no other than a body of his late scholars: their names are preserved upon the plate. The perusal of a circumstance like this, so immediately connected with the interests of classical literature, cannot fail of being accept able to a large proportion of your Readers. Yours, &c. D. RICHMONDIENSIS. "Trinity College, Cambridge, June 11, 1813; the Birth-day of J. T. "MY DEAR SIR, "I am desired to present you with the Plate which accompanies this Letter, in the name of a large portion of your scholars, who are anxious in this manner to express their respect for your virtues, and their admiration of your talents. "For the unceasing exertion of your mind upon the improvement of those committed to your care, your name and memory will ever be held in our grateful remembrance. But it was our ardent wish that the memory of worth like yours should be extended beyond the narrow and ordinary bound of human existence; and that some token of our respect and gratitude should be reserved as an heir-loom in your family: so will your posterity enjoy the best of all inheritances, the remembrance of all your virtues. And no less for those who come after us, than for ourselves, we wish this memorial to serve as one more link in the chain of friendship and gratitude that binds you to your scholars; though this one is, indeed, not wanting. It is our united prayer, that you may live to a good old age, prosperous and happy, in the possession of every earthly comfort; and that the evening of your life may be illuminated and cheered by the recollection of this day, by this public testimony of our affectionate regard. "For myself, allow me to say, that I sincerely and heartily join in every prayer for the welfare of yourself and family; and remain, as ever, your faithful and affectionate Friend and Scholar, "THOMAS MUSGRAVE. "Rev. James Tate, M. A. &c. &c. Richmond School, Yorkshire." "GENTLEMEN, MY SCHOLARS, "For this splendid mark of your affection and esteem, and for the gratifying Letter, which, even to such a present, gives the better half of its value, collectively and individually, I thank you from my heart. The irksome nature of our profession, the incessant solicitude required in it to do any good, the wear and tear of body, as well as of mind, sustained in the faithful exercise of its duties, all this the public voice acknowledges, sometimes with wonder, frequently with thanks. Even the general expression of sympathy is delightful: to those who labour painfully in the service that breathes of gratitude. Far livelier of the Publick, every thing must be so the gratification, when those very persons on whom our instruction has been happily bestowed, feel and proclaim for larship proclaim for them, the beneficial themselves, or when the rewards of schoresult of our labour. Then, whatever at the moment was more or less fretful and wearisome, in the retrospect changes pleasure; the more proud, for having all its colour, and becomes a source of been hardly and honestly earned. "Such, Gentlemen, were my feelings, when I first received this token of your respect and gratitude; such are they now, when I address you with this affecbe so long as I live; and then assuredly tionate acknowledgment; such they will the most exquisite, when reflection on past endeavours, kindly accepted, must console the inability to be longer useful. "My eldest Son, to whom, if it please God to spare him, this noble heir-loom will go, bide fair in every promise of good to maintain and extend the reputation of his father. In the honour which you have thus conferred on me, you have laid the foundation of his well-doing also: to virtuous ambition he is already not insensible. "But, Gentlemen, on yourselves you have conferred no mean honour. You have set an example to ingenuous youth, which must, as far as it is known, promote the best interests of learning; and masters may derive encouragement to persevere, when they see the generous requital which grateful pupils bestow. "Nothing remains, then, but to convey my earnest and fervent prayer, that in future life distinction and success may continue to await your honest endeavours; also, that the manner in which you have thus coupled your name with mine, may long reflect credit upon both; and that you may never find cause to withdraw the high testimony which you have borne, Gentlemen, my Scholars, to your affectionate, faithful, and obliged friend, JAMES TATE. Trinity College Commemoration power and insults of a blood-thirsty Tyrant, "and England triumphantly looks forward to reap, in conjunction with her Allies, that glory her unexampled and steady efforts in the common cause so justly entitle her to receive." "When these my prophecies shall be found, the Sun shall shine upon my native kingdom of France, who at that time shall be united to the Lion, viz. the King of England; and shall pluck many feathers out of the Eagle's wing, which shall then be to her glory, but will be of no duration, for in the century following it will prove to her utter destruction: for there will be great shedding of blood, by the people of the kingdom; there will be wars and fury, which will last long; provinces divested of their people, and kingdoms in combustion; many strong holds and noble houses shail be ruinated; and their cities and towns shall be forsaken of their inhabitants, and in divers places their ground shall lie untilled, and there shall be great slaughter of their nobility; their Sun shall be darkened, and never shine forth more, for France shall be desolate, and her head person* destroyed; and there shall be much deceit and fraud among her inhabitants, for they shall judge and kill one another, whereupon shall ensue the aforesaid great confusion among the kingdoms: and near this time there shall be great mutations and changes of kings and rulers; for the right hand of the world shall fear the left, and the North shall prevail over the South. A great part of Italy shall be desolate, but Venice shall be preserved: Rome shall be burned, and the Popedom destroyed, and Britain shall rule that empire. In those times, a mercurial hero, a son of the Lion, shall inherit the crown of the Fleur-de-lis, by means of the kingdom of England. He shall be a lover of peace and justice, and not swerve from the same; and by