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NORTHWESTERN

UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

EVANSTON
ILLINOIS
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Gentleman s Magazine:

AND

Historical Chronicle.

For the YEAR MDCCCVIL

{Volume LXXVII.

PART THE SECOND.

E PLUEIBVS UNCTM.

By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.

LONDON: Printed by and for J. N I C H O L S and SON,

at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Pajsage, Fleet Strmt ;
where Letters are particularly requested to be sent, Post Paid.
And sold by J. HARRIS (Successor to Mrs. NEWBERY),
at the Corner «f St. Paul's Church Yard, LvAgate Street. 1807.
To SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.
ON COMPLETING HIS LXXVII,h VOLUME.

WHEN animal form irwites the Muse,

Say, who the subject can refuse i?
While ih >se who know your worth will alk,
Who (hall boldly try the talk ?
Why, one move like to fall than rife,
Is him who now this Verse supplies.
Daughters of Jove, ye Virgins sage
Who wait on Urban's honry age,
Awake again those lays sublime
That live' beyond the bounds of Til
Remov'd from terror spread asar,\
And all the threats of horrid war,
We hear the Tyrant sternly fwear-
" JJJncland, for your chains prepare !'
, 'fJutJo! the Guardians of our Me
Assume an animating smile.
Are we not Albion's Sons, they cry.
Who on the Ocean live and die ?
Do we not bring home India's reign,
The golden treasure's rich domain ? J A OQ Q - \
While busy Commerce plies her oar,* V COo
And wafts her treasures to our iliore;
Old Neptune from his wat'ry bed
Raises up his hoary head ;
Confirms the empire of the main,
To Britain gives the trident reign.
Tis ours the glory to support,
And to protect an exil'd Court,
Religion, Virtne, Europe's cause,
Against the Trampler on all laws ;
To curb Ambition's headstrong rage,
And all its horrors to assuage 3
To stand the brunt's impetuous shocks,
Unruffled as our native rocks,
And 'midst the threaten'd tempest smile,
And plant the laurel in our file.
With deeds like these we Ul Heaven implore,
That. Peace may open Mercy's door,
And Plenty re-assume her reign,
To bless all ranks that now complain :
Discord lierhellifli arts to cease,
And haste the day of Love and Peace.
When you with conscious pride shall tell.
How your own Sons in War excel ;
The Olive plant on Victory's crown,
' While Fame proclaims their vast renown.
•Honour and Glory shall. agree
'To form a lasting Jubilee.
These, Urban, these are Britons' true delight.
Born heirs of Liberty for peace or fight.
Yours to record that'future times may read,
How well we ciar'd, but never dar'd to yield.
1807. H. LEMOINE.
 THE
NEMAN'S MAG A
1.6 N ».-G,C7-f.rT6 CumWUiid1-
;GENtit.A i, EvtH^ DoncastW-'Derb.
Lloyd's Evening Borchest.—»Efl'cx
,St.James's Chron Exeter a,GhJuc.
1 London Qh mn . f- Halifax' t
jffrit. Press-Globe, I Hampshire^
i London K\ cuing .U-rcfWd, Hull :
Virhc Sun—Star. , : :■ f. I. . 39
London Packet' ln(W.->,'Kei»tish 2
iEngk&cliron. - Lancafi-beicel.
iTimes—Whifeh. Leeds 2—Lewes
; Morning Chron. ■ Liverpool 5
Morning Herald Maid stone
M-Polt— Ledger Manchester 4
Courier — E*, Ma. Newcastle 3 . '
Dai.Ad.&Oracle Northampton
Morning Advert. Norf.—i>Jdrwi.,i
Traveller—News Nottinihata
Commer. Chron.
tsWeekly Papers ■ K aiding—ttjPorts.
Ox*OHt>2 I; !L
Bath 3, Bristol 6 .SC0"I'I.*\'D 1 .1
Birmingham 3 Salop—Sheliicl.l
u 1 Blackburn ; Shethorne, ivirry
{ BuryS. Edmund's ^htrdwfp.-fSust'ex
j! Cambridge StaflhnPhirff
|> Canterbury 2 JULY, 1807. Stamford—Tvne.
i Carl i.—Chester Walcefi.—Wa'rwj
Chelmsford 2 CO NT A I N I NG Winch.—Wdic.
Cornvv.—Covcjjt. Yoiik 3, Jersey
Meteorological-Diaries for J.une & July 1807.60! Siograph. Meuloii's oT"Sir Roger Newrliga'e 633
Dr. Laurence and Mr. Le Mefurier . . ; So; ChanccflorBowirs-*! Mrfropobia--M;is.^yltffe63S
CrBrft panics at.tbe Hon. Francis itgerton's 6o' Mifcel. ReniarkH)30x—Quan 1 ityof Rain 1 600637
History of John pean— H61 ttcu4oi r*Wl int? G66jl lawksiYs v: Srmth^TtipognAhical Queries 638
On Appnc»tre«^Mr.toiWncbVi>i<J*«lWm5floy Df.'EJgtwo.rtfi—Peerage—Lift of Bishops" 639
French Character as (fcscYtbett'IrW Ver'yarti ' 6oY Counsels oPAlfoany—EpitapTi 011 Dr: Scott 610
Epifaphs'srff" the " Family' As ^S+iaftspvare .'. 6o«j '■RfiTikw of New Publications; viz.
•Bi«^r»phiciil MeniAirs oj' Rjari Mai>l2toft.'<JlO Power's Calendar of floss sol January 1P07 641
V'aT«fras"R>W5ii{s oEMaty (lu^cn i^'Sews i "tfli. C(K>Ke'sConverfatimi.-Anrf^Q!afianRept-rtv>ryti4 4
Tuf. Piioj ector, a period. Paper, N" LXXJI. it. Jarrold on Poor Law!}-—Stranger in Americi 6l-'>
Reverend Rowland Hdl'on VacHha'io'rv . . 'fil .V \ripbnd'« ^Sermon 011 inftrdcting Children,, 6.-V0
Curious'Prediftbiis—'llti'm ratiosrs of Horace-fil?" Cafe of Bishop "of Oxford igalrrft Piddmgtoti <).> 1
Report of theConiinjtt.ee of London Hospital 6-K; Pai/lesfjrd j a -Poem—On the Catholic Bil! 052
Amiable Character of the Emperor of Russia fr'oi Knfie'd's Dictionary—Rules for French . . li.'-s
Strictures. on the .«,' Gent. Mag '' for, 180,6 't)2s Report of College of Ph> (icians on Vaccination ib.
Col.Riddrll—Canker-l)ri.,r-'-Meti!C.^Rrf,;nn"62 ' The Arts— Lndex Ikdicatorius fisj
ARCHJ'TECT»ttAlt INNOVATION,' N"> CX. ■ ')-.! S r. lect Mob t r n Poi/tRY foi-J-uly . . 656-^ioo
Tradition respecting Tqmb of Earl of Clare 625 Gaz.Promotions-Ecelesiaft. Prefer ments.&c.'oOl
Account of"a Fi!>t|re at .Overtoil Lbngtievrllei/'t;/. [Proceedings in the presentSerT.ofJAnlianientOfio
Flies-aflfect<sr*v! the Rays of The Sun .■. 626 irirETetliug lntell. from she London GazettesGub
Mr. Hawkins's Edition Of " Ignoramus"'• IWrf.jAbstract of this principal Foreign Oecurreacesiiro
Mr..T. Belsha'm on the InstituU'of Moses . fr2;|Conntry News—Domestic G'csurrerices . ...67;
" Londinium Redivivum*'—Barorrv of RoiV U;H);Ari(litionsamlCoi'Te5tionssnf:?rn'ie;ObituRrtdS 67f.
Present State Tjft!h(;(Gathje4rlit ot' York'. .'."ffiinlMarriages »*id Dtniiif of eminent 'ltrjbms bin
Ducl!ing-iAn<-cdotes?«f Authbrnf GlTrysal''rt.;ij sHeatiicVil Ke-jiiieT— Bill of Mortality, <Sfc. «ivf
Dr. CottonV-Cosyptr—Lytton FSrnily, !tfc.<'6j->jpricei oWhe-MlaiKets—Wc«fe «f the.Sibcka Oyt.
tmBelliihtd 'with a IVifpective View 'of Sr RAt'FORD'eVos- A von Cue It 6ft,
" '. "WWRW'idKSHrVE'; ahd a Bird's Eye Viewof a StiATufi on a
t..\ , ■ : TiMB at OvtiVTON LoNGtifriLLi, v "
: bv' S: t'.L k -a: jv p-s u r. b. a. n>. Gb1
. Ptjntedlry. -NICHOLS ajnd SON, at.Cicero's Head, Red-saor\ Passage, Fle^t-Ktrdet, I prhlr.: :
wiS[4ix alf Leversjtav the Editor Bra defir'id tb.be :Udn»ai;d,- PoST^nAl m',
 Meteorological Dia«t for June 1807- By Dr. Pole, BriiloA.
Thermom. Barom.
m * ? WEATHER.
■ J3 If
a S 0 a 0
1 4S 52 30- 1 eloudy, showery
a si 62 30-1 cloudy in general .
3 44 01 30- 2 mostly clear
4 57 66 30- 4 ditto
s - 62 6s SO- 5 cloudy in general
6 " 53 53 30- 4 cloudy, showery
7 49 59 30- 5 mostly cloudy, light shower*
• 57 fil 30- 0 cloudy, (howery */
ft 59 62 30- 0 mostly cloudy, *>me heavy (howere, With thttnde*
10 57 60 30- 0 mostly cloudy, frequent showers
\l Go 66 30- 1 mostly cloudy, frequent showers, windy i
59 03 30- 8 mostly clear
•»■ 60 63 30- 9 mostly clear
14 59 65 30- 9 mostly clear
13 ^62 73 30- 5 clear
IS 59 05 30- X, mostly clear ,
»7 61 (58 30- 1 mostly clear, even, cloudy
Ji <5o 65 40- 3 cloudy at times <
»9 57 W 30- 7 mostly cloudy ' i
510 51 6s 30- 9 'ditto • »
SI 64 70 30- 9 cloudy at times
»9 65 71 30-10 clear
•3 64 72 30- 9 cloudy at times
»4 65 71 30- 7 ditto
35 65 71 30- 3 . morn, rather clouds, aft. clear
98 63 63 30- 3 mostly cloudy '
37 65 71 30- 5 mostly cl«tr
S8 64 74 30- 5 ditto
20 -62 fig 30- 4 ditto
60 57 58 30- 4 ditto.
The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight A. M. are 59 12-SOthf. Those
of June I806 were 6l 24-30ths j 1805, 57| i and in 1804, 62 —Quantity of rain
this month, only 15-looths of an inch ; that in June 1806 was 1 inch 3'2-100ths;
in 1805, '2 inches 58-looths; in 1801, 25-iOOths of an inch ; and in 1803, 3 inches
15-lOOths.—It will be observed, that during this month, there fell bat three-fifths of
the quantity noticed in June 1804, which was the next smallest rn any month during
the last four years and a half. ,
Stale offegttalioit at the close of the Month.—First crops of hay all nearly got in.
Wheat has been in full blossom abont ten days. The grafs on the higher grounds if
suffering for want of rain ; as are the gardens.
Mk-i eoKOLooiCAL Table tor July 1S07. By \V. C*u(, Istrand.
Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. | Height ol Fahrenheit's Thermometer.'
■s-s u S Barom. Weather Barom Weather
.', .» in. pts. in July 1807. , pts nJuly 1807.
es ..A as
June\ July
27 6l 30 ,02 fair . 12 67 74 I 69 •19,85 fair
28 55 I ,05 fast 13 7d 77 1 6s ,93 fair
29 34 29 ,95 fair 14 64 66 ! 65 ,06 rain
39 58 j ,93 cloudy ID 61 74 I 61 (SQ loud/
J.I 54 j ,95 jcloudy >6 63 73 64 ,98 cloudy
S5. ,9* [cloudy 17 64 74 65 30,01 fair
'a 56 ! ,92 cloudy 19 ! 66 73 ! 66 ,10 fair
4 59 30 ,00 cloudy 19 '67 74 ! 67 ,10 fair
9 59 ,05 fair 20 6s 29,95 fair
6 04 ,01 fair 21 I 60* ,95 fair
7 id -•loudy 22 j 6s ,71 fair
H 55 fair 23 I 69 ,73 fair
9 64 ,-2J [fair 24 I 68 ,69 showery
10 67 ,0* Ifair 33 I 00 ,90 cloudy
114 6t 29 ,70/lfair *6 ! 69 ,78 fair
 ( 6o3
THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE
For JULY,
Mr. Urban, DoBors Commons,
Inly 20.
^SK*^* HEN vnti did me the
^?R?R^^ favour of inserting the
7>K ?R short notice which ap-
^ W pearedhiyour'lastNum-
ij^ V£ her, I was not without
3Vt JVv a private explanation
from Mr. Le Mesurier, imtight have
saved me some pain in the public per
formance of a promise, already perhaps
too lung delayed from similar motives.
It has, however, produced no more
effect than the former intimation of
the (ame kind, which Dr. Milner gave
at my request. I must, therefore, pro
ceed as 1 can, to discharge what 1 con
sider as a sacred debt ofjustice. IMever,
Sir, have I thought it worth while to
answer any mis-ltauraentosmySpeeches
in Parliament, or any comment founded
on luch mis-tiiteinent, by which I alone
could be injured. 1 have sutterad not
a little in. that way; but it was mv
own arson J have not the (ame right
K> leave the character of another un
protected, where mv name has been
made the vclucle of au unjust impu
tation.
With the charitable view, as he pro
fesses, of clearina me from having anv
concern in a fraud, Mr. Le Mesurier has
advanced, on my alledged authority, a
most serious charge against the whole
body of Human Catholicks*. He
slates, as front me., not only " that I
disavow the report of inv Speech,"
which his' antagonist Dr* Milner had
quoted ; and " that it is not at 1 (poke
it; but that the liomani/is have tie'ified
my arguments lo answer their own pur
poses. And this" (he lakes occasion
to observe, Mr. Urban) " wii| give
your readers a pretlv denr idea of what
Is the impnriialitv'of this boasted lie-
n of the Debaies on 'he Caiholic
nestion." My Heverend Friend then
' * Gent. Mag. for January, 1807,p. 33.
)
1807.
goes on, through the rest of his Letter,
to be sometimes very severe, and some
times very smart (1 suppose I must, in
civility, so call it), upon " thefabrica
tor of the Report," " the impartial He-
porter's talents at garbling," and " the
fabricated Report, to which Dr. Mil-
tier has given currency by his signa
ture.'' In a subsequent Letter, the same
charge is " repeated, and positively as
serted" again, though in terms rather'
guarded aud equivocal , and, in a late
pamphlet*, this ready Polemics renews
the original attack, referring to " the
garbled account of Dr. I^orence's
Speech, whi<#) the Roman Catholicks
have published in their impartial ac
count of the Debates, and which Dr.
Milner has adopted." Thus, in every
shape of controversy, in the fugitive
miscellany of a Mazazine, and in his
more formal publication (though, per
haps, Mr. Ijrhan, not likely to circu
late fa widely, or to live so long, ac
your pages) he persists in a sweeping
accusation of falsification and forgery
against the whole Catholic Body in ge
neral, and Dr, Milner in particular ;
and 1 am the witness whom he calls,
over and over again, to prove his cafe.
In this exhibition of me, as a fort
«>s deluded accomplice turning King's
evidence, mv fiend, I doubt not, be
lieved that he was. doing me honour.
He wished,, probably in tenderness, lo
represent me as lei's criminal than I
might be supposed, in my wicked en
deavours to protect fan), political de
gradation and oppression, three millions
of my fe.low-s»ibj«ct», fa>m whom I
moll conscientiously differ in religious
opinion. In t+fFirne Ipu it nf < 'hnltian
banevojence he hastened to draw out of
the n>"d, where \ was flouiide'viii,
" a man of mv size and emimnee,"
as he truly and f eetiouftv describes)
me,' for your readers, .Mr. Urban,,
must know, that I wa^ born lo be one
* 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.
bably be printed, with some curiouj
conclusions of games, as a supplement
to another volume of the " Slialu-
gewes dEchecs."
Mr. Urban, • J*!y 10.
•"I^HE subject of John Dean's per
il trait at the India-house, (see vol,
LXIV. pp. 919, IO98, H83,) being,
after lying dormant near 1.3 years, at
length revived bv the publication of
J. W s letter in your Jail, p. 530', has
led me to suppose, that a reference
to what has been formerly inserted in
that valuable Miscellany respecting this
man may not be unacceptable to many
pf its readers ; therefore, for ibe sake of
those who may not bp poll'efikl os tlie
early volumes, I have taken the pains
of transcribing every paragraph in which
I basre sound any mention of him, or
of the famous law-suit, wherein he apr
pears to have been the only material
witness on behalf of the Last India.
Company. They are as under t
Vol. Xil, p. fio'l, November 1, J 7*3.
** Came on at Guildhall, before Lord
Chief Justice Lee, the Cause that has de
pended so long between the East India
Company and Capt. Francis Goftling,
late commander of the Sussex India- man,
concerning the loss of the cargo of the said
Slip. The trial lasted till Jive next morn-
tag, when the Jury gave a \erdict for the
Company for 30,2051.
Vol. XIII. p. 273. May 13, 1743, " The
Court of King's Bench delivered the opi
nion of the Judges in the great cause,
wherein the Eist India Company were
plaintiffs, and Capt. Gosling defendant';
by which the verdict for 3O,C0Ql. obtained
by the plaintiffs is set aside, and a nefr
trial granted."
Ib. p.38.3, July 12. " Before the King's
Bench, was tried the cause between Capt.
Coiling and the East India Company; and
a verdict was given them for os.oool.
Ib. 6lO, Nov. 16. « The Court of Di
rectors of the East India Company agreed
to allow John Dean, the only surviving
sailor of the Sussex India (hip, an annuity
of 100I. and sol. to his wife, mould the
survive him.
V..1. XV. p. 109, February, 1715.
John Dean, the only surviving sailor of the
Sussex India ship, was appointed, by the
Directors of the East India Company, an
Elder, in the room of Mr. Adams, de
ceased."
Vol. XVII. p. December 17,
1747, " Died, in the East India Com
pany's hospital at Poplar, John Dean, the
only survivor of the mariners who re
mained on-boarj the Suflex Indiamah."
l ean remember reading, at an early
[July,
period of life, the publication referred
to by J. VV. with all ihe ardour ofyouth, •
particularly the recital given by Dean
of bis sufferings and adventures in Ma
dagascar, subsequent to the shipwreck
pf theSofleK ; anil it is probable that I
felt the more interested in his narrative^
from one of mv relations having been
an officer of the Prince William lndiar
man, Capt. Langwonh, at the time
Dean was taken off the island by that
fliip, on her passage to Bombay. At
J. W. appears 10 have access to the
pamphlet which, I believe, is but a
small one, and is now become very
scarce, he could, I have no doubt, con
fer an obligation oil many constant
readers of the Gentleman's Magazine,
by communicating some of the most
remarkable passages iu it. The circum
stance excited no inconsiderable decree
of attention at the time. Amicus.
Mr. Urban, June 10.
HT'HE following extract fiom " Bar.
-I row's Travels in China," p. ptSfo
merits the consideration of all your
horticultural correspondents; it is
closely connected with the subject
started by J. Redwo), p. 231, and sup
plemental to that of J. Delver, p. 400 ;
who recommends it to your notice
with a view of prompting experiments
for procuring farther informs lion on-
the point in question.
The ingenious people of China
" have a common method of propa*
gating several kinds of fruit-trees,
which, of late years, has been prac
tised with success in Bengal. The
method it simply thi>: they strip a ring
of bark, about an inch in w)din, from
a bearing branch, surround the place
with a hall of sat earth, or loam, bound
fast to the branch with a piece of mat
ting ; over this they suspend a pot, or
horn, with vyater, having a small hole
in the bottom just sufficient to let the
water drop, in order to keep the earth
constantly moist. The branch throws
new roots into the earth just above the
place where the ring of bark was
stripped off. The operation is per
formed in the Spring, aud the hrarteK
is siiwu off and put into the ground at
the fall of the leaf. The following
year it bears fruit."
1 know not whether the following
remark on the communication of T. C,
p. 400, is worthy of any notisce.
J am not confident, but, J think.
I have observed, " the profusion ot
small specks. 011 Apples, which render^'
them
1807.] Disease in /fpple-Trees.-^Clergyman's Recreation.
them unsightly for present use and un
til for keeping, the appearance of which
ieems to intimate the effect of hail"
upon fruit the produce of Apple-trees
not in the least injured by the white
downy Infect *, or, lo far as 1
could observe, tainted in the smallest
decree by the disease coinmouly (1
know not how truly) laid to have been
imported from America above twenty
years ago. This disease certainly dis
figures and injures the trees exceed
ingly ; and, very probably, will
shorten their duration ; but it does not
nuieh injure their produ ness.
Daich codling tree deeply infected and
much disfigured and injured, with a
Counties* multitude of knots, sometimes
cankering, bat which generally are
covered over with new bark, has, for
nearly all the time I have mentioned,
been so full of Apples as frequently lo
require supports for ils borne down
branches. I know of no effectual re
medy for this evil, but I have checked
it, and very considerably, by brushing
off the white down, clearing of the
red stain underneath it, and anointing
the places infected with a liquid mix
ture of irain oil and Scotch Ihaff,
£>i quid novifli reSiius, &c.
Yours, &c. i J. Uelver.
Mr. Urban. July CO.
I REMIT some particiilarscoucerning
the Rev. Mr. Laurence's work on
Gardening, for the purpose of filling
up a chasm in the account of hortfcul-
tural authors sent to you by the late in
genious Mr. Richard Weston, of Lei
cester, vol. LXXVT. p. 10S0.
Mr. Laurence's aforesaid work was
published in two parts, and I possess
both bound in one thin octavo volume.
The title-page of the first is as follows ;
"The Clergyman's Recreation : fliew-
ing the pleasure and profit of the Art of
Gardening.—
Quart agite, o proprios generatim discite
cultus,
* This alludes to a most destructive In
fect of the Aphis kind, which has lately in
fested apple-trees. It appears like a white
mould, and when robbed leaves a purple
ftain. The following is said to be an ef
fectual remedy, which has been tried with
great success.—Take three ounces of
flower of brimstone, mixed in a quart of
goose oil, or any. common oil, and with
a small brush lay it on the place where
. the whiteness is seen. Edit.
607
Agricolæ, fructusque feros mollitecolendo.
, . , Viro. Georg.
Bv John Lawrence, A. M. Rector of
Yelvertoft, in Northamptonshire, and
sometime Fellow os Clare Hall, hi
Cambridge. The fourth edition. Lon
don, printed for Bernard Lintott,, he?
tween the Temple Gates in Fleet-
street, 17(6."
The title-page to the second part is,
*' The Gentleman's Recreation ; or the
Second Part of the Art ef Gardening
improved : Containing several new
experiments and curious observation's
relating to Frn ii-Trees ; particularly a
new method of building walls with
horizontal shelters. Illustrated tvilb,
copper plates.
Si quid novisti rectius istis,
Candidus imperti ; ii rion, his utere
mecum, Uor. '
By John Laurence, M. A. Rector of
Yelvertoft, ill Northamptonshire, To
which is added, byway of Appendix,
a new and familiar way to find a mod
exact Meridian Line by the Pole-Star ;
whereby gentlemen may know the true
bearings of their houses and garden-
walls, and regulate t heir clocks and
watches, &c. ; by Edward Laurence,
brolher to the author of this book.
London : printed for Bernard Lintott,
between the Temple Gates in Fleet
Street, 17 16."
At the end of the Appendix is affixed
the under advertisement :
" Lordships surveyed,' and maps drawn
of the fames timber measured and valued,
with other artificers' work, anil dialling
in all its parts, performed by Edward Lau
rence, brother to the Author of this book.
He is to be heard of when in London at
Mr. Senex's at the Globe, in Salisbury
Court.—N. B. In Winter, and at such
times as he is pot surveying, gentlemen
may have their sons or daughters taught
accompts at their own houses, after a
natural, easy, aud concise method, with
the use of the globes and maps, and ail
other useful pans of the -rtathematicks.."
It is remarkable, that in the two
above-copied title-pages the rev«renrl
Author's surname is spell differently,
and the initial letiers of his audition
transposed in the last. As his brothers
surname is (pelt with thein, L imagine
that Laurence was the real name.
The first part has one coppcs-pbie,
which exhibits a perspective vieiv (of a
garden, adorned with £r»OD,laiii* and
statues. ,S. Grit-din sculpt.
Ih:
6oS. Anec dotes of Mr. Laureritrev—^Veryard's Travels, [juty*
The second part has a frontispiece
and three ' other copper-plates. The
frontispiece shews us a Fruit-Garden,
with a gentleman and a clergyman con
verting in it. Two plates (hew the
proper dtfpolal of trees in gardens, and
another the form of training a vine
against a wall ; but thai form is totally
different to the one now in rile.' Each
pa.rl of the work has a long preface
prefixed to it ; and the fir II has the fol
lowing approbation :
" Mr. Lintott. So far as 1 am judge,
there is more ot" the art of gardening in
this little tract than in all that I have yet
seen on this Cubje6t. L. Loyb.
March 15; J713\"
The'Uev. Mr. Laurence describes the
methods he took for ameliorating and
planting his own garden ; and lie writes
in so interesting and Ample a (Me, tliat
lie arrests the imagination us the reader,
and engages, him to attend to the pro
gress of his labours from the sow
ing the trees to gathering the sinit.
He obliges us to admire his perseverance
in conquering obstacles, aud makes our
mouths water at the descriptions of his
fruits. It cannot be doubled but that
since Mr. -Laurence's time many im
provements have been made in the
mode of managing fruit-trees; bin, not
withstanding, I dare to affirm, that
his Svork contains many observations
worthy to be held in remembrance, and
much advice entitled lo the attention
of modern gardeners and orcharding.
Moreover lo crown all, there are senti
ments interspersed in the courle of his
work, thai discover him to have been a
man of singular piety, good-fense, and
'.ingenuity.
As his works were upon sale al Mr.
White's in Fleet-street not a great
many years ago, I am surprised that
Mr. Weston was never in posteffion of
a copy. The copy in tny bands is in
a large clear print, and on very good
paper.
Perhaps, Mr. Urban, ane of your
Northamptonshire correspondents 'will
do me the savour of informing me,
■whether Mr. Laurence was interred at
Yelvertofl; and, if he was, whether
there is anv- memorial of him in his
■ church? Also, whether the rectorial
garden there continues in the form in
which he left it; and any of his trees
extant in it? As there is a passage in
■his fitst preface, intimating"a probabi
lity of his on'etingJo the. wnild a worJi
011 a divine subject; I have' made fre
quent enquiry, whether he ever did
publish anv theological work, but never
have been able to obtain any insinua
tion on that point. VtnTu'MKCs.
* t
Mt Urban, June?.
VERiAKD, in his Travels in
France, Italy, &c. publilheri in
1701, thus laconically describes the
French character :
" The FTench are, generally speakings
very curious, confident, inquisitive, credu
lous, facetious, rather, witty than wile,
eternal babblers ; and, in a word, they are
at all tim.es whai an Englishman is when
he is half drunk. They, are likcw il'e cere
monious and full of their compliments,
especially when it is for their interest;
but take heed they cost you not too dear.
No people have a bettet opinion of their
King than 'tlie French. 1 was once (he
addsj in company with a Priest at Parts,
who, hearing bis King's conduct blamed,
left the room pafsionapely, uttering the
words of the Roman orator, Sit JacriUgus,
fit J'tir, Jit Jiagitioruin omnium princ'ep&i;
at eft bonus iui-pcrator : Let him be sacri
legious, a ihiet, a ringleader of all vice?
he. is nevertheless a good prince" .(lUv
rally, a good emperor.J
Tne above-mentioned Traveller re
lates the following circumstance -as
having occurted at Toulouse, while he
was there : .■
" There happened during our fltiy in
this City a very, odd accident, which was
as folioweth : A compaiw-of thieves, de
signing to break into"* certain shop of tl\e
town in the night-time, opened' a hole
in the side of a brick-wall big enough for
one to eriter-; but, as they vtete at v.'o:!f,
notwithstanding tire utmost dexterity, ittfe
ncit'e alarmed the people Within ^ - U'i*b
getting up and perceiving whcreabCut
they were opening their pailuge, expe6tett
them in the Ibop. The hole being finished,
one of the night-walkers came in with his
legs foremost, whom the .people within
leized when his body was half through
and held him last in the .hole, that lie
could neither move forward or. backward.;
and the passage being quite stopped up the
others .without could by no means let
him at liberty. In the mean while one
of the servants of -the house called the
watch, from the chamber window ; but
before they could get thither tnerio^ues
were all tied .excepting him in the hole,
whom they found without an head. For,
, it l'cems, his companions finding it im-
poiiible to get him thencse had cut it ofi,
and carried it away with them, that he
might not be known, riT drawn by
threats and promises to discover, the reft,
who were at least, ten or twelve iu num
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
,. 1
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
against all accidents that befall other
manufactures, but has ; this singu
lar property, that the goods depo
sited increase io bulk and value with
out any visible aid. Still, if it should
be thought that to manufacture, an ar
ticle which is not destined for the
market, is an instance of industry with
out advantage j and a way to turn
manufacturers into a fort of amateurs
lather than professional men, the ob
jection may be answered by observing
that, although the goods are in many
cases warehoused for a very long time,
a market is at length found. In most
cases, immediately on the death of
the senior manufacturer, the junior
' tranches of his workshop bring the
whole to market, and that with, the
greatest success in disposing of their
goods. It has often been observed,
that a quantity so great as to have ta
ken an industrious manufacturer all
his life to accumulate, has been got
rid of with the greatest ease in less than
a year.
This, I know, will appear very sur
prizing to persons who are not ac
quainted with the slate of the markets
in this great metropolis, where heavy
articles of the kind mentioned may be
disposed of for a mere trifle, and in
the shortest possible space of time. The
purchasers, in these cafes, are a parti
cular description of persons, who pre
fer money readv made to the trouble of
making it themselves, although some
of them are esteemed manufacturers in
a certain degree, but they are subject
to so many fluctuations that, in the
course of a day, they have been known
to exchange the business of buyer and
feller, payer and receiver, perhaps an
hundred times.
And the mention of this last species
of manufactures brings to my recol
lection that, although the making of
money differs in many respects from
other trades, yet in others it bears a
very close resemblance, and perhaps in
nothing more than the various projects
introduced of late years to shorten la
bour, by the employment of machi
nery. This, in the cafe of the manu
facture of money, is by some reckoned
an innovation ; but it is my business
to state facts. Undoubtedly the mak
ing of money was formerly a tedious
operation : it was accounted an ho
nest and very industrious business ; but
lince the introduction of machinery,
the end has been somehow or other
TO R, N° LXXII. [July,
produced in a space os time so short
as to appear very wonderful.
As there is much secrecy preserved
in the use anil construction os the ma
chinery bv which money is made, it
is not in my power to give a very clear
delcription of it. There are wheels
within wheels, aud many secret springs
and movements which cannot be
made familiar without a trial, which
is rather expensive. That the whole
is very ingenious we cannot doubt. I
have been allured by gentlemen con
versant in these machines, ihat the ma
nufacture of an immense sum of mo
ney, which may he completed in a
sew hours, will often hinge upon a
small movement, imperceptible to
every eye that has not studied it ; and
that ihe motions of the whole are so
rapid as to be almost invisible to all
but the manufacturer. The operation
of CARDuig is described as being very
curious, and the use of horses h;is
greatly facilitated the labour, when it
becomes necessary to make money out
of lands and houses. There are seve
ral manufactories established at New
market, Epsom, and some other parts
of the kingdom, where the whole is
performed bv horses, and where ef
fects are produced which the inhabit
ants of London, with all their boasted
town-made articles, cannot pretend to
rival. On the other hand, in the me
tropolis, there is a very large concern
of this kind established, wbrked bv a
.different species of niachinerv, which
they cMftoc/is, I know not for what
reaiiin. In other manufactures) it is,
usual to state the number of hands em
ployed, but here the principal opera
tion is done by heads ; which for that
purpose are carefully emptied of the
accustomed contents, and filled with
battles, sieges, sea-fights, treaties, and
embassies, which are regularly changed
every day or ostener as may be wanted.
One objection against our common ma
nufactures, that they are hurtful to
health, is (aid to be obviated here, where
sitting is carefully avoided, and lying
preferred as an easier posture, and that
in which more work can be done in a
given time. With this exception, how
ever, I do not conceive that, in point
of health, this manufacture has supe
rior advantages. From constantly ly
ing iu one position, many of them beJ
come lame, and some so deaf as to be
unable to answer to their names.
With respect, however, to that de
scription;
*8o7,] THE PROJESTOR, N° LXXII.
scription of manufacturers chiefly in
tended in this paper, those who are
continually making ihe article without
bringing it to market, or delaying the
bringing it to market until they are
prevented bv death, their character
mud be considered as verv singular,
and not to be paralleled in the cafe of
any other manufacturers. What should
we think of a maker of linens who
should fill his warehouses from time
to time, with no olher view than to
look on them now and then, count
the bales, and amuse himself with the
thoughts that one day or other he
would bring them into use ; but in the
mean time feel miserable if a sew yards
were to be requested of him for any
necessary or benevolent purpose ? If
such a man in answer should plead
that the making of money differs from
every other article, it will be sufficient
to require him to staie wherein that
difference lies, or whether there is, in
truth, any difference between one use
less article and another.
These persons are nevertheless enti
tled to some degree of compassion. Af
ter having for so many years fixed
their affections on a species of amuse
ment which they must quit, aud being
utterly unacquainted with any higher
pleasure than that of surveying the
growing slate of their manufacture, it
is really somewhat hard to be removed
into a slate of existence where, accord
ing to the best authorities, no such
thing is permitted, or even known, as
making of money. It is much to be
regretted that our new philosophers,
when, some years ago, they were
proving how wrong we had been in all
our nations as to a future state, did not
provide some state orother which might
form a continuation of the present, and
in which our favourite pursuits might
go on without any material interrup
tion. As things are at present, aud
without the smallest probability of any
new heaven of this sort, we ought not
to refuse some small share of pity to
those who have been so unfortunate as
to employ their whole lives in making
money, for themselves to count, and
for their successors to spend. If we
add to this the important sacrifices ne
cessary in order lo carry on this ma-
nufaelure, the loss of reputation, the
many privations the manufacturer is
subject to, and the total absence os en
joyment or satisfaction, we may surely
conclude that there are sew human
615
beings who have so strangely mistaken
what themselves were made for, or
have so grossly miscalculated the profit
and loss upon the labours of their lives.
It having been asserted above that
the article which is the subject of this
paper does not suffer by keeping, it
may be necessary to add that, al
though this be true so far as respects
money itself, yet if long pent up it
frequently affects the possessors in a
very unpleasant manner. Even their
bodies have been known to be injured
by it, and it has been ascertained that
they have suffered diseases similar in
appearance to those which affect per
sons who cannot command the means
of a generous diet. But it goes far
ther, and brings on a train of disorders
with which the poor are unacquainted j
restlessness, anxiety, narrowness, and
other complaints about the chest, and
a general contraction of all that in
other men is expanded and liberal.
Whether all this arises from pernicious
effluvia in the article, or from some
defect in the constitution of the patient,
1 shall |eave to the determination of
the faculty. I have only to add, that
the appearances on dissection, have
geneiallv exhibited a moderate propor
tion of brains, a great deficiency of
heart, and no bowels at all.'
Mr. Urban, Surrey Chapel, May\%.
T AM much obliged to your corre-
fpondent A Looker On, for his obser
vations on a paper I sent to .your Ma
gazine, as a respectful echo to the be
neficial exertions of the Rev. Mr. Reid.
Perhaps I did not sufficiently explain
mvseli on that subject, as it regards 'the
caution which 1 readily admit ought
to be paid to' the Vaccine vesicle.
Though I always give four punc
tures, and sometimes even more, when
1 have nothing but preserved matter
(which is very apt to fail) ; yet I never
use the lancet so freely for the com
munication os the disease to others, so
a9 to create the least inflammation
besides trut which" belongs to the dis
ease itself. . Those coarse scratching!
a id (tarings os the arms that some have
been guilty of have at times produced'
dangerous ulcers, and have been at
tended with very bad consequences in
deed. But I believe it is the opinion
of the most experienced Iooculators,
that, though there may be but one
vesicle, not the least danger will ac
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,
mav fuel them. Molt of the later ex
positors auree with him in tins lopuoli-
lion, ' without farrier investigation.
Baxter, if 1 am not in Oaken, is the
firll who perceives the lymptoma of
ni- 1 inch >lv, or, as ( would rather
chute lo call it, hypochondria, in
what our Poet fays of his ill humour ;
for i lie phylicans, I b-beve, will al
low Hint i lie effects prqduced hv this
;i<ni|))a in on ihe mind, especially in
peiiims of a delicaie nervous system,
cannot be better described- However,
I hold it urn improbable, that' ihe
fimke, fidis vffendar mrduis, irascar
amicis, &.<•. is applicable 10 Cellos;
anil that Horace made him this per
fectly lam liar statement of the then
Condition of his bcxlv and mind, mere
ly for ilie lake of introducing in s Imle
sarcasm, which the young gentleman
might perhaps have merited by an ill-
liuied leufibilily at what our Poet had
lately wrinen of him lo Ju:ius Florus.
Romæ Titus amem, ventojks, Tibure
Romam."] Tie reproach that Horace
pere calls on him Tel! in his own per
son, he had already s me vears beIb e,
in the V.Ith Sa'ire of the second
Book, pm into the. mouth of one of
his vallajs : .
Romæ ru* optas, ahscnt^m ntfiiais nrbem
Tullis ad ajlra, let-is.
The hypochondriac humour, then, of
.which he here complains, was nothing
new to him ; — though ihe cafe may
be verv naturally explained,, without
accusing Horace os- an unmanly versa-
.tiliiy. Besides, it is to be remarked,
as ihe reason whv he particularly
names Tibnr here, that he probably
possessed a piece or two of ground in
this beautiful district, or . a small (arm,
that belonged to hi* Sabine estate ;-and
so that passage is to be understood in
the life of him that is ascribed to Sue
tonius, where it is laid, that bestdes his
Sabine villa, he had one at Tibur ;
which, unless it be explained in this
manner, Horace's own words, in the
Xth Ode of the Second Book, would
he in contradiction to it.
Ut tuforluntm,sic nos te, Celfe, fc-
remusJ\ Baxter, who, from pure soli-
,ci'ude to give Horace all that belongs
to him, lends him likewise some os
his own, thinks he had here pecu
liarly in mind Tiberius and the rest
of his cvmites ; and lays we solely out
-ofnrbanity, in order to. obviate harsh
ness from' the moral he whispers in the
Book I. Epistle VIII. [July,
ear of Ce'iiis. But inelhinks he in
tended to lav neither mote nor left
than what every one that understands
the language mult perctive in the
vvotds. We put in contrast, with ihou,
implies ail the rest of the world: A*
thou shalt I.ear the fortune thai seems
to son Ic upon thee, so will the world
hear thee . if thou behaved modestly,
then must envy be sil<-nt, and thou
wilt reap the applause of thy friends,
and the esteem of th,e world : but if
thou allow ii to make thee insolent,
and to turn thy head, then, wilt thou
have everv man against thee, thy best
fri nils w ill retire, and the red connive
to work thy downfall, &c. VV. T.
Mr. Urb^n, June 11.
"\7 0UR benevolence, 1 persuade
+ myself, will readily induce von to
inform \our Headers, that the Special
Committee, appointed on the 20th of
February l ist, to farther the Subscrip
tion for establishing a Fund os Endow
ment for the London Hospital have,
w:ti heartfelt satisfaction, acknow
ledged the success which has attended
ihi-ir exertions in the prosecution of
the important object entrusted to their
care The Publick has afforded the
most liberal support, and h.is realised
thole expectations so justly entertained
of its benevolence, by the large dona
tions received from several CorporateBo-
dies, and from many charitable iudivi-
<lu i Is.
The benefactions from £. s. d.
firms and individuals,
reported to the dale of
the Anniversary, on
the 8th of April last,
amounted to - - - - 14,850 5 •
Th lie from different cor-
porateBodies, comput
ing ihe value of ,')0t)0!.
three per cent, consols.
soni Lloyd's Cosset-
houle 4,177 10 0
Annual Donations from
ditto 302 0 0
Ditto at the Anniyersary 4,142 3 6
S'nce the Anniversary to
May 1, 1807, - : - 1,722 5 0
25,194 3 6
The sum os 4!42l, a*, Gd. above
staled, as received at the Anniversary,
has been paid to the general account
of the Hospital, and noi to the account
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,
P. Q42. The note here brings 16
Blind a somewhat similar mistake in the
title-page of the late Bishop Smallwell's
Thanksgiving Sermon in l~S4,in which
vie meet with " Thursday, July 30,"
instead of" Thursday, July SQ."
P. 'Q/71. The account here a-rt| in
Ihe -next pa«e will correct !he mistake
suggested in 'p. 1212, col. 2, i. IA, 'of
vour volume for 1805, relative 10 iliis
much to he regretted Lad\, who in
1806, p 985, col. 2, is erroneously
ftvied " the Hon."
'P. 987, col. I, 1. If), " ihe Hon."
should here aH'o be eraled. See p. 2(j4,
col. 2, I: 37, 8,0; where relerences
might ha\ebeen made to 1798. p. 914,
And to 1802, pp. 1003 4. 5.
P. 087, col. 2. 1 [6, 17. Tue cri
tique, here referred to, in p. 944 of vol.
Lull, appears from vour succeeding vo
lume, p. 56.5," col. I. to have been ac-'
knowledged by Dr Horfleyas his own.
The writer of the Letter in p. 856, col.
2, of the firmer volume, relative to
his Charge, was ArchdVacon Tdwnfon;
as he also «as of that relative 10 the
letters to Piiefiley in 178s), p. 884.
P. 987, col. 9,'\. 37, for " nine" we
should read " seventeen," as first primed
in 1784; as the " Remarks," I. 38,
Were in I7S6. The " Short Strictures
on Dr. Priestley," which form No. iii
'of 1 lie " Appendix" to the Seven'leeu
Letters, were cotiithuniaated to Dr.
Horflcy bv Dr. Townfon without his
name' as appears- from Mr. Chnrlon's
■ imprfcilive account of the latter, pro-
fixed td his posthumous volume (in ihe
Evangelical History.
P. 087, col. 2, I. A0, for " dcah"
we should subflklute " tr itdatioo.'
P ()80, col. 1, i. 31. Toe Sermon
for tin- Propagation of lire Gd'pel was
in I79.A, on Maith. mi. 18, l<); and
that for the Charily Children, i. 43, 44,
was in 1 7fj3
IMd. I. Afj. for '• ibid." rerwl " Kii."
Hid. col 2, I. SA. A circular Letter
to the Clergy of 'tv Diocese of Roches
ter is pri'O'ed in 1798, po, 386, 7, 8.
P. 996, 7. Your hiolical corre
spondent will probably receive full sa
tisfaction, if he will have recomfe to the
" Chronological Di deration" prefixed
Jo " The Evaogel cal History and Har
mony, bv Mattrie* Pilkinglon. LI, B.
Loud. 1747- "folio. See also your sub
sequent pp. 1 1 27, 8.
P. 1000, 7. Another biblical cor
respondent m.i\ be referred lo p. 633 of
your volume ior 1803.
f fuly,
The remaining strictures on your last,
volifnie llilift be reieived lor another
month. In jour preletu volume, p.
182, coh I, I. 9 for " Cambridge" we
(litluld (iiblti'ute " Oxford ;" and, in
p. 294, col. 2, I. 3fi, we should read
" Ncwcome," and in 1.34. " Bcau-
clerck." ScRUTAToft.
Mr. URBAN, June 16.
r"|"?HK liarl of Gosford'l cafe and
JL Col. Riddels'i attempt to relieve
are but similar to things that occur
daily with parties of less consideration.
Whilst maladies are conducting us by
How degrees to a jtrave, what stiunld
prevent a look round after any more
effectual means of cure? The phy
sician is urtred lo give an opinion; when
he has (poken honestly, and declared
himself unable to Ihye, other persons
(call ihem quacks, pretenders, or what
you pleale) if they flatter us with far
ther aid, will he listened to. This is
human nature; besides, the most en
lightened rtien know that chance or ex
periments h'Jve brought every remedy
imn tile ; altd the molt extensive medi
cal abilities, respecting ah individual
patient, meet in that Doctor accidentally
veiled in the greatest number os the
same cases.
A labourer last SummerwaS scratched
near the (lo rh'tr hV a dog role thorn,
ca'led in the Country CaiiftrT-fairr.
lv;ccr!ive paui ensued. The (kin fora
ciiisi tviatile distance puckered up In
red lines, as rays from a centre, aud the
man roared for agoitv. Applications
from a surgeon were unavailing: after
hours of distress, an old w oman rubbed
powdered chalk and soft strap into an
ointment, covered the whole inflamed
part with it, ajid iherebj gave the poor
fellow* immediate eale.
The season is al hand when such
lurching briers are 10 do mischief; and
vour irt ioiaiion of ihis remedy may en
title the GeTulfsnan's Magazine to
thanks for some pretty lady's finger
perhaps laved from a surgeon's knife.
But, whilst etery man has an un
doubted right to leek heahh where it
may he found, I would alk, what the
lalked-of fried: eta1 reform shall enforce?
Are the men bred to that profession to
be bound, not to interfere, e. S. an apo«
thecarv with a doctnr, a druggist with
an apothecary, a'rfiah-mMwife with a
surgeon, the la'tcr with any of the
aforesaid worthies'? Antl /et Col. Rid-
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
gle of the South Transept, is the en
trance into a small building of two
stories, which building is attached to
this part of the Transept. The lower
story contains certain Records ; the
upper llorv is the Library belonging to
the Cathedral ; a light, cheerful, com
modious chamber, and fit for such an
occasion ; being ready and at hand for
all those who may occasionally repair
there for study or informal'.>n. At the
North East angle of the North Tran
sept, is the entrance into the avenue
leading to the Chapter-house. This
avenue is rather singular, running
first Northward ; and then, suddenly
turning to the East, forming two lines
at right angles, pastes immediately
into the Chapter-house ; and, what
is deserving of note, this house,
taking an octangular figure, does not
stand parallel with the lines of the ave
nue, or with the main building, but
inclines some degrees to the South.
As no Church business is ever trans
acted in this splendid erection, it is at
present convened into an office for the
Clerk of the Works, wherein 10 make
his working drawings necessary in the
restorations of the Weft front, now
going on. The avenue has its uses
also, being filled with the finished
pieces of new masonry preparatory to
their being wanted in the said restora
tions. In fact, it is a convenient
Mason's shew-room. In the Ailes on
each side of the Choir, are entrances
"(down flights of steps) into a curious
Crypt, consisting of three AiletWeft and
East, and sons Ailes North and South
arid which is immediately under the
Eastern half of the Choir. Against the
West wall of the Ciypt is a reservoir of
■water, and near it a curious lavatory.
This" place serves for the storing up of
liullding articles, remnants of rich 01k
fcreens, &c. In the above North Aile
is a door-way, once entering into a
Chapel on the ex'erior of the Church,
which has been destroyed many years.
In the aliove South Ai'eis adoorway en
tering into the outer, or first Vestry, and
from thence is a pass into the second
Vestry, communicating with the Trea
sury. Thesf ihree rooms are constructed
out of an elevation on the exterior ofthe •
•Chi.rch on this side. In the first Vestry
is a beautiful small Conduit * (in'full re-
• qtiisilidn) ; and it may he observed that
' this room is now, by means of a door-
* Engraved in Antient Architecture,
Cathedral of York. [July,
way broke through the South wall, no
more than a common thoroughfare into
the Church; The inner or second Vestry
is the place wherein the Dignitaries ar*
robed, Chapter business jlone, and
where the sepulchral relirks ofthe an-
tieut Archbishops *, and other curiosi
ties, are deposited. There is a Cham
ber over this Vestry. The pass to the
Treasury, salely vt ailed up, and which
office is now used as a Chapel for early
prayers : an entrance 10 it has been
cut through the wall, at the East side
of the South Transept.
The entrance to the Choir is through
one of the most superb Choir (creens
in the kingdom. The arrangement
of the Choir, as usual, in stalls, arch
bishop's throne, pulpit, open screens
parting off the fide Ailes, &c. The
Feretory (a place for shrines) behind
the High Altar, with the said High
Altar, destroyed some lew years back ;
hence the Choir becomes lengthened,
and has its termination in the fine per
forated screen, which gave the East
end of the Feretory. Eastward of the
Choir is, as usual, Our Lady's Chapel,
which has been thrown open (many
years pull) to the side Ailes; doing
away in some degree the very idea of
this part of ihe general arrangement.
This most transcendent portion of the
fabric is little estimated, otherwise than
us being a proper sort of repository for
timber, masons' templets and moulds,
the Church engine, &c.
The late Lord Burlington, wholived
in the davs of contempt snd aversion
manifested against our Architectural
Antiquities, mull needs, by wav of
giving a lasting proof of his ama/cur
skill in Grecian architecture, defiga
and bring about the execution of a new
Pavement in that style, as it is called,
which extends over the Nave, tran
septs, the choir, its ailes, &c. Our
Lady'sChapel. being deemed, no doubt,
a sjxit insignificant and of no inlerrjl
by the Noble Proseffionalifl, has been
left unsullied, as the old pavement re
mains much in its original state.
When it is considered thatourChurches
were formerly paved and embellished
with small square ornamented tiles,
embossed or indented grave - stones,
rich and delicate brasses, &c. ; surely
we, who profess to admire the works of
our remote Artists, must behold the
Noble Lord's enormous, unmeaning,
* 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.
Mr. "Urban, - June 24.
THE Obituary of your last volume,
p. 1 173, anticipated me in the
account it was mv intention to give of
the late incomparable Baronet of Ar- '
bury ; and the necessity of an imme
diate communication being thus su
perseded, I have neves found leisure
and heart to take np a subject where I '
have much to regret, and every thing to
admire. But one or two mistakes re
quire to be let right; and it would at
the fame lime be injustice to the living
as well as to the deceased,' not to add a
few circumstances more in memory of ,
departed worth
Sir Roger Newdigate was born
May30, 1719, and was, consequently
not' " upwards of 88," but in his 87th
year at the time of his deceale. The
MS account of Oneen Elizabeth's en
tertainment at Harefield, which had
been " unfortunately loll," was acci
dentally found a few years ago hi a
volume of " Strype's Annals ;" to the
amazement and joy of the worthy pro
prietor, who for many years had been
« bunting for it in vain.
A lover of virtu and an excellent
classic from his early days, he made it
his business in both his tours on the
Continent to sketch anfient ruins,
buildings, statues, and landscapes,
chiefs. Inch as are not to be found in
books of Antiquities and Tiavels : and
1 two ample folios, the produce of his in
defatigable and accurate pencil, enrich
the library at Arbury. He also brought
hone some curious antique marbles
and vases of exquisite workmanship,
(some of them erigfa-ved in" Piratiest/'
where his name several limes occurs),
and calls from the rnost admired statues
at Rome and at'Florence, and copies of
many celebrated pain'tinus, particularly
I a. fine one of the famous Transpira
tion of Raphael, which adorns the
saloon at Arbur\ ; a room of admira-
hle proportion aud beauty, with a bow
whitlow and deling in he richest style
of Gothic architecture ; finished a lew
years before his death. He new-cast
and rebuilt the whole house, on the
site of an ansent priorv, in the Gothic
style, in which he modestly pfof'-ss-d
himself mere.lv' au humble im'ta'or;
but the models which he studied were
of prime excellence, the D'vi.tity
School at Ox'ord, Henry VJith.a
Chape', and King'" College Chape! in
Cambridge. In accomplishing, one
Gent. Mag. July; 1*507. ■
633
part of his plans for the enlargement
of the hall, he used to ftv pleasantly,
" he did as impudent'
impudent a thine
thing as ever'
was attempted ;" cutting through the
malsy wall os the original house built
by Sis Edmund Andeifon, to form
three ample Gothic arches, and intro
duce a gjderv, or side aile ; which has
a striking effect in one of the noblest
dining rooms in the kingdom.1 The
library and drawing room, both with
arched ciehngs, are allb justly admired.
The cicluig of 1 lie Library is decorated
with paintings copied from the baths
of Livia.
'• Vipel-iitsemper in ilia demo pa/rius
rxosjct di/ciplma" Among the literary
treasures at Arbury there are letters by
Archbishop Sheldon (of whom there
is an excellent portrait in the izallerv
by Sir Pe.er Lely), bv KiOiop Pell, anil
other eminent divines ants learned men,
which reflect almost equal credit on'
thole who wrote and thole whd received
them. The letters of Bishop Fell, in
particular, who wrote a very fair and
rather large hand, among ihe custom
ary topics of epistolary correspondence,
together with (hong marks of superior
talents, contain such unexpected and
unstudied effusions of a truly Chrillian
heart, that ii is almost impollible to
read them without tears These deli
cate touches cannot be separated from'
the passages where they occur without
losing 1 heir effect. A specimen or two,'
not altogether remote or dslimilar,'
Ittav be ihert. Towards the end of
Chirle^ lid's reign, alluding-. 'to the
dangers which were foteleeti and
dread ,d, he fays, ''.It will become us to
he severe to ourselves, but to none be
sides." And attain, " Let us endeavour'
to make ourf-lv-s capable of Divine
mercy, and thru wefhall surety nave it."
In an earlier le ter, after a visit at Ar
bury, he' says, " he was pleased to have
seen his 'rfend ' happy with his family
about him : B01 this gives me, in. re
gard to mv function, greatest iat'sfae-
tion, seems you constant in the duties
of religion, beginning and ending you*
day in the le; vice of vour *s ker."
The la'e worthy 'B.vot-e: :t':: not
deaendr >le from the Vi,;.!.ihl( exam-le
of it -, venenhU' ant elVr-* ' Co'2!!ar,t
* bir Richard Ncvnwj/ue, <"!...a,
law, who w„s S'r .'!.ogr.j'$ gi g,
father, and died in ID; a,
of
 634 Biographical Memoirs of
of Chilvers Coton on Sunday, " Cha-
pel-i'iuie"'in his own house was puno
tu ill v announced, aud the prayers of
the Chinch read every morning and
evening. He used 10 observe, thai the
infinite honour of heing allowed la ap
pr'oach me Almighty with the appella-
tion of" Father" was not, in general,
snlficieinlv regarded ; and conlitien'ly
with h'S own sense ,os duty, as well as
with- 1 he devout wonder expressed by
an A}iotile on the kindred consideration
of our being " called the ions of
God it was alwavs his practice, in
repea ing the Creed, to incline his
bods, at the name of the Father Al-
niighiy, -without omitting ihe custo-
. marv honour at the name of Jesus
, Christ.
Having twice crossed ihe Alps (one
of die iwo objects, the Ocean being
the other* of which he tiled 10 (ay no
one could have an idea without feeing
them) his curtofitv was excised by
Win aker's account of Hannibal's pat-
sage o\er thole mountains-; but, being
dissatisfied with Come parts of the route
there assigned him, particularly where
the author leads him from Lyons to
Geneva (every liep, as he said, out of
his wav) lie himself drew up a suc
cinct, and, if one unacquainted with
the subject may be allowed to sav so,
a satissa6lorv account of the march of
the Carthaginian ; conducting him from
Lyons up the river 10 SeilTel. thence
to Martigni, and I'q iq the Great St.
■ Bernard, and to Aoufle (Augusta), of
which in his own tour he had many
drawings. But perhaps his own words
on this interesting and controverted
point of antient history will not be un
acceptable.
" Whilaker has indeed afforded much
amusement, and indeed information,
not with lla tiding his insolent and dogma
tical style ; suffering a lively imagination
to lead him astray, and then falling
foul upon Polybius, the fountain-head
os intelligence, who actually lived in
the time, and pallid the Alps on pur
pose 10 examine the course of'Hanni-
bal ; and on Livy, who, more than a
centurv after him, gives little more
than a 1 ran 11a I ion of Polybius, with
the addition of names of people, as
known in the time of Augustus, but
not two hundred years hi fire; and
some idle tales, in his own taste, which
Polybius expressly warns his reiders
* 1 John iii. 1,
Sir Roger Newdigate. [July,
against On both our countryman most,
unmercifully passes his censures, be-
caule liiev do not authorize his wan
derings ; aud no less sreelv upon every
other wnter, aivtent and modern, upon
the subject, who hav£ presumed to dif
fer from him. He enlarges greatly
upon Livy's rock and vinegar, which
arc not found in Polvbius, whole .ac
count of the interruption which Han
nibal found in his descent, is nothing
more than what is frequent in thole
mountains of eternal snow, and is cal
led an Aual'jnche ; when, on the fuell
ing of ihe snows, the whole fide ol a
steep mountain Hides down in a mass
from ihe height of a mile or more,
and half or mote in width, and carries
along with it earth, trees, and the
roads, which are all artificial, cut in
the fides of sleep ascents; leven or eight
feet wide only sometimes, aud with 4
perpendicular precipice on the fide,
where the torrents roar amongst bro
ken" rocks below, often an hundred
\ards or more, along the course of
which alone all the roads in the Alps
are made. Such an one Polvbius de
scribes as having fallen more than once
upon the road that Hannibal was to
pals, which stopped him one day, and
was made passable bv his pioneers for
the army the next morning. To this
Whiiaker has preferred Livy's rock
aud chilm of an immense depth ; and
because this was not wonderful enough,
he has introduced an earthquake,
which nobody ever heard of but him
self: and yet he and 'Livy and all the
rest agree in the lime fixed bv Poly
bins for the remedy, that it cost only a
dav's delay.
"Yet, with all his wild aberrations,
and wild conjectures, Whitaker is
highly to be commended, .far having,
in general, better understood and morfe
closely followed his great original,
than any who have preceded him.
Polybius describes the country as fullv
inhabited, but by barbarian hordes of
marauders, and therefore gives only
one infallible rule of ihe march, that
it was roa^a tov ororajuov, all ihe wav
to ihe very foot of the steep ascent,
which, Whitaker ablv demonstrates,
must have been the great pal's of the
grand St. Bernard. He has also made
a very lucky discovery from Strabo,
which is all his own, and very im
portant, that the river Arve was an-
tientlv called Druenttus. The Druen-
tia of Livy, of which Polybius takes
DO
 l8o?.] Chancellor Bow'es.—H \drophobia. —Mrs. Ayliffe. 635
no notice, has led all the modem
writers ailrny to the great torrent Du
rance, &i. &c. bin if the Ar\ e was his
Druenlia, in which Hannibal loft
mam men, it lies directly in i he road
pointed out by Polybttis, and recon
ciles and confirms ImiiIi accounts
" I tnink, bv v 1 1 i s Ions; dole ol Han
nibal I have had m\ full revenge of \ on
for vour Lectures upon Smyth aud
Noviell ; so adieu. Your afk-ctionate
and obl'i'ed humble servant,
Arbury , Dec. 1 4, 1 80 1 . R. N EW n I GATE . "
(To be concluded in our nexi.)
Mr. Urban, Hurley Jl Jnlu 14.
THE late Lord ('hance'lnf B >wes
was reined to the famib or that
name residing al Btad ey hall, in ihe
county of- Durham, descended 'roni
Sir George Bowes, of Strealham castle
(who bravely w ithstnod the rebellious
Ear s of Westmorland and Northum
berland in the reign of HI zabeth) by
his first wife, the daughter of Mal-
lory, efq.'and consequently very dis
tantly related to the present Earl of
Slralhmore and Kinghorn, \\ ho is ma
ternallv descended from the above-men
tioned Sir George by his second wife.
If any of your Correspondents will
inform me who me the 'descendants of
the celebrated Sir John Marlcy, who
was Governor of Newcastle ttpon-Tyne
in the time of Ihe civil wars, and w is
buried in St. Nicholas Church, ihev will
confer a great savour on
Yours, &c. De Arcubus.
Mr. UrBj>n, Kensington, June 26
GOING through H\de Park on
Wednelilav home to Kensington,
soon after I had entered the P.irk, I ob
served a dog m ar me in a more melan
choly wav than we generally lie that
sprightly creature: vet\ dirty anil black
about the nose and mouth, like a i ig
that had been routing; which caused
me, at a cautious distance, lo ohlerve
him. ' He went down into the narrow
channel on the fide of the foot-path,
and walked down it ier\ fl w, bin did
not stop to drink , just l e got to the
bottom, the 1 1 o'clock relic coming
by, I advise,; the serjeant lo (hoot him,
but he would not ; he uetu:\ shook bis
tail, and would have gone wuh them ;
but on the serjeant putting him back,
he went down from the new bridje all
along the boards thai inclose thuwaer,
but never drank. He remained near
the road where the Troopers were
airing their horses, in the fame stupid
state, where 1 observed him hum ihe
bridge, in company with an intelligent
young gentleman, who coincided in.
in v opinion, and went and railed ihe
hue and ert, A mud dog ! A mud dog t
He immediately had numerous pur
suer-, but lie made a gond run os it;
till a soldier with a long pole, ar last
came up with hnn, and, on giving him
two blows therewith, he howled ter
ribly, but the ibiid blow did for him.
During his ptrlccu'ion he never barked.
Having learned mv ideas on the
nature oi the Hydrophobia from some
of Mr. Urb n's volumes, 1 have but
jud found them as quoted from Hugo
Mevnill. esq of R< ai Hey, late master
of th< buck-pounds 10 his M'jesty.
Though ah mv rational expectations
are still only in the land of promise,
noi hing realised ; yet 1 am always happy
when I can do un King and Country
service. Yours, &c. T. Osb'irnk.
Mr Urban, July 15.
PERMIT me to rectifv a mistake m
vour account of mariiages foi June
last. " You fay, " Al Si. George's Ha
nover-square, by special licence, ihe
Rev G Sav age, F. A S. vicar of King-
ston-cum-Richmond, and rector of St.
Mary A dermarv, London, lo Mils At-
liffe." It should be Mrs. AyI sse. relict
of the )aie much-'el'pected Thomas
Ayliffe, esq. ol Surhiion Lodge, near
Kingston, Surrey, daughter of the iate
John Hill, L L. D. tector of Thorpe
Malveibr and Ke'marfli in the county
of Northampton, and prebend of Wind
sor ; and niece of George Hill, elq. his
Majesty's premier serjeant at laiv; a
lady ofa very ci 'tiliderable fortune, mild
manners, and benevolent disposition.
Yuh may rely upon the accuracy of
this st lenient
Your Publication seems to me to be
conducted with considerable ability ; to
contain verv excellent remarks on the
p sting occurrence- of 'the dav, and to
b'~ the very belt veh'cse hf conveying
cenfoies on muses in our Church esta-
bbfh nen , or th'' manner of perform
ing its I,ic laments and ceremonies, &c.
I was late'v C'lled niiou to,vti< a p trifb-
chiirch toiva ds the North-VWli end of
the town I' is a very small edifice*
nincli fuia"er than Chaoe's ot ease ge
nerally ave. I believe I ni.iv I".y it is
the smallest place os worship, att died
to the Chinch of Eiu and, in the Me
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.
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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.
 Review of New Publitations. 64X
•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 ?
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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
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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
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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
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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«
tHeMVferefentancjYnd'fu'bmissinn. Many
children are' irritated even to desperation,
by being punished for a"n improper length
of time : despairing of restoration to fa
vour, they become the most obstinate re
bels ! As soon as an offending child hum
bles himfelfand becomes penitent, a Chris
tian parent is bound by his religion, as
well as reason, to forgive, and restore his
child to favour again. /Ynd this ought
always to be done in* "a way that is calcu
lated to convince the child that the parent
feels a far -greater pleasure in forgiving
than in punishing. 4. .Never withhold
from your children, the encouragement
they deserve. This greatly tends to dis
courage and provoke them.' ' The appro
bation of a parent is, in the estimation of
a child, a very great reward. It encoura
ges them to obey your command*, and to
endeavour to pleale you/ ' The hope of
reward sweetens labour,' and is one of
the principal springs of exertion. This
hope a wife parent will nqt disappoint,
because that would tend-to destroy it : he
will rather use every lawful and prudent
means to keep it alive. At the fame time
your children must be taught that it* ts
their «!uty to obey you «•/(tour any reward ;
and that the rewards youi 'bestow' upon
them are so many proofs of "your affection
and favour. 5. Be not difficult to' be
pleased. This is a great fault in a'parent,
and has the most unhappy influence upon
the mind of a child. If your children
endeavour to please you, and you are sa
tisfied they intended it, you ought, to be
pleased ; yea, even though you disap
prove of the action itself! You may easily
shew that you are pleased with the inten
tion, though you discountenance the ac
tion. If children find, after several at
tempts to please their parents, that they
are not pleased, they will be discouraged,
and not likely soon to attempt it 'again :
but if they hnd their attempts.succ'efsful,
they will lie encouraged to persevere.". . . .
" A general acquaintance with the word
of Truth is of the utmost importance.
Even thole parts_ of Scripture generally
styled Historical, contain 1'uch a rich va»-
riety of important narratives delivered in
a style Ib simple, ai.J yet so striking, that
they can hardly sail to. interest a young
mind ; and the vices of. men are lo re
corded as to make them appear mure odi
ous, when viewed in connexion with their
conl'equeuces and punishments, by far,
than they would have appeared, had the
inspired w riters reasoned upon, their ifn-
-ptopriety. Domestic scenes :ire here repre
sented in a style limply elegant, and truly
affecting. .The young reader will find
pleasure in viewing them* arid pleasure
will lead to profit. I cannot help lament
ing that the riling "generation are not
6$t &
made more acqaaintcd with' flie BiBWi'^
1 lie practice, that too much prevail*,' bf*'
almost discarding the Bible in some semi-' *
naries of learning, is insufferable ! Hu- '
man compositions, however, good, bear '
vety little proportion in real value to the I
Bibk'.- I am persuaded that incalculable ;
advantages would arise from making. chil-:t
dren well acquainted with the Scriptures •
while young. Infidels would not rind i.t ,
so easy a. matter to corrupt
curjupt the
sue minds
minus of
ot
our youth, h, if they were well acquainted. ,
with the word of <Ood ; Injtj haying a verK j
quaintance with it, their etteenY
sligfit acq'uainta
and veneration for it is small ; and* a few"
plausible objections' railed by a witty'infi-
dcl will shake thetr faith : and finding thfe*v
Bible unfavourable to their sinful propen- '
sities, they are soon brought to disbelieve;,
or at least disregard it entirely." - '< »
Mr.Vipond's Address both to Parents
and Children injudicious j and to those.,
who alledge that " ih.-y have delayed
too long—that iheif authority overrheir1
children is loll," lie properly replies, '
" This indeed furnishes matter of- the ,
_ deepest regret and sorrow ; but still fhere.
is ht'pe. The bitter consequences of your
past neglect will follow you, and"*('tis^
probable) embitter all ybuT future' Hays ^
but still something may be dbrie: Bf'rea-'
soning, by ihtreating, rfnd by' mildly'&nd
cautfouAy endeavouring* to exert your au-*
thority, you may yet recover your jhftu- '
ence (at least. in part't, and' preserve your"
families from utter ruin, I f: you cannot i
do ail you would, -neglect not to dA<all>>'
you caii., ; and lament the past folly by'
which .you are now fettered. Lose 'not a
single hour, bat in:nicdi»!fjy enter upon,
your duty in the njnne.ol the Lord.". . ,
,g6. Case os the Bjslmp is Oxford" 'a$i'-n£{
she Parish os Ptddington, in a Cuusc vs
Simony; n traded sftin East's Reports
. for ' Easter' and Trinity Terittt, "•sob,
li'ith an dpyentHx,- idniniifing the Kn-
dowmentsoj Ambrosdcn and Plddirigtorf?
A CHAI'KL i:i .the tnwnlhip of
Piddingtn'n was endowed, in I428, by
a deed execu'ed by the ihetl Inipropria-
tor ofthe reclorv, the then Vicir, and
the Inhabitant* of • the township, and
confirmed by the Diorelim; whereby,-*
in consideration of a yearly payment to'
she Vicar, it was provided, that thei
Cunte of the laid chapel should re-,
reive all the tithes doc to the Visas
from the slid Iriiiatiitatoh). and' should
be appoiii'ed bv them ; under which
deed they continued iO' exercise ilie
power of appoininienl and prcfenia-
ijnn. In 1797 C767). «» Act palled
ijjr itjcloling upen lands in the town-:
ship ;
652 \ Revfew of New Pub'ficd'iom; ', with', -<

ſhip; in which' it is u'cit'etl 'm if tuntitv mntiifirence tiſ-the-lmd of the place 2

tentſ tlnuht whethrrtlte (Juuite were " For who yon ſmilinghamlet can ſu'vcy-'zſſ
entitled to the' ſill-ill tit'ltt-p,-0t u modtis Thu iiſing farm, now reſcued from decny;
it' lien 'of tithesz- Ille*tielbl'lptlſ>tt 'if The churchway pot/t repuir'd; the warm-*
which ia,lcft untoucheci by the Act. -rlr'1d anr; [ell-or]
In istll, upon t' \'dCiltt('_\', the lltlttt' T/rt' garthn ſent-r, that ſkirts the cottage;
hittxms appoint and. pit-ſent a Citron', Who can unmov'd ſun/ty, what breaſt ſo
upon an agreement llg'tfll by him and d-s-n'k ' - ' [ſp'a'l' P
the principal [Itl'i'littttnisi win-rein But at th'c ſight would catch a\km<ln*d
they 'late that he is appniiitrtl tn the Tili i'otts'd, and burſting into kindled fire,
enracy, &e. and to Hu- mmey payment It glows, it burns lo be what it admires;"
aſ 40l. 85. ed. mutuallyv paqſtl'fl' out-of Yet' he is leſt nnivto bewail the ungrnte
tb" lands "nd lier/dilamt'nlx i" Pidding ſnl treatment of the owner 'iſ Dayleſl
tuſi", in right of the titid vuncy fill-fit' find by his ungratrful Country.
ther with ſun-[ice ſ.*t'S'. and ul/ all-r'
prrzfils. privilegrx, and appointment/s, In 93. Bricf Co'zſifidctaliom on 'lrr Faildrevſ
'tltefitmc belonging, and 'if 'fig/il puyu the Catholic Bill, qml its I-nto'iſytmty
bly; that the lnhubitanis, cunlitlenug with the C'myhluti'm.
the ſum mit ſitfftcient ſnr theyr-up" 'l'll E Anthm niſi this little pan-phiet
ſupport. of 'he Cuiatc, lml t'ultmlu'i/y has happily adducul ſome powerful 'dYs
agreed with him to pay a further an gutnents,cwltich, a few veam ſince,
nuul vſum oſ Lgi. its. lOtl. ; wtii a were tail-il hv Sir lit-Let 'Nh-idign'e,
pmnifi), that *' ry. ſhall an', ltt any ic agnittii grunting: the p'ayer uſ ll't' fa
'fpect, n'ttr the" inmiev payment uſ nmm l'eti'inn from the Feathers Ta-'
40', 85. Bil. whet-(with I/trfliid lands u-rn Cnmtt'ittue. _ '
'ii-t', 'and have Men lime imnwmm-ial, "This llouſe cannot give the leafi
charged
Held thatintlti<
right 'if 'he lin'd
agrecteuiczit, dun-rit;
Cn't'n'tl into enuntcnmcc to this petition, if thqy do
not intend to violate all law and jutliccr:
Wot-th: )Uſ]l0ſtf (iſ retlruiuing the then 'ſhe King has more than once not only
Curate horn aili-y'ing his claims l" the dgtlurcd, but ſit-or" in a ſolemn, public,
finall tilltt's by_.<lne\cmnliz uſ law, and and dcjlibeſatc manner, to prett'n'e our
flattiiſliing midcncdiigtiinil his ſhet-eſ ſettlement in Chuvch and State inviolate.
fora, was Simoniacal, and the purſe" By the Corcuntion Oath he is enjoined ton
ttt-iim itl'errnn made void', and the maintain, to the utmoſt (it his yoWer, thy
light nt' piell-utmiuu having tlieicupmt Laws 0" God, the true proſcfiiou of thi;
(lbvnlvetl to 'he Crown, bt' inn. 3' Gbſpcl, ztnd the Proteſiatit ercirmed Rez.
Eliz. C.-(i,_ l'. 5, whore p'ei'entee had ligir-n cſtuhtiſhedþy Law. Can he abjurc
than: words, for they are the expreſſions
heet'r-licet'tflwlzhjr the' Ortlinzirv. A imm
'htmtts tn vh'eJOt-'dina'y tn lit-enſi- unn of 'the oath? Can he, in compliance
wtth any miſtaken notitms of his ſubjects,
tl'rr (Tin-un', lithikqi't-tttlv nppr i'titcd
tetract and annul his nwn 'act and deed,
and preſented hy the ltilialiizmits. \\'lV' cnntirmvd by 'he moſt ſacred and inviola
had given notice 'iſ having' withdraw" his of all religious ceremonies? You
their further nnuiii'atiun and int-ſent COULD so-r affrunt him by ſuch a prepo
men', and C-lllſ'elt'll 'lie-agrccnieii', was _ ſititm; and iſ you went: so lLt. an.
denied. and tltg rule was dil'clmrgt'd vtsnn, in: WOVLD CLNTAXNLY THROW
itxith cufls." 'its Clian ls-ro THE SEA, sounen
runs un WDULI) tz': GU'LTY or so oisz
97.- Davlesſord. A Form. HONOUKABLE A BNBACU or ttts WORD."
Dediratrd 'a Mr. Huſiings. , 'ſhe 'Writer procee-ds to ſlatr, that
> THIS Put-'ill is theiii'uenſ ſmncjth " The'LegiſIaturc itſelf, in the ple-ni
venile. Gt-ninst triiling with c-vrn' part tude aſ its power, is not competent to
'tſa ſcene once frequented by the l-'pct change that 'Co'tfiitution of which it 'is
the ifiiarclian and truflceſi, and by which
who unw i
t _ U pit-us'd returns, itſelf exiſts. 'The great ſ'hzimpinn of Li
' Vi'hile anxinnc m'ntnne > berty, Jnritic. the celebrated Junius, may'
The 'lup'fc of years irrctocnhly flown." ._ ſpns thus upon the caſq: 'l'ltc powcrofthe
Tin-ſi-iils,
iupgrlrmxn. theſe Inuns, King; Lmeifl and Cuminnns, is not an ar
ctmic the wnviug tile, thethat [Hi-z'
briery bitritiy power: they are the TRUSTLF-Sſſ,
not the Þwut its, of the State; they can
cq'il'c, \ -\ .
Hunw dear to 'Meditat'inn is thev ſcene." * npt.A_t.tizxn'n. they cannot was-na."
we are 'ii-ire- xt'pld. "ſhe Mmt nt' llot? On the late revy important queſtion,
is poorly imitatgd in' celebratittg"tlte th; writer obſerves, and; _ ,
ring
l
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"bearing b gown only ugreeably t' ple. hither-to but little iſfl-lll adkened'"
the laws, his Majeſty, by an appeLl to the to by writer' on the elements oſ out
ſenſe of his ſuhjekur'in this matter, has i-ernacular tongue. The mod'e of ſtar'
'one that for which-'ill of them who love ting the two ſhumls of th nll'o, though
Itligian and the Conſtitutiott muſt re oſ Saxon origin. is lmth ingenious and
'ere him for ever." , uſeſnl. On the whole, iſ the rules eſ-"
tahliſhed have been faithfully applied,'
99. A Grand! Prtmpuming Dictiouary; and from our numerous cniual refer'
ſhewing, a! one Fiew, the Orrhography, ences we h've no reaſon to doubt it,
Explanation, Arrenlualz'on, and Prnnun this little Dict'mnary 'my be juſtly 'of
dnlion, qf qll 'he pery/t and my: ap commendetl'to all perſon' who are
proved Tr-rms in th' Engliſh Lru'guagr, liſſrnns of acqniriug a knowledge oſ (le
the
Frmrrb'ng to the pnſiszractim 'iſ the
'mfl eminent La'icagrapltefi' mid Ora principles neceſſary to form a carrect_
Þrs. By William Enheld, M. 41. llu and approved pronunciauon. . 7
tl'o' of " Elemcnls tzſ Natural Philu 0 - - t
phy," 100. Theory and Practice, 'Ladda'ed in A
THE &c. &a.
advantagv-s oſ - a ſſuo'nd l'rn Scrit-s uzſ Dialag'm', ji-Lected from the'
nnuuciug Diciimiuryv are' lii Well rine 'miſt approved I' 'run-1, and preceded by
appropriate Rules for flies/cing and wri
derllnod, that it in needleſs to enlarge ling French. By George Saulez, Draw-
'on that part Oſ the ſubject. Among
the various pnblkſſalions niſithis nature, - ing and French Maſter, Fernhamfiurrey.
" THE Compiler having, in the courſe
from the'expenlire etlitrnns uſ Sheri-þ of, his practice, felt the frequent inconVe-_
dun. Waiker, and others, tu the. com-_v niences ztriting from the want of diſcern-e
prehenſiw and minute ctliiiqns for the ment: in ſome 'hllilſflk and of attention
uſe of iſichonls. Mr. Enheld's pczfonn
in others, hopes that r is little work will,
once may claim a reſirectuble rank. His in ſome meaſure, remove thoſe incur-wed
modeſt Preſuce has nnt eſcaped- our un nicnces. He flatters himſelf that the
liee. His rules for pronunncing I-he Rules for writing." French which he has
etinſnnants. from Dr.'Crmnhie's Ely annexed, will both facilitate and accele-
molngy uſ the Engliſh language, are rate the progreſs of thoſe ſtudent; who
juriſſminus and n-itural, as muſt he mn ma'y give themſelves time to conſider them
niſrſt. by -a faithful application *ol' the with attention, and thereby unite theory
fen-ral poſitions of the organs of with practice*;-his n'irpni'e being merely
ſpeech. The i'clteme oſ the vowels, to obviate difficulti ' natural to children,
by conveying to them a general idea o!
which runs acroſs the trip of the zinges,
the language, in a plain, theoretical, and
it muli be obſerved, is not a new plan.
But the ſhort antl (yinl'cnre linmtl' itſ practical mode." 3 '
This little work ſeem' well caleolaſi
the five vmrclu, which formsa FGURTXL
vdiſtinction i" their pronnnciatinn, we ted for the purlmiZzs [minſed out by its
may conſider as r' wry ſtriking inn ingenious Author; andwill doubtleſs
prnwmer't. and entitled lo peculiar have il' proper circulation.
miſe. This nniſicure ſound. oſ which
101. Repbrt of the Collrge aſ Pkufidw,
lie gives liiecimens, in all the vowels, Juſt Laiz! (aſſure Parliament. 4
is [Io nearly, iſ not entire-ly, alike in
the-m all, 'haugh ii' greatly differingin BY this important Report it-ap as,
their ruihouruphy, as in rxhibil a new that the (Joltege is decictcdly in limit-r
phmnnmennn in orthany; and it may of the efficacy of Vaccinatinn, and
ther-cline he nnderiiuud to conilitnte Ideem it their duty to recommend it'
new claſſification of a general [zrincip practice. lt begins by Having. that the
(iUllt'fle has ap lied, not only to all the
i' The Northern Engliſh cmmties, and Metlical and Lugical Colleges in the
the South-syſtem inhabitanN of Scot Unite'l Kingdom. but to all 'he Smiti
land, are particularly to be noted for this lies; beſides which, it imſſ'itetl indivi
pbſcurc ſoundj-p, g. the a in ſluggu'rd, dua'ls to contribute all neceſſary infam
the e in [dium-I', , We may allo ub tnatiun. Upon the'imnienſe rn'ui's of
ſerve, for inſtance. it; the word Prq/lmt, vevidence thu' obtained, the Called;"
that the e is ſounde-i ſhort and acute in has made its Repntt, of which the ſol
the Engliſh Southern counrius; though
by the people of Langaſhire, fand graven lnwing is an Abiiract: .
in Yorkſhire, and the'more Northern T' Vaccination appears to be in getten
parts of the kingdom, it is grinflantiy perfectly ſafe; the inſtances to the can
pronounced Prfifiun, as the p in Mr, trary being extremely rare. - The diſeaſe
qcited by it is flight, and ſeldom pre
'dight-Et, &c. vcnts
 Review ofJN}-u», £iibiiattrons%\
5 thtosc un(fer'.'it''sitfn1 *!lW*'ris she*/ !
osdinaiy nccupuiiani. ' It has been com* '
piunicat-d w::h safety to-pregnant women,
10 children during dentition, and in their
earlieit infancy, mail which • respects-' it
possesses material advantage over lnotula- .
tion for the ^rnall Po*, winch, though
productive of a disease generally mild, yet
ning symptoms, „
ciirity derived from Vaccina
tion a,gaittst the' Small Pox, if not aBso-
lately 'perfect, is as nearly to as perhaps
can be expi^teV] from' any. human disco
very ; for amongst several hundred thou
sand cases, with the results of which the
College have been made acquainted, the
number of alledged failures has been sur
prisingly small, so much so, as to form
certainly no reasonable objection to the
general adoption of Vaccination ; for it
appears that ffierfeta're not nearly so many
failures,, id a given number of vaccinated
persons, as: there arc deaths in an equal"
number of . per-'onj inoculated for the
Small Pox. Nothing can more clearly
rlemonftrate the superiority of Vaccination
•nerrthe Inoculation of the Small Pox,
tfcin this consideration ; and ii is a most
important, fact, which has been confirm
ed indite courfe'of this enquiry, that in
almost evejy case where the Small Pox
iias succeeded Vaccination, whether by
Inoculation or by casual infection, the
disease has .varied much from its ordinary
eourse ; it has neitl'*-. been the fame in
Ibe violence, nor in the duration of its
symptoms, but has, with/very few excep
tions, been remarkably mild, as if the
Small Ppx;had been deprived,, by the 'pre
vious Vacijir(p,piscase, of alV.its uluai ina-
j'anjty. The testimonies before the Col
lege of Physicians are very.dccisicd in. de
claring that Vaccination doe;) less mischief
to the constitution, and less, frequently
(rives rife so other -diseases,, than the Small
Pox, either natural or inoculated.'
•"""'The College feel 'themselves called
t'poi. to state this strongly, bec'ause it has
been vbjected to Vaccination, "that.it pro-
thices -nawprtintiual'dYors:' aitd monstrous
diseases. Of sue*, asfewiuns no proofs
kav« been/produced, and,, after diligent
inquiry,,.<be College believe them,to haVe
been ,-cii.hir, the i,%vfnuoiis..of dtlis»i.n^,
or thc,mjslakps. o/jisrrjpr.ani men. In these
rejects, 'thcn,;,in ;ifs rr)irdncls, its safety,
ble ; it spreads no infection, rida caii be
' OdmmunicaEefl* ofily "by IhoeuiStinri/ . It
is* from a consideration of the pernicious
effects of (lie Sm.-rfltox,- that ttle real va
lue of Vaeciimtien >s 4*.<-b*'cftiiilatcfl. -Tile
NsftitraT Srtfa11 r*Sx Befr! rapp-oftd'fo
destroy a sixth part of all wliom it attacks ; '
ari*l'that even by Inoculation, wticre that*
has been gerieral in 'parishes arid'tbwhSjf
about ohe in 300 has usually died. It i?
not sufficiently known, or not' adverted to?
that nearly one-tenth,
than one-tenth, some mortality
of the'whofe years more
London is 1 occasioned by the Small Pox-;
arid however beneficial' the fnoculatron of
the Small Pox may have been to individu
als, it appears to have kept up a constant
source of contagion, which has been the
means of increasing the number of deaths
by what is called the Natural Disease. 'It
cannot be doubted that -this mischief has
been extended by the inconsiderate man
ner in which great numbers of persons,
even since the introduction of Vaccina
tion, are still every year inoculated with
the Small Pox, and .afterwards required
to attend two of three times a week at the
placesof Inoculation,, through every stags,
of their illness. From this then the
Publick are to expect the great and uncon-'
troverted superiority of Vaccination, that1
it communicates no casual infection, and,
wfille it is a protection to the individual,
it is not prejudicial to the Publick.
' "ft' has been already mentioned that
the evidence is not universally favourable,
although it is in truth nearly so ; for there
are a few who entertain sentiments differ-,
ing widely. from those of the great majo
rity of 'their brethren. The College,
therefore, deemed it their duty, in a par
ticular -rnarmer to enquire upon what
grounds and evidence the oppolers of Vac
cination rested their opinions. From per
sonal examination, as well as from their
writings, they endeavoured to learn the
full extent and weight of their objections.
They found1 them without experience in
Vaccination, supporting their opinions by
hearsay information and - hypothetical
reasoning' ; and, upon investigating the
facts which they advanced, they found
them 'to be either misapprehended or mis
represented, or 'that they fell under the
description of cafes of imperfect Small
Post before noticed, and which the Col
lege have endeavoured fairly to appreciate.
" The practice of Vaccination is but of
eight years standing ; and its promoters, as
well as opponer-ts, must keep in mind,
that a period so short is too limited to as
certain every point, or to bring the art to
that perfection of which it maybe capable'.
The truth of this will readily be admitted
by thole acquainted' with the history of
Inoculation for the Small Pox.
■ ■"■ 1 hough the 'College of Physicians
have confined themselves In estimating the
evidence to luch facts as have occurred u\
«hrtr 'own Country,' because trie accuracy
of them could Beit be aseerta'metlj-.they
. ' cannot
180.7.] Revitw.—J7^^s/j,-^Ihdex,t«Ulc5t<iHtiis. , 65$
eanijot be insensible |» jhe confirmation mankind sti«>ratiVerlsjfbA>Ja*le to- put an
these receive from the reports of -the sue-* end toUJfctayagas axJea(l/Ufl*dlIt3' the
<essful introduction -of Vaccinations, not existence,,ofckliu SrroHTPa*.V sfA\.i\l
only in every part of Eurorje,.,but.vhrough- " Lwias tU**, President.
out the vast. ContinenMofjfUiaand America. « Bj^yal Cojlf^ of,^fifliar,?,uaHr-» 1
" With respect to the cbarga against ..»>oth XpriT,, rso7. v/iJ Lll § . ,
Vaccination of pr»du«ing'various ntM'tiU? SUV & mmMm^-^tr :
eases of frightful, and monstrous appcaiS t An A |)|ieml'x b.l|.>u>, ruiiiainuu
ance—representations of sorne.vof these .the communications of- -the" severs
h*ve been exhibited, in prints in a way W a>JW«s':tu rife rjofwd -K^rtgiWiirtr-a*
alarm the .feedings of parents, ai><lr><0 Mi- of which are favDaftihte is>th«*'i*aclt**
fuse dread and apprehension »itito the
minds of the uninformed. Publication's rt *Ni»: . .yinVfau ^r\>i-.*tj'^tiir'
: ».., »i fpw m**-&p$, *>,J *f*
with such reufesBiitations have bein «*ide»
Jy circulated ; and though they originate We rejoice see that the josmtle
<ither.in gross ignorance, or wilful misre VWe'mea'ti' the j>ii[?r()»icSiiiisilj o'f ttie
presentation, yet they have lessened the late Atliefinan W^lUf If fujl^i ty
«onfidenee of many, particularly of the tils" worths45 Na rtiefrjtte' atid'^Retatioii. .
lower claries, in Vaccination. NcVperma- The Plate ivhjcji he.,is aliout, tQ.-.pui>-
nent effects, however, in retarding the lisn, of.the last aiomefjtSjOf^he Hero qf
progress of Vaccination, need be appre Trafalgar (if the Ei>g/j)f.jiig keeps pace-
hended from such causes, for, as soon as Vyit.il the .pencil of Ai r. I -Va i s ) « i 1 llW*-*
the Publick shall view them coolly and less much effect, a,rtj .irrip/oprjatevctTU
without surprise^, they, will excite con cum-stances. The figures ;it%nM«A group*
tempt, and not fear. ' ' '.V
. " Were encouragement given to Vacci ed ;; the character! a4nmably conirast-
nation; by offering it to the poorer 'c/afies. ed and the interest : of the (ceiw fs
happijv maintained bv a mvri'judicious .
^vithout expenee, there is little doubt but and nauiral ast'ociSlinfi oT'all the parts;
it would in time supersede the Inoculation
for the Small Pox, and thereby various Mr. Bowyer, of Pall MaH, has Ifl'firti
sources of variolous infection would be cut Proposals lor a splendid work, 'which i*
off ; but, till Vaccination becomes general, intended to commeirio'raie the fiuaJ trl—
it will be impossible to prevent -the con
stant recurrence of the Natural Small Pox
by means of these whq are inoculated,
except it should appear proper to the Le the Abolition nfjlie- Slave Trades" awl'
gislature to adopt, in its wisdom, some will contain tlyee original Poems b/
measure by which those who still>, from "threeGoritleiuen who have alreadv given
tenor or prejudice, prefer the Small Pox ilisting nguislied -oroofs oifdirelr poetical i&
to the Vaccine disease, may, in thus dpnv lents,s, besides Extracts- from: some of thd
suiting the gratification of their own feel most eminent AuthoVs. These' will lie
ings, be prevented from doing mischief to embellished" by nearly tweniy Plates, <i¥.
their neighbours.
. " From the whole of the above consi eluding Vignettes, by the fifil'-En'gr*-
derations, the College of Physicians feel vers ; and the Historical SiiTyecXS wilt"
it their duty strongly to recommend the
practice of Vaccination. They have been
ied to this conclusion by no preconceived
Opinion, but by the most unbiassed judg voliilnc,. iri, la^qnarlsi. ,:' . , , .
ment, formed from an irresistible, weighs
of evidence which has .been laid before ■A .;' iN'Pfix indicXtp'riu^VJT
them. Fof when the number, the rey *. A CortittSPONUEMT wisjjies }p be' iq*
fpectability, the disimerefied,ncss, and formed to wixbm the daughter andjhairisf
the extensive experience of its| advocates, of C^EMtNT Kemp, of thvVait^all, ir»
is compared with* the feeble and irhpei- . );he ':c<)u.nty, pj. N,orfplk, , w'ai, mats^edy
feEt te"sti.mdnies" of its few/Op posers ; 'apd jvhich BlorntficUi (b^t- witho^tVnarain^
when it is considered" that many^'vvhd the person") tells us thejwas before Mk)3t-
were -once" adVersi 'to 'Vaccination," hase ' Viator asks for tome account,of Cat,
beet) convinced' by.'fartber'trijils,. iilrtj afe a satirical Dutch Poet, as- appears Ijy. tbo
fi'crw fa' .be -rankedCirJtfbngfc its waYfrfest Ptales in hi, Vvforks?' the language of.whif^
lu ^porters
ed as firmly^ the truthnatseems
as the1 3r> oftb such'
be.cftaljliih* our Correspondent does.not understand.—;
aJ 'qjef- The Monumental Verses lent by Viator ay
tion admits 'f so-thir tiiS College of Phyli- To trite as not to.be wf>rt,h publishing-. ,y,
cTarij. concejve.tbat the P'uTjIick rriny 'rea .' Dr. I.cttsom's XLIsld. Letter in our
sonably Joot forward with soinq.degree as • nexti^-with Tl. R. Barxbs ; •&<;.' &c. &c.
Hope.-*) lift tune vifi&u all opposition shall . the.jmgudc,- 1 hnpojlitioj) tigneJ to thp
coal's, -al»ailtln:'-g4. narrfc o'f'Lady tie'ay IS. will iiot take.
 656 Selefl Mulern Poetry, for July, 1&57.
AN APPEAL TO Perish the thought !—s»r Kiitans will be
THE SPIRIT Ot' TBK LAND. , free, [Seat
Written bji Wm. Tiio. Fitzoshald,. Strong in ihemfclves, ant! masters of 'bo
Ms IV, JS*>. They love the freedom of iheir native foil.
rpHOUGJl Rwffia yield the well-disp*- Which ioil*f dignifies command, and sweetens
[nareh's cause,
J_ ted Day, [sway, With Loyal aeal they'll fight their Mc-
And Prussia links beneath the Tyrant's
" UmAlasd (hall stand, amidst each ruin'4 ProtecX laws their liberties, maintain their
t
State—
If true hetfcff-—impregnable and great ! Dear are ihefe objects in eaeh Patriot's eye.
.Oh! let the Smr.it or Tin Isue appear,; For' these they'll conquer, ot for these
Nerve cv'ry arm, and sharpen ev'ry spear ! And* if they'll die I
Let Civit Feuds—disgraceful Discord I— Englandtheshall Tyrant dares to pass the waves
prove his everlasting grave t-
end, Forat the Favourite Hero's lauret'd shrine.
And ev'ry Briton prove Britannia's friend! They sweat, by all things human and
Hibernia's Sons asc eager to advance, divine !
To hurl juft vengeance on perfidious By all that bad men fear, and good adore ! '
France ;
The Sister files orte common cause unites, No foreign Tyrant stiall pollute their
The fame their interests, and the fame Englandshore- alone will England's cause main
their rights ! [view, tain, [vain!
-With kindred Hearts and Glory in their And prove that Ndlsoh has not died in
They'll prove the Union of the Kingdoms
true : ' our shore, VALTXH A LL.
Whate'er is wrong, when Peace shall bless The saUtHrinf Sttmai, hj Mt. Bloom-
Wisdom may mend, or Patriot Zeal re f iclu, give a lively picture ofthisflam ■'
store j [fels'd, MEN bow'dwith theiroutlandishhat<.
For jarring parties have this truth con- With corners so fearfully keen !
THAT KNCHNB IS ABOVt ALL NATIONS Fair maids who at home in their haste,
:' ■ bless'ji! [Throne—
"Where can Man call—but near ihe British Swept Had left all clothing else but a train
His House his Castle, and his Mind hisownr' the floor clean as slowly they pae'd,
Let us survey theprostrate Countries round, - And itthen—walked
again.
round, and swept
Where else can Freedom's sacred Tree be
found? [fought in vain ! 7he music was truly enchanting !
Trance, drench'd in blood, its shadow Right glad was I when I came near it;-
Holland's tnilav'd, and trebly shackled But in Fashion I found 1 was wanting \-r~
Spain; , ' ' 'Twes the Fashion to walk and not
The gallant Swiss for ever must deplore hear it !
Thole smiling scenes that bless'd their A fine youth, as Beauty beset him,
vales before ; ' [hour, Look'd smilingly round on the train ; '
While poor Gerniania, France, in faial " The King's Nephew," they cried ac
Betray'd by Friendship, or opprels'd by they met him ;
Pow'r! [stand- Then we went round and met him again.
United liritens 'gainst the World, may But now ettme a scene u-ortli the shewing,
' l is only Faction cau subdue this Land : The fire-works ! 'midst laughs and hu»-
There, in the thoughts of all the good zas,
and wise) [ger lies. With explesions the sky was all glowing.
Our Foe's sole Hope, and all our Dem- Then down fireana'd a million of stars.
Let Party Spirit then no more controu! With a rush tile hright rockets iseended,-
The noblest energies that warm the Saul ; Wheels spurted Mite sires like a rain ;
To Public Love let Private Interests yield, We tuni"d with regret when 'twas cndetl.
And ltich and Poor be ready for the Then—star'd ut each other again.
field! [there. *T's not wisdom to love without reason.
In strong fraternal Bands, when maifhard Or to censure without knowing whyr-^
Carl any M;tn ofEngland's Cause despair f I had witnessed no crime nor no ueaioft,
If lector there be, let Fear his tongue with" " O life, 'tis thy picture," laid 1.
<' 'hold, Tis juft thus we saunter along,
'Nor damp the Patriot Ardour of the Bvldj Months and years bring their pleasures
Let him rerru-mber to hi* lasting ftiame, or pain. ;
"The hour of Danger is the hour offame ; We sigh 'nndft the right and the wrong?
Our antient frreborn spirit is hot broke— And then see g» round them again.
Britons will never Wear she Gallic) like I
Like abject Slaves endure the Tyrant'* *This line, and the fix concluding lines,
-rod, the Author takes from two of hii AdW
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CONSECRATION, " PART
f4 Poem. In Two Parts. On the Opening WHEN ple Israel's King; his far-fam'd Tem
and Consecration of 4 -/Chapel, in the ' With all itsrear'd, ' .. -'■ ', \
' Parish, osSuitdridge in Kent, oaVrjday, The holy Atk,splgiididdecpration-s wrought,
within its sacred place,
. June 12, 1807. Erecled and endeared Under the golden Cherubim was
■ hy the Right Rev. BeilbyPohteus, DD.
jLord.Bi/hop of London. ' \, ■' ^brought;
Introduction. ; 1 The trumpets found,' the Well-tun'd
[cymbals play,
THE Reader will perceive that the first Concordant voices pierce the lofty sky,
Part of mis Poem, is merely a Versification A cloud of Glory, filling all the House,
bf Certain parts of the 5th and 6th Chap -. Evinc'd the presence of the Lord rtfost
ters of the Second Book of Chronicles, . high; .- ,; ■ ... . -
wherein the Dedication of Solomon's Before whose Altar stood' this favour'd
Temple, and the prayer he offered up on , 1 Prince, [premely blest;
that occasion, are recorded. The second With wisdom, wealth, and pow'r su- •
Part is an attempt to follow that sublime His people rang'd in countless numbers
composition, introducing such particular round,
subjects as more immediately apply to the • Secure from all their Enemies at reft.
lame solemnity in the Established Church
of England. ; The Trumpets and the cymbals cease la
Whoever has been present at the Conse play, [air,
cration of a Church, or has perused the . Their grateful praises cease, to rend the,
description of the King of Israel's Dedica The Lord's hands,
Anointed kneeling. spread his
j/ [prayer :
tion of his Temple,', must surely have ex
perienced^ he most profound reverence for And thus the King of kings addressed in,
Public Worship. In that august descrip f O Lord our God 1 To thy great name
tion, we behold a'Sovereign to whom the compar'd, [known.
• King of kings had expressly granted Wis No other Power jn Heaven or Earth is
dom, Wealth, and Honour, such as none Thy Covenant on truth eternal' stands, .
that 'had been bsfofe him ever had, "nor Thy Mercy to thy faithful servants shewru
any after him should base to the end of The promise to thy servant David made,
time. "We behold this most diltinguished Ere with his Fathers in the grave he
Personage, -who ruled over " a People like slept,
the dust of the Earth in multitude" and In me that gracious promise is fulfill'd, '
was exalted to a height of human grandeur This day the word which thou haft
toeyond all comparison—v:e behold him spoken kept.
m a temple that he had built by divine
appointment (and of which, for its mag Now let the import of that sacred Word
nificence, we have no adequate concep On me and ray descendants still prevail;
tion) " standing before the Altar of the Let us like him thy righteous Laws observe,
Lord in the presence of all the congrega So shall the Throne of David never fail.
tion of- Israel ;" and having fallen on his (But will indeed the Mighty God vouchsafe
knees and spread fdrth his hands towards In earthly habitations to reside?
Heaven, we hear him uttering a prayer, Whom not the highest Heavenscan con
which. for sublimity far exceeds the pow tain ; - [abide!)
ers of. human composition, and which How shall He then within this House
nothing but immediate Inspiration could
,hav« dictated. When this prayer was Regard,' OLord, the prayer' I here prefer,
Let it now find acceptance in thy sight, ■
ended, the great and glorious Being to That o'er this House thine evej watchful
Whom ix lyas addressed, gave an instant eyes " ' . .
and visible testimony os his favourable ac May be intently open day and night :
ceptance of it ; for " the fife came down
from Heaven, arid consumed the hurnf- And towards this Place we sanctify to.thee,
orTering and-the saorifiees -, and' the Glory Whereof thou saidll thy name shoul*.
of the Lord filled the House." To this there remain, . ..
description, as it stands in the sacYed vo Whene'er thy people Israel shall pray,
lume, nothing --within ;the compass' of " Hear thou in Heaven," nor let their*
thought or language can- be added, to inr - - ' prayer be vain t
•tease our veneration for, Public Worship ;' In every trespass between Man and Man,
(hor will so great a Congregation ever b« Who come' before this Altar w>th an
again assembled, vmul-^he Living anid the Oath, [decide,
Dead shall meet; before the Throne of M Hear Thou in Heaven,"'.and ac thou
Judgment, and the Eternal Majesty..of Let (Ay utwringJ uds'mtnt pass on both.
leaven appear in Glory. . . * . ' ' '«'< '•' Should
Gent. Mao. JulytMI9ii.
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Should thy just- Wrath upon thy People
rise, ' [fiee,
And smitten down, before their foes they
" Hear thou in Heaven :" Oh ! save them
aud forgive, Thee !
When in their Sire distress they cry to
And when the Clouds at thy command are
shut, ■ [to give ;
And all their fruitful showers shall cease
When for the thirsty Land they thee im
plore, People live,'!
" Hear Thou in Heaven ;" and let thy
If there be dearth, or pestilence, or blast,
The mildew, locust, or the worm annoy,
Or are the Cities of the Land befieg'd,
- Whatever plague or sickness shall destroy;
Whatever supplication shall be made
By all thy People, or by Earth apart,
In'this thine House, or tow'rds this holy
place, [the heart ;
To thee who form'd and only know'st
©, great in Mercy, as in Power supreme 1
From all their iinsand sufferings set them
free ; [place on high,
". Hear thou in Heaven," thy dwelling-
When thy repentant People turn to thee!
Thus, chasten'd and forgiven, they will
learn praise ;
Thy boundless goodness evermore to
So shall they still possess this favour'd Land,
So shall they fear Thee all their future
days."
Kindled with fire from Heaven the Altar
blaz'd,
Refulgent Glory all the House pervades,
The peopls prostrate fall ; and Him adore
Bffore whose presence human glory fades.
PART II.
Successive ages fince have pass'd away,
Still be the goodness of the Lord our
theme, [shines
Which o'er theChristian world yet brighter
In him who came his people to redeem:
To Him may all the Nations of the Earth
In Christian Temples high their voices
raise,
And from unnumber'd Altars still ascend
The grateful Incense of their prayer and
praise !
Whoso shall seek his honour to promote,
He shall be justly with distinction grae'd,
While those Who disregard his awful Name
Shall ever be contemned and abas'd.
In ev'ry age may some devoutly bent, •
Like him who founds this sacred struc
ture here.
Erect a holy Edifice to God,
That God may honour them, and Man
revere.
When the bright Orb of Day shall be ex
tinct, more,
And the mild Regent of the Night no
3
This grateful act shall meet its just reward,
Where bliss beyond conception is rn.
store.
But let the praise of human worth recede
Before the worship of the Pow'r supreme,
The source of all the good that Man par
takes,
Of ev'ry action he can Virtue deem.
The Solemn Rites begin ; the mitred
'Primate [and pure,
Of England's holy Church reform'd
Proceeds to consecrate the House of Prayer
To Him " whose mercies evermore en
dure ;"
And in thk favour'd Isle have Ion*; prevail'd
To guard it from the sanguinary Sword
Of its inveterate and deadly Foe : . j
Oh ! let him fall, and perisli at thy Word!
Perish from off the earth, this Scourge of
Man :
Let all the desolated Nations know
'TisThou alone t hat" makestWars to cease,"
Tis Thine to " knap the spear, and break
the bow."
O Lord of Hosts, our gracious King pre
serve, ■ field,
Go forth with all his Armies to the
Still grant his Fleets victorious on the Sea,
And be this Realm's impenetrable
Shield;
The mild yet firm Defender of thy Faith,
From Youth to Age hath he not kept
thy Laws ?
Behold from thy celestial Throne on high
Thy faithful Servant, and maintain his
Cause :
Extend his life to patriarchal years,
From tumult and sedition still defend {
In tranquil blessings let him close his rsign,
In peace and honours to the grave de
scend.
Inspire the Sacred Orders in thy Church
With powers t'anforce thy truths divine,
And grant to thole who at this Altar serve
In ev'ry Christian Virtue grace to shine;
And all thine holy Ordinances here
Within these walls administer'd, do Thou
With instant favour and acceptance meet,
Regard the offering, and confirm the
Vow.
But chief the blest memorial of Him,
(The blood of stocks and herds no lon
ger fhedj
The great mysterious sacrifice once made.
The Lamb of God that for the World
hath bled.
To Infants brought to this baptismal font*
* The Author is aware that the holy
officesofBaptisfn, Matrimony, and Burial,
Will continue to be performed at the Pariiri
Church only ; but they are introduceti-as
properly belonging to the subject.
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Be Thou the Guardian of their helpless When Dav and Night, and Time Itself
years, [of Youth, shall fail,
Conduct them through the dang'rous paths Let thy eternal Mercies stand diselos'd,
And through the troubles of this Vale And Bliss and Glory over all prevail.
of tears.
When here that sacred Union shall be To the the Honouralle Mrs. Mr. a Dr., daughter rif
Lord fli/Ao/'o/DitOMORE, on her Re
form'd [approve, turn J'rorx England after the death, oj her
Which Thou thyself dost sanction and mueh lamented Mother, 'i
Let no seducing passions e'er destroy
The chaste endearments of a virtuous ry^O hail th" approach of honour'd worth
J_ Tosccnes hyNature's bounty drest,
love. In all the pride of vernal birth, .
So (hall the Parents to their Children (hew A Minstrel thus his harp addressed':
How blest are those who walk in Vir Resound thy chords to plaintive ftTains,
tue's way,
So shall they Wisdom's truest lesson learn, In Swell to the breeze a solemn sound ; )
mournful echoes tell the plains
Thy Name to reverence, and thy Word Of anguisli keen and grief profound.
obey :
Thus taught, the morn of Life's impor For such must rend that feeling breast
tant day, Where dwells Affection's loveliest form;
Ere yet with serious cares or ills opprest, Where the fond dreams of Hope deprefs'd
Sink in the gulf of Sorrow's storm.
Shall not in guilt or folly be consum'd,
So may thy peace upon its Evening Well may her waitings pierce the air
reft ! Who mourns maternal virtues flown
And when that hour arrives which Nature ButShall Faith, which checks that deep despair,
waft them to. a heavenly throne.
dreads,
W hen all its tender tics are rent apart ; Hark ! broken sobs float in the gale,
Receive the dying, hear the Mourner's And infant voices trembling rife ;
sighs, [heart ; They seem to pour a sorrowing tale
Console the sorrows of the wounded Of a lov'd friend in yonder skies.
When from the terrors of that awful hour A tender note for him rehearse, ,
The trembling Wretch shall to thy Who weeping mourns his loss sever* ;
mercy flee, And, while 1 raise the tuneful verse,
O Lord Most holy '. spare the guilty soul, Let Taste and Genius linger near.
Which with repentant anguish turns to Thy favourite themes will scene*, renew
Thee. Where tender love his foul inspir'd.
When thelastoffice (hallbehereperform'd, When to his mind in fad review
The vital spark from earth for ever fled, Recur those charms by all adrnir'd.
Let the survivors rest their hopes on Thee, But strains which Nature rudely taught
The refuge of the Living and the Dead : To soothe uncultur'd Virtue's breast,
In Thee, the Rock of Ages, put their trust; By him adorn'd with glowing thought, 1
Thy potent Word shall still the raging Shall charm his troubled mind to rest.
strife, [world, Mercy divine its rays (hall lend
And o'er the waves of this tempestuous To re-illume his visual power ;
Shall bring them to the promis'd Land Creation's blooming smiles (hall blend,
of Life. To hail with joy that blissful hour.
But while the Heavens and the Earth exist, Religion's lenient hand (hall strew .. ^
Ere all terrestrial things shall pass away, With Hope's bright flowers his darksome
Let the revolving Seasons still produce way, . . r
Thy grateful bounties each successive Where conduct pure, and purpose £tue,
day 5 Pass to the bounds of endiej's, daiy. . \t
Send down " the former and the latter And for to bless his closing y*&f<
Rain," [shine, To cheer his mind, to f.o'.be his tares,
: And On our Harvests make thy Sun to A lovely offspring still appears, '
Let Man rejoice amidst his fruitful fields, Who humbly plead in hallow'd prayers
And let him own these blessings ever
thine ; That He who consolation slings .„,
Into our mortal portion here, '
In ev'ry prosperous, ev'ry adverse state, The Lord of Lords, and King ofJ^ings; '
Whatever the events of Time (hall be, May long confide a charge so (War.
Hear Thou from thy celestial Throne on Dromon, June", 1807. ' M. D.»
high, [to thee ; •The above is the first auempi ot a young
And let our prayers, and praise ascend poet, who has just completed nis joth. >v.ir.';
And when these transitory Scenes arc past, and is lent to press without, hi/ ki-.u-.vi^.r.
Ot.
 1
669. . ' "geleflk Modern four), ſat'
On: the Recobeſy oftþe/lmhor's V'Zfeflom
a_ long and dangerous Illneſs'.
. ,TERN3 W inter's path-and Spring with
beauties,
ſiAgaictn invitesfraught
my humble Muſc tn ſing,
To qelebratcthe
ſi Of checrful pleaſing
Health' returning thought
with returning
Spring.
0 Health ! thou firſt great bleffing of
' .' mankridd, ' Your kind indulgence and your purtial
That giv'ſt a' zcſtto ev'ry good below,
Nor joy norpleaſure can we morrals find
Where Heaven denies that bleſſing to
beſtow.
O thou Supreme Firſt Cauſe, who know'ſt
Whonovml'fl;
bound, known,
the Univerſe by Wayſſs un
VVlioſe will is law through ev'ry ſyſtem
found, [thy throne.
U From earth thy footſtool, to theHeavens
Thou. heard'ſt my. prayer when ſorrows
1. round me roſe, . [my breaſt',
And hope was Almoſt banifh'd from
When anxious fears prevented bleſs'd re
,þ. . poſe, _ [from reſt.
And-ſleepleſs nights debarr'd the mind
Raiſe loud the aeeents; Mercy is the theme;
I ſing, with gratitude and praiſe to Thee,
'Twas Mercyjnterpos'rl, and, like a dream,
Again reſtor'd hcryto herſelf and _mc. .
Tzhon rlſe, my ſoul, on airy pinions riſe,
And with an early ſongxſalute the ſkies, _
With eheer'ſul heartta grateful tribute bring,
And in loud accents-countleſs mercies ſing. _
I; L07 a', HpriZ-Zoſi S.S_.
An Addrcir delitered to theyotmg Gr-nfl'e
'rim njſlſr. Viasstn'is Academy, Cam
bcrwet'l, vat their Pul'lief Rcoilatinn on the
rot/i ofJune, 1807.
.ſi AlN is tlTu. Orator inldayS like theſe,
. Who fondly hopes an audienc'e' to
plcqſc. . ,
'hauld one obſerve a fine expreffive face ',
'The next will'ſneer, and ſay'tisall grimace,
This friend his lively gcſture will engage;
Andtfiſſazwillſay-he practisfd on theStuge.
All willſſ"his manner cenſurc-ſome Will
' '* fay '
He's much too grave-and others, he's top
Ifeeſinſures ſuch as theſe alight on men, ſi
Men of experience-what ſhall theſe do
theniu'm. X "
Theſe- li't'tle' Orators, who but profeſs
' To ſhew the Romans 'ctum Engliſh dreſs;
With beating boiorns come their powers to
"Ya . '
Cefars And Scipio's ſcarcely four feet high!
shall 'onyk like theſe plead Freedom's no
' '* ble Ca'uſc, * _'
And hope to gain aſhare in your applauſe?
t Why not? What, danger on their ſteps
- attends? ' ' ' _
'V Gent. Mag. voi. LXXI-V. p. &si.
espy,
Are th ngtzalſſurrounded b their iei s?
Sena'tBr-thaſſr him eagleſ?
A n whathegrounds his proſpect 'of-ſucceſs)
To 'hisloon'fiituents of'feats achiev'd '
He boa'ſts not, but of favours long receiv'dt
Sums up indulgences, and theſe denotes
A pleaſing'earneſt of their preſent votes.
And thus
ſharedo they
' A (accuſtom'd
' long', to
[care)
Their fears' renounce-your gentle ſmiles
_ implore, [more.
And on paſt favours ground their plea for
Yetthink not here, amidſt your Friends-'
acclaim,
On ſt'epslof lndolence to riſe to Fame.
No-ifYouwould a laſting name acquire,
Kindle in Britiſh breaſts the Roman fire !
_Can youwithſſully ſpeak, and yet not
' feel - '
The riſing finw of patriotie zeal Z ,
Can you with Brutus plead Lucretia's cauſe
Without atear in genuine Virtue's cauſe P
Conſiyou the l-lertthen view with pious care
Lift up toHeav'nhis hand and eyes in pray'r,
Without: refle'ctingſiwhat of' courſe is due
From thoſe in Chriſtian countries born
lik_e yooj- 3 [tent '.
Arouſe your'powers", purſue the fix'd in
Parents andſl'eachers wait the great event.
This Night-beholds you riſe midſt loud
- ' ' Regia-int; -: - [Shame.
Orſhzidcszyqti-o biuſhing, from the taunts of
_.=,__
THE ROSE.
_ BAz/,a.youn_e Lady of FOMNUM.
ſſtv WEET Roſe', [ſaw thee bloom at morn,
Thy fragrance fill'd the air ;
And liail'd thee, tho' therelurk'd athorn,
The pride of Floia's care:
Thy tendcrpetals bathſid in dew,
Bluſh'd with the gliſt'ning gem,
They ſew'd retiring from my view,
And lit-nt the yielding ſtcm. 7
But ibonnyou rais'd your roſeate head, '
Biuſh'd by young Zephyr's wing, _
And flouriſh'd faireſt of the bed,
Thelovelicſt of the ring. ,
Alas! the Roſe,ſithe blooming flow'r,
[guy Which Morning ſaw ſo fair;
At Eve its beauties were no more,
But ſcatter'd by the air.
l gather'd-up the leaves in haſte,
Myvſteps [homeward bent;
And, 'though their 't-xluſhing hue was paſt,
1 They ſtill retain'd their ſcent.
Thus Beauty, like the fnded ſafe,
- Too ſoon, alas! we find, ,
It wither-shfades, as quickly' goes,
._ 'And keyes no trace behind,
But if in Virtue's.\leps we-tread, \
-And emulate her Ways,
Our name, although our- Beauty 's fled,
Will live in futuredaysbfi
1- To the Pupils.
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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
>ng the people* they !had, kindled religious
animosities, set man against man,, -ahd
brother ngaiitst. brother : they, had. let the
'people of Ireland against the .people .of.
England, by shewing,.the great, body of
Irisli that the English were unfavourable
10 their claims. Such conduct would be
at any time criminal ; but, when it was
considered with rcfeici.ice to the neceijity
that existed for making a due tmpreiiion
on. our Allies, it became still moie it?.—
He then detailed the advantages which
he conceived would haveai ifcnso the pub-
lick from the number of private bills which,
had been introduced in the l^tL. Patha?
silent, and brought almost to the last stage,
when it was dissolved. He added, thai
the late M misters were about to propole
tome expedient for the rel,cf of. the India
Company; ,but these, and all their other
acts anil intentions, had been frustrated
by the dissolution.. Aud for what purpose
had all these mischiefs been occalioned i
The inconvenience of dissolving the Par
liament, at such a tinie was particuiaily
great ; it was indeed an event which
Ought not to be tolerated in constitutional
times.—The I louse were now told, that
they were called together merely for a
month, to w jud up the business of the last
Parliament, If a month, would be, suffi
cient for- that purpose in the present Par
liament, a month would have been suffi
cient for inn the last. The late Ministers
■would scarcely have obje6ted to their own
measures. No necessity, therefore, did
pxiil. Why then, did they take this step ?
In order that an appeal Ihould be made to
the People, as it was staled in his Majes
ty's Speech, while recent events were fresh
la their recollection ; in other words,
during the prevalence of that bale cry,
which, it was hoped, would have an in
fluence on the Elections, lie defied any
other interpretation ..to . be ;tnade of this
proceeding-}, although, in Jais Majesty's
(Speech.there was something (ike. au at?
tempt, at this, and in theVil'count's Address
much more. His Lordship next entered,
at great length into a defence- of Ministers
for bringing forward the measure relative
to the Catholics ; .and asscited, that no
persons, except thole whe , had only, the
capacity of &xhM»; egt^djhejiyL-ve^ that it
was.inco^ryjatibie w/th,Jtbi,..Cwctiawon
Oijtlr. ;. and he wondered, fhovy. Ministers
could, with,.cammoH aece^njy^.aiitrtjthat
iiiS.aisIalo.tion iiad/be^n-rqndereu necessary
i% the mainteria»ce o£;the just rights of
she Crown ana the tcu,^ principles of the
^Constitution.—-In allusion, to^sooie cora,-
pliments which had beep, paid by Mt,
Half to Mr. ,P|tt,.his Lwofhip, 'said, hi
'should belie thewhole of his political tife,
Jjreje he, ."to consider him as the. exjttaotdi-
jiary Statepajan which,jjf tj/fa bteft,fSH«r
i Seffion of Parliament. [July,.
fensed to be. He then proceeded to cen
sure the restoration of the Inspecting Field
Officers to the Volunteers ; and iflkcd
whether the allusion in the Speech to the
close connexion about to be formed with
our Allies, was meant to inlinuate, that
the late Ministers had neglected to do their
duty on this subject ? He deprecated the
introduction of the topic in the Speech,
which alluded to our reverses in Egypt,
and the rupture with Turkey; recom
mended a system ofcoaciliHtion to be pro
posed for Ireland:; and observed, that, if
he w.ae an enemy to the pralent Adminis
tration, it was because he was convinced
that such,an Adrhinistration was pregnant
with the greatest dangers to the King and
tlie Constitution; He concluded by mov
ing an Amendment to the fame effect as
that in the House of Lords (fee p. 578.)
The Ckauteltor of the Exchequer fol
lowed LordHowick through all the points
on which he had touched. He insisted,
that his Majesty's advisers would have
been culpable, if they had let a moment
pass without causing an appeal to be made
to the People; and that the circumstances
which Lord H. had brought forward to
condemn the measure, were in themselves
a lustilication of it. He meant to strew
that the sums voted by the last Parliament
for the Public Expenditure had been pro
perly applied by the present Ministers;
adverted to the probable consequences of
affording those indulgences to "the Cathor
lies which the line Ministry had endea
voured to obtain for them ; denied that
any blame was -intended to be thrown on
the late Ministry for the rupture with Tur
key, or our. failure in Egypt; contrasted
the restoration of too Inspecting Officers,
who were necell'ary, with 300 Surveyors
of taxes,, appointed by tlve late Ministry,
who 'Weft unnecessary, and whose ap
pointments were unauthorised ; aud con
cluded with hoping, that, as theroiwere
no gi 911rids for the amendment, the House
would reject it. ' ..
Mr. Wtndham contended, at some length,
that the late dissolution was illegal ; and
had been effected by the present Ministers,
who availed themselves of a public delu
sion, of which the Pt oplealready repented,
; General Craufurd, Mr. D. jBrotratt,
Mr. Canning, Sir A.HMefiry, and Mr.
Jiatiiurfi, spoke in warm terms in favour
ot the Address ; and Mr. Grattan made a
vigorous defence of the late Ministry, ia
the course of which he ridiculed tlve cry
that had been raised os " No Popery ;" and
observed, that the Irish people were to*
wise to put a serious corrjtment on so sense
less a text. . '•• '?
At six the House divided ;• when there
were, For the Amendment 15,5—Against
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.]

ABSTRACT OF FORE 1GN OCCURRENCES.,

PRUSSIAN POLAND.
SEVENTY NINTH BULLETIN 07 THE
French Gbano Army.—This is dated
"Wehlaw, June 17. The Emperor gave
orders to the Grand Duke of Berg, the
' Marshals Soult and Davouft, to manœu
vre towards Kcenigsberg ; and with the
corps belonging to the Marslials Mortier
Ney, and lannes, the Imperial Gc-aid,
' and the first corps, commanded by Gene
ral Victor, he marched *o I riedland in
person. 6,n the 14th, the Emperor re
minded his troops that it was the anniver
sary of the victory qf Ma'rengo.—Several
engagement.- near Fnedlarid occupied the
rrorhmg, in which, the. .Allies were worst
ed. At f; a: in the afternoon the whole
of theh'il le corps seemed it ady for ac
tion. The enemy had deployed the whole
of his army. His left wls' supported by
the town os Fr:e<i!an:!, and his tvgh'. ex-
tended a*lcagne and a half beyond it. The
Emperor, having reconnoitred the position,
was determined to get possession of Fried-
land ; he suddenly changed his front,
and causing the right to advance, he or
dered the attsck to be made by the extre
mity of ihe right wing. At half after five
Marshal Ney put himself in motion ; some
discharges from a battery of 20 pieces of
cannon were the signal. At. the lame
moment the division cf General Marchand
advanced against the enemy, taking -their
route hy the iteeple of the church. Ge
neial fjissjn's division supported their left.
The moment the enemy perceived that
Marshal Ney had quisled the wood, where
he had at fust taken a position with his
right, they ci.deavoured to turn him with
several regiments offccavalry, .preceded by
a cloud of Coffeeks. Gen. Latour Mau-
bourg's'dh/ivioH of dragoons'formed imme
diately,
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''' • '' 9 ' . '* ' , •— 01
diately, advanced to the right in full gal is worthy to be compared with those of
lop; and repelled the enemy's charge. In Marengp, Austerliti, or Jena. The ene
the mean/while Gen. Victor ordered a bat my was namerouf, had a fine cavalry,
tery of 30 pieces of cannon to be placed and sought with. courage. On the 15th,
in the front of his centre. General Sen- while the enemy was endeavouring to
nermont, who commanded this battery, rally and retreat to the right bank of the
caused it to be moved 400 paces in advance, Alle, the French army continued its ma
by which the enemy sustained a dteadfo.1 noeuvres on the left bank, to cut the ene
loss. The different movements made by my oft' from Koningstienr. Th.e heads of
the Ruffians, to effect a diversion, were the columns arrived at Wehlau together ;
useless.—Several columns 6f the enemy's this town is situated at the confluence of
infantry, that attackedMarshalNey's right, the Alle and the Pregel. The Emperor's
were charged with the bayonet, and dri head-quarters were at Paterswalde.
ven into the Alle. .Several thousands On the 16th, at day-break, the enemy,
found their death in that river, and some having destroyed all the bridges, availed
escaped by swimming. himself of this obstacle to continue his re
During the time Marshal Ney's left arri trograde movements towartls Russia. .At
ved at the ravine which surrounds the town eight in the morning the Emperor caused
of Friedland, the enemy, who had here a bridge to be thrown over the Pregel, and
concealed the Ruffian Emperor's guard in the army was again in its positions. Al
an ambuscade, advanced with intrepidity, most all the enemy's magazines upon the
and charged Marshal Ney's left. This Alle were burnt by him, or thrown in the
corps was for a moment shaken ; but water : we know, from what remains,
Dupont's division, whjch forrued the the immense loss which has been sus
right ef the reserve, marched against the tained. In all the villages, where the
Russian Imperial Guard, routed them, and Rullians had magazines, they burnt therrt
made a dreadful slaughter. The enemy during their retreat. We found at Weh
drew several reinforcements from his cen lau more thin Opoo quintals of grain.
tre, and other corps in reserve, to defend The' news of the victory of Friedland
Friedland. .Vain efforts ! Friedland was caused the enemy to abandon jConiagsberjJ-'
forced, and its streets covered with dead M-arshal Soult entered the city, where we
bodies. At* this moment the centre, com have found immense riches j several hun
manded by Marshal Lannes, was engaged. dred thousand quintals of corn, upwards
The effort which the enemy had made at of 20,000 wounded Ruffians and Prussians,
the extremity of the right of the French all the warlike stores sent by the English
haying failed, he wished to try a similar for the Ruffians, and 160,600 muskets*
operation upon the centre ; but the not unpacked. Thus Providence has pu
charges of cavalry and infantry could not nished those who,infleadafnegotiating with
retard the march of our columns; all the good faith to perfect the salutaiy work of
efforts of Ruffian bravery were useless. peace, have made light of it, mistaking
They could make no impression, but met the calmness of the Conqueror for weak
death upon the points of our bayonets. ness or impotence.—The army here oc
The Imperial Guard, horse and foot, and cupies the finest country imaginable. The
two divisions- of. the reserve of the first borders of the Pregel are rich. In a short
corps, were not engaged. Victory was time the magazines and cellars of Ko-
never doubtful for a moment. The field of ningsberg and "Dantzic will supply us with
battle is one of the most dreadful that can fresh means of health and abundance,—-
be* seen. It is not exaggeration to estimate The enemy recommenced hostilities on
the number killed, on the. part of the the 5th. -We may estimate the loss hi* has
Russians, from 15 to i9,ooo men. On sustained in ten days, and in consequence
the part of the French, ihe loss does not of the succeeding operations, at fio,ooo
exceed .500 killed, and 3000 wounded. men, prisoners, Jellied, wounded, and dis
We have taken eighty pieces of cannon, abled. Me has lost a part of his artillery,
and a .great number of caissons. Several almost all his ammunition, and all his
colours are in our hands. The Russians magazines upon a line upwards of 40
have had 25 Generals killed, taken, and leagues in extent. The French armies
wounded. Their cavalry has suffered an have seldom obtained such great success
immense loss. Night did not- prevent the with so little- lots.
pursuit of the .enemy : he was followed The Eightieth Bulletin of the
till eleven o'clock. During the remainder FreKCH Gkand Art.ilY,. dared Tilsit, June
of the night, the columns ttoat were cut 10, relates to the operations of the Grand
off endeavoured to pass the Alle in seve Duke of. Berg bcfjve Konirvgil.crg.
ral fordable places. On the following The Eighty-first Bulletin of the
day, for the (pace of several leagues, we Ghanjo Army coiitainsihe names of some
found caissons, cannon, and carriages officers who signalized themselves.'
lost in the river. The battle of Friedland The Eichty-secoup Bulletin con
tains
 6>J& * Abjlraft of Foreign Occurrences. , [July,
tains the Armistice between France and fame time. The Emperors embraced on
Russia, signed by the 1'rincc of Neufcha- leaving the vessels, and entered the pavi-
tel Ben-hier, and Prince Labanoff Von lion prepared for them. Their conference
Rnstrow, and ratified by the two Km- lasted about two hours, and when it closed
perors. the attendants of the t*-o Emperors were
Proclamation of the Emperor an& King admitted. Both Emperors returned to
to the Grand Army. their vessels. Another interview took
" Soldiers, Qn the sth June we were place the following day, on a little island
attacked iu our cantonments by the Rus- in the Niemen, at which the King of
sian army. The enemy mistook the causes Prussia was present.
of our inactivity. He found, too late, Tiffit, June 29. On the 27th, the Em-
that osr repose was that of the lion—he peror Napoleon exercised his foot-guards
regrets having disturbed it. In the affairs in string, in the presence of the Emperor
of Guttstadt, Heilsberg, and the ever- Alexander ; after which the two monarch*
memorable one of Friedland, in a ten dined together. On the 29th, the King
days' campaign j ju short, we took 120 of Prulia, accompanied hy Marshal Bes-
pieces os cannon, seven standards—killed, liercs, the Grand Martha! of the Palace,
wounded, or took,•60,000 Ruffians—car- the Grand Equerry, and several superior
ried off all the enemy's magazines and officers of the cavalry, came to pay a
hospitals— Koningsberg.fhe 300 vessels that visit to the Emperor Napoleon, who re-
were there, laden with a!l sorts os ammu- ceived them at the gate. At four the
nition—1.50,080 fusils, sent by England Emperor returned the visit to the King,
' to arm our enemies. From the banks of ar.d invited him to ride ; and, taking with
the Vistula, we have reached the borders him the Emperor of Russia and the Grand
of the Niemen with the rapidity of th« Duke Constantine, proceeded wiih them
eagle. You celebrated at Austerlitz the to review the corps under Marshal Da-
anniversary of the Coronation ; you cele- voust. These august personages after-
brated this year, in an appropriate man- wards dined with the Emperor Napoleon,
ner, the Battle of Marengo, which .put a After rising from table, they passed a
period to the second Coalition. French- quarter of an hour together. The Em-
men, .you have been worthy of yourselves peror ifterwards accompanied them to the
and of me. You will return to France gate of his palace, and they proceeded on
covered with laurels, and after having ob- foot to the residence of the King of
tained a glorious peace, which carries Prussia. The- Emperor of Russia and the
with it the guarantee of its duration. It Grand Duke Conllantin* returned towards
is time that our Country should live at the evening to the Emperor Napoleon,
rest, secure from the malignant influence and remained with him till half after ten
of England. My benefits shall prove to at night. Yesterday the Emperor Napo-
you my gratitude, and the full extent of leon received Gen. Beunigfen; and Prince
the love I bear you.— At the Imperial Kurakih, appointed to negotiate with the
Camp at Tilsit, June 20." Prince of Benevento, allo arrived here
Eighty-third Bulletin of thc yesterday.
Grand Army. , July 1. The good understanding be-
Titfit, Jnnr 23. Annexed is the capi- tween the three So\ereigns at Tilsit in-
tulatien of Neisse. The garrison, 6000 creases every dayi The King of Prussia
■strong in infantry, and 300 in cavalry, has appointed Gen. Kalkieuih to negotiate
defiled on the lCth before Prince Jerome, for peace. Yesterday the French Empe-
We found in thc place 300,000 pounds of ror's guards treated the Emperor of Russia
powder, and 300 pieces of cannon. and King of Prussia's life-guards with a
The EiGiiTY-rirTH and Eighty-sixth dinner. The whole of them, for a lhort
Bulletins contain only the accounts of time, exchanged uniforms; and the fof-
the meeting of the three Sovereigns on the diers were to be leen tunning cheerfully
Nieraeh, The conference between the along the streets, but in good order.
Emperors of Russia and >France took place Haouk Royal Extraordinary Gaz.
on the 24th, on a raft on the Niemen. Saturday evening, July 13. A cou-.
Napoleon, at'ended by the Grand Duke rier arrived this day irom Berlin, with the
of Berg,' Ptince of Neufcha'tel, Marshal very important intelligence that peace was
Bessieres, Duroc, and Caulaincourt, pro- signed at Tilsit on the Sth inst, between
ceeded to the hanks of the Niemen, aud the Emperor of the French and the Em-
Went on-biiard the vessel which was to peror of Russia. The Prince of Benevento, •
take him to the rait. Thc Emperor Alex- Minister for Foreign .Relations, signed on
ander, -with the Grand Duke Constantine, the part of the former ; and the Princes
Gen. Berinigten, Ou#aross, Prince s.aba- Kurakin and Labonow de Rollrow .on
npff, and his -fitst A 'iutant, Gen. Count behalf of the latter; being fully authorized
Lioben, put off from thc opposite banks, by their respective Sovereigns. The Ru»..
The two- vessels reached the raft at the fincatims were exchanged on the follow
ing
 1807.] Abjlrail of Fereign Occurrences. *73
frig day, Peace with Prussia was likewise tire column. Another, column ,was rout
. to be signed on the oth of July." ed. The cavalry of my right wing also
. Buonaparte is Mated to have arrived at made an impetuous and successful attack
JConingfberg on the 1 Uh, from whence he upon the enemy's cuirassiers, pursuing
was to proceed to Berlin, and thence by them as far as Heinriehldorff, which vil
way of Dresden, and Mentz, to Paris. lage supported the left wing of the enemy.
The Emperor Alexander and the King pf At three in the afternoon, Buonaparte ar
Prussia remained at Tilsit ; but it is added, rived in person, with the reft of his armyj
that both Monarch* had promised to visit and, sheltered by a wood, he reinforced
Napoleon at Paris. This report is strength his right wing in such a degree, that at
ened by an article dated Paris, July.16 ; six, when he commenced a fresh attacks
which, after mentioning an expectation and opened upon my left wing a masked
that the Emperor would return to that battery of 40 pieces of cannon, I was un-
city in the course of the succeeding week, der the necessity of resolving to commenqe
continues " His birth -day, on, the 15th of my retreat, which was effected in the best:
August, will be obsened with extraordi order ; and my rear stopped the whole
nary festivity; and-it is said that prepara force of the enemy, until all my troops
tions are making at the Military School had crossed the Alle. Although my loss,
for the reception of persons of the highest during a battle which lasted lO hours, and
distinction." , from my army's being obliged to file over
.RUSSIA. a bridge^ which was exposed to »the ene
On the 14th of June Tc Deum was ce my's artillery, cannot be inconsiderable;,
lebrated at St. Petersburg, on account of the the Enemy must have loft an equal num
victory of Anapa. The Gazette of that city ber at least,sincetheattack vviththebayonet,
states, that the captors found in the fortress and that of the cavalry, has caused him a
ICO pieces of cannon, SO of which were great loss, and as in the former we toot
of brass, and upwards of 0000 instruments from him the Eagle of the I5<h regiment
of yvar of different kinds, besides a great of the line. Nor has the enemy taken,
quantity of,ammun'ftion, any other prisoners but such as were
CoTIES OF THE KISPA.TCII ES FROM GtNE- wounded dangerously, and which could
KAL BeNNIGSEN TO THE KMFKROR not be removed from the town ; and only
Alexander. , . . some dismounted pieces of cannon be
Head Quarters at Jf'chlau, June 3-1.5, longing to the regiments, with a few
The enemy havirig immediately directed which could not be removed, because thg
the whole of his. force from Hedsberg to horses attached to them had been shot,
wards. Friedland and Wehlau, widi an fell into his hands. On the other hand,
intention to cut off my army from Pregel, all our pieces of camp artillery were got
I humbly beg leave to inform your Majesr1 off safe. I am now taking with my army
tv, that I could not form any position at a position behind the Pregel, near Weh-
Schippenbeil, but made a forced march jau, causing all, the passes of that river,
to Fricdland on the, lst^l3th inst.. The as far as Koninglberg and Insterburg, to b«
advanced detachment, which I sent for occupied by my troops ; in consequence
ward to occupy that town,, found the whereof 1 Have re-opened a communica
place at three P. M. in the possession of tion with Gen. L'Estocq. If the enemy
four fquadtons of the enemy, which were, should venture to cross the Pregel, I fhiill
however, driven out immediately. attack him immediately; and the rein
" In. order to keep possession of the forcements which already are on their
town, that" my troops might rest from march will soon supply my loss, and ena
their fatigue, I sent .sortie infantry to, the ble me once more to cope with the enemy.
leu bank of. the Alle during the night. (Signed) Bennigsen."
But in the morning at break of day, the A-nother Dispatch,-.
enemy attacked my advanced posts,,, and u From the- Camp at Schillupifchkeft,
at half alter five the cannonade commenr June .r>7l7. After the. surrender of Ko-
ced. I therefore sent another division of ningsberg, my position at Wehlau was no
my army across the river, to, support the longer tenable, and, having informed
other .troops, as I had, reason to suppose General L'Estocq that 1 stiould make my
that' the enemy's, van only had come,upi .retreat on the road of Tilsit, 1 requested
The enemy w.as repplsed at every point, him to follow me ; 1 commenced the re
and the troops fought. 14 hours , together treat yesterday. I am happy to inform
with tbe greatest bravery, and proved al your Majesty, tlfat X have this day formed
ways victorious.. . Ge,n. Oydinot,. whose a junction with that General, and' that
division formed the right vying of the ene my army, besides, has this day received a
my, aUempted-to make an attack \vnh the re-inforcement of 3000 men.. Moreover,
bayonet ; but .my; Jest wing eagerly ad the division from Moscow will pass thy
vances uoon him, „and destroyed au co- frontier' to-morrew, consequently my Joss
Gem v. Mi'» July, 1607. will
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will not only be replaced in a very short rose upon him as one of th* introducers of
time, but I shall even be stronger than I the Nizam Ceded. He endeavoured to
was before the battle of Friedlatid. Thus, fare himself in i bark, by palling over to
of all the refulrs of that loft battle, the Bujukderc, hut a hundred pistol-shots laid
surrender of Koningfberg proves the worst; him and his attendants dead. It seems
for, unless the enemy pursue me with too that the rage of the Janizaries had been
great a superiority of numbers, and pro embittered against him, by the recollection
vided he allow meTusficient time to draw of a promise he made, to raise their pay,
towards me my reinforcements, I shall upon condition they would adopt the new
directly advance, and I hope to recover discipline, and which promise he never
from the enemy the advantages which he performed. Another circumstance in
has obtained. (Signed) Bennigsen." creased the spirit of opposition ; the Sultan
TURKEY. had given notice that the Janizaries were
A new Srman of the Grand Seignior no longer to attend him as usual to the
•gainst the Servians sentences the whole mosques, but that this duty was to devolve
Servian nation to extermination, without upon the troops disciplined after the Eu
distinction of age or lex ; or, should any ropean manner. Thousands of Janizaries
escape the sword, they are to be reduced to were now marching to Constantinople,
11*very. \ and arrived in the suburbs of Pera on the
The accounts respecting the late Revo evening of the 28th. They swore to each
lution in Turkey are still at variance. An other 'to conduct the revolution with the
article, dated Vienna, June a-lth, says, best order. Any person who should, ia
that Mustapha, the successor, kept his the least injure either European or Frank,
promise of preserving the life of Selim, was to suffer death. One individual Jani
Who is residiug in the old Seraglio; while zary only met with this fate, for taking
other reports fay, that the deposed Sove bread from a Greek (a baker) without
reign received an order to take poison, paying for it. Behind the Janizaries' bar
which he obeyed. It is added, that the racks, on the well-known place called the
new Sultan has declared he will maintain Eimeldan, the Janizaries planted their
the alliance with France, and will not colours, and took with them their camp-
make peace with the Ruffians till the an- keules, an infallible signal of insurrection.
tient frontiers are re-established, and the For a lime, the Sultan thought of defend
Crimea re-conquered. The antient pri ing himself ; and troops, powder, and .
vileges of the Janissaries are restored, and cannon, were brought to the Seraglio.
all the new corps formed within ten years Soon after, the Mufti, the Seimen Bafchi,
past are dissolved. the Kaimickan, and the two Kazcaskers
Accounts fiom Constantinople of the of Romelia and Natolia, joined the Jani*
Sd ult. state, that all the Foreign Minis zaries. A council was held in form ; and
ters in that capital were treated with re it was proposed, as a preliminary, to re- ;
spect ; and that no preference appeared to quest the Grand Seignior to- abolish the
be stiewn to General Sebastiani over the new discipline, by a fettwa from the
others. • Mufti. The Grand Seignior, however,
The new Sultan has given orders, that thought he should be able to put a stop
in fature no Ambassadors are to confer to the insurrection before the step could
with his Government, except through the be taken, in consequence of his sending
medium of the Reis Effendi. the heads of Mahmud (the ci-devari.t. Reis
Official Account, from the VlEKMA Effendi), Terfana Emin, Hagai Ibrahim,
Court Gazette. and the Klaja Mehmefch Effendi, to the
Kimna, July 4. The latter enc\of May Eimeldan.- This measure failed corn-
was productive of important events to the pletely ; tne Janizaries were more enraged
Turkish Empire. Even in March and than ever ; they did not require the head
April the spirit of insurrection had shewn of the universally-esteemed Mahmud Ef
itself among the Janizaries belonging to fendi, but that of the Reis Effendi, then
.the garrison of the Dardanelles, and in in the camp of the Grand Vizier. The
the camp of the Grand Vizier. In the af Janizaries continued to search every place
ternoon of the 25th of May, the garrisons for those Ministers who had promoted
of the Castles of the Dardanelles were in a the adoption of the European discipline,
state of tumult, on account of the Euro and publicly avowed themselves as its
pean uniform, the new tactics, &c. Hali patrons ; namely, Fransits Ibrahim, Jus-
Aga, the commandant of Madschiaburna, tuff Aga, 1-ladschi Ibraham, and Achmet
on the Asiatic shore, was murdered. Bey, Captains of the Grand Seignior's
Indfche Bey, commandant of the entrance Guard, Hassan Aga, Achmet Effendi, and
of ihe Black Sea, only escaped the lame others, twelve in number, wh» were all
site by flight. The Reis Effendi hap- taken, dragged to the Ei-Ecmelden, and
■ pening to come to inspect that port just at there cut in pieces.—At this juncture the
(fee fame time, the Military immediately Grand Sciguor feat d Ham Sfilieriff, a
letW»
 1807.] Absiraft of Foreign Occurrences.-—Irish News. 675
letter written in his own hand, in which all parties. Talleyrand, in an answef»
he for ever abolished the Nizam Gedcd, dated at Warsaw, April.19, says—"that
and pronounced an execration upon it. the Emperor Napoleon accepts, for him
But the I lat ti Scheriss was not accepted ; self and his Allies, the friendly interposi
and the deposition of the Grand Seignior tion of his Majesty the Emperor of AusV
was refolded upon. The whole force of tria, to effect the re-establishment of peace,-
the Janizaries now proceeded to the so necessary to all natrons." He adds,
. Seraglio, n The Mufti and the Ullemas " that his Majesty has only one fear ; it
alone entered the Haram, while the rest is, that the Power who hitherto seems to
of the Ministers, the Agas, the Janizaries, have laid it down as a plan to found its
and the people, surrounded the palace. elevation and greatness upon the divisions
Mustapha IV. born on the "th of Septem of the Continent, will endeavour to ex
ber 1709, the eldest son of the Sultan tract from the Congress which may be
Abdul Ilamed, was elevated to the Turkish formed new subjects of irritation, and
throne ; and, according to an antient netv pretexts for disagreement."
custom, Selim, the former Emperor, 'An order has been published at Hildes-
threw himself at the feet of Mustapha, heim, forbidding all the inhabitants of
kissed the border of his garment, and im the provinces of Brunswick, Halberstadt,
mediately repaired to that department in &£C. from purchasing any English goods or
the Seraglio occupied by the Princes of merchandize, under pain of the severest,
the Ottoman bleod who no longer reign. displeasure of the Emperor Napoleon,
The solemn invitation to Mustapha to The Governors of the different towns
ascend the throne was made on the 2t)th in Germany, now under French influence,
cf May, about one o'clock in the day ; and have also received orders to prevent at any
on the 3d of fune the ceremony for in of the approaching fairs the introduction
vesting him with the Sabre of the Prophet of every fort of English merchandize or
took place.—Mustapha has since sliewn colonial produce, but to give every facility
himself in public ; on the fame day he to the circulation of continental manu
rode, accompanied by alL his Ministers factures.
and Generals, to the Grand Mosque, or On the entrance of the Duke of Mcck-
the antient Church of St. Sophia, there lenburgh into Schwerin, on the 12th
to perform his first devotions. instant, he was received in the most af
SWEDEN'. fectionate manner by the Constituted Au
Frontiers ofSwvdi/h Pomerania, July 1 A . thorities, who conducted him in grand
The hostilities with Sweden have recom procesiion, while the inhabitants strewed
menced. Marshal Brune has removed his the streets with flowers. On the rOth a
head-quarters from the Castle of Brock to grand gala was given at the Palace, to
Demmin, and will be this evening at which all the foreign officers were invited,
Grim. The Swedes, with whom several —His Highness has returned to Altona
actions have been fought, are retreating for his family.
to Stralfund.
Haml-urgh, July 17. Marshal Brune iREI.ANn, v .
lias received the most peremptory and la July 23. A few days since, a lady who
conic orders to attack the Swedes, aud went with a large party to the Dargle,
take Stralfund by storm. co. Wiiklow, observing a child of about
PORTUGAL. five years old rurnin: incautiously along
An alarming shock of an earthquake one of the steep walls of that beautiful
took plac: at Lisbon on the 6th ult. It though dangerous place, sprung forward
began aboat four o'clock in the afternoon, to rescue the child from destruction, whem
aud lasted about twelve seconds. The her foot flipped, and stie fell from a pre
shock was so severe, that several houses cipice on a loose piece of stone, which
were much damaged, and the city thrown struck her on the head, and occasioned
into the greatest confusion, It was not so dreadful a fracture, that she' died the
known that any lives were lost ; bu»t seve same evening.
ral had their arms and legs broken, &c. Dublin, July 23, It is impossible tp
by jumping out of windows. The shock describe the alarm in (his City, occa
was also felt at' St. Ube's, Oporto, and sioned by dreadful claps of thunder, s uc
generally throughout Portugal. It was ceeded by rain, which fell in such torrents
felt on-boaid the Lively frigate, then about frem 3 till 6 this rooming, that it was
tight leagues off the Rock of Lisbon. feared the roofs of the houses could not
GERMANY. stand it ; one house in Smithfield was
A Circular Note from the Emperor of completely dashed down, it is supposed by
Austria to the Belligerent Powers was is a thunder-bolt that hjt it.—In the neigh
sued on the 3d of April ; the purport of bourhood of Howth a ball of fire fell, the
which was, that the Emperor offered his appearance of which created mixed sensa
influence to effeft a reconciliation between tions of wonder and alarm.
Country
<5j6 Country Neivs.— Dome/Ik Occurrences. [juty.
Country News. clothes, tools, several fat hogs, and a
July C. This da/ a fire broke out at great deal of poultry ; leaving upwards of
Chipping, a 'hamlet of Buekland, near 30 families totally destitute of habitations,
Buntiwgjhrd,which destroyed seven houses, food, and even laiment, except what they
'■inhabited by eight poor families. had on their backs. The ruins continued
" July 8. ' A fire happened this day at smoking and, buttling through that night,
North Moreton, Oxfordshire, three miles Saturday, and part of Sunday, when,
from M'allhgford, which burnt three about 4 in the evening, a breeze spring
farm-houses, ten cottages, and a consi ing up, the fire again broke out in a
derable quantity of corn, hay, calves, malting, near which were three large
pigs, &c. ricks of hay ; these were entirely con-
- July 11. This evening, the rectory of fumed, together wilti the malting, a
Great Crejfingham, Norfolk, was struck quantity of malt, and a waggon which
with lightning.—It entered the house with stood loaded with so quarters, the flames
a tremendods crash, rent a chimney-piece spreading Ib fast as to prevent them put
and some pictures, and it was then attract ting in the holies to draw it out. Fortu
ed by the be)l-wirc, which it melted. nately this was the last effort of the de
All the family escaped unhurt. vouring element ; in the course of the
The same afternoonv as a tcambelonging night and next day it was completely ex
to Mr. Potter, of Leziate, near Lynn, was tinguished. The loss is valued at 10,500s.
returning home, three of the horses were of which 7000/. is insured ; to make up
killed by the lightning; the 4 th, on which the remainder, the contributions of the
the man rode, killed himself from his humane and charitable are to be solicited.
fright, and the other hoise received a se Mr. C»fs,' of the Swan, was a very gieat
vere shock. The rider sustained no in- sufferer indeed1 ; the whole of his rick-
Jury. yard, containing nine large ricks of hay
Manchester, July 18. This day being and two of sttaw, has been entirely con-
the Anniversary os several Friendly Socie fumed, and his furniture so damaged by
ties, the Members of one called the Orange being removed as to be almost spoiled : he
Club, consisting of Irish Protestants, at- " is insured, but not to the amount of his
tendcdScrvice at the Collegiate Church ; loss. The Hitchin Volunteers gained
but, in proceeding from thence, they great credit for their steady behaviour in
Were attacked by a number of their coun mounting guard over tlie property that
trymen, (Roman Catholics) armed wi:h was saved.
bludgeons, &c. hear High-street; when a ■ July (21. An abominable conspiracy-
rencontre took place, wherein several were has been detected among the a8th Foot,
wounded, some of whom were sent to the composed chiefly of Irishmen, stationed
Infirmary. Seven or eigh' of the ringlea at Maiden. The conspirators having heard
ders were apprehended, and lodged in the that many of our soldiers were afrli6tcd
New Bailey Prison. The military re With the Ophthalmia, which occasioned
mained on duty all night. blindness, originated a report that the
July lg. This evening a violent storm complaint was infectious, and that about
of thunder, lightning, " and rain, took 300 of that regiment had experienced its
place at Hull, which continued for 'an effects. Muny exhibited every appearance
hour. The rain fell in such torrents that of this calamity : some were totally blind,
some streets were rendered impassable, the and others had suffered the loss of an eye.
water being near a foot deep. The light Government became alarmed at the affair,
ning .was so incessant, that the iky was and surgeon.-! were sent to investigate the
enveloped in one continued and vivid ex disorder. Some men were discharged, and
panse of flame ; which, witft the occa others pensioned and sent to Chelsea. It
sional rushing of the wind, and tremen appears, from the confession of one who
dous roar of the accompanying pealstof became an evidence against the rest, that
thunder, formed a spectacle at once sub the blindness was temporary, and caused
lime and awfal'. ( by the application of tin ointment. They
Within, July 10. A terrible fire broke were this day brought up at Chclmsford
'6ut at Slevaiege on Friday the 10th inst, ■for trial, when they all volunteered for
about noon (said to be owing to the care foreign service, which was accepted ;
lessness of a woman, in throwing out hot and they were marched away under an
ashes into a yard where there was fo'me escort.
straw), and burnt with 'such fury, that, July 22. A fire broke out this after
by eight in the evening, when it was only noon at Forton barracks near Go/port,
got under by pulling down three cottages, which nearly consumed the whole of the
it had totally destroyed 34 dwelling- buildings. They were undergoing a' re
houses, a numher of barns and out pair for the reception of French prisoners.
houses, 13 large ricks of hay, a quantity The accident was occasioned by a pitch-
of corn and malt,' household furniture, kettle boiling over.
Domestic
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Domestic Occurrences. feience ; and that you may late inherit the
Saturday, April 18. unfading crown which is reserved in
The following Address to the King's Heaven for .the protectors and defenders
most excellent Majesty, was this day sealed of the sincere and uncorfupted F'aith of
at Sion College. Christ ; is the fervent and constant prayer
" We, your Majesty's most dutiful and of, Sire, Your ever dutiful, grateful, and
loyal subjects, The London Clergy, incor affectionate Subjects,
porated by the title of The Prejident and The President and Fellows
Fellows of Sion College within the City of of Sion College.
. London, beg leave to approach your sa Given at Sion College, under our
cred Majesty, and at the present moment, Common Seal, April 18, 1807."
in all humility, to lay before you the sen Monday, »/ime22.
timents of veneration, duty, and affection, At 3 this day the Marlborough, of 7*
by which your Clergy of the City of Lon guns, was launched at Barnet's Dock,
don have ever been animated towards your Deptfo'rd. The old Marlborough, which
royal Person and august Family. broke the enemy's line on the First ofJune,
„ " We feel, Sire, that we should be ut 1796 , was lost some time since, on the
terly unworthy of that uniform and pious Pen marks (rocks) near brest, and the pre
..protection, which, through the course of sent ship was built to supply her place,
a long and auspicious reign, your Majes and support, the honourable name. She
ty has, under Divine Providence, exten is considered the finest ship of her rate
ded to the Church established in this ever built by contract. The scene, was
United Kingdom, if we did not, in the highly .gratifying, every vessel was deco
present posture of affairs, express our rated with streamers, and there were up
deep and indelible gratitude to your Ma wards of 10,000 fpectators prefent; among
jesty, for a recent instance of your royal whom were, the Duke of Gloucester, the
wisdom and constancy, in the-preseryati- Princess of Wales, Duchess of Chandos,
' on of those sanctions which experience Lady Castlereagh, Lord Harborough, Ad
has proved to be necessary for the protec miral Stanhope, &c. After the launch,
tion of our Constiturion in Church and between three and four hundred visitants
State. These .sanctions were the legacy partook of a collation in the Model Room,
©f our revered ancestors, who lived in and in the evening a ball and supper en
times most distinguished by the progress sued. The Deptford Volunteers preserved
of true philosophy and the sagacity of le good order in the yard during the launch.
gislative wisdom. ^ Monday, June -20.
" Sire, we are fully aware of all th The ceremony of chairing Sir Francis
clangers and confusions which must arise Eurdett took place, this' day. The pro
from. depriving the Established Church of cession was marshalled in Covent-garden,
that'mild and tolerant ascendency, which and set out at twelve in its progress through
equally prevents the ruinous conflicts of St. Martin's-lane, Soho, &c. to the'Barc-
contending sects and the overbearing su net's house, in Piccadilly, where he
premacy of of a foreign spiritual jurisdic mounted the. triumphal car. It then 'pro
tion, inconsistent either with liberty, or ceeded along Piccadilly, down the Hay-
toleration, or genuine allegiance to a Pio- market, up St. Martin's-Ume, roand Co
testant Prince. vent-garden, down Southampton-street,
" Inycur Majesty's firm refusal to sanc and along the Strand, to the Crown and
tion projects utterly subversive of all that Anchor. The car was as high as the
the wisdom of our forefathers devised, and one pair of stairs windows. The wheels
destructive of the strongest barriers of that were covered with draperies and painting,
constitution which your august Family and the car was decorated with the arms
were called by Divine Providence to the oftheparisliesof Westminster. There was a
Throne of these Kingdoms to defend, we profusion of blue ribbons about the horses
recognise, with veneration and gratitude, and harness. The feat upon which the
an eminent regard for the true principles Baronet was placed stood upon a lofty C«-
of Christian Toleration and the high duties rinthian pillar erected oh a platform. 'It
incumbent on a Monarch of the Protes resembled the triumphal cars of the ah-
tant Succession, aud a most conscientious ttent Romans. The cavalcade consisted
adherence to the sanctity of your Corona chiefly of the Electors, four and four.
tion Oath, which places the Protestant Upwards of 600 dined in the large room"at
Religion established by law in this King the Crown and Anchor in which Sir
dom under your Majesty's peculiar and Francis was; and 660 more were accom
incessant protection. modated in other rooms. IriclUdiiigaU
" That your Majesty may long here on the various streets, it was supposed between
earth enjoy the allegiance, assection, and 2 and 300,000 men, women, and etj$}-
gratitude, of all your faithful subjects, dren werecollected.The populace disperse*
aud the approving testimony of yotu cor»- in peace," . -. •-
Tuefdou,
 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. [July,
Tuesday, July 7. vour ; but the, number os applicants for
The Duchess of Brunswick landed from its assistance has been found much greater
the Clyde frigate, at Gravesend, this day, than was expected, and still calls most
and proceeded to th» residence of the urgently for the fatther and prompt aid of
Princess of Wales at Blackheath. Her a benevolent public. His Royal High
Royal Highness was received with every ness appeared highly interested and grati
possible mark of refpe.;t, and was greasly fied by the exertions of these two Rev.
affected on the occasion.—(lis Majesty vi Gentlemen, which he expressed very par
sited his Royal Sister on the ath. ticularly to both of them ; and thsn pre
Saturday, July 11. sented Lo the Charity a donation of 5»
We have long had great pleasure -in ob guineas, which, was received by three
serving the uniform and rapid progress cheers from the numerous assembly. This
made in the public estimation, by that benevolent example was followed by the
excellent Institution, the Asylum for Lord Mayor, who also presented 50 gui
Deaf and Dumb Children ; and it was with neas ; Charles Peichell, efq. 40 gui
sincere satisfaction we witnessed the very neas ; Samuel Thornton, efq. 20 gui
gratifying and impressive ceremony of this neas ; and several smaller donations were
morning; when his Royal Highness the also given. His Royal Highness was then,
Duke of Gloucester, attended by the attended in procelHon to a large marquee,
Lord Mayor, the Treasurer H. Thorn where a cold collation was provided ; and
ton, esq. the Gentlemen and Officers after taking refresliraents, inspected the
of the Committee, the Lady Mayoress, plans and elevation of the intended
a»d a numerous assemblage of the fair building. Mr. Swithin gave the neces
friends of the institution, laid the first sary explanations, and his Royal High
stone of a new Asylum. The first Regi ness expressed great approbation of Mr.
ment of Loyal Surrey Volunteers, com Svvithiu's general arrangements, and of
manded by Lieut. Col. Gaitlkcll, ob his taste and judgment riiiplayed in the
ligingly undertook to keep the ground, and designs, and concurred very cordially in
added much to the order and splendour of the opinion of the Committee, that n».
the day. His Hoyal Highness, attended pence outfit to be incurred by unneces
by Captain' Curry, was received at the sary decoiations. His Koval Higtineft
entrance by Lieut.-col. Gaitiketl, and proceeded to his carriage, amidst the plau
the Grenadier Company, and conducted dits of a^l present, who testified in_thre
by the Committee to thl platform, on warmest manner the gratification they
which was placed the stone with an in felt in witnessing their Royal Visitor's be
scription cut in black marble, and on a nevolence and uibanity of manners. The,
copper plate; his Royal Highness then Committee are entitled to great praise for
put into a small glass bottle some new their zeal and attention to the accommo
coins, and deposited them in the stone, dation of the public ; as is ailo Mr. Swith
which was then lowered down by his Royal in, for the assiduity' with which he made
Highness, assisted by Mr. Swithin, the the necessary preparations, and executed
Architect of the building. The Secre in so judicious a manner the commands
tary, the Rev. Richard Yates, delivered of the Society.
an appropriate prayer, which patheti Inscription on the First Stone.
cally noticed ihe peculiarly distressing de " A Society to provide education for the
privations of the poor objects of this Cha Deaf and Dumb children of Indigent pa
rity, and impressively stated and implored rents, was first projected and established
the various blessings to them, and to the in London, A. D. 17.03, by the Rev. John
community, that the protection and in Townsend, and the Rev. Henry Cox Ma
struction of this new Asylum are intended son; and this first Stone of a new Asylum,
to afford. The Founder of the Society, built by voluntary contribution, was laid
the Rev. John Townsend, made an elo on the nth of July, in the year of pur
quent Address, directing the attention of Lord 1807, and the 47 th of the reign of
tie Assembly to the important blessings King George the Third, by his Majesty's
derived to this country by the accession to Nephew his Royal Highness Prince Wil
the Throne of the illustrious House of liam Duke of Gloucester."
Hanover, under whose mild and paternal Saturday, July 25.
Government ibis country bad become pe Yesterday morning, as William Topping,
culiarly distinguished for its public chari 19 years of age, apprentice to Messrs.
ties ; arid after noticing the number that Rovve and Co. stationers in Fleet-street,
-adorn this Metropolis, detailed the pecu went to bathe in the Thames, bff Temple-
liar circumstances of that for the educa stairs, although a good fwimmet, he was
tion of the Deaf and Dumb. The small unfortunately drowned by sticking in a
fciou planted by him had now risen to bank of. mud, in which he remained an
a vigorous and flourishing plant, its hour. After he wag taken on shore, Dr.
utility was unequivocally established by Welbeck used every means to restore ani
experience, and sanctioned by public fa mation, but without effect.
1807.] Additions and CorreR'io ns in former Obituarist.
P. 376, cpl. 2, 1. 24, for "Suffolk," r.
" Norfolk."
P. 697. John Walrad, Count de Wcl-
deren, was the last male of a family whose
nobility is so antient that its origin is co
eval with the formation of Society and
States in the Middle Ages of History; and
which, for many centuries back, 'was
seated in the Duchy of Guelder, or Guel-
derland, which, in after-ages, made part
of the Rcpublick of the United Provinces
of the Low Countries. In that country, as
in many other mixed Sovereignties in that
part of Eurcpe, the Equestrian Order
formed, from the most antient times, a
part of the Government under their li
mited Sovereigns; and none but families
that were noble from time immemorial,
and whose nobility was not deriveable
from Letters of filobilittUivn, could be ad
mitted, if otherwise pollessed of the ne-
•alsary qualifications. This' privilege was
preserved when the Duchy of Guelder ac
ceded to the Confederacy ot the United Pro
vinces ; and the deceased, when he came
#f age, became, in consequence, in right
•s his birth, a Member of the Equestrian
Order ; and was, soon after, by the States
of that Province, appointed one of their
Deputies to the Assembly of the States-
Genera! of the United Provinces; in
which he continued until the beginning
•f the yeaT 1705, when the fabric!; of
that Government, the happiness of that
Country, its prosperity, and its indepen
dence, were swallowed up in the torrent
•f the French Revolution. — Count VV.
was invested with several places of trust
and dignity in his. own country ; and in
1762 was appointed Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the States
to his Majesty; and, during a residence
•f 18 years, gave so many proofs of wis
dom, prudence, conciliatory manners, and
integrity, in the management of the pub
lic business between the two Countries,
tbat he soon acquired the esteem of the
• rst Characters in the kingdom, and the
approbation of the Sovereign, who on se
veral occasions has been graciously pleased
to express the great regard he entertained
for that Minister. The War, which, by
French intrigue, assifted by the Patriot
Party in Holland, broke out towards the
latter end of 1790, put an end to his pub
lic million. Count W. was, moreover,
Knight of the Most; Noble the Teutonic
Order; Bailiwick of Utrecht; Commander
•f Dieren ; and succeeded his Serene
Highness the Prince of Anhalt, about a
twelvemonth before his decease, as Grand
Commander of that Order. — Few great
men, in public life, have sustained a more
eonsistent character of loyalty and inte
grity than Count Welderen j from princi
ple ana affection he was attached t» the
antient Constitution of his Country, and
to the House of Orange ; and from them
he received, throughout the whole period
of their prosperity and adversity, the most
undeniable marks of regard and affection,
and continued to be their friend to the
last. In his private life, as a gentleman,
his manners were mild and amiable j his
social intercourse full of amenity. He
was a warm friend, an indulgent master,
and a tender husband. His father had.
been Ambassador Extraordinary to George
the Second, upon his accession, in the
year 1727. He was born at the Hague,
in Holland, Jan. 10, 1725 ; and married,
in 1 7 5g, Anne Whitwel), who had been
maid of honour to her Royal Highness
the late Princess of Orange, and was sif
ter to the late Lord Howard de Walde»
and Braybrooke, and of the late Mrs.
Griffin, wife of the late William Parker,
D.D. By her he had two children, a son.
and a daughter, who both died infants;
his Countess died in April, 1796, at the
Hague, in her 75th year ; when domestie
losses (his only brother, a lieutenant-ge
neral in the Army, and commandant of
Maestricht, having, after the fall of that
place, died a few weeks before, in his
house, where he had taken refuge), added
to public misfortunes, prompted him to
return to this country, where, both from,
friends and relations, he met with such
unbounded cordiality and friendship as to
afford him, in the bitterness of his last
years, an abundant source of consolation,
which was felt by him, and is recorded
here, with the mo* sincere and grateful
sensibility. His remains were interred in
the New Chapel of St. James's, Totten
ham-court-road, on the 19th of June. L.
P. 598. Hr.rriet, Lady Borrowes, sister
of the Countess of Uxbridge, was young-
eft (laughter of Arthur Champagne, Dean,
of ClonmaCnoia, in Ireland ; and married,
in 1 783, Sir Erasmus Borrowes, bart. ot"
Giltown, co. Rildare, the sixth. Baronet us
that family. '
Ibid. The late Countess of Darlington
was daughter of Harry the sixth and last.
Duke of Bolton, by Catherine sister of the
late Earl of Lonsdale. It may not be use
less to inform the middling classes of So
ciety, who, from seeing some glaring in
stances, among the higher orders, of in
excusable abuse of the blessings and ad
vantages which God has bestowed upon
them, are apt to suppose that no virtue \%
to be found in the courtly circles, that the
life of the late Countess of Darlington,
among many others, will eminently prove
their mistake. Born in the highest rank,
adorned with all the charms of beauty,
which were celebrated by many pens,
and afforded a most gratifying subject t»
the pencils of a Cosway and a Reynolds,
accustomed
 68o Births and Marriages
•ccuftemed to daily attention, to .univer
sal admiration, she never betrayed the
smallest symptom of vanity; nor did her
own person, or her own merit, ever seem
to form a part of her consideration. She
pleased every one who had the honour of
fceing admitted to her society ; but it was
no effort in her to please ; her own hea
venly disposition led her to make others
happy ; and .that politencls which is ge
nerals acquired by a knowledge of the
fasliionablc world was in her nature and
habit. In September. 1787, at the age
of 21, her Ladyship married her first cou
sin, the Karl of "Darlington ; from which
lime, to the hour of her death, her con
duct, as a wife and a mother, was truly
exemplary, as, in the earlier part of her
life, she had been fascinating and attrac
tive, Partaking occasionally of those
scenes and amusements suitable to her
Saturn, {he never neglected her important
duties. Of such a life (he is now gone to
reap the reward. It is impoflible to de
scribe the feelings of thole nearly con
nected with such a character, who remain
to deplore her loss ; but the writer of this
tribute to her, memory, who had many
opportunities of witneliing her amiable
manners, and of admiring her .spotless
♦hamster, will never cease to cherish the
recollection that he had the honour of in
timately knowing her, or to regret her
early fate.
Births.
IATELV, at Edinburgh, Lady Gibson
_j Carmichacl, a daughter.
In Downing-street, the wife of Major
Watson, ^ daughter.
The wife of Benjamin Hothouse, esq.
M. P. for()'. Hindon,
■ June The wifeWilts,
of Mr.a Charles-Philip
son.
Galabin, of theUuion Fire-office,a third son.
H.At her father's house, in Grol'venor-
place, the wife of Capt. George Taylor, of
the 21ft Light Dragoons, a (on ami heir.
10. Mis. .Darkly, of Highbury-grove,
Middlesex, a daughter.
21. At Stockholm, the Queen of Swe
den,7 a princess.
7*3. Ib Bentincli-street, the lady of Lt.-
•ol. Sir Robert Wilson, K.M.T. a daughter.
At Gray abbey, in the North of Ireland,
the Hon. Mrs. Montgomery, a son.
- 25. ,In Great Cumberland-place, the
wife of Mr. Pinkney, the American Mi-
Kilter FxJraordinarv, a son.
26.TheDuchessofRutland,ason and heir.
2Q. In Somerset-street, Port man-square,
the wife of Thcr. Bidwell, esq. a daughter.
' At Bath, the wife of Joseph Labalmon-
diere, esq. a son.
30. .At Ustington, near Stamford, co,
Lincoln, the wife of Lieut.-col. Ainslie,
Of the 'J.Sth Foot, a daughter. <
At the Souse of her father, in Tower-
of remarkable Persons. [July,
square, Captain Money, of the Hereford
shire Militia, a daughter.
July . . . The wife of the Rev. G. Eddi-
son, os Kingarstone, Essex, a daughter,
being the first child after having been
married 19 years.
July :. The wife of Valentine Conolly,
esq. of Portland-place, a son.
At Macclough, in Radnorshire, the feat
of Walter Wil'kins, esq. M. P. the Hon.
Mrs. Wilkins, a son and heir. . ■ ,•
4. The wife of Thomas North, esq. of
Shoreditch, a daughter.
At King's Cratnpnd, in Scotland, the
Hon. Mrs. Ramsay, a daughter.
sy Jane King, of Wiveliscom.be, Devon,
three daughters.
6. At Waltham-cross, the wife of the
Rev. Mr. Purrier, of Enfield, a son.
At Moor park, Herts, the wife of the
Rev. J. W. Cunningham, of Ockham, in
Surrey, a daughter.
The wife of John Gosling, esq. of Glou-:
cefter-place, Mary-la-Bonne, a daughter.
8. In the Close, Winchester, the Coun
tess of Northefk, a son.
At Hill cottage, Kentisli-town, the wife
of Tho. Greenwood, jun. est], a daughter.
9. The wife of Henry Grimes, esq, of
Nottingham-place, Mary-la- Bonne, a son.
JO. At Ornisby, co. Lincoln, the seat
of her father, C. B. Maffingbeid, esq. the
wife of C. G. Mundy, esq. a daughter.
12. At his Lordship's house, in Hert
ford-sir. May-fair, Lady Milton, adaught.
I4.iTiie wife of M. B. Lifter, esq. of
Burwell park, near Lourh, co. Line, a son.
i6. The wife of Thomas-Richard Wal
ter, esq. of Oxford, a son.
18. In Portland-place, the Countess of
Mansfield, a daughter. . ;
In Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, the
wife of the Rev. Robert Stevens, a son.
IQ. At the rectory-house, inTurnwheel-
lane, Cannon-street, the wife of Rev. H.
G. Watkins, a son, which died in '2 hours..
The wife of John Hardy, esq. recorder
df Leeds, 90. York, a daughter.
23. At Latton, Essex, Mrs. Cross, wife
of the Rtv. Wm. C. curate of that place,
and rector of Aruwell, Herts, a son.'
26, At the Cottage as Bridlington, co,
Dorset, Mrs. Prickett, a daughter.
Marriages.
'April A T Palermo, the Princess Maria-
6. r\ Christina, daughter of his Ma-j
jefiy Ferdinand the Fourth, King of the
Two Sicilies, to his Royal Highness Prince
Charles-Felix of Savoy, Duke of Genevpis,
brother to his Majesty the King of Sardinia.
June iK. At Cheltenham, Rev. Henry,
Delves Brqughtou, second son of the Rev.
Sir Thomas B. bart., of Doddington-hall,
in Cheshire, to the only daughter of John
Pigot't, esq. of Bevere, co. Worcester.
- ' 29. At
 ,i8o7«X Marriages as ternarable Verfoyi:- ■ . , 6B1
' . 29. At Kingston, Surrey, Charles Cil- • At Whitehall, by special licenced the
c)irist, esq. surgeon, to the elded daughter jrion. Undsay-Meyrlck BtflreH,- second Toh
of H^nry Baldwin, esq... ' of' Lord Gwydirj to Franc|s, ^rjoungest cjjua.
30. At -Send ehureh« in Surrey, Mr. of the tote James Daniel), esq. ,; ' "fy
William Turner, of Ripley, to Miss Anne 14. Stephenson Kiting, etq; of jJeerl-
Daws, of Greve-tleath. ham, Su'solk, and <Vrrti>ri;-co..Vork'; to
Altred-Tbrale Perkins, psq. of the Tem>- Miss Bedingfield, of the forft\i:r place.
pU, to Miss Jane Bailey, of Peckharn, Surr. 15. Mr. George Dunbih' ptoseflbf ^
At the Grove, co. Limerick, James Ray Greek in the University of Kdlikbo'rgh',' to
mond, esq. of .Riversdale, CO. Kerry, to Miss Barbara-Augusta. Hamilton, daui'pf
Miss Odel), daughter of Gol. Odell, M. P. the late Rob. H. esq. of Canton, in China.
. July ... Ajt Clifton, Capt. Northey Hopr 16. Ar Dublin, the Hon. Dimslas Gor
kins, of the i3d Foot, son of Major-General don Hallyburtpn, Ion of the late Earl of
H. to Miss Fortescue, one of the daughters Aboyne, to Louisa, only Child of Sir'Ed-
at the late Gerald F. esq. and niece to the ward Leslie, bart. of Tarbert, co. Kerry.
Marquili'es of Lothian and Wellesley, and At Walthamftow, Essex, Arthur-Howe
to Sir, C. Fortescue. '. • Hoidl'worth, esq. M. P, for Dartmouth, tc>
July I. At Harwich, bj- special licence, Catherine-Henrietta, only daughter of the
the Rev. Herbert Marsh, Margaret profes late John Eastabrookc; est), 6fStoke, Devon.
sor of Divinity, and fellow of St. John's Rev. Joseph Wells, D.D. of Havensfield
college, Cambridge, to Miss Marianae- lodge, Bucks', to Miss Cholwich, of Wel-
Eroilie.-Charlotte Lecarriere, daughter of beck-ftreet, Cavendish-square, daughter of
tbe late John L. esq. merchant at Leipzig. the late Wm. Useft! of Oldfton, Devon,
%. By special licence, Richard Neave, At Gby, Norfolk, by the Bishop of Nor
esq. of Lincoln's inn, third son of Sir Ri wich, the Rev, Henry Bathurst, LL.B. fee*
chard X. bart. to the. only daughter of tor of Oby," and chancellor of the diocese
Alexander Irvine, esq. deceased, and grand of Norwich, to Miss Frances Mackenzie,
daughter os the late, George Peters, esq. daughter of the late John M, esq.. of
4, Rev. Joseph ilallet Batten, M. A. Strathgarve, in Rosssliire. :"
fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, to By special licence, at St. George's!,
Catherine, thir<« daughter of Hamilton Hanover-square, Lord St. John of Bletsoe,
Maxwell, esq. of Edinburgh. to the eldest daughter of Sir Cbarlcc'-WH-
(6.- At Meltoh Mowbra*', co. Leicester, liam-Rsule Boughton, bart. t .'-
the Rev. CharlesTowjf&nd, rector of Calr 17. JohryBambridge Story.esq.of Lock-
stone, Wilts, .to Lucy, youngest daughter ington,co.Ixioefter,'toMissSophfa Knight-
of the Rev. William Jeffe, of Weft Brom- ley, of Preston, co. Northampton. ' . .
wicb, co. Stafford. J 8. By spe'ciaHicence, at Lambeth .pa
7. AtWickham, Hants, the Rev. J. S. lace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Rashleigh, rector of that parish, to Miss the Duke of Newcastle, to Miss Muaday\
Stanhope, daugh. of the late.Admirai S. daughter and sole heiress of Edward Mil
At Willingham, co. Cambridge, Alex ler M. esq. with a fortune of J§o,Ct6ul.
ander PowelJ, esq, of H lirdcott-housc, co. and an estate of 15,000!. a year. -
Wilts, to Joanna, second daughter of the At Lady Lisajore's, in ChaVlej-Rreft,
Rev. Dr. Law, prebendary of Carlisle. Berkeley-square, "William Cavendilh,JeYq.
9. At St. James's, Piccadilly, by spe to the Hon MissO'Callagan, eldest daugh
cial Jicence, Licut.-col. the Hon. Fulke ter of the late Lord. Lil'rhore. .
Greville Upton, to the only daughter of At Leeds, Mr. -Rnic.il i, to Miss'Smisb',
Richard Howard, esq. ofCastle-Rising, Nor both of the Theatre RoyaH Vbrk.
folk, and niece to the late Earl os Suffolk. 2f. Capt. Broad, of the Royals, brrjrsde-
At Hendon, Middlesex, the Rev. Dr. tnajaf of the London 'district, to r.iii;?-
Scott, of Southminster, Eilix, to MissRy- Anne," second daughter of William Milt,
<ler,.dao$h. of Thomas K. esq. os llendoti. esq. of Kensington terrace. j
Rev. Mr. Pan iton, erf Repton, to Miss At WesteHcon, Hanis, Gren/ S(r David
Ui chard, of Milton. Duttdas, K. B. 4c. to-Mift Dp L'aVicy. ,1
It. At St. George's, Hanover-fquate, 22. Rev. Thomas Jones, reftor of Rad,-
the Rev. Anthony Hamilton, Ion nf Arch nage, Bucks, to MissCooke, daugh. of the
deacon H. t,o Mil's Farquhar, daughter of Rev. Jn.Ci criaplainofGreuAWirh hospital.
Sir Walter V. bart. Mr.Benjariiiii Travers, jun. of CateatruV
13. At Chelsea, C. C. Raper, esq. of the ftreet-, to Miss Morgan, daughter of Wil
War-office, to Miss. Phillips, daughter t>f liam M. et'q.'of Stamford-hill. , ',
Lieut.-col. P. of the Royal Marines, anil •• »3'. At Si'. Bride's, the Rev. Johrr Cai-
.jpand-dau. of Dr. .Jiurney, of Chelsea'-coll. throp, of Gfrstiirton, co. Lincoln^ to the
At Stanwell, Middlesex, the.ReviTho- eldest daughter of Mr. Bonner,.Fleei-street.
Bias-Charles- May, of Brearrtorc, Hants, • 29. At Windleflinm, Surrey, the Rev,
to the .eldest daughter of Sir William Gib- Robert Cox, rector ot bioughton, near
ions, bart. of Stanwell-place. ieiccBer,. toA^ls Ijryccstcr, i>f Jtat shoi.
t5E»r. $Iao. July; l8oj. Deaths,
11
6$2 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of nmarkable Persons. [Julv,
DE ATHS. v " der the trying circumstances of an illness
1826., \ T Prince of Wales's Island, - which, from its first symptoms, was at- •
tip/. l*f\.- of. a. .contagious fever; ygtcl tended with alarming danger, when he
it, Mr. Hemy-W-illiam Runifey, furiicon was at-»-»listance from his relations and
in' the service of the East. India CyrhpUrty, coumry, exciting the esteem of all who
and .fork of. Mt.. Henry R. surgeon at' saw him, andengaging from strangers every - ,
Ameifham, Buck-;. office of kind attention. '[See p. 403.] ■
i)tc. 12.. AtlHyderabad, in the East lu • II.' In his 28th year, Mr. Thomas
rries, George Ufi, e((\. Tapper!, f-irgeon in the Royal Navy. He
. 1837. March..: In Egypt, Mr. Henry was -returning from the W .'Indies (where
Gox'na^ surgeon on the Staff attached to he- had served twice this war) for the be--
%hc British Army in that country, and Ion nefit of. his health. The immediate caul'e-
.of Mr. G. of Stamford, co. Lincoln, 1 . '* of his death arose from his philanthropic
April .... At Kingston, Jamaica, Alex. determination of going on deck (contrary
Richie, eft), many year* -an ittorncy.tricre. to the advice of the officers) to assist in"
^ijprii 12. At the Cape of Good Hope, the amputation of-a- poor seaman's leg';
of a fever, under which he had suffered and, by exposing himself suddenly to the'
for near two months. Broad Malkin, efq. air' Of another climate, he took cold,
first Major in his Majesty's 21st Light. which affecting his lungs, oi-cafioned his'
Dragoons; in which Regiment he had death in a few days.
served with credit to himself, and real ad 17. Aged 40, on board his flag-ship,
vantage to his King and Country, near 13' the Cancpcs, off Alexandria, of an in
ycars; during which period he had expe flammation rn his bowels, after a short
rienced much severe duty, principally in but . very painful and severe illness, - Sir
foreign climates. -He died sincerely la Thomas Louis, bart. of Chelstnn, Devon-
mented by his brother-officers and friends ; (so created Mar. 20, lSOb), Rear-admiral-
and his remains (attended by Lieutenants of the White, Knight of the Order of
gejieral Grey,- the whole of the' Officers in Maria Theresa, and -of St. Ferdinand and
that garrison, and by his-own Regiment) Merit, whose long and faithful services to
werek int'errett at Cape Town, on the fol his country were as valuable in a public
lowing day, with universal sorrow and re point of view, as bis virtues were in the
gret. A few months- previous to hrs Re esteem of all those who had. the honour
giment being ordered to the Cape, Major and pleasure of his acquaintance. Oil the
Malkin was married to the eldest" daugh lfirh he was on shore walking, and Com
ter of Josiati Spode, -efq. of the Mount, in plained to some of thole around him of a
Staffordshire, whom He has left, with an little pain. 'On his return onboard, he ate
infant daughter, 10 deplore his loss. his dinner with his usual appetite, and went
,- At Su Lucia, in the prime of life, by a to bed in very good spirits, having felt much
fill from hi*-horl'ei I.ieiit.-col. Montague relieved thmng the evening, and expected
Thoralcy, - commander of (he Royal West a good night V sleep. Unfortunately, he was
.India Rangers. ".- .. .- • . ' again attacked about four in the morning
Hayy.. Mr. William Jcphcott, of. Bir of- the 17th; a*d medical -advice, both
mingham, hrother to the late Rev. John from the Army and Navy, was sent for,
'J; of 'Kiflingbury, co. Northampton. his attendants being apprehensive of dan
At Faliuouth,.n few days after his re- ger. The Physicians arid Surgeons quit
lurn from Gpoi to, of hmmoptoe, VViliiam ted the Ctfuopus, and went uu tbore about
Claries, eft), fcjlovv. ofAIl Souls college, ' won, leaviirg the Admiral, in thrir opi
Oxford, son of.- she late Sir Thomas C. and nion, su e from all-dangerous symptoms,
brother to the present Baronet. This amia- and without any apprehension of an in-
. bleyotingman,wliQ had not completed his flumolation taking place. About three
SStij year, \«-«s distinguished for his talents -o'clock, however, a great alteration for
aud attainments-, as-Well as for a disposition the worse was perceived, an«t the Faculty
; arisfinahnecs 'which engaged the affection Were again immediately sent for to repair
of all .yihx) knew him: . Æ principle of ge on-board the Canopus. On their arrival,
nuine and unaffected piety-had* produced, ■at four.' o'clock., they gave over all hopes
• in the earliest disclosure of his character, of the Admiral's recovery,. as the morlifi-
. the most noble and generous sentiments, .cation in -h.s bowels had 'already taken
• a mingled sweetness unri dignity of deport- place, lie remained sensible, except a
■' ment, a cheerful and well-regulated con •little iva-i.-leri|ig at rimes,' to the last/ half
duct, and views of the most enlarged and h'.Mir, and at ten -that n::;ht expired? in
-Colilidertite benevolfuce. - The- influence .the pretence, of Cup:, Short Sand and Mr.
of ah:? principle,' confirmed -by- his . tua- .Nicholson-, • hiJ fa-.ila.u and secretary.
tnrer juii£aientr exhibited its most im- His hody \v;u conveyed to Ma Ira on-Uoard
V rtrcfiive effects in the composure, and re- -his M,-ijeffy's sloop of war'Bitrern, where
. filiation, in the animated faith and con Sir-Alexander Bali,- his friend and eofn-
fidence in God, which supported him un panion through thcij'erviee, and Capt.
-Schom'deig,
1807.3 Obituary, wilb Anecdotes, cs remarkable Persons. '6^3
Schomberg, saw 'his remains deported of. the fifteenth century; and, in 5 0 10.
wiih nil the honours due to his .rank, by Charles d'Albe/t, his descendant," w^s
the side of the pallant Abcjxroruby. Cy raised to the Peerage of Fiance, as Duke
his death, hii country has to lament one De Lurries. •/ '.
of its uaval heroes, who, in concert with, ■ .Agvd 6-2, the Abbe Edgeworth, who
the immortal Nelson, obtained the glori accompanied Louis XVI. , to the scaffold.
ous battle of the Nile ;—a victory' which, He caught, in visiting the French pri
as.it will ever be the pride and glory of soners at Mittau, a fever, which in a saw
Englishmen, must render th^mere dear days put a peiiod-to his existence. Se$ ■
to the rfsthe names of those brave men p. 039.
by whole valour it Was achieved. His 25. On-board the Cleopatra frigate, Rt
wife has to bewail the soss of a tender Halifax, in Nova Scotia, Mr. Lohgfield, a
husband, his children au affectionate pa lieutenant in the Royal Navy, son of the
rent, all bis connexions an endearing re celebrated Physician of that name in Cork.
lation, and society one of its brightest ar He had had, some months since, a dispute
maments ; for his exemplary conduct in with a Mr. Dawes, the store-keeper of the
all thole relative duties were no where to dock-yard there ; in which, it is said, he
be. surpassed. He has left Lady Louis, called him a dirty fellow. Dawes made a
with four sons and three daughters, the complaint to the Commissioner, who re
eldest of whom, Sir. John Louis, bart. a ferred him to the Admiral. Longfield
captain in the Royal Navy, has succeeded suffered close confinement for 6 months ;
to his title. Their, situation-, from this but was at last released, and did his dirty.
distressing event, is as difficult to be de However, on fresh application to the Ad
scribed, a£ the value of their loss is to be miral, while he was dressing to dine with,
recorded. For the particulars of the pub- some brother-officers on board the Mer
lip life of this valuable officer, on whom maid, he was informed, he must either
the freedom -of his native city (Exeter) _ make an apology, or stand his trial. From
was conferred- for his eminent services, his former sufferings, and the irritation of
we refer our readers *o the 15th and Mjth the moment, he went to his cabin, dis
volumes of the NavaLChronicle. He has charged a pistol through his heart, and
left seven children, four Ions and three- instantly expired, much lamented by the
daughters. The eldest of his Ions -was Officers ot the Fleet in general.
made a post-captain- by LoM Barham ; "Jutta . , : . At Celle, in Hanover, rtged
and the youn^ali is Iri the Naval Aca 81, -The mother of General Benningt'en.
demy at I'.Mtimouth. ..' At Moirxirk, in Scotland, aged' iSI
20. At Bath, aged -17, the Hon. Juliana years and .some months, "John Patterson,
Hartopp-W'igley, the very atniabie wife of a- shepherd from an early 'Period of his life
Edward Hartopp-Wigley, .clq. of Little till within these few years, and always in
Dalby, co. Leicester, and daughter of good health and spirits.
George fourth Lord Carbrrry, who mar-' - At Maveolinc, aged 01, Janet Cain-
ried Juliana third dan-brer of Baptist well, widow us Robert Wilson ; "Who,
fourth F.arl of Gainsborough. Her Lady during the last fix years of her life, had
ship fell- a .martyr to the measles, which been tapped sot a dropsy 74 tirnes, sr.d
she caught through an uninteimittcd at had had '^.'"S pin's of wster drawn off.
tendance on the tick bed of a deservedly, Mrs. Divies, wife of the Rev. B. Davies,
favourite son; who survives to lament the vicar ot LlbBrniddian, and perpetual cu
loss of a most affectionate mother. Her rate of St. John's, Swansea.
remains were interred in the family-vault Rev. Mr. Owen, rector of Llanbedr,
at Dalby. The funeral retinue, superbly near Ru'.hin. 7
decorated with the estochcons of the fa Suddenly, aged t)0, the Rev. John Simp
mily, attracted at Leicester the attention son, vicar of Wyihburn, Cumberland.
joi an immense concourse ot spectators. At Launcenon, in Cornwall, the Rev.
- '22. At Paris, aged 49, Louis-Joseph-: William TickelJ, u'ctdt of Ch>n-lton and
Charles-Amablrd' Albert De Luynes,n, 'm- Beaworthy, in that county. He was of
ber of the Conservative Senate, commander iixetcr college, Oxford ; U: C. L. 1>>H.
of the Legion of Honour, and formerly .At East Anstty, Devon, aged 81, the
Due De Luynes and De Cherreufe, aud Rck. John Bond, M.A. slafe ot Crcditon,,
a. Peer of France. He was hoin Nov. 4,. rector of the above parish, and cf Keti-
1749; and has left one son, aged 51 — ncrleigh; a man of the most unsullied re
The House of Albert, or Alberti, which putation and inflexible integrity, and ex
afterwards udded to its name that of De emplary in all the relative duties of-iife'.
Luynes in- consequence of iu acquiring At Hintori St. George, aged 6 2, WilHam
an estateef that namo, was a branch of Lane; whose strength Was so -great, ihit
the antient House of Albcxti, of Florence, a saw, weeks before his death he carried a
one of the most powerful tairulie* Df that lack of siaur, weighing OBOlb. frum the
republic!,. Louis.Albervi, one ot this, ft- mill to the- bskchcule,
mily, pasted into France at the begmnin™- ' ' . - " -• At
634 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [July,
At Ford, Co. Northumberland, aged 8$, very considerable line of business, al Wat-
Robert Sanderson, who was orderly fer- ford ; who, with the two daughters, Mary
jeant to General. Wolfe at the memorable,, and Elizabeth, share the property o£ their
attack on Quebec, and the person repre- brother>Henry, amounting to Upwards of
footed in the print a* supporting the Bri-- iao,OOOt. Mr. H.W. had not the advan-
tish General after' We had received bis - tage of a liberal education ; although pol-
mortal wound. ,v . , ... sesied of great newly-acquired wealth, ho
At Warmsworth, near Doncaster, aged was of very vnodetl and unassuming man-
8>., Catherine A Idhara, one of the people ners, and in.his deportment dissident and
called Quakers. . She 'is the last of the , respectful j his wealth eacited in Him no .
name of a family who have resided upon self-sufficiency ; he was a stranger to thai
the estate at Warmsworth, and who have overbearing disposition so frequently and
b«en owners of it, in a direct line, up- so justly complained of in illiterate per-
wards of goe years, • *• sons accidentally raised from low stations
At Sleaford, co. Lincoln, aged 30, after in life; to his relations affectionate; a
a long illness, Mrs. Roberts, wife of Mr. good neighbour ; and in all respects 8 •.
Jolm R. sub-distributor of stamps, worthy and respectable member of society.
At Gloucester, llenry-Charles Sclwyn, • Samuel Sewell, (on of Mr. S. palmer,
esq. lieutenant-governor of Mohtserrat. of St. Martin*? Le Grand,
^rs. Syndercombe, reli6l of G. Synder- ■ -6. William Kemeys, esq. of Maindee,
cornbe, LL.D. rectipr of Symondsbury. eo. Montnouth, in the commission of Ihe
At Shepherd's Uufh, qo. Middlesex, peace for that county.
James Jdhulon, esq. late architect to the At St. Neat's, Hunts, in her »7th year,
Barruck Department; from, which. sitiU- Mrs. Esther Dunch.
turn he retired about two yea/s since, on ft. John Cooke, esq. os Bedford-square,
account of ill health. . At Keswick, in his 36th year, the Rev.
June 1. At her seat at Glympton park, Joseph Middlcfteld, curate of Bootle.Cum-
co. Oxford, aged 75, Mrs. Wheat*, berland, and last survivor of eight children '
last suryivjjig daughter of the late SirTho- "whom his afflicted parents have buried:
in»s W. ban. of that county. 9. At Deptford, Kent, where: he ha4
At the Barnstaple, inn, Exeter, in conse- realized above so,oool. while matter of an
quence of a fall from his horse, the Rev, academy, George Hutton, esq.; whoh'a*'
lyir. StaOey, a respectable clergyman of bequeathed the greater piirt of his prepertjt.
Fordton, near C.rediton, Devon. f to Kitig's college, Aberdeen, where he fe-
2. In Merrion-square, Dublin, much ceived his education. He was uncle to the
and deservedly regretted, in his isthyear, Hev. Dr. Lloyd, Regius Hebrew professor
Hugh, son of Sir Hugh Crofton, bart. of at Cambridge, and minister of St. James's
Mow-hill, .co. Leitrim. chapel at Leith.
Of a hydro-thorax, at West-Mill, near '1 In New-street, Whitehaveh, co. Oum-
Hitchin, Herts, aged 64, Mr. Jas. Whit- herland, Mr. Thomas Potts, joiner. Ha
tingstall, miller. Amongst, the variety ot belonged to the Love and Unity Friendly
instances which the present War has pro- Society, the members of whieh attended
dticed of persons raised from obscure situa- his funeral,, being his fourth family func
tions tothe acquisition of immense wealth, ral at their expence; the deceaseds sirsce
the subject of this article may afford a his admission, having buried three wives.
Very striking example. Mr. J. W. was thfe 11. At Hinckley, co, Leicester, in his
second son of the late Mr. Henry W. who, soth year, sincerely rcspedled arid lament-
within a few years, rented a corn-mill, at ed, Mr, Thomas Hurst, Under the pref-
a very low rent, of John Radclysfe, esq.}, sure of many heavy trials, he exhibited
near Hitohin. The large meal contracts great patience and fortitude ; and at length
entered into by Government roused the yielding to the burthen of declining years;
attention of persons of all descriptions be bore his. last illness, and met the ap
pealing in corn; Capitalists searched out proach of death, with the fame sereisi'ty
the interior Traders, and Mr. H.W. be- and cheerfulness which had distinguished
came connected with one of the most him through life. in
considerable Contractors in that depart- I/. In his 70th year, Mr. Charles Soul-
ment. His three., elder Ions, Henry, by, of Horncastle, 00. Lincoln. ' .
James, and William, were soon enabled At Gramhara, aged 64, Mis. Gluantxj-
to take the very extensive corn-mills at rough, widow- of-James Q. gent.
Broxbourn, near Waftj and, by uniemit- Accidentally drowned in the riverNerio,
ting industry and assiduity; they acquired Lenton Role and George Stevens,' two re-
a very extensive trade, and a^very large spectable young men, of Peterborough,
capital. The eldest sett,' Henry, died in They, with two other young men, were
1704, unmarried'; the third'son, Williamf- sailing In a pleasure-boat about 20p yards
died at Hoddesdon, near Ware, in 180$, from the bridge, when a sudden squall of
leaving a widow, nowjiyigg; the only wind came on, and, owing to some mis'-
surviving son, George, is a brewer, in a u . .;, V • '• ' management
i3o7-] Obituary, with Anecdotes^/ remarkable Persons. . 685
management of the sail, the vessel waa his brother's lime kilns, and observing, a
completely upset. Every poUible aisittanae cinder, he imprudently leaped oti it, and
was promptly given, andJwo .ot tlie party the Win nor having bech drawn for some
saved. Steyeus, belonging to the Volunteer time before, and the stones mostly burnt
Corps> was buried with military honours. into lime, he instantly went dotfn, and.
Ij. Aged 80, Mr. Stephen Smith, far before any allistunce uuuld be given, Was
mer, of Deeptug St. James, to. Lincoln. burnt to death. Every means however,
At Lewton, co. Lancaster, Thomas Dar- were used to recover the body, by throw
well, esq. of Manchester, a clothier and ing water on the kiln, and afidrwards
manufacturer of eminence. pulling it' down. When they effected their
14. At Grentham.aged 40, Mr.William purpose, it was a most shocking spectacle,
Chapman, a respectable brazier. - >• being nearly reduced to a cinder. -'
At Cadeby-hall, near Louth, co. Lin At the Episcopal castle of Raphoe, o*. '*
coln, in his 39th year, Mr. Simon Teale, Donegal, James Hawkins, D.D. LordBl- ;'
late of Hull. - (hop of Raphoe. Hi; Lordship was bom
15. Rev. —- Carver, rector of Wystdn, in 1724 ; promoted >o the" lee of Uromorc
ntif Rotherham, co. V'brk, in the gift of in 1J7»! and consecrated Bishop of Ra
•he Duke of Norfolk, and worth upwards phoe in 17110. From his first entrance
of Cool, a ymi. . . into life, holding residence to be a princi
16. Al Falmouth, in her gift year, Mrs. pal duty, Re constantly remained what
Margaret Williams. ever his promotion placed him. Though
Aged 33, Mrs. HinchclWe, Wife of Mr. he had nearly attained his s'4th year, hit
H. timber-merchant, of Islington, Mid intellects remained unimpaired to his last
dlesex, and daughter of Mrs, O; Pilkin>- moments ; and he died, as he had lived,
toh, of Stamford, co. Lincoln. itV peace-. He was father of Admiral
Drowned, while bushing at the New Hawkins-Whitshed.
wall, a young man named 0*L*ary, ap : 2t. A( the Hot wells, Brutal, aged 6s,
prentice to Mr. Callanart, apothecary at the Rev. 'Joshu* Berkeley, D. D. dean ot
Cork, An exertion was made to save him Tuam, in Ireland, and son of the late Bi
by a gentleman present, who seized him shop of Ctoyne. -'
by the arm ) but the latter was exhausted In his 73d year, Mr. Thomas With,
ia the attempt, and obliged to let him to, currier, of Kelterihg.
aud his humanity nearly proved fatal to 22. At St. Alban's, aged 63, Mrs. Ofr
himself, for it was with great difficulty h< man, widow of the Rev. Henry O. for
was able to reach the shore. . merly Vicar of Leighton-Bofaftl, in £.-<—
17. At.Briilol, aged 4s>, Mrs. Bcgbie, fordshire, who left her "a widow in vcky
of Gloucester-street, London, ind second" early life, ' with a family of daughters,
daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Bergeant, whom she, much to her honour, educated,
of Bristol. in a very proper and commendable wayj
18. At tfriefhme Shore, co. Lincoln, though pauefJing a Very conttnctl income,'
Mr. Thomas Sherwin, surgeon, of Coleor- At his house in Dcan's-conn, Doftoiw
ton, ac. Leicester. As a professional man, Commons, aged sC, Isaac Ger'vaise, esq.
few exceeded him ; his liberal and rea<ty tr> Mrlltuok-ltrect, We sttnirruter, Mrs.
attention to the poor in that neighbour Catherine Price, daughter of the kite Mti
hood justly endeared him to them; and Jt>hn P. formerly of BuRi-lane, Canaotv-
no nun was more respected by a nume ftreer, merchant.
rous and respectable acquaintance. AtCastlij-lItdinghafn, Kslex, as which
19. At Oxford, aged So, Mrs. Laurence, he was curate, aged 70, the Rev. George
mother of Dr. L. M.P.'for Peterborough. Cafwull, ' many years rector of Sacomb.
At Henley park, Surrey, aged about <>i, H/erts, in the gift of his nephew, the-l*>rd
Henry Hall'cy, el'q. On the adth, hi? re- of the manor, who has presented to it the
mains were removed from Henley park, Rev. Mr. Lloyd, rector of Kordwtch, in
and interred at Pirbrtght, in Surrey. Kent. Mr, C. was of Trinity college,
2Q. Aged 8B, Mrs. Mary Walker, of Cambridge; B.A. 1760. I'
Great Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn-fielils. After H months illness, Mr. Jn.Woulds,
At Newmarket, in his 59th year, Mr. of South Kyme fpn, ne3t Slvaford, Lino.
John Fuller, many'years. clerk of the In her irith j'ear, most sincerely and dt-
Course, and formerly groorh and rider to ser\ tally regretted by her family ami tiu^
Sir Charles Butihury, bart. HtfTous friends, Miss Anne Ainslcy, <mly
ta tier 6ii year, Mrs. Anne Gothbert- daughter of Mr. George A. of Srandiim,
fon, of Derby. • - many years agent to the late Edwani-
At Chesterfield, after a long illness, Mr. Townley Stanley, efq. of Standish haW,
Henry. Bradley, p«st-rhastcr aud printer. Co. LttncMter.
At Ballyraukin, near Perns, in Ireland, 2J. As "Mr. Johi Kinder, a substantial
Mt. John Rife; who, with several others, farmer at (.viYnningharrr-*i511, near St.'AJ>
were ftauiling.iyund. the mouth of enters ban's, was • ••■
riding rronVtha. t^wh hoijie ■»
. •••• '- ' brei*fist",
... - ' * •.- - *V ' • ■
 $86 1 Obituary, with Jnecdotes, ofremarkable Persons. [July,
breakfast, he fell from his horse in an ness of mirrd ard manners ; whose death
apoplectic fit in one of (lie fields he rent is severely felt by a large and highly re
ed, and was immediately picked up liy a spectable circle ot-fnourning friend*.
person at work in an adjoining field, when 37. Aged 84, Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, of
he groaned, and endeavoured to speak, but N".Q12, in the Strand.
from that time ceased to breathe. Medi At Mrs. Haydock's, it Datchet, near
cal assistance was presently obtained ; but Windsor, ib her pth year, Elizabeth, only
all means used to restore life were vain. daugh. of — James, efq. of Russell-square.
He was jo years of age, and had had two In Hertfordstiiie, Mrs. Moneriefle, relict
preceding strokes- at different times. of the late Alderman M. lord mayor ot the
Jit Orchard, in Scotland, Patrick Bal- city of Dublin in 17.05.
lantine, efq. of that pi-ace. At Temple Bruere, co. Lincoln, after
.34. At Woking, in Surrey, Mrs. Vin an illness of five years, in his 24th year,
cent, widow of 1 he late Mr. John V. sen. Mr. William Blackbourn, jun. .' >
•f Purford, near Ripley, in Surrey. Suddenly, Mr. Jonathan Mitahley, of
3C. A girl, named Lomax, whose pa Lyrm, Norfolk, builder.
rents reside in Westmoreland-street, Liver In the prime of * r'e, and in the full tide
pool, tell into the fire, and was so druad- of an extensive and increasing business,
fullv burnt, as to occasion her death in a Mr. Willram Stone, coachmaker, of Bath.
few hours.—-Mr. Thomas, a joiner, of that .38. At his house on Stockwell com
town, fell from a cart loaded with timber, mon, Surrey, Thomas Darlington, esij-
which patsing over his body, bruised him Mr. Sanderson, a' young gentleman be
fa much as to cause hi> death. longing to a mercantile house in the City.
At his house in Gower-ftrpet, Bedford- Riding, in company with a friend, to
square, aster nearly two years illness. Sir Fipchley, in Middlesex, his horse took
Robert Jefferson, kntr-one of the judges of fright, and ran at full speed down a nar
the island Of Antigua; an accomplished row lane, at the termination of which was
gentleman and elegant scholar. a gate. ' Fearing the animal.would attempt
AtGrimsby, co. Lincoln, very suddenly, to clear this obstruction, he threw himself
aged 70, Mrs. Anne Warburton, wife of from the saddle! by which he received
Mi*. James W. rope-maker. such a severe blow as to render him in
In his 67th year, William Tomlinson, sensible. Surgical assistance being pro
efq. of Newark, Notts. cured,, animation was syeedily restored,
Mrs. Brown,' widow of the late RiehanJ and the fear of dangerous consequences
B. efq. merchant, of Bristol. subsided. But, on his return to town in
In his 9lst year, Mr. Lawrence Wens- th.0 evening, be complained 'of most ex
Icy, formerly engaged in the linen business cruciating pains in his head, which? Con
at Bristol, but had retired. tinued rill the following afternoon, when
, in Newfoundland- street, Bristol, aged he expired. "
al , Mrs. Onien, wife of Mr. T. O: for-, Rev. Mr. Barker, of Burficm, an occa
merlv a brewer on Temple. Backs, and sional preacher in the Methodist chapel
mother of Mr. O. land-waiter al Bristol. at Stafford. He expired suddenly, in the
' / 36. Mr, Wcstcorcb roister, merchant, midst of his discourse this evening, with
of Bristol. . out any previous symptoms of illness, and-
. At Guadaloupe,
cester, .nearHick-nan,
agedv-24, Mrs. Melton, co. fell from the pulpit, to the great termr
wifeLeiof ami amazement of the Congregation,
Mr. John H- grazier. ' leaving a wife and numerous progeny.
Mr. Joseph Jatiucs, game-keeper to Geo, In. her Blth'V^ai', at Tapton grove, the
Kealcv, efq..of Frodingham, near Bragg- scat of her father, Aieryjebb, efq. Mary-
t Aged M, Miss Young, of Durham-place Auiie, \yife of Godfrey" Meyuel!, efq. of
East, Hackney-road, Middlesex. L.ruigley,'Co. Deiby.. Also, nearly at the
, After a few hours illness, Harriet, se same .time, after an hour's -illness, her
cond daughter of G. J. Robinson, efq. of eldest son. As a daughter, sister,- and wife,
Islington,' Middlesex. she was most dutiful and affectionate:
, Mr. Gordon, of Chapman-street,- St. At Bedale, in Yorkshire, Nathaniel Gar
George's in ti»e Enft. While retiring to diner", efq. of Charlotte-street, Pimlico,
■ rest, he suddenly fell down, and instanta late master cook to Iris Majesty.
neously expired. , A' Hull, aged si),- Mr. Robert Grieves,
At MtS. Fielde's, in John-street, Pen- rag-merchant and general broker. -
tonVilie, aftcr.a long and painful illness, . In an advanced age, Mrs. Wyatt, mo
aged 69, Mrs. Sarah Ashton, . late of Li't- ther of Mrs. Gale, of Sydney-gardens, Bath.
' tte Britain, wholesale,fan-maker. She was At F.nfitld, Mrs. Milne, wife of the
a woritan whole memory ongljt to be pre Rev. Mr. M. lecturer and master of the
served, as affording a. mo|l edifying pat Fres-fchool of that paristi, and only daugh
tern {jf piety, 'charily, fpatit;nf -iuireia;rce, ter of Mr. Gautier, *of the fame place,
antf.alrriost peculiar gentleness andswset- . iwho ■. died
■ in -i,76S, aged
. .. ,. ,48..-' - - . At
 1807.] Obituary, i^ith Anecdotes> of" remarkable Persons. ' 687 ''
At Hertford, Mrs. Bush, mother of the the gentleness of his manners and the
Rev. Mr. B. curate of Amwell, Herts. intelligence of his mind. His powers of
Mrs.-Yorke, wife of Mr. James Y. of conversation, his various knowledge, far*
Oundle, co. Northampton, banker. lively, wit, and his pleasant humour, eh- '-
Mrs. Whittington, wife of the Rev. Jn. deared hirh to all* who approached him.
W. "rector of Cold Aston, co: Gloucester. At Birmingham, Richard Greaves, efq. '
In Albion-street, Blackfricrs, Mrs. Duff, ' of the House of.Grundy and Greaves, st,
wife of James D. efq. . - young gentleman of the brightest projnise.
30. <At Sidmouth, Devon, Mis. Jack To a high degree of commercial know-,
son, wife of John J. esq. M. P. for Dover, ledge and the most unsullied ^integrity tee
and daughter of the late Gen. Gereham. added many useful and ornamental ac-. •
In his 84d year, the Rev, Benj. Rudge, quirements. By means of a. very reten- '
57 years rector of Wheatricld, Co. Oxford. tive memory and intense application he
In his 78th year, John Wright, efq. of had become a great proficient in the mo-'
Market-Harborough, father of Mr. Alder dern European languages, particularly'
man W. of Leicester. ". French, Italian, Spanish, and German.
Mrs. Domville, wife of Charles D. efq. His tatte for the Fine Arts was elegant
of- Stanbrook-hall, near Powick, in tt\g and correct; and his native vigour- of>.
county of Worcester. mmd enabled him to make considerable'
In the night between the 2pth and excursions in- the extensive fields ofScience.
3oth, to the great grief of his Majesty the At Pembroke, Mr. J»hri -Clark, land
Emperor and the Imperial Court, at Vi and tithe agent, and fellow of the Anti
enna, the Archduke Joseph, born April quarian Society at Edinburgh. He pop
9* '79!>. A defect in the conformation of (efi'ed strong natural abilities, -with great
the viscera is supposed to "have hastened depth of knowledge ; .and hi? ideas were
his decease. distinguished by an originality which strife-,
, Lately, Rob. Dickenson, a farmer, near ingly animated his converfatibn. In early
Allandale, in Northumberland, took jhe life he indulged a taste for composition;
desperate resolution of making away with and, about twenty-five years ago, purv
himself, which he effected in the follow listied a small volume, intituled, " The
ing manner ; •he" procured a gun-barrel, Works of,the Caledonian Bards," being a
which he had loaded with-- powder and translation from the Gaelic, in prose and
-•shot, and having placed the stock-end in verse. Thiseflulion possessed all the ener
the fire, he leaned..with) his belly against gy and dignity of the admired originals,
ihe other ; in this position he awaited the arid exalted in no small degree the credit
dreadfu) moment'. When the barrel be- of theautbor. Mr. Clark was appointed
•-■ came -hot, -an 1 explosion took place, by by the Board of Agriculture, on its first
which.;hc was (hot through' the body. He institution, to survey the district compre
- had-for somp. time before been in the ha hending Herefordshire, Radnorshire, and
bit of excclhve drinking, which kad -im Breconstiire ; and under its auspices, he
paired his intellects, aud probably pro published the Reports -for those counties ;
duced a derangement which led to the a labour in which he displayed both zeal
commission of the above horrid deed. and ingenuity, by collecting together a
At- York, aged 6 1, Mr. John Fother- body of useful information. He has since
gilt, descended from an ancient family published" An Inquiry into the Natureand
that was established in the "North of Eng Value of Leasehold Property ;" containing
land at the period of the '• Norman' Con a variety of ealculations eminently useful
quest. ' He • was a near relation of the both to land-holdeis'and agents, and ren
Jate Dr. FothergiU) and one of the people dered familiaf-to every capacity. That divi
•Called Quakers-, whose Society he emi- sion of the Principality vvherein'he has beeii
, ^lerstly- adorned by his 1'onnd principles 'actively employed for upwards of twenty
and a life of exemplary virtue. - The con years, is much Indebted to him for many
duct of a -large manufactory engaged the steps in the progress to its present ssue of
greatest part of his time, in which he improvement ; he. planned ami ftiperm-"
evinced an industry the most persevering ; tended the formation of some excellent,
an integrity the most spotless ; a sweetness roads, through parts which were b'cfore al
' of foul. which neither the bldsts of disap most inaoeflibk to travellers-; arid," by his
pointment nnr the flings of ingratitude exertions, ihe. value jrf church as well
toutd ever ruffle, and an active principle as landed property has there been increased
of benevolence, and charity, flowing in in a high degree.. The goodness of*, his
secret streams to the distressed, that might hear;, the benevolence of his, character*,
'justly ent'nle.him to the, nama of Fattier, aiid the, sincerity ps his friendship, ri.vetted
rather than Master of his numerous ■ de the attachment of all his-. acquaintance.,
pendants. The tender ties of husband, and will secure io.Jiis memory their respect
parent, and brother, did not more, bind and verteraticn 4 world, the eminence of .
him jo the hearts of his relatives., than his proiefljonul talents, '.and "the irre
proachable
6jJ8 Obituary twith Anecdotes>ef"remarkable Persons. [July,
pnjachable integrity which marked his In Arsyle ftreet, Piccadilly, awl 90, Sir
wfcole (iqnduct, will render the loss of his Archibald Edmonstope.bart.of Punrreatrb
services a subject of regret to th* commu- CO. Stirling, so created May 3, J774.
ajty at large. Mrs. Hodlbll, widow of |be late E. H.
Mary Wright, daughter of a labouring efq. of the Strand, banker,
mat) atTilney, near Lynn, Norfolk, a fine Mr. Butler, waggoner to the Right -Hon.
ypung woman, about 20 years of age. Sir Joseph Banks, ban. I le was in perfect
poisoned herself, by taking a quantity of health in the morning, but soon after ex
ajfcnick j from the effects of which (he perienced a violent pain at his heart, and
died in cxrame agony in a few houis. An instantly expired.
illicit connexion with a married njan in Mrs. Looker, relict of Mr. L'. cutler, of
the neighbourhood i« said to be the cause. Lombard- street.
1'ouniJ drowned "i the river, near Asli- July I. At Broxbourn, Herts, aged 90,
tpn-undcr-Lyne, the bod/ of Mr. Andrew the youngest daughter of the Rev. m
Gardner, of lleybottom,.Saddleworth, ca Jones, rector of that place.
lico-printer, who had been miffing since Rev. Edward Hare, of Docking-hall,
title ) ill) of February last. cp, Norfolk. 1
. Jqty ... In his 97th year, R,Woolmer, At Hayes, Middlesex, Mrs. Kerby, wife
efq. of Yarmouth. . of Mr. James K. bookseller, Oxford street.
Age4pt>, Key. Thomas Pile, prebendary ' ?, At St. Alban's, Mrs. Anne Kinder,
of Winchester cathedral. one of the people called Quakers, widow
jit Coswold, the Rev. Thomas Newton, ef Mr. William K. alderman and brewer
Victor of St. Cuthbett's, in the gift of the Of that borough, who died Jan. 1«, 1805.
Crown, and vicar of Trinity church, in His only surviving brother died on the 23d
that of rive Master of Wells Hospital, both tilt, (sue p. 685).
in Yxrk, and, many years curate of Coxr At Askam Bryan, in his 56th year, the
Void perpeluul curacy, in the gift of the Ugs. Thomas Slnaak, vicar of that place,
Jarl of J'auconberg. and rector ef Mufgrave, in Westmoreland.
.At Hurst Pinpoint, Suslcx, tbeRev.Dr, 3. At Fcrney-hill, co. Gloucester, the
Podfon, rector of that parish, in the gift residence of her eldeil ton, Mss. Cooper,
Sir Edward Winningtoq. flu. if he relict ofthe Rev. Dr. Cooper, of Yarmouth,
wt|s of Oriel college, Oxford j M:A. iTiri, in Norfolk, and daughter of the late James
B.I). Ulis, D.D. 1.773 ? Brantby, efq. of Shot'tfljarh), in that coun
' Mr; John Durnborouc;h, au eminent at- ty, by an heiress of thie family of Paston.
t)tM trey, of ttipoti, co. York. Panegyrick hut adopts the language of
At Plymouth, aged !;3, C. Young, efq. Tiuth- in ascribing' to this excellent lady
At Boston, co. Lincoln, Mr. C. Martin, every amiable quality and every exalted
a rel pectabie cabinet-maker and builder. virtue whieh can adorn and dignify the
At U wnihoroiigh , in hi.-, ;oth year, Ms. female character. Her' temper, disposi
Robert Pindv. tion, and affections, were heavenly. This
Miss Wrentord, daughter of the late principles of Christianity were the max
ksijor \>V. of the manor-house M Loogdon, ims of her conduit ; and its purity, can
«o. Worcester ; aud, within a fortnight »!- dour, humility, and benevolence, (hone
^ern ufU, Miss JJaitwt W. her titter. forth in every action of her Use. Severe
A " Leicester, Mr. Andrews, late an emi only to herself, but gentle and afiable to
nent draper there. orheu, every heart felt harmonized in
Mt, T. Fisher, farmer and grazier, of her presence, and every eye looked up to
West. Walton,.Norfolk. • . her with love and veneration. Though
Ajt Sraughton, co. Huntingdon, Mrs. stir had survived her att'ect'iouate hulhand
Martyn, wife of the Rev. John- King M. and more than half of her numerous far
MJ. Luke, a chaHfUei", of Strajferd, Et-' mrly, fortitude anil resignation still cheen-
f£x. lie was killed by' running against ed tile decline at life ; aud in rne 70tb
some low polo, at Mile-eml, wherebv bis year of her age, furroutitled by dujnestic
u:> !.< men wasfo much injured as tu*ennfc comforts, and loathed by the l>ope ot ris
his death in a few boors. , . ■ ing again to endless gUiry, she departed
At. beV house in Chelsea, co. Middlesex, in the mild radiance of piety and devo»ion,
KHz abeth, wjict of OJbort IXntern, eCq. and left the Lufttr of a bright example to
tare of Lynn Uegis, Norfolk, anyone of her children" and the world. Sltevyus the
Jie cohciiesles <'f the Ute Kicliard Lad- authoress of many publications ; some of
fir ke, efo. of Frenches and Tailwoiah which were printed, -mtny years ago, un-
ppuft, Surrey; born wt A pnik dtr the lilies of" Fanny Mvstdnwx^' " T**
,«U Kurield, w here he hud' Inu-'y settled, Daughter ;" ".The School fur Wives;"
. > i - t1:\ aud apoplexy* 'Mr..K.irk, one of aud- " 'I'he Exemplary Motlier." She
rbv fiikj-ljutr* t«t the K ut India Comoamj^ published, likewise, ac a l»t«r period, " A
At Margate, Kent*. Mgvt Mr. John Poetical Epistle from Jane Shore to her
Klkrbsfsyr, jjtopriejfvr et the »h byte} pjjelfcj." Th-ey were asl ecoipofoi with
th'-->'- the
 1807.] , Obituary, with JnScdnW, os remarkable Person*. 689
trie ardent desire of prorrfofrhg 'tbeinflu- Bloofnsbury. " He waS'a very old member
enoe of Chriftian Morality ; and whoever of the Apothecaries' Company; of which
has read these productions of her pen, and 'he' was master a few years since, and; was
was acquainted with the virtues of her formerly eminent in practice in xild: ri-
heart,, will readily acknowledge that she gate street, where he succeeded the late
exemplified, in every station of life; those Sir William Watson. , He was thp;. in
characters of ideal excellence whieh her ventor of the Pa;ent Graduated Mea
fancy drew. sures, which' have preyed Veiy e'F.cacr. us
At Belleair-housej on theTopsham road, . in preventing venders and puichafeis Jrom
Devon, Mrs. Brereion, relict of the late being diet ived by such fuse measures as
llev. Mr. b. and daughter of the late Rev. were detested by the Cchfois of the Ro\ al
Archdeacon Sleech, of Gwser. College of Ph\ sicians in the years. ibOO
Thomas Stillmao, esq. of Trowbridge. and 1801. Mr. t,. was w 11 known; and
At Wopdbridge, Suffolk, aged 59, Isaac' highly respected both 'as- a chemist. and
Rickett; wine-merchant, and one of the philosopher, and , as an amiable privets
people called Quakers ; a man of great Character'.
benevolence, and much esteemed. By tlie kick of ahorse, with which he
At Lymington; Hants, in an advanced was playing a ft* days' before, W. Pent
age, Mrs. Rjvett, relict Of the late Tho house, ot .Limehuufc, aged Q years.
mas R. esq. of Derby. Ar Brenlhlcy, in his 64 th year, Mr.
In his 97th year, Mr. lames Hawkes- Laurence Foster.
well, ncar6o years parish-clerk of Dale- Mrs. Mary Steele, of the White tdart
Abbey, co. Derby; the duty of which he inn, High green, in the parish <il Eclef-
pcrtortTutd till wusiin the last two months. tield. ' She Weighed ajp stoiie ; the. coffin
4. At his house in Wimpole-street, aged Was 1 feet deep, nearly 3 wide, aud 6 feet
58, John Hillerfdon, el'q. 3 inches long. '., J,-, ; ' \ r* .
At Cormird, co, Suffolk, aged 17, Miss At pakharh,' Rutland, Mrs. Bullivant,
Guyon, eldest daughter of C. P. G. i\q. wife of Mr. B. solicitor there-. . i ".,
much admired for her fine fancy and most 7. At her fatrierVho.iJe 'in bover-street,
excellent understanding, Sec. Piccadilly, the Him. Frances Thellcslen,
jj. After lingering near three weeks in eldest daughter of Lord ftendteshatu.
great agony, Mrs. Mains, wife of Robert Mr. Francis Crop; orBart.hrtfijfiri-W.dpfe,
M; vintner, Gournok, Scotland, much Well Stttitlffjeld, lesib'e sy'c.r,'!. ? • '. '
regretted by her friends and numerous fa At Waridsw'drthi, Surrey, 41 her. &6th
mily; Her death was occasioned by a year, Mrs. Mana'leti,' widow of.the. fate
shocking but too frequent accident. In FrariCts-Wllliarh M.esq of Chancery-lane.
preparing a composition, consisting of tur At Heydon-lioase, co. Norfolk, aged 52,
pentine ?rid wax, it caught fire, and her WiltiarrivP.arli ButwerJ esq. a colonel in
cloaths were so extensively kindled, that the Army, and late a biigadier-geneial of
the flames could only be extinguished by the Volunteer Cqrps..'' ;
her throwing herself into the sea. Tur Mr. Samuel' E'airi'arjJ, rninisteV as the
pentine being an ingredient in all the Gospel, and past:, r o'f. the .cive^ch assem
compositions tor cleaning furniture, house bling at Howaid-slteet .Chapci, Shcf5*id.
keepers and servants should be apprised As a preacher and writer, his labours have
that it is extremely combustible, and ever been meeflant ; tor many years he
ought, on no account, to be brought near was one of the moil - 'useful and popular
to a fire; and that turpentine and wax preachers in 'the' connexion of the late
will incorporate completely, by melting Lady Hunttngdoe ; and, for ten. or twelve
the wax by itself, and then adding the years before'h is' removal to Sheffield, h,ad
turpentine, or by placing the vessel con been pastor of a vary large and rclpectable
taining them in abasonof boilingwater, the congregation at Hull.' .t \
wax being previously cut into small pieces. "■ 8,. At Wallingfpo-h'ouse,. Surrey, of a
At his daughter's house at Rediand; in decline, aged '21, Mri Brooke Bridges', late
his 70th year, alter much painful illness, Of Magdalen college, Oxford, and eldest
Dr. Abiaham Ludlow, late of Heywool- son of Mr. John B, of Maldon, fesl'ex. .
house, co. Wilts, and' many years an At Louth, co. Lincoln, aged 60, the
eminent physician at Bristol ; a gentleman Rev. Mr. Goodwin.
of great honour and piety, whole loss will Mr. Weldon, a gentleman of conse
be deeply felt by his family and friends, quence in the' ncighboui hood of Lon(t-
and particularly by the poor, to whom he port, Wilts, h;*t invited a party ta dine,
was a liberal pecuniary and professional and pigeon-shooting was introduced a*
benefactor. the morning-divei lion. The visitors di
* 6. At his daughter's house at Hamp- vided themselves, ami formed a match ;
stead, Middlesex, in his 7-Hth year, TirAo- but, unfortunately, on the fhird bird be
thy Lane, esq. F.R.S. of Hart-4r«*t, ing let Jcule from the trap, the diversion,
Ut st. Mao. July,-iS;/. ended
 690 Obituary, with Anecdotes , of remarkable Persons. [July,
ended in the death of one of the company. house there upwards of 30 years, and is
The bird had taken a winding direction supposed to hitve cost the parish 100I.
to the left, and the gentleman who shot It. In.his 71st year, Mr. Johnson; sen.
lodged a part of the contents of his piece of Ely-place, Holborn.
in the body of a Mr. Jacques, who was Mr. Walker, one of the superintendants
standing about 80 yards from him, in a of the London Docks. While giving in-
parallel direction, and acting the part of -lt 1 actions to some of the labourers there,
what is technically called an out-scout ; ho suddenly fell into th» water, supposed
which accident he survivedonlyafew hours. in a fit, and was drowned.
'Mr. Thomas Amos, fen. a respectable Found drowned in the New River, near
hat -manufacturer, of Winterbourne. Highbury, Mrs. Nightingale, late of Pen-
Aged 72, B. Runwa, esq. a captain in ton-street, Pentonville.
the Royal'Navy. He had arrived in Bris In Millman-street, Bedford-row, John
tol but a few minutes before, and was Short, esq. of Edlingtoh, co. Lincoln.
cheerfully conversing with a few friends, At Portsmouth, Mrs. Greenway, wife of
when turning found, he suddenly diopped Lieut. G. to whom she had been married
down and expired. only nine months (late Mil's Maypowdcr,
This day the remains of Mr. Benjamin of Tomes, Devon). While walking on the
Tyler, blacksmith, who died at the age of deck of the Plantagenet man of war, ac
52, were interred in Framsield church companied by- her husband, her foot slip
yard, Sussex, borne thither by four re ped, she was suddenly seized with giddi
spectable brethren of the anvil, and fol ness, self down the main hatchway into
lowed by several others. By desire of the the hold, and her head striking against th»
deceased, his coffin W3S curiously orna balialt,vshc was instantly killed.
mented with hob-nails, .in the manufac After a painful illness, aged 69, Mr.
ture of which he had become a proficient. Richard Spencer, of Sleaford, Co. Lincoln.
9. At South Allington, Devon, Francis- At Moni!,eh3m, in Kent, in the prime
Sheath Cornish, esq; captain in the Kings- of life, adorned with every virtue, and
bury Cavalry. universally lamented, Mrs. Dimock, wife
in Charlotte-street, Portland-place, Noel of the Rev. Charles D. rector of that pa
Defensarrs, esq. a well-known and celebra rish. In her death, which this truly ami
ted amateur of the Fine Arts, formerly able and exemplary woman long foresaw,
consul-general for Poland in this country ; she displayed the utmost fortitude and
and author of a well-written novel, inti Christian resignation, enduring, without a
tuled " Les Deux Herrnites." murmur or complaint, the repeated' at
Mr. "'Williams, organist of St. James's tacks of a painful and lingering disorder,
church, Bristol. and calmly resigning her soul into the
At Heene, near Worthing, Sussex, Mrs. hands of Him who gave it.
Olivers, wife of the Rev. Thomas C. rec Interred, in St. Margaret's church,
tor of Harlingtoa, Middlesex. _ ' Westminster, George Atwood, esq. F.R.S.
10. At Stratford-grove, Essex, aged 70, He died in the Pad year of his age, sin
John Stray,' esq. "- • cerely lamented, as he was deservedly es
In his 77th year, Mr. Richard Stock, of teemed, by all who had the happiness of
Kennington-lane, Surrey. knowing him. He was highly distin
At Narrow-wall, Lambeth, aged 44, guished for mathematical science ; was
Mr. Joseph Capon. honoured with the Copleiari madal by the
At Kentifh-to-vn, Middlesex, the wife Royal Society ; and was author of several
of Mr. G. PearCe. papers which appear ki the volumes of the
At" the Lodge at Hillingdon, aged 73, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Robert Freeman, esq. M. D. Society, and prove his inventive powers,
AtWake's hotel, Covent-garden, Clifton as well as the depth and extent of his
Wheate, esq. of Barford-houft, n*ar Salis- erudition. He was educated at Westmin
- bury, and of Corse, co. Somerset ; an offi ster school ; was for some time a tutor,
cer of distinguished merit in the American and for many years a fellow, of Trinity
War, late lieutenant-colonel of the West college, Cambridge. He read to the whole
Somerset Militia, and late high sheriff of University, Lectures upon several branches
the county os Somerset. of Experimental Philosophy, which were
At New Miller Dam, near Wakefield , much attended' and justly admired. Mr.
CO. York, the Rev. John Lonsdale, vi^ar Pitt, having been one of his auditors,
of Darfield, and curate of the perpetual was induced to form a more intimate ac
curacy of Chapelihorpe. quaintance with him; and finding that
At her son's, at Cirencester, of a para- . his talents would be eminently useful' to
"..lytic seizure, Mrs. Anne Pierce, widow of the I'ublick, .bestowed upon him, in the
'the late "Mr. Jtihn P. of Devizes. • year l/S-f, a sinecure office, which is ex
At Melton-Mowbray, co. Leicester, J. tinguished by his' death, that he might be
, JliiehwelL' He had been in the workr. .enabled ,to devote a large portion'-of his
' time
i%oy.~] .Obituary, with Anecdotes,of remarkable Persons. 691
time to financial calculations, in which Miss Napltton, of Hammersmith, Middle-
Mr. Pitt employed him, to his own entire lex, -and sifter to the Rev. Dr. N. chancel-
satisfaction, and to the gretir sdvantage of lor of the diocese of Hereford,
the Revenue. The high opinion' which At Berwick, aged 17, Sar.ib, daughter
Mr. Pict entertained of him, ami the con- of Mr.' Robert Harrison, officer of his Ma-
fidence he reposed in him, were strength- jefty's Customs there,
cued by experience; and Mr. Atwood's 14. In his 6oth year, Mr. Jacob Kruger
labours were continued, with the most Watson, of the Old Change,
zealous perseverance, until his declining At Islington, in her 78th year, Mrs. A,
slate of health rendered him incapaDle ;of Taylor, widow of the late Rev. Thomas T.
severe application. At Vicar's hill, near Lyminjton, Hants,
12. In her 25th year, at Ueavitree, near after an afflicting illness of seveial years,
Exeter, where she had pslieJ several aged 8», Mrs. Gi'pin, iclict of the late
months for the benefit of her h-nlih, the Rev. William G. vicar of Bo.dre, in that
Right Hon. Lady Mary Citheiine Myers, county, and prebendary of Salisbury,
wife of Thomas M. esq ; richly endowed In Brook-street, Bath, Gen. \vhite.
by Nature with personal attractions ; most 15. At Kenilworth, in his tuth year,
accomplished by education ; most amiable the Rev. R. Mundy, foimerly curatt of
i,n her temper ; most affable and chaste ClaybrOok,, co. Leicester.
in her deportment ; polselsed of an excel- In her aid year. Mill Margaret Frost,
lent understanding ; and alive to every second daughter of the late Mrs. Street,
feeling that is calculated eiiher to inspire wife of G. J. S. esq. of Scotland -yard.
{us with esteem in the lowest, or to grace Mrs. Willes, wifeof John W. esq. of
the most exalted station. $he was a most Hungerford-park, Berks.
affectionate ai)d beloved wife, a most ten- In his 3oth year, the Rev. Cha. Lloyd,
rjer mother, and a kind and warm friend. M. A. of Emanuel college, Cambridge,
At Hull, m the prime of life, Mr. Wilt- youngest son of late Rev. Dr. L. of Lynn,
liarn Chamberlain, an artist of considera- 16. Aged 80, Mr. "QSintin Kay, more
ble talents as a portrait-painter ;,_ formerly than half a century* respectable upholder,
a student of the Royal Academy^ and as- ic. on Ludgate-hill.
terwards a pupil of the lateJohn Opie, esq. Mrs. Knyvett, wife of Charles K. esq. of
R. A. ; leaving a wife and six children. Park-lane, and of Sunning, Berks.
After a very short illness, of a pain in his At his house in WhitechapeJ-road, Mr.
stomach, with which he was seized in the James Turner, timber-merchant,
night, aged 60, the Rev* Stephen Moore, In the North Bailey, Durham, aged 73,
M. A. upwards of 17 years vicar of Don- John Potts, esq, one of the aldermen of
caster, prebendaryvof York, and formerly that city, of which he served the office of
Chaplain tp Robctr Archbishop of York; mayor in 1768 and 1798.
a man endeared to his friends by the open, fj. At her house in James-street, Buck-
generous, manly qualities of an excellent ingham-gate, Mrs. Henrietta Shard,
heart; and ta his parishioners by whatever ■ At Barking-hall, Suffolk, in her. 30th '
was amiable and praiseworthy in the dis- year, the Hon. Sophia Ashburnham, se»
charge of his duties as a clergyman. cond daughter of Viscouat St, Alas h.
At Harrington, near Spillby, co. Lin- Mr. Henry Norbury, second son of Mr.
coin, aged 8CJ, Mrs. Whitwarth, mother Philip N. printer, of Brentford, Middlesex,
of William W. gent, of Aswardbv. 18. While on a visit to Capt. Brearey, at
In her 6sth year, Mrs. Sherlock, relict M'ddlethorp, near York, aged tp,, Capt,
of Mr. George S. of Redburn, 90. Lincoln, John Mitchell, of the Madras Artillery.
Al.Bath,
of herwhither
hea|th, she
Mrs.went for thewife
re- ■ Tyne,
AttheShieldfield,nearNewcaftle-upon-
Corery Parkyns, aged Bgt Robert Page, esq. comp
os . p. eiq. nephew to the late Sir Tho- troller of his Majesty's Customs there.
mas P. bart. of Bunny park, Notts, and Thomas Rodwell, esq. of Highgate.
cousin to Lord Ranclisfe. H . Drowned, while bathing in the Re-
At East Dereharn, Hbrfolk, John Frere, servoir, in the parish of Gumley, co. Lei-
esq. of Roydon, in that county, and of cester, and in the presence of his two bro-
Finningham, "Suffolk, arid late M. P. for thers, the youngest of whom, being an ex-
the city of Norwich. cellent swimmer, nearly lost bis own life
Mr. Robert Diift', of Madcir3, resident by his excessive exertions to save him, Mr,
in London. Joseph Carter, son of Mr. C. of Laughton,
13. A' tf'tJSfoy fartn' Anne, dowager in thatcounty; a worthy young man.
Lady Southampton, daughter and coheiress; Suddenly, Mr. Phillips, private teacher,
of Vice-admiral S'r P"" W*»re«, K-B. Walker-street, Kingfdown, near Bristol;
She was married in 1758, and was left a leaving a wife and four children,
widow in 1797- Her remains were inter- 20. In Grove-lane, Camber*, ell, Surrey,
red, with those of her noble husband, in aged 45, William Kielde, esq. many years a
St. James's chapel, in theHampstead road, captain in the West Indiafervice.
" At^Sewbviry, Berks, suddenly, aged 60, At
 69z • Obituary, wUh Anecdotes.-Theatrical Repfier. TUv
A:II 'in?ion,
A: -insion, aged in. n,„ Barnes,
59, Mr. Geo. n,™- . '_ - ' LJU'Y,
ate ot . ish'ipt'ga e-streef. 10. The Castle Spectre—Tekelf. ,
At his house at F.gham, Surrey, aged C9, 11. [ Afh-Wednefda* ; no Performance.]
Robert -Pickwsad, esq. 'deputy bf Viniry 12. The Haunted Jovici — Emily—TJie
yrard, London, .ina\ treasurer' of theSociety Wedding-Dav.
of Patron> 'i the Anniversary of the Oharity 14. The Jeajous Wife—Tekeli.
Schools in London and the Rubnibs; to 16. The Travel iers-r-fortune's Frolick.
whom -she Publick. aft indebte d for the 17. The Busy Body— Emily—The Irish
idea of bringing «Kfe c-hanrv-chiltjrep "to, man in London.
St. ."..aft cathedral, and pluchig' them fn 19. The Cwsrw—The Anatomist.
tb.-. :!tUrine .point of view in which they 21. Ditto—The Devil to Pay.
ar annually exhibited' under the grand 23. Ditto—Tekeli.
dome d*tb,ri fta'penddus edifice. , 24. Ditto—Emily—The Virgin Unmask'd,
l .JyN >V'tffr. of Usifiton, c'o. York. 25. sFafi Day; no Persoi manee.]
31. At LdwaiJstone hall, co. Suffolk, 2/>. The Curfew—My Grandmother.
T. DandWt ec<i. •in. Ditto—Tekeli; ,
1 Clrf on, nearRristol, Sir Sam. Hayes, March 9. Ditto—The Weathercock.
bart. ot DiuhV.oe c-.st>. DmTc£aT. 3. Ditto—Tekeli.
a.1. Iff. Rogers, aa'emo.e»it farmer, of 5. Uitto—The Weathercock.
Ashlcy/flear-box. , 7. Ditto—Tekeli.
25. Mrs. Stchviah, » ife of Johns!, esq. 9. Ditto—'she Weathercock.
: O. DHto— Tckeli;.' , [Mercy.
Drowned, in the Thames, near 1 2. Ditto—The Young Hussar; or, Love an4
Wahpir* ased^atboiit 1 4, •h/f... t f Mr. 14, 16, 17. Ditto—Ditto.
P„; kbui r»v rabaeceruff, Fenchu-ch-street. 19. .False Alarms-c-Ditto..
2' . At KtJbWn-,1 bi xonse'qa'erice of 'his 31. The. Travellers—The Gitijcji.
boife •'*n<tt» wittfitirn, Mr. Jotin Mann, 30. The West Indian—Tekeli.
jjr.. of UP/erCnn es, Upp«rThamcSfstr«et. 3 1 . The Honey- Moor.—TheYoung Hussar.
Mi*. 'Wood, the Treasury nresifa'igcr, April 1. D .uglas—fie (food DanMn} ort
The Clqck has Struck ■'
THEATRICAL REGISTER. 2. The Scfipol for Friends—Ditto.
Jan. '' • Dr u >: y-Lane. 3. The Duenna—Ditto.
' 1. The W-.li—The Enchanters. 4. Xhc Soldier's Daughter.—Ditto.
2. Know Your Own .Vnnd—Ditto.. " 6. Lovers' Vow.;—Ditto.
3. The Birth-Ds^Tekcli—Ditro. 7. False Alarms—Ditto. . .
5. The- Point of Honour—Ditto—Ditto. j. 'she Wonder '. —Ditto,
6. Doug'.as— Dit ' —Dif'f. g. /\ Day in London—NoSongNoSupper. .
7. Thc*'«gc*.if Belgrade—Ditto. • lo. Ditto—The Wrood Dæmon.
8. The Pointbf Hoiicui—Tekeli-—Ditto. 1 1. Ditto—Ditto,
<J. The Cabim.!-*—Ditto. 13. Inkle and Yarico—The Prize.
10. The Provok'd H»sbanri—Ditto. J 4. The Curfew—The Wood Dcemon.
J2. FalseAlafyng; or; .^Cbv/frH-TheDc'af li. The Cabinet—Ditto,
13. Ditto— ' hi Spoil'd CaAd. ' [Lover. tli. As- You Like It—Ditto.
14. Ditto—Trfceli.. ■' 17- Inkle and Yarico.—Ditto, [far—Ditto. •
15. Dittri—.The Enchanters, 18. TheChildr -nin the Wood—YoungHufc
id. D ti >—Tcktii. ?0. Uo-neo and Juliet—Ditto.
17..Ditto—The Ahatoirrrft, 21. False Alarrris—Ditto.
19. Ditto—Tekeli. ' ' 22. The School for Scandal—Ditto.
20. Ditto— The Children in the Wcsd. 23. The Curfew—Ditto.
2) . Ditto.—Tekeli. $4. The Haunted Tower—-Ditto.
22. ^ 'to—Who's the Dupe.* 85. The Iron Chef: —Ditto.
23 D to—Tek'li. 2". The Travellers—The Prize.
24. 1 1—The -Children in the Wood. 28. The Curfew—The Wood Dasmon.
29. The Duenna—Ditto.
27. Ditto— 1 he Humourist, 30. Adelgfthq ; or, The Fatit; of a Singlf
28.1%* •jjigihifin.i—The Lying Valet. ' Error—Of Age To-morrow. [men.
29. I he. lione;! Moon—Tekeli. [ Wood. May: 1. The Travellers—The Wood Dae-
3 . T! e Travellers—The Chddreri ifa the 2. Adelgitha—Ditto. [Don Juan.
Feb. 2 F. lie Alarms—Tekeli. 4. The Dra»;a\iit—My Grandmother—
3. The Ifivak—Ditto. 5. Adelgitha—The Wood Dæmon,
4. i all'eAlarms—Emily ; or, JViu'eiijffJil- tj. Ditto—D.iTtp,, . . • :.irn'w .
diserttion .'aBallet; —The Deaf Lever. 7. The MiiiiiViaiiieers—TheVVeathercock.
5. PizarrQ—-Emily. 8. False .Aiami?—The Wood Daerrioo..: ' . .
6. The Cabinet—Ditto. }). Adelgitha—The Young Hussar. >(; r. .
7. She Stoops to Conquer—Tekeli; 11. Artaxerxes—No Sonw No Supper.t .
9. Fail'e -Alarms—Emily—Mock Doctor. 12. ''Ar'l .Igitha—l.he Deyil to Pay... ^ .. 4
13. The Tiavc'sers—The, We*atbercdck.
14. Te-
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Dæmon'. • [Don Juan. 5. The Way to Keep Him—Ditto. 69i
1 5. TbeDuenna—High LiseBclow Stairs— ■ J(K. The Tempest—Ditto.
A New Way to Pay Old Debts—Ditto.
lb\ [Whitfun-Ei.e \ no Performance.]
is. John Buil-^Mv Grandmother, [men. ■10. 9. The
The Suspicious
Mountaineers—Ditto.
ig. ABoUStrokeforaWife—The-Woodl)*- Husband—Ditto.
20. Artax£r*e—tn U ester Daggerwood— 11. [Ash- Wednesday ; no Performance.]
The Sie^e of Trov (a grand Rallet;. 12. Tempest—1 larUquinar.dMotherGoose.
41. Pifarro—No Song No Supper. 13. Creation. Act J.—Alexander's Feast.
2~2. Adelgitha—Tekeli. ' • 14. The Marl of the World—Harlequin
23. The Travellers—The Liar. and Mother Goose.
25. Romeoand Jul et— PheWood Dæmon. •17. 16. Cyrnbeline—Ditto. • ,
26. The Honev-Mnon—Sylvester DaggeTr The Jealous Wife—Ditto.
wood—Matrimony. 18. The Messiah. [Goose.
27. The Cabinet—Tekeli. 19. TheTempest—-Harlequin and Mother
2S. Adelgitha—The Wood' Dæmon. 20. Acis and Galatea—Miscellaneous Act.
2i}. The Siege ol Belgrade—Blue Devils— 21. The Wheel of Fortune—Harloquir»
The; Weathercock. and Mother Goose.
30. The Curfew—The Young Hufljir. 23. King Richard the Third—Ditto. ,
June K The Dramatist—The Prize—The 24. The Jealous Wife—Ditto.
2 Pizarro—Tekeli, [Wood Dæmon. 25. fFaft Day; no Performance.]
3. Tha Birth-Day—Devd to Pjv—Midas. 2,6. The Tempest—Harlequin and Mothef
4. Thf Haunted Tower.—Wooii Dæmon. 3ft. Giand Goose. [ccllancous Acts.
5. John BulJ—The Weathercock, [per. 2S. Every 'Man DettingenTe Deum—Two Mis-
6. Soldier's Duightei—No Song No Sup- , in his Humour—Harle
8. The Belle's Stratagem—Tekeli. quin and Mother G°ose.
0. The West Indian—A House to be Sold March 2. Oroonoko—Ditto.
JO. The School tor Friends—The Wood 3. The Man of the World—Ditto.
Dæmon, •;. . [Tekeli. 4. The Messiah. [Goose.
J). Th<; TravellclS-Syl« ester Daggerwood- 5. TheTerapest—Harlequin and Mother
V2. TheCIandestineMarriage—Young Hus- 6. L'Allegro ed ll Penfieroso—Miscella
13. She Stoops to Conquer-—i>nto. [far. neous Act. .
J5. The Mountaineers—The Devil to Pay. 7. HaiaJet—.Harlequin and MotherGoose,
9. King Richard the Third—Ditto.
)(>. The .Rivals—The Young Hussar
17. The Birth-Day—The Devil to Pay. 1 0. Town and Country—The Quaker.
Jan^ CQVENT-GARDtN. 1 1 . The' Messiah. [Mother Goose.
1. Thc Birth Day—Arbitration—Harle 12. Town and Country—Harlequin and
quin and Mother Goose. 13. Creation, Act I.—Two Miscellaneous
2. The Tempest—Ditto. Acts. . [Mother Goose.
3. The Merry Wires of Windsor—Ditto. 14. Town and Country—Harlequin and
5. The Wheel of Fortune—Ditto. 16. Ditto—DiKft. 1;. Ditto—Ditto.
6. The Deserts of Arabia—Arbitratiot»»- 15. Grand DettifigenTeDeum—Two Mis
7. The Tempest—Ditto. [Ditto. cellaneous Acts. [Mother Goose.
9. Every Man in his Humour—Ditto. . . 19. Town and Country—Harlequin arid
9. As You Like It—Ditto. 20. Creation, Act I.—Two Miscellaneous
10. The Tempest—Ditto. Acts. [Mother Goose.
J..2. The Revenge—Ditto. 21. Town and Country—Harlequin and
13. The Birth-Day—Arbitration—Ditto. 30, 31. April }. Ditto—Ditto.
14. The Tempest—Ditto. 2. John -Bull—Ditto.
15. The Provok'd Husband—Ditto. 3. The School of Reform—Ditto.
}t>. The Tempest—Ditto. 4. The Man of the World—Ditto.
17. A Cu/e for the Heart-Ache—Ditto. 15. King Richard the Third—Ditto.
19. The Revenge^—Ditto. 7. Every Man in his Humour—Ditto,
SO. Much Ado about Nothing—Dittos 8. Speed the Plough—Ditto.
1,1. The Tempest—Ditto. 9. The Merchant of Venice—Ditto.
22. The Man of the World—Ditto. 10. The Birth-Day—ffhijilefur It—Ditto,
>3. The Tempest—Ditto. i 1 . Whistle forjt—Lovea-la-Mode—Ditto.
U. The School of Reform—Ditto, 13. Town and Country—Ditto,
tfi. King Richard the Third—Ditto. i t, 15. Ditto—Ditto.
17. The Tempest—Ditto. 16. The Man of the Wot Id—The Ogre and
S. Rule a Wife and Have a Wife—Ditto,
t). Speed the Plough—Ditto. 17. Town and Country—Ditto.
1. TheTemp-,st—i jttq. IS. Ditto—Ditto.
tb. %. The 4evver»gt>—Uitto. 20. Othello—Ditto.
5. Th» Tempest—Ditto. 21. A New Way to Pay Old Debts—Ditto.
I. The Man os'the World—Ditto. 22. Macbeth—Whistle for It.
2a, Cymbeline-ThcOgre andLittleThnmk
694 Theatrical Register.—Bill os Mortality. [July,
24. Lore in a Villager—Harlequin and Mo 10. WildOats—Pauland Virginia. [Doctor.
ther Goose. . SO. The Beggar's Opera—The Jew and '.he
25. Every Man in his Humour—Ditto. 82. The Tempest—Harlequin and Mother
37- (ting Richard the Third—Ditto. 2a. Haralet-rDitto. [Goose.
38. The Man of .the World—The O^re and June Hay-Ma nx et.
Little Thumb. [thrr Goose, 15. The Heir-at-Law—Catch Him Who
if). The I leir-at-La>v—Harlequin and Mo- Can ! ["eepitij- T< m.
30. Macbeth—TheOgreandLiule'shumb. 1/5. A Mowrl Talc—Ways „nd Meam—»
Majfi.thc Beggar's Opera—-Harleqrnir.nd 17. The Mock D0U01—The Rt«T< w—Fue
2. 'iheGamester—Arbitration. [M.Goose. Miles Oti'. [At irtul Ma^'icnsm.
4. ThcTempust—Harlequin a >dM. Goose. 18. Fortune's Frolick—I.ikle and Yarico—
5. The Grecian Daughtei—The Fjtcapes, 19. I .-e Hunttt of iheAip»—The Drama
6. The Merry Wives of Windfoijarl .aikr tist—Catch Him W.ioCan!
lequm and Mother Goose. 30.. Five MilesOff—Thtlrim Widow—Tom
f. ls+helht—TbeQ;ie and Little Thumb. 2i. Hamlet—The Mock Doctor. [Thumb.
8. Peter the Great'; or, ffupdeu {satis-— 23. The Heir-at-Law—The Reyiew.
Animal Magnculni. [Bacon. , 24. Hamlet—Fortune's Frolick.
g. King Henry the Eigh Ji—The Flitch of 25. Sighs—Mrs. Wiggins—Tom Tt)umb.
1 1 . Peter thcGreat—I Jarlequin and M.Goose 2)5. The Hunter of the Alps—Five Mile*
12. The Woodman—The prisoner at Large. OS—We Fly by Niglu.
J3. Peter thcGreat-Harlequin anqM.Goole 27. The Mountaineers;—The Irish Widow.
14. Ven ce Preserv'd—TomThumb. .. 91J. John Bull—The Village Lawyer.
15. The Road to Ruin—The Fun of Elec- 30. Seeing is Believing—The Diamatist—
, tion—Which is the Master? Pauland Vi ginia. [Can!
16. A Grand Selection of Sacked Mustek. July i. The Wonder!—-Catch Him Who
IS. Coriolanus—Harlequin and M. Goose, 2. A Mogul Tale—Five MitfS Off—Torn
1J>. Kiv'e Miles Off:—TheMiseries ofHuman 5. TheStmnger—Lockand Key.[Thumb.
iJst—Valentine and Orson. 4 . The Mountainecr*r-rPaul and Virginia.
SO. Peter theGreat—Which is the Master ? 6. Hamlet^-The Waterman.
21. Kins; Lear—Love a-la-tVJode. 7. Sighs—Mrs. Wiggins—The Review.
22. Przairo—Harlequin and Mother Gcose. 3. TheWonderl—TheAgreeahleSurpriie.
23. Macbeth—The Elcupts. Ci. The Castle Spectre—Prisoner at Large.
25. Coriolarrus-—Harlequin and Mother 10. Sylvester Daggerwood — Five Mile*
Goose. [ginia. Off—Tom Thumb.
9& Hamlet—Personation—Paul and Vir- 11 . The Stranger—The Waterman.
27. The School for Prejudice—We Fly by 13. The First Part of King Henry the
Night, [ther Goose. Fourth—The Poor Soldier.
'58. Pttjr the Great—Harlequin and Mo- 14- The Poor Gentleman—Tom Thumb.
"20. Town and Country—Hartford Bridge. 15. Hamlet—Fortune's Frolick. [Doctor.
30. Way to KeepH'rn—Fortune's Frolick. 16. The Waterman—The Fortress—Mock
June 1 . KingLear—Harlequin andM.Goose. 17. PoorSoldier-Ditto-Animal Magnetism
2. TheVVaytoGetMarried—Personation- IV. TheLyjngValet—Ditto—PeepingTom.
Valentine and Orion, [dier. 20. The Agreeable Surprise—Ditto—Ton}
3. The Poor Gentleman—The Poor Sql- Thumb. [Pctruchio.
, 4. Othello—The Turnpike-Gate. 21. The Padlock—Ditto—Katherine and,
5. Fonuir.hicau-—Love a-la-Mode. 22. Catch Him Who pin !—Ditto—Tom
D. Five Miles Off—Lock and Key—Har Thurnb. [by Night.
lequin and Mother Goose. 23. The Prisoner at Large—Ditto—We Fly
B. The Mountaineers—Tom Thumb. 3/4. The Battle of He^ham—The Pur-fe—
O. The Man of the World— Harlequin The Padlock.
and Mother Goose. [Mysteiy. 25.. The, Honey-Moon.j_.The Fortress.
10. The School of Reform—A Tale of 27. Hamlet—Tom Thumb, [tress;.
11. The Tempest—The Irish Widow. 2S. §ylvesterD.iggerwood- -Sighs—The For-r
12. Secrets Worth Kniwing-Personation- 29. Seeing isBeheving—Inkle sndYarico—
The Adopted Child. We Fly bv Night. fife Review.
13. The Blind Bargain—Paul and Virginia. 30. The Irish Widow—Five Miles Off—
1 j . TheRevenge—Ha rlequinandM .Goose. 31. Catch HinvWhQ Can'—The Fortress-
id. School for Prejudice—The Guardian. Tom Thumb.
17- TheProvoVd Husband— Harlequin and d;§t- A Complete Ijsl of the New Par
18. John Bull—The Padlock. [M.-Goosfl liamentJkaU be given in our next.
BILL OF MORTALITY, from June 23, to July 23, 3 807.
Christened. Buried. 2 and 5 lift 50 and 60 118
Males »27),055 Mates 5 and 10 70 no and 70 112
females - 829 j Females 10 and 20 58 70and8o 74;
Wheieof have died under 2 years old 383 20 and 80 81 80 and 9 ' 28
Peckl.oaf3s.l id.3s. 1 id.3s.i id.3s. 1 ld.3s.dl 1 . 30 and 40 112 go and 1 jo 3
Salt>C-l. Os- Od. per bnOiel; 4d.£ per pound. 40 and 50 J 58 100 0 J05 0
 ATERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending J-uly i»7 i9o?<
INLAND COUNTIES. il MARITIME COUNTIES.
Wheat, Rye Barley Oats Beans Wheat Rye Bariev Oats 1 Bean*
3. rf. </. 1. d. >. d.\. J. d. s. 11 !.■ ,1. . it. s. J.
Middles. 79 900 0 37 0 34 3)43 3*43 5 Eflejr. 77 6 00 e 3g 41- Jj
Surrey 8-2 0 0 41 0 34 2246 16 o Kent, 78 6;4i 036 e|3fi .0
Hertford ja o1 0I3O o 27 8^39 9 Susses 1 1 6joo 0|40 48 l>
Bedford 70 11 0 36 6-2 7 1^41 4 Suffolk 70 i 1 0|33 ;37. 3
Huatingd. 69 3 00 O 34 0)24 8 38 3 Cambrid. 70 3 03| 39 ■
Northam. 70 9]so 6!S3 10 O -10 0 Norfolk 66 1 031 40
Rutland *7* a- 00 0 38 9)00 0 48 43 0 Lincoln 70 4 »!37 41
Leicester sjoo 036 7 26 00.43 42 4|iYork 73 IB] 4 35 45
Nottingh SI4S 6iO 029 6647 47 4' Durham 88 10 0j45 00 .
Derby 0:0O 0 40 0 29 049 0 40 o Nor;lium r 72- 1 0 31) 00
Stafford 4*00 0 42 W27 9 51 3: Cumber!.. ■ 74 3|59 0;40 09
Salop fi'54 6 43 8132 6 00 o' Westmor. 86 3 65 6.42 10I00
Hereford sUi 6 32 9^0 10 40 2:' Lancaster 75 loloa 000 0 54
Worefert. 500 0 34 7|34 3 43 7 j Chester 65 7 00 0 00 00
Warwick 8 00 0 37 10j32 8 50 1 .Flint 00 cjoo 041 iOO'
Wilts o'oo 0 35 8j32 0 5-2 8 Denbigh . 76 7|oo 0 3.9' fco
Berks 3:00 o 36 0 31 1048 0; Anglel'ca " 00 ojoo 03(j |oo
Oxford 7|oo 0 31 8L31 444 gl Carnarvon 75 8 00 O 38 00
Bucks s'oo 0 38 2I30 0 44 li|,Merionet. 75 g '00 041 00
Brecon 8 44 9 32 o!22 4 00 oj'Caidrgan 74 0,00 0 34 00
Montgo. 5 0a 0 00 6l29 6 00 0: Pembroke 67 sjoo 029 joo
Radnor 700 0 34 525 4 00 0! Carmarth. 74 gjoo 0 35
-Glamor?. 77 4100 0;40 4)00
Average of England and Wales, per quarter.! Gloucest. 7.0 10 00 034
'. 73 6|5» 0 37 0,28 11)44 ^jjiVJonmo. li Somerset 3 00 0 00
6,00 0 00
Average of Scotland, per quarter. I Devon Cjoo 037
I Cornwall 1 00 0 40
6« 10(35 2|34 5,28 9)45 6[Dorset 3 00 0 33
Hants 3 00 036
AGGREGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Distrias of England and
Wales, 'by which I mportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain.
Wheat Rye B.irlev Oats Beans Pease Oatmeal Beer or Big
4, d. 1. d. '», d. 1. d. d. .5. d. s. d. I. dt
7+ o 50 1 36 9 29 1 44 7 49 11 43 0 00 0
PRICES OF FLOUR, July 27:
' Fine 66s. to 65s.—Seconds 55s. to 60s.—Pollard 2Ss. to 30s.—Bran fis. to 10s. od.
Return of Flour, July 11 to July 17, froni the Cocket-Office :
Total 17,026 Sacks. Average 64s. 4d.J—05. ld.j higher, than the last Return.
- ■'. OATMEAL, per Boll of I40lbs. Avoirdupois,' July. IS, 45s. 9d.
Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending
" July 22, 1807, is 34s. oi.{ per Cwt. exclusive of the Duty of Customs paid
or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.
PRICE OF HOPS, July 27 :
Kent Bags... il. !4s. to 61. 15s. ! Kent Pockets b\. 16s. to 7l. 7s.
Sussex Ditto. ........ 5l. 12s. to 61. 4s Sussex Ditto 5l. 1 Os. to 61. 4s.
Essex Ditto. . 54. 12s. to 61.. 15s. Fafnham Ditto si. -Os. to lol. os.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, July 27:
St. James's- •Hay.. .".41. 6s. od. tp 6!. 6s. Od. Average si. fis. od.
Glover. . .51. Os. OS. od.
Od. to 61. os. od. Average si. j os. od.
Whitechapel—Hay.. ..4l. OS. od. to St. 16s. Od. Average 41. ] 8s. ed.
Clover., si. OS. Od. to 61. Os. od. Average 5l. 10s. od.
Straw. . .21. 16s od. to 3l. 10s. od. Average 3l. 3s. od.
SMITH FIELD, July 27. To link the offal—per stone of- 8lb.
Beef, .-.v; ...4s. od. to 5s. Od. Pork 4s. od. to 4s. 8d.
Mutton , 4s. !d. to 5s. Od. L;imi> 5s. Od. to 6s. 8d.
Veal, I .. ...4s. od. to 5s. Od. Beast.-, 1790 Sheep and Lambs 17,500.
COALS, July 21 : Newcastle 44s. Qd. to. ios. od. SunJeriand 45s. Qd. to 46s. 6d.
SOAP; Yellow sos. Mottled gos. Curd 94s. CANDLES, lOs.04. perDoz.- Moulds las.od.
TALLOW, perstone, 8ib, St, James's 3s,6d.± ClaxeMarket3s.dd. Whitechapel 3s.6d. J
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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE
Ldnd. Gazette Cumberland
Gen er* 1. Even. Doiicaster-Derb
Lloyd's Evening Dorchest.—Esl't>
St.James's Chron Exeter 2,Glouc
London Chron. Halifax
Brit. Press-Globe Hampshire 2
London Evening Hereford, Hull 2
The Sun—Star Ireland 88
j London Packet Ipfw.2, Kentish 2
jEnglishChron. Lancast.— Leices.
;Times—Whiter). Leeds 2—Lewes
jMorning Chron. Liverpool 5
,Morning Herald Maidstbne
|M.Post—Ledger Manchester 4
1 Courier —Ev. Ma. Newcastle 3
Dai.Ad.&Oraclc Northampton
Morning Advert. Norf.—Norvvi. 2
Traveller—J*Jews Mottingham
Commer. Chron. OxFORD-2. Ports.
18Weekly Papers Reading—Salilb.
Bath 3, Bristol 6 SCOTLA ND 1 S
Birmingham 3 Salop—Sheffield
Blackburn Sherborne, Surry
BuryS.Edmund's Shrew tl>.--Sussex
Cam BBI DGE Staffordstiire
Canterbury 2 AUGUST, 1807. Stamford—Tyne
iCarli.—Chester Wakefi.—Waiw2
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

