Mr. URBAN,

Liverpool, Jan. 11. A made in my laft, l'inclofe a CCORDING to the promife I

South view of Speke-hall, near Liverpool. As it was taken fome years fince by an unknown artift, I cannot answer to the likeness it bears to the prefent original. If you have not a more correct one, mine may perhaps be acceptable. One of the other Views I will fend fome time hence.

I with much to fee the famous chimney-piece, I mentioned, preferved in your Magazine, for it is a curious relick. Some of your Liverpool friends would probably furnish you with a copy.

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

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March 98.

HE two following letters from the celebrated Dr. Delany, the friend and companion of Dean Swift, addreffed to a Clergyman in Somerfetfhire, are at your fervice.

Delville, near Dublin, Rev. Sir, Sept. 28, 1764. The letter which you did me the honour to convey to me, found me confined to my bed, and afterwards a long time to my chamber. I have now, I thank God, recovered cafe, from a grievous fit of rheumatifim, nor clear of gravel; but when I fhall be able to answer your letter with any degree of fatisfaction, either to you or myfelf, I am very far from being able to fay, or to furmife.

I am in my eightieth year, a period equally ill-fuited to labour, either of body or mind; I cannot fay that the little abilities, with which it hath pleafed God to blefs me, are greatly impaired: the providence of God hath gracioufly appointed, that a greater fenfibility of our decay, in that refpect, fhould not ordinarily be added to the other mortifications of old age. How far that may be my cafe, by the bleffing of God, you shall know in a few days, or weeks at fartheft; if I find myfelf able to review Dr. Spence's treatife upon the fubject of the Apoftolical Prohibition of Blood, &c. It is, indeed, a very learned treatife, but hath not hitherto imprefled conviction upon my mind. If, while 1 endeavour to revife this fubject, you will do me the favour to tranfmit your objections to the laft volume of the "Revelation ex

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amined," I will confider this with all in the mean time I beg leave to fubthe care and candour I am able; and

fcribe myfelf, your moft obedient and most obliged humble fervant, PAT. DELANY.

*The learned Divine to whom this letter was addreffed, had written to Dr. Delany on the fubject of his Treatife "On the Queftion concerning Blood, and Things firangled;" which led to a farther correfpondence, and is. faid to have ended in Dr. Delany'● being fo far convinced, as to pay no regard to the Decree in his practice, after the correfpondence.

The laft letter runs thus:

Rev. Sir, Delville, Jan. 7, 1765. I am indebted to you for thofe very ingenious, fenfible, and learned Letters. I own the debt, and, at the fame time, am myfelf unable to pay. You appeared to me to call for my opinion; I gave it you openly and ingenuoutly; but cannot think myself bound, when I do not find myself able, to contend for it. Contention ill becomes old age; old men are generally deemed, and really found, to be obfiinate, from an inftinct, as I judge, well appointed in our nature by Divine Providence ; that opinious fixed on the firength of our age and underflandings thould not easily be departed from in the decline and infirmities of both. This I have found by experience to he just and right, and have feen excellent cffects of it; and this, I hope, will be a fufficient apology for taking leave of you at this time, and wifhing you, as I do in the fincerity of heart, a long continuance and increase of every thing molt valuable in human nature; and am, with great cfleem, your molt obedient and molt obliged humble fervant, PAT. DELANY.

to be new revived, proves the author to be as ignorant of Nature, as he is deficient in argument; for, unless the crime of depriving an animal of life be in proportion to its fize, the reverfe of which the firft of our poets inculcates, fweetly telling us,

"That the poor Beet'e which we tread upon In corporal fufferance feels a pang as great As when a Giant dies,"

he ought to know that, even with every cabbage that he devours, the lives of more animals are deftroyed than any one man eats of either four or twofooted animals in the courfe of the longeft life. So much for the cruelty. Let him next confider, that, if thefe animals were permitted to increafe ad infinitum, their neceflary confumption of vegetable food must be to great as not to leave this flender-witted wouldbe reformer even a cabbage, to enable him to put forth his filly lucubrations. Yours, &c. R. E. R.

FINDING that fome questions relative to Epilepfy, which through the medium of your Magazine I had addreffed to any of your medical correfpondents, had remained unnoticed

verance of weeks, months, or years? My reafon for withing this to be explained is, that although the poor creature in quetion might meet with fome charitable affiftance; yet the continuance of it must be precarious, and any very long trial might perhaps be rejected, from the incapability of proceeding. The health of this perfon is in other refpects good; but the means of fubfifting depending on bodily labour, this very variable complaint fometimes impedes all power of working for a confiderable time, the feizure not cominge on at regularly returning periods, but being quite uncertain, both as to number, violence, and fuddennefs; there is, therefore, no great likelihood but that the diet of one fo frequently in diftref's will be as plain as what Philanthropos recommends. I fhall be truly thankful if he will take the trouble of anfwering these additional queftions as fpeedily as he can. A. Z.

"A man fhould never be ashamed to

confefs he has been in the wrong; which is only faying, in other words, that he is wifer to-day than he was yesterday."

Mr. URBAN, Briftol, April 9.
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felt great mortification, from a fear that the filence muft be attributed to inability of affording any probable affiftance to the dreadful malady, which whoever has the misfortune of beholding muft, I think, wifh to relieve. I was, then, greatly obliged to Philanthropos for his letter, p. 120, for which I return my thanks, but beg at the fame time to propofe a few queftions, which, I donbt not, he will kindly anfwer. He mentions the two people, whom he deferibes as afflicted with Epileptic Fits as being under 28 years of age; my poor friend is confiderably turned of 40; and I extremely with to be informed, whether, after that advanced period. a pofitive cure was ever known to be effected? how long had his fufferers been fubject to the diforder? My fick perfon has been liable to it for many years, and it was not originally occationed by any accident. Philanthropos mentions the medicine he recommends, as not a radical cure, but as requiring confiderable perfeverance to bring about even amendment, which, though not fuch a blefling as actually refored health, is yet moft carnefily to be defired. Does he then mican a perfe

into the Republick of Letters, there are few, perhaps, which will prove more welcome to liberal and confiderate minds than "Lackington's Confeffions," inafinuch as the odium, which it was the avowed object of his "Life" to reflect on Methodilin and its members univerfally, is now extenuated, as far as a fubfequent public recantation will admit; and it is to be regretted, that, while Mr. Lackington attempted an atonement for one error, he deliberately committed a fecond. I allude to the "two Letters," annexed to his "Confeffions," 66 on the bad confe quences of baving Daughters educated at Boarding Schools,” which are totally irrelevant to the fubject of his work, and detract greatly from its intrinfic merit. From the depraved conduct of a few abandoned characters, Mr. Lackington has proceeded to condemn the public education of females in toto; and tacitly affirms, that a propenfity to vice is infeparably attached to the cha racter of a Mitrefs of a Boarding School; thus attributing to a worthy and invaluable part of the community what ought to he confined to fome particular individuals. I fhall make no

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