GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE; LOND. GAZETTE Canterbury 2 Carlile Chelmsford Chefter JANUARY, 1802. CONTAINING Coventry Fxe er, Glouce A. LEICESTER Leeds 2-Lewes Liverpool 3 Maiditone Manchester 3 XFORD 29 The Meteorological Diary for January, 1802 2A farther Account of Gouds and Rotterdam 24 BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. 70 Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet, London; where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addrefed, Pos T-PAID. 802. METEOROLÒGICAL TABLE for January, 1802: Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 42 40 29,48 fair 12 22 42 45 41 150 cloudy 13 87 26 29 43 46 39 951 cloudy 14 24 30 25 ,28 'fair 15 26 30,01 fair 28 7806 35 35 29,7 rain 18 38 42 4 28 40 40 ,10 fair 29,64 rain ,82 fair 30 32 3229,50 fnow ,56 rain and fnow 40 30,11 fair 975 cloudy 40 ,40 fair ,80 foggy 24 43 37 34 42 39 ,26 fair ,20 fair 42 46 42 19 fair W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk Street, Strand. THEATRICAL DRURY-LANE. 1. King John-Don Juan. 2. The Duenna-Katharine and Petruch. 4. Douglas-The Fellival of Baccbus — The Anatomist. 5. Rule a Wife and have a Wife-DittoMy Grandmother. 6. The Diftrefs'd Mother-Ditto-Virgin Unmalk'd. 7. Artaxerxes-Katharine and Petruchio. 8. The Stranger-Festival of BacchusThe Mock Doctor. 9. The Beggar's Opera-Don Juan. 11. King Henry the Fourth-HarlequinAmulet. 12. Ditto-Festival of Bacchus---Anatomist. 13. The Gamester-Of Age To-morrow. 14. Inkle and Yarico-Don Juan. 15. Venice Preferv'd-Festival of Bacchus -The Citizen. 16. King Henry the Fourth-The Doctor and the Apothecary. 18. George Barnwell-Harlequin-Amulet. 19. Venice Preferv'd-The Doctor and the Apothecary. 20. Deaf and Dumb-Harlequin-An let. 21. King Henry the Fourth-The Deferter. 22. The Regent-Urania; or, The Illuminé. 23. The Wheel of Fortune-Ditto. 25. Othello-Ditto. 26. Venice Preferv'd-Ditto. REGISTER. 27. King Henry the Fourth-Ditto. 28. The Mourning Bride-Ditto. 29. Cymbeline-Ditto. BILL of MORTALITY, from Jan. 5, to Jan. 26, 1802. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For JANUARY, Mr. URBAN, Clofe of Sarum, Jan. 1. *****IDALIS, vol. LXXI. p. 1070, calls upon me in terms fo flattering and fo polite, that it may, perhaps, ***** feem contemptuous remain entirely inattentive to the hint which he is pleafed, by your means, to throw out to me. The little effay to which he alJudes, vol. LXXI. p 4, was merely au occafional effation adapted to the aufpicious feafon at which it was written. If it had any merit, it must be derived from its prefagement of that Plenty and Peace which in the interim hath been fo happily realized. As, however, the bleflings even of Peace and Plenty may fail of their ultimate enjoy ment, unattended by that confummation of all fublunary enjoyment, "A found mind in a found body," I have upon this occafion taken up a new fübject; which, to Fidal:s (who profefles himself an invalid), and to many others of your valetutudinarian readers, may poflibly prove falutary and important; and I have thrown it into fuch a formula as to render it perfectly intelligible to all fuch who may, under the various complaints to which my prefeription is adapted, have recourfe to it; and to the efficacy of which I beg to fubfcribe my own probatum eft. BENEVOLUS. "ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY. "To the Rheumatic-the Gouty the Billious-the Nervous-the Hypochondriac-the Splenetic-the Voluptuous the Petulant-and the Proud. "Emeticum, Catharticum, Catholicum, et omne quod exit-in um præter Remediam. "When the difeafed find a cure, it feems, want of gratitude not to inform 1802. others where they may meet with like relief. I, THOMAS IDLE, Gentleman, was lately afflicted with a long tram of complicated, nervous diforders, tended with a great degree of indofuch as lots of fleep, appetite, &c. atlence, latitude, and ennui, &c. 1 had read in the Newfpapers of many infalli ble remedies in fuch cafes, but cannot fay, with truth, that I tried them all in vain; for, Providence