AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending Oct. 22, 1803. Average of Scotland, per quarter. 50 0138 4 25 2123 1136 4 Merioneth57942 Cardigan 48 900 018 (~4 1000 Pembroke 47 300 Carmart. 61 00 Monm. 53 100 00 023 1014 800 024 16 024 325 833 4 026 13139 2. 823 000 023 1122 000 027 422 ofoa 53 1100 023 923 600 Hants 53 45 024 1/25 836 AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans Diftri&s S. d. s. d... d. s. d. s. d. Districts Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 5. ds. I 56 946 825 128 734 55 240 10j21 524 53 232 020 10 21 220 122 0137 12 622 $37 53 546 023 1124 1136706 48 138 423 823 1036 54 1041 2279 22 I 14 53 438 422 017 236 56 639 27 028 8 138 55 0142 825 8/18 37 49 933 428 124 234 1 (895 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For OCTOBER, 1803. Mr.URBAN, Basingstoke, Oct. 14. S the pages of your literary Mifcellany frequently A have been dedicated to the prefervation of the memorials of departed genius and merit, perhaps you will favour the following memorandum of an eminent man with a place in your work. It is copied from a paper in the handwriting of the mother of the Rev. James Granger, author of the Bio. graphical Hiftory of England (a new edition of which is announced for next month), which was lately put into my hands by his brother, Mr. John Granger, of Bafingftoke. Not knowing that any biographical account of the Rev James Granger has been given to the public, the t; of the abovementioned Col. Strangeways, with the honourable mention that was due to his conduct and his munificence is thus particularly defcribed: "When Charles fled into the Weft, in difguife, after the battle of Worcefier, he fent him three hundred broad pieces; which was, perhaps, the moft feafonable prefent that the royal fugitive ever received. But this was but a fall part of the fun which is to be placed to the account of his loyalty; as the houfe of Strangeways paid no lefs than 35,000!. for His attachment to the crown. Ob. 1675. The prefent counters of Ilchefter is defcended from this family." Vol. II. p. 273. Mr. John Granger, the abovementioned brother, is ftill living at Bafingftoke, having nearly completed his 76th year, ftruggling following circumftances refpecting with infirmities; and at bis pedigree may be acceptable to fome of your readers : Elizabeth Tut, daughter of Tracy Tutt, was married to William Granger in the year of our Lord 1717. Tracy Tutt, fon of Alexander Tutt, grandfon of Sir Alexander Tutt; his houfe Caversham lodge, near Reading, Berkshire. Sir Alexander Tutt mar ried Sir Paul Tracy's daughter. His aunt Wadham married the noble Colonel Strangeways. My father died, left a great many young children. The noble Colonel Strangeways came in his coach to my mother; told her to give her children learning, he would be her friend; fo he was, bleffed be his memory, the Earl of Ilchefter, and his lady, and their children. Sir Alexander Tutt was ruined for ftanding for the king. "For Jolin Granger." Mr. Granger, in his Biographical Hiftory, has recorded the name is ftill more affecting (by the failure Mr. John Granger has in his poffeffion, befides fome prints, a very good painting of his brother, which the widow of the Rev. Biographer: gave him after her husband's death. Before I lay afide my pen, give me leave, Mr. Urban, to mention another matter to, your learned readers. A fmall A Tmall MS volume has lately come into poffeffion, writ my by Nicolas Floyd, and dated from Wa college, April 1656. It is entitled "BIOEП; or, Life Irrecoverable," a funeral difcourfe on Pfalm xlix. v. 7, on the occafion of the death of his brother Edward Floyd, who died at London in 1655. There is alfo annexed a little collection of Latin poems, occafioned by the deaths of his brother and two fifters. Thefe per formances, in my opinion, difcover much learning as well as pi ety. I have already made fome enquiry after the writer, but have not obtained any information. Any account of Nicolas Floyd, will be efteemed as a favour. The poem on his brother's death is of confiderable extent. Thofe on the fifters are fhort. That your claffical readers may form fome judgment of the writer's talents, I fend you a copy of one of them. "In immaturam mortem MARIE FLOYDIÆ fororis chariffimæ, 1634, Quid rapis imbelles, O Mors ignava, puellas? Quid juvatin teheras arma movere manus? Athletam tibi quare parem. Non viribus equis, NHO par congreffu quam petis, illa fuit, Quæ nondum binos plenè compleverat annos Infans in cunis jam Jove digna fuit. Venit et exivit. Rifu cognofcere matrem Incepit, lachrymas rifus at ifte dabat, Non lingua immodicas valait depromere voces; Vix illud potuit dicere trifte vale." JOSEPH JEFFERSON. Mr. URBAN, Q&t. 7. HAVE looked into your Magazine for thefe fix months paft, and have feen the different accounts there ftated relative to inoculating with Cow-pock matter. 