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Gent. Mag. June 1817. PLp. 481.

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In having brought forward to public notice the Letters addressed by Miss PECKITT to the Rev. JAMES DALLAWAY (p. 392), it is incumbent on us to apologize for having inadvertently suffered an imputation against him to appear-of having injured the family of an Artist whose works he had criticized. Mr. Dallaway, as well as any gentleman who publishes his opinions on the merits of an Artist, is amenable to the publick for any mistatement, or any ill-founded opinion but the serious accusation here noticed is beside the purpose, and wholly unwarranted by the circumstances.

The sentiments of AN OBSERVER are in unison with our own; but the Plan he proposes, we think, would not in any degree remedy the evil complained of.

We decline inserting the communication of TELOS ET GRAPHO "on the comparative advantage of Shutter and Semaphoric Telegraphs;" the subject, as he observes, being fully elucidated in Colonel Macdonald's Dictionary.

A CONSTANT READER is so good as to inform us that "It would gratify several of our Readers to be informed why 'The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland' have been so long delayed to be completed, and when the Author intends to proceed with them. Surely," he adds, "Authors act with injustice to the publick when they publish part of a Work, and then let it drop; and ought to be held up to the notice of the publick for such conduct." We agree with him, that Authors are deserving of censure in such a case when no sufficient reason

can

be assigned for it. And as we are now on the subject of propriety, our Correspondent must excuse us for adding, "Surely he ought to have paid the postage of his Letter!"

Mr. RALPH DODD requests us, "for the sake of justice, to contradict an assertion which has got abroad, viz. that Mr. RENNIE was the Architect of the Strand or Waterloo Bridge: which" (he says) "is not the fact, it being an honour that I cannot allow to be taken from my family. The Plans and Designs of that Bridge were approved by the Proprietors, and its measurements inserted in the Act of Parliament for building it (of course no other could be admitted), long before Mr. Rennie had any thing whatever to do with it. These plans are now accessible for the inspection of any Gentlemen who may wish to see they have been acted upon, and in which, it is presumed, the Architectural taste of the Country has not been disgraced."

P. T. I. in looking over the Catalogue of the Marquis of Donegal's Sale at

Fisherwick, as printed in Shaw's Staffordshire, has met with the following article: "No. II. Henry the Third's Staff Head; it represents a curious animal of the horse kind standing rampant, with a man between his fore feet, holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other, a dog at his feet, &c.”~"Is there," he asks, 66 any reference, in this piece of carving, to some event in Henry the Third's Life? and why should it be called Henry III's Staff?"

O. R. would be glad to know where he can see any printed account of WILLIAM DELL, who was one of the Chaplains to Cromwell's Army, and Author of a work, entitled "Tryal of Spirits," also at one time Master of Caius College, Cambridge; and further he would be happy to see a collation of Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, with printed borders, from the press of John Daye, 1597, or thereabouts.

"J. W. p. 123, is erroneous in styling Viscount Bulkeley, 'Lord Viscount Warren Bulkeley; his Lordship's title is Viscount Bulkeley of Cashel, co. Tipperary; I am aware of the modern (but not much followed) custom of Peers signing their titles of honours prefixed by surnames of their wives, &c. when heiresses; but I know of no instance of a Peer altering or adding to his style and title of Peerage. The late Lord Buckingham signed himself Nugent Buckingham,' but never styled himself Marquis of Nugent Buckingham; and though Lord Holland may also sign Vassall Holland, he does not assume the style of Lord Vassall Holland." G.H.W.

PONDERER says, an Abridgment of Martyn's edition of "Miller's Gardener's Dictionary," extended to 6 or 8 vols. 8vo. ; and a new edition of Granger's Biographical Dictionary, with an account and description of the different engraved Portraits -are desiderata in Literature; as are also a Continuation of the Lists of Cambridge and Oxford Graduates, the latter of which is wholly deficient in the degree of BACHELORS.

AN OLD GARDENER would be obliged to any of our ingenious Horticultural Correspondents, for information specting the easiest and best method of destroying the white mealy Pine Bug.

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The Verses of S. G. C. are inadmissible. CLERICUS on Milner's Church History; LOYALTY AND LIBERTY; RICHARD ROE; &c. &c. in our SUPPLEMENT, which will be published with the Magazine for July.

The Rev. W. MORGAN'S Appeal in behalf of the Subscription for the Free Church lately erected at Bradford, will appear in our Magazine for July.

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

Mr. URBAN,

For JUNE, 1817.

M.Temple, June 4.
T will, I am sure, give pleasure to

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the illness of the Right Honourable Charles Abbot (unow most deservedly elevated to the Peerage), though uncomfortable to himself, and painful to the feelings of his friends, is not of a description which is likely to deprive the Country of his services in the House of Peers. His complaint is confined entirely to the eyes and optic nerves. During several Sessions of Parliament this complaint has been gaining ground upon him; and although he struggled against it, and bore the most excruciating pain in silence, his medical attendants at length predicted a speedy extinction of vision altogether, if he continued night after night to expose himself to the blaze of light, and the strong exercise of the faculty of sight which his place in the House of Commons required. Lord Colchester is now in his sixty-second year. He was educated at Christ-church, Oxford, and afterwards practised at the bar as a Chancery pleader. He first came into Parliament in 1790 for Helstone; was re-elected for the same place in 1796; but in 1802 sat for Woodstock, and was chosen Speaker. In 1805 he offered himself for the University of Oxford, on which occasion he was opposed by Richard Heber, esq. M. A. of Brazenose College, but gained his election by a majority of 129.-The Peerage of Colchester was last held by a branch of the antient and respectable family of Lucas, as a Viscounty, and became extinct in 1728. It was on the monument of one of those Peers, Lucas, Viscount Colchester, that the celebrated in scription, referred to by Addison in one of his Numbers of the Spectator, was recorded, viz.

