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Sir John Clotworthy, Knight, Baron of Loughneagh, and Viscount Massereene, in the county of Antrim, with remainder of these honours (in failure of issue male of his own body) to his son-in-law, Sir John Skeffing ton, Bart. and his issue male by Mary his wife, daughter of the said Sir John Clotworthy: and on default of such issue male, to the heirs general of the body of Sir John ClotWorthy."

It would seem, therefore, on the extinction of the male descendants of Sir John Skeffington by Mary Clot

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body of Sir John Clotworthy will in future be entitled to the Viscounty of Massereeue and Barony of Loughneagh. The Patent mentions only. "the heirs general of the body," and gives no preference to the male over the female line. The present Earl of Massereene is the last male descendant of Sir John Skeffington and Mary Clotworthy; on his Lordship's decease without issue male, his only daughter, the Lady Harriet Foster, becomes invested under the Patent with the dignities of Viscountess Massereene and Baroness Loughneagh, as "heir general of the body" of Sir John Clotworthy, the first Viscount. The Earldom of Massereene becomes extinct. But it is a question perhaps to be determined by Lawyers, whether the daughter of Lady Harriet's eldest son would not inherit the Viscounty in preference to her second son: in short, whether the Viscounty does not in future descend like a Peerage in fee.

In Mr. Wright's Address to Attorneys, and in your quotation from that useful publication, page 529, there is a mistake in calling Lord Chancellor, Jocelyn, Lord Roden. The Chancellor never enjoyed that title: the bonours to which he attained were those of Baron Newport and Viscount Jocelyn. The title of Earl ofRoden was conferred on his son Robert, the second Viscount Jocelyn. The Chancellor was grandson of Sir Robert Jocelyn, Bart. of Hide Hall, Herts; and by the extinction of the elder branches, the antient seat of Hide Hall, together with the English Baronetage, has devolved on the Roden family within a few years, by the death (as I beJieve) of Sir Conyers Jocelyn, the last Baronet of the elder branch.

I have the honour to send for insertion in the Magazine is, that great. Commanders have minds cast in the same moulds; and that success depends much on great ability, quickness, and self-possession; qualities, no doubt, which many more of our countrymen possess, though perhaps not in so high a degree as the two instances here upon record.

VERAX.

Remarkable Coincidence

in two GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS. WELLINGTON at, Waterloo, BROKE at Boston Light-house, each

with inferior Force waited the Attack: WELLINGTON, when confusion arose in the Enemy's Retreat;" BROKE, when the Enemy flinched from his Guns, rushed on, Each like a Lion from his Den, and

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the former in three Hours, the latter in three Minutes, st drove all before him.

The Result,

signal and decisive Victory, Skill and Bravery so consummate, while they add lustre

to the Military and Naval Glory of the United Kingdoms, obtain and secure, through Divine Providence, the legitimate end of War, Honourable and Permanent Peace! himself sure of success; the plunder of In both instances the Enemy thought Brussels was promised by Buonaparte, for the Chesapeake, and a banquet was prepared at Boston

*** LXXXV. Part I. 135. a. l. 7, for Oxford, read Cambridge.

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HE Act of Parliament which bas recently passed, "for the better regulating the Practice of Apothecaries," recites, "that so much mischief has arisen from great numbers of Persons having exercised the functions of Apothecaries who are incompetent thereto, that it is become necessary that provision should be made to remedy such evils." Many of these evils have arisen from the almost total neglect of the study of Plants among the Medical Students, and more particularly so at the present season, when a few of our indigenous vegetables compose the most active and useful preparations of the present day; and although the number of them is comparatively small, yet many have been the fatal consequences of their having been mistaken or substituted by ignorant practitioners. A person has lately been poisoned by Foxglove having been used instead of Coltsfoot. These plants are so very dissimilar in appearance, that I could not have given credit to it, if I had not ascertained it to be a fact. Few seasons pass over without instances of people being poisoned from the indiscriminate use of the small Agaric, or Mushroom, known by the name of Champignions; several species of which are deadly poison.

Two cases of this dreadful nature have lately occurred in the practice of a Gentleman of eminence *, once a brother-pupil of mine, who, from his knowledge of Botany, discovered the cause, and counteracted the poisonous influence, by which means two whole families have been rescued from the grave. In cousequence of the necessity arising therefrom, I have undertaken to teach

* On examination, the kind eaten proved that the Agaricus campanulatus was mistaken for the A. campestris, or White Champignion. The parties were cured by violent emetics being adminis tered,

Botany by making excursions into the fields near London, as was the usual practice of my late Partner, Mr. William Curtis, and in which I have been honoured with the attendance and approbation of a respectable class. As you thought proper, Sir, to give an account of this Garden* I beg you to insert a sketch of a plan for establishing a complete School for this purpose.

