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British fubjection. After returning to England at a very fhort notice, he was again ordered upon a moft arduous fervice, in his old flip the Leopard, accompanied by a frigate and a floop, and left England with a foul wind, which continued the whole voyage out to the Red Sea, which paffage he was 11 months effecting; fuffering the feverett trials from ficknels and want of provisions and water; at one period the allowance was only half a pint of water, and half a bifcuit per man per diem; and they muft inevitably have perifhed, bad not a frigate hove in fight with a fupply. A body of troops were embarked in this fquadron, which were unfuccefsful the first time in their attack upon Suez; on returning to Bombay a fecond expedition was ordered, and a larger number of troops embarked in the fhips of the Admiral's fquadron, which arrived in time To Join General Hutchinfon's army, for the capture of Carp. After the capitulation in Egypt, the fquadron were returning to Bombay, when the climate put a period on the 14th of July laft to the Admiral's life, before he received the higheft honour that a British officer can receive, the thanks of hus country, through the medium of its Parliament. The Turkish order of the Crefcent was alfo conferred upon him by the Grand Signior, as a teftimony of acknowledgement of his fervice. Thus died a man whofe memory will be revered by men who bett know how to appreciate, the character of a British feamau, an officer equalled by few, and furpiffed by none; and in fpite of a degree of irritability of temper, from a gouty habit, a man univerfally efteemed as a fcholar, gentle man, and invaluable private friend, whofe lofs, will be long and feverely felt by many, and by none more than the writer of this, who has known him more than 30 years.

Mr. URBAN,

AN OFFICER.

and on the South fide of the North fide of the road to Maddingley. The other coat in the fpandril of the Weft door of Grantchefter church is that of John Fordham, bishop of Ely 1388-1426, who probably repaired or rebuilt it or the church. The advowfon and the manor of Barton were purchated by the alderman and brethren of the guild of Corpus Chrifti at Cambridge, which gave rife to the prefent college of that name, who are patrons of the rectory. In the chancel windows Mr. Blonefield (Collect. Cantab. p. 230) faw,

Jan. 5.
RANTCHESTER, vol. LXXI.

Camberitum of Antonine's Itinerary.
In Bede's time it was a little but delo-
late city, out of which, it is believed,
the University of Cambridge had its
origin; but that Grantacoafter was more
probably among the earth-works at the
North-welt comer of Cambridge, at
the extremity of the principal treet,

Per pale, Ar. and Az. chief indented V.

A chevron between three owls Ar. The chief indented V. impaling G. on a fefs... between two annulets Ar. Vere, earl of Oxford, impaling a

boat.

On the South fide of the chancel, under an arch, an old altar-tomb robbed of its figures and braffes; and in a window, G. a bend Az. Other later monuments may be feen in the above book. D. H.

Mr. URBAN,

Jan. 18.

KNOW not to whom I can apply

with to much propriety as yourself, for information on a fubject which few perfons now living can probably explain. In future ages perhaps the works of Fielding and of Richardion will be published cum notis variorum, with the commientries and elucidations of fcholiatis yet anborn; and even at this day we occationally fiand in need of an interpreter,

In the animated addrefs of Clariffa to Lovelace, vol. V. letter 18, p. 175, fhe fays, "fuch mean devices, fuch artful, fuck worse than WALTHAM difguifes, fuch bold, fuch fhocking

untruths!"

Some of your friends and correfpondents, to whom it has pleafed Divine Providence to grant a lengthened existence, may perhaps be able, from perfonal recollection, to explain the paffage printed in italics, which is to ne totally inexplicable. Or others may have fome traditional record on the ful jet; or perhaps an account of the Waltham difquifes may appear in fome of the fugitive prints of the day, and may be familiar to thofe who are in poffeffion of mifcellaneous collections of that kind. In any or all of thefe cafes, information through the channel of the Gentleman's Magazine

will highly oblige one of its moft fincere friends and admirers.

