ト Sfteenth century, and confifts of a single Nave, with a Chancel extending beyond it. The fimplicity of the building attracts our notice; and much may be faid in favour of its sequeflered fituation, in the midst of the village. vine he adorned his station with undeviating integrity and unaffected piety; in Social Life, with purity of manners he happily connected a propriety of expreffion and pleasing affability; his actions, the refult of a confiderate mind, exactly correfponded with the justness of his fentiments. He died May 25, 1772, aged 74. In the adjoining grave are depofited the remains of Beata the wife of Rich. Newlyn, who died the 24 of July, 1778, aged 69." The large yew-tree in the Churchyard extends its fable branches over the mouldering graves; and, having withstood feveral ages, remains a pleasing monament of antiquity. RECTORS. Edmund Yalden, in 1728. On entering the Porch, we perceive, books at 61. 5s. 10d. Yearly Tenths, the following grotesque denunciation in large letters over the door : "Avoid, profane man; come not here; None but the holy, pure, and clere, Or he that grooeth to be fo, Into this Porch but further goe." Adjoining to the pulpit against the South wall is placed a sumptuous tomb, with the following infcription: To the memorie of Dame Margerie Caryll, who, having fvre confidence in the merits of our Saviour Jesvs Chrift, departed this life with great covrage and comfort the 11 daie of Maie, anno D'ni 1632, in the 40th yecare of her age. This vertvovs 12s. 7d. and dedicated to St. John the Baptift. FATHER PAUL. Jan. 17. L Mr. URBAN, Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, ONE of my neighbours, a poor honest man, applied to me the other day for my advice in an affair on which I am certainly unqualified to assist him. The matter is this:-My neighbour is, undisputedly, the Heir-at-law of an Aunt, who died about 17 years ago. poffeffe possessed of a freehold entailed estate of confiderable value. He is her only near relation; and he was, when young, her ladie was the wife of Sir Richard Carell, favourite. He has refided, fince eight of Harting, knight; with whome the lived feven yeeres, and after his death: continved his widowe all the time of her life, being the space of fixteen yeeres, Thov marble tombe, though long tv may'st endure, [mvre; And doft within an honor'd corps imYet, rais'd and freed, thy pris'ner GOD shall fee, [bee; When thov for ever shalt demolish'd A Jewell, then, of price thov doft con[maine. taine, When thov confvm'd for ever shalt re • Johannes Love cognatus devotifimus." On the oppofite fide is the following infcription to the memory of a pious and excellent Clergyman, who always proved himself fincere in the cause of a Religion, and warm with sentiments of Humanity: : "Near this place are interred the remains of the Rev. Richard Newlyn, Bachelor of Civil Law, and Vicar of the Parithes of Rogate and Empfhot. As a Di or nine years before her death, here, about 200 miles from her neighbourhood; and having no correfpondence there, he did not know of her death till lately. On going there, he found that Che had, on being teased on her deathbed, made a will, and given the estate to a very diftant Relation, on a wilful mifrepresentation of his death-that that Relation took poffeffion, in confequence of the will, without any oppofition; had immediately levied a fine of it, and, about five or fix years afterwards, had fold a confiderable part of it for betwixt 1500l. and 20001. My Leighbour, on paying a vifit to this diftant relation to obtain redress, met with the groffeft ill treatment. Indeed that might have been expected, confidering the means by which the estate had been acquired. Now, Mr. Urban, as I find myself quite unfit to advise in this matter about the possibility of obtaining redress by legal means, perhaps some of your Correfpondents who are able, will do it for *me, in behalf of a poor, but worthy, "Jabouring man, with a numerous young family, indebted for fupport entirely to his industry. I have stated the cafe as • exactly and truly as I am able. That my neighbour ghbour is the Heir, that the eftate was entailed in his Aunt, and that The never barred the entail, is, I believe, undoubted, or rather undisputed. Application has been made to legal gentlemen hereabouts; but their opinions are various: nothing positive can be obtained. Some say the estate may be recovered; others that it cannot. Surely, Mr. Urban, a poor man is not thus to -be wronged out of his right. I have ever understood, that permitting perfons legally entitled to entailed estates to bar the entail was formerly always looked upon as a violent extenfion of the rules of law in favour of liberty; and furely it cannot be so easy a thing now, that persons no ways entitled, quite indifferent as it were, can do it, and that too in prejudice of the rightful owner. Our Laws, so celebrated * for preferving our perfons and proper- Mr. URBAN, CLERICUS. Aug. 18, 1807. AT a meeting of the Committee appointed to conduct the proceedings relating to Medical Reforın, held at the house of Dr. Garthshore; Dr. Hartifon having laid before them a great number of additional anfwers to his Circular Letter received fince the last meeting of the Committee, as well from the Corporate Bodies as individuals, and the fame having been read; Resolved, 1. That the communications laid before the Committee this evening afford abundant proofs of the deplorable state of Society, in being expofed to the injuries resulting from a numerous race of unqualified prac titioners, and the confequent discouragement of well-educated members of the Faculty. 