark now-
long train of &c. &c. ? B. I. B. ledge to be true. The turn he takes
for happily avoiding all these peril* i»,
Illustrations of Horace. methinks, the best his genius could
Book I. Epistle IX. have inspired him with ; and the sim
To Clauoius TintiRtus Nero. plicity of it is the verv circumstance
Introduction. that most deserves our admiration. He
THIS sliort Epistle, as well as the drast'es up the whole business in a sim
foregoing, seems to have been ple narration, how it came to pass that
written while Tiberius was in the his young friend Septimius so far got
the
7?o Illustratitou as Horace.—Winifred's Well. " [Aug.
the better of his bashfolnefs *, a? to pre- which he recommends him to the cold
vait upon him lo take a step which gave and distrustful Nero, would look like a
him ihe appearance, as if iie thought very strong inllance of his keen know
he had great interest with Tiberius. ledge of mankind ; for the surest way
The manner in which he expresses him to hurt one's friend with a great man of
self on this head is equally remote from this temper is to praise or recommend
baseness and affectation. All that he him with warmth and zeal.
favs in recommendation of his friend, How successful our Poet was in hit
is in the two last words of the Epistle; recommendation we cannot tell. At
hut in these words he ascribes lo him any rale we learn from Suetonius*,
exactly the two qualities which Tibe that the honour of being of the cohort
rius affected most to prize. All that lie of Tiberius was not so very covetahle
<ays flatteringly to thai Prince himself, as Septirnius and his friend Horace
lies in the single verse : might at that time have imagined, at
Dignum mente domoque legends honejta least not on the fide of profit ; for he gave
Neremis: his commensals, contrary to the usual
Worthy of Nero's family and heart, practice, no regular salary, nor made
Where only men of merit claim a part. them any presents, excepting on one
Francis. occasion, when Augustus, who did
Doubtless this is much praise in few not wish lo see his dependants exposed
words ; but, in comparison of the high to any kind of reproach, opened his
opinion entertained bv all Rome of Ti own purse, and, under the name of.
berius, and of the public esteem he had his step-son, distributed a gratification
acquired by the regularity of his man among his cohort, which, if it vigo
ners and his prudent behaviours, it rously excited the thankfulness of these
would be rather too little, unless we gentlemen, they must certainly have
could believe that the Poet, by being had very moderate desiresf. W. T.
thus sparing aud tenacious of his praise,
meant to employ the most delicate me Mr. Urban, July 3.
thod of flattering a Prince, who had HOWEVER powerful a man may
very important political reasons for af be in mental faculties, who,
fecting a mortal antipathy to adulation standing like a rock amidst the boiste
of every kind. rous waves, defying and repelling their
Of the Septiniiiis recommended to idle efforts ; still some panicles of the,
him in this Epistle to be appointed to mighty consolidation mav, by constant
the place of a comes, we have but little attacks and secret underminings of the
to fay. Baxter aliens that he was frothy surge, give wav, and, sailing,
called Tilus Septimius, that he was a become the scoff ofinvidious lookers-on.
Roman knight, aud an excellent Poet, This appears to me to be the situa
and had formerly been a commilito of tion of your correspondent Dr. Milner,
Horace. GelTher adds, lhat he was who, among his several assailants, has
the very fame to whom the Sixth Ode in particular brought upon himself the
of the Second Book is inscribed. If strictures of P. C. p. 513, with regard
this supposition bo well founded, lie to the " Authentic Documents rela
must have been an intimate friend of our tive to the Miraculobs Cure of
Poet; and the apparent coldness with Winnefrcd While."
. * The common acceptation confines this term to too narrow a signification. ■ With
the Romans a man was ashamed of being; unpolite, of being too forward, of speaking
unseasonably : in short, of doing any thing that was improper ; and I fee not why it
-could not be the fame with us.
t Jf Egregius vita famique quoad privatus vcl in imperils sub Augusto suit. Tacit.
, Aral. vi. :>i.
* Sueton. in Tiberio, cap. 46. ..' ■
+ The whole sum amounted to about 50,000 crowns. Tiberius made three classes.
Among the first, which consisted of pel sons of.distinction, he distributed 23,000, and
among the second lfi,6Gt> The third class was composed of Grecian literati, with
whom, in compliance with the fashion, he was wont to associate, though he loved
neither their nation nor their language.. Me never called them his friends as he did the
others, but only (contemptuously) hjs Greeks; and these v*£rc obliged to Content
themselves with the remainder.
The
1807.] Winifred's WW/.— Dr. Lettsom 'on Prisons, 721
The Doctor, in his w.ork, after going by his aid the statue of Howard was
through' the uarraiive of facts, with ihe niiled in the Cathedral of the Metropo
attestations of variou» '* eye-witnesses" lis; and, perhaps, a tingle letter in
proving the fame, begins his comments serted in 1780 * gave rile to the inter
on the transaction with this rerrrarkable esting institution of *' Tlie Literary
and most strong observation, |). 23 : Fund for the Benefit of Authors and
" With this body of evidence ttjen be thus, in numerous instances, this Re
fore my eyes, what am 1 to judge ? what pository of science has become the ve
am I to pronounce? I know on one hand, hicle of philanthropy, and the me
that it is a daring insult to the God of dium of extending public good 011 the
Truth, to pretend to promote his service genuine principles of humanity.
by falsehood, or deception of any kind ; J. C. Lettsom.
and indeed neither the general cause of County Gaol at Ivelchester.—»
Christianity, nor that of the Holy Catholic Gaoler, Edwurd Scadding, salary 125 1.
Church in particular, need any such assist Fees, felons IS s. 4 d. debtors 14 s. 4 d.
ance. But I know, on the other hand, besides which the Under-flieritt ,de*
that it is a base cowardice and treachery
to deny, or conceal, the manifestations mauds 6 s 8 d. for his liberate. Chap
and wonderful works o£ the Most High, lain, Rev. Thomas Rees ; duty, prayers
for fear of the Censure and ridicule of pro- and sermon every Sunday ; salary 501.
phane or unbelieving mortals. Hence I Surgeon, Mr. Pooh ; salary none,
will not hesitate to declare, in the lan makes a bill. Allowance to Debtors
guage of Scripture, concerning the won and Felons, each a six-penny loaf per
derful and supernatural cause in question, dav, weight 27th December, 1801,
that this is the finger of God, Exod. viii. 2 Ib. ~ oz. Number of Prisoners, 1800,
19. and that, even in this age of domineer April 7th : 28 debtors, 36 felons, &c.
ing vice and incredulity, God hath not left 1801, December 27th: 29 debtors,
himselfwithout testimony, Acts xiv. 1 6 ; or, 34 felons.
to speak in plain terms, that an Evident This Gaol, which is likewise the
Miracle has been wrought among us." County Bridewell, is situate near
" A well-disposed Christian," alias a the river, and great part of it is sur
Protestant, not without some rounded by a boundary wall ; which,
sparks of belief. whilst it adds to its security, affords to
the Keeper a convenient garden for the
LETTER XLI1I. ON PRISONS. growth of vegetables. The Turnkey's
Mr. Urban, 8*b$£ g""' Lodge fronts the river, is on the left
of the entrance gate, and there is a
. *' Nec sibi fed toto gentium fe credere warm and cold bath on the right.
mundo*." Li>c*n. Over these and the gateway are three
ALTHOUGH the subsequent his lleeping-rooms. A small garden leads
tory is so complete as neither to to the Gaoler's House,; which, though
require further illustration nor animad situate in the centre of the building,
version f ; yet I cannot but repeat with commands but a very small part of the
pleasure the humane conduct of Mr, prison. It has a Cupola on the top,
Gye in rendering his press subservient with a bell, which (erves for ihe Chapel*
to the calls of distress, which might or for alarm.
otherwise have remained unknown, There are five court-yards, the first
and unrelieved. And let me not at (he of which, on the right hand, is sot
present moment forget the medium those who are committed for petty of
which " The Gentleman's Magazine" fences, or until they pay a fine, and
has afforded of diffusing similar bene through which all mull pass 10 the
fits in a more universal manner, as debtoi's apartments ; the pump, which
thev have been extended to almost every is in a small ward adjoining, and sup
Prison in the Empire; and if Mr. Ur- plies the whole prison with excellent
ban disclaim the expression of public spring water, is another tnejns ■ >f in*
gratitude, it ought to be recorded that tercomse. On the ground Boor there
are arcades fur the prisoners in wet
* To think that he was born, not for weather ; over thfle are two stories,
himself, but for the world.
f Except the Postscript concluding my * Intituled, " Hints for establishing
friend's letter, which I (hall recall to at«. Society for promoting useful Lite/ature,"
tension in a subsequent "Essay. Cent. Mag. vol. L. p. Hi.
CiNT. Mao. August, 1867. to
4
72,2 Mr. Neild's Remarks on Ikbester Gaol. [Aug.
to which you ascend by a stone stair there is access through the Keeper's
case, each containing five cells,' 8 ftet house, is on the felons' side of the
by 7, anJ 8 feet 6 inches high, fined prison, and the women convicts are
up with perforated iron bedlleads, out of fight of the other prisoners ;
straw (changed once a mo uh. oroftener the women debtors and criminals are
if necessary), a blanket, and a cover seated in the gallery; i lie men debtors
let. Eich cell rms a double door, the sit underneath ; and the rest of the
orfter iron-grated, the inner wood, ground-floor is occupied by prisoners
wh'ch opens into a passage of lour feet of all delcriptions. The debtors are
wide, the windows of which (four) not obliged to go to Chapel ; and only
look into1 the court. These cells have eight out of twenty fines attended di
each a semicircular window, half glazed vine service when 1 was there.
and half open, with Hoping boards, Women Felons. This court is rather
and look imo the Keeper's garden ; larger than that of the men felons, and
there is likewise an aperture in the wall, completely separated from it. Ther#
18 inches by 9. for li^ht and ventila is a pump in it, but seldom used, be
tion, in all except tw o, which are dark, cause the water is not very good. On
and intended for the refractory. In the ground-floor are fourteen cells, 10
this part of the prison common-side feet by 7 feet 6 inches, and 8 feet fi
debtors steep, but in the day-time are inches high, and a day-room. On the
allowed the use of the master's side upper story there is the fame number
debtors court, as well as the mess- of cells, and a lodge for a Woman
room and fire. Adjoining to the Ar Turnkey, who attends on the female
cades is the Keeper's Cellar, and over prisoners, and is paid a weekly salary
it two stories, each containing fix cells bv the county. All the upper cells open
riued up, &c. as those before describ into an iron-railed gallery ; and have
ed ; these are appropriated to fines and wood bedlleads, with draw and blan
petty .offences. Master's- fide debtors kets, according to the season, In the
have a day-room and mess-room about garden is the Engine-house, by which
20 feet by 12 each, with seventeen reservoirs are filled, aud the whole pri
hrdging-rooms above, capable of accom son supplied with soft water, through
modating thirty persons, for which pipes conveyed into the respective
they pay as per Table; behind this courts. Prisoners are washed, shaved,
building is a spaoious court yard where aud have a clean dowlas stiirt every
they 'play at fives, skittles, &c. On week ; there is county cloathiug pro
the left entrance is the Male Felon's vided, with brown and yellow stripes,
Yarrj, with iron palisades towards the but not being compelled to wear it
small garden in front of the Keeper's they make every shift to do without,
house. On the ground-floor there is very sew of the prisoners having it on
a place for coals, a large day-room at my visit. The Sewers are judici*
(to which the County allows coals in onfly placed, and not offensive. The
severe weather), with arcades to walk whole prison is white-washed once or
under when it rains. Over these are twice a year, as occasion requires ot
two stories, each containing eight cells the cells occupied. The average num
of the fame size, and fitted up in the ber of prisoners the last seven years 78,
fame manner as those already men in which period six only have died.
tioned, with ten pounds ofclean wheat Convicts have the King's allowance of
straw everv week. 2s. 6d. a week. The Act for the
The Women Debtors Court is 18 Preservation of Health, and Clauses
yards bv 6. and was intended for the against Spirituous Liquors, both hung
vise of sick prisoners ; it is separated up. No employment furnished by the
from 1 he Men Felons bv a (ingle iron countv ; but three debtors who were
palisade only, through which they handicraft trades were at work. The
can lee and converse with each other. fifty shillings formerly pa d from a le
They have arcades tinder which they gacy of Mr. Kel/im, of Norton, to the
walk in wet weather; and over these poorest debtorsatMidfummeri has been
are their two steeping-rooms, and two long discontinued, and 1 could get no
infirmary-rooms. On the upper Itory information concerning it, no ma-
ate five cells, which, with fix over the morial being hung up. Affixes are
Chapel, are appropriated to the moll never held here ; the Spring Aflize aU
orderly of Ciiminal Prisoners, and have ways at Taunton ; the Summer at
boarded floors. The Chapel, to which Bridgewatc.r and Wells, alterrfatelr.
1807.J Ilchester Gaol.-—Seed Corn,—Christ. Tancred' 723
grinding, nor fit for the mill. I ihere-
At Taunton and Wells the Keepers
Indue their prisoners at siparate inns.
fore proposed lo in) principal farming
At Bridgewater thp prison is only one
servant to low some of u on a sallow,
instead of buying seed wheat ; he, bow-
room under the Town Hall, liraw on
ever, and all oitiers nbom I consulttd,
the floor, arid where I was informed
objected so strongly to the measi.re
fifty prisoners had been confined fix
days. For the conveyance of trans
that, unwilling to lose all the exp.nce
ports the Keeper is allowed one shil
I had been at in preparing mv ground
for a good crop, I gave tip ine plan ;
ling pir mile each. This is the only
but, sictunatelv, having purchased loo
prison in the county, except Bristol,
lit le si-ed, 1 did prevail on my senant
to which there is now a Chaplain ; for
merly there was one at Taunton and
to sow a sew lands wilh tbc mildewed
Shepton-Mallet, and the County had
feed, and had the satisfaction .to find
generously gone to the limit of the Act
that it grew up quite as well as ihe
by a salary of .00 I. to each, but the
Other, and produced as much corn per
Chaplains having neglected their duly,
acre. It mav be proper to men-ion,
that, as ihe mildewed feed was too light
the Justices first reduced the salary, and
afterwards took the whole off. to allow of its being brined, ihe>e were
My dear friend, ^SflsOl.a few smutty heads amongst ihe Corn,
but not so many as to injure the bread
in the least ; and wit sowed it rather
This prison, situate in a remote cor
ner of the County, on the banks of
thicker than the good feed.
the river Yeovil, subjects its inhabi Yours, &c. W. VtLLERS.
tants, particularly debtors and fines,
to many and great inconveniences ; Mr. Urban, July 16.
too far removed from their friend* IN examining some old Newspapers
to receive occasional gratuities, and no I sound an advertisement of ihe se
manufactory in the town 10 afford cond ediiion of " A Scheme sot an
them employ, they have an abundant Act os Parliament si r ihe l>ener regu
claim to pity. Mr. Gye, the humane lating Servants, and ascertain ng ibeir
printer of the Bath paper, frequently Wages, and lessening the future growth
represents their distressed situation, and of the Poor, and Vagrants of ihe K ng-
receives benefactions for their relief; dom. ' Humblyoffered lo iheC nliHer-
and it is a fortunate circumstance i hat atioti of the Parliament of Great Bri
the Keeper is aitemive and humane. tain, by Christopher Tancred, F/q. of
Believe me yours most sincerely, Whixlev, in the County of Y "k."
James Neild. London Evening Post, Ja'n 13, 1747.
P. S. I have just bad the luxury of This was the Mr.Toicred of wh. m
releasing a debtor, who was detained an account is requested in \011r vol.
for bis prison sees: his plaintiff had LX. p 935.
forgiven him his debt, but ihere was Whixlev, anciently Qnixlev si "ated
another. demand of fix millings by the on the Roirtfin road leading from York
nnder-lhenff for his liberate, which 1 to Aldborouph, was, for several \ ears,
was obliged to pay before the prisoner the feat of a younger branch of ihe
conUI be set at liberty. Tancreds of B'lrromhhrd e. Chris
Tv Do&or Lettsum, London. topher Tancred E1|. was grev grand
son os Sir Richard Tutored, knighted
Mr Urban Kings Heath. near Bir- by Charles I f.«i bis lleruces and great
' ming/ium, Aug I ■ sufffinirs in the.ci'i' wars : which Sir
I FEEL it 10 be tr,y duty to request H'ch.i (I was the son os Chi. ties Tan
iba vou will give publicity to the cred, F.sq. who purchased the manor
following circumstance, as it may pol- and r<ctorv* wi'li oiher land**, since
fibly be of great public benefit. 1 fold ; and was buried in the chancel
Having, in the Spring of 1805, sown Austin Si, ir>44.
some Wheat on a clover lev, the (i*a- Christonher Tancred, Esq. died in
sbn which fo'lnwed (although at first 175t, unmarried : and 'eft h's hon sit
highly favourable and such as 'o promise and estate al Whixlev for the main-
a very snod crop) af'erwards changed 'ennnee of twelve decayed gentlemen
and brought on a mildew., which (b who hive borne amis in the fen ice of
iujtred the grain, that, when gathered their count ry ; each of whom receive
and threshed, it produced scarcely anv 22 guineas annually. A separate apart
flour, ajidj indeed, was not worth ment is afligtied'lo1 each of them ; and
the
1%\ Tancred Exhibitions.—Epitaphs from Harwich. £ Aug*
the wliole company, if in healih, dine nally, of the yearly value of 50 I. ', bu
together every day. are supposed to be considerably in
Thele particulars, with the Pedigree creased. The irustees- to this, founda
of the Tancred family, are to be found tion are the Masters of Caius and
in " The Hiflory of 'the Castle, Town, Christ's College, the. President of the
and Forest of Knarefborough, with College of Physicians, the Treasurer of
Harroeate, and its Medicinal Waters : Lincoln's Inn, the Master of the Char-
by E. Hargrove." Fourth edition, ter-Houie, the President of Chelsea '
1780- Hospital, and the Governor of Green
Mr. Tancred also sounded sour Me wich Hospital.
dical Exhibitions, at Caius College; These exhibitions continue for about
four in Divinity at Christ's College, in eight years * ; and a Latin Oration is
Cambridge, and four Law Suidcnt- spoken annually, by one of the exhi
Ihiiis at Lincoln's Inn, of which he bitioners1 and students, in commemora
Was a bencher. These were, origi tion of their liberal benefactor. C. S.
Mr. Urban, Harwich, July 25. North fide of the chancel, is this in
AS you have favoured the drawing,, scription (in capitals) :
8cc. of Harwich chapel with a " Hie requiescit Rogerus Coleman,
place in vour last volume, p. 1 007, I hujus Burgi geneiosus et mercator, pau-
now (end you several inscriptions, and peribus benefsct. celeberrimus, ut in
a few remarks relating to the parish. præclaro ejus dono quinquaginta libra-
This Chapel consists of a nave, sup rum ad Rogatrium reparandum patet ;
ported by ten pillars, with two side- qui, cum Chriflianum suum cursum im-
ailes, and a chancel. At the West plevcrat, opum, dierum, et famæ satur,
end stands a quadrangular tower (con tandem placid'e et quiete in' Domino ob-
taining fix bells, a clock, and a set of dormivit 6 die Julii, ann. Dom. l6sg,
chimes, the latter of which has for ætatis fuæ 63 "
some years cealed from playing) the Engraved over this inscription in the
top whereof is an octangular wooden marble, is a coat of arms : A. on a
frame, ornamented with a spire. pale radiant rayonee Or a lion ram
Oa a vault, within a pew, at the pant G.
On a plural monument, at the East end of the chancel (in capitals) ;
" Hie jacet
Gulielmus Clarke, Eques
■ , aunttus, ferenislimo Regi Carolo
II0 ii hello fecretarius ; illustriffimo
Georgio Duci Alhemarliæ a secretis ;
Quern plus XII annis per onines cams secutus
et etiam in restauratione Kegis ac Legum inter
primos adfuir ; cuique duni tandem in memorabili prælio navali
euro Feed. Provin. classe inito Junii Ann. Keim. MDCLXVl. per quatuor
dies,continuos esmmifib iortiter adlluit, secundo die globo
ferreo percufl'us, crus dextrura perdidit, quarto vicam. Neque
ab'co interea avelli fe passus est, aut a pugnæ periculo subduci ;
fed vulneiatis rel'iquis in litius expofitis, stilus in asrumnosi
et bbnoxia navi, dubiam prælii ac vitas fortem constant! animo
expectavit. Corpus lacerum dein ac momium, per aliquot dies
(nan jactatum, hie tandem portum in'venit ; anima ad cœlum evolavil.
Mane, Viator, nondum intellex'ti »trum,
qui publicis niuneribus dtu functas, publice semper placuit :
qui opes inde et honorcs a&quutns infamiam et jnvidiam vitavit
,. " non at te fed integritate :
qui exemplo erat ab aulis non penitus aicere innocentiam :
Hie situs est
fequus, verax, sidns, gnaius, imptger, indefeffus :
neque labori pepercit, neque indulstt avaritiæ;
neque divites emunxit, neque pauperes dettituit ;
rieque veiba dedit neque vendidit :
'. fic "vita integer, .morte fortis, utraque propterea fœlix,
_ tertittn duntaxat supra quadragefimum ætatis fuas annora, -„
'* Tntee years iiitei taking ihe degree of Raster of Arts, er Batchelor of Physick,
and after being called to the bar.
^auduna
1807.] Monumental Inscriptions from Harwich. 725
Laudum ver6 ac virtutum omnium perfectum numerum implevit.
Conjugem reliquit mceftitrimam,
filium quinquennem,
opes modicas,
bonam famam, ,
s magnum sui desiderium.
Haec sumptibus fuis posuit uxor mœstissima, dum
studet dilectiflimo maritojusta facere, et crefcen-
tem in dies dolorem iallere."
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
ENGLAND and WALES. Bifliop's Castle—W. Clive, 8, J. Robin
Alingdon—G. Knapp. son, 3.
Agmondfham—T.D. T. Drake, 4, T. T. Blechingly—W. Kenrick, 1, T. Heatheote.
Drake, 2. Bodmin—D. Giddy, 2, Sir W. Oglander.
Allan's. St.—Hon. J. W. Grimston, a, Bormtghbridge—H. Hawkins, 1, W. H.
J. Halfey. Clinton, 1.
Aldborough, Suffolk—Sir J. Aubrey, Q, Bojjiney — Lord Rendlefliam, J. A. S.
Col. John M'Mahon, 2. Woriley, 2.
Aldborough, Yorkshire—G. Jones, 1, H. Bo/ion—T. Fydell, 2, W. A. Madocks, 2.
Fynes, 1. Braekley—II. H. Bradshaw, 2, A. Hen
Andover—T. A. Smith, 2, Hon. N. Fel- derson, 2.
towes, 2. Bramber—H. Jodrell, 3, J. Irving, 1.
Anglcfea—Hon. B. Pagct. Brccoifhire—Col. T. Wood, 1.
Apphby—'Nicholas W. Ridley Colborne, Brecon Town—Sir R. Salusbury, 3.
2, J. R. Cuthbert. Bridgenorih—I. H. Browne, 8, J. Whit-
Arundel—Sir A. Pigot, 2, Col. Wilder, 1. more, 4.
Ashburton—W.Palk, 3, Lord C.Bentinck. Bridgewater—IV. Thornton, G. Pocoek.
Aylejbury—G. H. C. Cavendish 1, Sir G. Bridport—Sir Evan Nepean,l,*Sir Samuel
Nugent, 1. Hood, 1.
Tianlrury—W. Praed§, 2, D. North 5, 6. Brijiol—Right hon. C. B. Bathurst, 4, E.
Barnstaple—W. Taylor, 1 , G. W. Thcl- Baillie, 2.
Utffon. Buckingham/hire—Marquis Tichfield, 4,
Bath—Lord J. Thvnne, 3, J. Palmer, 3. Earl Temple, 2.
Beaumarls—Lord Newborough, 3. Buckingham Town—Right hon. T. Gren-
Bedfordfliire—F. Pym, 1, *General Fitz- ville, 5, Hon. R. Neville.
patrick, 9. Bury St. Edmunds, Lord C. Fitzroy, 2,
Bedford Town—S. Whitbread, 3, W. L. Lord Templetown, 2.
Antonic, 2. Cable—J.Jekyl, 6, TL Smith.
Bedu-in— ' Sir J. Nicholl,2, J. H.Leigh, 2. Cambridge/hire—Lord C. S. Manners, 4,
Bteraljlon—Lord Lovaine, 3, Hon. Capt. Right hon. C. Yorke, 3.
Percy, 1. Cambridge University—Lord Euston, 7i
Berk/hire—G. Vansittart, si, C. Dundas, 4. Sir V. Gibbs.
Serieick—Sir A. As. Lockhart,. Col. Allan. Cambridge Town—Gen. Finch, 6, Gen.
Beverley—Capt. R. IV. H. P'yfe, J. Whar- Manners, 6.
ton, 3. Camclford—*Lord H. Petty, 2, R.Adair, 2,
Bticillcj—M. P. Andrews, 3. Canterbury—John Baker, 3, E. Taylor.
Cardiff"
1807O Correct Lift of the present House of Commons. 759
Cardiff—Lord W. Stuart, a. Exeter—Sir C. W. Bampfylde, 3, J. Bul
Cardiganjhire—T. Johnes, 4. ler, 3.
Cardigan Toivn—Hon. J. Vaughan, 3. Eye—M. Singleton, Hon. H. Weliesley.
Carlisle—]. C. Curwen, 4, W. S. Stan Flintshire—Sir T. Mostyn, 3.
hope, 3. Flint Town—Col. Shipley.
Carmarthen/hire—*Lord R. Seymour, 4. Fowey—Right hon. R. P. Carew, 2, R,
Carmarthen Town—Adm. G. Campbell, 1, Wigram, 2.
Carnarvon/Jlire—Sir R. Williams, 3. Gatton—M. Wood, 2, C. B. Grecnough.
Carnarvon Town—Hon. C. Paget, 3. Germain's St.—*M. Montague, 1, Sir J,
Cajile Rifing — R. Sharp, l, Hon. C. S. Yorke, 4.
Bagot. Glamorgan/hire—T. Wyndham, 3.
Che/hire—T. Cholmondeley, 3, D. Da Gloucestershire—Adm. Berkeley, 7, Lord
venport, l. R. H. Somerset, 2.
Chester—'Gen. Grofvenor, 4, J. Egcrlon. Gloucester City—H. Howard, 4, R. Mor
Chichejier—G. W. Thomas, 6, J. Dupre. ris, 2.
Chippenham — J. Maitland, 2, James . Grampound— (son. A. C. Johnslone, Hon.
Dawkim 5 and Wm. Blukc%. G. A. Cochrane.
Chrisichurch—Right hen. G. Rose, 5, W. Grantham — T. Theroton, 2, W. E%
S. Bourne, 3. Welly.
Cirencester—M.H. Beach, 4. J. Cripps, 1. Grim/ly—Hon. G. A. Pelham, 1, W.
CUtheroe—Hon. R. Curzon, 3, Hon. J. EUict.
Cust, 2. Gi instead East—Sir N. Holland, C. R.
Cockermouth—James Graham, 2, *John Ellis.
Osborn, 2. Guild/ord—Hon. T. C. Onflow, 1, Hon.
Colchester—V.. Thornton, 7, R. 11. Davis. C. Norton.
Corse Cajile—H. Bankes, 7, P. IV. Baker. Hampshire—*SU H. P. St. John Mildraay,
Cornwall—Sir W. Lemon, 9, J. H. Tre- 3, IV. Chute.
mayne, 1. Harwich—J. H. Addington, 4. *W. Hus-
Coventry—P. Moore, 2, W..Mills, 1. kisson, 2.
Cricklade—Lord Poichester, 4, Thomas Hajlemere—Right hon. C. Long, 0, R.
Goddard, 1. Ward.
Cumberland—Lord Morpeth, 4, J. Low- Hastings—*Right hon. G. Canning, 4,
ther, 3. Sir A. Hume.
Dartmouth—E. Bastard, 7, A. H. Holds- Ilaversordicrji—.Lord Kensington, 3.
worth, 2. Hf/slon—Sir J. St. Aubyn, Loid Dusserin
Denbighshire—Six W. W. Wynne, 4. and Claueboye.
Denbigh Town—Robert Middleton Bid- Herefordshire—Col. Foley, Sir J. G. Cot-
dulph, 1. terell, 1.
Derbyshire—Lord G. Cavendish, 8, E. Hereford City—Col. Symonds, R. P. Scu-
M. Mundy, 6. d;imore, 2.
Derby Town—K. Coke, 7, W. Caven Hertford/hire—■*Hon. T. Brand, 1, Str
dish, 2. J. S. Scbright.
Ihwizes—J. Smith, fi, T. G. Estcourt, 2. Hertford Town—Hon. E. S. Cowper, 2,
Devon/hire—Sir L. Palk, 6, J. P. Bas N. Calvcrt, 2.
tard, 7. Heydon—G.Johnstone, 3, A. Browne, 1.
Dorset/hire—Vi. M. Pitt, 7, E. B. Port- Heytesbury — "Lord Fitzharris, 2, C.
man, 2. Moore.
JSorchester — Hon. Cropley Ashley, 4, Higham Fcrrars—*Ri^ht hon. W. Wind-
*R. Williams, 2. ham, ti.
Dover—C. Jenkiuson, 1, J.Jackson, 1. Uindon—B. I Iobhouse, 3, W. Bcckford, 1 .
Dmvntoti—Hon, B. Bouverie, 1, Sir T. Honilon—lion. A. C. Biadshaw, 2, Sir C.
Plomer. Hamilton.
Droitwich—Hon. A. Koley, 8, Sir T. E. V.orjham — *Sir S. Romilly, 2, Lova
fVinnington. Parry Jones Parry, 1.
Dunwich—LordHuntingfield,5,S.Barne,3. Huntingdon/litre— Lord I linchinbrooke, 4,
Durham County — Sir R. Milbanke, 4, *R. Fellowes, 2.
Sir H. V. Tempest. Huntingdon Town—J. Calvcrt, 2, IK M,
Durham City—R. J. Lambton, 3, R. Farmer.
Wharton, 1 . Hythe—T. Godfrey, 2, IV. Decdes.
East Lone—Capt. E. Buller, 2, D. Van- lkhFsicr—*R. B. Shsjidan, 7, *M. A.
dcr-Iieyden. Taylor, 3.
Essex—Col. J. Bullock, 8, Adm. E.Har Ipswich — »Sir H. Popham, 2, R. A.
vey, 2. Crickilt.
ffvejhum—Yf. Manning, 4, Sir M. H' Jves St.—S. Stephens, 1, Sir W. Stirling.
i.opn. Kent—Sir E. Knatchbull, J, W. Hony-
wo»d,4,
• ' Kmg't
CorrcB List of the prest »/ House of Commons. [Aug.
King's Lynn—Lord Walpole, 4, Sir M. B. Neivcaflle-upon-Tyne—Sir M.W. Ridley,
Folkes, 4. 9, C. J. Brandling, 2.
Kingston-upon-Hull — J. Stanifo'fth, 2j Newport, (Cornwall—W. Northey, 3, E.
, Lord Viscount Mahon, J. Morris, 2.
Knarc/lornugh — Lord J. Townshend, 6, Newport, Hants—-Cord Palmer/ion.
Lord Ossulfton, 2. Newton, Lancajhire—Gen. Heron, I, J. I.
Lancashire. — T. Stanley, 8, J. Black- Blackburne.
bumc, 6. Newton, Hants — Dudley North, B. P.
Lancaster Town—J. Dent, 3, P. Patlen. Blackfard.
Launcejton—J. Brogden, 3, R. II. Alex, No folk—Sir J . H . Astley,2 , T.W. Coke, 6.
Bennct. Northallerton—Hon. E. Lascelles, i, H.
Leicej'lersliire—Lord R. Manners, 2, G. A: Pierse, fi.
. L. Keck, 4. Northamptonshire—Lord Althorp, 2, W.
Leicester Toum—S. Smith, 6, T. Babing- R.Cartwright, 8.
ton, 3. Northampton Town—Hon. S. Perceval, 4,
Leominslcr—Sir J. Lubbock, 3, H. Bon- E. Bouverie, 4.
ham, 1. Northumberland—*Earl Percy, l,1 Col,
Lewes—T.Kemp, 1. Henry Shelley, 2. Beaumont, 4.
Lincolnjhire — C. Chaplin, 2, Hon. C. Norurieh—J. Patteson, 1, W. Smith, 4.
Pelhstm, 2. Nottingham/him—Lord Newark, 1, A. H.
Lincoln Cily—R. Ellison, 3, Hon. Col. Evre, 2.
Monson, 1. Nottingham Town—D. P. Coke, 8, J.
Lifieard—Lord Hamilton, Hon. W. El Smith, 1.
liot, 4. Oakhampton— L. Wardell, A.Saville.
Litchfield—G. An son, 2, G. G. V. Ver- Orsord—Lord H. Moore, 1, If.Sloane.
non, t. Oxjordjhirc — Lord F. Spencer, 3, J.
Liverpool—Gen. Gascoyne, 3, Gen. Tarle- Fane, 3.
ton. Oxford City—V. Burton, 7, J.J.Lock-
London—Sir C. Price, 2, Sir Wm. Curtis, . hart.
4, Aid. Shawc, 1 , Aid. Combe, 3. Oxford University—Sir W. Scott, 4, Hon.
LosUvitliiel, E. Maitland, G. Holford, C. Abbot, 4.
Ludlow—Vise. Clive, 1, Hon. H.Clivc. Pembrokeshire—Lc/d Milford, 6. '
LvdgerJhalt—T.Rvcreu, 3, M. D. Ma- Pembroke Town—H. Barlow, 8.
gens, 2. PenrJiyn—H. Swann, L, C. Lemon.
Lyme Regis—Hon. Col. Fane, 2, Lord Peterborough—Hon. W. Elliot, 3, Dr. Lau
Burghersh, 1. rence, 3.
Lymiugton—J. Kin^flon, 2, Geo. Duckctt. Pctersield—H. Jolifft, 3, Hon. B. Grey.
Maidftone—G.Simpson, 1, G.Longman, 1 . Plymouth —Sir C. M. Pole, 2, T. Tyrr-
Maldan—S. H; Strutt, 4, C. C. Western. whitt, 4.
Malmc/bury—Sir G. Bowyer, P. Gell. Plympton—Lord Castlereagh, 3, Hon.W.
Malton—*Lord Headley, 1, Hon. R. L. Harbord.
Dundus. Pontefrad — Viscount Polljngton, R. P.
Marlborough—Lord Bruce, 3, *Lord Vile. Milncs, l.
Sto-psord, 1. Poole—J.Jeffcry, 3, G Garlands, 3, Sir
Mariatv—O. Williams, 3, P. Grcnfell, 2. R. Bickerton^. ,
Mau-es St. — S. Bernard, I, *Viscount Portsmouth—Adm. Markham, 8, Sir T.
Ebrington, 2. Miller, 1.
Michael St.—G. Galway Mills, Sir James Preston—Lord,Stanley, 3, S. Horrocks, Q.
Hall, lart. Queen borough—Right Hon. J. C. Villiera,
tfJcriqnelhJlLin—Sir R. W. Vaughan, 4. s. Hunt, 2.
Midliurfl — Hon. J. Abercrombie, Ihomas Radnorshire—Walter Wilkins, 3.
Thompson. Radnor Town—R. Price, 3.
Middlesex—V?. Mellisti, 3, G. Byng, 4. Reading—C. S. Lefevre, 2,- J. Simeon, 1.
Melbourne Port—Lord Pagct, I, Hugh Retsord East—Gen Craufurd, 3, W. In-
Leycester, 2. glcby.
Mineheai—J. F. LutlreU, *J.Denison, 2. Richmond—A. Shakespeare, 3, Hon. C.
Monmouthshire—Lord A. Somerset, J, Sir Dimdas, 2.
C. Morgan, 3. Ripen—*Hon. F. Robinson, 1, G. Gipps.
Moumauth Town—Lord C. H. Somerset, 3. Rochester — J . Calcraft, 3, Sir t/b.
MotUgomeri(flurc—C. W. VV. Wynne, 3. Thompson.
Montgomery Town—W. Kccne, 8. Romney, New—Lord Clonmell, Hon. ft
Mprpeth—W. Ord, 3, Hon. W. How Ajhbumham.
ard, t. Rutlandshire—Lord Henniker, 1, G. N.
Newark—H. Willoughby, 2, Gen. S. Cot Noel, 6.
ton, l. Rye—Sir W. Elsord, hart. Stephen Rum-
Ncwcastle-under-Lyme—E. W. Eootlc, 4, bold Lii/hington,
J, Macdonuld, t. Ryegatc
1 Sp^I CorreSl List of the present House of Commons. y$i
Ryegate—Vise. Royston, 2, Hon. E. C. Weobly — Lord G. Thynne, 4, Lord
Cocks, 1. Guernsey.
Salisbury—V\T. Huffey, 10, Lord Folk- Wcnbury—Hon.HenryLascelles, G. Vlrynn.
stone, 3. West Looe—R. A. Dantell, 1, J. Bnller, 3.
Saltq/h§—Major Ruffe], i, *W. H. Free- Westminster—Sir F. Burdett, * Lord Coch-
mantle, 1, *Capt. T. F. Freemantle, 1, rane, 1,
• J. Pedley. Westmorland—Col. 5. Lowther, 8, Lord .
Sandwich—Admiral Rainier, *C. C. Jen- Muncafter, 1.
kinson, 1. It'eymouth and Melcombe Regis—Sir J.
Sarun} Old—Hon. N. Vanfittart, 3, *3. l'ulteney, 6, G. T. Steward, 4, R. T.
■ Poreher, 2. Steward, 2, C. Adams, 3.
Scarborough—^Major Oren. Phipps, 4, C. M ■ Whitckurch—W. A. Townshend, 3, Hon.
Sutton, l. W. Brcdrick, 3.
Seaford—G. Hibbert, 1, J. Leach, 1. JVigan—i. Hodson, 2, R. H. Leigh, 1.
Shafteslury—E.L.I.oveden,? ,T.Wallace,3 . Wilton—R. Sheldon, 2, Hon. C. Her
Shqreham—SirC. M. Burrell, 1, T.Shel bert, 2.
ley, 2. • ♦ - Wiltsnire—H. P. Wyndham, 4, R. Long, I .
Shrewsbury—Hon. W. Hill, 3, T. Jones, Winchelfea — C. Bewickc, Sir Ofivala
Shropshire—3. K. Powell, 6, J. Cotes, 1. '- Moflnj.
Somerset/hire — W. Dickinson, 3, T. B. Winchester — Sir R. Gamon, 6, H. C.
Lethbridge, 1. Mitdmay, 3.
Southampton—G. H. Rose, 4, J. Jackson. Windsor—Col. Desborough, 1, R. Rams-
Southwark—H. Thornton, 7, Sir T. Tur- bottom, 1.
ton, 1. Woodstock—Sir H. W. Daihwood, 2, W.
Staffordshire—S\r E. Littleton, 6, Lord G. Eden.l. «
L. Gower, 4. Worcestershire—:Hon. W, B. Lygon, 8,
Stafford Town—Hon. E. Monckton, 7, R. Hon. W. Lyttleton, ) .
Phillips, 1. Worcefier City—A. Robarts, 3, W. Gor
Stamford—Gen. Leland, 3, Gen. Bertie, 3. don.
Steyning—J. M.Lloyd, 3, R Hurst, 2. Woolton BaffeU—Major Gen. Murray, J.
Stockbridge—Gen. Porter, 3, J. F. Bar- Cheesement.
ham, 2. Wycoinbe—Sir J.D. King, 3,T. Baring 1,
Sudbury—Sir. J. C. Hippifley, 4, Capt. T. Yarmouth, Norfolk—Hon. E. Harbord, 1.
Agar. S. Lufhington, 1.
Suffolk-rSir T. C. Bunbury, g, T. S. Yarmouth, Hants — J. C. Jervoise, 8.
Gooch, 1. . [Vacant.]
Surrey—S. Thornton, *G. H. Sumner, 1. Yorkshire — W. Wilbcrforce, J, Lord
Suffix—J. Fuller, 3, C. Wyndham, 1. Milton. *
Tamworih—Sir R. Peel, 4. Gen. Loftus, 3. York City—Sir W. Milner, 4, Sir M. M,
Taviftock—* Lord W. Russell, 6, * V ise, Sykes.
Howick, 6. SCOTLAND.
Taunton—J. Hammct, 3. A. Baring, 1. Counties.
Tewkejbury — C. Codrington, 3. C. H.' Aberdeen—.1. Ferguson.
Tracy. Ayr—D. Boyle.
Thetford—Lord W. Fitzrov,l,T.Creevey,l . Argyle—l.otd 3. Campbell.
Thirjk—K. Greenhill, l,*Lt. Col. Frank- Banff—Sit W. Grant,
land, 1. Berwick—G. Baillie.
Tiverton—Hon. R. Ryder, 4, W. Fitz- Caithness and Bute—Sir J. Sinclair.. ' * ,
hugh, i. Cromarty, &c.—Robert B. A. M'Leod.
Totness—W. Adams, 2, B. Hall, 1. Dumbarton—H. Glassford.
Tregony—Col. O'Callaghan, 1, G. Went- Dumfries—W. J. Hope.
worth, 1. Edinburgh—Right. Hon. R. Dundas.
Tru.ro—Col. Lemon, 3, Hon. K. Bofcawen. F.lgin—Colonel F. W. Grant.
Wallingford—YI. L. Hughes, 2, R. Ben- Fife—Lieut.-gen. W. WemyJ's.
yon, 2. For/ar—Hon. W. Maule.
Wareham—Sir G. T. Calcraft, * Hon. J. Haddington—Hon. C. Hope.
W. Ward, 2. Inverness—C. Grant. . ,
Warwick/hire—D. S. Dugdale, 1, Sir C. Kincardine—W. Adam.
. Mordaunt, 2. Kinross andClackmannan—Da\idClephane.
Warwick Town—Lord Brook, 2, C. Kirkcudbright—Hon. M. Stewart,'
Mills, 2. ' ' ' Lanark—Lord A. Hamilton. - v «•!
WtOt-sd Tudway, 9, C. W. Taylor, 8. Linlithgotv—Hon. A. Hope.
Wendover—G. Smith, l . Fi vicis Homer. Orkney—Malcolm Lahig.
PFenCock—C. Forester, 4, } Ion. J. Simp Peebles—Sir J. Montgcrheryv1
son, 4. Pertlt—Lord J. Murray.
Gent. Mao. August, 1807. Renfrew
762 House of Commons. —Parliamentary Intelligence, [Aug.
Renfrew—W. M'Dowal. Longfbrd—Sir T. Fetfterstorje, Lord Vise.
ifr/i—Major A. M. Kraser. Forbes.
Roxburgh—J. Rutherfurd. Louth—John Foster, lion. J, Jacelyn.
Selkirk—W. Elliot Lockhart, Mayo—Hon. H. A. Dillon, RL.Hon.DenU
Stirling—U6n. C. Fleming. Browne.
Sutherland—Right Hon. W, Dundas. Meath, Sir Marcus Somerville, T. Bligh.
MZigton—Lieut.-col. W. Maxwell. Monirjlian.—R. Dawson, Charles P. Leslie,
^ Burghs. Queens—Hon. W W. Pole, Heniy,Par-
Edinburghr*-S]T Patrick Murray, Bart. nelt.
Aberdeen, MoiUrose, 6fc.— James Far- Rosrommon — Hon, S, MabonK Arthur
. quhar. French.
Ayr, Iroine, &c.—John Campbell. Sligo—rCharlesO'Hara, Edward S, Cooper.
Anjimthsr, &c.—Sir John Anftiutlier. Tipjierary,—Hon. F« A. Prittie, Hon. M.
Dumfries,- &fc.— Sir J. ff. Maxwell. Mathew.
Elgin, (tc.—Right Hon. Arch. Colqu- Tyrone—Hon. T. lynox, James. Stewar*.
houn, Lord Advocate. Walerford — J^C.' Beresford, Richard
Glasgow, Duml/urton, &c—Arch. Camp Power.
bell. Wejinteath—Guslavus H. Rochfort, Wm,
Inverness, h'/tim, &c.—Peter Baillie. Smith.
Jedburgh, &c.—Sir G. H arrander. ircsJhrd—Abcl Ram, IK C. Alcack.
Kingluirn, &c. —r Brigadicr-gen. R. C. H'icklow~Wm. H. Hume, Wm. Tighe.
Ferguson. Borough*.
Linlilhgow, &C.—W. Maxwell. Armagh—Dr. P. Duigenan.
Perth, &c—Sir D. Vf/edderburn. Athlone—John Frewen-Turner.
Stirling, fisc.—Lieut.-(sen. A. Campbell. Randan—* Rt. Hon. Geo. Tierney.
Tain, &c.—Brig.-generar J. R,Mackenzie. Belfast—Edward May,
tfigton, Sffc.—Hon. E. Stewaru Camckserpis—James Craig,
Gujhel—Ouintin Dick:.
IRELAND. Cnrlow— Andrew Strahan..
Counties. Clonmel—William Bagwell.
Antrim—E. A. M'Naghten, Hon. J. R. Cork — Hon. C. Hutchinson, Col, M,
O'Neill. Longfield.
Armagh—Win. Richardson, Wm. Brown- Coleraint—Walter Jones.
low. Downpalrirk—John ICilfon Crnker.
Carlow—D.T.atonche.jun.WalttrBagenal. Drogheda—Hon. Thomas Henry Foster.
Cavan—Co\. J* M. Barry,. Nath. Sneyd. . Dublin—Ileniy Grattan, Robert Shaw.
Clare—Sir E. O'Brien, Hon. F. N.Bur- Dublin Uxwerjihj—J. L. Foster.
• ton. Dundnlk—[Vacant.]
Cork—Lord Vise. Bernard, Hon. Geo. Dungainion—Lord Claude Hamilton,
Ponsonby. Dungarvan—Hon. Geo. Walpole.
Donegal—Sir J. Stewart, Henry V. Brooke. Knnijkillen— Charles Poehin.
Down—Hon. J. Meade, Francis Savage. F.nnis—Rt. hon. James Fitzgerald.
Dublin—H. Hamilton, Richard LV. Tal- Galway—James Daly.
bott. Kilkenny— Hon. C. Butler.
Fermanagh -y M. Archdall, Hon. G. L. K\njuh—Henry Martin.
Cole. . Limerick—Charles Vereker.
Galwuij—D. B. Daly, Richard Martin. Lijlui n —Earl of Yarmouth.
Kerry— Ms. Fitzgerald, Henry A- Herbert. Londonderry—Sir George F. Hill.
Kildurc—Lord H. Fitzgerald, ft-. Latouche. Mullou-—Denham Jephson.
Kilkenny—Hon. J. Butler, Hon. F. Pon Jtewry—Hon. F. Needham.
sonby. • ■ ',: 'Hue RoJ's—tflltiam JJigram.
King's—Thos-. Bernard, Ntmlrcfii Lloyd. Porturlington—Hon. W,. Lambe.
Leilrim—Hon. H. J. Clements, J. La- Slif»—C. O'llara.
touche, jun. • Trnlee—Evan Fovlkes.
Limerick—Wm. Odell, Hon. W. ctuin. ICnlersord—Sir John Newport-
Londonderry—Lord G. Beresford, Hon, H'exsord— Richard Nevill.
C. Stewart. Yough'dl—J>t> John Kcawi burt.
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MrrEOftotoaicAt- Table for S.eptemher 1807: By W, Gary, Strand*,"
Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.
1 of
Day Month. o'cl.8
Noop. 1l Barom. Weather Morn. Noon. °(J jj Rarom Weather
in< pts. in Sept. 180? • i». pts in Sept. 1807.
OS ""1 ::z
e 0 Sept* ft 0
63, "9 70. 29,92 fair 12 43 57 44 29 ,79 fair
2*8' 66 73 00 > ,78 fair & windy 13 42 54 41 ,97 fair
29 63 69 ^9 .01 showery 14 40' 57 45 <q6 fair
SO 61 67 • . 54 ,95 fair : ' 15 45 54 40 .99 fair
31' 51 6-2 53 30,09 cloudy ]6 4:. 56 44 ,94 fair
5.1 56 69 53 ,20 fair ' 17 42 54 40 ».0l fair
r: ? 54 55 ,19 fair 18 39 57 45 : i84 fair
54 56 ,04 fair . 19 44 59 44 i98 fair
6l 72 6l. 29,90 fair 20 38 59 52 30,21 , cloudy-
■ SO
63 t.s 60 ,6s fair fr windy 21 59 55 29,99" cloudy
■54 63 46 v ,4 5 fair & windy 23 52 58 50 :»7'5 rain
47 6a 45 ,70 fair,: j 2423 50 60 55 ,55 rain • •
44 60 54 30 ,.00 fair ; * ., 5 5 65 53 ,5i cloudy
9 - 55 6s 44 55 29,51 rain ■ .'' ' \ . I . 35 56 59 50 " ,39 showery
('*' 56 3».,00 cloudy j .
1 41 59 4 5 29,95. cloudy '- •
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AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending September 19, 1307. _
INLAND COUNTIES. MARITIME COUNTIES.
Wlwatt Rye |B»rley Oats BeaiiSj , Wheat,; Rye 'Barley Oats Beans
,/.[s. d. «. ,1. 1. d. s. d. d.\ 1. d, i.. 1. J.
Middles. 72 1 43 10,39 \6 34 6 5i «j Essex 71 , 4 45 *40 4 29 3 50 e
-Surrey . 75 0| 46 Oto 4 33* 4, 52" 6 Kent 6s 0; 47 041 -g 32 6 50* 3
Hertford 68, 4 44 '5|40' S 27 2 43 fiiSussex 68 4 00 000 0 34 10 50 O
Bedford 69 2 49 639 3 38 6 48 7; Suffolk 61 oJi6 o-36 4) 27 "fi 43 10
Huntingd.65 6 00 0 40 ,6 26 4 45 61 Cambrid. .62 2 44 io|oq ■ 0I24 g 00 O
Northam. 64 8; 45 0.35. 6 .28 6fi6 0: Norfolk 62 10 43 0;35 3 30 0 00
Rutland . 74 o 00 0;-!2 0 00 jO>8 o; Lincoln ,69 11 4fl o|44. 136-10 54.
Leicester 6a »|43 . 2i4 0 .7 29 a.49' ll| York 71 5 00 O 35 10|27 . O 57
Nottingli. 76 10;46 0|45 o| 3! 3 41) OiJJurham 74 8|00 . 0|42 B..31 i .00
Derby 79 . o!oo ojpd o|3o 6,5t> n Northum. 66 s ,50 0)33 o'as; .2 00 :
Stafford 72. J ,00. 0,41 8|20 . Q,s6-' s| Cutubcrl. 77 11 59 9:42 Oj « A 00
Salop 69 5 48 10,00 . 0j3l soo ©j Weltmor. 84 u 6l 4^3S 4 00
Hereford 66. J .44- .8 33 o|30 4U9 o, Lancaster 74 2 09 0^43 7 30 28 48j 47
Worceft. 70 1*6,1037. 4136 <i,5l 7i.Chefter. 70 9 4)0 BOO OI26 6l00 Or
Warwick 71 8 56 b'40 0J33 ,7.,54 6! Flint 00 0100 0 42 8iOO 0. 00 0
Wilts 69 00 0,38. p|34 8 58. 6, Denbigh 7.8 5 00 -0 41 7 28 g 00 o
«erks * 73 48, t\|-3Z,.. fi'33 6 53 -6j Anglelea 00. o[oo o'oo 0 no i 0 00 o
Oxford 71- OO 0;34 9-31 6 49 .4 Carnarvon 75 . sjpo 0 38 - 0 21 8 00 a
Bucks 08 10 ao.. Oj4.1 . 0'31 . ,p 49 10 Mericnet. 78 1100 040 626 a 00 o
"Brecon 65 7|44 9:34 ,S 35 . .4 00 0 Cardigan 6s ojoo 0 00 0 00 0 00 Q
(MontgO. 67 2,09 0;00 0)'ig 1100/ 0 Pembroke 66 a po 0,35 8 oo 0 00 O
Radnor .'65 7'0» 0 33. 8 27 10,00 0; -GUmpig. -Carmarth. 76 6:00 033 10.is 00 o
70 -3j00 • o|42 8 24 OO 8
Aysrage of England and Wale5, per quarter [GrOUCest. 71 8 00 0 34 2j32 10 00 0
"I ''< ' 71 '.4]4} r6 3S -. 7t2!P s|*l ':. Somerset 75 10 00 -0 31 4 26 oj 52 -J
Monmo. 70 8'oo o'uo 0O0 0 00 O-
; . Average of Scotland, per quarter. Devon 76 s;oo 0 33 7(27 1 00 o
jjCprnwall so 600 0 38 9 '25 00 •
67 4141 8 [34 7;29 ojai f Dail'et 75 7 00 036 032 .-.2 O
Hint 71 400 0 39 2i32 49 *
^GGHKGATE AVERAGE PRICES of "the'-'Twelve 'Maritime Districts of England an<
Wales', Ky which Exportation and'Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain.
Wheat Rye Barlev Oats .Beans Pease Oatmeal Beer or Big
s, d. s. d. i. d. s. d. s. J. . s. . d. s. tl. s. d.
' ;-l t 18. 1 Zt 11 a» 1 50 8 6*3 0 43 5 08 •
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tSoy.] Woodipring Piiory in Somersetshire described. 8or
Mt. u»»An, ^'fc4rr/e/' ing, by which one may still ascend to
the top of (he building. On the North
WITH this I fend you drawings west of the priory are large and com
of Woodf|>riiig, otherwise modious granaries, which appear to
Worlfpring priory, and us Friars Hall be of the fame age with the other
(see Pi. I.J taken on the spot. It is buildings j and, no doubt, the tenant
lituate in the parish of Kewsloke, on finds them a moll convenient and ne
the Bristol Channel, in the county ofSo- cessary appendage to his farm. The
mersct, and about 20 miles S. Vv. from Friars Hall stands on the South of the
the City of Bristol. The site of the priory (adjoining to what was for
priory, and valuable estate thereunto merly the Cemetery, now the garden) ;
belonging, are now vested in the re it has several large windows (with
presentatives of the late John Piggntt, stone mullions) on the fide next the
efo. of Brockley. cemetery, exactly similar to the one
I understand this to have been a re seen in the view of the S. W. fida
ligious house, founded bv William thereof; and the fond ivy with it*
Courteuay, and endowed by him for friendly embrace nearly embowers the
canons regular of the order of St. Au- whole of the West end in funereal green,'
;ustine, under the direction of John from whence *
Se Drokenside (or Drokensford), Bi
shop of Bath and Wells ; this prelate Screams——" the owl, musician dire,
hideous, harsli, and grating i%
died in the year 1328, and the priory the ear."
was dissolved in the 25lh year of King
Henry the VIHih, 1534. Dugdale The large arched door-wav seen in
informs us, that Henry the VHIth's the drawing is now partly built up
Commissioners valued this priorv at with modern masonrv- The remains of
8~l. 2s. ll£d. per annum; but Speed a turret staircase is still visible on the
fays, 1101. 18s. 4Jd.*. The priory is South fide, between the great door and
now convened into a farm-house , and the window, which was formerly th«
fart of the church is used as the ascent to the roof of the building ; it
itchen, and a noble one it is. Where is at present covered with thatch, and
the solemn organ once sounded its used as a wagaon and cart - house !
grand and melodious notes, and where This place is surrounded with venera
the pious Requiem onee was lung, the ble old trees and orchards, which en
farmer and his family now transact velope the priory in their awful listen
their domestic affairs, and the rustic ing gloom. On approaching the re
chaunts his artless ditties ; here the mains of this solemn pile, a train f
hinds and dairy-maids, wilh " the ru ideas of the most serious nature ta*e
ral scandal and the rural talk," now possession of the mind ;
usurp the place of the demure friar " Where pious beadsmen, from the world
with his clofe-fhavcn head and naked • retir'd, [hcav'n:
feel, and all the pomp of religious bi In blissful visions wing'd their souls to
gotry. The walls of the beautiful Go While future joys their sober transports
thic tower are in high preservation ; and sir'd, [forgiv'n."
a thick drapery of ivy clothes the They wept their erring days, and were
East side of it from the bottom to the • - Klate.
tops ; it has four elegant Saxon or The whole has a sombre but pleasinj
round-headed windows in the upper aspect, calm and still, which tunes the
story, each of them facing one ot the mind to " melancholy musing."
cardinal points of the compass. The
tower is now a perfect shell, nothing " To solemn musings lull the heart,
being left but the bare walls, not even And more lhan mortal thoughts impart."
the roof ; there is a staircase remain The lower window seen in the Well
• The estate of Woodspring now lets for upwards of sool. per annum, exclusive ot
the whole parish of Kewstoke, and part of the parishes of Locking and Worse, witli
other possessions, which at the time of the diffoiurion belonged to thjs priory. Such it
•fae alteration in the value of property in the course of less than three centuries!
f " The ivy now* with rude luxuriance, bends
Its 'tangled foliage through the cloister'd space ;
- O'er the green windows mould'ring height ascends,
And fondly clasps it with a last unbrace." K h/ts.
Gsnt. Mao. September, 1807- erxl
8o 2 Mr. Pope's Description of the City 'of Bristol. [Sept.
end of the church has been made since account of this place. . Nothing can
the present tenant occupied the pre- do it hut a picture, it is so unlike any
miles ; and it appears to have been once scene von ever (aw. But 1 'II begin at
a door-way, but afterwards walled up. least, and reserve the rest till my next
The large space also above the Ian- letter. From Bath' you go along tho
mentioned door-wav was originally a river, or its side, the road lying gene
fjiixerb window, as is very evident (rant' rally in li^ht'of it : on each bank are'
its present appearance, though now built steep ri sins hills cloathed with wood at
up, and two comparatively modem top, and' sloping toward the stream in
windows placed in its stead. As the green meadows, intermixed with white
preservation of the most interesting houses, mills, and bridges ; this for
parts* of ibis truly - venerable pile liven or eight miles : then you come
seem to be little attended to, I hope in siglit of Bristol (the river winding
you will permit the sketches herewith at the bottom of steeper banks to tha
sent to find an asylum in your highly- town), where you fee twenty odd py
meritorious, very useful, aud inierest- ramids smoking over the town (which
ing pages. G. B. are glals houses), aud a vast extent of
houses red and white. You corhe first
Mr. Urbam, Sept. I. to Old Wells, and over a bridge built
AS a warm admirer of the Bard of on both sides, like London bridge, and
Twickenham, allow me to ex as much crowded with a strange mix
press the pleasure I seel in (feeing the ture of seamen, women, children,
Hew Edition of his Works enriched by loaded horses, asses, and sledges with
4jiany original Letters; and let me tes goods, dragging along altogether, with
tify that satisfaction* by transcribing for out posts to separate them! From
your Miscellany that excellent Poet's thence you come to a key along the
description of lirifiol Hot Wells and old wall,' with houses on both sides,
Sherborne Castle. The.professed Editor and, in the middle of the street.'as far
is a congenial spirit, well known by as you can fee, hundred of stiths, their
his own very admirable Poetry ; and mads as thick as thev can stand by one
he has fortunately had for an asso another, which is the oddest and most
ciate one of the ablest Commentators surpriting'fight imaginable. This street
au the English Classicks that the pre is fuller of them than the Thames from
sent age has produced. London Bridge to DfepiTord, and at
. The following letters are addressed certain times only the water rises to
tp Mrs. Martha Blonnt. Though carrv them out ; so that, at other limes,
without dates, they were written at a a long street, full of ships in ihe mid
late period of Mr. Pope's life ; for he dle, and houses on both sides, looks
was not acquainted with Mr. Allen till like a dream. Passing still along by
after i/SS. ' M Green. the river, you come to a rocky way ou
After an apology for not writing one side, overlooking green hills on
•arlit-r, Pope lay?, " I must now give the other : on thai rocky way rife se
you some account of this place. I rile veral white houles,' and over thefti red
at seven, drink at, the well at eight, rocks, and, as' you go farther, more,
breakfast at nine, dine jt two, go to rocks alxn'e rocks, mixed . with green,
bed at ten, or sooner. 1 find the wa huslies, and of different-coloured (lone.
ter very cold on my stomach, and have This, at a mile's end, terminates in
rio comfort but in the asses' milk I the house of the Hot Well, where*
•Jrink constantly with it, according to" abo'uts lie several pretty lodging-house*
Dr. Mead's order. The llvee days I open to'the river, with walks of trees.
.was at M-f- Allen's, I went for two or When you have seen the hills seem to
three hours to Bath two days, but saw shut upon you, and to stop any farther
DO public place, nor any persons b\it way, you go into the houle, and look*
li)e four or five I writ yon word of. It ing out at the. back-door, a. vast rock
grieved, me tq.aiifs twice of l.ady Cox of au hundred feet high, os red, white,
in that tim$. 1 hrtJ' a line from Mr, green, blue,: and yellowish marbles,
Slijy.'lby. Bethel, .to.! acquaint me his all blotched aud variegased, strike's you,
brother was well; and 1 will write to quUe'.hi the. face ; and turning onthe
him from hence,' as soon as i. can give left, there opens the river at a vast
him a physical account of myself; depth below, winding. in ami out, and
I haidlv knew wjjat 1 undertook ".accompanied on bojh sides ,with a con-
when I said I would give- you some tinned r&ige,o&t£sikS:sUj* lathe clouds,
• To UieAatiquarf;. of
lQo.fi] • Mr. Pope's Description of Bristol Wells; 803
of an hundred colours, one behind -the opposite coast of Walt s beyond the
another, and so to the end of the pro- Severn again. But this I have net
specs,- quite to the sea. But the sea been able to fee ; nor would one but
nor the Severn you do not fee : the in better weather, when one may dine,
rocks and river fill the eve, and termi- or, lie there, or cross a narrow part of
nate the view, much like the broken the stream to the neareii point in Wales,
scenes behind oue another in a play- where Mr. Allen and Mr. Hooke last
house. From the room where 1 write, summer lay some nights in the cleanest
I fee the tide rising, and filling all the and best cottage jn the world, with ex-
bottom, between these scenes of rocks.; cellent provisions, under a hill on the
on the (ides of which, on one hand, margin of the Severn. Let him de-
•are buildings, some white, some red,, -scribe it to you ; .and pray tell him we
■every where up and down like the are much in star for his health, not
'steepest fide of Richmond to the hav ing had a line since he left us.
Thames, mixed with trees and shrubs, " The. city of Bristol itself, is very
but much wilder; and huge fhagay unpleasant, and no civilized company
marbles, some in points, some in ca- in it : only the collector of 'he customs
verns, hanging all over and under them would hav e brought me arqwaiiited
in a thousand shapes. I have no more with merchants, of whom I hear no
room, but to give Lady Gerard my great character. The streets, are as
hearty services, and to wish yon would crowded as London *, but the best
fee, next summer or spring, what I image 1 can give yon of it is, 'tis as if
am sure would charm you, and fright ,Wapping and Soulhwark were ten
most other ladies." times as big, or all their people ran
In the next letter, Mr. Pope adds: into London. Nothing is fine in it
"Upon the top of thole high rocks by but the Square, which is larger than
the Hot Well, which I ha\ e described GrofvenOr-fquare, and well builded,
to you, there runs on one side a large with a verv fine brass statue in the mid-
down of fine tors, for about three .die, of King William on horseback.;
miles. It looks too frightful to ap- aud the Key, which is full of ships,
proach the brink, and look down upon ;and noes round half the Square. The
the river ; but in many parts of this College Green is pretty, and (like the
dowfi, the vallies descend gently, and Sqiiare) set with trees, with a very
you sec all along the windings us ihe fine old cross of Gothic curious worjt
stream,' and the opening of t tie rocks, jn the middle, but spoiled with the
which turn and close in upon you folly of new gilding k, that takes away
from space to space, for several miles all the venerable antiquity. There is
on toward the sea. There is first near a cathedral, very neat, and nineteen,
Bristol, a little village upon this down parish churches.
called Clifton, where are very pretty "Once more my services to Lady
lodging-houses, overlooking all the Gerard. I write scarce to any hody,^
woody'hiHs ; and steep cliffs and very therefore pray leil any body von judge
green valleys within half a mile of the deserves it, that 1 enquire of, and ra-
Wells ; where 'in the summer it must member myself to, th?m. I shall be
bedel'cious wtilking and rid na, for the at Bath soon ; and if Dr. Mead ap-
plain extends one way many milesi; proves of what I asked him of iheBath
particularly; there is a- tower that water mixed, I'll not return to Bristol,
iiands dole at the edge of the highest otherwise I fear I must: sor indeed
' rock, and fees the stream turn quite my complaint seems onlv intermitted,
round it ; and- all- the hanks oneway while I take lawer quantities than I
are wooded,' in a gentle (lope for near used of water, and no wine ; and it
a mile high, quite1 green ; ihe-other must require time to know, whether I
bank, all inaccellible rock, of an bun- might not just as well do so at home?
dred colours and -odd shapes, some 'Not but that lam satisfied the water
hundred feet perpendicular." at the Well is verv d fferent from what
" I am to1"d- that one stray ride ten it is any where elf-; for it is full as
miles farther on an even turf, on a iwarm as new milk from the cow ; but
ridge that on one tide views the river there is no living at the Wells without
Severn, and-rhe bank's steeper and steep- more conveniences in the winter."
er quite to the open sea; and, on the - From Lord Digby's, Mr. Pope writes :
other side, a vast woody vale as f»r as "I promised you an account ofSher-
thecyecim stretch j'and all Jjesore you, borne before I had seen it, or k new whatl
undertook
8 ©4 Mr. Pope's Description <j/" Sherborne Castle. [Sept.
undertook. I imagined it to be one pyramid yews and large round honey
of those fine old sea;$ os which there suckles between them. The honey
are numbers scattered over England. suckles hereabouts are the largest and
But this is so peculiar, and its situa finest I ever law. You'll be pleased
tion of so uncommon a kind, that it when I tell you the quarters of the
merits a more particular description. abovenienlioned little wilderness are
•'The house is in the form of an H. filled with these, and with cherry-
The bodv of it, which was built bv trees of the best kinds, all within reach
Sir Walter Rawleigh, consists of four of the hand. At the ends of these
stories, with four six-angled towers at terraces run two long walks, under
the ends. These have since been joined the side walls of the garden, which
to four wings, with a regular stone communicate with the other terraces
balustrade at the top, and four towers that front these, opposite. Between
more that finish the building. The the valley is laid level, and divided
windows and gales are of a yellow stone into two irregular groves of horie-ches-
throughout ; and one of the flat sides Rtitf, and a bowling-green in the mid
toward the garden has the wings of a dle of ahout one hundred and eighty
newer architecture, with beautiful Ita feet. Tin's is bounded behind witn
lian window-frames, done by the first a canal, that runs quite across the
Earl of Bristol, which, if they were groves, and alsoalotigoiiesideia the form
joined in the middle by a portico co os a T. Behind this is a semicircular
vering the old building, would be a lerceau, and a thicket of mixed trees,
noble front. The design of such an that compleats ihe crown of the Am
one I have been amusing myself with phitheatre, which is of equal extent
drawing ; but it is a question whether ' with the bowling-green Beyond that
my Lord Digby will not be belter runs a natural river through green
amused than to execute it. The finest banks of turf, over which rises another
room is a saloon fifty feet long, and a row of terraces, the first supported by
parlour hung with very excellent ta a (lope wall plained with vines ; so is
pestry of Rubens, which was a present also the wall that bounds the chan
from the King of Spain to the Earl of nel of the river. A second and third
Bristol, in his embassy, there. appeared above this ; hut they are to
"This stands in a park finely be turned into a line of wildernels with
crowned with very high woods on all wild winding walks, for the conveni
the tops of the hills, which form a ence of palling from one side lo the
great amphitheatre Hoping down to the other in shade, the heads of whose
house. On the garden sides the woods trees will lie below the uppermost ter
approach close, so that it appears there race of all, which compleats the gar
•with a thick line and depth of groves den, and overlooks both that and the
on each hand, and Ib it shews from country. Even above the wall of this
most parts of the park. The gardens the natural ground rises, and is crowned
are so irregular, that it is very hard with several venerable ruins of an old
to give an exact idea of them, but by castle, with arches and broken views,
a plan. Their beauty arises from this of which 1 must fay more hereafter.
irregularity ; for not only the several "When you are at the left, corner
parts of the garden i'self make the bet of the canal, and the chesnut-grnves
ter contrast hy these sudden rises, falls, in the bottom, you turn of a sudden,
and turns of ground ; but the views under very old trees, into the deepest
about it are let in, and hang over the siiade. The walk winds you up a hill
walls in very different figures and as of venerable wood, over-arched by Na
pects. You come first ont of the house ture, and of a vast height, into a cir
into a green walk of standard limes, cular grove, on one side of which is a
with a hedge behind them, that makes close high arbour, on the other a sud
a colonnade; hence into a little trian den open feat, that overlooks the mea
gular wilderness, from whose centre dows and river with a distant large
you see the town of Sherborne, in a prospect. Another walk under thi»
valley* interspersed with trees. From lull winds by the river side, quite co
thc.eorivr of this you issue at once vered with high trees on boih bank*,
Mpon a hiih green terrace the whole overhung with ivv ; where falls a na
bfeadth os the garden, which has five tural calcade, with never-ceasing mur
more %if>e.n terraces hanging under murs. On the opposite hanging of
eaol* other, without hedges, only a sew the bank (which is a steep of fifty sett)
1807.] Afr' Pope's Description ef Sherborne Castle. 805
is placed, with a very fine fancy, a up the half-tumbled walls, to guide
rustic feat of stone, flagged and rough, from one view to another on the higher
with two urns in the iame rude tafie parts, and feats placed here and there
upon pedestals, on each side ; from to enjoy thole views, which are more
■whence vou lose your eves upons the romantic than imagination -can form
glimmering of the waters under the them. 1 could very much with this
wood, and your ears in the constant were done, as well as a little temple
dashing of the waves. In view of this built on a neighbouring round hill,
is a bridge, that crosses this stream, that is seen from all points of the gar
built in the fame ruinous taste : the den, and is extremely pretty. It would
wall of the garden hanging over it is finish some walks, and particularly be
humoured so as to appear the ruin of a fine termination to the river, and be
another arch or two above the bridge. seen from the entrance into that deep
Hence you mount the Hill, over the scene 1 have described by the cascade,
Hermit s feat (as they call it) described where it would appear as in the clouds,
befure, and ft> to the highest terrace between the tops of some very lofty
again. trees that form an arch before it, with
'* On the left, full behind these old a great Hope downward to the end of
trees, which makes this whole part in the (aid river.
expressibly awful and solemn, runs a " Whai should induce mv Lord
little, old, low wall, befide a trench, Digby ihe rather to cultivate these
covered with elder-trees and ivys ; ruins, and do honour to them, is, that
Which being crossed by another bridge, they do no small honour to his family ;
brings you to the ruins, to cotnpleat that callle, which was very autient,
the solemnity of the scene. You first being demolished in the civil wars, af
fee an old tower penetrated by a large ter it was nobly defended by one of his
arch, aud others above it, through ancestors in the cause of the King. I
which the whole country appears in would set up at the entrance of them
prospect, even when you are at the an obelisk, with an inscription of the
top of the other ruins ; for they stand fact ; which would be a monument
very high, and the ground flnpes down erectetl to the very ruins ; as the adorn
on all fides. These venerable broken ing and beautifying them in the man
walls, some arches almost entire of ner 1 have been imagining, Would not
thirty or forty feet deep, some open- be unlike the Kgyptian finery, of be
like porticoes, with fragments of pil stowing ornaments and curiosity on
lars, some circular or inclosed on three dead bodies. The present master of
fides, but exposed at top, with steps, this place (and I verily believe I Can
which time has made of disjointed engage the lame for the next successors)
stones, to clihib to the highest points needs not to fear the record*, or fliun
of the ruin. These, I fay, might have the remembrance of the actions of his
a prodigious beauty, mixed with greens forefathers. He will not disgrace them,
ami parterres from part to part ; and as most modern progeny do, by an un
the whole heap standing as it does on a worthy degeneracy of principle or of
round hill, kept smooth in green turf, practice. When I have been describ
which makes a bold basement to Ihew ing his agreeable feat, I cannot make
' it. The open courts from building to the reflection I have often done upon
building might be thrown into circles contemplating the beautiful villas of
or octagons of grafs or flowers ; and other noblemen, raised upon the spoil*
even in the gaping rooms you have of plundered nations, or aggrandized
fine trees grown, that might be made bv the wealth of the public. I cannot
a natural tapestry to the walls, and ask myself the question, * What else
arch you over-head, where time has has this man to be liked ? What else has
uncovered them to the Iky. Little he cultivated or improved ? What good
paths of earth or sand might be made or what desirable thi-.ig appears of him,
* " This is an allusion to the Sherborne Curse, which may be seen in Peck's Desi
derata, vol. ii. b. xiv. No. 6. p. 5. Osmond, who from a Norman knight became a
bishop, gave Sherborne Castle, with other lands, to the church of Salisbury, and
laid a curse on all who should alienate or diminish his donation. In Peck may be
found the instances in which it has been verified." C—" Mr. Crowe has most poeti
cally introduced this circumstance in his " l^wesdon Hill." B.
■. without
806 Sherborne Castle. —Illustrations ofHor&ce. [Sept.
wiihout. these walls?' I dare fay his nor very -poor, neither of very high
goodness and benevolence extend as station nor, of very low; however, in
.fir as his territories ; that his peasants all respects- of contequeiice enough for
live almost as happy and contented as- keeping the chuicetl company at
himself; aud thai not one of his chil .Rome. For in such he is placed by
dren wishes io fee this feat his own,. Horace, towards the conclusion of the
"I ha\c Hot looked much about tenth satue of the first book, and in
since I was here. All 1 can tell you ' deed immediately • next »to the future
of my own knowledge i-s, that, going Augustus which he would ' hardly
to fee the cathedral * in the town hard have done if A'is"u-> iiad noi been usu
by, 1 took notice, as the tinell things, ally sen in such good comp oy. The
of a noble monuments, air.', a beauti little iucideii'al pan which -he makes
ful altar-piece of architecture ; but, if I this s.itneFou us Aril mspla\ jiist before, .
had ii'V enquired in particular, he nor in ihe ojnth talire, denotes loin a man
his had never told me, that both lite of a jovial disposition, or what the Ito-
one and the other was erected by him ,D(iin3 ra-l|e<! haminem jacetnm ; and, if
self. The next pretty thing that catched we lay all this together, and the ode
flnv eye, was a neat chapel for the use which Moras* addressed to him in his
of the town's- people (who are too nu younger years t, and especially some
merous for the cathedral). . Mv liord strokes in the present epiitie, we (liall
modestly told me he was glad I liked have sufficient giound to believe this
it, because it was ot" his own archileq- Aristins was an intimate and dear
Aure. friend of our Poet, the peculiar friend
" I hnpe thj-s long letter will be f;>me of his heart. Methinks it tells us just
-entertainment to von. I was pleased as much of him as is necelfarv for ren
-not a little in writing it; but do not dering every line of this epistle ex
3et iinv lady from hence imagine that tremely interesting, and as valuable as
any head is lo full of any 'gardens as to ,the bell silhouette, and as good a like
■forget hers. The greaiell proof 1 could ness as any portrait-painter of thofe
.give her to the- contrary i», that 1 have times could have drawn.
spent many hours here in studying for We may gather, moreover, from
hers, und in drawing new plans for the eiiistle itself, that Aristins, who,
her. 1 lhall soon come home, aud according to the common notion of
have nothing to fay when we meet, everv native of the metropolis of the
having here t old von all that has pleased, world, could imagine to himself no
me : but Wihmi is in my way, and I greater happiness than that of living
depend upon that for new matter-. Be at Rome, was not entirely free from
lieve me ever your?, with a sincerity the projects of aggrandizing or enrich
as oid-safliioned, and as different from ing himself, at that lime the epidemi
modem sincerity, as this house, this cal disease of the Romans, and .in this
family, and ihese ruins, are from the view had been more than ordinarily
Court, and all its neighbourhood." * connected with the great : that Ho
race, who looked upon these-matters
Illustrations of Horace. with a far more indifferent eye, and in
■ Book I. EnsTLB X.- . , this respect alone thought differently
To Fuscns Aristius. .from his f iend, might deem it not su
- INTRODUCTION. perfluous just to give hjtn an extremely
THE scholiasts and expositors are • geutle caution.
not agreed what to make of this Pane euro, jam mfllilis potiore p/n-
Aristins. According to one he is a centis ] This stroke looks hke.an al
comic, to another a trauic poet, to a lusion to some story of ibis bind <lia,t
third a famous rhetorician, to a fourth might lately have happened, and. w.16 a.s
a fchoolmaller like himself. Theirs well known to Ari.stius as to Horace.
perhans-is the bast-guess, who repre Lil.a, or a fort oscakt s prepared of meal
sent him as a man neither very rich and honev, were usually presented at
all their sacrifices, and -especially at
* Sherborne was formerly the fee of a those .
to Bacchus, to' Pirn, and. the
! ; ' •-' • • • 1
"bishop. C.
f The. noble monument mentioned by ' * Probet. hœc Oftavius oplimtis, atiftie,
Pope is that of John Dlgby, Earl of Bris Tujcifs. - ,_- •
tol, who died in J 606. It is said to fiaye *+ The -twenty»ftcond ode- of ihe. riifl
cost 1S00I. C. book,
other
*-8o7.] tllustrat ions of Horace, Book I. Et'istleH. $07
Other rural deities. , They remained as in to their assistance against the attacks
the priest's portion; and the:honied; of their -neighbours, to be their com
cukes mult have been ' in great plenty mander with unlim ted Iway.
at the hnnses' of these ""gentlemen, as Lxlitsforte ttti vivessapienter, Arifli:']
the slaves were fed with them instead The uncommon delicacy with which
of bread. Horace treats his friend, the modesty
Polanlia vellera fucum.'] The an- with which he gives him hs advice,
ttenis, who prized 1<> highly the pur the caution he employs in order to
ple colours, had various kinds of them, avoid the slightest appearance of all ar
which were very different both in rogance, and an imaginary greater
beauly and value. At the beginning proficiency in fagaeiiy aud prudence, I'
of the Augustan age, sl pound of wool think merits (He reader's particular at
doubly dyed with Tyrian purple cost tention. How beauiful the turn he
upwards of 1000 denarii, or about 38 here takes to make all' he has been;
guineas-, and yet the use of it was so saving to admonish and lo caution
common among the people of quality Ariftius, have the air of being laid iq
sk Rome, that P. Ler.uuus Spinier, ■ himself, as'well as to his friend—by
when he was aedise, thought this fort requesting him to keep a strict eve upon
of purple not good enough for the fa him, aud not leave him unchaliiled,
cings of his toga ; for, who is there, if he should fee him about to art in.
at present, {aid he, that has not his opposition to his own maxims. In all
liiflbws covered with this purple ? this, as in the whole composition of
Ftln. Hist. -Nat.'ix.'Sg. The ever \U-' the epistle, there is a somewhat that
creeling' luxury therefore forced the may he better felt than described, and
manufacturers lipotl the expedient of reduced to rules. It is not the o&u-
constantly inventing mdre delicate and1 tioufrrcls of cold politeness, not a re
cofilv fliades of the purple colour, in'ceive arising from the fear of giving of
.order to gratify the luxuriant- elegancefence ; it is the wariness of affection,
ef the'rich and great : and t his natu the deference arising from true mo
rally set their covetousness at work to desty" ; a delicacy peculiar to the friend-
• Clip of generous minds, without which,
iiy the exorbitant vanity of ..their cus-
•fo'mers under contribution, bv adulte in fact, no real friendship can subliff,
rating tile 'colours that were : most inand' which is therefore always per
request,' and consequently bore the' ceivable between old friends.
highest 'praise. Quam ducere faiem.~\ Whence the
Fuge magna: Href sub panpere teffo metaphor in which the thought is here
f&gcfe'l regtim t>it6'prttcurrere tiwtcos.]
conveyed, is taken, the commentators
Th's then was the result tlm Horace, have not yet settled amongst them
who had so much intercouVIe with r lie selves, It is always proper to the nai
ture'of the cafe, that the subject led hy
great,-rtrew froui all his experience. The
expression of kings and friends of kingsa rope (whether tpari or beast) should,
rt:af1b Irere to he remaikeJ ; and, in follow'hiin that leads it ; the contrary
'.regard uvthe then siaie'of Rome', is ofis nonsensical, and whichever way it
greater im'port "than if we read this happens, is- always attended by disa
yerte as only a'comntoh lenience. Ho greeable consequences.
race wns nor to he deceived ivy names, Ifaa dti dicial-am post fuv.ur/i putre.
a'n'd'repiiblican puppet-show ' he law' ■Vacun,t~\ That Vacnna had been an
through aVI the anifice. by which Au amietit goddess of the old Sabines, in
gustus Contrived to conceal from the' whole country Horace's farm was (itu-
Romans that they served a - King, —! a'ed, is out of all doubt. But whe1
though the turn i '• which he gives ther, with this people, she supplied the
this "to he-' understood is sufficiently
place, os Minerva, Diana, or Ceres, or
£vTarderV thai he need not be afraid wa-s not rather a deity in her own
h?ft -evin this letter, confidentially right, .to whom« the 'countrymen used
written to an intimate friend, should to iaciifice.after the completion of their
be divulged. ~ 1 rirral labours, is just as little capable
' &£&&'-rV(i,ms} Tnls tbe famons'
of proof, as whether Horace dales his
apologue tiy.which the poet Stesicho- letter from .behind., the ruinous temple
pns, pointed out lo his coumrvmen the of the goddess of Idleness, in order (as
Hii«ere«fi<ns', the" foil v they had corh-
Torrentius 1'nppoles) to give a fling at
m'med in cdtiffiiBiiisg :Phak'tiu-, pTirwe
his own- habitual sndoleVice. I take
ttf'Agrigentuui, whom they had called hit words in the literal lease. Vacnna,
had
So8 Stridures on the n Gentleman's Magazine"for 1 806. [Sept.
had still a very antient consecrated we should surely read " heir." In
grove in the district of Horace's estate, 1799 he is described as " Thomas
Plin. lib. iii. cap. 12. and, 41s appears, Comber, B.A. late of Jesus College,
a very antient chapel also, which since Cambridge," in the title-page of an
nobody chose to be at the expence of octavo volume of *' Memoirs of Tho
teepinc it in repair, had gradually fal mas Comber, D.D some time Dean
len to decay. 1 figure to myself our of Durham," who was his great grand
poet sitting here on the grass, in a father. These " Memoirs" were an
pleasant, wild, and solitary spot, near nounced in 1778 by Thomas Comber,
-to this lime-worn rustic chapel, and LL.D. in note z on p. 105 of his-
communicating to his absent friend " Menioirsof the Lord Deputy Wandes-
the sentiments adapted to such a scene ; forde," printed atCauibridge as Vol. II.)
and I find this figure more agreeable Sir C. Wandesforde's " Book of In
than the joke of Torrentius. W. T. structions to his Son" having been pub
lished as Vol. I. in 1777, 12mo. The
Mr. Urban, » Augn/l<22. editor of the " Biographia Briiannica,"
W FEVER'S «« Funeral Monu- referred to by your Reviewer, has not
meitts," mentioned LXXVI. corrected a mistake * of his predecessor,
1 1 98. asawork "executed with thegreat- in the first note 011 " the Life of this
est fidelity,"are,inMr.Granger'saccount Dean Comber; wherein he confounds
of him, represented "as egregiouflydefi- him with the Dean of Carlisle, of both
cient in point of accuracy, especially in his names, who died in 1 653 ; to
the numeral letters and figures." In this whom he erroneously ascribes the
censure he is fully supported by the fa " Historical Vindication of the Divine.
mous Henry Wharton, in his '* An- Right of Tithes, kc. in Answer to Sel-
glia Sacra," i. 668, who thus charac den's History of Tithes ;" the second
terizes him : " Quod Weaverum atti- edition of which " Vindication, parti,
net, is mortalium omnium insœlicifli- corrected and enlarged," was printed in
mus cunctos fere numeros ex sepul- quarto in 1685 ; to which is added
chralihus ritulis in farraginein suam " A Discourse concerning Excommu
descriptos vitiavit." Hearne, in p. 77 nication," which was republistied by
of his second volume of " Letand's Dr. Cave in 1702, making one of the
Itinetary," mentions that a copy of Tracts in the second folio of our Au
Weever's book, " wiih large MS thor's " Companion to the Temple
improvements, by the author himself, in which also " A Dialogue concern
was procured bv that curious collector ing the Right of Tithes" immediately
of books Mr. Thomas Rawlinfon, of follows this Discourse on Excommuni
the Middle Temple." Dr. Buckler, in cation, which in the quarto of 1685 is
his preface to " Stemmaia Chichele- followed by " Part II. of the HistorU
ana," Oxford, 1765, describes Weever cal Vindication, &c. in Answer to th»
as *' very liable to mistake in the as Objections of other Authors." If
sortment of his Collections." In Browne Willis, who is referred to in
" Archæologia," xi. 447, among the the Biographia for the date and place
presents to the Society of Antiquaries, of the burial of the Dean of Carlisle, is
appear " Original MSS. of John Wee* correct in fixing them on "March 8
Ver, most of which were inserted by in St. Botolph's Church, Cambridge,"
the author in his Funeral Monuments. how are we 10 account for the Sertnon
These MSS. were lately in the posses- in Sion College Library, O. xiit. 21,
lion os Mr. John Lane, of Hilliugdon, by " II. Bowman, B. D. at the Fune
in the county of Middlesex: at whose ral of TlioinasCouiber.D.D. March 29,
death they came into the possession of lsi53, Rotn. viji. 2 ?" This sermon is
AVilliam Sauthouse, Esq. who pre not registered in Letsome's " Preacher's
sented them to the Society." May not Astiflant." It is an odd circumstance
these be the same with those noticed that at the end of the Dean of Dur
bv Hearne as having come,- after the ham's " Epistle Dedicatory" prefixt to
author's death, " to his_ nephew Mr. the second edition of the " Vindica-
Caltharn, who lived in Little Bri tion. Part I," above referred to, his
tain ?" Weever speaks with gratitude * A. Wood has committed the fame
of his tmor, Dr. Robert Pearson, in tniltake in " Athen. Oxon." II. 803,
p. 864 01 his printed work. w here we should for " Trnr. Coll." sub
P. 1262. col. I, 1. 12, for " hero" stitute " Sidney Sujfat Coll."
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*»* The intelligent part ofthe world have generally, and most justly, discounts
nanceithe pretensions of Quacks and Nostrum-mongers, who grow rich on the pub
lic credulitu : tut thefollowing Letterfrom a Gentleman who recommends a new
mode of Medical Practice, with a specific for Fever and all local inflammatiom,
frems to he of a kindso very differentfrom the ]ntffs of those who live iy asecret
Recipe, that ice cannot hut contribute all in our power toward procuring to it
that attention and examination, which it appearsso well to deserve.
Mr. Urban, Cheltenham, Oil. 10. most capable of making an accurate and
unbiassed judgment, and of promulga
7*\ yf\ ?r<. -V\ fpondent of yours, in ting it properly to the world ; and
JR & p. 824, indirectly ac- when it mall be found a discover! worth
^ I Jj£ cuses me of unfeeling knowing, and my assertions and state
w inattention to (he du- ments have been satisfactorily proved,
■(Swwww ties of humaniiy. I a full disclosure will follow, and 1 hope
?S?x«S7k7R^ perhaps ought not lo the world will acquit me of any impro
notice the remarks of anonymous wri per motivesin withholding the discovery
ters ; but the extensive circulation of until it shall have been properly investi
your excellent work mav occasion them gated. I have not asked for any remu
to influence, injuriously, the opinion neration ; and if I succeed, of which I
of many perlbnson this subject. cm have no doubt, I (hall, at least,
The example adduced, of Dr. Jen- have the pleasure to think that I have
ner, who brought into notice a new deserved well of my Country.
and preferable species of Inoculation, Permit me now, Mr. Urban, to re
is not applicable to the matter on which late a circumstance that I think cannot
,rour Correspondent wriies ; for in the sail of being thought interesting ; it
■2abours of this Physician the discovery occurred lately, and shews that exter
os the fact was a discovery of the meant) nal inflammation as well as fever mav
employed ; and the cales are similar be quickly- subdued by the means I
only herein, that I also would draw offer. George Hart, a stone-malbn,
the public attention to the fact, which was fixing some iron railing with a
will sufficiently establish its own im quantity of melted lead, when some
portance. But. with so much zeal, this water that happened to lodge in one of
writer ought to have known, that it is the cavities occasioned an explosion of
not the matter of a discovery that fixes the boiling liquid, which struck him
' the notice and favourable regard of the in the face and eves ; I was then, acci
great pnblick so much as the manner in dentally, near the spot, conversing with
which ilis introduced, and the pat renage General Keppel ; and on examina
which may happily accompany it. If tion, I found the poor man's eyes vio
my modes of administering medicine lently inflamed, and he suffered excru
were at once made known as S. M. ciating pain. He was immediately
suggests, it does not follow that they brought to mv rottuge ; and when he
would ever be made use of for the pub arrived, his eyes were entirely closed,
lic advantage ; but there is reason to without the power to open them. I
imagine that they might be soon put instantly prepared a lotion, with which
aside for something more fashionably 1 bathed all the par"- affected, after ex
displayed, aud the author of them for tracting the particles of( lead, which
^''ii^ii, My
gotten. L,xy first
mti with
*viiii is to
n, draw me were tcaitered
man the ivn'nn,w over
v/,^i the
uiv whole
wijimc face.
idlx,
attention, to the fact itself, of those The application was continued ten mi
nutes.
900 Col. Riddell and Mr. Perkins on Fevers. [Oct.
nutes, when the man felt great relief. the body. That gentleman, Colonel
I then forced open one of the eve-lids, R'ddell, although not a medical man,
and found the ball of the eye had been has certainly great knowledge of fever ;
slightly wounded, but no lead was and, having* studied much the subject,
visible in any part of it ; this eve now 1 havegreailv regretted the present me
felt comfortable, but the other was ilill thods of treatment, such as excessive
very painful. On examination I found bleedings, blistering, Arc. [Seep. 700.J
this had been badly wounded, and the Yours, Sec. Philip Perkins.
lead which struck it was separated into
many small particles. By rolling folds Mr. Urban, Oct. so.
of soft paper worked to a point, I was \ S von often admit in your valua-ble
enabled to extract them ; and the man i - Repository memoirs or characters
felt greatly relieved. I continued the of men either eminent in their lives
application ; and in the space of twenty or unfortunate in their deaths, it is
minutes, he was able to open bi>th requested you would insert in your
eyes, free from pain or inconvenience. ne.U Magazine the following stiorl me
In about three hours afterwards, 1 had moir of a brave young officer in the
occasion to pals bv the place where the Navy, who very lately lost his life, by
accident happened, and found the man being drowned, in an act of doing his
at work, the inflammation wholly sub duty in pursuance of an Enemy's ves
sided, and as well as if no such circum sel. Had it pleased Heaven to preserve
stance had occurred. him, he would have been an honour
Yours, &c. John Riddell. to his King and to his Country,
I shall, however, try to rescue hi*
Mr. Urban, ^meat^n, Warwick. lamented death from oblivion ;
' , Jnire, Oct. 17. " He shall not sleep in his lqw watery
NOTICING in your Magazine for grave
August last" Cp- o'99) Colonel Unwept—unsung—without the tear
Riddell's account of his treatment of Of some true, faithful friend."
Fevers, I must observe I have used a Milton.
similar treatment in fevers for several I am aware, however, that Biogra-,
years past, and can now confidently phy is often, from the peculiar merit
fay, I am able to anticipate all fevers ; of the person who is the subject of it,
the remedy I use is easily prepared, so delightful to the writer, that he of
and is much superior to Dr. James's ten knows not how to adapt his ex-
Powder*. I should be happy and prcflions so Tts to satisfy his feelings,
willing at anv time to render any as and at the fame lime do justice to the
sistance to Government, and make a character he is describing, without
fair trial of the fame in any of the rendering, himself liable to the suspi
Military Hospitals for their approval; cion of partiality or interest. In the
and can allure them of its certain suc present rale, however, there is no fear
cess. The reason I so long retained his character will be exaggerated. But
tnv experiment was, to be certain of I will intrude no longer on vour pa
the plan before I made any proposal. tience, but hasten to the short memoir,
My mode of giving the medicine is "Thefuhjeet of this small tribute
no ostener than twice a day, mixed in of affection was the grandson of the
a little cold water. I then allow them to late lamented and ever-honoured Dr.
drink freely of odd water, which is grate Warion, whose public character and
ful to such patients ; and have noticed priva'e virtues are beyond my fee
the cooling process after 10 be Ib expe ble praise. This excellent friend he
ditious, that it had frequently like the lost bv death a few years since ; and
appearance of a charm. The fever lately had the additional misfortune of
then was hastened of its course, and in losing his worthy father, bv a very
a manner more proper than the treat sudden death. He was then a mid
ment proposed bv the late Dr. Currie. shipman in the Royal Navy, in Lord
Now, Mr. Urban, I was led to this Nelson's squadron, in which situation
mode of treatment, by observing the he served the usual time, most honour
human body undergoing a loss os sub ably ; in consequence of which good
stance every twenty-four hours, and conduct, he soon obtained a lieuten
thought lni,t: nothing c uld be bet ancy. The reader is not to expect in
ter for accelerating the process of fe this short (ketch of my lamented young
ver, than its pasting quickly through friend, any wonderful adventures,
strange
1807.] Melancholy Death of Mr. Warton.—Dr. Comber. 901'
strange turns of fortune, or surprizing A sincerely afflicted friend firrds a
discoveries, like those os a Capt. Cook, momentary consolation in this small
or a Vancouver. Alas 1 his (liort (but tribute of affection to the memory of a
useful) career in this world was loon dear and lamented friend. Z. Z.
terminated, at the early age of twenty-
two. His life was privaie, aud blame Mr. Urban, S. C. Oct. 8.
less. The useful virtues of honesty,
benevolence, and integrity, were the o Ipondent Scrutator's remarks ou
chief traits in his character ; and ■-. Iiicli t he day of Dr. Comber s burial (p. '808,
are of ni ire real use lo the community col. 2,) I immedi.uels turned to the
in general, than all the rank and titles Sermon he mentions bv Mr. Boreman.
of the great. He had derived from na-, The title is as follows : " The Triumph
ture a lirong understanding, and an ot' Faiih over Death ; or, the Jull
excellence of disposition, which con Man's Memoriall : comprised in *
ciliated the affection of Ml who knew Punei;y rick and Sermon, ai the Fune-
him. His excellent state of health, rall ot the religious, most learned Dr.
his manly form, strength, and vivacity, Combar, late Mailer of Trinity. Col
rendered him quite a fii subject to en lege, in Cambridge, and Deane of
counter perils incident to his line of life. Carlisle. Delivered in Trinity College
" His unexpected death is a striking Chdppi-ll. By A. 8. B. D. the 29. of
proof of the uncertainty of human life, March, 1()53 [ Three quotations from
and of how little able we are to judge the Hebrew and Latin.] London,
of what is most likely to prove fatal j Printed by J. C. for R. Roystou,, at
for amazing is it to reflect, that al the Angel in Ivy-lane, lf)54." The
though this brave young man was in Latin Epitaph wriiten by Duport, and
the ranks of Death in the dreadful but prefixed to this P.inegyrick, exprelles
glorious battle of Trafalgar (in which ttie day of his death 10 have been 28
his ship the Belleisle was a perfect Feb. l6'53. The Biographia Britaii-
wreck from its noble exertions), and nica quo es Browne Willis, who gives
death and destruction around him, the lame day of his de.ith, and fays he
whilst he was supporting, covered with w.is buried on ihe 3d March in St.
blood, some poor fellows who died in Botolph's church in Cambridge. Per
his arms ; yet he was then preserved ; haps the Sermon was preached at the
and at length, not long since, loli his Funeral; but the Puncgyrick, which
valuable life by an act of duty to his is prefixed to it, aud consists of 1(5
Country, in chacing an enemy's vessel pages, might be delivered,as the title fays,
in the Channel ofl Portland ; which in Trinity College Chapel, on the 2f)th
his ardent, brave spirit, induced him of March, lt)53. It should be recol
to pursue in his sbip's-boat, with a lected that Letsome, in his " Preacher's
midshipman and four seamen : and Assistant," does not profess to register
they were very nearly boarding the any sermons piloted before ihe Resto
Enemy (though greatly superior in ration. Tins sermon, which is on
numbers) when the boat upset, and Rom. viii. 1 1 . is referred to by Crowe
was instantly buried in the waves, in his Catalogue of English Writers
'Whilst pitying Angels bore his soul, to on ihe Old and New Testament, 2d.
Heaven.' edit. Loud. 1663, Svo. 11 W.
And, I humbly trust, he was ' taken
from the evil to come," to that state of Mr. Urban, OB. 20.
happiness which his merits Ib justly IN answer to " A Constant Header,''
deserved. p. 629, I beg to observe, tha< when
■" The fatal spot in which this un the Houie of Lords, on the 7>ti of
fortunate younjg man perished, was May, 1806, resolved, "That ihe Ba-
what is calle l 'The tface of Portland ;' mny of IJpos remains in the Coheirs of
where the Halfewell, and many hun Robert de Roos, who was summoned to
dreds of brave men, have met with a Parliament by the st\le os Robert de
watery grave, hi the present case, Roos in the 49th year of Henry III.;
there is somet hing peculiarly distressing and that the said Coheirs are Sir Tho.
in the fate of a voting man cut off in Win. Hnnloke.bart. George Earl ofEs
the very prime of life ; and who, frem sex, and Lady Henry Fitzgerald ;" they
his own good conduct, and flattering expressly decided against any righi of
hopes of success, had every prospect of the Dukeof Rutland to the title of Roos.
being an honour to his King and. With regard to the Ochiltree Peer
Cpuntry." age,
902 Barony of Roos.-Ochiltree Beerage.-Miscellanies. [Oct.
age, I beg to inform him, that at the education are sensible ; but as to dis
time Andrew Lord Ochiltree and his cipline, little can be done in public
son the mailer, fold the Barony of schools or college?, unless discipline
Ochillree to their cousin James, he begins at home. In the few cafes that
was in lieu thereofcreated Lord Castle- have come before the pithlick of severity
Stewart of the Kingdom of Ireland, by in masters, we have found that the
Jlatent dated in ib'lo, and also received parents have uniformly taken the part
arge grants of land there from James of their sons. Obedience to superiors,
I. to whom he was related. All the submission and humility, which mull
parties, therefore, interested in the Ba all compote a tcacliable disposition, are
rony of Ochiltree having received an fast wearing out of the practice of pa
adequate consideration for it, it cannot rents, especially of the higher classes.
revert to the representatives of the men Pert, forward, and insolent manners,
who alienated it; and of that opinion are accounted marks of genius!
was the House of Lords in 1793, when P. 78a. Mrs. Barrington, the Bi
they decided against the claim of the shop's./ecimd wife.
present Earl of Castle Stewart. C. C. P. 818. A correspondent inquires
whether there are any descendants of
Mr. Urban, Oct. 21. Dr. Mead now exijling ? His grandson,
PERMIT me to thank yonr corre the Rev. James Mead, died June 1772,
spondent B. for his communication a young man of 2() years; who, I
respecting Dr. Cotton. think, died unmarried. Farther 1 can
P. 587. Sam. Bricknell. What was not trace the family.
he imprisoned for? I should esteem it a favour if any of
P. 588. col. 2. Rev. YVm. Dawson your Correspondents could furnish
is said to have been of Queen's Coll. some account of Mr. Lewis, who trans
Oxford, M. A. 1728. At that rate, he lated Statins. He was of Pembroke
snullhaie been nearly 100 years old. college, Oxford ; but I have not been
But the Wm. Dawson who took his able to trace him farther. R. S.
master's degree at that lime was af
terwards President of Williamfhurgh Mr. Urban, Oct. 22.
College in Virginia, and in 1/40' a T'HE situation of the Poor having at
D. D. by diploma. last attracted the attention of the
P. 58(). col? 2. Rev. John Lavington Legislature, 1 beg leave to observe, that
published two Sermons, one in 1713, the immorality and misery which pre
the other, on a funeral occasion, 1 ~-r'7 • vails among them, is, in a great degree,
P. 6'08. Mr. Lnvrence's death is to be attributed to the alarming increase
recorded in the Gent. Mag. vol. II. p. pf Public-houses," &c. In support of this,
77ft. He occurs frequently in thai enter assertion, take one (act. In Whitecross
taining medley, VVhilton's Life. street, St. Luke's parish, measuring only
P. ()H5. The death of the Bishop os 3 furlongt' 18 poles, there are no lels than
Rapboe was given in vol. LXXV.286, 2ft public-houses and dram-shops; and
probably by mistake, though 1 do not in C-oUlen Lane (not 100 yards from it)
find it corrected. 12 houses of the fame description.
Ibid. Rev. Joshua Betkeley. Not A 'Friend to the Poor.
surely son of the late Bishop : perhaps
nephew, or?son of Dr. Robert B. Vicar- Letters from Holland aud Ger
general of Cloyne. many m 1704.
P. 701. The gentleman mentioned , . Letter IV.
here, as being the dupe or the accom Nimcguen, April 18, 179,4.
plice of Joanna Southcote, was also a My dear Friend,
firm believer in Brothers the Prophet; \"\/ E took our leave of Utrecht on
1 fay a firm believer, for a man be VV Tuesday morning the 25th. It
lieves very firmly, whom experience is a beautiful and elegant place; and
will not cure. Mr. Brothers, it is well men of taste, science, and fashion
known, was a tool in the hand of the need be at no loss for congenial so
Democrats, to create a depression in ciety at Utreclu. We had rather an
the public mind. What Joanna may unpleasant occurrence on setting out.
be, I hope the Magistrates will en The commissary attempted to impose
quire, and give somewhat more than a upon us by charging extravagantly
jharp look-out. for our horses : we remonstrated with
P. 717. Senilis' remarks on public him on his extortion, but as he spoke
1807.] Letters from Holland and Germany in 1794. 903
ne language but Dutch, of which we the instability of fortune, of whom we
were completely ignorant, we were may truly fay with Horace : • 1
forced to remonstrate in dumb (how, -hinc apicem rapax
^ which exhibited a grotesque scene. Fortuna cum ftridore acuto '
Our pantomimic eloquence was all Suftulit ; hie posuifle gaudet.
loll upon him; he obstinately perse How remarkably do the times in which,
vered in his demand, and ended the we live exemplify the sage Poet's ob
conversation with a significant shrug servation ! Ill-sated Louis the XVlth !
and a Nay Mynheer ; how rapid was the transition to that'
nor more he deign'd to say, humane and-benevolenl Monarch from
But tlern as Ajax' spectre strode away. a throne to a prison, and from thence
We were determined, however, if pos to the scaffold ! Let us never, my
sible, not to submit lo the imposition ; friend, envy the " painful preemi
and we made our appeal to a worthy nence" of such of our fellow-creatures
gentleman who residing at Utrecht, as are most highly savoured by the
argued the case with the Commis gists of Fortune ! n«j can we be suffi
sary at full length. The Commissary ciently thankful to that kind Provi
urged every plea which his avarice sug dence who hath placed our lot in " the
gested, and dexterously availed himself coolsequsjlered vale of life." You ask
.of a clause in the Letter of the Law what would satisfy me ? I answer (if
which seemed to sanction his extor I know any thing of my own heart at
tion ; this plea our Counsel rebutted this present moment), in the words of
by demoastrating the inconsistency of the immortal Hooker, " some quiet
his conduct with Cms spirit of the Law, parsonage*, where I may see God's
and indeed with the fair and equitable hleflings spring out of my mother
construction of the ordonnance in ques earth, and eat my own breaej in peace
tion, and above all with the golden and privacy ; . a place where I may
rules of doing as we would be done by. without disturbance meditate my ap
This last appeal to his conscience was proaching mortality, and that greatac-
urged so forcibly as to leav» no room courit which all flesh must give al the
for evasion ; and1 the upshot of the busi Last Day to the God of all spirits."
ness was that we carried our point. The palace in which the Elector Pa
There is no end of imposition on Eng latine resided at Rhenen devolved u»
lish travellers at Inns and Post Houses ; George the First, as heir to his Mother
for, in the first place, they think we the Electress Sophia ; and George the
have all plenty of money ; and in the Second made use of it for the accom
next place, it must be allowed that the modation of his suite in hisjournies
conduct of too many 'English travellers lo and from Hanover. I forgot to en
is such as to stimulate avarice and en quire, nor is it of any consequence,
courage extortion. whether our present gracious Sovereign
1 A great part of the country through has any inheritance remaining at Rhe
which we travelled on Tuesday was nen.
beautiful, fertile, and well cultivated, From Rhenen we proceeded, through
particularly between Utrecht and Rhe- a country abounding with barren heath
n«n. Rhenen. is a small town upon to Waugeningen, a town in the pro
the river Leek, a branch of the Rhine, vince of Guelderland, which is situated
and belongs to the Province of Li irecht. on the river L«ck, and of which I
In the days of Popery there was a have nothing remarkable to commu
large convent of Nuns at Rhenen, of nicate. After leaving Waggeningea
the order of St. Agnes, which after the country began to improve ; and
wards was converted into a palace for
the residence of Frederick V. Elector * Quod optanti Divum promittere
Palatine of the Rhine, son-in-law of Auderet,nemo volvenda dies en attulit ultro.
James the First, King of England.
The unfortunate Frederick, after hav Hoc erat in votis ; modus agri Viro. non ita
ing been stripped of his Electorate, and magnus, [fona,
his newly-acquired kingdom of Bohe Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus jugis aquse
nna, in consequence of the fatal battle Et paulum tilvae super his foret. Auctius
of Prague in 1620, retired with his fa atque
mily to Rhenen, a striking example of Dii melius seccie. Hon.
within
904 Letter from Utrecht.—. ueld and Flag Officers. [Oct.
within a sew miles of Arnheim, ihe of it. Adieu : yon may ex|>ect to hear
rural scenery was by far the mod di from me once and again before I leave
versified and picturesque I had yet seen Nirncguen. With kind remembrances
111 Holland. We arrived in the even to all our L—c—t—lit-— friends, 1
ing at Arnheim, the situation of,which remain voors very sincerely.
upon the Rhine, and near the conflu P. 706, col. a, read, "a young gen
ence of the Rhine and the lssel, is tleman, the fun of a profejj'or in the Uni
tmlv delightful, and the environs, in versity of St. Andrew's."
several points of view, quite roinitnie.
1 have entered in mv journal some Mr. Urban, Sept. 4.
particulars respecting Arnheim, which IN all the old Tables of Precedence,
I have mi time to transcribe by to-day's our " Field and Flag Officers" wrte
poll, but which I may probably give placed next to " Baronets." (I under
von in mv next letter. We left Am- , stand Field and Flag Officers to be
heitri on the l6lh, in the afternoon, those gentlemen who, in the Navy,
and travelled from thence along an ex-, bear rommiisions from an Admiral io
cellent road to the Wall (a river branch a Past Captain, inclusive; and in the
ing from the Rhine), which we crossed Armv, from a General to a Major, in
to Niowgiien, where we are now, and clusive.) 1 profess myself too igno
from whence we (hail not probably re rant of courtly enqueue to determine
move for some days. The hotel at whether such was the proper order of
which we lodge is kept by a Scotsman precedence; hut I cannot refrain from
of the name of Farquhar, who has exprefiinu some surprize that, in all
lived here many yeats. and is uncom the late Tables of Precedence, Field
monly civil to us. We have letters of and Flag Officers are lotuliy omitted !
introduction 10 some respectable fami Now, Sir, it appears to me that these
lies here, and hope to pal's our lime gentlemen not only derive very consi
very pleasantly in the enjoyment of derable consequence from the high
" successive (Utrlv, exercise, and ease." trust conveyed to them in the commis
We spent yesterday in delivering our sions they receive from his Majesty,
letters of introduction, and surveying but that thevare like-vile personages to
the town and its environs. Nimeguen whom some particular mark of civil
is a la rge anc! elegant town, ami stands distinction is incoiveltibly due, on ac
upon an eminence. It is washed on count of the important benefits our
the North fide by the Wall, which Country receives from their intrepid
takes its course towards Rotterdam, exertions. Mv curiosity, therefore, is
and forms the communication between much excited to discover the reason
that city aud the Rhine ; in everv other for excluding these superior Officers
direction the town is surrounded by from any place whatsoever in the differ
strong fortifications, beyond which the ent degrees of society ? I conjecture, this
ground is regularly marked out in the proceeds from mistake; but am ol opi-»
form of an intrenched camp. The nion that such a mistake cannot loo
villages to the South of the town ap soon be rectified, in all publications ref
pear pre'tv, and the land is well cul lating In Rank and Precedency ':
tivated There is a long continued Yours, &c. ' Eremites.
chain of riling grottuds extending to
wards Cleves, many parts of which Mr. Urban, Oct. 1 1 .
are prettily skirted with woods. This MANY persons who are but super fi-
town is the ch'ef resort of the Noblesle cia 1 i y acqu lin'ed with the religious
of Guelderland, who have pretty high world, take it for gran-ed that the Uni
notions of their own consequence, I tarians are gaining ground in this coun
assure you. ''-'here is an old building try. This, Sir, I am very happy 10 fav,
here, called the Castle of Charlemagne, is not the fact, lit London aud its vi
which is a bold object ; and close to it cinity there are but three Unitarian
is a delightful walk called Belvidere Places of worship ; Mr BcWTiani's,
(a name given to it by the Duke of Essex-street, Mr. Jervis's, Westminster,
Parma more than 200 years since) and Mr. A Inland's, Hackney ; and in
which commands an extensive view of many parts of the kingdom, their meet
Guelderland and the Dutchy of Cleves ; ing-houses (in consequence of want of
and though it is not quite equal to the support) have been disposed of to the
view from the terrace at Windsor, yet Methodist* or Calvinillic Dissenters.
the Dutch have great teason to boast A Comstant Reader.
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I $07-] Epitaph in the Church of Westerham, Kent. 905
Mr. Urban, Birmingham, June 2. 3.
MR. Hasted, in the first volume of Juxta heic, viator, reconditas legas ci-
his History of Kent, p. 382— neres calentesAntonij Earning, mercatoris,
8g0, has given a full account of the nobili stirpe BarOnum Anguevinenfiura
pleasant little town of Westerham ; hut, oriundl, qui, peragratis varijs orbis terra-
his plan not admitting monumental rum partib5, ad Indcas usque Orientales
bis penetravit; domum reversus, Deo,
inscriptions, I heg you to preserve patriæ, amicis, bonis deniq. omnib' ch'a-
them in your Magazine, accompanied rus, heic demumrequiel'dt. Susanna Tho
with a view of the Church (Plait I.) rns; Manning de Valens in agro Cantiano
Yours, &c. William Hamper. armig. filia unigenita, uxor mceremissima,
Monumental Inscriptions in (ex qitaru suscepit liberos id. reliquit lu-
Westerham Church, Kent. perstites tilios duo?, riliolam utiiCim)
conjngi bcnV-merito P. C Ibijt Feb.
On mural monuments in the South xiii. mdclxxvii.
aile : • 4.œtat. lh:.
1. James, son of Colonel Edward Wolfe
With the effigies of a man and wo and Henrietta his w;se, was born in this
man kneeling at a .desk : parish |anuaTy 2, mdccxxvii. and died
When monuments and tombs erected, in America September 13, mbcclix.
By time or rapine are dejected, Conqueror of Quebec.
The man that for his Countrie's good Whilst Seorge in sorrow bows his laurel'd
In times unjust hath justly stood, head, [dead ; _
Deserved Fame (hall longe renowoe him, And bids the Artist grace the Soldier
And Virtue (hall for ever crowne him. We raise no t'culptur'd trophy to thy name,
Thomas Potter, of Wellstreate, in the Brave youth! the fairest in the list of
county of Kent, esq. having wth much Fame : [year ;
integritia and reputation executed yc of Proud of thy birth, we boast th' auspicious
fice of a Justice of Peace in y' said Struck with thy fall, we shed a general
County about fifty yeares, continuing^ tear ; [stone,
the whole course of his life liberall and With humble grief inscribe one artless
bountifull to the poore, constantly and And from thy matchless honours date our
painefully studious of Divinitie, Law, and own.
Phisick; for theise and many other his J, dcæs, I, nofirum.
virtues, liv'd and died beloved of all good s,'"<, 5. ■
people that knew him and his worth. Near this monument, in a brick grave,
He first married Mary, the daughter and is interred the body of Ranulph Ataiinipg,
one of the coheires of Richard Tich- gent, who departed this life June the loth,
bourne, of Eatonbridge, in the said county, 171-2, in the omh year of his age. Also
esq. a very relligious and virtuous gentle Catherine his wife, daughter of the wor-
woman, by whom he had issue one sonne fhipfull Samuel Missenden, esq. Deputy
Nisell, of greate hope, who died aboute Governor of the Merchants Adventurers of
the age of 21 yeares, and three daughters, England resiJing in Hamburgh, died
Lucrece and Ursula, who died in their March the llth, 1732, in the >2d year of
infancy, and Dorothe, y« wise of John her age. This monument was erected
Rivers, esq. eldest sonne of Sir George by Ranulph Manning, eldest son of the
Rivers, of Chast'ord, in the said county, above-named : he departed this life the
knight, and now y* sole heyre of her de llth day of May, 1700, in the 76th year
ceased parents. He secondly maried Dame of his age, and is interred at the foot of
Eliz: Lady Rivers, yet living, lale wife this monument. '
of Sir John Rivers, knight, late Lord 6.
Mayor of y« Citty of London. He hav In hopes of a joyful resurrection
ing lived unto the age of 7 7 yeares, de through the merits of our blessed Lord
ceased the 31st day of January, 1611, and Saviour Jesus Christ, near this place
to whose memorie this monument is are laid to reft the bodies of Ralph Man
erected. ning, gentleman, who departed this life
2. the 9th day of April 1786, aged 90 years ;
In memory of Mrs. Bridget Andrews, and also Arina his wife, who died July
relict of Benj. Andrews, gent, late of the isth, 17^9, aged "2. Also four of
Allington, in Lincolnshire, and daughter their- beloved children, three of whom
of Stephen Odiarne, gent, late of Nor- died young ; Edwa,rd died June the 29th,
thiam, in the county of Sussex. She died 1749, in the 2sih year of his age.
in this town, at the age of 05 years, From early youth fear God with filial
^pn Saturday, the 9th day of November, awe, [saw.
177$- And guide thy conduct by his righteous
Giwt. Mao, Octeitr, 1807. Should
2
go6 Epitaphs in the Church o/"Wefterham, Kent. [Oct.
Should fin prevail, repent, and fin no On slabs in the South aile ;
more, I. ' . ,
And Jesus' merits shall thy peice restr-re : Here lyes interr'd y« body of Nicholas
On this firm ground with humble taith Manning, gent, hue of this parish, who de
rely, parted this life the loth of September, in
Content to live, and not afra'.d to die. the year of our Lord l"23,in the 74 th year
But, if no warning can thy will controul, of his age. Also Mary his wife, daughter
Vengeance, at last, (hall seize thy guilty of the worshipful! Samuel Missenden, esq.
soul. Deputy Governor of the Merchants Ad
Thefear of the Lord, ttt-at is wisdom venturers of England residing in Ham
and to departfrom evil, is understanding. burgh, died 5th January, 1735, in the
On ahar-tombs in the South aile : 78 th year of her age.
1. 2.
Thomas Manning de Valence armiger Here lyeth the body of Mr. Robert
obijt triceliruo die Aprilis, anno fe tads Newman, of this parish, who departed
octogesimo, annoq. Domini mdcxcv. this life the 14th day of December, 17 . .
in the 83d year of his age ; sworne At-
2. turncy at the Com'on Please in
Sub hoc marmore jacet fcpulta Susanna in 1*50.
Manning, uxor char.tiima Thomæ Man 3.
ning, armigeri, filia clariffimi vin Tho- Under the effigies of a priest in brass :
mæ Dacres, cquitis aurati, generosa ; dum $>?rc I pert) bttrpeB (n the m'cp or Jfcujs
in vivis erat multis virtutinus ornata, Æhristr jft boup 0? "Spr IBiUiam 2>gr,
modestia, taciturnitate, ct prudent il, pitft, sumfpnu p'son of tEatti^fglue,
charitate, misericordia, et dementia, ma- tobtcijc Tieccaftn in anno unj 1567. of
nu propitil, animoq. ægros et egenos fub- fohose sonic Shu haue tnereg.
' levandi & co'solandi propenso ; (incera 4. >
■ erga Deurt) pietate, & perleverantia in ea- To the memory of William Blake, who
rtem veritate in qua nata & enutrita, died |anuary 21, 1771, aged 66, arid of
Ecripturas Sacras singulis annis perlcgen- Rebecca his wife ; by whom he had fix
do, horas precibus quotidie seponendo ct sons and eight daughters, and who died
cohsecrando, suosq. pijfiime educando, June 18, 1780, aged 82. She was daugh
• exemplar præclaru' pofferis imitandu' reli- ter of John Brisker, of this place, who
quit; morte heunimiiim ftstinadeploraRda lies interred near this stone, with her
et dolcnda, digna quide' vita diutumierc, grandfather Thomas Brooker, her great
nisi quod vita meliore digna, animam grandfather Charles Brooker, four of her
Deo reddidit, viceslimo die Maij, anno sons, and many other of her near rela
tions. ,
5.
Hie infra situm est corpus
Johannis Thorpe,
-Tuomae ,Westerham -1654
IWitlietmi ( J ( 1615
filij J Thomæ > Thorpe dc< Lamberhurst qui ob. a' < 15S8
I Bartholomæi J I I 1545
•Midwardi ^ ^Rolvinden } ^1404
ex antiqua & honesta olim gente
in agris Cantiano et Suflexicnse oritindorum.
Uxorem duxit Annam, lohannis Luck, S.T. B.
de Mayfield in diœcesi Cicestrensi hliam pofthumam,
«t fratrum, prole tandem deficiente, cohæredem :
ex qufi septem suscepit liberos,
filios quatuor, filias tres.