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Son Of Thomas Warton's Poems, EEING a very elegant small edilately published by a most respectable Editor (T. Park), 1 cannot but regret that he had not been informed of five Latin Poems, in the inscriptive style, which are the undoubted production of T. Warton. In an Inscriptionum Delectus, published by him anonymously in 1758, but known to be his, and therefore reprinted in the second Volume of his Works by Mr. Mant, these compositions stand at Nos. 41, 44, 45, 47, of the collection, and in the note to the latter. A slight pretence was made in the Delectus, that they had been lately discovered in Italy; but Warton himself throws a suspicion upon the last of them, in the very note which duces it. Mr. Mant, in his life of T. Warton, expressly assigns these to hin, saying," also a few modern epigrams, namely, one by Dr. Jortin, and five by himself, on the model of they are not distinctly specified, and the Antique." Life, p. xlii. But, as no more is said about them, they have been overlooked by subsequent Editors. My motive for writing this any future Edition. is to prevent their being omitted in Both Mr. A. Chalmers aud Mr. Park would doubtless have inserted them, had they been aware of the fact.

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Dr. Warton, though it has not hitherto been noticed, let out the secret with respect to the third of these little

poems,

poems, "O dulcis puer," &c. by inserting it in the second volume of his Essay on Pope, p. 472, with this introductory sentence: "In which taste [that of the Anthologia] a living Author, who must be nameless, has written the following hendecasyllables."

This was published in the year 1782; but the "Inscriptionum Delectus" being scarce and little known, and still less known to have come from T. Warton, the discovery passed unnoticed.

Mr. URBAN,

N.

Jane 5.

SIR, Jonas, was knighted January

IR Jonas Moore, p. 253, was born

28, 1672, at which time he was Surveyor of the Ordnance; was elected F. R. S. Dec. 3, 1674; and died in 1681. But see the Letters from the Bodleian Library, and Mr. Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary.

The question between Sandford and Lord Lyttelton, p. 253, about the place of Henry II's birth in Normandy, is easily answered by the observation, that there is no such place in any part of that country as Mentz.

P. 348. Many of your Readers are, I have no doubt, more conversant with Dr. Young's Night Thoughts than myself; but I always understood Lorenzo to be George Earl of Euston, eldest surviving son of Charles second Duke of Grafton, and Uncle of Augustus Henry, the third and late Duke. You may assure your Correspondent, p. 348, that no such person as Lady Eleanor Dumbarton does, or ever did, exist.

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P. 444. F. B. A. may find some particulars of the representatives of Henry Killegrew, one of the Admirals of the Fleet in 1693, in Mr. Clutterbuck's History of Herts, p. 230, art. St. Stephen's Vicarage, which brings them down to Edward Barker, esq. of West Tarring, Sussex: to which I would add, that Jane, daughter of James Cooke, and wife of the first Lord Viscount Grimston, was sister and heiress of James Cooke, who is there stated as having married Lucy Killegrew; Barker therefore must have been the Admiral's sole heir and representative. There are also some

*The whole title is "Inscriptionum Latinarum Metricarum Delectus," Dodsley, 1758.

particulars about Henry Killegrew, D.D. in the same work, p. 517, 18, 19. art. Wheathamsted Church. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

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London, June 9. HE valuable Turbot Fishery at Hartlepool, in the county of Durham, is but little known to the British publick; unpatronized and unsupported, it has continued from year to year (since it was discovered a few years ago) to give employment to a few fishermen, who are not able theinselves to fit out large fishing-vessels, but proceed a considerable distance to sea in small boats, exercising their dangerous employment.

This year, about 50 Scotch fishermen have come to the Fishery: it will hardly be believed by respectable persons in London (paying from 15s. to two guineas for a single turbot) that on Monday the 2d instant, turbot were so plentiful at Hartlepool that several were actually sold for fourpence each!

At this time, when articles of the first necessity are rising in price in London, this Fishery, which is of immense extent, offers, if encouraged, an inexhaustible store of cheap and excellent food. Turbots might be had here for a few shillings; and the Metropolis might be constantly supplied with any quantity..

These observations are made for the purpose of calling the attention of the publick to this valuable Fishery; and whilst so much money is given in London to foreign fishermen, an appeal in favour of the industrious fishermen of Hartlepool, asking only the like encouragement, should not be made in vain.

Yours, &c.

A FRIEND TO THE FISHERIES.

Mr. URBAN,

June 10.

IN your Obituary, p. 476, 1 saw an

account of a gentleman poisoned by taking potash (i. e. salt of tartar, subcarbonate of potash, salt of wormwood, or prepared kali) in mistake for a dose of Epsom salts. The many fatal accidents that have lately occurred by taking this alkaline salt, and its immediate effects on the stomach and animal functions, render an antidote in the hands of every individual of the greatest utility; it furnishes the publick with the means of entirely

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