2. That, as doubts are entertained with regard to the powers at present vested by Law in the Corporate Bodies being adequate to the correction of the exifting abutes, it be recommended to DreHarrifon to endeavour to afcertain, by proper enquiries, the real extent of fuch powers, and their competency to effect the defired purposes. 3. That this Commitee do highly approve of the zealshewn by Dr. Harrifon in collecting evidence of the various abuses in phyfick, and the fentiments of the Profeffion on the fubje& of Reform. : s 4. That, as it is defirable the fullest CHARACTER OF MR. PITT; WITH 'ITH the battle of Austerlitz, the ba of Mr. Pitt was, in politicks, that which Lord Chesterfield's is in private life. It was founded on too narrow a basis, and aimed too directly at its object. A cultivated mind and a humane disposition will render their poffeffor truly polite; found principles and real a I love of marikind, truly patriotie; but but, without these, neither the polite- ness nor the patriotism are any thing more than a whited sepulchre. The system was, however, fuccessful; the young Orator, began his career in a mantier the best calculated to display his powers. As he spoke, the hopes of Freedom revived; Corruption shrank before his glance; and the Nation hailed him as her deliverer: but no fooner was the prize within his grafp, than he seized it with an eagerness, and retained it with a tenacity, which all the efforts of his opponents could rneither impede nor relax. Having, thus obtained the fupreme power, the tálehts which had acquired it were, employed, with equal fuccess, to preferve it. The correction of abuses; the removal of peculation and corruption; the reform of the Representation; the extension of Religious and Civil Liberty; were now no longer the objects in view; or were only re-, called at stated periods, to shew with what dexterity the Minifter could blast his promise without breaking his faith.. Well schooled in all the routine and arcana of office, an adept in the science of finance and taxation, Mr. Pitt's great accomplishment was, a thorough knowledge of the artificial and complex machine of Government; and and his his great defect, a total insensibility to the feelings of mankind, and a thorough -ignorance of the leading principles of human nature. Unfortunately for his fame, and for his country, new buuations arose, to which the hackneyed rules of narrow policy were totally inapplicable. : 7 A powerful Nation, whose lavery had for ages be been itsr reproach, reproach, threw off its shackles, and attempted to to forın for itself a limited Monarchy It was Mr. Pitt's first misfortune to be infen. fible to the grandeur of so glorious a struggle; his second, to miscalculate its confequences. The first act of France was, to hold out her emancipated hands to the free States of England and of America; but the coldness of the Minister soon conviticed her that, in this Government, she was not to expect a friend. That coldness soon degenerated into enmity and abhorrence; and, through every change of circumstance and situation, through all the evolutions and forms of her Government, whether monarchical, republican, ariftocratical, or defpotic, the found in him a 3 "to decided aud an inflexible enemy. With what fuccess his hoftility has been attended) impartial Hiftory will shew. Whether the atteinsit was march to Paris;" to "rettore the Family of Bourbon;" to "restrain the French within the limits of their own dominion;" or, " to tiarve them into subjection;" in whatever way our enmity has been demonstrated, it has failed of its effect. To affert, however, that these efforts have failed, is wholly inadequate to the proper statement of the fact. They have not only failed of their object; but have been the positive and active catife of the continued, union, and, confequent triumph, of the French Nation. To what circumstance is it to be attributed, that a people so testlefs in their disposition, fo changeful in their views, should have been united together, through all the variations of their government, and have acted in all their external relations with one heart, and as one man to what, but the continued preffure of exterior force? to the fucceflive combinations, formed, under the auspices of Mr. Pitt, to compel them to fubmiffion? That France has fuffered in the contest; that her best blood has flowed upon the scaffold; that the Luminaries of Science have been extin guished, and and the brightell gems of the hunian intellect rampled under foot; that jealoufy, ambition, cruelty, and revenge; have acted their dreadful parts in awful fucceffion, and have produced a scene of calamity unexampled in hiftory, is but too true; but, such was the price that France was compelled, by Europe, to pay for her independence on Foreign Powers; and in this view the purchase was, after all, cheaply made. le. The principle which carried that Nation through all her difficulties, was the determination of the people to rally round the exifting Government, whatever that Government might be, and to join in repelling, with one hand, and one voice, the Common Enemy. To this they have facrificed their ease, their property, their friends, their families, their lives, with a prodigality which excites, at the fame instant, adıniration i admiration and horror. But in this be the Mr. URBAN, Manchester, Jan. 18. UPON comparing the Court Calendar for 1785 with that lately published for 1808, I find some varia tions in the Lifts of the Scotch and Irish Peerage, for which I am unable to account. I shall be obliged to any of your Correfpondents who can explain them. In the Scotch Peerage, John Leflie Baron Lindores appears in 1785, but is omitted in 1808. Is the title extinct? and, if it be so, when did John Lord Lindores die?