13,000, if I mistake not, have fo been inoculated at the Small-pox hofpital in London; all did well, and worked daily; 500 of thefe were inoculated afterwards with Small-pox matter, and not one of the 500 took the infection. This proves that the Cow-pock matter is a certain prefervative from the Small-pox. In fome inftances in the country one or two have had the Chickenpox after; and this, being taken for the Small-pox by ignorant people, has alarmed them. Others have failed by not being inoculated with genuine matter; or by not taking the infection by being inoculated too flightly. The Jennerian Society will fupply any furgeon with the genuine matter; and a furgeon might go from one village to an other and inoculate all the poor at 2s. 6d. per head. The overfeers of parithes would, by giving this sum, fave the parith much e expence; as it would prevent all poor families being a great expence to the parish from having the Small-pox in the natural way, which is often a fore affliction, and fometimes DEATH. The Cow-pock is never fatalno danger-not contagious neither confinement, lofs of time, nor expence incurred--no precaution requifite-no medicine required-the eruption only on the inoculated part and it is an infallible preventative of the Small-pox. Many of the nobility and gentry have been inoculated, and thofe who have not would employ the furgeon, and pay him handfomely. The Royal Jenne rian Society give books to the furgeons for them to give to the poor to read. About 600 have been inoculated in Bath, and 100 at LB.D. Batheafton. Mr. URBAN, HA 08. 6. AVING met with a method of producing electricity by pouring a ftrong acid upon fteel filings, and not being able to find the account of it again; I fhall take it as a favour if any of your philofophical readers will refer me to the work wherein it is recorded; alfo give in your Magazine an account of the experiments. In Cavallo's new publication, his "Elements of Natural or Experimental Philofophy," vol. II. p. 434, (in a note) this experiment is lightly noticed. It appears to me that electricity thus produced is very much like (if not the the fame) with what is now called GALVANISM and is not electricity, when produced by dropping an hot coal into a metal cup of water, alfo Galvanic procefs? div ham A CONSTANT READER, Mr. URBAN, On the Political Conduct of the Quakers on the prefent alarming Crifis pb has byold A S many periodical publica tions have of late contained various reflections on the Society of Friends, as they ufually denominate themfelves (generally known, however, by the epithet of Quakers), I by: the perusal of ly and refpecting their forbearance much-enlarged edition of Dr. Mofeley's Treatife on Tropical Difeafes; Military Operations; and on the Climate of the Weft Indies. Few readers of your Repofitory, I believe, ftand in need of being told that this work, before the prefent augmentation of upwards of 100 pages of new matter, has been treafured in the libraries of the learned, tranflated into various languages, and reforted to for practical information by phyficians and furgeons, not only in our own navy and army, and in the Torrid Zone, but in every country in Europe. In regard to the former edi. tions of this work I thall refer to your accounts of them at the time. of their publication *; and confine myfelf on this occafion to the new, and, I may venture to fay, the moft important matter, for variety, fcience, and extenfive erudition, that has ever appeared in the annals of Philofophy or Medicine. Befides the enlargements on cloathing, and on the treatment of the maladies in camps, fleets, and armies, and a multitude of new and extraordinary cafes in medicine, to be noticed in due time, the learned author has added a differtation on the Moon; concerning her influence on animals, and on the minds and bodies of the inhabitants of this terraqueous Globe. Of her dominion in fevers,crifes,apoplexy,palfey, epilepfy, conception, births,extreme age, deaths; and on the nerves and animal fpirits. But I have not at prefent time to add more. S. N. *See vol. LVII. p. 1175; vol. LX. PP. 432, 636, 837; vol. LXI. p. 1041, 1131; vol. LXII. p. 60, 250, 356; vol. LXIII. p. 841. king up arms, and in avoiding military affociations in the prefent alarming ftate of the nation; it appears due to them to take a calm review of their uniform condu& for upwards of a century, as connected with military measures; and indeed it is not lefs due to the moderation and candour of the community, of which they form a part, and particularly to thofe individuals of it who ftep forward on perilous occafions in defence of the empire, and bravely