( 699
THE GENTLEM/VN'S
For AUGUST,
Mr. Urban, July 31.
^£ i& iS£ iflf A VING received a let-
ter from a near relative
tlt'lir! næ me to refer to
^ H your Magazine, p. 429,
^£ I there read with some
w vjv vt^ v,x surprise niv statement
?R i*R ^ « Srt cf lne |ilte s7ari of Q„f.
ford's cafe, as published in the Bath
Herald. 1 certainly did intend to have
that matter made as public as possible;
but, finding the family averse to it,
though all bearing the" strongest testi
mony to the accuracy of my (laiement,
I complied with ilnir wislies, and suf
fered ihe matier to fall, as I thought,
into oblivion ; and I can assure you,
the epigram of the learned wag would
have done no more than produce a
smile of contempt ; but the statement
having found its way into your valua
ble Magazine, I trust you will, for the
above reason, acquit me of being in
any way instrumental to its having
made its appearance, by the publica
tion of this letter.
Now, Mr. Urban, as it is my wifli
to promulga'e to the world the arcana
by which I have, under Divine Provi
dence, performed some cures, many
of which appear incredible, the vouch
ers of which are in my posselfion, and
which 1 am ready to produce, " bear
ing confirmation strong as proof of
Holy Wra:" Be it known to the
Royal College of I'hvficians, as well as
to the world at large, I have ascertained,
and am willing to prove before ihem,
that, by a counteraction to Antimony,
.depriving it of all its deleterious and
baneful effects, combining it with oilier
medicines, and tempering them in such
manner as occasion may require, making
them act and counteract each other, I
can subd ue every species os Fever known
in this country in a few hours ; bin as
some fevers proceed from long-rooted
disease in the intestines, and frequently
from worms, these will return with
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1807.
fresh attacks, but are subdued as quick
ly as they appear, until the cause is
destroyed ; and in the mean lime the
patient continues to gain appetite and
strength, and even the medic nes ihem-
selves prove nutritious, aud invigorate
the system. I have frequently con
versed with Medicul Men eminent in
their profession, who candidy told me
tliev conceived 1 was in posselfion of a
valuable nostrum, and allowed that
many cures 1 had performed had ex
cited their astonishment , but, finding
from my conversation that I proceeded
on a (sstem, instead of an unvaried
nostrum, h !ve expressed au anxious
wish that the sulyect might come be
fore a Committee of the House osCoiu-
mons ; as lo valuable a discovery might
be of the greatest use to mankind in
general. During the t ine the malig
nant Fever raged at Gibraltar, conscious
that my medicine would have saved the
lives of al least seyen out of ten of our
brave fellows »ho sell sacrifices to that
crml disease, I attempted to interest
some persons of distinction to endea
vour to have my system investigated.
But, not being a regular-bred practi
tioner, all in v efforts were in vain, and
thousands of my fellow-creatures (us-
fered, whose lues might have been
saved to their country. It is not long
since ii was mentioned in ihe House of
Commons, that not less than eight
thousand of our troops died in one year
of the Yellow Fiver in ihe Well Indies!
Is it not then an object of the first
magnitude, to try by every means to
subdue so dreadful a disease ? 1 ihink
1 have discovered the means, and am
willing to communicate to Go\ern-
meut my secret—nav more, have no
objection lo attend either a Naval or
Military Hospital (or both) under the
inspection of two reun'ar, but liberal-
mind d. Medical Men ; and, to prove
the safety, as w. II as the efficacy of
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
and a spring, [was his wing ;
Very long was his teg, though but short
lie look but one skip, and was soon out of
fight, [the night.
Then chirp'd his own praises the reft of
With steps so majestic, &c.
P 1074, col. 2, I 20, read " Tim-
peron as allo in the "Index cf
Jiames."
P. 1 104, rot. S. With regard to Q.
Elizabeth, Mr. Granger, in his " Re
marks an Dress, &c." at the end of her
»»ign, writes thus : " As the Queen
left no less than three thousand d iffe r-
fnt habits in her wardrobe when she
•lied, and was pnsselled of the dresses
•s all countries, it is somewhat ilrange
that there is such au uniformity of
dress in her portraits, and that she
should take a pleasure in being loaded
with ornaments." He refers to Carte,
Fit. 702, whose words are : " Besides
a vast quantity of jewels and plate, the
left hehirid her an infinite number of
clashes, no less titan 3000 robes ; not
having had the heart to give or leave
the least thing to her ladies or old ser
vants."
P.■ M43. Mr. Falconer's Translation
os the Peripluj os Hanno was reviewed
in pp. /(Jo—70, of your vol. for I797-
P. 1 1 tig—70. As to Mr. Mason, it
may nut be aruiss to recur to vour
volume for 1804. pp.' 222.3; and to
the *' British Critic," xxii. 377—3*4.
P. H74, col. I, I. 20. The refer
ence to \\ anon is not right. What
Hfcnutd it he ?
P.. 1175, cot. 2, 1. If), for " Dur
ham" read " W< Itminlier."
P. I1CJ7. From an Epitaph in ihe
eliancel of Fdbrigne Church, in Nor
folk, printed in Neve's " Monu
ment* Anglfcarro, from i(ir>0 10 1718,"
p. it Appears that F. izabelh, a
daughter of Sir Rowland Litton, was
the first wife of Thomas Windham,
Eiq. who died in his 82d year in 1653;.
Yours, &C SCRUTATOR.
(To le continued.)
Mr. Urban, Aue. 24.
^JN resuming the explanation which
J 1 have reluctant! v 'been obliged >«
riiake, 1 think it essential in the still
jilace lo relieve vonr readers from the
possible apprehension that 1 am going
tii drag them through a review os the
whose, or, indeed, any considerable
part of the grosser errors to be found ;n
l|ie tlctailed Report of a Speech which
occupied more than two hours in the
delii erv. I (hall not even quote at full
length the single passage on which 1
am compelled to comment ; trusting
that your readers, if they find it neces
sary, will take the trouble of turning
to your Magazine for last September,
where he may fee it extracted and
inCerieu in Dr. Milner's letter. It will
be mj study 10 be as brief as I can,
consistently with justice to an injured
individual, and a numerous class of
my fellow subjectscalumuiated through
him.
In my former letter 1 observed, that
the passage in question would furisilh
a verv apposite illustration of the sort
of falsehood, which I mentioned to
Mr. Le Mesurier, notarising from me-,
dilated fraud, bin accidental confusion.
My defence of Dr. Milner, in iheReport,
begins wilh a reference to an attack
which never was made, and which,
indeed never could have been made.
1 am represented as stiyinz. " The de
finition of an Oath, on which the learned
DoSlor (Duigenan) has been sosevere,
if it had been fully and fairly quoted,
is strictly true, and accurately confor
mable to the most rigid principles of
ethics and morality;" and 1 then go
on to st;te, from Dr. Milner, the four
cases in which Canonists deny the
validity of promissory Oaths. ^Jow,
Sir, it happens, that in all the pam
phlet there is no definititn of an Oath,
but one which Dr. Milner does not
give as his own, but professedly bor»
rows from Dr. Johnson. On this it
is perhaps needless to fay, Dr. Duige-
iiau was not severe. He did not in the
most remote degree allude to it, nor to
any passage of the context near it : or,
indeed, os tile particular work in which)
it liands. On my part, so far was I
foul erroneously ascribing to him any
such imaginary i severity, that I ex-
prefflv produced the four cases from,
the C.aiionisti, as containing principles
which he would not deny, because he
must know them to have been, in ef-
se6t, sanctioned and confirmed by some
of the moll eminent leachers of our
own church. In this respect let 'hie
do him justice'.
The truth is, ihe learned member
confined himself as Mr. Le Mesurier
does, to a single quotation ftoin one
part a'one of Dr. Milner's publication,
the Supplement, addrellcd 10 Mr.
Reeves. He reprobated as abnmina*
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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 i8©7-j Chertsey Church, Surrey.—Sir Roger Newdigate. 795
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
this, it mipht be the province of the
Civil Magistrate to administer proper
correction for a fraud, (the Laws being
sufficiently strong against the tricks of
soothsayers .tad fortune-tellers) without
violating the sacred laws of tolc'ratiqtu
which have been the cause of Inch pro
sperity and peace to the Nation for near a
century and a half.
Your correspondent has a further
complaint to lodge against an Afl'em-
bly-rooni at Keunington being con
verted, as he calls it, into " a Cal-
vinistic Union," as well as the Wheel
wright's shop occupied bv Joanna
Southgate. I am very happy that he
feels himself so shocked at these mid
night revels, as to suppose that the ser
vice of God mould never afterwards be
performed upon such a wicked spot.
However, instead of bringing a let
of railing accusations against the sup
porters of such places, as though
Church and State were in immediate dan
ger from them, it might be much more
to the purpose to conliderwhat is the real
cause of such a supposed formidable
tliffent. The Established Church has
not only all the support the State can
tgive her.; ljut her Ministers have the
opportunities of acquiring all the eru
dition that our Universities can afford.
Strange that, after such helps and be-
i\e6cial advantages, (he should have to
complain of being in danger from a
sect of weak-headed enthusiasts, whose
very names are to be treated with such
- sovereign contempt ! Shall I go too
far if I should hint that such high and
zealous advocates for the Chureh be
• advised to look at home for the cause?
Thele Separatists are by no means se
cret in their different charities, in their
instruction of youth, aud in the pains
they take to propagate their sentiments,
and enlarge their 'connexion^. Why
do not the Clergy follow their exam
ple, and use their efforts also to regain
their lost credit among the people ? In
short, if the people in many places are
gone from them, why do not they
fetch them back again ? Fools and
wise, good and bad, among all parlies,
will naturally be found ; but, when
the Clergy have all the advantages in
their favour thsy could possibly wish
for, excepting the rod of persecution,
without the spirit of prophecy it
may easily be foretold, thai, is rhey
u«e but propel v excited to bi as zea
lous in their religious deportment as
others against whom they make such
loud complaints, neither would Jo
anna at her Wheelwright's fliop, nor
the "Calviniltic Union" people iti
their Assembly room, nor a thousand
more such places, exist; as bung the
least caulc of any future alarm.
A Friend to Toleration.
Mr. U«ban, June 1 1 .
'T'HE leaden coins mentioned by
E. S. S. p. SO.f), were, I be-<
lieve, uieiely some school-boys' relicksj
I remember having moulds of plaster
of Paris, with which I formed lea- ten
counters ofa similar kind. The <Uath's
head buttons mentioned bv Chtonon-
hototiihologes were very different from
what E. S. S. supposes. There were
two forts of buttons known to ih = lay-"
lors, death's head and bastets; the for
mer were covered with ftos silk, dU
verging in quarters from I he centre,
like the rushes at the bottom of a chair j
the latter were woven something like
baiket-work, and were not confined
to black, but were indifferently of any
colour to suit the cloth. E. W.
Mr. Urban, August 2.
IN perusing your entertaining vo
lumes- for some years past, 1 could
not avoid the trifling employment of
noting the following queer names.
They may afford some of your readers
an opportunity of enquiring by what
means certain persons came by names
which are destined afterwards to be the
sport of wicked wits, of which num->
ber I have the honour to be One.,
Mr. Goliglilly killed by a fall from
his horle, ,
Mr. Mould, cheesemonger in New
gate-street.
Mr. Fry, ^ocAbroker, married to
Miss Slock.
Jane 1'ipplc—a nurse.
.Tnhn juniper, patentee for Essence
of Peppermint.
Solomon Wiseman, found drowned
in Sleaford New River.
Mr. Kettle, a irei/i-founder.
Savage Bear, eiq.
Mr. Urban, Norwich, April 18.
INCLOSED I have sent you a small
drawing (sccPlalell.) of iheground-
platl and elevation of one of the de
signs, with a copy of the letter (Je-
scribing it, which I lent to the Noble
men and Gentlemen of the Committee
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.
tos of the Poem. Mr. H. then say;.,
" This fraternal production is (aid 10
have appeared in a Magazine of the
yen,: I769. 1 have discovered a rival
and probably an inferior translation
si) pulliflied ; but .the joint work of
the poeiical brothers lias hitherto elu
ded all my researches."
Now as every production ofihe inter
esting Cow per 'must he valuable, Mr.
Hayley will confer a great savour on the
admirers of 1 he Poet by explaining -in
what Magazine of the year 1759 he
found the Poem which he supposes a
rival and inferior translation ; and whv
he forms such a supposition ; as it seems
rather improbable that two tranllations
of the fame Poem should appear In two
periodical publications ofthe fame year.
The writer of this is in polsefiion of a
Magazine for the year 1759, which con
tains the first five books of that Poem ;
and another of the vear 1-760, in which
are the remaining five; and he would
he glad to ascertain whether this is the
translation by the Cowpers or not.
Yours, &c. Investigatus.
Mr. Urban, Aug. 5,
IF H. C. B. (whose letter appeared in
p. 627.) had taken the pains to exa
mine the dirl'erentordersof Knighthood,
he would have found, that the entrench
ment complained of was not at all ana
logous to the honourable distinctions
(moled. I am no friend to innovations
ol anv kind, but cannot help regarding
the aflnniption of the girdle as a very
innocent appendage to armorial bearings.
Please to propose the following rnolte
for translation:
Tauquam ttifpicalussum vinco.
Yours, &c. Felix.
Mr. Urban, April ee.
AS a correspondent in p. 'JOS fa
voured thepublick with the .names
of many of the Roman Catholic Saints
whose festivals were observed in this
K'ngdom prior to the Reformation ;
perhaps it may not be dilagreeable to
some of your readers, to peruse the de
votions which were addressed to those
Saints in their public services. 1 have
now sent you part oftheofticeof the Ele-
fen Thousand Virgins, and can commu
nicate several oilier curious specimens of
tdilatroussuperstitionwiihsoinefltetcheii
os the history of tin- Saints they were
addressed to ; and probably the present
generation," when -tl.wv reflect t>n the
iitmmiii x ot their anrelors, tvili he
inure *raielul to the memory of thole
iriade I—Knighthood, Zic yij
who shook off the yoke of their super-
smions than they generally are.
Your* &c. ' ' "%..
Part ofthcOjfice ofihe Eleven Thousand
From the Horæ sec. Us. Saruiu."
AnTIPHOXJ.
O vos undeha millia,-,
Puellæ gloriosæi .' ., :
Virginitatis lilra,
Martyriique roi'æ;
In vita me dcfimdite, ■'■ ' .,
Pratbendo mihi juvamen ; ;
In morte vos ostendice, . ■>■' *
Supernum ferendo folamen.
Pers. Orate pro nobis, Sponsæ Dei Electee,
Jtejp, Utadvestrum consortium valeamm
pervenire. < .
Oratio, ., , ... ;
Brevi'ir. Rum. Reform. .,,
Da nobis, qua?sumus, Dimiine Deus
nolter, Sanctarum Virginum et Martyrma
tuarum Urfuiæ et Sociarum ejus palmar
incessabili devotione venerari, ut quas
digna mente non possumus celebrare, hu-
milibus saltern frequentemus oblequiis_j
per Dominum, &c.
Hortcl. Avimæ.
See. Us', anlirj. Eccles. liomfin.
O preclaræ vos Puellæ,
Nunc implete meum velle ;
Et dum mortis venit hera,
Subveriite tine moia ; . •
In tarn gravi tempestute • ■_. „
Me precautem defenlate
A Dasnionum injur'ia. .
Vers. Pia Mater Ursula, l'ponsa Christi
decora.,
lisp. Cum mis ss.'a'ibus, semper pro no
bis ora.
"' . . ' , Oremus.
Deus, qui affluentiffimsa bonitatis
tuff prudentia° Bcatissimam Urfulam cum
undecim millibus Virginum triumpho
Martyrii cororiare dignatus es ; concede
propitius, ut carura precibtis ac mentis,
cum iplis Ui æterna beatirudine eoilocaJi
meraamur ; per Dominum, &c.
Mr. Urban, , May 18.
IN Peacock's " Compendious Geogra-
phical Dictionary ' is the following
article.
; *' Cleer, St. a Parish of Cornwall, re
markable for a piece of Antiquity called
the other Half Stone ; which indeed ar;c
two stones fixed in the ground, and by
mortises ia each seem to. have btrji foj-
merly joined together. On buth are cu
rious Diaper-work carvings, with the fol-
lcrwjog inscription upon one of them, ir»
very antique characters : " Doniert ro]&
vit pro animal' This poniert, or D..9--
garthj King of Cornwall, was drewnvd
stunt A. D.'isa."- -.■ « •»
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."

Over this memorial, on a small pe Dde's History of Harwich and Doves-

destal beiween two IcrolU of alabaster,
sustained by two pillars of black mar
ble, is the effigies of the person, from
the breast upwards ; and underneaih
the abovementioned table are thele
arms ; viz. Baron and Femine, a bend,
three swans between three p'ates, a
canton sinister with a bear's claw erased :
Impaled with a chevron between three
mullets of five points pierced.
He lies buried under a black marble
fix or (even feet within ihe South door
of the Chancel, whereon thele words
are cut :
" Depositum Gulieimi Clarke, Equitis
Aurati."
On a black flab at the West end of
the South aile :
" Sub hoc monumento reponuntur ci-
nercs Rogeri Reay, qui mare et terras glo-
riam queritans, tandem cecidit, fed forti-
ter, nam et in thalamis Honoris ohdormi-
vit : obijt tricesimo die Septembris, anno
1673.
Quid quæris, lector, quis hoc sub mar-
more somnit ?
Hie gremio Martis virtus heroa jacet."
Tn the church yard is a neat stone
pillar, with this epitaph :
" Here lieth the body of Mr. Daniel
Davies, a capital burgess of this Bo
rough; who departed this life January 5,
1764, aged 47 years."
The highest antiquity that as yet we
have discovered of Harwich is, what
Mr. Caniden, p. 351, commemorates
of a sea-fight there between the Eng
lish and the Danes. Taking notice of a
promontory, "From this point (fays he)
the shore runs back a little to the
Stour's Mouth, famous for a sea-fight
between the Saxons and the Danes, in
the year 884. Here is now seated Har
wich, a very safe harbour, as the name
imports; for the Saxon ))ajie- pic sig
nifies as much as an harbour or bay,
where an army may lie." (Extract from
court.)
This is an antient, and was for
merly a well-fortilied place ; several
remains of a verv thick and strong wall
which e'ncompaiied this town are still
remaining. Ti.ere are at various time*
several sons of fossil (hells found in the
cliff, situate nearly a mile South of the
town ; which is, I understand, about
to be somewhat levelled, for the for
mation of the works under the Ord
nance Department carrying on here.
Harwich once gave the title of Mar
quis to the Duke of Schomberg,
which is now extinct.
The church-yard was, about two or
three months since, inclosed in with
small pales ; that is, the burying-
groiind from the paths.
The following inscription it tran
scribed from a white stone on the front
of the Free-school at this place :
"JUVENTUTI HERVICE/tSt,
bonis moribus et literis
et religionis sanctiffimæ rudimentis
secundum instituta Ecclesiæ Anglicans
imbuendæ,
has Ædes sacrari voluit,
sumptibusque suis extrui curavit,
Humphridus Parsons, Armr,
Civis et Aldermannus Londinensis,
et [delegatus
ad Comitia Parliamentaria ab hoc Burgq
A. D. 1724.
Te, Deus Optime Maxime,
Patronum vult Fundator ;
Tu Largitoris eximij munificentiæ
Felices des eventus :
Te favente Honori fuccedant tUQ -
et Juventus et Ædes
nullo peritura die."
Over this inscription is an escutcheon
with the following arms : Quarterly of
4 ; 1 and 4, two clievronels Ermine, be*
tween three eagles displayed ; 2 and 3,
two chevronels between three goals
erased, impaling a chevron charged with
a star of many points between two roses.
Yours, &c. Rich R. Babnes.
** Vol. LXXVI. p. 1008, 1. 12 from
bottom, read Munt.
Mr,
 726 Absurdity os blazoning undeserving Characters.
Mr. Urban-, August 10.
HAVING occasion' so take a
journey into Come of tlte more
'inland parts of Norfolk, a' short time
suite, I arrived early in the evening of
an exceedingly hot day at a' re11red
village ; where, iudneed by the fatigue
!1 had experienced, and invited bv llie
.peculiarly pi£luresque appearance of ihe
scenery around, heightens d as it then
was by t he mellowed brilliancy of a
felting fun, 1 resolved to postpone pro
ceeding any farther till the following
morning. IJaving, therefore, put up
mv horle at the sign of the " liofe and
Crown," which hung invitingly across
the toad ; and having established nt\>
seisin the good graces of " mine hud,"
Ijy pledging hfin in a tankard of his
best :— I proceeded, according to the
Custom of travellers time immemorial,
wiJi him for my Cicerone, to trace in
the ullage church yard the history os
its inhabitants. Time, as if to coTn-
peufate for the ravages he had commit
ted, h id altnostentirelvcovered over with
ivy the walls of the lacred edifice,—it
had penetrated into some of the win
dows, and had almost funned a grotto
of the humble porch.—Thinly scattered
round, .
" With uncouth rhymes and shapeless
sculpture deck'd,"
"frail memorials" were seen, which
told that, gathered 10 their fathers,
there slept the sire, the matron, and
the son. Inspired bv a pleasing me'an-
eholv, I was i'llensimy falling into that
train of reflections, so natural on visit
ing such scenes as these ; when, on
firddenly turning an single of the
Quitch, my eye was caught by a mo-
Uiunem which Hood forth, compared
with the others, " velul inter igiics JJi
nn rnhii/ret." " Well may Von lelhfv
fcirprizc,'' quoth mv companion (as I
haliiiv 'went up to. examine it more
elofetv), " at feeing so sine a monu
ment in lo retired a spot as t';is; fore
enough it is out of its place here, hut
ll,id you known, Sir, (he persm whom
it describes, as 1 I, new hiui. von weuUI
lav she inscription was a ur.ucrd deal
niote so. Far he ii from me, couiinued
he vvi'h eartieflm Is, far he it from,
the to deU'jht in siying aught os those
who are no longer living to justify
tliemseti es : hut, when I fee, as von
ftiny dlili n e Ivre recorded, a pompous
detail, tending- 'o aggrajidi/e the cha
racter of one who, although 'not absu-
iutetv guilty of any t~d vires, sirieilv
[Aug.
so c.illcd, was yet miserably deficien1
in many of the virtues, particularly in
tli/ile of beneficence, humility, and
mecknest', here given 10 him ; 1 cjnnot
help (pardon me if I seem too severe)
giving von a llight sketch of his chti*
racier. If* I remember right, it will be
aboni two years come next a Ladif,
since the person lo whose memory this
monument has been lately erected,
died, hi early life, I have been told
by my father, that in taking up the
cudgels, in playing at (ingle flick, in
wrestling, al cricket, and in all o her
athlciic sports, the Squire, as he was
al»a\ - called, was ever lure 10 be \ ictori-
otn. I myself remember him only in
the decline oflife; bui this to my certain
knowledge I can lefiify, ihat, however
age might have weakened the arm which
had In his youth made him lo be dreaded
by all the country round, yet, whe
ther it was 1h.1t lie was the prey to a
certain irritability of temper which
would neier suffer him lobe quiet, or
that he was actuated by the remem
brance of former times, certain enough
it was, that no one in the village was
more quick in taking up the cudgels of
argument, right or wrong, and no one
more How in laying them down again.
Self-opinionated, and ever wanting to
njake others yield, It would have been
as easy to convince the marble we are
now conieuipla' ing, as the person
whom it covers. Upon religion, Sir,
he would argue with all the fitbtletv
of a Call-in; and as for politics, could
it speak, the oak-iable upon which you
will gel your supper to right would
molt feelingly bewail the violence of
those knnck'es, which echoed again,
as with all the rudeness of a hear he
aspersed thole « ho were in ; or as, with
all the cunning of a Fo.v, he lamented
the loss of thole " talents'' which were
mil. 1 foe him now (exclaimed ihe
animated landlord) putting himself
into a threatening posture, ol< netting
his Hick in one hand, and violently
swinging the oilier backward and sor-
tyaid. running at the same lime his
lit ad full in mv face,—his eyes glar
ing, his uolirils inflated, and his teeth
chattering; — I lee htm now. Sir,
standing as# you Ice me, no mattes
where, here, iheie, in the open lireet,
anv where in short, and in anyconir
pane, primed, if you rhoole to call it
Co. for argument, to the utter dismay
sis the opponent w ho knew him not \
to the ridicule, alas ! of thole w ho
did.
i8o7-] Monumental Flattery cen rured,~Sir Charles Gafrdy. 727
did. Such. sir,, was the man to whom- the inconsiderate, what I am still far?
vanity .or pride has erected this idle ther going to advance may perhaps ap
piece of pageantry. In the calm which pear ion harsh ; hut lo those who pre
has succeeded his i epartnre, age would fer I In.' accuracy of trmh to the zeal of
have almotl forgotten that he had ever friendship, epitaphs of the nature I
existed, did not this monument bring have been describing may, I "think
him to their minds, which ever and not unjulilv, he laid to convey a decree
anon they contemplate, as barn fowls of impiety. Their original ii>tenlitn»
do the kite hung up at the gable end j was, I should imagine, and ought (till
while youth would never hear of him, to be, that youth might lie animated
did not their mothers threaten, when to the imitation of the several virtues
naugh y, to fend them to Squire which thev ponrtray (in the lame man
'* * * * ner as we lee portions of Scripture
On my return to supper, " name traced on the walls of village school
host" being engaged with oiher com rooms), and that the "rustic moralist"
pany, 1 was left lo my own reflections ; might be taught by the "holy texts"
which reverting to the narrative I had with which they are so frequently
la tel v been entertained with, I could adorned, " tu die." Hut when the eve
not forbear smiling, though alone, at reads what the heart knows lo be un
the folly of human nature ; which true, and that, moreover, on conle--
seems not to consider, that to dictate crated ground, where truth ought
such inscriptions as these, so far from more especially to be held in the highest
fliewing a regard to the deceased, reverence ; is it not sufficient to har
is, on the contrary, moll unkindly to den youth in iniquity ? Is it not, alas 1
perpetuate foibles which would have soflicieiil to bring down age with fop.
otherwise been soon forgotten : not to row to the grave ! Much more might
mention the evident want of that disti- be said on this subject, was it not
dence which ever accompanies true feareil that the limits of your Magazine
merit, in presenting a long catalogue will be too much transgressed to insert
of virtues for every eye to penile ; suf what has been aheady laid by
ficient from their length, and from the Yours, ice. Viator.
knowledge which we all have of our
ewn deficiencies, to stagger even cre Mr. Urban, JvneT.
dulity itself. It is for this reason I ' I " H E following curious inscription
have ever admired that simple inlcrip- A was copied from a brass plate ta
tion to the memory os a noble saintly, ken from a vault in the chancel of Do*
mentioned in one of the numbers of benhani church, Suffolk, May 1800.
the Spectator: "The sons were all
valiant, aud the daughters virtuous." knt." This is the body of Chailcs Gawdy,
sonne and heire to Charles Gawdy. of
To all this, I am aware that it may be Crowemall,
objected, that the deceased dtjl not knt. who in inhis the county of Suffolk,
write his own epitaph. Beit, taking the happie choice oflife-time was blessed ia
a most vertuous wife,
it for grained; that tablets with these by name Veare Cookc, of Gvidyhall, in
inscriptions, however flattering, may the county of Essex. — A lady, to
be strictly.- true, may it not be (airly fay noe more, severely modest, and of a
inferred, that a person with (b many most pure and unblemished conjugal af
sine trails in his character, could not fection : by her he left a hopeful issue,
well be without that v\ hicli could alone five tonnes aud one daughter. He livefi
throw a lullre over the others, namely, and died a zealnu* professor of the Rer
modesty ? And can we be then laid formed Religion, fettled and established
to shew regard to the memory of a de in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by Aft
parted friend, when we blazon forth of Parliament. A lover of Monarchy,
"what it was the study os his whole life and of an undaunted loyalty to his sove
XO conceal ? Virtue, moreover, if reign, Charles the 1st ; which he fre
quently manifested, by espousing hi4
.really possessed to that exalted degree cause
.which we so often fee. recorded, needs of his and quarrel to the uttermost hazard
life and fortune. ',
not the lUelelsjuarble to perpetuate it,;
ever- will ihe meuiotv of -it. remain e» 33 " ycares,
Having sojourned hecre the space of
or thereabout, 6no the loth
graven on the heart of every good man, of November, lOio, being the LurdN
aud when the marble, friiieiin;i to day, about twelve at night, he departed,
dull, shall he no more, Hill will it I cannot fay lie died \ for by a volunfaijt,
shine son!) in charaiters indelible. To chearful, and devout teugnafion of hirrj
felfV
72Æ Heraldic Queries answered.—Undertakers* CAug„
felfe into the hands of the Almighty (to ten observed, and, as a fellow-admirer
the wonder and astonishment of the be of the neglected science of Heraldry, at
holders; though he prevented not the .often been disgusted at. Another cus
ftroake, yet assuredly he felt not the bit tom that now prevails, and (o me it-
terness of death." appears equally absurd, is in placing
Yours, &c. S. L. D. E. the supporters, which formerly used,
according to the tegular rules of mar
Mr. Urban. August 7. shalling, invariably to_ he represented
IN reply to G. V. p. 627, who in stand ng with their arms, if human
quires how the present Lady South figures, or if beasts, their fore-paws
well ought to bear her arms, I answer, supporting the upper part of the es
let the arms of Berkeley and Compton cutcheon. But at present, the Royal
quarterly be impaled with those of the arms are placed upright, arid the lion
noble Lotd, who has no right to bear and unicorn (no longer supporters)
them on an escutcheon os pretence for couched down so that their respective
the reason given in your Correspond faces are visible on each side the arms.
ent's letter ; namely, because the lady's Now, it appears impossible that the
faiher has issue male by another wife ; hinder parts of these two beasts could
yet, notwithstanding, the issue of Lady be placed behind the shield, and the
Southwell will h:ive au unquestionable only reason apparent for such impro
right to quarter the arms of Compton priety is the pyramidal form given by
with thole of Southwell, as being the this position to the achievement. The
direct lineal representatives ol the placing the motto spoken of by H. C.
Compton family. B to imitate the arms of Knights of
H. C. B (ead. pag ) with much the King's Orders, reminds me of the
propriety censures the vanitv of those contrivance of the Unfortunate Perdita,
foolish people who in these days, in who had a basket with four white
which every man does what is right roses, pain ed over her initials in such
in his own eyes, ape the conduct a manner that it was easily mistaken at
and usurp the rights of their P periors, a .diliance for a Baron's Coronet ; and
and surround their arms or crests with the more modern thought of a private
circles, as if they were Knights of the gentleman, who caused his chariot to
Garter. be painted the colour of his crest, that
The Hon. Mr. Bowes, son of the the ducal coronet from which it issued
Earl of Stralhmore, whom your Cor might appear to be the distinguishing
respondent S. H. C knew at school, mark of ihe owner's dignity. Whilst
(p. b'32) nnrft have been son of the on this subject, as a staunch disciple of
last Earl, and one of the two brothers antieut Heraldry, and an avowed ene
of the present, as it was the marriage my to all modern abuses, I cannot
of the last Earl with the daughter aud help takmg notice of the daubings de
heiress of George Bowes, esq. that first signed for armorial bearings exhibited
brought the name os Bowel into the on the outside of Undertakers shops
family. even in the most refiVetable parts of
The children os the first Earl of this city. Such ignorance of the com
Mulgrave by the second wife were mon roles of Heraldry appears more
James, Thomas, and Robert, Marga inexcusable, when it is considered that
ret, and Sarah, who were all unmar there are many persons who make He
ried in 1640, (beyond which time mv rald-painting their peculiar profession,
information reaches not,) except James and that the business of an undertaker
the eldest, who had married Jam, must introduce him to such artists. If
daughter of Sir William Cockaine, fa these paintings were originally in
ther of the first Viscount Cullen ; she tended to represent hatchments, as
must have been the sixth and youngest their situation would warrant a conclu
daughter, whom Mr. Lodge, and his sion, a due regard to ihe originals
Continnalor Mr. Archdall, -report to should at least be still observed. As they
have died unmarried. B. ate now, thev appear to be made at
random, or without any other design
Mr Urban, London, August 4. th:in to exhibit a combination of the
XHE custom complained of hy most gaudy colours. At any rate, unless
your Correspondent H. C. B. p. the laws of Heraldry are attended to,
of placing the motto within a the practice had better be discontinued.
gaiter instead of an escrole, I have of Nat. Orwade, D. D.
Mr.
 1807.] Methodist Baptisms.- Motto explained. -St. Paul's. 729
Mr. Urban, Aug. 13. the following short account, it is pre
I BEG to be favoured, through tbe sumed, will be found satisfactory.
channel of your Magazine, with a This motto belongs to the lainily of
solution of the following theological Macintosh, in the North of Scotland,
question. Jt has happened thai, in who have for their crest a wild cat ; and
the parish where I reside, several chil the mo.tto, like many others, directly
dren have been baptised in ihe Con alluies to the crest. The word but in
venticle belonging 10 the Methodists, the Scottish dialect means without ; so
of course by ihe felf-coriflltoted Teach/t that the motto in plain English is,
who officiates there. The Minister of " Touch not the cat without a glove ;"
the Parish, as the most lil<elv means to or, in other words, meddle not with
prevent the recurrence of ttiHi irregu a vicious or noxious animal, without
larities, has adopted the resolution of lying secure against its efforts to hurt
tefnfmg to bury such children ; on the you. This expression, therefore, re
authority, \ fuppof?, of the rubrick pre commends caution or prudence in out
fixed to the Burial office, which di dealings or tranlactions with one who
rects, that this office be not 'used for is inclined to injure us. G. W.
any " that die unbaptized." Now the
question is, whether inch a refusal is Mr. Urban, August 14.
tegal ? YV'heatly assumes tite affirma IN your vol. LXV1H. p. 3y4, is a
tive, Shepherd the negative fide of this letter from a .correspondent, iimietL
question. For mvlelf, I incline to the " Incompertus," saying, that he sound
affirmative ; and for these reasons : It) tbe under cany of a memorial of S:r
the rubrick prefixed to the office of Pri Christopher Wren relating to the adorn
vate Baptism, it is ordered, that the ing of St. Paul's Cathedral, among
Minister of the parish, or, in his ab some family papers : from which £
sence, any other lawful Minister that Ihould conjecture he is in some mottoes
*at) be procured, with them that are related to the family of the Wrens.
present, call upon God, &c. siul the If so, or not, and he has any other rt-
Methodist Teacher, not having re- licks of that great man, and can favour
te*iied Episcopal ordination, cannot, me with a light of'lhem, or of aov other
we know, be accounted a lawful Mi information rmirve thereto, I shall es
nister os the Established Church. Now teem it a lasting obligation ; being en
1 admit, with Shepherd, that our gaged in illustrating the life of Sir
Church considers the Baptisms of Bo- Christopher, and in publishing details of
man Catholics, and of prasrjfcd Dis- the Cathedral of St. Paul.
Jkitters front the Church, lo he valid ; A line.addrc.'I'ed as under, or through
and, therefore, that no Minister can the medium of the Gentleman's Maza
tletiv the use of the Burial-office lo rine, will he acknowledged bv, Mr;
persons having been. so baptised. But. Urban, yours, aud your Correspond--,
t fee a material difference in the pre em (Incuittpetlus') obedient tlumblf
sent cafe. Many of the Methodills, servant, J^mes Elmes.
ami certainly thole of whom I am 19, Ctlteae-hilt, Queen street,
('[Waking, profess to live in commu theajistde.
nion with the Establishment, and re
gularly attend the celebration of her THE PROJECTOR. N° LXXIIf.
solemnities. Ii seems clear, therefore, " Words are. like leaves, and where they
that their children must be baptised by most abound,
a lawful Minister, as the rubrick en Much fruit of ser.t'a beneath is rarely
joins ; dr, that the baptism of such found." Pope.
childpen is to be considered irregular THE celebrated Mr. Locke, in his
and invalid. Consequently, that they chapter 011 the signification o%
have no just claim to the use of the wards, has laiil down a position which
liu ri a I office. few wil' he inclined todif'piilr, namely,
Yours, &c. Clericus. that words are often used without (ig-
nificaiiori. But it may hot he unne
Mr. Urban. Ediubirgh, Ana. 13. cessary.') add the. reason he allign- foe
A CORRESPONDENT of voors a this i'mguL r practice : *' Though tbe(
• (orne, nt 'inds ago having re proper arid immediate signification of
quested an explanation of the motto, words," hy% that great ? Iiilofopner,.
•' Touch not the Cat hut a Glove j" " »t: ideas in the mind of the speaker,
Gtwf. Mag;'August, 1807... ■v >et
730 T II E P R 0 J E C 1
yet because, by familiar use from our
cradles, we co:iie to learn certain arti
culate founds very perfectly, and have
them readily on our unique;, and al
ways at hand in our memories, but yet
are not always careful to examine, or
fettle their significations [>erf^tll y ; it
often happens that men, even when
thev would apply |themselves to an at
tentive consideration, ilo set their
thoughts more on words than thing).
N.iy, because words are many of them
learned before the ideas are known for
which thev stand ; therefore some, not
only children, but men, speak several
words no otherwise than parrots do,
only because they have learned them,
and have been accustomed to those
sounds."
Whether owing to these causes, or
more probably to others which have
occurred since the days of Mr. Locke,
it is certain that a great many words
are used in our language without sig
nification, and that considerable pains
appear to have been taken lo render
words, which, according to our Dic
tionaries, have some meaning when
taken separately, quite insignificant
when- combined together. And that
this is not done without pains aud
trouble my readers will readily believe,
when they consider that the effect can
not be produced unless by persons who
have a grea^t command of words, or 4
great (lock ready at hand, which they
can discharge upon the hearer. Hence
a long speech has generally been found
to contain less meaning than a short
sentence ; and so wary is the world
become on this subject, liut men who
wish to have any matter clearlv ex
plained are always in dread of a mul
titude of words, and conceive that the
eageruels of a speaker to deceive them
is in exact proportion 10 the quantity
t f words he made utl- of.
Aud hence, perhaps, we may divide
all the words of our language into two
dalles, the one, and the smaller, con-
fisting pf those which have a meaning,
and the other, and by fir the largest,
Consisting os that vast combination
which we call words of course. As
the first of these classes requires very
little elucidation, I ilia! I pass on to a
few remarks on tile second, or on
words of course, the use of which
appears to me tu be growing every doy
more general, and therefore one would
be inclined to suppose more necessary
i' social in.escur.e.
' O R, Na LXXIII. [Aug.
It might be a curious speculation lo
trace words of course to their ori
gin, and endeavour to discover whether
they are os pure English growth, or
imported from any other nation. • It
is, 1 think, allowed that very few of
the productions for which our country
is at present famous, are of our owii
growth, and that we have onlv had the
merit of importing, and bringing them
10 a higher state of perfection than they
could have atiained under less skilful
management in their native soil. Per
haps words of course may be on«(
of thole articles which, after a series of
years, we have thought proper to na
turalize, and admit to all the privileges
of indigenous productions. On this
conjecture, for I throw it out merely
as a conjecture, it is not improbable
that woRps OF course were origi
nally imported by some persons of high
rank, aud the ute of them at first con
fined to crowned heads, or representa
tives of crowned heads, commonly
called unibnssadors. It is certain that
in our negotiations for at least a cen-
tury past we find a rery copious display
os words OF course, and even at
the present day we find letters between
the personages alluded to besprinkled
with expressions of " high considera
tion," and " most perfect considera
tion, submission, attachment, jsec."
which are avowedly words of
course.
Along with this mode of importa
tion, w e mav also conjecture that per
sons of fashion travelling on the Con
tinent for pleasure, or what is com
monly called improvement, would not
neglect to lay in a stock of the newest
words of course, becaule such words
are to them of much more importance
than 10 other classes of men ; it being
a point confessed, that the greater part
of their social intercourse is carried on
by means of words " which," lays Mr.
Locke, " they (peak no otherwise than
parrots do, wuly because they have
learned them, and have been accus
tomed 10 those sounds."
Sow if this detail of the introduction
amongst us of words of course be
allowed lo he historically just, we can
not find it vets difficult to account for
the descent of these words from the
upper to the lower classes of society,
and so far the genenl use of them in
all narts os the kingdom. In what
way other nations are to trace the rite
and progress of their words of course
 1807.] THE PROJE' : tor, N'Lxxiii. 731
may be lest to their antiquaries, who of course. Th" great man has no
will be either anxious 10 claim the more concern about his dependant's
honour, or to avoid the stiame of in interest than if lie had never seen him ;
troducing them, according to the value and 1 he fine lady's lleep is as found
they are pleased to put upon them. I and long, as if taiigue or opium had
may, however, remark, as. a matter procured it.
somewhat surprizing, that the use of In trade, words of course are con
words of course, which are certainly sidered ar of great lervioe. In borrow
to be found in all modern languages, ing money, or in delaying (he payment
should not long ere now have facili of it, they are found exceedingly use
tated the acquisition of such languages ful ; and conlitl, generally, of unex
by young learners. It, has generally pected disappointments, < f extreme
been thought that the main impedi regret and sorrow, with a very long dis
ment in the learner's wav, is the want sertation on the hardness of the times,
of a memory capable os' retaining the the slackness of trade, and other mat
meaning of the words of any language te/s, which are Ib perfectly understood
which he may wish to acquire. But to be words oP course, that he who
surely, at first sight, it appears that is offended at them to-day will not he
such a difficulty mull be speedily re sitate to employ them to-morrow ; and
moved by the use of words of course : although he cannot reasonably expect
for what can be more easy than 10 that another should be le se acquainted
learn a language the words of which with their no-meaning than himself,
have no meaning, and are to be re yet he employs them mechanically ;
peated " no otherwise than parrots they fill up the moments of sufpence
do?" Yet, however obvious this fa and expectation, thev divert questions
cility may appear, such is the nature and importunities, and, if they do not
of words of course, that I am con yield satisfaction, ai least they procure
fidently assured by many able speakers, delay.
thev are acquired with more difficulty II we pass from trade to affairs of a
and with more sacrifices than any other more tender nature, lo affairs of court
words; thai a man must be consider ship, I am afraid we shall find that the
ably advanced in life before be can use Dictionary of Love consists, in a great
them with readiness, and that he must measure, of words of course; but
have acquired a great many other qua for this, perhaps, we may find a rea
lities before he can use them with ef son not so applicable in the other cafes
fect ; to fay nothing of the natural ten of which we have been speaking. The
dency they have to perplex what should vail multitude of books in which the
be perspicuous, and lo prolong what various arts of courtship are taught,
should be dispatched. has reduced the whole to an easy sys
But in whatever way words of tem, so soon learned that the young
bourse have been introduced, it is reader is often master of his lesson be
sufficient for the present purpose that fore he has ever thought of an object
we find them in very general use ; that for practice. I am not, however, so
they are used not only in courts but averse to words of course, in affairs
cities, not only in assemblies but in of gallantry, as in other cafes. One
shops, and mix in the greater part of wdto respects the amiable character of
the intercourse of mankind, from a his fair countrywomen, can scarcely
promise of promotion, to an invitation wish that lite words employed to gain
io dinner. When a great man allures their affection, should have any mean
his dependant that he may be certain ing. If this, indeed, were the case,
lie will provide for him the first oppor what would a beauty be but a mur
tunity, when he hopes that he shall see derer carrying about with her deadly
him, often, and professes that he has weapons wherever she goes ; now
his interest very much at heart : when breaking a heart into a thousand pieces,
a fine lady expresses her infinite con then piercing it through with darts till
cern that flie is deprived of the honour it resembles the man in the Almanack,
«f another fine lady's company, that and those darts shot from her eyes ?
she laments the very bad- cold which Al other titties she is represented as
occasions this disappointment, and shall scorching her lovers iu flames, timing
jmt have anoiher wink of stoep until fun) to the blaukiiels of drip i r, or
allured thai her dear friend is perfectly plunging them in a 1 1 ecies of infernal
~r;covered; these are, in general, words reg ons ; all which, for ihe honour of
the
11% THE PROJECTOjl, N° 1^X111. [Aug,
the sex, we must hope are only words mav add one other class, that of words
cr course. It would likewise be which are sincere when first uttered ;
much for the interest os these beauties but become words of course after a
if they were to understand such words short period. Of this kind are many
in tins way, aud be under no appre of the promises made in cafes of em
hension lelt the lovers who declare ihev barrassment, and of the relblutions
cannot live hut in their presence, should formed during a sit of liekneft.
caw their threats into execution. These are a few of the instances in
They should recollect that it is pecu which words of course aie generally
liar to thole who emplov words of emplov ed ; aud it" only remains lo be
course lo mean something the verv inquired, whether they are not used
opposite to what they seem to express ; more frequently than is proper; and
aud, it is certain, that many of them whether, upon the whole, any very
amidl) the agonies of despair, and with great benefit results from stripping
no other prospect before them than words of their accustomed meaning.
hanging, poisoning, starving, or drow n Such questions, I trust, I may very
ing, have been known to dunce merrily safely leave to the determination of
at a ball, and enjoy a very comfortable my readets. Hitt although I take foj
Bight's rest after eating a henrt\ supper. granted that their' opinion will be nn-r
VVords of course are uled for ib favourable to the extension and con
many various purposes, and thule pur tinuance os words of course, I cannot
poses so artfullv concealed, that it is flatter them that such an opinion,
jK)t easy to reduce them into daises, however strongly expressed, will pro
asfiniinj to each rank of persons the duce the change w anted. In the mean
elafs which belongs to them. In ge tiure, therefore, and while'certain per
neral, if we examine them attentively, sons of all ranks think it proper to
and endeavour to trace them hack, we make use of words of course, it is
lhall find that they "Consist either of mv business, as a Projector for the
words lh.it have changed their mean general good, to suggest an expedient
ing by a long course of time, or have f»v which great trouble and many dis
no meaning at all. But, perhaps, the appointments may be avoided. This
greater part are words w hich had once is nothing more than that some inge
a meaning, although they are now nious person, particularly learned in
merely words of course. Yet, before words of course, will compile a
we can be certain whether they have Di6lionarv of them ; not with the
undergone this change, it is neceflarv original meanings, but with the latest
weflitHifd have some knowledge osthe meanings affixed to those words ; and
jierfim who ules them. specifying also all those words and
Of words which are now words of phrases which have no meaning at all.
cqurse, although they once had,' aifd The latter part of this Lexicon would
wav sti'l now and then have a mean certainly (ave a crest deal of trouble ;'
ing, our catalogue is rather larger than as I have known a person exceedingly
those wtio profess a rc^irfl f>i\ sincerity puzzled to find out the meaning os a,
ami plain dealing could wish. Jn this speech addressed to him, who would
till may be computed many of the have avoided all his pains, anxiety, and
Oaths which ;\re administered in cer even expence, if he had been candidly
tain public o{:ices;,a great, many of told it had no meaning at all.
l)ie harangues which are uttered in
'.he ears of the populace -on election Mr. Urban, E—t-B—t, August 17.
occasions, and in which the meaning, WE have lived, during the course
is was already hinted; is studiotilly ob of many years, in a very awful
scured by a tnnlii'ude of words of and eventful period ; but surely there
course. In this list also- may be com never yet has been a season when the
prize: a co'di 'erable part os the mar dispensations ol the Almighty Gover
riage for' ice in the nook os Common nor of the Universe towards tftr, as a
Prayer, together with no small share nation and body politic, have aCumed
os the Litany, &c. in' the same. Aud a more threatening aspect than they
that this may not be a matter disguised now present to oil who possess an un-_
from the hearers, they are often read derstattditrg to discern, in any linle
in public- with a time and accent wl'ich Measure, the signs of the times. We
would be thought very disrespectful if have seen the neighbouring nations
uied in the case os a newspaper. I made drunk with their own blood,
 1 80 7.j - Serjeys Refleflions
and filled with the wine of astonish
ment; and there is at the present mo
ment but too much .cifon 10 I'ear, that
the hitler cup is ready to pas's unto
these kingdoms, find that the Lord is
even n^w snaking hare' his holy arm,
and unsheathing the ('word of his jus
tice, to avmge Himself upon ihe inha
bitants of these lands, " because the
cry of them is waxen great before the
face of the Lord." -The Lord's judg
ments, War and Famine, the scourges
of his wrath, have lonrjj been abroad
in the earths bin we nave blinded our
eyes and hardened our hearts against
them; so that in seeing we see them
not, and in understanding we under
stand them not, neither learn righte
ousness. Distant judgments ha\'e left
us llumbering in fin and impenitence,
and have not excited a return to the
Lord our God with w'eepinir, fasting,
and the band of fin loosened, from us ;
therefore, he is threatening to meet us
with more awful and immediate cala
mities. The tokens of his anger against
us are every where apparent. The
sword of war has long been stretched
out against us ; the devices of confe
derate powers to wrest it from the in
strument of the Lord's wrath have
been brought to nought ; the most gi
gantic efforts of the arm of flesh to
avert the blow from theft kingdoms
have terminated in disgrace and con
fusion ; and ("how my heart trembles
whilst mv tongue relates") before the
destroying anael receive the assent, it is
enough, who knows but his sword
mav receive a eomnniuon 10 pa 14
through this long-savoured but ungrate
ful, land, lo lay waste our cities and
villages, and revel in tfre blood of its
inhabitants"? Surely then, Mr. Ur
ban, this is the season. for each of us,
nationally, and individually, to search
into the (tats and tempers of our own
hear's, to enquire imo the reason of
the Lord's strife with us, to put away
far from us the accursed thing, ajid to
turn uii'o the Lord by a timelv repent
ance and amendment of- our lives.
This is the season when it becomes us
to set ourselves (erionlly to enquire,
" What meanelh ihe beat of this great
anger?" And if we be but faithful in
the enquiry 1 and attentive to ihe> an
swer of.onr own consciences, wilh a
voice loud as ten thousand thunders,
they will reply, " l"or the transgression
os Jacob is ah this; and for ihe fins of
the House of Israel," Our own wick*
on the present Times. 733
ednef$ has brought down upon us the
wrath of Heaven, and those calamities
by which the Lord is testifying unto us
his anger against us. And is the Lord
by so many different ways afflicting us
wiih the visitations of his anger -and.
displeasure, and sliall we still remain
insensible to his threatenings and judg
ments ; careless aud unconcerned un
der those effects of his wrathful indis-
nation, which have shaken terribly the
earth ? Shall we still refuse to humble
ourselves under his chastisement ? Novr
the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
is writing bitter things against us, and
proclaiming with an audible voice,
*' consider your ways," shall we harden
yet more against him onr stony hearts,
until he make a full end of us? At a
period when the Lord of Hosts, the
God of our forefathers, is calling the
inhabitants of these, lands to weeping
and to mourning, to fasting and hu
miliation, shall we put away from ut
the day of grace and acceptance, and
walk after the desires of our own hearts,
relisting against ourselves the counsel of
God? We have no reason, Mr. Ur
ban, to think—no Scriptural grounds to
conclude, that God will rest from the
fury of his aiu'er, or turn awav from,
<is the fierceness of this wrath, until
open lins be acknowledged, lamented,
and forsaken, and secret tins searched
out, confessed, aud mourned over.
These are duties the dispensations of
God's Providence are daily calling us
to. These are duties, the neglect of
which, parttcu'arlv when the Lord bv
his Providence is giving a- special call
to them, will certainly* involve us in
that awful threatening which was de-
nnuucrd against a sinful, careless, aud
impenitent people of old: "This int-'
(juitv shall not be purged from vou till
ye die." Aud these are the dories, bv
a due exercise' of which we must rcun n
unto the Ijird whilst he may be found,
lest the things which make for our
peace be for ever hid from onr eyes.
Yours, ice. W: II.
A rteniTKCTUR al Iskovatiov.
No, CXI.
Royal Palack, Westminster*.
(Cmi/inued from p. fj2.">.)
TNTKUIOttnf Si. Stephen's Clv-rel
J and Cloister^ in continuation.— Be
fore] leave the Chanel in the area of
the Cloisters, it must hot' he omitted,
" ♦ Refer w fust survey, vol. LXX.
they
 Architectural Innovation, No. CXI. [Aug.
734
that ihe door- way cm through its liast Henry the Vllth's Chapel (I believe I
wall !l te of the altar) still is in Being, am correct). So far error has been
a- it is fi> handy a thoroughtare from avoided ; but in the coved cieling,
the, Housekeeper's room into the either in itlelf or the new work stuck
kitchen. thereon, no documents are manifested,
At the North-west angle of I he Clois otherwise than what at times spring ,
ters, we now discover the real e.uile from unaccountable whim, under the
whv the lofty square Tower at this i in prestion of all-powerful Novelty. On
point has been in part rjeuiolilhed, as the Library side, a bow-window has
already hinted ; even for the momen been pushed out (before deferred),
tous convenience of erecting what is and opposite a chimney is introduced.
termed a modern grand liair cafe, lead The fame universal gloom prevails as
ing on one hand to a private or second in the Ailes below, the windows being
entrance to a range of apartments, of wholly filled with ground glass.
some ftxtv vears construction ; and on The Chantry, or Oratory, over the
the other hand, to the gallerv over the Chapel in the area of the Cloisters, (bex-
Cloisters. Now, as the other angles cestivelv enriched, has undergone the
of these Cloisters gave opportunity, and trial os' restoration; that is, by intro
>viih the utmost ease, to have tel up a ducing a fire-place, and ornamenting
stair-ease for the above purpose, with the modern flat cieling, which cieling
out affecting any piece of antiquity ; it bad been set on the old work some sew
Mills) be fvideui to the most indifferent vears past. 1 have on various occa
observer, that in this innovation a de sions laid it down as a rule, that the
termined system is on foot to destroy, coverings over head to antient upper
when the least opportunity offers, our stories, were uniformly composed of
untietit wuriis, without compunction wood work ; or, if in an extraordi
or remorse. This procedure is, how nary instance a stone head had occurred,
ever, wile on the destroyers' part ; as, that it either partook of groinings, or a
the st wer examples U-st, the fewer evi continued arched coVe. But it seems
dences wSH arise to stare them in the our restorers have gone deeper into the
sjice, for inability, or, mote properly exploration of remote authorities, and,
[periling:, want of inclination, to imi in the instance before us, have given
tate ar .preserve the antiquities of their an imitation of a direct flat stone ciel-
country. .yVcll, this modern stair-cafe, . injr, with architectural forms of a mo
othc wife interior of laid square Tower, dern cast, taking here and there, to de
gives a (nixed kind of decoration, both lude the eye, certain pointed turns.
in the earlv and latter Pointed strles. Farther, that the never - to- be - recon
Below ;'iill amipodean-wifej arc the ciled maxim might be brought to a
flat Tudor arches, mouldings, &c. pitch of folly not to be outdone; that
above, in the window (noticed on the is, painting on plaster, or cvmpo, repre-
exterior in this new-old Tower), groins seniations of stone-work in various tints,
(pointed in 'he extreme), and other jointings, &c. we find this cieling, this
particulars, is found the style temp. flat cieling, done after this fashion, as
J let). III. And, if my notes do not if composed os small bits of stone, four
flereire me, the steps, rails, &c. are inches by fix. A similar performance
pttre'v modern ; thus burlesquing the has been before spoken of, which is seen
whole interior, for the pleasure of ex in the arcade, Oltl Palace-yard, which
citing, no doubt, the riiible faculties of in fact look something like a sweeping
visitors— Antiquaries I mean. direction, or, it may be said, was nos
Being arrived in the Gallery over the entirely flat. Now, if Messieurs the
Cloisters, it may be told that the North Designers mean by the above specimen
ti le is pirtitioned oil, aud converted in this Chantry to have it understood
11-10 a Library. Eist and Well (ideS that they- can actually so execute in
thoroughfares. South fide, as in first stone a flat cieling, 1 at once cut the
survey, fall of menial npartmrnts, Ihur- matter short, by observing, that, to
Alses, ire. The bare walls of these give credit to Inch an impoflibility,
portions, North, Kail, aud West, have wii.ld be to fall-in with all the super-
been embellished w'nh squeezes* from natural deceptions of antient. necro'man-
cers, or modern conjurors, either. in
* Technical term for moulds, taken " castle- building," or *' u^jace-diHolv-
from any particular object, therefrom to i'tig."
make cists, 4c. 'Another stroke of gc Uts accompa
nies
 1807.] Architectural Innovation, No. CXI. 735
nies this surprising cielitig, ; that is, a bur survey, how can I turn my
common modem entablature rilled thoughts, even for an instant, without
with Adelphi fan-divifioni , though it the keenest regret, towards the neigh
mult be owned the head of each final! bouring pile, Henry the Vlhh's cha
compariment takes, instead of an in pel ? 'The unhappy decree is palled :
verted circular sweep, a pointed one. this Chapel is to be restored ; liberal
Thus the strange " composition" is com- pecuniary aid has been voted*; i lie
pleat. This Chantry, belore the present fame minds and hands are to be em
restoration, was used as a sleeping-room ployed, and to be entrusted with the
for servants ; it is now (a remove in a care of die divine object, as heie
certain degree) turned into a waiting- in Regal confines have given such coif
room for visitors, a fort of lobby in- Vtucing proofs of what (hey can do, and
trodtictoryto the Library, and other new what we are to expect they will do.
arrangements. It is now my theme of Architectural
To speak of such new arrangements Inn. nation becomes truly terioiis ; and
as they run frqntiog the River ; their Henry's Chapel, let its (late be what it
interior finishings (exterior already gone may (notwithstanding the *' Abbey |>e-
over) shew here and there some Tudor tition," the "survey," and all the rest
imitations, but in a " wire - drawn os the association) has more than one
way," while the retl of the enrichments fate to dread. Warnings were given
shine in all the plenitude of modern previous to the late dreadful conse
taste ! quences t> which happened when ihe
The Crypt or Undercroft of St. Ste sir/I determination was on foot to take
phen's Chapel exhibits great change, the Chapel under professional dominion.
or, as you wot, improvement. Of its Once more then, let those whom it
five divisions, the first Westward is par may concern beware ! ,
titioned off into a lumber-hole; second Oh ! spirit of consummate skill, Sir
ditto, coal-hole; third ditto, taken Reginald Brav J, asecond lime preserve-
into the fourth and fifth ditto, to give thy holy fane I I am not without
length to the eatiug-rooin, which this hope. Au Architect.
part of the consecrated structure had, (To le continuedJ .
fame years back, been turned into. The
Batty Langlcyan grotelque chimney Mr. Urban, Colchester, Aug. 1 si.
piece, then worked in the modern wall N answer to B. I. B. p. (<3(i, the
partitioning off said fourth and fifth di I! farm he alludes to is not dilchargerj-
visions, has been stuck into the South fide froni tithes, it being an acknowledged
oftheCrvpt, where the original beautiful maxim in law, that " in lay hands mo
windows heretofore gave their appro dus ile oou deciniando non valet." (20
priate light (the room now lighted Elii. 47.Q.)
by three windows cut through the East I would, however, recommend to
end of the building on the site of the B. I. B. to inquire if the estate did not
altar). Not any other patt of the ar form part of the possessions of some
chitecture of the walls in these three Abbey, dissolved ' by Statute SI lien.
divisions stave been havocked ; but the W\\. c. 13; and which, al the time
fpandrlls in the groins ate covered with of the Dissolution, held its possession*
crimson broad-cloih. free and discharged from tithes.. II (b,
The puss to this eating-room is from even in lay hands it still enjoys its pri
the Hast Aile of the Cloisters, through a vileges ; tgr by a clause in the lame
new Saloon, done upon the presump statute it is enacted, that all persorrs
tion of its being a model from i he great who should come to the possessions of
octangular centre of Ely Cathedral. any Abbey then dissolved, should hold
J3ul the adherence lo this example them free and discharged of tithes, in
is merely confined to the octangular as-large and ample manner as the Ab-
fissure.; the ribs, arches, mouldings, be\s Ihemselves formerly held them.
&c. recollections, and put together Yours, &c. T. D.
upon the simplifying plan, bv bringing * Held, however, by the work-people
forward so much, and leaving run so
much, even as caprice or conveniency as contemptible, making the job scarce
worth undertaking, &c.
may suggest. t Fire in the roof ot the church, tsos.
Reflecting on what h:is fern done See vol. LXXXIII. p. 630".
i 11 ilii> tfalace at the pieletu stage us J At chitact oi the Chapel.
 736 Great Utility of Ltfcsjl>irJs.-~UttCo]ti Cathedtal. . [Aug.
Mr. Vz6an, Auk. 25. bingers of joy by the farmer and hop-
THE immense flight of Ladybirds planter : and by the visitants of the wa
which has recently appeared in tering places, as proofs of the benevo
Kent, has excited great curiosity ; and lence of the IVciiy, who his by this
the phenomenon has canted lome de- means provided a remedy for the de
tree of alarm to the superstitious of structive voracity of the aphis, whole
both the great a nd small vulgar who fre prolific, powers are so immense, that
quent the watering-places on that from one female, in the course of a
coall ; where, it appears, so multitu trimmer, many hMttrbds if mil/ions of
dinous have been the swarms of this individuals 'ma'y be produced ! Iti
infect, that the streets have literally their perfect state as heeiles also, theft
been covered with them, and the Ladybirds ii'.e upon aphidrs, aud thus,
£owns of the ladies, after an evening's probably, the myriads Which have
Wall;, spotted with them from tijp to lately viliud the coasts of Kent, may
bottom. Wishing to relieve the minds have saved the hop-planters from the
Of your fair readers at Itamfgate, Mar entire loss of their cropi .
gate", South-End, &c. from the duad The neglect of the study of Entomo
that thrle ladybirds porteud a pefii- logy in this country is nun h to t»e re
lence, 1 R1.1II communicate a few par gretted. Ifthat most interesting science;
ticulars respecting the natural history \Wie attended tb as it ought to be, and
of this insect ; from which it will ap is it. is on the Continent, we should
pear, that we ought to hail its batta not bear of people's fancying a flight of
lions as we should soldiers who art Ludybirdsa ligii of pestilence or offence,
on their return from a glorious victory or enquiring What ran be the meaning
—at leall the Hop-planters of Kent of Inch a phænouienon.
ought so to regatd them ; for, though Yours, Set. Entomologus.
their crop may not now he half a crop,
hut for these defenders it would proba Mt. UitBAN, Stamford, Aug. 21.
bly not have been a crop at all ; and '"f'HKKE are few persons who hav6
their present nnrnbeis promise them an A ever Vititvd Lincoln, that will not
abundant harvest next year. seel regret al the infonua'rnn that it
All insects, as well of the beetle as has been at length finally determined
the butterfly tribe, previously l» their 10 remove from that noble pile the Ca
appearance in the winged stale, existed' thedral, the two spires which su'rmOnnt
as caterpillars or tenths. The millions Sr. Hugh's ami Si. Mary's towers*
of Ladybirds whrch lately swarmed on About tonr'years ago ibis measure was
the goasts of Kent have previously been' suggested, on the grouird that the
•grubs, or larva', for thai is The most strength us thfe towers was insufficient
proper name. These larva; feed' en- tb the Weight of the spires ; but the
'lirelv upon the insects, which, under ■Vibjv.ct of the /rrilh-rs was at thai lime
the name of " the flv, ' or *' plant-tice," 'frustrated, bv the towers being put into
have this year made such havocl; among a bate- of repair fully eejoal to the sup
the hops and pease; and when it is port of the burthen upon them. A
. considered that each larva destroys some new and more successful plea is now
hundreds of these insects a day, for advanced ; and the spires are to be taken
some months, it may be ealilv calcu down bccanle, forsooth, they are not
lated what an immense number mult 'old'evmigh ! It is alledged that they
have been destroyed bv them, and con are of a date more modem than the
sequently that, hut for their services, Cathedral, and that the grandeur of the
our crops would have sustained much whole is dim nll.cd by the association.
greater damage than they already have This, surely, is matter of talle ; and
done. The vast number of these lady we will venture to (ay, thai nine-tenths
birds which have this year appeared, of thole persons in the diocese who are
promise that next vear their services entitled to exercise au opinion on the
will be more effectual ; as each female subject, think that the spires are far
rwill deposit seme hundreds, if not "from being an evesore. Already, how
thousand? of egfrs, which, when hatched ever, the.v are partly stripped of their
into larvæ, in the ensuing springs will lead, and in less than a month it ii
proKibly be able completely to destroy supposed Ihose great ornaments, which
ib man'v of the plant-lice, or up/tides for centuries the traveller has regarded
(for th'fs is (heir proper name), as 10 with admiration, as whilst yet 20 miles
prevent their doing any serious injury. from Lincoln they served him for a
Jn this point of view, the swarms of land-mark across the heath, will be en
Ladybirds ought to be regarded as har tirely removed.
102. Anec~
 i8o?.] Review of New Publications. 137
102. Anecdotes of Literature and scarce exertions for the benefit of science, is a
Books. By the Rev. William Bcloe, theme which has been often agitated ;'* '
Translator of Her dotu-, &c. 2 vols. and the following "Advertisement con
AFTER the opinion we have given cerning a Book newly published at Oxford,
of i he Tranflator "f Herodotus by Dr. George Hickes,"in two vols. sol.
(voE.LXI.' pp. 145. 241, 353, 4fjO, intituled "Aniiquac Literature Septentrio-
545); of his AulusGellius (I.XV. 3 13) ; nalis Libri duo,"&c. deftrves prefe;\ation :
" Whereas, about six years since,
and ihe iiisenion at 1 j i g>■ o( the paihe-
tic Preface to these " Anecdotes," in proposals we're published by Dr. George
Hickes, for reprinting his Septentrional.
our present volume; p 18; Mr. Beloe Grammars ; and he then thinking the
has little to apprehend from the severity new impression might be finished in t:
of our criticism. The names afT..ciated hundred sheds, did then propose it td sub
in the undertaking, independent of his scribers at one pound two shillings per
own acknowledged taste, form a pow book, in quires; according to which pro
erful phalanx of defence. posals, several worthy persons pay'd thei
The nature of the work has been sum proposed ; but nevertheless, upon
sufficiently explained by ils Prtface; search of public and private libraries, the
and if, amongst the multifarious arti work having grown upon the Author be
cles selected, some few should lie found yond expectation, and he having been
not worthy os their situation, those encouraged by learned men to niake it as
that are liolh useful and entertaining complete as conveniently he could; by
in a h'gh degree preponderate. which means it is encrcal'ed to thrice as
The first article, on the An.iquity of with many sheets as were at first designed,
the University of Cambridge, soin an whereof a great number of cosily plates,
exceedingly scarce book, has no other and Anglo-Danick ten are of the. rlngto-Suaouic/c
fault than being too short. coins. And whereas
the whole is, by the great care and vast
13y the next, we learn that " the expenee of the laid Doctor, now fiuisiied
wood cuts from which Hollar en in two vols. sol. and the prime coji of
graved tvs exquisite let of prints, inti each copy being found, upon exact com
tuled "The Dance of Deaih,' were putation of the charges of the impression,
not by Holbein ; but probably the as appears by the .following certificate, to
work of Albert Durer, having the, amount to tiro pounds eight shillwgs9
neatness and delicacy which distin whereby he finds himself more than half
guished the works of that master." loser: it is thought fit lo lend , h is adver
A beautiful edition of Dante, 1481, tisement to all persons who p;;y'd ao
is well illustrated; and "is said to be cordit'g to the first proposals, not doubt
the fi'll book in which the Art of En ing but they wall be Ib generous as to in-
demnifio the Author, by advancing their
graving en taille donee was introduced; fubfciiptions
but this i> not true." to the prime <(j't < f his
In the article " De Bnre," a few agreement book ; which if he had •undci laketi by
inaccuracies of this excellent Biblio not have contracted with any bookseller, lie would
under 5op pounds for
grapher are corrtjled, and a few defi his pains, which'would ha\e,madc every
ciencies filled up. copy worth five ;pound>-.— I certify heie-
In describing " Hooker's Ecclesiasti by, that 1 have exactly ctmputed the
cal Polilv," Mr. Beloc observes, that charges of the impression of Dr. Hickes's
" Neither Walton in his Life of Honker, book, printed at (he Theatre .irv.Oxon,
nor Bishop Gauden, nor many others, that entituled Antiquac Ljtera>,uræ St. xntrio-
give an account of Hooker and his wri nalis Libri duo, $zc. Upon wh kit com
tings, make mention of the particular putation I find, that the- prime cost, of
books or tracts which gave, occasion to his each. copy, in *w,o, volumes,, amtjunisto
writing the Ecclesiastical Polity. Whit- two pounds eight stiij-bngs'.. - Wi'nefs my
gift hatl written an answer to the Arlmo- hand, this 27 Kov. i;04: E^.^ii waits."
, nition to the Pmliament, and thereby Sfmic anecdotes <*s Bunks1", .serve
engaged in a contiovcrsy with. Thomas pleasingly '* to (hew this p-rognusfiie va
Cartwright, the supposed author of it. lue os well -chosen- C'>l1e^lu',n?:.".jparti-
Hooker, in this his excellent work, un
dertook the defence of our Ecclesiastical cularlv exemplifies ' itv th* lale-rs Dr.
Establishment, against which Cartwright Me.id'sl/'liraiy —Dr.'F5tr"rfie.r's and- M-r.
appears to have been the most powerful Stephctib's, &c- &c. might be added,
of al! the opponents." , %' John , Kemp,', the famous . Anti
" The neglect of learned men, and'the quary, .died. September the lyih, -17-1.7,
little encouragement extended to thsir aged ah aus 52 years, and was bujied
■ Gint. Mao. August, 1807. ) '.
738 Review of New Publication!. [Aug.
in Bunhill Fields, under the monu by John, of Boulogne, was a present to
ment of Mrs. Hope Kemp, his bro Lord Orford from Thomas Earl of Pem
ther's wife. His brother was an Un broke. This was not fold, and now re
dertaker at the bottom of Surrey-llreet mains to be seen at Houghton. The fi
in the Strand. The * Monuments gure of Ring Charles the First, in whole
length in armour, by Vandyke, was va
Velustatis Keinpiana,' describing his lued at 4 081. There is a singular defect
valuable Collection, was edited by the
celebrated Robert Ainl'wonh ;" two- in this picture, both the gauntlets being
drawn for the right hand. When this pic
letters from whom to his patron, Lord ture was in the WUarton Collection, old
Colrane, are annexed. Jacob TonCon, who had remarkably ugly
An amusing account of John Baj- legs, was finding fault with the two
ford is given, from the "Anecdotes of gauntlet). Lady Wharton said, ''Mr. Ton-
Mr. Bowycr;"a work now scarce, but son, why might not one man have two
of which an improved edition is in the right hands, as welt as another two left
press, in five volumes, 8vo.. legs I' Till I saw this anecdote, as related
Mr. Taylor Couibe describes a valu by the late Horace Walpole, I was at a
able Coptic MS. lately presented to the loss to comprehend what Pope intended
British Museum byWm. Hamilton,Elq. by the two following lines in the Dunciad:
The "Ædrs Walpolianæ" will gratify * With arms extended Bernard rows his
the most fastidious reader : state,
" The Houghton Collection of Pictures And left-legged Jacob seems to emulate."
was fold to the Empress of Russia for the These lines were afterwards thus altered:
sum of 40,5.i}l. The pictures were, how ' With legs expanded Bernard urged the
ever, separately valued by Messieurs West race, [pace.'
and Cipriani ; and the price set upon each And seemed to emulate great Jacob's
may be seen in the copy of the Catalogue
which is preserved in the Cracherode Li Dr. Warton has inserted the first couplet
in his edition, and, as he has no annota
brary. The busts, bronzes, and most of tion
the family portraits, were preserved. Mr. with upon it, -probably was not acquainted
its meaning.—I may, perhaps, be
Horace Walpole told Mr. Bull, that the excused taking this occasion to relate two
Whole Collection cost his father, Sir Ro other anecdotes which were told me by
bert Walpole, something short of lo,<jool. the late Earl of Orford, the writer of the
including the pictures in the- house at the book from which the above accounts are-
Treasury, which he inhabited as Chan taken. Every reader v/ill remember the
cellor of the Exchequer, . It should, how following lines in Pope :
ever, be remembered, that several of the
pictures were presented to him. Among ' Each mortal has his pleasure, none deny;
these were the celebrated picture of Bath- Scarsdalc his bottle, Darty his ham pie.'
fheba bringing Abishag to David, painted Darty, an abbreviation of Dartneuf, wa3
by Vanderwersfe, which was presented to a most celebrated sensualist and glutton,
Lord Orford by the Duke of Chandos. and Lord Orford had frequently met him
This was valued at 700I. The portrait of at his lather's table. Dartneuf was one
Henry Danvers, Earl of Danbv, by Van day walking in the street, when he over
dyke, was given to Lord Orford by Sir Jo took a fislimonger's boy, who was carry
seph Danvers, and was valued at 200I. ing home a fine turbot ; the mischievous-
The finest picture in the Collection was rogue amused himself, as he went along,
that of the Immaculate Conception, by with striking the turbot against every post
Guido, and was valued at 3500I. This he met. This, in the eyes of Dartneuf,
picture was formerly in the Collection of was a crime not to be overlooked or for
the Marquis Angeli. When Sir Robert given. He immediately followed the boy
Walpole had purchased the picture, and to the house where he was going, and, in
it was sent to Civita Vecchia, to be em terms of great indignation, described what
barked for England, Pope Innocent the he had seen, and infilled on the boy's be
XTlIth ordered it to be brought back ing severely chastised.—At another time,,
again, as being too fine a thing to be al Dartneuf was engaged to dine with a bro
lowed to be removed from Rome. But, ther gourmand, expreffly to eat one of
as soon as he heard who the purchaser two plums, the only produce of a parti
was, he gave permission to have it sent cular tree, remarkable for the richness-
back again. The "Architecture," by Ju and delicacy of its fruit. It was agreed,,
lio Romano, or, as the late Lord Orford that, when they had dined, to enjoy the
rather believed, by Polydore, was given to fruit in its greatest perfection, they were
Sir Robert by General Charles Churchill, to proceed to the garden, and each gather
and was valued at aool. The celebrated and eat his plum. Before dinner was etv>
- cast, in bronze, . f the Gladiator, executed tiiely ended, Dartneuf made some excuse
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 1807O Review of New Publications. 739
to retire for a few minutes from the room, In a presentation-copy of " The
when he instantly hastened to the garden, Pleasures of Imagination," is this in
and, dire to relate! devoured bolk the scription ;
plums, without the smallest compunc " Viro conjunctifiimo
tion ox remorse." Jeremicr Dyson
A curious Letter on Witchcraft is Vitæ morumque I'uorum doei
copied from HarL MSS. 168(5. Rerum bonarum socio
Sfudiosum jutlici
The admirers of Isaac Walton will Cujus AmicitiiL
accept the following Epitaph on one Neque Sanctius habet quicquam
of his friends, the Author of "A Pas Neque optat Carius
toral History in smooth and easie Hocce opufculum
Verse," which was edited by Walton, (Vos O Tyrannorum impuræ laudes
li is from the South cloistes of Win Et servilium blandimenta Poetaruin
chester College : Abeste procul) »
"H. S. E. Dat, dicat, consecratque
Joan. Chalkhill, A.M. hujus CoHYi annos XVII CalendasJan. Marcus Akenfide
46 Socius, Vir qui virit Solitudine et AÆC. MOCCXLIV."
Silentio, Temperantia et Caftitate, Ora- Oh Hearne's " Acta Apostolorum
tionibus et Eleemolynis, Contemplations Græco-Latine, Litteris Majuseulis e
• et Sanctimonia, Alcetis vel primitivis par: Codice Laudiano, &c. &c." we are told,
qui cum a parvulo in regnum Ccelorum *' The very curious manuscript of the
viam fecit, Octagenarius tandem rapuit Acts of the Apostles, from which this
20 die Maii, 1670." book was printed, is preserved in the
The following Inscription was writ Bodleian Library. It is spoken of by
ten by the Earl of Hardwicke, in a Wctstein, in the Prolegomena to his edi
copy of Sir Dudley Carleton's Letters, tion of the Greek Testament, Amster
dam, 1730. Cap. iv. n. iv. p. 34.—To
presented by his Lordstiip to the Li the disgrace of Opulence and our Coun
brary of Christ Church, Oxford : try, when the learned Hearne published
" Bibliothecæ Ædis Christi Proposals for printing no more than 120
Omni librorum copia instru6tislim* copies of this book, he could only obtain
Editionem hanc Epistolarum the names of 41 subscribers, nor dispose
Dudlei Carleton of more than "(j copies. There is a beau
Ædis iftius quondam alumni tiful copy of this boot in the Cracherode
Legati apud gentes exteras Collection, which is enriched by many
Fideliter Regi et Patrise infervientis excellent notes by De Misty. He has ta
Sumnia obfervantia ken the pains to enumerate the subscribers
D. D. and copies ; and beneath has written,
Memor dierum septem 'O Temporal O Mores!
Jucunde fimul et utiliter Apres cela Docteur va pMir fur la Bible !'
In ista Æde celehetrima & interOxonierrfei De Missy's notes, in the Cracherode copy,
impenforum demonstrate great acuteness, familiar ac
Philippus Comes Hardvicenfis quaintance with all critical writers on
XIV Cal. iul. MDCCLXX." Theology, and profound erudition." ,
Theocritus, Juvenal, Petsius, Virgil, Under the head of Dr. Mill's Greek
Aristotle, and Anacreon, are all sue-
-cestively and properly noticed. Testament, Mr. Beloe fays,
*■ I have before had occasion to men
"The more curious collectors of hooks tion, with respect, the name of Caesar De
may perhaps hereafter not be displeased Misty. He was a profound scholar, an
to know, that of the Anacreon printed at acute critick, and, above all, a most ex
Parma in ] 7S4, there were in all but sixty cellent Theologian*. This will sufficiently
copies, of which only fix were on large appear from an edition of the Greek Tes
paper. There is one of the latter in the tament preserved in the Museum. It for
Cracherode Collection. The Editor had merly belonged to De Mifly, and is en
intended to embellish the work with va riched with innumerable notes from his
rious suitable engravings ; but the plates pen. I transcribe a few of them, hoping
were stolen by some person whom he em they may serve as an inducement to the
ployed, and sold to an English traveller. Student in Theology to consult the vo
It has, therefore, only the head of Ana lume itself."
creon, engraved from an antique gem."
The above fact relating to the English • This we can safely confirm ; and arid,
traveller is introduced at large. so also was his very learned wife. Edit.
In
 74° Review of Nezv Publications. [Aug.
In the account os ** Buck's New known to require description, was pfir»
Tellium n' ," a liule inaccuracy has chased at Mead's sale, for 1361. 10s. by
been pointed ou> by one of our Corre Lord Exeter, and by him placed where it
spondents in p. 528. remains. The first picture that Dr. Mead
purchased was the Flaying of St. Bartho
A list, consisting os five pages, is lomew, by Spagnoletto. There is a fine
given of different Classic Authors omit Etching of thjs, by Spagnoletto himself.
ted by Harwood, and not noticed in This picture produced no more than 18
the subsequent republican JnJ of his guineas. T he oiiginal head of Mr. Samuel
book at Venice. Butler, by Z^ust, a small half-length, en
Of the "Cantica Canticorum," it is graved by Vertue, for the Edition of But
ler's Works published by Dr. Grey, Ibid
observed, in a very curious article, for no more than pi. 1 Is. Cd. Quere, who
" This is one of four very curious and bought this? 'I he head of the celebra
rare publications, which have occasioned ted Karl of Arundel, by Rubens, Ibid for
some coiitroveisy concerning the inven 3lJl. I is. This is engraved by Houbraken.
tion of the Aft of Printing; and a doubt Two pieces by Watteau, the one a Pasto
has been entertained by many, whether ral Conversation, the other its companion,
they should be called Books, or Bocks of Italian Comedians, fold, the former for
i Prints." 42l. the latter for 52l. los. These two
A Letter bv Dr Birch, inserted in pictures are monuments of the great and
his Life of Henry 1 rince of Wales, extensive benevolence of Dr. Mead. Wat*
eldest son ot Jan.es I. giving an ac teau came to England in very bad health,
count of the commencement and pro- and very indifferent circumstances. Dr.
grels of his work, lo individuals, en Mend relieved him in both, and gave him
gaged in similar pursuits " ill commu employment, by ordering him to paint
nicate a certain degtee of interell. these two pictures. The Portrait, which
in the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings,
In the article of Dr. Mead : N' 6g, the 13th day's sale, is called a
"The following particulars respecting Man's Mead by Holbein, is the portrait
this truly eminent and excellent charac of Anne of Cleves. It was purchased by
ter, though perhaps partially known, I Walter Chetwynd, of King's College,
have never yet seen brought together in Cambridge, for five guineas and a half.
one pbace. I have extracted them fiom It is now in the Royal Collection of
different books and catalogues in the Mu Drawings, and has been engraved by Eau-
seum.. Notwithstanding Dr. Mead's prac tolozzi ; published November, l"0o> by
tice was so
x produced himextensive one yearandrt Mr. Chamberlaine. The manuscript of
that in pounds,
seven thousand Virgil is in the possession of Lord Lans-
for several years between five and fix down. At Dr. Mead's (ale Dr. Askew
thousand ; yet, afier the payment of his purchased it for five guineas ; at the sale
debts, he did not leave more than about of the Askew Collection it cost Lord Lans-
twenty thousand pounds. The Doctor's down twenty guineas."
son, Mr. Richard Mead, had an estate of We nuifl refer to i he work itself for
about SOOl.. a year, left him by Lord an exfce'lent account of the Duke of
Chief Justice- Reeves. Devonshire's Gems.
"The following may be relied on as In censuring a venial typographical
an accurate acebunt of the produce of his blunder in the lafl edition os Camden's
books, medals, antiques, pic^uies, and Brilamiiu, Mr. B. should have recorded
pi ints : that it was in three volumes, not (wo.
The books fold for . 55)8 10 11 Sir William Mn(j»rave's 1 1 1 n(i rations
Medals ) 977 17 0 of Granger are a welcome addition to
Antiques .... 3'> If) 15 6 the Anecdotes of Biography; as are
Pictures 33 1 7 I I 0 the " inscriptions selected from rare
Pi i.nts IfioS 14 6 Portraits in the CracherodeCollection."
■£.l60f>9 8 11 Mr. Town Ws." French Hudibras"
" During the life of Dr. Mead, Dr. Askew is illustrated by the' following inscrip
byught all his Greek manuscripts for tion under a head of him in the copy
50ol. He fold his miniatures to the presen'ed to the Museum bv his ne
Prince of Wales, and his Series of Greek phew, Oharle* Towmcy, Esq. celebra
kings to PvIeslVu i s Otrmey and Kennedy. ted for his noble and elegant collection
Quere, who was this Catmey ? Uts name of Antient Marbles.
frequently occurs as a purchaser of the "Johannes Towxi.f.y,
Doctor's coins for himself and other?. Ordinis Militaris S'ti Ludoyici Eques. '
The bronze head of Homer, which now Ad impertiendum amicis inter Gallos
adorns the Museum, and is too well Linguæ Anglicanæ nonnihil peritis,
Facetum,
 Review of New Publications. 74i
Facetum poema Hudibras dictum " The Empress of Morocco, a Tragedy,.
Accurate, festireque Gallice convertit. byElkanah Settle, with Sculptures by W.
Hie Johannes Townley Dolle, is much (ought after, as being the.
In agro I ancastrienfi Armigeri filius first which' was ever published with en
Nat. A. D. log?—Denat. A. D. 1782. gravings, and which was fold for what
Grato pioque animo fieri curavit was then thought the enormous sum of
Johannes Townley, Nepos, 1707." twe shillings. The engravings were not,
" I am credibly informed," fays Gran improbably, a representation of the scenes,
ger, " thai this Translation was done by in tine of which the most shocking tor
Mr. Townley, a gentleman ot" fortune in tures are exhibited. Horace did not think
Lancashire, who has been allowed by the it possible that it should enter into the
French to understand their language as human imagination to exhibit things so
well as the natives themselves." offensive. This was exhibited before the
The account of what has been pub Kins, by the great personages of the
lished on " English Poetry" is ample Court. Lord Mulgrave wrote the Pro
and instructive; and "The Historic of logue, and Lord Rochester the Epilogue,
both of which were spoken by Lady Eli
Trier Hush" is amusing.
Of Thomas Nash the accounts are zabeth Howard." fTo be continued.) '
very concise and unsatisfactory in our
Biographical Dictionaries ; and his 103. A Sermon, preached in the Chapel of
Works are now exceedingly rare, and ' dent, the Magdalen Hospital, before the Preji-
purchased al a prodigious price. The V'ice-Prefidents, and Governors of
particulars here given, therefore, will that Charity, at fhiir Anniversary Meet
doubtless be acceptable; as will the ac ing, on Thursday, April -23, I807. by
count of ''Robin Goodfellow." Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, D. D. Lord
Bijhop of Meath.
The Garrick Collection, Mr. 15. Cvs, THIS Discourse is inscribed to
" is so deservedly an object of curiolity James
among those who are studious to mark Majesty'sAllan Park, Esq. one of his
Counsel, and Attorney-gene
the progress of English Literature, from
rudeness to refinement, that I consider ral for the Countv Palatine of Durham,
myself as rendering an acceptable piece 'who is distinguished for his example in
of service, in pointing out to attention •'edifying the Publick by such pro
the more choice and valuable articles of ductions, as the 'Earnest Exhortation
which it is composed. Lhave been ena to a frequent Reception of the Holy-
bled to do this, through the kind assist Sacrament of the Lord's Supper,' and,
ance of my friend Mr. Kemble." amidst ail the toils and fatigues of the
This is au interesting article; and is Bar, that always increase with increas
followed bva similar one, on the "Ma- ing celebiity, taking an active part in
lone Collection,'' which contains many the promotion of every charitable In
" rare pieces of old English Litera stitution that provides a Christian edu
ture ;" and the Kemble Collection,, cation for the children of the poor,
possessing many "rarities." that reclaims them from vice, or with
" I mention that first which 'seems to draws them from its early contagion,
be the greatest, which is not only not in and that opens an asylum to the re
the possession of any other collector, but penting sinner." The text, Eph. vi. 4,
which is asserted, in Baker's Biogrftphia at first view, would lead us to suppose
Dratnatira, to exist only in manuscript. the Institution -recommended was de
Mt. Kemble had the good fortune to signed for the benefit of children. But
meet with it accidentally on a itall in we are soon informed that it was an
perfect condition, antl 10 purchase it for a object of censure and reproach to tho'e
very trifle. The following is its descrip who know not os what spirit the pro-
tion : "A tcewf. Entlblude, drawen selsors of Christianity ought to be, ex-
oute of the Holy Scripture, of Godly ci'ing the sneer of the licentious, and
Quecne Hester, verye necelsiry. Newly the ridicule of the prorogate; it was
made and imprinted this present Yeie, planned by the purest nrnds of which
M.D.CXI.
Com nere vertuous matrons and women our Society could boast in their day.
It found immediate encouragement
kind, and support among many distinguished
Here may ye learne of Hesters duty,
In all comhnes of vertue you stvtll fmde personaaes, who were most eminent
How to behave yourselves in humilitie. for th u Christian virtue which the ob
Imprynted at London, by Wyllyam Pick- jects of their commiseration had most
erynge and Thomas Hacket, and arc to be flagrantly and fatally violated. In its
solde at theyr Shoppcs." progress lo our times, . it has been
countenanced
742 Review of Neu > Publications. sAug.
countenanced and npliolden by a con It is in the jHfftion. of the objects of pa
stant succelHon of the (ame distinguish rental lolicimde that the error lies. To
ed description ; unil, with its prefeut rear and build up the spiritual man ; to
established charadter, and at'icr having, protect and rescue him from the fatal ef
bv I'd long ah experience of its salutary fects of that corruption of Nature which
elFccls, removed every prejudice, and we tiave entailed on our children with
refuted every calumny, we see it flitl- their very being ; to train the disciple of
tcred under the immediate protection Christ in the way he should walk ; t«
form and fashion him to piety and reli
■of that August Personage who has gion, and to such virtuous habits as are
-ailtlt'd digiiity even to a throne, by the requisite to make provision for his eternal
most exemplary display of iliose virtues state; alas! what place is generally assign
that are chiefly ornamental and attrac ed to these important cares amidst all the
tive in her lex. suggestions and pursuits of parental soli
" How grateful must it be to the Mi citude?, and with what remissness, indif
nister of God, placed as I now am, not ference, and negligence, are they attended
only to have this retrospect to take, but to, even by thole who are supposed to be
to view this congregation, and still to lee most deeply imprefled with a sense of pa
the fame vittues, influenced and directed rental duty?" (pp. 5, fi.)
by the (ame spirit: How great must be " The most superficial observer, who
his satisfaction to behold lo many of our contemplates the infant man on his first
highest classes aspiring through this Cha coming into life, must perceive that he is
rity to the rank and distinction of the ge as weak in his mind and intellects as he
nuine Disciple of the Friend of Sinners ; is feeble in his frame and bodily organs.
and setting to a Christian people sa illus But, as the powers of the body gradually
trious an example of that mercy which advance and acquire strength and activity,
the gracious Being whom, by the indul so do the faculties of the mind gradually
gence of some favoured passion, we all of unsold and expand themselves. It soon
fend, commands us to (hew to others, if discovers an active principle that is inces
■we hope ourselves to reeeive it at His santly at work, ranging instinctively from
hands Suffer me to endeavour to en object to object, and demonstrating that
graft upon this appeal to your charity a it must be employed in some way or
point of geneial instruction, which a mo other. It early feels a thirst for discovery
ment's reflection on the principal cause and knowledge, that must be satisfied.
of the disorders that render such an Insti The first duty, therefore, which children
tution necessary, will naturally connect claim of their parents is, to attend to
with it. So may 1 hope, with God's as these early workings of the foul, these
sistance, to share more largely in the me early aspirations after their immortal state ;
ritorious work of this day, while 1 submit it is to give a proper direction to this ac
to you some reflections that may extend tive principle, and to gratify this thirst
their influence beyond the present occa with what the Scriptures call living wa
sion, and excite those who hear me, and ters, with pure and unadulterated streams
particularly the female part of this au drawn from the sources of Eternal Truth.
dience, to prevent, wiihin the circle of In order to this, they should begin by
their own duties, the baneful effects of degrees to inform and carefully instruct
that neglected and erroneous education to their young charge in the whole compass,
which these poor objects of ycur pity of their duty to God, their neighbour,
have fallen victims." (pp. 3, 4.) and themlelves. This, God expressly pre
i " In discoursing with this view, I (hall scribes, in various parts of the Scriptures,
have to enforce a duty which, in the pre to the people of Israel, in speaking of the
sent instructed state of society, and in that L'rws He had given them. Set your
fullness of light wh:ch Jesus Christ hath hearts, fays He, unto all the words which
diffused around us, parents of every state J 'testify among you this day, which ye
and condition must necessarily class among Jhall command your children to observe to
the primary obligations of Nature and do. Thou Jhalt teach them diligently unto
Religion. But I fear that, however justly thy children, fays He in another place,
this may be assumed in the abstract, or and Jhalt talk »f them as thou fittest down
fpeculativcly acknowledged, we (hall find, in thy house, and when thou lieji down,
upon looking into the practice and expe and when thou rijest up. At how early a
rience of life, that the difterent obliga season this important work is to be be
tions that arise from the different points gun, H« also particularly marks out to
of view in which we consider the interests us. It is on the first dawn of Reason ;
of our children, are discharged with veiy when the young and tender bud of the
different degrees of zeal ; and that those understanding begins to form itself, and
which claim the principal place are but the first spring of thought invites the as
too universally postponed to all the rest. . . sistance of cultivation. Wham Jhall he
make
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make to understand doctrines Them that tern, emanating from that Religion, as a
art weanedf'rom the milk, and drawn from vestige of Bigotry, unworthy of this en
the breqfi. To them, continues the Pro lightened age f. Let us then recall our
phet, precept should he after precept, line thoughts to the precepts of Holy Writ,
upon line; here a little, and there a little; the only rule of our conduct, and let us
early and watchful attentions, persevering apply them to the practice of the times 1
care, unwearied assiduities. Such are the in which we live. Let us look into so
instructions of the gracious Author of our ciety, such as we find it in our own cir
being, speaking by his holy Prophets and cles, or in those with which we are any
Teachers. Such are the precepts of Him way connected, and what shall be out
who, as He made man, knows best what discoveries respecting this important point?
is in him ; knows best the feeds He plant From the general description of this au
ed in his heart, and by what culture and dience, all reflections, must be superfluous
process they can be best expanded and but such as apply to the upper ranks of
matured. But what a different lesl'on are life, to those whose circumstances leave
we taught by that presumptuous Spirit them no other solicitude for their chil
that has risen up in our days, to reverse dren than to transmit and proportion
the process of Reason and of Nature, and among them either the inheritance of
to new-mould the work of God ! From their ancestors, or the acquirements of
how many modern schools has been pro their own successful industry. Among
pagated the doctrine, that Religious In these classes there is now scarcely any dif
struction, the knowledge of God, or of ference on the subject I am treating. De
His Laws, should make no part of the parting from the wife and sober example
early Education of Youth ? That, to of our ancestors, the sons and daughters
come to the study of Religion, of its re of the country gentleman and the wealthy
velations, its mysteries, its duties, the trader are, in our days, trained in the
understanding should be formed, and the fame course as the nobles and highest
judgment matured? That no bias should commoners of the land ; and our modern
be previously given to the mind, to influ system of education is so far like most
ence it in this investigation by any pre other modern systems, that it is framed1
conceived opinions, imposed upon us by and calculated to level all distinctions and
the suggestions of others, before we are confound all ranks. So far is this true,
capable of ourselves to judge of their that it extends through all the gradations,
truth or their falsehood ; and that it is of these conditions amongst us. Each
only in this advanced stage, this unpreju treads so close on the other, that there
diced, unoccupied state of the human in appears to be a general contest and emu
tellect, that it can be open to any proper lation in tricking out the youth of both
ideas of the Supreme Being, His exist sexes as creatures designed for no higher
ence, His nature, His attributes, the re aims, or more exalted objects, than are to.
lation in which we stand to Him, and be attained by external appearances, and
what they would call the wholescience of what are called fashionable accomplish
Religion ? But I might appeal to the ments, to the neglect of all that the Reli
happy experience of many parents who gion of Jesus Christ teaches as most essen
hear me, against the fallacy ef these opi tial to their present, and exclusively essen
nions." (pp. <>, 10.) tial to their suture happiness. On these ex
" But let us leave these metaphysical ternal appeaiances, and these fashionable
experimentalists, who would fabricate for accomplishments, no expences are spared,
BS a philosophical God, and a philosophi no assiduities. The great object is, to-
cal people, instead of the God of the provide for what we deem the good things
Scriptures, and a people formed on the of this world; to give our sons those ac
maxims ami by the spirit of the Gospsl, quirements that mall fit them to appear
jo reap the fruits of their own perverted
ingenuity, and to share them with those are only directed against innovations in.
who may be prepared, by their indiffer the System of Moral and Religious Edu
ence to all religion, to adopt their speca- cation, and the substitution of philosophi
Tations. In the result of such experi cal principles to the principles of the Gos
ments among other nations, and in the pel, in forming the morals of the poor.
almost natural attachment of all ranks of They cannot affect the ingenious inventor
our people to the faith of their fathers, of the new method of teaching thedovief
we have a sure ground of reliance that orders to read and write, the Rev. Pr.
they will find but few proselytes to their Bell, nor any who, adopting his methed,
opinions: few to join with them in sepa retain his principles, and, as he<well ex
rating the National Education from the presses it, engraft his system mto the bo-
National Religion*, or to explode a Sys- sonvof the Church and State."
f " See Mr. Whitbread's Speech on his
* " it is evident that these observations introducing his Peor Bill."
with.
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With advantage on the public stage of life, raster of a female Philosopher, and of
to maintain their rank, or to raise them that monster of Christian days, a female
selves to wealth and confluence; it is to Deist. in that school are taught the
fashion and form our daughters for admi Rights of fPomen. There the emancipated
ration, and to adorn than for advanta sex are instructed to shake off all the ,
geous pursuit. If those to whom we en shackles with which they have been hi
trust them from their earliest days, not as therto clogged by tyrannical custom and
assistants but as substitutes', to whom we usurping prejudices ; to break into all the
altogether transfer the duties which Na provinces that have been hitherto sup-
ture and Nature's God have imposed up-- poled to belong exclusively to the rougher
on ourfetve", should snatch a few mo sex ; to cast away every restraint that has
ments from the various occupations that hitherto guarded th« lips of the modest
are enjoined them, to give their pupils of virgin and the chaste matron ; to pry into
cither lex feme idea'of God or of Reli those secrets of Nature, the very mention
gion, 'tis well : but in how comparatively pf which has been hitherto considered as
few instances does it form any part of the incompatible with female delicacy; and
stipulation o,f the parent on purchasing to indulge in as unrestrained a freedom of
their services! And as for morals,' who language as in an unbounded freedom of
but priests or bigots, or the du,Vs of bi thinking*. In that school, all the art
gots and priests, would look for them to and magick of the Stage, all the fascina
the dull and antiquated pages of the ting power of those transcendant talents
Scriptures, or to books writteai in their that give reality to fiction, and that so
spirit, and inculcating their maxims ? irresistibly dispose the young and warm
The morals of a gentleman ate to be heart to act what so forcibly awakens all
learned from such fashionable volumes as its feelings, and to be what it beholds
those in which simulation and dissimula with such interest and delight, all are
tion are recommended by parental autho employed to undermine the principles in
rity; where the father inculcates to his which the female character is formed to
son lessons of seduction, systematically de fasten, polish, and improve life; they are
livered, and experimentally enforced; and employed to recommend to pity, to com
where the disgrace of families, and the miseration, to affection, to rrspeft, the
instruction of their'peace in the infidelity adulteress; the adulteress, who, to the
of the wife, are adduced as the best proof foulest crime that can be committed a-
he can give of an education becoming his g.iinst Religion or Society, against the
condition, as his best recommendation to Laws of God or Man, adds the blackest
universal acceptance whenever he pre ingratitude, and dishonours the bed of
sents himself, and a security of success in her benefactor and husband ; while, by a
all his pursuits. Latterly, we have even refinement in the science of depraving the
seen exceeded what, not twenty years , heart and debasing the principles, it is
ago, was considered as a svstem deserving left in doubt, in the play to which you
uni'veisal abhorrence and execration. The all Jcnow I allude + , whether that hus
•pupil of Chesterfield would be an object band "is to be an object of hatred, and
of love, compared with him who is left hianded with the imputation of brutality
to be early initiated in the doctrines of for not going the full length of the feel
our modern Philoiophers ; and we should ings which the poet has awakened in fits
be almost reconciled to the polishes vices audience, or whether he conforms him
of the one, when placed in contrast with self to their sentiments: descends to what
the vulgar, disgusting, shocking immora even the maxims of the world so univer
lities and brutal licentiousness of the sally, and as it were instinctively, con
other.—For the daughters another school demn as shocking and degrading; recon
is opened—the School of Novels and Ro ciles himself to his own shame; takes
mance—the School of Modern Female pollution to his arms; and commits the
Morality. In that school, to purify their
principles, and rectify their morals, the * *'The Rights of Women, by Mrs,
fenses must be seduced, and the passions Woistencrofr." • *
inflamed. There the great" mailer in this f «* The Stranger." Hopes have been
art, the canonised Philosopher of Geneva, entertained that the taste for these Ger
' leads his youthful pupil through all the man plays was one* of those novelties that
blandishments of voluptuousness, all the soon wear themselves out, and that our
violence of unrestrained defiles, all the Stage would not be long disgraced by
wild fancies of a heated imagination; and, them. -But "The Stranger," palliating
by every insidious attack on all the vene adultery, and «* Pizarro," debasing the
rable prejudices and sacred institutions Christian Religion below all others, are
that have ever hitherto preserved the still among our stock plays, and continue
sanctity and purity of the union between ■ to be exhibited with the -whole strength
the sexes, raises her to the sublime cha- of the Theatre." . .-
- 2 children
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children of his love to the care and direc with liquor?' And when you incolc;it9
tion pf that unnatural mother who forgot domestic harmony, and love to e.ich
all file owed ihem, and involved them in other; do you fill the paternal roof \vithi
her own disgrace and inf-tmy !—O un ceaseless altercation and contention, and
happy parent, who expolest thy beloved give way -to daily transports of passion and
child, the hope and pride of thy house, r;ige?—Vcu are a motherland .you ex
to such seductions; and, strange and al hort your, daughter to preserve her cha
most impossible to think, the very best racter spotless, and her reputation pure
thus expose their daughters! Canst thou, and unsullied; yet; in ,her, presence, or
expect that she shall escape contagion .? under her observation, which .you cannot
Canst thou exoect that, with her imagi elude, you encourage every advance frdrr^
nation thus tainted, and her mind thus the frivolous and the volatile, the licen
debauched, without a single antidote* tious and the profligate. You exhort her
without a single principle of religion or to cultivate the dispositions and the. habits .
pure morality to luppoii ..no preierve her, that will give her a taste for domestic en-.-,
she shall resist the thousand temptations joyments, and qualify her for matroYi du
that may aii.iit her in her intercourse ties ; yet site fees yod devote all your flays
through life? Canst thou hope or flatter to vain, trifling, and idre pursuits. . Not
thyself that she shall carry into t|je house content with running the weekly round
of an husband that innocent and spptlesi of dissipation, and toiling from night to
mind, those chastened affections, pure night in pursuit of pleasure and amuse
charities, and matron virtues* that blessed ment, yoa lead her by the hand to wit
the union of those who have been educa ness and to he habituated to a contempt
ted in other days, ami with other princi not only of God's ordinances, b!it of the
ples i As weii inayelt ihou believe all laws, the customs, the habits, and th«
the wild fancies of her own seducing ro feelings of the country to which she be-*
mances, or give credit to the miraculous longs, aud to exhibit herself at the Sun-1
legend that tells thee of the female pro day concert, the Sunday gaming-table,
bationer who walke,d blindfold thtougfi and all those other violations of the Sab
burning ploughshares un ingul and un bath, which it fee^s to be considered as
hurt." (pp. 14—20.) a kind of distinction, among so many fe
" How carctui, inerefore, how scrupu males of high rank and station in this
lous should all parents be how they walk day, to display .to an indignant Publick ;
in their house—how they conduct them and, while you give her lessons of mo
selves in the presence and under the ob desty, and of ehastenefs of appearance and
servation of their children, and what ex deportment, )'ou adopt, and teach her to
amples they set before them ! for, sup adopt, the fashions and the dress of thole
pose the example to be bad, and how vain women whom the convulsions of a neigh
must prove all that can be laid to them of bouring nation have thrown up on the
precept and admonition ! They may ap surface of their society from the very
ply to their parents, as I will apply to lowest sinks of their population, and
them, the reasoning of the Apostle: placed in situations to force into geperal
■ Thou thai iearheji another, tearheji thou adoption the depraved taste of that refu el
not thyself t' You are a father, and you of the lex who shameleflly expose, in ol
admonish your sons to love and fear God? der to make a traffick of, their persons.
But when do they lee you bend your own With such contradictions between pa
knee in prayer to God ? Amidst all the rental instruction and parental example,
occupations to which they lee you devoie bearing nothing taught but virtue, and
all your time, and all your attention, seeing nothing practised but vice, what
what hour do you let apart will) them fur are we to expe6t from the rising genera
Christian improvement ? In what man tion ? Which is likely to make the molt
ner do they lee you obiifve the Sabbath, lasting and effective impression, the pre
or attend to the public lervice, aud the cepts that lecture, or the examples that
other ordinances of the Religion in which seduce? Or is it that we have no lucfi
you profess to bring them up? When examples to lament ? Have I been
you tell them they must not 1'ivear ; do amusing- you with allusions to disorders
you profane the name of God, in their that exist only in my own jaundiced ima
hearing, by ceaseless repetitions of oaths gination? Have 1 been drawing pi6tur-S
and ■ imprecations ? When you exhort of fancy, in colours of exaggeration ?
them to adhere inviolably 'to truth,, to ho Alas ! we your Ministers cannot slim our
nour, and to equity; do they detect you eyes to the scenes that are p issiug before
in dai)y falsehoods, and in repeated acts us, even if we were disposed t sacrifice
of injustice, dishonesty, and dishonour? our duty to the sassiion of the times, and
\Vhen you exhort them to sobriety; do silently to fail down the ft. emu w ti the
y<su exhibit yourself to them enflamed vain, t&e.tkCbAib.dess, and t.ie tiigate,
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father than face the imputation of being the Gospel, that their children are natu
morose and splenetic, and soured by bi rally inclined to evil, and that they have
gotry and superstition, for raising our inherited from themselves a tendency and
voices against abuses which even Philoso proneness to corruption and degeneracy.
phy, the boasted substitute for Religion, They begot their children in their own
would think itself compelled to censure. image and likeness, and they transmitted
But, while such deviations from the an- to them vicious inclinations and evil de-
tient manners, and our anticnt religious fires, such as they have had to struggle
habits, as have provoked these observa with themselves during their journey
tions, call on the guardians of the public through life. How earnest, therefore,
■lorals and the teachers of religion to should be their exertions to enable their
combine in a general effort to prevent children in time to correct those perverse
their increase or their continuance, it dispositions, and to subdue that spirit that
would be inexcusable not to acknow ever takes part with their corrupt and de
ledge, with thankfulness to God, that praved natures, and temp's them to evil
they may be said to be in our moral continually! It is not improbable but
what the plague and pestilence are in our they may know, from their own experi
fhysical' atmosphere. They are not indi ence, the fatal consequences of being
genous. The native air we breathe en early engaged in a course of dissipation
genders, of itself, not such noxious infec and sin, to their substance, their health,
tions. Whenever they visit us, they are and their ease of mind. They may feel
wafted to our shores from some foreign how useless and unavailing are all the
joast, some less salubrious clime." (pp. stings of Remorse, aud the fliarp chidings
' 32—25.) of Conscience, to do away their effects,
" 1 need not remind yon what a con or to restore to them w hat thevhave for
trast we have had, at all times, to offer in feited by the folly and wickedness of their
this charafler of our women to thole of youth !. flow earnestly, therefore, should
that country from whence the tide of vi thev labour to put God and goodness in
cious manners has been at all times set- early poflestion of their children's hearts
ting-in upon our coast. But I cannot re and affections, and to have them planted
frain from observing, that there is some with good feeds, before vicious inclina
thing, as it w«re, unnatural, certainly tions spring up, and grow into habit, cus
that there is every thing portentous and tom, and strength !" (pp. 20, 30.)
alarming, in our adoption of the manners " When the Scriptures would describe
ef such a people, even in a political point those men whom they consider as the
ef view. There is not a Nation upon ■ happiest of their kind, they place among
earth whose Civil Liberties so thoroughly the first him that hath joy of his children.
harmonize with their Religion as our And indeed what greater satisfaction can
own. So indiliblubly has the connexion we possibly conceive, than to fee our
between them been cemented, in the sons, as they are running the course
gradual formation of our Constitution, which we have passed, repaying all our
that to separate them would be to destroy cares by their virtuous deportment and
that most perfect of all human institu exemplary life; objects at once of delight
tions. But the mere profession of the and pride; renewing, as it were, our
most pure Religion, without its vital, youth, when we are decaying and wither
operating spirit, is as the dead letter of ing away ; and copying whatever in our
those celebrated Codes of Law under the own conduct has procured us most the
influence and operation of which, Na esteem and love of man, or that affords us
tions, afterwards extinguished by their the strongest hopes of the favour and pro
vices, enjoyed the most extensive fame, tection of God? And you, ye mothers,
and rose to dominion and glory. The what joy can thrill your hearts with such
Laws remained, in the midst of all their exquisite delight as to behold yonr daugh
degeneracy, the boast of their primitive ters growing up, not only sweet to fense
days, the reproach of the age that had and lovely to the eye, but walking blame
^extinguished their influence. And greater less and irreproachable in the fight of
shall be our reproach, and similar our Heaven and of Earth ; not only fashioned,
fate, whenever our manners shall have to whatever can add to their native at
ceased to bear the stamp, and reflect the tractions, b ut tidornfd with all the in
puiity, of our Religion." (pp. 36, 27.) ward graces, and provided with all the
The Bishop concludes bv addressing virtuous dispositions, that will enable you.
to transplant them into another house, as
a few words to the utiderlfandi ng and earnests of that domestic happiness which
feelings of his audience. you yourselves have diffused through your
"There are no parents who hear me, own, and as inflfuments, under God's
who do not know, from their own expe- hands, to transmit to other generations a
" I^mee, as well a? ffent the &fc«v«ric« of suecc&oa us virtus aud joodncU like yonr
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own ! This is a joy that is to be tasted respectable part of that world, think not
by the good mother in every rank and de os their crime before God? who live in
gree. Female loveliness, and female vir guilt, and die in impenitence; and proba
tue, the charms of innocence, and the at bly extend their licentiousness to the next
tractions of genuine modesty, in the fe generation in the loose and disorderly con
male breast, are confined to no particular duct of daughters depraved by their exam
condition ; they influence as irresistibly ple, or of companions tainred and pollu
among the inmates of the cottage as of ted by their intercourse?—O you, whose
the palace; and the daughter who is pos cause I piead, and wfyase fate so warmly
sessed of them is as much a crown of interests the numerous friends of Religion
glory to the poor man as the princess is and ct Humanity, whom you fee before
to the monarch ; and the daughter who you, think not that, if I have adverted to
is divested of them is equally their bane the days of which you are now ashamed,
and their curse. Could we but appeak to I meant to wound yon with reproaches, or
the penitent inmates of this house, would to add to the bitterness of sorrow which
they but disclose to us the secret of their the recollection of that period of darkness
hearts, what proofs should we not find to must ever awaken wuhin you ! No ; /
confirm the truth of the observations that speak not this to condemn you (that I may
I have been suggesting to you in this dis use the words of the Apostle, to the once
course! What pangs and what remorse dissolute but then reclaimed Corinthians) ;
should we see them endure, while, on I wislr to remind you of the mercies
the one hand, we paint the feelings of the which you have so signally experienced
virtuous mother rejoicing over her equally from your God and your Redeemer! I
virtuous child, and, on the other, the an wish to shew you, and to all who are here
guish and the agony of her who weeps assembled in the fear of that God, how
over her child's disgrace! *ls it not pro much you have been raised, by the trea
bable that we should draw from the bit sures of His grace, above those of your
terness of their sorrow a stronger lesson to sex who abuse the favours of Nature and
all parents who hear me than I can con of Fortune to their own dishonour, and
vey to them by any words of mine? Is that of the rank and station they hold ;
is not pr6bable that many, of them have but who, sinning with impunity in this
cause to reproach, not so much them life, and tasting none of those bitter fruits
selves as the wretched violators of the which you have reaped from the fame
most sacred of all duties, who brought excesses, partake not in your- repentance
them into life, but neglected what alone as they partake in your guilt ; seek no
could make life a blessing to them ? peaceful retreat, where, safe from aS se
Might they not tell us, that if they have ducing world, and fled from all that mi
fallen from their innocence, it was be nistered to their debasing paslions, they
cause they had been early abandoned to might make some atonement for the for
themselves, without instruction, without mer scandal of their ways ; might deter,
advice, without reproof? that no tender by theis compunction, as they seduced
mother had watched over their early days, by their levity, and extinguish their guilt
to instil into their minds sentiments of in tears of repentance, and in the blood of
Virtue and Religion ; to cherish and their Redeemer.—And you, who in your
strengthen, as they grew up, the instinc different ranks and degrees stiii maintain
tive principles of female delicacy and fe that reputation Tor purity of heart, cor-
male honour ; or to guard them against rectncl's-of conduct, chaste manners, and
the arts of the seducer, who barbaroully matron virtues, that have ever distin
took advantage of their ignorance of all guished the women of this land ; you
their duties, and of their idle habits, to who rescue your society from the impu
rob them of their innocency, and then tation of degeneracy, which some mela.n-
left them a prey to wretchedness and to "choly exceptions from this general cha
infamy? Branded as they were in those racter might affix to it, let this distinc
days of their infatuation, driven from all tion, conferred upon these reclaimed of
decent intercourse, the stain of one sex, the Lord, whom, otherwise, from your
and the eaiie of the other, liow much less sentiments, your feelings, and your ha
culpable were they than those who, with bits, you would naturally condemn and
other advantages, have incurred the fame shun, favourably dispose your hearts to
gtliit? who, equally criminal, are screened wards them, and conciliate your indul
from disgrace by the place they hold in gence and protection. They have sinned;
society? whose example, instead of deter but they have not been hardened in their
ring by the infamy that should attach to fins. They have disgraced your sex; but
tiieir character, encourages imitation by it is the earnest desire of their fouls to
the indulgence they experience? who, flash away this disgrace in retirement and
countenanced and received by the world, seclusion. Escaped from the waves and
«sten, strange to fay, by the virtuous and the storms of that ocean of vice in which
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they had b-en nearly shipwrecked, and breathes the spirit of Him who suffered
where the wretched companions of their the penitent Mary to grasp his fret, and
shame are still tossed and buffeted, they wash them with her tears, and who,
have fled to this haven, whence the pro knowing that Jlie loved much, because
spect opens to them of returning to the much had leen forgiven hery honoured her
paths of Virtue and of Peace, from which in the pretence os the fastidious Pharisee^
they had been, in an evil hour, seduced ! and bade her depart in peace;. How
Never, it is true, never can they regain many, through the mercy of the fame
that innocence that once diffused its benign Redeemer, who bruises not the
sweets over these paths, and adorned their broken reed, have- !b departed hence, we
spring of life. Tnat flower, once blight may lenrn from the fame testimony to
ed, never can bloom again. Bui, trans which I have already appealed, the testi
planted into a soil prepared and fertilized mony of the Managers and active Super}
by the hand of Christian Chari'y, they intendants of this Charity. Some, no
will strenuously and unremittingly labour doubt, have been found, who, on the re
to cultivate in its place the fruits of that moval of the pressure of the sufferings
repentance that rises like incense to Hea (hat drove them to these tfonrs, grew im
ven, grateful to the purest of all Beings, patient of restraint; returned to the lut/k$
and conciliating not only His pardon, but and the swine ; delivered themselves up to
His favour and His love. Thus rheirs ftill marr evil spirits rhan those by which
may be the language of the Royal Peni they were hist possessed, and made their
tent to his offended but forgiving God: // last stale worse than the first. But al
is good for us that tve have been afflicted, though these in('.;<nces have been greedily
that we might lenm this Jivtutes. The seized on to misrepresent trws Institution,
grace of G >ri, which perfor ms its wonders yet an insne'-non of the books will proye,
by its own ways, wrought upon their in the molt s;trissa^tory manner, that t tj^y
hearts bv the miseries which their trans are few indeed, in comparison of th(j
gressions had entailed upon them. What numbers who have answered all the be
and how great these miseries were, and nign intentions of the Founders and Sup
what the wrc'chedness srur-i which they porter* of the Charity. And it mull neyds
have been rescued, they best can tell, diH'uf;; delight arid lomfort into every
■who, charitably stationed at these doors, Chjistiaii and humane heart to find, by
to open them to all who knock, hear the most authentic record > that, out. of
their fad story from their own mouths, 3775 women, the.total number admitted
and witness their tears and their anguish since the first institution pf. efte Charily,
Vhilc they supplicate permishon to termi two thirds have returned into the world
nate their wretched wanderings within so deeply imprefled wits} the sentiments
these walls, and that they may there find of Religion they t>ad here imbibed^
Test far their iouls. Cold must be the and so confirmed in ihe virtuous habits
heart that ceuld harden- itself against such they had here acquired, as perfeveringly
wretchedness, and unfeeling their bosonis and consistently to maintain the cfrarac-
who could leave to their despair these teis of faithful and jionest servants, vir
outcasts of the world ! For whither can tuous wives, and industrious and exem-:
they fly? To the paternal roof? They pbry mothers of families. Who then,
are excluded from, it, as its stain and its that has in the least refined the common
dishonour. To their relatives, and the sentiments of Humanity by the feelings
companions of their early days? They of a Christian, but must anxiously press
spurn and abhor them, as bearing pesti forward to tube a part in a work of loch'
lence and contagion in their slightest in complicated mercy? 'Anil mould I not
tercourse. They are abandoned (infamous injure the cause for which 1 plead, and
to tell!) even by their seducers! After damp the feelings on which this Institu*
basely triumphing over their credulity and tion. rests so much of hs hopes of support
their weakness, they are the very first to and permanency, were 1 longer to detain
spurn them, and leave them exposed to you from pouring your offerings into the
the caprice and brutality of every profli fund from whence the necesl'ary and in-
gate libertine, with whom they are com dispensable expetioes of the Charity are
pelled to carry on their wretched trarlkk, supplied ? Proceed, therefore, you who
or to perish from want and nakedness in have undertaken to solicit the public
th«f streets. Their very cries of repent bounty on this occasion ; proceed to your
ance',' the voice of their anguish, their charitable work. And yon, my brethren,
supplications and entreaties to be allowed while you individually fix no other mea
to return to the society of the decent, the sure for your bounty but your present
Virtuous, and the industrious, are received feelings, and proportion its extent to the
wrth incredulity, are treated with scorn, good, that must arise from it, do not lose
with mockery, with repulse, and are sight of the instruction I have endeavoured
heard only within these walls, where to engraft on the charitable purposes of
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this day; but he it your care, not only to
bring up your own children in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord* hut to labour
each in your own ftanon, and in propor
tion to the means attorded you by Provi
dence^ to preserve 10 the people o£ this
. land, and to diffuse through all their
claries, the bleliings of a Christian Educa-
tion." (pp. 30—3g.)
104. Janson's Stranger in America.
sConthmed from p. 650.J
\V£ com. now to a tender point in
deed with our Author, "ill artifices
and frauds of land speculators."
"This species of swindling, since the
Peace with America, has been fatal to
the emigrant. Placing confidence in the
reports cf interested men, he was led to
believe that the dismal swamps, barren
del'arts, mid pine woods of. the new world
flowed with milk and honey—that a for
tune would soon accumulate from the
production of " some dunghill fowls, a
cow, and a breeding sow." It is no easy
matter to undeceive thole who, like my
self, have formed a detertnination to viiit
a foreign land. They readily gite credit
to every high-wrought tale, which, 'while
it intoxicates the imagination, creates a
jnomentary dislike to their present situa
tion. I never conversed with an emigrant
who did not admit the truth of this ob
servation, and confess some disappoint
ment. E\en those who had succdsfully
courted fortune in the new world yearned
for that which they had left. It is, in
deed, unnatural not to love the country
which gave us existence. Soon after the
Peace, a number of adventurers who had
rioted in the spoils of war as Royalists,
finding their resources exhausted, asso
ciated themselves, and commenced the
nefarious practice of land-jobbing. In
tfu's confederacy it was necessary that
ibme one should assume the character os
it considerable land-owner in the United
States of America, This man i'er several
pens at work to produce travels, anec
dotes, and varnished descriptions of the
glorious country containing The lands to
which he pretended to have a legal title.
The infatuated Englishman, ever a dupe
to specious advertisements, instantly swal
lowed the bait, and gave his cash to the
London agent for this ri/.? hi nuliOus. He
crosses the Atlantic, with money to pur-
chafe the fowls, the cow, and the sow,
which he soon expends in searching fur
his tand. In many instances he might as
well look for " the philosopher's stone."
Numbers of Frenchmen have also suffer
ed in this way, from the arts practised
upon them by the Paris confederate. The
jfoUo wing luxuriant description of one of
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the embryo cities I found popied into an
American news-paper, from an European
publication : " It is prepoled to build
public edifices in the angles within the
lines forming the ciicus and crescents,
and the oiher public buildings with suita
ble cupolas, and built with a sufficient
decree ot uniformity to give those ftruc-
tures a handsome appearance. Common
sewers, aquedu6ts, market-places, grana
ries, piers, and landing-places, paving the
streets, planting the vistas wi(h trees cor
responding with their names, embellish
ing the circus anti crescents, planting the
public garden, lighting, watching, cleans
ing, &'c." This magnificent city was to
be called (a dozen years agoj Franklin-
ville ; but the spot set apart for those spa
cious buildings js still tenanted by wild
beasts. How very beautiful a city Wash
ington appeared when laid out — on pa
per !—To enumerate the different frauds,
and to lay open the arts pra6tised upon
deluded Englishmen by these gangs of
coalesced adventurers, would alone ex^
ceed ihe limits of these sheets. To such
a pitch ot bare-faced deceit did they ar
rive, that the American Government was
at length obliged to be its own land-
agent, and to open oftic:s for retailing
land to English settlers. To the disgrace
ful and villainous deeds of lantT-1 pecula
tors, Dr. Priestiey, and indeed tn< si of the
recent English settlers, could bear testi
mony. False titles, forged grams, ficti
tious patents, and deeds of bargain apd
sale of land in the clouds, were daily im
posed upon the unwary. Sometimes, in
deed, the confpiiarors would dilcover a,
tract, which was urlder some indispensa
ble necessity of being sold, of which they
would make a bona Jide purchase; and
under this cloak have they conveyed it,
again and again, perhaps a dozen tirries.
In other instances, the land gianftd was
described to begin at a sycamore tree on
such a point ; from thence tunning in a
paiallel line till it struck a mullerry tree ;
from thence running due South til] inter
sected by an oak. In shot;, the described
portion comprised the most valuable tim#
ber, and rich clear land, and all for one
dollar per acre. In these cases the pur-
chafer would often find his land and :he
remains of the trees described; but, atas!
instead of rich meads, fertile plains, va
luable forests, and meandering livers, he
found a barren desert, not producing a
single shrub. The trees had been planted
for deception only, and the navigable ri
vers had found another course. Colonel
Michael Pdyrie, of North Caj ^liua, mar
shal of the state, informed me that he
was obliged to attend a sale of land in the
interior part of the fta;e, which had N'.*a
levied upon under an execution ,g
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cut of the Federal Court, and that upon these younger wenches going about their
his journey over one of the most barren domestic business naked—literally i>i puris
and jocky countries he had ever traielied, naluralibus. Mine host had led me over
he observed a party of men planting trees. the plantation; and we arrived, almost
So strange an employment, in lo dreary a exhaurtsd from th» effects of a fee-iehing
spot, induced the Colonel to enquire of fun, at the hour of dinner. Our meal
the labourers what benefit they expected consisted of venison, and a variety of ve
to derive from their labour. He also ob getables, which we diluted with apple
served two or three carts, loaded with brandy and water. This is a most detest
young trees, and a man at a little dis able beverage. 1 had no choice of spirits;
tance surveying the ground; who.said, in and to ,'iiink water undiluted is often of
answer to the Colonel's questions, that dangerous tendency. Thus is an. Alliga
the land was advertised for sale in London tor Tavern provided with liquors; and,
at half a guinea per acre, and that they in fact, it was as well supplied as any
were " cooking it up a little." This ether place of public resort in the district."
cookery consisted in planting a se*- young The Politician will find many anec-
trees, the choicest growth ot a far litstant
forest, as divisional lines and marks. The dotos of Miranda, and his then in
cook proved to be a confederate land-fpe- tended expedition ; of the tyranny of
culator, and a ci-deoant Congress-man. an American Judge; with the parti
The Colonel added, that, from the natuie culars rejecting the man killed by a
of the foil, and unpropitious situation of Ihot from the Leander. The Naturalist,
the land, a colony of English farmers some remarkable birds; and the Mi-
could not make it worth a shilling." neralc;:ill, an account of gold mines
Some ingenious conjectures are given ir) North CarnlinSi '
on the existence of the Madogians, or A few words on Literature:
Welfli Indian*; an American election " English publications are reprinted in
is humourously burlesqued ; the de various parts of the United Siates; but,
plorable effects ot' the nncontrouled li in order to make them ' cheap editions,"
berty allowed to youth in America ju they are generally on an inferior paper,
diciously exposed ; and the mode of contracted and garbled. Jn this .state they
bee-hunting is a pleasant article. are issued from the press, often at one-
fifth of the price of the London editions.
The establishment of a Carolina far- A work recently published here at the
Bier and inn-keeper is thus described: price of two pounds five shillings, in the
" On a branch of the Alligator River, last Philadelphia papers is advertised at
to named from the quantity of those dan two dollars. A book of the description of
gerous animals found there on its being these sheets, with views to illustrate the
first explored, lived a wealthy planter, by subject, w ill there appear divested of those
siame John Foster. With this man I re ornaments, and the whole matter in ex
mained several days ; and in him I learned planation of the plates suppressed. If
something of the character of a Southern works of great extent, such as the Ency
planter. He cultivated about 200 acres of clopædia 'Britannica, in which a London
land, had built a tolerable house, which publisher will expend many thousand,
he converted into a tavern, and thus he pounds before a tingle copy can be offered
acted in the double cipacity of farmer for sale, arc attempted there to be copied,
»ud lands id. He was of a most tyranni many months are passed in procuring
cal and cruel disposition ib his dependents subscribers ; and for this purpose riders
—imperious and quarrelsome with bis are sent to every large town, by which
guests, as intoxication proceeded—a great means almost every inhabitant is solicited
bully, and, of course, a great coward. The to lend altistance. In some instances,
force* of his plantation consisted of a de however, much typographic spirit is to
cent well behaved white man, who was be met with. Matthew Carey, an old es
the overseer, two civil humble men-* tablished bookseller in Philadelphia, has
slaves, and soar or five wenches f. His announced the accomplishment of his at
kitchen was attended by a cook-wench, tempt to keep one of his quarto editions
and two or three young wenches, who of the Bibie standing in the type ; and he
were yet unable to endure the slavery of advertises for" sale eighteen different-priced
the field. 1 was greatly surprised to see quarto Bibles. In his advertisements he
fays, that ' he trusts it will be borne in
* " Force is here applied when speak mind that it is the first attempt that has
ing of the number of slaves employed in ever been made to keep the quarto Bible
sieid labour on each plantation." completely standing. The paper, type,
f " Female slaves in this part of the printing, engravings, ami binding, are all
world are uniformly called wenches, and American.'—In Philadelphia the Printers
ire bought, fold, and exchanged." have
 1807.] Review of New Publications. 75«
have instituted aTypographical Society, of gible; to the" truth of which assertion,
which Mr. John Childs is the president. every one who has been a scholar will
This Society consists of 120 members. readily assent, when he remembers th«
They have stated meetings, and an anni confused notions he carried with him
versary on the first day of November. The from school on the subject of grammar,
Trade contribute towards a fund for the after having toiled for years through «
relief of the sick members, and the burial long catalogue of senseless sounds. It i*
ef such as depart this life in distressed cir no doubt possible, as experience proves,
cumstances. The last Report mentions for children to be made capable of distin
only one death in the fraternity during guishing a noun from a verb, or any
the last four years. They profess the other part of speech, and even to apply
principles of Franklin, who is revered by the rules of Syntax, without having one
them as the father of the Typographic clear conception of the grounds or rea
Art in America. This Trade have an an sons for all they utter." "As a lowe
nual Book-fair, upon the plan of that at of innovation forms no part of the Au
Leipsic in Germany. It is held in the thor's plan, he has cautiously aveidei.
month of June, at Newark, in the state every deviation which did not appear lot.
of New Jersey, twelve miles from New him essential ; adhering mostly to Mr,
York. Here the principal Booksellers Murray's disposition, terms, and defini
meet from all parts of the United States, tions, from a conviction of their admit
or fend a representative, to arrange the ting no improvement.". . . . "Should the
general business, enter into regulations, selection of examples which he has mad<t
announce intended publications, and ex appear less elegant or appropriate than
change with each other those already on those of Mr. Murray, he trusts they v.-iil
sale. Matthew Carey, above-mentioned, not be found less pure and unexceptiona
is the secretary; but Matthew has threat- ble in their tendency; it having been his;
«ned to attend no more, unless the fair is most ardent wish to combine, to the ut
alternately held in the vicinity of Phila most of his power, the interests of Reli
delphia, where the Booksellers consider gion and Morality with the advancement
themselves as taking the lead of any other of the Sciences."
place in the Union." (To be contimied.J There is both novelty and originality
in the p'.au of "The Preceptor."
105. The Preceptor and his Pupils; or,
Dialogues, Examinations, and Exercises
011 Grammar in general, and the English 106. Old Friends in a New Dress ; or,
Grammar in. particular. For the Use of Familiar Fables in Verse.
Schools and private Students. By George IT is a pleasure to see our old friend
Crabb, Mister of the Commercial and Æliip with so good a modern face as i»
Literary Seminary. given him in this liitle publication^
MR. CRABB, by way of apology which is "offered 10 parents, and
for appearing in print after "the many other fuperinienclanis of the education
judicious and approved grammatical of youth, as presenting an inducement
works already in use," which " he for children to commit to memory a
would scarcely have ventured to have few of thole fables of Æsop, the mo
done had he not long felt the want of rals of which are the most clear, and
something more in unison with his most ad ipted to their usual pursuits."
own ideas than what is at present to " To attain this end, some pains have
be met with," informs us that his been taken to offer them in a simple and
grand aim has been, unadorned style, as being in that state
" To establish in the minds of learners easy to comprehend, and consequently
a clear and positive distinction between most likely to make a favourable impres
Words and Things ; keeping, at the fame sion on the infant mind. The Fables
time, in view their necessary dependence chosen for this purpose are those, the sub
on, and connexion with, each other. To jects of which most young people are ac
this end he has been particular in distin quainted with as stories; though, per
guishing what is common t04 all lan haps, but few who have read and been
guages from what is peculiar to the Eng pleased with them have taken the trouble
lish ; in shewing the relation between the to reflect on the leflbns th£y inferred-
different sorts of ideas and the different There appears but one cause assignable
classes of words which express them ; and for this neglect. It has been too accus
in making the learnor discriminate for tomed method, in printing Fables, to di
himself the various parts of speech from vide the moral from the subject; and
the sense of the words. Any thing (hon children, whose minds arc alive to the
of this precision will he found totally ina entertainment of an amusing story, to>
dequate for rendering this matter intelli often turn from one fable to another, ra
ther
 Review ofNew Publications, —Index Indicatorius. [Aug;
ther tl.ir. peruse those Ies»-interefting Co: sit'erid out of season by our readers
lines .'c.-t *.',.'<: •: .der the term Appli in general. We shall; therefore, offer
es'./ r, v this conviction that
no farther apology lor transcribing it :
the Ac t tic <- ' 'o'fctum has " Mr. Wi: dham is next bronght upon
endrav. . f. to it.i« Vie hi "..1 with
the Carpet; who (observes the Author),
the la\ii -U, 'l.i. !'<>•> sh..ll m.t be
with his usual sagacity, has recently dis
obtsrncd v>*h..u he ';enefit .rising tro*£i covered that capital is as neceslary to the
it, and '. ;<i Atvul .incut aud Instruction soldier as the merchant ; and therefore is
may ,-o hand in hand." of opinion, that ' only gentlemen of for
N'i etern Fubl s are given inSasy tune should hold commissions in the
Ve!e, of various me'tes; and we shall Army.' Although we are so unfortunate
leleci 0"e "f the shor elt as to entertain (entitfiehts somewhat dif
"VI. The Fox and the Majk. ferent to those of the Right Honourable
"A Fox ar »und a toyman's shop Gentleman, op the question alluded toy
Wh1. waiting, as the story £.oes, still we1 must do him the justice to say,'
When at a Mask lie made a stop ; that he never did deliver himself precisely
(Bui how he came there no one knows). to the effect which is here attributed to
him. ]f*wefelt even loss pleasure than
"The Mask was beautful and fair, we at all times do in expressing our high
As l.ice a Mask a* e'er was made, admiration of his talents and conduct,
And lor a lady meant to wear. we could not resist the present opportu
At the Pantheon Masquerade. nity of bearing honourable testimony to
" He turn'd it round with much surprise, the interest and silicitudc he has unceas
To find it prove Ib light and thin : ingly manifested for the welfare of the1
4 How strange!' at length poor Reynard Army. Has he not been twice instru
cries; mental, and that within a comparatively
[chin,
* Here's nose, and eyes, and mouth, and short period, in procuring for certain
'And cheeks, and lips, and all so pretty: .branches of it an increase of subsistence ?'
And yet one thing there still remains Has he not manfully, and at the expence'
To make it perfect ; what a pity! of his popularity, protested against every
So fine a head should have no brains!' violation of its rank, and every encroach
ment on its liberties ? Has he not endea-"
"Thus, to some boy or girl so pretty, voured to restore to it, by every possible
Who to get learning takes no pains, means, and at every personal risk, its an
May we exclaim, Ah ! what a pity ! tient distinction, and its honorary privi
So fine a head should have no brains!" leges ? The benefits and advantages en
Each Fable is illustrated with a neat joyed by the Military, through the liberal,
and appropriate cut. enlightened, and almost exclusive exer
tions of Mr. Windham, are us generally
107. J Letter addressed to the Freemen of admitted as they are gratefully acknow
the Town and Port of Sandwich, re ledged. Whether in the War or in the
specting the Proceedings and Resolutions Colonial Department, who has obtained
of the. Ramlgate Committee, dated at for the Service more solid advantages ?
their Town-hall, Oct. 28, 180(j, relative Whether in office, or out of office, who
to a 1 intended Application to Parliament has been more sedulously attentive to the
'jvT 'he Purpose of reducing the Tolls of promotion of its real comfort, or who
S. n iwich Bridge. By Wm. Pettman. has more strenuously . strove to exalt its
T H E Freemen of Sandwich are ideal reputation? To attack Mr. Wind
wucli indebicd 10 Mr. PrLtuian for ham in the least vulnerable place, is to
this spirited remonstrance against a aim at every part of Achilles but the heel.
Wanton aUack on iheir antient sran- sagacity Where, we fliould like to know, is the
cniles and modern tolls. of this ?"
We regret that nuf limits will n«*t
\08. Conspiracy Detected j or, Some recent allow us to select some farther extiacts
Publications, addressed to the Duke of from this pamphlet, which has been
York, analytically reviewed. written to counteract the effects of a
THE following juli aud honourable very poisonous publication. <
tribute to Mr. Windham is 'contained INDEX INDICATORIUS.
in this pamphlet, which has been pub A copy of the Epitaph on Dr. Rey
lished in reply 10 some scurrilous pro nolds,
ductions addressed to the Duke of 1743, andBishop of Lincoln, who died in
was buried at Buckden, would
York. As that gentleman has been be considered as a favour.
lately made the subject of unmerited Y. Z. wilt find' a mode of destroying
attack, it may not, perhaps, he unac Black Beetles in vol. LI1I. pp. 3.07, 407.
ceptable to our military frierids, or De
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Oberon, in answer to Mrs. Gre- They fay e'en Madness has its joys,
ville's Ode to Indifference. Which none but Madmen know,
WHAT silvery sound by Moon-beam's Feeling is Madness in disguise ;
Then why the bliss forego f
light
From lips nor faint nor weary, Tho' Pleasure in excess be Pain,
Soft stealing on the ear of Night, And Pain in Madness end,
Wakes Oberon the Fairy ? Would loss of Sense that bliss retain,
The comfort of a friend ?
Nymph of the golden Lyre ! sweet
Maid ! If Coldness chill the heart's best blood,
That with thy skilful hand And freeze all Virtue there,
Mustek's rich wreath canst fitly braid, Who may enjoy that greatest good
And spells and charms command ! The lux'ry of a tear ?
From kingly sports, and frolics brave, If Pity's sorrowing drop ne'er steal
And pranks that mortals weary, From Charity's full eye,
Here at thy feet, a willing slave, Who stiall that holy comfort feel,
Stands Oberon the Fairy. The warm impassion'd sigh ?
.And, if in herb, or tree, there be Believe me, Maid, how keen soe'er
Some sov'reign power enshrin'd ; The pangs of Feeling be,
I'll bend with Pilgrim's zeal the knee, 'T were better all its miseries bear,
Where'er that power I find. Than sleep in Apathy!
And should my Fairy Brother there Better the keenest anguish know
My suit reject with scorn, One Friend so soon can heal,
By Cynthia's light ! does Oberon swear, Than, turning cold from kindred woe,
He dies ere morning's dawn ! Want e'en the wish to feel.
I'll summon strait my tiny bands, Ke^p then that holy sense divine
High-crested warriors all ; Which warms thy tender heart,
Trumpet aloud thy lov'd commands, Which anguish can to peace refine,
And win the prize, or fall ! To bliss new joys impart.
My little heart with love and rage No balm from flower-cup, herb, ot
Alternately shall beat ; tree,
Now in the deadliest war engage, My chemic skill shall draw :
Now sink at Greville's feet. O 1 still the child of Nature be,
And own but Nature's law,
But dost thou still a boon require
So pairing wonder strange ? Born to delight, and charm with ease,
Dost bid me damp Affection's fire, Be thoughts so strange appeas'd;
And Woman's nature change? Still without effort sweetly please,
And pleasing still be pleas'd.
Wouldst to thy panting bosom press 1807.
A cold insensate guest ?
Be blest so more ?—no longer bless ? BIRTH -DAY LINES
Caressing nor carest ?— Addrejsed to J . H. Coventry, on entering
O '. dearer than th' Athenian maid his 'Ih year, July 6, 1807.
I once so dearly lov'd ; By his Aunt ami God-mother,
For whom my Fairy Hosts obey'd, WHILE Bards of high renown re
My magic Spirits mov'd, hearse
Beware that false delusive calm Their birth-day odes, in clastic verse,
The nymph Indifference feigns ; To charm Britannia's ear!
Tho' she the sense of bliss disarm, The Village Mule, with rustic joy,
Pain's cank'ring smart remains. Salutes sincere her darling boy,
And hails his seventh year !
The heart which can deny relief John-Henry C 's blest natal day
When Sorrow's children moan, Demands an ode of sweetest lay :
Tho' it may smile at others' giief, But where's the bard to sing?
Most keenly feels its own. No Laureat here to tune his lyre !
Tho' senseless Apathy may share No Sappho with seraphic fire
With Sympathy the prize ; An offering sweet to bring!
Say, who would scorn and torture bear, But an unknown unpolish'd Muse
And barter smiles for sighs ? With artless love this theme pursues,
The heart by varying passions raov'd, And gratulates her boy '.
Still like the needle true, Long may he live ! to fee return '•
May yet be blest—by one be lov'd, His birth-day feast (sweet happy morn !)
And, trembling, constant too. iov ! ■
And. taste, the purest joy
Uent. Mao. August, 1807, Id
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754 Selefi Modern Poetry, fir August, 1807.
In wisdom as in years increase ;
In virtue grow 'midst bliss and peace !
Till hoary age shall come ;
Review serene a life well spent ;
Enjoy or leave what Heaven hath lent,
And dauntless view the tomb !
Near the banks of Stour. A. C.
The Rose* or Cray.
"XTOT Beauty's charms, n«r Music's f
]\i magic power,
Could guard from death that blooming,
fading flower ;
Scarce had it bloffom'd half a Summer's
day, [away !
When all its fragrant sweetness died
Oct. 25, 1806. A. C.
On the Birth or a First Child,
By a Young Father.
LITTLE Infant, bringing pleasure,
Greatest pleasure of the heart,
Oh ! what bliss, thou hcav'nly treasure,
Doth thy birth to me impart!
Who would be debarr'd for ever
From the joys of wedded love ?
Who can fay that joy is never
Found but in the realms above ?
Yes, tho' Life is full of trouble,
Still we are supremely blest ;
Else, why now are these sweet raptures
Felt within a Father's breast ?
Little, trembling, tender creature,
Wonders in tily frame appear !
In each glance, eacli lovely feature,
Something tells me thou art dear.
Dearer than the World's vain pleasure,
Dearer than the Miser's gold :
Wealth beyond' Peruvian treasure
In my Daughter I behold !
Oh, how blest to be a F'ather !
Infant smiles how sweet to see !
Smiles to me of greatest pleasure,
Source of pure delight to me.
With what fond and anxious watching
Shall I fee thy little ways !
With what fondness shall I hear thee
Prattle in thy infant days !
Oh 1 my dearest little Daughter,
On thy Father cheerful smile ;
Cheer his days, and keep him happy,
Love from thee will care beguile.
Holmesdale. Rusina.
* The late Honourable and charming
Mrs. T. W. Coventry, well known to the
■writer of this figure.
T She was deemed, by competent
judges, almost a prodigy in the art of
Music,
HORACE. Integer tifee, &t.
THE man who is just, and is pure in
his heart, [his dart,
Hath no need of the Parthian's bow or
Or his poisoned arrows, wherever he goes,
O'er sands, or o'er Caucasus cover'd with
snows,
Or travels the shores of Hydafpes along,
Which are render'd immortal in fabulous
song.
I lately was rambling alone in the grove,
And was singing in praif« of the Maid
whom I love,
When a grim hungry wolf darted full in
my way, [away ;
But he instantly left me, and hasten'd
A monster so grim ne'er appalled the fight
Of the Daunians bold and terrific in fight,
Nor did Africa ever, of lions the nurse,
Produce to its natives a prodigy worse.
Then place me in plains which of herbage
are bare, [of the air,
Where the leaves never move by the spring
Or place me in countries all cover'd with
snow,
Where winter deforms, and the winds
keenly blow, [scorching heat,
Or in countries burnt up with the fun's
I still will my Lalage's name oft repeat,
And the horrors of climate I'll strive to
beguile [nocent smile.
With her soft-flowing voice, and her in-
HOME.
MIDST Ethiopia's burning waste,
Where savage lions roam,
The weary Traveller flacks his haste,
And stops to think of Home.
The Sailor doom'd to brave the seas,
Where angry billows foam,
Rejoices when again he fees
His Country and his Home.
The Exile, 'midst some foreign climes
Condemn'd for life to roam,
Sighs when he thinks of former times, '
Too sweetly past at Home.
" The Soldier tir'd of War's alarms"
Longs for the time to come,
When, laying down his useless arms,
He may enjoy his Home.
Since every one his Home holds dear,
Cottage or regal dome,
It cannot wonderful appear
That I should long for Home.
*IAOOIKOJ.
Answer to the Charade, p. 560.
WHILE the Nobleman feasts on his.
melon,
Whose rich flavour's unknown to the
Bumpkin,
He, happy swain, has his luxuries too,
When he dines on his bacon and
Pump-km • J«»a.
T»
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To PHILANTHROPY,. Ode H. Dark Error fly thy presence far from earth;
Written'on reading the Report of the Royal And Truth's transcendant excellence
Humane Society for 1807. ne'er cease
By John Stoyle, Lieut. Royal Nary. T' unveil thy powerful charms to every
AGAIN, Philanthropy divine, foul,
To celebrate thy bright career, That welcomes thy embrace, and loves thy
Again the grateful task be mine, sweet controul.
With aim, tho' humble, yet sincere.
Since twice apparently the Orb of Day An Etilogium on the Earth, from Pliny.
Across th' Equatorroll'd his task aliign'd,
Lo still thy beams, a constant light display, LIKE a fond indulgent mother
O spark of essence from th' all-perfect Still the bounteous earth we find,
Mind ! Who gladly at our birth receives us,
Nor yetimpair'd thy lustre bright, And continues ever kind ; x
Or less thy power to save ; It is alone the Earth benignant,
Increasing still thy dear delight Of all the elements around,
Restrains th' insatiate Giave. Whole fost'ring care prote6ls her Chil
Grim Death still owns thy renovating dren,
power, [dart ; Nor e'er to Man a foe is found.
And prostrate at thy feet resigns his Th« Waters often prove unfriendly,
For History still records each compering Now they deluge him with rain,
hour, [heart, Then with snow»nd hail oppress him,
And thrills with joy the sympathizing Or with floods o erwhelm the plain.
His terrors yet protracted at thy nod,
Proclaim thy high descent, and prove The Air, in hurricanes now rushing,
thee Born of God. Lays his smiling harvest low,
Czak of the North, how great thy Arouses next the pealing thunder,
fame Or in storms and tempests blow !
In dignified humanity ! But the Earth, for ever gentle,
Whose noble deeds exalt the name, Ev'ry blessing does afford ;
The sovereign name, of Majesty ! His ferdant walks she spreads with
Thy Lord, who bath'd and wip'dth' Apos flowers,
tles' feet, [pand! And with plenty crowns his board:
Approving saw thy generous heart ex- Each good unto her care committed
And mercy sent from Heaven appear'd to From her with int'reft we receive ;
meet And,though she may produce thepoison.
Th' untir'd exertions of thy Royal hand. She the antidote will give-
Thus, O Philanthropy, thy reign Though constant we may importune
Assume in every breast, her,
Till nought of passions base remain, To furnish more our pride than wants,
To marr thy halcyon reft ! Yet, even to our latest moments,
Th««, Daughter of moll happy ikies, per She ev'ry' kind indulgence grants.
vade [love, When wing'd Time our days shall
The Monarch and the Subject with thy
Till in each heart thy image be pourtray'd, number,
To fit the foul for happier scenes above; And the scene of life shall close,
Where War or warlike hosts sliall ne'er In her we find our last asylum,
appear . [year. And in her gentle breast repose.
To stain th' unsullied bliss of one eternal EXTEMPORE LINES.
To Western shores thy power extends, METHOUGHTIheardmyRosa's voice
Beyond th' Atlantic wave it roves ; Glide <>n the pasting wind ;
Each savage tribe thy smile befriends, In sweetest tones it said, " Rejoice !
Tho' deep immur'd in untrod grovel. Your Rosa's not unkind."
Thy humanizing rays still fend afar,
And with thy loveliness illume each Methought I saw my Rosa's eye
On me in kindness turn'd ;
face, [beaming star New fervour did its beams supply
As through great Nature's frame each To what already burn'd.
Deep in old Night the gloomy shades
shall chase. Upon her cheek I (aw a smile,
Send to the South thy ray most pure, Which sliew'd her dimples there ;
And thence thy foes expel : It made me happy for a while,
On Earth's domain thy right secure, And bade me not despair.
And there supremely dwell. How vain !—Imagination's eye
9ften, great in godlike deeds, thy match Gives Thought its amplest scope ;—
less worth [Peace, In wishes we each want supply,
Shall thither bring from heaven celestial Aud fancy what we hop», E.
TILSIT
756 Sekft Modern Poetry, for August, 1807.
TILSIT FAIR. Or winding river, lavishes her store,
FROM Tilsit have you heard the news And feast till ye are full." Alas ! in vain
Of a confounded racket, She calls upon the fascinated corps
Where the Great Bear durst not refuse That Business fetters with his magic
To wear the Fidler's jacket ? chain— [still delay,
Pale dupes ! at Mammon's shrine they
A Corsican Usurper base, Regardless of the charms bright Summer's
A Conqueror, yet a donor, scenes display. Hafiz.
Diffus'd insignia of disgrace
And badges of dishonour. THE SUMMER EVENING'S WALK.
This Conjurer play'd such a tune TT^HE breath of Summer has to fullness
As set mad Europe dancing ; j blown t [gorous stern
And in the august month of June The bell of each bright flow'r, whose vi-
Set many monarchs prancing. Lifts it above the feebler race of Spring,
Thus to the Fair with speed they went, To catih the solar beam, and pasting eye.
And all got drunk together ; Inviting us to roam : * t is now the mild,
A motley crew that evening spent, Delicious hour of gentle Eve's return,
All ty'd like ftirks in tether. When Light's last blushes linger in the
There crouch'd around the servile tree West,
Queens, Emperors, and K-ings, Tinging the distant tops of Eastern hills
With slaves of every degree, With a variety of softest hues.
ctuell'd sycophantic things. The Blackbird's l'ong'still echoes from the
shade, [brook,
Oh Europe, where is now thy blush ? And down the '.pebbled channel of the
Must Nations thus depart ? The Sandpiper's shrill note, repeated oft,
Must all fall, like a broken rush, Diverts the ear. The Lark is gone to bed;
To base-born Buonapart ? But wakeful Robin warbles on his thorn,
No '. Britain's Empire 's on the Sea Unwearied minstrel of the circling year !
Begirt by rocks and waves ; Fragrance, unpinion'd, now is on the
Ships are her walls, her people free, wing,
And never will be slaves. Diffusing from the woodbine-woven hedge,
And shamrock-studded field, her floating
> THE SIGN-POST. charm.
YE who fit on the bench of yon ale The soul is ravish'd,' and the sense regal'dt
house hard by, [away, Amid the fleeting paradise of sweets,
And heedleslly pass the swift moments Tasting a portion of primordial bliss,
Regard for a moment the sign-post on Such as the first-created Pair enjoy'd
high, [convey. In their's, ere rashly forfeited by guilt,
And ponder the meaning its emblems Alas! for ever!—Such as Milton's Muse,
For the stalk is surrounded with many a With all the warmth of inspiration's pen.
thorn, [it may bear, Describes in his inimitable strain.
Though haply the sweet-lmelling rose July 10. Hafiz.
And tho' gems the outside of a crown may
adorn, SONNET—TO AN EARWIG.
Yet oft it encircles a forehead of care.— WHY, Earwig! art thou held in dis-
Then for once let a sign-polt this moral ellcem ? [proachest near ?
impart, [door, ThyWhy shrink my nerves when thou ap-
powers to injure me but puny seem-^—
As ye stop to carouse at the innkeeper's But thou'rt a creeper—hence proceeds,
That repentance and pain will aslail the my fear.
lad heart, [are o'er.
When the fancied delusions of pleasure 'Tis said, like wriggling Scandal, to the
I. C. ear way^
Thou lov'st to work thy dark insidious
SUMMER'S CALL.—A Sonnet. Depositing thy secret venom there,
WHO now amid the City's dust and din To lead the tickled organ's fense astray.
Would pass the irksome day, thatcari No wonder, then, the feeling, with dis
get free, [hemm'd in may,
J3y sultry streets half smother'd, and Vile reptile ! thy detested presence shun,
From fight of rural beauty, rural glee? (If such a treacherous thing, as rumours
JHark ! Summer cries—" Ye Captives, fly fay, [undone.
Thou really art) lest they mould be
to me,
My cup of pleasure, see ! is running o'er; Avaunt !—for, if I catch thee in my room,
No longer voluntary pris'ners be, Like the backbiting flea's shall be thy in
But haste where Health along the breezy stant doom. Ha rial
sliorej SONNET^
 Selett Modern Poesry, for August, 1807. 757
SONNET to Mrs West, on. perusing her I ador'd the Almighty, whose goodness,
" Letters addressed to ayoung Man, &c." so great, eight !
WHILSTbloomingfieldstheirbreath- Had prescrv'd your existence to sevemy-
ing sweets dispense, But, when I conlider'd the years that are
And Ceres golden crops profusely pours, fled, are dead !
Nature's bright scenes enliven every fense, And of thole you lov'd living, how many
And gentle Evening sheds refreshing Surely vain, 1 exclaim'd, is the mortal
showers : estate ;
With admiration I again peruse And I pitied the sorrows of seventy-eight!
The striking beauties of that glowing Still, to those who so number the days
page that pass o'er,
Which elevates the foul to heavenly views As of virtue and wisdom to lay up a store.
With sweet instruction, admonition sage; Whose wishes are humble, whose thoughts
are sedate,
Exalts the thought with energy sublime, Somecomsortsremaine'en
To Virtue's sacred temple rear'd on high, at seventy-eight!
Cheering with hopes beyond the bounds Yes; they who have early accomplifh'd
of time, [sky— the mind, rind ;
And blissful prospects opening from the E'en in sickly old age many comforts may
Long may Religion's cause thy aid retain, , And s uch is the cafe, I exultingly sayl,
Whose genius prompted first my early Of my excellent mother of seventy-eight.
strain ! M. D. Her patience and piety, goodness and
*** In p. 659, 1. 40. for charm read sense, hence ;
calm ; and 1. 46. for his read that. Will live in remembrance many year»
Her praises too highly I never can rate,
To ths Authors of the Monthly Review, who Nor account halt her merits at seventy-
in criticizing my Tour through (sales eight.
" believe I have taken a journey t» that Her tender regard, her attention and care,
place from which I cannot transmit a 1 have telt from a child, but want words
detail." to declare ;
NO wonder a man, when his court 0 ! let me then pay, ere it yet be too late.
ship is o'er, Due homage to her, and to seventy-eight.
Should enter his name as a tVed-mm, Contented I'd live In the lowest degree
The wonder consists, when the man is no To lee her from care and anxiety free ;
more, [dead-man.
He should still write his name, tho' a And while some court the rich, others
flatter th,e great,
Your work for July tells the world " that 1 bow to my mother of seventy-eight !
I *m dead, Might I live to behold her an hundred
And cease to become an inditer,"
But, by praising my book, it will rather In the years older, [fold her ;
arms of affection I still would en-
be said No distance of si me would ruy ardour abate;
You keep me alive as a Writer. I'm so fond of my moilicroi seventy-eight.
Shall / drop the pen, who am but eighty- And now I have only to ling and to say,
four,
And smother a tale, if worth telling ; " May this you see many happy returns of
day ; [be mine
I have long'd, and still long, to take one And, another year gone, may the office
journey more,
And foot it to John a Groat's dwelling. To hail your arrival at seventy-nine."
Birmingham, W. Hutton. EPITAPH ON ROUSSEAU ».
Aug. 12. ROUSSEAU lov'd Nature — Nature
lov'd Rousl'eau ; [birth,
On the 78th Birth-Day ofMrs. Stephenson, She smil'd upon the day that gave him
by herson the Rev. Joshua Stephenson. Around his cradle bade her bloii'oms blow.
A New Song on an Old Suljcd. And birds delight him with their tune
rHTMslS morning, ere yet I arose from ful mirth.
I my bed, [my head : And when his spirit left this earthly scene"
Your Birth-day, dear mother, came into Another proofoffond regard she shew'd*
With an heart full of pleasure I welcom'd Clear skies, sweet flow'rs, and trees en-
the date, rob'd in green, [abode.
That marks your arrival at seventy-ejght. Spread their full charms to deck his last
Then reflecting how few, either women Hauz.
or men, ten. * This celebrated Writer was born in ,
E'er attain to the limits of three score and Jun« 1712, and. died, in July 1778.
758 Correct List of the present Hsuss of Commons. [Aug.

LIST op the MEMBERS of the FOURTH PARLIAMENT or the UNITED

KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, Corrected to Aug. 15, 1807,
*** Those printed in Italics are new Members. Those marked thus (*) are/oroTHER
Places than they before served for. Those marked (§) are Double Return.';, to be
decided by a Committee of the House of Commons. The figure after the name Jheics
in how many Parliaments the Member has served.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
SIXTEEN PEERS OF SCOTLAND. Conyngham, E. Longford, E.
Aberdeen, E. Haddhigton, E Do'noughmore, E. Longucville, V.
Aboyne, E. Home, E. Enniskdlen, E. Lucan, E.
Balcarras, E. Kellie, E. Erne, E. Normanton, E<
Caithness, E. Napier, E. Glandore, E. Northland, V.
Cathcart, L. Saltoun, L. Headfort, M. O'Niel, E.
Dalhoufie, E. Selkirk, E. kingjton, E. Roden, E.
Forbes, L. Sinclair, L, Landaff, E. Tyrawley, L.
Glasgow, E. Strathmore, E. Limeric, E. Westmeath, L.
Londonderry, E. Widow, V.
TWENTY-EIGHT IRISH PEERS.
Bandon, E. Carleton, V. FOUR IRISH BISHOPS.
Cahier, L. Charlemont, E. Alp, of Dublin. Bp. of Limeric.
Caledon, E. Chatleville, E. Bp. of liaphoe. Bp. of Dromorc.
Callan, L. Clanricade, E.

HOUSE OF
ENGLAND and WALES.
Alingdon—G. Knapp.
Agmondfham—T.D. T. Drake, 4, T. T.
Drake, 2.
Allan's. St.—Hon. J. W. Grimston, a,
J. Halfey.
Aldborough, Suffolk—Sir J. Aubrey, Q,
Col. John M'Mahon, 2.
Aldborough, Yorkshire—G. Jones, 1, H.
Fynes, 1.
Andover—T. A. Smith, 2, Hon. N. Fel-
towes, 2.
Anglcfea—Hon. B. Pagct.
Apphby—'Nicholas W. Ridley Colborne,
2, J. R. Cuthbert.
Arundel—Sir A. Pigot, 2, Col. Wilder, 1.
Ashburton—W.Palk, 3, Lord C.Bentinck.
Aylejbury—G. H. C. Cavendish 1, Sir G.
Nugent, 1.
Tianlrury—W. Praed§, 2, D. North 5, 6.
Barnstaple—W. Taylor, 1 , G. W. Thcl-
Utffon.
Bath—Lord J. Thvnne, 3, J. Palmer, 3.
Beaumarls—Lord Newborough, 3.
Bedfordfliire—F. Pym, 1, *General Fitz-
patrick, 9.
Bedford Town—S. Whitbread, 3, W. L.
Antonic, 2.
Bedu-in— ' Sir J. Nicholl,2, J. H.Leigh, 2.
Bteraljlon—Lord Lovaine, 3, Hon. Capt.
Percy, 1.
Berk/hire—G. Vansittart, si, C. Dundas, 4.
Serieick—Sir A. As. Lockhart,. Col. Allan.
Beverley—Capt. R. IV. H. P'yfe, J. Whar-
ton, 3.
Bticillcj—M. P. Andrews, 3.
COMMONS.
Bifliop's Castle—W. Clive, 8, J. Robin
son, 3.
Blechingly—W. Kenrick, 1, T. Heatheote.
Bodmin—D. Giddy, 2, Sir W. Oglander.
Bormtghbridge—H. Hawkins, 1, W. H.
Clinton, 1.
Bojjiney — Lord Rendlefliam, J. A. S.
Woriley, 2.
Bo/ion—T. Fydell, 2, W. A. Madocks, 2.
Braekley—II. H. Bradshaw, 2, A. Hen
derson, 2.
Bramber—H. Jodrell, 3, J. Irving, 1.
Brccoifhire—Col. T. Wood, 1.
Brecon Town—Sir R. Salusbury, 3.
Bridgenorih—I. H. Browne, 8, J. Whit-
more, 4.
Bridgewater—IV. Thornton, G. Pocoek.
Bridport—Sir Evan Nepean,l,*Sir Samuel
Hood, 1.
Brijiol—Right hon. C. B. Bathurst, 4, E.
Baillie, 2.
Buckingham/hire—Marquis Tichfield, 4,
Earl Temple, 2.
Buckingham Town—Right hon. T. Gren-
ville, 5, Hon. R. Neville.
Bury St. Edmunds, Lord C. Fitzroy, 2,
Lord Templetown, 2.
Cable—J.Jekyl, 6, TL Smith.
Cambridge/hire—Lord C. S. Manners, 4,
Right hon. C. Yorke, 3.
Cambridge University—Lord Euston, 7i
Sir V. Gibbs.
Cambridge Town—Gen. Finch, 6, Gen.
Manners, 6.
Camclford—*Lord H. Petty, 2, R.Adair, 2,
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
King's Lynn—Lord Walpole, 4, Sir M. B.
Folkes, 4.
Kingston-upon-Hull — J. Stanifo'fth, 2j
, Lord Viscount Mahon, J.
Knarc/lornugh — Lord J. Townshend, 6,
Lord Ossulfton, 2.
Lancashire. — T. Stanley, 8, J. Black-
bumc, 6.
Lancaster Town—J. Dent, 3, P. Patlen.
Launcejton—J. Brogden, 3, R. II. Alex,
Bennct.
Leicej'lersliire—Lord R. Manners, 2, G. A:
. L. Keck, 4.
Leicester Toum—S. Smith, 6, T. Babing-
ton, 3.
Leominslcr—Sir J. Lubbock, 3, H. Bon-
ham, 1.
Lewes—T.Kemp, 1. Henry Shelley, 2.
Lincolnjhire — C. Chaplin, 2, Hon. C.
Pelhstm, 2.
Lincoln Cily—R. Ellison, 3, Hon. Col.
Monson, 1.
Lifieard—Lord Hamilton, Hon. W. El
liot, 4.
Litchfield—G. An son, 2, G. G. V. Ver-
non, t.
Liverpool—Gen. Gascoyne, 3, Gen. Tarle-
ton.
London—Sir C. Price, 2, Sir Wm. Curtis,
4, Aid. Shawc, 1 , Aid. Combe, 3.
LosUvitliiel, E. Maitland, G. Holford,
Ludlow—Vise. Clive, 1, Hon. H.Clivc.
LvdgerJhalt—T.Rvcreu, 3, M. D. Ma-
gens, 2.
Lyme Regis—Hon. Col. Fane, 2, Lord
Burghersh, 1.
Lymiugton—J. Kin^flon, 2, Geo. Duckctt.
Maidftone—G.Simpson, 1, G.Longman, 1 .
Maldan—S. H; Strutt, 4, C. C. Western.
Malmc/bury—Sir G. Bowyer, P. Gell.
Malton—*Lord Headley, 1, Hon. R. L.
Dundus.
Marlborough—Lord Bruce, 3, *Lord Vile.
Sto-psord, 1.
Mariatv—O. Williams, 3, P. Grcnfell, 2.
Mau-es St. — S. Bernard, I, *Viscount
Ebrington, 2.
Michael St.—G. Galway Mills, Sir James
Hall, lart.
tfJcriqnelhJlLin—Sir R. W. Vaughan, 4.
Midliurfl — Hon. J. Abercrombie, Ihomas
Thompson.
Middlesex—V?. Mellisti, 3, G. Byng, 4.
Melbourne Port—Lord Pagct, I, Hugh
Leycester, 2.
Mineheai—J. F. LutlreU, *J.Denison, 2.
Monmouthshire—Lord A. Somerset, J, Sir
C. Morgan, 3.
Moumauth Town—Lord C. H. Somerset, 3.
MotUgomeri(flurc—C. W. VV. Wynne, 3.
Montgomery Town—W. Kccne, 8.
Mprpeth—W. Ord, 3, Hon. W. How
ard, t.
Newark—H. Willoughby, 2, Gen. S. Cot
ton, l.
Ncwcastle-under-Lyme—E. W. Eootlc, 4,
J, Macdonuld, t.
»/ House of Commons. [Aug.
Neivcaflle-upon-Tyne—Sir M.W. Ridley,
9, C. J. Brandling, 2.
Newport, (Cornwall—W. Northey, 3, E.
Morris, 2.
Newport, Hants—-Cord Palmer/ion.
Newton, Lancajhire—Gen. Heron, I, J. I.
Blackburne.
Newton, Hants — Dudley North, B. P.
Blackfard.
No folk—Sir J . H . Astley,2 , T.W. Coke, 6.
Northallerton—Hon. E. Lascelles, i, H.
Pierse, fi.
Northamptonshire—Lord Althorp, 2, W.
R.Cartwright, 8.
Northampton Town—Hon. S. Perceval, 4,
E. Bouverie, 4.
Northumberland—*Earl Percy, l,1 Col,
Beaumont, 4.
Norurieh—J. Patteson, 1, W. Smith, 4.
Nottingham/him—Lord Newark, 1, A. H.
Evre, 2.
Nottingham Town—D. P. Coke, 8, J.
Smith, 1.
Oakhampton— L. Wardell, A.Saville.
Orsord—Lord H. Moore, 1, If.Sloane.
Oxjordjhirc — Lord F. Spencer, 3, J.
Fane, 3.
Oxford City—V. Burton, 7, J.J.Lock-
. hart.
Oxford University—Sir W. Scott, 4, Hon.
C. Abbot, 4.
Pembrokeshire—Lc/d Milford, 6. '
Pembroke Town—H. Barlow, 8.
PenrJiyn—H. Swann, L, C. Lemon.
Peterborough—Hon. W. Elliot, 3, Dr. Lau
rence, 3.
Pctersield—H. Jolifft, 3, Hon. B. Grey.
Plymouth —Sir C. M. Pole, 2, T. Tyrr-
whitt, 4.
Plympton—Lord Castlereagh, 3, Hon.W.
Harbord.
Pontefrad — Viscount Polljngton, R. P.
Milncs, l.
Poole—J.Jeffcry, 3, G Garlands, 3, Sir
R. Bickerton^. ,
Portsmouth—Adm. Markham, 8, Sir T.
Miller, 1.
Preston—Lord,Stanley, 3, S. Horrocks, Q.
Queen borough—Right Hon. J. C. Villiera,
s. Hunt, 2.
Radnorshire—Walter Wilkins, 3.
Radnor Town—R. Price, 3.
Reading—C. S. Lefevre, 2,- J. Simeon, 1.
Retsord East—Gen Craufurd, 3, W. In-
glcby.
Richmond—A. Shakespeare, 3, Hon. C.
Dimdas, 2.
Ripen—*Hon. F. Robinson, 1, G. Gipps.
Rochester — J . Calcraft, 3, Sir t/b.
Thompson.
Romney, New—Lord Clonmell, Hon. ft
Ajhbumham.
Rutlandshire—Lord Henniker, 1, G. N.
Noel, 6.
Rye—Sir W. Elsord, hart. Stephen Rum-
bold Lii/hington,
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.

PBOCEEDlNOJIirilf THE FlRST SESSION- OF THE FOURTH PARLIAMENT OF

THE UNITED. KlSQQOM Of GlIKAT BRITAIN AND i«ELA«D, 1807.1 .
House oj> Commons, July 2. the misrepresentations on the subject. He
Mr. Adam moved for the warrant which also defended the late Ministry fbr appoint
graftted, a pension' to Lord Cullen, the ing two new Sheriffs far Scotland. This
Scotch Judge, as a means of doing away brought on a renewal of the chatges against
the
 1 80 7O Proceedings in the late Sejsion sf Parliament.
the late Ministry, for the numerous ap- 1,500,0001. were voted to pay off other
pointments and pensions they had distri- Exchequer Bills, issued under subsequent
buted. Acts. A number of miscellaneous s rv ices
Lord Bowick recriminated, and dared for the year were agreed to, among which
the present Ministers to bring home a fin- was one, granting 175,000/. for foreign
gle instance of peculation or improper use and other secret services,
of the public money against him or his Mr. H'hithead rose to sobtnit his opi-
friends. nion on the state of the Nation ; and had
The question was carried. begun to draw a gloomy pictur? of the
»1 present situation of the Country, when
July 3. Mr. D. Bnwne moved the standing order
In a Committee of Supply, the follow,- * for the exclusion of strangers, on which
ing votes were agreed to :—130,000 Sea- the galleries were immediately .cleared,
men andMarines—Payof ditto,3, 1-26,500/.. Mr. W. then continued his speech to a
—Victualling ditto, -3,211,000/.—Wear considerable length ; and concluded by
and tear of shipping, 5,070,000/.—Ord- moving that a Committee be appointed to
nance fof sea service, 422,500/. — Ordi- inquire into the State of the Nation. It,
nary of Navy, 1,135,434/. — Extra Navy, is said ihat a spirited answer was made by
2,134,003/. — The Hire of transports, Mr. Milnet, who insisted that the inquiry
1,500,000/.—Sick and wounded at home would be vague and delusive ; that it was
and abroad, 300,000/. , an attempt" t.^ censure the change of Ad^
The iSecre/arj at H'ar moved for 1 13,794 ministration, and embarrass the Govern-*
effective men, exclusive ofmilitia arid so- ment. l-h; therefore moved that the House
reign garrisons :-*-For prisoners of war, do adjourn.
5oo,ooo/. — For guards and garrisons, Sir A. I'igot answered Mr. Milnes ; and
4,051,623/.— i-Wccs in the plan'a'ions, was followed by Mr. H. Smith, and Mr,
2,1)00,143/.!—Reciuitintr Troops in India, Montagu.
25,314/. — Recruiting for Land Forces, Mr. IVithcrsorce alledged, that he would
S77.240/.— Staff, 100,520/.— Militia and give his suppoit to any specific subject of
fencibles, 2,403,644/.— Contingencies in inqu;ry ; but must withhold his affeiit to
ditto, 62,153/. — Cloathing ditto, ditto, the establishment of a Committee on prin-
157,227 /. — Supernumeraries, ditto, ciples that comprehend every subject of
34,41«/.i—-Allowances, rlitto,'221,200/.— consideration.
Increased ra>cs e>f subsistence, 467,273/.— ' Lord Milton supported the original mo-
Half-pay Officers, and land-feiviCe allow- tion ; as did also Mr. //. Smith, Lord
ance, 186,083/.— Allowance to Reduced Ifowick, and Mr. PV. Smith.
Officer?,- 5,533/.—British, forces in Ame- Mr. Pathtrjl, Mr. Crakes, ' tlie Chan~
rtca, 44,000/.—Chelsea and Kilmainham ce//or us.ihe Exchequer, and Mr. Caimingt
Hospitals, 4Q6,BM3/'.—Widows' Pensions, supported the Amendment. Aster a short
43,258/. — Foreign Corps, 832,541/.— reply, the House div;de !, — For the
Royal Military College, 22,175/.—Royal Amendment, 322.—Against it, 136.—-
Military Asylum, 21,227/. — Chaplains, Majority for Ministers, 186.
18,208/.— general Hospitals, 18,451/. — »
Barrack Department, 460,450/. — Ord- July 7 .
nance: — For land service, 2,278, ly?/. A Letter from Mr. Mills, entreating to
—Unprovided for in isos, 301,406/'.— be discharged horn cutlndv , that he mi»ht
Ditto, I806, 262,365/.—For Ireland this attend his duty in Parliament, was sub-
year, 470,-246/. , mitted to a Committee of Privikees".
1 , Lord Cochrane observed, that he should
July 6. not have brought forward the present mo-
A Petition was presented from Mr. tion relative to Members having P'aces
plliot, stating that G. G. Mills, Esq. M. P. and Pensions, had he not conceived it to
for St. Michael s, owed him upwards of be a shame for men of such a de-lcription
1000/. for which he had obtained a judg- to live in that way upon the people, who
ment, toprevent which Mr. M.hadbionght could. not support themselves. Had it
a writ of error. He therefore prayed nut been for the new plan of Finance sub-,
that.the prisoner might not be discharged mitted by the late Administration in rfie
by an order of that i louse. Several other last Parliament, he was apprehensive the
petitions were presented to the same new Administration would have been
effe6t. puzzled to have devised Ways and Means
The House resolved into a Committee for the year. He did not wish to deprive
of Supply, when resolutions were agreed Ministers of any patronage, "nor prevent
te>, ordering an issue of 1,0,500,000/. for them from rewarding long and arduous
paying off Exchequer Bills, for the service services in the Country's service. His id .a
of s^6, outslaneiinir, and unpaid-. Far- was, that no pension ought to be granted
thcr sums ot 4,500,000/. 3,000,000/. and to any man who had done nothing to
entitle
 764 Proceedings in the late
entitle him to it. He then moved, that
a Committee be appointed, toexamine and
inquire into all offices, pensions, places,
fees, emoluments, perquisites, and gra
tuities, held by any Member of the Mouse,
paid out of the public revenue of the
Country, or from aay fees from Courts of
Law ; or whether any such place, &x. be
held by the wife or child of ahy such
Member, whether in reversion or other-
wife. The motion was seconded by the
Hon. C. Juhnjlone.
Mr. Bankes opposed it, on the ground
that the institution of such a Committee
would imply that the House of Commons
■was corrupt in the extreme. There was
no precedent for such a motion to be dis
covered on the Journals. He thought
the motion unfair, as the Finance Com
mittee had just been revived.
Messrs. Ciauen, Whitl-read, J. Smith,
Lethbridge, IV. Smith, N. Calvcrt, Lord
//. Petty, and Mr. Sheridan, supported
the motion.
The House divided ; when there were
for it, 6] —against it, 00.
Mr. Perceval then moved, that it be an
instruction to the Committee on the Pub
lic Accounts, that they report all cafes of
Pensions, Offices, Fees, and Emoluments,
resulting to all Persons whatever, except
ing those in the Navy, Army, Excise, &c.
exceeding in amount the sum of 500i.
per annum,
Mr. N. Calcert objected to the motion,
because it was worded in an unusual way.
Lord Cochrane also resisted the motion,
and moved his original one by way of
amendment. Ou this a discussion of con
siderable length ensued ; in which the
amendment was supported by* Lord //.
Petty and Mr. If. Smith ; and Mr. ll'il-
lerfirce and Mr. Perceval spoke against it.
On this the House again divided : Ayes,
for the Amendment, 60—Noes 161.
July 8. 1 bad state, and want of stores ; and alluded
Mr. Grant presented a petition from the
East Ind:a Company, praying liberty to
raise money by the issue of bonds, instead
of increasing their capital stock.
Mr. S. Bum tie laid, the House would
recollect that iu 1782 a Bill was pallid,
for reducing the amount of the existing
Pension List to no,000/. a'year, and limit
ing in future its highest extent to 05,000/ ;
and would find, from the documents for
which he was about to move, that in no
year since that time had the amount of the
Pensions granted, exclusively ofthose £iven
with the consent of Parliament, amountad
to the full extent authorised by law. He
then moved for an account, shewing the
state of Pensions on the Civil List, exclu
sive of the allowances to Foreign Ministers,
up to April last. Ordered,
Sefton ef ParliametU. ■ TAug.
The Committee of Privileges reported,
that, in conformity to the precedents to
which they had referred, they were bound
to consider G. G. Mills, Esq. a Member
of Parliament, and to resolve that he is
entitled to Parliamentary Privilege.
July 9.
Mr. mill-read obtained leave to bring
in a Bill for establishing Parochial Schools
in England and Wales, for the education
of the children of the poor. Mr/ Whit-
bread then moved for leave to bring in a
Bill, " for the encouragement of industry
among' the labouring classes of society,
and for the relief and regulation of the
necessitous poor." Leave given.
Sir A. fVclUJley obtained leave for a
Bill to prevent more effectually insurrec
tions and disturbances in Ireland. There
was another part of the Bill, which would
go to prevent improper persons having
arms. The mode by which this would be
done would be, by obliging people to re
gister their arras, and by preventing the
forging of pikes.—After much accusation
and recrimination between the leading
Members on each fide of the House, rela
tive to the revival of religious animosities;
leave was given to bring in a Bill.
July 10. ' • • .
Lord, Cnrhrane laid, he had been in
duced to require several papers relative to
the naval service to be laid before the
House, in order to shew how much many
parts of that service were carried on to
the material injury of the Country. He
should first move, he said, for " Copies
of all letters and representations made
from the schooner Felix to Capt. Keates,
while commanding the squadron off Roche-
fort in 1805, respecting the state of that
vessel, and the state of the seamen on
board." He then read some letters from
Officers of that schooner, respecting her
to the Atalante, which was sent to sea,
making 20 inches of water in an hour.
He believed there were more men lost-on
the Rochefort station last winter, than
would be sufficient to the task of cutting
out the squadron at that port. The next
motion he should make woulS be, for
" An account of the number of ships and
men kept off the Port of Rochefort, speci
fying the time they had been out," with
a view to prove that our sailors were ex
posed to unnecessary severity. He conti
nued to descant on the system of economy
pursued under the late Administration,
particularly in the Naval Hospitals, whtrj
lint was not even allowed for dreffin;
wounds. The lint, he said, had been
cut off by Lord St. Vincent. -
- Sirtf, Hood defended Earl St. Vincent,
and
 I 8o'7j] ■'< . Proceedings in the late.SeJston.of Parliament. f6$
and said that the loss of the Atalante was In the Commons, the fame day, Mr'
through the carelessness of those who had Perceval brought down a Message from
the watch. his Majesty, stating his Majesty's anxiety-
Admiral Harvey also censured such a to settle upon the Queen, and her Royal
mode ot' attacking persons who held the Daughters, Frogmore house and grounds.
highest commands ; and declared that he In a Committee of Supply, Mr. Perceval
had never known any cause of complaint moved a sum of 703,710/. for Army Sefr
in the fleet he commanded. vices, for 1805-6, and not made good by
Admiral Markham considered the pre Parliament ; 4,050,OOOl. as Extraordinary.
sent motion as one that stabbed at the very Services for the Army for 1807 ; and
vitals of the Navy and its discipline. He 600,000;. as Extraordinaries for the Army
contended, that more had been done to in Ireland,. 1807.
wards supplying,the Navy with fresh pro In,a Committee of Ways and Means,
visions during the Administration of Lord Mr. Perceval moved the usual Resolutions
St. Vincent, than under any former Ad for a Lottery. The only difference be
ministration ; and that the Surgeons' ne tween this and former Lotteriesj he said,
cessaries had been cut off either by Lord was this, that it was not intended to give:
Melville or Lord Barham. so many Money-prizes, but Prizes of
The Chancellor of the Exchequer consi Tickets tobe drawn in subsequentLotteries.
dered the motions of Lorn C. as unneces
sary ; as the complaints ought to have July 14.
been made to the Board of Admiralty, in The Hon. C. John/tone moved for an
stead of making inflammatory and public account of all sums of money issued to
disclosures ; and no person could suspect Army Agents, on account of r.loathing.
.Lord St. Vincent of any intention to in Mr. Rose said, cloathing for the Army
jure the service. generally cost the country annnally about
Mr. IVindhdm agreed with the Chan 800,000(. and could any saving or retrench
cellor, as did Mr. R. Ward, Sir C. Pole, ment be pointed out, it would be extremely
and Mr. Sheridan. desirable. The motion was carried.
Lord Cochrartc replied ; after which
the question being called for, it was nega July 15.
tived with only one dissenting voice. Mr. Foster having moved for a variety
of sums as grants upon Irish Estimates, ,
House op Lords, July 13. and particularly for a grant for the support
Lord Sidmouth asked Lord Mavvkclbury of Maynooth College ; Mr. H. Hawkins
what measures Ministers meant to propose deprecated such an establishment ; and
for augmenting theregular force, and im said, that if the Irish Catholics wanted to
proving the general means of defence of educate their priests,, they should do it,
the country ? He made some observations like the Protestant Dissenters, at their own
on the important and critical state of pub expence.
lic affairs ; and was answered by Lord This drew some severe remarks from.
Hawke/lury, that a communication cn Mr. ffindhnm ; who asked, was it not
the subject would be laid before Parliament. better the Irisli Catholic Priesthood should
Lord Grenville laid, that, the present be men educated under the eye of Govern
being a crisis which called for the collec ment, and be of known character, than
tive energies of the Country, nothing was men who imbibed their education and.
so essential with that view, as the admis their political principles under the aus
sion of 4,000,000 of Catholics to a full pices of an enemy ? A desultory conver
participation of the British Constitution. sation followed, in which many -Members
He conjured the Parliament to turn its took a part ; and the motion was then
attention to this important measure. agreed to.
Lord Spencer took occasion to reprobate Mr. Hujkijjon, after a few observations, ,
the assertion that the late Ministers had moved that the amount of the War taxes, ,
appealed to Parliament against their Sove together with, the sum of J7J,i85i. the,
reign ; and said, that they would not have surplus of the grants of IS06, and of
mentioned the facts connected with their, 133,000/. the profits of the fourth Lottery
removal, if they had not found that some of the last year, mould be applied tb: the '
of their successors had laid before the pub- Supply of the year. Agreed to:
lick a false and garbled statement of the
transactions. July 16. ■ ■ - 'T
Lord Erjkine also said a few words on A long conversation took place for arid '
the necessity of Parliament being a check against the 2d reading of the India Bonds '
Upon Ministers 5 and Lord Limerick depre Bill ; which, on a division, was carried by '
cated all party discuffions at the present a majority of 35 to 10.
crisis. ' "jsa^-i
766 Parliamentary IntelRgence.—London Gazettes. [Aug.
July l". ble Manuscripts lately in the possession of
Mr. Jonathan Brundrett, Clerk to Mr. the deceased Marquis of Lanfdowne.
Lowten, was brought to the baT, on the
motion of Mr. Jefiery, for having delayed July 21. . ' ' '•
to fend off the writ for the election of Mr. Brundrett, who received the Poole
Members for Poole. Refusing to give writ, was called to the Bar, reprimanded
up the name of the person to whom he by the Speaker, and discharged.
had given the writ ; on the motion of the Sir 7*. Turlon moved for documents
Chancellor us the Exchequer, he was com connected with the treatment of the Poly-
mitted to Newgate. gars, to ascertain whether some reform
'In a Committee of Supply, 4,02if. wore could .not be applied to the dreadful system;
voted for the purchase of the very valua so long a6ted upon in India. Agreed to*
INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.
AdmiraUy-nffiee, Aug. 15. A Letter from troops on the beach. J beg leave to
from Lord Gardner (in which he .strongly inclose a list of the vessels captures! this
recommends (hat meritorious officer Capt. morning by the boats of the Hazard,
Dilkes) introduces the following : Conflict, Growler, and Colpoys, with an
H. M. sloop. Hazard, off the PertiiL*, account of the f uemy's vessels that li ne
B'etun, July -27- been destroyed by the Hazard's and oiher
Snt, I have the satisfaction to inform boats in company, since the 1st of April
you, that at day-light this morning sixteen last, CHARir.S DiLKES,
of the enemy's vessels were discovered in French I efftU taken on the muramg of
the entrance of the Pertuis, making to the July 27. -;
Eastward. It being nearly calm, and no Chaffe-Murces.—Les Deux Amis, armed
chance of the stiips closing them, I made with two jour pounders.—Les Trois Frere
a signal for boats to chafe, which was Horaces, armed with four swivels—La
obeyed with the greatest alacrity by the Veronique, laden with wheat—Le Sans
brjgs you honoured me with placing under Pareil, Uden with wheat—La Marie Fran-
my command. The boats succeeded in coise, in ballast— La Marie Looise in baU
capturing nine chafse-marees, two of them last—La Bonne Janton, in ballast—Le
bearing pendants, and armedwith two four- Pascal, in ballast—Le Galiile, in ballast—
pounders, and four swivels ; the crews of Name unknown,sunk by tbcenemy,'to pre-
the whole having taken to their boats, and ventfallingintcour hands—Name unknown,
escaped to the shore with all their papers : armed with 6 guns, run on shore in the surf.
the tenth vessel was scuttled by the enemy, VrffeU taken and destroyed between April I
and sunk just as the boats were taking pos aud June 10.
session; the remaining six were driven on Sloops.—La RossUs and Le Jeune Ma
shore, and a very heavy swell letting in, rie.
1 have hopes they will all btslgc. I feel Chaffe-Xarect.— La Petit Marie—Le Pa-
additional pleasure in this service having triot— La Marianne.—La Belle Louise Jose
been performed without any of the brave phine—La Marie Francoiie—Name un
fellows employed in the boats being hurt, known, sunk by the batteries afier being
though under a heavy fire of musketry taken possession of. C. Dilkes.

ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN OCCURRENCES.