having been gracioutly pleafed to preferve to me the ufe of my fenfes, I never touched any one of them. "In this fituation, rendered uneafy difcate, and the fill more dreadful ap enough by the pains and anxiety of the prehenfion of the tormenting process of cure, I was vifited by an old friend (a great fiatterer in phyfick, though he never takes any), who thought he could do me fervice by a medicine, which, if it did me no good, thould at circumftance is fo feldom known to leaf do no harm. This fortunate happen, that I did not liften to him without fome degree of diffidence; but, however, out of civility I begged he feafon. Rife, fays he, moderately early would proceed. It was then the fpring ther will at any rate permit, either in in the morning; and, when the weayour kitchen or flower garden, avail yourfelf of the following prefeription: Recipe. Your Spade, Rake, Hoe, and fuch like infiruments of culture: purfue the ufe of them, at proper intervals, as long and in fuel a degree as your firength will permit. No particular regimen is neceflary, but to avoid the bane of repletion. man's advice; and though the mediI ventured to follow the old gentleCine was fo rough that I could bear but, a very fall dofe of it at first, I foon becanie better reconciled to it, and found myfelf every day enabled to take it in a till larger proportion. To be fhort; I continued the courfe from that time to this. By the bleffing of God, my complaints, both real and imaginary, are all vanifhed. I can eat like a greyhound; my nerves and spirits are in excellent order; and, as for Aleep, fleep, fhould the fleeping mania fucceed to that, of walking, you may if you pleafe, Mr. Urban, match me against any of your readers, even the most lethargic. tenance. About that time, he happened to fee in the Newspaper a caution to young men not to trust too much to a good conftitution, left, by neglect of rules, they My confcience would not be at reft till I had communicated this extraordi-hould contract fome latent incuranary cure for the benefit of all fuch ble difeafe. This led the poor lad whom it may in any wife concern; and ferioufly to enquire, whether he I fhall beg leave to illuftrate this fubject had not already fowed the feeds by an api quotation from our Dryden. of fome dreadful malady, which By toil our strong forefathers earn' their might cut him off in the flower of [blood; his youth. Toil trung their nerves, and purified their But we their fons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. food, Being thus dreadfully alarmed, he thought it could do him no harm to take a few of the prefervative lozenges. A few days after taking this medicine, he found himfelf pale, weak,, and out of fpirits. This put the matter beyond all doubt; and both he and his mother directly concluded, that he had been ill for a long time without knowing it. Occupied with nothing but the thoughts of effecting his cure, he immediately entered into a courfe of phyfic; and has had a lack of every potion, that has been advertited for these last ten years During the latter part of his life, though he was never able to go out of the houfe, and was fometimes confined for weeks together in his bed,, yet he always flattered himfelt he was growing better. Juft as he was on the point of recovering, he was, by a oft unfortunate mifcarriage kept two whole days without a freth fupply of the cordial fyrup. His mother verily believed that his death was occafioned by this circumftance; and the nurfe who attended him exclaimed, what a pity it was that a Chriftian man fhould die for want of phyfick! I found upon enquiry that the epitaph had been written by a waggish curate on the death of a very unhappy young man, in order to confole his atlicted mother, who, when it was explained to her, took it as a great compliment.. In fhort, the poor youth had belonged to that melancholy tribe of mortals who are commonly called Valetudinarians. He was one who had phyficked himfelf into illness, and ruined his conftitution by art medical. The perfon who wrote the epitaph, from whom I had this account, told me that the unhappy gentleman had taken preventatives for a fore throat till he could no longer fwallow, and lived upon ftrength-ening medicines till he was hardly able to walk. Till the age of fixteen, he was a comely youth, withr a cheerful heart, and a florid coun- have regularly proceeded or been The cafe of this young man is melancholy, but not fingular. He has left behind him a numerous tribe, who are dying as fait as they can, by taking too much pains to preferve their lives. E. E. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 8. THE late edition of "A Cata Tlogue of all Graduates, who created created in the University of Oxford, between Oct. 10. 1657, and 02. 10, 1800," baving occafioned an enquiry concerning the commencement and progrefs of this ufeful work; the refult may perhaps be acceptable to fome of your academical readers. From its firft appearance in 1727 the following feems to be the exact ftate of the publication, its various fucceffive portions chronologically arranged: 1. In that year a volume was publifhed containing the "Graduats" from 08. 10, 1659, to V&. 10, 1726; at the end of which were added thofe alfo from Oct. 1726 to. Oct. 1727; the whole confifting of 256 octavo pages. 2. The Catalogue" was continued from Oct. 1727 to Oct. 17353 in 32 pages. 3. It was again continued from Oct. 1735 to OA. 1747; in44 pages. 4. It was again continued from Oct. 1747 to Oct. 1760; in 52 pages; to which were added two leaves of "Errata." No feparate continua tion was published from Oct. 1760 to Oct. 1770: but in 1772, as your volume, for 1787, p. 309, rightly fets forth, was published 5. "A Catalogue of all Graduats between Oct. 10, 1659, and Oct. 10, 1770;" confifting of 425 pages; in which the names in all the preceding parts are comprised in one alphabet; fince which publication 6. The Catalogue" was continued from Oct. 1770 to Q&t. 1782; in 54 pages. 7. It was again continued from Oct. 1782 to Oct, 1792; in 65 pages; and The "Matriculations and Regents, from 1701 to 1800," are now, for the first time, added. From this detail it appears that the pollors of the former editions of this work cannot complete their catalogues; no feparat continuations having been published from Oct. 1765 to Oct. 1775, nor from Oct. 1793 to Oct. 1800. That fuch awkward chafins may not again occur, would not a regular publication of 'a' decade of years be the moft convenient mode of continuing the catalogue in future? 8. It was once more continued' from Oct. 1792 to 1933 in 16 pages. From this period I know of no Separate continuation. 9. In the last year, 1801, a yolume, confifting of 549 pages, was published; comprising all the foriner Catalogues in one alphabet; for the greater convenience of thofe who have occafion to examine it." Such a work cannot, from the nature of it, be expected to be free from errors; the very corrections of which in the tables of "Errata" are not unfrequently erroneous, Some inftances there are alfo of errors hitherto not pointed out;, a few of which fhall now be noted as continued in the late edition; where in p. 29 the fecond "Bateman" fhould be "Edm." not "Edw. ;" and in p. 62 we should read" Brif"towe Duncombe;" and in p. 199 Guildford;" and the laft "Hewett" in p. 223 fhould be " Huett." Thefe are MS corrections occurring in a copy of the firit edition in 1727, &c. The following Omiffion's in the laft edition in 1801 are to be fupplied from the tables of "Errata" above referred to: "Bond (Wentley) M. A. incorp. Dec. 17, 1772, Champagné (George) Chr. Ch. incorp. M.A Nov, 11, 1785. Nov. 15, 1765.. Stokes (John Whitley) C. C. C. incorp. M. A. June 18, 1783:" In this edition may alfo be obferved the following Errata: P. 135, 1. ult. for «Bennet." 66 Benedict," read P. 163, 1. penult. for "John" read "Jon." P. 372, 1. 4 and 8, for "Hall" read "Ives." See your volume for 1798, p. 754. col. 2; and p. 1009. If the table of "Errat" in p. 62 of the 7th publication, defcribed above, is correct, the statement in |