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king French bread, and French rolls; which, as that enquirer juftly obferves, is far fuperior in quality of tatie, light nefs, whiteness, &c. to any other. I was in hopes of feeing an answer in your Magazine for January; but, as I have not, I wish you would inform your enquirer I have heard that Parmentier, Parfait Boulanger, gives the beft fcientific account of the procefs of bread-making with leaven. The work is 8vo. If your inquirer could get that book, and give a tranflated receipt for making this most excellent bread, your inferting it in your next would be valuable prefent to the publick. But perhaps Mr. Parmentier does not give the real receipt for making fuch fine French rolls as are made by a very few excellent Bakers in Loudon, and which are not made by any baker in the polite city of Bath. I think a good maker of French rolls would meet with great encouragement there. Chambers's Dictionary fays, French bread is made with fine flour half a bufhel, eggs ten, butter a pound and a half, and milk; but neither eggs nor butter are a part of the French bread and French rolls fold in London.

As the duty is taken off of ftarch made from potatoes, I thould be obliged to any of your correfpondents who would inform the publick the left method of making fiarch from potatoes, as grating them in a tub of water and faving only the finall quantity of white powder which falls to the bot tom, I think, muft be a great wafte. A perfon at Marthfield, near Bath, a few weeks ago bought 3000 facks of potatoes at 5s. per fack, fuppofed for making ftarch; fo whatever quanrity of potatoes are planted this feafon, there is a certainty of their bringing a good price. For it will pay very well for raifing then if fold at only 3s. per fack; and which they have been fold at last year, in fome few places in the Weft of England, which was a great relief to the poor.

A common knife-board covered with thick, buff leather, on which is put emery one part, Crocus Martis three parts, in very fine powder, mixed into a thick pafie with a little lard or fweet oil, fpread on the leather the thickness of a thilling, gives a far fuperior polith and edge to knives; and it does not wear the knife a quarter fo much as the common method of ufing brickGENT. MAG. March, 1802.

duft on a board. These buff-leather boards with emery and Crocus Martis are foid at 10s. 6d. each in London, under a prefence that fomething more than emery and Crocus Martis is ufed. This is alfo the great fecret for taking out notches from pen-knives, giving razors a fuperior edge, &c.

I live in a dairy country; and, having plenty of fkimmed milk to fpare, I mixed yellow oker and Dutch pink with it, and yellow-wafhed a room, but after a few months I find it peels off, and will not anfwer the purpose of glue-fize.

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Your correfpondent's remark, p. 38. relative to the new Cyclopædia, is worthy of attention; and in Chambers's Dictionary,printed in 1786, you may fee what fhameful ignorance has been impofed on the publick, that ginger-bread is made of white bread with almonds, liquorice, anifeed, rofe-water, and fu gar; when every gingerbread-maker knows it is. not made of any one of the above ingredients, not even rofe-water excepted. This abfurdity has been co pied from an old book called Dictiona➡ rium Rufticum. I have met with fa many blunders in Chambers's Dice tionary that I nrift (as a friend to Dr. R. who I hope will fee this) tell the Dr. that unless he eniploys real men of lufis nefs, it is impoffible his new book can be fit to appear before the publick. beg leave to hint that the Dr. fhould engage and confult a good intelligent baker, brewer, dyer, cook; maker, diftiller, painter, gilder, ena meler, colour-grinder, varnish-maker, fealing-wax-maker, hat-inaker, candle-maker, foap-maker, ftarch-maker, evder-maker, cheese and butter maker, cloth-maker, viuegar-maker, and many others; for without thefe the Doctor will find himself, very much liable to error, notwithftanding he may have all the best books that have been written on the various fubjects, for thefe per fons have many fecrets which have ne ver been before the publick.: Wirat furprizes me the most is, that even the modern Encyclopædias fhould: have taken the recipes from old books, and many articles entirely omitted. Under the article. Arquebufade, "it is faid the compofition is not generally known;" when, had he looked, into the book intituled, The Elabotory laid open, publithed many years before Dr. Rees's Dictionary, the receipt might