EIGHTY-SEVENTH BULLETIN f>F THE distance, took leave of each otherwith the
GRAND ARMY-. greatest cordiality, at three o'clock in the
Konigslrrg, July 12.—" The Em perors afternoon of the oth.—The ratification of
of France and Russia, after 20 days resi the Treaty of Peace between France and
dence at Tilsit, where the Imperial Palaces Russia, were exchanged at Tilsit »u the
were in the fame street, and at no great gth *. The ratification of the Trea:y of
* By the peace of Tilsit the Prussian Monarchy has been diminished nearly one-half.
Instead of ten millions of inhabitants, not more than five now remain under the Prussian
Sceptre, and the Revenue, which formerly amounted to forty millions of dollars, has
been decreased in a still greater proportion ; since the ceded Provinces are exactly.those
Which are the richest and the most fertile, and on whose improvement many millions
have heretofore been expended. Almost all that Prussia gained by the partition oi Po
land is again wrested from her. Saxony, the late confederate of Prussia, by compulsion,
bat received these Provinces : and Russia, the most powerful ally of the latter, has been
rounded by territory, containing a population of 200,000 fouls. The following is a
fUterucnt of the losses ef Prussia, by the peace of Tilsit :
3 fs'ejtph'aiian
 1807.] Abstract os Foreign Occurrences. 767
Peace between France and Prussia will be rice witH which that Cabinet is tormented.
exchangedherethis day.—After such events PRUSSIA,
as these, one cannot but smile when the "riie Hamburgh Papers have published
great English Expedition is mentioned, the following Farewell Address from the
and at the new frenzy which animates the King of Prussia to, the inhabitants of his
King of Sweden. Besides, we may remark provinces ceded by the Treaty os' -Tilsit.
that the Army of Observation, between The Proclamation is as follows : " You
the Elbe and the Oder is 70,000 strong, are acquainted, beloved inhabitants of
exclusive of the Grand Army, without in faithful provinces, territories, and towns,
cluding the Spanish divisions, which are with my sentiments, and with the events
now upon the Oder also. It was, there of last year. My arms succumbed under
fore, necessary for England to have brought the pressure of misfortunes ; the exertions
her whole ferce together, her soldiers, her of the. last remains of my army proved
volunteers, fencibles, &c. in order to have fruitless. Forced back to the outermost
made-a diversion of any interest. But when borders of the Empire, and even my pow
we take into our account, that England, erful Ally having judged it necessary to
under the present circumstances, has sent conclude an armistice and peace, nothing
6000 men to Egypt only to be slaughtered remained for me, bur the wish to restore
by the Arabians, and 7000 men to the tranquillity to my country, after the cata
Spanish Weft Indies, we can alone feel mites of war. Peace was to be concluded,
■sentiments of pity for the extravagant ava as circumstances dictated ; the most pain-
ff-'eftphalian Pojfejfions.
German sq. miles. Inhabitants.,
County of Mark, with Essen, Werden, and Lippstadt 51 148,000
Principality of Minden- '. 18} 70,363
County of Ravensberg .• 16s 89,938
Lingen and Tecklenberg ..13 46,000
Cleve, on th*German fide of the Rhine .'ao| 54,0oo
Principality of East Frieslaud.. 56^ 119,500
.. Munfter 4g 127,000
. , Paderborn 50 yS,soo
It is scarcely necessary to observe, that some of the Westphalian possessions were
ceded at an earlier period, and that no compensation will be now made for them.
Pojfejfions in Lewer Saxony.
German sq. miles. Inhabitants.
Magdeburg, with that part of the Duchy on the left bank of the Elbe,
Halle, &c 5* ) 60,000
County of Mansfeld 10 27,000
Principality of Halberstadt 26£ 101,000
County of Hohenstein 27,000
Territory of Quedlinburg li' 13,400
Principality of Hildestieim and Goslar 40 114,000
Possessions in Upper Saxony.
The Old Mark, with Stendal, &c. 62 lt4;ooo
Circle of Kotbus, in Lower Lusatia I7i 33,266
Principality of Erfurt ...13 41,700
County of'Untergleichen, with Blankenhain 3 9,300
■Principality of Eichsfeld 28 84,000
County of Muhlhausen 4 16,000
^_ Nordhausen f 8,600
Previous Cejjiom.
Anspach 62i 270,000
Bayreuth 57$ 223,000
Neufchatel >°5 47,600
Total 6so 2,042,261
To this we have still to add the great loss of territory in Poland, with Warsaw, Dant-
zic, Thorn, Posen, &c. Since 1772, Prussia had acquired in her Polissi territories
upwards of three millions of inhabitants. Of these she now loses more than 200O
square miles, and two and a half millions of inhabitants. The King of Saxony has
more territory, and more subjects, as Duke of Warsaw, than as King. While the fun
Gf Saxony is thus rising with new splendour, two of the most antient German Princely
Houses, those of the Catti and Guelphs, have fallen, and Pensions are assigned to their
Princes. The application of Alexander alone has laved the two Duchies, whose Sove
reigns are allied to him by marriage : Mecklenburg Schwerin, and Saie Caburg.
 768 Treaty of Peace between France and Russia. -[Aug.
sul sacrifices were required^of myself and condition in which thole fortresses, cita
my house. What ages and worthy an dels, castles', and strong holds may be at
cestors, conventions, love and confidence present; also, in addition to the above, the
had united, was to be levered. My efforts, city and citadel of Graudentz.—V. Those
the exertions of all who belonged to me, Provinces, winch on 1st January, 1772,
were used in vain. Fate ordains—a father foimcd a part of the kingdom of Poland,
parts with his children'.—I release you and have lince, at different times, bee.n
from all allegiance to my person and my subjected to Prussia, (hall become the pos
' house. My most ardent wishes for your session of the King of Saxony, with power
prosperity attend yovi to your new Sove of possession and sovereignty, under the
reign: be to him what you were to me. title of the Duchy of Warsaw.—VI. The
No fate, no power, can efface in my bo- Ciiy of Dantzic, with a territory of two
liom, and in the mind of my family, the leagues round the fame, is restored to her
remembrance of you. former independence.—VII. For a com
Fbedkric William, munication betwixt Saxony and the Duchy
" Memel, July 24, iso?." of Warsaw, the King of Saxony Is to have
One of the principal injuries which the the free use of a military road through the
King of Prussia will sustain by the war States of the King of Prussia,—VIII. The
which has deprived him io great a portion navigation of the Vistula to be free.—IX.
cf his territories, is the loss ol the Salt In Older to establish a natural boundary
Works, in the province
which v formerly supplied cfnear the whole between
Magdeburgh, Russia and the Duchy of Warsaw,
the territory between the present confine*
of his kingdom with that necessary at tide. of Russia from the Bug to the mouth of
RUSSIAN TREATY. the I.assona, shall extend in a line from
The Treaties between Russia, Prussia, the mouth of the Lassona along the towing
and France, were, on the 1 1th, presented path of the said river; and that of the
by Cambaccres to the French Senate. . The Bobra, up to its mouth ; that of the Narew
following are the principal articles of the from the mouth of that river as far as Su-
Treaty with Russia, which was negotiated radiz ; from Lissa to its source near the
by Talleyrand on the part of France, and village of Mien; from this village to Nut-
Prince Kourakin and Prince Dimitry I..a- zeck, and trom NuLzeck to the. mouth.of
banoff Von Rostoff, on the. part of Russia: that river beyond Nurr ; and, finally, along
IV. Out of esteem for the Emperor of the towing path of the Bug upwards, to
all the Kussias, the Emperor Napoleon extend as far as the present frontiers of
wishes that all the countries, towns, and Russia. This territory is for ever united
territory, conquered hum the King of to the Empire of Russia.—X. No person
Prussia, should be restored ; namely, that ssiall be molested in consequence of any
part ot the Duchy o! Magdeburg, situated part, political or military, which he may
on the right bank of the Rhine ; the Mark have taken in the- events of the present
ofPrignitz; the Uker Mark ; the Middle war.—XII. The Dukes of Saxc Cobourg,
and New Mark of Brandenburg, with the Oldenburg and Mecklenburg Schwetin,
exception of the Circle of Kotbuss, in . ssiall each of them be restored to the com
Lower Alsace; the Duchy of Pomerania; plete and quiet possession of their estates ;
Upper, Lower,' and New Silesia, and the but the ports in the Duchies of Oldinburg
County of Glatz ; that part of the District and Mecklenburg ssiall remain in posses
of the Netze, which is li.tuatcd to the sion of French garrisons till the Definitive
Northward of the road of Driesen and Treaty ssiall be signed, between France and
SehneideiiHihl ; and to ssie Northward of England.-—XIII. His Majejty the Emperor
a iine drawn from Schneidcmuhl through Napoleon accepts of the mediation ofthe Em
Waldau to the Vistula, and extending . peror of all the Ritjjius, in order to negotiate
along the frontier of the circle of Brotn- and conclude a Definitive Treaty ofPeace fe-i
berg; and the navigation of the river Netze tween France and England; hswevtr, only
and of the canal of Biomberg, from Drie- . upon condition thai this mediation shall be
fen to the Vistula.and back, must remain accepted by England in one month after the
open and freeof ail tolls.; Pomerania;. the . exchange of the ratification oj the present
island of Nogat ; the country on the right Treaty. — XIV. Russia acknowledges his
bank of the Vistula, and ot .the. Nogat.to . Majesty Joseph Napoleon, Kingof Naples,
the Weft of Old Prussia, and to the North am) his Majesty Louis Napoleon, King
ward of the Circle of Culm; Ermeland. of Holland.—XV. The Emperor of Russia
Lastly, the Kingdom of Prussia, i.s it was acknowledges the Confederation of the
on the 1st of January, together with Rhine, and also promises, information
the fortresses of Spandau, Stettin, Custrin, being communicated to him on the part,
Glogau, Bflestau, Schweidnitz, Neisse, of the Fimperor Napoleon, to acknowledge
Brieg, Koscl, and Glatz, and in general all thole Sovereigns who may hereafter be
fortresses, citadels, catties, and strong holds come Members of the Confederation.—«
of the countries above named, in the fame XVI. The Emperor of all the Rutiias
te'des
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cedes the Lordship of Jever, in East Fries- with confi-d-'nce in his goodness, and re
land, to the Ring of Holland.—XVII. signation to his will."
The present Treaty of Peace (hall be actu Da.nlMc, July 11. General Rapp, go
ally binding, and in fores for his Majesty vernor of our city, proclaimed yesterday,
the Kinj; of Naples Joseph Napoleon ; his in presence of the whole Senate, and the
Alajefly Louis the King of Holland ; and most respectable inhabitants, the happy
,the Sovereigns of the Confederation of the news that the Emperor Napoleon has re^
Rhine, in alliance with the Emperor Na stored to our city its antient rights and
poleon. — XVIII. Russia also acknow privileges, as they were before 1772, and
ledges Prince J etome as King of Westpha prior to the occupation of Weft Prussia,
lia.—XIX. The Kingdom of Westphalia with a territory of about three miles in cir
. shall consist of the provinces ceded by the cumference, besides the Dantzic Werder,.
King of Prussia on the left bank of the four miles in length, and the Dantzic
Elbe, and other states at present in the Nchring, which is 11 miles long; that
possession of the Emperor Napoleon.—■ henceforth Dantzic is to be a free Hanse
XX. Russia engages to recognize the limits Town, and to have its own constitution
which Jlta.ll le determined by his Majesty and garrisonj—The Magistrates were at the
Vie Emperor Napoleon, in pursuance os the fame time released from their oath, and
Jriregoing Article. — XXI. All hostilities Commissioners appointed to determine,the
shalt cease between the Emperor of Russia frontiers. The river Vistula is to be free
and the Grand Seignior.—XXIII. The ofal! tolls throughout the whole kingdom
Emperor of all the Russias accepts the me " of Poland ; and the Prussian Eagles will be
diation of the Emperor of France for nego taken down in a few days. Our-Consti-
tiating a peace between the two powers.— tution will be exactly the fame as. before
XXV. The Emperor os the French, and the occupation by the Prussians.
the Emperor of all the Kujias, mutually DENMARK.
ensure to each other the integrity os their At the time of this part of our Maga
pojsefions, &c.—XXVI. Prisoners shall zine going to press, our Government was
be" rGilored in a" mass. — XXVII. The in hourly expectation of receiving dis
commercial relations between the French patches from Admiral Gambier, who has'
Empire, Italy, Naples, and Holland, shall been sent into the Baltic, to anticipate the
be replaced on the same footing as before supposed designs of our enemy to direct the
the war.—XXVIII. The ceremonial be naval force of Denmark against us.
tween the two Courts of theThuilieries and A private letter has been received, by a
Petersburg',! shuli be placed on the footing friend, from Gen. Macfarlane, who com
of complete equality and reciprocity. manded the troops that lately failed from
Done at Tilsit, 7th July (25th Hull, under convoy of the Agamemnon,
June), 1807." . which is dated from off the Scaw, o» the
The Russian official account of the bat 16th instant. This letter states, that on.
tle of Friedland states the loss of the Ruf that day a Swedish vessel, bound to Li
fians, in killed and wounded, at 10,000 verpool, passed through this division of
men. the expedition, and informed the General,
The Emperor Alexander, the Grand u that ourforces were theiubombarding Co-*
Duke Constantine, Prince Kurakin, and pehhagcu; <i,hat the troops were landed, and
Geneial Bennigfen, have allowed their that all was going on very well." Report
names to be placed in the list of Buona further states, " that Cronterg Castle has
parte's Members of the Legion of Honour. been taken, aud that Copenhagen, and the
POLAND. whole of the Danish Jleet, surrendered on
The Poles were so dissatisfied at the thclfth."
conduct of Buonaparte, who had pro The Accounts from Holland bring in
mised to restore them as a Nation, that the telligence from Copenhagen down to the
General Directory at Warsaw published a lSth ; at which time the Danes were
Proclamation to the people, entreating Continuing their hostile preparations with
them to wait without murmuring.—"De the utmost activity ; and All the Eng
spise (says the President) all the groundless lish in' Denmark HAD BEEN ARRESTED,
reports which are spread by the rooted AND THEIR PnOPERTi* SEIZED.
enemies of your country. The magna Our Government, , as a matter of course,
nimity of the great Hero will be yourægis. arid of indispensable necessity, has issued
Our destiny cannot be decided at the pre orders " for detaining all Danish vessels in
sent moment ; an impenetrable veil will our ports, and for bringing in all strips
cover it for a season. Let us venerate the .and vessels of that description that may be
sublime wisdom of him who commands met with at sea by qur cruizers." This
half the world. Despair ought not to order has already been very generally
take jjfcsscsiton of your bosoms; be con- acted upon, and a number of Danrs de- ,
slant in your cbedieuce, and be penetrated lamed and captured in different directions.
Gent. Mao. August, 180'- An
10
 Xbft'racl os Foreign Occurrences. [Aug.
An improved Life-boat has been made System with the people of Spain1, Holland;
rn Denmark, by ■ Captain Selling, and Switzerland, and Italy. Our new rela
has been sent to Petersburg, where many tions with Russia are founded upon the re*
ire to be constructed upon the same ciprocal respect of two great nations. Ill
model, for supplying the different ports every thing I have done, I have only had-
•f Russia. the happiness of my people in view—that
SWEDEN. has always been in my eyes far dearer to
We find that the spirits of the French "me than my own renown. I with for
^eforeStralsundhave received aconfiderable peace by sea. No irritation shall ever '
•heck from the bravery of the garrison, have any influence on my decisions with,
tfho have totally routed the enemy in all respect to that object. I cannot be irri
their.late sorties. Private accounts, which tated against a nation which is the sport
rnay be relied on, estimate the loss of the and the victim of the parties that devour it,
Trench, since the commencement of the and which is misled, as well with rel'peii
Blockade, at 3000 men, in killed, wounded, to its own affairs as to those of its neigh
and prisoners. Amongst the wounded are bours. But, whatever may be the termi
the chief engineers who directed the liege, nation which Providence has decreed the
General Lorson and Colonel Montfort: maritime war shall have, my people will
the former is said to have lost his right always find" me the fame, and I shall al
arm. Large bodies of troops were arriving ways find them worthy of me. French
ihily from Holland to assist in the siege. men, your conduct in these times toward*
His Swedish Majesty, we are confidently your Emperor, who was more than 500
..assured, is resolved that this fortress shall leagues distant from you, has increased
■ot be surrendered to the French ; but, if my respect, and the idea I had formed of
the garrison should be reduced to the last your character. I have felt myself proud
extremity, they have received instructions to be the fiist among you. The proofs
to blow up the works. On this account, of attachment which you have given me,
• corps of miners have been ordered thither while, during ten months of absence and
jfrpm Dalecarlia. His Majesty displays un danger, I was ever present to your thoughts,-
common activity, and is present almost have constantly awakened in me the live
•very hour on the ramparts. liest sensations. All my solicitudes—all
FRANCE. that related even to the safety of my per
Bnonaparte arrived at St. Cloud in the son, was only interesting to me, on ac
morning of the 27th of July. count of the part you took in them, and
buonaparte's spet-ch. the important influence which they might
Paru, Aug. 17. The meeting ef the produce on your future destiny—You ate a
legislative Body, was s< 'emnly opened good and a greet people. I have contrived
yesterday with the following speech : various means for simplifying and perfect
" gentlemen, the deputies or the ing our Institutions. The nation has ex
LEGISLATIVE BODVi GENTLEMEN', perienced the happiest effects from the es
THE MEMBERS OF THE TRIBUNATE, tablishment Of the Legion of Honour. . I
AND OT MY COUNCIL OF STATE. have distributed various Imperial Titles,
" Since your last meeting, new wars, in order to give a new lustre to the most
»ew triumphs^ and new ti -ies of peace, distinguished of my subjects, to honour
, have changed the aspect of she political extraordinary services by extraordinary re
relations of Europe. The House of Bran wards, and at once to prevent the return
denburg, which was the first to combine of all feudal titles, which are incompatible
against our Independence, isindehted, for with our Constitution. The accounts of
Hill being permitted to reign, to the fin- my Ministers of Finance, and of the Pub
cere friendship with which the powerful lic Treasury, will make known to you the
Emperor of the North has inspired me. prosperous state of our finances. My peo
A French Prince shall reign on the Elbe. ple will fee the contributions upon landed
He will know how to make the interests of property considerably diminished. My
his new subjects form the first and most Minister of the Interior will give you an
sacred of hit duties.—TheHout'e of Saxony account of the public works which are be
has recovered the independence which gun or finished ; but those which may still
it lost fifty years ago.—The people of the be expected are much more considerable,
Dukedom of Warsaw, and of the town of since it is my determination that in. all
D.mzie, are again in possession of their parts of the Empire, even in the smallest
eoqhtiy, and have obtained their rights, . hamlet, the comforts of the citizens, an*
.—AH thenations concur in rejoicing, th the value of the lands, shall be increased,
the pernicious influence wl.urh England by the developement of that universal sys
•xercised over the Continent is for ever tern of improvement which I have formed '
destroyed. France is united by the Laws Gentlemen, Deputies of the Legislative?
•f the Confederacy of the Khuie Vfith the Body, your assistance in the accomplish
(Hiople of Germany, and by our Federative ment of that great object will beaecefliir/--
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to me, and I have a right to reckon, upon the Chesaj»ake, which she returned by six
that alii stance with confidence." or seven scattering shots, ant} on receiving a
August H.—A change has taken place second broadside, struck her colours. Oo,
in the French Ministry! , The Prince of examination, the deserters, to the number
Benevento (Talleyrand), Minister of Fo of five or fix, were found—tlje very men
reign Affairs, is promoted to the dignity of who had been demanded. In this short
Vice Grand Editor of 'he Empire. The rencontre, the Chesapeake had fix- men
Administration of the Department of fo killed and 21 wounded, and has returned
reign Affairs is transferred to M. Cham- to port much shattered.
pagny, the Minister of the Interior, who The inhabitants of Norfolk and other,
is to be succeeded by M, Cretel, Member places have since entered into some violent
of . the Council Of State. The Prince of resolutions, and have prohibited all inter
Neufchatel (Berthier) is made Vice Con course with our ships, and all supplies of
stable. . waterand provisions.
*Tbe countries which are intended to By Thomas Jefferson, President of the
form the new Kingdom of Westphalia, are United States.—A PROCLAMATION.
Magdeburgh and the Old Mark of Bran- During the wars which for some time
rlenburgh, on this side the Elbe, Halle, have unhappily prevailed among the
Hclfc Casscl, Gottingen, Grubenhagen, Powers of Europe, the United States of
and other parts of Hanover, Hildefheim, America, firm in their principles of peace,
Munster, Paderborn, Omaburgh, Goilar have endeavoured by justice, by a regular
on the Rhine, and a great number of other discharge of all their national and social
districts. duties, and by every friendly office their
Marshal Bcffieris has been sent to Stut- situation has admitted, to maintain, with
gard to marry, by proxy, the princess Ca all the Belligerents, their accustomed re
therine of Wirtemberg, and conduit her lations of friendship, hospitality, and com
to Paris, to attend the Coronation of her mercial intercourse.
husband, Taking no part in the questions which
AMERICA. animate these Powers against each other,
Dispatches from Admiral Berkeley, have nor permitting themselves to entertain a
announced an action between the Leopard wish but for the general restoration of
and American frigate Chesapeake.-r-The Peace, they have observed with good
following particulars are given in a Letter faith the neutrality they assumed ; and
from Halifax, dated July 5.—The Chesa they believe that no instance of a de
peake, of 44 guns, Commodore Barren, parture from its duties can be justly im
was known to have several deserters from puted to them by any nation. A free use
our ship lying off Norfolk (watching the of -their harbours and waters, the means
French) on-board her ; representations of of refitting and refreshment, of succour to
this fa6t had Keen made, to the American their sick and suffering, have, at all
Secretary, to which no satisfactory answers times, and on equal principles, been ex
were given. Captain Douglas, knowing the tended to all ; and this too amidst a con
Chesapeake was about to fail for the Medi stant recurrence of acts of insubordination
terranean, ordert;! the Leopard to cruize to the laws, of violence to the persons,
off the Capes, to examine her for deserters. and of trespasses on the property, of our
Accordingly, when Captain Humphreys citizens, committed by officers of one of
came up with the Chesapeake on the 23d the Belligerent Parties received among us
of June, he sent a boat with advice of the In truth, these abuses of the laws of'hos-
information he had of the deserters, and. pttality have, with few exceptions, be
his order* to search for them. Commodore come habitual to the Commanders of the
B. refusing the search, Capt. H. fired seve British Armed Vessels hovering on our
ral shot, which the other paying no atten coasts, and frequenting our harbours.
tion to, he at length fired a broadside into They have been the subject of repeated
* The-order of Admiral Berkeley to search the American frigate appears to have been
dictated by a delicate caution, and to have enjoined, nothing which was not fully justi
fied by the circumstances of the cafe. No recourse was had to compulsion, until all
conciliatory 'measures had tailed. The deserters from the squadron in the Chesapeake
were not only received on-board the American frigate, but paraded through4 the streets
of Norfolk, in figh'of the British Officers, and under the protection of the Magistrates
and the Officer who recruited for that very ship on-board of which they were found.
They were demanded by the British Consul, as Well as by the Captains of the ships from
which they had'd.-lerted, and were refused to he given up. The search was not to be
made unless ihc Chesapeake was found without the limits. The liberty of search was
moreover to-jbe- reciprocals. Ttie Captains of our cruizc.rs were instructed to muster
their crews, and permit the jCaptain of the American frigate to search for any deserters
from thett service.
repre*
772 Proclamation os the President of the United States. [Aug,
representations to their Government. As vessels hearing commijions under the Go
surance*- have beer, given that proper or vernment of Great Britain, now ivithin the
ders tli told restrain them within the limit harbours or waters of the United States, im
of the r ghts.and of the respect due to a mediately and without any delay to depart
friendly Nation ; but thole orders and as- from tie fame ,- and interdicting the en
sutancis him -en without effect ; arid trance of all the Jaid harbours and waters
no nftanceof ,,uti.shmcnt for past wrongs to the said armed vessels, and to all o'hers
has I'. r place. bearing commissions under the authority of
At length, a deed, transcending all we the British Government.
hav '. " uit i if n or suffered, brings the And if theJaid vrjfcls, or any of them,
pub;;./'.'.: 11 ;lity to a serious crisis, and shallfail so depart as aforesaid j or is they,
our foru.;....iice to a neceslary pttuse. A or any others, so interdicted,shall hcrt'aj'tei
frigate of the United Slates, trusting to a enter the harbours or waters aforesaid, / do
stats of peace, and leaving her harbour on in that cafeforbid alt intercourse with them,
a distant service, has been surprised and or any of them, their ojjicers, or crews, and
attacked by a British vessel of superior do prohibit all supplies and aid from being
force, one of a squadron then lying in our fam\shcd t(* them, or any of them.
waters, and covering the transaction, and Aud 1 do declare, and make known,
has been disabled from service, with the that if any person from or within the ju-
loss of a number of men killed and risdictional limits of the United States
wounded. shall afford any aid to any such vessel,
This enormity was not only without contrary to the prohibition contained in
provocation or justifiable ca'uie, but was this Proclamation, either in repairing any
committed with the avowed purpose of such vessel, or in furnishing her, her of
taking by force, from a ship of war of the ficers, or crew, with supplies of any kind,,
United States, a part of her crew \ and, or in any manner whatsoever ; or if any
that no circumstance might be wanting 1'ilot shall assist in navigating ar.y of the
to maik its character, it had been previ said armed vessels, unless it be for the pur
ously ascertained tint the seamen de pose of carrying them, in the first instance,
manded were native citizen? ot rhe United beyond the limits and jurisdiction of the
States. Having effected his purpose, lie United States, or unless it be in the cafe,
returned to anchor with his squadron of a veflel forced by distress, or charged
within our jurisdiction. Hospitality under with public dispatches, as hereinafter pro*
such circumstances ceases to be a duty ; vlded for, such person or persons shall,
and a continuance of it, with such un- on conviction, suffer all the pains and pe
Controulcd abuses, would tend only, by nalties by the* laws provided for such
multiplying injuries and irritations, to offences.
bring on a rupture between the two na And I do hereby enjoin and require all
tions. This extteme resort is equally op persons bearing offices; civil or military, -
posed to the interests of both, as it is to within or under the authority of the
assurances cf the trust friendly dispositions United States, and all others, citizens or
on the p*t of 'he Btitish Government, in inhabitants thereof, with vigilance and
the midst of which this outrage has been promptitude to exert their respective au
committed. In this light the subject.can thorities, and to be aiding and assisting to
not hut present itself to that Government, the carrying this Proclamation, and every
and strengthen the motives t® an honour part thereof, into full effect.
able reparation of the wrong which has Provided nevertheless, that if any such
been done, and to that effectual controul vessels sliall be forced into the harbours or
of its Naval, Commanders, which alone waters of the United States, by distress,
can justify the Government of the United by the dangers of the sea, or the' pursuit
Siatis in the exercise of those hospitalities of an enemy, or sliall enter them with
it is now constrained to discontinue. dispatches or business from their Govern
In consideration of these circumstances, ment, or shall be a public packet for the
and of the light of c,erv Nation to regu conveyance of letters and dispatches, the
late its own police, to provide' for its Commanding Officer immediately report
peace, and for the Lfeiy of its citizens, ing his vessel to the Collector of the Dis
aud consequently to refuse the admission trict, stating the object or causes of enter
of armed vessels into its harbours or ing the laid harbours or waters, and con
waters, either in such numbers or of forming himself to the regulations in that
■filth description as are ii consistent with cafe prescribed under the authority of the
these, or with the maintenance of the laws, sliall be allowed the benefit of such
authority os the laws ; 1 hare thought regulations respecting repairs, supply, stay,
proper, in pursu .'ice of the authorities intercourse, and depatture, as shall be per
specially given by law, to issue this ray mitted under the same authority.
^reclamation, hereby reijuirint; all armed In testimony whereof, I have caused
the
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the seal of the United States to be' affixed ?rivateers are fitting out at New York, Phil
to these presents, and signed the lame. adelphia, Baltimore, &c. ; but, notwith
Given at the City of Washington, July standing these hostile demonstrations, the
2, in the year of our Lord 180*', and prevalent opinion at the feat of Govern
of the sovereignty and independence ment was, that the differences between
of the United Slates the 3 i it. , the two countries would be amicably ad
Ta. J K.I'FERSON. justed.
By the President, James Mqdil'on, Capt. Mather, of the Æolus, arrived at
Secretary of State." New York on the 13th -'|u!y from Canton,
American Papers of the 17th ult. give and gave information that a British 64 and
hopes that an accommodation of the late 10 Company's (hips were at Canton when
disagreeable occurrence may be expected. he left that place. Some of the British
:—A person, deputed by the Magistracy of seamen had killed a Chinese ; and the Go
Norfolk, waited upon Commodore Doug vernment had demanded an Englishman
las, to obtain some explanation from h;rn from one of ihe ships, which was refused ;
on the subject of a letter of his to the Mayor in consequence of which, the Chinese had
of that town, and to ascertain whether it prohibited goods from being carried on
was his intention to recur to hostile pro board the ships.
ceedings. The answer of Capt. Douglas ASIA.
was temperate and conciliating. He ad A Letter has been received from Canr
mitted the right of the Americans to with ton; which states, that a Portuguese Mis
hold supplies, and cutoff a general inter sionary had lately Seen put to death, at
course between the shore and the squadron Pc-kin, by the populace, under a suspicion
under his command; but suggested . ttfc of having betrayed the secrets of some of
propriety of being allowed a f ee commu the principal manufactories, to which he
nication with the received and accredited had gained access under the pretence of
Agents of the British Government, The disseminating his religious doctrines.
feport-of the person deputed is drawn up Pitch and tar, of very superior quality to
with great candour ; and states that Cap any obtained in Europe or America, are
tain Douglas proposed to continue a cor- produced' frern the Teak forests on the
fospond.-nce with the Mayor of Norfolk, coast of Midabar. Orders have been sent
ia the hope of effecting a friendly inter to Bombay to procure the largestpoffible
course.—The reports respecting the bom quantities, and to afford encouragement
bardment of Norfolk, so generally circu for securing a regular supply. ;
lated in the United States, are wholly Some iron mines have been discovered
pnfounded.—Commodore D disclaims any in the Upper Provinces of Hindostan. •
intention of resorting to measures of a hos
tile character. CouNTity News.
A Capt. Weymouth, of the Weymouth • July 24. A tremendous storm of thun
schooner, who arrived at New York on der and lightning,' accompanied with tor-
»-*iie lath from Richmond, reported that tents of rain, occurred at- Boltoti. The
he was boarded on the preceding evening, electric fire killed a 'poor man sitting at
"off Cape Henry, by a boat from the Me- his loom at Dixon's Green. ■ '
Iampus (which frigate and the Triumph 'July -24. Several severe storms of thun
74, had dropped down two days before) ; der aud lightning, accompanied with
they asked for some poultry, which Capt. heavy rain, .have been experienced near
W. was obliged to refuse giving them. Manchester. This day the tempest wasi
They stated that they were in much want awful in the extreme; two men were
of fresh provisions ; that they" had plenty killed at Stock-part by the lightning. '
of water and salt provisions ; and that the At Brijlincourt, ca. Derby, a labouring
ships' crews were getting the scurvy. On- man, aged 70,, who had taken (heifer un
Capt. Weymonth's inquiring what they der a tree, was killed by lightning. At
had done with the seamen taken out of Uarthitt, near Sheffield, the lightning
the Chesapeake, and if they were English struck the church steeple, shattered the
men, the officer answered, that they were Western windows, and threw down four
distributed among the fleet, and that they men and a boy who were mounting the
were Americans ; but they had received belfry stairs: they have all ■ recovered.
the King's bounty, and signed the ship's The electric fluid set fire to a house neat
papers in England ; that they had run off Ruihin', and burnt it down.
with the Captain's pinnace, but had no July 26. This afternoon three young
officer in the boat as has been reported. men of Hull, who sailed on a pleasurable
The people in the principal towns con excursion to the Holdernel's coas% were,
tinue their public meetings, and publtfh by the sudden upsetting of the boat,
a variety of outrageous resolutions' against plunged into the Humber, and drowned.
the conduct of our naval officers on their July 30. The munificent prize of 5eol,
coast ; and we hear that great numbers of propose! to the University of Oxford
the
774 Intelligence from various P«r/s of the Country.
the Rey. Claudius Buchanan, P. D. Vice-
President of the College of Fort WJliam,
in Bengal, for the best composition of
English prose, on several subjects relating
to the propagating of Christianity in the
East, has been adjudged to the Rev.- Hugh
Pearson, M. A. of St. John's College.
Aug. 2. At Newton Stewart, in Gallo
way, a girl, aged 12, left her borne this
morning, and scrambling for wild berries
among the bushes which overhang the
Fell (one of the deepest and most roman
tic pools in Cree), tumbled into the river.,
and was drowned.
Aug. 7. A dreadful sire broke out this
morning early at the house of Mr. Rogers,
an. opulent farmer at Challon, Ihuits,
Mrs. Rogers, who was bedridden, fell a
victim to the flames, as did also her son, aped
18, whose anxiety to save a parent induced
him to (top with her until the staircase fell
in with him as he was escaping.
Aug. 7. Some persons who were lately
engaged in digging on Qctfiing common
discovered a perfect, hum iu skeleton about
JO inches below the surface, ami near it an
earthen pot containing ~H2 Roman coins,
of which the greatest part are now in the
possession of Mr. Henry Smith, of Deep
ing St. James's. A few of the coins which
Mr. Smith has presented to Messrs. Ntw-
r.omb and Son, the printers of the Lin
coln, Rutland, and Stamford Journal,
are those of Augustus, Tiberius, and the
first Claudius ; but, the irregularity of the
coins towards the exergue inal.es it diffi
cult to determine. Around the head
of one of the plainest, is the following
inscription :
IMP. C. VICTOR1NVS F *V«.
Aug- 8. This day Earl Gower, eldest
foil of the Marquis of Stafford, attained
bis 2lst year. At Trenthum Halt, the fa
mily scat in Staffordshire, there was a re»-
gular course of the most liberal entertain
ments. All the persons of distinction
found that part of the country were in
cited ; and many of them s pent the day in
the enjoyment of the most princely hospi
tality. Several of the tenantry also dined
in the housej. and the populace were
treated with three bullocks and 18 sheep,
which were roasted whole, and 16 bogs-
heads of beer upon the lawn. At flight
there were fire-works, and a dance amongst
the Country folks upon the Mrs; and luo
persons remained lo supper. The weather
vas extremely favourable ; and the com
pany parted at a late hour, highly delight
ed with the pleasures of the festive diy.
Aug. 1.3. A tremendous whirlwind
look place this day at the high end of
Chalk Quarries, near Curdew, Cumber-
lantl. Its excessive violence caused the
trees to hend so, that their tops almost
touched the ground} The thatch was
[Aug,
torn off the hpuscs» and carried to a great
distance. The people were obliged to
throw themselves upon the ground, and
hold by shrubs,, &e.
Aug- 1.3. At Rothefay there was a very
violent storm this day. The rain poured
down in torrents, accompanied by fre
quent flashes of lightning and loud peals
of thunder, one of which broke with a
tremendous crash on a house above the
Cross, rent the door-post, and broke some
slates on the roof.—At Ilcxham a young
man, whilst glaring a window, was be*
numbed and blinded by the lightning ;
but there are hopes of his recovery. It
was succeeded by torrents of rain, which
have done considerable damage.
Aug. 14. At Uurlej'ton, Norfolk, the
rain fell very heavily for half an hour, and
was succeeded by awful thunder and
lightning, which continued for many
hours. About 7 a large oak pollard was
rent from top lo bottom, and the branches
hurled in different directions ; one, more
than i cwt. was carried J 4 yards.—The
storm at Norwich and its neighbourhood
was accompanied by a heavy fall of rain.
The darkness occasioned by the torrents
rendered the lightning peculiarly terrific.
After two hours the storm subsided ; but
at 6 it began again, and lasted with nearly
equal violence till 8. At Pulham a
horse was killed by the lightning. At
Acle a tree was split down. A person at
AJourningthorpc was also killed,
Aug. is. A dreadful storm came on at
Allandale, -in Northumberland. At Gate-
house, three cows were killed, and twet
men were jiruck down, but recovered.
Aug. 17- This afternoon there was a.
violent storm at Glasgow, accompanied
with heavy rain and hail. The hailstones
measured two inches in circumference.
The lightning-was peculiarly vivid, while
the rain poured down in rapid streams.
Innumerable panes of glass were broken.
This storm was felt but at a little distance
from the city. Near Patrick part of a
gateway was thrown down.
Aug. 17. A fire broke out on this nigjit
at the Dock-yard at Chatham, which
caused great apprehension ; and commu
nicated to an angle of the hemp stores ;
but the alarm was so immediately given,
and the alacrity of the people so effectual,
that the fire was subdued by one in the
morning ; and the damage sustained was
but very trivial.
Luton, ,-^ug. Jp. -A splendid enter
tainment was given by the Marquis of
Bute to the Freeholders of Bedfordshire,
resident in this town and its vicinity. The
Market-house was fitted up after the man
ner of an ar.tieiit bower, in which covers
for 160 Freeholders were provided j which
soon overflowed, but the powerful detach-
 1807.] .Country Nhvs.—3bkbjlii Occurrences* 77 £
rrierrts of Luton Were amply provided for 'loss is estimated at fotir timss rtat sum.
Elsewhere. The number of guests, uridiir 'Saturday, 'August S.
the Market-house and at the three Inns This day, the Lord Mayor, attended hy
amounted to 2(0 ; and the consumption "fourof the Aldermen and about 80 of the
"of wine, on" an average, was more tli'ah Common Council, proceeded in state froth
three bottles a rhan. The style, ro'gul'a- Guildhall to Montagu'e House, Blaclt-
rity, and promptness, with which the en- heath, where they presented the followinjg
tertainment was provided, corresponded Address to the Duchess of Brunswick :
with the enthusiasm and zeal deinoimra- May it please your Royal and Sererfe
ted by every description of she 'Free- 'Highness,
■ holders in the interest of Messrs. Pym and We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermefi, and
Fitzpatrick, who " on the spur of the oc- Commons, of the City of London, in
cafion" so cheerfully gave their astist;.iiCfe. Comnion Council assembled, most hum-
The Marquis and his two grandsons pre- bly entreat your Royal arid Serene High*
fided in the Bower. Many loyal arid ness to accept our sincere congratulations
constitutional toasts were drunk ; arrd on ycui safe arrival in this Imperial Coun-
every thing pasted off admirably Well till try. The return to her native land of an
about seven in the evening, when a seiioss 'illustrious Princess, so nearly and dearly
accident had nearly befallen the noble allied to our b'clovediSoveieign, arid totne
Marquis; who, with his grandson (the ' royal aricl amiabte Consort of the Heir Ap-
Marquis of Dumfries) and Mr. Crawley parent to the throne of this United King*
of Stockwood, had got into the barouche dom, canriot but renew the most lively
to return to Luton Hoo j when, by the sentiments of affection in the hearts of his
rearing and kicking of four spirited horses, Majesty's loyal subjects, arid a Warm par*
they found that the zeal of the populace, ticipatioti of thole feelings which a meet-
Inflamed with liquor, had led them inca'u- ing so interesting tothe Royal Family most
tiously to loosen several of the traces, that have occasioned. Deeply impressed, Ma-
they might disengage the carriage from the dam, as we are, by the 'extraordinary
incumbrance of the animals. The Mar- events Which have occasioned your reutta*,
quis, the Earl, and Mr. Crawley, all leaped We trust that your Royal and Serene High*
but of the barouche, and fortunately el- ness will permit us to express the sincere
eaped uninjured. The younger grandson joy we feel at your restoration to the shores
of the' Marquis fat terrified in 'the Dicky • of a free and loyal people, not more at*"
box. The horses were taken out ; and the ' tached to a good and venerable king, iy
inhabitants of Luton with great alacrity duty to his supreme and august station,
supplied their places, and were afterwards than by affection to his sacred person and
themselves supplied with abundance os ale family. (Signed) By order of Court,
■at the Marquis's hospitable mansion. Henry WooCthorpe. i
■» To which her Royal Highness returned
Domestic Occurrences. the following answer :
Wednesday, Aug. A. My Lord,' I return your Lordship, and
This being the first day for the intro- the Aldermen and Commons of tbc City
ductionof oysters into London for the lea- of London, my gratetul thanks for an Ad*
son, the pressure of people was lo great in dress which has given me the 'most 'heart*
the morning at Billingsgate, to get served felt satisfaction, it afftirds me an addi-
with oysters, that two women and S man tionat instance of the loyarattachment of
fell into the dock. The Women were "the City of London to the King, aud of
'recovered, but the man drowned. ' ' their affectionate regard for his Majesty's
Thursday, August 6. Royal 'Family. , :
This morning a fire broke out in the The Corporation were graciously re-
premises connected with ihe Water-works ceiyed by her Royal Highness ; and", to
at South Lambeth. The steam-engine thole who rtcoHe6ted hci youthful bloom,
was entirely consumed, and other damage appealed venerably pleating,
done to the amount of some thousand Friday, Aug. \i.
■pounds. The Parliament was this day prorogued
The fame evening, about S, a fire "broke to the 2ith of September by the following
Out In Mr. Pearson's feather-bed ware-' Speech from'the Loid Chancellor :
"hose, Pitfield-ttrcet, Hoxton, which in My Lords, aha Gentlemen,
.4 short time consumed them, as well as We have it in 'comlrland front 'His'Ma*
the dwelling-house and premises. It com- jesty to e'xprttls the lairstactidn with which
munieated to the North wing- of the I la- He nods 'Himself enabled to give you that
berdashers Almsliouses, wHith "was . to- recess, which, after the great and diligent
tally destroyed ; as' were three hew houses exertions you have Wade in the dispatch
in the King of Pruffia's-walk. The build- of Public Business, mult, asthis advanced
■ 'i-vg was iriluied for ltjooi. aisd Mr. Pear- i't-'.ibn oi the year, bet'o peculiarly desirable.
tiu'i stock, J»c, fbr'Se'tMl. only; but tbc Hi's 'Majesty has -<i*en gracroUlly -pleased
to
W DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. [Aug.
to direst us to return you His thanks for tensions, and against any hostile confede
the steady loyalty and attachment to His racy, those just rights which His Majesty
.Person ar.J Government, and the zealous is always desirous to exercise with temper
devotion to the Public Service, which have and moderation, but which, as essential
characterized all your deliberations ; and to the honour of His Crown and true in
mod especially to thank you for the sea terests ->f His People, He is determined
sonable exertidrs which you have enabled never to surrender.
Him to make for the augmentation of the Friday, Aug. 31. ; ■
Military Force of His Kingdom. A dreadful fire broke out last night
Gentlemen oj the House os Commons, ahout 12, in the piinting-offices of Messrs.^
His Majeft) has commanded us to return Swan and Son, and Hcney and Co.
you his warmest thanks tor the Supplies in Crown-court, Fleet-street. The pre-<
which you have granted with so much mises were a large range of old buildings,
cheerfulness for the current year; and divided into two distinct printing-offices' ;
when He considers the provision which besides which the ground-rloors, upwards ■
you have made for those contingent and of ico feet long, were occupied as ware-<
unforeseen sei vices which the events of the houses for new books, by Messrs. Crosby
War may render necessary, His Majesty and Co. of Stationers-court.—The fire first
has the greatest satisfaction in r«cugn.zing commenced from a chimney in the house
the wisdom wherewith, in a time of ex of Mr. Swan ; and it was found, when too
traordinary d'fficultics, you have antici late for remedy, that the flames had com
pated trie possible demands which those municated- to iotne wood-work contiguous
difficuhies may occasion. to the chimney ; in a house, the interior
My Lords, and Gentlemen, divisions of which were of lath and plaster,
His Majeslv commands us to assure you, dry deals, or old wainscot, and every room,
that He deeply deplores the unfortunate more or less, filled with paper, plain or
issue of ihe W*r upon the Continent. printed—when the file got head, a general
The immense extension of the power condagiation was unavoidable. Not only
and influence of France, and the undis the printing-rooms and warehouses of Mr.
guised determination of the enemy to em Swan, extending backwards towards Wa
ploy the me:»ns and resources of those ter-lane, but the printing-office and ware
Countries which he possesses or controuls houses of Mr. Heney ; the premises and
for the purpose of effecting the ruin of His . workshops of Mr. Birch, a paper-hanging
Majesty's Kingdom, undoubtedly present a manufacturer, adjacent; thole of Mr.
foimidable view ot the difficulties and dan Slee, a portable desk maker; cf Mr. Eus-
gers which this Country has to encounter. ter, cabinet-maker ; the re.ars of seven or
B'U His Majesty trusts that the loyal and eight houses in Crown- court, leading to
brave People over whom He reigns are Fleets-streets and the upper part of th.e
not to be daunted or disheartened. From house of Mr.' Cove, coal-merchant, next
the recollection of those difficulties under door to Mr. Swan, were consumed.—The
which His People have successfully strug flames raged till five, notwithstanding the
gled, and of those dangers which they deluges of water pours'd upon them by
have happily surmounted, His Majesty near twenty engines ; and the fire was not
derives the consolation of believing that got under until most, of the premises above
the same spirit and perseverance which stated were reduced to a heap of ruins.—
have hitherto remained unbroken, will Mr. Swan, who, but a year and a half
continue to be exerted with unabated vi since, narrowly -escaped a similar disaster
gour and success. when the premises of his next door neigh
And while His Majesty commands us bour, Mr. Gillet, were destroyed by fire,
to rep-at the assurances of His constant had the misfortune to be now uninsured ;
readiness to entertain any proposals which and we are informed a subscription is set;
may lead to a secure and honourable Peace", on foot for his relief. A similar calamity
He commands us at the fame time to ex involves many industrious poor families
press His confidence that His Parliament who lived at the back of these premises.
and His People will feel with Him the All the books in Messrs. Crosby's ware
necessity of persevering in those vigorous house were destroyed, to the amount- of
efforts which alone can give the character many thousand pounds ; the property was
of honour to any Negotiations, or the insured for a considerable sum ; but within
prospect of security or permanency to any the last fortnight, it had been increased?
Piace. Ilis Majesty therefore trusts that by all the stock cleared from the different
liis Parliament and His People will always printers employed by Messrs. C. and Co. so
be read) to support Him in every measure that they will be great losers by the accident.
which may he necessary ro defeat the de The value of property insured in the
signs A Mis E>.em:ea against the inde- different Fire Offices in Great Britain, in
per.de.hce.ol Ilis Majesty's Dominions, isosi, was about aoo,ooo,oool. and in the-
and i- maintain .against any unduit pre United Kingdom about 270,OOOtQOOl.
U 1 /"V.
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Biographical sketch of the late lord avonmore ;
WHO DIED Aucust lg, 1805 (see Vol. LXXV. P. 782).
Barry Yelverton, Viscount Avon- returned to Parliament for the town of
more, Lord Yelverton, Baron of Avon- Belfast; and in 17S3 for Carrickfergus. In
more, Lord Chief Baron of the Exche this situation he made himself very con
quer, one of his Majesty's most honoura spicuous by the energy of his oratorical
ble Privy Counsellors, and Regiitrar of exertions for obtaining for his native
the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, Country an enlargement of commercial
was one of the greatest lawyers and ac privileges, and the establishment of legis
complished scholars that any country 'ev er lative independence. In 1782 he was
produced; and be rose to his high situa raised to the important situation of Attor
tion by the dint of his own abilities, un ney-general of Ireland; and, two years
aided by family connexions or powerful afterwards, on the 2dof January, 1784,
patronage. The Viscount was born on elevated to the Bench as Lord Chits Baroa
the 28th of May, l"3<j, at Newmarket, a of the Exchequer ; in which Court he
small village in the county of Cork, situ presided 21 years, with a dignity and im
ated on the banks of the Black -Water partiality not exceeded by any of his pre
(the Avonmore, of Necham), and which decessors. His decrees have been pubr
was also the birth-place of the Right Hon. lished under the title of Yelverton's Re
John Philpot Curran, now Master of the ports. He was created a peer, June 10",
Rolls. His father, Francis Yelverton, of 1795, eleven years after his promotion to
Kanturk, married Elizabeth daughter of the Bench, by the title of Lord Yelverton,
Jonas Barry, and died March 27, 1746, Baron of Avonmore, co. Cork, and ad
leaving issue three daughters and two vanced to the dignity of Viscount Avon-
Ions, the eldest of whom is the subject of more, of Derry Island, Dec. '41), 1800.
this memoir. Barry Yelverton, discover His Lordsliip married, July 2, 1761, Mary
ing early indications of a superior genius, Nugent, daughter of William Nugupt,
was destined for a learned profession. Af esq. of Clonlost, co.Westmeath; by whom
ter receiving such education as his native he had issue, 1. William-Charles, now
parish afforded, he was sent to the Uni Viscount Avonmore, Registrar of the
versity of Dublin, where he soon distin Court of Chancery, born April 5, 17S2,
guished himself by his classical attain married, Sept. 1, 1787, Mary, eldest
ments, and particularly by a translation daughter of John Ready, el'q. of Port-
of Livy, which it is believed has never chelter lodge and East Cams, in Hamp
been published. He took the degree of shire, and has issue; 2. Barry, born Nov.
B.A, in 1757, LL.B. in 1701, and LL.D. 22, 1763 ; 3. Walter Aglionby, born Jan.
1774- On quitting the University he en 26,1772, barrister at law, married Nov.
tered himself of the Middle Temple, and 29, 1791, Cecilia Yelverton, daughter of
was called to the Bar in 1764, but did George Yelverton, esq. of Bcllciile, co.
not for some years obtain that notice his Tipperary, and has issue; 4. Anna-Maria,
abilities deserved. His genius, however, born Sept. 28, 1775, and married, May
gradually overcame the difficulties that 2L> 17fll, John Bingharn, Lord Clan-
encompassed him ; and in 1 7 7 S he was TOorris.
Vol. LXXV. p. I07g. At the death .of tails, have since brought actions for set
the late Duke of Roxburgh, in 1805, ting aside the deeds in favour of Mr.
there appearing several competitors for Gawler. The first great point decided by
the estates ; the Court of Session in Scot the Court was, that the last Duke was
land, on application, sequestrated the barred, by the existing entails, to grant
rents, aud appointed a factor to i-nanage the deeds in question ; and these, of
-them in the mean time. It will he re- course, were reduced. The next point
collected, that the late Duke, conceiving was, whether Sir James Innes or General
Himself to be the last substitute to whom Ker was the heir- male next in succession;
the fetters of the' old family entails "ap and this depended 'On the critical con
plied, and that he of course was the struction of a clause in the original deed
unlimited proprietor of the estates, made of tailzie, made so far back as the year
a new settlement of them upon Mr. Bel- 1648. The decision was in favour of Sir
lenden Gawler Ker, a relation of the fa James Innes. Both these great prints have
mily by the female line. At the death of been brought under review of tjie Court
the Duke, however (who died without is by reclaiming petitions, which were an
sue, leaving only a widow, since married swered, and judged of by the Court, du
to John Manners, el'q.), two other gentle ring the late session ; but the decision up
men claimed the estates and honours ; on both points was adhered to. These
these were, Sir James Innes and Briga decisions are, therefore, final in Scotland ;
dier-general Ker; each of whom, stating but both, we understand, are'to come by
himself as heir-ma/e under the family en- appeal to the House of Lords.
Gesjt. Mac, 4uguji, l5o7.
778 Additions andCorreftions informer Obituaries.-* Births. [ Aug,
Vol. LXXV1I. p. 32s, for "obkrtiation," 24 At Dungannon park, in Ireland, the
jead " obscuration." lady of tiie Hon. ant' Rev.Cha. Knox, a son»
P. 578, 1. 51 , for Garrat, r. Gcrrard. At Dawlifh, D-:von, the Hon. Mrs.
. P. 579, 1. 44, r. " Regia tandem chart! Spiers, of Eldersse, in Scotland, a son.
ftabilivit." "8, At Exmauth, Devon, the wife of
P. 632. The family name of the Earls Ohttclden Henson, esq. a daughter,
of Strathmore is Lynn; the name, of 30. At Beaumont- lodge, near Windsor^
Bowes was added on succeeding to the theLartyViscountess Ashbrooke, a daughter.
estates of that family. At Stobo house, in Scotland, the lady of
P.Osi, r. the Hon. Louisa Q'Callagftan. Sir las. Montgomery, bart. a still-born son.
P. ()S3, r. " The Hon. Juliana Hartopp- Aug. I. The wife of Mr. Major Hill, of
Wigley was ihe only child of George the Ludborough, near Louth, eo. Lincoln,
third Lord Carbery (not Cmherry), by his three children, all likely to lire.
first wife, the Lady Juliana Noel, third At Aynhn, ce. Northampton, the wife
daughter of Baptist fourth Eail of Gains of William R.-Cartwright, esq. a daughter.
borough." I. Ai Farcham, Hants, the Hon. Mrs.
P. O89. ,Mrs. Rivett, widow of the late Charles Paget, a daughter.
Thorna; R. el'q. of Derby, died at Kvel- 4. At Dutches, near Windsor, the wife
ton, Hants, on ihe fourth of July, having, of George Mathew, esq, a son.
in every noble and gentle virtue, fulfilled 5. In Hanover-square, Lady Le De-
the will of Almighty God. She lived an spencer, a son.
example an,I honour to her f: x ; and her At Woodford, Essex, the wife of George
memory will ever be revered, beloved, Smith, tl'q.M.P. for Wendover, a daughter.
and admired, as her loss will be. long and At Maryland-point, Essex, the wife of
deeply deplored, by all who knew the William Stanley, esq. a daughter.
greatness of her mind and the tender af 6. LadyEllenborough,astill-born child.
fections of her heart. 9. The wife of Francis Freeling, el'q. of
P. 691. Mr. Kay, of Ludgate-hill, was the General Post-office, a son.
a native of Qoncaster, en. York. By his At Edinburgh, the Viscountess Arbuth-
Will he has left 300l. to charitable pur not, a daughter.
poses in that town ; and lU,uOOl. to 3, to. At the Earl of Tankervdle's, in
.poor carpet-weaver at Leeds. Privy-gardens, Lady Ossullton, a daughter.
Ibid. The account o( the death of Mr. At Winchester, the wife of Lieut. -col.
Phillips (copied from a Provincial paper), Sey. iour, 15th Light Dragoons, a daugh,
we arc authorized to state, is not true. II. At Melbourne -houle, Lady C.
Ibi<}. William Field,-, el'q. was, for a Lamb, 0 son.
series of years, in the, African inot the IJ. It, South Latnheth lawn, the wife of
West India) trade; and it is but justice to John Bur..'.>n, e(q. a son.
his many virtues to sav, that, in the dif In Red Lion passage, Kleet-ftr. the wife of
ferent characters of husband, father, mas John-Bowyer Nichols, el'q. a daughter.
ter, and friend, few have surpassed him. I J. The wife of John James, el'q. of
He was endeared to a numerous circle by Hougiuon-lodgc, Hants, a daughter,
his warm friendship and the generous Ifj. At Fareham, Hants, the wife of
qualities of his heart. Col. Mannoch, inspecting field-officer of
the Volunteer Corps in the Hampshire
disliict, a daughter.
LATELY, at his house at Swansea, the 18. In Henrietta-street, Dublin, the
wife of Capt. New, R.N. a daughter. Hon. Mis. Richard Ponsonby, a son.
At Chester, the lady of the Hon. Edward 10. At Bradfield-houl'e, Suffolk, the
Massy, of Ballymore, 0. Lirnerick, Ire wife of John Purcell, esq. a son.
land, a son and heir. In Upper Gower-street, the wife of
The wife of Tho. Strangways Horner, Gcon e Shum, esq, a daughter.
esq.of Mells-patk, Somerset, a ton and her. 21. In Sayille-iovv, the wife of Robert
At Snartston, co. Leicester, tb,e wife of Snow, esq. a son.
J. Ejoultbee, esq. a son and heir. At i lighwood-hill, the wife of W.lliam
At Shin;'.. Id, Be'k , the wife of E. Main Anueilon, el'q. of Russell-square, a son.
land, jun. esq. M. p. for Lostvvithiel, a At Colchester, Este*. the wife of Col,
daughter, who diea in a short time. , Sidney !Jeckwith, a son.
At Lord Yarborough's villa, at Chelsea, At Veranda, near Swansea, the wife of
Middlesex, the lady of the Hon. Charles Calvert-Richard Jon.s, esq. a son.
A- Pelhim, a daughter. C2. In Stratford-place, Lady Caroline
In Arihgton-street, Piccadilly, Viscoun-r Wrotteiley, a son.
tess Mr(ham,, a daughter Lady Grantlmm, a son and heir.
In vVimpole-street, Ca' pndjfh-square, At her house, in Lincoln's-inn fields, the
Lady Elizabeth Loftns, a daughter. Hon. Mrs. John Vaughan, a daughter.
Julyl.. At Coul, "in Scotland, the lady At Haughley-park, Suffolk, the wife of
of Sir Qeorge S. Mackenzie, bart. a son. GeperalJerningharn, a son.
MlHfllAGEIt.
 iSe>7*3 Marriages of remarkable Per/ens. 779
-1 . Mar*ia«es»- daughter of the late James S. esq. of the
Juae A t Linrled, in Kent, the Rev. former place, and niece to Lady Stewart.
1$, f~\ Alexander Browne, of Chat Charles Lush, esq. one of the deputy-
ham, to M.d's Susannah Fairman, eldest lieutenants of the Tower Hamlets, and
daughter of th* late William F. elq. of captain of a Light Infantry Company of
Millar's, in Drifted. Volunteers, to M.iry, second daughter of
July 22. Byspecial licence, at Highnam Mr. Amos, of Hoxton-square.
chapel, Edward Webb, esq. of Stoke-Bi- 12. At Wrockwardine, William-Lacon
fhop, co. Gloucester, to Mil's Guise, dau. Chiile, esq. only son of William C. esq. of
of the late Sir John G. bart. of Highnaru- Kinlet, co. Salop, to Miss Harriet Cludde,
court, in that county, and sister to the youngest daughter of William C. esq. of
present Sir WiHiarn G. O'rleton, in the same county.
35«-At Hackney, James Heald, esq. to 13. At Westbury, Isaac Spooner, jun.
Anne, third dau. of Charles Newman, esq. esq. second son of Isaac S. elq. of Elm-
29. At Cheltenham, George Baron Pfei- don, co. Warwick, to Miss Tyler, dau. of
litzer, to Mrs. Innes, widow of Col. I. John T. esq. of Rutland dale, near Bristol.
30. At St. George's church, Liverpool, Henry-Mei rick Hoare, esq. son of the
John Trench, esq. of Lansdown, in the late Sir Richard H.' bart. to Miss Sophia
Gueen's Coonty, youngest brother of the Thrale, of Great Cumberland-street, dau.
Lord Afhtown, to Jane, eldest daughter of of the late Henry T. esq.
James Currie, M. D. Ij. Newman' Knowlys, esq. Common
Aug At Woodford, Essex, Sir Serjeant of the City of London, to Mrs.
James Whailey Smythe Gardiner, bart. of Slope, widow, of Kin£ ftr.Oueen-squ.Bath.
Roche-court, Hants, to Frances, second At Newington, Surrey, Mr. T. P. As-
daughter of the late Oswald Mosky, esq. peme, son of Mr. A. bookseller, Cornhill,
of Bolesworth castle, in Cheshire, aud lis to Miss Anne King, of Walworth.
ter of Sir O. M- bart. M.P. for Winchelsea. 16. Mr. Thomas Gardner, ot Birming
slug. I. At Harrow, co. Middlesex, the ham, to Miss Clinkard, of Pimlico.
Rdv. Charles Hawkins, rector of Kelston, 17. At St. George's, Hanover-square>
c*. Somerset, to Augusta, youngest daugh Lieut.-col. Leigh, o! the loth (or Prince
ter of the late Sir James Cockburn, bart. of Wales's own) Light Dragoons, to the
2. At Amerfham, Bucks, Chailes Dick Hon. Miss Byron.
inson, esq. to Mils Allin^laam. 18. At Brighthelmstone, Edmund Dar
3. Rev- William-Wickham Drake, rec by, esq. of Aston-house, Herts, to Miss
tor of the lower mediety of the parifli of Wells, daughter of the late James W. elq.
Malpas, co. Chester, to Eliza, young, dau. of Blackheath, Kent.
of Tho. Tarleton, esq. of Boleworth castle. 20. WiMiam Oswell, esq. of Leyton, in
Byspecial licence, Henry Blake, esq. of Essex, to Amelia, third daughterof Joseph
Norbuiy park, Bucks, to the eldest daugh Cotton, esq. one of the directors of the E.
ter of the late Dr. Webster, physician. India Company, aud deputy master Of the
4. At Kensington, Sir James-Innes Ker, Trinity-li'.vjse , &c. &C.
barr. to Harriet, second daughter of the 22. Wu, Marsden.efq. to MissWilkins,
late Benjamin Charlewood, elq, of Win- dau. oi Charles W. elq. of Wimpole-street.
dlerham, Surrey. ^4. At Tavistock, William Salusbury,
5. At Bridport, Charles Read, esq. of esq. captain in the Royal Miners Militia,
Ebey-houfe, co. Gloucester, to Mit's Sarah and second son of 'he Rev. Sir HenrvTre-
Downe, daughter of William D. elq. of lawny, bart. r< Patience, only daughter of
Downe-hall, co. Dorset. John-Philips Carpenter, elq. of Mount-
6. John Sutton, esq. of Greenwich, to Tray, near Ta> isteck.
Susan, youngest daughter of the late Ste 2 ,. At St. Mary'-la-Bonne church, Ma
phen-John Maule, esq. of the same place. jor-general Murray, brorher to Sir Jarriea
11. By special licence, at Addiscombe- Puitcney, to the Hon. Miss Phipps, dau.
place, near Croydon, Surrey, the Hon, of the late Lord Mulgiave.
jarries-Walter Grimston, only son of Lord At Binegar, John Greenhill, esq. of
G; to Lady Charlotte Jcnkinlon, only dau. Downside-house, Somerset, to Miss Bovet,
of the Earl of Liverpool. grand-daughter to the late Lord Francis
Rev. Septimus Courtney, ofOrron-Long- Seymour, Dean of Weils, and cousin to
vilU, Huma, to Dorothy, fourth daughter the Duke of Somerset.
of the Re¥. William Smelt, of Gedling, 26. At Trowbridge, Jos. Williams, esq,
Notts, and niece to the E. of Chesterfield. of the Royal Marines, Portsmouth, to the
At Atnbroseden, co. Oxford, the Rev. eldest daughter of lateE. H. Moi;.iner,el'q.
Robert-Edward Hughes, rector of Shen- 27. At Hatfield-Pevercll, Essex, bv the
iungton, co. Gloucester, to Miss Pyner, Rev. William Tovke, F. R. S. William
daughter ef the laic Francis P. esq. of Tooke, esq. of Gray's-inn, to Amelia,
Brook-house, Chemunt, Herts. third daughter of the late Samuel Shaeu,
At Halstesd, Essex, T. R. Andrews, esq. ettj. of Ciix, in tKat'parisli,
•f Great Portland-street, to -Miss ScaiUttj Deaths.
•{ 80 Obituary , with Anecdotes, ofremarkable Persons. [Aug.
Deaths. Brigadier-general Lumley, and daughter
1806. A T Prince of Walcs's Island, of Thomas Sunderland, elq. of that place. •
Wm<n-/V affer three months illness, In '<is mst year, Mr. William Sheffield,
Mr. Thomas Main, surgeon of his Ma fen. of Ronghbrough, near New Matton,
jesty's ship Blenheim. farmer. A singular circumstance hap*
1837. April 19. In the field of ho pened to him 49 years ago: when, in
nour, fighting for his King and Country, company with five or six persons bathing
on the plains of Egypt, aged 21, Lieut. at Bridlington quay, a wanton shot was
Archibald Christie, of the Grenadiers of fired from a vessel leaving the harbour, as
the 78th Regiment of Foot/ he was fitting upon the cliff-top, and in
April 19. At Honduras, in his b li year, the act of drawing his stocking over his
universally beloved and respected, George ancle, which struck him close to his fin
Tompfon, esq. major-commandant of the gers' ends, and shot his foot and ancle to
Militia, and many years deputy judge ad atoms ; at the fame time taking a curl off
vocate at that settlement. the wig of a gentleman named Warcup,
May 14. In consequence of the wounds who was in company with him.
he received in the gallant attempt made At Sibsey, co. Lincoln, Mr. D. Fowler,
by the boats of the Spartan frigate to cut master of the Peacock inn.
out some vessels in the Mediterranean, At Spilsby, aged 26, Mr. John Brump-
Lieut. Woodford Williams. ron, a member of the Spilsby Volunteer"
June iz. At Jamaica, Mr. Thomas Infantry, and buried with military honours.
Carr, merchant,U_~. 'son, of..s ll/t* i„v.« nC,
Mr. John l_ .._
In ...»
an advanced I age, Thomas
Tl Carr, —11
well
watch-manufacturer, of Coventry. known to those who frequent the Lincoln
aj. At Edmonton, Middlesex, in his markets as a vendor of Almanacks.
86th year, George Tatem, esq. upwards of At Powick, co. Worcester, Miss Hol-
30 years in the direction of the East India combc, daughter of the late Rev. Mr. H.
Company's affairs. Mrs. Bull, wife of the Rev. Thomas B.
29. Drowned, at Gravcsend, by falling rector of Eldcn, Suffolk.
overboard, while stepping out of a Graves- ' AtOrston, near Bingham, Notts, the
end boat into a wherry, Miss Eleanor Rev. Thomas Guilford, curate of What-
Deane ; whose body was not found tilt the ton, and the consolidated churches of Or-'
last week in July, when it was discovered ston, Thoroton, and Scanington.
rlS the river, near Cliffe, in Kent, and inr Rev. Harry Purlewent, B. D. some time
terred at that place, attended by her fa fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford,
ther and four brothers. and rector of Brampton St. Botolph, co.
July ... In the Bicetre, where he was Northampton, in the gift of that College.
confined, Guillet, the person who propo Rev. N. Toke, 4 0 years rector of Barn-
sed to Mr. Fox the assassination of Buona ston, Essex.
parte. He was immediately sent out of At Tunbridge, Kent, advanced in age,
this kingdom, and apprehended on his the Rev. Henry Austen.
arrival in France. At Cherry Orchard, Charlton, Kent, in
In the brewery of Mr. Terry, at Dun- her 18th year, Maria, youngest daughter
jarvan in Ireland, a man of the name of of Mr. John Percival, of that place, and
Murray went into a porter vat, for the late of New London-street, merchant.
purpose of cleaning it ; but, unfortunately, At Margate, where he werit for the be
he had not observed the directions given, nefit of his health, James Macpharlane,
, to take off the cover when the vessel was esq. M.D. formerly professor of physick in
emptied, until he was going down into it ; the University of Prague. Since his re
the consequence was, immediate suffoca turn to this country, he has acquired con
tion from the fixed air that remained in siderable distinction in the literary world
the vessel after the liquor had been drawn by several publications, particularly on
off. Another man went down to save medical subjects. -
him, who shared the same fate; and a Killed in a duel, Lieut. Charlton, of his
third followed, who very narrowly escaped Majesty's ship Mars. The Jury, who fat
by the arrival of Mr. Michael Power, at Haflar hospital, near Portsmouth, after
who ordered the vessel (which was nine four days consultation, brought in a ver
feet deep) to be fiove-in immediately. dict of Wilful Murder against Lieut. Gu-
At Blackburn, co. Lancaster, aged 100, thrie, of the Royal Marines of that ship.
Mrs. Alice Longworth ; who retained the At Haddenham, in the Isle of Ely, aged
use of her faculties till her last illness, 19, James, son of Thomas Boutale, a prg-
and never wore spectacles. Her youngest miling youth, whose death was occasion
daughter is above 60. ed by immersing and washing his feet and
At Hooton park, Cheshire, in his 17th legs in cold water when much heated, af
year, J. S. Mjssey Stanley, ion of the late ter walking from Milton, a distance of
Sir T. S. Marlcy S. bart. about eight miles. . . .
At Ulvcjflone, the lady of the Hon.
1 807.] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. 781
July 8. At Bougehere, Cornwall, Mrs. late Marchioness of Annandale, and cams
P. Janies, wife of Dr. J. of George- street, into possession of the Hackness estate on
Hanover-fq date. the decease of his brother George, the
13. At Spilsby, co. Lincoln, Mrs. Acred, late Marquis, who inherited it from his
many years a schoolmistress there. mother, the only daughter and heiress of
At Kettering, in her 88th year, Mrs. John Vanden Bempde, esq.
Benford, relict of the late Mr. Thomas B. Of a paralytic attack, Mr. George-Sa-
manufacturer there. ville Carey ; who had upwards of 40 years
At his house in Brook-street, Bath, af supported himself in the character of 'a
ter a long and painful illness, General Ri public Lecturer in this country, and was
chard White, colonel of the, 24th. Regi in the 64th year of his age when he died.
ment of Foot, many years commander of He was Ion of the celebrated Harry Carey,
the 3d (or King's own) Regiment of Dra a successful comic writer in the earlier part
goons, and who raised the yfnh Regiment' of the last century ; who, though often
of Infantry in the American War. in great distress, and the author of many
■ At Exmouth, Devon, in his -21st year, convivial and festive songs, never em- .
Mr. Robert Haydon Pease, eldest sou of ployed his Muse in opposition to the in
R. C. P. esq. of Kirkelta, near Hull. terests of Morality. It has been long un
Mr. Benjamin Brown, surgeon, of Am- derstood, that Harry Carey was author of
bJeskte. While adjusting the ropes of a the tune and words of " God save the
new-launched boat, on Windermere lake, King." This was mentioned by the late
not having a sufficiency of ballast, it up Dr. Arnold, and no person has ever laid'
set, and he fell into the water, and was claim to this popular composition. He
drowned. was the avowed author of the words and'
- At Edinburgh, .the Rev. Jas. Smithers, air of the well-known song " Of all the.
minister of the First Relief Congregation. Girls that are so smart," which Incledon
- I4» At Hayton, near Retford, Notts, and other singers brought again into
Mr. Richard Palfreyman, farmer, &o. vogue. Poor Harry Carey, like many
At the family mansion, near Scarbo who have no regular profession, and de
rough, Sir Richard Vanlen-Bempde John- vote themselves to the Muses, was at last
stone, bart. (so created June 23, 1795), reduced to such distress, that he did not
lord of the manor of slackness. On the wait for Nature to relieve him from the
aist, the last solemn offices were per- burthen of life, and when he was found
4ormed to his remains at the parish- dead, had only a halfpenny in his pocket.
church of Hackness, near Scarborough, How much is it to be regretted, that the
of which he was the impropriator. After man whose song has so often afforded
a cold collation, provided for upwards of pleasure to loyal and patriotic hearts, .and
a hundred persons, the procession com which has at length become the chief
menced from the family mansion through National strain, stioutd himself have fallen
the grounds^ precisely at four o'clock. a victim to poverty and despair!—George-
The body -was preceded by the professional Saville Carey, who wis a posthumous
gentlemen attached to the family, on child, inherited the misfortunes of his
foot; who were followed by the parish- father; but he inherited also his talent*
clerk in his proper place. The body was in a great degree, though they took ano
supported under a pall loosely thrown ther direction. He inherited too his m*-
.over it, attended by the undertaker, in ral qualities ; for, though he wrote a
silk scarf and hatband. It was followed vast number of Lyric compositions, they
by the son of the' deceased, now Sir John are all intended to awaken patriotic, gene
Vanden - Bempde Johnstone, and his rous, and amiable emotions. He was at
younger brother, led by the hand erf George first a printer ; and attempted the stage
Johnstone, esq.- ; with a numerous train early'in life, but did not display such abi
of highly respectable domefticks, all in lities as encouraged him to persevere in
.deep mourning. To them succeeded the theatrical pursuits ; yet, though he went
tenantry, arranged according to their se through various vicissitudes of fortune, he
niority on the estate, in silk scarfs and always maintained a decent, appearance* ■
hatbands. After them followed the offi and supported the character of an honest
cers of two companies of Volunteer In man. He possessed musical taste and ta
fantry, patronized by the deceased ; and lents that would have raised him to emi
next to them .the freeholders upon the nence if he had cultivated them with dili
manor, all in scarfs. The procession was gence, or had not been obliged " to pro
closed by the cottagers upon the manor, vide for the day that was palling over his
in white gloves. The body was deposited head." His death may be considered as
in a mausoleum, erected a- few years as;o, a fortunate event for him, if we may not
on the North side of the chancel, amidst presume to ascribe it to the kindness of
icars and lamentations. Sir R. B.. John Providence, as the infirmities of age were
stone was the last surviving son of the gathering upon him j and if•'--'•■ he hadmuca.
lived
5 8 a Obituary, with Artetdotes, tf remarkable Persons. [Aug.
much tonger, he could not, of course, After five hours illness, Capt. Daniel H.
have subsisted by his talents,, but must Braine, of the (hip Frances, of New York,
have softk into one of the common al'y- then fevsn days from Greenock. He had
luois of misfortune. Me was the author performed 34 voyages to that port.
of " The Inoculator, a Comedy, 1766." 17. On his passage from Medina, Mr.
"Trie Caugers, a Comedy, 1 706." "Li William Watkins, youngest son of Mr.
berty Chastised ; or, Patriotism in Chains, William W. late tide-waiter in his Ma*
l"'6s." " Shakspeare'-; Jubilee, a Mask," jesty's Customs at Bristol.
176g." " The Three Old Women Wea- At Kaston, near Corfham, P. Hooper,
th'crwife, an Interlude, 1770." "The efq. j by whose death several estates be
Magic Girdle, 1770." "The Nut-brown longing to the Master and Co-brethren
Waid, a Comic Opera, 17 70." "Analects and Sisters of St. John's Hospital (the
in Prose and Verse, chiefly dtamatical, Blue Arms) in Bath become renewable.
Ja.tirictil. and paporal ; ' the ha?'nl;ss Ef Aged 80, the Rev. James Graves, 28
forts of a harmlns Muse,' 1771," 2 vols. years incumbent of the perpetual curacy
*' A Lecture on Mimicry, as it was deli in the collegiate church of St. John, Be
vered, with great Applause, at the Thea verley, and vicar of Thorp Basset, near
tres in Coveni garden and the Hay-mar Malton, and Goxhill, in iloldernel's, all
ket, Cte. 1770." "A Rural Ramble; to co. York.
■which is anjiexed, a Poetical Tagg, or At an humble apartment in the Edge-
Brighihelmftone Guide, 1777-" ware road, a celebrated prophetess, named
IC. At Burton-upon-Ticnt, co. Stafford, Levy, of ihe Jewish perfuifion, possessed
after having been married op.'y 3 months, of property to the amount of 30001. She
ip her 21st year, Mrs. Clark, wife of Mr. has bequeathed lOOCl. to a son; 15001. to
"W. C. jtin. her daughter ; and to her second daugh
After a lingering i'lness, aged 6*, Mr. ter, who was brought up to the mother's
J. Cullaway, fen. of North gate, Canter profession, sool. and the necessary appara
bury. During the American War, when tus for divination. She was patroniied bf
ihc falling-off of the silk-trade was so con several females of distinction, whom she
siderable th;it many skilful workmen were attended, and had her fixed hours for ac
much reduced, this very ingenious cha- commodating customers at home. It wa*
lacter introduced a new manufacture, no uncommon thing for a dozen damsels
which afforded them emolovmcnt and and inquisitive wives to be in waiting, at
subsistence. This article of fabrick was two shillings each. She imposed on the
filled Canterbury Muslin, and (till retains credulous by a pack of cards of a curious
thai name, and is the cause of many hun make ; and at other times she affected to
dreds being ems! ,ycd in London and else foretell events by the planets. She was
where. He also established, in 1768, an 70 years of age ; and- left dabbling in the
Historical. Society ; and always appeared soap-suds, and embraced this lucrative pro
happy in 'diffusing the extensive know fession, 1 5 years ago. She used to practise
ledge of which he was p .'tfied. another imposition, by pretending, when
At Seamer, near Scarborough, on the a theft h id been committed, to pomt out
'fair-day, as a person was riding a shy horse the thief in a looking-glass; this strata
through the crowded part of the fair, in gem failed, and she abandoned it as being
the uAernnon, s:ver:.l people struck it, to above her powers,
prevent its treacling upon them, which so iS. In Lon Ion, after a painful illness,
irritated the animal that it threw cut be the Rev. Thomas Jones,' one of ihe senior
hind, and hit Mr. John Wilson, ship fellows and tutor of Trinity college, Cam
owner, of Scarborough, upon the l.eart, bridge; B..A. 1/79, M A. 17*2^
with such force as almost ii.tV.ntane jsiy Aged 55, of a rapid decline, Mr. Ri
to deprive him of life. Hi? wife, un re chard Wilson, poi trait-painter, of the
ceiving the melancholy intelligence, w;is Sand piis, near Birmingham.
so much affecte I that her Use vas consi- In London, aged 83, the Rev. T. Law-
dered in immiutnt danger for some days. son, brother to the late Sir Henry, and
Mr. W. was in the prim' of life, and as uncle to the present Sir John L. bart. of
much respected as his untimely death is Brough-lul!, co. York.
sincerely lamented by all who knew him. 19. Aged 31, Mr. John Carey, master of
If). At Xouth, aged 74, Mr. Viekers, the Blue Coat School in Stamford, co. Lin
formerly a farmer at Grimoldby. coln, and clerk to several public meetings.
In his 22d year, by the bursting of a 20. Aged 82, the Rev. Trio. Freeman,
blood- vessel, Thomai-Edward Wheeler, of rector of St. Martin's, vicar of St. Paul's,
Com.be, near Woods! ck, co. Oxford. and 47 years minor canon of Canterbuty.
Rev. Robert Crowe, M. A. of Bum- 2\ At Albrighton, co. Warwick, in
ham, Norfolk. Consequence of the braises he received on
At Norwich, in his B2d year, Peter the- 2ttti, when one of the bearers of a
Finch, efq. formerly clerk of the peace whurs-wh«ra, ot merry-go-round, gave
for the esunty of Norfolk, V/ay,
t8o7-] Obituary, with Aneedoti s, of remarkable Persons, 783
way, while filled with people, Corporal ship's bed-room, adjoining the dressing-
Davis, of the 2d Dragoons. A man of the room, to search foi her lady, and found'
name of Matthews hud his thigh broken she lmd not been in bed, and was miffing'.
in two places ; and many other persons It is piohable she had fallen in a lit. Her
were much cut and bruited. Woman left her Ladyship at a quarter be
At 8arton-upon-Huml>er, aged 53, Mr. fore 1 2, in her dressing-room, and in her
Thomas Goy ; a man of the strictest rec night-dress, as was her usual custom. She
titude, and 28 years clerk in the office of was found in the ruins, a shocking specta-,
Wr- Marru, of that place, attorney. cle. Her watch was also found wound
ij. Aged 83, Edmond-James Moody, up, and stood still at half past one. Lord
efq. of the Navy-office, eldest Ion of Ro- Frederick C. was in town at the time,
bert-Sadleir M. efq. commissioner for vic having left Coombank the preceding af
tualing his Majesty's Navy, ternoon. The w.ng, containing the dress
By shooting himself, on-board his Ma ing-room, a room over and under, .is en
jesty's ship Mermaid, at Spithead, Lieut. tirely gutted, only the stone walls remain
P. W.Wright, first lieutenant of that ship. ing. From the great exertions of the
At Clayton-mills, hear Manchester, the neighbouring inhabitants, with an engine
wife of Sebastian Nash, efq. from Earl Stanhope's, a party of the Royal
At his brother's house at Woodbury, Artillery, with an engine from their bar>
J. T. Ceely Trevillian, elq. of Middleney, rackt near. Sevenoaks, and an engine iron*
Co. Somerset. Sevenoaks.town, the fire was got under,
At Bole, co. Lincoln, in her 75th year, and the other parts of the house preserved.
Mrs. Whalcy. The door out of the bed-room into the
At Croydon, Surrey, Mr. Halfhide, late dressing-room was on fire when her Lady
of Merton, calico-printer. And, on the ship's woman entered the bed-room ; the
4th instant, his second son, Mr. Edward furniture of the bed was scorched and
Halfhide, of Tooting, in the same county. singed by ihe heat to tinder, out not on fire.
Suddenly, at his house in Three Crown A party, consisting of three persons,
court, Borough, in his 60th year, Mr. Mr. Maud, an artist, residing in the Kent
William Golding. . road, his silier, a little girl eight years
24. Mr. Prankish, farmer and grazier, old, and a Mr. Seton, had been to R'ch-
of Hackthqrne, co. Lincoln. mond, to fee a relation of the latter gen
At Cambridge, after thr<e days illness, tleman ; and on their return in the even
aged 26, the Rev. George D. Whittington, ing, the little girl, who fit behind the
LL. B. of St. John's college, son of —— other two persons, at the stern of the
W. efq, of Saxmundham, Suffolk. boat, was amusing heiself by putting otie
In her 77th year, the wife of Samuel hand into .he water, anil she at length
Jionham, efq. of Great Warley place, Essex. felt overboird, near Putney bridge. The
Suddenly, of apoplexy, Willii.ni sinner, brother,, a young man. 2-2 years or age,
efq. of Millbank-stleet, Westminster. instantly followed into the water, to save
At Southampton, Major St. Ciair, bar his sister ; and after having dived twice
rack-mailer at Baling, Middlesex. for her, he went down a third time, *tct
At her house at Ealing, in her 71st year, rife no more ! The little girl .was laved
M'S. Davison. by the waterman, who picked her up
At Amerfham, Bucks, Mrs. Edmunds, floating at the stern of the boat. The de
wife of Mr. Jn. E. of the Strand, jeweller. ceased was a youne; man of promise in his
Burnt to death, at his Lordship's coun profession as a limner.
try-house, at Coombank, co. Kent, in her This night,, as some labourers were re
70th year, Lady Frederick Campbell, wife turning home through Hyde-park, they
of'Lord Frederick Campbell, daughter of discovered a genteelrdiesiVl nun lying un
Amos Meredith, elq. and (ilter'of Sir W. der a tree apparently sleeping ; and ou
Meredith, bart. In 1753 she was married one .<f them attempting, as he supposed,
to Earl Ferrers, who died unfortunately in to reuse him, he ascertained the body' to
}76o, but was divorced from him by Act be a corpse. On examining it, there ap
of Parliament ; and, after his death, was peared to have been a ball through the side ■
married, in 1769, to Ld. Frederick Camp of the head; but very little blood had
bell, brother to the Duke of Argyle. It is followed. A pistol was found loaded ih a
conjectured that her Ladyship mud have fide pocket. The body was owned by a fo
sat up to read, and fallen asleep. AboU: 4 reigner ; and the unfortunate man, whole
in the morning, as a labouring man was name was Talliet, was a French teacher
going to his work, he saw a large smoke at at a boarding-school a few miles to the
the house; and, on .approaching it, disco Westward of Londdn. He was one of
vered the left wing to be on fire. He ini- the progeny of a French Noble, who emi
fnediately alarmed the family, when they grated with his. .countrymen at the time
found Lady F. C.'s dressing-room on fire. of the French Revolution. The deceased
Her woman immediately ran to her Lady- has left'a good deal of property ; and it is
■ . . • Opposed
^84 Obituary,with Anecdotes , ofremarkable Persons. [Aug.
supposed that a temporary derangement ler, of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards,
Jed him to his fad fate. went into the coffee-room of the Gnlden-
At Tavistock, after 1 s months illness, Cross, Charing-crofs, and called for sup-,
■with little intermission, Anne, wife of per ; alter he had taken it, he oidered a
Charles Hall, M.D. physician there, and bed, laying he should sleep there, as he
late of Braunston, co. Northampton. was going oil in the morning by tht Do
25. Mrs. Booth, wife ot Frederick B. ver coach ; and when he went 10 ben, he-
esq. of New-street, Spring-garden. desired to be called a snort time before
AtTiverfall, colliery, Nctts, Peter Smith the Dover cotach went off, which was
and his Ion Samuel. Cleanling the wa accordingly done \ he answered, but did
ter-way in a pit that has not been worked not come cut cjt. his bed-room, and the
for some time, symptoms of the damp coach went off without him- After breaks
appearing, they came up to the top, when fast, when ihe chanibctmaid went into
Peter recollecting they had left a spade in his bed room, for the purpose of rv.u'sing
the works, his son returned to fetch it, his bed (supposing him to be gone out),
brought it to the bottom of the shaft, and she four.d htm suspended by a sheet,, by
gat into the trunk in order to be drawn his neck, from the top of tie bedstead.
«p to the top by the' father. The latter The gitl gave the alarm ; he was cut
had scarcely raised him from the ground, down, and medical assistance was pto-
before the foul air had so powerful an ef cured, but in vain. It is supposed that
fect upon the son, that' he fell from the an embarrassment in his regimental ac-
-trunk ; the father called for assistance, compts was the cause of the rain ait.
Und, urged on by parental feelings, he in 28. This evening, as Mr, Anl'on, gun
sisted upon being immediately let down, smith, of Lambeth-street, Whitechapel,
in hopes of saving him. He fell from the was getting into a boat at Tower wharf,
trunk in which he was descending, and in company with a friend, he fell into the
both shared the same fate. The dimp con water and was drownetl.
tinued so strong, that several hours elapsed This night, a person named Mitchell
before the bodies could be got.out. walked over the Quay-wall at Biistol, aryi
26. At Botley-hall, co. Stafford, Mrs. was drowned, leaving a wife and 2 childr.
Catherine Toilet, relict of Cliailcs T. esq. At her house at Clapham, Surrey, Lady
At Hoddesdon, Heits, ]ver M'Millan, Tebbs, relidt of Sir Benjamin I", knt.
esq, late commander of the East India At Sidmoqth, Devon, after a few days
Company's ship Valentine. illness, the wife of Francis Colman, esq,
Aged 33, Mr. John Sherriff, jun. cashier Sarah Parker, a well-known unfortu
in the Customs at Hull. nate female, whose walks at nights used
Thomas Holbeche, esq. of Hill-court, to be in Leicester-square, was burnt to
many years an active magistrate for the death. About la o'clock she retired so
county of Worcester. Mrs. H. died on her apartmsn:, in Blue Cross - street,
the 23d. which was a front room on the second
Al the annual wake at Stoke-Edith, co. floor. Her screams attracted the notice
Hereford, John Jones was killed in a of some persons in the street, who, on
battle with John Bull, of the fame parish. looking up to the place where they heard
On the Coroner's Inquest it appeared that them, beheld the poor unfortunate wo
the contest had been previously concerted man enveloped in flames from tread to
between the parties, and that they sliook foot; her room door, which she bad se
hands, in token of feeling no malice or cured on the inside, was forced open ;
■ resentment towards each other, before when she lay on the floor writhing with
they set to. From this and other circum- pain, and her cloaths all burnt off; the
- stances, the Jury relumed a verdict of flooring bad- begun to take fire, when,
" Ch3nce Medley." providentially, the watchmen arrived, who
At Edinburgh, sifter two days illness, J. stopped the progress of the flames. She
Bedford Turner, esq. of Hotham Carr, co. was taken to the Middlesex Hospital,
York, late a lieutenant in the 2d West where she soon died.
York Regiment of Militia. .'9. Mrs. Francis, who threw herself
27. Miss Shute, daughter of Mrs. S. of out of a two-pair-of-ftairs window in
Bathwick-street, Bath. Crown-court, Russell-street, Covent-gar-
AtWorci-ftcr, aged fif>, Mr. John Scott, den. She was more than 70 years old,
many years a reputable tradesman there. < and of very crenteel connexions, but had
AtTe'tgnmouth, Devon, Charles Durn- been in a deluonding state for some time
ford, esq. barrister at law. past, and had been seen by a person in
Aged 08, Mr. William Wright, an opu the opposite house attempting to get out
lent farmer, &c. of Linwcod, co. Lincoln. of the front window more than once, who
At Springmount, near Mallow, Cork, accordingly gave the alarm. She had
Mil's Eliza Townshend, daughter of Ri every thing very comfortable stbout hei^,
chard T. tsq. M.D. and money in bet pocket,
This evening, Paymaster-serjeant Mil-
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t his hpufe in St, John's, Southwark, ruled, on account of the peculiarly dread
[ til, Thomas Alien, esq, ... ful circumstances of the cafe.; The popu
..„ At his house at Chcdfcy, Berks, aged 75', lace of Attleburgh", in a spirit of abhor
tVm.Minshu'll.cCq.ofAflonClinton, Bucks. rence at her crime and memory, have
36. In his sstn year, Mr. Joseph De razed to the ground the house she lived in.
.Boise, of pcrrard-street, Soho, many years Lately, at Rome, in his sad year, of
an eminent, importer of foreign books,; » putrid fever, which carried him off in a
ytho, as a man of honour and integrity, few days, trie Cardinal York, the last of
■ will be long remembered. the Stuart Family; of whom a particular
. , At Alfi,on, near Kinglbridge, the wife account shall be given is our next,
of Abraham Hawkins, esq. At Paris, of a decline, M. Pcrregaux,
. At his feat at Hackwood park, in his the celebrated rich banker.
61st year* much and deservedly lamented, The Lady Richarda Phaire, eldest daugh
Thomas Lord Bolton, lord lieutenant and ter of Richard Anncsley, the sixth Earl of
cuftos rotulorum of the county of South Anglesey, and widow of Robert Phaire,
ampton, and governor and vice-admiral of esq. of Temple Shannon, co. Wexford, ta
the Isle of Wight, &c. &c. Upwards of whom she was married in July 1761.
20 years ago, his Lordship, then the Right In the course of one week, the whole
Hon. Thomas Orde, was secretary to the qf the rising family of Mr. Harding, Of
iJuke of Rutland, while lord lieutenant of Ringan hills, near Brampron, co. North
Ireland- He has left two sons, William, ampton, consisting of two sons and two
now LpnLBolton, and the Hon. Thomas daughters; were carried off by an infec
Orde Pawlett, now at Cambridge, pursu tious {ever, introduced by a servant newly
ing his studies. ' come to the house, who had just recovered.
s At. his. house at Binfield, Berks, At Osborn's hotel, Adelphi, Strand, Sic
Thomas Ro.bbins, esq,,, ... ... James Durno, fate consul at Memel, &c.
, , Ai Rftmfgate, in Kent,' Miss Margaretta . Mr. J. Fisher, well known in the lottery
Whi'-pombe, second daughter of Samuel circles as a systemrte in chusing out parti
W. elq. of Btackheath,- „ cular numbers to insure, which he fancied
At, penhara,, Bucks, in, his ]3th year, stood a beiter chance of becoming prizes
Frederick, youngest son of John Drum- than numbers promiscuously taken. He
raonii, csq. banker, Charinj-crqss. thus frequently persuaded the ered'ulously
Found drowned in the Wellafldj Mat avaricious of both sexes to part with their
thew; .Mantqn,,. .43. years parish-clerk of money, in the foolish belief of acquiring
Markef-Deeping, cq. Lincoln. He left great and sudden fortunes.
West-Peeping on the preceding night in John Jackson, esq. F. S.A. author of
a state of intoxication, and.it is supposed " A Journey over Land from India," and
feltiato the river, whence he was unable several tradts.
to extricate himself. John Corbet, csq. LL. D. pf Hitrham-
Executed, this morning, at Norwich, placi', near Hardis-fcourt, Kent. He had
pursuant to her sentence tor the wilful and no son; but he had six daughters, the
stacking murder of her husband, Martha, most accomplished, handsome, and vir
wise,qf .Samuel Alden,.of Attleburgh, co. tuous, of any in the county: 1, Cathe
Norfolk. Before. and during her trial, she rine, second wife of..ScephenBeckineham ;
appeared in a most hardened and depraved had Hfue Charles, Charlotte, and Cathe
state; but, after condemnation, she con rine. J. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Den- '
fessed to have committed the crime in the ward, clerk. Hasted, in his third folio
following manner: "That, on the night volume, 1760, p. "34, fays, Mrs. Den-
qf Saturday, July 18, she and her hus wVd had then lately repaired and adorned
band. (who was at the time a good deal in the church of Upper Hardness, at a con
liquor) quarreled, and he threatened to siderable expence. This lady was dead
beat her. Alden soon after threw himself before 1700 "(ibid. p. 7-22). 3. Frances,
on the bed ; and at that instant she form married to Sir William Harcfrel's, ban. ef
ed the rmjlutkm of destroying him.- A* Hardis-court, near Canterbury, the last of
cordingly, she ran into the adjoining tfyat name and family. He had no chil
room, returned with a bill-hook, which dren, and left all to his lady; she, strer
slie held in both hands, and, striking him his death, from lamenting him, loft her
on the suit-head and throat with her ut reason, and was under the tuition of her
most strength, instantly killed him." At sister, Mrs. Denward; the Chancellor al
the place of execution she behaved with lowed her Cool, a year, for taking care of
becoming decency, -and seemed conscious her. Lady Hardrefs died, Feb. 23, 1783,
of the enormity of her crime. The Phi at the Rev. Mr. Denward s, at Wa'liuer
lanthropic Society have taken her infant near Deal (LIU. 182.; 4. Antoninamar-
orphan under their protection ; the ob- r.ieJ It^nat.JS' Geohcvuan, esq. of Spno-
. jeclion of his being under age was over- fquare, whose only surviving daughter is
Gent. Mag. August, ii;07. " the
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 786 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Aug.
the present Baronqss de Montesquieu ; his ' At Chelsea, Middlesex, Mr. Philip Coles,
only son died in January 1793 (LXIII. 90). of Duke street, Westminster.
5. Hannah, married William llougham, In London, agedgi, Mrs. Croffley, ■
of Barton manor. 6 maiden lady, sifter of the late Mr. C. apo-
Mr. Corbet was a man of a singular turn thecary, of Stamford, co. Lincoln.
of mind, and brought his daughters up Jug. r. At his apartment in Totten>
to acts of humanity and virtue; inso ham Court-rOad, in his 76th year, Mr.
much that one evenin;, coming home John Walker, author of " The Pronounc"-
when they were^all dressed for a ball at ing Dictionary of the English Languages"
Canterbury, he told them thai Mrs.—, and of several other works, of acknow
a poor woman hard by, was very ill ; and ledged excellence, on grarr/'nar and elo
that, as (he would not live the nijlu out, cution ; as a professor of which he had,
Ihc wished to see them, to make her last for nearly 40 yearst deservedly held th«
moments more tranquil ; they, without highest reputation, and had amassed ■ a
.repining or delay, undretl'cd, and went on competent fortune by means equally ho
this office of humanity, and late round nourable to himself, and beneficial to
this poor creature, with their hands clasp those in whose instruction he had been
ed. in hers, till (lie was no more ; which engaged ; but which would have been
lesson of mortality, they often laid, af njore ample"-, had not its accumulation
forded them mof retired comfort than all been retarded by his repeated and exten
the lively gaiety of an assembly.—The old sive charities. He had been honoured
palace at Hardis-court is now gone te de with the patronage and friendship of Dr.
cay. In the time of Henry VIII. he ai Johnson, Mr. Edmund Burke, and many
rways slept there, in his way to France ; other of the most distinguished litefary
and the gates, of Calais were brought and and professional characters of the age ;
deposited there by him. The house has who respected and esteemed him, not
been built uoo years ; is a lofty old build more for the critical and profound know
ing ; the "hall very large ; the walls thick. ledge on the subject to which he had de»
Jug At Biddlesford, in the Isle of voted his enquiries, than for the consci
Wight, Mr. William Fearnlide, of Mar- entious adherence to principle, the manly
(ham-ftreet, Westminster. avowal of opinion, and the undeviating
At Cheltenham, Capt. Richard-Holmes rectitude of conduct that marked every
Tidy, of the Royal Navy, son ot' the late stage of his life.
Rev. Thomas-Holmes T. rector of Red- At Hanley, in the Potteries, this even
raarshall, co. Durham. ing, three of the sons of Mr. Wilson, a
Mrs. Flower, wife of Mr. James F, of respectable manufacturer in that place.
Cheddar, near Wells. For their amusement, and as a preparation
At Colebrooke, Devon, Rev. Hen. Land. for celebrating the wakes the succeeding
At Clifton, Richard Vickris Pryor, esq. week, they had placed three pieces of small
Mr. Harvey, an old and respectable in cannon in the garden of the elder brother,
habitant of Chipping-Sodbury. which they charged with powder and
Mrs. Jones, relict of the Rev. Mr. J. rec wadding, and disposed at a short distance
tor of Harescomb, co. Gloucester. from each other : when 0118 Of the brothers
NearAxminster,Devon,PhœbeLangford. was in the act of firing the first piece, the
While hay-making in a field, she jocosely elder, with his infant child in his arms,
observed, that no young1 man had offered was in front of the third, and the priming
to save the hay with her; whereupon a communicated to the others, by which ac
man ran after her, saying he would, and cident the father and child we're literally
caught her, when they both fell together, blown to pieces, and in a moment ren
with such force as to cause her instanta dered spectacles too shocking for Huma
neous death, without speaking or moving. nity to contemplate, and that in the, pre
Aged 78, Mr. John Webster, 30 years sence of their nearest and dearest tics — a
steward to the Earl of Seftoc, at Croxten-. wife, mother, and brothers. .Their man
hall, near Liverpool. gled remains, inclosed in the same coffin,
At Chellefworth-hall, co. Suffolk, the were deposited in the family-vault, in the
youngest son of Sir Rt. Pocklington, bart. presence of numerous spectators; and this
At Lynn, co. Norfolk, aged Ib, Mary distressing event has cast such a gloom on
. W.'iker, an old maid, hung herself. For the surrounding neighbourhood, as all- the
some time past she had shewn much un hilarity attendant 011 the season was not
easiness at being obliged to quit a house in able to dispel.
which she had lived from infancy. At his mother's house, in Taunton,
At Cobham, Surrey, Mrs. Sturt, relict aged 2lj Lieut. William Sweet, of thf
of the lat? Charles S. csq. of Critchill, co. Bombay Military Establishment.
Dorset. A few years since, this hjy was 2. At Markeaton, co. Derby, in hef
one of the most distinguished characters 60th year, Elizabeth, wife of F. N. C.
in. the fashionable circles. Mundy, esq, of that place.
At
1807.] Obituary, with Anecdotes ,of remarkable Perfont. \>y$y
At Long Benton colliery, aged 87, Mr. own right. Her Ladyship was born in
Samuel Bortis. 1737, the only child and heiress of Ri
This evening, Mr. Force, of New-street- chard Bradfhaw, esq. the lineal descend
fquare, near Fleet-street, after attending ant of Lord Ptesulent Bradfhaw j and
divine service, suddenly dropped down, married, in 1757, the Right Hon. Sir
and expired at his own door. Henry Cavendish, bart. ; and by him, who
3. Suddenly, while walking down Hol- died August 3, 1804, had issue sour sons
born-hill, J. Wright, copper-plate-printer. and four daughter:, viz. 1. Sir Richard
Athish«use in King-street, Rotherhithe, Cavendish, of Doveridge-hall, in Dcrby-
Mr. John Scarth, stock-broker. ssiire, now Lord Waterpark, born July 13,
In his 82d year, James Hutchinson,esq. 1765; married, August 0, 1/80,. Juliana
of Bloomsbury-square. eldest daughter arid coheiress of Thomas
Ip Grosvenor-street, the Marquis of Cooper, esq. of Mullimast castle. 2.
Granby, infant son and heir of the Duke George, born Aug. 26, 17 06, secretary to
and Duchess of Rutland; born June 26 the Treasury; married, Feb, 26, 1803',
(fee p. 680) ; sumptuously christened July Letitia-Catherine eldest daughter of James
28, his Majesty standing sponsor by his Caulsield, esq. of Stewartstown, co. Ty
prexy, Lord St. Helen's. The Duke of rone, who died, without issue, August 3,
Montrose was the other godfather, and 1805. 3. Augustus, born Nov. 17, 1768,
Lady Georgiana Cavendish the godmother. late knight of the shire for Carlow, and.
The ceremony was performed by the now member for Honiton, in Devon
Archbishop of Canterbury. shire, and teller of the Exchequer in Ire
At St. Andrew's, in Scotland, aged 83, land, succeeded to the estates of his ma
Mr. Alexander Frazer, merchant, and late ternal grandfather, and assumed the name
post-master there. and arms of Bradfhaw, by the Royal li
4. George Raine, a child four years old, cence, June 2, 1790- He married, Nov.
belonging to the Castle-garth, Newcastle. 15, 1796, Mary-Anne, eldest daughter of
He was poisoned, hy taking laudanum in St. John Jefferyes, esq. os Blarney castle*
stead ef tincture of rhubarb, which had co. Cork, whose marriage with George-
been by mistake furnished from the shop Frederick seventh Earl of Westmeath was
of a druggist by a careless boy. dissolved in the fame year by Act of Par
Aaron Martin, waggoner to Messieurs liament. 4. Frederick,.boru July 7, 1?77;
Acraman and Son, of Bristol. Driving a married, October 1801, the Lady Eleanor
waggon to Chew Magna, by some acci sixth daughter of Arthur F.arl of Arran,
dent he fell under the wheel, which pasted and sister of the Marchioness of Abercorn.
over him, and severed an arm and an ear 5. Catherine, born Oct. 16, 1758; married
from his body. He was taken to the In the Baron de Ville. 6. Deborah, born
firmary as speedily as possible, but died May 13, 1762; married, Dec. 20, 1780,
on the next day. , Sir Richard Musgrave, bart. 7. Sarah,
As Mr. Brandford, of Eftry, was driving born May 21, i:si3; married, Dec, 20,
Mrs. Bushel and Miss Hogbin in a cart to 1783, Arthur Aiinelley, eighth Viscount
Eythorne, near Chatham, the horse took Valentia and first Earl of Mountn "tris.
fright, and the driver losing the reins, he 8. Anne, born March 22, 1774 ; manied,
ran with such rapidity down a hill, that July 25, 1793, James Canlfeild Browne,
the females were thrown out, and very Lord Kilmaine.—The Lady Waterpark, in
severely bruised. Assistance was imme early life, was one of the most celebrated
diately given, and Mrs. Bushel was con leaders of fassiion in Dublin. The second
veyed to the house of Mt. Giraud, sur fancy-ball given in that city was by her
geon, where the greatest attention was in Ladyship, who appeared as the enchan
effectually paid to her, as she languished tress Facima, with her four daughters as
in the most exemciating pain until the attendant Sylphs. For some years (he
morning of the 6th, when she expired, devoted herself to painting, in which she
leaving a numerous family to lament her. was an adept, as well as in every other
At Cokewell.co. Lincoln, aged 7 1, after fashionable accomplishment; and, tinefc
a long indisposition, Mr. R. Fox. Sir Henry's death, lived very retired. —
Of an inflammation in his bowels, which Sir Richard Cavendish, the present Lord
occasioned his death in 24 hours, aged 20, Waterpark, is descended from a branch of
John Heawood, assistant to Mr. Edglon, the Dukes of Devonshire; and his ances
gunsmith, of Stamford, co. Lincoln. tors have been seated at Doveiidge-hall,
Aged 52, Mr. Walter Watson, of Grand- . in Derbyshire, since the reign of Eliza
Lorough, co. Warwick. beth. His Lordship's grandfather, Sir
Spencer Perceval Stuart, infant son of Henry Cavendish, at Dovendge-hafl, was
Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, great-grandson created a bareinet of England in 1"55,
pt King Charles the SeccnJ. . ami accompanied his relation, William
'4. At her house inYorn-place, Sarah Duke of Devoi.!hire, to Ireland, when his
Cavendish, . Baroness Waterpark in. her Grace was lord-liculenant. By him he
788 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Aug.
was appointed a teller Of the Exchequer', • ket Harhorough 'ur Leicestershire, and
and a privy counsellor. Sir Henry be- passed thence towards his place Of fettle-
came afso possessed of large estates in Jre- merit, by way of Stamford. An inquest
land by his marriage, in 1730, with Anne Was held on the body at Lincoln 5 arid,
eldest daughter and heiress . of' Henry by the evidence then given, it Appeared
Pyiie, onYy faA of Sir Richard Pyne, of that he was placed ori a horse at Afwafd-
Wjterpark, co. Cork,' anti of Codliam- by, near'"Sleaford, to be conveyed tft
Kali, Estex, lord chief justice of Ireland.; Branfton, five miles from Lincoln ; but
i[. At the Broadstone, ' in' Ireland, aged he' was - mo" ill to ride all the way on the
123, Hri Crobally. Until within these tix horse, and was taken part of the road in a
■weeks he had never experienced <wo days cart. At Branfton he drank a glass of el-
illness in the whole Course of his long life, der wine, and was placed in another cart,
At Alhby-de-la-Zou'cri, co. Leicester, in which he I'oo'n after' expired,
aged 37, Mr. James bixon, son of Mr- Rev. Robert Hodgson, rector of High-
Tfiomas D. fell-monger, of Syston.. HO'ylajirJj ' near Barnsley, co. Yoik. ■' •
6. Mrs:' Mary Cockayne, wife of Mr. At St. Aubin, in Jersey, Mrs. Frances
John C. attorney, of Lyon's-inn. ' ..' Cabot, sister to Capt. Philip Hue, of Rich-
Aged 22, Eliza, youngest daughter of mond-hill', near Bath.
John Bidwell Edwards, el'q. of Bradfieid- (j. At his apartments in Great Ormond-
lodge, "near' Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk. street, Samuel Pole, esq. 1
Mss. Moore, of Baker-street, Portman- At Calwfch, aged 71, John Port, esq. of
square, relict os Edward M. jun. esq'. of Ham, co. Stafford, and in the commission
Stockwell, Surrey1 of the peace for that county and Darby.
' At Ravenstonedale, co. Westmoreland, At Dundas, m Scotland, aged 87, 'An.
aged 81, JnhnTadeton. He was wounded gus Fletcher, esq. of Duans.
at the battle of pettingen, June 15, 17-43'.' ' 10. 'In Southampton-row, BloOmsbury,
' A' Bifhopsbourn, co. Lincoln, the Rev. Mil's Martha gayer. '•' " " • 4 *>
Henry-Montague Davis, rector of that pa- "Of a decline, in her S7th year, Miss
rifh, and vicar of Fynsford, Kent. Maty Taylor, eldest daughter of Mr. T.
Mr. John Room, son of Mr. James R. surgeon, Bridge-street, Blackfriers.'
•merchant, of Bristol. ' The wife of the Rev. Thomas Lloyd,-
Aged 18, Anne, daughter of Mr. Wil- vicar of Albrighton, co. Warwick. '
frier, of the New inn at Greetham, Line. ' Aged 74v William Norris, esq. of Hali-
• 7. Mr. Butler Symons, wine-merchant, fax, co. York.
•f King-square, gristol." ' in his 67th year, Edward Dixon, esq. of
' Drowned, while bathing opposite So- Horseley-house, nearDudlcy.'banker, and
jnerset-house, '■— Douglas, waiter at a late sheriff of the county of Worcester.
toffee-house in Fleet-street Mrs. Stevens, relrft of Mr. William S.
' ^.tRentfotd, nea'r Bury, Samuel Crosby, glass-manufacturer, of Bristol. * •"■»
a post-lad, was drowned by the overturn- 11. In her 41 st year, Mary, the wife of
Irigof his post-chaise into a rivulet. " Mr.Craddock, solicitor, of LOughborough".
8. Dropped down suddenly, and died At IVIancHestcr, aged 24, Anne, wife of
distantly, in St. James's park.T. Cadmart, Mr. John Mltchel.baker', of McfuntfOrrel.
who had been a long time in the service Aged 69', Richard Reeve, esq. an emi*
os the Duke Of Cambridge. nent surgeon at Gislingham, Suffolk.
At Stockwell-green, eft. Surrey, Joseph * At her son's house at Sydenham, Surrey,
Walker, elq.'of Doctors Commons. aged 79, M"' Greenwood. ' '
At Mongwell-place, Berks, the Hon. ' 12. 'In an advanced age, Tho. Wesson,
Mrs. parrington, lady of the Hon. and esq. of Stapkford Abbots*, Essex. "
Right Rev. the Bishop of Durham, and At Adrilestone, near Chertsey, Surrey,
daughter of the late Sir Berkeley-William of a paralytic stroke, aged '6s, Jas. Carter,
Ciiil'c, batt. of Renclcombe, co. Gloucester, el'q. many years an eminent attorney in
Aged 6s,"Mr. John Dixon, a lespecta- Bishcpfgate-slreet, Londdn.'
tyc a;:d well-known horse-dealer at Mel- At Shepton-Mullet, in his 77th year,
%011-Mowbray, co. Leicester. He was Mr. William Hippifly, linen-draper,
shewing a horse to a gentleman in. the In the prime of life, the wiie of Robert
strec*;, when he cOrnplained of being un- Bush, esq. of Brisimgtonj near Bristol,
well, and immediately expired. •' iiged'88, Mrs. Goodfeliow, mother' of
Ag'til 37, Mil's Smith, only daughter of the Rev. Mr. Foi-ster, of Ayston, Rutland,
the Rev. 'John S. of Lopham, Norfolk, ' Sarah i'ujh, a child about 12 years of
and rector of Hinderelay, Suffolk. age, who had her throat cut by her ntor
Aired In,' Mr. Chai'Us Hardwick, fur- thet about (up o'clock in the morning,
geon, of Market-Deeping, co. Lincoln. Thisirthtimrhi act was perpetrated in a rni-
fn a cut, near Lincoln, Peter Clarke, ,1'erablc dwelling in the Gaol-lone, Hcre-
■ late of Toft Ncwten, near Market Raisin, fin d, while the child lay asleep ; but the
He was -.ppichendcd as a vagrant at Mar- mother being observed sitting in bed with
a razer
1807O OhiluQry,'wiih Anecdote t, ofremarkable "Persons. 7
a rasor M her hand, by two women who sister of Mrs. Ward (formerly a respect
lay in the same room, she covered the able actress at Drury-lane Theatre, and
child, and immediately '/tempted to cut wife of the Manager at Manchester), and
hef own throat-r however, 'she did not ef also of Mrs. Sage, who some years ago as
fect her purpose, being"prevented by the cended in a balloon with the . late Mr.
women. ■ While they' were straggling to Biggen. It is nor true, as stated in some
get the razor' out' oT hit hand, the little of the papers, that Mrs. P. was " found
girl got up, a"nd,: hol'dtng'her throat -with - dead in her bed." Several persons were
her hands, ran naked' into Bye-stfeef, with her for some hours previous to her
where her fister hved ; but, being unable death. She had laboured for several
to- articulate a ward, (he returned home, months, under an incurable disease, and
and fell breathless on the floor. The Fa had been attended by Dr. Moseleyj and
culty .were immediately called in, and Mr. Wilson the surgeon. Notwithstanding
rendered every assistance ; but to no pur this bodiry affliction,, (he performed al
pose, as, the wind-pjpe being entirely cut most every evening from the time of the
through, (he died the lame night. The Haymarket opening ; and on the night
Jury brought in a verdict of Wilful Murder before she died played her character ja
against Sarah Pugh (the mother). ' Mr. Dibdin's new comedy (" Errors Ex
" This evening;' a battle took place in a cepted"), and Mrs. Dangle in " The Cri-
field adjoining Blandford-park, Cambridge, tick," apparently in better health than (lie
between Nathaniel Cross, a shepherd to had enjoyed the whole -of the season. She
Mr. Smith of Walcot, and William Bol- was much respected in private Hfe, and
ton, son of $" respectable farmer. In the has left a wide ci«cle of acquaintance t»
third round, Cross received so violent a lament her loss. .
blpw as to occasion his immediate death. At Hutton-Bufhel, near Scarborough,
Mrs. Kelly, of ShadweU ; and, in a •co. York, a young man, named Spence,
few hours after, her sifter. was (hot dead by his companion, whs-
At Hackney, Daniel Fisher, D. D. Was instructing him in the use of arms. It
Francis Thompson, of Newark, Notts, appeared, that the father of Spence had.
a member -of the Loyal Newark Volun>j loaded' the gun in the morning, for the
teers. While exercising a pair of horses purpose of shooting birds; and not having
at Winthorpe, with one of them lashed td discharged it, the piece went off when
his arm, they became very unruly, and, they carne to the order " Fire '." and the
felting off at full speed, drove him so vio contents lodged in the body of his unfof-
lently against a tree as to occasion his im turiate son, who died almost instantly.
mediate death} •— Aged 44; Mrs. Bagge, wife of Thomas
"" 14. This afternoon, a fine boy, about 4 B. efq. of King's Lynn, and niece of the
years old, son of Mr. Bagstcr, bookseller, late Henry-Lee Warner, efq.' of Walsingi
in the Strand, fell out of the one-pair-of- ham abbey, ■ Norfolk. Mr. B's constitu
ftairs back window. He was immediately tion received so severe a sliock by the me
taken to a surgeon's, where he expired in lancholy event that he survived only 4 days.
a few minutes. ' 16. At the Cock inn at Attleburgh, co.
■ In Grove-lane, Carriherwell, Surrey^ Norfolk, on his return from Cromer, aged
Mrs. Eleanor SnCe. ' .■'■.•( 45, Mr. James Hunnybun, of Cambridge,
' At Ford-house, co. Derby, in his 74th Mr. Mayo, bookseller, Newbury, Berks.
year, John Holland, efq. 17. At Kenwick-house, near Louth, in
Mrs. Harrison, of West Broughton, in the prime of life, Hinman Allenby, efq..
Derbyshire; and, on the 17th, Mr. H. At Troy-house, near Monmouth, Mr.
her husband ; both far advanced in life. Richard Lewis, many years steward to the
In her 30th year, Mrs. Cort, wife of Duke of Beaufort.
Mr. C. and second daughter of the Rev. 18. 'In King-square, Bristol; Mr. Da
Thomas Robinson, of Leicester. niel Wait, many years a wholesale grocer
15. Mr. Henry Gilbank, cadet in the in that city.
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich* In theoloom of life, at Walworth, Sur
Mrs. Richardson, wife of Mr. R. of rey, Miss Ellis, daughter of the late Rev.
Lincoln's-inn^ fields. William E. of Alford,, co. Lincoln, and
In her 60th year, after a lingering and sister to Mr. E. of Hull, surgeon.
painful illness, Calherinc Baroness How 19. At her house, in Upper Norton-str.
ard de Waldcn and Bravbrr.oke, second Mary-la- Bonne, Mrs. Jane Halliday, relict
wife and relist of John Griffin Griffin, the of Simon H. efq. of Westcombe, Kent.
late Lord Howard, and daughter of Wil Mrs. Neate, wise Of Thomas N. efq. of
liam Clayton, of Barleysord, Bucks, efq. Binfield, Berks. .• , ■
This morning, Mrs R. Powell, of the Mr. John Gordon, copper-plate printer,
Haymarket Treatre, widow of the late Mr. Berkeley-street, St. John's-lquare.
Powell, of "Covent-^aidcn Theatre, who By a violent kick from a hoise in his
died October 9 1, 1706, almost as suddenly, stomach, Wm. Wood, labourer, of I.outh.
after pei forming 111 "Lovers' Vow?," and Suddenly,
 790 Obituary.—Theatrical Register.—Bill of Mortality. [Aug.
Suddenly, white walking to his stable, Royal Highness was, by the male line,
Mr. Richard Hamfhar, a respectable yco- the grand-daughter, the Noble Earl, in
■jan, Of 1'atcham, nsar Brighthelmstone. the female line, the great-grandson, of
L 20. The young gentlemen of the Bath Sir Robert. Her remains are to be in*
School, adjoining Manchester, having terred in the vault at Windsor, where the
gone to bathe in the old river, three of 13uke and two children were buried. -
thew were drowned near Agecroft-bridge. At St. Alban's, in her 8id year, Mrs.
The part of the river into which the suf Baskerfield, relict of Mr. Alderman B.
ferers went was deep, aud, when their After a long and severe illness, William
danger became apparent, one of the Allen, esq. of the Seal-office, in the Tem
teachers who accompanied them, but ple ; a gentleman of an intelligent mind,,
who could not swim, waded up to his and a benevolent heart.
neck, with his cloaths on, to have given In her 66th year, Mrs. Hammojid, of
them assistance, but his efforts were fruit Young-street, Kensington.
less) medical assistance was obtained as In his 7 sth year, Mr. Blenkinsop, near
speedily as possible, and every effort made 50 years clerk of the schools in the Uni
on the bodies to restore life, but in vain. versity of Oxford.
The names of the deceased pupils are, 25. Mr. Reynal, of Newcastle-place,
Kewton, Bradsha'w, and Longe. . Clerkenwell, many years principal super
31. After a lingering illness, at White- visor at the Stamp-office. •
Webbs, Enfield, Mrs. Wilkinson, wife of 2S. On the South Parade, Queen's Elms,
Dr. W. and only daughter of the late Mr. Brompton, J. Albert de Milne, esq,
Crane, of Kidderminster.
At her lodgings in Castle-street, Oxford-, THEATRICAL REGISTER.
ftreet, much lamented, Madame Gombert. Aug. Hay-Market.'
At Kensington Gravel-pits, Lieut.-col. I. The Fortress—Lock and Key-r-TheViN
Paikill, of the 34th Foot. 3. Hamlet—TheWaterman.[lageLawyer.
At Portsmouth, Mrs. Steward, wife of 5. Mogul Tale--ThcFortrels--Thc Critick.
Ambrose H. S. esq. of Ipswich. 5. The Iron Chests- Animal Magnetism.
22. Accidentally killed, by a noble 6. Blue Devils—Ways and Means—The
man's carriage going over him, in Leices Critick.
ter-square, Joseph, son of J, Read, dicker 7. The Poor Gentleman—Tom Thumb.
*t Mr. Bagot's, shpe-maker there; a fine 8. The Stranger—The Critick.
boy, aged about 7 years. 10. Hamlet—Mrs. Wiggins.
2-;. At her house at Brompton, in her 1 1 . The Wonder !—The Critick.
72d year, Maria Duchess of Gloucester. 12. The Iron Chest—Tom Thumb.
Her death was unexpected, for it was pre 13. The Irish Widow—Errors Excepted—
ceded by only a short indisposition. She The Mock Doctor.
has survived the late Duke almost two 14. The Lying Valet—Ditto—The Critick.
year?, his Royal Highness having died 15. Fortune'sFrolick—Ditto—TheR»vievr.
Aug. 25, 1805;, and was Countess-dow 17. Catch Him Who Can!—Ditto—Ka
ager of Waldegrave when she married the tharine and Petruchio.
Duke of Gloucester, Sept. 6, 1706. The 18. Five Miles Off;—Tekeli—TomThumb.
immediate occasion of her death was an 10. The Critick—Ditto—The Hunter of
■effusion/of water into the cavity of the the Alps. [Tom Thumb.
chest. Her Grace had been incapable of -20. The Fortress—Who's the Dupe i? —
much exertion lately, but did not com 21. The Waterman—Errors Excepted—
plain of serious indisposition till the 19th, The Prisoner at Large.
when her symptoms were such as to oc 22. The Stranger—The Follies of a Day.
casion some anxiety, but no alarm. On 2t. Hamlet—Tom Thumb.
the morning of the 22d, however, after .23. Five Miles Off—The Critick—Catch
having slept nearly six hours, she Was Him Who Can !
seized with great oppreliion and difficulty 2fi. The Road to Ruin—We Fly by Night.
of breathing, which continued, with but 27. Liberal Opinions —Ventriloquy—Mu-
little mitigation, throughout the day, fick Mud—Love Laughs at Locksmiths.
- and at length terminated her life. The 28. Sylvester Daggerwood —".The Stran
Duchess was, with the exception of Ear! ger— Mufick Mad.
■ Choliiiondetey, the only surviving lineal 29. The Surrender of Calais — Mufick
descendant os that great minifteri;il cha Mad—Tom Thumb. [Petruchio.
racter-, Sir Robert Walpole, K. G. Her 3 1 . The Wheel of Fortune—Katharine and
BILL OF MORTALITY-, from July 28,, to . August 25, 1807
Christened. Buried 2 aad s 128 50 and 60 99
Males ' 8538 5 I , 630 5 and 10 4t) 00 and 70 les
Females 777/ 10 and. 20 55 76 and. so. ?4
Whereof have died under 2 years old 506 "i |5 20 and 30 73 so a!id;90 24
' ■ tVck fcnat 3^.1 id.; Ss.lld.; Ss.iod.; 3<.£»d.. / £ I JO and 40 toy 9,0 and 100 3
Salt £.1. os. o i. per bushel; -id.j per pound. ^ • 4 0 and SO los" lop Q '10s o
 C 791 I
AVERAGE PRICES of CORlSf, from the Returns eiidmj August 22, l*07».
INLAND COUNTIES. MARITIME C OUNTIES.
Wh*at Rye Bailey Oats LBeans Wheat Rye Bar!« Oats Beans
i. d. «• </. In d. 1. d. j. ■ d. '». d. 1, d. 1. </.
Middles.' 7fi 9 •0 0 39 10 35 041 10 Essex 76 6 .48 0 43 30 IS
"Surrey T9 ■4 47 8 40 0 34 0 52 0 Kent 73 o, 47 0'40 32 0
Hertford 69 a 43 0 41 0 S7 6 43 0 Sussex 73 0 00 8,00 35 0
Bedford 71 5 00 0 33 6 27 4^40 0 Suffolk fig a 45 30 1
Huntingd. 70 1 00 0 35 6 26 04,1 i Cambrid. 6f> 11 43 o 39 25 0
Northam 79 0 38 6 30 1 :45 6 Norfolk 66 8 44 0,35 28 1
Rutland 76 1 64j00 0 00 0 43 6 24' 0 65 ( 8 Lincoln 77 44 0 43 46 a
Leicester 70 44 3 40 1 1 29 ,0 51 ' 0 York 7 1 00 O 35 7
Nottingh. 78 0 40 0 43 6 f I 10 52 4 Durham 82 09 0,45 10
Derby SO 4100 0 00 0 29 " 8 52 6 Northum. 71 48 340 9
Stafford 7* 8 00 0 40 6 30 853 1 Cumberl. 73 61 0.43 0
Salop 73 7.53 10 43 8 31 11 00 0 Westmor. 87 65 0!45 9
Hereford 70 7,44 8 33 4 31 7148 1; Lancaster "6 00 0 27 4
Worcest. 7* 00 0 30' 6 36 747 8 Chester 71 ( 00 0 90 0
Warwick 79 0:00 0'42 0 35 8 53 3: Flint 00 00 O 00 O
Wilts 73 10 00. 0 39 0 33 10 58 4 Denbigh 81 00 0 42 o
Berks 78 3 48 0 39 0 33 8 53 III Anglelea 00 00 0 00 0
Oxford 73 6 OS 0 34 11 32 4 48 1» Carnarvon 75 00' o;38 0
Bucks 73 1 00 0 37 11 31 11 •*£> 3 Merionet. 78 64 0 45 o
Brecon 67 2 44 9 34 4 24 0 00 0 Cardigan 77 00 o'oo (1
Montgo. 69 11 0« 0 00 0 30 3 oq o| Pembroke 65 00 0'35 o
Radnor 6a 10 00 0 33 i 27 IO 00 Carmartli. 76 00 0'35 0 o.
JjGlamorg. 83 00 0|41 10 4 a
Average of England and Wales, per quarter. '(Gloucest. 75 5 00 035 3 7 50 10
74 l.0|48 - 8|39 o|29 10|50 S'"mfr;et 80 11 '06 o'34 2 2 4
'jiMonmo. 70 lOjOO o'oo O 1
1 Devon 82 6|00 o'39 11 ioj
Average of Sc»tland, per quarter. I 'Cornwall 84 3 00 9.U1 10] 6joo
69 4|39 2l34 8,29 4|46 2 Dersct ' 78 8|oo 0 36 0 53
I iHants 73 5'00 D38 9;oo
AS3REGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England ani
Wabic, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain,
Wheat Rye 1 Ba-.ev Oats Beans Pease Oatmeal 1 Beer or Big
s. d. s. d. 1i 4- d. i. d. s. d. «. d, I s. d.
74 7 I 49 6 38 4 28 9 50 0 58 si 39 »» | 00 0
PRICES OF FLOUR, August 24:
Fine 55s. to 5Ss.—Seconds 50». to 55s.—Pollard 28s. to. 32s.—Bran 8s. to 10s. od.
Return of Flour, August 8 to August 14., from the Cocket-Office :
Total 10,246 Sacks. Average 63s. 3d.£—l>s. ld.^ lower than the last Return.
OATMEAL, per Boll of I40lbs. Avoirdupois, August 22, 44s. id.
Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending
August 26, I807, is 34s. 7d. per Cwt. exclusive of the Duty of Customs paid
or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.
PRICE OF HOPS, August 24:
Kent Bags 5l. os. to 61. 6s. I Kent Pockets. . M. 12s. to. ?1. OS.
Sussex Ditto 5l. os. to 5l. 12s. Sussex Ditto. .. . 5l. 10S. to 61. 1QS.
Essex Ditto Sj. 0s. to 5l. 10s. , Farnham Ditto.. 7l.' OS. tO 8l. OS.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, August 24
St. James's—Hay... .41. 12s. Od. to 61..' 10s. od. Average 5l. 11s. Od.
Clover.. .51. Os. Od. to 61. Os. od. Average 5l. 10s. pd.
Whitechapel—Hay . . .41. 10s. od. to 61. 8s. od. Average $1. 9s. ad.
Clover.. 5l. os. od. to 61. 18s. od. Average 5l. )gs. od.
Straw. ..2!. 12s od. to 3l. 6s. oi. Average al. 19s. od.
SMITHFIELD, August '24. To fink the offal—per stone of sib.
Bee/ 3s. 4(1. u -is. 4d. ! Po-k 4s. el. to 5s. 4 A.
Mutton 4s. od. to 48. - 8d.- L.-.mb i.ss. ed. to 6s. 'od.
Vem ... 4s, od. to 6s. Cd. j Btvtls 1>00. Sheep and Lambs 17,500.
COALS, Aug. 24: Newcastle 4Os. od. to 51*. fid'., Seim-iland 3<js. od. to 42s. od.
SOAP.i'ellOW.KOS. Mottled 90s. Curi',y4j. CANDLES, 1 0 ..od. pc-i>..T. Moulds 1 13. od.
TALLOW/perstone, i)u. si.James 3s.3d.j Clare Mhrket 3s. id. Whitechapel 3s. 3i
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Noop. 1l Barom. Weather Morn. Noon. °(J jj Rarom Weather
in< pts. in Sept. 180? • i». pts in Sept. 1807.
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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-
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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 .
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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.
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE;

For SEPTEMBE Ry 1 807. V

LETTERS FROM HOLLAND AND GERMANY IN 179*-

LETTER III.
Amheim, April isi, 17<)4, the Moravian Missionaries making their
My Dear Friend,' way through burning deserts and .ihe
iv sfe *>i£\tc/ WROTE to you from howling wilderness, and plaining the
Utrecht on- the 14th. role of Sharon amidst the snows oi
.Jxt On that day we made Gieenland ; in (hor.t, the labours of
3$K I ^ m excursion to Zeir'l, thole worthies are a striking exemplifi
^ a most beautiful vil- cation of that charity nhjch, to ule
Cfc \*£ y lase five miles to the 'the language os Inspiration; bearethatl
JRSR»t-»t« East'of Utrecht, which things, belitvcth all thing':, ■ hopeth alt
no traveller ought to omit visiting. things, enditreth all tilings : and this
Here the Siadtholder lay encamped their "work of faith, and labour of
when ihe Prussians came to his relief, love, and patience of hope," will be
in 1787, and delivered Holland from told for a memorial of the Unitus
the sellers of Republican Ivtanny. But Fraintm in all churches of the Saints
Zeili is chiefly memorable as a Mora to the end of time. • Y"U know the
vian Settlement, which commenced in doctrinal system of the Moravian Bre
1746, and has ever since continued to thren accords with the Confession of
flourish under the fostering win? of Augsburg ; aud their Liturgy, in the
the Stales of Utrecht. The principal main poin»», is in unison with our
part ol the village of Zeifl (brine a large oven, of which we jnlllv boalt as a
square of neal and elegant buildings, model of pure and primitive worship.
surrounded by delightful groves and With regard to their constitution aud
walks. The Moravians have a hand discipline, they lay claim to ihe title
some place nf worship, which is served of a Protestant Episcopal Church, and
by iwo pastors ; and, iince their full esta proved their Episcopal Succession 10
blishment here, they have maintained the entire iatisfuction of two of our
an uniform 'lanctity of character, which most, eminent Primates; I mean the
has gained them general elieetn. They Archbishops Wake and Potter ibe
have, moreover, introduced into the latter of whom wrote a congratulatory
Settlement a great variety of useful Epistle to the famous Count Zinzeu-
trades ; and the, village rs adorned with dorf, on his being consecrated a Bi-
many beautiful (hops, in which 1 law fhop of the .Moravian Church. They
abundance of curious w-ares, and nu have also beer) formally recognized by
merous specimens of exquisite Work an Act of the British .Legislature as
manship. You are no llraiiger 10 my (en- Protestant Episcopalians ; .and there
timents respecting the Moravian Bre fore, as Members of me Church of
thren. I know no feel ofChristians who • England, we cannot, with any ..consist
so conspicuously exhibit that badge bv ency, withhold from them the ri^ht-
which tfiegreatHeadof iheChurch cha hand of fellowship. I have, two Cle
racterised fits genuine followers, name rical Friends, whose sentiments con
ly, brotherly love. Their labours among cerning the Moravian Brethren are
the Heathen are well known, aud af- quite in unison with mv own, .ajid- I
ftrfd trie molt convincing proof that ihe have a -letter from each of them now be
J.Vve of Christ is the grand source of fore me, of which, I gige you, the fol-
true philanthropy. Under the influence* lowiosj extracts, "which, froiri your
$if tlut Divine principle, we haie seen .knowledgevj tfe meu,<4.nd their commu-
'••-•> • - ' <■' '■ .. nicatien'.
796 Lettersfrom Holland and Germany in 1794- [Sept.
nicalion, you will read, I am' sure, happier hours T never'expect to pass in
with peculiar satisfaction : " The this world, lhari I ha'e enjoyed in the
Moravian Brethren, who have been society and converse os the Brethren.
honoured with such success in Green The remembrance of their exaltttd
land and in the wiids of America, piety, their puritv of manners, their
were not furnished with arts and heavenly conversation, their bror
sciences, and were incapable of logi therly love, is chearing to my heart.
cal aud learned discussions, but their Among many worthies whom I could
breaiis were warmed with ihe love of mention, how sweet and resreihing is
God and man: i hey preached with the memory of Benjamin La Trobe, rjf
great simplicity Jesus Christ and him whom 1 never think without frying to
crucified ; they endured hardship ; they myself in the words of Bishop Lowth,
declined no danger; they fought not At venietfclkiys ojvum,
the praise of men; they were unremit Qnmldo ilerum tecumfi mudn dignuseto."
ting in their labours ; if reviled, thi-y
reviled not again ; if injured, thev bore To return from this digression, for
it patiently ; they eared not only for which I ant fore von will requite' no
the fouls, but for the bodies of their apology. After we had ''ratified our
hearers, and endeavoured to recom curiosity at Zeilt, we returned io spend
mend their doctrine to them by every the evening at Ui'echt. On our arri
kind and benevolent office in their val there, we heard of a barbarous
power; they placed 'their whole de murder just committed upon a Jew by
pendence upon Him whom they a teacher of EnglisiS in 'hat cilv. The
preached ; stud thus they enlightened murderer was in Cuflodv. and was
the moll ignorant, and lamed the1 molt shortly to suffer the dreadful punish
savage. Surely to them the prophecy ment of being broken on the wheel.
has been signally fulfilled . 'The wil This mode of execution, which I am,
derness and the solitary place (hall he happy to fay i» unknown in our nar
glad, and the desert shall rejoice, and tive land, is common on the Conti
blossom like the rose." 1 hope I have nent. At. the fame lime, 1 am far
profiled by their history and example." from being an advocate fur our crimi
—" I spent nearlv three days laiely nal code of Jurisprudence, which is
with the Moravians at . There bv much too sanguinary ; and it were
I seemed, in no small degree, to have greatly io be wished, that our pnnith-
entered inio the rest appointed for the nicms bore a juste r proportion to crimes
people of God. Stillness, patitnt in- than they do. The gradations of vice
dultry, contentment, i'elf- abasement, are confounded by our penal laws ; and
love, humility, and fervent pieiy, wete men are often incited (o commit a
conspicuous among that happy society. greater crime, in order lo prevent the
I was admitted to their familiar life, detection of a less. It is the voice of
and 10 their most solemn devotions. nature, that he who enibrues his hand
Nobody was flattered, nor was any in the blood of a fellow-creature, is
one neglected. Authority there was unfit to live in focietv —and the voice
indeed among them, but obedience of Nature is the voice of God ; but we
was so readily paid as to make autho ought to remember mercy in the midjl
rity scarcely discernible. The pride of of judgment, and not lo protract arid
that kwowledge which pufleth up, and diversify the agonies of the unhappy
the vain desire of praise, were un culprit, but to be satisfied with a de
known there ; they were strangers to privation of life in the most easy and
abject poverty on the one hand, and exprdiiious manner possible.
to haughty wealth, with its empty We invited Professor Brown, and a
trappings, on the other hand ; in short, young Gentleman who now occupies
I seemed to be in a world as yet uncon a chair in the University of St. An
scious of the agitations, the bitterness, drew's, to spend the evening with us
the distraction, which elsewhere so ult- at our Inn, and they furnished us with
happilv pifvail lor want of a Ipirit of an Attic evening's entertainment. I
true religion. ' I assure yon, my friend, was much amused with some anecdotes
there .are lew topics which so warm they gave us of a very popular preacher
tiiv breast, and animate my pen, as who has lately figured away at Utrecht,
those which reler to the Moravian Bre and was indeed the chief subject of
thren My first removal from Alma conversation while we were there. He
Mater was to a place w here they had a is quite a young man, handsome in
tery relpectable congregation ; aud his person, of most insinuating address,
andj
1807.] Letter fromXJtrecht.-Mirack at Winifred's Well. 797-
and so distingpished are his talents of
oratory, that wherever he is expected
to preach, the church is filled long her
fore the appointed hour. His powers
of persuasion are great indeed, and he
is such a master of the pathetic, that
he can melt his auditory into tears
whenever he has a mind. The im
pression he made upon the ladies was
extraordinary. A great many voting
ladies of beauty and fashion were over
head and ears in love with him ;<»r, lo
speak in their own language, "dying for
liini ;" and I mutt not omit mention
ing a singular anecdote of one os his
admirers, a very pretty voting woman
of Utrecht ; she walked close at his
heels one duv in the street from the
church to his own house, and aster
treading in his steps all the way, she
took oiff tier shoes upon her return
home, imorinled a thotdand kides
upon the soles, and now keeps them
locked up in a drawer as sacred relics,
to which she pays her devotion regu
larly everv morning when she rises,
and she continues this pra6lice, rtot-
withslanding she his loll all hope of
being united in wedlock to the Preach
er, wlio has lately been married to a
Countess in the province of Utrecht,
whose relations opposed the match
with all their might, and- strove bv all
possible methods todivert her mind from
the Dnmiiie, but all to no purpose ;
her constant answer was, " No alter
native but the Domirif or death ; unless
I am permitted to marry him, it faiil
mourir de chagrin ;" and they were
forced to submit to the mortification of
having the noble blood of the house of
Randwyk contaminated by the union
of a plebeian.
We arrived at this place last night.
I role verv early this morning to write
to you and another friend. It is now
time to go lo breakfast, afer which I
stall take a view of Arnheim. We
purpose setting out this afternoon for
KiftKguen, from whence you may ex
pect to hear from me ; in the mean
time, I remain vottr sincere friend.
Mr. Urban. Wok'erhampton, Sept. 2.
ACOrtRESPONDENT in your
last, who calls himself, A well-
disposed Chriflian, alias a Protestant,
not without some sparks of belief,
gently reproaches tne with having neg
lected to notice the strictures of P. C.
in voiir number for June last, on
*' The authentic Documents relative to
the miraculous Cure of Win. White,
&e." published by me about two years
ago. Both thele writers are entitled,
to my respect ; and I sliould not have
left the former so long without an an
swer, had not distant journeys, and
the composition of a work now almost
ready sur the press, rendered it impos
sible for me lo fend one tooner. But as
to other writers, who are in the habit of ■
applying the epithets insolent and im
pudent, and of giving the lie to thole '
who differ from them upon theologi
cal siilgects ; or who, when fairly and
fully answered, repeat their objections
again and again in different compost- 1
tions, but in the fame form of words,
like the inlect which weaves its net
in the fame converging and tranlverle
lines, as often asit is swept away ; I with,
to have no relation with them either
of peace or war.
Happily, mv answer to P. C. may
be brought within a narrow compass j
as he refuses to enter into the question
of fact concerning the late cure with
me. Jn like manner, Mr. Urban, I
observe your Reviewer, in his criti-:
cifms upon my pamphlet several months
ago,, did not dispute the truth of a
single document contained in it ; nor
has Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in the no
tice which he has taken of it in his
colllv edition of Giraldus Cambrensts,
questioned a single fact. This past
ing over of matter of fact by my seve
ral critics has not, vou mult observe,
happened through inattention to it.
For many are the visits from respect
able and intelligent persons, which
Wioefred White has received j and le-
vere have been the examinations which
she and thole acquainted with her in
rhis town have undergone, in order to
invalidate the statements of the pam
phlet, had this been practicable.
How then, Sir, does P. C. proceed
in his attack upon me? He makes
doctrine the test of mi'acles, and not
miracles the tell of doctrine, in oppo
sition to the constant argumentation of
our Saviour and bis Disciples*. He
maintains, that real miracles n^iv be
wrought in support of false doctrine,
without the necessity of superior mira
cles to counteract them; in opposition
lo all Christian Apologists and Tueolo-
gians. In a word, he appeals lo the
following text of Scripture, in which
consilis the strength of his argument,
* tohi) ix. 28, 2<), 30, 31, 32, 33.
 798 T>r. MWner cnsupposed Msack at Winifred's^//. [Scpr.
" If there arise among you a prophet tor between God and Man, if I desire
or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth you a his Blessed Mother to pray to him,
sign or a wonder, and the sign or th« n.ow that she is iii Heaven, for the re
wonder come to pass whereof he spake lief of. my necefli ties corporal or spiri
unto thee, saying ; Let us go after other tual, than it was for the good people
Gods which thou haft not known, and Ut of Ca.ua, in Galilee, to request her to
vs serve them ; thou shalt nut hearken obtain from this her Son a miraculous
unto that prophet or that dreamer of supply of wine? John ii. I. JJmv
dreams ; for the Lord your God proveth that the prayers of Catholics to the
you, &c. Deut. xiii." Saints are precisely of ibis nature,, -that
This text being cited, P. C. endea is to lav, no more than lucre petitions
vours to fliew tliat Catholics do, in to the. Saints to join their prayers with
fact, go afier str.vnge Gods, by the ours for obtaining good things from
' practice of praying to Saints, Sic. But the only Cher of all good gifts, our
first, Sir, is theflipftojiilti/i in ihe book Catechism books, our Sermons, and
of Deuicronoruy concerning a sign the decisions of our Councils, incontro-
wrought in continuation of idolatry, vertihly prove. \Vh.ere then is the
any more a prool of the possibility <>f idolatry ? Where is 'he derogation
such a miracle, than the supposition from the Divine honour io^ ibis prac
made by St. Paul, of an angel's com tice ? My opponent P. C. is too well
ing down from Heaven to leach a new instructed to be entirely, satisfied with
Gospel, is an argument that an Angel his argument as he has first staled it ;
can really come upon Inch an errand ? accordingly, he endeavour* to prop it
Can P. C. alledge a single instance out up in lite followum manner :
of the Old or the New Testament, or " Whatever worship," says he, " can
out of any authentic history, of a real, not be oftei ed without necessarily ascrib
incontestable miracle being wrought ing to the object of it some Divine attri
for any wicked purpose, or at least, bute, is specifically divine. Now such wor
without a superior miracle b'ing ship is prayer to departed Saints ; because
wn ught to counteract its enVet ? The this ascribes either omnipresence or omni
text above-cited, Sir, evidently alludes science to them."
not to miracles of this description, but Does then tny opponent, Sir, aseribe
to such ptestigaiions as arc recorded of either omnipresence or omniscience to lhe
Pharaoh's Magicians, of SimonMaiius, Avgtls of Gij/i, when he ptniefses his
of Elynras, and of the damsel possessed faith in the declaration of our Divine
wi'h the -spirit of divination. Saviour, ihat they rejoice fit the cower-
In cafe, however, my opponent is
■deteruiiticd still 10 contest with me this Jinn ofsinners here upon earth ? For,
Sir, m'av it not be a quality belonging
his major proposition, 1 will answer in to unbodied Spirits, to hear and to fee
the language of the Schools, trunseat what pastes in this world, wjthout the
major ; let it be supposed that the Ru organs of ears and eyes ? Or other-,
ler of the Universe can invert his natu wife, may not this faculty be conferred
ral laws, in order to tempt his creatures upon them as a privilege and a revvard ;
to tranlgrefs his moral laws ; let it be in order that, leeing the wonderful
supposed that a miracle may happen in dealings of God with men, they may
future, though no ope has vet hap adore and enjoy him more perfectly !
pened, to establish idolatry, or some Finally, may not God communicate
other wickednese.; the matter which to his elect, in a special manner, the
remains to be proved is the minor pro- wants, the wishes, and the addresses
posilio of my antagonist ; namely, that of their parents, children, friends,- and
prayers to the Bleised Virgin and the clients here upon earth, in order that
Saints, as taught and practised in the they may continue those exercises of
Catholic Church, is iJnhilrovs fin con charity towards them in Heaven which
formity- with the oath of every Mem theyheretofore practised upon earth ? On
ber of .the British Parliament) or dero any of these schemes, and 011 many
gatory from the honour due to the Su -others which Divines suggest, it -is
preme Being. I ask then, can any evidently possible to offer up pfavers to
one make out this charge, so generally the Saints, without either the ablindity
(tind so confidently urged, o.n the or the blasphemy of supposing them or
ground either of Reason or of Scrip, -any other creature whomsoever, to fa
lure? Can any one prove to me that thom the depths of infinite wisdom, or
it is more injurious to the only Media >-\o-siH the heavens audMue earth, '.like
 t8o7'sJ' -t>r. Milner.—Epitaph for a French Loyalist. 799
the immense Being ; an absurdity and will, 1 flatter myself, be not unaccept.
blasphemy which every Cathfclic ana able to you for your valuabje Miscel
thematizes as heartily as P. C. can do. lany. ^4- ■ * * V
As to the red of mv opponent's letter, Ci git
I have little or nothing lo do with it. Emmanuel Marie du Rocher du Quengo,
He is under a 'great mistake in suppos Vicnmte de Saint Riveul,
ing th'it 1 compare the miraculous cure Chevalier de 1'Ordre Royal et Militaire
which the Almighty was pleased to de St. Louis,
perform two years ago, in order 10 re Chef d'Escadre des Armees Navaks-
lieve one (if the .most afflicted of human de S. M.T. C.
beings, with those which he wrought decede le 21 Avril J 800,
1800 years ago for the conversion of age de 66 ans.
the world, aud the support of bis Gos 'Rcjuicfcot in Pace.
pel to the end of it. I barely gave Son Cceurde rAnutiefutleparfaitmodelle.
a cadiioti in my hook to those , who 11 cultiva l»,'s Arts ; il pratiqua le Bien.
might make au attack upon the former A 1'Honncur, a Ibn Roi, dans tous les
tems fidelle ;
mirac'e, so to conduct it' as hot to,in II vecut pour la Gloire, et mourut u«
jure the latter miracle. For the rest, if Chretien.
P. C. or any other man can prove
what he aster. s, that the Catholic ARCHITECTURAL Innovation.
Church has corrupted /he Scriptures, No. CX'II.
or that (lie puts upon a level with these Royai, Palace, Westminster.
mere human traditions, or thai- she has (Confirmed from p. 735, and concluded.)
set aside any one Divine Commandment, INTERIOR ot St. Stephen's Chapel.
or that (he is idolatrous in any respect A Alter tearmgdown the wainscoting,
whatsoever, I here public!', declare ieats.-fcc. as fitted upin this place (a cen-
that I wiU not remain a moment after tnry back) for the accommodation of the
such proof in her Communion. To be Members of the House of Commons;
lure, 1 Ihalt then Jiave to examine the after laying open to view the splendid
claims of at least i 0,000 other deno walls, so the surprize aud admirttioo of
minations of Christians, antient and the Public; afier permiuing/oœe artists,
modern : but that will be mv misfor and refusing others, through a despicable
tune; for it would he not less than
madness in me in quitting inv own fear, to draw from the remains ; after
Church to enter into any other wlthr_ committing the most wanton and cruel
but a demonstration of its superior havoc on the Architecture and Paint
ings ; what have these foes to antient
truth and sanctity- John Milner.
P. S. 1 can never adequately express artpoor
obtained? Why. a bench, one
Milan- bench rum in between the
mv obligations to an Honourable and opening of each window ; and to effect
, Learned Gentleman, v.iio, from the this purpose, ihe ruthless hammers were
mere impulse of justice and honour, raised, and many of the most perfect' spe
has, in your last number, undertaken , cimens of the chilsel and pencil have
the defence of me, almost a stranger to been destroyed, or otherwise
him, from the calumnious charge of a Surely with some ihere mustgotberida su of.
writer who .had been his e«r;y friend. preme delight gratified when in the
Thus defended, as .mv doctrine upon act of extirpating our Antiquities, or
Oaths is, by one of.the molt 'profound
ethical scholars living, " there is evi they would have contrived to set the
dently no occasion fur 'mv audir.g .any Western
warder,
range of (eats a few feet back-
and then the needful space for
thing in viiioSca<icm of it.; nor will 'I additional seats
add any thing lo ,the answer which .1 been obtained. with ease might have
The rest, or prior ac
have. given to mv opponent., in g-ne- commodation
ra|, after the Appendix I ' have pup is replaced, andofwithout wainscot, seats, &c
anv alteration.
il shed to the second erlitioti of my Case On
of Conscience, in winch th'S contro (aid 'this head we may reflect, that in
accommodations there was neither
verted doctrine is contained;, in its' ori Antiquity to be despised, or beautiful
ginal form. J. M. traces of workmanship to be obliterated!
Mr. Uh ban, 'Sept. 14. Of the interior of the famous Hutch-
T^HE following inscription on a patlery (site of
at the East end of 'the Chaptfl
the A! ar) so much commented
A head-stone in the church-vatd of on in the
St. Giles, at llciidiug^ iu -Berldhire, ting here loexterior description, it i» fis
note for what purpose it iV
ustd.
 So © Arch '* fl.-Lorg Lifepromised to Filial Obediencei [Sept.
used. Wny, in a wh""per let me un
fold j an <:c:'.finnal tncrou; hfare, .Hid
for -he ori&sional, private resort oi
he member' !
Ha>e these Innovator* never read, or
h^ve they s rgot, i hat at the completion
os arttltnt religious huildin.s, a so-
' lemn .(pr ice vas performed, wherein a
curle v.is :<• •■ruuirccd, against, all thole
who ni'gn1 in, afertimcs defile, dilapi
date or destroy such works? How
fearfoHv and tml v such denunciations
have been fulfilled, History sufficiently
demnnflratc >. I cnld name on this
occasion (1 desist for. the present) an
awlol example of this nature, even
since St. Stephen's Chapel has been
made to groan; nay, even now, at
this crisis, before Henrv Vllih's cha
pel is made 10 tremble, and it is possible
(which I fervint'y pray Heaven to
avert) be made to fall ! My 'oo well-
grounded tears drive me to " something
like prophetic" rage !
Promised Repetition, p. 216.
Hum of llih Survey.
"Aniient Arrangement is wholly
overlooked in the scene before 11s, or
utterly dt spiled ; modern convenience,
and modern common, run of house
work alone directing the heterogene
ous mass." And now let me add, havoc
and destruction of the original parts of
the fabrics, done without compunction
or remorse.
Before I conclude this essay, I beg
my readers lot allow me once more to
bring my verv good friend the Grecian
Architect once more to their recollec
tion, whom I took the liberty to in
troduce ai the opening of my remarks.
That he means never to relinquish the
idea of raising around the remains of
the Palace certain structure) in the Gre
cian mode is evident ; as in the last
Exhibition, he brought forward a
drawing for the " Water Front" of his
Palace addition. This drawing is in
continuation of a regular systematic se
ries of designs already before the world,
relative to his proposed improvements.
Impartiality must gran; due praise for
his correctness of lines and judicious dis
tribution of parts; that is, (imply and
of itself ; as it is an avowed distinct
supplementary business, ani to be
brought about on no presumption of
being a thing relevant to the style of
the Palace, or otherwise. If I am
correct in this prospectus, the Grecian
proposes his material for building not 10
be stucco, or coinpo, but good and
durable stoue.
Since my commencement of this
Survey, many small articles hive been
added to the new works, some dilapi
dations done to the flill-endoring did
walls, and mitch of both of these kind
os experiments are still to be entered
upon ; which, as ihev are proceeded
with and made l-are 10 ihe town, shall
in p-oper order be communicated in a
Third Survey.
It is with much sati faction that I
understand another friend of mine, J.
C. is setting ready a fur'. her detail of
" Architectural Proceedings from West
minster Abbey ," he having, it seems,
entirely undertaken lhat department of
Survey, as the Church is about to be
come one est'oit of indiscriminate In
novation. An Architect.
Mr. Urban, Sept. 2.
IS there any prospect of Mr. Shaw's
" Staffordshire'' being continued? —
or of Mr. Blorc's long expected "l)er-
bvfhire" being begun? These are very
gre&\. Desiderata 10 Antiquaries ; parti-
culatly to A Subscriber to both.
Mr. Urban, Sept. 14.
MR. Belfliam (p. '628,) observes,
" though all allow that it u the
indispensable duty os children 10 ho
nour their parents, sew, 1 suppose, un
der the Christian dispensation, would
expect to live a day the longer on lhat
account." A better Teacher lays,
" Honour thy father and mother
(which is the first commandment with
promise) that it nuiy be well with thee,
and thou muyejl. live long on ihe earth."
Eph. vi. 2, 3 It appears, therefore,
that the sanction of the precepts, in
bolh its parts, length of days and pros
perity (Deut. v. iC) is still in force;
and the onlv alteration which the
" Christian Scriptures" have made in
this mailer is by extending the pro
mise : which, as delivered to the Jews,
was limited, in the lelter of it, to that
particular land which the Lord their
God was then giving them, but is now,
agreeably to the nature of an universal
dispensation, open to all " the earth ;"
so lhat filial ohedience, in whatever
part of the habitable globe it shall
please God tor call men into the light
and privileges of ihe Gospel, is encou
raged tohope for long life and prosperity,
not on ihe score os human merits but
from the mercy and sure promises ofGocl.
P. 634, 1. 1 8, for*'honour," read " reve
rence."—P. 70?i, h. 1. 4 from bottom, for
« Hind," read « Hind." H. C,
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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.
undertook. I imagined it to be one
of those fine old sea;$ os which there
are numbers scattered over England.
But this is so peculiar, and its situa
tion of so uncommon a kind, that it
merits a more particular description.
•'The house is in the form of an H.
The bodv of it, which was built bv
Sir Walter Rawleigh, consists of four
stories, with four six-angled towers at
the ends. These have since been joined
to four wings, with a regular stone
balustrade at the top, and four towers
more that finish the building. The
windows and gales are of a yellow stone
throughout ; and one of the flat sides
toward the garden has the wings of a
newer architecture, with beautiful Ita
lian window-frames, done by the first
Earl of Bristol, which, if they were
joined in the middle by a portico co
vering the old building, would be a
noble front. The design of such an
one I have been amusing myself with
drawing ; but it is a question whether
my Lord Digby will not be belter
amused than to execute it. The finest
room is a saloon fifty feet long, and a
parlour hung with very excellent ta
pestry of Rubens, which was a present
from the King of Spain to the Earl of
Bristol, in his embassy, there.
"This stands in a park finely
crowned with very high woods on all
the tops of the hills, which form a
great amphitheatre Hoping down to the
house. On the garden sides the woods
approach close, so that it appears there
•with a thick line and depth of groves
on each hand, and Ib it shews from
most parts of the park. The gardens
are so irregular, that it is very hard
to give an exact idea of them, but by
a plan. Their beauty arises from this
irregularity ; for not only the several
parts of the garden i'self make the bet
ter contrast hy these sudden rises, falls,
and turns of ground ; but the views
about it are let in, and hang over the
walls in very different figures and as
pects. You come first ont of the house
into a green walk of standard limes,
with a hedge behind them, that makes
a colonnade; hence into a little trian
gular wilderness, from whose centre
you see the town of Sherborne, in a
valley* interspersed with trees. From
thc.eorivr of this you issue at once
Mpon a hiih green terrace the whole
bfeadth os the garden, which has five
more %if>e.n terraces hanging under
eaol* other, without hedges, only a sew
[Sept.
pyramid yews and large round honey
suckles between them. The honey
suckles hereabouts are the largest and
finest I ever law. You'll be pleased
when I tell you the quarters of the
abovenienlioned little wilderness are
filled with these, and with cherry-
trees of the best kinds, all within reach
of the hand. At the ends of these
terraces run two long walks, under
the side walls of the garden, which
communicate with the other terraces
that front these, opposite. Between
the valley is laid level, and divided
into two irregular groves of horie-ches-
Rtitf, and a bowling-green in the mid
dle of ahout one hundred and eighty
feet. Tin's is bounded behind witn
a canal, that runs quite across the
groves, and alsoalotigoiiesideia the form
os a T. Behind this is a semicircular
lerceau, and a thicket of mixed trees,
that compleats ihe crown of the Am
phitheatre, which is of equal extent
' with the bowling-green Beyond that
runs a natural river through green
banks of turf, over which rises another
row of terraces, the first supported by
a (lope wall plained with vines ; so is
also the wall that bounds the chan
nel of the river. A second and third
appeared above this ; hut they are to
be turned into a line of wildernels with
wild winding walks, for the conveni
ence of palling from one side lo the
other in shade, the heads of whose
trees will lie below the uppermost ter
race of all, which compleats the gar
den, and overlooks both that and the
country. Even above the wall of this
the natural ground rises, and is crowned
with several venerable ruins of an old
castle, with arches and broken views,
of which 1 must fay more hereafter.
"When you are at the left, corner
of the canal, and the chesnut-grnves
in the bottom, you turn of a sudden,
under very old trees, into the deepest
siiade. The walk winds you up a hill
of venerable wood, over-arched by Na
ture, and of a vast height, into a cir
cular grove, on one side of which is a
close high arbour, on the other a sud
den open feat, that overlooks the mea
dows and river with a distant large
prospect. Another walk under thi»
lull winds by the river side, quite co
vered with high trees on boih bank*,
overhung with ivv ; where falls a na
tural calcade, with never-ceasing mur
murs. On the opposite hanging of
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
grove in the district of Horace's estate,
Plin. lib. iii. cap. 12. and, 41s appears,
a very antient chapel also, which since
nobody chose to be at the expence of
teepinc it in repair, had gradually fal
len to decay. 1 figure to myself our
poet sitting here on the grass, in a
pleasant, wild, and solitary spot, near
-to this lime-worn rustic chapel, and
communicating to his absent friend
the sentiments adapted to such a scene ;
and I find this figure more agreeable
than the joke of Torrentius. W. T.
Mr. Urban, » Augn/l<22.
W FEVER'S «« Funeral Monu-
meitts," mentioned LXXVI.
1 1 98. asawork "executed with thegreat-
est fidelity,"are,inMr.Granger'saccount
of him, represented "as egregiouflydefi-
cient in point of accuracy, especially in
the numeral letters and figures." In this
censure he is fully supported by the fa
mous Henry Wharton, in his '* An-
glia Sacra," i. 668, who thus charac
terizes him : " Quod Weaverum atti-
net, is mortalium omnium insœlicifli-
mus cunctos fere numeros ex sepul-
chralihus ritulis in farraginein suam
descriptos vitiavit." Hearne, in p. 77
of his second volume of " Letand's
Itinetary," mentions that a copy of
Weever's book, " wiih large MS
improvements, by the author himself,
was procured bv that curious collector
of books Mr. Thomas Rawlinfon, of
the Middle Temple." Dr. Buckler, in
his preface to " Stemmaia Chichele-
ana," Oxford, 1765, describes Weever
as *' very liable to mistake in the as
sortment of his Collections." In
" Archæologia," xi. 447, among the
presents to the Society of Antiquaries,
appear " Original MSS. of John Wee*
Ver, most of which were inserted by
the author in his Funeral Monuments.
These MSS. were lately in the posses-
lion os Mr. John Lane, of Hilliugdon,
in the county of Middlesex: at whose
death they came into the possession of
AVilliam Sauthouse, Esq. who pre
sented them to the Society." May not
these be the same with those noticed
bv Hearne as having come,- after the
author's death, " to his_ nephew Mr.
Caltharn, who lived in Little Bri
tain ?" Weever speaks with gratitude
of his tmor, Dr. Robert Pearson, in
p. 864 01 his printed work.
P. 1262. col. I, 1. 12, for " hero"
we should surely read " heir." In
1799 he is described as " Thomas
Comber, B.A. late of Jesus College,
Cambridge," in the title-page of an
octavo volume of *' Memoirs of Tho
mas Comber, D.D some time Dean
of Durham," who was his great grand
father. These " Memoirs" were an
nounced in 1778 by Thomas Comber,
LL.D. in note z on p. 105 of his-
" Menioirsof the Lord Deputy Wandes-
forde," printed atCauibridge as Vol. II.)
Sir C. Wandesforde's " Book of In
structions to his Son" having been pub
lished as Vol. I. in 1777, 12mo. The
editor of the " Biographia Briiannica,"
referred to by your Reviewer, has not
corrected a mistake * of his predecessor,
in the first note 011 " the Life of this
Dean Comber; wherein he confounds
him with the Dean of Carlisle, of both
his names, who died in 1 653 ; to
whom he erroneously ascribes the
" Historical Vindication of the Divine.
Right of Tithes, kc. in Answer to Sel-
den's History of Tithes ;" the second
edition of which " Vindication, parti,
corrected and enlarged," was printed in
quarto in 1685 ; to which is added
" A Discourse concerning Excommu
nication," which was republistied by
Dr. Cave in 1702, making one of the
Tracts in the second folio of our Au
thor's " Companion to the Temple
in which also " A Dialogue concern
ing the Right of Tithes" immediately
follows this Discourse on Excommuni
cation, which in the quarto of 1685 is
followed by " Part II. of the HistorU
cal Vindication, &c. in Answer to th»
Objections of other Authors." If
Browne Willis, who is referred to in
the Biographia for the date and place
of the burial of the Dean of Carlisle, is
correct in fixing them on "March 8
in St. Botolph's Church, Cambridge,"
how are we 10 account for the Sertnon
in Sion College Library, O. xiit. 21,
by " II. Bowman, B. D. at the Fune
ral of TlioinasCouiber.D.D. March 29,
lsi53, Rotn. viji. 2 ?" This sermon is
not registered in Letsome's " Preacher's
Astiflant." It is an odd circumstance
that at the end of the Dean of Dur
ham's " Epistle Dedicatory" prefixt to
the second edition of the " Vindica-
tion. Part I," above referred to, his
* A. Wood has committed the fame
tniltake in " Athen. Oxon." II. 803,
w here we should for " Trnr. Coll." sub
stitute " Sidney Sujfat Coll."
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 1 807.3 Biographia, ?—Infer/) ition for Mr. Somerville. 809
name is spelt * " Camber," though in extremely rude. May not the cross
the title- page it is "Comber." He placed over the circle, allude to Druid-
died in 1699. The Dean of Carlisle it'm being superseded by Christianity ?
does not appear to have been an au The observations of your antiquarian
thor, though it is evident from Wal friends are requested.
kers "Sufferings of the Clergy," Part Fig. 3. Sculpture, formerly at St.
II. p. 9, 10, that he was esteemed by Margaret's Well, an atuient holy well
his contemporaries as a man eminent in the township- of Hafbury, in the
hi literature. The Dean of Durham is parish of Hales-Owen. Dr. Nash, in
registered by Lelfome as having printed his History of Worcestershire, gives
five single Sermons ; and the Bodleian the following account of it : *' One of
Catalogue will furnish the titles of the stones contained some curious
several more publications not enume sculpture ; the figure of a man (in the
rated in the " Biographia Britannica ;'' first compartment) in the posture of
in a future volume of, which we may hasty walking; in the next compart
reasonably expect, among the " Cor ment, that of another man leaning on
rigenda and Addenda," a more com- crutches. From hence we, may fairly
f lete detail of the history of tile two conclude, that the sanative virtue of
>eans of the names of Thomas Com- good cold water (for it is impregnated
berT But when are we to expect ano with no mineral as I could discover)
ther volume of this unfinished work ; especially when accompanied with
the last os which was published so long exercise, and a strong faith in St. Mar
since as in 17y3 ? Ihe reputation of garet, was Comeths^. effectual here in
its opulent, proprietors will be affected, the cure of lame> and otherwise disor
if they continue to disappoint the pur dered persons." a- n.
chasers of what they nave "a right to
demand. Caveat Emplor ! Mr. Urban, ■■ August 7.
■ P. 1239, col. 2, 1. 34, 35, read AMONG the strange and new event*
w statues." Scrutator. which the present period is con
P. S.- In your Miscellany for July, tinually presenting to us, there are
p. 622, col. 1, I. 15, we should read some so peculiar to these times, that
'.'p. 294, of your present volume." they cannot but arrest our more particu
lar attention. Permit me to point out
Mr. Urban, Shrewjbury, June 1. two or three, that make ihe greatest
HK inclosed is a drawing of the impression upon my mind. How won
L Urn (Jie Plate II.) erected by derful it is to fee the grcai Disturber
Mr. . Shenstone, at the Leasowes, to of the World " doing according to his
the memory of his fr end Somerville will," in dividing the countries which
the Poet ; and as it hath been admired he has been permitted to conquer,
for its elegant simplicity, I (hall be among his friends and adherents, to se
glad to see it preserved in your Maga cure to himself their power for the sup
zine-, as the (ione seems considerably port of his own usurped authority \ In
decayed, and in time a representation all former wars, in modern times, the
on paper will be all that will*" remain. countries or towns taken on both sides
The inscription on the pedestal as un were generally restored at a peace, or
der : something given to balance any loss
, r INGENIO Et AMICITIAE that might happen to either parly from
GVLIELMI SOMERVILLE, any new arrangement b;-t ween them.
G. S. But in the present state of things, be
tosvit. sides the transforming of Republics
, Debita sparsens lacryma favillam into Kingdoms^ and the giving upstart
Vatis amici. Kings lo ol'l Kingdoms, we lee large
Fig. 2 is a sepulchral stone found portions of different countries separated
under the gallery staircase, on taking- from them, and given to new Rulers,
down the old church of Meffle-Brace, the crealures and (laves of that Power
near Shrewsbury, in 1799- The length from whom thev receive these degrad
2 feet 8 inches, breadth at top 1 foot ing bounties. Surely (here is in this
1 inch f, at bo. 10m 9! inches. The some resemblance of the wicked King
sculpture of it will bear the appellation, foretold by Daniel ; one os whose pro
* It is so spelt, according to the Bio phetic marks is shisvery circumstance,
graphia, " in the admission book of Sid ."He shall divide the land for gain."
ney College." . .; Can we ever expect to see this fulfilled
, Sent. Mag, September, 1807. juor«
3
8 io Prophecies j7/w/r<7/<?</.—Laurence's Recreation. [Sept.
more literally, or in a more extraordi- hour with the beast. These have one
dinaiy manner. mind, and shall give their strength an A
Another singular matter, is the de power unto the beast." The last part
termined war which our inveterate has been exemplified by the aid given
Ertemv is waging against our Trade. A bv three of these new kings in the wat
general exclusion of our trade from the against Prussia. T. R.
Continent is the fixed purpose and full
obji'rl of this moll extraordinary man. Mr. Urban, Addtrbury, Aug. 22.
And he has so far succeeded, as not I WAS much pleased to see " Lau
ouly to excite alarm among our mer rence's Clergyman's llecteation" no
chants^ but to have done them very ticed in your last by Verlumnus, as I
serious injury. Our warehouses are full have always highly esteemed Laurence
of goods, that we have at present no as an original, ingenious, and venerable
market to take off our hands. In war, author; but, it should seem, Vertumnua
Trade always suffers ; but 1 do not re has not his works complete, as he doea
collect that it was ever before made so not tKitice the third part. My copy
principal a feature in ihe warfare. And has this third Treatise not mentioned
it is foretold in the Revelations of St. by him, the title of which is, "The
John, that there should some lime arile Fruit Garden Kalendar, or a Sum
a tyrannical power in the world (and mary of the Art of managing the Fruit
it (te ns to be the very power above Garden ; leaching in order of Time
alluded to uy Daniel, only here described what is to be done therein every Month
under the figure of a beast with "two in the Year. Containing several new
horns) who should become so formi and plain Directions, more particularly
dable as to oblige "all, both small relating to the Vine.
and great, rich aud poor, bond and " Rcdit Horticola? labor actus in orbem ;
free, to receive a mark in their right Atque acer curas venientem extendit in
hand or in their soreheads, and cause annum, [putando.
, that no man might buy arJell, save he Persequitur Vitem attondens fingitque
that had his mark." None of his ene Viro. Georg. lib. ii.
mies were to be allowed' ihe privilege " To which is added, an Appendix
of trade. In the great inconveniences of the Usefulness of the Barometer,
then which our merchants may suffer, with some short Directions how to
■lay we not feel great consolation in make a right Judgment of the Weather."
the hope that we wear not the mark This tract is dedicated " To the most
of this beast, and that we may there High, Puissant, and most Noble Prince
fore escape those torments to which he Henry, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of
and his followers are doomed ? Kent, Src." Vertumrrus seems sur
Lastly, the new kingdoms which this prized that the late Mr. Weston wat
Conqueror of the Nations is continu never in possession of a copy, and send*
ally erecting, cannot be palled unno his notice of the work for the purpose
ticed. We have already seen fix erect of filling up a chasm in his account of
ed, and some others are talked of ; in Horticultural Authors published in the
deed there is room in the conquered Gent. Mag. but he does not seem ap
countries for three or four more. It prized of his copious " Catalogue of
is bv no means impossible that the English Authors, who have writtert,
jiumber will be ten before he has com on Husbandry, Gardening, Botany,
pleted his arrangements. We have and subjects relative thereto, arranged
already seen the Kingdoms of Italy, in Chronological Order!'' published at
Bavaria, Wirtemburg, Westphalia, the eml of his Tracts on Gardening
Saxony, and Holland (perhaps Na and Agriculture ; a reference to that
ples might be added, which, though will convince him that Laurence's.
an old kingdom, was never dependent Tracts were not unknown lo him, as
upon any other, as it now is, by- they are all three there mentioned
means of its new King) ; and a King-_ under the year 17 17. Such an ami
doin ofFranconia is talked of. If they able simplicity, so much candour,
should rise to ten in number, shall we and such a vein of pleasing morality,
not have reason to think these the ten runs through the whole of his
horns of the fame heal], to which they (Laurence's) book, as makes it both
will so exactly answer? "The ten highly entertaining and instructive ; and
horns which thou sawell are ten kings, well would it be for ihe best interests
which have received no kingdom as df themselves and society, if many
yet, but receive power as Kings one wh*
 1 807 .] The delightful Amusemint of Gardening.
who have the means, would employ
their leisure hours as innocently and
as profitably as this venerable author
hath done. (I will endeavour to give
Vertumuus some account of Mr. Lau-
rence in a future Magazine.) 1 am
bappy in this opportunity of publicly
expressing my hearty approbation of a
similar ingenious Treatise on Garden
ing, of the present day, by the Rev,
C. Marshall, vicar of Urixworth,
co. Northampton. My concerns of
business being confining and sedentary,
I was many years ago induced, for the
fake of health, as well as pleasure, 10
appropriate my few hours of leisure to
the contemplation of the various beau
ties of the vegetable creation in mv
rural walks, and to the cultivation of a
little garden at home. In these em-
plovments I have found them both,
smiling amidtl the purest luxuries of
nature, and drelsed in the moll capti
vating charms of unadulterated simpli
city and beauty. Indeed, when the
cares and fatigues of business are pro
perly diversified and enlivened by ra
tional and innocent pleasure, it gives
a gujlo to existence, and makes every
thing delightful. To those who are
occupied in the confined and busy
walks of life, bow pleasant it is—
" To hail the cheerful morning's golden
ray, [glows.
With grateful heart .where pure devotion
Well pleas'd to meet the labours of the
day, [(lows.
And taste the blessings industry be-
The temp'rate meal, the wetl-earn'J lei-
lure hour.
To books devoted, or the garden's care ;
To mark the beauties of each op'ning
flower ; 1
Nature's gay children I exquisitely fair!
To nurse the tasteful plants and richest
fruits: [knew j
Those guiltless luxuries Eden's garden
Ambrosial food, which every palate suits ;
Delicious, fragrant, lovely to the view.
At eve, to leave life's bustling cares be
hind, [hale ;
The purest breath of Heaven to in-
Dispensing health and vigour to the mind,
Soft as it blows along the bloslbm'd
vale.
O let me still enjoy those chaste delights !"
&c. tkc.
" The various forms (sivs the ele
gant Dr. Knox) which Nature assumes
in the vicissitudes of ihe seasons, will
(Constitute a source of complacency
8ll
which can never be exhausted. TIow
grateful to the senses the freshness of
the herbage, the fragrancy of the
flowers, all those simple delights of the
field which Poets have from ihe earliest
ages, no less justly than exuberantly,
described ! In almost every description
of the seats of the bltflld, ideas of a
garden seem to have predominated,
The word Paradise itself is synonymous
with Garden. The fields of Elysium,
that sweet region of Poetry, are adorned
with all the imagination can conceive
to be delightful. Some os the most
pleasant passages of Milton are thole in
which he represents the first happy pair
engaged in cultivating their blilsful
abode. The liiperintendnnce of a gar
den might of itself occupy a life ele-
, gantly and pleasurablv. Nothing is
better able to gratify the inherent pas
sion of novelty ; for Nature is always
renewing her variegated appearance.
She is infinite in her productions, and
the life of man may come to its close
before he has (een half the pictures (he
is able to display. The beauty nf co
lour, though justlv esteemed subordi
nate to that ofjhapc, is yet found to de
light the eye more immediately) and
more universally. When colour and
shape are united in perfection, he yvho
can view them with insensibility, must
certainly want all pretensions to de
licacy of perception. Such an union
has been usually effected by Nature in
the formation os a flower. She cer
tainly meant to regale ihe senses of her
favourite with an object which presents
to him at once, freshness, sragranev,
colour, and shape. The very soul leems
10 be refreshed on the bare recollection
of the pleasure which the lenses receive
in contemplating, in a fine vernal morn»
mg, the charmsof the pink, the violet,
the rose, the honeysuckle, the narcis
sus, ihe hyacinth, the tulip, and a
thousand others, in every variety of fi
gure, scent, and hue; for Nature is no
left remarkable for the accuracy and
beauty of her works, than for variety
and profusion. Defects are always dis
covered in the works of Art,when they
are examined with a microscope, but
a close examination of the leaf of a
flower is like taking offa veil from the
face of beau'y. The serrated border of
the petal of a flower, and the fringe on
the wing of a fly, display an accuracy
of delineation which no pencil ever vet
could rival. The taste of the florist
has not indeed been much admired, or
generally
8ia The delightful Amusement of Gardening.
generally aspired at ; while that pf the
connoisseur in painting is considered as
a ni irk of elegance of character, and an
honourable distinction. Yet, surely,
it is an inconsistency, to be transported
with the work of a poor mortal, and
seel no raptures in surveying those high
ly-finished pictures, in which is is easy
to trace the singer os the Deity.''
Though I ain ihus transported, when I
contemplate ihe superior beauties of the
Garden, yet 1 can find a charm in the
" humblest bud that blows." Even in
the foliajo of the numerous tribes of
plants, which inhabit the groves, the
fields, and the highway sides, there is
endless variety and beauties innume
rable ; all of which are so capable of
gratifying the fancy of the botanist in
his pleasing pursuits, that 1 know of no
other so engaging to the mind, nor so
conducive to health and pure satisfac
tion. It is au inexhaustible source of
amusement, where there is always
something found, ever various aud ever
new. It is the most ample field in
which we can contemplate the ador
able (kill and wonderful power of Al
mighty wildom. Returning again to
the Garden, I must here observe, that
e en t le cultivation of esculent plants
furnishes a source of the most pure and
interesting pleasure. .What can be more
delightful than to see our labour and
attention rewarded with the most
charming fruits, in the beauty of per
fection ? The cooling cucumber, the
delicious melon, the wholesome sallads,
the. vegetable marrow of the asparagus
and artichoke, the early peas, and all
the other numerous and innocent lux
uries of the vegetable tribes ! The
charming strawberry, the melting peach,
the luscious, juicy grape, &c. &c. but
abirt all, that ambrosial and princely
luxury, the delicious pine-apple! Thele
were the luxuries of Paradise ; and
even where ingenuity is tortured to de
vise every means of administering plea
sure to the palate, these are still luxu
ries which must ever fiand foremost as
its high It gratification ; and how plea
sant ii is lo reflect, that every man who
possesses a few perchesof ground, may be
a partaker of thole nnvitialing delicacies,
if lliev will but exert their ingenuity!
If gentlemen would but lake a little
pains in superintending their gardens,
how conducive would it he to health,
and how de'ightful the employment !
Nor are the pleasures to be drawn from
the cultivation of a garden, or in con
[Sept.
templating the beauties of the vegeta
ble creation, all ; when we consider
the many wife purpose-, as well as gra
tifications, for which they uere design
ed by the ever beneficent Creator, we
find Botany becomes a science of infi
nite importance ; and it naturally leads
the contemplative mind by the steps of
admiration and gratitude to a delight
ful elevation, whence looking down
with pity upon ihe dangerous pursuits
of avarice and ambition, in silent vener
ation it surveys the unbounded good
ness and wisdom os the almighty Pa
rent of the Universe, and in devout
adoration enjoys a sweet placidity of
soul nearly akin to the very joys ot tr\e
blessed.
Yours, &c. ' Thos. Woolstoit.
THE PROJECTOR. N°LXXIV.
——" Vilanda est improha Siren [rafti
Desidia ; aut, quidquid vita meliora pa-
Ponendum œquo animo." Hon.
" Learn the syren Idleness to (nun,
Or poorly be content to lose the fame,
Which your past hours of better life
might claim." Francis.
MUCH has been said against Idle
ness by my ingenious predeces
sors. They have represented it as not
only an evil, but the cause of many
other evils, as more destructive than
the plague, and as degrading to the
nature us man. But it being a great
object with me in these iny lucubra
tions to conciliate the good opinions
of all parties, I shall beg leave to con
sider Idleness rather as a misfortune
than a fault ; and in truth, if we look
attentively to its whole progre(S) and
its usual consequences, 1 know not
whether we ought not to rank it
amongst the greatest misfortunes which
can befall the human race.
During my firll thoughts on the sub
ject, I was disposed to view Idleness
a3 a disease, and there seemed some
good reasons for referring it to the ju
risdiction of the faculty. Its approaches
are known to be (low and impercepti
ble in many instances, resembling those
diseases which gradually prey on the
constitution, but lo gently that the pa
tient no sooner discovers his disorder
than he finds that it is pall remedy.
We hear likewise of persons beuia at
tacked with fits of idleness, more or
less stiort or violent, according to cer
tain circumstances. Men in business
seem to be most liable lo ihe'e fits,
aud are known to luster wry severely,
when
1807.] TH E PROJE CTOR, N« LXXIV. 813
when they last long ; but that they do two causes that may be mentioned,
not confider them as a disease appears about which there can be no dispute,
from what happens when the fits have Time and Money. But while we sec
recurred very frequently, or continued very clearly that these operate in pro
for a long period. In this cafe, in ducing the misfortune which is the
stead of applying to a consultation of subject of this paper, it is certainly not
physicians, lhey have been known to very easy to lay whv they should do so.
call a meeting of their creditors. Had Moralists ate perpe.ually telling its of
not these and other circumstances di the stmrtnels of Time, and calculators
verted me from considering idleness as are no less eager to demonstrate the va
a disease, 1 was about to have classed lue of Money. But it is evident from
it among those dangerous epidemics the practice of the indolent, that their
that are produced by hot weather, lime is so long that they know not
oblige the patients to fly from home in -what to do with it, and their money
quest of cool air at the sea-fide ; and of Ib little value that they are never
are observed to rige in this country, happy (if persons tabouring under thia
principally from the commencement misfortune can be said to be happy at
of the dog-days to about the end of all) but when they are deviling con-
October. trivances to get rid of it. Here, there
Bui upon more mature deliberation, fore, seems to be much contradiction
I have been induced to view Idleness of principles ; ami 1 (hall not at present
as one of those misfortunes for which endeavour to reconcile them, it being
-a generous and humane publick often sufficient for my purpose that the mU-
interests itself, and studies to procure fortone os idleness is acknowledged lo
suitable relief. Under such circum arise, principally, from excess of Time
stances, it would ill become one who or Money, above the quantities of each
is a Projector by trade, lo omit a that are necessary for existence.
grievance of so great magnitude, and Having then discovered the cause,
of which lo many striking instances we may proceed to the remedy ; and
may be seen in all the ranks of life. this seems to be a matter for the seri
I am the more disposed to take this ous consideration of a humane publick.
matter in hand, as not only the lan- Some have, if I mistake not, proposed
euage of common conversation, but an hospital for the idle ; but, besides
even that of the law, bestows epithets that this implies somewhat os a, dis
\ipon certain classes of the idle, which, ease, in which light, for the reasons
to fay the least, are not very tefpectful. already assigned, 1 cannot consider
For" example, our laws speak, of idle Idleness, it would be improper in ano
persons and vagabonds, as being ther point of view, confinement being
identically the fame; but if (itch lan an aggravation of every species of Idle
guage as this be permitted in the case ness, and, according to the familiar
of the poor, to whom I think it is expression, would " render the cure
generally applied, who can fay whe worse than the disease."
ther it may not be appsed with equal My plan is of another kind. Since
propriety to persons of higher rank, it is found that Idlenels cannot be abo
who happen to be idle? Who can lished by force of law, or any other
fay, whether some sturdy moralifl, or force that has hitherto been applied,
' implacable interpreter of the laws, and far less by ibe gentle methods of
may not discover vagabonds in coaches, persuasion, owing to the extreme im
and idle vagrants in curricles, phae patience of the hearer, I would pro
tons, and barouches? And ihis is the pose the establishment of a college, or
more to he apprehended, because, phi institution (a more fashionable word),
losophically considered, there is very in which idleness might be taught in
little diff rence between one kind of all iis branches by Professors duly
idlenels and another ; between, scr qualified for the (ame, and who, T
example, the idleness of him who is doubt not, m'ght be procured from
led to pick a po' ket by manual dexte- some of the learned professions already
. Tiiy in Suiithficld, and of him who in vogue. It is the peculiar misfor
produces he fame eftict by a throw of tune of the persons in whose behalf I
the dice in St. J.imes's-lireet. am pleading, that, with every sincere
In invciligitiiiK the cause- of Idle attachment to the principles ol Idleness
nels, ilieie inn be much d;fl r"t.ce of and with a zeal for indolence which
opinion There ate, however, at 'least ends only with their lives, they know
not
8r4 T H E P R O J E C
not how or in what manner to carry
such principles into practice. Whether
thev depend on public amusements or
on private amusements, whether they
Ueep at a play or at a concert, whcilier
they ply the boille or the cards, there
are always (bine hours, some long
hours, which hang heavy on their hands.
And eren after the best laid plans for
inactivity, and a glorious prospect of a
Availed day, a (hower of rain has been
known to drive them almost to despair.
Another reason for an institution,
like that I am proposing, is what may
likewise be considered as a peculiar
misfortune in the cafe ot" lazy people.
Being subject to the common frailties
of the human race, they have, among
o hers, no small portion of conceit. They
think that idleness is a verv easy thing
to practise ; they view it as the oppo;
Jite of all action, and conceive that
when they have once resolved to do
nothing, they may enjoy the bliss of
inactivity. Now it ought to be one
purpose of our new college, to give a
course of lectures tending to expose
the fallacy of such opinions, and to
persuade the idle that they have en
tered upon a kind of life far more la
borious than they have any idea of;
and a kind of life which requires the
\itmost ingenuity to make it endurable.
The learned professor may also explain
to them, that their ignorance in these
points constitutes the great misfortune
of their condition, that the proper
practice of llolh requires a good deal
of preparatory knowledge, and that
they cannot be supposed to go about
dreaming all their lives without being
duly instructed in the art of walking in
their sleep. It is furelv a most pitiable
cafe to fee a man possessed of length
of days and of purse, honestly desirous
of getting rid of both in the genleelell
manner possible, aod yet so ignorant
and helpless as tint to know how to be
lazy with a good grace, nor how to
turn even a week's sluggishness to a
good account.
It must therefore be a leading object
in the instructions given at this new
academy, to divest the students of all
former prejudices intheir own favour;
and of every foolish conceit, that they
can endure the toils and ftiigne of Idle
ness without a due course of precepts
upon >he subject. It will not be less
necessarv to eradicate an opinion, but
too pi evalent, that some men are born
to be idle, that there is in some a genius
T O R, N° LXXIV. [Sept.
tor Indolence, as there is a genius for
poetry, painting, or music. The case
is precisely the reverse ; for where there
is a genius for the fine arts, it cannot
be restrained, nor can it be taught : but
there is no such inherent disposition to
laziness, and it is very certain that the
most worthless and ig»orant of man
kind may take up the trade of Idleness,
and make considerable progreis in it,
although, for reasons already given,
they will be liable to many mistakes if
they do not submit to some instructions
such as are now proposed. There is,
however, an excuse to be made for
those who embrace a life of indolence.
It is at first so apparently easy that
they think it will always remain so,
A man who can snake a shift to idle
away six weeks at a watering-place
in the summer, longs for the time
when he may retire from business and
employ a whole year, and even many
years, in doing nothing. The htppy
time comes ; and the first account we
receive of the success of his experiment
is from the coroner's jury. And this,
by the way, leads me to remark, that
a very useful course of lectures might
be given at our new college, on the art
and mystery (for such it often is) of Re
tirement: when a sober citizen makes a
sudden transition from doing something
to doing nothing ; exchanges lime that
was generally too short for business,
for time that is always too long for idle
ness ; and ventures upon the whole of
a year, particularly on that unhappy
part of it called Winter, without the
least knowledge how one hour may be
spent. This course of lectures might
be illustrated by some well known in
stances. My old friend, Humphrey B'ls-
tleton, occurs to my mind on this oc
casion. Humphrey determined to leave
oft' business at a proper time, as he
called it, about the age of sixty-five,
bought a large house, garden and farm,
and determined to enjoy himself, and
make himself amends for all his
tigues hy commencing a life of
plete indolence. About a year afier
his retirement, some friends obeyed his
pressing invitation to visit his mansion ;
and knowing that beyond the hufinefs
of i he shop, he had not an idea, nor
any inclination to acquire one, they
asked him, how he spent his time. T"
answer this he had no objection ■
" Gentlemen, when you kr
day, you know all. I
morning by
 i8o7«] THE PROJEC :tor, N°LXxrv. 815
o'clock—always was an. early riser- are necessary for the delightful rattling
then I walk down the lane lo the Fox over the stones from house to house.
and Grapes, and there I have a little By thus submitting the art of idle
purl, and get into conversation wiih ness to the judgment of scientific leo
the farmers' men—come home to break turers, and reducing ihe whole to a re
fast—after breakfast I take a walk again gular system, there can be no doubt
to the Fox and Grapes; by this time that the situation of idlers might lie con
the papers are come in, and 1 read the siderably improved : and I throw out a
papers—then I come home, and dress proposal for a new College, with per
for dinner:—after dinner, as I have fect confidence that, whether it be
nobody but my wifeahd daughter, and carried into execution, or not, thev
it is lonesome talking with them, I will not entertain a worse opinion os
take a walk again to the Fox and the Projector.
Grapes, and have some mm and water, I mi^ht, therefore, leave the subject
and smoke a pipe with Old Jerry, the to its fate, were it not perhaps requi-
landlord—then I come home and have slte to throw out some hint, bv which
some tea : and in the evening, as one the lovers of Idleness might in the meant
can't stay by oneself, I waik again to time profit. As it is the custom for
the Fox and Grapes, and there I spend citizens to retire from business at a cer
the evening with the club —and get tain time of life, for which they are
home about eleven, when Robert comes seldom fitted by previous knowledge or
with the lanthom." i resources of mind ; perhaps it might
To some, this may appear a perfect not be amisi if those who have sol-
course of idleness ; but, were our col lowed the trade of idleness were like
lege erected^ I doubt not but that my wise to retire from their fatigues, and try
friend Humphrey might obtain some whether there are not employments to
instructions that would greatly improve be found left laborious, more pleasant,
his plan, especially, as, of late, a drop and more useful, and tendered so by a
sical and rheumatic habit has inter conviction of the fliortnels and uncer
rupted his scheme of idleness, and has tainty of that time, which bad hitherto*
convinced him of what he was very un appeared so long, so sure, and yet so
willing to believe, namely, that a lime tiresome.
would arrive, a time for which he had
made no preparation, when he could Mr. Urban, Aug. 31.
neither go to the Fox and Grapes, nor SINCE you inform me thai jour li
the Fox and Grapes come to him. mits will not permit you to insert
But what would be perhaps the most the whole of the letter which I sent,
important consideration in the institu you have my perfect approbation in.
tion of a College for Idlers, is the pre breaking off where yon propose with
sent unhappy state of amusements. your usual judgment. For in the third
And here there is a wonderful differ great omission which 1 charged, there is
ence of opinion, moralists holding that a plain and (hort issue of fact between
our amusements are too numerous for Mr. Le Mefurierand myself, lo which
the busy; while the persons who are I am glad to call the fresh and unim
the subjects of this paper, contend that paired attention of vour readers.
they are two few for the idle. Both I told Dr. Duigenan, that the illus
opinions, however, may be right, al trations from tlte supposed pr .mise of
though the parties are not likely to returning a sword were, in the pam
unite in removing their respective griev phlet, immediately followed bv a refer
ances^ But certainly the interests of ence to a passage where the author had
the indolent and of the trifling, seem lo before regularly discussed the whole doc
require some addition to lie made to the trine of promissory OathF.and faithfully
pleasurable modes of getting rid of the stated the lour cases in which Cano
enemy Time: and it is not a lit tie to nists deny their validity in the very
the credit of modern ingenuity, that so moment of taking them. Dr. Milner's
many additions have lately been made own language, addressing Mr. Reeves,
to the stock both of public and private is, " an attention to such cases (as
amusement. The hours of meeting, those just put), which your own inge
too, are under such wise regulations, nuity, Sir, will enable you to multiply
that not only the day, but the night ad infinitum, trust convince von that
may be idled away verv comfortably, the circumstance' of expediency must
and with no other intervals than what enler into the question of every con.
I trail
 Si 6 Dr. Laurence's Statement of his own Speech. [Sept.
tract or other obligation, between man he, therefore, could never have been
and man, " as J have proved more ut so unconscionable as lo assume in sober
large in the preceding treatise." And earnest, that his adversary must neces
yel Mr. Le Mesuiier boldly affirms, sarily he understood (b to reason. No,
" there is not tbe smallest reference to Mr. Urban ; he must have been amus
the sour cases of the Canonists :" that ing himself a little with you and your
is, if you consent to stop lliort where readers. The plain fact is, Dr. Milner,
he always ends his extiact, with the in his Supplement, does not refer spe
naked proposition, leaving out all I he cially to the four cases of the Canon
ejepjaiuuioti. Biit though you may ists, but to the whole of that theological
lead with \ our own eyes what 1 have branch of the dilcuffion, as he himself
just quoted, my reverend friend has calls it, which sets off with these cafes,
irresistible arguments to demonstrate introduced, not with relation to the
thai it is not there. I am almost Coronation Oath, but avowedly with
afraid, Mr. Urban, to venture on this the view of elucidating the general
ground, lell 1 may hereafier find doctrine of promissory oaths. I took
that he was onlv playing off a piece of them, because they were ihe first that
humour in imitation of Swift, when offered; and, more particularly, be+
he killed poor I'artridge the Almanack- cause they rested on that awful sense
maker. The firli is what may be called of duty lo the Divine Being, which
the surprising argument. "You will will least admit the notion of worldly
be/urpri/id" he lays, '* when I tell Prudence and Ibrdul Expediency. The
j'ou, thai lo far from forming any part Reporter has accidentally preserved the
of this famous passage, they are not "rules, without the religious reasons oil
even to be found in the fame tract; which they are founded, weakening
for Dr. Milner's pamphlet contains two so far my defence of Dr. Milner ; ana
letters, one to a friend in town, and this is the " garbling and hashing" at
•lie other a supplement addressed to which my reverend friend falls at last
Mr. Reeves." Really it would be too into a downright passion ; I presume
iimple to believe this serious. The merely from his kind seeling towards '
^>lher is the wonder-curing argument. me, who am the only real sufferer.
You will not ivondcr," he adds, " that You have now, Sir, a faithful nar
' they are not referred lo in the letter to rative of the tenor and (ublianee of nvy
Mr. Reeves, when I shew you, as I Speech, as far as it regarded the defence
engage to do, that the Doctor expressly of Dr. Milner, in the debate on the
disclaims auv intention of applying Catholic petition. And 1 can now
them lo the Oath in question." You submit it with perfect confidence to
and your readers, Mr. Urban, will ex voit and yfcur readers, whether the
cuse my quoting the argument entire, general proposition which I adopted
its it has already filled nearly two of and maintained, continuing only the
your columns ; but the result is merely quotation of Mr. Le Mesurier and Dr.
this, and Mr. Le Mefur'ter may make Duigenan to the bottom of the page,
more of it if he can :—Mr. Reeves re can be misunderstood by any man, ex
fuses to treat the Coronation Oath on cepting always a religious controver
the ground of expediency ; Dr. Mil- sialist who has the faculty and privi
ner answers, that not only the Coro lege of misunderstanding whatever he
nation Oath, but ecery promise, en pleases. Is it possible that the Cardi
gagement, and contract, as well as every nal Virtnc of Prudence, and the high
human law, depends on the question of and exalted Expediency plainly in
expediency ; aud it is now gravely tended by Dr. Milner, can be thought
insisted, that in support of this general to have any thing in common with the
proposition he cannot have referred to fort of Piudmie which directed his
any case which he thinks not di two antagonists to omit his 'exposition
rectly applicable to that, one parti by words, his illustrations by cases,
cular class of engagements vctferein the and his appeal to1 the larger discussion,
Coronation Oath is comprehended. So of his general doctrines in .the preced
stated, the fallacy is obvious. But no ing treatise; or with the expediency,
fallacy could have been designed. My which forfle *of our mutual acquain
reverend friend, before he had been tance see in the conduct of my rever
a year at the University, must have end friend, when he retired (I do not
learned, that mean to blame but praise his choice)
Sylloghari non eft ex particulars ; from the bustle of a crowded court
and
 i8o7-] Dr Laurence's Statement os Us twn Speech.
and hard knocks in the obstinate con
flicts of the bar; to the quiet of a snug
benefice, and the shadow-fighting; of
pulpit polemics? Was I nut justified
in laving, as I did, that " the cardi
nal vinue of "Prudence, in the accepta
tion of Dr. Milner and the ethical
writers in general, is not a (el fists prin
ciple which employs itself in weighing
interest against dinv, but a virtuous
principle which weighs one duty
•gainst another when they seem to be
Opposite, and decides which of them
in this place, at this lime, under all
1 the present circumstances, is to be ful
filled : his and their Expediency is a
motive of conduct not variable with
the caprice or interest of a sect, much
less of an individual, but unchange
ably founded on the eternal bales of
truth and justice."
It has been said, that many a dis
pute would have been ended as soon
as it began, if the opponents would
have taken the pains to have under
stood each other's vocabulary. Dr.
Du'genan and Mr. Le Mefurier are
both men of classical education : my
reverend friend at least has a title to
the character of an eminent scholar.
They most know, therefore, how f/reat
was the dignity of" Utility," or " Ex
pediency," in the antient schools. In
the moral system of the Stoicks, the
most rigid of the Greek philosophers,
Sextos Enipiricus and Stobæus will
inform them, that the good, of which
mankind is in pursuit, was supposed in
all its three divisions to be more or less
connected with the useful, or expedient.
If my reverend friend ever reads any
thing of Lactantius, except his histori-,
cal tract " On the Death of Persecu
tors," he will fee, in the sixth book of
his " Divine Institution!," traces of a
'similar doctrine attributed to the philo
sophers in general, and ushered in by
tbe finest fragment which we have of
Lucihns : or he may remember a sum
mary ofall in half a line of the epicu-
Tean Horace, who calls " Utility" or
" Expediency" the parent of almost all
justice and equity . Inthissense, when
treating of an ethical and theological
subject, the adversaries of Dr. Milner
■ ought to have construed, the word even
without his guards and cautions. But
it was a Ca holick who used it ; and it
was iheir object to six the word im-
ptn.itions « Inch their zeal could sug
gest, on the moral tenets ofaCatholick j
Gent. Mag. September* I8O7.
4 '.
817
so thev fastened on this equivocal term,
aud set themselves " to make the word
as odious as the word Occupy," which
(as Mrs. Tearsheet savs) " was an ex
cellent good word too before it was ill-
sorted." As to poor Prudence, the-
work was done to their hands. She was
already as "ill-sorted" as they could'
wish. A cardinal virtue! They had' (
only to lei her alone as (he was : aud
if they did not themselves, some of
their hot-headed admirers in their holy-
abhorrence of every scarlet rag, might
fall into the pious error of Mr. Bird,
the fanatical feathermau in the Muses
Looking-glu/s, who, when the players
tell him they are going to present the
several virtues, cries out in a fright,
I hope, there be no cardinal virtues- there !
and, when he is allured there be not,
rejoins,
" Then I '11 stay ; I hate a virtue
That will be made a Cardinal: Cardinal
virtues,
Next to Pope virtues, are most impious."
Many of the No Popery alarmijls whom
I could name, Mr. Utban, have zeal
as much bevond their knowledge.
Having finistied all that I under
took, I shall not glance at any other
part of the controversy ; neither do I
bind myself any further to the defence
of Dr. Milner or myself. Let me,
however, at parting, thank my reve
rend friend for the kind intimation
which he has given me. He thinks
(in the close »f one of his letters to
Dr. Milner) " that 1 shall in future
be cautious how 1 take up staiements
or receive compliments which come
from that quarter." If he imagines
me liable to be seduced bv compliments
from any quarter, he knows much less
of me than he aught) and 1 cannot
even conjecture whence he could be
lieve himself warranted to infer, that I
take up statements of any kind with
out examination. Had he beard the
Speech in question, he might have
guested that I had myself waded
through all the Canons of ihe third
Council of Lateran, to the most impor
tant of which I distinctly alluded, and
all the proceedings of the Council of
Constance, from which I drew some
arguments, which he woo d elsewhere
have fought in vain. Indeed, wlien-
f»:r I can gei access to original docu
ments, records, and contemporary
witnesses, I trust to nothing else in
history ;
8 1 8 Donovan's Museum ef FoJstls.-Grave-JIones removed. [Sept.
history ; and upon the subject of the
Catholic controversy I have thought it
incumbent upon me, as a public man
and as a sincere member os the Chinch
os England, to labour through many
a dn!l and heavy mass. As the result
of the search which I have made, I seel
myself bound in justice thus publicly
to declare, that although 1 by- no means
agree in all the llatenieuts of Dr. Mil-
ner, yet, taken altogether, I have found
them much more correct ihan thole of
my reverend friend. F. Laurence.
P. 704, 1. 19 for transformed, read irœu-
ferred.
Mr Urban, Hoxton-fquare, Sepl. 6.
PERMIT me, through yriur excellent
Publication, to acknowledge my
obligations to Mr. Donovan, for the
advantages I have derived in my enqui
ries respecting the mineralised remains
of the animals of the former world,
from the examination of the inestimable
yaffils contained in his matchless
Museum.
By the investigations which I had
previously made, and from specimens
in my own collection, I had ascertained
that England alone yielded several spe
cie of Encrinites, as 1 trust I shall
shew in the second volume of Organic
Remains of the former World, now in
the press. Rut, bv an examination of
the series of fossils in this department
of the London Museum as above men
tioned, I have gained the knowledge
that our own country can boast of
yielding at least one additional curious
species of this animal hitherto I be
lieve unknown, and forming iy the
length of the arms an intermediate
species between the Lily and Plumose
Encrinus. The specimen of which I
I speak, is numbered 924 in the brief
catalogue which is delivered at the
Museum.
From another specimen in the same
collection, marked f>r>Q, I also ac
knowledge having derived very consi
derable information respecting the
structure of that wonderful lost animal,
the Tortoise Encrimis.
Having no reason for concealing any
of the motives which induce me to trou
ble you with this request, I do not he
sitate to avow, that one of these is a
wish to call the attention of the curi
ous, as well as scientific, to the myst
complete collection of British Natural
History which has ever yet been
formed ; a Museum not confined to
any one particular branch, but compre
hending alike the three great depart
ments of nature, the Zoological, AP-
tenical, and Mineral productions of
the I Hand, upon the grandest scale
possible. It will not be loo much to
say, that ihis Museum, from the science
evinced in its arrangement, independ-i
cut of iis importance as a collection of
choice and valuable specimens, must,
to those desirous of such knowledge,
prove a - most instructive school, and
afford an inexhaustible fund of infor
mation to all those who think the Na
tural History of their own country
worth, attending to.
Your9, &c. James Parkinson.
Mr. Urban, Sept. 11.'
IT is to be hoped that the publicity
given in your Miscellany (p. 700)
to the circumstance of the Rev. John,
Laurence's grave stone being turned un
derside uppermost*, to make it serve
for the memorial f another person,
will brills forth interdictions from all
the Archdeacons in the kingdom, in
prevention of a practice that is but too
common. Mean, and even sacrilegious,
as it is. 1 have seen several instances
of grave-stones being lurned in this
manner, and even of their being re
moved from out of churches and
church-yards, to make them ferve.the
purpose of stepping-stones !
The evil complained of by Verilas
(p. 701) proceeds in part from the
new Military Laws ; which are so op
pressive in their nature, so extensive in
their operation, but yet so tender to
wards the Dissenting Preachers, that
they, induce many idle unsettled fel
lows to lake out preaching licences, in
order to evade being compelled, to serve
in a miliiary capacity.
Lady Lee (p. 70 l j. This title and
' name remind me of an old long that
began thus :
" London-bridge is broken down ;
Dance over the Lady Lee."
Query: Does this allude to a Woman,
or the river Lee personified i
P. 740.' Are there any defendants of
Dr. Mead now existing i
* It is to be hoped that the notice,
may bring forth a copy of the epitaph.
With the like view, the removal of a
brass from St. Martin's church at Leices
ter, placed there in 1752 for a very
worthy man, the Rev. W. Tiffen, (con-
frater of Wigstori's Hospital, .and a writer
on Short-hand) to make room for a more
recent grave-stone, is here also noticed.
. Edit.
P. 757s
 1807.] Dutches* ofGloucester.— Cathedral oj'York. 819
P. 757. I hope Mr. Hutton will Edward. The front is divided into
visit and re'hrn from John-»-Groat's three great parts, the centre, aud two
rrianfion ■ before tie goes to Dcadman'i sides, by four buttresses. The height
Point f, for he is a very agreeable cor of the design terminates with the roof,
respondent of Mr., Urban J. which is crowned by a pediment, perso-
P. 79O. The entry ol the Dulchess raied battlements, &c. The towers
of Gloucester's death expatiated on a right and test, riling above the two
head on which it should have beeri si fides, are the work of John Birming
lent, and is deficient in a point where ham in the reign of Henry VI. as the
on it might have been copious. The style of the architecture sufficiently de
Earl Cholmondi ley and his fitter, toge monstrates, being in a manner a- direct
ther with his Lordship's children, and opposite in all its characters to the
his Sifter's grand-children, are the only main front, therefore of course must
lineal descendants of Sir Robert Waf- be considered as a distinct perform
pole now living. The fortitude with ance. In the centre of this front,
which the Dntchefs of Gloucester bore the principal objects are the grand
fnany afflictions, the dignified forbear entrance and the West window. The
ance she exhibited towards her unme- former decoration is divided into two
titecj enemies, and the extensive chari door ways by a ctuster of columns
ties (he dispensed towards the wretched, In the centre. )n the spandrel between
are personal honours that should be the heads of the two door-ways, and
spoken of in lieq of those of descent, within the greai arch of the entrance,
and which are of a nature that proba is a small circular window of fix lights
bly have placed her spirit in a situation given in the tracery ; a decoration not, I
of pre-eminence in Heaven, and which believe, to be paralleled. The outer
ought not to pass unnoticed on earth. mouldings of the great arch run into a
Yours, &c. UitCS. pediment, in which are niches, &c. The
columns supporting the great arch are
Present State of York, 1806. many, with the richest foliaged capitals.
(Continued from p. 6'3I.) The architraves are thick set with deli
THAT I am willing to give credit cate mouldings, and small niches filled
. to the professions of Mr. Hand with statues, ice. The space on each fide
Three Slars, p. 711, and to take him the entrance has two tiers, the lower
by the hand as a friend, sure none will one containing niches with pedestals,
doubt. I will go farther, and indulge and the upper one recesses. The Wast
in the consolation, that there is one window shews mnllions dividing the
man besides myself who feels as strong opening into eight lights, which at the
ly the " conduct of barbamus innova •springing line of the arch diverge into
tors." Perhaps another and another an infinity of sweeping-forms, partak
anti-innovator may arise ; until an ing more of ornamental than geome
armed host (Satirists, Critics,) may be trical turns ; indeed the manner of the
properly trained, sufficient to stem the tracery of the fourteenth century con
uncUic combination about to destroy sists entirely of this peculiar mode.
the antiquities of this famous city. In the following century, geometrical
Nay, I count upon the certainty of tracery was made the standard, and
this ; and I predict,' It will BE so. with small variations continued in
The Cathedral. practice until our antient Architecture
West Front. Erected by Archbishop became extinct, in the reiens of Henrv
"William de Melton, in the reign of' VIII. and Elizabeth. The whole of
Edward Ifl. No piece of architecture this West window retains -the origi
in the kingdom can possibly demon nal painiings : they will he deloribed
strate the genius and ability of our an in a future essav. The Outer mould
cestors in the fourteenth century more ings of the archiirave of the window-
forcibly than this front ; it possesses, run into a pediment with the richest
sublimity of design, and shews the tracery ; pait of it is perforated. The
inajeslic and splendid tatle that marked space on each side of the window i«
the refgn of the mighty and puissant made out in four tiers ; the first tier
* Situated on the extremity of the has niches with pedestals, and the
SJorthernrpolt point of Scotland. other stories display recedes. Behind
T A small promontory on the coast of the window pediment rises another pe
pornwall. diment, being the front of the roof,
} See p. 850. Edit. filled, likewise with rich tracery ; and
en
Sub • Present State of the Cathedral of York. [Sept.
on the inclining lines of ihe pediment masonry of the fifteenth century. The
are perforated 'battlements. widths of thele towers lake in the
In the two side-divilions of the front transverse dimensions of the fide-ailes
for exteriors of the side-ailes) the con of the nave, and the principal decora
spicuous pans are the doors ol en tion is the window on each of their
trance, and two tiers of windows. fronts. The tides of theie windows
The door-ways have many columns, are bounded by buttresses, being in
with rich capitals, and ihe mouldings some degreea kind of general continua
of the architraves have (mall niches, tion of ihVll- original buttresses which are
with flame*, ornaments, &c. The their liyport, aud have four tiers of com
windows on the first, tier assimilate partments, each tier finishing with a
with the centre West window, shewing pedimental form. The windows give
ornamental tracery and a pedimental three divisions for light, the height
finish. The windows on the second worked in two stories, and the tracery
tier are plainer, and without the architectural. In the spaces on the
pedimental finish., In the spaces, or sides, and above the heads of ihe win
dados, between these two stories of dows,aie niches and compartments, with,
windows, are rich recesses, with per sweeping pedimental heads. ThealtiWide
forated battlements' above them. Over of t tie towers has perforated architec
the several windows, or termination of tural battlements, shewing pinnacles at
the second tier, is another line of the four angles, and at the centres.
perforateil battlements. Behind these At the several angles of the springings
several battlements are galleries of com of the pediments, and the entablatures
munication. The four grand dividing supporting irie battlements, are project-
builresses rile to ihe second line of bat jug horizontal figures; but noway par
tlements, and are made out in (even taking of' the character of the sculp
tiers filled with decorations. In the tures on the main front, these being
•first, second, third, and sixth tiers, are chturerical, or properlv Ipeaking alle
niches with pedestals. The niches on gorical, presenting a species of monster,
the lecond lierare remarkabh grand and partly of the demon and partly of the
striking. The fourth and seventh tiers dragon form. ' This is a sculptural da-
•present compartments,. In (bine of vice almost universally adopted, and
the niches the (tames remain, and found both on exteriors ami interiors
evince a superior decree of sculp of tdifices of the fifteenth century.
ture. At the angles of these bntirelles, The deuil of the towers. The
• n the fourth ond fifth tiers, are pro mouldings are worked large, of a far
jecting horizontal' half-length statues; d 'Herein cut from those above-enume
some of them of a serous, and others rated ; fewer hi the mass, the orna
of a cqmic cast ; but each specimen ments take another turn, both in com
full of the costume of the day, becom-. position and the tooling of the foliage,
iug on this consideration relics of high and given with a sparing hand. The
importance, and ought accordingly to capitals are devoid of ornaments ; their
be regaided. • '• abacuses, and the base's to the columns,
In the detail of the various subjects octangular ; and the pediments take
«in this front, we find that the mould sweeping directions. Another striking
ings are many, small, and delicate ; change occurs in the ihullions to ilie
(lie ornaments profuse, particularly in windows, their heights being made out
the capitals ; the bases to the columns, in two stories, while ihole »f the for
and abacuses to the capitals circular. mer Order exhibit one general per
The traceries ornamratal, and the se pendicular line, front the base to the
veral small pediments constructed in springing of the tracery in the heads of
regular straight inclining lines.' the windows.
The two lowers, of this West front People have been in the habit of
stand immediately on the line of the affirming, that this West front in all
second tier of perforated battlements iis parts is' the work of one period ;
>. finish of the original de(ign) riling in taking for granted such to* be ihe
some sort from the four grand .but cafe, as the towers seem, from a cur
tresses, or, more justly speaking, sory survey, to carry on the general or
worked on ibem, as the entire design first thought of the original Architect,
of these towers takes an opposite turn as pointed heads, pediments, niches,
to the- elevation beneath;' well esta Sic prevail throughout the whole.
blishing' the tradition that they are the This sort df determination results from
1807.] York Cathedral-Fire Offices.-'Etigfiih Archjfe£Iure.'Sit
the common uninformed speculations ban, the old man re cut hi; hair and
of those whose studies in life have been dilpoled of his wings ; but the lox and.
■wholly directed 10 other pursuits. Let goole, and the ducks, still betr their
me be permitted to fay. such oblervants forms, in despite of true restoration,
cannot be perfectly relied on. The ar and characteriiiic decoration.
tist, who with unwearied and assidu (To be continued.J
ous eve tr ces eaclt panicle, to render P.S. As the " Architectural Proceed
his imitative efforts complete, cer- ings J t me Abbey Church, Westminlter,"
taittlv has more presumptive claims (since my last paper on this head, vol.
to credit, and his cone ulions may on LXX.V. p. 325) liave become of consi
this scoie delerve attention. Ftom being derable interest, and oi the greatest mo
thus particular, it is possible mv arjai- ment ; a particular de'ail of occurrences
ments may have (bine weight with is in preparation, and will speedily be
tUole. who are now carrying on the brought forward. J. C.
restorations of this front ; and that they
may be as little liable to Architectural Mr. Urban, Aug. 16.
error as the nature of the undertaking I AM credibly informed the Insurance
will admit. Companies calculate on an alarm
If 1 give my opinion of the labour of fire ev ery day, about eight lerinus
of the Malbn on this occasion, he is fires in every quarter of a year. Fiom
correct and chafle in molt instances ; Michaelmas 1806 to Michaelmas IgoS
but oftheSculptor, it certainly becomes the different Fire-offices in London ex
my duty to fay, he does not stand Ib perienced MX, alarms ot" tire attended
fair for the meed of praise. It is an With ittle damage, 31 serious fires,
unhappy truism, that such Artists and 156 alarms occasioned, bv chimnies
a/e brought up in this profession being on fire, amounting in all to 4i)5
with a fixed hatred to our aniient accidents.
A as, and a blind adoration to the The following simple machine ought
schools of foreign science (Grecian, always to be kept in an upper apart
Roman). This may be termed an anti- ment. It is nothing more than a dull
naiional prejudice; bigotry in dis ing or eighteen penny rope, one end
guise. Name, me one modern Sculp of which stiould always be made fast
tor who does not hold our antient men to something in the chamber; and at
in this line, and their efforts, as con the other end should be a noose to let
temptuous. Du they not all affirm, down children or infirm perlbns, in.
. when adverting to our remote religious calc of sue. Along the ropd there
and historic statues that in the first in ibonld be several knots, to lerve as rell-
stance they are of a superstitions ten int-'-p'aces for the hands and feet of the
dency, therefore 'o b« at>h"rred ; in person who dr ps down by it. N»
the latter, the drelles, fancy, portraits, family oecupyiug high houses should
ideal ; attiiu'les inanimate, aud of a de ever be without a contflvance of this
votional nature, 10 be lliunned also. kind. Yours, &c. "As
Are men so framed in mind to lie left
without coinroul to restore, or replace, Mr. Urban, Sept. 20.
the mutilated sculptures of the foun IN mv way through Exeter a lev*
ders, benefactors, and other characters, days since (where the (hort time I
of York's maahificenl Well front I Tot remain is generally bestowed in. the
set up a modern tine lady for a nun, Cathedral), I was much pleated to hear
an unchristian 'Turk for a Christian a work was proposed to the publick,
monk, a fox and goose for a demon which promises to be of considerable
and a condemned soul, an old man, ntilitv to the admirers of our antient
wnh Cherubim wings for the a'legori- buildings ; and on 'bis account I hastily
cal dngon, half bird half beast, a cou cn iected the following information ori
ple of ducks for a tirace of imps, the spot.
overlooking the absurdities of us mor The work is intituled, "The Princi
tals below? It is unnecessary to quole ples of English Architecture, usually
examples farther , and it mav be ob denominated Cfolhic." The author,
served that, in consequence of the re Mr. John Kendall, an Inhabitant of
peated remonstrances made to Itete Exeter, has every means us being cor
sculptural innovations, the lady (bv rect, as he is htrajelf an anilt of con
new strokes of the chilsel) cot t red siderable credit.' The design of the
fcer neck, the Turk threw away his tur wotiv is, to offer mtulured examples of
parts
 8ia Exeter Cathedral.- Mr.H&wkms.-Deans in Ireland. [Sept.
pdrts of this edifice, with its tombs, Mr. Urban, Aug 6.
&c. from 1203 10 1523 ; and it is to be HPHK enquiry of Senex, vol. LXVT.
accompanied by a fy sterna' ic arrange- -*■ p. 400, being again reverted to
ment of the peculiarities distinguishing last month ; I am induced to fend you
this style of 'lecorative architecture. the following account of the arms and
Its object is to impress on the minds family ; oblerving that the word •• Bui"
of those who wish to imitate it, correct . is a Scotticism, and here used as syn-
ideas ; and for tliis purpose the orna- onvmous to '* Wilhouty
metits and mouldings are to be drawn The antient family of Gillefpie, de
al large, wiih annexed scales' to each 6f icended from the Clanchations and
the various elaborate sepulchral chapels, Macpherfons, bear for their coa t-
iSfc. con'ained in this celebrated st'ruc- armour, " Party per fess, Or and Az-
tiTre. I have seen some of the drawings, ure, a lymph'ad, or galley, with her
which are equally neat and correct, fails trussed up, her oars in action, of
Knowing/your taste for works of this the first; in the dexier chief point a
Ifjnd, I thought the information would . hand couped, gra'ping a dagger, point
lie interesting. Viator. npwards, Gules : in the finilier chief
■■ point a cross crosllet filched, of the last.
',, TT 3\,Cafih-Jlreel East, Motto— Touch not the cat but a
,Alr. URBAN, Sept 8_ glove_.. The fami|y nave been jn use
MR. John Sidnsy Hawkins, having to have their arms supported bv two
stated, in p. 638, hi? intention of Highland men, with steel helmets on
preparing a pamphlet in his own vindi- their heads, and cut-out short doublets,
cation, which he ha3 since had printed, Azure, thighs bare, their fliirt tied he-
apd has given away profusely, I have tween them, and round targets on
to request you will announce my firm their arms; being the dress wherein
•^termination to publish an Analysis those'of this clan were wont to fight in
and Erpojilion of the contents of this many battles for the Crqwn, being al»
extraordinary production. ways loyal.
John Thomas Smith. Yours, &c. Possy.
Mr. Urban, Aug: 1 6.
IN answer to your Correspondent, p. 640, requiring a List of the Deans of
Ireland, I send you the following correct account of eleven Deans.
The Hen. Richard Bourke, second son of the late Earl of Mayo, Dean of
married Frances second daughter of Robert Fowler, Arch-
bishop of Dublin Ardagk.
James Viscount Lissord, married first Henrietta-Judith eldest
daughter of Arthur Pome roy Viscount Harberton, secondly
, Aheia e'dest-Maughter os John Oliver, Archdeacon of Ardagh,.. .... Armagh.
The. Hon. Charles Dilryæple Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare, bro-"> r, ,
thr-rof ibeEarlof Balcarras, married toMissFydel.and secondly \ nublin
lo Miss Coufmalcer J
Richard Bagwell, second (on of JoWn Bagwell, Esq. of Mart-
field, M. P. for the County osTipperary, unmarried Clogher.
Veley Dawson, nephew of Thomas Dawson Viscount Cremorne,
' married Anna-Mnria-Townley Balfour, onlv daughter of Blay-
ney-Townley Balsour, of Townley Hall, co. Luutb, Esq Cloymacnoii.
The Hon. Thouins-H. Laurence, only brother of the Earl of
Howt,h, married Frances eldest daughter and co-heiress of
itenrv Coghlan, D.D. nephew apd heir of Henry Maule, Bistiop
, of Meath .'. Cvri,
The Hon. William Annesley, brother of the Earl of Ahhefley,
married the daughter of John Digby, of Ijaudensiown, cq. ,
Kildare .'■ Doter\.
The Hon. Maurice Crosb'e, uruile, of the Ear.1 of Glandore,
married T^ne daughter of Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart Limerick.
John Scott, cousin «f the Earl of Clonuiel Lismore.
Tnc Hon. Joseph Bourke, third son of the late Earl of Mayo/ '
married Marv eldest daughter and qo'neirels of Sackvijle Gardi
ner, Esq. uncle of the late Viscount Mountjoy .. QJJory.
Usher Lee, brother os Edward Lee, late member for the County
of Walerford, married Mil's Shepherd. . ,-. .' Waterford,.
Mr,
 1807O Mr. Belstiam.-Mr.j. Carter's Poems.- Dr. Short. 823;
Mr. Urban, , Aug. 15. sorted in Mr. Cuxe's Memoirs of Sir
I THANK Mr. Bellham for his ex- Robert Walpole, and ascribed to Lord
planation (p. 628) of the passage in Melcombe. The mistake arose from
liis Summary View which appeared to jls having been found aiming thai
me objectionable ; and I still think so, Nobleman's papers, and in his hand-
considered as it stands by itself. He ' writing. I have Mr. Coxe's authority
seemed not to be aware, that every for this statement of the error ; and,
reader would not know the impression with the candour which miaht be ex-
on which he had asserted that the Mo- pected from his character, he allows
soic Institute was a dead letter ; and, as me to publish it.
this will continue to he the cafe, it Montagu Penninoton'.
would be of great advantage to his — —
work, if in its future editions he would Mr. Urban, Slaujlon, Aug. 27.
subjoin the explanation now offered. "\7"OUli Correspondent, p. 404, ha*
I fully agree with him, that a man may -J- given some valuable memoirs of
be a very^ good Christian, and know Dr. Snort, and some account of what
very little about the Divine Legation, he published ; but I have an octavo
of Moses ; but I should regret his igno- volume of his, which he has not noticedl
ranee of that code on which Christi- The title is this : " Discourses on Tea,
auity is founded, and to which Christ Sugar, Milk, Made Wines, Spirits,
referred. I do«o/ entertain any doubt Punch, Tobacco, &c. ; with plain and
that the Mosaic Dispensation waster- useful Rules for Gouty People." Piitit-
nainated by the Christian, as Mr. B; ed 1750. It is thought to be an ex-
would imply; and beg to allure him cellent treatise. Your Correspondent
that I am sufficiently acquainted with "observes, in a note, " The Doctor had
the reasoning of St. Paul, to be well a strong partiality for the waters of
convinced of it: but, if St, Paul had Holt, near Hal la ton :" perhaps be did
never reasoned on the subject, I should' not know that Dr. S. rented Holt Spa
have been amply allured of it by his of the Nevile family for several years;
Divine Master, who abrogated the and I suppose many people sound hene-
ceremonial, but preserved the moral sit from those waters. Dr. Short wrote
Law ; and a further instance of this is a pamphlet on the subject, of which
given in Acts xv. 24, 29, by the Apos-- a considerable part is given in Mr.
ties. The spirit of that moral Law, Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol-
rather than the words of it, is adopted II. p. 720.
into the Christian code; and therefore I have an octavo volume by me, of
the latter stands as a Commentary and which I should be glad to know the
Exemplification of it, which requires Author's name, for none is.prerixed in
the retention of the great Original; print ; but some person has written ih.
which I again affirm to be one govern- the title-page, "ByTomkins."The title
ing code of all civilized nations who is, " A Sober Appeal to a Turk or an
have any government at all. Indian," printed 1748. It is an answer
The contradiction, as it appeared to to a book of Dr. Isaac Watts, on the
me, between Mr. B. using the Deca- Trinity. I should be glad if any of
logue in his worship, and the se;iti- your Correspondents could give me an
meiit of that Decalogue having become account of this Tomkins (if he was the
a dead letter, was obvious until the author), and any particulars respecting
explanation now given, and which fur- his religious sentiments. J.Tailbt.
nishes an additional reason for his sub- — 1
joining it to that passage in his Sum- Mr. Urban, July 1*.
mary.View. Could I fee wherein I was A S you occasionally introduce Epi-
obseure in my first letter, the cloud ii taphs, I beg leave to offer one,
should be cleared away ; as tocavil.it which I observed lately on a tomb-
is what I disdain. A. H. stone in the church-yard of Hackney.
■in From the name, and other circum-
Mr. Urban, Northlvurn, Aug. 10. stances, 1 am inclined to imagine, that
TN the last edition of Mrs. Carter's it was composed by Ds. Coo|e, of
J- Poems, added to my Memoirs of whom some account has been 'given 7rt
her Life, these are some lines on the your Magazine, in a Review of the
death of Queen Caroline, which "were Sketches of the Lives of Civilians (vol.
first printed in Cave's small collection LXXIV. p. 648.)—The inscription is
*f them, ia 1738. This poem is in- as follows.
 824 Miss Coote.—Heraldic Errors.—National Bounty. ("Sept.
" Hie requiescit Mr. Urban, M. F. Sept 4.
Catharina Ooote, ""T^HE excellent and liberal-minded
filia CaROli et KLizabkthæ Coote, .1 Dr. Jentter. of whose invaluable
aniabilis Puella tcre leptenois, discovery I cannot speak with sufficient
quæ obin 14 '° die praise, pursued a line of conduct in
Maii, 1807 publ shirvus his discovery to the .vorld,
Formam venuliam fiinplicitate mo- very different from that which vour
rum cohuneltebat : in quotidiano vitæ Correspondent, t». G()Q, (eeins inclined
(turlo, e iam inier lulds vivacitatem, to .dour. He did not wail years after
qtrrxlariuiu, 111 iiu|>robum, fire, ue he had matured his opinion, in the ex-
airrtib tur : (ensti et ingento lupra pectati mi of being conned, aud petiti
setaiem prajdita, paren il>us atque ami- oned, aud <ronrt'*d rewards for making
cis peraraiain tie comiiem præbebat. knOMi a practice of such immense
Valetudine, lit apparebat, prosper! value ; but frunkiv aud candidly com-
diu usa est : led subiio (tic Deo pla- inunicaied to thf world at once all be'
cuit) spastno correpta, cu n permOta ac knew, and all he thought upon the
terriia exrlamasset, "Pater, ad me ses- subject. ' It was riot till he had fully
tiua,— —jam morior!" in doniellico promulgated tl>e discovery of Vaccine
ccetu. ei qnali in mains amplexu, ope inoculation, noriill after many thousand
niecla a h indquaquam juvante, animam lives had teen saved through his mtuHS,
inni cuam efBavit. tint he applied 10 Parliament for a re
Hoc infcrihi voluit pater moerens, muneration of I'uch great services.
qui, baud multo prius, filinrn qnuque When, therefore, au application was
dilectum (nomine Oulielmumj, cunc- made, so high au opinion did 'the Legis
ta boua el faulla pollicentem, ainisiu" lature enter- m of Ills merits, ih.n they
readily granted him the sum of 10.0001.;
Mr. Urban, Aug. 31. nor was ibis all ;—a greater length of
AS an occasional hint, through ihe time having more completely establish
channel of your valuable Maga ed the efficacy and security of Vacci
zine, has a tendency to correct certain nation, Parliament has recently made
negligences aud abules in the noble him a further grant of 80,0001. in ad
science of Heraldry, I will thank you dition to the 10,0001. formerly voted.
to iiisci the following remarks. Many useful deductions may be
St. Dunllan's Church, Siepnev, has drawn from a consideration of the pre
lately been repaired . but the Herald- misses affonled by Dr. Jenner's cafe ;
painter has committed great blunders but I shall confine myself to two onlv.
111 attempting to re-paint the armmial The first proves thai the world in
bearings 00 the monuments. general, and medical men in particular,
The armorial bearings of at Serjeant with a very few exceptions, are ready
at law should never appear without enough 10 receive aud adopt any dis
a motto properly affixed to them : if he covery or invention connected with
choose to disuse the family motto, he medicine of real utility, and to award
should use 1h.1i which he adopts and due honour to the inventor, uninflu
makes his own, upon his elevation to enced by envy, or any of the base aud
this distinguished rank in the learned hateful passions whicli have been sup
profession, and which is engraved 011 posed to be powerful enough to bear
the rings presented by him on the oc down and stifle any invention made by
casion to certain dignified characters. a private and unpatroniled individual.
, When bis Majesty is pleased to con The second shews thai Parliament is
fer the honour of Knighthood, it is ab ever willing to reward such individual,
solutely necessary fur the new Knight if h's discovery prove to be a great and
' to disuse, or erase, the Esquire's profile national benefit.
helmet, which he tiled wiih his crest Now, Sir, as Birliament and the
and arms, a* no longer befitiing his puhlick have been, on more than oi»e
decree ; aud, in lieu of ir, 10 bear the occasion, deceived and duped in pur
front helmet with its beaver or vizor chasing the secrets of Quacks and Pre
open, the only heraldical distinction. tenders, which have eventually proved
Several great legal characters, and ot little or no value (witness, among
others who enjoy this rank, surfer others, Mrs. Stevens'* Medicines for the
tbeir heraldry to appear without their Stone) ; it is not likelv thai they will
front helmet ; and therefore their ar verr readily listen in future to the bare
morial bearings most erroneously np- aJJ'ertinns of the possessors of secrets ; L
Pea,r as those us Esquires. II. C. B. take the liberty therefore of suggesting
i8o?.] Fever Remedy.-Mr. Hawkins.-Brazenose Epitaph. 82
to your Correspondent the propriety of Oxford, but which, on iis being con
making his discovery public at once. verted into two of three gloomy cham
The real and intrinsic value of his me bers for the reception of the living in
thod of practice will thus be quickly stead <;f the dead, have lately been re
ascertained ; if it possess the power moved. How the Right 'Reverend
which he attributes to it, of saving the Principal, or the Reverend Seniority of
tives of thmifixnds, how dreadful must that College, can reconcile to their con
the idea be to a man of humanity, that sciences the desecration of the College
thousands of people are now dying mi burial-ground, I do not inquire ; but
serably whose lives he has the power hope you will agreeVith me, that the
of p reserving ! glaring impropriety and indecency of the
Your Correspondent asserts, that his transaction is too great to be pasted over
remedy is capable " qsfubduing every without some public animadversioa.
species effever known in this country in " H. S. E.
ufew hours !" How greatly then will vir defideratisl'. Jac. Buerdsel),
the discovery redound to his honour! A. M. et hujus Coll. Socius ;
How delightful the idea of being the qui
means of alleviating so much misery raras admodum Naturæ dotes
and distress ! But the speedy and gene nobiliori Literaturæ hnmanioris
ral adoption of his invention will as proventu auxit:
suredly produce moreful-ftanlial advan cujus
tages than the applause of others, and turn morum probitatem,
the gratifying feelings of self-approba turn vitæ per omnia sanctimoniam,
tion. A Parliamentary reward will l'uperstites (qua poffint) penitus
æmulentur !
unquestionably be extended to such ob.2<°oa.jf:æ ?h\,7?,°-
great merit ; and the voices of the few ^Ætat. fuæ 70.
hundreds, who now blels him, will be . " M. S.
overpowered in the sincere and animat Guil. Wood, ex agro Ebor. gen.
ing commendations of grateful and ap hujus Coll. Commensalis ; cu.ius indolem
plauding Nations. [eximiam, morum.
Yours, &c. S. M. siiavitate, ardentiflimo doctrinæ
defiderio auctam, mors bi matura,
Mr. Urban, Bath, Aug. 24. amicis lucttiosa,
MR. J.SidneyHawkinshas, perhaps, abftulit Die yto Apr.
very properly corrected a writer, sSalutis Humanæ
(p. 627) who appears to be very defi anno< ciaiocLxxix.
cient on the subject on which l.e had (Ætatis fuæ xix."
pretended to give information. But if
Mr. Hawkins had been an early or an Mr.\JKBAti,NewntonLongville,AiigA.
attentive reader of the Gentleman's I HAVE been extremely surprised at
Magazine, he would not have lent you reading the vio'ent and most impro.
the quotation from " Ignorant! La- yoked attack made upon me in vour
mentalio" as new to vour readers. Syl - last Magazine hv Dr Laurence What
vanus Urban has long since gratified brihgs the Doctor a' all into the coniro-
his readers with not only the poem of verfy is not verv clear; but that, hav
164 lines, but the dedication and pre ing thrust himself into it, he should use
face to the " Lamentatio." And who such intemperate language, is (till more
ever is possessed of the series of the inexplicable. There was, as must be
Gent. Mag. (which I consider amona plain to any man, and I shall demon
the chief treasures of my library) will strate, till this last letter of his, no fort
find the whole in pp. 273—276, for of difference between him and me.
the month of May 1736. Why then without reason create such
Yours, &c. C. K. a diflerence? for unquestionably he
has now put himself and me in direct
Mr. Urban, Oxford, Aug. 25. contradiction to each other. And it is
AS your Magazine has long been the a contradiction from which I shall
.repository of articles wiiich other never depart. To speak appropriately,
wise would have peri (lied, I request the "Fire shan't burn it out of me ; I
insertion of the two following epitaphs will die in it at the stake."
which were lately in the cloister, or Dr. Laurence evidently (and this is
burying-ground, of Bra/enofe College, tfie only way ia which i can account
Gent. Mag. September, 1807. for
 '8z6 Mr. Le Mesurier's Answer to Dr. Laurence. [Sept.
for his conduct) is extremelv hurl that their feelings, and enriched his Letter
, liis Speech, his '* unfortunate" Speech, by bellowing, upon me every reproach
(unfortunate inded 'ti many reflects!) ful and sarcastic expression which his
should hi vi* been made ihe I object us Ib experience and habits, at an advocate,
much lifcustViti. But then the Doctor could suggest. He brings forwaid the
m Ibkes ihe object of his anger, li is language which I have used toward*
' not I thai dragged ii into noiice. It " The Iiuparlial Reporter," in the most
niijiit have lived or died in lhal con invidious way ; he lays, I am " some
venient vehicle, "The Impartial Re times very severe, and sometimes very
pan," for what I cared, if Dr Mdoer smart (hesuppuset he must in civility slf
had not in'rodiiced it into those paces call 'itj ■ he talks sneeringly of my
of vmirs, which, a1- Dr. Laurence him Christian benevolence," of my " ptous
self intimates, circulate lo wd' lv and efforts j'" calls me a '* ready polemic,"
Jive so long," and made it ihe founda a " doughty disputant," and, in the
tion os a most abusive letter against end. aficr ohargtig me with violating
me. It is not I, theresote. but Dr. ihe confidence of private conversation,
Milner, with whom the learnetl Doc and with unfairness, he requejls the
tor should be angry' And, indeed, I Roman Catholics, in candour aso
apprehend that he has, at last, found it Christ ian' charity, not lo judge
out ; f r, 'hough he had promised Dr. Prott limit Con/row tjialijls by my flate-
Milner to "do him justice," lhat is, to ment of Ihe result of this conversation,"
clear him from anv pariicpation in the moaning the conversation between him.
fraud of which so much has been (aid, and me.
I defy ant man to shew me where, Black as this catalogue is, Sjr, I am
through the whole of his Lener, there afr.ud the Doctor must make it blacker
is a word slid wli'ch can be of any ad before, he can clear himself; for he is
vantage to Dr Milner, except lhat Dr.- mistaken (either wilfully or otherwise)
Laurence is of the fame opinion with in supposing me to have stated what I
h.im on ill" subject . sO'ths, which * did, as the result of our conversation.
a fact which was never in question. 1 meant to state it as his very words, and
Indeed the Right Rev. Doctor leenis therefore 1 have been guilt y offalsehood
all al once to have got quite out of fa or of nothing.
vour with the learned Doctor ; for in Your renlers, however, must needs
the conclusion he it, dilmill'ed with just wonder al a great deal of this ; for if
the fame contemptiion- and familiar I have been " severe" and "smart"
sneer as I am. We are hpth qualified, upon the Roman Catholics, what should
with no great respect even for vmi, th.n be to Dr Laurence ? How is he
Mr. Urban, as " he's doughty I'ifpu- i pleat* d in this severity and smart
tan —in your Magazine." ness? How comes he to be the advo
I have doubted, indeed, whether I cate of the Impartial Reporter f I said
ought to apologize for my unlmkv li p nothing agiinti him ; 1 t cated him not
of ihe/ pen n wr tint! " size ' as cou only with civihtv hut with respect. I
pled wiih " eminence" in Dr Lau (aid nothing whioh need have put him.
rence. But. as it never was ca'cdated in hot water; (or, aiain I fav, I -.did
to do more than raise a good humoured not stir the question. Was I to sit dill
smile, and, as fir as I fee, has hid no and let Dr. Milner mike nte of Dr.
oilvr eftVct n ihe Doctor h'mfrlf, I Laurence's name to give efficacy and
will pas it hv. I could al heft but lav, so ce to ihe most scandalous and illi
" I'm sorry it offends you, heartily; yes, beral impnia 'ons against me? Was I
Faith, heaitiiy." to fuhini to ih'S out of ten 'ernefs to
Mi conjecture is, th.H what I re Dr Laurence? .Winat c!aims has Dr.
ported from Dr Liuren'e UN been L urence npo;i toe? Under ihe au-
taken ven ill by the body os Roman llio'irv of Dr Liurence's name, I was
Caiholica ;it larsre, with whom ihe publicly taxed, /it/ze/y tax d. with being
Do^or, for a reason which niav lie a ~fd><i at(ir and a garli er, with taking
guessed at, is extremelv anxious to he vvoids onl ol 'heir contt x,!. Did Dr.
upon good terms He Ivis tbretore, Laurence come f - waa! tojuli fy we?
in order to make up in ipers w itli hem. D -e* h", now, hat he i> reluct -il ly
devised aw\ iw'en'ed ifoi foil is) a long forced m admti t .1 the aceouni us his
account of thi- conversation which Speech is a fitJfr one, come forward to
passed between us; and, to shew them d ■ me j 'stiei ? D es he not now, on
thai he is in earnest, he has adopted the contrary, profess to be like advocate
l8o7-] Mr. Le Mefurier's Answer to Dr. Laurence.
of the man who was my accuser a d
slanderer? And wiih all this Dr. Lau
rence complains (and I suppose it is
one of the causes of bis anger) tliat I
did no! come with a pricate explana
tion to him, after the " intimation
which he had given in your Magazine,
and that which Dr. Milner had before
given 'at his delire'." An intimation
by Dr. Milner 1 What does Dr Lau
rence call an Intiwalivni Dr. Milner,
publicly in print, charges me with gross
injustice, and fays, that Dr. Laurence
has promised to clear his character.
Dr. Laurence also, publicly in print,
savs, thai he will do Dr. Milnerjiijiice !
that is, jujiice against my stu.leme.nls !
and this is called by Dr. Laurence, an
Intimation, which is to produce a pri-
vale explanation from me !! Reallv this
is too much ; it is what could hardly
have been home with from ihe Pope
himself! These are ihe I'prt of Intima
tions which may do very well from
Buonaparte to his meaner! vassals ; but
between equals make one stare.
However, Sir, all th.s is bit' circum
stance. My jollification or . Dr. L.u-
rence's must rest upon fails; and to
the facts let us come. I am here fit 11
reluctantly obliged (for to this I am
driven by my adversaries) to repeat,
that my charge against Dr. Milner was
not the draining up of ihe report in
question (he mi^hl or he might not
have drawn il up: he never has d s-
avo.wed it ; and I now rather think he
did, but still that is not the charge) ; my
charge is, that he adopted it, " know
ing it to be a false representation of his
pamphlet ; and so adopted it, for the
purpose of grounding an imputation
against me, which he could not have
even insinuated if he had quoted the
pamphlet itself*."
That was and is my charge against
Dr. Milner. But it came out also,
that the Speech was not as Dr. Lau
rence spoke it, that he disavowed the
report. Thi3 was an additional fea
ture in the fraud ; something, though
accessary, yet material. If, indeed, Dr.
Milner had any thing to do witli drain
ing up the report (which, as 1 said he-
Ibre.HE HAS NEVER YET DISCl-AIMEr)),
it iva< most material, and 1 accord
ingly nouced it.
Now, Dr. Laurence, being to defend
-, ■—■—■ •
* Cent. Magazine for April, p. 3as.
827
D. Milner, was, as I conceive, bound
to d > one of three things. He was
first to (hew that the Speech was really
insvbfliiHce v hat was spoken by him
or, Sncliy, that Dr. Milner did not
draw up the obnoxious report ; and,
8dlv, in en tier case, 1 has the use which'
Dr. M male of ihat report, was nei
ther unfair nor inconsistent with truth..
As io the list, which is the' material
point, it is beyond 'he powers of Dr.
Laurence aud Dr. Milner, aud vl will
add what is mote) ol all Doctor*
Commons, and all Westminster Hall*
to do it. It has noi, inilre.l, been au
tempted. As to the second, ihere is
the fame silence. Aud, as lo ilic first,
how (lands the cafe?
I had (aid, in your Magazine for
January last (p. 31), that " 1 had Dr.
Laurence's authority for staling that
the Speech in question was not as he
spoke it;" that '• lie disavowed it ;" that
" the Romanists had twilled his argu
ments io feive the;r own purposes.? -
N iw, Sir, whai fays ihe Doctor him
self? Wny he t is obliged to own, that
he declared iheSpeech in question not to
contain what he spoke (and, says he,
'* what report does ?") j thai "he did
then disavow, as both before andsince
he had disavowed to manu, the argu
ments as,they stand ascribed to
him. ' Now, Sir, c uld i with for a.
fuller confir nation of my w >rds J
Could I have authority more strong,
thai, as to what was the real fubstaa-
lia point, I spoke the truth?
Biu it seems, that it is in the la/t
part of my statement that 1 mi Irepre
sented him. " He never mea"t lo h nt
•t anv cause but ihat of ve"hl error."
Ii is this fam " 'wist n< of us ar ru
men's" will"h l ie H "n mi Catholics
cannoi hear, and which Dr Laurence is
anxious to clear liun'etf from ha ing
said. How he has done i', vonr eaders
may judge; though 1 ia. ii"W that,
if I were willing to leave ii upon his
so amply detailed and guarded account
os our ronversi ion, few iteople would
think that 1 had been ttnilty of unfair-
ness. But truth requires something,
more at mv hands. I declare iheu
a :ain that I means to state Dr. Lau
rence's VBR.Y words. I repeat it I
will not he positive that he used the
words " twisted" or " purposes." He
f CeuU Magazine for July, p. 604.
œay
8a8 Mr. Le Mesurier's Answer to Dr. Laurence. [Sept^.
may have said, " turned," or, "ends." words, had been made use of against
Bui words equivalent, and in a sentence me; I had a right, therefore, to
as short, he used. know if it was by his authority, and
This obliges me to give my account how far the words made use of were
of " all tlial a&ually palled" between his. I declare then that not a word
Dr. LaureBce aud myself. of the long-winded periods which h«
It was on the occasion mentioned ascribes to himself, or those proposi
by Dr. Laurence, and when I was, as tions which he alcribes to me, ever
he fays trulv, hastening from the place passed between us. Bishop Taylor has,
of Polling, and he hurrying to it, that in fact, never been at all in my thoughts.
I met Or. Laurence. I flopped him, I deny also most distinctly that Dr.
and said lo him, " You are the very Laurence said, " he would be happy
man I wanted to see." He answered, to meet me on the subject, when we
" Well, what's the mattei ? I can't flop, had leisure," but just the contrary ; I
I have a chaise waiting for me." Upon will add, that his manner was hardly
which I turned back with him, and civil. 1 went into the Convocation
we walked bnikly towards ,the Convo House after him, having been thus
cation house. " I wanted lo speak brought back, where he stayed for foma
with yon about this Speech of yours time, without faying a werd farther to
which D>'. Milner has quoted against me on that or any other subject.
me " " Oh," laid he, (not at all pro Whether it was poflible that a Con
fessing ignorance of the Controversy, versation of ihe length, or indeed of the
which indeed could hardly then be natine stated by the Doctor, should have
called a ControversyJ *' it is not my p issed, I leave for the' judgment of
Speech—not as I fpckeii. I don't admit your readers, who know the topogra
it to be my Speech. They (meaning, as phy of Oxford. I was on the steps of
Iundfrstood him, I he Roman Catholics) the door of the Schools towards the
have twijied my arguments to serve their Ridcliffe Library, when I descried tha
own purposes " 1 was proceeding to make Doctor. I advanced five or six steps
some observation, I forget what, when to meet him, turned back with him,
he turned upon me with, '* How " hurrying" all the way, as he fays,
ever, Dr. Milner does not fay what you truly ; and the whole of our conversa
make him lo lav." " No !" said I, " I tion was over before we reached the
have quoted his very words." *' Oh, pig- market.
yes," he answered, " but—" and he So stand* the fact, according to my
then went into some distinctions, account. Unfortunately Dr. Laureuoa
which, as they were not very clear, I has Co managed, that, in many of it»
will not pretend to recollect, about, I circumstances, it stands in direct con
think, the correlativenefs of duties ; tradiction to his. 1 am sorry for it.
and as probably I (hewed that I But I do not shrink from the situation
thought him confused, and smiled, in which he has placed us both. Our
and appeared ready to answer him, he respective credit for veracity or cor
stopped (hon before he had finished any rectness is now put in issue. We must
sentence, and said, " I shan't emer be tried bv thole who know us both,
into any discussion upon the subject and, in some degree, by those who
with vou." I pressed him to explain know only one of us. To those who
himself : but he said no ; and he added know us both, I most cheerfully and
diJlinQIy, " I will write nothing upon confidently refer myself. As to tha
the subject : you may write what others, he will have probably for him,
TOD WILL, I WILL NOT WRITE." Dr. Milner, and Mr. Cobbcit, and Mr.
And so ihe matter ended. Perry of the Morning Chronicle ; and
This, I solemnly aver, was the whole I (hall have for me those whom in pri
which passed ; I will noi positively aver vate life I have made my friends, in ad
that they were ihe precise words, but dition to the friendships of niv younger
they were so, as near as recollection dav* ; none of which 1 have lost.
will go in a cafe where my attention , 1 could have (aid manv '* smart"
was strongly fixed upon the conversa things in answer to Dr. Laurence's
tion from that moment. For 1 cer sarcasms. I could have said much of
tainly meant, is I wrote at all, which [ him and of his Speech, of which we are
had not then determined, to make use now to have a second corrected account. :
•f it. It was no private conversation. but J forbear. When I first stood forth
Dr. Laurence's name, and supposed in the cause os truth aud in defence
of
1807.] An Aftfor the Prevention of Duels recommended. 829
«f theChurch of England, I expected in Amoica to restrain this pernicious
to meet with abuse from more than custom ; and it may be curious to know,
one sort of persons. Bui 1 did not ex what has been the effect of that law,
pect that any individual who knew me aud iv hei her or not it has tended to
would havejoined the cry. Dr Laurence, produce the effect intended, or whelhet
however, has chosen, not very wisely it has failed in its object.
1 think, to put himself in that predica In a periodical publication for March,
ment. It is more his concern ).han 1803, I find the following account of
mine. I doubt not, with God's help, this law :
to get through this and much more. " An ' AB to prevent Duelling' passes!
Yours, &c. Thos. Le Mesurier. last session in the Assembly of North Caro
lina, by which it is enacted, that no per
Creec/i- St -Michael, son sending or accepting a challenge, os
Mr. Urbaw, August 0. sighting a Duel, though no death ensues,
THE daily increase of Duelling is trust, shall ever, after be eligible to places of
certainly one of the moll promi pardonhonour, or profit in this State, any
or reprieve notwithstanding ; and
nent and alarming features of the times; shall further
and perhaps few things could, wiih on convictionbebefore liable to be indicted, and,
any of the Courts,
greater advantage lo the interests of So shall forfeit and pay the sum lool. to the
ciety at large, employ the attention of use of the State. And if any fight a Duel
the Legislature at the present moment : by which either of the parties shall be kil
nor cstuld the great Council ol the Na led, the survivor on conviction1 thereof
tion, in the intervals of the momentous sliull suffer Death without benefit os Clergy .'
points which employ their deep and and their seconds or abettors shall be con
serious consideration, pass any Act that sidered accessories before the fact, and
would be more popular than one which shall likewise suffer Death 1 .'—This "act,
would effectually put a stop to this bar adds the reporter, reflects great credit on
barous custom. the wisdom and enlightened policy of the
As your wide-spread Miscellany has legislature of North Carolina"
perhaps a larger circulation than almost I must own, Mr. Urban, that my
any other periodical publication of the humble opinion perfectly coincides with
day, and has therefore a chance of fal that of ihe reporter of the above Act;
ling into the hands of a great many for I think it is extremely just that the
Members ofboth Houlesof Parliament, man who had violated all laws human
and particularly of such of them as aud divine, by acting deliberately in a
have the real welfare of their country manner that was perfectly repugnant to
and the happiness of society sincerely at them, should never afterwards be al
heart, allow an humble individual, who lowed to hold any place of trnsl, ikc.~
is actuated solely by the above motive, as being no longer fit so be conlidered
ft offer, through the medium of your trust-worthy : I also think the punisti-
interesting and useful Miscellany, an ment of the sine of 1001. for violating
hint on the above subject. the laws of Ibciety, a very fit remune
Since the warmest advocate for this ration for such an unjustifiable act. And
savage custom has never pretended to as nothing can be more equitable than
support it on the ground of its being that "he who fheddefh man's blood'' in
consistent with either the laws of God or au unjust and unlawful manner, should
J/aw (which are very well known to be have " his blood likewise shed by
directly against it, though they have man ;" therefore the punishment of
hitherto unhappily been unable to re Death, notwithstanding pardon, &c. is
strain it); it may appear unnecessary to the due punishment for this high act of
argue the point, which has been Co of delinquency. And to make this suffi
ten done by more able hands, upon ciently powerful, Mseconds, aiders, or
these grounds ; it will perhaps be mori abettors, should suffer the lame penalty.
effectual, if some more efficacious re 1 have only, Sir, to add, that if all these
straint can be pointed ou; to curb this pains aud penalties are still ineffectual
growing evil than has hitherto been cal- to restrain this crime, let the partids
fed into action. This, Sir, I cannot fitiht with a rope about their necks';
help thinking might be accomplished, by and the party who did not die by the
suggesting a maresevere (ate against this bands of his honourable antagonist,
practice than any at present ki existence. should be finished by those of the com
So long ago as the year 1803, and in mon hangman ! ! .'
the very beginning of Lt, a law palled You.s, Sea'. Thomas Combe*.
Mr.
 Durham Mustard.— Remarkable Pbanomenon.
Mr. Urban; Aug. 2Q.
THKRE are probably but te*v indi
viduals nov. living acquainted
with the history of the manufacture of
Durham Milliard Prior to 1720 there
w.is no Inch luxury as inuflaid, in iis
preleni form, at uur tab'fs. Ai liiai lime,
the feed wasontv coa'rleli Bounded in a
mortar, as coarselv separated from ibe
integument, aud in 'bat rough bate pre
pared for use. In ibe \car I bate men
tioned, ii sccurred to an old woman of
the n.iine of Clements, refideni at Dur
ham, to grind ihe feed in a miii, and 10
pass ihe ineal through tbe several pro
cesses which are resorted 10 in making
flour from wheat. Tbe secrei fire kept
for many years to berlels, and >n ir e pe
riod of her exclusive possessi n of it,
supplied the principal pai ls of the king
dom, and in particular the metropolis,
with this article; and George. . lie First
stamped it with fashion by hi* approval.
Mrs. Clements as regularly twice a-
year travelled to London, and to the
principal towns throughout England,
for orders, as any tradesman's rider of
ihe present day ; and the old lady con
trived to pick up, not only a decent pit
tance, but what was then thought a
tolerable competency.—From this wo
man's residing at Durham, it acquired
the name of Durham Mustard.
Mt
stir, it„,„
urban, Threadneedle-stree',
Aug. 20.
""t^HE insertion os the following ex-
JL tract from the London Chronicle
of the lgth inst, in your useful Miscel
lany, will much obligeaconstant reader.
" The following curious phænome-
Bon was observed by several persons, on
Wednesday last, in the neighbourhood
•f Forncett, Norfolk:—About 2 in the
afternoon, a body of vapour, of extraot-
dinary magnitude, apparently rose out
of the earth, accompanied by a loud
jumbling noise. It resembled the smoak
of a fire, and had an igneous appear
ance. It continued ascending lor the
space os three minutes, all ihe time at
tended with the noise and with a con
siderable degreeofagitation, till it mixed
with the clouds above it, which then
appeared, for a slxort time, to partake
of the fame motion. The air was the
whole time extremely oppressive."
I shall be much obliged to any of
your Norfolk Correspondents who may
happen to have been eye-witnesses ofit,
to communicate a more particular ac
count ofit to me through the medium
of your Magazine, S. &,
[Sept.
Mr. Urban, August 10.
\7 OUR Correspondent, p 63ti, hav-
1 ing expressed a wish 10 be in-*
formed, whether the landlord (under
which description I preluuie he means
to include ihal of occupier also) of a
farm that for lime immemorial has
never paid tithe "r any kind of modus,
is justified in refusing payment of lithe
for that farm ; it may not lie unaccept
able information to him at least, (hat
in the c lie of the Corpora 1 ion ol *• Bury
t. Evans," which is reported in Coin.
Hep. G+3, and in several other contem
porary reports, and which has ever
since been considered as the leading
tale 011 the subject, the Court of Ex?
chequer decided that a prescription in
nan deiittmndo cannot be supported
ei'bei against u lay or spiritual rector,
unless the commencement of such pre-
scripiiun is laid in (ome spiritual person
orieli.ious house; and that the pre
sumption arising from a constant non
payment, i< not sufficient, unless the
occupier can shew, either that the land
was parcel of the possessions of some
religious house dissolved since the ltat.
of '2^ Henry VIII. c.28, or that some
of the impropriators have released the
tithes. This doctrine has been recog
nized in so many subsequent cases, that
it may now be considered as fully esta
blished. Your Correspondent does not
mention whether the farm in question
is reputed to have formerly belonged to
any religious house ; but as it is (bled
never lo have paid any tithes or modus
foi lime immemorial, there is strong rea-
on for believing that to have been the
lact (and the truih of it may easily be as
certained by searching at the proper of
fices) ; and if so, the exemption from
tithes, claimed by the owner of the
farm, will then stand on more vantage-
ground than that arising from mere
payment of tithes. W. A.
Mr Urban, July 20.
READING in your Magazine for
- June, p. .078, Ihe Ceremonial at
thtfoundation ofDowning Collegi ; I beg
leave lo ref'r the Master Professors,
and Fellows, to vol XXXV 1 1 1, p, 317,
of your excellent MagtBHie ; where,
under the head of " Hint for thetjisti-
tuiion of Downing College," are some,
remarks which may probably be
thought deserving attention. . The wri
ter proposes his hint with modesty and
due deference, in consequence of 'lie lo-
lemn opinion given in Chancerv on the
17th of June, 1768. How far, aster
such
 a 807.] Pope's Homer.—York Minster.—Manor s/Holt. 83 r
such a lapse of lime, the plan proposed and executed upon a plan to corre
may be deemed in any respect worthy spond with the architecture of the
of being followed, I do not pnvend 10 times; except that the artist has intro
Judge; but I thought it pity ii should duced a wreath round the upper part,
go unnoticed at this very jimiiure. of a different appearance, and which
Yours, &c. G.W.L. better judges than niylell pronounce
to have no affinity to the Gothic.
Mr. Urban, Sheffield, Aug. 31. Will Mr. Carter supply no more lu
IN reading Pope's translation of Ho cubrations on the interesting City of
mer lately, I was II ruck with a blun York and its Antiquities ? He wrote
der which 1 should not have expected a very good letter from that place, in
would have escaped either the author or which the wriler Humbled pn a certain
the translator. It may have been person takini sketches in the Cathe
pointed outbefore a thou land times, for dral, who evinced ihat " a close mouth
any thing I know to the contrary, but was proof of a wise head ;" and he has
I never law. it noticed. As I cannot wrjt'en something since that lime ;
read it in the original, I (hall be glad but those who lake an interest in his
to be informed er her by vou, oranv of disquisitions will not think he has
your learned Headers, whether it is Ho written enough. A separate publica
mer or Pope who have been napping. tion, containing a corre6ted and en
We are told that when Hector meets larged detail of that Gentleman's ob
Andromache at ihe Scæan gate, servations on the Antiquities of York
*' The nurse stood near, in whose em- and its Cathedral would, I am per
, " braces prest, [breast."— suaded, be acceptable to the pnblick,
" His only hope hung smiling at her especially as Mr. Halfpenny is publifh-
When, aster a lont» (lory from the lady insj additional entirav ings illustrative of
and a suitable reply from the warrior, the subject, and as Mr. Drake, the
he attempts to take the child from the Yoik Historian, hav (hewn himself so
arms of the attendant; but poor an Architectural An'iqnary*.
" The babe clung crying to the nurse's A Second Rambler.
bfeast, [ding crest."
" Scar'd at the dazzling helm and nod
This bug hear he removes, aud then ITMr.is nnl Urban, Hwimmigh, Jnhi 10.
without surprize I observe,
after taking the child from her, and in a work os so much labour and
having preferred a prayer 10 Jove for his diligence
future glory and fame,'it is added, that shire now aspublishing,
the Ililinrv of Leicester
there is no re
" He spoke, and fondly gazing on her ference under ihe account of Holt, voh
charms, [arms." II. p;'72S, to any documents in ihe
*' Relior'il the pleasing burden to her possession os the Lord of the Manor, ,
I know that the manners of i he times especially as 1 find at the foot of the
permitted ihe gentlemen of those days pedigree of his family iher? is an addi
to take great liberties with other ladies tion lo his name of F SA.
besides their own, hut I think not in Surely, when a uenlleman under
the presence of their wedded loves. takes the arduous talk of writing a
And had even the great Hector himself ("ountv Hibnry, and ntves such testi
at this lime dared u> g.ize fondly no "lie monial* of his ability for the underta
charms of ihe nurse, I am not fine ihat. king as we.have recei ed from the His
it would not have hern more than ihe torian os Leicestershire, though lie has
Pagan patience of e\en the " blame nol a lea d rseht lo demand, he ha s a
less Andromache" could h ive borne ; rational ground i<> hope tor the assist
and thai the hero, by quitting the field- ance of the Members of the Society of
of battle and com o *. to his w ife, might Antiquaries. And every person conver
not have leaped out of the frying-nan sant in Manorial History who read* the
into ihe fire. Yours, &:•. S. account of Holt, must immediately
perceive ihat much is wanting, which
Mr. Urban. August 27. it is probable the evidences of the re
IN y.our volume I.XXtl. p. 310, set cta' le owner of that Manor might
I find I ha>«r uiilinforutttl tour rea supply.
ders as to the fiiu it om of Archbishop P S. There is a tender gleam of
Grev's tomb, in York Nj oilier. J, is light thrown on the History of the
in the Smth. not -the North pan of ihe Mipor of Holi by the pedigree in vol.
Tran .'pt. Sine-' ISO'.', it tvs been in II. p. 854. H. L.
closed with a beautiful call iron rail
ing, giveu by the present Atchbisliop, the* styWitness his conjectures concerning
le aud date of the Chapter-house.
832. Remarks on St. George's 'Cliufch, Hanover Square. [Sept.
Mr Urban. Sept. !. " doubt, that they had an equal .right to
A' S I am an inhabitant of the parish put up their names in the fame man
of St. George, Hanover Square, ner, began to fill the remaining pan<>
and as our parish church is at present hels, iand'.have continued the series
undergoing a complete repair, I went down (I believe) to 1782, when, for
on Saturday lali to lee what was going wtrtit ef room to display their lose,
on. I have long been disgusted with they have been obfigea to stop, to the
the manner in which the interior of no small mortification, no douht, of
this beautiful church has been disfigured1 many who have filled that office since
by the names of the Churchwardens that period, but whose najnes are not
with which all the pannels in the front thus tastefully recorded. The King's)
of the gallery have been filled, with the Arms have been taken down; I suppose,
exception of one which contains the for the purpose of being newly painted
date of the consecration of the church. and gilded. Would not the plain wood
I flattered myself that the names without either painting or gilding have
would have been removed (luring the been more appropriate ?
present repairs ; and it was even hinted From thus musing on the bad taste
to me that such alteration was intended, of some, and the excessive vanity of
and that the pannels would be restored others. I was aroused, by turning my
to their original appearance of the plain eves towards the pulpit, which I had
oak, which is certainly much hand never before seen uncovered. The body
somer than paltry painting, and I am of it is ornamented with beautiful
sore all men of true talte are of my sculpture in oak, and the fide pannels
opinion. How great was mv mor inlaid with bl.ick and white wood in
tification, however, on entering the different devices, the centre one con»
church, and looking round, to find taining the monogram of Our Saviour
not only that the names and pannels surrounded bv a glory. The architect,
remained as before, but that, in scour who 1 believe was Mr. Gibbs, never
ing oft' the old varnish from the other could have designed the pulpit to be
parts of the wood-work, great pains thus ornamented, had he intended it
had been taken to preserve then*, from to be completely hid bv a crimson vel
injury ! Mv mortification was en- vet pulpit cloth. So it is, however,
creased still farther, on going towards that this pulpit has been concealed
the liast end- and looking up to the ever since I have had a (eat in this
organ gallery, to observe that that is church. If I had anv thing to fay in
to be beautified in the fame manner, as regard lo thelc repairs, or might be al
the pannel on each lide of the clock lowed to offer mv opinion, I would
and. the freeze under the clock have recommend, that nothing more should
been painted of ;i bright blue colour, be put on 'he ptdpit than a simplestuff
the former to contain the names of the ing, similar to what is now on the front
present churchwardens, and the lat:er of the gallerv ; which would not only
thed;'te of these repairs, all in letters look more light and elegant, but by
oj'gold ! This church, lam informed, that means the beautiful sculpture on
nvas completely repaired about thirty Ihe pulpit would he leen to advantage,
years ago, and at that time it was not as, no doubt, it was originally intend
thought neceflarv to record the then ed to be. Nothing gives me greater
churchwardens names, nor the date, pleasure, than to see our churches kept
at least in Inch a situation ; nor do 1 in a clean decent order, as far as plain
now see what purpose it serves, but to pninting goes ; but I dillike glaring
disfigure the beautiful dark oak, with colours , ercess of gilding, painted pan
which the church is finished. 1 do nels, crimson pulpit cloths with rich gold
not know whence the barbarous cus fringe, and such tawdry decoration,
tom of decorating our churches has which, in my humble opinion, are
arisen, except • from the vanity of more appropriate for a theatre than for
churchwardens, in thus endeavouring a building dedicated to the service of
to hand down their names to posterity. God. I could mention many more
In St. George's church the example of particulars ; but, as I have already
the first churchwardens has been toi- trespassed, lam afraid too much, on
lowed, whole names have been bla your valuable pages, I (hall conclude
zoned bv the side of the King's Anns, by subscribing nivl'elf
and tlte date of the consecration, as An Admirer uspropriety in Church
before mentioned in the corresponding decoration, and an Inhabitant
pannel. Their successors thinking, no os the Parish of St. George.
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ltji). Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature and length by Mr. Bridges, in his improved 1
scarce Books. (Continuedfrom p. 741.J edition of Philips's Tkealmm Poctarum,
WITH much pleasure we relume Mr. Ellis had probably not seen any of
the account of a work replete his peiformances ; at least he has given
With entertainment and erudition. no specimen of his works ; yet he is spo
The first article in the Second Vo by ken of as a writer, by no means inelegant,
Warton, in his History of Poetry, vol.
lume consists of a judicious Selection III. p. 405. I have discovered, in a very
of "Songs" from the Garrick Collec curious and valuable volume of Miscella
tion; "many of which are well worth neous Poetry, belonging to Sion College
preserving, and, from the extreme and Library, the performance of Richard Barn-
increasing rarity of the works from field alluded to by Warton ; and, for the
Mitch they are taken, are little likely benefit of collectors in this line, subjoin a
to be presented to the inspection of the description, with a specimen."
common reader." Richard Zouche :
" I might easily," fays Mr. B. " have "This Author, a Professor of Civil Law,
icfded other specimens Of equal merit; was much esteemed in his day, and pub
but my object, was to produce a perform lished many valuable works. He has,
ance of miscellaneous entertainment. It however, never been noticed as a Poet ;
ijriay be objected, that what I have in but that he deserves to be so wi|l suffi
serted are hot sufficiently select, and that ciently appear from the following descrip- -
far better examples of the peefry of the tion and specimen of a curious little vo
times in which these songs were com lume, which I believe to be unique, and
posed have already appeared in the com which has been lent me by Mr. Thomas
pilations of Cooper, Headley, Aikin, El Payne, of the Mews Gate [now of Pall
lis, Ritson,. and others. This may be Mall], whom I have invariably found
conceded ; but I do not think that any of prompt to assist the cause of Literature.
the specimens I have here printed are to The title is, " The Dove ; or,. Passages ot
be found but in the particular old dramas Cosmography, by Richard Zouche, Civil-
ivhich I have Wad before me. They will Han of New College, in Oxford, 1613."
at least, therefore, have the merit of no
velty to those who may not have the op sant"A Fig for Momus, containing plea
Varietie, included in Satyres, Ec
portunity- Of seeing the rare and curious
Volumes from which they have been logues, and Epistles, by T. L. of Lin-
taken." colns Inne, Gent. At London, for
, The " brief Description of John at Clemeut Knight, and are to bee solde
Parktuirst and his Writings" we have of his Shop at the Little North Doora
Pauls Church. 15g5."
already enlarged in p. 510; and hope
it will be useful to Mr. Beloe in a fu " This I presume to be the first CollecW
ture edition. tion of Satires, so named and intended in.
■ In the account here given of "Row- the English language. This work Warr
ton had never seen ; and what his indefa
lahdeBroughtOn,"another name is add tigable research had not discovered cannot
ed to the Catalogue of English Poets. be of every day's occurrence. In his Ca
Of "The Secrets of Angling, 1652," talogue of English Satirists, Warton gives
we are told, precedence to Hall ; but Hall's ' Tooth-
" There perhaps does not exist in lesse Satyrs, Poetical, Academical, Mo
the circle of English Literature a rarer ral,' were published in 1597."
book. It is quoted no where but by Isaac After a description of "Euphaes'
Walton, in his Complete Angler, where Golden Legacie," a tract by Thomas
it is ascribed to Je. Davors, Esq. Of this Lodge, which deserves "commemora
- person I can no where find any account. tion, as well for its great rarity, as that,
He has even escaped the indefatigable pe by the acknowledgment of all the
netration and industry of Ritson. The Commentators, it furnished the plot of
book is so rare that Sir John Hawkins Shakspeare's "As You Like It;" we are
confesses he could never procure a fight treated with " a brief description of
of it. My friend Mr. Douce had given some rarer Epigrammatic productions
me the opportunity of describing it, when
I afterwards found a less perfect copy in of Onethe earliest period."
of these shall be given, as cha
the British Museum." racteristic of the times :
Richard Barn field : " To Sir Pierce Penny-lesse.
" This old English Poet is slightly " Though little coyne thy purse-less*
.mentioned by Ritson, in his Catalogue of pocket lync, .
. £nglish Poets, and somewhat more at Y«t with great company thou art ta'eri up,
{Sent. Mac, September, 180],
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For often with Duke Humphrey thou dost had he allowed his reason at all to have
dyne, [sup *." regulated his passions, he might have
And often with Sir Thomas Grcstiam been an ornament to the world, and a be
The following complimentary lines nefit to literature. He had great vivacity
to John Heath, on his "Two Centu of intellect, a very inventive imagination,
ries of Epigramines, 1610," deserve extensive reading ; \nd his works abound
with frequent and successful allusions to
preservation : the Clafficks. It is surprising to see how
" Jocos, delitias, sales, lepores, polish«d and how finished some of hi*
Salsos, innocuos, graves, pudicos. pieces are, when it is considered that he
Vis libro pariter videre in uno? wrote most of them to supply hi9 imme
Heathi centurias legas, legendo > diate necessities, and in quick succession
Jocos, delitias, sales, lepores, one to another. They were most of them,
Salsos, innocuos, graves, pudieos, very popular in their day, and must have
In libro pariter videbis uno. gone through, scarce as they now are,,
Cafta placeat ? castus liber isle. Jocosa ? numerous editions. He appears to have
jocosua. been a thoughtless, good-natured man,
Innocua? invenies. Religiosa? dabit. and very susceptible of the better feelings
Qh quot habes ipsis Musis et Apolline of the heart ; for many of his works eon-
digna! [sales!" tain noble and generous expressions. Nei
Oh quam multiplies, parVe libelle, ther was he, by any means, to be despised
From "The Guls Horne-booke,'' hy tered as a Poet. The short compositions scat
through his works, to fay nothing of
X. Dekker, we have an entertaining his dramatical pieces, indicate much poe
chapter, "How a young Gallant should tical taste and feeling.—It is impossible
behave himself in an Ordinary." not to lament, with strong emotions of
Wine and Tobacco, it appears, were pity, that a man should perish, in prema
then fold, as Medicines, in the Apo ture age, the victim of licentiousness and
thecary's (hop. intemperance, who was capable of en
forcing, with earnestness, such rules as
"Dekker's " Bellman of London, 1640," these for the regulation of his conduct ;
Mr. Warton observes, " was called, by a ' Lot God's worship be thy morning's
contemporary writer, the most witty, ele worke, and his wil'dome the direction of
gant, and eloquent display of the vices of thy dayes labour. Rife not without
London then extant. Scarce as this book thankes, nor ileepe not without repent
now is, and few are more scarce, it went ance. Choose but a few friends, and try
through a prodigious number of editions. those ; for the flatterer speakes fairest. If
This is almost the first book which pro thy wife be wife, make her thy secretary;
fesses to give any account of the canting else locke thy thoughts in thy heart, for
language of thieves and vagabonds." women are tel dome silent. If she be
" Robert Greene," Mr. B. informs us, faire, be not jealous ; for suspicion cures
•* was exceedingly popular in his day, and not womens follies. If she be wise,
his works are very voluminous, but no wrong her not ; for if thou lovest others,
accurate account of them has ever yet ap flic will loath thee. Let thy childrens
peared. Wood mentions very few of them ; nurture be their richest portion: for vr\C-
and Ritson contents himself with saying donie is more precious than wealth. Be
that he was a prolific author. Many Col not proude amonfft thy poore netghr-
lectors have thought that I shall render an bours ; for a poore man's hate is peri
acceptable servics by bringing together as lous: Nor too familiar with great men;
many of his pieces as could be collected. lor presumption winnes dil'daine.'
I have, accordingly consulted the Royal " I here," fays Mr. Beloe, " take my
Library, the Collections of the late Duke leave of Robert Greene, and, 1 confess, not
of Roxburgh, of Marquis Stafford, and of without reluctance. I have been highly
the Museum ; from which collectively 1 entertained with many of his peiform-
jive the following catalogue." anees; I feel a great respect for his talents,
The list, containing 44 different pub much disgust at his profligacy, but a sin
lications, forms an interesting article. cere concern for his misfortunes."
"This Greene was certainly a most ex IVext to the miserable and wretched
traordinary personage. Had circumstances Greene, follows an account of
introduced him on the theatre of the " Gabriel Harvey, a man who knew him
world under some respectable patronage, well, and who, perhaps not altogether un*
where the awe of a superior might have deservedly, was, from principle, his deter
had some constraint upon his conduct, or mined and implacable adversary. The con
tests, squibs, and pamphlets, between Nash
» " He walks out his dinner in Patties, and Greene and Harvey, at one time occur
and his supper in the Exchange." pied
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fled no small share of public attention and lection when presented to the Museum.
curiosity. They proceeded, finally, to such This is hardly to be wondered at, when it
extremities, that the Arm of Power inter is considered through what various hands
fered, and they were seized and prohibited." and accidents they pasted. I subjoin,
The Roxburgh Collection, contain however, a particular description of the
ing " a great many very rare and cu loft volumes, to give an opportunity ttx
rious atticles of Literature," is properly those in whose hands they may happen to
introduced to the notice of the publick. be to restore them to theirfellows."
" The edition ef Boccace, which I am The number -of deficient volumes
•bout to describe, -singular as it may seem, amounts to fifteen.
is to be found no where but in the Rox We are next presented with a list of
burgh Collection. How it came there " Rare Tracts," which the Bishop of
was thus explained to me by Mr. G. Ni Rochester's kindness hat enabled Mr.
col. The great collectors rof books and Beloe to describe, and " which came
competitors for rare publications in xht.it into bis Lordship's hands, bound toge
time -were 'Lord Oxford and Lord Sunder- ther, by accident, and fora very trifle."
land. This copy of Boccace came into
the hands of a London Bookseller, who A book of Dr. Dee's, which is next
(hewed it <o the above Noble Lords, and described, was reprelented by Mr. Reed
demanded 100 guineas as the price of it. "as one of the scarcest in the English
This sum must, at that time, have ap language."
peared enormously extravagant ; nor can "At p. 7p, we are informed that only
we wonder that they severally hesitated 100 copies were printed. That which be
about giving it. Whilst they were deli longs to the British Museum has a Ion;
berating, an ancestor of the Duke of Rox manuscript of Dr. Dee's writing' annexed
burgh saw and purchased the volume. to it, which seems to be a kind of conti
The two Noble Collectors were invited to nuation of the subject. It is certainly the
dinner; and the subject of Boccace being •most rational and methodical that this
'purposely introduced, Lord Oxford and singular character ever composed. The
Lord Sunderland began to talk of this title-page may be thus described: Within
particular copy. The Duke of Roxburgh an oblong scroll, at each angle of which
told them that he thought he could shew are two roles as'supporters, and in the
them a copy of this edition ; which they center the crown and arms of England,
defied him to exhibit. To their mortift- are these words : ' General and rare Me
.cation and chagrin, he produced the book morials, pertayning to the perfect Arte of
in question. If there shall happen to be a Navigation. Annexed to the Paradoxal
public auction of the late Duke of Rox Cumpas, in Playne. Now first published:
burgh's most valuable library, I think I 24 Veres after the first Invention thereof.'
jnay venture to foretell that this Boccace Round the scroll is ' Plura latent quam
will produce r.ot much less than sool. patent.' The remainder of the frontis
De Bure had never teen it; but has taken piece, which is engraved on wood, ap
his dd'cryniou from former Bibliogra pears to be a representation of the Tri
phers." umph of England over the Armada of
The Briiilh Museum possesses a vo . Spain."
lume, which contains nine v«ry rare, Os George Gascoigne we are told,
and not more rare than curious, tracts " The Works of this early English Pott
on the f'ubjtct of Rural Sports. now sell for a most enormous price. Col
We perfectly agree with Mr. Beloe, lectors in general are not aware that there
that the (ame grand National Reposi exists in the British Museum an unpub
tory " can hardly he said to possess any lished Poem by Gascoigne. Great as the
literary treasures of greater curiosity1 and research is, and extravagant as the price
value than the Collection of Tracts which is given, for the printed publica
usually designated by the name of the would tions of Gascoigne, I question whether it
King's Pamphlets." Of these, a good ment tonot ke a very hazardous expert*
print this Poem." •
account is given, "from a paper annex
ed to the fi-st folio volume of the Ma The title of it is,
nuscript Index, which seems to have " The Grief of Joy, certeyne Elegies*
been printed nnh a view of promoting wherein the doubtfull Delightes of Manes
their sale at some subsequent, period." mosteLyfe are difplaied. Written to the Queencs
The original collector was a Clergy excellent Matie. Tam Marti quam
man, whose name was G. Thomajon. Mercuric. 1576."
" It is painful to add, that the follow A letter of Antony Wood, dated
ing volumes were milling from this Col Norwich, Feb. 22, 1719, "reveal*
itMi
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what is not generally known, that a truth of the illustration may be perceived,.
great part of the addilions and correc by general observation) that if the duties
tions in the second edition of Wood's of a Christian profession are not a'.tendevc\
Alhenae O.vomenfes were supplied by to in our lives, its support and consola-1
Dr. Tanner, the learned author of the tions in those trying scenes cannot be felt,
either by the dying . or by their' surviving,
}Jutitia Monqjlica." friends. This important truth has, n6'
We learn, by the article os "Bibles," doubt, been often enforced on many of
that my young readers, and in a way more
"Dr. Combe, to whom Literature is large and comprehensive tban in this, sim
Considerably indebted in more than one ple tale : yet, as, after having observed %
of its branches, had made a Collection charming view of Nature reflected in a
Of English Bibles, many of which are of mirror, where each object, though lessened
unexampled rarity and value. He conde to our sight, is distinctly seen, and bears/
scended to dispose of them to the British its due proportion to the whole, we are;
Museum for the sum of 150 pounds ; still inclined to survey the scene itself,
which must be considered as a great in and perhaps with more accurate attention,
stance of generosity, as they are certainly than before ; it-is hoped that this feeble
Worth very much more." attempt to exemplify the satisfaction arising
"There are few rarer tracts in English be from a Religious Life will not, therefore,
Literature than the " Expedicion in Scot- altogether useless or unentertaining."
lande;" of which, I believe, no more than The plot is briefly this: Ellen and
two copies are known. It exhibits an ex Anna Stanley, the twin fillers, are, at
traordinary example of the increase of the the age of five years, entrusted to the
pripe of books. At the sale of Mr. West's care of their aunt, Mrs. Irvin ; their fa?
books a copy fold for 18s. rid. ; at Mr. ther and mother finding it necessary to
Woodhouse's sale, in December 1803, a go to India, to retrieve their fortune.
copy was purchased for the Duke of Rox Mrs. Irviu, a truly pious and amiable
burgh at the enormous price of 16 gui lady, gives her nieces a religious edu
neas." " I am indebted for the use cation, and at the fame time instills
of this curious and rare work to Mr. Isaac into their minds every virtuous and.
Reed, who bought it, if I am not mista benevolent principle that can adorn
ken, for half a crown." domestic life. In a peaceful retire
From a diminutive " History of ment, and in acts of beneficence to
Printing," a very trifling account is their poor neighbours, their time was
given of the Origin ofihat noble Art. happily passed till our heroines had
The curious old Ballad oh " the attained their sixteenth year, when
Duchess of Suffolk" we have given in Anna was attacked with a consump
Out present volume, p. 20g, with a tive complaint, which terminated fh.
copy of the original wooden cuts. her death. And here the Author takes
There are several other very curious occasion to display the superior efficacy
articles, which We have palsed unno os Religion, in divesting ihe death-bed
of its terrors, and in imparting the
ticed for want of room. comfortable hope to the surviving sister
os meeting the beloved object of her
j 10. Tlie, Twin Sijlers ; or, The Adimntagei affection in a blissful hereafter. Shortly
of Religion. By the Author of "Trifles {
or, Friendly Mites ;" " Addreffes of an after this' event, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
return from India, with a more splen
affectionate Motlier ;" "Juliana;" &c. did fortune than they had before dissi
THE tendency of this little work de pated ; and, being informed of the
mands our commendation. death of Anna, they remove their only
"It is intended to display the benefits daughter, Ellen, to iheir magnificent
Of Devotion, which are illustrated in the house in Grosvenor-scjuare, where Ihe
lives of two very young persons, whose is required to mix in the vortex of
pursuits were, not the vanities of the
world, but the true and lasting pleasures dissipation ; but here, though (he en
of Religion, and Time well spent. There deavours to accommodate herself to
are few, even of those who do not study the wilhes of her father and mother,
to live by its rules, that are not willing to (lie still adheres to the virtuous instruc
acknowledge the efficacy of Religion in tions (he had received from her aunt;
the hour of death or on a bed of sickness ; and earnestly wishes to revisit her once
though they are inclined to put off all happy abode. When near the accom
thoughts of it till that awful period. But plishment of this with, it is frustrated
in this short history will be sqen (and the by the illness of Mrs. Stanley, whose
health
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health had been seriously injured by an, cards !" said Ellen ; " sure, that is not a
uninterrupted course of dissipation. El lesson you are taught?" ' Yes we are}
len is moll assiduous in hor attention ; and we (earn a great deal from them;
and, when the physician intimates the that is, my brothers anil sisters do ; but I
danger of his patient, is much alarmed cannot understand them yet; so I have
at the prospect of her r«.ither leaving only now and then one, such as 1 London
this world lo ill prepared for the next: is the capital city of England, and Edin
but all poor Ellen's efforts to awaken a burgh of Scotland.' "Arc they Geogra
sense of Religion in her Parent prove phical Cards you play with ?" said Ellen,.
ineffectual; and (he has the misery of 'Yes, and foractur.es Historical Cards;
beholding her expire in what die we play with them of an evening when it
is Winter, but not in the Summer. 1
deems a state of insensibility. From can work too,' continued she ; ' and I
t^is dismal scene Ellen is removed by read a great deal every morning.' " How"
her kind aunt, to enjoy once more much have you read to-day ?" said Ellen,
>yith her the tranquil pleasures of the smiling. ' Three pages, at different times;
country ; and Mr. Stanley, after hav besides spelling eight words out of book,
ing squandered away his large property and faying my first lesson frtim Mrs.
at the gaming-table, and being brougtu. Trimmer." v
to. the verge of the grave, is prevailed A short, specimen of a different sort
upon to (hare their rural retreat, where of language, the description os Elleu'a
he by degrees dilcovers that happitiels father in his retirement :
may be found. Ellen at length be "The change was such as Mr. Stanley-
comes the wife of a respectable Clergy had never before experienced ,• for when,
man, and continues to reside in her before, he had left the town, it was only
favourite village, the delight of her fa to meet the fame company, and the sarae
mily, and the friend of the peor. pursuits, in some fashionable watering-
We add, as a specimen os the style, place; but he was now really in the
a short dialogue between. Ellen and a with country, and in the midst of Whiter,
child "not quite five years old, but womannoand other companions than an old
whose understanding was far above her to their ownu young plan of
girl, both so attached
happiness (a sketch
years, and had already been greatly of which the reader has seen), that they
cultivated." concluded there was none other capable
" After dinner, Ellen played a favourite of affording it, and yet Mr. Stanley did
country-dance.—' Shall I dance to you ?' not wish himself away. Here he had
said the delighted child; ' I do at home, time to reflect; and he was astonistitd at
whenever my sister plays that dance. El- the recollection of his firmer life, de
,len could not help smiling to see her pendent on so many people for amuse
jump about the room, and gave her great ment and employment ; for often had he
praise for keeping so true to . the musick. flown to the former, as a means of passing;
'Oh,' said Caroline, 'if you were to see away the hours that hung heavily on his
my sisters Lucy and Fanny, you would hands ; but at Milwocd he never found a
lay they dance well ; but they are older vacant hour. Without his old pursuits,
than I arn, you know.' When Ellen ask no tavern or coffee-house to lounge in,
ed', if they had any master ? the did not where he merwith comjKinions likc'him-
know what was meant by the question. self, who were drawn rogether merely tor
'What!' said she, 'does a master teach the sake of killing time, here he met
children to dance? I only' know little with real attention ; Ellen, and often Ms.
Master Lambert, and I am sure he cannot Herbert' [a venerable Divine], left their
dance so well as Lucy or Fanny: we teach own employment to amuse or converse
ourselves.* When asked what her sister with him. Every morning after break
taught her? she replied, 'The first lesson fast, while be was in too weak a state to
we learn every morning is to know God ; be much out of the house, Ellen first read
for my sister fays that is the thing of most to him, then played, or fang; and soon
consequence ; and so I think, because He his old taste for musick resumed, and he
is .so very good tp US, you know.' Ellen became again a performer. The books he*
thought so too. " And how are you read tended farther to illustrate those im
taught, to, know Him?" said' she. ' O, portant truths that Mr. Herbert in his
have you never seen Mrs. Trimmer's conversation inculcated, and in his con
books?' replied the child; 'my (ister duct practised. Here too Mr. Stanley
teaches us out of them, ajid explains saw an uniform respect paid to the Sab
them to us, and we learn some every clay; bath ; that day which, if properly spent,
aud then we spell, and my sisters wnte, adds grace and happiness to all the rest;
but not ntej and we play cards.' " Play and, by the example of those abetit him,
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lie was led to attend the church, and, lured by the most specious offers. The
like them also, he found comfort in so passage to the United States is seldom per
doing. He had all his life been seeking formed under five or six weeks, and some
after happiness ; but now, when, nearly times adverse winds have extended the
driven \o despair), he came desponding, irksome voyage to three months. Mr.
and not expecting, or.fcaictly wishing, to Gilpin described the horrors of the sea,
discover it in the country, he sound, in a the sufferings of the passengers, not one
<juiet, peaceful life, dedicatee! to Religion of whom had ever been upon saltwater,
and the good of others, the truest enjoy and the effects of the August fun on the
ment; leaving far behind him the world coast of Virginia, with the most poignant
and all its visionary plans, he became ac sensations. On the American coast his
quainted with a higher source of pleasure, sifter expired, from the effects of the fa
and was imperceptibly led to admit the tigue endured in the voyage, and the heat
claims of Reason in its favour, which the of the latitudes they had approached ; and.
falsely-named gaieties he had hitherto her remains were committed to the bosom
pursued wou/ld allow him no time to of the deep. After being becalmed till the
consider." situation of the passengers was almost in
"The Twin Sisters," though in some supportable, the sliip arrived in Hampton
parts it has the appearance of being a roads. The port and town of Norfolk it
Bale loo serious, may safely be placed one of the most unhealthy on the coast.
on the shelf of every young reader. Mr. Gilpin procured a house in the upper
part of the town, called the Old Fields,
111. Jani'cn's Stranger in America. and near to that where I then resided, to
sConclud&l from p. 751.) which he immediately removed his nu
merous family. The yellow fever was
THE prospects which await an then raging, and I was at that moment
Emigrant Farmer are thus described : under its baleful influence. To describe
" My friesd, Mr. John Bernard Gilpin, the misery of the sufferer afflicted with
a lineal descendant of that celebrated and this horrible disease is impossible. The
pious man, John Bernard Gilpin, arch symptoms by which I was attacked were
deacon of Durham, denominated 1 The sudden. I had supped with an appetite,
Northern Apostle,' with whom I became slept as well as the heat would permit,
acquainted soon after his arrival in Nor and was rising at my usual time in the
folk, is an instance of the difficulties and morning, when I felt a most singular sen
dangers attending a scheme of this na sation, accompanied by a chill. 1 lay
ture. He possessed an estate in Westmore down again, and soon felt a nausea at my
land, which had descended from heir to stomach, which produced a vomiting of
heir for many generations, and which he bile, in colour and quantity which asto
fold under the influence of a scheme of nished rrre. This relieved me so much,
emigrating to America, and there he- that I ascribed the cause of my sickness to
coming the proprietor of some of those • foul stomach, and had dressed myself
immense and rich tracts of land so luxu before I'perceived new symptoms. A las
riantly described on the banks of the situde hung about me, and was accom
Ohio. He engaged the cabin of a large panied with a depression of my faculties,
vessel at Whitehaven, and provided him an aeuie pain at the back of the head,
self with every implement of husbandry, and an aching through ray limbs. Medi
■and whatever might contribute to the ex cal assistance was now procured ; but on
ecution of his intentions. His family con the third day 1 felt so weary that 1 could
sisted of an amiable wife and two young not remain a minute in the fame posture ;
children, a widowed sister, her three a sensation not to he described -r- worse to
daughters and a son. Being a man of an be endured than acute pain, and more
antient family, and greatly esteemed, se irksome than the smart of a festering
veral neighbours, equally restless at home, wound. During this time the fever had
and yearning for a sight of the new world, made great progress ; and the thirst it oc
entreated permission to accompany him. casioned could not be appeased, though I
Thus the ship obtained a cargo of respect drank large quantities of the juice of
able English emigrants; among whom limes, with water, which was permitted
were some husbandmen, who had bound by my physician. My stomach, however,
themselves to Mr. Gilpin for a term of soon refused the grateful beverage ; the
years, to assist in the settlement of his vomiting continued often so long, arid
contemplated domain. Mr. Gilpin was with such violence, that I was exhausted,
one of the most wary and frugal of his and found a temporary relief in the de
countrymen ; and from this inherent dis privation of my mental faculties. In this
position he withstood the temptation of state I suffered several days, the greatest
purchasing lands in America previous to part of which I was insensible of my situ*
bis departure from England, though al ation, and the intervals of reason wejre
horrible.
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horrible. My bones fclt as if they were of late into the United States through
disjointed ; a burning pain was seated in this medium."
the spine ; while the throbbing and tor The following extracts deserve the
menting sensation in my head drove me raosl serious attention :
again into a state of delirium. The treat
ment of my physician was judicious ; by " The emigration from the British do
his aid, and that of a good constitution, I minions, and more especially from Ire
struggled through the dreadful disorder. I land, to the United States, is almost in
was copiously bled in the first instance, credible. In 1801, 14,(300 fouis were,
and blisters were applied to my legs, my landed from Ireland by the Philadelphia
feet, and the back of my neck. This re ships alone ; and, upon the moderate cal
gimen, with the good effect produced by otherculation of the like number arriving ac
strong doses of calomel, and afterwards of ports, we find the emigration to be
bark, effected my cure. During this se 28,000 ! These people paid, on an aver
vere trial, in my intervals of reason I rea age, for their passage, ten guineas each,
dily complied with the prescriptions of making 2g4,000l. sterling. Many of them
my doctor and the directions of my black took with them considerable property ;
nurse ; but was informed, that in my de and almost the-whole had the saving of a
lirium I was most refractory, and evinced year or two in their pockets in specie on
great bodily strength in attempting to their landing on the American shore; but,
escape from the chamber — a common supposing they drained their country of.
symptom in the yellow fever.—By this only ten guineas each more, the loss to
malignant disorder were Mr. Gilpin and men Ireland would be ;88,OOOl. ! ! ! Guinea-
several of his family seized. In a short with slaves were never crowded like
time it deprived him of his wife, and re the American ships from Londonderry to
duced himself and one of his children to Philadelphia with Irish passengers. A
a very low state. The fever was now board small ship, of only 215 tons, took on
raging in a most alarming manner in captain530 passengers, vyho first paid the
above SOOOl. for their passage. To
Norfolk. A part of a common was in these must be added the ship's crew,
closed, and called Potter's Field, for the
interment of its victims. Here lie the making 542 fouls, being nearly double
remains of Mrs. Gilpin ; and here my the number ever attempted to be Jloivcd
bones would have been at reft, had I met in a slave-ship of that burthen.
her fate. The dead were hurried to this " The English emigrants are not so nu
cemetery, often without coffins*, in merous ; yet the property they carry with
carts, er upon drays, by Negroes, in the them is estimated higher than that drain-
dead hour of night ; and most of the sea ej from Ireland. Hence, English gold is
port towns in the United States, even as in circulation in all parts of the'Unitcd
far North as Portland, in the province of States. From Germany, of late years,
Maine, since the year 1793, have occa there have been considerable importations
sionally been visited by this infection. of Redemptioners. These are poor peo
This misfortune, added to the intense ple, 'who bind themselves to the captain,
heat of the Summer, had nearly clouded or his assigns, for the price of their pas
the fair prospects of Mr. Gilpin, when sage. Their time of servitude is from three
other obstacles presented themselves, to seven years, which the -patient German
which entirely frustrated his plans. The generally endures without a murmur.
husbandman, on whom he had depended These are the most valuable emigrants td
for the management of his farm, and America ; for they are generally honest
whose passage he had paid, breaking at and industrious, and often acquire consi
once his bond and the ties of gratitude, derable property after the expiration of
absconded. This is the common trick their servitude. In some parts of Penn
played by Rcdemptioners, who, allured by sylvania, the country, 'for many miles,
the prospect of high wages, run away on is inhabited entirely by Germans, who
the first opportunity ; and for that reason retain their native language, and pursue
but few emigrants have found their way their antient customs."
* " During my stay at Edenton, in North Carolina, a New-England-man, of the
name of Johnson, from Marblehead, arrived there with a number of speculative arti
cles for sale, there called 'Yankee Notions.' Among these were a number of coffins
of all sizes, one within the other, as apothecaries buy their pill-boxes. This fellow had
heard of the ravages of the fever at Norfolk ; and Edenton being only sio or 70 mile.-
distant, he calculated on a market; but the fever having never visited the latter placs,
the coffin speculation failed. Another curious Yankee speculation was made by a mer
chant of Newberry Port. He sent, as an adventure to the West Indies, a large quantity
of wstrmvig-pans ; and, strange to tell, they found as good a market as could be ex*
pcctetl for lush an article iu Lapland. They were converted into molasses' ladles !"
A whol?
840 Review of New Publications* [Sept.
A »vWe chapter is devoted to Tho Union ! flow that Paine could no longer
mas Paine; whole character is thus woik evil in Europe; could no longer be
penned bv a unlive Virginian : supported in reviling the idea of the Son
" Tliis. beastly, drunken infidel was of God, the Saviotu of the World, and
confined in one of che gaols of Paris, un those who believe in him ; could no lon
der da ly expectations of being dragged to ger be countenanced in speaking irreve
the guillotine. Well knowing the temper rently of your never-to-be-forgotten Wash
of the times, and the extreme viciobfness ington, the unsullied patriot and father of
and licentiousness of the Jacobin, then his country, is he brought hither to pur
the ruling Faction.) he wrote and publish sue his ' useful tabours,' with the prayfcrs
ed that detestable book, 'The Age of of the President of the United States of
Reason.' This work being congenial America for his ' success !'
with the principles and the new philoib- Making some allowances for eJilap-
phy of that faction, k was patronized and pointment, and for a .tittle prejudice.
driieminated with great fanatic seal and much ulesul information is to be de
industry, for the purpose of destroying the rived from The Stranger in America.
Christian Religion, and of corrupting the
moral* of the people, that they might the A Treatise on Indigence; exhibiting *
more ealily be bTovrght within the fangs general l-'iew of the National Resources
of arbitrary Power and Despotism. With for Productive Labour ; with Proposition*
what success this was done, Vet the rnno- for ameliorating the Condition of tlit
eent spirits 6f the thousands and tens of Poor, aud improving the Moral Habits,
thousands, of all ages and sexes, with end increasing the Comforts, of the La
whose Mood it is well known that unfor bouring People, particularly the Rising:
tunate country was deluged*—answer. Let Generation ; ly Rcgiilations of Political
eur own observations too, respecting the Œconomy, calculated to prevent Poverty
rapid advances which atheistical and deil- from descending into Indigetice, to pro
tical sentiments have made in this coun duce Sobriety and Industry, to reduce tht
try within she last ten years also answer Parochial Rales of the Kingdom, and ge
the question. Know then, 'hat for these nerally to promote the Happiness and
labours, which the President of thv United Security of the Community at large, by
States calls ' useful," the sacrilegious head the Dimimltion of Moral and Penal Ofi
of the author was then spared. This is a fences, and the future Prevention of
fact too well established to be contradict Crimes. By P. Coiquhoun, Esq. LL. D.
ed. But, as the Jacobin Party funk in TO copy from this work the articles
France, that miscreant Paine became un
noticed and contemptible. He was only that are curious and inter«lring Would
seen and known as a drunken blackguard be to transcribe the whole volume*.
in the streets, or heard of in the stews Some detached extracts, therefore, must
and garrets of Paris. And, as Order and suffice; and the first shall be our Au
Religion gained ground in France, the thor's very judicious "Distinction be
name of Paine became every day more tween Indigence and Poverty."
and more abhorrent to men of character, " Poverty is that state and condition in
and consequently to men in power. His society where the individual has no fur-
insignificance and brutality of demeanour, plus labour in store, and, consequently,
of course, became more and more de no property but what is derived from the
spised. Finding himself abhorred by all constant exercise of industry in the va
good men, and shunned for his meanness, rious occupations of life; or, in other
bestiality, and perfidy, by infidels like words, it is the state of every one who
himself,' he saw that he had at length got must labour for subsistence. Poverty i»
out of his element. Without any prospect therefore a most neceslary and indispensa
•f labouring again successfully in his vo ble ingredient in society; without which,
cation of beguiling the uninformed, or of nations and communities could not exist
urging to deeds of wickedness and blood in a state of civilization. It is the lot of
shed the corrupted portion of his fellow man — it is the source of wealth, since
men in that country, he began to give without poverty there would be no labour,
himself up as a lost atom. lii this situa and without labour there could be no
tion, a situation truly miserable to infer riches, no refinement, no comfort, and rid
nal spirits, did he receive the consoling benefit to those who may be possessed of
and affectionate letter front our ph ilosophic wealth—inasmuch as without a large pro
President, ' written in .the ensy confidence portion of poverty surplus labour could
of old acquaintance,' cordially inviting never be rendered productive in procuring
him to the bosom of his country, with either ;he Conveniences or luxuries of
'."prayers for the 'success of Ids useful la- life. Indigence therefore, and not poverty,
bntrx ! ! /* Gracious Heaven! that ever is the evil. It is that condition in socieiy
1 should have advocated the views of such which implies want, misery, and dijireji.
a man to the chief magistracy of tht
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It is the flute of any one who is destitute 165,000,0001. That able and correct po
of the means of subsistence, and is una litical œconomist, the Rev. Dr. Beeke,
ble to labour to procure it lo the extent supposed it to amount to 125,000,0001. in
Nature requires. The natural source of the year 1800; since which it has been
subsistence is the labour of the individual ; increased at least 40 millions.". ..." Mr.
while that remains with him, he is deno Middleton, in his Survey of the County of
minated floor; when it fails, in whole or Middlesex, calculating upon 46,916,000
in part, he becomes indigent." acres in England and Wales, values the
" The labouring people are exposed to aggregate produce at 136,790,0001. ; but,
many casualties from which the higher a* it has been since discovered that the
orders of society are shielded ; to damps calculation should have been only mad<
and cold contracted by working in wet on 37,334,400 * statute acres, this calcu
weather—by the want of a change of rai lation admits of a deduction, which will
ment—-deficient bed-clojths—cold rooms reduce the estimate of the value in the
and cottages—hurts—wounds—and other hands of the farmer to about 100,000,0001.
accidents peculiar to their situation as a year."
out-door labourers.". . . . *' Nothing can " The rapid and progressive increase of
exceed, on many occasions, the sufferings manufacturing labour is not confined to
of this useful class, upon which the one or more branches of this species of
strength, stamina, and riches of the national industry, bur pervades the whole.
country depend." By rhus combining competent skill, inge
"It is perhaps not too much to fay, nuity, and enterprise, with human labour,
that the farming capital of England ex in converting various raw materials, partly
perienced an increase of little short of the produce of the foil, and partly im
forty millions sterling In the years 1800 ported from foreign countries, a property
and 1801, in consequence of the advance is yearly created, which , (after deducting
in the price of grain having so greatly ex the expence of the raw materials used,
ceeded the quantum of loss arising from and adding thereto the increased value
the deficiency of the ciops of 1 7t>9 and arising from the profits of the manufac
1800." turer, and the labour of all classes of
Mr. C. calculates that " more than mechanists, handicrafts, labourers, ware
housemen, and shopkeepers, assigned ei
400,000 ' adults, exclusive of about ther
) 67,000 a'jeil persons above 60, and thesetofabricated
prepare, or ultimately to convey,
articles to the exporters
473,718 children, are supported part on the one hand, or the consumer at
ly or wholly by the Parishes;" and home on the other) cannot be estimated
adds, that at less, for England and Wales, than
" In consequence of a return procured 86,000, 000I. produced by labour and ca
by the Author from 55 work-houses in pital alone. On an average of four years,
and near the Metropolis, at the desire of between 1804 and 1805, the actual value
a respectable Writer on the subject of of British manufactures exported was
longevity, it appeared, that in 1805 there 44,505,0001. If two thirds are supposed
were then alive 113 men and 358 wo to be retained for home consumption, the
men, making in the whole 471 persons, gross amount, according le these data,
who had anived at the great age of SO would be 147,515,0001.! The allowance,
and upwards ; and ef these 5 had rcacktd therefore, for icoof, iollon, silk, leather,
100 years." and other raw materials used in these nia-
nufactures, appears to be very ample. A
" A General View of the National respectable
Income and S'ate of Society in Eng examined before aud intelligent manufacturer,
land and Wa'es, according lo Mr. House of Commons,a Committee of the
in isoo, valued 1 lie
Gregory King's Estimate in lsi'88," is produce of the woollen manufactuie at
contialicd . wiui a similar View in 10,o0O,000l. a year. Mr. M'Auhur, ia
JK03; well worthy of an attentive 1803, estimates the whole, including th*
exaininaii'm.
" This- table, while it exhibits the * " Supposed to be thus distributed :
proud height to which the Nation has A; able laud 1 1 ,500,000
arrived, must tend, in an eminent degree, Hops, nurseries, and gardens. 100,000
to quiet the feelings of despondency, ex Pastures, &C 1 6,500,000
cited by n partial view of this interesting Hedges and copse 1 ,500,000
subject; while at the fame time it forms Common* wastes 6,000,000
a strong ground of exultation, ttiumph,' Ways and waters 1 ,734, ^Ot)
and confidence to the Nation at large." ■ ——1— —*
" The. agricultural capital cannot, at Total acres 37,334,400"
this period, be estimated at less than
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fine fabricks from foreign wool, at The number of persons presumed tp
25,560,0001. The cotton manufacture live chiefly or wholly upon the labour
has advanced with the most rapid strides, of others " is stated to be 1 ,320,7 1.6 ;
and may now be supposed to approach and among these are particularly enu
to nearly 14,000,0001. Leather has also merated,
become a prodigious article, perhaps not " 1 . Indigent persons already stated to
less, in point of extent, lhan cotton." be objects at parochud relief. . . 1 ,040,7 16
" ft appears, from an authentic docu (t 2. Mendicants, comprising indigent anil
ment, that 1,454,102 barrels of porter dijirejj'ed beggars,'sturdy beggars, irampers,
and strong ale, and 4 41,3-20 small beer, persons pretentiing ro have been i?i the army
were brewed in London, by 20 principal and navy, lame and maimed, travelling all
and 126 lefler brewers, in the year ending over the country, and using mapy'devices
1 July isofi; amounting, at the file price, t» excite compassion, estimated, including
to 4,440,3841. ; being, for 08,239.132 their children, at about . 50,000
gallons, at the average rate of about "3. Pageants; under which description
Is. sd. a gallon. The annual consump are to be included gypsies, and another
tion of this beverage mutt now exceed race of vagabonds, who imitate their
13,000,0001. a year, including that brew manners, although not of that commu
ed by private brewers ; and home-made nity, now become pretty numerous, wan
spirits about 5,000,0001." dering about the country with jack-astes,
" The force of example works its w3y sleeping in the open air' under hedges, anti
through all ranks of society. It descends in huts and tents, loving idleness better
even to the lowest classes of sociely, who than work, and stealing wherever oppor
Indulge in luxuries little known a century tunities osier ; including wives and chil
ago. Tea, sugar, tobacco, malt liquor, dren, this class cannot amount to less, in
and corn spirits, are now immense. articles every part of the country, than . . 20,000
of consumption among the inferior classes *' 4. Idle and immoral perfonsr who are
of society ; taking quantity and value to able to work, but who work only occa
gether, they have perhaps increased twen sionally, who neglect their families, and
ty fold in the course of a century." either delert'them totally, or loiter away
" In contemplating the state of the in their time idly in ale-|iouses, and half
digent, there is perhaps moie to be dread support them, leaving the deficiency to
ed from the incieasing depravity of man be scantily made up by the Parishes; this
ners than from the great expence incur class of depraved characters are pretty nu
red in supporting them, enormous as it merous, and in the whole country must
certainly is, and rapid a-; its growth has exceed. . 10,000
been within the last 14 years. Like the " 5. l*eu-d ondimmoral women, who live
progress of vice and dissipation, it seems wholly Or partly by prostitution' . 100,000
to have kept pace with the increase of the " 6. Persons described in the Statute of
wealth andcommeice of the country, as 17 Gen. II. as rogues ami vagabonds, com
will be seen from a Table (given by Mr. prising wandering players of interludes at
C.) shewing the progtcfiive Kite of the fairs, mountebanks, jlnge-dunctrs, and item*-
Poor's Rate, Revenue, National Debt, biers, exhibiting in the open air, Jltownren,
and Commerce, from l6;3 to 1S03, being ballad-fingers, minjhels with lutrdy-sureties
130 Years." and hand' organs, t^c. ,• vagabonds with
"The following Hesuirs are extracted dancing-bears and monkeys ; Ion? gamblers
from the Parliamentary Abstracts in 18B3 : with E O tables, wheels of 'fortunes an4
P-aupers relieved out other seductive implements of gaming;
of work-houlss, dnssers with waif! coat- pieces and other
notincludingchil- Jmuggled good's > and petty chapmen, and'
dren 336,199 lav Jews, tvith trinkets, without licence*,
Pauper children un alluring ignorant purchasers by apparent
der 5 years relieved }20,236 good bargains^ and securing, notwith
Pauper children from standing, a large profit, by giving change
5 to 14 years re in bad money ; pretended horse-dealers,
lieved 19<,9> » without licences, exposing stolen horses
315,150 for sale. All these different classes of va
Paupers relieved in gabonds visit almost every fair and horse
work-houses, in race in the countiy, and live generally by
cluding children 83,46s fraud and deception. Foreigh'vagabonds,
who also wander about the country, pre
Paupers, supposed tending to fell pictures, but who are also
chiefly to be men dealers in obscene books and prints, which
dicants, occasion they introduce into boarding-schools, on!
ally relieved ptetence of selling prints of flowers,
, .305, pgg whereby
Total., ..1,040,716 the youth of both scx«s are cor-
" rupted,
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ruptcd, while at the same time softie of Brought forward 4376
these wanderers are suspeclcd. of being Stealing cows and pigs ..... 38
employed by the Enemy as spies. The Forgery 36
number of these different classes fluctuate, Ditto of Bank notes, and uttering d° 28
and cannot be easily ascertained; but it Bigamy 23
is probable they may amount, upon the Cutting and maiming 21
whole, to 10,000 Shooting at others. . . . . 14
"7. Lottery vagrants, or persons em Sodomy and bestiality, including 1 Js
ployed in procuring insurances during the attempts J
drawing of the lotteries, or as proprietors Coining bale money IS
of Little Go lotteries, confined chiefly 10 Returning from transportation 15
the Metropolis. This class have fluctuated Arson, or house-burning, &c. ...... 13
of late years; but they are still numerous, Piracy 7
and perhaps may be fairly estimated, in Sedition *
cluding male and female, at 10,000
" 8. Criminal offenders, comprising high- Total 4605
icay robbers, footpad robbers, burglars,
house breakers, pick-pockets, horfe-Jiealers, " Sentences pronounced, &c. Persons.
Jheep-Jiealers, Jieaters of hogs aud cattle, Death 350
dcer-Jiealers, comment thieves, petty thieves, Transported ij 1J j££ \ \ \ \ \\" \ \ \ \ »"
occasional thieves, who cannot resist tempta~
lions, receivers of stolen goods, coiners of s3 years 5
base money, venders and utterers of base 1 to 3 years. . . 123
coin, forgers of all descriptions, utterers of Imprisoned «J £year to 1 year 333
counterfeit. Bank notes, cheats, swindlers, I 6 months and
embezzlers of goods aud money, return L under 1219 1680
transports, and ether offenders. When it Whipped and fined 105
is considered what a multitude of the of Sent to the Army and Navy 53
fences above enumerated never come un Tried and acquitted 1092
der the review of Magistrates—the great Discharged by proclamation, no 1 ^
number of larcenies which are never dis bill being found j
covered, or concealed if found out, to
avoid the trouble and expense of prose Total 4605
cution—it is more than probable that,
upon the whole, the number of persons " Punishment of Death. Persons.
who chiefly support themselves by crimi Executed.
nal offences must exceed, with theirfa- For burglary 15
milics 80,000." murder 10
"To give the Reader a vie-, of the hoile-ftealing 7
particular offences, and the different ldrging and uttering Bank notes 7
forgery 6
shades of criminality applicable to the sheep-stealing 5
3207 males and the 1338 female of rapes 5
fenders, who were committed to the highway robbery 4
several gaols of England and Wales for coining.. 3
trial in the vear 1805, with the parti arson 2
cular punishments inHicied by ills sti- larceny in a dwelling-house. . . . 2
. perior Judges, the fallowing Abstract cutting and maiming. 1
lias been framed ; lhooting at 1
" Crimes charged. Persons,
Larceny, or stealing fiom nolJks> \ 3i55 Total executed 68
persons, &c J
Receivers of stolen goods 137 " Recapitulation, Persons,
Burglars and house-breakers 136 F.xecuted 68
Uttering base money 108 Sent out of the country 877
Fraud and conspiracy 94 045
Sheep-ftealers 7 ' Imprisoned, to return on"] 1680
Horse-stealers . 65' society J
Highway robbery 63 Whipped. ..ditto 10*
Man-slaughter 56 Dilcharged.. ditto.. 1822
Murder, in which are included 27 "j 3007
females for the murder of their > 53 Sent to the Army and Navy . . 53
infants J Total 4605
Rapts, including attempts to vio- 7
late f?male chastity / sTv be continuedJ
Carried forward 113. At
 844 Review of New Publications. [Sept.
113. attempts at. Poetry; or, Trifles in lined and supported bv the conduct os
Verse. Jly.Ebn Ofn, of Pentonville. Divine Providence. If you examine
" PREFACE. What occasion for any? the volumes of Ecclesiastical History,
If the following Trifles have merit, they it wiil be obvious to you that consider'
will make their own way ; if not, let able teaming as well as pietv distin
them perish." ■ - f guished the more public characters in
" Four Ballads' excepted," we are the Church, and to whose services we
told by a MS note, " these are the first are most eminently indebted."
poetical productions of the Author, The Preacher is, not without reason,
who is in his 40;h vear. They were prond of the men' os learning among
all written in 1805'; and the words the Dissenters. "Many Divines cotv-
Ebn Ofn are the first and last syllables nected with the Protestant' Dissenters
of his name transposed." have, by their erudition, attained lo
This Author's expectations ar? so distinction and deathless fame in the
modestly expressed, and the geneial Repubhck of letters. In defence of
i tendency of his poetical effusions are Divine Revelation, no Age or Nation
lo well meant, that we cannot but ever produced three writers superior to
hope, if he conthmes to write, his our I.ardner, Lelaiid, and Jones*. Our
next "Attempts" may be a little more Expositors are second to none. Our
successful. lienrv, for perspicuity and acuteness,
We select a flinrt Epigram : for piety and ?eueral usefulness, stands
Unequalpi. Not to particularise the
" On. an affected Lady,zelw in a mired Com* merits
pany requested a Dijiiritiou of Politeness. of a Poole, a Clarke, a Gill, or a
" What must 1 do te be polite?" Guyse, I only distinctly take notice of
Said Tabitha, the other night ; another of our Expositors, which is the
Some titter,—otheis sneer ; excellent Doddridge."
All had their thoughts, but none replied: This is all just encomium. But have
At length her husband,' smiling, cried, we any successors to these men in pro
' Shake ott ihe ftarrh, my dear !' spect ? Are there any supplies ready
trained to uphold the Dissenting Inte
1)4. The Utility of Academical Institutions rest, notwithstanding the Exhibitions
to the Church of Christ: A Sermon, and Endowments at their Colleges?
preached at Hoxton Chapel, June id, Are there any encouragements to Con
18o6, before the Supporters of Hoxton gregations to subsist under the superfi-
Coltege, at their Anniversary. By Ben ciaj or enthusiastic discourses held out
jamin College, M. A. Minister of Wcy- to them ?
mouth Chapel.
WE profess ourselves unacquainted a 15. Vie Testimony os the Spirit os God in
with this Institution, or the chapels the Faithful: A Sermon, preached July
connected with it. Its object seems to 1 , '2, and 3, 1607, at the Visitation as
be, to train up Gospel Ministers in the Reverend the Archdeacon of Berk
piety, bv mutual associations hu<I ex shire. By the Rev. Arthur Onflow, D.D.
ample.. The benefits which such semi Dean os Worcester, and Archdeacon os
naries are calculated to impart are va Berkshire.
rious and great. What is advanced THE same resuectable and learned
upon the subject in this discourse is Author who now comes before us we
exhibited under three divisions: Reli had occasion (vol. LXXV. p. 1034) to
gious, Literary, and Intellectual. "Sa notice for his very able discourse, inti
cred Literature being the primary ob tuled, "The Scriptural Analogy and
ject of pursuit, where can it be pursued Concord of St. Paul and St. James, on
so advantageously as in our academical Christian Faith." The choice of sub
institutions? Here are to he found pub.- ject under present consideration well
Jic libraries, living instructors, and fel comports with the other. Surely, at
low associates.". . . ."A Christian pas no time can the exertions of a Chris
tor ought certainly to be competent as tian Minister be directed to purposes
a Biblical expositor, a "defender of the * "A Bifliop entertained such a high
. Faith," and a ''dilTolver of doubts.". . . opinion of Leland's Works, that he sent
" While tiie exigencies of the Church him iooo gui ieas to encourage the re-
and the suggestions of Reason exhibit publication of his work against the Deists.
a well-educated Ministry as necessary A nevv edition of Jones's Canonical Au
to the reputation and prosperity of the thority of the New Testament has lately
Church, the fame sentiment is coi.ti- been published from the Oxford press."
b \ inetc
 1807.3 Reviezv of New Publications. 845
Jnore salutary than a calm and judi writings have allured to brighter worlds,
cious investigation of such doctrines as while their unblemished lives and pious
are found, by unhappy experience, to deaths pointed out the way ; and of Au*
be the fruitful source of most deplo thors, and Men of Genius of every de
rable ignorance or artful misrepresenta scription, who have extended the bounds
tion. To obviate, as much as possible, of useful knowledge, and augmented the
the doleful effects which, in a variety stock of public happiness. Nor have I al
of considerations, must be the natural together forgotten those who, on the stage,
result of unrefuted error in matters of endowed with varied powers of imitation,
Inch importance, and to elucidate, in have soothed the cares of life by the fleet
as clear and satisfactory a manner as a ing effusions of mimic gaiety; those who,
in the creation of woiks of art, have been
subject of this nature will admit, has distinguished by industry and by success;
been the laudable and successful at or those who, in the wide region of poetry,
tempt of our very reverend Author. have charmed by their harmonious num
The style is chaste, the language ner- bers and novel thoughts, by the felicity
rous, the doctrine found, and the ar of their combinations and the sublimity
guments are irrefragable. With much of their images. Having thus, though in
pleasure, because with much justice, a very limited degree, brought before my
we could dwell on the merits of this young friends some of the most illustrious
composition; although we even forbear characters of antient and modern times, it
to make partial quotations from it, is hoped/that these eminent examples will
convinced that, in the present instance, have a tendency to form their sentiments,
such breaks would disturb the harmony or to fire their emulation. The few op
of the whole: but we do most cor posite characte-.s, that have been intro
dially recommend this very seasonable duced into this miscellany, will, I trust,
and intelligent discourse to the notice inspire the juvenile reader with a just ab
horrence of those follies and those vices
of our Headers ; and take the present which have led to disgrace and ruin.
opportunity of offering a sincere com Thus may Biography answer the most va
pliment of praise to the taste and judg luable purpose in education, as it com
ment os the Clergv, by whose urgent municates what comes home to ourselves,
solicitations, we understand, the worthy and what we can actually turn to advan-,
Dean was induced to publish it. tage. In this point of view, Biography is,
to persons in private stations, certainly of
1 1 fi. Chrenological, Biographical, and Mis more use than History. This part of the
cellaneous Exercises, on a neto Plan : de work, it is admitted, is occasionally rather
finedfor the Daily Use os Young Ladies. calculated to excite, than completely to
By William Butler, Teacher of Writing, gratify, curiosity ; a circumstance which,
Accounts, and Geography, in Ladies' however, is less to be (egretted, as many
Schools, The Third Edition, greatly en of the articles thus abbreviated may be
larged. found in an enlarged state, though not on
THIS useful work was originally a very extensive scale, in the 1 New Bio
annexed 10 Mr. Butler's "Exercises on graphical Dictionary' of my much-esteem
the Globe;" in which situation it ob ed and very intelligent friend Mr. Stephen
tained the good opinion of so many re Jones ; an elegant and comprehensive
pocket volume, which is deservedly be
spectable friends, that, at their desire, come
it was made a distinct publication; and femalesoseminary popular as to be found in every
of education."
js now again presented to the Publick
enlarged and improved. The plan of this Chronology is ori
*' The present volume is partly biogra ginal ; and, by the help of its Index,
phical. To the admiration and gratitude the young Reader will readily find
of the riling generation, I have held up whatever memorable event has hap*
the names of several of our Heroes, who, pened on any given day of any month
at tea or by land, have triumphed over of the year.—As a specimen of the lan
the enemies of their native isle ; of States guage, a striking article shall be given :
men, whose wisdom maintained harmony " Nov. 2Q, 1798, was a day of thanks
in all the orders of the community ; of giving for Lord Nelson's victory. Having
Patriots; who were prodigal of their blood already noticed the glorious battle of the
in the cause of their Country ; of Philan Nile, it is unnecessary, in this place, to
thropists, whose labours have been suc enlarge on the subject ; but as the hero,
cessfully exerted for the benefit of man like every other man, is best known and
kind ; of Martyrs, who have expired in remembered by minute traits of charac
the flames, when attesting the constancy ter, we shall gratify our young readers
of their resolution and sincerity of their with the following particulars, which do
faith ; os Divines and Laymen, whole
846 Review of New Publications. [saps.
so mach honour to the gallant Admiral. manner ; in the disposing of which is in
It has been justly remarked that his Lord troduced a beautiful design and engraving
ship's conduct was not more distinguished by Mr. Bartnlozzi, History recording the
by peculiar modesty and candour than by glorious Achievement : the whole form
unfeigned piety. Compelled, for a while, ing a combination of excellence that cer
to withdraw from the tremendous con- tainly has not been equalled, and proba
ftict, the brave Admiral, in his simple bly will never be excelled ; an honour to
and eloquent letter to Karl St. Vincent, the Arts, and a splendid tribute to the
after the battle, not only praised, in an Martial Genius of the British Nation *."
eminent degree, the judgment and valour
of the Captains of the Fleet in general, 117. The l'cacock "al Home;" a Sequel
but paid a most delicate compliment to to " The Butterfly's Ball." Written by
the principal Officer of his own flap, by a Lady ; and iUuJfrated with (legaitt
observing, that though his own wounds Engravings.
obliged him to be carried off the deck,
the service suffered no loss by that event, Mr.AFI'KK the exquisite little Poem os
Itofcoe+ (inlened in vol. LXXVI.
Captain Berry being sally equal to the |>. 105'.?, and corrected in our lali, |>.
important business then going on. The
tablet of the Sculptor, the marble of the 701), an attempt at a Sequel was in
Statuary may, and the pen of the Histo deed an arduous task. But the " Pea
rian will, record the general result of Ad> cock at Home" has aS'orded us so much
xtiiral Nelson's victory, a victoty which pleasure, that we cannot hesitate to class
filled every British bosom with exultation; it with theorigiiial itpmfrlledly imitates.
but she simplicity, the unadorned elo " The Butt-jrfiy's Ball, and the Grasshop
quence, the candour aiid piety os the gal- per's Feasts, [Beasts :
lam Hero may be forgotten. It must Excited the spleen of the Birds and the
therefore highly gratify the moral part of For their mirth and good cheer — of the
the Nation to learn that three os the most Bee was the theme, [in the beam.
ingenious men in their icfpective aits that And the Gnat blew his horn, as he dane'd
ever existed*in this or in any other coun 'Twis humm'd by the Beetle, 'twas buzz'd
try have united their unrivaled talents, by the Fly, [the sky.
not oniy to commemorate the splendid And sung by the myriads that sport 'neath
achievement, l*ut to perpetuate those par The Quadrupeds liften'd with sullen dis-
ticular parts of the Admiral's official dis ' pleasure, [yond measure.
patch which have been so generally and But the Tenants of Air were enrag'd bs-
so justly admired : 'My Lord, Almighty 'J he Peacock display'd his bright plumes
God has blessed his Majesty's arms by a to tlw; Sun, [begun :
great victory," &e. The beautiful compo And, addressing his Mates, thus indignant
sition alluded to is, an exquititc piece, of ' Shall we, like domestic, inelegant Fowls,
Ornamental Penmanship, by Mr. Tom- As unpolilh'dasGccse,and as stupid asOw Is,
kins, engraved by Mr. Ashby in his best Sit
* " That Mr. Tomkius, by a boldness, originality, and inexhaustible variety in de
signing, united to uncommon brilliancy and freedom in the execution of decorative
and ornamental writing, has given the utmost reputation to the art of Penmanship of
which it is susceptible, and beyond which it seems impossible fpt human Genius to
reach, is, we believe, the unanimous opinion of his friends. That this opinion has not
been hastily or partially formed, an inspection ot the following performances, a very
small part only of his innumerable works, will amply confirm : ' A Transcript of the
Charter granted by King Charles 11. to the Irislt Society, London;' containing 150 folio
pages ; 'The Beauties ot Writing,' 40 tolio pages, engraved and published; 'Honorary
Freedoms,' framed duplicates of which may be seen in the Chamber of the City, nearly
30 in number." [Many other valuable articles are mentioned by Mr. Butler, who con
cludes with] ' Addresses to their Majesties on many public Occasions,' especially those
from the Royal Academy ; duplicates of which were unanimously voted to be preserved
in the Library, as choice specimens of Ornamental Penmanship. The transcendant
merit of these last performances induced Sir Joshua Reynolds, then President of the
Royal Academy, to paint Mr. Tomkins's portrait ; which is not only considered as one
of the finest efforts of that great Artist's pencil, but is one of tht last, we know indeed
the very lajl picture that Sir Joshua painted before the melancholy loss of his sight.
That the President's last touches were reserved for a portrait of the late lamented Mr.
Fox, is asserted upon an authority too respectable for us to controvert. Many of Mr.
Tomkins's smaller works, which are admirably adapted for the improvement of youth
in fair writing, have been also engraved by Mr. Ashby, an incomparable artist, os whose
distinguished merit it is impossible to speak in terms of appropriate commendation. His
engravings exhibit the brilliancy, and display the spirit and freedom, of the most exqui
site yroductions of the pen."
f This Voeta has alia bccn-re-published, with appropriate Engravings.
 i8o7.] Review of New Publications. 847
Sit tamely at home, htim dram, with our From all points of the compass came Birds
Spouses, [houses ? of all feather ; [together.
While Crickets and Butterflies open their And the Parrot can tell who and who were
Shall such mean little Insects pretend to There catne Lord CaH'owary, and General
the fashion ? [passion ! Flamingo, [go ;
Cousin Turkey-cock, well may you be in a And Don Peroqneto, esc ip'd fromDomin-
If 1 suffer such insolent airs to prevail, From his high rock-built eyrie the Eaije
MayJunopluckoutall the eyes in my tail! came forth, [the North.
So a Fete, I will give, and my taste I'll dis And the Duchess of Ptarmigan flew from
play, [fine's day." The Grebe and the Eider Duck came up
' And fend out my cards for Saint Valen- by water, [Cygnet, her daughter.
—This determin'n, fix fleetCarrier Pigeons WiththcSwan,whobroughtout the young
went out, Ftom his woodland abode came the Phea
To invite all the Birds to Sir Argus's Rout. sant, to meet
The nest-loving Turtle-dove sent an ex Two kindred, arriv'd by the last India fleet:
cuse ; [Goose. The one, like a Nabob, in habit most
Pame Parties lay-in, as did good Mrs. splendid, [was blended:
The Turkey, poor foul ! was confiij'd to Where gold with each h' e of the Rainbow
the rip, [the pip. In silver and black, like a fair pensive
For all her young Brood had just fail'd with Maid, [array'd.
And the Partridge was afk'd ; but a neigh Who mourns for her love, was the Other
bour hard by The Chough came from Cornwall, and
Jlad engag'd a snug party to meet in a Pie ; > hrought up his Wife ;
The Wheat-Bar dectin'd, recollecting her The Grouse travel'd South, from his
Cousins, ■ > Lairdfhip in Fife ;
Lastyear, to a Feast were invited bydozens-; The Bunting forsook her soft nest in the
But, alas! fhey retum'd not; and (he had reeds ; swore her weeds.
no' taste [paste. And the Widow-Bird came, though she still
To appear in • costume of vine- leaves sr Sir John Heron, of the Lakes, strutted in a
The Woodcock preferr'd his lone haunt on grand pas, [Daw,
the moor ; [his tour. But no card had been sent to the pilfering
And the Traveller Swallow was still on As the Peacock kept up his progenitor's
The Guckoo, who should have been one of quarrel, [rel ;
the guests, [Nests. Which Æsop relates, about cast-off appa-
Was rambling on visits to other Birds' For Birds are like Men in their contests
But the rest all accepted the kind invita together, [a feather.
tion, [Creatiop : And, in questions of right, can dispute for
And much bustle it caus'd in the plumed The Peacock, Imperial, the pride of his
Such ruffling of feathers, such pruning «f race, [grace,
coats ! [ing of throats ! Receiv'd ail his guests with an infinite
Such chirping, such whistling, such clear- Wav'd high his blue neck, and his train
Such polishing bills, and such oiling of he display 'd, [inlaid "
pinions ! [minions. Embroidot'd with gold, and with em'ralds
Had never been known in the Biped do- A Concert of the Musical Binls is
The Tailor Bird offer'd to make up new characteristically described ; as are allo
"cloaths [be Beaux : the Ball and the Supper,
For all the young BjrdUngs who wish'd to " When they gaily had carol'd till peep of
He made for the Robin a doublet os red, the dawn, [gone ;
Xnd a new velvet cap for the Goldfinch's The Lark gently hinted 'twas time to be
head ;
He added a plume to the Wren's golden And hispany clarion, lo shrill, gave the com
warning, [morning.
crest, [Fowl's breast ; That Chanticleer
And spangled with silver the Guinea- So they chirp'd, inscented the gales of the
full chorus, a friendly}
While the Halcyon'bent over the streamlet adieu; [plumage that grew/
to view [blue ! And, with hearts quite as light as thef
How pretty (he look'd in her boddtee of On their merry-thought bosoms, awayV
Thus adorn'd, they let otf for the Peacock's they all flew. ... J
abode, [them the road : Then long live the Peacock, in splendour
With the Guide Indicator*, who shew'd unmatch'd, [unhaich'd;
' * " Cucuius Indicator, a bird of Cuckow Whose Ball stiall be talk'd of by Birds yet
kind, found in the interior parts of Africa. 1 1 is praise let theTrumpeter* loudly pro
It has a shrill note, which the natives an claim, [to Fame."
swer by a soft whistle ; and the birds re And the Goose lend her quill to transmit it
peating the note, the natives are thereby
conducted to the w ild bee-hives, which, The,Agami, or Trumpeter, a na-
this bird frequents." tiv«
 848 Review of New Publications.-—Literary Intelligence. [Sep>.
118.' The Cafe of Lieutenant Hooper, of the University presses of Oxford and
His Majesty's 73d Regiment; containing Cambridge, and of those primed by
a Copy of the Proceedings of the Court Ruddiman, Bowyer, and Baskerville.
Martial lij which he was tried; and a jt jS intended t0 strike off 60 copies of
Narrative of Hardships and Indignities this work on imptna\ quarto, each of
subsequently inllictcd on him.: with Do- the volumcs of which will have three
euments, explanatory Motet, and lllvj- extra plates
nations of the H'hole. Respectfully ad- ^ g. £ p . ^ Nich'olrt '
dressed to the Officersfindication
tothePuHickfin oj the Army, and ' "'"orV °f.c Leicestershire'
of Lieu- r ■ n n ■ ,. »'will11 be
1
. tenant Hooper'j CharaSer, and to .ma- publiflied before Christmas One more
vises that the Offence alledged was compleies this important U ork.
merely private—the Prosecution as so- A new edition of Langhorne's Plll-
reign and unnecessary to the Interests of larch, with some corrections ofihe lexl,
the Service, as the Motives and Conduit the four deficient Parallels supplied,
of the Prosecutor were selfish and disho- considerable additions to the notes, new
nourahle;—and that erroneous Impres- tables of times, coins, ike. by the Rev.
fions only could, in such a Case, have F. Wrangham, M.A. I'Ml.S. is nearly
induced so severe a Sentence. readv for publication.
•' If Caslio did some little wrong to him; 'she various Works of ihe lale excel-
Yet, surely, Caslio hud received from him lent jjr Home, 'Bishop of Norwich, '
Some strange indignity, which patience arg about U) ^ puyahed in an nni-
A ^„n0tUPasS-' I SHAKSPEAnE sorm manner> jD six v,,lm„es> octdvo .
AFTER thus amply detailing the t0 wMch wi|, ^ fixe(| lhe Lise of
tule-page of this hitfi-spirued .young theBMbofcwrilienbytheasv.W. Jones.
Officer, we shall decline entering fur- ,t;S jnu.lu.ej l0 ubli(h in Recourse
Iher into a RevtcmcA the lubject. of this vear> Men^it8 of the Voyage*.
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. t^T^AZT^^
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the Travels of Lord Valentia, in Asia crcw 'of lne Centurio csMnmanded bv
and Africa, shall appear early in the Cmnmodore Anso wilh „.,,„,„ &
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in every point of view, claims a higher am| |am| j m; ^ rf ^ „
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ginal book of Travels that has appeared ser; ^ fceen hasi?d by p^,.
„, England for rmnv years past. ^ sor lhe Bli',ish Mllseu» at an
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pnblilh, in five volumes quarto, a new 4 25, Mr. P!al;la .he'pVFn-
riitjon of Amess typographical Anti- ^ nbr^ of ,he Museun)j ef£nlaT
ouities, Wy Herbert. In this edition it ^ theirva) ; lne sij,Qwi raalH1„
is intended and toto repmu
insert 111theiheir
whole of fiurleigh
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r 12o lots, £. j200
places his corrections and additions. Sir Julius Cæsar's Papets, so 'vo'ls.
Copious notes, biographical and biblio- at 101 500
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not only a History of Printing in Eng- Abbeys, at i ol ', 27a
sand, but a History of English Liters- 150 volumes, at 7 '>o
lure ;.Engli(h Bibles, chronicles, early g65 ditto, at it 1071J
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well-executed fac-fimiles of ihe types —
and devices of the early printers, and a . '97°
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nooks will be added, wiih a view to as- volumes, were relerved by the I'amily.
ford an illustration
Engraving in GreatofBritaiirthe progress
and Ire- of UX- 15. "?. . ™"first . respecting5
11
land; „r ,!,„ ^.,„<r.» the crofs-iegi'ea heures on amient tombs
' V- an 1 account i-.i of rithe
1 a Int-ot private nrelies
1 printed 1 at , . ■been°°generally Crusaders-
having „ , ,
-. in Eneland:
' ^ ' books w
We.congratulate, . ;-.Decimis on .having ■
five of America, remarkabJe for a singular so happily escaped from the terrible hail-
noise, resembling the instrument from stoim he describes ou the iSth'of Juiy.
which it takes its name." Jh^
 Sekft Pve/i-/, for September, 180?. 849
'shefollowing infcripli»n is placed on the Thro' many a rollirij year may it return,
Tomb of the late Dr. Beattie. From every eland of dark disaster free ;
MEMORIAE. SACRUM And still with grateful praise be hail'd the
JACOBI . BEATTIE . LL. D. morn [me.
',I ETIIICES That gave a blessing to the world and
IN . ACABEMIA . MARESCALLAttA Friend of my Soul ! with fond delight each
'' HUJUS.URBIS hour, race,
PER . XLIII . AN.NOS From earth to Heaven I see thee urge thy
TROFESSORIS . MERITISS1MI From every virtue crop the fairest flower,
, VI RI Anil add to Nature every winning grace.
PIETATE . PROB1TATE . INOENIO Father of light ! from whose unfailing
ATjJUE . DOCTRINA , source [ray,
■ i, PRAES.TANTIS Descends each perfect gift, each guiding
SCR1PTOH1S . EI.EGANTISSIMI O lead her late through life's perplexing
POETA.E . SUAV1SSIMI course, [thee !
PHII.OSOPII1 . VERE . CHRISTIAN! And point her road to happiness and
HATTJS . EST . V. NOV . ANNO . MDCCXXXV
ODIIT . XVIII . AUG.. MDCCCUI
OMNIBUS . LIBER1S . ORBUS HORACE, Book II. Ode X.
QUORUM . NATU . MAX1MUI Rediisvices, Licini, ne\ue altum, fife.
JACOBUS . HAY . IEATTIE rICINIUS, happy you will live,
■ VEL . A . PUERILIBUS . ANNIS _A If neither in the deep you steer,
,. . PATRIO . VIGENS . INGENIO
KOVU.MQUE . DECUS . JAM . ADDENS . PA- Nor, while the storm you wary shun,
Th' insidious shore approach too naar.
TERNO
SUIS .CARISSIMUS . PATRIAE . FI.EBIL1S Whoe'er the golden mean shall chaose
IENTA . TABE . CONSUMPTUS . PERIIT The sordid cot shall 'scape secure ;
ANNO . AETATIS . XXIII And in his sober wishes blest,
GEO . ET . MAR . GlENNIB The envied Court shall not alrare.
H.M. P. The pines which lofty rear their heads
Beneath the blast obsequious bend ;
Epitaph by the la.te Dr. Beattie, With mightier crash the towers fall, >
Not published in his Works. And mountains high the lightnings
ESCAPT) the gloom of mortal life, a rend.
foul [clay, In prosp'rous hours the wife man fears,
Here leaves its mould'ring tenernejit of And cheers with hope the gloomy day;
Safe where no cares their whelming bil If Jove the piercing Winter fends,
lows roll, [tray. The Winter Jove will take away.
No doubts bewilder, and no hopes be-
Like thee I once have stemm'd the lea of Her sweetest smiles may Fortune wear,
life, [joys, Tho' she be unpropitious now;
Like thee have languish'd after empty The Mule Apollo can inspire,
Like thee, have labour'd in the stormy Nor does he always bend his bow.
strife, toys. Your breast with courage therefore arm,
Been griev'd for trifles, and amus'd with When adverse blows th' inconstant gale ;
Vet fora while 'gainst Passion's thfeatful But when the fav'ring winds arise,
blast, [oar; With skill contract your swelling sail.
Let steady Reason urge the struggling Pentonvitle. M. H. Shephard.
Shot through the dreary gloom, the morn
at last [shore. Mr. Urban, Sept. I.
Gives to thy longing eye the blissful CrMIE following lines are borrowed in a
Forget my frailties, thou apt also frail ; |_ great measure from Ho race,OdeXVl,
Book II. I have differed so far from the
Forgive my lapses, for thyself may'st fall; original,
Nor read unmov'd my artless tender talc, serious a and have concluded in so *ery
I ^was a friend, O man, to thee, to all. thought Imanner, that perhaps it will be
have only borrowed a hint or
To VISCOUN TESS CREMORNE. two from the Poet, and then managed
By Mrs. Carter. Not in ha- Works. the subject in my own way. If this
rT->HO' youth's gay spirit, lull'd in deep fied. should l>e the conclusion, I (hall be satisr
J repose, [lay j '
No longer tunes the lyre, norchauhtsthe SOON as the moon, in darkness clatL,
Yet still my heart with warm aBYction Conceals her friendly light ;
glows, [guifh'd day. And not a star dilt act appears
And greets with transport this distia- To cheer the glxim of night f
Gent. Mao. September, 1807. TossM
8
8<o Stlett Poetry, fir September, 1807.
Toss'd on th' Ægæan briny deep, I think favourably of his poetical genius."
And fai from distant shore, The distressing malady under which he
The wanrl'ring Sailor seeks repose, laboured, seems rather to have roused
.And vcws to roam no more. than implanted those religious sentiments
From hardy deeds of bloody war that, I am told, regulated the whole of his
The Thracian turns his mind, conduct; and Mr. Southey has my per
Nor can the Parthian in his bow mission, slieuld he think it worth notice,
A lasting pleasure find : • to give these few verses a place in his
For not to gold or precio js gems intended Memoirs.
Can ease of heart be given ; HENRY '■ the warm and sympathetic tear
Th.e mind from its internal store Guth'd when I redde thy verse sponta
Creates a Hell or Heav'n*. neously ;
Npt all the pomp of regal state, Still swells its music on my wondering ear,
Nor power's despotic sway, In sorrow's wild and tremulous eeftacy!
The gtonn of sorrow can dispel, Henry '. if aught it can delight thee now
■ Or banish care away; To know thy name is yet belov'd on
For round the freaed roof it flies earth, [belovr
On pinions flee; as air ; Accept from one who knew thee not
Jt strikes the Monarch &n his throne, This humble offering to departed worth!
' -And plants a dagger there. Charm'd by the thought that at the very
Nor yet is he in humble life , hour [sumption gave.,
Wi'hout his share of ill ; When rag'd each anguisti'd throe Con-
Religion, sent from Heaven, with sooth
Jle bows submissive to his lot ; ing power [grave f
Yet care attends him still. Still whisper'd bliss beyond a painful
For wife, and children, all are dear ; There, freed from earthly woe, th' im
And dear his native shed ; mortal mind [confin'tf.
Yet here, within the straw-built roof, Roves, as the light breeze, pure and un-
The pains of want are spread. Nat. Orwade, D. D.
Thrice happy he, whose middle state
Affords the means to live ; PROTECTION.
Who can be happy with his own, SHOULD charming fruit attract your
And spare a part to give : eye,
No dreams of pleasure or of care You climb the tree, to get, and try.
Disturb his slumbers light ; Your Servant, ternpted with the view,
He can be happy through the day, Wislies to taste, as well as you :
And sleep in peace by night. Lend not your hand, fcit wish to crown,
Then why should mortals, vainly proud, Lest he should climb, and throw ytur
Encrease their load of pain : down .
Why fly to Afric's parching sands, ALL property that we possess,
And bmd th' ignoble chain ? If not protected, soon gets less,
What exile from his native land, If by noglcct we lose command on't,
By sordid impulse driv'n, The world will quickly lay a hand on't.
Can shun the sting of conscious guilt, Nay, land, the firmest thing we know, -
To man by Nature giv'n ? If it can'tjfy, will learn to go ;
Pleas'd with the present, nought to come A fine Estate, one tool<, and us'd tt,
Disturbs the tranquil breast; Because my grandfather refus'd it ;
For he who has a conscience clear, Let care then keep your goods from wan
Maintains a peaceful guest. dering,
On earth no perfect joysvare found, Or property will loon be squandering.
; Here still my peace I crave ; Friend Thomas (as had done
Let then my foul to raptures rise, many)
And look beyond the grave. A. H. Began the world without a penny ;
By conduct which none could refute,
He climb'd the tree with golden fruit,
Mr. UitRAN, July 17- The taste was charming—relish pleas'd,
F"|^HE-foflowing poetical trifle' is a mo- " Of button-making he'd be eas'd."' '
I mentary production after reading the A country-house he soon provided,
twoplaintivefonnets by thelateHenryKirke And in his servant much confided ;
White, p. 559.—I had no acquaintance " The trade, conducted by John
with • thy deceased, consequently I can Increasing fortnne could not fail."
only judge from the specimens of his John, never charg'd with want of strife,
Poetry in your Magazine,- and from these _ Diseover'd soon his"consequcnce
— ' • 1 ;—r ■ — " Was; not so blind, tut he could see'
■'• • - f" * Milton, " ' * The golden, <y>plcs^ori the.tree,
 Seleft Poetry, for September, 1&57. 2Si
And wish'd, like Master, for a taste . To sooth the Mourner's throb, the kin
Of that luxuriant repast. dred's ligh !
" My ardent cate, Sir, never ceas'd ; Lost tho' that Friend, to filial nature dear!
The trade, and capital's increas'd : Mute tho' the tongue that charm'd the
My affiduity you "fee', social ear ! [kindness flow'd !
Let me, from hence, your Partner be." Clos'd tho' thole eyes, whence melting
Could this petition he denied? Cold tho" the hand, that bounty's bliss
Thomas had laid himself aside, bestow'd ! [glow,
And, as his own disuse came on, Warm too' no more, with pity's sciaph
The care fell in the hands of John ; That Heart can share, or succour, human
Request once granted, we may fee woe ! [save
He lent a hand to clinao the tree. Yet shall those virtues, sent of Heaven to
Now /Sir and John no longer shews, Man's nobler features from the mould'xiog
They 're equal in a pair of Go's ; grave,
Tilings soon were alter'd in our cafe, Survive the drear oblivion of the tomb,
They wore a new and savage face, lnicrib'd to memory 'midst the olive's
The scale of Thomas soon abates, bloom ! [of time,
The Servant's scale preponderates j Embalm'd in reverence thro' the lapse
Increasing quarrels then appear, And hail'd immortal in yon heavenly
And surly -words bring up the rear, clime! S. A. Jpril 28.
John's influence augments apace
And Thomas scarce dares shew his face ; To the Memory ofMrs. Chapman, vfPen-
Ait power will vegetate, we know, tonville, who died August lb, 1807, &«-
And, like potatoe beds, will grow. loved, and lamented by all who knew her.
Examinations now come on, HAS thy lov'd presence ceas'd tfftharm
" Tom's capital and peace were gone;" ' thy friends ? .
The loss of both—too large a share, ' Are we depnv'd of pne we held so dear ?
A loss so great he could not bear ; Yes ! 'tis his Will who visitation fends :
Life<was a burthen—death he'd choose, That Will our part as mortals to revere.
Which ended in a tragic noose ; Temper'd with mercy are thy judgments,
Thus Thomas, his crude wish to crown, Lord ! [adore :
A servant rais'd, who threw him down.1 And while we mourn, profoundly we
Birmingham. W. Hutton. For 'twas thy goodness consolation pour'd,
Tribute lo the Memory of S. M. Creed, ylchiid ofthineJhe is for evermore* ! G.
Gent, state of Beetles J A DAY. • -
NOT borne on eagle-wing, the Muse By a young Lady of Fourteen.
would soar [explore ; T |"*HE morn arose ; the orient light
To Fancy's realms, or Fiction's climes J Dil'pell'd the ling'ring shades of night.
Nor, fraught with emblems of the classic And ufher'd in the Day ;
Jyre, [lire ! With tints that with each other vie,
With incense raise the altar's hallow'd The Sun now streaks the Eastern sky,
But rapt in sorrow's fane, in weeds of woe,
On Nature's shrine the cj press- wreath And sheds a genial ray.
bestow; [lje, The woodland echoes with the song
And o'er the urn, where sacred reliques That's chaunted by the feather'd throng.
Shed Friendship's tear, and breathe Affec Who gladly hail the day.;
tion's ligh : [mands, Theop'ning fiow'rs the meads adorn,
, Yet not a ligh the peaceful Shade de- The trembling dew-drop gems the lawn
Nor meeds of grief bestow'd by mortal And hangs on ev'ry spray. , ...
hands ; [flow, The sportive swallow skims the sky,
Not for the dead, Affliction's tears should Through which ttahftytent vapours fly,
The living need the tributary woe ! Just risen from the West:
When from high Heaven celestial powers The
descend, [Friend, And warbling Lark'now loudly sings,
as he mounts on flutt'ring win-s
To claim the Good, the Wise, the Parent, He sweetly breaks our retfe
To call from earth the Virtues to the
skies, But, -hark! I hear a hollow blast,
And close to mortal scenes expiring eyes, With clouds the sky is ver-cast,
Glad the bleit foul resigns the vital Which seem to threat a storm ;
breath, [death ! ' The stream that gently flow'd along,
Nor but the living ■ feel the shaft of Deserted by its downy throng,
Fain would the Muse, -that forms the re- Assumes a rougher form.
'< quiem lay, • The writer begs leave to observe, that
To thejov'd manes votive -homage pay ; the character alluded to by the Meiiiah,
With. pious aid Devotion's balm supply, Matt, v. 9, was psculiarlu hers.
The
$5* Sefaft P-oetrfo for September, 1 807.
The warblers to their nestlings fly,
The cattle to their coverts hie,
And leave the storm behind ; >
For soon descends the pelting shower,
The clouds their wat'ry deluge pour,
Whilst raging blows the wind.
The forky lightning darts around,
The rolling thunder's awful found
Now rends the vault above :
How lovely was the scene at morn,
Alas! how chang'd, its beauties gone*
Whilst silent is the grove.
The low' ring clouds at length divide,
The warring elements subside,
And Vhœbus gilds the plain ;
The flow'rets rear their drooping heads,
The cattle crop the humid meads,
Retresh'd by grateful rain.
I"air Irii spreads her varied bow,
In which a thousand colours glow,
Arraug'd with matchless skill;
Now softly sighs the ev'ning breeze, .
Which scarcely fans the lofty trees,
Or curls the limpid rill.
Apollo gilds the Western sky,
And paints the clouds with many a die
Of rich ar.d glowing hue :
The waning Day draws near a close,
Exhausted Nature seeks repol'a,
And Night obscures our view,
lind thi»» the checquer'd life of Man
Is form'd upon an equal plan,
Thus fleets his time away ;
Our youthful years with joys are crown'd,
No disappointments then are found,
To cloud our happy day.
But soon eventful Manhood comes,
We then must leave our peaceful homes', To-morrow's sky, or if the air
And parents' watchful care ■;
Life's stormy lea we venture now,
How many troubles must we know,
What trials mult we share '.
But soon declining Age appears,
Sequester'd in the Vale of years,
No more the world we brave <
Our setting Sun serenely glows,
And soon, forgetting former woes,
We find a peaceful grave. Mary, ButI yitldif she shake her fickle wings
Horace, Book III. Ode XXIX,
- «* Tyrrhcna regum," &c.
MÆCENAS, who descent dost claim Then
FromTyrrhengKingsofantientfame And never
Come taste my rural tare ;
My wine is good, my rotes bloom.
My oils of exquisite perfume
Are ready for thy hair.
Why should the views which Tyber yields, Contented in my two-oar'd
Or Ælula's lich Hoping fields.
Thy constant care employ ? .
l'oifakc the luxury and pride
Of palaces which seek to hide
Their turrets in tfce tuts.
The smoke, the bustle, and the noife
Of Rome, afford no solid joys ;
But change of place and air,
And frugal meals, arranged neat,
With which the poortheirFriends can treat,
Can smooth the brow of care.
The dog-days now their influence shed.
The Sun shines fiercely everhead ;
The shepherd and his flock
Delight to seek the thicket's shade,
And brooks meandering thro' the meaa
And coverts of the rock.
A solemn stillness reigns around,
No river breeze to cool the ground, , ■ .
While thou thy thoughts dost beni
To guard against a sudden blow
Which any near or distant foe
Against us may intend.
Tne Gods, in judgment always true.
Have hid the future from our view,
And laugh at prying care ;
Then let us strive to be content,
And as occurrences present,
A remedy prepare.
Nothing is certain here below,
Scenes vary—like the streams which flow
Sometimes with gentle sweep,
And then they swell, and force along
Houses and trees with current strong
Into the boundless deep.
With crash of such impetuous floods
Resound the mountains and the woods,
While he whose soul is bent
To place his confidence in Heaven,
Enjoys the blessings which are given,
And always is content.
. Let us then prize the present hour,
For this is plac'd within our power,
Then, if the clouds o'ercast
Be all serene, and bright and fair,
'Twill not asfea the past.
Fortune delights the l'ouj to vex,
And all its feelings to perplex
With change of good and ill ;
Sometimes the favours me, and now
She plucks the laurels from my brow, ,
And gives to whom she will.
I praise her when good things sh* bring],
her transient joys ;
Trust to my virtue in my breast,
To give my troubled spirits rest,
And grant superior joys.
honest poverty 1 love,
wish agam to prove
Of tossing seas the sport ;
Nor to perplex my soul with prayers^
That all my rich and varied wares
May reach the destin'd port.
boat
Over the plac'd sea I float, ,
While stars propitious slie4.
Their influence, and fanning gales
Gently impel my swelling (ails,
With moderation, spreads I.
 jPfiOCEEDINfBS IN .THE FlBST SESSION OF THE FOURTH PARLIAMENT Ot
the United- Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1807.
House of Commons, July 23. Though this was not entirely a new pla
After some Bills had been forwarded, yet, as it might create some different
Lord Ca/llcrcaqli submitted to the House of opinion, he thought it necessary to state
his measures for improving our Military to the House the extent to which the
System. He began by observing, that at levy Was intended to go. It had been,
the period at which Ministers came into calculated, that from the month of De
office, the prospects on the Continent were cember next to the May following, the
not so unpromising as they stave since Militia would be subject to a waste of
proved to be. The House was also aware from 5 to oooo men, who would be entir
that no measure could be brought forward tied to their discharge, from the suspen
which would not be one of considerable sion of the ballot made by the system of
sacrifice:—Bust; independent of those Cir Mr. Windham, which was, adopted last
cumstances arising out of the general state year ; and this number, as well as thole
of Europe, theie was that in the situation who mould now volunteer into the line,f
of this Empire which rendered it necessary was to be made up by the ballot. After
that we should placeour military establish- this operation of the ballot was ended,
ment upon ihe most imposing footing, security ought to be given to the line,
-The same amount of force which now ex- that no ballot should take place for two or
isted would not enable his Majesty to three years, and thereby devolve on the
maintain his foreign establishments, aud Regular Army the only system.of recruit-
fecij bis army. But, if theneceslity of ex- ing by the ordinary method. In boking
ertion were a question upon which little to what the Militia Regiments might be
controversy could arise, he would under- able to spare, he would go back to what
take to prove that all improvement should had been done at former periods, and he
be in the regular substantial military force believed the draft had been calculated at
of the country; that all other resources two-lifths of the establishment. Ic was
were inefficient and precarious ; and now proposed to take the excels on threp
therefore it would be allowed that it would fifths only, which he believed would in
be extremely desirable to bring forward England give a force of 21,700 men ; and.
such measures as mould increase the Mili the fame mode resorted to in Irelanji
tary force with the least possible inconve would give 8000 men. By the law as \t
nience, while recruiting was far from now stood, his Mujefty had the power
being adequate to the exigency of the pre vested in him of raising a Sup; l-.mentary
sent crisis. Of all the measures which Militia of 20,000 men for England, and
had ever been employed in this country, 4000 men sot Scotland. He thought
for raising a great military force to meet therefore it would be most advileable, in
the pressure of the moment, the measure the present instance, to call for a Supple
resorted to in 180* was the most power mentary Mditia, and a half of which
ful ; he meant the creation of an Army would give a force of 38,000 ; out of
of Reserve. The operation of that step those there would be 10,000 supernumc-
produced, in a very short time, the great rary Militiamen, which would make up
est and most extensive advantages to the for the different wastes that must takej
Military seivice of the country. It was place, and would thus leave lo the country
not, however, the intention of Govern an increase -to the army of -28,000 men t
ment to draw from that source at present. Having stated the extent to which ttfci
The measure which he should propose particular exigency of the times requir/S
. could not be employed at the period the the measure to be put, he should propose,
Army of Reserve Act took place. The that giving the men to the Line should b t
Militia was then but just called out, left entirely to the Militia Officers ; and
whereas the term of service of the Militia each regimens of militia should from tin) t
was just now expiring. They must all be to time receive his Majesty's Warrants fof
dismissed to-morrow isa peace look place. this purpose; that for 30 days no man
Whatever, therefore, was gained from should leave the regiment, but with tire
that source in the interval, was so much ■ consent of the officers thereof, and a thi id
clear gain to the military force of the to be accepted, if they offeted within ilie
country. It was therefore his intention first 30 days. The Officers of the Militia
to propose a Levy of Militia, and not an to have commissions in the Line, accor.J-
Army of Reserve. Whatever peace t;,;*ht ing to the number of men they respep-
be Made by this country, he would ven- lively take, and to go with itu-m direri ly
ture to assert, that it could only be main- -from' the Militia regiments to such regi-
tained by keeping up an adequate military rhents of the Line as they mean to itihst
force. .There -were several reasons which "into. Having stated the mode in which
induced him to think that a levy of Mtli- this transfer mould take place, he though?
tj» was presenble to an Army of Reserve, it would be wife to give Ouch individual i
• * choice
854 Proceedings in the late Sejston of Parliament. [Sept.
choice or alternative whether he would Sir G. tfarrdndcr objected to the piriod
enlist for life, or rather during his Majes of bringing forward the measure ; as a cafe
ty's pleasure, or for a term ot years only. had not "been fhawn that proved that a
He was not disposed to alter the system disposable force of 28,000 men to the
entirely which had been brought forward line was wanting: he considered the mea
by Mr. Windham, and adopted by Par sure of ballot as highly objectionable.
liament, though he had made the strong Mr. Yorke entered at much length into
est objections 10 it before it was adopted, the critical situation of this country j and
and as it was probable that 38,000 men insisted that a single false step might now
would be aduLd 10 the Army in the first be our utter ruin. He considered the mea»
30 tlays. Whatever Parliament might sure proposed as one of peculiar efficacy ;
have thought picper to do with respect to but objedted to the balloting of 3s,ooo
the Army in general, he was of opinion men to supply the vacancies in the Militia.
they ought to give a choice in this point He however reminded the House, that
to such individuals as might enlist on the there was no great Army kept up by any
present occasion. It might be expected country in the world, without some de
he should say something, as to what gree of compulsion. It was by compul
course Government intended to take with sion, in its strictest form of coufeription,
those branches of the force of the country that the person who is at the head of
which could not be considered as regular, France was able to conquer almost the
and particulaily with respect to the mea whole of Europe ; and in order to oppose
sure submitted by Mr. Windham, called him, we must at least preserve that power
the Training Act. With respect to that which the Constitution of this country-
measure, he must say, that- had the pre gave us by the ballot, she greatest exer
sent Ministers been ever ib much disposed tions which the country could make
to it, they had not had it in their power would be barely sufficient ; but certainly
to make any effective progress in it, as it was no time to throw away any of the
Mr. W. had most ingeniouily contrived to means of exertion which had formerly
lay aside the ballot in several counties, been resorted to. He proceeded to com
that it could not be proceeded on, so that ment on the plan brought forward by Mr.
his measure had done every thing but Windham, which he considered both in
what it ought to have done. Though he efficient and dangerous ; and he thought
was no original admirer of the measure, that the late Ministers must have been
yet, Parliament having adopted it, he, in insane, to have sent such a force as that
common with the other Ministers, was unucr General Ciaufurd to a distant cli
disposed to endeavour to execute it, as far mate, after the battle of Jena bad been
as might be done, according to the fair loft. The Regular Force was now less by
spirit and meaning of it. He added, that 25,000 than it was in ] 804, and less by
it was a most painful duty, in the present 15,000 than it was at this time last year.
state of the war, to call on the country for He knew how impossible it was to con
any farther and more active exertions. centrate our forces rapidly ; and therefore
Ministers had paid every attention to this had no objection to adding, by any expe
most important subject, fiom the first mo dient, to our Regular Force. He always
ment they entered into office ; and, under considered that the formation of the Army
all the difficulties with which it was at of Reserve was a great step gained towards
tended, had endeavoured to alter the ex putting our military establishment on its
isting establishment as little as possible. proper footing : and in his opinion the
The system of ordinary recruiting would, Militia system was in a great measure worn
in some degree, be affected by the ballot, out. It was originally calculated for such
but when that was over, it would be re wars as we formerly had with Fiance.
stored to its former est'ect ; the Militia The war might be now said to have lasted
would also, in some degree, be altered, fourteen years ; and, as he saw no end of it,
but it would be with advantage to the he thought it might be taken at fourteen
service; and if it was at present throwing years more ; he did not think it therefore
a burthen on the country, it would turn poHiblc that proper Officers could be ob
out intimately beneficial to its interests. tained for the Militia during such a length
In the character oi this country, no cha- of tiro* There were at present 50 second
mcteristic was more strong than this, that battalions in the country, which generally
it had always rilen in proportion to the did not consist of more than 250 men each.
difficulties and dangers with which it was, It would be therefore necessary to fend
pressed, and he had no doubt it would do 750 men to each to complete them ; and
so in the prtsent awful and momentous all the men which were proposed to be
erisis. He concluded by moving, " That got from the Militia would not be suffi
leave be given to bring in a 13ill for allow cient to complete 30 of them. He should,
ing. -cut pupoKiou ol the Militia to therefore, propose that the remaining
oofea tat* toe Regular Army." twenty should be added to the nine gairi-
l'oa
i8o7-] Proceedings in the late SeJJion of Parliament. 855
son battalions that were nearly complete, its infancy, and the House had every right
and that then the ballot stiould operate to to expect its progressive increase. With,
fill those 29 garrison battalions. The ad regard to the Volunteers, he thought the
vantage that he would propose from this Inspecting Field Officers provided for
would be, that, instead of 35,000 men them was an additional expence, of no
gained for the regular army for the de use to that body. The expence to the
fence of the country, there would be Country was 40,oooi. a year, and such,
46,000. appointments could only have taken place
Mr. Balhurjt commended the plan for the purposes of patronage. He con
brought forward by the late Ministers ; cluded by moving as an amendment, that
and made some strictures upon Lord Castle- in place of now," the Bill be read a se
reagh for not introducing his measure cond time " this day three months."
looner. Col. Stanley also spoke against the Bill ;
Mr. IVindham entered into a long de he said, one way to make the Bill go down
fence of the Military measures adopted was, the proposal to supply the men taken
last Session ; and afterwards diverged to from the Militia by the ballot. This
the Volunteer System, which he depre was very well ; bu,t he would ask where
cated on account of its expence, the were the men to be found in lo easy a way
total of which, when he came into office, as instantly to replenish the ranks of the
he said, was 1,990,000;. ; besides which, Militia. A number of officers for so many
arms were put inio the hands of 3 ot men would be taken away ; and as Militia
400,000 men, who might not be fit to be Officers were very scarce, particularly sub
entrusted with them. He -proceeded to alterns, he did not know what could be
descant upon the advantages he had ex done for them.
pected to result from bis own military Lord Eujton likewise spoke against the
scheme; and alluding to the re-capture ot Bill. He observed that the hme measure
Buenos Ayrcs, he attributed it to the had been resorted to in 1799, with this
gross misconduct of an Officer whom he difference, that it had not been followed,
did not name. up with the ballot, as now intended! the
After a few words from the Secretary at reason for that was, that the Militia Es
}'/u.r, the motion was put, and carried. tablishment at that time was veiy large,
and that all the regiments of the Line were
July 23. not sent abroad. One thing he strongly
The House w;:s occupied in making al recommended to the House, which was,
terations in the Irish Insurrection Bill ; that the period of service for which the
one of which was, a clause empowering Militiamen mould be engaged, stiould
Magistrates to arrest strangers in their not go beyond the law prescribed by the
several districts. Mutiny Act of last year.
Mr. Lockhart defended the measure, as
July 24. the best that could be adopted for defeating
In a Committee on the Irish Insurrec the vengeance which Buonaparte had,
tion Bill, Mr. Graltan made a patriotic sworn against us, because the Militia-men
Appeal to the sense of the Irish people, were soldiers who had gone through their
who, he hoped, would be convinced that probation, and were satisfied with a mili
tliey had now only to decide upon sub- tary life.
. mining to a temporary suspension of some Mr. Calcrast replied, by saying that the
parts of the British Constitution, or having present measure was an innovation, which
their country made a French province, excited dread and dismay. He entered
"she alterations in the clauses of this Bill into various statements of the effective
occupied the House till a late hour in the force on foot in the country ; and argued
morning. that the new plan was destructive of the
means for recruiting the army, and that
House of Loros, July 2.5. it was not likely to produce any thing but
The Royal assent was given to the Lot tumult and confusion.
tery, Irish Provisions, Irish Penalties, Mr. Cripps justified the measure, on the
Irish Spirit Regulation, and ground of the obvious necessity of taking
Pocks Bills. the most expeditious means of making a
large augmentation of our Regular force.
House of Commons, July 2J. He also took occasion to advert, in terms
Lord Castlereagh repeated his motion of censure, to various parts of Mr. Wind-
fpr the second reading of the Militia Volun ham's military plans.
teering Bill. Colonel ff'eod said, this was not a time
Sir R. JVilliams opposed the measure, for Militia Officers to contend whose regi
and preferred the plan by which the late Mi- ment should look best ; but all should join^
nistry had procured in the last year 22,000. in supporting the most effectual means for
^nen to, the army ; that plan was then in saving their country. Such a disposition
would
%6 Proceedings, th the late Sefioh of Pafliatnenf. [Sept.
•would operate as a sanitary example to the Mr. C. then brought up a Message from
men, and ensure the success of the Bill. his Majesty, stating that he had entered
Colonel Bastard could not fee the neces into subsidiary engagements with Sweden ;
sity of the Bill, in a defensive point of also that his Minister to the King of Prus
view. He contended that the. Militia sia had advanced to Prussia ioo,oooi. ster
would not prove themselves inferior to ling j and likewise.200,0001. in arms and
troops Of the Line, when the question was military fteres.
Who should fight best for I heir native soil ; Mr. Canning observed, that with respect
and he blamed the measure, because it to the Treatici mentioned in the Message,
seemed to proceed on the principle of an the one was a subsidiary Treaty with the
unjustifiable preference to the Regular King of Sweden, by which we had agreed
to pay for the furnishing a farther contin
Army.
. Mr. If'lritlread said, he could not admit gent of men for the defence of Swedish
that a case of emergency had been made Pomerania and of Strafffund. The num
otit, to justify such an inroad on the Mill* ' ber befote employed for those purposes,
tin system. It was strange, that, after for which this country paid, was 1 4,000
fourteen years of war, we should now men; and it was proposed to make an
have to think of defenlive plans. He con addition of 4C0O, which were to be paid
ceived that the force already in existence for at the fame rate as the others were.
■ was fully adequate to the protection of the This was not, however, the- contingent to
country. The Hon. Gentleman then which he had alluded oh a former day. It
warmly deprecated the inflated and irii- would be recollected; that a question had
Mting language, which had too often, been put to him some time ago relative to
within and without doors, been applied to Treaties with the Northern Powers ; and
our Enemy. Big words did not win battles. he had then mentioned, that there were
Mr. Coming contended, that the mea contingencies which were not then finally
sure before the House was hest adapted for settled, which prevented the necessary
obtaining a large force that might defend communications on that subject teing
our foreign possessions ; for it gave imme madp. Those contingences were certain
diately a very large addition to our Army subsidiary Treaties which Ministers had
of troops already disciplined, and which entered upon with the King of Prussia,
would be able toactwith the RegularArmy, anal which the unfortunate circumstances
either at home or ijbroad, for defensive that had put an end tq the war on the
Continent had prevented from being
purposes.
Mr. //. Addington spoke at considerable brought to a conclusion. Had they taken
length, on the subject. He condemned place, the 100,000/. paid to the King of
the present measure, as, in his opinion, Prussia would have been included; and
likely to interfere with and overturn the something less than 200,000/. in arms and
plan of Mr. Windham, which was of such ammunition furnished by his Majesty's
a kind as to reflect on him the highest Government to the King of Prussia would
have been included in the sum to have
honour.
Lord H. Petty also spoke in preference been granted ; but as those treaties, from
of Mr. Windham's plan ; and was answered the circumstances before alluded to, had
\>y the Cbtnv ellor of the. Exchequer. not been concluded, his Majesty had
Mr. Windham repeated his formpr argu ordered them to be laid before Parliament,
ments against tbt measure, at great length. that the money mi<ht be provided for by ,
After a long debate, the Hoqse divided them. He moved, therefore, that his
when the Amendment was negatived by a Majesty's Mc""age be referred to the Com
Ivlajority of 187 to 00 ; and th*: Bill was mittee of Supply. Ordered.
ordered to be committed. Another Menace was then delivered, to
Another debate ensued, on the Irish In the effect, that " His Majesty, relying on'
surrection Bil! ; in the course of which, the uniform loyalty and real of his faith
'Sir John Nttiport maved the alteration of ful Commons, and considering' that it
the duration of the Bill sfom two years to- may be ps the utmost importance, at this
one. Upon this a division took place— arduous cliffs, to provide for such emer
for the motion, 2«—Against it, HOC. gencies as may arise, recommends the.
Mr. GraUtih declared that he was in House, to make provision for enabling
formed, that Meetings of a treasonable him to take oil ftrch measures as the exi
nature were held in Ireland. He did not gencies of affairs rnay requite', in order to
mean to accuse his countrymen of treason defeat the intentions of his enemies, to
or disaffection ; but he was certain, (has provide for the safety of his dominions,
there was a French party in Ireland ; and and to maintain the honour of his Crown.**
it was against them, and not against Irish This Message was, on she motion of the
men, that exertions otfght to be made. Chancellor of the Exchequers alto referred
Mr. Gaming presented the Tr^iaty of so the Committee of Supply.
feree betweerf-Great Brittttti arid 'Prtfiffi*.- ' LjOsd Milton spoke against the Yolun
Militia
 1807.] Proceedings in tie late Sejston es Parliament. 857
Volunteering Bill. * The extraordinary closer our ties with our Allies on the Con
exertions for increasing the public force, tinent. Pecuniary aids were, perhaps,'
proposed by this Bill, were not necessary, the most efficient means by which we
and would only operate, by raising an ex could further their interest and our own ;
traordinary force for the present, to exhaust but these should not be pressed upon them?
our national resources, and disable us for nor should they be held out as an induce
continuing the race with proportionate ment to their entering into, or continuing
vigour, should a, protraction of the war hostilities at a period when such line of
tender that continuance necessary. conduct was not prompted by their own
^ Sir T. Turton also considered the Bill as views of what was the best policy.
partial and unfair. The address was Agreed to, nem. dis. '
Col. Hood supported the Bill ; and in The House made some alterations .in
addition to the present means of defence, the Irish Insurrection Bill. Muchcensur*
suggested the adoption of Marlello towers was passed by Lord Limerick on the Duke
and redoubts upon the most pregnable of Bedford, for not resorting to the Insur
parts of our coast, as well as the most rection Act, to quell the disturbahees of
effectual fortification of our arsenals at the Threshers ; and the Dilke of Bed'-
Portsmouth, Plymouth, and elsewhere, surd defended his conduct. '
which he lamented to find in a deplorable
state of weakness. In the Commons, the fame day, the
Mr. Balington, Lord Cochrane, Col. House went into a Committee of Supply,
Bagwell, and General Tarlelon spoke in when the Chancellor of the Exchequer
favour of the Bill ; and Mr. Windham re moved that a farther remuneration of
peated his arguments against it ; after ] 0,0002. be granted to Dr. Jenner, sot
which Lord CaJXlercagh proposed a clause his discovery of tbe Cow Pox. He ob
which Would allow the Militia an option served that the calculations of deaths, in
either to enter into the Army for the term the different stages of each, had been
of seven years, or for life. made in the three following classes; viz.
This clause Was opposed by Mr. W. in the Small Pox, the deaths were one in
Smith, Lord G. Cavendish, and other gen fix ; in Inoculation for the Small Pox,
tlemen, on the ground that it was attack one in 300 ; and in Inoculation under the
ing without any notice the plan which present discovery of the Vaccine Pox, 6nt
Parliament had agreed to last year. To of the immense number of 164,381, the
this it was anl'wertd by the Chancellor of deaths were only three, which was only
the. Exchequer, that the usual notice had one in 54,761. It had been pretended,
■ been given. A long conversation took place that persons inoculated with the Vaccine
on the merits of the clause, between Lords matter had been subject afterwards to
Cajllereagh and Milton, Gen. Phipps, Mr. violent eruptions, inflammations, fix.
Babington, Mt.T.'Joiies, Mr. Waid, Gen. and often to the Small Pox itself ; bur,
Tarlelon, Messrs. D. Giddy, Lyttellon, this matter had been most diligently in
IV. Smith, the Secretary at War, and Mr. quired into by the College of Surgeons,
Lackhurt, Afterwards a division took and from their report there were only 1 79
.place, when there were—For the Clause, out of the great number of 164,381, who
73 —Against it 10. had suffered those inconveaiencies, and
in those not more than three had died.
v. House of Lords, July 29. Mr. S. Lefeure opposed the motion", on
Lord Hawke/l'ury moved the order of the ground of the economy which was
the day for taking into consideration the necessary in the public finances ; and
Message relative to Sweden and Prussia; Lord H. Petty, Gen. Tarlcton, and Mr. S.
and briefly stated the nature of the treaties. Bourne supported it.
Lord Lauderdalc wished to know whe Mr. Mtrris thought the sum proposed
ther al! that was announced was summed was insufficient ; and moved as an amend
up in the treaty alluded to, and the farther ment that '20,000/. be substituted.
advances to Prussia. Mr. Wilicrjitrce proposed, that besides
Lord Hawke/lury replied, that the the additional J 0,000/. an annuity of
Message did not include the measures lOOOi. should be added ; this was opposed
touched upon in his Majesty's Speech. by the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and
Means of assistance of a much greater Mr. W. Smith supported the amendment
magnitude had certainly been offered to of Mr. Morris, and stated that Dr. Jenner
our Continental Allies, and would have Could prove that his losses in his professi
been afforded, had not the course of events onal practice, since he had devoted him
prevented the intentions of Ministers. self to the Vaccine disease, had been nearly
Xord Holland deprecated the idea that equal to the former grant.
the magnitude of a subsidy was to be con On a division, there appeared for the
sidered as the standard by which to try larger grant 60, for the smaller 3"—Ma
the sincerity of our disposition, to draw jority 53.
Gbnt. Mao. September, l&jj. CON
 ,Z 858 ]
CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE KING OF SWEDEN AND GEN. BRUNE,
Mr. Urban, would not acknowledge the additional arti
THE following is a translation of the cle ; but 1 have not done it."
conversation which passed between his When Gen. Brune began to speak about
Majesty the King of Sweden and General the antient alliance between Sweden and
Brune, at Schlatkew, on the 4th of Jane, France, and about a union between the
as published, by command, at Stralsund ; two nations—
and if you think it will be interesting to The King answered, " Yes, certainly.
your Readers, you are welcome to insert I wish as much as you that this alliance
it in your Publication. might be revived ; but the French nation
Gustavus Brunkmark, is no longer the fame, and those happy
Chaplain to the Stcedi/k Legation times are passed when a close alliance con
at the Court oj St. Jaines's. tributed to the political advantage of the
The original Publication begins thus : two kingdoms. The present state of af
As an incorrect article has been inserted fairs prevents it."
in the Hamburgh and Altona Papers, con The Gen. " Your Majesty, the French
cerning his Royal Majesty's conference nation is always the fame. It has acquired
with the French General Brune, at much honour and power. France has
Sehlatkow, on the 4th of June, 1807, made great progress ; she has improved
it seems now high time to put this con her agriculture and her resources ; and if
versation in its true light. in other times your Majesty had an oppor
When the French General came to the tunity of going thither, it would, perhaps,
King, he began, after a pause of a few be interesting to your Majesty to fee and
moments, by saying—" I present myself to know that country."
here in consequence of your Majesty's The King. " I look upon France now
command." as being the scourge of Europe."
The King. " I have myself wished to The Gen. " Yes, we have been much
speak to you, General, in order to render engaged in warfare. The Emperor has a
unnecessary all farther explanation on the great character."
article added to the conclusion of the The King. " i do not know of any Er*-
Armistice at Sehlatkow, as I wish that peror of France."
every thing should be clear and distinct, (Gen. Brune did not attempt to answer
so that no misconstruction can arise. My this remark.)
Governor General has already, in conse The King. " Hare you forgot, Gene
quence of my order, told you, in his letter ral, that you have a lawful King?"
of the 14th of May, that I do not acknow The Gen. " I do not even know whe
ledge any other agreements except those ther such a one exists."
established in the Armistice itself ; and I The King. " How ! if he exists ? He
now repeat to you, that that is the only is exiled, unhappy ; but he is your law
act I look upon as binding." ful King, and his rights are unquestionably
The Gen. " Does your Majesty permit .sacred. He only wishes to assemble his
me to speak, or is it your Majesty's plea united subjects round his standard."
sure to explain your thoughts yourself on The Gen. " Where is that standard ?**
the subject?" The King. " If no where else, yoO
The King. " No, you may speak." will always find it with me."
The Gen. " Your Majesty, I can men The Gen. " I am told that he has ab
tion an instance in which I was myself dicated his rights to the Duke of Angou-
concerned, for I have concluded a similar leme."
Armistice in Holland, with the Duke of The King. " I have never heard that
York ; and 1 had thought that the addi mentioned. On the contrary, the King
tional article now in question ought to has issued a Proclamation—a pledge of hi*
have been as sacred as the Armistice it sentiments towards his people, to which
self, when founded on the honour of both Monsieur and all the Princes of the Blood
the Commanders in Chief." have given their consent. Do you know
The King. " Yes ; it is exactly on the that Proclamation ?"
fame principle that I acknowledge only The Gen. " No, your Majesty." (This
the Armistice at Sehlatkow. Buonaparte was said with many assurances on his
has, besides, made use of a reason which honour.)
I might also urge, when he said that he The King. " The Duks of Pienne,
himself commanded his army, and or Marechal des Camps in the service of the
dered Gen. Mortier, in cafe the additional King, is here. It is possible that he has
article should not be acceded to, to break brought this publication with him. I
eff the Armistice. Now, since I have will let him be called if you wish it."
taken the co*mmand of my army in per When his Majesty, in the countenance
son, I might have had a sufficient reason of the General, perceived his disquietude
fof putting oo ead to the Armistice, as I and uneasiness at this, he added,
" But,
1807.] Conference between King
" But, perhaps, this would cause too
much observation." '
The Gen. " Yes ; but if your Majesty
would fend it to me in a cover at the out
posts, I would read it myself, and my of
ficers should also see it."
The King. " In this Proclamation the
King promises to all military persons who
wish to return to their duty, to retain
therri in their rank and honours. Do you
suppose, General, that the present state of
affairs in France will last long?"
The Gen. " Every thing is liable to
change."
The King. " Don't you think that Pro
vidence, which hitherto has allowed you
so many successes, can put a stop to them
for the fake of justice and the good cause?"
The Gen. " But it may happen, that
persons who mean well aft according to
their conviction, even against the decrees
of Providence."
The King. " I suppose that you may
ftill have success. Can you, however,
think that it will always continue so ? If
you had the chpice to serve your lawful
King, or the cause you now have adopted,
what would you do? Answer me sincerely."
The General. (Rubbing his forehead.)
'* That is a question which requires con
sideration."
The King. " To me it seems that you
ought not to want much time to think of
it. Tell me only whether you would pre
fer returning to your duty, or defending
those principles which you have adopted?"
The Gen. " In regard to that—Yes, I
shall defend those principles ; I (hall do
my duty for the present." '
The King. " Do you know that Buona
parte has proposed to the King to treat
with him on his rights ? This is the
greatest proof of his acknowledging those
rights that he could give."
The Gen. " I am ignorant about that."
The King. " But do you know that the
King has constantly refused, and said,
as Francis «he First, We have loji every
thing except our honour!"
(Gen. Brune repeated these words with
warmth.)
The King. " I know the' King inti
mately, and he deserves to be known for
his great and excellent qualities. You,
General, you can never have rest ; for
what will be your situation if all is
changed ?"
The Gen. " I shall then die an honour
able death, sword in hand. As a military
man, I am exposed to such a fate every
moment. The question is not to die, but
to die as one ought."
The King. " But that depends upon
unforeseen circumstances. There exists,
however, a happiness, which consists in
peace of mind—the consequence of having
pfSweden andGen. Brune. 859
fulfilled one's duties, and acted according
to the dictates of conscience. Buonaparte
can never have that peace of mind. He
might have made himself immortal if he
had restored the throne to the King: He
may gain fortuitous honour, much cele
brity, and many advantages, but he can
never enjoy any peace of mind."
When the General began to speak of the
talents of Buonaparte, and said that there
was none of the Bourbon family who was
distinguished for so many, the King an
swered, " There occur favourable circum
stances, and it needs only to take advan
tage of them."
The General seemed to admit this.
The King. " The death of the Duke of
Enghien—what an enormity!"
The Gen. " I was at that time in Con
stantinople, and cannot explain it."
When the conversation turned on the
French Revolution, the General said, " I
belong to the Revolution ; and it has been
brought about by the will of the French
people."
The King. " It is not the French people
that have made the Revolution ; it is the
rabble. We now fee plainly the conse
quences of these mob revolutions of which
you speak. This one began with abolish
ing all distinctions, in order to introduce
equality ; and now you yourself are a
proof that these principles are changed."
The Gen. " If your Majesty had been
in the place of Louis XVI. the Revolution
had never happened."
The King. " I will not praise myself on
that head, as I have never found myself
in such circumstances. He was too good
and conciliatory; and has proved that
those qualifications, when misapplied,
may have fatal consequences. You have
yourself led me on to this subject. I have
been candid with you, and my character
required that I should explain myself on
the subject. It is my duty to speak as I
have done ; but, were 1 even placed in
different circumstances, my principles
would still be the fame. Can you ima
gine that I should look with indifference
upon people neglecting their duty to their
lawful King, when I am a King myself?
That would be to forget what I owe to
myself."
The Gen. " Your Majesty considers the
King as a brother."
The King. " It seems to me that the
French ought themselves to understand
their duties, without expecting that I
should set them the example."
Gen. Brune here returned to the subject
about the additional clause in the Armis
tice. " Your Majesty is thus determined
as to the ten days notice ?"
The King. " Yes."
7'hc Gen. u But stiould not your Ma
86o Interesting Intelligence from
jesty wish to agree privately, that the
Armistice (hall not cease till after a month's
-notice?"
The King. " You do not know me
rightly, if you believe me capable of en- ,
tcring into such an agreement."
the London Gaieties. [Sept.
The Gen. : 1 know your Majesty's
character."
Such is the substance of this Con-
ference, during which General Briine
found it difficult \a conceal his embar-
raftment.

INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON -GAZETTES.

Aug. 22. The Gazette of this date which, with her guns, she threw over,
contains an Order in Council, directing board in the chase. Likewise dispatches
his Majesty's ships of war and privateers from the Hon. Rear-Admiral Cechranc,
tu detain and bring in all (hips and goods on the Leeward Island station, giving an
belonging to the following countries, if account of the capture of a Spanish pri
found trading with the enemies of this vateer, the Mcrcede, carrying two guns
Kingdorn ; viz. Oldenburgh, Mecklen- and two swivels, with so men, in the
burgh, Kniphausen, and Pappenburgh. Gulph of Paria, on the 6th of June last,
They are te be allowed six weeks ; du by Lieut. Hall, of his Majesty's sloop
ring which time our ships are to give Port d'El'pagne, with 2i men, in a schooner
them notice, " that, from the expiration disguised as a neutral j and of two Spanish
of fix weeks after the lyth instant, they armed row-boats, on? by the cutter of the
are at liberty to bring in any of the ships Eclair, and the other by the Attentive
belonging to the above places, if found gun-vessel.]
trading with the enemy ; and they will be
condemned as prizes, but to be at liberty Sept. T, This Gazette contains a letter
to trade free with this country." from Capt. Bradley, of the Plantagenet,
giving an account of the capture of LTn-
Admirulty-ojjice, Jug. 20. comparable French privateer, mounting
Clyde, off Feckamp, Aug. 25. two carriage-guns, from St. Maloes.J
Sir, I this morning observed a coasting
sloop pasting along the enemy's stiore from Downing-street, Sept. 4. Dispatches
the Westward, with a very light breeze, have been received by the Viscount Cas-
and ordered Lieut. Strong, with the boats tlereagh from Admiral Ganibier and Lieut.-
of this sloop, to intcicept her between gen. the Right Hon. Lord Cathcart, K.. B.
Ypont and Fecamp. She ran on sliore the Commanders of his Majesty's NavaJ
near the former place, the battery of and Military Forces in the Baltic Sea.
which opened a fire on the boats on ap Prince of Isalts, in the Sound, off
proaching : she was, besides, defended by If lin k, Aug. 16.
two parties of roen with musketry, one My Lord, I have the honour to inform
stationed on the beach, the other on the your Lordship, that Lieut.-gen. Lord Cath
cliffs, .as well as by a field- piece and mor cart joined me, off Eltineur, on the 12th
tar. The fire of musketry was silenced, inst. Every disposition being made for
and the men dispersed, by a few steady .the disembarkation of the army, this ser
vollies from our boats ; and though these vice was intended to be carried into exe
were struck in several places, the sloop cution on the morning of the 14th ; but
was towed off without a man on our tide the wind not allowing the transports lo
being hurt, notwithstanding the li4e forced move towards Copenhagen, it was not till
them to cross with her the fire of the bat last evening that I arrived c?' Wibcck, a
teries of Fecamp at pouit-biank distance. village situated about midway between
She is named Les Trois Sceurs, of Caen, Elsincur and Copenhagen ; and at this
laden with plaster of Paris, and bound, I place the army disembarked this morning
believe, to Boulogne ; hut no puperb were without th;- smallest opposition.
found op-boaid her. I cannot praise too 1 am, Sic. J. Gambier.
highly the conduct of Lieut. Strong in this PROCLAMATION
little affair ; and 1 learn from him, with ISSUED ON THE i6t!J OF AUGUST, AT
the greatest satisfaction, that every com ZEALAND, BY ADMIRAL GAMBIER ANI?
mendation is deserved by the other of LORD CATHCART, COMMANDERS IN
ficers and men employed. CHIEl' or HIS majesty's FORCES BY
I am, 4c. E. W. C. R. 0wr.N. SEA AND BY LAND, EMrLOYED IN TI|E
[This Gazette also contains a dispatch EXPEDITION.
from Admiral Lord Gardner, inclosing a " Whereas the present Treatiesi of
letter from Capt. Maicoim, of the Nar Peace, and the changes of Government
cissus, stating the capture of a fine cop- , and of Territory, acceded to by so many
p«r-boitomed Spanish schooner, the Can- Powers, have so far increased 'he influence
tela, of fix guns and 29 men, charged of France on the Continent of Europe, as
with dispatches for South America, to render it impossible for Denmark,
though)
1807.] Interesting Intelligence from //^London Gazettes. 861
though it desires to be neutral, to preserve
its neutrality, and absolutely necessary for
those who continue to resist the French
aggression, to take measures to prevent the
arms of Neutral Powers from being turned
against them : In this view, the King can
not regard the present position of Den
mark with indifference ; and his Majesty
has sent negotiators with ample powers
to his Danish Majesty, to request, in the
most amicable manner, such explanations
as the times require, and a concurrence in
such measures as can alone give security
against the farther mischiefs which the
French meditate, through the acquisition
of the Danish navy.
" The King, our Royal and most Gra
cious Master, has therefore judged it ex
pedient to desire the temporary deposit of
the Danish ships of the line in one of his
Majesty's ports. This deposit seems to
be so just, and so indispensably neceHary,
under the relative circumstances of the
Neutral and Belligerent Powers, that his
Majesty has farther deemed it a duty to
himself, and to his people, to support this
demand by a powerful fleet, and by an
army amply supplied with every prepara
tion necessary for the most active and de
termined enterprize.
" We come, therefore, to your shores,
Inhabitants of Zealand ! not as enemies,
but in self-defence, to prevent those who
have so long disturbed the Peace of Eu
rope from compelling the force of your
navy to be turned against us. We ask de
posit ; we have not looked to capture : lo
far from it, the most solemn pledge has
been offered to your Government, and is
hereby renewed in the name, and at the
express command, of the King, our
Master, that if our demand is amicably
acceded t», every (hip belonging to Den
mark shall, at the conclusion of a General
Peace, be restored to her, in the same con
dition and state of equipment as when
received under the protection »f the Bri
tish Flag. .
<• It is in the power of your Govern
ment, by a word, to sheath our swords,
most reluctantly drawn against you ; but
if, on the other hand, the machinations
of France render you deaf to the voice of
reason, and the call of friendship, the in
nocent blood that will be spilt, and the
horrors of a besieged and bombarded ca
pital, must fall on your own heads, and
on those of your cruel advisers. His Ma
jesty's seamen and soldiers, when on shore,
will treat Zealand, as long as'" your conr
duct to them permits if, on the footing of
a province of the must friendly Power in
alliance with Great Britain, whole terri
tory has the misfortune to be the theatre
pf war. The persons of all those who re
main at home, and who do not take an
hostile part, will be held sacret),
" Property will be respected and pre
served, and the most severe discipline will
be enforced. Every article of supply fur
nished or brought to market will be paid
for at a fair and settled price ; but as im
mediate and constant supplies, especially
of provision, forage, fuel, and transports,
ate neceflary to all armies, it is well
known that requisitions are unavoidable,
and must be enforced.—Much conveni
ence will arise to the inhabitants, and
much confusion and loss to them will be
prevented, if persons in authority aro
found in the several districts to whom re
quisitions may be addressed, and through
whom claims for payment may be settled
and liquidated. If such persons are ap
pointed, and discharge their duty, with
out meddling in matters which do not
concern them, they shall be respected,
and all requisitions shall be addressed to
them, through the proper channels, and
departments of the Navy and Army: but,
as forbearance on the part of the inhabi
tants is essential to the principle of these
arrangements, it is necessary that all man
ner of Civil persons should remain at their
respective habitations ; and any peasants,
or other persons, found in arms, singly,
or in small troops, or who may be guilty
of any act of violence, must expect to be
treated with rigour.
" The Government of his Danish Ma
jesty having hitherto refused to treat this
matter in an amicable way, part of the
army has been disembarked, and the
whole force has assumed a warlike atti
tude ; but it is as yet not too late for the
voice of reason and moderation to be
heard.—Given in the Sound, under our
hands and seals, this l6tb day of August,
1807." (Signed as above.)
From Lieut.-gen. Lord Cathcart lo Lord
Casllereagh, dated Head-quarters al Helm
lerup, before Copenhagen, Aug. 22.
I have inclosed a journal cf the opera
tions of the army from the )4th in the
morning, together with a return of the
casualties which have occurred, except
those of the cavalry, which are not con
siderable, but have not been transmitted.
Journal of the Army under the command of
Lieut.-general Lord Cathcart, from the
morning of the 14 th August 1807.
Aug. 14th. The fleet between Elfineur
and Helsingberg—Calms and contrary
winds—Transports assembled by brigades,
each under the charge of one of his Ma
jesty's ships.—15th. The fleet worked up
to Vedbeck, the reserve anchoring nearest
the shore, covered by the Surveillante,
and by several gun-brigs and bombs.
Major-gen. Spencer's brigade, under con
voy of Admiral Essington, with a division
of the fleet, anchored higher up the
Sound, to make- a diversion—Coast re
connoitred,.
 $6 2 Interesting Intelligence fro
connoitred, and disposition made for
landing.—1 6th. The reserve landed at
five in the morning, with the ordnance
of a light brigade, and occupied - the
heights. The remainder of the infantry
followed, with the ordnance of another
light brigade. A squadron of the 1st
Light Dragoons, horses for the two bri
gades of artillery, and for the Staff, were
also disembarked. A flag of truce was re
ceived from Major-gen. Peymann, Com
mander in Chief in Copenhagen, request
ing passports for their Highnesses the two
Princesses of Denmark, nieces to his
Danish Majesty, to go from Copenhagen
to Colding ; which were granted. In the
evening, the army marched by their left
in three columns by Nerun to Lyngbyl ;
the centre, by Hermitage and Fortuna,
to Jagersborg; the left, by the Coast, to
Charlottenberg, and lay upon their arms.—
J 7th. At day-break the army marched by
their right, in three columns, to invest
the town. The left column established a
post at Bagerne's Mill, and extended from
Freborg to Emdrup, That from Jagers-
borg by Gladsacks and Vanloes to Frede-
rickfberg, extending to the sea on the
right, and towards Faleonergard on their
left. The reserve from Lyngbil marched
by Bangede and Emdrup, and occupied
the space hetween the two other divisions.
Two brigades of the King's German Le
gion remaining at Charlottenfurd, to cover
the disembarkation of the cavalry and
park of artillery. Major-gen. Spencer's
brigade landed at Skorefhard, and marched
into their post on the left of the line. All
the divisions giving piquets to the rear, to
prevent surprize from the country. Head
quarters established at Hellerup. Trans
ports assembled at Skorefhard, where the
eavalry commenced disembarking. Prin
cesses of Denmark came out of the city on
their route to Colding, and were received
with the honours- due to their rank by the
brigade of Guards, near the Palace of Fre-
derickfberg. The piquets of the left, to
wards the town, were attacked about
noon : at the fame time the enemy's
gun- boats rowed out of the harbour, and
cannonaded the left of the line with grape
and round shot. The piquets drove in and
pursued the enemy, and resumed their
posts, part of the line having advanced
to sustain them. His Majesty's gun-brigs
and bombs having been towed as near the
harbour as they could, opened a fire at a
considerable distance upon the enemy's
pun-boats, which, after a long cannon
ade, retired into the harbour.— 18th. At
■ day-break the gun-boats renewed the at
tack upon the gun-brigs, trusting to the
superior weight of their guns. The litter
having during the night exchanged their
carronades for i«-poun<Jcrs, the gun-boats
'/ the London Gazettes. [Sept.
retired ; but advanced again with increased
numbers. A brigade of o-pounders, from
the Park, having been brought to the
Mill, took them in flank, upon which
they turned their fire to the lines ; and,
after cannonading for some time, were
driven in, together with their field-pieces,
which advanced upon the road. En
gineers' tools, &c. &c. having been dis
embarked, a work was bfgun at the Mill,
and considerable progress was made. The
fame day the cavalry moved to their quart
ers at Charlottenberg, Jagerfborg, and
Vanloes, with piquets in the country,
and a chain of posts, supported by the
1 st Battalion of the King's German Le
gion, from Lorgenfree and Kollckolte,
under the direction of Brigadier-General
V. D. Decken.—19th. The works carried
on by parties of 600 men, relieved every
four hours. The gun-boats attacked at
day-break, but were driven off by the
field-pieces, which were now protected.
Some of the pipes were discovered which
convey fresh water to the town from Em
drup. The frigates and gun-brigs having
a favourable breeze, took their station
near the entrance of the harbour, within
reach of throwing shells into the town.
Four 24-pounders were brought into the
battery at the Mill. Great progress was
made in the work at that place, and in a
howitzer battery in the rear of it, with
traverses and cover for the men. Briga
dier-gen. Decken surprised and took the
post of Frederickswork, commanded by a
Major, aid-de-camp to the Crown Prince,
who capitulated with 850 men and of
ficers, with a foundery and depot of can
non and powder. The King's household,
with part of his Danish Majesty's ward
robe, plate, wine, and books, were suf
fered to come out of the town to follow
his Majesty (who has withdrawn to Cold
ing), passports having been requested.
Some gentlemen residing in the district of
Copenhagen, and in the bailiwicks to
wards Elfineur, having offered their ser
vices to accept the office of Magistrates
and Superintendants of Police in their re
spective districts, under the Commander
of the Forces, an order was made for that
purpose, and sent to be printed and pub
lished ; and a Commission was given, in
reference to a Proclamation published in
German and Danish on the day of disem
barkation.—20th. Farther progress made
in th« works— More ordnance landed and
mounted. A patrole on. the left having
reported that a body of cavalry, with a
corps of infantry in their rear, had been
seen in front of Rœskilde, Col. Raden
sent a squadron to reconnoitre them, which
found them assembled near that place, and
immediately charged and put them to
flight, leaving it) or in men killed, and
taking
 1 807.] Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. 863
taking three prisoners and 29 horses. The do so, consistently with the object of the
dragoons pursued the enemy to the gates present service. J. Gammer.
of Roesltilde, where they were received by [Here follows the Order, to the pur
a heavy fire of infantry, and returned to port just mentioned.
their quarters. The Admiral came to Next is a letter from Adm. Gambler to
head-quarters in the morning, and re the Secretary of the Admiralty, date4
turned ta his ship.—»lst. Lord Rosslyn's Prince of Walts, in the Sound, Aug. 16,
corps disembarked in the North part of 1807, and stating that he arrived with the
Keoge Bay, with two batteries of artil fleet and transports off Wibeck.—Another
lery, sending round the remaining trans letter from Adm. Gambier informs the
ports to Skoreshard. A strong patrole of Admiralty that he had ordered the Defence
cavalry and infantry was sent to cover his and C»mus to put to sea in pursuit of the
landing. Progress made in cutting off the Danish frigate, which had quitted Elfi-
water. Further arrangements made with netir Roads in the night between the 12th.
gentlemen of thecountry. Passport granted and 13th.—Then follows a letter from
to Prince Frederick Ferdinand of Den Capt. Ekins, of the Defence, and one
mark and his Preceptor.—Notice given from Capt. Heywood to him, stating his
that no more passports can be granted ; having come up with and obtained pos
at the fame time a recommendation urged session of the said frigate. Capt. Ekins
to the commanding General, to consider fays, that his (the Defence) not being &
the dreadful consequences of making a ca fast sailer, could not keep up with the
pital city of such extent stand a fiege and Comus to assist her. Capt. Heywood, Of
bombardment like an ordinary fortress. the Comus, in his letter to Capt. Ekins,
Great advance made in perfecting the fays that, when he come up with the
works already in progress which cover Danish ship Frederickscoarn, he repeat
our left. A trench pushed forward, and edly desired that she would submit to de
a new battery erected 300 yards in ad tention ; but she refusing, and making all
vance. Brigadier-gen. Macfarlane's bri sail, he found it necessary to have recourse
gade landed at Schorestiard—great pro to arms. A smart action commenced,
gress made in landing the battering-train which continued about 15 minutes, when,
and stores for the fiege—fascines made for the two ships falling on-board each other,
a new battery on the right. These works she was gallantly boarded and taken pos
being completed, will take the enemy's session of. She carried 36 guns, 12-
line of advanced posts in reverie, and will pounders, on her main deck, and 226
cover and secure the advance of the army men, and had 12 killed and 20 wounded,
to a new position. Cathcart. several mortally.]
General Return of Casualties from the
landing of the Troops in the Island of Admiralty-ofliet, Sept. 11. Journal of
Zealand, on thel6th to the itftofAugust. Admiral Gambier received this morning,
Total : 2 officers, 2 rank and file, 2 brought by the Earnest gun-brig.—Aug. 23.
horses, killed; 1 officer, 1 rank and file, The battery on the left wing of the army
4 horses, wounded.—Officers killed : Lieut. (which is calculated to defend its advance
Lyons, of the Royal Artillery ; Knfign from the annoyance of gun-boats) being
Dixon, of the 1st batt. «2d.—Officer completed, and mounted with 13 24-
wounded: Captain Hastings, of the 1st pounders, the construction of mortar bat
batt. s-ii. teries, under cover of the above, are in
Prince of Wales, 9jfs Copenhagen, /tug. 21 . progress. The enemy, observing these
My Lord, Being of opinion that the movements, appeared yesterday to be col
scrrice on which his Majesty's forces at lecting their praams and gun-boats near
the island of Zealand are employed, ren the harbour's mouth, in preparation f.jra
ders it highly expedient that all neutral powerful attack on our works. Our ad
trade therewith should i>e for the present vanced squadron* continuing in their
suspended, I have judged it my duty to position for defending the operations on
issue an order (of which I have the honour shore, were, about ten a. in.' attacked by
to transmit your Lerdship a copy] decla three praams (carrying each 20 guns) and
ring the said islands, and others contigu a considerable number of gun-boats (said
ous thereto, together with the passage of to be more than thirty), in addition to the
the Great Belt, to be in a Hate of close
blockade, and directing that all neutral * Vessels forming the Advanced Squa
vessels persisting to enter into the laid dron: Thunder, Zebra, Fury, Ætna, and
tfands and passage, after receiving due Vesuvius, bombs; Cruizer, Kite, and Mn-
notice thereof, (hall be detained and sent tine sloops ; Hebe armed ship ; Fearless,
to roe at this anchorage, intending that Indignant, Urgent, Pincher, Tigruse, Des
such vessels shall not be allowed to pursue perate, and Safeguard gun-brigs ; with
their respective voyages until the circum three afrned transports ; and ten launches,
stances of the islands shall permit them to fitted as mortar-boats.
Are.
 864 Tnterefting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. [Sept.
fire from the Crown Battery, floating bat- promptness, summoned the garrison on
teries, and block-ships, which was con- the 30th ult. and that his proposals were
tinued for more than four hours. The rejected by the Governor, I was making
fire was returned with great spirit from my arrangements to storm him with the
the squadron, and some attempts were marines and seamen of the squadron, if
fnade to throw Mr. Congreve's rockets, he did not instantly surrender, for at this
but the distance was too great to produce time the value of the Island to as is im-
much effect from them. About two mense.—At six p. m. however, he sent
p. m. the gun-brigs, which were farthest out a flag of truce, desiring that an Officer
advanced, not being able to make any im- might be sent in the morning to treat on
preflion against so vast a force, were or- Articles of Capitulation ; imd I accord-
dered to retire, and the filing ceased. I ingly, at day-light yesterday, dispatched
am happy to .find the squadron received Vise, Falkland and Lieut. D'Auvergne
no material injury. We have, however, (First of this ship) on that service. At
to regret the loss of Lieut.John Woodford, two the Deputation returned with the
of the Cruizer, with three men killed in Articles of Capitulation, which 1 imrae-
the several vessels, and 13 wounded. On diately ratified. With a small expence
the part of the enemy, it is believed, that this island may be made a little Gibraltar,
one gun-boat has been disabled or sunk, and a safe haven for small craft, even in
and one of the praams was observed to the winter ; it is a key to the rivers Ems,
be towed out of the action disabled. The Weser, Jade, Elbe, and Eyder, the only
new battery at the Mill opened, and, tak- asylum at present for our cruisers in these
ing a part in the engagement, didconside- seas. I have appointed Lieut. D'Auvergne
rable execution. The ships and vessels as acting Governor, until their Lordships'
before mentioned were engaged in this pleasure is known; and I beg leave to
affair, and 1 have acquitted myself of a add, that, from his perfect knowledge of
most pleasing duty in conveying to the both services, his zeal and loyalty, and a
Commanders, Officers, and crews, of the high fense of honour, I know no seaman
sloops, bombs, gun-brigs, and boats, more competent to the trust,
the warm fense of praise and approbation This morning, the Explosion, Wan»
with which their bravery and energy, derer, and Exertion, hove in light, round
during so longand so heavy a contest, have the North end of the Island,
inspired me.—Aug. 24. Having occasion T. Macnamara Russell.
to confer with Lieut. Gen. Lord Cathcart,
commanding the army, respecting the London Gaz.Exthaobuinarv,5cP£. 13.
co-operation of the fleet, I went on shore Downing-Jireet, Sept. VI. Lieut. Col.
to Head-quarters for that purpose. I learnt Bourke, Deputy Quarter-Mastcr-General t
that the right wing of the army is advanced to his Majesty's troops serving in South
near to the town, on the South-west, and America, arrived this morning from the
are preparing mortar-batteries to com- Rio de la Plata, with the following dil-
mence the bombardment of it. The ene- patch from Lieut. Gen. Whitelocke, ad-
my, being obligeo to withdraw their out- dressed to Right Hon. W. Windham :
posts in that quarter, have let fire to Buenos jiyres, July 10.
the suburbs, to prevent them from afford- Sir, 1 have the honour to acquaint you,
ing cover to our troops. The vessels' which for the information of his Majesty, that
were in action yesterday, are getting their upon being joined at Monte Video, on ,
damages repaired. No attack has been June 13th, by the corps under Brig.-gen.
made this day by the enemy's flotilla Crausurd, not one moment was lost by
against our advanced squadron.—Aug. 2.S. Adm. Murray and myself in making every
Yesterday and this day the damage which necessary arrangement for the attack of
several of the gun-brigs received in the Buenos Ayres. After many delays, occ;i-
action of the 23d, have been repaired, sinned by foul winds, a landing was ef-
and the vessels are again ready for service, fected, without opposition, on the 28th,
— ■ at the Eniinada de Barragon, a small bay
Admiralty-office, Sept. 12.—Extract of about 38 miles to the eastward of the townf
Letters from Vice Adm. Russell, Com- The corps employed on this expedition
jnander in Chief in the North Sea, to the were three brigades of light artillery,
Hon. W. Wellcsley Pole, dated Majestic, under Capt. Frasor ; the 5th, 3Sth, and
off Heligoland.—1 arrived at this island, 87th regiments of foot, under Brig.-gen.
and anchored close to the town, on the Sir S. Achmuty ; the 17 th Light Dragoons,
4th inst, at half past two p. m. but did 36th and 88th regiments, under Brig.-
not, as I expected, find the Explosion, gen. Hon. W. Lumlcy ; eight companies
the Wanderer, or the Exertion, with of the 95th reg. and nine light infantry
which their Lordships had intended to companies, under Brig.-gen. Crausurd ;
reinforce me. Having found that Lord four troops of the 6th" Dragoon Guards,
Falkland had, with, his usual leal and the oth Light Dragoons, 4gih anil 4ath
regimeuts
 1807.] Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. 865
regiments of foot, under Col. Hon. T. streets of the enemy, this latter regiment
Mahon ; all the Dragoons being dis was to take post at the Residencia. Two
mounted, except four troops of the 17th, 6-pounders were ordered along the central
tinder Lieut.-col. Lloyd. After some fa street, covered by the Carabineers and
tiguing marches through a country much three troops of the Oth Lirfit Dragoons,
intersected by swamps and deep muddy the remainder of which was posted as a
rivulets, the army reached Reduction, a reserve in the centre. Each division was
village about nine miles distant from the ordered to proceed along the street directly
bridge over the Hio Chuelo; on the oppo in its front, till it arrived at ihe last square
site bank of which the enemy had con of houses next the River Plata ; of which
structed batteries, and established a formi it was to possess itself, forming on the fiat
dable line of defence. I resolved, there- roofs, and there wait for further orders.
sore, to turn this position, by marching Tlie 95th Regiment was to occupy two of
in two columns from my left, and cross the most commanding situations, from
ing the river higher up, where it was re which it could annoy the enemy. Two
presented fordable, tt) unite my force in corporals, with tools, were ordered to
the suburbs Of Buenos Ayres. I sent di rharch at the head of each column, for
rections at the fame time to Col. Mahon, the purpose of breaking open the doors.
Nivho was bringing up the greater part of The whole were unloaded ; and no firing
the artillery under the protection of the Was to be permitted until the columns
17th Light Dragoons and 40th regiment, had reached their final points and formed :
to wait for further orders at Reduction. a cannonade in the central streets was the
Major-gen. Levesort Gower hiving the signal for the whole to Come fotward* In
command of the right column, crossed conformity to this arrangement, at half-
the river at a pal's called the Paffo Chico, past six o'clock of the 5th inst, the 38th
and fallingjn with a dorps of the enemy, Regiment moving towards its leftj -and
gallantly attacked and defeated it; for the the 87 th straight to its front, approached
particulars of which action I beg to refer the strong post of the Retiro and Plaza de
you to the annexed report., Owing to the Toros, and after a most vigorous and spi
ignorance of my guide, it was not until rited attack, in which these regiments Tuf-
the next day that I joined with the main fered much from grape- shot and hiuskÆtry,
body of the army, when 1 formed my their gallant Commander, Sir S. Aoh-
line, by placing Sir S. Achmuty's brigade muty, possessed himself of the post, taking
upon the left, extending it towards the 32 pieces of cannon, ah immense quan
Convent of the Recoleta, from which it tity of ammunition, and Soo prisoners.
was distant two miles : the 36th and The 5th Regiment meeting with but little
88th Regiments being on its right; Brig.- opposition, proceeded to the river, and
gen. Craufurd's brigade occupying the took possession of the church and cofiveut
central and principal avenues of the town, of St. Catalina. The 36:h and 85th Re'
being distant about three miles from the giments, under Brig.-gen. Lumley, mo
Great Square and Tort ; ahd the 6th Dra ving in the appointed otdrt, were soon op
goon Guards, nth Light Dragoons, and posed by a heavy and continued sire of
4 5th Regiments, being upon his right, musketry from the tops and windows of
and extending towards the Residencia. the houses ; the doors of which were bur-
The town was thus nearly invested ; and ricadoed in so strong a nianner, as to ren
this disposition of the army, and the cir der tHem almost impossible to forte. The
cumstances of the town and suburbs being streets * ere intersected by deep ditches, in.
divided into squares of I40yardscach side, the inside of which Were planted cannon,
together With the knowledge that the enemy pouring showers of gtape oh the advancing
meant to occupy the flat roofs of ths columns. In defiance, however, of this
houses, gave rife tt» the following plan of opposition, the 36th Regiment, headed
attack. Sir S. Achmuty was directed tc. by the gallant General, reached its final
detach the 38th Regiment to possess itfell destination ; but the 88th, being nearer to
of the Plaza de Toros, and the adjacent the fort and principal defences of the
strong ground, and there rake post ; the enemy, was so weakened by his fire, as
87th, 5th, 3Stb, and 88th Regiments, to be totally overpowered 4nd taken. The
Were each divided into wings; and each flank of the3fith being thus exposed, this
wing ordered to penetrate into the street regiment, together with the 5tU, retired
directly in its front, "she light battalion upon Sir S. Achmuty's post at the Plaia
divided into wirigs, and each, followed by de Toros ; not, however, before Lieut.-
a wing of the 0,5th Regiment, and a 3- col. Burne, and the gtenadier company
pounder, was ordered to proceed down of the 36th Regiment, had an opportu
the. two streets on the right of the central nity of distinguishing themselves, by
«ne, and the 45th Regiment down the charging about noo of the enemy, ahd
two adjoining ; -and, ' after clearing the taking anc! spiking two guns. The two
Gent. Mao. ScpttmLar, isoi. six'
10
866 Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. [Ser5t.
six-poUnders moving up the central streets, the enemy as approached the post ; but
meeting with a very superior fire, the four the quantity of round-shot, grape, and
troops of the Carabineers, led on by musketry, to which they were exposed,
Lieut.-col. Kingston, advanced to take at last obliged them to quit the top of the
the battery opposed to them; but this building; and the enemy, to the number
gallant officer being unfortunately wound of riooo, bringing up cannon to force the
ed, as well as Capt. Burrcll, next in com wooden gates which fronted the fort, the
mand, aud the fire both from the battery Brig.-gencral, having no communication
and houses proving very destructive, they with any other columns, and judging, from
retreated to a short distance, but conti the cessation of firing, that those next him
nued to occupy a position in front of the had not been successful, surrendered ac
enemy's principal defences, and consider four p. m. The result of this day's action
ably in advance of that which they had had left me in possession of the Plaza de.
taken in the morning. The left division Toros, a strong post on the enemy's right,
of Brig.-gen. Craufurd's brigade, under and the Residencia, another strong post on
Lieut.-col. Pack, pasted on nearly, to the his left, whilst I occupied an advanced
river, and, turning to the left, approached position opposite his centre ; but those ad
the Great Square, with the intention of vantages had cost about 2500 men in
possessing itself of the Jesuits' College, a killed, wounded, and prisoners. The na
situation which commanded the enemy's ture of the fire to which the troops were
principal line of defence : but, from the exposed was violent in the extreme.
very' destructive nature of his fire, this Grape-shot at the comers of all the
was found impracticable ; and, after sus streets ; musketry, hand-grenades, bricks
taining a heavy loss, one part of the divi and stones, from the tops of all the
sion throwing itself into a house which houses ; every householder, with his ne
was afterwards not found Unable, was groes, defended his dwelling, each of
shortly obliged „to surrender, whilst the which was in itself a fortress ; and it is
remaining part, after enduring a dreadful not, perhaps, too much to fay, that the
fire with the -greatest intrepidity, Lieut.- whole male population of Buenos Ayres
col. Pack, its commander, being wounded, was employed in its defence. This was
retired upon the right division commanded the station of the army on the morning of
by Brig.-gen. Craufurd himself. This divi the 6th instant, when Gen. Liniers ad
sion having passed quite through to the dressed a letter to me, offering to give up
river Plata, turned also to the left to ap all his prisoners taken in the late affair,
proach the Great Square and Fort, from together with the 7 1st Regiment, and
the North-;ast bastion of which it was dis others, taken with Brig.-gen. Beresford,
tant about 400 yards, when Brig.-gen. if I desisted from any farther attack on the
Craufurd, learning the fate of his left di town, and withdrew his Majesty's forces
vision, thought it most advisable to take from the river Plata ; intimating, at the
possession of the convent of St. Domingo, fame time, from the exasperated state of
near which he then was, intending to pro the populace, he could not answer for the
ceed onwards to the Franciscan church, safety of the prisoners, if I persisted in of
which lay still nearer the $prt, if the at fensive measures. Influenced by this conr
tack or success of any other of our columns fideration (which I knew, from better autj-
should free him in some measure from the thority, to be founded in fact), and re
host of enemies which surrounded him. flecting of how little advantage would be
The -nth Regiment being farther from the possession of a country, the inhabitants
the enemy's centre, had gained the Resi- of which were so absolutely hostile, I re
deucia without much opposition ; and solved to forego the advantages which the
Lieut.-col. Guard having it in possession bravery of the troops had obtained, and
of his battalion companies, moved down acceded to the annexed Treaty, which I
with the grenadier company towards the trust will me/ft the approbation of his Ma
centre of the town, and joined Brig.-gen. jesty. 1 have nothing farther to add, ex
Craufurd. The enemy, who now sur cept to mention, in terms of the highest
rounded t lie convent on all sides, attempt praise, the conduct of Ksar-adm. Murray,
ing to rake a s pounder which lay in the whose cordial co-operation has never been
street, the Lieutenant-colonel, with his wanting, whenever the army could be be
company, and a few light infantry under nefited by his exertions. Capt. RoWlcy,
Major Trot. er, charged them with great of the Royal Navy, commanding the sea
spirit. In an instant, the greater part of men on shore ; Capt. Bayntun, of H. M. S.
his company, and Major Trotter (an of Africa, who superintended the disembark
ficer of gnat merit), were killed, but the ation ; and Capt. Thompson, of the Fly,
gun was saved. The Brig. -general was now Who had the direction of the gun-boats,
obliged to confine himself to the defence and had previously rendered me much ser
of th? convent, from whichthe riflemen vice by reconnoitring the river, arc all en
'kept up a well/ directed fire upon such of titled to my best thauk*. An his character
» . already
 1 807O Interesting Intelligencefrom the London Gazettes. 86,7
already stands so high, it is almost unne Officers killed: Light Batt. Major Trot
cessary to state, that from my second in ter and Lieut. Hamilton, of the 97th.—-
eommand, Major-gen. Leveson Gower, I 6th Dragoons, Capt. Burrell.—yth Light
have experienced every zealous and useful Dragoons, Vet. Surgeon Landeis.—36th
assistance. " My thanks are likewise due to Reg. Capts. Williamson and Johnson.—
Brigadier-generals Sir S. Achmuty and 38th Reg. Lieut. Fallon.—87th Reg. Cap
Lumley, and to Col. Mahon and Brig.- tains Considine and Johnson, Lieut. Barry,
gen. Craufurd, commanding brigades. I Quarter-master Buchanan. — 88th Reg.
cannot sufficiently bring to notice the un Lieut. Hall, Ensign M'Gregor, Assistant-
common exertions of Capt. Fraser, com surgeon Ferguson.—95th Reg. Capt. Jen-
manding the Royal Artillery, the fertility kinson.
of whose mind, zeal, and animation, in Officers wounded : Lieut. Squarrey,
all cases, left difficulties behind. Capt. R, Navy, slightly ; Lieut. Maconochie,
Squires, of the Uoyal Engineers, is also R. Artillery, ditto; Lieut.-col. Kingston,
entitled to my best thanks ; nor should I 6th Dragoons, severely ; Lieut. Cowdall,
omit the gallant conduct of Major Ni- 9th L. Dra?oons- slightly.—Light Batta
cholls, of the 45th Regiment, who, on lion, Lieut.-col. Pack, 71ft Reg. slightly;
the morning of the 6th inst, being pressed Lieut.-col. Cadogan, 18th Reg. ditto;
by the enemy near the Residencia, charged Lieut. Smith, 40th Reg. severely; Capt.
them with great spirit, and took two how Greenwell, 4 5th Reg. ditto; Lieut. Cox,
itzers, and many prisoners. Lieut.-col. 8"th Reg. slightly ; Lieut. Nickle, ssth
Bradford, Deputy-Adjutant-General, has Reg. ditto ; Lieut. Bury, ditto, slightly j
likewise a great claim to my approbation Capt. Brookman, 71st Reg. dangerously;
as a gallant and promising officer. The Lieut. Adamson, ditto, severely.—5th Reg.
officers of my personal Staff", Lieut.-col. Hon. Major King, slightly.—36th Reg.
Torrens, military Secretary, and Captains Capt. Swain, severely ; Captain Vernon,
Brawn, Foster, Douglas, and Whitting- slightly; Capt. Wingfield, severely ; Lieut.
ham, aides-de-camp, must also be men Cotton, ditto; Lieut. Challoner, slightly;
tioned by me in terms of just regard : the Lieut. White, severely ; Lieut. Whittel,
knowledge which the latter possesses of the ditto.—38th Reg. Ensign Wiltshire, se
Spanish language has been eminently use verely ; Volunteer Henry de Waal, ditto.—
ful to me. This dispatch will be deli 4 5th Reg. Capt. Payne, severely; Lieut.
vered to you by Lieut.-col. Bourke, De Moore, <'.itto.—47th Reg. Lieut. Rutledge,
puty Quarter-Master-General, who has severely ; 8?th Reg. Major Miller, se
afforded me that assistance which might verely ; Capt. Role, dangerously ; Capt.
be looked for from an officer of his mili Blake, slightly ; Captain Des Barres, ditto ;
tary talents and attachment to the service ; Captain Gordon, severely; Lieut. Love,
to whom I beg to refer you for any fur slightly; Lieut. Bill, ditto; Lieut. O'Brien,
ther particulars respecting the military severely ; Lieut. Budd, slightly ; Lieut.
operations in this part of the world. Fitzgerald ; Assistant-surgeon Buxton, dan
J. Whitflockf., Lieut.-gen. gerously.—S8th Reg. Major Iremonger,
Total of killed, wounded, and mifling, frim slightly; Capt. M'Pherfon, ditto; Capt.
June 28 to July 4, inclusive, Chissiolm, ditto ; Captain Dunn, ditto ;
1 Serjeant, 14 rank and file, killed ; I Capt. Thompson, ditto ; Lieut. Adair, se
Captain, 3 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 2 Ser verely ; Lieut. Graydon, ditto ; Lieut.
jeants, 13 rank and hie, wounded.- Whittle, ditto; Lieut. Bullcr, ditto ; Lieut.
Officers severely wounded: 87th Reg. Mackie, slightly ; Lieut. Gregg, ditto ;
Lieut. Crowe; 88th Reg. Lieut. Thom Adj. Robertson, ditto.—93th Reg. Major
son ; psth Reg. Capt. Elder, Lieuts. No M'Leod, slightly ; Major Travers, Capt.
ble and Ccane. O'Hara, severely ; Lieut. Cardoux, ditto;
Recapitulation of the killed, wounded, and Lieut. M'Leod, ditto ; Lieut. Scott, ditto ;
miffing, on the attack of Buenos Ayres, Lieut. Turner, ditto ; Lieut. M'Cullock,
July s. slightly.
Killed: 1 Major, fi Captains, 4 Lieute Officers missing: 36th Reg. Surgeon
nants, i Ensign, 3 Staff, 18 Serjeants, Boyce, /Vffiftant-l'urgeon Read.
4 Drummers, 27!) rank and file—31 6. The Light Company of the ?lst Regi
Wounded : 3 Lieutenant-colonels, 5 ment, attached to the Light Battalion,
Majors, It) Captains, 33 Lieutenants, 2 suffered severely; but no correct return
Eniigns, 2 Staff, 1 Volunteer, 43 Ser of their loss has been received. The pri
jeants, 11 Drummers, 558 rank aud soners have all been exchanged.
file—674. Subjiance of the Treaty h-tireen the Gene
Missing: 2 Staff, 1 Quarter-Master, 4 rals in Chiefof his Britannic Majejiy and
Serjeants, 5 Drummers, lyrj rank and of his Catholic Majesty.
file—208. There (hall be a cessation of hostilities
Total: 316 killed, 674 wounded, 208 on both fides of the river Plata.—The
milling—line. troops of His Britannic Majesty mall rer
1 tain.
868 Interesting Intelligence from //^London Gazettes. [Sept.
tain, for two months, the fortress and on the right of the light brigade, to sup
place of Monte Video.—There shall be a port it in case of re-attack. I am happy
mutual restitution of prisoners, including to add, our loss has been but trifling, not
not only thole which have been taken since exceeding 14 rank and file killed, 5 of
the arrival of the troops under Lieut. -gen. ficers, and 93 rank and file, wounded.
Whitelocke, hut also all thole British sub The exact returns I have not been able to
jects captured in South America since the obtain. J.Llvlson Gower, Maj.-Gen.
commencement of the war.—Ten days are Lieut.-col. Torrent, Military Secretary.
given for the re-embaikation of the British [Then follows an abstract of ordnance
troops to pass to the North side of the stores captured from the enemy in the
River La Plata, with the arms which suburbs and city of Buenos Ayres, on the
may actually be in their power, stores, 2d and 5th of July,]
and equipage; and during this time pro Æmiralty-ojjice, Sept. 12, The fol
visions may be fold to them.—The deli lowing dispatches have been received from
very of Monte Video, at the end of the Rear-adm. Murray, addressed to William
two months, will be made in the terms Marsden, esq.
jt was found, and with the artillery it had Nereide, off Barragnn, June 30.
when it was taken. Sir, Rear-adm. Stirling had made every
Canal of Miscrala, July 3. necessary arrangement for the intended
' Sir, I have the honour to report to you, expedition before my arrival : it being ner
that the advanced corps under my com pessary, on account of the shoals in the
mand, consisting of three companies of river, that the line of battle shifts should
the 95th light battalion, 36th, aud 88th remain at anchor off Monte Video, as well
regiments, with two 3 and two fi-pound- as for the protection of that place, I di
ers, advanced from the position I had rected Adm. Stirling to remain with them.
taken up in front of the village of the Re On the 17 th the second division of troops,
duction, and after making a considerable consisting of all those who had come out
detour, from the badness of the roads, I with Gen. Craufurd, being ready to pro
crossed the Chuelo at the Chico Pass j ceed to Colonia, where Gen. Whitelocke
from thence 1 continued my route, through wished the whole to be assembled, Capt.
very strongly inclosed, and difficult ground, Prevost, in the Saracen, taking with him
till the head of the column arrived at the the Encounter gun-brig and Paz schooner,
junction of two roads, about 500 yards sailed with the transports. On the 18th,
from the Canal of Miserala. At the same 213 marines were landed at Monte Video,
moment that we discovered the enemy, by request of the General, to strengthen,
they commenced a heavy, though, after the garrison. I likewise ordered no sea
thc'first round, not welt-dirccted, fire of men to be ready to land, under the corrw
shot and shells, my artillery having been mand of Captains Rowley, Prevost, and,
left in the rear, under the protection of Joyce, with a proportion of officers, to
three, companies of Brig. gen. Lumley's aslist in working the artillery, to go up in
brigade, owing to the inability of the the frigates, and Capt. Bayntun to proceed
horses to bring it up at the fame rate at up the North Channel to Colonia, in the
which the infantry marched. I directed Haughty gun-brig, with fix gun-boats
an immediate attack to he made on their (Spanish prizes captured at Monte Vi-,
left flank with the bayonet, whjch was deo)'; the Medusa, Nereidc, and Tbisbe,
executed by Brig.-gen. Craufurd, in the to receive the seamen intended to land,
most perfect manner, with his brigade ; and three boats from cash of the line of
and he was lo well seconded by the gal battle ships. On the 21st, the wind mo
lantry of Lieut.-col. Pack, and- Major derating, I shifted my flag to the Nercide,
Travers, the officers and men of the and Gun, Whitelocke accompanied me 5
Q5th, and light battalion, that in five and having directed Capt, fiouverie, in the
minutes the enemy's force, though strongly Medusa, and Captain Shepheard, in the
posted behind hedges and embankments, Thilbe, to proceed with the Rolla and
gave way, leaving about 60 killed and 70 Qlympia, and the last division of the
prisoners, with all their artillery, consist troops, at noon weighed, and stood to
ing of nine guns, one howitzer, three the Southward, where we anchored in
tumbrils, with limbers complete. I beg three fathom water. On the 24th, we
to state, that the conduct of every officer anchored between Enfinada de Barragon
and soldier engaged was admirable; and and the Northern more, the winds and
that I am also under great obligations to weather having prevented our getting to
Brig.-gen. Lurnlev for his exertions to the Westward ot the Oitez Bank before.
take a mare in the action, but which The General and myself finding time
alone the very exhausted state of his re would be lost by going with this division
giments, from the severity of the inarch, to Colonia, sent for the troops to join at
prevented. Immediately after I formed, this anchorage. Gen. Gower went for
I found that he had taken a good position thcnij with orders from Gen. Whitelocke
to
1807.] Interesting Intelligence from /Æ<?Lond»n Gazettes. 869
to evacuate Colonia, if he thought it ne
cessary : Colonia was accordingly evacu
ated. On the 27th, the troops from Co
lonia joined with the Fly, Pheasant,
Haughty, and the gun-boats. I ordered
the Paz up the liver, with directions to
the Staunch and Protector gun-brigs to
join me. The transports having the troops
and artillery on-board, being in three di
visions, I directed Capt. Thompson, in
the Fly, who had made himself ac
quainted with ihe river, and particularly
the place intended for landing, which
was near Barragon (about 20 miles East-
ward of Buenos Ayres), to lead the first
division, having with him the Dolores
schooner, and four gun-boats ; Captain
Palmer, in the Pheasant, to lead the se
cond division, with the Haughty, and
two gun-boats ; and Capt. Prevost, in the
Saracen, to bring up the rear of the third
division ; Captains Bayntun and Corbet to
superintend the landing of the troops. At
day-light on the 28th, the wind being fa
vourable, I made the signal to the Fly to
weigh with the first division, and imme
diately after a general signal to weigh, ha
ving ordered the Rolla to be placed on the
West end of the bank, as a guide to the
ships to join. I shifted my flag to the
Flying Fish, and Gen. Whitelocke went
in with me. As soon as the first division
of transports anchored, 1 made the signal
to get into the boats, and immediately af
terwards to put off. Soon after nine a. m.
the first boats, with Brig.-gen. Craufurd's
division, landed about a mile to Westward
of the fort, from which the enemy had
some time before withdrawn their guns.
A creek being found loon after the first
boats landed, the whole were got on shore
without opposition, or any accident, ex
cept that several of the transports were
aground, but got off without damage.
The conduct of the officers and, men on
this occasion induced me to give out the
accompanying general order. Two hun
dred, seamen, under Capts. Rowley and
Joyce, were thought sufficient to land for
the present ; and I feel much indebted to
those officers who had made themselves
acquainted with the river, and piloted the
squadron and transports. Lieut. Bartho
lomew, of the Diadem, who was strongly
recommended by Adm. Stirling for his
knowledge of the river, embarked with
me; and I feel it my duty to state to their
Lordships, that he was of infinite service ;
as weie Lieut. Talbot, of the Encounter,
Lieut. Acott, of the Rolla, and Lieut.
Herrick, of the Raisonable, who under
took the pilotage. On the evening of the
28th, the Paz and Staunch joined. The
Staunch had taken a sloop, and destroyed
two others of a convoy going to the South
shore for troops. I have directed Captain
Thompson, in the Fly, towards Buenos
Ayres, with the Staunch, Paz, and Do
lores, to endeavour (o keep up a commu
nication with the army. G. Murray.
ExtraS of a Letter from Rear-adm. Mur
ray, dated Nereide, off Buenos slyres,
July 8.
Sir, On the 30th, the Nereide, small
craft, and transports, weighed, and an
chored again to the Westward of Quelmes.
The next morning I went in shore in the
Flying Fish, to endeavour to communicate
with the army, having directed some trans
ports with provisions to go close in, in
cafe the army should want supplies. Capt.
Corbet, in his boat, discovered some of
our troops, and sent Lieut. Blight, of the
Nereide, on shore : he with difficulty got
to them, being obliged to pass through a
deep bog. On the 2d Lieut. Blight re
turned, and informed me he had seen
Gon. Whitelocke the evening before ; that
the army had fullered most severely on
their march, having very deep marshes
to pass ; and, having been obliged to leave,
their provisions behind them, were much
in want of bread and spirits ; which weii
immediately landed from the Encounter
and transports. As I understood that
Gen. Govver had advanced towards Buenos
Ayres, I directed Capt. Thompson, in the
Fly, with the gun-brigs, to get as near in
as he could. The fame day I received a
letter from Col. Bourke, Quarter-Master-
General, to fay he was directed by Gen.
Whitelocke to inform me that he had
marched on, and meant to go to the
Westward of Buenos Ayres, requesting [
would fend the ships, having heavy artil
lery, there, and likewise provisions. I
immediately sent the gun-boats to join
the Fly and gun-brigs, and directed Capt.
Thompson to get as close in to the West-
waul as he could. The transports, with
the guns, and those with provisions, as
well as an Hospital ship, 1 likewise sent
there ; and am happy to say they were all
in shore on the 4th, ready to meet the
army. On the ith a firing was observed
in the town. I desired Capt. Thompson
to make use of the gun-brigs and boats,
when he could, without annoying our
own people, win appeared ro be both to
the Eastward and Westward of the town.
A communication was opened with the
army in the morning. They had stormed
and taken possession of four guns, near the
citadel Btead, spirits, and ammunition,
were supplied from the ships. On the
6th, I' directed the Encounter to endea
vour to communicate with the army on
the East fide of the town, and supply
them with what they might require. An
hospital-ship was likewise sent that way.
The Nereide was moored up as high as
she could go, being in less than three fa*
them*,
 8yo Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. [Sept.
thorns, but still nine miles from the town. country did not wish to be under the
At one p. m. 1 received a letter from Capt. British Government, I signed the prelimi
Thompson, saying our affairs at the Weft naries, trusting that what I have done will
end of the town were in a most distressing meet their Lordships' approbation. 1 have
state, Brig.-gen. Craufurd and the whole directed Capt. Prevost, of the Saracen, to
of his brigade taken prisoners, and that a be ready te proceed to England as soon ai
truce had been demanded and granted j at Gen. Whitclocke's dispatches are ready,
the fame time requesting more transports and to receive Sir S. Achmuty for a pas
might be moved up, in cafe it ssiould be sage, with Col. Bourke, who carries the
necessary to re-embark the troops. I im General's dispatches. Lieut. Squarey, of
mediately went up to the Staunch gun- the Polyphemus, who was with his men
brig, which was about a mile from the in the advance brigade, 1 took offyester
store, and abreast of the post occupied by day, wounded, but not badly.
Sir S. Achmuty, and ordered the Medusa, George Murray.
Thistie, aud Saracen, which were left off NrrinJe, afl'BarTognn, June an.
farragon, to come up as high as they GENERAL ORDER.
coulti with safety. Capt. Thompson, who The Commander in Chief is happy in
was with the General,' came off to me im the opportunity afforded him of expressing
mediately, but was obliged to have a guard his thanks to the Officers and seamen
to protect him to the beach, although under his command, as we)l as to the
close to the gun-brig ; but it was dark. masters and seamen of the transports, for
At eight p. m. 1 received a note from Gen. their great exertions in landing the army
Whitelocke, informing me he had arrived under the command of his Excellency
there to fee what more could be done by Lieut.-gen. Whitelocke, on the shore of
the gallantry and exertion of the army Barragon yesterday. He highly approves
under his command, whole sufferings in of the very judicious manner in which
every way had seldom, under any circum • Capts. Prevost, Thompson, and Palmer
stances, been exceeded. Of one thing he placed their respective ships, as well u
was certain, that South America could the gun-brigs and other armed vessels
never be English. The inveteracy of under their orders, for covering the land
every class of inhabitants was beyond be ing. Much praise is due to the Lieutenants
lief. He wished to fee me, as he had sent and Commanders of those vessels forget
Gen. Gower to Gen. Liniers, in conse ting so near the ssiore. He feels himself
quence of a letter he had received from particularly obliged to Capts. Bayntun
the latter. I cannot help taking this op and Coibet, who had oiders to superin
portunity of saying how very active Capt. tend the landing, for their zeal and acti
Thompson, of /the Fly, has been, who vity in getting the troops on shore, and for
placed the guv-boats, which were com the regularity with which it was conduc
manded by Lieut. Fraser, of the Medusa, ted. He is likew ise thankful to Captain
and Lieut. Heron, of the Saracen. Early Irwin, Agent of Transports, and the
in the morning of the *th, the Staunch Lieutenants under his direction, for the
telegraphed to say 1 was wanted on shore assistance they afforded on this occasion.
immediately : a flag of truce was still fly And although no opposition was made to
ing at our head-quarters. On my going the landing, he is convinced that it would
on shore, the General (hewed me the pro have been conducted in the fame regular
posals made by the Spanish General Li manner, had the Enemy been there to
niers ; and observed, that he was of opi- . oppose them. The Commander in Chief
nion, as well as were the other Generals, has likewise great pleasure in assuring the
that it could answer no good purpose to Officers and seamen, that his Excellency
persist, and that one great object was at Licut.-gen. Whitelocke expressed to him,
tained, that of getting all the prisoners in the highest terms, his satisfaction on.
back that had been taken in South Ame this occasion. , George Murray.
rica this war ; that the destroying the Nercide, off Buenos Ayres, July 10.
town could not benefit us; and that he Sir, I have seen Capts. Rowley and
saw no prospect whatever of establish Joyce, who were landed with the seamen,
ing ourselves in this country, as there and am happy'to find two only are missing.
was not a friend to the Englissi in it ; The persevering conduct of Capts. Row
that the number of our prisoners the ley and Joyce, and the Officers and sea
enemy had were in the power of an men under their command, merits the
enraged mob ; and that persisting on highest encomiums. They had to drag
cur part would make their situation the cannon for miles through the swamps,
truly distressing ; the number of our and the men were almost always harneiled
killed and wounded, although not ex to them. The General has, no doubt,
actly 'ascertained^ was said to be veiy expressed in his dispatches his thanks to
great. Under these circumstances, and them. Capt. Prevost, who will have the
feeing pcrfoadeC that the people of this honou of carrying the dispatches, will
give
1807.] Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. 87 I
give their Lordships any farther informa and Lieut.-col. Murray, to prepare ancl
tion (I left the Saracen with feme gurf- sign articles of capitulation ; and those
boats at Barragon after landing, lest it officers having insisted on proceeding im
fnight have been necessary, from bad mediately to business, the Capitulation
roads, for the army to fall back) ; I beg was drawn up in the night between <he
leave to recommend him to their Lord 6th and 7th. The ratification was changed
ships' protection as an active and very in the course of the morning, and at tout
zealous officer. George Murray. in the afternoon of the fame day, Lieut.-
gen. Burrard proceeded to take possession.
London Gaz. Extraordina RY,Scpt.lO. The British Grenadiers present, with de
Doicmng-Jlr. Sept. 16. The following tachments from all the other corps of car
dispatches have been received by Viscount valry and infantry, under command of
Castlereagh, from Adm. Gambier and Col. Cameron (97th), with two brigades
Lord Cathcart, the Commanders of his ofartillery; marched into thecitadel, while
Majesty's Naval and Military Forces in Major-gen. Spencer, having embarked his
the Baltic Sea. [An introductory Letter brigade at the Kalk Brandiere, landed in
from Adm. Gambier, dated on board the the dock yard, and took possession of each
Prince of Wales, Sept. 7, and mention of the line of battle ships, and of all the
ing the attainment of the object of the arsenal ; the Danish Guards withdrawing
Expedition, is succeeded by the following when thole of his Majesty were ready to
detuils from Lord patchcart.] replace them, and proper officers attend
Citadel of Copenhagen, Sept. 8. ing to deliver stores as far as inventories,
My Lord, It has fallen to my lot to could be made up.—The town being in a
have the great satisfaction of forwarding state of the greatest ferment and disorder,
to your Lordship the ratified Capitulation I most willingly acceded to the request
of the town and citadel of Copenhagen, that our troops should not be quartered in
including the surrender of the Danish it, and that neither officers or soldiers
fleet and arsenal in this port, which are should enter it for some days ; and having
placed at his Majesty's disposal. The ob the command of possession from the cita
ject of securing this fleet having been at del whenever it might be necessary to use
tained, every other provision of a tendency it, I had no objection to leaving the other
to wound the feelings, or irritate the na gates in the hands of the troops of his
tion, has been avoided ; and although the Danish Majesty, together with the police
bombardment and cannonade have made of the place. We have consented to the
considerable havock and destruction in the re-establisliment of the Post ; but all ar
town, not one shot was fired into it till rivals and departures are to be at and from
after it was summoned, with the offer of the citadel. This work is in good condi
the most advantageous terms, nor a single tion, very strong, and well stored with
shot after the first indication of a disposi ordnance and ammunition. The amount
tion to capitulate ; on the contrary, the of the garrison of the town is not easily
firing, which lasted three nights from his ascertained. The regular troops weri not
Majesty's batteries, was considerably numerous ; but the number of the batte
abated on the 2d, and was only renewed ries which fired at the fame time, toge
on the 3d to its lull vigour, on supposing, ther with the floating defences, prove that
from the quantity of shells thrown from there must have been a very great number
the place that there was a determination of militia and burghexs, with other irre
to hold out.—On the evening of the 5th gular forces ; and their ordnance was welt
September, a letter was sent by the Danish served. [In the high eulogium which
General to propose an armistice of 24 his Lordship pastes on his officers, he
hours, for preparing an agreement, on particularly mentions all the Generals,
which articles of capitulation might be the Staff, Col. Darcy, chief engineer,
founded. The armistice was declined, as and Lieut.-col. Smith, of the 82<i. His'
tending to unnecessary delay, and the Lordship then says] —" By the naval
Works were continued ; but the firing was blockade, the force opposed to us has
countermanded, and Lieut.-col. Murray been limited to the resources of this and
was sent to explain that no proposal of the .adjacent islands, separated only by
Capitulation could be listened to, unless narrow ferries ; and almost every wish of
accompanied by the surrender of the fleet. assistance has been anticipated, and every
This btisis having been admitted by a sub requisition of boats, guns, and stores, has
sequent letter, on" the 6th, Major-gen, been most amply and effectually provided
Sir A. Wellesley, whom I had sent for, for with the greatest dispatch, and the
for this purpose, from his command in most perfect cordiality ; and every possible
the country, where he had distinguished attention has been paid, and every accom
himself in a manner so honourable to modation given, by every officer in that
himself, and so advantageous to the pub service, from Adm. Gambier downwards,
lic, w!s appointed, with Six U. P^pharri A battation of seamen and marines, with
three
8-}2 Interesting Inlell'igente from the London Gazettes. [Sept
three divisions of carpenters, were landed VII. No person whatsoever shall be mo
on the 5th, under Capt. Watson, of ln« lested ; and alt property, public or pri
Majesty's ship Inflexible; and had the ef vate, with the exception of the ships and
fort been made, which would hive been vestels of war, and the naval stores before-
resorted to in a sew days, if the place had mentioned, belonging to his Danish Ma
not capitulated, their services in the pas jesty, shall be respected, and all Civil and
sage of the ditch would have been distin Military Officers in the service of his
guished. I send this dispatch by Lieut. Danish Majesty, shall continue in the
Cathcart, who has become tor some time full exercise of their authority through
my fust aid-de-camp, who has seen every out the island of Zealand ; and every
thins that has occurred here and st Stral- thing shall be done which can tend to
l'und, and will be able to give any farther produce union and harmony between the
details that may be requited. two nations.—VIll. All prisoners taken
Cathcart." on both sides sliall be unsonditionally
Killed: 4 officers, 1 serjeant, I drum- restored, and those officers who are pri
mar, 3f> rank and file, and 8 horses — soners on parole sliall be released from its
Wounded : 6 officers, 1 serjeant, 1.38 effect.—IX. Any English .property that
rank and file, and 25 horses.—Missing: may have been sequestrated, in conse
1 serjeant, 4 drunimeis, and 1Q rank quence os the existing hostilities, shall be
and file. restored to the owners.—This Capitulation
Officers killed: Lieut. Lyons, of the sliall be ratified by the respective Com-
Royal Artillery ; Ensign Robert Dixon, mandeis in Chief, and the ratifications
of the 82d Foot ; Lieut. Rudoff, «f the sliall be exchanged before twelve o'clock
1st Regiment Light Dragoons, King's at noon this day.—Done at Copenhagen,
German Legion ; Ensign Jennings, of the Sept. 7, 1S07.
S3d Foot, or Royal Welsh Fuzileers. Arthur Welleslev.—Home Potham.
Officers wounded : Capt. Hastings, of —George Murray.
the 8-Jd Foot ; Lieut, Sutcr, of ditto ; (Ratine par moi.) Peymaun.
Capt. During, 1st Batt. King's German [The Letter of Adm. Gambler, trans*
Legion ; Lieut.-gen. Sir D. Baird, in the mitted by Capt. Collier, briefly describes
shoulder and hand, slightly; Ens. Bilson. the bombardment of the City, and its ef>
Articles or Capitulation. setts, as alteady detailed in the Dispatch
I. When the Capitulation snail have of Lord Cathcart ; alter which the Ad
been signed and ratified, the troops of his miral proceeds as follows :]
Britannic Majesty are to be put in posses I ain happy on this occasion to express
sion of the Citadel.—II. A guard of his the warm fense I entertain of the cordial
Britannic Majesty's troops shall likewise co-operation of th« army, by whose ex
be placed in the dock-yards.—III. The ertions, with the favourable concurrence
ships and vessels of war of every descrip of circumstances, under Divine Provi
tion, with all the naval stores belonging dence, ever since we left England, our
to his Danish Majesty, shall be delivered ultimate success has been more immedi
into the charge of such persons as shall be ately obtained. I must also convey to
appointed by the Commanders in Chief of their Lorditiips, in terms of the highest
his Britannic Majesty's forces; aud they approbation and praise, the conspicuous*
are to be put in immediate possession of zeal and earnest endeavours of every of
the dock-yards, and all the buildings and ficer and man under my command for the
store-houses belonging thereto.—IV. The accomplishment of this service ; and al
store-stiips and transports in the service of though the operations of the fleet have
his Btitannic Majesty are to bs allowed, if not been of a nature to afford me a general
necessary, to come into the harbour, for and brilliant occasion for adding fresh tes
the purpose of embarking such stores and timony to the numerous records of the'
troops as they have brought into this bravery of British seamen and marines,
island.—V. As scstn as the ships shall yet the gallantry and energy displayed by
have been removed from the dock-yard, the advanced squadron of sloops, bombs,
or within fix weeks from the date of this gun-brigs, &c. which were employed,
Capitulation, or sooner if poiiible, the. under, the command of Capt. Puget, to
troops of his Britannic Majesty shall de cover the operation of the left wing of
liver up the Citadel to the troops of his the army from the Danish flotilla, ought
Danish Majesty, in the state in which it not to be pasted over in silence. I have
stiall be found when they occupy it. His beheld with admiration the steady course
Britannic Majesty's troops shall likewise, and arduous exertion with which, on one
within the before-mentioned time, or occasion in particular, they sustained for
sooner if possible, be embarked from the more than sour hours a heavy and inces
island of Zealand.—VI. From the date of sant cannonade with the Danish batteries,
this Capitulation, hostilities shall cease block ships, praams, and gun-boats, in a
throughout the island of Zealand.-— sinutiqn where, from the shoalnrsscf the
tvattr,
 1 807.] Interesting Intelligencefrom the Lojidori Gazettes. 873
water, it was impossible to bring any of which is continued from the. 21st ult. to
tho large ships to their support. I feel it the evening of the 1st inst. From the
Biy riuiy to make a particular acknow 18th of August, the day on which the
ledgment ot' the aid 1 have derived from besieging army broke ground, the ope-
Sir H. Popham, Capiain of tthe Fleet, raiions were continued with uninterrupted
whose prompt resources, and complete activity, notwithstanding frequent efforts
knowledge of his profession, especially of on the part of the enemy, to the 24th.
that branch which is connected with the On that day, in consequence of the ge*-
operations of an army, qualify him, in a neral success of the opeiations, the works
particular manner, for the arduous and which had been previously constructed
various duties with which he has been were abandoned, and a position taken,
charged. I beg leave to refer their Lord •neater to the town. It is only from this
ships to Captain Collier, whom. I .have period that the siege can be said to have
charged with this dispatch, for any far je^lly commenped ; and within seven days
ther particulars they may desire to know. after, all the preparations for the attack
I am, he. J. Gambier. .were completed ; and on the afternoon 'of
Killed and Wounded on-baard the Advanced the 1st the place was summoned, and the
, Squadron, on Aug. 23. offers renewed, which, at different times,
Cruizer, Lieut. Woodford killed.— had been previously, made to the Prince
Fearless, 2 seamen killed ; Lieut, Wil Royal and the Governor of Copenhagen,
liams (slightly), i seaman, and 4 marines, but without effect. In the summons it is
wounded.—Indignant, l seaman killed; 1 stated,, that, if the offers were not aci
seaman wounded.—Urgent, i seaman and cepted, the city, in cafe of success, would
1 marine wounded.—Valiant's Launch, 3 be treated as a conquered place, and - the
seamen wounded.—Africaine's Boat, 1 captured property, both public and pri
seaman wounded.—Total, 4 killed, 13 vate, belong to the captors. It does not
wounded* feern as if there was any intention of car
Killed and Wounded by the explosion os the rying this, menace into effect ; for Copen
Charles armed transport, attached to the hagen,,, it is evident, has -been treated
Advanced Squadron. with a-degfee of foibearance, of which
Valiant, 2 seamen killed ; Lieut. N. there are few instances in modern War-*
Rowe,- Mr. P. Tomlinfon, Master's Mats fare ;. and the third article of the Capitu
(since dead of his wounds), and 12 sea lation, at the fame time that it provides
men, wounded.—Transport, Mr. J. Moy- for the preservation of private property,
ase, Master, and 7 seamen, killed ; 7 sea does not declare the ships of war to be
men wounded. ' J. Gambier. captures,: it only fays, that they sliall be
List os Danish Ships delivered up to his delivered into the charge of such persons
Majesty's *Forces, Sept. 7 • as shall be appointed by the Commanders
Christian VII. 96 guns; Neptune, 84 ; of 'the British forces, leaving it. conse
Waldamaar, 84 ; Princess Sophia Frede- quently to his Majesty's option to restore
rica, 74 ; Justice, 74; Heir Apparent them ; an act of generosity to. be fegulatec!
Frederick, 74 ; Crown Prince Frederick, 'by the future conduct of Denmark. The
74 ; Fuen, 74 ; Oden, 74; Three Crowns, answer to .the summons, which .was in
f4 ; Skiold, .74 ; Crown Princess Maria, the negative, having been received late
74 ; Danemark, 74 ; Norway, 74 ; Prin on the evening of the 1st, the reply could
cess Carolina, 74; Detmaflken, 64 ; Con not be sent till the following day, when
queror, 64; Mars, 64.—Frigates: Pearl, the bombardment both from the land-.
44 ; Housewife, 44 ; Liberty, 44 ; Ir.ii, batteries and bombs commenced, and was
44; Rota, 44; Venus, 44; Nyade, 3d; continued, with mote or less vigour, until
-Triton, 28; Frederigstein, 28 ; Little Belt, the evening of the 5th, when an overture
24; St. Thomas, 2-2; Fylia, 21; Elbe, for capitulating was made by the garrison.
3LO; Eyderen,20; Gluckilad, 20.—Brigs: A negotiation 'commenced^ and was con-r"
Same, 1 8 ; Glommen, 18 ; Ned Elven, eluded on the following night to the eftt&
"18 5 Mercare, 18; Couriel,' 14 ; Flying already stated. On the 27th, a slug "of
Fish-'—Gun-'buats : Eleven With two guns truce w^s sent out with a proposal sot an.
in the bow ; 14 with one gun in the bow, armistice of 36 hours, for the purpose of
and sne in the stern. ■ J. Gambier. removing the sick from an hospital, situ
ate outside the town ; but the period being
SUPPLEMENTARY" GAZETTE. deemed too long, it was rejected, arid a I of-
[The contents of the Dispatches relative pension of hostilities for four hours pio-
to the operations of the army unconnected poscd in plac; of it. This delay, not
with the siege, were detailed in a Supple being sufficient for the purposes of Gen.
mentary Gazette, published on the 17th. Peymaun, and for which it is probable
Jn this Gazette, the . progress of the siege the reason stated was only a cover, was
is detailed in the Journal of the Army, rejected by him, in his turn. Consider*
Cinr. Mao. September, ibto/.
11
 874 Interesting Intelligence sro>'s the London Gazettes. [Sept.
able advantages were inthemean time ob fengen's corps upon our right flank, and
tained by Sir A. Wellefley, over a Danish the whole joined in pursuit of the ene
force of regulars and infantry. They are my. Major-gen. Ozhoken, the second
detailed in the following letter from Sir in command, who had joined the army
Arthur Wellefley to Lord Cathcart :] witli lour battalions last night from the
Kioge, Jug. 20. Southern Island, attempted to stand in
My Lord, According to the intention the village of Herfolge, but he was at
"which I announced to your Lordship on tacked briskly by the hussars, with de
the evening of the 27 th, I moved to Roes- tachments of which were Capt. Blaquiere
Icild Kroe, and placed Colonel Reden at and Capt. Cotton, of the Staff, and by a
Vallenfbrek ; and Gen. Linfengen marched small detachment of the 1st of the gMh )
yesterday morning to Rofkild ; by these and he was compelled to surrender with
different movements his force became the Count iWedel Jartburg, several other offi
ri&ht instead of the left. Having had rea cers, and 400 men. The lots of the ene
son to believe that the enemy still remained my has been very great ; many have fallen,
at Kioge, I determined to attack him this atrd there are nearly 00 officers, and 1 100
day. I fettled with Gen. Linfengen, that men prisoners, in their flight they hav«
he should cross the Kioge rivulet at Lille thrown away their arms and cloathing,
Sellyas, and turn the enemy's left flank, and many stands of the former have fallen
while I should move along the sea road to into our hands. I believe that we ha\e
wards Kioge and atta«khim in front. Both taken ten pieces of cannon ; but 1 have
divisions broke up this morning, and not yet received all the reports from the
marched according to the plan concerted. detachments employed in the pursuit of
Upon my approach to Kioge, 1 found the the enemy. 1 have not seen Gen. Linfen
enemy in force on the North-fide of the gen, as he is still out with his hussars, but
town and rivulet, and they commenced 1 understand that the enemy had destroy
a cannonade upon the patroles of hussars ed the bridges at Little Salbye, which was
in my front ; they had three or four re the cause of the delay of his operations
gular battalions formed into one line, with upon their flank. I cannot close this let
cavalry on both flanks, and apparently a ter without expressing to your Lordship
large body beyond the town and rivulet. my sense of the good conduct o.T the troops;
At the time agreed upon with Gen. Lin all conducted themselves with the utmost
fengen, I formed my infantry in one line, steadiness ; but I cannot avoid to mention
with the left to the sea, having the two particularly the 92d regiment, under the
squadrons of hussars upon the right. There command of Lieut.-col, Napier; the 1st
had been some appearance of a movement battalion 0.1th regiment, under the «om-
by the enemy to their left ; and as 1 had mand of Lieut.-col. Beckwtth ; the Bri
not had any communication with Gen. tish Artillery, under the command of Capt.
Linfengen, and was not certain that he Newhouse ; the I lanoverian hussars, under
had passed the rivulet, I therefore thought Col. Reden ; and the Hanove-rian Light
it proper to make the attack in an echellon Artillery, under Capt. Sympter, at corps
of battalions.from the left ; the whole co that had particular opportunities of distin
vered by the 1st battalion of the p5(h re guishing themselves ; I am also much
giment, and by the fire of our artillery. obliged to Gen. Linfengen and to Urig.-
It fell to the lot qf the 92d reg. to lead gcn. Stewart, for the assistance I received
this attack, and they performed their part from them in the formation and execution
in the most exemplary manner, and were of the plan by which the enemy hive been
equally well supported by the 52d and defeated. The officers qf the Staff h<ive
43d. The enemy soon retired to an en also rendered me much assistance) and I
trenchment which they had formed in must particularly mention Capt, Blaquiere
front of a camp on the North side of Kioge, and Capt. Campbell. I have the honour
'and they made a disposition of their ca to he, &c. Arthur Wellesley.
valry upon the sands to charge the Q2d in J.imt.gen. Lord CttthcuTt, K. T. &c.
flank, while they should attack this en V. S. We have taken a large store of
trenchment. This disposition obliged me powder and other military stores in this
to move Col. Reden's hufl'ars from the town, which 1 propose to destroy, if I
rijsht to the left flank, and to throw the ssioukl not be able to prevail upon the
43d into afecond line ; and then the (jii Captain of one of his Majesty's strips to
carried the entrenchment, and forced the take chargeof them.
enemy to retreat into the town in disorder. [The remainder of the Supplementary
They were followed immediately in the Gazette consists of the letter-of Major-gen,
most gallant style by Col. Reden and his .Linfengen, in which he bestows the high
hussars, and by the 1st battalion of the est praise on the different regiments under
G5th regiment and afterwards by the his command, who had to pass through
w hole of the infantry of my corps. Upon a country much intersected with high
croliing the rivulet, we found Gen. Lin banks and ditches, lojoinSirA. Welles-
l 807.3 London Gazettes.—Foreign Intelligence. 875
ley ; they had several skirmishes with the the Constance stoop, dated off La Guardia,
Danes, before the junction, in which the Aug. 18 ; stating, that the boats under
latter were always defeated.—There are the command of Mr. William-Hoveden
also the letters which form the Correspen- Walker, 1st Lieutenant, cut out, in a
dence between Lord Cathcart and Gen. most gallant manner, a Spanish lugger
Peymaun, previous to the Capitulation, privateer, the El Reitrada, of Guardia,
and the substance of which we hue just mounting one 12 and two 4-pounders,
stated.] with 30 men, one of which was killed,
several wounded, and .the rest jumped
AAmireHy-offi.ce, Sept. 19. This Ga overboard. It was accomplished without
zette contains a letter from Capt. Yeo, of any loss on our fide.

ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN OCCURRENCES.

FRANCE. other passages which attract notice by their
On the 24th ult. Buonaparte, being falsehood. It charges England with ha-
seated on his throne, received a Deputa-" ving ". precipitated Prussia into the late
tion from the Legislative Body, and ano- war, contrary to thi judgment of the >
ther from the Tribunate. M. Fontanes, Ministers, and very possibly against the
the President of the former Assembly,' de- wifces of the King ;" whereas it is noto-
livered an Address ; in which Buonaparte rious that Prussia, far from being under
is styled " not so much the Conqueror, as the influence of England at the time, was i
the Pacificator of Europe." It alludes to acting hostilely against her : and, as to :
the interview on the Niemen, between the boast of 14 ships on the stocks at Ainf" ■•
Iwm and the Emperor of Russia ; " when werp, it has been recently ascertained, 1
(it says) two boats received two Empe- that there are only eight in that harbour, :
rors, and with them the future destiny of of which five are building. ■-
the world ; and the two greatest Sovereigns To the Address of the Patriarch of Ve-
on earth met each other upon a raft." . nice, Buonaparte replied in nearly the-
The Address of M. Fabre, President of following wqrds; *' I approve of the fen-'
the Tribunate, was to a similar effect, timents which you express in the. name of
Both these Deputations were graciously my people of Italy. I have experienced a
received by the Emperor. particular joy, in the course of the late.
The Minister of the Interior, M. Cretet, campaign, at the distinguished conduct of.
having cn the same day been introduced my Italian troops. For the first time for
to the Legislative Body, presented a Report many ages, the Italians have appeared,
on the State of the Empire. In it Buo- with honour on the grand theatre of the
naparte assumes a higher tone. He as- world. I hope that so happy a com-
fects nothing less than universal empire, mencement will excite the 'emulation of
" Paris, corresponding with its deftina- the Nation j that even the women will
tion, must become the Metropolis of the dismiss from them those idle young 'men
world." The world is no longer to be di- who languish round their toilettes, or at
vided between the Emperor of the North least that they will not receive them till
and Emperor of the West; As it has but they are covered with honourable scars,
one fun, so must it have but one Empe- For the rest, I hope, before winter, to
ror; and accordingly, assuming that Russia make the tour of my Italian States ; and
and Turkey are now consolidated with, I promise myself a particular pleasure, in
and become integral parts of, France, he being in the midst of the inhabitants of
boasts that ** the arms of France have my good town of Venice."
been carried to the farthest extremities of DENMARK,
•Europe, its influence extended beyond the Danish PtvoclamatioN.
Bosphorus, and into the centre of the Con- "We, Christian the Seventh, by the
tinent of Asia." France being thus de- grace of God, King of Denmark, Nor-
1'cribed as the mistress of the world, of way, &-c. tkc. do hereby make known,
course her external relations vanish from that whereas, by the English Envoy Tack-
the eye, and the Exposition is principally son, it was declared to us, on the 13th of
confined to her internal affairs. He de- this month, that hostilities against Den-
sires " that in future there shall be no mark would be commenced ; and whereas
sects among the learned ; that there shall at the fame time he demanded passports
. no longer be any political parlies in the for himself and his suite ; consequently
State. He wishes that criticism should the war between England and Denmark
maintain respect for decency, in .order to may be considered as actually broken out:
be useful ; and that men, who are called therefore we herewith call on all our
to the sublime office of enlightening and faithful subjects to take up arms, when-
improving the community, should despise ever it shall be required, to frustrate the
idle Jlailerj/." There are also aw; or two insidious designs of the..enemy, and repel
.:. ' " "' hostile
87^ Abjlracl of Ferei'gn Occurrences. [Sept.
hostile attacks. We farther ftetcwith' or wounded, during the late attack on Co
dain, that al! English ships, as Well as all penhagen, exceede ! oooo persons ; and
English property, and all English goods, the prisoners, at the time of the surrender
shall be. seized by the. Magistrates, and of the city, amounted td SOOO. The
others, in particular bv the Officers of houses deltroved in the city by the bom
Customs, wheresoever they may be found. bardment is estimated at 400 ; and the in
It. is farther our will, thar/all English sub habitants killed, at 1500.
jects, until pursuant to our further or SWEDEN-.
ders they can be sent out of the country, The conversation which took place be
shall, without exception, be arrested as tween the King of Sweden and General
enemies of our kingdom and our csnntry ; Brune, is given in p. R58.
which measure is strictly to be carried into Swedish Bulletin,
execution by ail magistrates, as well as by rrjprfting Hie evacuation of Stralsund.
all subordinate officers, duly to be in " slcad-quarters, Pluggentieh, 'Aug. 21.
structed by them for that purpose 5 and it The Senate and Livery of Stiall'und ha
is a matter of course, that all English ving humbly -addressed his Majesty, that
ships and boats which approach our he would be pleased to avert the dangers'
coasts shall be considered and treated as of a bombardment from his faithful Gity,
hostile. It is alto nur-will, that all suspi the King proposed to the French Com
cious foreigners shall be watched with the manding General that Stralsund sfrould
. greatest attention ; and that all nidgis- : be declared a neutral place, and i(s neu
(rates, -and subordinate officers, shall .use trality respected on both fides, as long as
their, .utmost efforts, as soon as possible, the Swedish army should remain in pos
to- discover all spies. Taftty, we find it session of Rugen, and Swedish Pomerania
necessary to ordain, that, immediately be occupied by French troops; but this
after publication hereof, -all correspond proposal was rejected by the enemy.
ence with English subjects shall entirely " In this situation of affairs, and as the
oeafe; aridthat nopayment shall be made longer defence of the fortress of Strals-md
to them, on any ground whatever, until' was Without any ulterior military object, '
our farther order, on pain of severe pu-' since the safety of the realm did not per
nisnment in case of contravention. For mit any rnore troops' to be sent away from
the rest we rely on the justice of our' Sweden, and it was of[ the utmost import
cause, and the course and tried fidelity ance to (belter the principality of Kujren
of our beloved subjects..—Given undei our from any hostile attack, the King ordered
Royal Sear, in our Fortress of Gluckftadt, his Adjutant General Baton Vegesack,
the ifithof August, 1S07. . Commander in Chief at Stralsund, to ^sk*
(L. S.)' C. L. BARON V. Brockdorp. the Senate and I.ivcry of tin' City, whe
(-H. ) J. C. Moritz." ther they were dete; mined to expose them-
The Prince Royal addressed the follow srlves to the dangers of a fie^e, in which
ing Proclamation -to -the inhabitants of Cafe they should have all the assistance
Moen, Falller, and Lahnd : and pn-testion which they had the right
"Countrymen—1 call upon you to take to expect from the gallantry of his JVTaV
Up arms against an enemy who has not jetty's noops; or whether they felt dis
only taken you by surprize, but has ap posed, agr.eeubly to the application which
proached ^our coast under the mask of they had made already, to treat with the
friendship. Rtmember .the ancestors fiord enemy, in order to avert the calamities of
whom you descended, anil tin- they, a siege. The Senate ard Livery humbly
' through their courage and unanimity, returned thanks to his Majesty for his
acquired immortal famei, Your Ki.tg, most gracious declaration, and adopted,
your Country, and your 1 some, let these the laser part ; inconsequence of which
be your watch-worn^' a::d nothing will the tortress of Stralsund was this day en
be impossible to you. Advance, then, tirely committed to their caie.
to arms'. Assemble under the. banners *' Arrangements were' then made to
of a Danish I'mice — drive bask the withdraw ihe tr,;ops from Stralsund, and
enemy, for nothing can withstand you. remove all the magazines, as well a?, mi
only regret, that the cifcuniilances of litary stores, to Rugen, The whole night
the present moment do not permit nie to between the 18th and ipth, and the loth'
fut myself at your head. arid 20th, the whole garrison was under
Fredimw-ck, Crown Prince. arms, in eider that, should the withdraw
Head quarters et Kid, Aug. 20, 1S07-" ing of the troops come to the eneiny's
There are nwmerwus accounts rn the knowledge, he might not be able to make
F'*~ign Paper* of the recent operations at a successful attack or. the fortress. His
C.penhagen; but the official details in Majesty was both nights several hours on
\ ur own GaaeUes (lee tip. 800—874) have horseback. One battalion was Tent off to
'deprived them of all interest. Rugen, on the ifjth, in the evening ; and
"I he loss of tha i)anes, in killed arid the lame day, at ten o'clock at night, a"
1807.']' Mfirin'-es-f ireign Occurrences. 877
beginning Was made with conveying the His success, as he himself states, was the re
rest of the troops to that island, and fhe sult ot a combination oSJorce and treacliery.
whole night devctcd to that purpose: all RUSSIA-
the guns '.vere spiked, and the carriages If was understood at Petersburgb, that
cut to pieces. the Engliih Gotertim''nt had ap^Jied to
'" Ye.ierday, at h<tlf-p-.ist three o'clock the. Emperor Alexander to guarantee to
in the morning, his Majesty left Stralsund Denmark the possession of itp-fleet, anti
for Altefehr, and remained there while that France should not compel the use of
the troops were crossing over to Rugcn, it against us ; and it was not until his Im
that heViight he able to give the neces perial Majesty h»d declined an interference
sary orders. Several battalions hid al which might interrupt the good under*
ready left the shore, and others were fol standing he had established with France,
lowing, when at length, at seven o'clock that our Government adapted the resolu
yesterday morning, his Majesty's aid-de tion to deprive 'the enemy of the means
camp. Major Von Glahn, proceeded ta . with which the Danish marine would fur* -
the advanced post; of the French army, nifh him for our annoyance^*. The hi
by the King's command, and declared, therto unaccountable delay which oc
that, at a certain time to be agreed upon, curred in the early stages of our opera
Adjutant-gcn. Col. Peyron would repair to tions in the Baltic, is now ascribed to the
Gen. Brune, with a view of making him negotiations at St. Petersburgb..
some proposals with regard to the fortress TURKEY.
of Strall'ur.d ; and requested rhat, in the A letter from Constantinople, of the
mean time, all hostilities, should be sus 20th June, says, that the Divan had beert"
pended for 2* hours. Major Glahn saw informed that the British Cabinet had dis
Gen. Reille, who agreed with him that, approved of the conduct of Mr. Arbuth-
at six o'clock in the evening, Gen. Brune not and Admiral Duckworth, and had
ihculd meet Adjutant-gen. Peyron at An- sent off Sir Arthur Pager to make concili
dershoff. At that tune it was perceived atory overtures. His communication was
from Altefehr, that the Deputies of the taken into consideration by a Privy Coun
Senate, who were to treat about the ca cil, in which it was resolved not to re
pitulation, were proceeding to the French ceive the new Ambassador ; who also re- '
advanced' posts ; Adjutant-gcn. Col. Pey ceived notice, that no proposition from his
ron followed, by his Majesty's command; Court would be listened to till the English
in order to declare, that, as the fortress had entirely evacuated Egypt, and with
was now entirely left , to the. care of the drawn their cruizers from that part of the
.Senate, and being without any further in Mediterranean. '
terference on the part ef the military, he ' Tchelebi Pacha has been appointed?
tnerely' appeared on the part of his Royal Grand Vizier. He is held in great esteem
Master to fee that just and reasonable by the Janissaries, over whom he is Com
terms were granted. About half-past six mander in Chief.
o'clock in the morning arrives Adjutant- Constantinople, July 22. Every where
gen. Baron Vegesack, with his staff, when misfortunes seem to attend us. We have
all the troops were embarked. just learned, that the advanced guard of
" The rear was composed of several re Mustapha Baraktar, commanded by Ibra
giments of Chasseurs, under the command him Bey, has been defeated, and our
tif Major Von Ger'thon. At half-past seven troops driven back on the fide of the Da
o'clock the enemy was seen to march in:o nube. The Captain Pacha has also been
the town,' both by the Franken and Knie- defeated, in a sea engagement with the
per gates. Two divisions of gun-boats are Russians. The second attempt against
Rationed withm cannon-shot from the Ten'edos not being successful, the Ad
ttfidge of the harbour, and the Danholm miral made a third. The troops he
is still occupied by Swedish troops. landed were almost instantly compelled to
" A pro >f that the enemy was perfectly retreat, and had scarcely time to get on
ignorant of what was going forward in the board the ■ shipping.. The fleet itself, at
fortress is this, that late yesterday morn- tacked by the Ruffian's, was defeated. Six
jng they were Working at the trenches: Captains and twelve Tfchiaoux are killed ;
all the preceding night, .as well as in the and the famous Barir Pacha is among the
morning, while the troops were embark number of the slain. The Grand Admi
ing, our artillery fired at the enemy's ral himself had a narrow escape: he has
workmen. After supper, his Majeliy returned, with his dismasted three-decker,
proceeded to Pluggentien, au estate be- to the Canal of Constantinople. A Rus
jong'mg to M. Von des Lanken, ^ hither sian squadron iias appeared before Sinope
the head-quarters have been removed.". and Trebifond, in the Black Sea.
Marshal Brune made himself master 'of
Danholm, an iilet between Rugen 'and ' * See his Britannic Majesty's Declara
Stralsurid, on tbe night of the' 24th ult. tion on. this l'utject, in p. 878. :.
The
tjS Foreign News.-—Declaration re/peeling Denmark. [Sept*
The late defeat of the Turkish fleet by three-decker, of 1 10 guns. Four ships of
the Ruffians is thus described in the Vi the line were taken, three burnt, and
enna Court Gazette: " The naval battle two driven' on shore. Scheremet Bey, the
between the two fleets took place on the Turkish Rear-admiral, was immediately-
J ft of July, between Lemnos and Monte beheaded after the action was over, be
Santo. It was very bloody, and lasted cause he had not taken his proper share
eight hours. The Ruffians obtained the in it."
victory: they were 22 fail strong; io of AMERICA.
the line. The Turks had 13 fail, 12 of The writers in the most violent of the
which were of the line. The loss of the democratic,!! Papers at New York still con
Turks was 1200 men. Vice-admiral Barir tinue to make every effort to inflame the
Pacha is not dead, but taken prisoner: minds of the people against the British.
his ship, called the Capitaiia, was alfa They even stimulate their patriots " to fan
taken. The Chief Admiral Seyd Pacha, the Jiame which -burns f/r their Country's
who was wounded, displayed the greatest wrongs, and immolate the hired incendiaries
bravery. At the end of the action he was of liritain (the Newspaper Editors, who
surrounded by five ships, notwithstanding hold out pacific sentiments) to their juji
which he saved his own, which was a fine refcnhncnts!!"

HIS MAJESTY'S DECLARATION RKSVECT1NG DENMARK.

