1 P. 1086, by B. J. B. incorrectly: DITO CAESARI AVGVSTO Vol. LXXI. p. 881. No mention of Mr. Dallaway's Caius Cæfar occurs in either. Our traveller contradicts Mr. Dallaway's affertion, that the infeription on the golden gate of Conftantinople was still exifting; but he undersiands the Jines, Hæc loca Theodofus decorat poft fata tyranni, Aurea fæcla gorit que portam conftruit auro; which fix the name of golden on this gate at the time of its erection, and not to the richness of its ornaments, or be caufe the emperors ufed to make their triumphal entry through it. Chevalier, Voyage de la Propontide, vol. I. p. 65-69. VOUR Correfpondent Q. P. p.911, is pleased to convert the questions I asked, p. 721, into assertions of the affirmative on those questions. The information I received, at Kirkton, was certainly affirmative; but I did not fo far intend to adopt that information, as to be perfonally responsible for its truth. I believe the chancel at Kirkton is to be taken down, if not already down; as I faw that work of demolition begun upon. And I confess I could not fee any good reason for its being taken down, if it was the intention of the parties concerned to restore it to its original ftate. I beg leave positively to deny any intention to give a falfe coJour to the fubject of my first letter by a partial fuppreffion of the truth, as infinuated in the letter of Q. P. I am not an Architect by profeffion; but an admirer of the venerable remains of antient Architecture, anxious to preferve them, wherever it is poffible, from the fanaticism of modern improvement. I am not an inhabitant of Kirkton, nor do I reside within 40 miles of the place, nor have I any other intereft in the fubject than fuch as I have fiated. My drawing is upon a scale too large for your Mifcellany. And the infide of the chancel and transepts, where flones of an hundred weight were frequently falling on the figor, from the hands of the mafons abore, afforded Mr. URBAN, Walfall, Dec. 5. N addition to the excellent obferva tions on Impropriety of Speaking, p: 1010, I (hall state fome fashionable phrafes in this neighbourhood, which, I think, are not grammatical; vis. "I shall name it to him."-" Mr. B. is in the Mercery line."-" Where do you propose to fleep to-morrow night ?-I shall lay at the Swan Inn at W-." The taking and detaining the Spanish frigates with treasure on-board, p. 1059, is a curious circumftance. If it was done to force the payment of the Manilla rantom, due fince the peace of 1763, or to prevent the money getting into the hands of Baonaparte, it might be defended as a inatter of political expediency; but, otherwife, it feems to be of a piece with fome of the transactions of our " fierce and haughty foe," who fiicks at nothing in oppreffing defenceless nations, feizing ambalfadors, &c. &c. Spain is to be pitied, experiencing, at one time, Pestilence, Famine, and Oppreflion. To come to matters at home: I read in the St. James's Chronicle last night, that fine flour was nearly five pounds per fack! Surely the corn-jobbers and fpeculators are not going to revive the horrors of 1800? It is well known, that though the harvest this year was not fo very abundant as the preceding, yet it was a good harveft; and there is plenty in the land, and not the leaft reafon for the present high price of grain. Much inconvenience is felt in this neighbourhood, for want of filver in change. There are many collieries, lime-works, forges, and furnaces, which employ hundreds of people; and the mafters, to pay their workmen, iffue cards of various forts, from one thilling to ten each, nominal value. Thefe cards have been brought to the markettowns adjacent, and paid for_provifions, elothing, and other things, fo that they become a drug, and very little hard cath is to be feen. Moreover, many of them have been counterfeited, and the holders have been obliged to fuflain the lofs. Some Bank of England crown dollars are in circulation too; but people are afraid to take them, for they alfo have been counterfeited so nicely, that they are only only to be diftinguished by the ring of them and the weight. It is a ferious buûness; and if Governiment should ifiue a new coinage of filver, if the pieces are inade full weight they will be inelted, and if otherwise they will be counterfeited. Silver is now cheaper than it was fome time ago, and it is well it is, for there are many thousand ounces ufed in the year in plated goods, never to be recovered. Whether the lofs of gold noticed, p. 1019, in articles of gilt work, is a caufe of guineas being scarce, I know not: but, a golden guinea is feldom seen here. I would not have it underftood that I with the gilding or plating trades to be fuppreffed, for it would be the ruin of thousands. R GEE. Mr. URBAN, Bishopstrow, Dec.14. EADING in Crutwell's Bath Chronicle of yesterday the following article of intelligence, "A few days face, as-Colone! Wingfield, of the 4th dragoons, was in purfuit of fuipes, near Lewes, a flight of Swallows crossed him, one of which he shot," brought to my recollection a memorandum I had made, and intended immediately to have fent you for infertion in your wide-extended and entertaining Mifcellany, "that on the 4th of November last, a confiderable number of Swallows