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have been found, Although Cham-
bers's Dictionary does not give the re-
ceipt for making it, it fays, it is re-
commended as ufeful in cafes of gun-
fhot wounds. In the Domeftic Ency-
clopædia there is fo different a compo-
fition given under the fame name, that,
should my countrymen apply that to
gun-fhot wounds in miftake, it might
have a worfe effect than the bullet. I
with my fcribbling may induce ma-
ny to fend to the publick, through your
Magazine, receipts they may have by
them, that have been proved, and are
of real ufe; fhould this be the cafe,
you fhall often hear from
Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

D.
March 1.

Mr. URBAN,

BEING

Feb. 22.

EING a fincere friend to the Eftablifhed Church, I am not a little furprifed at Mr. Ofborn's address to the bishops, vol. LXXI. p. 890. The greatest enemy to our Church could hardly have ufed her more barbarously than this unnatural fon. One cannot help thinking that, like the late Gilb. Wakefield, he has been lettingoff a fly cracker against her under the mafk of friendship. Can it be thought any proof of his regard to her, thus to expofe her to open reproach and fectarian ridicule? or, was there nothing more fubftantial to urge againft his opponents than untruthe and invective? Surely, Mr. Urban, we are not come to this pafs! No, fir, thank God we can defend our excellent

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the fluctuation of tafte and the increase of wealth in this kingdom, than the price given on Saturday laft at Mr. Chriftie's, for Hogarth's celebrated feries of pictures, intituled, The Rake's Progress, by Mr. Soane the architect, 580 guineas. The father of the late poffellor paid 22 guineas a-piece, or 1841. 16s. for the fet; and they had the good fortune to be preferved from the fire which deftroyed his houfe at 'Fonthill, 1755, and with it the counter fet of The Harlot's Progrefs. They were on the whole inferior to the Marriage à la Mode, purchafed a few years ago by Mr. Angerfiein for, I believe, 13841, but by no means fo uruch inferior as to juliify fuch a comparative want of zeal in the bidding. Cognofcenti. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

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OU have given us lifts of inus with their landlords, churches with their incumbents, manfion-houses with their lords. Why not indulge us with a lift of CORN-MILLS and their occupiers within 20 miles of the capital? There can be no more objection to knowing where the beft corn is ground, and the best flour fold, than to knowing who fells the beft meat or cloth and it would furely be a cremiller to be held up with a Her; a character fo oppofite ich popular opinion from ges has affixed to this clafs t is time we thould feel the peace we have been fighting a plenty we are fill trug anting for.

A FRIEND TO THE POOR.

have fometimes frolled into different conventicles, and never had occafion to ftand, except I went in late, and the feats were full. Often have I wished to fee our parish churches laid out in the fame way as Whitefield's tabernacles. Certainly they put us to fhame; and yet this is the handle he has unluckily taken hold of, and unwifely afferts they wish to keep us out of their places. I fhould eafier have believed him had he faid they endeavoured to increase the number of their adherents. Reflect, Mr. Urban, on the mifchievous effects fuch affertions may produce. Suppofe your hearers (willing to judge for themfelves) fhould go to fome of thefe fectarian places, obferve their ample accommodation, fee them crowded with hearers, and perhaps find a better preacher than they had been taught to expect; what, I fay, may we expect the refult to be? Why, to be fure, an acceflion to their party, and a diminution of ours. Then as to Mr. Ofborn telling a tale about what one of their popular preachers fhould fay, I am afraid he will only induce a counter part not much to our advantage-indeed, we had better be quiet. I have lately feen an instance on the oppofite part, which convinces me of the folly of opening our mouths, against them. Our afternoon lecturer has been preaching very pointedly againft a Methodist, whofe obnoxious chapel is within one minute's walk of the church. This excited the curiofity of many in the parish to go and hear him, and the upshot of all is that, while his chapel is crowded, the church grows thinner and thinner. The Me

thodist parfon merrily fays, that the parifh parfons are his very good friends, who beat up for recruits for him, and talks of fending them a letter of thanks. This may ferve to fhew the imprudence of meddling in fuch matters; therefore, if we with well to the Church, let us talk no more about muzzles, but take Gamaliel's advice, to refrain from these men, and let them alone, &c. Let our bishops look well to the clergy; let the inferior clergy look diligently to their flocks, as they who muft give account to God; and let our parish churches furpafs the conventicles in convenience and accommodation, and then we shall not have to deplore a finking cause, nor be under the fad neceffity of reforting to fuch advocates as Mr. Ofborn, or fuch measures as the ufe of ecclesiastical muzzles.

