The affertion noticed in p. 496, that in workhoufes, and houfes of correction, Religion is banished, and the truths of the Gospel never conveyed, is a ferious reflection on our parochial eftablishments, and calls for the animadverfion of all thofe who have it in their power to confate it by producing infiances of a contrary practice. I have, therefore, read with fatisfaction, the letter of your refpectable correfpondent, W. p 496; and to his teftimony in behalf of the workhoufes of the Metropolis, I think it my duty to add mine in favour of that in this town. The management of the poor, in Plymouth is committed to 52 guardians, annually chofen; wo appear to be fo fenfible of the importance of religious inflruction to the poor, that for many years paft a committee has been appointed, whofe duty it is daily to attend the reading of Morning and Evening Prayers to the people in the workhoufe; and on Sunday evening fome portion of a Sermon or Lecture is read by one of the members of the committee. I am not unacquainted with the manner in which this meritorious fervice has been performed; and I am convinced, from actual obfervation, that it has contributed to ameliorate the principles and conduct of thofe whole prefent and future welfare it is beneficently intended to promote. I hope, that by giving this Letter a place in your Magazine, you will afford to the Author of the Reflection alluded to another opportunity of knowing, that there are fame exceptions at least to his remark, and that it ought not to have been fo indifcriminately applied. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, H. July 21. A about Capt. John Perry, who publified in 1716, in 8vo, The State of Ruthia under the prefent Czar;" and, in 1721,"An Account of the ftop ping of Dagenham Breach," which he effected about the year 1717, and died Feb. 11, 1732-3. But has not your Correfpondent confounded him with Correfpondent, p. 521, inquires 1 Charles Perry, M. D. who publihed in 1743, in a pompons folio, by fübfeription," A View of the Levant," who, as I have heard, was brother to William Perry, Efq. of Turville Park, Bucks, hufband of Mifs Elizabeth Sydney, daughter and at length fole heirefs of the Hon. Col. Thomas Sydney, brother to the three laft Earls of Leicefter of that family, and indeed of the whole Sydney family. Mr. and Mrs. Perry fubfcribed for 4 copies of the Doctor's work: but whether there. were any connection between him and the Captain, I am totally ignorant. Mr. Lyfons, Art. Hendon, gives a tomb in the church-yard, of the "Rev. Samuel Nalton, S.T. B. Fellow of Mag lalene College, Oxford, Curate of Hampftead, and Rector of Haverfham, Bucks, 1706" Arms, 3 boars. He was B. D. Dec. 18, 1665. I cannot but wonder that another Correfpondent, fome farther on, pages who feems well acquainted with the prefent ftate of the Peerage, fhould not know that the Right Rev. and Hon. Charles, or Charles Dalrymple, Lindfay, Ld. Bp. of Kildare, is a younger brother of the Earl of Balcarias and Countess of Harwicke. Lindfay is the family name of the Earls of Crawford, as well as of Balcarras. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, J. B. July 21, I WILL be thankful to any of your Correfpondents, if they could inform me, who are the Managers or Trustees of Queen Anne's Bounty, what the amount of the fund is, and whe ther any public report is made of their proceedings? Mr. Sheridan moved, fome time paft, in the Houfe of Commons, for the accompts; but I have not been able to difco difcover whether they were produced. Yours, &c. CLERICUS. the 110. SCOTIA DEPICTA; or, The Antigai- II. Fall on the River Tilt. XIV. Lochan Eilan. XVI. Water-fall at Duneira. XX. A Plane Tree, 28 Feet 1 inch round, in Perthshire. XXI. Dulfie Bridge. XXII. Eglinton Cafile. XXIII. View of the River Divie. XXIV. Perth, from the North. XXV. Fingal's Cave. XXVII. Drummond Caftle. XXVIII. Melrofe Abbey. XXIX. Cavern in Glen Croe. XXX. New Galloway. XXXI. Edinburgh Cattle. XXXII. St. Andrew's. XXXIII. St. Bernard's Well, Lau XXXIV. CromartyHoufeandBridge. XL. Donne Cafile. XIII. Dunblane Cathedral. 