genius and virtues my high admiration has been more than once publicly avowed. The reference to Sir Charles Grandison was made to support what had been previously said in favour of the efficacy with which truth is em ployed where a lesson of good is given, when, as it appears to me, and indeed I deem the position a safe oue, the most homely narrative, if authentic, would be more operative, than the most artfully-composed fiction-even though the production of such a master as Richardson.

The notion thrown out by Investigator, of an Edition of Richardson's Novels clad in a modern costume, is very lively; but the experiment would be a bold one; and perhaps not prove altogether friendly to Richardson's fame: he is an English Classick; the garb of his immortal personages belongs specifically to their day, and, in some measure, to their peculiar modes of thought and action-and where is the hand that would dare to touch the beautiful fabrick!

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

*We have to acknowledge the Receipt of a long Letter from Mr. John Birch; in which that respectable Gentleman (no doubt with the purest motives) perseveres in his Fulminations against Vaccination; condemning it in toto, and anathematizing its Practisers and Abellors, the College of Physicians, the Royal Vaccine Institution, and the Parliamentary Commit

tees.

July 9.

ALLOW me to ask some of your

Friends, either at Enfield, or at Trinity College, Cambridge, whether Dr. Robert Uvedale, who was Vicar of Enfield from 1721 to 1731, was the same person with the celebrated Botanist, who planted the large Cedar in the garden of the Manor-house. If so, he must have received the benefice late in life. If not, when did the Botanist die? and was the Vicar his Son? Mrs. Brooke, the justly-celebrated Authoress of "Julia Mandeville," "Rosina," &c. was buried at Sleaford in Lincolnshire; where the memories of her uncle and father are preserved by her elegant inscriptions. If that Lady has any Epitaph in the same church, a copy is requested. CARADOC.

shall, however, submit to the conside

ration of the Publick.

IN

answer to the general Invectives flung out by the Board against all who dare to think for themselves and to reject their associations, I must beg leave to say for myself, that I never lost a patient by Inoculation; and that I consider even the Natural Small-pox a mild disease, and only rendered malignant by mistakes in nursing, in diet, and in medicine, and by want of cleanliness: which last is the fomes of Hospital fevers and of all Camp and contagious disorders.

It would hardly be too bold to say, that the fatal treatment of this disease, for two centuries, by warming and coufining the air of the Chamber, and by stimulating and heating cordials, was the cause of two-thirds of

the mortality which ensued.

It is not to the wisdom of the College of Physicians that the Publick is indebted for the present successful treatment; but to the family of the Suttons, who were indicted for their practice at the Quarter Sessions at Chelmsford, but acquitted, with great encomiums for their success, and with the thanks of the Grand Jury for the lesson they were teaching the Faculty.

Mr.

July 12. HAVE no wish to continue the discussion on the state of the Soul after death. The arguments have been laid before your Readers, and of the justness of them they will judge. A. H. (p. 548. b.) does not find himself "convinced of any error." Perhaps not; for to prove is one thing, and to convince is another. He is "surprised by" my "conceding to all he is arguing for, in the definition of Paradise as the state or abode of the soul, in rest and consolation, when separated from the body, between the hour of death and the day of resurrection." This does not surprise, but it does astonish, me. A. H. contends that there is no such state of rest to the soul, and I maintain that there is; and by thus maintaining the direct contradiction of his opinion, I" concede all that he argues for"!!!

Again, he says:-St. Paul's being "caught up to Paradise cannot be assumed as an authority for the future intermediate state of the soul, because St. Paul afterwards lived on earth, and died." To any plain onderstanding, as seems to me, the reverse must be obvious. What was exhibited to St. Paul, in vision, was no delusion, but has a real existence in nature. Heaven and Paradise were so exhibited to him; and therefore Heaven and Paradise are no delusion, but have a real existence in nature.

A. H. says:-"It is true, that a man who kills the body, kills the soul also for a season." On the contrary, he who knew both worlds, all things invisible as well as visible, says, they which kill the body, are not able to kill the soul." Matth. x. 28. He says: "Lazarus, and those who were visibly raised, left no light to shew what their soul had either enjoyed or suffered since their deaths." He should rather have said, No such light is recorded; though, at the same time, it is probable, that if they had attempted to describe what they had seen, the attempt would have been fruitless: the things of the invisible world, even in that part which is not the region of highest beatitude, being, as St. Paul assures us, unspeakable," such as cannot be expressed in human language. 2 Cor. Ill. 4.

