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"I have turned over Dr. Kennicott's posthumous work; but have not yet had time to give it a critical reading. It seemed to me that he made wild work of some passages in Hosea. "Dr. Woide lately informed me by letter that the publication of the Syriac MS. in the Ambrosian Library was actually undertaken; but I forget by whom.

"I thank you for the curious and imporant fact of Sir William Jones's correspondence with some Jews in China, on the subject of Hebrew MSS. "A Fellow of this University, Mr. Barrett, is employed in tracing the faint and almost vanished characters of a Greek MS. of St. Matthew, as old as the famous Codex Alexandrinus. Over this, a MS. of the Gospel, of a much later date, is superscribed. Mr. Barrett thinks that he shall recover about 300 verses. The character, and some of the variations, are striking.

"I wish that your very worthy and learned Bishop* would encourage some good scholar to undertake a Comment on Daniel. Archbishop Secker has bequeathed to the Lambeth Library a Comment on this Prophet, in three volumes, folio. Whoever engages in such a work, should be conveniently situated for access to so valuable a treasure.

"I beg leave to present my best respects to Mrs. Green; and am, with much regard, Rev. Sir,

"Your most obedient, and very faithful servant, W. WATERFORDt. "My London bookseller is J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard. If you will be so good as to send your direction to him, I will order him to transmit my book to you as early as possible."

Paradise-buildings, Mr. URBAN, Lambeth, Aug. 18. Nyour Number for July, p. 62, under the title of "Arts and Sciences," you inform your Readers that the Mausoleums of the three last branches of the illustrious and unfortunate House of Stuart, that is, of the Pretender (James III.) and his sons Prince Charles Edward, and Cardinal York,

* Bp. Bagot.

† Abp. Newcome, see p. 4.

have been opened in the Vatican at Rome to the view of the publick; to which you add, "all the curious admire these master-pieces of the celebrated sculptor Canova, which contain an expression, and evince a taste, that are worthy of the age of Pericles, and do honour to the munificence of the Prince Regent."

From this statement it appears, that the Prince Regent has been at the expence of these Monuments; and if so, it does him honour, and shews great magnanimity, as well as generosity on his part, in thus noticing that unfortunate family; and I hope his munificence will be further extended, in rescuing from neglect and oblivion, the fine memorial erected in honour of the head of that family, I mean the bronze statue of James II. which stands in the Court-yard behind the Banqueting House at White-hall; where it has remained, buried in dirt and obscurity, ever since the Revolution in 1688, and is frequently seen enveloped in filth and rubbish, neglected and unnoticed by (I believe) most of the inhabitants of this great Metropolis, many of whom never knew, or heard, that such a fine production of art, is to be seen within a few paces of their habitations.

The figure is excellent; it represents the Monarch clad in a Greek cuirass, or suit of armour, his head with the usual laurel wreath, the military chlamys, or mantle, and sandals, in a fine taste; the attitude is easy and spirited, and the expression in the countenance very strongly pourtrays in a manner the very thoughts and soul of the gloomy and ill-fated Prince it represents.-It is not clearly ascertained at whose expence this statue was erected, nor has the name of the sculptor been handed down to us with any degree of certainty; some attribute it to Grinlin Gibbons, and others to Herbert Le Soeur, but of the two, I rather think this work, and the fine brass statues on the mausoleums of Louis Stuart, Duke of Richmond, and George Villers, Duke of Buckingham, in Henry the VIIth's Chapel, are of the hand of the latter artist; it is true Gibbons was a very capital artist in his way, but his best performances were mostly in wood, of which, we have some fine specimens remaining at Windsor Castle, Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire, Burghley House, near Stamford,

Stamford, and a few other places, particularly in the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral, where the carved work and ornaments over the stalls, and on the organ case, forcibly display the great merit of the artist.

The Statue above described ought to be removed to a site more worthy of it, where it may be better seen, and its merits as an excellent specimen of art duly appreciated. I know of no situation more suitable for it than the end of Whitehall, and to be placed in the front of the House between Parliament and King Streets, facing Charing Cross; it will be out of the way of carriages there; and, to make it more conspicuous, should be erected on a loftier basement and pedestal than it has at present, bearing the original inscription: "Jacobus Secundus, Dei Gratia, Angliæ, Scotiæ,

fensor, Anno 1686," now nearly obliterated. It should be surrounded with a bold iron railing, with gas lamps at the angles, which, when lighted at night, would have a good effect, and be of great use in that dark and wide crossing from the Government Offices on the side of Downing street to the opposite end of Parliament-street, which in general is not only very dirty, but even dangerous to passengers.

