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"WESTMINSTER ABBEY. This venerable Pile will be restored to all its former grandeur. Mr. Wyatt, the Architect, has undertaken to put the wal's and ornaments in a complete state of durability, without the least injury to the Monuments. A drawing of the original Structure has been found in a vase taken from the Court of Records, in a high state of preservation. From this the Artist will be enabled to produce all the minute ornaments, which time has destroyed. The Saints which stood in the niches are to re-appear."

Mr. URBAN,

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July 11. BOVE I take the liberty of sending you an extract from several of the latest daily Prints. As I have no other means of ascertaining the truth of this assertion, I beg leave to refer to you, who are almost the only brief Chronicle of the times that can be depended upon in these matters, for a confirmation, or rather an explanation, thereof. We are told, that the walls and ornaments are to be put in a complete state of repair, without injuring the Monuments. This must, doubtless, have reference to the interior of the venerable Structure; but how Mr. Wyatt, or any body else, can restore these walls to all their former grandeur, without injuring, or indeed removing, many of the modern Monuments, is an assertion, which rather staggers an

inquisitive observer. Can it be possible

for the South Cross to be restored to its original appearance, if the numerous works of Rysbrack and Roubiliac remain undisturbed? It is much to be wished, that persons who authorize the insertion of paragraphs similar to the above, which has somewhat the appearance of coming from an official quarter, had seen that they were not so studiously vague and inexplicit. Of the drawing found in the Court of Records, I need say nothing, as much has appeared about it already in your pages; but I would particularly call your attention to The closing sentence of this unaccountable assertion, which tells us, that "the Saints which stood in the niches are to re-appear." By this we are to judge, that all the statues in the niches round the exterior of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, which were wantonly pulled down in a barbarous age, lest they should fall on the heads of the Members of Parliament, are to be re-instated; and, certainly, all true lovers of our antient Architec

ture will pause, ere they give their consent to this piece of restoration. I must confess, that, for myself, I do not possess a sufficiency of fastidiousness, or perhaps, I should say, of Capability, to find fault with the repairs as far as they have gone ; nor, indeed, would I presume to forestall the criticisms which have been so long threatened by your redoubtable Correspondent, the Red Cross Knight; but, unless the able directors of these National Restorations can call magick to their aid, the re-appearance of all the Statues appears to be an exploit rather more hazardous in its successful consequences, than any thing which has been as yet attempted; neither does it seem likely, that any newly-discovered drawing of the Architectural compartments could convey a correct idea of what these specimens of sculpture were.

Though I am a very humble lookeron, I do assure you, Sir, that this paragraph has awakened very inqui‹ sitive sensations in my mind on this very important subject, which would be much allayed by an explanatory word or two from you, or some of your communicative Correspondents. Yours, &c.

H. M.

Mr. URBAN, Oxford, Dec. 3. fove of truth and justice, and from AM sure that, from your general your knowledge of the particular regard which a learned Clergyman of our own times entertains for you, no doubt will arise in your mind about the propriety of admitting this letter into your Magazine.

You may recollect having inserted (vol. LXXVIII p. 873) an epitaph, which was engraven upon a monument in Hatton Church, to the me mory of Catharine, the youngest and much-lamented daughter of Dr. Parr. When he was preparing it for the lapidary, he employed me as his amanuensis; and he not only told me, that the greater part of the Latin verses were taken by him from Sidonius Apollinaris, but he pointed out the passages, and gave strong reasons for rejecting one line, which I wished him not to omit. I think it of importance to state the foregoing circumstance, because I have heard it observed, that the Doctor had employed both matter and words, that were not his own.

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Anatomy is the first chapter of our book on Man. I cannot suppose from certain severe strictures other than general notions in his provincial neighbours, about the indecency, perhaps cruelty, of submitting any bodies of dead relations to perquisition.

The Doctor can at will give orders about his own body. Has he at any time, in person or proxy, despoiled a breathless frame of its purchased resting-place? By devoting his own perishable materials to previous surgical uses, an atonement will be made to the world; and thus he may become, both dead and alive, a pattern indeed for all Medical men, conscious of the same transgression.

I PRE, SEQUAR.

Mr. URBAN,
Dec. 23.
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As, from the extreme inquietude of his mind, he was compelled to ask the aid of other persons to superintend the engraving of the inscription, it so happened, that his directions for marks of quotation to be affixed to the lines from Sidonius were not observed. Knowing that his unfeigned and deep sorrow for the loss of an excellent daughter would prevent him from turning his eye towards the monument, I, within a few days, told him of some mistakes, which were committed in the punctuation, and which I am myself authorized to have corrected by the first opportunity. OXONIENSIS.