GENT. MAG. July, 1814.

He thanks me (and T. V. likewise, p. 550.) for referring him to "the passages which he cited before." But the passages, to which he was referred, were those which had been alledged by others, in disproof of his notions, though some of them had perhaps been cited by him" also.

There are many other things in this Letter of A. H. liable to just animadversion; but it is time to have done. Yours, &c. R. C. July 14.

Mr. URBAN,

WAS mach gratified, when I read

in your Magazine of June, the very just and seasible observations of A. S. respecting the late "Stipendiary Curates' Bill." As 1 am ignorant of the real author, I can only address him through you, or the medium of your Monthly Publication. In confirmation of the " judicious remarks of A. S. respecting the plurality of Curates," I will here recite a true copy of a Letter from a Curate addressed to a Rector, within these few days: "I refused a Curacy, pleasantly situate, with a good house and four acres, rent and tax free, and a stipend of 75 guineas, for one church and single duty. A few days before, I refused a neat house and field, rent and tax free, and 1107. salary, for two churches, within a mile of each other, and single duty alternately. I expect (he adds) beside a neat house, 100%. or guineas, for one church; and, if I serve two, I expect at least 501. more. For less, I will never again be Curate!"

I wish to call the attention of A. S. to another subject, materially counected with the Established Church; I mean, the Curates of Lay-Impropriators.

Surely they ought to be compelled by the Legislature, in a similar proportion, to augment their stipeads. I could cite many cases in point. I will content myself, at present, with noticing only two of them :-The Perpetual Curacy of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, appointed by the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxou. Their lessee (Sir John Sebright) occupies the great and small tithes; and likewise receives all the fees for vaults, monuments, tombs, not only in the chancel and body of the Church, but likewise in the church

church-yard there are 1200 inhabi⚫ tants, and the Perpetual Curate has a stipend of 607. per ann. paid by the Lessee. The surplice-fees amount, on an average, to Sl. per ann. the tithes are estimated, I believe, at least at 1000l. per ann.-I have reason to think much more.

The Perpetual Curate of Minster, Isle of Sheppy, has a stipend of only 401. per ann. paid by the Impropriator, William Hopson, esq. from the great and small tithes, which are let to Mr. Chambers for 12001. per ann. Sheerness is in the parish, and I believe the population is 3000. It is not only the most populous part, but distant four miles from the parochial church. In consequence, many Chapels, estranged from the Established Church, have been erected at Sheerness, in the parish of Minster; and in consequence of that distance, the Chaplain of the Garrison has not unfrequently trespassed upon the rights and emoluments belonging to the parochial officiating Minister, by baptizing children at his Chapel, and churching women, receiving very considerable fees for the same.

Should the communication I have now transmitted bring forward any observation or comments in your Magazine, you may probably hear from me again. CLERICUS.

HAVING been lately gratified with the sight of, what I conceive to be, the best esteemed of the Cyclopædias now publishing; and also of a System of Botany, which, as an elaborate, elegant, professional work, I confess, I viewed with more respectful eyes, though I somewhat wondered at finding it in company where it might be considered as an officious intruder; the reflections they naturally gave rise to, I imagine, I cannot dispose of better, than to tender them for your acceptance. Should they incur the censure of being old-fashioned notions, now grown obsolete, I can only plead their starting in an old head, and that I most willingly submit them to the correction of minds

formed in times I have now little concern with, being under no doubt of their receiving due reprehension. It is the collision of opinions that strikes out sparks of truth.