111. Sketches of the Lives and Characters of eminent English Civilians; with an hiftorical Introduction relative to the Gollege of Advocates, and an Enumeration of the while Series of Acad mic Graduates admitted into that Society from the Beginning of the Reign of Henry VIII. to the Clufe of the Year 1803. By One of the Members of the College. "THE Author, being called, in due fucceffion, to the difcharge of an office in the College of Advocates, had the curiofity to examine the treasurer's books, and, on a review of the lift of. the members, was induced to tranfcribe the names for private reference. Eularging his views, he annexed to many of the names fuch particulars as he could collect without extraordinary inconvenience, and formed the idea of publifhing a catalogue of the whole number of advocates admitted for nearly three centuries paft." We commend his defign and its execution; and, if we make fuch additions to it as the nature of our Review admits, he will not, we truft, conceive we infinuate that his work is imperfect. The advocates and procurators belonging to the Court of Arches did not form a diftinct fociety till the reign of Henry VIII. when Dean Bodewell and other civilians and canonitis, who had been admitted to the privilege of pleading in that court, formed a plan of affociation, and agreed to dwell in contiguous houfes, and enjoy a community of board. In 1668 Dr. Howic, dean of the Arches and mafter of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, procured from the Dean and Chapter of London a leafe of Montjoy-house and contiguous buildings in the parish of St. Bene't, Paul's wharf. After two centuries the leafe was furrendered, and renewed by the College of Doctors, till they bought it out by Roval affifiance. Tire fire in 1666 removed them to Exeter-house in the Strand till their former manfion was rebuilt, 1672; and they were incorporated by charter 1768. Anecdotes are annexed to most articles. The lift begins with Thomas Benet, 1512; to whom we add, that he was præceptor of Salisbury from 1541 1541 to his death, and that his monu ment and portrait in his Doctor's robes, on the South fide of the choir, are engraved in the Antiquaries' Mufeum.The anfwer of Valentine Dale to the Duke of Parma, while the Spaniards were employed in fitting-out their grand Arinada, is worthy of notice at a time when the French are preparing for a fimilar invafion. The Prince having faid that it was more for the intereft of the English than of the Spaniards to make their peace, as the latter might easily repair a defeat, whereas the ill fuccefs of the former in battle would be attended with the lofs of their kingdom; Dale replied to this effect: "Our Sovereign has fufficient force to defend the country; and you muft have reason to think that a kingdom is not eafily fubdued by the effect of one battle, fince the Spanish Momarch has not been able to recover his dominions in the Netherlands even after many engagements and a long courfe of hoftility." (p. 39.) P. 15. "John London, fellow of New college, of which he was at length warden, obtained a canonry of Windfor and other preferments, and was one of the vifitors of the monafteries; an unprincipled, profligate man; imprifoned for perjury, and died in the Fleet, 1543." His calumnies of Wyckham were copied by Leland, who refuted them. Lowth's Life of Wyck ham, pp. 317-329 Dr. Cohn employed his great learning to eftablifh the oath ex officio, tending to the difcovery of a man's own offences and thofe of his brethren;" which was abolished by Parliament after the Reftoration. (p. 57.) William Oldys refufed to profecute as pirates thofe feamen who had attacked English fhips by virtue of a commiffion from King James: and he refused to retract his opinion; the reafons for which Sir John Trenchard, fecretary of flate, declared amounted to high treafon. Oldys was deprived of his office, and fome of the prifoners were condemned and put to death. P. 43. Dr. afterward Sir Edward Clere married the only daughter of Ri chard Fulmertton, Efq. of Thetford; and on her death, 1616, fucceeded to bis eftate there. P. 45. William Drury, who died in 1589. Qu. if Sir William Drury, of Hawfied, knight of the fire for Suffolk, Hain in France by Sir John Bo T rough, knt. 1589 A fine marble buft of him in armour in the chancel at Hawfted. The library of Dr. or Sir John Gib Son, judge of the Prerogative Court, who died 1613, was given by his defcendants to the College. (p. 49.) P. 59. John Drury, archdeacon of Oxford, and prebendary of Chichester, died 1614. Qu. of Pullburgh, Suffex, of the Rougham family of Drury, and master in Chancery; married Alice Apelley, of Pulborough? John Ayliffe, LL. D. and fellow of New college, author of "The antient and prefent State of the University of Oxford, London, 17:4," 2 vols. 8vo, and "A Vindication of himself,” on being expelled the Univerfity, and "A new Pandect of Roman Civil Law, 1736,” fol. is not mentioned. P. 111. "John Andrews, fellow of Trinity-hall, mafter 'of the faculties, and chancellor of London. He died October 1747, tellifying in his will his regard for the place of his education, to which he bequeathed the reverfion of 20,0001. for the improvement of the buildings, and the augmentation of the endowments; but the mafter and fellows difapproving the conditions annexed to the hequeft, refufed to accept it." P. 