P. S. Upon a second, and more careful inspection of the Monument, it turns out, that marks of quotation to the lines from Sidonius Apollinaris were properly affixed, according to the Doctor's injunctions.

Mr. URBAN,

Dec. 3. IN P. and muchN your Magazine, p. 500, the death

esteemed Earl of Dartmouth is noticed; also some verses introduced, as supposed to be written in compliment to him, when at school, by the Earl of Carlisle. Knowing your wish ́to be ever correct, I must beg leave to mention, that I happened to be at Eton-school at the time these verses were written, when Lord Carlisle wrote a Poem descriptive of the several merits of his friends and schoolfellows, belonging to his Con*, or Society. The said lines were made in compliment to Heneage Legge, esq. who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Musgrave, bart. He is a cousin of the Dartmouth family. Lord Dartmouth never was at Eton school; but received the early part of his education at Harrow.

Mr. URBAN,

Dec. 9.

played a beacon to gouty persons, been their telegraph, their disinterested guide. A remedy, as it seems to me, deserving to be so called, is at this time offered to their prayers. The Gentleman's Magazine, I am sure, will help us against that host of impostors, by which a successful medicine is always pursued, and sometimes even hunted down.

The most striking good effects on two patients, who have taken Husson's Medicinal Water, stamp its excellence with me. It is said a counterfeit has already been sold: general knowledge of the true composition would at once cut off other such deleterious shams.

We read in p. 55 of "The Countrey Farme," by Gervaise Markham, printed at London, in 1616:

"Gout and Ach in the Hands. "For paine in the feet and hands, boyle a good handfull of Mugwort in a sufficient quantitie of Oyle Olive, unto the spending of the third part; make thereof an Oyntment for the payned place: Give also to

of one of the hearbes called Arthritice."

In the same page below, Primrose and Sage are called hearbes Arthriticæ.

BEFORE this volume is closed, the seeds of Ebulus, with the decretiof indulge me with part of a column on Dr. Harrison's professional remonstrances. Improvement in Medical practice is the object: how can that be facilitated more, than by rendering means of knowledge less expensive, and readier of access? No such means are pointed out hitherto.

*Con was an Eton phrase made use of in those days.

Some practising Apothecary can, by this hint, start from his tile, Opiferque per orbem, as a cognomen for himself.

If my book is scarce, you may command it.

P. МБТБ

METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, kept at CIAFTON, in Hackney,
from the 16th of November, to the 15th of December.

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OBSERVATIONS.

Nov. 16. Very windy showery night.

Dec.

17. Flash of lightning about 6 p. m.

20. The Maximum of Thermometer at 11 p. m.

21. Thunder Clouds about.

22. Showers of hail and rain; lightning at night.

23. Flash of lightning at night.

24. Evaporation since the 22d, 120.

26. Near two quarts of water fell on a surface of 9 inches diameter, since the 22d. 28. Evaporation since the 24th, 37°.

30. Moon well defined; but yellowish. Flashes of lightning observed.

2. Cirri, Cirro-strati, and Cirro-cumuli, observed early in the morning; succeeded by change of weather.

4. Very damp by Mr. B. M. Forster's Hygrometer.

5. Girro-stratus and Cirro-cumulus observed. Evaporation since 28th ult. 25°.

Windy uight.

7. Evaporation, 9o.

9. Sky overspread with Cirro-cumulus, p. m.

10. Upper current N. N. E. to-night.

11. Evaporation since the 7th, only 8°. A Burr observed round the Moon, about 10 p.m. a little coloured with yellow, red, and green, at its extremities. 13. Cirro-stratus and Cirro-cumulus observed in the afternoon rain came on at night, accompanied by high wind, and increasing temperature.

14. Very windy showery day; but clear night. Evaporation since the 11th, 22°*. 15. Early a. m. Cirro-stratus was spread about the sky, and threatened rain. It, however, cleared: and at night, light tufts of Cirrus, approximating to Cirro-stratus, scattered about, presented a very curious sky by moonlight. *By degrees of evaporation, is understood half inches of a tube one inch in diameter, and evaporated from a circular surface four inches in diameter.

THOMAS FORSTER.

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