His Majesty owes to himself and to Eu confirmed in the credit which he gave to it,
rope a fiank Exposition of the motives as well by the notorious anil repeated decla
which have dictated his late measures in rations of the enemy, and by his recent
the Baltic. His Majesty has delayed this occupations of the towns and territories of
Exposition only in the hope of that more other neutral States, as by the prepara
amicable arrangement with the Court of tions actually made for collecting a hostile
Denmark, which it was his' Majesty's hist force upon the frontiers of his Danish Ma
wish and endeavour to obtain ; for which jesty's Continental dominions, his Majes
he was ready to make great efforts and ty would yet willingly have forborne to
great sacrifices ; and of which he never act upon this intelligence, until the com
loft sight even in the moment of tile molt, plete and practical disclosure of the plan
decisive hostility. Deeply as the disap .had been made manifest to all the World.
pointment or this hope has been felt by His Majesty did forbear, as long as there
his Majesty, he has the consolation of re- could be a doubt of the urgency of the
necting, that no exertion was left untried danger, or a hope of an effectual counter
©n his part to produce a different result. action to it, in the means or in the difpo-:
And while lie laments the cruel necessity, sitions of Denmark. But his Majesty
which has obliged him to have recourse could not but recollect, that when, at
to acts of hostility against a nation with the close, of the former war, the Court of
which it was his Majesty's most earnest Denmark engaged in a hostile confederacy
delirc to have established the relations of against Great Britain, the apology offered
common interest and alliance ; his Majes by that Court for so unjustifiable an aban
ty feels confident that, in the eyes of Eu donment-os a neutrality whichhis Majesty
rope and of the world, the justification of had never ceased to respect, was founded
his conduct, will be found in the com on its avowed inability to resist the opera-*
manding and indispensable duty, para tion of external influence, and the threats
mount to all others amongst the, obliga of a formidable neighbouring power. I Its
tions of a Sovereign, of providing, while Majesty could not but compare the degree
there was yet rime, for the immediate of influence, which, at that time, deter
security of his Feopie. His Majesty hit mined the decision of the Court of Den-
received the most positive information of nratk, in violation of positive engagements,
r he determination of the present Ruler of solemnly contracted but six months belore;
Fiance to occupy, with a military force, with the increased operation which France
the territory of Uotstetn—»sor the purpose had now rhe means of giving to the fame
of excluding Great Britain fiom all her principle of intimidation, with kingdoms
accustomed channels of communication prostrate at her feet, and with the popu
with the Continent ; of inducing or com lation ot nations under her banners. Not
pelling the Court of Denmark to close the Was the danger less imminent than cer
passage of the Sound against the British tain. Already the army destined for the
commerce aud navigation; and of avail invasion of Holstein was assembling on the
ing himself of the aid of the Danish Ma violated territory of neutral Hamburgh.
rine for the invasion of Great Britain aud And, Tlolstein once occupied, the island
of Ireland. Consilient as his Majesty was of Zealand was at the mercy of France,
of the authenticity of the souices from and the Navy of Denmark at her disposal.
which this intelligence was derived, and It is true a British lorec^m'ght have sound
iti
 1807.] Declaration respefting'D enma.rk.'—Country New*. 87^
its way into the Baltic, and checked for a has inspired into the nations of the world,
time the movements of the Danish Marine. should be counteracted by an exertion of
But the season was approaching when that the power of Great Britain, called for by
precaution would no longer have avail the exigency of the crisis, and propor
ed; and when his Majesty's fleet must tioned to the magnitude of the danger.
have retired from that lea, and permitted Notwithstanding the declaration of war
France, in undisturbed security, to accu on the part of the Danish Government, it
mulate the means of offence against his still remains for Denmark' to determine,
Majesty's dominions. Yet,' even under whether war shall continue between th»
these circumstances, in calling upon Den two nations. His Majesty still proffers an
mark for the satisfaction and security amicable arrangement. He is anxieus to
which his Majesty was compelled to re sheath the sword, which he has been most
quite, and in demanding the qnly pledge reluctantly compelled tp draw. And he
by which that security could be rendered is ready to demonstrate to Denmark, and
effectual—the temporary possession of that to the world, that, having acted solely
fleet, which was the chief inducement to upon the sense of what was due to the se
France for forcing Denmark into hostili curity of his own dominions, he is not de
ties with Great Britain ; his Majesty ac sirous, from any other motive, or for any
companied this demand with the offer of object of advantage or aggrandizement, to
every condition which could tend to re carry measures of hostility beyond the li
concile it to the interests and to the feel mits of the necessity which has produced
ings of the Court of Denmark. It was for thevn.r^liytmwjtei; Sept. 25, 1SQ7.
Denmark herself to state the terms and
stipulations which she might require. If Countby News;
Denmark was apprehensive that the sur July 31: A melancholy accident hap
render of her fleet would he relented by pened at Kingsbndge, Devon. A gentler
France as an act of connivance ) his Ma man having returned frorn shooting, left
jesty had prepared a force of such formi? his loaded gun in the kitchen; an appren
.dable magnitude, as must have made conr tice boy coming in shortly after, incau
cession justifiable even in the estimation of tiously took it up, when the piece going
France, by rendering resistance altogether off, lodged the contents in the head
unavailing. If DenmarK was really pre of a servant g)rl at work ir> the room ; her
pared to resist the demands of France, and skull exhibited a most dreadful appear
to maintain her independence, his Ma ance, both eyes and part of the trains
jesty profi'ered his co-operation for her de being blown out ; notwithstanding which ,
fence — naval, military, and pecuniary she languished, retaining her fenses, for
aid ; the guarantee of her European ter many hours.
ritories, and the security and extension of Aug. 1 . This day an instance of savage
her colonial possessions. That the (word ferocity ocurred at Mill Prisrtn, Plymouth:
has been drawn in the execution of a ser As one of the Spaniards was going into the
vice [indispensable to the safety of his Ma cook-room, the man ac the door seemed to
jesty's dominions, is matter of sincere and oppose his entrance, on which, while his
painful regret to his Majesty. That the back was turned, he drew a knife, and
state and circumstances of the world are stabbed the other in the back fy violently
U'uch as to have required and justified the that he fell down dead. The Coroner's
measures of self-preservation, to which his inquest found a verdict of IHIJiU Murder.
Majesty has found himself under the ne The murderer has been since hanged.
cessity of resorting, is a truth which his Aug. ■*. About ten this night, the
Majesty deeply deplores, but for which powder-mills at Battle in Sussex, belong
he is in no degree responsible. His Ma ing to Mr. Harvey, blew up with three
jesty has long carried on a most unequal distinct explosions, which were heard
contest of scrupulous forbearance against rrtany miles off. No person Whatever
■nrelenting violence and oppression : but was hurt.
that forbearance has its bounds. When Aug. li>. This night, the old steejile
the design was openly avowed, and al of VuviJ'ermline fell* down, and buried in
ready but too far advanced towards its ac the ruins a stable and a barn. Three
complishment, of lubjecting the Powers horses were killed, and three escaped.
of Europe to one universal usurpation, and The steeple was about 80 fjet high ; and
pf combining them, by terror or by force, was part of the Abbey founded by Mal
in a confederacy against the maritime colm Canmore.
rights and political exitlence of this king Aug. 23. A son of Mr. Moore, joiner,
dom, it became necessary for his Majesty at Hurncajile, who was bathing in th«
,to anticipate the success of a system, not Bain, which runs into the town, suddenly
more fatal to his interests than to those of sunk j a young man standing on the b.uik
■ the Powers who were destined to be the plunged in to extricate him. Me had
instruments s>f its execution. It was time no sooner reached the spot, than he also
tLat the eiltiis of that dread which France disappeared. A young, man named J> ice
itiicw
J8o Intelligence frm various Parts of the Country. [Sepf.
torew himself into the river, and succes- Stpt.H. This day, at Kendcd, three an<t
lively brought up the two drowning men ; a half inches of rain fell in 16 hours. The
first, the person who had nearly perished river Kent was swoln to a great height,
in an humane attempt to assist a fellow- and a treat deal of corn carried away,
creature; and, seeondlyyMr. Moore's son, David Braithwaite, a young man, of Bar-
who had become black in the face, but ley Bridge, was drowned at Stavely.
speedily recovered. • KtIJh, Sept. 5. The storm, accompa-
Aug. 81- The Sale at Pmtkill er.dcrt nied with torrents of rain, increased in
this day. It was well attended during ilse violence during the night. The rivers
whole seven days ; and almost entry article Tweed and Teviot were, on the morning
of useful furniture brought iis full value, of the tith, prodigiously swoln ; sweeping1
Those of an ornamental description were off, in their career, great quantities of
subject to fluctuation j some, perhaps,' reaped corn. The uncut grain has also
were knocked down at half the price an been much injured. Several chitnnies
experienced connoisseur might value them were blown down ; and houses otherwise
at, whilst others more than double their damaged.
estimated worth. On the, whol*, Mr. Dunlar, Sept. -6. ' A severe storm of
Phillipps had certainly no reason 10 com- wind and rain from the N. E. continued
plain that his oratory was ineffectual, as all last night and to-day. Several vessel*
we understand the total' produce of the came on Oiora. One seaman was lost.
3alc very far exceeded the appraisement. Sept. 6. The Mary, Captain Burrish
The statuary marble chimney piece in the Lyons, on her voyage from the Baltic to
great drawing-room was fold on the third Letth, was lost in the storm this day. A
day for 130 gs. ; the organ in the entrance- piece of the wreck came ashore at Cvl-
hall, I50gs. ; a French plate chimney- \en, and a trunk containing the papers
tlass in the grand saloon, on the fourth belonging to Capt. Lyons,
ay, for 405 gs. ; a ditto pier-glass for Glasgow, Sept. 7. In consequence of
420 gs. ; the chimney-piece in Ihe draw- inceflant rain from 9 on the night of the
ing-room, of statuary Sienna, for 230gs. Mh till 8 last night, the river Clyde rose to
Mr. Abbott was the principal purchaser a greater height than it has for these 13
of these. ThtMl'aintings were fold on the years. The bridges being inaccessible,
tith day. An unique coloured set of the carts regularly plied at the foot of Jfc-
Loggie of the Vatican fold (to Mr. Paul) maica- street and Stockwelt. Two arches
sot" 630 gs. ; Turner's fifth Plague of of the new bridge over the Clyde, near
Egvpt fold for 1 55 gs. ; Romney's Gypsey, Hamilton, sell yesterday. The damage
from Shakspeare's Midsummer Kijjht's done to the harvest orafl have been
Dream, for '200 gs. ; De Cort's View of ■treat, as large quantities, of com and
Salisbury Ca'.fvedial, for 80 gs. ; ditto of hay, and some cattle, have floated past:
Exeter cathedral, for «ogs. : the last four, this city. Two young men, attempting
were knocked down to Mr. Jeffrey. Can- to secure some of the grain, unfortunately
nalettl's View of Vinice, from the Calonne lost their lives.
collection, was fold for 1 jogs. Jo Mr. Accounts from Dumfries, tVejJbarns,
Soane ; L. Da Vinci's Infant Saviour, for Berviric, Ifhitehavenv, Newcastle, Uc. men-
200 gs. to Dr. Elwin ; Camcci's Nativity tioh similar inundations.—At Carlisle, 4
was knocked down for 350 gs. ; Pouslin's Very heavy rain fell, accompanied with, a
Woman taken in Adultery, for 730 gs. to storm of wind. The rivets Eden, Caldew,
Mr. Jefiery ; the Magdalen, for 2 logs, and Pcterill, were much swoln, and over-
alfo to Mr. J. Vernet's. Calm and Storm flowed ihe banks, forming a large expanse
were supposed to be bougtrt in, the former of water, beautifully spotted with small
at 250, the latter at 3iogs. Raphael's islands. A great deal of corn has been
Charity and Nymph were fold to Mr. carried away; some -hundreds of sheaves
Walsh Porter for 105 gs. The statue of being seen floating down the river at a
Bacchus, brought from Rome by the time.—Considerable-damage has also been
Hon. C. Hamilton, was fold to Mr. Ab- done in Northumberland. The Tijne was
bott for 2logs. The China was fold on unusually high, and great numbers of
the last day. As a specimen of its beauty sheaves were coming down,
and prices, part of a dinner service of the Sept. 18. At 8 this morning, the
Royal Seve manufactory fold for 1'iOgs. coming-house of the powder-mills at
The splendid mansion itself, the building Favcrjham blew up ; fix men and three
<jf which cost I50,0oo(. is shortly to be horses were kt work, who ail perished in
pulled to pieces. It is supposed not likely a miserable manner. Three of the men
to produce more than 20,oooi. were literally blown to pieces. Their
Aug. 31. The thunder and lightning at friends gathered together the scattered
Uttoxeler this evening were tremendously members. The men have all left wives
awful. The rain' came down in torrents ; and children. The quantity of powder
and the electric fluid fell upon a house in in the mill was considerable; and the ex-
Jfligh-stiaet, A cow was killed. plofion dreadful.-
6 Domestic
^807.] DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. 881
Domestic Occurrences. in the premises of Mr. Hand, an eminent
Monday, Aug. 3. glass-painter, in Upper Belgrave-place,
This day the water was let into the Pimlico. The fire was got under beforj;
Orand Surrey Canal, tand, owing to the the premises wer? entirely destroyed ; but;
rapid flowing of the tide a fine youth, the painted windows executing for WooU
aged 12, who was bathing near the Black wich chapel, and many other works ot
Horse, Beptford Road, was drowned. art, with all Mr. Hand's designs, were en
Saturday, August 8. tirely consumed,.
A few days ago a gentleman who was Saturday, Sept. iff.
plssengar in the Thames smack from About 3 this morning, the. neighbour-1,
Leith to London, cut his throat and threw, hood of Holloway was alarmed by a rapid
himself out of the cabin window. A boat conflagration at the Rev. Mr. Cobbin's.
was immediately sent to take the body chapel ; the place was soon gutted, and.
tip, but it was lifeless. A dog which the roof.fell-in before any assistance could;
drank some of the blood was in two days be procured from the town-engines. Strong
after seized with the hydrophobia and suspicions being suggested by the inhabi-.
thrown overboard. The gentleman was a tants that it was set on fire, a reward of
Londoner, and had been in a very melan I'ooi, has been offered on conviction.
choly state. ,. Tuesday,.Sept. 29. "
Tuesday, Aus.li,. , At a Common Half this d,ay, Johiv
This evening, two thoughtless volun Anfley, esq. was very unanimously elected
teers, returning from drill, lired off their Lord Mayor for the ensuing year.
muskets in Castle-street ; the horses in a ffedncsclay, Sept* 3,0.
coal-waggon, taking fright, rah furiously The project ot establishing a pew Dock-,
against the window of Mr. Palnier, in that yard and depot for the Royal Navy, on th«j
street, which they almost demolished ; Banks of the Thames, which has been,
and ,two ladies in the shop were severely . lprtg in contemplation, is now about to be.
Cut and bruised. realized. Government, it is said, ate at
Friday, Aug. 28. present negotiating with Mr. Wadhara,'
This day a fire broke out in a nevy-built for the purchase of his estate at Northrteet,
house belonging' to Messrs. Scott and Jor as that spot is found to afford the roost, fa- ,
dan, builders and carpenters, in Kenton- vourable facilities for the. excavatien of,
street, Great Coram-ftreet, Russell-square. docks, and the most commanding grounds
The inside of these premises, and the ad for erecting batteries for their protc6lion
joining new house, belonging to a, Mr. while the depth of water in the river at
Knight, were entirely consumed. that place wijl prevent the inconveniencies
^ Saturday, Aug. 1§\ _ • that are experienced on account of the
This night an alarming sue broke out want of it at Woolwich and Deptford.
PRICKS OF FLOUR, September 21:
Fine SBs. to 60s,—-Seconds 50s. to 55s,—Pollard 33s. to 38s.
, Return of Fiouh, September 5 to September 11, from the Cocket-Office:
Total 19,515 Sacks. Average 59s. 4d.J—os. id. per, Sack lower than the last Return.
Return of WHEAT, September 7 to September 12, agreeably to the new Act:
Total 5211 Quarters. Average 61s. od.4—is. sd.f lower than the last Return.
OATMEAL, per B,oll of nolbs. Avoirdupois,. September 19, -tO;. 2d. . , , ,
Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending
September 23, is 34s. o|d. per Cwt. exclusive of the Duty, of Customs, paid
or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.
PRICE OF HOPS, September 21:
Keut Bags,.... *). tos. to 61. 4s. Kent Pockets ... -. st, »9s,.to 7l Os.
Sussex Ditto.. .41, 10s. to si. 12s. Sussex Ditto r.l. 10s. to 61. 6s;
Esiex Ditto 4l. ios. to si. 12s. Famtiam Ditto ."L os. to lol. OS.
PRICE OF HAT AND STRAW, September 21 : . . . , ,
St. James's—Hay,.,. .41, os. od. to bl. 6s. od. Average si. 3s. od.
Clover.. si. os. od. to bl. Os. • od,- Average si. 10s, odk.
Wlvttechapel—Hay....4l. Os. Od. to 61.' Os. Od. Average si. 05, od.
Clover,. 5l, Os. Odt to 61. 18s., od. Average si. 19s. od.
Straw... al.. 12s. od. to 3l. 6s; o.d. Average al. 19*. od,
, . . SMITHFItXD, September 21. T< ik the Offal—per Stone of »lb.
Beef .....i.3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. \ Pork 4s. 8d. to. ss. sd.
Mutton. . { . .. . . . . .. .3s. sd. to 4s. lod. Lamb 3s. 44, to 4s. bi.
Veal .4s. Od. to ss. od.
, COALS, &ept. 18: Newcastle 50s. (id. to 56s. 3d. Sunderland 47s. to 50s.
SOAP, Yellow s^os. Mottled 90s. Curd 94s. CANDLES, ios. perDoz. Moulds ll«.
TALIJpW, per stone, sjU St. James's 3s,10d. Clare Matket 3S.1 id. Whitechapcl Ss.l.edv
GfcKT. M.ms, Sipicmtfi; 1807. .
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE CARDINAL OF VORK/
The following account of a Character nounce' his comforts and property, if he.
whole Family once made a conspicuous would save his life. He arrived at Venice
figure in this country* may be consulered in the Winter of 17!)S, infirm as well as
interesting: Henry , Benedict Maria destitute. Cardinal Borgia, who had been
Clemens, second son of James Smart, acquainted with Sir John Hippifley Coxe
known by the name of "The Pretender," in Italy, represented to him, by letter, the
and of Maria Clementina Sobiciki, was Cardinal's cafe. Sir John conveyed this
born at Rome, the stith of March, 17'ii, letter 10 a Mr. Stuart, who drew up a
where he almost constantly resided. As Memorial* which Mr. Dundas (now Lord
a Pretender to the Throne of Britain, he Melville) presented to his Majesty ; and
was never very forward in urging the pie- no sooner was our beloved Monarch in
tension ; and his general character was formed us his distressful situation than his
that of an inoffensive and respectable in Majesty condescended to order his Minis
dividual. The, Regent Duke of Orleans ter to the Republick to offer the Cardinal,
had (by a threat to withdraw the pension with all possible delicacy, a pension of
paid by France), to please the Cabinet 4oool. for his life. This amiable trait
of St. James's, obliged the Cardinal's in the character of George III. (for the
father to reside in that city. Toward particulars of which fee our vol. LXXlV,
the close of the year 1745, he went to pp. 31, 106) does equal honour to the king
France, to put himself at the head of and to the man. The Cardinalof York
1»,000 men, assembled in and about Dun had some claim on the generosity, per
kirk, under the command of the Duke of haps on the justice, of this Country. Art
Richelieu, by order of Louis XV. With Act of Parliament, still unrepealed, had
this army Henry was to have landed in settled on James the Second's Queen,
England, in support of his brother Charles: Mary of Efte, the Cardinal's grandmo
but though preparations were made for em ther, a jointure of 50,0002. While the
barking these troops, though one part did Treaty of Ryswick was depending, it was
actually embark, not a single transport strongly contended, on the part of the
left Dunkirk Road; and Henry, receiving French negotiators, in the name of that
intelligence of the issue of the battle of Princess, that her bulband having beeni
Culloden, returned to Rome, where, much deprived, by an Act of the British Legis
to the displeasure of his brother and the lature, of all his right as King, and being
friends of his family, he took orders ; and consequently, as King, dead in law, she
in 1747 was made Cardinal by Pope Be was as much entitled to her dowry, from
nedict XIV. and afterwards Bishop of the day that event took place, as if her
J'rascati, and Chancellor of the Church of husband had been naturally dead. The
St. Peter. F/om that time the Cardinal of English negotiators considered the poinjt
York, the name he assumed on his pro- as too delicate for their interference, and
irmiion, dev:ited himself to the functions desired it might be referred to King Wil
of his Ministry, and seemed to have laid liam personally. The proposal was as
aside all worldly views, till his father's sented to ; and Marshal Boufflers had aat
death in 178S ; when he had medals interview with William on the subject.
struck, bearing on their face his head, William did not deny the justice of the
with " Henriccs nonus Angiijt. Rtx;" claim ; and on Boufflers expressing a wish
on the reverie, a City, with "Gratia that the concession of the jointure might
Oki, skd non Voluntate IIomisv.m." be confirmed by at least a secret article of
If we are not misinformed, our Sovereign the Treaty, William said, " What! Mar
has one of these mentals. The Cardinal shal, will not my word satisfy you ?*"
had two rich livings in France, the abbeys Boufflers bowed, and parted, in the full
of- Anchiit and St. Amand, and a consider persuasion that he had obtained sufficient
able pension from the Court of Spain, all security. But, on the first demand of
of which he loft by the Revolution. In payment, William insisted that "the con
order to artist Pope Pius VI. in making up cession had been made upon a condition
the sum required by Buonaparte in 1796, which had not been performed ; while
the Cardinal disposed of all the family Boufflers maintained the concession to
jewels ; and, among others, of a ruby, have been unconditional. James II. died
she largest and most perfect knewn, va in 1701 ; his widow in 17 18. No attempt
lued at 50,000'. He thuii deprived him was made by her heirs at law to recover
self of the last means of as independent the arrears of her jointure till 1780 ; when
subsistence, and was reduced to great dis Charles, the eldest of her grandsons,
tress on the expulsion of Pius V', and his though he would not act himself, em
Court from Rome. Alter having passed powered his natural daughter, by Mil's
his days in quiet and dignified retirement Walkinfhaw, to act in his name for that
at his villa near Rome till I7f>«, a French purpose. A cafe was made out, stating
Revolutionary Banditti forced hint to re- the nature and grounds of the claim.
Louis
 1807.] Biographical Memoir' of the late Cardinal of York. 883
Louis XVI. by a Petition, which Vcrgen- a certain proportion of the sum recovered,
nes presented, was entreated to recom to carry on the law-suit at their own risk
mend it, through his Ambassador at Lon andexpence; in full confidence that the
don, to the attention of the King of Great decision would be favourable, from the
.Britain. Louis answered, " C'est une fa- circumstance that, the iAct of Parliament
raille malheureul'e ; dont je ne veux plus settling the jointure had assigned as se
entendre parler." Little thought the King curity for its payment royal demesnes of a
how soon he, and almost every branch of yearly income more than equal to tbe
the Bourbon Family, were to be in a situr- amount. But neither Charles nor Henry
ation no less unfortunate. On the failure (for the proposal was made to each sepa
of this attempt, another was, made, in a rately) would agree to it.—li# was a stu
different way, to bring the claim before dious and well-informed Prince, and a fin-
the King. The late Earl of Pembroke, cerety pibus Prelate. His purse was always
while at Florence, where Charles and his open to suffering Humanity ; and British
daughter resided for some time, was in the travellers particularly, whether ruined by
habit of visiting them, and sometimes misfortune or by imprudence, found in
dined with them. The daughter, on the him, on all occasions, a compasiionate
Earl's leaving Florence, begged he would benefactor. He possessed, before 1798, a
life what interest he might have with Mr. very valuable collection of curiosities at
Pitt, in behalf of her father's claim. The his villa, where many scarce tracts and
Earl politely offered to do all in his power. interesting manuscripts concerning the
As for interest with Mr. Pitt, he said, he unfortunate House of Stuart were among
had none, nor a claim to any ; but he the ornaments of his library, in his will,
would trywhat could be done by some of made in January 1789, he had left the
his acquaintance who might have interest latter to his relation Count Stuarton ; but
with him. Accordingly, on. his arrival in they were all, in 1798, either plundered by
Paris,then
x set, he applied to the lateatDuke
our Ambassador of Dor-
the Court of the French and Italian Jacobins at Rome,
or confiscated by French Commissaries sot
Versailles, who gave the Lady's agent a the libraries or museums at Paris. The Car
letter of introduction to Mr. Pitt. He dinal of York returned to Rome in 1801,
promised, at the same time, to take the and died the Doyen of the Sacred College,
first opportunity of recommending the after being one of its most virtuous and
claim to that Minister's favour and pro disinterested members upwards of fio years.
tection ; and he fulfilled his promise. He was also Bishop of Ollie and Velletri,
Carryll, the Lady's agent, on his arrival Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman
in London, with -Mr. Pitt's permilfion, Church, and Arch.Priest of the Basilique
waited on him. But scarcely had he Patriarchal of St. Peter of thf Vatican.
opened the subject, by saying that what Thus has died, at the age of 82 years and
ever right there might be, and however some months, the last, in a direct line, of
well-founded* to the whole arrears, a very the Royal House of Stuart ; and his death
moderate part would be gratefully . ac is of some importance; for, it is under
cepted ; when Mr. Pitt cut him short, stood, an Act with respect to Attainder of .
declaring it was a thing not to be men Blood was to expire at the death of thi* .
tioned to the King. Carryll then com last of the Stuart Family. The statements
municated the nature and grounds of the in the French Papers, concerning Cardi
claim to learned Counsel, who advised nal YocVs bequests to the King of Sardi
him to bring the matter before the King's nia, are void of all truth.
Bench, offering, on condition of receiving
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN CHARNOCK, ESQ.
(From the " Cm SUR* LlTKRARIA.")
May 16, 1807, died John Charkock, Cotton's school at Winchester, and went
Esq. F. S. A. ; to whose memory the Wri from thence to the College, where, in the
ter of these line?, who sincerely esteemed station of a commoner, he was under the
him, feels much pleasure in being permit immediate care of Dr. Joseph Warton, the
ted, through the friendship of the Editor, head master, in whose house he boarded,
to dedicate somewhat more than a bare and became the peculiar favourite of that
obituary notice. He was born on the sa justly beloved and admired man. Hav
28th of November, 17*6, the only son ing attained to the seniority of the school,
of John Charnock, esq. a native of the and gained the prize-medal annually given
island of Barbados, and formerly an ad» for elocution, he removed from Winches
locate of eminence at the English Bar, by ter to Oxford, and was entered, in 1774,
Frances, daughter of Thomas Boothby, a gentleman .commoner of Merton col
esq. of Cuingford in. Essex, esq. both of lege, flerr he soon discovered his passion
whom are still living. He was. placed, tor literary composition, in a multiplicity
abtfut tbe year j 767, at the Rev. Reynell of fugitive pieces on various subjects,
whie(l
88 ^Biographical Memoirs of the lateJohn CharnockjE/jv [Sept.
which appeared in the periodical prints experience has taught to estimate duly
6f the time: arhohg these, hjs Political the meed of literary labours in mis time,
Essays, written during the beat of the and, perhaps, impossible to convince
American War, and in that vehement those who have had the good fortune to
spirit of opposition which distinguished avoid that experience, how very far the
the young Politicians of that day, bear means of such a man must have fallen,
chiefly the signatures of Cafca, Squib, or short of their various ends. Suffice it,
Juitice. He left the University to return therefore, on this head, to fay, that he
to a domestic life, totally unfuited to the became somewhat embarrassed in his pe
boundless activity both of mind and body cuniary circumstances; that the sources
for which he was remarkable, and ren from which he had the fairest tight to
dered almost intolerable by certain family expect relief were unaccountably closed
diHerenqes, To detach his attention from against him; and that his uncommonly
.these inconveniencies he applied himself, vigorous constitution, both of body and of
With his accustomed ardour, to the study mind, funk, by slow degrees, to diflblu-
of naval and military tacticks ; and with tion, under the misery of an abridgment,
no- other assistance than that of his ma which his proud and generous spirit could
thematical knowledge, aided by a few not brook, of that liberty and indepen
books, soon attained the highest degree of dence In which his foul delighted. He
science which could be gained in the clo died childless, and was buried on the Sift
set. The noble collection of drawings ©f May, with cohfiderable ceremony and
which he has left, executed during that expence, at Lee, near Blackheath, leaving
short period solely by his own hand, would a widow, Mary, the daughter of Peregrine
alone furnish, ample proof of his know Jones, of the c-ty of Philadelphia, whole
ledge of these subjects, aud of the indefa exemplary conduct in the vicissitudes of
tigable zeal with which be pursued them, her husband's fortune has secured to her
^le nOw became anxious to put into prac the lasting respect of his friends. Mr.
tice the theory of which he had thus be Charnock poslessed a firm and penetrating
come master, and earnestly pressed for understanding, a surprising quickness of
permission to embrace the naval or mill- apprehension, an excellent memory, and
—ry profession. He was at ihat time the a lofty but well-governed ambition. He
sole heir to a very considerable fortune, was formed to shine in any profession, foi
a.nd the darling of his parents ; and these he had the faculty of devoting all his
very tacts, such is the occasional perverse- powers to any object which deeply en
^esi of human afiairs, constituted his gaged his attention 1 but he had no pro
greatest misfbrtune. His request was po- fession, ho one important object ; and he
iitivc'.y denied, and, unable to resist the scattered his natural advantages with the
impulse, of his inclination, he entered as cold and limited hope of an husbandman,
a volunteer into the naval service, and who knows that the feed which he throws
very soon attained that proficiency of abroad cannot produce "a crop beyond a
which his publications on the subject will certain vahje. Much of tHc Character of
be lusting monuments. A fense of duty, his mind, however, maybe traced in his
hoivpver, which no man felt more keenly, literary productions. They merit the
Withdrew hitji ag4i.11, highest credit fof various and indefatiga
"4 mute inglorious Nelson, ble research, sagacious selection, arid faith
into private life; but his mind had re ful detail : they, perhaps, deseryp some
ceived a wound in the disappointment; censure for pertain faults of style, yi'hich
aud other circumstances, which it would must inevitably attend rapid composition.
be indelicate to particularize, contributed He has more than once declared to the
'to keep it open. Hence arose an indiffer writer of this sketch, that he scarcely ever
ence to thje meaner arid tnore common read a line which he had dictated (far
oUiscts of human prudence, and many that was his almost invariable custom)
lilile singularities of conduit, which, except in the proof-meets ; and this must
though they detracted nothing from his be ascribed merely to the natural eager
good uuuerfiimding or .good nature, ren ness of his temper, for thole who knew
dered him remarkable to common ob him best well knew that he had none of
servers. H/e dedicated his.retirement un-. the affectation of
ccaiingly to his pen ; and the profits of " The mob of gentlemen that write with,
his pen, whifih noy/ constituted tieatly cafe." - - ' . .
hi,' whole revenue, in a great measure tq His published works, with many ftnallerr
fna gratification of that benevolence which pieces, arc, " The Rights of a Free Pto-
it! him was equally warm ant} actjve with pie," printed in eto, iq 1792, in .which
the rest of bis passipng and sentiments, he ironically assumed the democratic cha
\n>l. shone, in the most extensive sense of racter which then feebly appeared in a
the word, iq every shape of charity. It few insignificant individuals, in this vo-
would be aeedlofs tx> inforpj rtiofe i0loni lw«e maybe fount} an -historical lketch
 1S07O Additions and CorreQions in Obituaries.-^Births. 885
of the origin and growth of the English past 12 the attendants began to farm* -the
•Constitution, equally remarkable sot its line of procession, and at the time before-
■correctness and conciseness. " Biogra- mentioned the cavalcade commenced its
phia Navalis," in 6 vols. 8vb. the first of route, preceded by the Volunteers, with
whi«h appeared in 1794. A pamphlet in the usual insignia and respect observed on
pvo. intituled "A Letter on Finance, and such melancholy occasions ; the Band
on National Defence," 1798. "A His playing, with muffled drums, the Dead
tory of Marine Architecture," in 3 vols. ■March in Saul. Ten horsemen preceded
4to; a very valuable and superb work, il the hearse ; and. the usual number bf
lustrated by a great number of fine engra mutes attended. Behind the state-coach
vings, 1804. And a Life of Lord Nelson, belonging to the deceased stood six foot-
in one volume, published in lSori, en raen, and four behind that of the Duke of
riched with some very curious original Gloucester. The procession moved slowly
letters of that eminent pattern of public to Brentford, where the Brompton and
and private worth. E. L, Kensington Volunteers were relieved by
those of the latter district, including the
P. 778. In addition to the honey-fall Iflevvoith. These proceeded as far as
bf nearly 10,0001. lately bequeathed to a Hounslow, where they were dismissed. It
person in Leeds, of the name of Walker, was not until the procession reached
late a poor carpet-weaver, the testator, Staines that the feathers and efcocheons
Mr. Kay, has also left about iocol. to were placed on the hearse, fife; thus
each of Walker's three children ; and the conforming to the same etiquette as was
Executors were at Leeds about the middle observed at the funeral of the late Duke.
of this month paying part'of the legacies. The procession reached Windsor about
P. 780. The Rev. Henry Austin, late of half past 8 o'clock ; and the funeral took
Yunbridge, held the living of West Wick- place by torch-light. The Duke of Glonr
ham, in Kent, from 1701 to 1784, when cester was at Brompton when the caval
: he resigned that rectory, on becoming a cade set out, and was present (as chief
convert to the Unitarian doctrine. He mourner) during the interment at Windr
married Mary, third daughter of John for; and the whole of the. funeral ex-
Hooker, of Tunbridge castle, esq. by pences are to be defrayed by him. The
whom he had several children. following inscription is on the coffin- plate;
P. 788, col. J, I. 27, for " Lincoln,*' r. " Deppfitum .. ..
V Kent ;" and after " Davis," add " M.A." Illustrissimæ Principis Martæ, ,
- P. 790. The late Duchess of Gloucester Dueisi'æ GJoucestriæ &-Edinburgi,
' died in her 69th year, having been born Cotnitislæ Connachiæ,
July 3, 1739. Her father was Mr. (after Vidua Illustrissimi Principis defuncts
wards Sir'Edward) Walpole, K. B. Her Gulielmi Henrici
mother was Mrs. Dorothy Paxton, who ' de Brunswick Lunenburghj .
had another daughter by Sir Edward, Ducis Gloucestriæ et Edinburgh ■
married to Dr. Keppel, the late Bishop of Gomitis Connachiap, . ;.
Exetar. On the 31st of August, about Nobiliffimi Ordinis P'erisceldis Equitis,
half past 1 o'clock, her Royal Highness's Filii tertii genitu
lemains were removed from the family re Illustrissimi Frederici Ludovici ,
sidence at Brompton, for interment in St. Principis Walliæ defuncti, ct .Fratris
tieorge's chapel, Windsor. The proces Augustirl'imi et Potentisiimi
sion was suitable to the rank of the de- Monarch! Georgii Tertii,
Ceased, without any unnecessary parade or Dei GratiaBritannicarum Regis., f
ostvntatipn. As early as 6 o'clock in the Fidei Defenlbris; . , ^
morning, the Volunteers of Brompton and Et Matris Illustrissimi Principi»( :, -■
Kensington beat to arms. After assem Gulielmi Frederici
bling, to a man, on parade, they received de Brunswick Lunenburgh, . .
their instructions from the Gaptain-com- Ducis Gloucestriæ et Edinburgh
mandant, and proceeded (about g o'clock) Comitis Connachiæ,
to the court-yard of Gloucester-lodge, Nobiliffimi Ordinis Pertsceldts Equitis.,, 1
with muffled drums, &c. fire. About 11 Obiit 22 DieAugusti, Anno Domini 18p7fj
o'clock arrived the hearse, with six black, • Ætatis fuse 71."
horses, and six mourning-coaches and six. By the death of her Royal Highness, the
Sunn after 19, appeared the Duke bf York poor of the vicinity have lost a liberal be-,
and the Duke of Clarence's private car nefactrefs. S£e p. 81Q,.
riages, with six horses to each. The Duke
of York's carriage was drawn by six beau Births. w% .
tiful grey Horses. About the fame time LATELY, at Heirj.st!t1 court, neap.
appeared the Duke of Gloucester's chariot Gloucester, the unic of the Rev. D^
' and six, the Duchess's coach and six, and Lyl'ons, a daughter.. . , .
the Princess Sophia's. The whole of the At Petcissiam, Surrey, the wife of Ri-^
suite of carriages being arrived, about half Chard Thorley, tin. a daughter.
At
 236 " Births and Marriages of remarkable Terfins. [Sept.
At Broomsield, Clapham, Surrey, the 11. In Lower Brook-street, Groi'venor-
wisp of William Wilbcrforce, esq. a Ion. square, the lady of Lord Viscount S«jar(,
The wife of Frederick Nicolay, cfq. of eldest son of the Earl of Castle-Stuart, a
Cadogan-place, a daughter. son and heir. •
In Upper Guildford-flrcel, the wife of At Granton-house, in Scotland, Lady
Stephen Gafelee, esq. a son. Charlotte Hope, a son.
Au*. I/. At Bradley-hall, Cumberland, At Casllcmartyr, co. Cork, the Countese
l ady Lidctelt, a son. of Shannon, a daughter.
20. At Springfield, near Dublin, Lady 12. At Edinburgh, the wife of Andrew
Mary Trotter, a son and heir. Hunter S. Crauiurd, esq. a son.
The wife of Robert Arkwright, esq. of 14. At Kirk-Llla, co. York, the wife of
Lumford park, co. Derby, a son. R. C. Peate, esq. a son.
12. At Trent park, near Barnet, Middle At Dint-hill, near Shrewsbury, the Hon.
sex, the vise of Jn. Wigfton, esq. a daught. Mrs, Lcighton, a daughter.
At Dublin, the wife of Licut.-col. Ross, 15. The lady of Sir John Kennaway,
of the 23d Light Dragoons, a daughter. ban. of Elcot, Devon, a son.
, 23.. At Whyatt's cottage. North wood, 17. At Lochend, in Scotland, the wise
in the Isle of Wight, the wife of Captain of Licut.-col. John Dalrymple, a daughter.
H. Heathcote, U. Nv son. 18. At Hollins, near Whitehaven, the
26. At the Royal Military Asylum, at wife of Joseph Bell, esq. a son.
Chelsea, the wife of P. Macgregor, esq. 25. In Manchester-street, the wife of
a daughter. Commodore Hayes, a daughter.
27. At Stoke Roehford, co. Lincoln, the
wife of Edmund Tarnor, esq. a son. Marriages.
28. AtTichficld, LadyDickson, a son. May •y A 'T Tottenham church, Richard
29. At Newington-housc, Lady Stewart, . _£\ Johnson, esq. of Potter-lane-
ef Grandtully, in Scotland, a son. end, co. Stafford, to Miss Frances North, /
In Baker-street, Penman-square, the lady of Bishopfgate-street.
of the Hon. Lieut.-col. Plunkett, of the August 25. In St. Christopher's, I-ord
CoMstrcam Reg. of Guards, a daughter. Cranstoun, to the eldest daughter of John
Sept. . . . Eleanor, wife of Recs Powell* Macnamara, esq, ,
of Pontfame, co. Brecon, three sons. At Starfton, Norfolk, by the Rev. Arch
At Heaton-hall, the wife of M. W. Rid deacon Olderfhaw, William-Archer Judd,
ley, el'q. a son and heir. esq. of Stamford, co. Lincoln, to Martha-
At New park, near Shrewsbury, the wife Isabella, youngest daughter of <he late Jas. .
of Lieut.-col. Gataere, a son. Olderfhaw, esq. M. J>. of Stamford.
The lady of Sir Henry Fletcher, bitrt. of ■ 26. By special licence, at Weftpoit-
Ashley park, Cumbeiland, a son and heir. bouse, the seat of the Marquis of Sligo,
The wife of Mr. Wylde, of Kennington- George Moore, esq. of Moore-hall, co.
lane, two daughters and a son. Mayo, Ireland, to Louisa, youngest daugh
The wife of the Rev. R. Twiss, of Al- ter os the late Hon. John Browne, of Elm-
fop's-buildings, Mary-la-Bonne,a daughter. hall, in the same county.
The wife of J. Willis, etq. of Upper . 27. At Hackney, Charles Curtis, esq.
Guildford-ftrect, a son and heir. son of the Rev. Charles C. of Solihull, .co.j
The wife of Colonel Cummings, of the Waiwick, to Miss Charlotte Hensley.dau.
Ilih Dragoons, a daughter. of Isaac H. esq. os Clapton, Middlesex.
frpt. 2. At the house of Lord Viscount . At Doddington-hall, in Cheshire, Henry
Dcerhurft, in Devonshire-place, the Hon. Broughton, esq. son of Sir Thomas B. to
Mrs. Cutton, a son. the Hon. Miss Pigot,
In Lower C-dnj;an place, Sloane-freet, At St. George's, Hanover^fquare, by the
Knightibriilge, the w ife of R. B. Pollard, Rev. Dr. Weston, canon-residentiary of St.
B.A.of S*.John's coll.Camh. a Ion and heir. Paul's, the Earl of Abingdon. to Mil's Emily-
At Grenan, in Ayrshire, the wife of Lt,- Gage, youngest daughter rt the late Hon.
eo!. Bnrr.^tt, a foil. General G. and sister of Lord G. of Firie-
j. In Upper Grosvenor-ftieet, the lady of place, near Lewes, Sussex.
Sr Walter Brifco, bart. cf Crofton-place, 2y. At St. James's, Piccadilly, by Dr.
Cumberland, a son ; which died on the 14 th. Weston, Vise. Pollington, son of the Earl of
AtTiveiton, eo. Devon, LadyMaiyllay, Mexborough, to the Hon. Anne Vorke^ .
a daughter. eldest daughter of the Earl of Hardwicke.
4. At Carradell-house, in Scotland, the Char. Boyde, esq. of the Custom-house,
wife of Walter Campbell, esq. a son and heir. tr) the only daughter of Charles Hyde, esq.
At Basham-hntI, co. Norfolk (the seat of surgeon, Moore-place, Lambeth,
C?h:r\ii Morley Balders, esq.), the Hon, Mr. S. Reynolds, solicitor, of Lincoln's
Mrs, holders, a son. inn, to Mils Newcoipb, daughter of Pi-
.7, At Sudbrook park, Petersham, Sur- cbard N. elq. of Stamford, co, Lincoln.
fey, Lady Mary Stopfotd, a daughter. 39. At K«>ghley, CQ,Vo*kj Mr. Williatn
Tcwlev,
 1807O Marriages arid Deaths of remarkable Fersont* %%y
Tewley, aged 55, to Miss Emmett, aged Deaths.
50, his sixth wife. l8z6. \ T Hyderabad, in the East In-
31. Wm. Waite, esq. of Burley-lodge, Oct. 22. /\ dies, Mrs.Sydenham, wife of
near Leeds, co. York, to Miss Smith, niece the British Resident at that Court,
of Simon Temple, esq. of Hylton castle. 1 1807. Jan. . . . On-board his Majesty'*
' Sept. . . At Killeigh church, co. Cork, ship Pitt, in the Eaft Indies, Mr. Robert
the Rev. James Laurence Cotier, nephew Talbot, midshipman, second son of Ro
of Sir J. L. C. bart. of Rockforest, co. -bert T. esq. of Stone castle, Kent.
Cork, to Miss Matilda Sampayo. Jan. 30. At Paris, aged J7, Jofeph-Pe-
. " Sept. I. At Norwich, George-Valentine ter Buc'hoz, M.D. fellow of the College
Cox, esq. bedel of Law of the University of Physicians at Nancy; born at Metz,
of Oxford, to the eldest daughter of Dr. Jan. 27, 1781. His Works, so long ago
Beckwith, of Dean's-square, Norwich. as the year 1782, as enumerated by bim-
2. George Mathias, esq. of St. James's- self in a Catalogue, printed at that period,
place, to Miss Dennilon, of Curzoh-street. of ten pages in folio, consisted of
3. At Ellesmere, co. Salop, Thomas Folios 68
Vaughan, esq. to Mrs. Eliza Vaughan. Quartos.. 7
Though this lady has been twice married, Octavos 71
she has never changed her maiden name. Duodecimos.. ... ,IS8
5. At Radipole church, near Weymoulh, Sexdecimos. 18
James-Willis Weston, esq. of Nevvihgton,
.Surrey, to Anne, youngest daughter of Jn. Total Sis)
Crouch, esq. of the latter place. So that he has a fair claim to the title
8. At Islington, Mr. Bi Gray, of Hen- Haller has given him of " Polygraphus.'*
ffridge, co. Sorrterset, to Arabella, second His Works were chiefly relative to Natn-
dau. of Tho. Harris, esq. of Hornl'ey-lune. ral History; and hg is said to have ex-
At Preston, in Lancashire, Robert Rob- pended 200,000 livres in printing and en-
bins, esq. to Miss Horrocks, sister of Sa- graving. During the latter part of his life
muel H. esq. M. P. for Preston. he was reduced to great distress; but a
IO.'Samuel Kingsford, esq, of Norfolk- short time before his death the French
street, Strand, to Miss Stooke, daughter of Government granted him a pension of
George S. esq. of Trusham, Devon. 1200 livres (sol.)
• Robert-Martin Smith, esq. of Bromley, Feb. 12. At Berlin, John Bernard Me-
Kent, to the eldest daughter of James rian, director of the Philological Class,
Thomas, esq. of Greenwich. and librarian, of the Royal Academy of
"12. At Hackney, Mr. John Palmer, of Sciences in that city. He was born at
Alderroanbury. and Upper Clapton, Mid- Liechstal, near Berlin, Sept. 28, 1 723, and
•Uesex, to Miss Dampier. was fixed at Basil through the reeommen-
14. James Fleming, el'q. captain in the dation of the late M. de Maupertuis, in
16th Foot, to Lady Leigh, of Baker-street, 1750. He was the author of several Es-
Portman-square, widow of Sir S. E. L. fays inserted in the Memoirs of the Aca-
fcrother to Sir Egerton L. demy, and of many detached works oq
15. AtClapham church, John Poynder, metaphysical or philological subjects. One
eft) of Bridewell Hospital, to Miss Eliza- of the latter, in quarto, intituled "De
■' keth Brown, of Clapham, Surrey. subfidiis quæ requiruntur ad intelligen-
William Dormille, £sq. of Lincoln's- dum Homerum," was published so long
inn, only son Of Mr. Alderman D. to Miss ago as 1744.
Maria Solly, daughter of the late Isaac S. March 5. At Battersea, Surrey, fn her
esq. of Wahhamstow, Essex. 58th year, of an encysted dropsy, Mrs.
16. At Hertford, Mr. James Jenkins, Rebeccah Taylor, wife of Mr. James T. '
stock-broker, to Miss Bott, daughter of 8. At Croneham, near Croydon, Surrey,
Joseph B. esq. of Amwell-place, Herts. in his 90th year, Mr. John Hall, an opu-
17. At Walgrave, co. Northampton, the lent farmer. He was a native of Oxted,
Rev. B. Parke, M.A. vicar of Tilney,Nor- in the fame county; and enjoyed good
sulk, to Miss Stockdale. health till within a saw days of his death,
19. George Scott, el'q. of Hammersmith, April 10. At Part Jackson, New South
to the only daughter of Harry Stoe, esq. Wales, aged 33, Mrs. Short, wife of Capt,
feerretary to the South Sea Company. Joseph £. of his Majesty's ship Buffalo.
23. George-Wharton Marriott, esq. of "May 7. At the Cape of Good Hope, af-
fhe Inner Temple, second son of the Rev. ter a short illness, Mrs. Bertram Ord, wife
JDr. M. of Cottesbach, co. Leicester, to of John B. O. esq. of 2lst Light Dragoon?.
Anne, only daughter of the late Rev. Fitz- 29. Aged 72, Mrs. Anne West, wife of
Ijefljert Adams, rector of Ulcomb, Kent. Mr. Nathaniel W. of Tottenham.
34. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Mrs. Elizabeth Depward, formerly of .
Capt. Beftesworth, of the Crocodile frigate, Ilardress court, Kent, late of Chaddesley
to I^ady Hannah Grey, youngest daughter Corbstj near BiOKistrovc, co, Worcester,
• f JEavl G, *nd sister to Viscount Howick. daughter
188 Obituary, with Anecdotes., of remarkable Versons. [Sept.
daughter of John Cerbet, esq. who died Staff. After the commencement of the)
about 50 years ago, and' ef whom some present war, General Beresford, the friend
accountis given tni our last, p. 785. She and patron of Capt. Trotter, being placed
has left 1O01. to the Kent arid Canterbury on the Staff in Ireland, appointed \\\v\
Hospital. his Aid-de-Camp, From that, situation
June . . . At Barbados, in his 23d year, he was promoted to a Majority in the 63d.
"William, eldest son of Edward Hampton, With the 83d Major Trotter went on the
efq-of Baldock, Herts. expedition to the Cape of Good Hope \
June 7. At Chatham, of a consump and, as Acting Assistant Adjutant-Gene
tion, in his 32d year, William Maclean, ral, distinguished himself in such a man
esq. surgeon; and, on the 13th, he was ner in the attack and defeat of the Dutch
interred in the family-vault at St. Nicho Army, as to merit the public thanks of
las, Rochester. It was with no ordinary Sir David Baird, who commanded the
pleasure we beheld the tribute of respect British Force on that expedition. When
due to his virtues paid him by his bre- . the conquest of Buenos Ayres was achiev
thren ef the medical profession ; Doctors ed by the gallantry of the British Force
Vaughan, White, and Conquest, preceded under the conduct of General Beresford,
the corpse in their medical capacity ; and that gallant and able Officer, from the
Messieurs Skiriiief, Hope, and Witheridge, high opinion he entertained of Major
surgeons, followed iii the train of mourn Trotter's courage and ability, wrote to him
ers. There have been few instances tb come over with the reinforcement
where a professional man concentered so from the Cape, and appointed liirn As
Cinch esteem when living, or excited so sistant Adjutant - general to the British
much regret In death, as he did ; and we Forces ' in South America. But, before
understand -it is the intention of all the the arrival of the reinforcement from the
medical gentlemen who attended his re Cape, General Beresford and the little
mains to wear the memorial of sorrow for army under his command had been un
some time, in token of their continued fortunately compelled to surrender to the
regard to his memory. Spaniards ; and the Force under Sir Sa
9-21. At Moscow, in Russia, aged 30, muel Aehtrmty had been accompanied
James Meybohm, esq. late a banker there. out by an Assistant Adjutant-general, ap- .
17. On the, island of Trinidad, in'his pointed in this country. That General,
Slst year, Mr. Daniel Gibson, carpenter of however, offered Major Trotter an ap
the ship Carlton, Capt. France, of White- pointment in the Quarter master-general's
haven ; also, William Carly, an apprentice department, which he declined, request
en-board the said vessel. ing only to be placed in some active situ
Ip. At Montserrat, of a decline, Mrs. ation, in which his exertions would tend
X-ockfiart, wife of the Hon. James-Potter. most to the benefit of the service, lie
L. of Dominica. was, in consequence, appointed to com
24. At St. John's, Antigua, the wife of mand the Grenadiers in the attack on
lieut.-col. Carter, nephew of Sir John C. Maldohado, and on that occasion again
of Portsmouth. She had recently arrived conducted himself in such a manner as to
from Trinidad, where her husband had died obtain particular notice in the public
a ssi0r,t time before; and me 'was to have thanks. In a sleirmissi in advancing to
come to England in the Canada. the attack of Monte Video, Major Trot
Juty I. At Martinique, Madame De la ter had a horse shot under him, and re
Bagerie, mother of Madame Buonaparte. ceived a wound in the hand, but Was not
She was interred with great pomp'ap Les thereby prevented from leading the Light ,
Trois Islets, her heart having been taken Brigade, in conjunction with his gallant
out and" deposited in a silver chalice, to be friend Colonel Brownrigg, on the despe
lent to France. rate service of storming the breach of that
5. Majof Trotter, -who fell in the late fortress. On that occasion Major Trotter
attack on Buenos Ayres, was a brother was the first man who mounted the
of Mr. Trotter Ruthven, Representative breach, and followed by a few of the
in' the late Parliament for the Borough of bravest men, had the honour of opening
Pownpatrick, and of Mr. Trotter, late the gates to^he rest of the Army. In a
confidential Secretary of Mr. Fox, and subsequent skirmish with a party of Spa
a nephew of the late Bissiop of Down. niards, in the vicinity of Monte Video,
Major Trotter began his military career Major Trotter received a severe wound
in.the 88th regiment, in which he was through the body.
present at the taking of Dunkirk. With Captain Percy Burrell, of the6lh Reg.
that regiment' he went to India, and ac Dragoon-guards, youngest ton of the late
companied the Indian Expedition to Sir William B. bart. of the county of Sus
Egypt, where.his. merit attracted the no sex, and nearly related to the noble fami
tice of his superiors, arid he was',, in con lies of Northumberland aud Gw.ydir. This
sequence, appointed' to- a situation 'on the gallant but ^nfai.tun.at«. officer wajk ed«_-
"catei."
i 8 o 7 .] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons.
Cated at Westminster school. His genius
leading him to embrace a military life, he
obtained a commission in the 13th Regi
ment of Foot in 1797, and served with
that regiment in Ireland during the Re
bellion in )798, being present at every
affair of consequence in the county of
Wexford. He was, subsequently, ap
pointed aid-de-camp to Major-gen. Sir
Charles Ai'gill, ban. ; and having been
promoted to a troop of Dragoons in Ja
nuary 1 800, remained on the Staff of the
Army in Ireland till the genera! Peace in
1802. In the month of October, ISOfJ,
be failed from Falmouth with the Forces
under Brig.-gen. Oraufurd; which divi
sion (after having been on-board ship
nearly twelve months) finally joined the
Army under Lieut.-gen. Whitelocke, in
South America, where, at the ill-con
certed attack on Buenos Ayres, he fell,
while gallantly leading and animating his
men against the Enemy, the command of
the two squadrons .of his Regiment having
devolved on him on Lieut.-col. Kingston
being severely wounded. To the cha
racter of a meritorious and promising of
ficer, in Captain Burrell were united the
disposition and excellent qualities of an
accomplished gentleman, which justly
acquired the Well-merited affection and
esteem of all his friends and acquaintance.
-The Writer of this sketch served several
years with him in the lame Regiment,
and laments that it has fallen to his lot
to record the loss of a gentlerrian so highly
respected wkile living, and whose military
talents might have been of essential ser
vice to his Country in that expedition, the
disasters of which are still lo recent.
17. At his feat, Rippon lodge, Virginia,
America, Col. Thomas Blackburn.
Iti". gA.t New York, in his 54th year,
Uriah Tracey, a senator of the United
States, from the State of Connecticut.
29. Aged 55, Charles M'Cormick,
JLL.B. a man of active benevolence and
leal learning ; of whom a more particular
character shall appear in our next.
3 1. At sea, on his voyage home, Mr.
George Cole, of the Earl Si. Vincent East
Indiamau, Ion of J. H. C. elq. of Norwich.
Aug. . . . At sea, on-board the Russian
frigate Sywfhnav, bound to the Mediter
ranean, wuh specie for the Russian Fleet
in the Levant, and which arrived in the
Downs on the 3lrt, the Princess Galitzin,
who was going to Liibon for the benefit
of her health, alo.ig with the Prince he<
husband, and their two young children,
but died on the passage about 1 1 days be
fore the arrival of the ship in the Downs.
She was reckoned one of the most beautn
ful women within the wide extent of the
Russian Empire ; and was in her 27th
Gent. Mao. September, i^b1/.
13
889
year. The Russian frigate saluted the Ad
miral at Deal, by firing 1 1 guns ; which
was returned by 9. Shortly afterwards,
the Prince was put off in a boat, and was
saluted by 13 guns, and the yards man
ned. He went on shore at Deal, to make
arrangements for landing the corpse, which
was brought ashore about three o'clock in
the afternoon, put into a hearse, and sent
off immediately to London, where it is
to be embalmed, lay in state, and thence
sent back to St. Petersburg, for interment.
The Prince and suite have since taken up
their residence in London fora short time.
Aged 55, Mr. Joseph Richardson, coal-
merchant, of Hull.
At Hull, aged 63, Mr. John Marshall,
late of Cottingham. He has left the
greatest part of his property, consisting of
several hundred pounds, to the Minister
and Churchwaidens of St. Mary's, Hull,
the paiish of Sutton, Cottingham, and se
veral adjoining villages, for the use of the
poor, to be laid out in bread. ,
At Ibberton, Wilts, in his 7th year, of
the scarlet fever, George, eldest son of the
Rev. George Waste ; having survived hjt
sister only a fortnight.
In his 83d year, Joseph Dover, esq. of
Dkkleburgh, Suffolk.
At Nuneaton, co. Warwjck, much and
deservedly respected,' Mr. Worthington.
Mr. Crisp, of Banbury ; who had ar
rived there a few hours previous to being
seized with violent spasms in his stomach,
of which he instantly expired. ;
At Chipping-Norton. co. Oxford, John
Tinson, who was found dead in his .bed."
At Ockham, Surrey, aged 77, Mr. Ro
bert Msrter.
AtCobham. aged 34, Mrs. F. Wooli<ar.
At Guildfoid, aged 29, Mr. James Dou
glas, of the Ciown inn.
Capt. Forrest, of the Eton Volunteers,
ami governor of the Windsor Poor Knurhts.
Mr. Gleadhill, attorney, Tokeji-house-
yaro, in partnership with Mr. Payne.
Aug. I. Lord Lavington., tovernor of, the
Vieft India Island*, and K.B. ; of whom
a more particular account in our next.
2. In Wilrmjt-square, Bcihnal-green,
aged 82, Mr. Francis Cro!"ey.
3. Aged 38, Mrs. Brandenburg, wife .of
Mr. G.'B. bf the Thatched House public-
house, in the Lower-street, Islington, So^e
became paralytic while in labour of her
third child, and died in two days.
8.- At his scat, the Retreat, near Dap-
bury, Essex, aged 47, Thoir.as-Micr let
NowelT, il'q. the eldest biarich of :he an-
tient fam.lv of the N iwells, of Read-ha (1,
near Preston, co Lancaster. , He was emi
nent as a physician, and promoter of 'he
vaccine inoculation in theNotth of Fiaoce ;
in which country he was so much respect-.
. . ***
890 Obituary, with Anecdotes , */ remarkable Persons. [Sept.
and freely forgave his antagonist. The
ed, even in the time of the tyrant Robe
cause of she quarrel was an aspersion
spierre, that every attention was paid to
supposed to be passed upon the character
him, his family, and every person whom
of a female with whom Lieut. H. was ac
it fell in his way to protect. His abilities
quainted. The remains of Lieut. D. were
had such weight with Buonaparte as to
interred at Stroud. The funeral proces
"obtain him permission to return to Eng
sion was conducted with the strictest pro
land or traverse France. He has left a
widow ; and is succeeded *y his son "and
priety and decorum. The pall was sup
only child, Alexander-John Nowell. ported by the officers upon- the recruiting
service in the place, followed by the chief
11. Aged 103, Elizabeth Bickett, of
mourners in cloaks; the medical gentle
Northumberland-street, Newcastle ; who
men who attended the deceased, and as
enjoved perfect good health till wilhin lix
months of her death. sisted at the dissection of the body ; the
military parties in the town ; six gentle
12. At St. Petersburg;, aged 93, Mis.
•Angerftein, mother of John-Julius A. efq.
men of the neighbourhood, in deep
mourning ; and the Coroner closed the
At Derry-Kcale, Kind's County. Ireland,
procession. There was no firing over the
Marianne Baronets Ilossmore. Her Lady
grave, nor did any musick accompany the
ship was the second daughter of Charles
procession ; but, on entering and depart
Walsh, efq. of Walsh park, co. Tipperary ;
ing from the church, a solemn dirge was
and was married, Oct. 3, 179', to War
performed upon the organ. An immense
ner-William Lord RoH'more, by whom she
concoui fe of spectators attended to witness
has left issue five soi;s ami one daughter.
the solemnity ; and the windows were
14. At South Shields, in his l()th year,
Ralph, son of Mr. Thomas Hewfon, secrowded with people of all ranks, whore
feelings were expressed by their tears and
cretary to several associated Underwriters
there. He and two other young men lamentations. The deceased was only 21
years of age, and universally esteemed for
were bathing on the Herd sand, the tide
then flowing ; and in returning through a
his amiable disposition, and gentlemanly
place called the Wheel he was drowned.
manners : his premature death is most sin
The others could swim. cerely deplored. He was the son of a gen
15. Aged 6", Rev. Richard Wainman,
tleman in London, who reached Stroud
about half an hour after his dissolution ;
Vector of Boddington, co. Northampton.
and whose distress of mind upon this truly
He was of St. John's college, Cambridge;
melancholy occasion was aggravated in no
I.L.B. 1705 ; and presented to this living
by Wm. Wainman, efq. for that turn. '
small degree by the circumstance of ha
ving lost another promising son, a short
Aged 21, John, Ion of Mr. S. Franks,
an eminent carpenter at Huntingdon.time since, in a similar way, at the Island
of Malta, where he was serving with his
16. After much illness, aged 52, Mr.T.
regiment. [See a letter in p. 829.]
Voller, tobacconist, St. Paul's churchyard.
in her 4 7th year, Mrs. Chapman, wife
At Bottle-Claydon, co. Oxford, William'
of William C. efq. of I'entonviUe. Everard ; who, while at work in his shop,
17. Aged 77, Mrs. Weale, of Warwick.
suddenly expired in an apoplectic fit.
Mrs. Brown, of Leicester, formerly of
At Hook-Norton, co. Oxford, aged 64,
Hinckley, relict of Thomas B. gent. In
the Rev. W. Harris ; who had been, for
her life-time the poor were much benefit
20 years, a faithful and not unprofitable
ed by her charity ; and by her will she
preacher of the Gospel among Dissenters
has bequeathed 200I. the interest to be
of the Baptist persuasion.
given to poor widows in Hinckley. Mrs. Rushworthi wife of John R, esq,
At the Hot wells, Bristol, of a decline,
of Banbury, co. Oxford.
Miss Charlotte Golightly. *
At Gosport, Matthew Woodd, efq.
18. Shot in a duel, by Lieut. Heazle, in
19. At Brighthelmstone, Richard John
the neighbourhood of Stroud, Gloucester-
son, efq. in the civil service of the East
lhire, Lieut.' Delmont. The Coroner's
India Company.
Jury, after a minute investigation, which
At Clifton, near Bristol, Miss Charlotte
occupied eight hours, returned a verdict
Broadley, fourth daughter of the late
of Wilful Mulder against Lieut. Heazle,
Henry B. efq. of Hull ; and, on the 21ft,
the challenger, and Lieut. Sergeaunt, of
Miss B. eldest daughter of the said H. B.
the 6lst Regiment of Foot, who was theIn Cateaton-ftreet, the wife of Rithard
only second in this unfortunate affair.
Rooksbv, esq. '
Lieut. D. was shot in the back, before, it
20. At Alverley, co. Warwick, aged 80,
is supposed, he had time to turn round,
Mrs. Hale; and, on the 22.d, at Stour-
on pacing from his antagonist to the al
bridge, Hungerfoid01iver,elq. herbrother.
lotted space. The ball, which was dis 21. At Killefter-hoiise, near Dublin,
charged from a horse-pistol, went through
the Right Hon. Sir William-GIeadowe
his body, and afterwards perforated his
Newcomen, bart. one of his Majesty's
arm. lie continued sensible till the last ;
most honourable Privy Council in Ire-
laud,
 r8o7-] Obituary , with Anecdotes, osremarkable?ersons, 891
land, and formerly Representative in Par Athenny, premier Biron of Ireland ;
liament for the county of Longford. His 7. Harriet, married to the Rev. William
paternal name was Gleadowe ; and he al- Armstrong; 8. Frances ; g. Louisa, mar
fumed the name and arms of Newcomen ried to Thomas Hope, esq.
,on his marriage with Charlotte, in her At Tunbridge Wells, aged 10 years and
own right, ^Viscountess Newcomen, the 4 months, the youngest son of Sir George
only daughter and heiress of Charles New Wombwcll, hart.
comen, esq. of Carrickglas, co. Longford, Maurice Mears, esq. in the commission
descended from a very antient family in of the peace for the co. of Montgomery.
that county ; a branch of which obtained 25. In Argylle-square, Edinburgh, Mr.
a patent of baronetage in 1623, soon after Patrick Murray, writer.
the first institution of that order; which Mr. Gunning, landlord of the Toghill
having lately become extinct, was revived public-house, Bristol. After eating a hearty
in the late Baronet. Sir William has left breakfast, he tool; his usual walk in the
issue by the Viscountess an only son, the garden, and- dropt down de;id.
Hon. Sir Thomas Newcomen, bart. late At Alconbury- Weston, co. Huntingdon,
M. P. for the county of Longford ; and aged 84, Mrs. Bowker, fen.
four daughters ; viz. Jane ; Teresa, ma;- At Southfleet, Kent, in his 21st ycar.^
tied to Sir Charles Turner, bart. of Kirk- Peter Rafhleigh, esq. of Oriel college, Ox
leatham.Yorkth. ; Charlotte,and Catharine. ford, son of the Rev. Peter R. of Southfleet.
At Gillingham, Dorset, after a few days In her 5.0th year, Mrs. Leonora Tho
illness, Mrs. Erie, sifter to the Rev. 'Wil mas, wise of John T. esq. of Great Bad-
liam-Line Bowles. Too much cannot be dow, a deputy lieutenant and in the com
said in praise of one of the best of women. mission os the peace for Essex.
Her loss will be severely felt by the poor Aged 54, Mrs. Sealy, wife of Mr. John
of that place. S.of Lambeth, and eldest daughter of John
At Dormington, Oxon, Sarah Smith, a Corbyn, el'q. lornierlyof the Pump-house,
respectable servant, who in a fit of insanity near Bromsgrove, co. Worcester. ' ,
drowned herself in a pond. The wife of Charles Pritchard, esq. of
22. At Kilmurry, co. Cork, Mrs. Grant, Green -street, Grosverror-square.
wife of Thomas G. esq. of Kilmurry, and While bathing in Scot's pond, Bethnal-
sister of Sir Richard Musgrave, bart. of green, Mr. John Court, an Excise officer. 1
Turin, co. Waterford. Mils Sarah Starkey, daughter of Mr. S.
Aged 60, the wife of Mr. John Pagett, stationer, of Newgate-street.
of Rothley, co. Leicester. 26. Aged 72, Mr. John Harrison, of
23. In Duncan-street, Cork, Mary, third Derby, framesmith.
daughter of Sir Robert Warren, bart. of In his 45th year, Mr. Richard Rose, of
Warren court, co. Cork, and wife of Da the George inn at Derby.
niel Gibbs, esq. of Derry, in that county. At Southwell, Notts, th« wife of George
At Che manse of Abernyte, co. Penh, Hodgkinfon, juii. esq.
advanced in age, and in the 47 th year of At Shidfield lodge, near Wickham, co.
his ministry, the Rev. James Adamlbn. Hants, Mrs. Sarah Bligh, wife of Capt. B.
At Ltwynbarriedj co. Radnor, aged 53, of his Majesty's ship Alfred, in the Baltic.
Elizabeth, relict of Morgan Evans, esq. James Wilson, esq. of Kendal, in the
In Green-street, Grosvenor-square, Mrs. commission of the peace for the counties
Penelope Madan, daughter of the. late Ma of Westmoreland and Cumberland. "He
jor James M. of the Horse-guards. was seized with an apoplectic fit while
24. At Tunbridge Wells, after a long travelling to London in the Northampton
and painful illness, Elizabeth Bcresford, stage-coach, and was taken to the house
lady of the Hon. William Bercsford, Abp. of Mr. Winkfield, an eminent surgeon, in
of Tuam, brother of the late Marquis of Market-street, Herts, where he soon died,
Waterford. She was the second daughter , Mr. Stinson, proprietor of a wine-vault
of John Fitzgibbon, esq. M. P. for New in Newgate-street. He fell down while
castle, and sister of the late Earl of Clare, serving in his shop, and instantly expired.
Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; • and was mar 27. At Hampstead, aged 70, Mr. David
ried, in 1 " 6:J, to Abp. Beresford, by whom Jones, upwards of 30 years an eminent
flie had issue, 1. Marcus, in the Army, woollen-draper, mart's mercer, &c. of Bi-
flied unmarried ; 2. John, in holy orders ; lhopsgate-ftreet and Great St. Helen's, but
3. George de la Poer, re6tor of Inniscarra, had retired frorrj business for marly years.
co. Cork ; 4. William, also in holy or He was an honest tradesman ; and lived
ders, married to the Lady Anna Bennct, greatly respected.
second daughter of the Earl of Tanker- 28. Mr. Robert Wilson, clerk to a coal-
Ville; 5. Catherine, married to the Rev. merchant. About six in the morning, as
Arthur Preston ; 6. Araminta, married to he -was walking over the coal-barges near
Thomas Birmingham Daly Sewell, grand- Blackfriers bridge, he slipped, fell over
Ton of Thomas Earl of Louth, Baron board, and was drowned.
At
Sg'i Ohituary, m'tb Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Sept.
At Clapton, Middlesex, the wife of Ed an ', had an amiable mother and three sif
ward B.ocksopp, esq. of S .vage-gardens. ters looking up to him for their support
In his 72d year, Mr. Isaac Auber, of and piotection.
Camberwell, Surrey. Suddenly, at Carlisle, Mr. M. Wilkin
While on a visit at Sydenham, in Kent, son, drawing and writing-master. Me had
John Jores, cf'q. of Frankly, near Brad been at ctiurch ; and immediately on his
ford, Wilt--, many ve^rs in ihe commission return home, while entering his parlours
of the peace tor W Its and Somerset. he fell dead upon the floor.
At thi- Deanry a; Battle, Sussex, Mrs. Mr. Bayley, hatter, of Marlborough.
Birch, relict ot the Rev. Thomas B. late On his return from the Isle of Wight,
sector of Thorefby, co. Lincoln. where he had been for the benefit of his
Aged 6p, Mrs. Marfham, relict of Rob. health, he died in the coach, about four
M. esq. of Stratton, Norfolk. miles from Newbury, Berks,
29. Aged (i2, Mr. ThomasTaylor, land Mr. Thomas Nash, attorney, of Abin;-
lord of the Sun public-house in St. Mar don, one of the coroners for Berks.
tin's, Stamford Baron, Lincoln. As Mrs.Travy, of Hackney, was walk
At his house in King's-gate-street, Win ing out with her child, she heard a num
chester, aged 77, James Rivers, cfq. bro ber of people, armed with staves, &c. ex
ther to the late Rev. Sir Peter Rivets Gay, claiming "A mad dog!" and saw a dog
bars, prebendary of that cathedral. advancing towards her; which so much
At Demon, Norfolk, Samuel Blackwell alarmed her that she swooned ; in which
Henley, esq. formerly a merchant of emi state she continued, except a few short in
nence at St. Petersburg. tervals, till the next day, when she ap
John Willett, esq. of Pontefract, York. • peared more composed; but so powerfully
At Christ's hospital, George-Arthur, Ion was the impression fixed on her mind,
of Mr. Lawrence Givynnc, mathematical that in a short time she sunk into her for
master of that seminary. mer state, and expired.
30. At Sandwich, in Kent, aged 82, In Enfield work-house, of hydrophobia,
Mr. William Slaughter, the oldest jurat from the bite of a mad dog, aged 24, Da
of that Corporation, of which he was three vid Warren, labourer.
times mayor; and where, for many years, On Enfield Chace-fide, after several
he was in considerable business as a tanner. years confinement from a palsy, Philippa,
Mr. James Nicholson, of York, supposed third wife and widow of Mr. William.
to have been the best performer on the pipe Herbert, who died March 17, 1795. She
and tabor in the kingdom. was daughter of John Crofhold, mayor of
In his 53d year, Mr. Bartholomew Nel Norwich, and niece to the late Robert
son, merchant, of Lynn, Norfolk, a dis Marfham, esq. of Stratton-Strawless, Nor
tant relative of the never-to-be-forgotten folk, whose widow died Aug. 27. See
Hero of the Nile. vol. LXV. pp. 202, 345.
At Weymouth, aged 18, Miss Macleod, After a few days illness, aged 23, John-
eldest daughter of Alexander Hume, esq.' Till Adams, of Cannon-street, one of th»
of Gloucester-place, Portman-lquare ; a, Society of Friends. He was a young man
young laiiyof uncommon beauty, and sine of great promise, and of good natural
and cultivated understanding. parts. His education was confined to the
31. Aged 79, Sarah, sister of the late common course of Englisli instruction ;
Rev. Robert Stylcman, of Norwich. but he evinced an ardour for study, and
In her 90th year, Mrs. Langford, relict the acquirement of useful knowledge, thai
9s John L. esq. of Worcester. has seldom been surpassed. Under cir
At Bedfont, Middlesex, Mrs. Reed, wife cumstances little favourable to improve
pf Wtlliara R. esq. ment, he obtained a large stock of gene
At Stowey-houfe, Somerset, Gcorgma, ral information, which rendered his con
lady of Lord William Stuart, son of the versation agreeable and instructive. These
Marquis of Bu'e. Her Ladyship was the. qualities of his mind were, however, ex
daughter of Cornwallis Maude, Viscount celled by the goodness of his heart ; for
Hawarden, by Anne-Isabella, lister of he was a dutiful son, an affectionate bro
Charles Stanley, Viscount Monk;, was ther, and a sincere friend; while the sim
born in 1781 ; and married in June, plicity of his manners, added to an amia
1800, to Lord, William. ble and frank disposition, endeared hirn>
Lately, an-board the Ganges East India- to all with whom he was connected.
man, on his return to England, Lieutenant Sept. I. Suddenly, while dressing her
Law, late of the 77th Foot, and son of the self, Sarah James, servant to Major DavisJ
R.ev. Dr. L. Archdeacon of Rochester. of Penzance, Cornwall.
.Sept. . . . Aged 24, three days, after his At Edinburgh, the Lady Louisa Orde,
appointment to St. George's Fever hospi fifth daughter of Robert Jocelyn, the first
tal, Dublin, Dr. Mercer, a finr' young Earl of Roden, and wife of CM. Orde, of-
man. He was the/jrottye of Dr. Plunkct ; Weechviood, co. Durham.
Aged
 1 807.] Obituary, with AnecdoU
Aged 42, John Abeam Palmer, ssq. of
Uppingham, Rutland.
Advanced in age, the Rev. Mr. Wood-
burn, vicar of Romsey, Hants, in the pa
tronage of Dean and Chapter of Winchester.
In his 84th year, Mr. John Duffin, fan-
maker, of St Martin's-le-Grand, where
he had resided 70 years in one house.
2. At Paris, in an advanced age, Le
Brun, the French Poet. He was a mem
ber of the National Institute, and of the
Legion of Honour.
Mr. Thomas Middleton, of Little St.
Thomas Apostle, London.
In Red Lion passage, Fleet-street, aged
34, Mr. Robert Jones, a master lawyer.
After a lingering illness, Mrs. Place,
wife of the Rev. H. P. rector of Marnhull,
co. Dorset.
3. In Sackville-ftreet, Dublin, Richard
Dawson, esq. M.P. for the county of Mo-
naghan ; a zealous opposer of the Union,
and the independent assertorof every mea
sure which he conceived would promote
the interest of his Country, to which he
was firmly attached. He was the eldest
son of the late Richard Dawson, esq. of
Ardee (by Anne, second daughter of Sir
Edward O'Brien, bart. of Dromoland-, co.
Clare), and nephew of Thomas Dawson,
Viscount Cremorne, to whose barony of
Cremorne, with an estate of 20,oooi. per
annum, he was the presumptive heir. He
was born April 16, 1762; and married,
May 22, 1784, Catherine, fourth daugh
ter of Col. Arthur Graham, of Hocklcy,
co. Armagh ; and has left issue an only son;
Richard-Thomas, born August l"8S,
presumptive heir to the barony cf Cre
morne ; and four daughters ; Penelope-
Catherine, Anna-M^ria, Eliza, and Louisa.
Aged 24, William-Hull Garlick, esq. of
Wollaftbn, co. Northampton.
Mrs. Rose, wife of Mr. John R. printer,
of Bristol.
At her father's house, in Camden-place,
Bath, Miss Isabella Courtenay, second
daughter of Colonel C.
At his father's house, in Gloucester
place, Mary-la-Bonne, of a deep decline,
John-Charles Fitzgerald, esq. only son of
John F. esq.
The wife of Mr. Thomas, of Cornhill.
4. At his lodgings at Portsea, Hants, Sir
Robert Chalmers, bart. commander of the
Alexander lazaretto, at the Mother-bank.
At her house in New King-street, Batri,
Mrs. Vowell, relict of Major V. who died
about 9 months since.
At Becclts, Suffolk, aged 50, after a
long and painful illness, which she en
dured with admirable composure and re
signation, Mrs. Susan Aldis, wife of,Mr.
\Villiam A. of that town. In the respec
tive stations of wife and mother, Mrs. !i.
was beneficent and gratifying ; and in her
s, of remarkable Persons. 893
friendship, zealous and sincere. In short,
she was beloved by many, and respected
by all who had the pleasure of her ac
quaintance; and has left an indulgent
husband and four children to lament her
loss. ■ Her eldest son, as a duty incum
bent on him, drew up this little article,
to perpetuate the memory of one of the
best of parents.
5. At Bath, George-Augustus-Lumley
Saunderson, Earl of Scarborough. His
Lordship was in his 54th year ; and is
succeeded in his titles and eltates by his
next brother, Richard Lumlcy, who took
the name of Savile, a Lieutenant-colonel
in the army, and who is married to Vis'
Count Middleton's sister. Richard, the
fourth Earl, and father of the late, was
Deputy Earl Marshal of England, and
married Barbara, sister to the late Sir
Geo, Savile, bart. who left his fortune to
his sister's second son ; and should he be
come Earl of Scarborough, then the same
to descend to the third son ; and so on, in
order that the two estates should not unite
with the title in one and the same person.'
The Savile estate, which is considerably
larger than the Scarborough, has, of
course, under the will, been hitherto en
joyed by the second son, the Hon. R. Lum-
ley Savile, now Earl of Scarborough, who,
on coming to his title, must resign the
larger estate, which he has hitherto pos
sessed, and take the inferior one, with the
earldom. The Hon. and Rev. John, rec
tor of Wintringham, who has several
children, will now enjoy the Savile for
tune. On the 16th, the Earl's remains
were interred in the Abbey-church, Bath.
His brother, the Hon. Col. Lumley, was
chief mourner ; and the pall was support
ed by David Hartley, Samuel Hartley, W.
H. Hartley, and White, esqrs.
At Gilmore park, in Scotland, Lieute
nant-colonel John Pringle.
6. Mr. Pardoe, farmer, of the Yew-tree,
near Ombersley. Returning from Kiddsr-
minster fair, on the 4th, he was thrown
from his horse, through the animal taking
fright, and received such a contusion on
the back of his head, that he remained
speechless till this morning, when he ex
pired, leaving a wife and several children.
At his cottage at Teddington, Middle
sex, aged 67, Thomas Whitehurst, esq.
In St. Martin's, Stamford, co. Lincoln,
Mr. Thomas Gibbs, of Stilton, co. Hunt
ingdon ; whose death was occasioned by
breaking his shin a few days before.
At Rayne parsonage, Essex, Mrs. Green-
hill, widow of the late Thomas G. esq. of
Watford, Hefts.
7. At Brghthelmstnne, Robert Robson,
esq. of Battersea-rise, Surrey.
At Hammersmi:h, Middlesex, tht wise
of Mr, Charles Grover, surgeon.
At
894 Obituary, with Anecdotes, ofremarkable Persons. [Sept.
At Hereford, aged 78', Lacon Lambe, of Cripplegate parish, who accompanied
esq. of Hcnwood, co. Warwick, father of the body to the church.
Dt. L. late nf Waiwick. Suddenly, aged 94, Mrs. Perry ; who,
At Long Sutton, co. Lincoln, where she with her husband, long kept the garden at
was on a visit, aged 57, Mrs. ShiUrto, wife the Old Palaceat Ensield.
of John S. gent, of Ickvvorch park, Suffolk. Mr.Jn. Oldficld, master of the Bell and
At Hastings, Sussex, whither he went, Johnny Gllpin public-house at Edmonton.
for the recovery of his health, in the me At Clanvisle, Hants, aged 72, the Rev.
ridian of life, of an apoplectic affection, John. Lockton.
the Rev. Richard Salway Booth. 12. At Doncaster, aged 76, Edward
8. At Bri^htlvelmstone, aged 58, Peter Mdler, Mus.D. His various publications
Mackenzie, esq. of Vcrc, in Jamaica. were very popular. His first attempt as an
Aged 20, Mils Margaret-E-"runces Ogle, author was in a pamphlet, intituled "The.
daughter of Colonel O. of Walton-upou- Tears of Yorkshire, on the Death of the
Thames,' Surrey. Most Noble the Marquis of Rockingham,'*
9. Miss Jemima Wyely, eldest daughter who was his patron. "As a pioof," Dr.
of Mr. W. jeweller, of Gofwell- place. M. fays, " bow much this great arrd good
Aged 100 years and 6 months, Mrs. man was beloved, 600 copies of this lite-,
Mary Alcock, of Aby, near Louth, co. raiy t rifle were fold in the course of a few-
Lincoln. The shirt which she made for hours, on the day of his interment ia
her first child served for 39 other children York minster." His Psalms of David,
in their infancy. for the Church of England, were patro
10. Horatio-Robert, son of Mr. Hail, nised by his Majesty and the Clergy, and
stationer, High Holboin. went forth with a list of near 5000 sub
ir. At his house at Clapham, Surrey, scribers. Other works, composed expressly
Sir William Staines, lent, the venerable Al for the Dissenters, promise to become the
derman of Cripplegate Ward, in the City standard of singing in their respective so
of London,* who had passed the Civic cieties. The Poetry of Watts and Wesley
Chair with equal reputation to himstlf have received fresh charms, from a style
and advantage to his fellow-citizens. He at once familiar and expressive, and admi
was elected into the Comrnou Council for rably adapted to the capacity of public
the Ward of Cripplegate in 1/83; ap congregations. Dr. M. was also author
pointed one of the Deputies of that ex of the " Elements of Thorough Bass and
tensive Ward in 1791 ; elected Alderman Composition." He had been 50 years or
in 1793 ; knighted 179(3; fined the of ganist at Doncaster ; of which, and its vi
fice of Sheriff 1797, and that of Lord cinity, by the assistance of many learned
Mayor iu 1801. These several offices he friends in the neighbourhood, and theis
filled with the utmost integrity. He 6omrnunicationS, he published the " His
raised himself by honest industry to opu tory and Antiquities," 1805, 4to; towards
lence ; and always had the good fense to which the Corporation gave him 50I. ; and
acknowledge his humble origin. In him which fee reviewed in our vol. LXXV. pp.
the poor have lost a fatherly protector, .010, 03M. He was one of the very few
Iris tenants a kind landlord, and his work survivors who performed in the Orarorios
men arr indulgent arrd beneficent master. of Handel, under the personal direction of
His illness was severe, but borne with that immortal Composer.
Christian fortitude. The remains of this I J. At Bethnal-house (a private asylum
worthy man were on Saturday the lyth for lunaticks), aged 32, Mr. Peter Hand,
removed from his house at Clapham, and printer, late of White Lion-str. Pcntonville.
deposited ia his family-vault in Cripple- Rev. Winfred Wilson, of Colwick, in
gate church-yard. The procession set out Staffordshire.
from Clapham- about 12 o'clock.; pro 14. At his feat at Rainham, Norfolk,
ceeded over London bridge ; stopped for George Townshend, Marquis Townfhend,
a very short time at the Mansion-house, of Rainham, Viscount Townshend, Baron
am! arrived at the church at two. There Townshend, of Lynn, and a Baronet ;
were ten. mourning-coaches, in one of Lord-lieutenant and Vice-admiral of Nor
Which were the civic sword and mace, folk ; a Field-marshal, Colonel of the 2d
accompanied by the proper officers ; in Regiment of Dragoon-guards, and Go
the next were the Lord Mayor and Re vernor of Jersey ; closing, in his B4tlt
corder of London. In the others were year, a long life, laudably devoted and
two Aldermen, several Common Coun- honourably employed in the service of
«il-men, and many of the deceased's his Country. His Lordship was a godson
friends. The mourning-coaches were fol of his Majesty George 1. ; and served
lowed by the private carriages of the de under George 11. in the battle of Dettin-
ceased, the Lord Mayor, &c. At the end gen. He served also in the battles of Fon-
of Aldersgatc-street, the proceslion was tenoy, Culloden, and Laseldt ; also at the
met by the beadles and charity children memorable siege of Quebec, which town
fcU
1807 .~\Ohituary of remarkable Persons.—Bill of Mortality. ?k)£j
Jell into his hands as Commander in In his Ogth year, John Thompson, esq.
Chief, after the deplored death of the of Chiswick, Middlesex.
immortal Wolfe. His Lordship was also 17. At the vicaTage-house at Lintort,
at the battle of Fellinghausen ; and served Co. Cambridge, of a decline, Mrs. Fisher,
a campaign in Portugal, under that re wife of the Rev. Edmund F. and daughter
nowned general, Count La Lippe. He of Mrs. Collin, of Walden, and sister to
server] Hie offices of Lieutenant-general the Rev. John Collin, rector of Quendon,
and Master-general of the Ordnance ; and and Captain Collin, of Walden. She hat
filled the station of Viceroy of Ireland for left four young children.
five years, during which he peculiarly At Norton-Fitzwarren, after a short ill-
conciliated the affections of the people. nell, Thomas Bampfyld Tyndale, esq. bar
By his first wife, Charlotte, Baroness De rack-master at Taunton, Somerset, and
Ferrers, of Chartley, only daughter of the adjutant of the Langport Volunteers.
F.arl of Northampton, he has left the Earl At her father's feat, Florence, third'
of Leicester, now Marquis of ToWnfhend, daughter of John Jones, esq. of Lanarth
Lord John Townfhend, and Lady Eliza court, in Monmouthshire.
beth Loftus. The Marchioness died, most At Brighthelmstone, Major Alexander
universally regretted, during the Marquis's Macfarlan, in' the E. I. Company's service.
viceroyalty in Ireland. His second mar Suddenly, John Withers, esq. of Pixton-
riage was with Miss Anna Montgomery, hill, Sussex.
the youngest daughter of the late Sir Wil 18. In her 20th year, Charlotte, eldest
liam M. bart. by his first rharriage ; and daughter of 'James Lindsay, esq. of Mer-
by this lady the Marquis has left six chil ton, co. Surrey.
dren ; namely, Lady Anne-Hudson, the At Dartford, Kent, Mr. Henry Couch-
puchess of Leeds, two unmarried daugh man, veterinary surgeon.
ters, and two sons. AtBarnwood, co. Gloucester, Mrs. Mor
At Bristol, of a ccnfumption, Miss New- _ ris, relist of the late John M. el'q. and mo
ton, niece and only surviving relative of ther of Robert M. esq. M.P. for Gloucester.
the celebrated Chatterton, for whose be 19. At Brompton, in his, 75th year.
nefit an edition of his Works was lately Rear-admiral John Robinson, of Benufort-
published by subscription, under the di buiidings, in the Strand. His remains
rection of Mr. Southcy and Mr. Cottle. were interred in Si. Clement's church,
(See vol. LXXIV. p. 7-21.) Strand, followed by his two sons and six
. In an apoplectic fit, while walking on Naval Captains.
the Steyne, at .Brighthelmstone, James AtStanmore, Middlesex, Mrs. Roberts,
Hawkins, esq. of Croydon, Surrey. wife of Wm. R. esq. and mother of Rev.
15. In his 59th year, Mr. Alderman Mr. R. vicar ol St. Peter's at St. Alban's.
Burbidge, of Leicester; of which'borough At the house of his son-in-law (James
he served the office of mayor in 1792, and Huffey, esq.) at Salisbury, E. Hinxman,
discharged his public duties with integrity esq. of Durnford-house, one of the alder
and independence. In private life he was men of that city.
deservedly esteemed, as an affectionate fa 20. Found dead on Enfield chace, sup
ther, a good neighbour, and sincere friend. posed from a fit of apoplexy, Mr. Benja
Aged 76, Mr. T. Wilkins, 40 years a min Knott, farmer.
schoolmaster at Granthani, co. Lincoln. At Chcrtsey, Surrey, after a long illness,
■ 16. At Leicester, aged 70, Mrs. Lee, re Miss Wightwick, eldest daughter of John
lict of the late Rev. John Lee, M. A. rec W. esq. of Sandgates.
tor of Burton Overy, in Leicestershire. At Wootton-Baflett, John Ralph, esq. in
At Huntingdon, a^ud 35, Edward-Lloyd the commission of the peace for Wilts, and
Edwards, el'q. only son o-f Edward E. esq. an alderman of Wootton-Baflett.
of Cerriglluydion, near Ruthin, in Den 21. At Lewes, Sussox, aged 61, much
bighshire, and late major of the Royal regretted, Francis Whitfeld, esq. banker.
Flintshire Militia. 26. At his house in Kingsland, Mr. Geo;
At Chichefter, Sussex, Mrs. Lane, wife Murray, many years a shoe contractor sot
of William L. esq. of the Minerva Office, . ti e Royal Navy.
Leadenhall-street. 27- At Hanwell, after a long illness, in
Suddenly, while in the act of lighting her 29th year, Miss Hansard, eldest daugh
the candles at Lady Huntingdon's chapel, ter of Mr. H. of Great Turnstile, Holborn.
at Bath, Jones. *»* P ro M ot 1 o U s,&iC.imavoidabl>jclefcrrtd.
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Christened. Buried. 50 and 60 86
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Females 595 Females 552 70 and 80 48
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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE s
Lond. Gazette Cumberland
General Even. Doncaster—Derb.
Lloyd's Evening Dorchest.—Essex
St.James's Chron Exeter 2,Glouc.
(London Chron. Halifax
j Brit.Press—Globe Hampshire 2
London Evening Hereford, Hull 2
.The Son—Star Ireland 38
London Packet lpsw.2,Kentish 2
EnglishChron. Lancast.—Leices.
.Times—Whiteh-. Leeds 2—Lewes
iMorning Chron. Liverpool 5
1 Morning Herald Maidstone
M. Post—Ledger Manchester 4
■Courier--Ev. Ma. Newcastle S
'Dai.Ad.&Oracle Northampton
Morning Advert. Norf.—Norwi. 2
Traveller—News Nottingham
Commer. Chron. Oxfords. Ports.
18 Weekly Papers Reading—Saliib.
Bath 3, Bristol 6 Scotland 15
Birmingham 3 Salop—Sheffield
Blackburn Sherborne, Surry
BuryS. Edmund's Shrewlb.—Sussex
Cambridge Staffordshire
Canterbury 2 OCTOBER, -18.07. Stamford—Tyne.
Carli.—Chester Wakefi.—WarW2
Chelmsfoid 2 CONTAINING "Winch.—Wore.
Cornw.—Covent. York 3, Jersey
Meteorological Diary for Sept. and Oct. 1 807 , 89& Hurchinson's Durham—Familyof Laurence 933
Col. Riddell on his Remedy for Fevers 8t)y M. Garnerin's Nocturnal Aerial Voyage . . ibid.
Mr. Perkins on the Treatment of Fevers . . . 900 Review of New Publications; viz.
Melancholy Death of Lieutenant Wartou 9"l Brideman'sNichomacheanEthicsofAristotle937
Rev. Dr. Comber—The Barony of Roos ibid. Holmes'? Treatises on Scriptural Subjects . 940
Ochiltree Peerage—Miscellaneous Remarks 90- Maltby's Letter to Huntingdonsh.Freeaolde.rs9 12
- Letters from Holland and Germany in 17<)4. ib T'heWarnrrrgVoice— Letter toMr.Whitbread 943
Field and Flag Officers—Unitarian Chapels 904 Epics of the Ton, or Glorias of the great World,ib.
Epitaphs in the Church of Werterham, Kent 90; Mr.Colquhoun's Treatise on Indigence, &c. 945
The Removal of Lincoln Spires deprecated Qob she Calendar ; or, Monthly Recieations 048
Holt's Collections for History of 'Liverpool 91 Dakins's Fast Sermon—Owen's Sermon . 950
Inscriptions for Elucidation, at Appleby, &e.yi;> Rowland for an Oliver—Kinglake on Gout Qstl
Castre, a RomanStation inNorfolk, described 014 TheCrifis—MoralMaxims fromEcclasiafticus052
ChurchNotesfromEye, Sufi'.—Cutler Family 91; Chart of Sacred History—Hebrew Copy-book ib. j
Old Brass Seal—Coin- found atCetne Abbey 916 .iterary Intelligence—»IndexIndi catorius ib.
Dr. Lettsom's Forty-foui thLetter on Prisons ibid. Select Poetry for October lso7, 053-950
Mr. Neitd's Remarks on Shrewsbury Gaol . 917 Proceedings in the late Session of Parliament 957
THE"PrtojECTon,aperiod. Paper, N" LXXV.919 Interesting Intel!, from the London Gazettes 960
Mr. Douce on Mr. Pye's Comments 022 Abstract of the principal Foreign,Occurren.cesg62
A RCHITECTURAL InNO 1 ATI ON, N°, CXIII.02; Country News—Domestic Occurrences . . . 968
Architectural Survey of Waltham Abbey . . 929 Biographical MemoirsofC.M'Cormick,LL.B.973
Mr. Le Mesurier's Answer to Dr. Laurence 930 AdditionsandCorrectionsinformei Obituaries 974
Dr Laurence's Reply to Mr. Le Mesurier 902 Marriages and Deaths of eminent Persons p" 5
Advice for'a'ny Fever during the first Week 933 Bill fif Mortality—Prices of the Markets 001
Illustrations of Horace, Book I. Epistle XL 934 Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks 992
Embellished with a Perspective View of Westerham Church in Kent ;
■ Plan of a Roman Camp at Castre in Norfolk ;
Antient Inscriptions, Coin, Seal, &c. 1
By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent.
Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion, Passage, Fleet-street, London j
where all Lettersto the Editor are desired to be addressed, Post-i-aid, 1807.
i rbermom. Barom.
ft ~ it « WEATHER.
- 1 1U fiO
& S o c 0
i 31 64 to- 9 mostly cloudy
5 S4 6s 3«- 9 cloudy at times
3 58 67 30- 7 ditto
4 62 69 30- 4 cloudy, some light showers
5 61 6i 29-19 cloudy, some light rain, very high wind
6 sa 60 20-13 cloudy in general, some light rain
r a 59 29-19 ditto
■ 50 00 30- 4 cloudy at times, some light rain
9 57 66 29-17 cloudy, frequent light showers .
10 54 55 30- 3 cloudy, eveniDg clear
li 44 59 30- 6 mostly clear
l» 50 57 30- 3 cloudy at times, some rain
u 40 53 30- 4 cloudy at times
14 38 58. 30- 5 mostly cloudy
IS 40 55 30- 5 ditto
16 49 59 30- 5 mostly clear
48 54 30- 4 ditto
ss 40 54 30- 3 clear
»9 , 45 55 SO- 5 clear
SO 45 59 30- 8 cloudy at times, some light rain
SI 57 sg 30- 6 cloudy and rainy
13 57 62 30- 1 ditto
13 59 62 29-17 rain most of the day
34 54 62 29-16 mostly cloudy, some light rai»
SS 51 60 29-13 cloudy at times, some (howers
s6 52 58 29-1" cloudy at times, some light rain
59 62 29-l6 cloudy, showery
28 55 60 29-19 clear
«9 50 55 30- 1 rainy, evening very high wind
■0 50 59 20-18 morning cloudy, afternoon clear.

The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight A. M. are 48 7-30 ; those

of the corresponding month in 1806 were 54 16-30; in l*ej, 58; and in I804j
56, l-3d.
The quantity of rain fallen this month is 3 inches 6g-l00th<i; that of the corre
sponding month in the year 1806 1 inch 8l-lOQths ; in 1805, 1 inch 59-lOOths ; i»
1804, 28-lOOths; and in 1803, 1 inch 46-lOOths.

Meteorological Table for October 1807. By W. Cary, Strand.

Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. \ 1 Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.
ef Month, cl.80 Morn. Noon. ? Barom. Weather
Day ofDay1!
Month o'cl.
181 Morn. Noon. cl10 Night. Barom. Weather
2f in.pts. in Oct. 180?.^ 1H. ptS. n Qct. 1807.

Sept. 0"" 0 0 ! Oct. e 0 0.

59 6fi 54 *9,45 fair " j 13 58 65 59 30 ,22 cloudy
*7
28 54 60 47 .71 fair ' 14 59 66 59 ,20. feir
«9 46 ^56 53 j ,60 rain I 15 59 65 55 ,06 cloudy i
30 56 60 45 ,62 fair 16 50 62 52 ,13 cloudy
O.I 41 56 51 30,19 cloudy 17 53 62 56 ,01 cloudy-
I 56 64 56 ,04 fair 18 59 59 48 ,02 fair
3 57 64 57 ,12 fair 19 42 58 52 ,25 fair
4 56 64 56 ,17 fair 20 51 6.4 55 29,89 fair ,j ■ > ■
S 56 65 57 ,03 fair 21 55 63 54 ,46 fair
« 56 60 56 ,03 cloudy 22 52 56 50 ,31 rain
7 57 67 59 ,00 fair 23 46 51 41 ,24 cloudy
8 58 ?9 50 S9.85 cloudy 24 38 53 46 ,s6 showery
a 1 51 59 54 30,15 fair 25 47 55 so ,65
10 1 s? 64 58 ,13 cloudy 26 41 S5 44 ,63 cloudy
11 ; ss 65 57 ,10 cloudy
I;*? 64 53 I ,0S cloudy
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i

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

For OCTOBER, 1807.

*»* 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.
nutes, when the man felt great relief.
I then forced open one of the eve-lids,
and found the ball of the eye had been
slightly wounded, but no lead was
visible in any part of it ; this eve now
felt comfortable, but the other was ilill
very painful. On examination I found
this had been badly wounded, and the
lead which struck it was separated into
many small particles. By rolling folds
of soft paper worked to a point, I was
enabled to extract them ; and the man
felt greatly relieved. I continued the
application ; and in the space of twenty
minutes, he was able to open bi>th
eyes, free from pain or inconvenience.
In about three hours afterwards, 1 had
occasion to pals bv the place where the
accident happened, and found the man
at work, the inflammation wholly sub
sided, and as well as if no such circum
stance had occurred.
Yours, &c. John Riddell.
Mr. Urban, ^meat^n, Warwick.
' , Jnire, Oct. 17.
NOTICING in your Magazine for
August last" Cp- o'99) Colonel
Riddell's account of his treatment of
Fevers, I must observe I have used a
similar treatment in fevers for several
years past, and can now confidently
fay, I am able to anticipate all fevers ;
the remedy I use is easily prepared,
and is much superior to Dr. James's
Powder*. I should be happy and
willing at anv time to render any as
sistance to Government, and make a
fair trial of the fame in any of the
Military Hospitals for their approval;
and can allure them of its certain suc
cess. The reason I so long retained
tnv experiment was, to be certain of
the plan before I made any proposal.
My mode of giving the medicine is
no ostener than twice a day, mixed in
a little cold water. I then allow them to
drink freely of odd water, which is grate
ful to such patients ; and have noticed
the cooling process after 10 be Ib expe
ditious, that it had frequently like the
appearance of a charm. The fever
then was hastened of its course, and in
a manner more proper than the treat
ment proposed bv the late Dr. Currie.
Now, Mr. Urban, I was led to this
mode of treatment, by observing the
human body undergoing a loss os sub
stance every twenty-four hours, and
thought lni,t: nothing c uld be bet
ter for accelerating the process of fe
ver, than its pasting quickly through
Perkins on Fevers. [Oct.
the body. That gentleman, Colonel
R'ddell, although not a medical man,
has certainly great knowledge of fever ;
and, having* studied much the subject,
1 havegreailv regretted the present me
thods of treatment, such as excessive
bleedings, blistering, Arc. [Seep. 700.J
Yours, Sec. Philip Perkins.
Mr. Urban, Oct. so.
\ S von often admit in your valua-ble
i - Repository memoirs or characters
of men either eminent in their lives
or unfortunate in their deaths, it is
requested you would insert in your
ne.U Magazine the following stiorl me
moir of a brave young officer in the
Navy, who very lately lost his life, by
being drowned, in an act of doing his
duty in pursuance of an Enemy's ves
sel. Had it pleased Heaven to preserve
him, he would have been an honour
to his King and to his Country,
I shall, however, try to rescue hi*
lamented death from oblivion ;
" He shall not sleep in his lqw watery
grave
Unwept—unsung—without the tear
Of some true, faithful friend."
Milton.
I am aware, however, that Biogra-,
phy is often, from the peculiar merit
of the person who is the subject of it,
so delightful to the writer, that he of
ten knows not how to adapt his ex-
prcflions so Tts to satisfy his feelings,
and at the fame lime do justice to the
character he is describing, without
rendering, himself liable to the suspi
cion of partiality or interest. In the
present rale, however, there is no fear
his character will be exaggerated. But
I will intrude no longer on vour pa
tience, but hasten to the short memoir,
"Thefuhjeet of this small tribute
of affection was the grandson of the
late lamented and ever-honoured Dr.
Warion, whose public character and
priva'e virtues are beyond my fee
ble praise. This excellent friend he
lost bv death a few years since ; and
lately had the additional misfortune of
losing his worthy father, bv a very
sudden death. He was then a mid
shipman in the Royal Navy, in Lord
Nelson's squadron, in which situation
he served the usual time, most honour
ably ; in consequence of which good
conduct, he soon obtained a lieuten
ancy. The reader is not to expect in
this short (ketch of my lamented young
friend, any wonderful adventures,
strange
 1807.] Melancholy Death of Mr. Warton.—Dr. Comber. 901'
strange turns of fortune, or surprizing
discoveries, like those os a Capt. Cook,
or a Vancouver. Alas 1 his (liort (but
useful) career in this world was loon
terminated, at the early age of twenty-
two. His life was privaie, aud blame
less. The useful virtues of honesty,
benevolence, and integrity, were the
chief traits in his character ; and ■-. Iiicli
are of ni ire real use lo the community
in general, than all the rank and titles
of the great. He had derived from na-,
ture a lirong understanding, and an
excellence of disposition, which con
ciliated the affection of Ml who knew
him. His excellent state of health,
his manly form, strength, and vivacity,
rendered him quite a fii subject to en
counter perils incident to his line of life.
" His unexpected death is a striking
proof of the uncertainty of human life,
and of how little able we are to judge
of what is most likely to prove fatal j
for amazing is it to reflect, that al
though this brave young man was in
the ranks of Death in the dreadful but
glorious battle of Trafalgar (in which
his ship the Belleisle was a perfect
wreck from its noble exertions), and
death and destruction around him,
whilst he was supporting, covered with
blood, some poor fellows who died in
his arms ; yet he was then preserved ;
and at length, not long since, loli his
valuable life by an act of duty to his
Country, in chacing an enemy's vessel
in the Channel ofl Portland ; which
his ardent, brave spirit, induced him
to pursue in his sbip's-boat, with a
midshipman and four seamen : and
they were very nearly boarding the
Enemy (though greatly superior in
numbers) when the boat upset, and
was instantly buried in the waves,
'Whilst pitying Angels bore his soul, to
Heaven.'
And, I humbly trust, he was ' taken
from the evil to come," to that state of
happiness which his merits Ib justly
deserved.
■" The fatal spot in which this un
fortunate younjg man perished, was
what is calle l 'The tface of Portland ;'
where the Halfewell, and many hun
dreds of brave men, have met with a
watery grave, hi the present case,
there is somet hing peculiarly distressing
in the fate of a voting man cut off in
the very prime of life ; and who, frem
his own good conduct, and flattering
hopes of success, had every prospect of
being an honour to his King and.
Cpuntry."
A sincerely afflicted friend firrds a
momentary consolation in this small
tribute of affection to the memory of a
dear and lamented friend. Z. Z.
Mr. Urban, S. C. Oct. 8.
o Ipondent Scrutator's remarks ou
t he day of Dr. Comber s burial (p. '808,
col. 2,) I immedi.uels turned to the
Sermon he mentions bv Mr. Boreman.
The title is as follows : " The Triumph
ot' Faiih over Death ; or, the Jull
Man's Memoriall : comprised in *
Punei;y rick and Sermon, ai the Fune-
rall ot the religious, most learned Dr.
Combar, late Mailer of Trinity. Col
lege, in Cambridge, and Deane of
Carlisle. Delivered in Trinity College
Chdppi-ll. By A. 8. B. D. the 29. of
March, 1()53 [ Three quotations from
the Hebrew and Latin.] London,
Printed by J. C. for R. Roystou,, at
the Angel in Ivy-lane, lf)54." The
Latin Epitaph wriiten by Duport, and
prefixed to this P.inegyrick, exprelles
ttie day of his death 10 have been 28
Feb. l6'53. The Biographia Britaii-
nica quo es Browne Willis, who gives
the lame day of his de.ith, and fays he
w.is buried on ihe 3d March in St.
Botolph's church in Cambridge. Per
haps the Sermon was preached at the
Funeral; but the Puncgyrick, which
is prefixed to it, aud consists of 1(5
pages, might be delivered,as the title fays,
in Trinity College Chapel, on the 2f)th
of March, lt)53. It should be recol
lected that Letsome, in his " Preacher's
Assistant," does not profess to register
any sermons piloted before ihe Resto
ration. Tins sermon, which is on
Rom. viii. 1 1 . is referred to by Crowe
in his Catalogue of English Writers
on ihe Old and New Testament, 2d.
edit. Loud. 1663, Svo. 11 W.
Mr. Urban, OB. 20.
IN answer to " A Constant Header,''
p. 629, I beg to observe, tha< when
the Houie of Lords, on the 7>ti of
May, 1806, resolved, "That ihe Ba-
mny of IJpos remains in the Coheirs of
Robert de Roos, who was summoned to
Parliament by the st\le os Robert de
Roos in the 49th year of Henry III.;
and that the said Coheirs are Sir Tho.
Win. Hnnloke.bart. George Earl ofEs
sex, and Lady Henry Fitzgerald ;" they
expressly decided against any righi of
the Dukeof Rutland to the title of Roos.
With regard to the Ochiltree Peer
age,
902 Barony of Roos.-Ochiltree Beerage.-Miscellanies. [Oct.
age, I beg to inform him, that at the
time Andrew Lord Ochiltree and his
son the mailer, fold the Barony of
Ochillree to their cousin James, he
was in lieu thereofcreated Lord Castle-
Stewart of the Kingdom of Ireland, by
Jlatent dated in ib'lo, and also received
arge grants of land there from James
I. to whom he was related. All the
parties, therefore, interested in the Ba
rony of Ochiltree having received an
adequate consideration for it, it cannot
revert to the representatives of the men
who alienated it; and of that opinion
was the House of Lords in 1793, when
they decided against the claim of the
present Earl of Castle Stewart. C. C.
Mr. Urban, Oct. 21.
PERMIT me to thank yonr corre
spondent B. for his communication
respecting Dr. Cotton.
P. 587. Sam. Bricknell. What was
he imprisoned for?
P. 588. col. 2. Rev. YVm. Dawson
is said to have been of Queen's Coll.
Oxford, M. A. 1728. At that rate, he
snullhaie been nearly 100 years old.
But the Wm. Dawson who took his
master's degree at that lime was af
terwards President of Williamfhurgh
College in Virginia, and in 1/40' a
D. D. by diploma.
P. 58(). col? 2. Rev. John Lavington
published two Sermons, one in 1713,
the other, on a funeral occasion, 1 ~-r'7 •
P. 6'08. Mr. Lnvrence's death is
recorded in the Gent. Mag. vol. II. p.
77ft. He occurs frequently in thai enter
taining medley, VVhilton's Life.
P. ()H5. The death of the Bishop os
Rapboe was given in vol. LXXV.286,
probably by mistake, though 1 do not
find it corrected.
Ibid. Rev. Joshua Betkeley. Not
surely son of the late Bishop : perhaps
nephew, or?son of Dr. Robert B. Vicar-
general of Cloyne.
P. 701. The gentleman mentioned
here, as being the dupe or the accom
plice of Joanna Southcote, was also a
firm believer in Brothers the Prophet;
1 fay a firm believer, for a man be
lieves very firmly, whom experience
will not cure. Mr. Brothers, it is well
known, was a tool in the hand of the
Democrats, to create a depression in
the public mind. What Joanna may
be, I hope the Magistrates will en
quire, and give somewhat more than a
jharp look-out.
P. 717. Senilis' remarks on public
education are sensible ; but as to dis
cipline, little can be done in public
schools or college?, unless discipline
begins at home. In the few cafes that
have come before the pithlick of severity
in masters, we have found that the
parents have uniformly taken the part
of their sons. Obedience to superiors,
submission and humility, which mull
all compote a tcacliable disposition, are
fast wearing out of the practice of pa
rents, especially of the higher classes.
Pert, forward, and insolent manners,
are accounted marks of genius!
P. 78a. Mrs. Barrington, the Bi
shop's./ecimd wife.
P. 818. A correspondent inquires
whether there are any descendants of
Dr. Mead now exijling ? His grandson,
the Rev. James Mead, died June 1772,
a young man of 2() years; who, I
think, died unmarried. Farther 1 can
not trace the family.
I should esteem it a favour if any of
your Correspondents could furnish
some account of Mr. Lewis, who trans
lated Statins. He was of Pembroke
college, Oxford ; but I have not been
able to trace him farther. R. S.
Mr. Urban, Oct. 22.
T'HE situation of the Poor having at
last attracted the attention of the
Legislature, 1 beg leave to observe, that
the immorality and misery which pre
vails among them, is, in a great degree,
to be attributed to the alarming increase
pf Public-houses," &c. In support of this,
assertion, take one (act. In Whitecross
street, St. Luke's parish, measuring only
3 furlongt' 18 poles, there are no lels than
2ft public-houses and dram-shops; and
in C-oUlen Lane (not 100 yards from it)
12 houses of the fame description.
A 'Friend to the Poor.
Letters from Holland aud Ger
many m 1704.
, . Letter IV.
Nimcguen, April 18, 179,4.
My dear Friend,
\"\/ E took our leave of Utrecht on
VV Tuesday morning the 25th. It
is a beautiful and elegant place; and
men of taste, science, and fashion
need be at no loss for congenial so
ciety at Utreclu. We had rather an
unpleasant occurrence on setting out.
The commissary attempted to impose
upon us by charging extravagantly
for our horses : we remonstrated with
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.
Mr. Urban, Birmingham, June 2.
MR. Hasted, in the first volume of
his History of Kent, p. 382—
8g0, has given a full account of the
pleasant little town of Westerham ; hut,
his plan not admitting monumental
inscriptions, I heg you to preserve
them in your Magazine, accompanied
with a view of the Church (Plait I.)
Yours, &c. William Hamper.
Monumental Inscriptions in
Westerham Church, Kent.
On mural monuments in the South
aile :
1.
With the effigies of a man and wo
man kneeling at a .desk :
When monuments and tombs erected,
By time or rapine are dejected,
The man that for his Countrie's good
In times unjust hath justly stood,
Deserved Fame (hall longe renowoe him,
And Virtue (hall for ever crowne him.
Thomas Potter, of Wellstreate, in the
county of Kent, esq. having wth much
integritia and reputation executed yc of
fice of a Justice of Peace in y' said
County about fifty yeares, continuing^
the whole course of his life liberall and
bountifull to the poore, constantly and
painefully studious of Divinitie, Law, and
Phisick; for theise and many other his
virtues, liv'd and died beloved of all good
people that knew him and his worth.
He first married Mary, the daughter and
one of the coheires of Richard Tich-
bourne, of Eatonbridge, in the said county,
esq. a very relligious and virtuous gentle
woman, by whom he had issue one sonne
Nisell, of greate hope, who died aboute
the age of 21 yeares, and three daughters,
Lucrece and Ursula, who died in their
infancy, and Dorothe, y« wise of John
Rivers, esq. eldest sonne of Sir George
Rivers, of Chast'ord, in the said county,
knight, and now y* sole heyre of her de
ceased parents. He secondly maried Dame
Eliz: Lady Rivers, yet living, lale wife
of Sir John Rivers, knight, late Lord
Mayor of y« Citty of London. He hav
ing lived unto the age of 7 7 yeares, de
ceased the 31st day of January, 1611,
to whose memorie this monument is
erected.
2.
In memory of Mrs. Bridget Andrews,
relict of Benj. Andrews, gent, late of
Allington, in Lincolnshire, and daughter
of Stephen Odiarne, gent, late of Nor-
thiam, in the county of Sussex. She died
in this town, at the age of 05 years,
^pn Saturday, the 9th day of November,
177$-
Giwt. Mao, Octeitr, 1807.
2
905
3.
Juxta heic, viator, reconditas legas ci-
neres calentesAntonij Earning, mercatoris,
nobili stirpe BarOnum Anguevinenfiura
oriundl, qui, peragratis varijs orbis terra-
rum partib5, ad Indcas usque Orientales
bis penetravit; domum reversus, Deo,
patriæ, amicis, bonis deniq. omnib' ch'a-
rus, heic demumrequiel'dt. Susanna Tho
rns; Manning de Valens in agro Cantiano
armig. filia unigenita, uxor mceremissima,
(ex qitaru suscepit liberos id. reliquit lu-
perstites tilios duo?, riliolam utiiCim)
conjngi bcnV-merito P. C Ibijt Feb.
xiii. mdclxxvii.
• 4.œtat. lh:.
James, son of Colonel Edward Wolfe
and Henrietta his w;se, was born in this
parish |anuaTy 2, mdccxxvii. and died
in America September 13, mbcclix.
Conqueror of Quebec.
Whilst Seorge in sorrow bows his laurel'd
head, [dead ; _
And bids the Artist grace the Soldier
We raise no t'culptur'd trophy to thy name,
Brave youth! the fairest in the list of
Fame : [year ;
Proud of thy birth, we boast th' auspicious
Struck with thy fall, we shed a general
tear ; [stone,
With humble grief inscribe one artless
And from thy matchless honours date our
own.
J, dcæs, I, nofirum.
s,'"<, 5. ■
Near this monument, in a brick grave,
is interred the body of Ranulph Ataiinipg,
gent, who departed this life June the loth,
171-2, in the omh year of his age. Also
Catherine his wife, daughter of the wor-
fhipfull Samuel Missenden, esq. Deputy
Governor of the Merchants Adventurers of
England resiJing in Hamburgh, died
March the llth, 1732, in the >2d year of
her age. This monument was erected
by Ranulph Manning, eldest son of the
above-named : he departed this life the
llth day of May, 1700, in the 76th year
of his age, and is interred at the foot of
this monument. '
6.
In hopes of a joyful resurrection
through the merits of our blessed Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, near this place
are laid to reft the bodies of Ralph Man
ning, gentleman, who departed this life
the 9th day of April 1786, aged 90 years ;
and also Arina his wife, who died July
the isth, 17^9, aged "2. Also four of
their- beloved children, three of whom
died young ; Edwa,rd died June the 29th,
1749, in the 2sih year of his age.
From early youth fear God with filial
awe, [saw.
And guide thy conduct by his righteous
Should
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.

• The rules laid down by Longinus, as productive of or diminishing sublimity, will

equally apply to the Sublime in Architecture as to the Sublime in Composition. See
sect. I in finerrr, sect. 3 and 5, which may perhaps apply to the florid style of Hen. VI 1.
Sect. 7, Compare the English and ©recian Styles with the rules here laid down ; i. e.
stand at the West end of St. Paul's and the Weft end of Westminster Abbey, and lee
Which strikes most : or take any country booby unskilled in art, place him in a simi
lar situation, and ask him which affects him most, he will answer the latter. Lord
Orferd never made a more true or just observation in his life, when he laid, " One
must have taste to feel the beauties of Grecian Architecture, but passions to feel those
of Gothic." See also sect, to; 30, 3S, 36, SO, 40, 41, 42.
+ For what purpose, said I to my attendant round the Cathedral, was this done?
*' Lead, you know, Sir, is very valuable, and slate comes much cheaper," was the
answer. The promoters of the scheme have dons wisely to keep their names a secret.
*" J See a ground-plan of the Cathedral previous to this alteration in Gough's Cam- *
den, co. Lincoln,
ever.
gxo The Removal of'Lincoln Spires deprecated. [Oct.'
ever, the next sight ihe County* will stall-work in the Choir depends ' oft ■
he treated wiih, will be the roof si rip the caprice of one of the Reniieaitiaries
ped of in lead, the r.ifiers leiel'ed i- i'h of tliis Church ; who has it in con
the battlements, and (late substituted templation to destroy the whole, and .
for an an;cjc which would have en- ^ to erect common pews as a substitute.
dured as long as the stone-work which To express wonder at all this, seeing
it covered. much worse has been done in almost
' Bv taking awav (lies- spires, one every Cathedral in the kingdAUji, would)
principal source of external grandeur be of no use; in (hort, I should not
in Lincoln Cathedral is now entirely wonder is the whole building was soon
lost Kvery one knows how destitute to be annihilated as useless lumber.
the County is of natural beauties, from In the third volume of Do^d.ilt's
•he flatness of i:s situation. To sup Monallicon are several' engravings of
ply this deficiency in the wofks of Na this Cathedral bv Hollar. The follow
ture, our ancestors refolded to adorn ing are the principal alterations the
the CountiJ with the works of Arts ; building has undergone fiqce l67~,
mid erected on one of its most lofiv si when the views were taken.
tuations, a fabtic scarcely equalled in 1. North view ; including the Clois
point of size and magnificence by any ters and part of ihe Chapter house. In
building in ihe woild, an object visible this view the Centre Tower appears
almost from one extremity of the with its majestic Spire, as it stood pre
Coun.iv to die other. What the ge- ' vious to its destruction by a storm in
Der.il effect was before the centre tower 1547. The North side of the Cloisters
lost iis spire bv a storm, can onlv be (not seen here) has been destroyed, and
conjectured ; what was the effect of a Grecian colonnade with a Library
the two remaining spires, every one over it substituted, which must have
knows : and let any unprejudiced per been done about Hollar's time.
son judge if the appearance os the 2. South view. No alterations, ex
building is improved by their demoli cept ihe wall running round the base
tion. ment story, which iias been removed,
The Counlv have viewed this trans and its place supplied by a modern
action with a concern which, while it railing of wood.
reflects credit on tbeir judgment, shews 3 Kail (orratherNorth-eafi)view;comT
bow carefully the repairs of buildings prehemting the West Towers wiih their
ought to be conducted which are confi- Spires in perspective, the Centre Tower,
deredas national on which the individu North Transepts, and Chapter boose.
als of a Nation have an undoubted right The Chapter-house was laid open 18()fi,
to deliver their opinion, and which may bv the removal of the wali which here,
tend to reflect credit or discredit on the surrounds it.
national taste: No City in the kingdom 4. West (or rather North-West)
bas, perhaps, undergone less altera view ; with the North Transept and
tions in a modern point of view (con- Chapter-house in perspective. No al
ftderintr, the wealth and extent of the terations except the Spires, which hero
Counlv) iliur Lincoln. What, how appear to most advantage.
ever, it has lost in mod' rn irnprove- 5. Interior view, looking from the
ineii', is still leen in the remains of Well, and comprehending the entire
antient magnificence scattered through length from East to Well; which is
out every part of it, the destruction os now in some measure obstructed bv
which all the uniformity of modern the organ, which is placed over the
elegance can never amend. screen. The br.issless slabs on the
It may not be amiss to mention a pa\emept of the Naye are likewise re
report now abroad, this the gorgeous moved, and placed on each sidetheChoir.

* 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
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iSoy.] Inscriptions for Elucidation.—Castre, in Norfolk. 913
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
plv with my correspondent's request,
and offer a few desultory remarks on a
subject which I neither contemplate as
one nearly forgotten, nor venture upon
with terror as one of a dangerous and
intoxicating nature.
My predecessors have frequently
treated this subject, anil, in order to
speak with more precision, have even
attempted to define Beauty; but as 1
find nothing but confusion and contra
dictions in all they have handed down
to us bv way of definition1, I shall not
repeat their conjectures. This is indeed
one of those subjects which may- he
discussed very amicably without the
aid of a definition, because it is what
every man understands, or thinks he
understands, before he knows what a
definition means : and it is what every
woman acquires a notion of, the mo
ment she contemplates herself in a look
ing-glass. A definition therefore is
not only useless in the present case,
but I humbly conceive might be inju
rious. If we could exactly tell what
form of features, what tint of complex
ion, what height of stature, and what
degree of plumpness constituted Beauty,
it is plain that thousands would be ex
cluded, who not only are Beauties in
the opinion of their admirers, but even,
I am inclined to think, in their own
opinion. Without, then, giving our
selves any more trouble about defini
tions, let us consider a sew of the cir
cumstances which attend the possession
of Beauty.
And first I must observe that Beauty
is universelly attractive ; but this is an
observation so very trite, that I should
'have been ashamed to set it down, is I
had not meant to follow it by censuring
the barren invention of the admirers of
beauty, who have no other means of
praising its attractions than by compar
ing them to the force of the magnet.
Perhaps, however, they may have a
latent meaning for this figure, and
would insinuate that some of the beaus
who are attracted by beauty, are really
of not more value than the pins and
needles by which experimental philoso
phers shew us the power of the loadstone.
The attraction of beauty is so gene
rally allowed, that I think in the (pace
of lix thousand years and upwards, no
writer has been found hardy enough to
deny it ; if we except certain metapho
rical reasoners, of the rhyming tribe,
who affect to prefer wine to women,
aud have written some very jovial per-
CTOR, N° LXXV. '919
suasives to that opinion, which are
usually sung with great solemnity aud
effect in our taverns. That this, how
ever, is a false taste, the majority are
agreed ; and I am inclined to ihink that
in soine it arises more from disappoint
ment than opinion, and that others,
who profess to be of this way of think
ing, are of that class who prefer cheap
pleasures, and have not any other rea
son for courting the charms of the hot-
tie than that it requires no qualificj-
1 tions but thole of which they are easily
masters.
Although it has been found koth
difficult and inconvenient to attempt
any definition of Beauty, we may be
allowed to consider a little in what it
consists, or where it resides. Men have
had many disputes as 10 the seat of the
soul, and the scat of honour ; and it
surejy cannot be less important to dis
cover the seat of Beauty, to prevent
that purblind creature Man from
making mistakes. But here, too, I ara
aware that we shall meet with many
difficulties. The scat of Beauty is not
laid down with so much geographical
precision as one would expect, consi
dering that it is the object of such ge
neral pursuit. It has changed its posi
tion, in my remembrance, four or five
times; and I do not think, according
to the most authentic accounts, that
it has been stationary above ten years
together for the last two centuries. I
can remember that the seat of Beauty
was once thought to be in the face ;
from that it mounted nearly a foot
higher than the head ; it then descen
ded in a fine flowing line, and hung
gracefully over the shoulders ; from
which it disappeared so suddenly that
the greatest beauties appeared to have
taken an invincible dislike to hair. .A
few years ago, it seemed to have taken
up its residence in the ancles ; and
thence it arose to the waist, from which,
with much difficulty it was dillodged
by the wits and the caricaturists, assis
ted, in some measure, by the very re
verend the clergy (who were tantalized
bv the prospect of mock-christenings) :
about three or four years ago, it quitted
all these situations for the bosom, front
whence it was again driven by the per
secution of wit and decency, and by a
sudden jirk fixed itself in the elbows
and shoulders, where at present it seems
to have acquired a tolerably quiet resi
dence. How long llvs may last, is
doubtful, -as there are already symptoms
92o THE P R O J E C
of long sleeves, which threaten ano
ther removal of ilie seal of Beauty, bin
to what quarter I cannot presume lo
conjecture. I m*y also mention,
among ihefe revolutions, that our lively
neighbours ilie French went acnnsider-
able su p farther in settling the impor
tant question ; fur a few \ears ago, ilie
French ladies, distrusting their own
abilities to determine the Icat ofBeautv,
and confiding in the superiorjudgment
os thole who were to be pieaied, at
once exposed nearly the whole petson
—a scheme which was, lo fay the lead,
very accommodating, since every lover
might choose what he pleased.
Some feeble, hut no doubt, well-
meant attempts, were made lo intro
duce this fashion here ; but, to the great
surprise of the importers, the very per
sons for whose use and behoof it was
tried, were the first to lake the alarm,
and hoot from society the sew who had
the courage to m ike the experiment.
Some respect, however, might have
been shown lo what, we are told, was
merely an error in judgment, and to a
mode of displaying beauty which mult
have cost them who tried it many sa
crifices of all that is thought valuable,
or decorous.
These fretptent changes seem, there
fore, to inlimate that the feat of Beauty
is never likely to be fixed—a circum
stance from which those who contem
plate various age* are apt to draw un
favourable conclusions. But, perhaps,
upon the whole, no great inconvenien
ces can arise. We seldom hejr any
young man (ay, " I dislike elbows, and
will wait until faces come in fashion."
F.verv age seems content with its own
species of Benny ; and the only conse
quence is, that gentlemen who hap
pened to be smitten with cork rumps
will, after some years of reflection, he
apt to think they would have been hap
pier if thev had lived in an age of fore
heads ; while others now disposed to
look a litile lower will chuckle to think
that thev once lost their hearts to Bm-
tus's. Petty disputes and reciiminations
may probably take place, but without
any very fital eflects, between thole
who have been captivated by a bosom
plain or lappelled, by a cornelian
broach or a pearl comb, by Moorish
bools or Circassian sleeves ; and it may
h: very harmlessly debated, whether it
was wiser to he caught by the curls
which Nature has given, or those which
the ingenious Mr. Hols has fold.
T O R, N° LXXV. [Oct,.
These remarks lead to the considera
tion of a circumstance pertaining to
Beauty, which has occasionally been
noticed by writers on ihe (object, but
not very fully discussed—1 mean, the
imperfection os Beauty. It appears that
w hile we allow Nature 10 have consider
able powers in making many very sub
lime aud conspicuous objects, such as
rock-, niouniain-, riveis, and other
things very much praised bv poets and.
travellers, (lie generally fails in produc
ing Beauty in the human form. This
opinion may to some appear very singu
lar ; but it is amply confirmed by the
many expedients contrived to improve
her manufacture, and that, not only
where there seems to be some room for
improvement, but where the most nice
and curious eye can discover no defect.
Some oslhese expedients having already
been hinted at, 1 (hall close the subject
with remarking that in certain cases the
improvers huve not always been 16 suc
cessful as the pains they lake Item to
deserve ; and that in other instances,
they have so totally mistaken the origi
nal ideas of ihe architect, as to create a
strange mixture of beauty and defor
mity, and of decays anil repairs, so as
to make it doubtful whether the edifice
i3 new or old, substantial or tottering.
The contest between Art and Nature
in this affair has so lon;» been carried
on, that the oldest person now living
cannot remember to hav e ever heard of
a peace, or even an armistice. There
is, however, a difference worth point
ing out in the spirit and disposition of
the parlies. Nature acts entirely on
the defensive ; and the war, therefore,
on her part is just and necessary, and
her friends may pray fur the success
of her arms with unfeigned ardour.
The fame cannot be said of Art, which
plays the part of an invader and usurper,
under the base pretence of beinzan ally
and an auxiliary ; and I would recom
mend to thole w ho choose this fide, to
reflect how much mischief ibis war has
occasioned, and to remain constant to
the politics of Nature, until such time
as the parties (hall enter into a treaty of
peace, and mark out the precise boun
daries of each.
There are some writers who have
questioned whether Beauty is not often
a misfortune. Without entering very
deeply into this question, we may at
least fay, that it is'a misfortune which
many bear with great fortitude, and
are not only unwitting Jo alleviate by
any
 807.] THE PROJECTOR,
ny means in their power, but are ex-
remely sorry to find it lessened by
:aufbs over which they have no com-
nand. How long it lads, is another
question, which I find discussed in the
writings of some of my predecessors,
aut which I would wish lo touch with
til possible delicacy. The exact dura-
lion, I think, has never been ascer
tained ; I have known it to go as far as
seventy years, and I doubt not but that
persons of more experience may have
Known it to last much longer. There
can be no dispute, therefore, about its
being a permanent article ; every rout,
opera, and ball, shews it ; but whether
it be exactly the (ame as to quality, and
whether it preserves its attra6hons for
so many years undiminilhed, so as to
be in as great demand as ever, is a point
upon which there are various opinions.
Some have resolved it by addressing per
manent beauties in the Jesuitical lan-
f;uage, Credequod habes, et habes—"Be-
ieve that you have it, and vou have
it j" an advice which they presume to
think is very efficacious, but which
others think very unnecessary.
We have been told latelv that Beauty
will be rendered more general by the
introduction of the Vaccine Inocula
tion, and I am old enough to remem
ber that much the same assertion was
made on the introduction of the Small
pox inoculation. Now, without ob
jecting to remedies by which the lives
of thousands will be preserved to their
friends and their country, it may yet
be doubted whether Beauiv will be ren
dered more general than it was before.
The oldest among us cannot remember
the time when iliose who are most in
terested in the pofli ffion of Beauty com
plained of the want of it, or even
thought themselves deficient. I know
that men aud mirrors have been sub
pœnaed lo prove the contrary ; but men
in various cafes are very improper
judges, and the evidence of mirrors is
Ib soon softened down, that we very
rarely hear of any of them being broke
for cowardice in deserting their mistresses
at the engagement of the toilet. And
surely nothing can be more comfonable
than this universal consciousness of the
possession os Beauty ; all the regret is,
that it should ever be disturbed by the
opinions of bv-standers, or the want
of money. Of the Litter it may be
truly said, that of all artifices bv which
beauty is created and charms height
ened, there are none so truly efficaci-
Cskt. Mag. October, 1807.
4
N° LXXV. 921
ous at all times and occasions, and in
all ages, even the most advanced, as
the three per cents.
Before concluding this paper, I may
advert to a species of Beauty which
many ladies seem to prefer, which is
of a very singular kind, but of which I
am enabled to speak with tolerable
certainty, from being personally ac
quainted with some of ihose who possess
it. If 1 might express it in one word, I
should be inclined lo call it Invisible
Beauty, seen at least only by those who
have (ome portion of discernment, and
though not concealed by any artful
means, \ et never couriingthe applause
that is conveyed by a stare, or through
a glass. It may be best described by
negatives, as it depends not on any of
the circumstances detailed above : It
lies under no obligation lo those admi-
rahle patterns of beauty, Medusa and
Brutus. It owns no obligations to the
'length or shortness of waists, to pads,
or cork rumps. No part of it is to btt
purchased in the shops. There is not
a milliner, mantua-maker, hair-dresser,
orjeweller, that deals in any. one article
of which it is composed ; and notwith
standing ihis, it is far more lasting than
any of ihe species of Beauty which they
disperse with such kind and profuse va
riety. It is valuable too on another
account : It is infectious—I have
known it go through large families of
young ladies ; a circumstance attended
with this difficulty only, that it repders
an admirer's choice a little more diffi
cult, but surely the risk is diminished
when the power of making a wrong
choice is taken away. And it has ano
ther advantage which ought to recom
mend it to persons of moderate incomes,
which is, that although it is more
highly valued than any of ihe lfinds of
Beauty of which we have been speak
ing, it is by far the cheapest, and will
not only keep good in all weathers and
climates, but " in all time of our tribu
lation, in all time of our wealth, and
at the hour of death." >
Mr. Urban, OB. I.
I HAVE lately perused a volume of
Shakspearean Comments, the design
of which has obviously been to ridi
cule, rather thap to corre6t bv means of
fair criticism and courteous language,
the labours of other Commentators.
From a dip into the middle, I was at
first disposed to think the work had
been the production of Harry Rowe
the
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
Jy the very emphatic manner in which
his note is here unfairly irnroduced,
he reader would imagine that I was
Irugglitig with a host of adversaries,
t had merely ('aid that ihe expression
meant " a good deal to the left of the
mark," because 1 knew that every rea
der would not immediately compre
hend a term in archery. My opinion,
as expressed by the Critic, is little short
of nonsense.
P. 108. He that runssoftest sets the (
ring.'] • I had submitted that this is an
allusion to the sport of running at the
ring. Mr. Pye answers, "I think not,
and for two reasons: first, because at
that (port the prize is not given to the
salted runner ; and secondly, because
the ring is not the prize any more than
the wicket is at cricket." Notwith
standing this peremptory language, I
am by no means satisfied that the
failed runner did notsometimes get the
prize at the above sport; for Mr. Pye,
who has perhaps only seen it practised
at French fairs by grown and other
children mounted on (wans and in
roundabouts, is yet to learn that there
were various modes of running at the
ring, at different times and places. Of
this I could give many authorities, but
I do not chuse to anticipate the subject
on the present occasion. As lo Mr.
Pye'ssecond reason, I take leave lo ob
serve, that he totally misconceives the
meaningosgellinglhering. This phrase,
borrowed from the French, gagner la
lague, signifies nothing more than get
ting the prize, by carrying away i he
ring with the point of the lance. The
French used it generally f>*r gaining the
prize at almost any sport, as we still fay
to beur the bell : but as I have not met
with it in this fense in any English
writer, 1 still think that the whole of
the sentence in Shakspeare is allusive
to the sport of running al the ring;
but most certainly the latter part has a
direct and immediate allusion to it.
P. I09. Twangling Jack ] I am here
accused of not seeing a manifest error
of the press, and Mr. Nichols £who was
■not the printer of the work] is blamed
for not correcting this supposed error,
and for not omitting my sage remark
on it. 1 wish indeed that the omission
of my note had been altogether at
tended 10, as it was a remark designed
only for Mr. S'eevens's private ear;
and for its insertion I certainly owe,
and fliall elsewhere offer, an apology to
the gentleman whose opinion was
2 a pre-
Comments on^ Shakspeare. 923
questioned. As to the error, that is
the sole property of Mr. Pye. 1 am,
thank God, very far from being blind ;
but I am certain that the most lynx-
eyed person will not be able to find the
word lunatift in Mr. Steevens's lext,
and I am not bound to seek for it in
any other ; yel, even though it were
I here, it could not have been put for
lutijl, according to ihe mort sagacious
Mr. Pye. 1 beg of him, before he
fliall engage in any more verbal cri
ticisms of ihis kind, that he will con
descend 10 put on his spectacles.
P. 127- IVho may I rather challenge
for unkindnej's
Than pity for mischancc.~\ I am in
this place charged wiih confuting ihe
very sensible remark of two (ientle-
men, by proving my total inability to
comprehend what Mr. Pye thinks could
not be poflibly misunderstood. Thia
is certainly a most extraordinary mode
of confuting ; but the fact is, that I did
not mean even to attempt confuting the
remark above alluded to. Mr. Stee-
vens, as good a scholar and a belter
critic than Mr. Pve, and moreover a
most polite and accomplished gentle
man, thought the passage might be
misunderstood. To him I merely of
fered an opinion, which he, with lar
more attention than it deserved, thought
fit to place by the side of others.
Whether it will admit of vindication,
generally speaking, I know not : but
I am certainly inclined lo enter the
lists as against Mr. Pye. He main
tains that mat/ I is not " an awkward in-
version of / may, but the regular opta
tive." Has he ib far forgotten his own
trade on this nccalion as not to know
that awkward inversions are poetical
licences? But is ihere really anv
greater impropriety in this expression
than in those of caii I, will I, do I, am
I, Sic.}
According to the interpretation of
M icbetb's words that I had suggested,
and I designed it as nothing more than
a suggestion, he artfully conceals his
knowledge of Banquo's murder:. ac
cording to that of the oilier gentlemen,
he would evidently betray his guilt;
which, notwithstanding the apparent
ingenuity of the construction, 1 cannot
convince myself that the Poet intended
to be done. In all events I am justi
fied in laying that it is the highest de
gree of folly to assert, that a man does
not comprehend one fense of a pafage
because he proposes another. In what
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
stance at a few examples in this way,
which have lately come upon the
town.
The marriage of Henrv the Vlllh's
daughter to the King of Scotland.—
Two upright Jingle lines with a single
pointed arch line marks the contour of
a palace. Men's dresses, after the Ro
man school ; women's, entirely modern.
One of our antienl Knights proving
his rijiht of possession to lands under
his grasp, before certain inquisitors, by
exhibiting the length of his sword.—
Entirely upon the Roman model, ex
cepting the habiliments of the swag
gerer, who is indebted for being so
armed to the strength of modern ideas,
how such a man at arms should come
forth to prove his right.
The death of Sir Philip Sidney.—A
mere jumble of dresses and armours,
taken slightly from incorrect prints of
all dates, from the beginning of the
lsith to the latter end of the 18th cen
turies.
Queen Elizabeth viewing the por
traits of some supposed Trauors.—The
Artilt has chosen rather to consult the
writings of an Alien (who came pur
posely to England to fee the Queeti
and to run round the country) for do
cuments to compose the likeness and
dnfs of Elizabeth, than to have before
him the authentic pictures of this fe
male, begun and finished entirely dur
ing her several fittings for the fame.
The other dresses tolerably well lludied.
The interior of the chamber and furni
ture partly of the mode 80 years back,
and partly fancy.
Marv Queen of Scots leaving Scot
land.—Dresses wholly on the masque
rade fashion. The other parts of the
costume are below criticism. ,
Queen of Edward IV. parting from
her children at Westminster.—Not the
most distant allusion to the costume of
the day in regard to the dresses ; and,
by the convenient difpofure of the
light and shade, the interior of the
building the characters are supposed to
be in, if it is intended for an interior,
would puzzle the most learned in Ar
chitecture to pronounce whether the
place is part of a church, prison, cham
ber, or an Hindoo temple !
Here undoubtedly the attention of
theRoval Academy ought to be roused ;
and, for the credit of the title they as
sume, " English Academy," bellow
some little consideration. 011' this head ;
and, instead of giving incense and do
ing homage to any country's costume
but that of their own, think of bring
ing about a school for the instruction
of students in the knowledge of An-
tient English Architecture, and the
use of the costume in dresses, armours,
Sec. &c.
1 have in mv eve one Royal Acade
mician well qualified both by inejina-
tion aud abilitv to lead the way in this
plan. I could also recommend a cer
tain Artist, though not immediately
within the pale of the Sanctuary of Arts,
who is competent to prepare, by bring
ing forward drawings from antiemdocu-
ments, and necessary elucidations, a se
ries of lectures, which he, I have not the
least doubt, would be ready to deliver to
the Academv, or indeed to any assem
blage whole feelings might become alive
to these (surely it is no presumption to
fay) important heads ; and who might
patronise a proposition so useful, and,
which cannot ne denied, so necessary.
1 most not pass over this occasion to)
mention, that the grand East or Wa
ter Front os the old House of Lords is
laid open to view ; as the mean brick
buildings raited up against it at the be
ginning of the last centurv are now ta
ken down. It will be curious to note
if our Palace- improvers mean to destroy
this front wholly, or to rejlore its muti
lated parts, or whether, in the new ele
vations to be designed on this spot, it is
to be smuggled in as a something spick
and span new? But we shall see anon.
For the sake of consistency, when
amateurs write about our Antiquities,
thev stiould treat their subject with de
cent respect, as thev affect to admire
such a laudable pursuit. For instance,
G. B. p. 801, "Where the pious re
quiem once was fung," contrasted by
" All the pomp of religious bigotry."—
" Beautiful Gothic." How can that
whicti is deformed and barbarous be
beautiful: for what is CotMcbula term of
reproach, an invidious, a contemptuous
epithet, bestowed on our old structure*
in the 17th centurv by Sir Christopher
Wren, Evelyn, and others. Sir W.
Dugdale, in his work on Old St. Paul's,
never once calls the Architecture Go
thic : no ; he, as admiring so won
drous a style, calls it the labours of our
ancestors !
"A warm Admirer of the Bard of
Twickenham," p 802, perhaps is ig
norant that Pope's mansion at ihat
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
the men who talk with contempt of
religious controversialists !) And he lells
us, that the fame effect which Doctor
D. produced by his emphases, 1 had
previously aimed at by my Italics and
capitals ! ! Is not this an admirable
and unforced connexion ? or, shall I
call it, transition? And what a notable
trick was this in Doctor D. aud me !
Having to do with a particular passage,
we marked what appeared to us to be
most deserving of notice ; he by em
phasis, and 1 by Italics: and we are
blamed, because, it seems, I did not
print the whole in Italics, and he did
not dwell upon every word alike I A'
mode of printing and of oratory calcu
lated to produce admirable effect ! The
best of all is, that for this imputation,
such as it is, there is not, as far as I
am concerned, the llifhtest foundation !
For, let us come to the charge itself.
Poctor D. it seems, did not read, and
I did not point, the sentence imme
diately following the obnoxious pas
sage : which indeed. Dr. Laurence, in
his partiality for long periods, is of
opinion ought, according to the old
and the best mode, not to have been
separated by a full slop, but only by a
colon. If we had so done, he says,
Dr. Milner's meaning would have
clearly appeared 10 be harmless. And
therefore I am called upon to blush :
nay, to take the blush from the cheeks
of these confederate Doctors, and apply
it to my own. There is something ex
tremely ridiculous in all this. For, if
Dr. Laurence had but condescended to
read the book which he was criticizing
and condemning so severely, he would
have seen that I had not only quoted
the passage at length, hut had quoted
it as the Author's " Explanation :"and
not only so quoted it, but had marked
it with as strong reprobation as the very
passage which it was brought to ex
plain. Instead, therefore, ofsuppressing,
I did all in my power pointedly lo call
my readers' attention to the passage.
Were my pamphlets as widely circu
lated as your Miscellany, I should be
content t< refer your Headers to p. 78
of the " Postscript to the Serious Ex
amination ;" but, as that is not the
case, I must be fain to subjoin the
whole passage, as it is there standing,
to confront my adversaries in more
ways than one. For, Sir, you will see
that, as there printed, it completely
overihrows all the fine fabrick which
the Doctor has raised upon my supposed
r so Dr. Laurence. 931
dexterity in the management of my
Italics: For the words " human Law"
aud " Cardinal Virtue", are actually
printed in Italics by me.
' Dr. Milner,' I fay, ' in speaking of
the Coronation Oath, and denying that it
bound the Sovereign in such manner as
by some ic is supposed to do," " Sir," say*
he, addressing himself to Mr. Reeves,
" Give me leave to remind you, that
Every human law, and every promise or
other engagement, however coNriRMCB
by oath, mujl necessarily turnupon tut
Cardinal Virtue o/Piuidesce, which im-
pliis that il depends, as to the obliga
tion of fulfilling it, in such and
such circumstances, ON the question
of Exfedi ency !"
' The obligation of an oath, a question
of Expediency ! '. '. But take the Gentle
man's Explanation,' " After all," (this is
what I am charged with omitting,) " this ,
issaying no more tnan that the eternal
AND IMMUTABLE LAW OF NATURE, »r
rather os God, is paramount to allsub
sequent obligations which we may take upon
ourselves, whenever they appear to mi
litate againji each other /"
' What more could the rankest of Jar
cobins have said ? Have we not here their
very jargon of the " inalienable rights of
man?" What breach of faith could not
be justified by such a principle ?'
And I add in a note :
* This is indeed no more than was ob
served by Charles I. that the maxims of
the Republicans in his time, were all
taken from the Popish Doctors.'
These, Sir, were precisely my stria-
lures on Dr. Milner as to this point,
both inform and substance. And now
what becomes of (I may fay the whole
of) Dr. Laurence's first part of hie
statement : which all rests on the false
foundation of my hav,ing left the words
" human Law" and " Cardinal Virtue"
in Roman characters, and having
oinilied to notice Doctor M's own
explanation of his meaning : Which,
you see on the contrary, I have not
only noticed, but reprobated with all
the pomp of Italics and capitals ! You
now see, S r, why Dr. Milner himself
never brought such a charge against
me; why it was reserved for Dr. Lau
rence, at this late liage of the dispute,
when driven as it were to the wall,
to conjure up this phantom of his own
creating. If you ask, as some of your
Readers mav do, what could give oc.
cafion to so strange and ridiculous a
blunder, I will tell you. Dr. Laurence,
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
iSoy.] Illustrations of Horace.—Mr. Laurence. 935
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."
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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
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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
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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."
a Unfkill'd,
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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
GESt. Mao. Octoler, iSo". ! ' the
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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."
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" 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
i$o70 Review of- New Publications. 93 1
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
TO THE WIND.
BEAR' fragrance from the bean-field,
balmy Bree2e ; [loves,
Bear the sweet incense that my charmer
To where among the trees,
Light as airy Seraphim she moves,
The Goddess of the groves. -
O fan her gentle form!
And from yon bank of wild carnations
bring
Their balmy sweetness on thy dewy wing,
And every rich perfume
That 1 urks upon the rose- iree's silkenbloom,
The blo;som'd thyme, the heath-flower's
purple bell,
And the white lily of the lowly vale.
Draw the sweet spiritofthose lovely flewers;
Exceed in fragrance the Arabian bowers ;
And then exulting fly,
And there enamour'd rest,
Breaking thy sweetest sigh
Upon her snowy breast.
But never near her swell into a storm ;
Softer than timid Love,
Whether she sleep or wake, around her
move ;
And from the fairy ground
Chase every ruder sound,
That nothing may her tender sleep molest.
But, balmy Breeze, when there
Of her delicious breath thou drink'st the
air,
Finding the tuneful sigh
Thy freshness and thy fragrance far
outvie, [vy die ;
Thou wilt with mingled shame anden-
Or else, neglecting Flora's fragrant store,
Dwell there in bliss, and never wander
more.
%ines on the celebration ofSt. Andrew's day,
at Coxumbo, in the Island o/'Ceylon.
IN the deeds of their arms, lee our fore
fathers rife, [from their eyes,
While such threats of defiance flash fierce
As when dauntless they rush'd thro' the
Ocean's wild storms, [dire forms;
And brav'd Death's worst terrors in all his
See each (hade how he snatches his helmet
and shield,
And again stalks a hero across the red field!
With the deeds of our Fathers thus full in
our view, [pursue,
Let us nobly determine their steps £o
And proud to have sprung from thole
heroes of old [troul'd,
Whose spirits were never by Fortune con-
iikethem,letusgras,pat immortal renown,
And wrest from the Corfican boaster his
crown !
That when the wM conflict of Nations is
o'er, \ [no more,
And heroes shall bleed and shall con.iju.er
Gent. Maq. October, 1807..
October, 1807. 953
When the tumult of battle is hush'd once
. again, [reign ;
And Peace (hall resume her so longbanish'd
The fcng of the Bard shall resound with
our name,
And ages on ages promulgate our fame !
Drinking song.
Extempore.
THEVtalk 5fraptures,flames,anddart»,
Of burning fevers in their hearts.
Of gods of love in women's eyes,
Which please and ravish, and surprise;
How they admire, they love, adore,
With thousand other wonders more ;
Put 1 could ne'er in woman-kind
These dazzling charms and lustre find,
Which should, in spite of Reason, prove
Sufficient to engage my love.
Whilst kind, I love, but when untrue
I leave 'em, faith, and grow so too ;
When once they coy and foolish be,
They may go hang themselves for.tstt.
Than my bottle and my friend,
No other love 1 understand.
From " The Seasons is England; Descriptive
Poems, by the Rev. William Cooper
Taylor."
SLOW whifp'ring through the silent
vista's (hade [rove,
The arm-clafp'd fair and faithful Damon
Glows her warm cheek, soft sighs the
melting maid, [of love.
As the bleU youth extorts the pledge
Cool light-wing'd breezes o'er the meadows
sweep, [night ;
And ruslet (hades precede approaching
Refreshing dews o'er all the herbage creep,
Am) Cynthia's lamp pours round a lam
bent light.
The new-made rick with fragrance ftHi
the gate [leaves,
That rustling gently stirs the trembling
And scatter'd lights illume the shady vale,
Where wreathed (moke from dusky
■chimnies wave.
Yon rill, (low murmuring down the rocky
steep, [to rest,
With lulling found the passions soothe.*
As in the tranquil lake her waters sleep,
Like Sorrow 4'oft reclin'd on Pity's breaft.
Nor (hall I now regret the City air,
Though gay Vauxhall bid all her magic
rife, [fair,
Her myriad lamps, arcades, andglirt'rmg
Her warbled strains, and thousand
sparkling eyes.
Th,is hour of meditation and repose
Suggests, how soon, these scenes mutt
pass away i [must close !
As soon man's morning, noon, and eve,
The h»ppiest4rfeit bat a Summer's day .'
954 Seleft Poetry, for
Sol with a Persian Cat to a Lady.
LADY, from Persian lands I come,
And now once more I charge my
home.
J hear a thousand people tell,
You lire so happy and so well,
So gentle are, and good and kind,
And so exactly to my mind,
I corns the real truth to try,
To live with you and with you die.
The master whom for you I quit
Has less of money than of wit ;
But yet he knows a thing or two,
As much as you or 1 may do.
To shew he held me very dear,
Whisper'd this caution in my car :
" Sirrah ! observe my last advice,
Catch, if you please, a thousand mice ;
Or, if you saunter out of door,
Of sparrows kill a thousand more ;
But peacock, pheasant, partridge, harx,
Touch but a feather if you dare !
I promise you'll be soundly bang'd ;
Perhaps be drown'd, perhaps behang'd!"
Lady, no evil conscience pricks,
I never did such naughty tricks,
And as I hope for your good will,
I promise you I never wrtl.
Yourself, Eliza, William too,
May do whate'er you choose to do ;
J'll keep my passions on the watch,
And never either bite or scratch :
A good obedient cat I'll be,
And live in due civility.
Pray, Lady, let me here remain,
And do not send me back again.
MARTIAL.
Dir retuLu.
TACTA places, audita places ; si non
videare,
Tota places ; neutro, si videare, places.
" ' ■ Imitation.
O.i asmf.hU, but very plain Woman.
WHEN 1 heard her, I was charm'd ;
when I touch'd her, I was fir'd :
Candles came, I law her face, and all my
flame expir'd.
CHARADE, fir the Year 1801.
Y sirs, the Vet'ran soldier's pride,
By wounds and bloodshed is ob- a most lovely girl near seven. years of ag«,
tain'd ;
Clerks no such bold ambition fires ;
Their bliss by peaceful art? is gain'd.
My next, a human bee-hive is,
Resounding loud with busy hum ;
Hither the votaries of wealth,
In crowds, and sons of pleasure come,
•My whale, in this ill-fated year,
Fierce on the poor its influence shed ;
But lo ! fair Charity, to Britons dear,
in angel- form, her fettld before them
spread.
October, 1807.
ON VACCINATION.
By Dr. Crane.
" Rumpatur, quifquis rumpitur Invidiq.'
Martial.
THE London College, with becoininj
zeal,
Consult the welfare of the public weal ;
Acquit themselves wjth credit of theif
charge,
And aim to benefit mankind at large ;
On nothing new too hastily decide,
But wisely make Experience their guirle.
Fill) eight years Vaccination has prevail'd,
And in few instances has ever fail'd ;
What good it has effected in that time,
A mass of evidence from ev'ry clime
Bears all before it with resistless course.
For nothing can withstand conviction's
force ;
Fulness of time will settle its just claim,
And give th' Inventor an immortal fame.
Yet this «ilcov'ry (strange to tell) has foes I
Who by basearts its progress would oppose ;
But whose mis-statements are employ'd .
in vain,
For wicked ends they never can obtain.
So when Inoculation was propos'd,
Envy and Falsehood with like rage oppos'd,
Whilst Ignorance its feeble efforts join'd,'
And blindly undertook to lead the blind :
Knock'd down by argument, each
blust'ring foe [blow ;
Sprung up, and (wore he never had the
Some modern disputants do much the
fame, [shame ;
And, though confuted, shew no sense of
Dark Envy is the cause of their foul strife,
The canker that preys on them all theit
life.
Happy the man who no such passion
knows.
And finds in peace of mind a calm
repose ! J. C. Abergavenny'.
A Translation of llr. Coote's * Latin In
scription to the memory of his Daughter,
by one who loved and admired her when
living, and regrets her now dead.
Here lies
Catharine' Coote, ~*
the daughter of Charles and. Elisabeth
Coote,
who died the fourteenth day
of May, 180?.
HER artless manners and a native grace
Play'd in her lovely form and blooming
face :
E'en in the sprightly playfulness of youth
She fhunn'd deceit, and spoke the voice
of truth : [prov'd
With sense superior to her years—(he
Companion sweet of Friends and Parents
lov'd.
•Seep. «Ji.
In
 Selefl Poetry, for
An health and beauty as she daily grew,
A length of days seem'd open to her view :
But on a sudden (so th' Almighty pleas'd)
With spasms severe her lovely frame was
seiz'd, [said,
When much alarm'd, th' expiring victim
" I'm dying ! Father, hasten to my aid."
Nor friends, nor art; the mandate cpiiM
controul, [guileless foul.
She in her Mother's arms breath'd out her
Mary.
^MLreffed to the Medical Assistants of Ike
Royal HuMahe Society;
HAIL, generous, noble, philanthro
pic few ! [true,
Whose tender hearts, to each soft feeling
Prompt you viHth eagerness to seek, to save
Th' unfortunate and heedless from the
grave.
Whilst the sweet theme yet trembles on
the strings,
Creative recollection fondly brings
Again the interesting scene to view,
Where human art oould Death itself sub
due ! [his prey,
tVhere the grim Monarch, fore'd to quit
To bleft Humanity gave up the day.
What though the lifeless heart had funk
to rest,
In solemn silence sleeping in the breast ;
What though the idle pulse had ceas'd to
P^y, ~
And stiff and Cold the clammy body lay
-Lo ! persevering Patience yet can raise
Those hands, those eyes, in wonder ani
in praise, [flame
Revive the dormant spark, till the pure
Its kindly influence sheds through all the
frame.
A Patriotic Band *, to crown the deed,
With lib'ral hand bestow the well-earn'd*
meed ;
A meed that does mere real fame afford
Than all the bloody trophies of the sword.
Yet, though the glories of that silver stars
Transcend tha proudest boast of cruel war,
A greater recorapence your toils secure,
A recotupenee whish ever shall endure,
Outvying all that Man has e'er bestow'd,
The sweet applause of conscience and of
God.
Co on, by generous zeal inspir'd, go on !
New triumphs add<o those already won ;
And O ! may Heaven to gratitude's warm
prayer,
feong, to your Country's aid inspir'd,' your
labours spare. G. W. Y.
Mr. Urbaw, October 1.
1"^HK following Lines are from the
T Etrmnes Lyritjiies, published at Paris
annually. 1 stiould like much to fee them
* The Royal Human* Soewty.
£Th* MtcU*.
October, 1-807. MS'
in an English dress. If you -will allow
them to appear in your Magazine, some of
your Poetical Correspondents may notice
them. Yours, &c. . H.
PROFITONS DU TEMPS.
IL est trop taid pour qu' amour nous engag*
Q.uand des beaux ans palit deja la fleur :
Ecoutc, Egle, cet avis doux et sage,
Et n'attends pas, pcur songer au bonhenr
Qu'il suit trop tard.
De mille attraits, brillante a ton aurore,
Au tendre amour ouvre ton jeune cceur :
Tu le voudrais, et tu n'oses encore,
Crains son courroux s'il fe rend ton vain-
queur TJn peu trop tard.
Las des rigeurs d'une beaute rebelle,
Quand Cupidon commence a s'envoler,
C'est pour jamais qu'il suit a tired'aile;
On le regrette, on veut le rappeller :
II est trop tard.
FROM GROTIUS,
"THTH A TRANSLATION. .
—I LATET sors indeprensa futuri ;
Scit, qui solicitum me vetat efse, Deus.
Due Genitor me magne : Sequar quocunJ"
que vocabor ;
Seu tu laeta mihi, feu mihi dura paras.
Sistis in hac vita?maneo, partesque tuebor;
Quas dederis revocas, Optirrie ? promp-
tus eo.
THE future undiscover'd ties,
'Tis known to God alone ;
And he forbids that I should care
For what must still be done.
Where'er I'm call'd, great Father, lead j
I follow and obey :
Whether thou would'ft that I should p-«t»
My life or sad or gay.
Would'ft thou that I stiould still pursut
My pilgrimage below ?
I stay, and ltedfast will perform
What thou would'ft have me do.
From mortal life am I recall'd,
By thee, Almighty Sire ?
Obedient to thy will divine
1 readily retire.
PtnlonvilLe. M. H. Shephard,
SONNET,
To Mr. Robinson, Portrait Painter,
on viewing his Exhibition of Pictures at
Belfast in Ireland.
Othou, whose touch creative bids
appear [friend,
The dear resemblance of each tibsent
Whose faithful pencil prompts the swell
ing tear, [bend :
As o'er departed worth we sorrowing
Accept the strain which Friendship bids
ascend, [song—
T» pear the not« of M»mon'» jraut'ut
AU
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.

ABSTRACT OF FORE IGN OCCURRENCES.

FRANCS.
The Session of the Legislative Body
closed on the 18th ult. on which day the
Tribunate also ended its career, with an ad
dress to Buonaparte. A Decree has pasted,
transferring its Members and functions to
the Legislative Body.
The French Commercial Code, intituled
" The Code of Napoleon," has been pub
lished in the Monitcur, of which it fills
36 columns. It is to supersede all other
commercial laws in France, from January
next. It regulates the distinction to be
preserved between merchants and people
who are mere retailers of goods ; enacts
laws for partnerships, and dictates the
manner in which the Tribunal for Bank
rupts is to proceed in its inquiries.—The
whole Code is heavy, and uninteresting to
the English reader.
The Monitcur (as well as the other
leading French Papers) has begun to
•omn»ent on our proceedings against Den
mark. The following is an extract from
a long train of " Reflections on the Situa
tion of Copenhagen," contained in the
Journal dr Paris, said to be copied from a
G *rman Paper, printed at Cofognc. The
other parts of the article have ceased to
interest, from their want of novelty, and
from their relation to events now grin© by.
" What will become of the English in
'Zealand, when Winter sots in i Was it
not between the island!,- ot Langeland and
1 Zealand, that Charles Gufttvus pasted
upon tlie ice, and made himself master of
those of Halster and Morn I Moen touch-
-S on Zealand ; and nothing i9 more easy
than the passage, hom Ftonia to Lange,-
lurtd, by an arm of the sea which vessels
cannot enter. His, therefore, not impos
sible, that the victorious troops of the Con
tinent, favoured by the season,, may ad
vance to the foot of rhe ramparts of Copen
hagen, and deliver Denmark."
Another article (said to be written by
a Dane) is chtcfVy deserving of notice, as
it admits that it was in the power of
France, whenever she might choose, to
eooipcl Denmark to abandon her system
»f neutrality -} therefore, says this Pari-
i-jii Dine to Enjrrand, «• You wish to-
burn thole ships which, some time or
ether, might transport the vengeance os
tke Continent to your own coajh."
The French, wish to have it supposed
that our conduct in Zealand has been as
bad as that of the French in the diil'crent
countries they have conquered. But they
produce no proofs, except that we attemp
ted to ascertain whether an Officer, who
had endeavoured to get into Copenhagen
during the siege, was the bearer of secret
orders from the Crown Prince ! The
French must indeed be surprised to hear
that we have imposed no contributions
upon the island of Zealand, or the city of
Copenhagen ; that we have respected the
feelings of the inhabitants so much, as
not to quarter our troops upon them ;
that we lia\e not pillaged them ; and that
we have actually paid for all the necesl'a-.
ries which have been furnislied us.
The number of packages of valuable
paintings and Curiosities which have ar
rived at the Napolcan Museum, from Ber
lin and Potsdam, amount to 250 !
Buonaparte is about to create thirty new
Marquifates ; many cf the titles are to be
accompanied by territorial allotments in
Westphalia : he it likewise said to be about
to assimilate the Constitution of France in
some degree to that of England, by fornv-
ing a kind of Upper and Lower House of
Parliament* They will certainly be sub-
servirrii Senates. ,
It is again currently reported, that alt
the territory on the Southern bank of the
Meuie is to be ceded to France.
Buonaparte is stated to have been of law
become lusty, and to be in better health
than for several years past.
FontainHeau, Oil,.". Since the Court
ha* taken up its residence here, Fontain-
blcau presents a very lively scene. Tbe
road from Paris is covered with carriages,
and the postmasters of the environs have
been obliged to augment the number of
their post-horses. The Ministers arrive
frequently from Paris, to transact business
wi'.h the F.mperor. He yesterday held a
council, which continued from eleven in
the morning till seven in the evening. At
the conclusion of it he went to dinner, and-
20 mi
 i8o7.] AbstraEl of Foreign Occurrences, 9%
SO minutes aster he appeared at the thea "that no person shall be permitted to
tre. Besides the Court of the Emperor and quit the territory of Holland hyjit on any
Empress, Fontainbleau possesses the King pretence whatever."
and Queen of Westphalia, the Queen of ITALY.
Holland, the Prince of Baden, the Prince Private letters from Leghorn fay, the.
Primate, and several other foreign Princes. entrance of the French was so sudden into
It is stated, that on the 14th of October' that city, on the 28th of August, that,
the anniversary of the battle of Jena will though they had been marching all night,
be celebrated in the 12 municipalities of nobody knew of the circumstance till they
Paris, by the marriage of certain military arrived. Their number has since been
persons to young women, who are to be increased to 6ooo, and General Dumpulin
portioned by the Emperor. M. de Lind- is commander in chief. French commis
holm, aid-de-camp to the Prince Royal of saries arrived at the fame time with them,
Denmark, whom the unfortunate affair of who immediately laid every ship in the
Copenhagen had brought to the Court of harbour under an embargo, in order to
France, left this place oh the 4th for Kiel. leek for English goods. The merchants
HOLLAND. and factors all through Etruria have also
The Dutch official paper contains a been called upon te give an account of the
(decree relative to British property ; which English goods in their possession. The
orders that the produce of that already English at Leghorn will sustain an incal
seized shall be applied tp the sinking fund. culable loss; as, by means of Neutrals,
No less than 4 7 neutral ships which have they have for some time past carried on a
entered the Dutch ports direct from Engr trade all over Italy.
land have been seized, and are at present The American Consul at Genoa has
under trial, the whole of which are ex been arrested, and seals put upon his
pected to be confiscated. Buonaparte's papers. The Queen of Etruria is said to
famous decree of blockade is ordered to be have given orders for the seizure of all Bri
most rigidly enforced; and for the future tish property in her States.
all neutral vessels bound to or from Eng General Marmont has declared Ragusa
land are to be deemed lawful prizes. This to belong to France, and notified that it
order has naturally given alarm to the and Dalmatia shall form a part of the king
American Ambassador at Paris, whe con dom of Italy.
sidered it of so much impartance, that he Corfil and the Republic of the Seven
immediately dispatched an express to his Islands are said to be delivered up to the
Government by way of Bourdeaux. in French by the Russians. These were ex
deed, there seems to be no end to the vex pressly erected into a barrier against the
atious restrictions imposed by the enemy designs of France upon Turkeyj but Buo
on commercial intercourse. Buonaparte's naparte already grasps the dominion of
rage overcomes his reason ; and the trans Greece and Egypt, and holds out to Rus
port of the moment must be gratified at sia the sovereignty of Constantinople, and
the hazard of any injury to the people of the rest of Turkey in Europe, as the
over whom he rules. lure of acquiescence. Cattaro and its ter
A gentleman, who escaped in an open ritory have likewise been given up by the
boat from Holland on the,3d ioft. and was Ruffians to toe French.
picked up at sea, confirms the accounts of On the 17 th August, Lucien Buonaparte
.the rigid and successful efforts of the arrived at Rome trom Ruffinella, in order
French and Dutch governments to pre- to attend the funeral of one of his sons,
•ventall intercourse with this country* An who died about a week before. The Ita
order was issued, some time ago, " that lian and German journals simply mention
every person leaving Holland for a neutral him as the Senator Lucien.
or friendly port should deposit with the The Neapolitan papers inform us, that
Government 1000 guilders, as a pledge the Ex-King Ferdinand, with all his fa
that he was going to the place specified in mily, have departed from Sicily, in an
his passport." His arrival was to be at English frigate It is added, that to covet
tested by the "Consul resident at the neutral his flight from the inhabitants, it was
or friendly port ; and, upon satisfying these given out that he was going to place him
forms, the Government promised to return self at the head of an insurrection which
this cautionary deposit. This decree con had broken out at Naples.
tinued in force only for a short time. It A squadron of gun-boats is preparing at
wasofsoon
■ors thediscovered by thethat
Dutch police, French
theredirect- Venice ; supposed for the purpose of at
were tempting a descent upon Sicily, as great
many persons who were willing to pay the numbers of French troops are pouring
J ooo guilders "for the opportunity of es into Naples.
caping. The consequence was, that the SPAIN. .
former regulation was annulled, and ano Spain, it is reported, has been com
ther established, which strictly enjoins, pelled by Fiance to cede b»th the Flo-
ridas
$64 Abstract as Foreign Occurrences [Oct.
rite 1!o Rmerrca, tn me event of her en- rome Buonaparte, has consented to give
forcing the Nbn-imporration-Act against her hand to the Prince Royal of Bavaria-
England. The nuptials of the Emperor of Austria
His Catholic Majesty Charles the Third, with the Princess Maria Ludoviea Bea-
whb died ir> December 17BS, at Madrid, trice, eldest daughter of the late Prince
ereclared, during his illness, that he firmly Ferdinand of Milan, are to be solemnized
Believed the Spanish dominion* would be- in November. She appeared ar Court, on
come tributary to, if not totally subjugated the Emperor's birth-day, with his Ma
ty, the Government of 'France, in the jelly's portrait on her neck. The Empe-
courfetjf 4TJ years. The time of the pro- ror on the some day presented to her dia-
phecy has tittle more to elapse rtiah a nrond bracelets of great value. The
twelvemonth. wardrobe of the new Empress is preparing
PORTUGAL. 6n the most extensive scale ; iooo yards
At Lisbon, commerce is entirely ata of cambric are employed in making her
stand, and confidence has vanished : the hendkerckitfi alone !
Slerchants were under apprehensions of The Emperor Francis^ it is said, intends
Tieihg uhabte to meet the demands upon to be crowned King us Austria in No-
mem, and answer their acceptances. This Member.
*ras communicated to the Government, His Imperial Majesty has presented
'•and a decree was issued, to protract, for Lord Pembroke, the English Envoy Ex-
three months, the payment of acceptances traordinary, with a magnificent gold
'to the British Factory ; but this decree snuff-box, with the Emperor's portrait,
was found to be so injurious, that it is richly set in diamonds,
said to have been repealed on the following The pay of the Civil Officers attached
'day. In the mean time, the British Mer- so the Austrian army has been considerably
chants, both at Lisbon and Oporto, are increased.
shipping off their goods with all ^ofliblc An Astrologerof Vienna, narnedJacques
speed ; but we are sorry to say, that tlrera Deegen, has announced Sn-the public pa-
'js an inadequate number of mips. At pers, that he has invented a method of
Oporto, forty fail were loading, and had mounting hi trie air with artificial wings,
nearly taken in rheir cargoes on the 5th. He has given a specimen of its-effect, by
The resolution of the Court to emigrate raising himself to the height of 27 feet,
to the BrazjlS, it is thought, would be On tlie evening of the Hth urlt. there
Ytrongly opposed in the moment of its ex- was felt at NieuWied and its environs -a
ecution, not only by the great mass of strong shock ef an earthquake, accom-
population, but by the principal and mid- panied with some very remarkable cir-
dlifig ranks, intheStatei the Army, and cumstances. The noise which was heard
the Church. Tlie only consolation left at the moment of the commotion relem-
is in the hope that a British fleet has, ete bled the rattling of carriages proceeding
this> entered the Tagus, and will afford with great velocity. The fishermen »n
the Portuguese Government, and our the Rhine saw numbers of fish frequently
Merchants, that assistance which they thrown out of the water. The wind sud-
ftand so much in need of. denly ceased, the sky became thick with
Such was the eagerness of the British clouds, and towards midnight a shock
families, at Lisbon, to return to England, again occurred, which was followed by a
and such the natural disposition of ship- third, about three in the morning. On
owners to avail themselves of that eager- the preceding day there was a sharp frost,
ness, that no less than laool. was actually which, in many places, congeakd the
paid by one family for its passage to this water. No lives were loft by the event,
■ountry. Private letters from Hamburgh state,
GERMANY. that the Senate of Hamburgh has given
A private letter states, that an Austrian lf> millions of livres for the redemption
Courier, charged with dispatches for of the English merchandize seized in that
Count Stahrembere, has recently been city.
stopped in Holland, and all his Papers The new King of Westphalia has issued
taken from him. The former conduct of a Proclamation, dissolving the Deputation
the French Government renders the com. of the States of Hanover ; and some part
mission of so atrocious an act of vioserree of the district of Rimsloh, in the ci-dtvmit
by no means improbable. Buonaparte, Bishopric of Qsnaburgh, having relisted
perhaps, hopes that a perusal of the the collection of taxes, the principals
confidential correspondence of the Court have been ordered to be tried by a special
of Vienna will furnish him with sortie commission, and the imposts to be doubled,
pretext for a new aggression on tho Aus- Banks of theMtuie, S(j>t. l. The Go-
trian territory. vernment at Hildelherm now issues its
It is confidently stated/ that the Prin- Ordinances with this introduction, "In
'cess1 August* of SMfony, who refused Je- the name of his Majesty tlie Emperor of
the
 iS©7-1 AbsifaSi ef Fdreign Occurrttrces* 965,
the French^ 4Cing of Italy, Napoleon Britain, entered into by Denmark anil
the Great. France, our readers have long been ap
SWEDEN. prized. This important fact is no longer
Strtdfiaui, Sept. 6. Yesterday Gen. Ba affected to be denied, even by the enemy
ron Von Toll, who has the command as themselves ; for we find, by an article
the Swediih troops in the island of Rugen, from Altona, inserted in the official Ga
capitulated. The French will take pos zette of the Daich Government, that the
session of the island on the (jth inst. Be Prince Royal of Denmark has entered in
sides the island Of Rugen, all the Swediih to a treaty of offensive and defensive al
islands on the German coast of the Baltic liance with France, and that the whole
are included in the capitulation. The of Marshal Bernadotte's division is imme
number of Swedish troops on the island of diately to enter the Danish provinces. It
Rugen are estimated at 14,000 men. is added, in private accounts, tliat it has
By the Secret Articles of the Treaty of been stipulated that Zealand shall be gar
Tilsit, the unfortunate King of France is risoned by 30,800 French troops.
no longer fostered to enjoy an asylum The Councils of Denmark, in Holstein.
within the Ruffian territory. He arrived have issued orders for the seizure of Eng
«t Carlscrona, in a Swedish frigate, on the lish persons and property, and lor prohi
16th ult. accompanied by the Duke of biting all trade and commerce with this
Angoulcme. The Queen of Sweden, and country.
the Princess Sophia, had previously joined The little island of Flekeroe, at the
his Swedish Majesty at the same place. mouth of Christ ianiand harbour, has been
^The health of the latter is improving. taken by storm. In blowing up the for
These circumstances are officially com tifications, we lost a Lieutenant and four
municated in the Bulletin, dated Carls men.
crona, the 17th.—The King of France is Gottcnl'iirg, Oct. 5. A traveller -arrived
daily expected in England. to-day from Copenhagen, who reports,
DENMARK. that it is pretty well ascertained there,
It appears that the destruction, both of that Buonaparte had made large pecuniary
persons and houses, during the siege of offers to Denmark for her navy and stores.
Copenhagen, has been greatly exagge PRUSSIA.
rated. The number of lives lost did not The time for putting into execution the
exceed 700. About 250 houses were de Secret Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit js
stroyed, and the College and the Cathe now arrived ; and the disclosure of the
dral were consumed. The reports of se provisions of those articles is most clearly
rious disturbances having taken place at illustrative of thedictatorial poweraflumei
■ Copenhagen a"re also said to be unfounded. by Buonaparte, and the abject submission
It is said, that the stores found at Co with which the Allied Sovereigns are
penhagen weTe immense, and that a con bound to that dictation. The Procla
siderable part belonged to France and mation issued by the Royal Prussian Coun
Spain, who had made the arsenals there cil of Navigation and Trade, at Memel,
a depot, till opportunity offered to get on the 2d of September, begins as follows :
4them to their respective parts. Proclamation.
Upwards of 400 pieces of brass ord " It is hereby made known to all Mer^
nance, which were buried in the Arsenal chants of this place, that, in pursuance
of Copenhagen, have been since disco of the Peace concluded at Tilsit, between
vered by oar troops. Prussia and France, not only all Prussian
A private letter from Copenhagen states, Ports shall be shut against English ships,
that Admiral Gambier was shot at by a but that also all trade and commerce be
Dane. The shot was fired when the Ad tween Prussia and England must cease.
miral was about to go on-board his boat " Hitherto they could only be Unit up
-from the shore, and a seaman who was in a private manner, because several Prus
near him at the time was killed. The sian ships were lying in EtigUsti ports,
writer does not mention whether the per and it became therefore necessary to pre
son, who fired the shot was taken into serve them, and becjirfe several other Yes*-
custody.—A fliocking murder was com fels, laden with provisions, unavoidably
mitted by the Danes upon one of our required for this country, were flillat sea.
Rifle Corps, who fell into their hands. These obstacles being now removed, we
They first nailed him to a tree, after which hereby publicly make known, by his
they cut off his ears, and put out his Royal Majesty's command, that this port,
eyes, leaving him in that situation, with in common with all other Prussian har
a scroll fixed to the tree over his head, bours, are shut against all ships which are
announcing their determination to treat English, or belonging to any individual of
all of the fame corps, who should fall in the English nation: that under, no cir
to their hands, in the (ame manner. cumstances, and no pretences whatsoever,
Of the hostile compact against Great an English sliip, or even a neutral bot
tom,
 966 AbjlraR os Foreign Occurrences, [Oct.
torn, coming from English Ports or Eng the Imperial Giiards and garrison of St»
lish Colonies, shall be admitted in the Petersburg (about 12,000 men) to that
ports of this country ; and that no per city, from the theatre of war, the Empe
son shall be permitted, on pain of the ror went to meet the procession, accom
goods! being confiscated, and. other severe panied by the French Ambassador, Gene
punishrperu inflicted, to lend goods from ral Savary. This minister of Buonaparte
this place to any English Port or English rode on the right hand of the Emperor,
Colonies, or to order them to be sent to and engrossed all his conversation ; while
this Port—in short, that no navigation or Lord Levefon Gower, our Ambassador, was
trade with England, or the English Colo placed in a conspicuous situation, in the
nies, stiall be permitted, either in Eng front of the Senate-house, to view the pro
lish or neutral bottoms."' cession as it passed, surrounded by the
The King of Pruflia has appointed a high-spirited nobility of Ruffia, anxious
Court Martial to examine into the con for the character and the true interests of
duct of numerous Officers during the late the country, and indignant at the pros
calamitous war. To a General Officer tration of every thing they held most sa
who solicited his dismissal, the King is cred, by the submiflive attention of their
said to have replied, that the application Emperor to the representative of the Ty
was premature, as it remained to he de rant Buonaparte. The nobility afterward*
termined whether it should be accompa gave a grand dinner to Lord Levefon
nied by honour or infamy. Gower, at which the Emperor expressed
Letters have been received from Dant- some disapprobation.
stic and Koningfberg, which mention that By a Manifesto, published at St. Peters
the French troops had quitted the neigh burg, Sept. 1, the peace concluded with
bourhood of these cities, the contributions France has at length been published to the
having been either discharged, or satis Nation et large. It states, that owing to
factory security for the payment given. the exertions made by the Ruffian troops,
Prussia, however, is not yet released from and by all classes of the nation, the war
their visitation, as they have only removed was brought to such an issue, that very
to Elbing, where they mean to establish important aggrandisements might have
themselves for the winter. All the pub been obtained ; but, as this could only
lic buildings and warehouses in that city have been done at the expence of an Ally,
are converting into bartacks for their his Majesty thought it beneath the dignity
reception. of the Ruffian Empire to accept them, and
The Thorn Journal contains the fol therefore contented himself unh securing,
lowing advertisement, boih in the Ger in some measure, thefrontiers of Rustn.
man and French language:—" By long The Emperor Alexander had a narrow
observation and frequent study, I have escape lately, but the nature of it is not
discovered a certain method, by which, mentioned ; the circumstance is noticed
without much difficulty or expence, the in the Hamburgh papers in the following
■ innji ftrithful, healthy, and pleasant wea terms:—" By a letter from Lubec, it ap
ther, may be obtained. Address to the pears that a report had reached thence
Printing-office, Thorn." from Russia, that the Emperor Alexander
RUSSIA. had been saved from imminent danger,-
It is firmly believed, that by the Secret through the intrepidity of the Grand Duke
Articles of the Treaty of Tilsit, the Empe Constantine."
ror Alexander was To far prevailed on, as St. Peterjlurg, Sept. 29. Our Minister
to engage to sliut t-he Ruffian pens against for Foreign Affairs, Baron de Budberg, has
the Englisti ; and nothing but the dread retired from office, for an unlimited time,
of chastisement from that country has, or on account of ill health. His portfolio
would prevent its being carried into execu has been transferred to Count Sokotoff.
tion. Be the danger, however, what it The theimometer here is still between
may, it is said that Buonaparte has made 14 and 19 degrees. The oldest people
a formal demand upon the Emperor Alex living do not remember to have witnessed
ander, that all the ports of Russia should so fine a tamer.
be shut against English vessels. A Ruffian TURKEY.
Ukase has been publistied ; which, though The most unrestrained anarchy prevails
professing to be for the purpose of giving in Turkey ; the Janifiiiries have assumed
' facility to the admission of foreigners, mul the controul of Government, the members
tiplies the difficulties, and is, doubtless, of which they appoint and depose at plea
meant to harass the British merchants fet sure. A private in their corps, who calls
tled in Russia. himself Mustapha Cavac, had, at the date
The French troops in Poland are to re ofthe lust accounts, the supreme command.
main there till the stipulations of the A continental Gazette, entitled Regio
Treaty of Tilsit shall be fulfilled. Dnhnala, has published a letter from Con
On the 5th ult. the day of the return of stantinople, of the 171b of July, which
3 savs—
1807.} Abjlracl of Foreign Occurrences. 967
says—" The revolution which has just tachment under Col. Hawkins, and carried
been effected here, lo far from being byassault,after adel'perate conflict.in which
finished, seems to recommence with terri the whole garrison, amounting to nearly
ble symptoms. Almost all Asia refuses to 300 men, were killed.' The attack was led
acknowledge the new Sultan Mustapha. by Capt. Delamain ; and sjeuts. Macgre-
On every fide is reared the standard of re gor, of the 17th foot, and M'Queen, of the
bellion. Cidi Bascia, the brother-in-law 1st native infantry, were unfortunately
of Sultan Selim, having assembled all the killed, with about 40 of the Europeans and
disbanded troops, who formed part of the Natives. A nephew ofJftumjeet Sing is said
Nizam Gedid, menaces the capital. Cossan to have been killed in this attack.
Oglou, Kara Ofmap, and Jul'uff Aga, have The Persian Government has appointed
likewise assembled a great number of mal an Ambassador to Bombay, to convey to
contents, and are marching in arms to the India Company assurances ef its friend
Constantinople. The number of rebels ship. The Minister, Mirza Riza Cooly,
amounts, it is laid, to near 100,000. They has been nominated to this mission, for
have seized and carried off to their camp which great preparations have been made.
the Dervife, and the Patriarch of Cogni, We announce with pleasure, that offi
the pretendeddescendant of Mahomet, the cial accounts have been received, of the
only person who can gird on the scymetar differences which lately subsisted between
of the Grand Seignior, and proclaim him the India Company's Servants at Canton
the legitimate sovereign. Three thousand and the Chinese, having been amicably
cavalry have deserted during the night from adjusted.
the capital, and pasted over to Asia, to bitsodu&ion of Christianity into China,
join the rebels. We are on the eve of wit A Catholic Missionary at Pekin, named
nessing the most tremendous scenes. It is Odeadato, has been sentenced to impri-.
to be feared that the Sultan Selim will sonment for life, at Geho, inTartary, for
perish by the command of the present Sul having converted numerous Chinese to
tana Valide, in which case we may look Christianity. A native of Canton, named
for the effusion of rivers of blood." Chin-yo-vang, and some soldiers, . who
Between the 1st and 6th of August three were instrumental to the pious labours of
great fires took place at Constantinople, Odeadato, have been punished, and all
whiph reduced several hundred, houses to their converts have been sent into banish
»lhes. ment and slavery, at Elu, inTartary. The
ASIA. books on Christianity, the blocks with
Accounts have been received from some which they were printed, and all the papers,
of our Eastern possessions, which relate to of Odeadato and his followers, have been
the discovery of another conspiracy among publicly burned; and several military and
she native troops in the neighbourhood of civil officers have been banished, for their
Vellore, in which even some of the native negligence in suffering the people to be
officers were said to be implicated. The corrupted.
plan was to have been carried into effect The Gospel had been publicly preached
at the moment when it was supposed all in numerous churches ; and, it is suppos
the British Officers would be off their ed, has made such impressions among the
guard, attending a public entertainment natives, as even the persecution to which
given by the lady of Sir J. Cradock ; but they are exposed cannot efface.
Information of the plot having been re AFRICA.
ceived, it was frustrated for the tirr^e. The A War lately broke out in Africa, be
entertainment took place at the time in.- tween several of the tribes, jn consequence
tended ; but on pretext of doing honour of a robbery committed on the tomb of
jo the guests, a respectable European force one of the Chiefs of the Asslientci-:, The
attended, the presence of which prevented following is the official account of the cir
theconspirators from making any attempt. cumstances :—The Asshenteis, headed hy
The r*giment principally implicated was their king, on the lsth ofJune, proceeded
the 20th Native. It was feared, however, to invest the fort of Annamahu, which
that others were also disaffected in tl« was garrisoned by the African Company'",
neigbbouihood of Vellore. The plot was slaves and boys, and 24 soldiers, under
discovered by some person; who heard the the command of Mr. White,, and Messrs.
wives of the Sepoys entreating their hus Meredith, Swanzy, Bains^ and Smith.
bands to desist from their hoirible design ; The Asshenteis first took the,town, and
in consequence of which, the ringleader* ttren proceeded under the walls of the
were taken into custody. garrison, and demanded al! such persons
By accounts from Bundelcund, dated as had taken shelter within them. A
in February, we learn that the strong for- dreadful carnage ensued; and neatly
treft of Chumeer, in the district; ofPoonah, 2000 persons became victims. Mr. White
which had king been in the possession of ir received two shots, onr of which was in
regular troops, had been' attacked by a de his mouth. Mr. JJe tdith, Mr. Swanzy.
•' ■ ' and
 968 Foreign Occurrences.—Cswitry Ntws. [Oct.
and Mr. Baines, were slightly wounded. papers express themselves m the most ran
Mr. White was not dead, but the country corous terms against him. He has beer*
was deprived of his services. Reinforce since tried for a Misdemeanour, arid ac
ments were obtained from Cape Castle, quitted ; he is nevertheless to be tried a,
under the command of Capt. Bold ; they third time.
were embarked on board the Colpoys, and MaSame Tuiirf.au. — An American
were landed at Annamabo. The Gover Paper of trw 15th nit. contains the follow
nor of Elmine expreflfcd a wish to adjust, ing article, addressed to the Editor of the
the dispute; but the mediation was with ffa/Jiiiigton Federalist.
held, and was afterwards adjusted by a TNUutfANiTY. — " At Georgetown,
flag of truce, sent out by Mr. White. District of Columbia, Madam* Turrean,
After the battle of Annamabo, the Asshen- the wife of the French Ambassador, has
teis fled to Cape Coast Castle, with the been for many months, and now is, in
remains of their army. The tribes were the utmost distress and misery. She is-
received by the English, who explained left in this destitute manner, without a
to them the folly of their conduct. Not pent, and with two of Gen. T.'s small
less than sooo women took shelter in the children ; a. girl about 7 or 8 years old,,
garrison. and a boy not 2 years old. | inquired if
AMERICA. any misconduct of her's had rethKed her
' The probability of a war between Eng to this miserable situation, but heard that
land and the United States has already her character was without blemish, and
encouraged the Indians to acts of hostility her conduct in this country may defy the
against the Americans. They have nearly tongue of calumny. From the splendid
suspended the navigation of the Ohio, by style of the Ambassador os the powerful
frequently firing upon the boats as they Government of France, he cannot want
pasted ; and on one occasion they boarded means of supplying his lady with luxuries,
a boat, and killed six men who were in instead of leaving her to starve—and yet
tier. These occurrences have excited she starves 1 To tell all slie has suffered,
great sensation throughout the States, and would harrow up the heart of the most
will, it is believed, powerfully influence callous. Suffice it, at present, to fay,
their Government in their Negotiations the wife of the French Ambassador,
with this country. and Qrand Member ofthe Legion of //o«o»r,
The Boston Cenluicl fays, " Accounts with bis two children, are starving' in the
from Detroit state, that the first effects of United States."
a war with Great Britain would bean uni
versal rising of the Indians on the frontiers ; Country News. .
for, notwithstanding their seeming amity Sept. 18. We gave, in our last Number,
With the United Sta'cs, they are invete p. fiso, a short account of the explosion
rate in their hatred towards the people of of a corning mill at Faverfhqm. The scene
America, and are anxious for a safe occa: of devastation is scarcely :a be described r
fion to indulge it.'* the building was levelled with the'ground,
Monday, the 31st of August, was exe the timbers splintered ar.d dispersed in
cuted on board the Halifax, at Halifax, every direction for some rods distance, and
John Wilson, alias Jenkin Ratford, for the massive press and mill wheels displaced
desertion, mutiny, and contempt. He and thrown many feet distant from their
was one of the four deserters taken out of original position; the trees and plantations
the American frigate Chesapeake, by the in the vicinity were also much torn ; and:
Leopard, and was sonic years master fail- the Receiving Mouse, only separated from
maker on board the Melampus. He was this mill by a flight plantation, was also
a native of London. mucli injured. The quantity of compo
' The deserters from the Chesapeake were sition contained in the mill was 840lbs.
sentenced, after the execution <;f Ratford, the usual charge received twice a day from
to receive .'ioo lashes each ; but have since the grinding-honfe. Thomas Delo, who
been pardoned. was mending the gravelled walk leading to
American Paper?, which have been re the mill, about 50 yards distant, was
ceived to the 11th ult. are filled with the thrown down, from the effect of the' shock,
reports of the proceeding on the trial of before he heard the noise; but attempting
Col. Burr/ From these it is evident that 19 rise a third time, was struck by a piece
the discussions of the American Tribunal of timber on the small part of the back,
were a buTiel'que On the dignity and deco and rendered insensible : he is now in a
rum of a judicial Court. They had all fair way of recovery. Of the unfortunate
the heat and prejudice of an Election con sufferers, one alone evinced some sign of
test. Justice was entirely out of the ques- life ; one was thrown to some rods distant,
/Bori; but it being impossible to prove any and fell among the willows ; another
. thing of a treasonable nature against the (Scott, the foreman) was cut asunder
Colonel, he was acquitted. The p*rty through ihc middle, had one of bis tlugha
broken,
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broken, and the back part of his scull ftever injured by any former rising of the
blown offi the others were all disfigured, tide. The damages are far more con
their clothes torn off, and bodies scorched siderable than was at first imagined^
black and lacerated. Their names were On ftie Lincolnjhite coast, in several
J. Scott, Wm. Elliot, Dan. Tappenden, places, the banks were overflowed, and
G. Blunn, J.Sampson, and A. Shilling; the low lands? near the sea, inundated.
ofthese, Scott, Elliott, and Sampson, have At Bo/lon, very few houses, situated neat
each left a Wife, and Tappenden and Blunn the river, escaped its effects, the water
also each a wife and two children ; Shilling being more than a foot deep in rooms on
was unmarried, and has left considerable the ground floor, and the cellars com
property in the funds. Two horses were pletely deluged. The streets were in
dreadfully shattered, and the third was so many places impassable. When at its
much bruised, as to make it necessary to height, the tide was four inches higher
kill it. The Corning Mill blown up was than the great one of the lgth Oct. 1781.
No. 3 of the Royal Powder Works. At the West end of the church, it was
Sept^ 24. A most beautiful specimen of 2 feet 6 inches deep, and flowed down
Koman elegance has lately been discovered the different ailes as far as the pulpiT, to
at ffellow, Somersetshire, and by the in the considerable annoyance of the com
terference of Col. Leigh, of Combhay, to pany assembled to enjoy the musical fes
gether with the lord ef the manor, Col. tival. In its progress considerable damage
Gore Langton, will be prevented from was done; and it being what is called a
suffering the injury and dilapidation which stolen tide, the country was not prepared
the relicks of antiquity so frequently for it ; in consequence, many lheep on
experience. What has been hitherto the marshes were drowned.—The North
discovered consists of a piece of Mosaic east coast of Norfolk felt its effects se
work, and of an exquisitely-beautiful tes- verely. The levelness of the coast, the
lelated pavement, enriched with figures, height of the tide, and the fury of the
in a high state of preservation ; and the wind, made the sea ruth in upon the land
Usseræ of which preserve the most beauti with such force and velocity as hardly
ful and vivid colours. The dimensions had ever been experienced. Blakency
are considerable; and from what has been harbour, which is dry at low water, was
already found, it would appear that a very filled by the sea in the space of a few mi
considerable portion yet remains to be ex nutes ; the tide rose above the banks, and
plored. As latelyas Thursday sevennight, the boats and vessels which were in the
the workmen had exposed a fresh piece of harbour loon floated into the quay, and
great beauty, and as perfect as what had stove against the buildings. Cley, abouc
been previously laid open. a mile from Blakeney, afforded as extra
Sept. 25. An attempt was made a few ordinary a spectacle. The tide usually
days since by the prisoners of war at A'or- rises at this place from 8 to 12 feet, and
man Cross to effect their escape. Between this time it rose not less than 1 8 ; the1
10 and 11 at night a force of 500 of them streets were completely inundated, ind
rushed all at once against the interior pal nothing but closed doors, and dunged
ing of the prison, and levelled one angle crevices, prevented several feet of water
of it with the ground. They were pro penetrating Into the ground-floors of the
ceeding to make a like experiment upon houses. The road from Blakeney to Cley
the next inclosure (constructed like the lies overa part of theland which is always
former of wood; when they were charged covered by a few inches of water, which
by the military, and more than 40 severely comes up to Cley. When the gale began,
wounded with the bayonet before they to rage furiously, a gig passed wilh little
were driven back. None escaped ; but, in inconvenience, as the water rose not much-
consequence of this attempt, a vast inclo above the horse's ancles ; but the tide
sure of brick-work is now building about rolled in with such extraordinary rapidity,,
the prison; it is to be 14 feet high, and that half an hour after it was absolutely
nearly a mile in circumference. impassable.—At WhitstaUc, houses, trees,
Sept. 30. The extraordinary high tide and walls, were carried away by the de
of this evening, which did such serious vouring element. The vessels in the har
■damage all the way down the Thames, bour drove ashore in the marslies, the
from London-bridge to the Nore, is at boats were dashed to pieces, and the col
tributed to the pressure of the waters of liers that hauled high on the shore, being
the North Sea towards the Straits of Do repaired, were let afloat, and destroyed se
ver, in consequence of the late violent veral Houses by being dashed against them.
winds from the North and North-east, The inhabitants with difficulty escaped
which..have prevented the efflux of the With their lives.—The Reculvers, about
Thames. In -the neighbourhood of Lon nine miles from Margate, which serves
don, cellars were overflowed that wer* as a sea-maik, and is very conspicuous,
Gs.vt. Mao. Octoitr, id©;. from
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from its two spires being built in the form —At South End, the water rose to such «,
of pyramids (caHed, "by the seamen, "The •height, that the company at the Theatre,
two Sifters"), has received great damage. could not quit it till near two o'clock the
This antient structure is surrounded by a next morning.—Upwaids of 350 shtep,
strong wall, in the interior of which isa the properly of Mr. Cooper, of Langenboer
burial ground, and has been expeftsd for hall, ' were drowned by -the overflowing
■a long time to have been warned away. of the tide on Fingtriiighoe marshes, Es*
This day, the tide took away thcrenwin- sex, on the night of the 2()th. ■
ihg part df the road, and carriefl'witR it ■'(M. l*.. The long talked of feat be
about ten yards of the wall, which is not tween Capt. Birclay and Wood was usi-
ten yards from the foundation of the formed this day at Ntwaiarktt. The wa
'church, and has left eicposed large pieces ger was for 6oo guineas, who could %a
of coffins, with a quantity of bones and farthest in 24 hours, Wood giving th*
sculls ; and from the situation in which it Captain 20 miles ; besides which there
now stands, the church, it is expected, has been betting to theamouot of several
Will soon be swept away. Thirty Iheep, thousands. The crowd on -thin occasion
near this place, were Washed away, and a was beyond all former example. The
large lugger was driven rrcar half a mile parties started at ei^ht, near the race-
up the marshes, and found in a turnip- course', on a piece ef ground rolled and
•eld at Herne Bay.~At Margate, several lined for a mile. They were both dressed
houses have been 'washed away, and the in flannel; no legs to their stockings.
distressed inhabitants with difficulty saved Wood ran S miles the first hour ; 7 in the
their beds, on which they were obliged next; 7 again in the third; fij in th*
to deep on the cliffs the remainder of the fourth; 6 in the next; and Ji- in th*
night. One poor fisherman rvas obliged sixth hour ; in all, 40 miles. He then
to carry bis three small children out of gave up the contest, to tlte astonishment
the house tied up in a blanket. The cliffs and mortification of numerous betters.
likewise sustained considerable damage, After having gone 14 miles in three hours
and numbers of turnip -and potatoe fields and 16 minutes. Wood took tome refresh
have been entirely spoiled by the salt ment for five minutes in a marquee at the
water.—At Broa/IJlairs, several'-fifhcrmen starting post, opposite that of Capt. Bar
are nearly ruined, owing to their ware clay. He rested again ten minutes after
houses, on the left fide of the Pier, being having gone 31 miles. He laid himself
washed away. Several large trees, which down, and appeared a little fatigued. His
had maintained peaceable possession for trine was spent in having his ■ ancles, and
upwards of 40 years, were torn up by body robbed ; and on his Jeaving the
the roots ; and the chalk rocks, of amazing marquee he appeared without his -shoes.
fize, were washed over the Pier into the His feel were cat without his Ckoes, and
sea. Several boats were entirely demo he pat them on ; 'but, after having gene
lished; the whole of the houses near the 40 miles in fix hoors-and 20 minutes, he
Pier were inundated, and she inhabitants retired to his marquee ; and it was .shortly
•bliged to remuveout of them. Tremen after communicated to the spectators, that
dous large quantities of the clifse, to the he had resigned the- match. Capt. Bar
right and left of Broadftarrs, have been clsy pursued -a steady course of six miles
wauled away ; and a bath (known by the an-hour, without varying a minute. H*
name of Lord Keith's bath) fell in, and, stopped, and tonic some- warm fowl, after
with several yards of the cliff, was carried having gone 18 niilcs; aod>-/iie Hopped
into the sea.—At Ram/gate, ''the boats again after hav ing gone the other 1; miles..
moored inside Of the outer bason, with The Captain, however, ran four miles to
faveral cutters, &c. were driven on shore. decide some bets ; and .he did 36 miles in
—At Sandwich, some small craft were six hours and. 20 minutes. This race
driven on shore, and' three of the boats caused much surprize, as it was well
broken to pieces. Sevaral small buildings ; known that Wood had done 40 miles in
were damaged, and the embankments less than five .hours, only a few months
totn down.—Dover Pier has been shat since ; and the sporting men declined
tered severely,' and the wharfing and fore paying their bets for the present.. It;
land before the York hotel, and that part however,, was manifest, that there was no
of the town is very much torn away. To" collusion between the Captain aud tKe-
the Northward of the South foreland, a other party. ..;»„.
considerable' inundation took place, -by Oct. 20. The following atrocious event
which a number of black cattleartj rneep ' took place M-Hoddffdon, in Hertfordlhite.
were drowned; providentially the tide Mr. Boreham, a Member x>f the Soaiety
began to ebb, without wind, when it was of Friends, has lived many years on trie
within two inches of the top of Lord hill, soo yards from the Market-house.
Dudley's extensive sea-wall, or the whfle He had four daughters ; one was the wife
•f that level must hare b«ca under water. of Mt. Warassr, J»iafsj£i*ader, of *he
Ores,
 r8o7'3 Country News.-*- T>omeJlk Occurrenttu 971
■ Crescent, Kingfland-road, and also of the stone. They dressed Mrs. Boreham's
Crescent, Jewin-ftreet. -Mis. W. was on wound; æd the old gentleman was found
a visit there. The company assembled prostrate where he fell, with a poker by
were, Mr. Boreham, who is a very' old his side, which his feeble strength would,
gentleman', afflicted with the palsy ; his not allow him to use.
■wife; four* 'daughters, Anne, Elizabeth,
Sarah, and Mrs. Warner ; and Mrs. Hum- Domestic Occurrences.
merstorie, who superintended the business Wednesday, OSobtr 7 .
of the Black Lion Inn at Hoddefdon. Tho This morning, at 5, afire was discovered
mas Simmons,- aged 20, who had been in Mr. Whitbread's brewery, Chifwrll-
servant in the family for about two years, ftreet. A rrumber of engines were on the
but from which he had been recently dis spot in a very short time ; hut it is rattier
missed, and was employed in the brewery •singular that the flames contributed in a
of Messrs^ Christie and Co. at Hoddefdon, great degree to the ext.nguishing of them
had paid his addresses to the servant, Eliz. selves ; for they burned down the pillars
Harris, who was many years older than on which a vat containing 2071 barrels of
himself; but the symptoms of a.ferocious beer stood; the vat fell, and the flames
temper had induced his mistress to dis were extinguished by the torrents of beer
suade thfe woman from any connexion which flowed from it.
with him. He had been heard to vow Friday, Odobet 0.
vengeance against Harris and the eldest This morning, a fire broke rut at Mr.
Miss Boreham; and on this night, about Cope's sugar-house, opposite W hiticbapel
D, he made his way into the house. The Church, occasioned by a boiler being
maid retired within a scullery, and shut over-heated, and communicated to leve-
the door against him. He demanded ad Tal other houses, all of which were burnt.
mittance ; high words arose; and he " Thursday, OHober 15.
plunged a knife through a window-lattice This night a set of ruffians and pick
at her, but missed his aim. The noise pockets got into Sadler's Wells Theatre.
alarmed the company in the parlour.' Mrs. Near the close of the perfbimancc, after
Hummerftone first came forth, to intimi making a sham fight among themselves,
date and fend away the disturber; but just they left the house, exclaiming; " a fight!
as she reached the back door, Simmons, afight!" This was mistake n for. a cry of
who was proceeding to enter the house "fire!" and in an instant the wh >le House
that way, met her, and stabbed her in was thrown into confusion. The people
the jugular artery, and laid open her in the gallery, pit, arid boxes, all thronged
throat on the left fide. She ran forward, to the doors, and, in their eagei nets to es
then fell, and rose no. more. The mur cape, fell over one another : tout ihe prinr
derer rushed into the parlour, brandished cipal pressure was on the gallery stairs,
his bloody knife, swearing a dreadful where 30 persons were either killed or
oath, that " he would give it to them all." wounded. It was a benefit nig' . t, and the
Mrs. Warner was next him; and, without House Was supposed to have* had near ->O0O
allowing her time to rile, he, gave her so persons in it. The next day 'he Coroner at
many stabs in the jugular vein, and about tended, with his Jury, in the Proprietors'
her neck and breast, that she fell from her room; who, having firlt inspected the The
chair, covered with blood, and expired, atre, and found that nofirehait taken place,
fortunately Miss Anne Boreham was up nor airy part of the bunding given Way,
stairs ; and her sifters, Elizabeth and Sa proceeded to take a view of the following
rah, ran up loo for safety." The villain bodies, which lay dead in the house :—
next attacked old Mrs. Boreham, by a si 1. John Labdon, aged 20, oflsJo. 7, Bell-
milar aim at her jugular artery; but miffed yard, Temple-bar. 2. Rebecca Ling, ol
the point, and wounded her dlsep in the Bridge-court, Cannon-row, Westminster:
neck, though not mortally.' The old gen, 3. Edward Bland, aged 26, of No. 13, Bear-
»leman was making his way towards the ftreet, Leicester-fields. 4. John Green
kitchen ,where the servant-maid was, Where wood, King-street, Hoxtoh-sqiiare.' 5. Sa
the miscreant overset him, and then en rah Chalkeley, of No. 24, Oxford-road.
deavoured to stab the servant in the throat. 6. Roda Wall, aged 1 0", of the Crooked
She struggled with him, and was wounded Bill, Hoxton. 7. Mary- Evans, Market-
severely in the hand and arm. The knife street, Shoreditch. a. Caroline Trrrill,
fell ; she, however, got out at the back Plough-street, Whitechapel. p. William
door into the street, where she alarmed the Pincks, aged 17, of Hoxton-market. ;o.
neighbours. The murderer, after some J. Phelliston, aged SO, White Lion-street,
search, was discovered in a cow crib, Pentonville. 1 1. Edw. Clements, aged 13,
and brought ' to /the Bell alehouse, where Paradise- court, Battle- bridg.'. 12. J,
he was boundand hand-cuffed until morn Groves, a servant with Mr. Taylor, Hox-
ing. Two Medical men uitectly attended ton-'fqnare. 13. 'Benjamin Price, a lad
Mrs'Boreharh's family, but jcould.render about 12 years old,ofN0.33, Lime-street,
w6aid to Mrs. Warner *t Mrs. Hummer- J-eadcnhaU-stieet. 14. Elizabeth M. Ward,
97z DOMESTIC OC
No. 20, Plum- street, Bloomsbury. js.
Lydia Carr, No. 23, Peerless Pool, City-
road. 16. J. Ward, aged 16, Glasshouse-
yard, Goswell-strcet. 17. C. Judd, aged
20, of Artillery-lane, Bishopsgate-ftreet.
18. Rebecca Saunders, 9 years old, of No.
12, Draper's-buildings, London-waH. Mr.
Shaipe the surgeon was sent for on the
first alarm being given, and was in attend
ance before any of the sufferers were
brought down. Mr. Chamberlaine of
Clerkenwcll, and several other surgeons,
were also sent for; and not a moment was
loft in using all possible means to recover
the sufferers ; but only one man and one
boy were restored.
Monday, Oflol'er 1Q.
The Comet lately discovered has been
observed by many persons in this coun
try, for several nights past, and parti
cularly in the evening of this day,
when the following phænomena were dis
tinctly seen. The Comet became visible
immediately after twilight, at a consider
able elevation in the heavens, nearly due
Weft, and set about one degree half past
eight o'clock, within a few degrees of
N. W. The nucleus, or star, when viewed
through a small telescope, appeared about
the size of a star of the first magnitude,
but less vivid, and of a pale dusky colour.
The atmosphere of the Comet, owing to
the limited power of the telescope, was
barely perceptible. The tail, daily In
creasing in magnitude and splendour, as
the Comet approaches the Sun, appeared
sometimes extremely brilliant, seeming to
be a vibration of luminous particles, some
what resembling the Aurora Borealis, and
at other times almost to disappear. From
the arch described by the Comet in the
heavens, in the short space of two hours,
its velocity must be immense. By the
nearest computation which circumstances
and situation allowed, supposing the Co
met as far distant as the Sun, or about
J2,boo diameters of ttje Earth, it must be
moving in the present stage of its perihe
lion, at the amazing velocity of nearly
a million of miles an hour, or up
wards of ] 6,oeo miles a minute ! The
Telocity of the Comet, observed at Pa
lermo, in 1770, by Mr. Brydone, was
computed by that ingenious gentleman
to be moving at the rate of 60 mil
lions of miles in a day or upwards sf
40,000 miles in a minute. The Comets
belonging to our solar system are supposed
to amount to about 450 ; but the elements
or periodical times of a small number only
ps these have been precisely calculated.
From the many accurate observations
made by Sir Isaac Newton, on the great
Comet of i6so, they were first discovered
to be a kind of planets moving in very
-eccentric elliptical orbits, and with aceele-
CURRENCES. [Oct.
rated velocity as they approach their petj-
h linn. That remarkable Comet was sup
posed to be the same which" appeared tn.
liofi, in the time of Henry 1.—in the
year 531, in the Consulship of Lampidius
—and in the 44 B. C. before Julius Caesar
was murdered. Its next appearance wilt
be m the year 2255, about four centuries
hence. The Comet which appeared in
1750 was pretty accurately predicted by
the learned Dr. Halley, and may again be
expected to appear about the year 1835.
The best Astronomers are generally agreed,
that Comets are opaque bodies, enlight
ened by the Sun ; but the precise nature
of their substance, which is capable of
sustaining the most violent degrees of hear,
cannot be determined by the limited facul
ties of man. The illustrious Newton
calculated, that the heat of the great
Comet of 1 680, in its near approach to
the Sun, must have been 2000 times
greater than that of red-hot iron ; conse
quently, if we suppose that Comet to be
of the same dimensions with the Earth,
and to cool no faster than red-hot iron, it
would require upwards of a hundred mil
lions of years to cool ; and from its peri
odical revolution in the short space of 57s
years, must remain for ever in a state of
violent ignition. This Comet, according
to Halley, " in pasting through its South
ern node, came within the length of the
Sun's semi diameter of the Earth's orbit."
Had the Earth been then in that part of
her orbit nearest to that node, the mutual
gravitation of two such large bodies, with
so rapid a motion as that of this Comet,
must not only have deranged the plane of
the Earth's orbit, but by coming in contact
with the Earth (a circumstance by no means
deemed improbable by the most enlight.
ened philosophers), the (hock must have
reduced this beautiful frame to its original
chaos, or transported it beyond the limits
of the Georgium Sidus, into the boundless
depths of infinite space. But language
finks beneath contemplation so sublime,
and so well calculated to inspire the most
awful sentiments of the wisdom, provi
dence, and power, of the Great Creator
of the Universe !
Sunday, OSober 25.
This morning, at 2, a fire broke out at
Mr. Moggridge's, shoe-maker, 101, Fleet-
street. It commenced in the kitchen,
and burned with such rapidity, that the
family and lodgers had hardly time to
make their escape. The house and furni
ture were reduted to ashes. The Old Sa-
loop Coffee-house adjoining, was very
much damaged ; the garrets were entirely
burned, with part of the second, floor.
Mr. Brasbridge's on the other side was al£o
injured, as was the back of the Hand-in-
Iland Fin*Offioe in New Bridge-street.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF CHARLES M'CORMICK, LL.B. (She r. 8*9.)
He was a native of Ireland, descended Kghter productions found their.way into
of a race"that is often mentioned with the newspapers and periodical publications ;
highest "respect iri the Annals of that buty.a's these were written rnefely to relax
Country. His father was a man of good the severity of his studies, he neither de
natural understanding, and that under rived fame nor profit from' ttierh. Many
standing was highly improved by educa ■of his productions, to which he did not
tion, which enabled him to- train up his put his name,'would have produced both,
Jim in the way thai heJhouldgo, and to en if he had been avaricious of either one or
force his paternal precepts by his own ex the other. And it is to be lamented thirl
ample. The subject of this sketch evinced, those writings in which his name appears
at a very early age, a love for letters that were not, in the language of Dr. Johnsort,
increased with his years, of which he has " composed under the shade of Academic
left many proofs in more languages than bowers," ,but under the pressure of cir
one. The discouragements which almost cumstances known only to a few of his
every boy experiences on his entrance on most intimate friends ; for he was a maA
the learned languages were, in a great of that independence of mirid, that would
measure, removed by the indulgent aid of make no terms with misfortune, or yield
his schoolmaster, who had the happy art to any stroke of adversity. Those works
of strewing the thorny pathsof Grammar to which he has prefixed his' name are,
with roses; under the plastic hand of such " The Secret History of King Charles the
a teacher, young M'Cormick, in the course Second;" " Reign of GeoiBe the Third,
of a few years, could relish the beauties of down to 1783 ;" "Continuation of Rapiri's
the Greek and Roman Writers, for which History of England ;" " British Cicero ;"
he was very much indebted to Nature, " Light Reading for Leisure Hours;'"
which had gifted him with an excellent " Life <if the Right Honourable Edmund
memory, refined taste, and a judgment Burke." In the composition of this last,
that outstrips his years. His time "was not it may be truly said, that he ran a race
entirely employed ifi exploring the rich with time ; for the printer's boy was
mines of Roman and Grecian Literature. scarcely a moment absent from his elbow
He read the best authors in his native while he was writing it. It must have
tongue, particularly those that treated of been a great source of consolation to Mr.
the British Constitution, and the manly M'Cormick in his sickness, and in hi« last
struggles of our ancestors for the mainte moments, to reflect, that he never wrote
nance of that form of Government which a line which he would wish to blot out:
may be justly called the envy and admira all his writings were calculated to promote
tion of the surrounding world. He ex the cause of Rational Liberty, Religion1,
amined this venerable edifice in all its and Virtue. He never lulled any great
parts ; and could reason on the utility of man in the down of dedication, or burned
each in words that might be truly laid to the sacred incense of trurh on the shrine of
have been cast in the mint of Reason. adulation. His style was vigorous and
Having finished his classical studies, he flowing—great integrity of metaphor^ and
came to London with a view of adding to classical purity of language; force, and
the knowledge he had already acquired. clearness of expression, were the principal
Having remained some time in the Me objects at which he aimed: he was supe
tropolis, he visited Paris, in order to per rior to the little arts of weighing accents,
fect himself in the French language ; and and measuring words, for the mere pur
to form, if possible, a correct opinion of pose of winning the ear at the expence of
the genius and policy of a people whose the judgment. In his younger days, he
restless ambition had involved this country had projected a -History of Ireland, in
in so many bloody and expensive wars. which he intended to examine with the
" I loved the Constitution of England," most scrupulous impartiality the preten
said he, " before I went to France ; but, sions of the Historians of that country to
on my return, -my love kindled into en a very high antiquity indeed, which Cam-
thusiasm :" an enthusiasm that continued den, the Father of British Topography,
to glow in his breast to the last moment subscribes to, But as that was a work of
of his life. He entered his name on the immense labour, in which he would have
books of the Middle Temple, and in due to contend in almost every line with preju*
time answered all his terms. He passed dices, passions, and national pride, he de
much of his time in Oxford, in conversa termined to reserve the execution of it till
tion with men of congenial literary pur his judgment had attained its full ascend-
suits, or in perusing some of the most ancy. He was active, however, in collect
valuable authors in that inestimable ing materials for it : such as the remains of
treasury of " Medicine for the mind," the Pagan monuments, manuscripts that lurk
Bodleian Library. It is not exactly known ed in libraries, and all that floated on the
when he commenced author ; some of his breath of tradition. In this elaborate un
dertaking
 974 Additions and Corrections in former Obituaries.
dertalrirHr, he intended to' hive steered a
middle course/ Wtween Gen. Valiancy,
Pr. Campbell, and Mr. Ledwich ; and lo
have written it under ibc patronage of the
Eail of Moiia, a nobleman warmly inte
rested in whatever relate? to the crospetity
and glory of that country.. The great and
. laudable tail which he had in view; in the
execution of this arduous undertaking,was,
to induct the natives to sacrifice their, po-
■ litica'a'nd jcligious prejudices on the altar
Of Public Afiectiou. But what are the
• hopes of man ! As he was preparing to ar
range the materials for his History of Ire
land, fie was attacked with dropsy. In
the daily accumulation of that disease, he
preserved the greatest equanimity, and
even cheerfulness, affected only by the
consideration of leaving a truly afiectionat,e
wife behind him in distress. His sickness
lasted some weeks— • .»
"Till pitying Nature sign'd the last release,
And bade afflicted Worth retire to peace,"
\Ve are sorrytoadd, that Mr. M'Cor-
mick has left a widow, now in years, in a
distressed situation, and friendless. A sub
scription has been opened for her relief at
Messieurs Stevenson and Co. and Hodsoll
and Co. bankers. . duel with a Brother Officer in Glouces-
P. 777, far "John Heady," read "John
Read, efq."
P_ f 85. M. Perregaux, the respectable
Paris banker, we are assured, issiill living-;
and has now a nephew in this country,
under the care of a Clergyman, for educa
tion,intendedas his successor tohis business.
P. 799, for " mouiut «n Chretien," read
" rnourut en Chretien."
P. 82 2, for "Thomas ff, Laurence," r.
"Thomas Laurence ;" for "nephetv"
i. {' grandson" of Henry Maule, &c. ; for
•' tyne," .t. "Pyne."
; P. 844, 1. 35, r. "Benjamin Cracknel!.,
W. A."
, P. 887, -for "Taylor," r. "Tayler."
. , P.-B8Q. Ralph Payne, Lord Lavington^
K. B. Captain-general and Governor in
Chief, of his Majesty's Leeward Islands^
and a Priyy Counsellor, was born in 1 738,
and married Francoife Lambertifie, Ba
roness de Kolbel, of a noble Saxon farnily,
daughter of Frederick-Maximilian, Baron
dc KoHiel, a general in the imperial Ser
vice, a lady eminently distinguished. De
ceasing without issue, the barony of La-
*irtgton becomes extinct, making the sixth
Irish peerage which has become extinct
since tire Union. Ralph Lord Lavirvgton
was a "nobleman much e^ndeaied in private
life ; and in his public capacity esteemed
srnd revered. He was descended from an
ttririentfamily in Devonshire ; and one of
.his ancestors eminently distinguished him
self for his loyalty to Charles I. ; Mlt fled
to the Weft Indies, after the battle-pf Wor*-
[Oct.
cesler. From a younger braneH of this
noble House descended the Baronet family
of Payne of Tempsford'haH, cd. Btdford.
At a very early age his Lordship discovered
those shining talents which eleiated him
in life. Afier making the tour of Europe,
on the Genera' klrction in 1768 he was
chosen Representative for the borough of
Sliafteibnry ; and served in the successive
parliaments of 1774 and 1/80 for Camel-
ford and Plympton. In 1771, he was ap
pointed Captain-general and Governor in
Chief of the l eeward Islands ; and conti
nued in that station until 1775, when he
returned to England, and v- as_ appointed
Clerk of the Board of Green Cloth ^ in
which department he continued during
the existence of it, In 1772, his Lordship
was invested with the military order of the
fcath ; and died the senior Knight of the
Order. • In 1705 he was returned to Par
liament for Woodstock ; and was advanced
to the dignity of Baron Lavjngton in Oc
tober in the lam* year 1 in 1801 he was
again appointed Captain-general of the
Leeward Islinds, and sworn of his Ma
jesty's most honourable Privy Council.
P. 8t>o. Lieut. Delmont, who fell in a
tersliire, is interred at Stroud, in that
county. On a marble tablet erected near
his grave is an inscription strongly con
demning the custom of Duelling; ofwhich
the following is a copy :
" Beneath are deposited the MortalRemains>
of Joseph Francis Delmojjt,
late Lieutenant of his Majesty's S2d
Regiment of Foot,
who fell in a duel with
Lieut. Heazle, of theod Regiment of Foot,
August 14, 1807—aged 21 years.
Young and healthful,
eombiniitg.aSability with courage,
who but mull wish that he had lived long,
an ornament to his profession,
and the defender of the threatened
independence of his Country ?
Eat this fad memorial records him
as the inglorious victim of a practice
equally abhorrent to Reason, Humanity,
, end Religion,
opposed alike to thedisciplineofthe Soldier,
and the moral excellence of the Man.
Too proud to apologize for an -
unwarrantable expression,
and mistaking obstinacy for dignity,
he tmprovidently staked his lffc,
and suddenly loft it,
to the great grief of those Who saw i-n -him
charadteri-fticks of a nobler exit."
P. 89*. The 'remains of the rate Mar
quis Towiistiend were laid m the family
vault at Rainham, on Monday, Sept as.
The mournful procession Was awfully
grand : one hundred of the principal te
nants led the way ; the coffin, covered
|,8o7-i Births and Marriages <f remarkable ferfons. 97$
with crimson velvet, highly embroidered, At Liverpool, the wife of L.J. Venable*,
*nd superbly decorated, followed; a;fter efo,. barrister at law, a daughter,
SrhichcameLordJohnTow^thend, leading 29. At Aldersey, co. Gloucester, Lady
the widowed Marchioness ; then followed Theodoiia '.Hale, wife of Capt. H. of the
Lady Elizabeth Loftus,, the Duchess of Royal No(th Gloucester Militia, a .situ. '
Leeds, Lady An,ne Hudson/ supported by 30. The wife »f the Rev,. John-.Syinouda
their huibands ; Lady Harriet Townfhend Breedon, D. D. of Bere couit, Pangbourn,
l}ext, and then all the grand-children and Berks, a son.
gieat-grand-children of the Marquis; then 0&. 3. Lady E. Halliday, Qf Grosvenor-
a great number of his friends, followed by place, a son.
the pooler tenantry and servants innumer At Callendar-house, in Scotland, th»
Table. He,has (eft his family in a state wife of Wm. Forbes, efq. a son.
of great opulence. The Marchioness will 4. In Lansdown crescent, Bath, the wife
have, altogether, above 3000I. per annum, pf W. Errington, efq. a son. •
with 3Q,poo,). in ready cash, and an im- la Cadogan-place, Sloanc-str. Knights-
inense property in plate, furniture, &c. bridge, Hon, Mrs. Buchanan, a daughter.
The children of the Marquis's first mar- 6. At Farnham-Royal, Bucks, the wife*
riage have .»pool. .each ; and the females of Col. Clephane, M. P. son.
•1 the second marriage 5000I. each. 8. At Little Afton-hall, co. Stafford, the
m. Hon. Mrs Tennant, a daughter. , ,
. Births. 9. At Kalmouth, the wife of Capt.Gold-
LATELV, at Portumna castle, co. Gal- finch, of the Oxfordshire Militia, a son.
way, Ireland, the,Countess of Clan- 10. At Minto, in Scotland, the lady of
ricarde, a daughter, the Hon. Gilbert Elliot, a son.
At Houmlftreet park, near Bath, the wife The wife of Robert Morris, efq. of
•f General Popham, a fpn and; heir. Brunswick-square, a son.
At the Earl of Abeigavermy's, at Endge 13. At his feat, Wilton park, Bucks, the
•astle, the Hon. Mrs. Nevill, a son, wife of Jas. Du Pte, efq. M. P. a daughter.
At Chatham, the wife of Colonel Delbo- Ij- At Roehampton, Surrey, the Wife of
rough, of the Royal Marines, a daughter. Spencer Lawson," efq. a daughter.
At Malyern, the lady of the.Right Hon. In Upper Eaton-street, the wife of Has-
George Knox, a son. tings-Nathaniel Middleton, esq. a son.
Sept. 13. The lady of Sir Wra. Johnson, '6. In Sidney-place, Bath, Lady Chat-
hart, of Caskieben, in Scotland, a son, lotr.e Drumrnond, ason.
17. At Doune-lodge, in Scotland, Lady 17. Mrs. Ashe, of Bath,, a.daugbter.
Dqune, a daughter. At Hutto'n, Kent, the wife of the Rev.
19. At Mount Prospect, . co. Limerick, B. Moore, a daughter,
the lady of Right Hon. Standish O'Grady, 20. At Dalhousie castle, in Scotland,
L'ircl Chief Baron of the Exchequer, ason. the Countess of Dalhousie, a son.
23. At Hawarden castle, near Chester, 23. In Vork-place, Portman- square, the
the lady.of Sir Stephen-Richard Glynne, wife of Col. Conway, a daughter".
Dart, a son and heir. The wife of John Gunning, esq. of Con-»
24. The wife of Capt. Maxwell, of the duit-stteet, Hanover-square, a daughter.
1st Regiment of Guards, a Ion. At Plasnewydd, in Anglesey, ihe scat of;
The wife of Col. Cox, of Kingsmill- theE.ofUxbtidge,LadyCarolineCapel,ason.
house, Sandford, co. Oxford, a daughter. 24. At his Lordship's house in Hill-str;. •
At Edinburgh, LadyLeslie, of Findrassie Berkeley-square, Lady Foley, a daughter,
and Wardes, a daughter. 27. Mrs. A. Twining, of Norfolk-street, -
25. In Gower-street, Bedford-square, the Strands ;a sop.
wife of -Walter Shairp, efq. a son. ft • ,
The wife of Michael Furlonge, esq. of- Marriages.
Guiidfo.rd-place, a daughter. . , 180*5. A T Galk, in Ceylon, Lewis
At tjie-houfe ,of the Countess-dowager Bee. Gibson, efq. * to- Caroline,
»T Galloway, in Charles-street, St. James's fourth daughter of the Rev. Dx. Layard,
square, the lady of the Hon. E. Stewart, a latejpean.of Bristol,
still born child. j**'?- 27" At Ham church,
In George-ftreet, Edinburgh, the wife of Wm, MarJey, elq. of Green-ttrect-houfe,
Alexander Ramsay, esq. ft daughter, aged 6s, to Miss S. Crook, aged -26.
At N'ewWttle abbey, in Scotland, Lady Sept. 8. At EaftDereham, co. Norfolk,
Ancwin; a daughter. , .. Edmund Preston, elq. of Great Yarmouth,
2.7. At Plymouth, Mrs. SamuclJJood one of his Majesty's JepntyUefltenants of
Linzee, a daughter. that county, to Frances- Maria, second
28. At Brentford, Middlesex, • the wife dau. of Thomas Smyth, efq. of Derehara,
•f Geirtrd Helvington, efq. a daughter. ,a.*. At Worthing, Sussex, Augustus
In Blandfordistreet, Portman-fquare, the Tulk, efq. of ftusscil-iquarc, to Miss Hart,
H>n. M«s. Graves, a son. o£ tfajnpstead, Middlesex.
02. Georgo
 t)7<S Marriages of renwkable Verfins. [OcV.
. 11. George Green, esq. of Liricoln's- James Pughe, esq. of the ljoyal Navy,
inn-helds, to Miss Catherine Wilson, of and of Francis-street, Bedford-square, id
fiafcer-ftreet, Portman-square. Elizabeth, second daugh. of Kenneth Mac5-
24. At Orpington, in Kent, Mr. J. G. kenzie, esq. of Warren-street, Fitzroy-squ.
Weddell, of Gray's-inn-scruare, to Caro 8. AtDedham,theRev.Gervas Holmes,
line, elded daughter of the late Samuel to Charlotte-Isabella, on'y daughter of the
Foyfter, esq. of Charlotte-ftr. Fitzroy-squ. late Stephen Williams, esq. one of the di
26. At Christchurch, Hants, Captain rectors oftheEaftlndiaCompany.andgrand*
Stuart, R.N. second son of the late Hon; daugh. of the late Sir Hadley D'Oyley, bart.
Sir Charles Stuart, K. B. to the eldest 10. Chas. Bowdler, esq. of Doctors Com
daughter of the Pit. Hon. John Sullivan. mons, to Miss Hathaway, ofChrift's Hofp.
At the Tower Of London-, Capt. Johns, IT. Mr. R. Wilson, son of Mr. W. pawn
to Mit's Hampton, of Trinity-square. broker, of Leeds, to Miss Walker, one of
28. At Clapham, Edward Rogers, esq. the daughters of the fortunate Carpet-
of the Middle Temple, barrister at law, to weaver, mentioned in p. 885, ashavingob-
the eldest daughter of George Wolff, esq. tained, under the will of the late Mr. Kay,
of Balham-houle, Surrey. of Ludgate-hill, a honey-fall of 10,0001.
James Gibbon, esq. of Adam-street, and his three children of 20001. each.
Adelphi, to Miss Mary Duff, daughter of 12. At Ballycaftle, co. Antrim, by spe
Lieut.-col. John U. in the service of the cial licence, the Hon. James Wandesford
East India Company. Butler, next brother of the' Earl of Or-
29. At Linton, Kent, the Rev. H. W. mond and Offpry, to Grace-Louisa, daugh
Neville, second son of Christopher N. esq. ter of the Right Hon. John Staples, and
of Wellingore, co. Lincoln, to Amelia, sister of the Countess of Clancarty.
fecondvdaughter of James Mann, esq. At Church Langton, co. Leicester, the
At Frant, Sussex, William- Haldone Bar Rev. Wm. Hanwell Lucas, of Hartfbead,
ton, esq. to Miss Morgan. Yorkshire, to Mary-Jane-Weltden, eldest
OSt At Liliput-lodge, at Sandy- daughter of J. W. Roberts, esq. of Thorn-
mount, about a mile from Dublin, the by Grange, co. Northampton.
residence of the bride, Patrick Duigenan, 13. At Eardsley, co. Hereford, the Rev.
«Tq, LL.D. judge of his Majesty's Court of Martin Amphlett, vicar of Rhyall, co.
Prerogative in Ireland, and M. P. for Ar Rutland, to Miss Bourne, of Hereford,'
magh, to Mrs. Heppenftall, widow of the daughter of the Rev.- Dr. J. 8. and lister
late George H. esq. attorney and solicitor of John-Taylor B. esq. of Monmouth.
to Octs
the Dublin Police. church, Bath, by the
r.v At Walcot 14. A,t Durham, the Rev. Tho. Jack
son, vicar of Kirby-Ravenfworth, co.
Bishop of fCillala, the Rev. Edwin Stock, York, to Miss Hayes, daughter of the
ejdest son of the Bishop, to Mil's Louisa Rev.T. H. vicar of St. Oswald's, Durham.
Droz, daughter of Simon D. esq. ot Port 15. At St. Mary-la-Bonne, Sir JoHrl
land-place, Bath. Louis, bart. of the Royal Navy, and fort
3. AtWeymouth, PopsonbyTottenham, of the late Admiral, to Miss Kirkpatrick,
esq. to Mrs. Svmcs, widow of rhe late Col. S. eldest daughter of Col. William K. of the
Richard Fouotayne Wilson, esq. high Bengal Establishment.
sheriff of the county os York, to Miss So At Castle-Ashby, co. Northampton, the
phia Ofbaldestoo, daughter of the late Geo. seat of the Earl of Northampton, the Hon.
0/ efq.'of.Hutton-Bushel, co. York. and Rev. Frederick Powis, brother to Ld.
5. At Ameistiam, Bucks, the Rev. Ri Lilford, to Mil's Gould, sister to Lord Grey
chard Thome, curate of that place, and of Ruth in, and grand-daughter to the late
master of the free grammar-school there, Earl of Suftex.
to Mrs. M. C. Corbett, widow. By special licence, by the Bishop of Li
6. Capt. Henry Evans, to Mrs. Leith, merick, at Castle- Forbes, co, Longford^
Widow of the late Capt L. of the uyth Foof, Ireland, Lord Rancliffe, to Lady Elizabeth-'
and only daughter of the late Governor Mary Forbes, eldest daughter of the Earl
Seton, of;the island of St. Vincent. of Granard, and niece to the Ear! of
7. At Sandwich in Kent, Mr. Isaac Moira, who was present at the1 ceremony,
Slaughter, sen.' aged 79, to Rebecca Hills, and gave the hand of the beautiful and
spinster, of the same place, aged 6.5. The accomplished bride. Lord R. being now
bappy couple tript it lightly to and from of age, is come into the possession of an\-
St. 'Peter's church, -with all the fervour of unmeumbered property of 41,000). a year.
youth ; accompanied by a numerous as 17. George Faulkner, esq. of the Inland
semblage of their neighbours and friends. Department of the General Poft-office-,-te»
' [See vol. LXXV. p. 677.] Miss Steers, of St. Mar-y-at-Hi'l, London.
At Waleot church; Bath, the Rev; Sum Robert Gibson,' esq. of Upper Tooting,
mer Smith, vicar of A mill;- Somerset, to Surrey, to Miss Boydell, of Pall-Maltf ■
MaryAnne; second daughter of the late Major-general Gordon Drummond, t9
Rev. Benjamin Spry, vicar of St. Mary Mil's Margaret Russell, daughter of Wil
Keckliff, Bristol. liam R. esq. of Brancepcth castle, Dv 'bam .
At
 1807.] Marriages and Deaths as remarkable Persons. 977
At Ormskirk, SirThomas-Windsor Hun- May 1$. At Sea, on-board the Ganges
Joke, ban. of Wingerworth, co. Derby, to East India-man, after having served thp
Mil's Eccleston, daughter of Thomas K. Company 24 years, John Price, esq. head
ct'q. of Scarilbrick, co. Lancaster. general hospital surgeon en the Bombay
19. At Bushy park, the seat of his bro» Establishment. v
thtr, Robert Shaw, esq. M.P. for Dublin, July 8. At Nassau, m New Providence,
PonfbnbyShaw, esq. to Alice, fifth dau. of aged 00, Nathaniel. Hall, esq. collector of
Jonathan Eadc, el'q. of Stoke Newington. his Majesty's Customs at that island, a
20. At Edinburgh, the Hon. Peter-Ro member of the Council, and president of
bert Burrell, eldest son of Lord Gwydir and the Agricultural Society there. He was a
LadyWilloughby, to the Hon. Miss Drum- native of Bristol. His father, who was a
mond, heiress of the noble House of Perth. respectable grocer in that city, had nine
AtChester,Thomas-WilliamTatton,esq. sons and one daughter.
of Withenshaw, in Cheshire, to Miss Emma 16. At Nigg, in the colony of Berbioe,
Grey, daughter of the late Hon. John G. of aged 30, John Ross, esq.
Deebank, in Chester. 19. At Sunderlund, Massachusetts, a
\ 21. At Wincheisea, H. E. Allen, esq. of son of Mr. John "Rowe, a worthy and
Bath-Hampton, co. Somerset, to Fanny, promising young man, aged 19 years,
second daughter of Thomas Lle-yd, esq. of much respected and universally lamented.
the Friers, Wincheisea. The circumstances of his death are here
23. Mr. James Green, of Woodford, Es faithfully stated. " Six weeks before bis
sex, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr. death, as he was returning to his lodgings,
Edward Green, of Enfield wash. late in the evening, he was attacked in
24. At her Ladyship's house, in Grafton- the street by a nwd dog. The young man,
street, Wm. Ho!mesrcsq. to Lady Stronge. defended himself with his hands as long as
2<j. Mr. Woodward, packer, of Bastnjj- he could; but, unhappily, in the contest,
lane, to Miss Holliday, of Fleet-street. the dog wounded him in two of his fin
26. Mr. Hughes, of.Finsbury-square, to gers. He immediately entered his lodg
Miss Biih, daughter of Mr. B. of Coinhill. ings, washed his wounds, squeezing,
rubbing, and cleansing them to the bot
Deaths. tom, in the most careful manner he could,
T Sea, on his passage from Ben applying sals and vinegar, or spirits. Early
A'gal, Thomas Preston, esq. cap Wells,the next morning he advised with Dr.
of Montague : he prescribed for
tain in the East India Company's Corps of
Engineers, and third ion of the late T. P. him, and wrote to me his mode of prac
esq. of Beeston. tice, wishing me to attend upon him.
May .... At Edinburgh, in his 87th His directions were strictly attended to.
year, Mr. George Paton ; who, notwith The mercurial unguent was applied, but
standing he held no higher rank than the no ptyalism succeeded ; the quantity of
place of cletk in the Custom-house, had a unguent was increased, and persisted in,
mind and a library enriched with a fund of foi about five weeks, but no salivation en
Antiquarian knowledge of North Britain, sued, only his gums and mouth were a
historical and topographical, confessed by little fore, and a bad taste in his mouth.
the obligations which all had to his varied It was then concluded, that although
stores, and by the peculiar pains which there was no ptyalism, the mercury must
certain of his neighbours took to conceal have destroyed the poison, and frictioa
his death and the destination of his books. was omitted. He then complained of a
Among the many who experienced his paitvin the shoulder of the wounded side,
friendly aid, none has more gratefully ex the wounds having, been perfectly healed
pressed it than the Editor of the new Edi for some time, which pains were attri
tion of the Bntijh Topography, and of buted to taking cold, making a partial
Camden's Britannia; in the Preface to rheumatism. Applications were made to
the first of which he speaks of him as the pained part—the pain abated, and left
" having spared no trouble or expence to him. He then, two days before his death,
enlarge the article of Scotish Topography; complained of a numbness in the fame
which, in the course of ten years from the arm, which increased, until it was almost
first edition, by the indefatigable attention useless before his death. Two days before
of his very ingenious and communicative his death the a,ir affected him very sensi
friend, Mr. George Paton, of the Custom bly; increasing to that degree, that he
house, Edinburgh, he was enabled to could not bear any person's approach with
jiearly do Me " There is a small portrait out symptoms 9s great uneasiness, and
of him, a private plate, etched in 1785 ; even a person breathing with his face to
when he was " æt. 64. nat. 1721." Mr. wards him greatly affected him ; taking
Paton's brother was minister of Eckscchan, nothing into his mouth without a kind of
where he died lately, possested allo of a shiver, as if from the fense oT cold air.
valuable library. In this manner he expressed his seeling,
G*nt. Mao. Odoler, 180% and,
$78 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Oct.
and thus it. appeared to the by-danders. Being engaged at one of his iron-works in
His mind was much agitated through a very interesting experiment, he went,
fear of canine madness ; and he often about 11 o'clock at night, out at the forge
spoke as if in a temporary derangement, door, and a plank on which he set his foot
but would answer correctly to any ques giving way, he was precipitated into the
tion proposed. .He could see water, and mill-pond, and being drawn ynder the
swallow it as easily as more solid sub-' large wheel then at work, was literally
stances; and said, the fight of water, or crushed to atoms, an arm and a leg being
of more luminous or transparent objects, found next morning near half a mile from
was not offensive ; but in his last hours the forge. He has left a large family.
his expressions were, that his blood was By a large rock falling on him, while
in a foam, and bis eyes felt as if they raising sand on Dartmoor, which killed
were balls of sire. The night on which him on the spot, Hooper ; leaving a
lie died, the symptoms were like a true wife and three small children.
"phrenzy ; exerting himself to the utmost, P. Belchamber, a deaf and dumb man,
sometimes would he propose wrestling servant to Mr. Sandham, of Horsham,
■with his attendants; sometimes would Sussex. While loading oats, he fell from
warn them of their danger, for perhaps the waggon, dislocated his neck, and ex
he should bite them : but, after this de- pired in a few minutes.
Tangement, to the last he would swallow Drowned, by falling into the water while
■water, and never re/used it. Thus ended crossing one of the lock-gates on the Ox
the scene, and he died miserably. He ford canal, James Berry.
complained of no pain in his wounds, no As the infant daughter of Mr. Waddi-
swelling appeared, and they were per love, stone-mason, of the New road, Pad-
fectly smooth ; no wandering pains, ex dington, was walking with the maid-ser
cept in the shoulder; no unquiet troubled vant, they were overtak«n by a drove of
sleep, or frightful dreams ; no convul oxen ; when one of the beasts ran at the
sions or Julfultus of the tendons ; no child, and, striking his horn against tbe
trembling at the sight of liquors or pellucid back part of her head, fractured the skull
things ; no spasms or vomiting ; no froth so much that lhe died in a ssiort time.
ing at the mouth ; no efforts to spit at the Aug. I. In his I02d year, Mr. John
by-ftanders, or to bite them; no foaming Mirehouse, of Mire Syke, in Loweswater,
at the mouth, or gnashing of the teeth, Cumberland. On the 19th of October
■or inclination to do mischief. Was or was lt05, which was the anniversary of his
hot this the Hydrophobia? Let the Pub- birth, and She completion of his cente
lick judge. S. Church." nary, he received a very numerous party
24. At Alexandria, in the prime of of his neighbours (" all his juniors"),
youth and health, Lieut, and Adjutant seated on a new oak chair, and cloa'.hed
Thomas Hamilton, of the 78th Highiand in a new coat, which, he pleasantly ob
Regiment ; with which distinguished corps served, might, with care-taking, serve
he fought at the battle of Maida, and en his life-time. He possessed, in an emi
the plains of Egypt. He was an honour nent degree, all his faculties, fight ex
to his name and family ; and in him his cepted. His memory seemed perfect to
King and Country have lost an active and the last ; for he occasionally spoke with
very zealous officer. the same accuracy of recent transactions
a8. At Mogadore, on the coast of Bar- (a singular circumstance) as he had been
bary, in child-bed, aped 35, Mrs. Court, accustomed t,o do in relating occur
wife of A. W, C. esq. American merchant. rences of former times, which he had ei
Few persons had made themselves more ther witnessed himself, or heard detailed
universally respected in a country where by contemporaries of a period so remote
the prejudice is so strong against Christian as that of at least ninety years. The de
women than this lady; and her death will ceased was married in the 2lst year of his
be long sincerely lamented by all ranks age, and was the father of five sons and
Of people. To her husband, children, One daughter. He was of a' remarkably
and brother, she is an irreparable loss ; cheerful disposition ; and, during the
and in her the poor have lost a liberal be course of so long a life, it is not known
nefactor. Thole who have had occasion (hat he ever had the least disagreement
to witness the polite and hospitable re with his neighbours or acquaintance. His
ception she gave to strangers, and her un- funeral was attended by an immense con
remitted endeavour": to make her family course of people, all emulous of shewing
and friends happy, will allow her death their respect to the memory of one whom
*as left a blank not easy to be filled up. they had individually esteemed whilst
Aug At Port' Royal, in Jamaica, living, and whose death, though " in
JLieut. Frederick-John Holsvvorthy, of the full time," deprived their vicinity of so
Royal Artillery. ' venerable an ornament ; and also of the
4 At Mesb#rough, co. York, Mr, Walker, . • example of one wh» 'had - .
"kept inno-
cency.
 1807.] Obituary, with Anecdotes, ofremarkable Persons.
eency, and taken heed unfo the thing
that is right ; such as (alone) shall bring
a man peace at the last." His family
furnishes such an instance of longevity as
is rarely to be met with. His father and
mother were born within a month of
each other. The former died at the age
of 95, leaving a widow of Hie fame age,
who attained to her lootb, year. He had
three sisters, each of whom died in her
82d year ; and a fourth sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Longmire, widow, of Trushbank,
in Loweswater, died on Tuesday the 14th
of July, in her osd year.
7. At St. Petersburg, Matthew Guthrie,
M.D. F.R.S.S. Lond. and Edin.; physician
to the Imperial Corps of Noble Cadets in
that city, and counsellor of State. He was '
a native of Scotland, and went early in
life into the medical service of Russia.
, ( 12. At Aughton, near Qrmskirk, aged
100, Mr. Richard Brighouse ; leaving a
widow, to whom he had been married
70 years..
15. At Maryport, in his 63d year, Mr.
John Wilson,- shoemaker; a man who was
possessed of very great endowments. Every-
part of the Mathematicks was well known
to him ; and his knowledge in Astronomy,
Opticki, &c. was scarcely inferior to that
of any person of the present time. Me-
chamcks also he excelled in ; and in the
making of certain astronomical and opti
cal instruments he added a surprising ex
actness of •execution. And yet all this
knowledge was self-acquired ; and ae-
. quired with little or no interruption to his
business ; for he has often been heard to
fay, that, during the time he gained the
greatest part of his information, he gene
rally worked at his trade 14 or 15 hours
in the day. But a certain diffidence (fre
quently attendant upon real merit) hin
dered him from being known to the world
as a man of genius. To all these great
qualities he joined the highest and best-
that of a good and honest man, in aU the
telati/e situations and duties of life.
.17. At Emberton, Bucks, Hannah and
Anne James, two female infants, whose
deaths were occasioned by the admini
stration of arsenic by their mother,
through mistake, supposed to have been
cream of tartar. The eldest girl waj
about thr e years of age, and the youngest
upwards of two. The children ate their
breakfasts as usual ; but the eldest having
complained of a violent pain in her sto
mach, induced the mother to give them
each some- medicine, which she believed
was ere m of tartar, Very shortly after
wards, the eldest child became extremely
sick and- ill, and died before surgical as
sistance could possibly be procured, The
other ipfant expired in the most excruci-
afjug agonies about half an hour after the
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surgeon's arrival, whose attendance was .
procured with the utmost speed. The
body of one of the children Was opened
by the Coroner's direction, and the sur
geon, after strict examination, deposed,.]
that their deaths were occasioned by taking 1
poison ; and the Jury returned their ver
dict accordingly.
Aged 7,7, Mrs. Weale, of Warwick.'
In St. Bartholomew's hospital, ——
Warwick, a plasterer ; whose death was"
occasioned by the beating he received in a
battle he had provoked - by his abusive
language and brutal behaviour towards an.
old man fitting in the tap-room of the
Clown public-house, opposite Sadler'*
Wells. William Field, his antagonist, a
gentleman's groom, Ras' been since tried
" the -Old
at ",J Bailey,
" :' and -•' acquitted.
18. At Winslow, George Webb, a car-,
ter; who, having incautiously taken off the
head-piece from a horse that was drawing,
an empty cart under his care, the animal'
instantly ran away with the cart, and the
near wheel passed over Webb's body and'
breast with such violence as to cause his
death in two hours.
19. At Plymouth, aged 20,-Mr. Joseph
Miln, son of the late Rev. Rt. M. of Carlisle.
2q. At Paris, M. Portalis, minister of
public worship in France.
26. At St. Petersburg, suddenly, of apo
plexy, Count Wasilgur, minister of finance.
Aged 17, Richard Crowch, of Walcot
parade, Bath, articled to Mr. Evill, attor
ney, of that city; a young man of very
promising abilities. While-bathing in the
Avon, in attempting to cross the river,'
being unable to swim, he was drowned.
■ 27. Mr. Groves, chief mate of a West'
Indiaman. He had'been to Egbam races,
and left that town, a good deal inebriated,
about 10 o'clock at night, and was found
dead on the road near Staines, supposed to
have been thrown from his horse, which
was found on Hounflow heath, with the
saddle under his belly.
28. At Newport Pagnell, aged 4p, Mr?.
Anne Greatheed, wife of the Rev. Samuel
G. a Dissenting Minister there, the inti
mate friend of the unfortunate Mr. Cow-
per. She was only daughter of Mr. Ha
milton, a considerable dealer in lace at
that town ; and, by the death of her only
brother, became possessed of a handsome!
fortune. ,
Burnt to death, a daughter of Francis
Clarke, labourer, of Eafton, near Stam
ford, co. Lincoln, aged p years. She had
taken a piece of lighted charcoal from her
father's house into th« fields, which the
air caused to burst into a flame and set
}jer cloaths on fire.
30. Aged Op, Airs. Mary Ffnton; wife "
pf Mr. Thomas F. woollen-draper, Cloth-
foir, Weft Smithiicld,
Aged
 Obituary, witb Jnecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Oct.
figcj so, Thomas Fenhill, a tide-waiter his decease ; and possessed his faculties in
it Newcastle. He had gone on-board the great vigour to the latest period.
Tjwo Sifters, Miller, ffom Dronrheim, and 3. At his house in Finsoury-fquare, much
Was iri the act of assisting that (hip up the lamented, aged 70, Isaac Padman, esq. se
river, when he suddenly expired, without veral years 3 cashier of the Bank of F.ngland.
previously Complaining of illness. He had j. At Berwick, in his gad year, Mr.
been many years master of tbe Rose in Alexander Fleming, formerly a serjeant in
June, belonging to that port. the 25th Foot, and latterly serjeant-major
31. Aged 74, Mr. Hugh Johnson, many of Invalids at Berwick. He was a serjeant
years teacher of the Blue Coat Chariry- in the Army at the battle of Fontenoy.
Ithool in All Saints parilb, Newcastle. At Canterbury, William Brown, an ap
At Verdun, aged 3-2, the Hon. Coulson prentice to Mr. Lavender, bricklayer, and
Wallop, brother to the E. of Portsmouth. John Hodge, and William Stock, privates
IScpt. ... At Paris, suddenly, while en of the 3d (or King's own) Dragoons ; who
tering his cabinet, aged 64, M. Blin de met their deaths in consequence of having
St. More, author of several tragedies, and gone down a foul well in the yard of the
some heroic poems. The Emperor had, Cavalry Barracks, in Watfing-ftreet, ad
Tjot. long lince, appointed him librarian to joining the Dane-John-field, Canterbury.
the Arsenal. 6. At Kingston, near Forfar, Scotland,
Robert Potter, a private in the North aged 107, John Maxwell, who retained
York Militia, on a detachment at Hunt his faculties to the last, and, only a few-
ingdon. W(iile helping to get some tim hours before his death, gave directions re
ber on f carriage, the levers slipped, his specting his funeral. He had been four
head was crushed between the timber, times married ; and desired to be buriedV
and he expired in. half an hour. at Mains of Strathraartine, where his first
A* his apartments, on the Bowling- wife was interred.
green, Brigfithelmstone, aged 74, Harry 8. At Great Grimsby, co. Lincoln, Mr.
Bachelor, driver of the first post-chaise Martin Robinson, one of rhe chief consta
ever used for hire in that town, which bles of Bradley Havertoe wapentake.
tjad but two wheels, and gave admission At the Swan and Talbot inn, at Stam
to passengers by a door in front. ford, co. Lincoln, juft as he had alighted'
At Wanborough, Wilts, Mr. Anthony from the stage-coach, being seized with a
ffart, a singularly parsimonious character, violent fit of coughing, which caused the
lie had secreted 13 or 1400 guineas in or rupture of a blood-vessel, Mr. Rd. Banks,
about his dwelling, without instructions or of the Adclphi wharf, Strand, where her
directions to any one where to find them. had been 35 years clerk to Parkins and Co.
Aged ifi, Mr. Charles Curtois, of Lin At Westonning, co. Bedford, Samuel
coln, lately of the Bull's Head tavern. Britten, a labourer ; who was killed while
Aged 61, Mr. George Houlton, farmer, at work in a gravel-pit, by a large quantity
qf South Killingholme, near Grlmsby. of earth falling in opon him.
Mrs. Poole, wife qf Mr. P. brewer, of, This morning, Thomas Adams (who
Chelsea, Middlesex. has for some years past had the care of
In Charlotte-str. Portland-place, Henry the light on Ramfgate Pier-head) was
Scot, fourth Earl of Djlnraine, Viscount found drowned in the harbour. After
Hermitage, and Baron Scot. The Fart, the mod minute investigation, it appeared
was born in January 173S; married, Nov. clearly, from several satisfactory corrobo
14, 1/03, so Frances, widow of the Hon. rating circumstances, that he met his
Henry Knight, and daughter of Thomas death by falling from the pier, on r,he
Heath, esq, who died without issue in (tone steps near the light - house ; by
J7S2. His lordship's grandfather, Henry which accident it is not doubted but he
|cot, the first Earl of Deloraine, was the received a violent contusion on the back;
third son 0/ the unfortunate James Duke part of his head, and other bruises, and
4>f Monmouth, by Anne Spot, in her own from the steps rolled into the water.
right Coantels of Buccleugh. By the fate A young than, of the name of Breru
fvX* decease without issue, the, earldom, men, the son of a sector on the Hamp-
tic. ara now extinct. ' • stcad Road. He had gone on a shootings
Agsd Si, Mr. John Fuller, apothecary, party to the. neighbourhood of Colnbrook ;
eldest son of Ms. j. of Piccadilly. His and having fatigued himself with the
de;uh was in cousoquenee of a fever, teils of the day, he was fitting under a
brought on by over-hearing himself in a hedge, taking refreshment, when the
match of cricket. piece, the muzzle of which was pointed
Sept. i. The celebrated and facetious far towards him, went off at the half-cock,
mer, Thomas Hagerty, of Moy, co. Clare, and he was shot dead.
m Ireland, who completed his io?ih year At Marden, in Kent, Mr. Jonathan
on the 2Cth of August. He never knew Monckton, upwards of 40.years in practice
what sickness was till wi.Liu a week of as a surgeon and apothecary there.
At
 1 80 7 .] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Perform 981
At Bi:;gViam, Notts, in his 53d year, Mr. vent that untimely fate which this unfor
Jepson,' many years an eminent surgeon. tunate circumstance, accompanied with »'
9. At Bla"nt-lvor, near Caerfilly, aged lingerir.;: disease, had prepared for him. "
87, the ReT. Lewis James, upwards of 50 12. Al his apartments in Buckleribury, '.
years pillar of the Baptist church at Ce- aged 65, Edw. Pi yce, efq. of Merton, Surr.
van-Hengoed, in the parish of Gellygere, Mrs. Wilder, of S •■ckville^st.Piccadilly.
ill Glarriorganshire. At Brough, aged upwards of 80, Mrs. ;
As Penrith, Douglas Grive, efq. captain, Browne; and, on the next morning, Mr.-
in the Loyal Leith Ward Volunteers. Browne, her husband, also at an ad
10. At Aslackby, near Falkingham, co. vanced age. They were both taken ill on
Lincoln, William Bannister, who drown the same day, about a fortnight ago, and
ed himself in that parish. The deceased died withiir twelve hours of each other;
followed the business of a drover ; was a were both laid but on one bed, aud buried
young man of respectable connections ; in the fame grave. f
and, in all the relations of life, a charac 13. At New Shoreham, Sussex, Mrs*
ter highly estimable. For a few days be Kilvington, wife of II. M. K. efq.
fore he perpetrated tbe act of self-destruc At the house of Thomas Ryder, efq. at
tion, be had been evidently mentally dis Hendon, Middlesex, the widow of Mr.
tressed, and his health had been injured Herbert Croft, of the Charter-house, and
by the perturbation of his feelings. In mother of the Rev. Sir Herbert C. bart. .
the evening he requested a friend to walk At Torrell's hall, Essex, Mrs. Crabb,
with him in the fields of Aslackby, and wife of John C. efq.
repeatedly said he had something of con Aged 67, Mr. Quatermaine, of Oxford,
sequence to communicate. The friend upwards of 40 years head butler of St»
in vain requested him to disclose what it John's college in Oxford University.
was ; and was suddenly astonished to see 15- At Arnold, near Nottingham, of the
young Bannister in the act of cutting his gout in his stomach, Rob. Davison, efq.
throat with a penknife; he succeeded, with 16. In her 25th year, after a long and
great difficulty, in getting the knife away severe illness, Mrs. Watson, wife of Mr..
from the deceased before any fatal incision W. hatter and hosier, of Newark, NottsK
was made, but was himself severely- and dau. of Mr. Wm. Hazard, of Wilford.
wounded in :he struggle. Foiled in the At Great Grimsby, Mrs. Hannah Bu~
meditated means of destroying himself, ringham, widow of Mr. Thomas B. late
Bannister (who was aremarkably fine and of the Granby inn there, who died withiii
stout nian) knocked down the friendly in- the last eight months. A brother of Mrs.
terposer between him and a shocking B. also died within the last six monthly
death, and) running with great speed up a all in the same house. ' .
hill, plunged into a stock-pond, and was iS. At Kingston, nearTaunton, John
drowned before he was extricated. He Band, efq. late of Wookey-houfe, many
was 26 years of age ; and his fatal des years in the comin iflion of the peace, and
peration is attributed to a disappointed at a deputy-lieutenant for Somersetshire.
tachment. Verdict, Lunacy. Found dead, on the road to Deal, Kenr,.
At East Close, near^Christchurch, Hants, supposed to have fallen from his horse in
aged 82, John Levett, efq. a fit, Mr. Martin, of Deal, late a partner
At Billingham, in the Isle of Wight, with Mess. Burrows and Co. of Dover.
Mrs. Vincent, wife of Mr. G. G. V. of the At Maidstone, Kent, in her 58th year,
Sanctuary, Westminster. after a loi.g and painful illness, Mrs.
11. At F.ffingham, in Surrey, aged 39, Mackett. At the age of 23, she was Con*
George Moir, efq. of Kingston, Jamaica. sidered the principal equestrian performer
At the Gesrge inn at Exeter, after two at Astley's ; and was the first person who
days illness, much respected, Ms. John rode three horses in hand at one time,
Lillington, of Birmingham. and jumped over the garter while the
Between 8 and g o'clock, Mr. Henry horses were in full speed. She married-
Moore, of Ripley, co. Derby, missed his John Crisps, efq. of Loose, who was fas
way (owing to the darkness of the even cinated on seeing her perform. Aster his
ing) near St. Mary's bridge, in Derby, decease, she was alternately the sport of
walked into the canal, and was drowned." good and bad fortune ; sometime* enjoy
AtHamhurgh, Mr. George Walker, son ing the splendour of affluence, at other*
of Mr. W. clerk of the Sessions at Glas suffering under the pressure of poverty j
gow. He was one of the number of our and at last died dependent on the kind of
countrymen who, on the commencement fices of well-disposed persons who knevr
of the present hostilities with Denmark, her, and did every thing in their power t»
were by that Government put under ar tranquillize her. last moments.
rest. The Senate of Hamburgh, how Ar Cams.Gill, in Preston-Patrick, near
ever, claimed him as a citizen; and pro Kendal, in her 83d year, Mrs. Elizabeth
cured his release, but not ia time to pre Breaks, wise of Mr. Rich. B. j and on th«
following
t>ffe Obituary, with Anecdotes, ofremarkable Persons. [Oct.
following day, the said Ms. R. B. in his Jamaica. A more mournful situation has
;7th year. Their remains were interred seldom fallen to the lot of any individual.
iii one coffin in the Friends' burial-ground. Mrs. B. having lately loft her husband,
They had been married upwards of 52 had arrived at Greenock a few weeks ago,
years, during which time they had not in the fond hope of devoting herself to the
been known to have a dispute. And On education of her little family.
«he aitl, at Crawshay- Booth, near Burnly, This day, as Mr. Hoskins, banker, of
aged 22, Mrs. Mary Binns, wife of Mr. Veovil, was mounting his horse, before he
Joseph B. grand-daughter of the above R. was quite seated on the saddle, the animal
*nd E. Breaks, and daughter of William started, and threw him, by which his,leg
and Esther Labrey, late of Scotforth, Lan was broken. In a few days, symptoms of
caster. Thus have three persons 00 1 of mortification appeared ; on the 25th, his
one family been taken off in four days. leg was amputated; and he died next day.
19. Mr. Comfort, master of the Blue 21. At Welbourn, co. Lincoln, aged 27 ,
Ctoat School in Chapel-street, Westmin Mrs. Brown, wife of F. B. esq. and only
ster. He left his residence in tolerably daughter of Jn. Green, esq. of that place,
good health, with an intention of giving a leaving four small children.
lesion ; but when he hail got opposite the At Capt. D'Arcy's, in Caroline -build
Broad-way chapel, he was suddenly taken ings, Bath, Miss Ball, of Steeple-Ashton.
»ery ill, dropped down, and expired in a At Snaresbrook, Essex, after a long and.
ftw minutes.—Mr. Collins, who resided painful illness, Mrs. Mary Faulkner, wife,
on Brewer's-green, within a few yards of of Mr. B. F. of that place, but late of
Mr. Comfort, accompanied some friends Fleet-street, London, wine-merchant. She.
from the country to Sadler's Wells, where had just fitten down to dinner; was observ
he was taken unwell and speechless ; was ed to change colour, and died in a few mi
curried home in a coach, and died in the nutes, without a sigh.
course of a few hours. At Newington, Mr. James Martingale
At White-house, near fsewcastle-upon- Lemair, a merchant. Having been on
Tync, the residence of his son, much re a day's shooting a few miles from town,
gretted. Cooper Abbs, esq. after some hard fatigue, he returned
In the Crescent, Bath, aged 82, Mrs.' home, and reclined himself pn a sofa. On
Maltby, relict of Thomas M. csej. late of a sudden he called out vehemently to his
lakenham grove, Norfolk, and mother to servant, who, on entering the room, peiv
the ceived a copious effusion of blood coming
• AtLady of the Bishop of Lincoln.
Husbands-Bosivorth, co. Leicester, from her master, who, it appeared, had
Mrs..Heygate, relict of the lat„ Thomas broken a blood-vessel, wnich occasioned
H. esq. of that place, who was the eldest his almost immediate death.
fcn of Nicholas H. esq. the sole descend- At ITillingdon, Middlesex, Sydney, wife
ent of that antient family. It is not too of William Barker Peppen, Lieutenant of
much to affirm of this excellent woman, the R iyal Navy, after enduring, rather
that her loss will be long regretted by all than enjoying life, from a paralytic afflic
■mho knew her ; whilst her ran. attach- tion the last twelve years. This lady was
ittcnt to the memory of her husband, the lineally descended from Sir Thomas More,,
goodness of her heart, her unaffected' who suffered by the axe in the stern reign'
piety, and the uniform propriety of her of Henry VIII. The picture of that great
Conduct, under difficjlt circumstances, Lord Chancellor, by Holbein, hung in
deservedly endeared her to all her family. the parlour where Mrs. P. usually sat ; and
Her children will have to lament the toss it was impossible not to remark, especially
cl1' an affectionate parent, whose whole life in latter days, the very striking similitude
■» -i- devoted to their happiness and interest between his represented and her living
Hanged himself, in a fit of lunacy, srorn features : indeed no likeness in a daughter
% staple
api in the' ceiling of his' bed-rcom, of the father could be well greater. The
Thomas Downes, porter of the Haber name of More diopt with Samuel M. (late
iathers alms-houses at Hoxton. He had Secretary to the Society for the Encourage
lieen, for five weeks past, in a very low' ment of Arts, Manufactures, and Com
and desponding way. merce, who died in 1799, fee vol. LXIX.
20. Aged 14, Amelia, daughter of the p. 909), Mrs. Peppen's uncle ; as her
late Mr. Warrt, of Derby. o dy brother, Thomas More, esq. departed
Mrs. Beckley, wise of William B. esq. this life, from a day's illness under a most
of Fore-street, Spiral-square. severe bilious attack, at Madras, 1780,
After a long and painful illness, Mrs. then Secretary- to Admiral Sir Edward
Hew, of the Adelphi. Hughes, K. B. The distinguished charac
At Greenock, of that dreadful scourge ter of this lady is so worthy of many a
the small pox, Isabella ; and, on the 2Sd, woman's imitation, that the writer cannot
John and Mary, infant children of Mrs; refrain from recording Mrs. Sydney Pep-'
Bi--swv>, oi the parish iff St. Efizabsth, in pen as the most uniformly kind, meek, arid
peace-making
1 807.3 Obituary, with Anecdote
peace-making maiden and* wife he has ever
known. " Children and the building of
a city continue a man's name ; but a
blameless wife is counted above them
both." Such was Sydney Peppen. The
family-vault in the church-yard of the
Chapd of Ease, St. Margaret's, West
minster, being quite full, the affectionate
husband constructed a new vault in Hil-
lingdon church-yard, where he hopes to
have his own remains one day deposited
t>y her fide, and never more to separate.
Mrs. Peppen had also a sister, Elizabeth,
since dead. She married George Philips
"Towry, a gallant Lieutenant of the Royal
Navy, to whom Lord Keppcl, when pre
siding at the Admiralty, gave a seat at the
Victualling Board. ' A son of this marriage
is now a Post Captain of renown in the
Navy ; and a daughter has blessed Lord
Ellenborough, her husband, with many
children , so that all the greatness of their
ancestor, Sir Thomas More, is likely to
find increase in the posterity of the happy
Elizabeth.
22. At Shornbrook, near Bedford, Wil
liam Mackinen Fraser, M. D. He gradu
ated at Edinburgh in 1775 ; and was for
several years in considerable practice, first
at Southampton, afterwards at Bath, and
lastly in Lower Grosvenor-ftreet, London.
He was a man of' mild and gentlemanly
manners, of great professional talents ; and
a short time before his death (which was
the result of a paralytic affection), had the
honour to be appointed physician extraor
dinary to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales.
He has left a widow and ten children.
Mrs. Trigs, mother of the wife of Rich.
Trigg, efq. of Westgate-buildings, Bath.
At Bletchingdon, co. Oxford, the Rev.
James Coward, rector of that parish.
AtBrighthelmstone, SirJohnilort, bart.
of Hortland, co. Kildare. He had been 30
years consul-general at Lisbon. His body
was brought to town, and deposited in St.
George's burial-ground.
John Hollingsvvorth, esq. of Kensing
ton-square, Middlesex.
At Brompton, Horace-Walpole Bedford,
esq. of the British Museum.
Killed, in Pentonville chapel-yard, by a
fall from a tree, a poor but industrious
man of colour, named Gibbs. In hope of
the reward of two guineas, offered by its
master, he had followed a parrot which
had escaped out of its cage, and taken re
fuge in the tree, which the poor man
climbed ; when, unfortunately, the branch
on which he flood giving way, he was
precipitated to the ground, and killed,
leaving a wife and several children. > D. D. minister of the Dissenting Meeting
At Mr3. Meek's, in Little Britain, aged
35, Mt. John Barker, in the service of the
East India Company.
At Stirling, Capt. Thomas Gilfillan, late
•f the M ft foot. ■'
: ■l '
tf of remarkable Tersons. 9S 3
23. At Vaxley, co. Huntingdon, in his
60th year, after six days illness, Mr. Ro
bert Gregory, father of Mr. G. of the Royal
Military Academy.
Mrs. Harris, of Humberstone-gate, Lei
cester ; in whom the several charities of
the town have lost a liberal benefactress.
Mr. Bradley, of the Ram inn, Leicester.
At Louth, co. Lincoln, where she ar
rived on the 10th in.good health, intend
ing to reside there, aged 6g, Mrs. Mary
James, widow of the late Rev. Peter J. of
Greenwich, and rector of Ightham, Kent.
At the vicarage-house at Hull, of a ra
pid decline, Mary, daughter of the late
Mr. William Amys, of York, and sifter to
Mrs. Bromby. ,
At Stanmore, in consequence of a con
tusion on his head, from a fall down the.
cliffs in the Isle of Wight, aged 80, Wil
liam Roberts, efq. formerly master of a-
very reputable boarding-school at Wands-
worth, from which lie had retired several
years. He was brother to the Rev. Ri
chard Roberts, D. D. head master of St.
Paul's school, and first cousin to the late
Rev.William-IIayward Roberts, D.D. pro
vost of Eton. His wife died four davs ber
fore him. His son is vicar of St. Peter's
in St. Alban's.
In Prince's-sfreet, Edinburgh, aged "8,
Dowager Lady Stuart of Allanbank.
At Amsterdam, William May, tsq. fa
ther of William M. esq. merchant, in Jef-
feries-square. He was born at Chatham,
in 1725; until the Revolutioa of I7p»
was a principal officer in the Dutch Navy,
and first commissioner of the Admiralty;
and member of several learned societies.
24. At Kilvington, near Thirsk, aged
70, the Rev. Francis Henfon, D.D. 31
years rector of that place, and formerly
fellow of Sidney college, Carubriuge,
Rev. William Norford, rector of Boyton
and Bradfield-Combust, Suffolk. ' ' '
At his house in Charterhouse-square,
London, the Rev. Joseph Smith Hargrave,
auditor of the Charterhors^, and son of
the late Major H. ef Oxford.
At Wisbech, in her 82d year, Mrs. Alice
Watson, widow of the late Cooke W. esq.
of Lynn, Norfolk.
At Croydon, Robert Harris, efq. in the
commission f the peace for the county of
Surrey, and formerly a druggist in St.
Paul's church-yard.
25. At Greenwich, John Horton, efq.
At Northampton, aged 70, after a few
days illness, Mr. Joseph Clark, distributor
of stamps for that county. He was the last
surviving son of the Rev. Samuel Clark,
house at St. Alban's, who died in 1750 ;
and father of the Rev. George Clark, chap
lain to the Royal Military Asylum at Chel
sea. «' His place," fays a News-paper, " is
worth
 984 Obituary, with Anecdotes, */ remarkable Tersons. [Oct.
worth from sool. to loool. per annum ; and At Durham, after a lingering illness of
the business of it might be done for lool." nine months, which he bore with be
At Mrs. Montague's, on the North pa coming fortitude and resignation, aged 04,
rade, Bath, 'aged go, JVIrs. Hill, who had Mr. John Lampson, upwards of twenty
been domesticated in the family of Mrs. years master of the Blue Coat Charity-
Montague at Itast 60 yean. schorl of that city ; which office he filled
At Sevenoalts, Kent, Mrs. Richardson, so much to the satisfaction of the Go
wife of Muj-or-jieneral R. vernors of tbat invaluable Institution,
Rev. Jimes Wardleworth, of TydN St. that they presented him, on his retirement
Jlary's, co. Lincoln. from public life, with a piece of plate,
After a lingering illness, Mrs: Royston, on which is engraved an inscription ex
of the George inn at Buxton. pressive of their thanks and high estima
' 26. At his house, N° 6, Great Rusiell- tion. The deceas:d was a man of iingulu
ftreet, Bloomsbury, aged 20, Sam. Greig, integrity and humanity ; always mild to
esq. eommissioner fer the Navy os Hie wards his pupils, yet maintaining his au
imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the thority with becoming dignify. He was
Ruffias, and officiating Ruffian Consul-ge eminently versed in the Mathematicks,
neral in Great Britain. and taught them to many who are now
At Hampflead, Middlesex, aged 35, Mr. advancing in life, and bid fair to be orna
"William Stace, surgeon. ments and benefits to Society. His know
Suddenly, while eroding the paddock ledge was not of thai kind which puffeth
which leads from the turnpike- road to his up. His humble attachment to Revela
country-house at Norwood, Surrey, Mr. tion was uniform and constant; and he
Spencer, os Great Marlborough-strcet. exchanged this life for a better, much la
In the afternoon, at his lodgings in mented by a numerous circle of friends,
Scarborough, to which place he had gone who had been acquired by his merit, and
by the advice of his physicians, aged 68, retained to the last.
Sir Whafton Amcotts, of Kettlethorpe'- At Silverfort, co. Tipperary, in Ireland,
park, co. Lincoln, bart. He had repre Darby Scully, esq. a man es the purest in
sented East Retford, co. Nottingham, in tegrity and most unblemished reputation.
thtee Parliaments ; but, at the last elec 27. At East Sheen, John Hawkes, esq.
tion, on account of advancing age and of Cecil-street, Strand. ,
declining health, transferred his interest Aged about 75, Mr. W. Osbome, of
to his grandson, William. Ingilby, esq, Kington, near Tliombury ; a gentleman-
M. P. for tbat borough, and on whom hie os sound judgment and great integrity;
title descends. Sir Wharton was twice and a liberal benefaetor to the poor.
married; first to Miss Amcotts, sister and Sam. Neate, esq. of Chinpenham.Wilts.
co-heirels of the late Charles Amcotts, of As;ed 76, Mrs. Barker, wife of T. B. esq.
, Kettlethorpe, esq. ; by whom he had of Lyndon, Rutland.
issue one daughter, married to Sir John Aged 2 1 , Anne.only daughterof George
ingilby, of Ripley, co. York, bart. who, Smith, esq. of Grimsby, co. Lincoln.
on her mother's death, in 1SOO [LXX. 28. In St. Jobn-st/eet, WeftSmjthHeld,
Juo], supperaded the name of Amcotts aged 42, Mr. John Waron, late of Har-
to that of Ingilby ; she has issue one son rowdsn, co. Northampton. Few men have,
(the inheritor of Sir Whai ton's title) and met with greater trials, or borne them with
five daughters ; a. to Miss Amelia Campr more fortitude and patience.
bell, daughter of — Campbell, of Whitley, AtBlackheath, Charles Kensington, esq.
co. Northumberland, esq, ; by whom he At Brompton, whither he went for the
ha9 left issue one daughter. On Monday, recovery of his health, in the 74th year of
Oct. 5, Sir Wharton's remains were in his age, and after having heen upwards of
terred in the church of East Retford. By 50 years a servant of the Publick, Charles
his death, the Kettlethorpe and Amcotts Wright, esq. chief clerk of the Admiralty*
estates, which are considerable, devolve His remains were interred in the Cloisters
' iipon.his daughter, Lady Ingilby Amcotts. of Westminster Abbey.
His loss will be deeply regretted by all his Rev. Robert Wright, D. D. vicar of St.
domesticks, to whom he was an indul Mary, Whitechapel, London, and former
gent master. At no place was there a ly of Brazenoi'e College, Oxford, in whose
greater plenty of every article, of life,— gift that valuable living is, which he ex
at no place was the old English hospitality changes! for that of Wold, co. Northamp
kept up with greater spirit, than at'ICtsttle- ton, 1807.
iborpepark. Not only his more imimare ' , At Doncaster, aged 3 1 , Rev. W. MooreJ
friends, but the visitors, who occasionally vicar of Collingham, near Wetherby, co.
partook.of his cheer, will long remember York, and eldest son of the late Rev. S. M.
the kind entertainment, as Well as hearty vicar of Doncaster.
welcome, with which they were always At- the Ballast Hills, near Newcastle-
useivgd at his house; upon-Tyne, aged 55, Mr. William Rob-
(0114
 1807.] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of'remarkable Per/ens. 985.
son ; who was formerly in comfortable and regarded with high respect by these
circumstances as a barber and hair-dresser, who had admission to her ; for, though
but relinquished lhat badness, many years she did not, in her latter life, visit others,
ago, from religious scruples and a con her own doors were open to all her friends.
scientious regard for (he Sabbath-day, To be brief; her uncommotvfistcrly af-!
which he coaceived to be violated by the section, her piety and confciemioiis con
exercise of his profession. He has since duct, made her venerated while Iivirrgy "
that period encountered, with great mag- and will long render her memory sacred.'
nanimity and patience, a. long series of At Berwick, Thomas Standfast Smith
Consequent affliction and poverty. ' lie put an end tc his wretched Use by cutting
was considered to he a man of eminent his throat in his bed-room. He was origi
piety, ana good fense ; and, however de nally a poor carpenter; hot, by the death'
trimental Lis religious views have been to of an uncle, became possess, d of property
his comfort in this life, there can be little to the amount of 1000I.'' a yeai ; which,*
doubt but his tioubles ended with his by saving and scraping, he increased te
mortality. 13001. a yea: . For several years, however*
At Edinburgh, with the well-merited he was so strongly impressed with the idea
reputation of an honest, industrious, and that he (hould come to poverty, and die a
inoffensive woman, Mrs. Charteris, who beggar, that life became btirtbenfome td
'had belonged to the theatre there upwards him, and he resolved on seif-dcflructic.3) ;
of 30 years. She succeeded the much-ad and, about a month ago, he attempted it
mired Mrs. Webb ; and for many years by laudanum ; but, unwilling to expend
after that actress left that city was an ex the money for the necessary quantity, he
cellent substitute in Lady Dove, Juliet's. escaped the intended effect. Biitilli Pr?ss.
'Nurse, Deborah Woodcock, Dorcas, Mrs. 30. At St. Alban's, aged 71, Hi. Wil
Bundle, &c. &c. liam Bacon, formerly a very considerable
29. At llfracomb, Devon, in the morn grocer there, but had retired from bosinefs
ing of life, much lamented, Mil's Fofle, many years since with an ample fortune.
eldest daughter of Mr. William F. and At his brother's house, at Bishop-Stort-
grand-daughter of the late Rev. William F. ford, I Ierts, Edward Brome, esq. of Town
rector of Wemworthy, in that county. Mailing, in Kent.
' In Norfolk-street, Bristol, aged 75, Mr. ' At her house at Bath, Mrs. Ravenhil),
James Spearing, late brewer and maltster relict of the laic Timothy R. esq. of
there ; and 50 years parish-clerk of St. Chefliunt, Herts.
Werburgh's, in that city. In his 70th year, the Rev. Matthew
At his house at Margate, aged 70, Lewis Woodford, archdeacon of Winchester, pre
Agassiz,"efq. late an eminent and much- bendary of that cathedral, and rector of
respected London merchant. Crawley and Calhourn, Hants. - . »
At York, suddenly, aged 4 3, Mr., George At Winchester, Robert-William Birrell,
Cattle, one of the firm of Messrs. Prince esq. of Cheltenham, son of the late Richard
and Cattle, jewellers and silversmiths. B. esq. of Lisbon.
At his lodgings in Maryport-street, Bris Killed, by a mass of stone falling upon
tol, after a few days illness, Mr. John Deer-, him in Mr. Morris's quarry on Coomb-
ing, traveller to Mess. Fry, Ball, and Co. down, Somerset, a mason named Pitman,
Capt. Bullock, many years in the Irish near HO years of age. - ■ ■",
trade from Bristol. At Woodford, Essex, aged 71, Mr*. Free,
At her house in St. George's street, of New Broad-street, relict of the late Tes
Cantetbury, aged 63, Mrs. Anne Ham ter F. esq. banker.
mond, eldest and only surviving daughter Suddenly, in an apoplectic fit, ased7S,
of the late William H. esq. of St. Alban's Mrs. Rust, of Lambeth-slr.'Whitechapel.
Court, Nonin^ton, Kent, who died 1773, At Islington, aged rjs, David Dc-uald, '
by Charlotte, daughter and co-heir of Wil esq. formerly a planter in the parish of
liam Egerton, LL.D. &c. &c. Her moral Hanover, Jamaica.
and religious character has seldom been Lately, at Sinigaglia, a~ed 83, Cardinal '
equalled, much less excelled. For many Onorati. There are now fourteen Cardi
years she devoted herself, with unceasing nals' stalls vacant. .
assiduity, to, the sick, bed of her sistei, , At Bucharest, of the gout, wirh wh en
who died in 1804 ; and. from the hour he had been long and severely assiicted,
that death separated them her own health General Michelson'.
seemed to decay ; and ssie could not break At Paris, aged 81, Mr; Pfefflel, the
the habits of seclusion to which she had well known Author of the History of Ger
consigned herself. Her understanding was many, which is treat ;d by" the celebrated
strong by nature, and improved by con- Writer of Charles V. with great respect.
slant exercise. She read, and thought For the last 50 years lie was occupied on -
tnuch j and her opinions were consulted, . the great theatre of public life, aTfi w»;
Gent. Mag. OetuL-cr, 1807. fuppoftd,
12
986 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Oct.
supposed to be better informed than any by all those who best knew her, her loss
orher character of the age, on the im will long be sincerely lamented.
portant transactions of his time. He was At Tickhili, co. York, Mrs. Bowser;
frequently urged to continue his publica who had for many years been afflicted
tions by those who were best acquainted with a dropsy, for which she had beerj
with his experience and abilities j but he tapped 100 times; when, at each opera
always pertinaciously declined complying tion, upwards of five gallons were taker)
with their wishes ; assigning, as a reason for from her ; making, in the whole, the asto
his refusal, a position which, if admitted, nishing quantity of more than 500 gallons.
would have deprived us of some of the At Hether, co. Leicester, in his 65th
best productions of human genius. His year, Mr. John Eames, an eminent far
opinion was, that an ostensible agent in mer and grazier.
political life ought not to publish the his At Nantwich, in Cheshire, aged 72,
tory of his own times. Samuel Hodgson, esq.
At Chumleigh, John Fewings, aged Rev. T. Bowen, rector of Maesmynis
upwards of yo. This man was of the and Llanyhis, in Breconshire.
h.imble occupation of a tinker ; but he Rev.JohnNewton, minister of Didlbury
presented a singular contrast to the cor- church, near Manchester.
lupt manners and dissolute life of this de Rev. Mr. Davie, of Woodbury, Devon,
scription of itinerants. He was never formerly a prieft-vicar of Exeter cathedral.
inown to take what is technically called Suddenly, atTaunton, the Rev.Williarn.
a dram, nor was he ever seen in a state of Prowse, of Croydon, co. Somerset ; lineally
intoxication ; and, until within a year or descended from that great man, Captain
two previous to his decease, he uniformly William P. of Croydon, who commanded
followed his employments without the the fire ships that destroyed the boasted
assistance of glafl'es. At this advanced pe Spanisti Armada.
riod, also, be would (to accommodate an Rev. Themas Wellington., vicar of Hope-
old customer) walk five or fix miles, with ninder-Din.more.
his tools at his back, and return the fame Rev. J. Winfield, a minor canon of the
day. The following anecdote, which he cathedral of Chester.
often related, may not be deemed unwor At the parsonage- house at Havant, co.
thy of insertion, as it tcnrls to shew the Hants, Jged 87, the Rev. David Renriaud,
prodigious increase of kconsumption in an M. A. ot St. John's college, Cambridge,
article then scaicely known to the lower and rector «f that parish.
clafles of society. About 50 years ago, At Bristol, the Rev. W. Higginson, rec
calling accidentally at a farm-house, he tor of Alvescot, co. Oxford.
was invited to partaki 01 some tea that the In hi? 73d year, the Rev. T. Beckrwitb,
good woman bad just brought from mar of Norwich.
ket, and which she actually pieparcd by At his father's house in Stockland, aged
Veiling, in the com.i.on kitchen copper, 24, Wiliiam-Hody Cox, esq. of Jestts col
and every now and then dipping a no-, ion lege, Cambridge.
of it out with a ladle. This rough prepa In Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, sn
ration, however, phased honest John lo his 63d yeai, John Burges, M. D. fellow
well, that, from that time till his death, of the Royal College of Physicians, of
he was a perfect Joloijbnian tea-drinker. London, and formerly physician to St.
At Beaconsfield, Bucks, in an advanced George's Hospital.
age, Mrs. Haviland, relist of the late In Old-street, aged 6S, Mr. Kirk, watefc-
General H.; a woman in many respects engvaver, better known by the name of
Justly memorable. Her talents were lively, "Water Kirk;" who never expcii.uced
keen, and powerful; her acquaintance any illness till within a few h^urs cf his
with elegant literature extensive trnd va death; and, through a. principle of reli
rious ; she possefled a style, 'disiied, point gion, never tasted animal food, or any
ed, and sparkling ; her conversation, rich, thing stronger than water. Sonw years
entertaming,and instructive,abounded with ago he was a celebrated field-preacher,
anecdotes of those who in her carlv days and a great antiquary.
had been most' eminent for letters, wit, Oct. ... At Clavei ton farm, near Bath,
ind humour, in her natiro country, Ire ' Mrs.Macarmicfc, wifeofLieut.-'gen. M . and
land: and in her mcinoiy were preserved youngest daughter of Lad/ Jane Bhller,
many beautiful fragments of antient longs At Gloucester, Joseph Pierce, e.sq: sp-
and ballads, which, have. escaped our moft ■ perintendant of the Ordn nee business in
diligent collectors. Above all, per heart the county of Wilts, and brother Lo, tb*
was benevolent, friendly, an<| .affectionate j ^rife of Robert Morris, esq. M. P. "
and she discharged the manifold duties of Aged 6j, John Lew'iSj cne of t\,s pep-
as long life in a manner which peculiarly sioners of Bristol' cathedrai.
endiared her to those who were more injt ,
At Spalding, cp. Lincoln, aged 7<5, Mp.
itediately connected with her, Admired Flinders, — ,: wife
—'£~ of
~f Mr,
M- Join F.°cc
rr coroner.
Surf' deDly,
 1807.3 Obituary, with Anecdotes>of remarkable?ersotis. 98^
Suddenly, Mrs. Plumptree, of Saltfieet- 2. At East Sheen, in Surrey, Sir Brooks
by, co. Lincoln ; leaving a husband and Watson, Bart. Alderman of the Ward of
ten small children. Cordwainers, London (in which he is sup-
Suddenly, in one of the Courts of St. ceeded by Christopher Smith, esq; wine-
Ja'mcs's Palace, Mr. Cadman, a person of merchant, and one of the prefent.Sheriffs),
great respectability, supposed to be the and Deputy Governor of the Bank of
only remaining domefttek of the late Prin^ England, (in which he is succeeded by
ceft Dowager of Wales, under whose will John Whitrriore, esq.) He was born, at
he received a small pension for life. By Plymouth in the year l"33; left an or-
appointment of his Majesty, he resided phan in 1741; lost a leg by a shark at
many years at SfiJames's; and, in passing the Havannah in 17*9; served as art'Af-
through the palace to his lodgings in Pirn- siliant Commissary, under Colonel Monc-
lico, he dropped down near the door of ton, at the. siege of Beausejour, in Nov*
the apartments where he had so long at- Scotia, in 1755, and at the siege of Louis-
tended his Royal Master, and expired in a bourg, with the immortal Wolfe, in 1758 ;
. lew minutes ; leaving a widowed daughter in 1750 he settled in London as a mer-
with two young children to lament bin.. chant; and, the year following, happily
Oct. I. Jeffery Sniith, esq. lateof Horse- married Helen, the daughter of Colin
lydown, and captain in the River Fencibles. Campbell, esq. of Edinburgh. He was
At Sidmouth, Devon, Judith-Elizabeth, among the first Gentlemen who, in 1779,
wife of the Rev. Robert Marriott, late of formed the respectable Corps of Light
Yoxall, co. Stafford, eldest ion of the Rev. Horse Volunteers, and with them,' when
Dr. M. of Cottcfbach, co. Leicester. they were highly instrumental in sujii
Henry-ThurlowShadwell, esq. of Ring- pressing the alarming riots in 178O. Th«
fner, co. Sussex, in the commission of the following year he had the honour of pre-
peace, and captain of a Volunteer Cavalry senting them with a standard from th*
Corps, called the Sussex Guides. King, in testimony of his Majesty's ap-
1. At Sardinia-house, in Lincoln's-inn- probation of their meritorious service. Irk
field?, the Rjv. Charles Julian, first cliap- 1782 he was called upon to fill the office
lain to the Sardinian Ambassador. of Commissary General to the Army
At Cranbrook, Kent, in his 63d year, serving in North America, under the com-
the Rev. Richard Podmore, near 30 years mand of his friend, the wife, brave, and
vicar of that parish. upright General Sir Guy Carleton, now
At Alverftoke, Hants, of which he was Lord Dorchester. On his return from,
rector, the Rev. John Sturges, D.D. chan- that service, he was rewarded by an atr-
cellor of the diocese of Winchester, pre- nuity of 500/. granted by Parliament to
bs-ndary of that cathedral, chaplain in or- "his wife. In January, 1784, he was
dinary to his Majesty, and father of Mr. sent t» Parliament a representative for the
Sturges Bourne, one of the Lords of the City of London ; and, on the Dissolution
Treasury. He was of New college, Ox- in that year, was re-elected ; and at th«
cord; M. A. 1750; B. and D.C. L. by fame period elected a Director of the
Royal mandate in 1783. He published Bank of England ; and, in the same year,
Considerations on the State of the Church an Alderman for Cordwainers' Ward; In
Establishment, 17 79. 8v», in reply to the 1786 he served the office of Sheriff for
ir.te Mr. Robinson's Lectures on Noncon- ; London and Middlesex ; and had the ho-
formity ; and the manner in which it is nour c f being Chairman to the Committee
written places its author in a most credit- of the House of Commons in 1788, during
able light, both as a sensible and a mode- their debates on the Regeney Bill. On
rat-; dan. In 1791 he wrote " Short Re- the Dissolution of Parliament in 1700,
marks" on Mr. Dodg'fori's Translation of he was again re-elected to represent tba
Isaiah; which were answered by Mr. D. City of London; but voluntarily vacated
and pT' duced very favourable testimonies his feat in 1793, by accepting the Chil-
to the learning of the Doctor, and the tern Hundreds, on being called upon to
candour of his Adversary. In 179'J, a vo- serve as Commissary General to the Armjf
lume ot excellent Discourses "on the on the Continent, serving under the conv
Evidences of Naturil and Revealed Reli- mand of his Royal Highness the Duke of
gion j" >nd an elegant single Sermon, York. In 1796 he retired from the ser-
preached in Lambeth chapel, from Rom. vice, and was elected L«rd Mayor ; and
xii. 4, 5, at the Consecration of Dr. Bui- had the duties of that high office to dls-
ler, Bishop of Exeter ; another, on Grati- charge during a period replete with un-
:tude to God for the public Blessings of exampled difficulties, arising from the
religion, 1*792. " Reflections on Po- effervescence of Party Spirit, the mutiny
pery," in answer to Dr. Milner's History in the Fleet, and the restraint laid on
of Winchester. specie payments by the Bank of England,
At the corner of Krii vri -s's-c )urt, Doc- of which he continued to be. a Director,
tors-' Commons, Mrs. Ari-ie St jrt, many in Marchj »179S, he" Was commissioned
f*»t% ft s«a«M-asllrf«ftMfc#:*v-- _ Commifliir/
988 Obituary, with Antidotest$sremarkable Persons. [Oct.
Commissary General of England ; and in At Doncaster, Mr. Stanwix, formerly of
November, mo), his Maj eiljr was gra the Bath and Bristol Theatres.
ciously pleased tt> express the Royal appro At his house, Samson's-hall, near Had-
bation of his services by creating him leigh, Suffolk, the Rev. Christopher Ten-
(gratuitously) a Baronet of the United nant, many years rector of Higham, in
■Kingdom, with remainder to his nephews the fame county. *
William and Brook Kay. Having no In Mount-row, Lambeth, aged 74, Mr.
surviving issue, he has detifed his iuhe- John Williamsj several years chief clerk 1
lited estate (about aooi. a year), after the for pasting pursers' accompts in the Victu-
death of his wife, to his lister, the widow aling-office, London. He came into the
r>f the laie W illiam Put, esq. ; and his oriiee, as an extra clerk, more than forty
flsnder-acqu'red piopcny, after paying a years ago ; and had lately been placed on
few inconsiderable legacies to relations, the superannuated list, with an allowance
fnei.ds, and servants, to be placed in the proportioned to his long, faithful services.
public funds, the interest to be paid Lady 6. At Margate, after much severe illness,
Watson during her life, the principal at aged 26, Mrs. W. Vardon.
her death to go to his own and her named Very suddenly, Mr. Richard Danton,
relations, in equal proportions. He was, pilot, of Deal, in Kent.
through life, to his King and Country a At her house at Kentish-town, aged
constitutional loyal subject. ; a diligent, 88, Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, relict of Wm.
teaious, aud faithful servant; a firm, L„ esq. surgeon and apothecary, late of
upright, and merciful magistrate; to his Hammersmith. She was blessed with a
wife, a most affectionate and tender hus temper and disposition which endeared her
band ; to his relations, a kind and sub to a large circle of friends in earlier life.
stantial friend ; in his friendships con Her relations, and those immediately con
stant ; in faith a firm Christian ; in deeds, nected with her, have at all times admired
a benevolent honest man. His remains the suavity of her manners, and the steadi-
jvere interred in the family vault at of her mind. Three surviving sons can
Moitlake, Surrey. bear grateful testimony how attentively
3. At his house at Pcckham-rye, Sur she fulfilled the duties of a wife to a most
rey, Mr. Thomas Mankin, late of St. kind and indulgent husband (who died,
Mary-at-Hill, London. much lamented, in the year 1785) ; and
At the Marquis Townshend's, at Rich how uniformly and affectionately she has
mond, Surrey, the Right Hon. Lady Char ever evinced the tenderest anxieties for the
lotte Bishopp, wife of Captain B. of the welfare and happiness of her children. Her
Guards, eldest Ion of Sir Cecil B. bart. maiden name was Pynsent ; born early in
Only IS months have elapsed since we re the year I7'2e; descendant of, and near of
corded the marriage of this young lady, kin to, Sir William Pynlent, who, from
who was the eldest daughter of Marquis's. political biass, and- to the prejudice of his
At Stcckwell park, aged 61, Mrs. Ruy- own relatives, bequeathed the estate of
.noWls, widow of the late, roster R. esq. of Burton-Pynf'ent to that great and distin
Caishalton, Surrey. guished Statesman the late E.of Chatham.
4. In Burgate-sircet, Canterbury, aged In the springers 1805, the furniture and the
6?| Mr. John Cumming, attorney at law, materials of this noble estate and mansion
. and brother of Admiral James C. were fold by auction, together with a stone
Aged Ip, Mr. Charles Holmes, of Ea- pillar, erected at the expence of some
ton-stteet, Pimlico. thousand pounds, in honour of the Earl,
At Maslrich, in his 69th year, Alexan fold pitcetneal.
der Stuart, esq. 7. In Clarence-place, Bristol, of a de
.4, and Elizabeth and Louisa, daugh cline, aged 6?), the Rev. John Gent, M.A.
ters, of the Rev. Thomas-Dudley Fuf- vicar of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk.
, fctouke, r'.A.S. &c. of Horfley, co. Glou- 8. Valentine, the infant son of Edward
. tester, author of one of the many Histo- Jerningham, esq. of Costessy.
, riesofthaf County, British Monachism, &c. At Wrexham, co. Denbigh, Thomas-
^. At the Court-lodge, in Ightham, Ri Olivef Vassall, esq. eldest surviving son of
chard James, esq. receiver-genera! of the the late John V-esq. of the Crescent, Bath,
laud-tax for the Western division of Kent, and Chatley-lodge, Somerset, and brother
and lute lieutenant-colonel of the Well to the illustrious Hero of that name, who
'Kent Regiment vis Militia. fell in achieving the 'glorious conquest of
At Cromer, Norfolk, Mrs. Pratt, wife of Monte Video, Feb. 3.
Edward Roger P. esq, of Ryesion-house, 9. At Chester, in his 76th year, John
ami lister to the lady of Sir J. Astlcy; bart. Ford, M. D. late of Old Bond-street, Lon
At Malvern, where he had been some don, member of the Royal College of
time for the benefit os his healrh, Slruck- Phylicians, and fellow of the Linnæan
! ' brugh-AsliHv Aprecce, esq. of Wasliim;by- Society ; in whom were eminently united
i» Mile, co. Huntingdon, eldest ton of Sir unsullied vyorth, well-known professional
3u°UML*4iu!it>' A. baft. fell I, and a deep lggsc of religion.
v Thomas
[807 ] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of"remarkable Persont. 989
Thomas Ward , csq. of. Great Cumber- At Edmond castle, near Carlisle, in his
lahd-strect, Man -la-Bonne. . pad year, Thomas Graham, esq. father of
Aged 65, Mrs. Windus, wife of Mr. James G. esq. M. P.
Arthur W. of Bishopfgate:street. Mrs. Iliffe, of Narborough, coi Leicester. .
'lo. At his house in Brook^street, Grdsve- 13. Aged 65, at the house of her bro
nor-square, Washington Cotes, efql ther, Mr. Page, on Enfield Chace-fide,
II. At his chambers in Staple-inn, Hol- Mrs. Allen. She was buried at the Maize
born, in his 73d year, Mr. John Tebbutt, Pond meeting on the 1 "th. •
attorney at law. ' Mr. John Wright, of St. Jorm's-square,
Alured- Henry Shove, esq. of Lincoln's- Clerkcnwell, a very excellent printer, and
inn, recorder of Queenborough, aud a a pleasant, worthy rnan. He was takea
commissioner of bankrupts. oli'fuddenly, after only two days illness, ia
At Butt's Ash, .on the borders of New tho 38th year of his age. His illness be- ,
Forest, Hants, in hisptth year, Thomas gan with a cold, which he caught while
Moody, esq. one of the oldest Lieutenants on a shooting-party, and which brought
in the Navy, superannuated with the rank on a violent fever, and ended in death.
of Commander. He served as Lieutenant 14. On Denmark-hill, Surrey, in his-
in the (hip with the late Admiral Sir Cna. 60th year, Charles Hamond, esq. of Milk-
Knowles, in all his actions in the West street, Cheapside.
Indies, in the war which endt-d in 17-18; At Norwich, Miss Sophia Astley, sixth
and again in the succeeding war, until the daughter of Sir Jacob-Henry A. bart. and
Admiral struck his flag, in 17 57-, after M. P. for the county of Norfolk.
which time he did not again go to' sea. 15. In his 3Sth year, Mr. Wm. Smith,
At Dumfries, aged 63, Mr. Jn. Shanks, wooi-stapler, of Nottingham.
(hoe-maker, in his younger days reckoned At his house in St. James's walk, Clerk-
ttie handsomest man in the South of Scot- enwell, George Friend, esq.
tend. He was the first person who walked 17. At his feat at Wootton Court,
as King in the festival of King Crispin, in . near Canterbury, aged 58, the Rev. Ed
Dumfries; which gave occasion to the ward Tymewelt Brydges, the lateClaimant
present publisher of a London news-pa- to the Barony of Chandos. He had been
per, at that time an apprentice with Mr. long in a declining state of health, and
jackson, of Dumfries, to write his much- bore' many bodily sufferings with exem
admired song, in theScotsdiaiect, intituled, plary patience and cheerfulness. His good
" KingCrispin's Walk through Dumfries.'* qualities were striking and attractive : a
12. At his house in Nottingham-place, warmth of heart ; a generosity of temper;
after a lingering illness, Thomas Wynn, an elegance and eloquence of manners,
Lord Ncwborough, Lord Lieutenant of and a certain playfulness and originality
Caernarvonshire, a Colonel in the Army, of humour, engaged the approbation of
and Colonel of the Caernarvon Militia. most people, and the interest of all.
'His Lordship was born in 1735; and Though occasionally fond of retirement,
married, first, Sept. 13, 1766, the Lady he had mixed widely with the world; and
Catherine Perceval, eldest daughter of if his ductile spirit did not always profit
John the second Eatl of Egmont ; and of his experience,- it arose from a venial
had issue by her (who die'd in April confidence, which, if not prudent, was
1"82) one son, the Hon. John Wynn, at least engaging. He was a good scho
-who died Dec. 18, 1800, unmarried. lar ; of quick apprehension, keen natural
His Lordship- married, secondly, Maria- taste, and much irregular reading; but
Stclla-Petronilla, niece of General Chi- his wit was sometimes too sarcastic to be
■aopini, in the Imperial Service, and relished ; and his irony too doubtful to be
Marchesina of Mndigliana ; and has' issue perfectly understood. There was one sub
John, born in April 1902, now Lord ject, on which his just indignation never
Newborough; . and Spencer Bulkelejf, subsided ; and which aggravated the suf
born in May 1 803. ferings of ill health : had he obtained his
After a very short illness, at his father's birthright, he would have enjoyed the ele
housein Bond-street, Mr.- William Hooper; vated rank to which he knew himself en
a young man of unimpeached and unim- titled ; of which the suspension did not in
•peachable integrity ; a son, a brother, a the smallest degree alter bis claim ; and
friend, a citizen, exemplary in the dis of which he was To far from being discou
charge of every relative and social duty, raged (like, imbecile minds) at the asser
connected with his sphere of life ; a warm tion, that he only insisted on his right
lover of his kind, an humble adorer of with the more dignity. The cafe, simple
hi* God.' His life was short, but irfcftll ; in itself, became a most extraordinary one
he lived innocent ; he died resigned. His from tho mode in which the opposition
remains were interred- on Monday Oct. 19. to it was conducted. Thcdiicuslion lasted
At Enfield, Mr. Neale, who formerly more than thirteen years, froni, October
Itcpt the Rummer public-house there, 1780 to( June 1808. Many of the parti
culars
990 Obituary of remarkable Persons.—Bill of Mortality. [Oct.
culars are both too delicate and too tedious throwasidethe sentiments of those whose
for detail. The petitioner claimed in right habits of mind do not qualify them to
of a descent from a third son of the first judge at all, we may observe, that what
Peer in 1554. He had a vaft field of prior convinces the Herald, the Lawyer rejects
branches to clear away ; and he had six with (corn ; and on the contrary, th«
or seven generations in his own line to es Lawyer considers as satisfactory proof,
tablish. There are certain pieces of evi what the Herald has little regard for. But.
dence which the experience and wisdom woe again to those, who are thus at the.
of the Law has long established, as proofs mercy of every one's judgment! ! The
of certain facts, which are not to be dis winds and waves are more certain '. And
puted : these are just and necessary barriers Heralds must excuse us, when we fay,
against the caprice of individual opinion. that the judgments of many of them are
Even if we could suppose that these rul?s built on the weakest of all data! They
will sometimes lead ;o a wrong conclu mistake their fiats for law.—Mr. Brydges
sion, it is better that human affairs should married the daughter of the late Richard
be subjected to this occasional and rare Fairfield, esq. of Berners-ftreet ; but has
ferror, than to the fluctuation and uncer left no issue. Two brothers survive him ;
tainty of each man's private conviction. of whom the eldest has seven sons ; but
Every one, who is conversant with the whether he will again choose to submit
world, must have observed the unaccount his rights to so expensive and dilatory a tri
able whims, on which the judgment of a bunal, Time must discover. Mr. B. was
large mass of the people is dependent. .maternally descended .from the noble fa
Circumstances w! ich appear trifles too milies of Egerton, Cavendish, Stanley,
light to be noticed by one man, operate Clifford, Brandon, *c. &c.
like conviction on another. Prejudices, At Bristol Hot wells, sincerely lamented
which are treated with just scorn by the by all who knew him, aged 17, Henry-
sound and honest mind, have the force of Georgc Pretyman, second ton of the Rev.
certainty with the thoughtless and weak. Dr. P. precentor of Lincoln, and nephew
Cunning men, who are interested to mis to the Bishop of Lincoln ; a young man
lead, know too well what use to make of of very superior understanding, uncommon
this imperfection. The Claimant, how- attainments, and most amiable disposition.
over, thinking it unnecessary to satisfy all 18. Richard Perring, esq. of Modbury,
the nonsense of extrajudicial misconcep Devon, youngest brother of Alderman P.
tion and false rumour, was advised to rest Returning from Membland, on the ltith,
bis cafe on the basis of having fulfilled the his horse took flight, and threw him with
proof* required by the Law. His friends such violence that his shoulder was dislo
and advisers thoughts and still think, those cated, his skull fractured, and he was
proofs were such as would have entitled otherwise so much bruised as to cause his
him to a direction from a Judge at Nifi death in two days.
Pritts to a Jury, to find a verdict for him, 19. At his house, in Hill-street, Berke
in a trial for estates. His opponents, by ley-square, Samuel Long, esq. of Carshal-
thirteen years of unexampled industry, ton, Surrey, where his remains have been
and equally unexampled modes of pro interred in the family-vault.
ceeding, did every thine; to create preju 20. In her 81st year, Mrs. West, of
dices ; and then pleaded these prejudices Dark-house-lane, Lower Thames-street.
as reasons for abandoning all the general 21. After a long and tedious illness,
rules of evidence. The cause, at last, be Miss Eden, of Sunniside, co. Durham,
came complicated, by these means, with daughter of the late Robert E. esq. of Sun-
so much puzzling and irrelevant matter, derland, and sister of Mrs. Atcheson, of
as to confound common minds, and to Auilin-friers, London.
perplex even men of business who had not 32. At Brickhitl, co. Bucks, on his way
much leisure to spare for it. The Evidence from Liverpool, where he had lately ar
extended to a Folio Volume ; and on the rived from America, Mr. Robert Murray,
day of decision, some of the leading merchant, of NewYbrk, fourth son of the
speeches betrayed a misapprehension of late Dr. John M. of Norwich.
essential and admitted facts.- Never was 33. Mrs. Chandler, wife of Gio. C. esq.
the necestity of prescribed and settled rules of Stamford-str. Blackfriers-road, surgeon,
■of proof more apparent : every thing was 315. At Hampstead, the widow of Mr.
thrown into the wide sea of private opi Samuel Page, of King's-road, Bedford-row.
nion, and every thing was confusion. To *»* Promotions, &c.&c. &c. in our next.
BILL OF MORTALITY, from September 22, to October 27, 1807.
Christened. Buried. 2 and 5 250 50 and 60 159
Males SK»+l.aoi6 Males s6r\ 1932 5 and 10 88 00 and 76 12a
Females 1072/ Females 065 j 10 and 20 57 70 and 80 89
Whereof hare died under 2 years old 663 20 and 30 1Q7 80 and 90 38
•Peck Loaf 3s.8d.;3s,8d.i3s.9d.j 3s.8d.; ss.sd. , 30 and 40 16s 00 and 100 »
S»lt XvJ. ?»• Wd. per bushelj 4d.§ per pound. 40 and 50 Ida 100 0 lOi •
 AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Return* ending October 17, 180?.
INLAND COUNTIES. MARITIME COUNTIES.
Wheat! Rye Barley Oats iBeans Wheat Rye iBarley Oats Beaat
j. h: s. d. d.\u <£*. . d. . d.
Middles. 70 1 41 1140 7J55 Essex 70 o'oo 0 42 31 O 51 0
Surrey- 71 0|44 (Ui 8 54 Kent 66 646 • 43 40 v 8
Hertford 43 6!40 0144 Sussex 65 4 00 0|40 00 o
Bedford 03 48 0 39 6 50 Suffolk 60 94U 038 44 1,
Huntingd. 60 00 O 38 1047 Cambrid. 62 11 42 038 48 1„
Nortbam. 61 sUi 6 36 6 18 Norfolk 60 5 40 838 44
Rutland 3 00 044 0 6-2 Lincoln 67 9 46 1,42 3
Leicester a 44 3:40 4U9 York 67 3 49 e|4i 38
Nottingh 0(45 0!44 2*58 Durham 66 9 00 o|oo 28 10
Derby 0 08 o|48 857 Northum 63 9,50 &J37 27 '5 oa
Stafford ii!oo 0 49 1,61 Cumberl. 68 0 55 li|40 1,4 26 .06
Salop 0 47 042 10 00 Westmor. 74 2 54 8'35 0|27 6|oo
Hereford 7|4> 633 8 48 Lancaster 73 41 00 0 48 as 6151
Worcelt. 6 43 10:36 V SI Chester 65 00 o'oo 00 0 00
Warwick 1 50 0 41 7M Flint , 00 00, Q41 m ojoo
Wilts sloo 0!36 658 Denbigh 75 II 00 044 20 1 00
Berks ll:50 0|37 7 33 7 53 Anglesea 00 ol 00 038 23 01 OQ
Oxford 00 034 0 647 Carnarvon 74 4 00 0 38 21 ' 6 00
Bucks [00 0'38 Merionet. 75 5 .00 0 41 24 0 00
Brecon 44 9^4 Cardigan 76 1 00 000 18 OTS-
Montgo. 00 038 Pembroke 60 10 00 0 35 18 ojoo.
Radnor 00 0 33 30 3 Carmarth. 78 4 00 0 35 6ti6
Glamorg. 70 3 00 0 35 >9 06
Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Gloucest. 68 ol 00t 0 36 4!)
Somerset 73 1 00 0 35 .5»
6s 7 [4(5 0 39 1(27 g|52 5 Monmo, 68 9 oq 0 00 ojoo
Average of Scotland, per quarter. Devon 69 11 00 036 00
Cornwall 75 ao 036
6.4 Oj42 9l35 5;28 2j&7 8 Dorset 70 11 00 031
Hant 67 10 00 0 36
AGGREGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England a
Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain.
Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans Pease Oatmeal Beer or Bis
t. i. d. s. d. s. d, s. d. i. d. i. d. i, d.
6s 1 46 4 33 01 26 9 52 e 74 9 S 3
PRICES OF FLOUR, October 26:
Fine 58s. to 60s.—Seconds 50s. to 55s.—Pollard 33s. to 3,4s. fW.
Return of Flour, October 10 to October 16, from the Cocket-Office :
Total 12,785 Sacks. Average 59s. 3d.—cs. Id. per Sack lower than the last Return.
Return of WHEAT, October 12 to October 17, agreeably to thenew Act:
Total 5121 Quarters. Average 63s. 2d.|—is. Od. lower than the last Return.
OATMEAL, per Boll of I40lbs. Avoirdupois, October 17, 46s. 3d.
Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending
October 21, is 32s. 0|d. per Cwt. exclusive of the Duty of Customs paid
or payable thereon" on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.
PRICE OF HOPS, October 26 :
Kent Bags . .sl. 15s. to 61. 12s. Kent Pockets sL los. *o 71. os.
Sussex Ditto .... . ..4l. 10s. to 5). -5s. Sussex Ditto 5J. 10s. to 61. 15s.
Essex Ditto . . 5l. os. toi ij. 16s. Farnham-Ditto 9I. os. to idl. os.
PRICE OF HAT AND STRAW, October 26:
St. James's -Hay.. . .41.- Os. Od". to 61. 13s. Od. Average 5l. 6s. Od.
Straw... 1 1. 16s. Od. to 2l. 2s. Od. Average ll. 19s. «d; '
Wbitechapel—Hay. .41. 10s. Od. to 61. 16s. Od. Average 5l. 10s. Od.
•*' Clover. . 5l. 10s. od. to 7l. os. od. Average 61. 5s. od.
• Straw.V.ili 14s.' od. to al. 6s. ■ od. Average 2 1. os. od.
SMITHFJELD., October 2,5. . To fink the Offal—per Stone of 8lb.
Beef, ......... T 3s. 6d. to 5s. od. 1 Pork 5s; od. to 6s.1 od.
Mutton , ...4s. od. to 5s. od. Lamb.. 4s. Od. to ss. od.
Veal ; ..is. od. to 5s. 8d. j
COALS} Oct. 23 : Newcastle 41s. 6d. to 52s. Od. SJunderland 39s. 6d. to 42s.
SOAP, YlIIow 80s. Mottled 90s. Curd 94s. ' CANDLES, 11s. perDoz. Moulds 12s./
TALLOW, perftootyslb. St. James's 3s,iQd. Clare Market 3s.l0d. Wb.itechapel3s.9d.*
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& 11
0 S 0 £, 2
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
J0 36 58 30- 9 cloudy at times ■ •
«o 1 57 6i 30- 3 cloudy in general, evening rain
21 55 58 29-15 cloudy, some light rain
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.
Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height ot Fahrenheit's Thermometer.
Day
of Month. o'cl.fi
o'cl.8 Morn. Noon. 5 2 ,Barom. Weather Morn. Noon.
* & in. pts. in Nov. 1 80?. • "3L Barom. Weat
in. pts in Nov.
3 is
0 0
ca. 0 0 0
,50 rain jI .You. ,35 fair
27 46 50 40 12 31 88 32
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
* 7 45 45, 51 44 ,3 2 fair 23 44 46 36 ,02 stormy
44 40 ,22 fait 24 j 31 38 34 29,25 , ■fait fair
9 J5 48 11 ,4 5 fair 25 \ 35 41 35 ,«
10 I 35. 46 38 ,22 fair. . «6 i 34 41 •SO ,44 bit
-it 1 j»7 ' 42 32 fait - 1 t Ji ■
 ( 995
i c
THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE
For NOVEMBER,
Mr. Urban, Am. 5.
7>\s».7f\sf\?*\ write again : 1 am
23? (lived, however, from
I ^ 'he duller didactic part
J*£ by a more aide hand ;
« SKSfStf'* yet' as fcrkins's
^1K7&7KsK proniiles (p. fJOO) turn
upon a comparison where I am feeling
»alt obligation, do favour me by print
ing a matier of fact.
Many of your readers know (hat
Baiavia in the K:ili Indies is remark
able for diseases ofa violent nature : the
fevers of Bengal, in the worst lea Ions of
the year, are not more fatal than fevers
here.
A skip I once belonged to met with
damage from rocks, and Aopt for a re
pair at Baiavia. The Dutch Gover
nor-general, in great kindness, or
dered I his 10 be done al Onrull, which
is an ilk within rubt, appropriated to
lhip-wriu'his and their employment.'
We had moved from Baiavia Roads ;
the surgeon staid, with more in company,
in the city, and the care os the crew of
our vesiei devolved upon your humble
servant— perhaps hippdy for them. I
had been one of the first persons in
dulged with a day's leave ashore upon
coming into port, and now the Baia
via fever chole me for its first object of
attack.
1 looked round, and was convinced
there was none on earth to help.
Alarmed, I -soon determined on ihe
most vigorous means ; after taking
away twelve ounces of blood, I took
an active purgative! which answered
my purpose well, livening was come
on ; the skin was parching hot, and
moll heavy head-ache made me fear
that stupor or delirium would soon
take place. My cot was flung in a
cool cabin : I took one whole paper
of Dr. James's powder, and then lay
down. The powdsr had not the least
effect on the stomach, or otherwise :
>
1807.
two whole hours elapsed with no
change of symptoms. Another whole
paper was taken, and in about ten mi
nutes afterwards the most profuse
drenching sweat broke out. 1 now
took, occasionally, a little lime-juice
and water. The general discharge by
the ikin ton tinned to 4 o'clock in the
morning, when it began to abate ; and
all that time I lay quiet, covered hy a
light sheet, without lleep, and drink-
ing, as I have said, at times a little}
diluted lime juice.
When the sweating moderated in
the morning. I considered,, as the
head-ache (reckoned a mortal symptom
at Batavia), although much lightened,
was still unmoved, there was yet no
safety. Half a paper more os Dr.
James's powder*, laken now, renewed
the fame profuse perspiration till seven
o'clock, when it lessened again, aud
the head-ache mas entirely pone.
At eight, our breakfast hour, I drank
tea only, and presently fell alleep ; be
fore noon arise ; was nibbed well, and
fefreshed with clean inert. A light
decoction of the Bark >\ as the only
medicine laken afterwards ; soothe core
was complete.
In the next 24 hours 1 had a dozen
patients down in fever; and, from lhat
lime, during the whole of our stay, two
months or moie, at Baiavia, the fick-
list had seldom less than 20 names
upon it.
The Surgeon died in the city aster
very lliort illness, perhaps through
want of the fame powder.
Mr. P. Perkins, afler reading this,
will not be ihe le!s able to appreciate
Dr. James's powder; to whom, .and I
remember the eld Doctor well, a plain
man, not pompous, i have been re
peatedly indebted since for vail plea
sure, in exhibiting this powder with
the happiest erle-ol, becunji- always in
doses snjjicienlly large.
Youfi, &c. W. P.
Lettem
996 Letters from Holland and Germany in 1794.
Jitters from Holland atul Ger
many in 1794.
Letter V.
Nimef>uen, April 19, 1794.
My A- ar Friend,
T^O n admirer of the beauties of
A Nalme, the country in which I
now am, namely Guelderland, is by
far the most interesting of all the United
Provinces. In travelling from the Ma
ritime Provinces, when you advance
into the heart of Utrecht, vou may be
said to tread upon Terra Finna, and to
breathe a healthier air ; but when you
Come into Guelderland, you have the
sweet interchange os hill an<l dale, and
may sav with the Mantuati B ird,
Hie gelidi fontes, hie nioiha prata, Ly-
fiic nemus . [cori,
at latis Otia fundis
Speluncfc, vivique lacus, at frigida Tempe,
Mugttusque bouin, mollesque sub arbore
somni
Non absunt.—
I was quite delighted with the scenery
around Arnheim, which would be
reckoned beautiful in any country. Ju
perambulating the raniparfs, my young
friend was rilled with admiration, and
exclaimed, " What fine materials are
liere to exercise the genius of the painter
and the poet!", Had my pencil and
pen been adequate to the task, the
neighbourhood of Arnheim would have
enabled me to gratify your taste for pic
turesque beauty and descriptive poetry ;
and then 1 might have sketched or
sung
The lowing vale, the bleating cote,
The clusters on the funnv steep,
And Pan sown umbrage dark and deep,
The caverns hung with ivy twine,
The cliffs that wave with oak and pine*.
I have heard that when Edmund
Burke made tlie tour of Scotland, he
thus addressed a reverend gentleman on
the banks of Lochtomo id : " If ihe
Highlands of Scotland are to be fold,
votu parish should be lliuwn as a sam
ple ;" and in like manner I would fay,
if the Dutch should ever take it into
thew head 10 sell Guelderland, they
buglH by all irieans to produce the en
virons of Arnheiiu as a sample.
Arnheim, the capital 01 one quarter
of Guelder'and, w hich goc by the
name of the IVeluwe, is 1 large, popu
lous, 'ort.sieil town, beautiful y situated
on ihe hat.ksof the Hhhte. I u- the l.iid-
dle ages, it was th< ohief r, fide1 ice of
* Warton'i. Birth-day Ode 17 kb, ■
[Nov.
the Sovereign Dukes of Guelderland ;
and afterwards of the Governors of the
Duchy under the dominion of the
House of Burgundy. When the Em
peror Charles ihe Vth acquired the full
Sovereignly of Guelderland, he esta
blished a Council of Slate at Arnheim,
which retained its jurisdiction till Guel
derland became one of the Seven United
Provinces. In 1672 Arnheim was ta
ken by the French, headed by their
Grand Monarque Lewis ihe XI Vth,
whole triumph over the Dutch was of
short duration. The spirited conduct
of the Province of Holland on that
memorable occasion, under the auspices
of the Prince of Orange, rendered them
worthy of that deliverance with which
Providence rewarded their pairioiic ex
ertions ; and 1 heartily wish their de
scendants may display the saine spirit
if the Carmagnols invade the land ; but
from what I have seen and heard, I
greatly sear* this would not he the
cafe, although the gallant defence of
Williamliadi, last year, would have
done honour to the purest' days of
Dutch patriotism. To return to Arn
heim—In the days of Popery, "this
place was tinder ihe spiritual jurisdic
tion of the See of Utrecht. Ever since
the Protestant religion gained a footing
here, the Ecclesiastic Establishment has
been Calvinistic, boih in di.ctrihe and
discipline. There are seine fine churches
at Arnheim, particularly those dedi
cated 10 St. Walburg and Si. Enlebtus ;
the latter of which contains the monu
ment of Charles of Egmont, the last
Duke of Gueldres, who, after various
unsuccessful efforts to regain the inhe-
ritanceof his ancestors, died in 1-588, at
the age of 70. The inscription on his
tomb is as follows :
Carolus en breviter quidnam Pux Guel-
drius egit,
Et quis dum visit, difee viator, erat:
Dux, pugil, ultor, herus :tenuit, tulit,
' ' auxit, abegit— [togo.
Jus, deeus, arma, lupos—vi,' fude, lege
In my last letter 1 gave you a short
sketch of Nimeguen anil its environs.
I have a great deal to sav about' the
antient and modern history of this
place, which most be postponed to a
fuuice opportunity.
I am happy to tell you that Nime
guen has alwai s been distinguished for
* The letter-writer's fears were fatally-
realized in the course of a few months.
... ' • ill
it 807.] Lettersfrom Holland rfwJGermany.-Co/. Riddell. 997
its attachment the Prince of Orange ;
and here he lived in the bosom of a
loyal people about a twelvemonth pre
vious to the Revolution of 1787 ; dur
ing which time, I am told, he gave
away no lets than 2000 I. in charity.
There are three churches of the Es
tablished or Presbyterian religion here,
besides a Lutheran and an Arminian
place of worship, and a Jewish syna
gogue ; but a great majority of the in
habitants are Raman Catholics, and
they have no less than four places of
worship. I have been well allured by
some zealous Proteliarus, ihat the Ca
tholic priests of this town are very ex
emplary men, and that their people in
general lead better lives than the Pro
testants :—
Pudet hæc opprobm nobis
Et dici potuiffc, et non potuifle refdli.
The garrison here consists of some
companies of Dutch soldiers and a
corps of Anfpachers, in number about
1400, who now acknowledge the King
of Prussia as their master. This was
the corps that served in America dur
ing the last war, aba many of them
speak English. They received orders a
few days ago to be ready to march to
join the grand army, which has occa
sioned a very considerable desertion.
Some scores, I am told, have disap
peared in the course of the last week ;
and no wonder, considering how they
are paid and treated.
I have not seen an Engliso Newspa
per since we lest Rotterdam, but I daily
fee papers in the French language that,
are published in Holland and Germany.
Tliere is a reading-room here called
La Societe, to which we have been in
troduced, and whither we resort every
day for information both political and
literary. It would seem that the revo
lutionary spirit has lately produced,
great effects in Poland; but it is in
vain for the Poles to -dream of re-esla-
blistiing their independence : what can
they do against the three great Powers
whe have so infamously concurred in
the dismemberment and partition of
their ill-sated country? Suiely there
will come a day of reckoning for this
iniquity.
The Antigallican Newspapers, in
stead of calling the French soldiers Car-
magnols, as thev used to do, now call
them LesSoldat* deRohrssticrre; and that
renowned gentleman himself they sl\le
Mons. le Diilaleur en pello ; but, ia*
stead of arriving at that pre-eminence,
I should not wonder, as I hinted in a
former letter, if he were to be advanced
to the honours of the Guillotine, and
that too in the course of a few weeks.
Manv thanks to you for your infor
mation from England, both public and
domestic. I often convey myself in
imagination to your social and domes
tic circle. Remember me kindly to
her qua- ingenio prœjlat,pietate, pmtore ;
let my name frequently resound in
your nursery. I flatter myself the
time is not lar distant when we shall
all be rolling together upon ihe carpet
again. May the Almighty bless, pre
serve, and keep them, and prolong
your lives to watch over them, and to
guide them through the tender period
of infancy, and the slippery time of
vouth ! Prav don't forget to mentif>i|
me to my old honed friends and neigh
bours at ——
Milsa salus volitet per ruflica culmirut
donee
Intret - - limina eelsa domus.
The hours glide along here as plea
santly as they can do out of England,
Adieu. Yours, &c.
Mr. Urban, Cheltenham, Nov. 15.
YOUR correspondent W. P. p.
like the writer of the former
month, whose letter I have already
answered, compliments me with mtw
nuations of quackery, and calls my
mode of treatment a nostrum, though
1 have said that the practice I wish to
recommend is a newsystem of medicine
in cases of fever, and not a made-up
unchangeable remedy applicable alike
in all cases. Observations of this kind
are, indeed, such as I expected from,
the workings of anger or jealousy;
but, as I ask nothing but a full exa
mination into mv pretenlions, and a
(crutinv, however acute, into the va
lidity of mv assertions, I cannot see
what end they can serve, except it were
to provoke from me a premature dis
closure; in which, however, they will
be disappointed. His motto, which
relates only io the return made to so
licited favours, is, as 1 conceive, en
tirely misapplied; I would therefore
give ii bad; to him in a son:; .nore
suited to my case :
Qui dat citius, nilvl Jat.
It requires uot the experience of Ls'T
year's to know that lt\cr eegsec' r *
iu...iiana0td
 958 Col. Riddell.—Afr. Lewis ,-— " Peacock at Home." [Nov.
mismanaged at its accession quickly de being much caressed by some neigh,
generates into a worse stage, ami puts bouring gentry, who were pleased with
on a new character, requiring also a his society and conversation, too ready
different treatment; or 10 know iliat an to sacrifice daty to amusement, he
excellent and a fore result of genuine ex found his situation too irksome ; and,
perience is, to induce modesty, and pre in 1776, resigning it, he went to Lon
sent hasty conclusions; but that of don. Involved in digress, the conse
half a century, it is plain, has not cured quences of imprudence, like Savage,
this writer of presumption. How does Boyle, and Smith, whom he resembled
he know that Chemistry may not fur as well in genius as misfortune, ac
nish a sure and powerful counteraction cording to the information 1 have re
to Antimony, which may render un ceived, he there ended his days. It is
necessary the old nurse-like pra61ice the n.isfortune of Genius to be inatten
that he has asserted to be the true one ? tive 10 worldly concerns ; too ecceutric
My prescriptions require no treatment to conform to prudent regular habits
that shall promote a diaphoresis ; for, of life, its fire and Ipirit tempts the
when the cause of Fever is subdued, possessors to despise thole who pursue a
the natural secretions will he imme steady course, either in commercial or
diately restored. In this respect 1 find secular employments. Hence it is that
my preparations greatly superior to the many men of fine parts, from a volatile
Powder of the justly-celebrated Dr. humour, are irregular, and exhibit in-*
James ; and 1 have every possible rea stances of milery and misfortune. Im
son that successful experience can a'» prudence will produce moral and natd-
ford 10 believe, that they will here ral evil, their genuine offspring in all
after be esteemed a most valuable addi situations and modes of lite. Neither
tion to Medical Science. great abilities, no- a knowledge of ans.
As this subject, Mr. Urban, is of and sciences, can always prevent their
high importance to the publick, I shall errors or their misery, which must arise
avail myself os your liberal efforts to from not knowing how to regulate
diffuse knowledge, to send you some their private and social conduct. But
farther very curious matter another op where prudence and virtue are not
portunity. wanting, sew walks of life are more
Yours, &c. John Riddell. pleasant or safe than those which lead
through the occupations of Science and
Mr. Urban, Repton School, Nov 17. Literature.
GENIUS, however unfortunate or The age of the Rev. W. Dawson,
irregular, deserves a better fate which your Correspondent, p. (J02,
than 10 be consigned to oblivion. This mentions as incorrect, was 60.
seems to be the opinion of your cor Yours, fee. VV. B. Sleath.
respondent R. S. (p. <J02), who wishes
to have, some account of Lewis, the Mr. Urban, AW. 10.
translator of Statius. What sew parti IT is seldom that a second part of a
culars of his life and habits have come popular Poem succeeds. But " The
to my knowledge, since I was placed Peacock at Home," on the model of
at the head of this Seminary, 1 now Mr.' Ro few's " BnttetHy's Ball," ex
fond you. Mr. Lewis was recom ceeds, if possible, the original *. It is
mended bv a friend, on a vacancy in said to be written by Mrs. Dovers; and,
the First Usher's place in 1705, to Mr. as a descriptive Poem, is a very elegant
Aftley, Master of Repton School, as composition. But if it is considered
an ingenious man, and good scholar. (by implication, and comparative allu-
He was elected First Usher 1760, and sipti) as a humorous, bnt unoffending,
continued in that place under Dr. Satire upon the manners of the times,
Piior, Mr. Asilcy's successor ; and, had and of the Great, it is one of the neaiell
his attention to his duty been equal to Poems which has appeared since the
his abilities, he might fiave reflected as days of Mr. Anliey. A. B. and C. D.
much honour on the place as his pre
decessor in the fame situation. Dr. * We have here incorporated the hints
Lightfoot, the great Scholar and Di
vine, to whom the world is indebted of two valuable Correspondents ; neither
of whom seems to be aware that we have
for researches that throw great light on already anticipated their sentiments of
Scripture* aud Divinity: but, being these elegant productions in our Review,
fe-trd of ease and pleasure, and from p. 846. . Edit.
1807.] laXiaEpigrams. —MartinTomkins.—'.Dr.Stanley? 95^
**• THE following beautiful Latin Hardinge Tomkins, an Attorney of
Epigram appeared in the Morning note in his day, in great repute among
Chronicle, on the 31st of last October, the Dissenters, Clerk to the Company
as an Extempore of the" Hob. General of Fishmongers, and, ifi mistake not.
Fitz-l'atrick, on feeing the Duchess of Clerk also to St. Thomas's Hospital.
Devonstiire canvassing for Mr. Fox. A sew years ago two or three tracts
lint a letter in the fame paper, two days against Popery, published in the reign
afterwards, stated that the Latin com ofJames II. came into my hands: one
position was more than 100 years old, of them was Bp. Patrick's Sermon on
and was to be found, with the change St. Peter's Dav ; another was, "A
of two words, in " Les trois Siecles de Discourse concerning the Devotions of
Literature." It was probably quoted the Church of Rome, especially as com
fey Genera! Fitz-Patrick, and applied to pared with those of the Church of En
the Duchess upon Mr. Fox's iirS elec gland ;" and some person, to me un
tion for Westminster. known, has written on the title-page
Quæ Dea subiimi vehitur per compita Dr. Stanley. Will any of your reader*
curru, do me the savour to inform me who
An Juno? an Pallas .' an Venus ipsavenit? was Dr. Stanley ? B.
Si Genus aspicies,Juno;"fi Dicta, Minerva!
Si ipectes Oculos, Mater Amoris erit 1 Mr. Urban, Nov. 20.
Several Translations of the above JTJR.celebrated Frank Nieholls p. S18, the
lines appeared in the Morning Chro daughter of Dr. Anatomist, married a
Mead, and left by her
nicle of Nov. 2, and the following day ; a son and a daughter, both now living.
we have (elected the one which stands
first in that paper, which, from the ini The. fun was called to the Bar, but did
not long continue to attend it. He ha»
tials, " Win. T. F.-G." we conclude to children. The daughter married the
come from the pen of William-Tho Rev. Trinder, and has children.
mas Fiiz-Gerald, el'q. The œconomy of turning a grave
Extempore Translation as the above stone, as some people turn a coat, it
Epigram. not a modern invention : I have now
What Goddess rides triumphant in her car! before me a brass not long since torn
Juno? or Venus ? or the Maid of War ? from a grave lioue, (not by me, Mr.
In Speech 'tis Pallas ! Juno in her Race ! Urban, nor bv the friend who commu
But Love's sweet Mother when we view nicated it to me), the upper fide of
her Face!
Wm.-Thos. F.-G. which commemorates one who died in
. . . . , the other side ona who died
Written, by the Bistiop os Lifieux, on *'If M" Ixv c-due quaier y sincul adde."
i lie Death of the late Dauphin of meany what
of your correspondents will tell
this last date is, I shall be
France.
Dclpbinum juvenem rapuit Mors invida, much obliged to them. X. Y.
quare?
Virtutes nutnerans, credidit esse fenem. f |MIEMr. Urban, Oct. 18.
, Translation. following inscription occur*
Heath snatch'd our Dauphin—need the .1. 011 a headstone, in the church
cause be told ? yard of Heudon, in Middlesex. Tne
Counting his virtues, he believ'd him old. person it commemorates was one of
S. R. those who were tried for a conspiracy
against the life of our . beloved So
Mr. Urban, Nov. 10. vereign, in Mav 1796, and acquitted.
•"f^HE Rev. Martin Tomkins * was [See vol. LXVI. p. 433, and vol.
A allowed bv those who differed from LXXIl. p. 1226.] •• • '
Jjim in religious sentiments to be a very In memory of
shrewd and able dilpuiant, and was Robert Thomas Crosfield, M. D.
nearly relaied, if not brother, to Mr. son of the late
* See hereafter, p. 1014.— A Conltant Francis and Ruth Crosfield,,
Reader also refers to Neal's Memoirs pre of Spenni thorn,
fixed to the Edition of the History of the in the County of York,
Puritans published by Dr. Toulmin, note who died tbc sth day of Novemuer, 1302,
in pp. 18 and 19 ; or Dr. Watts's Life, by aged 4 4 years :
Johnson, with Notes by S. Palmer, p. previous to which, he wrote the
54 & seqq. following epitaph, so truly char.cterislio
 iooo . Boustrophedon Fonts.—Mr\ Blore's Works. [Nov.
of himself: son sermon ainfi, Nous lisons an/our du
Beneath this stone Tom Crosfield lies, lienoilier de s Eglife de S. Sophie tt
Who cares not now, who laughs or cries : Constantinople ce vers Grec, NtJ/M, &c.
He laugh'd when sober ; and, when Ce que confirme le Medicin Verlunian
mellow, ecrivant a Scaliger, de Poitiers le 13
Was a harum-scarum heedless fellow ;
He gave to none design'd offence ; Avril 1607. M. Rapin, dit il, m' a ap-
So " Honi soit qui mal y pense." pris ce Vers (Jrrc durirftpsiira irouve
aulour d' un Benottier a Conflardim pie
Mr. Urban, Nov. 22. Ni'4-ov, &c. M. Gevartius me fit auUt
THE lioujlrophedon inscription as monter dans fa Bibliothe'que, qui ell:
several of our fonts (as at Sand- mediocre, mais bien choilie, oil il me
bach, Cheshire, vol. XL. p. 6 17 ; Har montra ses Comutemaires Cur Maaiie,,
row, in Essex, XLI. 12» ; and in other & fur la vie de I'Enipereur Antonin,
churches, both in this Illand and on qu'il donnera Wen-tost au public. II
the Continsnt) is well explained by me fit pre'lmt de son Uymenæus Paci-
vour old and respectable correspondent fer-, qni est uue piece fort galante,
T. Row, vol. XLI. p. 202, to be of saite sur le Marine du Roy avec l'ln-
the, kind called, on account of the dif fante d'Efpaane. Je vis auffi son ('a*
ficulty of composing the like fantastical binet de MeVbilles, qni est tres-euri-
iulcriptions, Devil's Verses. That in- eux." Recueil de Particularitez 170g,
liancc of them which he gives from a p. 318, Colomesii Opera. Hamb. pp.
cloister at Florence, in Misson, Sa 3I8,8C)6. The like inscription is on the
crum pingue dabo nnn macrum Jacri- Font in N6tre Dame, Paris. Alvares
fitabo, is not exactly a case in point ; calls the verse recrement, orcancrine;
the coincidence being in the words, a. d. going backwards like a crab.
and not in the letters ; and yonr corre Of this strange and difficult species, a
spondent, G. D. vol. LX. p. 605, sent distich was made as an epitaph to
you parallels of this kind. He doubts Henry IV. by Panchafius.
whether the inscription on the Harlow " Area, serenum me gere regem, munere
font is of so late dale as the Reforma sacra
tion, or even of Monkery. If by this Solem, aulas, animos, omina falva melos.
he would insinuate that it is not Chris See also Gent. Mag; vol. XL. p. 617,
tian, because, to be sound in the An- XLI. 120, LX. 605, 1107, LXVIU.
thologia, and on a fountain belonging 199. 570.
to the Greek Convent at Mauromelos, "The late Dr. Atterbury, in a Dis
opposite to Constantinople (to be sound sertation upon the To Euaysi^i'tcv «J
in Chishull's Travels, p. 42), both 'EiriroXiwr (not printed), shews, on the
these instances are Christian. The lat words John vi. 1. 'Jesus went over the
ter is called by Mr. Chifhull (Travels,
p. 42) " a device not more proper for sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tibe
the place, than ingenious for the con rias,* when Tiberias was so called by
trivance, in making the (ame words the edict of an Emperor, and when
read forwards or backwards j" and that edict was revoked ; and front
he adds, " it is part of an epigram Gospel,proves
thence the genuineness of that
and the lime of St. Johti'#
E»$ A»5|U.»|J«! ru$o». Aniholog. Lib. VI. writing it." MS. of Sam. Carte, in Dr.
p. 563." It is thus described by Ge- DucareTs MS ColleSions. D. H.
vartius, referred to vol. LX. pp. 6<)5,
1107. " Lc docte M. Gevartius, Hil-
torioaraphe de 1' Emperenr et du Roy IFMr.youUrbaw, Nov. 17.
can give your correspondent
tl' Espagne, me dounant a disner chez anv satisfaction as to any one un
luy a Anvers, me fit remarquer fur son dertaking to finish Mr. Shaw's Stafford
bassin a laver, ce vers retrograde, tird de shire, yon will give pleasure to manv of
1' Anlhologie : your readers; but as to Mr. Blore's Der
byshire, it is not perhaps at present to b*
Ce qui me fit souvenir de ce que m'avoit expected. He has received subscriptions:
dit autrefois inon peVe, Qti'il avoit ou'i that ought to be one step towards it. He'
a Paris an Predicateur, qui commence has been colle6ling for Herifortshire ;
and is said to be now actually printing
* Touchant ce vers retrograde vo3'ez le a History of Rutlandshire. One would
Pere Rofweidus Jefuite dans ses Notes fur have thought that the instance os, M"b»
St. Paulin. Polwhele's Devon could not htfve been,
watched! A. L.
Nvrtkwaatera
UalvatsJty
I14.1.S.W. Kewiyf Rlfr&\r00n_ CHURCH, ILunpsItire,