-In 1785 it is Walter, but in 1808 James, Lord Torphichen. Is this a mistake? Or if Walter Lord Torphichen be dead, in what year did his decease take place? In the Irish Peerage, John Wandes- If these variations in the Christian Permit me also to ask an explanation Dr. Paley's book "Hora Paulinæ." Mr. URBAN, Hackney, Jan. 21. Ο NCE more you to infert the following remarks on the difappearance and brumal retreat of Swallows; having several times this Winter been much surprised by the appearance of straggling birds of this kind. I law a Chimney Swallow (Hirundo Rustica) as late as Nov. 28, after I had concluded that they were departed fome time. Several straggling Martins (Hirundo Urbica) were feen as late as Chrislmas. Concerning the fuppoled fubmerfion of these birds under water, I have never been able to obtain So much as one authentic instance of it. It seems to be a modern doctrine, and to have been first started by Linnæus, who says, " Hirilndo Ruftica, que habitat in Europe domibus, intra tectum unà cum Hirundine Urbica in aquis (hybernis menfibus) demergitur." It seems, however, to have been the opinion of all the antient writers of Italy and Greece (where this bird is as common during the Summer months as in this country), that it migrated at the approach of Winter into some wariner climate. Anacreon begins his 33d Ode to the Swallow in the following words : Σὺ μὲν φίλη χελιδών Ἢ Νεῖλον ἢ πὶ Μέμφιν. Vel ad Nilum, vel ad Memphin." "-Vere novo, quum jam tinnire The antient Latin and Greek Writers, indeed, seem to have taken more notice of the migration, time of appearance, manner of procuring its food, and other habits of the Swallow, than of any other bird whatever *. T. F. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 16. GIVE me leave to notice a mistake, which elegant and accomplished Writers have for feveral years made, by using the following expressions: "It * See Pliny, lib. x. cap. 24, and lib. xviii. cap. 16. Plutarch, Sympof. lib. viii. cap. 7. Horace, Epift. vii. lib. 1. line 13. Virgil, Georgic. lib. i. line 377. Virgil, Eneid. lib. xii. line 474. Juvenal, Sat. x. 231. Ovid, de arte Amandi, lib. ii. 140; also Faftorum, lib. ii. 853, also Triftium, Eleg. xii. 9. viii, cap. 12. See alfo Ariftot. Hif. lib. were wereendlefs, needless, fuperfinous, &c," If any one thinks that this use of were tas if in the indicative mood) is justifiable, 1 muft refer him to what Lowth fays on this fubject, in a nete at the bottom of p. 72. (edit. 1769) of his ***Introduction to English Grammar:" "Shall we in deference to these great authorities allow," &c. It will eafily be perceived, that the fame obfervation is ftrictly applicable to the improper ufe of were, as is made by Lowth with refpect to wert. CENSOR. Jan. 10. Mr. URBAN, Little Cheuerelt, Wilts, PERMIT me to request the favour of fome of your Agricultural Friends to inform me, if they can from experience recommend, what is called in forme little publication I have met with, a durable Burn Floor made with brick on edge placed in the herringbone form. I prefume it would by no means anfwer where they are in the habit of drawing the waggon into the floor. An opinion on the fubject will be confidered as a favour conferred ou Yours, &c. CLERICUS. Yours, &c. S. WOOLMER, London's Love to the Royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the River Thames at his Returne from Richmonde, with a worthie Fleete of her Cittizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610, with a briefe Reporte of the Water Fight and Fire Works: London, - printed by Edw. Altde, for Nathaniell Foftrooke, and are to be jobde at the Westend of Paules, néere to the Bishop of London's Gate, 1610.1 THIS traci confitis of 29 pages, including the frontifpiece of two curious wood prius with two men of war finely equipped and in full fail. After the title-page is the following address : To the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Cambell, Knight, Lord Major of this famous Cittie of London and to all the Aldermen his worthie Bretheren, &c. "I holde it but right and iuftice (Honorable Lord, and you the rest of this Pollitique Bodie) to give you that which you have beft deserved; to wit, a true taste of that dayes follemne Triumphe (in honor of fo hopeful a Prince) and wherein your that we witness that the Grey Horle DER-great love appeared not a little. Your RISH, of Mahomet Bry, is of the beft breed of Nedgdee Horfes; whose Mother is the Grey Mare Hadka the Famous, and time for preparation was verie thort; and mine, for your fervice, much shorter: yet whofe Father is the Bay Horte Dakronge, (of mine own knowledge) bottle of them of the Hortes of the Tribe Bonhihated:We teßity on our Confcience and Fortune that he is of the breed for Stallions, concerning which the Prophet has faid, 'the true Runners when they run strike fire; they grant profperity until the Day of Judgment. And we have teftified what is known unto us; and God knows who ave true Witneffes. "Teftifiés du Contents, Hamad il Shafei il Manfouri. Kashubee. Abderahman, fon of Sarhan. Moustafa il Umeiri il Hellee. Touffef, fon of Salman il Atarce. "I Shaik Abdalla il Eubaybee say, the Teftimonies of this authentic Atteftain are true; and I atteft the fame with shy own hand and feal. SHAIK ABDALIA IL ELBABYBA" were very royally and gratefully accepted, which I anı fure was all your chiefeft expectation, and, than which, nothing could be more defired by myfelf. Accept then your own, and me at your continual fervice." |