A compilation under the name of Cyclopædia I consider as a vain attempt to condense and compress all human knowledge into one book (using the word book, as what grammarians term-a noun of multitude singular); and thereby to supersede all other elementary didactic compositious, and convert them into wastepaper. The expected advantage of so enormous a monopoly has given rise to growing competitions for its accomplishment: but happily, as the object of such illiberal endeavours is unreasonable, so the proposed interested selfish grasp is too mighty for human attainment! No one man, and no association of men, though the materials be all in readiness, can collect a satisfactory uniform summary of human labours, through all ages, upon every object of intellectual and manual attention, into one view, so as to answer any valuable purpose. In such a universal bash of every thing, all conceivable subjects must be comprehended, and all ought to be exhausted for if any articles be omitted, or improperly treated, so as to render a reference to other books necessary, the merit of such an expensive cumbrous compilation will be seriously impaired, by the loss of public confidence; and its laboured professions, and positive assurances, be treated as mere deceptions.

:

The obligation of brevity must press closely on the minds of the un-, dertakers, in every step they take

under a precarious discretion, depending on their competency to the subject under hand: and such defects.as they may chance to notice, originating in this obligation, creep forward, as matter of course, at the close of their labours, when all professions are worn out, in Addenda et Corrigenda, and in Appendixes; which are but clumsy patch-work remedies to soothe their subscribers with at parting!Such an undertaking must be too superficial, at best, for any but superficial readers; must be too unequal and defective in execution, to be safely confided in; as time and occasion only may bring unobserved defects under notice; and can only gra

tify the vanity of those, who, by purchasing costly works under alluring titles, think they are to have all knowledge at their command, beside the credit of it, which they by no means neglect to cultivate.

It is worth pausing a moment to reflect, that it was not at this easy mechanical rate our forefathers supplied the materials, now sliced and garbled for such specious purposes !

The recent productions of the press, loosely executed upon fine wove paper, carefully hot-pressed, and suitably decorated by the binder, may, in this age of foppish literature, serve the purpose of attracting admiration in a gentleman's library; while the actual student is contented to sit down in some convenient corner, among common editions, of easy purchase, the garniture of which does not divert his attention from the objects of his serious research.

In brief, close-thinkers are not found surrounded by pretty nesses, which argue and cherish dissipation of the mind.

I am, Sir, though not often troublesome as a Correspondent, one of the oldest of your constant Readers,

P. S. My harmless well-meaning townsmen are reported to have once exposed themselves to derision, by raking in a pond to find the Moon they saw glittering on the surface! The tale is laughable enough, but is pregnant with a moral of more extensive application than Gothamites were then aware of. For, if they missed what they looked for, they at least might have gained what they did not look for, a conviction of the folly of trusting to appearances. During my residence among them, I have been labouring to rescue them from the dangers and reproach of credulity, and to restore their character to the level of common sense. Whether I do any good or not, I console myself in the rectitude of my intentions; though even these may expose me to the hazard of passing for a Gothamite in another manner.

E. J. asks, "Why does the Register-book, in its title, speak of Births, as well as Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials; whilst it contains no Schedule adapted thereto, nor any columns for them in the other Schedules ?

ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION.

No. CLXXXIV.

Progress of Architecture in ENGLAND in the Reign of WILLIAM and MARY.

(Continued from Part I. p. 560.)

We now find ourselves returning, in a certain degree, to the Wrenean school, not yet grown out of fashion, though the founder of it had, it seems, lost all countenance at the new Court of St. James's. Hence attention is directed to

St. Martin's-street, Orange-street, and Orange-court, Leicester-fields. In the first street, a stone compartment, "St. Martin's-street M. H. M. 1692.1 In the second, ditto, on a large stone, basso-relievo, "Orange-streele, 1695," surrounded by palm and laurel branches, well sculptured. In the houses are found, among modern alterations, three distinct classes: kitchen, parlour, first and second floors, and garrets. 1st class: plan; stairs, on one side, and rooms two deep on the other. Elevation: plain cornice over parlour, between the floors, strings without mouldings; general cornice, including a large hollow, or cavetto: dripping-eaves to roof. Door-way, plain pilasters, scrolls, and cornice: door itself in four pannels; over it a small sash-light: first appearance of such a conveniency. Windows: architraves, without mouldings. class; distribution of parts nearly the

same

2d

as the preceding, excepting, that in the general cornice are blockings, and to the door-way rich treblefoliaged scrolls; the door itself in two compartments: there are likewise among the windows, which are of the ordinary proportion, others, in narrow and small oval forms, first appearances. Adjoining this house is a gateway (stone), leading to a stableyard; the design is uncommonly simple, yet pleasing; the architrave to arch (having no impost) has but one moulding, a fillet: on each side do. pilasters, without any decoration of plinth or cap; cornice, few mouldings.