116. Charles Pinfold, 1736, fucceeded his father as official of Sarrey, and was alfo advocate to the Lords of the Admiralty. In 1756 he was entrufted with the government of Barbados. He died Nov. 24, 1788, at the age of 80 years." "John Taylor, fon of a Salopian tonfor; yet his low birth did not preclude him from the advantages of an academical education. He obtained a fellowship at St. John's college, Cambridge, and the office of registrar of that Univerfity, and, after his admiffon into our fociety, he became chancellor of Lincoln. Being perfuaded by his friends to take orders, he quitted Doctors Commons, rofe to eminence as a preacher, and was preferred to a refidentiary-canonry of St. Paul's. He died April 14, 1766. Having been entrusted with the education of Lord Weymouth and Mr. Thynne, he was defired by Lord Carteret, the grandfa ther of his pupils, to inftruct them in the origin and nature of moral obligation and focial duty, and on the general laws of regular communities. Hence arofe his learned work illuftra tive tive of the elements of the civil law. His editions of Lyfias and Demofthenes exemplify his philological know ledge. He was one of the vice-prefidents of the Society of Antiquaries, and was also a refpectable member of the Royal Society." (p. 117.) ·་ "Andrew Coltee Ducarel had the honour of being a fellow of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, without being a great Philofopher or a very able Antiquary; nor do we find that he furpaffed the generality of Advocates in the knowledge of his profeffion. He was fuperintendant of the Archiepifcopal Library at Lambeth, and commif fary of the diocefe of Canterbury. He died May 29, 1785. The late Earl of Orford called him "a poor creature," for not manifefting an extraordinary readiness 10 comply with a requeft which related to antiquarian purfuits*; and Mr. Grofe ftigmatized him as very illiterate," because he wished to procure afliftance in writing an anfwer, in pure Latinity, to a letter received from a Foreign University. It is probable that the far greater part of the elives of our Universities would not have ventured to accufe Dr. Ducarel of extreme illiteracy for the want of a profound kill in the Latin language, though we admit that all, the members of fuch feminaries ought to poffefs that qualification t; and the cenfure is at lealt mal-apropos, confidered as proceeding from one who, though an ingenious and facetious writer, was not an adept in philology or claffical learnIng. Mr. Grofe allo affirms, that the Doctor was conftantly drunk every day a little before his death. His liquor was generally Port, or, as he called it, Kill priest. He certainly was not an aqua polor, and had no difinclination to an exhilarating glafs of generous wine; but this charge of intoxication is not fupported by truth. The author 1 of the Olio pleafantry adds, that our Civilian was "a large black man, with only one eye;" and that the verfe of Virgil on the Cyclops, Monftrum horrendum, informe, ingens, the cui lumen ademptum, Mr. G. with Spenfer, no doubt, was a "bold, bad wit, who fpared neither facréd nor profane in his low pleafantry." EDIT. 66 did not very ill defcribe him." (p. 119) P. 119. Sir George Hay; his mind not being tieadily poifed, or happily harmonized, he died fuddenly.-Romano magis quam Chriftiano more." 1778.. P. 124. "Intereft rather than fuperior merit procured for this civilian, in 1764, the rank and emoluments of his Majefty's advocate; and, on the death Sir George Hay, he was permitted to occupy the ftation of judge of the Admiralty, When he was rendered incapable, by the decline of his faculties, of a correct and fatisfactory performance of the duties of that office, he refigned it for a penfion He died at his villa near Sudbury (a town which he reprefented in feveral parliaments) 211t March, 1803. The remarkable fpeech of Sir James Marriott, at the time of the American war, and his examination at the bar of the Houfe of Commons, will long be remembered. His poems, though not unpleafing, are almoft forgotten; his admonitory reports, and other profeffional publications, are the objects of occafional reference. He was lefs deficient in talents than in foundaefs of judgment. He was gay and volatile in his youth; and, when be filled the judicial chair, the attendants of the court were fometimes induced to imagine that they were listening to the defultory remarks and jocular effufions of the prefident of a festive meeting." P. 127. William Scott, 1779, was born at Newcastle, and educated at the oldeft college in Oxford, abfurdly called Univerfity college. To the character of an able tutor he added the reputation of a pleafing.communicator of historical knowledge. The lectures