^iilla sille30lunii
S5 Marty)"» ann- Dom-jl6Q«)
_ . (1703 1
Posuerunt
Johannes et Oliverus,
ex Johanne Thorpe de Penfhurst,
£lio ejus unico, qui connubium inivit,
nepotes et hæredes.
6. over against ye New Exchange, on the
. Here lyeth the body of John Earning, 18th of June, 1688, in ye 19th year
sim of Anthony Earning, marchaut, who of his age, to jr" great griefe of his
was unfortunately plains in ye Strand, friends. . .;
Oa
1807.J Epitaphs iii the Cbttrtb of Westerham, Kent-. 907
7. • On (labs in the Nave.
On a brass 1 \ \ by 2* inches : Inscriptions for ,
C 'osephSaxby,MarchQ5,l705,aged47.
ipic jacet Jol'annfjs Ecbtstetie se 1. < Hannah Glover (formerly his wise)
OttttterVm. cuj'js a'i'e p'ptctet' D'js. November 13, 1737, aged 87.
2. Ann, wife of Anihony Saxby*, May -
8. 1, 1085, aged 63.
. Here lyeth the body of Margarctt Ayns- {Hannah, daughter of Joseph! Saxby,
worth, widow ot Alexander Aynl'vvorth, Apiil 16, 1705, agod 4-.-
merchant, who departed this life y* 1 1 h Hannah Halle's, M-arch'; 22, 1733,
of November, in y<= 67 th year of her age, aged 6 weeksi" ' •
1701. Elizabeth Saxby, June 14, 1685,
9- a.^ed 26.
(Partly hid by a pew), r 5. Ann Flemlin, juntos, December 31,
[An]tonius Earning, mercator
[sjpem beatæ resurreclionis .... [ni]or- fi. Elizabeth, wife of Richard Saxby,
talitatis exuvias heic depofuit. Obijt January..." 1667- .'..'»'
an. ætat. 53. 7. Richard Saxbes, April;., 1656.
10, 8. John Ramsey, April 2, 173 7, aged 63.'-
The body of Susanna, relict of Anthony 9. Sarah Bernonvillt, Jan. lij 1799,
Earning, merchant; she departed thi* lite aged SO,
y= 5th of January, a'o Do. lsioi, ætat.' 10. '\ ■
iuæ 52. On a brass under the effigies of the
11. deceased and wife, with a groun of
On a brass- under the effigies of the children at feet ( he man torn off) :
deceased: ©rate' pro a't'a'bs Hifi Jpa?frarB,
3lnne ttjcoris eiti*, qui qutierri Ktc'u^
©rate pro a'i'a Olbome potter filij obiit nono Die Decembrus, anno D'ni
3Ws
obijt potter
W J Eteftcn'oft,
3luniiq'an'o
qtt lornt
un'tEhonss
b' ggtl'mo <£Æ€<£(Ilr;ccGrno nano, quo-
sum antmabus propitietut 2>eu<s.
rw, cut' a'i'e p'ptcietur Deujs. Stment-
12 11.
On a brass unfit r ihe effigies of the On a brass- under the effigies of the
deceased, between his wives, with arms deceased, between his wives (who are
and groupes of children, partly torn off : now torn off) :
flDf v1 tfcawe prag fov the foules of JPray for the foules of 3lotm <?5facy,
OWl'm fgvnn'lron, •esquper, Clt?a- Sgatsaret ano 31ol;ajt' bis wyfft> the
betbe arfD aJorotbye Wjs tovffeg.toljithe tobteb 31obn ceceiTcB stt w Ba? of JFe-
bntary, in tbe ycre of our XLorB ©00
vXtiU'm t>e«£S!>!) the A-tiijth can of £gbcrrjctir, on tobofe soules 3!h'i|
%n crust, in the yere of our UorOe Œol) babe rnerct- ?tmen,
CgCdÆoKIluii. 2Dn toljofe soulejs 3Jesu 12.
jjabe mercy, amen- . . .. On a brass under the effigies of the
13. , deceased
On a brass under the effigies of the groups of children at wjies,
between his
their
with two
feel :
deceased, between his two wives, one
liow torn off, as also is a (eroll over tbeipere unuer trjts stone lyeth bttryen
bofly of UMUant ^tace, 31one anrj
their heads ; a group of children at Sllyce lit* hivbcs, pf toljom \)z baji
feet : issue, by 3iane fjt£ fyrff h)?ff, its rtjil-
Srate p* a'i'a ricartii potter, qui orjij* Bren, ttoo founts ant) on? coughr ;
septimo uie JEebruani ai?:to Bn't mil' of?Cli?te bo' Uste tujjfe. jcii- dulBren,
lefimo tflCiei, et an'o rr btnrict octal)' ftbe fonnta ann bit bousbt', toch
tercto, etti' a i'e p'picictitr Beujt. CKilti'm Tjpeti tberjitt uape'of Bobem*
14. ber, 'Su'o D'ni eSnClrbi ; taljofe bo-
Here lyeth the body of Tho. Earning, Dies ana fault* CBoB fend a topfull re-
son of Anthony Earning, merchant, who furreri^n
departed this life y<= 20th of Aprill, in » Aniliotiy Saxby ltl'ued a tradesman's
ye 30th year of his age, lsiys. token ; on one tide, a tallow-chandler at
15. work, anthony • sa xuey • of ; on the
Under this stone is an arched grave, other tide, westerham ■ in • kent ■ witli
belonging to the family of William a5a in the centre,
Bunco, of this parish, gent. Henry Chi- •f The last time I saw the brass con
cheley Bunce, an infant son of the above, taining this inscription, it was in the
born Dec. 30, 1790, died November 25, workshop of the parish clerk (a shoe-ma
1791, and was here buried. ker), and supplying the place of afender !
Ou
m8 Westerham Church.—Spires of Lincoln Minster. [Oct.
On flabs in the Chancel : Mr. Urban, Partney, Sept. 21.
1. THE relioration and improvement
J.0 the memory of Mr. Alexander Pux- 9s our Cathedrals, as carried on
of this parish, who departed this life at the present day, hat been lamented
on the 24th day <5f June 1786, aged 67 in common by all men of science,
yean. as little better than a prelude to their
2. lotal demolition. A blind zeal for
Herelyeth the body of Damaris Knight, improvement, founded on a false and
wife of William Kri^hf, citizen and vint vicious taste, has within the last 50
ner of London, who died February the years done more lo effect the destruc
J4th,in the yeareofour Lord God 1703-4, tion os the Architecture of this IHand,
aged 34 yeareg. than the blind zeal for reformation
3.
Mrs. Mary Cornwall, daughter of Wil which willed the destruction of Popery
liam Cornwall, esq. of Hull, Yorkshire, and its remains, ellecled in the 17th
by Sarah his wife, died August 14, J 798, century. In the execution of these
aged 62 yeats. plans there seems to be a perversenefs
On a flab, withiu the Communion somewhat stronger than what is usually
rails : inherent in human nature, and which
This Com'union space was paved by can arile from no other motive but a
Sr |o* Crisp, bar"', in remembrance of desire of annihilating thole works
Nich" Ciisp, esq. eldest sonn of Sr winch have stood the admiration of
Nich" Cifp, bar"1, who dyed the 14th of ases, to substitute the confused conges-
March, anno lnyi-j, aged 17. lions of modern Arehiiects, and those
On a monument above the Altar- loo formed of material- in no one re-
piece : specl calculated to afl'ord even a mode
Near this marble are deposited the re rate degiee of durability to their la
mains of the Rev. John Bodicoate, A. M. bours. Amidst these alterations, which
patron and vicar of this church, Ion of In many instances have destroyed the
the late iohn Bodicoate, esq. one of his principal features of some of the finest
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this buildings in this kingdom, the Cathe
County ; and Elizaoech his wife, who dral of Lincoln had (comparativelyspeak
are alto interred in the fame vault. Ob. ing) till within these few years escajied
June i, moccxcii. æt. xlv. He married the general r?pe of innovation and im
Harriet eideft daughter of William Board, provement. The lime, however, is
esq. of Paxhtll, in Sussex (one of his
Majet'.y's lustices of the Peace for the now arrived*, when this Minster,
said County) and Harriet Godolphin his which has for centuries remained a
wife. To 'he memory of her much-la latung monument of the piety and skill
mented an.i rerder husband, this monu of our ancestors, is to lose one of its
ment is elected by h s afflicted widow, as chief and molt noble features, by the
a sincere tribu'e of her iove and affection destruction of the Spires which sur
for him ' who possessed every virtue un mount its two Western Towers. The
der Heaven." plea urged as a motive for the destruc
. (To b* conli'tued.J tion of these spires is, the insufficiency
of the towers 10 support their superin
Mr. Urban, Londonoa Institution, cumbent weight, and the diminution
7. of grandeur in the general contour of
I SHALL be obliged to any of your the building, by a connexion with twa
Readers who can favour me with an ornaments of a more modern date than
account of Dr. Richard derrick, foi- the rest of the Cathedral. But who is\
jshop of Peterborough, and afterwards there who does not recognise under
of London, who dtett in April 1777; this plea a widely different motive J
and of his brother, the R"v. Samuel In answer to these false but success
Terriok, prebericlary of Yorlj ; and of ful pleas, I shall make the following
a fwitnd Rev. Samuel T^eriick, M. A. observations; not doubting but every
son oi 1 lie latter, who was successively one who has the preservation of pur
preqei idary of Peterborough and Diir- antient buildings at heart, will readily
nam. Tile family of Tertick s rmerly agree wiih me.
resided at J^nedliniiion, near Hovvden, 1st, The present state of these towers
Yorkshire, in a large house, apparently can never justify a procedure like the
^)ui!i. in the lat'er end of the reign of * See Lincoln and Stamtord Mercury,
~fi.ee:i Elizabeth, or tbe beginning of August 14 j and the fame notice in
; James the First, Ja. Say^gs, 736.
present.
1 807.^] 'she Removal of Line jln Spires deprecated. 909
present. The face and joints of the wise apply in the present instance. Ait
masonry, ev,en to the minutest orna apt arrangement of parts (lays Longi-
ments, were as firm and smooth as nus*. sect. 40) is as much conducive
when the first Architects gave the last to sublimity of style, as elegance of
finish to this matchless front. And person is conducive to majesty of mien.
let any one acquainted with the princi No single member taken separately
ples of geometry answer the asser poilcf'.s dignity in itself, but when
tion, when I lay that the two masiive connected in a body, all form a per
arches (of a much earlier date than the fect mass. The rule will likewile holtl
rest of the Church) which succeeding good in Archiie6ture. It is not a sin
Architects have made the bafis of bier gle pinnacle or pillar of a cathedral
additions, are alone sufficient to sustain (for singly thev may be'fotmd in a pa
double the weight of these towers and rish church) thai excites our astonish
the spires which accompany them. ment, but the general grandeur and
Nay (perverse and incredible at it may majesty of the whole, arising from a
appear) scarcely four years ago some scientific and uniform arrangement of
hundreds were actually expended in the several parts of the structure. Such,
putting these towers in a state of repair was the cafe with thele spires : take
fully adequate to the support of the them from their situation, aud place
burden upon them. them by themselves, they would per
2d'y, If the grandeur os the whole haps at best appear unseemly objects ;
is diminished by an association with but who has not acknowledged, when
these unfortunate spires, the towers approaching them from either direc
which supported them may, with tion, miles distant, the dignity they
equal propriety, in conformity to the conferred on the building by their
rules of taste, come down also; as height and appropriate situation ? A
they form no part of the labours of respect, moreover, to the uniformity of
the original Architect, and are not ne dates (another pretended plea) could
cessarily connected with the facade on never be an object in their removal ;
which thev stand. Let any one, how else, why was the lead covering the
ever, to illustrate this position, take Cloisters exchanged in the summer of
his stand in the Castle-yard, a few 1806 )• for a modern roof of slate ? The
hundred feet distant due' West. He first promoters of this ceconomical mea
will there fee three towers placed in sure have, no doubt, an answer ready ;
the most ridiculous situation possible, they will tell the County, the Revenues
jn direct contrariety to all rules of of the Cathedral are insufficient for the
taste. Every one who laments the de support os the necessary repairs : why
struction of these spires, will certainly then was so large a sum unnecessarily
lament them two-fold when he views expended in new paving the nave J,
the towers from this situation ; for and foisting the braffless (labs with
if ever the Cathedral appeared insignifi which it was covered into the ailes on
cant, it is certainly from this point of each fide the choir ; or why was that
view. gew-gaw East window put up, with
There- is a' rule laid down by the out a relemblance to any thing antiei.it
Greek Critic with respect to the sub These things are certainly not in con
lime in composition, which will like- formity to antient dates ; perhaps, how.
* On Thursday, September 10, when the principal families in the County were
■fismbled at the [(acts, one Spire was quite levelled, and the workmen had just com
menced their operations on the other : a good opportunity to form a judgment of the
{' effect" of the operation. By this time, it is most likely, nothing remains of either
of them.
+ The many splendid parochial churches with which the County of Lincoln.
• abounds, ami those too erected in its most flax and fenny situations, will bear witness
to the uuth of this observation. #
6. lev,
1807.] Lincoln Cathedral— History of. Liverpool. 91$
6. Interior view of the Choir, wilh person noticed at the end of Dr. En-
trie Lady Chapel ooking 10 ilie East. field's History of Liverpool (published
'In this view the following alterations in 17/2) (aid then to be collecting ma
liave taken place: (he lower part of terials for ihe History of Lancasliire;
the stall-work has been removed, and the person there alluded to was Dom
modern pews substituted ; the upt>er ing Rantfboltoni, esq. of Birch House,
part will probably loon lhare tile lame in the neighbourhood os Manchester ;
fate. The organ seen on the North a neat draughtsman, aud the intimate
side is now placed over the enuance friend os, the late Sir Afliton Le
into the Choir. The Grecian AHar- ver, knt. os Alkerington, of vvhofii
piece has likewise very properly been drawings of shells 1 have several speci
destroyed, for one somewhat more in mens,, with many of Miss Stone's,
consonance with the rest of the build formerly in the collection of Sir Asti-
ing, in which is a modern painting of lon, and which drawings I purchased
she Annunciation, by the- Rev. Mr- at Bolesworth Castle, on the death of
Peters. And the East window, w hich ■ SirOswald Mosetey.bart. about the year
here appears to be of plain glass, is 17<)5. Mr. Ramsboltoin was Sheriff
now filled with colours vying wilh the of the County in the year 17CY); Ni
rainbow ! cholas Afhtnn, efq. of Liverpool ill
7- Ichnography of the Cathedral. 1770 ; and Sir Aflron Lever in 1771.
The braises and numerous monuments The History of Liverpool, or rather
here referred lo, have for the molt part the Collections for the History < s Liver
either been destroyed, or removed from pool, collected by the late Mr John
their situations over the graves of lite Holt, ot Vi alton, near Liverpool
persons they commemorate ; a practice (whose Survey os the Agricultural
which no custom can justify, or opi State of the Countv is so well known),
nion authorize. The Cloisters appear were left to me, aster devoting a small
to be made use of only as a receptacle legacy to tltte Public Infirmary at Li
for the remains* of these monuments, verpool, and now remain with..me en
which are scattered about in all direc tire as he left them in 1801 (fee your
tions. Had the immense sums ex volume for that year, pp. 2S.a, 793.)
pended in unnecessary repairs, been Since then, I have laved no labour
applied to'the proper restoration of the or expence in making additions when
chapels and monuments in different opportunity served, and my business
pans of the building., how laudable and other avocations would permil ; aud
would have been the example ! As it have taken every pains 10 enquire afer
is, thole who veneiaie this Cathe aud purchase any book, MS. or copy,
dral, can only lament what they can- which has fallen in ivy way, relat
riot remedy. If, however, an Act of ing to the County ami Dutchy of Lan
Parliament can be procured for a caster. 1 have also been favoured with,
branch of Medical Reform^ which many communications and donations
tends to knock free agency on, the by different gentlemen (which will
head, by withholding Medical afiili- hereafter be acknowledged) ; and (hall
ance by which life may be preserved still farther be obliged by the copies,
and death prevented, unless 'egally &c. of any authentic documents, pedi
sanctioned by an University, surely it grees, armorial bearings, parochial ac
would be nn dliticuli mailer to obtain counts, number of inhabitants, &c.
a Bill to restrain ihose to whom the all necessary for th- elucidation of the
repairs of Cathedrals are delegated, History of Lancashire. I am the more
from using that power, unless approved confident I sttall be savoured wilh
of by more competent judges in Archi many communications on this exten
tecture than themselves. J. sive head, when I acquaint the publiclc
that the whole amount that may arise
Mr. Urban, Liverpool, Sept. 22. from the (ale of Mr. Holt's materials,
X7 OUR ingenious correspondent or the profits on the publication of the
X. Mr Brilton inquires after the work, under the immediate inspection
os some learned Editor, I intend to de
* If I mistake not, the supttb canopy vote as a foundation or beginning of a
' which within this twelvemonth was ever fund intended to be raised " f.»r the
• the monuments of Lord Cantelupe and establishment and encouragement of
Canon Wymbisli, is now bang in frag Drawing in the various Charity-schools
ments at the scot of the Library stairs. in Liverpool," and for the poor boys
taugh;
912 Mr. Holt's ColUEllons for a History of Liverpool. [Oct*
taught therein, who are liltelv to he they indeed are primary considerations,
trained as mechanics ; such as smiths, and ought lo be attended to. But
joiners, cabinet-makers, turners, wheel- surely there is an impropriety in
wrights, carpenters, coach-makers, or Sienna marble* or any other marble
mariners ; convinced as I am, from my curtains of calico; ami .carpets with
ownexperience in a business where 1'ome Gothic ruins and landscapes are ab-
talle is expected (for thirty years and sordities which cannot escape the cri-
upwards active employment warrants ticifin of the molt unlettered. 1 men-
the assertion), that I cannot make a lion this as one of the many specimens
more grateful sacrifice to the interests of bad taste in the present day.
of my Country, and at the same time If our mechanics were instructed ill
more beneficially contribute my endea- Design, it would more generally con-
vours, as well as mile, for the extension tribute to the extension of our trade,
and prosperity of the trade of Great by making our manufactures more
Britain, than by such an establish- sought after ; in execution they are
merit, which I trust will be followed unrivalled. Let a Frenchman of the
by similar institutions over the country, present day design, let him execute ;
For, supposing Peace to come, and in the first we cannot claim the pre-
Commerce once again open to all the eminence, but in the second they can
world, what have we not to fear from shew nothing like the execution of an
the French, our neighbours? No- English artist or mechanic. -
thing in execution ; much in respect to By studying Design, I do not rnea'i
design ! Here they deservedly, I ac- that all our boys should be Painters,
knowledge, take the lead, in all the No: I mean only that they should uu-
fashionables, in carriages, in furniture, derstand a draught, and be draughtsmen
in dress. And since the War, what enly with pen and ink, chalks, or
additional advantages have not the black lead. I mean no more than to
French acquired i and what models of draw correctly a steady outline ; nosha-
perfect beauty do they possess ! What dowing, no washing, save only with
an easy accels has every Native and Fo- pen or pencil, by lines only ; so much
reigner to view those invaluable works taught in every Charity-school would
of the Antients, and all the fine mo- be an advantage to the public welfare,
dels of Rome, now brought to Paris, The people would learn to fee, of
and fixed in the various Palaces ! How course to use their eyes; and the art
much more encouragement is given to would in many instances be of greater
design than in England ! and how advantage to a mechanic than writing,
many more Schools of Design are and full as easily acquired, though all
opened gratuitously for the Publick. wonld not attain the fame proficiency i
The Louvre, filled with the works of neither do they in writing. To them
the Antients, and other galleries, are who have no taste or inclination, the
publicly opened, easily entered, and gra- introduction may be usoless, for it
tuitoully viewed by all ranks of people, will be troublesome ; but if one tenth
When we consider how .great a va- part is instructed, what invaluable ad-
lue Taste stamps upon every work of vantages may be calculated upon ! what
art, can we for a moment withhold additional value will be stamped upon
our assistance ! How much do our every thing that goes from under the
Nobility and Gentry now encourage hand of an English artizan ! Every
it! and ean we do less than encourage thing under the hands of an artizan
it by every means in our power J acquires an additional value, even
What additional value does the intro- where neither more time nor labour is
duction of a tasty design give upon a expended. But I am afraid my ardour
piece of calico printed as an article of on this point will lead me to' greater
furniture, or as a piece of drapery in lengths than you can find room for,
dress! When ihe design is really tasty, or than I fat down to write. Permit
and the subject appropriate, how very me, however, to add, that the History
much it enhances the value of that of Liverpool now publishing by Mr.
calico! Yet it costs no more in print- Troughton of this town, has no part
ing, when the design is made, than the of the Collections of Mr. Holt (the
most ordinary drawing of the most vul- contrary being understood) ; nor wai
gar figure, or conception of the most any contract ever agreed fullv upon for
illiterate draughtsman. A good taste the uie or perusal of any of his papers,
leads to propriety. In furniture we or of those of
consider convenience and beauty ; aud Yours, &c, Mathew Grbgsonc
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Mr. Urban, Sept. 1. considered by authors of good repute
ALLOW me to request the assistance the Venta lcenorum * of the anlients ;
of your learned Readers in decv- but, however probable it may appear to
pheringthe inscription, Pl.II. Fig. l,of some, to others it proves equally con-
which i (end you a copy, very cor- traryf.
rectJv taken, from a stone mansion, It is well known, when the Ro
now a farm-house, at Appleby, in mans invaded this island, it was a long
Leicestershire ; which bears vestiges of time before the Iceni were entirely sub»
great antiquity. jugated. TacitusJ fays of them : "These
Over the entrance are three blank people were stout and Valiant ; and after
shields on one stone ; and over the they had thrown themselves under the
mantlepiece of the old kitchen is a protection of the Romans, suffered no
stone with the inscription ; and others thing by war until the time of Clau
with rude representations of St. Mi- dius ; but when OJlorius the Proprætor
chael and the Dragon, Fig. 2 ; from began lo fortify the pastes with caliles,
which, Fig. 3 (in another part of the and disarm the Britons, they formed a
chimneyl has been evidently broken ; body, and made open insurrection ;
a man on foot, drawinahis sword, Jig. and drawing together the neighbour
4 ; an ornamental stone, Fig. 5, and a ing people, chose a place for the scene
double triangle, Fig. 6. All these have of action, fenced with a rude rampire j
evidently formed part of a much older and, lo make it secure against fitch war
building ; and have been accidentally like people, with whom they hourly
here used when the present house was expected to engage, the entrance wa*
erected. The family of the Appleby t so contracted as to make it inaccessible
(the original owners of the house) has to the Roman cavalry."
been extinct nearly 200 years But it afterwards proved to the great
From the mixture of characters, it disadvantage of the poor Britons ;" for
seems no easy talk to make the inscrip- the Roman General, observing their
lion legible. J. N. ' motions, drew up his cohorts, and
putting the
le troops of horse in readiness,
Mr. Urban, Sept. 2. gave the signal, and they sell furiously
THE inscription (Fig. 1) is copied upon the Britons, breaking down the
from a rude stone obelisk about walls, distressing those pent up in their
six-feet high, which stands in a field own fences, and doing'inuch damage:
neur Rayne, 20 miles North-west of the Iceni being thus vanquished, were
Aherdeen. It is supposed to have been obliged to act in a servile slate, under
erected previous to the Christian æra. the authority of the Roman banner.
Some conjecture the two first lines Aster the Romans had subjected
to be, their enemies, they considered it ne
.Gylf cessary to protest themselves against,
Gummara ; any attempt which might be made bv
ihat is, Prince Gylf. R. the natives ; for this purpose, the moil
advantageous foots were chosen, con
TT Beccles, Suffolk, tiguous to some navigable stream,
Mr. Urban, where they raised camps, Jlatiuns, &:c.
TRAVELLING through the hun that, in case a change of (brume should
dred of Henstede, in Norfolk, a take place, they might not be at a
few weeks'since, I could not (although losti to send to their allies for assistance.
several miles out of my way) resist the The Romans were a very politick,
temptation of paying a visit to Cajlre people; exceedingly acute in making
(or CaJlerJ, well known to Antiqua discoveries for their own benefit ; and
ries for a considerable Roman camp, we may infer, that the several Roman
which remains very conspicuous lo this stations which are to be seen in the
ly \tsce
day {See rig.
Fig. 8).
8) , counties otof Snttolk
Suffolk and Norfolk to this.
Casier, Mr. Urban, h?s long been day, were VÆry probably raised during
* Gale, Horsley, Stukeley, Camden's Britannia, by Bishop Gibson, p. 385 ; Whita-
ker's Hist, of Manchester, vol. I. p. 62 ; Ives's Garianonum* p. 8, edit. 1803.
t Blomefield's Norf. vol. II. p. 7 ; vol. V. p. 4-23, edit, octavo iao6. I prefer this
edition on account of its convenience and correctness.
J Tacitus, lib. 12, chap. 31. Camden, p. 336.
Gent. Mag. Ofloter, 1807. . • the
914 A Roman Station in, Norfolk dtscribed. [Oct.
the government of Britain by Claudius in many places ; the grand entrance
Cæsar, or shortly after. At the time was in the middle of the East part, at
of the arrival os ihe Romans in this each corner of which there were mounls,
country, the mouth of the Fare was or testch-toterrs ; and below, on the
very wide, from whence two consi West part, which was washed by the
derable estuaries extended into the in Tails, ot Tffe, was a water-gate, with
terior part of e;ich county, (or more a round tower by it, where the vessels
properly, up the country ;) when the used to unload : the whole site con
Vare arrived at Garianumim*, now tains about 30 acres." The parish
Burgh Castle, it divided itself into two church, which is dedicated to St. Ed
parts, one to the North, the other to mund the king and martyr, stands at
the South, the Romans following the the South east corner within the walls
course of the estuaries as their Icenian (see the plan) ; placed there, as Blome-
conquests enlarged ; and, after possell- field remarks, for convenience of the
ing themselves of Guriauauum, they materials with which it is built ; and,
erected a jummer camp at Castor, on indeed, upon examination I found it
the opposite side of the water ; higher as he relates, " the whole of flints and
tip to the Notth, at Caster (the place in Roman bricks," without doubt taken
question) a camp was fixed also, at from the old walls of the camp, as she
Tuseborough, the station ad Taum, and materials of many of the old nouses in
hiore North, the Venta Icenoiunt, now the parish were likewise.
North Elmham : The South estuary Bishop Gibson, in his Additions to
puffed the islands Lothingland, so to Camcjen, p. 3()6, fays, " The faces
WorlinghamJ, Beccles, Schcps-med- for the four gates are still manifestly to
way§, Mettingham||, and many other be seen ;" but in this account the
places beyond Harleston, in Norfolk, learned Prolate has not fully satisfied
which places were actually inhabited me. Whet) at Caster, I traced the
by the lame people, as many Roman walls, but found not the least appear
antiquities do testify to this day. ance of an entrance on the North fuse,
Perhaps, Mr. Urban, 1 may be as there was at the other three ; where
censured by some of your correspond the grand entrance was, may be diffi
ents, better skilled in Roman antiqui cult to determine. Blamefield makes
ties, for making Elmham the I 'en/a it on the East ; but, in my opinion,
lccnorum ; but I fee no just grounds the Svulh side claimed the noble en
for altering my opinion ^T. Have there trance to this splendid and impregna
been found any aqueducts, pavements, ble camp. Mr. Blomcfield thinks
or any such-like Roman work, as is there was no burial-place attached to
frequently seen at Elmham, and other it, on account of his not hearing of
Roman cities or towns-!-? or have any urns being discovered, which ap
any authors given sufficient proofs to pears very remarkable, as innumerable
induce to believe it was? If there pieces of them are to be met with in
hath been such testimony. I have not anv part of the camp: I took part of
had the good fortune to witness it. one home with me, which, if in a per
That Caster, was the most confider- fect state, would contain at lejst a peck
able place in these parts appears from of grain. An old man also informed
its extent, which is very visible. me, that about two mondis since he
Blomefield's account of it is : *' It is a aud two other labourers were digging
square vallum and rampart, and hath gravel against the North wall (see the
been inclosed with a strong wall of plan, No. 1) ; they took up a middle-
flints and Roman brick, still evident sized urn, in a very good state, which.
* Ives's Garianonum, p. 12.
f1 As it was at that time.
J The many pieces of Roman pottery discovered here, and a Roman road ruuning'
on its South side, are striking proofs of its being possessed by the Romans in early times.
|| I have in my collection sever»l Roman coins found at Ditchingham, a village op
posite Mettingham.
§ That is, Ship-meadoyv.
1\ Blomefield, vol. V. p. 404.
•I- For an account of Roman camps, stations, &c, fee Whitaker's Manchester, and
Gibson's Hist, of Caster, Northamptonshire. The former is very valuable and scarce ;
the latter was published by Nichols uud Son, and is a very interesting work.
" contained
8o7-] Church Notes from Eye in Suffolk. 9*5
ontained nothing but alhes ; it is now E quibus en Charolus, patr'ri studiosus ho
1 the hands of Mr. , the pre- noris,
;nt occupier of Casier Hall. The above Ad patris erexit hæc monumenta decus.
Id man likewise declared to me, that Homo humana humo; virtus post funera.
thers had been found in the area of Nicholaus obiit Etiz.
he camp. 19 die obiit 12 die
Many coins found here were given Decembris, Januarii,
ne lo loolt at, which were of the Anno D'ni Anno D'ni
mall fort, ill executed, and of no va- 156s. 1549.
ue. The size of the bricks are yari- •Over the tomb are the following
nis ; those molt common are a foot arms, painted on the wall : Quarterly,
cpiare, and an inch and half thick, 1. Argent, 3 griffins heads eraled Vert ;
she inhabitants of the village and S,
neighbourhood have a tradition on A. S tridents Sable, 2 and 1 ; 3. G.
imongfl them, that Norwich took not Its aArgent, chevron between three flenrs de
S chefs - rooks Sable ; 4,
its rife till after the desolation of Cas as first. Impaled with, t. A. 2 chev
ter (which, Bloiaesield thinks, was not rons
till after the Romans left Britain, A.D. 2. A.Sa. within a border engrailed G.
a cross between 4 escallops Sable ;
418); and gives the follow metrical 3. Paly of 6, Argent and Sable ; 4, G.
account of it, which, however mean on a chevron
the composition, may serve to illustrate Vert. Crest, aA.griffin's 3 dolphins naiant
head erased
this subject : Vert, ducally gorged Gules. ,
" Caller was a city In the South aile is a monument
When Norwich was none;
Norwich was built of Caster's stone." built exactly like the foregoing, with
Yours, ore. W. Aldis. this inscription ;
Gul. ob. II die Fran.
Mr. Urban, Sept. 3. Novembris, obiit die V.
IF the following should be thought Anno D'ni Anno D'ni
worthy insertion in your Milcellany, is6o. .....
1 shall feel pleasure in communicating Qui suit eximio virtutu' robore feptus,
other collections I have made in the QuiPrudentifque viri no'i'e notus erat;
county of Suffolk. patriæ charus, cu'etis dilectus, et aula?
On the South porch of the church Gratus erat, sum'o clarueratque loco ;
of Eye, in Suffolk, are these arms cut Consrlii decreta sua qui scripserat arte,
Regiaque emifit srgna notata maim.
in Hone: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, a Quinque ferens decies ferme natalib' an'o'
fess between three leopards faces ; 2d Hie Honyngus jam Gulielmns ineft.
and 3d, a lion rampant double queued ;
in a compartment on one side is a stag Homo humana humo ; virtus post funera.
springing, and on the other the lion, In the South porch, on the West
as in the arms, something in the man side, is die following inscription above
ner of supporters. The fame arms oc the crest of Cutler :
cur on the South fide near the top of Staie not too longe, leste thou repente too
the tower, which is very handsome. late ; [state ;
The South, or, as it is called, the Ab- Yet helpe thy friend, but hinder not thy
ley aile (being kept in repair by the If ought thou lend or borrow, truly pay ;
proprietor of the adjoining priory), has Ne give ne take advantage though thou
four bricks set in the parapet, two con may ; [friend,
taining each a porcupine surmounted by Let conscience be thy guide, so kepe thy
a ducal coronet ; the other two, a lion's With loving peace and concord make thy
head erased, ducal ly crowned. ende.
In the chancel i9 the following in 1601.
scription on an altar-tomb of green Henricus Cutler Stal — dedit hanc
(lone : trapeziam—stat [the reft olliteraled.]
rjie Nicholaus inest, fama Cutlerius avita; The inclosed drawing of an old
Hie etiam conjux Eleonora jacet ; brass seal (Jee Fig. Q) found by a man
Mirameæ ftirpis suit hæc poftrema pro- ploughing in a field at Debenham, in
Pi»S°. Suffolk, now in the possession of Mr.
We suit patriæ gloria fumma fuse.
Jiimquefenex binos gnatos gnatafque rcli- Kdward Dove, of that place, I send for
quit, your next miscellaneous plate.
Ur.de beer elarus, darns avufque suit : Yours, &c. W. S. B.
Mr.
916, Coin found at Cerne Abbey.—Shrewsbury Gaol. {Oct.
Mr. Urban, - Sept. 1. are the natural allotments of their rank
T^HE coin (tig. 10) was found in in society; for, if I miliake not, land-,
the ruins of Cerne Abbey, Dor holders are compelled, under penalty
set. Jt has a very fair legend on both for refusal, to take prentices from the
fides; and, by a ring of silver-wire affixed county houses of industry ; and if thole
to it, seems to have been used as an are brought up with the hardships of
amulet by Come person with whom it their own families, thev might be bet
was probably interred. The legend is on ter enabled to encounter the labours of
one
mi. side of
_ theGod.
/-< area
, the
*-v usual symbol os'r* the 1 farm.
_ ..n 1 At i_ . the same time let
■. • it. are
be
There is• one On . i. . margin
the . ■ of understood, .that . oSpartan
_ severities
the fame side : " In the name of God not recommended, nor would they be
this drachm was struck at Andalusea conducive either to the health or hap
(Cordovia) in the year (A. H.) 320" piness of the youth ; for " Us alloieut.
(rather doubtful). On the area of the la tete, et les pieds nuds, coueboient
reverse: " Munivaya Billalt, Emperor fur des rofeaux, et mangeoient tre3
of the Faithful," with a continuation peu. Encore fallait-il qii'ils priflent
of the svnibol ; in the margin, " Mo ce peu par addrelle dans les falles pub-
hammed is the Prophet of God," Sec. liqnes des convives }." But apparent
Yours, Sic. D. H. hardships mav be derived from the
change which must afterwards be ex
perienced in the deprivation or abstrac
Mr. Urban, Sambrook Sept. SO.
Court,
tion of previous indulgences, as inti
L'Agriculture, et les Arts, font abso- mated in bythethesubsequent letter, and
lument neceffaires pour preserver le peu- supported apt reflection of an
ple de 1'oisivete, qui enfante les discordes, agricultural poet—Virgil :
" —!— Pater ipse colendi
la molleffe, et tous les maux ruiheux Haud facilem effe viam voluit, primusque
pour la societe *. . per artem
Ramsay, Let Voyages de Cyrus, 1. iv Movit agros, cuiisacuensmortaliaCorda|.'*.
IT is a frequent question, " What J. C. Lettsom.
conduces most to Health and Hap Shrewsbury. Gaoler, Richard
piness?" Perhaps the answer might ' CaxtwriglU ; lalary 3001. for Gaol and
be, " the two things mankind take Bridewell ; fees as per Table ; but the
the most pains to avoid, Labour and Under-fheriff demands a fee of 7s. 6d.
Abstinence." That degree of labour upon discharge of a common writ, and
which may be hard without being from those under execution Is. in the
6p>)reHtve, aud that quantity of food pound, if under 1001. and if above
which fuHices to siip|>ort nature with 1001. theri sixpence in the pound. Fe
out loading the stomach : and hence lons pay no fees, and garnish is abo
benign in its effects, is the injunction lished. Conveyance of Transports Is.
of the Creator, '* In the sweat of thy a mile. Chaplain, Rev. W. G. Row
face thou shalt eat thy breads" Yet land. Duty, prayers every Thursday,
how few adopt this divine and salutary a:td a sermon on every Sunday, Good
command ! Friday, and Christmas Day ; salary,
Whilst we view with satisfaction the 70 I. Surgeon, Mr, William Thomas ;
excellent management of Shrewsbury salary 50l. for Debtors and Felons.
Gaol, il might be suggested to the Allowance : Debtors, I Ib. 8 oz. of
Magistrates and Managers of the House wheat bread, which is made by the
ef Industry, whether indulgence, in female Convicts, and baked in the
plenty afforded the children, may not Gaol, When wheat is at Us. the
unfiL theni for the laborieus situation strike, a loaf of 1 Ib. S oz. costs the
they are designed to occupy, instead of County 2|,d.. Felons have the lame
being enabled, by early initiation, to allowance of bread, and one penny in,
know that hard work and hard living cheese or butter.
* Agriculture and the Arts seem absolutely necessary to preserve a people from
idleness, which begets discord, effeminacy, and the evils destructive of Society.
+ Gen. iii. 19.
J They went with their heads and feet naked, lay upon reeds, and ate very little ;
anil this little they were obliged to procure by dexterity in the publick banqueting-
room?.
5 The father himself of tillage did not with the way to be easy ; he was the first to
raise the soil by art, inciting the human, heart by cares.
Hem arks.
V.8otO Mr. Neild's Remarks on Shrewsbury Gaol. gif
Remarks. This Gaol, which is like for male and female refractory prison
wise the House of Correction, is near ers. Transports have the King's al
the Caltle, and was first inhabited lowance of 2 s. 6 d. per week, l'emaie
17Q3- The boundary wall encloses Felons before trial have a court-yard
two acres of ground, and is 16 feet aud 8 sleeping-cells ; after trial they
high. The entrance in front is called are removed to another court, which
the Porter's Lodge, and over the gate has 12 sleeping-cells. Capital Male
is a bud of Mr. Howard ; in the door Felons before and,after conviction have
are two apertures to receive donations, eaclt a spacious court about 71 feet by
viz. " To Debtors in a state of Indus 67, with day-rooms, and 44 sleeping-
try," and " To Prisoners in a state of cells. Pet iv Male Felons, before and
Reformation." The ground-floor on after conviction, have court-yards the
the left has the Turnkey's apartments, fame lize, and 38 sleeping-cells. Lewd
and his sleeping-rooms are above. On Women and Vagrants have a court-
the right hand is the Lazaretto, a hot vard, aud g lleeping-cells Male and
and cold bath, with an oven to fnini- Female Dilorderly Servants and Ap
gateand purifv prisoners' cloaths, which prentices, have each their separate
are taken front them on admillion, aud cnurts, and 15 sleeping-cells. Male
the gaol uniform put on. Up-stairs Vagrants and Deserters have likewise
are two reception-rooms, a room for a separate court, and lfi sleeping-cells,.
the irons, and a fitting-room (with a Besides these, there is a detached Infir
firerplace) for the Clergyman, who mary, with separate courts, two day-
there performs his List offices to per rooms, and four sleeping-rooms, for
sons under sentence of death, and suf male and. female sick prilbners, where
fer on the flat roof above. The court extra food and wine is provided by
in front of the Keeper's house is about direction of the Surgeon. Seventy-
20 yards square, and the Inner Turn eight of the Felons Cells have double'
key's lodge adjoins. Mafler's-side doors, the outer iron-grated, and the
Debtors have a court-yard 36 feet inner wood. Each Cell has a brick:
square, a day- room 14 "feet by 12, and floor, is 8 feet 8 inches by 6 feet 7,
eleven sleeping-rooms with boarded and 8 feet 10 inches high, with arched
floors ; they (leep single, and pay 4 s. roof, and fitted up with a bedstead, a
per week for County furniture, but if canvas or wadd hair mattrals, filled
they furnish their own beds 2 s. per with straw, a hempen sheet, twa
week. Common-fide Debtors have a blankets, and a rug, a leather or1
court yard 70 feet by 3Q, and a day- wooden bucket, and Itone chamber-pot.
room 20 feel by 14, fourteen fleeping- There are no lleeping-cells on the
rooms with boarded floors, to which ground tl. or. The Chapel is in the
the County allows a bedstead, a hair cen re of the building, and the several
mattrass, a pair of sheets, one blanket, classes enter bv different doors, and are
and a rug iu-Sum-mer, and two blan separated bv partitions lo that they
kets in Winter; no firing is allowed cannot fee each other. Debtors are
except the debtor is very poor, but in in the gallery. On a level with' the
severe weather they have frequently Chapel are six Cells for prisoners under
coals given them, the cost of which is sentence of death, or solitary confine
only 7 d. per hundred. The name of ment. All the Cells are well venti
every prisoner who does not attend Di- lated, and divided by lobbies or passa
Tiue Service is inserted in a bonk kept ges 6' feet wide ; the whole prison is
for that purpose. -A Manufacturer, or well supplied with spring water from
Talk-Master, is employed b\ the County a pump, aud with river water thrown
with a salary of 40 I. pe<r annum, who by a pump into a large reservoir at the
furnishes work, and deducts one-third top. There are (everal work-rooms
of the prisoner's earnings, which is paid for men and for women, with (tore- house,
to the County Treasurer ; but if the'' store rooms, bake house, bread- room,'
Debtor can have the means of labour and wash-house, A watchman goes round
brought to him from without the pri the prison, and cries '.he hour, a'tended
son, he receives the whole of h;s earn by a dog. There is a committee rooni
ings. Female Debtors have a court for the Visiting Maaisiiates, who are
yard and eight sleeping-rooms, and are appointed at the .Sessions. The Act
under the fame regulations as the for Preservation o1 He.d h, and Clauses
men. Two courts aud rooms for male against SpirJ.uous Liquors, are conspi
and female King's Evidence, and two cuously hung. up. 'sue whole prison
very
918 Shrewsbury Gaol ; and the House ef Industry. [Oct.
' very clean, and excellent rules and tions, and their understandings fur
orders for its nood government. When nished with some knowledge of Coun
] attended divine service there, 11th try business. On this subject I could
Sept. 1S03, all the prisoners were fay much ; but time -will not allow it
prelim ; their behaviour silent, and at to, dear Sir, yours very sincerely.
tentive to a very impressive discourse. Jambs Neild.
Felons are employed in snaking shoes, Dr. I.ettjom, London.
Dippers, gloves, iind bottle - stands ;
there are looms likewise for Wea THE PROJECTOR. N° LXXV.
vers, ami the iron machinery for a " The Power of Beauty I remember yet,
corn-mill, but for want of a pair of Which once inflam'd my foul, and still
stones it is useless. Prisoners, 3d Nov. inspires my wit." Dkyden.
J802, debtors 12, felons, &c. 58. A FEW day s ago I had the honour
1 lib Sept. 1603, debtors 11, felons, to receive the follow ing laconic
Hie. 7g, deserters 2, infant children epilile, which, however, I dare scarcely
Jl—Total 103. venture to call " inconsistent with the
My dear Friend, loquacity of the sex," although my
YOl) will have great pleasure in correspondent may think herself enti
reading the account of this excellent tled to take such a liberty.
Gaol, to which the humane and consi Mr. Projector,
derate Magistrates have paid such land- WE are indebted to you for many
-able attention. There is near this excellent papers on general subjects,
iilace a noble building, called the but which after all principally concern
House of Industry ; it certainly is a the men. Cannot you find time to give
House of I'lentv, for the Books us your thoughts on topics which more
every where bear record of good living, particularly relate to our sex? I presume
and theJ'amotts beefs slaughtered there. you are not very old j. and if you were,
I am informed the Act incorporates lam sure old fellows are more gallant
13 parishes, chapelries, and townships, now-a-days than young ones.—Begin
and the extent North and South 18 then, and I will give you a subject-—
miles, and neirly the fame East and What do you think of Beauty ?
TVeli. Now this vast district mull tie- You may print this or not, as you
frffirily preclude the Directors from . please. It is short enough to be incon
being acquainted with the real circum sistent with the loquacity of the sex to
stances of paupers so remote from inT which I belong, aud am, Mr. Projector,
soection, or when the distant Oul-pofr Yours, Letitia.
should be taken or) t heir books. In a Timeo Danaos el dona Jerentes : I
single parish, the Chevseer is perfectly suspect those correspondents who begin
acquainted with every pauper, his wa vvith compliments ; and should not be
ger-, ability, connexions, &c, and can surprised if Letitia has suggested the
not easily he imposed upon. Owing to subject of beauty, to entrap me into
this want its information and personal dilcuslions that may not be very accept
acquaintance with the paupers, there able. Although not so very old, as
may be great ahise os Out-pay. Parti- she seems to hint in a sly way, I cer-
enlar enquiry imposes a task on the tainlv do not find much inclination to
Directors they are unequal to, because talk with those raptures on the subject of
they have their own families and con beauty which I once could exprels, and
cerns to look after. It would he less which render opinion's so generally ac
trouWe some jind- less expensive (in my ceptable. It is generally found that
opinion) for each pn'i/'i to provide for lovers -and critics lose a great deal of
its own poor. The average number their enthusiasm for girls and poems
in the House 340; the children dedi when they advance in years, and when
cate and pampered, from being accus they are notso fit for addressing the one,
tomed to abundance and variety of pro or relishing the other, as they were in
visions, and comfortable rooms which their more lively days. However, on
seem ill calculated for the purposes of the other hand, the absence of enthu
husbandry, or to make useful servants to siasm affords more (cope to judgment,
the small farmers in this agricultural and where there arc but few rapturous
Coumy. They would prefer a race of exclamations, there may be a good deal
Iiardv lads, inured from their infancy of sound fense. Wirhout therefore attri
to combat weather snd temporary wont, buting to myself these essential qualities
vvkolc nerves are strong by eaily exer in dilcuslions 1 sliall endeavour to com
iSoy.] THE PROJE CTOR, N° LXXV. '919
plv with my correspondent's request, suasives to that opinion, which are
and offer a few desultory remarks on a usually sung with great solemnity aud
subject which I neither contemplate as effect in our taverns. That this, how
one nearly forgotten, nor venture upon ever, is a false taste, the majority are
with terror as one of a dangerous and agreed ; and I am inclined to ihink that
intoxicating nature. in soine it arises more from disappoint
My predecessors have frequently ment than opinion, and that others,
treated this subject, anil, in order to who profess to be of this way of think
speak with more precision, have even ing, are of that class who prefer cheap
attempted to define Beauty; but as 1 pleasures, and have not any other rea
find nothing but confusion and contra son for courting the charms of the hot-
dictions in all they have handed down tie than that it requires no qualificj-
to us bv way of definition1, I shall not 1 tions but thole of which they are easily
repeat their conjectures. This is indeed masters.
one of those subjects which may- he Although it has been found koth
discussed very amicably without the difficult and inconvenient to attempt
aid of a definition, because it is what any definition of Beauty, we may be
every man understands, or thinks he allowed to consider a little in what it
understands, before he knows what a consists, or where it resides. Men have
definition means : and it is what every had many disputes as 10 the seat of the
woman acquires a notion of, the mo soul, and the scat of honour ; and it
ment she contemplates herself in a look surejy cannot be less important to dis
ing-glass. A definition therefore is cover the seat of Beauty, to prevent
not only useless in the present case, that purblind creature Man from
but I humbly conceive might be inju making mistakes. But here, too, I ara
rious. If we could exactly tell what aware that we shall meet with many
form of features, what tint of complex difficulties. The scat of Beauty is not
ion, what height of stature, and what laid down with so much geographical
degree of plumpness constituted Beauty, precision as one would expect, consi
it is plain that thousands would be ex dering that it is the object of such ge
cluded, who not only are Beauties in neral pursuit. It has changed its posi
the opinion of their admirers, but even, tion, in my remembrance, four or five
I am inclined to think, in their own times; and I do not think, according
opinion. Without, then, giving our to the most authentic accounts, that
selves any more trouble about defini it has been stationary above ten years
tions, let us consider a sew of the cir together for the last two centuries. I
cumstances which attend the possession can remember that the seat of Beauty
of Beauty. was once thought to be in the face ;
And first I must observe that Beauty from that it mounted nearly a foot
is universelly attractive ; but this is an higher than the head ; it then descen
observation so very trite, that I should ded in a fine flowing line, and hung
'have been ashamed to set it down, is I gracefully over the shoulders ; from
had not meant to follow it by censuring which it disappeared so suddenly that
the barren invention of the admirers of the greatest beauties appeared to have
beauty, who have no other means of taken an invincible dislike to hair. .A
praising its attractions than by compar few years ago, it seemed to have taken
ing them to the force of the magnet. up its residence in the ancles ; and
Perhaps, however, they may have a thence it arose to the waist, from which,
latent meaning for this figure, and with much difficulty it was dillodged
would insinuate that some of the beaus by the wits and the caricaturists, assis
who are attracted by beauty, are really ted, in some measure, by the very re
of not more value than the pins and verend the clergy (who were tantalized
needles by which experimental philoso bv the prospect of mock-christenings) :
phers shew us the power of the loadstone. about three or four years ago, it quitted
The attraction of beauty is so gene all these situations for the bosom, front
rally allowed, that I think in the (pace whence it was again driven by the per
of lix thousand years and upwards, no secution of wit and decency, and by a
writer has been found hardy enough to sudden jirk fixed itself in the elbows
deny it ; if we except certain metapho and shoulders, where at present it seems
rical reasoners, of the rhyming tribe, to have acquired a tolerably quiet resi
who affect to prefer wine to women, dence. How long llvs may last, is
aud have written some very jovial per- doubtful, -as there are already symptoms
92o THE P R O J E C T O R, N° LXXV. [Oct,.
of long sleeves, which threaten ano These remarks lead to the considera
ther removal of ilie seal of Beauty, bin tion of a circumstance pertaining to
to what quarter I cannot presume lo Beauty, which has occasionally been
conjecture. I m*y also mention, noticed by writers on ihe (object, but
among ihefe revolutions, that our lively not very fully discussed—1 mean, the
neighbours ilie French went acnnsider- imperfection os Beauty. It appears that
able su p farther in settling the impor w hile we allow Nature 10 have consider
tant question ; fur a few \ears ago, ilie able powers in making many very sub
French ladies, distrusting their own lime aud conspicuous objects, such as
abilities to determine the Icat ofBeautv, rock-, niouniain-, riveis, and other
and confiding in the superiorjudgment things very much praised bv poets and.
os thole who were to be pieaied, at travellers, (lie generally fails in produc
once exposed nearly the whole petson ing Beauty in the human form. This
—a scheme which was, lo fay the lead, opinion may to some appear very singu
very accommodating, since every lover lar ; but it is amply confirmed by the
might choose what he pleased. many expedients contrived to improve
Some feeble, hut no doubt, well- her manufacture, and that, not only
meant attempts, were made lo intro where there seems to be some room for
duce this fashion here ; but, to the great improvement, but where the most nice
surprise of the importers, the very per and curious eye can discover no defect.
sons for whose use and behoof it was Some oslhese expedients having already
tried, were the first to lake the alarm, been hinted at, 1 (hall close the subject
and hoot from society the sew who had with remarking that in certain cases the
the courage to m ike the experiment. improvers huve not always been 16 suc
Some respect, however, might have cessful as the pains they lake Item to
been shown lo what, we are told, was deserve ; and that in other instances,
merely an error in judgment, and to a they have so totally mistaken the origi
mode of displaying beauty which mult nal ideas of ihe architect, as to create a
have cost them who tried it many sa strange mixture of beauty and defor
crifices of all that is thought valuable, mity, and of decays anil repairs, so as
or decorous. to make it doubtful whether the edifice
These fretptent changes seem, there i3 new or old, substantial or tottering.
fore, to inlimate that the feat of Beauty The contest between Art and Nature
is never likely to be fixed—a circum in this affair has so lon;» been carried
stance from which those who contem on, that the oldest person now living
plate various age* are apt to draw un cannot remember to hav e ever heard of
favourable conclusions. But, perhaps, a peace, or even an armistice. There
upon the whole, no great inconvenien is, however, a difference worth point
ces can arise. We seldom hejr any ing out in the spirit and disposition of
young man (ay, " I dislike elbows, and the parlies. Nature acts entirely on
will wait until faces come in fashion." the defensive ; and the war, therefore,
F.verv age seems content with its own on her part is just and necessary, and
species of Benny ; and the only conse her friends may pray fur the success
quence is, that gentlemen who hap of her arms with unfeigned ardour.
pened to be smitten with cork rumps The fame cannot be said of Art, which
will, after some years of reflection, he plays the part of an invader and usurper,
apt to think they would have been hap under the base pretence of beinzan ally
pier if thev had lived in an age of fore and an auxiliary ; and I would recom
heads ; while others now disposed to mend to thole w ho choose this fide, to
look a litile lower will chuckle to think reflect how much mischief ibis war has
that thev once lost their hearts to Bm- occasioned, and to remain constant to
tus's. Petty disputes and reciiminations the politics of Nature, until such time
may probably take place, but without as the parties (hall enter into a treaty of
any very fital eflects, between thole peace, and mark out the precise boun
who have been captivated by a bosom daries of each.
plain or lappelled, by a cornelian There are some writers who have
broach or a pearl comb, by Moorish questioned whether Beauty is not often
bools or Circassian sleeves ; and it may a misfortune. Without entering very
h: very harmlessly debated, whether it deeply into this question, we may at
was wiser to he caught by the curls least fay, that it is'a misfortune which
which Nature has given, or those which many bear with great fortitude, and
the ingenious Mr. Hols has fold. are not only unwitting Jo alleviate by
any
807.] THE PROJECTOR, N° LXXV. 921
ny means in their power, but are ex- ous at all times and occasions, and in
remely sorry to find it lessened by all ages, even the most advanced, as
:aufbs over which they have no com- the three per cents.
nand. How long it lads, is another Before concluding this paper, I may
question, which I find discussed in the advert to a species of Beauty which
writings of some of my predecessors, many ladies seem to prefer, which is
aut which I would wish lo touch with of a very singular kind, but of which I
til possible delicacy. The exact dura- am enabled to speak with tolerable
lion, I think, has never been ascer certainty, from being personally ac
tained ; I have known it to go as far as quainted with some of ihose who possess
seventy years, and I doubt not but that it. If 1 might express it in one word, I
persons of more experience may have should be inclined lo call it Invisible
Known it to last much longer. There Beauty, seen at least only by those who
can be no dispute, therefore, about its have (ome portion of discernment, and
being a permanent article ; every rout, though not concealed by any artful
opera, and ball, shews it ; but whether means, \ et never couriingthe applause
it be exactly the (ame as to quality, and that is conveyed by a stare, or through
whether it preserves its attra6hons for a glass. It may be best described by
so many years undiminilhed, so as to negatives, as it depends not on any of
be in as great demand as ever, is a point the circumstances detailed above : It
upon which there are various opinions. lies under no obligation lo those admi-
Some have resolved it by addressing per rahle patterns of beauty, Medusa and
manent beauties in the Jesuitical lan- Brutus. It owns no obligations to the
f;uage, Credequod habes, et habes—"Be- 'length or shortness of waists, to pads,
ieve that you have it, and vou have or cork rumps. No part of it is to btt
it j" an advice which they presume to purchased in the shops. There is not
think is very efficacious, but which a milliner, mantua-maker, hair-dresser,
others think very unnecessary. orjeweller, that deals in any. one article
We have been told latelv that Beauty of which it is composed ; and notwith
will be rendered more general by the standing ihis, it is far more lasting than
introduction of the Vaccine Inocula any of ihe species of Beauty which they
tion, and I am old enough to remem disperse with such kind and profuse va
ber that much the same assertion was riety. It is valuable too on another
made on the introduction of the Small account : It is infectious—I have
pox inoculation. Now, without ob known it go through large families of
jecting to remedies by which the lives young ladies ; a circumstance attended
of thousands will be preserved to their with this difficulty only, that it repders
friends and their country, it may yet an admirer's choice a little more diffi
be doubted whether Beauiv will be ren cult, but surely the risk is diminished
dered more general than it was before. when the power of making a wrong
The oldest among us cannot remember choice is taken away. And it has ano
the time when iliose who are most in ther advantage which ought to recom
terested in the pofli ffion of Beauty com mend it to persons of moderate incomes,
plained of the want of it, or even which is, that although it is more
thought themselves deficient. I know highly valued than any of ihe lfinds of
that men aud mirrors have been sub Beauty of which we have been speak
pœnaed lo prove the contrary ; but men ing, it is by far the cheapest, and will
in various cafes are very improper not only keep good in all weathers and
judges, and the evidence of mirrors is climates, but " in all time of our tribu
Ib soon softened down, that we very lation, in all time of our wealth, and
rarely hear of any of them being broke at the hour of death." >
for cowardice in deserting their mistresses
at the engagement of the toilet. And Mr. Urban, OB. I.
surely nothing can be more comfonable I HAVE lately perused a volume of
than this universal consciousness of the Shakspearean Comments, the design
possession os Beauty ; all the regret is, of which has obviously been to ridi
that it should ever be disturbed by the cule, rather thap to corre6t bv means of
opinions of bv-standers, or the want fair criticism and courteous language,
of money. Of the Litter it may be the labours of other Commentators.
truly said, that of all artifices bv which From a dip into the middle, I was at
beauty is created and charms height first disposed to think the work had
ened, there are none so truly efficaci- been the production of Harry Rowe
Cskt. Mag. October, 1807. the
4
922 Remarks on Mr. Pye's Comments on Shakspeare. [Oct.
the trumpeter's puppets, who are mains with the Critic. As to my sup
doubtless very (harp and shrewd fel posed omission of an authority from
lows as Commentators, though entire Twelfth Night, I do not plead guilty
strangers to urbanity and politeness*; on the score os mv ignorance of it. "I
but, on turning to the title-page, I was perfectly convinced that it was no
was nol a little surprized to find the authority at all, nor in the least con
laureated name of Mr. Pye, a charac nected with the question. Mr. Pve
ter from whom a different stile of com has totally misconceived the purport
position^ well as criticism of a milder os my note, which was not to show
kind, might well have been expected. that priests were not inlilled to the ap-
It is not my purpose, Sir, and even pe!la:ion of Sir, but that they were
far beyond my ability, to review at not Ib called in consequence of belong
large this Orange volume ; a task that ing to any order of knighthood, as had
will undoubtedly be undertaken by been already supposed ; and this I have
more able hands, from whom the Cri proved, to the. conviction of every cor
tic will receive most Uriel and ample rect and reasonable mind' To the
justice. My file purpose is to vindi other charge of ignorance respecting
cate myself, lo ihe bell os my" power, the entry os Domini in the college but
from the Laureat's attempt to (how tery books, I do plead guihy altoge
that I, doubtless in very good and ho ther ; but now the fact is so po
nourable conqiany, a:n little short of a litely disclosed to me, I beg leave to
blockhead : and whenever any point observe that it throws no light what
between mvself and my antagonist ever on the question I had made.
shall rest on mere matier of opinion, P. ](). She pined in though!.'] I am
the publick shall be free to decide ; here altogether at the Critic's mercy,
where on matter of fact, appeal will be and am content lo smart under his rod
unnecessary. until I may be able to find an instance
I could not have believed, Mr. Ur of the former use of thought in the
ban, that a professed Critic would have fense of melancholy: Though I am
hazarded his remarks, at least in the now at a loss to conceive how such a
cafe of a modern work, on any thing ■note received Mr. Steevens's adoption,
less than the very language in its origi and much more how it has crept into
nal form of the parties criticised ; but a selection of notes, I still think that I
what has been Mr. Pye's method ? To must have satisfied Mr. Steevens with
add to the apparent vigour of his at some authority that has now entirely
tack, he seizes on a (election of notes escaped my recollection.
by one of vour worthy Colleagues, that P. 40. If either <fyou lcn»w any in
was certainly made, with the excep ward impediment, &c] On this pas
tion of what belongs to the present sage 1 had observed, that it was taken,
Writer, with as much judgment as from the marriage ceremony, &c. Mr.
was necessary for the purpose of a par Pye fays, " This is very true, and so>
ticular edition. This favours strongly it is that two and two make four. Had
of a libellous and insidious intention ; the friar's exhortation marked the exact
for the learned Commentator meant, changes of the phraseology, the remark
no doubt, to call in question the taste indeed would have been curious." I am
t>( the selector ; and, at the same time, really at a loss to comprehend the drift
to whisper to the reader, " expede fier- of the latter part of this recondite morsel
eulem .'" But, not to lay additional of criticism. The object of my note
stress on the unfairness and even ab wa? not so much lo (how that the friar
surdity os culling the very worst weeds was using the terms of the marriage
that could be found, it will presently service, as to remark that it, was nearly
be seen that a more injudicious mode the (ame in the reign of Elizabeth as at
could not have been adopted.—And present ; which, though certainlyapiece
now to the point : of no very important intelligence, may
P. 16. 1 am here accused of deciding vie at least with much that Mr. Pye
what I had stated as remaining for de has told us.
rision; and this would certainly have P. 65. Wide of the- low-hand.]
had the semblance os absurdity, had I "Surely," fays Mr. Pye, "Mr. D.
concluded instead of begun with the ob- might have spared himself the trouble
iervauon. The absurdity therefore re- of writing a note to tell us that this
* See their notes in Mr. Rowe's edition mufi mean wide of the mark on that
of Shakspeare, a part only of which is hand ia which the bow was held.
published. By
:8o7-] Remarks en Mr. Pye's Comments on^ Shakspeare. 923
Jy the very emphatic manner in which questioned. As to the error, that is
his note is here unfairly irnroduced, the sole property of Mr. Pye. 1 am,
he reader would imagine that I was thank God, very far from being blind ;
Irugglitig with a host of adversaries, but I am certain that the most lynx-
t had merely ('aid that ihe expression eyed person will not be able to find the
meant " a good deal to the left of the word lunatift in Mr. Steevens's lext,
mark," because 1 knew that every rea and I am not bound to seek for it in
der would not immediately compre any other ; yel, even though it were
hend a term in archery. My opinion, I here, it could not have been put for
as expressed by the Critic, is little short lutijl, according to ihe mort sagacious
of nonsense. Mr. Pye. 1 beg of him, before he
P. 108. He that runssoftest sets the ( fliall engage in any more verbal cri
ring.'] • I had submitted that this is an ticisms of ihis kind, that he will con
allusion to the sport of running at the descend 10 put on his spectacles.
ring. Mr. Pye answers, "I think not, P. 127- IVho may I rather challenge
and for two reasons: first, because at for unkindnej's
that (port the prize is not given to the Than pity for mischancc.~\ I am in
salted runner ; and secondly, because this place charged wiih confuting ihe
the ring is not the prize any more than very sensible remark of two (ientle-
the wicket is at cricket." Notwith men, by proving my total inability to
standing this peremptory language, I comprehend what Mr. Pye thinks could
am by no means satisfied that the not be poflibly misunderstood. Thia
failed runner did notsometimes get the is certainly a most extraordinary mode
prize at the above sport; for Mr. Pye, of confuting ; but the fact is, that I did
who has perhaps only seen it practised not mean even to attempt confuting the
at French fairs by grown and other remark above alluded to. Mr. Stee-
children mounted on (wans and in vens, as good a scholar and a belter
roundabouts, is yet to learn that there critic than Mr. Pve, and moreover a
were various modes of running at the most polite and accomplished gentle
ring, at different times and places. Of man, thought the passage might be
this I could give many authorities, but misunderstood. To him I merely of
I do not chuse to anticipate the subject fered an opinion, which he, with lar
on the present occasion. As lo Mr. more attention than it deserved, thought
Pye'ssecond reason, I take leave lo ob fit to place by the side of others.
serve, that he totally misconceives the Whether it will admit of vindication,
meaningosgellinglhering. This phrase, generally speaking, I know not : but
borrowed from the French, gagner la I am certainly inclined lo enter the
lague, signifies nothing more than get lists as against Mr. Pye. He main
ting the prize, by carrying away i he tains that mat/ I is not " an awkward in-
ring with the point of the lance. The version of / may, but the regular opta
French used it generally f>*r gaining the tive." Has he ib far forgotten his own
prize at almost any sport, as we still fay trade on this nccalion as not to know
to beur the bell : but as I have not met that awkward inversions are poetical
with it in this fense in any English licences? But is ihere really anv
writer, 1 still think that the whole of greater impropriety in this expression
the sentence in Shakspeare is allusive than in those of caii I, will I, do I, am
to the sport of running al the ring; I, Sic.}
but most certainly the latter part has a According to the interpretation of
direct and immediate allusion to it. M icbetb's words that I had suggested,
P. I09. Twangling Jack ] I am here and I designed it as nothing more than
accused of not seeing a manifest error a suggestion, he artfully conceals his
of the press, and Mr. Nichols £who was knowledge of Banquo's murder:. ac
■not the printer of the work] is blamed cording to that of the oilier gentlemen,
for not correcting this supposed error, he would evidently betray his guilt;
and for not omitting my sage remark which, notwithstanding the apparent
on it. 1 wish indeed that the omission ingenuity of the construction, 1 cannot
of my note had been altogether at convince myself that the Poet intended
tended 10, as it was a remark designed to be done. In all events I am justi
only for Mr. S'eevens's private ear; fied in laying that it is the highest de
and for its insertion I certainly owe, gree of folly to assert, that a man does
and fliall elsewhere offer, an apology to not comprehend one fense of a pafage
the gentleman whose opinion was because he proposes another. In what
2 a pre-
9^4 Remarks on Mr. Pye's Comments on Shakspeare. [Oct.
a predicament would all Critics and I fay it is extraordinary that he should
Commentators stand, if such were the know so little how to handle his arms
case ! as to cite a clause which is absolutely
P. 176. Twelve score.~\ In this in- not existing in the above statute. Thele
fiance 1 am compelled lo trespass on t lie are ihe passages in it on the subject of
reader's patience by inserting the whole age and distance : " Every servant pass
of Mr. Pye's comment, without ing the age os seventeen yeeres, and
which the vindication I here submit under the age of three score yeeres, and
could not be well understood. These taking wages, which can or is able to
are his words ; " This is au,ain a (tum shnote, and shall lacke a bow and four
bling-block lo the Critics, who (hew arrowes by the space of one inoneth
their complete ignorance of archery. together, shall for every such default
1). fays, very properly, that it was not forfeite and lose six (hillings eight
extraordinary lor an excellent archer pence." Again : ** And that no other
to (hoot fourteen score and a half. But person above the said age of foure and
he is groffly wrong when he adds, that tirentie yeeres, shall fhoote at any
it must be allowed that none but a mark of eleven score yards or under
most extraordinary archer would be with any prick, shaft, or flight, under
able to hit a mark at twelve (core. A the peine to forfeiie for every (hoot fixe
Commentator ou Shakspeare ought to shillings eight pence." Not a word of
have known so much of the age he lived limitation 10 twelvescore and upwards
in, as not to be told, that if an archer did for persons of 17, or of any other age ;
rot hit a mark at twelve score vards and the limitations stated in the act
distance, he never could hit it at ail ; were for a purpose totally different
for, by the statute 33 Henrv VIII. ch. from what Mr. Pye supposes. 1 have
J}, every person turned of 17 years of a right to complain that on this occasion
age, who Jhoois at a less dijlance than he has dealt with me as Lander did
twelve score, is to forfeit fix /hillings by Milton (I only take one side of the
and eight-pence. A penalty, by the comparison) ; and that therefore his
m»y, which ts incurred by all the ar quotations, generally speaking, are not
chers of the present dav, as the statute to be trusted. God forbid that the ar
is not onlv unrepealed, but' is, as far chers of ihe present day (hould be sum
as it prohibits lome kind of gaining, moned before Mr. Pve for breach of
now frequently put in force." Now it the above unrepealed statute, which he
is certainly a moll extraordinary mode is here convicted of having so badly
of reasoning to fay that, if a person can understood !
not hit a mark at a very cmijiderahle I have now done with what relates to
distance, he cannot hit it at all ; and that myself, and am extremely sorry to have
twelve (core vards is a distance -it which been obliged to obtrude so unimport
a mark is very seldom hit, will be al ant a subject on the public notice ;
lowed by all who are conversant with but as I am responsible for what I
the noble and too much neglected have presumed to offer to that pub-
science os archery. It depends, in lick, so am I justifiable, in common
deed, much on the size of the mark. with other men, in attempting to repel
A man who could shout twelve (core whatever may tend to depreciate my
(and every one cannot do so) might opinions below their natural insignifi
indeed put his arrow into the cupola cance.
of St. Paul's, if it were placed within Living characters of greater conse
his reach ; but I question if even Mr. quence, who have been attacked in
Pye himself, who does not appear to these flippant Comments, however well
hit the mark in general, could al the qualified to defend themselves, will
above distance, even in a hundred trials, probably think it beneath them to re
hil one of thole baits of claret or malm ply ; and ihe dead, where they may
sey which, I think, as Poet, l.aureat, nave failed, will (e'dom owe the de-
he so deservedly receives from the court. lection of their errors to the sagacity of
With respect to the statute 3.) Henry Mr. Pye.
VIII. ch. (}, it is indeed most furprif- I have already observed that I am
~|ng that Mr. P» e, a magistrate accus not disposed to enter on a general cri
tomed to this (pecies of black letter ticism of the work in question. it
learning, though he (eems to despise all be the profesied Reviewer's task, if
others that would tend to qualify him worth while, to point out the numer
better for aCotnmentator onShakfpeare, ous rnis-printSj false references (and
sometime*
1807.3 Remarh on Mr. Pye's Comments on Shakspeare. 925
sometimes none at all), and errors of P. 54. Musk rose.] Mr. Steevens ha
various kinds, with which it is so said, " What is at present called the
thickly strewed. In the mean time, musk-rose, was a flower unknown to
the reader may perhaps be entertained English botanists in the time of Shak
with a few specimens of Mr. Pye's speare." On which Mr. Pye remarks :
qualifications as a Commentator ©n "As itisclearShnkefpearcould not mean
Shakspeare, and a Critic in general. a flower he had ne\er heard of, he most
The orthography of Shakespearis per probably means the moss rose." Now
tinaciously maintained against the au it is not very easv to comprehend the
thority of contemporary evidence. exact meaning of this comment; but
In p. ix. the immediate repetition what Mr. Steevens meant to siy is,
of" the subject" is what Mr. Pyewould that the present musk-role is different
have doubtless censured in others. from that of Shakspeare's time. What
In p. xii. Mr. Pve asserts that Shak the latter was will be seen by consult
speare is not pre-eminent " in opening ing Gerarde's Herbal, which, for Mr.
the (acred source of sympathetic tears," Pye's comfort, is not a black letter
except in the part of Constance. Is it book, though of the Shakfpearean pe
not strange that the *' favourite amuse riod, and where it will clearly appear
ment of his leisure hours" (fee p. 9) not to have been, as Mr. Pye supposes,
should not have brought to his recol a moss rose.
lection the characters of Queen Catha P. 62. On some necessarv quotations
rine and of Imogen, which are calcu relating to Banks's horse, Mr. P. asks,
lated to excite as great a portion of " who would make a pompous display
sympathy as any that have been drawn of black letter learning?" So we hear
from the imagination ? some (illy and invidious females, who
In p. xiv. the second sentence is un have no jewels of their own, affecting;
intelligible, from the apparent omis to ridicule others for displaying them J
sion of something in the middle of it, P. 64. It had certainly been wiser in
after the word " building." Mr. P. to have taken a general objec
P. 2. Mr. Steevens had inserted a tion to the English mode of pronoun
very appropriate note on curtseying, cing Latin, than to have seized on the
&c. The Criiic seems desirous of sup Westminster practice of calling tu, too,
pressing or stultifying, in his way, all which is one of the most correct sounds
efforts to elucidate antient manners. we use in the Latin language. What
A dissertation on a cufliion dance, cer would an Italian fay to Mr. Pye's lew?
tainly on a dumpling, might be thought P. 135. Rent the air."] Mr. Steevens
by some persons as interesting as many had said, that to rent is an antient verb
Other essays. long since disused ; and a hundred au
The interpretation of Stephano's thorities might be adduced to show
speech in p. 3, would convert him that to rent and to rend were indiscri
into an Irishman ; no disparagement minately used. But Mr. P. in the
to the very pleasant phraseology alluded very exuberance of criticism, will have
to ! but every theatrical personage it that it is an error of the press for
should hive characteristic language put rend, or the past tense for the present.
into his mouth. P. 141 contains this sentence :
P. 7. The objection taken to the "The insertion of these spirited lines
explanations of " having a month's by Pope do as much honour, to the
mind," is founded on all possible ig taste of Pope as the rejection of them
norance of antient times and manners, are disgraceful to the taste of Tyr-
and not worth the trouble of confuting. whitt !!!!!!!!!" Mr. Pye is extremely
P. 20 My nettle of India.') Mr. fond of bestowing these significant
Steevens had demonstrated the existence marks of admiration on others. Of how
of such a nettle, and the probable al much more admiration is he himself
lusion to it; but Mr. Pye had rather deserving !
resort lo a slang figfire, most happily P. 167. Mr. P. speaking os a note
exemplified by the phrases, " the of Dr. Farmer's, fays, " This is so
twinkling of a bed-post," and "an ar obvious, that J should have marked
row out of a fire-shovel," drawn from the elucidation with my usual signs of
the abundant store-house of his mind. admiration, did not the extreme ab
Low authorities on low subjects might surdity of the other Critics make it ne
indeed have been endured, but this is cessary." And again, p. 30g : " The
the very absence os authority. fense of this passage is so obvious, that
llh<*!4
9 26 Remarks on Mr. Pye's Comments on Shakspeare. [Oct.
I should have marked Mr. Malone'l aware that Lear savs, " The bew is bent
note with my si?n of admiration ! ! ! anddrawn, make from the shaft." But
had not the wisdom of his colleagues here the words by poetic licence and
made it netejsary." Can eriors ot ihe for ths take of measure are synony
press, wlticn abound in almost every mously used. There would have been
page, hi yr^ed in extenuation forsuch no occasion to tell us that the bow
repetitions as these ? was slrung before it was drawn. In
R 178. Mr. P. asks : " By the way, Chapman's Homer's Odyssey we have,
is it not absurd lo spell the name os "Though with me ne're so many fel-
the person whole side employment is lowes bend
to lend horses, and who is always
called hirsder, n/lltr ; a word cor Their bowes at raarkt men—"
rupted froji ho/ielier — inn-keeper ?" In Dckker's History of the Gentle Craft,
Mr. Pye, when he adverts to the im a ballad fays that Cupid " bent his
propriety of spelling words according bow and sent a dart." And so in a
to their corruptions, falls into the error thousand other places.
which he himself condemns, by pre P. 318 Mr. Pye is extremely angrv
ferring horseler; for that is the cor that Messrs. Steevens and Malone
rupted word, and not oilier, which is should have displayed their acquaint
a derivative, but no corruption. Why ance with old English books on this
ostler; or rather holder, is applied to occasion. He fays thai Shakspeare does
the person who tends horses is ano not satirize the old English Drama,
ther question by no means difficult of but that he is censuring a custom of
solution. buffoon actors in general. The fact is
P. 18). We have here a very strange molt clearly otherwise. Hamlet refers
question. To what poem dot's the to the licentiousness of a specific cha
Trojan Duke relate?" The poem racter in the dramas of Shakspeare's
wherein the Tmjan Duke is found, is lime ; but Mr. P. who appears to dis
fairly quoted by the gentleman whose like every species of black letter evi
very satisfactory noie is attacked ; and dence except the Statutes at large,
M r. Pye can hardly be serious in ask would illustrate an aniienl wtiter by
ing to what poem the Troja» Duke adducing the usage of modern times.
relates. This indeed, to retort his own, but by
P. 314. In this page we are actually him misapplied, observation, is like
told, though ihe Critic did not intend citing Anna Comnena for the autho
it, that Anna Cotnneoa was contem rity of a word in Homer.
porary with Homer. In p. 330, we have here this elegant
P. 815. Mr. Malone had with great remark and admonition on one of Mr.
propriety aliened, that " full bent" Steevens's notes : "Very true, but <lo
■was an allusion to archery. Mr. Pye not explain it 16 often ;" and it occurs
is of a different opinion, declaring that indeed on some other occasions. It
the technical terms of archery were loo may be answered that Shakspeare's
well known in Shakspeare's time to be plavs, as well as those of other writers,
misapplied. They certainly were : but are not designed to be read from the
tnev are not so generally understood in first lo t»f last in the order as printed.
modern times ; otherwise, Mr. Pye, If, therefore, a word already noticed
who affects the practical knowledge of in the first play should occur again in
the art on more than one occasion, the last, it is equally necessary to ex
would have known that to bend a bow plain it in both ; tor it is impossible for
and to draw it were synonymous lerms. an E litor or Commentator to know
He ought likewise to have known that which may he read first. A common
archers do not use ihe expression hend glossary v\onld perhaps best answer the
for the process of fallening ihe tiring purpose, though it is not wholly un
lo the horns, but thai brace is the pro objectionable ; and to refer to a mere
per and technical word. Had he also glossirial index on every occasion would
forgotten that the prophet Jeremiah's be very troublesome and imlalisfaclorv.
people, like many other people, " bent Of Mr. Pye's happy and concise
their tongues like bows to shoot out mode of expreding his censure and
/i/e.> ?" I quote Cramner's translation, opinions, examples worthy of imi
where, and in many places in other tation on < tie part of all Critics and
translations, the phrase of bending a bow Commentators are to be found in al
for drawing it, is often lo be found. Iain most every page of bis book. A few
' stall
i8o7-] Remarks on Mr. Pye's Comments on Shakspeare. 927
shall be exhihited, to relieve the drowsi the natural asperity os criticism, and
ness which I fear I may have brought even conciliates the esteem of the ob
on my readers. P. 10. " There is no ject of it, 1 must plead the example of
name for the absurdity os this note." honest Tom Coryat, who felt himself
P. 13. " 1 wish they bad taken this obliged to repel the aggression of a
opportunity to give us a few remarks scold by retorting her own phraseo
on tag, rag, and bobtail." P. 15. logy ; and 1 beg leave to conclude with
*' Wife notes." P. 40. " This is very gentlv admonishing the Critic to attend
true, and so it is that two and two to the ad\ice of his and mv late excel
make four." P. 41, " This is really a lent and pleasant friend Captain Grose,
note one can scarcely read with corn- " ever to hold in mind that one who
won patience." P. 4p. *' Such a note has a head of glass should never engage
as this is almost too much for the pa in throwing stones."
tience." P. 145. " This is a kind of Tours, &c. Francis Douce.
note there is no reading with patience."
P. 57. "Thank you, Sir! Mr. Ma- Architectural Innovation,
lone, we are equally obliged to you." No. CXI1I.
P. 75. *' Profound Critic" (applied to Digression.
one of the first scholars of the age, whose WHILE we hear of Lectures be
name Mr. P. uniformly mis-spells). P. ing established for the illustra
85. " Mr. Tvrwhilt's sagacious conjec tion of Roman and Grecian Architec
ture." P. 112. " Such abominable ture, and for the study of the costume
Huff." P. 174. "Ha! ha! ha !" (this of those Pagans who have lest such
i> certainly the wittiest of all Mr. P.'s modes of design behind them ; it be
notes, it being well known that bre comes a niortificati»n to the English
vity is the fool of wit)- P- 184. " Will Antiquary to find the antient arts of
there be oo end of this stupid pedan this country in the above clastes to
try r"" P. 194. " Sleevens's conjecture tally passed over in silence, and in a
is the acme of all absurdity." 1'. 204. manner consigned to oblivion, as un
" The nonsense os Steevens." P. 218. worthy of public discussion or public
V Bravo! Mons. Steevens." P. 22.5. attention.
" Then von would read wrong." P. If, indeed, our Architects and His
237. " King David tells us that when torical Painters wholly confined them
he was angry he (aid, " All men are selves to imitate the buildings and
liars" (I was so forcibly struck with to pourtray the events when these Hea
this neat and clever mode of giving the thens flourished, well and good ; but
lie by authority of Scripture, that 1 as we find both professors occasionally
could not relist the impulse, on one dabbling out of their depth ; some in
occasion, of adopting it). P. 326. raising Palaces in what they call the
•* Steevens's note on Malone's obser Tudor style, and others bringing for- '
vation on this passage is insolent and ward Scenes whereiu is shewn out
impudent ; and he is, as usual, posi third Edward, Henry VIII. or other
tive in the wrong." P. 336. " John personages of past times, contempt or
son's explanation is absurd in the ex satire possesses our breasts, and it re
treme," &c. &c. impossible to contain our thoughts oa
But notwithstanding the unfortunate the subject, finding each professionalise
difference in our opinions as to the pre totally devoid of that information i'a
ceding matters, 1 will not conceal that needful to give their works respectabi
1 have felt no inconsiderable degree of. lity, or, more properly, stability in the
pleasure in perusing several of Mr. Pye's estimation ot' mankind.
observations. In a few, where I had We have already pretty clearly de
the happiness of thinking in common monstrated ihe truth of this position in
with him, he has got the start of me, onr Westminster Survey; and, if our
but only in publication, as may per leisure gave opportunity, historical per
haps hereafter appear. formances on canvas would stand no
I have only 10 add, Mr. Urban, better chance ; they being most of
that if in the course of these strictures them unclassical in point of our cos
on Mr. Pye's Comments on the Com tume, seeming to derive all their docu
mentators 1 have been betrayed into ments from masquerade warehouses,
any exprellion that may be tleemed or, to speak more truly, from fancy,
inconsistent with that good humour and commonly called taste ; founded on the
gentlemanly language which smooths basis of modern genius aud improvement !
Permit
928 Architectural Innovation, No, CXIII. [Oct.
Permit me, on this occasion, to and, instead of giving incense and do
stance at a few examples in this way, ing homage to any country's costume
which have lately come upon the but that of their own, think of bring
town. ing about a school for the instruction
The marriage of Henrv the Vlllh's of students in the knowledge of An-
daughter to the King of Scotland.— tient English Architecture, and the
Two upright Jingle lines with a single use of the costume in dresses, armours,
pointed arch line marks the contour of Sec. &c.
a palace. Men's dresses, after the Ro 1 have in mv eve one Royal Acade
man school ; women's, entirely modern. mician well qualified both by inejina-
One of our antienl Knights proving tion aud abilitv to lead the way in this
his rijiht of possession to lands under plan. I could also recommend a cer
his grasp, before certain inquisitors, by tain Artist, though not immediately
exhibiting the length of his sword.— within the pale of the Sanctuary of Arts,
Entirely upon the Roman model, ex who is competent to prepare, by bring
cepting the habiliments of the swag ing forward drawings from antiemdocu-
gerer, who is indebted for being so ments, and necessary elucidations, a se
armed to the strength of modern ideas, ries of lectures, which he, I have not the
how such a man at arms should come least doubt, would be ready to deliver to
forth to prove his right. the Academv, or indeed to any assem
The death of Sir Philip Sidney.—A blage whole feelings might become alive
mere jumble of dresses and armours, to these (surely it is no presumption to
taken slightly from incorrect prints of fay) important heads ; and who might
all dates, from the beginning of the patronise a proposition so useful, and,
lsith to the latter end of the 18th cen which cannot ne denied, so necessary.
turies. 1 most not pass over this occasion to)
Queen Elizabeth viewing the por mention, that the grand East or Wa
traits of some supposed Trauors.—The ter Front os the old House of Lords is
Artilt has chosen rather to consult the laid open to view ; as the mean brick
writings of an Alien (who came pur buildings raited up against it at the be
posely to England to fee the Queeti ginning of the last centurv are now ta
and to run round the country) for do ken down. It will be curious to note
cuments to compose the likeness and if our Palace- improvers mean to destroy
dnfs of Elizabeth, than to have before this front wholly, or to rejlore its muti
him the authentic pictures of this fe lated parts, or whether, in the new ele
male, begun and finished entirely dur vations to be designed on this spot, it is
ing her several fittings for the fame. to be smuggled in as a something spick
The other dresses tolerably well lludied. and span new? But we shall see anon.
The interior of the chamber and furni For the sake of consistency, when
ture partly of the mode 80 years back, amateurs write about our Antiquities,
and partly fancy. thev stiould treat their subject with de
Marv Queen of Scots leaving Scot cent respect, as thev affect to admire
land.—Dresses wholly on the masque such a laudable pursuit. For instance,
rade fashion. The other parts of the G. B. p. 801, "Where the pious re
costume are below criticism. , quiem once was fung," contrasted by
Queen of Edward IV. parting from " All the pomp of religious bigotry."—
her children at Westminster.—Not the " Beautiful Gothic." How can that
most distant allusion to the costume of whicti is deformed and barbarous be
the day in regard to the dresses ; and, beautiful: for what is CotMcbula term of
by the convenient difpofure of the reproach, an invidious, a contemptuous
light and shade, the interior of the epithet, bestowed on our old structure*
building the characters are supposed to in the 17th centurv by Sir Christopher
be in, if it is intended for an interior, Wren, Evelyn, and others. Sir W.
would puzzle the most learned in Ar Dugdale, in his work on Old St. Paul's,
chitecture to pronounce whether the never once calls the Architecture Go
place is part of a church, prison, cham thic : no ; he, as admiring so won
ber, or an Hindoo temple ! drous a style, calls it the labours of our
Here undoubtedly the attention of ancestors !
theRoval Academy ought to be roused ; "A warm Admirer of the Bard of
and, for the credit of the title they as Twickenham," p 802, perhaps is ig
sume, " English Academy," bellow norant that Pope's mansion at ihat
some little consideration. 011' this head ; place has laid) been demolished. A
lady
1807.] Architectural Innovation, No. CXIII. 929
lady is the poffeflor of the site, and the present front, as far as it goes, is
the doer of the a6t of " razing to the the Architecture of Edward 111. The
ground" the poetic confine. tower built up immediately against the
Waltham Abbey. centre of the front, was done in 1558 ;
(See Vol. LXVlll. p. 277-1 therefore, what is discernible of Ed
Erected by Harold, 1062. ward's work is the cemre door-way
(Surveyed 1807.) (now within the West Porch) and the
THE remains of this magnificent exteriors of the ailes of the Nave,
Saxon pile are at present under the which are of a degree of masonry and
power of workmen ; who, it seems, are sculpture neither too rich nor too plait*.
putting on a new cieling, the old one, The Door-way has columns on each
of about 40 or 50 years standing, being side, .with foliaged capitals ; and the
found in a state the most dangerous. outer line of the Architrave to the arch
Thus, as no one can positively fay runs into a pediment, having in the
when a mason, a carpenter, or a brick- spandrel], where is some iracery, the
Jayer gets into a building, when or bead of a religious. The windows of
how they will get out; it is best to be the Ailes give mullions with sweeping
prepared for the worst. On this (brt or ornamental tracery, over them small
of apprehension or doubt, I was in circular ditto with turns. At. the an
duced this Spring to survey the whole gles of the front, are buttresses with
precincts, and found the state of the niches aud pediments. A double pa
existing edifices as here specified. rapet, one over the other (the upper one
General Plan. The outline of the perforated) finish the upright. There
precincts to the North is bounded by is likewise a buttress on each side the
the river Lee, over which are two Tower ; but, whatever was the continu
bridges, one leading to the Abbey gate ation of the. work to the centre of the
way on the West, and the other to a from, it must have been utterly destroyed
part of the precincts on the North when the present Tower was set up as
East. The precincts lie on the North above stated, thedoor-way of which may
side of the' Church ; and little more be termed rich. The upper half of this
than lines of ruined walls (marking no Tower in 1778 was taken down, and a
edifice to which they once made a paltry substitute of four stone walls with
part) are to be met with. The Church oblong holes set up by way of a Belfry.
has immediately on its Welt front the 1 was told white making my memo
high street of. the town, and on its randa, and which as no way surpris
South front the cemetery. On the Hall ing, that this fameBelfrv is already so far
front are gardens. The Church con become unsafe, that it is fhorjy to be
sists of a West tower (under it the West taken down. So dead are the guardi
porch), and the Nave of the original ans of I his Church 10 Edward's refined
edifice; the Well front of which, with architecture, that the West Door-way
the Transepts, Choir, and Our Lady's above - described is panly hid by
Chapel destroyed. On the South side hutches, and timber piles ; the Weft
of the church towards the Eastern ex porch serving more for the purposes of
tremity is a small Chapel (and Crypt) a lumber-shed, than the introductory
attached to it. pass to a sacred .sanctuary, 'the House
■■. Elevations. The Bridge leading to of God ! But are there not other
the Abbey galc-wav is small, and of Churches in the like state of defilement J
no great interest. The Bridge leading (To lie continued.) An Architect.
to the precincts on the North-east, al
though in ruins, gives a beautiful con Mr. Urban, ^oTu^T^'
structed arch. The Abbey gale-way it
either of a very simple design, or has T HASTEN to correct an error which
been havocked down to the front wall, & 1 have committed in my letter in
wherein is the road-gate, aod postern serted in your last number, as well as
to ditto. In the several ruined walls, in my It' ply to Dr. Milner's observa
nothing satisfactory occurs, C. as to tions laielv published. 1 have there
determine where Hood ! he Cloisters, fiated (p 827) that be Doctor had
Chapter - house. Refectory, Dormi never disclaimed his having had a hand
tory, Abbot's Lodgings, Sec in drawing up the Impartial Report of
The Church. Welt Front. Of the Dr Laurence's Speech. I have since
first Saxon design there is none left ; recollected, thai in your Magazine for
Gemt. Mag. Otloler, I8O7. March
5
930 Mr. Le Mesurier's Answer to Dr. Laurence. [Oct.
March last (p. 226) he has protested This is what has happens
happened in the
that " he is totally ignorant who drew present instance: for 1 find a general
up" that Report : and, though this be complaint, that the Doctor's statement
nfot Co full a disclaimer as I might have is unintelligible.
elligible. To pierce tthis cloud,
di6lated, yet I admit that, after that, 1 or at least wholly to dissipate it, is per
was not authorized in saying what L haps, beyond my power. I will not
did.—When I (aid it, I had the Doc attempt it: but, in order to Jhorlen
tor's " Observations" before me, in your labours * as well as mine, will
which, although he has repealed alt leave all the old maler where it is:
his other allegations, be has not no only begging your Readers not to tak«
ticed this disclaimer ; and I tather hastily it for granted that 1 am answered, only
concluded that none such existed. because my adversary has the last
I am as averse to a controversy with word. Let therefore the Cafe of the
Dr. Milneras he can be. It is, there Sword rest undisturbed for me, as well
fore, only a regard for the interests of as the merits of the Impariial Report.
truth, which compels trie to (late 1 will stick to what is new. This is to
that his assertion with respect to the be found in what the Doctor calls his
worship os Sain is in hisChnrch (p. 798) first and third points.
is not correct. I need only refer your The first consists in imputing to me
correspondent P. C to the number the deliberate suppression of a passage
for August sp. 7 17) for a proof to the immediately following the obnoxious
contrary. By the bye, [, for one, wish position in Dr. Milner's pamphlet re
that your correspondent X. would fa specting the keeping os Oaths ; which,
vour us with more specimens of the it seems, contained the Author's ownj
fame fort. In fact, the Romanists interpretation of his meaning. You
constantly pray to be aided by the me- will first recollect, Sir, that this charges
Hts and profession] as well as intircejjion as notestaled in detail by Dr. Laurence,
•f their Saints, and this sometimes is nete : it not being found in tht Im
in terms which are even blasphemous. partial Report, nor in Cobbett. It has
1 fay no more at present, having had therefore somewhat the look of au
occasion to treat the 'subject in my after thought. It has never been ob
Bani|iton Lecture Sermons, which must jected to me by Dr. Milner, who must
be publilhed, as soon as Doctors Mil- know best whether I had taken his
nerand Laurence, and other avocations, woids " out of the context."—It now
twill permit me. appears aecompanied, in a rather sur
Yours, &c. Thos. Le Mesurier. prising manner, by a long detail of
the adroitness with which our Civil
n, TT Newn/on Lonaville, Doctor elicited from the Attorney Ge
Mr. Urban, o<9»<*r 7. neral an assent which might otherwise
DR. Laurence's last communication have been withheld. Upon this the
turns out, as I expected it would, Doctor dwells with singular compla
to he merely a continuance of his at cency. He Ihews us how he produced
tack upon me. 1 am sorrv for it ; for the pamphlet : how it was first opened,
I wished to be at peacei Being how then shut, aud then opened again (al
ever thus driven, not by arguments, ways, luckily, in the right place): and
but by misrepresentations and very il how finally, in the very nick, " he
liberal personalities, again to lake up fixed" jolt where he ought, so as to
the pen, 1 will be as brief as possible. leave his right reverend Friend in full
I will endeavour particularly not to possession of the field. This, un
" darken counsel rjv words without doubtedly, was very cleverly managed ;
knowledge." Multitude of words is but how to make it applicable lo the
Indeed often employed for a purpose present controversy with me, was the
directly opposite to that of making a difficulty : and here indeed the learned
matter more clear : and this is a secret Doctor's ingenuity is unrivalled. He
perfectly well understood both in West tells us that he uled this art ("little
minster Hall and at Doctors Commons. art" he calls it) in order to counteract
It is an old joke against Lawyers, which " a great deal," which had been shewn
the Doctor, it should seem, will not by Dr. Duigenan In a similar fort of
suffer to drop: pantomime, and in the laying on of
-feciflh prole ; his emphases. (Bv the bve, these ate
Incertlor sum mullo, ijnam dtidum *. • See our note m p. 9'ia. Edit.
* Terem. Phormio7~Act.~i£ the
1 80 Mr. Le Mesurier's r so Dr. Laurence. 931
the men who talk with contempt of dexterity in the management of my
religious controversialists !) And he lells Italics: For the words " human Law"
us, that the fame effect which Doctor aud " Cardinal Virtue", are actually
D. produced by his emphases, 1 had printed in Italics by me.
previously aimed at by my Italics and ' Dr. Milner,' I fay, ' in speaking of
capitals ! ! Is not this an admirable the Coronation Oath, and denying that it
and unforced connexion ? or, shall I bound the Sovereign in such manner as
call it, transition? And what a notable by some ic is supposed to do," " Sir," say*
trick was this in Doctor D. aud me ! he, addressing himself to Mr. Reeves,
Having to do with a particular passage, " Give me leave to remind you, that
we marked what appeared to us to be Every human law, and every promise or
most deserving of notice ; he by em other engagement, however coNriRMCB
phasis, and 1 by Italics: and we are by oath, mujl necessarily turnupon tut
blamed, because, it seems, I did not Cardinal Virtue o/Piuidesce, which im-
print the whole in Italics, and he did pliis that il depends, as to the obliga
not dwell upon every word alike I A' tion of fulfilling it, in such and
mode of printing and of oratory calcu such circumstances, ON the question
lated to produce admirable effect ! The of Exfedi ency !"
best of all is, that for this imputation, ' The obligation of an oath, a question
of Expediency ! '. '. But take the Gentle
such as it is, there is not, as far as I man's Explanation,' " After all," (this is
am concerned, the llifhtest foundation ! what I am charged with omitting,) " this ,
For, let us come to the charge itself. issaying no more tnan that the eternal
Poctor D. it seems, did not read, and AND IMMUTABLE LAW OF NATURE, »r
I did not point, the sentence imme rather os God, is paramount to allsub
diately following the obnoxious pas sequent obligations which we may take upon
sage : which indeed. Dr. Laurence, in ourselves, whenever they appear to mi
his partiality for long periods, is of litate againji each other /"
opinion ought, according to the old ' What more could the rankest of Jar
and the best mode, not to have been cobins have said ? Have we not here their
separated by a full slop, but only by a very jargon of the " inalienable rights of
colon. If we had so done, he says, man?" What breach of faith could not
Dr. Milner's meaning would have be justified by such a principle ?'
clearly appeared 10 be harmless. And And I add in a note :
therefore I am called upon to blush : * This is indeed no more than was ob
nay, to take the blush from the cheeks served by Charles I. that the maxims of
of these confederate Doctors, and apply the Republicans in his time, were all
it to my own. There is something ex taken from the Popish Doctors.'
tremely ridiculous in all this. For, if These, Sir, were precisely my stria-
Dr. Laurence had but condescended to lures on Dr. Milner as to this point,
read the book which he was criticizing both inform and substance. And now
and condemning so severely, he would what becomes of (I may fay the whole
have seen that I had not only quoted of) Dr. Laurence's first part of hie
the passage at length, hut had quoted statement : which all rests on the false
it as the Author's " Explanation :"and foundation of my hav,ing left the words
not only so quoted it, but had marked " human Law" and " Cardinal Virtue"
it with as strong reprobation as the very in Roman characters, and having
passage which it was brought to ex oinilied to notice Doctor M's own
plain. Instead, therefore, ofsuppressing, explanation of his meaning : Which,
I did all in my power pointedly lo call you see on the contrary, I have not
my readers' attention to the passage. only noticed, but reprobated with all
Were my pamphlets as widely circu the pomp of Italics and capitals ! You
lated as your Miscellany, I should be now see, S r, why Dr. Milner himself
content t< refer your Headers to p. 78 never brought such a charge against
of the " Postscript to the Serious Ex me; why it was reserved for Dr. Lau
amination ;" but, as that is not the rence, at this late liage of the dispute,
case, I must be fain to subjoin the when driven as it were to the wall,
whole passage, as it is there standing, to conjure up this phantom of his own
to confront my adversaries in more creating. If you ask, as some of your
ways than one. For, Sir, you will see Readers mav do, what could give oc.
that, as there printed, it completely cafion to so strange and ridiculous a
overihrows all the fine fabrick which blunder, I will tell you. Dr. Laurence,
the Doctor has raised upon my supposed as other " great clerks have done,*'
, consulted
93^ Le Mesurier versus -Laurence ; ^ per centra. [Oct.
consulted a copy instead of the original. Laurence is so delighted, and in which
Jn my letter os January last (p. 38) he so hugs himself, is a mere Popish
ciiing from myself, I happened to vary distinction. It has no warrant in Scrip?
in my manner of putting the Italics ; ture. No, not even, I believe, in his
(Ib little importance did 1 attach to Heathen doctors. It is bus one of
them !) and I did not cite (he latter many inventions to draw away the at
passage (the explanation) at all, because tention of mankind from the Com
the manner of Doctor Milner's attack mandments of God, and to make them
Hid not point that way. I was, as more easy in the commilhon of fin.
you will observe, and have been all Yours, &c. Thos. Le Mesurier.
along, on the defensive. The conse
quence has been, that Doctor L. dis Mr. Urban, Oxford, Oil. 20.
daining to treat me with the common A QUAKER, whom a dog had of-
respect of looking at my book, has f tided, slid lo him very coolly,
" fallen into a pit" of his own digging. " I will not beat thee, friend ! but I
And he has '' floundered" (to tile 1>is will give thee a bad name." He did
own word) still deeper and deeper, on so, apd soon raised all the neighbour
account of the parade ami bustle with hood on the poor animal. From the
which he has introduced this notable calm composure os temper which is
difcovery.of his ! so remarkable in Mr. Le Mefurier's
But let me be permitted to add a late answer to me, as well as from the
word more, as to this famous ex general plan on which he conducts it,
planation. That in reprobating the I have no doubt that he has taken the
maxim which it contained, 1 was Quaker for his model. He informs me,
well justified, there needs not many that he could have said many " smart"
words to shew to von /ir any fair man. things at my expence ; " he could have
When St. Fins the Vth absolved the said much of me and my speech," of
subjects of Queen Elizabeth from their which he anticipates "asecond corrected
Oaih of Allegiance, it was because that account ; but he forbears." In his mercy
path '* APPEARED-' to him lo " mili he will not beat me. You and your
tate against the Law os God." When readers, however, can witness thai he
the Jacobins of the National Assem has given me bad names in plenty, and
bly destroyed that constitution which has done his best to bring all the neigh
but ju II before they had solemnly bours upon me. It seems, I am more
sworn to maintain, it was because that intolerable than a Pope, and more ar
oath "appeared" to them to "mili rogant than Buonaparte ; and as to my
tate against the eternal and immu veracity, God help me! he will allow
table law of naturk." These but three persons in the world to be
instances I could have brought, aud lieve a syllable that I say. Nav, one
many more I could br;ng, to prove the of these he iries bard to get from me;
immoral and pernicious tendency of for he hints lo Dr. Milner that a fami
this casuistry. You will recollect, Sir, liar phrase which includes him, is ** a
what I charged upon Dr: AJihier in contemptuous sheer." He accuses me
January last (p. 33) that the Popes, of disrespect towards yon, Mr. Urban,
proceedingupon this principle, had been He takes it for granted, that he has
" in the practice of absolving; from all ruined me with the whole body of Ro
oaths upon every - the most frivolous man Catholics at large ; and in a long
pretence, and often from the nvist note ot his* new pamphlet (in which,
wicked motives." Mas Dr. Milner, by the way, he has begun a fresh at
ti?| Dr. Laurence, with all his boasted tack upon me) he sets me, with Dr.
researches (in consequence os which Milner, in opposition to all Protestant
he accuses me of incorrectness in my Writers, past, present, and to come.
statements), have, i fay, either of Yet, Sir, I have no disposition to reta
these Doctors, learned or right reve liate. His readers shall be left, unin
rend, ventured to deny thi> ? This, fluenced by me, to decide on the ques
Sir, was and is the main point : l/iis tion which he has lately started f,
it was, even the use to which i lie doc " whether Dr. Milner or he has re
trine had been and was actually put, tained his senses?" Indeed, I should
which made me feel that it never have quietly exercised the right of
flu old be suffered lo go abroad without silence which 1 had reserved to myself,
're. rnbalion. ' did I not feel myself obliged (my
1 may add, that all this stuff about » Reply, &c. note B. p, 207.
" Cardinal Virtues," with which Dr, f Heply, &c. p. 177. ,
Reverend
1807.] Dr. Laurence.—Aivh e to Patients in a Fever. 933
Reverend Friend may put the word to world. The true counteraBum to any
the torture again if he pleases) 10 do deleterious effect of antimony (See pug!
him justice against himself, by retract G()Q,) is by inducing a fit state of the
ing the firll charge of suppression out hotly to receive this medicine. Let the
of the three, which I brought on his feet be walhed and made clean by
own authority. This, in any oilier warm Water, rubbed dry, and covered
cafe, I should do directly, plainly and with flannel or worsted stockings, and
shortly. But 1 too well know the spirit the patient be put in a warm bed.
with which this controversy Is carried Then and only then can we depend
on by others, as well as by Mr. Le Me- upon antimony acting fairly and fully.
siuier, not to be aware that every re The mere Quack is ignorant of tfie
proachful assertion which is suffered to different changes of Fever. If his
pass uncontradicted, is assumed ever nostrum chances to be proper at the
after as an incontrovertible fact ; espe time, it may relieve or cure : otherwise,
cially is any reply be made on any we are hurt, because all those precious
other point in dispute. 1 wish, there moments are thrown away. The phy
fore, to be at liberty to introduce some sician, on the contrary, prescribes ac
few explanations (and they shall be as cording to the existing symptoms, and
few as I can help) of my personal con to obviate what would follow, he may
duct and personal motives, which my in one case cure by repeated draughts of
Reverend Friend treats according to cold water, prescribed as effectually a3
what he in his new pamphlet calls (I in another, where, from the lengthened
trull, very erroneously) the Protestant progress of the disease, he is forced to
way os arguing ; for, as I collecttherules order wine, brandy, and the strongest
of thisargiiuientationfrom his example, cordials from the apothecary's stiop.
it consists in giving credit to nothing In this country patients are lost, be
which your adversary avers, and in cause their own false hopes of getting
putting the worst possible construction better, or their carelessness, or their
on every thing which he says and does. respective awkward situations, have put
But as I had taken leave of the subject off any fort of medical help, until all
in your Magazine, and am sensible how assistance comes too late. In hot cli
uninteresting must be any lengthened mates, the first or inflammatory stage
continuance of this correspondence, I of Fever is of very short duration : lo
do not think myself entitled to intrude be successful there, speaking in general,
so far without your express permission. our means must be sudden and apt ;
I (hall, therefore, wait your answer. but, most unhappily, this first stage is
Only be assured, Sir, that if your de often past, and rapid changes into
cision should be unfavourable, I shall symptoms of the worst kind leave
not write a pamphlet* to accuse you very little in our power afterwards.
of partiality, acquit you in a note, and No one remedy can subdue everyspecies
then go on to intimate fresh suspicions of Fever known tn any country ; -nd, as
throush a page and half of the text. 1 with my letter to be useful and short,
Yours, &c. F. Laurence. take the following advice for any Fever
*** We shoulri be sorry to give offence in this Country, during the first week.
either to Dr. Laurence or Mr. Le Mesu- Rub in a glass mortar five grains of
rier ; but it is really more than time that emetic tartar, with a ten-spoonful of
this Controversy was ended. They have loaf sugar, into a powder, and divide
each a Letter in the present month (Mr. the whole into ten papers.
Le Mesurier has two).—And we give no When the patient is in his warm
tice to both, that nothing from either bed, as above directed, one of these
shall be inserted after the next month ; powders may be shaken off the paper
when, it is hoped, they will not exceed a
single page, into which compass the argu upon his tongue, and washed down
ment may perhaps be compressed. Edit. with two or three large spoonfulls of
warm tea, or any other thin liquid.
Mt. Urban, OB. 21, The first effect after twelve or fifteen
Qui dat cito, bis dat. minutes, will, probably, be sickness,
THE Observations ofS. M. p. 825, producing vomiting, or perhaps not ;
are pertinent enough to make the perspiration will follow, and warrh lea
person addressed speak out. In the may be given to encourage it. Aster
mean time, take/Zi/s from a Practitioner two hours, give a second powder
os fifty years ; not only here, but in in the fame way. Proceed in this
many, the most unhealthy parts of the manner. When sleep supervenes, after
~ * See Kcply, &c. pp. 120, 121, and 1^2 sickness
$,34 Illustrations of Horace, Book I. Epistle XL [Oct.
sickness or after perspiration, the pa written : and this is already sufficient
tient most enjoy n, and the medicine reason for not saying any more concern
afterwards will hardly be necessary. ing them here.
Yours, &tc- ' W. P. Attalicis ex urlibus una.~\ One os the
cities belonging to the empire of the
I'tLtTSTRATIONS OF HORACE. kings of Pergamus, which Attains III.
Book I. Epistle XI. on his dying without heirs in the year
To BuLLATIUS. of Romefel, bequeathed to the Roman
Introduction. republic, after the Attalides had been
BOTH the name and the person osthis in possession of it 154 years. Pergamus,
Bullati us are entirely unknown.That Myndus, Apollonta, Tralles, Thya-
he was a friend of our Poet, and, not tira, and others, were the most consi
withstanding Ihe obscurity of his name, derable cities of this kingdom, which
was at least his own master, aud a man extended over various provinces of the
of some property, might be conjectured Western part of the lesser Asia.
from the tenor of this Epistle, and An Lebedum laudas, odio maris atque
various other circumstances, if we were viarum ?] This Lebedos, about 20
desirous of supplying the deficiency of miles from Colophon, on the Ionian
historical accounts by conjectures. It coast, was in the time of Herodotus,
seems as if, from certain disappoint one of ihe twelve principal cities of the
ments he had met with, or (as I almost beautiful Ionia, famed for iis antient
rather incline to believe) perhaps merely temple of Apollo Clarius, and an an
from an hypochondriacal temperament, nual festival of Bacchus, where what
and because he began to be uneasy that were called the ti^hiIki of that deity,
he was too well,—he had taken a dis that is poets, musicians, and actors,
gust to Rome, and was come to the assembled from all parts of Ionia at a
resolution of making a journey to public trial of (kill. PSn. Nat. Hist.
Greece and Asia ; nay, that he had lib. v. cap. 29. Strabo, lib. xiv. Tor-
some thoughts of fettling in one or renting, therefore, wonders how Horace
other of the fine cities in that delight could think of comparing such a place
ful part of the world. Horace, who with the uninhabited Gabii^ but he-
doubtless was perfectly acquainted with would have found it extremely natural,
the disposition of his man, had design if he had recollected from Pausanias,
ed by this letter, wilhout directly run in Attic, cap. ix. that Lysimachus de
ning counter to his humour, to lead stroyed that city, and transported it*
him imperceptibly from the prosecution inhabitants to Ephesiis ; so that in our
of such a splenetic determination. He Poei's time it was nothing better than a
therefore strives to convince him that a miserable depopulated spot of ground,
xnan may be as happy in retirement even which yet was much honoured by being
at Ulubræ—whither a native Roman brought into comparison with Gabii
had not far to travel—as at Rhodes or and Fidenæ. For the rest, 1 have only
at charming Mitylene, in so far as he to remark, that in the mention of all
can, from the inward frame and tem these deserts, which Horace here heaps
per of his mind be happy any where. together, lies concealed a delicate piece
This moral is conveyed in so easy and of irony on the restless and unsettled
pleasant a tone, ami at the same lime disposition of his friend. A man thai
with so much vivacity, that it must imagines he shall be the better for
have (eemed to Bullatitis as if he had changing his place, though he carries
said the last line himself. And this is with him the cattle of his uneasiness;
the right way of moralizing, which feels, immediately at the first strange
our Poet had learnt from Socrates and place that pleases him, an inclination
the Socratic Aristippus, and in which, to remain there for ever ; but scarcely
as far as 1 know, he has never been has he had lime to look a little' about
equalled. him before he again perceives ihat some-
quid, et Colophon ?"] Horace thing is still wanting to him which he
here names some of the most antient, there cannot find. He goes therefore
most famous, and on account of their farther, bv chance finds what he wanted
situation, foil, and climate, the most before, and now thinks he has pitched
pleasant isles and cities of Greece, upon the happy place. But it is not
which. Bullatius was to visit on his in long ere his restlessness plagues him
tended expedilion. There is not one again : he now feels a wan't of some
of them, on the curiosities whereof a thing etse, which he must go in quest
book had not, or might not have been of elfewhei*, and so makes one trial
asUN
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aster another, and is only aware of his contrivance or negligence this rever
mistake in order to fall into a new one. sion happened ; whether of his famil*
This was apparently the malady of the or the churchwardens. If the latter,
good Bullaxius ; and this is what Ho they are miserable guardians of th«
race, through all the succeeding induc Church ; as I am not aware they, who
tions, in a good-humoured raillery en are only annual officers, have an inde
deavours to make him understand. feasible right (hit the goods of the
Mitylene pulchra facit, isfc.'] Mity- Church ; for such 1 consider monu
lene is styled, by way of eminence, the ments, particularly in the chancel,
beautiful, Meya^u x«i «aA«, LongiPas- which is the indisputed right of the in
iaral. lib. i. as well on account of its cumbent ; and this was a rectory.
superb situation and pleasant district, as Mr. H. with all his details of re
of the beauty of i ts architecture and edi cords, neglects an essential of County
fices. Cicero, II. de Lege Agrar. cap. History, inscriptions in churches, a
xvi. It had ever been, from the time never- failing source of History.
of its famous inhabitant Sappho, a feat Mr. Laurence's son, of both his
of the Muses and the Arts, and was at names, was rector of High Hood
the time of writing of this Epistle, once ing and Little Thurock, in Essex,
more in a very flourishing condition ; rector of St. Mary Aldermanbury,
notwithstanding that it had been almost London, the father of the Citv Clergy,
entirely demolished by the barbarous L. and in the early part of his life a
Syl la the triumvir, about 60 years before. popular preacher. He was of Clare-
Ut quocunque locofueris, vixiffe lihen- hall, Cambridge, A. B. 172G, A. M.
ter te diras.~\ This is the moral to 1732; married, 1st. daughter of a
which Horace continually recurs, and London Bookleller (qu. his name) f
in which he concentrates his whole by whom he had a son, in the army ;
philosophy ; the rule by which he con 2d, Mrs. Spencer, whose sister was
ducted his life, the arcanum to which wife of the late Robert Dingley, esq.
he was indebted for his happiness, and Mr. L. inherited his father's taste for
the only arssemper gaudendi which his floweis, and entertained his friends with
experience had hitherto taught him. an annual exhibition of bulbs, which
Pity it is, that like taste, like love, he reared in his gardenaiBethnal-green,
like bona mens, it should be a secret to where his patron Ebenezer Mussel re-
all who are not in actual possession of fided. See particulars both of father and
it; and that, to fay, seel, love, enjoy, son, Genl.Mag. LXI. 388, 3Qb. Di H.
to a man who cannot seel, cannot love,
cannot enjoy, is exactly the (ame thing Mr. Urban, Oil. 23.
as to invite a gouty man to dance and GARNER1N, the celebrated Aero
a blind man to contemplate the magni naut, has sent the following letter
ficence of the rrfing fun. Horace was, to one os the Paris Journals :
both in foul and body, attuned to this "Gentlemen—Before I undertake a
happy philosophy of life : Bullatius, second nocturnal aerial voyage, which
like ten thouland others of his cast, will take place at Tivoli, on Saturday,
was not so ; he was always seeking the lgth of September, I ought to give
what he therefore could never find, some account ot that which I per
because he sought it, or sought sa far formed in the night between the 4lh
for what was close beside him. and 5th of August last.
E/l Ulubris, &c] Ultibræ, a little My balloon was lighted by twenty
place in the district of the Pontine lamps. Many persons fell some alarm
marshes, was ahont the fame sort of a from the number of these lights, aird,
spot as Lebedos, so little, empty, and their proximity to the balloon,- in cafe a
insignificant, that it would be a shame diminution of the pressure in the upper
to say any more about it. W. T. regions should oblige me to let out th»
hvdrogen gas by the lower orifices.
Mr. Urban, Od. es. They seared least, in this case, the gas
MR. Hutchinson, in his History of sliould find its way to the lights, take
Durham, having noticed but fire, and communicate the flame to the
one monument in the Monks Were- balloon. I had foreseen this inconve
mouth Church, will afford us no means nience. In tire first place, the balloon,
of recovering the inscriptions on the which was the fame in which 1 as
reversed slab of Mr. John Laurence, cended at Milan, was only two-thirds
vol II. 513. fillers that I might defer the emission
T am impatient to learn by of the gat as l»ftg as. poflVbfe ; in th*
next,
936 M. Garnerin's Noflurnal Aerial Voyage. [Oct;
next, she nearest lamps to the balloon, was over the department of L'Aisne.
were fourteen feet distant from it; anil The sun gradually approaching, as-
lastly, conductors were placed in such forded me, at half past three, the mag
a manner, as 10 convey the gas away nificent spectacle of his rising above an
it) a direction contrary to t he hght9. ocean of clouds. The warmth of his
Having made these arrangements, I rays acting on the balloon, the hydro
felt no hefliaiion 10 umUrtakea noc gen sijs again expanded; the atmos
turnal voyage; I ascended from Tivoli, pheric air became more rarified, while
at eleven at ni;',lu, under the Ruffian the :e was nothing to add to the quan
flag, as a token ot peace. There was tity of the counterbalancing weight.
not anv decided current in the atmo Tbe consequence was a new ascension,
sphere, but only undulations, which during which, 1 was tolled about be
toiled me about, I believe, a great part tween Rheims and Chalons, and car
of the night. To this it was owing, ried at four o'clock to an elevation of
that I was first carried towards St. more thpn 3000 fathoms ; there, under
Cloud, aud afterwatds hrought buck a magnif.-ent fkv, and a resplendent
over Vincenncs, in a diametrically Op- sun, 1 experienced a cold of ten degtees.
polite direction. How favourable this The balloon dilated much more con
circumstance would have been lo the siderably than it had yet done. The
speculations of thole who pretend to di temperature was insupportable ; tor
rect balloons! I was in the full force mented by cold, hunger, and a dispo
of my ascension, when the fire-works sition to deep, I resolved 10 descend in
ofTivoli were let off; the rockets scarcely an oblique direction, which brought
seemed to rile from the earth : 1'aris, me to the ground in the commune of
with its lamps, appeared a plain, stud Courmelois, nearthe banks of theVesle,
ded with luminous (pots. Forty mi five leagues Horn Rheims, not far from
nutes after my departure, 1 attained an Loges, aud 45 leagues from Paris, as
elevation »f 2200 fathoms ; the ther ter a voyage os seven hours and a half.
mometer fell three degrees below °. The air collected 40 minutes after
Jiv balloon dila'.ed considerably qs it mv departure, in a cloud, in which the
palled through a cloud, in which the lights lost their brilliancy, and seemed
lights loll their brilliancy, and seemed on the point os going out, presented,
readv to be extinguished. It was as on analysis, no remarkable difference
urgent to give vent to the hydrogen gas, from the air taken on the surface of the
dilated to such a degree as to threaten earth.—There was only a very small
to burst the balloon, as it was interest additional portion of carbonic acid, but
ing to collect some of the air of tins re not sufficient to produce any change in
gion.—Both these operations 1 per the state of my lights. It was nothing
formed atotice, without difficulty ; and but the density of the clouds, ready lo
the emission of the, gas brought me lo be converted into rain, that diminished
a milder region. their brilliancy. Though 1 was car
At 12o'clock, I was only siOO fathoms ried, at four o'clock, to the height of
from the earth, aud heard the barking more than ,'J000 fathoms, my head was
of dogs. A quarter of an hour after not so swollen but that I donld put on
wards, I lost sight of all the lights on my hat ; on the contrary, 1 felt such a
the earth, grew extremely cold, and pressure upon the teuipies and jaws,
could no longer perceive the liars, as to produce pain. The fun, at-that
doubless on account of the clouds. elevation, loll none of his resplendence;
At one in the morning, the cold still I never beheld that luminary so bril-
continuing, I was carried to a higher liaut ; and the loadstone lost none of its
elevation ; the hydrogen gas again ex magnetic virtues. Thus falls the system
panded. About two, I perceixed the invented by M. Robertson, a few years
stars, and law several meteors dancing since, "and already discredited by reason-:
about my balloon, but al such a dis thus the 'story of swollen heads, of air
tance, as not to give me,any alarm. without '.oxygen, collected by living
At half after two, the day began te beings ; of the fun, without resplen
•lawn with me, and having again de dence; of the loadstone without virtue ;
scended, I perceived the earth, which I of matter without gravity ; os the .moon
had not before seen since my departure. the colour of blood ; and os all the
At a quarter to three, I heard coun wonderful things invented by theiame
try people speaking, and remarking the Aeronaut, can, in future, find a place
illumination of my balloon. Having only in the wretched rhapsodies • of the
asked them, they informed (Be thai | celebrated Koiztibue, Gfjvrnbrjn."
