The whole building and area are freed from all parochial taxes; but no child born there, or person resident there, acquires any settlement in that parish.

An account of expenditure is to be annually presented to Parliament; and after deducting the profits of the labour, the surplus is to be provided for in the next supplies.

as the works were not entirely completed, it is presumed, that a further sum will be required in the present year, besides an annual Repair.

The additional sum of 40,0007. has been voted this year; the whole expense of completing the work will probably amount to 350,000l. of which 150,0007. has been already expended; and it will then be capable of containing 400 males and 400 female convicts.--- (See Parliamentary Debates of 12th June.) A. H.

Mr. URBAN, Somers-Town, May 14. YOUR Correspondent R. C. in a

If it appear to the Committee or Visitor, that the continuance of any person not being an officer or servant, or a convict, in the Penitentiary is inexpedient or objectionable, the Committee may order him to quit it; and if he so continue for six hours after notice, any Justice of Peace for Middlesex may order any person to remove him.

The regulations of the Penitentiary are to be observed from this Act, and those of any other Acts relative to other gaols are not applicable. The penalties here instituted, are cognizable by two or more Justices of the county, on proof by oath or confession; one moiety to the use of the Penitentiary, and the other to the informer, to be levied by distress; and in case of insufficiency, imprisonment for not more than six months, nor less than one, at their discretion: and they are indemnified in the usual manner; may tender amends; plead the general issue, and may recover treble costs on nonsuit or verdict; and not liable to costs unless the Judge shall certify his approbation of any verdict for the plaintiff, and six months are limited for bringing any such action.-See 56 G. III. c. 63.

In the schedule of the Act for granting Supplies, in the last Session, the sum allowed for building and furnishing was 5000!. and for completing the embankment 25837. and

a proof, in addition to the many previ ously existing, of the entire harmlessness of the Barberry bush, in respect to its supposed power of mildewing wheat, in proximity with it. I hope this gentleman will excuse my expressing a wish that he had authenticated the above communication with his real name, since he would have been thereby, to a greater degree, instrumental in rooting out a nonsensical and groundless prejudice, which has served to root up many a harmless Barberry bush. I refer to the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1815, for some observations on this subject, resulting from many years' experience.

I must farther crave the indulgence of another of your Correspondents, for a remark or two on his paperI refer to the Compendium of the County History of Essex. Surely it is a strange omission, or literally a mistake, that in a recapitulation of the various products of that fruitful county, no mention should be made of Wheat; for which it has long, or immemorially, stood pre-eminent over every other district in Britain; and whilst every other grain is noted. In the Biography, I presume, all who are there named were not natives of the County of Essex, certainly few or none of those in the Miscel laneous remarks; and surely it is an omission of some consequence that we do not there find the respectable name of Morant the Antiquary, rector of St. Mary's, Colchester. Perhaps the name of Dr. Colin Hossac, the translator of Van Swieten's Commentaries, is not undeserving of a place in the list. He practised with reputation at Colchester, where I knew him personally, about the year

1761, when I was very young; and I perfectly recollect the following anec. dote of him, which I publish as a caution, not unworthy the attention of either medical men, or their patients. A friend of mine, a man then about 50 years of age, of very intemperate habits and reduced constitution, was usually attended by Dr. Daniel. In the absence of that gentleman, Dr. Hossac officiated for him, and was, on a sudden occasion called to visit my friend. The Doctor, a stranger to the constitution of his patient, and misled by his broad chest and robust exterior, which in reality veiled a naturally delicate system, prescribed a medicine which kept him, during several successive days, in close confinement. He never recovered the shock his constitution received from the potent effects of this prescription; and attributed to it the acceleration of his death, which oc curred several years thereafter, repeating his conviction of the fact to those about him in his last two or three days. What passed between Dr. H. and his patient, on the second visit, and after the operation of the medicine, must not be forgotten. "D-n you, you have killed me!" The Docfor turned his back; and a salutation so totally deficient in modern politeness, did not encourage him to make a third visit; a speech indeed, which for its brevity, simplicity, and energy, might well have been made by one of Homer's heroes on a similar occasion. JOHN LAURENCE.

general fountain-exhibition was produced!

In its room has been reared up a little, paultry, insignificant, half-per ceived lamp-iron for a gas-light." If this delusive luminary has become so necessary towards men's comfort and convenience, were there not the four angles of the surrounding bason to display the ignis-fatuus? No, we hate old, we admire new objects. Thus modern self-approving taste triumphs over the long universal solid and commended works of older times, unhappily now deprived of their once admirers and protectors.

Since my description of Dagobert picture, p. 423, Mr. William Raphael Eginton has written from Birmingham, to say that the picture now belongs to the Lord Viscount Dudley and Ward. Mr. E. also acquaints me that he "has had it there for a long time," and has stained it in glass in a window in Lord Dudley's house, Park-lane.

By way of counterpoise to the above, let me give this intelligence. I this day (Anniversary of the glo rious Battle of Waterloo) beheld at a sale of rare old and rich furniture in Bond-street, a most extraordinary shew of richly carved ebony and oak cabinets of the time of Elizabeth.Also, in returning down St. James's street, I fell in with eight Morris dancers with bells and time evolution staves, attended by the proper musick, a tabor and pipe. The figures of their dance were pleasingly varied, and well performed. This antient pastime may be held a rare sight, as it is, with most others, now nearly forgot ten, except with Antiquaries. (See Mr. Douce's most curious and learned dissertation on Old Customs, in his "lilustrations of Shakspeare.") Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

J. CARTER.

May 10.

right that the Colchester rences descended from the stock of the President at an earlier pe riod than that of his great grandfather. However that may have been, I have always understood from family tradition, that the Essex and Norfolk Laurences were branches from the same original stock, namely, that of the President. Henry Laurence of St. Ives was chosen to represent Col. chester in 1656, I have no doubt by

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the strength of family interest in that Borough. He was, as far as my slender information leads, nearly related Eared to Sir Thomas Laurence, of Bucks; that Sir Thomas equally so, to the Colchester family of the same period. Richard Laurence, I have heard, was of the Essex family, probably from his residence being in that county; but I have also heard him represented as a sou or nephew of Sir Thomas of Bucks. Is his Work on Ireland yet extant? I have never yet been able to obtain a sight of it. Were the Laurences of Chelsea of the President's family?