Fixi.3. Brass inthe Cfumcel oi'JlING-WOOn CHURCH .

 i $07.] Ringwood Church.—Comments en Shakspeare. IOOI
Mr. Urban, Birmingham, July 4. QVO LOC* .ESSE' QVEANT • MVSIS ■ NC*>
THE Church at Ringwood, co. ESSE ' TENEBR1S [aOAT.
Hants (Plate I. Fig. 1) consists AVTHORI • GRATEIS • CREX- STVDIOS' •.
of a Nave vviih North and South Tran Accept the following attempt at a
septs, and a Chancel of large dimen translation, which 1 have endeavoured
sions. It has an interesting and vener to make as literal as I could.
able appearance ; the Churchyard be
ing closelv planted with lime-trees in When flying Sol had pass'd his rounds in
terspersed with yews, whose branches Heav'n, [seven,
form a complete canopy over the walks From Christ's birth fifteen hundred seventy
leading to the South Porch and the Forthose A friend of useful learning, Richard Line,
Chancel door. In the South Tran Delightful who might tolearning e'er incline,
sept is the monument represented in These squalid food provided—and his care
Jig. 2. It has been plundered of its Not' rudimentsroofs securely did repair.
alone this place may , ■
brafles (containing the effigies of the give, [live : J 1
deceased and his wife, with three shields The Muses here need not in darkness %.
of arms; and a square plale with an Its founder from the studious flock 1 .
inscription), but it is traditionally should thanks receive. "1
ascribed to Richard Line, the founder Yours, &c. William Hamper.
of the Free-school. The Chancel has
several handsome monuments, chiefly Mr. Urban, Nov. Q.
of modern erection, and the remains TNDUCEDby the spirited letter of
of a very fine brass of a priest (Fig- 3) A Mr. Douce, p. 921, I have perused
on a flab 84 feel by 4 feet. This has (andtheperusalhas given memuch plea
also been despoiled of its inscription sure) Mr. Pye's " Comments on Shak
and arms ; but in a letter addrefl'ed by speare." They evince a sprightly mind,
the learned author of "Sepulchral and a correct judgment ; but I am.
Monuments" to the late Rev. John sorry to see those good qualities blended
Derby respecting this curious relick, with a puerile flippancy, disgraceful
Mr. Derby has written, "John Pro- to the Laureat'3 talents.
phcte, or Forfelle, IbbQ ;" though 1 be I shall endeavour to follow the good
lieve it is generally considered of earlier example of Mr. Douce, by avoiding
daie. The figures on the richly orna recrimination ; though I have much
mented cope appear to be St. Michael, more cause to le offended ; as M r.
the Virgin and Child, St. Peter, St. Pye has not only censured myfew notes
Paul, St. Winefrid, St. Catharine, St. (p. l62) ; but endeavoured tomb me of
Faith, and St. George ; the credit os them, by transferring my ,
%c'a mt'ftftz Jhadow to the substantiality of a joins
is the only one to whom the name is Member of the Body Corporate (see
subjoined. p. 121). My Family, Mr. Editor, is as
The Free-school (Fig. 4) stands in old, if not so refpeclable, as that of
the church-yard, and has now no pre any other Commentator ; and why my
tensions of affording clalsic.il tuition, Notes are to be transferred to any Edi
though il has some exhibitions at one tor alive or dead, I am at a loss to goes?.
of the Universities. This imperfect I am ready to forget, and to forgive ;
account may perhaps remind a clergy but why lo f.rnct a verbal and literal
man at Ringwood of his promise to Critic should be found (b often trip
communicate the particulars of its en ping, mav justly excite surprize. It is
dowment, &c. an 11 n pardon,! ble negligence to have
Over one of the windows is this in uniformly spelt the name os Tyrmltitt
scription : wrong. Rut other names have some
1577- times shared the lame fate. My Brothir
iii; lf. & QViNOENTOs ■ x'po • eyv • Bush(uhter, Dr. Kenrick, is dwindled
TRANSIIT ' OKEES [FVGAX into Mr. Kenric (p. 50) ; honest Isaac
NATO - SOL - SEPTE' ■ & S EPTVA C! I K TA Reed changed 10 Read (p. 157) ; Dr.
RICH AUD' - LINVS • DOCTfelNÆ • FA VTOR " Tht'rlby 10 Thurlby (p. Ill); Haremer
AMANDA? [DED1T
DOCTRINJE • CVPIDIS • PABVLA ■ GRATA to Hamster (p. Ifj4) ; Dailies B.irring-
ton to Danes (p. 168) ; and honest
SVMPT1B' & FROPRMS " S8VAIENTIA • Harry Homer (p. 184) is made a Homer.
TFCTA • REFECIT [jVEANT Such inaccuracies, Mr. Urban, in
J.1TERVLIS - APT' • QVO. LOCVS " ESSE J ordinary writers may be venial; but
G*NT. Mao, Novenberi 1807.
in
2
 iooa the Geographer of Ravenna, and his Work.
in so acute a Critic, what are they to
he called ? The fact is, Mr. Pye was
desirous of (hewing that he has not quite
forgot his Greek {vide paffim) ; irut he
hasalfobeena keen Sportsman all his life
(|>. 207) i that he occasionally consults
the Statutes at large (p. 1 76) ; that he
is a good judge of racy wine (p. 2) ;
that he nnderllatids the true meaning
of a Placket, and the language of the
Nursery, belter than Mr. Steevens did
(pp. 21, 1 17) ; and that a Friend of his
was married at Gretna Green!.'! —
Ha! ha! ha!!!! Anonymus.
— ■
Mr. Urban, Nov. 1.
WHEN I published, a few years
ago, the Iter Britanniarum of
Antoninus with a new Comment, I
had it not in my power to speak with
any certainty concerning the old Geo-
gfapher known by the name of Raven-
nas, not having been able to meet with
a copy of his work. I have, how-
ever, been now more fortunate; aud
as the nobie munificence of the Uni-
versity Press at Cambridge, at the ex-
pence of which my work was printed, has
left me little reason lo expect to see a
second edition, 1 shall thank you to
inlert the following account of that
aniient author, and his work, in your
Mifcellany. In what I have (aid of
him in the Introduction 10 my work,
(in which I found ii necessary to give
att account of some of the principal
antient Geographers, in order to fliew
how far they countenanced or cejitro-
verted the new situations alRgned by
me to some few of the Alitnnine
towns,) I was obliged to depend chiefly
upon Horflev. But I have now rea-
son lo think, that Horiley hatl not
studied this work with his usual care
and diligence, since he speaks with
great uncertainty as to the place of this
writer's birth, his residence, and the
time in which he wrote. This autlror
is usually {J vied the Ano.ivuious Ra-
vennas. Of the place of his birth
there can be no doubt, for he tells us
himlelfexpreifly that he was born at
Ravenna. Aud the plan of one part
of his work seems to prove, that it was
the place of his usual residence. In
speaking of Ravenna, he calls it " the
molt noble Ravenna, where 1, * * *
the Collector os ibis Cosmography,
was born." And that he lived there,
vvhenhe composed his work, may be
presumed from the fourteen first sec-
, u.ons of his fifth book, in which he
2 simply
[Nov
gives a catalogue of all the town*
round the whole of the Mediterranean
sea: and this begins and ends with
Ravenna, i Th:s is a veTy curious part
of his work ; and that it is founded in
fact, will appear, to anj> one who will
take the trouble 10 compare it with the
maps in Cellarius' Geography, where he
will find manv of the towns, though not
near all of them, following each other
in the succession in which this author
has placed them.
The time in which Ravennas wrote
is much more uncertain, but he seems
to be of considerable antiquity. The
latest author I can perceive him qnot-
ing is Isidore of Seville. He calls
him Isidore Hispanienfis. This writer
is. mentioned by Molheim, in his Ec-.
clefiallical History, among the eminent
men of the sixth century. But Mac-
laine gives his name also among ihe
writers of the seventh centurv, in his
Chronological Tables at the end of his
translation of Mosheim's Hiflory. We
may, therefore, consider him as flou-
riming about the year COO. And, I
think, about the middle of the seventh
century, we may look for the time os
Ravennas, nearly contemporary with
our Nennius. That he wrote somo
considerable time before Bede, is ren-
Vlered probable from so many of the
towns in Britain retaining, though in
a corrupted state, many of ihem, their
Roman names. Bede has not more
than one or two in his Ecclesiastical
History. And Ravennas speaks of it
as a custom of the barbarous nations
to change the names of the countries*
cities, and rivers, which accounts for
the Roman names of our towns being
so soon, and in general entirely, lost,
In every country described in this
work, the names of the towns are.
found, as in Britain, some perfect,
some less perse6t, and some entirely
changed; but a sufficient number of
them remain to shew, that the suua-
lion which Ravennas gives the towns,
does not contradict either Ptolemy or
Antoninus.
The general method of this old Geo-
grapher, in describing the situation of
the towns, seems to have been this r
he takes fume, town near the sea, or
some principal town of the different
people he lias occasion lo speak of, and
shews .1 he connection of certain other
towns with this fundamental town,
He then lelects one of the group ai the*
foundation of another set. But,, as he
 i8o7-] Sfjfe1 Geographer of'Ravenna, and his Work. 1003
simply gives the names of the towns, straight line from one sea to the other."
without the High test intimation of their He may, therefore, be considered as
situations with respect to the principal strengthening the proofs 1 have ad
towns, whether to the North or South, duced in favour of Plunipton Wall.
or right or left of them, it mull be im The next line returns towards the
possible to make out what towns are East from Lugubalum, and its course
intended by him; and, consequently, is pointed out bv the towns Vinovia
at must be absurd to affix his names to Cataractonium, Eburacum, and De-
any particular places, as is a common vovicia, which brings it near lo the
custom wi'h many writers upon an- coast of the East Riding os Yorkshire.
tient Geography. In Britain, indeed, The last line is that ahnvememtoned,
bis arrangement of his towti6 is some and described as " reaching from sea to
what different. He appears to have sea,' in a straight direction acres* the
laid down the towns in lines of some Island;" that is, by the side of the
breadth, which reach from one side of Wall from Tynemouth to Bow ness.
the 111 ind to the other. Ol these, se Among these there is the name of only
ven may he plainly traced within the one Itinerary town, which is Breme-
bounds of the Itinerary. nium. This I have considered as New
The first line must have commenced castle upon Tvne ; and in this idea I
in Cornwall, and at, some distance am also supported bv this author, who
West of Exeter, since not less than se places it among these towns, aud near
venteen towns are mentioned before the end of the list. In niv Introduc
we reach Scadom Nuniorum, and ihe tion to the her Britanniarum I have
progress of it is marked by Moridu- supposed, that this author probably
ninn, Btndngladia, and Venta Velga- began this line on the Eastern coast,
runx, to Raviinago Regentium, the giving first the towns Noilh of lha
Regnum of Antoninus, and the Neo- Wall, and then returning by t lie South
magns of Ptolemy, and which I have side ; but, on a more careful review, I
supposed, on what appeared to me see no reason for the supposiiion. 'I he
good grounds, to mean Chichefler ; situation os Bremcnium so near i he end
aud this idea is lint contradicted, but of the number makes it more probable
rather confirmed :by this author. that he began on the Western coast,
The second line begins also on the as he has done in the two first lines in
Western side of the I Hand, and the the Southern par's of the Island.
fiath of it is pointed out by Venta Si- Among these last towns are the
nrum, Glebon Colonia, Corinium names of two or three, which were
Dobunoruin. and Calleva Air eua- found together inscribed upon the edge
tium ; and it finishes at.Dubris. of a small vessel discovered in Wilt
. The third returns through Duro- shire a few years before Horsley wrote.
verno, Londinis, Utricorion Cornino- This circumstance, he tells us, restored
rum, to Seguntio. This line has very this author to some degree os credit,
few towns in it, since only three names as it shewed lhat he had some founda
occur between London and Wroxeter tion for the strange names which he
in Shropshire. had collected, and lhat they were not
The next line returns again East the inventions of his own fanev. But
ward by wav of Cauubio, Mediolano, his Periplus of the Mediterranean, and
Deva, Condate, llaiecorion, Virola- his account of the (owns in Britain,
niium, to Londinium, called here also when compared with the Itinerary,
Augusta. and other antient Geographical works,
A very circuitous line then leads could have left no doubt on lhat head;
through Celaromagom, Camulodulo His work is certainlv founded in fact ;
Colonia, Venia Cenomum, Lindum and therefore he has seemed entitled la
Colonia, Camulodono, Valieris, an<l the notice which has been here taken
Bereda, to Lugubalum. The latter of him. ,T. II.
place 1 have supposed lo be Plunipton
Wall, in Cumberland. All former Mr. Urban, OB. S<>.
Commentators had considered Carlisle ACCEPT of the following remarks
as the Luguvallium of Antoninus. on your current volume, from
But had the latter been the town in an old correspondent :
tended, it would most probably have P. 2s)4, col . 8, 1.4. Head " of it is.
occurred among those which this Au P. 38 1 , col . 1 . Had the I ite Bisliop ofSi.
thor enumerates as ** reaching in a Afbph adverted totheobscrvations of the
worthy
 1004 Miscellaneous Remarks
worthy Pastor of Winwick in p. 826 of
your volume for 1808, col. 2, he might
not probab'y have asserted that " the
direction of the Rubric has been altered
bv the Marriage Acl" as to ihe lime of
publishing the banns. The assertion,
however,' raav rpofl assuredly lie dee med
nugatory. J Ws just construction
of this Act, has been dulv noticed in
1805, p. 1022, col. 2, and is not lo
be lei aside by Oxford Delegates of the
press, or by Episcopal Charges. Neither
of them, respectable as they may be,
can authorize unnecessary innovations.
P. 425. Bishop Mann died in 1789:
Biihop M xwell in 1799: Dr. Forsler
died Bj). of Cloght-r in 1797 : Bp.
Richard Marlev died in 1802 As to
Bp. Hawkins, seep 501, Co. 2, where
also are some other corrections. See
j>. 685, col. 2, for the death of the
latter.
Pr487, col. 1,1. 48. The expul
sion was from Magdalen, not Merlon
college.
P. fill , col. 2, 1. 27. " John Ma-
pletoft of London, M. D." was Pro
fessor of Physic at Gresbani College,
and was the nephew of Dean Maple-
toft. An ample account of the former,
yvho les1 the practice of physic, and
became an eminent divide, is. given in
Ward's " Lives of the Professors of
Grefliam College," pp. 273 279. The
Epitaph upon his eldest son Robert,
whom he survived, is primed in p. 80
of .Blomefield's " Collectanea Canta-
brigiensia," and will correct the dates
of bis death in p. 279 of Ward's valu
able volume.
P. 622, col. 2,1. 7> 8. The name is
certainly lo spelt in p. 233 of Letsome's
list of the Eng'isb Bishops at the end
of Ivs " Preach r's Assistant;" in the
fust nan of which, p. 278, as also in
i). 17 of the second part, it is spelt
*' Beauelerc." Which of these modes
is right? Or are ihey b<>th wrong?
P. 639. Dr. John Buckner was not
consecrated till M irth 1798 : nor was
Dr. William Cleaver til' January- 1788:
nor was Dr. F. II W. Cornwall till
March 1797 ; and he was not confirmed
B:>. of Hereford, till January 1803.
Dr. Richard Hurd was not consecrated
till February 1775 : nor was Dr. Wil
liam Marft.ham, till February 1771 :
and he was not confirmed Archbishop
of York till January 1777- Dr. Ceorge
Pelhatn watfnot consecrated till March
1803; nor vyas Dr. Be'dby Porteus,
till February 1777 ; and in January
on our present Volume. [Nov.
1807, Bp. Randolph was confirmed
Bp. of Bangor ; and, in August 1781,
Bp. Yorke was confirmed Bp. of Ely.
P. 685, col. 2, 1. 17 ; for " conse
crated" substitute "confirmed," or " ap
pointed."
' P. 705, col. 1. The " Harmony of
the Gospels" alluded to by the worthy
Memorialist of fir Roger Newdigate
uccurs in the Bodleian Catalogue as an
oBavn volume in that library in '* A.
63. r/z." Its lull Title is", " The
Storie of Stories, or the Life of Christ
according to the tour holy Evangelists;
with a Harinenie of them, and aTable
of ihcir Chapters and Verses. Col-,
lected by Johan. Hizrd. Lond. 1 632."
This author is not noticed by Matthew
Pilkington, LL- B. in the " Cata
logue of Harmonists" subjoined to the
Preface to his " Evangelical History
and Harmonv. Lond. 1747 ."folio.
P 723-4. An '• Ode to the memory
of Christopher Tancred, elq." is men
tioned in i790, p. 1167, col. 1. bv an
Author now belter known as the His
torian of theTown of Reading; whole
woik is justly characterised in p. 621 of
your last July Magazine.
P. 795. A less favourable account
of the Moravians occurs in 1753, p.
236-7 ; and 542 ; to which it mav not
be improper to. refer your younger
readers.
of P. 823. With
Tonikins, regard
in col. v2, asto antheauthor,
name
the late Mr. Job Orton of Shrewsbury
writes thus, in his 21st letter to a young
Clergyman : " Let me advise you to
read Tomkins's Clirift the Mediator
again and again. It is the bell book
on the subject 1 am acquainted with,
and fully confutes all the Socinian
writers." Dr. Doddridge, in a note on
Romans iii. 26, has the following pas
sage : " Our explication is vindicased
in a most masterly and unanswerable
manner by the worthy author os an
excellent tract, intituled Chriji the Me
diator." It was first published at Lon
don, in 1732, price 2s. 8vo ; and
again in 1761. Can this be the writer
alluded to by vonr Correspondent ?
P. 835, 6. There is some blunder in
the paragraph relative to Amonv Wood,
who died in l6j)5. The " letter, dated
Norwich, 1719," is probably that
written bv Dr. Tanner, from ihenue,
on April 22 in that year, to Dr- Char-
leit, and printed by Mr. Gnich, in
the " Life of the Author," prefixed
to his first volume of " The History
 1 807.] THE P R O J E C T O Px , N° LXXVI. 1 09 1
and Antiquities of the University of cau for a moment entertain any doubt,
Oxford, 1792," 4tn. From the full who considers the present Hate of dis
account herein ot " the methods tiled eases and medicine in this country.
in the republication <if the Athenæ Notwithstanding; the learning aud inge
Oxonienfes in 1721," may be collected nuity of the English Faculty, aided by
what part Dr. Tanner took with regard every kind of lectunes and experience,
to " the additions and corrections in it cannot be denied that many disor-
the second edition'' in thai year. deis continue to baffle their skill ; and
Academicus. that of those which they are able lo
cure, some are very obstinate, and of
THE PROJECTOR. N° LXXVI. others the process is tedious aud pain
Their tribe, trade, trinkets, I defy them ful. It is equally obvious, that the me
all, dicine? now adopted, notwithstanding;
With ev'ry work of 'Pothecary's Hull." all the means used to sweeten them to the
Dhyden. palate, and to' colour them to the eye.
IN one of the late Foreign Journals, are boih in taste and operation far left
we are informed that Mr. Lichien- agreeable than common food, not to
thal, a learned German, has published (peak of the luxuries of a well-covered
a work in which he proposes to cure table. Let it be added too, that sick
all diseases by Mulic. 1 am sorry that persons are sometimes peevish and re
the interruption occasioned by the war fractory, and more ready to retard than
to the Continental trade prevents my promote their, cure; that Physician*
giving my readers a more particular are sometimes impatient, and Apothe
account of this important work. -If caries a little careless or ignorant ; and,
TVlr. Lichtenth al has proved the excel all these things considered, 1 think it,
lence of his plan only in theory,, he surely cannot be doubled that any new mode
deserves to be better known to the of curing disorders must be highly ac
world ; but, at the fame time, his suc ceptable.
cess may perhaps have a tendency to Next to the utility of this plan, it
prolong the embargo Uid by France comes very strongly recommended by
upon all trade to England : for if our the eajincss with which it may be in
Enemy can keep from u« only such a troduced in this country. Alihough it
book as Mr. Lichtenthal's. we cannot will certainly occasion a total revolu
be surprized if he should imagine it tion in our medical system : although
will afford him the means of compel it will render the College of Physicians,
ling us to agree 10 a negotiation upon and Apothecaries' Hall, quite useless;
his own terms. yet I have no doubt that a liberal Par
My readers, I hope, will do me the liament will have no objection to vote
justice to allow that I have ever been a compensation to such persons as can
as anxious to bring forward the Pro prove they have suffered by this plan ;
jects of oilier persons as my own ; and while, on the other hand, let us only cori-
that 1 have astorded no reason to sider what facilities the present state of
suspect rne ofjealousy, or of any wish, our country affords to the introduction
secret or otherwise, lo suppress the of Mr. Lichtenthal's project. We are
roanv excellent plans with which the not .only provided with a great variety
Projectors of ihe Continent are of diseases that might prove its efficacy;
daily favouring the world.. I have al but we have likewise all the Matcria
ready founded the praises of one or Medica, all the medicines necessary in
two ingenious Frenchmen ; and with physical cases, and all the instruments
equal zeal I am disposed to give all due adapted to surgical ones. Never, per
tribute to an invention of such im haps, was the country so amply
portance as the art of curing diseases stored with musical remedjes : not a
by Music. If, in performing this libe house but is provided with* a piano, a
ral duty, 1 shall be found a linle scep harpsichord, a auitlar, or a harp; not
tical on some point?, I hope my rea a (ale os the furniture of the lowest
ders will not attribute that to any de tradesman without one or other of
fects in Mr. Lichtenthal's' plan, but these medicines ; and it was therefore
merely to the circumstance already with more meaning than he intended,
noticed; namely, Chat I have not jet that an eminent dealer lately told me,
had an opportunity of perusing his " Piano-fortes are now a mere drug."
book. It has, iudecd, been objected by
Of the utility of his plan no perfqn some writers cm education, that young
ladies
 ioof5 T H E P
tidies are too frequently taught music :
that it is introduced in ail schools
as a necessary branch of education ;
whereas a natural genius only can pre
vent scholars from exposing themselves
before company, which they are in
vited to do by their indulgent parents,
who know nothing of the art, and
have no ear te distinguish discords from
concords. All this may be true ; and, if
we had.no better prospects from the edu
cation of the riling generation, it might
yet be a source of complaint. But
I when we look at Music with the in
genious .and discerning eye of Mr.
IJchtenthal, we shall be less apt to
think that our daughters have thrown
away their time. What they are now
acquiring merely to pleale the ear, may
in time cure the body ; the fine Jliake
which their master has taken so much
pains to teach, may shorten the fit of
an ague : an adagio may set a gouty
father to sleep, and a capricio may ope
rate successfully on the nerves of a vale
tudinary mother ; and who would
not prefer the enchanting Du Capo of
fiis heautiful daughter or niece, to the
nauseous rcpctulur haujins of a physi
cian or apothecary ? •.
Hut such lludents of the healing art
mu ft, after all, confine their skill to
** liomeftic Medicine," and be the
little Buchans of their families. Much
•dependence cannot be placed on them
in a general way, nor have we occa
sion to lament this circumstance. If
diseases are to be cured by medicine,
j>erhaps there never was a time when
we could boast of more eminent prac
titioners. Let our public concerts
speak both for the number and skill
«>f. our musical performers ; and, if
there be truth 'in Mr. Lichtenthal's sys
tem, it is evident that we (hall excel as
muph.in the new as we did in the old
iimde of curing diseases. The Opera
wjll t"hen take precedence of the Col
lege of Physicians, and Drnry-lane or
<Jovent - garden will be schools as
eminent as Leyden or Edinburgh.
Perhaps, indeed, when this system is
introduced, and lick people can be
cured for a mere song, it may be pro
per to turn these public places into
hospitals, where.solas and Jinglefvngs
may be administered to the individual,
and the full crash of a double orches
tra may be successfully applied to a
■compliculii n of disorders, or lo an epi-
uleiwic. And what renders this part of
tile.scheme not improbable, is the el-
T O R, N° LXXVI. [Nov.
sect which is sometimes observed at
concerts, and particularly at Oratorios ; '
where, after a certain time, I have
seen the most restless part of the audi
ence, evidently affected by painful mo
tions aud struggles, at last yawn and
drop into a gentle slumber. We may
perceive too, from this instance, that
the phraseology of medicine would not
be much altered by our new system,
as the patient may very properly be
said to have taken a dose; and all* the
difference between the old and the
new practitioners would be, that the
one compounds, and the other composts
his medicines.
Prepared, therefore, as we are for
the adoption of Mr. Lichtenthal's sys
tem, it is much to be regretted that
we must remain for some time longer
in the dark, as to the detail of his won
derful discovery. We know not, as
yet, whether he attaches the effect to
the instrument, or to the music per
formed; that is, whether the operation
depends on the fiddle, flute, hautboy:
or on the song, solo, or concerto, by >
whatever instrument played. Some
times I am inclined to think that he
depends for a cure on the instrument:
the sharp tones of the violin seem to
have some connection with the twinges
of certain disorders : the double-drum
may be efficacious in lethargic cales :
and there is an audible connexion be- 1
t'ween the notes of the balloon and tlic
effect of a cathartic. But, perhaps, it is
more probable that our great improver
has composed pieces of music for fevers,
asthmas, rheumatism, izc. so be played
by skilful hands. We have beard one
piece of music which imitates thunder,
rain, and all the circumstances of a )
storm; and another which is calculated .'
to give a very lively idea of a battle.
Perhaps Mr. Lichtenthal may have
taken a hint from these, and has learned]
to compose a fever, so as to conduct;
the hearer from the prejiijj'mo pulse,
to the andante and the largo, through
all the stages of the violent fartijjimo,
to the gentle diminuendo, that ends in
perfect health. But this, it must be
confessed, is merely a conjecture, and a
conjecture attended with many difficul
ties. Let it suffice us to wait patiently
until the great reformer has divujged
his plan. In the mean time, it has
been suggested to me, that he may have
derived it from an accurate observation
of human nature. In the first place, it
has been often remarked that Musicians
are
1807.] THE PLO JE(:tor, N" lxxvi. 1007
are long livers, which affords a pre confidential parties of persons of fashion*
sumption that they are invested with and have many oppoi I unities of (lush tug
some means of averting disorders, and their disorders ; they are not unfre
what can that be unless their crotchets quently called in to drown the sorieks
and quavers? Again, we are told that and exclamations of persons afflicted
music has already been successfully ap with the diseases of the card table, and
plied in curing the bite of the tarantula ; may improve their (kill by the imagery
but the following instance, which 1 of gamblingJtalswd Jharps.
found lately in an old book, is vet more But whatever reluctance any of the.
in favour of Mr. Lichtenthal's scheme. parties concerned in this revolution may
A gentleman, whose profession was (how to promote it, individual interests1
music, was seized with a fever, which, must give way to the general good. If
on the seventh day, brought on a de Mr. Lichtenthal can prove that all dis
lirium, during which he requested os eases may be cured by music, there is
his physician that he might be per no man who will be mad enough to
mitted to have a little concert in his be sick while he is within the found of
chamber. This was granted ; and, be a fiddle. The very pleasure of this nevtr
fore the first strain was played, his coun mode of Cure, will gite it a decided su
tenance became placid and serene, &c. periority over the old. Besides, in our new
and his fever abated. The moment, Materia Medica, much expence may be
however, the music ceased, all his dis avoided. Here it nothing that is perish
orders returned with the lame violence able, nothing that is wasted. The fame
as before ; the remedy was again ap instruments aud the fame compositions
plied with equal success, and music may beapplied inathoulandcases, wilh-
%vas found to be so necessary, that his out losing their original powers. The
kinswoman, who sat up with him, longest-lived practitionerwill notwearou*
was not only obliged to sing, but to a genuine Cremona, even if he attends a
dance. In short, by repeating the hospital, and a small supply of cat-gut
music, he was completely cured.—This can be no object to one who has played
mull be allowed to be highly in favour himself into a chariot. Imagination,
of our Projector's Icheme ; but the indeed, furnishes so many delightful
i cafe is not perhaps quite in point. I prospects from the art of curing diseases
wish the patient had not been a mu by this medicine, that it is impossible
sician by trade, a circumstance which to listen to trifling objections. What
makes the experiment less decisive; for pieces will be molt frequently employed,
we may often observe that music pro Mr. Lichtenthal only knows. Some
duces an effect on professional gentle patients will recover with all the ra
men, very different from what it pro pidity of a jig, while others will mend
duces on their hearers. in minuet-time. A flight indisposition
It would be very desirable to collect may be removed by a single air, while
the opinions of the Faculty on this ap a more obstinate cafe may require an
proaching revolution in the healing art. overture or a concerto. The inclina
They are men of well-known liberality, tions of the patient, as in all other
and some of them by no means averse cases, must be consulted, or at lead
to trying experiments. Yet the ex not wholly neglected. Country gen
pected change of system is so great in tlemen, when confined, will expe
the present instance, that I am afraid rience much relief in a hunting-song :
thev will not at first look kindly on it, young gentlemen os the town will per
tior be willing to exchange their fees haps prefer an Anacreontic, or an old
and their rank in Warwick Lane, for English Derry Down ; while they who
a feat in the orchestra, or the chance of despise all advice, and chuse no will
a benefit. And on the other hand, I am but their own, may be suitably affected
not quite certain that our musicians will by an Ad Lili/um. Hospital patients
be very eager to exchange places with will, in general, be content with hand-
the faculty. Their emoluments are, at organs, or hurdv-gurdies, and the
present so great, that it may be doubted poorer sort may be supplied with ballads
whether any of them would give a fid at their own houses.
dlestick for the place of a physician. Such a revolution as this it is surely
Yet they may enjoy some advantages delightful to contemplate, and every
peculiar to themselves. They are al lover of Pnije61s most wait with impa
ready admitted teto the private and tience fvr the full explanation of Mr.
Lie! •
 xoo 8 Dohiesdayc/RalphdelMceto.—Tronic/Lincoln. [N«OV.
JJchtenlhal's plan. It was mv duty as The following are two of the Inqui
a Projector and patron of Projec sitions :
tors, lo j^ive this early noiire of it, " Hec est Inquisitio de Cadendgna.
and to osier such conjectures on its " Juratores.
nature, as may lerve to raise tlie ex Johannes Sacerdos.
pectations of my readers, and at ilie Reginaldus Prepolitus.
iiime lime evince my own impar Otberms Prepolitus.
tiality. It will, no doubt, hate to Gowinus de Gena.
contend with prejudice, but prejudice Serlo.
must pive way to public good ; and Maneriuni de Cadendona defendebat fe
surely tlic public good will be eminently tempore Regis Henrici piimi et Willielmi
decani versus regem pro decem hydis,. et
promoted .when our physicians' pre- adhuc ita est ; Uiceeho.
icri|)iion shall be printed in music types, " Hec est Inquisitio de Bealciiamp.
and we shall have nnihing to swallow " Juratores.
more nauseous than the words of a Willielmus Trauers.
modern opera. Ricardus Archarius.
Robertus filius Alwini.
Mr. Urban, Oct. 13. Hugode Maldon.
AMONG the valuable Manuscripts Lambertus Grossus.
bequeathed lo the University of Robertus filius Wlwin.
Oxford by Dr. Ricrwd Rawlinson, Al'chitillus.
ate two folio leaves of vellum, which Henricus de Bosco.
apippar to''u«e to form a fragment of no Stonbardus.
inconsiderable cariosity, as they contain Alwinus ultra Boscum.
a part of the Survey which was taken Headricus Benge.
Ricardus Niger.
»n 1181 of the. Deanery of St. Paul's. Minerium de Bealhamp defendebat
The Title is " DOMlSDAY RadnIJi fe tempore Regis Henrici pro v hydis ver
tie Dzcclo," and adds another to the sus Regem; et adhuc ita est. Vicecomiti
many proofs of which we are already time dabant mi sol.&ptepositobundrediv
in possession, that the name which was sol. permanum firmarii, & adhuc ita est:
fiven to the Conqueror's Survey onlv £i reddit modo canonicis vm firmas ple-
designated it as the standard lo which nas, v r in pane et cervisia. Et in unaqua-
appeals shanld be referred. A Register que trmaijx sol. ad liberationem, Sr duas
of the Possessions belonging to the Dean alias utramque in l'exagesimis solidis.
and Chapter of York, which is still re " Isti tenent de dominio.
maining, has, I am informed, the dominio " Robertus persona tenet xxx acras de
feme liile of" Domesday»" in excambium. xxx acras pro vd.
The Chapiers, into which the Sur moram f. Stanwinesland. Idem Robertus habet
vey of St. Paul's was originally divided, Idem horlerunain trium acrarum pro ximd.
sfic ) n acras in pastura pro
appear lo have been ihe following: vuid.et hec dicit fe tenere percapituluni."
" Cautvi/a. Some of the London Antiquaries
I. De maneriis beati Pauli per ordinem. may, perhaps, be able to fay whether
II. Qui contulerint beato Paulo Marieria, a perfect copy of this curious Manu
III. Qui Reges Anglorum immunitatem script is in existence. H. E.
indulserunt.
IV. Status Ecclesiarum quæ fundatæ Mr. Urban, Lincoln, Oct. 7.
sunt extra Lundoniam.
V. Quafn firmam reddiderint Maneria C"^ IVB me leave to ask for an ac-
J count of ihe place where Great
tempDribus Wlmanni Decani, et cujus
ponderis fuerit vel fit panis canoni- Tom was call, or from whence it was
corum. brought. My realbn for this inquiry
VJ. Status Ecclesiarum qua; fundata sunt is, that some ihort lime ago, 1 observed,
intra Lundoniam. in a country paper, a popular report
VII. De Terrulis Canonicorum beati mentioned, that Great Tom had been
Pauli. carried away from a chapel near Shef
VIII. Quid solvatur Canonicis in Natali field, and thai, 10 prevent ihe discovery
Domini. of the place to which it was carried, the
IX. Quid Canonicis in Pafcha. horses had been (hoed the backward
X. Quid Canonicis solvatur in Festo way. For the honour of our Ciiv, I
Apostolorum, should be happy to receive some infor
XI. Quid solvatu.r Can.eoi<ijs in Festo mation 011 this subject. Inquirer.
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*»* THE Medalist Plate //, has been
sent us by a Correspondent without any
accompanying hijlory, which some of
our Headers witl possibly supply.
Of ihe two inscriptions on the fame
Plate, Fig. 2 (from Mr. Tyler of Pet-
worth) was dug up amongst the ruius
of the Court of Cockermouth Castle,
belonging to the Eail of Egreuront, in
Cumberland, in lowering the ground
of that Court in 1803.
Fig. 3 (Irom the MSS. of the laie
Dr. Pegge, lo whom it was communi
cated by the Rev J. Walton, rector of
Stockport) was found iu or near the
Station at Manchester. Edit.
Mr. Urban, Wolverhamptm, Nov 3.
rT*IIE following particulars, which
J 1 colle6led in a journey from
which I am just reiurneii, may per
haps not be unworthy of your notice,
and that of those among your readers
who have the fame taste with you for
National Antiquities and Topography.
Soddivgton, ib the parish of Mani-
ble, and the county of Worcester, at
a small distance from the road between
Bewdley ami Tenbury, is the aniient
seat of the Baronet family of the name
of Bloont; though at present they re
side al a ne>v seat, erected within these
thirty years, at Mawley, near Cleo-
bury. The mansion at Soddington has
been built at different times ; but the
most antient part of it seems to be
about 400 vears old. The workmen
at present are taking down ihe whole
of it, which has given me an oppor
tunity of making the follow ing disco
veries.
In digging beneath the oldest part of
the house, at the depth of about three
feet, the workmen struck upon an an
tient Focus, formed of thin bricks,
which had each of them a semicircular
termination, and had evidently been
framed in a similar mould. In digging
at a small distance from the focus, fire
feet below the level of it, a Pavement,
laid with large thin bucks, such as
the Romans are known to have used,
and as are commonly to be met with
at Vernlaru aud other Human cities,
was discovered. In levelling the ground
rear (be house of Soddington, the la-
bourers have dug up a vast number of
curious tabes, which formed an an-
Went Aqueduct. The existence of this
was previously unknown to the inha-
feitants of the place. The tubes are
GiNT. Mab, November, !«07-
a .
formed of the finest clay, and exceed
ingly well baked, being, of a grey co
lour on the outside, and, when bro
ken, of a dark colour in ihe interior.
They appeared to be e xactly of the lame
composition with several Roman urns
which I have seen. Each lube is about
two feet long, and four inches in the
total diameter; the aperture for con
veying the water being about an inch
and three quarters iu diameter. They
have hollow tenons at one end, anil
mortices at ihe other, so as to fit toge
ther very exactly, and to appear air-
light without the use of moriar. They
were laid in the direction of a spring
which flows at ihe distance of a mile
and a hall from Soddingion, at ihe top,
of an eminence still higher than the
site of the mansion, though the latter
is very high ground, and they have
been traced a great part of the way
to it. '
But ihe most curious discovery of
the whole occurred in a field within a
quarter of a mile of the old house;
where, in levelling a hillock, on which
an oak quite decayed with age, be
sides other trees, stood, at the depth of
about two feet from the sod, the work
men found a complete Brick-kiln, con
sisting, by computation, of 10,000*
bricks, the greater part of which were
well burnt, the rest being only half
burnt. The kiln was not made as
kilns are usually made at present ; nor
were the bricks of the lame size with
our bricks, being larger and thinner.
These being the facts, it remains for
learned and ingenious Antiquaries to
determine to which race of the succef.
five inhabitants of this Island these ar.
tides originally belonged, and what i»
the dale of them ? It is plain they be.
longed to a people who were in the-
habit of building with brick, and of
making their bricks larger and thinner
than we do at the present day. It is
equally plain that the people in ques
tion must, have been a civilized and, in
some degree, a refilled people, from
the discovery of the Aqueduct, and the
perfection os the tubes of which it con
sisted. I think also it may be asserted
that the Brick - kiln was made just be-
fore some g/e»t change in the state of
the country took place, as the work
men seem not to have had time to
finish the burning of their bricks. It
likewise appears to me that this change
muR hove been attended with dreadful
political
ioio Roman Antiquities.-Mr. Sadlier.-Mr. Barrow. [Not.
political consequences, and the desola opinion I seel desirous to inform the
tion, if not the destruction, of the for publick of the following facts.
mer inhabitants. This I gather from During a warm debate in Council afe
so large a number of bricks, the greater Fort St. George, the Governor, Lord
part of them fit for use, being left on- Macartney, gave the lie direct to a gen
•mployed in an open field, till, by de tleman who did- not coincide with him.
grees, a bed of earth was formed over in opinion. The gentleman requested
them, upon which an oak tree, now that Lord M. would -wave all advan
rotten with .age, actually grew. , tages from his situation, and 'give him
My conjectures are, that Soddingion private satisfaction : they met, and lhe>
was a Roman Fort; the Gtuatiou of injured gentleman shot the Governor
it being adapted to i his purpose, and either in the shoulder or in the arm, I
the ground on the (ides of it still bearing forget which ; and this gentleman was
certain vestiges of a Roman intrench- the "timid Mr. James Sadlier" of Mr.
ment ; that the Brick-kiln was built Barrow, at that lime third in Council
for the use of the Romans, or for their at Madras !
civilized British subjects, about the This anecdote I relate from memory,
year 418, in which year, according to and pledge my honour to the sub
the Saxon Chronicle, the Romans left stance, though, without referring to
this Island, carrying with them all . my journal, I cannot precisely state all
their treasures; that, in consequence the particulars, The reading world may,
of this event, and of the confusion however, hereby discover that a Biogra
which followed it, from the irtfoadsof pher does not always content himself
the Picts, Scotch, and Saxons, the with giving a garbled account of the
Britons had no leisure nor inclination to life of a Friend, but uses, occasionally,
raise new buildings; until, at length, that opportunity to asperse the charac?
they were driven out of the open coun ter of a person he dislikes.
try, and confined to the mountains of Yours, &c. Æquitas.
Wales and Cornwall ; that the Saxons P. S. I acknowledge the general ob-
were too much employed, and too little ser-vation and good understanding of
civilized for almost a century after their Mr. Barrow ; and have received much
arrival here, to think of new buildings ; amusement and information from his
and that, when they did hegin to build, " Travels in Southern Africa ;" but I
they, as was the practice with their had another convincing proof of his
successors the Normans, used stones, deficiency in candour and generosity,
or even flints, in preference to bricks ; on perusing his "Travels in China,'''
that, during all this time, the dust and wherein he arrogates to himself an ex-
earth accumulated, as I said before, dujice claim lo giving any authentic de*
wpon the heap <A bricks, till they com script on os the Chinese ; though I ob
pletely covered it. With respect to the served many plagiarisms in that work
Focus, Floors, Sec. at the house which from " Mason's Costume of China,"
I suppose belonged to the Raman sort, taken almost verbatim, without either,
these being in situations where no cel acknowledgment or apology.
lars were dug, they must have escaped,
the mattocks of the workmen, when Ilj.ustuations of Horace,
they were digging the foundations for Bjok I. Epistle XII.
the old house, now demoliflied. To Iccius.
Yours, Sec. J- Mll.NER. Introduction.
THE historical information we have-
Mr. Urban, , Nov.. g. to give concerning the circum
MR. BarroW, in his Life of Lord stances of the; person to whom this
Macartnev, speaks of a " Mr. Epistle is written readies but a little
James Sadlier" in terms which 1 am wav. Yet some particulars of his cha
inclined to think he by no means me racter may be discovered from a compa
rited ; and, among other blemishes of rison of what is here faidj with the
mind, Lord M 's biographer accuses Twenty- ninth Ode of the First Book,
him of "timidity." It however puz which is likewise addressed to him, that
zles me ^really to determine, whether diffuse a light on this Epistle, without
tfiat epithet is bestowed by ignorance which the most delicate beauties of it
Ot' by maliguity; but, fioin fome cer would pals unnoticed. This Iccius
tain circumstances, I am induced to then appears to have been one of the
ascribe il lo the latter : aud under that second-rate friends of out Poet; one of
thole
1807O Illustrations of"Horac e, Book I. Epistle Hill. 10 11
those with whom we may have been enterprize of Ælius Gallus proved abor.
thrown in our vouth, and from having tive, the ardent hopes of Iccius fell as
accidentally gone the fame way with quickly to the ground. Yet, as the
them for (bine length os lime acquire a bias ot his mind was now turned to
sufficient intimacy wiih us for being schemes of getting rich, in hopes of
on the footing of an old companion lor better limes, he put up with the place
the rest of lite. Iccins in his youth of Imendant of the extensive estates
was very fond of what was then called which M. Agiippa (at that time the
Philosophy, bought all the books of greatest lord in Rome after Augustus)
the Socratic school, and of the famous possessed in Sicily ; and in this post he
Stoic Panælius ; and itemed, from the still continued when Horace addressed
dispositions he was making, to resolve to him the present Epistle.
on no less an atteihpt than to eclipse l'Vom hence we (fee, that though Ic
a Cicero and ;i Varro in that depart cius had always pretensions to the title
ment. However, a few years after of a Philosopher, yet he could not digest
Cæsar Octavianus had obtained ihe go the failure-of hie designs upon the trea
vernment of the whole Empire, and sures of'the Oriental Kings. Thelnten-
had given a general peace to ihe world, dant of Agrippa aspired after the fame
it was loudly talked of at Home, lhat of an enlightened genius ; but, with
nothing now remained but to revenge all his speculations, he was nothing the
the cruel insult cast by the Rarlhiaus better within: covetousness and avarice
on the Roman name, under Marcus were in -conjunction his ruling passion ;
Craffus ; and it was expected of the and when he played the Stoic, and put
heir of Cæsar and the conqueror of on the air as ii he made the grand
Egypt, lhat he Ihould likewise subdue, maxim, that Virtue is content with it-
to the dominion of Home, this mighty filf, the rule of his life, he did it, as
Empire, together with Arabia and the Hoiace with great delicacy gives him
rest of the East, the riches w hereof were to understand, merely to mails his close-
supposed to be immense, and had been fisledness, and to give a creditable name
long loeked on by the Romans with an to hU favourite vice. In short, Iccius
envious eye. Augustus seemed to ap acted the philosopher as a cowardly fop
prove this wish os a people by whom puts on the bully ; but his ears were
he was adored, and by whom every always perking through the lion's skin,
thing was thought pollible under his and he betrayed himself by his discon
wife conduct and with his usual success ; tent and eternal complaints, with which,
and when Ælius Gallus, the governor as it Ihould seem, the letter was silled,
of Egypt, in the year 729, actually did to which this of Horace is sent as an
undertake a campaign against the King answer.
of Arabia Felix, every one thought The fine, and to ihe transient eve al-
that the execution of the brilliant pro molt imperceptible, but upon a closer
ject with which the idle Onirites had survey, pretty plain persiflage, which
been amusing their fancies was already runs through this let ter, is a model in
accomplished. At once the mind of its kind ; the irony insinuates itself so
the philosopher Iccins took a different gently into the conceited ness of ihe per
turn. He considered how advanta son he 'banters, that Jccius himself, if
geous it might be to him to share in an he felt .it, at least acted the bell part in
•enterprize where even the molt humble let-ting nothing of it be perceived. It is
subordinate would in all probability pleasing to compare this belter and the
make his fortune for ever ; and he two foregoing together (as the intent of
found <b much more reality in the all three is to cr-iilb-re something in per
thought of becoming rich by a -single sons whom the Poet wisiies to spare)
campaign., than jn ihe sober specula in regard to t lie style in which they are
tions of a philosophy, which only pre composed. In ihe EpHnV to Aristius,
tends to make us hap|)y bv privation, the censure is fo exquilite, friendly, and
that he immediately disposed of all his gentle, as scarcely to deserve the name:
jPlatos and Panætiuses, to biiy himself in lhat lo Btillatius it is wrapped up in
a proper Tarraconian suit of armour; good-humoured raillery ; but in .this
and, as Horace laughingly fays in the there is a certain mixture us (alt, though
above-mentioned Ode, to equip himself of the finest Attic quality, which yet
for a violent war against the Princes of conveys a flight talte of somewhat that
Arabia and their Exchequers. But, nearly borders on scorn. We may per
.vyheti, contrary to all .expectation, the ceive (hat he hi'S a high esteem for
Aritiiu
loiz Illustrations vf Horace, Book I, Epistle XII. [Nov.
Aristius, would gladly be serviceable to self wilh the philosophical pretensions
Bullatius, and makes his game of of Iccius, jocularly puts on the ap"
Iccius. pearance as if he too belonged to that
Sit dmiliœ poterv.nl regales addere trade, and psescnis him here with a
majus."] Horace is thinking perhaps of dilemma, in which there is at bottom
the beatas Aiabum gains wilh which .more roguery than is at first apparent.
be had before dressed Iccius iu the Ude I understand it thus: WhaiJ thou a
iufcribed to him. philolbpher, and complained that thou
Ilerbis mt>is el nrticA."] That nettles, an no richer? And now, if whatever
and not what are called the blind thou touchedft should all at once be
[taminm\, but the proper stinging-net come gold, what wouldst thou get by
tle, was among the esculent vegetables it? Wouldst thou then live lels upon
at Rome; that ■ he poor and common herbs and stinging-nettles than at pre
people used them as such, is plain sent, starving as thou dost in the midst
from a paflage in Pliny, lib. xxi. cap. of abundance of the belt provisions i
25. Indeed, in the great scarcity of Certainly not : for either thy present
1771 and 1772, dire neceflity taught mode of life is the fruit of thy natural
the people in many parts of Germany disposition, or of thy philosophy : if the
to appease their hunger wilh this un former, money would not alter thy
usual kiiid of vegetables. At Rome nature—(literally : when was ever a
they were eaten indeed only in the sordid hunks cured of his avarice by
Spring, while they were young and wealth?) Is it the latter? Then, as
tender *: but Horace fixes no lime when a professed Stoic, Virtue alone is suffi
Iccius should eat nettles ; besides, net cient to enable thee to live happily,
tles here stand for every species of hard and thou esteemed every thing else as
fare. Ti.e circumstance (hat this lipis- nothing: therefore, Sec. Q. E. D. The
lle was wrote in Autumn, is no reason learned Gelsner must have been out of
why we should ihink, wilh Gelsner, spirits when he was examining this
that the subject here is not about sting passage ; he can perceive no trace of
ing-nettles, but the fish urlica. As irony in the whole of it; he fees no
there is no fish os that name properly thing but ingenuum laudaUirem amici
so called, probably this learned inter et virtulis. This is exactly what, after
preter meant the sea- nettle, urlica ma straining my eyes as much as possible,
rina, a verv numerous race of marine I cannot discern. A genuine Stoic,
animals of the polype species, to be who in good earnest places his happi
found in all seas, and described by ness in Virtue, and in that alone, and
Plinv, lib. ix. cap. 45, whose account has found it there, is the most con
of it Is enlarged by some and rectified tented of all mortals ; he complains
by others of our modern researchers not, like Iccius, that he is poor; es
inlo nature. However, if any one is pecially when he has a superfluity of
disposed 10 make ihe wise lecius eat all ihe necessaries of life ; iie is not
sea net! les rather ihan stin^ing-neiiles, poor, but (according to /its way of
I shall not qoarrel with him, especi thinking) that man is poor who can
ally as I am informed, in the tenth not subsist without all ihat be either
volume of the new Spectacle dc la Su wants or wishes. When, therefore,
ture, that at least one specie) of this Horace speaks of iiicb an one as of a
lea-nettle (called also sea-qualm and philosopher, it mull surely be irony -
fnoifisii) is good lo eai, and is fre or Horace is here somethii g that he
quently a great relies to sailors ill the never was in his whole life.
North sea and the Frozen Ocean. I Miramitr,Ji Democrili pecus edit agellut
fin i also ti Paul us Jovius, de Rnma- C'lUaque.
nor. pifcihis. cap. xli. mention made Cicero confirms this anecdo'e in too
of a' -sort oCurliea, found in abundance decisive a manner to admit of our giv
on the coast os Civila V'ecchia, and ing a hearing to the ip/i dixit of
was reckoned among the dflicit of the Brucker, Son uiidiendi sutil Baratiut
Roman tables. Consequently, the et Cuern, &c. Hitter. Grit. Philos.
question here cannoi be concerning lam. i. p. U78. against it. Democritut
them. (oercsalfone qiiareremns) dicitur ocutit
I 'et ama cnnila pntas nv& vir/ule mi- fe privAffe ; certe, ut quatn minime ani-
tlura ~\ Hr>r:ice, in order to divert him- tnus a cngilationilms abducerelur, pntri-
* They are then au excellent vegetable monium tiegle.nl, agros deferu'u incullos.
so* tilt Zoiis. Edit. IX Js/iaib. v. 2y. That an irony i*
couched
 1 8c 7-] Illustrations of Horace, Bpok I. EpiJIleXll. 1013
touched in the application made by philosophy in two hundred and twenty
Horace of this example to Iccius. awl lxtn!;s, which perhaps did not survive
in tire sarcastic turn, "Wbail we its parent , for, except Horace, who
wonder al Demncrittis, Sec. while in the third satire os his second book
we have the grand example of thyself humourously calls him the true philo
before us an irony which even Iccius, sopher, there is no antient writer to
with all its obscurity, must haVe re whom his existence was known, or who
marked. It was Ion.' ago observed by thought him worth mentioning. Ho
Torremius, though Gdlirer ltill can race derides al once the matter itself,
perceive nothing of it. by joining an antient Pythagorean of
Et tidhnc fublimia cures J For the so great note as Emprdocles with a
due understanding of an astthor, we Steriinius, and making it a question
must expound him by himself. Ho which of them talked the most non
race, as a true disciple of the Socratic sense ; and laughs at Iccius for making
and Aristippic school, knew, esteemed, himself of so much importance as to
and pursued no other philosophy, than take upon him the office of judge be
that which confines itiell' lo the art of tween two such subtile philosophers.
living and enjoying. What is above •Sen pist es, feu ptirrum et ccepe truci-
us, thought he, is nnlhuig to us. t/os.] A sine turn, in order to make
Whether he was right or w rong in so as if all the foregoing was only al
doing, is not Irere the question ; suffice harmless a jest as this. The Pythago
thai he did so think will he doubted of reans, and particularly Empedocles,
by no one that is acquainted with his who probably was greatly revered by
writings. Accordingly, it is irony Iccius, held that human souls' trans
again, when he seems as if he was mit/rated not only into all sorts of ani
struck with admiration at Iccius on ac mal bodies, but also into plants, and
count of his curiosity to know the why were forced to animate them for a cer
and the wherefore of the corporeal sys tain time. Empedocles went so far as
tem, and to penetrate into the inward to affirm, that he well remembered lo
ceconomy os every orb. Had Iccius in have been a girl, a plant, a fi(h, and a
reality done any thing in this science bird. Dio^. Luert. viii. 78 To this
worth (peaking os, it would have been philosophical extravagance Horace al
a different affair ; but then somewhat of ludes in the word trucidare. Gell'ner
it would have come down to our times, here dishes up again his sillies, his sea-
and we should have found some traces nettles ; but certainly Horace ihouzht
of it in other author, supposing his nothing about them. Among the Ro
own works had been entirely lost. But, mans, fish was one of the principal
in all probability there was more va disoes on the tables of the rich and
nity and froth titan reality in his sub luxurious j he therefore places them in
lime studies ; and then Horace had an contrast to the hard fare, among which
additional cause to banter him : the he had before reckoned the nriira.
first, as it was ridiculous in an Intend- Utere Pumpfiu Grol)<ho~\ Pompeius
ant of the estates of Agrippa, and one Rrofphus was a Rom.in knight, who
who himself was eager after riches, had considerable possessions in Sicily,
to lose his time in forming speculations as we learn from the ifiih ode of the
on tlve structure of the universe; aud second book, where Horace lays to
again, because he did not pursue his him :
studies Ib far as to acquire a name in Te greges centum, Siculæque circum
that department. Mugiunt vaceæ ; tibi tollit hinnitum
The Une—Empedocleum, wi Sterli- Apia quadrigis equa ; tc bis Afro
mum djeliret acumen; puts the irony of Murice tinctæ
the whole passage beyond all manner Vestiunt lanæ.
■of doubt. Steriinius, it seems, was a Gcnibus minor.'] In this humiliated
dabbler in the Stoic philosophy, who, attitude we may still lee that Parthian
bv people that had a profound venera Prince on some coins of Augustus.
tion fora bushy uncombed beard, a good Torrent. Vaillant introduces one of
cynical mouthpiece, and an undaunted them in p. 23. torn ii. Numismat. Imp.
dexterity in declaiming upon a trite sub prejiantior. edit. )6g4.
ject, was held for a great man ; and the Defundil copia cornu.~\ Consequently
more so for having (according to the this Epistle was compoled in the au
assertion of the olj commentator Cru- tumn of the year 785. SeePe/ati. doclr.
quius) published a work on the Stoic temp. torn. ii. p. S6g.
Mr.
 io 1 4GilbertWak.efield'sLe.wV« ».-/?tfi;.MartinTomkirrs[Nov.
Mr. Urban, Clapton, Nov. 4. inon preached by him July 13, 1718."
I BEG the favour of you to correct a From this it appears that Mr. T. was
mis-statement which occurs in your dismissed by his Congregation, in conse
Literary Intelligence for the last month, quence of his maintaining opinions
p. Q52. The late Mr. Gilbert Wake- similar to those of Dr. Samuel Clark.
field's collections for his intended Greek Like that learned and pious Divine, he
and English Lexicon are there stated endeavours to repel the charge' of Ari-
to have been destroyed by fire. So far anifm brought against him by the af-
from this being the cafe, his interleaved fertnrs of the Athanasian Trinity.
copy of Hederic's Lexicon, which con The second tract, printed 1722, is
tains all those collections, is now, ai the "Sober Appeal," with which your
it has always heen, in the posseflion of correspondent is well acquainted. It
Mrs. Wakefield, exactly in the state in appears from the Preface to have been
which Mr. W. left it at his decease. occasioned by a passage in Watts's
The Memoirs of his Life, ii. 21 6, lo " Christian Doctrine of the Trinity
fully mention the collections for the where he proposes to appeal to a
Lexicon, as preserved by his family, Turk or an Indian ; and was noticed
that I know not how your informant by that writer in "The Arian invited
could have been led to (end you an ac to the Orthodox Faith."
count so erroneous. He may possibly The third piece, printed 1732, is
have confounded the Lexicon with intituled "Jesus Christ the Mediator
Mr. W.'s Lucretius, the remaining im between God and Man, an Advocate
pression of which, consisting of a large for us with ihe Father, and a Propi
number of copies, was destroyed in the tiation for the Sins of the World." In
fire at the printing-office of Mr. Ha this tract Mr. T. carries the notion of
milton. an atonement as far as one who disbe
Give me leave to inform your cor lieved the proper Deity of Christ could
respondent Mr. Tailby (p. 82S) that well carry it. He also animadverts on
the writer concerning whom he en some passages in the celebrated Dr.
quires was the Rev. Martin Tomkins, Foster's " Usefulness, Truth, and Ex
a Dissenting Minister of the denomina cellency of the Christian Religion,"
tion usually, though no longer verv written against Tindal.
accurately, called Presbyterian. Of The last tract in this collection is,
his personal history, besides' what ap " A calm Enquiry whether we have
pears in his writings, 1 know nothing, any warrant from Scripture, for ad
except as he is mentioned in the Life dressing ourselves in a way of prayer or
of Lardner, by my revered friend the praise directly to the Holy Spiritj hum
late Dr. Ktppis. He fays, thai "Mr. bly offered to the consideration of all
Martin Tomkins went over to Utrecht Christians, particularly of Protestant
in l6gf) wiih Mr. Lardner, then in his Dissenters, by Martin Tomkins, 1738."
ifiih year, to prosecute their studies un It appears that the author now resided
der the professors D'Uries, Grævius, at Hackney, and attended the ministry
and Burman ; and they found there of Mr. Barker, then a popular preacher
Mr. Daniel Neal," afterwards so well among the Dissenters, with whole
known as the Historian of New Eng Trinitarian doxologies he declares him
land and the Puritans. In 5703 they self much dissatisfied. Besides these
returned to England. Dr. K. adds, four pieces, Dr. Tonlmin, in his Life
that "in 1709 Mr. Lardner preached of Neal, prefixed to his edition of the
his first sermon at Stoke Newington for History of the Puritans, mentions ano
his friend Mr. Martin Tomkins, who ther Tract by Mr. Tomkins, in reply
, had become the minister of a congrega to Dr. Waterland's Strictures on the
tion at that place."- (Lardner's Life, ** Sober Appeal."
pp. ii. iii. in Work1;, vol. I.) I have 1 never met with any account where
a, volume containing four Tracts by Mr. T. palled the latter part of his life,
Mr. Tomkins, of various dates. The or when he died. As he survived the
following account of them is at your first publication of the Gent. Mag. you»
correspondent's service. Obituaries may possibly supply the in
The first, printed 1719, is intituled formation. J. T. Rutt.
• "The Case of Mr. Martin Tomkins ;
beins an Account of the Proceedings Mr. Urban, Nov. 20.
of the nideming Congreyntton at Stoke YOUU correspondent Chailes Carle-
Kewirigton, upon occasion of » JSei- ton, vol. LXH1. p. 1 107, inquires
soi
 i8o7-] Iron Bridges.—Burning Spring. —Hogarth. 1015
for a drawing of the Iron Church near translation of Dodonæus, who describes
Colebrook. I have lately seen an iron, . it under the name of Sorbe Apple ;
bridge there, and another at Bildewas, and Dr. Nash, Worcester JT. 11, who
but did not hear of an iron church. calls it the only onie in the county *.
There is near the iron bridge a Metho On a large tomb on the South side of
dist chapel, erected by the Rev. Mr. St. Giles's church, Shrewsbury, without
Fletcher ofMadiey in his life-time, aud name or date, may be read
occasionally, but rarely, preached in by " Composite solvantur."
his widow.
In the Philosophical Transactions, A sentiment incorporated in the epitaph
No. 228, p. S44, isa method of making of Lord Verulam under his statue in St.
pitch, tar, and oil out of a blackish Michael'* church, St. Alban's. D. IL
earth in Shropshire, communicated by
Mr. Martin Ele, the inventor.
The burning spring at Broseley wai Mr. Ureah, 5, Middle Scolland?
gard, Nov. 7.
discovered June 17 1 1 , and, beingouened THE Editor of the Monthly Maga
again, described by Dr. Mason, Wood- zine, for October last, having to«
wardian professor at Cambridge, 1747, tallv misrepresented the sketch os the
No. 482, p. 371, and more particularly 1 " Modern Orpheus" by Hogarth, it
by Mr.G. Perry in your vol. XXV. S02. becomes my duty, as the publisher of
It was dilcovered in Jarrield in the Etching from it, to state certain facts
Broseley parish, about Co yards from relative thereto. It was purchased in the
Jhe Severn. Mr. P. concedes it 10 have sale of the late Mrs. Hogarth's effedts,
been a sulphureous exhalation from au and continued in the postelfion of the
•Id coal pit ; for, about 1752, in fluking original purchaser till his death, after
a coal pit, at the depth of88 yards, al'ub- which it was sold by his son to me.
terranes .s reservoir of brine suddenly The late Mr. Samuel Ireland saw, an4
burst into the work, and filled to the wished to possess, the Sketch ; but, for
depth of 18 yards. The sulphur re certain reasons, his offer was refused.
mained aster draining excellive strong, The characters are, Weideman, the
and produced an explosion like an German- flute player (who is intro
earthquake ; and litice .that time the duced in Hogarth's Marriage A-la-
burning well has cea(i?d to burn. mode), George the Hud and his Mi
Of the burling well at Broseley I nister, Orator Henley, Le Bee, the
could hear noihing, whether it is burnt master of the Le Bee Tavern in. Hal/
out, or be only a spring of coal from Moon - street, now Bedford - street,
which tar is exuded or extracted, like Strand, with other charafilers frequent
the newly-invented coal tar. ing that place. Having the original
In vol. LXI V. p. 97O, is an account Sketch now in my house, yourself, or
of a mountain aQi annually bearing any of your friends, are welcome to
pears, though it has the wood and see it ; and then it will appear how
leaves of ilie former, and nothing but very incorrect ihe Editor of the Month
the fruit of the latter tree, and not pro- ly Magazine has been, both in regard
pagatable by cuttings or buds. It to the Sketch itself, and also the Etch
struck me this might be the manured ing from it. Machell Stace.
So r bus saliva pvriformis of Nash in the
parish of Hock, in the forest of Weir, Mr. Urbav, Qti. 3.
which for the two last years my track IN the old Chronicle of Dunmow,
through the forest in a carriage has not under the year 121(3, a curious ac
led me to a sight of. Alderman Pitt, count is given of the origiu of the con
au ab'e Botanist of Worcester, describes test between King John and his Ba
it in Philosophical Transactions, No. rons ; and, alter telling the (iorv of
139, P- 97'^, as not mentioned by any the reconciliation between the Kigg and
of our Botanists except Lvte in his Fitzwslier, the article concludes thus :
* Miller, in his Dictionary, under tlic article SorlusJktivuJ'rii&u pyrij'ormi, manured
Service with pear shaped fruit, doubts whether any luch tree is growing in England 5
tor that several curious persons had searched the places where it is mentioned to grow,
but could not hnd it. Ray, in his " Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum," p.
452, mentions it as growing in the mountainous parts of Cornwall. In Edwards'*
" Gleanings of Natural History" is an engraving of the apple service (chap. 1, p. 1,
pi. ati), and of the fruit of the pear service. Mrs. Blackwell has figured the latter in
her Herbal, I. pi. J 74. Dr. Nam has engraved it in his Natural History.
■ Et
 io 1 6 Miles dimidius ?-Garnerin's Nocturnal Ascension. [Nov.
" Et eo tempore non fuerunt nominati " It was thus, in the most adverse
in Anglia nisi duo milites fortes et dimidi Weather, and exposed to the greatest
us ; Ceil. Robertus filius Walteri, Robertus opposition, aud the tumult of a cabal,
(ilius Rogeri ; et Ricardus de Munfichet the head of which it is easy to guefi at,
suit miles dimidius. Et post steterunt sem that I alcended from Tivoli, at half-
per cum Rege Johanne." past 10 o'clock, on the night of the
Now, Sir, I consols myself unable to 2 1st os September. An unexampled
comprehend what was meant by miles rapid iv of ascension, but extremely
dimidius ; and as your Magazine h is, I necessary to prevent me from coming
believe, the most extensive circulation in contact with the adjoining houses,
through thole channel* wherein infor railed me above the clouds, and in a few
mation upon such points is likely lo be in in uies carried me toan-immenseheight,
found, I lhall e.lcem it a favour if you threxteutof which 1 cannot precisely as
will afford me I he chance of obtaining certain, on account of the dangers and
an explanation, by giving this letter a embarrassments which suddenly af
place in your next Number. fected my imagination, and prevented'
Yours, &c. W—ds—R. me from observing the declension os .
the Ynercury in trie barometer. Ele
Second Ascension by Night of vated in an instant to the frozen re
M. Garnerin. (See p. p,:i(j ) gions, the balloon became subject to a
** TV /T Y second aerial journey by degree of expansion which inspired me
i-VA night will not afford an op with the greatest apprehension. There
portunity for the brilliant narratives was no alternative between certain
which I have had occasion to make in death, and giving an instant vent to.
the course of my forty preceding ascen the gas ; and this at the risk of feeing
sions. I (hall not have to describe the the balloon lake fire.. 1 gradually
majellic appearances which Nature con opened with one hand an orifice of
tinually offers to the eves of an aero about two feet diameter, by which the
naut who ascends in favourable wea gas escaped in large volumes,' whilei
ther. I can only give a narrative of with the other, I extinguished as many
an aerial tempesi, which was nigh ter of the lights as 1 could. During this
minating in a shipwreck. effort, 1 several times was near overba
" The obstacles which the wind lancing myself.aud sallingoutofthe boat,
caused to the inflation of the balloon, " Deprived os the opportunity os re
sufficiently apprised me of the approach gulating the valve, my balloon, like a
of the storm ; and to the difficulties of ship without a rudder, floated in
the weather was added the turbulence air, obeying the influence of the tem
of a party, by which 1 was prevented perature, the winds, and the rain.
from placing the cord of the valve so Whenever the force of these made me
as to regulate the tube, which, in case descend, the storm, which kept still
of expansion, was to conduct the gas increasing, obliged me to throw out
into a direction different from the lights ballast, for the purpose of avoiding it,
which surrounded the bottom of the aud escaping from imminent ship
balloon. wreck. At length, at sour o'clock in,
" I was to have been accompanied the morning, after having been almost
by M. De Chassenton t but the aerial continually enveloped in thick clouds,
storm, which continually increased un through which 1 could seldom see the
til the moment of my departure, gare Moon, all mv means of supporting my
me realbn to apprehend such a disaster self in the air were exhausted. What
as Mr. Blanchard and another aero ever skill I possessed wa9 no longer of
naut met with in Holland. M. De use to me. My boat several limes
Chassenton was actually in the boat ; struck aaainst the ground, and re
I must bear witness to his determina bounded from thence. The tem
tion ; for ] am convinced that nothing pest often drove me against ihe sides
could have made this young man, re and tops of mountains. Whenever my
markable for bis merit, quit the boat, anchor caught in a tree, the balloon,
if the well-grounded apprehension which was so violently agitated by the wind»
1 entertained of seeing him exposed to that I experienced all the inconveni
sertain destruction, had not suggested ence of a violent sea- sickness. Plunged
to me the idea os declaring to him, at one time to the bottom of a preci
that the balloon was not capable of pice, in an instant after I ascended, and
carrying up two person'. acquired a new elevatisn. The vio
lence
 1807O Garnerin. — Spies and Informers not novel 1017
lence of the concussions exhausted my man, having two benefices, and keeping a
strength, and I lay tor half an hour in very good house at the greater benefice,
the boat, in a state of iuscnlihiliiv. wh>> was notwithstanding accused in the
During this tempest 1 recovered ; J King's Bench in Hilary Term, by one
perceived Mont Tonnerre, and it was his of these informers, for non-residence from
in tile midst of crashes of thunder, and fainless benefice ; and as it feemeth was
to pay the penalty for divers months'
at a moment which I (opposed would absence. Therefore one Walker, a learned
be my last, that I planted upon this
celebrated mountain the Eag'e of Na preacher in Norwich, and so of gr-at use
in that city, wheie there was Icarcs a.
poleon joined to that of Alexander. preacher besides, notwithstanding, out of
" I was carried away for some time fear of this kind of informers, resolved to
Jonger by gulls ot' wind, but fortu leave the city, and return to his small liv
nately some pealants came to my allili- ing in the country. And so by the means
ance al the moment that the anclior of these evil men, that city was deprived
hooked in a tree. They look hold of the good services he did in it."
of the cords whibh hung from the bal- Yours, &c. R. S.
Joon, and landed me in a sorest upon
the fide of a mountain, at halt- past
five in the morning, seven hours aud a Mr. Urban, Nov. 10.
half after my departure, and more than AS the Publick have now had leisure,
100 leagues distant from Paris. They the shock and opportunity to recover front
took me to Clausen, in the canton of feelings occasioned to iheir finer
Waldfischbach, and departmentosMont bv the late accident at Sadler's
Tonnerre. M. Cesar, a man os infor Wells (which, by the way, they have
mation, and mavor of the neighbour done very soon), I beg leave to trouble
ing town, came' and offered me every you with a few desultory thought)
assistance in his power, and at my re upon the subject, in consequence of a
quest drew up a narrative, of which he conversation with some persona present
gave me a copy. on that celebrated night. I hope ;hat
" I was splendidly entertained the now, when we are all calm and quiet,
next dav at Deux Pouts by a Society a little good advice will not be refused
of Friendsofthe Arts, consisting of Pub a patient hearing.
lic Functionaries, the Officers of the Having been for many year* a fre
12th Regiment of Cuirailiers, and of quenter of public places, and by virtue
the Members of the Lodge of Freema- of my rank in life, admitted to all the
fons. Garnerin." most fa(htonab|e circles, I have had
sundry and excellent opportunities to
Mr. Urban, Nov. 10. study the whole theory and practice of
THERE is nothing new under the frights and fears ; and I have, there
Sun ; and vet we are often told fore, no hesitation at all in pronouncing,
that our penal laws of late years have that 1 he late accident was occasioned—
had no oiher effect than to ereale Spies not bv pick- pockets—nor by fire—nor
and Informers. Bui i he following bv water—but foiely bv Screaming.
stiort passage, which I sell upon the Your readers mav exclaim pooh !
other evening in Strvpe's Life of Par and pifli ! at this opinion, but I trust
ker, will show that one species of In they « ill at the fame time permit mo
formers who lately infested the publick to explain rm self.
may carrv their pedigree as lar hack as 1 repeat it, Sir, that the whole mis-
the year 1 567. chie' was occaiiont (I by Screaming, a
genteel accomplishment usually brought
" Among the various discouragements forward in all' cafes where there is no
of the Clergy now-adays, there were danger, and generally as carefully sup
many that watched their tripping by trans
gressing any penal law, to take advantage pressed where there is.—Now, Sir, I
should have no objection whatever to
against them that way. Many Promoters screaming, if it were put under due re-
there were, that were ready to inform
against such as did not reside, let the non- gulafoiis. I am aware that la scream
residence be never so neceflary or reason prritih is part of the education of every
able, hoping to enjoy the forfeiture's ten voon-i lady of fashion : but, although ft
pounds a month for absence. The Arch is taught al school along with other
bishop, in one of his letters writ this species of music, along with the piano
Jrear, makes mention of a very honejst forte, the harp, the triangle, end tb«
<Je»t. Mag. ffwtmbti, 1807. tfi
i oi 8 Regulations for the Art of Screaming. [Not.
red of the necelsarv branches of polite Now, Sir, in all this system of edu
education, I am afraid lhat the theory cation, genteel and useful as it is, there
and practice of it is very ill understood are some small defects. Although the
in some of our genteel seminaries, and pupil is not only told that./crfammg in
therefore very awkwardly performed at company, or at a pubhc assembly, is a
home. fine accomplishment, and mighty at
The general routine of teaching tractive, but is likewise taught how to
the an of screaming, is to give Miss a scream from the lowest note to the
few elementary lesions with a spider, top of her gamut ; yet, unfortunately,
or a Jather-long-legs, placed, first on flic is not taught the proper occasion*
her arm, and next, if she can go when toscream, and when to sit quiet,
through that lesson with a pretty squall, nor how elegant outcries should be
the creeping intruder is placed on her managed so as lo produce only elegant
bosom, although it is well known that mischief, ankward mistakes, and dress-
a spider had rather see a hliu-boltle than disordering disclosures of the dear me !
all the bosoms of an Opera benefit. and t'less me ! kind ; and other little
But this by the bye. As soon as I he rumpling! and rumpusses, which have a
pupil is perfrct in ihc spider and satlier- tendency to draw people's attention,
long-legs, she is to he taught losteam and make one be talked of. It is plain
ata nwvfe; and here there are several that, for want of a due management
gradation*, for which, I believe, our of the tonish scream, some people have
governesses generally make an extra- lost their lives, aud others iheir limbs,
ch-irge. First, there is only the report which is not a very pleasant circum
of a mouse, which may pass off wnh stance ; and however we may specu
a few Good Lords ! or Oh La !'s. Next late on such matters, there is really no
the noise of a mouse is heard behind affectation, and nothing graceful, in
the wainscot, and this generally pro dislocations or compound fractures.
duces a verv promising and tolerably Mow horrid, Mr. Urban, to think !
shrill cry—and lastly, the little animal instead of a gay Colonel, or a dozen of
is introduced in propria persona run Bund-lireal beaux, hanging over one
ning across the room, which is fol with hartshorn, eait-dt-lnce, and burnt
lowed by the true musical shriek in all, feathers—to have a filthy Coroner, and
heard all over lite bouse, bringing up his dozen of jurymen, pawing one
the maids, and perhaps the footmen, about, nobody know s where, lo find
to fee that it don't come too near the out a verdict !
open end of Miss's petticoats, if she 1 would therefore, Sir, recommend
happen to be so far undre/1 as to have it lo thole governesses who teach
anv. frights by the quarter, to consider whe
From these lessons they are taught ther it may noi be possible to reduce
to advance pretty rapidly to the highest ihc science ofscreaming to some decent
notes on the lease ofscreaming (which, regulations : for example, to teach their
like our modern pianos, has got addi pupils lhat an ear nig may be killed
tional ke\s); and they learn, at the without ringing the family tocsin, and
fame lime (if their parents choose to go that a mouse tnav be caught without a
to the expence) the snstinuto, the cres posse comilalus of u flier?, teachers, nur
cendo, the swell, aud all tile other ses, and servants, roused from theirsi itr-
graces of exclamation, accompanied pair-of stairs beds, and armed with flat
with the usual prayers of Oh ! L—d ; candlesticks, pokers, and pewter-pots.
Good G—d; help; murder ; fire ; &c. Thev may also, while thev preserve
all which produce, 1 will do them the the privilege ofscreaming in full force,
justice to (ay, a very fine effect in gen hint to their pupils, thai it would be
teel Company : overturning tables and as well if violent outcries, and senti
chairs, spilling boiling water, bruising mental timidities, were confined to
the lap-do? oi ot, and perhaps throw domestic ciicles, >r la;1ie«* routs at far.
ing a lighted candle on the train of a thest. A inong srievds such things are
muslin gown : the father swears, the yen becoming, and, added to the
mother Iain's, the daughters are n equally genteel accomplishment ol fits,
sits, and the company jump about ; sainiings &c si>r «) .trace, and a Je
and, in a few minutes, it is uuaii- nescat quoi to the voting votaries ol ar-
ntonOv agreed, that there was notb. g tific al manners B it in public places,
the matter, but they were so Jright- wh»re 'here tuealwat* a g/eat many of
■ ened ! that class vuioui nobody kuoivi, there it
less
i8o7«j Regulations for Screaming.—Architecl. Innovation. 1019
less room for the display of graceful
timidity ; and tlie screams, or even a
chorus of screams, has loo much the
appearance of what patios among the
vulgar, when they fee a man just going
to be hanged, or to leap out of a win
dow, or fall front a scaffold, or any of
thole things which are performed with
out an attention to the laws of eti
quette, the music of the voice, er the
graces of attitude.
I beg, however, that in thus endea
vouring to limit the practice of scream
ing, I may not be thought to argue
against that genteel cowardice and
beautiful timidity, thole captivating
sears, and interesting alarms, which
have long been the privilege of well-
bred perlbns. I would not for the
world lirip them of such terrors as cre
ate a pleasing variety in the display of
beauty, which are lo ingenioully taus/ht
at schools, and encouraged bv the per
usal of novels containing long galle
ries, blue lights, dark chambers, deep
dungeons, and ghastly spectres. 1 ar
gue against nothing of the kind, from
a shriek to a convulsion, that can be
practised with eclat in company, and
graced bv the usual accompaniments of
chalked floors, and variegated lamps,
displayed in festoons with infinite lade,
and glimmering among evergreens.
All I contend for is, that where there
is real danger, they will sit still, and
reserve the scream, the (brick, and the
higher octaves of exclamation, for the
amn lenient of confidential parties,
where the sudden shutting ol a dour,
the falling of a screen, the approach of
a ravislier, or other such elegant timi
dities, may be worked up into a fit,
heightened by vociferation, and tbco-
r3ted with all the attitudes of (lie Gre
cian costume. A Quiet Soul.
Architectural Innovation,
No. CXIV.
AS it is not wholly impoflibie but
that in the next age a general,
zeal may prevail among men fir the
real study of our Antiquities ; thev be
coming a race of true, not, as at this
day, sham .Antiquaries ; (»ht>, wiiile
thev hold forth the " certificate" of
being faithful votaries with one hand,
are destroying some of our choicest re
mains with the mher :) these people
in idea, highly prizing, no doubt,
what few relicks may then chance
to remain, will be eager in searching
Into all written memorials handed down
to then, the history of each beautiful
flructure, and how destroyed. We,
therefore, who live, and are advocate*
for the interelis of Antiquity, however
few our number, should combine, and
form, by universal enquiries, and from
thole occurrences arising, w i. bin our
own point of observation, a concise
list of what devastations are going on at
this moment, and what have been per-
petrand within thele thirty years past
in e\eiv part of the kingdom. Ones
also to be given to confirm the truth
of each ruthless devastation. By ihese
means it will he known in future limes
when many a noble pile llinne forth in
highest splendour; who commanded
their downfall, alteration, or other-
wile; and who was the acting prost f-
fionalilt on the occasion. This Mis
cellany, in its circuit, taking in every
corner of the land, is certainly the
Only eligible anil proper repository f. r
the needful intelligence. Occasional
communications lo > he Antiquary's
best fiiend Mr. Urban, in a short
comprehensive manner, may be ar
ranged under ihe head Antiquarian
Devastations. The mode as fol
lows.
Castle, 1806.
The remaining anlient structures*
therein all taken down, in order that
the whole mass of Architecture may
be re/lured to what it was in ihe four
teenth cen'ury. Bv command of ——
under the direction of F. A. S.
Chapel, 1800.
Nearly ilenmliihed, for the conveni
ence ot introducing a few benches.
Bv command of under the di
rection ol , F. A. S.
Cathedral, 1807.
Two beautiful spires demolished The
enormous quantitt ol lead belonging
thereto, after a wise calculation, sound
to he of no value. Commanded by
, F. A. S. under the direction.
of .
Cathedral, 1806.
Centre towerculand hacked, 10 stick
ther" n a congestion of dirt and rub-
bilh compned together, because it is
the fashion. Commanded by ———,
under the direction of , F.A. S.
Abbey Church at , and
Chatel adjoining, 1807.
Pulled down the Architectural interior
memorial of iheFiniflierof the Well end
of thi Church, to meet the ideas of an
'* Association of Taste." Pulled down
ihe two Western Turret* of the Cha-
~~ * Erected by Edward HI.
pel,
1020 Architectural Innovation, Ne. CXIV. [Nov.
■pel, 1803 : the stone-work of which If the reader imagines this List, by
being supposed to be quite perished ; way of specimen, has any reference to
but when down, hy some lucky recent transactions, he certainly is at
chance, said lloue was discovered to be liberty lo make his own conclusions,
quiiefound and perfeB, and ihen made aud sill up the blanks.
use of to rebuild the first Western but Waltham Abbey.
tress on the South fide of the Church ! fcontinuedJ) om p Q2(J.)
By command of F A. S. under South Front. So much of havock,
the direction of , F. A. S. alteration, and paiching-up, has been
Abbey, 1805. done on this line, that there is (bme
West Front of the Church thrown difficulty to ascertain the original deco
down : the materials wanted to build rations of the upright. It gives the
3 shooting-box on the spot. By com aile of the Nave, or first storv, and the
mand of F. A.S. under his windows to the gallery or upper liory.
own direction. Al about one-third of the length of
Castm, 1807. the remains are vestiges of a large and
Original pans of the mass of build noble porch, where are to he discerned
ings, both externally and internally, some columns, arches, and tliagonaled
either pulled down or modernized, by architraves. The windows to each
substituting Roman Saxonical doors, story have columns, with plain capi
and bow- wtndews , Sec. Tudor windows tals, made out by an inverted sweep ;
50 feel high, inclosing three stories of and the architraves shew the diagonals.
Norman windows, Saxon bridge-stair Between the windows are breaks, or
cases, &c. By command of , pilasters. There are strings to the two
F. A. S under Market
his own
Cross,
direction.
!807. liories, and the parapets to each are
supported by masks and human heads.
A superb and elegant design. Is In the running compartment to the
either converting, or is absolutely con first story are circular diagonaled reces
verted (b\ filling up the eight splendid ses. The turn of the design evinces
arches) into a cage for mumpers, and simplicity united with an air of gran
the inlane inhabitants of the place. deur. Towards the extremity of the
By command, no doubt, of the Heads Nave is an attached Chapel and Crv.pt ;
of theCiiy, and undertheirowndirection. the work of the Tudor limes. This
Mem. This Cross was, until the de Chapel has been socruellvmangled, that
mise of a late noble Duke, constantly little remains to cause an interest about
held under his own immediate care what may be ils pending fate. Its present
and protection. By the bye, « hat is a use is seemingly to hold lumber, gar
neighbouring noble Duke, an F. A. S. deners tools, seeds, Sec. The Crypt is
still a'ive, about, to sutler lo disgrace more perfect, and deserves much atten
ful a proceeding ? tion. The use made of it is for ihe
cected in the lfith Century, flowing up of sculls, &c.
the renowned Familv Mansion of Present East Front. Made up. since
the , 1807- the havock general of ihe Church, hy
Destroyed, because the present descend filling in the Weft great arch of the de
ant must, forsooth, have a comfortable stroyed centre Tower, with all kinds of
"cottage" erected on the site, on a rubbish, and a beastly common work
plan the most extensive and cosilv. shop window stuck among them. There
The design lo be in the present new is in continuation some line of the
invented "Tudor livle." The walls to West side of ihe South Transept,
be us the finest wrought masonry, and wherein is a curious window, &c.
to be covered with Compo, which North Front. In a worse (late of
Canton is to be painted while wet, disfigurement, if pollible, than the
to rt present the broken joints and South Front. All forts of modern
discoloured hues of old decayed stone make shift windows, done in the mo
work, &c. The interiors of the state dern restoring way, are crammed in
apartments to be of the new conges among the few original ones left. This
tion, half Tudor-wife, and half Gre Front corresponds with that of the
cian -.lit to, with painted mined walls, South. So mean aud despicable is the
fiat stone cieiinas, or ditto thrown open appearance of the -whole exterior, in
In (hew a supposed Ikv, Ike. Otc. By point of necessary clean and decent at
command of F. A.S. (belieie tention, that it is incumbent upon us
1 am correct) under the direction 'of io fay lo ihe inhabitants who have suf
i , F.A.S. fered thU most rare and choice rent
1807.] Architectural Innovation-, No. CXIV. 1021
nant of Saxon art, raised l>v a Boval that these column fluting* were Once
hand, aiul who died 10 line his crun silled with brass; but to what purpose
try, to be the prey and sjiorl of ignorant none can tell. As well might each
builders, and their Iris barbarous la other hoi low or concave moulding about
bourers ; " Men of Wab ham, yon are the work be Itated to have been filled
Unworthy tire treasure you possess, with the like brazen accompaniments.
who"—But soft ; again 1 enquire, " Is There are no traces of any groins,
this Church the only one defaced, cur though preparatory columns remain,
tailed, and neglected i" to siiltaiii such degree of masonry.
Interior. Welt end a mere blank, The director ot the business of talc
excepting the opening of the Edwar ing down the eighty vears cieling (be
dian door-way already described East fore spoken of) held forth a sort of half
end (hews the grand arch of the de wish, that it would be better to take
stroyed centre To .^er : it riles the whole down the tipper story of the Church
height of the Nave. The length of entirely, as it was already too lossy.
the Nave is given in seven divisions. I remonstrated at this barefaced pro
The height comprehends three stories. posed innovation, and talked much of
The firtl story is for tho side ailes t the the Regal Founder. He (hook his head,
second the principal yallerv ; and the anil replied : " 1 know nothing of Ha
third is for the up|>er windows, or se rold, not 1 ; the building in my eye is
cond gallery. Between each grand but a building, like any other, and
arch to first story, and supporting it, that is all the suite to me." Waltham
are clustered and single columns, al Abbey, thy hour is fall approaching 1
ternately. The arches to the first and Waltham Cross.
second gallery, in the three first divi To gaze at this memorial of conju
sions from the West, have pointed gal affection, recalls all the sublimity
heads, Come of a plain design, and others of the idea that bid this, as well as ut
of the general richembellifliinents nfihe many ot" the like purport arise, to afto-
interior. This combination of circu nith and give example to succeeding
lar and pointed arches, w>- have ofien anes! The design is equal to the na
remarked, is familiar in the Saxon or ture of the erection. Scientific and in
der, anil proves how well grounded is tricate plan ; every part of the elevation
our position, that the Pointed order appropriate, delicate, and elaborate.
emerged from the former. In the de The three statues of the heroic and
corations to the whole construction are faithful Queen, how sweetly varied,
many varieties, but none so prominent expressive of greatness, loveliness, and
as to break in upon the harmony of modesty ! Enchanting Architect, di
the whole work. On this occasion to vine Sculptor, grateful and magnifi
describe one division rasv be deemed cent King ; each contributing their
quite sufficient. To the first story, the utmost ability to leave posterity an ob
centre great arch (iirings front clustered ject of so much felicily ; an object
columns on the left, and from a single without parallel in any other clime I
one on the right. The second liorv Few, indeed, thus behold Eleanor'*
has its arch supported by clusters of Cross, or thus feel its charms ; or
small columns. Part of the design is else surely we should not witness a
here wanting, which, by consulting low d 1 inking hovel reared up against;
similar buildings, might with ease be it, hiding nearly one side of the
restored. This hint is not addressed 10 upright. Yet Ib it is ! Antient Eng-
ProfeUionalilts, as they despite all our lilh Architecture, and Artists, how
antieni precedents, but to the Anti are each despised aud contaminated !
quary who may wi(h for information. and why ? We are invited to grovel
The third story contains a large arch at the altars of Pagans ; hut to give
with smaller ones on each side, sup praise to our antient attributes of Chris
ported by single columns. The grand tianity, is at once to be held supersti
single column lo the first story is fluted tious, and devoid of either taste or ge
diagonally : all the rest of the columns nius. An Architect.
are pla'n. The architraves to the arches (To le continued.)
are much enriched with diagonals. In
referring to other parts of the interior, Mr. Urban, Lothbvry, Sept. 28.
we find some of the great single co I SHALL be much ebligpd if any of
lumns with (crpentine fluted diagonals. your readers will inform me in your
• A vulgar notion holds ground here, next, why the landing of King Wil
liam
io2,2 Landing p/King William,—S/.Clere/K Cornwall. [Nov.
liam is fiated in the Almanacks to inches. On the upper part is a squared
have taken place on the 4th of Noveni- hole, perhaps cut lor the insertion of
ber, which day is kepi as a public holt, auoiher piece of this monument *.
dav i while all the Histories of Eng- Near this pillar is a stone lying in a
land -to which I have had reference hollow place in the fame field, which
mention William's landing on the 5lh, has the appearance of the lower part of
and the form of prayer is expredly another monument, evidently not of the
fiated to be in commemoration of his above. On this is an inscription, now
landing on the 5th. /'he only aulho- much obliterated, which, according
rity which I meet with, in addition to lo fiorlase, was formerly to be read
the Almanacks, for the 4ih, is in your " Doniert rogavitpro aninta." On one
Magazine for November I78H. Under side there are small pits, like those
vhe 4th, it is stated, that Dr. Ogle, above-mentioned ; also at the top a
Dean of Winchester, laid the sonnda- sqnaredjcauty. Height five feVt nim»
tion of an obelisk at .his seat nt Kirkby, inches; breadth, towards lower part,
in Northumberland, to commemorate two feet eight inches ; thickness, at
the landing of King William. Should upper part, one spot nine inches. This
this meet the eye of any of your North- stone is called by some writer^ " The
umberland readers, perhaps they will other ha/f Jione ;'* and to which this
kindly throw some light on the subject, name applies most properly, is not easy
bv reference to the inscription on the to determine f.
obelisk. J. H. . On Carraton'Downs, is a stone cross,
■i .. which is considerably higher than most
*#* The following Account of several of the antient crosses met with in this
Antiquities in theParifh o/SlClere, county. The head is circular, on which
Cornwall, (lately receivedfrom a isa figure ofa cross in relief ; below the
Friend) may le acceptable to our Cor- head are two projecting shoulders, not
respondent, p. 7 17; and to several tery commonly seen on crosses. Height
other of our Readers. Edit, nine feet ■ breadth of pillar varies from
EAR Redgale, in this parish, is two feet three inches to to one foot ten
an upright antient monument, inches; thickness, nine inches; diame*
known by the name of " Theolher half ter of head or disc, one foot one inch J.
jlane," the np]>er part of which appears The Hurlert, a set of stones erected
to have been divided, whether acci- on thele Downs, are not far distant
dentally or purposely may be doubtful, from this cross. Borlase say*,, it is
On the Eastern face of it are a number imagined they formerly consisted of
of small hollows or pits ; on the other three circles of stones §.
fide when perfect there was, most proba- In a road some little distance from
blv, some inscription, as on other stones the church is an Holy well (supplied
now standing in this county: one neat with water) ; part of the building liill
the Toll-gate at St. Blazey, and another remains. What the'original form of it
not far from Fowey in the road to Lost- was, dors not exactly appear from these
withiel.lfcc., The height (taken in 1805) ruins; though probably it was a con-
seven feet five inches; breadth, near fiderable building, more so than those
the upper part, one soot seven inches ; adjoining some o:her Holy wells,
thickness, near the bottom, one foot An antient cross stands very near
five inches ; ditto, where divided, ten this well ; it is one of the handsomest of
~* Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall, p. 396, pi. 36, fig. 1.—Gough's Camdcn,
«ol. I.' pp. 5, 17, pi. 1. fig. 9-—Works of Walter Moyle, vol.1, p. iso.—Carew's
Survey of Cornwall, sol. 128:
f Borlase, p. 307, pi. 3, fig. 2.—Gough, pp. 5, 17, pi. 1, fig. 10. N. B. At p. 5,
it is called " The other halfstone," and a wooden cut is there given.—Norden's De
scription of Cornwall, p. 85, called " Theolher hnlf stove," and a figure of it.—Ray's
Remains (by George Scott) p_. 280, called " Other half stone."—Movie's Works,
-vol. I. pp- '85, 187.—Carew, sol. las, with a cut of the inscription, p. 120, and
called " The other halfstone."
* Gough, vol J. p. 18, called " Long Stone."—Britton's Architect. Antiquit.
part IV. p. 11, pi, A. fig. 3.—Ray's Remains, p. ago.—Gent. Magazine, vol. LXX11I.
p.ll3,pl.2.—Ditto vol. LXXV. p. faoi, fig. lo, on plate of Crosses.
§ Borlase, p. 199, pi. 17, fig. 6.—Gough, p. 5.—Norden, p. 91, with a cut.
—Ray's Remains, p. sa,—Carew, sol. 129.
> .... these
* -
1807.] Antiquities /« Cornwall.--Counsel at Police-offices. 1023
these antiquities. It it properly a cross against the Crown, the whole of the
in form ; on the front and back of it is proceedings in these cafes being, and
across carved in relies. Height, fix intended to be, exparter for this reason,
feet; breadth of pillar one foot one that they are notlriah, but merely pre-
inch; thickness, (even inches; breadth, parations for trial ; therefore, all that
across the arms, one foot five inches*, the Statutes 111 and 2nd Phil, and
On the North fide of the Church isa Mar. C ISth, and 2nd and 3d Phil.
Saxon doorway, now stopped up; the and Mar. C. 10th, which empower
arch considerably ornamented. Justices of the Peace to take exEuuina*
There is in this parish u Cromlech tions of the party accused without oath,
in good preservation, called " The and informations of theaccusers crow
Tret.heuy-Jlone," it consists of several oath, require of them, is to put a re*
upright ilones, and a large one for a gular concatenated series of evidence,
roof or cover to the building f. whether it be confession or accusation.
The well-known large pile of stones into writing, for the information of the
called the Cheese-wring, though ana- Court, and thejustification of theircoro-
tural production aud not properly to be milmettis, and to return such evidence,
classed amongst antiquities, mull not to the next Seffion of Gaol Delivery,
be here palled over. It stands on a In these cales, Counsel never in-
hill, where there are an immense num- tersere in the cross-examination of Wit
her of stones, and several other piles of nellies ; they know the irregularity of
stones not very unlike this, but not such proceedings- too well, and have
quite so conspicuous. The rock-basons, loo much respect for Magistrates to at-
which are to be seen on a stone to the tempt it; but lean easily conceive
North of this pile (and (aid also to be thai there are other cases, those I mean
on this), if artificially cut, make these where the line that divides frauds
stones antiquarian curiosities. The from felonies is so sitiely drawn as
height of the Cheese-wring (or Wring- to be nearly Invisible, where Counsel,
cheese) has been greatly exaggerated upon legal points, may, with great pro-
by writers : the real height, if accu- priety, be heard before Magistrates ; as
rately taken, would not, it is believed, they may, and frequently have, ren-
meaiitre more thin about seventeen or dered the nice distinction betwixt those
eighteen seet. Borlafe calls it thirty- crimes and misdemeanors more obvious,
two feet high J. AW. 4, 1807. and, consequently, placed the prisoners
mt sometimes in situations where the Ma-
Mr. Urban, Nov. Q. gidrate could with safely receive bail
OBSERVING that in your last for the latter, when he mujl have re-
Number, A Friend to Justice fused it to the former. Yet, even in
asks, " Whether, when any person is these cases Counsel have, I conceive,
under examination for fe!ony al any no right lo cross-examine witnesses, or
of -the police offices, Counsel have to adduce anv in defence, except it be
anyrighl to interfere by cross-examining in aid of legal discrimination-; nor do
the Witnesses?" I have taken the liberty I know thai it is hy them ever at-
to answer the question, as well in the te<i>pied, because they know that it
first instance to satisfy the querist, as in would, if successful, be infringing the
the second to correct many erroneous j urisdiction of a SuPEMOR Court, and
assertions lhat have appeared in he counteracting that inestimable right
news-papers, and have consequen ly thb Trial by Jury.
made an imprestion on the public mind There is another species of pro-
equally repugnant to law and to com- ceeding before' Magistrates, namely,
mon tense, those hy Information* under penal
It is certain lhat when prisoners are statutes, whereto 1 conceive that
tinder examination in cales of felony, Counsel have a right to examine and
Counsel have n;> right to interfere in crois examine witnesses; because, as
the ciofs-exain' ation nt witnesses the Justice or Justices are to hear and
* Gen;. M ig. vol. LXXv*. p. 1201, fig. 0, plate of Crosses : the ornaments not
correctly given. .
f Norden, p. 88, with a figure.—Stukeley's Avebury, pi. 37, ad figure, no
doubt this. • . . .
J Borlafe, p. 173, pi. 12, fig. l.—Gough, pp. $, 7.—'Norden, p. gi, with a figure.
—Ray, p. iSQ.—Carew, sol. 129.
'finally
 1024 Removal of ihe Citadel c/ Chester. [Nor.
finally todctermfae, subject only (in some lingering hours by carving upon the
instances) to an appeal from his or their walls the suggestions of his worn-out
judgment, he or 'hey, as the case may fancy. Among tliese dismal chambers,
be, ought to form that judgment upon where names undistinguished have suc
the belt evidence possible, purified aud ceeded each other, was confined one w ho
corrected, according to the modes of has long occupied a distinguished place
proceeding in suterior courts ; but, as in the pace of history. The unhappy
these cafes are not the objects of your and beautiful Marv Queen of Scotland,
Querist's attention, I need not further after her defeat at Langlkle, when her
expatiate upon them. The answer to kingdom was in a liate of distraction,
his enquiry, therefore, resolves iifelf threw herself under the protection of
in a narrow compass, and is merely a her sister sovereign, Elizabeth, who
repetition of my opinion, I hat Counsel secured the fugitive Queen in Carlisle
have not a right to cross-examine wit Castle a, short time aster her landing at
nesses before Magistrates in cafes of Workingion, on ihe Western coast of
Felony. Joseph Moser. ihis county. The Royal Captive was
intrusted to the care of Lord Scroop, the
Mr. Ukban, Chejlert Nov. 4. Warden of the Western Marshes, whose
LAST week the workmen began to residence was then at Carlisle, under
clear away the rubbish within the whose auspices lite Castle was then re
bastions of the Citadel of this undent pairing, as we learn from the following
City, preparatory to their btiug con inscription, which is copied from the,
verted into Court-houses, for the pur inside front of the keep of the Castle :
pose of administering justice for the " Sumptibus hoc fecit p'piis opus
County. The Citadel will soon Jose its Elizabetha Regina occiduas d'n's Scroop
original appearance, and assume an as du' regit oras."
pect very different from its former staie. It was here probably that the beauty
in its antient form, it confided of two of this interesting Queen won the heart
immense bastions, or round lowers, of a distinguished Nobleman of those
connected by a rampart of considerable times. Thomas Howard, Duke of
extent, pierced by embrasures and bat Norfolk, was the brother of lyidy
tlements. It could boafi of litlle beauty Scroop, and might be supposed to be
and embellishment, and was altogether their visitor. This Nobleman was dis
a grotesque piece of military architec tinguished by many amiable qualities,
ture. A modern tourist say, " it was and leemed to inherit from his father,
built by Henry VI II. and bad the the celebrated Earl of Surrey, a lafie
form of all his castles on the Hamp fur every thing which gives a polish to
shire and Kentish coasts." It wrH fur- a civilized life. His magnificence and
vive every vestige which marked it as a public spirit, added to bis family con
frontier town ; and the Castle will be the sequence, marked him out as the first
only building remaining to indicate the Nobleman of the age ; aud we are jus
struggles which it formerly maintained tified in adding many private virtues to
against the rude assaults us the inha his character, which are loo minute 1a
bitants of the sister kingdom. come within the cognizance of even
The Castle is situated on the North- ihe philosophical historian who has so
West extremity of the City, on an admirably recorded the transactions of
eminence overlooking the fertile plains the age of Elizabeth ; and though we
of the Vale of Eden, where that river are not able to prove him innocent of
undulates in a variety of capacious the crime for which he suffered, there
windings. The fa brick remains in is something so romansc and chival
nearlv the fame stale in which it was rous in his conduct, that be deserves
first finished by the Uoyal Founder, ihe tear of pity 10 bedew his tomb, and
William Rufus. Ils square lowers and his manes 10 be honoured hv all who
turrets, flanked by extensive ramparts, discover in beauty ihe master-spring of
have hitherto defied the ravages of all human exertion.
Time, on whole fides it has made no The unhappy Queen, at the lime
impression. this acquaintance was formed, used to
The interior of the Castle is composed walk in front of the Cattle, which yet
Of all those appendages which usually retains, from her it is supposed, the
taccupy a space so constructed. The name of " The Lady's walk;" and
Visitor is shewn dreary dungeons, where tradition fays, that, 'with, her own
th« confined prisoner has cheated the hand, (he planted some ash trees, whose
spreading
 iSoy.'J Chester Castle.—Impersefthns in our Laws. ioaj
spreading branches, till lately, si aded fence ; that the Jesuitical doctrine of
this consecrated walk ; but these pre Truih being an aggravation f a Libel;
cious reliques of antiquity were, wilh were to be radically annihilated, as be
an unaccountable disregard to every ing not only repugnant to reason and
thing bearing the name of civilization, common lense, but also as affording a
consigned 10 the axe !—The chambers screen lo conceal fraud, perfidy, and,
are (till (hewn the curious spectator, treachery ; and e\en that Witnesses, or
where the unfortunate Queen of Scots pariies concerned, were to be protected
ivi fled her solitary da\s and nights. from beinginsultedanddesimediitCourt
The prospect from the window is beau bv garrulous, scurrilous, licentious prac
tiful, but it would be such a* onlv to titioners , for the evident purpose of Inch
augment herdidnfs ; she could foe the Laws being fully comprehended, with-
hills of Scotland f.i'n'ly in the horizon, out equivocation, by every individual
that country then suffering all the hor whom thev are calculated to govern.
rors of anarchy. Under her grated The English language being perfectly
window a pathway leads, where her explicit, significant, and expressive, all
ear might be often fainted by the simple pedantic terms whatever in foreign lan
carol of the milk-maid and peasant guages are necessarily required to he
pasting along. The pleasures of these exploded j and all artificial prolixity,
simple children os Nature would for tautology, procrastination, with inter
cibly contrast themselves with the sor filed aud injurious views, ought, it is
rows of Royally : conceived, lo be interdicted ; as also
'! Ah! what a life was this! how sweet, all inadvertent informalities in legal
proceedings ought, it is imagined, to
how lovely ! be precluded from being insidiously
Gives not the hawthorn bulh a sweeter availed of. Bv which salutary means,
shade
To shepherds looking; on their filly (heep, not onlv the Ignorant, but also even
Than doth a rich embroiderM canopy the intelligent, would, in a great mea
To kings that fear their fubjccts'treachery?" sure, be rescued from becoming a prey
Shakspeare, Henry VI. to the illiberal limbs of the Law ;
The wall? are no v hung round wilh rich who, by duplicity aud venality* en
the emblems of decay, and the floors by involving, themlilves in too many instances
are Aieldingto the tread. The other their credulous after painful suspense,
rooms of the cadle contain nothing cent families, inclients, and iheir inno
ultimate ruin and mi
curious. The ramparts exhibit views sery. A Friend to Justice.
of the surrounding country, where ihe
eve is pleased by an assemblage of rural Mr. Urban, ^ewn'°n L^llt-
objects, terminal ng in a chain of Nov. Q.
mountains to the Eafl, and bv the lofty r WILL endeavour, ifpodible, to be
hills of-Kefwiek on the Wed, where as brief as you defiie. The last
Skiddaw, the Britisti Parnafl'us, with omifhon
his compeers, dole the view sf the charges me,with which Dr. Laurence
involves as he lavs (p. 815)
bcuiiliful landscape. a plain aud ihorl ifl'ue of fact between
Yours, Sic. A Traveller. him and me. I might first afle what
Nov. 16. he and I have to do with ibis fame is
Mr. Urban, sue? It relates to nothing contained
" Honesty is the best policy." in my fird Pamphlet, or his Speech ;
A PHILANTHROPIC Observer is to nothing which has passed between,
induced lo submit with the most him and me. Ii is Dr. Milner who
profound deference, that he humbly is injured, if any body; ao'l has Dr.
presumes it would moll essentially con Milner complained ? Hov ever, Sir, it
tribute to the bene6i of the commu appears clearly to me, and will appear
nity, if the Laws of England were to so to your re;-d=rs, that no such plain
be minutely revised; simplified, mo and short issue of fact exists. It must
dernised, and exclusively adapted to the be matter of opinion and reasoning,
exigencies, emergencies, and contin whether the passage which Dr. L. has
gencies of ihe existing times ; in pirti- alledged as a reference to the four cafes
cular, thai wilful Perjury, a most dire of the Canonists, be such a reference
ful crime, were to be deemed not only or not; that is, whether a general re
an infamous, but also a capital of- ference to the duchiite of any given
Gznt. Mao. November, 1807, Treatise
1026 Mr. Le Mesurier's Fare mil to Dr. Laurence. [Nor
Treatise be a reference to any particu and Dr. Milner talk so much, but
lar passage in that Treatise, which I from the fordid expediency which was
for one positively deny to be the case. presented to me bv " a snug henejice,
But if it were, I should then have a and the jkadvwjighting.tif pulpit po
Tight to complain of the Doctor's hav lemics ;" lhan which I conceive nothing
ing treated me unfairly, even in the can be said more libellous or ofl'ensiv*
very way in which he complains of to a man in mv situation. What the
me ; for my words were (p. 32) " IN motives were which led me to that step
all this you will observe that there will be seen in that day wh«n Dr.
is not the (mailed reference to the four Laurence also will have to account for
cafes of ihe Canonists ;" which three his present conduct. That we may
first words, " in all this," omitted by both give such an account as will sa
Dr. Laurence to the mutilating of the tisfy Almighty Justice and Mercy, is
sentence, manifestly restrain the propo what I most sincerely pray. In the
sition to what wemimmediaiflv before : mean time let him abstain from such
and had the fact been thus staled, Dr. common and " fool-bom jests" against
Laurence himself could not have put me the Qergy. This is most peculiarly
at issue with him in the manner he h.n unbecoming in him, who has a bro
done. I made no general assertion on ther greatly and jnfllv distinguished as
the subject, and therefore was noi to he a pillar of the Church.
metbvageneral assertion. Hewasbound The Doctor then resoris once more
to shew to what the words " in all ibis ' to his Pagan associates ; and in addi
referred, before he could aff'-ct me bv tion to the solitary school-book which
anv contradiction. 1 shall lay no more Dr. Milner has relied upon, refers me
os this fame issue of fact ; and very to Siobæus, Sextus Einpirieus, and
little as to what follows, of the ab even the " Epicttreari' Horace. The
surdity of niv calling the Letier to the truth is, the doctrine of these men,
Member os Parliament, and the Let that is, the best of them, for I speak
ter to Mr."Reeves, distinct tracts. Dr. not of Epicureans, has nothing to da
Milner himself, who wrote them, has with the question. These old philoso
decided the maiter. He has done it phers have been used by the Papist*
in the very passage adduced by Dr. as every one else has been that came
J^aurence. Writing there to Mr. within their clutches ; they have been
Reeves in the second treatise or tract, pressed into the service in order to
he says, "as 1 have shewn in the pre make them speak a language not their
ceding TREATISE ;" thus clearly speak own. They urged ihe expedience of
ing of them as two distinct treatises. virtue as a motive for the more JlriSl
Or does Dr. L. mean to sav that two performance of its duties, not as a
distinct tracts cannot be published to means which was to qualify or explain
gether ? Or that a man or thing may them away. Their doctrine was what
precede himself?—which would be a Dr. Milner quotes, from Tullv's Of
much greater wonder than any which fices, " Quod est honestum, semper eft
I have supposed. Palling over the utile," which resolves itself easily into
Doctor's very brilliant plav of words the homely English proverb, " Honesty
upon mv " surprizing" and '* wonder- is the best policy ;" and anv reader may
curing arguments," 1 will take the li judge whether this affords any coun
berty of dismissing, I hope for ever, tenance to the casuistry os the learned
these same four cases of the Canonists : and right reverend Doctors : nor need
and I trust that the Doctor will not be we go to Greek and Latin and out-of-
so inhuman as again to drag them the-way and (carce books for so, plain
into light. Nor will I be drawn in to a thing.
add a word to what I said in my last As to the Acts of the Councils of
upon the subject of cardinal virtues. IVth Lateran and of Constance, hap
I come now, Sir, to what really pily the Doctor himself has made the
makes me feel happy, at your having put appeal to note B of mv last publication,
me under restraint. Dr. Laurence has which may he contrasted with the Doc
chosen to inform you, without the tor's corrected Speech in Cobbett's De.
smallest circumstance leading that wav, . bates ; and those readers who will take
that I left the Bar for the Church; the pains may thus beeasilv enabled to
with this charitable addition, thai I judge between the Doctor and me;
did it, not from motives of that "high and they may also see whether Dr.
mi exulled expediency" of which he Milnes's statements or mine there or
elsewhere
1807.J Dr. Laurence's Farewell to Mr, Le Mesurier IO27
elsewhere are more correct. I (hall I should be very seriouflly sorry, were
therefure say nothing more on that I conlcious that 1 deserved the accusa
head. What Dr. Laurence means to tion with which Mr. Le Mesurier sets
fay in his next letter, of course I can out. He charges me with " with a
not anticipate, and shall have no op violent and mojl unprovoked aggression ;
portunity os answering. 1 only hope doubts my right of coming into the
that it will be written in a manner more controversy at all : fays that " / thrust
consilient with that spirit which should myself into it; and thinks it inexpli
actuaie a man who calls me friend ; cable, that I " should use such intem
and that it will not contain many such perate language." On my violence and
insinuations as that wiih which he intemperance, I (hall not say a word.
doles his List; namely, thai 1 have You, Mr. Urban, and your readers,
written inv last pamphlet on purpose 10 hate the means of deciding for yout-
misrepresent you ! That Dr. Laurence selves. 1 am reach' ,lo abide your judg
should resort to such !inle shifts as ment, even under the disadvantage of
these, is perhaps the strongest poflihle having the infirmities of my style com
indication of his feeling himself in the pared with the mild, polite, candid,
wrong, and it certainly a very good liberal, gentleman-like language, which
reason for my taking my leave os him ; my Reverend Friend. 'boa (is himself al
which I do, heartily wishing him. a ways to have observed towards Dr.
better cause. Milner and me. But as lo my " mojl
Yours, See. Thos. Le Mesurier. unprotoked attack,"—be 1101 alarmed,
P. gai, col. 1, 1. 24, for " point" r. Mr. Urban . 1 am not going into a
1 print." long argument: onlv allow me to
laugh a little. The art of an Advo
,s IT cate, did 1 possess it, as I am told 1
Mr. Urban, Do£ior.s'^ Commons,
10 do, and were 1 disposed to use it, is not
rT"' HE terms which you propose I warned licie. This is one of those oc
I should seel no difficulty in accept casions on which no ridicule can ex
ing literally. For 1 go farther than you, ceed that of a simple statement, A
and think, that not only all the argu Country Clergvman steps from the sa
ment which remains, but all loo which cred repose of his study, to discuss be
has appeared in your Magazine on lite fore the publick "a question of the
subject of my Speech since the discus highest importance to the State*,"
sion first began, might readily he com which is pending in Parliament. He
pressed into a pace, and perhaps leave treats as freelv as he pleases, Catholiek
a (hug corner Itill fur a quiet Corre Divines and Protestant, Lords, Baronets,
spondent. Indeed I did not profess and simple' Esquires ; some on the evi
argument ; and the liule whic h 1 used dence of their own publications ; others,
towards the end of my third letter not quite so (hilly, »n that of imper
seems, from .Mr. Le Mefurier'a answer fect reports in newlpape s : he censures
in your last number, fully to have done Statesmen os the i\xu envnence on all
its duty. My part has been narrative, sides ; lie spares neither the living nor
with some necessary explanation and the dead ; ami in assertion, I presume,
m ngledd fence; and the declared object of his canonical independences, more
for whicii 1 delire<I permission to address than insinuates a charge of inconsistency,
you once more, was t lie fame—explana and apostaey auainll his own Diocesan.
tion aud defence. But first to state, and All this he claims to be considered as
then to correct or confute misrepresen right md decent, and meritorious in him.
tations, where they so abound in almost Bui if a Member of Parliament, who
every sentence, must unavoidably be a from his first entrance into pub'ic life
work os some little length. All lean hail repeatedly avowed opposite senti
do is, to select some of the more im ments 011 that important question, and
portant points, and leave the rest, by who long before had evinced Wit sin
much more numerous, to he judged cerity bv the moil painful private sacri
from the specimens which I pro luce. fice which he could make, touches
* Serious Examination, p. 1. ■
;t A Reply, &c. p. 180, " * * * my Diocesan : a Prelate who is now supposed to
be favourable to the (toman Catholic claims, though his written opinion, that by
which mankind in general are apt to abide, appear^ tj me to wear a very different
asptct."
htm
1028 Dr. Laurence's Farewell to Mr. Le Mesurier. [Nov.
him ever so lightly ; he turns about, a single breath ! At Oxford, where I
c its o.u in sirprue at the wantonness hist accidentally learned what had been
of the aggretfj >n, and assumes all the reported as from me, 1 immediately
empalfluncd tones of an injured and took and declared my resolution of
per! ecu i ed man. It might as loon have doing what 1 have done, before 1 had,
been expected, that a Malay, when he or could have had, communication
was running a muck, after cutting and with a tingle Roman Catholic. 1 (hall
stabbing all he met, if he should at last not take the trouble formally to prove
perceive a Weapon raised against him, this, as I could. Mr. Le Mesurier,
would stop, affect astonishment, and, if he thinks ii worth his pains, may
without a feeling of shame, break out ascertain the truth, whoi he again
into invectives against the malice of visits Oxford. Something on the liibr
sdeh a most unprovoked assault on a ject he may perhaps hear at the nexi
poor, innocent, meek, unoffending bookseller's Ihop, and certainly every
creature. Should the next dispatches thing from my friends and connexions
from the Cape bring us any such ac there, who are well known. In the
count (for I have never yet heard of mean time, as my Reverend Friend
an instance) I will thank you, Mr. seems. to disbelieve thai 1 act from my-?
Urban, to print it as a curiositv wor self, or have any but interested views
thy of being preserved with Mr. Le in my |>ublic conduct, I shall just in--
Mesorier'a comp'aint of me. The fact, sorm him, that since 1 have been in
however, is, that 1 did not enter into Parliament, I have seen five Adminis
the general controversy at all. I trations, two of which I have sup
ffudioufl; and professedly confined mv ported, three I have opposed ; vet I
(elf to a very subordinate pa t, in which have not supported any which I have
lav name had been introduced ; and I not occasionally opposed, nor op
abstained from any allusions to anv posed any which I have not occasion- )
ollnr part, though many presented ally supported. Never have I given a
themselves of the most tempting kind. vole, but in accord with mv own un
Mr. Le Mesarier lakes lo himself biased judgment ; - never have I, or
the credit of the best and noblest mn- anv of mv relation*, benefited a single
!?>*. He tells us, that lie has acted* (hilling from anv pan which I hare
under the strong! st inij.rissions of his taken. If Mr. Le Mesurier can dis
obligation to do his duty " through prove anv os these assertions, let him:
evil r< port and through good report." if they are facts, I hope when he next
Serio itL I respect his integrity too indulges his imagination to account
midi, t>> question the rectitude of his for anv conduct of mine, he will, for
priginal intention, whatever I may his own fake, invent and deviji motives
think of its execution ; but he has more consistent with them. My mo
been liberally pleased to attribute to tives in the present instance I have
me the .weakest ond basest motives truly stated more than once in the
which his fjncy could suggest. The course of this correspondence, and 1
first indeed which occurred to him, (hall not condescend to repeat them.
artct reasoning a little upon ii.he round Another compliment which my Re
so absurd, that he discards it, and then verend Friend in his candour and cha
cue* his more deliberate conjecture. rity has paid me, is modestly lo take
TUi* Ihrewd goes-, forsooth, is, " that for grunted, that all who know us both,
what hi; reported from me h?d been would not hesitate to pronounce in fa
taken verv ill by the body of. Roman vour of his veracity and correclness,
Ca' holies al latji", wiih whom, for a compared with mine. I must do them
reason wh ch may he guessed at, he as the justice to believe, that thev would
serts that I am ex remely anxious to be feel it a painful office to determine the
upon good terms." So, to make up former part of the question ; and shall
matters with them, he concludes'that therefore hasten to relieve them from
I lat.down to dfrife and inrent an un that necessity- 1 do not dispute his
true account "f mt conversation with veruci'y. but I do very much dispute
him; and lelt I nvghi merlook the his coi reclnefs. And here they need
words whjch impute premeditated false not be much puzzled lo discover a sure
hood, he lakes care to mark them with test. Mr. I* Mesurier has furnished
Italics. \V1iat a finished f thru k is the molt conclusive evidence against
here sst once raised iike an exhalation ! himself. In cnmpallion to my dui-
pitv that |l is liab'e to he difli.'ated by neijj he has kindly instructed me in
» Serious Examination, &c. p. 4.
1807.3 D*- Laurence's Fareu ill to Mr. Le Mesurier, 102^
the defence which I ought to ba^ve sary whom he had caught in a similar
made for Dr. Milner. One of the eiubarraiVment. On the contrary, I
Diodes which he fays I should haverm- shall voluntarily offer for him ll>e only
ployed was, to shew " ihat Or. Mil- excuses which he could himself plead.
Jier did not draw up the obnoxious re |f he required me to defend Dr. Mil
port;" and yet he had exprefjly laid, ner against a charge which he had just
pot ten sentences before, that his declared himself never to have made,
" charge againll Dr. Miiner wa9 not ihe it must be ascribed to that " hurry of
drawing-up of the report in question :" composition" which he elsewhere* at-
so thai he would have had me defend signs as the cause, of other errors ; and
Dr. Milner againll a charge which had if he did not remember the solemn
never been made. This, however, it averment of Dr- Milner, which lie had
may be answered, is only an incorreSU himself republished and censured, I
tiffs in reasonina. Let us lee then how should be willing to overlook it, from
correii he is in his facts on the (ame the natural supposition, that lie, like
subject. He adds, be (Dr. Milner) ihe rest of the world, had forgotten hit
might or might not have drawn it up : last pamphlet. But here, unfortu
jie never has disavowed it j and I flow nately, I must leave him la make hi*
rather think he did ; but dill that is own apology. For, In his recent " Re*
not the charge ;" and below, he repeats ply," he distinctly + refers lo the very
,in capitals, " he has never yet dis- paflhse wherein he had found fault
fLAlMEp it.' Now what will you with Dr. Milner for dilclaiuiing th«
fay if J ilenionstate to you, Mr. Ur Report of my Speech ; yet, notwith
ban, that he did immediately disavow standing, in the next page he attain
find disclaim it molt emphatically ; and " cannot help observing, that the Doc
that Mr. Le Mel'urier knew he did, tor has never disclaimed it. Nav," coiv»
reurnfd . the passage, and actually linues he, " his whole conduct aud
commented tipon its Dr. Milner'* language are all calculated to point
words, extracted from your Magazine him out as the fabricator of the Re
for March, and inserted in the appen port."—The above 1 had written be
dix 10 the Sequel*, are these : " I so fore 1 adverted to Mr. Le Mefiirier's
lemnly AVER, THAT I AM TOTALLT emendations of his works, in your laft
IGNORANT WHO DREW UP TBB RE number. My statement, however, may
PORT of Dr. Laurence's Speech in the stand as it is. From the repeated re
Honte of Commons on the Catholic ferences to his own pamphlets, it will
question, published by Cuthe.ll and teach your readers to estimate the inge
Martin.'' Bui how much more will nuousness of the half-unwilling confess
you be astonished, when I tell you, ihat sion, which suggests, that the dis
Mr. Le -Mel'urier immediately iell upon avowal lurked lo long unheeded bv him
his antagonist for this disavowal and in a distant corner of vour Miscellany.
disclaimer, as a fraudulent shifting of He cannot even now be correct in cor
the ground ! " Here again," cries my recting his former errors.
Reverend Friend, " he chooses to mis After this example, which I took
represent me. I never charged him because it lav before me, or there are
with having drawn up the Impartial others which I perhaps might have
Report's." Alas! Sir, whai an inex preferied ; no man, 1 think, can be
tricable labyrinth of confusion, inac much afraid to fluke his character for
curacy, and[self coutradicVion, is this! correctness against that of Mr. Le Me
I wish not to press too hardly on Mr. surier. On the different accounts of
Le Mefitrier; but let any one, who our conversation at Oxford, it might
has read his late polemical writings, now be sufficient to say, that tnt»ie is
call to mind the manner in which he in contradiction to his. But, indeed,
there treats every Catholick to whom for one who, without necessity, puts his
he can impute the (lightest mistake ; verac:tv (b boldly to the hazard, he lakes
let any one who has not read them, care to have a tolerably wide door open
pbscrve only in my last quotation, how for elcape. He tells you, that although
readily he accuses Dr. Milner of wilful he meant to give my very words, yet
misrepresentation; aod then fiaure to he will not be positive whether " I
himself the goading triumph which he used the words ' twisted' and ' purposes,
would have displayed oyer any adver- * Reply, &c. p. i os.
~> P. xxv. + Ibid. p. lip, referring in the not*
t Ibid. p. xxvvi. to Appendix te Sequel, p. Xivti.
or
 1036 Dr. Laurence's Farewell to Mr. Le Mesurier. [Nov.
or whether I may have said 'turned" he puts in emphatie capitals; bat it
and ' ends,' or something else ' equiva- was thus introduced. After I had ex-
lent,' is a sentence as /hort:" having preiied my willingness to discuss the
exhausted his own stock of lyno- subject at our leisure in a more proper
nyms, he leaves the reader to supply place, as I have related, and not, a$ he
What the English language will scarcely la>s» declared "that 1 fliould not en-
surnilh. Now what I deny is, that I ter into any discussion with him he
used any words in any manner iuti- replied, *' why then you may answer
mating a fraudulent intention in the me;" to which I- rejoined, "No, no;
Reporter ; and I farther assert, that to vou may write if you will, I shall not."
frevent .misconception, I added, what Your readers may compare the eon-
supposed a sufficiently clear esplana- text as thus given by him and by me;
tion of my meaning, though on my they .villfind mineisaiural and probable ;
part I will not be positive, whether in his unnatural and improbable, littla
one long, or two or three Hiort fen- les' than incredible . and impossible,
tences. On this latter head 1 am the unless on the notion which he throws
more certain, because several persons out, that 1 designed to be uncivil to
have since mentioned to me thai, inpre- him. But, in the name of wonder,
vious and subsequent conversations, I Ms- Urban, what should have made
had so expressel myself to them on the me uncivil to a man, with whom 1 had
same subject. Nevertheless, I am satisfied been on terms of friendlhip from child-
that my Reverend Friend understood hood, with whom I had never had tbs
me as he has represented : only I must slightest quarrel, and of whole polemi-
observe (and I appeal to his taw writ- cal writings, or of any answer to them,
ings for the truth of the observation) or of any reference to any Speech of
that he has no ears to h*ar, no eyes 10 mine as applying to them, 1 was ut-
read, no intellect 16 comprehend, any terlv ignorant to that moment ? That
thing in ihe least degree favourable to - ignorance, perhaps was the real inci-
a Catholic. viliiy. Hut let my Reverend Friend
However he has very ingeniously be comforted. As great a mortification
suggested an excellent mode of trying once happened to a greater man than
our respective accounts by topography. There is a weil-known story of
He gravely takes his two-foot rule Cicero on his return from Sicily ; but
from his pocket, presents it to the rea- he had the good sense and good hu-
der, and desires him to measure ihe mour to tell it of himself, without any
distance we walked, and by that cal- anjer against his friend.
«nlate the words we uttered, ".hurry There is one characteristics almost
ing all the way." For this last fact, he proverbial, of a fi6titious dialogue. The
quotes me, with a slight change, made, second speaker is always exhibited in
1 presume, " in the hurry of his own due subordination 10 the first. Let
composition." 1 said that I was " hur- our respective accounts then be refer
ring to the place of polling, when he fed to that standard. He represents me
stopped me: not a syllable of ihe pice as all rudeness, confusion, and abliird-
which we went together. I positively ity, talking something, he knows not
affirm we made three distinct flops': what, of the correlutivenc/s of duties*
one when he first met me, another just which had, aud could have, nothing
as we got within the' passage to the to do with the subject. I represent
Schools, and the last, and longest, on him as in no respect inferior to myself,
the spot where we finally parted. and in no one instance admit him to
It was with a view to this calcula- have expressed a very important propo-
tion, that my Reverend Friend seems fition in such a discussion, more acca-
to have meted out his narrative of what rately than I had done. Surely, S r,
passed between us. The whole which you can now be iu no loss te pro
be gives consists of two or three short nounce which is the real, and which
sentences, and as many' incoherent, the fictitious dialogue,
broken phrases. There is not on the Si ill there is one passige which de
face of it even the semblance of proba- mands some fliort noiice, because Mr,
bility. However, in one instance, he Le Mesurier in his last letter has mci*
has truly supplied what I had omitted ; dentally shewn it to be decisive against
but he has totally misrepresented its the cer.reclnefs us his account. He
connexion with what preceded. In clearlv suppose* me 10 have alluded to
conclusion, I did fay very nearly what Dr. Milner's quotation from the Report
 1807.] Dr. Laurence's Farm
of my Speech, and he still more expli
citly makes me acquainted with his
quotation from Dr. Milner, which is
to be found in the Appendix to hit
Serious Examination. No oilier pos
sible rente can be attached to the words
which he puts into my mouth. 1 have
already remarked that I knew nothing
oseiiher: but us 19 the latter, Mr. Le
Mesurier himself has very truly pro* ed
that 1 had nut seen it. Here again I
wish oar accounts to be compared:
mine is consistent with fact; his can
not be reconciled to it.
One comparison more (since this is
the sort of ill ue which Mr. I.e Mesu
rier has chosen), and I have done with
this subject for ever. Look back, Sir,
to the former part os this letter, aud
fee in what manner I have noticed his
oversight of Dr. Miiner's disavowal,
and anticipated his conduct on a si
milar occasion. I had not then his
last letter before me, in which he is so
merry and so severe with my " strange
and ridiculous blunder," as " this cha
ritable and polished Divine very civilly
calls it," if I may borrow one of his
flowers of rhetorick, when Dr. Milner
had limply said he blundered. Let me
now request you to turn to it, and if
you have not already been too much
disgusted by it, read it again. What a
triumph through two columns aud a
half, because* as he fays, 1 consulted
a copv instead of the original ; that
copv being from the hand of the very
fame master. The mind which, having
two days before confessed a much
grosser error of its nvn, could pour it'ilf
out in such an effusion, must want self-
command and discretion to a degree
which 1 could hardlv have conceived.
But Div actual oHence peeps out at
last. It was my original sin. " I had
disdained," as he lavs, " to treat him
with the common tefpecl of looking at
his book j" and so he quotes the Bilde
to hint that 1 am no heller than one of
the wicked, because I have very unde
signed, v hurl his vanity. I shall not
withstanding plainly relate the actual
source of my mistake (in one out os
three points) and doubt not my ac
quittal by all who do not resemble
him. My main purpose, it will be
remembered, was to state what I had
said relative to Dr. Milner in answer to
Dr. Diiigenan. I had nothing to do
with Mr. Le Mesurier, but as he had
identified himself with Dr. D ligenati,
and actually attacked me under pre-
:ll to Mr. Le Mesurier. 1031
tence os attacking a Report, which,
he knew from me, contained a ground
work of truth with a superstructure of
error. Dr. Duigeivan omitted the pas-'
sage in question ; aud Mr. Le Mesurier,
in his letter of January last, without
any notice of this omission, declared
that '■ Dr. Duigenan had taken the
charge against Dr. Milner from his
pamphlet." Afterwards he gives what
he calls " the copy," and, as he now
informs us, dropped the explanation,
because he cited the passage with a dif
ferent view ; but in truth h« cited it to
shew, in opposition to the Report of
my Speech, that Dr- Milner meant
most precisely to flute, that " the keep
ing of oaths turned merely on the ques
tion of expediency ;" expediency in
the common vulgar sense. He pro-
seised also 10 insert a larger extract titan
belore from Dr. Miiner's publication,
including lie context, and begged " par
ticular attention from your readers to
his quotation, because he had been ac
cused of taking words out of the con
text." How titan can it be maintained,
that the writer's own explanation of
his meaning in laying that the keipinj
of oaths turned (" merely" is an un
warranted interpolation of Mr. Le Me
surier*) on the question of expediency,
was not to the purpose there ( How
could your readers, the majority of
whom, I doubt not, were aud are as
ignorant as 1 was of the Serious Exa
mination, judge Dr. Milner from, the
dispute in your Magazine, without his
own explanation f I do not believe,
that nty Retere.nd Friend intended any
immoral deception on your readers;
but a deception in effect it was. It
was this letter, let it be always borne
in mind, that I was answering; yet,
before 1 did it, I read every syllable
which had come from bis pen, subse
quent to the time that tny name was
fiill introduced, and sound not a trace
of the explanation ; not a glance at it,
howev( r remote. The Serious Exami
nation I fliould not have read now,
had it not been lhar, perceiving a new
and molt unfair attack upon another
part of my Speech in Mr. Le Mrsu?
rier's last ptmphlet, I hesitated whe
ther I should not take such notice of it,
a id of his general opinions on this so! -
ject, in a grave exposition of my own sen
timents ; andsorihatcontingentpurpose,
sent to procure his original work. Im
mediately that I saw it, I wrote to \ou
from Oxford to retract my mistake.
Had
 io$2 t)r. Pole on the Comet.—The Lafitashire Song. [Nov.
Had I seen it at first, my defence against servations were made with an excellent
Mr. L? Mesurier's stab at me through instrument, and by an Astronomer of
the rides of the Reporter would have celebrity, who obierted the tail to be'
been different. 1 Ihould hive had to evidently carved) from which he draws)
represent him as following instead of an inference, that it is now in the Pe
hading Dr. Ditigenau in ths suppres rihelion, or thai point of its orbit in
sion ; and with this flight variation the which it is at its least distance from the
charge may fill 1 liand. In addition Sun. P.
too, I should have had to bring ano
ther aganll him, as beiny; a quibbling Mr. Urban, Sepl. 3.
Commentator, in the twilt which lie IN Ellis's Ancibnt Songs, octavo,-
give* to the eqnivoeal word "'appear.'1 London, 1790; and in Class 4, at
It is sometime! uled in contradistinc Song 18, is a Song intituled, The
tion 10 real existence ; and (bmeiiuies, Lancajliire Song-
especially in philosophy, to express It is printed from '* Wtl and Drol
with becoming humility and a due lery, London, l66l," !2mo; and it is
acknowledgment of human weakness, said to have been " corrected by a copy
the conscientious judgments of right preierved in Dryden's Mis ellaneous
reason on moral subject*, which do Poems, and, in two or three places,
not admit the fixed and sure principles bv a Itill more modem one."
of science. Having discovered, in a family li
In concluding, I must observe, that brary, a more authentic copy of the
1 never undertook Dr. .VI i I ner's general above-mentioned Lancashire Song, I
defence. It would have been presump subjoin a tianscripi of two or ihree of
tion in me to have done it : he is fully the first stanzas, aud also of the burden
*qual to his own vindication. B'ing of the Song, both of which differ
compelled by Mr. Le Mesurier's letter much from what is printed in Ellis's
of last January' to give some account of Ancient Songs.
roy Speech in the H mle of Commons, In Lancashire where I was born,
as well as of my conversation in the And many a cuckold bredj
street at Oxford, I endeavoured to sup 1 had not married been a year,
port the interpretation which I put on But horns grew out of my head.
on the words prudence and expedi Burden.
ency as used by Dr Milner ; in doinj With hey the toe bent, hey the toe bent,
which, I justified him by the uliige of Sir Percy is under the line :
Ethical writers in general. Mirk then, Cod bless the Right Noble Earl of
Sir, to what point Mr. Le Mesurier Kent,
has at last brought this controversy on For he is a good friend of mine.
his fide. He does no; deny what I The Doncafter Mayor, he (its in his chair.
have laid. His final answer is, " it is. His bells they merrily go,
not in the Bible.'' F. Laurence. His nole it doth thine with drinking of
wine,
Mr. Urban, 'Bristol, XOlh'Mo. .91/?. The gout is in his great toe. ,, ,
•"T"1 HE Comet which h is been for a Burden, repeated through the remainder *f
JL considerable lime visible, and at the Song.
tracted very general attention, has dur
ing ihis month been frequently (eeu Mr. Urban, Nov 20.
under the molt favourable circum "T/OUR entertaining Miscellany,
stances of a clear atmosphere and the \ the fountain of elucidation, and
absence of the lunar ravs although ihe the developer of every important event,
evenings in geneial have been cloudy. will dunbilel's at some suture day in- '
There is no doubt of its (till being visi form us whenvthose well-known cha
ble for some considerable time lunger racters John Doe and Richard Roc
to the inhabitants of this [(land. On commenced their unenviable career ;
the (j b inllani, at a qnarter'pali eijiht, and whether they save any good-will
some observations were made upon it to Adam Doe and Hugh .stoe their pre
oy Firniinser, in the neighbour decessors, who enjoyed their notorious
hood of the Metropolis, who di'bo- office in the reign of Henry VII. ; or
yered its right ascension to be 15 h. 1 6' whether it was a mere family compact
4", declination 7/ 23' 23'. About 11 without any legal ftffigniMOnt; or whe
o'clock on. the 24ih, it was observed ther these intruding families hold ihe
pearly in ihe Well, and about 40° privilege of meddling wih every man's
»bn> e the horizoti. On the 26ih, at full ad infii'ilum bv patent ?
I alf pall six Lo the evening, some ob Yours, &c. " A Searcher.
 1807.] Review of New Publications. 1033
134. Poems. retirement with his family. To this Gen
By the Rev. George Crabbe, LL.B. tleman I was indebted for my knowledge
IF we were not well acquainted with of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was a, well
Mr. Crabbe, we should have been known to his friends for his perpetual
tempted to say that he had carried his fund of good humour, and his unc; ding
diffidence almost to the very borders of for wishes to oblige, as he was to the publick
affectation. But we know that his pencil the extraordinary productions of hi*
modest merit trembles at the idea of a voured and his pen. By him I was fa
with an introduction to Dr. John*
Critick's censure; and, as far as our son, who honoured me with his notice,
part of the verdict may 29, shall hasten and assisted me, as Mr. Bofwell (afterwards
to dispel his apprehensions. Lord Auchinleck) has told, with Remark*
. It is more than a quarter of a cen- and limendations for a Poem I was al.aut
tnrv (let it be told in a ickisptr) since to publish *. The Doctor had been often
"The Library" came under our cogni wearied by applications, and did not rea
zance (LI. 474) ; and nearly as long dily comply with requests, for his opi
since the appearance of " The Village" nion ; not from any unwillingness to
(LHI. 1041). oblige, but from a painful contention in
" While composing the first-published his mind, between a desire of giving plea
of these Poems, the Author was hanoured sure and a determination to speak truth.
with the notice, and assisted »y the ad No man can, I think, publish a work
vice, of the Right Honourable Edmund without some expectation of satisfying
JJurke. Part of it was written in his pre those who are to judge of its merit; but
sence, and the whole submitted to his I can, with the utmost regard to veracity,
judgment; receiving, in its progress, the speak my fears, as predominating over
benefit of his correction. 1 hope, there every pre- indulged thought of a more fa
fore, to obtain pardon of the Reader, if I vourable nature, when I was told that a ,
eagerly seize the occasion, and, after so judge so discerning had consented to read
long a silence, endeavour to express a and give his opinion of " The Village,'*
grateful fense of the benefits I have re the poem I had prepared for publication.
ceived from this Gentleman, who was so The time of suspence was not long pro
licitous for my more essential interests, as tracted i I was soon favoured with a few
well as benevolently anxious for my cre words from Sir Joshua, who observed, 'If
dit as a writer. I will not enter upon the I knew how cautious Dr. Johnson was in.
subject of his extraordinary abilities ; it giving commendation, I should be well
would be vanity, it would be weakness in satisfied with the portion dealt to me in
me to believe that I could make them his letter.' Of that letter the following is
better known or more admired than they a copy :
now are; but of his private worth, of * Sir, I have sent you back Mr.Crabbe's
his wishes to do good, of his affability Poem, whish 1 read with great delight. Ib
and condescension ; his readiness to lend is original, vigorous, and elegant. The
assistance when he knew it was wanted, alterations which I have made I do not
and his delight t» give praise where he require him to adopt; for, my lines are,
thought it was deserved ; of these I may perhaps, not often better [than] his own s
write with some propriety. All know that but he may take mine and his own toge
his powers were vast, his acquirements ther, and perhaps, between them, pro*
various ; and I take leave to add, that he duce something better than either. Me is
applied them, with unremitted attention, not to think his copy wantonly defaced {
to those objects which he believed tended a wet sponge will wash all the red line*
to the honour and welfaie of his Coun away, and leave the pages clean. Hi*
try. But it may not be so generally un Dedication f will be least liked ; it Were
derstood that he was ever assiduous in the better, to contract it into a short sprightly
more private duties of a benevolent na Address. I do not doubt of Mr. Crabbe'*
ture ; that he delighted to give encourage success. I am, Sir, your most humble
ment to any promise of ability, and assist servant, Sam. Johnson. March*, l}»3.'
ance to any appearance of desert. To what
purposes he employed his pen, and with * " See the Life of S. Johnson, by J.
what eloquence he spake ia the Senate, Bofwell, vol. IV. p. 184, 8vo edit."
will be told by many who may yet be ig f " Neither of these were adopted; the
norant of the solid instruction as well as Author had written, about that time,
the fascinating pleasantry found in his some Verses to the Memory of Lori! Ro
common conversation, among his friends; bert MaJiners, brother to the late Duke of
fnd his affectionate manners, amiable dif- Rutland ; and these, by a junction, it is
pofit/on, and zeal for their happiness, presumed, not forced or unnatura., form
Wiiicfe he manifested in the hours of the concluding pan of "Th« Vijlage."
Gent. Ma<j. ffwtmltr, 1807. I'Thte
 *o34 Review of New Publications. [Nor.
* That I was fully satisfied, my Readers could first obtain the sanction of such
will do me the justice to believe ; and I opinion as I might with some confidence
hope they will pardon me-if there should rely upon. I looked for a friend who,
appear to them any impropriety in pub having the discerning taste of Mr. Burke,
lishing the favourable opinion expressed and the critical sagacity of Dr. Johnson,
in a private letter; they will judge, and would bestow upon my MS. the attention
truly, that, by so doing, I wish te bespeak requisite to form his opinion, and would
their good opinion, but have no design of then favour me with the result of his ob
extorting their applause. I would not servations: and it was my singular good
hazard an appearance so ostentatious to fortune to gain such assistance ; the opi
gratify my vanity ; but I venture to do it nion of a critick so qualified, and a friend
in compliance with my fears." so disposed to favour me. I had been ho
, By these Poems Mr. Crabbe obtained noured by an introduction to the Right
Honourable Charles-James Fox, some
more than "empty praise." Content years before, at the feat of Mr. Burke ;
with the literary credit which \\6 had and being
acquired, unlike the general race of promise thatagain with him, I received *
he would peruse any work.
youthful Bards, Mr. Crabbe published I might send to him previous to its publi
only one other Poem, " The News cation, and would give me his opinion.
paper, i;S •." which at the lime es At that time I did not think myself suffi
caped our observation, but was highly ciently prepared \ and when, afterwaids,
commended by the Reviewers who no I had collected some Poems for his in
ticed it. He was then "Chaplain to spection, I found my Right Honourable
•the Onke of Rutland ;" who dying in Friend engaged by the affairs of a great
1787, when Lord Lieutenant of Ire Empire, and struggling with the invete
land, Mr. Crabbe published, in 1/88, a racy of a fatal disease. At such time, up
"Funeral Sermon, read in the Chapel on such a mind, ever disposed to oblige ae
at Relvoir;" and in 178f), on the re that mind was, i could not obtrude the
commendation of the Duchess Dowa remembered petty business of criticising verses; but ha
ger, was presented by Lord Thurlow given, and repeated the promise he had kindly
to the rectories of Million in Leicester though I had not presumed an offer, which,
to expect, I
shire, and West Allington in Lincoln.- was happy to receive. A copy of the
sliire. From that |>criod lo the present Poems now first published was imme
time Mr. Crabbe has committed no diately sent to him, and (as 1 have the>
thing lo the press, except the " Natu information from Lord Holland, and
ral History of the Vale of Belvoir," his Lordship's permission to inform my
which he communicated, in 1790, lo Readers) the Poem which I have named,
the Historian of Leice iierlhire ; but has "The Parish Register" was heard by Mr.
resigned himself wholly to lite pastoral Fox, and it excited interest enough, oy
duties of a Parish Priest, and the de some of its parts, to gain for me the be
lightful task of superintending the im nefit of his judgment upon the whole.
provement of a numerous young fa Whatever he approved, the Reader will
mily ; his courtlhip to ihe Muses hav readily believe, I have carefully retained;
ing been only at occasional intervals, and the parts he disliked arc totally expunged,
OL|which the. ripened fruits are now resemble others are substituted, which I hope
submitted to the Publick. those, more conformable to the
taste of so admirable a judge. Nor can I
f I have, for many years, intended a deny myself the melancholy satisfaction
re-publication of these Poems, a* loon as of adding that this Poem (and more espe
I should be able to join with them such cially the story of Pliœbe Dawson, with
others of later date as might not deprive some parts of the second book) were the;
me of the little credit the former had ob last compositions of their kind that en
tained. Long indeed has this purpose gaged and amused the capacious, the
fceen procrastinated; and if the duties of a candid, the benevolent mind of this great
profession, not before pressing upon me ; maii. Toe above information I owe to
if the claims of a situation, at that time, the favour of the Right Honourable Lord
untried ; if diffidence of my own judg Holland ; nor this only : but to his Lord-
ment, and, the loss of rny earliest friends, ssiip I am indebted for some excellent re
will not sufficiently account for my delay ; marks upon other parts of my MS. It
1 must rely upon 'the good-nature of my was not indeed my good fortune then to
reader, that he will let them avail as far know that my verses were in the hands
as he can, and find an additional apology of a Nobleman who had given proof of
in cay fears of his censure. These fears his accurate judgment as a critick, and
being so prevalent with rue, I determined his elegance as a writer, by favouring the
■0*40 publish, *oy (kUi£ were, Unitf'sJ J'nblicjj with, an easy jind spirited uanfla-
tjw>
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tion of some interesting scenes of a Dra cause to distrust ; and whose acknowledg-
matic Poet not often read in this king ed candour no enemy had the temerity to
dom. The Life of Lope de Vega vns then deny. With such tncourag«Bien« 1 pre
- unknown to me; I hud, in common with sent my book to ycur l ordship. T)>e "Ac
many English Readers, heard of him ; but count of the Life ami Writings of I^>pez
could not judge whether his far-extended de Vega" have taught me what 1 aro to
reputation was caused by the sublime ef expect. 1 there perceive how your Lofd-
forts of a mighty genius, or the unequaled fhip can write ; and am there taught hour
ftcility of a rapid composer, aided by pe you can judge of w riters : my faults, how
culiar and fortunate circumstances. That ever numerous, I know will none of them
any part of my MS. was honoured by the escape through inattention-; nor will any
remajks of Lord Holland, yields me an merit be loft for want of discernment.
high degree of satisfaction ; and his lord My verses are before himwhohas written
ship will perceive the use 1 have made of elegantly, who has judged with accuracy,
them ; but I must feel some regret when and who has given unequivocal proof of
I know to what small portion they were abilities in a work of difficulty—a transla
limited ; and, discerning as I do the taste tion rf poetry which few persons in this
and judgment bestowed upon the verses of kingdom arc able to read, and in the esti
Lope de Vega, I must perceive how much mation of talents not hitherto justly ap
my own needed the assistance afforded to preciated."
one who cannot be sensible of the benefit To the critical sagaciiy also os ano
he h:is received." ther Friend, upon whose skill and can
To Lord Holland the volume is in dour he could rely, the Rev. R. Tur
scribed, in a Dedication expressive of ner, Minister os Great Yarmomh, Mr.
the high sense entertained by the Au C. observes, every poem in this collec
thor both of that Nobleman and of tion has been submitted.
his near relation Mr. Fox. "To this Gentleman 1 am indebted,
" That the longest Poem in this Col more than 1 am able to describe, or than
lection was honoured by the notice of he is willing to allow, for the time he has
your Lordship's Right Honourable and bestowed upon the attempts 1 have made,
ever-valued Relation Mr. Fox; that it fie is indeed the kind of critick for whom
should be the last which engaged his at every poet should devoutly wish, arid the
tention ; and that some parts of it were friend whom every man would be happy
marked with his approbation ; are cir to acquire ; he has taste to discern all
cumstances productive of better hopes of that is merUorious, and sagacity to detect
ultimate success than I had dared to en whatsoever should be discarded ; he gives
tertain before I was gratified with the just the opinion an author's wisdom
knowledge of them. And the hope thus should covet, however his vanity might
raised leads me to asle permission that I prompt him to reject it; what altogether
may dedicate this book to your Lordship, to expunge, and what to improve, he has
to whom that truly-great and greatly-la repeatedly taught me ; and, could 1 have
mented Personage was so nearly allied Jn obeyed him in the latter direction as 1 in
family, so closely bound in affection, and variably have in the former, the Publick
in whose mind presides the fame critical would have found this Collection more
taste which he exerted to the delight of worthy its attention, and I should have
all who heard him. Me doubtless united sought the opinion of the critick more
with his unequaled abilities a fund of void of apprehension."
good nature ; and this possibly led him to It occurred to Mr. Crabbe, that the
speak favourably of, and give satisfaction Publick might expect from a Divine
to, writers with whole productions he some Poem on a Religious Subject;' or
might not be entirely satisfied. Nor must al lead (onieTyrtæan or Elegiac strains
I allow myself to suppose his desire of
'Obliging was withholden when he ho " Among the poetical attempts of one
noured any effort of mine with his appro who has been for many years a Priest, it
bation. But, my Lord, as there was dis may seem a want of respect for the legiti
crimination in the opinion he gave ; as he mate objects of his study, that nothing
did not veil indifference for insipid medio occurs, unless it be incidentally, of the
crity of composition under any general great subjects of Religion ; so it may ap
expression of cool approval ; I allow my pear a kind of ingratitude in a beneficed
self to draw a favourable conclusion from Clergyman that he has- not employed his
the verdict of one w ho had the superiority talent (be it estimated as it may) to some
of intellect few would dispute, which he patriotic purpose; as in celebrating tn'e
made manifest by a force of eloquence unsubdued spirit of bis countrymen, in,
peculiar to himself ; whose excellent their glorious resistance of those enemies
judgment no ok of his friends found who would have no peace throughout the
world
 Review of New Publications. [Nov.
world except that which is dictated to the in the Vale of Belvoir from the dreariest
drooping spirit of suffering Humanity by angle of the (tormy coast of Suffolk,
the triumphan' insolence of Military Suc " where Nature's niggard hand
cess. Credit will be given to me, 1 hope, Gave a spare portion to the famish*d land ;
when I affirm that subjects so interesting Those shores where guilt and famine
have the due weight with me, which the reign"
sacred nature of the one and-the national
importance of the other must impress up which cause the Bard to add,
on every mind not seduced into careless " Ah! hapless they,
ness for Religion by the lethargic influ Who still remain to hear the Ocean roar,
ence of a perverted Philosophy, nor into Whole greedy waves devour the lessening
•indifference for the cause of our Country shore ; . [sway,
by hyperbolical or hypocritical professions Till some fierce tide, with more imperious '
of universal Philanthropy. But, after Sweeps the low hut and all it holds away ;
many efforts to satisfy myself by various When the fad tenant weeps from door to
trials on these subjects, 1 declined ail far door,
ther attempt, from a conviction that I And begs a poor protection from the poor \"
should not be able to give satisfaction to Remaik the contrast;
roy Readers. Poetry of religious nature
must indeed ever be clogged with almost " Behold the Cot! where thrives th' indus
insuperable difficulty ; but there are trious Swain, [gain ;
doubtless to be found Poets who are well Source of his pride, his pleasure, and his
qualified to celebrate the unanimous and Screen'd from the Wintei's wind, theSun's
heroic spirit of our countrymen, and to last ray . [day ;
describe, in appropriate colours, some of Smiles on the window, and prolongs the
those extraordinary scenes which have Projecting thatch the woodbine's branches
been and are misting in the face of Eu stop, [top :—
rope, with such dreadful celerity ; and to And turn their blossoms to the casement's
such I relinquish the duty." All Need requires, is in that Cot cohtain'd,
And much that Taste untaught and unre
In "The P.uish Register," the prin strained [trace,
cipal Poem of ihose now first publish Surveys delighted; there she loves to.
ed, Mr. Crabbe " endeavours once In one gay picture, all the Royal Race ;
more to deseribe V illage Manners, not Around thewalls are Heroes.^overs, Kings ;
by adopting the notion of pastoral sim The print that shews them, and the verse:
plicity, or aflumina; ideas' of rustic bar- that sings. [blue,
baritv, bni by more natural views of "Above the mantle, bound with ribband
the peasantry, considered as a mixed The Swain's emblazon'd Arms demand
body of perionii vfuher or profligate, oar view. scow,
and from hence, in a great measure, In meadow Vert, there feeds in Gules a
eoniented or miserable. To this more \yhile, Beneath an Argent share and Sable, plough ;
general description are added the va In Ori sir a crest, an Azure arm sustains,
a wheatsh'ea'f, rich with bristling
rious characters whic. occur in the grains. [den Rules,
thri ? parts of a Re, ter,—Baptisms, " There is King Charles, and all his GoU
jMarra^es, and Buriais." Who p'ruv' J Misfortune's was the best of
" The year revolves, and I again explore schools ; [pain,
The simple Annals of my Parish poor; And there his Son, when tried by years of
What Infant-members in my flock appear, Who prov'.d misfortunes may be sent in
What Pairs I blest in the departed year ; vain. ['nams young,
And who, of Old or Young, ot' Nymphs " The Magic; Mill that grinds the Gran-
or Swains, Close at the side of kind Godiva hung ;
Are loft to life, its pleasures and its pains." She, of her favourite place the pride and
To (peak our sentiments on this oc joy* [coy.
casion,' we are glad to lee Mr. Crabbe Of charms at once most lavish and most
pursuing; Cue vein os Poetry in which Bywanton act the purist fame could raise, '
he has already been eminenilv fuccess- And give trie boldest deed the chastest;
lul ; and in which, if his fancy be praise. [land fed :
somewhat chastened, his judgment is There "There stands the stoutest Ox thatEng-
proportionally matured. Widely dis> fights the boldest J,ew Whitechapel
ferent, however, are the peasantry de And here bred; [live,
gains Monday's worthy votaries)
scribes in "The'Paiish Register,"—"as In all the joys that ale and skittles give.
siieliorated by frugality and industry," ' " Now lo ! in Egypt's coast that hostile
from those in ''The Village ;"—as dif Fleet, [beat 5
ferent as one of the most fertile loots That Nations dreaded, and that Nelfon
"'■' : And
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And here yrill soon that other Fleet be Vet these, long since, have all acquir'rt*
shown, [own. name; [fame;
That Nelson made the Ocean's and our The Ifan<lervqr Je'v has found his way to.
Distressing glory ! grieyou* boon of Fate ! And fame, denied to many a labour'd song,
The proudest conquest, at ihc dearest rate. Crowns Thumb the Great and Uickcrihrifi
On shelf of deal, beside the cuckoo- the Strong. ' . '
, clock, "There too is he, by wizard-power up
Of cottage-reading rests the chosen stock : held, • [quell'd;
Learning we lack, not boeks ; but have a Jack, by whose arm the Giant-brood were
kind His shoes of swiftness on his feet he plac'd ;
For all our wants, a meat for every mind : His coat of darkness on his loins he brae'd ;
The tale for wonder, and the joke for His sword of sharpness in his hand he took,
whim, [hymn. And off the heads oi doughty Gum tsstroke ;
The half-fung sermon and the half-gman'd Their glaring eyes beheld no mortal near,
" No need of claliing; each within its No found of feet alarm'd the drowsy car ;
place No Enslisli blood their Pagan fense could
The feeling finger in the dark can trace ; ' , smell, [they fell.
' First from the corner, farthest from the But heads dropt headl»ng, wondering why '
wall,' "These hear the Parent Swain, reclin'd
!5uch all the ruses, and they suffice for all. at ease, [knees.
"There pious works for Sunday's use With half his listening offspring on his
are found, *' To every cet the Lord's indulgent
Companions for that Bible newly bound ; mind [sian'd;
That Bible, bought by sixpence weekly Has a small space for garden-ground as-
i'av'd, [grav'd ; Here—till return of morn, dismiss'd the
Has choicest prints, by famous hands en- farm—
Has choicest notes by fameus heads made The careful Peasant plies the sinewy arm ;
out, [doubt ; Warm'd as he works, and casts his look
That teach the simple reader where to around
That make him stop', to reason whys and On every foot of that improving ground ;
hoic t It is his own he fees ; his Master's eye
And where hewonder'dihen, tocavilmore. Peers not about, some secret fault to spy ;
" Oh ! rather give me Commentators Nor voice severe is there, nor censure
plain, [brain ; known ;— [own.
Who with no deep researches \ex the Hope, profit, pleasure,—they are all hjs
Who from the dark and doubtful love "Here grow'the humble dues, and,
to run, [the fun ; hard by them, [stem ;
And hold their glimmering tapers to The tall ieÆ, tapering with his rusliy
Who simple Truth with nine-fold High climb his Pulse in many an even
Reasons back, [lack. row; [below;
And guard the point no enemies at- Deep strike the ponderous roots in foil
'.'Buuya.it s fam'd Pilgrim rests that shelf And herbs of potent smell and pun
upon, gent tafle [past.
A genius rare but rude was honest John ; Give a warm relish to the night's re-
Not one who, early by the Muse beguil'd, " Apples and Cherries grafted by his
i Drank from her well the waters undesil'd ; hand, [ket stand.
Notoncwhoslowly gain'd the hill sublime, And cluster'd Nuts, for neighbouring mar-
Then often sipp'd, and little at a time; ' ' "Nor thus concludes his labour; near
Bul one who dabbled in the sacred springs, the cot ts|'°t.;
And drank them rhuddy, mix'd with baler The Recd-fence rises round some favourite
things. Where rich Carnations, Pinks with pur '
" Here, to interpret Dreams we read the pie eyes, [prize,
rules, [schools ; Proud Hyacinths, the least some Florist's
Science our own ! and never taught in Tulips tall-stemm'd and poune'd Auri-
In moles and specks we Fortune's gilts dis culas rife.
cern, [derings learn. " Here, 011 a Sunday-eve, when service
And Fate's fix'd will from Nature's warf- ends,
" Of Hermit Quarle we read in island Meet and rejoice a Family of Friends ;
me, [Care; All speak aloud, are happy and are free,
Far from mankind, and seeming far from And glad they seem, and gaily they agree.
Safe fiom alt want, and sound in every " What though fastidious ears may (hurt
limb, [him". the speech [teach ;
Yes ! thru was he, and there was Care with Where all are talkers, and where none can
',' ynbound and heap'd these valued Where still the welcome and the words are
works beside [supplied ; old,
Laid humbler works, the pedlar's pack And the fame stories are for ever told ;
Yet
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Yet their'« is joy that, bursting from the How bend and curl the moist-top to the
heart, [impart ; spouse,
Prompts the glad tongue these nothings to And give and take the vegetable vows ; .
That fprfns these tones of gladness we de Hpw those esteem'd of old but tips and
spise, [eyes ; chives,
That lifts their steps, that sparkles in their Are tender husbands and obedient wives^
That talks, or laughs, or runs, or shouts, Who live and love within the (acred bower.
or plays ; [ways. That bridal bed, the vulgar term a Flower."
And speaks in all their looks and all their The Marriage Register give> she Au
" Fair scenes of Peace ! ye might detain thor an opportunity of displaying his
us long ; [song." didactic powers ; take of these the re-
|!ut Vice and Misery now demand the mark* which follow ihc registering of a
Here the scene darkens, but not the wedding in higher life:
poetry ; for which, however, the reader
is referred to the original. " How fair these names ! how much
The introduction thus concludes : unlike they look [Book. I
To all the blurr'd Subscriptions in my
*' Such are our Peasants, those to whom The Bridegroom's Let'crs stand in row
we yield above, [Grove,;
Glories Unsought, the Fathers of the Field ; Tapering, yet stout, like Pine-trees in-'fiis
And these who take from our reluctant While free and fine the Bride's appear
hand; [mands. below, 7
What Burn advises, or the Bench corn As light and (lender as her Jasmines grow.
s' Our Farmers round, well pleas'd with Mark now in what confusion stoop, or
constant gain, stand, [Hand.;
I/vke other farmers, flourish and complain. The crooked Scrolls of many a clownish
These are our Groups, our Portraits next Now out, now in, they dtoop, they fall,
appear, they rife, [cise^ )
And close our Exhibition for the Year." Like raw Recruits drawn forth for Exet-
The Register of Baptisms affords Ere jet refbrm'd and modcl'd by the
some pleasing anecdotes. Let a pe Drill, [will.
dantic Gardener serve as a specimen : The free-born Legs stand striding as they
«' Why Lonicera wilt thou name thy " Much have I tried to guide the l'ift
Child?" along, [lings wrong.
I ask'd the Gardener's wife, in accent mild ; But still the Blunderers plac'd their Blor-
'We have a right,' replied the sturdy dame ; Behold that these Marks'uncouth! how strange
Men, [ihe Pen t
And Lonicera was the infant's name-. Who guide the Plough, should fail te guide
If next a son shall yield our Gardener joy, For half a Milt, the Furrows even lie ;
Then Uyacintkus shall be that fair boy ; For half an Inch, the Letters (land awry.
And if a girl, they will at length agree, Js it that, strong and sturdy in the Field,
That Belladonna that fair maid shall be.
" High-sounding words our worthy Gar They scorn the Arms of idle Men to wield ?
dener gets, [peats : Or givequillihat Hand, to guide the GooCc-
And at bis club to wondering swains re- That rules aTip, [Whip?
He then of Rftus and Rh»dodendron speaks, The Lions they,Team, and brandishes a .
whom conscious Powers
And Altium calls his onions and his leeks ;
Kor weeds are now, for whence arose the To playforbid— the Ape, and " dandle with ther.
[Kid."
weed, [flowers proceed ;
Scarce plants, fair herbs, and curious The Third and last Part, the Register
Where CuckoO'pints'dnA Dandelions sprung os Burials, is pleasingly pathetic. Not
(Gross names had they, our plainer sires to multiply quotation, we pass by rhe
among), record of (bine eccentric Females 10 a
There Arums, there Leontodons we view, more deserving theme :
And Artinxijia grows where ffirmumod " Next to these Ladies, but in nought,
grew. .■ [round,
"But though no weed exists his garden A nobleallied,
From Riimcx strong our Gardener frees Noble hePeasant, Isaac Asliford, died.
was, contemning all things
his ground ; mean, [rene ;
Takes soft Senecio from the yielding land, His truth,
And grasps the arm'd Urtiia in his hand. Of no man'sunquestion'd, and his foul fe-
presence Isaac felt afraid ;
" Not Darwin's fell had more delight to At no man's question Isaac look'd dismay'd ;
fin- Shame knew him not; he dreaded no
Os floral courtship in th'awaken'd Spring,
Than Peter Pratt, who, simpering, loves Truth, disgrace ; [face.
' a simple
• :- Truth, was writtea '•' " in
to tell b/ia
- Yet;
Bow rile the Siemens as the Pistils fwel^
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Yet, while the serious thought his foul ' Kind are your Laws ("tis not to b«
approv'd, [lov'd : denied)
Cheerful he scem'd, and gentleness he That iu you I louse for ruin'dAge provide;
To bliss domestic he his heart relign'd, And just us kind; when young, weg v<
And with the firmest had the fondest mind. you, all, [call.
Were others joyful, he look'd smiling on, And then for comforts in our weakness
And gave allowance where he needed none ; Why then this proud reluctance to be fed,
Good he refus'd with suture ill to buy ; Tojoin yourpoor.andeat theparish-breadr^
Nor knew the joy that caus'd Reflection's But yet I linger, loth with him to live,
sigh. Who, while he feeds me, is as loth to give ;
A Friend to Virtue, his unclouded breast He who by contract all your paupers took.
No envy stung, no jealousy dilirest And gauges stomachs with au anxious
(Bane of the Poor, that wounds their look.
weaker mind, [boursfind). On some old master I could well depend ;
Who miss one comfort that their neigh- See him with joy, and thank him as 4
Yet far was he from Stoic-pride remov'd ; friend ;
lie felt with many, and he warmly lov'd. But ill on him who doles the day's supply,
I mark'd his action when his infant died, And counts our chances, who at night
And an old neighbour for offence was tried ; may die. [vain ;
The still Tears, stealing dowu that furrow 'd Yet help me, Heaven '. to mourn my lot is
cheek, [speak. Mine it is not to choose, but to sustain.'
Spoke pity, plainer than the Tongue can "Such were his thoughts, and so re-
If Pride were his, 'twas not their vulgar sign'd he grew ;
Pride, [deride ; Daily he plac'd the Workhouse in his view;
Who, in their base contempt, the Great But came not there, for sudden was but
Nor Pride in Learning, though my Clerk fate ;
agreed, [succeed ; He dropp'd,e\piring at his cottage-gate !
If Fate should call him, Afhford might " I feel his absence in the hours of
Nor Pride in Rustic Skill, although he prayer,
knew [but few. And view his feat, and sigh for Isaac there;
More skilful none, and fkill'd like him I fee no more those white locks thinly
But if that spirit in his foul had place, spread [head ;
It was the jealous Pride that fliuns Dis Round the bald polish of that honour'd
grace ; No more that aweful glance on playful
A Pride in honest Rune, by Virtue gain'd, wight [light ;
In sturdy boys to virtuous labours train'd J Compel I'd to kneel and tremble at the
Pride, in the Power that guards his Coun To fold his fingers all in dread the while,
try's Coast, Till Mister Asliford foftcn'd to a smile ;
And all that F.nglifhmcn enjoy and boast ; No more that meek, that suppliant look.
Pride, in a life that Slandcr'sTongucdcfy'i ; in prayer, [there—■
Iu fact, a noble passion, mifnam'd Pride. Nor that pure faith, that gave it force, are
" Me had no Party's rage, no Sect'ry's But he is blest, and I lament no more
whim ; [him. A wife good man contented to be poor."
Christian and Countryman was all with " My Record ends :—But hark ! ev' .
True to his Church, he, came, no Suuday- A now I hear [to fear :
sliowcr The bell of Death, and know not whofs
-Kept him at home in that important hour; Our Farmers all, and all our Hinds were
Norhis firm Feet could one persuading Sect well ; [dwell :—
By the new Light to the new Way direct ;— In no man's cottage Danger seem'd to
*> .Mine noware Faith and Hope," he laid ; Yet death of man proclaim these heavy
*< Adieu 1 chimes, - [three times.
J far to lose them in a Way so new." For thrice they found, with pausing space,
" In times severe, when many a sturdy " Go ; of my Sexton seek, whole days are
Swain sped ?"— [dead ?'
Felt it his pride, his comfort to complain, « What ! he, himself ?—and is old Dibble
Isaac their wants would soothe, his own His eightieth year he reach'd, still unde-
would hide, cay'd, ■• [vey'd.
^And feel in that his comfort and his pride. And Rectors five to one close vault con-
" At length he found, when Seventy But he is gone j his care and skill I lose,
Years were run, And gain a mournful subject for my Muse.
Mis strength departed, aud his labour done ; His Masters lost, he'd oft in turn deplore,
His honest fame he yet retain'd ; no more ; And kindly add,—' Heaven grant I lose
HisWife was buried, and hisChildren poor ; no more !'
*Twas then, a spark of—fay not Discon Yet while he spake, a sly and pleasant
tent— [vent : glance [lance :
Rtfuck^ on, bis mind* aud. tbm be gave it Appeitt'd at sciatic.* with his complai-
j .' " For,
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For, as he told their fat* and varying extraordinary specimens of genius."
worth, [farth.' This, however, we think incredible;
fie archly look'd,—' 1 yet may bear thee and we may fay so without impeach
.The old Sexton, after characterising ing the precocity of Mrs. Chapone's
the several Rectors whom he had genius. We are told that (he was early
served, thus concludes : a reader of Romances ; and (lie might
•* I 've seen -my best of Preachers,—and had have written something like what (he
my last."— [said, couldreadknow
: but a child of nine years old
nothing of love, or dis
He bowM, and archly smil'd at what he
Civil, but sly:—'And is old Dibble dead?' play either invention or genius on such
Yes! he is gone: and we are foing a subject. Is this romance in existences
all ; [fall :— Her mother was a beauty, not ex.-
Like flowers we wither, and like leaves we empt from the vanity of her fox ; and
Here, with an Infant, joyful Sponsors come, fearing that her daughter's understand
Then bear the new-made Christian to its ing might become a more attractive
home : object than the personal charms on
A few short years, and we behold him which she valued hei self, (he took no
stand great pleasure in the progress which
To ask a bleffing, with his Bride in hand -. Hester made ; and if (he did not oh-
A few, still seeming shorter, and we hear struct, at least did not use any extraordi
His Widow weeping at her Husband's bier. nary pains in promoting her education.
Thus, as the months succeed, sliall Infants This mother, however, died when her
take [forsake ;
Their names, while Parents them and us daughter was yet young ; and a cir
cumstance, which otherwise might have
Thus Brides again and Bridegrooms blithe been of serious consequence, seemed to
shall kneel, [seal.
By Love or Law compell'd their vows to strengthen the inclination Miss Mulso
Ere I again, or one like me, explore had (hewn to cultivate her mind, to
These simple Annals of the Village Poor." overleap the age of frivolous putfulls,
The other Poems must be reserved and to supply, in her father's house
for a suture article. hold, the lots of a mistress. In her pro
gress (he studied the French and Italian
135. The Poslhumous Works of Mrs. Cha- languages, and, though in a lesser de
pone. Containing her Correspondence gree, the Latin. She was accustomed
tciih Mr. Richaidson ; a Series of Let to read the best Authors, especially
ters to Mrs. Elizabeth Carter; andsome those who treat of morals and philoso
■Fugitive Pieces, never lesore published. phy. To all this (lie added a critical
Together with an Account of her Life perusal of the Holy Scriptures'; but
and Character, drawn up by her own History, we are told, made no part of
Family. 1 vols. her studies until the latter part of her
THRSE volumes will form a verv life.
acceptable present to the admirers of Her acquaintance with Richardson,
Mrs. Chapone; nor will they diminish whose Novels were at that time the fa
from her well-known and well-earned vourites of her sex, introduced her to
fame. She was one of the first English Mr.Chapone, a young gentleman then
Ladies, in modern times, who rescued practising law in the Temple. Their
the character of her sex from the ge attachment was mutual, but not hasty
neral imputation of frivolity. or imprudent. She obtained her fa
Before noticing the " Posthumous ther's consent, and a social intimacy
Works" contained in these volumes, continued for a considerable period be
we (hall enrich our Miscellany with fore it ended in marriage.
the following abridged Sketch of her In the mean time (he became ac
Use : quainted with the celebrated Mils Car-,
Hester Mulso, the daughter of Tho ter; a correspondence took place, which
mas Mull'o, Esq. of Twywell, in increased their mutual esteem ; and a
Northamptonshire, was' born Oct. 87, friendship was thus cemented, which
1727 i and at a very early age exhibited lasted during a course of more than
proofs of a lively imagination and su fifty years.
perior understanding. It is said, that Miss Mulfo's first productions appear
at nine years she composed a romance, to have been the Ode to Peace, and
intituled "The Loves of Ainoret and that addressed to Mils Carter on her
Melissa ;" which, we are here told, intended publication of the translation
exhibited " fertility o( invention, and of Enictetu*. About the (ame time
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she wrote the story of Fidelia, which London had no more charms for her,
Miss Carter an<l her othe-r friends who (he determined to fettle in Winchester,
bad read ft persuaded her to lend to the where her favourite niece was married
Editor of the Adventurer. to the Rev. Benjamin Jeffieyn but
In l?()0 (he was married to Mr. the death of that niece in child bed
Chapone, on the fame day that her made her relinquish this design, anil
brother Thomas was married to Miss remain in her cheerless lodgings in
Prefcot. She then removed to Lon London. So many deprivations had
don, and for some time lived with her now he^un to afl'ect her mind ; and
husband in lodgings in Carey-ltreet, her sympathizing friends persuaded her
and afterwards in a house of their own to remove to Hadlev, wh°re she died
in Am add street. She enjoyed every Deo. 25, 1801, in the 74ih year of
degree of happiness which mutual at her age.
tachment, ardent yet rational, could Such are the outlines of Mrs. Cha-
confer; but, alas ! it was of (lion du pone's life, as given by the authority
ration. In lei's than ten months after of her family. The account, our
they were married, Mr. Chapone was Reader? will perceive,, differs, in some
seized with a fever, which was, from points from that given in our vol.
its beginning, pronounced fatal, and LXXI. p. 12l6; where among her
terminated his existence (hto life) after works is enumerated "A Letter to a
about a wee It's illness. At first, Mrs. New- married Ladv," of which we find
Chapone Itemed to bear thh calamity no notice in these volumes. It is also
with fortitude; but it preyed on her (aid, in our account, that Mr. Cha
health, and for some time her life was pone left a daughter, married, in 1 795,
despaired of. She recovered, however, 10 Mr. Thresher, of the Strand. This
gradually, and resigned herself to a is likewise unnoticed in the present
state in which she had sound many work, and may be a mistake; but the
kind friends, and many solid consoja- "Letter to a New-married Lady" ought
tious. About two years after, her la to have been mentioned as hers, pub
ther died, and left her some addition lished in 1777, with her name, and
to her fortune, which never appears to sold bv Oilly, her bookseller. (See our
have been verv great. vol. XLVlt p. I87-)
Mrs. Chapbne now passed most of These Posthumous Works consist of
.her time in London, or in occasional her Correspondence with Mrs Carter,
visits to her friends; among whom she in whole or in extracts ; her Corre
had the happtY.ct's to number many spondence with Richardson ; a Matri
distinguishes! characters of both sexes; monial Creed ; and a Prayer found in
Lord Lytlelloit, Mrs. Montague, and her hand-writing aster het death.
the friends who usually composed her ' Her Letters lo Mrs. Carter ;>re sensi
literary circle. In 1770 (he accompa ble, affectionnte, and entertaining. The
nied Mrs. Montague on a tour lo following extract will be no uninterest
Scotland. ing preleut lo the collectors of John-
In 1773 she published her " Letters fouiana It relates to a visit 'he paid
on (lie Improvement of the Mind," 10 Richardson al Nnnhcnd; but, like
originally intended for the use. .of her nianv os the letters, it has no date :
niece, the daughter of the Rev John "We had a visit, whilst there, from
Mulso,. hut given to the world at the your friend Mr. Johnson and poor Mrs.
judicious request of" Mrs. Montague Williams. 1 was charmed with his be
and her oilier literary siieuds. As this haviour to her, which was like that of a
was her first avowed publication, it fond father to his'daughtcr. She seemed
•»ave her a name in the world, and much pleated with her visit; shewed very
added -to the number of her admirers good fense, with a great de ll of modesty
those who knew her only as a writer. . and humility ; and Ib much patience aud
This work was soon followed by the cheerfulness under Her mislortune, that it
volume 6f "Miscellanies," in which doubled niy concern foi he;. .Mr. John
she reprinted the story of Fidelia, and son was very communicative and enter-,
some poetical pieces. taining, and did me the honour to ad
dress most of his discourse to me. 1 had
The latter years of her life were em the assurance to dispute wirh him on the
bittered by the loss of the greater part subject of human nialigmry, and wonder
of the friends of her youth ; and after ed to hear a man who by his actions
the death of her brother, in 1799, as shews so mu«h benevolence maintain that
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the human hsart is naturally malevolent,
and that all the' benevolence we fee in
the few who are good is acquired by rea
son and religion. You may believe I en
tirely disagreed with him, being, as you
know, fully persuaded that benevolence,
or the love of our fellow-creatures, is as
much a part of our nature as self-love,
and that it cannot be suppressed or extin
guished without great violence from the
force os other passions. I told him 1 sus
pected him of these bad notions from
some of his Ramblers, and had accused
him to you, but that you persuaded me I
had mistaken his fense. To which he an
swered, that if he had betrayed such sen
timents in the Ramblers, it was not with
design, for that he believed the doctrine
of human malevolence, though a true
one, is not an useful one, and ought not
to be published to the world. Is there any
truth that would not be useful, or that
should not be known?"
The following anecdotes of the Abbfi
Reynal are, we believe, new, and, con
sidering what we have witnessed of late
years in a neighbouring nation, not
uninteresting :
" I suppose you have heard a great deal
ef the Abbe Reynal, who is in London
(l"?7). I fancy you would have served
him as Dr. Johnson did ; to whom, when
Mrs. Vcfey introduced him, he turned
from him, and said he had read his book,
and would have nothing to fay to him. I
am told that his wit flows in an unceasing
torrent ; and, instead of ' spitting a pearl
every minute,' it is one continued chain
of pearls which issues from his mouth. I
have not been in the way to gather any of
them. I fliculd like to fee him as a spec
tacle; but should no more desire his ac
quaintance than Dr. Johnson, for there is
an impertinence in Frtnch philosophy that
turns my stomach."
"The Abbs Reynal dined at Mrs. Bof-
cawen's, at Glanvilla, about ten days ago;
and she was so obliging as to ask Mrs. A.
Burrows and me to meet him in the af
ternoon. I was exceedingly entertained,
and not a little amazed (notwithstanding
all I had heard about him) by the un
ceasing torrent of wit and stories, not un
mixed with £Ood fense, which flowed
from him. He held on at the same rate
fjsom one at noon (when he arrived at
•lanvilla) ; and we heard that he went
the same evening to Mrs. Montague's, in
Hill-street, and kept on his speed till one
in the morning. In the hour and a half
I was in his company, he uttered as
much as would have made him an agree
able companion for a week, had he al
lowed time for answers. You fee such a
person can only be pleasing as a thing to
1 person
; Publications. [Not1.
wonder at once or twice. His conversa
tion was, however, perfectly inoffensive,
which is more than his writings promise;
his vivacity, and the vehemence of hi»
action (which, however, had not any visi
ble connexion with his discourse) were
amusing to me, who am little accustomed
to foreigners." *
" I long for a history of all your travels
and adventures since I law you, and a
very particular description of all that re
lates to the friends you are vvith ; charac
ters so interesting that one wishes to be
acquainted with their very pig-stye. They
are indeed respectable, in the proper use
of the werd ; which I agree with you is
very ill applied to the Abbe Reynal, un
less confined to his abilities merely, ex
clusive of the use he makes of them. And
even his understanding is so clouded by
vanity and coxcombicality, that it often
excites my laughter instead of my admi
ration. In his pathetic rhapsodies in
praise of incontinence, and in reverence
of the blessed institution of a public bro
thel adjoining to the Temple, he is most
truly ridiculous, as well as immoral. I
abhor, as much as he can do, that gloomy
superstition which, would strip life of its
fleetest comforts and dearest charities. I
have as high honour and reverence for the
institution of marriage as Milton had; but
how that of promiscuous prostitution can,
redound to the glory of God, or the good
of mankind, it belongs to French philvso*
pky to point out."
With regard to the Correspondence,
between Mrs. Chapone (when Miss
Mulfo) and Richardson, we are told,
in the Preface to these volumes, that
"all thoughts of printing it had been
given up by her familv, on account of
its having been suggested that the sen
timents contained in these letters were
not adapted to an age in which pa
rental authority and filial obedience are
so much relaxed as in the present." Oa
the other hand it was urged, that **no»
thing was asserted in these letters mili
tating against implicit filial obedience
in all instances where duty to a supe
rior authority did not interpose ; and
that, even with respect to marriage,
the parent was entitled to a negative,
though not to a positive command. It
was also urged, that no one could read
them without recollecting that they
were written more than half a century
ago ; a period wherein many parents
seemed really to suppose that parental
authority extended to a right to con-
troal the affections, as well as to regu
late the actions, of their children ; and
that these letters were addressed lo a
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person who, both in his public wri having given the namei of the gentle
tings and (as it has been affirmed) in men to whom he has been indebted
his private character, carried these no for aflistance, adds, " In-order to ren
tions to the molt rigid extreme." der the work in the aggregate as com
Whatever may be in these excuses, plete as pollilile, I have compiled, and
we agree with the Editor of this work, am now printing, 'Historical Anecdotes
that Mrs. Chapone's arguments against of the Benevolence, the Depravity, the
tyrannical authority in parents can do Manners, the Customs, Amusements,
no harm ; but at the (ame lime we &c. Sec. of the Inhabitants of London
have no verv great opinion of the ge during the last Century;' by which
neral tenor of her letters, convinced every apparent deficiency in Londinwm
that uo universal law can be laid Redivivum will be amply supplied. In
down, and that the propriety of con- deed, I do not hesitate to lay, that a
"duct, either in the parent or child, can publication embracing every thing on
be determined only by a consideration this subject, to an equal extent, has
of Me circumstances of the particular not hitherto appeared."
cafe. It is easy enough to lay down, Two friendly letters, from Mr. T.
as a general position, that filial obe Johnes, the elegant translator osFrois-
dience ought to be explicit in all in sart, and the celebrated junior Bacon
stances where duty to a superior au the Sculptor, are annexed to the Ad
thority does not interpose. But the vertisement.
grand point is, to determine what stiall The manner of treating the subjects
be accounted a superior authority ! in this volume is necessarily exactly si
However, if the perusal of these letiers milar to those of the preceding ; but
shall tend to throw new light on the some are of much greater interest than,
subject, they have not been published others, not through any fault of the
in vain. Compiler, but in consequence of un
The other trifles in these volumes successful applications for information.
do not requite to be specified. The We shall now point out the articles
whole, however, affords a mass of evi most worihy of attention : St. Marga
dence highly in favour of the well-cul ret's, Westminster, and Si. John's ; St.
tivated understanding and amiable dis Martin's in the Fields ; St. Paul, Cp-
position of Mrs. Chapone, who cer vent-garden ; St. James's; and St.
tainly deserves a very high rank among George, Hanover-square ; the Palace
the literary ladies of her nation. of St. J ames ; Buckingham House ;
Carleton House ; Kensington Palace;
136. Londirtium Redivivum ; or, An an- Whitehall; St. Mary-le-Strand ; So
titnt History and modern Description of merset House ; the Admiralty, &c. are
London, compiled from Parochial Re described minutely ; and the descrip
cords, Archives of various Foundations, tion is accompanied by numerous en
the Harleian MSS. and other authentic tertaining anecdotes, the result os in
Sources. By James Peller Malcolm, defatigable research through hundreds
F. S. A. Vol. IK of old periodical publications, which
AFTER our account of the former relieve ihe tœdium of the historical part.
parts of this valuable work, vol. LXXlf. St. Martin's Ludgate and Stationers
p. 1025, LXXVI. p. 433, little more Hall produce great interest in the peru
need be said of the volume which now sal ; nor is St. Mary's Whitechapel less
completes by far the best Parochial amusing and instructive. The account
History of the Metropolis. To those, of the Tower is accompanied by seve
however, who know ihe unassuming ral original papers never before printed.
habits of the Author ; the difficulties lie We would not mean to be under
has unmurmuring!v surmounted; and stood that the remaining divisions of
the laudable motives which have nerved the work are neglected ; on the con
his exertions (vol. LXVI1. 141, 506" ; trary, with very few exceptions, each
LXVIII. 48, 327; LXX. 1274; and has had every addition attainable with
LXXVII. 57,435)|; it must be a pleas out the use of Registers and Parish
ing reflection that Mr. Malcolm has at Papers.
lengih a prospect of receiving some be Mr. M. is particularly grateful to
nefit siom his labours. Alexander Chalmers, E'q. F. S. A. ;
The Advertisement prefixed to this Henrv Ellis. F. S. A. ; Messrs. Gough
volume is in the fame strain of grateful and Nichols ; Mr. Richardson ; and
acknowledgment which distingnisties the following Reverend Gentlemen :
those of the former volumes. Mr. M. Watts*
I044 Review of New Publications.* [Nov.
Watts, of Sion College ; Whiifcld, of through such a medium ; whilst at the
St. Margaret Lothbury ; Eraser, now fame time we mull be sensible that a
of Woolwich, but late of St. Martin's requisite qualification for the task can
Ludgate ; Rubfon, os Whitechapel j onlv be the result of extensive reading.
J-latch, of St. Matthew, Fridav-llreet ; We feel happy in paying our warm
Mean, of St. N:"holas Cole Abbey ; tribute of commendation 10 the work
and Pridden, of St. Paul's. which we hive before referred to, the
Poetical Specimens of Mr. Ell'S, as we
137- Specimens of English Prose- Writers, are persuaded that its valoe will he
from the cnrliejl limes to the Close of fully appreciated by those who are in
the Seventeenth Century. By George the habit of frequently referring 10 its
Burnett. • 3 vols. pages. We arc, however, under the
AMONGST the various literary necessity of observing, that the (ame
pursuits of the present day, sew have degree of praise cannot apply with
been- stil lowed with more general or equal justice 10 the wofk now under
successful ardour than the endeavours* consideration. Though the extracts
to revive and bring forward 10 public are, in some cafes, judiciously (elected,
notice the Prose and Poetical Works yet there are so many unpardonable
of our ant tnt English Authors : and omissions amongst the number of au
it may be safely urged, that no enqui thors, that the surprise of the most su
ries cm prove more interesting or be perficial reader cannot but be excited
neficially usef-il, so long as a due dis by them. The Editor appears to have
tinction is oblferved between works that paid little or no attention to Lord Or-
possess intrinsic merit and ih'ole that de ford's "Catalogue of Royal and Noble
rive their sole value from the adventi Authors;" a book which might have'
tious aids of antiquity aud scarceness. afforded him an essential service, and
Within the lalt few vears, ihe ad which has bei-n rendered, latterly, still
mirers ol this species of literature have more useful bv the valuable and exten
been peculiarly fortunate, in receiving sive augmentations of Mr. Park. Mr.
from the hands of very able Editors, B. was probably of opinion, that, as
in new and inviting dresses, many old our ennobled Authors were recorded
and valuable works of this description, in so able a manner, there was little
which, had it norbeeu for labours al necessity for him to tread »ver the (ame
most Herculean, mull doubtless have ground ; vet we are aware that the ma
beet! doomed to perpetual oblivion and jority of his leaders will lanir-nt and
neglect. To the united exertions of perceive the impropriety of ibis omis
Warton, Steevens, Johnson, Ritson, sion The fame degree of lenity can
Reed, and Gittord (with many others, not, however, be extended, when we
who,e names, equally respectable, it is find that th» names of Baker, Blount,
unnecessary here to particularize), the Bacon, Dugdale, Evelvn-, Shaftesburv,
Publick ate under the highest obliga Naunton, 'Sandys, Spratt, Weever,
tions, for the zeal, learning, and un Wood, and Wotton, with a variety
wearied research which they have uni of others whom it is unnecessary to
formly displayed in mam valuable pro name, and whose Works, to use Mr.
ductions. The use'ul t sk of collecting B's own words, " are valuable relicks
into one point of- view some poetical of past literary ages," are passed over
Relqnea of grea; and acknowledged without Ike jlightcji notice. Any ob
excellence was reserved for Dr. Percy servations upon this circumstance, we
(the now truly venerable Bishop of. are convinced, are totally unnecessary,
Dromore). And the works of Mr. as the author must be sufficiently sen
Ritson and Mr. Ellis, of a similar na sible os the oversight of which he has
ture (and which are the more imme been guilty. Thole who have perused
diate parent? of ihe piclent publication) Mr. Eliis's Specimens (lo which this
hive thrown (till greater light upon the work is a professed accompaniment)
Works of our earl . English Poets. In will be struck bv ihe comparative scan
a compilation of tins kind, it is well tiness of information t! exhibits. Not
known what various opportunities are withstanding r* tlte multitude of books"
afforded the Editor for the dilplry of which Mr. B. fays he has " tumbled
bibliographical. Lno vledtie ; historical over," yet we find no new information
and bn •.n iphic.d anieodo'es, and mis brought forward, nor a single original
cellaneous information of almost every remark elicited ; and it is very per
description, may be brought together ceptible, that, in the progress of his
researches.
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researches, he has exerted more ma ing its course on its opposite banks, on
nual labour than mental discrimina my way to the lower parts of Murray, tili
tion. Should a second edition of this Ibanks arrived at Elchies, on the North-west
work be called for, we'doubt not but from of thelSpey, and about fifteen miles
that the Editor will be lenlible of the where Elgin. 1 (laid there some time,
I found both Mrs. Grant and her
imperfections which we have pointed husband, the proprietor, extremely hospi
out, and will endeavour lo render it table, intelligent, and attentive to me. I ■
more worthy of its prototype, to which observed one day, while there, a transmi
it may eventually become an interest gration of eels in the riv«r. When I first
ing and valuable companion. observed them, it was about one in the
afternoon of a Sunday. How lone the
138. Travels in Scotland, by an unusual eels had been transmigrating before, I
Route ; ■with a Trip to the Orkneys and know not. They continued making their
- Hebrides : containing Hints for Im way up the river ail that day, till about
provements in Agriculture ami Commerce ; eight in the evening, when it grew dark.
with Characters and Anecdotes. Embel They began again early next morning;
but how long before five 1 cannot fay.
lished with yittvs of Jinking Objecls, They
and a Map, including the Caledonian whole continued to migrate for three
Canal. By the Rev. James Hall, M.A. only audays after I observed them, with
interval of a sew hours in the
In Two Volumes. night. They kept as near the North-west
.— IT is. byj rno means
I.,,- an i easy taskr toi eciee oi me
edge of nvci as they could
the river www j; and,
n,»ui
give a character of ihele volumes ; Inch ^ (hcre were bays at the edge ef itj
a mixture of good lenle illlll (lltl "HO they went regularly round these, whethtr
men's dories, of gossip and argument, great or small. They were about ten
of pleasing narrative and impertinent abreast, and each eel about three and one
digressions, were hardlv ever so jum half inches long. They marched at regu
bled together. Above all, such a pro lar distances, which might be about four
fusion of typographical errors, and or rather three and one half feet. There
thole too of the moll ridiculous kind, were stronger eels as a guard, and gene
hardlv e\er deformed any publication. rally about five or fix inches long. 1 ob
Sherlock is mistaken for Drelincntvrt ; served the smallest and weakest ones al
thousands for hundreds; Horace for ways kept nearest the edge, where the
Perfius; Ireland for Iceland ; Antino- current was least. From an accurate cal
miaus for Calvinists ; Camomile for culation, an hundred passed every minute,
Calomel ; not to speak of Sooticil'ms ceeded making six thousand per hour. They pro
and inaccuracies without number. Ne- about half at this rate for three days, from
venhelels, many of the Author's ob about half an hour before the fun rose till
after he set, making about fix-
servations are distinguished by great teen hours each day ; in all, abodt forty-
good fense and found argument, and eight hours; which, multiplied by the
moll of his narrative is very enter fix thousand that passed every hour, make
taining. two hundred and eighty-eight thouland;
His remarks on the Fisheries, vol. 1. must of which I saw pass ; but wltence
p. t)G. are judicious ; so are thole on ihcy came, or what they were in quest of,
Planting, vol. 11. p. 330. Indeed, our I know not. They did not stay for one
progress through the book was attend another, but each made the best of it*
th an equal mixture of vexation way, wriggling with the utmost celerity ;
ed w' ltisfaction;
and latisf vexed with theabun- and when I pushed any of them farther
dance of puerile tales, constant blun into the river, they always came to the
ders, and extraordinary instances of the edge as fast as they could. . Not one but
Author's credulity; and well pleased had its head up the water. They seemed
to be in great haste, and breathing hard,
with many proofs of sagacity, and a as
number os amusing anecdotes. It would the small bubbles of air often rose up to
not be fair to dismiss a publication (of any of them,and
surface; when, having caught
I turned its head down
this form and price, for it must have ward, so as to swim with the current, it
coll the Author much labour and con would nor, but with all the expedition in
siderable exfience, without a specimen ; its power joined its new companions, and
nd the following is probably as cre wriggled on along with them. As I could
ditable to the Author's style as any we not be always there, I appointed others to
ould select ; watch their motions; and I found, though
" Having traversed the South-eastern 1 could not fee exactly how they acled,
bhks of the Spey, from its mouth to its that, during the time it was beginning to
force, I turned North and East, follow- grow dark, by a kind of signal, they all at
CUM
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once hid themselves in the sand or mud
for miles at the fame instant, and seemed
not only under the command but the pro
tection of the larger ones, that, like offi
cers, commanded them. Indeed, I saw
sometimes large eels from twelve to fif
teen inches long, making up the water
now and then, about three or four yards
farther towards the middle of the river,
>nd about five and twenty yards behind
one another; but whether they were con
nected with the general emigration I
know not, though I rather suppose they
were, as they were never above twelve or
thirteen feet from the smallest eels, and
often seemed to turn an anxious look to
wards their young friends. The young
Ones, as they were near the edge, were
seldom an inch below the surface. Those
about five or fix inches long might be one
or two inches below the surface, being in
deeper water ; and the large eels went at
a much greater velocity than the smaller
ones. But, if they had any connexion, or
care of the small fry, they must sometimes
have ftopt short, or slackened their pace.
1 have seen the horse and foot-guards re
viewed by his Majesty, &c. &c. in Hyde
park, and ten thousand men pel forming
the same aeiion at the same instant of
time ; but the eels in the river Spey kept
their ranks as regutarly, and seemed to be
as subservient to the greater ones, as any
of the corps at a review arc to the com
mand of their officers."
Many plates are interspersed (several
of which we recollect having seen be-
sore) ; but these, (ike the books which
they accompany , are of very unequal
nierit. A few are by Heath, and those
have the usual merit of that Artist,
force and distinctness; the others are
•f coarse and clumsy execution. That
which represents the Highland Gentle
man receiving Company in his Shirt is
barely decent, ami had better have
been left out. The Map is neat enough,
and will be of course very useful to the
Reader.
130. A concise Gaxttteer of the most re
markable Places in the World ; wish
brief Notices of the print ipal Historical
Events and most celebrated Persons con
nected with them. To which, arc annexed,
References to Books of History, Voyages,
Traveh, &c. Intended to promote the
Improvement of Youth in Geography,
history, and Biography. By Thomas
Bourn, Teacher of Writing and Geogra
phy, Hackney.
THIS volume is inscribed to the Au
thor's Father- in-daw, Mr. Win. Butler;
" to whom the publication.of.it is wholly
to be ascribed. Early in life, and unsoh-
v Publications. [Nov.
cited," says Mr. Bourn, " you introduced
me to your family, your business, and
your friends,
" And kindest thoughts by kindest acts
express'd."
You placed a confidence in me far beyoad
what my years and our short acquaint
ance might be thought to justify ; but
which 1 have uniformly endeavoured to
merit."
" This Gazetteer has been compiled
with a view of imparting more historical,
biographical, and miscellaneous infor
mation than is generally found in such
works; and thus exciting and facilita
ting the improvement of young persons
in the agreeable and useful science of
Geography. Neither elegance nor uni
formity of composition can be expected in
this work, as it has been compiled at
short intervals, after my discharge of the
duties of a laborious diurnal employment :
though I will freely confess that I have
bestowed as much time and attention up
on it as my indispensable engagements
have allowed me ; and happy shall I
reckon myself if I shall, in any measure,
attain, what I ardently desire, the power
of blending profit with delight. Ele
gance, in fact, has been sacrificed to con
ciseness, as I wished to strengthen rather
than burthen the memory; and the praise
of diligence and propriety in selecting is
all that 1 can hope for. The references
which have been made to most of the ar
ticles whence the information has been
collected were not annexed for the pur
pose of an ostentatious display of great
reading, or for the sake of authority only ;
but to afford inquisitive scholars an op
portunity of obtaining farther knowledge
with regard to the facts, the persons, and
the places mentioned; and to engage
them to make extracts respecting remark
able events and distinguished persons,
which, if recorded in an interesting man
ner, either in poetry or prose, cannot fail
to inform the understanding, and incul
cate noble sentiments. By these means
also the memory will be greatly strength
ened.—To Mr. Stephen Jones's Biogra
phical Dictionary, and Mr. Butler's Chro
nological and Biographical Exercises, I
thought it unnecessary to refer at every
opportunity, as they are now almost uni
versally Hsed in schools. To the forme
friend I feel much obliged for many as
sistances during the progress of this work;
and to th« latter 1 have paid an humbe
but very sincere tribute of gratitude, >y
inscribing to him these first fruits of ly
literary labours."
The work appears to have been cre-
fullv compiled ; of which the reder
shall judge by an article or two, ftect-
ed without any particular prefereee.
«< C**»a,
1807O Review.—Important Literary Discovery. 1*047
"Canada, a large country in North School Theatricals to the capacities of
America, discovered by John and Sebas Youth ; and shew the possibility of inr
tian Cabot, in 1497. It was conquered structing them to speak in public, and act
by the English in 175Q, and confirmed to in characters suited to their conceptions;
them by the Peace of 1763. Canada is exciting, at the fame time, a degree of
properly the native country of furs, pel emulation for the virtues attainable at
try, and other articles which enter largely their age, without launching into He-
into the British manufactures*. It also roicks."
furnishes grain, timber, and potash ; and It is but justice to fay, that, in the
has valuable iron mines.—Gen. View of perusal ef this little dramatic entertain
the Britijh Emp. 14. It produces an ex ment, we have not been disappointed.
cellent fort of turpentine. The most re It is well adapted to the purpose it pro
markable animal of Canada is the beaver. fesses ; and the unities are strictly pre
—Butt's Bvffon, vi. 287. served. It is honoured with an Epi
" Canary Islands, a group of islands
in the,Atlantic Ocean, formerly called the logue by Dr. Dale ; and annexed to it
Fortunate, And situated about 150 miles isone"A Grammatical Piece," spoken by
of the Boys, which has some merit.
W. of the empire of Morocco. They be
long to Spain, and produce barley, sugar- Important Literary Discovery;
canes, and excellent wines ; and hence
the Canary bird originally came -f. The ly Mr. Kidd, Editor of "Optilcula
principal islands are Palma, Ferro, Go Ruhnkeniana." [From the " Lite
mera, Teneriff, Canaria, Fuertaventura, rary Panorama," October, 1807.]
and Lancerota." EARLY in June last, Mr. Kidd ac
Canary, the capital of the island of cidentally looked into Lackington's
Canaria. It is computed that 10,000 (hop j and, in pasting through the dif
hogsheads of the wine called Sack, or Ca ferent rooms, picked tip a number of
nary, are sent to England annually. They books, the margins of which were filled
make alfo great quantities of sugar."
" Carron Works, on the river Car- with annotations in the hand-writing
ron, where all sorts of iron goods are of Dr. Bentley. Mr. Kidd was in rap
made J. They are situated in Stirling tures at this discovery, and requested
shire, one mile from Falkirk. Those leave to make out a lilt of the books he
pieces of ordnance called Carronades were had found, amounting to about 160 vo
first made here.—Macpherson's Annals of lumes. His first care was, to secure this
Commerce." treasure to the Publick ; and he pre
" IsLtNGTON, a large village to the N. vailed upon Mr. Allen to give the Bri
of London, to which it is now contiguous. tish Museum the option of purchasing
On the W. is the new village of Penton- them. He waited upon Mr. Narei
ville, to which it is likewise united. The with the Catalogue ; and that gentle
New River, which is a great ornament to man loll no time in laving it before
this place, is received, at the S. W. end the. Trustees. In the Literary Panora
of it, into a large reservoir, called the ma it was first announced to the Lite
New River Head, whence its water is rary World, that, on August 8, the
conveyed, in pipes, to all parts of the Trustees agreed for the whole collec
Metropolis. Chambers, Crudcn, and De tion. Mr. Kidd's conduct his been
Foe, died at this village." most honourable, and equally Credita
140. 77ie Fifth of November; a Drama, ble to his head and to his heart. Tbi«
in Three ABs. Writtenfor Schools. By is not the only instance which the
Edmund-Philip Bridel, Ll.D. Master of Trustees have had of Mr. K's zeal and
the Academy, Bird's Buildings, Islington. ability to promote the purposes for
"THIS Drama, founded on a fact which the Museum was established ;
which occurred a few years since in Lon and we stiould have heartily congratu
don, was written with a view to adapt lated the Institution had lie been elect
* " The fur trade of Canada carries those who aie engaged in it to the astonishing
distance of 4000 miles from Montreal Westward ; in which journey they encounter va
rious difficulties and dangers.—Mackenzie's Voyages?'
f "The native Canary bird is of a greyish colour, with some yellow feathers on his
breast, which increase in size and number as the bird giows older. But the Canary
birds usually sold in England are mostly bred in Germany, and, by domestication, are
much altered from the wild natives of the Canaiies ; and their notes are less pleasing.—
Sir George Staunton's Emb. to China, I. 138."
J " Some idea may be formed of these amazing works by the consumption of coal,
which is said to be ipo tons daily.—Gilpin's Scotch Tour, I. 78."
 1048 Literary Discovery and Intelligence.—Index Indie. [Nov.
ed one of the librarians, for which of cretius would contribute considerably
fice he was a candidate. to thole which have been printed by
There are, in the Harleian Collec the late G Wakefield from a copv
tion, a few leaves of a beautiful MS. fold at taicelier. From the annota
on vellum, marked 0672, containing tions which occur in five copies of Lu-
fragment? of the first four books of the can might be compiled an important
Ilias. Mr. K. lately collated a few Supplement to the Strawberry-hill Edi
leaves in private hands, which once tion of that Poet. From four exem
formed part of that identical MS The plars of Cic. Tulc. Qnæll. filled with
gentleman who possessed these leaves Bt'iillcy's MS corrections, , in all pro
presented them to the Trustees, with a bability considerable additions might
suitable inscription, in which mention be drawn to those notes which have
is made of the indefatigable scholar by been so laudably issued from, the Cla
whom they had been identified. rendon prets. We would willingly
We beg leave to make a remark on a enlarge upon copies of other works
passage in the Preface to Ruhnkenius's which have been enriched by the pen
Tracts, p. lix. " Lacrozio nunciavit of the illustrious Bentley, and which
Bnr.man.nu9 ' a Cl. Bentleio animad- trace-to the curious' reader the route of
verliones in notas (has Ovidianas pa- his researches; but we mull forbear;—
rari ;' quavfi rite audita recordor, cum ravlx s^ij Tot Wf \%yoptn% srif ty^cti.
scholiis in HomeruiD avinJoiom et aliii
maximi pretii Scriniis periertint, ' ut LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
ipse ægre vitam servavit.' We rejoice Mr. Sowerby has just issued a "Pro
to hear that those materials, which spectus of a new Elucidation and Ar
would have formed the groundwork of rangement of Colours; to shew a na
this matchless Critick's animadversions tural and simple Method of mixing
on Burmau's Ovid, are not irretrievably them, and something of the Nature
lull. Some lew of them, it is true, have of Iridescent Tints, as well as an easy
been curtailed by the mercilels knife Mode of producing the Three Primi
of the Bookbinder ; but the emenda tive and Seven Prismatic Tints from
tions and strictures which have escaped Light, through all possible Mixtures to
are more numerous, as well as more Browns and Darkness; with a Design
»aluable, than all those which can be for a Chromatometer, or Measurer of
gleaned from the labours of professed Colours; being a totally new Inven
Editors and occasional Oiiicks since tion, to measure the Densities of all
the days of the great M. lleinfius. We Varieties of the Evanelcent or Prisma
suspect that the inediled Scholia were tic Tints (hitherto either not thought
a transcript from the celebrated Leip- of or Jeetned chimerical) ; and a Chro
sic MS. which Dr. B. had procured matic Scale, and List of Substantial or
through the kindness of the learned Material Colours (shewing that they
and unfortunate St. Berber. We have mix precisely in the same Order), ei
seen traces of this woeful accident in ther for Comparison or general Use, as
Ib me of Dr Bs books; particularly ill Pigments, both in Water and Oil.-—
his copy of Juvenal, collated with sun With a Proposal for an Exhibition of '
dry MSS. We are informed that it Primitive aud Prismatic Colours."
was life dangerous custom of our Aril-
tarchns to read at night, in bed, by the INDEX INDICATORIUS.
light of a wax taper, and that the cur Sudeley shall be duly considered. If
tains, in an unguarded moment, caught be will for a moment rctiect, he mull see
fire, which was instantly communica that the printing the whole of his Letter
ted to some of his bools and papers, would aggravate the offence.
and committed lamentable devastation. We have received a very good Letter,
"Among the books once Benllev'g, from our (Correspondent in p. 513, on the
and now the property of the British subject of the supposed Miracle. But it is
Museum, are copies of several works be sufficient for a large pamphlet, and would
which he had early in life undertaken the parent of twenty more.
to publish, hut afterwards relinquished, been Both the copies of R. B's verses have
as well as detached specimens of that can doreceived ; but the kindest thing we
is to suppress them.
Herculean talk which once excited We should be. glad to be better ac
such high expectations, " Reliquiæ quainted with our sincere Friend G. B. de
omnis Gisecæ Poeleos, philosophies,' Elb ; whose Drawing shall be returned
eoicæ, elegiacæ, dramau'eæ, lyricæqne." whennysr tic wiilferjouall^ call for it...
The marginal notes in a copy of Lu A Take*
 Selefi Poetry, fir November, 1807. 1049
A Token of Rfspeti to the Memory of And filial piety, his favourite theme :
Archbishop Markham. " His was the task t' inform our ductile
K«*i> i' im tyu sw "hi opQaKnoZrH, minds [ways of honour,
With worthiest thoughts, and point the
T. 169. And oftsmooth the while eaclx rigid precept
I ne'erJlialL look upon his like again." With winning tokens of paternal love:" .
Shakspeare.
WHERE glides deep-eddied Eye, by Himselfpow'r how lov'd ! as tho' some Angel-
[bent
haul unsung, [stream,
Skirting the paftur'd meads with silver Had ta'en his shape, and to the utmost
What hour the fun broad- orb'd had reach'd Of fond idolatry call'd forth our homage ;
the copse [brink, Only they good,
lov'd him not, who lov'd nQt
[reck'd ;
That westward slopeth to the river's And study's
My oft-frequented path I trac'd ; intent The stubborn, bright renown but little
sluggish, and of order due
On years long since betid ; and much re- Impatient ; these justly rnet his sternest
volv'd ['rifts look, [stripes.
The happy vantage, and fair boding That aw'd conceited Folly more thqn.
That Time, e'en in our school-day stirring Ever the same, as on her banners
morn, [minds ;
Wafts on its freighted tide to studious And likeblaz'd, ,
the spirit of her glorious Founder,
Omitted all our after-life is spent,
Bootless regret ! in self-upbraiding sighs. May Westminster none ;
remain! second to
[own,
Soon dusky eve came on, and shuddering That School, in which, by nurture all her
gloom [fate Great minds are form'd to Heav'n-born
O'ercast my thoughts, of some disastrous holy Truth, [lore :
Prophetic ; when with too soon speeding AndCournge
ill [haste, Ne'er may westaunch,and Learning's useful
lack, in days degenerate,
Surcharg'd, and bursting with officious Some rigid Busby with a Markham's taste,
Loud Rumour's tongue affail'd my fearful To save the rising race from trammels dull
ear, Of tutorage domestic ; and the lure
And told unfeelingly of Markham's death. On gaudysigns,likevintner's bu(h,held out,
Appall'd 1 stood :—whilst recollection Yclep'd Academies—fallacious, shallow,
fresh, . . Prolific nursery of pert smattering fops,
Dearer than ever, of the rever'd Sire,
Rack'd my sworn heart with sorrow's OfHis libertines, and sceptics unabafh'd.
be that old and antique chair, In
ling'ring pain.
Grief often, medicinal to itself, which
By grief indulg'd is footh'd—I will, to Authority, with Nicol!, so long fat,
Who, as the laws of Solon or Lycurgus, ,
morrow,
Still inly musing upon him that 's gone, The well-tried customs* ruks, obser
Unseen, betake me to the braky dell, vances,
There cull the few autumnal flow'rs that And Holds sacred of our steady discipline,
droop, [wan Unsullied,to the latest age transmits them all
Meet strewment for his bier, but ah! too Methinks undiminish'd, unimpair'd.
For the bright wreaih, by classic hands And rare endowment I see him, as with . manly zealr
prepar'd of his active pow'rs,
On Isis' fringed bank, to deck his shrine. Up Honour's times ;
steepy track he prefs'd be
Well I remember that sweet prime cf Scorning indignant the mean wily arts,
youth, And base degrees, by which th' unworthy .
When Genius, under his, tuition bland,
Its fair and hopeful blossoms thick put So the climb: young eagle from some beetling
[cliff,
-forth
Alert ; when, like contenders in a prize, For hiswings, new flight prepar'd, dilates his
[tard tribe .
Or challengers i' th' antient chivalry, And feels adventurous strength ; thedaf-
" Jealous of honour," rjval striplings Below with chatt'ring spleen, and envy
strove [smile ; bloat,
Who first might merit hh approving Eyehimafkaunt; nathless he daring rises*
'TwasyoungAmbilion'sspur—Can I forget And (oars aloof, and looks Upon the fun.
With what ripe j udgment, critic skill cor Intrepid firmness, conscious rectitude
rect,
And serious wisdom, to our full-fix'd*ye Possess'd him wholly, and befitted best
For loftiness of thought, and great designs,
He held up Homer's mufe-inspir'd page ; And princely acts of wide munificence :
And bade us fetch thence lib'ral senti Quick-touching
ment, [pride. sympathy, kindness un-
Just character, self-reverence, virtuous lestrain'd j
Gent.'Mag. November, l«07. For
8
 1050 Seleft Poetry, for
For priest-becorning hospitality, >
And kind attention to the lowest guest.
His bounty knew no ehb, but did enrich
With swelling current, and augmented
cou tic [pose
Where it was wont to flow ; such the re-
Thy merit, Lloyd1 old worn-out labourer
In grammar's toilsome repetition, found,
And peaceful ending of thy well-pass'd
years, ,
In dear society with such a friend.
Nor time, nor plac?, nor his pre-emi
nence
Of mitred Tank 5 hot my untowardness
Estrang'd him aught from me :—memora
ble day 3 [sprung
From forth my gate when I exulting
To hail his welcome—clasp'd his knees,
and crav'd
The tseraediction of his hallow'd age 5
Thenon his talk I hung, instructive, open,
With clearest sense ilium'd, and comment
shrewd
Of men and manners -, fam'd Ulj ffes' like,
Or Nestor, Pylian oracle, whose lips
Dropt honied eloquence and counsel
sage :
What 's left—but that to yon high fretted
Hatt, fdight,
Spacious, superb, with learning's trophies
i yet, by duty summon'd, may repair;
Then gaze enrapt, where the expressive
form • [spirit,
Assumes his stately person, breathes his
And, with his graceful grandeur, speaks
again ?
Hail, Woisey's honour'ddome! to thee
Teturn [in,
The golden days thou erst didst glory
Of Fell and Aldrich ! nev«r-dying names !
Since ■ Markham
n<gh laps'dcame, and bade thy sons,
In shapeless indolence, and wildfnis-rule,
Rfgaifi their pristine claim, nor let go by
The palm to Science and the student due.
"Him" now With pious obsequy lament—
Him oft in grateful eulogies record—
And be his fame as lasting as thy own.
'fifelton Movcbrai), Thomas Fohb,
Nov. Q. ■ LL. D.v/Chr. Ch.
ON THE APPEARANCE OF THE
COMET.
ERE Britain's Newton ioar'd in bound
less space, [of Hcav'n ;
Meafur'd and trae'd the spangling orbs
Unveil'd the tabiet of fair Nature's laws ;
Revolving Comets, hoary wizards said,
Portentous were of many dire events,
The woe of famine, or the scourge of war ;
A'Konarch's peril, or a kingdom's fall ;
Ev'ii cloistral rites the error fanctify'd,
Anr! cunning Friars preach'd the awful
tale -. [heart,
With sacred truth inpress'd, and pious
M{rtJ calmly now beholds (be Scry stream^
November, 1807.
Nor fears a blight will skim the teemiUfc
earth,
Nor dreads ensanguin'd victors' cruel rage,
Nor counts with hope a ruthless Des
pot's end,
Nor shudders for a King's impending fate ;
Nor, tho' the measures of their guilt be
high, [gulph;
Glooms on the chasm a people shall in-
But silently adores the First Great
Cause
Of order and denial rtSittiie.
Ouder is Nature's universal theme ;
Unheeded in the moral fense atone.
Let Comets blaze, or Thunder (hake the
Heavens,
Or the xrch'd sky a placid aspect wear,
Distraction will aw.iit the trait'rous hearts
Kuin stilt hovers o'er the Tyrant's head,
And Vice portends a Nation'i deep dijlrejs,
ON THE FALL OF THE LEAF.
A Sonnet.
By Miss Seward.
BEHOLD that tree, in Autumn's dim
decay, [ing wind ;
Stript by the frequent chill, and eddy-
Where yet some yellow, lonely leaves
we find r/Pray 5
Lingering and trembling on the naked
Twenty, perchance, for millions whirl'd
away ! [kind ?
Emblem, alas! too just, of human*
Vain man expects, longevity, defign'd
For few indeed ; and their protracted
day [scorn ?
What is it worth that Wisdom does no£
The blasts of sickness, care, and gri»f
appal, [morn
That laid the friends in dust, whose natal
Rose near tbeir own;—and solemn is the
call ;— [forlorn,
Vet like those weak, deserted leaves for
lorn, [fall !
Shivering they cling to life, and tear t<*
ODE TO CONTENT.
THRICE happy he, whose daily prayer
Is to preserve, with sober care,
An easy competence ;
Whole happy and contented mind
Is ever placid and refin'd,
And trusts in Providence.
His views are bounded with his state^
Nor envies he the rich or great ;
In peaceful solitude,
Far from the world's gay, giddy blaze^
He spends his humble happy days,
la acts benign and good.
Heaven grant that I a mind like his.
Contented ever may possess ;
While, free from anxious fears,
J may a moderate share enjoy
Of blessing* that can never cloy,
ApAid reyolyinj ysars, W. F. R. S.
Mr.
 §ekfl Poetry, for November, 1807. IO51
&n the Lines addrejsetl by Rev. Joshoa And as the smites of a propitious Kings
Stephenson to liit Mothtt, p. 757. Glad ev'ty face within the pressing ring;
'"THOUGH, faith the Psalmist, life Andas the Palace of the Sun displays
Upon the circling clouds its galden rays ;
1 should last And as we most admire the sparkling eye,
Till fourscore years are gone and past, When guarded with aa arch of blackest
Tis toil and sorrow all ; dye ;
So swifs the moments glide away, So this fair dome looks beautifully bright,
So f ist we grow, so fast decay, Surrounded with her guards as Mack, as
We spring, we bloom, we fall. Night ;
All i never felt the Psalmist's heart And so her bounty flows from er'ry fide,
What bliss can filial love impart, The Mountain's glory, and the PeakitTs
As vital pow'rs decline ! pride.
How throbs the m.ithtr' 1 breast, to see A Mr. Cresset, who had been. Baisifrfn
The cares bestow'd on infancy the Duke os Devonshire's family upwards of
Repaid to seventy-nine ! TO years, died at Chatsworth hi June I7**gy
Else with far dist'rer.t thoughts the Sage at the age of 104. See vol. X!X. p. 301.
Had pondcr"d on approaching age, Yours, &c, Derbiensis.
His race now nearly run :
He nothing reck* pf human woes-, AN ADDRESS TO Dr. HAWES.
No. toil rje feels, no frrrow knows, LET those, on whom the vijtnotrs-
Who rears a thankful son. 1. H. a minded Muse [fire,
Ne'er breath'd a portion of her tiallow'dt
Mr. Ubban, Kov. 1. The sordid paths of Vieeand Polly chuse-,
^""HE following Lines were written on And to mean subjects smite the tinkling
£ the wall in the Pavilion ut Chatsworth, wire.
by the very learned Mr. Michael Martiaire. If aught to me of that blest art is gtv'n
QUAL1TER in mediis, quam non t'pera- To wake to pleasing melody the string,
verat, urbem, Be mine the talk, in gratitude to Heav'n,
Attonitus Venetam navita cernit aquis : Of deeds, wrvicU Heav'n applausive marks,
Sic irnprovifo emergens e montibus. imis, to sing.
Attollit fcfe Devoniana domus. O gadlUte skill ! important gist to man,
Translated thus by Colley Cibber, Esq. The dying spark to kindle—to restore—
NOT sailors view with more altonistVd Add length'ning years to life's, contracted
eyes span -. [—adore.
In c.pen seas Venetian Tow'rs arise, Amaz'd we stand '. admire ! give thanks ;
Than from the mountains Strangers with Say, Hawes, whence did the bright idea
delight [fight. rife? [henfive thought ?
See unexpected Chatsworth charm the Whence flow'd the great, the corapre-
The Latin Lines in another place are Combining wife,
skill profound with judgment
varies! thus; By patient practice to perfection brotigfct?
QUAL1TER attonitus, Vcnetas, novus Perchance, whilst, finking in the ray'nous,
Advena, turres stream, [finer part,
Surgentes mediis navita cernit aquis; Some bloated corpse breath'd forth its
Sic ftupet, aeriis lpectans dc rupibus,, To thee, by Heav'n lent, on Mercy's beam
nofpcs, It came, and with the bleliing fUl'd thy
Cui fuiiito emergit Devoniana domus. heart.
And in a third, thus :
TJT yidet attonitus, quam non fperaverat, Yet what avails to seek from whence it
urbem flow'd,
E medio Venetam furgerc nauta mari, Enough it is for Piety to scan,
Sic, fumma ftans rupe iiupet, quern, pane With grateful heart, th* indulgent hand of
sub ima, God, , '
Surgens percellit Devoniana domus. Reveal'd in kindness to his favour'd man.
J have also met with the fallowing Long may the tree, which thou hast'
planted, thrive ; [shoot ;
English lines : O'er all the land its friendly branches
TO fee proud Venice in old Neptune's arms, Soon to its rightful dignity arrive.
We 're struck with wonder, out admiie And deeper daily pierce its delving
her charms ; root.
Thus Chatsworth 'midst. the rugged rocks The son of wealth, to save a worthless
appears, [ears ; name, [raise,
As diamonds glitter most in swarthy In vain the' lofty monument would
1052 Select Poetry, for November, 1807,
n vain he strives to buyan unearn'd fame,' The Johnian, as they round did hover,
With costly sculpture, and with venal With glee laid hands upon a cover,
, lay. And smiling at the Maudlin man,
The figur'd marble, faithless to its trust, His witticism thus began ;
To Time's corrosive tooth shall fall a " Last night I did to you repair,
prey ; [dust, HeJhall or will plvw was my fare ;
In present lime I'll give you now,
Shall sink, slow mould'ring, into common Heploivs, or ploweth, or doth plow.*'
And by Oblivion's streams be wafh'd
away. The cover lifted, lo! he 'd pat
To treat the Maudlin man-—arat.
But thou a more substantial fame shall The Maudlinite no rat hadsmelt,
prove, [give ; The plow cut deep, he keenly felt ;
Than gaudy tombs or venal lays can And one obscrv'd on what had past,
Built on the base of ey'ry good man's love, " The sauce was not made to his taste.".
Thy praise to time's remotest hour shalt Learn hence, ye wits, this Moral true,
live. The tables may be turn'd on you.
And lo! fair Virtue spreads her ample
page, [of gold,
"Where stands, infcrib'd in characters Attempt ata Tranjlalionofthe
in p. 955.
French Lines
Each worthy's name, of ev'ry clime and
age, " Take Time by theforelock."
By sacred Truth's unerring pen enroll'd. TOO late, alas ! t' engage with Love,
There, where her Howard's name so When faded is the vernal ftow'r,
long has shone, Egle, by this kind hint improve ;
Pre-eminent in Charity's blest cause, And think on bliss, while in your pow'r,
By equi-lustrous rays of glory known, Before too late.
Pleas'd we behold the honour'd name Then open quick thy youthful heart
of Hawes. To all the joys of tender Love ;
Dover, Oct. 29. George Woodley. Do not thy wishes longer thwart.
Tremble lest he should victor prove
A RABBIT AND A RAT, A little too late.
A College Tale. When tir'd of curbing rebel charms,
A T Cambridge, where broad jokes Would'st And Cupid thinks. to fly away,
J\ prevail, thou then call him to your arms,
Where quips and quizzing never fail ; On ra'nid wings he 's gone for aye,
Where all the members of St. John's It is too late.
Proverbially are fond of puns ; Nov. 6. X.
And where, in keeping up the ball,
Each Maudlin man a rat they call Another Translation.
(The reason on't I can't decide, WHEN Youth's gay bloom is nipp'd
Unless, perchance, that it betide by Age, [ploy;
They burrow by the water fide), In vain would Love our thoughts em-
There happened, as the story luns, }' Then spurn not, Anne, my counsel sage,
These practicable jokes, or puns. But taste the prosfer'd cup of joy
A Maudlinite a Johnian ask'd Ere 'tis too late.
To take with him his night's repast,
And being of a humour dry, Of ev'ry dawning grace posless'd,
His guest- arriv'd, and supper nigh, Yield that young heart to Cupid's sway.
Willing to give him, as a treat, You wish," yet tremble to bo- blest,
What he thought wit, as well as meat, Ah ! dread his anger, should you stay
Says, " My good friend, I'll give you now, Until too late.
In suture time., heJhall or will plow. Tir'd os the rebel fair's disdain
The door was ope'd, as thus he spoke, When Love regains his native skies,
" And here's arabit," was the joke : Our tears and pray'rs alike are vain,
The dish upon the board was plac'd, The injur'd God for ever flies—
4 rabbit of eæ-quiz it taste. 'Tis all too late '.
Nought did this wit our punster grieve, E. W.
He laugh'd aloud, and in his sleeve,
And ent'ring in the joke with life,
He plow'd it with his fork and knife; Solution to the Charade, p. 954.
And, inreturn, he ask'd his friend , f'T^HO' in my brain's a scarcity of
The following night with him to spend. jj wit, [hit.
The time arriv'd, a party met, 1 think, the mean'ms of your Charade 's
And supper on the table set, Theodore.
i8o7.] Gazette Promotions.
Gazette Promotions. Whitehall, Scpt.$ Sir John Stuart, bart.
Admiralty-office, Y_T OX. William Welles- appointed one of the" Barons of his Ma
June 27'. J j lev Pole, appointed, jesty's Court of Exchequer in Scotland,
by the Lords Commissioners of the Ad vice Sir John Dalrymple, bart. resigned;
miralty, their first secretary, vice William and Sir George Abercrombie, bart. to be
Marsdcn, esq. reared. clerk for th'e admission of Nottars, in
Whitehall, July 21. Hon. Cropley Ash Scotland, rice Stuart, resigned.
ley Cooper, appoinred clerk of the Ord Whitehall, Sept. 15. His Grace Wil-
nance of the United Kingdom ; and Tho liam-Henry-Cavendifh Duke of Portland,
mas* Thoroton, esq. olerk of deliveries of K. G.; the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval ;
the Ordnance thereof. the Right Hon. John Foster, chancellor of
Whitehall, Aug. 4. Rev. Edward-Chris his Majesty's Exchequer of Ireland; the
topher Dowdeswell, D. D. and rector of Hon. William Eliot; William -Sturges
Stanford-Rivers, co. Essex, presented to Bourne, esq.; and the Hon. Richard Ry
the rectory of Langham, in the said coun der; appointed commissioners for exe
ty, void by the translation of Dr. Fisher, cuting the office of Treasurer of His Ma
Bishop of Exeter, to the see of Salisbury, jesty's Exchequer.
vice Douglas, dec. Whitehall, Sept. I <. A. M. Holdsworth,
Whitehall, Aug. II. Right Hon. James esq. appointed governor of Dartmouth cas
Earl o! Malmelbury, K.B. to be lord-lieu tle, vice Arthur Holdswor.h, dec.
tenant of the county of Southampton, and Queen's palace, Sept. 16. George Collier,
of the town of Southampton and county esq. captain in the Royal Navy, knighted.
of the lame ; and James-Edward Harris, Whitehall, Stpt. 19. Rev. John Pitman,
esq. (commonly called Viscount Fitz»H»r- student in Civil Law, presented to the vi
ris), appoint-d governor and captain of carage of Brode Hompton, co. Devon, vice-
the Isle of Wight, and governor of Caris- Rev. John Pitman, M. A. resigned.—Rev.
brook castle, in the said isle ; all vice Lord Alexander Crosbie, presented to the church
Bolton, dec. and parish of Bintle, in the prelbytery and
Whitehall, Aug 15. Rev. John Lux- stewartry of Kirkcudbright, vice Mr. Geo.
more, D. D. dean of Gloucester, recom Maxwell, dec.
mended, by conge iVelire, to 'be elected War-office, Sept. 22. Gen. Gerard Lori-
Bishop of Bristol, vice Bp. Pelham, trans Lake, appointed governor of Plymouth,
lated to the see of Exeter.—His Grace wee the Earl of Chatham, promoted to
Charles Duke of Richmond, appointed the government of Jersey, vice Marquis
high steward of the city of Chichesler, Townshcnd, dec. — Lieut.-gen. <Wiiliam-
vice his uncle, dec.—Adam Duff, esq. ad Loftus, of the 24th Light Dragoons, to be
vocate, to be sheriff-depute of the shire of governor of Dumbarton, vice Lord Lake.
Forfar, vice Chalmers, resigned.—Mr. Ro Admiralty-office, Oct. 2. Captains John
be/t Haldane, appointed professor of Ma- Hunter, esq. ; Francis Pender, esq.; Wil
thematicks in the University of St. An liam-Albany Otway, esq. ; George Lums-
drew's, vice Vilaot, dec.—Mr. John Hal- daine, esq. ; Sir Samuel Hood, K. B. ;•
kett, preacher of the Gospel, presented to Henry Nichols, esq. ; Herbert Sawyer,
the church and parish of Cuparos Angus, esq. ; Davidge Gould, esq. ; and Richard-
in the presbytery of Meigle, and county of Goodwin Keats, esq.; to be Rear-admirals
Perth, met Mr. Charles Reay, dec. of the Blue Squadron of H. M. Fleet.
Queen ? palace, Aug. 19. Lieut.-general Foreign-office, Oct. 3. Joseph-Charles
Sir James-Henry Craig, K.B. sworn cap*- Mellish, esq. appointed his Majesty's fe-,
tain-general and governor in chief of the cretary of legation at the Court of his Si
provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, cilian Majesty.
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Whitehall, 061. 3. Mr. John Maclellan,.
islands of Prince Edward and Cape Bre presented to the church and parish of Kel-
ton.—Right Hon. Henry Lord Mulgrave, ton, in the presbytery and stewartry of
sworn lord-lieutenant of the East Riding Kirkcudbright, sue Mr.Tho. Halliday, dec.
of the county of York. Admiralty-office, Oct. 6. William Lech-
Whitehall, Aug. 22. Harford Jones, mtre, and Thomas Folcy.i efqrs. to be
esq. of Boultibrooke, co. Hereford, created Colonels of his Majesty's Royal Marine
a baronet. Forces, rice Sir Samuel Hood, K. B. and
Whitehall, Aug. 2$. Sir William-Sidney Richard Goodwin Keats, esq. appointed
Smith, knt. Commander and Grand Cross Flag-officers of his Majesty's Fleet.
of the Royal Swedish Military Orier of Whitehall, Oct.fi. Thomas-Norton Pow-
the Sword, and Rear-admiral of the Blue lett, esq. appointed one of the clerks of his
Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, permit Majesty's Signet,wire J amesRivers,esq. dec..
ted to accept and wear the grand cross of Queen's Palace, Oct. 14. Right Hon.
the Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, John Earl of Chatham, K. O. sworn go
conferred upon him' by the King of the vernor of the island of Jessey, vice the
Two Sicilies. Marquis Townshend, dec.
Whitehall,
"1054 Gazette and Civil Promotions.— Preferments. [Nov.
tthttehatt, 08. 31. Right Hon. Gerard Matthew Wood, efq. elected alderman
Baron Lake,.' General of his Majesty's of Cripplegate Ward, London, rite Sir
Jforees, created Viscount Lake, of Delhi William Staines, knt. dec.
»»Æ Laswary, and of Aston Clinton, co. Christopher Smith, efq. one of the pre
Buckingham.—Rev. James Wilson, pre sent Sheriffs, elected alderman of Cord-
lected to the chuich and parish of Aber- wainers Ward, London ; and John Whit-
iryte, in the presbytery of Dundee, and more, efq- chosen deputy-governor of the
COtinty of Perth, vice Adamson, dec- Bank of England; bath vice Sir Brook-
Whitehall, Nov. 5. Right Hon. William Watson, bart. dec.
Baron Cathcart, K.T. and Lieutenant-ge Henry Hase,esq. appointed chief cashier
neral of his Majesty's Forces, created Ba- of the Bank of England, rice Abraham
nern Greenock, of Greenock, co. Renfrew, Ncwland, esq. resigned, and since dead.
»nd Viscount Cathcart, of Cathcart, in the Mr.Shephard, proctor,of Doctors Com
£ud county.—.James Gambier, efq. Admi mons, appointed acting registrar of the
ral of the Blue, created Baron Gambier, diocese of London, fire Walker, dec.
«! Iver, eo. Buckingham.—Harry Burrard, W. H-White, esq. of Parliament-place,
of Lymington, co. Southampton, efq. Lieu Old Palace-yard, Westminster, defied,
tenant-general of his Majesty's Forces -y treasurer of the Grey Coat Hospital or
Henry-Edwin Stanhope, of Stanweil, co. School in Westminster, founded by Queen
Middlesex, efq. Vice-admiral of the Blue; Anne, vice Wright, dec.
and Thomas Blomefteld, of Attleborough,
co-Norfolk, efq. Major-general of his Ma Ec€I,ES!ASTICAr. Pitt FEU JIENTS.
jesty's Forces ; created baronets. RIGHT Rev. Lord John-George Beres-
Carleton-house, Nov. 12. Dr. John Hun ford, Bishop of Cork and Ross, and
ter, of Hill-street, Berkeley- square, ap youngest brother to the Marquis of Wa-
pointed, by the Prince of Wales, one of terford, translated to the fee of Raphoe,
liis. Royal Highnefs's physicians extraor rice Bishop Hawkins, dec.; and the Hon.
dinary, vice Dr. William Frai'er, dec. and Rev. Thomas St. Laurence, D. D.
Dean of Cork, appointed to the bishop.-
Civil. Promotions. rick of Cork and Ross, rice Beresford.
REV. H. Bathurst, LL. B. appointed Rev. Wenman-Henry Langton, B. D.
chancellor of the diocese of Nor and chaplain in ordinary to the Prince of
wich, vice Sandby, dec. Wales, presented to the valuable sinecure
Rev. W. Gamier, rector of Droxford and Rectory cf Longford, co. D«rby, nice Rev.
tTpham, appointed chancellor of the dio Philip Roberts^ dec.
cese of Winchester, vice Sturges, dec. Rev. Robert Wintle, rector of Compton-
Kev. Thomas Shield, B.D. appointed Beauebamp, Berks, appointed preacher at
fiead master of the free grammar-school South Lambeth chapel, rice- Dodd.
»f Pocklington, co.York, rice Baskett, dec. Rev. Caleb Rocket, Timberfcombe pre
Rev. Jeremiah Smith, M. A. under maf- bend, in Wells cathedral.
terof Birmingham school, appointed head Rev. Blackley Cooper, YetmtnsterV. co-
master of the free-school at Manchester, Dorset, vice Edward Cooper, resigned.
trice Lawson, dec.; and Rev. Rann Ken Rev. Francis Woodcuck, Morton-upon»
nedy, M. A. elected second master of the Lugg R. co. Hereford.
free-school in Birmingham, vice Smith. Rev. John Black, Ramstiolt perpetuai
Rev. William Spurdens, elected master curacy.
of Sir William Pafion's school at North Rev. Dennis Hill, GressenhaU R. Co.
"YVa'sham, co. Norfolk, vice Hunter. Norfolk.
Rev. Thomas Andrews, M. A. elected Rev. Simon Westhy, B.D. KenninghaH
master of the free grammar-school at Bur- V. Norfolk.
ford, co. Oxford. Rev. Thomas Brooke, T-L.B. Horton R.
J. W. Braniston, efq. deputy recorder of co. Gloucester, vice Thornhill, dec.
Stamford, co. Lincoln, appointed deputy Rev. ——Thorpe, Santlford V. co. Ox
recorder of Northampton; and Mr. Ser ford, vice Walker, dec.
jeant Lens, elected counsel to the Univer Rev. Peter Strickland, elected (by the
sity of Cambridge; both rice Right Hon. Land owners) to the living of Staveley, in
Spencer Perceval, resigned. the parish of Kendal, co. Cumberland,
Mr. Wiliiam-Goodenough Dodd, ap vice Myers, dec.
pointed rlcrk of the University of Oxford, (lev. Robert Stevens, M. A. elected al
vice Blent- insop, dec. ternate morning preacher at the Afvlum.
Wm. Hunt, efq. elected rccorderofTam- Rev. William Norford, Boyton R. Suf
worth, co. Stafford, vice Ld.Thurlow,dec. folk, rice Hingeston, dec.
Mr. Deputy Biaxiand, and William Rev. Dr. Holland, son-in-law of Lord
M'irsh, esq. elected joint-treasurers of the Erskine, Beaudesert R. co. Warwick; and
so -iety of Patrons' of the Charity-schools Rev. Hugh Cailetorr, Arrow R. in the same,
of London, vice Pic&woad, dec. county ; both vice Fitz-Thomasj dec.
Rev,
1S07.] Ecchsiafticoi
Rev. John Newling, B. D. rector of
Ditchingham, Norfolk, and prebendary of
JLichsield, to a canon-residentiaryship of
that cathedral.
Rev. Palmer, Alcester R. co. War
wick, vice Wilmot, dec.
Rev. John Taylor, M.A. Postwick R.
«o. Norfolk.
Rev. Frederick Barnes, chaplain to the
House of Commons, Colyton V. Devon,
vice Buller, dec.
Rev.William Parker, St. EthelburghaR.
London, vice Gilbank, dec.
Rev. George Horniby, M.A. Turk-Dean
V. co. Gloucester, and Aldi'worth perpe
tual curaey, in the lame county, vice II-
lingworth, resigned.
Rev. Benjamin Evans, M. A. South
Elmham Su Margaret with South Elm-
ham St. Peter R. Suffolk.
Rev. Joseph Proctor, D.D. prebendary
«f Norwich, and master of Catherine-hall,
Cambridge, Sieeple-Gedding It. co. Hunt
ingdon, vice Sympson, doc.
Rev. Morden Carthew, M. A. Great
Mattifhall V. with Parley R. Norfolk.
Rev. Joseph Church, M. A. Hoveton
St. Peter V. with Hoveton St. John cu
racy annexed, and Frettenham with Stan-
ninghall R. all co. Norfolk.
Rev. John White, LI. B. Hardwick R.
co. B.icks.
Rev. Devereux Mytton, M.A. Llaudyffil
It. co. Montgomery.
Rev. J. W. Grove, B. A. Strcnsham R.
«r. Worcester.
Rev. Henry J. Todd, M.A. rector of
Allhallows, in LombardTltreet, London,
Coulfdon R. Surrey.
Rev. William Van Mildert, M.A. rec
tor of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, Farn-
fngham V. Kent.
Rev. Barrington Syer, B. A. Stoke per
petual curacy, near Clare, Suffolk.
Rev. Bernard Gilpin, M. A. curate of
Holy Trinity church in Hull, Wold New
ton living, near Grimiby, co. Lincoln.
Rev. Charles Cornwallis, B. A. South
Cove R. Suffolk, vice Carter, dec.
Rev. G. A. Lamb, Iden R. and Playden
with Guildferd R. both co. Surrey.
Rev. G. Thomas, B. D. rector of Dc-
verdale, co. Worcester, Oveistone R. co.
Northampton.
Rev. Robert Rawstorne, M. A. War-
rington R. co. Lancaster, t-ice Owen, dec.
Rev. Nicholas Heath, prebendary of
Chichefter, and rector of Pycomb, Sus
sex, Allcannings R. Wilts, vice Davis, dec.
Rev. William Wilkinson, South Crox-
ton R. co. Leicester, and Folkl'worth R.
CO. Huntingdon.
Rev. Robert-Willoughby Carter, B. A.
rector of Guarrington, near Sleaford, co.
Lincoln, Springthorpc living, in fame co.
Rev. William Jewel), M. A. Hacklmd.
R. co, Norfolk.
Preferments,
Rev. James Brown, elected perpetual
curate and lecturer of St. Andrew's, in
Norwich, sin Adkin, dec.
Rev. Charles-Edward Stewart, Tector of
Wakc-Colne, Essex, Rede R. Sussex.
Rev. S. Puart, M.A. prebendary of He
reford, BTidstow V. in dioc. of Hereford.
Rev. Wm. Chester, Dcnton R. Norfolk.
Rev. Edward Mellisli, Reymerstone R.
co. Norfolk.
Rev. Samuel-Newland Evans, Hol»a
R. Suffolk.
Rev. Charles Buckertdge, B. D. to thx
precentotfhip of Lichfield cathedral, cite
Inge, dec.
Rev. John Hogarth, 37 years curate of
Whalton, near Morueth, Northumber
land, Ripley R. co. York.
Rev. Denys, Bourn-cum-Dykf
and Cawsthorpc V. co. Lincoln.
Rev. Henry Anfon, M.A. Swanton-AV-
botts R. Norfolk ; and Skeyton with Ox-
neid and Buxton R. in the lame county.
Rev. Charles-Evelyn Green, LL.B. Dalr
bury R. co. Derby.
Rev. Wm. Gurney, St. Clement Danrs
R. Strand, in the gift of the Executors of
the late Marquis of Exeter, who had de
sired, whenever a vacancy occurred, that
it should be silled by this gentleman, who
has for six years preached at the Free cha
pel in Weft ilreet without emolument.
Rev. J. Dalby, Castlc-Donington V.co.
Leicester, vice Collier, dec.
Rev. Thomas Lee, 13.D. Baiton-on-fhe-
Heath R. co. Warwick, cite Wilmot, dec.
Rev. George Drury, M.A. Claydon «visl»
Akenham R. Suffolk.
Rev. John Anderson, vicar of St. Ni
cholas, Leicester, Wan iip V. co. Leicester,
vice Burnaby, dec.
Rev. S. Butler, head master of Shrews
bury school, Wolvey prebend, in the ca
thedral of Lichfield,
Rev. William Millers, B.D. Hardwicke
R. co. Cambridge, Dire Trant, dec. ; and
Rev.T.W. Hornbuckle, M.A. Mi.din«ley
V, in fame county, vice Miller?, resigned.
Rev. Thomas-Pym Williamson, M. A.
Kirkby-StephenV. co. Westmoreland, rice
Spooner, dec.
Rev. Gemge Bourne, . M. A. Steeple-
Barton V. cp. Warwick.
Rev. Robert Williams, M. A. Llandew
V. in the diocese of Landaff.
Rev. Thomas Wilson, Claughtcn R. near
Lancaster.
Rev. M. Slack, Alt Saints V. in Sud-
bury, Suffolk.
Rev. Char. Sandby, Belton V. co. Lcic.
Rev. Char. Dunne, B.A. Earl's Croomc
R. near Upton-upon-Severn, co. Oxford,
vice Green, resigned.
Rev. John Williajn?, M.A. North Le-
verton V. co. Nottingham, and South
Stoiv« V. in the diocese of Oxford.
Rev.
1056 Ecclesiastical Preferments.-~Dispensations. [Ndv.
Rev. Martin Amphlet, Ryal with Es- Rev. John Coimer, Littleton-Drew R.
sendine V. 00. Rutland. Wilts, vice Page, dec.
Rev. Samuel. Henry Savory, B.A. Twy- Rev. J. Jackson, M. A. master of ,the
ford R. Norfolk. grammar-school at Beverley, to the per
Rev. 1 Baron, Lostwithiel V. petual curacy of the collegiate church of
CO. Cornwall. St. John in Beverley, co. York, vice
Rev.T. Ley, Bratton-Clovelly R. Devon. Graves, dec.
Rev. II. Barnes, Heavitree~V. Devon, Rev. William Hutchinson, M. A. Cole-
Rev. Edward Riley, M.A. Eatington V. brook V. Devon, vice Barnes, resigned.
•o. Worcester. Rev. Robert Whitehead, M. A. Mus-
Rev. Kingtman Foster, B.A. Dowsby R. grave R. co. Westmoreland.
eo. Lincoln. Rev. Edward-Cooke Forward, Combyne
Rev. Samuel Pearson, LL.B. F.A.S. and R. Devon.
Hiir.ister of Osmastun, co. Derby, Weston- Rev. Gerard-Thomas Noel, B. A. son of
Bpon-Trent R. in the same county. Gerard-Noel N. esq. M. P. for the county
Rev. Dr. C. Barton, Pluckley R. Kent, of Rutland, Rainbam V. Kent.
mice Disney, dec. Rev. George Mutter, Chillenden R. co.
Re. John Stevens, M.A. BirchangerR. Kent, vice Pitman, dec.
co. Essex. Rev. William Rumney, B. A. Swindon
Rev. Harvey Marriott, Marston curacy, R. in the diocese of Gloucester, vice
in the diocese of Worcester,wiceWigley, dec. Breeks, resigned.
Rev. Edward Edgell, West Allington V. Rev. J, Lupton, St. Thomas in the
in the diocese of Exeter. Cliffe R. near Lewes, Sussex. ' .
Rev. T. B. Coleman, Church-Stretton Rtv. Cranley Kerby, vicar of Whaddon,
B. co. Salop. Bucks, Wheatfield R. co. Oxford.
Rev. J. V. Meulen, Messing V. Essex. Rev. George Glover, B. A. Cromcr V.
Rev. John Bai'nett, Woolstanton V. co. co. Norfolk.
Stafford. Rev. Harrison, Havant R. Sus
Rev. Daniel Ferguson, B.A. Broughton- sex, vice Rennaud, dec.
Sulvey R. Not'ts. Rev. Renaud, Chidham R. Hants.
Rev. Thomas Wilkinson, B.D. rector of Rev. R. Lewis, East Anstey R. Devon.
Bonnington, in Kent, Armthbrpe R. near Rev. E. Edgell, W.Alphing'tonV. Devon.
Doncafter, co. York. Rev. Robert Field, Sutton V. Suffolk.
Rev. Brook-Edward Bridges, Bonning Rev. George Shepherd, M.A. St. Bartho
ton R. Kent, vice Wilkinson, resigned. lomew R. London.
Rev. C. D. Willaume, Chilton and Rev. Dr. Hook, son of the celebrated
Brown-Coudover R. Hants, vice Starkey, Composer, toaprebendal stall in Winches-,
resigned. ter cathedral, t'ice Sturges, dec.
Rev. Charles Mann, B. A. Rixton and Rev. Mr. Macdonald, nephew to the
Roxton perpetual curacy, Norfolk. late Bishop Douglas, Bitton prebend, in
Rev. Joshua Dix, senior minor canon of Salisbury cathedral.
Canterbury cathedral, to the sequestra Rev. C. M. Donne, B. A. Town-Barning-
tions of the vicarages of River and Lyd- ham R. and Hempnall V. both co. Norf.
den, in the diocese of Canterbury, vice Rev. John Preston, Toft R. with Calde-
Freeman, dec. cot V. annexed, co. Camb. ui'ceTrant, dec.
Rev. Thomas-Bartholomew Woodman,
M.A. Bugthorpe prebend, in York cathe Dispensations.
dral; Rev. R. Affleck, Doncafter V. ; and REV. Vicefimus Knox, D. D. to hold
Rev. W. Hodges, Haytoti V. ; beth co. Runwell R. Essex, with Ramfden-
York ; and all vice Moore,- dec. Crays R. in the fame county, both in his
Rev. ..Lacey, Wyfton R. co. York, own patronage.
vice Carver, dec. Rev. Edward Hunt, M. A. to hold Be-
Hon. and Rev. William Wod-ehouse, nefield R. with Stoke-Doyle R. both cp.
Carleton Forehoc R. and Itteriagham with Northampton.
Mannington R. annexed, Norfolk. Rev. James Satterthwaite,.M.A. F.R.S.
Rev. Richard Davics, to a catvon-refi- to hold Whicham R. with Bootle R. co.
■dentiaryship of St. David's cathedral; and Cumberland.
Rev. Thomas Phillips, to the Golden pre Rev. Richard Lord, D.D. rector of Bar-
tend, in the said cathedral. redon, co.. Kent, to hold Lydden V. there
Rev. S. Sharpe, Edalc perpetual curacy, with, in the lame county.
near Castleton, co. Derby. Rev. Thoma* Smith, M.A. to hold Wil-
Rev. Joseph Fell, Yardley R. near Bir lingham R. with Frodingham V. co. Line.
mingham, co. Warwick. Rev. S. Clapham, M. A. vicar of Great
Rev. James-Lee Warner, Houghton V. Oufebourn, near Knaresboxough, to hold
ECXt Walsingham, Norfolk. Gussage R. co. Dorset, with Christchurch
Rev. Leonard Shelford, Sturfioa perpe Y. Hants.
tual curacy, Norfolk. NEWLY-
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NEWLY-DISCOVERED CHRISTIANS IN INDIA.
*,* Wesubmit to our Readers thesollmeing hdtrefiing narratiuc (from the Bristol Jour
nal) ; confident that it cannot fail to excite the livelieji emotions in the bejnm us every
one, intertj'ted in thesupport and maintenance of tlie ijirijtiun Heligion :
THE Rev. Dr. Buchanan, who left sound of the bells may be heard at a dis-
iSengal some months ago, with a view of tance, amongst the hills ; aencumslance
proceeding to Travancore, to enquire into which causes the British traveller to forget
the state of the Syrian Christians, arrived for a moment that he is in Hindustan,
in that country about the beginning of and reminds him of another country.
Nov. last, having travelled from Calcutta When Dr. Buchanan arrived at the remote
to Cape Comorin by land. His Highness churches, he was informed by the it ha-
the Rajah of Travancore was pleased to bitams that no European had, to their
afford to Dr. Buchanan the m'ost liberal knowledge, visited the place before. The
assistance in the prosecution of his enqui- Romish priests do nottiavel thither, there
vries. About the middle of Nov. Dr. Bu- being no church of their communion in
chanan proceeded from the lea-coast into that quarter.
theinteriarof the country N. E. of Quilon, The number of Syrian churches is
to visit the antient Syrian Churches situa- greater than has been supposed. There
ted amongU the hills at the bottom of the are at this time fsty-Jivc churches in
high Ghauts, which divide the Carnatic Malayala *, acknowledging the Patriarch
from Malayala. The face of the country of Antioch. The last church was erected
in general, in the vicinity of the moun- by the present bishop in 1793.
tains, exhibits a varied scene of hill and The SyrianChristians are notNestorians,
flale, and winding streams. These streams Formerly, indeed, they had bishops of
fall, from the mountains, and preserve the that communion, but the Liturgy os the
valleys in perpetual verdure. The woods present church is derived from that of the
produce pepper, cardamoms, and caflia or early church of Antioch, called, " Litur-
vvild cinnamon ; also frankincense and gia Jacobi Apostoli." They are usually
other aromatic gums. What adds much denominated jacobitæ ; but they differ in
to the grandeur of the scenery in this ceremonial from the church of that name
country is, that the adjacent mountains in Syria, and indeed from any existing
cf Travancore are not barren, but are co- church in the world. Their proper desig-
vered with teak forests, producing the nation, and that which is sanctioned by
largest timber in the world. their own use, is, " Syrian Christians;"
The first view of the Christian Churches or, " The Syrian church of Malayala."
3n this sequestered region of Hindostan, The doctrines of the Syrian church are
connected with the idea of their tranquil contained in i very few articles ; and are
duration for so many ages, cannot fail to not at variance, in essentials, with the
excite pleasing emotions in the mind of doctrines of the church of England. Their
the beholder. The form of the oldest bishop and metropolitan, after conferring
"buildings is not unlike that of the old with his clergy on the subject, delivered
parish churches in England; the style of the following opinion!—"That an union
building in both being of Saracenic origin, with the English church, or, at least, such
They have Hoping roofs, pointed arch a connexion as should appear to both
windows, and buttresses supporting the churches practicable and.expedient, would
walls. The beams of the roof being ex- he a happy event, and favourable to the
posed to view are ornamented ; and the advancement of Religion." It is in con-
ceiling of the choir and altar is circular temptation to fend to England some
and fretted. In the cathedral churches, of the Syrian youth for education and
the shrines of the deceased bishops are ordination. .,
placed on each side of the altar. Most of The present bishop, Mar Dionysius, is
the churches are built of a reddish stone a native of Malayala, but of Syrian ex-
squared and polished at the quarry ; and traction. He is a rnan of respectable cha-
are of a durable construction^ the front racter in his nation, and exercises himself
wall of the largest edifices being fix feet in the pious discharge of the duties of his
thick. The bells of the churches are cast high office. He is now 78 years of age,
in the founderies of Travancore. Some and possesses a venerable aspect, his white
of them are of large dimensions, and have beard descending low to his girdle. On
inscription* in Syriac and Malayalim. In public occasions he wears the episcopal
approaching a town in the evening, the mitre, and is robed in a white vestment,
* Malayala comprehends the, mountains and the whole region within them, from
Cape Comorin to Cape Illi. Whereas the province of Malabar, commonly so called,
contains only the northern districts ; not including the country of Travancore.
Gent. Mag. November, 1807. which
1058 Newly-discovered Ch>ristians in India. [Nov.
which covers long garments of red silk ; of the antient world, would he, in the
and in h'is hand he holds the pastoral stats. present circumstances of mankind, an aus
The first native bishop was ordained by picious event.
the Romish church in 1663. But he was The Syrian Christians in Malayala still
of the Romish communion. Since that use the Syriac language in their churches;
period the old Syrians have continued, but the Malayalim, or proper Malabar (a
till lately, to receive their bishops from dialect distinct from the Tamul) is the
4ntioch. But that antient patriarchate vernacular tongue. They have made some
being now nearly extinct, and incompe attempts to translate the Syriac scriptures
tent to the appointment of learned men ; into Malayalim ; but have hot hitherto
the Christian church in Malayala looks had the suitable means of effecting it.
henceforth to Britain, for the continuance When a proposal was made of sending a
of that Light, which has shone so long in Malayalim translation to each of their 55
this dark region of the world. churches as a standard-bock, on condi
From information given by the Syrian tion that they would transcribe it and cir
Christians, it would appear, that the culate the copies among the people, the
churches of Mesopotamia and Syria (215 elders replied, that so great was the desire
in number) with which they are connec of rhe people in general to have the Bible
ted, are struggling with great difficulties, in the vulgar tongue, that it, might be
and merely owe their existence to some expected that every man who could write,
deference for their antiquity ; and that would make a copy on ollas (palm-leaves)
they might be expected soon to flourish for his own family.
again, if savoured with a little support. It It ought to be mentioned to the praise
wou!'! be w u thy the church of England of the present bishop of the Romish church
to aid the church of Antioch in her low on the coast of Malabar, that he has con
estate. Tae church of England is now, sented to the circulation of the Scriptures
what the church of Antioch once teas. throughout his diocese. The Malayalim
The mode in which aid can be best afforded translation acquires from this circumstance
to Christians under a foreign power in the an increased importance; since there will
East, is not chiefly by contributions of be now upwards of 200,000 Christians in
money, but by representing to those Malayala, who are ready to receive it.
governments with which we may have The translation of the New Testament
friendly intercourse, that these Christians (which it is proposed to print first) has
are of the fame religion with ourselves, already commenced under the luperinten-
and that we are desirous that they should dance of the Syrian bishop. The true
be respected. The argument from the cause of the low state of religion amongst
sameness of religion is well understood the Romisli churches on the sea-coast,
by all Asiatic princes, and can never fail and in Ceylon, is their want of the Bible.
when seriously proposed ; for they think It is doubtful whether some of the priests
it both natural and obligatory that every know that such a book exists. It is inju
government-should be interested in those rious to Christianity in India, to call men>
who are of its own religion. There are Christians, who know not the scriptures
two circumstances which invite us to turn of their religion ; they might as well be
oureyes to the country of" the first gene called by any other name. Oral instruc
rations of men." The tolerant spirit of tion they have none, even from their Eu
the Wahahian Mahomedans is a fair prog ropean priests. The best effects may there
nostic, and promises to aid our endeavours fore be expected from the simple means
to restore to an antient community of of putting the Bible into their hands. All
Christians the blessings of knowledge and who are well acquainted with the natives,
religious liberty. Another favourable cir know that instruction by books is best
cumstance is, that some of the churches suited to them. They are in general a
in Mesopotamia, in one of which the contemplative people, and patient in their
patriarch of Antioch now resides, are said enquiries : curious also to know what it
still to remain in their pristine state, and can be, that is of importance enough to-
to have preserved their archives and antient be written ; at the fame time that they
.manuscript libraries. A domestic priest regard -written precept with respect. If
of the patriarch, now in Cochin, vouches they possess a book in a language which
for the truth of this fact. We know from they understand, it will not be left long
authentic history, that the churches be unread. In Tanjore and Other places
tween the Rivers escaped the general where the Bible is freely given, the Protes
desolation of the Mahomedan conquest' in tant religion flourishes, and produces the
the 7th century, by joining arms with happiest effects on the character of the
the Mahomedans against the Greek Chris people. In Tanjore, the Christian virtues
tians, who had been their oppressors. will be found in exercise by the feeble
The revival of religion and letters in that minded Hindoo, in a vigour and purity,
once highly-favoured land, in the heart which will surprize those who have never
known
1807.] Newly-discovered Christians in India.
known the native character but under the
greatest disadvantages. On the Sunday,
the people, habited in their best apparel,
repair to the parish church ; where the
solemnity of their devotion in accompany-
ing the public prayers, is truly impressive,
They sing the old Psalm-tunes well ; and
the voice of the full congregation may be
heard at a distance. Prayers bring ended,
they listen to the sermon evidently with
deep attention ; nor h*ve they any diffi-
culty in understanding it, for they al-
moll all, both men and women, can read
their Bible. Many of them take down
the discourse on ollas, that they may read
it afterwards to their families at home *.
As soon as the minister has pronounced
his text, the found of the iron style on
the palm-leaf, is heard throughout the
congregation. Even the boys of the
schools have their ollas in their hands,
and may be seen after divine service read"-
ing them to their mothers, as they pass
over the fields homewards. This aptitude
of the people to receive and to record the
words of the preacher, renders it pecu-
liarly necessary that " the priest's lips
should keep knowledge." Upon the
whole, the moral conduct, upright deal-
ing, decorous manners, and decent dress
of the native Protestantsof Tanjore,demon-
ftrate the powerful influence and peculiar
excellcnce of the Christian religion. It
ought however to be observed, that the
Bible, when the reading of it becomes
general, has nearly the lame effect on the
poor of every place.
When the Syrian Christians understood
that the proposed Malayalim translation
was to accord with the English Bible, they
desired to know on what authorities our
translation had been made ; alledging that
"they themselves possessed a version of un-
doubted antiquity, namely, that used by
the first Christians at Antioch ; and that
they could not depart from the reading of
that version. This observation led to the
investigation of the antient Syro-Chaldaic
manuscripts in Malayala; and the enquiry
has been successful beyond any expecta-
tion that could have been formed.
It had been commonly supposed that-
all the Syriac manuscripts had been
burned by the Romisli church, at the
synod of Udimper near Cochin, 1509.
But it now appears that the most valuable
manuscripts were not destroyed. The in-
quisitors condemned many books to the
flames ; but they laved the Bible. They
wefe content with ordering that the Syriac
scriptures should be amended agreeably to
tho reading of the Vulgate of Rome. And
* It is well known that the natives of Tanjore and.Travancore can write down
what is spoken deliberately, without losing one word. They seldom look at 1hjir
f^Uii w*ile writing ; aad can write in the dark with fluency. .
.1 ' ,
1059
these emendations appear in black ink and
of modern appearance, though made in
15Q9. Bui many Bibles and many other
books were not produced at all. And the
churches in the mountains remained but
a short time subject to Romish dominion,
if indeed thev can be laid to have been at
any time subject to it ; for the native
governments have ever formed a barrier
between the inquisition at Goa and the
Christians in the mountains,
In the acts of the Council of Nice, it is
recorded that Joannes, Bishop of India,
signed his name at that council, in A. D.
325. This date corresponds with the Sy-
rian year 636; for the primitive Syrian
church does not compute time from the
Christian aera, but from Alexander the
Great. The Syriac version of the scrip-
tures was brought to India, according to
the belief of the Syrians, before the year
6sri ; and they alledge that their copies
have ever been exadt transcripts of that
version without known error, through,
every age, down to this day. There is no
tradition among them of the churches in
the Southern mountains having ever been
destroyed, or even molested. Some of
their present copies are certainly of antienc
date. Though written on a strong thick
paper (like that of some MSS. in the
British Museum, commonly called Eas-
tern-paper) the ink has, in several places,
eat through the material in the exact form
of the letter. In other copies, where the
ink had less of a corroding quality, it has
falleri off, and left a dark vestige of tho
letter, faint indeed, but not, in general,
illegible. There is one volume found in
a remote church of the mountains, which
merits particular description. It contains
the Old and New Testaments,- engrossed
on strong vellum, in large folio, having
three columns in the page ; and is written
with beautiful accuracy. The character
is Estrangelo Syriac ; and the words of
every book are numbered. This volume
is illuminated, but not after the European
manner ; the initial letters having no or-
nament. Prefixed to each book there are
figures of principal Scripture characters
(not rudely drawn) the colours of which,
are distinguishable; and in some places
the enamel of the gilding is preserved,
But the volume has suffured injury from
time or neglect, some of the leaves being
almost entirely decayed. In certain places
the ink has been totally obliterated from
the page, and has left the parchment in
its natural whiteness ; but the letters can,
in general, be distinctly traced from the
impress of the pen, or from the partial
.. .
«orrasion;
io6o Newly-iisavered Christians in India. [Nov.
corrosion of the ink. The Syrian church Portuguese, they had been unaccountably
assigns to this manuscript a high antiquity; lost, and had never after been heard of.
and alledges that it has been for some cen The loss of the tablets was deeply regret
turies in the possession of their bishops, ted by the Christians ; and the Portuguese
and that it Was industriously concealed writer, Gouvea, ascribes their subsequent
from the Romish inquisition in 15fl0. But oppreslion by the native powers, to the
i's true age, can only be ascertained by a circumstance of their being no longer able
comparison with old manuscripts in Eu to produce their charter. It is not gene
rope of a similar kind. On the margin of rally known that, at a former period, the
the drawings are some old Roman and Christians poslessed regal power in Malay-
Greek letters, the form of which may ala. The name of their last king was
lead to a conjecture re specting the age. -in Beliarlc. He died without issue, and his
which they were written. This copy of kingdom descended, by the custom of the
the scriptures has admitted as canonical country, to the king of Cochin. When
the Epistle of Clement ; in which respect Vasco de Gama was at Cochin in J 503,
it resembles the Alexandrian manuscript ; he law theJ'ceplre of the Christian king.
but it has omitted the Revelations ; that It is farther recorded by the fame histo
book having been accounted apocryphal rians, that hesides the documents depo
by some churches during a certain period sited with the Portuguese, the Christians
in the early ages. The order of this books possessed three oiher tablets, containing
of the Oki and New Testament, differs antient grants, which they kept in their
from that of the European copies ; this own custody ; and that these were exhi
copy adhering less to unity of subject in bited to the Romish archbishop Menezes,
the arrangement, than to chronological at the church of Tevelecar near the moun
order. The very first emendation of the tains, in 1599 : the inhabitants having
Hebrew text proposed by Dr. Kennicott first exacted an oath from the archbishop,
(Gen. iv. 8.) is to be found in this manu that he would not remove them. Since
script. The disputed paslage in 1 John that period little has been heard ot the
v. 7. is not to be found in it. That verse tablets. Though they are often referred
is interpolated in some other copies in to in the Syrian writings, the translation
black ink, by the Romish church, in 1 5QO. itself has been lost. It has been said that
Thus it appears, that during the dark they were seen about forty years ago. But
ages of Europe, whilst ignorance and su Adrian Moons, a governor of Cochin in
perstition in a manner denied the scrip 1770, who published some account of the
tures to the rest of the world, the Bible Jews of Malabar, informs us, that he used
found an asylum in the mountains of Ma- every means in his power, for many years,
layala ; where it was revered and freely to obtain a fight of the Christian plates j
read by upwards of an hundred churches ; and was at length satisfied that they were
and that it has been handed down to the irrecoverably lost, or rather, he adds, that
present time under circumstances so highly they never existed. .
favourable to accurate preservation, as may The learned world will be gratified tm
justly entitle it to respect, in the collation know, that all these antient tablets, not
of doubtful readings of the sacred text. only the three last-mentioned exhibited
There are many old Syriac manuscripts, in 1599! but those also (as is supposed)
besides the Bible, which have been well delivered by the Syrian archbishop to tha
preserved ; for the synod of Udiamper Portuguese on their arrival in India, which
destroyed no volumes but thole which are the most antient, have been recently
treated of religious doctrine, or church recovered by the. exertions of Lieut.-col.
supremacy. Two different characters of Macaulay, the British resident in Travan-
writing appear e\ er to have been in use core ; and are now. officially deposited
among the Syrian Chtistians; the common with that officer. ,
Syriac and Estrangelo. The oldest manu The plates are fix in number. They
scripts are in the Estrangelo. are composed of a mixed rnetal. The en
But tbts^e are other antient documents graved page on the largest plate is thirteen
in Malayats,' not less interesting than the inches long, by four broad. » They -are
Syrian mannscripts. The old Portuguese closely written, four of them on both
historians relate, that loos after the arri sides of the plate, making in all eleven
val of their Countrymen in India, about pages. On the plate reputed to be -the
300 years ago, the Syrian arihbishop of oldest, there is writing perspicuously en
Angamalee, by name Mar Jacob, depo graved in nnii-headed or triangular headed
sited in the Fort of Cochin, fbr safe cus letters, resembling the Persepolitan- or
tody, certain Tablets of Brajs, on which Babylonish. On the fame plate there i»
were engrav-d rights of nobility and other writing in another character, which has
privileges, granted to the Christians by a no affinity with any existing character in
Prince of a former age ; and that while Hindoftan. The grant op this phte-ap-
these tablets were under the charge of the peais to be witnessed by - sous- Jews of
rank ;
i8so7.] * Newly-discovered Christians in India. 106-1
rank ; whose names are distinctly written it will require much time and labour to
in an old Hebrew character resembling ascertain their contents. There is one
the alphabet called the Palmyrene ; and manuscript written in a character rescmb-
to each name is prefixed the title of ling the Palmyrene Hebrew on the brass
Magen," that is, Chief. plates. But it is in' a decayed state, and
It may be doubted, whether there the leaves adhere so closely to each other,
exists in the world another document of that it is doubtful whether it will be
equal antiquity, which is, at the fame possible to unfold them and preserve the
time, of so great length, and in such reading.
faultless preservation, as the Christian It was sufficiently established by the
tablets in Malayala. The Jews of Cochin concurring evidence of written record and
indeed contest the palm of antiquity and Jewish tradition, that the black Jews had
of preservation ; for they also produce colonized on the coasts of India, long be-
tablets containing privileges granted at a fore the Christian æra. There was anon
remote period. The Jewish tablets are ther colony at Rajapoor in.the Mahratta
two in number. The Jews were long in territory, which is not yet extinct, and
possession of a third plate, which now ap- there are at this tirne Jewish soldiers and
pears to be the property of the Christians. Jewish native officers in the British service.
The Jews commonly (hew an antient He- That these are a remnant of the Jews of
brew translation of their plates. Dr. Ley- the first dispersion at the Babylonish Cap-
den made another translation, which dif- tivity, seems highly probable. There are
fers from the Hebrew ; and there has many other tribes settled in Persia, Arabia,
lately been found among the old Dutch Northern India, Tartary, and China ;
records at Cochin, a third translation, whose respective places of residence may
which approaches nearer to Dr, Leyden's be easily discovered. The places which
than to the Hebrew. In a Hebrew ma- have been already ascertained are 6a in
nuscript, which will shortly be publissied, number. These tribes have in general
it is jecorded that a grant on brass tables (particularly those who have passed the
•was given to the Jews in A. D. 379. Indus) assimilated much to the customs
As it is apprehended that there may be of the countries in which they live ; and
some difficulty in obtaining an accurate may sometimes be seen by a traveller,
translation of all these tablets, it is pro- without being recognized as Jews. The
posed to print a copper-plate fac-simile of very imperfect resemblance of their coun-
the whole, and to transmit copies to the tenance to the Jews of Europe, indicates
learned societies in Hindostan and in Eu- that they have been detached from the
rope. For this purpose an engraver is parent stock in Judea many ages before
now employed on the plates, at Cochin, the race of Jews in the West. Afactcor-
The Christian and Jewish plates together roborative of this is, that certain of these
will make fourteen pages. A copy has tribes do not call themselves Jews, but
been sent, in the first instance, to the Beni-Israel or Israelites. For the name
Poindits of the Shanscrits college at Tri- ■ " Jew" is derived from Judah ; whereas
•hiur, by direction of the Rajah of Cochin, the ancestors of those tribes were not sub-
• When the white Jews of Cochin were ject to the king of Judah, but to the kings
questioned respecting the antient copies of of Israel. They have, in most places,
their Scriptures, they answered that it the book of the Law, the book of Job, and
had been usual to bury the old copy read the Psalms ; but know little of the Pro-
in the synagogue, when decayed by time phets. Some of them have even lost the
and use. This, however, does not appear book of the Law, and only know that
to have been the practice of the blacl: they arc Israelites from tradition, and
Jews, who were the first settlers ; for in from their observance of peculiar rites,
the record chests of their synagogues, old A copy of the Scriptures belonging to
copies of the law have been discovered, Jews of the East, who might be supposed to
some of which are complete, and for have no communication with Jews of the
the most part legible. Neither could West, has been long a desideratum witM
the Jews of Cochin produce any historical the Hebrew scholar. In the coffer of a
manuscripts of consequence ; their vici- synagogue of the black Jews in the interior
nicy to the sea-coast having exposed their of Malayala, there has been found an old
community to frequent revolution. But copy of the Law, written on a roll of lea-
many old writings have been found at the ther. The skins are sewed together, and
remote synagogues of their antient enemies the roll is about fifty feet in length, ^t is
the black Jews, situated at Tritoor, Pa-, in some places worn out, and the holes
Xoor, Chenotta, and Maleh ; the last of have been patched with pieces of parch-
which places is near the mountains, ment.—Some of the Jews suppose that
Amongst these writings are some of great this roll came originally from Senna in
' length in Rabbinical Hebrew, hut in so Arabia ; others have heard that it was
•attest as4 uncommon a eharacter, that brought frtm Cishmir. The Cabul Jews,
• vrUo
 io6a Newly-discovered Christians.—London Gazettes.' [Nor.
who travel annually into the interior of quired. The brahmins of Travancore con-
China, fay that in some synagogues the fider that their manuscripts are likely to
law is still feund written on a roll of lea have as just a claim to high antiquity, or
ther ; not on vellum, but on a soft flexi at least to accurate preservation, as those
ble leather, made of goats' skins, and in the temples in the North ; and for the
ifycd red ; which agrees with the descrip fame reason that the Christian and Jewish
tion of the roll abq«e-nicntioned. records have been so well preserved ;
' Such of the Sytiac and Jewish manu- which is, that the country ofTravancortf,
frripts as may, on examination, be found defended by mountains, has never, ac
to \k valuable, will be deposited *in the cording to tradition, been subjugated by
public libraries of the British Universities. invaders from the north of Hindostan.
The Princes of the Deccan have tnaiii- The design of investigating the history
fected a liberal regard for the extention of and literaiure of the Christians and Jews
Shanfcrit learning, by furnishing lists of in the East, was submitted to tht Marquis
ihe books in their temples for the college Wellesley, before he left India. His Lord
of Fort William in Bengal. His excel ship, judging it to be of importance that
lency the Rajah of Tanjore was pleased to the actual relation of the Syrian Christians
set the example, by giving the volumi to our own church should be ascertained,
nous catalogue of the antient library of and auguring something interesting to' the
tVie kings of Tanjore. And his example republic of letters from the investigation
has been followed by the Ranny of Rani- of the Syriac and Jewish antiquities, was
nad, patroness of the celebrated temple pleased to give orders, that public aid
of Ramisseram, near Adam's bridge ; by should be afforded to Dr. Buchanan in the
his highness the Rajah of Travancore, prosecution of his inquiries, wherever it
who has given lists of all the books in the might be practicable. To the operation
Travancore country ; and by the Rajah of of these orders it is owing, that the pro
Cochin, patron of the antient Shanfcrit posed researches, of which some flight
college at the temple of Teichiur. ft is notices are given' above, have not been
understood that a copy of any book in made in vain.
these catalogues will be given, when re Cochin, January, 1807.
INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.
October 17. with, they and every of them do (accord
-BY THE KING, ing to their bounden duty and allegiance,
A Proclamation, for recalling smdpm- and in consideration that their native
ftibiting Seamen from serving Foreign country hath need of all their services),
'■Princes end States. withdraw themselves, and depart from,
George R.—Whereas it hath been re and quit Aich foreign services, and do re
presented unto us, that great numbers of turn home to their native country ; or
marines and seafaring men, our natural- do enter on board such of our ships of war
born subjects, have been enticed to enter as they may chance to fall in with, either
into the service of Foreign States, and are on the high seas, or in any rivers, waters,
now actually serving as well cm board the ' havens, roads, ports, or places whatsoever
ships of war belonging to the laid foreign or wheresoever. And for the better exe
slates, as on board the merchant vessels cution of the purposes of this out Royal
belonging to their subjects, notwithstand Proclamation, we do authorize and com
ing our former Proclamation recalling mand all captains, masters, and others,
them, contrary to the duty and allegiance commanding our ships and vessels of war,
which our laid subjects owe unto us, and to stop and make stay of all and every such
to the great disservice of their native coun person or persons (being our natural-born
try ; we have therefore thought it neces subjects) as shall endeavour to transport or
sary at the present moment, when our enter themselves into the service of any
kingdom is menaced and endangered, and foreign state, contrary to the intent land
when the maritime rights, on which its command of this our Royal Proclamation,
power and grateness do mainly depend, and to seize upon, take, and bring away
are disputed and called in question, to all such persons as aforesaid, who shall he
publish, by and with the advice of our found- to be employed or serving in any
Privy Council, this our Royal Proclama- foreign n»erch3nfship or vessel as aforesaid :
• tion :—-We do hereby strictly charge and but we do strictly enjoin all such our
command all masters of ships, pilots, captains, masters, and others, that they
mariners, shipwrights, and other seafar do permit no man to go on board such
ing men, being our natural-born subjects, ships and vessels belonging to the states at
who may have been enticed into the pay amity with us for the purpose of so seiz
-or service of any foreign state, or do serve ing upon, taking, and bringing away such
In «ny foreign ship or vessel, that, forth persons as aforelaid, for whole discreet «ndl
- orderly
 I
1807.] Interesting Intelligence from the London Gazettes. 1063
orderly demeanor the said captains can- subjects, who (hall continue in the service
not answer ; and that they do take efpe- of foreign states, in disregard and con-
cial care that no unnecessary violence be tempt of this our royal proclamation, will
•lone or offered to the vessel, or to the re- not only incur our just displeasure, but
mainder of tha crew, from out of which are liable to be proceeded against for such
such persons (hall be taken. And in cafe contempt, and (h,all be proceeded against
of their receiving information of any such accordingly ; and wo do hereby declare,
person er persons being employed, or that if any such masters of illi ps, pilots,
serving on board of any ship of war belong- mariners, seamen, shipwrights, or other
ing to such foreign state, being a state at seafaring men (being our natural-bornsub-
Smity with us, we do authorise and com- jects) shall be taken in any foreign service
mand our captains, masters, and others, by the Algerines, or other Barbery Pow-
Commanding our (hips of war, to require ers, and carried into slavery, they (hall
of the captain or commander of such so- not be reclaimed by us as subjects of
reign (hip of war, that he do forthwith Great Britain.—And we do further notify,,
release and discharge such person or per- that all such our subjects as aforesaid, who
sons, being our natural-born subject or have voluntarily entered or shall enter, ot
subjects; and if such release and discharge voluntarily continue to serve on board of
shall be refused, then to transmit informa- any ships of war belonging to any foreign
tion of such refusal to the commander-in- state at enmity with us, are and will be
chief of the squadron under whose orders guilty of high treason:—And we do by
such captain or commander shall be then this eur Royal Proclamation declare, that
serving; which information the said com- they shall be punished with the utmost
mander-in-chief is hereby strictly directed severity of the law.
and enjoined to transmit, with the least Given at our Court, at the Gueen's Pa-
possible delay, to our Minister residing at lace,v the lThh day of October, 1807,
the feat of Government of that state to and in the 47 lh year of oik reign.—Gon
which the said foreign ship of war shall save the King.
belong, or to our Lord High Admiral, or [This Gazette likewise contains two let-
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for ters from Capt. Bellard, of the Blond fri-
the time being, in order that we, being gate, dated off Barbadoes, the lMh and
apprised of such proceeding, may forth- i6th Aug. last, announcing the capture
with direct the necessary steps to be taken of the French privateer La Darne Villarct,
for obtaining redress from the Government mounting one long lS-pounder and four
to which such foreign ship of war (hall g- pound carronades, with 69 men, aftef
belong, for the inj«ry done to us by the a chafe of thirteen hours ; and L'Horteuse
unwarranted detention of our natural-born privateer of four g-pound carronades, two
subjects in the service of a foreign state :— long twelves, and two 8-pounders, (all
And whereas it has farther been reprelen- of which were thrown overboard during
ted unto us, that divers mariners and lea- the chafe, of twenty hours), and go men.
faring men, our natural-born subjects, Both vessels were from Martinique, had
have been induced to accept letters of na- been at sea, one 20, the other 13 days,
turalifaiion, or certificates of citizenship, without taking any thing.]
from foreign states, and have been taught ■■
to believe that, by such letters or certifi- Admiralty-office, OA. 31. Letter from
cates, they are discharged from that duty Capt. Manby, to Sir J. Saumarez, K. B.
of allegiance which, as our natural-born Thalia, off the IJlc of if'ight, Oct. 29.
subjects, they owe tp us; now we do Sir, This morning, off Cherbourg, after
hereby warn all such mariners, seafaring a long chafe, his Majesty's (hip Thalia,
men, and others, our natural-born sub- under my command, captured the French
jects, that no such letters ofnatutalisation, lugger privateer Le Requin, of 14 guns
or certificates of citizenship, do, or can, and 48 men, quite new, from Fecamp
-in any manner, divest our natural-born two days, and made no captures,
subjects of the allegiance, or in any degree l am, &c. J. Manby.
alter the duty which they owe to us, their «•»—
lawful Sovereign. But, in consideration Admiralty-office, Nov. 7. The Lords
of the error into which such mariners and Commissioners of the Admiralty take this
seafaring men as aforesaid may have been public method of testifying their high ap-
led, We do hereby publish and declare probation of the zealous and spirited con-
0111 free pardon to all such our subjects, duct of those officers and seamen who, on
who, repenting of the delusion under the shortest notice, stood forward to volun-
which they have acted, shall immediately teer their services in assisting to bring home
upon knowledge of this our royal procla- from Copenhagen the Danish Fleet ; and
nation, withdraw themselves from foreign of expressing the just fense they entertain
service, and return to their allegiance to of their great utility, fas represented by
tis ; and we do declare that ail such our Admiral Lord Ga.rn.bicr}, in the service on
while!*
 1064 Interesting Intelligence fro n the London Gazettes. [Nov.
which they have been employed.—By and all trade in the produce or manufac
tjjaimand'of their Lordships, tures of such Countries and Colonies, shall
W..W. Poll be deemed to be unlawful ; and every
vessel trading to the laid Countries, laden
Admiratty-iiffice, Aluv. :2. Letter from with fuck produce or manufactures, shall
Capt. E. A. Down, of *H. M. S. Bittern, be lawful prize. But, for reasons stated
dated Malta, August 6, transmitted by in the Order of Council, several excep-
Lord Collingwood. • tions are made to the application of this
My Lord, I have the honour to inform general principle. These are—1st, Any
your' Loidfhip, that on the2d inst, oft Cape vessel or cargo which (hall have cleared
Safiaro, 1 fell in with, and after a chase out from a neutral port, or from some
of two hours, captured the Spanish settee free port in his Majesty's Colonies, direct;
privateer El Verga del Rosaria, of two to lbme port in the enemies Colonies, or
Jong guns and 20 men, from Tunis twen from these Colonies-direct to some port of
ty-eight days, and ■ had captured three the Country to which the veslel belongs,
Maltese vessels, one of which, laden with' or to some free port in the British Colo
fcrandy and wine, I recaptured on the nies.—*2d, Any neutral veslel or cargo
(ame day. E. A. Down. cleared out from any port in this Country,
Extract of a Letter from Capt. Stun, of or from Gibraltar and Malta, under cer
the Skylark, dated Nov. u, to Admiral tain regulations, and proceeding to the
Rowley. . ' port specified in her clearance,—3d, Any
Sir, It is with great satisfaction I ac neutral vessel coming from an enemy's
quaint you, that we last night, after a port many of his Majesty's ports in Europe.
chafe of one hour and fifty-five minutes, The Commanders of his Majesty's ships
captured Le Reuard French privateer lug are instructed to warn every neutral vessel
ger, of 14 guns, and 3J) men, belonging proceeding in such way as is prohibited
t» Calais, which place she had left that by this Proclamation, to discontinue her
evening, and was in the act-of taking pos voyage, and to proceed to some port in
session of a collier brig, under the North this kingdom, or to Gibraltar or Malta ;
Foreland, which they afterwards aban and every vessel after such warning, or
doned, on observing us pursue them, and after a reasonable time for receiving infor
we took charge of her. The obstinacy of mation, so proceeding to an enemy's port^.
the Captain in not surrendering when shall be declared lawful prize. By ano
repeatedly called to, and likewise an at ther article " certificates of origin," de
tempt he made to lay us on-board, ob claring that the cargo does not consist of
liged us to fire, by which he was severely the produce or manufactures of this
wounded, and the lugger's main-mast shot Country and her Colonies, and which are
away. The Captain of the Renard is the frequently procured from French Com
person who took the Argus, and he com mercial Agents residing in neutral ports,
municates that his veliel was run down by are declared to be unlawful, and to subject
her, and that the master has since had the ship and cargo with which they are
bis arm amputated ; the prisoners also found, to be condemned as prize.
mention, that the privateer who lately The second Order suspends, for a time,
engaged the Active lost eight men killed the Navigation Act, and permits articles,
and seven wounded in the -encounter. of the growth and manufacture of foreign
I am, &c. H. E. P. Sturt. countries to be imported into this country
by neutrals. Neutral (hips also, which,
Supplement to the. London Gazette. upon warning, have sailed to any port in
Queen's Palace, Nov. 11. In this Ga this country, are permitted torepoit their
zette are contained the Orders of Council cargoes for exportation, and to fail to
relative to Neutral Commerce. As it is their original ports of destination (if not
of great importance that the regulations .unlawful before the abate Ordur) rn re.
which Government mean to enforce should ceiving a certificate from the Collector of
be well understood, we insert a short the Customs at the said British port.
Abstract of each of the three Orders, in The third Order states, that the sale of
which we have endeavoured distinctly to ships by a Belligerent to a Neutral, is
state their objects. considered by France to be illegal, and
The FiasT Oruek, after stating in the adopts this rule towards the enemy which
preamble the motives of the measure, di was applied by them to this country. This
rects, that all the ports of France and has a particular reference to the transfer
her Allies, bath in Europe and in their of French sliips to the Americans and
Colonies, and in short, every port from other Neutrals, by which pretended sale
which the British flag is excluded, shall and transfer they have been hitherto pro
be subject to the same restrict oos as if tested. All strips thus transferred are de
they were in a state of actual. blockade, clared law till prize.
Admiralty*
1807.] London Gazettes.—Foreign Occurrences. 1065
Admiralty-office, Nou. 1J. Letter to troops and seamen on-board the lugger,
Aim. Russell, Commander in Chief off with the master of the vessel. The taking '
the Texel. of this lugger will, I trust, be of consider
L'AimaHe, Yarmouth Roads, Nov. 13. able import, a? she is considered the fastest
Sir, On the ;i tli inst, at daylight, (the sailing vessel out of Dunkirk, and has ef- .
Vlie Island then bearing S. 22 deg. E. caped the vigilance of our cruizers for the '
distance 72 miles1, we perceived a lugger last three years past, and has done consi
bearing South of us, distance about (even derable damage to the trade during that
rrti!es, but it being nearly calnv we were time. G. Stuart. *
unable to chafe ; however, were fortunate Letter to Adm. Douglas, Commander ,
enough tO£ct the breeze about ooe o'clock, in Chief at Norfh Yarmouth. 1 .
and 1 have great satisfaction in acquaint Oleron, Yarmouth Roads, Nov. 14.
ing you, that after a chafe of five hours, Sir, Yesterday, at half past eight a. m.
we succeeded in capturing her. She' LowettorT'c bearing W. by N. distance tea
proves to be La Dec.de, a beaufiful large leagues, I fell in with, and, after a chace
French lugjer privateer, mounting 16 of four hours, captured the French lugger
guns, with a complement of fifty-one privateer, Ratafia, of Dunkirk, ear^irg
men, out from Dunkirk three days, but fourteen guns (only two of which were
having only 37 on board, the rest being mounted, the rest in the hold) , and thirty-'"
away in the Mary transport, marked J. Z. eight men, commanded by Gilbert Lafo-
(her only capture this cruize), which (he zeste, a lieutenant in the French navy.
succeeded in taking the day before at two She sailed from Delizyb, in the river Eras,
o'clock, having on board nine artillery the gth inst, and, am happy to fay, she
drivers and fix horses, front Copcnhageo. has made no captures. From the number
Though we had not the good fortune to of prisoners, I thought it necessary to re- 1
fall in with the transport, I have the tuen to these Roads. lam, ate.'
pleasure to state, that we have found the G. M. Sutton, Captain'.