" 119 Tht
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lip. The Paraphrase of an anonymnns of the Paraphrase on the Nicomachean
Greek Writer (hitherto pullifliid tinder Ethics."
ihe Name of Andronicus Rhodius), on Such is Mr. B.ridgman's opinion,
the Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle. which is at least ingenious. ,He can
Translated from the Greek, by William didly states, however, that Meurfius,
Bridgman, F.L.S. ReinesiuS, and Vollius, ascribe the Pa
THIS Paraphrase has generally heen raphrase to Andronicus of Rhodes ;
aitribiited to Andronicus Rhodius, Voflius only giving the Treatise on the
an eminent peripatetic philosopher, and Passions lo another Andronicus, not so
a contemporary of Cicero ; but the antient as the Rhodian. He also (tales,
learned Translator thinks that this ac that, according to the authority ot'
count is deficient1 in credibility, and Plutarch, Porphery, and Boethius,
examines, with much acutenefs, the Andronicus 'Rhodius first arranged the
authorities pro and con. The earliest writings of Aristotle and Theophrastus,
edition, that of Heinfius, he observes, and published them with Indexes, as
is without a name. It was printed in 'amended bv Tyrannion the gramma
quarto, 1607; but the second, publish rian, Anlus Gellius also informs us
ed in 1617, to which is affixed a small that this fame Andronicus was an ati-
treatise on the Passions, attributes it to thor; and it seems certain, from the
Andronicus. Salmalius, in his notes testimony of Simplicius, who quotes
On Simplicius, conjectures that we are him in his Commentaries on the Phy
indebted for it to some much later wri sics and Categories of Aristotle, lhat a
ter; and he gives at least one reason, Paraphrase on both these treatises
from internal evidence, which seems to formed a part of his works. "Hence,"
confirm his' opinion, or to render it fays Mr. Bridgman, "there is some,
probable, for it is too late to attain probability, that, notwithstanding the
certainty in such a cafe. Naudæus, in preceding objections, this work also is
Bibliograph. Polit. thinks that this Pa an offspring of his genius."
raphrase is to be attributed to Olvmpi- The identity of the Paruphrast, how
odorus, one of the most celebrated in ever, is of much less consequence than
terpreters of Aristotle, who lived in the the value of the work itself, which,
sixth century ; but Mr. Bridgman is may bedeemed curious, as affording an
inclined to think, with Fabricius, that illustration of Ariltu.tle's Ethics;- but.
the author, whoever he was, is even how far his Ethics, or any illustration,
more recent than Olyinpiodorns. of them, Can recommend them to the
" For there was' one Andronicus philosophers and moralists of the pre
Callistus, a peripatetic philosopher, in sent day, is a question, in the solution
(he time of Gregory Palæologus (the of whjch we are afraid we (ball have
XVlh century;, to whom an epistle of the misfortune to differ from the learn
his is extant among the MSS. of the ed Translator; Mr. Bridgman has ex
French King, as we are informed bv ecuted his part well ; but it is impossi
Labbe, in his Catalogue of MSS. p. ble, by any legitimate translation, to
98. Labbe also notices two other epis make that perspicuous which ihe Au
tles to Andronicus Callistus, one of thor has left obscure; jmd, if we may
Nicolaus Secnndinus, and another of judge from this specimen, either our
Cardinal Bcffarion, under whose aus language is inadequate to the ideas of
pices and roof this' philosopher prose the Paraphrast, or the Paraphrast and
cuted his studies. lie also mentions his great (paster, the Slagirite, are in
the following works of this fame An capable of rendering their opinions fa
dronicus, viz. De Phyftca Scicntia et miliar to 1 he common understanding.
Torluna, Physical Divisions of the Mr. Bridgman decides, and that pe
fame, and .1 Treatise (crifi •wccOm,) on remptorily, (hat this work contains
the Passions; the latter of which Da " the most scientific aud peifcct System
vid Hoafcbelius first published in 15gS, of Monthly hitheno devised by the
Svo, under the name of Andronicus mind o( roan." But in this we differ
Rhodius, from two MSS. one of which from him in Into. He qualifies this
he received from MarguniuS, and the opinion, however, so far that perhaps
other was sent to Sylburgius, from there mav not be an essential difference
Spain, by Andrew Schottus ; and between us ; for he does not mean "to
which, as we have already observed, propose this as the sole guide for the
Meinfius added to his second edition regulation of motil conduct;" which
Gent. Mao. O&olcr, I8O7. *'•
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we should certainly he inclined to do if foul are the moll principal and especial
we thought it " the most scientific and goods ; but we call the goods pertain
perfeil System of Morality hitherto ing lo the foul psychical actions and
deviled by the mind of man." Nei energies. The psychical actions and
ther, he tells us, would he be thought energies, therefore, that are good, are
desirous of substituting this system for the most piincipal and especial goods :
that of the Gospel, "whose precepts, and hence the most principal and espe
besides being accompanied with the cial good consists in a humsorm psychi
most gracious promises of reward in a cal energy; but this is Felicity. Feli
future life, have always promoted the city, therefore, is the energy of the foul
temporal interests of mankind in pro according lo virtue; and this defini
portion as they have been unperverl- tion is conformable to antient opinion,
tdly practised." All this is true; and and acknowledged by philosophers."—
we are happy to think that the mora Now, let any Reader " make a study"of
lity of the Gospel is in no kind of dan this passage ; and when he thinks he
ger from a substitute like the present, understands it, let him fay how much
even is it were attempted ; for, how wiser he is than before, and in what
ever men may practise what they read, consists ■ the vast and uncommon pro
we know that they will read what they fundity" of such a passage.
can' understand, in preference to what The title of Chapter V I. of Book V.
they cannot understand. is, that "Retaliation is not a species of
Mr. Bridgman considers the work justice, unless ihe retaliation be pro
before us as " no less faithful than ele portional." This proposition will rea
gant, and no lei's perspicuous than dily be allowed by every well-informed
faithful." But it appears to us so much mind ; it fortunately requires little
the opposite to all that is called perspi study; but what mind will be more
cuous, that we must allow Mr. Bridg enlightened by the following illustra
man the full advantage of his own ex tion of it?
planation on this head before we pro P. 18(j. " Remunerations- and com
ceed to prove our own opinion by a munications are certain communions ;
specimen or two. but communions belong to things of
At the conclusion of the Preface which we have need, since every one
Mr. Bridgman fays, " Fully admitting endeavours to partake of that which
jts perspicuity, we must at the lame he wants. We have need, however, of
time add, by way of c.iution to the things dissimilar. For no one is in
Reader, that the very nature of the want of himself, or of the things be
subject, and the scientific manner in longing to himself, or of those which
which it is delivered, demand an at he is able to procure ; but such as he
tentive perusal, and that it can be un neither has, nor is able 10 procure, of
derstood bv those alone who make it a these he endeavours to become a par
study. This indeed is absolutely ne taker from his neighbour. For the
cessary to the comprehension of every shoe-maker has not need of a shoe
scientific trealile, and cannot fairly be maker, neither has the physician of a
imputed as a fault to the Paraphrase physician; but each mutually stands in
(and we hope not to the Translation), need of the other. Hence it is evident
but to the peculiarity of the original that favours belong to things dissimilar.
work itself, which, like the greater part Remunerations and communications,
of the writings of the Stagirite, is cha therefore, are not the fame; but in or
racterized by pregnant brevity of dic der that thev may subsist according to
tion, and by the vast and uncommon the just, equalitv according to the pro
profundity of his conceptions, which portional must be adopted. For a shoe
are so intimately connected with the maker will give a shoe to an architect ;
diction that any innovation in the style but he will receive from him such
must infallibly injure the sense." things as contribute to a house, pro
Our first specimen shall be a short portionally to the favour. A physi
one, from Chapter XIV. in which the cian also will give some things to a
Paraphrast gives the following defini husbandman, but receive others from
tion of Felicity : " Goods, having a him according to proportion ; since it
three-fold division ; some are said to happens thai the work of the one is
belong to externals, others to the foul, more honourable lhan that of ibe
tand others to the body ; and all men other. For the shoe-maker does not
aBert, that the goods pertaining to the give the architect a pair of shoes sor-a
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house ; but adds as much, by way of labours, has, in many parts, given us
retribution, as may compensate the loss a something which is certainly not
sustained by the architect in building Greek, and yet is not English. In
the house. Were it otherwise, the other cases, words are introduced, for
contracts would be unequal, and the the first time, that are Greek in every
favours anomalous. It is necessary, thing but the terminations ; and other
therefore, that equality should be pre words, really English, are used in a
served in favours ; but, nevertheless, sense so unusual as to be unintelligible
according to that proportion which a to the mere English Reader, for whose
diametrical conjunction effects ; for a sake, however, this Translation mult
diameter is a conjoined right line, ex have been executed.
tending from one angle of a parallelo Once more, to corroborate our opi
gram to the opposite angle. Let there nion of the utility of Aristotle's Ethics,
be four terms in the form of a square ; as paraphrased by Andronicus, we shall
viz. the architect, the shoe-maker, a copy a sew sentences from Book V.
shoe, and a house. Place the architect Chapter VIII. the title of which is,
at A, the shoe-maker at C, the house " In what manner a man may act un
at B, and the shoe at D. Since, there justly, and still not be unjust." This is
fore, the shoe is placed under the shoe one of those paradoxical titles which
maker, as D under C, and the house are frequently prefixed to the chapters
under the architect, as B under A, the of this work, but which end in a quib-
shoe-maker, in mutual communica bse, or something more weak, when
tions, will be conjoined with the ar the Paraphrast pretends to make them
chitect, as A is conjoined with D ; but familiar. In the present case he thus
the shoe-maker to the house, as C with explains himself :
B ; and thus there will be a diametri " We will shew that certain things
cal communication ; not indeed ac may be done unjustly, and still not be
cording to the fame things, but ac unjust; as, for instance, a man may
cording to such as are proportional." steal, or commit adultery, and yet be
We have scarcely patience to finish neither a thief nor an adulterer. For,
this extract, without flopping to ask if any one should steal a sword from a
any reader, whether architect, shoe maniack, lest he should wound him
maker, or cobler, what he has learned, self, such a one steals indeed, but ne
or what can possibly be learnt, from vertheless is not a thief. So also if .viy
such puerile trash as this? Of what one commits adultery for the purpose
materials can the mind of an architect of enriching himself, he commits the
or a shoe-maker be composed, if it is crime indeed, but still is not an adul
necessary to form a diagram in order to terer, but a lover of riches. If, also, a
prove that a pair of shoes is not worth physician should deceive a sick person,
a house, and that, after the shoe ma in order to preserve him, he deceives,
ker has given the architect a pair of yet he is not a deceiver. It is manifest,
shoes, he must add something more for therefore, that certain things may be
building a house? This, every Reader done unjustly, and yet not be unjust
will fay, is egregious trifling with according to that particular injustice,
common sense* and with the language the work of which he accomplishes."
of common fense. It is borrowing the From this passage it is evident that
terms of science to make that perplex the Paraphrast is puzzling himself by
ing and unintelligible which was be confounding actions with motives, and,
fore level to the meanest understanding. what is worse, bad actions with good
Yet of such trifling we might exhibit ones. The taking of a sword from a
an hundred more proofs from this Sys maniack, no human being, except
tem of Ethics. But the above may be perhaps the maniack himself, would
sufficient to justify the liberty we have call Jlcaling. With respect to the
taken in differing from the learned adulterer, it is something wurse than
Translator. And we may add, what quibbling to say that he is not an adul
the Reader has perhaps already disco terer because he committed the crime
vered from these sew specimens, that to enrich himself. As to the case of
the language of this translation is not the physician, it has no bearing uponj
according to the English idiom or con the argument. But if such reasoning
struction. The Translator, in his as this is to be adopted in any System,
anxiety to be faithful, or rather in his of Ethics, we should have no crimes
feat left his Author should suffer by bis at all. The adulterer would only be a
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lover of beauty; the murderer would the iwrrow circle of domestic life, still
be only a jealous man, or fond of find such ample reason to deplore his
riches, or given to revenge. But it loss.
is unnecessary to pursue tlie subject As the several Treatiles contained in
any farther, or to (hew thai such quib this volume have already been submit
bling, where it is understood, mull ap- ted to the Publick at different periods,
pear ridiculous, and where il is adopt and therefore are probably well known
ed mull be hurtful. to many "four Readers, it can scarcely
The writings of Aristotle justly pro- be necessary for us, in giving an ac
cured him", for many centuries, the count of them, to enter much into de
reputation of one of the wiled philo tail. A Ihort aud general statement
sophers of antiquity ; but no philoso mav suffice.
pher of antiquity has been able to stand These Treatiles then are Eight in
against the superior light and know number. The First is intituled, " Of
ledge of the last two centuries. As a the Principle of Re! b ion ;" in which
critic, in his Poetics, Aristotle must it is iie design of the Author, as he
ever remain unrivaled, He is indeed himself expresses it, " to fix the cha
in Criticism what Homer is in I'oetrv ; racteristics! Principle of Religion,"
but his Philosophy, it i?, we belieie, whether of Love or of Fear; and to
universally acknowledged, is the philo sheiv upon what precise view of tha
sophy of words rather than of things. Divine Being it was at different limes
To revive it now would be compelling founded ; that is to fay, before and af
the human mind to a retrograde mo ter the Fall of Man ; during the Pa
tion, and driving it itit'i the darkness triarchal Ages, both by those who
of the darkest times. It is acknow continued to cherish, and thole who
ledged, no less universally, that the had lost, or rejected, the Light of Di
iludv of his writings tends more to vine Revelation ; and under the Mo
perplex the understanding with subtle saic and Christian Dispensations respec
distinctions than to enlighten it ,wiih tively. Under which latter Institution
real knowledge; and we mav conn- " Religion upon earth proceeds on the
dciltlv add, that isanv person questions fame fundamental principle, and on
this decision, his doubts mav be very the fame endearing view of the Divine
fpr. 'ilv relieved by a perusal of the Being, upon which the Religion of
work before us. the Blessed in Heaven will also pro
ceed."—The Second Treatise, "On the
120. Treatises on Religions and Scriptural Facts of Revelation," was written by
Subjefis. By the late Robert Holmes, the Author during his confinement
D. D: Dean of Winchester. Oxford, under a serious illness, "when disabled,
at the University Press, 1 806. for a time, from pursuing those occu
BY an Advertisement prefixed to pations which must otherwise have en
this volume vye are informed that the grossed his attention;" and was pub-
Treatises which it contains have now lidied separately, in the year 1801, un
been repubhlhed in compliance with der the title of "A Manual of Reflec
the will of the late learned and la tions on the Facts of Revelation."—
mented Kditor of the Collations of the The Third treats of " the Angelical
Septuagint Version. A most numerous Mefliige to the Virgin Mary," an
and highh.respectable List <>f Subscri nouncing the Birth of the future Sa
bers, whole names are prefixed to the viour of Mankind..— The Fourth,
volume, affords ample testimony q! tlie which is the longest, and, we think,
respect with which the memory of the tlie moll important of these Treatiles,
Author is (lill cherished by persons bed discusses " the Prophecies and Testi
qualified duly to appreciate his wor:h, mony of John the Baptist, and the
as well as of that regret which has parallel Prophecies of Jesus Christ."
been so generally felt on account of The matter which it contains origi
his death, and the consequent inter nally appeared in the form of Sermons
ruption os the great work lo which ,ht8 preached before the University of Ox
life was entirely devoted*. Sa strong ford, at the Bamplon Lecture, in the
and decisive a testimony is indeed not year 1782. It was cast into its present
less honourable to the .liberality of form by the Author himself, and is
thole by whom it has thus publicly now " reprinted with such alterations
been borne, than it mult he conlblatory and corrections as had been made bv
to the feelings of his friends, who, in him in a copy which he left prepared
for
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for the press." These alterations and We cannot take our leave of this
corrections seem indeed to lie of consi last publication under the name of the
derable value. The general design os learned Editor of the Septuagint Colla
the Author is rendered more perspicu tions without correcting an erroneous,
ous ; and the scope and tendency of or, to speak more properly, without
his several arguments become more supplying a defective statement which
evident, in consequence of the judi we inadvertently made in vol.LXXVT.
cious division of the Treatise into dis p. 729. We there staled, that, " upon
till parts and sections. And the lan the decease of Dr. Holmes, the whole
guage of the whole has evidently re concern had become the property of
ceived very considerable improvement, the University, who had made a hand
in point of clearness, correctness, and some compensation to his widow for
precision.—The Fifth Treatise is di all the copies," &c. This imperfect
vided into two parts; the first of which statement, we fear, may have tended to
is intituled, "On the Premial Principle convey an idea that the widow of the
of Redemption ;" and the second, "On learned Editor, on adjusting the ba
the Judicial Principle of Redemption." lance «f the account with the Delegates
—The Sixth treats of the Resurrection of the Clarendon Press, was entitled to
of Christ, and of the future Resurrec receive, and did actually receive, a con
tion of the human Body, as inferred siderable sum of money for the pur
from that of Chrill, and exemplified by chase of the remaining copies of the
Scriptural Cases. It was published to Pentateuch, and of the Book of Da
gether with the First, Third, and Fifth niel, which, it is well known, com
of these Treatises, which we have al prise the whole of the work which hag
ready noticed, and also the Eighth and yet been published. We lament, how
last (being a Discourse on Humility, ever, to learn, from indisputable autho
from Galatians v. 26), in one small rity, that, on adjusting this account,
volume, octavo, in the year 1788. It according to the terms of the compact
now remains for us only to notice the originally made between the Delegate*
Seventh of these Treatises, which is and Dr. Holmes, after deducting the
also a Discourse, on Philippians iii. 21, full amount of all subscriptions re
wherein the Author deduces the Re ceived for the first volume, together
surrection os the Body from the Resur with a proportional sum for the Book
rection of Christ, and illustrates it from of Daniel, and after allowing also the
his Transfiguration. This, we believe, full value of all the remaining copies
was his first public Theological Com of these parts of the work, a balance
position. It was preached before the was still found to be due, on the Col
University of Oxford in the year 1777 lation and Publication Accounts joint
(not 1787, as it is incorrectly stated, by ly taken, amounting to the sum of
an error of the press, no doubt, in the 2541. 11s. lOd. ; which sum was ac
Advertisement prefixed to this vo cordingly paid by Dr. Holmes's Exe
lume), and was published in quarto cutors. It is indeed a melancholy re
that same year, in consequence of the flection for all the parties concerned,
urgent solicitations of one of his that, liberal as the contributions to the
hearers, conveyed to him in an ano publication of this work have undoubt
nymous letter, which was understood edly been, on the part of those whose
to have been written by the late names appear in the List of Subscri
learned Dr. Benjamin Wheeler, after bers, yet so enormous have been the
wards canon of Christ Church, and necessary and unavoidable expences of
Regius Professor of Theology. Be this, the undertaking, that the printing of
however, as it may ; the Sermon is the Pentateuch only, together with the
unquestionably distinguished for much Book of Daniel, has very nearly ex
new and ingenious illustration, happily hausted the total amount of subscrip
thrown out on a subject of transcend- tions received for the publication of
aut importance indeed, but so often the whole Old Testament. So embar- '
and so fully discussed as to leave, even raffing was the situation in which
to the most vigorous aud reflecting (without very great additional assistance
mind, but little well-grounded hope of from the Publick, much greater indeed
producing arguments which combine than could rationally be expected) the
originality of thought with sound and learned and laborious Editor, had his
orthodox belief. life been prolonged, must_fljortly have
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been placed, wilh respect to this im unison, as we all conceived, with the
portant work ! And Co scanty also are wishes of the House of Montague."
the pecuniary aids with which the Dr. M. 'views the question of Poli
Delegates of the Clarendon Pre(s have ticks in a different light from his op-
now to proceed in editing the Three ftonenis. He is of opinion, that the
remaining Volumes of a Publication ate Administration, so far from endan
of such unequaled magnitude and cx- gering the Constitution, were its en
pence ! lightened and disinterested supporters ;
In spite, however, os these discou and if the foundations of our happy
raging circumstances, we learn, wilh Church Establishment have been ren
much satisfaction, that the Delegates dered insecure, it has been by those
have never loft light, for a moment, of men who have cloathed their selfish
this important business; but that, on and ambitious purposes in the garb of
the contrary, every arrangement in Religion; who have laboured to disu
their power has actually been made for nite the various classes of their fellow-
resuming the Publication of the Colla subjects, to the end that they might
tions, with as much expedition as. may take advantage of the distraction that
be, consistently with their other en ensued, and (eat themselves more firm
gagements; Ib that, in consequence of ly on the pinnacle of power. The Ca
thole arrangements, the priming of the tholic Question, as it is called, had no
workv it is hoped, will very loon be re connexion whatever with the removal
commenced, tinder the care of a Gen of the late Administration. So far from
tleman who is known to be well qua imagining that anv harm was likely to
lified to conduct so arduous and labo arise from the provisions of Lord Ho-
rious an undertaking. wick's Bill, it appeared, on the con
trary, lo streugthen the bulwarks of the
ISI. A Letter to the. Freeholders of the Church, by providing it a greater bodv
County fif Huntingdon. By Edward of defenders, more warm in its cause
Maltby, D. D. Vicar of Buckden, &c. in proportion to the confidence bestow
DR. M. made a speech from the ed upon them, and at the same time
hustings on the day of the last election, more anxious to approve themselves
May 13, in defence of Lord Piohy, worthy of those rewards which the
against Mr. Fellowes, a new candidate, King had at length the power of be
who offered himself on the support of stowing upon tried Loyalty and Cou
the House of Montague, in opposition rage. " I may be allowed," lays the
to the late Administration and his own Doctor, " in the most respectful man
independence ; which three reasons ner to express my dissent from the
were examined by the Doctor, who construction which has been put upon,
▼indicated the elective franchise of the the Coronation Oath. The King, at
Freeholders and the indetiendence of his coronation, swears to maintain the
the County, against a Noble ljm\, rights and privileges of the Protestant
who, already possessed of influence Church. Surely, this must mean the
enough to carry three representatives Protestant Church secured and guarded
out of the four the County lent to by those (auctions which the wisdom
Parliament, not satisfied with the (hare or the Legislature may, from time to
he had obtained, wanted to engross the time, deem necessary to its (afety. Hu
whole. An anonymous Answer was man laws are, in their nature, variable,
published to this Speech, supposed by subject to such modifications as a
a celebrated writer, who had, on for change of times and of circumstances
mer occasions, warmly espoused the may render expedient. Whatever mea
interest of the House of Montague, sure thus receives the sanction of the
and had been well rewarded by them three Branches of the Legislature, in
wilh ecclesiastical patronage ; which order to the general good, cannot but
Answer provoked this Leuer, in which be considered as strictly conformable to
the Doctor thews that no opposition the seller as well as the spirit os the
was raised by the Freeholders; Lord Oath solemnly taken by the Sovereign,
Proby was the fitting member; and, when he publicly assumes the reins of
"in endeavouring to procure his re government. If ihe measure of Lord
election, they acted in conformity wilh Hovvick had been altogether new in its
the voice of the County, unanimously principle, and yet been considered as
expressed no longer ago than in No tending lo the public good, it could
vember tail; and expressed in complete not be deemed au infringement upon
the
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the sanction of an Oath, the terms of down to the condition of a common,
which were framed with no other labourer, but with educated wants'
view than that of promoting the bene which the peasant's services neither
fit of the State. Still less does it appear need nor can supply.". . . ."See, Sir^"
to me that the measure lately proposed fays he to Mr. Whitbread, " where
can be liable to this objection, after the your refinements are carrying you—are
various concessions made in this very we, in future, to have a steam-engine
reign to Irish Catholicks, and afier the erected on every farm, and the business
decisive encouragement which has been of husbandry, like yours of the brew-
given to foreigners of that persuasion, house, done exclusively with machi
when the Catholic Religion has been nery?" And to Sir trancis Burdett,
formally established in Canada, and Bart, in a postscript, " I submit it, Sir
when the Constitution given to Corsica Francis, that it is. too much for your
upon its annexation 10 the British servants to withhold my MS. which I
Crown, expreffly declared that the had no other means of replacing but
Christian Catholic Apoftolic Roman Re from memory." Mr. R. recites his
ligion, in all its Evungelicat purity, distresses and schemes; and concluded,
shall be the only National Religion tn "I have indeed at length succeeded in
Corsica" (pp. 20, 210—"Supposing, establishing a considerable trade [as a
however, for a moment, that the mea shoe-maker] ; but here I am continu
sure so often alluded to had been preg ally in the hands of a let of miscreants,
nant with the danger which some have who, for pecuniary ctjjijlance, fleece me
supposed (and which I am ready to al of my profits." (p. 19.) The object of,
low some honest and conscientious his pretent correspondence is, to pro
men have supposed), yet no reason can cure a fund for the relief of that inva
be assigned for the outcry which has luable class, the middle class of so
been railed, aud for the alarm which it ciety, instead of supporting Agricul
is to be feared has been more frequent turists in their dangerous schemes of
ly feared than felt. The measure itself inclosure, till there is scarce a heath
was withdrawn in respectful deference to or an acre of common left in the king
the feelings of the Sovereign; nor did dom, and the race of labouring far
its provisions become a subjeB of debate mers all nearly extinct, by the landed
in either Jfouse of Parliament " (p. 82 ) interest adding farm to. farm; and
" Influenced by no personal consi tradesmen, by the aid of an immense
derations, and attached to no descrip circulation of paper, have followed "in
tion of public men, otherwise than by the same steps, till it is nearly inipofli-
the observations 1 am enabled to make ble for a mere industrious man to pre
upon their public conduct, I will still serve his rank in society. Mr. Whit
pursue, resolutely and fearlessly, the great bread " brings forward a measure
principle which originally induced me which can only fliew the poor more
to seel an interest in the late contest. effectually the wretchedness of their si
That principle, I need not remind you, tuation, and make the best-gifted and
is your Independence, as well as my most enterprising of the community
own ; the principle upon which our most exceedingly dissatisfied with his
liberty is founded, and with, it the lot, without any chance of mending
happy Constitution we are permitted to it." (p. 15.)
enjoy. B« assured, Gentlemen, if that
principle becomes obliterated from the 123. The Epics of the Ton; or, The Gloria
minds of any large portion of British of the Great World : A Poem, in 'Two
'Electors, the respectability of Parlia Books ; with Notes and Illustrations.
ment will be lost, our liberty must be The Second Edition, with consderails
endangered, and our constitution then Additions.
sink into utter and irremediable ruin." WITH honest indignation, and in
{p. 36.) not inelegant strains, this imitator of
'The Pursuits of Literatu assails
122. The Warning Voice. In a Letter to the follies and the vices of the Great.
Mr. Whitbtead, on the dangerous Ten Dividing his subject into two books,
dency of his Plan of General Education. the "Female" and the "Male," the
THIS Letter is dated High Hol- first portrait will readily be recognized :
born, N° 204, signed by William " 'VVhne round the course, or through th«
Randall, and dedicated to the Earl of mining Stetne,
Romney, whose tenant the author h id Train'd to her lids a p y prirt is seen
keen, but from a great farm " hurled
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To catch, with smiles, her glances as they " Such Moons may shine, when thy
fly. bright Sun is down, [town!
And search for lustre in herhollow'd eye— O born to grace the vale, and gild the
• Still crowds will gaze, still Brighthelm- On Chiswick's banks a flower that woos
stone will shout, the sight, [light.
Still titled ladies throng her envied rout: In London's throngs a dazzling blaze of
By sires who kneel before the Rising Sun, "No servile Rhymester now begins the
By mothers who no shame for Courts lay, .
would slum, And finc;s, like Tom, for favour or for pay;
Still blooming daughters to her levees led, No rich rewards come glitt'ring from the
Shall learn betimes to stain the marriage- tomb, ' [gloom*.
bed." No gaping flatt'rers seek to pierce its
This want of all decorum naturally Hadst thoustiil beam,
balk'd the wing in Fashion's
[dream ;
leads lo the following apostrophe : The Mule had flapp'd thee in thy golden
"O Britain's Queen ! accept the tribute due Or sung a second to some yelping cur,
To Virtue, Honour, Modesty, and You: And raked for gold, perhaps, the dirt-}- of
Though this loose Age, by French exam S—r ; [kind,
ple wife, Or wept that virtues, form'd to bless man-
The sacred rites of wedded love despise; Should lose the kernel, and retain the rind;
Though matrons shine, when lost their That a heart, warm with charity and love,
honest name, [dame ; A prey to sycophants and knaves should
And with th' adult'rer proudly flaunts the prove ; [loft,
Yet Her I honour, to whose single court That Nature's softest feelings should be
Chaste maids may still without a blush Amidst the waves of whirling Folly tost;
resort; [unknown, Keen though they were to sorrow or de
Even if the lewd should ceme, they come light, [height J:
And Vice itself must here its name dis And sweetly warbled from the Alpine
own 1" That talents dear to Genius, mark'd for
Not to give offence, bv copying cha fame, [game;
racters which may be thousht severe, Should still be wasted at the midnight
or others that might be deemed partially Or rack'd, next day, to find some new
civil ; let that of a deceased Lady of the supply,
first Quality appear as a short specimen That And bilk a tradesman with a shew to buy.
of this entertaining satvre. she, of softness, past her sex, posseft,
Felt the mad passions of the gamester's
Aster the mention os some of the breast ;
brightest Ornaments of the Ton, the Or, urg'd by faction midst the rabble tribe.
Poet proceeds : Should kiss a greasy butcher with abribe § ;
* '"It is rather mortifying to the love of posthumous fame, -to observe how much
more a person of great celebrity in the fashionable world is greeted with complimentary
poems while alive than by elegies after death. A Nelson, whose praises everyone is for
a season ready to hear ; or a Pitt, who has left behind him a Party that may yet be in
power, is indeed more fortunate, and bespattered with nauseous applauses in many
thousand hobbling couplets. But the unhappy Fashionables, when laid in the dust,
are seldom capable of producing more than a sinjle Delia Crusea sonnet in a news-pa
per. For the benefit and warning of my readers of this class, it may not be unseason
able to mention an anecdote of the Earl of Shrewsbury, a famous courtier in the days
of Queen Elizabeth. He had, in his life-time, erected his own tomb, and caused a
long inscription, containing a summary of all his transactions, te be engraved upon it,
omitting only the date of his death, which it was impossible for him to divine. So
well did this courtier understand mankind, that he foretold bis heirs would neglect to
make even this small addition to the inscription; and so it happened; for the space
which should contain the date of his death remains a blank to this day !"
J" "A report was industriously circulated that this mawkish piece of would-be scandal
had actually killed the illustrious personage it attempted to expose. Surely her thread
of life must have been reduced to a single hair, if the flap of this moth's wing could
snap it asunder! But the report had the desired effect; and several editions of this
apology for a novel were fold off on the strength of an imaginary lady-slaughter !"
{ " Re-echoed from the harp of Delille, those strains have rendered the genius of
their author not less known and admired on. the Continent than at home."
§ " It was certainly an ingenious device, to heighten the value of a guinea, to place
it between the ruby lips of a lady of high fashion, and thus let it drop, in the act of
kissing, into the liquorish mouth of the chuckling voter. The gentlemen of Newport
market like it hugelv, and would not have been without such a kiss for twenty guineas."
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tlnskill'd, discretion with her warmth to rogues and vagabonds to work, under the
blend, [friend. superintendance of overseers. The lsth
Nor lose herself through zeal to serve a of Elizabeth authorizes the justices to
"But, Censure, hush! a sacred silence provide houses of correction, and mite-
keep ; rials for the purpose of employing tire idle
Let Loves alone and Graces come to weep ; and the dissolute, and oi instructing the
Let tears sincere her human frailties mourn, youth in useful occupations. In the year
Nor flatt'ring lies hold up her tomb to 1597 various new legislative regulations
scorn. [buy *, were made relative to vagrancy and men
Though forty thousand pounds her image dicity; and some of the barbarous pu
And all, that hope from D n, haste to nishments inflidled on vagrants by Acts
' lie j [tear, passed in this and former fcigmi were
Though hireling mourners counterfeit a commuted for whipping. The syth of
And hypocritic coaches crowd her bier; Elizabeth established most of the provi
When envy long is dead, and passion calm, sions which were afterwards re-enacted,
Her own soft lines (hall best her name with some amendments, in the year ]6o]j
embalm." namely, in the 43d year of the fame reign;
We (hall pay our respects to the Se tem, and forms the great features of the Sys
cond Book of " Epics" in our next. with respect to the support and ma
nagement of the poor, which has been
124. Colquhoun's Treatise on Indigence. acted upon for more than two centuries.
" It was not, therefore, until experi
("Continued from p. B43.J ence had enlightened the minds of the
A BRIEF View is given of the very able Statesmen of those days, that
State of Indigence after the Reforma this System was ultimately matured by a
tion, and previous to the Act of the consolidation and an improvement of pre
43d of Elizabeth ; and the great Out vious experimental Laws.
lines of that Act explained. "The following are the great outlines
" The legislative regulations which of the Act of the 43d of Elizabeth:
were made previously to the Reformation, " 1, Setting the children of the poor to
for the support of the indigent, and other work when their parents cannot
matters affecting the labouring people, maintain them. ,
evince a very imperfect knowledge of po " 2. Putting poor children out appren
litical œconomy ; nor was it discovered, tices.
Until after a long lapse of years, that the " 3. Setting the idle to work.
dire6l interference of the Legislature, in "4. Purchasing raw materials for that
respect to the prices of provisions and la purpose.
bour, was in most instances unnecessary, " 5. Raising, fey an assessment, a sum of
and generally injurious. money for the support of the old,
" The suppression of the monasteries, lame, impotent, blind, and sueli
in the reign of Henry the Eighth, left the as are unable to work, from in
indigent in England without that eleemo fancy or other causes, and to pay
synary resource to which they had been for raw materials.
accustomed to look for subsistence either " 6. Appointing two overseers, in ad
permanent or occasional ; while the laws dition to the churchwardens, to
made to restrain idleness and vagrancy are carry the Act into execution.
distinguished by a harshness and severity " 7. Authorizing justices to appoint the
which strongly mark the rude and imper overseers, and to inspect the pro
fect state of society at this period. ceedings of the parish-officers.
" The long reign of Elizabeth produced " Nothing can appear more excellent
a series of Acts of Parliament for the Im in theory than the System thus establish
provement of the former Laws respecting ed ; and had it been strictly carried into
the Poor ; and various devices were re effect, the. Nation, for the two last centu
sorted to, for the purpose of compelling ries, could only have been burthened
the idle to work, and for the punishment with the support of infants, 'and aged or
of vagrants. At length, in the year 1572, infirm persons reduced to a state of indi
the Legislature, for the first time, sound it gence from inability to labour. But ex
neceflary to authoi ize a general assessment perience has ssiewn, thai no part of this
for the relief of the impotent poor, and to Statute has been executed, either in its
employ the surplus (if any) in felling Letter Or spirit, save and except the raising
of money by assessments, which has been,
* " Forty busts of this celebrated lady must accurately carried into effect from
are said to be in a train of execution at a year to year, until the burthen has in
thousand pounds each." creased as is supposed; from 200,000). in
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the year 1601 *, when the Act com "It has been already observed, that
menced, and when the population of the many eminent writers of the two last cen
country was estimated at about 5,000,000, turies violently declaim against the con
to 4,267,9651. on a population amounting duct of parochial officers appointed to ex
to 8,872,080 in the year 1803. ecute the Poor Laws ; and impute the
"The facts disclosed by the Parlia whole blame to a class of men, who,
mentary Returns of the Poor in 1776, however well qualified at the beginning,
and in 1783, 4, and 5, and the more re are now, from their rank in society, and
cent Returns made in 1803, clearly de often deficient education, unequal to de
monstrate, that neither the children of tails of such extreme difficulty, more es
the poor able to labour, nor the adults, pecially under circumstances where occu
have been set to work to an extent to be pations necessary for the support of theit
useful ; and that the materials purchased, families not only claim their attention,
and the work performed, are trifling and and often fully employ their time; but
inconsiderable, when compared with the where the duty is rendered infinitely nioro
number of paupers in the middle stages intricate from the complicated machinery
of life, amounting to nearly half a mil introduced by modern Statutes, and also
lion of individuals who have received re from the extensive and gigantic height to
liefs. Neither does it appear that poor which the labour and expence have risen
children have been regularly apprenticed in consequence of the vast and rapid in
out as the Act directs, since multitudes, crease of paupers, without proper legisla
reduced to a state of indigence, grow up tive regulations to meet so extraordinary
without learning any useful trade, who an exigency.
afterwards, in many instances, become " But much as this important branch
noxious and criminal members of society. of political œconomy engaged the atten
" It is not, therefore, the System but tion of the Lcgiflature, and different au
the Execution which has proved to be thors, during the last and the preceding
defective ; and it is justly observer! by an century, and much as the evil of vagrancy
eminent writer (Judge Blackstone), ' that and mendicity appeared to afflict society ;
the farther all subsequent plans for main a period of only forty years has elapsed
taining the poor have departed from the since authentic Returns of the Expence
original design, the more impracticable of supporting and assisting Paupers were
and even pernicious those visionary at brought under the review of Parliament—
tempts have proved—nor could any thing namely, in the year 1776, which were
short of prophecy have foretold, at the followed up by subsequent Returns irt
beginning of the seventeenth century, 1783, i"84, and 1785, and, ultimately,
that, in consequence of these apparently by a more general and specific Report i»
wise regulations, the poor rates would 1803.
have reached three millioiis Jlerting.' " From these public documents tl?e
following results appear:
* "There is no authentic record of the 1. That the money actually
amount of the assessments at this period; expended on paupers
but there are strong grounds to presume from the parochial rates
that they did not exceed, nor even extend in 1776 was .£.1 ,530,so:i
quite to 200,0001." 2. That the average expen
f " In 1803 the number of paupers diture in 1783, 1784,
Believed in parishes and parochial places 1785, was 2,004,23?
stood as follows: 3. That the expence appli
Out of work-houses : cable to paupers only
Adults relieved per in 1803 was 4,267,9(15
manently 336,199 The money, however, raised in these years
Paupers relieved oc by assessments having included the church
casionally, besides and county rates, which have greatly in.
194,052 vagrants .....305,899 creased of late years, the amount consi
Children relieved derably exceeded the actual sums expend*-
permanently un ed on the poor ; since,
der 4 years 120,23$ in 1776, the actual assess
Children relieved ment in 14,1 13 parishes
permanently from and places returned a-
5 to 14 years... ..194,914 mounted to j£.l,720,SlS
" 915,150 In 1783, 1784, 1785, the ac
In work-houses, inclu- tual assessment in 14,240
•dJlg their children 83,46a parishes and places re
turned amounted, on an
Total.. ..1,040,71* average, to 3*167, 740,
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In 1803 the actual assess times, as well as at the present period, is
ment in I4,6ll parishes often rendered extremely harsh and cruel
and places returned a- from the difficulty which occurs in distin
mounted to £.5,318,205* guishing culpal-le from innocent vagrancy.
making an average of 4s. 5jd. on the as Whether the vagrant becomes a beggar
sessed rental, and about 3s. 4d, in the from habits of idleness, laziness, or sloth,
pound on the rack rent of the kingdom ; or is driven into the streets and highways
which, by Returns from the Tax-office in from sudden misfortune, from sickness,
the year ending 5th of April 1804, ap from the loss of a husband, a father, and
peared to amount, on 37,334,400 statute other casualties, leaving a helpless widow
acres, including houses and all real pro- with a numerous family of children cry
pertyinEnglandandWales, to^.34,000,000 ing for food, without the means of pro
And if to this sum be added curing it ; living at a distance perhaps
the mines and canals, and from the parish settlement, or without
an allowance for deficien any parish upon which a legal claim can
cies (feeParliamentary Re be made, and receiving, at any rate, only
turns of the Poor), an ad the scanty allowance made in such cases,
dition maybe fairly made which barely compasses the object of pay
of 4,000,000 ing the weekly rent of a miserable lodg
ing ; such cases of innocent vagrancy,
Making the total income arising from this and other causes, do
from real property, in most frequently occur, particularly in
cluding mines and ca large cities, and will continue as long as
nals, extend to 38,000,000 society exists in a state of civilization. But
On this rental therefore (if fairly assefled) the Laws make no distinction — innocent
the Parochial Rates of 1 803 would amount and culpable vagrancy are confounded to
to1 about 2s. lOd. in the pound." gether, and the virtuous and vicious men !
In the nexi chapter Mr. C. fays, dicant are subject to the same punissi-
ment. Hence it is that so many difficul
" Indigence is generally disclosed to the ties occur in the executibn of this branch
Publick in the garb of vagrancy and men of police."
dicity. Vagrancy has afflicted every part
of civilized Europe for many centuries ; of After enumerating the imperfections
the Vagrant Act 17 Geo. II. and its
and it has already appeared that in Eng inaccuracy
land this offence was, at different periods, Mr.,C. is ofinopinion,defining the offences ;
that, '• instead of
punished with a severity very shocking and
barbarousf; and the punishment iji early imprisonment,"
" It would be preferable to define this
* Of this sum, 1,034,1051. 13S. 2id. offence more accurately, and better adapt
were expended in Church and County ed to the present state of society, and to
Rates, comprising " the Coroner's ex- adjudge the labour and service of the of
pences ; building and repairing prisons fenders (being able to work) to such per
and houses of correction ; salaries of sons as will contract for it for a limited
gaolers and turnkeys, &c. ; expence of time, giving them the fame authority to
supporting and removing prisoners and detain them as a master has over his ap
vagrants ; allowances to prosecutors and prentice; and also the same privileges as
witnesses in criminal proceedings, where are allowed to apprentices, to complain, in
the parties are poor; expences of holding their turn, if they are improperly treated,
the sessions ; law charges ; and, latterly, so as to obtain redress from magistrates ?
the allowances to the wives and families " In a country like England, where
of principals and substitutes serving in the great works arc constantly carrying on, in
Militia; removing the baggage of soldiers cutting canais, embankments, mines, and
on a march ; returns of the price of corn ; on various rude manufactures, and even
and other charges connected with civil where the means of employment exist for
and military police." female vagrants under the power of coerr
f Here Mr. C. epitomises an infinite cion, it is presumed that persons would
number of Statutes on the subject, from be found desirous not only of maintaining
1383 to 1792 ; each adding something to such vagrants who were able to work, but
the severity of the former laws ; and re also of allowing a small sum for cloathing,
marks that, " in legislating upon any pe for the benefit of their labour. Nothing
nal offence in a free country, it is of im so effectually corrupts the morals of slight
portance to consult the feelings of the offenders as imprisonment ; it debases their
people. If the public mind shall be im minds, and prepares them for the com
pressed with an idea that the punishment mission of higher and more atrocious of
is too severe for the offence, it is difficult, fences.
nay impossible, to carry the law effectu " lo
ally into execution."
948 Review of Nez > Publications. . [Oct.
" In all cases where certain classes cf motives, doubtless, inspire us with a fond
people follow idle employments, which ness for reading; namely, the improve-*
are in themselves amusing to the lower ment and the entertainment of the mind ;
orders of the people, such as vallad-Jingcrs yet, from the natural thoughtlessness of
and minstrels, since they cannot be sup youth, the former seldom acquires an
pressed, they might be greatly reduced by influence, unless the latter be skilfully
licensing a certain number under peculiar combined. To improve the rising age, to
and severe restrictions. The laws relative blend instruction with entertainment, and
to hawkers and pedlars are at present ex to adorn Religion and Morality in their
tremely defective ; and hence excessive most attractive garb, has been my fa
abuses have crept in, which, by means of vourite employment for a number of
different classes of licences, would prevent years. The Natural History of the Year,
much idleness and fraud. by the celebrated Dr. Aikin, first suggest
" Every individual born in this country, ed the idea of the following work ; and,
or who has acquired a legal fculement, though not a single line is copied from
has a right to be maintained, as in the that judicious performance, yet the in
character of a pauper, at the public ex- structive part of my Calendar is to be
pence ; and under this right (wilh the ascribed to that gentleman. Though I
exception of perhaps one in fifty), he is consider plagiarism as a theft of the
maintained in idleness. In this view, the meanest nature, yet readily d« I acknow
condition of a common beggar is more ledge my obligations to Dr. Aikin for
estimable, in his own eyes, than tHat of a having inspired the thought of famili
pauper, since, having an option, he would arizing his natural character, and redu
otherwise become a pauper ; and hence it cing it (if I may be allowed the expres
is that beggars, who follow mendicity as sion) to a school-book. To render it more
a trade, are averse to that coercion, and attractive to my young readers, I shall
the risk of performing at least some labour present it to the world in the form of fa
which rnay be required in houses of in mily conversations, interspersing the Dia
dustry. logues with stories, not inaptly introduced."
"The mischiefs attached to mendicity That our (election may be somewhat
have, in all countries, been considered as
very grievous. Pegging is a species of appropriate to the season in which it
wilt be published, a specimen of the
extortion to which the tender-hearted are language (hall be taken from the chap
chiefly exposed. Disgust may indeed exist
where there is no sympathy, which is ter which treats on November.
generally relieved by giving alms. The " Though November had commenced
numbers restrained by disgust from giving with more than its accustomed gloomi
alms bear-no proportion to those who are ness, ff»m an alternate succession of misty
impelled by sympathy; and hence to the rains and fogs, yet the inhabitants of the
beggar the difference greater, in point Cottage felt not its depressing influence,
of comfort, between begging and work for cheerfulness and good humour pre
ing. It is a true saying, ' That every sided at Mrs. Manderville's hospitable
penny spent is a reward to indujlry, while board ; and, as the party were no longer
every penny given is a l-ounly upon idle able to enjoy the pleasures of the coun
ness.' The luxuries seen, in many in try, they amused themselves by mufick,
stances, to be enjoyed by profrjjed l-eg- drawing, and a variety of tasteful works.
gars, are a fort of insult on the hard The work of charity at no season of the
working child of Industry, by holding year was ever omitted, but practised by
him out as the dupe who toils to earn a Mrs. Manderville with increased ardour
maintenance inferior to what is to be ob as the Winter approached. The hungry
tained by canting and grimace." were fed—the sick visited, and the naked
CTo be continued.) cloathed. This cloathing afforded no
small degree of gratification to the young
125. The Calendar; or, Monthly Recrea ladies, who, fancying themselves rather
tions : chiefly consisting of Dialogues be too old to dress dolls, were delighted with
tween an Aunt and her Nieces ; designed the employment of making frocks for the
to inspire- the Juvenile Mindzvith a Love poor children whose parents resided in the
of Virtue, and of the Study of Nature. neighbourhood; as it had for many years
By Mrs. Pilkington. been a practice with Mrs. Manderville to
" TIME," fays Mrs. P. " at every pe make presents of that description upor^
riod of life, is a valuable possession ; but Christmas-day. In this kind of Work
it is of peculiar importance to youth; for, Louisa had long been a practitioner; for,
■as we increase in years, the cares and though her mamma's income would not
anxieties of the world press so heavily up admit of her being so liberal as Mrs.
on us, that a small portion of it only can Manderville, yet she had generously
be devoted to mental improvement. Two bought two or three* sets of child-bed;
linen,
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linen, for the purpose of lending to those " As they entered the farm-yard they
poor people who were not able to buy a were met by Mr. flawkins, who waa
sufficient number for themselves; and the giving orders to his men to grease the
greater part of this linen had been made ploughs, and put them by in a place of
by Miss Danvers. Eliza, therefore, acted safety; " For, madam," says he, address
as assistant to her cousin in this benevo ing himself to Mrs. Manderville, " I ssiall
lent employ ; and each worked with as not want them again for several months ;
much earnestness and assiduity as if their and safe bind, iaiefind, you know ; that is
existence depended upon what they earn my maxim." * And a very good one it
ed. Impatiently did they look forward to is,' replied Mrs. M. ; ' but you have fi
the arrival of Christmas, for the pleasure nished ploughing, Mr. Hawkins, sooner
of distributing their work; although their than many of your neighbours, as I saw
aunt would not suffer their zeal in the several at work in the different fields
cause of Benevolence to interfere with through which we passed.' " Why some
their accustomed tasks. of my neighbours, madam," rejoined the
" Eliza's fondness for reading increased industrious farmer, " think more about
daily ; and the improvement she made in pleasuring than making the pot toil; and,
she different branches of education even whilst they go out a hunting with their
exceeded her aunt's hopes; and, ignorant betters, it can't be expected their men
as ssie was when she came to the cottage, will work very hard ; but every one has a
yet every friend ef Mrs. Manderville's right to follow their own inclination,
now pronounced her an uncommon-clever that's forfartin ; and, for my part, I have -
girl. Her father, with whom ssie regularly more pleasure in looking arter my men
corresponded, was so much delighted with than in riding arter a poor frighted beast,
the elegant and unstudied style in which and, as I may fay, running the risk of
ssie wrote, that he not only replied to her breaking every bone in my skin."
letters with the greatest punctuality, but November having been mentioned
as constantly sent her some present, as a
testimony of his approbation and regard ; as i lie season in which the Salmon
Fifliery bejins in \V\iles, the curiosity
neither was he unmindful of Louisa, to os Eliza was thus gratified by her Aunt:
whose example he, in a great measure,
attributed the wonderful improvement bis " Salmon, though resident in the briny
daughter had made. ocean, always come to the mouth of some
"As the month of November advanepd, large river which is connected with it, for
the weather became more favourable; the the purpose of depositing their spawn}
Western winds were succeeded by those and theJhad, the smelt, and the smunder,
from the opposite point ; walking again adopt a similar plan. The fatigue and
became practicable; and Farmer Hawkins exertion a salmon undergoes upon these
and his respectable wife were not forgot. occasions is wonderful ,* there is no dan
Three weeks, however, had produced a ger or difficulty which they wisl not sur
surprising change in the surrounding pro mount ; and they have been seen to work
spect; the walnut-trees were nearly dis up their passage to rivers not less ihan five
mantled of every leaf; and but few re hundred miles from the sea. These la
mained upon the mulberry, the horse- bours are doubtless undertaken for the
chesnut, sycamore, assi, and lime. The better security of their progeny; and, as
elm, the beech, and the oak, still retained the bed of the rivers in which they intend
a greater portion of their fading beauties, to deposit their spawn are always lower
and seemed to vie with the apple and than the body of the sea, they extend
pfcach trees, which are sometimes known their bodies in a straight line, and, with
to preserve an appearance of verdure even astonissiing courage and rapidity, suddenly
in December. take an advantageous leap. As the fissier-
"The farm-yard at Mr. Hawkins's pre men are acquainted with the time of these
sented a more animated picture than it periodical visitants, they either place bas
had done in the Summer time ; for the kets to receive them, or extend nets.
cattle were driven from the fields, and There are several of these salmon leaps (as
preserved from the inclemency of the they are called) in Wales, Scotland, and
weather by a comfortable bed of straw Ireland ; though a small number, in pro
near two feet deep. portion, are caught in the Thames."
"The plaintive notes of the wood-pi Mrs. Pilkington's "Calendar" will af
geon, or stock-dove, caught the young ford to her young readers an innocent
people's attention as they were walking to and instructive fund of entertainment.
the farm; and they were informed, by
their intelligent relation, that thole birds 145. A Sermon, preached on Wednesday,
of passage generally returned about the February the Twenty -fifth, 1807, the
latter end of the month. ' Day
i
95° Review of New Publications. [Oct.
tiny appointee: for a General Fast and wrath upon all those who forsake His
• Humiliation, before His Majesty's Cold- way.
stream Regiment of Guards, in VVcll-
minster Hill. By the Rev. William W. 127.- The Uncertainty of the Morrov:. The
J> iVc-iii, LL.B. F.S.A. Chaplain to llis Substance of a Sermon, preached at Ful-
Rnyal Highness the Commander in Chief. ham Church, in the Afternoon os Sun
FROM S Chron. xv. 2, Mr. D.ikius day the I3f/i of September, 1807, on
»erv properly enlarges on the hiliory ot' Occasion of the late aicejul Fire in lite
Ala, the venerable K;ng of Jttdah, Premises of John Ord, Esq. by which,
who, " through a successful reign of his principal Gardener icas burnt to
one and forty vears, used his belt en Death. By the Rev. John Owen, As. A.
deavours to extirpate that excels of Curate of Fulham, Middlesex. 7Vie Se
•lewd and idolatrous worship which had cond Edition.
spread itself throughout his dominions; "THE Author of the following Dis
and did his utmost to restore the true course having printed it, originally, with
service of God." (1 Kings xv. Q— iG.) a view to distribution through the parish
He afterwards, p. 15, shews the true in which it was preached, and having
way to seek God, to let HHn before found, among its readers, many who were
us — the want os pure Religion in of opinion that it was calculated for more
multitudes, who have only the form than localin utility, has yielded to their in
of godliness vviihoul the power, who stances printing this Seeond Edition.
draw nigh to God with the mouth He cannot, however, fend it into the
while the heart is far from Him ; and, world without acknowledging, that, to
the liberality of that excellent Family
in p. ly, he judiciously has pointed out whose name appears in the title-page,
"the way to seek God ; first, by prayer; and whose kindnesses have been multi
secondly, to regard and sanctify the plied to him and his, he has stood in
Sabbath ; thirdly, to venerate and at debted, on the present occasion, for the
tend the Ordinances — to shew our means of distributing, gratuitously, the
selves Christians, not nominally but greater part of a large impression, without
real — to worship that God, who is a. any loss to himself. Fulham, Oct. 3."
pure and bo'y Spirit, in spirit and in This pathetic Preacher, from James
truth. If we thus leek Him, and wor iv. 14, " Ye know not what (hail be
ship Him, lie will not only (ave us on the morrow," inculcates the con
from our enemies, but |>oitr the stant remembrance of the solemn truth
choicest of His blessings upon us." contained in his text ; and brings it
In p. 23, the hope and happiness of home to his auditors by the warning
the perfcveringChriitian are beautifully lately given them, the rapid destruc
defciibed ; that inward complacency, tion, hy fire, of a fellow-creature in
that allured hope and delight which lite their own neighbourhood *.
Righteous feel at the dole of life, to be
able to fay, with the Apostle, *■ 1 have "I trust," fays Mr. Owen, " I, sliall not
fought the good fight ; 1 have kept the be suspected of wanting cither compassion
faith; henceforth there is laid up for or respect for the victim of that conflagra
tion, by the freedom with which I may
roe a crown of righteousness." advert to his unhappy end, and the moral
At a time when Infidelity, under the uses to which I may be led to apply it.
mask of Reason, is spreading its bane As a trusty servant, in a confidential situa
ful influence through our laud, every tion; a faithful dispenser of his master's
endeavour to stop its progress must be bounty, a dutiful executer of his master's
considered laudable. The Writer of command?, and an upright guardian of his
this remaik thinks that Mr. Dalttns is master's interests ; as an occasional, and,
entitled to the thanks of all who wish I believe, sincere worshiper in this sacred
the happiness of their Country and the place; as a man of simple, unoffending
prosperity os real Religion. The dread manners ; of courtesy to his superiors,
ful 'effect's that National Irreligion hath kindness to his equals, tenderness to his
•ccasinned in lands once famous for inferiors (for he had inferiors), and civi
the hlefliugs of Providence and Grace, lity to all — I hold him in real and de-
are fidficientiy authenticated in the Sa * "In the night of the Oth, a sire
cred Scriptures. It is therefore to be broke out in the garden-house of John
wished thai all who stand up lo admi Ord, Esq. which raged so furiously as to
nister the Word os Divine Revelation burn the principal gardener, an old and
.would more frequently declare ami valued servant, almost to ashes, before any
point out the denunciations of God's help could be afforded him."
served
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served esteem. I would mingle my tears 130. The Crisis. By the Author of "Plain
with the tears of those who weep over his Fasts ; or, A Review of the Conduct vf
misfortune. I would add my tribute to the late Ministers." Second Edition.
that of those who honour his memory. THIS is an animated tract; and well
His station was indeed humble, and his deserves an attentive perusal.
employment menial ; but his character
railed him abovw the level of his condi " The Continent having been sub
tion; and has left him a title to honoura dued, less, however, by the arms of its
ble commemoration in this place, where Oppressor than by the folly and corrup
rank and circumstance carry no weight, tion of its Governments, and the pusilla
and where no distinctions are acknowledg nimity or indifference of its people, it be-'
ed but those which are conferred by piety comes a question of the highest moment
and virtue." to the welfare and safety of this Empire,
To those who have heard Air. Owen licy speedily to determine on the mode of po
preach, it would be superfluous to fay consequence which it is expedient to adopt, in
that the Sermon is excellent ; lo thole in human affairs. of this melancholy alteration
who have not, we recommend a peru complicated and unparalleled The causes of those'
misfortunes
sal of it. which have befallen the European States,
and have placed them entirely at the dis
128. A Rowlandfor an Oliver; in Answer posal of a vindictive and merciless Despot1,
to Dr. Moseley's "Oliver for a Row are sufficiently apparent. They may b.e
land," mid to Mr. Birch ; containing a plainly traced in their own acts ; in the
.Dtsence os Vaccination. By John Ring, irrational jealousies by which they have
Meml-er os the Royal College of Sur been domineered, and the unmanly fears
geons in London, and of the Medical by which they have been appalled."
Societies of London and Paris. " What the French have gained in the
DR. MOSELEY (whole Oliver has field has been chiefly from the quickness
been duly noticed in p, 555) has here of their movements. In every enterprizc
met with a formidable Antagonist, they have always been beforehand with:
"Arm'd at all noints, the Warrior takes with their opponents. Even the desperation
the field," which they have embarked has often
With Vaccination painted on his shield." been the instrument of triumph. Sunk
in indolence, indifferent to consequences,'
But the subject has been so thoroughly terrified by imaginary fears, no firmness
reviewed bv the College of Physicians, or constancy, or activity of spirit, has any
and by ibe great Council of the Na where displayed itself, capable of repelling
tion, in.Parliament assembled, that it their bold assaults; and the mere auda
would ill become us to discuss it any ciousness of their demands has, in many
farther in pur Miscellany. instances, extorted compliance."
" There are, strictly speaking* but two
1-20. Additional Cafes of Gout, in farther independent Nations left; and those who
Proof of the salutary Efficacy of the are not our friends must be at present, or
Cooling Treatment of that ajjtitiing Dis must speedily become, our enemies."
ease ; with illustrative Annotations, writ "The well-concerted expedition against
ten Authorities in its Support, Contro the Danes, which has had so brill'ant a
versial Difcujjiovs, and a View of the termination, augurs Well. The whole
present State and future Prospects of the conduct and execution of this important
Practice. By Robert Kinglake, M. D. affair have been truly illustrative of the
Mend er of the Royal Medical Society of virtues of the British character. Through
Edinburgh, of the Royal thyficul So out the operations both of our Army and
ciety of Gottingen, &c. , our Fleet, generosity accompanied firm
THE professed design of Dr. King- ness, and courage was tempered by hu
lake in this work is, to communicate manity. Nothing was done but what was
absolutely necessary for the attainment of
lo the Publick, wiib fidelity and mi our
nuteness, a practical, theoretical, and effortobject ; nor was a shot fired till every
at negociation had failed. Nor was
controversial account of the cooling the moment of victory sullied by any of
treatment of Gout, from the late pe those excesses which are Co frequently
riod of its introduction to the present committed by an elated, soldiery. The se-
time; in which, he presumes, suffi verest discipline was in all quaiters main
cient evidence is afforded of its. benefi tained. Persons and property were equally
cial effects to warrant a confident pro respected, [iven the feelings of the inha
secution of the practice. The subject bitants were spared, and the exultation of
has been 100 frequently agitated in our success gave way to the esteem Which Was
pages to require any farther c«urmcj}fc. due to their bravery, and the compassion.
which
95a Reviewof New Publications.^Literary Intelligence. [Oct*
which was excited by their misfortunes. age j" the Author inscribes this Chart,
What a contrast to the capture of a be " as a small token os his high esteem."
sieged town by the French Army ! The "The Editor," we are told, "aspires
seizure of the Danish marine is a masterly to no higher praise than that of wishing
stroke of political sagacity. Indeed, the to conciliate the attention of young per
entire transaction reflects infinite credit on sons in particular to an undeservedly neg
the present Administration." lected Branch of Education. He was con
" As the circumstances which led to cerned, that, while every other accom-
the determination of our Cabinet are now plifhment is so assiduously cultivated, Sa'
unfolded, we can fairly pronounce judg cred History should be cither slightingly
ment on its merits ; and we must allow overlooked or professedly disregarded : he
that it exhibits one of the most dexterous therefore determined to introduce it to
strokes of political address that was ever the notice ef his pupils, with such re
attempted." commendatory advantages as the subject
" Buonaparte has at last completely was capable of; and conceiving, with the
ever-reached the three once formidable judicious Author of "The Improvement
Continental States, Russia, Austria, and of the Mind," that the eye is a great help
Prussia ; and now that he has strengthen to the understanding, he accordingly drew
ed his position, and weakened theirs, he out the Scheme or Chart of it which is
is again provoking a rupture. Cattaro contained in the following Tablets. The
and the Seven Islands have been ceded to result even exceeded his expectation. The
him by Russia, by treaty ; Trieste and information was both easily conveyed and
Fiume he has taken from Austria, by indelibly impressed ; and he now ventures
force ; Prussia has loft half her territories, to present the Chart to the Publick, in a
after an inglorious war. We thus find full persuasion of its utility in facilitating
that Prussia is prostrate ; Austria is trem the acquisition of that degree of historical
bling for her safety ; and if Russia now information to which it pretends. That
renew hostilities, her capital may possibly degree is certainly very confined ; but it
be captured, and every province of her should be remembered, that the question
empire may become a prey to the horrors (as far as regards making Sacred History a
of revolutionary destruction. Let us pro School Exercise) lies between that degree
fit, whilst there is yet time, by these ' or none."
dreadful examples !" The Chart is perspicuously compiled.
131. Moral Maxims, from the Wisdom of 133. Copper Plate Copies of Hebrew
Jesus, the San os Siraeh, or Eccleliaf- Letters and Words.
ticus. Selected hj a Lady.
TO select from a work which ought WELL calculated to answer the
to be found in every Christian family, purposes for which they are designed.
appears at first fight an iinnecelTary LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
labour. But, when it is considered that When the late Mr. Gilbert Wake-
the present little manual is intended for field published his Proposals for a
the use of the younger class of readers, Greek and English Lexicon, a
who, if they have an opportunity and Gentleman who had, during a consi
an inclination to peruse the Bible, derable time before, heen employed -on
would perhaps not particularly prefer a similar work, desisted from it, on the
the Book of Ecclrfiajlicus, these "Mo supposition that Mr. Wakefield's was
ral Maxims" may be highly beneficial. ready for the press. But, as it appears
Thev are primed in a large and clear from the Memoirs of Mr. Wakefield,
type, and arc ornamented with some that he had not proceeded much far
appropriate engravings. ther in the collection of materials than
132. A Chart os Sacred History; de/ipietl, his interleaved Hederic, which has
principally, for young Persons, and been destroyed by fire, the Gentleman
adapted to the Retention of the Memory. has resumed his own work, and will,
By the Rev. Spencer Cobbold, A. M. in a short time, present the Publick
late Fellow of Gonville and Caius Col with a copious and accurate Greek
lege, Cambridge. and English Lexicon.
"TO Mrs. Trimmer, the Friend of A Friend TO Justice asks, VVhether,
Humanity ; whose talents have been when a person is under examination for
always devoied to the service of Vir felony at any of the Police Offices, Counsel
tue, and the interests of Religion ; and hav« any right to interfere by cross-exa
to whole more complete fvstem of mining the witnesses ?
Scripture History this little Work begs Ringwoou Cat' rch, &c. &c. in our
to be considered as au humble append next.
Seleft Poetry, for October, 1807. 953
TO THE WIND. When the tumult of battle is hush'd once
BEAR' fragrance from the bean-field, . again, [reign ;
balmy Bree2e ; [loves, And Peace (hall resume her so longbanish'd
Bear the sweet incense that my charmer The fcng of the Bard shall resound with
To where among the trees, our name,
Light as airy Seraphim she moves, And ages on ages promulgate our fame !
The Goddess of the groves. -
Drinking song.
O fan her gentle form! Extempore.
And from yon bank of wild carnations THEVtalk 5fraptures,flames,anddart»,
bring Of burning fevers in their hearts.
Their balmy sweetness on thy dewy wing, Of gods of love in women's eyes,
And every rich perfume Which please and ravish, and surprise;
That 1 urks upon the rose- iree's silkenbloom, How they admire, they love, adore,
The blo;som'd thyme, the heath-flower's With thousand other wonders more ;
purple bell, Put 1 could ne'er in woman-kind
And the white lily of the lowly vale. These dazzling charms and lustre find,
Draw the sweet spiritofthose lovely flewers; Which should, in spite of Reason, prove
Exceed in fragrance the Arabian bowers ; Sufficient to engage my love.
And then exulting fly, Whilst kind, I love, but when untrue
And there enamour'd rest, I leave 'em, faith, and grow so too ;
Breaking thy sweetest sigh When once they coy and foolish be,
Upon her snowy breast. They may go hang themselves for.tstt.
But never near her swell into a storm ; Than my bottle and my friend,
Softer than timid Love, No other love 1 understand.
Whether she sleep or wake, around her
move ; From " The Seasons is England; Descriptive
And from the fairy ground Poems, by the Rev. William Cooper
Chase every ruder sound, Taylor."
That nothing may her tender sleep molest. SLOW whifp'ring through the silent
But, balmy Breeze, when there vista's (hade [rove,
Of her delicious breath thou drink'st the The arm-clafp'd fair and faithful Damon
air, Glows her warm cheek, soft sighs the
Finding the tuneful sigh melting maid, [of love.
Thy freshness and thy fragrance far As the bleU youth extorts the pledge
outvie, [vy die ; Cool light-wing'd breezes o'er the meadows
Thou wilt with mingled shame anden- sweep, [night ;
Or else, neglecting Flora's fragrant store, And ruslet (hades precede approaching
Dwell there in bliss, and never wander Refreshing dews o'er all the herbage creep,
more. Am) Cynthia's lamp pours round a lam
bent light.
%ines on the celebration ofSt. Andrew's day, The new-made rick with fragrance ftHi
at Coxumbo, in the Island o/'Ceylon. the gate [leaves,
IN the deeds of their arms, lee our fore That rustling gently stirs the trembling
fathers rife, [from their eyes, And scatter'd lights illume the shady vale,
While such threats of defiance flash fierce Where wreathed (moke from dusky
As when dauntless they rush'd thro' the ■chimnies wave.
Ocean's wild storms, [dire forms;
And brav'd Death's worst terrors in all his Yon rill, (low murmuring down the rocky
See each (hade how he snatches his helmet steep, [to rest,
and shield, With lulling found the passions soothe.*
And again stalks a hero across the red field! As in the tranquil lake her waters sleep,
With the deeds of our Fathers thus full in Like Sorrow 4'oft reclin'd on Pity's breaft.
our view, [pursue, Nor (hall I now regret the City air,
Let us nobly determine their steps £o Though gay Vauxhall bid all her magic
And proud to have sprung from thole rife, [fair,
heroes of old [troul'd, Her myriad lamps, arcades, andglirt'rmg
Whose spirits were never by Fortune con- Her warbled strains, and thousand
iikethem,letusgras,pat immortal renown, sparkling eyes.
And wrest from the Corfican boaster his Th,is hour of meditation and repose
crown ! Suggests, how soon, these scenes mutt
That when the wM conflict of Nations is pass away i [must close !
o'er, \ [no more, As soon man's morning, noon, and eve,
And heroes shall bleed and shall con.iju.er The h»ppiest4rfeit bat a Summer's day .'
Gent. Maq. October, 1807..
954 Seleft Poetry, for October, 1807.
Sol with a Persian Cat to a Lady. ON VACCINATION.
LADY, from Persian lands I come, By Dr. Crane.
And now once more I charge my " Rumpatur, quifquis rumpitur Invidiq.'
home. Martial.
J hear a thousand people tell, THE London College, with becoininj
You lire so happy and so well, zeal,
So gentle are, and good and kind, Consult the welfare of the public weal ;
And so exactly to my mind, Acquit themselves wjth credit of theif
I corns the real truth to try, charge,
To live with you and with you die. And aim to benefit mankind at large ;
The master whom for you I quit On nothing new too hastily decide,
Has less of money than of wit ; But wisely make Experience their guirle.
But yet he knows a thing or two, Fill) eight years Vaccination has prevail'd,
As much as you or 1 may do. And in few instances has ever fail'd ;
To shew he held me very dear, What good it has effected in that time,
Whisper'd this caution in my car : A mass of evidence from ev'ry clime
" Sirrah ! observe my last advice, Bears all before it with resistless course.
Catch, if you please, a thousand mice ; For nothing can withstand conviction's
Or, if you saunter out of door, force ;
Of sparrows kill a thousand more ; Fulness of time will settle its just claim,
But peacock, pheasant, partridge, harx, And give th' Inventor an immortal fame.
Touch but a feather if you dare ! Yet this «ilcov'ry (strange to tell) has foes I
I promise you'll be soundly bang'd ; Who by basearts its progress would oppose ;
Perhaps be drown'd, perhaps behang'd!" But whose mis-statements are employ'd .
Lady, no evil conscience pricks, in vain,
I never did such naughty tricks, For wicked ends they never can obtain.
And as I hope for your good will, So when Inoculation was propos'd,
I promise you I never wrtl. Envy and Falsehood with like rage oppos'd,
Yourself, Eliza, William too, Whilst Ignorance its feeble efforts join'd,'
May do whate'er you choose to do ; And blindly undertook to lead the blind :
J'll keep my passions on the watch, Knock'd down by argument, each
And never either bite or scratch : blust'ring foe [blow ;
A good obedient cat I'll be, Sprung up, and (wore he never had the
And live in due civility. Some modern disputants do much the
Pray, Lady, let me here remain, fame, [shame ;
And do not send me back again. And, though confuted, shew no sense of
Dark Envy is the cause of their foul strife,
MARTIAL. The canker that preys on them all theit
Dir retuLu. life.
Happy the man who no such passion
TACTA places, audita places ; si non knows.
videare, And finds in peace of mind a calm
Tota places ; neutro, si videare, places. repose ! J. C. Abergavenny'.
" ' ■ Imitation.
O.i asmf.hU, but very plain Woman. A Translation of llr. Coote's * Latin In
WHEN 1 heard her, I was charm'd ; scription to the memory of his Daughter,
when I touch'd her, I was fir'd : by one who loved and admired her when
Candles came, I law her face, and all my living, and regrets her now dead.
flame expir'd. Here lies
Catharine' Coote, ~*
CHARADE, fir the Year 1801. the daughter of Charles and. Elisabeth
Y sirs, the Vet'ran soldier's pride, Coote,
By wounds and bloodshed is ob- a most lovely girl near seven. years of ag«,
tain'd ; who died the fourteenth day
Clerks no such bold ambition fires ; of May, 180?.
Their bliss by peaceful art? is gain'd. HER artless manners and a native grace
Play'd in her lovely form and blooming
My next, a human bee-hive is, face :
Resounding loud with busy hum ; E'en in the sprightly playfulness of youth
Hither the votaries of wealth, She fhunn'd deceit, and spoke the voice
In crowds, and sons of pleasure come, of truth : [prov'd
•My whale, in this ill-fated year, With sense superior to her years—(he
Fierce on the poor its influence shed ; Companion sweet of Friends and Parents
But lo ! fair Charity, to Britons dear, lov'd.
in angel- form, her fettld before them
spread. •Seep. «Ji.
In
Selefl Poetry, for October, 1-807. MS'
An health and beauty as she daily grew, in an English dress. If you -will allow
A length of days seem'd open to her view : them to appear in your Magazine, some of
But on a sudden (so th' Almighty pleas'd) your Poetical Correspondents may notice
With spasms severe her lovely frame was them. Yours, &c. . H.
seiz'd, [said, PROFITONS DU TEMPS.
When much alarm'd, th' expiring victim IL est trop taid pour qu' amour nous engag*
" I'm dying ! Father, hasten to my aid." Q.uand des beaux ans palit deja la fleur :
Nor friends, nor art; the mandate cpiiM Ecoutc, Egle, cet avis doux et sage,
controul, [guileless foul. Et n'attends pas, pcur songer au bonhenr
She in her Mother's arms breath'd out her Qu'il suit trop tard.
Mary. De mille attraits, brillante a ton aurore,
Au tendre amour ouvre ton jeune cceur :
^MLreffed to the Medical Assistants of Ike Tu le voudrais, et tu n'oses encore,
Royal HuMahe Society; Crains son courroux s'il fe rend ton vain-
HAIL, generous, noble, philanthro queur TJn peu trop tard.
pic few ! [true,
Whose tender hearts, to each soft feeling Las des rigeurs d'une beaute rebelle,
Prompt you viHth eagerness to seek, to save Quand Cupidon commence a s'envoler,
Th' unfortunate and heedless from the C'est pour jamais qu'il suit a tired'aile;
grave. On le regrette, on veut le rappeller :
Whilst the sweet theme yet trembles on II est trop tard.
the strings, FROM GROTIUS,
Creative recollection fondly brings "THTH A TRANSLATION. .
Again the interesting scene to view, —I LATET sors indeprensa futuri ;
Where human art oould Death itself sub Scit, qui solicitum me vetat efse, Deus.
due ! [his prey, Due Genitor me magne : Sequar quocunJ"
tVhere the grim Monarch, fore'd to quit que vocabor ;
To bleft Humanity gave up the day. Seu tu laeta mihi, feu mihi dura paras.
What though the lifeless heart had funk Sistis in hac vita?maneo, partesque tuebor;
to rest, Quas dederis revocas, Optirrie ? promp-
In solemn silence sleeping in the breast ; tus eo.
What though the idle pulse had ceas'd to
P^y, ~ THE future undiscover'd ties,
And stiff and Cold the clammy body lay 'Tis known to God alone ;
-Lo ! persevering Patience yet can raise And he forbids that I should care
Those hands, those eyes, in wonder ani For what must still be done.
in praise, [flame Where'er I'm call'd, great Father, lead j
Revive the dormant spark, till the pure I follow and obey :
Its kindly influence sheds through all the Whether thou would'ft that I should p-«t»
frame. My life or sad or gay.
A Patriotic Band *, to crown the deed,
With lib'ral hand bestow the well-earn'd* Would'ft thou that I stiould still pursut
meed ; My pilgrimage below ?
A meed that does mere real fame afford I stay, and ltedfast will perform
Than all the bloody trophies of the sword. What thou would'ft have me do.
Yet, though the glories of that silver stars From mortal life am I recall'd,
Transcend tha proudest boast of cruel war, By thee, Almighty Sire ?
A greater recorapence your toils secure, Obedient to thy will divine
A recotupenee whish ever shall endure, 1 readily retire.
Outvying all that Man has e'er bestow'd, PtnlonvilLe. M. H. Shephard,
The sweet applause of conscience and of
God. SONNET,
Co on, by generous zeal inspir'd, go on ! To Mr. Robinson, Portrait Painter,
New triumphs add<o those already won ; on viewing his Exhibition of Pictures at
And O ! may Heaven to gratitude's warm Belfast in Ireland.
prayer, Othou, whose touch creative bids
feong, to your Country's aid inspir'd,' your appear [friend,
labours spare. G. W. Y. The dear resemblance of each tibsent
Whose faithful pencil prompts the swell
Mr. Urbaw, October 1. ing tear, [bend :
1"^HK following Lines are from the As o'er departed worth we sorrowing
T Etrmnes Lyritjiies, published at Paris Accept the strain which Friendship bids
annually. 1 stiould like much to fee them ascend, [song—
T» pear the not« of M»mon'» jraut'ut
* The Royal Human* Soewty. AU
£Th* MtcU*.
95 6 Seka Poetry, for October, 1807.
And while the thoughts to fond aflfce- In double anguish therefore tore his part,
tion tend, [prolong, For double anguish wrings the widow'd
Oh could my ardent prayers thy years heart, [that he,,
Bleft with the smiles of Health, and vigour Though adverse Fate divides, yet think
strong i ['n5's bower 'Midst the convulsive wreck, remember'd
Then should thy fancy long 'mid Paint- thee ; [sport ot waves,
Vie with thy Romney's his own scenes Though, like th" illustrious Greek 6, the
among, [hour, In Providence secure, their rage he braves ;
Then shalt thou long enjoy the Classic Theheav'nly scarfaround his bosom binds,
Whilst thy young Bard*, whose rising And lives;—gives ev'ry terror to the winds,
powers expand, [distant land. Obedient to the voice of Wisdom's Pow'r,
Shall consecrate thy Name in many a Lo.Timeforhimunlockshistreasur'dstore!
Dramart, Sept. ig. M, Nauficaa smiles ; Ulysses' woes are o'er.
• Divine Minerva, veil'd in sacred light,
EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY. Brings this depictur'd story to thy sight ;
T^HINK not Oblivion's veil thymem'ry Thou, while the radiant Vision meets
-*■ hides, thine eyes, [rife :
Infculptur'd as the marble rock*, it bides ; O hear th" Immortal Voice ! it bids the*
Which, deep implanted in th' Arabian Rife, fav'rite Maid ! and to my vot'ry be
waste, [blast*; As once Nauficaa, once Penelope:
Scorns the calcining Sun', and Samiel's Behold I give thee to reward his toil,
But furious Typhon s, in * whirlwind's Richer the gift than Ilium's gatherV
roar, [shore j spoil *!
Ingulph'd thy Poet's bark, remote from Lo I, descending, bless thee from above
He would not dim the lustre of thine eye, With friends sincere ; and crown with.
Nor from thy tender bosom draw the sigh, faithful love. M. P.
1 Alluding to "Juvenile Poems," by his son Thomas Romney Robinson, written beforo
the age of 13, and published in Belfast by a very numerous subscription, of which anew
edition is now printing in London. This youth, though aged only 14 years and i
months, is now a distinguished student in Trinity College, Dublin. Sec vol. LXXV.
pp. 64, 359, 653.
1 The written mountains of Arabia are here intended ; which are inscribed with cha
racters now unknown. Some have supposed them to have been the work of the Israe?-
lites during their long journey through the Desart. Job seems to have alluded to them,
when he expresses his wish that bis words were engraven with an iron pen, and laid in
the rock for ever. The Literati are, however, completely at a loss to determine their
design « no effort has hitherto tended to the elucidation of the meaning of these extra
ordinary writings. The Prefetto of Egypt, a Coptic Christian, made a journey some
years ago to examine them ; the Bishop of Clogher published an account of this jour
ney ; and the Honourable Edward Wortley Montague wrote something on this subject,
which raft treatise has never fallen into the author's hands.
3 A gentleman with whom the author had some conversation, after his return front
India by the way of the Red Sea, informed him, that the mountains of Arabia ap
peared to the eye, as if they had undergone the action of fire-^-not Volcanic—but a
automation from the Solar heat.
+ Al Samiel, the hot wind of the Desart, whose operation is instant death to every
creature, and consumes every thing vegetable within its reach. Like the fiery breath
of Vulcan, as described by Homer, when he was employed by Juno to check the
overflowing of Simois and Scamander. See Homer's Iliad, XXI. 384. Al Samiel
was, probably, the dreadful minister of Vengeance ; the destroying Angel, who made
stich instantaneous havock among the troops of Sennacherib, recorded by Isaiah,
xxxviL 36.
5 Typhon, the enemy of Osiris, according to the Egyptian Mythology. The Evil
Being. The hurricane of China is thus denominated.
6 Ulysses is here meant : The particular adventure alluded to is the storm raised by
Neptune, in which the raft he had constructed at the island of Calypso, was shattered1
and divided. The Scarf was the gift of the goddess Leucothea, which he bound to his
bosom, in obedience to her commands, and which enabled him to reach the island of
Phæacia, where the favour of the Princess Nauficaa brought his troubles to an end.
7 This alludes to the promise made by Jupiter to Minerva when he committed Ulys»
fes to her protection ; that though the wrath of Neptune should deprive him of every
apparent hope, yet, that he should finally return home, and liye in peace, enriched
with greater wealth than if the spoil of Ilium had been conveyed entire to Ithaca :
happy in the society of tried and faithful friends, and especially blessed in the fidelity
»s his amiable consort, the ornament of the age in which she lived, and the coojujjjl
■aodel 1,0 every succeeding °»e. Sea the Odyssey, I. 5, tj.
rL 9*7 1
Proceeding! in the First Session of the Fqurth Parliament ot
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1807.
House of Commons, July 30. House of Commons, August 3.
Mr. Maiming made some inquiry touch Mr. Sheridan presented a Petition, signed
ing the expenditure of two millions stated by nearly 1000 Publicans, &c. in Middlesex
by the Commissioners of Military Inquiry and Surrey, complaining of the powers !
to have been advanced to a Builder in the vested in Magistrates, in regard to licen
Barrack department, for which no account sing Victuallers. Mr. S. then moved for
whatever had been rendered. leave to bring in a Bill for altering and
The Chancellor of the Exchequer an amending the Act bestowing thole powers
swered, that the Board ofTreasury had de on Magistrates. His object was, to pre
termined on taking immediate steps to in vent the property of persons who might
quire on the subject. embark in that way of life from being at
Mr. Hobhouse reported from the Com the disposal of the Magistrates. He meant
mittee of Supply their Resolutions, grant to render the Appeal to the Court of King's
ing 20,00a/. to Dr.Jenner, 5,556/.5s. tothe Bench, the Common Pleas, Or the Quar
Trustees of the British Museum ; 3,000/. ter Sessions, more accessible.
to the Board of Agriculture ; lS.ooo/. to Mr. Perceval said, that if such instances
the African Coast Settlements ; 1 ,200/. to of oppression existed, they were to be re
the Veterinary College; 14,000/. to the medied by the Court of King's Bench.
Sierra Leone Colony; and 7,771/. 16s. Leave was given.
Irish currency, for the Pier atDundrum. On farther consideration of the Militia
Volunteering Bill, Col. Prankland resisted
July 31. it, as an unjustifiable mode of recruiting.
In a Committee ofSupply, Mr. Canning Mr. If. Keene objected to the Bill in
moved that 180,000/. be granted, to make /o/o ; and recommended the establishment
good what has been advanced to Pruliia. of a local Militia in the different Counties,
Mr. WhitbrcaA commented on the cir- to the number of 160,000, of whom a
•umstances which had induced the grant certaip portion ssiould be drafted out year
of 100,000/. (80,000/. having been autho ly, to act with the troops of the Line, in
rised by the late Ministers.) Mr. Whit- order to perfect their discipline.
bread added, that rumours were abroad, of The Secretary at If'ar entered into a long
some part of the 100,000/. having been defence of the Bill, and denied that it was
appropriated to the support of the King of founded on a principle of hostility to the
Prussia's establishment at Berlin, While measures adopted by the late Adrumil-
that Capital was subject to France ; and tration.
that it was intended, before the late disas Lord Temple, Dr. Laurence, and Mr*
ter, to grant 1 ,000,000/. to Prussia. IVindham, spoke against the Bill ; au4
Mr. Canning replied, that the grants had Lord Castlereagh proposed a clause, doing
■ot been made without due consideration. away military service for limited periods,
A long series of questions and answers and fixing an indefinite period in their
followed between these gentlemen, re stead. This was keenly opposed by Mr.
specting the intentions of Ministers ; and VVindham, and at length the House divi
a defence* by Mr. IVhUbread, of those ded ; when the clause was carried by a
who had gone out of office. majority of cfi to 46.
Lord Cajllereagh spoke at much length, On farther consideration of the Report
to shew that the late Ministers had acted of. the Militia Completion Bill ; Mr. C.
with criminal misconduct, by not keep Ynrke spoke decidedly against it, and re
ing a scree of 20 or 30,000 men ready to commended in its stead the principle of
■mbark at an hour's notice. Much cen the Army of Reserve, by which the Coun
sure and recrimination ensued ; and the try would gain 40,000 men, instaad of-
Resolution was at length agreed to ; as 36,000 proposed by this Bill. . 1
was one for a Vote of Credit for 700,006/. Several clauses were then added.
more than that proposed by Lord H.
Petty, which amounted to 2,200,000/. Housf. of Louds, August 4.
which, with what was required for other Lord Arden opposed the progreSs of th*
services, would make the vote amount to Offices Reversion Bill, which he consi
4,500,000/.—This and other financial re dered to be an .unneceflary and indecent
solutions were agreed to. attack upon his Majesty's prerogatives.
To justify such a Bill, there should have
„ House of Lords, August 1, been some proof adduced that improper
The Royal Assent was given to seventy- use had been made of the privilege.
eight Bills" ; among which were the Irish Lords Grosoenor and Lauderdule con
Militia Pay and Cloathing Bills, and the tended that the Bill ought to pass.
Irish Insurrectioh Bill, Lord Melville opposed the Bill, and ob-
3 , served.
958 Proceedings in the late S'ejsion os VarliamenU [Oct;
served, that the abolition of all sinecures August 7- '
was a very fine Utopian theory, but was On the 3d reading of the Consolidated
one which could never be reduted to prac Fund Bill, Lord H. Petty commented on
tice in a Monarchical Government. the Vote of Credit. Under the annihila
lord Selkirk thought the rejection of tion of Continental Co-operation, and after
the Bill would disappoint the expectations sitting two months later than could have
which the publick entertained of reforms, been expected ; after the events which
•f which 'this measure was to be the fore alone could render such a vote applicable
runner ; and moved that the debate be were gone by ; yet, he observed, this largs
adjourned, in consequence of the non-at vote was taken, and an avowal made, that
tendance of any of the Ministers. by the measures now adopted an increase
The motion for adjourning the debate was made of 1,300,000/. to the public cxr-
was, however, negatived by a majority of pence, alter adding 700,000/. to the vote
15 to 9 ; and the Bill was ordered to bs of credit, under circumstances that called
read a second time this day thiee mouths, for diminution of expences.
by which it falls to the ground. Lord Cujtlereagli and Mr. Canning justi
fied the conduct which Ministers had
In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. pursued respecting the assistance sent to
Rabhottse brought up a Report from the Sweden ; and much discussion ensued be
Committee of Ways and Means, autho tween the Speakers just mentioned anc?
rising issuesofTreasury Bil ls for 4, 500,000/. Messrs. Windham and Whitbread.
and 500,000/. being the votes of credit for Sir J. Turlon thought that, in the pre
Great Britain and Ireland- sent circumstances, it was necessary to give
Mr.- tfhilbread moved the farther con eonfidence to Ministers. Rusliaand Prus
sideration of the report of the Parochial sia were prostrate at the feet of France,
Schools Bill, on which a conversation of and our disputes with America increased.
some length ensued, and several amend The conduct of the latter Country was
ments were made upon it by different owing entirely to the pusillanimity of the
Gentlemen. An amendment was propo late Ministry. He wislied for unanimity
sed in the Preamble of the Bill by Mr. P. in the public cause. He commended th<
Carew, to leave out the words after " mo Volunteer Force, and wished the Training
rality and virtue" to the word " Scotland." Act to be carried into execution.
The preamble stood thus,—"Whereas the The Bill was then read the third time ;
itjftrudtion of youth tends most materially and another debate arose on the motion
to the promotion of morality and virtue, for the third reading of the Irish Arms
and to the formation of good members of Bill, which was opposed by Lord Afi/foi*,
society, whereof we have the most con Mr. IS Mtbread, Sir A. Pigot, and Mr.
vincing proof, by long experience, in that Sheridiai.—'Tne House div ided, when there
part of the United Kingdom called Scot were for it, S4 ; against it, 7y.
land ; and it is expedient that provision
should be made for the instruction of the House or Lords, August 10'.
Children of the Poor otF.nglasid and Wales." Ot) the order for the £ecor..s reading of
Mr. Windkam supported the Amend ths iVJilitia Transfer Bill, Lord liawkejbury
ment. The preamble, as it stuod, was took a view of Europe under the late
not the most desirable that such a Bill changes; and contended that the ordinary
could have, as it made a most marked and mode of recruiting in this Countiy would,
invidious distinction between education in be wholly inadequate to meet the exigency
Scotland and in England. of the times.
Mr. If'hilbvead maintained that the pre Lord Sidmouth considered the plan pro-
amble contained ths very essence and sub poled to be inadequate to the difficulties
stance of the measure, and refused to give we had to encounter.
it up. Lords Horingdnn and De Dunjlanville
Mr. McLeod supported the preamble ; spoke in favour of the Bill ; and the Earl
as did Mr. Wilbcrforce ; and a division took of Selkirk disapproved of it ; when a divi
place, when the Preamble was carried by sion took place for the second reading-
a majority of 33 to as. Contents 42, Non-contents 15—Majo
lity 27.
August i.
On the third reading of the MilibWo- In tht Commons, the fame day, Ml
lunteering Bill, Col. Stanley, Sir R. Wil Magens called the attention of the House
liams, Lord Felkt/lone, and Mr. Windham, to the state of the West India Trade. The
, repeated their sentiments against it, con- price of the Imports was not augmented in
lending that the Bill was obnoxious and proportion to the increase of the duties ;
unjustifiable. It was supported by Gene yet war, nevertheless, so high as to
ral Loftus and Lord Cajliereagh ; and on a check the home consumption, at a time
division ther* were for u, Ayas 7-6, Noes 19. whoa the expectation of foreign countries
1807.] Proceedings in the late Seffion of Parliament. 959
was almost prevented. The consequence be, it in no degree arose from the presen
Jvas, that there was now a surplus of Ministers. Finding a Treaty had been ne*
100,000 hogsheads of sugar, which could gotiated by the late Ministers, and lent t»
not find a market. He concluded by mov America for ratification, it became their
ing a Resolution, ' that the House would, determination not to do any thing which
early in the next Session, take into consi might interfere with that treaty. If the
deration the Report of the Committee for treaty was ratified, they had determined
the purpose of considering the commercial to put it in force, and act on it the fame
state of the West India Colonies.' as if it had been a treaty negotiated by
Mr. Lujhingion spoke as to the injury themselves. If it was rejected, it was.
the Planters had sustained by the abolition their intention so to act towards America^
of the Slave Trade ; and the Resolution as to evince, on their part, the most une
was carried unanimously. quivocal desire to maintain the relations of
Mr. Bankes observed, that it had been peace and amity. With respect to Turkey,
doubted that the Bill which had passed he could in few words answer what was
fhat House relative to Offices in Reversion, said on the subject in his Majesty's speech,
and been rejected in the Lords, trenched viz. " That his Majesty had adopted
upon the Royal Prerogative ; but he was such measures as might best enable
convinced it would gain strength by this him, in concert with the Emperor of
measure ;but,tbe Bill bavingbeen rejected, Russia, to take advantage of any favour
he should merely propose " That an hum able opportunity for bringing the hostili
ble Address be presented to his Majesty, ties in which they were engaged with the
requesting that he would be pleased not Sublime Porte, to a conclusion consis
to grant any Office, Place, Employment, tent with his Majesty's honour, and the
or Salary in reversion, or for joint lives, interest of his Ally."
in any part of the TJnifed Kingdom, until
fix weeks after the commencement of the House of Lords, Atigvjl tl.
next Session of Parliament." Lord Redrfilltle and the Archbishop of
Mr. Ward made some comments on the Canterbury spoke against the second read
motives which had induced the Upper ing of the Parish Schools Bill ; and con
House to reject the Bill. tended that public institutions for educa
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. tion mould continue in the hands of the
Souverie, Lord H. Petty, Sir J. StbrigM, Diocesan.
and other Members, also supported the Lord Stanhope defended the Bill ; and
motion, which was carried nem. dis. Lord Hawkejbury moved, that it be read a
Mr. Whitbread asked several questions second time this day three months ; which
ofMinisters as to our relations with Foreign was carried.
Powers. In his opinion, the present
period was a most favourable moment for House of Cowmons, Avgiijl 13>
a peace, and, if dextroufly managed, Mr. Sheridan, on making his mot'10%
might save the farther effusion of blood. on the state Of Ireland, entered at great
Prussia had been under the hard necessity length on the conduct of Ministers in in
of concluding a treaty ofpeace with France, troducing the different Bills ofthis Session
in which (he had been compelled to (hat relative to Ireland. He insisted that the
all her ports against our commerce. Look people were perfectly loyal ; though he
ing also to America, and viewing the situa did not deriy that a few wretches existed
tion in which we stood with regard to that in Ireland, Who would surrender their
country, coupled with the late unfortunate country to a Foreign Tyrant. He therefore-
transaction respecting the Chesapeak, condemned the inconsistency of Ministers,
there seemed to be nothing but hostility who, while they Were endeavouring lo
around us. Added to all these, the de make the whole people of England an
plorable situation of our West India Mer armed people, prevented the Irish Nation
chants required immediate investigation from having arms even while they Were
and relief. The Emperor of France- was withdrawing Whole legions of troops from
returned to his capital, and ready to turn that country. Adverting to the conduct
the tide of war more directly against us. of Government towards the Irish, he in
Mr. Canning answered, that a direct sisted that none of the fine promises made
communication from Russia had been re to them at the Union had been realised.
ceived on the 1st inst, but not accompanied As to the late Ministers, he thought, in
with any part of the Treaty, nor even with their measures for the relief of Ireland,
she clause which relates to this Country. they began at the wrong end j the condi
It was impossible that any other than a tion of the people being the only improve
conditional answer could be returned. ment that was necessary. He at length
What if was, must be obv ious to every one. moved, that the House should, on an early
As to our situation with America, he must day after the commencement of the next
premise, that whatever it might at present Scffian, take iftfo 'their serious considera
I
960 Parliamentary Intelligence.'-'London Gazettes. [Oct:,
tion the slate and condition of Ireland, in but only those who were rebels, and went
t)>e anxious hope that it might be then about the country, plundering the houses
found unnecessary to continue in force any of farmers and gentlemen of arms. He
longer the two Bills which have been said he fully approved of that part of Mr.
passed in the present Session. Sheridan's motion which related to better
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, ing the condition of the people, but not
there was no necessity for the House to to that which condemned the two Bills
pledge itself to such a resolution ; he there lately passed.
fore moved the previous question. Messrs. ffindham, Dillon, and Lockhart^
Mr. Gratlan declared that the discon spoke to tsie same purport ; and the House
tented in Ireland were mure numerous divided on Mr. Sheridan's motion—Ayes
than Mr. Sheridan conceived ; and ex »3—Noes 76.
plained, that the Arms Bill had not in view [The Commistoners' Speech, on closing the
to disarm the great mass of the people, ScJJion, has already been given in p. 775.]
INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.
Admiralty-office, Sept. 26. This Ga mand devolved. I have now the painful
zette contains two letters transmitted by task to fulfil of acquainting your Lordship,
Lord Collingwood. One is from Capt. that we had one marine killed, and two
Raitt, commander of his Majesty's sloop seamen (besides Mr. Pritchard] wounded;
the Scout, detailing the proceedings of they are all in a fair way of recovery. The
that sloop and the Redwing in destroying other vessel was so secure by the rocks,
a Spanish privateer, a letter of marque, that it was impossible to get her out."
and a felucca, in the river of Barbate, on In another letter, dated July 16, Lord
the lith of June. The privateer's name Collingwood gives an account of thre«
is the De Bon Vassalio, Peter Thomson, Turkish, one Venetian, three French,
Commander, mounting one long twenty- and seventeen Spanish vessels, captured
sdur pounder and two long sixes, manned on this station. ■>
with forty-two men, all of which made
.their escape but four. Admiralty-office, Sept. 26. This Ga
- The next letter is from Lieut. Robert zette announces the lollowing captures :
Tomlinson, of the Dexterous gun-brig, the Spanish letter of marque btigAvantura,
dated Gibraltar-Bay, June 24. He fays, a beautiful coppered vessel, of 140 tuns,
" Having observed the Isle of Cani, at the pierced for 18 guns, but carrying only 10,
soot ofApes-hill, to be a lutking-place for and 43 "men, by the Narcissus, Capt. C.
the enemy's privateers' which infest the Malcolm ; L'Elperance French felucca
Gut, I endeavoured, on the 23d inst, to privateer, of St. Domingo, manned with
make myself acquainted, by sounding 18 men, and armed with blunderbusses
round it ; the boat sent on this duty was and small arms, by the Hunter sloop,
fired at by a privateer, which had secreted Capt. S. H. Inglefield ; and La Bueno
herself amongst the rocks. At four P. M. Union Spanish privateer, of one btass gun
•ame to, with a spring on the cable, with and 30 men, by the Adamant, Capt.
in less than half a mile of the enemy's J. Stiles.
vessels, which we now discovered to be
two, from which our fire drove the men. Admiralty -office, October 10. A Let
At 'five, finding our fire not to have the ter from Capt. Mundy, of his Majesty's
desired effect of sinking them, the officers Ship Hydra, addressed to Vice-Admira!
and people volunteered to bring them out Lord Collingwood, of which the following
in the boats, which they effected under a is a Copy, has been transmitted to the
heavy fire of musketry from the privateer's Hon. William Wellesley Pole, by Rear-
people, stationed on the island. She is Admiral Purvis.
named the Victoria, Joseph Larulage, His Majf/iy's Ship Hydra,
commander, mounting two longsix-poun- at Sea, Aug. 7.
ders, and twenty-five men, one of whom My Lord, I have the honour to relate,
we found on board wounded. The gallant that I chased three armed polaccas into
condu6t of Mr. Pritchard, Sub-Lieutenant, the harbour of Begu, on the coast of Ca
who commanded the party, deserves the talonia, late last night ; and having re
highest commendation, for though woun connoitred this morning, deemed an at
ded in the fide before he got on-board the tempt on them practicable, although un
tesscl, he concealed the hurt till he re der the close protection of a battery and
ceived a second ball through his arm ; he towee At fifty minutes after noon the
speaks in the highest terms of the men ship was anchored, with springs on the
under his command, especially Edward cables, at the entrance of the port, and
Stokes, Gunner's Mate,- to whom, on began the attack; a smart fire was returned
Pritchard's being wounded,, the cotn- by the enemy, which however cojatidej-
*bTj
1807.] Interesting Intelligencefrom the London Gazettes. 961
ably abated after somewhat more than an vessels, and deliberately laying out haw
hour's action; on perceiving which, I sers to the very rocks that were occupied)
ordered a party of seamen and marine?, by the Enemy, and warping them ou^
under the command of the second Lieute against a fresh breeze, exposed to a galling
nant (Mr. Drury), with Lieutenants fire of muiketVy, I feel perfectly incapa
Hayes and Pengelly, of the Marines, Mr. ble of writing a panegyric!? equal to their
Finlaison (Midshipman), Mr. Goddard merits ; but it has not required this ex
(Clerk) volunteer, attended by Mr. Bai ploit to stamp these officers with the cha
ley, Assistant-Surgeon, to land on the racter of cool judgment and determined
flank of the enemy, and drive them from bravery. Duri»g-tbe term of four years I
their guns, keeping up a heavy, fire from have witnessed frequent instances of the
the Hydra, to cover the boats ; yet, not gallantry oi Lreuts. Drury and Hayes ; ands
withstanding our endeayours to draw the Lieut. Pengelly (though not of so long a
particular attention of the battery, the standing; in the Hydra) has ever been a
detachments were soon exposed to a ctoss volunteer on such services, I have also
discharge of iangrage from the shipping the greatest pleasure in adding, that the
and fort, as well as musketry from the above-mentioned Officers speak in enthu
rocks: unshaken, however, they advan siastic terms of the behaviour of all em
ced ; and having mounted the cliff, which ployed under them : to your Lordship's
was rhoft difficult of access, they attacked notice and protection, therefore, I beg;
the fort with such intrepidity, that the most strongly to recommend them. Tbej
Enemy did not think proper to await their conduct of ■the rest of the Officers ana
closing, but spiking the guns, rushed out ship's company fully equalled my utmost
on the one fide, as our brave fellows en wishes ; to the tremendous fire they kept
tered at the other. The battery contained up, I attribute the smallness of our loss
fbiir 26-pounders. This gallant atchieve- and damage, namely, one killed and twa
* ment gave me an opportunity of employing wounded on-board, and four wounded of
the broadside solely on the vessels, from the detachment : the fore and mizen-topr
which a constant fire was still kept on our masts and foretop-fail-yard sho( through^
people on shore. On gaining the guns, a few in the hu.ll, and the rigging triflingly
Mr. Drury advanced wish the seamen and cut, is all the damage. To Mr. M'Kjerv?
a few marines to the town, leaving Mr. sie, the First Lieutenant, who has1 served,
Hayes and his party to retain them, and with me the whole of the war, I feel
to occupy the heights that commanded the much indebted for his assistance through
decks of the vessels, and from which he out this little enterprize. A description
Could annoy the Enemy, who were in great of the captured vessels, and the,names of
numbers on the opposite fide of the har the killed and wounded, I inclose, for
bour, which is extremely narrow. As your Lordship's information. ThePrinc£
soon as the town was cleared of the ene Eugene and Caroline were returning to
my, the crews abandoned their vessels, Marseilles. I am, &c. G. Mundv.
but formed in groups of mufquetry among Vejsels captured. Polacca ship Prince
the rocks and bushes, firing qn the fea- Eugene, of 16 guns (pierced for 20) and
■ men, who had now seized the boats on 13Q men.—Polacca brig La Belle Caro
the beach, and were boarding the polac- line, of 10 guns (pierced for 14) and 40.
ca.s, while another party of the Enemy had men .—.Polacca brig El Carmen de Rosaria,
gained a height above the marines, and of 4 guns (pierced for 10) and 20 men.
kept them continually engaged, notwith H. Brown, seaman, killed. Mr. God
standing some guns were kept playing on dard, clerk ; Serjeant Bush, and C. Simp
them from the Hydra. At half past three, son, seaman, slightly wounded. Jeremiah
observing Mt. Drury in full possession »f M'Carthy, J. Sullivan, seamen, and G.
the vessels, I sent the reft of the boats, Salisbury, ma-ine, severely wounded.
under Lieut. Little, to assist in towing Letter from Capt, Brace, to Vice-adm.
them out, and at four had the satisfaction Whitshed, Commander in Chief on the-
of seeing <hem rounding the Point, when Coast of Ireland.
the marines reirnkarked under a heavy dis fcrginie, at Sea, Sept, 28.
charge of musketry, the Enemy having Sir, Since my Letter of the 25th, which
collected their whole force to harass the stated the situation of the sloops you \yere
retreat. When 1 review the circumstan pleased to place under roy command, I
ces attending the debarkation of this hand have the honour to acquaint you, that, by
ful of men, and reflect on the many diffi availing myself of your orders, and the
culties they had to surmount in an attack information I derived from the Mary, of
on a fort strongly defended by nature, as Liverpool, I succeeded in inferceptijig the
well as art, there opposed to more than Jesus Maria Josef Spanish, lugger'privateer,
three times their force for two hours, suc of fourteen 12-pounders and 120 mtn,
ceed bj;. in possessing themselves of the wfwn She left St. Sebastian, but only 45
G&kt. Mao. Qctoler, 1407. •a
962 London Gazettes.—Foreign Occurrences. [Oct.
•n board when taken yesterday morning, shot brought them down ; he expired of
with some English prisoners. She appears a musket-ball wound as the surgeon went
a complete vessel of her description, well to his assistance. 1 have detached Lieut.
armed and appointed, and to have been Powell, of this (hip, in the prize, to res
Commanded by a dashing enlerprizing cha cue, if possible, the captured vessels, and
racter, too well acquainted with our coast, to afford information to the cruizers, re
having captured 35 sail, nine during this lying on his exertions. On closing my
cruize. Through the chance of war he letter, I have the pleasure to had, that i
has fallen, and was the only person hurt, have just recaptured the Commerce, ano
his vessel not surrendering until the mus ther of the lugger's prizes.
ketry had riddled her sails, and the grape- I am, &c. E. Bhace.
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StvJamcs'sChron Exeter 2,Glouc
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; Traveller—News- Nottingham
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Birmingham 3V Salop—Sheffield
I Blackburn She'rborne, Surry
BuryS. Edmund's Shrewth.--Sussex
CambiiieIge Staffordmire
Canterbury* s NOVEMBER, 1807. Stamford—Tyne
Carli.—Chester Wakes}.—Warw.
Chelmsforct2 CONTAINING , Winch.—Wore.
Cornw.—Coven t. York 3, Jersey
'Meteorological Diary forOct. and Nov. 1807,994 Anniversary of Landrrjg of King William? 1022
{Fever's at Batavia —Dr. James's Powder 0/OJ Antiquities in the Parish of St.Ore, Cornwall ;£■.
Letters from Holland and Germany in 1794 946 On examining Witnesses before Magistrates 1023
Col. Riddell on ,t>is Treatment of Fevers 997 Citadelat Chelter-1 mperfections in our Laws 1 02 5
Mr. Lewis. — " The Peacock at Home" g98 Mr. Le Mesurier's Farewell to Dr. Laurencet'iirf.
Latinb Epi„
Epigrams translated — Dt. Stanley? gys Dr. Laurence's Farewell to MA Le Mel'urierl027
Account n?_tk'.. R»y.
ot'frt rj .... .MsmiitTomkins
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•Mead Family — Epitaph on Dr. Crol'sficld J)99 Review of New .Pu blications ; viz.
JSo«y?«7»A«i«»iBoiit»,&c"."Mr.Blore'sWorksiooo Poems, by the Rcvei end George Crabbe 1333
Account ofRingwoodGfiurchandFrcelehoolj 001 The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Chapone ic-40
On Mr. Pye's " Coniineuts orvShakl'peafe" ibid. Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum, vol. IV. 1043
Geographer of Itavcnnas, and his Work . 1002 Burnett'sSpccimrfisof EnglishProfe-writers 1044
Mil'cetl. Remarks on our present Volume . .1004'Travels in Scotland, by Rev. James Hall 1045
TheProj ECTOR.aperiod.I'aper'.N LXXV J. 1005 Bourne's Gazetteer — Fifth of November 1047
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Illustrations of Horace, Book I. Ep. XII. loil iNewly-dilcovered Chrirtiaas inTndia .... 1057
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M.Garnerin on hisSecondAsccnsfonbyNightl0l6 Addition.s^Correct.ions informerObituaries 1073
TUe Evil of S*>ies-»nd Informers not novel 1017 [Marriages and Deaths of eminent Persons 107;
Regulations --for the Art of Screaming . . ibid. iBiU of Mortality—Prices ofUhe Market* 1037
. Arc h1tect u rai.Issovati os, N?CXIV, 1 p.l9iDailyVariations in rtieP/ices of the Stocks loss
Embellished with Perspective Views of Rincwopd Church and Preschool,
in Hants; a curious Medal, antieot Inscriptions, &c.
By SrLrjNUS U R B A Jf, Gent.
Printeojby NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Wtad, Red-Lion Passage, Fleet-street, London :
where all Letter? to the Editor are desired to be addressed, Post-taid. 1807.
ti . , . - .
MaTBoaeLOGiCAi Diirt for O&obe'r 1807. By Dr. Pole, Bristol
0 Ihermem. Baiom.
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1 4S 57 30- 7 cloudy, frequent rain / .
s 59 63 30- 5 mostly cloudy
3 so ,65 30- 6 mostly cloudy
4 57 6a 30- 7 mostly clear
* 59 63 30- 6 clear
(5 58 64 30- 5 rather cloudy, evening li»ht rain
7 58 <)S 30- 6 mostly cloudy, some light rain
8 58 S7 30- 2 mostly cloudy
9 51 60 _ 30- 7 mostly cloudy, some light raia
10 58 63 30- 7 cloudy, some very light rain
11 . 56 60 30- 7 cloudy at times
IS 58 63 30- 5 cloudy
13 59 6-i 30- 7 morning cloudy, »fternoon moffliy clear
1* 50 66 30- 8 mostly cloudy
l? 60 65 39- 6 .mostly cloudy, some light rai*
l6 . 51 Si 30- 7 cloudy
P 55 63 30- 5 cloudy
18 54 60 30- 7 cloudy at times
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«o 1 57 6i 30- 3 cloudy in general, evening rain
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42 45 52 29-11 very rainy
23 42 50 29-10 cloudy, some rain
24 37 51 ' 2>10 mostly oloudy, some ram
25 44 50 ,29-12 mostly cloudy, some rain
25 50 53 29-17 cloudy, heavy rain and hail
27 45 48 -29-16 mostly cloudy, some light rain
28 34 46 39- 1 mostly clear
29 50 55 29-19 mostly cloudy
39. 46 53 29-18 cloudy, some light rain, high wind
31 47 50 30- 1 cloudy in general
The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight A. M. aje 51 15-31; those
of the corresponding month in 1806 were 48 21-31 ; in 1805, 43 ; and of 1804,
49, 2-3.
The quantity of rain fallen this month is 2 inches 14-looths; that of the corre
sponding month of 1806 1 inch 49-iooths; in 1805, 1 inch gi-iooths; in 1804,
2 inches 80-100-hs; and in 1803, 55-100ths.
Meteorological Table for November 1807. By W. Cary, Strand.
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28 37 42 " 40 ,78 fair 13 32 38 35 ,96 cloudy
29 40 52 '40 ,52 cloudy j 14 35 42 37 30,03 cloudy
30 39 50 46 ,48 rain 15 42 44 42 29 >98 cloudy
ai 45 50 46 ,85 fair 1 16 44 45 41 ,89 cloudy
AM 46 52 -17 ,62 fair ! 17 40 43 09 ,84 cloudy
2 46 51 50 ,68 fair | 18 39 40 32 ,56 cloudy
3 42 47 37 ,23 tair ftorm at 19 33 37 41 ,16 I'now
4 40 46 35 ,45 fair {ni^ht.j 20 41 40 32 28 ,72 stormy
5' 35 50 4 7 ,45 cloudy 21 81 36 31 29,39 fair
i 40 49 46 ,51 tair 22 i SO 39 47 ,36 rain
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44 40 ,22 fait 24 j 31 38 34 29,25 , ■fait fair
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Epitaphs in VVesterham Church, Kent .;. . i 101 Noble's Biographical History of England . 1 140
•I'edirlore and Bockleton Churche*—Altar . lies Crosby's Complete Pocket Gazetteer . . . 1143
Autjeiit Coins—Battle of Stamford Bridge 1 100 Ludiam's Essays—Letter to Granville Sharp 1144
Account of the Miracle 0! St. Winifred . lip Dodd's Sermon-^—Sparke's Coneio, &c. . . 1145
Dr. Lcttfom's Forty- fifth Letter on Prisons ibie Cl'ubbe's Latin Version of" Farmer's Boy" ibid.
Mr. Neild on Bristol Ci ty and County Gaol 1 108 Starkie's Address—New Spanish Grammar ibid.
The Present State of the Cathedral of York 1 1 - - dex Indicatoiucs—Questions answered ib.
Sources for British Commerce—National Debt elect Poetry for December 1 807, 1 1 46-1149
NorrframptonshireDrawings byMr. E. Blorelll4 Dr. Moseley on a Case of Hydrophobia .1150
Architect. Innovation —Guildhall . .1115 Interestinglmell. from the London Gazettes 1 1 51
Magdalen Hofp,—HollandHouse,Kingfgatelll6 The Declaration of the Emperor of Russia .1159
On Resuscitation of Fish, by Col. Riddell Ills Abstractof theprincipalForeignOccurrenceslloo
Monument for Lady Wiih. MicklethvJaite his Country News—Domeftic Occurrences . . 1167
DuhvichCollege—Lyfons'Magu&Britam-iialllQ: AddititJns&Correctiens in formerObituaries 1 1 fio.
Indenture relative to Lady Scrope.ef Mastiam ib. Marriages and Deaths of eminent Persons 1172
Henfordstiire Epitaphs on eminent Persons 112o|BiU of»ortality—Prices of the Markets 1183
! Alderman
- ■ . Benn's ! .,Epitaph—Family
■ ■ *• j. ; " of; Penn
. .. • t112
. ' ,l|Daily
. , ' Variations in thePrices
..• , \ f v !, {!■ i ■ of■ the: ■.Stocks
1 ■ .. 1134
i Embellished with Perspective Views of Hbxham 'Cathedral, Northumberland ;
Pe&more and. Bockleton Churckt.s, Worcestershire; antient Coins, kc
Bt ' ' ''S. t r■'*'*:'*
V/r3^'. L V A N V
y*' S.■ . URBAN,
. . ». '■, r-rsGent.
v 1.
Printi f NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Passage, Fleet-street, Ltedon ;
lere all|Lettersjto the Editor are desired to be addressed," Post-taid. IS07.
Metbok»looical Diaxy for November t9»j. By Dr. Pole, Bristol.
o Barom, Therraom.
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i 47 56 30- 2 cloudy, frequent rain
2 45 50 30- 0 morn, clear, aft. cloudy, very rainy, high- wind
3 41 47 29-11 clpudy at times with rain, high wind
4 42 46 29-14 cloudy at times, some showers
S 41 53 29-16 ditto
0 42 50 29-16 ditto
7 45 50 29-12 morn, mostly clear, afternoon cloudy and showery
* 41 46 29- 7 mostly cloudy, frequent rain
9 35 44 29-12 morn, mostly clear, astern, cloudy, light rain, windy
10 34 37 39-13 heavy rain most of the day, some snow, high wind
n 40 41' 29-11 ' tempestuous night, mostly clear, high wind
19 30 3> 30- 3 light snow in the night, day clear
13 26 34 30- 5 mostly clear, even, cloudy, considerable snow '
14 32 36 SO- 5 snowy night, day very rainy
15 33 41 30- S cloudy
)0 39 42 30- 4 cloudy, evening rainy, high wind
17 39 41 30- 5 cloudy, some very light rain
19 ; 38 39 29-18 cloudy
jg 29 33 29-13 morning very snowy,; afternoon constant rain
80 35 35 29-18 cloudy, some light rain
91 30 33 29-11 cloudy at times, some snow
»2 27 32 29-13 cloudy, drizzling
as 32 36 29- 7 cloudy, some drizzling
«4 31 36 29- 7 morning cloudy, afternoon rain and snow
31 40 20-11 clear
36 33 37 29-14 mostly clear
*7 27 32 39-18 clear
»» 21 30 SO- 0 ditto
59 35 29 29-19 ditto
30 37 33 30- 0 cloudy morning, frequent snow.
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1807. ] Pedmore and Eiockleton Churches.-Roman Ætaf,no$
■ .Mr. Urban, Stourbridge, Nov. 4. . . . urleii, armigeri ;
I SEND you a drawing of Pedinore quæ Maria obiit 9 die ■
Church/ Worcestershire (See Plate Julii, anno Domini 1574.
II.J which is described by Dr. Nash, If you think the above inscriptions
In his vol. I!', p. 240'. worth inserting in your Magazine, per
Yours, &e. J.S. haps some of vour Correspondents caa
give a more full account of these fami
Mr. Urban, • " , Nov. 6. lies. [See Nash 1. 117.] J. L. S.
ABOUT four miles distant from
TenbYiry in Worcestershire, is Mr. Urban, ' Nov. 10.
situate the Parish Church of Boekieton ONE of my sons, digging in my
{See PI. IIJ which is a plain building 'garden at Carlisle, found the ac
of (lone consisting of one aile irregu- companying Roman altar (Jig. 3)
larly pewed. On the North side of the which 1 beg the savour of your ingeni
Chancel there is a mural marble monu ous correspondents to elucidate.
ment, with the following inscription : Yours, &c- Alter Senex.
M.S. Mr. Urban, Nov. 12.
. . jGarolus Baldwyn, I SEND you with pleasure the in
- . Cancellttrius Dioc. Hereford, closed sketch ; and shall be happy if
films et hæres Samuelis Baldwyn,
Equitis Aurati, Regi Gar. Ild» "ah\ ofyourleamedCorrespondents either
servientis ad Legem, sanction my conjectures, or refute them
et Eliz. filiæ Rich. VValcot, arm'. by an account of greater probability.
Uxorem duxit My own collection of the curiosities
Eliz: filiam uriicam et hærMem undermentioned is but small. The
Nich. Acton de Boekieton, arm", Coins are, however, in good preserva
et Mariie soioris et coharedis tion. I have sent, for the use of your
Edwini Skrymfher de Aqualat Engraver, a few os those I consider as
in agro Staff. ; moll valuable;' viz. a coin of King
ex qui fut'eepit hltos quatuor : Albelliari, a head of King Edward
" Edwynum, Acton, Carolum, et Samuelern, the Elder, and two other pieces of the
et unarn filiam Eliz. York mint, but engraved by ah ignor
Obijt iv die Jan. mdccvj. ant workman*.
astatis suæ lv. I have sent also a small piece of what
In the old chancel (here is a' mould I consider as part of a silver stirrup,
ering t«mb, ornamented on the sides of a smaller size, but similar shape,
with several coats of arms, having' also with some in the original collection ;
on the top a male and female effigy as and also the piece of silver chain un
large as life ; the male in armour with dermentioned,.
helmet and gauntlets. The wall to On the 14th of Sept. 1807, a leaden
which the tomb adjoins is ornamented box, containing about 270 Silver Coins,
above with five small male figures in and some pieces of Silver, the latter
relievo, and in the attitude of prayer ; weighing about two pounds, was
three of which are represented in ar turned tip by the plough, in the parish
mour j the other two are smaller in di of Bossall, in the county of York, at a
mensions,. Opposite to these are sour farm occupied by Benjamin Wright,
female figures in the fame attitude, one aud belonging to Henry Choltnlev,
Of which is smaller than the rest. Be esq. near the TLoh'ler-house, and eight
tween these groups of figures' is a plain mile-stone on the road from York to
stone, bearing the following imperfect Maltos. Most of the Coins appear to
inscription : " . '. have been struck at the Mint of St.
J-Iic jacenr^ fepujti Peter at York. From several Coins of
corpora Ricardi Barnebi, Alfred, Edward the Elder, and Athel-
armigeri, qui obiit die ... . stan, having been found with the St.