A TRUE CHURCHMAN.

Mr. URBAN, Oxford, Feb. 24. WHEN I faid in my former letter, p. 132, that I believed the hiftory of the publications of the Oxford Graduates to be correct, 1 had not feen a catalogue earlier than 1727. But by the favour of a friend, who is an eminent collector of Antiquities, particularly relating to this Univerfity, having been fhewn many lifts (fuppofed to be very fearce copies) prior to that period, I beg leave to correct myfelf as well as Emeritus Academicus. The first catalogue was published A. D. 1689, by Richard Peers, M. A. of Chrift-church, a licentiate in Med. and fup. bed. of Med. who was alfo faid to be the perfon employed by Dr. Fell to tranflate A. Wood's Hiftory and Antiquities of the Univerfity of Oxford into Latin. There is prefixed to the first catalogue a dedication to Dr. Gilbert Ironfide, warden of Wadham college, and, at the time of the publication of the catalogue, vice-chancellor of the univerfity. The first catalogue contained the names of proceeders from Oct. 10, 1659, to July 14, 1688. The fecond from July 14, 1688, to July 14, 1695. The third from July 16, 1695, to March 23, 1699. The fourth from March 23, 1699, to March 29, 1705. The fifth from March 29, 1705, to July 24, 1713. A general catalogue was then made, including all from 1659 to October 10, 1726, &c.

A. Wood fays, in his Athen. Oxon. vol. II. (edit. 1721) p. 893, that Mr. Gerrard Langbaine, fup. bed. of Law,

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wrote and publifhed an appendix to a catalogue of all graduates in divinity, law, and phyfick, publifhed by Richard Peers, fup. hed. of arts and phyfick, from July 14, 1688, where Peers left off, to Aug. 16, 1690: but the gentleman who communicated the above account fays he could never get a fight of it.

On further enquiry concerning FitzGibbon, I learn that there were two brothers at Chrift-church; the eldeft, lon, created M. A. in 1766; and the youngest, John, who regularly proceeded M. A. in Lent term 1770, hav ing been incorporated B. A. from Dublin the fame term, and was the late Earl of Clare, Chancellor of Ireland. Yours, &c. EDITOR,

P.S. The above not arriving time enough to be inferted in your laft, I beg you will add the following, in confequence of the fecond letter of Emeritus Academicus, p. 132. The Graduates referred to in the Bodleian

Library is intituled " A Regifler of the Doctors of Phyfick in our two Univerfities of Cambridge and Oxford; printed in the year 1695." It contains their names and colleges from 1659 to 1694, both inclufive; firft in a chronological, and next in an alphabetical order; in all 31 pages. It is in a collection of feveral medical tracts, and was most likely printed in London, and, as it feems by an addrefs to the reader prefixed, in confequence of fome difputes in the College of Phyficians. Peshall (John), v. Pearfall, was tranfpofed to Pechell, the name affumed by the fons of the felf-created baronet; but afterwards omitted, that the page might not be encumbered with references to a family that fo often have changed their name.

Oxford, March 13, 1802.

Mr. URBAN, Wakefield, Feb. 18. IN p. 33, is an account of the bad

treatment which is frequently received by parifh apprentices. But, is it not the duty of magiftrates to look into the fate of treatment which they receive? A frequent complaint with fome mafters is, that they are put out to them when in a bad state of health; but might not that be remedied? 1 think the following plan, if inferted in your excellent Magazine, might, perhaps, meet the attention of fome worthy magiftrates, and let it be carried into full effect. Let the magiftrates at their ge neral quarter feffions appoint a furgeon

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have been found, Although Chambers's Dictionary does not give the receipt for making it, it fays, it is recommended as ufeful in cafes of gunfhot wounds. In the Domestic Encyclopædia there is fo different a compofition given under the fame name, that, should my countrymen apply that to gun-fhot wounds in miflake, it might have a worfe effect than the bullet. I with my fcribbling may induce many to fend to the publick, through your Magazine, receipts they may have by them, that have been proved, and are of real ufe; fhould this be the cafe, you fhall often hear from

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

D.