Mr. URBAN,

Lo

R. H.

Jan. 7. OOKING over, a few days ago, the "Lift of Irish Archbishops and Bishops, from the year 1600 to the year 1788," inferted in the 2nd volume of Mr. Cooke's ufeful and improved edition of Letiome's Preacher's Affiftant," (2 vols. 8vo. Oxford, 1783.), I obferved, in the diocefe of Ferns * and Leighiin, the name of "Thomas Salmon," with the date of his promotion to that fee annexed-" 1758, June 3." An account of the life and family of this prelate, by any of your biographical correfpondents, who may happen to poffets any authentic particulars refpecting him, and who will have the goodness to communicate them through the medium of your invaluable Mifcellany, would be very acceptable to an old and conftant

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READER AND ADMIRER.

When we confider, that many poor curates went away in great difirefs, unfuccefsful applicants for the bounty, and how very many in family of those who fucceeded were aflifted by it, I can hardly conceive how thole in affluent circumftances can difpofe of their fu perfluities in a manner more for the honour of religion and humanity, and where their liberality will be less likely to be abuted than in ferouding the benevolent idea of Mr. Stock. Whether this would be better done by increating the fum of ten pounds to the fuccefsful curates, or (which I fhould think preferable) establishing another like fund for five or ten others of the fame defeription, who fhall not have fucceeded in their application for Mr. Stock's bounty, I leave to better judgements to determine. But I am inclined to think, that in this country, where fo much is diftributed for benevolent purposes, and where is still fo much affluence and fplendour (perhaps in confequence of it), a fubfcription of this fort, if well recommended, would be readily attended to, which would give great pleaiure to LAICUS DUROVERNIENSIS.

Mr. URBAN, Canterbury, Dec. 18. N reading the account of the difpofal of Mr. Stock's annual bounty to ten poor Curates, I must confefs I thought it affecting, and as it may not be generally known, perhaps it may not be unacceptable to fonic of your AUBREY'S Surrey is become fo

readers.

The bounty is ten pounds each to ter fuch as fhall be thought moft proper objects, and it was petitioned for by many in very great diftrefs. The ten felected for relief had, exclufive of their wives, no lefs than feventy-feven children, and all their incomes united did not amount to more than two hundred and fixty four pounds per annum. When they had received Mr. Stock's donation, there were not fewer perhaps than ninety-feven perfons, great and fmall, fubfifting upon 364 1. for the year; fo that, after receiving the charity, ninety-feven perfons were full compelled to five upon fonewhat less than twenty fhillings per day !

Mr. URBAN,

Jan. 14.

that I have fometimes thought a corrected edition, with the monumental inferiptions brought down to the prefent time, might not be unacceptable to the publick. I have vifited a very confiderable number of the churches, at fome few of which I have heard that a gentleman had lately been copying. If any one fhould have formed this defign, I thould be glad to give or receive communication; and if any fuch gentleman will favour me with a notice through your publication, I fhall be thankful for it.

This would not interfere with the publication of Mr. Manning's elaborate Hittory, fo long expected, and now hoped for. Yours, &c. X. Y.

* Feras is placed by Mr. Cooke, or rather, perhaps, by Mr. Letion, the original compiler of the "Preacher's Allistant," (efore Leigblin: for what reafon I cannot fay. Leighlin, if I have been rightly informed, is the refidence of the Bishop; and therefore feems entitled to precedence, the honour of which it has now generally given to it.

In the "Regifter of Authors, &c." in the fame volume, lands Salmon, Thomas, LL.D," as author of four Sermons, in 410; two on John i. 14, on "the perfonal Union of the Divine and Human Nature in Jefus Chrift;" and two more,, on Job xxvii. 5, 6, on "the Comforts of a good Confcience, and Torments of an evil one," ali pubthed in the year 1753. Quere, was not this author afterwards the above-mentioned Bishop-In the fame page, we find another writer of the fame name, and probably of the fame family, M.A. Rector of Mepfal, Bedfordshire, author of a fermon Baptism," on Murk x. 14, published in 410. in the year 1701.

