Mr. URBAN, July 4. TH Fig. 2. is from the outfide of the tower of Abbotbury church, Dorfetfhire. Fig. 3. is from a flone about four feet bigh, placed against a houfe in Barpard-caftle; in which town there are many old houfes with the boar cut on ftones; and the boar, it will be recol lected, was the angnizance of Richard II. who is faid to have founded the col legiate church at Barnard-castle. laterally, without being obftructed by Fête Champêtre given by Mr. and Mrs. July 3. which I have ever viewed your JNDER the high eftimation with diftinguithed Mifcellany, I fhould be particularly adverfe from making it the record of unmeaning amusements, or fubordinate pleafures; but there are fcenes of rational gratification which Fig. 4. reprefents the font of grey the most elevated characters may en marble in Barnard-caflle-church, with joy with delight, and the Moralift conthe infcription more at large placed under it; and fig. 5 the key-ftone of the arch above the porch in that church. Yours, &c. AN ANTIQUARY. Mr. URBAN, Bishops Iron, near I fend you the impreffion of a feal, 2 Yours, &c. JAMES EYRE. THE Mr. URBAN, Sheffield, June 19. HE complaint of Mifakapuos, P. 999, may, I hope, be remedied by what has been tried with good fuccefs in my neighbourhood many years pali. It is well known that baked earthen tubes are found to be neceflary appendages to the chinneys, even of new-built boules, in this part of the country; and, in general, I believe, they answer the purpofe of promoting A draught very well: but, in fome inJiances, it has been requifite to confruct them in a form which it is not eafy to explain without the following diagram. Fig. 7. A is the bottom of the tube, which is inferted into the chimney; Bis the top which is clofely covered in; CC are two branches, which de fcend obliquely from the top of the aube, through which the fmoke iffues GENT. MAG. July, 1804. template with improvement. Such were afforded at Champion Lodge, Camberwell, by the taste and liberality of Mr. and Mrs. Crefpigny to an affemblage of about 500 noble and diftinguifh ed perfons; and rendered more gratifying by the prefence of his Royal Highnels the Prince of Wales, whofe condefeenfion and politenefs added dignity 10 rank, and affection to loyalty. about one o'clock, and at three the The company began to affemble Prince and his fuite entered the apart ments. berwell Volunteers on duty; and, as He was escorted by the Camhe entered the park, the following was given in a grand ftyle by the Knivetts, Sale, &c, and extremely well fet by Dr. Bufby: Welcome! welcome! Echo catch the Welcome to this feftive ground. Tidings most grateful to each Briton's heart. wreath A beautiful Fairy-like lady at the fame time prefented the Prince with a bonquet containing the white and red rofes united. Mrs. Crefpigny then led her royal gueft through a winding fhaded walk on the right fide of the park, and which at length opened to view a groupe of Gypfies, fome of whom, from the grace grace of their manners, the company feemed defirous of contemplating without their masks. In profecting the meandering walks, the Prince and company were led to a complete fair kept in feveral booths, erected for the purpofe of exhibiting various articles for fale; and few of the company could refift the temptation of purchafing fome of thefe pretty articles from the hands of the beautiful young ladies who kept the booths, and whole chearfulnefs infpired greater pleafure, under the benevolent confideration that the product of the fale was defined to purpofes of charity; for the character of Mrs. Crefpigny is uniformly to render pleafure rational, by making it fubfervient to virtuous fentiment, agreeably to the expreffion of Fenelon, "La vertu en reglant les paffions n'eteint point le fentiment." In the vicinity of this virtuous traffick, fo happily calculated to combine the feelings of humanity with the exercife of active beneficence,groupes of ladies, with rakes and light implements of rural employment danced round a garland or rich feftoons of foliage and flowers, whilft mufick of different kinds in tune reverberated upon the ear, or in foft melody died upon the delighted fenfes, and afforded gratifications equally chearful and intellectual. Looking from hence through the foliage of the fpreading trees, hay-makers neatly drefled were feen in the park, bufily employed in turning, loading, and conveying home, the heavy growth of the meadows. Whilft the umbrageous trees fhaded the walks, the coinpany was fupplied with ices, orgeats, lemonades, and various refreshments, till they arrived at the Alcove and Hermitage, where additional refreshments were prefented, and feats and chairs were placed under the fhade of the trees, whofe branches feemed every where to convey mufick from the numerous inftruments which echoed through the groves. Sometimes the harmony appeared to iffue from the Hermitage; but, in paffing through its various rooms, the found fill feemed difiant, as it vibrated among the ambient foliage, or pierced the transparent paintings of the Hermitage. After leaving this enchanting fcenery, by parfuing the walk to the other fide of the park, the company paffed by the Aviary, near which is an urn, and on the bafe that fupports it is infcribed, "In remembrance of the who united the confideration of private friendship with that of public virtue. Champion Lodge, May 1789. M.C.C." From hence to the Lodge, or 'family refidence, is fhaded by lofty cedars of Libanus, acacias, and chefnuts. Under their fhade the company had collected together foon after four o'clock, when glees were repeated, and followed by mufick of ferpino horns and favoyards; after which the company were invited to refreshments in the Lodge. All the rooms on the ground-floor were foon filled, as well as a fuite of feven rooms over them. The Tables in every apartment were loaded with the richelt and moft plenteons refreshments of ices, fruits, cakes, wines, as well as of the more substantial viands. The Prince and his fuite then