try; and thus it is in most improve ments, when experience begins to eftablish better principles. Alas! fince Inoculation with Small-pox matter has been known, what a fcourge has the Small-pox been to this nation! More die of it fince, than they did before it was known. Because it was not univerfully adopted, the infection took place where otherwise it might not. But now the Cow Pock matter is found, by the experience of thousands, not to be contagious. And furely an act of parliament might be obtained to oblige every person who does inoculate, to do it only with Cow Pock matter; and not fuffer any one any longer to introduce a plague, the infectious Small-pox; which has taken, and does actually now take off upwards of 30,000 perfons annually from this kingdom!!! But this is only fuffered in England; the French, and other nations, who all had the improvement of inoculating with Cow Pock, matter from us, have availed themfelves of the bleffing; and one nation has inoculated more than half a million! The Royal Jennerian Society's accounts, in the newspapers, announce, that more than 7000 have been inoculated this latt year; but what is this number to half a million, or to the extermination of the Small Pox! When one confiders that the mode of Vaccine Inoculation has been approved of by our gracious King, Lords, and Commons, and practifed in other nations by thoufands and tens of thousands, that England, from whence the blefling fprang, fhould be the last people in the world to put it effectually and completely into practice, is truly aftonifhing. Permit me, ye Guardians of Health, the College of Phyficians, to intreat you to join the Jennerian Society to bring in a bill to prevent any from inoculating any more with contagious matter. I fee no reason why this cannot be done; but, if it cannot, then bring in an act to oblige all, who will inoculate with Mr. URBAN, Spital-fquare, Jan.17. N the Annual Bill of Mortality, IN published in London at the clofe of the last year, there ftands recorded one inftance of death by the Cowpox. Now were it true, that, in the whole mortality of the year, within the district which thefe bills, include, amounting to NINETEEN THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED, AND EIGHTY-TWO DEATHS, ONE, or even more than one perfon, had actually died of this complaint, it would but little affect the argument by which mankind are induced to adopt the practice of VACCINE INOCULATION; fince this practice affords an opportunity of quickly extirpating that dreadful difeafe, by which fo many hundreds of thousands of the human race are annually deftroyed. But, Sir, it is not a fact, that even one individual has thus fallen a facrifice to the difeafe in queftion. It is dif tinetly afcertained, that the perfon, whofe death is referred to in the bill of last year, loft her life from a violent inflammatory disease of the lungs. The particulars of this cafe, together with thofe of every other cafe of fuppofed death by Cow-pox, which, in former years, has been inferted in the London Bills (for they have been alike fuppofititious), have been clearly made out, and will, ere long, be laid before the publick; when the very curious authorities on which fome at leaft of these statements reft will alfo appear. In the mean while, Sir, to undeceive the puplick thus far will be a meritorious fervice, and oblige Yours, &c. J. ADDINGTON. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 2. HE parish of Sedlefham is fituate rape of Chicheller, in the county of Suflex, about four miles fouth-eat of the city of Chichefter. The fination is low and flat, bounded on the South by the arm of the fea that forms Pugham barbour, and the peninfula of Selfey. The village is fall, the foil a rich loam; a few years ago a large common was inclofed, and now bears large crops of corn. The inhabitants are all employed in agriculture, there being no manufactory of any kind (excepting a fpacious tide corn mill, which is capable of grinding daily a large quantity of corn for the confing trade). The church is a large plain structure, originally in the form of a crofs, with North and South ailes, and a fquare tower at the Weft end; but the chancel is deltroyed. The ailes are divided from the nave by three pointed arches fupported by round columns; the upper end of the north tranfept is inclofed with iron rails. Within the rails is a mural monument to the memory of Thomas Sturt, of this parith, who died anno 1764, and Martha his wife, who died 17... In the fame tranfept is a muralimonument of marble, containing two fmall figures of a man and woman, kneeling oppofite to each other at a defk, under, is the following infcription: "Hereunder lieth the body of Rebecca, daughter of John Bennett, of London, «fq. lats wife of George Taylor, of this parish, efq. who dece, fed the 10th day of May, anno Domini 1631, aged about 45 years?? At the Eaft end of the nave is a plain coffin-fhaped flone, without infcription. The font is fquare, ornamented with rude carving, fupported by a round column in the center, with four finaller ones at the corners, the whole ftanding on a high ftep of fione. The tower contains three fmall bells. The living is a vicarage, valued in the King's books at 71. 108. 