You will probably be able, in some of your future numbers, to favour your readers with a description of the Monuments erected in the Vatican Church at the expense of the Prince Regent, in honour of, or to perpetuate the memory of the personages above-mentioned; correct copies of the inscriptions thereon would be desirable, that we may learn from thence what stile, or title, is given to each of them. The Old Pretender styled himself "Jacobus III. Mag. Brit. Rex;" and, when spoken of at Rome, was mostly called "Il Re." His two sons frequently assumed the title of King, Henry the youngest (the late Cardinal) in particular, had medals struck at Rome, one of which I have seen, bearing the following inscription round his head in profile, "Henricus IX. Dei gratia Mag. Brit. Rex;" and on the reverse the arms of England, as borne by James I.; but in his letters he generally subscribed himself" Henry Cardinal." I am not quite certain whether he was not at

the time of his death Dean of the College of Cardinals: if not, he was at least Sub-dean; at which time his titles ran thus, "Serinissimo, Eminentissimo é Reverendissimo Principe Il Sig. Cardinale Enrico, Benedetto, Maria Clemento, Duca di York, Vescovo di Frascati, Commendatorio della Chiesa titolari di S. S. Lorenzo in Damaso, Vice Cancelliere della S. R. C. e Sommista, e Arcipreta di S. Pietro in Vaticano, sotto Decano dell Sagro Collegio." I believe, with his other Ecclesiastical preferments, he held an Abbey somewhere in French Flanders in commendam, to which he was presented when very young by Louis XV. Yours, &c. J. LowE.

EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR.

July 25. HE Provisional Committee for

Reduction of Poors' Rates, reflecting on the growing dissatisfaction, and want of employment in various parts, is induced to accelerate the publication of the following, which is with confidence recommended as a most important means of relief. Under such circumstances, the Cultivation of Land may be realized as an universal as well as a permanent resource; and this might be immediately commenced -the Act intituled, "An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor," and passed in the late Session, empowering each Parish to obtain Land for the purpose of Employment and for Letting. It may be remarked, that the low wages which would be cheerfully accepted, would be reimbursed by the products obtained, while the management of the spade is universally available. The above Act (limiting the Land to be taken by each Parish to 20 acres) confers, as before noticed, a most judicious discretionary power, by which Land may be let in small portions at a fair rent, for the profitable occupation of themselves and families during leisure hours, and which cannot fail of producing the most essential effect, by the stimulus thus afforded to the industrious Poor to recover an independent state. Overseers, Guardians of the Poor, and Parishes, are therefore earnestly and respectfully invited to apply themselves to the above object; Noblemen, Magistrates, and Occupiers of Land, and the Community

generally,

generally, doubtless being found to co-operate, whereby to arrest the overwhelming tide of pauperism and disquietude, and restore to our Country its welfare, security and prosperity. The following is extracted from an account given by Mr. B. Overseer at Birmingham : "That he was an Overseer of the Poor in the years 1817 and 1818; that there were 800 adult poor in the Work-house, for whom there was no employment; that about thirty acres of land belonged to the Town; that these were let to different tenants; but that four acres were obtained, on which they planted Cabbages and Potatoes, and obtained a sufficient supply for 600 persons in the House from July to September. In March 1818, he took seven and a half acres more, and cultivated two acres in flax. The soil was hard and sterile, but being dug by the spade, and the turf buried without manure, it has a very promising appearance." Mr. B. accedes to the established sentiment, that the Culture of Land by hand labour is the only suitable employment for the Parochial Poor. Signed on behalf of the Provisional Committee,

IT

BENJAMIN WILLS, Hon. Sec.

Mr. URBAN, Aug. 18. Tis hoped that those Owners and Occupiers of Land, and Parishes, who, from a conviction of the utility of the plan, are now in so many parts engaged in furnishing labouring Poor with small portions of Land, will, by their example, be the means hourly of

exciting others to the adoption of this very important mode of ameliorating the condition of the Poor, and reducing the Poor-rates. What is effecting in Kent by Lords Abergavenny and Le Despencer, as well as by Parishes in that Country, merits universal notice. There can scarcely exist a doubt, but that the Government will, ere long, co-operate in granting Land at no great distance from London, on which a number of Metropolitan Poor may be employed. Yours, &c. B. WILLS.

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shootiug a game-cock, giving for his authority the Anti-jacobin Review, I take the liberty to inform you, that it is a metaphorical saying, and that no Law exists in England, awarding death to such a crime, but that he, travelling in disguise (as was his custom), went shooting with some other people, and having shot nothing, he discharged his fowlingpiece at a cock belonging to the Jandlord of the inn, where he resided. A person who was near gently rebuked him for it, and he replied, that if he would stop till he could re-load his fowling-piece, he would shoot him also. In consequence of which he was taken up for a misdemeanour, and writing a letter to his brother, then in Suffolk, it was refused by him to pay the postage, when a person by chance knew the writing to be Turpin's; the letter was accordingly opened, and it was discovered that the person in custody was Turpin; which circumstance being known, witnesses came against him, and he was condemned for various robberies, and stealing two horses, and suffered the punishment inflicted by the law at York. From which circumstances it is evident, that the crime for which Turpin suffered death was not shooting a Game-cock, but that that action brought on his discovery.

By inserting these few particulars, you will greatly oblige your constant Reader, W. E. F.

Mr. URBAN,

Aug. 14.

THE learned Traveller, Dr. Clarke,

has committed a mistake in quoting Mr. Coxe's Travels as authority for Tycho Brahe's being born in the island of Huen.

Mr. Coxe on the contrary asserts, that he was born at Knudstorp, near Helsingfors, in Scania. As I have never seen this place noticed in any Gazetteer, perhaps some of your readers may be able to inform me whether Dr. Clarke should not rather have corrected Mr. Coxe; or should this inquiry fall under the eye of the learned Doctor, as he possesses Hermelin's splendid maps of Sweden, he can, with little trouble, inform me the exact situation of

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