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The HERBORISING EXCURSIONS are made in certain days in every month, by meeting at Hampstead, Battersea Fields, and other places; and on these occasions, specimens are gathered and named, their botanical as well as their medicinal qualities examined, and instructions given for forming them into a Hortus Siccus, as a work for re

ference in future.

"I have appropriated a spot of ground, in which are planted all the different vegetables used in Medicine,' which I intend to be open to the inspection of any Gentleman who may find it his interest to consult it. A library of useful books in elucidation of this subject is likewise established in the garden; and, that such articles may be procured fresh and good when wanted in cases of emer served, so that all persons may in future gency, the produce thereof will be rebe supplied with such articles, perfectly true, either fresh from the beds, or dried under my own inspection.

"I moreover intend to set apart certain days during the season, when Praetical Lectures, more particularly explanatory of the Classification of Plants, Phytology, &c. will be given in the Library

at the Garden.'

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"During the last week, two persons belonging to the University Printing office called upon the Professor of Mineralogy (Dr. Clarke), with specimens of what is vulgarly termed petrified moss,' said to have been found in The a petrifying well near Coton having no other means of communiProfessor has been to the spot; and cating to the University, at this season, what he conceives to be the greatest natural curiosity in the County, he has desired the Editor of this Paper to inform his Readers that the said well is in all

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respects similar to the celebrated petrifying spring of Matlock, in Derbyshire; incrusting moss, rushes, &c. with a de posit of carbonated lime, so as to exhibit a beautiful reticular stalactite. Persons going from Cambridge are recommended for a guide, to the cottage of Wm. Paulett, the first on the right, upon entering the village of Coton. The well is situated in a field belonging to Mr. Angier, who has given permission to this man to conduct strangers to the spot." Another Coton curiosity may be found described in Birch's History of the Royal Society, vol. IV. p. 165. RICHMONDIENSIS. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

You

Aug. 6. A OUR Correspondent St. Ives has given an ample historical detail of the old family of Laurence; yet, I think, with one considerable omission. He has not adverted to the Essex branch, several centuries past settled at Colchester, and for a great length of time engaged in the principal ma nufacture of that town, the bay making. Individuals of the family represented that Borough in Parlia ment, through several reigns, until between the years 1720 and 1730. * By certain old documents it appears that the origin of this branch was in the grand or great grandfather of the President (I have forgotten which), probably from a younger son.

The Laurences, I have heard, did not begin to substitute the w for theu, neither here nor in the West Indies, until subsequently to the Revolution, and then not universally. St. Ives has not touched the question of Richard Lawrence, who wrote on Ireland, whether or not he descended from the old family.

Whence does James Lawrence, the author, I presume, of the History of the Nairs, derive his title as Knight

of Malta?

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Aug. A.T your Correspondent, Part I. p. 513, appears determined to have every thing his own way, it is needless to offer additional conjectures about the Hall of Winchester Palace. He has at length brought his laborious arguments to a conclu, sion, without a tittle of demonstra tion, with which he threatened to silence every other animadversion.

From a retrospect of all my opponeut has said, he engrosses exclusive authority for his information, he enumerates a multitude of plates and books that have been consulted, carefully concealing every word and line that militates against him. He does not tell your Readers that he has seen a print where the roof is of equal height on each side of the window, or

that the East end of his half had three

early Pointed windows; or he forgets that in another a lantern is distinctly marked over that part which I ever thought to have been the hall; or does he even suggest the probability that what he produced as an under niable proof, might not have been taken after alterations; or did it ever have been a gallery, or state apartenter his mind that this portion might ment; and as it cannot be supposed that those draughtsmen were incorrect, how shall we account for this print showing double the number of windows that the building could have

Descendant of the Colchester Branch. had in the given dimensions. This

Mr. URBAN, Aug. 6. VOUR Correspondent A. S. F. p. 87, adducing the subject of Blight on the wheat, makes the following remark: "The cause of it might be a subject of curious inquiry amongst Mr. Urban's agricultural readers by careful and continued attention, perhaps some means might be found out for preventing it, or at least for lessening the injurious effects of it: all accounts of it, hitherto, ap

sufficiently proves that my adversary "will see only one side of the question:"

It should be noticed, that fig. 4 incorrect in outline; the main arch being semi-oval, instead of pointed, as in the original. AN OBSERVER.

*** Vol. LXXXIV. Part ii. p. 530, col. 1. 1. 38, for ten read two. This unfortunate Mistake of the Press seems to have been eagerly caught at by Mr. Gwilt, in p. 516 of our present vol. EDIT.

Mr.

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