ABSTRACT OF FORE IGN OCCURRENCES.

FRANCE.' has already engaged the attention of several '
Mnrlaix, Oct. 25.—We had been in the eminent physicians. .
habit of fending cartels, from time to time, It is said, that Lucien Buonaparte has
to London. Orders have just been given, beeii recalled from his retirement at Rome,'
that none shall go in future. NocommuT and arrived at Paris, where he experienced
rtication is tp exist with that country, go the most favourable reception fromNapo-'
verned by the unjust .and eternal enemies leon. It was well known, that Napoleon
of the Continent. offered him the Crown of Portugal two
Fontainbhau, OR. 20.—The Emperor years ago ; and it is probable, that the
often takes an airing in an open carriage, present reconciliation and visit to Paris isi
vvithout being accompanied by any other connected with a similar offer.
person than the Empress, and with neither By a long article contained in the Mo-
attendants nor guards. The other day he niteur of the luth inst, we are made ac
passed through our city in this manner. quainted with the evacuation of Alexan
This mark of confidence sensibly affects dria by our troops. It is asserted in th«
us.—It has lately been very cold here. fame Paper, that Austria has declared war
The Empress was obliged to keep her dgainsi this country ; and that Buonaparte
room two days, owing to the rheumatism. has, in the manner peculiar to himself,
Th" uneasiness which this circumstance denounced his vengeance against Portugal,
occasioned is now over. We have just by declaring that the House os £raga)ixa
seen her go out along with the Emperor, shall cease to reign. Thus it appears, that
for the amusement cf shooting the Proclamation of the Prince Regcst,
The Mohitcur of the 1st of November and his (hutting the Ports of Portugal
contains a translation of his Britannic Ma against British ships, have not been suffi
jesty's Declaration, relative to the expedi cient to satisfy the fury and the rapacity
tion to Copenhagen, with a very iong com of the Tyrant of the Continent. The
ment, inveighing violently against the per- crime of the Prince Regent is, his allowing
Cdiousnefs, injustice, cruelty, impolicy, the English property to escape, before' the
&c. of the English Government. French arrived to confiscate it.—The rea
Some of the French troops and officers sons assigned for Austria having declared
•who have been in Poland, have caught war against this Cuuntry are, the attack
that dreadful disease of the hair called on Copenhagen, and the rejection of the
Plica, and introduced it into Paris, where Ruffian mediation. If, however, any
it is said to be making great progress, and proposition was rsally made by Russia rn
Gent. Mag. Ntwimiitrt IS07, the
10
 ro66 AbJlraEl of Foreign Occurrences. [Nov.
th* spirit of peaee> we are confident it has the Austrian ports ; but their motions are
been listened to with due attention by our evidently connected with the approaching
Government ; but, had these been the dissolution of the Turkish Empire.
grounds of an Austrian Declaration of The people in Hanover are oppressed in
War, we ought to have heard of that event a greater degree than ever by the French
before now. Upon the whole, we must troops, who are quartered upon them be
receive this assertion of the Moniteur with yond their ability to support. Any com
some doubt. It seems to be an inference plaint of poverty is punished by an addi
from the departure of Lord Pembroke from tion to the number of their guests.
Vienna ; but the Austrian Ambassldor is The French and Spanish troops in Ham
ftill at our Court; and if war had been burgh and its vicinity amounted on the 1st
declared by his Sovereign, he would cer- of November to upwards of 17,000 men.
.tainly have been recalled.—The evacua The greatest distress prevails at Ham
tion of Egypt by the British forces is offi burgh, Bremen, and every other Northern
cially announced in a letter from (heTurkish Port in which the French Agents have fully
Commander to the Porte. The English established their system of commercial per
prisoners taken by the Turks are to be re secution. We have now no doubt of the
stored to liberty in consequence of the truth of the report, that Buonaparte has
surrender of Alexandria ; and we suppose prohibited the introduction of coffee, su
tile measure has been the result of orders gar, and tobacco, into France ; an Order
transmitted from this country. The long amounting to such a prohibition was issued
declamatory article, in which all this in at Bremen on the 26th of last month. 10
telligence is contained, gives also a multi goes the lengih of completely closing th»
tude of comment!, directed chiefly against navigation of theWel'er, and sequestrating
the present Administration. It is the ob the cargoes even of French vessels, if
ject, of the writer to represent the people they should be found to consist of colonial
pf this country as at variance with the Go produce.
vernment. The former are stated to be SPAIN.
clamorous for peace, the latter determined We are credibly informed, that no offir
on perpetual war. cial intimation of the march of the French.
We are assured that General Armstrong, Army into Spain was made te the Cabinet
the American Minister at Paris, has lately of Madrid, until it had pasted the frontiers ;
had repeated interviews with the French when General Junot sent forward to pro
Government on the subject of the subsisting vide quarters for his.army, which is to b«,
relations between America and this coun stationed in three divisions, in Gallicia,
try. Buonaparte has used both promises Castile, and Estremadura.
' and menaces to excite the United States The first division of the Spanish troop3.
to declare war against us. The Floridas ordered to the Portuguese frontiers, broil*
vite offered as the price of their hostility, up tor Badajoz on the 12th ult. ; they ar*
jmd it was afterwards suggested that one to be followed by all the troops in Anda
of the Spanish West India Iflands would lusia. It is a singular fact, that all thy
be added ; but these lures proving insuffi Spanisli troops in the neighbourhood of
cient, and Buonaparte becoming impatient the Capital have been ordered away. Tb«
at their tardiness in complying wjtii his people of Madrid, who daily expected to
demands, General Armstrong was informed find them replaced by French Corps, sus
early in the present month, that; unless pected the Prince of the Peace of having be
America declared immediate war against trayed them ; but their murmurs were
England, France would consider her ai an, stifled by their fears, and they awaited the
«ne,my, and shut every port on the Conti- result in silent trepidation.
•ent against her. Alledged Conspiracy against the
HOLLAND. Kins or Stain.
The Dutch Government has adopted a PROCLAMATION.
more rigorous decree than any which has '• C. R."
hitherto been issued against British cont " God, who watches over his creatures,
tnerce. All colanial produce and manu tloes not permit the consummation of atro*
factures whatever, that are snjpeded tmly cious deeds, when the intended victims
Of having come from England ot her de are innocent. Thus his omnipotence has
pendencies, are in future to be liable to saved me from the most unheard-of catas
seizure. trophe. My people, my subjects, all
GERMANY. know my Christianity and settled habits.
It is stated in the French Papers, that They all love me, and I receive from all
the Court of Vienna has entered into en of them proofs of their veneration—such
gagements with France, favourable to the as the conduct of a parent calls for fronj,
new Commercial Code. Troops are said his children. I lived persuaded of this
to be drawing down towards the Adriatic, felicity, and devoted to the repose of ray
to protect ai.J maintain the neutrality of fetnilyj when mt unknown hand discovered,
the
 1 8o?.] Abfiraa os Fet eign Occurrences. 1067
the most atrocious and unheard-of conspi Spain, as well as of the Prince of Asturias,"
racy, which was carried on in my own is tolerably well known ; and Europe can
palace, against my person.—My life, not be ignorant of the character of the
which has so often been in danger, was Prince of the Peace, or of his subserviency
too lqng in the eyes &s mysucc'effor, who, to Buonaparte. The whole of this trans
infatuated by prejudice^ and alienated frcm action warrants the suspicion of a scheme
every principle of Christianity that my pa to entrap the Prince of Asturias, and to
ternal care and love had taught him, had impose upon his father, for the purpose of
entered into a project to dethrone me. In destroying the one and deposing the other.
formed of this, 1 thought proper to inquire When all who art obstacles to the views of
personally into the truth of the fact, aud, Buonaparte, and attached to this branch of
surprising him in my room, I found in his the Bourbon family, are by the Prince of
possession the cypher of his correspondence, the Peace and his Council pronounced
and of the instructions he had received guilty of this conspiracy, and consequently
from the vile conspirators. set aside,, then the old King may be safely
" In consequence of this discovery, I decreed to be " unfit to reign." It is a
immediately convoked the Governor and remarkable circumstance, that a report of
Council, in order that they might make the assassination of the King of Spain was
the necessary inquiries ; and the result quite current at Lisbon long before, as
has been the detection of several malefac it appears from the Proclamation, any
tors, whose imprisonment I have ordered; such plot was detected at Madrid.—A
as also the arrest of my son at his residence. Counter-Proclamation has since been
This is an additional aggravation Of the issued, in which it is declared, that, on
affliction I labour under ; but, however due inquiry, it had been found, that the
painful to my feelings, it must be submit Prince of Asturias had no personal concern
ted to, as it is of the utmost importance in the plot.
to the suppression of such a conspiracy. PORTUGAL.
At the same time that I direct the publi The Proclamation or Edict for shutting
cation of this affair to my subjects, I cart- the ports of Portugal against British ships
not avoid expressing to them the regret by and vessels of every description bears date
which I am agitated; but that regret will on the 20th, but does not appear to have
be alleviated by the demonstrations of theiT been promulgated until two days after.
loyalty. You will take the proper mea The following is a copy of this document ;
sures to have this Decree circulated in due " Proclamation.—It having always
form. Charles R."' been my greatest desire to preserve within
" By command of his Majesty, I trans my dominions the most perfect neutrality
mit this Decree to your Excellency, in during the present war, on account of the
order that it may be duly promulgated. good effects that would result therefrom to
" Signed by the Ministers, and ad the subjects of this Crown ; but it being
dressed to all Vicerdys, &c. &c." impossible to preserve it any longer, and
We submit this monstrous paper to our reflecting at the same time how beneficial
Readers without preface. It bears its own a general peace would be to humanity ; I
horrible character on its front. The poor, have thought proper to accede to the cause
feeble, unoffending Prince of Asturias is of the Continent, by uniting myself to his
thus by the impatience of the Prince of Majesty the Emperor of the French and
the Peace (the instrument of France) to King of Italy, and to his Catholic Majesty,
be sacrificed, and his own father is made in oidcr to contribute, as far as may be in
his accuser—not because he was an object my power, to the acceleration of the ma
of dread, but because he was surrounded ritime peace: Wherefore it is my pleasure
by all the honour of the realm. The French to order that the ports of this kingdom be
had taken the most cautious steps as preli henceforth shut against the entry of all
minaries to this atrocious act. They se ships of war and merchant-vessels belong
cured all the strong places—their army is ing to Great Britain ; and hereof all con
posted every wheTe to controul and com cerned are to take due.notice.—(men at
mand the natives. Portugal furnished a the Palace of Mafra, the 20th October,
pretext for their march, and we see the 1907. By Order of the Prince Regent,
Result of the diabdtical scheme. our Sovereign —Lilben, Oct. 2-2, teo?;"
The-circumftarice of the King finding Letters from Portugal, dated the 2d inst,
his Son in his (the King's) own room, state, that Buonaparte has treated the
with the cypher and evidence of a pari- Prince Regent with the greatest personal
ridal conspiracy upon him, has very much indignity. The Prince -addressed a letter
■indeed the complexion of a theatrical con to Napoleon, on the ^subject of the pend
trivance. What could bring the Prince of ing differences; but the latter returned it
Asturias from his own residence to the unopened to the Portuguese Ambassador at
■King's apartment, with such a document Paris, accompanied by a note from Tal
about him? The intellect of the King of leyrand, in which his Excellency was told,
that
 lo68 AbstraclofForeiin Occurrences. [Nov.
tbatMiis protracted stay in that capital was Ambafl'ador to the Emperor of Russia, is
offensive to the Emperor. the identical Officer who conducted in
There vrere, on the 1st instant, eight Por person the seizure of the murdered Due
tuguese ships of the tine afloat In the Ta- D'Enghein, There can be no stronger
gus, besides frigates ; there were also proof of the power of the Assassin of that
between 40 and 50 large Brazil traders unfortunate young Prince, and of his con
capable of carrying 38 or 40 heavy guns*. tempt for the Continental Governments)
PRUSSIA. than his thus thrusting the agents of his
A private Letter from Berlin state", that crimes into the presence of .the few Sove
soon after Berlin was resigned again to the reigns who are still denominated indepen
Prussian Government, a play was per dent. The Emperor Alexander is known
formed in the theatre of that city, in which to have remonstrated sharply acainst that
there were Characters of a German and a. atrocious act; and now he is obliged to
Prussian officer. The actor who performed receive the very person who was the prime
the first, disposed to pay some compliment instrument in the commission of it!
to the French troops who still remained in DENMARK.
that capital, appeared in the itilignia of Copenhagtn, Oft. 12.—As it has been
the. Legion of Honour. The moment this stated in several English News-ptipers, that
badge appeared, the audience burst into the naval stores, &c. found in the Holm,
the strongest expressions of indignation, and taken away by the Englissi, were not
which could not be appeased till the per of considerable value, we assert, with the
former withdrew, and removed the offen-^ strictest conformity to truth, that the
five mark. An account of this event was stores, materials, implements, &c. found
immediately sent to Paris ; Buonaparte, by the English at the Holm) and either
according to report, flow into a violent destroyed or carried off, are at least of the
passion, and dispatched a message to Gene .same, if not of a higher value) than the
ial Knobelldorff, pointing out two Prussian whole Danissi navy now in their possession.
•officers who were said to be chiefly instru Htlfingl'urgh, Oct. 21.—The evacuation
mental in kindling the riot, which he con* of Zealand by the Englissi troops was com
sidered as a personal insult to himself, and pleted yesterday, when Admiral Gambler
•demanding that they should he immedi and General Cathcart came on ssiore here,
ately taken out and shot. General Kno- and were presented to the King and* Gueen
belsdorfs returned an immediate answer, of Sweden ; after which, the King and
•stating, that tumults were very common Queen, with the Court, attended upon the
at a public theatre; and that he was per beach to see the fleet depart, and were sa
suaded the officers in question were not luted by each of the (hips as they passed ;
•likely to have taken any active part on the and from its being so large a fleet, the
-occasion, and imploring Buonaparte's cle sight was truly interesting.
mency. This intercession, so far from ap ITALY.
peasing Buonapa'rte, is said to have en The value of English merchandise opn-
gaged him still more, and that he then dis- fiscated by the French in Leghorn and
-patched an order to the French com other parts of Italy, is said, in a Spanish
mander at Berlin, to execute the sentence Paper of the lath inst, to amount to ten
■ upon the two officers. millions of dollars.
RUSSIA. An article from Milan states very posi
Letters from St. Petersburg, of the fith tively, that Buonaparte will visit the South
"ult. mention, that Lord Leveson Gower as well as the North of Italy, before
had directed Sir Stephen Shairp to acquaint Christmas. It is asserted, tint by the final
the Britissi merchants residing in the Rus treaty between Russia and the Porte, the
sian ports in the Baltic, that, in reply to a former Power is to have Moldavia and
proposal os his, Count Romanzoff had in Bessarabia; France, Albania, the Morea,
formed him, " that he must decline, nn- and the island of Candta ; and Austria,
' drr the erijiin<r rimini/irinres, to enter into Wallachia, Bulgaria, &c. by way of in
any negotiation lor a renewal of the Treaty demnification lor the loss of her territories
of Commerce with Great Britain." on the Inn.
It appears that the gold mines in the From Venice we learn, that the con
• Russian empire afford 4'3,67S pounds stitution of the Seven Islands has been
-weight of that valuable metal annually, provitionally oiganized. It will be depen
and the silver mines -,030,000 pounds. dent upon the French Empire, and bear
The value of the coin annually exported the fame flag and fame arms as Fiance,
from Russia is about 1 ,nr>o,oool. sterling. The present Government are chargedwith
General Catiirttourt, Buonsparre'snew the provisional administration of affairs till
* While this sheet wrrs at press, intel a Governor Geneial is appointed.
ligence was received of Ihem'FP.rprflrd fir- Corfu, dug. 21.—The fate of this island
' rival hi the TVgMi is 'a fortiUialke Ruffian' was determined on the 8th a'nd pth inst.
' Fled. French Commissioners and a Ruffian Co
lonel
1807.] Abjtreti of For tign Occurrences. 1069
lonel arrived here. The Senate was as perors at their interview, but their results
sembled, and the Colonel read a dispatch must soon be manifest to the world. The
from the Emperor Alexander, in which system adopted by Sultan Selim, during
bis Majesty declared, that he renounced the last years of his government, of adhering
the right he possessed in quality of Protec entirely to France, and rejecting all other
tor of the Seven Islands, and ceded them connections, has probably saved the Porte
to his Majesty the Emperor of the French for some time ; but the dethroning of that
and King of Italy. The Colonel then Monarch has hastened the great catastro
enjoined every one to conform to this or phe ; and Mustapha is probably the last
der. The French Commissioners imme Ottoman Sovereign who will reign over
diately accepted the act of renunciation^ the Provinces of the Byzantine Empire.
and drew up a proces verbal. Since then The new Government of Constantinople
SOOO French troops have landed here, and has delayed to renew its former connection
occupied the posts of the city, and the With France ; and its wavering policy has
different cerps de garde. The Russian induced it, without the knowledge of the
troops have embarked, and will return by French Ambassador, to enter into secret
the way of Italy and Germany. negociations with the English Comman
TURKEY. ders, which however have not remained
Confiantmople, Sept. 25.—The Grand secret, and therefore can have no conse
Signior continues to exhibit a singular quences.—Allotm Mercury, Oct. 16.
firmness of character. He has adopted The French Minister Sebastiani, we are
the resolution to re-organise a part of the informed, has left Constantinople, in con»
troops according to the Nizam Gedid, or sequence of som* sudden dispute with the
new tactics. He seems not to fear the Divan. The nature of the differenee
Janizaries in the least, and has given pub which has thus unexpectedly arisen is not
lic orders to Suleiman Aga, who ha? been stated ; but we have no doubt but Buona
in the Austrian military service, to orga parte will avail himself of it, and change
nise a corps of troops upon the fame foot the system of secret intrigue, by which he.
ing as under the late Sultan, only with has long endeavoured to disorganize the
the difference of these troops preserving Ottoman Empire, to an open attack on
their national costume.—A remarkable that power.
circumstance occurred last week, which ASIA.
afforded a fresh proof os the Sultan's cou Accounts from India bring a copy of a
rage :—in the streets of Tophana, he was Proclamation issued by the Government bf
,pressed upon in such a manner by a num Fort St. George, in consequence of the
ber of Janizaries coming from the castles mutiny at Vellore, The Proclamation,
of Fanaraki, that he was compelled to after noticing that an extraordinary degree
give orders to drive them off. The Jani of agitation had prevailed among several
zaries consequently attacked his retinue ; corps of the native army, states, that on
but the latter obtaining the assistance of inquiring into the motives of this conduct
the guanls, a number of the Bostangis —" It has appeared that many persons of
wej#. -wounded, so that the assailants were evil intention have endeavoured, for ma
compelled to draw off. The refractory licious purposes, to impress upon the Na
..Were, however, punished with such seve tive Troops a belief, that it is the wish of
rity, that upwards of 50 of them were the British Government to convert them
strangled on the spot, and good order res by forcible means to Christianity ; and his
tored, without any of their comrades once Lordship in Council has observed with
attempting to come to their assistance.—■ concern, that such malicious reports have
Another part of the Grand Signior's cha been believed by many of the Native
racter appears is the order given, a day or Troops."—These troops are therefore as
two since, for beheading Prince Suzzo, sured—" That the same respect, which
the Dragoman of the Porte, who, how has been invariably shewn by the British
ever, continued to exercise his functions Government for their Religion and for
with the utmost tranquility, till within a their Customs, will be always continued ;
few minutes of the execution of this sen and that no interruption will be given to
tence. It is supposed that this unexpected any Native, whether Hindoo or Mussul
event originated in a criminal correspon man, in the practice of his Religious Ce
dence, which is said to have taken place remonies."
between the Dragoman and the English Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Craddock has, it is
Admiral commandingnear the Dardanelles. said, recently been recalled from his com
» Bank s of the Danube, Oct. 6.—The tot mand ; and that an investigation will cer
tering Turkish empire appears, since the tainly take place of the causes of the mu
, Peace of Tilsit, to be placed in more pre tiny at Vellore and other quarters.
carious circumstances than ever.. The AMERICA.
arrangements are not known, which were American Papers have brought us the
taade relativt to Turkey by the two Eni- following articles, respecting General
Morwa,
1070 Abjlraft of Fore\
Moreau, and the design of the French
upon Canada:—" The following infor
mation, says an Halifax Paper, is deri\-ed
from a very respectable source ; and the re
conciliation of Buonaparte with Moreau,
together with the well-known fact of the
latter being now actually employed by the
American Government, leave no room to
doubt that the outline of the Plan is cor
rectly given ; though the vigilance of the
British Government may easily destroy it
in the bud, or completely prevent its ac
complishment :
Partition of America.—" The cor
respondence of Talleyrand and General
Moreau, which caused such surmises at
New York in February last, is at length
developing, and we can scarcely be sur
prised at the events which have since fol
lowed :
" Buonaparte and Moreau are recon
ciled.'—If Moreau can persuade Anie-
ricato break with England, 10,000 French
are, in conjunction with the Americans,
to drive the English from the Continent.
—Canada and Nova Scotia are to be
erected into a Monarchy, ar.d Moreau to
be crowned King of Acadia and both the
Canadas. America is to have the Floridas,
as well as Louisiana; and the Island of
Porto Rico, or some other valuable West
Indian Island, to be'given up to them.—
The Government of America not having
sufficient energy by the present Constitu
tion, the President to be supported in his
endeavours to change it, and a new form
•f Legislature adopted, in which the
Chair is to be assumed for life.-—The only
difficulty is stated by the American Go
vernment to arise from the Northern
States, who might be averse to such a
neighbour as the Kingdom of Acadia and
Canada, governed by a Frenchman ; but
this may probably be overcome if the war
with England can be made a popular one.
—The authenticity of this intelligence
Cannot be doubted ; and the Americans,
who are now loudly crying out for a War
with England, may know how completely
they have been made the tools of France
and its pensioners."
The M'ajhington Intelligencer, of the
2Sth of September, contained the follow
ing paragraph:—"The British Govern
ment has signified to Mr. Munroe, that
it neither does nor has at any time main
tained the pretension of a right to search
ships of war, in the service of any State,
for deserters; and that if it lhould appear
that the act of the British Officets, in the
affair of the Leopard 'and Chesapeake,
tested on no other grounds than the simple
and unqualified assertion of such a pre
tension, there would be no difficulty in
disavowing the act, and making the repa
ration really due."
« Occurrences. [Nov.
* > ,1 1
On the S3d of September, a duel was
fought at Norfolk, America, between
Captain Gordon of the Chesapeake, and
Dr. Starke, in consequence of a dispute oh
the subject of Commodore Barren's con»
duet. Several shots were exchanged with
out effect ; and the affair terminated by
Dr. Starke receiving a wound through the
arm, from Lieut. Crane, Captain Gordon's
second!
The American Naturalists are still
strongly, persuaded, that the Mammoth
was once a common animal on that Con
tinent. A person, who lately returned
from travelling on the banks of the Mis
souri, brought to Baltimore an enormous
tooth of a Mammoth, which he and his
companions found, while ' searching for
mines iri the vicinity of that river. They
add, that they met with a space of a quar
ter of a mile in extent, wholly covered to
the depth of six feet with bones of ah
enormous size. The person above-men
tioned has offered to procure, if remuner
ated for his trouble, a complete skeleton
of a Mammoth, 54 feet in length. Each
of the jaw-bones has eight grinders, of an
extraordinary size.
From the report of an American cap
tain, commander of the Bashaw, who left
Monte Video on the loth of July, it ap
pears, that at that time (a few days pre
vious to our disgraceful defeat at Buenos
Ayres) there were lying there no less
than eighty fail of British merchantmen^
laden with British merchandize of every
description, for which there was no vent.
At the time alluded to, there were only
three ships loading and none unloading at
Monte Video.
The amount of investments from Lon
don, Liverpool, &c. to the River Plata>
the greater part of which has been lost by
the late disgraceful events on that irfver,
is estimated at five millions sterling. '
It appears, that our trade to S». Domin
go had for upwards of fifteen months been
increasing to an inconceivable degree ;
and it is believed that there are at present
no less than 2000 British subjects on that
island.-—Christophe is represented as a
man of honour and integrity, compre
hensive understanding, polite manners,
and not less humane than brave; and it
is reported, that for some months he has
maintained Agents here, ■ invested "with
powers to make overtures to our Minis
ters, and to propose to them to put tht
Island under the proteclim of his Britannic
Maje/iy. These proposals are accompa
nied with many others, no less interesting
for our military than for our mercantile
operations; and that the project of a
treaty of amity, commerce, and alliance,
between England and Hayti, is actually
before Government.—It is added, that it
i S07.J Foreign Occurrences.—Csuntry Neitis. 107 1
\s in contemplation of Government to af the wheel, by cutting off his head at one
ford convoys to our (hips trading with blow ; he was boatswain of the privateer.
Hayti ; as no less than fifteen vessels des In the confusion, the privateer escaped.
tined for that island are now wind-bound, Nov. 10. This night, during the gale,
some of whose cargoes are estimated at the Leveret sloop of war struck upon the
from 30 to 40,oooZ. Long Sand, and lost her rudder, and came
The late scarcity in New South Wales off with seven feet water in her hold, aud,
appears, by recent accounts from thence, drifted towards the Galloper, when, the
to have been infinitely more serious than water, gaining upon them, the erew wer*
was supposed; a considerable number of obliged to abandon her, and were taken
persons have died through want of food. out by a vessel belonging to Ipswich, and
EAST INDIES. are all safely arrived at Harwich.
The Nabob of Bengal has presented a Nov. 13. Lately, a large barn belonging,
petition to the Court of Directors, request to Gen. Money, at Trouje, Norfolk, was
ing permission to visit this country for the burnt, with a great quantity of barley, &c.
recovery of his health, which for some The loss is 700Z. A notorious character,,
time past has been much on the decline. named Thomas Sutton, formerly convicted
of stealing a poney from Gen. Money, and
Scotland. sentenced to seven years tranl'portatirjn.
Nov. 14, The workmen employed in but, having served out that term on-board
clearing out the foundation for some new the hulks, had returned to Trowse, sur
building in the line of the intended open rendered himself, and voluntarily confessed
ing into Union-street, Aberdeen, discovered the fact. ,' ..
a large wooden vessel at the depth of about Nov. 14. While some persons were a few
10 feet under the level of the street, filled days ago ploughing in a field at Zealby,
with a number of silver coins, mostly of in Lincolnssiire, they turned up a coarse
the coinage of Edward I. of England, and earthen pot, which contained about 5000
Alexander 111. of Scotland. They were silver pennies of Henry I. and II. They
scattered among the labourers, and have are each worth 3d. of our present money ;
been fince mostly sold to the silversmiths and, at the time they were coined, were as
in the town. It is conjectured, they had valuable as 1000/. of our money is at this
been secreted during the sanguinary wars time. The coins are of various mints,
carried on by Edward III. in Scotland, many of them having the names of towns,
and afterwards buried in the ruins of the where it was not known that money was
town, on its being burned by the troops ever struck. A selection of the pieces has
of that Prince in 1326. been deposited in the British Museum^
The valuable collection made by the Whithy, Nov. i6.. During a storm
late Dr. Hunter, is now deposited in the which drove the sea over the Moors six or
University of Glasgow ; and is one of the seven miles, a vessel, supposed to be the
most august monuments of the love of Isabella, of Shields, was forced on shore
science in the world. There are medals of near the Alum works at Sands-end, about
the Greek, Persian, Phœnician, Samari three miles N~. W. of Whitby, and all
tan, and Punic cities ; of their Kings, &c. hands perished. About noon three brigs
The library comprehends all the early were attempting to reach the harbour,
printed books of the 15 th century, and wiiich could only be visible by the surge
the rare editions of the classics. breaking over the cliffs and piers. Two
of them got safe in ; the crews' were Iaslied
Country News. in the rigging, except the men at thew
Nov. Q. The Lord Eldon East Indiaman helm. One of them did considerable da
was attacked this morning by a French mage in the harbour. The third vessel,
privateer off tht Needles. It being dusk, after having had all her fails torn to pieces,
the crew of the Indiaman mistook the pri became unmanageable, and went down
vateer for an English man of war, whose close to the mouth of the harbour, anc{
intention in coming alongside was to press every soul perissied ; one vessel was seen to
them ; and therefore they al! went below. founder to the Northward of the harbour
The enemy of course found no difficulty about the middle of the afterneon, and in
in getting possession of the Lord Eldon'S the evening four fail appeared off the har
quarter-deck. The Captain, hearing an bour, but disappeared.in so short a time as
unusual noise, left his cabin, and went to render it probable they all foundered ;
upon deck, which, to his surprise, he near twenty fail run oh shore, and were
found ocaupied by Frenchmen. He gave lost, and several of the crews perissied.
notice to his crew below, who flew up, Nov. 16. The James, from Leith to
and soon drove the intruders overboard, Newcastle, with goods and passengers,
five of them they previously killed. The drove from her anchors on tho Holderncfs
Captain of the Lord Eldon killed the coast, off If'azholme, hear the Sister
Frenchman who had taken possession of Churches, about three- o'clock / this morn-
• inS.
 Country Neivs.— D omeftlt Occurrence!. £Nov\
ing, in a heavy gale of wind, and soon corder, &c. proceeded from. Guildhall to
afterwards broke to pieces. The crew and Blackfriars bridge, and from thence by
passengers were perceived by the people water to Palace-yard, and entered the
onshore, at the pumps ; but no assistance Court of Exchequer. After an appropri
could be rendered. They all perished. ate speech from the Chief Baron, the New
Nov. 17. As the coach from Ports Lord Mayor was sworn into office. The,
mouth was on its way to town with a dinner at Guildhall was sumptuous and
number of sailors, by some accident it was magnificent. The Ball was opened with a
upset near the village of llindendl The minuet, by Sir William Curtis and Miss
coachman was killed on the spot.—The "Anlley, sifter to Lord Mayor.
guard was so much hurt as to be left Friday, November 20.
.without hopes of life, and several of the Mr. Cupel LofTt, who has marked the
tutors were severely hurt. progress of the Comet since its first ap
Nov. 21. The cotton-factory of Mr. pearance at Troston, observes, that be
Thornley, of Heaton-lane, Stockpotl, was tween the 1st and 28th of October, it de
destroyed by fire a few mornings ago : the scribed 16 degrees declination, and 14 de
whole of the buildings, together with the gree* 4 minutes right ascension; if.vas
machinery, were consumed. The damage then about one degree above Hercules,
is estimated at boool. half of which is and some distance to the West of that star.
insured. —This night, the Comet was very near a
Nov. 22. A few days since the weaving- small star in the Lyra, and about i\ degrees
factory belonging to Mr. Scott, of Sher- from the bright star in ihe Lyra, in a line
borne, was destroyed by fire, with the between these two star* ; its tail has dis
valuable machinery and every thing else appeared, and it is now only distinguish
which it contained. able from the small stars near it, by being,
hazy or fainter in light. It has pasted
Domestic Occurrence*. over22j degrees during the present month ;
Tuesday, October 13. and it is supposed from its course, that it
The mortality occasioned by the Small- will pal's under the Pole, and rife again to
Pox, in the city of Westminster, is great wards the Meridian.
almost beyond example. There is scarcely Saturday, Nov. 21.
a house in St. Anne's parish, with chil The following account of the ships mif
dren, that has escaped its ravages, in fing and lost from Copenhagen, may be
one family, three children died last week relied upon as authentic :
of this dreadful malady. It has also been Lost.—The Endeavour, of 115 'tons,.
very prevalent in the parish of St. Mar Win. Cumbrin master, 16 men, 1 6 horses,
tin's. A fine boy, two years and a half Foot Artillery, King's German Legion ;
old, the child of Mr. Summerford, died master and crew saved, except two ; all
of this disease, after two days illness, How the troops and horses lost ;—the Thorn*
unfortunate those parents who suffer cala 100 tons, Thomas Almony master, 2o
mities so easily avoided by Inoculation men, 19 horses, 3d Light Dragoons*
and the Vaccine ! King's German Legion, run down by a
Thursday, Nov. 5.. West Indiaman, off Dover ; crew and;
This afternoon a fire broke out at a troops laved.—The Eagle packet was lost,
house in Fountain-buildings, City-road, on the night of the loth, with Infantry
which destroyed the interior of the pre on board..
mises, together with the furniture. Miffing.—The Whitby, of 302 tons,
The fame night, about half-past u, a James Whitby master, with 31 men, 4
ftre was discovered in a ware-room be women, 4 children, and 38 horses, ofthe
longing to Mr. Bensley, of Bolt-court, German Foot Artillery ; the Sir Sidney
Fleet-street, printer, supposed to have been Smith, of 157 ton', Isaac Sacker master,
occasioned by boys letting off fire-worts, with lfi men, 1 woman, and 17 horses,,
which fell on a lky-light, and so commu of the 3d Light Dragoons, King's German
nicated to the building. Among die valu Legion.
able works destroyed, we regret to state, are, Saturday, Nov. 23.
a* splendid 4 to edition of Thomson's Sea The new Rupture Society, patronized
sons ; 700 copies of Mr. Smith's Anti by the Duke of York, has lately received
quities of Westminster ; a fine edition of 100 guineas from the Duke of Bedford ;
Juvenal ; another of Pope's Works ; also .sool. Three per cent, consols, with
many copies of Edwards's Guide to Bri^ht- Dividends, from John Tyrwhitt, esq..
helmstone, and several single copies of of Netherctay, in Somersetshire, through
matchless rarity. the medium of John Heavifide, esq. for
Monday, November g. promoting the objects of that Institution,
Lord Mayor's Day was observed with all and especially for relieving the Poor afflict
the usual forms. The new Lord Mayor, ed with Prolapses. The benefits of this
Mr. Alderman Anfley, accompanied by very laudable Charity are extended to all
Hie late Chj«f Magistrate/ Sheriffs, Ke- parts of the Kingdom.
P. 6«4,
 1 807.3 Additions and Correfth ns in Obituaries. —Births. 1073
P. 684. The late Mr. Hutton, who kept
an academy in Deptford, was educated at
Kind's College, in the University of Aber
deen. To his last Will, in which he left
an annuity to his wife, a sum to his only
(laughter, Mrs. Mackie (the widow of a
Naval Officer), and sundry legacies, he
added a Codicil, bequeathing all the re
mainder of his estate to his executors, Sir
WHliam Curtis, Bart. Mr. Chalmer, Mr.
Woodroffe, and Mr. Eades, in trust for the
following beneficent purpose: To estab
lish a number of Burses, or Scholarships,
in the King's College, Old Aberdeen,
which (hall be assigned to Students, by
the Principal and Regents, or Professors
of the Uollegc. The Burses are to be
gained, at the commencement of each
session, in classes of soar ; viz. one of
1 8l. per annum ; one of 16I. ; one of 14l. ;
and one of 13I. ; and which are to be as
signed according to the merit of the can
didates, by a public and open competi
tion. The Burses are to be held by the
Students for four years, which is the usual
term of study in the College ; and at the
end of the time there is_ to be a second
competition among the Burses for a prize
of twenty guineas. The Burses are to be
forty-eight in number; if the funds will
admit of so many ; so that there will be
three classes of four each, by which
twelve Students will be annually provided
for ; and three prizes, of twenty guineas
each, assigned to those in the highest, or
Magistran Class, on going off from Col
lege. The competition is to be open to
Scholars from any part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland. And
the only condition is, that they ssiall have
made some progress in the Greek and La
tin languages, and in Mathematicks.—
Mr. Hutton has also made provision for
the changes that may take place in the
value of money, either as to depreciation
or augmentation. He directs that the va
lue of it shall, every twenty years, be fet
tled by the average price, for seven years,
of wheat at Bear Key. He also directs,
that if there should be a surplus arising
from the annual produce of his funds, af-
-ter these uses, such surplus (hall go to
augment the value of the prizes, a>,d to
such other objects, for the promotion of
.Literature and Morals, as the Regents or
Professors of the said College ssiall direct.
And he gives a set of very valuable rules
and regulations for the government of the
scholars on this foundation, ib as to en
gage their attention, animate their pur
suit of knowledge, and promote the ob
servance of their religious and moral du
ties. And he concludes with declaring
"that he has made this disposition of his
estate from the conscientious idea, that,
Gant. Mao. November, 1&07.
in encouraging the cultivation of letter;,
and rearing up a number of young menj
who may be able thereby to enlighten the
minds of others, he has c-deavoured to
discharge the duty which he owes to his
Country, and to testify his gratitude to
the Providence that has crowned his la-
bouis with success.—The Will and two
Codicils have been regularly proved at
Doctors Commons ; but we learn that
there is a doubt whether this tcstiynentary
disposition of his real estate is legal, and
whether the' Will can be carried into exe
cution. If not, the whole will go to his
widow, and Mrs. Mackie, of Cambcrwell,
his only daughter.
P. ;s6, col. 1, 1. 14 from bottom, for
" Earl of Scftoe," r. " Sefton."
P. 7BO, col. 1, 1. 6 from bottom, for
"Æarleyford," r. " f/arleyford."
P. 985, col. 2, I. 46. Mrs. Elizabeth
Free was the widow of John F. esq. Tur
key merchant, and mother of Peter F. esq.
the banker.
P. pgo. The paragraph respecting the
accidental death of Richard Perring, esq.
of Modbury, we find to be an infamous
fabrication. It gained admission into the
Exeter Gazette in consequence of a letter
received by post, signed James Perring,
forged for some invidious purpose, and
was thence copied into most other papers.
Births.
Oct. A T Crofton-hall, co. Worcester,
.... f\ the wife of Robert-Myddelton
Biddulph,esq. M. P.- for Denbigh, adaujjhi.
In Pulteney-street, Bath, the wife of
Francis Drake, esq. a daughter.
Oct. 1). At Thorestiy park, co. Notting
ham, Lady Frances Bentinck, a son.
In Bolton-row, Piccadilly, the wife of
Col. Walter Jones, a daughter.
Nov. ... In Portland-place, the wife of
Charles Smith, cfq, a daughter.
In St. Jamcs's-square, the wife of Bro-
derick Chinnerv, esq. a daughter.
In Merrion-square, Dublin, the lady of
the Riglit Hon. W.C. Tlunkctt, a daughter.
Nov. I. The wife of Lieut.-eel. Goldie,
of the Oth Dragoon-gnards, a son.
2. At Hinton-houfe, Hants, the wife of
Thomas Kingscqte, esq. a son.
At Clifton, near Bristol, thewife of Ma
jor Denstiiie, a son.
3. At Margate, the wife of James Wil
liams, el'q. of Gloucester-place, Mary-la-
Bonne, a daughter.
4. At Haresield-place, Middlesex, the
lady of Sir C. Baynes, bart. a son.
At Dalkeith-house, in Scotland, Lady
Caroline Douglas, a daughter.
7. At Bitrons, the wife of '.vlward Tay
lor, esq. M. P. tor the city of Canterbury,
a son."
At
1074 Births and Marriages of remarkable Persons. , [Nor.
At Edinburgh, the wife of Admiral rough, Hants, to Miss Ewart, daughter of
Duddingston, a daughter. the late Joseph E. esq. formerly Minister
15. In George-ftreet, the Marchioness of Plenipotentiary at the Court os Berlin.
Watcrford, a daughter. At Plumstead church, Kent, the ReT.
9. In Manchester-street, the wife of T. Charles Graham, of St. Laurence, near
B. Ricketts, esq. a son and heir. , Canterbury, to Elizabeth, second daugh
14. At Preston, co. Londondeiry, the ter of the late Lieut.-col. Cairnes.
wife of Lieut.-col. Knox, of the Donegal 5. John-Arthur Borron, esq. of Warring-
Militia, a daughter. ton, to MissGeddes, daughter of Archibal*
16. At the house of SirWm. Lemon, bart. G. esq. of Leith.
at Whitehall, Mrs. Geo. Dyke, a daughter. 7. L. W. Dampier, esq. captain in the
At the mansion in Dunconibc park, co. 40th Foot, to Miss Street, daughter of
York, Lady C. Duncombe, a daughter. John S. esq. of Brunswick-square.
18. At Gaddesden-place, Herts, the wife 9. Mr. Thomas Croft, printer of th»
of Joseph 1 Ialsey, esq. a daughter. Preston Journal, to Miss Stockdale, daugh
23. in Park-place, St. James's, Mrs. ter of the Rev. William S. of Lancashire.
William Wadd, a son. At Benenden, in Kent, the Rev. Daniel
The wife «f E. J. Collet, esq. of the Bo- Boys, to Miss Sarah Rider Richardson,
roiuh of Southwaik, a daughter. youngest daughter of the late William R.
The wife of Gt»rge Blackshaw, esq. of esq. of Bermondl'ey, Surrey.
Giosvenor-place, a daughter. 10. Rev. Castres-Mott Donne, rector of
35. In Queen-square, the lady of Sir Barningham, and vicar of Hempnall, co.
William Fraser, bart. . a daughter, her Norfolk, to Frances, third daughter of the
Sxteenth child. Rev. H. C. Manning, of Thetford.
26. The wife of Colin Douglas, esq. of 11. Charles Tyler, esq. h captain in th«
Frederick-place, Mary-la-Bonne, adaught. Royal Regiment of Artillery, ta Letitia--
Saiah, only daughter of John Crickitt,
Marriages. jun. esq. of Doctors Commons.
OH. A T Camberwell, Mr. J.W.Briant, At Watton, Herts, Henry Manningham,
20. /~\ brewer, of Chigswell, to MissM. esq. to Lausa, third daughter of the latfc
A. Bach, youngest daughter of Wm. B. esq. Russell Skinner, tsq. of Newtown, Hants.
2y Thomas Trench, esq. of Holborn, 12. At Richmond, Surrey, John Harri
to Miss H. Newby, daughter of William son, esq. of Mansion-house-street, banker,
N. es^. of Liverpool. to Lucy-Henrietta, second daughter of Sir
28. At St. Mary-la-Bonne, T. C. BOe- Charles Price, bart. M.P. of Spring-grove.
vey, esq. son of Sir T. Crawley B. hart, of At Birkenhead Priory, the feat of Mrs.
Flaxrey abbey, co. Gloucester, to Miss A. Bodie, Dr. Sherwen, of Bath, to Miss
Page, daughter of Sir T. H. P. knt. of the Lydia Dansett, sister to Mrs. Bodie, and
Royal Engineers. daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Danneu,
29. Rev. Charles Mann, of Denver, co. of Liverpool.
Norfolk, to Susan, youngest daughter of 13. Edward Jesse, esq. of West-Brnm-
Rear-admiral M'Dougall, of Catton. wich, co. Stafford, to Matilda, third dau.
30. At St. George's, Hanover-square, of Sir John Morris, bart. of Claremont,
Lord Monson, to Lady Sarah Saville, dau. co, Glamorgan.
of the Earl of Mexborough. 14. At Sturrey, near Canterbury, John
31. At Aberdeen, John Ross, esq. of Brent, jun. esq. of Greenland-dock, Ro-
Grenada, to Miss Helen Carnegie, daugh. therhithe, to Susannah, third daughter ok'
of the late Alexander C. esq. of Cooksten. the Rev. Samson Kingsford, of Sturrey.
Woo. . . . At Aberdeen, the Rev. James Edward Golding, jun. esq. to Frances,
Deans, one of the ministers of th! English eighth daughter of Oldfield Bowles, esq. of
Chapel there, to the eldest daughter of North Aston, co. Gloucester.
Matt. Martin, esq. of Poet's Corner,Westm. John-Early Cooke, esq. of Cheshunt,
At Greenwich, George-Hay Edwards, Herts, to Miss Margaret Burne, daughter
esq, of Beaufort-buildings, Strand, to Miss of Thomas B. esq. of Bedford-fq«are.
Mills, of Croom's-hill, Blackheath, Kent. 16. Rev. Anthony Lister, M.A. vicar of
Nov. I. Thomas-Harrison Macleod, esq. Gargrave, near Skipton, to the only daugh
of Bread-street, to Miss Buchanan, daugh. ter of W. York, esq. of Leeds.
of the lute P. B. el'q.ef Gower-street. 17. At Clifton, John Eld, esq. of Sei-
At Lichfkld, Major Burrowes, of Stra- gleford, co. Stafford, to the Hon. Louisa
done, co. Cavan, Ireland, to Miss Seward, S. Sidney Smythe, daughter of the late
.us L'chtield. Right Hon. and Rev. Viscount Strangford,
2. At Cneadle, in Cheshire, Charles- and sister to his Majesty's Envoy Extraor
Philip Johnstone, esq. of the King's own dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the
Dragoons, -lo Frances, youngest daugh. of Court of Lilbon.
vjie late James Harrison, esq. of Cheadle. 18. At Stoclcport, Rev. George Horns-
3. Richard Bin, el4. of South Waj-nbo- by, vicar of Tiiriaikan, co. Gloucester, to
Cordelia
1807.] Marriages and Deaths as remarkable Persons. 1075
Cordelia-Emma, youngest daughter os the direction of his fire toward the spot where
late John Astley, esq. of Dukinfield-lodge, Mr. Maltby was walking in the garden ;
in Cheshire. and the melancholy consequence was, that
At Exeter cathedral, the Rev. William the ball went through his head, and he
Karslakc, rector of Dolton, to Miss Heber- expired in a few minutes, without uttering
den, daughter of Canon H. a word or a groan.
ig. John Waddains, esq. of the 67th 20. Found drowned in a small river near
Foot, to Anna-Maria, youngest daughter Old Eye, Sussex, Mr. Godley, farmer, of
of Mark Butcher, esq. of Earsham, near Hartfield ; who, between 8 and 0 the pre
Bungay, Suffolk. ceding evening, left the Wheat Sheaf, in
20. At Bath, Capt. Phillips, R. N. to Mailing-street, Lewes, on horseback, to go
Miss Albrecht, of Milsom-street, Bath. home, contrary to the advice of the land
Capt. Pringle Stoddart, R.N. to Miss lord and others, as he was much intoxica
Frances Sprot, niece of Mark S. esq. of ted. At his departure he took the right
King's-road, Bedford-row. course ; and how he could have pursued
At Prees, Salop, the Rev. Edward Ne one so contrary as that which led to the
ville, M. A. vicar of that place, to Eliza, fatal catastrophe, it is difficult to ascertain.
third daughter of John Hill, esq. late On the brink of the river, nigh to where
M. P. for Shrewsbury. the body was found, there appeared evi
24. At Thoveton, William Comyns.esq. dent marks of a horse's plunging, as if to
of Temlett, to the eldest daughter of the avoid the water. The animal, a black
late Rev. P. Tucker, of Morcbard-Bishop, mare, apparently in foal, was observed
in Devonshire. grazing near Southcram, by a person,
2$. At Clifton, Edward Sampson, esq. who, from three fresh wounds which her
of Henbury, co. Gloucester, to Joanna, off slank exhibited, concluded she belong
youngest daughter of the late Seorge Dau- ed to a smuggler, and had thus suffered
bcny, esq. of Redland, near Bristol. through the illegal practices of her mas
ter; but the wounds, it is believed, were
Deaths. inflicted by the deceased, as in his pockets
March A TPenang, in Prince of Wales's were found three case-knives, and a large
31. jt\ Island, John-Hope Oliphant, butcher's knife, sheathed, but very much
esq. first in Council ; at which time the stained with b'°od. The knives were all
governor, Philip Dundas, esq. was so se new, and most likely purchased for do
riously indisposed as to be incapable of at mestic purposes, though lo cruelly applied
tending his duty, and died oti-board the by him, under the influence «f intoxica
Belliqucux man of war, on April 8. tion, and probably to impel the poor ani
July 14. In consequence of the wounds mal forward, through difficult passes, to
he received in the attack upon Buenos his own destruction. His watch and about
Ayres, Col. Kington, of the 6th Dragoon- 12 guineas in casli and notes were also
guards. He was son of Peter K. esq. of found in his breeches pockets. He has
Bristol ; and married to the widowed Mar left a wife and several children.
chioness of Clanricarde, by whom he has 22. This morning a horse, which was
left one daughter, born in 1 800. drawing a cart filled with hops through
At Boston, in America, about four Winchester-street, Canterbury, suddenly
months since, in the utmost poverty and took fright, and the driver losing all com
indigence, poor Bland, brother of Mrs. mand of him, having no reins, the cart
Jordan, and husband of Mrs. B. of the unfortunately crushed a poor travelling
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. . woman, named Woodman, against the
Aug. 20. At Kingston, Jamaica, David fide of a house, whereby she was so shock
Innes, esq. Naval Officer. ingly bruised as to cause her immediate
Sept. . . . On Prince of Wales's Island, death, leaving two children.
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Lieut.-col. 23. Aged about 18, Paull, son of
Robinson, on the Half-pay List, many Mr. P. of Castle-Cary. While fishing in
years an inhabitant of that island, and a the river Frome, at West Stafford, near
member of the Honourable Council. Dorchester, he fell in, and was drowned.
Sept. 3. At Montreal, Dr. Robert Sym. 24. At Ford Abbey, Devon, fincerely
If. At Sicily, Col. Salisbury, of the 1st regretted, Mrs. Gwyn, wife pf John-
Regiment of Guards. Ffauncets G. esq.
Near Baltimore, in America, Mr. Gco. 1 25. Accidentally shot, Andrtw-James
Maltby, merchant, formerly of Norwich. Bazell, a corporal. He was the non-com-
He had dined with a party of gentlemen, miffioned officer of a small detachment of
at a friend's house in trje country, some soldiers .for escorting three deserters to thf
of whom were amusing themselves, after depot in the Isle of Wight. While th«
.dinner, by firing at a mark; and* while party were refreshing themselves at a littli
one of them was pulling the trigger of his public-house between Ashfordand Hamu«
pistol, his foot slipped, which turned the ton, Anson, one of the privates, was 1 «
V
io"] 6 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Nov.
ing down his arms and accoutrements, shrank from the idea of being too burthen-
when the piece suddenly went oft', and some to his munificent benefactor ; and
lodged its contents in Bazell's body, be thus, in a crowded and offensive prison,
low the right arm, which caused his in he fell a victim to the delicacy of his fetsl-
stant death. The deceased and Anfon ings, leaving behind him, to the pity of
were particularly good friends. the Publick, and the consideration of thole
Oct In France, aged Si, at Rabas- upon whom he may have had any claims,
teins, in the department of Tarn, and in a Widow, an old woman between 80 and
the bosom of his family, M. De Puysegur, no, destitute of every comfortable thing in
formerly Minister of War.—At his house, this life, as the miserable manner of her'
in the Rue des Champs Elyfeet, at Paris, husband's death amply testifies.
M. De Menou, formerly Marshal of the At Dublin, in his 73d year, Jas. Brad-
Camps and Armies of the King.—At Pa field, el'q. of Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, more
lis, the celebratedNicolas-Philippe Ledru, than 23 years steward to the late Earl of
a long time commonly called Comus.— Montraith, and other Noblemen. As a
At Paris, iiged 8(3, M.Gin, formerly Coun mark of affection for his native place,
sellor to the Grand Council, translator of Norwich, he has by will endowed a school
Homer, and author of several other works at Stoke Ferry for the education of 25
of great estimation.—M. Huguet.of Mon- poor children.
taran, Mayor of the first arondifl'ement of In the Glueen's County, Ireland, in hig
-Paris.—At Angouleme, Petitot, General 8lft year, James Bradford, el'q. agent to
of Brigade, one of the Commanders of the the late and present Marquifles of Lanf-
Legion of Honour.—Aged 72, M. Dotte- down. He was remarkable for simplicity
\ille, translator of Tacitus andSallust, and of dress, which w as like a country farmer.
a candidate for one of the places lately va Mr. Siddons, of Wigston, co. Leicester.
cant in the National Institute.—At Poic- Found hanging, in Luddesdown wood,
tiers, aged 46, M. Cheron, translator of after an absence of 1 5 days from his ser
an efteerried French version of the popular vice, and no one knowing what was be
Novel of Tom Jones, and Hamilton's Let- come of him, John Neville, gardener to
tets on the Elementary Principles of Edu Mr. Milton, of Chatham, in Kent. He
cation.—M. Bacher, physician to her Im had in a bag in his pocket property to the
perial Highness the Mother of the Empe amount of loll. 4s. 4d.4, of which 93
ror.—At Paris, advanced in age, M. De guineas were in gold, which he had saved
Breteuil, Minister of that City previous to from his earnings. Insanity is supposed to
the Revolution. have been the cause of the fatal deed.
Oct. ... In KilmainharhGaol, Dublin, In her 24th year, Miss Wright, only
literally of a broken heart, John Long, child of Mr. David W. mercer, of Wain-,
after a captivity of fix months. He was a fleet All Saints, co. Lincoln.
man who had lived, for the most part of a At Mavis-Enderhy, much lamented,
long life, with people of the first conse Thomas Adams Franklin, efq. lieutenant-
quence, by whom he was both loved and colonel of the Spilfby Volunteer Infantry.
respected. Possessed of most uncommon His remains were interred in the family-
natural talents, he unfortunately wanted vault at Spilfby, attended by upwards of
steadiness in pursuit, too often the defect "00 persons.
of superior genius. He held, many years, Mr. Dennis, of Great Steeping, near
an employment in the Revenue, which he Spilfby ; and at West Keal, Mr. William
greatly improved, and advanced its inte Dennis, his son.
rests. But losing his great and powerful Walter Bell, servant to Mrs. Dickinson,
friend, by the death of Mr. -Beresford, of Harpswell. Returning from Gainsbo
that salary and remuneration, to which rough with a loaded waggon, by some
he conceived he had the most undoubted means (probably by riding on the shafts)
and equitable claim, were withheld. En he fell under th'; wheels, and was conse
feebled by sickness and old age, he was ar quently crushed to death.
rested, and thrown into prison, for the biH At Brandiston, James Arnold; who ex
inf costs of an attorney, whom he never pired while eating heartily at dinner,' just;
saw, and never employed. Harasted and after having said he would take anothep
worn ont in attendance and solicitations slice of meat.
to those who were strangers to his merits In London, aged it), Anthony-Augus
and his wants, he sank into the grave, tus, only son of Anthony Henderson, esq.
where the righteous reft from their la M. P. for Brackley, Co. Northampton.
bours, and the selfish and unfeeling cease Mr. Robert Hargraves, of Linton, near
from troubling. Tfc« sum he was impri- Skipton, one of the proprietors ef the ex
'oned for was a small one, and would have tensive worsted manufactory there.
Wen cheerfully paid by a young Noble- Oct. I. At Bristol, aged 21, Mr. P,nil-
teian, lei's distinguished fer high rank and Christian Sharp, son of the late Rev. John
hrtune than by unbounded philanthropy S. pastor us the'Baplist Meeting there-.
«id charity ; but his moderation or pride . .. S,a. :
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2. By almost severing her head from her this awful crisis; and he would not aban
body with a large knife, the wife of Tho don the flock his well-directed labours
mas Lilly, of Stickney, co. Lincoln. had, for these four years past, so effec
This evening, George Hawkins, driver tually cherished and increased." Well '
of Mr. Pickwick's coach from Southamp grounded in the right principles of Chris
ton to Bath, was taken suddenly and very tian Faith, no one more afliduously pour
alarmingly ill' on Standerwick common. ed the balm of comfou into the afflicted
When all apprehensions of immediate and wounded foul, or excelled more in
danger were over,' he was unwilling to be every work of charity tind love. The
carried to one of the neighbouring cot weight of his example, combined with the
tages, and was, at his own request, re eloquence of his style, and impressive man
moved to the inside, where he expired be ner of delivering and enforcing the mo
fore the coach reached Bath'; leaving a mentous truths of our holyReligion (which
wife and four children. he sought diligently to make welcome to
3. Mr. Thomas Wilde, wine-merchant, all), greatly augmented the numbers 9s his
of Green:Lertuce-lane, Cannon-street. flock, and to so vast an extent, that it be- .
4. At Kilcornan, co. Galway, the relict of came necessary to consider of enlarging '"'
the late Walter Blake, ei'q. of Ballyglunan. the place of public worship appropriated
■ <J. At Amsterdam, generally regret to the English Episcopal Church at Am.
ted, esteemed, and beloved, after a few sierdam, which, by these means, over
days illness, in the 54th year of his age, flowed. Dr. J. conscious that his talents
the Rev. Joshua Jeans, D.D. the much- were usefully employed, arid touched
valued Minister of the English Episcopal with the various marks of veneration and
Church in that city, rector of Sheviac in' regard he experienced at Amsterdam, felt
Cornwall, and chaplain to his R. H. the himself called upon to continue at this
Duke of York. He has left a widow and important post, which his lamented death
one daughter to mourn his unexpected has left vacant. He possessed an ardent
death. The brilliant talents and amiable and well-cultivated mind ; and his keen,
disposition of Dr. Joshua Jeans will long relish for all literary as well as elegant so
live in the remembrance of his contem cial pursuits made his company much
poraries at Winchester college, and at sought after in the best circles, where the
Queen's college, Oxford, where he enter continued flow of animal spirits he was
ed as a commoner, on relinquishing his blessed with produced always delight and
claim to a scholarship of New college, at admiration. Nor did anyone of congenial .
the request of the Visitor *, to whom he habits ever find him less interesting or
had appealed to decide on the peculiar animated in the seclusion of a remote so
circumstances of his'case; Every H'yke- litude ; even there the energies of his ac»
hdvnift is well acquainted with the intri live spirit found out resources to be intent
cacies of it ; the Bishop avoided deliver upon, that kept the mind free from list-
ing an opinion on it, by persuading tf>£ lessness and stagnation. Dr. J. Jeans had
young man to submit to the new regula been collecting materials, some months
tions, and, as they affected him; appa previous to his decease, in order to prei
rently unjust, since he was thus deprived pare, it is supposed, 3 new Account of
of the 'reward his character for attain the States of Holland, &c. ; but rt -is
ments and conduct at Winchester school feared that his notes and remarks are not
truly merited. The death of this Prelate, sufficiently digested aud arranged to per
in 1781, again unsettled Dr. J. Jeans's mit an Editor to give them to the Pub-
sanguine hopes of preferment ; but he was lick as the posthumous work and plan of
at last fixed at Deepden, in the New Fo Dr. Jeans; though his papers on the sub-,
rest, Hants ; which benefice he after ject must be of value, since he was parti
wards exchanged for the livings of She cularly well adapted for such an under
viac and Antony, in Cornwall ; though, taking. Directing his enquiries with ar
at the time of his decease, he retained dour and judgment, Dr. Joshua Jeans in
only the rectory, with his respectable ap vestigated, with the most patient and per-*
pointment at Amsterdam. There his loss' severing assiduity, the facts he ascertain-,
must have been at all times severely felt; ed ; and thus gained most correct and va
but at this eventful moment it is irrepara luable information upon all the local cir»
ble, and most justly and universally de cumstances attached to the place he
plored. Dr. J. Jeans, having last Spring chanced to inhabit ; and he had also the
committed his wife and daughter to'the happy talent of communicating it forcibly
protection of their friends in Ertgland, • to others, in a lively and striking manner.
zealously devoted himself to the profes Mr. Thomas "Priestley, of Halifax, co.
sional duties' such a station demands at York,, inspector of the woollen manufac
ture. His death was occasioned by the
* The Bishop of Winchester, at that severe bruises he received by being preci
time Dr. John Thomas. pitated into a well nearly bo feet deep,
which,
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which, by an act of unpardonable negli
gence, was left uncovered, and without
any tailing or fence round it.
Aged about 70, and greatly respected,
Mr. Sheppard, of Yatminster, co. Dorset.
Returning from Stafford fair, in crossing a
bridge over a ditch in the foot-path, his
foot slipped, as is supposed, in consequence
of the badness of the road, and falling into
the ditch he was suffocated, and found
dead the same evening.
Mrs. Cooper, wife of Mr. Henry C. of
the Ryle farm, Drakelow, co. Derby.
6. At Port Dundas, in Scotland, aged
26, Mr. James M'Kenzie, a celebrated
performer on the Union pipes.
Mr. Tonge, of Grantham, co. Lincoln,
druggist, &c.
7. Drowned, by accidentally falling in
to the Grand Canal, near Ring's-end, Mr.
Gibson, architect, of Baggot-str. Dublin.
8. Aged 30, Capt. Robert Freers, late of
the ship Fortitude, of the port of Liver
pool. The severe wounds he received in
his gallant but fruitless attempt to pre
serve his ship from the grasp of the Enemy
(two French privateers, of superior force),
off St. Domingo, on the 14th of May last,
brought on an illness which at length
terminated his existence.
After only a few hours previous indis
position, at his lodgings in Brighthelm-
ftone, —•— Duval, efq. captain and adju
tant of the Royal Seuth Gloucester Mili
tia. As a gentleman and an officer, his
loss will be long regretted by his brother-
officers and a numerous acquaintance, to
whom his urbanity and happy disposition
kad much endeared him.
9v At Brighthelmftone, Thomas Pcllatt,
}un. son of T. P. el'q. of Ironmongers-hall.
In his 70th year, Peter Ainsworth, esq.
os Halli » ell, near Bolton, co. Lancaster.
At Beverley, in her 60th year, Mrs.
Handley, widow of the late William H.
efq. of Reptou, co. Derby.
Williams, a Cyprian of the first
.rate, who resided in splendid apartments
?n Buckingham-streer, St. Mary- la-Bonne.
While dressing herself at her glass, for the
Theatre, whic'.: she nightly frequented,
on a sudden she exclaimed to her servant,
that she looked very ill that night; and
hid scarcely untied the expression when
she dropped down while painting herself,
ant! expired without a groan. Her change
os life had been almost as sudden as her
rirath ; for, two years since, she cried wa
ter-cresses in St. Jamrs's-street, and was
fhence exalted by her personal charms,
J\'ature having been very bountiful to her.
Suddenly, at, the Cadogan coffee-house,
;n Sioane-strecr, Kiogluibridgc, Mr. An-
. thony Mayer, an Italian.
At Plantation, Glasgow, Mrs.Mair, wis«
•f John M. ef'|. «.f 1'riday-sircer, London,
ofremarkable Persons. [Nov.
10. At Hinckley, co. Leicester, aged
72, Mrs. Elizabeth Fielding.
Mr. William Lindley, of Scholes, near
Halifax. On the J 7th, Mrs. Lindley, his
widow; and, on the 24th, Mr. J. Law,
the brother of Mrs. L. The two latter
were executors to the will of Mr. L. and
had no reason, at the time of his death, to
suppose that their own was so near.
11. At South Broom, Mrs. Whalley,
wife of the Rev. J. S.W. of Mendip lodge,
co. Somerset.
Mrs. Grosett, wife of Schaw G. efq. of
Rodney-place, Clifton. Soon after her
return from divine service, her cloaths
caught fire, while alone in the drawing-
room. Her cries gave instant alarm ; but
such were the rapidity and violence of the
flames, that the injury she received proved
fatal, in defiance of every exertion and the
immediate aid of the Faculty. In this
scene of woe the house took fire, and was
with difficulty preserved.
Aged <)1, John Holland, esq. of Auch-
mutie, in Scotland.
12. George Bilson, gardener to Mr. Al
derman Bengough, of Pen-park, nearBris-
tol. Whilst walking on the adjacent com
mon, apparently in perfect health, he sud
denly dropped down (as is supposed) in an
apoplectic fit, and instantly expired.
At her son's house, Prior's-Hardwick,
co. Warwick, Mrs. Wilson, relict of Wil
liam W. esq. of Edward-street, Bath.
13. This day the remains of the Rev.
Mr. Braithwaite, late preacher at the Je
rusalem chapel, Cross-street, Hatton-gar-
den, were removed thence, with funeral
pomp, followed by 24 mourning-coaches,
and interred by the side of the late Rev.
Mr. Romaine, in St. Anne's church, Black-
friers. After which, the attendants re
turned in procession to the chapel, where
a funeral oration was delivered.
14. At his house in Old Aberdeen, in
his 32d year, Mr. Hugh Stewart, brewer.
Possessed of the strictest principles of in
tegrity, a good understanding, a warm
friem.ly heart, and the most facial dispo
sition, his loss will be long and sincerely
lamented by a numerous and respectable
ciicle. The circumstances of his death
arc of a very melancholy nature. About
four o'clock in the morning he had gone
into the brewhoufe to superintend the
mashing, and, it is supposed, in reaching
for something near the boiler, which was
full of water, and boiling at the time, fell
into it head-long ! Before assistance came,
he had recovered himself, and was stand
ing upright; although instantly taken out,
and medical aid procured, yet he survived
only about three hours, and these in the
most excruciating tortures, which pre
vented him giving any account how the
dreadful accident happened.
Lieut.
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Lieut. Shastoe, of the Sussex Militia, son 18. At the Castle inn at Salt-hill, where
of Sir Cuthbert S. He threw himself out he had been removed from Eton, fox trie
ef the chamber-window at his lodgings in greater convenience of attendance, and the
French gardens, Hull, and, in consequence accommodation of the Earl and CoUntess
♦f the bruises he received, died in a short of Darnley, who remained with him un
time after. He had been left behind she til all hopes of recovery wSre over, the
Regiment, on account «f being afflicted Hon. William Bligh, their second son.
with a bowel-complaint, which brought Mr. Vale Whitwell, appraiser and auc
on a delirium, and thus occasioned the tioneer, of Coventry.
unhappy and mocking catastrophe. Mrs. Priddey, wife of Mr. P. seedsman,
At Bristol, after a severe illness, Jane, of Bath;
wife of William Rogers, esq. of the Rut In his 45th year, deservedly respected,
land Militia, and late of Llant-Thomas- Mr. John Holliday, of Holbeach.
house, Breconshire. Her remains were in In the 74 th year of Uer age, at Mears
terred in the family-vault in St. Michael's Asliby, and buried in the family burial-
shurch at Gloucester. place at Brockhall, co. Northampton,
Jj. At Gainsborough, aged 78, Mrs. Mrs. Catherine Thornton, a maiden lady,
Anne Smith, lately a ship-owner. universally respected and beloved for her
At' Clonburrows, co. Dublin, William many excellent qualities. She exercised
Fitzgerald, esq. father of Major F. of the the charity of a sincere Christian. Her
Repository on Stephcn's-green. His body good humour was accompanied with for
was conveyed to Kilkenny, the place of titude ; and her piety was unaffected.
his birth, for interment. The great po Mr. Lane, a respectable broker, of Da-
pularity the Major acquired by his conci cre-strcet, Westminster. Returning home
liating conduct in the years 1797 and from St. Margaret's church, in company
1708 is still gratefully remembered by all with a friend, while -passing .through the
ranks, which was testified by the crowded church-yard he was seized with a sudden,
attendance at his father's funeral to the spitting of blood, and expressed to his
plac; of interment. When leaving Car- friend that he did not think he should
low, the procession was composed of more live long. He walked on a short distance,
than 10,000 persons; at Kilkenny it was fell on his knees, exclaiming " The' Lord
met by m»st of the respectable inhabitants. have mercy upon my poor wicked old
16. Found hanging in a stable adjoining foul !" and expired instantly.
his own house, Thomas Etches, a baker, 19. At Lincoln, after a stiort illness,
of Newark, Notts. The Coroner's Jury aged 30, Mr. Joel Andrews, a respectable
returned a verdict of Felo de fe; and the schoolmaster there.
body was buried in the cross roads. At Baldock, Herts, aged 83, the Rc».
17- At her house in Great George-street, Edmonds Pym, formerly of Christ col
Dublin, aged 03, Mrs. Susannah Carter, lege, Cambridge, B. A. 1744.
relict of Henry-Boyle C. esq. of Castle- ao. Humphry Woodcock, esq. of Ark-
martin, co. Kildarc, daughter of the late hall, near Tamworth.
Sir Arthur Shaen, bart. and mother of Suddenly, Mr. Donaldson, in the firm
Henry Carter, esq. of Humberfton-house, of Messieurs Ricketts, Evans, and Co. of
eo. Leicester. Bristol, glass-manufacturers. •
At Berwick, aged 85, Capt. John Mac- At Chew Magna, co. Somerset, Mrs.
donell, many years commandant of the Leman, relict of the late Mr. L. of that
late Invalid Corps of that garrison. place, and mother of Messieurs L. soli
Mr. Johti Snook, wine-merchant, of citors, of Brjstol.
Broad-street, Bristol. At Mr. Dawson's, in Abbey-street, Bath,
At Hackney, Middlesex, aged 105, Mr. Lieut.-col. Romney.
James Lack. He had served as a private 21. Aged 6s, Thomas Dicey, esq. of
soldier under Georges I. and II. ; was in Claybrook-hall, co. Leicester, aud of Bow
the German wars in the reigns of thole church-yard, London.
two Monarchs ; and attended Gen. Wolfe Mr. Mottley,' a small farmer, of Boston,
in his last moments at the siege of Que co. Lincoln. Riding, the day before, on
bec. Though he had been in 15 engage a horse, and driving his team, in endea
ments and 25 skirmishes, he had not re vouring to pass over some bricks which
ceived a wound ; and boasted that '.0 had lay near Bargate bridge, his herfe fell,
never shewed his back to the Enemy. He and threw him under a wheel of the cart,
flattered himself, some weeks previous to which went aver his head, and fractured
his dissolution, that he should live to the his flcull so dreadfully as to cause his
age of Old Parr. death this morning.
At Stepney causeway, aged 73, Captain At Grantham, co. Lincoln, Mr. George
David Watt; and, on the 22d, his relict. Gray, a considerable tailor there. He had
In Manchester-buildings, Westtninstvr, spent the preceding evening convivially,
aged 84, Thomas Hearnes, esq. with foci- friends, at Bjtfimgthorpe feast;
s>nd
io8o Obituary, with Anecdotes, ofremarkable Verfins. [Nov.
and on returning home at night fell from lady was Mr. Pegge's second wife. See
his horse on Spittlegate-hill, and fractured vol. LXX. p. 484.
his skull so dreadfully, that, notwithtland- The relict of James Slade, efq. late
ing surgical aid was almost immediately Cashier of his Majesty's Navy.
procured, he djed early next morning. He After a long and painful illness, at his
was drill-serjeant to the Grantham Volun apartments in Brompton Barracks, aged
teers ; and had discharged the duties of 46, William Mackreth, efq. commiflary
his station in a way that renders his me of stores of the Ordnance, and formerly of
lancholy death a subject of much concern Northfleet in Kent, at the entrance of
and regret to the whoje corps, as well as which, from London, he erected a build
to his widow and a large family. He was ing of a singular appearance, intended for
interred with military honours. Deservedly an inn, but now let as several tenements.
beloved by all who knew him, never be Hi9 father, was an eminent merchant,
fore was seen at Grantham such an assem- and the intimate friend of Churchill and
-blage of people 09 any occasion \ a dumb Hogarth. Several of the works of that ce
peal was rvlng, and every other mark of lebrated Poet were written in his house ;
respect was (hewn, on this solemn occa and there are still some remains there of
sion ; and, having been one of the choir the consummate art of that inimitable
singers, a solemn anthem was sung. .. Painter ; some account of which we should
Mrs. Chapman, an elderly lady, of Old be happy to communicate to the publiok.
Ford, Northamptonshire. She retired to Mr. M. was a man of retired habits of
bed at her usual hour; and, shortly after, life, and much esteemed in the small
the servant went into the room to fetch circle of friends with whom he lived, for
the candle, when she found her mistress his virtues and unassuming demeapour.
burnt to death, and the bed-cloaths and In his 80th year, James Brooke, efq.
curtains consumed, supposed to have been of Rathbone-place. He was well known
occasioned by thu candle being placed too to the chief Wits of his time ; and was
near the curtains. The flames did not particularly intimate with Johnson,- G&r-
communicate to any part of the house. rick, Churchill, Wilkes, Lloyd, Murphy,
At the rectery of Srorrington, Sussex, &c. &c ; as well as with most of the Ban-
C. Cartwiight, efq. fivants of his early days, though his own
At her lodgings at Quarndon, near habits were always very temperate. He
Derby, aged 35, Miss .Mary Buchanan, possessed considerable literary talents,
daughter of the late Charles B. efq. of which were chiefly exercised in numberless
Burton-upon-Trtnt, co. Stafford. political pamphlets, prologues, epilogues,
22. Sibella Bell, a poor woman, who songs, &c. It is to be regretted that he
threw herself out of a three-pair-of-ftaira tltd not collect these poetical effusions, as
window in Southampton-place, Strand. they were characterised by spirit and hu
A brother of the deceased proved the fact mour. He conducted"" The North Brilon,"
of her hav ing committed the rasti act her after it .was relinquished by Wilkes, till
self. Mr. Lawrence, an apothecary and the final termination of that once popular
surgeon in the Strand, deposed that the work. He was thoroughly acquainted
spinal bone of the deceased was. so severely with mankind, and abounded in anecdotes,
injured by the fall', that it occasioned her which he related in a very easy, lively,
death. He also stated, that the deceased and entertaining manner. A daughter of
had lived two years as servant to his mo this gentleman, a most amiable and ac
ther, and that lately flic had exhibited complished lady, who died in the prime
symptoms of mental derangement.- Among of life, was married to the late Philip
other circumstances, there was one which Champion Crefoigny, efq. King's Proctor,
he thought was particularly indicative of and formerly M. P. for-Sudbury and Aid-
a deranged state of mind. She became so borough. Mr. Brooke retained his facul
impressed with some gloomy ideas of reli ties, as well as his vivacity and humous,
gion, that ihe went to St. Paul's church, almost to the close of life ; and died after-a
Covent-garden, on the Sunday preceding, short illness.
during the time of scrviee, and called on 24. Aged 76, George Kell, scullerman.
the Clergyman for .his blessing, as the onb/ He was found dead in his boat, at the tfer-
means that were left to tave her foul.. ry-bjrat landing, North Shields, in lock
23. In her 4 1 ft year, Mrs. Stokes, wife ing her up the preceding night, he had
of Mr. B. S. merchant, of Birmingham. neglected to allow a sufficient length of
At Chcadle, co. Stafford, Geo. Wragge, chain for her to rife with the tide, and the
efq. of Mansfield. boat adjoining got across her bow and funk
jn her 8'id year, Mrs. Gordeth Pegge her. As he had been in the habit of sleep
(relict of the late Samuel P. efq. of Scot ing on-board his boat, it is supposed that
land-yard, an eminent Antiquary, and son he thus met his death.
of au old and venerable ■ Correspondent, In her fjad year, Mrs. Hope, of Derby,
Dr. Pegge), This worthy and respectable relict of the late Rev. C. H.
as. Mr».
1807.] Obituary, wit!) Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. 1 08 1
■ 25. Mrs. Elizabeth Gay, third daughter man an estate in Ireland, of I4,oool.per
of the Re. N. Gay, late vicar of Newton annum, devolves on Lord Svdne\ G» dol
St. Cyres, Devon. phin, a minor, brother to the Duke of
In London, Mr. John Price, tuember of Leeds. This valuable estate was contested
the Royal College of Surgeons, and lately in Chancery, for many years,' by the late
assistant surgeon of the L:idy Jane Dundas Mr. Hussey. The manlin.i-houle in Do
East Indiaman, and eldest son of the late ver-street, arid the rich a"d valuable gold
Mr. P. formerly an apothecary at Stain- and stiver services of plate. Lord Sydney
ford, co. Lincoln. was suffered to possess without any legal
26. Mrs. Brock, relict of Mark B. esq. investigation.
of Exbourn, Devon, and daughter of the Aged 30, Catharine, wife of Mr. Wm.
late Rev. Thomas Bate, rector of Belston, Holden, of Newgate street, publisher.
and vicar of Westleigh. At his house in Camden-town, aged 58,
At North Shields, Thomas Frank, esq. Edward Baylis, esq. M.D.
major of the North Shields and Tyne- MilsMaryRoyle.ofWarm'nfier. While
mouth Volunteer Corps. at Baker's shoe warehouse, in Kington-
At Childwall, near Liverpool, at the street, Bath, accompanied by her sister,
advanced age of 80, Arthur Onflow, esq. she found herself suddenly indisposed, was
collector of the customs at the port of Li taken to her lodgings in a chair; and died
verpool. Bred up in the service of the within an hour.
Revenue, his active and intelligent mind At Hedingham castle, in Essex, aged 46,
had acquired the most perfect knowledge Mrs. Elizabeth Majendie, wife of Lewis
of all its various interests. His merit alone M. esq. She was the only child of tha
occafioued his appointment ; and the ar late Sir Henry HoghtOn, of Hoghton
duous and complicated duties of his office tower, co. Lancaster, bart. and member
he discharged with an ability and integrity in several Parliaments for the borough of
to be equaled, by few, to be surpassed by Preston, in that county, by his first wife,
none. To his great disinterestedness the Elizabeth Astihurst.only child and heiress
Report of the Commissioners of Enquiry of William A. esq. of Hedingham castle,
into the Affairs of the Customs rjears the in Essex. She was married, July 15, 1783,
stroiigest.testimony. Notwithstanding the to Lewis Majendie, esq. by whom she has
great voluntary sacrifice of emolument he had five children.
had made, he lived to see the post he held 29. At Tunbridge Wells, of a deep de
made, by the great increase of the revenue cline, in her loth year, Miss Emmelinc-
of the Customs, and the astonishing pro Champneys, only daughter of the late
gress of the trade of Liverpool, one of the James Garnar, esq. of Grantham, co. Lin
most lucrative offices under Government. coln. Her remains were deposited, Nov.
He was the representative of the eldest 4, in the adjacent church of Frant, in
branch of the very antient family of On- Sussex, according to her own desire.
slow in Shropshire, from a younger branch At Canterbury, the Rev. Joseph Price,
of which the Earl of Onflow is descended. vicar of Littlebouin, Kent.
He has left only one son, Mr. Serjeant O. Found dead in her bed, whither she
27. At Luffwick, CO. Northampton, in went in perfect health, Mrs.'Gauntley,
his fipth year, Mr. Samuel Oakley, master wife of Mr. Jos. G. of Brant-Broughton.
of the free school In that place; who had This day, as the Rev . Mr. Gilbert, of
pursued the business of a schoolmaster, for Kentchurch, Yorkshire, was out shooting
more than half a century, with great cre with some friends, near Goitree, Mon
dit to himself and much advantage to the mouthshire, on proceeding down the side
youths committed to his care. of a wood with one of them, and being a
Aged 64, Mrs. Bassett, wife of the Rev. little advanced before him, by some acci
Miles B. vicar of St. Mary's, Swansea. dent, his friend's gun went off, and lodged
Mrs. Mingay,wifeofDr. M. physician at nearly the whole charge in the fide of the
Windsor. back part of Mr. Gilbert's head, tearing
In Fleur-de-Lis court, Fleet-street, Mr. away his ear. The unfortunate gentleman
3asues Wright, the celebrated purveyor instantly fell ; and the feelings of his
and dealer in oysters. friend may be ' imagined, but cannot be
Found dead on his own premissas, hav described, on beholding the dreadful spec
ing cut his throat, Mr. Coles, a butcher, tacle his lacerated head presented* He
in Clare marker. was conveyed to a farm-house, where he
At Cairnmuir, co. Peebles, in Scotland, lingered till the morning of Nov. 1 , and
the Hon. Mrs. Cranstoun, widow of the then expired. He was sensible to the last ;
late Hon. George C. awaited death with the most Christian
28. In Queen Anne-street, R. Hussey, resignation, and repeatedly signified that
cfq. only brother of the late Earl of Beau- he freely forgave the unfortunate author
lUu, K. G. By the death of this geotls- 61 the accident. He was 45 years of age,
slteNf. Mao. NvvemUr, 1807.
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10-82 Obituary, with dnecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Nov.
and universally beloved and regretted. His tfov. I. The wife of Henry Jones, esq.
remains were interred ut Kentchurch, fol of Mansion-house sheet. ,
lowed to the grave by an immense con Mr. Sotheby, many years an eminent
course of people, whose tears bore ample bookseller in York-street, Covent-garden,
testimony to the sincerity of their grief. and successor to Mr. Samuel Baker, whose
3"1, At her father's house in Fleet-street, niece he married.
Mil's Elizabeth Mannin, youngest daugh -In his 6-id year, Mr. Daniel Howard, of
ter of the Rev. William M. vicar of Orby, Troy, Herts.
co. Lincoln. Aged 42, Mr. Stephen Willoby, landing;
Astir a lingering and painful illness, waiter of the customs in the port of Lon
Thomas Hibbert, just. esq. of Upper Wim- don, and eldest son of the late lidward W.
pole-street, Cavendish- square. esq. town-clerk of Berwick-upoK-Tweed.
Among a large circle of her friends, in At his feat at Huntroid, co. Lancaster,
the oyth year of her age, and while in Gendre-Pieree Starkie, esq. patron of that
the act of drinking a glass of wine, at the church, a justice of the peace and vice-
Episcopal palace at Chichester, co. Sussex, lieutenant, late colonel of the fourth Re
Mrs. Mary Poole, reli6t of the late Wil giment of Royal Lancashire Militia, and
liam P. esq. high sheriff of the county. His death was
31. Aged 67, Mrs, Margaret Bright, one owing to the bursting of a blood-veslcl.
of the boys' nurses in Christ's Hospital ; He was in the 38th year of his age; and
■which situation she has held for the last has left three sons and one daughter, the
J5 years with credit to herself and advan surviving issue by Charlotte his wile, dau.
tage to her employers. She was a worthy, of the Rev. Benjamin Preedy, S.T. P. late-
diligent, zealous, and faithful servant ; a rector of Brington, Norihamptonshire.
kind friend, and an exemplary parent. At Graffham, near Petworih, of a gun
Her remains were deposited in the burial- shot wound he received from a highway
ground of Christ church, Newgate-street. man, whom, he had overtaken in pursuit,
At Deal, Kent, in his 33d fear, George and whose life, when in his power, he had
Lawrence, esq. his Majesty's Naval Offi humanely spared, tieorge-Hanway Sar
cer at that port.. gent, esq. second son of John S. ct'q. of
Aged about 62, Mrs. Jcken, widow of Lavington, Sussex, and captain in the Qih
the late Mr. J. of Dover, an eminent Regiment of Foot. His death, thus oc
brewer, and a person much respected. She casioned by his own generous forbearance,
was at church on the 18th, in perfectly was instantaneous. The highwayman wa$
good health; but the next morning, at afterwards shot by a countryman.
the usual time of riling, she was seized 2. Aged Og, Mr, Jonathan Goodwin,
with a violent paralytic aliection ; since many years- a respectable merchant at
which time me never spoke, or took the Brigg, co. Lincoln. ,
least notice of any thing. In Walcot-place, Lambeth, aged 32-,
Nov Aged 7 1, John Wye, esq. of Mr. Tho. Mcilan, of the East India-house.
Hartford, near Huntingdon. In Queen-square, Westminster, Mrs. F.
At Godiuanchester, Mr. Martin, late of Reynolds, sister to the lare Sir Joshua R.
Brsmpton-lodge, Hunts. Found floating in the Humber, off the
Found hanging under the gallery of the Holm sand, Mr. Robert Ellis, rarnlir, of
church, J. Grittenden, upwards of 2 1 Brough, near Hull, who was lost over
years clerk of the parish of Smarsden. It board from the Brough boat, in the en
appears that, after ringing the morning- trance of the habour, on the nth ult.
peals, he committed the act a short time 3. At his house, in South Auflfcy-
previous to the morning service, being dis ftreet, the Right Reverend Dr. William
covered by the congregation on entering Markham, Lord Archbishop of York, Pri
the church. mate of Etrgland, Lord Hnrh Almoner to
Rev. William Williams, son of the Rev. the King, and Visitor of Qarecn's College,
Mr. W. of Llantyllin, co. Montgomery. Oxford. He was translated from Chester
Rev. Mr. Davits, aDilicnting Minister, to the Arcliiepil'copal Sec of York in 1 ?7t>,
of Bridgnorth. on the demise of l)r. P.ub.-rt Druramond.
Rev. Thomas Wynne, of Tjdden, near His grace, before his translation, was
Mold, in Flintshire. chosen by his Majesty Preceptor to His
At Wappcnbury, co. Worcester, the , Royal Highness the Prince of W>.les, for
Rev. P. F. J. Plunquette, 15 years offi whom he preserved the mod dutiful .md
ciating, priest to the Catholic Congrega fcfiecticfcate attachment to the close of his
tion of that place. ..existence. The virtues of this venerable
At Bridlington, the Rev. T. Plummet. Prelate were of the most benevolent ami
In her 62d year, Sarah, wile of Mr. R. amiable kind. With great learning, he was
Detey, of Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, . modest ; though railed to the hiphest station,
AtEntelrL, age432, tin; wife of William .he was meek and humble. His religion
Eildowes, esq. was a religion; ot the mind; practised in all
the
r8 o 7.] Biographical Memoirs of the late Archbishop of York . t o 8 3
the concerns of life, without austerity, and fied. Throughout an extensive diocese,
free from ostentation ; a strict integrity his Clergy looked up to him with respect
rind high sense of honour were conspicuous and deference; and all listened lo him
in all his dealings ; and his promises were with lnvc and admiration, lie was blessed
unbroken. The mildness of his temper with six sons and seven daughters; Eleven
rendered him indulgent to the faults of of his children survive him. One daugh
ethers, and made him a condescending, ter died in the prime of youth ; and a be
engaging, and instructing companion. loved and gallant son, after having ob
Those who in early life hail the happiness tained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in
of being his pupils universally agree, that, the Army, fell gloriously in the service, <jf
as an instructor, he had no equal. It is his King ;<nd Country. His Grace ban the
difficult to fay, whether he most excelled happiness of seeing some of his children
in his manner of conveying knowledge, greatly, and oihers welt allied ; with the
or in exciting youth to laudable pursuits ; . additional satisfaction, in his declining
in storing their minds with good princi years, of viewing the foundation of a
ples, or in eradicating bad; in extolling large posterity, annually increasing through
the happiness »f virtue, or in exposing a lengthening chain of fifty grandchildren,
the misery of vice. His knowledge in To enumerate all the great qualities of this
Greek and Roman Literature was univer venerable man is not an easy task. Those
sal ; his taste pure, and his topographical who have heard his sentiments, and lis
accuracy most uncommon. With these tened to his precepts, will feel that no
requisites, he never failed to insure the thing in this hasty delineation is exagge
attention of his scholars, and to enliven rated; they will recognize, with pleasure,
his lectures by pleasing and interesting some of thole traits which their own re- '
anecdotes. He was so perfectly master of collection cannot fail to confirm. Arch
the proper incentives for different disposi bishop Markham, who was always a pru
tions, that the studious were ever ambi dent man, has died rich. He is said to
tious of his praise, whilst the idle feared have bequeathed property to the amount
his rebuke. After having successively pre* of more than 1 00,oool. He gave loool.
sided over those great seminaries, West last Christmas to each of his grand-chil
minster and Chriltchurch, his character dren, amounting to the number of forty-
and learning recommended him as worthy seven! His remains were removed, at
to direct the education of their Royal eight o'clock in the morning of the i lth,
Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the from his late house in South Audley-
Duke of York ; an event which, notwith street, to Westminster Abbey, for inter
standing some illiberal opposition, ltd to ment. The procession moved in the most
that rank which he so honourably reached, solemn manner, and in the following or
and so creditably filled. It does not ap der : Two mutes ; a plume of black fea
pear that the Archbishop of York was "ever thers; the Hearse, drawn by six horses,
engaged in works for the press, though no decorated with black plumes; six mourn- .
one was more consulted by others. In ing coaches and six, in the first of which
the great Assembly of Peers he seldom was the Dean of York, his Grace's eldest
spoke ; but, when once attacked, in a son, as chief mourner ; Mr. William
very pointed manner, for party purposes, Maikham, and' several of his Grace's
he defended himself with great spirit and grand-children, the Dean of Christ-
eloquence. He was neither a florid nor a Church, and Mr. Bat, were in the oilier
frequent preacher. . lie particularly dis carriages. The family cariiage, drawn
dained those arts by which popularity is by fix horses, with three servants behind,
often acquired from the pulpit ; but, in closed ihe procesiion. On its arrival at the
the exercise of his clerical functions, his Abbey, it was received by the Dean and
voice was clear, distinct, and melodious. Chapter of Westminster. After the fune
His language was remarkable for its sim ral service, the coffin was lowered into the
plicity and elegance ; his sentences were grave, in the Cloisters, close to his Grace'*
concise and perspicuous ; and his manner late brother's. The coffin was very elegant,
in public, as in private, was animated, 'and covered with mazaiine blue velvet,
dignified), and persuasive. In all the rela with rich gilt plates, and gilt nails. On
tions of life, this truly great man was pe the plate was inlcribed his Grace's age :
culiarly happy. Asa husband, he was be he was in his SQth year. (See the Poeti
loved ; as a father, revered ; as a master, cal Department, p. lOrQ.)
served with affection ; as a patron and be At Croydon, Surrey, Captain Henry
nefactor, his bounties were selt and grate Burgess, late of the Earl of Chestcifield
fully acknowledged. His establishment East Indiaman.
was princely without parade, and his hos At Earls Coin, Essex, Mr. John Hunt,
pitality noble. By his assisting hand the formerly a mercer in 1 loundl'ditch.
churches of York, Ripon, and Southwell, John-Henry Bateman, elq. keeper of the
were repaired, ornamented, and beauti Records of the Couit of Chancery.
Rev.
1084 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons, siVov.
Rev. Joseph Williamson, rector of 9. At the manse of Dyke, in Scotland,
Thakehanv, Sussex, and formerly, for near in the 7 1st year of his age, and 4Mh of his
40 years, vicar of . St. Dunstan's, Fleet- ministry, the Rev. John Dunbar,
street, London. Me was a good scholar, In his (J.'iih year, John Eveleigh, esq. of
and had been a Bon Vkmxl. He was a St. TtioraaA square, Hackney, father of
member of the famous Beef-Steak Club ; Brigadier-gen. E. of the Royal Engineers.
chaplain to Mr. Wilkte, when Lord In Upper Grolvenor- street, in his 84th
Mavnr ; and patronized by the present year, James Gordon, esq. He was ap
I>uke of Norfolk. pointed first Chirf Justice of the Islands
At her house at PleasantView, near Dub in the West Indies co-'ed by France at the
lin, Mrs. Duquery, widowof Henry D. esq. Peace of J 703, and filled that situation for
and only sister of the late Rt. Hon. John- several years.
Hely Hutchinson, Secretary of State, and ' IO. After a few hours illness, Thomas
mother of the late Counsellor D. Davis, esq. of Horningsham, -i4yearsthe
v In Beaufort-buildings, Strand, aged eminent steward of the late and present
67, Samuel Edwards, esq. Marquises of Baih. Of this gentleman it
Mr.Femvick, many years keeper of To- is altogether unnecessary, and .would be
thill-fields Bridewell. inadequate to hisiarious merits, toattempt
5. At his feat at Waterstock, po. Ox any particular euloginm. Suffice it to fay,
ford, aged 82, Sir William- Henry Ashhurst, that as a man of genuine integrity, useful
knt. late one of the very upright Justices information, and invariable application of
of the Court of King's Bench, from his talents to the offices of universal bene
•which he had most honourably retired volence, and the good of his country, he
some years on a pension. may be considered as having departed this
At Newton-house, Bedale, John-Burrel life unrivaled ! The Bath and West of
Harrison, esq. only son of the late John- England Society Cos which he had been a
Cully H. esq. in ths commission of the molt valuable member from ils institution),
peace for the cotinty of York. having received the news of the aforesaid
James Harvey, esq. one of the aldermen event during the sitting of one of its gene
of the city of Bristol. ral meetings, was deeply afflicted witfi
At Chelsea, Mrs. Martha Dicey, relict this public loss. Mis funeral was attended
of the Rev. Edward D. by the noble Marquis, his two broiheis,
6. At Wellington-place, Durham, aged and nearly all the tenants on the exten
70, Henry Mills, esq. the oldest magistrate sive estate.
of that county. At Huntingdon, Capt. H. Cross, of the
7. At his house in St. James's square, Northampton Militia, eldest son of the late
Nathaniel Middleton, esq. of Town-hill, William C. esq. of Bath.
co. Southampton, and of memorable mi- At her house in Hanover-square, in an
moky as an evidence on the trial of War advanced age, Mrs. Pechell. She was so
ren Hastings, esq. great a favourite with her Majesty, that,
In Rutland-court, Charter-house-square, during her illness, the most constant and
aged 7Q, the Rev. Matthew Raine, vicar anxious enquiries about the state of her
of St. John's, Stanwick, 'and rector of health were sent from she Queen's house.
Kirby-Wiske, co. York. J I. At the New London inn, Exeter,
At Lancaster, aged 6a, John Addison, on her road from Bristol Hot weils, aftrr
esq, a near relation to the celebrated a long illness, the lady of Sir William
Writer of that name. Langham, bart. of Nottinghamshire.
At Edithweston, Rutland, Mrs. Cooke, 12. At Southampton, David Barclay,
a maiden lady. While drinking a glass of esq. late major of the West Lowland Regi
wine, she fell from her seat, and was, ta ment of Fcncibles. He was captain of
ken up lifeless. the late 7t)th,or Macdonnld's Regiment of
At his house in Lincoln's-inn-fields, Highlanders ; and being made prisoner at
William Mauduit, elq. th( surrender of Yorktown in Virginia, in
8. This morning, about two o'clock, as October, 17 81,' he was one of ihe IS Bri
Capt. Boyce, of Lock's-fields, was return tish captains who remained prisoners with
ing home from a friend's house, where he the men, and who, in May 17S2, had,
had been spending the evening, he acci in violation of the capitulation, lots cast
dentally fell into the area of a gentleman's for one of them to suffer death, in retalia
house in Union-place, Kent-road, and so tion for an American captain who was
shockingly fractured his skull as to cause executed by some of the Loyal Refugees,
almost instant death. when the lot fell upon Captain Sir Charles
In her 7Mh yaar, Mrs. Lane, wife of Asgill, of the Guards, and involved him
Thomas Bateman L. elq. register of Do in the unfortunate situation he so long
ver castle, Kent. laboured under with so much honour and
At Bain, aged fia, Rev. Edmund Good- credit to himself. Capt. Barclay had,
enough, vicar of Swindon, co. Wilts, and before this period, the permission of Gen.
Wothet to the Dean of Rochester. Washington
1807.] Obituary, with Anecdote r, os remarkable Persons. 1085
Washington to go on parole to New York, made a Knight of the Bath, oh his ap
on the business of his Regiment, an/.! for pointment as Commander in Chief iri
the general benefit of the prisoners ; but America ; but in consequence of peac*
feeling himself bound in honour to take being concluded, he did not proceed thi
his chance with the reft of his brother ther. He served also at the relief of Os-
Captains refused to avail himself of this tend and Nieuport, ini7p3; and went,
previously obtained leave, though strongly soon after, to the Weft Indies, ai Com
urged to do so by them, and particularly mander in Chief, with the Earl ot St. Vin
by the American Brigadier-general Hazcw, cent, which was followed by the reduction
who had then the charge of the prisoners, of Martinique, St. Lucie, and Guadeloupe.
but remained, and stood the risk of his lot. In 1S02, he was crrateJI Baron Grey ; anrl
At his house in the Lower close, Nor on the 1st of April, isofi, hit Lordslii]^
wich, aged 52, the Rev. John Walker, was created Fail Grey. He has left issue
one of the minor canons of the cathedral. four sons; viz. Charles, Viscount Howick,
He was perpetual curate of St. Peter per M. P. for Tavistock; Henry, Lieutenant-
Mountergate, and of St. John Timberhill, general, and Commander in Chief at the
in that city, vicar of Stoke Holy Cross, Cape of Good slope ; George, Ctxrimisti-
in Norfolk, and vicar of Bawdfey, in Suf oner of the Navy at Portsmouth ; and Ed
folk. The three first are in the gift of the ward, a Clergyman, near Reading. Also
Dean and Chapter; the last in the jilt of two daughters, riz. Lady Elizabeth Whit-
the Crown. He was formerly fellow of bread and Ladr Hannah Bettefworth. His
Magdalen College, Oxford; an admirable Lordstiip is succeeded in titles and estates
scholar, and possessed of a very brilliant by Viscount Howick, now Earl Grey.
imagination and a moll refined taste. He IK. At Swindon, Wilts, aged 60, Mr.
had for many years been a rriartyr to the Samuel Shcppard, woolstaplcr. A mild,
gout, which had latterly obliged him to indulgent, and benevolent disposition en
/etire from the world, which had long titled him to the love and affection of his
been ch urned with his eloquence and be relations, and to the esteem of a numerous
nefited by his discourses ; for of this once acquaintance. In the early part of life he
popular preacher it may nlmost be sa'd, possessed a strong understanding, which
," that truths divine cam* mended from he honestly atul actively employed in the
his tongue." pursuits os his business. But, alas !
In his lSih year, Mr. William-Stiles during the last eight or ten years, a rapid
Weston, of Trinity-college, Cambr. eldest succession of apoplectic fits gradually
son of Ambrose W. esq. of Fenehurch-str. weakened his understanding, and impaired
13. At his scat at Sydling, Dorset, af his vigour of body, till he funk into the
ter a~* illness of only three davs, in the grave, a melancholy proof of the weakness
fifth year of his age, Sir John Smith, bart. of human nature. Let those who lead this
LL.D. and A.M. Fellow of the Roval and never pride themselves upon their mental
Antiquarian Societies, Vice-president of superiority, or bodily strength, for they
the Benevolent Institution, and of the know not k> what they, may be doomed.
Bath and West of England Agricultural At Watergate-house, Sussex, the wife of
Society. He married, first, Elizabeth, George Thomas, esq. M.I', for Chichester. ,
daughter of Hcn'ry Curtis, esq. of Wils- At Blyth, co. York, aged 36, in conse
thorpe, Lincolnshire; and by ber, who quence of a~ paralytic stroke while attends
died in 17l)6, has left a son, John-W'yld- ing morning service in the church there,
bore (who in 1/07 married Elizabeth- Mr. Milbum, many years agent to Sir M.
Anna, second daughter "of the Rev. Dr. W. Ridley, hart. He is much and very
Mniriott, of Horstnonden, in Kent), and deservedly lamented, as a father to the fa
two daughters, unmarried. Sir John mar therless, and a friend to the distressed.
ried, secondly, in i soo, Anna-Eleanora, The whole congregation was thrown into
eldest daughter of Thomas Norland, esq. confusion by this melancholy event ; the
of Court-lodge, in Kent, now his widow, clergyman had just delivered his text, and
Mr. Gaimford, tallow-chandler, of Pic-, no mote service was proceeded in.
cadilly. He dropped down dead in his Mr. James-StewartThomfon, of Morti
own house, without any previous illness. mer-street, Cavendish-square; whose wife
14. At his house, called Fallow den, was delivered of a son the same morning.
near Alnwick, Northumberland, in the 16. At Albury, Herts, the wife of Ed
70th year of his age, the Ri^ht Hon. ward Calve rt, esq.
Charles Earl Grev, K. B. Colonel of the In her ssnh year, the relict of John Pot*,
Third Regiment of Dragoons, and Gover esc,, of Eltham, in Kent.
nor of the lljand of Guernsey. His Lord At Barrow, aged 88, Geo. Thompson,
ship served at the battle of Mindcn, and gent. ; tally affectionate as a father; af
was the only surviving Off er who served fable irr manners; pleasant in conversa
under General Wolfe at Quebec, to whom tion; and of the strictest probity and h»-
he w»s Aid-du-Camp. In 17*2, he was i.out ; his mejnory will long be respectet'.
17. At
 io86 Obituary of remarkable "Persons.—Bill of Mortality. [Nor.
17. At Ketton, co. Rutland, Anna-Mar'- Islington, aged 77, AbrahamNew!and,esq.
^aretta Edwards, sister of Col. Noel, M. P. late Chief Cashier of the Bank of England.
for that county, and only surviving daugh This worthy and most respectable charac
ter of Lady Jane Edwards. Her cultiva ter was elected a Clerk of the Bank Feb.
ted understanding and unassuming man 25, 1747; and appointed Chief Cashier on
ners made her the delight of her friends Jan. 8, J 778. For some time past his
and acquaintance ; and the goodness of health was visibly on the decline ; and
her heart led her to empioy her talents to finding lhat his strength would no" per
be the comfort and support of her family mit him to execute the functions of his
and connexions. In her the poor have office with his usual celerity and correct
also lost a liberal benefactress ; so that her ness, he resigned his situation a few weeks
^lealh w ill be long lamented. ago, and was succeeded by M^JWase. Ever
Rev. Samuel Hens, M. A. rector of St. since the time of his resignation he ber
Mary, Stratford, Bow, Middlesex, and fel came more exhausted every day, and was
low of Brazenole college, Oxford. thoroughly aware of, and prepared for, his
lS. At his apartments in, Edgeware approaching dissolution. He would often
Road, to the irreparable loss of his family, say, that before Christmas he should finish,
friends, and parishioners, in the 48th his earthly career. His last moments were
year of hrs age, the Rev. Nathaniel Gil not attended with the least symptom of
bert, vicar of Bledlow, Bucks, to which pain. Had he survived a little longer, he
living he succeeded on the decease of Dr. would have been in posseffion of the plate
Davie, master of Baliol College, Oxford, assigned him by the Governor and Direc
m 17QS. He was a native of the island of tors of the Bank of England, as a mark
Antigua, and related to several families of of their et\eem for the faithful discharge
distinction in this kingdom. Some years of his duty. His relations are numerous,
since he went out chaplain to the British and very distant ; and to 26 of them he
Settlement of Sierra Leone; and on bis has left the bulk of his property, to the
return to this country w.is presented, by amount of about 70U0I. a year. His re
Mr. Whitbread, to the vicarage of Bled mains were interred on the 28th, at St.
low j where, both by precept and exam Saviour's, Southwaik, attended by 18
ple, he approved himself a faithful pastor mourning-coaches.
over the flock committed to his charge, At her lodgings in Covent-garden, Mrs.
as well as a learned, eloquent, diligent, Macklin, widow of the late Mr. Charles M.
and successful minister of that Gospel, the celebrated comedian. She was his
which was his own support through va second wife, and originally his servant ; a
rious trials which he had to ponflict with good sort of woman, and effectually proved
in life ; and happily, in his experience, so by her management of her husband's
afforded a source of unfailing consolation untoward and almost ungovernable tem
under the last struggles of dissolving Nature. per. His first wife was an excellent act-
'JQ. After a few months illness, Edward reTs. lie had a son by her, who was hi-
J.ewis, efq. of Rodney-street, Pentonville. tended for the Bar, and who poslelled ta
At his feat on Hillingdon heath, Middle lents, hut with all the odd humour of his
sex, aged 69, the lion. Peter de Sal is, a father. He died long before his father.
Count of the Ho!) Roman Empire. In her 87th year, Mrs. Pretyman, wife
2?. In Paragon-buildings, the relict of of George P. efq. of Bury St. Edmund's,
*he late Col. Charles Chapman, of Bath, and mother of the Bishop of Lincoln.
At eight o'clock this morning, aged;-!, 22. Mrs. Durell, wife of T. D. efq.
the Viscountess lrwin, relict of the late banker, of Southampton.
Viscount I. of Temple Ncwlom, co. York, 23. After a long and painful illness.
mother of the Marchioness of Hertford, Miss Esther Patrick, lister ol Mr. John P.
Lady William Gordon, and Mrs. Mcynell, of Newgate-street.
relict of the late Mr. M. of Hoare Cross, 24. At his house in York-place, Port-
co. Stafford. By her death, Mr. Meyncll, man-square, thewifeofTho.Chandless.efq.
her grandson, who is just arrived at age, 25. Aged 72, Henry Barker, efq. for SO
will succeed to very large estates in Sussex years past one of the sworn clerks of the
and Yorkshire. The Marchioness of Hert Court of Chancery, and in very extensive
ford is tenant for life to the estates of her practice ; from which he had just retired,
late mother, who died very rich. and by which he had acquired and has
21. At his house at Highbury-place, left an immense fortune.
BILL OF MORTALITY, from October27, to November 24, ise7.
Christened Buried 2 and 5 23fj 50 and (>o 124
Males 724 \ . Males 774 \ 1539 5 and 10 72 60 and 76- 87
Females jig; Females 707 J 10 and 20 41 70 and 80 89
Whereof hare died under 2 years old 483 20 and 30 80 80 and s|o 43
Peck Loat 3s.id.; J».5d.) 3s. 5d.; 3s.sid. 30 and 40 130 90 and 100 a
■Salt £.1. os. od. per bushel; 4ti.f per pound. 40 and 50.141 101 1 105 •
 [ ioS7 ]
AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending November 91, t/tVf,
INLAND COUNTIES. MARITIME" COUNTIES.
Wheat; Rye |B...ley Oats IBeanS Wheat I Ryee Barlej Oats Beasts
1. rf. 1. d.\s. J- 1. rf.u. rf.i 1. H. i. d. j. A
Middles. 6 s 0! 3j43 Essex 63 0]4 3 0 43 b 39 8 *9 O
Surrey M 4 0'49 457 oj Kent 62 347 0 43 b 31 y 53 0
Hertford o| 6,42 31 Sussex 60 4I00 0 21 6 00 0
Bedford 62 4 6 10 219 7 Suffolk sa 8 00 0 40 0 *9 !■ 51 0
Hurrtingd sa 4 o'40 o'4g g| Cambrid. 57 2 42 0 40 1 .« 6 59 •
Northam. 58 ft 0 39 053 l lj Norfolk 56 10 3g ojao. 0 2» 0 50 0
Rutland 6a 0|00 0U5 0 60 Lincoln 61 43 7;40 4 2<5 0 58 9
Leicester 244 8 41 10 52 York 62 46 2'40 c 26 «J :>i> 11
Nottingh 0|46 044 6 30 10 56 Durham 65 10 00 0 40 1 25 7 00 0
Derby 4 00 0 It) '8 30 8 59 Northum . 58 2|42 038 0 ag 1 00 0
Stafford 200 0 44 5 32 3 00 Cumberl. 71 J 5 5 s'4-j 2 29 .'. 00 0
Salop 8j46 037 10 29 3 00 Westmor. 80 ll'OO 0 40 0 26 . 5 00
Hereford 4 41 6 33 0|30 10 53 Lancaster 72 00 0 43 7 at) 2 45 4
Worcest. 4 43 5137 7;55 Chester 64 00 0 42 n 00 0 00. •
Warwick 8]00 o',41 10i33 8'.r>7 ;Flint 00 00 o|oo 0 00 0 00 •
Wilts 8j00 o;37 31 10 59 Denbigh 7a 00 0!*J 10 24 6 00 0
Berks 2,00 0 33 33 2 5 7 Anglefea 00 00 ojoo u 23 0 00 •
Oxford 10]09 0 35 39 11^50 Carnarvon 75 ■ 8 00 0 33 0 23 0 DO 0
Bucks 600 0!40 32 5 51 'Merionet. 75 10' 00 0 41 0 29 0 00 •
Brecon 444 9*35 2 3 2 00 'Cardigan 76 4, 00 0;26 0 18 0 00 •
Montgo. 0' 00 0*32 30. 5 00 Pembroke 56 in 00 0'S5 0 19 4 00 *
Radnor 2 00 0 32 0 27 10 00 Carmarth. 7 1 ft 00 0;3 1 10 18 4 00 c
Glamorg. 71 1 1 00 037 •i H 0 09 A
Average of England and Wales, per quarter G'.oucest. 61 5 00 0 36 ,r> 34 5] 14
65 7)44 7,3.9 2';2S 3|54 4 jMonmo. 'Somerset 6<> 11 00 otaa 9 23 6 *9 6
66 10 00 0*35 8 00 0 00 0
Average of Scetland, per quarter. [Devon 63 io'oo 085 10 00 c 00 o
Cornwall 74 n'oo 0^6 4 ■23 6 00 it
58 ll|46 &|36 3 29 o\so Dersct 6-2 3; 00 034 8 00 0 bo 0
I; Hants 59 8 00 037 0 *9 8 55 <»
AGGREGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and
Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain.
Wheat I Rye Barley Oats Beans Pease Oatmeal I Beer or B13
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. t. (I. s. d. s. d. | s. d,
»i 10 44 7 39 4 27 2 53 8 89 2 40 3
PRICES OF FLOUR, November 23:
Fine 52s. 55s. to 58s.—Seconds 45s. to 50s.—Pollard 35s. to 40s.—Bran iss.
Return of Flour, November 7 to November 13, from the Cosket-Office :
Total ig,850 Sacks. Average 54s. sd.—os. od. I per Sack lower than the last Return.
Return of WHEAT, November 9 to November 14, agreeably to the new Act:
Total 580ft Quarters. Average 61s. 8d.j— Is. 2d.^ lower than the last Return.
OATMEAL, per Boll of i40lbs. Avoirdupois, November 21, 44s. sd.
Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending
November 25, is.32s. 4d.J per Cwt. exclusive of the Duty of Customs paid
or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.
PRICE OF HOPS, November 23 :
Kent Bags 4l. 15s. to 5I. 16s. I Kent Pockets 5l. Os. to 61. 16s.
Sussex Ditto 41. 10s. to 5l. 6s. Sussex Ditto Si. Os. to 5l! 163.
Essex Ditto 41. 10s. to 5l. 6s j Farnham Ditto 8l. Os. to lol. Os.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, November 23 :
St. James's— S lay 4I. Os. od. to 61. 6s. od. Average 51. Ss. od.
Straw. . . l{. 16s. Od. to al. 3s. od. Average 1 l. igs. 6d,
Whitechapel—HMy.. ..4l. 4s. od. to 61. 10s. Od. Average 5l. 7s. od.
Clover.. 51. 10s. od. tool. 18.. od. Average 61. 4s. od.
Straw.. .11. 12s. od. to 2l. 3s. Od. Average ll. 1 7s. Oct
SMITHFIELD, November 23. To sink the Offal—per Stone of 8lb.
Beef 3s. Od. to 4s. 8d. Pjrk 4S. Od. to 5s. 4d.
Mutton 4s. Od. to 5s. Od. Lamb Os. od. to Os. od.
Veal 4s. Od. to 5s. 4d Beasts 2300. Sheep and Lambs 16, 500.
COALS, Nov. 20: Newcastle 4 2s. 9d. to 54s. gd. Sunderland 47s. 6d."to 50s.
SOAP, Yellow 80s. Mottled 90s. Curd 94s. CANDLES, 11s. perDoz. Moulds 129.
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Brit.Prefs--Globe Hampshire 2
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The Sun—Star Ireland 38
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Commer. Chron. Oxford2. Ports.
' lsWeckly Papers Reading—Salilb.
i Bath 3, Bristol 6 Scotland 15
j Birmingham 3 . Salop—Sheffield
Blackburn Sherborne, Surry
BuryS.EdYruind's Shrewsti.-Susl'ex
Cambridge Staffordshire.
^Canterbury 2 DECEMBER, 1807. Stamford—Tyne
,C;rrli.—Chester . Waken.—Wa/w.
Cl'elmsford 2 CONTAINING . Winch.—Wore.
Cornw.--Govent. York 3, Jersey
Meteorological Diary foiNov. andDec. 1807,10901 Anecdotes of.1 Mr. Walker End his Writings 1122
Heralds, &c. vindicated on QiiaiidosClainrlpgijTHE Projector vN°TXX VII. . . ,J.< ..1 123
Encouragement to British Manufacturers logs Spiresof Lincolji Cathedrals -SerjeantPtfi'lerl 120
1 Selections from LeClerc's Brbliotheque, Sc. 1094 Dearths at Philadelphia and New York . . .1128
Family of Ward—Rev. Dr. Clarke's Poems'l096| Regal Table— Unitarianifni—Culinary Hint ib.
HesbacrvChuTch—.Roman Urns discovered 1007 .Review op New Publications ; vk.
Anticnt Coccium—Chapter-house, Chester 109 Royal and Noble Authors, hy Mr. Park . .1129
SirJ-. Cats—Cherubim?.—Hackney Church 1 looj Whitaker'sSermon,onconsecratingaChapell 1 3;3
Illustrations of Horace, Book I. Ep.-XlU. Hid. Coxe's History of the.Ho.use of Austria . . 113.3
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
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 Metbok»looical Diaxy for November t9»j. By Dr. Pole, Bristol.
o Barom, Therraom.
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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.