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Norwich, Jan. 17. OUR obfervant correfpondent, Mr. John Bannifter, has communicated to the publick through your Magazine, (LXXI. p. 1082,) and his own Lynopfis of hufbandry, a truly, fingular and unnatural production,-nothing lefs than an ear of wheat bearing the feed of the cockle!!! equally as wonderful, as his Critick, in the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine, jocofely exprefles himself, as if a mare were to foal a flying fifh !!! Sce now the wonderful difference between obfervation and judgment. Had Mr. B. permitted his obfervation of Nature to have been led by the leading-firing of fyftem, he would have difcovered that this mirabile dictu was a vegetable production of the order Fungi, in the clafs Cryptogamia, of the Linnæan fyttem of Botany, and of the genus Sphæria. A fimilar production has been obferved upon cabbage plants, and thence named Sphæria broffice; which has in like manner been fuppofed by the ignorant to be the feed of the cabbage. Mr. B. afferts that thefe fungi are the feeds of the cockle, with as much confidence

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Saronitic wine is there celebrated for bearing two parts of water to one of wine. I would therefore beg leave to afk a queftion, which is fuggefted by this paflage; might it not be very conducive to health, were gentlemen, who are in the habit of drinking much ftrong wing, to adopt this method: The quotations alluded to are as follow: Vinum Saroniticum T celebratur, quod duas aquæ partes

(מוג שני חלקי מיס ואחד יין as though he had actually railed plants

from them. But fuch confidence may ever be obferved to be the confiant at

tendant on "little, haughty ignorance," I do not know that this Sphæria has been named by botanists. The name of S. tritici would not be unapplicable.

This might be adduced, among many other inftances, as proof of the utility of the nomenclature of botany; a fcience held in great contempt by many a foaring genius, who, mounted on his Pegafean courfer, conceives himfelf equal to the dictating laws to Nature, as he travels poft through her various kingdoms. It is by fuch obfervers that errors are propagated, to the great detriment of natural fcience.

Permit me to obferve that in the firft number of Dr. Rees's new Cyclopædia (the botanical part of which is allerted to be under the direction of Dr. J. Stokes,) the Abele-tree is defined to be a fpecies of poplar with large leaves. What botaniit can pollibly be fatisfied with fuch a definition, or can believe it to have proceeded from the pen of fo able a botanift as Dr. Stokes? The article Aberdavine must be equally unfatisfactory to the ornithologift. Let us hope that the refpectable names, mentioned in the profpećtus as aflift

ferre poterat. Hic erat vulgaris mifcendi modus. Plinius, lib. 23. 1. Vulgo fatis putant unum vini cyathun duobus aquæ mifceri. Græcis commemoratur τόμα κεκραμένον δύο καὶ Ti, id eft, quum duæ partes vini et tres aquæ funt, tefie Suida. J. MILLS.

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LOOKING into your vol. LXVIII. p. 1013, 1 obferved a letter, defiring the name of a fmall fifth, of which you have given a plate, taken from the mud left on the bank of the river Soar. I know not whether you have been able to gratify Mr. Throfby's curiofity: but you may, if you think proper, ininfert the following account, both for his information and that of others who feel themfelves interefied in the enquiry. Some years ago a clergyman, vifiting a gentleman who lives on the banks of the Trent, faw feveral fmall fifh in a hand-halon of water, which attracted his notice. ie fuppofed them to be loach, but the gentleman aflured him that they were not; and that he neither knew, nor could he meet with any perfon who did know, their name. This railed the curiofity of the clergyman, who faid he was going to London; and, if permit

