fonableness and advantage of national humiliations upon the approach of War," on the Fast in 1740. From p. 60, col. 2, of your volume for 1800, the worthy Historian of Worcestershire appears to be too squeamish in depriving his valuable work of what he had " prepared for the press," merely because "fome things intended to have been noticed" have been forestalled in another publication; of which no favourable character is exhibited in pp. 138, 9, of your volume for 1797. It is hoped that Dr. Nash may be prevailed upon to fubjoin these neceffary additions to his "Supplement," and not permit bis volumes to remain imperfect from the omiffion of them. He might with equal reason have omitted the account of the circumstances relative to king John's tomb; as from p. 745 of your volume for 1797, col. 2, it appears that Mr. Green has described them in the publication referred to. The Doctor would alfo do an acceptable service by republishing his edition of Hudibras in octavo, with any improvements, which might be printed separately for the benefit of the poffeffors of his truly fuperb quartos. Verbum Sapienti. The following strictures refer to your Volume LXX. for 1800. P. 408. col. Mufe." 2. 1. 7, read, " my P. 447, col. 1. Some of your correspondents will perhaps afcertain whether in "the Peerage of Scotland, by Robert Douglas, esq." any mention is made of a prior valuable Work published at Edinburgh, 1716, folio, by George Crawford, efq. with the fame title. P. 477. col. 2, 1. 6, for "many," read "fome." The Letters of Lady Rachel Ruffel, here referred to, were in 1748 "copied from the originals by Thomas Sellwood, who lived in her family." His manuscript, which is in the library of Woburn Abbey, "being faithfully transcribed," was first published in 1773 4to. with an "Introduction vindicating the character of Lord Ruffell againft Sir John Dalrymple, &c. See your volume for that year, P. 232. P.537, 3. The "excellence of Clivers" has been frequently celebrated in your valuable volumes. But it may not be amiss to refer your humane correspondent to that for 1788, p. 191.; and that for 1790, p. 1164; and, for an illuftration of these references, to that for 1791, p. 520. col. 1.; and for 1795, p. iv. col. 2. P. 768, col. 2. S. B. may be also referred to your volume for 1790, p. 911, 968, 1083; and for 1791, p. 232; for remedies for the Cramp. In the next paragraph, for "July, 1798," read, ber, 1798." "Octo P. 828, col. 2. It is not improbable that the Rev. Roger Huggett, M. A. rector of Hartley Waspaill, Hants, whose death is registered in p. 414 of your volume for 1769, and whose wife was the aunt of the prefent Bishop of Oxford, might be a descendant of the fubject of the "Leonine verses" here copied; the chriftian and furnames being both the fame. The worthy rector was long connected with the College of Eton, to which he bequeathed some of his MS collections; was a celebrated genealogist; and is described by Granger as "a very accurate antiquary" in his "Biographical Hiftory of England," under the ar ticle of Catharine Parr. P. 934. col. 2. A fuller defcrip tion of the Church of Tong, in Shropshire, is to be found in your volume for 1763, pp. 162, 3. P. 1142, col. 1. The celebrated phyfician, Dr. Richard Mead, with whom his eldest brother travelled in 1695, took his degree at Padua on August 16 of that year, according to Dr. Maty's "Memoirs" of the former, pp. 6, 7. Can any of your communicative correspondents tell what became of this eldest brother, so particularized in this Letter of Dr. Prideaux, then Archdeacon of Suffolk? SCRUTATOR. Mr. Mr. URBAN, May 19. T HE CALCUTTA MILITIA CAVALRY confifted of two troops under the command of Major William Farquharfon. This volunteer corps was established in November 1798, under the aufpices of Lis Excellency Marquis Wellesley, at that time Earl of Mornington, and governor-general of the British poffeffions in the East Indies. When his Lordthip found it expedient to call on the British inhabitants of the city of Calcutta to ferve as a militia for the defence and protection of that metropolis, an option was given to those who preferred ferving as cavalry to enroll themselves as fuch, and hence originated this corps so jutily celebrated for its lovalty, zeal, and perfection. It defrayed all its own expences, and was generally mounted on Arabian horfes. The engraving here annexed (Plate I.) is calculated to shew the uniform, dresses, and accoutrements of this respectable corps, which, in February 1801, confifted of the following gentlemen, officiating as officers and privates. First Troop. lough), C. Buller, F. Balfour, R. Downie, L. M Kenzie, R. Richardfon, J. Adair, W. Spedding, G. Simpfon, Capt. Ch. Cockerell (fur- H. Stone, | Capt. 1. T. Brown, Lieut. M. G. Prendergast, Cornet Colin Robertfon, G. P. Ricketts, David Campbell, J. Irwin, I