offer the facrifice of perfon and life for its protection, integrity, and independence. As the fidelity of the Quakers to their Sovereign has been proved beyond the fhadow of fufpicion, their objection to defenfive and warlike operations will reasonably be afcribed to fome very powerful and cogent motives, to which nothing. lefs than a facred injunction could be paramount. As ftrict believers in the doctrines of the New Teftament, and particularly in thofe molt emphatically delivered by the Author of the Chriftian religion, their veneration for them, and the practical obfervance of them, have given rife to cenfures to which they have quietly fubmitted, under the impreffion of acting under the dictates of confcience. It is not my object to determine whether or not their religious fcruples are founded upon the true principles of Chriftianity; but their motives of conduct are doubtless founded upon that 'convition. Admitting, however, that with confcientious motives they purfue a mistaken fyftem from mifapprehenfion of genuine Chriftianity; whilft their practice correfponds with their tenets, they claim pity inftead of of cenfure, and information rather than obloquy... Indeed, as an individual fpeaking independently, for I write with out communication or concert with any, I wish it could be clearly demonftrable from facred writ, that even defenfive war were authorized by the New Teftament, that the unqualified injun&tions to Peter not to use the fword defenfively, and the imperative ones in the Sermon on the Mount, felbige kali, fed, "I fay unto you, that ye refift not evil; but whoever fhall fmite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other alfo; "I fay unto yon, love your enemies, blefs them that curfe you, do good to them that hate you;" as applicable to nations as well as to individuals, could be furmounted, and explained to imply the right of repelling public or private aggreffion; I do not mean an explanation founded upon the honour or dignity of a nation, but on the tenor of explicit injunction, and on the genuine fpirit and amities of the Gospel. If the honour and dignity of nations are appealed to as a criterion, it may indeed quadrate with the facred declaration, My kingdom is not of this world." But does not this infer that they who abandon his doctrines are not real Chriftians? muft confcience and principle beh facrificed to perfonal fafety Didit not the Author of this principle himself fuffer death? and his dying t example confirms the force of his imperative doctrines on to donard Private intereft has in all agesinfluenced perfonal and public conduct; but this can never be appli-to cable to that of the Quakers, whofe religious opinions are peculiarly expenfive. That they are an inof fenfive, induftrious, and moral fo ciety, is univerfally admitted; and whilft they pay either voluntarily or by legal constraint all the taxes of the ftate, civil, military, and ecclefiaftical, they occafionno, expence to it. They maintain their own poor, whilft they contribute. their proportion to the fupport of others. They are not to be found in the Red Book, or in the enjoy-// ment of any lucrative poft under government; whilft they difcharge the taxes in fupport of it. They have therefore a juft claim to pro-l tection; and this protection they 23 happily enjoy under a mild and beson neficent government. In adverting to the undeviating loyalty of the Quakers, its mufts afford a grateful reflection to them, i that the breath even of fufpicion has never blafted their character; and no revolution ever fhook or weakered their attachment to their king and the conftitution of their country. They afford, indeed, fingular inftance in hiftory of being the only people with power, for in America they poffeffed ample power, who never tarnifhed autho-rity with perfecution. The fyftem of Penn was in perfect unifon with d the tenets of the Society; and the only teft required of his conftituents was the belief of a Supremes Being; and this would fcarcely be o requifite, becaufe no perfon with-ed out mental derangement could profefs Atheifm. Were the inhabitants of this empire Quakers, or influenced like them to fubmit without refiftance, they would foon be under the power of France, preferable to which is inftant death; for the refult of fubjection would be the ruin of every virtuous female, and the de very of every man. Many would probably be fold to labour in the mines of South America, never more to enjoy the rays of the Sun. Numbers would be fated to die in the fwamps of Cayenne, and thoufands fall victims to the peftiferous air of Hifpaniola, or to the favage retaliation of the infulted African. Admitting, however, this dreadful but probable catastrophe to refult from the moft facred fource; |