The ire, as noted at eight o'clock in the morning are

34 17-30; those as the 'ponding month in the year 1806, were 45 11-30; in
1805, 36 ; and in 1804, 42 1-10.
The quantity of rain fallen this month is 5 inches 44-lO0ths; that of the corre
sponding month, in the year I80O, was 3 inches 36-iooths; in 1805, 1 inch
32-l00ths; in 1804, 5 inches 4'4-looths; and in 1803, 3 inches 80- Tooths. 1
Meteorological Tablb for December 1807. By W. Cary, Strand.
Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 1 1 He ight of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.
Day
of Month. o'cl.8 cl.110 Night. of Menth. O'cl.8
Day
Mom. Noon. Barom Weather Morn. Noon. -o4 Barom Weather
in. pts in Dec. 1807. in. pts in Dec. 1807.
0 0 0 Dec. 0 e 0
Nov. 30,17 cloudy
37 29 34 28 29,67 fair 12 37 41 39
58 27 33 36 ,75 soggy 13 40 42 40 ,18 fair
29 40 41 3* ,02 cloudy 14 41 . 44 36 ,15 fair
SO 33 35 38 ,80 cloudy 15 35 37 37 .11 cloudy
D.i 35- 37 35 ,86 cloudy ' 16 37 39 36 ,06 cloudy
2. 39 43 42 r7"5 cloudy 17 36 37 34 ,04 cloudy
3 32 37 39 ,s» fair 18 34 37 36 29 ,99 cloudy
4 39 47 41 ,83 fair 19 36 38 32 |ad ,09 cloudy
5 45 47 44 ,57 cloudy 20 29 31 30 ,so cloudy
6 35 42 33 .47 fair 21 29 30 29 ,35 cloudy
7 32 35 30 ,52 fair 22 29 36 34 ,22 fair
8 22 24 32 ,15 snow. 23 33 35 36 ,11 cloudy
9 33 36 33 ,90 fair 24 36 37 ,12 cloudy
u 26 30 24 ,93 fair 25 37 43 46 .01 cloudy
n 33 39 38 ,95 cloudy 26 " 50 49 29,90 small rain
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE
For DECEMBER,
CHANDOS CLAIM.
Mr. Urban, Nov. 5.
&&&&& ?E Io"?' a'-d' 1 am
Q^^^'K*** sorry to lay, improper
tJ? article in your Obitu-
3?t T )j£ ary for October last,
w W announcing the death
wsA/vy "f the Rev. Edward-
7KJS?»?JS?7K Tymewell Brydges, the
late claimant to the Barony of Chan-
dos, has induced me to trouble you
with this Letter.
Amongst the innumerable distinc
tions which (when compared with
the Divine attributes) must always ren
der even the most intelligent of man
kind completely insignificant and con
temptible, there is none, perhaps, more
striking than the narrow limits within
which all human knowledge is con
fined. In partaking, however, of this
essential imperfection of our nature,
we are, on the other hand, entitled lo
some grains of allowance for those
purely unintentional errors, to which,
from that very Cite of imperfection, we
are hourly and unavoidably liable. To
suppose that you, Sir, or that anv man
breathing, can have been personally
acquainted with every individual whose
existence or death is recorded in your
valuable Register ; or that yon should
be able from your own immediate ob
servation to distinguish his true and
real, from his false and groundless cha
racter and pretensions ; would be to pay
you a compliment which, I am sure,
would neither be palatable to your so
ber and correct understanding, nor cre
ditable to the good sense or veracity of
the person who might profess so mon
strous a supposition : and I am confi
dent that you will have more reason to
be pleased than oft'ended with me for
observing, that the generality of such
articles as occur in your Obituary are
not, and cannot be, the production of
your own pen. You are well known,
Sir, to possess a mild, quiet, and be*
>
1807.
nevolent temper, wishing well to all
men, and ill to none ; and your readers,
whose curiosity may be gratified, or
memory refreshed, by so useful a record
of events and dates, must be tinctured
with no common churlishness of dis
position, if they did not cheerfully as*
lent to your affording an harmless in*
diligence (whenever it is really harm
less) to the overflowing tenderness and
affection, the amiable partialities, and
even the little vanity of those, who
may feel a pleasure in offering up such
biographical oblations to the manes of
their departed friends.
But this indulgence, Sir, is not upon
all occasions quite so harmless as might
be wished.
In the case, for instance, of the
above-mentioned mt/gwdfd'Clergyraap,
who (if report speak truth), with many
excellent qualities which deserved a
better sate, was tainted by the silliest
Jbrt of pride ; which rendered him an
easy prey to the artifices of others, and
suffered him at last to be seduced into
the adoption of a measure, which he
was too weak, too undiseerning, and too
indolent, to encounter ; and who if ge
nerally, and, I have no doubt, truly
believed to have been " more sinned
against than finning," in the very ex
traordinary conduct os his most extra
ordinary Claim—It is not harmless, I
fay, when, in adverting to that unfor
tunate gentleman, we are told (for it
is impossible from the context to mis
take the meaning os that expression,
and to apply it, as one would naturally
mjh to apply it, against those who had
made him their Jlalking-horse) that
" there was one subject," forsooth, " on
which his just indignation never sub
sided."
It Is not harmless to impute the most
infamous and diabolical motives to the
persons wh.0 have been indecently
called Opponents, whether appearing
at the Bat of the House of Lords as
thp
 1092 The Heralds, Re vindicated *« Chaftdos Claim. [Dec.
the great Law Officers of the Crown, has now succeeded lo his worldly es
or in the ^more humble, certainly, but tate has thought proper to force this
not less respectable situation, in point matter again upon the notice of the
of moral character, of Heralds ; whose publick, it is highly expedient that the
duty-is equally binding upon their con publick should be put into possession of
science, and whose peculiar province the real facts, and be enabled to un
it is to be vigilant in a cafe o,f Pedi derstand the truth. For it is not fitting
gree ; to aflift the fair an^ jionest claim that the great Law Ollieers of the
ant will) every heraldic evidence of Crown, that the Heralds, and that
descent,' but to take care that no im a'l thole who have incurred his dis
portant evidence issuppressed, and that pleasure by honestly exerting that por
none which is hollow and JitJ'picious. in tion of intellect which God has given
its nature should substitute the man of them, and, under the influence of a
low and obscure origin for the progeny fettled conviction, refusing to acknow
of our anlient Barons of England. ledge the Claimant as partaking of- the
It is not harmless, in lliort, to fay blood, and entitled ib the dignity of
thai those miscalled " Opponent?, by Ciiaxdos, should be continually
thirteen years of ■unexampled, industry, abused by the uncontradiclcd assertions
and equally unexampled modes of pro of the very person whose interest it is to
ceeding, did every thing to create .pre- describe himself as the object of unjust
" judices, and then pleaded thole pre- persecution, and to establish his own
' judices as reasons for abandoning all the character (if possible) upon the demo
general rules of evidence." lition of theirs. ' •
I have already observed, Sir, thatevery I have no inclination to rake up the
article iti your Obituary is not, and ashes of the dead ; nor do 1 desire to
cannot be of your own writing. It is scourge the backs of the living. 1 had
quite impofsibfe, indeed, from the Hyle rather, a million times rather, that the
and temper in which the article in iron rod of chastisement should always
question is composed, to mistake the remain idle, than be brandiflied for a
quarter from which it has proceeded. single instant by my bauds. But there
That you have published it inadvert is a point of provoca'ion, beyond which
ently, and without any evil intention forbearance is impossible. If the fame
: oh your part, I do from my soul be system, therefore^ of abusing those,
lieve ; hut surely, Sir, some peace-of whose duty to the Crown enjoined
fering is due from you to the world ; them to direct their Lordstii|>s' atten
and I call upon you, therefore, as a tion to the wilful concealment of im
friend to decency and order, as a re portant Evidence, to the extraordinary
specter of thexonllitnted authorities of Jlale of the different Parish Registers,
the State, as a loyal subject to the and toother circumstances ofan equalty
King, as a lover of truth, and as a man suspicious nature; as well as to Dring
6f impartiality and fair character, to forward any such evidence within their
demonstrate, the rectitude of your prin own knowledge as might detect the
ciples by publishing this Letter; and, falsehood of the Pedigree set up by the
'as far as this feeble effort can avail, by Claimant:—If the fame system of reviling
administering the antidote to the poison. the Law Officers of the Crown, who
In common, I believe, with all those were- bound, in discharging the (acred
of any charity in their disposition, who trust reposed in them, to impress these
had witnessed the variety of strange in circumstances upon the House ; and
cidents that occurred in this Claim which they did do, in terms that, how
with respect to the evidence produced ; ever unphv sandy, from the very na
I had sincerely hoped, when the spirit ture of the cafe, they might have
•of the late deluded Claimant should sounded in the ears of the Claimant,
have winaed its flight into other re might still be said lo have tempered
gion;, and gone in search of I'aai hea justice with mercy :—If the same sys
venly coronet, to which I am willing tem be still persisted in—if the publick
to trnst that he had far better preten should still be molested, and pestered,
sions ; that not merely his earthly re aud insulted by misehievous rhapsodies
mains, but that the subject of his from the fame quarter,—I may think it
earthly ambition, would have been con my duty, perhaps, lo enter more fully
signed for ever to the peaceful silence upon this subject ; and I trust \ (hall,
of the grave. But, as the person who in that event, be able, without 'much
difficulty,
 1S07.] Encouragement held out to British Manufnclurers. 1093
difficulty, -to arrange the leading poims live in a County where both trades are
of the cafe, and, without travelling carried oa to a great extent; in Lan
much out of that direct path which cashire, a manufacturing county. It
the printed eviilence has marked out has been the cufioin very long to im~
for me, to demonstrate clearly, full, pcrtLineu-lpun Yarn from various parts.
what these Claimants are not, and, 'e" Read Leland's Itinerary, under Liver
Condly, what they afe. Sudelei. pool j it was so many years ago, and
not less now than formerly. Vast
Mr! Urban, Liverpool, Dec. 12. quantities of Hetupen Yarn have been
I HAVE had so many inllanc.es of imported every year, for the manufac
your kind attention lo me, that 1 tures of Manchester, Blackbnrue, Wi-
once more lit down lo '.ouble yon, gan, Chorley, Ixyland, &c. : itisim-
under a heavy impression of the pre pollible for me to fay how much. I
sent nines ; such they are as you and I cannot estimate it at lels than 1,000,0001.
never remember before. But, even lay 750,0001. ; and if you deduct one-
heavy and^ctliinit'otts as they appear, third for tile flax imported, all from
I null. and hope we (hall rile superior abroad, excln It veofduties, Sec i twill leave
to all our enemies, and brave the llorni 500,000 1. but fay 400,0001.; for spin
(which has been Ib long brewing) wilh ning only, this, at 401. a family, would
fortitude and perseverance, with such employ 10,000 families, and retain that
vigour as to carry us through the tem amount for so much labour done, now
pest with confidence ; lead and directour paid to the labourers of other foreign
attention to'sniiable resources wilh firm Nations. This would be a great na
ness and etiersy ; and take a new view of tional advantage ; instead of sending so
things : hoping, on the whole, it will much money abroad, would give sup
turn out a great national advantage, port and employment to men, women,
and frustrate the designs nf our invete and children at home ; say sour to a
rate Foe, who, by attacking our trade family, is 40,000 fouls.
in every direction, hopes 10 mould us Perhaps it may be said we want
to his will, and make us his slaves for Flax. Cultivate our wastes : the wastes
ever. For a moment reflect. When of Lincolnshire, and many other parts
the Baltic was shut againli us on ibe of England, might be inclosed, and
Armed Neutrality, in respect to the employed in this way. It may be
Iron trade only— the rtort-itnporiatioii railed in Canada, by a little encourage
caused our own people to open their ment, aided with English ingenuity.
mines of iron sione : the coal-piis And now that wanes are very low
*ere opened to burn this ore ; this with the manufacturers (for they are
gave bread and employment to hun really now very. low) it is the proper
dreds, to thousands, and has done ever time to make the experiment. Cannot
since : various and exiensive iron-works we spin this Linen by machinery, in
were built, and very much iron has which we rival the world in Colton
been raised and made since in ihis and Worded ? Much has been al
country, and it has been found pro ready done in spinning Linen*. No
ductive to us ; and iron, equal, as we doubt, a few spirited people, a little
are informed, to any imported from encouragement from the Society of
abroad, has been made, in Ib great a Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce,
degree that half the quantity i« not and a bounty from Government, might
now imported that used to be;. but, soon bring it about. Whoever con
perhaps, I should be nearer the mark if templates what has been done in these
1 were to fay a quarter, or even lei's. last So years, cannot doubt h ; and
This surely, Mr. Urban, is a wonder when it 13 noticed bow many Coiton-
fully great advantage, and saves a won f'pinninu Manufactories are now un
derful exportation of cash from this employed, at what an eafv expence
country, besides the advantage of em the project may be tried in these useless
ployment to our own people. From buildings, meeting a ready market for
_ other matters I might adduce the like our own consumption! And, if carried
advantages that have arisen in the Cop
per trade, as laid before Parliament * It is already spun to answer as well
some years ago by Mr. Williams, of to the full for the warps as Foreign, but
the Pan s Aline Company. too hard for the weft : so an eminent ma
'These advantages are great: let us nufacturer and importer of Foreign Yarn
not Hop here. 1 hare the pleasure to assures me.
on
IC94 Resources of Britain. —Sekftions from Le Clerc. [Dec.
on with success, in the making of va
rious sorts of Russia, Saxon, and Ger
man Linens, now exported in great
quantities to the Colonies abroad !
Thus may our labourers be employed
at home, and much money which goes
fio n hence for Russia and Gerhjjn
Linens be retained in our own Coim-'
*ry. Those parts or countries which
Buonaparte has taken from the King
of Prussia were principally the manu
facturing countries, where a (brt of stout
Linens as well as Silelias were -made,
much valued in the West Indies. I
presume we have resources within our
selves. We have fought the Tyrant,
the liuler of Europe, Jingle-handed ;
and he has made no impression on us,
but knit us more strongly together. We
have, I trust, but one sentiment —
which is, resistance to his designs, be
cause they are arbitrary and tyrannical.
Where he has power, he has shown it ;
and on us lie would wreak his venge
ance, if he were enabled to do it.
15y œconomy aud management, by
turning our hands to other work, we
can be supported as a Nation ; by perse
vering in such means in every possible
direction, and in every opening, and
by every channel, derive support*. Hy
this conduct Ihall we be enabled to
support our Moved King, our Couu-
trv, and Constitution; and hand itdown,
in the face as an admiring though sub
jugated European Continent, to our
children and luccessors. Britons, then,
will be the pride, thegloryoftheNations
tipon earth ; and this Nation of Shop
keepers be a Nation of Patriots, and,
Jike the antient Swiss, preserve their
Libertv beyond the time they had any
virtue left. May we be vinuous and
happy ! M. <?.
•»*."P. on, 1. 10> r. " Alkrington ;"
I. l7,."Dornirs Rafbotham."
P. 012, 1. ult. r. " Matthew Gregfon."
SELECTioNsyjom Le Ci/erc's Biblio-
theque Univerfelleet Historique.
(Continued from vol. LXXIL p. 27.)
No. II.
Reflections on the Parable of the Rich
Man and Lazarus. By the Rev.
Henry Teelman, Minister of Nor-
den. Published at Amsterdam 1686.
""I* HE exposition given of the Para-
JL ble bv this gentleman, and the
* Notwithstanding the recent stoppage of the Continental trade in Birmingham,
an4 thure were fix houses that shipped 300,000 1. of Birmingham goods to the
Continent per annum, and now not looo 1. a-year amongst them is stnpped ; the
Workmen have turned to other work, all are employed, and scarcely a house to let !
application which he makes of it, are
no less fanciful than singular, and will'
amuse our Readers. The author will
have it that, in the literal sense, the
wicked rich man represents the Jews,
particularly the Pharisees, who were
so noted for their pride, ambition, and
avarice; that our Lord Jesus Christ is
exhibited lo us under the character of
Lazarus ; and that the design of the
Parable wasv to reproach the Jews for
treating with contempt the grand doc
trines taught by Moses and the Pro
phets ; for laying the chief stress on
outward ceremonies, and a splendid
and pompous mode of worship ; and
rejecting the Messiah, because he ap
peared, like Lazarus, in the form of a
poor man. This illustration Mr. Teel-
man endeavoui s to confirm by the ety
mology of the word Lazarus, which
he derives from the Hebrew word Elf
aiar, which signifies God my help. By
the crumbs whichfellfrom the rich man's
table, our author understands the poor
despised part of the Jewish nation, for
whose spiritual welfare our blessed
Lord was so solicitous, and whom he
Jilted with good things, while the rich
were sent empty moay. By the dogs
which licked the fores of Lazarus, he
understands thole Gentiles who em
braced the Gospel. We read that La
zarus and the rich man both died.
Thus the Messiah was crucified, and
Jerusalem was taken and destroyed :
the Jewissi polity, civil and ecclesias
tical, was subverted ; and the haughty
Rulers who had gratified their malice
. and revenge against Jesus by putting
him to death, soon came to nought.
The Parable makes no mention of the
burial of Lazarat, because the death qj^.
our Lord, Ib far from being injuriousi
to his cause, was the source of all the
blessings he is exalted to bestow; and
so far from causing the death of his '
doctrine, proved the means of diffus
ing it over all the earth. But the rich
man, we are told, was buried: in like
manner the Jewissi Commonwealth
was buried in ruins by the Romans.
Since which period, though they have
remained a separate people, they have
been vagabonds in every' part of the
world, exposed lo hatred and contempt.
They would fain have Used up thtir
eyes in their place of torment, under
thi
iZoj.]Parab!e 6f~D\vesandLazarus.-Stobæusc6rreRei!. 1095
the government of Adrian ; but, in
stead of having their sufferings miti
gated, they were augmented ; and
there was so great a gulf fixed between
them and the land of Canaan, that
they could not regain the posfellion of
it. The reason why Abraham, in the
Parable, refers the rich man lo Mofesand
the Prophets is, we are told, hecaufe
the Jews, after the reign of Adrian,
became more than ever attached to
(heir traditions ; and, in process of
time, was composed the Talmud, which
was set in competition, nay, by many,
preferred to the Scriptures.
In the application of the Parable,
Mr. Teelman endeavours to (hew that
it may be considered as having a refer
ence to the (late of the Christian Church
at different periods. He considers Di
ves as representing all those nominal
Christians who, since the time of Con-
itautine, have been induced to enter
into the Church by mere worldly mo
tives. He also supposes that the (ame
persons are described under the images
of Jezebel, of Tyre, and of Babylon ;
and he asserts that it is owing to the
ambition and avarice of such professors
of Christianity, that the reign of Ignor
ance and Tyranny has been so long up
held, and lo many corruptions of doc
trine and worship been introduced into
the Church. This society of worldly-
minded, sensual Christians has often
heard Christ knock at their gate
through his faithful Ministers, but
without effect ; they aspire to no higher
or purer gratifications than to be cloathed.
in purpit and fine linen, and to Jure
Jumpluoujly evert/ day. Our author,
with true Protestant zeal, felicitates
the sincere followers of Christ on the
deadly blow which was given to the
Anti-Christian Hierarchy of Papa!
Rome in the sixteenth century ; and,
notwithstanding the unfavourable as
pect of the time* (168(5), he trusts that,
sooner or later, the Pope will share the
fate of Barcocheba and his deluded
followers—to which the Correspondent
who transmits this article subjoins-,
heartily—Amen.
Leicestershire. Scoto-Bmtanmtis.
Mr. UrbaB, Dec. SI.
IN my last letter there are two mis
takes (of the press, I believe), which
seem to me of importance to require
correction. I am made to fay (p.
1030, col. 2), in reference to my own
account of tny conversation with Mr.
Le Mesurier, at Oxford, that " 1 re
present him as in no respect inferior tc>
mylelf, and in no one injiance 1 admit
him lo have expressed a very important
proposition in such a discussion, more
accurately than 1 had done." It
should have been, " in one instances
without the negative. The whole force
of the argument consists in this admis
sion of something like a partial superi
ority in him. Your readers, if they
turn to your Magazine for July (p.
604, col. 2), will readily fee my allu
sion. The other error is less mate
rial. It occurs in p. 1031, col. 2,
where I mention my contingent pur-
pole of taking notice hereafter, in
another form, of his fresh attack upon
me in his last pamphlet. It is acciden
tally printed, "fuck notice," instead
of "some notice." Whether I may be
able to execute what I intended, con
sistently with my numerous and various
occupations, is at present uncertain ;
but I wished to give your Readers this
caution, that, because I have aot
troubled them with a (ingle word on
this subject, they may not suppose me
to admit any thing which Mr. Le Me
surier ha? said, or may say, relative
to it.
As a note on my third letter, I meant,
but iu my haste omitted, to subjoin a
passage, perhaps two, from Stotweuf.
With your permission, Mr. Urban, i
will supply them here, not as necessary
to the illustration of the correspondence
which is now closed, but for the fake
of submitting a conjectural criticism
upon one of them to your learned rea
ders. They are both taken from the
Edoga; the least known, but in some
respects, perhaps, the most valuable of
the author's works. You will find
them in the 7lh chapter of the second
book, which treats of the ethical
branch of philosophy. The first is
plain, clear, and express : it gives the
different definitions or descriptions of
good according to the Sioicks ; and
the first of them is as follows :
'Ayx@&t if" i?' « TvuGnt ei To uipc-
Kujiat' 5 «»vr' if{rial t» }.iyn
rjrjovlct ■ro£on?-Bft£>as-.
Good is that from which comes what
is expedient or beneficial for us ; and
which is the principal object of desire
to all rational beings." I do not trans
late for you, Sir ; and shalt make no
apology to you for quoting the original.
After going through this and the other
chief
iog6 Stobaeus.—Ftffli/Yy os Ward.—Rev. Dr. Clarke. [Dec.
chief tonics of ethical philosophy, in de
tached points, St"bæus proceeds to give
ft methodical view of the whole fylietn
of the Snicks awl Petipateticks1; and I
would direct the attention of the curious
to ihe fnrnier, because n is inolllv com
piled from the loll writings of Zeno,
Chryfippus, and Cleanlhes lite founder
of the school, and his immediate success
ors, and because it contains a fuller aud
more scientific exposition of their doc
trines than isaIIv whereelse preserved to
us. In the course of his summary he h.is
occasion to revert to the fame lopick of
good. The passage is exceedingly C01I7
Itifetl and corrupted in the common
editions. The lall Editor, Mr. Ileeren
of Gotlingen, has done much for the
text, but even he seems to have given
up one part in despair .He reads it thus :
To i' •i'yaQov Xfye^xi £«7fc •^T^io>a^^a■•
To pvi izgvTov, oioy Torr/y: i^ov ^i»pav,
wpfXiio^a!, (to $1 OTfirov '(7vou airtov)
» i$' u' to Sivr^oy, »a9' o av^QaUet
Ewi Tot iff^oetpviy.tvai to i ion uVtMtv.
What is included in the parenthesis
he is a] mod persuaded to reject, as a
marginal glol's crept, into the text., I
would propose by a flight correction to
substitute os^f'i» for aUior ; and the
whole will be accurately conformable,
to the known doctrines of the Sto:cks
on this head, and the parallel passage
in Sextos. The general lenle (without
meaning a literal translation) will then
be: " They lav that good is varionlly
denominated : The first fort is that,
from which issues, like a stream from
a fountain, or immediately out of
which is derived, what is expedient for
us; and at the head of this class they
place virtue ; the next is that, ac
cording to which we oh'ain what is
expedient ; and the most common and
comprehensive, exiending even- over
both the former, is that svhich is capa
ble of conferring what is expedient."
This metaphor of the fountain was a
favourite image of the SiQicks. So Zeno
delcribed the moralcharacteras the loon-
tain of life and conduct, whence all our
particular actions How. F. Laj hence.
Mr. UrttiAW, Ocl. If?.
YOUR Obituary for March 1808,
p. 283, announces the death and
some particular account of Charles
•Ward, efq. a na'ive of Warwickshire,
in which he possessed a himiMojiie pa
trimonial property. it is there said.
that he was the representative of one of
the most atitient families in Great
Britain, who were of considerable note
in the days of Egbert, from which re
mote period Mr Ward (as be (op
posed) had manuscripts in his poises-
lion at the time of his death.
The inquirer, your present Corre
spondent, bearing this aniient and re
spectable name,, and haviujr in his pos
session also a pedigree of Ward up to
Sir Simon in the time of Edward II.
is particularly desirous of receiving
some more authentic account. Nor
will you deem this request an idle cu
riosity, to be informed into whose hands
at present these MSS. have fallen, from
the difficulties attending your own An
tiquarian researches. Any communica
tion of such requested intelligence will
oblige an Aulocktkone Ward.
• Mr. Urban, Shrewsbury, Dec. If).
OBSERVING in yourvol. LXXlIs.
p. S'3, a request for some Poems
of the Kev. Dr. Clarke, rector of Bel-
broughton, t am induced to fend the
following Impromptu on bis Curate, an
infirm man, who went to visit a gen
tleman who fancied himself dangerously
ill of the gout ; but, after some agree
able chat, they lat down to cards till a
late hour ; and it was said, the Curate
found some difficulty in getting home.
IN the good time of yore, to the tick
mao's bed-side
The Curate was fummon'd to pray ;
To the sick man's bed-side does our Curate
still ride, . ,. i
But it is not to pray, but to })l<f'J-
No penitent there, , >. .
He finds in despair, '".< . ,.
Requesting she prayers of the sick ;
Cut one with the books of Old Nhck j
And instead of contesting, more likely to
swear [trick.
At a twinge as the Gout, or the )oss ot a
Not a knee 's on the ground,
Tho' his friends be-stl round,
But they're only all round a Card-table,
Where this true ion of Heaven
Sits down till1 eleven,
And gtts home as well as he's aide !
Nov. 5. i;89. .
Dr. Clarke was a pleSfittg, and in
structive companion, and an excellent
Clergyman, who strictly adhered to the
duties of his high calling. He was par
ticularly fond of Poetry, though I ne\er
understood, that he wrote any poem of
much length. Many rf his friends a re
in possession of his poetical productions,
who, 1 ho;ie, will bo induced to (t»-po
sit some of them in your pages. D I'.
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 1807.j Hexham Church.—Roman Urns discovered. IC97
Mr. Urban, Dec. 2. perhaps, be amiss here, to observe, that
I SEND you a North-west view of ahout u quarter of a mile from this,
the Cathedral Church of Hexham, hill, on the Burv road, there is a ham
Northumberland, as it appeared in let or village called Cockn/ Moor, or,*
1774, to illustrate the account of that according to some old map*, Cvckky
place already given in your valuable Moor, in the townlhip of Ainlworth,
Publication for 1755, vol. XXV. p. and paristi of Middleton; and, per
297 ; and lee an older North view of it haps, it may be no verv violent stretch
in Du("dale's Mouasticon, vol. Jl. p. <)0.' os conjecture to suppose thai this place
Yours, &c, ' ' C. P. derived its name (torn its proximity to
the antient Cocciunt, if it did not once
%Hmd Hill, form a part of that settlement. It is
Mr. Urban, Wober (). very certain, however, thai CaniuVll
IN a field in this neighbourhood, makes mention of this p(ace, as he
there have been found at ditterent speaks of the " little oh> wooden Cha
times small Roman Urns, or Pots, con pel surrounded with trees ;" and I think
taining the allies of those who lived in he adds, he law this Chapel when he
less poliflied, though not perhaps hi was searching for the remains of the
less turbulent times. 1 he present pro antient Cocciunt.
prietor of this land assures' me, that he The twelve Lrns which I have men
himself, a levy years a^o, found twelve tioned were somewhat of a cylindrical
Urns which retained their original form, in appearance verv much resem
shape, bin which, upon being exposed bling those earthen pots which farmers
to the external air, soon dwindled use in this country to keep their cream
away into dull; so that it was riot pos in, previous to its being churned, or
sible to take any -Irawing of them, in applied to other useful purposes, livery
order to ascertain their correspondence Urn contained (which is very remark
with other Urns found in different able) in the top part of it a small
parts of the llland. The description Bone about two inches in length ; and
of them, however, seeriis to be this : this Bone appears to have been placed,
they lav in a, stratum of earth not much not accidentally, but designedly, upon
more than a'quarter of a yard in depth, the allies of the decealed within the
in a regular form, lomething like large pot. Whether this may have been done
jars in the lower shelves Of an apothe in conformity with any religious, or
cary's (hop ; and it was very evident, rather fnperlltlious, cullom of the Ro
I am told, that they contained tile mans, I cannot lay ; but certainly so
allies of the dead. ' Many peWbns have, much regularity would not have been
I underfland, discovered at different Tlobserved I inI-.it the disposition . of-us,these
limes? in the fame ground, Urns of Bone*,. had -. I to
not intimated -\ *
that
this nature ; and a farmer has just told something more was meant by it than
me, that he remembers having see'O, we are acquainted with at present ; aud
in digging and ploughing this land, which, from the remoteness of the pe
smalt particles of Bones which wefe riod when these interments took place,
evidently human; a'nd in one spot in must still, I am afraid, remain in dark
particular, he laj s, there may be found ness, and be left undecided.
at any time, in a certain direction, the We know very well that the lower
strongest proofs that can be given, that orders of people among the Greeks
this field was, some lime or other/a and Romans did not alwavs burn the
place of sepulture for the dead. Cam- bodies of their deceased friends entirely
den mentions, 1 believe (as I have into ashes j andi therefore, they made
not his book by me, I speak merely use of larger Urns, sufficiently capa
from recollection), -that in this neigh cious to receive the unburnt bones, as
bourhood was situated1 ' tile aiitielit well as ashes, of the dead ; but in this
Coccium /■ ..1 spoken
_ ^ ■inbsthe
. t.by. time
Antoninus ;'a instance there were but twelve bones ;
noted■ settlement ofr the
. L„ iRo- and each Urn contained one bone only
mans. It appears, (herefoie. very pro-' on the top part of it
babie, that it was this part of the coun What 1 have before observed, how
try (Breighttnei Hill) 10 which he al- , ever, does, 1 conceive, sufficiently
lutles ; and that this field, containing prove, that a Roman settlement must
the remains of human bodies, was ap have been in this neighbourhood ; and
propriated by the Romans as a place of we are authorised to conclude, that it
burial for their dead. It may not, mull
Gent. Mag. December, 1807.
1098 Antient Coccium.—Chapter-house as Chester. [Dec.
must have been the antient Coccium ; the subject discussed thiough the same
and that tins Coccium. or, as ii i> (pelt medium by which it is now offered
in the old nlaps ot Lancashire, Co- 10 their perusal. S. 1). 1).
Ceium, must have heen situated in Remarks on the Chapter-house at
thai part of thccnunlv called Breigbt- ( hester . with an Enquiry into the
met Hill. Alfred Hadfielb, time of its Erection.
P. S. Since I wrote the above, I 'iHEpreteui Cathedral Church, or
ha*e bad au opportunity of consulting Abbey o( St. YVerburg, within the
Dr. Wbitnke 's History as Whalley, Cuv of Chester (which arose upon the
Mr. YVhitaker's Historv of Manchester, site ot' a Religious foundation of great
and few other authors upon the (ame antiquity) is generally supposed to have
subject. It is very remarkable thai been erected in the reigns of Henry
thev all differ in opinion. The first VI. VII. andVHl; more e pectally
learned gentleman maintains the an- during thole of the two latter ; very
tient Coccium <o be the lame with few parts of the original structure being
the RigocunumI of Piolemy ; and he now in existence. 1'he Cloisters, ot
gives us Come very ingenious reasons winch three sides of the original quad
for thinking fb : the second, fixes ii at rangle only remain, are esteemed to
Blackrode ; whilst a most all the other have had an earlier foundation than
writers are equally as hazardous in the Nave of the Abbey Church, to
their co> ijectnres as they are positive in which they adjoin, having experienced
their conclusions Camden (the bill- alterations and improvements from the
mentioned Whitaker lays) sought for reign of Edward 111. to thai of Henry
Coccium al Cockey ; from whence we VIII. (ihe arms of Wolley itnpahng
ruav infer, that he had an idea that it thole of York, with the Cardinal's Cap,
might have been situated in ihis neigh being yet discernible.) The chief part ot
bourhood ; and indeed its distance from ihe Nave before alluded to was erected
the Mancunium, not to lay anv tiling Ihortly previous to this latter period ;
of other circumstances more recently and the Western end, which is mop?
discovered, seems to warrant the sup highly decorated than the test of the
position. Bui,. howe\er that mav be, Church, was begun in 1508. In the
it is very certain that Tome Roman na Eastern Cloister stands the Chapter-
tion must have been in this part of the house, a builuing ofconsiderable beauty,
country ; and I know not what oiher and upon the date os its erection arises
name 10 give it but the Coccium, the following Enquiry. 1 have deemed
leaving the Rigodunum 10 be the pre it necellary" to be thus particular in
sent Ribchester, or the Kibble, or Be- potming out the various data above
iisama of the Aniienis. Afier all, fiated, as they may afford us hereafter
Mr. Urban, much, doubtless, may be useful grounds of inference.
said on both sides of the question ; and The approach 10 this Chapter-house
I know not whether we shall derive is through a low-arched Vestibule, 33
any very considerable advantage from feet in length by 27 in breadth, and 13
the diseuffion of a subject which seems feei in height. This is supported by four
to give birth only to conjecture, and columns, each surrounded with slender
to supply materials for dispute and con pilasters, which, converging al,the top
tradiction. of the columns, spread over the roof.
The old Roman road, or Watling- Around the room are plain stone leats.
ftreet, has been traced bv Mr. Whita- On entering the Chapier-houfe it dis
lter through ihe parishes of Prestwick, plays a lightness and elegance in iu
Ratcliffe. and Bury; and perhaps it construction which cannoi fail to strike
may be well 10 inform those who are ihe Architectural Amateur with ihe
not acquainled with ihe exact topogra most pleasing (eolations ; its dimensions
phy of the country, thai Cockev is but are 50 feet in length, 2(5 in breadth,
•bout three miles from the last-men and 35 in height; at the Eastern end is
tioned place, on the public road to » large window of five lights lancet-
golton. A/ H. Nov. It). shaped, and on each fide of the room *
two others of smaller dimensions. The
Mr. Urban, Nob 16. roof, like that of the Vestibule, arises
THE following Inquiry is submitted also from slender pillars projecting from
to the consideration and Opinions
of vowr Archileflural Correspondents ; * Mr. Pennant is mistaken in faying
and 1 (hall feel highly gratified in seeing one only..
2 the
 1807O Remarks on the Chapter-house al Chester. 1099
the walls, ornamented with neat ca groining, became high pitched, and
pitals. the springers, diverging Irom the im
Such is the building which Mr Dal- post, spread themselves over the vault.
laway *, Mr. Pennant fi and oiher If English Architecturef like other arts
topographical writers, pronounce to and sciences, attained that degree of
have been erected at Co early a period perfection to which it ultimately ar
as the year 1123, the credit of its rived by How and progressive advances
foundation being given to Kandulph (which was certainly the cale), how
de Melchiues, Earl of Cheller, nephew can we reconcile to ourselves a sup
to Hugh Lupus, the first who bore position so contrary to a generally re
that title. My first object is, therefore, ceived opinion, as to imagine that at a
to (hew the Hate of Architecture pre moment when the heavy and ponderous
valent in this kingdom at the period style, of the Saxons was on'v gradually
above mentioned ; and, secondly, I expiring**, a building should be erected
shall endeavour to prove that, by a suc possessing almost the tlelicacy of a Gre
ceeding style so nearly coinciding with cian edifice? This, in some degree,
it, the erection os this Building has would reconcile us to the ridiculous
lieen considerably ante-dated. The style theory which rnanv have urged a id
of architecture introduced at the Con adopted, that the Architecture of this
quest, which may be called Anglo- Country was imported Irom foreign
Norman \, is usually thought by Ar parts in regular shapes, rather than 'hat
chitectural writers to have been de it advanced lo a Hate of maturity by
clining in fashion, and to have yielded degrees in our own.
its claims to early English or (etui-Nor I am ignorant 'o what uses Chapter*
man about the conclusion of the houles were originally adapted i but
twelfth century. Its chief characteristics should imagine that they served to the
were the more enlarged dimensions Monks, purposes similar to thole sot
which it assumed over its predecessor, which they are now applied, namely,
with a general air of massive grandeur, the transaction of business. Jsit there
the arches principally semicircular, fore a natural supposition that a place
and of greater amplitude than those of of this kind shouid be deemed a proper
the Saxons; frequently two smaller sepulture for the remains of such dis
are found under one large. A single tinguished personage? a* the Earls of
specimen will be sufficient to point out Chester ft' My ideas upon this subject,
the style of this æra ; namely, Durham however erroneous they may appear,
Cathedral, which Mr. Dallaway§ men are these : that the present Chapter-
tions as having been (whh a flight ex house was erected upon the site of an
ception) wholly erected during this antient Chapel, or other sacred edifice,
period ||. Sortie instances of Pointed originally founded by Randolph de
arches have certainly been found con Melchines, at a period subsequent to
temporary with it, but which are sup what has been above slated, by nearly
ported with heavy mallive columns, a century, to which its principal ar
and hardly deserving the name of chitectural features so exactly cor
such jlj. How much nearer does the respond. S. D'. D.
style of this structure assimilate itlelf
with that which had gained ground Mr. Urba», Nov 14.
during the reigns of Henry 111. and VIATOR, p. 7*6, requests some
Edward I. when the Circular arch had information concerning Cats; a
yielded to the Poinied one, and the Dutch poet. 1 can inform him that
massive column to the slender pillar, he came over t» England as Ambassador
surmounted with a graceful capital ; from theSta es "f Holland in the reign
the roofs, varying from plain strong of K -tig William, who knighted him.
• Observations on English Architecture, p. 40. t Wales, vol.1, p. 1}},,
J Britton's Nomenclature, in Archite&ural Antiquities, vol.1.
§ Observations on English Architecture, p. 49.
|| See this fully described in the " Beauties of England and Wales,'' vol. V.
% Bentham's Ely, p. 32.
** Mr. Bentham observes, " I think we may venture to fay that the circular arch,
round-heided doors and windows, massive pillars with a regular base and capital, were
universally used to the end of Henry the First's reign, 1134. Ely, p. 34
ft We are informed that every Karl of the Norman line, save One, was interred twre,
aad raany Abbots also.
LAdvQca
iioo Sir John Gats.—Illustrations of Horace. [Dec.
L' Advocat fays, in his DiBionnaire Bio- will readUy take on Dr. Bentley's word,
grapluquc, it was during ihe Protec without tipiabbling with hiin whether
torate ot* Oliver Cromwell; which or not his reason, " we know indeed
must be a mi(lake, as he never at of a Human family of the name Vinie,
tempted to confer the honour of Knight but no yhuua" .will hold true; for
hood. Sir John Cats's Poems are this Vinius at least teems not to have
much esteemed by his Country, and been a man of fam ly.. His proper
are fold at a hi jih price, lie was born name was C. Vinius Fronto, lays the
al Browerltaven in Z alaod ; after many old scholiast of Cruquius ; but, his
voyages, lettled at Muldleburg, and father having borne the nick-name .^/i-
acquired Ib high a reputation by his «9 (the (he-als), that name, altered
pleadings, that the Ciiy of Dort ( hole, into Afella (little, or young she-ass},
him Pensioner, as did that of Middle- descended by inheritance to the son.
burg loon afier. He was appointed As to his desceiit and condition, I en
also Pensioner of Holland, and West tertain not the smallest, doubt that Tor-
Frielland ; afterwards elected Keeper rentius has hit it with a needle's point,
of the Seal to the fame States, and when he supposes, that Vinius or Vin
Stadtholder of the Fiefs; but resigned nius Afella was neither 'more nor less
all his employments some lime after, to than a simple Sa bine countryman in
enjoy the repose his advanced age re Horace's neighbourhood, to whom he
quired. He, however, went on the used to give his letters to Borne, and
embassy to England ; aud on his return whom he dispatched this lime with-
retired to his beautiful eliate of Sur- . the particular enmmisiton to deliver a
guliel, where he palled the remainder copy of his collected works to Augus
ol' his days in tranquillity. He Wit a tus.
great number of Poems, chiefly on , The whole Epistle turns upon a jo
moral and religions subjects. The lad' cular quibble in relation to the name
edition of his works appeared in 17i0, Alella, to which the csowntCh, honest,
2 vols. folio, adorned with tine cuts. ajad- short - witled Sa bine rusticity of
See L'Advocat's Dictionary, translated poor Vinius seems to have suruiflied
by Cath. Collignon. the matter, and h,ia surname ihe dress.
In mv turn, I wish to be informed It is an instruction how Atella fltottld
of the Origin of the Cherubim being proceed in this business ; but with a
represented as only Winged Heads. humorous gravity, and a good-natured
No foundation for it can surely be air, lo warn him of blunders, exactly
traced in Scripture; and from the Kab- so composed as Horace mult have made
binic traditions (as 1 suppose) they them had he intended to fend on an
are imagined to be the second order of errand to Rome a real Al's, who had
Angels. Whv ihcu are they pain'ed no other advantage over his brethren
and carved in In diminutive aud defec but the gift of speech, and two arms
tive a form, if I may so (peaks instead of the fore-legs. I know of
Much has been said, and justly, by nothing more droll in this way, in
yourCorresoondents, »n the lattdry deco which it is so easy to miscarry, and
ration of Churches.— Permit me to ob-, in w'jich they only can succeed who
serve one true decoration of Hackney are perfectly sare-of their wit in a mo
Church, which is {imply elegant in its ment of humour. But 1 recollect what
ornamental parts, the Communion table, Cicero somewhere puts into the mouth
Font, and Pu'pii. I mean, a due pro of Cælar : Ego omni de reJacctius pu/o
vision of Seats for the Poor, and Bonks pojse ab homine von inurbane, quam d«
of a good size and print lent to thole ipjis faceliis, di/putari. Since then it
who have none, containing the di is more hazardous to discourse upon a
rections for hehavionr in public wor good joke than even to. joke well ; let
ship, and marked Middle, North, aud the reader determine how much or
South Ailes. how little taste he can allow to this
Yours, &C ElISEBIA. witticism os Horace.
Signata volumina.~\ The two books
Illustrations of Horace. of his Sermooes, tbe book of Epodes,
Book I. Epistle XI 11. and the three books of Odes, as con-
To Vinius Aseli.a. listing of all the works he had at that
THAT the honest fellow to whom time publisoed. It is not to be ima
this short letter is addressed was gined (though it is very possible) that
cal'eJ, not Vinnius, but Vinius, we Augustus had not already lean these
work*
i8o7«] Horace.—Epitaphs i>I Westerham Churtb. noi
works singly : but as he had them not Seyliard, second baronet of that antient
all together, he might probably have family, and of the lady Frances his first
intimated a desire to possess a com wife, sole daughter and heir of Henry
plete copy, and—to have it from him Wyat, efq. eldest Ion of Sir Francis Wyat,
self, though Horace's writings were to of Boxley Abbey, km. who departed
be had at a reasonable price of the So this life May the 4th, 1726, in the 43d
year of her age. The monument is erected
fa of the time.
Ut vinqfa glomus furtivœ Pyrltiu by her most affectionate husband Koberc
Ian*."] An allusion to a low comic Paynter, efq. ton of Alingion, son of
William, Ion of Anthony, son of William
character in a farce then generally Paynter, efq. Clerk of the Ordnance to
known, who had the two sailings, of Queen Elizabeth, and Lord of the Manors
being apt to drink, and apt to Deal. In of East-Court and Twydall, in the parish
a fit of drunkenness she had filched of Gillingham in this county,
some skains of yarn ; but, as people 'so Virtuous Love this monument is rais'd,
are wont to be bold and thoughtless in For Love and Virtue ever should bit
their cups, she forgot that the varn prais'd.
was stolen, and carried it away Ib pub The pious actions that adorn'd her life.
licly under her arm, that, to the great As Christian, Sister, Neighbour, Friend,
delight of the upper gallery, the timi- and Wife,
cali popelti, it mull of necessity be im Shall still survive, her merits to proclaim,
mediately detected. If marble can perpetuate her name.
Robert Paynter, efq. dyed the isthof
Ut aim pilevlofoleas conviva tribulis.~\ August,
As molt of the guilds of the Roman I7»l, aged *4.
citizens were tribui ruftica, and a great 2.
part of the members actually lived as Knight, Here lies interred the body of Thomas
boors in the country, so they longest departed this late of Westerham, efq. who
life the yc 23d day of Octo
adhered to the old simplicity of man ber 1708, in'y« 52d year of his age, being
ners. When, for example, one of Clarke of the Assize for the Norfolke Cir
thele plain good people was by chance cuit, and had held that place 18 years.
invited to dine with a principal mem He married, first, Katherine daughter of
ber of his guild, in town ; he went Mr. Crisp, late of Maidstone, and second,
bare-foot, and carried his sandals, to Jane daughter of Mr. Blome, late of Sea-
prevent them from being dirtied, under ven Oake ; but left noe ifl'uc. Here lies
his arm. Accordingly, when a Ro alfoe interr'd Jane wife of the said Tho-.
man countryman was seen trudging mas Knight, efq. who departed this life
along with his sandals under his arm, )• 15th day of June, anno Dom. 1708, in
every one knew that he was invited to the 45th year of her age ; she had noe is
dinner ; and herein lies the tertium sue.
comparatiunis. — Quidnam sibi saxa cavata,
Orutus mulla prcce, nilere pvrro.~\ Quid pulchra volunt monumenta,
According to the contexture and ftyle Nisi quod res creditur illis
of the whole passage, 1 thus under Non mortua fed data fomno ?
stand it, with Baxter : Let people in- Anglire:
treat thee never so much to tell them What meane thole stones y' hollowed are
what business thou art upon ; do not so deep, [keep
be seduced, but silently press forwards Or those fair monuments, but that they
through them. "I have now given A thing not dead, but laid dowrie for tp
thee sufficient orders : do thou mind sleep.
to do thy heft." Whether this be not 3.
the true import, let the reader, quina- M. S. Mariæ Street, quæ generosa pro-
fum habet, determine. That porro fapia in agro Hertfordiensi oriunda, hlia
sometimes signifies as much asforwards, liempc Joannis Garrardi, Equitis Aurat.
ct Baronett. nuper de Lammar demortui,
is well known. W. T. Henrico Street, gente antiqua in agro
' Monumental Inscriptions ijt Oxoniens. edito, Metaxario Lomlina:.
nupt. clocata, cum dote haiit conttm-
Westerham Church, Kent. nenda, iv annos, menf. v, cum illo
(Concludedfrom p. §08.) vixit eoncorditer, liberosq. ei peperit in,
Oo mural monuments in the North Janam, Hen'. Ed. ; quorum superst. unic'
aile : Edvard. Cl.m ab utbe Vesterhamiam
l. venit, ægræ visendæ causa quacu' arcta
To the memory of Mr?: Eleanora Payn llli erat neceffitudo et affinitas (cn fpe-
ter, youngest daughter oi Sir Thomas ciraeri vicissitudinis raurn nostra/um, Vi
ator!;
lio2 Epitaphs in the Church of Westerham, Kent. [Dec.
ator!) hæc (ita superis eft vifum) reva- 6.
luit, ilia febre, ^jroh. dolor! in ipfo ad- Near this place lies the body of John
»entu correpta, vises cum affine mutavit, Dauling, efq. counsellor, of the Inner
At morbograviter laboravit, et (humanis Temple, London ; well fkill'd in the
prcsidijs nequicquam adhib'uis) infra qua- English Laws, particularly in drawing of
tfiduum ab ineunte morbo obijt, raantoq. Special Pleadings and Conveyances, and
ejus acerbilfimura l'ui defiderium reliquit, well Icarn'd in all liberal sciences ; one of
matrons innocentia eximia, fanctitate the Justices of the Peace of the Quo
præcipua, forfna excellent, pietate in rum in Syrry to his late Majesty King
Deum, affectu in maritura, cultu in re7 Charles the Second, and also one of the
ftgionem, nulli postponenda, prid. Galend. Clerks of the Petty - Bag - office in the
Novemb. anno Chriftiano ciancu. cum High Court of Chancery. He was pious
vixiffet annos xx. mens. i. d. xvn.— towards his God, and kind to his friends ;
C P. M. epigraphen hauece sacrand. effe a most affectionate husband, an indulgent
votuit, idem qui e regime cippum erexit, father, and a strenuous afferter of his
conjux ejus amantifl'. H. S. Country's liberty. Who died, greatly
4. lamented, the 24th day of May, ann.
fn memory of Mr. Edward Missenden, Dom. 1698, aged 75 years. In the
of London, meichant, an affectionate fame place are interr'd his grandfather
husband, an indulgent father, a sincere and grandmother, his father and mother,
friend, ageod Christian ; died the 13th of and his two wives, with other near rela
April, 1727, aged 67 ; and is interred in a tions. Mary Brecknock, his eldest daugh
*ault in this North-east corner of the ter by the second wife, dedicated this
Church, with Susanna his wife, who was monument, anno Dom. 1723, to the
a person exemplary for every Christian pious memory of her dear father, who in
*irtue, and worthily respected by all tends herself to be interr'd here. The
_r acquaintance \ died April 6, 1706. abovefaid M_ry Brecknock died Feb. 15,
5. 1731-5, aged 71 years.
Ne:ir this place lies all that is corrupti On llabs in the North aile : . .
ble of Mrs. Mary Hardy, youngest daugh 1.
ter of Mr. John Balling, sen. of this pa In a vault near this stone lieth the
rish, and beloved wife of Mr. Thomas body
Itardy, citizen of London. Her whole of Mr.ofJonathan Mrs. Anna-Maria Chilwell, wife
Chilwell, who died April
the spent in acts of piety and charity, the 22d, 1784, aged 4.» years. Also Mr.
and in the exercise- of all other Christian Jonathan Chilwell, who died June the
nirtues ; the best of wives, the tenderest 20ih, 1791), aged 67 yeais. In the.
of mothers, and beloved by all her ac fame vault lies interred the remains of
quaintance. Heaven, whose sovereign the Rev. Philip Delagarde, who departed!
will must be obeyed, would not permit this life October 31st, 1703, aged 5) years.
her husband to enjoy so great a treasure T.F.
longer than three short ^ears; in which 1750.
time (he bore him two daughters, Mary, 3. '' '
and Anna-Maria. The farmer is now C. W.f died January y" 18th, 176S,
with her Mother among the Saints ; the aged 73.
latter survives to be the soft comfort of E.S.
her mourning Father. She died, in full ldt>8.
assurance of a blessed resurrection,' on the
id day of Septemb' 171ft, in the 33d 5. (remains.)
year of her age. In the fame place lieth . . . Here also lieth the body of Mrs.
the body of Mils Anna-Maria Hardy, ob' Mary Taylor, wife of the abovefaid John
23d July, 1740, at. 25. In the fame Taylor, and daughter of the abovefaid
place lies the body of Mr. Thomas Hardy, John and Mary Dalling, who died March
citizen of Lpndbn, who erected this mo the 19th, 1766, aged 59 years.
nument to the sacred memory of his most 6.
dearly beloved wife, Mrs. Mary Hardy. Here lieth interr'd the. body of Mr.
He departed this life on the 16th day of John Dalling, who died on the xm day
September, ann. Dom. 1747, in the*ad of July, mdccxxxix, aged 30 years.
year of his age *■ Also under this stone lieth interred the
• Below this monument is a brass plate, 30 inches by 21, containing an extract
from the Will of the abovefaid Thomas Hardy, citizen and haberdasher of London
(dated 21 Nov. 1744, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 16 Sspt.
1747, by John Davy of Spjttal-square, sole executor) wherein he bequeaths to the
Minister, Churchwardens, and fix of the principal Inhabitants of Wefiram, .3 00 /.
South Sea Ann. to keep his monument clean and in repair ; and the overplus of in
terest to be divided among the poor of the parish. '.
t Charles West. See the Table of Benefactions,
body
1807.] Epitaphs in the Church <5/"Westerham, Kent. 1103
body of Mr. John Dalling, sen. of this erected 1723, by his eldest daughter Mars
parish, geut. father of the abovemea- Brecknock, who herself intends to b;
tioned John Dalling ; who departed this interred here.
life the 12th day of October, 17 so, aged „
73. Here also lieth the Dody of Mrs. il' A.C.
1063. ,
Mary Dalling, wife of the above Mr.
John Dalling, senior, who died March 12.
the 27th, 1 759, aged 73. 'Here also F. C.
lieth ihe body of Mr, John Taylor, of chard Here lieth buried Francys son os Ri
Stamford, in the county of Lincoln, who Cooper, who died the . , ..
died June the 9th, 175 aged 64. MUCLVIll.
7 IS.
Here lyeth interred ye body of Samuell Heath,Hie jacet corpus Marias uxoris Johannis
Dalling, gent, who died the 15th day of die Aprilis, que mortemobijt vicelimo octavo
May in the 77th year of his age, in yc tis luæ 37. an'o Dom'i l694, an'oq; æia-
Ac etiam corpus Johannis
year of our Lord 163 .. . Also the body Heath picdicte
of Mrs. Ann Dalling his wife, who died tem obijt decimoMarie mariti, qui, mor
y 3lst of March, 1687, in the 73d year Do'ni 1700, an'oq;tertio die Augusti an'o
ætatis suæ 750. Ac
of her age, who had issue three sons and etiam corpus Guiielmi Heath de parro-
four daughters. Heie lycth also interr'd chii Leigh gen. unici filij predict. Jo
the body of Samuell, yc ion of John Dal
ling, gent, who departed this life ye 29th hannis Heath et Manæ uxoris ejus, qui
of March, 1706, aged 30 years. obijt septimo die Novembris, anno Domi
ni 1745J, ætatis luæ 53«.
8. 14.
Here lyeth interred the body of Mr. M.
John Dalling, late of this parish, who CAROL! THO. LAMBASD7, HIM.
dep uted this life the 29th of April, 1711, FILI0LI St.PTl.M ANAIIIJ
in y* 60th year of his age. He married ye MENS. IVN. CIS 13CLII
only daughter and heiress of Mr. John NATr IILNAT1 DENATI.
Elwin, late of the town of Milton in
Kent, by whom he had issue three sons 15. (Partly hid by pews.)
and tw daughters. Two of his sons, Sa .... esurgendi
muel and Thomas, died before him, and . ; . . hoc niarmorc
ly« nuried near this place. 1 lis mourn- .... SCEO
full relict and executrix, with John, Ann, . . . . æ Street
and Mary, surviving. .... cujus
• 9- .... manibus
Here lyeth the body of Mr. Andrew .... ejus mcestiffira*
Daulinge, citizen of London, son of Ri .... pariete
chard Daulinge, rector of Ringewold in .... regione
Kent ; was married to Ann Dalling, eldest . . . . sæ Cenotaphij
daughter of Mr. John Dalling, of Wester- .... entavit.
ham in Kent, gentleman. He had issue 16. _ ,
by her seven sons and two daughters, and Sacred to the memory of Charles Lewis.
left great with child. He departed this A. B. student of Christ Church Oxford,
life the 25tii day of June, 1714, in the son of the Rev. Marmadujce Lewis, rec*
4 1st year of his age. of Lullingstone, and Bridget his wife ;
10. ' a youth of a most amiable disposition and
Memoriae sacrum. Sub hoc marmore promising genius, and who, had it pleased
jacet Virtutis speculum, Pietatis exem the Supreme Being to have granted tma
plar, Amoris turtur, l'rudentiæ Sapien- length of days, would probably have been
tiæque thesauranu', Elizabetha una filiaru' an ornament to that society of which he
Richardi Wight nuper de Pickeringe had the honour to be a member. But
Grange, in parachia de Ihstocke, in comi- Death was permitted to blast the hopes
tatu Leicestrensi, generosi, defunct, nuper conceived of him, ere he had attained his
uxor Joannis Daulynge de hac parochiade twenty-first year, snatching by a fever
Westcrham in comitaiu Cantij generosi, this their dear and only offspring from the
qu<e Deo reddidit animam circa ætatis suæ arms of his affectionate and disconsolate
meridiem 29 die Aujuili, anno salutis parents, on 6th day of November 1782.
MPCLXI. Virtus post Junera vivit. Mr. Erasmus Lewis ob. April . . . 1782,
Hoc in memoriam charislimae suæ con- ae. 61.
jugis pofuit dilectissimus dokntiffimusque Rowland Lewis, rector of Perrivale,
maritus J. D. Midd", ob. March 19, 1785, æ. 56.
Here lies the body of John Daulinge, Mrs. Hannah Lewis, ob, June 13, 1786,
«l'q. to whom a monument adjoyning is se. 79.
J 7*
1 104 Epitaphs, &c. in the Church of Wcsterham, Kent. [Dec.
17.
Sub hoc tumulo, tribus designate, pri-
mum occupavit locum Susanna, uxor Ed-
vvardi Missenden, unigenita filia defuncti
patris Thomæ Manning de hospitio Lin-
colniensi, armig1', quinto post mortem
die pridic idus Aprilis anno Domini
woccvi. ætiltis xxxvii. — Edwardum
maritum et Thomam filiokim (quern uni-
cuin enixa est) reliquit fupcrstites.
De suis omnibus optima meiita,
Ab illis nunquam oblivif'cenda.
M. S. EdwJi Missenden, qui oV Ap'is
.die 13", A. D. 1727, æt. 6s. A, teneris
unquiculis haud obl'cura præbuit ingenij
acuminis indicia, quæ pullulantia Schola
Cantuasis irrigavit, dein maris iram rabi-
emque aspernatus, M'ercaturæ (nec inatlf-
picaio) incubuit, huic tamen hand peni-
tus operam dedit, stabile pacis anbelans
asylum. Egregie doctus, egregie pius,
»b maris strcpitm fe lubduxit, potiora au-
cupans, ,et Deo et (ibi vixit. Cætera qua-
lis suit, dicat desiderium ejus apud eos
quibus nvixime notus suit.
On a brals plate, now kept in the
Vestrv :
Stcliavt) potter, Irtte of naeftra',
esfliiict, rjunfD tjtre, Ijao uv \)\$ tit
toiutjS Æli?3tietli Sine, aiitj ?Uicc.
rijtlm-eii, tolntcof fee (effte aline at \y,$
otarlje t!je iiiftf) of C]9.igj, 1563, jjj
sonnet anfl etiaiisljtecs.
3i slept in custe, untill tlje morning.
<£ome, lorneMtis, come qutc'tlve-
At the Well end of the South aile
are the King's arms, painted in the
reign of Edward VI. as Shears by the
letters "It. E." and *' DVe S.tlvu' sac
llegem ;" and in the North aile is ano
ther bearing the date 1()G2.
The Font is handsome, being: an
octagon, on a shaft of alternate niches
and buttreilfs. Each fide has a quatre-
foil recess with a shield in it.
On the front of the Gallery at the
Well end of the Nave are four tables,
containing the following accoiuii of
Benefactions.
First Table.
Mr. Nicholas Manning, gent, gave the
Branch next the Gallery on Whitsunday
1723. Mr. Peter Kelk, citizen of Lon
don, gave the scarlet cloth for the Com
munion Table ye 10th July, 1730.
Second Table.
Mr. Charles West, anno 1765, left the
interest of one hundred pounds Old South
Sea Annuities to the poor of the parish
for ever.
Ralph Manning, esq. late of this pa
rish, A- D. 17 80, left the interest of one
tiur.dred pounds, Three pr Cent. Consoli
dated Annuities to the poor of tkis parish
fcr ever.
Third Table.
Erected a" 1712; Ranulph Manning,
jun. Bryan Burton, Churchwardens.
Edward Colttberst, of Gingmontney in
Essex, geut. gave the house and land
called Wimble, a« 1572.
Alice Plumley, of West™, widow, gave
20 shillings p' aim. for ever, to be equally
distributed to ten poor people on Christ
mas and Easter day, a" 1584.
John Bronger gave three shillings and
four pence p< ami. to the poor for ever,
au 1615.
Arthur Willard, of West1", gave the
messuage called Tri'oorns to the Poor for
ever a" 1615.
John Trott, citizen and haberdasher of
London, gave as) shillings p' ann. for ever
to the Vicar and Churchwardens, to buy
seven penny wheaten loaves every Friday
for so many Poor that come to Church
and hear divine service, a" 1(129.
Gartrude Style of West", widow, gave
20 pound to secure 20 shillings px ann.
for ever, to be equally distributed to 20
poor housholderson Good- Friday a" lfij5.
William Holmden, yeoman, of Weft"',
gave two crofts called Farlycs, to the Vi
car and Churchwardens, for the poor for
ever, a" 10J0.
Nicholas Crisp, esq. gave a silver Salver
a" 1602.
Sir John Crisp, bart. gave the marble
pavement at the Altar a" 1702.
Thomas Knight, esq. gave a silver cup
a" 1708.
The Right Hon. Edward Earle of Jer
sey, gave the cedar Altarpiece a' 1 700, and
beautified at yc charge of ye parish a' 17 1.2.
Mr. Thomas Hardy, citizen of Lon
don, gave two silver plates for the use of
this Church March yc 25th, 1720.
Nicholas Manning, gent, and his wife,
gave a silver fhgon, to be used in the
Church ofWesterham, a" 1720.
Fourth Table.
Mr Thomas Hardy, citizen of London,
May 28th, 1721, gave the branch next
the Chancel.
Mr. Richard Turner of this parish, by
will proved Feb. 3d, 1800, after be
queathing several Legacies, gives the resi
due of his property, amounting to seven
hundred pounds, Three per Cent. Consoli
dated Annuities of the Bank of England,
to Mr. Henry Green and Mr. Richard
Green, in trust to apply yearly ten pounds
of the annual dividend, in putting out to
school so many poor children of this pa
rish as the Trustees shall choose succes
sively for ever ; and the residue of the said
yearly dividends (deducting the Trustees
costs and charges) in putting out and bind
ing apprentices such poor children of the
said parish as they shall choose successively
for ever. W. Hamper.
Mr.
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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
house, 14 yards by 8, and 6 J feet
higb ; it Icrves the purposes ot* a dav-
room and llteping.-rooin, and overlooks
the Men Felons Court; it had sour
windows, but two ot" them are (lopped
.up. There is a fink in it, but no wa er
hoi what is brought from below bv t he
Keeper. Near it are iwo rooms set
apart for infirmaries. Thee are many
narrow passages ; and ihe uiinoli ai-
tenlion is requisite to keep the prison
healthy. I sound it clean al my several
.visits, considering!! was so crowded and
so dole. It is scraped and whitewashed
once a year. The Act for Preservation
os Health is hung up in the Chapel,
which is commodious, and has a gal
lery. The Clauses against Spirituous
L'qoors hana up al the entrance of
the Gaol. No employment whatever ;
luch, indeed, is the confined situation
of the Prison, as to preclude the possi
bility of work ! No Table os Gaoler's
Fees. Betides the service noted in iis
place, there are thirteen sermons n-\ ear,
for which ihe rector of the parish re
ceives 4 I. from a Legacv.
Mr. John' Hiydon left 100 1, to be
lent to two merchants, each paving
annually to the Corporation for the
Debtors, as the interest of his moietv,
1 I. 13s. 4d. Mr. FncrKun left 4*1.
Q s. lo be Lid out in bread and beef, and
dllribuled on Christmas-eve, to pri
soners of all descriptions. To this Le
gacy Mrs. Freeman annually makes an
addition of eleven (hillings.
The churchwardens have for many
years past annually paid ♦ 2 s. iwo
thirds of which arc given to the Debt
ors, and one third 10 the Felons. This
J apprehend to be the lesricy of. Mr.
Aldj'wnTfh, mentioned by Mr. Howard.
There is 110 memorial in the Gaol of
any legacy.
A person arrested by an action from
the Tolzey Court here, may at ihe
next Court confess the debt, and at
the first Court after (which is held
monthly) be charged in execution, and
become immediately entitled to his
sixpences or supersedes.
The Debtors attendance on Divine
Service is optional, and I was lorry to
observe only p out os 03 present; nor
were the Criminal Prisoners so attentive
as I should have expected from the
devout and serious manner in which
the dulv was performed bv the worthy
Chaplain. So little regard is paid to
ihe Chapel as a place of worship, that
I have frequently (eon the prisoners
City and County Gaol. I IO9
drinking, smoking, and chewing to
bacco in the galleries, the filthy effects
of w hich are visible on the floor. Ait
Act was passed several years ago to
build a new Gaol ; and it is much to
be regretted that it is not carried into
execution by this rich commercialCiiy ;
for teally the pre'enl Gaol ;s a disgrace
to it.
Bristol City Bridewell. Part os it is
in the Keeper's bottle, on one side of
the street, and part on the other side.
In tile Keeper's house the Mafler's-side
Criminals have a day -room on the
ground-floor 5 yards square and 10
feet high, and np-stairs two rooms, to
which the Keeper furnishes beds at 1 s.
per night. In these three rooms t tie
following notice is painted : " Who
ever (hall write against or daub the
walls in any manner will be punished
as the Magistrates shall think proper."
The CommcnMule, the Bridewell, over
the way, consists of two parts separated
bv a court 50 feet by 15, in which
there is. a pump and cistern for hard
and loft water. The riili part has on
lite right hand two cells for vagrants
on the gronnd'floor, each l6j sect by
Gh feet, an iron-grated window to the
Court, and a most offensive sewer in
one corner. The sleeping-room above
large and airv, but the straw on
the floor was short, dirty, and almost
worn to dust. On the seft. hand is a
room for Fines, 2a! feet hy 17, and 10
feet high, with an iron-grated window
lo the Conn, and a fewer not offensive.
Up-lhirs is a room the fame size. The
It-cond part has on the ground-floor
rijht band Iwo cells lfjj by 6f, and
() feet hi sih to the crown of the arch,
wi'li an aperture a foot square to admit
li/ht and air, and an iron grating over
each do >r. The sewers being near the
river are not very offensive ; but they
are so terribly infested by rats, that a
cat was kept in each to prevent their
gnawing the prisoners feet. Over these
cells is ihe Infinnarv-room, 22 feet by
I" ami 10 s et high, with a fire-place
' and glazed window. On the left hand
is the Woman Vagrant's dav-room, 18
feet by 16 and 10 feet high, with a
large iron-grated window to the Court;
and over it a sleeping-room the same
size, the straw on the floor had served
two sets of Prisoners ; and the floor
itself was in a more filthy slate
than I can decently describe. The
Court being quite out of smht of the
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
disclosure of the circumstance of their
having been in those places. An in
quiry of this fort was, we are happy
lo learn, made some years ago( respect
ing those who had left the Magdalen
.Hospital ; and the result was very fa
vourable, as appears by an account
given with the printed statement of
Admissions, Expences, &c. for 1806,
and other years.
" In the year 1791 great pains were taken
to trace out the situation of all those women
who left the house during four years, from
May 1786 to May 1700, and the result of
that inquiry, which was made with the
utmost accuracy, (hews that during that
period, about two thirds of the whole
number of women admitted, were joenna- '
nently reclaimed.
" Discharged in the said four years, of
every description, 246; then behaving
well, 157; behaving ill, 74; insane in
confinement, 4 ; dead, 1 ; situation un
known, 10.
"The women when discharged from
the house are for the most part under
twenty years of age ; and it is an in
variable rule not to dismiss any woman
(unless at her own desire, or for miscon
duct) without some means being pro
vided, by which she may obtain a liveli
hood in an honest manner." ; ■
In the same paper we perceive that,
in 1786, gratuities were given toseven*
teen young women, who had conti
nued one year in service with a good
character ; also gratuities to sixteen
young women who had been several
ytars in service, &c. : these last were
rewarded out of the bounty os a Friend
to this Institution. The number of
young women discharged with credit
that year 58 ; a larger number than for
Jjiany years past before.
A Constant Header.
P. S. Some months ago a letter ap
peared in four Magazine, purporting
10 have been written by one of the
young; women who had been admitted
into the Magdalen : was this letter as
certained to be a genuine one? The
well-known " History of a^lagdalen,"
written by Dr. Dodd, has the appear
ance, if we judge only from the title-
page, of a real story, and not a fiction ?
Mr. Urban, Nov. 4.
HE followina particulars of Hol-
" land-house, Kingsgate, will doubt
less be acceptable to your reader*.
Henry, the laie Lord Holland,
shortly after his marriage to Georgiana
Carolina, eldest daughter of Charles,
the then Duke of Richrnond, in 1744,
came, through the entreaties of his
brother, the harl of llchester, to Kings-
gate, for the benefit of his health ; and
immediately after his recovery, he built
that once famous mansion, but which,
has been for some years past in a stale,
of ruin. The house, with its extensive
gardens, which occupy upwards of 20
acres of land, was, a few weeks ago,
purchased by two professional gentle
men from London (a Mr. Clifford, an
eminent Architect, and Mr. SpottiC-
woode, a Gentleman of the Law), for
half the sum mentioned in the London
prints ; and since the purchase, they
have been offered four thousand pounds
for their bargain, as the vast quantity
of lead and copper will clear all the
purchase money. The wings are not
10 be pulled down, as reported ; they
and the grand saloon will be left
standing, as they are re-covering ihe
roof with copper.
It is the intention of the purchasers
to form the right wing into an Hotel
and Coffee-room, with a covered gal
lery leading to the grand saloon, which
will be converted into an Assembly
Room ; the former entrance to ilie
saloon being through a circuitous pas- (
sage, which will be stopped up. The
left building on the right wing is to
come down, together with several use
less offices. The right wing will be
converted into a Lodging-house, and
the great dining parlour into -ajjiublici
Library and Reading-Room..,, The ex
cellent Doric portico, which is sup
ported by twelve columns of Portland
stone, about twenty feet high, with .
rich entablature and Piedmont, re-i
sembling the columns of the Pantheon
in London, will come down, as well
as the centre house, whic-h, on exa
mination, was found greatly decayed
from the want of care; and a modern-
built house, with a grand entrance, will
be erected instead. Several other buildings
will be erected fronting the sea, which
will form a beautiful crescent. The gap-
den, which will be made a public one,
will be laid out with a fine lawn and gra
vel walks, and is at present so well lined
with trees, scarce shrubbery, &c. that
very little is to be done, occupies about
fix acres of ground, well walled in, and
in the centre between Ramfgale, Mar
gate, and Broad-stairs ; and there is no
doubt but it will be the evening retreat
of the fashionables at those places. At
the upper end of the gardens there is a
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.
meditated a new edition of ChauncevTs
Hertfordshire, though he does not fay Dawn, glorious day, when Christ shall say,
whether either of them is actually put
up* in the respective churches.
In memory of
Henry Etough, M. A.
almost twenty-three years rector
andfaithfull paftor-or this parish:
a firm integrity
placed him above fear ;
and a strict love of truth,
above all dissimulation.
His eager beneficence
was tempered only by his own
abilities, and the indigent wants of others.
He was the warmest friend in private life ;
bat bis only passion was
a disinte rested love of the publick.
With a robust constitution,
through a singular habit of body,
he lived many years
without the use of animal food,
or any fermented liquid.
He died suddenly, Aug. 1757,
in the 70th year of his age.
H. S. E.
Johannes Savage, S. T. P.
hujufce parochiæ per 39 annos
rector non indigniffimus :
qui
., domi male habitus
ad exteias regiones annis plus octo
sponte exulavit ;
unde
tota fere Europæ perillustrata
reversus,
Ædes rectorias in formam angustiorem
■ extruxit ;
aream,hortos,horrea,ampIiavit, decoravit;
Templum etiam hoc Deo sacrum,
si vires 111L suffecerint,
aliquando exornaturus.
Obiit 24» die Martii, anno salutis
MDCCXLVJI.
et hanc fibi epigraphem
vivus defignavic,
O9 the fame credit I add this third : ha was appointed Post-Master General by
" InthememoryofPtfi.TERFouESTER.esq.
Hence, flowery Fiction : on this modest
stone
In sacred Truth
Esteem'd throughlet life,
real Worth be shownis;
how honoured
thy end ! [Friend !" Beneath
Pease mourns a Guide, and Liberty a
All Saints, Hertford. In a North She was born on the 25th of Feb. 1674,
window of the Chancel :
Prope in Cccmeterio
' dormit
Daniel Hallows,
Divtna Providentia
hujus ecclesiæ per quadraginta annos
Re6tor indignus.
. Obiit 6t0 die Octobiis aono ætjtis 71,
[Dec.
anno Domini 1741.
' Awake, and be new dreft ;
Resume thy spirit, and for my merit
Be thou entirely blest,'
This inscription was by his own ap
pointment.
A pyramidal monument, adorned
with a bust placed on a pediment above
a sarcophagus. On the pyramid is this
inscription :
" Beneath this monument
are deposited the remains of
Edward Harrison, efq.
third Ion of Richard Harrison,
of Balls,
in the County of Hertford, efq.
to which feat, the estate of the family, '
he succeeded upon the death of his eldefl
brother.
He was born on the 3d of Dec. Jfi74»
and married Frances daaghter of
Reginald Bray, efq.
of a very antient and noble family
seated at Barrington in Glostershire,
by whom he had one son and three
daughters,
which all died in their infancy except
Ethelrcda,
married to Charles Lord Viscount
Townshend.
He spent his youth in the service of the
East India Company,
whereir he was raited to be Governor of
Fort St. George in the year 1711 ;
in the discharge of .which important trust
he preseived great reputation for ability j
the esteem of the Company he served ;
and the affection of the people he governed.
Upon his return to England
in. the year 1721,
he had the honour to be elected by the
Corporation of Hertford one of their
Representatives in Parliament ;
and in the year 1726
his Majesty
King George the First.
He died on the 28th of November, 1732,
' . aged 58 years.
the fame monument are also de
posited, by her own direction,,
the remains of his widow
Frances Harrison.
and died on the!2th of May, 1752, '
aged 7 8 years.
To the necessitous she was a constant
benefactress ;
to her dependants a benevolent friend j
to her family an affectionate parent ;
and to the world a perfect example
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.
his excellence. It cannot be said of
such a man, that he is spoken well of
from ill-grounded partiality ; hut the
mull minute features of his long and
useful life, the more they are scruii-
nized, will redound to his eternal ho-
nour. I am aware that his reputation
has been already flanned with well-
earned fame; but I am unwilling that
fee should sink into the silent grave
without receiving from me that hum-
ble acknowledgment of respect and ve-
iteration, which is due lo one of his
superior worth.
Mr. Walker, you have justly re-
marked, was esteemed by the moll ce-
lebrated characters of the age, as a man
of profound knowledge. The works
which issued fro™ his pen would alone
be sufficient proofs of that assertion,
aud sully convince us that he spared
no pains to make his learning exten-
ftvelv useful. His "Critical Pro-
uouiicing Dictionary" will long conti-
nue to adorn the library of the polite
scholar; and his "Key to the Critical
Pronunciation of Greek and Latin
Proper Names," with the accented
Vocabulary of Scripture Propersanies,
and Observations upon Greek and La-
tin Accent and Quantity, will enable
the most common capacity to read the
Scriptures and antient authors with
ease and propriety, I should, Tvow-
cver, perhaps first have noticed his
" Elements of Elocution ;'' a work,
which will ever raise him high in the
estimation of every truej^jver of cor-
rect, pronunciation and good delivery,
To this work he has kid down a plan
sor modulating the voice entirely novel,
whioh, upon the invitation of some of
the Heads of Houses at Oxford, he in-
troduced to the attention of the Stn-
dents of their respective Colleges,
through the medium of private lec-
tures ; hut it has since been of more
general use, from a circulation in its
present sbane. The labour it c;>st him
mull have been astonishing | and those
who knew his modesty, can give him
every credit, when he declares that
"those only who are thoroughly ac-
quainied with the subject, can conceive
the labour and perplexity in which
this talk engaged me."
These works prove that he was a
perfect mailer of the science of Elocu-
lion. He has, however, lest behind him
fiill others, which tend to advance his
reputation, aud (hew that he sailed not
[Dec*
to apply his talents in any way wherein
he conceived they might be useful ; and
much does he deserve the thanks of
his countrymen for these exertions,
His " Uhyming Dictionary" is a valu-
able assistant to ihe Orihographer and
the Poet; and both. Tutors and Stu-
dents are considerably indebted to him
for his " Rhetorical Grammar ;"■
'* Teachers Assistant in English Com-
position ;"«' Outlines of English Grani-
mar," and "Academic Speaker." It
would ifwell these lines perhaps to an
unjustifiable length, were I to stale the
peculiar excellencies of these publica-
tions ; and, indeed, it would be tin-
necessary, since they are sufficiently
known to stand in no need of any enco-
mining from me. It is, at the dime
time, a great consolation to reflect, that
his unremitting endeavours have not
been in vain ; for I think it may well
be affirmed that, as no one could have
bestowed greater diligence, aud indefati-
gable zeal to accomplish the estimable
objects he had in view, so no one has
been more successful in elucidating the
principles of Rhetoric and Elocution,
aud promoting the extent of their
knowledge among the community at
large. ;
Methinks, Mr. Urban, I now fee
the worthy man, rendered venerable
by his years, but still more so by his vit-
tnes and consummate skill in his pro-
fellion, standing in the midst of his
pupils (who are listening with silent
respect and attention) in the very act
of communicating his instruction ; and"
surely no object could be more grate-
ful 10 the sight, or pleasing to the feel-
ings. His noble ^eportrnent, found
understanding, dignified action, and jutt,
enunciation, united to render hinVthe
subject of esteem. But, above all,
the moral and pious tendency of his
tuition cannot be too much extolled
and admired. He never omitted anv
opportunity to improve the heart, at
the same time 'that he was initiating
his pupil in the science of Elocution,
For this purpose he was particularly
partial totheircomposingofihemesupon
moral and useful subjects, and reciting
or reading them before him—a prae-
tice which cannot fail lo produce elsen-
tial benefit to the rising generation,
especially when under the guidance
and correction of such an instructor,
It is an employment which, while it
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
periment, alluded to in , a former pa
per, the object of which experiment I
take 10 be neither more nor ldfs than
this j namely, to institute a census, or
enumeration of all the fools in the
kingdom, and, by throwing out a va
riety of lures, to divide them into dif
ferent classes according to their respec
tive weak sides. The experiment, in
deed, is not absolutely new : it has
been carried on by IJow degrees, and
perhaps ingenious, though imperfect
attempts, or, as the saying is, bv fits
and starts, at various intervals, ever since
the year 1720 ; such as the woman that
was with child of rabbits, the man,
who was to fing a song in a quart bot
tle, and ihe Cock-lane and the Vaux-
hall ghosts. But I own the original
liierit of our late at em pis lies in com
bining such a confederation os decep
tion as might have brought the ques
tion to the speediest issue possible, had
they not been interrupted by the Crown
Lawyers, who seem to have but little
relish, for such experiments. Still let
not those to whom this question is a
ma ter of serious inquiry, be dilcon'oi
Jate because the Attorney General chose
to nterpose his authority, when the
experiment was proceeding upon this
grand spale, and might have brought
pn a very speedy solution, it will air
ways be going on in some quarter or
/>ther, were there no other agents em
ployed than quack-doctors and lottery-
office keepers to fill our church - yards
and jails.
One principal encouragement which
such, agents have, is the calculation
they always make (and I am afraid
upon very accurate principles), that out
of an hundred men, not ten, or per
haps five, whatever other profit they
mav seek after, are at all desirous to
profit by experience, whiah-*riqgs
me to the more immediate subject of
this present Lucubration. «' Experi
ence, an old proverb says'" teaches
fools," which seems to imply that her's
is a very flourishing school ; but whe
ther she has altered her plan of educa
tion, or is deficient in what a|l educa
tion reqmre$, namely, a sdyable and
strict discipline ; whether she gives too
long vacations, or so many holidays,
♦hat her pupils forget lo-day what thev
were taught yesterday, whether anv or
all of' these be in fault, I know riot:
but certain it is that her school has
very much fallen off in point of refu
tation, and that many of the scholars,
rOR, N° LXXVII. [Dec.
who have paid the highest prices for
their education, appear to have been
just so much money out of pocket,
without any advantage or improve
ment.
Mv attention was drawn to this sub
ject from reading in the p,ipers a few
days a^o that three or four persons had
lo(t their lives by venturing to lkait on
the ice in the Park, when' it was unlit
to bear their weight. Now to one who
knows a little of what Experience can
tell, it would appear at first sight, that
no such accident as this had ever hap
pened before; that the Parks were never
left open before on Sundays for such''
experiments ; or, perhaps, that these
incautious fkaiters were so young as
neither to know their own weight, nor
the strength of the ice. But, upon
inquiry, I found that thev were persons
somewhat advanced in years, that they
had heard before of similar accidents,
aud that if the question had been put
to them, they would have unanimously
pronounced that a man is in danger of
breaking the ice which is unable to bear
his weight. Yet so soon are the lessons
of Experience forgot, that they had no
scruple in appearing novices, where
they might have made a much belter
figure as expert scholars.
Some teachers, aware of the vast exr
pence which attends lessons in the
school of Experience, recommend that,
instead of going to that school our
selves, we Ihould borrow from ihirfe
who have been educated there. And
this advice is certainly wholesome, as
well as atitient. An old Poet sweetly
sings :
" Learn to be wife from others' harm,
And you (hall do full well."
But others are of opinion that this
cheap experience never answers the
purpose ; that it is in this as in mat
ters of luxury, we never set a value
upitn what does not coft dear, and in
many instances we have indeed no other
criterion of what is excellent or fa
shionable, but a high price. AU this
1 allow to be true in a certain degree ;
ami there are, no doubt, many persons
who have profited by a dear-bought
Experience, that would not have prized
it much had they either borrowed it, or
got it for a trifle. But, on the other
hand, Experience, like every thing
else, may be bought too dear, or the
purchaser mav not have very long time
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.?
1 . ^ turns.
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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." ...
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commonalty than hosts of armed men, ot
volumes of penal statutes. Secure the
consciences and you secure the man ;
make the people good Christians, and you
make them faithful and dutiful su.bjer.ts
of course."
If we had not already trespill'ed
too much, we (liould gladly exhibit
the manly and masterly realoning on
" the Reapers, who, though unhired,
are willing enough to nut their lick le
into a rotting and neglected harvest j"
who, in the character of Laymen,
niiglil much better shew their compas
sion, by " prtva'e exhortation and tn-
slructinn, the distribution of good
books, the institution of weekly or
Sunday schools;—these ate in the
power of molt men, and are forbidden
to none." But these men fay, " We
have a Call ;"—" that is, a violent in
clination to assume that office, which
' no man t.ikcili upon himself except
he be called as was Aaron,' whole vo
cation, 1 presume, was better proted
than by secret and inexplicable .impres
sions."
"The enthusiastic mode of reason
ing on GifIs and Calls," leads the Au
thor to make a few observations, in a
note, which we recommend to the se
rious perusal of every one who arrogates
to himself the title of an Evangelical
Preacher. The whole Disentitle, in
deed, is Inch as no man can ealilv read
without being both wiser and better
for the pertiliil. The ability and the
candour with which every species of
Schism is combated, both in the Ser
mon and the Notes, will not easily be
paralleled. The opposite doctrines, par
ticularly, of Arroiniauism and Cal
vinism are so happily pourtrayed, and
the mild equipoise of our Established
Church so well tleyyonsirated , that, to
those who are wavniva, in their Jiiilh,
this Discourse mull be an inestimable
treasure; and, if the learned Author
had written nothing else, is sufficient
to secure his fame.
One quotation more, and we con
clude :
"Let it be the great concern of all who
love their country to cut off every plea
for separation, by rendering it possible,
which it is not at present, for every one
of their countiynien to be a member of
the Church of England; for, until that
is done, a rigid exaction of conformity
would' be no lei's absurd and cruel than to
leave a poor man without a house to shel
ter him, and then to inflict upon him the
Cent. Mau, Vutmltr, lite".
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penalties of vagrancy. This, hawever, U
become no such easy talk as heretofore ;
for, beside the first and grejit motive for
multiplying religious foundations,, which
is a love of the fouls of men, or the se
cond, which is a fense of the necessity of
religion to civil society, the manners and
opinion-' of antient times assorded many
subordinate stimuli, which are either now
no more, or have taken another direction.
Such were Superstition, Vanity, Taste,
and, lastly, a passive but powerful princi
ple, even Indolence itself; The first of
these has been superseded by Enthusiasm,
which generally takes a course of its own,
and is too irregular and capricious to be
confined within the pale of an Establish
ment. The last, uniting itself with the
general indifference of the times to all
religious duties, operates, not as of old,
in the extremities of great' parishes, to
the bringing home the public offices of
Religion to our own doors, but to the
omistifm of all religious duties, because
they are too far to seek. The twin listers,
Taste and Vanity, indeed, have h 11 the in
fluence which they ever possessed ; but,
fastening on nearer and more interesting
objects, such as houses, plea'\irc-grounds,
furnirure, and equipages, they exhaust all
the resources of bounty, even in the most
opulent, and leave no place nor inclina
tion for sacred embellishments. In this
age of unexampled opulence, every mart
of fortune chuses to be poor ; *in times of
comparative poverty, almost every person
of property knew how to be rich : but
(Economy is the parent of Munificence,
and Profusion of Selfishness. In thole
days too almost every village in this coun
try had its resident Lord, who thought
the family chantry as necessary an ap
pendage to his domain as the park or the
hall—Ue regarded it as a decoration and a
distinction ; but he probably did more—>
He loVed his vassals, 'and built them a
Synagogue.' But, in the course of the
two last centuries, three fourths of the
old families are become extinct; the dis
tribution of property is grown, every way
more unequal ; ■ some manors are grouped
together into great aggregate properties,
while others are split into inconsiderable
freeholds. In the first cafe, the non-resi
dence ot the Lord begets a general indif
ference to the welfare of his dependents ;
in the second, a perpetual opposition of
wills and interests contributes to defeat
every plan for the spiritual benefit of the
inhabitants'. To the truth of these re
marks there are, undoubtedly, some ex
ceptions ; and the occasion on which we
are assembled assords a very honourable
one, nor only with respect to the noble
representative of a molt antleut family
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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
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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
 lioj,] Review of Ne'<
talking upon points he did not under
stand, and his habitual pomposity*. There
is an original portrait of him in the Bod
leian Library ; and another, half-length,
sitting, by Dahl, in the possession of tfce
Society of Antiquaries."
Vol. HI. p. 359. "Abraham Sharp's an
cestors resided at Little Horton, in York
shire, and he was son of Mr. John Shaip,
of that place, by1 Mary Clarkson : his elder
brother, Thomas Sharp, M. A. died an
incumbent at Leeds, in 1693 ; and they
were related to Dr. Sharp, Archbishop of
York. Few men have attained so great an
age, for he lived to be 91, and died in
August 1742; but was superannuated
three or four years before his death. Mr.
Sharp was in high estimation, as a ma
thematician, with flamfteed, and even
with Newton: like the latter, he lived a
bachelor ; and he was very amiable in
private life, as well as pious, charitable,
and humane. Mr. Thoretby, who often
mentions him, had a declining dial for
his library-window, mads by Sharp; and
in his collection of books was Mr. Hunt's
*' Clavis Stereometric," with certain pro
blems performed by this gentleman : his
brother, the Clergyman, had much of his
taste. Mr. Thoreiby posleffed a large and
curious telescope, the tube of which was
turned, and the glasses ground, by him,
Abraham Sharp's Mathematical Tables
were published; and one of his Editors
called him ' the incomparable Mr. Sharp ;'
adding, that * his Tables are sufficient to
represent the circumference of the globe
of the earth so truly as not to err the
breadth of a grain of sand in the whole !'
He was a man of very peculiar habits.
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
food and liquor. When the Mathemati
cian felt hunger or thirst, he opened his
Jide, aud took what he wanted ; but after
breakfasting, his dinner and the supper
often remained untouched. He had sour
or five rooms in his house, which he kept
for different purposes, and into these no
* " In Wanley's Harleian Journal, pre
served in the library of the Marquis of
Lansdown, there are some curious entries,
illustrative of his dignity. The Journal
begins in March, 1714-15, and is regu
larly continued till within a fortnight of
his death. In Nichols's " Life of Bow-
yer" there are some extracts from it,
which (hew us the mock heroick of this
recondite Librarian, Pope delighted to
mimic his and some others' oddities,
which he did very exactly ; the company
were convulsed with laughter, but the
pact had riot a zauscle displaced."
> Publications, 1143
servant dared enter. He admitted no vi
sitors but a mathematical gentleman from
Bradford, and an ingenious physician;
and was frequently denied to them: they
gave the sign of approach by rubbing a
stone against a certain part of the house;
where they could be heard by him ; and
if he wished it, he permitted their en
trance. Though of an Archicpiscopal fa
mily, he was a Dissenter. On Sundays he
went to a meeting-house at Bradford,
where he distributed his half-pence : hav
ing plenty of these, he suffered them
singly to be taken out of his hand, which
he held behind him, so that he neither
saw nor asked the persons receiving any
questions. In person he was of the mid
dle stature, very thin; and seemed always
ot a weakly constitution."
In all thtle we think we discern the
pen of Granger ; if not, Mr. Noble
must blame himself. We wish to <l«
justice to him , and it is no more than
justice to acknowledge that the present
volumes are a very considerable addi
tion to our biographical collections,
liven the record of so many prints af
fords useful dula to the biographical
enquirer ; and, although we have no
verv high respect for the tribe of Por
trait-dealers, we shall not be sorry if,
by the present publication, and that of
Granger, they succeed in putting a lit
tle sense into their customers' heads.
When the collecting of portraits ex
tends beyond that of men distinguished
for genius, bravery, or virtue, it be
comes the pride of a coxcomb, who, in
his turn, becomes the Drey ofatfej/er/
of England and Wales ; or, TraxeHer's
Com.pnnioii ; arranged voider Me various
Dejiriptions of Local Situation, Publit
Buildings, Civil Governnie/U, Number
of Inhabitants, Charitable Institutions,
Antiquities and Curiosities, ManufaOum
arid Commerce, Navigation and Canals,
Mineral Spring-, Singular Customs, Li-
terary Characters, Amusements, Paristtes^
Chureht^, Market flays and Fairs,
Bankers, Fojis, ims, Coaches and Wag
gons, 'Distances f'om London and fa^
founding Towns, Gentlemen's Seats, and
tehttever is worthy of attention to the
Gentleman ar Man of Busness through
out the JSnudom. With .a frefa.ee aud
IntrodufHnn, ty the dtec. J. Malham,
Author of the MavtU Gazetteer, end
Editor of Lnwtdes's history of Eng
land, Turner's Book-keeping, and many
of Jltt useful School-Books of Mr. D.
Kenning.
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
against the express tenor of treat.es con feel, he has, perhaps, preserved too long.
cluded in his own reign. The Emperor Given atSt.Petcrsb urgh ,20th (J 1 ft; October.

ABSTRACT OF FORE IGN OCCURRENCES,

". FRANCE.
There is a long article in the Moniteur
(the Gazette of I'rancej of the ISthult.
in which it is stated, that " England has
within two years sent out four Expedi
tions ; the first wasagainst Constantinople,
which was attended with considerable
&ss, and the confiscation of all English
property ; the second was against Egypt,
and proved still more disgraceful and dis
astrous; by the defeat at Rofetta ; the
third was against Buenos Ayres, in which,
(hey Lost live thousand men ; the fourth
was against Copenhagen, the molt atro
cious Expedition of which history can pre
serve the. remembrance, and which has
covered the English Government with in
delible shame.. Why did the English eva
cuate Zealand and Copenhagen, after the
Prince Royal had refused to receive their
Knvoy, and to ratify the Capitulation ? Be
cause they were sensible of their feebleness
by land, and feared the approach of that
fcafon when, the inarch of the Danish
teoops should be facilitated by the ice."
The article then proceeds thus :
" After these four Expeditions, which
Ib manifestly shew, the moral and military
decline of England, lei us speak of the
situation into which it has brought Portu
gal. The Prince Regent of Portugnl loses
bis throne : he loses it influenced by the
intrigues of England : he loses it because
he would not leize the English merchan
dise which was at Lilbon. What then does
Borland, thai powerful Ally ? She .fees
with indifference what passes in Portugal.
What will the do when Portugal shall be
taken? vVtlrihe.'go arid seize upon Brazil?
Wu/ if the English make that attempt,
the Catholieks will drive them out. The
fall of the House of Braganza will remain
a new proof, that the destrudlion of whom
soever attaches himself to the English is
inevitable."
The above article concludes with a viru
lent attack upon the English Ministers,
who are accused of being actuated by the
same spirit as the atrocious adherents of
Marat, and to wish for perpetual war.—
It asserts that " the correspondence of
England with every part of the Continent
is intercepted, and that there are more
than 100,000 English letters, and bills, of
exchange to the amount of several millions
sterling, collected and detained in conse
quence of the blockade."
The Moniteur of the 27th ult. announ
ced the arrival of Buonaparte at Milan on
the 21ft. It also contained a long account
of a grandfitt given on the 25th, at Paris,
to celebrate the return of the Imperial
Guards to that city, from Germany. The
details, however, could not be interest
ing to an English reader. Before Q o'clock
in the morning all the streets through
which the Procession was to pass were
swept, and cleared of all obstructions ; and
no carriages, except thole of the Munici
pal Body, were suffered to circulate with
in the line of proceilion, which advanced
through the following places :—Champs
Elyfees, Place de la Concotde, Place du
Lycee Buonaparte, Place du Marche des-
Jacobins, Place des Victoires, Marche
des Innocens, Place de la Fidelite, it Sairit-
Latirent, Rotonde du Temple, Place de.
l'Hotel-de-Ville, Place des Vol'ges, Place
de la Bastille, Place du Coips-Cegfslatif,
Place de 1'OtteoB, and Plaoe dc I'Eftrapade.
 l8o7.] Abfiran os fot •elgn Otctirrenceu it6t
—By some Grange chance, or by design) pleasure : it is with the greatest satisfactions
General Hulin, the wretch who presided that I see the important posts of Deputies
at the mock trial of the Duke DTEnghien, to the Legislative Body silted by men Ilka
was stationed at the barrier through which ym\, whom 1 know, whom i esteem, and
that last hope of the illustrious House of who unitsmy apprdbatiofl with the choice
Condi was eonducted by torch-light to of their fellow-citizens. 1 shall alwaj*-
his execution.—On the night of the fol account it a satisfaction to shake you par
lowing day, the 26th, all the Theatres ticipators in the little good Which can be ac*
were opened, gratis, to the publick. compiyked, or rather in shunning the
According to accounts from most of evils which may be avoided ; sor In diffi*
the Ports of the Mediterranean, the Al- Cult circumstances, the latter mode of
gerines have commenced hostilities upon expression is more becoming than the
the French and their Allies, and also upon former i I (hall also, with pleasure, in all
the Americans. Such a precipitate war extraordinary cases, place my reliance ort
(fays a French paper), so lightly begun your decisions.
against Nations whom England has long " My Minifies for Domestic Affairs
feared and envied, must have naturally shall appear among you oh Thursday
excited the suspicion that British influence next. He will give you an account of
was not foreign to the determination of the situation of affairs—of what has been
the Algerine Government 1 and we are already done in accomplishment of the
now assured that this suspicion is well measures adopted in the former year, and
grounded. of those which must yet be«jaad recourse
HOLLAND. to. You will see, that notwithstanding
Utrecht, Nov. 94. His Majesty having the Peace upon the Continent, our situ
left his Palace, formerly called the Groot ation is yet extremely difficult; but Jiill
Poushuizen, and taken up his residence We may finally hupe, that by a general
provisionally in that called the Huis Van Beacc we may reach the end ofout Miseries.
Amerougen, near the Witte-Vrouwe Gate, " I rely upon, and shall always with
the Legislative Body waited on htm yes Confident expectation rely upon, the senti
terday at noon, and had a solemn audienqe ments which you haave testified for me."
in the new Palace. Utrecht, Dec. 3. When the Minister
Being conducted into the presence of for Domestic Affairs communicated to the
the King, the President of the Legislative Legislative Body the Message of the King,
Body addressed hjs Majesty in the fol he made a speech to that Assembly, ai
lowing terras : which he stated, that the King had autho
" Sire, The Legislative Body, sum rised him to enter Into an explanation of
moned to your Majesty's presence, hastens some points relative to the internal situation,
to fulfil the first, and at the fame time of the Kingdom. He then made a high
the most pleasing of its duties, in pre eulogium on the last campaign of Napo
senting to your Majesty their respectful leon, to which, he observes, there is no
homage, and also the assurances of their thing equal in the annals of mankind for
attachment, and of the zeal with which military skill, rapidity of execution, and
its Members hope to co-operate in the be; complete success by an illustrious peaO,
neficent plans of your Majesty for the the Peace of Tilsit, which has for ever
happiness and prosperity of your people— changed the state of the Continent, and
sentiments, Sire, which, were it possible, given it a new aspect. He congratulates
Would be still increased by the flattering the Dutch nation on their having remained
expressions which your Minister has com in perfect tranquillity, while their neigh
municated to us in your name. May bours were suffering' all the calamities of
Providence prosper all the designs of your war : and after pointing Out a variety of
Majesty ; may it bless your cares and ef objects relative to internal improvements^
forts, and also the person and house of fie proceeds to notice the state of com*
your Majesty ; may it give us peace, Jo merce, in the following terms:—"The
neceffary for the well-beuig and tranquillity War, Cisntlemcn, it would be in vain to
of mankind, and of this country in parti dissemble, has produced a long and melan
cular ! Then shall we, under the glorious choly stagnation of our foreign trade,
sway of yotfr Majesty, see those bright which has always with justice been con
days return, which a thick Cloud has sidered as the source of all the prosperity
overcast for so many years. of Holland. We have, however, no rea
" These, Sire, are the fervent and son, to sear that this interruption of our
honest wishes of this Assembly, and of Commercial relations wjll deaden the spirit
hirh who has the honour to address you." and enterprize of a people who are par»
To this Address his Majesty made the ficularly formed for trade. All that is ne
following rejjly i cessary to guard against in this respect
,, •'"Gentlemen, 1 meet you again wijh. will, without asabt, be observe*} by them.
OiNT. Mit>. Duernier, U»7, ■■■■■■ In<sy.
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u6z • jbfiraft .of Fore.%n Occurrences, .., ;,. ; [Dec.
They will adopt the best course that cir A, very genera^ opinion seems to-prevail
cumstances .can permit; and we may in Holland, that the present Sovereign,
flatttr ourselves to Ice Commerce rife again Louis, is to be translated "^o ' another
jfram her a(he»> our merchantmen covering JCingdomj and his place supplied by
every, sea, our markets filled with all Murat, gr by some one whose feelings for
kinds of merchandize, as soon as peace "the misery of his subjects-will not induce
lhall have brought about that fortunate him to endeavour to soften' the rigour of
result wb.'ch the penetration, as well as Buonaparte's decrees.- Although the mo
the power and inclination of the Hero of narchical form of government was received
this age^ guarantee to our, country.—The by the people of Holland with the utmost
rigid- laws (for their existence must also be reluctance, more especially when they
acknowledged) respecting the communi found that they were to have a Foreigner
cation with England, and the prohibition sent to rule over them, yet such has been
of the importation of aJUgoods from that the mild conciliating conduct -of Louis
kingdom, completely destroy our trade. Buonaparte, thai he has become really
;,But who. does not perceive that these re popular. He endeavoured as far as he
gulations are necessary—not merely for could, fettered and controuled as he
preventing all deceptionsas to the introduc- has been, to promote the happiness anJ
;tionofprohibited merchandize—not merely interest of his subjects ; but bylb doing
U> secure the faithful execution of measures he has, in some degree, counteracted his
of general advantage—but alfo to compel Brother's schemes to injure the commerce
the' enemy to accept a peace founded on of this country ; and the consequence
a suitable and solid basis ?" prrAabljrwill be his removal to another,
The. Minister next took notige of the (perhaps a better) kingdom.
state of the Manufactures, which are con Private accounts from the Hague, of
fessed? to have suffered; but he observed, the 12th inst, state the arrival of M. Tal
that tlie inventions in machinery of other leyrand at that place ; and that King
Nations had been introduced, and in some Loui's was about to set out for Paris.
instances improved, which ha thought Talleyrand will probably act as Viceroy,
afforded reason to hope, that after peace until Louis shall be otherwise provided for .
the Dutch manufactures would emulate ITALY. " '
those of other Nations.—" The Mari Buonaparte has reached Milan —The"
time War (he addsj still continues, and Paris Papers merely fay, that " the Mi-'
England has hitherto refuse* to listen to nisters pf War and of the Interior are not
proposals for peace.—With regard tp a ge yet set out for Italy." They therefore seem
neral peace, which is as necessary for to think, as we do, that their Master
mankind, as it must be the object of their cannot well' undertake so long a journey,'
ardent wilh, great efforts must still be without havirjg military projects, or plans'
made to obtain it. True to our duties, of territorial arrangement. '"
and convinced of the commanding pressure According to the last accounts from Na
of our present situation, we must submit ples, the commerce of that city is unu-"
to; new sacrifjoes, in the hope and confi sually brisk, particularly in what relates
dence that our commerce and navigation to provisions, with which no country in
slraJj at .last be delivered from that yoke Europe is at present so well provided:
which has so, longi/jppressed them ; and Many (hips have arrived from Ragusa for
thauthe treedQiTljOf the seas, for which the purpose of procuring them from the
our forefathers (tied so much blood, shall overflowing, magazines, which contain
be again; reflered."—He. concludes with three years products. The province of
. an allusion to the deficiency in theFi'nances, Lucca alone has oil, com, cotton. Sec. to
and.'hicritiQns^the plan of a Sinking Fund, the amount of eight millions of ducats.
for paying off the National Debt.; ..,*. spain:
We have also seen an Address from the Madrid, Nov. 5.—This day trie King
Legislative Body to King Louis, in reply addressed the following Decree to the Go
to this Message ; by which, it appears, that vernor ad interim of the Council of Castile :—
the Message was accompanied j by, the i "The voice Of Nature unnerves the arm
copy of a Treaty between France and of Vengeance: ; ant} when the offender's
Holland, lately concluded at Paris. This want of consideration pleads for pity, a
Treaty contains a clause, which stipulates Father cannot refuse listening to his voice.
the cession of the Port of Flushing to My. Son has already declared the authors
France; and, in. return, the annexation, of that horrible plan which had been sug
df'F.ait Friedand and the, territory of.tver gested oy the evil-minded •. He has4aid
to Holland* The Dutch Legislator* vert- open eyeiy thing in a legal form, and aU
tore to express their regret at this transfer is exactly consistent with those propfs that
. Xo Fiance of a town celebrated in the an are required by the htfir in I'u'e'h' cafes.
nals of then counts;* ; but they acknow His confusion and repentance have dictated
ledge that the loss is alleviated by the
acquisitions which Holland is to obtain. * See the Declaration' in p. lofjs.
the
 Abjlrati of Foreign Occurrences. 1 163
. » the remonstrances whjch he has addressed ■josed person^ has appointed him Gene
ta me, and of which"the following are (he ralissimo -of the- army marching" against
> chief : ... < , jt; „ . . > .Portugal, This, event has "occasionep
* ' Sire and Fathers—I am guilty of .'great joy through all ; SpaHa; and particu
failing! in my duty to, your Majesty ; J larly, among the- populace in Madrid, wbf
have soiled in obedience .to my Father and _ha>e celebrated it with great rejoicings.
my JCing. I .ought-"s)o do nothing wrfhout . A Letter from Santander positively states,
your Majesty's cojiseiit ; but .1 liave'been that Buonaparte has avowedly taken she
surprised. . I have denounced the guilty, Prjnce of Aftnrias under his imttvediale
•and beg your Majesty to/sufferyour repen protection; and that the; authority arid
tant son to kiss your feet. , .influence of the Prince Of the Peace wfs% ■
* St. Laurent, Nov. 5. Feubinand. rapidlyf- on' the wane.
, .'.PORTUGAL. ,••'..'i'
*h 1
* Madam - and 1 Mother,—I sincerely
repent of the great fault which I have A,, variety of letters from Oporto of th*
"committed against the King and Queer), 10th ult, have stated, that the Felice: wire
'my? Father and Mother! With the enjaged in the seizure and confiscation of
■greatest submission I beg your pardon, as all the British property found'-' there.
Well as for my obstinacy in denying the Every house, which had previi usly been
truth the other night. For this cause, ,1 in the occupation of an English resident,
heartily intreat your Majesty to. deign to was, seized in the name of theiPrinto;
interpose your mediation between my and all the articles of furniture, &c,' iprere
Father and me, that he may condescend immediately exposed to sale for the benefit
to suffer his repentant son to kiss his feet. of the State.ttA Gentleman who- left
St. keairent, Nov. s. Ferdinand." Oporto on the morning of the 12th, 'man
" In consequence of these letters, and American vessel, the Jane, adds, that in
the intreaty of the Queen, my well-be consequence of the emigration- of the En
loved spouse, 1 forgive my son ; and he glish, upwards of 10,000 persons had
shall recover my favour as soon as his coo- been deprived of bread. Boatmen, barge
duct shall give proofs of a real amendment men, porters, and all descriptions of ser
in his proceedings. I ordain also, that vants on th$ water-fide, were reduced to
the fame Jtidges who have heard this cause beggary; and nothing was to be seen jn
from the commencement, shall continue the streets, but wives and families praying
the process ; and I allow them to conjoin . for bread. The vineyards, which for
others, as colleagues, if they shall find many years have been supported and en
occasion. 1 enjoin them, as soon as it couraged by British capital, it was feared
shall be finished, to submit to me their would fall into decay.
•judgment, which shall be conformable to .Letters frpm Lisbon state, that on the
law, according to the. magnitude of of night of the nth lilt, a Council was held
fences, and the quality of offenders. there, at which it was resolved to rescind
They ought to take for a basis, in reducing all the Edicts and Proclamations which
the heads of the accusation, the answers had been issued against England.. It was
• given by the Prince to the interrogatories understood that- those proceedings, which
which he has undergone ; they are copied had no ethos aim than to mitigate the an-
and signed by his own hand, as well as get of Buonaparte, had failed to produce
the papers also in his writing, which were the desired effect.
seized in .hisliufeaus. The decision shall Thejkte i\f' the House of Braganza is at
be communicated to my councils and to roy length decided) itii tt>e emphatical assertion
tribunals,- and be circulated among ray of the Subjugator of the Continent," that
subjects, in order that they may acknow the 'Queen of Portugal- had ceased to
ledge my^conrpassion . and myjustice, and reign," has been verified. Trii Portv
may alleviate , the affliction intq which Overt Government has removed it
" they were thrown by.my first decree ; for self to the Brazils. The history of this
' in'that they saw the danger of their Sove great event will be sound detailed in the
reign and their Father, who loves them ar London Gazettes. See pp. 1156—1158.
: hi«-oWn children, and by whom he is be- The day before the Court left Lisbon,
. soved. . (Signed), . the Prince Regent published a Manifesto,
- "•• • " D. Bartholome Mtmoz." the- substance ef which is as follows ; -
..- ■• ..Bm/onne, Nov. 14. We have received, > "Thaj he had, by every* possible means,
through Spain, intelligence that the Prince apd by considerable sacrifices, endeavoured
' of Afturias was restored to liberty on the to conciliate the. Government of France;—-
'•'•5jtli....,Private letters, in whichthia is far that his only object was to rule, as he al
ther confumedj add, that the King .of ways had dope, with advantage to hit
Spain, wishing on this occasion- to pardon, People, and with honour to the Crown ;«-•
in distinguished manner, the errors. * that, having found the impossibility of
' which nis/. ton had committed, in conse- . conducting the public affairs in a sajisfac-
- quenceof the instigation of some evil-dit- tory manner, or in any degree •prnpatible
I- *'"■• '* '••»• ' •""'-' •'• - '. '. "J*
»» . >•■!•••' • . •. , . - . .. „. . <
 Abjirafl of Foreign Occurrences. [Dec.
,with the happiness ofthe People, and the relinquished this intercourse would be
personal safety of the Royal Family, in sent to Paris. This menace produced the
consequence of the determination of the •greatest alarm ; and all mercantile people
French Government, he had been reduced ■England
are desirous
will that
desisttheir
fromcorrespondents in
writing to them'.
so the necessity of leaving the seat of Go
vernment, and of placing the Queen and The satue caution should be observed with
Farnily under the protection of their near respect to Gottenburg; letters by that
Ally, the Ring of Great Britain ;—that channel being equally opened in Denmark,
they were on the point of proceeding to and the persons addressed in like manner
Madeira, for the purpose of ftill leaving subject to exposure. •. • . ..
open the means of negotiation j but that, A merchant of Hamburgh, who has .ex
should asl access ta these means be shut tensive dealings with America, was lately
up, he had irrevocably resolved to transfer obliged to surrender the keys of his ware
the Royal Family, andthe Seat of Govern house to French authority. For some
ment, to the Brazils." time he refused compliance, but at last he
It \s said that the Queen of Portugal, wag directed by one of the Senators to
whose mental ailments are well known, make the surrender.—This took place in
experienced a very great improvement in the presence of Mr. Forbes, the American
her state of health, after having been a Consul, who was requested to attend as a
few days at sea. witness of the transaction.
GERMANY. A surrvof 20,060 rix dollars, which had
The papers published in the North of been collected to erect a monument to
Germany assure us, that thirty-three of Luther, at Mansfield, has been seized
the richest families in Hanover, forming on to pay the war-eontributions ; and the
together about 300 individuals, have come monumental speculation has been put off
to a general resolution to sell their remain- till the year 1808, the great jubilee of the
big property, and emigrate. They pro reform !
pose going to, one of the Canary Islands, Letters from Nuremberg of the 2lstult.
there to exercise their industry. Their state, that some rigorous orders relative to
preparations are already made, and a fa contributions had just been published at
vourable reception is said to be promised Dantzig, by the Governor, General Rapp.
them. This little Colony has agreed to He commands that there be levied on all
dispense, for the present, with Clergy rich individuals, as well as on all manu
men ; and that the basis of education for facturers who have made money in conse
their progeny shall be natural history, and quence of the presence of the troops, a
a ligid morality. A pupil of M. Pastaloz- /breed loan of 3,300,000 francs, at an in
zi, and several mathematicians, are to be terest of 5 per cent. ; and 1-1,300,000
of the party. francs for the chest of the Army Paymaster.
The CafTel Gazette of Nov. 5. contains A Letter from Berlin, dated the 28th
the following article : ult. lays: '* Our Capital is in a state of the
"' His Excellency the Imperial Marshal most complete misery; and neither it nor
Kellermann, In the name of his Majesty the Provinces have yet been able to pay the
the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, contributions imposed upon them ; nor
and Protector of the Confederation of the will they be, unless some extraordinary
Rhine, has taken possession of the do event should relieve them from thejr pre
mains and principality of Hanau. The sent difficulties. Tha inhabitants of this
lame will be done in Hanover." City, who are threatened with military
The stamped paper in .circulation at execution, make every possible exertion to
Hanover has lately received a new stamp avoid this misfortune; but the burthens
in the countries of Gottingen and Grubcn- which are imposed on them are too heavy
hagen. It is the figure of an eagle, round for the majority to bear, and they are
which is written " The Kingdom of West in the fame predicament with respect to
phalia, formerly called "Hanover." the requisitions. In some of the provinces,
A merchant at Hamburgh has incurred in which the magaiines are not Capable
a daily expence of not less than 10I. during of.furnissiing one third of the contribution,
the last twelvemonth, fof the support of the towns have to support -an txecufive
a French General and his suite, whom he detachment, besides the French garrison.
preferred entertaining at an hotel to main —There has been a great mortality here
taining them in his own house. for some time: upon an average the deaths
It was understood on the Exchange at exceed the births by upwards of eightyper
Hamburgh, that the Prince of Pome Corvo week."
liad intimated, that of all the Hamburgh- Letters of the 1st inst, mention a report,
ers continuing to correspond with England that Buonaparte has made some fresh de*
he had now grit correct lifts, together with mandson the King of Prussia. He is said
proofs of their fuilt; and he expected to require a supply of 8,000,000. dollars,
Ufa! some ot the merchants who had not and to garrison with French troops eight
 j8o7«] Abftraft of Ton ign Otcurrenctu 1 16$
of the strongest Prussian fortrcssci during peror atrainst the policy of his Councils,
the war. that had led to the war with England, in
, RUSSIA. stead of cultivating the friendship of that
The Emperor Alexander has announced Power, which it is justly observed to be
his determination to break off all commu the true interest of Russia so, do. The
nication with England, to recall hit Am Emperor's reply was not then known,
bassador from this Court, and not to per but was looked for with an interest com
mit the British Mission to continue at the mensurate to the importance of the sub
Court of St. Peterfburgh. [See his Decla ject ; and in the interim the people, as
ration in p. lisa.] wall as the Nobility, did not conceal theif
The seizure of British property in Russia resentment at the predominance of Gallic
has been general ; but, we Understand, influence in he Emperor's Councils. It
the amount has not been considerable ; is farther said, that they have sent a re
and tbere are not any accounts of the per monstrance to Count Romanzoss, import
sons of the British residents having been ing, that they had sufficient confidence in
arrested. ' the good faith and integrity of the British
The following Ukase was imied by the merchants at St. Petersburg, and did not
Emperor Alexander on the 8th ult. : require the interference of the Government
To Count Nicolay Petrowjtzk with respect to the liquidation of their
Roma^zoff. debts, &c. '•'
In consequence of the present political • SWEDEN.
circumstances, which have compelled us Letters from Gottenburg affirm, that
to break of? all connexion with Britain, the King of Sweden adheres strictly to his
we order, good faith with this country, notwith
I. An embargo to be laid on all British standing the attempts of the Danes to
ships in our harbours, and on all property bias him from it. The accounts add, that
of the British on-board os the same, as the King has gajned of late much popu
also on thac at 'Change and in the Cus larity among his subjects ; and every as
tom-house Packhouses. sistance is promised him in case of being
t. Their immoveable property, and forced into a war with Russia. His
what does not consist of goods, to be left Swedish Majesty is about to pay a visit to
in their possession as heretofore, but not Stockholm. Great confidence is expressed
to be allowed to be fold, mortgaged, or at Gottenburg, that the Swedes would
transferred into other hands. Taking fiich be fully competent to defend themselves
measures merely from our evident mercy against the Russians, .in cafe the reported
to them, we hope they will not, during invasion of Finland should take place.
the existing difference, transgress their They say they have nothing to apprehend
duty by actions which might prove pre but the freezing of the Sound so com
judicial to Russia, and thus incur our just pletely as to admit of French and Danish
displeasure, but live in due quietness and forces passing the ice to the opposite shore.
tranquillity. So great has become the demand sot
3. Concerning the embargo, a Com Colonial produce on the Continent, in
mittee is to be appointed at this port, of consequence of the difficulties which at
the most respectable Russian Merchants, tend its obtainment, that we are assured
and of one member of the College of our merchants are abundantly recom
Commerce. Authorizing you to select pensed for their enterprize if they receive
these men, we leave it to you to form the payment for one cargo in three ; and We
Committee, and to inform us of the fame. thus find that, notwithstanding the very
4. Similar Committees to be appointed precarious state of our connexion with
in Riga and Archangel, which are to b» Sweden, all the ports in that kingdom
dependent on the one here. The selection are now loaded with our produce: at Got
and appointment of the members of them tenburg, in particular, the quays are
to be left to the Military Governors, di groaning under the weight of sugar, coffee,
recting also the Civil Department ; and &c. daily pouring in from London, Li
where no such are, to the Civil Governors. verpool, &c.
5. The charges which may accrue on DENMARK.
this, occasion to be provided from the re It appears, that the trial of Gen. Pey-
venues of the respective Custom-houses, mann, for signing the Capitulation of
and placed to the account of the seques Copenhagen, is merely a matter of form.
tered ships and goods*-We are, &c. Had he protracted the siege 48 hours
(Signed by his Imperial Majesty's hand) longer, the whole of the town mutt hate
Aif.xamder. been laid in assies. The heads of tin
St. Peter/burg, Oft. it, O.S. (iVw. a.) thirty Corporations have a right, by
Letters from St. Petertburg state, that charter, to dictate to the military power
most of the old Nobility of Russia had pre in cat es of emergency, or any attack
sented a strong remonstrance to the ES»- against the City.
One
 j j $6 Akftr$8 of Foreign Ocewrcnm. {P?f«
One of the most distressing calamities i?avy> although possibly mortified by the
wftich resulted from tiie hombardrnent of manner of it: more than half the reve-
flo'penhagen, happened to the family of mies of Denmark went to the eftabSifh-
ftosenW Hornemann. . ^ bomb forced its ment of this useless marine, without their
way into1 his house, and p'œadfuUy mutir havjng, fijr forty years part, had a tingle
fated his three daughters. One ha4 botlji ship of the Vttt at'sea. The Danish sailors
her legs broken, and the otherj were arjq officers are bn constant pay, although
inarmed in nearly a similar manner. ' pot on-board, but scattered throughout
. It isa most remarkable circumstance, the country; and trie mercantile; part
that the see ajnd residence of the Bishop of of the people, in particular, are-pleased at
Zealand, situated near the church of ou/ being relieved from the burthen of 'their
ftady (which was hurnt down), escaped support. '•: 1
the conflagration. It had the same gbo.fl Denmark his' r^roed an tincb'mmonly
iartune in the. great fire of 1727, )M*4 'P jigorpas proclamation", denouncing death
/the fire which did -fo much damages few against any of her subjects Who carry on
pears back.- ' an intercourse witfiGreat'Bntaln, together
- The Danes arc malting uncommon e;t- jitith the confiscation of the goods which
ctiioas to recruit their marine.; ;|t is may be the object of such intercourse, if
#a.ted, that there were on the 20th ult,. thev can be found ; and if not, the full
at fca, or in readiness for sea, two (ail as value of them is id be advanced from the
the line, three frigates, as brigs carrying <other effects of the' criminals,
-from M-to lBjgjina, one schooner Of 10 A Decree has been published at Copen-
ÆB.'is, ifewii gun-boats mounting from a hagen, iuthorifirig the admission, into
tofi.guns, jSnd three smaller ones, besides Danish ports, of ill cruisers which may
ajamerous yawls, ,each carrying a gun, capture.English prizes,
•ami in some, instances-four howitzers. It Helfingborg, Nov. ig. Mr. Lutekins
is a singular fact, thai, .when the Danish ,and Mr. Pent, the two Cohnmifl'aries left
-sleet; was'rijrrertdered to us, it .was stated at ^Copenhagen to liquidate the accounts
■that the ships were.unprovided wjtkhoats : due from the Erfglifh, have been ordered
•they had been sent away, and kept con- ,by the Crown Prince to leave it imme-
cealed till the term-of our Convention ex- -diatcly ; though almost 250,000 dollars re
spited ; when several hundred of ;thcm ,mairi unpaid! These gentlemen have
made their ..appearance in the harbour. sarrived here. . 'V^,
:Many ef these have been fitted, with ggrj's The Swedisli Consul at Copenhagen has
ifor the annoyance of our tra.de in theRaltic. . been atrested for corresponding with a
. ..In the year l? 95 his .Royal Highness the Captain in the English fleet. By way of
•Crown, Prince received ,an Knglish-bujlt , retaliation,' the King of Sweden ha's or-
.sloop, ;as a present from bis Majesty tfie 'tiered the Danish Consul at Malm* to be
fKNigef England. \Vhen,the,Euglish car- ..confined to hrs house. '
■ .Yiedi awiay. the. Danish navy, and emptied AMERICA. ' '-
-tfeeiarseBai, they left this sloop, a^ a, mark The prosecution against Colonel Burr
uts respect. tHis Royal Highness, how- continued at Richmond las late .as the
ever, oil his:return to. Copenhagen, or- . middle of last month. Mri Marrin, the
f«fer*d that .this -vessel .should be aj-miied Counsel employed by the fcovernment
-*»ithi,lf5. English .sailors, .who had been , against the Colonel, concluded r b?i argn-
*-»iade: prisoners, furnished with the neces- . merits on ths l-tthi after having*' Ipoken
•tfary* provisions,.and sent back to England. * in support of the charges Upwards of eigh-
The Crown Prince of Denmark has ren- teen hours. The American -Editors ap-
iitfered himself particularly unpopular in ' pear ashamed of this' protracted prosecu-
> bis-dominions, .by the angry precipitancy lion, arid in their late papers^ are silent on
-in .Which he has plunged into the war. the subject.'"'
It is a fact no* generallyknown, that when The following circumstance has much
.'ke.fled from' Copenhagen in disguise, he occupied the attention of (he-party }our-
~Mmp,taken; by Adrriiral Keate's I'tjuadrpn nals at New Yo,|k: A packe tbf- letters,
during his passage over the Belt. . He. was addressed to }&r. Erfkine, the; British Mi-
immediately recognised, but our people, nifter,, and indorsed by Vice-^Admiral
•afrectiiTg not to, know him, generously Berkeley, was delivered, -off thi fiapes of
> permitted him to continue his route. He the Delaware, by the Officer of a British
forced the , command of Copenhagen on armed schooner, to an American Pilot
Geaeral Peyraann, who in vain. urged his bound to New York, with instructions to
advanced age as an excuse for his retire- put it into the Post-office in that city.
jitnent from so weights a responsibility, The Pilot, instead of taking the packet to
' and now punishes him for the natural ' the Post-office himself, confided it to ano-
confcqutnce of that imposition. The ge- . ther "person, who was intercepted on the
. nerality of the people of Denmark were way, and prevailed upon by a third per-
%y no means displeased al the loss, of their son to take it to the office of V/ttAuTbra-—
' •- . •"' ', " "'.'' - ' ■*'"*papei
 i8o^J . Foreign Occumncts.-^duntry N&vs. 11167
a pjper remarkafile 'for' iti'reVoliiitona'fy hu'foctufis, Stffl Gonrtaofte;
principles, its attachment to France, arfd numerouslyarra respectably attended; tn*S
"hostility tp England. The packet wtts 'shew bf cattle, troth fat and lean, wasna»
there detained ; and upon application 'large, but the samples were excellent,
being made for it the next day, it was laid different tifcfal articles in the agricultures
that it had been forwarded to Washing line of mechanics were introduced with
ton ; an assertion which was found, tfn approbation*; particularly a chaff-outtei
inquiry at the Post-office, to he false. and'sorne rieWfy-Corrtlructed plough irons.
'Colonel Patton, of New York, is to be J.urge exhibitiohs of superfine cloth and
PoA-Mafter-Genera! of the United States, cashmere, made 'from the improved Anglo-
in the room of Mr. Granger, resigned. Merino wool, wefedifringuiihedas highly
The Post-office, at Xew York, vacated rjy creditable to that species ofimprovement-
the Colonel's promotion, has given rife to Extract of a 'letter from iVhitehœovn,
a warni.contert 4 among the Candidates is dated Ndv. "4. " Ever since the memo
Duane, the Editor of The Aurora, who rable fall of snow in I7t?7, nothing in any
has lately notorizeti himself by detaining degree resembling it has been experienced
and' breaking open , the dispatches of Ad in this part of the kingdomwntitthe; night
miral Berkeley to Mr. Erskine. of Thursday last, and the following morn
The following singular equality With re ing, accompanied by a strong galoof wind
spect to sex and age, occurred in the num from the North-weft, which drifted in 'se
ber' ot deaths at New York for one week, veral places in the streets to the depth of
ending the 17th ult, viz.—Men 13, Wo four feet, and to a much greater degreein
men 13, Boys J 1, Girls 11; —Total48. many parts of the country<evra to 14 foet-
Upwards of fifty of she Arnericans Who The "general post, which usually arrived
went with Miranda, and were taken in about "eight o'clock in the evening, did not
the Bee and Bacchus schooners, arc, it Appear, and no mail could beTent off'.' Aio
appears, still confined in the Spanish 'article whatever arrivtdfrom the country
Castles at Oinoa, Boco Chica, and Porto for Saturday's market. -The postboy ar
Ric'b; where they are doomed to eight rived on Saturday evening with the Lon
and ten years slavery, and are scarcely al- don mail of Wednesday, biting ss feojjrs
lowed sufficient' ptevisions to .'support life, later than usual.' It' was brought from
AA subscription
<\.1.1 ~ — ^... "has, 1been
-i... openedJ at^' New
va_ . Penrith
r» ~..u .- ,i„w.-_. .1, 1hr . a.. .• man .:on
to Cotkertnouth
York to aflord them 1'orrle relief. foot, theroadbeing impasvableforahoese. .
Private letters received. With the lift Another fall Of snow came on, a,. little.
American Pipers counteract, in a great after 11} On Monday foronoon, -which
measure, the "effect whictTniight other- continued falling when the above acceant
Vise have been produced By the Presi came away." »
dent's Speech, 'j'hey state, that the op Dec. 4.' In-Stitffvrtykir-e, Dcrby/hm,
position he will have to encounter in Con- Lnnci/hirt, and Wtsftmorlmd, the weather
gress will be '.so , strong, "as' to render has beeft-for the last week particularly fe-.
' abortive any endeavour of the'GalliC party Vere; with deep snow, and dreadful hut-
to involve the States in a war. with Great ricahes from the North-cast. • On Blaek-
BtUain. This, statement is supported by 'stone h<*dge; the GtayTohheights,on.Mort~
aTact.which Is'very ftriking; viz.' that the' day last, the snow lay iff drifts SO -fcet
'nfurance on vessels trading to' England deep; and by Leek and Buxton travelnng
remains at the usualrafesofatimeof Peace., was almost' presented.. "'Notwithstanding
The 'foilowing'article isJ# importance, Men*1 Were employed irr cutting- through:
inasmuch
' Willing as ittimes,
at all (hewswhen that (he
France is Very
Is able,' to the drifts,
ehoaked yet «>*<■,
up' the' the -as-almrift
afrer heavyto prevent
falls! so
5 ailopt that mode of conduct which' she is Carriages from proceeding any <irftaoce.
so e^er to cojnplain oHn any other nation. In many parts the stage-coaches coaldmci
' . " Boston,'; Nov'. 20. be "got on, though ttraWn by fii ot«ight
When the Hornet sloop of waVwent horses. The-Carlisle mail-coach,.o«Sfon-*
into L'Orient," we had five French sailors day last,'' met With great difficulty in get-
bn-board, "who had been naturalized' and tlng'bver Stairimoor, though drawn hy fit
■ who bad been in our service fbf several horses.
years'. A French* officer cattle on-board '■ Vie. S. 'Bythe late fhow-ltOTms; there
the Hornet', and seized these men by force * ha* been more destruction on the sheci>-
(then'under the protection of our- flag), farms in the North of England than jhas
and carried
Carrie them'pff. ^ Not* one word was been ever remembered. Mr. Oliver, and
heard about this outrage.' • * another farmer, at Kielder, a» tin head of
North Tyne, have1 loft -no less riias.l'ioo
Country News. sheep ;'■ OTr.: S. 'Brown; a»> the Dtoi-
Nov. 3.0. At."the Anniversary of the Voter; "top ewes; 'Mr.-Dodds, of Ciint-
Bath and West of England1 Society fdr the 'ihm, 12' score, of sheep { besides nurce-
Eii^uragWcnt of Agriculture, Arts, Ma- " tou? ioflbs aurWriJ other farmers. ; Tti*
snow
 1 WS8 Country Keu)s.—Domestic Occurrences. £Dec.
snow wat is many instances j6 yards in though her masts were cut Sway by the
■depth.—The destruction amongst the board, stie remained immovable upon the
ihefcp in Scoi(aiid, inconsequence of the rock. Of 140 persons who were on-bcard
late severe Weather, has been enormous, when the accident happened, SO are sup-
In the parish of Ewes alone, one man loft posed to have per/tihed : among whom are,
100 atone farm, and 200 at another} a Capt. Scot and his lady ; First Lieutenant
second farmer has loft aoo, and about Hawkes ; Mr. Davy, Purser ; Mr. Wright,
2*0 more were loft at Hart/garth. Those Surgeon ; Mr. Ausleck, Carpenter ; Meflrs.
farmers who keep shepherds' dogs have Barnes, Dbnstell, Luttrell, Midshipmen,
avoided the calamity ; as these animals Thursday, Z>ec. l?.
have the singular power of directing their This day Parliament was farther pro-
masters where to search for the sheep in rogued to the Sift of January, when it will
the snow, though they may be buried meet for dispatch of business.
■ under it to the depth of 1 a or 14 feet. A Monday, Deem.
gentleman breeder in Northumberland This night a fire broke out at Totten-
has loft the enormous number of 700 ham, which was attended with raelan-
fbeep on one farm, by the cause above choly circumstances, A Mrs. Maccaug-
tnentioned. . • hey kept a seminary for young ladies, and
Dec. 18. A fire broke out on the pre- had gone to - town on business* The
mifes of Messrs. Reads and Lucas, refiners, nursery-maid put to bed, as usual, Mrs.
at Attercliffe near Sheffield, which began M.'s two children (one about rive, and
Sn the laboratory, and entirely destroyed the other seven years of age) ; and left
33 retorts and 18 receivers, containing oil burning by their bed-side a candle, which
of vitriol, and much damaged the building, soon set fire to the bed-curtains. When
Dec. if). A fire broke out in the dwell- the cries of the suffering children were
ing-house of James Heir, esq. at Hill Top heard, it was too late to afford them any
near tfediiejiury, which raged with great relief, and they perished. The houses and
fury, and nearly destroyed the whole of premisses adjoining were burnt to the
those valuable and elegant premises, with ground. This lady's fife presents a sin-
great part of the furniture, gular ferits of misfortunes. Her husband
Dec. 21. The Duke of Marlborough failed in a mercantile speculation; and,
• has presented the University of. Oxford going abroad to improre his affairs, was
with his set of fine copies of the Cartoons drowned at sea. On his death, he left
of Raphael, by Sir James Thornhill ; arid eight children to deplore his loss. One
for which magnificent present that Learned of these subsequently loft his life, by fall-
Body have voted him their thanks lit full ing into a pond in his mother's garden,
convocation. . while she was gone to church. She had
. — still seven children : the two younger p«- .
Domestic Occurrences. Tithed by the fire above-mentioned. A
Saturdays Nov. 28. handsome subscription, we are happy to
At 11 o'clock this night, a fire broke add, has been opened for Mrs. M. atTot-
twit in the store-houses of Needham and tenham, and at Lloyd's Coffee-house.
Co. brewers, at Tottenham, which in a Tuesday, Dec. 20.
short time destroyed the building and a The Directors of the Royal Jennertan
quantity of liquor. Society have lately givsh public notice,
Friday, Dec. 4. that the Society has no connexion what-
This evening, between 7 and 8, afire ever with the late Resident tnocHlator and
fcroke out in the house of Lady Clerniont Medical Secretary, Dr. John Walker ; and
in Berkeley,-square,.supposed to have arisen that Dr. Knowles is the Resident Inpcu-
IVom some collection of combustible matter lator of (he Society, at their house in Sa
in the flue of a chimney. Her Ladyship lilbury-fquare.
■was at dinner with some of her own rela- National Debt, fire.—An account
tions, and removed to the house of a shewing what has been redeemed of the
friend, being seriously affected by the ac- National Debt, the Land Tax, and Impe
ndent. Her Ladyship's house is much rial Loan, to the 1st of November, 18C7.
damaged ; but most of the more valuable Redeemed by Annual Mil- £. r
furniture had been saved. Sir John Har- lions, fitc. 66,968,17%
rington's houfe adjoining has suffered Do. by 11 perCent.perAniu
considerably. on Loans J5l,622,8lS
Saturday, Dec. 5. Do. by Land-tax. 22,042,813
We are sony to announce the lose of the Do. by 1 1 per Cent, per Ann.
Boreas frigate, of 32 guns, Capt. Scott, Imp. Loan 814,725
on the Jersey station. The ship struck - 1 1
upon th* Hanaway rocks, and, in spite Total 152,948,329
of the utmost exertions of the crew at the The sum to be expended in the ensuing
pumps* was very soon full of water. ; a»d uattet it, £2,139,%*. »»«. 3d.
t.
 1807.] Additions and Correttions in former Obituaries. 1169
P. R«2. It is gratifying to reflect, that videnc* at the head of a princely fortune
the Cardinal of York's due sense of his and a magnificent establishment, his pla
[Majesty's well-timed liberality was not cid foul delighted itself in the eVertions of
merely confined to the impressions oT the benevolence. A gentleman of the jjjcest
moment, but, in fact, accompanied his and most exquisite sense of honour, his
dying injunctions. He has bequeathed to endearing qualifications for society, as a
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales man of learning and high accomplish*
two objeits moll esteemed by him, and ments, of great conversational powers, es
which he had preserved from the wreck pecially when in tolerable health, of high
of his fortune ; viz. the Order constantly ly-polished manners, the friend of Can
worn by King Chailes I. and a valuable dour, the fos of Malignity, and especially
Ring, which was also worn by the amient as being warmly attached to the best of
Kings of Scotland on the day of their co all causes, he will be long, mournfully,
ronation.—The report of the Cardinal's and affectionately remembered by all who
having left behind him large sums of mo had the honour and happiness of his ac
ney, and other circumstance"; told at the quaintance.-—The Starkies are a family of
fame time in some of the public prints, high antiquity and great respectability.
are wholly without foundation. The Car They were originally of Barnton *, in
dinal's circumstances were such that he Cheshire ; but have long been fettled at
paid, with great difficulty, the annuity »f Riddlesden, in Yorkshire, at Huntroid,
Sool. to his lifter-in-law, the Countess of and at Pendle hall, in Lancashire. Tern-
Albany; which sum, by the King's usual pore Ed. IV. Edward, son of William,
liberality, has recently been doubled. married the sole heiress of Johannes de
P. 9$4, col. 2, r. " Aged about 62 or Symonjione, by whom the family became
63, at the rectory-house, Whitechapel, possessed of the Simonfton property, in
Richard Wright, of Brazenose college, which township is the antient and present
Oxford; M.A. 1763, B.D. J77i, I>. D. family-scat, Huntroid. The armorial bear
1804 ; presented, same year, to the rec ings consist, like those of many other an
tory of Wold, co. Northampton, by ex tient families, as Mrs. Charlotte Smith
change with Thomas Wright, fellow cf well expresses it, " of painted puns and
the fame college; who preferred a country visionary shapes :" Argent, a bend Sable
living for health, which he <tiU enjoys, between lix storks proper ; crest, a stork
with improvement ; while a slight paraly proper; motto, PaTwæ et Amicm ;
tic attack, IS06, occasioned the death of words truly proper to sura up the charac
the Doctor." ter of the subject of this memoir.
P. 1082. 0d. 25. At his feat at Hunt- P. 1084. At the meeting noticed in p.
• roid, near Padiham, co. Lancaster, Le 1108, a portrait of the late Mr. Davis, of
Gendre Pierce Starkie, efq. patron of that Lttnglcat, was received as a present from
church, one of his Majesty's justices of his family ; and the following tributary
the peace, vice-lieutenant for the hun inscription was directed to be placed ©n.
dred of Blackburn, lite colonel of the a tablet in the Society's great room :
4th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Mili " To the
tia, and sheriff for the county. Cpl. S. highly-merited honour
had for many years.laboured umieta most of that most useful ,
severe and oppressive asthma ; all relief Benefactor and Ornament of his Country,
from which was despaired of. At length, Thomas Davis,
however, by a merciful interference of of Longleat and Horningsham, -
Divine Providence, he was, under the in the county of Wilts, Gentleman,
care of that cerebrated Asthmatic, Dr. who had been an invaluable Member of
Bree, restored to his family, his friends, The Bath and Welt of England Society
and his country,; arid enjoyed a degree of from its original institution. ■
health to which he had' long been a stran A man, in whom very superior talents,
ger, and which seemed to promise many, and the most rare attainments of- useful
many years of comfort and enjoyment. and scientific knowledge, were combined.
His death was very sudden and-unexpect- with the most ardent exertion;
ed, occasioned by the bursting of a blood and the most luminous faculty of general
vessel. Dying in the 38th year of his communication with the most active
age, he left three sons and one'daughter, benevolence and suavity of manners.
i.e Gendre, Charlotte, Pierce, Nicholas, All which qualities were equalled only by
the only surviving issue by Charlotte his his incorruptible integrity.
•Wife, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin He departed this life, universally regretted,
Preedy, S.T.P. late rector of Brington in on the 10th day of November ;
Northamptonshire, and one of his Ma
jesty's justices of the peace for that coun- * Leyceftct's Antiquities of Cheshire,
ty, and for Hertfordshire. Placed by Pro- and Dr. Wttituker'* History of Whalley.
Cent. Mao. Ducmivr} 180;.. au4
it 70 Additions and Corregions. in Obituaries.— Birth. [Dec.
and the Annual Meetingof the said Society,
on the 1st day of December following,
by a warm *Bd unanimous vote, decreed
. ' This Tablet,
to signalize his name,
trd to perpetuate their remembrance of
his virtues.
Anno 1807."
P. 1085. tn 1782 Mr. Walker publish
ed a Monody to the memory of his friend
and patron Mn Thurlow, brother to Lord
Chancellor Thurlow. In vol. LIII. p.
. 872, is a Sonnet on Mrs. Lloyd's elegant
window in Norwich cathedral ; and in
vol. LIV. p. 122, an occasional Prologue,
written by him ; also, Verses addressed to
him iti the fame volume, p. soe. Propo
sals are published for printing a Collection
of his Works.
P. 10S5. The remains of the late Earl
Grey were conveyed, on Thursday, Nov.
Sfi, from Fallowden-house, Northumber
land-, for interment at Howick, where
they were deposited in the family-vault.
The funeral was attended by the present
Earl and Countess, Mr. and Lady Eliza
beth Whitbread, the Hon. and Rev. Mr.
Grey, and the Hon. Commissioner Grey.
His Lordship's charities were only limited
by his irneans; his heart was unbounded;
and no deserving object ever sought relief
at Fallowden-house in vain. The same
benevolent spirit which he carried with
him into retirement was uniformly dis
played in his military career; through
the whole of which, the comfort of the
private soldier was a peculiar object of his
care. He was aid-du-camp to Prince Fer
dinand, at the battle of Minden, where
Jie was wounded in the foot.—It has been
said that he was the only surviving officer
who .-fought with General Wolfe at due-
bee. This statement is erroneous. En
sign Charles Burnett, of Abeideenshire,
(then in the Fraser Highlanders, was in
the battle in which Wolfe fell, and is still
alive in Aberdeen, upon the half-pay of
that corps. At the very advanced age of
nearly 0° years, he remains Without any
other provision than the miserable pit
tance above-memioned, which has been
his sole support since the Peace of 1 763.
P. lOBli. On Saturday, Nov. 2S, the
remains of Abraham Newland, el'q. were
deposited in St. Saviour's church-yard, in
Southwark, the parish in which he was
born. About 1 1 o'clock the funeral pro
cession moved from his house in High
bury-place, and was joined on the way .by
several carriages. It passed the Bank at 2
o'clock, in the following order : Two
Dank porters; ten persons in deep mourn
ing on horseback; a pjume of featheis;
the hearse, containing the body ; six
rnourning-.coaches ; f'iis private carriage;
and a number of gentlemen's carriages.
$he deceased was driven by his o*.vn
coachman. On the body passing the back
part of the ROyal Exchange, there was a
momentary suspension of all business j.
every one stood to contemplate the re
mains of this wurthy and respectable man*
The Will of Mr. Newland has not yet
been registered ; but we are enabled to
state the chief contents of it, and to whom
the principal legacies are bequeathed,
Mr. Newland Was the son of a baker in
Southwark ; and he owed the conspicuous
situation he held in the Bank to his own
perseverance and assiduous attention to its
pursuits. He died worth 200,oool. in
(lock, besides lOOol. per annum, arising
from estates ; and he has disposed of it in
the following manner:—-To Mr. H. Hase,
now chief cashier ; Mr. Rippon, second
cashier ;. Mr. Attwood, and Mr. Bross ;
500I. each as executors* To Mrs. C ,
housekeeper to the deceased, the interest
of fjo.oool.; Soooi. in calh; the house
and furniture at Highbury, and horses,
carriage, &c. To Mr. Henry Hase, 25ol.
per annum, arising from the Broad-street
Annuity (money lent by Mr. Newland to
the parishj, and 700I. Consols. To Mr,
Rippon, second cashier, 700 guineas;
Mr. Bross, 700 guineas ; and Mr. Att
wood, 10,0001. To each of the family of
the Goldsmids, eight in number, 500I. to
purchase a ring. To the Gentlemen be
longing to the Chief Cashier's Office, about
SO in numbert from 30l. to 100I. each,
with two exceptions. To the Porters at
the Bank and Lodge, from 10I. to 50I.
each ; and t» the Domesticks of the de
ceased's household the like sums. The
residue of the property is left amongst the
relatives of the deceased, who are in needy
circumstances. Among them, a Chelsea
pensioner, who during the life of Mr
Newland received 50l. per annum, has
been left lool.a-year. A farmer's servant
at Hornsey, Who did not partake of Mr.
Newlar.ti's bounty during his life, has
been left :J00l. per «um. 7'he deceased
did not leave a shilling tn the Widows'
Fund at the Bank.
Bl RTHS.
IATELY, at Holebroofc-house, near
_j Wincanton, Somerset, the I Ion.
Mrs. Frankland, a daughter.
At Charlton, in Kent, the wife of Joha
Atkins, esq. a daughter.
The wife of Wm. Sims, .esq. of MiVe-
End, a daughter.
At Oving parsonage, Bucks, the wife
of Ralph Carr, esq. a ion antl heir.
The wife of Capt. Whcatlcy, of the 1st
Rejjiment of Guards, a daughter.
In Weftbourne-plaee, Sloane-fquare, the
wife off. Pinnotk, e<q. a daughter.
In Hertford-street, May-fair, the wife of
John Dent, esq. M.P. a daughter.
 1807.] Births and Marriages of remarkable Persons, uyi
Areo. 1Q. At Tuam, co. Galway, Ire Mr. Hughes, of Golden-square, to Ma
land, Lady Matilda Burke, a Ion and heir. dame Parisot, of the Opera-house.
. Viscotmtess Hereford, a Ion and heir. Niw. 24. At Inveresky the Earl of Sel»
26. At Liverpool, the wile of Ralph kirk, to- Miss Wedderburn., only daughter
Williamson, esq. a Ion. of James Wedderburn Colvile, esq, ' ,
17. At Oakham, Lady King, a daughter. 25. AtEawtry, co.York, William Neil!,
At Airds-house, in Scotland, the lady esq. of Barnweile, in Ayrshire, captain iri
of Sir John Campbell, bart. a son and hcirv the 60th Foot, to Caroline, eldest daugh
29. At Edmonthorpe-hall.co. Leicester, ter of George Spiller, esq. deputy com
the wile of C. Manners, esq. a son. missary-general to the Army.
30. At Godalming, Surrey, the wife of 26. John Edwards, esq. of Bloomsbury-
Capt. S. Ballard, R. N. a son. fquare, to Miss Dalton, of Russell-square.
Dec. I. At Whitefeid, the lady of Sir Thomas Hodson, esq. youngest son of
Wm. Call, bart. a daughter. the Rev. John H. of Thomham, in Kent,
2. At Edinburgh, Mrs. Parker, of the W Miss Charlsworth, of New Ormond-str.
Olympic Circus, a son, William Bowdler, esq. of Cheapfide', to
:j. At Exeter, the lady of Lieut.-gen. the eldest daughter of the late John Simp
Sir George Nugent, M. P. a Ion. son, esq. of Pontefract, co. York.
6. At Lymington, Hants, Lady Char By special licence, at Weltport-liouse,
lotte Howard, a son. the seat of the Marquis of Sligo, George
At Harlyford-place, Kennington, Sur- Moore, esq. of Moore-hatt, co.. Mayo, to
Tey, tl.e wife of Capt. Nixon, of the Ma Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Hon.
dras Artillery* a Ion and heir. John Browne, of Elmhall, in same county.
A poor woman, riamed Rofiington, of 27. John Bliss, esq. to Miss Donne, both
Hykeham, near Lineohi, two sons and a of Hampstead, Middlesex.
daughter, all likely to lne. She had had 28. At Aswai by-house, co. Lincoln, by
twins twice before; and in a little more special licence, Capt. Atty, of the Royal
than a twelvemonth has added five chil North Lincoln Militia, to Harriet, second
dren to her husband's household. daughter of Sir Thomas Whiclrcote, ban.
7. At Barham-court, near Canterbury, Charles-Frederick Raitt, esq. of the 13th
the wife of Samuel Tyssen, esq. os Narbo- Light Dragoons, to Lopisa, daughter of
rougli-haH, Norfolk, a son, the late Charles-Alexander Crickett, esq.
9. At Fountington, Sussex, the lady of of Smyths-hall, Essex, M. P, for Ipswich.
Sir James Duff, a daughter. Dec. I. George Haldimand, esq. of Clap-
13. At Hootton, Cheshire, the lady of ham, Surrey, to Miss Pritifcp, daughter of
Sir's. Stanltry Massey Stanley, bt. adaught. John P. esq. alderman of London.
iy. At Margate, the wile of Edward 4. At Eltham, Kenr, Frederick Reade,
Gordon, esq. a daughter. esq. of Camberwell, Surrey, to Miss Lewin,
At Gosport, Hants, the wife of Mr. Wil dau. of Richard L- esq. of the former place.
liam Midlane, merchant, a daughter. William Hood, esq.of Elmford, co. Ber
22. At Lathom-house, co. Lancaster, wick, to Miss Bertrim, daughter of A. B.
the wife of Edward-Wilbraham Bootle, esq of Cranshaws.
esq. M. P. a son. , . 5. At Wybunbury, Cheshire, Colonel
, 23. At the Earl's house, at Coolhurrt, Coghlan, to Miss Brougliton, daughter of
Sussex, the Countess of Galloway, a son. the Rev. Sir Thomas B. ef Doddington-
At West Cowes, Hie of Wight, the wife hall, in the sarrje county.
of Charles Cumberland, esq. a daughter. 8. Mr. Philip Griffith, of Pall Mall, to
M'fs Barker, of Hemel-Hempstead, Herts.
Marriages. Mr. PhilipWatkins, bookseller and prin
TATELY, at St. Petersburg, T. Bonar, ter, of Cirencester, to Martha, youngest
j jun. *sq. to Lady Gascoigne, widow daughter of Mr. W. Stevens, silversmith.'
of the late Sir Charles G. John Wife, esq. jun. of Maidftone, to
Mr. D'Arcy, of Arklow, to Miss Anne the only daughter of John Dcnne, esq. of
Tumpkin, of Gotey, co. Wexford, in Ire Chiilet-court, near Canterbury.
land. Shortly after, Mrs. D'A. accompa 10. William Reed, esq. of Bedfont, Mid
nied by her husband, went to Gorey, on a dlesex, to Mrs. Williamson, relict of the
yisit to her friends, and, while preparing late Tho.W. esq. of Castle-street, Holborir.
for bed, was seized with a violent vomit Rev. W. Wilkinson, of Wcodbury-hali,
ing, and expired almost instantly. co. Cambridge, to Elizabeth, 2d dau. of
Charles Trench, esq. to Mils White, Rowtand.VJainwaring,esq.ofNorthampton--.
daughter of Luke W. esq. of Dublin. 11. Henry M;mningham,efq.of Thorpe,
Capt. William Mansell, R.N. to Mrs. Surrey, to Miss Lstura Skinner, sister of the
Herry, both of Swansea. Rev. John S. of Camerton, near Bath.
Mr. Presbury, jeweller, of New-ftieet, Rev. Mr. Gilbert,of Bodmin, Cornwall,
Covent-garden, to Mrs. Johnson, late ot to Miss Storm, of Ilfracombe, Devon.
Prury-lane Theatre. 12. David Pollock, cfo,. ef tfie Middle
Temples,
t ifz Marriages and Deaths of remarkable Persons. [Dec.
Temple, barrister, to the only daughter of Deaths..
John Atkinson, esq. of Tottenham, Middlx. April \ T Fort Marlborough, Captain
Byspecial licence, at his Lordship's house II. /"V Patrick Ramage, of the Lord
in Charles-flreet, Berkeley-square, the Earl Keith East Indiaman.
of Craven, to Miss Louisa Bruntcn, late of 23. At Calcutta, Robert Fullarton, esq.
the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden. in the F.ast India Companj's service, and
James-Webber Smith, esq. of Ashlihg, fourth son of the late Rev. John F. of
Sussex, captain in the Royal Artillery, to Dairy, in Ayrshire.
the eldest r)aughter of John Simeon, esq. June .... George Smith, esq. collefmi
one of the masters of the Court of Chan of the Guntroa Circar, son of the late Geo.
cery, and M. P. for Reading. S. esq. 01 Bengal.
14. At Watford, co. Somerset, Charles ' June <. At Sea, on-board his Majesty's
March-Phillipps, esq. eldest Ion of T. M.P. ship Rattlesnake, William Warden, esq. a.
esq. of Garendon park, co. Leicester, to post captain in his Majesty's Navy, and
Harriet, youngest sister of Philip Ducarel, commander of that ship. The death of
esq. of Wal ford-house. this gallant and enterprising young officer
15. James Henderson, esq. of Bow-lane, will be deeply lamented by all who knew
Ch.'apside, to Miss Packer, of Islington. him, and may be considered as a great loss
At Walton, near Liverpool, Philip-Mea to the British Navy, of which he promised
dowsTaylor, esq. to Jane, youngest daugh- . to be one of the brightest ornaments. He
ter of the late Bertram Mitford, esq. of had the singular honour and good fortune
Mitford castle, Northumberland. to be trained under the personal care of
17. At St. Pancras church, Mr. Wil- that gallant and accomplished officer Sir
liam-MatthewThiselton, of Great Ruslell- Edwird Pcllew, since his entrance into
ftreet, Bloomibury, to Louisa, young, dau. the Navy in 1J93, and shared the glory
of Peter Merzcau, esq. of Camden-town. of all that officer's brilliant achievements,
At Oxford, the Rev. George Shepherd, till his arrival at the supreme command in
fellow of University college, and rector of those seas. His death is the more to be
St.Bartholomew near the Royal Exchange, lamented, as having been caused by exces
London, to the eldest daughter of the Rev. sive fatigue and exposure in the execution
Dr. Wetherell, dean of Hereford, and mas of his duty, during a violent gale of wind
ter of University college. which he encountered in his passage to
At Ashby, near Horncaslle, the Rev. Madras, on the 24th of May, in the lati
John-Beby Sharpe, vicar of Skjdbrooke, tude of the Negran, long. 01, 3o Last, in
to Miss Hewson, of Louth. which they were under the necessity of
19. At Beckenham, Kent, by special li cutting- away the main and mizen masts,
cence, John Spalding, esq. of Hill-street, for the preservation of the ship.
Berkeley-square" to Mary- Anne, daughter Sept. ... At Schenectady, in America,
ef the lateThomas Eden, esq. of Wimble aged 103, Mrs. Elizabeth Cowans; who
don, and niece of Lord Auckland. read without spectacles till her death,
John Hadleyi esq. of Craven-ftr. Strand, and, but two years »»o, entered the field
to the widow of the late Captain W. Rich and rated grafs with a scythe. •
ardson, R.N. Sept. I •>. At Adams, Berkshire county,
Cha. Mackinnon, esq. of Upper GYosve- Maslachusctts, aged 107, Mr. J, Peters;
nor-street, to Miss Sophia Barn, of George- who enjoyed, an uncommon share of good
ftieet, Hanover-square. health, strength, and activity, and was in
Capt. James Nicholson, R. N. to Anne, possession of all his faculties entire, till the
eldest daughter of Alexander Bennett, esq. very moment that ended his life.
of Queen-square. 19. At Madeira, after a lingering illness,
Richard Burman, esq. of Southam, co. Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late Thomas
Warwick, to Anna, second daughter of Jn. H. esq. who was many years attorney gel
Shuttleworth, esq. of Guildterri- fticet. ncral of the island of Jamaica.
2 J. At Faverstiara,William-Samuel Cur- 36. At Barbados, aged 26, John Bed
rey.esq. major of the 44th Foot, to Miss ford, esq. judg* of the Court of. Vice»Ad-
Anna-Maria Tappenden. ■niralty of that island.
- 24. At Bath, Mr.Evcnis, grocer, to Miss Oct. r. In his Sad year, at his feat
Hazard, daughter of the late Mr. S. H. of near the Schuylkill in America, Gen. Peter
that city, bookseller. Muhlenburg. This gentleman, in early
2,<. At St. George's, Hanover-square* life, yielded co the wishes of his venerable
Mr.' James Piuk, of Dover-street, to Ma- father, the late Rev. Dr. Henry Muhlen-
ly-Anne, only daughter of Mr. D. Hai- burgh, the Patriarch of the German L»-
vey, of Fairfbrd, co. Gloucester. theran Church, in Pennsylvania, by be
2/5. Mr. Robert Smith, of Kingfton-up- coming a Ministerof the Episcopal Church;
oh-Thames, Surrey, to the eldest daugh in which capacity he actjfd in an accept
ter of George Steinman, esq. of Woburn- able manner in Virginia, until the year
place, jfvArflelkso,uare. If 70, when he became a Member pf the.
Convention,
1807.] Obituarytwiih Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons* 1173
Convention, and afterwards a Colonel of 21. At Dover, aged 62, George Han-
a Regiment of that State. In the year nara, esq. a native of Nottinghamshire,
1777, be was appointed Brigadier-general and many years an eminent surgeon and
in the Revolutionary Army; in which ca apothecary at Dover, from which profes
pacity he acted until the termination of sion he had lately retired. His Urbanity
the war gave liberty and independence to and general benevolence endeared him to>
his Country, at which time he was pro» a large circle of friends ; and his death,
moted to the rank of Major-general. Af which took place after a week's illness,
ter the peace, he was chosen by his fellow- was keenly felt and regretted. His re
citizens of Pennsylvania (his native state) mains were interred at St. Nicholas, in.
to fill, in succession, the various stations Thanet, co. Kent.
of Vice-prefident of the Supreme Execu 23. This evening, a little before 9, a
tive Council of Pennsylvania, Member of young man named Pearce, was seen
the House of Representatives, and Senator walking along Upper Lambeth Marsh, in
'of the United States; and afterwards ap a distressed and agitated state, sighing and
pointed, by the President of the United mourning bitterly. Some minutes after
States, Supervisor of the Excise in Penn wards the report of a pistol was heard, in
sylvania ; and, finally, Collector of the a place called Cut-throat-lahe, which
Port of Philadelphia, which office be held leads' to the water-fide, along th e wall o£
at the time of his death. In si) the above the Archbishop's garden; several person*
military and political stations, Gen. Muh- instantly ran to the spot from which the
lenburg acted faithfully to the Country report proceeded, and found this unfortu
and honourably to himself: he was brave nate person lying quite dead, with bis
in the field, ants firm in the cabinet, In brains scattered upon the ground. A pilV
private life he was strictly just ; in his do tol was also found tied by a handkerchief
mestic and social attachments he was af to his wrist ; not, however, so tight as to
fectionate and sincere ; and in his inter prevent him from drawing the trigger.
course with his friends and fellow-citizens, The oiily conjecture that can be formed
alwavs Amiable and unassuming. His respecting this extraordinary precaution
remains were interred near to those of his is an apprehension on the part of the de
ancestors, and a part of his own family, ceased lest some other person might be
with military honours, in Providence, in suspected to have killed him. The de
Montgomery county, amidst a large con ceased was by trade a wheelwright. He
course of respectable citizens. has left a young wife and two children to
9. In the 80th year of his age, Mr. John lament his unhappy fate. Weunderstand,
Wingrave, many years a book-binder of on inquiry, that for some time past he led
eminence in Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, a life of idleness and extravagance, whieh
where lie had the honour of being patro at last caused him to enlist in the Guards,
nized1 by the Duke of Graftoh, Major Pear This conduct produped great unhappincl's
son, Isaac ReeJ, and several other first- between him and his wife, and probably
rate Collectors of curious books. He was led to the fatal act that terminated his
also very regularly employed in binding existence.
works of elegance for the shop of Messrs. Murdered, at East Benton, Wilts, Mr.
White. He was a citizen cf London, Simeon, jun. His father, a reputable
the father of the book-binding trade, and farmer, had suffered many depredations
one of the oldest inhabitants of St. Dun- iri his farm-yard, such as wounding, cattle,
flan's parish ; of which he was a consta stealing poultry, Sic. and a watch, con-
ble in 1767, and apprehended the noto listing of three persons, was set to discover
rious Mrs. Browfirigg (XXXVII. 426}. the offenders. About two o'clock m the
He at that time published a curious morning three fellows made their appear- -
■" Narrative of the many Cruelties inflict ance in the poultry-roost', adjoining a hay-
ed by her upon her Apprentice Mary loft, where' the persons were watching^
Clifford, for. which slie received Sentence and after having slaughtered and bagged
of Death September 12, 1767." several fowls, they retreated. They vvtse
14. Elizabeth, the amiable and tnuch- pursued by the persons on the watch, but
fegretted wife of Samuel Shaw, esq. mer having dropped their body they esctvpecV;
chant, of Radclisfe, co. Lancaster. She and whilst Mr. Simeon continued she
died in trie 41st year Of her age, leaving pursuit, which his companions had relin
issue four children, Thomas, Samuel, Su quished, the three fellows surrounded him,,
san, William; and" will be long and se and, with a bludgeon, killed him- oh. the
riously lamented by a numerous and re spot. The fellow w ho struck the blow$,
spectable acquaintance. a carpenter who resides in the parish, of^i
If. At her father's house at Knights- known sanguinary disposition, was disco
bridge, in her 27th year, Miss Harriet vered at day-light in the morning, and se
Taylor; very much lamented by all who cured ; but he has refused- 1« d.seover his
fiad, the pleasure es knowing h«r. accomplices.
D4. At
1 174 Obituary, "with Anecdote!,
24. At Padiham, co. Lancaster, aged
58, Miss Fisbwick, one of the daughters
«jf the late Rev. James F. upwards of it)
years incumbent of that church.
50. At Ghingford Lodge, Epping Fo
rest, in hjs 69th year, Mr. John- Hamilton
Ivloore, late teacher of Navigation pn
Tower-hill, author of Moore's Navigation,
Seaman's Daily Assistant, the Monitor,
&c. He was born at a village near Edin
burgh, and there brought up by an aunt,
till about 8 years of age, wfien he was
taken by his father, who was a bleacher,
to naar Londonderry in Ireland ; whence
be was sent to Monaghan, under the ce
lebrated Mr. Ballendine to study the Ma-
thematicks. After he had finished his
education, he entered as a cadet in the Ply
mouth Division of Marines, and served on.
board Commodore Elliot's ship, the Bril
liant, at the time he took Mons. Thurot ;
after which he was lent to Plymouth, and
got his discharge, lie then turned his
mind to study, and became, after various
reverses of fortune, one of the teachers at
the late Mr. Hebden's, at Hounslow,
where he compiled his Epitome of Navi
gation, which will be a lasting memorial
of his knowledge in that science. After
this, he came and settled in London,
where, by his perseverance and industry,
he caused the best Charts to b? published
that had ever bein done by any individual
in this or any other nation. Notwith
standing this and all his other labours,
and after giving the late Lord Howe his
proper knowledge when he was first Lord
of the Admiralty, with regard to having
the coasts and harbours surveyed by the
Officers of the Navy, and to be delivered
tp each Captain, in the fame manner as
other stores, which has lately, been adopted ;
after doing so much, when applied to
lately, Government did not know him,
excepting Lord Spencer, late First Lord of
the Admiralty, to whom he has lately de
dicated a new Edition of his Navigation.
Nov In Glamorganshire, whither
he went for the benefit of his health, aged
37, Henry Bingham, eft), barrister at law,
of Dublin, and brother of Lord Clanmor-
ris, of Newbrook, in Ireland.
Suddenly, at Spalding, co. Lincoln,
universally respected, Mrs. Ives, wife of
Mr. I. chief constable of Holland Elloe.
' , At TathweH, near Louth, aged 73, Mr.
Michael Farr, formerly a respectable gra-
aier, &c. at Furnetby, near Lincoln.
In his 80th year, George Thompson,
esq. of Barrow.
At Castle Ddnington, co. Leicester, in
his 08th year, Archibald Campbell, He
was a native of Scotland, arid came into
•this country as a soldier in the Arpiy of
the Pretender, whom he deserted at Der-
Vy, where, and m that neighbourhood, he
of remarkable Persons. [ Dec*
has ever since remained. For several- years
lately he was a member of Etwall Hospi
tal, that very excellent asylum for the
aged and infirm.
At Norwich,- aged 77, Mr<John Snell,
commonly called Dr. Snell, much celt"
brated in that city as a foftiHie-ieller, and
formerly of Bury, where he practised-
quackery of the very lowest kindi
Aged 107, John K«y, ©f Eiigbaston-
rftill, near Birmingham.
In his yist year, St-rmitl Wheildon; esq.
of Chaldon, co. Derby.
In her goth year, Mrs. Clark, of West-
cot, near Mailburough.
At his teat at Huiufham, Devon, aged
74, William Troyi*, esq.
Aged 8,2, Mr. Thomas AWridge, of So
merset-square, Bristol.
At Kidwelly, co. Glamorgan, aged 77»
the Rev. Mi . Williams, 3.'j years viear of
that place, in the gifr of the Crown.
At his house in Wiagbam, Kent, aged-
80, the Rev. Thomas Hey, D. D. (so
created by the late Archbishop of Canter
bury), prebendary of Rochesief, and rec
tor pf Wickhambreux and EastGhurch,
both in that county.
At Warwick, aged fio, the Rev. Mr,
Kennedy, a Catholic priest.
Mrs. Marshall, relist of the Rev.. John
M. many years master of the Free Gram-,
mar-school at Exeter.
At Buckland-house, near Barnftaple, in,
Pevonsliire, Mrs. Webber, wife of Philip
R. W. el'q. daughter of John lncleclon,csq,
and grand-daughter, of the late Sir Henry
Northcote, barf.
At Bath, William-Smyth John, esq. late,
of Dublin, and grandson to the Right Revv
Thomas S. late Bishop of .1 imerick.
At Hull, in his ssth year, NathanieV
Tucker, M. D. a native of the Bermudas.
He graduated at Leyden in 1776; and was
known to the publick by two poems,
" The Bermudian," printed in 1774, an4
"The Anchoret," in 177ft ; both in quarto.
Drowned herself, in Bourne pond, Col-
Chester, in a sit of insanity, FrancesBowes,
Aged as, Mr. James Green, of Wilson-
street, Finsbury-squaie, formerly of Fen»
church-street, watch-maker.
Nuv. I. A' Withingion, co. Hereford,
the Rev. Corbet Browne, i6 years rector
of Withington and Upton, and formerly
of (lueen's college, Cambridge.
3. Mr. Thomas Stephens, late of the
Red Lion inn at Newbury, Berks. He was
thrown from the roof of a stage-coach,-,
and killed on the spot, leaving a wife and
nine children. The accident was occa
sioned by a jerk of the coach in pasting
over a raised footway across the roadi
4. Mr. Edward Sterland, hosier, of Cas.
tie-gate, Leicester, fort of John S. gent,
of Nottingham.
At
 j-807.] Obituary, with Anecdoteiytf remarkable Persons. 1175
At her brother's house in Castle-gate, Mrs. Willan, wife of WilKam W. esq.cf
.aged 40, Mil's Mary Lomax, Aiugh. of the Souldern-house, Oxon.
late Mr. EbenezerL. of Bingham, Nous. In High-street, Bloomsbury, aged 79.
At Loehgilphead, Alexander Bowes.el'q. Mrs. MaryCulptn, formerly of Birnet.
•collector of the Excise revenue in the dis Much relpeited, Mr. Robert Mcatyard,
trict of Argyll, in Scotland. of West Orchard, Dorset.
_J. AtPlassssa, near Mold, in Flintshire, PJ. At the house f>( his daughter, Miss
Edward Read, esq. Castell, in York-buildings, Mary-la-Bonne,
At Cambridge, in her 3Bth year, Mrs. aged 70, Sam. Caltell, esq. of Lombard-str.
iVynter, relict of the Rev. P. W. rector of A child, only 12 months old, belonging
Exhall cum Wixford, co. Warwick, for- to Mr. Gsldlbury, of Horse-shoe-alley,
*mctly of Sidney college, Cambridge, and Msbrtields. i A game-cock used frequently
•filler to William Beales, M. D. of Bury. to eat out of the child's hand ; and, this
Crushed to death, by the carving-in of a morning, while the child was. fitting Oti
Jlone-pit in which he was at work, John the floor, the cock catae, as usual to feed,
Woodward, a labourer, of Coilyweston, but, the infant not having any thing for
•co. Lincoln, leaving a wile and three in him, he immediately pecked at the child's
fant children. head, penetrated to its brain, and caused
Killed, W. Threadgold, of <*rantham. instant death.
A quarrel among the boys, about their At Fulford, Devon, in an advanced age,
bonfires, led to the unfortunate accident. Mrs. Tuckfield.
The deceased having struck T. Houseman, At <he Cold baths, Clifton, Mr. Tho
a boy 13 years old, with a stick over the mas Lawrence.
heail, the latter immediately threw a -brick In her 03th year, Sarah, relict of the
at him, which .hitting him on the temple, late Richard Carpenter, esq. of Devizes.
caused instant death. At the Cleveland Tontine inn, in York
6. In Charles-street,
•hanging herself, after Mary-la-Bonne, by shire, in 'consequence of an epileptic fit,
returning from the with which he was seized in the mail-
, Theatre, a Cypriati of the name of Sal coach on the 8th, in his 34th year, Wil
mon, of box-lobby notoriety. This tin- liam Hawks, jun. esq. of Gateshead.
fortunate girl, who had not attained her I.J.. After a few days illness, the wife
20th year, had been much depressed "he of the Rev. S. Clapham, M. A. vicar of
■whole nf the day,- in consequence ot em Christchurch, Hants, and rector of Guf-
barrassments, which, it is supposed, led l'age St. Michael, Dorset.
2ier to commit the shocking deed. At Codford St. Peter, Wilts, Mrs. Fox,
7. At North Colllngham, near Newark, wife of the Rev.T. F. jun. of that place,
Notts, aged 46, Mr. Henry Hett, late ■of and only daughter of the late Rev. Gre
Lincoln, attorney. gory Syndcreombe, LL.D. rector of Sy-
At Monmouth, Mrs. Vaughan, relict of mondlbury, co. Doti'et.
William V. eft] of Good-field, in that At Derby, aged 72, Mr. William Mason,
.county. She had pasted the week in the gardener and seedsman.
snost cheerful manner with a number of About ten weeks since, Henry Corfton,
hjcr friends assembled there. a boy between eight and nine years of age,
8. At-Xewes, Sussex, in his 81ft year, the son of the Landlord of the Star and
William Tapsficld, ef'q. Garter public-house, near Kensington
Mt. John Hazard, of the Eagle and Turnpike-gate, was bit on the lip by a
Child inn at Bury; whole death was oc terrier-dog belonging to his father. No
casioned by a violot cold caught on New- particular notice was taken of it till the
rnarket-healh at the late foot-race. dog was observed the next day running up
10. By cutting his throat from ear to and down the road, biting all the dogs he
..ear, Mr. Hail, formerly a hatr-dreflier at met \ he was in consequence tied up, and
Kingston, Surrey, but had retired. died in a shaft time mad. The boy had
At B'ce'ter, M-rs. Hstwerman .; who, some medicine given him, which it was
labouring under a mental derangement, supposed would prevent any ill effect
<h:ingcd hei',V4f. taking place from the bite. On Tucfaay,
In Grafion-street, James Ogilvy, esq. Oct. 10, the boy went in from play, ani
:late Major of the 5Qth Foot. complained of being ill. His parents
At .Lincoln, aged '6o, William Battesby, were not-able to discover the cause of his
(serjeant in the Koyal S. Lincoln Militia. illness, till they recollected the bite of the
Mr. Robert Healev, of Louth, father of dog. To ascertain the cause, they were
Mr. H. chemist, &c'. of Hull. advised to offer him some water, which
11. In his"78th year, John Cary, esq. he refused with great disgust, and he waa
alderman of Lynn. seized immediately with a fit, which left
Suddenly, in an apoplectic fit, aged 50, no doubt of its being the Hydrophobia.
Mr. J. Fuller,, of Norwich. Messrs. Blackburn, Hardwick,"Merryman,
11. William Smytlic, esq. of .Greefl- and several other medical gentlemen.
ipark-buildings, Bath,
 1 1 76 Obituary, with Anecdotes, if remarkable Persons. [Dec.
were called In, but without effect : the 1708," quarto. 2. "The Saxon and
boy died this day in great agony. English Languages reciprocally illustrative
15. At Weymouth, aged 'M, the well- of each other ; the Impracticability of ac
known old Tom Green, his Majesty's late quiring an accurate Knowledge of Saxon
favourite bathing-guide at that place dur- . Literature.through the Medium of the La
ing the many years that he visited it. tin Phraseology exemplified in the Errors
At Grays Thurrock, co. Essex, aged So, of Hickes, Wiikins, Gibson, and other
Mrs. Sarah Seabrooke, widow of the late Scholars ; and a new Mode suggested of
Mr. Roger S. of thai place, tide-waiter. radically studying the Saxon and English
She bore her extreme painful illness (a Languages ;" 3. " The first Number of
cancer) with true Christian fortitude and the Etymological Organic Reasoner ; or,
resignation. She was an exemplary wife, Yldeft an RadcheniftresGewlnessa; Oldest
a kind affectionate mother, and a sincere Reckoner's Witnesses ; with Observations
tfriend ; whose benevolent disposition and on the Works of Mr. White and Mr.
urbanity of manners will long endear her Tooke ; and One Sheet of the Gothic Gos
memory to a numerous circle of relations pel of St. Matthew, and another of the
and friends. Her remains were interred Saxon Durham Book, in Roman Charac
at Grays Thurrock on the 22d. ters; and a literal English Version, 1807,"
At Gainsborough, in the prime of life, 8vo ; of which he lived to publish a Se
Miss Trevor, daughter of Mr. T. attorney. cond Number the same year. The first
Aged 46, by destroying himself in a fit of these publications was amply reviewed,
of despondency, Mr. James Burnett, of and we may fay rut up, in vol. LXVHI.
Hull, woollen-draper. p. 861. He published, also, " Strictures
16. At his feat near I.eominfter, 'Wil on the late Motion of the Duke of Lein-
liam Hanbary, efq. of Kelmarsh, North ster, in the House of Peers, Richard-
ampton, and of Shobdon court, Hereford. Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. in the House of
AtLincoln, aged 63, Mrs. Hannah Hud- Commons, and a Paragraph in the Senti
dleston, fishmonger, and mother of John mental Chronicle iff Opposition, 17Q0,"
Sykes, a favourite seaman of Lord Nelson, «vo (LXIX. 045); and "A Sermon,
who had more than once saved the1 life of preached in the Parish Church of St.
that gallant and much-lamented Admiral. Mary Stratford l}ow, Middlesex, Dec. 5,
Very suddenly, Mr. ChristopherT-aylor, 1805, the Day appointed for a General
an opulent grazier, &c. of Billby, near Al Thanksgiving for the late signal and im- "
ford, co. Lincoln. portant Victory obtained by his Majesty's
Robert Simpson, a labourer, of Sproat- Ships of War under the Command of the
ley ; who poisoned himself by taking a late Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson,
quantity of arsenic and aqua-fortis, which over the Combined Fleets of France and
caused -his death in a short time. He had Spain, 1805," 8vo (LXXVI. 353). He
attempted to do it the preceding evening, succeeded, in 1802, to the rectory of St.
but was prevented by his wife. Mary Stratford Bow on the death of Alan
Captain Thompson, of the Earl of Lei Hanilon-Eccles, being the second reftor
cester packet. since it was made parochial, 1720, while
In Eaton-street, Pimlico, in his 63d his predecessor, Eccles, was patron.
year, Mr. John Christie. At Cretingham, in Suffolk. M.Chace,
In his 83d year, Mr. Thomas Rawson, widow; who was killed by the fail of a
of Derby, joiner. mill striking her in passing along, leavitifj
In John-street, Edinburgh, R. Baltbur, four small childien.
efq. of Balcurvie. At his house at Fulford-road, aged 76,
17. Rev. Samwcl Henfhall, M- A. rec James.Robfon, efq. one of the aldermen
tor of St. Mary Stratford Bow, Middle of the city of Voik. He served the office
sex; to which he was presented by Braze- of sheriff in 1J85, and thatxrf lord mayor
siose College, Oxford, in 180-2. He had in 1800.
persuaded himself that he was the best Thomas Edmundson, son of Mr. John
Saxon scholar in the kingdom ; and gave E.ol Chester-le-street, joiner, aged 2 years;
specimens of his knowledge in, 1 . " Spe on the 18th, Anne, his daughter, aged 4;
cimens and Parts ; containing a History of on the 20th, they were both interred in
the County of Kent; and a Dissertation one cossin ; and, on the 21ft, William, son
on the Lawst from the Reign of .Edward of the laid Mr. Kdmundson, aged 7 ; all'
the Confessor, to Edward the First;. of a of the scarlet fever, which has been very
Topographical, Commercial, Civil, and fatal in Chester and the neighbourhood
Natural History of South Britain ; with for several weeks past.
- its -gradual and comparative Progress, in 18. Much lamented, Mrs. Brougb, re
Trade, Arts, Polity, Population, anil lict of the late Rev. George-Staunton B.
Shipping. From authentic Documents. rector of Staunton and Wollafton, Notts.
By Samuel Henfhall, Cleric, M. A. Fel 19. At Gainsborough , in his 63d year,
low of Brazen Nose Colkge, Oxto«l, Mr. flower, wlun'&nger.
Sa
 1807.] Obituary,witb Anecdote
In his 12d yeir, Mr. William-Edward
Robberds, second lbn of J. W. R. esq. al
derman, and one of the sheriffs of Norwich.
At Paris, in his 70th year, M. L'Abbe
Le Chevalier, formerly Royal Censor, au
thor of several classic works.
BO. Found dead in her bed -room, at
Prior's-gate, on the road from Stawmore
to Beaconsfield, a young lady of the name
of Blcwctt, daughter of a wealthy mer
chant now abroad. She was to have been
man icd in a few days. ; 3a. At Over Compton, near Shetborn,
AtBushby, near Guildford, Surrey, Mr.
Launcelot, a veterinary surgeon, who had
sought a duel with a Lieutenant on Twick
enham common about three weeks since,
and was wounded in the shoulder, which
mortified, and caused his death.
At Salt-hill, on her way to London for
the benefit of medical advice, Mrs. Hay-
don, wile of Mr. Benjamin H. printer and
bookseller, of Plymouth.
At Mr. Cuthbert Fisher's, the Golden
Fleece, at Quarry-gate, between Carlisle
and Penrith, M.. Thomas Smith, tops-
man to Messieurs Smiths, drovers, near
Dumfries. He was on his road to Pen
rith, with a drove of cattle; but bein£
seized with a violent fit of the cholick, he
was obliged to stop at Quairy-gate, where
he died in great agony, after 2 days illness.
21. Miss Maule, only daughter of Mr.
M. attorney, of Huntingdon.
AtWisthorpc, in the parish of South
well, in his 84th year, Mr. Charles North-
age, an opulent farmer.
Mr.JofephTomlinfon, many years a re
spectable maltster at Bristol.
In his 78th year, Simon Wayte, efq. of
Groundwell-housc, Wilts.
11. At Liscombe-houfe, Bucks, Robcrt-
Turville-Jonatban Lovest, esq. only son of
Sir Jonathan L. bart.
Henry Bright, esq. mayor of Bristol;
whose upright and honourable conduct
through life made h*m -universally respect
ed, and whose loss will be long and deeply'
lamented. He had enjoyed the dignity but
a short time; and, though in an indifferent
state of health, he discharged the duties of
Ilis high office in a manner as satisfactory
to his fellow-citizens as honourable and
praiseworthy to himself.
At Waterfard, Robert Dobbyn, esq. re
corder tnd common councilman thereof.
23." At his house in the Crescent at
Shrewsbury, aged 57, Richard Rocke,efq.
ofTrefnanny, co. Montgomery.
In Sloane-square, Chelsea, of consump
tion, aged 33, Mr. Thomas Burgess, a ce
lebrated young artist, who published a Se
ries of Views of Churches in Lincolnshire.
Suddenly, at his house at Hammer
smith, Mr. Isaac Bell. He had settled his
worldly affairs previous to his death, aud.
Gent. Mao. December, 1^07..
12 .-
ofremarkable Persons, 1177
communicated to his daughter, on the
morning of the 21ft, his full conviction
that he should not lire to transact some
necessary business this morning. His pre
diction was fully Verified ; for, being ta
ken violently ill of a bowel-complaint ia
the night of the- 22d, he expued in three
hours. He was a relation of Mr. B. the
once supposed prophet in Edgewarc-road,
who died in February; >t,H was lormerly
a (hoe-maker in Oxford-street, rfee p. 189.
aged 72, Mr. Bicknell, carpenter, who
followed his business till within a tew
days of his death; brought up a nume
rous family ; was the oldest member ot
the Protestant Dissenting Interest at Half
way-house ; and had one son, a missionary
at Otaheite.
At the rectory at West Wiekham, Kent,
aged 49, the Rev. Joseph Fanlder. He
succeeded, in 1786, Sackville Austin, to
whom he had been curate ; and married
one of the coheiresses of —— Hillerfden,
efq. of Elnstow, co. Bedford, by whom
he has left issue one daughter.
At his mother's house in Edinburgh,
aged 17, James Mitchelj Hamilton, mate
in the Eait India Company's service, and
second son of the late Andrew H. esq. de
puty-comptroller of Excise.
At Glasgow, Miss Marion Crawford,
youngest daughter of the late Mr. George
C. Historiographer for Scotland, and au
thor of the Peerage of Scotland, and His
tory of Renfrewshire.
Aged tie, Mr. George Moneypenny, of
Derby, sculptor. »
At Whitby, aged 41, Mr. Benjamin
Bridekirk, late master of the ship Fides, of
that port. Finding, when at Portsmouth
a few weeks ago, that an indisposition,
with which he had been for some time
past afflicted, began to exhibit symptoms'
of a mortal tendency, he resolved to un
dertake the arduous talk (which he hap
pily accomplished) of travelling to Whit
by, in order to have the consolation of dy
ing in the bosom of his^fafnily.
By swallowing a dose of-aqua-fortls,, a
young man named Wootfoti, a draper's
apprentice in Oxford-street. 1
25. Aged 88, Mrs, Anne Rose, of West
Deeping, co.-Lincoln.
At Portsmouth, George Poorc, esq.. in the
commission of the peace for Hants. ,
In George's-ftreet, Limerick, Robert
Warburton, efq. a captain in the Roya^
Navy, to which tank he was promoted 1795;
and 12 years the regulating officer of that
port. He had been, a few days before,
appointed by the Admiralty to the pert of
Dublin, whither he was going to remove.
In London, Mr. John Francis, many
years a respectable tradesman in Lincoln..
Ia
 178 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons. [Dec .
In Noble-street, in his 83d year, Mr. ficer of the Enemy's, left, he directed a
v Augustine Towson, late of Threadneedle- body of cavalry to fait on our troops, who
street, apothecary. succeeded in re-taking the battery. Lieut.
In Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, B. rallied his stragglers, and; led them
aged 64, Vice-admiral John Pakeuham, again to attack the battery, which he re
of Lowestoft, Suffolk. / gained, and turned the guns of it upon
26. At Mr. Fenton's, woollen-draper, the Enemy. This had no inconsiderable
West Smithfield, aged 40, Mrs. Mary effect in deciding the fate of the day; arrd
Lewis, late of Birmingham. his conduct met the applause it merited,
Aged 81, at his house on Clapham in the orders which the late Sir Hector
common, Surrey, John Collick, cfq. late Munro, who commanded our Army, is
of St. Martin's-lane, hair merchant, and sued on the field of battle. He was loon
in'the commission of the peace for West after rewarded by the Government with
minster and county of Middlesex. the appointment of Major of Brigade.
In Marlborough-buildings, Bath, Eliza, During 14 subsequent years that he con
fourth daughter of the late Thomas Per- tinued in India, he was actively employed,
cival, M. D. F. R. S. and discharged all his duties so as to merit
At her mother's house in Upper Church- the confidence and approbation of Go
street, Bath, Miss Edridge. vernment and his superior Officers ; and
At Wigihorpe, Notts, James Worfley, quitted the service esteemed by all who
esq. late lieutenant-colonel of the York knew him. Mr. B. was an intelligent,
Fencibles, and eldest foil of the Rev. Jas. well-informed man ; he served the office
W. formerly rector of Stonegrave, Yorkth. of High Sheriff for the county of Salop in
At Morton, near Gainsborough, aged 40, ' 171)5 ; and the next year was appointed
Mr. Cowlham, schoolmaster. Chief Magistrate of Shrewsbury.
27. At Carrickmacross, aged 15, Louisa, 28. After one hour's illness, in King-
eldest daughter of Humphry Evatt, esq. street, Cambridge, Mr. T. Adams, late a
At Lyme Regis, Dorset, the Rev. George considerable farmer at Bottistram.
E'wbank, fellow, of Trinity coll. Cambr. After a long illness, Mr. T. Bowyer,
At Brighthelmstor.e, in Her 7th year, only child of Thomas B. esq. of Swaii-
Fanny, eldest daughter of Thomas Orhy ham-Bulbeck, co. Cambridge.
Hunter, esq. of Crowland, co. Lincoln. At Exmouth, Devon, of a most severe
Alexander Bowker, esq. of Lynn. He nervous complaint, Mis. Stevens; who
was seized with a fit ot apoplexy while at was, for the last four years, deprived of
dinner, of which he died in a few hours. the use of all her limbs, and of the power
In Holies-street, Cavendish-square, Ltvi of utterance.
Ball, esq. late of Bengal, and brother of At Southampton, aged 63, Mr. Tho
Sir Alexander B. governor of Malta. mas Collins, proprietor -and manager of
At his house in Spring-gardens, in his the Southampton, Portsmouth, Winches
65th year, Henry-Vaughan Brooke, esq. ter, and Chichester theatres. He had la
36 years M.P. for the county of Donegal, boured, for the last 10 years, under the
in Ireland. His property, amounting to most severe affliction, which he bore with
50001. a year, devolves to his kinsman, the greatest patience and fortitude to the
Henry Brooke, esq. who lately married the last period of his existence. He was the ,
niece of Dr. Hume, of Grosvenor-street. father of Mr. B. Collins (late of Drury-
In South-street, Finlbury-square, aged lane Theatre)-; and had conducted most
79, J. Child, esq. of the above theatres more than ii 8 years
At his house, in Belmont, Shrewsbury, with the greatest credit. In him the The
aged 61, Henry Bevan, esq. formerly a atrical World have lost a friend. ; to his
Major in the East India Service. At the performers he was kind and humane,
battle of Biixar he first distinguished him many of whom he has supported under
self; 'being then a young Lieutenant, and long illness; in his dealings scrupulously
second in command of a battalion of Na honest. He has left a widow and two
tive Troops stationed On the right of the children, Mr. S. Collins, and Mrs. Kelly,
Line, perceiving that his Senior Officer wife of the present acting manager.
hesitated to attack a battery placed on an In Chancery-lane, aged 74, the wife of
eminence on the Enemy's left, which se Thomas Vaughan, elq. of Enfield, Mid
verely galled our Army, he spiritedly dlesex, daughter of the late P.ev. Thomas
called upon him to do his duty, or give Ogle, rector of Carham, Northumberland,
place to those that would. The Officer and the last of the female line of the
retired into the rear, and Lieut. Bevan Ogles, of Cawlcy park, Northumberland.
stormed the battery with much bravery, .'At his, house in Punderlbn's-place, on
and drove the Enemy through a village Bethnal-green, Thomas Browne, esq. se
in the rear of it. His Sepoys dispersing cretary to the Levant Company.
in search of plunder, and the confusion In the Hay-market, Mrs, Barclay, wife
being observed by the Commanding Of of Mr. B. their Majesties wax-chandler.
1 ..
[3o7-] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Perjbns.- i i 79
In bis 6sth year, Mr. Alexander Simp could walk three oi»four mites with the'
son, of thie Chief Cashier's office in the firm step of a young man. It Was to the.
Bank of England. exercise of walking that he in a great mea-;
This day a, gentleman, of the name of sure ascribed Ms good health and longevity.'
Jones, 'went' on-board a, vessel lyjrtg at Dec. ... At the Upper Convent, Win-'
Blackwall, and as lie was quitting the Chester, aged 52, the Rev. James Bowyer,
{hip, he fell over her side, and disappear chaplain to the Ladies of St. Peter's, in
ed. The mate, assisted by the crew, im Winchester, and late of Brussels. ',
mediately fastened himself to a rope, dived Rev. ——— Mutlowe, vicar of Broad-
after him, and was fortunate in rescuing Windsor, co. Dorset. The living, .said to 1
him from a watery grave. Mr. Jones was be worth 600I. a year, is in the gift of the
soon sufficiently recovered to converse ; Bishop of Salilbury.
and, after changing his cloaths, &c. set off After a few days illness, at her house in
in his gig, accompanied by a friend, to his Marlborough-buildings.Bath, Mrs. Pigott,
house in Bloomlbury ; where having ar relict of the late Grenado P. efq.
rived, his companion, who had descended At Bath, Mrs. Minfhull, wife of John
from the vehicle to afford him assistance, M. efq. and sister of the late Lord Craven.
discovered that he was dead. Suddenly, aged 55, Mr. John Needham,
At Cork, Mrs. Beamish, wife of the of Hinckley.'co. Leicester, more than 30
Rev. Samuel B. years an occasional writer in the Gentle
29. Peter Fowler, a joiner, residing in man's Diary, and a contributor to other
Giay's-inn-lane ; who was drowned in a publications of the fame nature.
pnnd near Newington, by imprudently Miss Frances Toynton, of Toynton All
venturing on the ice before it was suffi Saints, near SpiHby, co. Lincoln ; the day
ciently strong to bear him; and whole of whose death was that fixed on for her
wife was a spectator of the accident. A wedding, with every prospectus happiness.
lad, named Bremen, was also drowned in At SpiHby, aged 84, Mr. John Hodson.
a pond near Somers-town ; as was like Suddenly, Mr. John Everatt, farmer, of
wise Edward, the son of Mr.Tho. Powell, Brinkle, co. Lincoln.
a box-door-keeper at Drury-lane Theatre, Mrs. Collingwood, wife of Mr. Anthony 1
in the Serpentine river, aged 16. C. grocer, &c. at Corby. About 9 weeks
At his house in Grofvenor-place, Sir ago (he was sliockingly burnt by her dress
John-Thomas Stanley, bart. of Alderley catching fire ; and has lingered in great
park, in Cheshire. He succeeded his fa torment ever since.
ther, Sir Edward S. in 1755. Mr. George Parkes, of the Pump-house
Aged 18, Susan- Harriet, daughter of at Hanbury. While riding in the fields,
Mr. Field WiUett, banker, of Brandon, apparently in, perfect health, he fell from
co. Suffolk. his horse and instantly expired.
Aged 53, Mrs. Evans, wife of Mr. E. At Bideford, Devon, in her 101st year,
stationer, of Bristol. Mrs. B. Parminter.
At March, in the Isle of Ely, a^ed 8-2, At Hoddesdon, Herts, Mrs. Boreham.
Mr. Jamc:-. Bacon, formerly an opulent mother of one of the ladies who were
farmer at Upwell. murdered there about two months since.
At Perth, Sarah-Sophia Wilson ; and, Her death is ascribed to the wounds she
eight days after, William-Carlyle Wilson, also received at that time. (Seep. 070).
her brother ; children of Alexander W. At Battle-bridge, near Pancrus, aged 78,
esq. merchant there. Mr. Samuel Humberstone, of Hounflow,
30. At his feat, Mount Pleasant, Tot who formerly kept the Mother BUck Cap
tenham, Middlesex, aged 79, Rowland public-house in the Hampstead road.
Stephenson, esqvof Lombard-str. banker. In Somers-town, in his 85th year, Frin-'
In his 73d year, the Rev. Tho. Bowen, cis Lallier, efq. the first person who intro- .
near 40 years rector of Pulham St. Mary duced Daran's Bougies into this country,
the Virgin, and Pulham St. Mary Mag having been a pupil to that gentleman, •
dalen, Norwich; both livings in the gift who was surgeon to Louis XVI. and"
of the Crown. practised that branch of surgery upwards
At Latchingdon, near Maldon, Essex, of 50 years with great success. *
the Rev. J. Patterson, late of St. John's Mr. William Wood, of the Secretary's
college, Cambridge. office at the East India-house.
In his soth year, Mr. Alderman Med- In Goswell- street, aged about 50, Mr.
calfe, of Woodstock. He first served the- Edward Seward, partner with his brother,
office of mayor of that borough in 1/34 ; dyer to the East India Company.
the last and ninth time in 1804 ; an inter Dec. I. At his house at North-End, co.
val of 50 years, which perhaps is unpre Middlesex, Mr. Samuel Morris.
cedented in the Annals of Corporations. At Pcckham, Surrey, in his '27th year,
To the last he preserved his faculties en Mr. Joseph Tappen, timber-merchant, of
tire ; and a few months before his death the Narrow-wall, Lambeth.
In
 1 1 80 Obituary, with Anecdotes, ofremarkable Persons. [Dec.
In Queen's- square, Mrs. Boydell, relist At his house at Greatford, co. Lin
of James B. esq. of Hackney- grove. coln, the Rev. Francis Willis, M. D.
At his bouse in Cheaplide, aged 35, Mr. formerly rector of St. John's, Wapping ;
Edward Ward, son of the late Mr. W. of justly celebrated for his success in the treat
Folkinghara, co. Lincoln, whither his re- ment of Insanity; and highly esteemed as
maiiis were conveyed for interment. always ready to alleviate the minor neces
At Brighthelmftone, aged 58, the wife sities of his fellow-creatures. He had not
of Thpmas Kemp, el'q. M.P. of Coneybo- enjoyed perfect health since an illness with
rougb, near Lewes, SuHex. *„ which he was attacked about six weeks
2. Mr. S. Duperoy, banker, of New. ago ; but he was so far from betraying
Bafinghall-street. evidence of approaching dissolution, that
A' Clifton, Mrs. Mahon, wife of Ross late on the 4th, in a dark and cold even
JVI. c!'q. of Caftlegar, Ireland. ing, he was vigorous enough (in the 90th
Ai Shepherd's-bulh, in her !Oth year, year of his age) to walk twice from his •
Mrs Barber, wife of Mr. William E. of own house to the village of Barholm—a,
Old Bit. id-ftreet, solicitor, and only daogh- distance of nearly a mile—to see a patient.
,tcr of the late Thomas Collingwood, el'q. He retired to reft in good spirits, and on
of Gray's-inn. the following morning shaved himself, as
At Abb's -court, Surrey, Tryphcna was his practice, and continued without
dowager Countess Bathurst. She was any apparent ohange of health until after
daughter of Thomas Scawen, efq. and in dinner, when he complained of being very
17 50 became the second wife of the late ill, and, five minutes afterwards, expired
Earl, who left her a widow in 1794. The in his chair. Asa man so advanced in
present Earl, her son, was born in 176*. years, he was remarkably hale : about five
3; In Exeter-street, Strand, Mr. Ralph years since he performed a journey of yo
Simmons, glass-manufacturer. miles on horseback in a day, to give a vote
At her house in Upper Brook-street, at Brentford for his friend Mainwaring.
Grosvenor-square, Mrs. Lynne, relict of The fame of the profeffianal service he
the late Nicholas L. el'q. of Horstiam. some years ago rendered to this Copntry
At her house in Derby, very advanced in the person of the Sovereign, induced
in age, the. Hon. Mrs.Tracey. his assistance to be sought for the Queen
At Hull, aged 49, Mr. Henry Dales, of of Portugal, to whom he went, and who
Brid'ington. Having been dining with a was for some months his patient. At the
friend in Dock-street, he left the house time of his death a great .number of af
a little before seven o'clock, lo go into flicted persons of family and respectability
the town. The night being dark and wet, were under his care at Greatford and Shil-
he mistook his road, and, instead of going lingthorpe, where the Doctor had a con
along Dock-street into Saville-street, turn siderable establishment for cases of this
ed to the left, opposite Crown-court, and fort. He was of Braze-nose college, Ox
\talked straight forward into the dock, ford; M. A. 1740; B. and D. M. 1759.
where he was found dead on the 5th. He has left five sons by his first wife, who
4. At Mount Panther, co. Down, the was, sister to the Rev. Peregrine Curtis, of
Rev. Charles-William Moore, many years Brinstonc, near Lincoln, and who died on
rector of the.parish of Moira. , the 18th of May, 1/S7, aged 73 years.
Mr. Richard Parrott, of Quebec-street, The Doctor lately married Mrs. Storer,
Mary-la-Bonne. who survives him, and by whom he has
Capt. Anderson, of the Army. He had left no issue. His funeral, on the 13th,
recently returned from South America ; was attended by a very great concourse of
was walking along Goodge-street, on his sorrowing s)>e6tators'. His remains were
way to Chirlotte-ftreet, Rathbone-place, interred in the church at Greatford, near
wh't^ he lodged, when he fell.down in the altar.
»n apoplectic fit, and expired. At his villa, at Leiften, Suffolk, of a ra
Suddenly, in- Charlotte-street, Fitzroy- pid decline, aged 54, Capt.Wm. Bafbam,
square, aged 50, Daniel Dulaney Addison, of the East Suffolk Militia; in which he
el'q. of the late Regiment of Maryland had served, with honour to Himself, and
Loyalists, raised in 1776, and disbanded at credit to the regiment, upwards of 3o
the Peace in 1783. years, 2.9 of which he had been adjutant.
At his father's house, in Kingfland, Mr. In his 70th year, Vincent-l'earce Ash-
Trancis Forrester, jun. of Crown-court, field, el'q. of Liverpool, merchant.
Broad-street. ■ At Great AbingtOn, co. Cambridge, the
, At Bath, in his 72d year, John Bour- Rev. Andrew Pern, rector of Abingdon and
mafter, el'q. Admiral of the Blue ; which Clay, near Royston, Herts, and an active
rank he obtained by professional merit, magistrate for Cambridgeshire. He was
joined to the strictest honour and inte of St. Peter's college; B. A. 1772.
grity in the service of his Country, as In bis 5(ith year, Mr. David Fordhara,
well as in private life. a well-known horse dealer in Cambridge.
At
l8o7-] Obituary, v}ith' Anecdotes, of remarkable Perfins. 11S1
At Windsor, Mr. Cope, one of his Ma 9. in his 6-2d year, Mr. George Gwilt,
jesty's cooks. of Southwark, architect.
At her house, in Lower Eaton- street, Thomas, eldest ton of Mr. Thomas Po-
Pirrilico, Mrs. Flint. me.ruy, of Grove-place, Hackney.
6. At her son's house, in Great Prescot- At her house, on St. James's parade,
strect, Goodman's-fields, in her 70th year, Bath, aged 7.5, Mrs.Tobin', relict of John
Mrs. Southey. T. elq. of Bath.
In Wych-street, Strand, aged 76, Mr. 10. At Southampton, John Brisbane,
Brpwnly, smith- esq. Admiral ot' tilt-. Red. In his profes
In Old Boswell-court, Carey-street, after sion he displayed the courage of a British .
three days illness, ag«l 50, Mrs. Webb. seaman ; in his manners, the elegance of
At Felix-town, Lieut. Beaafoy, R.N. a real gentleman ; and in his death, the
At Plymouth, Captain Danvers, of the resignation of a sincere Christian.
Royal Marines, eldest son -of the late Da •At his feat at Stapleford, co. Leicester^
niel D. esq. of Bath, and brother of Char. in his 41st year, Philip Sherartl, Earl and
D. esq. of Bristol. Baton of Harborough, and Baron ot Lei-
7. At Aspley-Gyse, a pleasant village trim in Ireland, He married, in 17()'»
near Woburn, Mr. Wright ; who, from Eleanor Monkton, daughter of the Hon.
low beginnings, for many years had con Col. John M. ; by whom he has left one
ducted a considei able and flourishing aca son, Philip, his i'ucceslbr, born Aug 12,
demy, where 200 young gentlemen were 1797, and four thiughters.
boarded and educated. 11. At Enfield, Mr. Montague, late
In Duke-street, Bath, Miss Henrietta- carrier and corn-chandler.
Louisa-Pastorini, elder sifter of the Rev. R. The son of the late Mr. Myt ton, part
Warner, of Bath. ner with Sir Thomas Halifax.
Shipwrecked, on-boarda brig, off Bide- 12. A redfrl, A.Clithero, esq. of Bird-
f»rd, Devon, on his voyage to Greenock, place, Herts.
the Rev. George-Hay Drummond, M. A. In King-street, Westminster, where he
prebendary of York, son of a late Arch had lived upwards of 40 years, Mr. Gale,
bishop of York, and uncle to the present cork-cutter, and dealer in cork.
Earl of Kiarioul. His port-folio, with Mr. John Young, of Sittingbourn.Kenf.
several letters, and 3fio beautiful drawings ' 13. After a few hours illness, Mr. G.
of the various places he had visited, were White, solicitor, and many years town-
washed on shore. He was of Christ Church, clerk of Tetbury, co. Gloucester.
Oxford; A.M. 1783 ; had considerable InHigh-street,Dublin,Mr.J.M'Creery,
Church preferment ; and has published an old and respectable citizen.
several Sermons. 14. At his house in New Bond-street,
In his 61st year, Thomas Hayman, esq. Mr. T. Bowman.
of the Paragun, in the Kent road. At Tiverton, Devon, in Iiis lsjlh year,
At Totnes, Devon, aged 42, Thomas E. W. Langflow, son of Dr.X.
Watts, esq. adirector of the Sun Fire-office. 15. In his 67th year, Isaac Hugbes, esq.
8. In Lime-street, after an illness of of Winchester-street.
some days, Henry Calender, esq. a gen 16. Aged six years, Henry-Churchill
tleman whose strength of frame, vivacity White, second son of W. H. W. esq. «f
of spirits, and general" regularity of habits, Parliament-place, Old Palace-yard,Westm.
promised fair to continue his amiable and At her house, in Duk=-street, Westmin
useful life to a late period. He died in a ster, aged 91, Mrs. Mary Udny, of Long-
middle age; and, as we are informed, un Ditton, Surrey, widow of George U. esq.
married. His disposition was mildly con At Lichfield, Mrs. Buckle, ofThornton.
vivial, tenderly affectionate, and gene 17. In his t)5th year, Mr. Winstanley,
rously benevolent : hi^ temper was firm, of Cheapside.
warm, manly, and conciliatory: his ta Thomas Penn, esq. of Stoke-Newintjion.
lents, as a merchant and a man of busi At his country-seat at Hornchurch, Es
ness, weregieat ; his assiduity was inces sex, aged 4g, John Massu, esq.
sant ; his punctuality was truly exem 18. In Hoiborn, aged 67, Mrs. Anne
plary ; and, therefore, his public, no lei's Solly, formerly of the Poultry.
than his private, character was deservedly 19. At Oxford, in the Olst year of his
high.. He died, as he had ever lived ;—- age, in consequence of a violent paralytic
beloved, respected, and admired seizure, the Reverend Henry Richards,
Suddenly, in his 74th year, Daniel Ro D. D. Rector of F.xe:er College, and Vice-
binson, esq. of Gray's-inn, a gentleman of chancellor of that University. He was
eminence in the profession of the Law. bom at Tawstock, a village near Barnsta-
At Orlingbury, co. Northampton, aged ple, in the North of Devon, in the month
81, Mr. Joseph Manning, brothe- of the of Majch 1747 ; and, having been edu
late Rev. Owen M. author of the History cated at Barr.liaple school, was admitted
and Antiquities ef the County of Surrey.. a. Commojier cf Exeter College, at an
early
1 182 Obituary.-—TheatricalRegister.—BUI osMortality. [Dec.
early age, in Michaelmas term, 1763. he discharged with peculiar ability, and
Soon after he had taken the degree of Ba with the strictest integrity. Endowed
chelor of Arts, he was elected to a fellow with a firm and comprehensive mind, and
ship in that Society on the 30th of June, possessing a warm and most affectionate
1707. Me was ad.nittcd a Master of Arts heart, an uibanity of manners, and a so
on the 2<j;h of April, 1770 ; and in com cial disposition, his loss is deeply lamented
pliance with the statutes of his College, by his fcimily and" a numerous circle of at
proceeded to' the degree of Bachelor in tached fncnds;.and for an unrestrained
Dfcuiityon the flih of November, i78l. liberality ; an anxious desire to render his
Having been constantly resident in Ox talents beneficial to Society, which he
ford, and engaged in discharging the of evinced on various occasions ; as one of
fice of Tutor, during a long course of the Vice-presidents of the Society for the
years, he was at length presented by the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures,
Kectorand Fellows, on the 13th ofMarch, and Commerce ; and as governor and con
1704, to the valuable Rectory of Bushy, tributor to several 'Charities and Institu
in the diocese of London, and county of tions ;' added to an ardent wish to be use
Herts, at which place he Coon afrer begavi ful where he poffcsted the means; His
to reside. In this retirement, however, memory will, >n the recollection of his
he did not long continue, being recalled virtues, be ever revered.
to the University, on occasion of the' death 21. . At his houjse, in Coleman-ftreet-
of Dr. Stinton, in whose.room he was buildings, aged 87, the Uev. John Newton,
elected Rector of Exeter College on the rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary
ajd of July l"0/"- In the rrionth of Ou- Woolnoth, and St. Mary Mountchurch
tober lso6, he was advanced to the office' Haw ; of which parishes he had been rec
of Vice-chancellor of the University of tor 28 years. LI is unblemished life, his
Oxfoi.l, to which also he was ".^aini no amiable character, both as a man and as
minated, and admitted, at the expiration a Minister, and his able writings, are toa
of the year, in October last. In the dis well known t« need any comment.
charge of this high and arduous trust his' 22. Mrs. Gamier, wife of Geo. G. efq.
conduct was such as in a very high degree of Wickham-plaqe, Hants.
to conciliate the affection and esteem of 23. In BedYordbury, Mr. James Tom-
the University, so that his loss is very ge linson, woolle*n-draper.
nerally andsincercly lamented. On Thurs At Charlton, in Kent, Thomas Wellad-
day, (he -24th, his re'mains were privately Aiice, efq. late commander of the East In
interred in the chapel of his college, in dia Company's ship Chariton.
compliance with the directions of his will ; 25. At Goytree, co. Monmonth, aged
but the heads of Houses and Proctors fol 23,: Maria, wife of Henry Withringten,
lowed him to the grave, as a just testi efq. one of twelve children of the late
mony of their regard for his memory, and Lieut.-col. Bird, of the 54th Regiment.
respect for the office which he bore. Af
ter leaving a few legacies of no very consi THEATRICAL REGISTER.
derable amount to some of his friends, he Sift. Hav-Mahket.
has bequeathed the whole residue of his 1. Five Miles Off— Mufick Mad —The
property to Exeter College. 2. The I ron Chest—TomThumb. [Critick.
20.' At his house, at Great Killing, Mid 3. The Dramatist—A Tale of Mystery—
dlesex, after a lingering illness, which he 4. Hamlet—Mustek Mad. [MufickMad.
lustaincd with the utmost forttiude and re 5 . TheWheel of Fortune—M usisk Mad—
signation, aged 68, Francis Stephens, The Irish Widow.
efq. F. R. and A. S. and late one of the • 7- Pizarro—The Critick. [Thumb.
Commissioners for Victualling his Majes 8. ATaleof Mystery—The Review—Tom
ty's Navy. For a period of nearly 50 9. The Beggar's Opera— Lovers' Quar
years he, in a civil capacity, filled va rels—Animal M.ngnetil'm.
rious appointments in his Majesty's Naval 19. The Iron Chest—The Critick.
Service ; as a Purser ; Secretary to diffe 1 1 . Pizarro—Lock and Key'.
rent Admirals, in the Navy Department ; 12. Five Miles Off—A. Tale of Mvsterj—
and latterly (until a few years previous Catch Him Who Can!
to his decease, having retired from the 14. The Stranger—The Critick.
public service) as 'one of the Members of l.i. Hamlet—Tom Thumb.
the Victualling Board, the duties of which *»*PnoMOTioNs,Src. &-c. in Supplement.
BILL OF MORTALITY, from November 24, to December 28, IS07.
Christened. Buried. )2 and 5 324 SO and 60 101
Males 973 ( 10 16 Males 1148 ) ( 5 and 10 no fio and 70 164
Females 9-1- Female::s 1084 J ' ; . 10 and 20 60 70 and 80 144
Whereof have died under 2 years old 629" ; s*2o and 30 132 80 and' 90 49
Peck Loaf 3s.tid.; 3s.7d.; 3s.7d.; 3s.sd.; 3s.gd. ; \ so and 40 195 90 and 100 j|
kilt os, od. per bushel; 4d.^ per pound. * 40 and so 205 101 0 '105 •
 C "83 ]
AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending December 10, 1907.
INLAND COUNTIES. MARITIME COUNTIES.
Wheat) Rye Barley Oats IBeans Wheat! Rye (Bar'e Oats Beans
d\ t. J. 1. d. j. d.'s. d- 1. d.'s. ,,, .'. d. .. d.
Middles. 74 : 37 3|59 Essex 69 8 46 0 45 j6 0 56 1;
Surrey fa 47 lo|37 10 37 Kent 66 0 47 0i44 34 3 52 0
Hertford 6s 43 0.14 30 o',49 Sussex 63 8^00 0|43 31 6L52 (.•
Bedford 64 51 241 30 10>2 Suffolk 64 200 oka 31 lil (.
Huntingd. 62 00 o|42 ■27 6,51 Cambrid. 62 Sill 8'41 T 52 ,6
Northam. 61 40 0 40 29 4'S I Norfolk 62 2 42 4*39 30 53 0
Rutland 9:00 o|45 31 0 li4 Lincoln 66 4 45 5-43 29 58 11
Leicester 0,45 242 6j29 9 53 York 62 11 44 (3,39 as 58 3
Nottingh. 2:46 0 44 8 30 6 57 Durham 65 8 00 0-41 11 00 0
Derby 8 00 0 46 8 31 259 Northum. 59 0148 7|40 11 so po 0
Stafford 800 0 44 2l32 859 Cumberl.. 74 a i 59 1|42 • 5 27 00 0
Salop 4 46 0 37 3 31 6 00 Westmor. 78 4'37 b 28 00 0
Hereford 2,41 &3i 680 4!55 Lancaster T7
6 00 o|37 1 1 29 4 8
Worcest. io|oo 0.33 2l37 455 Chester og 0 42 C 28 00 0
Warwick 900 0 43 9',3 + o'57 Flint 00 0'4O 7 00 00 0
Wilts- 4!00 038 0 32 0 58 Denbigh 00 0|43 1 £ 25 00 o
Berks 4:00 0 39 10134 6^58 Anglesea 00 0'3f3 0 24 00 o
Oxford 4 00 oVfi o'ao 9| 50 Carnarvon 00 oag 0|25 00 o
Bucks 6 00 039 11 31 7 61 Merionet. 73 00 0 42 23 64 6
Urecon 0:44 £>|35 o'oo Cardigan 76 00 ojdg 18 00 0
Montgo, q'oo o'33 9[oo Pembroke 58 00 034 40 09 0
Radnor 2 00 0 32 O 28 7:00 Carmarth. 78 00 0 35 >9 09 o
Glamorg. 70 00 o!40 33 00 o
Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Glouceft. 67 00 0^30 30 54 3
Somerset 73
68 0|46 7,S9 10',29 l|55 11 Monmo. 60 1 1 00 o'35 go 00'00 0:36 25 59 3
0
Average of Scotland, per quarter. Devon GS 900 0(3 6 23 00 0
Cornwall 72 1 00 0 36 21. 00 0
59 5|44 2|37 5',Q9 g;6o 9 'Dorset Dorset 66 9 oo 0 38 39 o|66 o
| [Hants 04 4 00 0 40 30 sq 00
AGGREGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and
Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain.
Wheat • i.Ryed. Barley Oats Beans Pease Oatmeal 1 Beer or Big
s. d. s. d. s{ d. s. d. ,s. d. s. d. s, <t._
63 5 46 9 39 10 28 3 57 0 82 10 «9 5 I
PRICES OF FLOUR, December 28:
Fine 55s. 58s. to 60s.—Seconds 45s. to 50s.—Bran las. to 14s.—Pollard 28s. to 32s.
Return of Flour, December 12 to December 18, from the Cocket-Office :
Total 19,097 Sacks. Average 5Q3. od.—is. 6d.J per Sack higher than the last Return.,
Return of WHEAT, December 14 to December 19, agreeably lo the new Act:
Total 3720 Quarters. Average 73s. od.i—2s. 3d.£ higher than the last Return.
OATMEAL, per Boll of I40lbs. Avoirdupois, December 19, 44s. 6d. 1
Average Price of SUGAR, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending
December 23, Is 33s. 2d.J per Cwt. exclusive of the Duty of Customs paid
or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.
PRICE OF HOPS, December 26 :
Kent Bags 5l. Os. to 61. Os. Kent Pockets. . . , 5 1. Os. to 7I, os,
Sussex Ditto.- 41. 14s. to 5i. 5s Sussex Ditto 51, OS. to 5l. 15S.
Efl'ex Ditto 4l. 14s. to 5l. 12s. Farnham Ditto 61. os. to fit. Os.
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, December 26 :
St. James's—Hay... .41. os. od. to 61. os. ed. Average, si. os. od.
Straw.. . ll. 1 6s. Od. to si. os. od. Average ll. iss. od.
Whitechapel—Hay. . . .41. los. 0(1. to b\. l6s. Od. Average si. 3s.- -Od.
Clover. .51. 1 Os. o.i. to 61. 18s. od. Average 61. 4s. od.
Straw...! 1.1 os. od. to ll. }8s. od. Average ll. 14s. od-.
SMITHFIELD, December 28. . To fink the Offal—per Stone of 8lb.
Beef. ,5s. od. to 6s. od. Pork 4S. od. to 4S. ed.
Mutton. . .45. 4d. to 5s. 4d. Lamb os. od. to os. od.
Veal .55. Od. to 6s. 4d. Bci'.sts 1400. Sheep and Lambs 18,000.
COALS, Dec. 23 Newcastle 50s. 6d. to 56s. 3d. Sunderland 48s. 6d. to 51s.
SOAP, Yellow 86s. Mottled 96s. Curd 00^. CANDLES, 12s. perDoz. Moulds 13s.
TALLOW, per stone, 8lb. St. James's 4j 4 J. Clare Market is.5d. Whitechapel 4s.3d.
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Embellished with a beautiful Perspective View of PorE's House at Twickenham ;
and the remains of Finchale Priory, co. Durham.
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*"| "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.
in Iter VII. os Antoninus, is completed ;
but, as no Roman remains of conle-
quence, either mural or foliated works,
coins, pavements, &c have been found
at Ringwood, I have always con
sidered the name as only favourable to
the conjecture, admitting the comple
tion of the miles.
Lond'mium M. P. XCVI.
Rcgnum (Ringwood)
Transantum (Southampton) xx.
Venta Belgarum (Winchester) x.
Culeva Alrebalum (Farnham) xxii.
Ponies (Stanes) xxii.
Londinium (London) xxii.
XCVI.
It is presumable three Roman Roads
entered at Chichester; one to Tran
santum and Vcnta Belgarum; the se
cond to (laleva Alrehatum ; the third,
now called the Stone- street road, through
the Wolds, to Dorking and London,
now easily traced, but which I have
reason to think was of a low date to the
former. Yours, &c. J. D.
Near the lanks of
Mr. Urban, Slour, Nov. Q.
REV. Wm. Parry, p. 502, died at
Shipston upon Stour, and was bu
ried in the Chancel of that Church. I
wasdirected to the sacred spot bv a person
who perfectly recollects the time and
place of his interment. The grave is
partly within the communion-rails,
and covered with common bricki, but
" Not a stone
Tells wl^ere he lies."
I have been also favoured with a
transcript from the Register, which I
will copy for the satisfaction of your
enquirer, as it leaves no doubt respect
ing the place where Mr. Parry's mor
tal remains are deposited. It is ex
actly as follows :
" A D. 1756.
" Sept. The Rev. William Parry,
B. D. 30 years rector of Shipston and Tid-
min^ton, died universally lamented, as he
lived beloved, on the 1 4th, and was buried
on the 16th instant."
What is become of his Index, &c.
no one can inform me ; but I have
heard of a Volume of exquisite pen
manship on vellum by the Rev. Mr.
Parry, formerly Fellow of Jesus Col
lege; and I believe the volume con
tains the Statutes of his College, and
is considered as one of its greatest curio
sities. Yours, &c. A. C.
Parry..—Sir N. Bacon ? i r g i
Mr. Urban, Dec. 7.
I HEAR much of sending tarnished
Books and Prints to London to be
boiled, where they are said to be re
stored to their original freshness and
beauty. Roiling in simple element
will not produce the effect, as I have
myself experienced : some powerful
auxiliary is wanting. If the secret be
not wholly confined to the Trade for
the purpose of private emolument, I
hope some of your intelligent Corre
spondents will, through the channel of
your useful Miscellany, favour us
Country folk with a full account of
the process ; that we may boil our
books at home, and avoid the heavy
charge of carriage. So shall lustre be
added to learning, and cleanliness to
comfort ; the Circulatin" Libraries in
our large Manufacturing Towns under
go an annual purgation ; and we,
the Subscribers, revel in the luxury of
clean sheets.
I have in my possession a small
quarto book in a vellum cover, inti
tuled, "An Historical Discourse os the
Uniformity of the Government of
England,"' dated 1G47, and dedicated
to the Speakers of the Houses of Lords
and Commons, bv Nathaniel Bacon.
I have consulted all the books of Bio
graphy at hand, and find only one
person bearing the name. S r Na
thaniel Bacon, a son of the Lord
Keeper, and he only famous for paint
ing a Cook-maid in oil-colours, which
is laid to be preserved at Gorhambury(
as a specimen of his excellence in the
art. If this Sir Nathaniel Bacon had.
been an Historian as well as a Painter,
surely it would have been so recorded
of him. 1 wish to be informed by any
of your numerous Correspondents,
whether mv book was written by Sir
Nathaniel Bacon the Painter; or whe
ther any other person of the lame name,
but of different quality, wrote about
that time. Yours, &c. P. W.
Mr. Urban, Fitvray-fttett, Dec. 14.
IF you think the following extraor
dinary fact worth inserting in vour
valuable work, it may convince some
of the Readers of it of the Fecundity
of 'he Hare.
On the 1st of October last, being
shooting at Breflingham in Norfolk, my
Pointers caught a Hare, whole size
prevented her escape from the dogs.
On my return home, I ordered her to
be opened ; when, to my great surprize,
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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 i Boy.] Llgend of Godr'ic.-LordLyttehori.-Mr. Micfcle, 1201
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,
plates." This is a very excusable mis
take, as far as it respects the existence
of any other copy. A few weeks ago
I saw a very fine copy in the reverend
Dr. Disney's Library at the Hyde near
Ingatellone. It-waiprcsented, in 171)4,
by the Duke of Devonshire, to Tho
mas Holiis, esq. and afterwards passed
into 'the possession of Thomas Brand
Holiis, eh|. and from him into tbit of
the present owner. Ccrimsus.
Mr. Urban. Harwich, Dec 7.
HAVING taken a sew observations
on the departure pf Swallows, and
Martins from this vicinage, and think
ing they might, perhaps, be acceptable
in some of vonr Ornithological Readers,
I have here subjoined them.
1807, Ang.1'2. Very hot day, wind
West ; Swallows assembled in great
numbers, {evidently for the purpose of
migration. They continued 10 depart
until Oct. 5 (mild day, wind West, al
most calm) ; af'er which not one bird
of the above description was seen.
Sept. 2. Fine day, wind West ;
Marlins assembled in large flocks.
Their numbers dailv decreased until
Oct. If) (fine warm day, wind Well) ;
lifter which none were seen.
Yours, &c. R. R. Barkes.
Mr. Urban, Dec. 15.
A FEW nights ago, when the
Moon (hone very bright, some
Clouds were passing in quick succes
sion before her face. As ihey passed, I
observed thev threw a dark shade on
that fide which was farthest from the
Moon, beyond which the rays of light
were very perceptible : this shade re
sembled a dark Cloud, but the smallest
Stars were visible through it. It struck
me, that the rays of the Sun. acting
in a similar manner upon the Northern
Alrrtnlpher; (when that luminary is
nn the opposite side of the globe), and
intercepted by the shadows of ihe i in -
mei|se volumes of Clouds which conti
nually intervene, might cause the (as
yet unexplained) appearance of the
Aurora Borcaiis. It is with the utmost
deference I submit this suggestion to
your perusal, as the fame oblervation
11, av have bi en made by others ; but
to ine the idea is original ; and, per-
ha. s, limit i f your scientific readers
rtiav improve upon the hint.
You-.i. &c. ■ Flavius.
Mr. Urban, ... Dec. 7*f->
I SHOULD be gratified by your in
setting the following short notice ,
respecting the family os . Penn, as it
will correct a slight error in an article ,
in the last number, p. 1121. In- the
" Life of William Penn," prefixed to ,
the foiio edition of his Works, printed
only eight years after his death, is a
long inscription, copied from the mo
nument erected to the memory of his
father in Hadcliff Church, Bristol,
where he was buried, from which the
following is extracted :
" To the just memory of Sir William
Penn, Knight,' ami "sometime General,
born at Bristol anno J 621, ' Ion of Captain
Giles Penn, several years Consul for the
English in the Mediterranean ; of the
PennS of Penn's kxi^e*, in the county of
Wilts, and thole Penns of Penn, in the
county of Bucks, &c."
William Penn, the son of Sir Wil
liam Penn, was born in the Parish of
St. Katherine's, near the Tower of Lon
don, on the 14th day of Oftober, 1644.
In the year 1680-1, the Province'
lying on the West fide of the River'
Delaware, formerly belonging to the '
Dutch, and ihen called the New Ne- '
therlands, was granted bv King Charles'
II. to VV. Penn, In consideration of the
services of his father, and sundry debts
due to him from the Crown at the
time of his disease. The name of the
country was changed by the King, to
that of Pennsylvania, in honour of the
Proprietor.
W. Penn's first visit to America was
in the year 16H2 i he went thither
again in 1699, rfnd returned tf> Eng
land in 1701. He died in the year
1718, ased 74, at his seat at Knjhcomb,
near Ta'i/ford, in Buckinghamjkire.
In vol. VT. p 1.51, of Bellham's His
tory of Great Britain, there is a note
copied from Buries European Settle
ments, in which it is stated that Penn :
died in the Fleet Prison. I am ata loss
to imagine where Burke procured his
authority-)- ; but it is more surprising
that an Historian of considerable merit
should repeat so gross an error.
I have not been quite so brief as T
* At Mintyc, or Mintey, in Wilt/hire,
not Gloitcejlcr/hire as H. D. fays. See
Walker's Gazetteer.
t The whole note is an animated pane-
gyrick on Penn ; but it js a little singular,
that its rhetorical beauty depends almost
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Gazette Promotions.
Ctum'i Atfart.fljlGHT Hon. Richard
itei). £5. J\ Ryd", fworit of his
Majesty's rridst hortoarabre Privy CormcrV.
George Earl of Pembrbke and Montgo
mery, K. G. sworn Governor of the island
of Guernsey, vise titi Grey, dec.
fiortigii Office, Nhv. 27. Hon. William
Rill, appointed his Majesty's Envoy-extra
ordinary and Minister-plenipotentiary to
the Court of Sardinia; and Josttph Smith,
esq. so be Secretaryof Legation at thatCourt.
Whitehall, Nov.iti. His Grace William-
H?nry Cavendish, Duke of Portland, K .G. ;
Right Hon. Spencer Perceval; Right Hon.
John FofteY, Chancellor of his Majesty's
Exchequer of Ireland ; Hon. William Bro-
dricR; Hod. William Eliot; and William-
S.turgeS Bourne, Csq.; appointed Commis
sioners for executing tie Office of Trea
surer of h"s Majesty's Exchequer.—Right
Hon. Richard Ryder, appointed Advocate-
generaT, or Judge-marshal, of his Majesty's
Forces, Vice N. Bond, resigned.—Thomas
Hume, esq. M.D. appointed, by the Duke
of Cambridge, one of his Royal High-
ness's physicians.
Dublin Cajlle, Nov Lord Henry
Moore (bice the Marquis of Drogheda, re
signed), and Wiltiam Bagwell, esq. ap
pointed Mu'ster-rnafter-general of Ireland.
Whitehall, Dec. I. Right Rev. EdWard-
VenaMes Vernon.D.D. Bishop of Carlisle,
recommended, by cringe1 d'clire, to be elect
ed Archbishop of York,«iice Markham.dec.
Queeii's Palace, Dec. 9. Lieut.-colonei
George Smith, of his Majesty's 82d Regi
ment of Foot, knighted.
Whitehall, Dec. 9. Right Hon. Lord
Glenbervie, appointed Surveyor-general of
the Woods and Forests.
CarUtcn-houJe, Dec. 9. Right Hon. Ge
rard Viscount Lake, appointed, by ^he
piincc of Wales, Receiver-gi-rerat Of the
ttevertwes of his Rojal Highnel's's Duchy
of Cornwall, vice Sheridan, resigned.
' .' foreign Office, Dec. 16. Edward Thorn
ton, esq. appointed his Majesty's Envoy-
cxtrao'rdiriar]' and Minister-plenipotentiary
to the Court of Sweden ; and Charles
p.ikcly, esq], to be Secretary of Legation
ut tfiat Court.
Wnil'eh'ail; Dec. 19. Ofbrtrh Mafkhim,
John Fisher, and Alexander Loraine, esqrs.
appointed Commissioners for the General
§nperintendance and Management of the
Barrack Department. (Seep. T390.)
Office, Dec. 26. Lord Viscount
htia^gford, 'appointed his Majesty's Envoy-
cxtraordi'naryand Minister-plenipotentiary
to ilic Court of her Most Faithful Majesty
tie, .Queen of Dec.
v tmittutll, Portugal.
!J0. Slf Charles Bris
bane, knt. a Captain in the Royal Navy,
and senior Officer of tlie Squadron of His
Majesty's Ships to which thfe island of
Curacao and its dependencies surrendered
[Sopp.
on the 1st day of January last,
by firs' Majesty, in consideration of his!
meritorious conduct on that occasion, to
bear the rbttowmg honourable augmenta
tion to the Armorial Ensigns nsed by hii
ramify; viz. "A Chief, embattled thereon
a Ship of War under Sail between two
Castles; and for Crest, dat1 of a Naval
Crown, an Arm errib«wed grasping a!
Sword ; and from the Hand a Medal l'us-'
pended by a Ribbon ; Motto, Curacao ;
and for Supporters, on the dexter fide a
British Sailor, and on the sinister a Bri»
tish Marine."
Civil Promotions.
HENRY BTJRRELL, esq. of the Mid
dle Temple, appointed, by the Lord
Chancellor, his Lordship's secretary os
presentations, vice Cotes, dec.
John Mackanels, esq. elected recorder
of the borough of Wallingford, co. Berks,
vice Mills, resigned.
Sir William Twysden, of Roydon-hall,-
Rent, appointed receiver-general for that
county, vice Jarnes, dec.
Marquis Townshend, appointed high-
steward of the borough of Tamworfh, co.
Stafford, vice his father, dec.
Ecclesiastical Preferments.
REV. Mr. Brown, of the Academy of
WimoncHy, near Hitchin, Herts, or
dained pastor of the Congregation of Pro
testant Dissenters in Baker-street, Enfield,
by the Rev. Noah Hill, of Stepney, as
sisted by the Rev: Mr. Taylor, of Carter-
lane, the Rev. Mr. Parry, of Wimondly,
and others.
Rev. Henry Waftcll, M. A. Brington
with Bythorne ami Old Weston R. co*
Huntingdon, vice Favell,. dec.
Rev. H. Wastetl, M.A. vicar of Warm-'
field cam Heath, Chapelthorpe perpetual
curacy, near Wakefield, co. York.
Rev.ThomasGolightly, M.A. Bpdr'.ing-
ton R. co. Northampton,irircWainman ,dec.
Rev. William-Charles Clack; Moreton-
haitjpslead R. CO. Devon, vice Crowther,
resigned..
Rev. G. Furlong Wife, Thornton-Wat-
lafs R. co. York, vice Cornish, refignfd.
Rev. J. Corbould, M.A. Bawdetwell R.
co. Norfolk.
Rev. W. Wright Wilcocks, Pudding-
Norton R. co. Norfolk.
Rev. WjrrjarriMillers, Aberdaron sine
cure R. co. 'Caernarvon.
Rev. M6rf(aguK Heblethwayte, Suntiing-
hTOV. Berks, urrr ThrflWhwair*, A*, 1
Rev;. Wrlliarri-Hurdrrian Jlii*; Caidicot
V. co.' Mtrrimouth.
Rev. Thomas; Williams, Maefmynis R..
co. Brecon, rire'Bowcn; dee.
R-:v.,John-Hugh-Pastey Poison, Upton-
Hellions R. Devon, vice Davyj dee.
Rev.
1807.3 PresefmtntL-Dtfpinsafions.-'Theatrkal Register. 1229
Rev. William Aldrich, B. A. vicar of
Stowmarket, Boyton R. co. Suffolk, vice
Norford, dec.
Rev. Thomas Lowry, M. A. vicar of
Grofby-upon-Eden, Ouiby R. oo. Cumber
land, vice Hare, resigned.
Rev. John Pritchtord, M.A. ColwickV.
co. Stafford.
Rev. Basil Wood, LL.B. Tharpe-Baffett
R. co. York.
Rev. George Smith, M.A. vicar of 0t-
tery St. Mary, Devon, Charlton R. in the
fame county; and Rev. Kdward Morshead,
M.A. rector of Calstock, Cornwall, Be-
worthy R. Devon ; both rice Tickell, dee.
Rev. S. Clapham, M.A. GuH'age R. co.
Dorset, with Chriftchurch V. Hants.
Rev. William F. Mitchell, St. Martin's
by Looe R. Cornwall,
Rev.Thomas Lockton, Church-Bramp-
ton R. near Northampton.
Rev.Thomas Gamier, Alverstoke R. with
Bisliop's-Stoke R. Hants.
Rev. Jonathan-Parker Fisher, lo the
sub-deanry of Exeter.
Rev. Thomas Johnes, M. A. of Bristol,
to the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, De
von, vice the Rev. Jonathan-Parker Fisher,
promoted as above.
Rev. J. Lister Hutchinson, B. A. Routh
R. co. York.
Rev. Charles Thorp, M.A. Ryton R.
co. Durham, vice Rev. Dr. Thorp, arch
deacon of Northumberland, resigned.
Rev. Newman-John Stubbtn, Higham
perpetual curacy, Suffolk;
Hon. and Rev.Thomas De Grey, rector
of Fawley, to the archdeaconry of the
diocese of Winchester, together with Cal-
bourne R. in the Isle of Wight, worth
SOol. a year, vice Woodford, dec.
Rev. Christopher Bethell, M.A. Kirkby-
Wilke R. co. York, vice Raine, dec.
Rev. Charles-Freeman Millard, to a mi-
nor-canonry of Norwich cathedral, vice
Walker, dec. ; and Henley V. Suffolk.
Rev. Ozias-Thurston Lindley, Stoke-
Holy-Cross V, Norfolk ; and Rev. Charles-
John Smith, St.John.Timberhill, curacy,
Norwich, vice Walker, dec.
Rev. Matthew Tunstall, Belper and
Tumditch prrpetual curacies, co. Derby.
Rev. J. Radclisse, chaplain of New col
lege, Oxford, to a minor-canon ry of Can
terbury cathedral, vice Freeman, dec.
Rev. Isaac Bacon, M.A. BlechingdonR.
co. Oxford, vice Coward, dec.
Rev. D. Mathias, M.A. St. Mary, White-
chapel R. London, vice Wright, dec.
Rev.Tho. Snell, Windlesham R. Surrey.
Rev. Jos. Julian, Hafketon R. Suffolk.
Rev. J. Baskets, Morrhoe V. Devon.
Rev. C. Bigby, Ipplepcn V. Devon.
Rev. J.L.Yeomans, BrauntonV. Devon.
Rev..I .W. Birdwood,Throwl<-igh R. Dev.
Rev. P, F. Hory, Lifceard Y. Cornwall.
Rev. John Penrose, M.A. appointed one
of tbe select preachers to the University of
Oxford, vice Rev. HenryKett, B.D. resigned.
Dispensation.
R"EV.Dr.Roberts,rectorofGrafton,awl
vicar of Much Marcle, co. Hereford,
to hold Abbey-Dore R. in the lame county,
THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Sept. Drury-Lane.
17. The Country Girl—The Weathercock.
1 g . The West Indian—NoSong No Supper,
22. The Wonder !—The Poor Soldier.
24. Adclgitha—Ditto. [Apothecary.
20. Love for Love—The Doctor and the
29. Pizarro—ThePoorSoldier. [to be Sold,
Oci. 1 . The School for Scandal—A House
3. The Honey-Moon—'The Deserter.
5. Pizarro—The Devil to Pay.
6. Percy—The Poor Soldier.
8. TheSoldier'sDaughter—FortyThieves.
10. Love in a Village—The Wedding-Day.
12. George Barnwell—The Forty Thieves,
13. Love in a Village—The Liar.
15. The Provok'd Hulband—FortyThieves.
17. Love in a Village—The Mock Doctor.
19. Romeo and Juliet—The FortyThieves.
20. All in the Wrong—The Poor Soldier.
2 1 . Love in aVillage—Thelrishman iriLon-
22. School forFriends— FortyThieves. [don.
2-I. The Honey-Moon—Three Weeks after
26. Westlndian—FortyThieves. [Marriage.
27. Time's u Tell-Tale—Fortune's Frolick.
28. Ditto—No Song No Supper.
29. The Travellers—The Lying Valet.
31. Time 's a Tell-Tale—Rosina.
Nov. 2. Ditto—The Forty Thieves.
3v Ditto—Rosina.
4. The Duenna—The Divorce.
&. Time 's a Tell-Tale—Rofina.
6. Love for Love—The Divorce.
7. Time's a Tell-Tale—Matrimony;
9. Ditto—The Wood Dæmon. [ther.
10. The School forScandal—MyGrandmo-
1 1 . Time 's a Tell-Tale—Rosina.
12. The Travellers—Bon Ton.
13. Time's aTell-Tale—TheWoodDsemon.
14. MuchAdoaboutNothing—TheDivorce
16. The JealousWife—The Wood Dæmon.
17. The Cabinet—Three Weeks after Marr.
1 ». Ti me's a'sel 1-Tale—TheWoodDæmon.
19. All in the Wrong—Ella Rofenlxrg.
20. Love in a Village—Ditto.
21. A Trip to Scarborough—Ditto.
23. The Country Girl—Ditto.
24. The Cabinet—Ditto.
Si.. Time 's a Tell-Tale—Ditto.
26. The Wonder !—Ditto.
27. The Haunted Tower—Ditto*
28. The Inconstant—Ditto.
30. The Siege of Belgrade—Ditto.
Dec. 1. As You Like It—Ditto.
2. Time's a Tell-Tale—Ditto.
3. False Alarms—Ditto.
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
however, thus taken care, to disappoint
some anxious expectants,- who had im
prudently declared their intention to take
advantage of the above circumstance.
Lately, at Black Rock, near Dublin,
at the house of Sir John Lees, bart. Wil
liam Lees, esq. of the Northern District of
the Post-office, to Miss Heldon, daughter
and coheiress of the late Cornelius H. esq.
Col. Vavasour, only son of Sir Henry V.
bart. of Spaldington and Milbourne, co.
York, to Miss Vavasour, eldest daughter
of William V. esq. of Dublin.
At Aberdeen, W. C. Grant, esq. of the
«2d Foot, to Susan, youngest daughter of
the Rev. Dr. Milne, of Deptford, Kent.
At Edinburgh, Sir William Maxwell,
bart. of Calderwood, to the youngest dan.
of tha late Rt. Pasley.esq. of Mountannan.
At Edinburgh, Mr.Vinning, comedian,
to Miss Benson, daughter of the late Mr.
B. of Drury-lane Theatre. The parties
were performing on the Edinburgh Stage,
in the faroe of " We Fly by Night," and
took a fancy to carry into reality the union
they had been representing on the stage.
They made their obedience to the au
dience ; withdrew in their theatrical at
tire; and, by one of those brief ceremo
nies which the Laws of Scotland sanc
tion, returned in a few minutes, td the no
small astonishment of their friends,' in the
real characters of husband and wife.
At St. James's, Piccadilly, Edward-
Lawson Long, esq. R. N. to Anna-Gcor-
giana, only dan. of the late Capt. Bodens.
At Alphington, near Exeter, 1 Box,
esq. R. N. to Anna, daughter of Thomas
Devvey, esq. of Ide cottage, a captain in
the Royal Navy.
Nathan Drake, esq. M. D. of Hadleigh,
Suffolk, to Miss Rose, of Bretteiiham.
-John Williams, sexton of St. Ive's, in
his 88th year, to Elizabeth Thomas, of
the fame place, aged 00.
At Bath, Sir Charles Alston, bart. to
Mrs. Pigot, widow of the late Col. P. and
niece of General Johnson.
Rev. T. Roo'me, of Sutton in Ashfield,
Notts, to Miss Mary Downing.
Dec Rev. James-Bannister, rector
of Iddcsley, Devon, to Miss Seton, daugh
ter of the late George S. esq.
Dec. 15. John-Lukin Nappcr,esq. of Lee
farm, Pulborough, Sussex, to Anne, eldest
dau. of Edw. Evershed.esq. of that county.
19. At Wraisbury, Frederick R. Coote;
esq-of Great Winchester-street, to Isabella,
.third daughter of John Blagrove, esq. of
Jamaica, and of Abberwyke-houfe, Bucks.
22. John Simpson, esq. bleacher and
muslin-manufacturer, of Blackburn, to
MissGreennalgh.of.Bolton, co. Lancaster.
,26< J. H. Harries, esq. of Preskilly, ma
jor in the Pembrokeshire Militia, to Miss
Frances Jordan, of Haverfordwest.
of remarkable Persons . 1231
At Farnham, Surrey, the Rev. James
Ogle, rector of Bishop's Waltham, and
son of Sir Chaloner O. to Elizabeth, third
daughter of the Rev. Edmund Poulter,
prebendary of Winchester.
28. Mr. James Elmes, architect, of Col
lege-hill, to Eliza, youngest daugh. of the
.late William Jack, esq. of Stone-Haven.
At Freshwater church, in the Isle of
Wight, Sir John-Pringle Dalrymple, bait,
lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Regiment
of- Malta, to Mary, second daughter of
Edward Rusliworih, esq. of Farringford-
hill, in the Isle of Wight.
At Chiswick, the Rev. John Morris,
M. A. of Ealing-green, to the youngest
daught. of Augustus-Everard Brandc, esq.
29. At St. Pancras, Mr. T. Kingfbury,
of Union-place, Lambeth, son of the ReV.
William K. of Southampton, to Anne,
youngest daughter of the late Mr. W.
Mandell, of Bath.
30. Thomas-Theodore Campbell, esq.
to Anna, second daughter of Mr. Thomas
Bland, of the Bath Hotel, Piccadilly.
Benjamin Stanley, esq. of Hackney ter
race, to Miss Jeykill, of Strawberry-hall,
New Cross, Surrey.
31. At St. Mary-la-Bonne, Jas. Grant,
esq. to Helen-Philadelphia, youngest dau.
of the late Major-gen. Sir Eccles Nixon.
At Bury, Lieut.-col. M'Lereth, to Miss
Steele, of that town.
At St. George's, Hanover-square, the
Rev. T. G. Clare, fellow of St. John's col
lege, Oxford, to Harriet, youngest daugh.
of the Rev. A. Daniell, of Lifford, Ireland.
Deaths.
LATELY, at Mutturah, in the E. In
dies, aged 23, Lieut. Francis Lodge
Morres, of his Majesty's 22d Regiment of
Foot, third Ion of the late Rev. Redmond
Morres, rector of Clonmcen, co. Cork, by
Mary sole daughter of Edward Daltoa,
esq. of Deer Park, co. Clare, niece of the
last John Lord Eyre, of Eyre court, ne
phew- of the present Right Hon. Lodge
Lord Frankfort, Baron of Galmoye, and,
on the father's side, also related to Lord
Viscount Mountmorres, Sir William and
' Sir John Morres, barts. In this amiable
young Officer were united every qualifica
tion necessary to form the complete sol
dier, the polished gentleman, and the
truly faithful friend ; as a soldier, brave,
humane, and resolute ; as a friend, most
truly faithful and affectionate ; as an ac
quaintance, mild, affable, and unas
suming ; as he lived beloved, so he died
. most sincerely regtetted by the Profession
to which he promised to be so bright an
ornament, and by every person who was
acquainted with so much honour and vir
tue as he possessed.
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
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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
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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"'
World 104* Epics of the Ton 943, 1 in) PARK'i Walpolt's Catalogue
Bridess Drama an the Fifth of Royal and Noble Au
•f November 1047 H. thors 1129"
Bridrmait's Paraphreseof Au- Peacock at Hunt 846
dronicus Rhodius 937 HALL's Travels in Scotland Penman's Letter to the Free
Burnett's Specimen of English 045
1045 men of Sandwich 75*
Prose Writers >°44 Helmet's Treatises on Religi iigi. Pilkington't Calendar 948
Mutter's Exercises 845 ous Subjects 940 Plansnail's Spanilh and Eng
Byron, Lord, Hours of Idle— lish Gaammir "45
"suft 1117 Power's Calendar of. Flaw*
JVMOiV'jSirangerinAme- . / , .4*
rica 645,749,858
CASE of the Bp. of Oxford farroltHs Letter to Mr.
■ and ibe Parish of Piddinr;- Whitbread 645
ton Gci. of Lieut, Hooper REPORT of the College of
848 Physicians 6j$
Cbapant, Posthumous Works KWGLAKtZ on the Gout Ring's Rowland for an Olivrf
of Mrs. 1040 95' 95*
eiuibt's Latin Version of S,
Bloomfteld's Poems 1145 L. SAULEZ's French Instructor
ObbMs Chart ofSacredHist- L ETTF.R to G ra. Sharp 1 144 Ml
95* Lilly mi Sparkt's Concio mm Clerum \ 14c,
College's Sermon an Acade- Ludlams Essays J 144 S:artie't Address to the lo-
mica! Institutions 844 haoitantsofBlackhurui 145
Ciiauboun on Indigence 840. M.
, 945 MALCOLM's Londinium
Confiderat'nni on the failure Redivivum, Vol. IV. 1043 TiriN SISTERS, Tom 83S
of the Catholic Bill 651 M-ihby'i Letter to the Free
Cmspiracy Attested 752 holders ofHuntingdon (hi re V.
Cooie's Roman Conversation 941 flPOND's Sermon on Chil
«4S Meatb, Bp. of, Sermon at the dren 6^t>
Copser Pl/ite Copies of He Magdalen Hospital 741
brew Letters, &c. 951 Moore's Almanack I21t w,
C.xc i History ef the House Moral Maxims 95 1 fVARNlNG VOICE 943
of Austria 1 138 IVtlls's Sermon 645
CrMe't-Gnmtatt 751 N. Whitditr's Sermon on t*e
George, Poems 1033 NOBLE'S Biographical Hist, Consecration of a Cbapcl
Crifie 95 1 of England 1 140 "3 J

INDEX to the >LATES in Vol. LXXVII.Part II.

Aberdeen, Inscription near Dcbenham, Seal found 915 Nelson, Lord, proposed Pil
FinchalePriory,Viewof 1 193 lar for 71 j
Appleby, Inscription at 913 Hales-Owen,Sculptureat8o9 Pedmore Church .110$
Bockleton Church lie 5 Hexham Church 1097 Ringwuod, C/iurch, School,
Bossall, Coins found at r 105 Leasowes, Somerville's Urn &c. 1001
Cali re, Roman Camp at 913 at 809 Strarford-upon-Avon 609
Cerne Abbey, Coin found Longueville Tomb 625 Twickenham, Pope's House
there 916 Manchester, Inscription 1009 ac 1185,
Chertsey Church 705 Medal 1009 Westerham Church 905
Cockerœouth, Inscription at M«oi#Rrtc», Sepulchral Woodspring Priory, and
1009 Stone at 809 Friars Hall at 801
 INDEX to the POETRY in Vol. LXXVII. Part II.
Eunuch of Terenet, Prologue P.
ADDRESS to the pupils of and Epilogue to the 1223 PEBBLE "49
Mr. Vtffie 660 Extempore Lines 755 Planter, Mr. on the occasion
of a Vase being presented
F. to him 1223
PATH, on the decline of its flTZGERALD's appeal to Protection 849
schools of Industry 1214 the Spirit of the Land 656 *
Jlirtb day Lines 1 753 ForJ, Dr. to the Memory of R.
Bloomfield, R. To the British Abp. Markham 1°49
Channel 1 149 RABBIT and RAT 1-051
G. Ran, the Mice, and Cat 1 14S
GARDEN, its pleaso res 8 1 1 Rose 6eo
C^/cTEK.Mrs.toViscountess Crotius, Shephard's Transla
Cremorne 849 tion of anExtractfrom 955
Chapman, Mrs. to her memory
85t H. ST. ANDXEPTS DAT, on
Charade answered 754. for HOME 754 its celebration 953
1801, 954. solution to it hliraee 754, 849, 855 Seiuard, Miss, on the fall of.
1052 Humane Society, Address to the Leaf 1059
Chimney Sweeper 1 1 49 its Medical Assistants 955 Sign Post 756
Comet, on its Appearance 1050 Hutten, Mr. to the Authors of Song, a drinking one 953. the
Consecration 657 the Monthly Review 757 Lancashire 1031
Crane, Dr. on Vaccination Sonnet to an Earwig 756. to
9S4 INGREDIENTS of a happy Mrs. West 757. to Mr.
f>ay, Rose of 7 $4 Robinson 955. by the
Crudt Mr. to his memory 849 Life 12,24 Earl of Hard wicke 1 14*
Inscriptions it Brandestoni 147 Stephenson, Mrs. onherBirth-
D. Inscription to Captain Cook d,y 757
851 1 148 ————Rev. /. on his Lines
Durham, Bishop of, Lines to to his mother 105 f
the Memory of Mr. Tir- Summer 1 Call 756
whict and Rev. C. M. Cn- LINES sent with a Persian Summer Evening's Walk 7j 6
cherode 1147 Cat 954. from the Etren-
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EARTH, Eologium.on 755 MAITTAIREMx.Unts by, land 953
Epigram on Politeness 844. atCkatfwoith 105 1 Tilsit fair 756
Imitation of one of Mar Meada, Mrs. on her Return to Trafalgar, Lines on the An
tial 954. translation of one Ireland 659 niversary of the battle of
by the Bp. of Liseux, with 1144
■ Translation 999 Translation of Freach Lines
Hpijllciot YoungLady 956 OBERON 7JS 1051
Epitaph on Shakspeare 609. Ode to Philanthropy 735'. to
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Beattie 849. on Gen. ' 1050. on recovery from VAUXHALL
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ter 954. an Dr. Crosfield Oriuidi, Dr. on the late Mr. rVOODLETs, Mr. Address
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