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Mr. URBAN,

Plymouth, July 21. AS I prefume that your love of

truth is fuch as to afford it on all occafions a ready reception, I make no apology for troubling you with this letter.

The affertion noticed in p. 496, "that in workhouses, and houfes of correction, Religion is banished, and the truths of the Gofpel never convey ed, is a ferious reflection on our parochial eftablishments, and calls for the animadverfion of all thofe who have it in their power to confute it by producing inflances 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 convinced, from actual obfervation,

I am

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 Correfpondent, p. 591, inquires

about Capt. John Perry, who publifhed in 1716, in 8vo, "The State of Ruthia under the prefent Czar;" and, in 1721,"An Account of the top 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

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Charles Perry, M. D. who publihed in 1748, in a pompons-folia, by fabfcription," A View the Levant,' who, as I have heard, was brother to William Perry, Efq. of Turville Park, Bucks, husband of Mifs Elizabeth Sydney, daughter and at length fole heirefs of the Hon. Col. Thomas Sydney, brother to the three laft Earls of Leicester 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 Maglalene College, Oxford, Curate of Hampftead, and Rector of Haversham, Bucks, 1705" Arms, 3 boars. was B. D. Dec. 18, 1665.

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INDEX INDICATORIUS. KING'S STANLEY CHURCH and ST. WINIFREDE'S CHAPEL in our next. We are forry that Mr. DUNCAN'S ODE came too late for the préfent month.“

Dr. T. will excuse our omitting his article notices even of our own books intended of intelligence. It is not our habit to infert bortly to be published; except on the blue cover, where they are regularly paid for as advertisements at the Stamp office.

"LABOR ABSQUE LABORE" is referred to any intelligent Book feller.,

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110. SCOTIA DEPICTA; or, The Antigai-
ties, Cafiles, Public Buildings, Noblemen and
Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, and Pic
Lurefque Scenery, of Scotland; illuftrated
with a Series of finifhed Etchings, by James
Fitler, A. R. A. and Engraver to bis Mas
jefly, from accurate Drawings made on the
Spat. By John Clande Nates. Wib
Defcription, Antiquarian, Hiftorical, and
Picturefque. In 48 Plates, large Quarto.
MR.

R. NATTES accompanied Dr.
Stoddart, and inade the drawings
which appear in his Remarks on local
Scenery and Munners in Scotland.
The fubjects of the prefent work are,
I. Balgonie Cafile.

II. Fall on the River Tilt.
III. Ruins of Pitfligo.
IV. Wallace Nook, Aberdeen.
V. Edinburgh.
VI. Gordon Cafile.
VII. Taymouth.
VIII. Brechin Cafile.
IX. The Needle's Eye.
X. Tarnaway Cafile.
XI. Gannachie Bridge.
XII. Glafgow Infirmary.

XLV. Dryburgh Abbey.
XLVI. Huntley Castle.

XLVI. Dunkeld.

XLVIII. Regifter Office, Edinburgh. Frontispiece-Fingal's Cave, Staffa., Tail-piece-David Hume's Monument -and Panegyrick.

111. Sketches of the Lives and Characters of eminent English Civilians; with an biftorical Introduction relative to the College 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 Clofe 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

XIII. Dumfermline Abbey and publishing a catalogue of the whole

XVI. Water-fall at Duncira.
XVII. Gilmerton Quarry.
XVIII. The Port of Inverary.
XIX. Cullean Cafile.

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 Castle.
XXVIII. Melrofe Abbey.
XXIX. Cavern in Glen Croe.
XXX. New Galloway.
XXXI. Edinburgh Castle.
XXXII. St. Andrew's.
XXXIII. St. Bernard's Well, Lau-
rencekirk.

XXXIV. CromartyHoufeandBridge.
XXXV. Barfkinuing.
XXXVI. Elcho Calile...
XXXVII. Laurifton Cafle..
XXXVIII. Leflie Houte.
XXXIX. The Trofucks.