made their appearance about 4 d'olock in the afternoon, flying as if seeking for shelter, against the house of one of my neightours." They were feen by many. One of them, which flew into a dairy house just by, was taken the day following, and found to be very weak, and apparently emaciated. It is inatter of regret that their destination that evening was not accurately observed. I do not pretend to offer any conjecture on this fact, leaving that to your numerous intelligent Correfpondents who study, with avidity and fuccefs, the pleasing and inftruétive pages of Nature. JAS. EYRE. Mr. URBAN, Aug. 16. heaths, and fens of Norfolk and Suffolk; but no data are yet ellablished to prove that this race alone is fufficient to account for the very abundant appearance of Snipes upon almost all the marshes, from the present time till the end of October, when they difappear till the end of February. It appears that the projects of this Society, whose object seems to be to establish a complete natural history of the Snipe, will be conducted upon a very extensive scale, as they mean to have correfpondents upon the coast to watch for the ingrefs and migration of these fingular birds; while others are to be established on the small and rapid fireams of the county, and in the vicinity of the extenfive fens, where they are known to harbour. As the times of their migration are known to be fynchronous with occurrences in the kingdom of Naturalifts, these agents are to take notice when their appearance or difappearance coincides with any fact obfervable in the animal or vegetable kingdoms; though these coincidences can only be confirmed, by the observations of several years. Mr. URBAN, Dec. 19. CONFESS I can hardly refrain from confidering our friend Malcolm's account of the ftones in the Ifley yew-tree, p. 995, as a strong instance of credulity or felf-deception; and if it at all resembles the Blockler ash, it is that, as the bones fell into before they fell from the tree, so the stones have been chucked by idle boys from time to time into this, till they feemed to incorporate into its growing or decaying bark. But as all fuch extraordinary narratives are open to examination, I hope the Oxford naturalifts and profeffors will not think this unworthy their notice, or compare it with Dr. Plot's wonderful ftories in the infancy of natural science among us, especially as Ifley is at a convenient distance for a morning's walk. I hope the Editor of the History of Surrey will confider Mr. Neild's ac A SOCIETY of fportfmen, in the count of the shameful ftate of the county of Norfolk, have agreed to devote much attention to ascertain in what degree Snipes are migratory, and at what periods they depart from, and return to, this country. It is known that a confiderable number of these birds are bred upon the moors, Kingston prifon, p. 992, as an omiflion nécessary to be fupplied in his fecond volume, if his or fome other good man's interest does not previously fucceed in getting it removed. This is one of the grievances which Englishmen theuld obviate, before they feck for objets jects of distress out of their own country. I am glad to fee other improvements suggested in the fame town in p. 1106. P. 997. The portrait of Edward IV. resembles that engraved by Vertue for Rapin's History, folio, and the octavo edition, vol. VI. from an antient painting in Kenfington palace. I wish your correspondent E, J. might have the good fortune to recover a fingular portrait of Queen Elizabeth (not Edward the Fourth's wife), that was formerly feen at the Bull inn at Bourn, or Folkingham. Col. 1, 1. 5, for duke and dutchess of Brandon r. of Suffolk; and 1. 29, dutchess of Suffolk. There is just such an amphora shewn in the locker of the abbey-church at St. Alban's, and engraved in the last edition of Camden's Britannia (Horts), as that from Suffolk, p. 1006. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, P. Q. Dec. 20. IN the present difiusion of topographical description, how unfortunate is the county of York, with fuch excellent and copious materials, to have twice failed of being brought to the birth. Of Dr. Townfon's effort you will recollect what was faid in vol. LXXII. p. 702; and now Mr. Fothergill, who feveral years ago formed a refolution to engage in its natural and civil history, whose situation as a native of the county, and a resident in one of the fairest parts of that fair province, could not but prove highly advantageous to the purfuit, and who continued to labour in the undertaking till it became neceffary for him to change his refidence, and till he found Dr. Townfon had embarked in the fame undertaking, and had obtained fo much patronage that the fuccess of a rival work was rendered improbable-Mr. F, in short, yielded to Dr. T.; and his "papers were allowed to remain by me without arrangement, and in their prefent rude state, till I had added confiderably to their number by a journey through Scotland, and a late vifit to several parts of South Wales." With all this enlargement, the county of York, the province in question (for whofe wealth or extent, whether natural or artificial, many a petty Sovereign of Europe might imagine himself peculiarly bleffed of Heaven, were it in his power to exchange his own