ted,

ted, he would take one with him to fhew to Sir Jofeph Banks. One was given to him, which he fhewed to Sir Jofeph and to Dr. Solander, They faid that it was a common fish on the Continent, but they did not know that it was ever before found in this Ifland. They were deemed fo great a curiofity, that the clergyman defired to have a few fent him in London alive; and feven, I think, were fent to him, two of which were given to the Royal Society. When this fifh was fent to London, it was faid to have no English name, but was termed in Latin, Cobitis Tania. Berkenhout, in his Synopfis (edit. 1795), terms it the bearded loach, and fays that it is found in lakes and ponds, and quotes the authority of Ray. He then adds, "alfo in the Trent," but gives no authority for it; whence I conclude that he had either feen or heard of these fish found by a gentleman living on the banks of the Trent, and fuppofed them to be taken out of that river. But the fish were not taken on the Trent, nor have I ever heard of one being found there. The gentleman took them from a canal near his houfe, among the mud, as Mr. Throfby found his; and this agrees with what Berkenhout mentions from anthority, viz. "in lakes and pond-," which are generally muddy. The Trent has a clear gravelly bottom, and, I think, on that account not frequented by thefe fish. I wish to know when the first edition of Berkenhout's Synopfis was published, and whether "alto in the Trent" was in that edition. The fish were fent to London at least ten years before 1795. PISCATOR.

Mr. URBAN,

Jan. 12.

PERHAPS it may be necellary to ac

company the engraving of the ftone, vol. LXXI. p. 793, with fome further defcription. It has been ftated, in vol. LXIX. p. 1067, that it formerly laid in Conifbro' church-yard, and is now removed into the church. It is a grey ftone (not marble) near fix feet long, two feet broad at one end, gradually letlening like a coffin without elbows, to four inches narrower at the other, and is about fifteen inches thick. The upper fide is ridged like a houfe top; only one fide (as reprefent ed fig. 6) and the top have any carvings; the other file, ends, and bottoms, are entirely rough with the marks of the chifel. The figures res

prefented fig. 6. need no further de fcription. The top of the tone is divided by a pale down the centre, on each fide of which are five circles (though fig. 6 erroneoufly exhibits feven, and only on one fide the pale); each of thefe circles has contained a carving, now fcarcely diftinguishable; but each feems to have heen a man on horfeback, or fome other animal. Two of the circles are yet pretty diftinct; in each a cavalier drawing a bow against the other. Above thefe, at the thick end of the flone, and not furrounded by any circle, is the fig. 7, which, indeed, feems á feriptural allufion, Adam and Eve, with the tree and ferpent. Even with it, on the other fide of the pale, is feulptured two cavaliers, combatant, with bows and arrows, on prancing horfes; and on one fide them a man with uplifted arms. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

CONISBRO.

Jan. 15.

THOUGH many have been the

amiable individuals, in the varied walks of Science and Philanthrophy, who have delighted throughout the tenour of their well-fpent lives, to Do good by ftealth, and blufh'd to find it Fame,

I cannot but think it the bounden duty of every one who is benefited by their inftruction, or relieved by their liberality, to make his acknowledgements as public and as explicit as he can.

In conformity with this rooted perfuafion, Sir, I here prefume, refpectfully, to point out to the admiration of your enlightened readers the character of a man whofe extreme modefty is his greatest failing; a man, Mr. Urban, who has done more good, in proportion to his limited means, than any other perfon whofe name is familiar to my cars. That man is JOHN DAWSON, of Sedburg, near Kendal, in Weftmoreland.

Mr. Dawfon commenced his mortal career about feventy years ago, (for I believe fuch to be nearly his age), in a very humble fituation. Almoft felftaught, he has gradually improved his mental powers, till he has become the first mathematician in England. This affertion, if it needed any illuftration, would readily meet with it in the inathematical Univerfity of Cambridge. Almost all the great men of that eflablifhment, refident in the different col-. leges, have received beft part of their education under his eye and direction,.

during their long vacations. A few. infiances may fulfice: Mr. Palmer, feDior wrangler, of St. John's; Mr. Jack, fecond wrangler, of St. John's; Mr. Harrifon, fenior wrangler, of Queen's; Mr. Strickland, fecond wrangler, of Trinity, Mr Butler, fenior wrangler, of Sidney Mr. Tindall, of Trinity.