\ „*. . . arCoque Domini Peter's penny, it is conjectured they
et Maria ,uxor ejus, prima- were struck in the reigns of those Mo-
.' . genita, unaque filiaru'
,ct cohæredum Ricardi * The two latter of these we have ejt«
Ab'uigtoni, armigeri, graved in PI. II. figs. 4 and 5. Those pf
." et Jocose uxoris ejus, Athelstan and Edward the Eider are not;
filiæ et hæredis Edmund) uncommon. Euir,
Gent. Mao. DectnUer, 1S07. parch* j
no6 Antient Coins.~~Baitk of Stamford Bridge. [Dec.
narchs ; deposited in the treasury of omitted, that there are some antient
the Cathedral of York, in King Athel- foundations of a cottage within a few
stan's time, and taken from thence pre hundred yards of the spot.
vious to the battle between Harold aud A short account of the turbulent pe
the King of Norway in MJGG. Tbey riod above referred to may, perhaps,
have the name of the Master of the be acceptable on this occasion ; and it
Mint, or of the City df York, on the will be found to agree in substance with
reverse ; and are in perfect preservation, our English histories, and more elpe.
seeming almost srelh from the Mini, cially with the relation of it given in
and at all events cannot have been in Drake's History of York, from whence
much circulation, if any. From tbe it is briefly compiled.
contiguity of the spot were they were Edward ihe Confessor died on the
found to Stamford-bridge, (about three 5th of January HlGG, when the Throne
miles), and from the above and follow was usurped by Harold. Tosto, the
ing circumstances as connected with violent brother of the latter, being in
History, it is almost manifest that this Flanders at the time of this event, de
treasure was hidden soon after the me termined on the news of it to invade
morable battle fought at Starr 'ord- Harold's possession ; and, after a small
bridge on the 23d of September, 10GG, failure with his own forces on the Lin
between the great armies of Harold colnshire coast, he procured the assist
and the King of Norway in conjunc ance and co-operation os ihe King of
tion with Tosto, Harold's brother, who Norway. They eniered the Humber,
had invaded the kinadom, and shortly sailed up ihe River Ouse in ihe Autumn
before been in possession of York. It of the fame year, and landed within a
appears evident, from the pieces of Sil ssiort distance of Yoik, which City
ver found with the Coins, that the they soon gained possession of. Ha
whole was the plunder of a field of rold quickly marched a large force to
battle. Some of these appear separated oppose them ; npon the news of which
or chopped oft' from others of them, the Invaders, retreating from the City,
and to be pieces of stirrups. Others entrenched themselves in a peculiarly
seem to have been ornaments for horses. strong position at a place called Steang-
There is also a small piece of a Silver ford Bridge (now called Stamford
Chain of coarse workmanship, which, Bridge), about eight miles from the
no doubt, was either part of a bit, or of City, having the river Derwent in their
the headstall of a bridle. In addition front and right, aud having their left
to these was a plain Silver Ring, curi protected by ihe river Quse beyond its
ously twisted at the joinings, and some confluence whh the former, and where
broken ones, and a small Silver Cruci they had also left their Navy. Harold,
fix. finding them in this situation, pro
If there is weight in the above con ceeded on the 23d of Sepiember in the
clusion (and no other battle of adequate fame year, 1066, to force the narrow
antiquity to the Coins seems to have pass.'ge of a wooden Bridge immedi
been fought in the neighbourhood), ately in their front. He at length suc
we may reasonably conjecture, from ceeded ; although it is recorded by all
the srelh and perfect slate of ihe money, the Historians, that the passage was ob
that it had been plundered by t lie in structed by ihe valour of a single Dane
vaders from the Mini at York when for three whole hours, in the course of
they had obtained possession of the which the hero slew 40 men with his
City ; and that, after their defeat, it own haivd. Each of ihe armies con
had been found upon their persons in sisted of the then prodigious multitude
the field of Siamlord bridge, as the spoil of GO, 000 men ; and ihey fought with
of battle, by one of the neighbouring the utmost fury from seven in the morn*
rustics, who had very probably been ina tili 3 in ihe afternoon, when Harold
marched away by Harold to oppole ensured the victory. The invadingarmy
William the Norman, who in the was almost wholly destroyed, and their
niidli of his rejoicings, he heard, was al eminent leaders Tosto and the King of
ready landed near Hastings. It is 10 Norway (lain. Great rejoicings were
he observed, th.it the ground ill which made at York on the occasion ; but in
♦he itbove were sound was an uniu- the midst of them Harold heaid of th*
clol'ed moor until about half a century landing of William the' Norman on
ago, and had been once part of the fo the coast of Sussex. He collected all
rest »f Gawtry ; and it (houltl not be the forces he could raise throughout
the
1807.] St. Winifred's Well.— Dr. Lettsom on Prisons. 1107
the country, and marched without de with the wicked soul sunk into hell. And
lay against the new Enemy, whom he in the very place where her head fell,
met with at the distance of about five immediately sprung out of the earth that
miles from Hastings. A decisive en famsus Well which took its name and
gagement ensued, at a place which virtues from the miracles which were
from the circumstance has since been shown upon her."
called "Battle;" and Harold in this Yours; &c. Antiphoma.
loft his crown and his life upon the
14th of 06tober, which was not a LETTER XLV. ON PRISONS.
month after the Battle of Stamford
Bridge, in which he had been the comeDost " thou, in all thy addresses to him,
into his presence with reverence,
victor. • kneeling and religiously bowing thyself
An engraving of several Danish and before him ?"
Saxon Coins mav be seen in the Ap Duppa's Rules to Devotion.
pendix 10 Drake's History of York, p.
civ. There is au exa6t representation Mr Urban
MT. URBAN, Samhrook
De(. ]0Court,
•of some of these at figure 40 ; and one
iide of some of the Test is described in IN some parts of the kingdom, an
several of the other figures. excuse may be urged in extenuation
For some farther particulars of the of the bad state of the Prisons, from the
foregoing Battles fee Drake's History want of pecuniary means of effecting
of York, pp. 82, 83, and 84. improvement, as was observed on ano
Yours, &c Amicus. ther occasion. In the opulent City of
Bristol, a just plea on this ground can
Mr. Urban, Dec. Q. not Ire sustained ; and yet, since the
AS Dr. Milner has undertaken to first visits of Howard* and Neildf,
advocate the truth of the Miracle not any real improvement has been
supposed lately to have been performed effected, except the attempt to exclude
at St. Winifred's Well, and would ad the rats from molesting the prisoners.
duce fresh testimonies in savour of the In this City, where a Burke publicly
Church he belongs to, from the cure delivered his sublime apostrophe on the
sold to be effected by the waters of that labours of Howard, no symptoms of
place ; I imagine he is equally ready emulating his good works have yet ap
to defend the original Miracle which, peared. Even the dungeons of their
according to the tradition of the Newgate are equally filthy, and the
Church of Rome, gave virtue to that air of them is not less noxious. In a
holy Well. And as, perhaps, some feu-port town this is particularly dan
of your readers are ignorant of the gerous and reprehensible ;for a person
history of St. Winifred, whose festival issuing from these sources of contagion
was celebrated by the Church of Rome mav enter on board a vessel, and, with
on the 3d of November, and the his out apparent disease, may be so em-
tory then Tead in the Lessons in the bued with infection, as to endanger
course of the service of that day, I have the whole crew \.
transcribed part of it for their amuse Among the other evils which attach
ment or edification. to Bristol Newgate, 1 cannot forego to
" Now after St. Winifred's head was notice the little attention paid by the
cut off by her British lover, it came tum Prisoners to their worthy Chaplain, in
bling down the hill into the Church abletiting themselves from Divine Ser
among the assembly ; and being carried vice on the Sabbath day, and the disre
up the hiil again, where her dead body gard to decency in polluting ihe place
lay, and joined to it, by the prayers of of worships bv making it a drinking-
the Church, she arose, and lived again ; place in the week days. If the Su
and no sign remained of her ever having preme dwell not {not circumscribed)
lost her head ; save only that where the "in temples made with hands," yet
head was rejoined to the body, there ap there ought ever to be maintained a
peared a white thread, which continued
so all her life. And as for him that did * November 1776. State of the Pri
the fact, upon the prayer of the holy sons, p. 402. v
man that God would punish his detestable + About the year 1-800.
«rime, he immediately fell down dead ; J See Howard's State of Prisons, Sect.
and, which was more strange, his body J, p. t).
'presently disappeared, and many fay that § See Prison iotters, XI. XII. XVII.
|.t was swallowed up by the earth, and and XVIH.
1 io8 Mr. Neild on Bristol City and County Gaol. [Dec,
devout demeanour in such places where men. Only one court-yard (called the
the object of assembling is to address tlie Tennis court), sufficiently large for air
Creator in awful humility and reveren- and exercise; it is thirteen yards by
tial hope of forgiveness. Among fix, and into which Debtors and Felons
thole we have denominated Idolators, are, at different hours of the (Jav, f*r
the temples in which the Deity was parately admitted. In this court is a
wont to be invoked were always re- convenient bath, but seldom used, atxl
spected, and every thing indecorous a pump with good water. Men Fe-
exclucled. Even the Psalmist, invested Ions have two day-rooms. To the
with regaldignity, declared thai he would , firli, which is lo feet by 13, and 7
" rather be a door-keeper in the Tem: feet 8 inches high, adjoins a sleeping-
pie, than to dwell in the tents of wick- room about the fame size, which has
, edness*," awfully observing, as he no air but what is admitted through,
addressed the Creator, "in thy fear the iron-grated window of the day-
will I worship toward thy holy tern- room; there is a small court adjacent,
pies." Is this temple is wantonly 20 feet by 12, very close. Onohefide
polluted, that humility and reverence os this Courts Hp 12 steps, is a fickr
which ought to influence the creature room for Felons, 18 feet by fi^, and 7£
in appealing to the Creator, mull be high, with iron-grated and glazed win-
previously extinguished ; and unfelt dows and a fire-place, a small aperture
must be the sacred fear inferred by the in the door 14 inches by 11, and a
Psalmist. In a Hate so lost, depraved, ventilator. The second day-room is
and hardened, powerful and impres- 24 feet by 18. and 8 feet high, with a
five indeed must be the pious exertions fire-place and two treble iron-grated
of the Pastor to convey feeling to a windows which nearly exclude the
heart of stone. J. C. Lettsom. light; this room has two sleeping-cells
Bristol City and County Gaol. I I feet by 7, with arched roofs, and a
Gaoler, William, Humphries ; (alary Very small court with the sewer in it.
200 I. Gown-money 2 I. a-v ear. Fees : The condemned-room is 18 feetbv 13,
Debtors, first action G-s. 8 <h second, and 0 feet high, with a double iron-
and every subsequent one S s. 4 d. a graied window, whichlooksinto theFe-
London action Qi. Felons 13 s. 4 d. Ions Yard. Their dungeon, the Pit,
Transports 5 1. each when delivered at down 18 steps, is 17 feet diameter and
Portsmouth. Prisoners Allowance : 8? feet high ; barrack bedsteads with
Debtors, none; Felons, a three-penny straw in canvas beds ; and some bene- •
loaf of standard wheaten bread, weight, volent gentlemen in the City occasion-
December 16, 180.1, 1 lb 5 oz. ; Sept. atlv send a sevv rugs. It is close and
20, 1800", lib. 3 oz. Garnish abo- offensive; onlv a very small window
Mhed. Number of prisoners Dec. 16, with lights sufficient just to make dark-
1801 ': Debtors 18, Felons, &e. 26; ness visible. Ii is at present (1801)
October 4, 1803, Deb'ors 24, Felons, chiefly approptiated to convicts under
&c. 26, Delerters 2 ; Sept. 20, 1806, sentence of transportation; and (even- <
Debtors 33, Felons, &c. 27. Chap- teen prisoners lleep here every night,
lain, Rev. Mr. Day ; duty, sermon The Turnkey told me, he was so af-
every Sunday, anil pravers on Wedttes- f<_cted by the putrid steam which issued
1 day and Friday (fee Remarks), (alary from the dungeon when he unlocked
35 I. Surgeon, Mr. Safford; salary the floor in a morning, it was enough
none, he makes a bill.—Remarks. This to finite him down: ai rhv visit, Oct.
Newgate is built upon a declivity, and 1803. onlv one man flepl there. When,
stands in the midst of the City. It is Turnkeys are Co affected bv only open-
very fild, and nioch too small for ihe ing the doors, what must the miserable
general number of prisoners. The wretches confined .he whole night in
lower morns are dark For Debtors such putrid hot-beds of disease, suffer!
there are fifteen la rue and airy rooms, Sir George Paul justly observes, that" a
two of which arefree Wards for poor Gaol, beinir the place of Cafe custody «f
Debtors, who find their own beds, the disturbers of our peace and proper-
Thole on ihe Muster's fide pay 2 s. 6d. tv, rarely attracts our attention as an
prr week each ; two sleep in a bed. object of our pity and benevolence ;
No proper separation of men and wo- gratified with the thought that it re-
'i 1 1 strains the daring murderer, we over-
* Psalm lxxxiv. 10. look the gloomy list it oppresses." The;
f Psaini v. ;. female Felons ward is at the top of the
houle,
1807.] Mr. Neild on Bristol City and County Gaol. I IO9
house, 14 yards by 8, and 6 J feet drinking, smoking, and chewing to
higb ; it Icrves the purposes ot* a dav- bacco in the galleries, the filthy effects
room and llteping.-rooin, and overlooks of w hich are visible on the floor. Ait
the Men Felons Court; it had sour Act was passed several years ago to
windows, but two ot" them are (lopped build a new Gaol ; and it is much to
.up. There is a fink in it, but no wa er be regretted that it is not carried into
hoi what is brought from below bv t he execution by this rich commercialCiiy ;
Keeper. Near it are iwo rooms set for teally the pre'enl Gaol ;s a disgrace
apart for infirmaries. Thee are many to it.
narrow passages ; and ihe uiinoli ai- Bristol City Bridewell. Part os it is
tenlion is requisite to keep the prison in the Keeper's bottle, on one side of
healthy. I sound it clean al my several the street, and part on the other side.
.visits, considering!! was so crowded and In tile Keeper's house the Mafler's-side
so dole. It is scraped and whitewashed Criminals have a day -room on the
once a year. The Act for Preservation ground-floor 5 yards square and 10
os Health is hung up in the Chapel, feet high, and np-stairs two rooms, to
which is commodious, and has a gal which the Keeper furnishes beds at 1 s.
lery. The Clauses against Spirituous per night. In these three rooms t tie
L'qoors hana up al the entrance of following notice is painted : " Who
the Gaol. No employment whatever ; ever (hall write against or daub the
luch, indeed, is the confined situation walls in any manner will be punished
of the Prison, as to preclude the possi as the Magistrates shall think proper."
bility of work ! No Table os Gaoler's The CommcnMule, the Bridewell, over
Fees. Betides the service noted in iis the way, consists of two parts separated
place, there are thirteen sermons n-\ ear, bv a court 50 feet by 15, in which
for which ihe rector of the parish re there is. a pump and cistern for hard
ceives 4 I. from a Legacv. and loft water. The riili part has on
Mr. John' Hiydon left 100 1, to be lite right hand two cells for vagrants
lent to two merchants, each paving on the gronnd'floor, each l6j sect by
annually to the Corporation for the Gh feet, an iron-grated window to the
Debtors, as the interest of his moietv, Court, and a most offensive sewer in
1 I. 13s. 4d. Mr. FncrKun left 4*1. one corner. The sleeping-room above
Q s. lo be Lid out in bread and beef, and large and airv, but the straw on
dllribuled on Christmas-eve, to pri the floor was short, dirty, and almost
soners of all descriptions. To this Le worn to dust. On the seft. hand is a
gacy Mrs. Freeman annually makes an room for Fines, 2a! feet hy 17, and 10
addition of eleven (hillings. feet high, with an iron-grated window
The churchwardens have for many lo the Conn, and a fewer not offensive.
years past annually paid ♦ 2 s. iwo Up-lhirs is a room the fame size. The
thirds of which arc given to the Debt It-cond part has on the ground-floor
ors, and one third 10 the Felons. This rijht band Iwo cells lfjj by 6f, and
J apprehend to be the lesricy of. Mr. () feet hi sih to the crown of the arch,
Aldj'wnTfh, mentioned by Mr. Howard. wi'li an aperture a foot square to admit
There is 110 memorial in the Gaol of li/ht and air, and an iron grating over
any legacy. each do >r. The sewers being near the
A person arrested by an action from river are not very offensive ; but they
the Tolzey Court here, may at ihe are so terribly infested by rats, that a
next Court confess the debt, and at cat was kept in each to prevent their
the first Court after (which is held gnawing the prisoners feet. Over these
monthly) be charged in execution, and cells is ihe Infinnarv-room, 22 feet by
become immediately entitled to his I" ami 10 s et high, with a fire-place
sixpences or supersedes. ' and glazed window. On the left hand
The Debtors attendance on Divine is the Woman Vagrant's dav-room, 18
Service is optional, and I was lorry to feet by 16 and 10 feet high, with a
observe only p out os 03 present; nor large iron-grated window to the Court;
were the Criminal Prisoners so attentive and over it a sleeping-room the same
as I should have expected from the size, the straw on the floor had served
devout and serious manner in which two sets of Prisoners ; and the floor
the dulv was performed bv the worthy itself was in a more filthy slate
Chaplain. So little regard is paid to than I can decently describe. The
ihe Chapel as a place of worship, that Court being quite out of smht of the
I have frequently (eon the prisoners Keeper's house, he does not suffer the
prisoners
mo Bristol City Bridewell— ■Present State of York. [Dec.
prisoners to use it, nor the pump secondary class of elevation, to be, as it
in it, bul three times a week in t lie were, a sublervient character to the
middle of the day; vet some are im prime object, the West Front. The
prisoned here three years, and during line of the Nave is in (even divi
that lime in irons. No employment. sions ; between each are elegant but
Neither Act for Preservation of Heuhh) tresses : the first story of them riles con
nor Clauses against Spirituous Liquors* siderably above the parapet of the ailes,
hung up. Fees .'is. 6(1. for which (hewing compartments and niches filled
the prisoners may be detained. Keeper, with whole-length statues : they are
Thomas Millward, afterwards John crowned with pinnacles. The win
Parsons; (alary SOl. At my vifit dows to this rtorv carry on the fame
180(5, I found Thomas Evans, appointed forms as those on the West Front J
Keeper witli a, Hilary of 501. per arm. their architraves finishing with pedi
The rats were prevented from annoy ments. The parapet is compartmented
ing the prisoners, the floors mended, with circles, and the eap of it has an
lite cells whitewashed, and the whole indication of minute battlements ; and
prison very ctean. There is no religi between each are human heads: The
ous attention paid to the prisoners. windows of the (econd stofy are also in
Surgeon, Mr. Sajsord ; he makes a bill. unison with those on the West Front.
Allowance, a three-penny loaf of hous- The entablature, on which stands tho
hold bread per day, which I weighed battlements, has an enrichment of
Ib.l. 5 oz. This prison was built in finials, a circumstance peculiar to this
1721. Number of prisoners Dec. 17, Church : theie battlements have cip.
1801, 8; Oct. 4, 1803, 16; Sept. 20, cular perforations with pinnacles at
1800, 5. each division. Some few feet before
My dear Friend, the sixth and seventh divisions, stands a
It was very natural for me to enquire small building of two stories; the de
why new Prisons were not built in this sign is in the Tudor manner. The
rich commercial City, especially when lower dory is for Record offices, and
an Act has been obtained for that pur the upper story is the Library : in the
pose, and they have so excellent a mo former story, two of the windows out
del and example set them by the Coun of the three have been broken in'.o, to
ty of Gloucester (Lawford's Gate) make two modern door-ways*. The
scarcely out of the town. 1 was in original pass was from the inside of the
formed that the lower and many of the South Transept. Say, these inlets are
middle ranks of people were in such a more ready (or entrance than walking
ferment about the rates lo be imposed, a few yards about into the Church ;
•hat the more liberal and enlightened but are our Antiquities, for such a
inhabitants thought better to postpone tr. fling consideration, thus to be sported
it. I am, my dear Sir, yours gratefully, with? Comfortable reflection notwith
James Neii.d. standing, this Innovation is but as a
Dr. Leltfjm, London. drop of water thrown into the sea ! At
the back of the pinnacles to first story,
Present State of York, ISOC. and against the breaks between the
(Continued from p. 821.) windows of (econd storv, are prepa
Th« Cathedral. rations for flving buttresses, said never
SOUTH Front. Divided tntn three lo have been completed. This opinion
".'real pans, the Nave, Transept, 1 cannot assent to, as it must not be
and Choir. The work of the rght presumed such consummate Artists as
fide of the Tower of the Weft Trout is those of the 14th century would have
return-don this South From, making left their work in such an imperfect
the first feature of the line thereof. Ot) (late; I therefore judge that this appa
-the right of this return the work rather rent neilecl is no neglect, but the ef
dec'ines in richness, being a kind of fect of a dangerous saving, or wanton
preparation to that of the Nave. The hnvock perpetrated in later limes, upon
Nave, as usual, is raised in two stories, some necessary repairs being found ex
in the fi le ade, and upper tier of win pedient to be dune to this part of the
dows.- It is highly pleasing to coii- building. '• It is easier to cut away
. template on the art here displayed in work intirely, and cheaper, than to
the chanee, or, mote justly speaking,
tlie neceiiJ'V retrenchment of orua- * No part of the present improve
tucviul profusion, so as to constitute .a ments, bat tforre some few years past.
1 807 .] Present State os the Cathedral ef York. 1 1 11
niake good certain particulars not di dowsi*." On ihe poiut of the pedt-
rectly held of importance or generally ment is » pinnacle, with (by way of a
seen." finial) a man playing on a violin : it is
The Transept is a superb object in hardly necessary to fay this is some ri
deed 1 and of a stvle prior to that of diculous addition, and perhaps by thole
the Nave ; the da'te 1227, during the who tried their experiments on the
episcopacy of Archbishop Waller Grey. Porch below.
It presents three grand parts , the centre The Choir carries on the general
one for ihe great Aile, aud the smaller design in height, and in the molt promi
ones for the fide ditto. The first nent features of windows, buttresses,
particular to be noticed is the Porch, pinnacles, parapets, and battlements ;
and parts over it, containing the clock, and was the work of Archbishop
which parts extend to the sill of the Thorestjy, who still went on with the
great window. These (aid |>arls have Edwardian mode; but in the course of
been rejlorcd (but not in the present at so long a feign varieties eveoifullr
tempts of this nature) some few years took place. It bears nine divisions of
ago. The first effort of these Inno windows, buttresses, &c; that window
vators was, to remove the antient clock, at the fifth division, with a similar one
containing two wooden (iatues in the on each side West and East, riles the
postumicarmourofHenry VII. * which whole height of the building, and at
struck the quarters, &c. The next at the (ame time projects from the main
tack was, to re-construct several of the line of the Choir, giving a small or
decorations of columns, arches, pedi second Transept—another peculiar cha
ments, &c. making what they called racter attending the archite6ture os the
improvements in the alteration of the Church, and has altogether a most ad
mouldings, ornaments, he. It cannot mirable effect. The upper part of this
be denied but here is much to censure, second Transept has undergone a re
and nothing to praise. Between the paration and Ibme touches by way of
three grand divisions, as above, are tw o improvement, and is, I believe, the
octangular turrets ; at the angles of first trial of (kill of the present work
the Transept are corresponding Turrets. people. Sincerely I cannot bestow
These latter objects have a finishing of that praise with regard to correctness,
a later date in Architecture ; they are as 1 am so ready to allow for what has
laid to lie modern studies from some been done on the Well front, in re
ns the Edwardian work about the spect to the masonry ; as to the sculp
Church. ture, here are the substitute " ducks"
Besides the three stories of windows we mentioned in our last paper. The
(the great centre one 3nd side ditto) and tracerv to all the windows lakes a
the circular one in the pediment, are change from the ornamental turns in
five, or more, tiers of recefl'es, with thole of the Nave; that is, they are
columns and arches ; and the whole purely architectural. The pedimenlal
upright terminates with a pediment. finilliings to i lie architraves of the
That this front is of the date alledged lower windows are changed front
is certain, as there are no niollions or those of the Nave lo sweeping or o,;ee
tracery lo the windows but in the forms.
centre light, which cannot be well og- Beyond the second Transept, the
couiktedfor(otlierwisethan as some later four upper-story windows have~ a de
insertion;) the architrares are filled coration before (hem of an open leiten;
with Saxon diagonals, and there are this evinces a third species of archi
no crotchets to the pediments, Sec. tectural accompaniment, on y to be
The forms in the great circular wio- met with in this fabric. The effect is
dow, taking a circular course round prepoflelfing to a degree, and affords a
jthe centre, a'e columns with arches in half light to this part of the Guoir and
two rotary tiers. This is a very beau Our Ladv's Chapel, presenting the
tiful decoration, and not very ui'r happiest opportunity fonlie glorious East
common in our remote architecture, window to be seen in all iis due splen
and ones its origin to the S'XOI) llvle, dour. Recollect the paltry and clum-sy
as in many buildings of that order aie modem expedients to give a centrical
to be found these circular windows, effectof light to the Eastern parts of St.
commonly called " St. Catharine's win-
■ f Barfreston Church, Kent ; Ueding-
* They are now in the Vestry, ham Church, Eslex ; &c. &c.
Gecrrge's
ntz York Cathedral.—British Commerce. [Dec,
George's Chapel, Windsor; Litchfield, os the terraqueous Globe before theniy
and Salisbury Cathedrals, &c. by ab- and direct their attention to the element
ibiuiely blocking up the side windows, which in a peculiar manner presents
and painting, on (aid blocking-tip, itself to their embrace.
mock quarries of glass, &c. Before the The phv deal difficulties which must
first five divisions of the first story are occur lo the projectors of a universal
other low buildings of a later dale, inland Commerce, though nearly in-.'
giving the Treasury, inner and oilier calculable, are not wholly insurmount
Vestries. The mullions to the win able.
dows of the Treasury lately knocked The Errqjeror of Trebizond, towards
out, and to ihe outer Vcliry a modern the decline of the Grecian Empire, ac-,'
door-way has been stuck- in.. This quired immense wealth,- and sufficient
latter innovation has altered the sntieiM power to maintain himself fora consi
arrangement of the Church ; clerical derable space os time against the attacks
attendance being (6 exact and precise, of the ferocious Bulgarians, by the
even to ihe last toll of the prayer-bell, trade which he carried on with India
that certainly the walk round and byway of the Caspian, whence they
through the Transepts to the stalls descended the river Jihor or A inn, and
would have been too tedious, and be at len^ih reached the Indus by a land
come a Ibrt of race against Time. At comeiance; and although this cir
the Eastern extremity of this front, cuitous traffick nas rxiremely tedious,
unbounded ideas of profuse workman* yet by means of ihe Genoese, Vene
ship again begin to appear, which tians, and iJiz«ns, who entered the
will be more immediately cogniza Euxine, and waited at Trebizond for
ble on the East Front, where ihey the Indian trader's return, the greatest
are returned with increased magnifi pan of Europe were supplied with the
cence. spices and luxuries of the East.
The Centre Tower, lording it over This route, and that from Egypt by
the whole pile in proud magnitude and wav of the Isthmus of Suez, embrac
state, is certainly coeæval with ihe West ing the interior commerce of Asia and
Towers, in their upper halves ; each Africa, in addition to that of Europe,
being in all the true character of lheTti- have long been favourite objects with
dorOrder. A double large window, with Napoleon ; and '.lie facility of opening
two tiers of mullions, and bounded on a trade for Ruffian and French com
each side by comnartonenled 'buttresses, modities between France and Russia,
are the principal features. The heads of Kamfchaika and China, is by no means
the windows ha\e to the architraves a visionary project, and was unques
sweeping pediments, as have also the tionably one of the principal incentives
different heights of the buttresses. The to the Treaty of Tilth.
battlements are perforated by rich ma But/ while these magnificent projects
sonic compartments. At the angles of are carrying into execution, we must
the parapet some imperfections teem to not I crome supine. That part os Atii
occur ; or, more probably, the alti over which this inland commerce is to
tude of thisTower never owned a com traverse, is by no means populous ; and
plete finish, as an indication of anarch years, if not ages, m lift elapse before
springing meets theeye, and which steins an inland commerce of such extent amJ
to set all architectural conjecture at de- difficulty can be conducted upon terms
. fiance. But the hour for checking Ca of advantage ; numerous towns must
thedral construction in all its. full ple be built, various stations must be ren
nitude of pomp was fast approaching ; dered practicable, mountains must be
therefore, on this hi<i,h point of the Ar levelled, desarts fertilized, and rivers
chitect s labour he paused, and paused rendered navigable ; and after all, the
t» work no more ! J. C. conveyance of the coarser articles of
(To be continued.) trade will become so enhanced in price,
as 10 be above the purchase of those
Mr. Urban, Dec. 1.5. who most need them : add to which,
WHILli Buonaparte and his the great Projector Tiimself may, whiles
Russian Ally are threatening this modern Babel is erecting, crumble
to open an inland Commerce from into atoms; and that great heart which
prance to lrftlia, and from S:. Peters now agitates the globe, become .food
burg to Kamchatka and China ; the for worms.
British Ministers should spread the Map To British commerce none of these
difficulties
i8o7-] British Commerce.—National Deli .— Mr. Blore. 1113
difficulties occur ; the Ocean is open to Let us not lav up our ships to rot in
us fr^irn the utmost bounds of the mun our harbours : let us not relax in our
dane horizon. That Kamsehatka, which efforts, nor luster our habits of indus
Buonaparte so proudly pointed out to try to become paralyzed. New fields
Alexander, for opening the keys to for enlerprize are open to us : the oils,
China, is within our grasp. Its only the furs, the shells, the drugs, the tim
good harbour, St. Peter and St. Paul, in ber, the spices of the whole terraque
the Bay of Awafka, may be secured ous globe mav freight our Vessels, while
by a 60 gun ship, and two or three our seamen by those diliant voyages
sloops of war ; from thence, by the mull become the bravest and hardiest
Isle of Oonalaska, and down the North mariners iu the world.
west coast of America, the finest stirs Star.
in the world may be, obtained. With
these furs, the China trade may be se Mr. Urban, Dec. 10.
cured, and teas taken in payment TN page 1071, it is said that the sum
would prevent the expatriation of A buried was in value ut the time
300,0001. to 400,0,001. in silver annu about equal to 1000 1. now ; but. calling
ally ; while some stout (hips might ex each piece of money a silver three
plore the sea of Okoifk, the Western pence, I was considering what these
coast of the Kurile Isles, the Sea o^ might have done in an active state.
Korea, Whang Hay, and the Western They have been hidden in the earth
coast of Japan ; and, under proper en above ftOO years. Suppose 'that for
couragement, a trade might not' only only half that time, fay from some part
be opened between the North of China of Queen Elizabeth's reign, these had
and Japan, bv Britons, but the whole been emploved as our Commissioners
of that wealthy unknown track be for the National Debt use Money, this
fullv and completely explored. trifling sum of 62 1. 10 s. would ere
What an infatuation then must it this have grown to the amount of our
he, to continue monopolies originating whole National Debt !
from the barbarous system of supersti I am not one of those who think
tious Papal usurpation, which arro lightly of great national expenditures ;
gantly granted one half of the naviga but, I confess, every gloomy noiion con
ble globe to Portugal, the other to cerning our mass of debt has passed
Spain ! And these absurd grants* still away, being firmly of opinion that at
prevent a free trade to these wealthy least '.'00 millions ofdebt will be a con
regions, which, however remote, in venience to the poblick, and attach the
reality are much nearer our grasp than secret good wishes of Foreigners around
an inland trade to India, China, or us to the prosperity of the realm. The
Kamschaika, is to that of Napoleon year 1786" is well in my remembrance :
and Alexander. so are the scoffs of many in London at
It is time then to avail ourselves of the projected effect of Mr. Pill's plan ,
the advantages of our situation and na then commencing. In this day the
val strength. Excluded from the Eu matter resolves into a question exhila
ropean Qiores, let us direct our com rating enough. If one million, ice.
mercial operations to those of Asia, for 1 73(5, have in 21 years bought up
Africa, and America, not in the old 130 millions, what may not be pre
beaten tracks, hut to those which the dicted from five millions, &c. (taking;
God of Nature has opened to us—to credit for no more) in other 21 years J
the Pacific Ocean—:o its Eastern and Yours, &e. W". P.
Western shores — to its innumerable
Isles should our views be directed. The Mr. Urban, Dec. 7.
seas abound with articles of profitable VOUR last number contained an
commerce, and the inhabitants of either article intituled " Mr. Blore's
Hemisphere stand ready to hail our ap Works ;" which seems to me very im
proach. perfect ; and I hope ere long to give
you several additions to it. In the
* The faa is, that al! the Powers of Eu inean time an imperfect lift of the works
rope, ' Protestants as well as Cathslics, of his son, Mr. Edward Blore, will,
acquiesced in these ridiculous grants : the perhaps, be amusing to some of you*
Indian monopolies, &c. are restiges of Readers, and cannot fail to be interest
this barbarous polity. ' ing to tbe learned Author ef "British
Cext. Mag. December, 1807. Topo-
i H4 Air. E. Blore's Drawings, *-*(juildhall, London. [Dec,
Topography," and other lovers of Eng Architectural Innovation.
lish Antiquities. No. CXV.
Amongst the Northamptonshire Guild Hall, London.
drawings*, I have seen above fifty Suntyed 1807. ' .
churches in that county, including all THIS Hall appears to he a work
the hundreds of Hothvvell and Corbyi coæval with Westminster Halt
The houses of the Earl of Cardigan at (1411); that is, thole particular parts
Deane, Mr. Finch H;itioti's at Kirhy, substituted on the original erectiuu of
Lord Sondes' at Rockittghstm, Lord Rufus, by Ilichafd 11. in the North
Cullen's at Rush ton, Sir John Palmer's aud South Frontsy tiers of windows
at Carlton, Mr. Huugerford's at Ding- on East and Weft fides, StC ; the walls
ley, the old Manor-house at Stoke Al- below being of the first design. In
bini, the Maiket-house at Rowell, the Guild Hall, then, we trace the hand
Crols at Geddington : the three grand of the (ame Architect in his larger de
monuments of the Montague family corations : an() 'be detail of smaller
at Warkton, the monuments of Judge parts, in the mouldings and ornaments,
Montague and Sir Edward Montague still more forcibly corroborate the simi
at Weekley, the monuments of the litude of design. The grand Porch
Watsons at Rockinghaui, the monu or Facade of entrance on the South
ments of Judge Brudenell, the Duchess Front, erected in the reign of Henry
of Richmond, and others at Deane, VII. (of which on its exteroir no
the monuments of the Judges Yelver- thing now remains but the columns
tons at Efftoti Mauduit, all the and a;ch to the entrance) was also a
monuments (Hut the large one of Vis fioble elevation. It certainly is a sub
count Filzwilltatn) at Marham, Sir ject of wonder, considering the first in
Anthony Mildmay's monument, and jury this Hall sustained in the great fire
a more antienl nameless one, at Ap-. lfitiG, next its hasty repair within three;
thorpe, the Lord Ruisell's monument years, and lastly its worse than repair,
atThyrnhaugh, the monument! of the the improvements done since the year
Cecils at St. Martin's, Stamford ; all 1788, that we have the least particle
the monuments at Luffwick, including left of the old fabric, either as some
four views of the splendid one attri confirmation of its former stale, or to
buted to Ralph Greene, and two of afford documents of the style of Archi
that of the Karl of Wiltshire [the tecture which prevailed in the r5th
bird's-eye of the Earl of Wiltshire's, century. •
and a brass of Henry Greene's, from The features added in 1669 are not
another -person's drawings, are given to be held as any thing very strange,
in Air. Gough's "Sepulchral Monu considering the rage of (he day againli
ments"] ; the picture of the Founder English Antiquities, issuing from the
of lite Church in one of the windows, Wren&in school ; but in our return of
the monuments of Sir Geoffry Palmer admiration (I will not call it an affec
at Carlton, the monument of Judge tation) for the remaining works of our
Nicholls at Faxten, the Charlewood Ancestors, to witness the present sa-
monument at Maidwell, the monu cade, set up by way of a grand South
ments at Rufh'.on, the monument of entrance, is certainly a matter not to
Sir Jorm Hanbury at Kelmarfh, the be reconciled either to a system os un
monument of Lord Chief Baron Ward restrained whim, or the general sup
at Stoke-Doyle, of Justice Povrys at posed useless and nominal pursuits of
Acfrurch ; and delineations on a large an F. A. S.
scale of every part of frhe West front of 1 have* more than once declared my
Peterborough. Cathedral, including a disinclination to become a Fellow of
drawing by exact admeasurements of that honourable Body ; have often
the Chapel between the arches : speci given, or endeavoured it> give, my rea
mens of the Ust-mcnti<.iied article may sons, why, and wherefore, but not
be seen at Mr. Lowry's, Upper Titch- perhaps in the most intelligent wav ;
tield-street, Portland-place. but in the instance before us, to be
This is not, 1 think, a perfect list of sensible a follower of the noble science
the Northamptonshire drawings :. you has benefited so little from his studies
iball have a list for auotber county, as may set this matter right, aud explain
I took it some weeks ago, if this fiuds- the cause of my remaining aloof, and
mltriion in your Miscellany. O. G. continuing shy of the captivating ap*
~* See Cent. i\Lg. voTjJU. p, mo. pellatioa.
South
1807.] Architectural Innovation, No. CXV. 1115
South Front. To speak of the Fa- Grecian plan, or East Indian standard t
fade, or grand entrance ((landing some No. And yet there is a vain presump
feet before the main line of the Hall) tion to toum upon each separately and
as it- (hewed in 1*88, there was in the conjunclixely. Here are pointed arches
centre a beautiful arch-way supported to the windows of the earliest acute
by double columns, and the fpandrils form, not correspondent to the more
to the arch full of fine tracery. On oStnle pointed arches of the Hall, with
each fide of the arch-way first rose a turns within them also, but of eight
basement with two division* of com sweeps, while those of the Hall lake
partments inclosing shields ; above hut six sweeps. The fact is, our an
them rich niches ; and within each, tient window-heads never take more
(lender pedestals supporting the statues than fix sweeps, and we listener find
of" Discipline (or Religion), Fortitude, four sweeps in such situations than the
Justice, and Temperance ;" expressed greater number six. All these mighty
by four elegant and delicate females ; imitations then are worked without any
the first in the habit of a nun ; the se mouldings or other indispensable parti
cond had an upper garment composed culars, and the Pointed arches, are
«>f ring armour, and in the left hand a the only attempt* to bring forward
fliield ; the third, crowned, and in any thing similar to our antient Archi
the attitude of administering justice tecture. Numberless running compart
{the scales gone) ; the fourth, deprived ments with fltiwers, and an attic pe
of its arms, and of course no symbols destal, leans to the Roman, and fluted
remaining; but the attitude was most pilasters, honeyfnekleornaments, and in
expressive of the character it assumed : verted arch parapets, lo that of the Gre
indeed each sculpture (hewed the like cian manner ; aud theterminationsof the
happy elfect*. In the story above, (aid pilasters immerge into East Indian
two grand niches with statues of two pinnacles and site-bosses ; but without
sages, one recognized as representing the truedetailsnf either of these three fo
5 aiv, and the other Learning. Round reign modes of building. The upright,
these decorations were compartments, in its own degree, gives three parts ;
windows, &c. Over these objects were a centre and two sides (right and left)
Cpme of the additions of the Wrenean each divided by the pilasters as just men
school, such ac an entablature with tioned. In the centre, above the ori
com pin merits, a large armorial basso ginal entrance, are two tiers of win
relievo, scrolls, circular pediment, &c. dows, three in a row ; on the fides,
On the right of this centrical part of four stories of windows of all propor
the F»9Jde was a door-way, various tions, three in a row. In short, to
compannents, windows, &c. The behold thirty windows crammed into a
counter-part of this assemblage, on the (pace that, rationally speaking, should
left, when I took my survey and have had no more thanfive, one in the
sketches, had been recently pulled centre, and two right and lest, is cer
dowp, preparatory to the improvements tainly an Architectural trait of genius
about to be entered upon. reserved for the present day ; and as
The line of the Hall itself is ip two such let us close this first part of our
stories, the first containing the original Survey, which will be relumed in a
windows, witt) buttresses between each, second paper, Ajr Architect.
and the windows to the upper story,
with the entablature and parapet, Mr, L'rbav, ™ * Dee. 15.
Wrenean additions. IN order to be convinced of the real
The whole of the facade has been benefit arising from the different es
demolished, excepting the centre arch- tablish rjients instituted for reforming
• way and columns , and it now becomes the characters of the persons relieved
my task, and an unpleasant and dissi- by them, it would be highly pleasing
cult task it is, to endeavour to describe to the Subfcribets, and other henrvo-
the present substitute. Does it shew a . lent people, could they be informed,,
design on our antient model. Roman, or that a great portion of the, objects, after
* These Statues (which weie given to they left the Asylums, were living in
Mr. Banks the Statuaiy) are said to be still an honest and reputable way. To as
in being, ahd to have been more than once certain this circumstance is, no doubt,
exposed to sale, but bought in, as biddeis a very difficult task in many instances,
did not come up to the expected prict. and a task which must be performed
They are engraved in Antient Sculpture with great caution and delicacy, lest
and Painting. the
1 1 16 Magdalen Hospital.—Holland House, Kingsgate. [Dec.
the persons should be distressed hv the the then Duke of Richrnond, in 1744,
disclosure of the circumstance of their came, through the entreaties of his
having been in those places. An in brother, the harl of llchester, to Kings-
quiry of this fort was, we are happy gate, for the benefit of his health ; and
lo learn, made some years ago( respect immediately after his recovery, he built
ing those who had left the Magdalen that once famous mansion, but which,
.Hospital ; and the result was very fa has been for some years past in a stale,
vourable, as appears by an account of ruin. The house, with its extensive
given with the printed statement of gardens, which occupy upwards of 20
Admissions, Expences, &c. for 1806, acres of land, was, a few weeks ago,
and other years. purchased by two professional gentle
" In the year 1791 great pains were taken men from London (a Mr. Clifford, an
to trace out the situation of all those women eminent Architect, and Mr. SpottiC-
who left the house during four years, from woode, a Gentleman of the Law), for
May 1786 to May 1700, and the result of half the sum mentioned in the London
that inquiry, which was made with the prints ; and since the purchase, they
utmost accuracy, (hews that during that have been offered four thousand pounds
period, about two thirds of the whole for their bargain, as the vast quantity
number of women admitted, were joenna- ' of lead and copper will clear all the
nently reclaimed. purchase money. The wings are not
" Discharged in the said four years, of 10 be pulled down, as reported ; they
every description, 246; then behaving and the grand saloon will be left
well, 157; behaving ill, 74; insane in standing, as they are re-covering ihe
confinement, 4 ; dead, 1 ; situation un
known, 10. roof with copper.
"The women when discharged from It is the intention of the purchasers
the house are for the most part under to form the right wing into an Hotel
twenty years of age ; and it is an in and Coffee-room, with a covered gal
variable rule not to dismiss any woman lery leading to the grand saloon, which
(unless at her own desire, or for miscon will be converted into an Assembly
duct) without some means being pro Room ; the former entrance to ilie
vided, by which she may obtain a liveli saloon being through a circuitous pas- (
hood in an honest manner." ; ■ sage, which will be stopped up. The
In the same paper we perceive that, left building on the right wing is to
in 1786, gratuities were given toseven* come down, together with several use
teen young women, who had conti less offices. The right wing will be
nued one year in service with a good converted into a Lodging-house, and
character ; also gratuities to sixteen the great dining parlour into -ajjiublici
young women who had been several Library and Reading-Room..,, The ex
ytars in service, &c. : these last were cellent Doric portico, which is sup
rewarded out of the bounty os a Friend ported by twelve columns of Portland
to this Institution. The number of stone, about twenty feet high, with .
young women discharged with credit rich entablature and Piedmont, re-i
that year 58 ; a larger number than for sembling the columns of the Pantheon
Jjiany years past before. in London, will come down, as well
A Constant Header. as the centre house, whic-h, on exa
P. S. Some months ago a letter ap mination, was found greatly decayed
peared in four Magazine, purporting from the want of care; and a modern-
10 have been written by one of the built house, with a grand entrance, will
young; women who had been admitted be erected instead. Several other buildings
into the Magdalen : was this letter as will be erected fronting the sea, which
certained to be a genuine one? The will form a beautiful crescent. The gap-
well-known " History of a^lagdalen," den, which will be made a public one,
written by Dr. Dodd, has the appear will be laid out with a fine lawn and gra
ance, if we judge only from the title- vel walks, and is at present so well lined
page, of a real story, and not a fiction ? with trees, scarce shrubbery, &c. that
very little is to be done, occupies about
Mr. Urban, Nov. 4. fix acres of ground, well walled in, and
HE followina particulars of Hol- in the centre between Ramfgale, Mar
" land-house, Kingsgate, will doubt gate, and Broad-stairs ; and there is no
less be acceptable to your reader*. doubt but it will be the evening retreat
Henry, the laie Lord Holland, of the fashionables at those places. At
shortly after his marriage to Georgiana the upper end of the gardens there is a
Carolina, eldest daughter of Charles, beautiful column of black Kilkenny
marble.
1807.] Resuscitation of Fish by Col Riddell, . it 17
marble, which was erected to lb,e me Mr. Urban, Cheltenham, Dec. 8:
mory of the Countess of Hilllborough, MY new system of Medicine I con
who died in the year 17b'7, at Naples, sider as so important to mankind,
•with a suitable inscription, which will and a discovery which will hereafter
)iot be disturbed ; and, in order to be sully acknowledged as a blessing,
preserve its security, a railing w ill be that I ant confident you will be much
put round iu satisfied with the part you have taken
The house stands about 20 yards toward diffusing more generally the
from the Gate, in a low valley, well knowledge of its existence. Indeed the
secured from the North, West, and proofs I receive of the extensive efficacy
South winds, and was built under the of medicines so combined and adminis
direction of the late Sir T. H Wynne, tered, even to the successful resistance
afterwards Lord Newborough, grand of Poisons, have been sometimes sub
father to the present Lord ; and con jects of astonishment to myself; and
tained, (luring Lord Holland's life, one at the same time they are so perfectly
of the finest libraries in England. The innocent, as to permit their being taken
.grand saloon was much admired for its with the utmost safety by infants, or
beauty ; the cieling was painted by the most delicate constitutions. The
Haville, aud represents the History of world has lately been presented with a
Neptune, with various columns and melanoholy cafe ofHydrophohia; and,
pilasters, and scagliula of porphyry, as this is a peculiar species of fever, I
which is to remain ; and was well cannot help wishing that I had been
stored with antique marble busts, vales, fortunate enough to have had it under
&c. brought from Italy, and beautiful my immediate management, to have
fine paintings, the chef d'œiwres of the faiily tried the effect of a more power
Flemish aud Italian schools. This ful weapon than has, probably, yet
estate was bought by the late Lord been wielded against it. [Seep. 1150.]
Holland, of a Robert Whitefield ; andat I will now, Mr- Urban, relate (bme
his Lordship's death it was bequeathed of my late experiment on the resusci
to the late Right Hon. Charles James tation os Fist), to which 1 was led by
Fox, who disposed of it to James an accident to those in my own pond.
Powell, Esq. and which, by marriage, These experiments have, indeed, been
became the property of Mr. Roberts, related in some daily prints, by persons
who (bid it to tire aforementioned w ho were witnesses to the transactions;
Gentlemen a short time since. Mr. but I (end them to you, that in your
Roberts and the Countess of Dunmore Repository they may be more perma
reside in the Nunnerv, on the right of nently preserved than in those ephe
this building; and Mr. Holford, son meral productions. To many persons
to the late Mailer in Chancery of that these facts mav appear in a ludicrous
name, occupies the antient Castle. It light ; but to the observant, they will
was on that (pot, or rather on the convey more information than appears
summit os the hill, that the dreadful on the first face of the story.
battle, in the year SVJ, was fought be In the beginning of October, a Wo
tween the Sixon- aud the Danes, when man brought to my house a balltet of
Karl Aleher, al the head of the Kentish Carp for (ale. She had walked with
fneii, and the Earl us Hunda, com them above ten miles, and they were
manding the forces of Surrey, were therefore all apparently lifeless ; but,
defeated, with the loss of tiieir two conceiving it possible that some of them
Generals. might be restored, 1 had them put into
Kingsgate is about three miles from tubs of water. Two or three of them
Margate, and was formerly called Bar only shewed some faint signs of life,
tholomew's Gaie ; but took the name and they were put hack into the basket;
of King, in consequence oi King but, .taking a brace of the best, I filled
Charles II. with the l>ike of York, their niouihs with my Powder, and
lauding there. The following Latin reliltned them to the water : they soon
diltich is affixed in brass letters on began to recover, and a second dole
the gate : completely restored them. I then sent
" OHm por'a fui patroni .rtholomæi ; lo request that Lord Redesdale, who
Nunc Regis jusiu Regia Porta vucor. was near the place, would favour me
Hie al'cenderunt Car. II, ct Ja. Dux. Ebor. with witnelling the prosecution os the
So J unit :6s3. experiment ; and taking three more,
Yours, &c. Mi Q. the same administration of the medi
cine
IU8 Resuscitation os Fish.—Lady Micklethwait, [Dec.
cine restored these likewise to life and in the full belief that no power what
activity. l/>rd Redeldale now desired ever, less than divine, could produce the
1ms Lady and Children might be present least motion. I would not determine,
at so singular an exhibition; and one however, to give it up, but continued
fa&it was taken from the basket ; this my attention to it, and increased the
jerjmred more time and medicine, but doses, makings cradle also in the tub
was at length recovered. The remain with forks, to keep toe fish in* pro|xr
ing four being now put in a fresh tub, position ; and at two o'clock, i had the
one of them discovered some signs of satisfaction to lee my patient wag his
'.tie v and this Lady Redefdale undertook tail, and disgorge some of the Powder;
berself to restore without the aid of nie- bv three, it grew rather lively, and at
«Kcine, which, to her Ladvstiip, ap-- times afterward, made Inch exertions
peared needless ; the three inanimate as almost forced it out of the cradle. I
fifli were left lo my management, and went now in search of the Gentleman
though there was not the least appear who was my first witness, and did not
ance of Fife in either, I forced open return with him till after four. Its
their jaws, and filled their niouihs motions were then languid, but fully
with the Powder. One out of the three sufficient to denote the presence of life ;
faintly began to open its mouth, when which produced in my companion the
1 dosed it a second lime, and to the greatest astonishment ; but, on taking;
astonishment of many spectators, it leave, he declared he would not eat
began to move about, ejecting the pow the medicated fish for a thousand gui
der from its mouth in a very extraordi neas : I was, however, of another opi
nary manner t A third dose lo com nion, and had it dressed the next day
pletely revived it, that it swam about for my dinner.
as if it had never been out of the water. Although the course of nature can
Lady Iledeldale's filh, unfortunately, never be opposed with any success, yet
made no progress towards life; but fell this example affords a striking proof of
a sacrifice to her Ladyship's scepticism. the surprizing powers of excitement
•The experiment, Mr. Urban, has this which this medicine contains.
advantage in the relation of it, that, Yours, &c. John JIiddeli*.
bad there been the least trick or de
ception in it, the attempt could not Mr. Urban, Norwich, Dec. 7.
have escaped detection bv the enlight AS an admirer of the works of Art,
ened minds of the noble witnesses, I trust you will be kind enough!
whose attention was excited to its ut- to insert the following brief acount of a
.Bioft acuteness. very elegant monument which has
A short time ago, being in the mar "been lately erected in the parish enurch;
ket at this place, I saw a Tench appa of Sprowston, near this City, in me*
rently quite dead : I asked a Gentleman morv of the Ladv YVilhelmina Maria,
present if he thought it was poffible to Micklethwait, wise of Nathaniel
reanimate it; the answer, was, a bet of Micklethwait, esq. of Beellon Hall in
a hundred guineas to a farthing, • that the County of Norfolk, who died • in
it was not. The filh weighed a pound child-birth in February 1805.
and a half, had a large wound in its On the lower part is the figure of
body, and was otherwise injured : the the Lady, in a suppliant posture, resign-"
trial was, however, undertaken, and ing her child into the hands of Provi
Vhe filh brought lo my cottage; well dence ; near her is a book open at this
knowing, that if a lingle vital spark re passage : " This is the Victory, that
mained, it might be roused into (bine overcometh the world, even our
action, but would not fay that it could Faith." 1 John, cap. v. ver. 4.
tie ib far restored as to swim, with free A little higher is an urn with small
dom : this, the wounds in the body, figures of Faith, Hope, and Charily,
and the severe frost at that timey ap decorating it with flowers. Above is
peared absolutely to forbid. The gen, the Ladv, attended by Angels, as
tleman agreed to witness the experi cending into Heaven.
ment ; and i began upon it, with the The whs)';- is very neatly executed
Powder, at one o'clock : half an hour by that ingenious artist, Bacon jun.;
was spent in fruitless endeavours to
produce any fign of life ; the cold was * According to your vol. TJCXV. p.
fcvere, and the improbability of success 285, Lady Micklethwait died at Naveftockj
induced my companion to leave me, in fcffex. ' ■
and
1 807.] lieraldic Errors at Dulwich.— A curious Record.- 1 1 ta
and below is this inscription : will have the goodness to comply. Trie
" To the memory of writer of this has the highest opinion
the Right Honorable the Lady Wilhelnwia of Mr. Lyl'ons's industry and abilities,
Maria Micklethwait, and wishes him success and health ta
wife of Nathaniel Micklethwait, esq. finish the arduous work he has. under
of Beefton Hall, in the County of Norfolk ; taken.. J. T.
eldest daughter of George, 4 th Earl of
Waldegrave. N Mr. Urban, Coventry, Dec. i.
Horn July 13th, 1783 ; THOMAS Lord Scrope of Masltaiti
died Feb. 20th, J 605. (who succeeded to the title on the
I quære, Leflor, an non (it lucrum mori ; demiseofhis Father34 Hen. VI.), it ap
cum moriens vitam dat et accipit,
mortulem nato, cternam libi." pears from Dugdale's Baronage, vol. L
Yours, &c. D. p. 060-J, died 16 Edw. IV. (but the
precise period is not stated), leaving,
Mrs Urban, Dec. 7. Thomas his son and heir, aged 15
fJ^HE Churchwardens, Trustees and years, and three other (bns, with as
X Superintendents of Public Build many daughters. The following in
ings (as 1 alluded to before), should strument was executed soon after that
be extremelv careful to preserve, or event ; and, as it records the name of
correctly repair, Armorial Bearings, &c. the first Thomas's wile (not mentioned
I am led to these remarks from visiting in Dugdale) may be interesting to Ge
Dulwich College. On the tomb of nealogists ; and 1 think the document
Edward Alleys in the Chapel, what sufficiently curious to excite the atten
are there put for the arms of his wife tion of your Headers in general. The
Joan, daughter of Philip Henflowe, original, in the highest preservation,
Esq. one of the (ewers of the King's having the autograph and seal of
chamber, are : Per fel's it-mi de Richard Duke of Gloucester, is in the
!.s in base a talbot passant possession of Yours, &c. £.
; iniiead of, Gules, a Lion of " R. Ciloucestre.
England, a Chief Azure feme de lis " This indenture, made the xiiij day of
Or : so that her coat seems to have been January the xvth yeare of the reign of
compounded of the arms of France Kyng Edward the iiijth, betwene the right
and England united. The crest of the high and mighty Prynce Richard Due of
worthy Founder is incorrectly exhibited Glouceftre on the one p't, and Elizabeth
throughout the building, if Edmond- late wyff to Thomas late Lord Scrope of
Masham on the oyr p'tie, witnesseth,
fbn's Heraldry, vol. II. can be de yl it is coven'nted, accorded, and agreed
pended on ; who thus blazons it on a betwene ye laid p'ties in man' and storms
wreath of the colours : '* An arm ffollowynge ; y1 is to fay, the said Eli
cooped at the elbow and erect, holding zabeth agreeth, p'mytteth, and by these
a human heart, the arm issuing out of p'sente indentures g'unteth, yl Thomas
flames of fire, all proper." In the her Son now Lord Scrope shall frohtens-
Latin inscription over the entrance Ed furth be bylefte, w'helde, and reteyned
ward Alleyn is styled Esquire ; but in w' the said Due, and hooly be at his rule
the iron work over the gate, a Knight's and guydyng ; and also y* all her frvants,
helmet obtrudes itself, thereby falsely tenants, and inh'itants in and upon any
announcing the founder to be Sir Ed* of the lands late her huibonds, (hall be
ward Alleyn, Knight. H.C. B. heraff at all tymes belongyng to the
said DuC, *nd to hym geve yeir faythfull
Mr. Urban, Dee. 4. attendance ; ffor the which the said Due
MR. Lyfons having begun 10 pub be agreeth, and by these p'sents graunteihto
lish the Antiquities of the diffe good and lovyng lord to the seid Eli
rent Counties in England, a Subscriber zabeth, Thomas her Son, and all her
to his former work, the Environs of to echone oftenants,
said fvants, and inh'itants, and
yem, and yeym in yeir
London, hopes, that in the progress rights support, socoure, and affiste at all
of his new work, lie wilt so order his tymes. In witnefle whereof the p'ties
arrangement in the articles of Kent, aboveseid to these p'sent indentures ent'-
Surrey, Essex, and Middlesex, that the chaungeably have sette yeir scales the day
former work (ball not be rendered use and yeir aboveseid."
less. This, it is apprehended, may
easily be dene by keeping the additional Mr. Urban, Oil. €.
Towns in the above Comities separate ; 1 SEND you two epitaphs from the
and with this request it is hoped he Collections of Paul Wright, who
meditated
ii20 Hertfordshire Eptaphs on eminent Persons. [Dec.
meditated a new edition of ChauncevTs anno Domini 1741.
Hertfordshire, though he does not fay Dawn, glorious day, when Christ shall say,
whether either of them is actually put ' Awake, and be new dreft ;
up* in the respective churches. Resume thy spirit, and for my merit
In memory of Be thou entirely blest,'
Henry Etough, M. A. This inscription was by his own ap
almost twenty-three years rector pointment.
andfaithfull paftor-or this parish:
a firm integrity A pyramidal monument, adorned
placed him above fear ; with a bust placed on a pediment above
and a strict love of truth, a sarcophagus. On the pyramid is this
above all dissimulation. inscription :
His eager beneficence
was tempered only by his own " Beneath this monument
abilities, and the indigent wants of others. are deposited the remains of
He was the warmest friend in private life ; Edward Harrison, efq.
bat bis only passion was third Ion of Richard Harrison,
a disinte rested love of the publick. of Balls,
With a robust constitution, in the County of Hertford, efq.
through a singular habit of body, to which feat, the estate of the family, '
he lived many years he succeeded upon the death of his eldefl
without the use of animal food, brother.
or any fermented liquid. He was born on the 3d of Dec. Jfi74»
He died suddenly, Aug. 1757, and married Frances daaghter of
in the 70th year of his age. Reginald Bray, efq.
H. S. E. of a very antient and noble family
Johannes Savage, S. T. P. seated at Barrington in Glostershire,
hujufce parochiæ per 39 annos by whom he had one son and three
rector non indigniffimus : daughters,
qui which all died in their infancy except
., domi male habitus Ethelrcda,
ad exteias regiones annis plus octo married to Charles Lord Viscount
sponte exulavit ; Townshend.
unde He spent his youth in the service of the
tota fere Europæ perillustrata East India Company,
reversus, whereir he was raited to be Governor of
Ædes rectorias in formam angustiorem Fort St. George in the year 1711 ;
■ extruxit ; in the discharge of .which important trust
aream,hortos,horrea,ampIiavit, decoravit; he preseived great reputation for ability j
Templum etiam hoc Deo sacrum, the esteem of the Company he served ;
si vires 111L suffecerint, and the affection of the people he governed.
aliquando exornaturus. Upon his return to England
Obiit 24» die Martii, anno salutis in. the year 1721,
MDCCXLVJI. he had the honour to be elected by the
et hanc fibi epigraphem Corporation of Hertford one of their
vivus defignavic, Representatives in Parliament ;
and in the year 1726
O9 the fame credit I add this third : ha was appointed Post-Master General by
" InthememoryofPtfi.TERFouESTER.esq. his Majesty
Hence, flowery Fiction : on this modest King George the First.
stone He died on the 28th of November, 1732,
In sacred Truth ' . aged 58 years.
Esteem'd throughlet life,
real Worth be shownis;
how honoured
thy end ! [Friend !" Beneath the fame monument are also de
Pease mourns a Guide, and Liberty a posited, by her own direction,,
the remains of his widow
Frances Harrison.
All Saints, Hertford. In a North She was born on the 25th of Feb. 1674,
window of the Chancel : and died on the!2th of May, 1752, '
Prope in Cccmeterio aged 7 8 years.
' dormit To the necessitous she was a constant
Daniel Hallows, benefactress ;
Divtna Providentia to her dependants a benevolent friend j
hujus ecclesiæ per quadraginta annos to her family an affectionate parent ;
Re6tor indignus. and to the world a perfect example
. Obiit 6t0 die Octobiis aono ætjtis 71, of that tranquillity and happiness of mind
which
1 8o?.] Alderman i3enn.-William Penn.-*-John Walker. 1 1 it
which always accompanies the practice of The arms on one of the windows
Virtue." are Sickles (which are the arms of the
" Near this monument, Hungerfords, proprietors of all that
in a family vault, ate interred the remains neighbourhood formerly), and in others
of William Bum, efq. Ddg-eouples and Efcalop Shells. AHb,
Alderman of the City of London, there is in one window a final! Es-
President of Bridewell and Befhlem cocheon thus i A. a chevron engrailed
1-fospirals, Sable, between three trefoils Sable ;
Sheriff of this Conn y in the year 1739, and a stone one of the fame upon-pnrt
elected Sheriff for the City of London 1 74«i of a truss. The only families of note
and with dignity and applause filled the in the parish now traceable are th«
high station of Hungerfords and the Browns.
Lord Mayor 1747 : The above grave-stone is copied ex-
a true Christian, a sincere friend, an tlv ; and there was both before and after
1 untainted patriot. warning it, besides the two Ns, a faint
Sensible of his approaching end, appearance of an E, but the P is quite
he calmly resigned his breath,
in hopes of a joyful resurrection defaced, though ihe space exactly al
through the merits of his blessed Saviour, lows the conjecture that the name is
' August the 10th, 1755, aged 53 years. Penn. The stone is broken below the
In regard to whose memory, and as a inscription. H. D.
lasting testimony
of affection, this monument was erected Mr. Urban, DotigMe, 061. 5.
by his surviving brothers." r"|*>HE perusal os your excellent Obi-
D. H. I. Itiary often affords me the highest
gratification : for few celebrated charac
WILIAM . . ENN ters depart this mortal life, without
DYED THE 12 (bine satisfactory account being given
OF MARCH IN of them. To the youthful mind in
THE YEAR OF particular the biographical memoirs of
OUR LORD great and good men, contained from
1 691 time to time in your pages, must be of
This flat grave-stone measures 5 feet vast utility. It excites their admira
S inches bv 2 feel, and the fire of the tion for praiseworthy deeds, and raises
letters is 1 inch and i high. Its site is their emulation to imitate them. To
in the pallage betwixt two pews in the every class of readers, however, the at
chancel of the Church at Mintye in tention von pay to your Obituary must
Gloucestershire. Minlve bordered on pro\e nighty acceptable, especially
Braydon Forest, and was the burying- when the individual described has been
ulace of many persons of the Forest. united to them in friendship, and has
There is a farm-house, probably built been remarkable for his abilities and
on an antient site, and still called Penn's his virtues.
Lodge. 1 confess, Mr. Urban, it was with
William Penn of Pennsylvania peculiar delight that I glanced at the
weivt thither in 1081, and died' 1718; short account of my once honoured
and if von give him the age of QFr vears and respected tutor, Mr. John Walker,
at the period of his going out to Penn- teacher of Elocution, contained in
, sylvania, the age al which lie died your Magazine for August, p. 786. It is
would be 62 ; and if you take 62 from indeed a faithful, though a very brief,
1718, his birth would beabout l(i!>6* ; epitome of his character ; and I feel
and his Father, Vice-admiral Penn, unspeakable pleasure in adding my
might have been she (on of the William small tribute of respect to his memory.
Penn buried at Mintye, who is tradi- 1 am conscious, ' however, that his
tibnally spoken of as the ancestor of name will not onlv he reverenced by
the American Penn ; and it is not im me, but by numbers who have expe
probable but that the person buried at rienced the benefit of his instruction,
Mintye, was the Penn keeper of Penn's and enjoyed the privilege of his ac
Lodge in the Forest, which was disfo quaintance. I am m 110 danger, Mr.
rested in the time of Charles II. Urban, of incurring the censure of
* It appears by his Life in the Biogra being too profo le in my expressions of
phical Dictionary, that he was born in praise, but rather that I am incapable
l644. Edit. of siifticiently pointing out the traits of
Gbnt. Mao. Deccmla, 1807. his
5
H22 Anecdotes of Mr. Walker and bis Writings. [Dec*
his excellence. It cannot be said of to apply his talents in any way wherein
such a man, that he is spoken well of he conceived they might be useful ; and
from ill-grounded partiality ; hut the much does he deserve the thanks of
mull minute features of his long and his countrymen for these exertions,
useful life, the more they are scruii- His " Uhyming Dictionary" is a valu-
nized, will redound to his eternal ho- able assistant to ihe Orihographer and
nour. I am aware that his reputation the Poet; and both. Tutors and Stu-
has been already flanned with well- dents are considerably indebted to him
earned fame; but I am unwilling that for his " Rhetorical Grammar ;"■
fee should sink into the silent grave '* Teachers Assistant in English Com-
without receiving from me that hum- position ;"«' Outlines of English Grani-
ble acknowledgment of respect and ve- mar," and "Academic Speaker." It
iteration, which is due lo one of his would ifwell these lines perhaps to an
superior worth. unjustifiable length, were I to stale the
Mr. Walker, you have justly re- peculiar excellencies of these publica-
marked, was esteemed by the moll ce- tions ; and, indeed, it would be tin-
lebrated characters of the age, as a man necessary, since they are sufficiently
of profound knowledge. The works known to stand in no need of any enco-
which issued fro™ his pen would alone mining from me. It is, at the dime
be sufficient proofs of that assertion, time, a great consolation to reflect, that
aud sully convince us that he spared his unremitting endeavours have not
no pains to make his learning exten- been in vain ; for I think it may well
ftvelv useful. His "Critical Pro- be affirmed that, as no one could have
uouiicing Dictionary" will long conti- bestowed greater diligence, aud indefati-
nue to adorn the library of the polite gable zeal to accomplish the estimable
scholar; and his "Key to the Critical objects he had in view, so no one has
Pronunciation of Greek and Latin been more successful in elucidating the
Proper Names," with the accented principles of Rhetoric and Elocution,
Vocabulary of Scripture Propersanies, aud promoting the extent of their
and Observations upon Greek and La- knowledge among the community at
tin Accent and Quantity, will enable large. ;
the most common capacity to read the Methinks, Mr. Urban, I now fee
Scriptures and antient authors with the worthy man, rendered venerable
ease and propriety, I should, Tvow- by his years, but still more so by his vit-
cver, perhaps first have noticed his tnes and consummate skill in his pro-
" Elements of Elocution ;'' a work, fellion, standing in the midst of his
which will ever raise him high in the pupils (who are listening with silent
estimation of every truej^jver of cor- respect and attention) in the very act
rect, pronunciation and good delivery, of communicating his instruction ; and"
To this work he has kid down a plan surely no object could be more grate-
sor modulating the voice entirely novel, ful 10 the sight, or pleasing to the feel-
whioh, upon the invitation of some of ings. His noble ^eportrnent, found
the Heads of Houses at Oxford, he in- understanding, dignified action, and jutt,
troduced to the attention of the Stn- enunciation, united to render hinVthe
dents of their respective Colleges, subject of esteem. But, above all,
through the medium of private lec- the moral and pious tendency of his
tures ; hut it has since been of more tuition cannot be too much extolled
general use, from a circulation in its and admired. He never omitted anv
present sbane. The labour it c;>st him opportunity to improve the heart, at
mull have been astonishing | and those the same time 'that he was initiating
who knew his modesty, can give him his pupil in the science of Elocution,
every credit, when he declares that For this purpose he was particularly
"those only who are thoroughly ac- partial totheircomposingofihemesupon
quainied with the subject, can conceive moral and useful subjects, and reciting
the labour and perplexity in which or reading them before him—a prae-
this talk engaged me." tice which cannot fail lo produce elsen-
These works prove that he was a tial benefit to the rising generation,
perfect mailer of the science of Elocu- especially when under the guidance
lion. He has, however, lest behind him and correction of such an instructor,
fiill others, which tend to advance his It is an employment which, while it
reputation, aud (hew that he sailed not expands the mind, and exercises ihe'
judgment,
1807.I THE PROJEC:tor, n°lxxvu. h2^
judgment, improves the understand mechanical schemers ; and from the
ing, ami insensibly leads it to the love experience of the last six weeks, I have '
of great and metiiorious actions. certainly had no reason to repent of a.^
To I'ncli valuable purposes then was determination which enjoins me, as j
the life of Mr. Walker devoted. , He every man ought to be enjoined, lo
will continue to live in the hearts of keep within the strict limits of my own.'
thole who knew him ; and the works province.
which he has bequeathed to posterity
■will of themselves rear the proudest notYet, notwithstanding all this, 1 would
have my readers to suppose that I
monument to his memory. Like Sir ant less capable of embarking in these-'
Christopher Wren, who needed no vail undertakings than the greater part*
other memento to record his renown of the subscribers who have been easier
to 'future ages, than the astonishing enough to put down their names, and
beauty and grandeur of St. Paul's Ca wise enough to make their deposits.
thedral, Mr. Walker will he as much Indeed 1 am not so disposed to depart
honoured by the good effects which from the dignity of my predecessors as
his labours will produce in after-times, for a moment to admit that their]
as if the trophies of his worth were successor, however unworthy in other
sculptured in narble; and when his respects, might not have made a very'
productions are opened and displayed good figure as a joint brewer, a joint
around the view of the admiring stu linen-draper, or a joint wine-merchant.
dent, the same inscription which was On the contrary, I very much question,
placed upon the grave of that Archi whether the most ingenious of those
tect will be sufficient to immortalize gentlemen who have made a distin
his name : guished figure at the head of these Pro
" Si quæras monumentum, circumspice '." jects, be absolutely more clever fellows
Yours, &c. Gratus. than the least of my predecessors ; or
whether as much skill is not necessary
to write an essay with genuine wit and
THE PROJECTOR. N» LXXV1F. humour, as to brew porter with genii*
" Not to know at large of things re ine malt and hops. But, however this
mote may be, it is incumbent upon me to
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know inform my correspondents, that I have
That which before us lies in daily life, not the honour to belong to any of the
Is the prime wisdom." Milton. new schemes of which a list, amount
FOR some weeks past I have had ing to thirty -nine, now lies hefori
reason to be alarmed for these mv me ; and that, whatever amusement or
lucubrations. So great a number of benefit I may be able to contribute iii
new Projectors have started within my present progress, 1 do not conceive
that time, that, had they proceeded in thai I mail ever have it in my power
their various plans, it would have pro to inform the publick how they may be
bably been out of my power to retain fed, cloathed, intoxicated, or poisoned,
my situation any longer, as I have no at a cheaper rate than the price current
inducement 10 propose; to my readers of the markets usually affords. And 1
equal to what they have been pleased am moreover humble enough to hope
to hold forth to their subscribers. I that there will never be any thing found
have even received sundry letters from in my Projects, which may give the
.my correspondents, desiring to know Attorney General occasion to move the
t,o which of the Joint-slock Compa Court of King's Bench against me, or
nies I gave the preference; and some my vehicular friend Mr. Sylvanus Ur
have been pleased 10 express a fort of ban.
complimentary surprize that they have But now that I -have mentioned the
not yet seen my name as committee learned Law Officer, I cannot help no
man, director, or chairman of any of ticing in what different lights the fame
the Projects which held out the pro subject may strike different persons. I
spect of procuring the' necessaries and need not mention the light in which
luxuries of life for nothing, and being Mr. Attorney General has viewed this
paid for the trouble of ^consuming matier, nor how he sharpens his indig
them. Bat my worthy correspond nation by appealing to Acts of Parlia
ents have surely forgot that, in a very ment ; but to me, the whole, or the
early fiage of mv Projectorate, I greater part of the Projects to which I
formally disclaimed all connexion with allude, seem to be part of a curious ex-
■periment.
ii24 THE PROJEC rOR, N° LXXVII. [Dec.
periment, alluded to in , a former pa who have paid the highest prices for
per, the object of which experiment I their education, appear to have been
take 10 be neither more nor ldfs than just so much money out of pocket,
this j namely, to institute a census, or without any advantage or improve
enumeration of all the fools in the ment.
kingdom, and, by throwing out a va Mv attention was drawn to this sub
riety of lures, to divide them into dif ject from reading in the p,ipers a few
ferent classes according to their respec days a^o that three or four persons had
tive weak sides. The experiment, in lo(t their lives by venturing to lkait on
deed, is not absolutely new : it has the ice in the Park, when' it was unlit
been carried on by IJow degrees, and to bear their weight. Now to one who
perhaps ingenious, though imperfect knows a little of what Experience can
attempts, or, as the saying is, bv fits tell, it would appear at first sight, that
and starts, at various intervals, ever since no such accident as this had ever hap
the year 1720 ; such as the woman that pened before; that the Parks were never
was with child of rabbits, the man, left open before on Sundays for such''
who was to fing a song in a quart bot experiments ; or, perhaps, that these
tle, and ihe Cock-lane and the Vaux- incautious fkaiters were so young as
hall ghosts. But I own the original neither to know their own weight, nor
liierit of our late at em pis lies in com the strength of the ice. But, upon
bining such a confederation os decep inquiry, I found that thev were persons
tion as might have brought the ques somewhat advanced in years, that they
tion to the speediest issue possible, had had heard before of similar accidents,
they not been interrupted by the Crown aud that if the question had been put
Lawyers, who seem to have but little to them, they would have unanimously
relish, for such experiments. Still let pronounced that a man is in danger of
not those to whom this question is a breaking the ice which is unable to bear
ma ter of serious inquiry, be dilcon'oi his weight. Yet so soon are the lessons
Jate because the Attorney General chose of Experience forgot, that they had no
to nterpose his authority, when the scruple in appearing novices, where
experiment was proceeding upon this they might have made a much belter
grand spale, and might have brought figure as expert scholars.
pn a very speedy solution, it will air Some teachers, aware of the vast exr
ways be going on in some quarter or pence which attends lessons in the
/>ther, were there no other agents em school of Experience, recommend that,
ployed than quack-doctors and lottery- instead of going to that school our
office keepers to fill our church - yards selves, we Ihould borrow from ihirfe
and jails. who have been educated there. And
One principal encouragement which this advice is certainly wholesome, as
such, agents have, is the calculation well as atitient. An old Poet sweetly
they always make (and I am afraid sings :
upon very accurate principles), that out " Learn to be wife from others' harm,
of an hundred men, not ten, or per And you (hall do full well."
haps five, whatever other profit they
mav seek after, are at all desirous to But others are of opinion that this
profit by experience, whiah-*riqgs cheap experience never answers the
me to the more immediate subject of purpose ; that it is in this as in mat
this present Lucubration. «' Experi ters of luxury, we never set a value
ence, an old proverb says'" teaches upitn what does not coft dear, and in
fools," which seems to imply that her's many instances we have indeed no other
is a very flourishing school ; but whe criterion of what is excellent or fa
ther she has altered her plan of educa shionable, but a high price. AU this
tion, or is deficient in what a|l educa 1 allow to be true in a certain degree ;
tion reqmre$, namely, a sdyable and ami there are, no doubt, many persons
strict discipline ; whether she gives too who have profited by a dear-bought
long vacations, or so many holidays, Experience, that would not have prized
♦hat her pupils forget lo-day what thev it much had they either borrowed it, or
were taught yesterday, whether anv or got it for a trifle. But, on the other
all of' these be in fault, I know riot: hand, Experience, like every thing
but certain it is that her school has else, may be bought too dear, or the
very much fallen off in point of refu purchaser mav not have very long time
tation, and that many of the scholars, to enjoy his bargain, as when a man
happvns
1807.] THE PROJECTOR, N° LXXVII. ti%$
happens to be drowned, or to break without reflecting that every man re-
h is neck—events which occur so fre- quires a certain degree of room in order
quemly, that I am afraid, infiead of to perform the common functions of
considering them as the lessons of Ex- life; aud that when such squeezing or
perience, we are apt to read, of them compressing takes place, the bills of
with indifference, as mere matters of mortality have been increased in a very
course, and of little other value than surprizing manner. It may also be in-
to {urnish a paragraph for the iiewspa* ferred from the same narratives, that
pers. the female sex is least able to combat
And while 1 mention these vehicles the dangers of mobbing, although it
of intelligence, to which our first meal appears that that they have no little in-
is so much indebted, let me do them clination to make the attempt, and
the justice to say, that they would as- that, in taking the poll on such occa-
ford admirable and constant lesions of fions with as much accuracy as poffi-
Experience, if read with that view. ' hie, caps have been known to exceed
Many days in the year, for sixpence hats. As for children, particularly
only, a man may learn to avoid three thole at the breast, some very useful
or four different ways of losing his life lessons of experience may be derived
or limbs ; and if some of their readers from reading the newlpapers. But
would pay as much attention to what whether it be that their mothers can-
daily pastes in the streets and highways not read, or that they have become
of this kingdom, as they pay to the converts to certain new doctrines about
transactions of the cabinets and camps the mischiefs of a too great populations
of Europe, 1 am persuaded, they might certain it is, that many of these babes
iu the course of a few months lay up are indebted to mobs, kicks, and cart-
a very profitable stock of Expeiience, wheels, for a happy release from worldly
both good and cheap. cares.
They would learn, for example, that With regard to the management of
what happened the other day in the gigs, and other carriages, and boats,
Park is not the first thing of the kind we learn that many persons never
within the memory of man ; that it is think themselves so fit to drive, or to
not the first time that weak ice has given row, as when conviviality has deprived
way j and that persons who remain them of sight and recollection. But
long under the water were in former the newspapers, who in this may be ere,
days in danger of losing their lives, dited, for it is no party matter, assure us
They may al s. > collect some very curi- that such persons are now and then very
ous and useful particulars respecting much mistaken, ; that, upon the whole,
horses; as that a horse that is not suit- intoxication has no direct tendency 19
ably prepared to draw in a chaise, will qualify a man for clearing a wwy-po(i,
sometimes run away with it, and some- or a coal-barge ; and that in all cases
times overturn it, or both; and that where life may be endangered, it would
unbroken horses, and what are called be requisite lor him who manages such
"bits of blood," are too mettlesome matters to possess rather more senses than,
and fierv for the many objects which fewer. I own that many young gen-
the stieets of London present to frighten tlemen, and some old ones, are verv
them. It may also he gathered from the tardy in admitting these facts ; and it fj
experience of sundry young, as well as for that reason that I wish to recom-
old gentlemen, that a man who is accus- mend 10 their study a course of casual-
lomed to drive horses has some few ad- ties, such as may be found in any news,
vantages over one who has perhaps scl- paper. Perhaps, too, our bills of
dom taken the reins in his hand, or mortality might be rendered more use-
who endeavours to manage four horses, ful, if they recorded these accidents
not because he knows how, but be- more frequently and more particularly ;
cause it looks genteel. These may ap- how many were killed by a horse, how
pear to be very simple instructions ; but many departed this life in a boat, how
there is reason 10 tit ink they may now many went to their long home in a
and then be useful. barouche, and how many palled
Another lesson which may be learned through the Serpentine River in their
at these cfaw-schools is, that a certain way to the other world,
number of persons collected in one Why Experience, when it presents
place constitute a mob ; that the parties itself in such various shapes, should be
are very apt to squeeze one another, often neglected, is a queilion on which
1 dial}
iti6 Paymdjer Serjeant Miller.—Lincoln Cathedral. [Dec.
1 shall not ot present enter. If it be that circumference are not uncommon ;
thought lo be owing to any rapid decay and that two phealants and a hare have
os memory, we have still lueh sivqtient been often forwarded by the coach in
Opportunities of being reminded, that one hollowed for the purpose, and
1 should hope this cannoi have any safely conveyed to London. To-day,
very great effect. If it be owing to a however, two have been brought in,
contempt for the Experience of others, one measuring 34 inches, the other 38 in
andadesire to pofsesi a stock of our own, the circumference, and 36 in the depth.
1 can only fay, the means will never I think I may venture lo «lefy a Lei
be wanting lo accumulate such a flock ; cestershire fanner to produce one like
but, as already hinted, this ambition it. VV. C.
may be carried too far ; and that, to
instance only in one caie, when a Mr. Urban, Nov. 22.
number of thoughtless persons have AS some months have now elapsed
perished by venturing to fk»it on thin since the atnient and beautiful
ice, it is not of much consequence to Spires which for so many Centuries
wish that it had been thicker. were a part of our venerable Minster
have been taken down, although ou
Mr. Urban, Dec. ]8. examination they were found to be in a
IT is acknowledged that your Obi state which needed little if any repair ;
tuary forms a valuable part of your and as no public notice has yet been
Magazine, and will so continue as taken of this very questionable transac
long as truth is adhered to; as the tion ; I hope I may be allowed to state
worth of the record depends upon its a few opinions on a matter in which,
veracity. You will, I trust, pardon as a Layman, I believe myself to have
me for requesting you to insert the sol- a deep concern : chiefly, however, in
lowing statement, injustice to the me the hope that some more able pen will
mory of a worthy man, who, although undertake the cause of a large Diocese,
not a commissioned officer, was a good against those who have wilfully and
soldier, whose venial fault, 1 appre unnecessarily destroyed a most conspi
hend, did not call for so humiliating a cuous part of out much and justly ad
punishment as was inflicted upon him mired Cathedral.
by his superiors. In your present Vo That the Minster was originally
lume, p. 784, the death of Paymaser erecled as a Mother Church for the
Serjwnt Miller is mentioned ; but the Diocese, out os funds granted for that
cattle is mis-stated, for his Regimental express purpose by William the Con
Accompts were correct ; few men were queror, aidtd b .' the pious gifts of our
more exact, or wrote a better hand. anceliors, and by the produce of a
The fact is, that some would - be - tax extorted from every parilhioner in
thought Martinets can find fault where it for more than two centuries, are
they cannot instruct. Miller, a few days facts which all persons versed in the
prior to his death, came upon parade ecclesiastical antiquities of this country
somewhat later than tistial ; for this he are well acquainted with.
was ordered upon drill by his superior That the fabric so erected was de
officer; the old soldier's pride was so railed to the Chapter even before it was
1nuch hurt, that he could not brook it : completed, is well known : we I^aymen
his understanding was subdued ; and the are of opinion that it was demised in
fatal catastrophe, as stated, took place. Trust for the use os the Diocese ; which,
As a slender reparation to his wiilo* in respect to its Mother Church, is con
and three children, the Officers of the sidered, both by the Canon and by the
llt-giment, including the noble Com Common Liw, as one great parish, of
mander in Chief, have subscribed a which the Cathedral is the parish
sum sufficient to enable her lo open a Church.
shop for her support. N. That the Chapter who have been
entrusted with the care of this public
Mr. Urban, WolletUm, Dec. 20. edifice (endowed with extensive funds,
I SAW the other day in the newspa alligned for their own maintenance and
pers a pompous account of an enor for its support) are bound lo keep it hi
mous Turnip from Leicestershire, which repair, is proved by the uniform prac
measured 30 inches in the girth. But, tice of this and of all other Christian
for the honour of Norfolk, 1 think it ■countries, where Cathedrals/Collegiate
right to inform you, that Turnius of Churches, Convents, and Abbeys, have
been
1 807.] Demolition of Spires of Lincoln Cathedral. 1 1 27
been heretofore and still continue to Via vance in the amount of the temporal
maintained and supported, at thf charge revenues they now appropriate to their
of those persons who derive their in own use.
comes, or receive their maintenance, It is said that the Laitv and the Pa
from the revenues allotted to the sup rochial Clergy in all those parts of the
port os their respective institutions. Diocese wheie the people are in the
That the Chapter of Lincoln have habit of resorting to the City of Lin
demolished two Spires, and disposed of coln, are much moved by this conduct
the materials of which they were huih ; of the Chapter ; aud that animadver
that these Spires had flood for many sions on the subject, always severe, and
centuries on two of the steeples of Lin sometimes acrimonious, are continu
coln Minster, and that no material de ally thrown out at their social meet*
cay in them was even suspected when ings. It is admitted lhat in some other
the scaffolding wjs raised for- the pur Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches re
pose of taking them down ; are matters ductions of the fabrick have been occa
which will not be denied. sionally made : but the legality of all
That when the North Spire was in unnecessary demolitions is in every case
part pulled down, a piece of timber doubled ; and it is not known that Ib
taken from it was exhibited in the wanton and Ib unwarranted a destruc
Minster as a proof, by its being rotten, tion as this has been hazarded bv any
of the propriety of the demolition ; and other Chapter in any case heretofore.
that it was placed In a situation where Surely some means ought now to be
the congregations who attended divine devised of bringing ibis point, if it is a,
service during the race-week could not couielied one, to an issue between ihe
avoid Hieing it ; are matters which were Chapter and the Dioceie. If the Chap
much commented upon at the time. ter can bring forward any good realon
It is, however, well known, that this for the extraordinary conduct they
piece of timber was not, when in its have pursued, or exhibit any legal au
place, of any essential importance in thority by which they are empowered
supporting the structure of which it to pull down aud destroy , it will bq
made a part ; that the Spire might have well done of them to calm the minds
flood for centuries to come, had this of their neighbours, by making these
timber been entirely destroyed ; and, things in some way publicly known.
moreover, that when the scaffolding Is this is pot done, and if they persevere
was fixed,' it might have been removed in their claim, for which they have
and replaced at the coll of a very lew now ellablistied a precedent, to destroy
pounds. at iheir pleasure any part of the Min
If these facts are correctly recited— ster which does not suit their ideas of
and they will no doubt be contradicted tafie and beauty, and to set aside all
if errors of any kind have inadvertently claim of the Diocese at large of retain
crept into the statement—here is an ing any kind of interest in the entirety
example of a Chapter having assumed and perfect preservation of a building
and exercised the right of pulling down erected al their coll and for their use—
and demolishing an integral part of the it will surely be necessary that measures
Cathedral committed to their care. If be taken 10 place this great and very
they caji legally do this, a Chapter of interesting question in a fair and pro-
Canons, deaf to the voice of public |>er channel for segal investigation and
opinion, and despising the claim of the final decision. P. S.
whole inhabiiams of the Diocese to (Frum the Stamford Mercury.)
have their Mother Church preserved
entire for their use, may also pull down Mr. Ubbak, York, Dec. g.
the Steeples on which the Spires stood ; I AM jai the habit of collecting from
and even the Nave and Ailes of the our periodical publications what I
Church itself: but we must confess call my aitreafragmenta, among which
that if any Chapter hereafter (hall happi I shut myself up every morning after
ly succeed in completing this gr^at work, breakfast. The other day 1 deposited
they may, by boxing themselves up in there something, which, I suppose, I
their Choir, scarcely so large as an or want wit to understand. It is from
dinary parish church, enjoy every con vour Magazine. Now. as in virtue of
venience requisite for the performance your office of Editor, you ftiuft be au
oftheirecclesialiical duties, aud al the infallible judge of good things, will
fame time create no inconsiderable ad you favour me with your opinion on
this
na8 Philadelphia.-*-2?^ct/ etabk.^ Culinary Hint. [Dec.
this question ? How is it a jell on ih.; too I i n two of them. In the first Ta
whole Clerical Order to fay, that one ble there is ah error, which I have not
of the body was thought by many to seen noticed, as to the duration of the
have done right in quitting the Bar for life of Henry the First, which was not
the Church f For my part, as a plain 77 years, but only 6'7. Six years have
old man, 1 fee neither jell nor llander elapsed since those Tables were drawn
in it ; but I do not much like these up i and, subject to the above correc
changes of profession in the individual tion, 1 would observe that His present
who makes them. Majesty has this day (Dec. 12) lived
Yours, &c. Ecclesiaticus. longer than all the rest, except one ;
and likewise reigned longer than all
Mr. Urban, Philadelphia, Nov. 10. the rest, except two.
FROM the weekly Bills of Mor. Yours, &c. W. L.
lality by the Board of Health of
Philadelphia and New York, appears Mr^URBAN, Nov. 5.
the following statement of Deaths for YOUR Correspondent, p. Q0+, who
.the last eight .months, from 27th Dec. takesit for granted thatUnitarianism
1806, lr> 29th August last, 1807. is on the decline, merely because so few
Adults.Childr/Total. os their Places of Worship are to be
Deaths in New York $61 6«8 1550 met with, in the Metropolis and vici-
Deaths in Philadelphia 706 501 1U87 nilv, is not perhaps quite correct in his
Greater number of ( ■ inference; as it is a well known fact
1 Deaths in New York f 66 97 163 that a great number of Socinians luive
Deaths in New York by Consumption embraced the extraordinary opinion of
during the abovementioned period, arbove the late Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, who
one-fifth of the whole, 304. strcnuoullv contended that an atten*
Deaths in Philadelphia by the fame dis dance on Public Worship was unnecef*
ease, in the fame time, above one-sixth sarvand unscripiural.
of the whole, 207. A Constant Reader.
More deaths in New York by Con
sumption 07. Mr. Urban, Dec. 29.
1550 deaths in New York in 35 weeks, 1 1 E folio wing may be worth know*
average per day, 6 l-3d. JL ing. When the aliments from
1387 deaths in Philadelphia, in the intense heat, or long keeping, are likely
Came time, average per day 5 2-3d. to pass into a stale of corruption, tire
The population of Philadelphia and simple but pure mode of keeping them
its vicinity; within the Bills of Mor sound and healthful, is by putting a few
tality, is supposed to be 120,000*. The pieces of charcoal, each the size of an
population os New York, within si mir egg, into your pot or saucepan where
lar bounds, is said to have been aleer- your meat is to be boiled : the effect
tained to be 82,000, but say 90,000* ; of this is, that vour soup will be good,
then Philadelphia, with the fame de and that the fish or flesh will be both
gree of health as New York, would found and agreeable to the talle. We
have one-third more deaths than New had Occasion to try this at B'andford
York ; whereas Philadelphia has one- in the hot weather this summer, 1807 :
ninth less total deaths, and nearly one* a person had a tnrbot of ten pounds
third lei's deaths by Consumption ; or, weight sent from Plymouth ; when it
in other words, New York has one arrived, it was in (b fetid a state they
half more deaths by Consumption than were fearful it was too far gone to be
Philadelphia, aud one-eighth more of eatable ; the cook, as advised, put three
total deaths. or four pieces of charcoal, each the
Yours, &c. A. F. size of an egg, under the strainer in the
fish - kettle ; after boiling the proper
Mr. Urban, Dec. 12. time, the tufbot 'was brought on the
IN your Magazine, vol. LXXI. p. table perfectly sweet, and cut firm.
511, three Chronological Tables of Perhaps putting a few pieces of char-
the Livei, Reigns, and Pedigree of Coal into cisterns of water would keep
British Sovereigns are inserted, with tile water in a very pure state for a long
remarks as to the place in which our time, particularly rain water ; and
present m -:l gracious Sovereign then would it not keep water in caflts sweet
at sea ?
* Both seem over-rated. Yours, &c. D.
1807.] Review of New Publications. II2£
141. A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble From the ability with which the
Authors of England, Scotland, and Ire original articles in these volumes are
land. With Lifts of their Works. By compiled, to lay nothing of the valua
■ the late Horatio Walpole, Earl of Or- ble additions and illustrations annexed
ford. Enlarged and continued to the pre to almost every article in the former
sent Time. % Thomas Park, F. S. A. edition, we cannot but express a hope
THE "Catalogue of Royal and that Mr. Park will not dilappoint the
Noble Authors" is too well estab expectations he has raised, of publishing
lished in public credit to require any another volnme. Confident we are, that
elogium ; but the present Edition the communications he may receive
brings the work so prominently for will not be treated with the capricious
ward, that it cannot he palled unnoticed. neglect which he thus notices in his
The intelligent Editor of " Harring Noble Prototype :
ton's Nugæ Antiquæ" having under " From the oral testimony of Mr. Reed,
taken the arduous charge of preparing and from a letter of Lord Orford's to Dt.
an extended edition of this valuable Lort, it would seem that his Lordship was
bonk, to accompany a series of Por more thankful for communications ten
traits engraven for its decoration ; the dered, than desirous to let the contents of
extent of assistance from private libra them be seen. Such at least was the cafe
ries, communicated or proffered, so far with Mr. Reed's own remarks, which ex
exceeded his previous expectations as tended to many pages of manuscript, and
to suggest the idea os enlarging on never were inserted or noticed in his Lord
Lord Orford's plan of giving a Cata ship's work. This ungracious inatten
logue only of Titled Authors, by add seemed tion, added to a vis inertice that sometime*
ing short specimens of their perform dious to prevail over Lord Orford's sta
ances; a talk which Mr. Park has per his Editor propensities, has served to stimulate
formed, not less to the Header's enter and greatertoindustry more persevering exertion ;
in the occupation of
tainment than the Author's fame. gleaning, or the labour of arranging, is
"Thankless as the toil maybe to cater all the humble merit he aspires to:
for a multitude of palates," fays Mr. P. though, as Dr, Birch experimentally ob- -
"mine has been the venturous -essay of served, " The difficulty of attaining, in
annexing an irregular colonnade, in a any tolerable degree, theseriesjuntfoiraquc
plainer style of architecture, to Lord Or recommended by Horace is scarcely con -
ford's gorgeous temple of Patrician fame." ceivable by any but those (the only pro
Among the coadjutors who have af- per judges on t'ueh an occasion) who have
ftitded most material aid to the sedu made some trial of this kind/'
lous endeavours of the Editor, are The "Additions" by Mr. Park shall
named, 'Isaac Reed, Esq. whose bio be exemplified in the following well-
graphical accuracy aud bibliographical drawn character :
knowledge are rendered almost prover "Daniel the son of Heneage Finch,
bial ; George Ellis, Esq. who has in Earl of Nottingham, was born in 1647,
troduced the Bards of older time to and succeeded his father in his honours
conrtlv halls and ladies bowers; Sa- and possessions. On the death of Charles
niuel-Egerton Brydges, Esq. who has the Second, he was one of the privy coun
imparted the animation of historic por sellors who signed the order for proclaim
traiture to his 'Memoirs of the Peer ing the Duke of York, but kept at a dis
age and Richard Cough, Esq. the tance from the Court that whole reign.
Cainden of modern Britain." When the Convention met, on King
" What personal health has permitted, James's abdication, he was the principal
Manager of the debates in favour of a Re
and family cares have allowed, what a gent, against setting up another King; yet
love of literature partly incited to at he observed, that if one was made, he
tempt, and what plodding perseverance would be more faithful to him than those
has enabled me to accomplish, is submit who made him could be, according to
ted with deference to the award ef can
dour ; not without,appreh;:nuon of being their pwn principles. When William and
Mary were advanced to the throne, though
blamed both for deficiencies and redun he decline*1 the office of Lord Chancellor,
dances, for having done too little or too he accepted that of Secretary of State * ;
much, according to individual bias for
particular characters. . . . The future sug * " Macky fays, He was made Secretaiy
gestions of the intelligent will be accepta of State to oblige the Chuich, of which
ble, and may conduce toward the forma he set up for a m%hjv champion. Cha
tion ofan intended supplementary vol unie," racters, p. 'H,"
dtur. Mil, December, 1807. in
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ia. whrch station he continued alter the from having inherited the patent places of
aceeffioa of Ou«n Anne, when both Usher of his Majesty's Exchequer -)-,
Lords and Commons voted him highly Comptroller of the Pipe, and Clerk of the
listening the great trust her Majesty re Escheats in the Exchequer, for life J. But
posed in him : yet he went out of office his birth and death, fays Mr. Pinkerton,
in 1704, and accepted no other till might have been limited to a monumental
George the First came to the crown, inscription, if his mind had not opened a
When he was made President of the Coun- path to a superior emanation of fame. He
«il; but in 1716 he finally retired from was born in 1717, and educated at Eton
all business to a studious course of life, School, where he formed his acquaint
and died in 1730. "All the Finches," ance with Gray, a name ever to be re
fays Dunton *, " have been famous for spected while genius and literature are
their wit and learning; and this noble honoured by mankind. About 1734 Mst
Earl is a master of eloquence: yet his Walpole proceeded to Cambridge, antV
speeches in Parliament were never known entered of King's College. His verses in
.to falter with the secret glosses of double memory of the founder, King Henry the
or reserved senses ; and when his name is Sixth, dated February 1738, may be re
traduced (as has been the fate of the best garded as his first production, and no un
favourites}, his innocency bears him out favourable presage of his future abilities.
with courage. He is a Peer of strict and In 1739 he prevailed on his father to let
remarkable justice, an excellent paymas him travel for a few years, and took his;
ter, and a most accomplished gentleman." route to France and Italy, accompanied
* Wacky represents him in his habit and by Mr. Gray ; but upon their return, iu
manners very formal, with an exterior air May 1741, a dispute arose at Reggio, ot
of business, and application enough to which Mr. Walpole assumed the blame,
make him very capable. His Lordship's and they separated. On his return to
polemic compositions are unpropitious to England, he obtained a feat in the House
selection." of Commons, of which he continued a.
From the original articles in this member above 25 years ; and, after
improved edition two (hall be selected; he closed his public part in politicks, was
the one concise, the other ample. a firm and ardent supporter os the causa
"Isabella Bybov, Countess of Car- of Freedom till the French Revolution,
lijU, daughter of William fifth Earl By or Subversion (as Mr. Gibbon emphati
ron, was born in 1791 ; and married cally styled it), shook and embroiled all
Harry fourth Earl of Carlisle in 1743, the former opinions of mankind. In
by whom she had the present Earl. Her 17*7 he purchased a small tenement at
Xadjstiip died on Jan. 22, 17£)5; and is Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, which,
the reputed authoress of a volume on the he afterwards altered and enlarged in the
Gothic taste of building. In 1757 he
Education of Daughters, and of the fol there opened a printing-press, and first
lowing poem in Peach's Collection, vol. I.
p. 319, " The Fairy's Answer to Mrs. exercised it on the two sublime Odes of
Gray, with wtiom he had renewed his
ytcville's Prayer for Indifference." acquaintance in 1744. These were fol
" Without preamble, to my friend
These hasty lines I 'm led to lend," &c. lowed by the translation of a part of
Hentzner's Travels, and the fiilt edition
" HortATio Waipols, Earl of Orfurd, of the present work, which i» undoubt
the youngest son of that celebrated Minis edly the most agreeable, though not the
ter Sir Robert Walpole, more eminent for most perfect, of his literary perform
his literary than his political career, has ances §. In the year 1740 his life was
given unquestionable proofs of ingenuity nearly closed by the pistol of Maclean the
in criticism, talent in poetry, and taste in highwayman, which went off by acci- .
the belles lettrcs. His propensity for such dent || ; but he lived to inherit the title of
pursuits he was well enabled to gratify Orford on the death of his nephew in
*." Idea of a new Life, p. 425."
•f*' This sinecure office, according to Pinkerton, was worth 30001. a year; and other
fiosts soon followed, to the farther annual amount of 1700I. -Biographical Sketch pre
fixed to Walpoliana, vol. I."
■ J "See Collms's Peerage, vol. V. p. 50; where a specimen :s given of his filial
piety, in an epitaph to the memory of his mother."
■ § "A caprice, sometimes mingled with affectation, and a prevalent desire of saying a
witty thing rather than a wise one, will be obvious to the considerate reader. But his
Lordship had a liveliness in the manner of conveying his sentiments, an intelligent
fiertinencc in his observations, and a brilliant smartness in his mode of passing critical
adgment, which appear to'have compensated for many defects."
|| " See the story pleasantly told by Lqga Orford in N" 103 o£ « The World."
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1791. It was some time, however, before arty solid pecuniary advantage. His praise
he would sign or assent to his new title ; was valuable ; but the powers of bis
and he never took his feat in the House of voice were not extensive, and never caMcd
Peers*. His new honours, the gout, and forth distant echoes. Chatlertcn coaki
French Revolution, conspired with old fist reasonably expect what neither Gray
age to teaze him ; and his two last years nor Mason, nor other favourite men of
were unhappy to himself, tormenting to genius, had ever experienced. Lord Or-
the patience of his servants, and disas ford's miscellaneous compositions are too
trous to some of his old and valued copious and too well known to require
friendships. On the 2d of March, 1797, enumeration. Those most likely to be re
he expired at his house in Berkeley- printed in after-times are, " The Myste
square, in the eightieth year of a life pro rious Mother," "The Castle of Otranta§,"
longed by temperance, and rarely cor she "Anecdotes of Painting ||," and his
roded by care, or disturbed by passions. EpistolaryCorrespondence; much ofwhich
Avarice and vanity appear to have been appears deserving of selection from Mr.
.his leading foibles ; affability and a com Cole's MSS. in the Museum, aud of be
panionable temper his most distinguishing ing added to the splendid edition of his
virtues. Lordship's Works, published the year af
" Lord Orford, we are told by his Bio ter his death, in five quarto volumes.
grapher t, was of a benignant and chari "The following diffident statement of
table disposition ; but no man ever existed his merits and pretensions as an author
who had less the character of a patron. occurs in a letter to Mr. Pinkerton, dated
He has said, with much sangfroid^., that October, 1 784, and forms an interesting
"a poet or a painter may want an equi picture of his own mind, though some of
page, or a villa, by wanting protection ; the features will be found a little incon
but they can always afford 10 buy ink gruous with the subsequent prefix to his
and paper, colours and pencils." As to Works **. " To anticipate spurious pub
artists, he paid them what they earned ; lications by a comprehensive and authen
and he commonly employed mean ones, tic one, is giving a body to scattered
that the reward might be the smaller. atoms ; and such an act, in one's old age,
The portraits in the Anecdotes of Paint is declaring a fondness for the indiscre
ing disgrace the work ; and a monument tions of youth, or for the trifles of an age,
consecrated to the Arts is deeply inscribed which, though more mature, is only the
with the chilling penury of their supposed less excufeable. It is most true, that, so
patron. As to authors, it would be truly far from being prejudiced in favour of my
difficult to point out one who received own writings, I am persuaded that, had I
* "On becoming Earl of Orford, he thus wrote to Pinkerton: 'A small estate,
loaded with debt, and of which I do not understand the management, and am too old
to learn; a source of law-suite amongst my near relations ; endless conversations with
lawyers ; and packets of letters every day to read and answer ; all this weight of busiV
ness is too much for the rag of life that yet hangs about me. For the empty title, j
trust you do not suppose it any thing but an incumbrance, by larding my busy morn
ings with idle visits of interruption, and which, when I am able to go out, I shall be
forced to return. Surely no man of seventy-four, unless superannuated, can have the
smallest pleasure in sitting at home in his own room, as I always do, and being- called,
by a new name.' U'alpoliana, vol. I. p. 19." '
t " Biographical Sketch, at sup. p. xxxv."
J " Vide Preface to his Anecdotes of Painting, p. vii."
§ " This had long been the most popular of his writings, from its fascinating influ
ence over the lovers of the marvellous ; but they have since been satiated with luxuries
more highly seasoned in the same way. Lord Orford said to Pinkerton, ' I wrote The
Castle ofOtranto in eight days, or rather nights ; for my general hours of composition
arc from ten o'clock at night till two in the morning, when I am sure not to be dis
turbed by visitants.' IValpnliana, vol. I. p. 22."
|| " A modern author," fays Pinkerton, " need never hesitate to rest his chief fame
on so useful a compilation as the "Anecdotes of Painting in England." It is true, the
materials were chiefly collected by Vertue; as those of Voltaire's Histoire Generate
were by a Benedictine monk. Private curiosity may collect materials, and form plans ;
the merit lies in offering them to general use ; the perpetual praise in securing their
perpetual existence. In our estimate of those works which have survived expiring ge
nerations, and withstood" the (hock of discordant centuries, utility goes hand in hand
with genius. The useful page of the antient compiler is placed on the fame shelf of
antiquity with the original creation of talent." Biog. Sketch, p. xxix.
" The Preface
„s »,:-
of Mr. Berrys„ informs
1.. „„ us,
»k„ his Lordship
-iisio »» had actually begun to print
» quarto edition of his writings so early as the year 1768.'
though
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thought early as I think now, I should Would rest content with what he saw,
never have appeared as an author. Age, And not exert his powers ?"
frequent illness, *d pain, have given me *' ToMadameHi Da mas, learning English.
as many hours of reflection, in the inter
vals of the two latter, as the two latter " Though fire,
British accents your attention
have drawn from reflection ; and, besides You cannot learn so fast as we admire ;
their shewing me the inutilityof all our
Uttle views, they have suggested an ob Scholars, like you, but slowly can improve,
servation that I love to encourage in my For who/ Unit would teach you but the verb —
t"
self, from the rationality of it. I have
learnt and have practised the humiliating "To Madame De La Vaupilliere *.
task of oomparing myself with great au " Shall Britain sigh when Zephyr's softest
thors ; and that comparison has annihi care [Here?
lated all the flattery that self-love could Wafts to her shore the bright La Vaupil-
suggest. I know how trifling my own Alr! yes; descended from the British
writings are,, and how far below the throne, [own :
standard that constitutes excellence; for She views a nymph (he must not call her
the shades that distinguish mediocrity are She fees how dear her Stuart's exile cost,
not worth discrimination; and he must ByClermont's charms and Berwick's va
be very modest, or easily satisfied, who lour loll."
can be content to glimmer, for an instant, " Mr. Reed has favoured me with the
* little more than his brethren glow loan of a pamphlets uncollectcd with
worms. Mine, therefore, you find, is not the Works of Lord Orford, and intituled
humility, but pride ! When young, I " Reflections on the different Ideas of the
wished for fame, not examining whether French and English
I was capable of attaining it, nor consi with some Hints forinimproving regard to Cruelty;
dering in what lights fame was desirable. manity in a particular Branch.our ByHua
There are two parts of honest fame : that Man." Lond. 1JS9, 8vo. The following
attendant on the truly great, and that bet short extract is characteristic of the im
ter fort that is due to the good. I fear 1
did not aim at the latter, nor discovered, puted writer: "A kingdom like this, when
it has not a hundred thousand men to
till too late, that I could not compass the spare upon an emergency, is an estate
former. Having neglected the best road, that can only make shift to support its
and having, instead ef the other, strolled owner until he has a fit of sickness, bat
into a narrow path that led to no goal then cannot pay the doctor's bill. We
worth seeking, I see the idleness of my
journey, and hold it more graceful to have been drained and wasted by com
merce, colonies, gin, debauchery, trans
abandon my wanderings te chance or ob portation, and the. lavislr use of the gal
livion, than to mark solicitude for trifles lows, until the skin of what we were
Which I think so myself*." hangs loose about us in plaits ; and yet
" The following gallant Jeur ifEsprit we talk on a(s when we were all muscle
did not appear among his Lordship's re and nerve. As long as the streets of Lon
printed Poetry ; they were addrefled to don continue a little shew of hurry arid
four French Ladies of Distinction, who business, we judge the whole country to
visited him at Strawberry Hill i be full of vigour, not considering that, as
*' When beauteous Helen left her native long as any blood is left in us, the pulse
air, [Fiif ; of it will certainly beat there; nay, per
Greece for ten years in arms recViim'd the haps will be found in time to palpitate a
Th' enamour'ii Boy withheld his lovely
prize, [eyes. * "This lady was grand-daughter to
And stak'd his Country's ruin 'gainst her the celebrated Duke •f Berwick, the na
Your charms less baneful, not less strong, tural Ion of Jaines the Second, by Ara
appear ; [here." bella Churchill, sister of John Duke of
We welcome any peace that keeps you Marlborough. Before her marriage with
*' T» .Madame He Viu.eoaonq.v, on the M. De Vaupilliere she was Mademoiselle
De Clermont. Coxe's Memoirs of Loid
Seizure of her Cloaths by the Cufttm- Walpole, p. 160." •
Hause Officers. f "This pamphlet," fays Mr. Reed,
" Pardon, fair Traveller, the troop " was written by the late Horace liarl of
That barr'd your wardrobe's way; Oiford. The original copy, in his own
Nor think your silks, your gown, your hoop, hand writing, is vow in the possession of
Were objects of their prey. Mr. Bedford [recurdedin mir Obituary, p.
II Ah ! who, when authoriz'd by Law 9*3j ; and Was put into print by means
To strip a form like yours, of his father, who was deputy to Lord
Orford when Usher of the Exchequer."
* " ff'aljiaHana'1 little<
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little while, like the heart of an eel, after Great Britain" for May 1738, p. 481.
the vitals are separated from it." His Lordship died in the night of Sun
"The following appears to have been day, April 30.
one of his Lordship's latest effusions : 'P. 213. In Sir William Young**
" Epit/iphicm Vivi Ar/CToms. 17Q2. " Life of Dr. Brook Taylor," annexed
"An estate and an earldom at seventy-"! to the "Consolatio Philosophica" (a
four! [add one fear more, I work printed in 17Q3, but not pub
Had I sought 'em, or wish'd 'cm, 't would > lished) are seven letters from Lord Bo-
That of making a countess when almost j lingbroke to Dr. Taylor, and " Two
fourscore ! J Inscriptions in the Gardens of the
But Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of Chateau de la Source, near Orleans,
. season, [my reason ; written by that Nobleman during his
Though unkind to my limbst has left me Exile." These letters, Sir Williarn
And whether she lowers or lifts me, Young observes, have "all ihe warmth
try, [to die ; of genuine friendship and attachment;
In the plain simple style 1 have liv'd in, whilst the Letters of that Statesman let
For ambition too humble, for meanness Pope ai d Swia infer a controversy of
too high.". wit and information, for mutual repu
The Plates are numerous, and in tation with each oilier, and with tlic
general are uniformly handsome ; but world, rather iban a correspondence
lbnie of them want authentication. originating in, and sustained by, con
Of the Corrigenda we had noticed in fidential and aflectionale'regard."
the perusal of ihele volumes, ihe greater P. 5K)2. " Truth at Court" was
part are a!ready amended in ihe Edi •"scribed to Dean Fletcher on the au-
tor's Appendix. But the few following thoritv of his intimate friend, the Rev.
hints are at his service: John Duncwuibe.
Vol. II. p. 12. Of Francis Earl of P. 301. Mr. Dodslev possessed a fo
Huntingdon, and of some of his suc lio volume (which we have seen) con
cessors in that title, fee l\Jr. Nichols's taining many un-printed lJoeins by the
History of Leicestershire, vol III. under first Lord Lvttelton.
the accounts of Ashby dt la Zuuck and P. 320' 'Ol Lord Saekv'dle, see Mr.
Domnglon Park. Cumberland's Life of himself.
. P. 138. Of Robert Cecil. Earl of Sa P. ;i.;4. Of (Jatleton's Letters, we
lisbury, a letter is given in the fame know that the 11 umber printed in 17/5
volume of the History <>i Leicestershire, was only fifty.
p. ife (where the letters of some other Vol V. On the subject of Mary
.Noble Authors may be seen), from the Queen of Scots, many interesting parti
original, then in the possession of Mr. culars are printed in the Hillorv of Fo^
John Kirby, >the humane and intelli theringay, Bill. Top. Brit. N°'XI.
gent Keeper of Newgate (vol. LXXI V. P. 309 Lord Chaileniont's corre
p. 807); who at that time polielled a spondence with Hogarth, on the sub
considerable numlier of similar letters ject of a capital painting, is equally ho
of Cecil. nourable to the Peer and the Painter.
Vol. IV. p. 4,Q. "Stanley" should
certainly be read Siati'ey, or Staorlry. 142. A Sermon, preached at the Consecra
See a curious Inventory of the Goods tion of the Cnapclos Salelbury, in Lan-
of Sir Peier Frechevise, of Stavelev, cafliite, Septembers, 1807. By Tho-
15M>," in ihe " Illustrations of the mtts Dunham Whitaker, II..D. F.S.A.
Manners and Expenccs of antient Minijh r of Holme.
Times in England, 1797." THIS is a masterly Discourse, and
P. 68. Of ihe Marquis of Wharton on no ordinarv occasion ; the Erection
much may be found in the Works of os a Chapel for Divine Worship, ac»
Dr. Swift; and a tetter of his son, the cording to ihe pure rites of the Estab
eccentric Duke, p. 121. lished Church, in "one of ilic most
P. 108. In Swift's Works are also populous districts in the kingdom, sur
many particulars relative to the Earl of rounded bv the most exienliye deserts.''
Oxford and his ass.tssin Guilcard. " Ifaciicfe," we are told in a note,
P. 1 68. Mrs. H d clearly was " with a radius ot 20 miles, were
Howard. drawn about the Author's residence
P. 170. The character of the Earl of as a centre, it would include 300,000
Carlisle (which Mr. Park could not people, and 300 square miles ot waste
find) is in Buyer's " Political Stale of laud."
From
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From Luke vii. 5, " He loveth our are not its only effects ; for, notwithstand
Ifalion, and hath built us a Synagogue," ing some external appearances to the con
the animated Preacher takes occasion trary, notwithstanding a few present and
to notice " the munificence of the partial advantages which cannot honestly
Centurion to a conquered People, who be dissembled, I scruple not to affirm, that
seldom received any thing from his an our indefinite and ill-distributed increase
countrymen but injuries and insults ;" of species, when it takes place from
and to observe, that " what the Cen causes unconnected with the increased
fertility of the earth, is an object of poli
turion did for these despised Provin tical apprehension.'*
cials, we are become extremely back Adverting to the particular fit nation
ward to do for own Countrymen." of the district, in which Salesbury is si
" I am far from accusing the age in tuated, Dr. Whitaker fays,
which we live of general parsimony ; on " The difficulty of providing for a po
the contrary, it is distinguished, above all pulation so disproportionate, not only to
that have gone before it, for acts of public the produce of the neighbourhood in
as well as private liberality. But the mis which it is collected,
fortune is, that, in directing the stream of kingdom at large, underbut even of the
that liberality, we are governed by feeling sation of employment, oranyanysudden ces
extraordi-
more than principle, and by fashion more .nary failure in the annual produce of th«
than either. The leading characteriftick earth, cannot but fill every reflecting
of the times is, Benevolence without Reli mind with the most serious apprehen
gion. In the midst of unexampled pres sions. Shut out as we are from the gra
sures on the fortunes of individuals, we naries of Europe, and debarred as the rest
fee (and who does not fee with pleasure?) of Europe is likely to be from our manu
vast sums annually contributed to the factures, an Island, never free from the
erection and support of Hospitals; in the risk of famine with half the number of
midst of national exigencies which are its present
pleaded in bar of some national exercises close of one inhabitants, may, before the
unproductive year, present its
of bounty, we fee the humanity of the governors with the alternative of working
legislature amply rewarding a single im a miracle to provide
provement in the art of abating infection : tering the despair of bread, or of encoun
a famished people."
end so far all is well—'These things ought
they to have done, and not to leave others Strong and animated as these expres
■undone' (Matt, xxiii. 93). The bodies of sions are, the Preacher (ells us, " it is
cur fellow-creatures are entitled to every but a partial view of the subject;" and
attention which Science can bestow, or proceeds to prove, by several unanswer
Bounty purchase ; but, in the mean time, able considerations, " that in the ma
Who regards that inveterate and mortal nufacturing districts we have already
disease of the foul, on the cure or conti overslept the point within which po
nuance of which depend not a few years pulation contributes to happiness."
{it may be days) of ease or inquietude,
put an eternity of happiness or misery ? Incidentally mentioning "the Poor,"
And, to bring the subject yet nearer to he adds,
ourselves ; who beholds, in his own " Here I have unwarily borrowed a
neighbourhood, and among his own de term from other times; for, excepting
fendants, with that deep concern to peculiar cafes of decrepitude or disease,
which so awful a subject is entitled, an together with the dreadful reverse of Fa
increase of depravity more rapid than that mine, which, from the capricious fluctu
of disease, and stretches out a charitable ations of Commerce, often treads upon
liand to mitigate that worse contagion ? the heels of Waste and Riot, ' the Poor
It belongs not to this place, or to my have ceased out of the Land' (Deut. xv. 4,
profession, to dwell upon the. new forms U.)"
of suffering, which a total change in mo Among *' a train of curses, the most
dern habits has introduced into the con hideous i hat ever visited mankind, the
stitutions of my countrymen : nor am 1 first in order, and perhaps, in magni
now pleading for any of those noble insti tude, isj that beside an abundant pro
tutions, alike unknown to our forefathers, vision for the necessaries of life, every
Which have arisen out of compassion for
those calamities : my object is, to repre man, and almost every child, has a
sent a greater and more unregarded want, weekly superfluity of time and money
the want of Hospitals for sm as well as at his own disposal."
sickness. The cause, indeed, of either "The next effect produced by the new
contagion, moral or physical, amongst us order of things has been, to und&me/h-
is much the fame, a redundant and irre- catc the people. Until of late, children
jfaTax population, — b'jt vice and disease worked uiider the roof and eye of rheir
parent* :
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parents : their application to the ans of species of slavery is created, unknown tx»
trade was never exclusive ; the daughters every writer on natural or civil law,—tiie
were frequently called off to little domes slavery of masters to their servants."
tic offices, and the sens to the periodical "Among the poor," we are tola",
operations of husbandry. Thus both sexes " parental discipline was always lax,—
were prepared for the situations which, in
more advanced life, they were destined to it is now reduced almost to nothing."
fill, as fathers, mothers, or household ser " The misfortune of having no hope or
vants. But the inodinate requirements of object suspended till the death of the fa
modern Commerce absorb every hour and ther, always produced, at the approach
every faculty of its votaries t precluding of manhood in that class of society, an,
the acquirement of domestic knowledge, estrangement between parents and chil
and that practical readiness in the appli dren resembling the dissolution of tha
cation of it which never can be learned Irosyn which takes place at the fame pe
but in childhood; they superadd helpless- riod in brutes. But now the certainty ot
Sets to extravagance, and take away the employment, together with the little skill
best preventative of profligacy abroad, or strength required to direct movements,
which is comfort at home. Add to all which are every thing but spontaneous,
fhis, that habits of cleanliness, a quality has begotten a prodigy indeed in the his
nearly allied both to health and virtue, tory of our species, a race of independent
are unlearned and lost for life in places * infants. N;.y, even before the period of
where, by the sordid avarice of parents, emancipation from the little which re
Children are made to pal's, not through mains of parental authority, the ties of
fire to Moloch, but through filth to domestic attachment are broken ; horns'
Manrtnon. is no more regarded with the tender fond
" These observations apply, with pe ness of childhood ; the father is no longer
culiar weight, to the untaught and un looked up to as the protector from every
happy female: injury, and the friend of every hour ; the
' Empty of all good wherein con native bafhfulncfs of that charming age is
sists [praises,' lost ; intrepidity of front, and hardness of
Woman's domestic honour, and chief temper, are early acquired by children
she enters upon' the important duties of a from living in a perpetual crowd; a grow
wife, a mcjther, and the mistress of an ing opinion of self-importance is fostered
household,' without neatness, without by the habit of acquiring for themselves j
œconomy, without principles, without and all these seeds, sown in the rank foil
ideas. An inconvenience akin to the last of the human heart, mature, by just de
is severely felt by persons of an higher grees, from a wayward childhood and a
rank. The time has been, when it was licentious youth, to a manhood headstrong
deemed a privilege for the children of the and ungovernable, disobedient to man,
poor to be received into superior families, and rebellious to God. There is a kind
many of which were schools of order and or degree of profligacy which tends to de
decorum ; but the obligation is now in populate; bad as they are, this is not'
verted ; domesticks, instead of being go true § of the manners which I have been
verned, are to be cajoled into obedience ; describing ; for, though the constant in
the right of a master to' controul their termixture of the two sexes in manufac
morals is sometimes exprestly disclaimed ; tories has a very injurious effect upon the
they know, without the information of a chastity of both, the certainty of a provi
great Moralist, * not that he keeps them, sion in that rank will always lead to early
put that they keep him J ;' and thus a marriage ; and as the habits of manufac
* " White Night-work subsisted, which, 1 thank God, is nearly at an end, I have
sometimes applied to that inversion of the order of Nature these words of the Psalmist:
* Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour until the evening:' but these unhappy
creatures, reduced to the condition of brutes, 'when the Sun arifelh, get them away
together, and lay them down in their dens.' Ps. civ. 22. Another practice, for which
we are indebted to modern Commerce, yet remains to be redressed. 1 mean, the appren
ticing whole colonies of poor children to manufactories, at the distance of eighty or an
hundred miles. So long as this is permitted, we shall never want a Slave Trade at
Home. I am by no means convinced that the present War against our Trade and Ma
nufactures is not, in part, a Providential visitation for the immoral and unchristian
spirit in which they are conducted." f " Paradise Lost, Book XI. 617."
