Mr. URBAN, Stapleton, Feb. 26.

HE inclosed sketch of the re

Tsidence of that good and great

man, Edmund Burke, at Beaconsfield, is at your service. I flatter myself, it will afford pleasure to many of your Readers who enjoyed his friendship, to contemplate a view of the mansion where they partook of the hospitality, and enjoyed the conversation, of a man whose wonderful abilities were through life dedicated, in public to the service of his country, and in private to the delight of his friends. I lament to add, this house was destroyed by fire, on the 23d of April 1813, not long after the death of Mrs. Burke, it being then the re sidence of Mr. Dupree. The loss was estimated at 30,000l.

Dr. Carver was appointed Archdeacon in 1782. I have lived in the

County many years, and have yet to

learn when he visited any parish in his jurisdiction; when he inquired into the state of any church or parsonage-house; and when he inquired whether the duty was regularly performed, or whether any part of the service was discontinued, in any church within his jurisdiction.

The conclusion of his friend's account of the death of this Reverend Clergyman is, that he conversed on his dissolution in the most philosophic manner-it is not said in a Christian-like manner.

A.

Mr. URBAN, Kensington, Aug. 31,

Mr. URBAN, Sept. 8. WHEN one who has long filled a situation, in the due execution of which, the publick at large, and the interest of the Church of England in particular, are deeply interested, dies; if the mistaken zeal of an imprudent friend shall hold him up as a pattern for imitation, as one who in the execution of his office acted from motives of conscience, that friend must not be offended if he occasions some anamid version.

In giving an account of the death of the late Archdeacon of Surrey, p. 198, it is stated, that he had resigned two Livings from motives of Conscience-because he could not reside. Whether Conscience was also his motive for resigning a stall, in the Cathedral Church of Worcester, is not said. Nor is it said that his Conscience troubled him for retaining an office of great public importance, without discharging any part of the duty.

The duty of an Archdeacon is, to assist the Bishop in making those inquiries which the Bishop himself cannot well do in person; to visit the parishes within his jurisdiction, examine the state of the church and church-yard, and of the parsonage house; to inquire whether there is any resident Clergyman, and whether Divine service is regularly performed, and other offices of the Church duly attended to.

GENT. MAG. September, 1814.

letter, dated May 22, you inserted in the Gentleman's Magazine for June 1814, p. 550, "believes that most persons who are in the habit of hearing the Psalms appointed for Afternoon Service, have great repugnance at joining in the CIXth Psalm," &c. Allow me to invite him, for his own satisfaction, to read the same Psalm in the Geneva Bible of 1805, where he will find it translated according to his own sense. Your Correspondent would certainly be still more pleased in reading the explanation of the CIXth Psalm given by Doctor Gilbert Gerard, in his excellent In stitutes of Bibl. Criticism, p. 466.

Allow me also, Mr. Urban, to put question to you and to your numerous Correspondents.-Abp. Newcome wrote on "the Expediency of Revising by Authority our present Translation; and the means of exccuting such a Revision." Is there any Committee in Great Britain, appointed to undertake that work?The simple knowledge of its existence would be a satisfaction to pious Christians (such as your Correspondent H.) who find now and then difficul ties which stagger them, but who would be soon reconciled, if they might conceive that they are errors of the Translators, which will disappear in the prepared Authorised New Version. It has been experienced that such was the case at Geneva, where the Bible published in 1805 had been expected for eighty years.

As I have received many Letters to inquire where the Geneva Bible of

1803

that such as are in need and necessity have right." On that ground I take up my peu to ask your opinion, or that of your friends, on the follow ing subject:-A gentleman, by his will, about 30 years ago, charged a field of his with the annual payment of Five Pounds for ever to the poor of the parish in which I reside. The Churchwarden and Overseer of the Poor are appointed, in the said will, to assist the Trustee in distributing the same. This money was paid two or three years by the gentleman before his death, and has been paid since his decease by his Executor. But, alas! Mr. Urban, neither the Churchwarden nor Overseer can now get any money to distribute. The field charged with the sum has been sold into another family, and the purchaser has refused payment. Had this legacy been bequeathed to some priest in the age of Romish superstition and darkuess, we might have been led to conjecture, that it was given through fear of purgatory; one flash of which fire (says Fuller*) is able to melt a miser into charity;" but, as the light of the blessed Reformation shone with great splendour at the time, and as the money was left to the poor, we may believe that it was no papistical hoax. I shall feel particularly obliged for information, through the medium of your Magazine, whether the money can be recovered or not; if it can, what steps are requisite to be taken. I doubt not, Mr. Urban, but you will feel much interest in the subject, as I am certain that you are an advocate for the poor. Whatever new Law there may be concerning charitable donations, can any man, who has a heart of flesh, rob the needy, for the sake of a few pounds, when he knows full well that they were left to "relieve the distressed?" Let such men ponder in their hearts the words of the wise Solomon: "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches shall surely come to want."