dominions for a country of fo much more importance in every political point of view,) it will be allowed by every candid mind, that a nobler field of enquiry could not have been found within our own immediate limits." Thus is the author's great design at once felo de fe. A work capable of furnishing materials for many volumes is to be crouded into ONE, and to borrow South Wales and Scotland for its fupporters. On the execution of this design is to depend the invettigation of two regions of the globe, one never explored by any mortal, and with the trifling and comparatively unimportant researches in the other we are far from refting fatisfied. To raise a fund for this execution is the apology for the mode of publication here adopted, to which Mr. F. has in fome degree been compelled by the certainty of incurring expences in the execution of this work which are of no fmall importance even before it can be at all prepared for public inspection." The first division of the work, occupying the first volume, will be divided into fections : 1. analysis; 2. antiquities; 3. biography; 4. agriculture; 5. quadrupeds; 6. birds; 7. fish; 8. reptiles; 9. infets; 10. literature as connected with natural history; 11. divifion of the work, containing remarks, observations, and researches, made in several parts of England, Scotland, and Wales. 'The whole is to be illuftrated with not less than 20 and not more than 30 plates. Such, Mr. Urban, is the way in the which we are at length to be brought acquainted with all that is interefting in the county of York!!! D. H. Mr. URBAN, Lydd, Kent, Nου. 20. HAVING been thewn the original papers that pafled between Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Corporation of this town, in the possession of Robert Cobb, efq. of this place (to whose father we are indebted for the correct decyphering of the fame), I herewith send you a copy, which is at your sertice, should you judge them worthy a place in your Magazine. C. C. Curate. To the most Rev. Father in God, Mathew, Lord Archbishop of Canterburve, Metropolitane and Prymate of all England. In most humble and lamentable wyse shewethe unto your Grace, the Baylyfie, Jurats, Com'ens, Churchewardens, and sworne Sydefemen, of the jects of distress out of their own country. I am glad to fee other improvements suggested in the fame town in p. 1106. P. 997. The portrait of Edward IV. resembles that engraved by Vertue for Rapin's History, folio, and the octavo edition, vol. VI. from an antient painting in Kenfington palace. I wish your correspondent E, J. might have the good fortune to recover a fingular portrait of Queen Elizabeth (not Edward the Fourth's wife), that was formerly feen at the Bull inn at Bourn, or Folkingham. Col. 1, 1. 5, for duke and dutchess of Brandon r. of Suffolk; and 1. 29, dutchess of Suffolk. There is just such an amphora shewn in the locker of the abbey-church at St. Alban's, and engraved in the last edition of Camden's Britannia (Horts), as that from Suffolk, p. 1006. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, P. Q. Dec. 20. IN the prefent diffusion of topogra- pa will be allowed by every candid mind, that a nobler field of enquiry could not have been found within our own immediate limits." Thus is the author's great design at once felo de fe. A work capable of furnithing materials for many volumes is to be crouded into ONE, and to borrow South Wales and Scotland for its fupporters. On the execution of this design is to depend the investigation of two regions of the globe, one never explored by any mortal, and with the trifling and comparatively unimportant researches in the other we are far from refting fatisfied. To raise a fund for this execution is the apology for the mode of publication here adopted, to which Mr. F. has in some degree been compelled by the certainty of incurring expences in the execution of this work which are of no small importance even before it can be at all prepared for public inspection." The first divigon of the work, occupying the first volume, will be divided into fections: 1. analysis; 2. antiquities; 3. biography; 4. agriculture; 5. quadrupeds; 6. birds; 7. fish; 8. reptiles; 9. infets; 10. literature as connected with natural history; 11. divifion of the work, containing remarks, observations, and researches, made in several parts of England, Scotland, and Wales. The whole is to be illuftrated with not less than 20 and not more than 30 plates. Such, Mr. Urban, is the way in the which we are at length to be brought acquainted with all that is interesting in the county of York!!! D. H. Mr. URBAN, Lydd, Kent, Nov. 20. HAVING been thewn the original papers that paffed between his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Corporation of this town, in the poffeflion of Robert Cobb, efq. of this place (to whose father we are indebted for the correct decyphering of the fame), I herewith send you a copy, which is at your service, should you judge them worthy a place in your Magazine. C. C. Curate. To the most Rev. Father in God, Mathew, Lord Archbishop of Canterburve, Metropolitane and Prymate of all England. In most humble and lamentable wyse shewethe unto your Grace, the Baylyffe, Jurats, Com'ens, Churchewardens, and sworne Sydefemen, of the |