withdrew; and the rest of the company returned to the lawn, when the fportive dance commenced with appropriate mufick, and continued till paft feven; and at 8 o'clock cold meats, coffee, tea, lemonade, and wines, were prefented to the guests, who departed with the clofe of the evening, delighted with every department of the entertain ment, and in the highest degree with the affability and attentions of the dif tinguifhed perfous whofe taste and liberality diffufed fo much rational enjoyment and mental gratification. The whole of the day was brilliant, and was fucceeded by a clear full moon, which greatly contributed to the pleafurable enjoyment of the occafion. Thefe were infinitely heightened by the prefence of his Royal Highnels the Prince, which afforded a gratification no where elfe to be found in the world; of a perfonage, born to fill the greatekt and moft enviable throne upon it, defeending to mingle in equal fociety and intercourfe with thofe whom by birthright he was deftined to govern. This amiable condefcenfion in the Prince, this manly frankness to a people generous by freedom, and sloval from affection, prefages the happinets of a great Nation, fhould Heaven grant him, in the courfe of nature, to fucceed the auguft Sire who has long been the guardian, and friend of millions of grateful fubjects. JETROS. Mr. Mr. URBAN, IN June 20. indifcriminately adhered to, no one will receive a man orwoman out of a jail into any fervice or employment whatever. This is the common misfortune of public punishments, that they preclude the offender from all honeft means of future fupport."-In the Bishop of Landaff's Sermon before the Society for the Suppreffion of Vice, the fame fubject is touched on, and a with expreffed, that a place were provided, for “ those. unhappy perfons of both fexes, who are, at tiated feafous, difcharged from our prifons, either from their crimes and mifdemeanours not being fufficiently proved against them, or after they have fuffered the correction and confinement of the law. The Civil Magiftrate is the father of all his people; and one cannot but with that he would provide a place for thefe his unfortunate childreu, where they might tender their labour for the fupport of their life, till repentance and good conduct had reftored them to the eflimation of mankind. As the caufe thus pleaded by thefe two popular writers is not likely, for very evident reafons, to be taken up by Government, I nowwith, through your indulgence, to call the attention of your numerous readers to the propo fals of thofe individuals who have had fufficient patriotifm and charity to undertake it. Their addrefs to the inhabitants of Great Britain, and the plan of the Inflitution, are to be had, as appears from an advertisement on the cover of your Mifcellany, at Meffrs. Rivingtons and Faulder's: and permit me to fay, that no charity more extensive in its benefits, more neceffary to the welfareof its objects and morepregnantwith the molt folid advantage to the kingdom at large, ever folicited the patronage of the nation. And, therefore, it is to be hoped that your readers will give it not a tranfient but ferious coufideration; when they will find it in its purposes effentially difiinct from every other vet propofed, and fupplying a la mentable deficiency in thote eftablishmens; they will fee the road to refor N Mr. Neild's letter on the Kentish Bridewells, inferted in p. 397, he deplores the fituation of thofe young criminals, who, having been commit ted to Bridewell, are at the end of their appointed confinement difcharged "pennylefs, almost famished, half (fcarcely half) cloathed ;" and afks, "what a poor object, naked, fcarcely able to move, incapable of labour, and perifhing with hunger, is to do, to avoid being driven by irrefiftible necellity to commit fome predatory acts, which foon bring him back to his former manfion, and fhortens his wretched life, that might have been, with a little attention, ufeful?" The propriety of this question, the juftice of this oblervation, no one, I prefime, can difpute; nor will any, in whofe breaft every spark of compaflion is not extinct, fail to join him in withing that fome receptacle was provided, in which fuch objects might have a chance of recovering, or acquiring by a courte of labour and due inftruction, a knowledge of the obligations of Religion, habits of induftry and fobriety, or of learning fome means of gaining their fupport by honeft exertion. Yet, however our Bridewells might be improved by being converted into places of reformation as well as correction, even the difference of the terms for which the prisoners are committed will not admit of the majority of them either receiving fufficient inftruction, or gaining any habit of good behaviour in them, while there is a much more numerous clafs of objects, equally pitiable, difcharged from our prifons afier trial who ftand in the fame need of a fimilar refuge. It was this confideration which led a worthy Magifirate, fome few years ago, to propofe the establishment of an afy lum for outcafts: this fuggef tion has lately been acted on by fome individuals, who have formed themfelves into a fociety for effecting fuch an inftitution, and confidently look for the general fupport in an undertaking fo benevolent, fo beneficial, and formation laid open to multitudes to whom loudly called for on all hands. The want of fuch an efiablifhment is thus expreffed by Dr. Paley in p. 302 of the fecond volume of his Principles of mora! and political Philofophy-But the principal difficulty remains fiill; namely, how to ditpote of criminals after their enlargement. By a rule of life, which is, perhaps, too invariably and it is now hardly acceffible; they will difcern a probability, almoft amounting to a certainty, of, materially diminishing the number of thofe wretches who live by theft or profitution, and of annihilating (if individuals will but do their own duty) that peft of our country, common begging; they will perceive fuch provifion made as will tend to |