3d

class: Sir Isaac Newton's House, St. Martin's-street :-A single building, six stories; kitchen, parlour, first and second floors; garrets, and an observatory. Plan; passage to stairs, on the right; on the left, roome, two deep. Elevation: between each floor plain strings, general cornice

destroyed,

destroyed, a modern parapet; roof modernised, as is the observatory: door-way; plain side-pilasters, with scrolls and rich foliages, plain frieze and cornice sash-light, a semi-arched head, with five perforations for light: architraves to windows with mould ings: the dormer-windows have pediments, centre one a semi. Interiors of these classes shew pannelled wainscots with general cornices, the plain architrave chimney-pieces, archway with pilasters, leading to stairs, which stairs have balusters. In Sir Isaac's house, the dimensions are much increased, and the mouldings more elaborate: the chimney-piece in the observatory remains (though the room itself, as before observed, has undergone a change); a semiarched head, with kaced architrave. House or Chambers in the New Square, Lincoln's Inn: they partake of the above detail, with the addition of a higher degree of work to the door-ways (stone), in an open circular pediment, inclosing vase-neck supports for balls.

Gateway to the above Square, entering from Carey-street (stone), south side: oval arch, with a human head key-stone, Doric pilasters on each side, pannelled; entablature, the cornice alone continued in line, architrave and frieze run up with the outline of pi asters, having metops, and in lieu of tryglyphs, scrolls and human heads; grounds rusticated; impost enriched with leafings. The cornice has scrolls, open pedimentwise, inclosing a vase neck, and ball. North side ditto gateway: oval arch repeated; other parts much varied; the arch and jambs have an architrave of many mouldings, and kneed; key-stone, a human head. On the knees of the architrave double scrolls; spandrils take place, with a leaf-ornament: coruice has a broken arched pediment, once inclosing a vase neck, and ball, now destroyed. Above the pediment, two shields with accompanying compartments, scrolls, foliage, fruits and flowers, &c. bearing, TW. D. 1697. Schomberg House, Pall-mall.-Five stories; kitchen, parlour, first, second, and third floors; (no dormers, suppose destroyed). Plan; at each end of the line (nine windows) projecting portions of one room. With regard to the internal arrangement,

the house of late years has undergone many alterations, and it is at present divided into three distinct tenements; centre one, in the occupation of Mr. T. Payne, the truly worthy and respectable bookseller. In consequence, the rooms, stairs, &c. have received a modern appearance, to the great loss, in point of illustration, at this part of our progress: yet, by recurring to the detail already gone into, and giving scope to the idea of an augmentation in decorations, which must have prevailed, some opinion may be entertained of the original finishings. As it is, let the description of the exterior be followed, which still exhibits the greater part of its first intention. To each story, and between each window, in their heights, plain compartments; the centrical entrance destroyed, and a term portico of human figures substituted. Parlourline, in the end portions, destroyed, and Ionic porticos set up as entrances; `but two of the first windows are left. The windows have, to their architraves, a few mouldings and keystones; quoin-stones at the breaks. General cornice includes a large hollow, or cavelto, with double blocks placed over each pier, foliaged, and fronted with escallop-shells. Centre break finishes with a pediment, said blocks in continuation: roof modern the original, no doubt, was of the dropping-eves character, with dormers, &c. Materials to these several houses, red brick; decorations, stone and wood.

Our further exposition of the art of design occurring in this Reign (being desirous to pursue the track of accumulating splendour) will be derived from Campbell's" Vitruvius Britannicus ;" and the first building to be noticed, as to date, is "Althorp, Northampton, the seat of the Earl of Sunderland, 1688, by Colin Campbell, Esq." Plan: wings in advance for offices, forming a court: three entrances in the main front. The several stairs, rooms, &c. continue to maintain the long scenic arrangement, so remarkable in the preceding reigns; but, as the plates contain no internal decorative information, conjecture, as in the case of Schomberg House, must aid our mind in this respect. Elevation; hall-floor, principal ditto, and dormer ditto; range of the hall-floor, Corinthian pilasters

on