which he gave as Camdenian profeflor drew a confiderable concourfe of ftudents, and were admired both by the young and the old, but no perfuafions have hitherto induced him to commit them to the prefs. When he first entered the precincts of the Univerfity he had not formed the intention of cultivating the civil law; but hearing that the advocates in Doctors Commons were not very numerous, and that a man of lalents might easily obtain a great fhare of of the emoluments attendant upon their practice, he readily took the hint, and the rapid flow of bufinefs with which he was gratified demonftrated the juftnefs of the predictive remark. While he advanced in fame and fortune, his brother was equally fuccefsful in the common law; and Northumberland gloried in having produced fuch diftinguished characters. In 1788 he followed Sir William Wynne in the of fice of advocate-general, and in other employments. He was alfo knighted; and in 1790 fucceeded Bp. Halifax as mafter of the faculties; and was chofe member for Downton. He now reprefents in parliament the University at which he was bred. In 1799 he was appointed judge of the Admiralty; but did not, as might have been expected, refign the chancellorship of London. He fills the feat of judicature with dig nity, and his fentences are thole of an able judge. Speaking of him as an orator, we may fay, Illi purus preffus et in quantum fatis eft profluens fermo non deest." P. 130. French Laurence. At the feminary at Winchelier, and at Corpus Chrifti college, he improved those abilities which he had received from Nature. Having recommended himself to Mr. Burke, he was appointed as affifiant to the managers of the trial of Warren Haltings; and, by the intereft of the Duke of Portland, he obtained, on the death of Dr. Wenman, the profefforflip of civil law. The patronage of Earl Fitzwilliam invefted him with a more public character, and gratified his ambition with a feat in parliament. His fluency of spirits quickly introduced him to confiderable employment in the courts of the civilians, and his progreffive experience eftablished him as an eminent pleader. But it may be affirmed that the lucidus ordo is not always apparent in his fpeeches; that his prolixity weakens their impreffion and effect; and that he fometimes nea ly overturns the chief points of a cafe in an ocean of detail and remark. Of his politicks we fhall not fpeak; the parliamentary reports not only dif play his eloquence, but manifelt the warmth of his Antijacobin zeal; and h literary talents are difcoverable in the Rolliad." P. 132. "Charles Coote. Either with a friendly view of drawing him from obfcurity, or, which is more probable, from a defire of avoiding the ca lumnious attacks of difappointed indi viduals, Dr. Harris, as commißary of Surrey, required him to decide a caufe of fome delicacy and import. He com plied with the folicitation, and defied the clamours of thofe who were dif pleafed at the decifion. For this expofure of himfelf to malignant obloquy, and for his fervice on other occafions, he had no other recompence than epif tolary thanks. A pecuniary compenfation was repeatedly offered to him by the executors of the opulent Judge, but was peremptorily refufed by the Surrogate, who difdained to accept any part of the refiduary property without the exprefs confent of the teftator." He is author of an English Grammar; ą Hiftory of England to 1802; a Hiftory of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland; and other works. While the latter hiftory languifhed, two-thirds of the impreffion were burnt. His Life of Cæfar is compiled from all the ori ginal documents he could procure, and is not ill adapted to the ufe of fchools, P. 189. John Stoddart, of Chrift Church, has been called away from the precincts of the College by his appointment as King's advocate for Malta *. He is author of a picturefque work, intituled "Remarks on local Scenery and Manners in Scotland." 112. A Treatife on Cheltenham Waters, and Bilious Difenfes. Containing, 1. The Chem!cal and Medical Properties of the Saline Springs of Cheltenham, and its Neighbourbood; 2. Arrangement, and Hiftory of Bilious Difeafes occurring in this Country; 3. The Ufes of the Saline Waters in curing Difeafes 4. Dire&ions for the most appropriate Mode of drinking the Waters; 5. Geological Experiments for the Discovery of new Saling Springs at Cheltenham; 6 and Uses of the Steel Well in Mr. Bart's Field To which are prefixed, Obfervations on Fluidity, Mineral Waters, and Watering Places. By Thomas Jamelon, M. D. Member of the Colleges of Phyficians of London and Edinburgh; lately Lecturer on the Practice of Phyfick at the old Fiufbury Difpenfary, London; noru refident Phyfician at Cheltenham. Nature |