All thefe gentlemen, and hundreds more, whose names I will not here enumerate for fear of prolixity, have often cheerfully avowed their obligations to Mr. Dawfon's lectures.

Strange as it may appear, it is no lefs true than ftrange, that Mr. Dawson's emoluments from thofe labours (emoJuments fettled long ago by himself, and never yet advanced) are barely fufficient to defray the expences of firing, rooms, and candles! Mr. Dawfon declares 66 it is his chief amufement to inftruct ;" and having learned in the language of Demonax, that Torro is Αρετην προθήσεις όσον ἂν ὑφιλης τῶν dora, he found his own little patrimony fully adequate to all his wants and wifhes. In vain, therefore, has Granta extended her arms, and fought to enrol him among the number of her worthieft fons. He deliberately declines every affectionate offer of honours, which he fo richly deferves; and fatisfied with contentment, literature, and obfcurity,

"Along the cool, fequefter'd vale of life, Still keeps the noifelefs tennur of bis way."

But, though he beholds the prizes of literary ambition oculo irretorto, and declines to quit his native plains for all the fweets which Cambridge can afford; it furely becomes the members of that learned body to teftify their admiration of his worth, nay, I will not hefitate to add, their gratitude for his invaluable fervices, by fome more dignified token than the very elegant prefent of plate which I know they lately fent him.

Lord Nelfon's brother has juft been created D.D. by the University, out of their refpect for the Hero of the Nile; and would a fimilar compliment to their tutor, their venerable friend, their nobly-difinterested benefactor, difgrace them?-0, no, no!

of fenfibility will perufe this hurried, well-meant effufion; and the appeal will not have been made in vain. Trinity College. A CANTAE.

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I do not mifiake (for I cannot find the place), there was enquiry made in your Mifcellany after the "wonderful travels of Prince Fanferriden.” A tranflation of fuch a work was publifhed by Evans, 1794; and they were faid to be in the country of Arcadia." I fufpect this was not the feene of the original travels, and wish for further information.

I flatter myself, Mr. Urban, that this hint will fuffice. I have often. read your excellent Magazine in the Mailer of Arts coffee-honfe. Some eye

Nothing can be more unhandfome to the literary publick than to perfevere in errors of which explanations. have fo often been called for. Such are thofe of the editor of a spurious Scotch coin, and the afferter of an unknown print in a private honfe. Are they afhamed of error or its retractation ? Yours, &c. P. P. P.

S. afks if any of our Correfpondents can inform him, if there are any original portraits exifting of the following Ejected Minifters, who were turned out of their livings in the reign of Charles II; and, where they are to be found, in order to be engraved.

Mr. Daniel Dyke, Hertfordshire.
Mr. Nathanael Ball, Ditto.
Mr. John Wettley, Dorfetfhire..
Mr. Thomas Hurrocks, fometimes called
Hurlocks, Effex.

Mr. Robert Billio, Ditto.
Mr. John Corbet, Hampshire.
Mr. Richard Hawes, Herefordshire.
Mr. John Tombes, Ditto.
Mr. Thomas Jollie, Lancashire.
Mr. Nathanael Heywood, Ditto.
Mr. John Shuttlewood, Leicefter.
Mr. Spurtowe, Hackney.
Mr. Richard Worts, Norfolk.
Dr. Robert Wilde, Northamptonfhre.
Mr. Vincent Alíop, Ditto.
Mr. Timothy Ded, fon of the famous Mr.
John Dod, Ditto.

Mr. Henry Leaver, Northumberland.
Mr. Robert Leaver, Ditto.
Mr. Henry Efkine, Ditto.
Mr. Jofeph Truman, Nottingham.
Mr. Samuel Birch, Oxon.
Mr. John Fenwick, Ditto.
Mr. Robert Otty, Suffolk.
Mr. Auguftin Plumsted, Ditto.
Mr. Thomas Vincent, London.
Ms. Thomas Rovewell, Wilts.

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