his means the nation's religion and laws shall have an admirable change. When those things come to pass, there shall be a firm alliance between the Lion and the Eagle; and they shall have lived in peace between themselves a long time. In those times mortals, wearied with war, shall desire peace. And all these my prophecies shall be fulfilled before the end of the Nineteenth Century from the time of our Blessed Saviour Christ." This prophecy, I am told, was found in the year 1667, on the 8th of August, in the sepulchre of Bishop Chris * January 21, 1793. tianus Ageda, who died on the 2nd of September, 1204. This mitred Prophet was born at Paris on the 10th of May, 1172; he was of the family of the Lothaires, afterwards kings of France. This pious man was buried in a sepulchre in the Chapel of the Holy Ghost, near Paris; and this prophecy, written on parchment, was put into a leaden case with him, and before those destructions in France, the original was to be seen in the beforementioned Chapel of the Holy Ghost. Yours, &c. PHILOPATRIE. of Composition at the University of Oxford sixty years ago; and also as a tribute to the Memory of the Reverend Edward Giddy, late of Tredrea in Cornwall, who received public thanks from the Censors of Christ Church, in Michaelmas Térm 1752, for this production. "Nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum. Quodcunque mediocritatem exsuperat est vituperandum, idque nullâ in re magis quàm in ludo; cujus munus est præcipuè animum à severioribus studiis paumodicus ludus, immodicus potiùs enerlum avocatum relaxare. Relaxat quidem probant; et haud immeritò. vat: illum omnes approbant, hunc imAnimus enim studio nimis intentus obtusus fit; modico ludo remissus, aciem pristinam recipit; immodico autem diutius avocatus diffluit. Omnibus rebus sua conveniunt tempora. Cum igitur tempus fuerit ludo idoneum, ne interveniant res Optimè hæc docet Natura, quæ tempesseveræ; cum rebus severis, nec ludus. tatum varietate, varietatem nobis proponit. Non semper agros denudat Hyems, nec Ver semper gramine replet. Excipit dies noctem, diemque nox. Excipiant atque res hilares severas, severæ hilares. Cur enim Magistram naturæ nostræ tam consentanea præcipientem sequi nolumus? Præsertim cum sapientes, tum veteres, tum recentiores, eam secuti fuerint; cationes, quæ apud nos in usu sunt, indiut ludi qui apud Græcos et Romanos, varetinendus, ut ne nimio omnia profundcant. Ludendi autem est quidam modus amus, elatique voluptate, in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur. Notum est omnibus quod de Scipione et Lelio est memoriæ proditum; hos scilicet viros egregios in litore calculis ultro citroque jactis animum relaxare solere." Mr. THE Government House, Mr. URBAN, Surinam, Dec. 2,1813. HE following curious fact, which is daily witnessed in my house, may probably be thought worthy of insertion in your Magazine. A wirey-haired Scotch Terrier bitch, having lost her puppies, now suckles a Kitten, a Marmouset Monkey, and a Lamb, sometimes separately, sometimes together. No art whatever has been used: the Kitten first attached itself, then the Monkey, and, lastly, the Lamb, which had lost the Ewe. Yours, &c. P. BONHAM, Major-General and Governor. Iluable pages to state the following case, it may possibly be answered by some one belonging to the General Post Office. F you can afford room in According to certain clauses in the Register Act, passed 52 Geo. III. copies of the Register Books of every parish are to be transmitted annually by the post to the Registrar of the Diocese, within a limited time.-Clause XI. thus enacts, "That the superscription upon all letters and packets containing copies of such Parish Registers, to be transmitted by the Post to the several Offices of the said Registrars as aforesaid, shall be endorsed and signed by the Church-wardens or Chapel-wardens of every respective Parish and Chapelry in England, in the form contained in Schedule (E.); and that all such letters and packets shall be carried and conveyed by means of His Majesty's Post-Office to, and to be delivered at, the Offices of the said Registrars, without postage or other charge being paid or payable for the town, to be put into the Post-Office, and transmitted to the Registrar of the Diocese. The packet was previously endorsed and signed by myself and my colleague, according to Clause XI.; but what was my surprize, when I received back the packet, the Postmaster having refused to take it in, unless the postage was paid. Is Clause XI. above recited, to be considered as in force? or is the ipse dixit of a Country Postmaster tantamount to a repeal? How are Church-wardens to act in such a case ? A COUNTRY CHURCHWARDEN. Mr. URBAN, London, March 10. HE Publick are so sensible of the just criticisms with which persons, either interested, or otherwise unworthy of their occupation, abuse the confidence reposed in them; that I flatter myself, they will hear with satisfaction, that one department of letters is about to be placed under the review of scholars, who will at least give a sincere testimony, as to the merits, or demerits, of the Authors who shall themselves in it. It is to exerci, that men of genius, who have studied the Art of Poetry, it may be, from their early youth, should be ridiculed, and des preciated; either that the wit, as it is imagined, should make the Review sell; or that some other interest, or some individual pique, should be gratified. On the other hand, it is equally an evil, that persons, who have no merit in the art which they profess, or very little, should be trumpeted to the world, as deserving, or giving promise that they will de serve, immortality. What the worth of Reviews may be, is a question, which need not now be answered: but to correct an evil must ever be a benefit. It is therefore thought, that it will afford satisfaction to know, that a just Poetical Review is contemplated, which will wholly trust to its honesty for support: and whose writers will entirely strike out from their bearts every consideration, but that of the true and abstract merit, or otherwise, of the work before them. If they deserve approbation, they doubt not they shall obtain it, and in that pleasing hope, I, as oue of them, subscribe myself Yours, &c. AN ENGLISH CRITIC. Mr. |