J " Dr. Paley. This is a sentiment which would not have escaped that excellent
man in his later years. It is no small comfort to me to be assured that his views of the
subject before me were nearly the same with my own."
§ " Excepting their tendency to produce infectious disorders, which, being only par
tial and temporary, have very ljttle effect in. checking the general principle.?
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turers, though they tend to debilitate the half a million in this County alone, and"
constitution, are not found on the whole little less In one immediately adjoining,
to abridge the term of human life, in such the subject cannot but arrest the attention
circumstances, from three to four con of every political reasoner, and of every
temporary generations will generally be lover of his Country. The manners of a
found in the fame line, where of old there people occupied in husbandry and pas
Were commonly ne more than two. turage are naturally favourable to Estab
,"' " Another inconvenience arising from lished Government; they never speculate,
the present state of society amongst us is, they never act in great masses, their bo
the mode in which this increasing popu dies are robust, their minds inactive.
lation is collected or distributed. These qualities ensure obedience in civil
' *' The population of this hundred* at life. An armed peasantry will also trans
the æra of the Reformation did not ex fer, without effort and without a murmur,'
ceed 10,000 fouls ; seven years ago it was the uninquisitive obedience which they
returned at 82,000, beside considerable have learned in the farm to the discipline
©missions; and such has been the increase of the camp. On the contrary, sedentary
staring the last short interval, that it may mechanicks, though singly feeble, are
now fairly be computed at t 00,000. At collectively bold and unmanageable ; their
the first of these periods there were in the nerves are weak, their apprehensions live
fame district at least 24 places of Reli ly; much of their time is spent in disqui
gions Worship: there are now no more sitions above their capacities ; the crude
than 38 ; and, what renders the dispro and mischievous publications of the day
portion in someChapelries still more enor are swallowed by them in amass; and,
mous, ten at least of these are adequate to while the poison of politicks heats the
the accommodation of the inhabitants at mind, the poison of distilleries t inflames
present. But, to keep pace with such an the blood. Communicated to great manu
increase of numbers, to check the pro factories, political disgusts vibrate through
gress of separation, or to counteract the the whole body like an electric shock, and
increase of immorality, what provision every talking demagogue has a willing and
has been made by the foundation ef Cha attentive audience already assembled to his
pels on the Establishment?—The Building hand. In that great ferment of'Fanati
ilt Vihick we ave now ajf'embled. Yet these cism which overturned both the Throne
are no trifling Objects ; for in the lame and the Altar in the seventeenth century,
period, and within the fame limits, ten when; was the frenzy highest, and where
Conventicles have been licensed ; nor can were the successive armies of Rebellion
it be denied that sufficient attention has raised and recruited ? In the Manufac
been paid to appetites more importunate turing Dijlri&s. And in a late dreadful
than Hunger mid Thirjl afler Righteousness, ebullition of political madness, where were
by multiplying Synagogues of another spe the emissaries of Sedition most successful,
cies, which they who build, and they who and where were the teffera of Insurrection
consecrate, can scarcely be said to love our received with the greatest avidity? In the
Nation. Now, were all the places of Es Maimsacluring DiJiriBs. I do not mean
tablished Worship conveniently situated, to accuse the body of the people of any
as they once were, or thtjir congregations strong or general tendency ot the same
equally distributed, it is obvious to every kind at present ; but it is sufficient for
one who knows any thing of their struc my purpose to prove, that, in the situa
tures, that they are collectively incapable tions which I have been describing, they
of containing one fourth part of their are so combined, and composed of such
congregations. In some it woald be im materials, as to be ready to explode when
possible, by any power of compression, to ever a single spark shall happen tq fall up
inclose a tenth part of the inhabitants. on them. . . . Religion is the most power
" These facts are so nnlike any thing ful instrument which the Politician has to
which is elsewhere taking place, excepting, work with. The enemies of Government
perhaps, in a few great commercial towns, have always understood the importance
that it cannot but be of importance to even of the shadow ; how melancholy to
hold up a distinct and vivid representation see its friends overlook the substance! for,
of them. And when we take into the active and systematic efforts to propagate
account that the same general principles the Gospel at Home would do more to
may be applied to a population of at least wards securing a peaceable and obedient
* " That of Blackburn."
f " Will the time never arrive, when the situation of Government, will allow then*
to attend to the health and morals of the common people in the system of taxation ?
A reduction of the duties on malt, and an increase of those on British spirits, almost
amounting to a prohibition, would be one of the most valuable, and at the fame time
most, unacceptable, boons which they could receive." ...
4 commonalty
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commonalty than hosts of armed men, ot penalties of vagrancy. This, hawever, U
volumes of penal statutes. Secure the become no such easy talk as heretofore ;
consciences and you secure the man ; for, beside the first and grejit motive for
make the people good Christians, and you multiplying religious foundations,, which
make them faithful and dutiful su.bjer.ts is a love of the fouls of men, or the se
of course." cond, which is a fense of the necessity of
If we had not already trespill'ed religion to civil society, the manners and
too much, we (liould gladly exhibit opinion-' of antient times assorded many
the manly and masterly realoning on subordinate stimuli, which are either now
" the Reapers, who, though unhired, no more, or have taken another direction.
are willing enough to nut their lick le Such were Superstition, Vanity, Taste,
into a rotting and neglected harvest j" and, lastly, a passive but powerful princi
who, in the character of Laymen, ple, even Indolence itself; The first of
niiglil much better shew their compas these has been superseded by Enthusiasm,
sion, by " prtva'e exhortation and tn- which generally takes a course of its own,
slructinn, the distribution of good and is too irregular and capricious to be
books, the institution of weekly or confined within the pale of an Establish
ment. The last, uniting itself with the
Sunday schools;—these ate in the general indifference of the times to all
power of molt men, and are forbidden religious duties, operates, not as of old,
to none." But these men fay, " We in the extremities of great' parishes, to
have a Call ;"—" that is, a violent in the bringing home the public offices of
clination to assume that office, which Religion to our own doors, but to the
' no man t.ikcili upon himself except omistifm of all religious duties, because
he be called as was Aaron,' whole vo they are too far to seek. The twin listers,
cation, 1 presume, was better proted Taste and Vanity, indeed, have h 11 the in
than by secret and inexplicable .impres fluence which they ever possessed ; but,
sions." fastening on nearer and more interesting
"The enthusiastic mode of reason objects, such as houses, plea'\irc-grounds,
ing on GifIs and Calls," leads the Au furnirure, and equipages, they exhaust all
thor to make a few observations, in a the resources of bounty, even in the most
note, which we recommend to the se opulent, and leave no place nor inclina
rious perusal of every one who arrogates tion for sacred embellishments. In this
age of unexampled opulence, every mart
to himself the title of an Evangelical of fortune chuses to be poor ; *in times of
Preacher. The whole Disentitle, in comparative poverty, almost every person
deed, is Inch as no man can ealilv read of property knew how to be rich : but
without being both wiser and better (Economy is the parent of Munificence,
for the pertiliil. The ability and the and Profusion of Selfishness. In thole
candour with which every species of days too almost every village in this coun
Schism is combated, both in the Ser try had its resident Lord, who thought
mon and the Notes, will not easily be the family chantry as necessary an ap
paralleled. The opposite doctrines, par pendage to his domain as the park or the
ticularly, of Arroiniauism and Cal hall—Ue regarded it as a decoration and a
vinism are so happily pourtrayed, and distinction ; but he probably did more—>
the mild equipoise of our Established He loVed his vassals, 'and built them a
Church so well tleyyonsirated , that, to Synagogue.' But, in the course of the
those who are wavniva, in their Jiiilh, two last centuries, three fourths of the
this Discourse mull be an inestimable old families are become extinct; the dis
treasure; and, if the learned Author tribution of property is grown, every way
more unequal ; ■ some manors are grouped
had written nothing else, is sufficient together into great aggregate properties,
to secure his fame. while others are split into inconsiderable
One quotation more, and we con freeholds. In the first cafe, the non-resi
clude : dence ot the Lord begets a general indif
"Let it be the great concern of all who ference to the welfare of his dependents ;
love their country to cut off every plea in the second, a perpetual opposition of
for separation, by rendering it possible, wills and interests contributes to defeat
which it is not at present, for every one every plan for the spiritual benefit of the
of their countiynien to be a member of inhabitants'. To the truth of these re
the Church of England; for, until that marks there are, undoubtedly, some ex
is done, a rigid exaction of conformity ceptions ; and the occasion on which we
would' be no lei's absurd and cruel than to are assembled assords a very honourable
leave a poor man without a house to shel one, nor only with respect to the noble
ter him, and then to inflict upon him the representative of a molt antleut family
Cent. Mau, Vutmltr, lite". • Dr?*
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[Lord Bulkcley], but to many subordi "The House of Austria has long been
nate benefactors ; some indeed whose re the subject of my contemplations. During
ligious profession forbids them to partake my travels in Switzerland, the character
of the benefits which, with a liberality and expsoits of Rhodolph of Hapsburgh,
truly disinterested, they are willing to and the deeds of his immediate descend
purchase fdr others. A subject of un ants, arrested my attention, and found a
speakable importance is now before you ; place in my first publication *. While
and every attentive and unprejudiced resident at Vienna, the subject prefl'ed
hearer will have anticipated my conclu more strongly on my mind ; and from the
sion, that the difficulties with which it is rich stores of the Imperial Library, and
environed are insurmountable by private other sources of information, I collected
exertions. To remove so many formidable abundant materials for Biographical Me
impediments, to reconcile so many jarring moirs of the great Founder of this illus
interests, to obviate the mischiefs of no trious Family. Other travels and other
Religion, and to arrest the progress of publications suspended this design ; and 1
false Religion, are objects to which the changed it for the Historical and Political
interference of the Legislature will alone State of Europe, in which the House of
be found adequate." Austria was intended to form a conspi
cuous figure. This plan was, however,
143. The History of the House of Austria, relinquished, for reasons which I have
from the foundation of the Monarchy, mentioned in the Preface to the Memoirs
under Rhodolph of Hapsburgh, (o lite of Sir Robert Walpole: but my Collec
Death of Leopold the S'cand, 1218 t» tions for the Austrian History still conti
179-2. By William Coxe, F.R.S. F.A.S. nued to augment, particularly during two
Rector of Betnerton, and Archdeacon of subsequent visits to Vienna. New literary
Wilts. In Three Volumes. 4ro. ■ pursuits still suspended without diverting
FEW portions of modern annals my design ; and tht ipapers to which I
present a more grand and interesting obtained access while I was compiling
subject for historical composition than the Memoirs of Sir Robert and Lord Wal
the rise and progress of the Austrian pole swelled the mass of materials, and
Family; yet it is a circumstance threw a new and interesting light on the
modern period of the Austrian Annals.
which reflects hi<rti honour on the Li At length I found leisure to turn my
terature of our Country, that the first whole attention to a work which I had
Tegular and connected History of that been unwilling to relinquish, though un
illustrious House, from its rife to the able to complete; and the result of ray
present time, should come from a Bri labours is the book now offered to the
tish pen. Hitherto, it is probable that Reader.
the importance of the undertaking, the "The following History presents the
length of the period, the stupendous spectacle of a Family rapidly rising from
variety and magnitude of the events, the possession of dominions which form
and the numerous difficulties attending scarcely a speck in the Map of Europe to
the acquisition of authentic informa a stupendous height of power and splen
tion, have deterred the Literati of our dour equal, if not superior, to any pre
own and other countries from attempt ceding dignity ; like the Danube of its
ing so arduous a talk. But these diffi native mountains, at first an inconsidera
ble rill, obscurely winding amidst rocks
culties have, in our opinion, at length and
been vanquished or obviated by the ta by theprecipices, then swelling its volume
accumulation of tributary streams,
lents, the researches, and the perse carrying plenty and fertility to numerous
verance of Mr. Coxe. Something tod nations, and finally pouring its mighty
may be attributed to his good fortune, waters, by an hundred mouths, into the
in obtaining access to such numerous Euxine Sea. The Members of this Fa
sources of Diplomatic information for mily present every possible variety of cha
the later period, when the printed do racter, and every species of merit or ac
cuments must necessarily be neither quirement ; cultivators or patrons of let
authentic nor Complete. ters and science, the distinguished heroes
It is highly pleasing to trace the first and statesmen of almost every age; its
conception and gradual progress of a ministers and warriors the patterns and
literary work of such magnitude as the admiration of their contemporaries. The
present. We trust, therefore, that we period of its history comprises a space of
need not request the indulgence of our six centuries, from the earliest dawn to
Readers for giving the Author's own the meridian of modern science ; from
account of the plan and execution- of * " Letters on Switzerland."
this History, and the materials of the
which it it composed.
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the age of feudal barbarism to the full thod of divisions and subdivisions ; but
splendour of European civilization. have suffered myself to be carried by the
" To this Family does Europe owe its stream of Time, marking, with sufficient
preservation. In this House has Provi distinctness, the more important periods,
dence placed the barrier which arrested and introducing, in occasional pauses, re
she progress of the Mahometan Hordes, views of the state of Europe; from which
and prevented the Banner of the Crescent the Reader may form a judgment of the
from floating in triumph over the Chris progressive use, extensive connexions, and
tian World. United with the Catholic comparative greatness, of the Austrian
Church by interest no less than by passion Monarchy.
and prejudice, its Chiefs were, for a short ##**#####
time, the great opposers of Truth, and " The History naturally closes with the
the oppressors of Civil and Religious Li death of Leopold the Second ; as it is not
berty. But adversity taught more tolerant possible for an Author, who values the re
and liberal principles ; and as Austria first putation of candour and authenticity, to
saved Europe from Mahometan barbarism, compile, from imperfect documents, and
she has since formed the great bulwark of amidst the misrepresentations of passion
Public Freedom, and the great counter and prejudice, a faithful account of those
poise to France in the political balance. portentous, Revolutions which have to
At all times, and in all circumstances, tally changed the political relations and
Austria has been pre-eminent in peace as importance of Austria, and confounded
in arms ; the Court of Vienna has invari all the antient connexions of F.urope.
ably been the great centre on which the vast " My authorities are printed, manu
machine of European policy has revolved. script, and oral.
" 1 proceed to state the plan of the " Ir^would be superfluous to recapitu
work, and the authorities by which I late the titles of the numerous works
have been guided in the composition. which I have consulted and compared,
" I have endeavoured to direst myself particularly as they are generally quoted
of party and local prejudices ; I have at the close of every chapter, often in
weighed every evidence with candour and every page, and constantly referred to at
impartiality, and have given the result of the termination of each reign.
a laborious investigation, by presenting a " The manuscript authorities com
faithful and consistent picture of times, mence with the acceflion of Charles the
eharacteis, and events, without trespass Sixth ; and, as a bare Catalogue would
ing on the patience of the Reader by dis fill several pages, I shall only mention
quisitions on the innumerable contradic the principal.
tions and clashing testimonies which im " I hive had the singular goed fortune
peded my progress at every step. to obtain access to the Papers of most
" Unfortunately for man, it is the of the British Ministers at the Court of
iivord which decides the fate of Nations, Vienna, from 1714 to 1 7P2. These are,
secures their tranquillity, and promotes " I. The Letters of General Stanhope,
their- aggrandisement : — it is the sword Lord Cobham, GeneralCadogan, and Sir
alone which 'is the guardian of National Luke Schaub, who were sent to Vienna
Honour, and the protector of Public and to negociate the Barrier Treaty. In the
Private Happiness. Commerce may en Walpole Papers.
rich, the Arts may civilize, and Science "II, The Papers of St. Saphorin, a
may illuminate, a people ; but these bles native of Switzerland, who was British
sings can only owe their stability to mili Agent at Vienna from 1720 to 1728. In
tary force. War, therefore, to the regret the Walpole, Townshend, Hardwicke, and,
of every milder virtue, must form the Waldegrave Papers.
principal subject of History. For this " III. The Dispatches of Lord Walde
reason 1 have paid peculiar attention to grave, during his embassy, from 1728 to'
military transactions; and trust 1 have 1730. In the Waldegrave Papers.
treated this subject in a different manner " IV. The Diplomatic Correspondence
from preceding Writers. From the exa of Sir Thomas Robinson, afterwards Lord
mination of military details, I have been Grantham, during his long residence at
enabled to place many points of History Vienna, from 17SO to 1748, as well as as
and many characters in a new and perspi the Congress of Aix-la-Chspelle, where
cuous light ; and I trust I have shewn ta he was Plenipotentiary. In the Grant*
the English Reader the importance of an ham Papers;
efficient military force; pointed out the "V. The Dispatches of Mr. Keith,
manner in which it has been employed during his residence as British Minister at
with effect ; and displayed the intent, the Vienna, from 1747 to 1758. During this
value, and the neceflity, of Continental period he witnessed the breach of that
Alliances. alliance with England, which- Nature;
"I have not adopted the formal me* Gratitude, and Political Interests, had all
contributed
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contributed to cement ; and that sinister George the Fir/i's Reign, fee. By the
union with Trance, which, however vaunt Rn-. Mark Noble. (Concluded from
ed, however splendid and specious in its p. S7.)
Commencement, was the most fa'a! inhe IN our last article on this work we
ritance ever left by a Sovereign to his expressed our regret that the Editor had
Successor, and the most prominent among
the various causes which have led to the not made some visible distinction be
'present humiliation of Austiia, and the tween his own additions and what Mr.
Granger left. On a more dole inspec
pernicious aggrandizement of France.
" VI. But the documents of all others tion, however, of ihe various mailer
the most important, and without which contained in these Volumes, we think
1 could not have completed the latter we have been able, in a few instances,
past of the History, are contained in the to determine what is Granger's, and,
Papers of his son, Sir Robert-Mumy in a good many more, what is not
Keith, which commence with 1772, ter from lite ingenious pen of that writer.
minate at the close of 1791, and compose Granger had a peculiar neatness and
the latter part of the reign of Maria-The elegance in drawing a character ;
resa, and those of Joseph and Leopold. which, like his friend Lord Orford, he
" VJI. Besides these documents perused could make very striking, yet with very
at Vienna, I have had recourse to the ex few touches, 'site following passage,
tensive correspondence of the Ministers at however, can admit os no doubt, as
home, or Embassadors in foreign courts, our Editor allows that it comes front
contained in the Orford, Walpole, Town-
shend, Keene, Harrington, and other Col Granger's pen.
lections, which are enumerated in the Vol. II. p. 166. "Jonathan Swift was
blessed, in a higher degree than any of his
Prefaces to the Memoirs of Sir Robert contemporaries,
and Lord Walpole. with the powers of a cre
; " VIII. Other Papers, of later date, ative genius. The more we dwell upon
delicacy precludes me from particularizing. the character and writings of this great
"'"I cannot specify all the sources of man, the more they improve upon us: in
oral information which I acquired during whatever light we view him, he still ap
my travels, from Foreign Ministers in the pears to be an original. His wit, his hu
respective Courts which I visited. Among mour, his patriotism, his charity, and
them, however, 1 may be permitted to even his piety*, were of a different cast
from those of other men. He had, in his
mention the Prussian Minister, Count virtues,
HertzUerg, and some confidential friends no superior. few equals ; and, in his talents,
of Count Kaunitz. I have derived, also, more In that of humour, and
intelligence from numerous persons in and probably especially in irony, he ever was,
high stations, both at home ajjd abroad, He did the highest ever will be, unrivalled.
Who have taken a share in the transactions by his parts ; and was honour to his Country
during the reigns of Maria-Theresa and it by the v igilance and aactivity great blesling to
of his pub
her two Successors.
"Those who are conversant in the se fists of the most naked and gcnerally,coij-
lic spirit. His style, which
simple terms,
cret history and diplomatic correspondence is strong,' clear, and expressive ; familiar,
of the times will be convinced of the au without vulgarity or meanness ; and beau
thenticity and extent of my information ;
and the Reader, to whom I cannot dis istiful, without affectation or ornament. Me
sometimes licentious in his satire ; and
close all my authorities, will, I trust, give transgresses
me that credit for integrity suld good faith purity, lie,the bounds of delicacy and
which 1 have hitherto maintained." in the latter part of his life,
Sticli is. the account of an under availed himself of the privilege of his
great wit, to trifle : but when, in this in
taking which few will have the cou stance, we deplore the misapplication of
rage, tha means, or the perseverance, such wonderful abdities, we, at the fame
to emulate. Our scanty limits will not time, admire the whims, if hot the do
permit us to do j ti (lice to a work of tages, of a Swift. He was, perhaps, the
such magnitude by a regular analysis, only Clergyman of his time who had a
or by extracts of 1 lie most prominent thorough knowledge of men and man
'pafisagrs. We shall therefore (in a fu ners. His " Tale of a Tub," his " Gulli-
ture Number) confine our criticism*
to some unconnected remarks on the * "The Dean was jult the reverse of
'moll important characters, and molt those characters who have but little piety
striking portions of the narrative. and are'always over-acting their part. See
Dr. Uelany's anonymous Observations up
1*4. fliopraphiral History of England, on Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and
from the Revolution to the tlnd of Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, pajjim."
ver's
i8o7vl Review of Ne- ; Publications, 1 141
ver's Travels," and his " Draper's Let copy of the print, or perhaps rather the
ters," are the most considerable of his original, for the whole has very much
prole works; and his "Legion Club," his the nir of a fiction.
" Cadenus and Vanessa," and his " Rhap Ibid. p. 347- Richard Graves, Esq.
sody on Poetry," are at the head of his of Mickleton. His son, the late Rev.
poetical performances. His writings, in R. G. is characterized as being the <jk-
general, are regarded as standing models thor of the Festoon only, a mere com-
of our language, as well as perpetual mo lilalion, and no notice taken of his
numents of their Author's fame." letier known works, "The Spiritual
VY'e shall now animadvert on a few Quixote," &c. &c.
articles taken promiscuuully. After thej'e remarks, which relate tit
In vol. U. p. 179. Thomas Hopkins. haste and inaccuracy, we shall present
"I suppose this gentleman to have been our Readers with a specimen or twe,
T. H. Esq. one of the commissioners in which tlie Editor's indYillry appears
of the Salt Duties in the reign of to advantage, and in which his mate
Queen Anne." But, in p. 212, we rials are nearly original.
have the (ame Thomas H. from the Vol. 111. p. 159. "Thomas Bradbury
fame print, and of the fame date ; but was a Dissenting Minister, whose meet
then Mr. Noble " knows nothing of ing-house, in New-street, Shoe-lane, wa*
him." lawlessly destroyed by SacheverellV mob.
P. 136. Thomas Wood, LL.D. rec He preached many years in New-court,
tor of JIardwick, Bucks, and author Carey-street, Lmcoln's-inn-fields, where
of the " Institute of the Law of ling- he was succeeded by Mr. Winter, whose
land." A short article, without any brother, an agent to a regiment, one of
his daughters married. Mr. Bradbury
dates, and repeated verbatim in vol.111, wrote a number of sermons, and other
p. 127.
P. \4S. Samuel Bourn, of Bollnn, tracts, too numerous, to mention ; and
was a man of eminent abilities, of real
Lancashire ; an article which contains piety,
a conjecture only. But in vol III. p. ger sawand without bigotry. Mr. Gran
a friendly letter from Archbishop
I06, we have the fame person, with an Wake to him, which was part of a corre«
account principally of his son. fpondence between the Metropolitan of
Vol. III. p. I&7. Henry Grove, an all England and the Patriarch of the Dis
eminent Dissenting Clergyman.' Mr. senters of the fame kingdom. He was
Noble complains thai he looked into a rich, and gave his daughter, Mrs. Winter,
late History of Taunion for an account 6000I. ; and to his other children as libe
of him, but could find nothing. It is rally. His sermons* were tedious to an
strange that he should not have adopt extreme ; eight of which were on justifi
ed the more straight-forward way os cation by the imputed righteousness of
consulting the Biographia Britannica, Christ ; and sixty-one on the mystery of
or the Biographical Dictionary; in ei godliness: but in private he was the so
ther of which he might have found a cial, pleasant companion, and more famed
for his mirth than long harangues. He
verv prolix account of Mr. Grove.
Ibid. p. 187. George Bailie. Of this had a very strong voice, could sing excel
lently well, and was supposed to ling The
gentleman Mr. N. seems to know verv Roajl Beef of England better than any
little ; he might have found a life in other man. He died September 9, 1759,
the Gent. Mag. vol. VIII. p. 4t>7- aged 86. Such was " brave old Tom
Vol. III. Thomas llearne. In a Bradbury, a good preacher and a face
note Mr. Noble fays, " Mr. Grander tious companion." It is not the cheerful
notices a ridiculous print of him, which rrian that disturbs the state, nor often the
was engraved at Oxford, and only six, rich, but the four, disappointed, needy
It is said, were worked oss. He is re man. Bradbury was happy in his tem
presented between two primers, at a per, rich in the gifts of fortune, and pos
public house, where the floor is paved sessed the esteem of a wide circle of
with fheeps' bones, mistaken by him friends. A perfect toleration would be an
for a Roman pavement. He also adds, act of prudence as well as humanity; and
the circumstance is noticed in the Ox will while the Establishment is not invaded, it
ford Sausage; but I do not observe it. always be advantageous ; for,
in that Collection." This we do not 'Conscience is a thing, we know,
wonder at. Theaecouut occurs inTom Like to a mastiff dog,
Warton's verv humourous " Guide to Which, if tied up, so fierce will grow,
lie '11 bite his very clog.'
the Companion, and Companion to Anen, State Poems, 5S8,"
the Guide ;" where may be seen a Vo*.
114*. Rev'teu) of New Publications. [Dec.
Vqt, 1 1 1 . [). 3 50. " HumphryWanley, F.R. cularly as it is quite perfect, and is the
•nd A.SS. son of the Rev. Nathaniel Wan- only copy known.' " It is a large sum j
ley, vicar of Trinity church, Coventry, but, however, I must have it; give me
who wrote " Microcofmos ; or, The Won pen, ink, and paper." A draft was drawn)
ders of the Little World," was bom March for lool. ; hut his Lordship, in presenting
21, 1671-2, and placed in some mechani it, said, "Now, Wanley, perhaps you
cal business; but this situation, if not purchased this at some book-stall." Hum
neglected, Was at least disliked. All the phry expressed a seeming surprise, shrug
time he could command was employed in ged up his slioulders, and left the book
searching for and reading antient manu- with the Peer for what he really did pur
fcripts, which, by copying and imitating, chase it at a book-stall, fix pence*. The
tie acquired a particular facility in judg Librarian was a wonderful man, and de
ing of their authenticity and dates. Dr. served all he gained, for his knowledge
Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester, much pleased was acquired by intense application.
with so extraordinary a taste in so young When only twenty-three years of age, he
a person, sent him to Edmund-hall, Ox had compiled the Coventry and Warwick
ford, where he was enabled to assist Dr. Catalogues ; and Archbishop Tenison re
Slill, the Principal, in his Collations of ceived him, through the recommendation)
the New Testament, who was much hurt of Dr. Charlet, to superintend the Arehi-
at parting with so promising a genius. He episcopal Library at Lambeth. The in
knew but little Latin or Greek when he comparable Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon,
came to Oxford, and Dr. Mill meant to Danish, and Norman Manuscripts, pre
take him particularly under his care. He served in public and private libraries in
removed to University college by the ad England, which accompanies Dr. Hickes's
vice of Dr. Charlet, but left the Univer Thesaurus, was compiled by Wanley, who
sity without adegree ; and was introduced, arranged the ingenious plan for directing;
by the pious Mr. Nelson, to the Society the enquiries and pursuits of the Society
tor propagating Christian Knowledge, in of Antiquaries, consisting of desiderata in
hopes of obtaining him the place of their various branches of Antiquities ; and he
librarian. But Robert Harley, Earl of had the principal (hare in compiling the
Oxford, was at that time in great want of Harleian Catalogue of Manuscripts, pub
a person capable of arranging his very lished in 2 vols. folio, l>5»; but Mr.
valuable collection of manuscripts and Casley, keeper of the Cottonian Library,
books; a place Hearne had declined; and Mr. Hooker, deputy-keeper of the
when, fortunately, his Lordship heard of Records in the Tower, completed it.
Wanley, whom he retained ; and no man Wanley died July 6, 1726, in his 55th
ever gave greater satisfaction : insomuch year, and was buried in the church of St.
that Lord Harley, his Lordship's eldest Mary-le-Bonne, under a flat stone. Had
ion and successor, allowed him a pension, poor Wanley lived to be an aged man, it
and continued him in his situation of li is difficult to fay how much we should
brarian till his death. He was, in general, have been indebted to him ; for, when
very faithful to his patrons; but Hum admitted to the Bodleian Library, he
phry sometimes had a selfish tit. He was made many extracts from the Manu
in the habit of procuring scarce articles scripts, and promised a Supplement to
for the library. One day he went to his Hyde's Catalogue of tire printed Books,
Lordship's town-house, where several Ca which Hearne completed, and Robert
binet Ministers were ass-mbled ; in conse Fisher, B. M. published in 1738. He-in
quence, he was desired to wait a few mi tended, besides, to have written a treatise
nutes, when he would be admitted. The on the various characters of Manuscripts,
weather was cold, and Wanley fretted. with specimens to correct Mabillon's,
He meditated about the price he should corrupted by the conceits of the Engraver.
ask for his rarity ; and determined, through Mr. Bagford fays, he entertained a design
Vexation, to increase the sum- At length to print the Scriptures in the Anglo-Saxon
the Peers departed, and he was tent for. language; and we know his unwearied
' 1 have a most rare article, my Lord, but industry, which he proved by his travels
It is far too dear: it is the property of over England to procure the Catalogue of
■ widow, who has two daughters : they the Manuscripts subjoined to Hickes'sTAc-
have seen far better days : slie would saurus, above-mentioned. Let us then
scarce permit me to bring it, though I forget the foibles in the character of this
left a promissory note for the lool. she extraordinary man, and his now and then
demanded in case 1 did not return it.'
"A hundred pounds, Wanley ! that is a » "The Rev. Charles Newling told me
treat sum for so small a thing." ' It is, this anecdote ; he had it from his mater
my Lord; but you have so often asked nal uncle, the Antiquary Clarke, who
me .to get it, that I thought 1 could not wrote upon Coins, to whom Wanley,
4o less than strew it your Lordship, paiti- with much humour, related it."
talkiag
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talking upon points he did not under servant dared enter. He admitted no vi
stand, and his habitual pomposity*. There sitors but a mathematical gentleman from
is an original portrait of him in the Bod Bradford, and an ingenious physician;
leian Library ; and another, half-length, and was frequently denied to them: they
sitting, by Dahl, in the possession of tfce gave the sign of approach by rubbing a
Society of Antiquaries." stone against a certain part of the house;
Vol. HI. p. 359. "Abraham Sharp's an where they could be heard by him ; and
cestors resided at Little Horton, in York if he wished it, he permitted their en
shire, and he was son of Mr. John Shaip, trance. Though of an Archicpiscopal fa
of that place, by1 Mary Clarkson : his elder mily, he was a Dissenter. On Sundays he
brother, Thomas Sharp, M. A. died an went to a meeting-house at Bradford,
incumbent at Leeds, in 1693 ; and they where he distributed his half-pence : hav
were related to Dr. Sharp, Archbishop of ing plenty of these, he suffered them
York. Few men have attained so great an singly to be taken out of his hand, which
age, for he lived to be 91, and died in he held behind him, so that he neither
August 1742; but was superannuated saw nor asked the persons receiving any
three or four years before his death. Mr. questions. In person he was of the mid
Sharp was in high estimation, as a ma dle stature, very thin; and seemed always
thematician, with flamfteed, and even ot a weakly constitution."
with Newton: like the latter, he lived a In all thtle we think we discern the
bachelor ; and he was very amiable in pen of Granger ; if not, Mr. Noble
private life, as well as pious, charitable, must blame himself. We wish to <l«
and humane. Mr. Thoretby, who often justice to him , and it is no more than
mentions him, had a declining dial for justice to acknowledge that the present
his library-window, mads by Sharp; and volumes are a very considerable addi
in his collection of books was Mr. Hunt's tion to our biographical collections,
*' Clavis Stereometric," with certain pro
blems performed by this gentleman : his liven the record of so many prints af
brother, the Clergyman, had much of his fords useful dula to the biographical
taste. Mr. Thoreiby posleffed a large and enquirer ; and, although we have no
curious telescope, the tube of which was verv high respect for the tribe of Por
turned, and the glasses ground, by him, trait-dealers, we shall not be sorry if,
Abraham Sharp's Mathematical Tables by the present publication, and that of
were published; and one of his Editors Granger, they succeed in putting a lit
called him ' the incomparable Mr. Sharp ;' tle sense into their customers' heads.
adding, that * his Tables are sufficient to When the collecting of portraits ex
represent the circumference of the globe tends beyond that of men distinguished
of the earth so truly as not to err the for genius, bravery, or virtue, it be
breadth of a grain of sand in the whole !' comes the pride of a coxcomb, who, in
He was a man of very peculiar habits. his turn, becomes the Drey ofatfej/er/
An apartment adjoining his 'calculation-
room' had an aperture between a window
and a cupboard, which might be opened 145. Crosby's Complete Pocket Gjattlrer
without noise, and there a servant placed of England and Wales ; or, TraxeHer's
food and liquor. When the Mathemati Com.pnnioii ; arranged voider Me various
cian felt hunger or thirst, he opened his Dejiriptions of Local Situation, Publit
Jide, aud took what he wanted ; but after Buildings, Civil Governnie/U, Number
breakfasting, his dinner and the supper of Inhabitants, Charitable Institutions,
often remained untouched. He had sour Antiquities and Curiosities, ManufaOum
or five rooms in his house, which he kept arid Commerce, Navigation and Canals,
for different purposes, and into these no Mineral Spring-, Singular Customs, Li-
terary Characters, Amusements, Paristtes^
* " In Wanley's Harleian Journal, pre Chureht^, Market flays and Fairs,
served in the library of the Marquis of Bankers, Fojis, ims, Coaches and Wag
Lansdown, there are some curious entries, gons, 'Distances f'om London and fa^
illustrative of his dignity. The Journal founding Towns, Gentlemen's Seats, and
begins in March, 1714-15, and is regu tehttever is worthy of attention to the
larly continued till within a fortnight of Gentleman ar Man of Busness through
his death. In Nichols's " Life of Bow- out the JSnudom. With .a frefa.ee aud
yer" there are some extracts from it, IntrodufHnn, ty the dtec. J. Malham,
which (hew us the mock heroick of this Author of the MavtU Gazetteer, end
recondite Librarian, Pope delighted to Editor of Lnwtdes's history of Eng
mimic his and some others' oddities, land, Turner's Book-keeping, and many
which he did very exactly ; the company of Jltt useful School-Books of Mr. D.
were convulsed with laughter, but the Kenning.
pact had riot a zauscle displaced." OF the importance 'of the object*
specified
ii44 Review of New Publications. [Dec1.
specified in this copious title-page, 146. Essays, Scriptural, Moral, and Logi
every reader must be fully satisfied. cal, lu VY. and T. Ludlaru. Designed
After dipping occasionally into various to promote an Attention to Clearness of
parts of this Compendium, as well as Ideas, I'xecifinn of h'.Apreffion, and Ac
a more minute examination of others, curacy of Reasoning, upon lluj'e im
with which we are personally acquaint portant Suljects.
" IN* these Essays, the nature of the
ed, we felt a pleasure hi discovering the opinions
attention which mud have been be- reasoningmaintained, the justness of the
flowed in the compilation of Ib com the language adopted, bythethole
employed, and propriety of
pertons
prehensive a" work. Having so far sa who, with such peculiar fitness, such sin
tisfied ourselves in an abstract view, we gular truth, and such remarkable mo
have had recourse lo the Preface and desty, now style themselves, and teach
Introduction, in order to discover the their ignorant and bigoted followers . to
nature of its execution ; by which style them, Gnsr-r.t, Min'isteiis, and
means we find that it has passed Evangelical Preachers, and who
through the hands of various Editors, found their claim to these honourable
and that a comparatively small share and important appellations upon their
only has been executed by our old ac eagerness to recall into the Church, in
quaintance, whose works we have no these days, the numerous absurdities of
ticed, from time to time, on many oc School Divinity; the wretched nonsense
casions. "The decease of the Kditor of a Calviniftic Creed ; and the miserable
of the earlier parts of the work," fays attestation of Puritanical Cant ; are fully
Mr. M. "may have possibly occasioned considered."
some ilighier shades of difference in the
execution." We had perceived (iime 147. A Letter to Granville Sharp, F.pj.
respecting hit Remarks on the Tv» la/l
difference; but at the fame lime were Petitions in the Lord's Prayer, from a
convinced that it had more of appear- Country Clergyman.
aive than reality. Many letters of lo A FTKit thanking Mr. Sharp for
cal correspondents have been acknow ** the information and satisfaction de
ledged ; and much essential and inte rived from the perusal of his Vcmarks,"
resting matter has been evidently pro the Letter-writer thus proceeds :
cured and incorporated ; which must " I am tempted to offer you, with all
entitle it to a preference above similar humility, some Remarks on your moft
publications. New. communications pleasing and able work ; under au idea,
are solicited, on the most liberal prin that what you have advanced might be
ciple, and. with the most flattering further supported from the UNIFORM lan
hope. In some few instances, indeed, guage of the New Testament. At the
we perceive a defect in the accounts of same time 1 think you have judged well,
fairs-, coaches, and waggons ; thele, it by not pressing, in the first instance, every
is observed, must be fluctuating, espe text of Scripture, where the expreslion is
cially the two latter, and therefore not used, into the service of your sense of the
easily to be avoided, though considera 0 xo>nfof. Such indiscreet zeal often falls
ble care has been evidently taken to into error, and defeats its own purpose.
prevent it as liiuch as 'possible. To the But a secondary writer may proceed where
work are prefixed two" neat Maps of 1 it is wife in a primary one to stop."
England and Wales.; one of them a With skill and accuracy demonstra
good travelling map, to which great ting the hand of a Master, the letter-
attention seems lo have been given. writer uses the authorities adduced ;
Many curious suggestions a,t< also stated and thus concludes :
in the Introduction, which must affprd " Upon the whole, f agree with Mi.
in- Wakefield (although not by any means
■ much pleasure to the readers who
terest themselves in political arkhme- habitually * addiclus jurare in vcrla Cril-
lick. ■ On the whole, we, a re- of opi berti'),' that " reomjo,, when it stands a-
nion that it may be fairlyMecommafid- lone, with the article, invariably signifies,
ed to the- notice of the PohIMt, "as a i.in e.the
the
New Testament, the Evil one,
Devil:"—and, on this ground,
work which contains a cfcpious' fund 1 really think your very able and most ac
of typographical information, com ceptable " Remarks on the Two last Pe
pressed into a concise form aod'.withm titions of the Lord's Prayer" may be ex
nioderateTimiis, to suit every purcha tended and corroborated ; and the only
ser, and as such having the fairest objection which has occurred to your owu
ctatm to their patronage. mind may be fully re "noved." . .
U*. 4
1807.J Review ofNmPttbfoatkm.~lndexlBdi<ttm\m.it4S
148. A Sermon, preached in the Pari/h, Master and Fellows of Caius college,
Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, before
the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Cambridge, of which he had been a
the Worjhipjul the Aldermen, and the member, has prepared an entertain
Common Council, of the City of Lorn- ment (quoad Extents) for Foreigners,
don, 11 January, 1807, being the Day as well as for the Classical Scholars of
this Country: thus displaying his own
appointed for admiiijlering the Holy taste, and offering a high compliment
Communion to the Members of the Cor
poration. By the Rev. Philip Dodd, to the Rural Bard.
As. A. Chaplain to the Right Honourable
the Lord Mayor. 153. A new Spanish and English Gram
WE have here, from Lukexxii. 19, mar, in Two Parts. By Thomas Plan-
stated the obligation 10 commemorate quais, Grammarian, Teacher ofthe Spa
the death of Christ at the holy table, nish, Italian, and French Languages.
the benefits annexed to the worthy "THE First Part of this work contains
performance of this duly, and the pre all the different Spanish words abstracted
paration to be made by those who ly, with their nine divisions, or parts of
would perform it worthily. Each is speech.; each division explained and in
urged cogently and comprehensibly. flected according to all the various me
thods proper to the Spanish tongue. The
Second Part treats entirely of the Spanish
149. Concio apud Synodum Cantuarien- Syntax, or the construction into sentences
sem, Æde Paulina habita in Kal. Julii, of the nine divisions of words displayed in
I807. A Bowyer Edvardo Sparke, the First Part. In order to make this as
S.T.P. Decano Bristeliensi. clear as possible, and to prevent the stu
FROM the words of our Lord, dent from falling into errors, the Author
checking the hasty resentment of his has given, under each part of speech, a
Disciples, Luke ix. 55, the Dean takes series of entertaining extracts from the
occasion to characterize the spirit of best Spanish Authors; and has pointed
Christianity, to define Toleration, and out by Italic letters, in the appropriate
to commend the principles of the Es part of each sentence, the modes of con
tablishment. struction peculiar to the part of speech
which th»y are intended to illustrate. By
150. An affectionate Address to the Pa- this method the student will fee, at one
■rijliioners of Blackburn, on the Institu view, the syntactical rules for each part of
tion and Observance of the Sabbath : speech, and be consequently enabled, in a
pvblijked for the Benefit of the Sunday short time, to understand and imitate all
Schools in Blackburn. By Themas the various peculiarities of construction,
Starkie, M.A. Vicar of Blackburn, and and the selection of words, which consti
late Fellow of St. John's College, Cam- tute the elegance and beauty of the Casti-
. bridge. lian language. By uniting the utile with
THIS "Address" to the Inhabitants the ditlci, the Author hopes he has acs-
of "a Parish which is so extensive and complished the object he had in view,
populous that a small part only of its and has in some degree contributed to
Inhabitants can be benefited by a Dis promote the knowledge of the Spanish
course from the Pulpit, or by personal language among British students. He
conference with their Parochial Minis therefore leaves it to the candid and im
ter," comes with much propriety, at partial criticism of a liberal and learned
an easy price, from the preli ; and is Nation, among whom he has for these
well calculated to answer the good fifteen years had the honour to reside."
purpose for which it was written. INDEX INDICATORIUS.
A CoNTEMN-ATiVE
151. Agricola Puer, Poema Roberti Bloom- Which is the most heinous Observkr asks.
field celeberrimum; in Peifus Latinos crime, Wilful Perjury, by a consummateand direful
1 redditum. Autore Gulielmo Clubbe, Villain, which affects reputation, proper
LL. B. ty, and even life itself; or Pilferyof Black
THE Rural Poem of "The Far or White Lace, by a Milliner's Shop-wo
mer's Boy" (vol. LXX. p. J 18 1) has man, comparatively of rather inconsidera
been universally admired ; and Suffolk ble value, although highly indefensible;
is proud of Robert Bloomfield, its au yet the latter is deemed a capital offence,
thor. Mr. Clubbe, vicar of Brandef- whereas the former is not, according to
ton, in Suffolk, has, wiih great luccel?, the existing Laws ?
endeavoured — to - deck
----- out
r.V this
j ,-votinga Pbilalethf.s
'»i*«»raiis will »m .find,
.nnq his
nts wonderful
wonderful
Poet in a splendid Virgilian dress; and Norfolk Prophecy in the Works of Dr.
by a Latin version, dedicated to the Johnson.
Gens. Mas. D.cemler, 180?. Mr
8
1 146 Selett Poetry, for December, 1807.
Mr. Ubban, Prefcot, Nov. 16. The crimson'd decks are cumber'd witrl
THE following lines were written on •the dead ;
the Anniversary of the ever-memora Immortal Heroes welter in their blood <
ble 21st ef October, by one who has lost And belching scuppers tinge the redd'nrng
a limb in the service of his Country. As flood; [heads,
his education has been very limited, he Th' astounded billows hide their hoary
hopes they will not be looked upon with Antl fink confounded to their wat'ry beds.
tin eye of criticism ; but will feel happy, Th' indignant Foes still strive in vain
should you deem them worthy a place in The arduous contest to maintain ;
your Magazine. But shrink at last, unable to withstand
A Peiifioner ofthe Chejlat Greenwich. The pow'rful prowess ofthe valiant band.
WITH solemn accents still let Britons Firmly rcfolv'd that Death, or dearhless
mourn Fame, [name.
In strains of grief this awful day's return : With laurels new (hall grace their Leader's
Let distant lands remember still with woe Rouz'dby the noise of their terrific thunder,
How oft they felt the mighty Conqueror's Amaz'd the Gods look down with wonder,
blow ; And from their radiant feats with joy be*
And, humbled, let them now deplore hold
Armadas—their proud boast—no more, The valiant feats of Britons bold ; 1
Compell'd, irresolute, to meet And Victory, to crown her Hero's toil,
Britain's brave unconquer'd fleet, With mien exulting casts a fav'ring smile ;
And near thy tow'ring rocks, O Trafalgar, But Fate was summon'd by almighty Jove
With dauntless heroes wage unequal war. To call she godlike Chief to realms above.
But O. alas ! their Widows long shall tell And, far from all tumultuous wars, •
With tears ofwoe, and Orphans weep To place him high amid celestial Stars ;
Their Fathers buried in the deep : And tor his valour with renown
For, ah ! what face can wear a smile, Reward him, and a bright eternal crown.
From Copenhagen round to Nile, "Ah! shall he die, the glorious Chief 1"
The day when Nelson fell * she said ; [be obey'd.**
Long had th' illustrious Chief in vain *' But Jove commands,, antl Jove must
Pursued their flying squadrons o'er the High on Olympus' top she took her stand,
Main; [fly, Thrice rais'd, and thrice ss.e figh'd, and
But, when he saw their haughty banners dropp'd her hand. [threw.
What beams of glory darted from his eye! At length th' unerring ball slie trembling
Each warlike bosem caught th' heroic fire, And blushing into tenfold darkness flew.
And Valour's deeds their noble fouls in The wounded Hero felt the mortal shock.
spire ; [know And Ocean trembled to bis firmest rock ;
With quicker bound each vessel seem'd to Astonish'd Neptune started from the deep.
The vengeance due that waited on the Foe! Beheld the cause, and heard each Briton
And, swifter than the driving winds, they weep ;
urge [surge ; His coral locks in furious rage he tore,
Their course impetuous o'er the briny And vengeance on the vanquish'd victims
By ev'rv swelling sail impell'd they fly, swore ; [shel 1 ,
And dash the foaming billows to the sky. Then bade each Triton sound his loudest
Well pleas'd the Hero fees his Line advance And rouse the slumb'ring Winds from ev'ry
Still nearer on the Fleets of Spain and cell.
France. [Tar Th' obedient Winds in awful tempests rife.
And now with vig'rous hand each hardy And waves contending lash the louring
Casts loose the pond'rous instruments of skies ;
war ; The foaming seas in wild commotion roar.
In silent expectation see him stand, And proudly tow'ring Navies link, to rife
With lighted match he waits the dread no more.
command, : Hail, glorious Chief! immortal Nelson,
When he upon the vaunting Foes sliall rain hail ! [wail !
The vengeance dire This day shall Britons long thy fate be-
Of British ire, While brightest laurels of unfading bloom
And crown a Nelson brave, the Conqueror ' Shall ever flourisli o'er thy sacred Tomb,
of the Main. Thy deeds, ciiToll'd in Fame's immortal,
"sis there ! ten thousand thunders roar page,
around, [bullets bound, Shall fire the Heroes of each future age.
Quick through .the shrouds the whizzing Who, animated by thy glorious name,
Convolving smoke emits the vivid flash, Shall still uphold thy weeping Country's
Masts bending creaking fall with hideous fame ; [laws.
crash ; [spread, Like thee support her freedom and her
Destruction, death, and carnage widely Aud bravely die or coriquer in her cause.
Thei»
Selefl Poetry, for December, 1807. 1 1 47
Then let the World united know Quas inter suos cognatorum vel sodali|Sn»
That Britain fears no proud insulting Foe; mortuas derleverit nullus ;
But bravely dares, and will her rights main Ilumani Generis defleveres
tain, [Main. qui norunt omnes.
For Britons rule, unconquer'd rule the Hominis scilicet omnino eft
muta animalia ut merentur
Mr. Urran, Dec. S. æstimare. . ."
fl^HE following Lines are inscribed on Et tu quoque, Vicarie ! . . .
I an urn, in the Gardens of the Bishop qui pofthac hanc scdem habiturus sis,
of• Durham, at Mongewell, in Oxford hæc nostrarum monumcnta lefpjce.'
shire : Et, si forte posteras inter canicular
To the Memory of my two highly-valued . tales inveneris
Friends, T. Tyrwhitt, Esq. * and the quales nos amisimus ;
Rev. C. M. Cracherode, M. A. f , vivas, ut nos, in deliciis habeas,, ..
mortuas, ut no's, rite sepelito,
IN this once favour'd walk, beneath these , .M. S.
elms, Memor Dbmina pristint-'amoris
Whose thicken'd foliage, to the solar ray has tabellas affigi
Impervious, casts a venerable gloom, vomit :
Oft in instructive converse we beguil'd lugubre volens inscrjpsit
The fervid time, which each returning Dominus."
year „
To Friendship's call devoted ! u Verses on the decay of the Tree, occasioned
Such things were, but are, by digging too near, and cuttvig through
Alas ! no more !
1800. , S. Dunelm. •"» too many osits Roots. .
POETS we hardly have..beliey'd,
INSCRIPTIONS When telling us how Trees have gtiev'd ;
lit the Vicarage Gardens of Brandeston, And yet the fact seems very clear
in Suffolk. In this, of late so healthy here.
Written by the present Incumbent. Since first poor Phyllis at its foot .
Under a, Silver Fir. Was laid, it never made a shoot ;
<■ IN the shade of this tree lies Pic, a The branches droop'd, the silver'd green
favourite little Terrier. After a life equal No longer on its leaves was sean.
ly divided between sleep in the house and " Alas!" said every ftander-by,,
play 'in this garden, she was buried in it, " How soon this beauteous tree will die '."
through the care of her Mistress, Aug. 7, When Pic the next beneath its sliade,
1805, aged 3 years. Another source of Tears^ was laid;
Frail Reader! as thou passest by ■ "i All Nature's efforts to sustain
Think on the death of Pic ; The second sorrow, were in vain :
Consider thou alike must die, Till, quite worn-out with grief, we view
Nor knowest thou how quick ; ... What Swift * hath sung of Ovid's yew.
How soon alike thy life so short Like his, oh never be its fate
May spend itself 'twixt sleep and sport. To mend the Parson's barn or gate !
Harmless in Brutes—this waste of time Dear future Vicar ! of my trees
In Human Beings is a crime : Fell any other when you please ;
Their business great, and short their day, But let .this Pine a proof remain
Forbids them long to sleep or play, That Poets do not always feign."
Demauding all their care and might
To finish it before 'tis night. " On a Dozen Sparrows taken out of the
The Moral of this thought pursue, Bam Thatch by Buys, and their heads
And live more careful than you do." fold to the Churchwarden at the Statute
Priceof Three Pence.
" In Phylliden. Epitaph.
AD latus Pic* jacet Phyllis, HERE in one grave twelve Sparrows lie,
in formis, moribus, vita atque morte Condemn'd for no offence ; >
par cum pari : But doom'd by cruel hands ta die
pari itidem ætate For lucre of three pence.
utraque e concubitu inequali gravida
parturiens deceffit : This fate of Sparrows whilst you read,
Lucina scilicet, præ invidia Reflect with grateful foul,
tantæ pulchritudinis incrementura nolens, How kindly Providence decreed,
opem non tulit. That you should be, an Owl."
• See vol. Em. pp. 717, 005. * See Swift's continuation and improve
f See vol. L>«X. pp. i)54, 434. ment of the original story.
SONNET,
1 148 Selett Poetry, for December, 1807.
SONNET, fy the taeEario/HARDWicKE; A lift of the guests 'tis quite needless to ■»•
to Mr. Charles Yorke, his Brother. give; [where they live.-r •
[From Parse's Royal and Noble Authors.'] To name their distinctions, or Towns
O CHARLES ! replete with Learn Suffice it to fay the assembly was grand,")
ing's various tore ; Though Catjlani the Nightingale! not (
Howe'er attentive to th' historic page, in the band. [can command ? C
The Poet's lay, or philosophic lore, For ten or twelve thousands what RatJ
Thy thoughts from these high studies Mean-while a sly Mouse with his Spol'a
disengage. (choice pair), [fair,
Let Horace reft, and Locke ; and quick re As soft as the ermine that wraps the cold
pair Commenc'd a shrill concert near a neigh
To Wrest, that antient honourable seat ! bouring cheese, [breeze.
In its wide garden breathe a purer air, And dane'd to the sound of the whistling;
And pass the fleeting hours in converse A Cat who had scent of both parties of
sweet. pleasure, [treasure !
And ey'd them alternate a sweet dainty
From this short respite shall thy mind re Sagaciously watch'd near their pilfering
new [cays) seats, [grefs retreats.
(Whose spirit by the midnight lamp de- And prowl'd round the mouths of their rev*
Her native strength its labours to pursue, The tragical sequel, too movingto paint :
And in thy bloom of age outstrip the Chill'd fancy might startle, soft feelings
praise. [review, mif l t faint, [sight,
Each studious vigil thou shall pleas'd 1 At the representation of the sanguinary
When honours crown ,thy well-spent When beaux, belles, and foplings, scream'd
early days. loud that gay night !
June 8, 174]. P. Y. Oh lovely Britannia! thou Queen of the
Isles ! {sore beguiles,
THE RATS, MICE, AND CAT ; Whom dangers surround whilst false plea-
A Fable. Beware of the Vermin that prey on thy
Addrejfed to Britannia. stores ; [shores !
•* 'T'HE Butterfly's ball, and the Grals- Nor forget that a Tiger now threatens thy
X hopper's feast," [taste ! Near the bunks ofStour, Nov. 9. A. C.
" The Peacock at home" of refin'd modern
Are a pair ofrich fancies *, so delicious and INSCRIPTION
nice, [Mice.
As to charm into song even Rats and shy Onthe a Monument, ereded by his Widow, to
late gallant Captain Coose, in
For they, like their betters, who sport in' j Donhead Church.
the air, [or care,
Or feast on the dunghill void of reason (Written by the Rev. W. L. BowLEi.)
Can dance round their circles, and taste " Sacred to the Memory of
princely fare. John Cooke, esq.
The_ scent of a feast, and the noise of a Fife, lam Captain of his Majesty's ship
Irresistibly strike on mere animal life. the Bellerophon ;
Frpm the fam'd Bright Pavilion to the ■who, in the battle of Trafalgar,
Vermin's dark cell, on the 21ft of October, 1805,
Ofrouts, balls, and feastings, all ranks now having evinced consummate skill
can tell ! and bravery,
A Rat, a bold Chieftain of Northern fell, at a moment,
extraction, [tion ; glorious indeed to his Country,
Who oft had regal'd to the Farmer's vexa- but marked by the individual tears
Fropos'd a grand Gala in garner just by, of all who knew him.
And call'd for his Squire—who was nib His inconsolable Widow places this tablet
bling a pie. [plan : to record his virtues and his fate,
The rout loon arrang'd on a novel gay near the spot of his favourite retirement,
In time (if nought else) 'twas to rival proud to which,
Man ! (haying left it at the call of his Country)
The dinner announe'd precisely at elev'n ; he returned no more !
The concert and ball to conclude about
seven. . ( ■ [Rats, " BE merciful to her, oh God, who bends,
The Orchestra as full as beobming fine And mourns the best of Husbands, Fathers,
Assisted (with skill) by gay airy young Bats. Friends 1 . [shed
The Owl too, sweet Pallas,', might just Oh ! when she wakes at midnight, "but to
warblea note [remote. Fresh tears of anguish on her lonely bed,
As he pass'd from the Abbey to a Ruin Thinking on Him who is not ; then restrain
Her bitter thoughts, and her fad hearts
, . *'Scevol.LX.XVI.10j3;LXXVlI.70l,S46. sustain.
Father
Seled Poetry, for December, 1807. Ir4$7
Father ofMercies, she remembers still 'Tis thou haft repell'd desolation and woe,
Thy ebast'ningtiitnd, and to thy lbv'reign And the conquering legions of I'rance.
will [eye Tis good to exult in the strength of the
Bows silent, but not hopeless, while her land,
She raises to a bright Futurity, That the flow'r of her youth are in arms;
Affuf'd in better worlds Thou wilt restore That her lightning is pointed, her jav'lin
That happiness she here can know no in hand,
more !" And arous'd the rough spirit that warm«;
THE LITTLE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER. But ns'er may that day of horror be
fFounded on Fa&.) known, [lhall feel
WAS a keen frosty morn, and the When these hills and these valleys
snow heavy felling, • [calling : The rush of the phalanx by phalanx o'er-
When a Child of Misfortune was thus sadly thrown,
" Sweep, sweep.—I am cold ! and the And the bound of the thundering wheel.
snow very deep, [Sweep ! The dread chance of battle, iis blood and
O pray take companion on poof little its roar,
Sweep chimney, sweep." Who can wish in his fenses to prove ;
The tears down his cheeks in large drops To plant the foul fiend on Britannia's own
were fast rolling, [strolling ; shore
Unnotic'd, unpity'd, by those by him AU sacred to peace and to love ?
Who frequently warn'd him at distance to Hail—glory of Albion ! ye fleets and ye
keep, [little Sweep 1 hosts !
Whilehecry'd—"Takecompaffion on poor 1 breathe not the tones of dismay :
Sweep chimney, sweep." In valour unqueslion'd, (till cover your
In vain he implor'd passing strangers for coasts,
pity, [his Uitty : But may Heav'n keep the slaughter away.
This smil'd at his plaints, and that banter'd Thou Gem of the Ocean, that smil'st in
Humanity's offspring as yet lay asleep, thy power, [Haves ;
Nor heard the fad wailings of poor little May thy sons prove too strong to be
Sweep 1 Yet let them not scorn in thedatk-fatedhour
" Sweep chimney, sweep." To exult in their rampart of waves.
At the step of a door, half- froze and de The nations have trembled—have cowet'd
jected, [and neglected ; in the dust, [long,
He sat down, and griev'd to be shunn'd Even the Alps heard the Conqueror's
When a kind-hearted damsel, by chance When the Genius of Gaul, with unquench
saw him weep, [little Sweep ! able thirst,
And resolv'd to befriend, yes, the poor Push'd her eagles resistless along !
" Sweep chimney, sweep." And still they advance, and the nation*
Unmindful of sneers, to a neighbour's she must bleed ;
led him, [fed him : Then sing, O my country, for joy ;
Warm'd his limbs by the fire, and tenderly Thy girdle of Ocean, by Heav'n was de»
And, oh, what delight did this fair mai creed [stroy.
den reap, [little Sweep! To protect what the sword weuld de-
When she found a lost brother, in poor
" Sweep chimney, sweep." THE PEBBLE.
With rapture she gaz'd on each black WALKING on the sandy beach,
Lowly laid within my reach
sooty feature, [ling creature; A Pebble caught my eye ;
And hugg'd to her bosom the foul-smel- Clinging to its native bed,
Whe, sav'd by a sister, no longer need Quick I rais'd its crusted head,
creep, [little Sweep ! And safely put it by ;
Through lanes, courts, and alleys, a poor
" Sweep chimney, sweep." Little did the captive know
What it was to undergo
TQ THE BRITISH CHANNEL. Before it rose to note ;
By R. Bloommeld. How the lapidary's wheel,
ROLL, roll thy white waves, and, cn- Fraught with instruments of steel.
velop'd in foam, Must strip it of its coat ;
Pour thy tides round the echoing shore; All its cuts and grindings past,
Thou guard of Old England,—my country, Polifh'd bright and smooth" at laft,
my home ! In dazzling lustre dress'd j
And my soul shall rejoice in the roar ! See it paid for all its pains,
Though high-fronted valour may scowl at Delia views its beauteous v rim,
the Foe, And clasps it t» her breast '. ft. W.
And with eyes of defiance advance,
i j 50 Dr. Moseley on a recent. Case os Hydrophobia. [Dec.
*»'* We doubt not that the following desired Mrs. Metcalfe to go with me into
Account of a recent case of.Hydrophobia, another room. I did this that I might
from the pen of the experienced and not alarm her son, by questions necessary
learned Dr. Moseley, will be accep for further information. Neither Mrs.
table to our readers. Metcalfe nor her son had the slightest sus
The cafe is drawn up in a masterly picion of the cause, or the nature of this
manner : the feelings of the benevolent dreadful calamity.
writer are not concealed in his forcible I aiked Mrs. Metcalfe whether her son
and distressing recital : nor will our readers, had been lately bitten by any dog ? The
we believe, remain without a deep and very question so much alarmed her, that
interesting impression. It is remarkable she was for a few minutes in a state of
1 hat this is the first clear, distinct, and per distraction. When (he was able to speak,
fect account of Hydrophobia which has slie exclaimed, with a loud shriek, that
ever been published from the. time of he had been bitten in the hand by a dog .
Aristotle, who first noticed it, to the in the summer. As soon as she became
present day. Conjecture, theory, and calm and composed, we returned to
fabulous stories are so intermixed, and her son.
the true characteristics of the disease so On interrogating him, he informed me,
imperfectly described, that we are led to that in the beginning of July last, there
conclude that most of the accounts we were two dogs fighting desperately in the
have hitherto had, have been given by street opposite his mother's house ; and
people who never saw the disease. he observing one of them had one of his
Chelsea Hospitals Monday evening, eyes torn out, and the other dog likely to
Nov. n, iso;. kill him, endeavoured to part them ; but
This afternoon, at three o'clock, Mrs. on taking hold of the dog he wished to
Metcalfe, No.23,-Compton-Street, brought rescue from the fury of the other, he re
her son, Mr. Frederic Michael Metcalfe, ceived a bite from him on his right hand.
to me for advice, at my house in Albany, Two of the dog's teeth penetrated the out-
Piccadilly. tide of the hand, but the palm of the
He informed me, that he was attacked hand was considerably wounded. This
about four o'clock yesterday morning with wound was drefled with Friar's balsam,
a difficulty in swallowing any liquid, and poulticed, and was cured in a week
which he first perceived when he at or ten days.
tempted to drink tome porter, the remains I examined his hand. There was a
of half a pint, which he had on the pre small degree of redness remaining, but no
ceding evening. He said, when he put heat or pain where the wound had been
the pot to his mouth, something rose in in the palm of his hand, and no vestige
his throat, and choaked him. He swal whatever on the outside, where the teeth
lowed, as he thought, about a tea-spoon- had been. There was nothing observable
full, and then was seized with a trembling, in hrs throat, differing from its natural
and cramp in his arms and legs, and a state ; nor any increase of saliva. Pulse
sensation of pricking, as if pins, or needles, 88, rather feeble, and not quite regular.
were run into his flesh. His appetite He had no thirst. He told me his choak
failed him on Saturday last. Yesterday ing seemed to him as arilihg from wind ;
he ate a small piece of mutton, which and that he always discharged a great
made him lick at his stomach. He has deal from his throat whenever he at
eaten nothing this day ; though he said tempted to swallow. He said he took
he could swallow any thing, except it some dill-seed water last night, and
were in a liquid form ; but has no delire thought it relieved him; but never could
for food. He slid he was attacked 011 get down more than a tea-spoonfull at a
Thursday last with a violent pain in his time, and that with great difficulty. In.
Tight arm, from his shoulder to the ends one attempt to swallow some of this water,
of his fingers. This pain left him on Sa he was so choaked and convulsed, that he
turday night. He rubbed the arm with would have fallen into the fire, his mother
hartshorn and oil, and wrapped it up with told me, if she had not saved him. I
flannel, on Saturday. gave him seme Water in a pint pot twice ;
Mrs. Metcalfe informed me, that ori his each time he swallowed about a tea-fp6er»
seeing any liquid poured out for him to ful), and both times was choaked and
drink, evenbefore he fakes hold of the convulsed, with a wild staring in his eyesj
pot or cup, he begins to tremble, and and a trembling ali over him; and im
tht: choaking seizes 1 him. She said, in mediately after the effort of swallowing,
attempting to drink, he becomes con he made a hideous noise. The second
vulsed, his eyes look glassy, and he Dares time J 'gave him the water, I was much
in an unusual and frightful manner. alarmed; I thought it would have occa
The case thus clearly demonstrated, 1 sioned a fatal convulsion. It is impossible
to
1 807.] Case of Hydrophobia.— London Gazettes. 1151
to describe a sound ; and I can compare the about him. His voice ard speech had
noise he made, which was from repeated suffered no alteration. He was in the
spasmodic contractions of the organs of eighteenth year of his age; a very fine
respiration, to nothing but to that sort of youth in mind, as well as in person. His
stifled barking which dogs sometimes humanity here was his misfortune. With
make, when disturbed in their sleep ; or what grief did I fee him depart from Al
to the hoarse short barking of a drover's bany with his poor mother,, knowing, as
dog. When he took the pot in his hand,' I did, that he had but a few hours to
he fell Into a tremor, held down his head, live ! I visited him at eight o'clock in the
and was in great distress ; he kept the pot evening. Pulse 110, and very feeble. I
in his hand a few seconds before he could gave him some water. In attempting tt*
summon courage to lift it to his mouth ; drink, the usual consequences—choaking,
after which I took it from him, as from wildness in the eyes, and the noise in the
his agony he could not hold it. He bore throat, followed. The pills operated
the fight of the water in the pot, while it about nine o'clock, several times. About
was in my hand, when it was not oftered ten o'clock he became so violently con
him to drink ; but when I brought a large vulsed, that four young men, his brothers,
bason filled with water, and put it before could scarcely keep him in his bed ; but
his eyes, he seemed frightened ; and when he made no attempt to bite any person.
I agitated the water near him, he was He began also to foam at the'mouth, with,
instantly attacked with what he called white froth. The quantity of this froth
" the wind rising in his throat," trembling, was so great, as to require many towels
and that hoarse faucial noise before-men and handkerchiefs, in wiping it from his
tioned. He entreated me not to order any mouth. At this period he likewise be
medicine for him in a liquid form, as he came delirious at intervals, but at times
said he could not take it ; and the at in his perfect fenses; and complained,
tempt, he was certain, would kill him. though in a very warm room, of being
He laid he could swallow any solid sub cold, and begged to be kept warm. In
stance. I put this to the proof ; and, as this condition he continued until one
he had been costive for several days, I gave o'clock on the following morning, when,
him four aperient pills, which he swal from his violent convulsive exertions and
lowed one at a time, but with some dif struggling, he was entirely exhausted, and
ficulty. He had now been with me three remained calm and quiet afterwards.
quarters of an hour, when he and Mrs. He expired at a quarter before two, is
Metcalfe left Albany, with the best ad weeks from the time of the accident ; 46
vice I could give, and walked back to hours from the commencement of the
Compton-street. From his appearance hydrophobia; and ten hours after I first
and conversation, no person would have saw him.
thought there was any indisposition Benjamin Moself.v.
INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.
Admiralty-office, Nov. 21. This Gazette (who fell a sacrifice to his temerity by en
contains accounts of the following cap deavouring to escape when within pistol-
tures : — the French schooner privateer shot). She is a remarkable fine vessel, on a
Friedland, of 2 guns and 41 men, by the new construction, copper-fastened, well ap
Swallow sloop, Capt. A. Milner ; the pointed, and her first cruise, ten days from
French privateer L'Amiral Dacres, of 14 St. Maloes, and had taken two vessels *.
long 6-pounders and 76 men, by the Suri Francis Stanffll.
nam sloop, Capt. J. Lake ; and L'Actif This Gazette also contains six Orders
French privarcer, commissioned for 8 guns in Council, constituting part of the new
but had only 2 on board, and 32 men, by Commercial System, disclosed in the Or
the Carrier cutter, Lieut. W. Milne. ders of the 11th instant, (see p. 10 ), as
a measure of retaliation against the French
Admiralty-office, Nov. 28. Addressed Blockading Decree. The four first are
to Adm. Young. mere matters of regulation and detail,
Scorpion, at Sea, lat. 19 deg. 27 min. N. growing out of the original Orders. The
long. 9 deg. 30 min. W. Nov. 21. first ofthem regulates thtrespective periods
Sir, Having disguised his Majesty's sloop at which the original Orders (hall be en
Scorpion, under my command, towards forced. The Jth and fith are in, favour of
the close of day, I have the satisfaction of Prussia, Lubec, and Portugal ; and de
informing you I succeeded in decoying clare that all ships and goods belonging to
under our guns, and eventually capturing,
■at ten p. m. La Glaneule French keich •Ship Alfred, from Newfoundland to
privateer, of sixteen guns, and eighty Poole ; and a Portuguese schooner, de
men, Louis Joicph Guiniih, commander, tained by the Alarm privateer. 1
these
1 1 5a Interesting Intelligencefrom the London Gazettes. [Dec.
these States, which have been anil are now for Havre dc Grace, and the lugger stood
detained in the Ports of this kingdom, or E. by S. when 1 instantly gave chace to
elsewhere, shall be restored, upon being her, and, after a run «f six hours, we
pronounced, by the High Court of Admi"- came up with her, and found her u* be
jalty, or by the Court of Vice-admiralty L'Adolphe French privateer, Monf. Ni
in which proceedings may have been com cholas Famcnter, commander, eight days
menced, to belong to subjects or inhabi from Boulogne. She is a remarkably fine
tants of Portugal, Prussia, or Lubec, and vessel, is entirely new, fails uncommonly
not otherwise liable to confiscation. This well, and mounts ten 18-pound car-
indulgence to these Powers is expreffly ronades, four long 4-pounders, two a-
stated to have been granted " in consider pounders, and two swivels; had 70
ation of the circumstances under which men on-board when she sailed, but hac
Portugal, Pruflia, and Lubec, have been now only 25 ; the others having been sent
compelled to (hut their ports against the away in prizes she has captured.
sliips and goods of his Majesty's subjects." I am, &c. Rob. Honymaw.
Admiralty-office, Dec. 3. Letter from Admiralty-office, Dec. 15. Letter from
Capt. Stanfell, of the Scarpion sloop, to Capt. Heywood, of the Astrea, to Hori.
Adm. Young, dated Dec. 3. W. W. Pole, dated Dec. 14.
Sir.Availing myself of information gained Sir, I have to acquaint you of the capture
by the capture of La Glaneuse, relative to of the French lugger privateer Providence,
the celebrated ketch privateer out of St. mounting 14 guns and 52 men, by his
Maloes, it is with infinite satisfaction I Majesty's ship Astrea, under my com
inform you, I fell in with her, and, after mand, who was joined in the chace by his
a chafe of twelve hours, captured Le Gla- Majesty's brig Royalist. E.Heywood.
neur, of 10 guns and sio men, M. Jacquel
Fabre, commander, fix days from Brest. Dec. It). This Gazette contains the
She has been repeatedly chased, and es Proclamation of his Majesty for prorogu
caped by superiority of sailing, and is well ing the Parliament to the 21st day of Janu
known at Lloyd's to have done more mis ary. It also contains a letter from Capt.
chief than all the privateers out of St. Ma- Palmer, of the Alacrity sloop, to Vice-
locs, having run two years with uninter admiral Russel, announcing the capture,
rupted luck. I beg to subjoin the names on the 14th inst, of the French privateer
of two vessels taken by her. cutter Friedland, from Dunkirk, of 18
1 am, &c. Fuancis Stanfell, guns and 42 men.
Horatio-brig, David Mill, Master, from
London to Mogadore. La Gloria, Portu " Lonbon Gazette Exthaobdinary.
guese ship, from Oporto to London. Declaration.
The. Declaration issued at St. Peterfburgh,
Admiralty-office, Dec. 5. This Gazette by his Majesty the Emperor of all the
announces the capture of Le Magicien Russias, has excited in his Majesty's mind
French lugger privateer, pierced for 14 the strongest sensations us astonishment
-guns, but only 2 on-board, and 44 men, and regret. His Majesty w as not unaware
by H. M. S. Fortunee, Capt. Vamittart. of the nature of those secret engagements
It. also contains three Orders in Council : which had been imposed upon Russia in
One, dated Nov. 23, is for the purpose of the conferences of Tilsit. But his Majesty
continuing the prohibition against the ex had entertained the hope, that a review
portation, or carrying coastwise, of gun of the transactions of that unfortunate
powder, salt-perre, or any sort of arms or negotiation, and a just estimate of its ef
ammunition. The second, dated the 18th, fects upon the glory of the Ruffian name,
is to authorise the continuance of the and upon the interests of the Russian Em
bounties forlhe encouragement of seamen pire, would have induced his Imperial
and laodrnen »o enter into the navy. The Majesty to extricate himself from the em-
third is to permit, for four months, the barraflfnent of those new Counsels and
importation of hides, horns, tallow, wool, Connections which he had adopted in a
&c in any foreign ships. moment of despondency and alarm, and
to return to a policy more congenial to
Admiralty^ office, Dec. 12. Letter from the principles which he has so invariably
Capt. Honyman, to Adm. Montagu, &c. professed, and more conducive to the
Leda, Dec. 4. honour of his crown, and to the prosperity
Sir, At eight this morning, Cape de of his dominions.—This hope has dictated
Caux bearingS. S. W. distance four leagues, to his Majesty the utmost foibearance and
we discerned a lugger and a brig standing moderation in all his diplomatic inter
for the French coast ; and) conceiving the course with the Court of St. Petersburgh
lugger to be a privateer with her prize, 1 since the Peace ofTilsit. His Majesty had
stood towards them, when the. brig ran. much, caufe for suspicion, «isd just ground
1807.} His Majesty s Declaration against Russia. 11 53
of complaint. But he abstained from war with the Porte is stdl more singularly
the language of reproach. His Majesty chosen to illustrate the charge against
deemed itnecessary torequirefpecific expla Great Britain of indifference to the interests
nation with respect to those arrangements of her Ally ; a war undertaken by Great
with France, the concealment of which Britain at the instigation ot Russia, and
from his Majesty could not but confirm solely for the purpose of maintaining Rus
the impreflion already received of their sian interests against the influence of
character and tendency. But his Majesty, France. If, however, the Peace of Tilsit
nevertheless, directed the demand of that is indeed to be considered as the conse
explanation to be made, not only without quence and the punissiment of the im
asperity or the indication of any hostile puted inactivity of Great Britain, his Ma
disposition, but with that considerate re jesty cannot but regret, that ihe Emperor
gard to the feelings and situation of the of Russia should have resorted to so preci
Emperor of Ruslia, which resulted from pitate and fatal a measure, at the moment
the recollection of former friendship, and when he had received distinct assurances
from confidence interrupted but not de that his Majesty was making the most
stroyed. The Declaration of the Emperor strenuous exertions to fulfil the wishes
of Russia proves that the object of his Ma and expectations of his Ally (assurances
jesty's forbearance and moderation has which his Imperial Majesty received and
not been attained. It proves, unhappily, acknowledged with apparent confidence
that the influence of that power, which and satisfaction), and when his Majesty
is equally and essentially the enemy both was, in fact, prepared to employ, for the
of Great Britain and Russia, has acquired advancement of the common objects of
a decided ascendancy in the Counsels of the war, those forces which, after the
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg ; and has Peace of Tilsit, he was under the ne
been able to excite a causeless enmity be cessity of employing to disconcert a com
tween two nations, whose long-established bination directed against his own imme
connexion and whose mutual' interests diate interests and security.—The vexation
prescribed the most intimate union and co of Russian commerce by Great Britain is,
operation.—His Majesty deeply laments in truth, little more than an imaginary
the extension of the calamities of war. grievance. Upon a diligent examination ,
But called upon, as he is, to defend him made by his Majesty's command, of the
self against an act of unprovoked hostility, records of the British Court of Admiralty,
his Majesty is anxious to refute, in the there has been discovered only a solitary
face of the world, the pretexts by which instance, in the course of the present war,
that act is attempted to be justified.—The of the condemnation of a vessel really
Declaration asserts that his Majesty the Russian : a vessel which had carried naval
Emperor of Russia has twice taken up arms stores to a port of the common enemy.
in a cause, in which the interest of Great There are but few instances of Russian
Britain was more direct than his own ; and vessels detained ; and none in which jus
founds upon this aslertion the charge tice has been refused to a party regularly
against Great Britain of having neglected complaining of such detention. It is',
to second and support the military opera therefore, matter of surprize as well as of
tions of Russia.—His Majesty willingly concern to his Majesty, that the Emperor
doesjustice to the motives which' original of Russia should have condescended to"
ly engaged Russia in the great struggle bring forward a complaint which, as it
against France. His Majesty avows with cannot be seriously felt by those in whose
equal readiness the interest which Great behalf it is urged, might appear to be in
Britain has uniformly taken in the fates tended to countenance thole exaggerated
and fortunes of the Powers of the Conti declamations, by whicli France perseve
nent. But it would surely be difficult to ring!)' endeavours to inflame the jealous/
prove that Great Britain, who was herself of other countries, and to justify her own'
in a 'state of hostility with Prussia, when inveterate animosity against Great Britain.
the war broke out between Prussia and The Peace of Tilsit was followed by art
France, had an interest and a duty more offer of mediation, on the part of the Em
direct in espousing the Prussian quarrel, peror of Russia, for the conclusion of *
than the Emperor of Russia, the ally of Peace between Great Britain and France j>
his Prussian Majesty, the protector of the which it is asserted that his Majesty re.
North of Europe, and the Guarantee of fased.—His Majesty did not refuse the
the Germanic Constitution.—'It is not in a mediation of the Emperor of Ruslia s al
public Declaration that his Majesty can though the offer or it w** accompanied'
discuss the jtolicy of having at any parti- by circumstances of concealment, which,
oular period of the war effected, or omitted might well have justified his refusal. Thet
to effect, disembarkations of troo,RS on the articles of the Treaty of Tilsit were not
coasts of Naples. But the instance of the communicated te his Majesty ; and spe
GujtT. Mac. Pecemtir, i»«7. cifically
1 1 54 Hh Majcstss Declaration agtinstlknffia. [_Dee-..
cifically that Article of the Treaty in vir death, individuals, subjects of.his Prussian
tue of which the mediation was proposed, Majesty, and resident in his dominions,,
and which prescribed a limited time for upon a charge of disrespect towards the
the return of his Majesty's answer to that French Government ;—it is not while all
proposal. And his Majesty was thus led these things are done and suffered, under'
into an apparent compliance with a limi the eyes of the Emperor of Russia, and
tation so offensive to the dignity of an In without his interference on behalf of his
dependent Sovereign. But the answer so- Ally, that his Majesty can feel himself
returned by his Majesty was not a refusal. called upon to account to Europe, for'
It . was. a conditional acceptance. The having hesitated to repose an unconditional
conditions required by his Majesty were: confidence in the efficacy of his Imperial
a statement of the basis upon which the Majesty's mediation. Nor, even if th;t
enemy was disposed to treat ; and a com mediation had taken full effect, isa peace
munication of the articles of the Peace of had been concluded under it, and that
Tjlfit. The first of these conditions was peace guaranteed by his Imperial Majesty,
precisely the same which the Emperor of could his Majesty have placed implicit re
Russia had himself annexed not four liance on the stability of any such ar
months before to his own acceptance of rangement, after having seen the Emperor
the proffered mediation of the Emperor of of Russia openly transfer to France the so
Austria. The second was one which his vereignty "sf the Ionian Republick, the in
Majesty would have had a right to require, dependence of which his Imperial Majesty
even as the Ally of his Imperial Majesty ; had recently and solemnly guaranteed.
but which it would have been highly im But white the alledged rejection of the
provident to omit, when he was invited Emperor of Russia's mediation between
to confide to his Imperial Majesty the cure Great Britain and Fiance is stated as a
of his honour and of his interests. But, just ground of his Imperial Majesty's re
even if these conditions (neither of which sentment ; his Majesty's request of that
has been fulfilled, although the fulfilment mediation, for the re-eltabfifhment of
of them has been repeatedly required by peace between Great Britain and Den
his Majesty's Ambassador at St. Peters mark, is represented as an insult which
burg,) had. not been in themselves per- , it was beyond the bounds of his Imperial
fe£tly natural and necessary ; there were Majesty's moderation toendure. His Ma
not wanting considerations which might jesty feels himself under no obligation to.
have warranted his Majesty in endeavour offer any atonement or apology to the Em
ing, with more than ordinary anxiety,, to peror of Russia for the Expedition against
ascertain the views and intentions of the Copenhagen. It is not for those who
Emperor o,f Russia, and the precise nature were parties to the secret arrangements of
and effect of the new relations which his Tilsit, to demand satisfaction for a mea
Imperial Majesty had contracted. —The ■ sure to which those arrangements gave
complete abandonment of the interests of , rife, and by which one of the objects of
the King of Prussia (who had twice re them has been happily defeated. Ills
jected proposals of separate peace, from a Majesty's justification of the Expedition
strict adherence to his engagements with against Copenhagen is before' the world.
his Imperial Ally), and the character of The declaration of the Emperor of Ruliia
tiiose provisions which the Erhperor of would supply whatever was wanting in it,
Rjjssia was contented to make for his own if any thing could be wanting to convince
interests in the Negotiations of Tilsit, pte- the most incredulous of the urgency of
ser^ted ik> encouraging prospect of the re that necessity nnder which his Majesty-
sult of any exertions which his Imperial acted. But, until the Russian Declaration
Majesty might be disposed to employ in was publislied, 1" is Majesty had no reason
favour of Great Britain. It is not, while to suspect that any opinions which the
aj. French army still occupies and lays Emperor of Russia might entertain of the
waste the remaining dominions of the transactions at Copenhagen could be such
King of Prussia, in spite of the stipulations, as to preclude his Imperial Majasty from
of {he Prussian. Treaty* of Tilsit; while undertaking, at the request of Great Bri
contributions are arbitrarily.exacted by tain, that lame office of Mediator, which
France from that remnant of the Prussian he had assumed with so much alacrity on
Monarchy, such as, in its entire and most the behalf of France. Nor can his Ma
fjourishirig state, the Prussian Monarchy jesty forget that the first symptoms of re
would have been unable to discharge ; viving confidence, since the peace of Til
lyhile the surrender is demanded, in time sit, the only prospect of success in the en
of peace, of Prussian fortresses, which had deavours of his Majesty's Ambassador to
got been reduced during the war; and restore the .antient good understanding
while .the power of France is exefeifed between Great Britain and Russia, appeared
over Prussia with such ssiarneless tyranny, when tBe intelligence of the siege ol Co
»s to..designate, and demand for instant penhagen . had been recently received at
St.
1807.] His Majesty's Declai •alum against Russia. 1 155
Sr. Fcterfburg:. The inviolability of the present anxiety for the completion of such
Baltic Sea, and the reciprocal guarantees an arrangement, with his Imperial Ma
of the powers that 'border upon it, guaran jesty's recent refusal to contribute his good
tees said to fsave been contracted with the offices for effecting it. The requisition of
knowledge of the British Government, are his Imperial Majesty for the immediate
stated as aggravations of his Majesty's pro conclusion, by his Majesty, of a peace
ceedings in the Baltic. It cannot be in with France, is as extraordinary in the
tended to represent his Majesty as having substance, as it is offensive in the manner.'
at any time acquiesced in the principles His Majesty has at no time declined to
upon which the inviolability of the Baltic treat with France, when France has pro
is maintained : however his Majesty may, fessed k willingness to treat on all admis
at particular periods, have forborne, for sible basis. And the Emperor of Russia
special reasons, influencing his conduct at cannot fail to remember that the last ne
the time, to act in contradiction to them. gotiation between Great Britain and France
Such forbearance never could have applied was broken off, upon points immediately
but to a state of peace and real neutrality affecting, not his Majesty's own interests,
in the North ; and his Majesty most as but those of his Imperial Ally. But his
suredly could not be expected to recur to Majesty neither understands, nor will he
it, after France has been suffered to estab admit, the pretension of the Emperor of
lish herself in undisputed Sovereignty along Russia to dictate the time or the mide of
the whole coast of the Baltic Sea, from his Majesty's pacific negotiations with
Dantzig to Lubeck. But the higher the other Powers. It never will be endured
value which the Emperor of Russia places by his Majesty that any Government shall
an the engagements respecting the tran indemnify itself for the humiliation of
quillity of the Baltic, which he describes subserviency to France, by the adoption
himself as inheriting from his immediate of an insulting and peremptory tone to
predecessors, the Empress Catharine and wards Great Britain. His Majesty pro-'
the EmpcronPaul, the less justly can his claims afiew those principles of maritime
Imperial Majesty resent the appeal made law, against which the aimed neutrality,
to'him by his Majesty as the guarantee of under the auspices of ttie Empress Catha
the peace to be concluded between Great rine, was originally directed ; and against
Britain and Denmark. In making that which the present hostilities of Russia are
appeal, with the utmost confidence and denounced. Those principles have been
sincerity, his Majesty neither intended, recognised and acted upon in the best pe
nor can he imagine that he offered, any riods of the history, of Edrope ; and ncted '
insult to the Emperor of Russia. Nor can upon by no power with more strictness and
his Majesty conceive that, in proposing to severity than by Russia herself in thcTcign
the Prince Royal terms of peace, such as of the Empress Catharine. Those prin
the most successful war on the part of ciples it is the right and the duty of his
Denmark could hardly have been expected Majesty to maintain ; aud against every
to extort from Great Britain, his Majesty confederacy his Majesty is determined,
tendered himself liable to the imputation, under the bletling of Divine Providence,'
either of exasperating the resentment, or to maintain them. They have at all times
of outraging the dignity, of Denmark, contributed essentially to the support of
His Majesty has thus replied to all the the maritime power of Great Britain ; but
different accusations by which the Ruffian they are become incalculably more valua
Government labours to justify 'he rupture ble and important at a period when'Mhe
of a connexion which has subsisted forages, maritime power cf Great Britain consti
with reciprocal advantuge to Great Britain tutes the sole remaining bulwark against
and Russia, and attempts to disguise the she overwhelming usurpations of France;
operation of that external influence by the only refuge to which other nations
which Russia is driven Into unjust hostili may yet resort, in happier times, for as
ties for interests not her own. The Ruffian sistance and protection. When the op
Declaration proceeds'to announce the seve portunity for peace between Great Britain
ral conditions on which alone these hoslili- and Russia shall arrive, his Majesty will
tiescan be terminated,and the intercourse of embrace it with eagerness. The arrange
the two countries renewed.—His Majesty ments 0/ such a negotiation will not be
has already had occasion to assert, that difficult or complicated. His Majesty, as
justice has in no instance been denied to lie has nothing to concede, so *.e has no
the claims of his Imperial Majesty's sub thing to require : satisfied, if Russia sliall
jects. The termination of the war with manifest a disposition to return to her an-
Denmark has been so anxiously fought by tient feelings of friendship towards Great
his Majesty, that it cannot be necessary Britain ; to a just consideration of her own
for his Majesty to renew any professions true interests ; and to a fense of her own
upon that subject. - But his Majesty is at dignity as an independent nation.
a Iqss to reconcile the Emperor of Russia's fPeilrpin/ttT, Dec. 18, 160". "'"
■ w rrwe
n$6 Interesting Intelligence fron1 the London Gazettes. [Dec.
[The Declaration is followed by an Or your instructions, I had uniformly conti
der in Council, dated the 18th inst, au nued to support, even under appearances
thorizing general Reprisals against the of the most discouraging nature. I had
ships, goods, and subjects of the Emperor frequently and distinctly stated to. the Ca
of Russia, except such vessels as have re binet of Lisbon, that, in agreeing not to
ceived his Majesty's licence to be released rei:nt the exclusion of British commerce
from the embargo.] from the ports of Portugal, his Majesty
Second Gazette Extraordinary. had exhausted the means of forbearance ;
Admiralty-office, Dec. 19. Capt. Yeo, that, in making that concession te the pe
of his Majesty's stoop Constance, arrived culiar circumstances of the Prince Re
this afternoon at this office, with dis gent's situation, his Majesty had done all
patches from Rear-Admiral Sir William that friendship, and the remembrance of
Sidney Smith, dated 6th December, stat antient alliance, could justly require ; but
ing that the Prince Regent of Portugal, that a single step beyond the line of modi
with the whole of !he Royal Family, con- fied hostility, thus most reluctantly con
fisting of fifteen persons, had emigrated sented to, must necessarily lead to the ex
for the Brazils, with seven fail of the line, tremity of actual war. The Prince Re
fivefiigates, three armed brigs, and up gent, however, suffered himself for a mo
wards of thirty Brazil merchant-vessels. ment to forget that, in the present state of
The Portuguese fleet is attended- by his Europe, no country could be permitted to
Majesty's ships Marlborough, London, be an enemy to England with impunity ;
Monarch, and Bedford, under the com and that, however much his Majesty
mand of Capt. Moore. One Portuguese might "be disposed to make allowance for
line of battle ship is on its way to Ply the deficiency of the means possessed by-
mouth. Only one serviceable Portuguese Portugal of resistance to the power of
line of battle ship and three hulks had France, neither his own dignity, nor the
been left in the Tagus. Eight Ruffian interests of his people, would permit his
line of battle lhips remained in the Ta Majesty to accept that excuse for a com
gus, only three of which were in a con pliance with the full extent of her un
dition for lea. Rear-Adm. Sir Sidney principled demands. On the 8th inst, his
Smith has resumed the blockade of the Royal Highness was induced to sign an
port of Lisbon with five sail of the line, order for the detention of the few British,
and will probably by this time have been subjects, and of the inconsiderable portion
jaineH'by an additional squadron of line of British property, wheh yet remained at
of battle ships. LordStrangford, his Ma Lilbon. On the publication of thisorcler,
jesty's Minister to the Court of Lisbon, is I caused the arms of England to be re
arrived in the Constance. moved from the gates of my residence,
demanded my passports, presented a final
London Gazette Extraordinary, remonstrance against the recent conduct
December 22. of the Court of Lisbon, and proceeded to
Foreign-office, Dec. 19. The following the squadron commanded by Sir Sidney
dispatch has been this day received from Smith, which arrived off the coast of Por
lord Strangford, his Majesty's Minister. tugal some days after I had received my
Plenipotentiary at the Court of Lisbon. passports, and w hich I joined on the 17 th
Hibernia, off the Tagtts, Nov. 29, inst; I immediately suggested to Sir S.
Sir, I have the honour of announcing Smith the expediency of establishing the
to you, that the Prince Regent of Portugal most rigorous blockade at the mouth of
has effected the wife and magnanimous the Tagus ; and 1 had the high satisfaction
purpose of retiring from a kingdom which of afterwards finding, that I had thus an
he could no longer retain, except as the ticipated the intentions of his Majesty ;
vassal of France ; and tt}at his Royal your dispatches (which I received by"the
Highness and family, accompanied by messenger Silvester on the 23d) directing
most of his ships of war, and by a mufr me to authorize that measure, in case the
titude of his faithful subjects and adher Portuguese Government sliould pass the
Tents, have this day departed from Lisbon, bounds which his Majesty had thought fit
and are now on their way to. the Brazils, to set to his forbearance, and attempt to
Under the escort of a British fleet. This take any farther step injurious to the ho
grand and memorable event is not to be nour or interests of Great Britain. Those
attributed! only to the sudden alarm ex dispatches were drawn up under the idea
cited by the appearance of a Trench army that I was still resident at Lilbon ; and
within the frontiers of Portugal : it has though I did not receive them until I had
teen the genuine result of the system of actually taken my departure from that
persevering confidence and moderation Court, still, upon a careful consideration
adopted by his Majesty towards that of the tenor of your instructions, I thought
country ; for the ultimate success, of that it would be right to act as if that cafe
which 1 had in a, manner rendered myself had not occurred. I resolved, therefore,
.responsible ; and which, in obedience jto to proceed forthwith to ascertain the effect
produced
1807.] Interesting Intelligencefrom the London Gazettes. 1157
produced by the blockade of Lisbon, and companied by Sir Sidney Smith, whom I
to propose to the Portuguese Government, presented to the Prince, and who was re
as the only condition upon which that ceived by his Royal Highness with the
blockade could cease, the alternative, most marked and gracious condescension.
stated by you, cither of surrendering the I have the honour to inclose lists of the
fleet to his Majesty, ot of immediately ships of war which were known to have
employing it to remove the Prince Re left Lisbon this morning, and which were
gent and hi' family to the Brazils. 1 took in sight a tew hours ago. There remain
upon myself this responsibility in renew at Lilbon four ships of the line, End the
ing negotiations after my public functions fame number of frigates, but only one of
had actually ceased, convinced that, al each fort is serviceable. I have thought ic
though it was the fixed determination of expedient to lose no time in Communica
his Majesty not to suffer the fleet of Por ting to his Majesty's Government the im
tugal to fall into the possession of the portant intelligence contained in this dis
enemy, still hi» Majesty's first object con patch. I have therefore to apologize for
tinued to be the application of that fleet to the hasty and imperfect manner in which,
the original purpose, of saving the Royal it is written. Strancfokp.
Family of Braganza ftom the tyranny of Admiralty-office, Dec. 21. The fol
France. I accordingly requested an au lowing were received by Capt. Yeo, of the
dience of the Prince Regent, together Confiance, from SirS. Smith.'
with due assurances of protection and se Hibernia, 22 leugucs If'.oftheTagiis, Dec. 1 .
curity ; and, upon receiving his Royal Sir, In a former dispatch, dated the
Highnefs's answer, I proceeded to Lisbon 22d November, with a postscript of the
on the 27th, in his Majesty's (hip Con- 26th, I conveyed to you, for the informa
fiance, bearing a flag of truce. 1 ha~d im tion of my Lords Commissioners of the
mediately most interesting communica Admiralty, the proofs, contained in va
tions with the Court of Lisbon, the parti rious documents, of the Portuguese Go
culars of which shall be fully detailed in a vernment being so much influenced by
future dispatch. It suffices to mention in terror of the French arms, as to have
this place, that the Prince Regent wisely acquiesced to certain demands of France,
directed all his apprehensions to a French operating against Great Britain. The dis
army, and all his hopes to an English tribution of the Portuguese force was v/nte
fleet; that he received the most explicit wholly on the coast, while the lann side
assurances from me, that his Majesty was left totally unguarded. British sub
would generously overlook those a6ts of jects of all descriptions were detained ^
unwilling and momentary hostility to and it therefore became necessary to in
which his Royal Highnefs's consent had form the Portuguese Government, that the
been extorted ; and that I promised to his case had arisen which required, in obe
Royal Highness, on the faith of my Sove dience to my instructions, that I should
reign, that the Britisli squadron before the declare the Tagus in a state of blockade j
Tagus should be employed to protect his and Lord Strangford agreeing withme that
retreat from Lisbon, and his voyage to the hostility mould be met by hostility, the
Braails. A Decree was published yester blockade was instituted, and the instruc
day, in which the Prince Regent an tions We had received were acted upon to
nounced his intention of retiring to the their full extent ; still, however, bearing
city of Rio de Janeiro until the conclusion in recollection the first objedt adopted by
of a general peace, and of appointing a his Majesty's Government of opening a
Regency to transa6t the Administration of refuge for the head of the Portuguese (icA
Government at Lisbon during his Royal vernment, menaced as it was by the pow»
Highnefs's absence from Europe. This erful arm and baneful influence of the
morning the Portuguese fleet left the enemy, I thought it my duty to adopt
Tagus; I had the honour to accompany the means open to us, of endeavouring ta
the Prince in his passage over the Bar. induce the Prince Regent of Portugal to
The fleet consisted of eight fail of the line, reconsider his decision " to unite himself
four large frigates, several armed brigs, With the Continent of Europe," and to re
sloops, and corvettes, and a number of collect, that he had possessions on. that of
Brazil ships, amounting, I believe, to America affording an ample balance sot
about 3si fail in all. They passed through any sacrifice he might make here,^*id
the British squadron, and his Majesty's from which he would be cut oft by the
ships fired a salute of i\ guns, which was nature of maritime warfare, the termina
returned with an equal number. A more tion of which could not be dictated by the
interesting spectacle than that afforded by combination of the Continental Powers oC
the junction of the two fleets has been Europe1. In this view, Lord Strangforl;
rarely beheld. On quitting the Prince having received an acquiescence to the
Regent's ship, I repaired on-board of the proposition which had been made by os,
Hibernia, but returned immediately, ac /or his Lordship *o land and confet wit*
1158 Interesting Intelligence fnim the London Gazettes. [Dec.
the Prince Regent under the guarantee of in that ship. I hert; inclose the list of
a flag of truce, I furnished his Lordship thole left behind. The absence of bu\:
with that conveyance and security, in one of the four ships is regretted by the
order that he might give to the Prince Portuguese (the Vasco de Gama) she being
that conluk:nce which his word of honour under repair: her guns have been em
as Ihe King's Minister plenipotentiary, ployed to arm'the Freitas, 64, a new ship,
united with that of a Eri'.ish Admiral, and one of those which came out with the
could not fail to inspire towards inducing Prince. The other tkree are mere hulks ;
his Royal Highness to throw himself and and there is also one ship on the stocks,
his fleet into the arms of Great Britain, in the Principe Regente, but (he is only in
perfect reliance on the King's overlooking frame. The Prince said every thing that
a forced act of apparent hostility against the most cordial feelings of gratitude to
his flag and fubje6ts, and establishing his wards, and confidence in, his Majesty
Royal Highnefs's Government in his ultra and the Britisli Nation might be supposed
marine poii'eir.ons, as originally promised, to dictate. I have by fignai, for we have
i have now the heartfelt satisfaction of an no other mode of communicating in this
nouncing to you, that our hopes and ex weather, directed Captain Moore in the
pectations havebeen realized to the utmost Marlborough, with the London, Mo--*
extent. On the morning of the 2.0th the narch, ana Bedford, to stay by the body
Portuguese fleet (as lwlist annexed) came of the Portuguese fleet, and render it
out of the Tagus with his Royal Highness every assistance. I keep in the Hibernia,
the Prince of Brazil and the whole of the close to the Prince's ship. I cannot as yet
Royal Family of Braganza on-hoanl, to send the Foudroyant, Plan'tagenet, and
gether with many of his faithful" Coun Conqueror, on to Admiral Purvis, accord
sellors and adherents, as well as other ing to their Lordship's order of the 14th,
persons attached to his present fortunes. which, I trust, will be the less sett as an
This fleet of eight fail of the line, four inconvenience off Cadiz, as they appear to
frigates, two bsigs, and one schooner, have been ordered thither, with reference
with a crowd of large armed merchant- to the Rusiians being within the Straits,
ships, arranger! itself under the protection before it was known they were on my
8^ that of his Majesty; while the firing of station. " W. Sidney Smith.
a reciprocal salute of 21 guns announced Lift of the Portuguese' Ships that remained
the friendly meeting of those who but the in Vision.
day before were on terms of hostility ; the S. Sebastiao, of fj'4 guns, unserviceable
scene impressing every beholder (except without a thorough repair. Maria Prima,
the French army on the hills) with the 7.4, unserviceable, ordered to be made into
most lively emotions of gratitude to Pro a floating battery, but not yet fitted. Vas
vidence, that there yet existed a power in co de Gama, 74, under repair and nearly
the world able, as well as willing, to pro ready. Princffa de Beira, sir, condemned;
tect the oppressed. I am yours, <£c. ordereil to be fitted outasafloating battery.
W. Sidney Smith. Frigates : Phœnix, of 44 guns, in need
Lift os the Portuguese Fleet thtrt came out of thoiough repair. Amazona, 44, in need
os the Tagus, Nov. 2(). of ditto. Perola, 44, in need of ditto,
Principe Real, 84 guns ; Rainha de Tritao, 40, past repair. Veney, 30, past
Portugal, 74; Conde lieniique, 74 ; Me- repair. W. Sidney Smith.
duza, 74 ; Alfonzo de Albiquerque, 0+ ; fin another Letter, dated Dec. 6, Sir
I). Joao de Castro, (14 ; Principe de Bra Sidney states, that he succeeded in collect
zil", 7*; Martino de Freitas, 04.—Fri ing the whole of the Portuguese fleet, ex
gates ; Minerva, 44 guns ; Golsinho, 36 ; cept a brig, after the gale, and that the
Uriana, 32; and one other, name as yet weather was such as to allow the neces
Unknown. — Brigs: Voador, 22 gains.; sary repairs, and such distribution 'of su
Yinganea, 20; Lebru, 22. — Schooner „• pernumeraries and resources to be made,
Curioza, 12 guns. as to enable Vice-Admiral Don Manuel
J. J. M. Tonnes, Major General. d'A. Sottomaycr to report all the ships
W. Sidney Smith. capable of performing the voyage to Rio
^lihcniia, 22 leagues 11'. ofthe Tagus, Dec. 1 . Janeiro, except one line of battle ship,
* ■j?fr« *n another dispatch of this .day's which he requested might be conducted to
da[e, I have transmitted a list of the Por an English port. The Diana, merchant-
tuguese. fleet that came out of the Tagus vessel, having on-board about sixty British
pa the 2Qth ultimo, which I received that subjects, who had been detained in con
•day from the hands of the Admiral com sequence of the embargo, came out of the
manding it, when I .went on-board the Tagus in company with the Portuguese
Principe Reale, to pay my visit of respect fleet ; and it is fuppesed that flie bore up
Siiyf congratulation to His Royal Highness for England at the commencement of the
fiie P)>ince of, Brazil, who wasembaiked gale.J
tit* ?• •'• ' J BECLARA>
[ "59 1
DECLARATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. (See p. 1152.]
TH E greater value theEmpcror attached changing wisdom had obtained in the cir
to the friendship of his Britannic Majesty, cle of Monarchies a moral dignity, teas
the greater was his regret at perceiving itselfassaulted and treated as if it had been
that that Monarch altogether separated forging plots, and meditating the ruin of
himself from him.—Twice has the Empe England ; and all to justify its prompt
ror taken up arms, in which his cause and total spoliation.
was most directly that of England ; and he - The Emperor, wounded in his dignity,
solicited in vain from England a co-opera in the interests of his people, in his engage
tion which her interest required. He did ments with the Courts of the North, by
not demand that her troops should be uni this act of violence committed in the Bal
ted with his ; he desired only that they tic, which is an enclosed sea, whose tran
should effect a diversion. He was asto quillity had been for a long period, and
nished that in her cause she did not act in with the privity of the Cabinet of St.
union with him; but,coolly contemplating James's, the subject of reciprocal guaran
a bloody spectacle, in a war which had tee, did not dissemble his resentment
been kindled at her will, slie sent troops against England, and announced to her
to attack Buenos Ayres. One part of her that he could not remain insensible to it.—
armies, which appeared dettined to make His Majesty did not foresee that when En
a division in Italy, quitted at length Sicily gland, having employed her force success
where it was assembled. There was rea fully, was about to bear away her prey,
son to believe that this was done to make she would commit a new outrage against
in attack upon the coasts of Naples, when Denmark, and that his Majesty was to>
it was understood that it was occupied in share in it. New proposals were made,
attempting to seize and appropriate to it each more insidious than the foregoing,
self Egypt. But what sensibly touched which were to connect with the British
the heart of his Imperial Majesty was, to power Denmark subjected, disgraced,
perceive that England, contrary to her and affecting to applaud what had been
good faith and the express and precise wrought against her.—The Emperor still
terms ofTreaties, troubled at sea the com less foresaw that it would be proposed to
merce of his subjects. And at what an him that lie should guarantee this submis
epoch !—when the blood of Russians was sion, and that he should pledge himself
shedding in the most glorious warfares ; that this act of violence should have np
which drew down, and fixed against the unpleasant consequences to England.. Her
:mnies of his Imperial Majesty, all the Ambassador believed that it was possible
military force of his Majesty the Emperor to propose to his Majesty's Ministry, that
of the French, with whom England was, his Majesty should become the apologise
and is now, at war. and the, protector of what he had so loudly
When the two Emperors made peace, blamed. To this proceeding of the Cabi
his Majesty, in spite of his just resentments net of St. James's, the Emperor paid no
against England, did not refrain from ren other attention than it deserved. He
dering her service. His Majesty stipulated, thought it time to put limits to his mode
even in the very Treaty, that he would be ration.
come mediator between her and France ; The Prince Royal of Denmark, endowed
and, finally, he offered his mediation to the with a character full of energy and noble»
King of Great Britain. His Majesty an ness, and possessing from Providence a
nounced to the King, that it was with a dignity equal to his high rank, had in
view to obtain for him honourable condi formed the Emperor, that justly incensed
tions. But the British Ministry, appa at what had taken place at Copenhagen,
rently faithful to that plan which was to he had not ratified the Convention, and
loosen and break the bonds which had considered it as of no effect.—At this mo
connected Russia and England, rejected ment he has just communicated to his
the mediation.—The peace between Russia Imperial Majesty new proposals which
and France was to prepare a general peace. have been made to him, which serve only
Then it was that England suddenly quitted to inflame his resistance instead of appeal
thar apparent letha.rgy to which she had ing it ; because they tend to impress upon
abandoned herself ; but it was to cast upon his actions the leal of degradation, the
the North of Europe new firebrands, impression of which they have never borne.
which were to enkindle and nourish the The Emperor, touched with the "confi
flames of war, which she did not wish to dence which the Prince Royal placed in
see extinguislied. Her sleets and her troops him, and having considered his own pe
appeared upon the coasts of Denmatk, to culiar complaints against England ; having
execute iher; an act of violence cs which maturely examined, too, the engagements
history, so fertile in examples, does not which he had entered into with the
furnish a single parallel. A tranquil and Powers of the North-—engagements formed
moderate Tower, which by long and un by the Empress Catharine, and by hisJate
Majesty
n 60 Russian Declaration.— Foreign Occurrences. [Dec.
Majesty the Emperor, both of glorious engages, there shall be no re-establishment
memory — has resolved to fulfil them.' of conarj'rd between Russia and England,
Uts Imperial Majesty, therefore, breaks till satisfaction shall have been given to
oft' all communication with England : he Denmark.'
recalls the whole of the Million which he ' The Entperor expects that his Britannic
has lent thither ; and no loiijjer chooses to Majesty, instead of suffering his Ministers,
keep with him that of-his klritannic Ma- ■ as he does, to scatter the feeds of fresh
tosty. There shall from henceforth be no war, listening only to his own. feelings,
connexion between the two countries.— will •be disposed to conclude I'uch treaty
'The Emperor declares, that he annuls, with his Majesty the Emperor of France,
and forever, every preceding Convention as shall prolong (to use the expression) in
between England and Russia, and parti terminably (a loute la terwe), the invalua
cularly that entered info in 1801, the 5th ' ble blessings of peace.—When the Empe
(17th) of the month of June.;—He pro ror shall be satisfied upon all the preceding
claims anew the principles of the Armed points, and especially upon that of peace
Neutrality, that monument of the wisdom between France and England, without
of the Empress Catharine, aud engages' Which no part of Europe can promise itself
never to recede from that system.—lie real tranquillity, his Imperial Majesty
demands of England complete satisfaction will then gladly resume with Great Britain
to all his subjects, for their just reclama those relations of amity, which, under the
tions of vessels and merchandize, detained j list discontent which he could not but
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FOR THE YEAR 1808.
Embellished with a beautiful Perspective View of PorE's House at Twickenham ;
and the remains of Finchale Priory, co. Durham.
Mr. Urban, Dec. x. plan must be obvious; and, independ
*"| "HE celebrated Villa <rf Mr. Pope, ently of this humane and judicious
X the curiosities of which you have provision, some recommendation of a
very satisfactorily described, vol. LXU. miserable fellow-creature, where it
pp. 725, 799 < and which your ani could with propriety be done, ought to
mated Correspondent the Architect in accompany his discharge, in order to
forms us, p. 928, has lately been de afford him the means of acquiring fur
molished ; will always be deemed of ther support J.
classical importance. In vol. LXI. pp. This is still more necessary as it re
C24, 988, you have quoted Mr. Iron spects the Female Sex, whose labour
side's brief description of the House ; is chiefly within doors, and with whom
and added the history of the beautiful character is the only passport of ad
Willow. These several particulars will mission into a family. To elucidate
he farther illustrated, by inserting the this subject by examples which I can
Plate accompanying this letter, which not but painfully recollect, and the
is copied, by permission, from Mr. more Ib when I know that means
Ironside's " History of Twickenham." might be applied to lessen vice and mi
A London Antiquary. sery, and to promote morals and hap
piness, I am induced to mention a cir
LETTERXLV1. ON PRISONS. cumstance .which recently led me to
" Facilis descensus Averni, visit Newgate. A young woman of
Sed revocaregradum, superas<(ue evadere decent family, who had heen charged
ad auras, with one of those smaller offences to
Hoc opus, hie labor eft*. Viro. which the Law subjects the delinquent
I WELL recollect a conversation I to transportation, had this sentence
once had with the celebrated How passed upon her. The prosecutrix, little
ard, that it was on visiting the Gaol expecting so severe a punishment, re?
at Bedford, he received those impressions . lented, and pleaded for a mitigation of
which excited his future inquiries into it : it was, however, in vain. Her
the Hate of Prisous in consequence friends, to whom I am still personally
of his appointment of high sheriff of unknown, requested by letter my in
the Countv in 1770, which officially terference in , her favour ; which oc
introduced him into an intimate know casioned this visit to Newgate, where
ledge of the management of this Pri the had been confined aoout three
son f. months. 1 found her neither depraved
prom the exertions of Howard, who by vice, nor vitiated by example. The
resided in the neighbourhood of Bed humane Newman, as well as the wor
ford, it might be premised, that the thy Head Turnkey, gave me the nwft
County Gaol would hence be con favourable relation of her moral be
ducted on a judicious plan, which is haviour during this period, which eh-
now confirmed by the testimony of couraged me to state this, fact, with other
Neilil ; who suggests, however, one im circumstances which I thought might
provement, the importance of which plead in mitigation of her sentence, in
claims particular attention ; ihat of an address to the Secretary of State.
•* a (mall sum of money given to each . Confinement in crowded rooms,
prisoner on his discharge, according with anxiety of mind, brought on a
10 the distance he is from his home or dangerous fever, for which my atten
his friends." dance was requested. In three rooms
The necessity of adopting such a on the female felon side, upwards of
* The descent into hell is easy, but to recall your steps, and re-afeend to the Upset
Ikies, forms the difficulty and the labour.
f See his excellent Introduction to the State of Prifbns, 4tq, 1777.
J See Prison Letters, particularly No. XXII. on this interesting subject.
Cent. Mag. Supplpneftl, 1807- , * gOO
1 1 86 Z)r. Lettsom on Prisons.—Bedford Gaol. {Supp.-
200 women were under confinement, stifle, nor time efface1, tlie salutary
on account of various degrees of cri counsel, is the belief of
minality, from flight misdemeanors J. C. Lettsom.
to atrocious vice and depravity ; Hut Bedford County GjoI. John Moore
not an individual was illustriously em Howard, Gaoler; liilary 1001. and
ployed. In pasting before Inch an af- for House of Corre6tion 90I. Fees, as
semblage of Females, molt of whom per Table. Removal of transports to
appeared to he from CO 1080 years ofage, Woolwich, St. each, and to Ports
lbme half naked, 1 could not avoid noti mouth the expence of conveyance.
cing iheir courteous behaviour during Garnish abotilhed. Chaplain, Rev.
my visits. In the passage, lined by them, Thomas Cave. Duty ; prayers and
some were occasionally (v ing, and others sermon on Sunday, and prayers on
titling oil the stone pavement ; but all Thursday ; salary 40l. Surgeon, Mr.
rose up on my entrance, aud respect Champion; salary 40l. for Debtors and
fully courtesied ; some, who surround Felons, and House of Correction. Al
ed the bed of the patient, paid great at lowance: Debtors, twoquartern loaves a
tention to her, and kindly administered week each ; Felons, two half-peck loaves
every aid in their power. After re a week each, which I weighed at my se
covery, this unfortunate female received veral visits, and found full weight.
a pardon ; and is.at present usefully and Number of Debtors 1801, August igth,
industriously employed, by means of 5 ; Felons 12; petty Offenders 4 : 1802,
a little opportune aid. I am the more January 26th, Debtors 4, Felons 6,
encouraged to introduce this recital, as petty Offenders 9: 1800, July I4th,
affording in some measure the evidence Debtors 1 1 , Felons 3, petty Offenders
of the remains of moral and humane <) : 1807, September 1st, 'Debtors 4-,
sentiment in these miserable women ; Felons 1, petty .Offenders 9.
and I doubt not but that with proper Remarks. This Gaol, first inhabit
attention and instruction most of them ed 17th June, 1801, is in a gotid
might be reformed, and restored again situation, just out of the town. The
to society. But, alas ! the proper in entrance to the Prison is the Turnkey's
struction was, perhaps, never afforded, Lodge, a handsome stone building,
and never will be, except punish with a sitting-room on one side, and on
ment and indiscriminate confinement the other a warm and cold hath, an>d
be called instruction ! Some may an oven to purify infected cloaths.
find their postage to New South Up-stairs is the Turnkey's sleeping-
Wales ! Some may be punished room, and a room where the County
with stripes, and then let loose cloathing is put on, and the prisoners'
upon the pnblick, without character, ticketed and hung up till discharged :
decent cloathing. ormoney '. Let me ask there is likewise, a reception-cell for the
the reader, how he imagines that these prisoner till he is examined as to
outcasts can procure a livelihood? Will his health previous to his admission
any individual housekeeper of character into the interior; and at ihe top is the
receive them under their roof? No ; flat roof, anrfplace of execution.
not one. What must be the result ? Afier passing through the Lodge, you
Either death by famine, or ruin by proceed through a small garden of 32
theft or prostitution ! Why do not the feet to the Keeper's house, which is in
publick awaken from apathy ? Humani the centre of the prison. On the ground
ty is characteristic in those above want ; floor is the Gaoler's parlour, kitchen,
but there wouldbe infinitely fewer oc and pantry 1 and behind them a place
casions of exercising it, were conver called the Hall, in which the Act for
sion more studied' than conviction and preservation of health, and clauses
punishment. against spirituous liquors, are conspicu
In the individual instance osthe Fe ously . painted on a board, and hun:»
male 1 have alluded to, I requested a tip ; and likewise weights and scales for
friend to accompany me to Newgate. Ihe use of the prison. Into this Hall,
Sutor; the worthy Head Turnkey, three lobbies, five feet wide, open; over
accommodated us with a private room the entrance-irate bf one is inscribed
to retire into. After a suitable pause, my in stone, " Men Felons and Con-
friend, in an affectionate address, con viils ;" the other, " Women Felons
veyed instruction in that impressive and Debtors;" and the third, " House
manner, as drew floods of penitential of Correction," Each lobby contains
tears; and that temptation will never two day-rooms, which, open into six
court
' iSoj.] Mr. Neild's Remarks on Bedford County Gaol. 1187
court-yards for the several classes, one and the whole prison well supplied with
day-room for men,the other lor women, waler. Transports haoe not kind's
with glazed windows, and fire-places, to allowance of 2 b. Cd. per week.
which coals are allowed the fix winter Bedford Town Gaol is situated near
mouths : they are fitted up with ben that for the Couniv ; Jama- Cufltcman,
ches and cupboards for provision ; and Gaoler,—be is Mace bearer ; salary,
cooking utensils and towels, &c. are none; fees, none. Surgeon, from the
provided by ihe considerate Magis town il warned. Allowance, a hali-
trates ; and in each lobby are four quartern loaf//?; (lav. llemarks : Theie
work-cells. Criminals are employed in is a houie lor the Keeper, and two
beating Itenip, and receive no part of court-yards ; one for men, the oilier
their earnings. Debtors sometimes get tor women, each 38 feet by 14. -V
employment from wiihout, and receive day-room with it lire-place opens into
all they earn. each conn, which has likewise iwo
Over the Hal! is a room the fame sleeping-cells, 10 lect by (i leet 4 inches,
size, in which County cloathing is de and eleven feel high In I lie crown of
posited; and there are three lobbies the the arch ; the wood bedstead is made to
lame as below ; two of ihcm « iih eight hold three persons, and in each loose
sleeping cells for Felons and House of straw and a blanket is allowed; over
Correction prisoners, and the third has the door of the lleepiug-cells there is
fix lleeping-rooms for poor Debtors, an iron-grated a|x;mirfc, 18 inches l>v
two of which are 13 feet by 8, and 10. A bushel of coals per week is al
four 10 feet by 8, with fire places lowed to both day-rooms, from Mi
and glazed windows, fitted up with chaelmas to Lady-day. No employ
' iron bedlieads, lacking boitoms, a straw ment. Neither ihe act for preservation
bed, a blanket, and a rug, gratis, at of health, nor the clauses against spiri
the County expence. There aie rooms tuous liquors, hung up. Prisoner* ill
for the belter accommodation ol ihole September 1 807, none.
who can pav, furnished by ihe Keeper My dear Friend,
at 2s. (id. per week a single bed ; or if The account of t his excellent Counrv
two fleep logelher 2*. each ; or if the Gaol will no doubt be very pleasing to
Debtor furnishes his own bedding and you ; but, as a small sum of money given
sheets, Is. lid. per week. On the se to each prisoner on discharge, accord
cond, orattic (lory, ihe Chapel is in the ing to the distance he is from home or
cenire, where prisoners are sealed in from his friends, might prevent neces
their respective classes, and all are re sity becoming imperious, and immedi
quired to attend divine service, unless ate recurrence to thole acis which
prevented by illness. Three lobbies, ihe brought him there ; I cannot but regret
seme as the others, open in to ihe Chapel; a total inattention Acre to ihis (in my
the first for Felons and Convicts, with opinion) most important article in
eighi Uee|«ng-cel!s, the lecond for House Prison polity.
of Correction prisoners, wiili eigbl lleep- I am, my dear Sir,
hig^cells, and the third has two store Yours truly, James Neild.
rooms, and two rooms wilh boarded . Bedford, id Sept. 1807.
floors, 14 feet 8 by 10 feet ti, and
S feet 8 inches high, wilh sire-pla YVestminster Abbey Church, and
ces and glased windows, set apart for Henry the Seventh's Chapel.