Law, P. Maitland, W. Parker, C. M. Ricketts, J. Birch, W. Camac, W. Elhot, C. Fryer, G. Ferguson, E. S. Waring, T. Thompson, J. Williams, B. D. Wyatt, C. R. Blunt, A. P. Johnstone, J. Hunter, J. Ewer, R. Rattray, R. Cunningham. Second Troop. Capt. Francis Macnaghion, Lieut. Sir G. Tucker, R. E. Phillips, E. Thoroton, W. C. Blacquiere, G. R. Foley, J. Innis, Y. Burges, J. Clarke, C. A. Child, T. Hayes, C. A. Ratcliffe, A. Cockburn, W. Mordaunt, R. C. Plowden, T. Templeton, N. Charles, M. Campbell, T. Fortefcue, H. T. Roberdeau, Tho. Perry, Hon. M. I. Elphinstone, On the departure of Major Farquharson from Calcutta, in March 1801, he was fucceeded in the command of this corps by the Hon. Henry Wellesley. GENT. MAG. June, 1802. Mr. Deaf April 19. held. In short, Sir, I perceive it is the KNOWING your promptitude to admit any communication into your useful and widely-circulating Mif cellany, that has for its object the good of mankind, i make no apology for tranfmitting to you the inclofed lines, conceiving that the fact of their having been audibly, correctly, and feelingly recited to a company of 300 perfons, and upwards, by children, once entirely dumb and still totally deat, merits publicity. The establishment of the Afylum for the indigent Deaf and Dumb (of which, I believe, the first public hint was given in your pages) reflects honour on our age and country. Who that witnesses what they can attain to by instruction but laments the inany thoufands, who, for want of being taught, have lived uselefs and died without hope? Too long, indeed, were they neglected, but it is never too well; and that the great and the good late to do who may cast an eye upon this, and have not already contributed their mite to enable this truly useful and benevolent institution to extend its aid to the numerous objects for whom it is folicited, may no longer delay it, is the wish and prayer of A SUBSCRIBER. "Had we the found-controlling ear, "The Deaf and Dumb, from age to age, "To us tho' hearing be deny'd, "And we, who elfe no art had gain'd, To useful industry are train'd; Taught our immortal part to prize, And raife our hopes beyond the skies. "Releas'd from more than dungeon's gloom, testor'd-as from the filent tomb, We would proclaim the timely aid, Your bounteous kindness has display'd." Mr. URBAN, June 8. a late tour to London, having IN rambled amongst the new buildings, that cover The Duke Fields, as I once knew them called, of Bedford's Long my eye was arrested by fomething like a religi religious structure, in Jar kind of architecture that I ever bethe most fingu fame erection that your correfpondent ture of our ancestors are co and he affirms, that its "windows, battlements, and minute ornaments, is vulgarly denoted; are ehafte imitations." I with, Sir, he had acquainted us with the name of the Architect who collected thefe imitations and put them together, as likewife with pied. Should I, indeed, be referred to the originals from which they the villas in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, where our citizens exercise themselves as they please, and are actheir undoubted right of building for customed to term every architectural whim, which is not reducible to any order or rule whatfoever, the Gothic ftyle, I am not qualified to deny that authorities may be produced for the But if the question be concerning the several fingularities under confideration. genuine works of our ancestors, in the pointed order, abutively called Gothic; I beg leave to ask where windows, of the self-fame period, are to be seen, others a flat arch, and others no arch fome of thein forming ing a a highly pointed, at all, but being perfectly quadrangular? found, croffing each other in the ChiAgain, where plain mullions are to be nese form, without the least tracery, or. even the characteristical trefoil head? Lastly, where uniform piers, without breaks or embellishments of any kind, buttress up a facade, being capped with large square abacuses, and finished with hatched billets, by way of crocket pinnacles? I say nothing of the flat battlements, without coping or mouldings, here exhibited; of the new idea of reprefenting the emblem of Chriftianity by a transverse hole on the tympan, instead of exalting it to the fummit of the nutive niches, occupying the place pediment; of the double row of dimiwhere we look for the bold columus. and arches of the grand portal, or, finally, of the disproportion in a chapel that is defigned to be in the antient style, of making its breadth to be nearly Urban, as my contempt is for the equal to its length. Ineffable, Mr. square meeting-houses and other chanations pels that that are raifed by almost all den omiwhich, when the defks nations of Chrifiians the present day, removed out of them, are found to be and nd alters are as well calculated for the purposes of dancing at ) C コ 1 b L C 1 |