10. per ann. The prefent incumbent is the Reverend Newman. Yours, &c. fiyle, confifting of three ailes, fopport ed on each fide by three moffice pal chancel by a fine Gotic areb. The South fide of the chancel ap are ly bears greater antiquit than the rest of the building: two inferiptions in the Gothic letter remains there; one over the door, the other over the window, viz. Carp anima Ri hárri Clenderhall. rattpai atU {Pra/Cheratonabbatis. In 1774, die roof was covered with Blue flate; and in 1789 and 1790, the whole was flagged, italled, plastered, and cieled; the tower was built, linithed with four, fires, and a bell hung therein. In 1790, the chapel over the burying vault, belonging to Corby Cafile, was rebuilt by Henry Howard, efq, to the memory of his lady and ancettors. Between the north aile and the chancel of the church are the effigies of a man and woman in alabafter, which (it is fuppofed) are facred to the memory of Sir Richard Salkeld, who refided at Corby Cafle. There is an infeription to this, but it is almost obliC. H. terated. Yours, &c. Sir, JON, SWIFT." Aug. 16, 1732. Had I had ye leaft thought you w have now defired what you before fo deliberately refuted, I wd certainly have preferr'd you to any other bookteller. "All I c now do was to fpeak to Mr. Gilliver, as you requeste ed. to give you the fhare you wa have in ye property, aud to fet afide my obligation and covenant with him fo far. to gratify the Dean and youre f You cannot object, I think,. with any reafon to the terms which he pays, and which at the first word he, agreed to. I am, Sir, To Mr. Your friend and fervant, Motte. A. Pore." * See Plate 1. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 7. TAKE the liberty to offer you the impreffion of a feal, taken from a filver ring of rude workmanship, ou woich is an R furmounted by an Imperial crown, with a plant on one fide of the capital letter, which feems to refemble the broom-plant; from which circumfiance, I am inclined to fuppofe, that it might have been the fignet of Richard Coeur de Lion, whofe helmet, on his great feal, is adorned with the planta genifle, or broom-fialk; which The bore difplayed on his helmet, in his expedition to the Holy Land. (Platel.) Yours, &c. SIGILLARIUS.. THE PROJECTOR, N° XXVII. "Steal but a Beggar's Dog, "And give it Timon, why the Doc coins GOLD. SHAKSPEARE. A LTHOUGH the poverty of us Projectors be notorious, men in general feem to confider it rather as a matter of amufement, than as a fubject for ferious investigation. Surely it is not befitting a great and liberal nation, that thofe who labour and toil during all feafous and weathers, in a moft difinterefied vocation, and, under every difadvantage, expofe themfelves for the good of the publick, fhould not only be left to ftarve, but that their hunger fhould be a topic for merriment. Yet how frequently do we find this to be the cafe, while few will take the trouble to ask why these things are fo! One or two reafons have recently occurred to me, on which I wish to dilate a little, as introductory to the main defign of this paper; and my readers will, I truft, the more readily bear with my loquacity on a fübject which may appear felfifh, when they are told, as I now tell them, with great concern, that, although I have difcovered fomething like a caufe, I do not pretend to any thing like a cure. It appears, then, to me, that the number of Projectors has of late increafed beyond the regular, and even the extraordinary demands of the publick; and experience proves, that whenever this happens, in the cafe of any commodity, it is attended with a proportional diminution of value. The noble art of Projecting, or Scheming for the public good, which was formerly confined to a few choice geniufes, who appeared, like meteors, once or twice in a century, is now af fumed by fo many perfons, in all ranks of life, illat it would not be too much to fay, Every man is become his own Projector. That this univerfal aınbition is, in a few infiances, attended with good effect, I cannot altogether deny; but I hope I may be allowed, at the fame time, to fay, that it has been the means of overflowing the publick with a multitude of pretenders and intruders, who are not at all qualified to firike out any thing new or enterprizing. Another reafon for the poverty of Projectors, and not altogether unconnected with the above, is, that many envious perfons who are, against their will, obliged to acknowledge the excellence of any new plan laid before the publick, will nevertheless affect to overlook or defpife it for many years, until either it feems to be forgotten, or the author of it has gone to receive the reward of his merit, and of his fufferings, in another world. When this happens, they produce the invention with, perhaps, fome trifling alteration, carry it into execution, and lay claim to the firft difcovery. Now I appeal to my candid readers, and I hope all my readers are of that defcription, whether they are not more fenfible of the ingenuity than the juftice of fuch a practice, and whether it be not rather cunning than honeft? I fhall, however, endeayour to illuftrate these remarks by an infiance of very recent date, and, I hope, handle the fubject with all the tenderness due to the parties concerned, the blame of whofe conduct I may yet be permitted to infinuate as becomes a lover of truth and juftice, and a Projector anxious to guard the property of his poor, perfecuted, and plundered brethren. Nearly a century ago, fome of my predeceffors, who were not tame Spectators of what went forward in the world at that time, perceiving, among he play-going people of their days, a predilection for the animal creation, propofed the introduction of fuch beafts and birds as might appear properly qualified to fill up certain parts in the drama. But this fcheme, although well recommended, and although clearly demonftrated to be practicable, even on a very extenfive fcale, fell to the ground. The publick at large was not yet ripe for fo great a revolution, nor difpofed to fee plays acted without fome decent proportion of the human fpecies on the ftage. The record of it, however, remaining in print, the manager of one of our theatres lately laid hold of it, Rudied, |