Infirmaries ; and at the top of the build Architectural Proceeoinos.
ing is an alarm-bell. (Continued from Vol. LXX.Vl.jp. 422J
Criminal prisoners have 32 sleeping- SINCE the notice, p. 821 , of my in
cells, g feet 4 inches by 0 feet (), and tention of going on with thele Pro
JO high, light, airy, and clean, silted up ceedings, and lhat they were then in
with iron bedsteads, liraw beds, two preparation, a Friend has hinted, that
blankets and a coverlit. Each cell has in my communications I must con
a double door, the outer iron-grated, duct myself with great " liberality," for
the inner wood. They are shaved, and it was determined on in a certain
have clean linen, every week. For quarter to " retain an able hand to
the different classes of prisoners there answer me."
are fix airv conrt-vards, the average What 1 understand from this kind
size S4 feet by 30, with open wood pa- insinuation is, that I mult be extremely
lilades about 17 feet distant from the tender in my strictures ; must be occa
-boundary wall ; a pump in every court, sionally dim-lighted, and incline, "as a
coin-
1 1 8 8 Architectural Proceedings'at Westminster Abbey. [Supp.
complaisant person (hould, more to Eastern part of the Choir, for the Semi*
the prevailing opinions of the day, than, nary youth. Hence their backs are
like a faithful Antiquary, guard the necessarily turned against the Altar or ■
liicred works of our Ancestors, by just Communion-table, and theClergv who
remonstrance to thole who would de there officiate. " Stri&ure," Class
stroy, or otherwise disfigure them. VIII.
«' Who's afraid f" Then, good Mr. II. Bringing on the iron railing round
Champion, who art lo be my oppo Henry's -Chapel, putting up warning
nent on this occasion, come forth ! placards, &c. " Praise," Class I.
——Come forth, I fay, whether thou Mem. The window ot Abbot Klip's *
art an Author by trade, or an Ar Chapel, otherwise Lumber-depot, still
chitect liiflicienily studied in our An continues boarded up, on account, it
tiquities by a two or three years' ap may be presumed, that the boys who
plication to the noble science. Art occasionally get over the said iron-
thou a Mercenary, or a Volunteer? railing, for the better aim in throwing
There is my gauntlet ! I am armed stones against the sacred stru6lure,
with the breast-plate of conviction ; I might not enter I slip's Chapel, and
adore our Antiquities : the spirits of sacrilegiously destroy, pilfer, or other-
my antient brethren inspire me, and I wile lay violent hands on, the precious
go fearless to the onset. Protection stuff therein stored up. »
of their precious relicks is my motto ; HI. Part of the range of the monas
and my cry is, " St. Peter" and Vic tic buildings in Dean's Yard destroyed
tory ! (1807) to erect on the site an extensive
First, let me state, that my long-re and cosily modern house. "Stricture,"
tained liberty of going into every part Class I. Mem. Recollect the fate of the
of this Church and Chapel was this modern houses (and builders) raised
summer put a stop to, and in no very near hand on the overthrow of build
creditable manner (not bordering upon ings erected for similar religious pur-
any thing like " liberality"), by the poles !
Clerk of the Works and his Labourers ; IV. The two Western Turrets of
and this in contempt of the Verv Re Henry's Chapel destroyed 1803 ; they
verend the Dean's kind Order, which I being, after a strict professional survey,
held in my hand bv way of passport declared utterly decayed, and unsafe to
on this occasion. However, wi'h some remain any longer in their stations.
inconvenience, I took the sketches This year (1807) from some extraor
which I directly needed, either by stand dinary caule (most difficult to accouut,
ing in the Cloisters, otherwise the Ten for), the stone that formed these Tur
nis-court for the exercise of the neigh rets, after lying four years among
bouring Seminary, the South Aile of rubbish on the South-side of the Cha
the Choir, the South Transept, other pel, has been discovered to be a mate
wise the thoroughfares of the Church, rial as sound and as perfect as from
for internal subjects; or by standing the quarry, and has actually been re-
in the open ways about Henry's squared and nled in re-buildiug the first
Chapel ; to go through a long preme buttress (to the West) on the South-
ditated series of studies from everv part fide of the Nave of the Church !
of the exterior of the divine eleva " Slrichtre," Class X. Mem. Little
tion ; and which, after ait attention care taken to prevent accidents in
of sour months, I happily accom hoisting up blocks of stone, Icaflold-
plished. I thought it best, for the sake poles, &c. to the South exterior of the
of unmolested application, to delay famous and interesting Jerusalem
communicating to the Dean the Chamber under the said buttress (ihe
above circumstances, until my speci elevation of this Chamber retains the
mens were completed. I then wrote ; antient decorations), even where our
was answered with the utmost conde Henry!V.expired !—The Dean'sGreen-
scension ; wrote a»ain, in order to ex house, adjoining, protected by a strong
plain ; was answered a second time, platform on this occasion !
and with the like affability : wrote once V. Order in force (hope my intelli
more, with further explanations : ' _ ■■ gence is unsounded) for cutting out the
No answer ! But to business. fine tracery to the windows of North
The First Architectural Proceeding Cloister ; tracery giving some of the
since my last memoranda has been
fetting up ranges of benches across the • Finisher of the West-end of the Church.
few
1807.] Archileclural Proceedings sl/ Westminster Abbey. 1189'
few remaining examples of this species someaccoiint raised on a Uight of steps.
fit Architecture of Henry III.'s reign. Till the Illip demolition as above, ilie
And why? Young gentlemen, in their fragments of this Font lay thrown in
pastime of ctamueiing about these a corner of this ("acred mound. It is
works, might probably, if any part useless now, no doubt, to enquire its.
gave wav, hurt themselves! " Stri'ilure," present fate.
Class XX. W ere it postible to give way to the
VI. In the two first divisions of the idea, that the intended repair aud relio-'
Nave, North and South, were two ration of Henry's Chapel would be os
Chapels wiih rich screens aiul door could be genuine, the removal of the
ways* : thev have always been con Western- Turrets, so often alluded to,
sidered as Architectural memorials of must soon banilli the pleasing confidera-
the Finisher os the West-end of the ,i lion. 1 may state on this head, that no
Church, the famous Abbot Itlip. The one but myself took any thing like a
first blow aimed at them appears to professional copy, necessary fur .1 resto-'
have been the setting up two Monu ration us these Turrets (others thinking
ments, Fast and North, on the South inch an observation useless) : the parti
Chapel, obliterating all (race of their cles are ail annihilated, aud there is an
embellishments. Of the North Chapel, end of this part of the businels.
Sir James Thornhill's monument hid A strong hint is abroad, and thrown
the East end; and another Monument out by the Abbey work-people, and
iti like manner strut out some part of the which, it must be confessed, is well
work on the South aspect, leaving visi calculated to make impressions onjbmt
ble a door-way, compartments, &c. people, that there has lately b»en found
and a basso-relievo of the Abbot's mo a complete (cries of ;•!' the *• Work
nogram, an eye and a flip ol a tree, and ing Drawings" made in the reign* of
a man (supposed to be the portrait of Hinry VII. and VIII. for the emir*
Illip himself) Hipping out of a tree, building of this Chri| el ; and that con
and pointing to his eye. From a con sequently either Mr. A. Mr. R. or Mr.
clusion made by a Committee of Taste, C. (myself) troubling themselves to
it was resolved that the gigantic Monu make faithful copies of the exterior, it
ments lately set up within the arches a waste of time, as these Original
of the third divisions (North and Drawings will do away all doubt as
South) should both he suddenly pulled to the capability of a just restoration,
down ; and one in a sort of piece-meal make ihe matter easy, and so up with,
shew to be hoisted up into the sill of scaffolds, and then to work !
a North window (that behind where I gave hut little credit to this kind of
it stood) ; and the other, in all its pro assurance, as 1 concluded it would be
digious proportions, to be set within next to an impossibility to have kept
Abbot lstip's North Chapel. Alter such an extraordinary treasure secret,
taking down the Monument near the when literary enquiry * has be' r, for
door-way of this Chapel, the intire 70 years past, constantly engaged to get
Screen on this part became visible ; light into subjects of this nature, but
when, taking a momeniary view (I Had without effect ; as the oldest Architec
scarce time lo complete a Ikeich of its tural Drawings of this sort, in being
design), every part was leveled with are a collection'.of Plans of Mansions
the pavement. Illip, is it thus thy me about the lime of James I.andCharles I.
mory is revered ? thy name, standing Fortune favouring me, 1 have been
foremost in the list of the constructors lucky enough to obtain a sigh' if these
of Henry's Chapel? Isthy abilities are very Tudordrawinas, these very friendly
so despised on this spot, what regard will rummaged-out assistants to the Mas
be bestowed on the Royal Repository ters of Art, who have hitherto, that
alluded to? •' Striclure," Class LI. 1 is to fay, since 1H03, been in a kind of
Mem. It is matter surely of some doubt and uncertainty how to begin, or
surprise, at least to me, to find that this set about their labour, much more how
Church is the only one I ever noted, 10 go on ; and (till much more, how to
that was destitute of a Font! Previous put a finish to this the crown of all
to the erection of Lord Chatham's mo their pursuits 1
nument in the "North Transept, there Well then ; whether these identi
was in existence an antient Font of cal drawings arc of Tudor or later
* See view in Dart's Westminster. * Anecdotes of Painting.
period*,
1 190 WestminsterAbbey.—*tbe Regnum of Antoninus. [Supp.
I'eriods, is not of much moment, as Magazine to strengthen my conjecture,
they merely consist of about 40 or 1 will briefly give nim my reasons for
50 out-lined quarto sketches, of quar agreeing with him in this particular.
ters of circles of Tudor groins and That ChichesteT was a Roman sta
Tudor internal windows. There are a tion, there cau be no doubt, from the
iew (light forms iu this way, from this prefix of Cilia to the Roman cajlrum ;
ottrHenry'sChupel, King's ColIegeCha- for, wherever this occurs in any town
pel, Cambridge, Reading Abbey, &c. of Britain, the most indubitable vestigia
without one external example. These are discovered of the Romans ; aud, in
attempts at drawing are Inch as we tee this instance, a striking proof has been
laid down on rraper, in the way of imi exemplified at Chicheller, where, in
tation, by school-boys, country masons, the year 1723, a Roman Inscription
and carpenters, and destitute of any was found, in digging a cellar under
reference to the detail of mould the comer-houie of St. Marti n's-lane,
ings, ornaments, or the necessary on the North-side. This Inscription,
geometric, rules, to evince how each very well known, aud now preserved
part is 10 be wrought, or professionally by the Duke <>f Richmond, is described
understood, in order to set the men in a letter of Roger Gale, elq. published
to work. I presume it will not be in the Itincrarium Curiqsum of Dr.
contradicted, that it is pretty generally Suikeley. This Inscription served to
known, the Working Drawings pre perpetuate the erection of a Temple
pared for the erection of an Edifice by to Neptune aud Minerva by Cogidub-
our Architects and Builders mult not nus, king of the Dobttui, and, as I
atone be scientifically made out, but think, of the Regni also ; who had
the variousdetails done at large ; that submitted to Claudius. Near the stone
is, the size of the work to be executed. Inscription were sound two foundation-
Now how Mind the " Original walls ; a sufficient evidence of the ruins
Drawings" for Henry Vll.'s Chapel in of a Temple to which the Inscription
the account? Will they bear Out our was affixed. Independent of a Tell'e-
professional friends I J. C. lated Pavement, with a Coin of Nero
(To be continued. J and Drusus Cæsar, there wants no far
ther evidence of a Roman (lation, if not
Mr. Urban, Dec. 6. a municipium, being placed at Chiches-
TH E Editor of lter Britanniarum of ter. I do not think the present walls
Antoninus with a new comment, are exactly on the Roman foundation ;
in his letter, page 1002 of your Maga nor does it appear to have been walled
zine for November, conceives the about in the time of the Romans, as no
Regnum of Antoninus to mean Chi- Roman bricks have been dilcovered ;
cheller; and he thinks his conjecture is and 1 believe many forcible reasons may
confirmed by Ravemins. This Geo be assigned to prove, that the Romans
grapher of the sixth century only men had no mural (lations until the very lower
tions the following (lations in the line ages of the Empire ; when Britain was
of this Iter : Calœba Atrebalum, Andere- assailed by the Northern pirates, and
Jia, Miba, Muluanlonis, Lemanis, Du- the Comes liltoris Saxonici was efia-
liris. If the first Ikie, which commences blissied by Constantine. Aggcres, or
in Cornwall, be marked by Moridu- ramparts of earth, foliated entrench
nuin, Bindogladia, Vindogladia, and ments, were sufficient (enable pods for
Venta Velgarum, Belgarum, to Ravi- a belligerent people in the course of
mago Regeutiuni, the Regtuim of Anto inland conquells, on their first inroads.
ninus, it certainly must be persaltum Be this as it may, it firikes me that
of the Geographer, that Chichester is Cogidubnus must have fixed his resi
fixed on as the Regnum. dence in the capital of his kingdom ;
Now, Mr. Urban, having had many and, if Chichester was that capital,
opportunities of visiting Chichefler, Chichester must have been the Regnum,
with a view of fixing the name os this the capital or municipium of the Regni.
itation> I have always considered this Stukeley, from a forced etymon of La-
City as the capital of the Regni ; aud V-int, the river at Chicheller, affixes the
I amparticularly gratified in finding, Muluanlonis of Ravennas to it ; which
that T. R. so eminently versed in the would have a colourable pretext, could
" antient geography of Britain, accords Medhurst claim the station of Miba.
•with my opinion. Flattering myself 1 also do confess that the number of
with the favour of his remarks in your miles, placing Regnum at Ringwood,
in
18.07.] Chichester.—Æw.W. Parry..—Sir N. Bacon ? i r g i
in Iter VII. os Antoninus, is completed ; Mr. Urban, Dec. 7.
but, as no Roman remains of conle- I HEAR much of sending tarnished
quence, either mural or foliated works, Books and Prints to London to be
coins, pavements, &c have been found boiled, where they are said to be re
at Ringwood, I have always con stored to their original freshness and
sidered the name as only favourable to beauty. Roiling in simple element
the conjecture, admitting the comple will not produce the effect, as I have
tion of the miles. myself experienced : some powerful
Lond'mium M. P. XCVI. auxiliary is wanting. If the secret be
Rcgnum (Ringwood) not wholly confined to the Trade for
Transantum (Southampton) xx. the purpose of private emolument, I
Venta Belgarum (Winchester) x. hope some of your intelligent Corre
Culeva Alrebalum (Farnham) xxii. spondents will, through the channel of
Ponies (Stanes) xxii. your useful Miscellany, favour us
Londinium (London) xxii. Country folk with a full account of
the process ; that we may boil our
XCVI. books at home, and avoid the heavy
charge of carriage. So shall lustre be
It is presumable three Roman Roads added to learning, and cleanliness to
entered at Chichester; one to Tran comfort ; the Circulatin" Libraries in
santum and Vcnta Belgarum; the se our large Manufacturing Towns under
cond to (laleva Alrehatum ; the third, go an annual purgation ; and we,
now called the Stone- street road, through the Subscribers, revel in the luxury of
the Wolds, to Dorking and London, clean sheets.
now easily traced, but which I have I have in my possession a small
reason to think was of a low date to the quarto book in a vellum cover, inti
former. Yours, &c. J. D. tuled, "An Historical Discourse os the
Uniformity of the Government of
England,"' dated 1G47, and dedicated
Near the lanks of to the Speakers of the Houses of Lords
Mr. Urban, Slour, Nov. Q. and Commons, bv Nathaniel Bacon.
REV. Wm. Parry, p. 502, died at I have consulted all the books of Bio
Shipston upon Stour, and was bu graphy at hand, and find only one
ried in the Chancel of that Church. I person bearing the name. S r Na
wasdirected to the sacred spot bv a person thaniel Bacon, a son of the Lord
who perfectly recollects the time and Keeper, and he only famous for paint
place of his interment. The grave is ing a Cook-maid in oil-colours, which
partly within the communion-rails, is laid to be preserved at Gorhambury(
and covered with common bricki, but as a specimen of his excellence in the
" Not a stone art. If this Sir Nathaniel Bacon had.
Tells wl^ere he lies." been an Historian as well as a Painter,
I have been also favoured with a surely it would have been so recorded
transcript from the Register, which I of him. 1 wish to be informed by any
will copy for the satisfaction of your of your numerous Correspondents,
enquirer, as it leaves no doubt respect whether mv book was written by Sir
ing the place where Mr. Parry's mor Nathaniel Bacon the Painter; or whe
tal remains are deposited. It is ex ther any other person of the lame name,
actly as follows : but of different quality, wrote about
" A D. 1756. that time. Yours, &c. P. W.
" Sept. The Rev. William Parry,
B. D. 30 years rector of Shipston and Tid- Mr. Urban, Fitvray-fttett, Dec. 14.
min^ton, died universally lamented, as he IF you think the following extraor
lived beloved, on the 1 4th, and was buried dinary fact worth inserting in vour
on the 16th instant." valuable work, it may convince some
What is become of his Index, &c. of the Readers of it of the Fecundity
no one can inform me ; but I have of 'he Hare.
heard of a Volume of exquisite pen On the 1st of October last, being
manship on vellum by the Rev. Mr. shooting at Breflingham in Norfolk, my
Parry, formerly Fellow of Jesus Col Pointers caught a Hare, whole size
lege; and I believe the volume con prevented her escape from the dogs.
tains the Statutes of his College, and On my return home, I ordered her to
is considered as one of its greatest curio be opened ; when, to my great surprize,
sities. Yours, &c. A. C. 1 found
1192 Fecundity ofHarts.—h\{h.Pe€ra%e.~~-WbipplngCat} [Supp.
I fouryl her to contain nine young VIII. was created Earl of Tyrone;
tines, all perfectly funned ; and, had aud his son Matthew, at the fame
not a period of six hours elapsed from time, made Baron of Dunganuon.
tier death, I have not. the remotest The second Earl of Tyrone was, I pre
doubt but some of them might haves sume, John or Shane, celebrated for
been kept alive. his long resistance to the English arms,
Mv brother-in-law Robert Martin, and who refused to acknowledge his
esq. of Breflinghaui, and my servant, brother the Baron of Dunganuon, con
are ready 10 attest this fact with me, ceiving him to be illegitimate. The
which should have been comununicaled last Earl of Tyrone was Hugh O'Neil,
befoie, had not a pressure of business attainted in lfjl2, with his son Hugh,
prevented it. John Cooper. Lord Dunganuon. Query, was he
deicended from Matthew Baron of
Mr. Urban, jQ«\ 31. Dungannon ? or from John Earl of
IN looking over the new edition of Tyrone ?
Mr. Beatson's Political Index (a A Constant Reader.
most useful and valuable publication),
I observe some omissions in his Cata Mr. Urran, Dec.Q.
logue of the Peers of Ireland ; viz. T)ASSING through the village of.
The title of De Marreis, or Morres, JT Albrighton in Shorpfhire some
Lord de Mome Marifcoe, created by years aso, my attention was directed
King Edward II. (lee Archdale, vol. V. to the sign of the Cat, as a thing out of
p. 28Q,) Dillon, Lord Drumvany, a the common way. It represented a
barony in fee (fee Archdale, vol. IV. Man whipping a Cat, and the poor
pp. 136, 172, where it is Hated that persecuted animal in the act of turning
William Dillon, a Dominican Friar, back her head, and grinning in the face
was I^ord Baron of Drumvan v, by os her tormentor. Underneath were
the antient tenure cap. per baroniam, thole lines :
being the lineal male descendant of " The finest pastime that is under the fun
Sir Henry Dillon, Baron of Drmn Is whipping the Cat at Albrighton."
vany, in the reign of Henry II.) 1 enquired whether it was a thing of
Mr. Beatson makes no mention of the any standing in the place ; and was told
title of Baron Balgar, conferred on the that Albrighton had heen celebrated
Cavenagh family ; of Gerald Hochfort, fur her Cat lime out of mind, it being
Constable of Ferns Castle, who was one of her most distinguishing features.
summoned as a Baron to the Parlia As 1 can sec no great diversion in the
ment held at Dublin ill 133C); nor of mere whipping of a Cat, but a deal of
William Wellelley, who fat in the cruelly and wantonness, I am unwil
seme Parliament as a Baron of the ling to take it in its mere literal fense ;
Realm. out think there is more in it than
In the Irish memoirs and histories meels the eye. We find manv in
occur the titles of Nangle, Lord Navan ; stances detailed in your valuable Mis
Marward, Baron ofSkrine; Purcell, cellany of the original meaning of signs
Baron of Loughmoe ; Wellelley, baron being perverted by the blunders of
of Norragh : no account of whom is rural artists, or the similarity of found
given by Mr. Beatson. in words. Perhaps this may allude to
I remember meeting, in an old his some antient sport, or pastime, now be
tory of Ireland, with an account of the come obsolete ; or it may be a figura
then existing Nobility, to which the tive enigma, which some of your inge
Author annexed a list of Barons who nious readers may have the penetration
had no feat in Parliament, though to explain. I observe, that the Rev.
styled Barons, and who, he adds, James Hall, in his Travels in Scotland,
fljould be rather called Baronets (this mentions an annual custom that pre
was before the institution of that order). vails in the city of St. Andrew's, of in
In this list, I think, were included the closing a Cat in an empty cask, and
names of Hussey, Baron of Galirim j suspending it upon a kind of gallows,
and' Wellelley, Baron ofNorragh. while the equestrian performers en
Can any of your Correspondents in- deavour to knock the head out, and
. form me of the fucoeiston of the Earls force her to jump among the popu
of Tyrone of the O Neil Family, until lace below, where she is thrown about
its attainder in lfil 2 ? Con O'Neil, on by her tail till (he expires. This is
surrendering his Principality to Henry called a Cat liace ; aud I hope, for the
honour
i S07.3 Whimsical Signs. —Corretlions.—Wm. Walker. 1193
honour of Shropshire, the Albrighton Book »f Common Prayer without autho
sign alludes to no such practice. The lite rity, and information given to the pub-
ral term of snipping the Cut seems lo jick what that authority is }"
be familiar in France ; fora Monsieur de In the above p. 713 the writer pro
Bois, in the Magazin Encyclnpediqne, poses another injudicious alteration,
describing some whimsical Marriage- which is properly exposed in your sub
ceremonies in one of the Provinces, sequent pages 1126 7. Till the whole
tells us, that they conclude the feliivi- Liturgy is altered by Act of Parliament,
ties with a dance, called Whipping the let no projected innovations of indivi
Cat. duals, however dignified by learning
Now I am on the subject of Signs, or station, gain admission into the.
I will mention a well-accustomed and Book of Commons Prayer for common
commodious Inn, between Kidder use.
minster and Wolverhampton, known It might have been remarked in p.
by the name of the Stew Poney. What 1004 of vour last Magazine, among the
could have been tlie origin of this de corrections of p. 639, that Dr. Lux-
signation ? It defies every conjecture more was not consecrated till Oclolcr
of mine ; nor does any information I 1407, though noticed as a Bishop in
could obtain in the neighbourhood your July Miscellanv. See also p,
furnish a clue lo unravel the mystery. 1053, col. 1.
I must therefore beg the assistance of P. 1004, col. 2, 1. 7, read " col. 2."
some of vour Correspondents, who pos P. 1086, col I, 1. 13, read " Hen.
sess more exuberance of fancy, aud are shall ;" and refer to your volumes for
better skilled in the interpretation of 1708, pp. 861—6(>a ; and for 1800,
Signs, ihun myself. pp. 645, col. 1 ; 1097, col. 2.
Yours, kc\ P. W.
Yours, &c. Academicus.
Mr. Urban, Dec. 24. P. S. In p. 1085, col. J, 1. 21, for
YOUR correspondent " Academi- *' fellow" substitute " chorister." Hi»
cii^" is desirous to mention that father William Walker, M. A. Dec.
he ought, in p. 1004, col. 1, when 17, 1728, was a fellow of that college,
animadverting on an erroneous con ami died superior Beadle of Divinity in
struction put upon a provision in the that University. He was father allb of
Marriage Act bv the late Bishop Hors- Mr. Richard Walker, Apothecary to the
tev, to have adduced the following Radclifie Infirmary from 1780 to 1804
passage from p. 14 of the "Charge" inclusively, anil amhor of some inge
alluded to ; as it is omitted in your nious papers in the Philosophical
extracts from it in vour April Maga Transactions for 178S, 1789, and 1795,
zine; and as it is necessary for the pur- on the Production of Artificial Cold,
pole of elucidating such animadver and on the Congelation ofCjuicksilver ill
sion : England. These papers make part of
" The Clergy in future will be less ex an octavo of 96 pages printed at Ox*
cusable than hitherto they have been, if ford in 17Q(), intituled, " An Account
they persist in this irregularity in the pub of some remarkable Discoveries in tha
lication of banns. The rubric prefixed production of Artificial Cold ; with
to the marriage service has been altered Experiments on the Congelation of
in the latest jeditions of the Commtn Quicksilver, &c. &c. by Richard Wal
Prayer Book, at lead in the latest Oxford ter." He also published, in 1800,
editions, and made conformable with the " Observations on the remarkable effi
Marriage Act." cacy of Carrots, under a new mode of
This Oxford edition appears from p. application, in the cure of Ulcers and
713 of your volume for 1803 Hill to Sores." 8vo pamphlet. His worthy
retain " an error in the statement" of father was nephew of Robert Lvdall,
the substituted Rubric " at the com M. D. Warden of Merton Co'lleue,
mencement of the Marriage Ritual :" who married Sarah the daughter of the
and m the subsequent p. 832 the follow ce'ebrated Civilian Dr. Richard Zouch,
ing unanswered ant) unanswerable of whom he had an original portrait
question is asked : on board, with the date of " 1020, jet,
"Have the Universities, or has the §3." See A. Wood's "Colleges aud
King's Printer, authority to make any al Halls" by Gntch, p. 658 ; in p. 30 of
terations ? And ought alterations, even which volume is the epitaph P0 hi»
mf the minutest kind, to be made in th£ iiud daughter,
Own. Ma«. Supplement, 1807.
1 1 94 Illustrations of Horace, Book I. Epistle XIV. [Supp.
Illustrations of Horace, and the frequent civil wars that fol
Book I. Epistle XIV. • lowed it, and after the great and wealthy
To the Steward or Bailiff of men of Rome had got to themselves
his Estate. almost all the useful land, and con
nPHE Steward of a Countrv-estate verted it into elegant villas—one little
A (villa rujiica) was called by the village composed the only, not very
Romans the villicus ; he was even a considerable estate of our poet, just suf
serf, a vassal (mancipium), but must ficient for five families, who were
have been properly brought up to censed in the neighbouring Varia. Ho
country labours, and have had a com race seems to mention this circum
plete practical experience of the whole stance with a pleasure, dashed with a
j'yflem of rural œconomy. His office drop of harmless vanity. As it but
was, to keep and to improve ihe estate, seldom happens that a Poet can speak
and to make it, by all possible means, of his landed estate, we should never
as productive as he could. All the take it ill of the few who have been
other servants and day-labourers were thus privileged since the days of Ho
under him, as well as the several de mer, if they find a pleasure in talking
partments of husbandry ; he had the of it. Our great Colossus of Literature
care of all the receipts and outgoings, may appear to some people rather se
gaveanaccountof them to the proprietor vere in his animadversion on the de
of the estate, and, in one word, go lightful Bard of Twickenham concern
verned, under his orders, the wholf ing his fondness for talking of his
villa rujiica. "garden and his grotto, his quincunx
Horace seems not to have been the and his vines, or giving some hints of
best provided with his. The fellow his opulence," although be acknow
had served for (bme time as a lackey ledges that, as his fortune arose from
at Rome; on being lent back to the public approbation, it was very ho
country, therefore, he would not be nourably obtained—what error more
perfectly satisfied ; he was always long venial, then, than to have his imagina
ing to return to town ; and it was not tion sometimes a little too full of it ?
his fault if his master did not bid fare There was surely not more vanity in it,
well to the country for ever. He could than in supposing that the great Crea
not comprehend how a gentleman, tor and sole Proprietor of the Universe
that might live so much at his ease in should be affronted witji him for tak
the Capital, and feast every day with ing a sew drops of milk in his lea on
great men, &c. could find any plea- Good-Friday.
lure in dwelling in so retired and soli Me quamvis Lamia.'] This Lamia,
tary a house in the country. Horace in whom ' Horaoa takes so much in
thence takes occasion to read him a lec terest, seems to be the fame to whom
ture with his usual good humour. the 26th Ode in the First Book, and
However, he appears to have written the 17th in the Third, are inscribed.
this Epistle less for his villicus than for iVecte meo Lamia coronam] Tor-
his mvn amusement, during a longer renlius fays, we find in this period
flav in town than he was inclined to, only two Lamias mentioned by the
and perhaps not entirely without a historians : one, Q. Ælius Lamia, who
view to tiie publick ; to whom, on commanded under Augustus in the
every fit opportunity, he was very de Cantabrtan war, where he is said to
sirous of communicating his manner have distinguistied himself greatly (of
of thinking on the concerns of life? which, however, I can find no evi
and the proper grounds 'of his fondness dence) ; and a Lucius Lamia, who
for rural retirement,—which, perhaps, held the Consulate in the year 765.
might appear as strange and unaccount Vaillant, in his Nummis Anliquis Fa-
able to the majority of his city-friends miliar. Ramanar. torn. i. p. 19, shews
as to his villicus. from Coins, that the former was tri~
1'ariam dimittere patres.~] Varia was amvir monclalis under Augustus : so
a title municipality on the Auio [Te- were called the Masters of the Mint.
yerone], about the spot where Varo Three of them were appointed by tht
stands at present. In the old times,—■ Senate, who had the right of coining
when Italy was incomparably more copper : and three by Augustus, who
populous than it coutd be after the de managed for him his right of coinage
predations made on its inhabitants by in copper, gold, and silver. These,
the war of the allies [helium Jbcialej, therefore, were called on the coins,
1807.] Illustrations of Horac 5, Book J. Epistle XIV. 1 1 95
Triumviri A. A. A. F. F. that is, are, bailiff or steward had been his Homme
argento, auro,jlando,seriundo*. Lamia de confiance, hisJac-lotum.
wa,s one of these latter. And that both QuernJits immunem Cinara placuijse
of them were Ions of L. Ælia Lamia, rapaci.~] The epithet rupaci he here
who in the vear 711 was praetor, and gives to this Cinara, whom he is so
of whom Cicero speaks, in a letter to fond of mentioning, is not used to her
M. Brutus, as one of his moll intimate discredit ;' but only in order to set off
and agreeable friends f. There is, the unpayable (immunem) so much the
therefore, no doubt that it was Quin- more.
tus Larnia, whose death his brother Nim ijiic] Namely at Ustica, at my
Lucius, the friend of our poet, so bit- estate.
terlv lamented. Rident vicini glebas ac faxa moven-
Que tu pulchra pittas.] Gcssner can tent.] The property of divining, from a
not endure that Horace should here small, apparently insignificant circum
brag of his constancy in preferring the stance, by remarking its nicer relations,
country-lisa, and refers us to the 7th and those threads that are scarcely visi
Sjtire of the Second Book, where he ble to the sharpest eye by which it is
makes his slave Davus upbraid him connected with other remoter circum
with his levity in this respect : stances,—that rare and invalnable gift
Rom* rus optus, abfcnlem rujiicus urhem of thus divining those other remoter
Tttllis ad ajira tevis, &c. circumstances, which we denominate,
by a word we have been obliged to
We shall find a similar passage in the borrow from the Romans, sagacity, is
Fifteenth Epistle, to which Gessner scarcely more necessary to any man of
might with more reason have appealed : letters than to the Antiquary. But, as
but he ought not to have forgot, that the fenses are not to be relied on at the
a man never, either" in jest or in -earnest, very extreme verge of their horizon, so
accuses himself of faults which he ac there is nothing that may more easily
tually has. The decided love our Poet lead into error than this sagacity, when
bore to ihe country life is too manifest it is not associated with as delicate a
throughout his works, to allow us to fense of truth, and secured by a well-dis
think that he could not fay with truth, ciplined understanding againsi sophisms
that in this particular he was consist and false inductions. Instances of this
ent with himlelf. Transient sallies of are by no means rare in the writings of
humour ate not to be taken as charac the generality of antiquaries: but we
teristic : and, if we were always to act shall hardly find one more diverting than
as scrupulously as Gessner here does that which the learned Abbe" Capmar-
with Horace, neither Socrates nor tin de Chaupy has given us, of a saga
Cato would be free from such censures. city which sees what no man else can
Fori/ix tibi el uncla popina inculiunt lee, in his voluminous work on Ho
itrbis dejiderium, video.'] Horace, in race's estate, on occasion of this pas-
convertina his town-lackey into a villi- iage : rident vicini glebas et faxa mo-
cut, lost fight of a rule, which Cola- ventem. Who could have imagined
mella strongly recommends to landed even but in a dream, that from thele
gentlemen ; ne villicum ex en nrdine in- words, the true (enl'e whereof is so ma
fliluant, qui urhanus ac delica/as artes nifest, and forms so naive and characte
injliluerunt. For, fays he, socors et ristic a feature, the conclusion, that Ho
somnicusolum genut id J)lancipiorum, race had a leautiful garden, could be
otits, car«po, circo, ihealris, aleie, popi- drawn. Horace, says the hypercritical
vis, lupananhts confuclum, &c.+ Frenchman*, fereprefenteafa campagne
Though indeed it rnull be confessed, comme remuant la terre et en o/ant les
that Horace had no great choice pierres ; cc n'etoit point fans doute ni
amongst the small number os his vas dans les champs ni dans les vignes iju'il
sals : and, besides, it is to be gathered fe livroit a eel exercice penible, mats dans
from several passages of this Epistle, and fonjardin. La culture de celte portion
may be concluded from the style of Ji agreable d"une poffejfum a dequoi
the whole, that formerly, when he plaire a tout le monde,—aud now (for
passed most of his time in town, this how could such an author resist the
charms of so fine a Heu-commun .') he
* Vide Grævii Thes. torn. ii. p. 706. runs out in praise of the pleasures of
+ Ep. familiar, xi. 16.
. -J Uc Re Rujiica, lib. viti. p, 130, edit. * Decouverte de la maison de campagne
Gesneri. i' Horace, vol. i, p, a40.
hor
I tg6 Epitaph on the Caves, at Rugby. [Supp.
horticulture, calls to mind all the great " Near this place lies the body of
men of antiquity who took delight in Joseph Cave,
that pursuit, chatters about the,/pt<3«- who departed this life Nov. 7, 17-47,
cle intereJJ'unt de la nature, and con aged RO years. .
cludes with the acute remark, that He was placed by Providence
le hoyau tie doit done pas plus nous fur- in an humble station ;
prendre uue la plume dans les mains d'Ho but Industry abundantly supplied hiswants,
race. And all ihis on occasion of a and Temperance blest him with
passage, where Horace thought as lit Content and Health.
tle of a garden, and a spade, and an he was As he was an affectionate Father,
exerciee penible, as of the tower of Ba by the deserved made happy in the decline of life
bel ! The rident vicini might have eminence of his eldest ton
easily led the learned Abbe to the right Edwa h d Cave,
scent. But he had now once got into who, without interest, fortune, or
connexions,
his head his elegant chateau d Horace, by the native force of his own genius,
and then his chateau must of necessity assisted only by a classical education
have belonging to it « hue garden laid which he received in the Grammar-school
out a la Le Notre, let it come from in this town,
whence it would. W. T. planned, executed, and established,
a literary work called
Mr. Urban, Dec. 22. The Gentleman's- Magazine ;
PASSING lately through the town whereby he acquired an ample fortune,
of Rugby in Warwickshire, where the whole of which devolved to his family.
I had formerly, as a school-boy, spent Here also lies the body of
many happy years, 1 was led, by the Esther his wife,
recollection of former acquaintances, who died 30th December, 1734,
who I found were now no more, to aged 6g years.
examine what memorials were pre Upon the North side of the Tomb :
served of them upon the frail records Here lies the body of
of mortality in the church-yard. One William Cave,
among the number, if it has not been second son of Joseph and Esther Cave,
already committed to your pages, nuiv, who died May 2, 1 757, aged fi-2 years ;
perhaps, be acceptable to some of your and who, having survived his elder brother
Readers, and may survive in your Reposi Edward Cave,
tory when ihe stone upon which it is inherited from htm a competent estate ;
engraved shall have again fallen to de and, in gratitude to his benefactor,
cay. It was formerly inscribed on a ordered this monument to perpetuate his
tomb erected to the memory of the memory.
Parents of your first worthy and learn Here also lies the body of
ed Printer. Thirty years ago the tomb Judith wife of William Cave,
had been much injured by time, and who died Feb. 11, 174 8,
the poetical inscriptions * were become Here lies the body aged 56. '
of William Cavi,
scarcely legible. son of William and Judith Cave,
" Sepulchral Columns wrestle, but in vain who died Aug. 1, 17OU,
With all-subduing Time—her cank'ring aged 74 years.
hand [them, Also Elizabeth his wife,
With calm deliberate malice wasteth who died January 1 1, 1706,
—; ! ;— and the sleep-cut marble, aged 78.
Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge." The property left by Edward Cave
Blair. to his family is still possessed by the
A new tomb has been .lately erected descendants of his next brother Wil
upon the site of the old one by the liam Cave, who, as well as his Ion
present representative of the Family. William, was a very respectable shoe-
The poetical epitaphs are now lost ; S. T. R.
but the following, laid to have been
written by Dr. Hawkesworth, still re Mr. Urban, "^Sttt9
mains upon a flab on the top of the
present tomb. AMONG the papers of a deceased
Friend and Relative which lately
came intomv possession, is the following
* The poetry is preserved in the Anec account of the renowned and venerable
dotes of Mr. Bowyer. Dr. George Hooper, formerly Bishop
, . •. of
1 807.] ' Bishop Hooper.—Catholic Chapelt. 11 97
of Baili and Wells; as drawn up in a W. T. is much gratified by Mr. Sal
public Journal, of the year 1727, soon mon's approbation ; and will be Mill far
after his death. Presuming that a re- ther obliged by the communication of the
publication of it in the pages of the promised " Commentatii," addressed to
Gentleman's Magazine would not him at our Printer's.
only be highly acceptable to many of
your present Headers, but also be the Mr. Urban, Dec. 28.
certain means of holding up to the ad THE Catholicks in Birmingham
miration of a leng posterity (by whom being about to build a tiew Cha
those pages will, doubtless, be perused pel, the following curious notice has
with the same avidity as they are at been very industriously circulated :
the existing moment) the very great "Birminoham New Chapel, Wate*
and truly noble qualities by which this Street; under the Patronage of the
exemplary Prelate was so eminently Right Rev. Dr. Milner, V. A. of the
distinguished ; I have, therefore, to Midland DiJiriS.
request the favour of your giving it a " The great and populous town of Bir
place therein on the first opportunity. mingham, containing a great number of
One thing, however, Mr. Urban, I Catholicks who attend to their duty, and
have previously to observe, in justice alto a great many others who have long
to the present Members" of the Body neglected it, but who, it was hoped, by
Ciirpurate, to whose predecessors in God's grace and farther spiritual affist-
office not the most flattering allusion it ance than it was in the power of any one
made in the second paragraph of the Pastor, however strong and zealous, to
account herewith sent; which is this : afford, might be brought back to the
that (in whatsoever degree the disgrace practice of it: The Apostolic Vicar of
ful stigma there g'ven to it may be ap the District in which Birmingham is situ
plied with any propriety in the days of ated has, since last Easter, appointed the
Bishop Hooper, owing to the multifa of Rev. Edward Peach as a fecc nd Chaplain
rious and violent disputes which then has that town ; and a temporary Chapel
subsisted hetween the contending par The been fitted up for him to officiate in.
spiritual success of this undertaking
ties) the Corporation of the City of has fulfilled the hopes that were enter
Wells is at the present lime (to speak tained of it ; many strayed sheep have
of them as well, for the most part, in been brought back to the fold; aud al
tluir individual, as in their col/eHive ready the New Chapel is found too small
capacity) formed of the most respect for the numbers who resort to it. Hence
able Lay inhabitants of the place (the it is proposed by the Apostolic Vicar and
O'ergy not be tig admitted into the the Catholicks who frequent that Cha
ji'idy), whose characters, I will ven pel, to build, or otherwise to provide, a
ture to believe, from my own long much larger one in its stead, at a proper
and intimate acquaintance with every distance from the old Chapel, should they
One of them, are perfectly untainted by be enabled so to do by the charity and
the smallest atom of venality or cor piety of those whom God has blessed with
ruption ; that, in fact, it consists ot the means of assisting them. They,
gentlemen who, as I am persoaded, therefore, humbly solicit this assistance,
would with honest indignation Ipurn in the full cenviction there cannot be a
at the very idea of bribery when soli greater act toofthe charity and piety than to
cited for their suffrages, and at once, contribute salvation of a great num
ber of |souls, by enabling them to fulfil
with the honourable independence their religious duties, and who, for want
which does them infinite credit, expel of such means, are now in danger of pe
from their future esteem and confidence rishing.
the Candidate for their representation " The smallest contributions, even the
in Parliament (however great his pre widow's mite, will be received with
tensions to their favour might be in thanks and gratitude ; and, besides the or
other respects) who (hould dare to dinary commemorations in all thesacrifices
insult either of them by any thing like and prayers ojfcredup in the new Chapel
an offer of this kind. for BenesaRors alive or dead, a particu
Thomas Abraham Salmon. lar service once in every quarter of a year
«»* The " Character" with which our will be performed for them."
Correspondent has favoured us, has been New Catholic Chapels are about to
already given at full length in our vol. \>% erected in Coventry, Edinburgh, and
XVII. pp. as6, 612. See also vol. UV. in Somcrs Town, As the Roman Catho-
pp. 130, 3*2, 975. lickt
ir$8 THE PRO JEC1 J O R, N» LXXVIII. [Supp.
cks are now making the greatest exer points of resemblance. Whoever con
tions in every part of the kingdom, it is sults those copious vehicles of Wit,
hoped thai the friends and defenders of the newspapers, will perceive that cer
the Protestant Religion wll not (lum tain jokes adapted to certain seasons
ber. A Constant Reader. and occasions are as regularly brought
forward on those occasions and sea
THE PROJECTOR. N» LXXVIU. sons, as the soopkeeper decorates his
" People may have more wit than doe3 windows or his glass-frames with arti
them good, cles suited to winter or summer.
As bodies perish through excess of blood." During the Christmas season, as yet
Pope. frelh in our memory, we had a choice
WHILEthemercantile world takes cargo of jokes in the papers, very well
alarm at the impediments by adapted to that social season ; but which
which the belligerent powers are about would be extremely far out of place,
to prevent the regular progress of im were they to be brought forward in the
portation and exportation, it must give months of July or August. And again,
every friend of his country pleasure to all those good things which aie made
reflect that there are various articles up for the summer season, and calcu
which are so peculiarly of our own lated for the use of the watering-place9,
growth, and calculated for home con would appear as preposterous were they
sumption, as to be very little aflected to be brought forward in the month of
by the vigorous measures now in agi December. But the manufacturing
tation. Among these, Wit seems to Wits understand their trade better than
fiand foremost as an article for which to be guilty of such anachronisms, and
the demand is still adequate to the have indeed by long practice acquired
quantity on hand, and the quantity on a very happy knack at timing their
hand fully able to answer every pur jokes. There are, for example, many
pose of the consumer. anecdotes and " monstrous good
There are two kinds of Wits, differ things" which will suit a ministry com
ing much, it is true, hvpsint of merit, ing into place, that would not answer
but indispensably necessary to each the melancholy event of their going
other—those who make wit, and those out: and the tarns scries of bon mots
who use it ready made. The former which might produce a very good ef
are the manufacturers, and the latter fect on a royal wedding, would be ex
the retail dealers. The former call tremely mal-a-propos during a court-
themselves Wits by profession, for they mourning. Not that the latter is ex
never much relished the name of trade j empted from its (hare of repartees, as
.and the latter, who are content with we may fee by the many standard jokes
the article at second hand, are their at the expence of the dealeis in articles
echoes, and contribute greatly to their of mourning, and the dyers of old
fame ; for a piece of wit that is not cir cloaths, and especially thole ceconomi-
culated extensively by these echoes, is cal ladies and gentlemen who upon
of no more value than a piece of any soch melancholy occasions do net
other fort of goods, which remains un scruple to make while black.
sought in the merchant's warehouse. Such, indeed, is the demand for wit
However useful these two parties are in this country, that the manufac
to each other, there is no proportion ture of it seems not to be interrupted
between the numbers of the one and bv any of those events which interrupt
of the other. The Wits by profession the progress of other business. The
have, indeed, according to their own very long duration and vicissitudes of
report, been increasing of late years ; the present war, for example, have
but they still may be accounted a very had no effect on this article, except
small body, when compared with the perhaps to varj its modes ; and the
dealers in second hand jokes, some of number of " neat things" which follow
whom, if they are tolerable cecono- every Extraordinary Gazette, afford a
mills, can make a few articles last a proof that Wit may be carried on amidst
very long time, by means of altera the bitterest hostilities, and the strictest
tions, additions, or abridgments, suited blockade. I am persuaded that an in
to their various occasions. I hope that dustrious compiler, with no other ma
Wits will noi censure my allusions to terials than a file "f newspapers from
trade in (peaking of their article, for the year 1793, might put together a
there are certainly some very strong very entertaining alleaiblage of smart
i8o7.]THE PROJECTOR, N° LXXVIII. 1199
jokes, under the title of *' Bellona's are extremely "unwilling to suffer any
Jells, er the Humours of Bloodshed." abatement in their attention to its con
As to lesser evils, such as decrease of cerns, however unseasonable this may
trade,- multiplication of bankruptcies, appear to ladies and gentlemen of the
and of criminal offences, it is evjdeut old school. Whatever the aspect of
that these are frequently the subject of public affairs may be, the affairs of
considerable merriment ; and even in the Theatres are still leckoned of con
our Courts of Law, we hear of sequence enough to demand our no
a burst of laughter from some well- tice ; and the disputes of managers and
timed (lory told fur the benefit of the actors, about salaries, chastity, and
jurv, aud to keep the prilbuerin good other trifles, are never so forcibly ob
humour. The Pulpit, indeed, is a« truded, as when the publick may be
yet free from this species of amuse supposed to be least inclined to listen to
ment; but it is no unfrequenl practice them. I would not, however, be
for some of the congregation, assem thought to deprive those persons of
bled in the churchyard, to reward such consolations who delight in them :
themselves for their long and silent and they must be certainly the most
attention, by sporting a sew sallies, easily contented of all people who can
wonderfully neat and laughable, at forget the slate of Europe to look at
the expence of the parson, or the clerk, the debts of the Opera-house, and
or any individual among themselves. think nothing in the threats of France
Addison somewhere says that the ami the hostility of its Allies Ib import
Theatre is ihe feat of Wit j but I ques ant to happiness, as the re-engagement
tion whether this opinion be not nearly of a singer at a salary far beyond lhat
as obsolete as another which used to be os a secretary of state.
joined to it; namely, that it is a school But 10 reiurn to the relative propor
of Morality. To it, however, the pub- tions of Wit, between the makers and
lick has no doubt been indebted for the consumers. It has been thought
a vast increase in the articles of Pun by some, that London is the only place
aud Quibble, which puss under the for this manufacture, as being the mart
common name of Wit, arid are re of e\ery thing else that is elegant and
ceived as such by those who cannot fashionable; and it will be found that
afford the higher commodities. In this was formerly the cafe, and is so
deed our sooi men and porters as regu still in a considerable degree. The ma
larly take these kind of jokes from the nufacture has, indeed, been attempted
Theatre, as our barrel organs do their in some of our large towns ; but the
favourite songs. But experience has articles have been generally of a local
sometimes demonstrated that theatrical kind ; whereas what is made in Lon
jokes lose their effect, or rather change don will suit all other places. Before,
their effect, when employed in the pur- however, the establishment of such
posesof common life. A sarcasm which easy conveyance from the Metropolis
mayproduceapplausein a crowded The to the most distant parts of the king
atre, will often produce only blows in the dom, the country-people knew but lit
room of a tavern: there is a snappish tle of this article, and were obliged to
tartness in dramatic dialogue, which put up with a few worn-out samples,
does not suit the humour of real conveyed by an occasional visitor.
speakers, unless ihey are on the eve of Since the establishment os the mail-
a quarrel. At this important crisis, it coaches, and particularly of daily
is observed that Wit is followed by morning and daily evening papers,
bursts of anger instead of laughter, and they are but a verv hours behind us in
frequently terminates in a point more our " good things." The Ion mot
cutting than that of au epigram. In which has convulsed Si. James's and
deed 1 have often had occasion to re St. George's parish, may now be en
mark that it is (afer to borrow any joyed next morning with all the glee
thing from the stage than its VVit, and of novelty in anv city within an hun
that it would be as dangerous to em dred miles. Wit is conlequentlv dis*
ploy the sarcasms of the last Comedy fused over the country, and at Bath,
ju private company, as to carry on a Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, &c.
courtship according to the plan of the may now be heard a series of jokes, as
Jast Novel. good as new : and in these places a
The Theatre, however, is so f;r the generation of Wiis has arisen, w ho in
.reputed feat of Wit, that the pubiiek time, and with a tew months' educa
laoo T H E PROJECTOR, N° LXXVIII. [Supp.
tion in London, bid fair to emulate the other cafes ; the articles, instead of
originality of the metropolitans. New being made better, are made worse.
editions of those valuable elementary There is a jealousy, I am sorry to lay
treatises, Joe Millar and Ben .1 on it, among professed Wits, which is
ion, have also been largely circulated ; not to be found in the fame excess
and notwithstanding they have been among candidates of any other descrip
nearly quite plundered by the dramatic tion. I remember to nave been once
writers, enough yet remains to set sp present when two of great renown un
a wit of moderate expectations in a fortunately met ; and when the com
good country trade. pany were prepared for a double por
In former days, certain of the Col tion of good things. It was, how
leges in each of our Universities were ever, obvious on their first meeting,
renowned for the breed of Wits by pro that the dæmon of discord had deter
fession ; and jokes innumerable were mined to have his joke. For some
manufactured each term in the com lime a profound silence prevailed ; but
mon-room. Under-graduales conse one. of them, aware for what he was
quently were excluded from thele benc invited, and conscious of his powers,
hes, but Masters, and Ionic promising began one of his best stories. The
Bachelors, were admitted to the pari- other in vain endeavoured to interrupt
nerlhip. On my last visit to one of him ; he kept fast hold of the company
our Universities, 1 had the honour to for half an hour, when, being obliged
be admitted ad eundem ; but I was sur to take breath, the other pushed in,
prized lo find that this branch of edu and began an anecdote longer than the
cation was very much neglected. The former, and persisted, notwithstanding
few jokes I heard, which 1 was told similar attempts to eject him from
were the produce of the College, were his vantage ground. The contest then
to my certain knowledge stray ton mots became sharp : both spoke at once—
from London which had been matricu but one had more strength of lungs—
lated under fictitious names. Upon " Sir, we are not contending who (hall
inquiry into the causes of this falling- speak loudest"—" No, Sir, nor who
oil, I was told that it was entirely shall speak longest." " But I was go
Owing to the conduct of the lixaminers, ing to inform the company"—"Nav,
who dwelt upon Latin, Greek, Logic, you told us that before : I remember
ilatheinaticks, and other articles of au anecdote of I/ird ChesterHeld"—
that kind, without ever inquiring whe " Sir, I had not done with Garrick"—
ther the young gentleman could get up and his antagonist happening to be
a Ion mot extempore, or go through seized with a fit of coughing, the friend
the mazes of a quibble. It was. added, of Garrick got in, and kept his station,
indeed, that among the undet-gr.ulu- in spite of all opposition, through a
■tes there was occasionally a some story that would have made a pam
thing called Quizzing, which was mil- phlet. Next day, one of the parties
taken for Wit, and consisted in break called on the master of the house, and
ing heads and windows ; but that this requested he would not invite him to
was much discouraged bv the Proctors, meet with such a loquacious fellow
who were seldom men of humour. again ; and he was scarcely out of hear
Such, however, is the general dif ing, when the other came to request
fusion of Wit throughout the countrv, that he might never be asked to dine
that the professed Wit, a character for with one who would let nobody speak
merly known only in the metropolis, hut himself, and did nothing but make
may now be found in most of the pro people laugh all the afternoon.
vincial towns, and even in manv villa These desultory remarks on the
ges. In the latter, if the traveller de makers and retailers of Wit, may be
sires a companion to help him off with concluded with one observation, which,
his botile of port, the landlord can al although not a new one, has perhaps
ways lend for the established Wit of the been much less attended to than it
place, vvho is sometimes the exciseman, deserves ; and that is, the necessity of
and sometimes the schoolmaster. But paying (bme little respect to truth-
in the introduction of professed Wits, Some are of opinion that a joker
whether in town or country, great care is a privileged person, totally exempt
mull be taken that two do not meet in from the obligations either of oath or
th» fame room. A rivalsbip here does affirmation. But, although it would
not produce the saute good effect as iu be very hard to put a profesied Wit to
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his affidavit on every occasion, there the Saint immediately recovered him*
are some very good judge* who have self by repeating a Pater-noller and an
declared that the essence of a story con- Ave-Maria." .
silts in its truth. " The value ot. every These lines wefe wriiten, and left at
slor^i," fays Dr. Johnson, " depends the place, by a stranger, in the vear.
on Us being true. A (lory is a picture 1784 :
either of an individual or of. human Wanderer ! with rev'renee tread this
nature in general ; if it be false, it is a sacred earth ; [garc,
picture of nothing.' " It is more from And whilst thy ravish'd eye, with endless
carelessness about ruth, than from in Strays o'er the wonders of this holy ruin, i
tentional
F,ir»t,/,o,i lying,
:., that there
.,.„,u »• isTi,;„
Ib much
<•„.,_ And to thy memory brings thole awful
days,
tence mav apoeat harsh, and if exe When stern Religion, with her iron rod
tendency • to de-
cuied it may have a tendetic; And frown territic, humaniz'd the foul,
crease the floating stock of bans ntols Dare not with impious thought arraign
and jokes ; suit upon the whole it bids his name
fair to be attended with advantages Whose wild austerities to barb'rous man
which will more than compensate for UnlocVd the springs of light, and wak'tf
what we lo(e, aud will very much his eyes
heighten the value of what we retain, To immortality, to life, and Heaven.
Go, and if Providence has bless'd thy
Mr. Urban, Dec. 9. home [hearts
With buds of op'ning thought, fair in theit
I SEND you the outline of the Le Plant Virtue's heavenly feed, inform their
gend* of Saint Godric of Fiuchale, mine's [Love .
. near the cily of Durham ; in ho- With Wisdom, Truth, Humanity, and
nour of whom, after canonization, So shall the gracious Pow'r that gives thee;
the beautiful and immense Priory life,
(of which Plate II. shews the ruins With ev'ry bliss thy pious efforts crown !
as they appeared in 1775) was .erected,
about the middle of the twelfth cen Mr. Urban. • Jug. 25.
tury. A larger view of it may be leeu I ENTIRELY agree with the VVri-
in Hutchihfsn's Durham, II." 320. ters of the British Grivick for June
" He went, naked, into the river last, in their Review of Sims's Life of
Wear, in the extreme!! weather of Mr. Mickle, prefixed to the late edi
winter, and flood whole nights up to tion of his Poetical Works : *' We are
the chin in water, exercising prayer. lorry to fay, that it places the charac
"The small finger of his lesi hand, ter of one great man, at least, in a very
by u(e, was crooked, because of hlfi contemptible light." One of these
continually having a small book of great men, certainly, deserved treat
David's Plalms hanging! upon it. ment very different from a Minister os
"He wore mit, during the time of trial religion whose chiel characseristicks
his pdgrimage, three entire coats ot are Chartty and horg.veneis I am
JJC«keis
Theofiron
D—t alwavs molested him, truly sorry,
tioris which Mr. Urban,
had been thatfortransac-
buried nearly
Km .he Saint w»s fearlefV. One night, half a century should now be brought
as he fat by his little fire in his to light, with a view to exhibit as a
tristched cell, the D—1 appeared in courtly sycophant, a personage who
his most terrible shape, but the Saint stood foremost, in the cause of Revela.
laughed at him, which so enraged the tion, and, is we may believe two very
D—I, that he gave him a blow on the envnent contemporary auihorsf, in the
ear, which knocked him down, when cause of Humanity. The Monthly
* The genuine Legend is preserved in MP. in the Archives of Durham.
"f> Thomson, after invoking those generous minds,
•■• whole active search
. . Leaves no cold wintry corner unexploi'd,
Like silent-working Heaven, surprizing oft
The lonely heart with unexpected good,
Adas— These are the sacred feelings of thy heart,
Thy heart inform'd by Reason's purer ray,
O Lyttelton, the friend! ' '"" £itUing '
Gr.HT. Mag. Supplement, 1607.
1202, Mickle Garrick.—Curefor the Head-Ache. [Supp.
Reviewers, in reviewing the quarto Mr. Urban, Bamvell, O&ober J 2.
edition of Mickle's Workt, very pro- T HAVE -lately been greatly enter-
perly' observe^ ' thrrt: Lord Lytieltott ' 'thincd, and ftrull eflentiallv bene-
ceuld not provide for every one whom sited, by the perusal of a valuable work
he wished to patronize ; and that Mic- recently published, intituled, " The
We never complained: On the con- Code of Health and Longevity," coni-
trary, Mr. Ireland, in his Anecdotes' piled and written by that truly great
prehxevj to that edition, ftys, "Mr. character, Sir John Sinclair, hart.; a
Mickle always spoke of Lord Lytlelion man who, though highly exalted by
with a respect bordering upon rever- his talents, title, and fortune, is infi
epce." Would it not have been more nitely more so by his virtues, public
candid, more becoming the Christian spirit, and genuine philanthropy ; and
and the Clergyman, to have adopted the work here mentioned, indepen
the -more liberal opinion of the great dent of his other writings, is sufficient
Cervantes ? " Thole incidents which of itself to entitle its Author to the
.. . ... affect nor alter the truth of grateful thanks, not only of his conlem-
neither
history ought to be omitted, when they poraries, but of posterity for ages to
'
tend to depreciate " "
a great character come. In a note at the foot of page
' As to Mr. Sims's very severe animad 645 of the First Volume of that work,
versions on the conduct of another are the following interesting particu
respectable personage now living, 1 shall lars refj>ecting the virtues of cold water :
only observe, that to speak evil of Digni " It is recorded of a Scotch Clergyman,
ties is no where to be found among that he preserved his health to a very ad
the Apostolical injunctions. There is vanced period of life, much owing to a
no unprejudiced friend of Mr. Mickle, custom of bathing his head in cold water
I believe, but mull candidly allow that fromthis a rivulet that ran below his garden ;
the judgment pallid upon his Tragedy and he pra6tised. in winter as well as
summer, breaking the ice if necessary ;
bv Mr. Garrick (though the piece was and
veaemly patronised bv both the Wartons) years.persevered in it for about forty-five
was perfectly just ; that, " notwith " For some time past," says Sir John, ■
standing there are many, many beau " I have followed a similar plan, and
tiful passages, it wants dramatic art ;" found it extremely beneficial. Every
and there is no one, I conceive, who morning 1 immerse a flesh-brush in a ba
has read the l ife of Mr. Cumberland, son of water, and in this manner bathe
who, to use Mr. Sims's phrase, " knew. the head. The flesh-brush absorbs as
Mr. Garrick intimately, and knew much water as makes a plentiful ablution,
him long," but must wish that the ex and the effect of the cold water is much
tract of a Ijetter from Mickle to Mr. improved by the friction of the flesh-brush
Boswell had been suppressed, ill which, afterwards. There is no practice so likely
after charging Mr, Garrick with great to be useful to those who are apt to catch
duplicity in some transactions between cold, or are troubled uiih head-aches ; aud
Mr. Mickle and him, a conversation is worthy if they once begin it, they may, like the
introduced, in which an intimate friend clergyman, be able to continue it
of Mr. Garrick's, after hearing Mic for"forty years.
It is only calculated, however, for
kle's account of ihefe matiers, is said those who wear wigs, or whose natural
to have bestowed on Mr. Garrick a hair is very much cropped indeed.
most opprobious epithet. As a farther proof of the efficacy of
I cannot conclude without observ cold water in the cure of the head-ache,
es, that Mr. Sims seems much more I beg to trouble you with the following
disposed to censure than to forgive, as calls: ] had from very early vouth,
he has not mentioned the very liberal even from infancy, been much afflicted .
present from Mr. Mortimer to his with a nervous head-ache : I may al
friend of the verv elegant frontispiece most call it hereditary, as my mother
to the second edition of the Lusiad de also was subject to that complaint from
signed and engraved by himself, as re her childhood. As much of my time
corded by Mr. Ireland. Husticus. has been employed in writing, reading.
Fielding, in hi< dedication of Tom Jones', after acknowledginglhat he partly owed
his existence to Mr. Lyttelton during a great part of the time in which he was em
ployed in composing that woik, adds t " If there be in this work, as some have been
pleased to fay, a stronger picture of a truly-benevolent mind than is to be found in any
4>ther, who that knows you will doubt whence that benevolence has been copied ?"
•* and
1 807 •] Cure for the Bead-Acbe. —Memoirs of Wolfey. 1 203
atjd sedentary occupations, my head- during ihe.R^igns of King Henry Vlli.' •
aches had thereby been increaled to to., King Jidwaid VI. Queen Marv, Qu-een
violent a degree, as to render life al Elizabeth, King Jailiet, KingCharlesI.
molt a burthen. It attacked me about London : Printed by J. C. for Samuel
oucea month, sometimes oftener ; and Speed, at the Rainbow, near the Inner
for many hours I was nearly in a state Temple-gale in' Fleet-street, l66i."
of delirium ; and after its violence had (flvfl, pp. 8C3.) No mention whatever j
abated, it left me extremely languid is made in the title-page of the Author
for several days. I had the advice of of this little book; but at the end of
several eminent gentlemen of the facul " The epilile to the Reader," he calls ,
ty, and tried the effect of numerous re himself " David Lloyd," and a clergy*
ceipts given me by my friends, but all man of the Church osEngland. Where .
to no purpose. About two years ago he resided at the time of publishing thjs .,
it came to my mind that washing the Work, and when and where he died, is
head in celd water might be of service, totally unknown to me ; no notice is':
and I resolved to try the experiment, taken of him in Mr. Walking's Biogra
and have continued the practice two or phical Dictionary, 1806.
three times a week, and sometimes Mr; Lloyd was unquestionably a man
oftener, ever since, both in winter and of found judgment and great penetra- 1
summer and have experienced won lion, as the book itself will sufficiently
derful benefit from it, as I have not; testify. Perhaps, Mr. Urban, " Ob
been afflicted with' the head-ache- hut servations on the Life of Cardinal '
once or twice since the commence Wolley," extracted from the work,
ment of my ablutions, arid. then but in may* be acceptable lo some of your
a verv flight degree. The method ,1 Readers, who, I trust and hope, will
luke is this: after dressing myself in communicate to you a more correct and
the morniugj to immerse the top part; .- satisfactory account of him than Lam
of the', head, nearly to the ears, in the ," able.lo do. ■ , . . ^V. AldIs. •
waslihand bason, and afterwards to rub Cardinal Wolfey was not so great in
the head with a rough napkin or towel his fortune, as he was mean in his ori- -
for (bine time, which answers .the pur ginal * : his honest and industrious parents
pose os a flesh brush ; and, after a little helped him to a good constitution, and a
practice, it bep.oip.es extreiuely pleasant great spirit (two hopeful steps to great-
and refreshing, , nesse), aud his ambition gave the oppor
Sir John says, ".the practice pf, at tunity to encreafe it. He was as pregnant
Ipswich School, as he was promising at .
washing the head is only calculated for Canterbury
those who wear wigs, or are imich and parts advanced College ; where his industry ,
cropped indeed."—I, however,, wear, Noblemen in the Earl him to command over ;
of Dorset's family
my own hair, dis according 10 the pre as a Schoolmaster ; as his policy had pro- .
sent fashion, ami hir e constantly used moted him to an imperioufneste over
powder, but without finding much in: Kings in the quality of Statesman. The
convenience on that account; as bv JirjlJlep to p-egtneJJ'i in a Scholar is relation
the lime the breakfast-cloth is removed",
the hair is sufficiently dry to come un * In 1514, Edmund Daundy, Portman
der the hands of the Frizeur, and the of Ipswich, founded a chantry in the
powder renders it completely dry and church of St. Laurence in the same town,
comfortable. If these observations, for a secular pi test to offer at the altar of
Mr. Urban, should tend to the relief St. Thomas, in behalf of himself and his
of but one os my fellow-creatures from mas relations, among whom he reckoned Tlu>-
that distressing complaint an habitual his parents H'olfey. then Dean of Lincoln, and
head-ache, it will afford sincere plea deceased. All Robert and Jane Wolfey then
sure to Philanthropic. married gentlemen Mr. Daundy's daughters
of good fortune ; an4
the issue of one of them was the wife of
Mr. U«M».aT<5ft*efe Bef"> Lord Keeper Bacon. It appears then that
■ . Suffolk, June 8. Cardinal Wolfey was well allied : and as
ACURiOUS.interelling, and scaree we meet with nothing that gives the least
old book accidentally came into countenance to the common notion of his
mv hands a short lime since, intituled, being the son of a Butcher, it is very pro
■■ The States-Men and Favourites of bable that his parents were not in lueh
England since the Reformation, their mean circumstances, as the Cardiaal's
Prudence and Policies, Successes and enemies have taught the world to belive.
Miscarriages, Advancements and Falls, See Suffolk Traveller, i;64, p. »7.
1
1 204. Card. Wplsey.—Bernard'sThffaurus Biblicus. [Supp.
*o a Nobleman : the best education for the vourite took in the Council-Table Debate?,
Court, ' is in the Palace. Nature made and other State-affairs, in the mass and
him capable, the School and University whole bulk of them by day ; and the
made him a Scholar : but his noble cm- King had the quintessence of them extract
plpyraents mad? him a Man. At Oxford ed, and the sum of them represented to
he read books ; at my Lord's he read men , hi:n at night. AH State-business was
and observed things. His Patrons two disposed of by him, and most Church
Parsonages bestowed upon him, was no{ preferments bestowed upon him : the
so great a favour as the excellent princi- Bifhoprlcks of Durham, Winchester, and
pies instilled ipto him ; he being not York, were in his pqsseUion ; and all
more careful to instruct the young men, other promotions in his gift. He was
than their father was to tutor him 1 installed in the kingdom (during King
His bounty made him rich, and his re Henry's youthfulnefs), apdhad the Church
commendation potent ; his interest went in cqmmendam. His great services, in
far, his money farther, deed, could npt be managed lyithout a
Bp. Fox was Secretary to King Henry great revenue ; nor his greater power sup
the Seventh, and he to Bishop Fox ; the ported but by an able' purse, which may
one was'not a greater favourite ot the King's buy off expedients as readily as his Great
than the other was his: as one that ness itiay £ammand't,bem.". (pp. 1 to 5.J
brought him a head capacious of all ob
servations, and a spirit above all difficul
ties. Others managed the affairs of Eng Mr. Urbaw, Dec.g.
land, Wolscy understood its interest : his I'SHA.LLesiefem it a favour, if, amonj
correspondence was good abroad ; his your humer'qiis Correspondents,
observations close, deep, and continued
at" home. He improved what he Knew,
ar.il bought what he knew not. He could
make any thing he read csr heard Kis own,
and could improve any thing that Was his Sacrum, xed is a fine engraving
own to the uttermost. "/'' •' ' bybv Hollar,
Moll: wij.fi tli'is msoriptioti b£
No sooner was he m with theljifhop of neath: " yera' espies Rich de Ber
Winchester, but the Bishop was ou<witlj nard, vjgihtntiflimi' pastoris de l$at-
the Earl of Surrey, to whom he must have conibe SjoniTet' A? l&fl. W.Hollar,
stooped, as he did unto nature and age, BdHe'rn. ad viifuin des. Londioi .-" and
had not he raised his servants equal to above, in [he upper part of the plate,
himself in the King's Favour, and above ""Ætatis suæ 74. In an address to
Howard. He was forbid by the Canon the Christian Header, by John Conant,
heirs of his body ; he was enjqined by we are told, '"'that tfie work is pri
his prudence to make a heir of his- favour, marily and principally useful for such
equally to support and comfort his old as have devoted their studies- unto the of
age, and maintain his interest. Children
in point of policy, as in point of nature, itficewasof tfie Mini/lery,Tol whose benefit
ate a blefiin_r, and as arrows in the hand beit.all more 'especially intended : rjoyv..
others f|kewise who desire to take
of a mighty man : and happy is that old
Courtier «f)at hathhis quiver full of them ; acquaintance in a more familiar man-
hejka.ll not Vc ashamed when hespeaks nitk tier with the phrase and Cense of the
his enemies in the gate. The old man corn- Scripture, mav reape heieby no small
mends Wolsey to Henry the Seventh 'for advantage." Now' as it was primarily
one fit to serve a Kingv and command arid principally written for such at
others. Foreign employment is the States were designed for holy orders, I
man's first School : to France, therefore, think it probable lhat some of the re
lie is sent, to poise his English gravity verend Clergy may, among other scarce
with French debonairness. A well-poised B^bks, have this, and may very likely
quickness is the excellent temper. From be able to satisfy 'my enquiry.
Foreign employment under an old King, Not wishing lo encroach on the
he. is called home to some domestic ser
vices under the young one. He as quickly limits of your excellent Magazine, 1
found the length of his foot, as he fitted only haye to observe that, on referring
him with an eafie shoo {shoe). The King to' Anies for an account of Felix King
followed his pleasures, and the Cardinal ston (the printer of ihe book in ques
enjoyeth his power. The one pursued' his tion), he remarks that " be printed
sports while youth, the other his business riianv Books after l600 to the year
While time, served him. (trice me to-dayf lf)4l," which is the date of Hollar's
and take thou to-morrow, it loth lh' Cour Print of the Author.
tier's and the Chrijiian's languageJ The fa; • Yours, &o. G.YV.L.
AJr.
i$q7-] Hervl4rf,.-rLmcQ\nCfthedrql, Canterbury, i£c. 1205,
Mr. Ur Bakt, Oct, 20. Clergy, so eminent for their piety and,
THEdirhculty started by G.V.p.6'27. learning, had but the tnjle (is uot the
respecting the mode in which skill) of their celebrated predecessors,
the arms of a Wife are to be borne, which our best writers on Antiquities
who is Heiress to her Mother, and not have so highly extolled ! Then each
to her Father, may, I think, easily l>e Cathedral would have always gnurdians!
solved. In the instance he has stated on thespot !
of Lord and Ladv Southwell, as the Give me leave, Mr. Urban, before
lady can only impale her father's trms, I conclude, lo make a remark respect
Lord S. cannot bear the Berkeley arms ing York Minster, Westminster Abbey,
on an escutcheon of pretence. He should and the Cathedral of Canterbury. The
impale the Berkeley arms,and upon them eve is struck with the stupendous
place those of Corripton' on an escut height of the two former ; 'but I que(V
cheon of pretence : this will fheW here tioo whether that of Canterbury,
after that Lord S. married a Berkeley, though of much less elevation, is pot
Who was heiress of Compton, though more pleasing altogether, in conse
not of Berkeley. quence os its unrivalled Centre Tower,
If your Correspondent will go into which, though no higher to the plat
Cavendish Square, he will there see at form than that of York, yet is greatly
No. iff, on the Western side, an at- superior, owing to its beautiful pro
chievement which I think fully con portions. Perhaps it was riot practica
firms what I have suggested. ble lo carry up, on such high building*.
With regard to G. V.'s second query, Towers which would accord ; for that,
I beg to inform him, that when James, of York has but one series of windows,
son of the first Earl os Carrie, of the and that of Westminster has (if 1 may,
name of Butler, was created Earl of so term it) only a square of masonry
Orinond in 1328, he resigned the title just rising above the leads ; Whereas
of Carrie, a circumstance which fre that of Canterbury has tvm series o(
quently occurred at that period, when Windows, of the most elegant form im
ever the estate from whence the title aginable ; so thai what we lose in gran
was taken was alienated, and of which deur we gain in other respects. In
a variety of instances may be found in short, I have always found an agree
the history of Great Britain and Ireland. able variety in all our antient struc
The Earldom of Carrie was, in 1748, tures, which has amply repaid me,
revived in the person of Viscount Iker- and, no doubt, every lover of Antiqui
rine, who is lineally descended from ties, for any little inconvenience or
the first Earl of the name of Butler. expence in visiting them.
Yours, Sec. C. C. Yours, &c. G. W. L.
P. S. When I was l ist at Canterbury,
Mr. Urban, Nov. a. 1 observed there was an high wooden
SURELY 1 must have had a presage fence placed before the Western part
of what was to befal Lincoln Ca of the Oxford Steeple (no doubt, to
thedral. Be that as it mav ; I felt a prevent nuisances). But it conceals en
strong inducement last summer to richments which an An ill exhibited a
make an excursion, chiefly lo view the fine drawing of in the Royal Academy.
celebrated sabricks of Peterborough, Iron Railing, I admit, would have
Lincoln, Beverley, and York. How cost more; but how much did that
great was my surprise, as well as con cost which is now hid! Hiding, as
cern, to read in your Miscellany os the well as destroying, is surely to be de
demolition of the Spires then adorning precated.
the Western front of one of the finest
Cathedrals in this or any other coun Mr. Urban, Nvu. 4.
try ! I certainly was fortunate in tak I LATELY found a particular ac
ing my Northern Tour in time ; but count os that rare volume, " The
I shall feel little inclination in suture Devonshire Gems," in Mr.Beloe's An
to go so far from home, fearing that ecdotes of Literature, and have sluce
frequent indignation may arise on wit noticed it in the Monthly Review for
nessing the effects of the present fashion October last. One little error I will
able tnania of destroying, either bv pul take the liberty, through your means,
ling down, or, what is almost as had, of correcting. He fays, " he knows of no
bv miserable would-be amendments. oiher copies than that of the Devon
P that our Prelates and dignified shire, Lord Spencer's, and that in the
Cracherode
32o6 Swallows.—Lunar Observation.—Penn Family, [Supp. '
Cracherode Library containing s/g, Mr. Urban, ... Dec. 7*f->
plates." This is a very excusable mis I SHOULD be gratified by your in
take, as far as it respects the existence setting the following short notice ,
of any other copy. A few weeks ago respecting the family os . Penn, as it
I saw a very fine copy in the reverend will correct a slight error in an article ,
Dr. Disney's Library at the Hyde near in the last number, p. 1121. In- the
Ingatellone. It-waiprcsented, in 171)4, " Life of William Penn," prefixed to ,
by the Duke of Devonshire, to Tho the foiio edition of his Works, printed
mas Holiis, esq. and afterwards passed only eight years after his death, is a
into 'the possession of Thomas Brand long inscription, copied from the mo
Holiis, eh|. and from him into tbit of nument erected to the memory of his
the present owner. Ccrimsus. father in Hadcliff Church, Bristol,
where he was buried, from which the
Mr. Urban. Harwich, Dec 7. following is extracted :
HAVING taken a sew observations " To the just memory of Sir William
on the departure pf Swallows, and Penn, Knight,' ami "sometime General,
Martins from this vicinage, and think born at Bristol anno J 621, ' Ion of Captain
ing they might, perhaps, be acceptable Giles Penn, several years Consul for the
in some of vonr Ornithological Readers, English in the Mediterranean ; of the
I have here subjoined them. PennS of Penn's kxi^e*, in the county of
1807, Ang.1'2. Very hot day, wind Wilts, and thole Penns of Penn, in the
West ; Swallows assembled in great county of Bucks, &c."
numbers, {evidently for the purpose of William Penn, the son of Sir Wil
migration. They continued 10 depart liam Penn, was born in the Parish of
until Oct. 5 (mild day, wind West, al St. Katherine's, near the Tower of Lon
most calm) ; af'er which not one bird don, on the 14th day of Oftober, 1644.
of the above description was seen. In the year 1680-1, the Province'
Sept. 2. Fine day, wind West ; lying on the West fide of the River'
Marlins assembled in large flocks. Delaware, formerly belonging to the '
Their numbers dailv decreased until Dutch, and ihen called the New Ne- '
Oct. If) (fine warm day, wind Well) ; therlands, was granted bv King Charles'
lifter which none were seen. II. to VV. Penn, In consideration of the
Yours, &c. R. R. Barkes. services of his father, and sundry debts
due to him from the Crown at the
time of his disease. The name of the
Mr. Urban, Dec. 15. country was changed by the King, to
A FEW nights ago, when the that of Pennsylvania, in honour of the
Moon (hone very bright, some Proprietor.
Clouds were passing in quick succes W. Penn's first visit to America was
sion before her face. As ihey passed, I in the year 16H2 i he went thither
observed thev threw a dark shade on again in 1699, rfnd returned tf> Eng
that fide which was farthest from the land in 1701. He died in the year
Moon, beyond which the rays of light 1718, ased 74, at his seat at Knjhcomb,
were very perceptible : this shade re near Ta'i/ford, in Buckinghamjkire.
sembled a dark Cloud, but the smallest In vol. VT. p 1.51, of Bellham's His
Stars were visible through it. It struck tory of Great Britain, there is a note
me, that the rays of the Sun. acting copied from Buries European Settle
in a similar manner upon the Northern ments, in which it is stated that Penn :
Alrrtnlpher; (when that luminary is died in the Fleet Prison. I am ata loss
nn the opposite side of the globe), and to imagine where Burke procured his
intercepted by the shadows of ihe i in - authority-)- ; but it is more surprising
mei|se volumes of Clouds which conti that an Historian of considerable merit
nually intervene, might cause the (as should repeat so gross an error.
yet unexplained) appearance of the I have not been quite so brief as T
Aurora Borcaiis. It is with the utmost
deference I submit this suggestion to * At Mintyc, or Mintey, in Wilt/hire,
your perusal, as the fame oblervation not Gloitcejlcr/hire as H. D. fays. See
11, av have bi en made by others ; but Walker's Gazetteer.
to ine the idea is original ; and, per- t The whole note is an animated pane-
ha. s, limit i f your scientific readers gyrick on Penn ; but it js a little singular,
rtiav improve upon the hint. that its rhetorical beauty depends almost
You-.i. &c. ■ Flavius. wholly upon the error which it contains '.;
intended,
1807.] Curiosities in London.-S ut ton Cold field.^F/kæ/kt^. 1207
intended, but I trull the above particu ing to represent tapestry of the Trans
lars will not he uninteresting to the figuration, by Raphael ; an allegorical
readers of the Gentleman's Magazine, figure, bv Corregio; the woman men
as they relate to a great and most ex tioned in the Revelations, by Holbein ;
cellent man ; one who is ranked, by and, what is most deserving of jdmira-
the celebrated Montesquieu, amongst tion, a very large picture representing
the greatest Law-givers that ever lived. our Lord in the garden, by Leonardo
You're, &c. • A.B. da Vinci.
You are treated with the greatest
Mr. Urban, Nov. 10. civility by all these people ; and will,
DURiNG a visit I paid to rrty 1 flatter myself, go away well pleased
friends in the Capital lately, I with the inspection : and if 1 can acid
had sufficient leisure to Inspect some to the comforts of the former, and the
works of Art, which greatly delighted fame of the la i ter, by this communica
me; and that others may enjoy similar' tion, 1 (hall think til) (elf amply repaid.
pleasure, I have taken the liberty ol Yours, &c. J. II.
acquainting them, through the medium
os jour valuable Repository, where Mr. Urban, Dec. 12.
they are to be found. "IN your vol. XXXII. p. 401, Incola
At a person's .who keeps a picture A has favoured us with a very plain
shop in the Curtain road, Shoreditch, and satisfactory report of Sutton Cold-
are to be seen several engravings from field in Warwickshire. .Forty-five years
Wheatley by Bartolo/./.i ; a curious have elapsed since ; and it may be con
HWrtjeau in ivory; a small cabinet pic genial lo (bme other Inhabitant at pre
ture ot" Charles I. and some valuable sent to compare the liate os the Parish
books. with your record below in the particu
Ai Mr. Qnv's, in Swan Alley, Cole- lars from Incola :
ruan-llreet, are to be viewed several Sutton Coldfield contained in lGSo,
paintings; a collection of medals, fos 298 Houses; and in 1008, 310. In
sils, pi nits, some optical inventions, 1721 it contained 3Co Inhabitants;
pieces of mechanism, &'c. . ; ' .and in 17(i'2, 1800. '
Mr. Tufiin, of Great Queen-street, The number of Christenings for
Lineoln's-Imi Fields, has in his pos- 20 years up . to Christmas 1701 was
lestion a portrait of the late Mr. Ashley 747 ; of burials 6t)4.
of Ludgate-hill, with a punch-bowl Should a statement for ihe place in
in his hand, as a symbol of the service question be forwarded by a kind baud,
he rendered 10 the pubiirk in reducing you will doubtless give ii place in due
the price of punch. As he is drawn time, and oblige
in his own hair, this picture mull have Yours, lite. W.P.
been taken about the middle age of his
life, as afterwards he wore a remark Mr. Urban, Dec. 18. ."
ably handsome wig, which became his TPHE National Debt of Ireland, in-.
fine person much. Jt is supposed to A eluding loan of 1807, and re
have been done bv his friend Worlidge. duced imo a Three per cent, stock, was
Itjs a Hirge square picture in oil colours. about 70 millions; of which about 48
He asks five guineas tor it. But his millions are payable in London, the
greatest curiosity is ten pieces of tapestry, test in Dublin.
which originally adorned Bedford In this country above 3,751,0001.
House. They are in high preservation . Three per cents, were bought prior to
Most of the subjects appear to be alle-. 1st of February last; and the annual
gorical, but there are two from Le sum applicable here was ihen 5!}6,Qbg\.
Brun, viz. ihe tept of Darius, and the and in Ireland the sum lor the fame
triumphal entry into Babylon. The. purpose, as stated 5th January 1807,
price is 200 guineas for the whole; was30i,0'64/
but they may be had separate. The difference between these twa
Mr. Lmrence, who keeps " The last sums will give abort- two millions
Feathers, " in a small lane parallel with bought then in Ireland ; and the pur
Upper Thames-street, near Qneenhiihe, chases in 1807 must exceed another
has a small but choice collection of million. Thus the total redeemed up
paintings, which he exhilwts at Is. to the present date will be seven mil
each; but he does not wish to part lions, or one tenth part ot" the Irish'
with them. Among them is a paint National Debt ! W. P.
- • Mr.
iao8 The Bombay Courier attdch Cdlonel Riddell. [Suppi
Mr. UftBAW, Dec.il. present feel ourselves to be,, to have re
I HAD lately put into my hands a linquished our old-fashioned notions on
paper called The Bombay Courier, this subject, and to have extended in be
dated the 1(1 of August, 1807; wherein is half of this medically-inspired person the
reprinted niv statement, from The Bath privilege of quackery beyond the nurf*
Herald, which you inserted in your and the old woman, if his efforts had been
Magazine for May last, p. 4i<), prefaced attended with that success which would
by the following curious production, have contributed so much to the happi
ness of an affectionate family, by restor
which deserves to be widely perused, ing
as an example of the wretched shifts abletoparent. them an amiable and most respect
men are put to, who are engaged in indeed, thereAsisthenoman fays in the play,
knowing what the
Underhand efforts against the fame and effect of his prescriptions might have been
success (if their contemporaries. if death had not interfered in the business,
The late Dr. James very feelingly and, unfortunately for the patient and
fcomplained of the fame arts practised the doctor, removed the Peer from his
against his discoveries ; and very' forci care before they had time to operate with
bly censures such impudent calum effect. We cannot but commend the
nies ; adding, as the mildest conclu liberality of this gentleman's practice ; he
sion, " that every attempt of this kind is by no means bigoted to any particular
is an effort of interest to strangle truth," medicine, but seems ready to run through
&c. This celebrated Physician had the whole Materia Medica, rather than
every advantage that could be derived either obstinately persevere in the use of
froic learning, and regular education. one, or timidly shrink from the applica
tion of any. -In the present case he
What, therefore, have I to expect ? seems
Certainly less respect and caution than several totimes have changed his .prescriptions
; and, when he found that
were used in the attacks on him.
All that remains for me, therefore, tude of genius which iswith
one was unsuccessful, that prompti
equally admirable
is, my best endeavours to repel them ; in the Physician as in the General, he
and, ensuing these observations, you varied his mode of attack; but as victory
have mv answer, or rather my expo is not always to the strong, so this gen
sition of them ; the substance of which, tleman, notwithstanding his reiterated and
1 have no doubt, will be anticipated various warfare, was obliged to leave the
by your intelligent readers. field in the possession of the enemy.
" Yours, &c. John Uiddei.1. " We are informed that he tendered
1 . " As the following account, which we his services to Mr. Pitt during his last ill
found in a Bath paper, proceeds from the ness. It is, perhaps, to be lamented that
pen of a gentleman well known on this the pressing but patriotic importunities
side of India, and as it is, in other re which he made to the friends of that great
spects, stamped with singularity, we Statesman to be admitted to feel his pulse,
have been induced to give it a place in should have been unadvisedly rejected. In
our columns, as likely to furnish some Ipeaking os the flight of Mahomet from
atpusement to our readers. The friends Mecca to Medina, Mr. Gibbon observes,
of the gentleman may not, perhaps, be that the slight of an arrow might at that
surprised at his appearance in this new time have changed the history of the
character ; for our own parts, we must world. So may we observe, that had it
confess that the perusal of the article in not been for the luckless obstinacy of Mr.
question has excited in us some little won Pitt's friends, a stroke of Col. Riddell's
der. We have been accustomed to be* pen might have changed the face of Eu
lieve that every profession, to be success rope.
fully followed, ought to be diligently stu " We understand that this gentleman,
died ; and that the privilege of possessing from an anxiety, no doubt, to watch
hoftrums for all the maladies of human every turn of the disease and every opera
nature was, by a krnd of prescriptive tion of the Medicine, whenever he suc
fight, confined to nurses and old women. ceeds in getting admitted to attend anr
In the present case, however, we have an, body (and it is chiefly the great and dis
mftance of an Officer, who has served his tinguished that he .is patriotically ambi
country in India during the greatest "part tious of saving) insists on a residence in
of his life, and who must be supposed to the house as an inmate at bed and board .
know more of Tacticks than Phyfick, en and that he is so extremely anxious to
croaching on the rights of Empiricism, fulfil the duties of a medical attendant,
and seizing the club of Æsculapius, with that it is with the utmost difficulty he can
as much confidence as the most skilful of be prevailed on to quit the house after he
the College of Physicians could do. We has once entered it."
should bave been more ready than we at Malignity of heart is so universally
odious.
1807.] Colonel Riddell's Justification of bis Vra&'tce. 1209
odious, when clearly discovered, that that one plight suppose he had never
the agents under this" black disposition read it, is the dark tricks of wilful and
have constantly found it necessary to determined perversion had not been
conceal their effort* under any djlguise before too well known. Of the many
their ingenuity could invent, or which triumphs I have enjoyed over what is
seemed to them moll convenient. The called " regular praStce," this, cafe may
disguise generally used is llie appear- be accounted the moll eminent: a-ntf
ance of some virtue, a» piety, bonevo- if I have seized the "club of Æscula-
Jence, $$c. ; and the uimoll art has been pius," I hope 1 have (hewn that I
usually employed in laying on this gild- know how to wield it, though I know
ing, ihat no suspicion should be afforded of no club that this physician ever
of thebaseand offensive ineial beneath it. made use of. Bus the author seems to
On common occasions, islhe covering have thought himself armed with the
be but clumsily executed, it will some- spear of Hector; and, Jike the eft'emi-
times answer the end proposed ; for nate Paris, he is only saved from the
mofl readers are too Ijttle accustomed shame of a defeat by the kind inter-
to weigh the import os words, or to veiition of a cloud,
look for meaning beyond the mere The author's affected surprize at
found of a sentence, to' detect the cheat what he calls my "■new characler"
that is first offered. VVii, or what the could only, if real, have arisen from
author calls amusement, seems here to the common source os all surprizes—
be intended as the covering medium ; that is, ignorance. But the wicked-
but in the ferment qf his spleen, and "ess of -his essay can excite no wonder
his eagerness lo do mischief, this pre- ft all, except this, that in a business so
cious trader has overlooked evert com- important as that qf ruining the fame
mon prudence in setting off his wares ; I am every day acquiring, it was not
and they must be dull indeed who are.' entrusted to the management of an
deceived by their appearance. Some- abler head and a better writer.
times we see the cloak worn so grace- The latler part of this crafty publi-
fully as to veil the cloven foot ; but cation completely developes the spirit
here it is absolutely laid bare, the flimsy a"<! intention with which it was writ.,
garment not amounting to a cover; ten. Bijl my whole life falsifies the
aud the whole intention is sufficiently shameless and moll contemptible slau-
exposed without an attempt to do it in ders ihat it contains. It certainly wa,j
a reply; and, indeed, any thing like a bepome desirable to many, that I should
serious one would be a "bad compli- oe prevented from interference in feri-
ment to the reader's understanding. 01,1 cases of disease ; and had not the
Whether this witty elfay were written effects of my prescriptions produced
in India, or taken ready manufactured astonishment and alarm, we should pro-
from hence only to be there inserted, is bably never I'ave heard of this Bomb-:
but little to the purpose, though it as- battery, and its miserable attempt to
fords decisive evidence of the latter, depreciate them.
Probably it was thought that the fly I wi". at p^sept, conclude my no-
point of attack being placed in Alia', tice of this unworthy subject by quut-
the stroke would, like gravity, come ing 'he Reviewers' Report of the fame
with accelerated force, in proportion case, when it was, rcpublislied in the
to the distance it had to fail; but, how- Genileman's Mjtgaaine for May 1807,
ever this mav be, certain it is, that its for which I lake this opportunity
impoience can onlv be equalled by its of thanking them. *' We wish every
folly : and I should have cordially regular son of Galen, when he ha*
thaiiked the author for affording me dispatched his work secundum artem,
such an opportunity to expose the base- were able 10 make out as good a Cafe
ness of a coiicealed'all'ault on my clia- as Col. Riddell has done in the above
raster, were it not for the outrage it well-written statement." And again:
aqmmits on the feelings of the noble " These arcana need not be discussed
family 10 which the case alludes-. As at present. The Colonel's Letter is a
it is, 1 can only express my sorrow at good one, and the caduveris infpeclia
being made the unintended instrument has witnessed the correctnels of his
of it t but the case itself H so flatly diagnostics ;. he may, therefore, smile
contradicted by the author s remarks, at the impotent atwmpls qf the Fa,
Gent. Mao. Supplement, I807. fuhy,"
iaio Reportfrom Committee of'Middlesex Magistrates. [Supp.
- .11 or of/• the
cuUy, .1 weuld-beill Wits, to used . -. for
- weighing
... meat, and. other prov1".
tyxn him ifiti> ridicule, &c." lions, in the House of Correction, Cold ''
Youk, &c. J. Riddell. Bath-fields, when it was found to be seven
eighths of an ounce too light ; and that,,
Parliament-Jlrect, on weighing some Loaves, which were
Mr. Urban, Dec. 19. found in the fame prison by the Grand
HAVING been for many years an Jury, they appeared also to be considerably
attentive reader of your excellent too light—one or two of them being from
publication, and always gratified with an ounce a»d a half to two ounces mnekr
the loyal principles which influence its weight. I should compromise the feelings which-
direction, as well as convinced o I 1 lie I bear towards the respectable Magistrates
steady and uniform zeal it manifests on of the County of Middlesex, if 1 were to
all occasions to correct 'error, and in omit to make rhis fon/.ai communication.
an especial degree to support our glo 1 have the honour to be, Sir,
rious Constitution, by enforcing a strict Your obedient humble servant,
obedience to the established laws, I am R. Phillips, Sheriff."
induced to request you will, mien a " To Mr. Sheriff Phillips.
Report, recently made by the Com &t:/Jicii-l.IouJe, Clerkcmvell-Greeqt
mittee of Magistrates for the manage • Stii, ntk December, IS07.
ment of the Cold Bath Fields Prison, . I beg leave to acquaint you, that your
C'erkeiiwell, as a, complete resutalijm letter ot the lath day of November last,
of a charge which has been industri addressed to ihe Chairman of the Quarter
ously circulated by persons who are Sessions for the County of Middlesex, and
gnxions tq give effect to Utopian schemes transmitted by him to me, having been
of reformation. laid before' the Plilbn 'Committee, and
Yours, &c. ALovek ofTruth. taken into consideration by them," they
Our Readers will remember a statement made their Report of several matters
winch appeared about a month since m lelating to the Mouse of Correction,
the newspapers, of deficiencies detested in which was laid before the Court on thw
a pound weight used ac the above prison, County Day of the last Session ; and I am
and in loaves of bread, found there by the directed by the Court to transmit to you
Grand Jury of the County. The known a copy of so much thereof as relates to the
public spirit of Mr. Sheriff Phillips occa subject of your tetter.
sioned an appeal to that Aentleman on the I have the honour to be, Sir,
part of the Grand Jury;and in his pre You* obedient bumble tenant,
sence at Guildhall, the pound weight and H&Kitv Coll Sei. by, Clerk as the Peace."
the loaves were weighed by the City stand MIDDLESEX.
ards, which, it will 4>e recollected, were To His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for
adjusted about a century ago by the great the County of Middlesex, in their Gene
Sir Isaac Newton. Mr. Phillips very pro ial Session of the Peace, held in and for
perly reported whathe had • itnessed to the the s*ud County, in the month of
worthy Chairman of the Quarter- Seslic-ns ; December 1 S07.
and the matter has since undergone an The Report of the Commutes appointed
investigation before a Committee of Ma - to inquire into the "Receipt and Expen
gistrates, of which the following is a Re diture of the Butchers Meat, and other
port. The Gentlemen of the late Grand Articles, provided for the Prisoners in
Jury, whose fairness is arraigned in this the House of Correction, and also to
Report, will probably feel it necessary to inspect the general Concerns of the Pri
justify their discretion in selecting such a soners belonging to this County.
weight and such loaves as the objects of ■JRKSKNT.
their inquiry and animadversion. Sir Daniel Williams, Km. .in the Chair,
" To William Mainwaring, cjq. Chairman T. Bennet, D. D. W. Lewis, Esq.
of the Quarter Sestens, fife. fife. ' G. Gai'coigne, D. D. W, Wix, Esq.
,Sm, Bridge'-Jlreet, Nov, 13. C. Churchill, Esq. W. Kinnaird, Esq.
I consider it a duty which 1 owe the D. Dean, Esq. John Nicholl, Esq.
publick,! to inform you, as Chairman of H. Crosse, Esq. J. Hunter, Esq.
the Quarter Sessions, and I believe one of J. Warner, Esq. W. Forssteen, Esq.
the Committee for conducting the bHsihet's E. Cotterell, Esq. E. Robson, Clerki
of the Prison, that I was present when an S. Jackson, Elq. M. Buckley, Clerk}.
appeal was lately made by the Grand M. Beaufoy, Esq. R. Lendeiv, Clerk.
Jury of the County* to the Standard The said Committee report (hiter alia) :
Weights, in Guildhall—that I witnefled That havinr received from William
tht examination of the Pound Weight Mainwaring, Esq. the Chairman of the
Session,
-
1807.] Bread weighed in Cold Baft. Fields Prifen. 1211
Session, the letter which had been trans have,15uring the whole of that time, con
mitted to him by Richard Phillip*, Esq. stantly weighed out the meat when dressed
Sheriff of this County : the prisoners, the allowance to each
Your Committee proceeded to inquire being six ounces. The weights used upon
into the allegations therein, contained ; the occasion are an halfyiound weight and
and fi r ft, into the circumstance of the a two ounce weight in the opposite scale ;
one pound weight, which is 'stated in the and during the whole time that I have
Sheriff's letter as a pound weight used for acted as coolc in this .prison, 1 have never
weighing meat and other provisions in at any time whatever made use of a one
the House of Corre6lion. Y«ur Com pound weight ; and that since 1 have
mittee examined Mr. Aris, the Governor acted as a cook, a scale-maker has bcQn
•Of this prison, who gave the following tes twice in this prison to examine, regulate,
timony—" 'I'he one pound weight taken and adjust the weights."
-from the kitchen of the House of Correc And your said Committee further report,
tion by one of the Grand Jury, I have no that they then proceeded to inquire into the
doubt, is the fame weight which I directed statement contained in the Sheriff's letter,,
Joseph Balla/d, the late cook of this prison, respecting ccrtaiR loaves which were
to take frotn one Hubert Tweed, a pri deemed too light. Upcn the investigation,
soner in this prison (one of the mutineers) it appeared to your Committee, that the
in the year 1 S02 ; and 1 am confident that contract with the baker is, that he (hall
such weight never was or could have been furnish a one pound loaf of bread for eac,h
used to weigh provisions, or any other prisoner per day, she practice has inva
article whatever in this prison, tor the pri riably been to weigh the bread upon deli
soners or others, as a pound weight is very, in the gross, and to enter the weight
never used to weigh any article in this in a book kept for that purpose, expres
prison." sing in different columns, the over-weight
Your Committee then examined Wil or under-weight of the bread delivered to
liam Baffin (a prisoner), the head cook the prison each day. The entry in the
in this prison, who gave the following tes book on the 3d of November last (the day
timony upon oath : viz. on which the Grand Jury visited the pri
" I am a prisoner in this prison, and son, and took the loaves to Guildhall,
have been here near 1 " months. I have London), is as follows-:
been head cook about seven months, and
•No. of No. of Bread and No. of Gross Over Under
Date Priso Chil flour for Loaves weight. weight. weight,
ners. dren. washhouse. rece" ed.
1S07 ■2:6
Nov. 254 20 . 2 lbs. 278lbs. 2 lbs.
3
By which it appears that there were joined the same to their report, whereby
two p jundsof bread over weight delivered it will appear that the over-weight of
for she prisoners on this day. And, more bread delivered in the month of January
over, your Committee have been informed 1807 was 061b. ; in the month of Febru
that the above entry was shewn to the ary 1807, 27I0. ; in the month of Mareh
Grand Juryman at the time when he tuck 1807,4'ijbj in the month of April ISO",
away the loaves from the prison. 47lb. ; in the month of May 1S07, 13lb. ;
Your Committee think it necessary here in the month of June 1 807, 23tb. ; in the
*o Hate, that it appeared to them upon a month of July 18i>7, Si,lb ; in the month
minute examination, that two of the three of August IS07, solb. ; in the month of
loaves which were found rh and taken Sept. 1807, fllb. ; in the month of Octo
from the kitchen of the House of C^rrccr ber 1S07, s.ilb. ; and in the month of
tinn to the guildhall, London, were very November 1807, SOU). : making in the
stale, having been there some days, and whole a total overweight of bread delivered
belonged to the Cook of the prison ; and for the prisoners in thi* prison, since the
that the third was also what is called a 1st day of January last, of 5.'>2lb. (and
.stale loaf ; and that none of the loaves which entries, and due delivery of the
taken away were intended for,-or,had been bread conformably thereto, were verified
■delivered to, any of the prisoners. on oath by the clei'it of the said prison,
But your Committee, for the farther in who received the same).
formation of the Ccturr, have extracted Upon the whole, therefore, nf this in
from the book of the prison the amount vestigation, it appears to your Committee,
of each day's delivery of bread for ttie that the Sheriff has been imposed upon ;
prisoners in the House of Correction, since and that the statement made to him,
1st day of January last, and nan. sub which occasioned his writing the letter to
the
1212 Architectural Innovation, Koi CXVI. [Supp*
the Chairman of the Session, originated m appearance. I am not satisfied (lay
misapprehension, and was altogether fri ing that asperity aside which is ever
volous and unfounded. bound to these kind of Surveys, as
And your said Committee lastly report, beholding to much of culpable inat
they have frequently examined into the tentions. A variety of minute parts in
state and condition of the House of Cor the turns of the heads of the windows,
rection, and of the several prisoners thereinand in other situations, are false and
confined ; they have found the prison irregular ; and to conclude my notes
perfectly clean, and the prisoners healthy on the North and South fides (entered
and without complaint ; and jour Com upon in my last paper), 1 find that
mittee have great satisfaction in repre
senting to the Court, that it appears to within the seventh and eighth divi
them, by the information of t lie Rev. Mr. sions (made by buttresses) Eastward,
Evans the Chaplain to the Prisoners, and two low fort of hovels, bv way of
Mr. Aris, the Governor, that the Pri petty offices, have been erected. As
soners behave orderly in the prison and little adulation has fallen to the share
with decency, and with due decorum i« of the Constructor of the new Porch,
the Chapel during divine service ; and or Facade, he, or some other heedless
that the children, who are kept separate student in our Antiquities, will not,
and apart from their parents in the prison, in the present instance, meet with anv
make gre;it progress in their learning ; altthing much like compliment*. Thele
which the Coftimittee submit, &c. low erections then have each a door
Daniel Williams, Chairman. way and two windows, taking Pointed
heads, but, unluckily, not like the
Architectural Innovation, obtuse Pointed heads of the Hall, tout
N« CXVI. the more acute equilateral proportion,
trUII-DKALL, i.WUTJON. a feature much older in practice than
( Continued from p. 1 H S.) those on the sides of the main building
^r^Hli whole exterior of the Hast before us. The cant Uiotildings to
L now tinder survey has been torn- each of these netb~rcvived openings are
poed ; and the dark congestion 'destitute of the necessary plinth, or
run over with a chemical white source from whence all antiem Archi
wash of various stains, and scratched traves take their rife ; but this will be
and chopped at certain chalked courses) considered as trifling, as will, no
to imilate the hues and scarification* of doubt, my observing that the doore
decayed (lone-wont ; when, be it re themselves are purely modern, that is,
membered, all this tort of Arcliitefin~ what is called the Egyptian Frenchified
ral blijlrr is actually laid over the teal Enslifh talte> now in fa AS ion.
and actual (tone work of the Hall ; Fall Front. A noble elevation. In
whether needful or not, is best knowu the basement an extensive door-wav
to those who " belt can tell." leading to the fine Crvpt under the
A question naturally riles out of the Hall. Above the basement is the large
subject : How long will all this trim and magnificent East window, .div ided
variegaied veil endure ? Forever? or, into three diliinct pans bv beautiful ap
like a " Will o' the Wisp," appear to propriate buttresses '(au uncommon de
grafts)' nJnQn-slrine gafcers for a remu coration in such a situation). The
neration while, nml then return to mullinns and tracery are Architectural,
that muddy tone of colour, and intricate, aud elaborate, with manv
those opposite panicles it owned at tiers of pleasing mouldings, and a
. i is fictitious birth? sweeping cornice. The parcelling of
1 have much to upbraid myself for, the principal lighis in the width of the
thai when 1 took the South side of the window are nine (a grand account) ;
Hull n 17R8, I neglected -to .preserve 10 and in height the principal lights are
myself the East and West frouts .; hut three, with many other intervening
1 fondly thought at that lime no inno- lesser liuh'S, the whole partaking of
vatins baud would ever have presumed the sublime ; and no particular is
to restore their mutilations, whatever ifoiind too "tieavv" or too " light,"
might be done wiih respect to pulling but accordant aud perfect. At the an.
down this or that attendant' building 4 gles of this Front are lofty octangular
bin I have been mistaken. As it is, 1 ■Uiirrets, curious in their "plinth ac
have fedulouflv examined everv mould companiments, and decorated with
ing, and everv other Architectural par buttresses. Somewhat above the se-
ticular .of each Front, in their preleui pond story of these turrets, a pediment
cornice
[807.] Alterations made j«Guildhall.-EdmundLudlow. 1213
cornice extends towards the centre of the They are not visible on ihe exterior, be
Front, giving bevontl all doubt the ori ing walled up, &e.
ginal finish of the roof, or, as it is The Ailes in the Crypt are made by
vulgarly called, *' gable end," On the clustered columns, with plinths, bases,
tops of the turrets are cupolas, whence and capitals, from whence spring
a second pediment cornice extends to groins, with ribs, and ornamented
wards the centre of the design, accom bosses : one of them has a shield with
modating itself 10 ihe present Poof; the City arms. The windows are
these of course are VVrene'in unseemly laTge, and contain three lights, having
additions ; and let up by those who each Pointed liends, with three turns.
first breathed haired lo our Antiquities. Height irf the Crypt about 13 feet
These cupel as and second pediments (j inches.
have been, through alt the present fcjUM When it is considered that these re
rations, most (crupnloully preserved, as mains (lieing such a graiid aud noble
in duty bound, ib the descendant pro- preparatory design lo the Hall itself)
sessional school sboiild do. Instead of are used for no other purpose than that
bringing thele rival pediments to the of storing up the benches, tables, &c.
necessary finish, by each meeting at a in requisition for the Civic Feast held
point in the centre, thev are both cut on a Lord Mayor's day, it will be
short off, and a plain modern pedestal concluded, that J, from being thus
set on the few horizontal feet thus profuse in phrase, must be either blindly
obtained. F never, as I recollect, heard partial to our Antiquities, or others
that Sir Christopher had pretensions to must be insensible to the merits df
be theChiefMagistrateof the City; but, their predecessors, who, in prepar
if so, here I suppose his statue was to ing an edifice that was to give dignitv
have been set up in triumphant guise by and consequence to one of the firft
the professors of hie new School, they Cities in the Universe, presumed they
having run over the Hall a* flat modern were doing honour to themselves and
panneled cieling, in lieu of the open to their country.
timber-worft (gaze at Westminster Quære. Might not some attached
Hall !) which hung in magic splen building be run up for holding the
dour before the Great Fire devoured all convivial paraphernalia, as well as the
its glories! Farther investigating ibis attached hovel ollices above, for stamp
East Fronts I found small recesses, ing therein quart pots, and liquor pro
roof-holes, air holes, he. stuck and portionates, &c. ?
broke into the plain pans of ihe up At? Architect.
right. Here again I am at fault ; do
not feel happv ; something teHs me all Mr. Urban, Dec. 21.
is not ruin (unfortunate coiiseqncnce( THIi following Inscription was
want of sketches !) thus am I coin- placed over the door of the fa
pelled to dismiss this Front. mous Kdmiind Lndlotv, at Verlby,
West From. A repetition of the upon the lake of Geneva.
iF.jst Front (excepting a Well door " Omne l'olum Forti Patria, quia Patris,"
way into the Crypt, which is not in
troduced) wiih -some, charming devia His Epitaph in the church there ;
tions in the tracery of the outer divi " Siste gradura, et respice.
sions of the great Well window. Thele Hicjacct Edmondus Ludlow, Anglus na
changes are not very perceptible at first tions, provinciæ Wiltonientis, filius Hen-
iitiht ; the eye must long wander over rici, Equestris ordinis, Senatonfque Par-
the mazy lines : but when the disco liamrnti, cujus quoque suit ipfe mem-
very is made, insensibly are we fur- brum : patrum ftenimate clarus cf.nobi-
prized, and insensibly are we delighled I lis, virtute propria nobilior; religionc
By consulting the plan os the Crypt; Protestans, et insigni pietate corui'cus ;
I find 1 hat the width (North and ætatis anno xxme Tribunus Mililum,
South) is divided into three ailes., and paulo post Exercitus Prætor ptimarius;
length (East and Well) into four. The tune Hibernoi um domitor ; in pugna in-,
longitudinal course lakes, I conclude, trepidus ct vitæ prodigus, iri victoria Cle
mens et manfuetus ; Patriæ Libertatis
about half of the story above (it may desensor, et Potcstaiis Arbitrariæ oppug-
possibly extend the whole length of the nator acerrimus ; cujus causa ab eadem
Hall, but partitioned off or otherwise) Patria xxxn annis extorris, meiiorique
as 011 the North fide are four windows, fortuna dignus, apud Helvctios fe recepit,
corresponding lo thole over tl»«n.. ibique ætatis anno lxxiii" nioriens, sui
dtlidcriura
*£#4 Andrew Broughxon.- AntientjCbain^Miscettames. [Supp.
«lefiierium relinquens, sedes aeternas lætus ence, that the " Beggar's Opera,"
advolavit.
" Hecce monumentum in perpetuat-n which might, wtrh more propriety, be
iciæ et finceræ pieiatis erga maritum dc- denominated the " The School for
functum meihorinm dicatet vovct dotnina Vice" requires, in point of virtue,
Elizabetha de Thomas, cjus llrenua et modeflv, ami morality, to be prohi
j>rapftmililiima tam in inftirtuniis qtiam in bited as au exhibition on the stage, the
rtHinnionio consort dileiHuiima, qua?,ani- Hero being a Felon, and the Heroines
mi raagnitudine et vi amoris conju^atis harlots : consequently, there can be 110
mota, eum in exilium, ad obitum irsque doubt but its dissolute and profligate
fonftanter fecutaesViniioPoni. m dcxciii. tendency has cotiliibuled to influence
In l lie fame church : too many lo pursue such criminal
" Depoiiioriujn courses or propensities as have even
Xndreæ Broughion, armigcri Anrjicani, brought them progressively to an un
Maydfunienfis in comhatu Cantii, ubi bis timely end. How such a licentious
Prætor Urbanus ; dignatusque etiam suit and lascivious representation could
fententiam Regis Reguni profari, quani have so long been tolerated, especially
«b causam expulfus parria Petegri-
natione ejus fimiA, solo iencthitis morbo at a Theatre Royal, is perfectly unac
affettus, rcquiefcens a laboribus iuis, in countable.
Domino obdormitrt xxiii" die Feb. A Contemplative Observer.
anno Dom. mcclxxxvii', ætatis Cute
lxxk.iv"." M. G. Mr. Urban, ' Dec. JO.
X/ OU will please to add to your ac-
Mr. Urban, Inverness, Dec. S.5. * count of the anneal windows put
"j ^HUEE davs ago, some of the ki up in various churches (vol. LXXV.
ll, hourer* on ibat patt of the Cale p. 482) that on the putting up of one in
donian Canal which cuts the fide of Tottenham church, thegiflof JohnWil-
the hill Torravaifi, near Inverness, and niot, efq. of Bruce Castle, in that pa
close to the old road lending; 10 Loch- rish, the vicar, Mr. Huberts, preached
nelii, dog up a silver chain, of double an appropriate sermon from Eph. iv.
links, tie all containing Ih'riv rings; II. "He gave some, prophets : and
the thickness of ihe bars which corn- some, apostles." D.
pole the links is about that of a mail's
Jillle finger, and t lie medium diameter Mr. Urban, Dec. 12.
of the rings may he a little more than WE may give your correspondent
an inch and a half. The chain weighs Crvpiciivnius (p. 432) creditfor
six pounds, and is of silver mixed with endeavouring to vindicate .Quakerism
a small quantity ol ahoy, seemingly of froin'thechargcof Deism ; hut whatnnill
brass or copper. A human skeleton we denominate lite tenet he has snbsti-
nas fooud near the chain, »ud a piece tuletl —but absurdity and enthusiasm ?
of the fuine metal, resembling in shape To believe more inspiration lhan ihe
a bracelet, hut which could not have Scriptures authorise, is to add to and
been intended for that purpose, Iieing 1ale from ihe Scriptures ; the denuji- ,
considerably too small. Inverness is ciation against which is threatened at
well known to ha\e been ihe anuent the conclusion of the Scriptures them
rapiial of the P.ciifh kings, and the selves, Uev.'l. xxii. 18, lj) ; or, in the
forts of Craig Phatrick, near that words of the fame Scripture, to strain
twit, as well as many others, are sup at a gnat, and swallow a camel. IX
posed to be the remains of ihe roval
habitations of ■ that race. Thole well r 9Mr. 'HEUrban, Dec.my14".eye
first thing that caught
skilled in antiquarian research can best
discover the uie of ibis piece of niiii- I ibis niqrnini at breakfast, was
qniiy : it is now in the hands ol Mr. the admired Fables of John Gay.
Stewart, si'versmiih, who purchased it When J had pored over them some
for len pounds from the persons who time (it was one of the frivolous final I-
found it. Monticola. .piiut copies of tile dav) 1 laid ihe book-
down, with one of his maxims on ray
Mr. Urbant. tongue.:
Dec. 8.
1 Evil communications corrupt good '> Plant Virtue, and .Content 's the fruit."
manners." Mv'randoin hand next reached your last
JS" admirer of ihe Drama ij induced April Magazine ; where, in theObituary,
A to iuhuti;, wiih becoming defcr- and iu 1he lame theet, are given too lu-
juataouj.
1 807.] Moral Rtfleflions.—* Miracle at Cana in Galilee. 12 15
minous histories os Captains in the she expected he would exert his divine
Army, but ot' verv opposite characters. power to procure a supply ; but, so far
In them are personified the broad aud were the guests from entertaining any
legible features of Virtue and Vice. such expectation, that the Mailer or
They both, after encountering many Huler of the Eeall expressed his sur
sufferings from hard service abroad, in prize to the Bridegroom that the wine
distant pans, die at home. The first should have so long continued good
beloved and edeemed by .ill lor his and plenteous. This is the Evangelist's
good works, and at the good age of account of the transaction, to which I
75, in the arms of his happy and la would beg leave 10 refer Dr. M. ; and,
menting family. The latter having unless he has some Papal tradition to
squandered Kit,. fortune, at 54 " lett refer to on which he may gruutus bis
and forliiken of his velvet friends," and opinion, 1 hope he will allow that there ■
" deserted at his utmost need" by his is not the least reason to suppose the
beautiful but frail wife, dies a profli gqod fouple os Cana (as he styles them)
gate in a London Hospital ; aud his made any such application. But I
body, after lying a forinigut in the would beg leave to fay a few words
dead house, more on this subject. It was an ex
" On the cold earth exposed he lies, press command of our Saviour to his
With not a friend to close hts eyes, Disciples, to make their petitions in his
was at lad indebted fur its interment name; and he gr.icioully added a pro-
to the humanity of a stranger. mile, thai whatsoever was so a/Iccd
These are the broad traits on which would be granted : " Whatsoever ye
the moral pencil of the inimitable Ho shall ask the Father in my name, fie
garth was employed. They have em will give il you.'' John xvi. 23.
ployed the pens of thousands, and will, Such was the Apostle's authority, and
Jo long as there are to be found Wis such is the authority of the Reformed
dom and Vanity in the world. When Church, for offering petitions in the
■ten are driving forward to their ruin, name of the Redeemer. Can tbeChurcli
it is in vain to wish they had had more of Rome produce an authority of equal
sense, or, as your Projector fays quaintly weight for their practice of praving to
enough, " to wish the ice had been Saints? Have such Saints been com
thicker." RusTicus. missioned to sav, that thru mediation '
will be effectual ? Nay, were not the
Mr. Urban, Oct. 2. . lives of some styled Saints in ihe Ro
THE influence of a bigoted preju man Calendar of such a description as -
dice in darkening the understand* must very ill accord with the idea that
ing and misleading the mind was never so hiah an office could ever be con
sorely more conspicuous than in Dr. ferred on them? But thus it is, when
A lil tier's letter, in p. 7<)7, where l;e men leave the- solemn and sacred
asserts, thai ihereis no Idolatry in offer Word of Revelation for human tradi
ing petitions or prayers to Saints, or tions and superstitious fancies!
the Virgin Mary, for their mediation, The Doctor, however, would fain
though he at the lame liuie acknow have it supposed, that he is not a blind
ledges our Saviour lo be the only M di- bigot to ihe doctrines of Popery i and
ator between God and man. The offers to quit her communion, if jour
Doctor wishes to find a sanction fir Correspondent P. C. or any other man,
this practice in ihe instance of the |>eo- can prove sinier aim) thai "the Ca
.ple at Cana in Galilee requesting ihe tholic Church has /it aji'je aba one Di
A'irgiu to obtain from her Sou a mira vine Cutnmnndrttenl." No.v, >> hat proof
culous tupnly us wine. Now, had fitch would liuisfy ihe Doctor, it is impos
a request lecn wade, it certainly could sible for me 10 know; but tie cannot
not have subjected ihe petitioners 10 sttrelv deny, that the. Romish Church
the charge of Idolatry ; bin it does not hath long withheld, aud dues still with
appear, from what Si J"!m has re hold, sl um a very considerable proportion
corded 10 have laken p'ace on that oc of tier disciples the Sacrame* tat Cast,
casion, thai any such request was tr.adc tlio:ij<h tlie command of our Dirine yins
lo Ihe f'trgm .- Ihe, indeed, laid to our ter at the inflitntiun of that ll^ly
Lord, "They have no wine ;" and Ordinance was must forcibly e.rpteffe I—■
from her deliriug the servants to obey •* Drink ye all osi: "
liU commands it may be inferred, that Yours, HiC. A PitortssTAMT.