I have now no documents of the family remaining; the few I once had, and which were of the smallest consequence beyond certain names and dates, I mislaid and lost many years since. The chief of the little I ever did know on the subject was derived from tradition; and the conversation, when very young, of an aged uncle, who died but three months before he had completed his hundredth year, and who remembered the reign of Charles II. and the transactions of the Revolution, perfectly well. It often happens that the younger son of a family inherits neither estate nor property; and should he fail of success in the world, his descendants are invariably separated from the upper and fortunate branches; and as no motive of interest remains to the former, it is seldom that any records are preserved; and in the course of a generation or two, all memory of former affinity in the families is forgotten and lost.

I beg leave to acknowledge the politeness of St. Ives, in his offer of the extracts from wills which he particularises; and, from motives of curiosity, should be gratified by the perusal of them, if he will be pleased to state where they may be seen. A TWIG FROM THE COLCHESTER BRANCH.

to the part affected, hold it up, look at it; and, on perceiving the blood, utter such plaintive moans, as must excite the strongest feelings of regret and compassion in the perpetrator of such wanton barbarity.

A person who had shot a very large Monkey caused it to be laid before a young pet of the same species, which he kept in his house. This little caricature of man, as if on a coroner's inquest, surveyed the body very minutely, and concluded his examination by holding up one of the paws; the immediate fall of which (the vital spark being quite extinct) was succeeded, on the part of little pug, by the most lamentable howl that can be imagined, and which he repeated several times. A spectator might have been led to suppose that in the lineaments of the deceased be recognized the features of his grandfather.

When the Government of Madras first took possession of the Tanjore country, an artillery officer, with some light field-pieces, was stationed in the Pagoda of Trivalore. This gentleman amused himself in his solitude with endeavouring to catch a Monkey, by means of a cocoa-nut shell, containing a small quantity of rice and he succeeded-for pug, having inserted his paw, and filled it with rice, could not withdraw it again. It might be supposed that a person of his sagacity would have known that, in order to obtain his release, he had only to relinquish his plunder: here, however, his instinct failed him, and he was afterwards seen walking about, in an erect posture, with his fore paws tied behind his back; but the officer being of a playful, not a cruel disposition, soon restored him to liberty.

Place a looking-glass before a monkey, and after surveying his beauties for a very short time, he will look, not in the glass, but behind it.

Having been myself an eye-witness of all that I have asserted above, you may depend on its authenticity.

Mr. URBAN,

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Ensign of Cadwallader, King of Wales, frequently appears as one of the sup porters of the Royal Arms, and is erroneously

erroneously called a Griffin, in most descriptions. The name of one of the Pursuivants in the College of Arms, London, is Rouge Dragon, originally created by Henry VII. from his attachment to this royal badge and supporters.

Heylin's Help to History, Yorke's Union of Honour, Brookes's Catalogue, &c. blazon the arms of Anna Boullen, as Marchioness of Pembroke, Ar. a chev. between 3 buils' heads couped Sa. These writers should have added, that on her elevation to the title, this coat was disused; and, instead thereof, another was granted, viz. the royal armorial bearings by way of augmentation, with certain differences, and borce with quarterings; these are the arms of the unfortunate queen, impaled and carved with those of her royal husband, in the abovesaid Chape! *.

Sir William Draper, of King's College, deceased, in a superior modern work is stated to be a K. G. instead

of the Company, to view the estate. The situation of the poor tenantry was found to be most deplorable both as to body and mind, nearly destitute of food and cloathing, and without any means of instruction. In fact, animals devoted to agricultural purposes were better taken care of: their masters had an interest in their welfare; but the Irish tenant had no one to care for him; if he would but furnish the rent required, it was imma terial what condition himself, his wife, and his helpless children were left in; neither his distress nor his ignorance excited his superiors to a thought of alleviating the one, or banishing the other.

To the honour of the Company, they immediately (assisted by the gentleman who collected the rents for the late holder of the lease) set about relieving the wants of their poor tenants, by distributing money and necessaries amongst them, and by appointing Schools for the instruction of the ignorant, and Dispensaries for the relief of those who laboured under disease. The joy of those poor creatures was beyond description, when they found that some one took an interest in their welfare. I fear this description will ap ply generally to the state of the poor Irish tenantry. I wish I could say the same as to the landlords; for it does appear they are very regardless of the condition of their tenants. Se veral of the City Companies have large estates in the same County: I doubt not they will follow the exampie of the Drapers when opportu. nity offers.

A FRIEND TO HIBERNIA.

In answer to the inquiry of your Correspondent Euonymus, p. 136, I beg leave to state, that "The Geneva Catechism" is a faithful translation from the French. The original bears the following title: "Catéchisme ou Instruction, sur la Religion Chrétienne. corrigée. A Genève, chez J. J. PasNouvelle Edition, exactement revue et choud, Imprimeur-Libraire. Et a Paris, Chez la même, rue Magazine, No. 22. 1814." True it is, that in this "Catechism by the Genevan Pastors, the successors of Calvin," there is "not a word of Calvinism," and "scarcely sentence in it which a Unitarian would scruple to teach his children."

Editor of "Geneva Catechism."