March 1. The nection the HERE needs no fironger proof of

increase of wealth in this kingdom, than the price given on Saturday laft at Mr. Chriftie's, for Hogarth's celebrated feries of pictures, intituled, The Rake's Progress, by Mr. Soane the architect, 580 guineas. The father of the late pofleflor paid 22 guineas a-piece, or 1841. 16s. for the fet; and they had the good fortune to be preferved from the fire which deftroyed his houfe at 'Fomhill, 1755, and with it the counter fet of The Harlot's Progrefs. They were on the whole inferior to the Marriage à la Mode, purchased a few years ago by Mr. Angerficin for, I believe, 13841; but by no means fo much inferior as to juliify fuch a comparative want of zeal in the bidding. Cognofcenti. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

0.

March 4.

OU have given us lifts of inus

Mr. URBAN,

Feb. 22.

BEING a fincere friend to the Eftablifhed Church, I am not a little furprifed at Mr. Ofborn's address to the bifhops, vol. LXXI. p. 890. The greatest enemy to our Church could hardly have ufed her more barbaroufly than this unnatural fon. One cannot help thinking that, like the late Gilb. Wakefield, he has been lettingoff a fly cracker against her under the mask of friendship. Can it be thought any proof of his regard to her, thus to expofe her to open reproach and fectarian ridicale? or, was there nothing more fubftantial to urge against his opponents than untruthe and invective? Surely, Mr. Urban, we are not come to this pafs! No, fir, thank God we can defend our have fometimes trolled into differens church in a more excellent way. I

conventicles, and never had occafion to ftand, except I went in late, and the feats were full. Often have I wished to fee our parish churches laid out in the fame way as Whitefield's tabernacles. Certainly they put us to fhame; and yet this is the handle he has unluckily taken hold of, and unwifely afferts they wish to keep us out of their places. I should easier have believed him had he faid they endeavoured to increase the number of their adherents. Reflect, Mr. Urban, on the mifchievous effects fuch affertions may produce. Suppofe your hearers (willing to judge for themfelves) fhould go to fome of thefe fectarian places, obferve their ample accommodation, fee them crowded with hearers, and perhaps find a better preacher than they had been taught to expect; what, I fay, may we expect the refult to be?

Y with their landlords, churches Why, to be fure, an acceffion to their

with their incumbents, manfion-houfes with their lords. Why not indulge us with a lift of CORN-MILLS and their occupiers within 20 miles of the capital? There can be no more objection to knowing where the beft corn is ground, and the best flour fold, than to knowing who fells the beft meat or cloth and it would furely be a credit to a miller to be held up with a good character; a character fo oppofite to that which popular opinion from the earliest ages has affixed to this clafs of men. It is time we thould feel the bleffings of peace we have been fighting for, and of a plenty we are still frug gling and panting for.

A FRIEND TO THE POOR.

party, and a diminution of ours. Then as to Mr. Ofborn telling a tale about what one of their popular preachers fhould fay, I am afraid he will only induce a counter part not much to our advantage-indeed, we had better be quiet. I have lately feen an inftance on the oppofite part, which convinces me of the folly of opening our mouths, against them. Our afternoon lecturer has been preaching very pointedly againft a Methodist, whofe obnoxious chapel is within one minute's walk of the church. This excited the curiofity of many in the parish to go and hear him, and the upshot of all is that, while his chapel is crowded, the church grows thinner and thinner. The Me

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thodist parfon merrily fays, that the parifh parfons are his very good friends, who beat up for recruits for him, and talks of fending them a letter of thanks. This may ferve to fhew the imprudence of meddling in fuch matters; therefore, if we wish well to the Church, let us talk no more about muzzles, but take Gamaliel's advice, to refrain from these men, and let them alone, &c. Let our bishops look well to the clergy; let the inferior clergy look diligently to their flocks, as they who muft give account to God; and let our parish churches furpafs the conventicles in convenience and accommodation, and then we shall not have to deplore a finking caufe, nor be under the fad neceffity of reforting to fuch advocates as Mr. Ofborn, or fuch measures as the ufe of ecclefiaftical muzzles.