Mr.
12 1 6 Pedantic Prescriptions.—-London Workhouse. [Supp,
Mr. Urbaw, Dec. 14. and pretence of sincere affection ; others
A SPECULATIVE Correspondent by profligates of their own lex. Welt
is induced to observe, that Boni may it be asked, why are not such
face in the play might wilh great pro people made examples al ? Why arc
priety have affirmed that Lady Boun there such severe laws against' very
tiful had cured almost as many pe&ple flight offences, compared to the art
by pure charity within a few years as ful /iduSinn of Innocence? It a|>-
the Doctors had killed : at least by ve l>ears by Siow's "Survey of London"
nal prescriptions, couched iri barba bv Slr\|>e 1/20 (speaking of the Lon
rous Latin, and in Hill mere barbarous don Workhouft) "that the design and
hieroglyphics, being misunderstood or bihntiun of the said Workhouse is to
misapprehended bypraillingapothecaries employ all the poor children, beggars,
and their giddy apprentices ; as by that vagrants, aud other At(orderly persons,
means, too often, even fatal mistakes have that are or can be found within the
been committed, which might obvi Citv of London and the liberties there
ously have been prevented, were pre of." Then is enumerated (from a paper
scriptions to be written in plain Eng dated 1704) the different deseripiion of
lish and simple characters, ib as to be poor children who are objects of the-
perfectly comprehended, agreeably to establishment ; also of beggars and va
reason and common fense. At all grants, and idle and disorderly persons,
events, pedantic disguise seems to be amongst which arc mentioned " those
tray latent deception ; of consequence, tit women who are taken up in the
such injurious and ostentatious prac streets debauching the youth and others
tice, it is presumed, requires to be of this City."—" Note there are now
abolished by authority, for the bene- in i lie Wotkhoule seldom less than 400
fit of the Community. children at work, beside the grown
Yours,. &c. PhilAntBropus. bei:g:irs, vagrants, and other idle and
disorderly persons who are there kept
Mr. Urban, Dec. \6. lo hard labour." It is understood that
AT a time when new Societies are at present there are not more (if so>
forming in the Metropolis to re nianv) than half a dozen children in
lieve and restore to honest industry the the .Workhouse, although there are
Diflretled and Criminal, it is surely to ample funds for supporting a great
to be lamented, that old establishments number of people. How far it would
for those purposes should be neglected, be consistent with justice, humanity,
potwithstanding there are funds, or and sound policy, to put in force all
means of raising them, sufficient to the claules of the Vagrant Act, we do
maintain such Institutions. The esta not mean here to examine. That wor
blishments particularly under conside thy and truly respectable man Gran-
ration are, the London Workhouse in ville Sharp, whose labours for the good
Biflioplgate- street, and Bridew.ell. The of mankind are well known, took con
present Sheriffs have shewn great zeal siderable pains some years ago to render
aud activity in endeavouring lo reform this Workhouse useful, but sailed in
what they fee erroneous, and to lessen his endeavour. The exact cause of
the afflictions of our suffering fellow, his want of success we do not know.
creatures : their endeavours, we ear Yours, &c. An Observer.
nestly hope, may be crowned with suc
cess, and that many abuses may be Mr, Urban, Dec. 18.
rectified. We sincerely wish they and 7^ UK Dissertation os Bishop Atifr-
otljer City Officers would pay particu bury, noticed in p. 1000, is still
lar attention to these establishments, as a desideratum to the literary world r
it is imagined they might be rendered but some valuable letters which passed
essentially useful. Might they not be on the subject, between that Prerate,
of great service in restoring to virtuous and Bishop Potter, mav be seen in the
industry a most miserable class of fe second edition os the " Epistolary Cor
males, who are nightly lo be seen in respondence" of Bishop Atierbury,
the streets of this City .' A more pi tri 1789. ASbarcher.'
able set of human beings, perhaps,, *«* The Correspondent who enquires at-
is not to be met with in this kingdom : ttxSorah Neu digatc, who married Mr. Peter
many of them, probably, have been Oliver, and went over to New lingland,
enticed away from their parents' roof and fettled there about the middle of the
by the wicked arts of profligate men, 17th "century," is referred to the Heralds
under a solemn protuile of marriage, College, or to the Newdiftt Family.
153.
1807.] Review of Net /Publications. 1217
153. Hours of Idleness ; a Series of Poems, these advantages. But they derive consi
original and tranjlated. By George- derable fame, and a few not less profit,
. Gordon Lord Byron, a Minor. from their productions ; while I shall et-
HEN a young Nobleman is tainly piate my rashness as an interloper, cer
without the latter, and, in all pro
w content to wave the privilege of bability, with a very flight share of the
Peerage, and ta put himlelf at (he former. I leave to others ' Vir&m volitate
mercy of Reviewers, he merits at least per ora.' I look to the few who will hear
some portion of indulgence. with patience ■ dulce est ikstpere in lam.'
• «* In submitting to the public eye the To the former Worthies I resign, without
following Collection, I have not only to repining, the hope of immortality, and
combat the difficulties that writers of content myself with the not very magnifi
verse generally encounter, but may incur cent prospect of ranking 'amongst the
the charge of presumption, for obtruding mob of gentlemen who write,' my readers
myself on the world, when, without must determine whether I dare fay 'with
doubt, I might be, at my age, more use- ease,' or the honour of a posthumous
sully employed. These productions are page in " The Catalogue of Royal and
the fruits of the lighter hours of a young Noble Authors," a work to which the
man, who has lutely completed his nine Peerage is under infinite obligations, inas
teenth year. As they bear the internal much as many names of considerable
evidence of a boyish mind, this is, per length, found, and antiquity, are thereby
haps, unnecessary information. Some few rescued from the obscurity which un
were written during the disadvantages of luckily overshadows several voluminous
illness and depression of spirits; under productions of their illustrious bearers.
the former influence, " Childish Recol " With slight hope? and some fears £
lections," in particular, were composed. publish this first and last attempt. To the
This consideration, though it cannot ex dictates of young ambition may be ascri
cite the voice of Praise, may at least arrest bed many actions more criminal and
the arm of Censure. A considerable por equally absurd. To a few of my .own age,
tion of these Poems has been privately the contents may afford amusement. I
printed, at the request and for the perusal trust they will, at least, be found harm
of my friends. 1 am sensible that the less. It is highly improbable, from my
partial and frequently injudicious admira situation and pursuits hereafter, that I
tion of a social circle is not the criterion should ever obtrude myself a second time
by which poetical genius is to be esti on the Publick ; nor even, in the very-
mated ; yet, ' to do greatly,' we must doubtful event of present indulgence, shall
•dare greatly;' and 1 have hazarded my I be tempted to commit a future trespass
reputation and feelings in publishing this of the lame nature. The opinion of Dr.
volume. ' I have pass'd the Rubicon,' Johnson on the Poems of a noble Rela
and must stand or fall by the ' cast of the tion of mine*, 'that when a man of rank
die," tn the latter event, I shall submit appeared in the character of an author,
without a murmur ; for,- though not his merit should be handsomely acknow
Without solicitude for the fate of these ef ledged,' can have little weight with
fusions, my expectations are by no means verbal and still less with periodical Cen
sanguine. It is probable that 1 may have sors ; but were it otherwise, I should be
dared much, and done little ; for, in the loth to avail myself of the privilege, and
words of Cowper, ' It is one thing to would rather incur the bitterest censure
write what may please our friends, who, of anonymous Criticism than triumph in
because they are such, are apt to be a lit honours granted solely to a title."
tle biassed in our favour, and another to Heartily hoping that the "illness
write what may please every body ; be and depression of spirits," which evi
cause they who have no connexion or dently pervade the greater part of these
even knowledge of the author will be
sure to find fault if they can.' To the effusions, a'e entirely dispelled ; confi
truth of this, however, I do not wholly dent that "George-Gordon Lord By
subscribe; on the contrary, I feel con ron" will have a conspicuous niche in
vinced that these trifles will not be treat the future editions of "Roval and No
ed with injustice. ble Authors;" and lamenting with his
" Though accustomed, in my younger Lordlliip the fate of Newsiead Abbey ;
jlays, to rove a careless mountaineer on the " Hours of Idleness" (hall be in-
the Highlands of Scotland, I have not,
of late years, had the benefit of such * "The Earl of Carlisle, whose Work*
pure air, or so elevated a residence, as have long received the meed of public ap
might enable me to enter the lists with plause ; to which, by their intrinsic
genuine Bards, who have enjoyed both worth, they were Well entitled."
1 GtNT. Mio. Supplement, 1807. troduced
E •
I2l8 Review of New Publications. [Supp.
deduced to our Readers bv the first in "That fame and that memory still will he
'he collection) which was written cherish ; [renown :
'On leaving Newstead Abbey, 1803. He vows that he ne'er will disgrace your
' Why dost thou build the hall, Son of Like youperish; will he live, or like you will he
[with your own '."
the winged Days? Thou looked from thy When decay'd, may he mingle his dust
tower to-day ; yet a few years, and the
blast of the defatt comes, it howls in thy In a subsequent part of the volume
empty court.' Ossian. is ah " Elegy on Newstead Abbey,"
" Through thy battlements, Newstead, mits which should be transcribed if our li-»
the hollow winds whistle ; would allow it. But the begin
Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone ning and the end (hall be given :
to decay ; [and thistle " Newstead ! fast falling, once resplendent
In thy once-smiling garden, the hemlock dome*! [pride!
Have choak'd-up .the res:, which late Religion's shrine! repentant Henry's +
bloom'd in the way. Of warriors, monks, and dames, the cioif-
" Of the mail-cover'd Barons, who proudly ter'd tomb ; [glide ;
Whole pensive shades around thy ruins
. to battle [tine's plain,
Led their vassals from Europe to Pai.f- " Hail! to thy pile! more honour'd in thy
The efcmchcon and shield, which with fall " [state ;
every blast tattle, [main. Than modern mansions in their pillai'd
Are the only sad vestiges now that re- Proudly majestic frowns thy vaulted hall'.
** No more doth old Robert, with harp- Scowling defiance on the blasts of
stringing numbers, Fate t"
Raise a Same in the breast for the war- After a poetical history of the priory,
laurel'd wreath ; from its foundation to the period when
Near Askalon's towers John of Horifton* the Bvron family was restored to their
slumbers, [death. poslestions, with the return of King
Unnerv'd is the hand of his minstrel by Charles the Second to the Throne, his
" Paul and Hubert too sleep, in the valley Lordship proceeds :
of Creffy ; [they fell : ''The gloomy tenants, Newstead! of tby
For the safety of Edward and England cells,
My fathers ! the tears of your Country re Howling, resign their violated oeft ;
dress you ; [Annals can tell. Again the Master on his tenure dwells,
Mew yOu fought! how^oudied! still her Enjoy'd, from absence, with enraptut'd
'On Marston f, with Rupert*, 'gainst zest.
traitors contending, ". Vassals, within thy hospitable pale
Four brothers enrich'd with their blood Loudlycari using.blel's theirLord's return;
the bleak field ; Culture again adorns the gladdening vale,
For the rights of a Monarch their Country And matrons, once lamenting, cease to
defending, [seal'd. mourn.
Till Death their attachment to Royalty "A thousand songs on tuneful echo float;
" Shades of Heroes, farewell ! your de Unwonted foliage mantles o'er the trees ;
scendant, departing [adieu ! And, hark! the horns proclaim a mellow
From the seat of his ancestors, bids you note, [the breeze.
Abroad, or at home, your remembrance The hunter's cry hangs lengthening on
imparting [and you. " Beneath their coursers' hoofs the valleys
New courage, he'll think upon glory shake, [the chace '.
" Though a tear dim his eye at this fad What fears, what anxious hopes, attend
separation, [re»ret ; The dying frag fecks refuge in the lake ;
'Tis nature, not fear, that excites his Exulting shouts announce the finish'd
JTar distant he goes, .with the fame emula race.
tion ; [forget.
The fame of his fathers he ne'er can * On some family difference with his
son (who died before him), the late Peer
entirely dismantled the noble mansion at
* "Horifton Castle, in Derbyshire, an Newstead, and sold the family picture* and
intient
■"f "Theseat Battle
of the ofByron family."
Marston Moor, where thef timber. See vol. LXV11I. p. 448. Edit.
" Henry II. founded Newstead s< oft
the adherents of Charles I. were defeated." after the murder of Thomas a Becket."
f X "Son of the Elector Palatine, and t His Lordship succeeded to the title,
related to Charles I. He afterwards May 10, 1708, on the death of his greae
commanded the Fleet, in the reign of uncle William, the fifth lord, at the age
aPhsries II." of 72, Edit.
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"Ah! happy days! too happy to endure! 1 54. The Epics of the Ton.
Such simple sports our plain forefather^ (Concluded:from p. 045 J
knew ; THE animated Bard, who in the
No splendid vices glitter'd to allure ; former Part has
Their joys were many, as their cares " To woman's glory blown the trump of
were few. Fame,"
" From these descending, Sons to Sires with " louder blasts," attempts to
succeed ; [his dart ; *' waft the mighty male ones to the
Time steals along, and Death uprears skies,
Another chief impels the foaming steed, Who still at White's, or at St. Stephen's
Another crowd pursues the panting hart. late, [State ;
" Newstead ! what saddening change of Now sliake the dice-box, now hold fast the
scene is thine ! Swear at Newmarket, swagger at Reviews,
Thy yawning arch betokens slow decay ; And now recruit the Forces, now the Stews;
The last and youngest of a Noble Line In fide-box glitter, gild a birth-day train,
Now holds thy mouldering turrets in his Eat, drink, and die'."- ■
sway. A character, not very panegyrical, of
** Deserted now, he scans thy grey-worn L— H — P—, is controlled by" the me
towers ; [sleep ; nu of his predecessor Pitt!
Thy vaults, where dead of feudal ages I' Peace to his (hade! Be all his faults for-
Thy cloisters, pervious to the wint'ry Complete perfection is no human lot. [gdt !
showers ; [but to wtep. He was d Statesman from his cradle bred.
These, these he views, and views them And high and lofty tower'd his youthful
" Yet are his tears no emblems of regret ; His idolhead; Glory, matchless power his pride,
Cherish'd affection only bids them flow :
Pride, Hope, and Love, forbid him to for All meaner aside;
ends were thrown with scorn
[await,
get, [glow. While Wealth and Honours on his nod
But warm his bosom with empaffion'd He liv'd a Commoner, and died in debt;—
" Yet he prefers thee to the gilded domes A debt his grateful Country pays in tears,
Or gewgaw grottos of the vainly Great ; And counts it little of her vast arrears.
Yet lingers mid thydampand mosl'y tombs,
Nor breathes a murmur 'gainst the will " By great ambition led,
of Fate.. To rule in Britain, and on France to tread ;
" Haply thysun, emerging, yet may shine, No filly ioys, the fluttering crowd that fire,
Thee to irradiate, with meridian ray; Posless'd thy heart, or waken'd thy desire ;
Fortune may smile upon a future Line, One play feem'd quite enough in fourteen
, And Heaven restore an ever-cloudless years, [tears.
day." And women's smiles werepafs'd like actors"
The Verses " on a distant View of Still, full of Britain's fame and Europe's
fate, [debate,
the Village and School of Harrow-on- Days spent in business, nights in strong
jhe Hill" have gnat merit; and ihe By thee no sports were sought, no tasteful
*' Childish Recollections" will give hours, [powers;
pleasure to many of the companions of Till Nature mourn'd o'er thine exhausted
the jSJohle Bard. Saw thy griev'd spirit part with many a
The following note is annexed to groan, [own."
"The Death ofCalmar and Orla," an More pieic'd by Europe's ills than by thine
Imitation of Macpherlbn's Ostlan : Some striking traits of the personal
" I fear Laing's late Edition has com character of Mr. Pitt are given in a
pletely overthrown eveiy hope that Mac- long note, which consists not wholly
pherfon's Ossian might prove the Transla of praise. We have only room for a
tion of a series of Poems complete in detached sentence or two.
themselves ; but, while the imposture is "There was nothing which brought
discovered, the merit of the work remains Mr. Pitt more credit, or in which he
undisputed, though not without faults, more decidedly excelled all his contempo
particularly in some parts, turgid and raries, than the perspicuity and fluency
bombastic diction. The present humble with which he detailed the most compli
imitation will be pardoned by the ad cated calculations. There are few men,
mirers of the original, as ah attempt, indeed, in Parliament who can now be
however inferior, which evinces an at heard with .patience on any financial to-
tachment to their favourite Author." pick.". ..." His talents were great ; and
We hope that many of the expres his statjon among Statesmen eminent ; but
sions in the concluding Article are to the companion of his abilities with those
be considered as merely poetical. of
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cf his successors has erected the loftiest .A very long and intelligent note il
monument to his fame.". . . . "At College lustrates the character of Mr. Fox i
he excelled in Mathematicks ;' and de " Even thole who disliked his politicks
lighted, through life, to employ his lei moll, admired his disposition. His friends
sure intervals in the perusal of the Latin felt towards
Clafficks: but his early and incessant ap and the openhim a personal attachment ;
plication to business prevented him from often disarmed frankness of his manner
acquiring a profound knowledge of any was regarded as political animosity. He
branch of learning. His public declama Englishman. His the very model of a true
tions in favour of Religion were ardent ; narrowness of his early dissipation and the
but his private convictions were never him in perperual private fortune involved
difficulties, which em
found, and his expiring moments were barrassed his mind, and often engaged
not those of confidence." him in a disagreeable dependence. The
In like manner, under acharacter of expedient of a general contribution of his
■ G—, the Poet takes occasion to friends, by which he was at length extri
pay some handsome compliments to cated, gave an irrecoverable blow to his
another departed Statesman : respectability. Those, especially, at a dis
" Thou, Fox, didst never quaff the tance felt a strange revolution of senti
public springs, ment when the idol of their admiration
And richly batten on the goodly things ; became a suppliant for their alms. Some
From loaves and fishes seek thy fortune's of his enemies had the cruelty to mortify
cure, him by their ostentatious subscriptions.
And rather fleece the people than be poor. the His inviolable attachment to peace was
Thou ne'er with strong prudential grasp ter. noblest feature in his public charac
Even his most determined enemies
didst strain
To prop thy glories with substantial gain ; lamented his death when they saw the
Bid Law and Honour wink the while aside, negociations which had owed their birth
entirely to him expire as our only Minis
While two tall posts thy full-stretch'd legs ter of Peace expired."
bestride. [the crowd
" Thou, by example, ne'er didst teach Some levere lines are bestowed on a
Of public leeches to resound aloud, Right Honourable Secretary ;
* Blest is the State whose servants are well " who deem'd it nought to move
fed, ■ ' . [clad ; The willing
Plump, sleek, and jolly, rich and warmly Who judg'd ardour the men
of a people's love ;
that, freely and un
They not disgrace their lords with faces paid, [trade ;
lank, [shank ; Perform'd the task which others held a
With lantern jaw-bone, and with spindle That, prompt to save, and zealous to der
The Nation's glory, forth to view they send, [lend —
stand,
And proudly shew the fulnessof the land.' Their hse, their labour to the State woult^
" A count'nance frank, a tongue with A butt for humour, and a mark for game,
.• candour fraught, [caught, And well repaid with jeers and galling
shame."
Untouch'd by guile, by no self-interest
Pour'd round thy very failings such a gleam, It cannot be difficult to appropriate
That motes they seem'd amidst the noon the long character from which we take
day beam ; . [attends, the following exiracts :
While friendship warm thy darkest days ''In any calling mightTigellius shine,
Thy public foes were still thy private The moving Orator, the Bard divine ;
friends ; Rule as the Statesman, as the Wit en
As social converse round the table ran, chant , [grant.
They lost the Statesman, and retain'd the Such powers did Nature to her Favourite
Man. [arose, Tigellius felt the boon ; and, all by turns,
Thy soul, which o'er dark deeds of stare The Wit, the Bard, the Orator, he barns ;
And I'purn'd th' assassin as the worst of foes, Scarce for a day his lov'd pursuit the same,
Half made the ruthless Tyrant's hatred And still deserting ere he wins the game.
. cease, [Peace. "To rival Shakspeare see his Genius
And half had lull'd the sever'd Wurld to rise ; [vies :
"Neglected Peace, who now uprear'd His taste excels, his wit with Shakspeare
the head, [bed ; Yet fee tire pigmy monument he rears !—
Hung with mute anguish o'er thy dying Two Plays are all the work of thirty years \
As clos'd thine eyes, beheld the closing Save one burlesque to mock the Bavian
gloom, [tomb ; throng,
And stopt on earth to tend thee io thy One maudlin Farce, mere vehicle for song.
The with'ring oliie plac'd upon thy grave, At length, deserting Genius, see him job
And left the realm she now def'pair'd to A German Tragedy to please the mob ;
save!" Prop
1807.] Review of New Pqblicatiftit.
Prop with smart crutch Anne Plumptrets He Hates as follows :
hobbling style, « Mai.™ The
And of its bloflims the Gazette despoil ; WA fake French ftruSglin5
of ambition f°r th«
and power;
With royal ravings make the scene absurd, the Northern powers opposing them with
And turn Ataliba to George the Third j all their might, and are struggling for their
Pizarro set to Buonaparte's d d work, rights and properties. The Spaniards are
While Holla represents his Grace of York! struggling to regain their settlements in
O loya( Bard ! O labours not in vain ! South America, and are under great op
As tells theTreasurer's box of Drury-iane; pressions. The .poor Polanders are under
Whate'erWhigbumperscool thyloyal heat, miseries and civil dissensions.—The King
A Patriot thou to Drury and the Fleet * ! of Prussia struggles, not to enlarge, but to
Once more bursts forth bright Genius ere regain his. d«uinion, and the poor Dutch
it close, [compose ; , to keep and preserve theirs, &c.
And, join'd with Johnftone -f-, can a (hew APIUI" and England (I am lorry to fay)' is
The walks of Shakspeare and of'Farquhar struggling with a dissatisfied race of mor
leaves, [Thieves. tals, who go about like wolves in stieep's
And in a certain cavern skulks with Forty clothing, to disturb and breed contentions
"Now lee the Orator triumphant blaze, amongst us.—The Turks and Ruffians
While crowds the accents catch with ea are very Ihy of eaeh other ; and let the
ger gaze ; [dread, Turks beware, lest they fall like their late
Hear him the great Oppressor strike with M • diaed Emperor Selim,lastwhose
in April year.—fallTheI poli
pre-
And call for vengeance on his guilty head ;
The wrongs of injur'd Innocence deplore, tical affairs of Germany are not yet settled
The crimes of Britons on a distant shore ; on a permanent and solid foundation ; the
Or, starting forward with a Patriot's fire, people in general are yet full of tears and
Bid fierce Sedition panic-struck expire J ; complaints, and not only on the Continent,
Or twine a well-earn'd wreath to crown but too much so even in our own domi
the Brave, [save § 5 nions.—England is as much concerned in
The men unpaid who would their Country the actions and affairs of these times as
Or see him, with the lasti of Ridicule, any Nation in Europe, and will, I fear,
Whip through the town the oafs that strut sustain some loss and damages ; and her
and nule—- enemies will not go off Scot free. I feara
Whate'er emotion he would raise appears, . wilful and obstinate party, in high
A burst of laughter, or a flood of tears ; stations of life amongst us, will do
The dazzling flash of patriotic fire, more prejudice to theinterest of thisNation
Or all the transports of indignant ire." than it is in the power of our most public
enemies to do.—A person of great merit
155. Moore's Almanack for 1608. suffers by false aspersions ; but a brave
AFTER the remarkable prediction cable mind frustrates the malice even of impla
and warning which distinguished this is, near enemies : and one of the Long Robe
notable Almanack last year, and is said his merit.thisThere time, rewarded according to
are some good aspects
to' have greatly sri^riled the Grand of the Planets of late and near this time,
Turk, whose fate it foretold ! ! our - that denote some wiseanddeliberate
Headers, who may not yet have pro Councils ; and if the Preliminaries
vided themselves with Almanacks for of Peace are not yet agreed upon, therenow
the ensuing year, will be curious to are great hopes thereof, as there is some
know what of futurity the learned sort of Negotiations carrying on tending
Phvsician unfolds in his work "for the to that effect, either for ourselves, or on
Year of Human Redemption 1808." the Continent of Europe, in order to settle
* " Our Readers will recollect a famous patriotic Exhibition which took place
during the mutiny at the Nore."
f " The Machinist of Drury-lane Theatre, a most ingenious man, and one of the
best play-wrights of the age. Without his assistance, what would become of our He
roes of the North, our Wood Dæmons, and other respectable personages of the fame
class? In the composition of a Pantomimic Operatic Tragedy, the favourite drama of
the day, the labour of the Poet is one of the least things to be considered."
J "There were few occasions on which a popular Orator could have made a tempo
rary excursion from his Party with so much grace as during the mutiny at the Nore.
The character of Mr. S. seemed suddenly to start oat from behind a cloud, and to
shine, in the eyes of all the Nation, with redoubled lustre. It was attributed to vanity,
to the mere desire of shining; but it might as well be called the master-stroke of a
Politician."
§ " This was als» another occasion on which Mr. S. very gracefully differed from his
Party. His eulogium on the Volunteers, and his motion for a vote of thanks to them,
procured him a very general popularity throughout the Nation.'^- ' peaep
1224 Review of New Publications. [Supp.
peace and tranquillity for the public good. The HieroirU'phick displays two Ar
The schemes and designs of a Northern mies opposed; between which a crown--
Prince miscarry.. . The Pope and Italian ed Mediator marches, over whose head
August. Princes greatly/ embarrassed in is inscribed Fax, Stamford Mercury.
their Councils; the Eastern
parts of Germany labour under some dis- 1 5(5. iVr. Blore's Statement of a Corre
«emi»er> or other calamities ; the affairs
of France are near a crisis.—The aspect . spondence with Richard Phillips, E/j,
Sheriff, &c. Sic. &c. refpeciixg the An
and positions of the Planets this month tiquary's Magazine.
are mostly benevolent, and of a more heal
ing nature than they have been for some WITHOUT entering into the mat
years pall ; and mundane affairs seem now ter in dispute between the parties,
to take a better turn. We (hall all be having heard onlv one Jide ; we shall,
glad to find that.—The influences of the in the January Magazine, give our
stars of late have been propitious, but the Readers an opportunity of judging1 oC
minds of men seem yet to be averse, and Mr. FSiore's talents as a Topographical
_September. swell with yet
content. malice
j h0^eaud dis-
the Antiquary ; and of the merits of his
Son as a JJraftsman.
good hand of Providence will prevail, and
those who are found notoriously guilty will 15J. The Lily; a Book fir Children?
have cause to tremble, and be exposed to adqr'ned ivith Cuts.
the common justice of the nation, and " The Lily loves the humble vale.
that not a many months hence, to the And reads a silent moral tale."
general satisfaction of the people, Very THIS is one of the prettiest New
uncertain reports and doubtful news arrive
.from most parts of Europe. The European Year's Gifts that our friend Harris has
Nations having been lately notably active, published ; whether we consider the
hegin now to retire, arid pause upon what paper, the type, or the cuts. We un>
they have done, and the people in general derliand ihe Tales in Verse, which are
, UPTober. seem merly.better
but pleased
yet tllerethanjs for- twenty-two in number, to be the light
no_ composition of a truly ingenious lady,
thing more certain than uncertainty in . Mrs. Poole, of Hornley ; and that they
human affairs. Let us not repine at those were primarily drawn up for a private
things which cannot he amended. Sud circle of vonng re^tives. Of books
den news arrives to England, discovering for. the nursery, it cannot be expected
matters of consequence drawing near.— that we flinidd give other than a suc
November. The k ,he actions of this thereof
beginning month cinct account. The following tale,
maybe hopeful and pleasing, and probably not however, is too pleasing a specimen
an eminent person receives preferment, to merit insertion in our Magazine:
or some other advantage ; though, at the "MUSICK.
fame time, 'a worthy lady langui flies under " My dear little Lucyj.now sit down and
great affliction and trouble of spirit. The Refuse not Mamma, if she ask; splay,
vulgar man complains he is 'Tis very provoking, you always cry Nay;
December.
*^ . " .,, . ; and
.impoverished ' , some
, of, And M usipK appears quite a task.
the richer fort must be content to sit clown " Qh think what expenses your Parents-
with their losses and other casual accidents bestow
vvhiet) about this time may happen." On this part of your good education ;
Just precedent to the Hieroglyphic/! Your constant refusal perverfeness dotfa
with, which the sapient Astronomer shew,
veatlv treats his disciples, is the fol And is ever a souree of vexation."
lowing remark : " Thus reason'd a friend, both indulgent
" In the book of the Heavens I have and kind,
often read the fate of Nations, and have To Lucy, who heeded her not :.
noticed in my Almanacks from time to For, when call'd on to play, file was never
time many of the great changes that have inclin'd,
taken place in Europe, and other parts of And murmur'd out, ' I have forgot."
the world ; and I am now hold ro fay, the " But much she regretted these childish
attempt at the invasion of this country by neglects,
the French will not take place in our day ; As she grew up to woman's estate ;
and, in short, it never did occur to me, And,when others excell'd, her many defects
either from starry energy or the cabalisti Were repented, when it was too late."
cal art, that it would, as I have several
times before hinted ; theiefme, let the •»* The Author of "The Peacock a?
people of this Nation take the consolation, Home," p. pOR, is Mrs. Dorset, not l)a-
b« unite*, and they have, nothing to seal." .I'crs, sister to Mrs-. Charlotte Smith.
Stleft Poetry, sot Supplement* 180^. 1*33
TO WILLIAM PLUMER, ESQ. Aspicite hanc scenam ! Cui non sanQtt
t)n Qecafton of a Vase presented to him by limn mentem
the County of Hertford, as a Me Extincti nupcr tangit imago senis?
morial of his representing it in Parliament I^ius, hocipso in eœtu venerab;lis olim,
above Forty Years. Uui nostrum lacili laude juvabat opus ;
HAIL, Plumer! tried in Britain's no Relpiccri: haud alio quem vestrum quisquc
ble cause, folebat
toe to despotic sower's coercive laws, Quam quo dilectum filius ore patrem !
A friend to virtues in the IcepterM hand, Ergo etiam te nostra, tuas has inter Athe-
Aud foremost in thy Country's glorious nas, . [domiis,
stand ! 1 San6te lencx, nostræ luxque paterque
Permit thy native County to impart Abreptuni lequitur pietas : et poster*
The warmest wishes of her greaiful heart. pubes
"May social comforts cheer thy future days, Virtutcs nostro discet ab ore tuas—
And ages yet to come record thy praise ! Busbelique tuum cum magno nomine
True tothy Country's good, nor Star could junctum,
find [mind.. Murraique tui nomine, nomen erit.
Thy price, nor Title warp thy constant Hie Temper venerandus erit; nolthque
When numerous Ions from Freedom turn'd minores,
aside, [to hide, Majores nollri quem coluere, colenu
And sought beneath the Statesman's cloak
You firmly trod the path, which patriot El'ILOCUS IN Eunuchum.
zeal [weal. Thais, Gnatlio, Thrafo, Pythias.
First mark'd your early steps for Britain's Thais.
Hail, steady Patriot 1 Britain shall tby PACTA placent ; gratesque etiam tibi
name reddo.
Inscribe eternal in a niche of Fame. Gnatho.
J. L. Moore, near of Beugeo, Sed eccura.
7icar Hertford. Thais.
I laud parvo hu!c stabit gratia nostra duci.
Prologue and EpilogueJ'poken on the repre- Thrafo.
J'entationofoTEHtftC!i.'s Comedy cj/"Euiiu- Sqn', mea, quid factum eft ?
chus, by the young Gentlemen of If'eji- Thais.
minjier Hchool, Dec. Its lb07. Et gaudeo.
Proi.ogus in Eunuciium-—Mr. Glyn. Thrafo.
IT^AUSTA revertaiur, veteres quae hac Dique Deæqut,
' nofcic paternos Ut misere hæc mulier nos aniat !
Convocat ad notas Icena hodierna fores : Gnatho.
Stetque, precor, com muni omnes qui fee Ilia sapit.
ders nectit, Thais.
Morisque atque laris religiosus amor. Jam vero, quam vitam, ut nosti, usque
Fas alii culpent, quod legibus ul'a receptis hacienus egi,
Prescripts l'ervet nostra Thalia vices ; Quum domina tantl sit male dignaducis,
Dum labor hie noster nondum fastidia Mulandus victus, servi, ornamenta, lu-
vobis pel lex——
Afferat, aut vestrit fit cariturus ope : Pythias.
Plinc pietas vetus ilia loci memor, hinc Vcstes—
magis ilia Thais*
Firmantur cari vincla sodalitii ; Nugæ : hodic vestibus haud opus eft.
Atque ea, præteritæ totics qua; scenaju- Pythias,
ventæ Undc autem mea iucra ?
Admonet, hoc ipso plus repetita juvat. Thais.
Ecquis non recolet sibi quantatn hie iple Tace. Tuus omnia nobis.
suisque Sat scio, suaviolum, suppeditabit amor.
Luudem olim tulerit lætitiamque labor? Thrafo.
Cui non dcliciæ veteres, innnbila vita, Nil ah, delicium, tibi nos tarn perdite
Caraque convictus dulcis imago redit ? amanti, [queo 1
Cara, opto, redeat semper ; lætoque suo- Tanta heicle est virtus nostra, nugare
rum [nent. Thais.
Hæc semper plausu plena theatra so- Unus homo es cunctorum bominum mihj
Acriorhinc, dum notaoculis circumspicit carus amicæ,
ora, Gratia Dis.aliquo nunc in honore sumus.
Fidenti prodit vultu animoque pue-. Folium instaurabo : matronis omnibus eslie
.ftuid loquor ? Haud iftis animis, qujb'JS Qnamlibet augustis, invidiosa volo.
ante folebat, Kotos ignotol'que omnei sine fine vocabo ;
Hos lulus pubes offiejosa par^t. Viaj.i ^predict!! nocte)/«tr.'ra domi.
Nomen
1224 Selett Poetry, for Supplement, 1807.
Nomen erit fefto, quod res facit ipsa, Difplicet hæc platea facies ; Gothica esto,
" Tumultus"— hodiernum
Alea erit, can'us, cœna, chorea. In pretio est Gothicum.
Thraso. Placet— Thais.
Tecum ego saltabo. Ah define ; jam satis est :
Gnatho. Hæc mutare nefas—His saltern parcita
Scd me plus cœna j avabit. templis— 1
Quando voces alios, oro, memento mci— Non en diruere eft, fed reparare labor :
Et gratis tibi Sanga coquet. McenianilGothicideformetnostra;fitomnis
Thais. Vah, barbarus iste ! Prorsus barbaries his aliena locis—
Gallorum is merit quinque decemque Floreat hie Græci cultus: sintque Attica
labor : semper,
Pythias. Attica quæ rjostri constituere patres !
At Servi.
Thais. Lines written by a Lady on the Decline of
Recte ; nempe Æthiopas volo. (A« Schools or Industry in Bati;,
Thrafu. Durum elt j t»i the Character of a Candidatefor Cha-
Servire Æthiopas lex hodietna vetat. ritable' Education.
Thais. AND (hall the tears of Innocence dif-
Fac refeindatur—turn tola novanda fu- trefs'd,
pellex, Unheeded fall in Mercy's favorite clime!
Nequa fit ornatu pars caritara suo. Where Pity lulls the furl 'ring foul to reft,.
Thraso. And Hope brings comfort on the wings
fiit metis iste labor—lies has ego calico— of Time !
Nemo est, Lew at the feet of Affluence I bend,
Crede mini, ornandæ doctiorarte domus. To seek for succour in this hour of need,
Ne tamen aititicem me dixeris ; artis To paint the sorrows which my bosom
amator [bellus homo— rend, [plead.
Audio —Nec sapit hanc nunc nisi And for the " bread of life" impalfiori'd.
Oontigit haud cuivis homini, qua? forma Born in the sphere of Misery and Want,.
l'edile, ' [color.
Uuæque torum deceat, cernere, quique TheNofilm sweet instruction melted on my ear,
of Ignorance (till my spirits daunt,
Kubra magis dulces, an ful'catapetia som- And I can only shed the anxious tear.
nos [det !
Efficiant, hominum pars quota rite vi- Yet my heart beats with feelings undefin'd,
Uluiico aulæa finu deceat substringere, Some vital principles within me glow,
mensam And if to Culture's band I am-conlign'd,
Falciri pedibus quatuor, anne trihus, My foul's a foil where sacred plants may-
Sciie venustorum est tantum ; vel l'cire grow.
lucernam Let then your bounty saving truths impart,
Suftincat ferpens aptius, anne caper— Teach me " to tread for ever in the.
Verum Ægyptiaco pulchre mil'cere Ara- way," [(tart,
betcum, Sav'd by your kindness, I from Vice may
GallicacumTufcisjungere, pril'ca'novis, And meet you in the glorious realms of
Hoc opus, hie labor est. day.
Pythias. Dec. 28. The Child or Charity.
Nimirum quantus equinam
Humano capiti coofociare jubam. The Ingredients ofa Happy Life.
Thraso. From Martial.
Candelabra autem, tripodasque ct pocula, rT'HE happiest life the things which
et urna , I chiefly make
Dt magni, noise hæc omnia, quale decus! From lively Martial in this order take.
Jlespice me, tibi ego decorabo gryphibus, Wealth not by toil, but left.beyourdefire ;
atque .* [bus. A field not fruitless, and a constant fire ;
Sphingibus, et monftrisorrmiaamabili- Avoiding strife—appear but seldom gown'd;
GnathOi A mind unruffled and a body sound.
Ingenium tantum, nequeosatis admirari ! Let Prudence rule, and be your friends
Thau. select ; [undeck'd ;
Quæ tibi pro tanto munere dona feram ? Simple vour food, your board with art
Thraso. A night from fumes ofwineand forrow'fsee,
Ipsam tc, mea lux. Nostræ tamen artis A bed not cheerless—modest let it be ;i
egere A sleep that makes the darkness foon^
Non minus internis exteriora puto ; retire ;
firæcum istud mi hi perquam odicium. Nor be the last thy dread nor thy desire ;
Hæc dirue templa, Contented be, to nothing more aspire.
Fiat ut ante tuas area latt fores—« PentonviUe, ■ ■ M, H. Shephahb.
i 1NTSR-
INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.
AdmiraUj/-o£ke, Dec. 22. Copy of a H. it. trig Superieurej Bariadoes
letter to Admiral Young, Commander in , .iff/ring W. .tap leagues, Qc2.i~.
Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels Sir, The unfortunate death of Caj>t.
a: Plymouth. Buller imposes the duty on me tf> inform
H. JHuhxred armed trig Anne, you of the capture of the French, schooner
% PtyMSUtJ1 Sound, Dec. 1 6. privateer La Jopo l'Œil, after an action
Sir, In execution of your order of (he of an hour and a quarter-; in .the early
14th, I have to acquaint you, on the 20th part of which Capt. Buller received a
November, at noon, being in lat. 41. 41. musket-ball through the head, while in
N. and long. 10. 30. \V. of my falling in the act of attempting to board, and ex
with and capturing the Spanish lugger pired immediately. His Majesty's brig
privateer Vaniigo, pierced for 14 guns, Hawkewas in sight during the chace,^uid
but only tin 4-pounders and one long joined an hour after the action has] qealed.
brass 12-ipounder mounted, with 45 wen, To the Qfiicers and crew of the Supcrie^ire
out eight days* frorri Ferrol, had not made I feel much indebted for their- .support,
any captures : also, on my entering the particularly Mr. . hlawkey, the master,
Straits of Gibraltar, on the morning of the and Mr. Gummage, .rjoidshipmau. la
i4th, with a. frecti breeze from W- N. W. Jopo T-Qiil is a remaajkably ,fipe vest:!,
(the lugger in company), about half-past pierced for 14 guns-; had only ,lix »8-
9 A. M. falling little wind, the Island of pounders mounted, and one on. a tra
Terriffa N. E, by N. observed ten of the versing qmja£pj raanned with 95 mep ;
enemy's gun-boats rowing towards iflie. out thirty-two djays fnorn Point it Petre,
At ten, the headmost fired a shot, and Guadeloupe, and had not ma.de uny
hoisted a red flag, finding it impossible capture, I (subjoin ,a list of kilsed and
to escape, I shortened sail tq receive wounded. J. G- >Biap> iUeu,t.
them. At a quarter jwft 10 the three Superieure, 4 killed, and S wquisded.—
headmost closed, and commenced action. La Jopo l'Œil, 15 killed, and 19 wounded.
At half-past 10, seven more closing, the {This Gazette also announces ,the fol
lugger struck, having hailed to inform lowing captures by the- Vefipls. under t,he
me she had three men killed. At 11 dis command ,qf Sir A- Cochrane,; L'Hiran-
masted qne of the enemy's gun-boats, delle French privateer schooner, of S
and two more having struck, discontinued guns and 84 men ; the Pufqucsne French
the action, but did not think it prudent to privateer brig, late his Majesty's schooner
attempt to take pofleffion, having on-board Netley, of 1-6 24-pounder car,ronades,
42 prisoners, and charged with dispatches one long 26-ppunder, four swivels and
(my complement being only 80, nine of 120 men ; and that dangerous privateer
which were on-boai:d the lugger). At 10 the Alert of 20 guns, and 140 men, all
minutes past 1 1 got the irestel round by by the Blonde, Capt. V. V. Ballard La
the assistance of the sweeps, and opened Mara and El Rpsario Spanish privaters,
my fire pn .five who had taken possession by H. M. S. D'Espagne, Capt, J. P. Stu
of the lugger, and again closing on my art and Le Rhone French Letter of
starboard quarter, with an intention to Marque, pf 6 long ftx^pounders and a 6
board ; but finding my guns so well sup men, Uy the Laura, J-ieut. Rob. Yctts.:—
plied with round and grape, aud ready A Letter from Sir S. Smith states the cap
to receive them in case of boarding, at ture of Estrella de Noste Spaniih priva-
one o'clock P. M. they swoeped out of teer, of twp tj-ppundets and 35 men, ,by
gun-shot, carrying off my prize. J am the Solebay frigate, Qtpt. Sprpule.—This
happy in having the pleasure to add, that Gazette likewise contains the instructions
although fix of the largest w«re within of his Majesty, far the detention »nd cap
pistol-shot for nearly one hour and a ture of Ruflian .vessels.]
half, J have not one man hurt. It would Windsor- Cajile Packet, Carlisle ffay,0{l. 8 .
be needless for me to attempt to fay any Sir, Haviug, on my paflage from Eng
tiling in favour of Mr. Olden th« -roaster, land In the Wndlm -Castle Packet, with
and each of the crew, only my great sa the mails for Barbadoes and the Leeward
tisfaction oh beholding the high flow of Islands, been attacked by a French priva
spirits which is generally manifested in teer within the limits of your station, I
the countenance of every British Sailor, take the liberty irf acquainting you, that
although opposed to so superior a force, we.were fortunate enough to capture her
and their regret at not being able to fink after a severe action, and arrived with her
the two which had struck. 1 apt., &c. safe in this Jiay. She was seen on the
(Signed) J. M'Kenzie. morning of the 1st of October, in lat. 13.
58. N. and long. 58. 1. W: and about
Admiralty- office, Deo. 26. Inclosures half past eight made all sail in chace of
to. Sir A. Cochrafie, K. B. Commander the packet, when every exertion was
in Chief at the Leeward Islands. mads to get away from her ; but finding
Gent. Mio. Supplement, 180". it
iaa6 Interesting Intelligenceft em the London Gazettes. [Supp.
it impossible, preparations were made to Country New*.
make the best resistance We could, and Wow. 57. Accounts received this day
arrangements to fink the Mails if neces from Dublin state, that the number' of
sary. At noon the schooner got within persons who perished in the Prince of
gun-shot, hoisted French colours, and Wales packet for Liverpool was 120, vo
began her fire, which was returned from lunteers for the 48th and P7th Regiments.
the stern-chace guns ; this was continued The following ares'arnongft the Officers
until she came near, when we were lost in this Packet '.-^fSixpl. Fitzgerald, of
hailed in very opprobrious terms, and de the 6th reg. of foot ; Capt. Gregory, of
sired to strike the colours. On refusing the 32d ditto; Ensign Bevan, of the loth
to do so she ran alongside, grappled the ditto; Lieut. Foley, of the 58th ditto ;
packet, and attempted to board, which Lieut. Killikelly, 3d ditto; and Lieut.
we repulsed by the pikes, with the loss M'Lean, of the 18th ditto. The num
of 8 or 10 men on the part of the enemy, ber of persons who perished in the Roch
^rhen the schooner attempted to get clear dale, bound for England, was much
by cutting the grapplings, but the main- greater: (he had on board part of the
yard being locked in her rigging, (he was 97 th, or Queen's German, and volunteers
prevented. Great exertions were con from the South Cork and Mayo regiment*.
tinued on both fides : and I had occalion The embarkation return of this vessel is
to station a part of the crew in charge of as follows :—1 Major, 2 Lieutenants,
the mails, to shift them as circumstances 1 Ensign, 8 serjeants, 9 corporals, 173
required, or to cut them away in cafe of rank and file, 42 women, 29 children ;
our failure. About three we got one of in all 263 souls, not one individual of
our fix-pounder carronades to bear upon whom is known to have escaped. The
the schooner, loaded with double grape, names of the Officers are, Major Gor-
cannister, and loo musket-balls, which moran, 97 th foot ; Lieuts. Long and
was tired at the moment the enemy was Power ; and Ensign Way.
making a second desperate attempt to Nov. 28. Three barns on the estate of
board, and killed and wounded a great Sir George Barrington, at Hatfield, near
number. Soon after this I embraced the Seven Oaks, Kent, have been lately set on
opportunity, in turn, with 5 men, and fire (it is suppesed) by some wicked incen
succeeded in driving the enemy from his diaries, who are still undiscovered.
quarters, and about 4 o'clock the schooner Dec. 5. Two hundred of the new Leices
Was completely in our possession. She is tershire breed of'ssieep, belonging to Mr.
named the Jeune Richard, mounting Wingfield, of Tickencote, lately sold for
6 6-pounders, and 1 long 18-pounder, 1607I. 1 5s. They were regularly bred for
having on board at the commencement sixteen years from one flock.
of the action 9-2 men, of which 21 were Dec. 11. Lately a fine girl, between
found dead on the decks, and 3-3 wounded. five and six years of age, the daughter of
From the very superior numbers of the ene a respectable tradesman in Aberdeen, fell
my still remaining, it was necessary to use into a tub of boiling wort, and was so
every precaution in securing the prisoners. terribly scalded, that she is finee dead.
I was obliged to order them up from be Dec. 12. This evening, the family of
low one by one, and place them in their Mr. Stokes of Liverpool were thrown into
own irons as they came up, as three of our the greatest alarm, by a fire in the upper
little crew were killed, and 10 severely part of the house. The distressed father
wounded, the mizen-maft and main-yard and mother rushed up stairs, and, with
carried away, and the rigging fore and aft much difficulty, snatched from the flames
much damaged. It is my duty to men the half-burnt body of a darling child,
tion to you, Sir, that the crew of the about two years old ; but too late to pre
packet, amounting at first to only 28 men serve its life. This catastrophe is since
and boys, supported me with the greatest found to have been caused by Mr. S.'s
gallantry during the whole of this arduous cook, who, having robbed the house, ho
oontest. I have the honour to be, &c. ped, according to her own confession,
W. Rogers, acting Captain. that detection would be prevented by her
destroying it by fire.
IVar-office, Dec. 30, The King having Drc, 1 a. Lately the body of a- young
approved of an arrangement for the con woman was found murdered on the road
duct of the Barrack department, by betwixt Eaglcstiame and Kingswell Inn,
which the superintendence of the duties in Scotland. Two men, accompanied by a
thereof is vested in three civil commissi woman, were seen the preceding night,
oners ; his Majesty is pleased to command walking together from Eagleshame towards
that all Military rank throughout the Bar Kinglwell, and afterwards in that neigh
rack department should cease from the bourhood without the woman : the' men
»5th instant. {Seep, laae.) are supposed to be Irish, and that they
1807O Country 'News.— Dome/lie Occurrences. 1 227
their way to Ireland. Tlie wo vidson's being so deceived, and the possi
man was about SO years of age, and far bility of this being a joint speculation in
advanced in pregnancy. Boroughs, from which the parties were
Dec. 17. This day, as a son of Mr. Stret- to derive equal benefit. The Jury re
ton, exciseman, of East Grinjiead, was turned a verdict of Guilty.
standing at the window making pens, a Friday, Dec. 4.
young man about sixteen years of age, V. Pierce, J. Pierce, Eliz. Lucar, and
belonging to one of the inns, came by Lucy Rolph, were indicted at Hicks's-
with a gun, and, without speaking, dis Hall, for a riot and assault, on the night
charged it full in his face, The conse of the 15 th of October, at Sadler's Wells,
quences were dreadful ; one of his eyes which led to the fatal catastrophe at that
fell on the floor, and he was taken up in Theatre (seep. 971.) Several respectable
a shocking situation. He is now lying persons proved that the riot originated
in a pitiable state. with the prisoners; and they were all found
Dec, 19. A melancholy accident hap Guilty.
pened on Marlborough Downs last week.— Wednesday, December Q.
As a party, consisting of a father, his son, This evening a fire broke out at Mr
and daughter, were going across the Downs Thomas Smith's bread and biscuit baker,
in the middle of the day, from Bread in Hughes's Fields, Deptford ; but, owing
Hinton to Marlborough, they loll their to the exertions of the firemen and
way ; and, owing to the drifts of snow and others, was happil" got under with about
the severity of the weather, it was with 200I. damage.
the greatest difficulty they could reach This evening the Senior Westminster
a shepherd's cot, where the young wo scholars performed Terence's Eunuchus,
man, who was literally frozen, expired and afforded a high treat to the lovers of
in half an hour, and the old man nearly classical literature. The characters were
shared the fame fate. all ably sustained by Messrs. Bull, Law,
Dec. 27. We are concerned to state the Vernon, Richards, Salter, Pesliell, Grif
loss of the Alarm packet, which sailed fiths, Lisford, Mure, Fynes, and Sandi-
from Cork for Bristol on the 23d ult. lands. sSee our Poetry, p. 1224.J
with a great number of passengers, Thursday, Dec. 17.
amongst whom were the lady of John Mr. Rowortli obtained a verdict
Evans, csq. of Mallow, and Miss M. this day, with 100I. damages, against
Mansell, of Limerick. Mr. Wilkes, a bookseller, for having pi
Dec. 29, Much damage has been done rated a book written by Plaintiff, called
in the neighbourhood of Leicejler^ by the " The Art of Self-defence with the Broad
high winds this night ; some new build Sword." This work, together with the
ings, in Granby-ltreet, were materially prints, was copied into a work called " The
injured. Upwards of 100 yards of a lofty Encyclopædia Londinensis," published
new-built brick wall, in Land-pit-lane, by Defendant. Lord Ellenborough, in
was blown down, and a poor man named the course of his charge to the Jury, ob
Agar, pasting at the time, was killed served that one man had no right "to copy
by its falling. A woman was thrown the works of another for the period of 28
down and broke her leg ; and several other years after publication, except as a quoT
accidents occurred during the night. tation, or for purposes of criticism ; not
even in periodical publications, such, as
Domestic Occurrences, the Encyclopædia, or in Reviews ; other
. Friday, November 27. wise the whole of the works of genius
About ten this night a fire broke out might be swallowed up by such publica
in the back of the house of Mr. Winsor,. tions. They must use works fairly, either
perfumer, on the Weft fide of Parliament- as quotations, or with a fair view of cri
street, which nearly consumed the upper ticism; but not for the purpose of making-
part of it, and did considerable damage them works of their own, and profiting by"
to the adjoining house. their sale as their own. '. .
Tuesday, Dec. J. Monday, Dec. 28.
R. Andrews, a notorious Swindler, Several ships below London Bridge
was tried at Hjcks's Hall, for ..fraudu were driven from theft moorings by the1
lently obtaining 2OQ0i. from Col. Da storm this night, and much damage was
vidson, under pretence' of i procuring for done in different parts of the River. ' ,
him. a Seat in Parliament. Lord Besbo- The quantity of Port Wine now in Eng
rough,, whom he represented ,as liis par land is estimated at about 10,000 pipes,
ticular friend, swore that he only knew- which, including the duty, is worth one
the Prisoner as an object pfcharity, having million sterling. It is supposed, that 2009
often sent him money, and at one time as. pipes have been lost in the several Oporto
much as loi. The defendant's Counsel ships wrecked during the late tempefr
argued upon the improbability of CM. Da- t-uotw gales.
■•' ' b~ .< r. 1 ' G^ETTsj
3taa8 Gazette and Civil Promotions. -^Preferments. [Sopp.
Gazette Promotions. on the 1st day of January last,
Ctum'i Atfart.fljlGHT Hon. Richard by firs' Majesty, in consideration of his!
itei). £5. J\ Ryd", fworit of his meritorious conduct on that occasion, to
Majesty's rridst hortoarabre Privy CormcrV. bear the rbttowmg honourable augmenta
George Earl of Pembrbke and Montgo tion to the Armorial Ensigns nsed by hii
mery, K. G. sworn Governor of the island ramify; viz. "A Chief, embattled thereon
of Guernsey, vise titi Grey, dec. a Ship of War under Sail between two
fiortigii Office, Nhv. 27. Hon. William Castles; and for Crest, dat1 of a Naval
Rill, appointed his Majesty's Envoy-extra Crown, an Arm errib«wed grasping a!
ordinary and Minister-plenipotentiary to Sword ; and from the Hand a Medal l'us-'
the Court of Sardinia; and Josttph Smith, pended by a Ribbon ; Motto, Curacao ;
esq. so be Secretaryof Legation at thatCourt. and for Supporters, on the dexter fide a
Whitehall, Nov.iti. His Grace William- British Sailor, and on the sinister a Bri»
H?nry Cavendish, Duke of Portland, K .G. ; tish Marine."
Right Hon. Spencer Perceval; Right Hon.
John FofteY, Chancellor of his Majesty's Civil Promotions.
Exchequer of Ireland ; Hon. William Bro- HENRY BTJRRELL, esq. of the Mid
dricR; Hod. William Eliot; and William- dle Temple, appointed, by the Lord
S.turgeS Bourne, Csq.; appointed Commis Chancellor, his Lordship's secretary os
sioners for executing tie Office of Trea presentations, vice Cotes, dec.
surer of h"s Majesty's Exchequer.—Right John Mackanels, esq. elected recorder
Hon. Richard Ryder, appointed Advocate- of the borough of Wallingford, co. Berks,
generaT, or Judge-marshal, of his Majesty's vice Mills, resigned.
Forces, Vice N. Bond, resigned.—Thomas Sir William Twysden, of Roydon-hall,-
Hume, esq. M.D. appointed, by the Duke Rent, appointed receiver-general for that
of Cambridge, one of his Royal High- county, vice Jarnes, dec.
ness's physicians. Marquis Townshend, appointed high-
Dublin Cajlle, Nov Lord Henry steward of the borough of Tamworfh, co.
Moore (bice the Marquis of Drogheda, re Stafford, vice his father, dec.
signed), and Wiltiam Bagwell, esq. ap
pointed Mu'ster-rnafter-general of Ireland. Ecclesiastical Preferments.
Whitehall, Dec. I. Right Rev. EdWard- REV. Mr. Brown, of the Academy of
VenaMes Vernon.D.D. Bishop of Carlisle, WimoncHy, near Hitchin, Herts, or
recommended, by cringe1 d'clire, to be elect dained pastor of the Congregation of Pro
ed Archbishop of York,«iice Markham.dec. testant Dissenters in Baker-street, Enfield,
Queeii's Palace, Dec. 9. Lieut.-colonei by the Rev. Noah Hill, of Stepney, as
George Smith, of his Majesty's 82d Regi sisted by the Rev: Mr. Taylor, of Carter-
ment of Foot, knighted. lane, the Rev. Mr. Parry, of Wimondly,
Whitehall, Dec. 9. Right Hon. Lord and others.
Glenbervie, appointed Surveyor-general of Rev. Henry Waftcll, M. A. Brington
the Woods and Forests. with Bythorne ami Old Weston R. co*
CarUtcn-houJe, Dec. 9. Right Hon. Ge Huntingdon, vice Favell,. dec.
rard Viscount Lake, appointed, by ^he Rev. H. Wastetl, M.A. vicar of Warm-'
piincc of Wales, Receiver-gi-rerat Of the field cam Heath, Chapelthorpe perpetual
ttevertwes of his Rojal Highnel's's Duchy curacy, near Wakefield, co. York.
of Cornwall, vice Sheridan, resigned. Rev.ThomasGolightly, M.A. Bpdr'.ing-
' .' foreign Office, Dec. 16. Edward Thorn ton R. co. Northampton,irircWainman ,dec.
ton, esq. appointed his Majesty's Envoy- Rev. William-Charles Clack; Moreton-
cxtrao'rdiriar]' and Minister-plenipotentiary haitjpslead R. CO. Devon, vice Crowther,
to the Court of Sweden ; and Charles resigned..
p.ikcly, esq], to be Secretary of Legation Rev. G. Furlong Wife, Thornton-Wat-
ut tfiat Court. lafs R. co. York, vice Cornish, refignfd.
Wnil'eh'ail; Dec. 19. Ofbrtrh Mafkhim, Rev. J. Corbould, M.A. Bawdetwell R.
John Fisher, and Alexander Loraine, esqrs. co. Norfolk.
appointed Commissioners for the General Rev. W. Wright Wilcocks, Pudding-
§nperintendance and Management of the Norton R. co. Norfolk.
Barrack Department. (Seep. T390.) Rev. WjrrjarriMillers, Aberdaron sine
Office, Dec. 26. Lord Viscount cure R. co. 'Caernarvon.
htia^gford, 'appointed his Majesty's Envoy- Rev. M6rf(aguK Heblethwayte, Suntiing-
cxtraordi'naryand Minister-plenipotentiary hTOV. Berks, urrr ThrflWhwair*, A*, 1
to ilic Court of her Most Faithful Majesty Rev;. Wrlliarri-Hurdrrian Jlii*; Caidicot
tie, .Queen of Dec.
v tmittutll, Portugal.
!J0. Slf Charles Bris V. co.' Mtrrimouth.
Rev. Thomas; Williams, Maefmynis R..
bane, knt. a Captain in the Royal Navy, co. Brecon, rire'Bowcn; dee.
and senior Officer of tlie Squadron of His R-:v.,John-Hugh-Pastey Poison, Upton-
Majesty's Ships to which thfe island of Hellions R. Devon, vice Davyj dee.
Curacao and its dependencies surrendered Rev.
1807.3 PresefmtntL-Dtfpinsafions.-'Theatrkal Register. 1229
Rev. William Aldrich, B. A. vicar of Rev. John Penrose, M.A. appointed one
Stowmarket, Boyton R. co. Suffolk, vice of tbe select preachers to the University of
Norford, dec. Oxford, vice Rev. HenryKett, B.D. resigned.
Rev. Thomas Lowry, M. A. vicar of
Grofby-upon-Eden, Ouiby R. oo. Cumber Dispensation.
land, vice Hare, resigned. R"EV.Dr.Roberts,rectorofGrafton,awl
Rev. John Pritchtord, M.A. ColwickV. vicar of Much Marcle, co. Hereford,
co. Stafford. to hold Abbey-Dore R. in the lame county,
Rev. Basil Wood, LL.B. Tharpe-Baffett
R. co. York. THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Rev. George Smith, M.A. vicar of 0t- Sept. Drury-Lane.
tery St. Mary, Devon, Charlton R. in the 17. The Country Girl—The Weathercock.
fame county; and Rev. Kdward Morshead, 1 g . The West Indian—NoSong No Supper,
M.A. rector of Calstock, Cornwall, Be- 22. The Wonder !—The Poor Soldier.
worthy R. Devon ; both rice Tickell, dee. 24. Adclgitha—Ditto. [Apothecary.
Rev. S. Clapham, M.A. GuH'age R. co. 20. Love for Love—The Doctor and the
Dorset, with Chriftchurch V. Hants. 29. Pizarro—ThePoorSoldier. [to be Sold,
Rev. William F. Mitchell, St. Martin's Oci. 1 . The School for Scandal—A House
by Looe R. Cornwall, 3. The Honey-Moon—'The Deserter.
Rev.Thomas Lockton, Church-Bramp- 5. Pizarro—The Devil to Pay.
ton R. near Northampton. 6. Percy—The Poor Soldier.
Rev.Thomas Gamier, Alverstoke R. with 8. TheSoldier'sDaughter—FortyThieves.
Bisliop's-Stoke R. Hants. 10. Love in a Village—The Wedding-Day.
Rev. Jonathan-Parker Fisher, lo the 12. George Barnwell—The Forty Thieves,
sub-deanry of Exeter. 13. Love in a Village—The Liar.
Rev. Thomas Johnes, M. A. of Bristol, 15. The Provok'd Hulband—FortyThieves.
to the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, De 17. Love in a Village—The Mock Doctor.
von, vice the Rev. Jonathan-Parker Fisher, 19. Romeo and Juliet—The FortyThieves.
promoted as above. 20. All in the Wrong—The Poor Soldier.
Rev. J. Lister Hutchinson, B. A. Routh 2 1 . Love in aVillage—Thelrishman iriLon-
R. co. York. 22. School forFriends— FortyThieves. [don.
Rev. Charles Thorp, M.A. Ryton R. 2-I. The Honey-Moon—Three Weeks after
co. Durham, vice Rev. Dr. Thorp, arch 26. Westlndian—FortyThieves. [Marriage.
deacon of Northumberland, resigned. 27. Time's u Tell-Tale—Fortune's Frolick.
Rev. Newman-John Stubbtn, Higham 28. Ditto—No Song No Supper.
perpetual curacy, Suffolk; 29. The Travellers—The Lying Valet.
Hon. and Rev.Thomas De Grey, rector 31. Time 's a Tell-Tale—Rosina.
of Fawley, to the archdeaconry of the Nov. 2. Ditto—The Forty Thieves.
diocese of Winchester, together with Cal- 3v Ditto—Rosina.
bourne R. in the Isle of Wight, worth 4. The Duenna—The Divorce.
SOol. a year, vice Woodford, dec. &. Time 's a Tell-Tale—Rofina.
Rev. Christopher Bethell, M.A. Kirkby- 6. Love for Love—The Divorce.
Wilke R. co. York, vice Raine, dec. 7. Time's a Tell-Tale—Matrimony;
Rev. Charles-Freeman Millard, to a mi- 9. Ditto—The Wood Dæmon. [ther.
nor-canonry of Norwich cathedral, vice 10. The School forScandal—MyGrandmo-
Walker, dec. ; and Henley V. Suffolk. 1 1 . Time 's a Tell-Tale—Rosina.
Rev. Ozias-Thurston Lindley, Stoke- 12. The Travellers—Bon Ton.
Holy-Cross V, Norfolk ; and Rev. Charles- 13. Time's aTell-Tale—TheWoodDsemon.
John Smith, St.John.Timberhill, curacy, 14. MuchAdoaboutNothing—TheDivorce
Norwich, vice Walker, dec. 16. The JealousWife—The Wood Dæmon.
Rev. Matthew Tunstall, Belper and 17. The Cabinet—Three Weeks after Marr.
Tumditch prrpetual curacies, co. Derby. 1 ». Ti me's a'sel 1-Tale—TheWoodDæmon.
Rev. J. Radclisse, chaplain of New col 19. All in the Wrong—Ella Rofenlxrg.
lege, Oxford, to a minor-canon ry of Can 20. Love in a Village—Ditto.
terbury cathedral, vice Freeman, dec. 21. A Trip to Scarborough—Ditto.
Rev. Isaac Bacon, M.A. BlechingdonR. 23. The Country Girl—Ditto.
co. Oxford, vice Coward, dec. 24. The Cabinet—Ditto.
Rev. D. Mathias, M.A. St. Mary, White- Si.. Time 's a Tell-Tale—Ditto.
chapel R. London, vice Wright, dec. 26. The Wonder !—Ditto.
Rev.Tho. Snell, Windlesham R. Surrey. 27. The Haunted Tower—Ditto*
Rev. Jos. Julian, Hafketon R. Suffolk. 28. The Inconstant—Ditto.
Rev. J. Baskets, Morrhoe V. Devon. 30. The Siege of Belgrade—Ditto.
Rev. C. Bigby, Ipplepcn V. Devon. Dec. 1. As You Like It—Ditto.
Rev. J.L.Yeomans, BrauntonV. Devon. 2. Time's a Tell-Tale—Ditto.
Rev..I .W. Birdwood,Throwl<-igh R. Dev. 3. False Alarms—Ditto.
Rev. P, F. Hory, Lifceard Y. Cornwall. 4. The Inconstant—Ditto,
5. The
123° Theatrical Register.—Births and Marriages. [Supp.
• s. theCabinet—EllaRosenberg. [Dæmon. 18. Ditto—Raising the Wind.
■ ?. The Way to Keep Him—The Wood 19. Ditto—The Midnight Hour.
8. The Travellers—The Citizen. 20. Ditto—Arbitration.
9. Time's a Tell-Tale—Tekeli. 91. Ditto—Katharine and Petruchio.
16. The Honey-Moon—Ella Rosenberg. 23. The Grecian Daughter—Harlequin and
11. The Inconstant—Tekeli. Mother Goose. [of a Day.
J2. Lionel and Clarissa—Ella Rescnberg. 24. Two Faces under a I food—The Follies
24. Love for Love—Tekeli. 25. Macbeth—Harlequin and M. Goose.
1 s . Lionel and Clarissa—Ella Rosenberg, 26. Two Faces under a Hood—Animal
Fmlkener—The Weathercock. Magnetism. [Goose.
17. Ditto—Tekeli. 27. Jane Shore—Harlequin and Mother
15. Ditto—Ella Rosenberg. 2*. The School of Reform—Tom Thumb.
ly. The Cabinet—Matrimony. 30. The Winter's Tale—Harlequin and
a l. The West Indian—Tekeli. [berg. Mother Goose. [Buy.
22. The Belle's Stratagem—Ella R»sen- Dec. 1 . The Provok'd Husband—TheBlind
83. TheProvok'd Husband—Ditto. 2. King Henry the Eighth—Ditto.
S6. The Honey-Moon—Ditto. 3. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto.
*». George Barnwell—Furiboud; or, Har- 4. The Winter's Tale—Ditto.
■ leqtiin Negro. 5. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto.
ap. A Bold Stroke for a Wife—Ditto. 7. Jane Shore—Ditto,
30. Love in a Village—Ditto. 8. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto. .
31, She Stoops to Conquer—Ditto. 9. King Henry the Eighth—Ditto.
Sept. Covent-GahdeN. 10. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto.
14. Romeo and Juliet—-The Poor Soldier. 11. The Winter's Tale—Ditto.
1 6. The Beggar's Opera—Raising theWind. 12. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto.
18. The Wheel of Fortune—The Escapes. 14. The Revenge—Ditto.
31. Cymbeline—The Farmer. 15. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto.
93. Wild Oats—The Quaker. 16. The Confederacy—Ditto,
is. Speed the Plough—Paul and Virginia. 17. John Bull—Ditto.
28. Cymbeline—-Rofina. 1 " 1 8. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto.
so. The Provok'd Husband—Lock and Key. 19. Othello—Ditto.
Oct. 2. The School of Reform—Rofina. ■ 21. Speed the Plough—Ditto.
5. King Henry theEighth—TomThumb. 22. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto.
7. Cymbeline—The Padlock. 23. The West Indian—Ditto.
S. Macbeth—Hartford Bridge. 86. Romeo and Juliet—Ditto.
Q. The Road to Ruin—OfAgeTo-morrow. 28. George Barnwell—Harleqiwi in his Ele*
12. KingHenry theEighth—TheWedding- menl; or, Fir-e, Water, Earth, and Air,
Day. [pike-Gate. 29. The Confederacy—Ditto.
14. The School for Prejudice—TheTurn- 50. Much Ado about Nothing—Ditto.
15. The Mourning Bride—Tom Thumb. 51. Two Faces under a Hood—Ditto,
16. The Road to Ruin—OfAgeTo-morrow.
ig. King Henry the Eighth—The Flitch of Births.
90. Artaxerxes-TheWedding-Day. [Bacon, Dec. HE wife of the Rev. Joshua-Johm
Ql. The Rage—Tom Thumb. T Pike, of Uxbridge, Middlesex,
92. Pizarro—The Son-in-Law. and sister of Lady Winterton, two sons.
93. The Beggar's Opera—Arbitration. Dec. 16. At Cloverley-hall, Salop, the
96. Coriolanus—The Review, [ther Goose. wife of Thomas Tarleton, jun.esq.a daugh.
97. George Barnwell—Harlequin and Mo- 37. In Cavendish-square, the wife of
28. The Poor Gentleman—Ditto. William- Henry Hoare, esq. a son.
29. Isabella—Too Friendly by Half. 29. At Jesmond, Cumberland, the wife
30. The Beggar's Opera—Ditto. [Goose. of James Losh, esq. a son.
Nov. 2 . Coriolanus—Harlequin and Mother 3CC At Castle-Eden, the wife of Row*
3. A Cure for the Heart-Ache—Ditto. land Burd6n, esq. a daughter.
4. John Bull—Ditto. At Delvine-house, in Scotland, Lady
5. The Count of Narbonne—Ditto. Muir. Mackenzie, a daughter..
6. Romeo and Juliet—Ditto. [lick':
7. K ing Henry theEighth—Fortune'sFro- MamsGH. ■ 3
9. Coriolanus—Harlequin and Mother Oct. A T St. John'4 church, Margate,
10. The Road to Ruin—Ditto. [Goose. 8. _f\ Mr. Wilmot Wells, manag«r.of
11. The Winter's Tale—Flitch of Bacon. the Theatre Royal there, to the fame lauy
12. Speed the Plough'—Harlequin and M. whom he married about ten years ago ;
13. Tho Winter's Tale—Ditto. [Goose. but, in consequence of some informality,
}4. TheHeir-at-Law—TheTurnpike-Gate. the marriage has been considered illegal,
lfi. The Winter's Tale—Harlequin arid and would have deprived Mr. W. of con
Mother Goose. [on Mistake. siderable property on the death of his
^7. Two Faces under a Hood—Mistake up- wife's 1.11c ; 0. /- The waiy. Manager, bias,
however,
1807O Marriages and Deaths of remarkable Persons . 1231
however, thus taken care, to disappoint At Farnham, Surrey, the Rev. James
some anxious expectants,- who had im Ogle, rector of Bishop's Waltham, and
prudently declared their intention to take son of Sir Chaloner O. to Elizabeth, third
advantage of the above circumstance. daughter of the Rev. Edmund Poulter,
Lately, at Black Rock, near Dublin, prebendary of Winchester.
at the house of Sir John Lees, bart. Wil 28. Mr. James Elmes, architect, of Col
liam Lees, esq. of the Northern District of lege-hill, to Eliza, youngest daugh. of the
the Post-office, to Miss Heldon, daughter .late William Jack, esq. of Stone-Haven.
and coheiress of the late Cornelius H. esq. At Freshwater church, in the Isle of
Col. Vavasour, only son of Sir Henry V. Wight, Sir John-Pringle Dalrymple, bait,
bart. of Spaldington and Milbourne, co. lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Regiment
York, to Miss Vavasour, eldest daughter of- Malta, to Mary, second daughter of
of William V. esq. of Dublin. Edward Rusliworih, esq. of Farringford-
At Aberdeen, W. C. Grant, esq. of the hill, in the Isle of Wight.
«2d Foot, to Susan, youngest daughter of At Chiswick, the Rev. John Morris,
the Rev. Dr. Milne, of Deptford, Kent. M. A. of Ealing-green, to the youngest
At Edinburgh, Sir William Maxwell, daught. of Augustus-Everard Brandc, esq.
bart. of Calderwood, to the youngest dan. 29. At St. Pancras, Mr. T. Kingfbury,
of tha late Rt. Pasley.esq. of Mountannan. of Union-place, Lambeth, son of the ReV.
At Edinburgh, Mr.Vinning, comedian, William K. of Southampton, to Anne,
to Miss Benson, daughter of the late Mr. youngest daughter of the late Mr. W.
B. of Drury-lane Theatre. The parties Mandell, of Bath.
were performing on the Edinburgh Stage, 30. Thomas-Theodore Campbell, esq.
in the faroe of " We Fly by Night," and to Anna, second daughter of Mr. Thomas
took a fancy to carry into reality the union Bland, of the Bath Hotel, Piccadilly.
they had been representing on the stage. Benjamin Stanley, esq. of Hackney ter
They made their obedience to the au race, to Miss Jeykill, of Strawberry-hall,
dience ; withdrew in their theatrical at New Cross, Surrey.
tire; and, by one of those brief ceremo 31. At St. Mary-la-Bonne, Jas. Grant,
nies which the Laws of Scotland sanc esq. to Helen-Philadelphia, youngest dau.
tion, returned in a few minutes, td the no of the late Major-gen. Sir Eccles Nixon.
small astonishment of their friends,' in the At Bury, Lieut.-col. M'Lereth, to Miss
real characters of husband and wife. Steele, of that town.
At St. James's, Piccadilly, Edward- At St. George's, Hanover-square, the
Lawson Long, esq. R. N. to Anna-Gcor- Rev. T. G. Clare, fellow of St. John's col
giana, only dan. of the late Capt. Bodens. lege, Oxford, to Harriet, youngest daugh.
At Alphington, near Exeter, 1 Box, of the Rev. A. Daniell, of Lifford, Ireland.
esq. R. N. to Anna, daughter of Thomas
Devvey, esq. of Ide cottage, a captain in Deaths.
the Royal Navy. LATELY, at Mutturah, in the E. In
Nathan Drake, esq. M. D. of Hadleigh, dies, aged 23, Lieut. Francis Lodge
Suffolk, to Miss Rose, of Bretteiiham. Morres, of his Majesty's 22d Regiment of
-John Williams, sexton of St. Ive's, in Foot, third Ion of the late Rev. Redmond
his 88th year, to Elizabeth Thomas, of Morres, rector of Clonmcen, co. Cork, by
the fame place, aged 00. Mary sole daughter of Edward Daltoa,
At Bath, Sir Charles Alston, bart. to esq. of Deer Park, co. Clare, niece of the
Mrs. Pigot, widow of the late Col. P. and last John Lord Eyre, of Eyre court, ne
niece of General Johnson. phew- of the present Right Hon. Lodge
Rev. T. Roo'me, of Sutton in Ashfield, Lord Frankfort, Baron of Galmoye, and,
Notts, to Miss Mary Downing. on the father's side, also related to Lord
Dec Rev. James-Bannister, rector Viscount Mountmorres, Sir William and
of Iddcsley, Devon, to Miss Seton, daugh ' Sir John Morres, barts. In this amiable
ter of the late George S. esq. young Officer were united every qualifica
Dec. 15. John-Lukin Nappcr,esq. of Lee tion necessary to form the complete sol
farm, Pulborough, Sussex, to Anne, eldest dier, the polished gentleman, and the
dau. of Edw. Evershed.esq. of that county. truly faithful friend ; as a soldier, brave,
19. At Wraisbury, Frederick R. Coote; humane, and resolute ; as a friend, most
esq-of Great Winchester-street, to Isabella, truly faithful and affectionate ; as an ac
.third daughter of John Blagrove, esq. of quaintance, mild, affable, and unas
Jamaica, and of Abberwyke-houfe, Bucks. suming ; as he lived beloved, so he died
22. John Simpson, esq. bleacher and . most sincerely regtetted by the Profession
muslin-manufacturer, of Blackburn, to to which he promised to be so bright an
MissGreennalgh.of.Bolton, co. Lancaster. ornament, and by every person who was
,26< J. H. Harries, esq. of Preskilly, ma acquainted with so much honour and vir
jor in the Pembrokeshire Militia, to Miss tue as he possessed.
Frances Jordan, of Haverfordwest. 1 .... Sept.
1232 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Supp.
Sept. 4. Off the Cape of Good Hope, lo have committed suicide in consequence
Arthur Brocas, esq. of being; ordered into the work-house.
Nov. j. In Ireland, aged 110, Denis 25. Mr. W. Pope, an elderly and re
Hampson, the blind Bard of Magilligan ; of spectable inhabitant of Friday-bridge, co.
■whom an interesting account is given by Cambridge. In a fit of apoplexy he fell
Miss Owenson, in her " Wild Irish Girl." into a drain atWaldersea, and was drown
A few hours before his death he tuned ed ; as was a man named Christmas, by
his harp, in order to have it in readiness to falling into the Wisbech canal.
entertain Sir H. Bruce's family, who were 17. Samuel Wragg, a youth of weak
expected to pass that way in a few days, intellects. He made his escape from his
and who were in the habit of stopping to friends atTichnall, Derbyshire, and having
hear his musick ; shortly after, however, wandered about during that unfavourable
he felt the approach of death, and, call day and the succeeding night, at length
ing his family around him, resigned his perished from fatigue and the inclemency
breath without a struggle, being in per of the weather at Donifthorpe, co. Leices
fect possession of his faculties to the last ter, where he was found dead.
moment of his existence. Burnt to death, at Chichefter, in the
8. Capt. Humphry Bunfter, of the ship absence of its parents, a child named
Amy, of London. Going, about t o'clock Marsh, about three years old.
in the evening of the 6th, from the Dol Due. . . At Allingtnn, co. Lincoln, Geo.
phin Tavern at Falmouth to Duckham's Brrffut, a fine lad, about 8 years old, who
Academy, it being very dark, in crossing had, about a week before, unfortunately
the fields he miffed the path, and unfor eaten some pieces of a composition con
tunately fell into a stone-quarry, upwards taining arsenick, which were found among
of 50 feet deep, by which he was maimed the ruins of a malting-office, supposed to
and tecerated in a shocking manner. His have been put there for the purpose of de
cries brought people to his assistance, who stroying rats. Happily, neither his brother,
carried him to Mr. Richard Pike's, the who was with him at the time, nor any of
nearest dwelling, where he lay in the his school-fellows, to whom he afterwards
greatest agonies till this afternoon, when shewed the composition, partook of it.
he expired. At Holt, Norfolk, Mrs. Fisher, relict of
I^. At Ely, Mr. George Apfcy, youngest Thomas F. esq.
son of William A. esq. of that place'. At At Mashbury, Essex, in her 88th year,
the age of 14 years he weighed upwards Mrs. Battle; who, at the age of 21, was
of 1 5 stone ; and at the -time of his death, married to her third husband ; had only-
being in his 20th year, he weighed up one child, and lived to see that child's
wards of 22 ftone. This young man, daughter a grandmother.
though of an extraordinary size, and of a After an illness of three weeks, brought
gross habit, enjoyed exceeding good health on by standing on damp ground in thin
until within a few hours of his death, boots, Mr. Philip Pinckncy, of Berwick
which was occasioned by a mortification, St. John, eldest son of Mr. P. of Amesbury.
proceeding from a rupture, which was Mrs. M'Gillicuddy, wife of Daniel M'G.
caused by a large piece of wood falling esq. of Ttalee, in Ireland, sifter to Lady
against him, a few weeks since, of which Kinsale, and to Herman Blanncrhaslet,
he took no notice till a mortification took esq. a native of Kerry, at present confined
place, and chirurgical aid was of no use. in the United States of America on a
18. Burnt to death, at Market-Raisin, Charge of high treason.
co. Lincoln, a fine child about six years At Woolwich, in Kent, Mrs. Cookson,
old, Ion of Thomas Vickers, a labourer. wife of Lieut.-col. C. N. C. of the ftoyjil
He and two younger children were left in Regiment of Artillery.
a room for a short time, during which a At the White Horse inn, Fetter-lane,
linen bib, which the unfortunate boy had Lieut. William Miller, of the West Nor
on, is supposed to have caught the flames folk Militia. On his way from Canterbury
by too nearly approaching the fire ; asd to visit his family at Downham, Norfolk,
in a few minutes he was found by some he suddenly became blind, and, after an
neighbours burnt almost to cinders. illness of four days, expired. His remains
33. Found dead, about 400 yardsfrom his were interred at Downham-market.
father's door at Pans, in Scotland, a young In Duke's-court, Bow-street, Mr. Cole-
man named Tait; who is supposed to have man, a very ingenious engraver in wood,
perished by the severity of the weather. whose talents had, at different times, pro
34. Pound drowned in the river Trent, cured him distinguished premiums from
Mr. William Brown, of Newark, Notts. the Society for the Encouragement of
Found drowned in a pond in Somer's- Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.
town, after having been miffing two days, In Paddington-ftreet, Mary-la-Bonnes,
Elizabeth Beven, a poor woman, formerly aged 64, Capt. Rogers.
in a respectable situation, who is supposed Aged 09, Mr, J. Barry, of Lancaster.
* At
1 807.1 Obituary, iviih Anecdotes, of remarkable 'Persons. 1 233
At Ashburton, Devon, aged 99, Mr. that her works discover her to have cul
Hurst, woolstapler. tivated useful knowledge with considera
At Oxford, aged 95, Edward Plastin, ble success ; and to have applied that
shoe-maker; and Mrs. Hicks, aged 75. knowledge less frivolously than is fre
At Worcester, aged 90, Mrs. Jane Cole, quently the cafe with female Authors.
formerly of Ludlow. 4. At Dumfries, Ensign Duncan Camp
At Mortimer, Berks, aged 82, JohnTy- bell, of the ?2d Foot, a promising young-
soe, efq. formerly of Biddenden, Kent. man, and much regretted. He was in
At Petersfield, the Rev. Mr. Barrett, a terred with military honours by the Stir
Dissenting Minister, lingshire Militia, attended by Col. Dou
At Hopton, Suffolk, J. Saunders ; who glas and all the Officers in garrison, as
was bewildered by the fog, and found well as by the Magistrates and many other
dead in a field. respectable inhabitants of Dumfries.
Mrs. Sarah Clark, many years a re Captain Charles -Adolphus Pyron, of
sident of Salisbury. Being called to sit the Bengal Cavalry.
down to dinner with a party of friends, she Murdered, Mr. William Parker, farmer,
fell down and expired without a groan. of Swindon, co. Stafford. In consequence
In the Crescent, Bath, Edward Home, of the Coroner's Inquest delivering their
esq. of Bevis-mount, co. Southampton. verdict against William Hawkeswood, as
Dec, 2. Found dead, in Hyde-park, An the suspected murderer, he immediately
drew Rogers, a working-jeweller, who re absconded, and was traced to Worcester,
sided in West Smithfield. He had left his whence he proceeded onwards by the Bris
home on Sunday morning, Nov. 29, to tol mail. Two Sheriff's Officers instantly
fee his son, who is at school in the neigh pursued him, and soon gained informa
bourhood of Hounslow ; and was after tion of Mr. Townstiend, of the Bush Ta
wards at the Pack-horse, Turnham-green, vern, Bristol, that a young man, answer
which he left at six o'clock in the even ing the description they gave, did arrive
ing, faying he was going to Knightibridge. by the mail-coach ; that the first inquiry
He had been drinking pretty fieely, and he made was for a house of rendezvous to
it is supposed had fallen down, and pe enter into the Navy; and that he liberally
rished by the inclemency of the weather. rewarded the man who had taken him
3. At Ipswich, in an advanced age, Miss therewith three guintasoutof ten, which
Clara Reeve, eldest daughter of the Rev. he received for his bounty. Mr. Towns-
William Reeve, M. A. many years minis hend then accompanied them on-board
ter of St. Nicholas, in that town, and sis the tender, and .pointed out the young
ter to the lute Vice-admiral Reeve. Her man, who acknowledged that his name
first publication was a translation, from was Hawkeswood, but said, although h»
the Latin, of the fine old Romance, had fled on hearing the verdict of the Coro
" Barclay's Argenis," which made its ap ner's Jury, that he knew nothing about
pearance in 1772, in four duodecimo vo the poison, f ie was, however, immedi
lumes, under the title of "The Phœnix ; ately taken into custody, and conveyed to
or, The History of Polyarchus and Arge Stafford Gaol, after undergoing a strict
nis." She next wrote " The Champion examination ; in the course of which, he
of Virtue," a Gothic story, which was acknowledged giving his master his usual
published in 1 777, and was re-published cup of camomile tea* which he was in the
' in the following year, under the title it habit of drinking every morning, and in
has ever since retained, viz. "The old which arsenide had been infused, but that
English Baron." Miss R. has since that he did not put it in. It appeared, on the
»ime written "The Two Mentors, a Mo examination before the Coroner, that Mr.
dern Story;" "The Progress of Romance, Parker, the moment he tasted the tea,
through Times, Countries, and Manners," complained that it had a very unpleafanc
in a course of interesting and well-written flavour, and did not, in consequence,
evening conversations; "The Exile; or, drink the whole of it ; notwithstanding
Memoirs of the Count de Cronstadt," the which, he was soon after taken ill, and
principal incidents of which are borrowed began to suspect he was poisoned ; a sur
from a novel by M. D'Arnaud ; "The geon was immediately sent' for, but Mr.
School for Widows," a novel ; " Plans of Parker died in about an hour after. On
Education, with Remarks on the System examining the cup, the surgeon found the
of other Writers," in a duodecimo vo dregs of arsenick at the bottom. Hawkes
lume; and "Memoirs of Sir Roger de wood, being closely questioned, prevari
Clarendon, a natural Son of Edward the cated in his answer, and at length made
Black Prince, with Anecdotes of many his escape, and concealed himself in his
other eminent Persons of the Fourteenth father's house, till the Coioner's inquest
Century," in duodecimo volumes. It is declared him to be the murderer. He
hardly necessary for us to add, concerning was fully committed for trial.
a writer so well known as Miss Reeve, j. Aged,97, Mrs. Adams, of SherLorne.
Gent. Mao. Supplement, 1807. At
n.
1 234 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Supp.
At New-miller-dam, near Wakefield, in teem proclaims his name deserving of re
Yorkshire, Mr. Roberts, jun. of the for cord, and his example worthy of imita
mer place, went into the house of Mr. II- tion, l ie was sober in his manners ; de»
lingworth, and seating himself with his cent in his apparel ; and regular in his
pun loaded across his knees, one of the attendance at church.
children began to play with it, when by Suddenly, at the Windsor Theatre, Mr.
some means it went off, and the contents I.ockey, one of the quarrer-masters of the
were lodged in the body of a fine boy, Royal Morse-guards Blue. He went with
•bout four years old, who died instantly. a party, in perfect health, into the boxes;
6. I.ieut. Smither, of the Army, who near the finish of the farce, he was sud
resided in Bryanston-strcet, near Portman- denly seized with a fit, and continued in
square. While on his way from his lodg a convulsive state for near an hour, and
ings to the Gloucester coffee-house in Pic then expired. He possessed great abilities,
cadilly, to take a journey into the West of and was much beloved and respected by
England, by the mail-coach, to see his the Officers and the whole Regiment. He
wife and family, who were near Salisbury, was also on the point of marriage with an
he suddenly dropt down dead in Oxford-ftr. amiable young lady of Windsor, of consi
After an illness of only 3f> hours, occa derable fortune. His remains were inter
sioned by falling through a trap-door, red with military honours ; the Band of
while in the execution of his business, the Regiment attended, and played the
Mr. John Dcnton, of Bagnigge"-wells Tile- Dead March in Saul. Col. Dorrien and
kilns, aged 03 years, the last 41 of which the Officers followed in the procession.
were entirely occupied in the faithful dis 9. A labouring man, of the name of
charge of his duty to Messrs* Weston, of Christie, a native of Switzerland, in the
Pancras, and Mr. Randall, their successor. employ of Mr. Barrel), of Stockwell, Sur
. Agcd«80, Mr. George Buibage, upwards rey, hung himself in his master's stables.
of 30 years a proprietor and printer of the He was remarkable for his penuriouCnsss ;
Nottingham Journal, and a member of ISOl. in gold and Bank-notes were foumi
the Senior Council of the Corporation of sewed up in his tattered deaths.
Nottingham. Me had been in business as In his ;sth year, the Rev. Francis
a bookseller and printer nearly s)0 years ; Mapletoft, 37 years rector of Aynho, eo-. ,
during which period, it is but justice to Northampton, in the gift of W. R. Cart-
fay, that, by his intense application and •wright, el'q. M. P. for that county. He
urbanity of manners, he obtained the re was of Pembroke college, Cambridge ;
spect of all ranks of society. B. A. 1752, M. A. 1 755 ; and succeeded
7. At Cheltenham, George Parker, esq. the learned Mr. Waffe.
©f Park-hall, Staffordshiie, grandson to A poor man, named Roberts, driver of
. the late Lord Chief Baron Parker, and a hackney-coach, was found dead in Bird-
nephew to the Countess St. Vincent. street, Oxford-street, having, to all ap
Suddenly, the wife of Mr. M'Nieie, of pearance, perished by coM.
Charles-street, near the Middlesex hospital. pound frozen to death, on Tewkesbury-
8. At Upcot, near Hatherieigh, Devon, ham, Mr. J as. Lewis, hosier,ofTevvkeib.ury..
William-Michael Coham, esq. son of the A young man, named Laing, who was
late Rev. Arthur G. archdeacon of Witts. the support of an aged mother, perished in
At Haflar hospital, Portsmouth,, in con the snow, on his way from Edinburgh to
sequence of a cold caught at Copenhagen, Anstruiher. He was found standing erect.
I.ieut. Gregory, of his Majesty's ship Makta. to. In his 19th year, William Lewis,
Mr. John Rose, of NechciVgreen, Bir jun. cutler and ironmonger, of Bristol..
mingham. While snipe-shooting;, he broke Mrs. Weollen, of Sheffield-park, haft-
. his ram- rod, and returned home for ano jiurner. She had just finished reading a,
ther gun, which proved to be a double- letter, which contained an account of the"
barreled one; he remained in the house to loss of a ("hip, on-board of which all the
charge it, and loaded one of the barrels ; crew perished, excepting her own son and
fcut in ramming.down the charge of the another toy, when, being suddenly over
second, the piece by some accident went come with joy and apprehension, she fell
off, and killed him on the spot. upon the floor, and instantly expired.
At Philip's Norton, Somerset, C.Gibbs, At Louth, co. Lincoln, aged 78, Mr.
a poor man who got his livelihood by car Godfrey Outram.
rying coals, and whose death is lamented John Blaek, a farmer's servant, of Na-
with genuine sorrow by the neighbours. veiiby, co. Lincoln. Owing to the slippery
Constantly occupied. in the laborious em state of the road, he fell down between the
ployment of a colber, and just above po horses drawing a waggon loaded with coal,
verty himself, he devoted his labours pe of which he was the driver, and, the wheels
culiarly to supplying the wants of the poor going over him, wa< killed on the spot.
immediately around him; and this he did At Powdergate, near Stanmore, Mr.
v/ith such liberality, feeling, and integrity, James fticbrrtaci Davis, an artist of consi
*. a ge;.st»l sentiment of rcgiet aud es derable;
x 8o 7 . ] Obituary, xvith Anecdotes, ofremarkable Persons, 1235
(lerable property, who resided near the Secretary to the Dublin Society for 3 5
turnpike at Paddington. He had been to years, with the strictest integrity and assi
a house near Watford,, in a single-horse duity, This gentleman was married to Miss
chaise, accompanied by his niece, a girl Ould, only daughter of Sir Fielding Ould,
16 years old ; and on their return in the M.D. wjio was knighted by the father of
afternoon, it being dusk, and the ditches the present Duke of Bedford, when Lord
filled with snow on a level with the road, Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. Lyster's situa
Mr. D. drove out of the horse-track to the tion as Secretary made him known to all
off-side of the road, and the ofT-whcel got the Nobility and landed interest of Ireland.
into a ditch fix feet deep. The girl was Many were the livings bestowed on amia
precipitated into the hedge unhurt; but ble persons during 35 years ; yet this
the fall of the chaise was so sudden, that worthy unassuming man died a curate at
the driver was thrown into the ditcb with the age of 66. '
the vehicle upon him. He remained half II. At Gainsborough, co. Lincoln, aged,
an hour in this situation, and was killed 70, Mr. Joseph Baraoy.
by the fall. At her son's house, in Cambridge, aged
At the Dock, at Rotherhithe, William 7 + , Mrs. Ind, a widow lady, mother of
Arnold, a brick-maker in the employ of Edward I, esq. alderman of that borough.
the Grand Surrey Canal Company, who Rev. Daniel Pape, vicar of Pcnn, co.
was drowned in a bason belonging to the Stafford, and author of " A compendious
Company. It appeared, that on his fee English Grammar, with a Key, by which
ing a person come with two officers to Experience has proved that a Boy with »
arrest him for a debt of grsl. he left his tolerable Capacity may, in a few Months,
business, jumped off the wharf into the be taught to speak or write the English,
baton, which is near 60 feet deep, swam Language correctly, though totally unac
along-side a ship moored there, and moun quainted with the Latin or Greek Lan
ted her deck. One of the officers folluwed, guages, 1807."
and was also ascending ; when the unfor After a long illness, aged 46, Matthevf
tunate man jumped over the other side, Talbot, of the White Hart, Bridgford, co.
am! almost instantly sunk. Me was sup Stafford. Some time previous to his death
posed to have been seized with a sudden he was seized with a lethargic complaint,
fit of the cramp. The Coroner, Mr. commonly called a trance, in which he
Jeramctt, and the Jury, took great pains continued for several days, as if in a pro
to investigate the cafe, as to whether the found sleep. He then awoke for a short
officers were in any way the cause of his time, in a most impatient state of hunger 5
daath. The result was, that there was and, having satisfied the cravings of Na
no imputation on the officers' conduct, ture, gradually funk into the fame drowsy
Mr. James Bealey, the son of a lady of and insensible state, from which nothing;
that name, who resides in Baker-street, could rouse him ; in which he continued
Portman-fquare. While taking a ride near a whole week, when he awoke only to
Colnbrook, his horse took fright, as sup meet the sleep of death.
posed, at the jingling of some sheep-bells, At Newington, Mr. Ralph Sedgwick, a
and, making a plunge on to the foot-path, merchant, who died in a fit of coughing
flipped up with the greatest violence, and in a hackney-coach. He had been spend
rolled over. Mr. B. clung to the saddle, ing the day with a party of friends at hi»
and was so dreadfully hurt that he lived daughter's, who resides in Finfbury-square,
but a short time, having bruised his head. and retired at ten o'clock. On the arrival
At Bath, the Hon. William Monson, of the coach at his door, he was found a
uncle to the present Lord Monson, and corpse. It was manifest, from the testi
oiie of the much-respected Representatives mony of the coachman, that he had burst
in Parliament for the city of Lincoln. No a blood-veflel while coughing.
panegyrick'that can be written or pro At Doncaster, aged 57, Henry Moyes,
nounced will so faithfully or so well pour- of Edinburgh, M. D. He waa delivering
tray what he was, and the estimation in a course of lectures there on Natural Phi
which he was held at Lincoln, as the sin losophy; hut being seized with a com
cere regret which succeeded the commu plaint in the stomach, a short indisposi
nication of his death. He was Colonel of tion deprived the world of this learned and
the 76th Regiment of Foot ; and served truly valuable man ; who, though blind,
several years in the East Indies, where he had made great acquisitions in medical"
repeatedly fought and bled in the service and natural science in general.
of his King and Country. In Millman-street, Bedford-row, aged
At his house, at Cold Blow, near Dub 46, Mrs. Brooks, widow of James-Stuart
lin, aged fit), the Rev. Thomas Lyster, B. efq. formerly of the fame place.
D D. He was a Curate in the City of About 8 o'clock this evening, a boat, in
Dublin 44 years, in the parishes of St. going through London bridge, was whirl
Witrbtirgh and St, Peter j and acted as ed round, several times by Uic strong cur
1236 Obituary, with Anecdotes , of remarkable Versons. [Supp.
lent, when one of the watermen, named other also, together with his fenses. He
James Fletcher, who resided at Hunger- remained in this deplorable state, totally
ford market, unfortunately fell overboard, insensible and unable to speak, till about
and was drowned. five o'clock, when he expired in the arms
AtCollercoats, near North Shields, aged df Mr. Dawson, his partner in trade, to
115, John Ramsay, mariner. He served the irreparable loss of a numerous and
ill the capacity of cabin-boy on-board one deeply-afflicted family. Mr. N. was a
of the ships in Sir George Rooke's squa truly upright man, endowed with boundlef*
dron, at the taking of Gibraltar, in 1701. urbanity of heart, and universally respected.
He retained his faculties in full peifection In Bird-street, Manchester-square, an.
till within a few days of his death ; nor elderly female, named Stone; who for 40
did his great age in the smallest degree years had kept a school in the same house
<lamp his lively spirits, or shade his blithe in Bird-street. While sitting in the front
countenance ; and his society was eagerly room of the second floor, her cloaths by
courted by the young and the gay of the some accident caught fire; she gave no
neighbourhood, whom he never failed to alarm ; but some neighbours smelling the
gratify with a merry song or good old story. fire, went into her room, and discovered
12. At Marlborough, after a few days her in a shocking state. She survived, in
illness, Lieut. -col. James Boys, inspecting excruciating agony, until four o'clock the
field-officer of the district. next morning, and then expired.
At Avon, near Chippenham, Mr, Hugh 14. After a short illness, Mr. Thomas-
Beames, a respectable farmer, and partner Lovejoy Rich, surgeon, Broadmead, Bristol.
. in the Chippenham Bank. 15. At Caistor, co. Lincoln, Mrs. Sut-
At the Mitre inn at Cha'bam, of a fe ton, relict of the late Mr. Thomas S. far
ver, Mr. George, late a midshipman on mer, of Cabourn.
board his Majesty's ship Prince of Wales, At Blytou, near Gainsborough, aged 38,
and Ion of the Hon. Baron George, Lord Mrs. Winn, wife of Mr. W. miller. She
Chief Justice of Ireland. had 14 children ; not one of whom lived
At Ryall, near Stamford, co. Lincoln, to be a day old, except the last, which is
Wright, nearly 70 years of age; who about 2 months old, and likely to do well.
was crushed to death in a stone-pit, an At Earl Shilton, co. Leicester, Mr. John
angle of a huge and hard mass of earth King, attorney at law.
having cleft him almost in two, from the 16. In Bloomlbury-square, Mrs. Moy-
skull downward. fey, wife of Abel M. esq.
Aged 75, the Rev. Edward Willan, 52 Near Bristol, Joseph-Thomas Waugh,
years vicar of the Holy Tiinity, King's B. A. professor of Rhetorick at Grefham,
Court, in the city of York, and perpetual college, London, and eldest son of the late
curate of Fulford. Joseph W. esq. merchant, of Dowgate-
At Kilfauns castle, in Scotland, aged 52, hill, London.
"William Lord Gray. He is succeeded in 17. At her seat at Kirklington, Notts,
his titles and estates by his only brother, Mrs. Wbetham, relict of the fate John W.
the Hon. Francis Gray, postmaster-gene esq. and aunt to the Duchess of Newcastle.
ral for Scotland. After a short illness, aged 40, Mr. Sa
IJ. Poisoned, by a pill administered to muel Paddison, of Lincoln, attorney.
him by his mother, the infant son of Jo At tjainsbotough, in the prime of life,
seph Holdham, a drummer in the 77th Mr. John Travis, joiner.—Also, aged 73,
Regiment of Foot, quartered in Lincoln. Mr. Thomas Brown.
It appeared that th<; father had obtained In his fifith year, the Rev. Rob. Jones,
from the military hospital an opiate for rector of Pcppard, Oxon, near Reading,
his wife ; and misunderstanding the direc Berks, in the gift of Jesus College, Oxford.
tions of the serjeant who delivered it to At Shaw-hill, near Chorley, Mrs. Legh,
him, he directed her to give it to the child, wife of Richard L. esq. high sheriff of the
who had been inoculated tor the small county of Somerset.
pox. The mother complied, and the con After a short illness, Mr. Heury-Phipps
sequence was speedily fatal. Randall, of the house of Bradshaw, Rau-
Aged SO, Mrs. Wildman, a respectable dall, and Neve, Aldgate.
maiden lady, of Cambridge. 18. At Pentonville, Mrs. Vicary, relist
Suddenly, Mr. J. Northall, bookseller, of Mr. V. late of Hampstead.
of Stockport. He had been at cha At her cottage in the Ifle of Wight,
pel in the forenoon, came home, ate a Lady Fiances Tollemache, sister to the
hearty dinner, and seemed quite cheerful; Earl of Dyfart, and aunt to the Duchess
but, in about an hour after, he was seized of St. Alban's, and to Sir William Man
With a. numbness in one of his feet, which ners, hart. Lady Louisa Manners attended
immediately proceeded up one tide, and her Ladyship during the greater part of
took away the use thereof. In a few mi her illness. Her remains were interred in
nutes he was deprived of the use of the the family-vault at Hsloiinghamj Suffolk,
3 lo
T
1807.] Obituary, iviib Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. 1237
In Dublin, after a few days illness, aged In his 7 fith year, John Salmon, esq. of
89, Sir Francis Hutchinson, bart. who had Wells, co. Somerset, father of Mrs. S. of
spent a long life in doing good. Possessed Old Market-street, Bristol.
of a very large fortune, and having no fa In Clifford-street, Mary-la-Bonne, Jo
mily but a wife as benevolent as himself, seph Slack, el'q. solicitor, son of George S.
he was the patron and promoter of every «sq. of King-street, Cheapfide.
charity in Ireland, the friend of the op Mr. William Hutchins, of Giltspur-
pressed, and steady guardian of the poor. street, West Smithfield.
• 19. This day a fatal duel took place on 22. At the vicarage-house at Hull, in
Halbrow island, at the entrance of Cork his pad year, Mr. Thomas Bromby, grand
harbour, in Ireland, between Lieutenants father of the Vicar of the Holy Trinity
Phillirnore and Medlicott, of his Majesty's church in Hull.
ship Polyphemus ; the former of whom At his feat at $outh-hill, co. Somerset,
was mortally wounded by the first fire of after little illness, Col. John Strode, late
the latter, which he never returned. He commander of the Bath Volunteer Infantry.
survived till half past 10 the following At Leicester, Mr. Alderman Towndrow,
morning, when he expired on-board the an eminent hosier in the Newark.
Polyphemus, in the 23d year of his age. Aged 114, Mary George, of the parish
He was the youngest son of the Rev. Jo of St. Paul, Bristol, great-great-grand-mo
seph P. of Oddeston, co. Leicester. ther to a very numerous family.
The wife of Serjeant Young, of the In Grafton-street, Miss Stronge, daugh
Royal Artillery. Walking with her hus ter of the late Sir James S. bart.
band from Dover to St. Margaret's, where This evening, about seven o'clock, the
a part of the Artillery are stationed, the Salisbury coach, on its way to town, from
night being very dark, she fell over the the heavy fog, came, in contact with the
cliff, and was killed on the spot. battlements of the first bridge near Belfont.
Aged 21, Mr. William G. Motte, of By the shock, the coach and horses were
.Baliol college, Oxford. precipitated over the arch, a height of
At Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, Mrs. eight feet, into a shallow stream of water,
Jean Gibb, relict of Mr. George G. mer about four fret deep ; by which accident
chant, of Balmerino, daughter of J. Car a gentleman, of the name of John Lock-
negie, esq. of Balmachie, and mother of yer Wainwright, who was on the roof of
Mr. G. surgeon, of Boston, co. Lincoln. the coach, was killed on the spot, by the
Mr. G. Walters, parish-clerk of St. carriage and horses falling on. him. The
James's, Bristol, two leading horses were drowned by the
AtDulwich, Surrey, aged 6fi, Mr. Tho weight of the wheel-horses and carriage on
mas Coleman, one of the oldest inhabit them. Had it not been for a chaise pas
ants of that place, sing by at the time, in which were some
20. Rev. E. Langford, rector of Gay- naval officers coming to London, this un
ton, Xx. and chaplain to Lord Boston. fortunate affair would have been more
At Langley, Bucks, Mrs. De Salis, wife distressing, as five ladies, who were inside
of Jerome De S. esq. the coach (which was neatly filled with
In Portman barracks, after an illness of water) would have been suffocated, but
three days, Capt, George Deare, of the 3d were, through the indefatigable exertions
Regiment of Guards. of the officers, with the guard and coach
In St. Simon's, Norwich, aged 86, Mrs. man, rescued from their perilous situation;
Mary Mack, who lived several years in and the officers instantly resigned their
the service of the late W. Tilyard, esq. of chaise for the use of the unfortunate travel
Poringland; during which time she eon- lers. The guard, on a single horse, with
ltantly travelled the number of 2920 miles a lanthorn, conveyed Mrs. Wainwright
annually; which, in ten years, amounted (the lady of the unfortunate gentleman)
to 29,220 miles, the house being full four and another lady to the George Inn, Bel-
miles from Norwich ; and her master, font, while the remaining passengers were
who it is well known was a remarkably brought to the fame place in the chaise,
eccentric character, never failed sending which had been so humanely resigned to
her every day (Sunday not excepted) for them. On Mrs. Wainwright being pulled
such things as his whimsical and capri out of the coach, she called for her hus
cious fancy stood in need ot band ; when the guard, having extricated
Mrs. Bowen, wife of John B. esq. of the Mr. W. from his -situation, and finding
Priory-house, Cardigan. him dead, informed her that he was gone
Mrs. Sarah Harcourt, widow of the late to fetch a carriage to convey her to Bel-
Mr. Wm. H. of Twycross, co. Leicester, font ; hut that if she did not like to wait,
AtHorncastle, Lincolnsh. Mrs. Madely, he would conduct her on one of the horses
wife of the Rev. C. M. vicar thereof. after him to Belfont. The agony of the
21. At Huntingdon, in her 57th year, lady when the corpse of her husband was
Mrs. Perkins. brought to the Inn is easier felt than de
scribed.
1238 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Per/ens. [Supp.
scribed. The unfortunate Mr. Wainwrigbt rolling it in a carpet. Unfortunately, the
was formerly a Captain in the Army, and child's eyes were totally destroyed ; it
lately retired, with his lady, to the West was otherwise dreadfully disfigured ; and,,
of England. Having occasion to come to lifter languishing about 13 hours, expired.
London, tltey travelled in post-chaises till At Paris, Madame La Fayette, daugh
they came to Salisbury, where they took ter of the Duke D'Ayen, son of the Mar
inside places in the coach for town, and an shal De Noailles, and wife of General ci-
outside one for a femalefervant that accom devant Marquis De La F.
panied them. About four o'clock in the 25. At his feat at Belton, near Grant-
afternoon Mr. W. remarked to his wife, ham, co. Lincoln, in his 64th year, Brown-
that it was too cold for the poor girl to be low Lord Brownlow. He was the only son
on the roof, and that he would, with the os the late Sir John Cult, bart. Speaker of
leave of the passengers, exchange places the House of Commons ; in remuneration
with her for the remainder of the journey. of whole services in that high office he
He had not been on the roof more than was advanced to the Peerage in 1776.. He
two hours when the unfortunate accident was twice married : first, to Miss Drury,
happened. The deceased has left a bro daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas D.
ther in the Army ; and was the son of the of Overstone, co. Northampton, and sifter
Rev. Mr. Wainwright, who resides near to the late Countess of Buckinghamshire;
Kells in the county of MeatSi, and is and secondly to Mis* Bankes, only daugh-
•
incumbent of a living of considerable valve ter of Sir Henry B. of Wimbledon, by
an that diocese. Mrs. Wainwrigbt was the whom he has left a numerous issue. He
widow Pcarcc, whole step-daughter, when is succeeded in his title and estates by his
under age, married Mr. Lockyer, the de eldest Ion, the Hon. John Cust, M. P. for
ceased's uncle, whose cause for raanying the borough of Clithero.
31 ward of Chancery is fresh in the recol Aged gs, the Rev. Jofhua-Middleton
lection of the publick. Clowes, M.A. rector of Walkington, near
23. Of an asthma, Mrs. Xunn, wife of Beverley, co. York.
Mr. James N. bookseller, in Great Cucen- At Cambridge, aged 90, Mr. Deighton,
ftreet, Lincoin's-inn-fields. father of Mr. D. bookseller there.
At her house in London, in a very ad At Little Hatch, on the Acton road, co.
vanced age, Mrs. Fouace, filter to tile late Middlesex, K. R. Vanduke, esq. ; whose
Duchess of Ancafter, and daughter of Ma death was occasioned by falling over the
jor Layard. bannister of a stair-case. He was recently
Aged 6s, Mrs. M. Pierce, of Prince's- a merchant, residing in Broad-street, and
Sreet, Hanover-square ; and, on the 26th, had lately taken up his residence in the
Mr. Goodwin, of Union-street, biluops- neighbourhood of Futney, in Surrey. He
gate-street, aged 35, her sen. went to visit his sister, at Little Hatch
In her 55th year, Mary, 3" years wife aforesaid, accompanied by his Ion and
«f John Fentiman, esq. of Kennington. daughter; and, on being about to retire-,
Mr. Gibson, of the Green Dragon inn at nine o'clock in the evening, he tripped
St Leicester. over some baize at the door of the draw
24. At Holyweli, Flintshire, aged 32, ing-room, fell over the bannister, and died
Annabella, wife of Capt. John Edwards, in a short time of the injury he received.
late of theAntient British Light Dragoons. After a lingering illness, aged 70, Mi
At Birthorpe, near Folkingham, aged chael Hodgson, esq. of Mul'well-hill, near
73, Mrs. Dawson. Hornsey, Middlesex.
At Thcakstone, near Bedale, aged 71, At Islington, in her 18th year, Cathe
John Williams, esq. rine, youngest daughter of the late Charles
At the Hot wells, Clifton, in the prime Hamond, esq. of Milk-street, Cheaplide.
of life, John Johnson, esq. of Great Tor- Mil's Louisa Mallcott, daughter of Mr.
jington, Devon, and captain in the Royal John M. mason, of Newgate-street
Westminster Regiment of Militia. At Linlithgow, Scotland, Norval Smith,
Mrs. Hopkins, of Milton-hall, Berks. who has been driver with Mr. Mackay, on
At her daughter's house, Brough, Isa the Stirling coach, upwards of li years,
bella Green, relict of the late Francis G. and had accumulated money and property
of Mary-la-Bonne New Road. to the amount of 150QL; which shews
This morning a child of Mr. Button, what one in that situation may do, if very
music-feller, of St. Paul's Church-yard, careful. He had never been known to be
between 3 and 4 years old, being left by :i day unwell, or unfit for his daily employ
a servant in the room, where a lighted ment, till within three weeks of his death.
candle was placed on the hearth, close to 26. In Upper Grosvenor-street, rCmma,
the grate, approached so near as to set its Countess-dowager of Mount-Edgecumbe,
cloaths on fire. The father and mother relist of the third lord and first Earl, and
of the infant being first alarmed by the mother of the present Earl. Her Ladyship
cries of the little sufferer, hastened to its was Mil's Gilbert, trnly daughter and heir
aniltance, and entiuguistied the flames by
i8o7-] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. 1239
of Dr. John Gilbert, who was Archbishop Aged 74, William West, esq. of Pul-
of York. Her remains were interred in ths len's-row, Islington.
family-vault at Mount-Edgecumbe. At Hanwell, Middlesex, in her 88th
By nearly fevering his head from his year, Mrs. Hannington, formerly one of
body with a razor, Allcott, esq. an the matrons of Eton college.
officer in the Army, and a gentleman of At Cookham, Berks, Mrs. Elizabeth
great respectability, who resided at the riumer, sister of William P. esq. late M.P.
house of Mrs. M'Coulley, in Oxford-street, for the county of Berks.
where he committed the mocking act. At Windsor castle, in a very advanced
In his 70th year, the Rev. Millington- age, the Rev. John Lockman, D.D. F.A.S.
Massey Jackfen, 35 years vicar of War- canon of Windsor, and master of St. Cross
minster, and rector of Kingfton-Deverill, in Hampshire. He was of Balliol college,
both co. Wilts. Oxford; M. A. 1748, B. and D.D. i;f>0.
1"]. At his house near Birmingham, in In Vine-lane, Newcastle, aged 8(i, Mrs.
fiis 80th year, Sampson Lloyd, banker. He Barbara Richardson, wife of Mr. John R.
was married, in 1762, to Rachel daughter attorney, and aunt to the Lord Chancellor.
of Samuel Barnes, of Cla.Uon, near Lon 28. In his 64th year, Daniel Bureau,
don, who survives him; and by whom he esq. merchant, of Wallbrook, and one of
had 17 children, 10 of whom also survive the directors of the Royal Exchange As
him ; 5 died in his life-time, having been surance Company.
married, and all leaving issue ; 1 died at Mr. Walter Williams,' of the Hawkers
11 years old, and 1 died an infant. The and Pedlars Office, Somerset-house, many
number of his grandchildren now living years an officer of the Court of Chancery*
is 28. Few men have passed through life Gcorgiana-Christina, wife of Mr. Win.
more. beloved and respected by his family Hofkin, of Jewry-street, Crutched-friers.
and acquaintance, or with more inte At Richmond, Surrey, Mrs. Warden,
grity and honour. His manners were po wife of George W. esq.
lished ; and the cheerful turn of his con At Lowestoft, Suffolk, aged 44, Mr. Ri
versation, which was enlivened by inter chard Powles, of Gracechu'rch-street.
esting anecdotes, rendered his company Henry" Watchorn, el'q. senior alderman
particularly pleating. Though much at of Leicester; of which borongh he twice
tached to Christianity, and the religious served the office of mayor, 178O and 1788.
principles of the Society of Friends, to This morning, a fine child, about four
which he belonged, his religion had cast years old, daughter of Mrs. Reed, of Eye,
no gloom over his countenance, but tend being left with her infant brother in the
ed to produce a placid composure, and to house, while her mother went on an er
counteract natural irritability. In early rand into the village, was burnt to death,
life his engaging manners and social dis in consequence of its cloaths catching fire ;
position introduced him into gay circles ; as was also Joseph Garr, aged 4 years, son
but in these he moved with more circum of William C. serving in the Navy, who
spection than most young men did whose was left by his tnolher, under similar cir
company was so much sought after, and cumstances, at Lewes, and who was born
who pleased so much by elegance of per blind, but could run about the streets like
son and address. When he was about 30 other boys, and possefled such a thorough
years of age he thought it his religious knowledge of his play-mates that he could
duty to bid adieu to the fashions of the readily distinguish one from another.
world, and to act in conformity to the At his house in Carlton- place, Glasgow,
Christian principles of the Religious So John Pattison, esq. merchant.
ciety to which lie belonged (though con- 29. After a lingering illness, Mr. John
traty to his natural disposition) ; and in Hunt, of Southwark. »
this line of conduct he persevered to the At his house in the Minories, aged 76,
end of his long and honourable life, be William Wilton, esq.
loved and esteemed by all around him. He 30. At the Rev. Mr. Trollope's, Christ's
had been favoured to pal's through life Hospital, aged 37, the Rev. Thomas. Mai
with but very little illness; but, for the ler, late chaplain to the Britisti factory at
last five years, he was incapable of using Oporto. He bore his severe indisposition
much exercise. His end was tranquil and with true Christian resignation ; and his
resigned, and brought to the recollection remains were deposited in the South clois
of the writer ef this the Scripture text, ter of Christ's Hospital.
*' Mark the perfect man, and behold the In her gist year, Mrs. Anne Cassimajor,
upright, for the end of that man is peace." daughter of the lare Lewis C. el'q. a mer
Aged about if), Mils White, daughter chant of Bristol.
of Mr. W. of Market-street, Sr. James's. Mr. John-Sandford Keene, formerly a
While reading in the drawing- roots, a few silversmith of Bristol.
days before, her cloaths caught fire, and 31. At her residence in Gloucester-street,
stic was so dreadfully burnt rs to occasion Guceo-square, ageJ, til, Mrs. Hannah Ma-
her death this day. berly ;
1 240 Obituary ofremarkable Persons.—Bill of Mortality. [Supp.
berly ; a latly whose loss will be severely and Bodies to all parts of England, Scot
felt by a large circle of relations and friends. land, and Ireland ; likewise to different
Mrs. Abbott, relict of William A. esq. parts of the Continent, to apprehend per
late of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury. sons charged with crimes;- in all of which,
Aged 74, John Veysey, esq. of Bramp- he was very successful. About 20 years
fbrd-Speke, in the commission of the peace since, he was sent to apprehend three
for the county of Devon ; leaving his pro men in France for a forgery upon the Bank
perty to 54 nephews and nieces. os England to a very considerable amount.
At the New Hummums, in Covent-gar- By his industry he traced out the men,
den, J. K. Wcnth, esq. a West-India gen and applied to the Police of France to
tleman, who, in a fit of derangement, cut have them given up, which was refused ;
his throat from ear to ear with a razor* however, it was agreed that Carpmeal
In Bow-street, aged (io, Mr. Tho. Carp- should have a fair chance of apprehending
meal, one of the oldest officers belonging them after they were off French ground )
to the Public Office ; having been ap and some of the French Police Officers
pointed in 17O9 by Sir John Fielding, to took them in a cart to the^xtremity of
whom he was recommended by Mr. Clark, the French territory, and turned them
an officer of the highest respectability, be loose upon the sand beach upon the coast
longing to Bow-street, who likewise held of Holland; they. took to their heels,
a situation in the Mint, in consequence Carpmeal and his assistants pursued them,
of his having distinguished himself in ac secured two, and brought them to Eng
companying Mr. Clark and Mr. Jealous land ; they were tried, found guilty, and
to apprehend three highwaymen, at a executed. He continued riis activity in.
house in Hemlock-court, Carey-street, for his office till within these last five or six
a highway robbery on Finchley common, years, during which time he has had very
when he not Only behaved very courage bad health. Me has left a widow, and a
ously, but stiewed good management. daughter by a former wife. Rivett and
After his appointment he became one of Pearlies are his executors. His remains
the most active officers belonging to the were interred, with much-funeral pomp,
office ; so much so, that he was sent by at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, attended by a
Government and various Public . Offices numerous train of his Brsthcr-ofncers.
Christenings aud Bu uials from December 16, isoO, to December 1 5, 1 80".