PHILO PATRIE & PAUPERUM.

building a village, to be inhabited by a select description of persons, who were all to be liberally supplied with the comforts of life, and to be made very happy and independent in a communityoftheworthiest dispositionsand most refined sentiments, collectively operating to the promotion of human virtue and happiness, and the exclusion of every thing adverse to either, was very well displayed in a satirical Novel, written, indeed, on the suggestion of the Poet himself, and published some years ago under the name of Columella, or Shenstonegreen; but, though it could not be realized exactly on poetical principles, nor to the extent of that feli city conceived by a warm imagination, it has been happily exemplified as far as it is practicable, in several very liberal foundations established in this country; but in none I ever met with so completely calculated for health, independence, quiet, competence, and comfort, as in that of St. Bartholomew neur Sandwich in Kent; a very full and correct account of which is given in Mr. Boys's valuable History of that Town and Port, published in 1798, to which I refer for information of its founder, benefactors, endowments, &c. and proceed to describe its present state. It consists of an entire village, commonly called Bartlemas, pleasantly situated on the West side of the high road leading from Sandwich to Dover, containing a respectable farm-house occupied by a tenant of the estate, an ancient and spacious church, or chapel, inclosing the tomb of Sir Henry Sandwich, Knt. the founder or chief benefactor of the Hospital, fifteen

or sixteen cot

tages, or rather commodious houses, some of them genteelly fitted up, for the brothers and sisters of the foundation, not ranged together in a line, but irregularly disposed, as in other villages, with their respective gardens and orchards, perfectly distinct from and unconnected with each other, exempt from tithes and taxes, and endowed with pensions, which now amount, by considerable advances of the rental, to fifty-two pounds per annum each, exciusive of

The Mayor and Jurats of Sandwich are styled Patrons, Governors, and Visitors of the Hospital, who visit

twice

twice a year.

On these occasions there was formerly a grand procession of clergy and laity, with instruments of music, bearing wax lights provided for the chapel, when the Rector of St. Peter's, or some other clergyman appointed by the Mayor, celebrated high mass with great solemnity. The principal visitation is now, and has been for many years, on St. Bartholomew's Day; the Governors and fraternity assemble in the Chapel, and, after Divine service and a sermon to commemorate the Founder and Benefactors, proceed to the election of a Master for the ensuing year, who is sworn into his office. The governors then view the buildings, and direct the necessary repairs; a dinner is provided for them, and for the minister, the town-clerk, and tenant of the farm, at one of the houses of the hospital, and for the brothers and sisters at another.

Being a native of Sandwich, and accustomed, when a boy, to attend with my father, who was chaplain, 1 have been extremely gratified at being once more present at this commemoration, which I have not been since the year 1765, when he officiated as chaplain for the last time; and the very long period of nine and forty years has elapsed, which has laid almost the whole number of those who were then assembled, together with their departed minister, at rest in their graves. Nothing could more forcibly recall the memory of a beloved and revered pa rent, nor consequently agitate my feelings more to behold his place supplied by another, however worthy of the sacred office *; 'to see the bench of magistrates entirely changed; to recognize with difficulty amidst the congregation a few of the surviving friends and companions of my youth, arrived at those years when man is but the shadow of what he was, and approaching like myself to that awful period, when, in the emphatic language of Holy Writ, He by whom his days are determined," "changeth his countenance, and taketh

*The Rev. Wm. Elwyn, the present chaplain, who delivered a very admirable discourse on the duties of the Aged, particularly applied to the objects of this Charity: and closed with an exhortation to the Young, respecting their deport ment towards them.

him away:" to see myself surrounded by a new generation of perfect strangers in a place where every individual was once familiar to the eye and intimately known, was a scene as impressive, as can well be imagined, of the most interesting and serious contemplations.

I consider myself greatly honoured by the Governors of this Charity hav ing approved the inclosed lines*, and allowed them to be sung in their Chapel at the above commemoration. Į shall remember it with the highest satisfaction as long as I live, and ac cept it as an honour peculiarly augmented by its being conferred as an instance of respect to my Father's memory; who is thus, in a manner the most grateful to my feelings, acknowledged to have been, in a reli gious point of view, from the attentive and gratuitous + performance of his professional duties here, worthy of being associated with the former Benefactors of the Hospital, and had in everlasting remembrance.' Yours, &c,

Mr. URBAN,

W. B.

July 31.

PERMIT me to observe to the Purchasers of my "Architectural Antiquities," and to your Readers in general, that "The Cathedral Antiquities of England," of which Two Numbers are now completed, are strictly and properly a continuation of my former Volumes. Though these works are wholly devoted to the same subject, and are jointly illustrative of the arts, customs, and religious and civil peculiarities of our ancestors in their various stages of progression, civilization, and refine ment, yet the four volumes of the "Architectural Antiquities" certainly` constitute a complete and regular work in itself; and each Cathedral will also form a specific volume. This plan has been adopted to suit the conyenience and wishes of such persons as may be inclined to discontinue the work in certain stages of progress to such also as may have a predilection for certain subjects-and to those who may be desirous of commencing the work at a particular class or time. A small variation in the title has been

* See our Poetry for the present month, p. 264.

There is now a stipend paid to the officiating minister,

adopted