A TRUE CHURCHMAN.

Mr. URBAN, Oxford, Feb. 24.

WHEN I faid in my former letter, p. 132, that I believed the history of the publications of the Oxford Graduates to be correct, 1 had not feen a catalogue earlier than 1727. But by the favour of a friend, who is an eminent collector of Antiquities, particularly relating to this Univerfity, having been fhewn many lifts (fuppofed to be very searce copies) prior to that period, I beg leave to correct myfelf as well as Emeritus Academicus. The first catalogue was published A. D. 1689, by Richard Peers, M. A. of Chrift-church, a licentiate in Med. and fup. bed. of Med. who was alfo faid to be the perfon employed by Dr. Fell to tranflate A. Wood's Hiftory and Antiquities of the Univerfity of Oxford into Latin. There is prefixed to the first catalogue a dedication to Dr. Gilbert Ironfide, warden of Wadham college, and, at the time of the publication of the catalogue, vice-chancellor of the univerfity. The first catalogue contained the names of proceeders from Oct. 10, 1659, to July 14, 1688. The fecond from July 14, 1688, to July 14, 1695. The third from July 16, 1695, to March 23, 1699. The fourth from March 23, 1699, to March 29, 1705. The fifth from March 29, 1705, to July 24, 1713. A general catalogue was then made, including all from 1659 to October 10, 1726, &c.

A. Wood fays, in his Athen. Oxon. vol. II. (edit. 1721) p. 893, that Mr. Gerrard Langbaine, fup. bed. of Law,

wrote and publifhed an appendix to a catalogue of all graduates in divinity, law, and phyfick, published by Richard Peers, fup. bed. of arts and phyfick, from July 14, 1688, where Peers left off, to Aug. 16, 1690: but the gentleman who communicated the above account fays he could never get a fight of it.

On further enquiry concerning FitzGibbon, I learn that there were two brothers at Chrift-church; the eldest, lon, created M. A. in 1766; and the youngest, John, who regularly proceeded M. A. in Lent term 1770, hav ing been incorporated B. A. from Dublin the fame term, and was the late Earl of Clare, Chancellor of Ireland. Yours, &c. EDITOR,

P.S. The above not arriving time enough to be inferted in your last, I beg you will add the following, in confequence of the fecond letter of Emeritus Academicus, p. 132. The Graduates referred to in the Bodleian

Library is intituled "A Regifler of the Doctors of Phyfick in our two Univerities of Cambridge and Oxford; printed in the year 1695." It contains their names and colleges from 1659 to 1694, both inclufive; firft in a chronological, and next in an alphabetical order; in all 31 pages. It is in a collection of feveral medical tracts, and was most likely printed in London, and, as it feems by an addrefs to the reader prefixed, in confequence of fome difputes in the College of Phyficians. Pefhall (John), v. Pearfall, was tranfpofed to Pechell, the name affumed by the fons of the felf-created baronet; but afterwards omitted, that the page might not be encumbered with references to a family that fo often have changed their name.

Oxford, March 13, 1802.

Mr. URBAN, Wakefield, Feb. 18. IN p. 33, is an account of the bad

treatment which is frequently received by parish apprentices. But, is it not the duty of magiftrates to look into the late of treatment which they receive? A frequent complaint with fome mafters is, that they are put out to them when in a bad state of health ; but might not that be remedied? I think the following plan, if inferted in your excellent Magazine, might, perhaps, meet the attention of fome worthy magifirates, and let it be carried into full effect. Let the magiftrates at their ge neral quarter fellions appoint a furgeon

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