Christenedj' \sMales
^. 0S1-2 1 In all, ("Males 02Osi 1 In all, increased in
J_ Females ^04)]£)4l6 Buried \ Females 0038) 18334 Burials 306
Died under 2 Years 5443 20 and 30 1 lO'o ()0 and 70 - 1507 100-0 104- 0
Between 2 and 5 20 :o 30 and 40 1 8 83 70 and 80 - 1 1 58 101 - 1 105- O
5 and 10 737 40 and 50 1077 80 and 00 - 4 02 102-1 1 10 - O
10 and 20 581 50 and (jo 1665 00 and 100 - 40 103 - O 115-0
DISEASES. Dropsy 7Q0 Mortification .210'Worms 5
Abortive,Stillborn49 1 Evil 4 Palsy- 106I CASUALTIES.
Abscess 50 FeversofallKinds 1033 Palpitation of the Bit by Mad Dogs 2
Aged ..1424 Fistula 3 Heart 1 BrokenLimbs. . 2
Ague 1 Flux 8 Pleurisy 32 Bruised 1
Apoplexy&fudden24 2 French Pox 2(5!Purples. Burnt 36
Asthma* Phthific523 Gout 32'Quinsy 4 Drowned Ill
Bedridden . 2 Gravel, Stone, and Rheumatism 5 ExceltiveDrink-
Bile 3 Strangury 10 Rising of the Lights 1 ing" 9
Bleeding 22 Grief 10 Small Pox. .... .120" Executed*.,.. 5
BurstenS Rupture 13 Headmouldfhot, SoreThroat. Found Dead. . . IS
Cancer 83 Horseshoehead, Sores and Ulcers . . Fractured 1
Canker 2 and Water in the St. Anthony's Fire Frighted 4
Chicken Pox 3 Head 200 Spasm ' killed by Falls, and
Childbed 164 Jaundice 20 St. Vitus's l>ance . several other Ac
Colds 10 Jaw Locked 5 Stoppage in the Slo-j cidents 101
Colick, Gripes, &c. 14 Imposthumc 5 mach 14 Killedthemselves4 5
Consumption . . ..4964 Inflammation.. . . 63S Swelling, Murdered 2
Convulsions 3094 Lethargy 3jTeeth 322 Poisoned 1
Cough, and Hooping- Livergrown '. 19 Thrush 43 Scalded 9
Cough 430, Lunatic .1*5: Tumour . . 1 Suffocated 11
Croup 57 Measles , .452 Vomiting and Loose-'
Diabetes 1 Miscarriage ■ 8 ness 3 Total 35*
* There have been Executed in the City, of London and County of Surrey 13; -of
which Number (5 only) have been reported to be Buried (as such) within the Bills of
Mortality. " INDEX
INDEX of NAMES in Von. LXXVth Part If.
Ancaster, Duch. Attwood 1 170 1014, 1086, Beaufoy lilt
' A. of 123S. Atwood 69a 1171 Btalilitu, JSari
Abbot 880, Ancram 975 Atty lift Barkly 689 1081
i 1240 Anderson 633, Avonmore, Vis. Barnard 689 Bfckingham785
Abbs 982 778,' i0?5, count 777 Ba neby BeckUy 984
Abefcorn,Ma.rq. 1 1 8.T Allbt'F 892 ttarnes555,69 Beckwith 778,
i • •?i7 Andrews 683, Auchmufy 670 7f 5. . •°55> 874, 086
Abercrombie 7*9. 9°5> Auckland, Lord lo<;6, ibid. Bedford , 9S3,
1053 1054, 1079, H72 .1168, I206, il7*
Abercromby 1 aaf AaFrrre 661 >2^9 « Dukeof
Angerftein 890 Auflrck H68 Barnfield in 8 £.7, 1071*
Abingdon, Par! Anglesey, Earl Aasten fio EUron 1036 Feriingfieli 681
836 1*$ Austin 885, K<irell 1234 Begbie 685
Aboyne,Earl of Annciley 1177 Barrett helchamber
6S1 73? Ayliffe 63 5 Ban ie 666 Bell 886, 107$,
Achmttty 864 — -V- Earl Aylofl'e 638 BatHngron 661, 10.80, ii 1 J7
Acraman 7»7 8tl Ajnsworth 907 788, ib. 902, B.loe t20j
Acred ?8i Ansiey8Sl,i07Z i 126 Bellham 629,
Acott 3 -.9 Anton 7°*4> B. - ■ ' Bp- 639 800,823,904
Acton 1105 Ilj55. 1075 BABIIJOtoN Barrow 10x0 Bence 662
Adair 867 Anstey pi Barton 976, Btnford 784
Adam , > Ames
7&1 Bach 1074 1056 Bengough 1078
Ad.ims8!7,Sga, Aprcece 988 Bacher 1076 Barry 7^7,867, Bcnn ttii
980, 1 1 7 y> Apsey 113* Bacon 985,1 179 1231 Bennet 89I
1133 Apihorp 662 1191, I229 B<fham it8o Bennett 1171
Adamfon 867, Arbuthnot, 877 Bagfurd 738 Baslteincld $90 B«nningsen673,
Sjt, to<;4 Bagge 789 Basket! 1654, 683
Addingtun 666, countess 778 ISagiter 789 22*9 Bensley 1072
856 ArehddU 728 Bagwell S22, Bafnett I056 Benson 1231
Addifon 1084, Arden, fjord 122* B'flett I08l Bentham 1099
1180 Bailey 6Si,<,6i B stard 8,6 Bentinck, 1073
Affleck 66 1 , Arkwright 886 Bains 967 Bit 1083 Beresford 888,
1056 Armstrong 891 rtai.d 872,888 Batchelor 980 891, 1076
Agar 1227 Arn.ld 781, BakerC6;, 1082 Bate 1081 l*otd
Agassi* 985 1076, 1135 Balrarrai, iiarl Bateman 1083, 1054
Ainlley 685 Arran, Earl of 822 1-0*4 Berkeley 627,
Ainstie 6S0 629, 587 Balders 836 Bath, Maro,. of 685,718,771,
Ainfwonh 738, Arthur 669 Baldwin 681 1084 902, 1 166
1078 Afgitl 889,1084 Baldwyn 1 10.5 andWells, BernonVUIe 967
Albany, Such. A skew 740 Baifour 022, Bp. of 801 Befry 978
of 640 Aihbrooke 632 . 1176 Baihorr) 6ai, Bertrim H71
Alnetnarle, ———~ Vis* fcall 982, 1 1 78 6641681,763, Btrwick, Duke
Duke of 7»4 conntefs 778 Ballaatme bit °"S5i io54 of "J*
Albrecht 1075 Alhburnham Ballard 117!) Bp.639 fie/borough,
Alcock 894 691 -— Coun- Lord liif
Alden 785 Ashby 846 Ballenihne 1 174 less 1180 Bethel 802
Alderley tt79 Alhe 975 Band 981 BatttD 681 Sethell 11*9
Aldrich tug Alhfield Jt8o Baneof,Bp. 661 Briiesby "75 Bettisworth887,
Aldridge "74 Alhhurst 1081, Bankes ,666, Battle 113* 1085
AUham 68+ 1084 *764. 959 Baxter 7x0 Sevan 1178,
Ald.a 893, 9*s Astiley 662,665 Banks 665,708, Bayley 661, 8pi 1 2216
Aldswortb 1 109 Alhton 086, 980, 1238 B«ylis to; Beven 1231
AUcott 1239 Bannister 981, Baynes 1073 Bicknell "77
Allen 785, 790, Aflltown, Lord 1231 B»yntun 86C, B cltett' 890
801,977,989 779 Baraby "35 869 Biddulph 666,
AHenby J89 Asperne 779 Barber 1 180 Bazejl 1074 1673
AHeyn 1 1 19 Asp I and 904 Barbier 6)0 Beadont Bp. 639 Bidwell 680
Allingham 779 Astle 644. Barclay 970, Beilts u?5 Bigby 1429-
Alrnoncy 1 072 Attley988,989, 1084, 1 178 Beaky "35 Biags 66*
Alston 1231 998, 1075 Bardolpb, Lord Beamcs B.lfon8>2,i678
Amcotts 984 Astteys 981 636 Beamish "79 Bmghaai 777,
Aœphlett 976, Atcheson 990 Barham 6S3 Beatibn H92
I056 Atkins 1 1 70 Baring 666 Beauclerk 622 Binns 98*,
Amos 690, 779 Atkinson 1174 Barker ^62, ib. Beaufort, Duke Birch 661, 74Q,
Amys 983 Atterbury 1000 666,983,984, of «t> 776»S5iJ»fcj».
Gent. Mao. Suppltrncnt, . iSo^.
i U D E X of N A M E S in Vol. LXXVII. Part II.
bMii8i, 1125 Boringdon,Lord Bransby 638 Brown low, Lord Buringham 9S1
Birdwood 1119 958 Brafbridge 971 1138 Burne 865
Birmingham Borrnn 1074 Brawn $67 Brownly 1181 Borney 68r
819 Borrowes 679 Bray 1120 Brue647,r2jj Burrard 87r»
Birrell 985 Boriis 787 Breaks 981 Brudenell 11 14 J°54
S:rt *e>74 Boston, L 1137 Becknocki 102 Brumpton 780 Burrrll68 t,S66,
Bilh 977 Bofwell 1033 Bree 1169 Bra. drett 766 807,888.977,
Bishop 661 Bott 887 Breedon 97s Brunswick, Da- 11x8
Bifhopp, Lady Bovet 779 Bireks 1056 rhess of b-78 Burrows 9S1,
988 Boutflers 882 Brrffit 123* Brunton 1172 It>74
Black 1054, B ughcen 681 Bremen 1179 Brjd^es <yS j, Bury 867
1234 Boultbee 778 Breromem 980 , 1129 Bush 687, 788,
Blackbourn 686 Bourke822,864 Brent 1074 Brydone 972 961
Blackburn 661, Bourrnatkr Brert-ton 680 Buccle.igh, Busliby 66z
889 1180 Bretuil 1076 Countess 98a B.ilhrl 787
Black,(hawio74 Bourne6*5,7'i4l Brians 1074 Buchan 84% Butcher 1075
Blagrove 1231 857976,987, Brick nell 902 Buchanan 774., Bute, Ma.of 774
Blake 779;867, 1053, 1055, Bridckiik 1 177 867, 975, Ba-lcr 617,68*,
906, 1077 1228 Bridges 68 ), 1057, 1074, 976, 1^46,
Blanchard 637, Boutale 780 I0;6 tofco 1055
1016 Bouverie 1i68, Brighousc 979 Buc'hox 8E7 Button 1238
Bland97i,i075, 959 Bright 1082, Buckeridge Button 867
1231 Bowdltr 976, 1 1 77 1055 Byrch 701
Blaqoiere 874 M71 Brisbane 1181, Buckingham, Byron 779
Blaxland 1054 Bowen66i,986, 2 -28 Duke of 632, C.
Blenkinsop790, 1179, 1228, Brisco 8S6 644 CABOT 788
1054 1237 Bristol, Bp. of Buckingham*. Cadtnan 788,
Bletmerhassett Bowermanit75 661,1(5153 Countelsm8 987
123* Bowrs632,635, Earl of Buckle 1181 Cadogan 867
Blewett 1177 728, 1174, 806 Buckler 8og Cairnes 1074
Bligh 891,1079 1 1-5 Britten 980 Buckner, Bp. Calcraft I55
Blight 869 Bowker 89r, Briiton 638,91 1 639, 1004 Caldwell 683,
Bliss 1171 1178 Broad 681 Buckwotth 662 Call 117.1
Blome not Bowlrs 891, Broadhurst 649 Budd 86^ Callanan ' 685
Blomefield 1°74> 1'48 Broadley 890 Bull 780,781 Callaway 78;
1054, 114c, Bowman 1181 Brocas 1231 Buller 662,867, Callender 1181
Bloonifield 656 Bowser 986 Br ck 1081 986, 1055, Calnja 605
Bore 8oo,tooo Bowycr 655, Biocksop 892 1225 Caltharn 808
Blount 802, 738, It78, Brodrick 1228 Bul'ivant 689 Calthrope 68t
1009 H79 Bmgden 666 Bullock 985 Calvert 666,
Blunn 969 Box 1231 Bromby .9S3, KuKver 63*9 764,1085
B 'ard 908 Boyce662,867, 1237 Bmbury 685 Cutter >n Syt
Boccace 835 1084 Brome 985 Bunce 907 Campbell 874,
B'dens 1231 Boyde 886 Bronger H04 Buntter 1232 886974,984,
> Bodicoate tp8 Boydcll £55, Brooke 661, Buonaparte 888, 987, 1171,
Kodie 1074 956, 1180 1054, 1080, 890, 1094 1174, 1231,
1074 Soyle 661 1178 Burbage J234
785 Boysto74,i»36 Brooker goli Burbidge 895 —-— —— Lidy.
968 Brace 961 Brookes. 1135 Burdctt 677 f, 783
789 Bradbury 1141 Bookman 867 Burdon 778, Canning 664,
Duke of Bradfield 1076 Brofs H70 1230 763.856,957,
679 Bradford 867, Brothers 902 Bureau 1*39 95^>959
-Lord 1076 B'ough 1 1 76 Bu.grs 986, Cantelupe 911
785,1053 Bfadley685,86o Broughton 6tc, 1083,1177 Canterbury, Ab.
Bonar U71 983 836, 1 171 B»rgess,Bi>. 639 SJ9
Bond 683, 1228 Bradihaw 787, Brown 636.78 1, Burke 786, 996, Oapei 975
Bonham 783 790,1236 796,88,890, 1033,1171 Cipon 600
Konner 681 Braine 781 961,980,082, Burkitt 620,661 Carboy, Lord
Bunney 662 BraithwaiteS8o, 1055, 1167, Burlington, Ld. 683, 778
B >nih r$4, 894 1078 1128, 1232, 630 Cardoux 867
Bjothby ■ 883 Bramfton 1C54 1236 Rurman 1172 Carcw665,666,
Bomle 1171 B and 662,1231 Browne 664, B irn 1 171 70^, 95*
Boreham 970, Brandenburg 666,763,770, Burnaby 1055 Caiey 781, 781,
1 179 889 787,886,981, Borne IC74 Carleton 661,
Boreman 808, Brandsord 787 1171, H74> Burnett 886, 987, 1015,
1- 901 Brandon 990 U78 ' • 1 1 76 1054
,i Cail.ec
* ND E X of NAME. S in Vol LXXVII. Part II.
CaVlier 665 Champagne 679 "74» "33. Conoliy 68b Cranftour, Lori
Ciriine,Csii30 Champion 1 186 1*40 Conquest 888 •s 88fr
t~ Earl Chaaipneys66 r, Clarke725,788, Cnnfidine 867 Craven, Earl
11331 1*17 I0S1 979 Cotiway 975 '17*$ 1 1 79
Cirtjr 883 Chandler 990 Clayton 789 Conyers 706 Crauford 664,
Carmichael 680 Cliandlcss IC8S- Cleaver.Bp.639, Coolce 643,644, 854,864,886,
Carnegie 1074, Chapman 632, 1004 681,684,727, 889
1237 685, 890, Clements 830, 1074, 1084, Crawford 1177
Caroline, Queen 1080, 1086 9?t 1148 • Earl ot
3*3 Cha.les II. 787 Clephane 975 Cooksen 662, 661
Carpenter 779, Charlet .1142 Clermont, Ladv 1 23a Crawley774 77S
U75 Chatletr- ' 1004 1 168 Cooper 650,688, Cremornr, Vise.
Carpmeal 17.40 Chariewood 779 Clifford 990, 787, 970. 822, 893
Carr 644, 780, Charllworth II 16 IO53, IO54. Crefpigny 1080
97*, 'I7<>« 1 1 7 f Clifton 662 1078, 1 103, Cref*ell662,ib.
1239 Charlron 780 Ctnkard 779 1 19I Cretec 875
Carrick, Earl of Charterii. 985 CKihero 1181 Coote 823, 1231 Crickett 1171
617, 1205 Chassenton 1016 Clogher, Bp. Cope 661, 971, Ctitkitt 1074
Carry 1 883 Chatham, Earl 956, 1004 llSj Ciipps 855
Carter 624,691, 1053 Clonmell, Earl Corbet 869 Crisp 889, 908,
788,813,831, Cheron 1076 Sa* Ctrbett 785, 1101, 1 104
888,1055,1079 Chtfter 1055 Clowes 1238 888, 976 Cri,spi 981
Carthcw 1055 ChcflerrUid, (Jludde 779 Corbould 1228 Crittendenio8*
Canwright 737, Earl of 779 Coane 867 Corbyn 891 Ctobally 788
778, 916, Chiappina 989 C ares 621 Cork, Bp. 1054 Croft 689, 981,
1080, 1134 Child 1 1 78 Colaoin 881 Cornbury, Lord 1074
Carver 685 Childe 779 Cochrane 860, 708 Crof'on 684
Cary 1115 Chilwell I T02 1225 Cornish 690, Cioker 763
C alley 1142 Chinnery i?73 Lord 1228 Crombie 6c 3
Cas< 676 Chilriolm 867 857 Cornwall, 908 Bp. Ciook 97|
CarTamijor 1239 ChifhuUs 1000 Co kaine 7*8 Crolbie 822,
Cafiabilla, Bp. Chi vers 690 Cockayne 788 639, 1004 1053
of 715 Chnltpley 1 105 Cockburn 692, Cornwallis 1055 Crnlby 776, 788
'Cattell 1175 Cholmondeley 779 -Bp.639 Crolhold 89^
CaAle - Stewart, 819 C-.drington 626 Corston 1 175 Croft 68q, 789,
Earl of 629 C.'ghlan 822, Cort 789 1 "84
E«rl 790 1171 Cotes 989, 1228 Crofsley 786,
Loid 902' Cholwich ' 681 Cohan 1234 Cotter 887 889
CatUercgh, Ld. Chris] ie 670, C.imer ioc.6 Cottle 895 Crouch 887
.665,853,855, 780, 971, Cole 889, 1233 Cort..0631,662, Crowch 979
857.87i»9?7 1176, 1234 Coletnan 724, 779,867,874, Crowe78j,8o5,
CNi'weil 685 Christmas 1232 1056, 1132, 833,886,902 867, 901
Cat 655 Church 978, 1237 Cove 776 Ciowther 122&
Cathcarr, Ld. 1055 Cnlei 786, 108 1 Coventry 753 Cullen,Lr>rd76i
860,861,863, Churchill 1080 Collet IC74 Couchman 895 Viscount
871,875,1054 Churton 622, CollKk 1178 Court S91, 978 728
Ca -5 1099 7'4 Collier 871, Courtenay S93 Culpen 1 175
Cattle 985 Clack 1228 1053, 1055 Courtney 779 Cumberland
Cave 808, 823, Clancarty, Cs. Collin 895 Cousmaker 82.2 1 171
1186, 1 196 97* Collintwood, Cowans 1172 Cumbrin 107*
Cavrndisli 666, Earl L 1. 670, 960, Coward 982, Cumming 9S8
681,787,822, of 661 1064, 1179, I? 29 Cutntnings 886
990, 1228 Clanchattong2i 1180 Cowdall 867 Cunningham
—. , Lord Cl.anmorris, Ld. Collins 982, Co*lham 1178 680
»57 777. *i"4 1 178 Cowprr63i, 979 Curran 77J
Caolfieid r§7 ClanricardtI075
Csi. Colman 784 Cox 681, 802, Currey 11 73
Cesar 1017 Cohherfr II 4 867,887,975, Currie^>79, 900
Chace 11-6 915 Combe66t,666, 986 Curry ■ $78.
Chalkeley 971 Clapbam 1056, 738. 836 Coxe 823, 8S2 Curtis886,io73,
Challchill 739 1175, 1229 Combs r 808,829 Cr.bb 981 1035, 1 1 80
Ct.aMontr 867 Clare 1231 Comfort 982 Caddock 7SS, C'rtois 980
Chalmer «C73 —— Earl of Ctimpton 627, 1069 Curwcn 764
Chalmers io53 625, 891 Cradock 967 Cuihing jif
Ghalorer 644 Clarges 682 Comyns 1075 Crai* 1053 Cufi 468, 1*38
Chamberlain Clark 687, 782, Conant 1204 Crane 790 Cuihbtrtfoa68j
691 J*3> J°i4» Congrtve 864 Cranstown i&2i Cmler 9,5
o.
Itf t>EX of NAMES in Vol. LXXV1T, Part ltf.
D. DeDunstanville, Doddridge 1064 DomfrieijMsrq. Eie 10 tj;
BADE 66^ Lord 958 Dodds J 167 of 775 Ellenborough,
Dalby 1055 Dee 835 Dodgson " 987 Duraoulin 963 98?
Pale 700 Deegen 964 Dodi 662. Dunbar 68 r, Ld. 648
Dales 1 180 Deerhurfi,Visc. Dodson 688\ 1084 — 1 . Lady
Dalheusi% Pod(worth 661 Punch 684 ■773
Countesi 975 Dieting 985 Domville 687, Duncombe 1074 Eliot 1053,12 28
Dallaway 1699 Defensans 690 83? Dundas 681, Elliot 763, 97J
Hilling 1 101 De G'dy 1229 Donald 985 882, IC75 Elliott 965)
Dally I69 Deightoo 1:38 Donaldson 1079 Dunmore, Ctf's. EH'* 661, 789,
Dalrymple 836, Dekfcer 834 Dunne 10 c6. ti 17 1031, ro4Ti
I053> 1231 Pelagarde 1 J02 1074, U7I Dunn 669 S67 1082, 1129
Dal', on M.71, Delamain 967 Donovan 818 Dunne loss Ellisop 66&
I23I Delancy 668, Rorchefler^L rd DuofteM 1168 Elliston 661
Bumpier 887, 681 <i87 Dufheroy n8o Eli2abeth, Q_
1074 Pelinont 800, Dorrlen 1234 Duport 901 1024.
Bp.63'9 9?4 Dorset DukeT222
of Du Pre 9fS Elmes 1231
Daniell 681, Pelo 968 Puquery 1084 El*iu88o,i 103
1231 Peloraine, Earl 883 Purell 1086 Erheris 6-1 1
Dannett 1074 989 Doteville 1076 Durham Ep. of Emmsit 887
Panton 9*8, D-lver 6o6; 607 Pouce j 00 1 706, 788 Unfield 653^9 1 1
Danveri T 18 I Denne II 71 Douglas 66 1, During 8{r» Epps 648
Darby 779 D n»« 1076 £62,773,867, Durnfofd 784 Erie 1 89 1
Parcy
V'
Dennisnn 887 889, 1073, Durno 785 Erpinghajm 644 :
D'Arcy DeNiailies 1238 1074 Duval 1078 Erring,on 975
1171 Denshire 1073 ■-' ■ — Bishop, Dye |>6 Erflcihe 1 166
Darlington
n Coun
68$ Dent 1 1 79 1056 Dyke 1074 — Lord
Demon 68?, Douglass 788 Dysart E' 1236 66j, 1054
tess' of" 679 1234 Dove ?>5 Dyson Eskrigg 661
739 Espin
Parnborough Deiiward 78 <, Dover 889 61 1
6R8 887 Pavers 998 E Essex, EatI of
Darnley, Earl Pctiji 1055 DowdesweJ EAPE 9?7 - *' 1,644,901
'°79 Derby icox 1053 Eades 1073 E'ch,es 1079
Partmonth, Pes Barres 867 Down Eimes 9.86 Etuugh 1 129
Earl of 061 Defborougb 975 888 Earning 905 1Evans89i,97i,
ap. 10*4 976, 1055,
'
Parwrll 685 Re Salis 1086, Downe 779,975 906, 907
Dalhwood 662 .1237 Downi-s 582 Eaflabrooke 68 1 1079, "7J,
Daubeny 107$ Devereux. 644 Downing 1231 KaH court 661 1 127
Piuling ties' Pevey 1082 D OoW 976 Exiles 1176 Evatt 1.7?
D'Auvergne864 Devis 655 Drakey79,83t, Erclesti.n 977 Eveleigh 1084
Pavidibii 1227 Pcvonlhirc, Du _ '?73»l23i F.ddowes 1082 Evsnis 1 172
Davie 986 chess of 787, Pr*-we 6''2 Eddison 680 Everard 890
Davies683,72j, I JO* Droghejdaj, M. Ed?n 9J0, 1 172 Everart I {79
1056, 1082 Oewey 1231 1 2 58 Edgson 7S7 Everlhed
Paris 661, 782, D bdin 848 Droker.side 801 Kdinonds 78,3 Eufter 77*
783,788,892, p.cry IC79, PsOCOore, B 1. os Edgar 662 Eufto.r, Ld 855
1084, 1 169, 1084 Edgell 1056 E»art 1074
r*34 Picjt 669 Pm* 9-6. Edgeworth 638, Ewbank 1178
TJavison 783. Dicke-fstn 687 Drummonri 785, 683 Eyre, Lord 1231
081 Dickinson 7^9, 975)97<>,9T7. Edmonflon 662 Exeter, Bp. >of
pavors 833 JC76 1 <Si EdrnonfloDe688 661, losJ'
Davy 1 102. Dickson 886 1 Abp. E.imundfon -■ Marquis,
1 168, /2:8 pigby 644, 821 . leg; "76 ?°|5
Uawes . 683 —*— Lord 803 Prury 961, Ed ridge 1178
Ddws £8j Dikes ' 766 '°S5> "3.'' Edwards -88,
P«wson £92, Dillon 960 Dryden 643 89;. 10-4, FABR K 87i
822,8^3,902, TDinekr 625 Docarel TI7Z J 84, ro86, Fa n Held 990
99& »*!'°> Dingley 935 Duck worrb 877 1 171 1238 Fa-rman 779.
i>*38 Di^oelc .690 Puddingflon Edwn *49 Falkland, V se.'
T>ay UP? Disney I2c6 1074 Ejenon 887, 864
"♦'Aye,?., Pulse Dx 105& Duff 687, 691, ,9
9^5- 990 Fallon 867
Ji'8 Dixon 788,8^3, 976, 1053, E^mont, c) 989 FalHaff 643'
.peane 780 ' 8?2 I • 7 I Elcini 863 'F.irmer737,0;S
Peans 1074 Dobbyn 1 177 Puffin 893 T7!' ho, Lord 64* Karr I 1 74
iJea-e- 12 77 Pod 662, 715, Duig^nan 703, Eld 1074 F^rquhaf 68 i
Decked &*2 .054 815,976,1031 tlaer to-; FtrfVcU 664
INDEX of NAMES in Vol. LXXVIL Part' IJ.
fancojiberg, E. Fonrenelle 649 Gainsford to8? Oiraud 787 Gratran 664,
of 488 ForbeiA6l,6j;>, Gaitslcell 678 Glahn 877 466,855,856,
Fau-lder J177 975 Gage 886 Giandore, Earl 960
Faulknar 076, I 1 "Lady 976 Galabin 680 821 Graves66i,782,
582 Force - 787 G»ie686, 1181, Gleadhill 889 975, 1056
Favell 1228 Ford 988 1 190 Gleadowe 891 Gray 887, 1079
Fearnside 786 Pordham 1180 Galiitin, Prin Glenbervie, Ld Lord 1136
Ferguson 708 Forest 716 cess 88$ 1 1228 Graydon 867
Fell 1056 forrest/ytfij 889 G»llia 670 Gloucester, D. of Greaihead 631
«*— Bilhop 633 Forester nao Galloway 1171 678 Greatheed 979
Fellowes 94? Forrester n*o Qambier 863, ■' . a -Ditch. Greaves 687
penhiH 980 Forfter6*2,6S6, 871,872,87,1 819,885 Green 648, S02,
Fentiman 123$ 788, 1CO4 * —Lord Glover 907, 970,977,982,
Fenton 979, Fortescue 681 '654, 10*3 1056 i°55, 1104,
•I178 Forth 661 Gardiner 686, GJyn J223 1174, 1I76,
Fenwick 1084 Forward 1056 779, 821 Glynne 975 1238
Ferguson 867, F-ibrouke. 938 Gardner 688 Goddard 901 Greene 834
1056 Fosse 985 ^ Ld 766 Godlty 1075 Greerthill 779,
Ferrsor62 1,706 Foster 666, ib. Garlick 893 Godolphin 908 893
Ferrers, Lady de 689,750,765, Garnar 1081 —— Lord Greenway 69*
895 867, 105-3, Gamerin 93 ^ 1081 Greenwell 867
Fessenden 646 1056, 1228 Garnier 1054^ Goldfinch 975 Greenwood 680,
Fewings 986 Fothergill 687 1182., 1229 Golijic 107s 788, 971
Field 691, 979, Fouace 1238 Garrick 1080, Golding 662, Gregg 867
1056 Fow(ti7Se,822, 1202 783,. JC74 Gregory 670,
Fielde 778 1 179 Gascoigne 835, Qolightly 890, 983, 1216,
Fielding 1078, Fox 780, 787, U7I »2i8 1234
1240 888, 999, GaMee 886 Gqldsbury 1175 Grc'g 9*4
Fields 686 10344 1117, GHsi:er , 720 Goldsmid -\ 170 Grennalgh 1231
Finch 782 i 1 7 5 Gata<re 886 Gomber( 790 Greville 73J
Fmlalson 961 Foyster 976 Gauntley jo8i Gooch 661 Grey 682,977
Finner 783 Francis 784, Gaoiier 686 Goodchjld 700 — ?Virhio8f,
Fi'her 66j, 662, 2177 Gawdy 727 Goodenough 1170, 1228
688,785,789, Frank io8r Gawler 777 1084- ofRuthin,
895, 1053, Frankfort, Lord G«y 718, 783, Goodfellow 788 Lord 976
J228, 1229, 1231 892, 1081 Goodwin 662, Lady 887
" 1*32' Frankifh 783 Goddes 1074 689, 1082,' Abp. 831
i 1 1 11. B?. 639 Frankland 057, Gert 988 1238 Gribelin 607
Fiihwick U74 1170 Geoheggn 785 Gordon 662, ib. Grieves 686
Fitr(;erald 656, Franklin 1076 George 1236, 68^,789,867, 606111679,789
867,893,999, Franks. 8oo " J217 1070, 108.4,' Gf'Hith 1171
1079; 1126 Fraser 667,864, Gerard 803 1171 Grimes 680
L>dy 983, 1044, Gerthon 877 Lady Grimston 779
901 '054, 1074 Gervaise 685 1086 Grive ' 981
F'nxeibbon 891 Frazer 787 Gibb 1237 Gorrham 687 Grose 6441
Fitjpatrick775, Fiee 985,1073 Gibbs 832, 891, Gosling 680 Grosert 1078
999 F.'el^tg 778 893, 983, Goftling 606 Grove 636,
Fit2-Tbom.ib hfm>.o 662, 1234 Gough 1043, 1055, 1141,
1054 6yo, 782, Gibbon 976 ■ '* 5129 Grover 893
Fliynan- yc6 1056, 1109: Gibh ns 681 Gouguelber(r GroveS97r,979
Fleming 887, 1229 G.blon669.888, 670 Groule 66*5
980 Freers 1078 975, 976, Gould9-6,i053 Gailford 780
Fiemlin 907 Frere 661,691 1078, 1238 Gower 867, 868 Guillet 780
F'rtrhrr 7*8, Frey 670 Giddy 8*7 1 Earl 774 Guinian 1151
886, 1015, Fnend 989 Gilrjank 789, Gozna 682 Ooise 779
1236 Frost 691 T055 Graham 892, Guramage i zze
Fl'nderS 986 Fullarton 1172 Gilbert 10S1, 989, 1074 Gunning 662,
Flint 662, 1 181 Faster 685, 98*, 10S6, 1171, Granard, E 976 891, 975
Flowtr " 786;, "75 1238 Granby, Marq. Gurney 1055
1 176 Fiirlonge 975 Gilcbrist 63 1 787 Gulch 1004,
Foley 1053, Fydel 812 G Ifillan 983 Granger 808, 119;
1226 Gillespie 812 1 167 Guthrie78o,o79
——- Lady97j G. Gillrt 776 Grant 764, 891, Goyon 689
Fjikeftoiie, Ld GAINSMO- Gilpin 691,138, 1231 Gwydir.Ld. 977
958 HOUGH, E. J055 Grantbam, La- Gwilt nSr
Fornaxes of 683, 778 Gin 1076 dy 778 Gwyn 175
Gwyiiae
INDEX. o£ .NAMES in Vol. LXXVII. Part 1L
G*ynoc ?9* Hargravrs 1076 Heavtside 1072 Hodges 105* Howard 68t»
Oj» 7*3 Harries lajl Hen wood 787 Hodgkjnson 8qi 1082, 11S;
Hariis887, 890, Heaale 890 Hddgs.n 788, Baroness
971 HtbJen 1 1 74
983, ib.Vist., 986, 1238 789
H?A,UUsYil7i Hebf.rden 107:5 Hodsoli . 63! LadyO.
Heblethwayte H dson 1171, H7»
'lfasuane 1053 Hanifon 613, .'« l"8, 1179 Hi'we, Ld. 1 174
Hfaldim^nd I i?i 66>.,69i,78c, Heeren 1096 Hogarlh IQ55» Howes 661
Use 890, 975, 89V, 1056, Hei. 1 1 68 1080, I133 Rowick, VKc.
.< . . 1191 1074, ioid. Hf-ldim - 12.31 Hogbin 787 663,763,837,
Hil/hide 783 I084, mo, Helv.uigton 975 Hogliton 1081 1085
Halfpenny 83.1 1 1->* Hemlworih, 668 Hbeche 784 Howih, Earl of
Halket I053 Hart 899, 975> Henderson Hekumbe 780 821
Hal) 6oq, 6:63, 980 1-76, H7» Holden 108 1 Hubbard 6 1 r
■7»4,S6c,86-, Hartley 803 He>:ey ■* 776 Holoham 1236 Huddlestaiii 17*
Harvey 765, Henley 89*. Holdl'worth Hudson 895
H75 786,834 879, 101 , 681, 1053 ■ 1 ■ » Lady
lfa'lim, 6. IC84, 1171 H.-1W 1086 H.lford 1 117 975
H» I £ 907 H«se , 1054, Henshall 1176 Holland66i,7«9 Hughes 661,
Hailty 971 1086,1170 Hehsley 886 i»54 662,779,9771
Halliday •789, Haired 785 Henflowe 1119 1 — Lord 981, 11711
97 S. i°53 Hastings 648, Hedso." 778,983 Holliday 857, 1034 1181
Haltow.)l 66? 65*>863>s7-. HcppenflaM 976 977, Huguet 1076
H*ll. VY5 1120 1084 Herbert 848,892 1079 HumberAone
H>'t>burii)ii6>- 1 Hathaway 976 HercliWill 69O Hollingsworch 1179
Hilsi-y685.ir74 Nation 1114,. Hereford, Bp. 9S3 Hurre 892,1 228
Hamiilron 681, Hawarden, Vise, 1004 Holmden 1104 HuDimerstonc
867,880,978, 891 . Vise. Holmes 976, 971
979, 1014, Hawk es 984, 1 17 I 977. 988 Humphreys 771
U77 1168 Heron 870 Holsworthy 978 Humphries! 108
Hayk*-fbury, L- Heirick 869 Holt 911 Hunloke 901,
666 857, 9i^, 959 Herry 1 171 Homer 661 977
Hammond 790, Hawkeiwood Hertford, Mar- Hony 1229 Hunnyhun 789
98-5 ,233 chionels 1086 Honyman 1 1 Hunt 1054,
Hamond 981), Hawkewforth Hervty '655,725 Hood 1,053, 16. 1056, 1083,
1238 689, 1196 Heir 1175 1 171 1*39
Hamper 905, Hawkey 11*5 Hewson 890, Hook 1056 Hunter i°53.
ICOI Hawkins 627, 1172 Hooke 803 1054, ibid.
Haropson 888, 6j8.T<5,779. Hey 1174 Hooker 885, '°7'> 1178
785,822,815, Heydo* I 109 114* Hununp,lord,Bp
Hampron 976 89;, 9,67 Hey« ■te98i, ib. Honper782,978, 639
Hamfhar 790 1054, 107.7 Hey ib mi 632 9 9 Huid, Bp. 639,
Harrbury 1 1 H> 9- Bf. Htywood 863, Hope 665, 8S6, 1004
1176 685, IOO4 mi 888, 891, Hurst 684,1233
Hand 881,894 Hawks 1175 Hibbert 10.8 2 10S0 Hulkisson 765
Banrficy 1078 Hawksmore 621 Hikes 7.5 7 Hopkins 66l, Huls 716
Hannam 1173' Haviland 986 Hickman 686 .681, 1238 HulTeyS9 5>"-8i
Hannington H»y, La-y, 886 Hicks 1=33 Hornbuckle Hutch ins 1237
ix}• Haydocks 686 H*iii'in1on 986 1055 Hutchinson7o 7,
Har/ard 895 Haydon 1 1 77 Hill 635, 662, Hornby 6.62- 935» '°56»
Harbenorr,Vilc. Hayes 692, 8S6, 778)^67, 9S4, Home 1233 1084, 1^29,
Kir 961, 976 . i£54> »«7S> Bp. 848 "37
H«rt;n Mt Hayley 632,716 \428 Homer 778 Hutton684,8i9,
HarDorougb, E. Haymil) 1181 HiHersden 689 Hornsby 1055, 851
of u8i Hayward 907 1177 IC74 Hyde 661,886
Hairourt 1437 Hazard -981, Hill* 976 Horrocks 887
Harding 785 1172,1175 Hinchcliffe 085 Horseman 662 J.
Hardrefs io,ct. He.ld 779 Hind 705 Hoist -y 622 ILIFFE 989
Ha dwick 78c Healey 6>6 Hingefton 1054 ^—— Bp.i 103 l|linf.wotth
Haidw: kr, E. Healy Hmiman 895 Hort 983 i°SSj "34
ut 886, 1 14S Hcame M. Hipp fly 788 Hnron 983 Incledon 1 1 74
Hardy 680, 1 141 Hoarc 625, 779, Htikin 12:9 Ind 12.55
1 1 Oi « [ 1 04 Heaine9 1079 797> Ujo Ho&i s 982 lnglby 984
r'jr^nvn 66a Heath 834,980, Hobhoofe 680, Hougtfan 786 I .igle fi< Id 960
Ha»- 1^29 1055,1103 9"i7 Houlon 980 Innes 777>779,
Hart?"' Heatbcou 886 Hodge 980 Houseman 1175 107J
Ireland
INDEX of NAMES in Vdt. LXXVII. Pa&t fa.
Ireland 1015 784,736,8+8, Kirk 688, 986 822,825,935, Lilly 1677
Iremonger 867 857,884,891, Kirkpatrick 976 957, 1096, Limerick, Lord
Irvine 681 892,893,895. K'tching 68 r 1207 8V
Irwiri 870 'lbil. 1053, Kivght 68 ij Launcslot 1 177
Visc'iels 1073, 1082, 881,908,980, Law 648., $81, 1174
1086 1 179, 1236 KOI, II04 891 Lincoln, B,p. a'
Ilham 661 Jope 662 Kaighilcy 681 Lawrence 662, 751,982,99 a
Jves 1 174 Jordan 88 it Knur. 895 902,1081,1 175 Li< dnolm 963
J, ' 1075, 1234 Knowles 989, L»*ioB7i 1,975, Lindley J078,
JACK8ON661, Joseph, Arch- 1 1 68 1054 I2iCJ
6S7.785.875. do ke, 687 Knowlys 779 L<yard 975, Lindsay 822,895
976, 1056, Joyce 868, 870 K-nox 778, Sit, 1238 Ling 971
judd 886, 971 975. 'I0S*» Le Bruu 893 Liaiers 870
Jacques 6go j ulian 987, 1229 ■107+ Letrriere 6iii Lintort . 668
jamfs 616, 70°» Knyvett 691 Le Chivalier Linzee 975
778,781,89?, Kulbel, Barmi I '77 Lippe, Count la,
900,979. 98 't KARSLAKE de 974 Lechmere 1053 »9S
983,988,995, 1075 Ledegnve 670 Lister 680, 1074
998, 1x28 Kav 691, 778, Labalmondicre Le Delpencer, Little 961
Jane 1 1 18 S'85,970, 9«8 68o Laoy 778 Litten 702
janson 645 Keats 1053 Linden 971 L-Hro 1076 U"y« 662, ^84,
Jaques 636 Keene957, 1239 Labrey 981 Ledwich 974 685,691,788,
Jarrold 645 K.-lk 1104 Lacey 1056 Lee 701, 822, 977. "«8j>
Jarfburg 87+ Kell 1080 L>ck 1079 8,95. I05S 1203, "39
Jealous 1140 Kelly 661, 789 LAd broke 688 Leeds, Dochess Lock hart 8j<f
Jeans 1077 Kelson 722 L« F«yen«i»}8 975. 895 857, 888, 96©
1eb> 686 Kemeys 684 Laing 1234 D. of 1081 Lackey 1234
etfciy 766 Kemp 655,737, Lake 1151 L?es 1*3 J Lockman 1239
ctfirlon 646, 1180 —-T Lord Lefevre 665,857 Locktou 894,
686 Kendall 811 K\53» l°H Legh 1236
Jefferyes 7«7 Kenna 649 — y,{. 1228 Leicester 666 Locl^yer 1238
J ffrey 880 K- m . >way 8»4 Lall.er 1179 — Earl' of Lodge 728, 833
Jeken io8i Kennedy 1054, Lim" 1055 6.44 Lod ngton 66*
Jenkins 8S7 "74 —1— L,ady 778 L-igb 779, 968 Lofit iot^
Jenkinson 779, KennettjBj.t'-s La.nbard I103 -~ L,aJy887 Loftiis 778.958.
867 Kenrick 662 L»mbe 894 l.e'ghtoo N 886
Jenner8i4,899, Kensington 984 Lambertine 974 Leith 976 — Lady 975
, • 957 Kent, Earl ot Lampion 984 t-laod 808 Ljrnax686,II?J
Jennings 662, 810 Land 786 Lely London, Bp. 9>
87s Keppel 885,8^9 Landers Lemair 982 <S7
Jephcott 68* — , Loidip3 Lane 661, 683, Le-nan 1079 Long 7 90, ,990,
Jepson 98 1 Ker 777, 779 639,808,895, LeMsurier6oj, 1076, 12261
Jerningham Kerby688,i056 988, 1079, 702,715, <rs 111 1
778, 988 Kctt 1229 1084 Lemon 1074 Lnnge 66t
Jerome 716 Key 1174 Langforl 786, Lempster, Lord to giield 68 j
Jersey, E. 1 104 Keyt 621 891, 1237 7P6 Long-hire 978
Jervis 904. Kidd 1047 Langham 1684 Lens 105) 'fcin^flalf 66»
Jesse 68i, 1074 Killala, Bp.976 Langhorne 848 Lesl e 670, 475 Longoeville 625
Jewell 1055 Kiilikdly 1126 Langflow 1 181 Lclly 681 Longworth 783
Jcykill 1131 Kilmatnc, Lord Langton '969, Le h bridge 764 Lonsdale -b^f}
J ocoerel 668 V , 7-7 } °5'4 Lettsom 655 iE of6?9
loddrel 666 Kil'i'igton 981 Langworth 606 Lev r 9 i i Lvftt -68*
Johnet 1*29 Kinder 685,6*8 I.anken 877 Irfve'tt 98 1 liora n« >2i|
Johns 97* King 6co, 770, Lansdowa, Lewin J 171 Lord ic<4
Johnson 631, 867,123* Marquu f 643, Lewis 789, 902, Lo(h S2]tf
643,684,690, ... -,Ladyi 171 766, 1076 986, 1056, Lothian, M" *
702,716,786, Kinglbury ijtjt Jjard.<er 1014 1086, 1103, quis of 68t
867,886,890, Kingscote 1073 * Latiobe 647 1178, 1234 Love 6^0, 867
975. 180,909, Kingstord 887, Lavender 980 Levy 78 2 'Lovefteje yry
1033, 1080, 1074 Lavington 902, Ley I0«6 Lovett I^77
1171, 1231, Kingston 86',, 974 L-y. ester 6St L it's 682, 47S
12 38 867, 889 —■ Loril Licnfenthal]004 ■ XV. S82
Johnstone 764, Kington 1075 889 L-.dHell,L«dy886 Liuth, V.u\%nt
765,781,1074 Kinnoul,E.i li) 1 Laud .rdale,Lord L'ffo.d.Visc uiit ■L>*ry Ii2'>
Jones 649. 662, Kinsale, Lady «57 tit Lowtfn 766
666,68 £,68*, 1131 Laurence 607, L'lford,Lird976 Lowth, Bp, 7yS
Kirb; 636 ' 685,816,81a, LilHngtun 1,8 1 L-,.yd 64*
INDEX of NAMES in Vox, LXXVlt. Part It
Lucar I2Z7 Mick iz;7 Mansfield, Ct(s. Medealfe 1179 Mitchener 68S
Lucas 976,1 168 Mackanessi2i8 of 680 Medhcott 1237 Mitftard ujt
Luck 904 Mackay 669, Mantoa 785 Mecks 985 Moggrldge 971
Lucy 631 1^3? Mapletoft 6tcj M<-erte »!"41 stones 67<J
Ludlow 6^9 Mackentie 681, 1004, 1234 Merlnn loiz Moir 9S1
Luke 688 778.894.976, Mark turn 761; Mtll.sti 1053 Moira, Earl ^76
Lumley 780, 1230 • 1218 Melton 819 M'olilkton 980
864, 868 Mackett 981 "-Up. MtlvJ|.c,L.90 Moncriesse 6&6
Lumsdaincio53 Mackie 867, 639 Mi-rtcr 891 Money 6iaf
Lupton loijo 1073 ■ ' ■— Ai>p. Meredith 967 1071,
Luui 779 Mitkinnon 1004. 1082 Merlin 887 Moneypenny
Lusllirgton 959 ilji Marlburiwp h, M-vry 6jo i<77
Lunrell 1 1 68 Macklin 1086 Dukeof"ii32. M-raVau 1172 Monlt.VHV.Sqs
Luxmoore, Bp. Mackteth 1080 1 1 68 Mncalf 1 150 Monkron 1181
639, H93 Maclean 888 Marler 1-39 Mcuten 1056 Moi.mouth,
Loynes 683 Maclellan 1053 Marley 655 MexbToogh, Duke of 98a
Lydall 1193 Macleod 89a, ■ « Bpioo4 Earl'886,iQ74 Monfon 1235
Lynr.e 1 180 1074 Marriott 887, Miyb.hm 888 -' Ld.1074
Lyon 778 Macnamara 886 987, ioc6, Meynell 635. Montague 763,
Lyons863,87J, Maconochie867 1085 686, ic86 984, 1041.,
88« Macpharlanc Marsden 779, Michdson 985 , 1i'4j lt$lt
Lysona 885, 780 1053 Miikluhwait 11 Si
til/) Macpherfon 821 MarOl 68 !, 1119 Montgomery
Lyfter f>3Ji Macan 891 »*S4. 1232 Mldlane iiji 680,778.895
Lyttelton 857 — - Up. 639 Marmall 8it, M ddletield 084 Montraith, Earl
1 Lord Madely 1:37 889, 1174 Middleton 893, 1076
1041 Magens 958 Marfhatn 81,2 975, 1084 More 981
Lytton 6jt Mahon 86;, a m«. . ■- Vis- «■ ■■. . — Vise. Monea 661
I180 countess 7~8 893 Moody 783,1^89
M. Maj. ndie 1081 Matter X?9 Milburn 10S5 Mome 617, 691,
MABERLY Bp. Ma. 11.1665,688, Mlldmay 66$ 783,067,879,
1239 639 787, 9?', Milla.d J229 8^6,975,981,
M'Allister 669 Mains 689 I074, 1082, Willrr ^84,8 67, 9^4, 1056,
M'Carthy 961 Maitand 778 H91 894, 1232 1156, 1171,
M'Cormick889 Mainwarinp Martyn662,688 Millers IC5J, J174, 1180,
M'Creery 1181 H71 Mary, Q. it>24 »J28 1223
M'Cullock 867 Mair 081,1078 Mason fc-8, Mills 763, 764, — Lord H.
M' Donald 667 Malcolm 629, 1015, 1 1 7 5 1074. 1084, 1I2I
M'Dougalho74 860,960 M ssu 1181 I228 Morgan68f,976
M'Gillicuddy Malmtfbury, E. Massy 7:8 Milliard liio Mnrgann 643
1232 1053 Maichet 713 Miln 9?9 MotUnd ic8j
M'Gregor 67^, Malkin 6>-z M>tht;i(oa 670 Milne 756, Maries 975
067 . Mallco t 1238 Maihcw 778 115!. 1231 Moires 1231
M'Kae 67} Mallory 63c Mathias 1229 Milner603,7C2, Murris66l,8 (.7,
M'Kensie 961 Malone6o9,926 Matthias 887 7 1 5,799,8 1 5, 895,975,985,
M'Kenzie Maltby 982, Maud 7*3 826, 929, 9'S, 1074)
1078,1*25 1075 MauJe 8,» 1010, 1015, 1179, 1231
M'Lean 1226 Mana'on 689 Mauduit 1084 lip7, I15', Morsticad 1219
M'Ltod 668, Manby 1063 Maulc77g,822, 1197 Monimer 779
867,958 Mandell 1231 U77 Milnes66i, fii, Moscley 789,
M'Lertth 1231 Mankin 988 Maxwell 68it M hon 1076 git, 95!
M'Millan 784 Mann 691, 976, 975, 980, ■ • Lord 763, Moser 1024
M'Neile 1134 1056, 1074 1053, lljt 856,958 M-.sky 779
M'Pherson 867 Bp 1004 Bp. Lady 680 M >ss, Bp. 639
M'Queen 967 Manneia 1 1 7 1 , . iro4 M'"8*V '081 Mostyn 63a
Macarmick 986 1236 May 681,98 ; Minthull 785, Moi 617
Macartney, Ld. Mannin 1082 Mayer IQ'8 1179 Motte 1*37
631, 1010 Manning 905, M lypowdcr 690 - Miri-house 978 Mottley iojp
Maccaugfeey 906, 957, Mayo 7^9 MilTenden 905, Mount»Edge-
1168 1074, 1(04, ——Earl 82a- 906, I1O2, cumbe,Count«
MacdonaIdt056 ioicl. irSi Mead 737. 740, 1104- ess I238
Mac donell 1079 Manninghatn 802,818,902, Misoe 686 Mountjoy, Vis-
Macfarlan 895 1074, »7t 999 Mitchley 686 count Sat
Macgragor 886, Man oci 778 Meade 659 Mi'chcl 7*18 Mountmorru,
967 Manse.1 1 17 1 , Mears 631, 891 Mitchell 691, Earl 787
Mac-Intofh 729 1227 Meaiyard 1175 784a li*9 Ld. 1,231
fl ' Muvjr,
iND-EXof NAMES in Vol. LXXVII. Part Is.
Moyase 873 Newcomb 886 O'Callaghad Pagctt 891 Pembroke, Eatl
Moyes 1235 Newcome 622 681 Pakenham 1178 883,964, 12*8
Moysey 1136 Newcomer) 890 Ochiltree, Lord Palfreyman 78 1 Pender 1053
Muhlenburg Newdigat»633, 629 Palmei869,88i, Pengelly 961
1172 6sa, 1004 OJell 681 887,893,999, Prnnii2i,n8t
Muhler 670 Newell 610 Odiarne 905 i°55, "'4, Pennington 823
Mules 661 Newhouse 874 Ogilvy 1 1 75 1151 Pen rose 1 129
Mulgrave, V.arl Newland 1054, Ogle 894, 1022, Pape 1135 Penthouse 689
of 631, 728 1086, 1 170 1178, 1231 Pardoe 893 Peppen 98*
■ Lord Newling 1055 O'Grady 975 Parisot 1 171 Pepusch 718
1053 Newman 779, O'Hara 867 Park 741, 1129, Pepyi 655, 661
Muller 670 906 O'Keefe 669 1 148 Perceval 665,
Mdlso 1040 Newport 856 Olden 1225 Parke 887 764,765 957,
Munday 681 Newton 688, Olderftaw 886 Parker66i,<79, 1053, 1054,
Mundy68o|69i| 790^895,972, Oldfield 894 7*4, IC55, 1228
,786, 960,961 986, 1 182 O'Leary 685 1171, 1233, Lady
Munoz 1 163 Nichols 778, Oliphant 1075 « . I234 989
Murphy 1080 8:3,848,923, 01iver66i,822, Paikes 610, Percival 780,
Murray 751, 1043, 1053 ib. 85.0, 1 167 1 179 117S
779,864,868, Nicholls 8*7, O'Neil 1192 Parkhurst 833 Perkins 681,
872,891,895, , 999 Onion 686 Parkill 790 995. "37
990 Nicholson 681, Odorsti, Cardi Parkins 980 Pern iiSo
Musgrave 787, 892, 1 172 nal 985 Parkinson 8 18 Perregaux 785,
< 891 Nickle 867 O.islow . 661, Parkyna 691
Mussel 9J5 Nicolay 886 108 1 Parminster 11 70 „ . 974
Mutter 1056 Nightingale69o Orchard 681 Parrot 1 180 Pernng 990,
Mutlowe 1179 Nixon 1171, Ord 887, 950 Parsons 715 1073
Perry 8 94
Myddilton 907 1231 Orde 785 Pafley 123 1 Peters68i,9i r,
Myers 1054 Noble 867 —- Lady 892 Pasqu:n fc;o
Lady 691 Noel 1056,1086 Orford, E. 1 129 P.ston 688 . "7»
Petitot 1076
Mytton 1055, Norbury 691 Orleans,Dukeof Paton 977 Pcttman 752
1181 Norcliffe, Lady 882 Patrick 1086 Petty, Lord H.
692 Orrrie 611 Patterson 683, 665,856,857,
N. Norfolk, Duke Ormond,Earlof 1179 95S,95»
NAPIER 87+ of 636, 1024, 4*7, 976 Pattisen 681, Peymaua 87»
— Ld. 661 1084 Orton 1004 1139 Pcyron 877
Napleton 691 Norsord 983, Orwade 723 Patron 1167 Pfeffiel
Napper 1231 1054, 1229 Ostialdeston 976 Paul 880 Phaire 98J
Nares 1047 Norris 788 Ofborne 635, Paull 785
1075 Phtlliston 971
Nash 701, 783, North 680, 886 984 Pawlett Phillet 669
809, 892, , Bp- 639 Qsman 685 Paiton Phillimorei2;7
1015 Northage 1177 Ossulston, Lady Pajne 749,867", Phillipi 68l«
Naslie 610 Northall > 1236 778 889,974 691, 1056,
Neal 1014 Northampton, Oswald 669 P»ynter ini 1075, ii7js,
Neale 989 Earl of 895 Oswell 779 Peach 1 1 97 i22a
Neate 789, 984 Northcote It-t Otway 1053 Peacoclc 717 Phipps 779, 857
Neave 681 Northeslc ..is. Ould Pearce 662,690, Pickwicks tQ77
Needham 1168, of 680 Outram "34 1173, 1238 Pickwoad 692,
"79 Northumber. Owen 666, 683 Pearkes i'240 io54i
Neill 1 1 71 land,E.of635 Owenson 1231 Pearson 774, Pieic»690,986,
Nelson 89a Nott 66 1 Oxford, Bp. of 775i 808, 1227, 1238
——— Ld. 900 Nottingham, E. 5 65I 1056 Pierepont 661
Nete 1236 1129 Ozhokea 874 Pease 111 Pigot 763, 886,
Nevile $23 Nowell 889 Peate 886 958, 1231
Nevill 975 Nugent 777, P. Pechell 1084 Pigott 680,
Neville62i,976, 1 171 PACK 670, Pegge 1080 3oi, 1179
1075, >°16 Nuns 1238 867, 843 Pe.chell 678 Pike 669, i»3p
New 778 Packer it 7a Pclham 661, Pi Le . 68*
Newark, Vise. O. Paddison 12.36 77?i I05T Pilkington 622,
663 OAKLEY Padman 980 Bp.639, 10*4
Newborough, 108 1 Page 611, 691, 1004 Pilkinton 685
Lord 989 Oakeley 1228 989, 990, Pellatt 1078 Pinctj gjj
Newby 1074 O'Heime 741 10J', '074 Pelltw 666, Pmckney 1232
Newcastle, D. O'Bntn 867, Pagerie 888 1 172 Pindar 683
of 68i 803 Paget 778, 877 Pemberton 7*0 Pink .117*
Cent. Mao. Supplement, 18*7 Pinlney,
INDEX os NAMES in Vol. LXXVII. Part II.
Pinkrey 63o Powca! 649 ttaitt 960, 1171 Rkkeit 689 Roworth 1227
Pianoclt 1 1 Poynder 887 Ralph 895 Rickettt . (074, Royle 108 1
Pieman 9S5, Pratt 988 Ramage 1 171 1079 Ro)fron90i,984
1053, tt>5« Preedy 1082, Ramsay 680, Riddell 622 Rudge 687
Pitt 46<, 707, 1 1 69 ^75. «*3* Ridley 886, 108 5 Rudolf 872
S83, 988, Preilxsry 1271 Ramstw torn —— Bp. 706 Ruggle 626
Preflon66 1,662, 911 Riley 1056 Rumney 1056
Flace «i, 893 681,891,975, Ramsey 907 Rippon 1170 Ramsey c}82
Planta 84I 977, 1056 Rancliife, Lord Rivers 892,905, Runwa 690
P.astin 1133 Pretyman 990 976 1053 Rulhworth 89c,
Pliny 755 1086 Randall 943, Rive«689,778, 1231
Piutner 1239 Prevost 868 1234, 1236 1240 Russell976,864,
PJamliy U04 Price 685, 971, Randolph 648 Robberda 1177 1065
skimmer 1082 977. «°74» , Bp- Robbins 785, Russia, Emp. of
Pluttipiree 987 108,1, i». 639, 1004 887 „ ■ 673, 875
PKrnictt 892 P/icfcetc 600 Raper 681 Roberts* 661, Rust 9«5
Ptonkett «85, Prioden 1044 Raphoe, Bp. of 684,895 976, Rutherford 666
107J Priddsjr 1079 685, 9°*> 9S3. I054» Ruthven 8*8
Planoaette 1082 PrielHey 6x2, 1054 1117, 1229, Rutland, Du
Pocklingtosl78S 7+9. 1077 Rastilcigh 662, 1134 chess of 680
Pococke 621 Prince 985 681, 891 Robertson 867, Duke of
Podmore 987 Priogle 893 Ravenhili 985 629,636,785,
Pole 70s, 765, Prinscp 1171 Ravensuoft 626 Robespiere 93<» 890 787, C/CTI,
788,864,960, Pritchard 691, Rawleigh 804 Robinson 667, K.:j
105}, 106 + 960 Rawlinson 808, 686,789,895, Rutledge 867
Pollard 886 Pritchford 1229 1008 955,980,987, Ryder 6«, 681,
PolHugnuijVisc. Proby, Ld. 942 Rawson 1176 1075, 1 ( 8 1 981, 1228
886 Proctor 1055 Rawflome 1055 Robson893,985, Ryktner 670
Pjllocfc 1 171 Prowse 986 Raymond 681 1044, 1176 Ryn-er 64;
Poison 1228 Piyce 981 Read 779, 790, Rocke 1177 Rjrie 670
Pomerof 811, Pryor 78« 867, 1175 Pocket 1054 S.
*' 1181 Pieilitzer.Baion, Reade 1171 Rockingham,M. SADLIERioto
Ponsoiiby 778 779 Reads 1 168 894 Safford 1108
Pools 711, g8o, Puart 1055 Ready 777 Roden.E.of 892 Safety 662
*o82, 1212 P S=t 872 Reay 72;, 1053 Rodwell 691 St.Alban's, Du
Poire • 1 1 77 Pth 788 Redesdale, Lord Rœden 862 chess of 1236
Pope 643, 1232, Pughe 976 . 9S9. I "7 Rofers66j,692, St. Al'aph,. Bp.
Popham 871, Pumll 77« Redivol 606 774> 976, 1003
Purlewent 780 Reed S92, 1 129, 1079, 1226,
Pott 78U Purrier 680 1171, 1239 "3». '*-33 691
Portalis 979 Pjivis 960 Rees 662, 721 Rolland 1078 St. Clair 783
Porteus 657 Pjxty 908 Reeve 788,1233 Ralph 1227 St.John,of Blet-
. Bp.639, Puytcgur IC76 Reeves702,8i 5, Romaine 1078 soe 681
' 'K04 Pfe 661, 922 1026 Romney 1079 St. Laurence
•Porter 080 PJœ 775» ro79 Reid (15 E. 043- I0;"4
■Portland, D. of Pyne jit Reinack (61 Rooksl>y 890 St. More 9«o
706, 1053, Pyo-r 779 Rennaud 986, Room 788 St. lUveul,Visc.
1228 Pyns-.nt • 988 X056 Roome 1 2 3 r
Portsmouth, E. P;TOH I2J3 Rcw 9«2 Ro..5, Lord 629 cSt. Vincent,
,■ 79'
of 980 Reynal 790 Rosci e7oi, 998 Countei'si2 -4
Pott 1085 Reynolds 846, Rose 665, 684, Salisbury 961,
Potter 676, 905, QORMORA.N 886, 988, 765,867,891, 1075
907, 980, 1226 1013, 1082 893. U77. ■• Bp. of
H04 Quanborough 1 -B.> 75* 1131,1*34 66i, 1053
jPotts 684, 6ji 6S4 Rice 685 Ross 626886, Salmon 848,
Poulter 1231 Q^artermiioe Rich 1236 977. l°74 12<7
Powell 681,789, 9? 1 Richards 1181 Rs'stingion 1171 Salulbory 779
856, 1117, Quaitley 66z Richardson 789, Rofllyn.Ld.863 Sampayo 887
1179 Qaia 7t!o 889, 084, RolTtnore^ Lady Sampson 969,
Powor64i,7',o, Quy 1207 104^, 1643, 890 1075
, 1226' 1074, 117a, Rowcroft 619 Sams 661
I * vis 976, 1 114 R I2?9 Rowe 678,873, Sandby ••54,
Puwles ^39 RADCLIFFE Richelieu,D.8o2 9-h -977 1055
Powlet 66 s 1229 Richie 682 Rowland 916 Sandersfln 6I14,
P< W e t I ?j R1ir.tj87.Jog4, Richmond, D. of Rowley 846, 686
Por.tey 06 1 1229 1053, uoo 868j 10&4 Sargent . loiji
Sta.erthwaite
INDEX'of NAMES in Vol. LXXVIL Part If.'
Saiterthwaite Shaw 666, 800, Si.go, Marq. Spiers 7 78 Stoe 8?7
1056 977> "7J 1.171 Spillsar 1171 Stokes^So, zo'i o,
Si»age (535,908, Sheffield 750 Sloane 662 Sode 682 1 1*26
1110 Shelden 610 Slope 779 Spooner 779, Scooe 686, 91 r,
Saville 893 Sheldm)Abp'i33 Smalridge -joi 1055 J23ft
Lad; 1074 Shelford 1056 Sma'lwell 6-1 Spott/swoode Stooke 887
Savory 1056 Shenstone 809 Smelt 772 1116 Stopford . g&6
Savoy, Fiince Sbephard 841;, Smirh 6;8, £47, Sprot 1075 Storm, 117* -
Ciarles £80 955> '°54> 66i,6&2.&8j, Sproule 1225 Sprea 11 So"
Sauls2 653 1224 685 735.7*3» Spiy 662, 976 Stnry 6?!
Siundersoo t> y 3 Shrpbeard 868 7^.774.778, Sjwrriens icc.41 Stoyle 755
Sauaders 97a, Sb.pherd 729, 784,788,739, Srjuarry 867/ Strangford, Vis.
'. 113 ' , 82», 10,6, 822,857,867, Scace 907, 984, 1074,11 56, i2 -:8
Siwyer io53 1172 87 1,887, 89 r, 1015 Strathmore.Eart
S-xby 907 Sheppard 1078, 96-7,97<'-9r>4> Stacey .684 of63i>635,728
Sayer 78$ 1085 9^S»9S?>9^9» Stacy 907 Stray 6t}o-
S'.addiag 72I Sherard 1181 105?. »o<4, Stafford, Mar- Sitce'.6«>i>io74>
St-arbcrwgH, E. Sheridan 765. 105s., 1073 qois of 774 1131
1079. 1085, Stainea S94, Stretton 1226
Scarlett 773 1228 1156, ibid. 1 054 Strickland 1054
Scanh -787 Sherlicke 6 j ; 1.63, 1172, Stanfell T154 Strode 632,12 ^7
Scjwen 11S0 Sherriff 784 "77, J22:, Stanley 77?,7So, Strong 86f>
Schomberg
>r-m— V.6Hz of Sherwen 1074 1227, 85S>95<?>99°> Scrooge 1257
Shield .054 1228, 1229, 999, »«7-> Lsdy977
r-5 Shilling 969 1238 1179, r.131 Stoart 64c-, 787,
S-ot 867, 9S0 Shillito 894 Smither »23+ Stanhope 681, 881,976,98*,
Scott 640, 68 1, Shipley •6a Smithers 78l 1054 iosj, 1065,
784,822,881, Shirley 610 Smyth 975, 1 174 —Lord 959 9225
837, 968, Shore 646 Smyth* 1074, Stanwij 958 Lady 886,
"1271, 1 16S Short 690, 823, "75 Staples 976 892, 983;
Scroop, LI. 1024 887 Smythies 66a Starks 1070 Stsarton 88j
Scrope, Ld.i 1 j 9 Siortland 682 Snee 789 Star key 891, Stubbin c 32t2a>
Scully 984 Sho*e 989 Soell 1174,1229 1056 S«ulr'ty 1190
Seakrooke 1176, Shrewsbury, Snrok 1079 Starkie 1082, Sturges 987,
Scaly 89, Earl, 9:4 Snow 778 JI69 V 1054,1056.
Sebright 959 S>um, n$ Snane 8ko S'edman 692 Stort 7*6. 987,
Sedgwick 1235 Shute 784. Solly 887, rtSi Steele 689,12.!! .1064, >t>.
Selkirk, E.958, Shuttleworth Sorrterfet, Duke Stet-rs c, 7& Style . nexf
ib. 1 1 71 1172 of Earl
779 Stcevcns 922, Styleman .^92
Selwyn 684 Sicilies, Prince fs 1002> Suffolk, Enl of
Senaak (•%% of the 6S0 of 644 Steinman 1172 ■<8i
Sergeant 685 Siddons 1076 Soamenburg 670 Stephens 737, Sullivan96 1,976
Sergeaunt $90 Sidmouih, Lord Sotheby io8a 1174, 1182 Summei feud '
Seton 783, 976, 765. 958 S.ulby 684 Stephenson 662, •107*
Sidney 928 S .uthamptori, H79 Sutriner 666
S.ward 643, Srnreon 1172, Lady 691 Srrland 1174, Sunderland-780
1074, 1179 1 173 Southcote 902 Stetter 670 SuftVx, Earl 976
Sewell 684, 891 Simmons 1 1 80 Southey 8 50, Stevens68o,684> Suter -872
Seyliard not Simons 661, 895. 1181 7«» 824,- Suuon 779,
Seymour 778 662, ibid. Sour home 8r8 1054, 1056, 1065, 1236
Lords. Simpson 683, Southwell 7i6. 1171, 1178 Bp.- 6j!
779 961, 1 - 71* 728 Stewaid ,790 Swain .. ' 867
Shidwell 987 11-6. 1179, Lord Stewart 629, Swan "• 77*
Smen 779, 1079 1231 1.05 6-7.779.?74. Sw»i2y 967
Siafi'.e 1079 Sims 1170 I 617 886,975,1055, Sweden, Q^iren
Shanks 9^9 Sinclair I2S2 Sowerby 1048 1078 of 6;-o
Shannon, Court* Skinner 888, Spaldiog 1172, Silts 960 Sweet 786
left of 886 ic74, 1171 Sparki 631 Stillnun 689 Swithin. 67^
Snairp 575 Skrymil.er 1 105 Spearing 985 Stinfon 891 Sydenham 8-i7
Shakspeare 609, Slacki055,ri37 Spcnce 789 Stinto* 1182 Syer 1055
t.43 Slade ' 1080 Spepcerc>9o,93 5, Stirling 868 Sydney 644
Shard 691 Slaughter 892, 984 Stock 690, 976, -Lord 10-it
Sharp 666, 701, 9-6 —————Earl76; ,. 980 Sym 1075
1076 Slee 776 H74, 1205 Stockdale 887, Symes 976
Sharpe 1056, Sleech 089 " Lord C. IC74. SjunnMjM 643
Slealh 898 7«6 Stoddart 1075 Symons° 77*
Syrnon*
INDEX of NAMES in Vol. LXXVII. Part II.
Sypnonstone Thome 976 Tracey 889, Vaughan 778, Walpole 790,
1 169 Thornhill 661, IiSo 887, 888, 819,823,885,
Sympson 1055 1054 Trant 1055, »75> 1178
Svmpier 874 Thornley 682, 1056 Vegesack 8,6 Watrad 679
Syndercotnbe 1072 Travers 681, Venablea 975 Wallh ' 890
684, 1175 Thornton 647, 867, 868 Vernon 867, Waltera 1237
666, 678, Travis 1236 1228 Walton 833
.T. 1079, '"8 Travy 892 Bp. 639 Wandesford 808
TABERNA Thoroton 1053 TreUwny 779 Veryaid 608 Warburton686,
670 Thorp 1229 Trench 779, Vessie 660 1177
Tsiljjy 1014 Thorpe 9b6, 1074, "71 Vryfey 1240 Warcup 780
Ta:t 1131 io;4 Trevillian 783 Vicary 1236 Ward 641, 765,
Talbot 869,887, Thrate 779 Trevor 1176 Vickers 782, 7^9.357.959,
Threadgold 983 1232 971,972,982,
Tallies 783 Vilant
"75 Trinder 999 Ville, Baron de 1053 989, 1096,
Tancred 7*3 Thresher 1041 Trobe 796 1180
Tankerville 891 Throckmorton Trollope 1239 787 Warden 1172,
Tanner 1004 715 Troit 1 104 Villiera 644, 1239
-1 Bp.621 Thurlw 1170 Trotter 670, 649 Wardleworth
Tappen 682 ——— Lord 866, 867, Vincenr 661, 984
Tappcnden 969, 1033, 1054 888 686,.98i Warner 789,
1171 Thurot 1174 Lady 886 — Lord 970, - 1056,
Tapsfield 1175 Tichborne 905 Troyte 1174 764 1 181
Tarleton 7791 Tickcll 683, Tuam,Abp. 891 Vinning 1231 Waron 984
788,857,1130 1229 Tucker 1075, Vipond 650 Warrander 854
Tarem 7*0 Tidy 786 1 1 74 Vogelsang 668 Warren 6 qo,
Tatton 977 Tiffin 818 Tuckfield 1175 Voder 890 661,891,892
Taylor68o,69i, Tilly 669 Tuck.j 670 Vowell 893 Warton 736,
788,887,892, Tilyatd 1237 Tulk 975 883, 900
971, 1055, Tobid 1181 Tumpkin 1171 V. Warwick 979
1077, 1102, Todd 1055 Tunftall 1229 UDNY 1181 Washington
1172, M73> Toke 780 Turner662,68 1, U, ton 681 Wasilgur,Count1084
1176 Tol'emache, 691,784,867, Ure 63i
Bp. 604 Lady 1 1136 891, >°35> 979
Teale 685 Toilet 784 1 104 Wasse 889
Tebbs,Lady 784 Tomkini 823, Tumor. 886 W. Waslell 1228
Tebbuit 989 84°. 999. Turreau 968 WAAL 867 Watchorn 1239
Te:lman 1094 1004, 1014 Turton766,8;:7, Wadd 1074 Waterfb:d,Mar-
Teignmo'utn, Tomline, Bp. 958 Waddams 1075 qui»89i,i054
Lurd 646 639 Twining 975 Waldcgrave, ■ - — Marchi
Temple 8S7 Tomlinson 686, Twiss 886 Earl 1119 oness '074
1 Ld.957 873, 960, Twisden 705 Waddilove 978 Waterpark, Ba-
Tennant 975, 1177, 1 182 Twysden 12*8 Wadham 83 1 roneft 787
98S Tomj son 780 Tyler 690, 779, Wainman 890, Watkins 680,
Terrick 908 Tonge 1078 1074 1228 782, 1 1 71
Terrill '971 Tooke 779 Tyadale 895 Wainwright Watson 680,
Terry 7S0 Topping 678 Tynmore 670 "37 691,787,872,
Tewley 887 Torrent 867 Tyrwhirt 1072 Wait 789 981,983,987,
Thellusson 689 Tottenham 976 Tysoe 1233 Waite 887 1009, 1054
Thiselton 1 172 Tottie 701 Tyssen 1 171 Wakcfield 952, Bp. 639
Thiftlethwaite Toulmin 999, 1 128 Watt 1079
1228 1014 Walcot 1 105 Watts 610,701,
Thomas 66t, Towndrow 1237 Waldron 6*2 823, 999,
686,887,89s, Townliy 740 Walker. 662, 1014, 1044,
893. 9l'> Townsend 678, VAILLANT 669.67^,680, 1181
1055, 1085, 681 661 685,690,786, Waugh 1236
1*3' Tt wnlhendMar784 Valentia, Vise. ib. 788,875, Way 1226
Tbomason 835 787,848 885.976,978, Wayte 1177
Thomson 867, quis 894,974) Valiancy 974 981, 1054, Weale 890,979
960, 1085 988, 1053, Vani!uke 1238 1085, 1168, Webb 662,779,
Thompson 662, 1228 Van Mildert 1170, 1193, 979, 985.
789,866,867, Townson 62 1055 1229 X181
869, 895, 7°7 Vnnsitrart 1 1 52 Walkinlhaw Webber 1 1 74
IC85, 1 171, Towry 983 Vjrdon ' 988 640, 822 Webster 779,
I/76 Tow son 1 1 78 Vassal! 988 Wall 971 786
Thorley 885 Toynton 117) Vavason 1x31 Wallop 980 Weddell 976
Wedderbura
INDEX of NAMES in Vol. LXXVIT. Part H.
WedJerburn Whitby 1072 Wilkinfliaw Wingrave 1 173 Wren 72?»
1171 Whitcombe 785 640, 882 Winfield 986 ' III]
Weever 808 White 608,643, Willan 1 1 75, Winltfield 891 — Bp. 6io
661,691,720, 1236 Winn ,1236 Wrenford 688
Welbeck 678 7*'.797>85°> Willard 11^4 Winnington688 Wright 687,
Weld 647 867,888,893, WiUaume 1056 Winsor 1227 688,783,784,
Welderen, 967, 1054, W.llea 661,691 Winstanley 787,934,989,
Count de 679 105;, 1171, Willett 892, 1181 IC54, 1076,
W*l<len 689 n8r, 1239 "79 Winter 644 1081, 1105,
Welladvice Whitefield 11 17 Willgrefl 670 Win'frton, 1119, 1168,
1182 Whitehead Williann 650, Lady 1230 1169, 1181,
Wella 645,481, 1056 685,690,770, Wintle 1054 1229, 1236
779> 977. Whitehurst 893 780,855,873, Wisert7i>i228 Wrightcn 649
1230 Whitelocke 958,976,988, Wish 685 Wrottesley 778,
Wellelley 664, 864,867,889 1055, ibid. Witbei>idge888 ibid.
764,871,874 Whitfeld 895 1073, 1078, Withrington Wyat IIOI
■ Marquis Whitmore 1054 1082, IC93, 1 1182 Wyatt
of 681 Wtiitfhed 961 1174, 1228, Witleri 895 Wye 1081
Wellington 986 Whitiington 1231, I238, Wodehouse Wyely 80J
Weltden 976 687 1239 1056 Wylde 886
Wenlley 086 Whhtel 867 Williamson Wolfe905,io79 Wymbisll 911
Wentb 1240 Whittingham 649, 867, Wolff 976 Wynn 989
West 757, 887, 661, 867 1055, 1171, Wollaflon 661 Wynne loSz
9909 IlOl, Whittingstall ibid. 1084 Wombwell 89 1 Wyruer 1175
1104, 1139 6S4 Willi»62r,886, Wood 692,789,
Weftby 1054 Whittington 901, 1180 855,857.970,'
Westerman 669 7h Wilmer 788 10C4, 105.), Y.
Weftmeath, Whittle 867 Willoby 1082 1179, I2i9 YATES «J8
Earl 787 Whkwell 679, Willoughby de Woodburn 893 Yelverton 777
Westmorland, 1079 Broke, Lord Woodcock
Earl of 635 Whitworth 69 1 706 1054, 1079 Yeo 875, 115S
Weston 607, Wichcote 1171 Wilmot 1055, Woodd 890 Yeomans
Yetfs
1229
'225
608,788,810, Wight 1103 ibid. Woodfall 661 York 886, 1074
886, S87, Wightwick 895 Wilson 66l, Woodford 864, Cardinal
1085, 1234 Wigley- . 683, 680,683,707, 873> 985.
Wetherell 11 71 77S, 1056 ib. 782, ib. 1229 — Abp.1228 78s
Woodman 1056 Duke of
Whaley 783 Wignal 6 50 786,789,89 '>
Whallcy 1078 Wigtton 886 ib. 894, 968, Woodroffe 1 07 3 1071
Wharton 808 Wiiberforce 976, ib. ib. Woodw2rd 977, — DuchesooF
Wheate684,690 763,857,886 979, 1054, 1175 610
Wheatley 729, Wilcocks 66r, 1055, 1078, Woolgar 889 Yorke 687,854,
1 1 70 1228 1179, 1239 Wooll 661 957, i»4*
Wheeler 782 Wilde 1077 Wiltihire 867 Woollen 1234 Bp. 639,
Whethim-1236 Wilder 981 Winchester 707, Woolmer 688 1004
Whieldon 1 174 Wildman 1236 ibid. Woolston 8 is Young 686,68(1,
Whilh 662 Wilkes 1080, Windham 664, Wootton 1 177 Ii8f, 1225,
Whiston 902 ■1084, 1227 702,752,765, Woithington 1237
Whitaker 634 Wilkinl 680, ib. 853, 855, 889
Whitbread 645, 779. 895 856,857,957, Worsley 11 78
763, 764, ib. Wilkinson 669, 958 Wouldi 685
856>957>959» 790, 892, Windm 989 Wragg I232
97«» 'oi5> 1055, 1056, Winefield 867, Wragge 1080 ZOUCH 119$
1086, 1 I 70 1171 1227 Wrangham 848 Zauche 4*33
INDEX
INDEX to the Eflays, Dislocations, Transactions, and
Historical Passages, 1807, Part II.
A. mouth coachman kilfed Apothecaries ^^^inspeflors
Jt&ERDEZN, ■ inscription 1072. Mr, Maltby flier., ©t, recommended 710
real 91 3*coins found there a farmer drowned, a wo Aspitty, co. Leie. insenj lion
107s- benefaction to ihat man crushed by a cart, M r. at 913
University I0?3 Pauh's fjn drowned, a sol Archuicfurty Englifl>-G*'S.i c
^tiuknto, a lady killed by a dier mot, 1075. Mr.bhep- p(ioci)1e« of 8xJ
Ml 675. an apprentice pard suft'oeated in a ditch, Arckit& ral Ltnovf'O*, No.
Ji»wncd 67^. Mi'. Stacy Mr. Gibson drowned, CX. 62). No. CXI .735-
fitted by a tall fromtliorfe, drowned, Mrs.Grosi..'tbvmt N0.CXU-799.No.CXUi,
two Young men drowned al 1078. M-^.Chajma^ huri t 0:7. N CXIV* 1019,
P'ffferhnroivgli 6S4. Mr. 10S0. Rev. Mr G Ibrrr. Nfl. CXV. 11 14. No.
Kiee burnt in a lime-kiln shot 108 1. Capt. Ro>ce CXVl. 12 1 2.
485, Mr. Sanderson kill killed by falling down an Arcbrtefuraf proceedings 1 1 %y
ed by leaping from a horse arra 70*4. two children ArieSf Bp. predictions cv him
£86. Me. Luke kilted by burnt 1168. Mr, Stephens 6z6
tM»nj»g against a law p>d kilitd by a fall from a coach A>nbfim, description of 996
Mr. Mains burnt by 1174 a thiM killed by a AJht mountain, peajrS- borne
• composition for cleaning garne-erck 1175. * wo" on one 1 ' 5015
*itrnisure taking fire, Mr, man killed by the fail cf a Afitiriait Prince of, letter of,
Weldon &ct 689. Mr. mill 1179. three persons to his father, exculpated
K srter drowned at Gumley, drowned bybrc^k'rng of the
<t . 3 ; . three men ovc rit t ke 1179. a child scalded, Aj\^m.f'r Q-zaf and &umkt
in a pleasure-boat in the a child b'irnt 1226. a wo firlV stone laid 67A
Hnmber 773. Miss Dea«e man frozen, Capt. Bunster A-teyb&y, B|>. particulars re
tfrewned^ two men iuffo- killed by a fall into a quar specting )2l6>
cated in a vat 78c. Vir. ry, a child burnt, a child Avon-more, Lord,_3cc. of 777
Jfc'ftwn drowned in Win- poisoned lz^zi Mr. Wes Aurora-B'ireaiis accounted tor
4ermere Jake 781. Mr. ton kilted by * fall throrgh 1206-
"WiUo* killed by a kick a tr?p-dnor, Mr. Rose slut Ayliffr, Mrs. 63^5
from a horse 782. lady 1^:4. a watchman drown B.
Campbell burnt, Mr. Maud ed at London Bridge 1235. ^^C0/^Sir7V.q»eryof 1191
3i*>wned 783. two persons a child burnt} K. R. Van- Balloon, nocturnal voyages in
killed by damp in a coal- duke, Esq. k-Ued by a a, by Gar^erin 935, IOI^
^tfj Mr. Anfon drowned, fall over a binitfer 123,8 Ba£ ism by Mcthociits, &c.
Sarah parker burnt 7*4. Address, by th' London c!u- 7-9
jraristiclerkofMarkei Peep- cy to the King 677. of Barrow* Mt", objections to
rag drowned 785. a father the Corporation of London h;S work lOj*
*ad child killed ry the ex- to the Dacbefs os £ru is- Ba'ties, Mr. on swallows 1^06
Jctofion of a cannon 7S6. wick 775 Mwacks, management of,
* child killedby a fall out Admiralty, thank the officers, vested in commissioners
t»f .1 window 789. three Set. for bringing home ihe
vcMpg gentlemen drowned Danish Fleet 1063 Baiav'ta, noted for violent
*t Manchester 790. a ser A* ial mdurn-M Voyages 935, diseases 99.$
vant girl flio:- 879. iix 1016 Bath and rYells, DrT Hooper,
men blown up at a pow Agricultural Society, meetings Bp. of, account of 1197
der-mill at Fiverlham of I1O7 Batiks powder-mills at,blown
880,968. Mr. Gibbs kil Albilty, poorness, acr. of 640 up ( _ 879
led by a hrn]itn shin 893". JUbrlgbton, sign of the Cat ■ . ..- - pf Stan>fo«d-bridge
jsighteen person's killed at at 1192 1106
$AdLcr*i Wells 971. a man /Alexandria evacuated 1065 Beauty, on, , 918
failed by she fall of a rock, Alps, Hannibal's passage over Bedford, acc. of it? ^aot 1,186
a child killed by an ox the 634 Beggars Opera, modern music
978. two children poisoned Amef'ica^ probability of a war ot it condemned 710. stric
\y miflake, a child burnt with 968*' her relations tures on 1214
9^9. three men killedby with England 1066. par Brl.'ham, Mr. on the Mosaic
ilestendirg into a f u) well, tition of, proposed 1073. institute 627. answer to
the keeper of Ramsgate prosecution of Col. Bur? him 823
Pier light-house drowned ii6j6 Btnn, Aid. epiraph of, tr2i
Mr- Moore drowned American fngateattacked 771. i^c«//-y,Dr.difcovery of Books
rt ]). 1 by <)H I. a mankilled proclamation 771 with his notes 1047
&y a fall from a I:,*, Witt. Annamibo invested , 967 Bernard, Ricbardt account of,
HoWts.efq. killed by a Ml Ant'mony counteracted, tec* wanted 1 204
froci a cliff 083. Ports a remedy for fevers 699 B(rw/n^octffijproposedenlarge-
ment
INDEX the Essays, Occurrences, Xc. 1807. Part IV
enent of the Catholic cha Canning, Mr. speech of 856 Churim's memoirs of Sir R**
ps! at 1 197 Canterbury cathedra), remarks ger Newdigate 7o5
Births, list of 680,778, 88.5, on 1x05. muslins, inven Civil Promotion 1054, I J ;8
975< I073> «17°> '-3° tion of 78 a Clan, Richard, Eats of, pott
Bijhcp:, English, list of 639 Capitulation at Buenos-Ayres to death his son for cow
B/ore, Mr. woiks of icoo 867. Copenhagen 872 ardice 625. tradition re
—■— Edward, his drawings Cani,k, Earldom of, query specting hu son #.
'"3 Carter,respecting 617 Clarke Rev. Dr. lines by logS
Bockleton, church of 1105 Mrs. poems of 823 Clements, Mrs. first maker of
Books, on the recovery of tar Cajilercegb. Ld. sp:ech of 853 Durham mustard 8y»
nished j 191 Gasirc, co. Kerf, described 913. Clergy, inactivity ofthe 711,
Boreas frigate lost 1 ibi tradition there 915 discouraged by spies <n4l
Br,JJaJl,to\m found there 1 10; Cathedra', against rew pave informers I-oay
Soften, hi^h ti:?e at 969 ments in 63a si«i/j,pricsof,^95,79li Joi,
Bounty, on national 8^4 C*tb Us chopth, on the erec 88 1, 991, 1087, 1 1S5
Boufltipbtdon fonts loco tion of 1*97 Coccium, supposed site of 1097
Bows, Lord Chanceil r 03' Cats, Sir y. acc. of 10^9 Cochranc, L'>rd, speech of 715 ?»
Brazils, KoyaiTaniily oi Por Cave, y' f'pb and Etkv-'yd, 764
tugal tmij'rjie to the 11 56 epitaph of i.lc,6 Cv'ns discovered at Detpiuj
Brcigbtiutt bUl, urns foui-d Cvife betwi-en the East India 774. found in Norfolk^!
ne;r it '^97 Co. and Capt. Goll li:.g 6o5 ai C^me Ab^ey 91,6 foufiÆ
«Vriofi,discoveryofgiea'qoan- Cerne abbey, ccin foufldat 916 at Aberdetn and Zea'lhy
tities of 1009 Cha'rt, stiver, found at Inver 1071. and at Bossail 1105
B*yhl, its Wills desci ibed by ness 1 i 14 Old Bath Fields Prison. See
Pope id, an account of Chandos Barony 989, 109s Middlefix gaol.
its aa<ls, &c. no8. cp - €b,elion, fire at 774 Co earj,arra£ement,fec-(,fiOiiS
taph in Rede I lire c hu. I zoo" Characters, on Che aWuroity Cumber, Dr. 8o3.0n his<srati»
Bi stain, resources of *-93 ofolazoningundeservd 7z6 . . . "»?x
Jiritfrl'rcpti y rt LtA atOpor- Cowcoal, its pielerving qua —— Mr. agaij>4 dueliiag
101:63. ill Russia 1165 lity 1128
Broft.y, burning spr:ng at Cbarsty-Sibicli, drawing pro Comet, account of 971, tcj-i-
1015 posed 10 he taught in nit ns piogress ro7»
Smin'i, M-. proposed pillar Cha'lcs I. Oisier worn by him Commerce, orders reAiecUssj
for Ld. Nelson 71 •> g'ven to the Priii ceof Wales neutral 1064. on Qthifk
Brunt, Gen. his c^r^rsaticn 1 169 1 1 IX
withthe K ingofSweder CharIton, Lieut, killed in a Commot'ialCodetf Framce ;
Brun/ivttk, Duchess of, lands duel 780 . orders in Council
in England Cjl. Corpota- Charmck, y. mj-nvirs of 88"*, !l5'
t on of London address her Chatfwortb, quantity of rain Ctwn/r/w.cbess played hy6o5
775 at 6!; Comet-Gas, lift of the House ci
Brydges, Rev. Edward Tims Gbeefe-lvring Rocks to~3 75*
vuell, rnCT.oiri of 989. Chertfey church, Surrey 705 C:t}.m n-Prayer, rubric of a -
See Chandos. Cherubim, on ihe represema teted t to?
Buchanan, Dr. h'S account os lion of 1 100 Co-fpirary among the a8t>»
Christians in India 1057* Chefs pl»yej by two fepa ate regim.-nt s);6. jt^aiart the-
Buckingham, Duke of 632 commhiefi 6^3 king of Spain 10^$
Buenos*Ayrts,English defeat- Gt'Jlsv, removal of its citadel Cattr/tWoi between the King
ed at 864. treaty at 86y 1024 ot S .vcdtn and Gen. Bnme
B«Jlttitu,fi ench,No.LXX I X Chicbejler, quantity of rayi at 853
ice. 6jO, 766 637. the supposed Reghum Copenhagen, intelligence frein
Btu nafA'te, predict. ons re of Ant.-.ninus ' t I*>o 760. Biititfcarmy U. d ne<*r
specting him 617. speech Ciixiei s-Coton, fch ol, &c. it f so. surrenderee) to the
0(770. journey of 1 1 60. built theie 707 Enghlh 871. thS!li(!i to
his threars against Por ugal Cljina, Christianity introduc officers, &c. for bringma*
1065. his vengeance on ed ' hei e 067 h me ihtr Danish fst-et fr^ta
two Prussian officers iof>8 Cbryfali accountofihe author 1063. v-ilue of the lto*e9
fiKrr,Col.hiaprasecutioni 166 ot 631 taken tficre Ic68. damage
Burdttt, Sic Francis, chaired Christianity introduced ii.to at <I«5
677 China 967. forcible con Copptr.vuorki of Britain in
version of the native troops creased tt-^93
C. in India t», maliciously re Ci'fu, delivered uptotheRus-
CAMQR1BOE, Downing puted I069 iians 963
college at 830 Cbtifians, newly discovered in IV rn, price of 695, 7ttr, 794,
C.ndles, price of, 695, 791, India 1057 881, 991, 1187, 11*3
794. 881, 991, 1087,11*3 Ckttrcb improprieties in a 635 —— on the sowing of mil
Canitr-Bnar '62,1 CturtbNitcs at Eye, Suffolk dewed seed 5U3
S"5 Cotttwi
INDEX to the Eflays, Occurrences, Kc. 1807. Part II.
Cotton, Dr. 631 DmicJI, Kingof Cornwall 717 F.
CH»j/</,ontheirbeingemploy- Douce, Mr. remarks on Mr.
ed at examinations before Pye'sComments on Shaks F^r£ÆSff^As,powder-mill
Justices 1013 peare 921 at, blown up 88o. acc. of
Country Nevis6j6, 879,1 167, 7><Jwiȣ-proposcd to be caught the explosion of ' 968
1226 in Charity-schools 911 Fell, Bishop, letters of 633
Cvtoper, the Poet, anecdote Dublin, storm at 675 Fevers, Col. Riddell on 699,
of 631. on his version of Duelling 631. act for its pre 899, 997. advice to pa
the Heariade 716 vention proposed 829 tients in a fever 933. of
Caw-Pock, Dr. Jenner far Dukvkh College, Heraldic Batavia, violent, effect of
ther remunerated for its errors at 1119 Dr. James's powder for a
discovery , 857 Dumferline, fall of its steeple 905. Fever remedy 825.
Culinary bint 1 1 28 879 on Mr.Perkins's treatment
Curiosities in London 1267 Durham, Hutchinson's Histo of 900
Cur/i of Sherbourne 805 ry of 935 Filial Obedience 800
D. Durham /W«^iirr/,itsongin 8 \o Finance, committee of 665.
DALXQN, quantity of rain Dutch address theirKingi 161 state of 1 207
at 637 E. Finchale prinry ■ 1 201
Danes, proclamation to them EARTHQUAKE at Lisbon Fire, method to escape from
by the English %io. fleet 675. at Nieuwied 984 821. at Chipping by Buck-
of, surrendered by the En Ecclesiastical Preferments 661, land, andat Stevenage 676.
glish 271. thanks to the 1054, 1228 at Chalton 774. at Chat
officers for bringing away Edgeioortb,Dt. epitaph on 638 , ham ibid, ar Hoxton, at
their fleet 1063 Edinburgh, quantify of rain Lambeth water- woiks77j.
Danijb Proclamation 875 near 637 in Fleft-street 776. in
Dimrzi^porto^blockaded 666 Education, on public 716 Upper ' Kelgrave-street, in
Darlington, Countess of, acc. Egertm, hon. F. H. his chefs Kenton-streat. at a chapel
of 679 parties 605 in Holloway 8 8 1. at Whit-
Deaf and Dumb, first stone of Elixabetb, Qneen, on her bread's brewery, and at
their Asylum laid 678 dress 702 \Vhitechapel971.in Fleet-
Dcan,y</in, his portrait at the Elmham,* Roman Stations 14 street 972. atTrowse 107 1-
India House 6c6 Ely cathedral, benefaction to weaving factory at Sher
Deans os Ireland 822 choir 611 bourne 1C72. a cotton
Deaths, list of 682, 780,887, English (hut out from Portu manufactory ac Stockport,
977. 1075, 1172, 1.230 gal 1067 in Fountains-buildings
Debenham, epitaph at 727 Epigrums,h\t\ n ,translated 9 99 City-road, in Bolt-court,
Declaration against Russia Epitapbv. Stratford upon Avon Fleet-street, KS72. at
1152. of the Emperor of 609. on Dr.Edgeworth 638. Atterclisse, ac Hilt-top,
Russia "59 on Dr. Scott 640. at Har brewery at Tottenham, in
Dtctnark, King of England's wich 724.0s CharlesGow- Berkeley-square,a school ac
declaration touching 878. dy 727. at Reading 799. Tottenham 1168. ac Li
proceedings of the English in Hackney church-yard verpool IZ26. at Deptford
there 5)62, 965 823. at Hrazenose College 1227
■ Prince of, returns, Oxford 825. in Wester- Fire-offices, their calculations
to the English a sloop pre hamcharcboac. for Lieut. 821
sented by thorn 1 1 66 Delmont 974. at Hendon Fiji, on the resuscitation of
— unpopular ibid. 999. in Bockleton church 1 1 17. how kept fromtaint-
Derby/hire, Blore's History 1 105. in Westerham iag 1128
of? 800 church 110;. in Hertford Flax, on the raising of 1093
Deserters, English, demanded shire H20. as Mintye, co. Flies affected by the sun 626
771. one executed 96 8 Gloucester H2t. on aliv- Fhur, price of 695, 794, 88 r,
Design, valued by Taste 912 ing author 1133. of Sir 991, io8>7, 1183
Devon/hire gems 1205 William Fenn 1206 Flushing, port pf, ceded to
Disease, origin of 700 Etheiburga, St. church of, France Il6t
Defenses cured by music 1005 London 638 Flying, invention of 964
Dispensations 1054, 1229 Evangelical Preacbcrs,bitit as Fontbill, sale at 880
Disinters, on licensing 818 to their qualification 719 Foreign Occurrences 670, 766,
Dist, quantity of tain at 637 Evil, a lesser, io comparison 875,962,1065, 1160
Dives and Laxsrus, parable of a greater,a positive good Fornceit, phenomenon near
of , ,094 604 830
Domesday of Ralph it Diceta Exeter cathedral 821 Forton barracks, sire at 676
1008 Exhibitions sounded by Mr. .Fojjils, Donovan's museum of
Dome/lie Qaitrtnccs 677, 7*5, Tancred 724 818
881,97 1,1072, 1 1 68, 1 227 Experience, on the neglect of Fox, Mr. character of 12,20
Domingo, St. trade thither in 1124 France, prcdictionsresptcting
creased . ' 1070 2yr,Suff. cfcurcl.-notes ac 915 it6ifi, makes peace with
Ruffia
IN DEX to the Essays, Occurrences, Kc. 1807. Partis.
Russia 671. commercial Hay, price of 69;, 791, 794, /hiSm,Christian! newly disco
code of 96 1. requires Ame 881,991, 10*7,1183 vered there IO57. mit*
rica todeclare against ring- Head-acbe, cure for i: 1202 cious report of forcibly
land 1066. The Seven Htalib, labour and abstinence converting the native troops
islands ceded to 1068. its conducive to 916. on its to Christianity 1069. ,n*
philippic against England preservation 1202 land commerce to it pro*
1 j 60. port of Flushing ced Hebrew learning, on itt utili posed ■ Iti2
ed to 1161 Heiressty 719 Tndiaman attacked by French
French, character of the 608. to a Moibtr, arms of, privateers 1071
enter Leghorn 963 how borne 1105 Industry, house os, at Shrews
G. Htligol.md island taken 864 bury 91*
GARDENING, recreation of Hendon, epitaph at 999 Inflammation relieved 899
810 Heraldicjjiro iej answered 738. Informers, not novel 10 1 7
Gamirin's account ef hit ac heraldic errors 8^4, 1119. Inscription on an urn 809I on
rial voyages 935, 1016 heraldic augmentation the coffin of the Duchesa
Gaseette intelligence 666, 766, 1228. heraldicobservations of Gloucester 885. Apple,
86o'96o,io6i,i 151, 1125 617 by, co. Leic. and Aberdeen
Gazelle Promotions 66 1 1 105?, Hraldry 1205 913. it Ringwood loor.
1228 Hrxbam, church of t®97 Roman 1009. on Mr. Dav
Genius, men of, inattention to Hogarth's Modern Orpheus V1S1169. atVersoyi2i3
prudence 998 101 ; Inverness, silver chain found
Gentleman's M '£ aiint ft rict u res Holiday for King William's near ' 1x14
on 610, 808 landing 1012 Inundations in the North of
Geographer of Ravenna and fjV/<iH(/(lct,terifrom 7915,902. England, Ice 880. in
his work 1002 996. BrUiib property leiaed Norfolk, Ice. 9*9
George' ;,St. Hanover-fquaie, there 963 Johnson, Mr.authorof Cbry-
on the church of 832 Holtandl{cuse,K\ngfg*t it 16 sal 631
Germany, letters from 795, Hilt, co. Leic. spa there 823. Ireland, Deans of, lift of 8 22 -
902, 996 manor of 831 —— bill to prevent insur
Gillespie, family of 832 Homer, critique on Pope's rection in 83i
C;'ijf5«<University,Dr. Hun translation of .831 Iron Mine discovered in Hin-
ter's museum deposited :' "Hf', P«« of €95,791, 794, dostan 7»j
there 1071 881,991,10*7,1183 Iron-bridge I en 5
Gloucester, Duchess' of, acc. of 'Ho-ace, illustrations of 617", Iron-works of Britain increas
7^0. remarks on her 819. 719,806,
" - ' 934, toro, iico ed 1093
her funeral' 885 //«rnc«/9/.',qiianiity of rain at ' Islington described I047
Godsave tbe King, supposed * 637 K.
author of the Song of 781 Horticultural hvia 696. hor KENDAL, quantity ofrain
Godric, St. legend of 1 zoi ticultural authors 607 at "63*
Gold minet in Russia, pdoduce Hough, Bp. epitaph on 7.11 A';»g'» Speech to the sjarlil-
of 1068 //owarii,Mr.buflof,atShrews- ment 775
Gosford,V.tt\ of, his case 699 bury 917 Kingston upon Hull, quantity of
Gravestones, on their removal, Howich, Vise, speech of 663 rain near 637
Ice. 818. on turning them Isunur, Dr. hit Museum de Kirby, Mr. John, anecdote
posited at Glasgow 1071 of 6}*
e Mr. on the History
Gregjon, 999 HurUrs 1022 Knighthood 717. helmets of
of Liverpool, Ice. 911 Hutton, Mr. account of 1073 knighthood how to beboroe
Gr/y, Karl, lum ra! of J170 Hydrophobia 635. uncertain in arms $24
Gnilflbj/1, London,architectu caseos977. easeofir.75 L.
ral survey of 1114,1212 I and J. LABOUR eonducireto health
H. JAMES, Dr. effect of his 9r6
HACKNET, epitaph at 823. Fever Powder 995. Col. Lady-birds, their utility 736
decoration, Ice. at the Riddell's preparation supe Lambeth, South, fire at 775
church 1 100 rior to his powder 998 Lancaster, quantity of rain at
Halts-Given, sculpture at 809 Idlenefi, efsiy on 812 637
Hanovr, French oppressions yenner, Dr. on his frank con. Lancashire, collections for its
there 1066 duct 824. further remu hiRory 911. song 1032
Hanoverians, proposed emi nerated by Parliament 857 Lovington, Lord, acc. of 974'
gration of some 1 164 Ignoramus, Mr. Hawkins's LdaifMdftjDr. his conversation
Harts, fecundity of 1191 edition of 626 whli M r. Le Mesa rier $93 .
Harrison, Dr. on his medical IUbiJIer gaol, acc. of 721 statement ofhis speech 702,
Reform 623. Report of his Index Imduoloriut 6«j, 752, . % 15. answer to faith by
Medical Reform 708 848, 952, 10481 1545. Mt*. 'Le Mesurier and his"
Harwich, account of 774 Jnitit-boitfe, portrait of John reply 825, 929, 932. %e-
}IaviKni,
"•—"■j Mr. letter of "J" 638 _ Dean tfteie 606 W<11 to Mt.....Lc • Mcsuriec
Gent. Mas. SuppUmentl iocj, *<>*2i
INDEX to the Essays, Occurrences, Sic. 1801. Part H.
1027. on Stobœus, ice. Ludlvtu, Edm. inscription on Miranda, his adherents im
1095 1213 prisoned 1167
Laurence, Rev. "John, account Lunar observations 1206 Mijttllancous Remarks 902
anecdotes or 63S, 700. Luther, monument to him Moderalicn recommended 715
bis family 935. his Re postponed 1164 Money, on its manufacture6 1 3
creation of Gardening 810 Lutcn, electionering treat at Monumental Flattery censored
l.aiu, imperfections in the 774 Moral Rejection 12 14
102 5 Lyfont, Mr. on his intended Moravians, their character
Leaden cowlferl JIZ History ofEnglish Counties 795
Leasowos, urn at 809 1119 Mortton. North, fire at 676
Le Clere,' Bibliothcqoe, selec Mortality, b'M ot 694,895,
tions from • - I094 M. 990, 1086, 1182, 1240.
£.-£/iw»,en:ered by theFiench MACARTNEY, L"rd, his general bill of 1240
963 duel with Mr. Sadlier IOIO bill of at Philadelphia add
Leicester, St. Martin's church M'Cormici, Mr. account of New York 11 28
ai 8 1 8. storm at 1227 973 Mo/er, Mr. on employing
Leutftetjhire, History of 831 Magdalen Hspital 1 11 6 Counsel at examinations
Le Mtfuritr, his conversation Mammoth, bones of discovered before justices 1023
with Dr. Laurence 603. 1070 Moses, Mr. Bellham on the
on the oa.1hs.9f the Romiin Manchester, storm at 773 Institute of 627
church 714. answers to Mansions, on old Englilh638 Motto explained 729
Dr. Laurence and his reply MmufMurcrs, encourage Murder at Hoddesdon 970.
825, 929, 932. faiew.ell ment to l°93 of Mr. Simeon 1173. of
to Dr. Laurence 1025 Mapletaft, Dean, memoirs of Mr. Parker by poison 1233
Letters from Holland and Ger 610, 1004 Mustc, on its power to cure
many 79^, 902, 996. to Marley, Sir John, acc. of his diseases 1005. modern mu
a British Foreign Minister defendants wanted 635 sic of the Beggar's Opera
embezzled 1 1 66 Marriage AB 1004,1193 condemned 718
L'ttfom, Dr. letters on Prisons Marriages, list of 68c, 779, N.
721, 916, 11C7, 1 1 85 886,97;, 1074,1171,1230 NAMES, singular 71a
Leveret stoop iolt 107 1 Murttlh Tiwerjsaggelted 857 National Debt 1 1 j3
Leiuis the translator of Sta- N~,val Captures, a French con
tiusf account of 902,998 Mary Queen of Scots, on her voy 666. a Dutch frigate
Z.^i>f/!/Vfr>damageby676J 773 portrait 612 ib. French and Spanish pri
Lincoln, quantity of rain at Afetft/,Dr.queryrespect ing8 18 vateers 860, of the Danish
637. on the removal of Meat, price erf 695, 791, 794, fleet 872.a Spanish priva
the spires of the cathedral 881, 991, 1087, 1183 tes 875. several French and
736, 908, H26, 1205. Medal, cur ous 1009 Spanish privateers 960,
.Hell called Great Tom us Medical R /or/n 622,708 1063, 1064, 1065, 1151,
Lincoln Jco8 Meridian Line found by the 1152, 1225
Linens, foreign, may be imi- Pole star 607 Neild, Mr. on Ilchefter gaol
t ted in England 1094 Meteorological Diaries 602, 721, on Shrewsbury gaol
L'Jb.n, earthquake at 67^, 637, 6«j$, 898, 994, 1090 916. on Briftul gaol j 1 08,
British leave it 964. mani Methodism, on the increase of on Bedford gaol 1 1 86
festo published at 1163. 711 Nelson, Lord, pillar proposed
Jort of, blockade of resum Methodist Baftints "Jit) to his honour 7I3
ed j 156 Mickte, Mr. Review of Suds's Nellies i;scd as food Ic1a
Literary Intelligence 952 Liieof 1201 Newark, Viscount, speech of
LUc-ary dijcovt y I047 Middlesex, County Gaol of, 663
Lyiteltcn, Lord 1.201 Report from a Committee Ncivdigate, Sir Roger, me
l.yttcn samilv 632 etf Magistrates respecting moirs of 633, 7P5
Liverpool, collections for its it J2IO Ncwland, Abraham, acc. of
Hist ory 9 ( I. drawing pro Miles dimidius 1016 1086. his funeral 1170
ofed to be taught in its Miller, Paymaster Serjeant New-Tork, deaths at 1 128
charity-schools 9r1 , 784, 1126 Nichails, Dr. account of 999
London, quantity cf rain at Military Syjitm, speeches on Nicuwicd, earthquake at 964
637- clergy os', address the 853, 855 Niotcguen, description of 997
the lcirg 677. high tide- M.iitia, bill respect tog it 957, N"folk, Roman station 10913
ar 96*,.curiosities in 12C.7. 958 Nonbampiovfhirt draw togs
Sheiirlos, appeal and let Milntr, Dr. his rernarks on a by Mr. Blore 1 1 14
ter from hi.:. 1 mo. work supposd miracluous cure Northfleet^auttiei dock-yard
house . 12 1 6. at Winifred's well ^zo, 797 there '881
w -— Hospital, report of Mmtye, co. Glouc. epiteph at Norwich, storm at 774. tra
irs comnrittte 619 llll dition respecting 9*5
l^wdenium-Red'twuru 622 Miracle at Winifred's well Nottingham, ciuanury of rain
Leulb, benefaction lo it 611 720, 797. at Caua ac 637
G. OstT
INDEX to the Essays, Occurrences, SCc. 1807. Part II.
Portugal, English (hut out station in Norfolk 914
OATMEAL, price of 6q5) from 1067. Royal family Rant , Church of, on its oaths
Jgi, 794,881,991, 1087, of, emigrate to'tne Brazils 714
»8j Preachers, evangelical, 115*3 Rioi, Barony of 629, 901
evil R'tstlia, retreat from 667
Oatb. definition of an 701
Oaltn of the Romilh Church of T'oi Roxburgh, Dujtejil^altim to
Precedence of field and stag his estate/ 777
Qcbiltree Barony, extinct by officers 904 Rugby, epitiph, Cave 1196
alienation 902 Predictions respecting France Rup'ure Society 1072
Officers, field and flag, their and England 6 [6 Russia, amiable character of
precedence 904 Pretender, acc. of his mistress the Emperor of 619. its
Oporto, British property seize.! 640 army defeated, and makes
at 1163 Prince astb- Peace, his subser peace with France 672.
Optbalmia, produced by design viency to Buonaparte 1067 treaty wi'h France 768.
'676 Prints, on therecovety of tar- ports of, lhut against the
Onaide, Dr. on the abuse of nilhed 1191 English 966. produce of
Heraldry 72 S Prisoners, on giving Money its gold-mines 1068. de
Overton Longutvilh, account to when discharged 11S5 claration of the Emperor
of a tomb there 625 Prau established at Oxford of t 1 59. ukase by 1 165
Oxfo'dVmversiy, I enefactions 707 •R«rr, Mr. on Gilbert Wake-
10706. epitaph at Braze- Proclamation 0 the Dane. 860. field's Lexicon, &c. 1014
nose College 825 bytheKing of Spain 1066. ■ S.
P. of the Portuguese against SADLER'S rVELLS,i% lives
PARABLE of Dives »nd the British 1067 lost at 971
Lazai us, rest fctionson 1094 Proftjsimal Changes 112S Sad'Ur, Mr. vindicated 1010
Pariinsm, Mr. on mineral re PrognoRicatiomXsy Moore 1 2 2 1 St. Clere, antique stone at
mains ofthe old world 818 Projefttr, No. LXXII. 612. 717. antiquities at 1022
Parliamenr,proceedingsin66 3, LXXIII. 729. LXX1V. St. Pa"l's cathedral, on its
76-*>853> 957- prorogued 812. L\XV. 918. decoration 729. MS. sur
774> "5* LXXVI.1005. LXXVII. vey of 1008
P :rry, Rev. VP. acc. of 1191 1123. LXXVI1I 1198 Salcjbury, co. Lancaster, cha
Pavement, against the new, Profhtcus illustrated 809. by pel consecrated at H3J
in cathedrals 670. tefle- St. Malachy 636. of the Salisbury coacb overset 1237
lated, found at Wellow969 late King of Spain 964 Schools, on parochial 958
Peace between France and Prussia, Kingof, hisfarewell Scotland, Kings of, ring worn
Russia , 672 address 767. ports of shut by them given to the Prince
Peacock at home 998 against the English 965 ofWales 1169
Pears produced from a moun Publicans, bill touching their Screaming, regulations for the
tain-ash 1015 licences 957 art of 1017
Ptdintic Prescriptions 12T6 Public-bjuftt, poor injured by Scrope of Mafham, Lord,
Pcdmore, church of 1105 their increaie 902 deed by his widow 1119
Pedtstrian Teat 950 Pulpit at St. George'a. Hano Sea, damages at 1226
Peerages English, increase of ver-square 832 Seitmn, proclamation 1061
639. Irish, omissions ia Pye, Mr. his 'Comments on S«rm'o»i,exterminationof 674
it 1192 Shakspeare 922, loot Servants, regulation of 723
Penn, Jfm. epitaph of 1 121. Seven Islands ceded to the
acc. of his family 1206 SSUAKERISM, on 1214 French '1068
Perkins, Mr. on treatment of R. Shakspeare, epitaphs on his
fevers 900 R.Htf, quantity of, at Lon family 609. Mr. Douce's
Petty, Lord Henry 764 don, &c. 637 remarks on Mt. Pye's
Phenomenon ia Norfolk 830 Ravenna, Geographer of 1002 Comments on 921. on Mr.
Philadelphia, deatha at 1 128 Rayne, inscription at 913 Pye's Commen s on I do I
Physicians, Collegeof, iu Ire Reading, epitaph al ' 799 Sharp, Mi. accou.it of I 143
land, their Report on Me Reg.il Table I (28 Sheep lost in the snow 1167
dical Reform 708 .Return of Antoninus I19O Sheldon, Abp. letter of 633
Pillar proposed in honour of Remarks, miscellaneous 1004 Shrrbourne cafile described 804
Lord Nelson 713 Rbenan, account of 903 Short, Dr. memoirs of 823.
Pitt, Mr. his death regretted Ridde/I, Col. on his remedy Sbriw'bury,- excellent ma
707. character of 1219 for fever 699, 899, 997. nagement "of its gaol 917.
Plate, river of 631 attacked 120S. justifica its house of industry 918
Pomsret statues, See. 706 tion of his practice 1209. Sbropflnre, pitch, oil,
Ptsr injured by the increase on the resuscitation of filh made from earth 1015
of public houses 902 1117 Signs, whimsical 1192
Pops, Mr. description of Bris Ringnoiod, account of its' Small Pox, rsvagesos 1072
tol and Sherboume 802. his church, Jec. rooo Smith versus Hawiintt^ifZit
villa at Twickenham j 1 85 R m..n Al'.ar 1103. Romans Snow, great fall of 1167
Soap,
I N D EX to the Essays, Occurrences, Sec. 1 807. Part It.
Soap, pyce 0P695, 791. 794. Tanered, Christopher, his be W.
881, 991, 1087, 1183 nefaction, Ice. 723 WAtXEFIELD, G. Lexicon
Sodjjfigpi, antiquities 1009 Terriek, family of, acccunc 1014
Somerville, Mr.infcription8o9 of wanted 908 Walker, Mr, anecdote of 1 12 1
Soittbgate, Joanna, dangerous Tbanet, Isle of, high tide at WalthamAbbeyand Croft I OSo.
tenets of 701. her . dif- 970. account ot Hollind- architectural survey of 929
.gusting [^tensions 711 huul'e tn6 Wanley, Mr. account of 114;.
Spain,. King of, prophecy of Theatrical Register 6i)i, 1129 Ward, family of 1096
the 964. conspiracy against Tbievti, expedient by, to Warton, Mr. on his death 901
him, his proclamation prevent discovery 608 Wf«r&<r,advertisement ong66
1066. decree by, excul Tbortjly, North, benefaction Weever, MSS. of 80S
pating his son j 1 62 to it 611 Welderen, Count, ace. of 679
Spiels not novel ioi"7 Thorn, remedy for scratches Welltw, tesselated pavement
Sprnujhn church, monument thereby 622 found there 969
in it 18 Tide, high, at London, &c. Wefterbam, Kent, epitaphs in
StamforeUiridge, battle 1 1 06 969 its church 905, nor
Slafird/bire, Shaw's History Times, reflections on the pre Wejlminsttr, antiquities of 6 38
.of 800, 1000 sent 733. ■ Abbey, queries re
Stanley, Dr, account of him Tithes, query respectnig 636, specting 629. innovations
wanted 999 704, 735, 830 inn33. remarks on 1205.
S'tatius. See Lewis, T-cmkins, Martin, account of reparation of Henry VU'a
Statues at Guildhall, London 999. »»»4 chapel intended 735. work
1115 Topigrapbical St\usriei 638 ing drawings of it disco
Stepney church, heraldic er Tortoise Encrinus 8 1 8 i vered 1 189
rors therein 824 Tottenham, fire at I I 68 —p——— Hall, alterations
Sjntnagt, fire at 676 . painted window in there.. 623
Staiassu corrected io95- the church 12 14 ——— Palace of, altera
Slake, price of 696, 79Z, Trade interruption of 810. tion! of 733, 799
096, 991, 1088, 1184 West India trade 958 Whirlwind, a violent 774
Storm at Dublin 675. at Tradition respecting Norwich Whitsable, high tide at 969
Hull 676. in Laacathire 9'5 Wbixley, benefaction at 72a
773. in Scotland, Nor. Treaty at Buenos Ayres 867 William, on the landing of
folk, etc. 774. in the Trees, fruit, Chinese method King iozz
North of England 880 of propagating 6c4 Windsor, Beaumont Lodge at
Sunibimfe, Mr. his account —— apples, disease in ibid.
of Rer. J. Lawrence 700 Trinity, X)t.\Vilti on the823 Winifred's well, miraculous
StratJord-xponAvcn, account Turnips, magnitude of 1126 cure at 720, liny
of its church 609 Turkey, Revolution in 675. Wit 1198
Straw, price of 695, 791, anarchy in 966. predic Wo/fey, memoirs of 1203
794,381,891, 1087,1183 tions re I p-cting the Turks Woodspnng priory . 801
£V«i«i,co.Glouc. epitaph 974 617. their losses, 877. un Wooljlon,Mr. on gardenings 1 a
Sugar, price of 695, 791, sealed state of 1069 IVirds as Course 730
794,881,991,1087,1185 Twickenham, Pope's house at Wren, Sir Christopher, paper
Suicide, extraordinarycafe 687 1185 by him 729
Sun, sti* affected by it 616 Y.
Superstitious service to Saints V. YORK, demolitionos its gates
7IJ VACCINATION, Rev. R. restrained 710. cathedral,
Sussex India (hip lost 606 Hill on 61,5 present Bate of 629, 819,
Sutton CoUsteid, state of 1 107 Veryard, character of the XI 10. lucubrations, &c.
Swallows, 00 departure 1 206 French, from his Travels on S31. remarks on 1205
Mviaring, «g»inst the prac 608 Archbishop of, ac
tice of 716 Virgins, part of the office of count of his funeral 1083
Sweden, King of, hit con the eleven thousand 717 - Cardinal of, memoirs
versation with Gen. Brune of 785, 882. his gift to
838. his firmness 1165 U. the Prince of Walei 1 169
Swedijb bullet* 877 UNDERTAKERS, their ig- Tor ke, Mr. speech of 854
T. norance of Heraldry 728 Z.
7y*»L0#',priceof 695,791, , Unitarians, decrease of 904 2EALBY, coins found there
79+, 1-81,991,1087, 1 183 eloubted 1128 1071
INDEX
INDEX to BOOKS Reviewed in Vox,. LXXVIKFart IF.
A. Q ojhy'i Gazeiteer of England Oy
JVmgUARlAN REPER and Wales 1143 0SS£R^TIOAASWdtiea«»
TORY* 644 ing Clergy for the Weft
Attempts at Poetry 844 D. Indies 64J
DAKlNS's F.ft Sermon 950 Old Friends in a ntw Di esi 751
B. Daylcsford, a Poem 6;I 'Onflow's Visitation Sermon
BELOE's Anecdotes ofLit«- Vod/fs Sermon before the 84*
raturc and Scarce B .oki Corporationofl. jndoni 145 Owen's Sermon on Uncer
737. &31 tainty 950.
£*orti Correspondence with E.
Mr. Sheriff Phillip! ut* EtfFlELD's Pronouncing
Bourne's Gazetteer of the Dictionary 653"'
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