XL. Donne Cafile.
XII. Plufcardine Abbey.
XLII. Glencoe.

XIII. Dunblane Cathedral.
XLIV. Rowalan Cafile.
GENT. MAG. July, 1804.

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 forni 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-houfe 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

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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 Armada, 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 Spa niards to make their peace, as the latter might eafily 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 reafon to think that a kingdom is not eafily fubdued by the effect of one battle, fince the Spanish Monarch 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

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Dr. Cohn employed his great learning to eftablifh the oath ev 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 refuted 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 Ris 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 Drary, of Hawfied, knight of the fhire for Suffolk, Hain in France by Sir John Bo

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rough, knt. 1589? A fine marble buft of him in armour in the chancel at Hawfted.

The library of Dr. or Sir John Gib on, 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, Suflex, of the Rougham family of Drury, and mafter 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 revertion of 20,0001. for the improvement of the buildings, and the augmentation of the endowments; but the master and fellows difapproving the conditions annexed to the bequeft, refuted to accept it."

P. 116. Charles Pinfold, 1736, fucceeded his father as official of Surrey, 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, Cam bridge, and the office of registrar of that Univerfity, and, after his admiffion 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

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"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 commiffary 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 readinels to comply with a requel which related to antiquarian purfuits*; and Mr. Grofe ftigmatized him as illiterate," because he wished to very 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 leaft mat 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 prieft. 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

Perhaps a fuitable fee did not accompany the request. EDIT.

The mafter and fellows of one of the first colleges in Cambridge did not return an anfwer in the fame language to a Latin Jetter prefenting a Roman infeription; which letter, though written without affiftance, was not difapproved by thofe good judges to whom it was fhewn after it had been fent.

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Mr. G. with Spenfer, no doub:, was a "bold, bad wit, who fpared neither facréd nor profane in his low pleafantry."

EPIT.

of the Olio pleasantry 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, cui lumen ademptum,

did not very ill defcribe him." (p. 119.) P. P. 119. "Sir George Hay; his mind not being teadily poifed, or happily harmonized, he died fuddenly.-Romano magis quam Chriftiane more. 1778.

P. 124. “Interest rather than fuperior merit procured for this civilian, in 1704, the rank and emoluments of his Majefty's advocate; and, on the death Sir George Hay, he was permitted to occupy the station 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 speech of Sir James Marriott, at the time of the American war, and his examination at the bar of the Houfe of Commoans, 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 foundnefs of judgment. He was gay and volatile in his youth; and, when he 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 feftive meeting."

P. 127.

William Scott, 1779, was born at Newcafile, and educated at the oldeft college in Oxford, abfurdly called University 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 therto induced him to commit them to the old, but no perfuafions have hithe prefs. When he firft 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 falenis might easily obtain a great fhare

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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 juft nels 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 diftin guifhed 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 repre fents 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 thofe 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 Winchester, and at Corpus Chrifti college, he improved thase abilities which he had received from Nature. Having recommended himself to Mr. Burke, he was appointed as af fiftant to the managers of the trial of Warren Hattings; and, by the intereft of the Duke of Portland, he obtained, on the death of Dr. Wenman, the profetforflip 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 fpirits quickly introdu ced him to confiderable employment in the courts of the civilians, and his progreflive experience established 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 Goote. 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 commißiary 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 expo fure of himfelf to malignant obloquy, and for his fervice on other occafions, he had no other recompence than epiftolary 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; Hiftory of England to 1809; 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 Treatise on Cheltenham Waters, ard Bilious Difenfes. Containing, 1. The Chemical and Medical Properties of the Saline Springs of Cheltenham, and its Neighbourbood; 2. Arrangement, and History 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 be Difcovery of new Saline Springs at Cheltenham,

and Ufes of the Steel Will in Nature

Barret'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.

THE beft analysis of this work will be the author's Preface:

of confequence among mankind that its "Cheltenham has arrived to that degree

name has become as familiar all over the East and West Indies as it is in London.

Some people fay he is author of the article under review. EDIT.

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