known, that horfes will eat them with avidity either raw or boiled. I have a horie at this time in very good condition, that has done his work well, and without intermifhon, every day throughout the winter; and which, except good hay, has feldom eaten any thing but the refufe potatoe, half a peck every morning, unwashed, and exactly in the fame state as when dug out of the ground. Extentive as this experiment would be if generally adopted, it would in each particular inftance have all the advantage of one conducted on a fmall fcale, without any poffible lofs or inconvenience. God forbid that we fhould ever feel the moft diftant, approach to wards famine! We hear much of the farcity of corn, and the price of bread is certainly great; but, to a perfon who was prefent during the whole feason of famine in Bengal, in the year 1770, the word Scarcity, as applied to this country, is an expreffion at which the philanthropist muft fhile. I am, fir, with all due refpect, your mot obedient fervant, The Author of the MEDICAL SPECTATOR. Mr. URBAN, B Jan. 23. EING out of England in 1792, I did not at the time fee your Magazine for July in that year. Lately, happening to look over the volume, I was a gooddeal ftruck with your correfpondent H. B. Peacock's account of a Bible once in the poffeffion of Milton; and I fhall be much obliged to him if he will have the goodness to communicate to you, or your printer, either privately or publickly, whofe property it now is. As I am rather enthufiaftic in whatever relates to Milton, I may be tempted to make a pilgrimage, for the purpose of inspecting. In the mean time, I fhall be thankful to know what the fize of it is. Your correfpondent C. L. (p. 789 of the fame vol.) doubts the fact of the Bible ever having been Milton's; and one of the argu ments on which he grounds his doubts is, that Milton would not have written himself Miltonius.” I believe, indeed, his general mode of Latinizing his name was Milton us; but I obferve that, in his elegant Scazontes to Saifilli, he calls himself alumnus ille, Londini MILTO.” Ver. 9 felf Miltonius; as his great Italian He might well alfo write binfriend Manfo, Marquis of Villa, is the complimentary diftich addref fed to him, infcribes it ad Joanem Miltonium Auglum. Another objection made by C, L. is, that Milton was not born at Oxford. But, query, might not barn at Oxford refer to the father, with a little addition of punctua tion, in which Milton was habitually negligent and sparing? It has, I believe, been a matter of queftion, where Milton's father was born; and I think I have feen it afferted, that he was born abroad. This then might ferve to fettle the point. That he was born at Oxford is indeed highly probable, as his father and mother lived in the neighbourhood, where his father was keeper of Shotover foreft. If the authenticity of the Bible having belonged to Milton can be well established, the date of 1639, at Canterbury city, is well worth attending to. Milton must then have been on his return to London, after having landed on the Kentish coaft, from his travels abroad. He returned, we know, about the time of the king's fecond expedition against the Scots (I believe in Auguft, 1639); and his defcription of the times, "this year of very dreadful commotion, and, I ween, will enfue murderous times of conflicting tight," feeming to mark a material portion of the year being elapfed; though by no means the whole, agrees well with the particular time. The language of this brief defcription might be thewed alfo to be highly Miltonic. If this Bible, therefore. Phillips's Life of Milton. is of a tolerably portable fize, I would fuppofe it to have been the companion of his travels; a cireumstance highly confonant to his devout difpofition and unremitting ftudy of the Scriptures. What books and mufick he collected abroad (we are expreffly told by his nephews), were fhipped in chefts, and left to follow him to England. This book was, perhaps, the only one, that he carried from home, and brought back with him. So that we may characterize Milton, as Mr. Hayley, in the justly-admired epitaph, has his countryman Collins; "Pleas'd on one book his weariedmind to reft, He wifely judg'd the book of God the heft." I fhall be very thankful to any of your Miltonic correfpondents who may illuftrate the line in Milton's Lycidas, "Looks towards Namancos or Bayona's COS. hold," in by fuggefting what place Spain Milton intended by NamanI can find no place on the coaft of Spain or even more inland, the name of which at all refembles it. T. Warton takes no notice of it whatever. I fufpect Milton picked up the name in fome old romance. I C. D. Mr. URBAN, Southwell, March 8. you to infert the following article in your valuable Magazine. Dr. Scëmmering, of Franckfort on the Mayne, having read the life of Mr. Charles Darwin in my Biographia Medica (in which a paliage is quoted from an ingenious Thetis on Hectic Fever by Dr. Cappe, of York), thinks himfelf illufed in being accufed of publishing a falfity, by faying, in a Treatife of his on Diabetes, that Mr. Charles Darwin had not in fact made the experiments on pus mucus, for which the firft prize medal was allotted to him at Edinburgh, but that he wrote thofe experiments from imagination. Dr. Semmering, in a letter which I lately received from him, afferts, that he was fo informed by Mr. Fyfe; and hopes that the paffage in the Biographia Medica alluded to may be contradicted in fome refpectable publication, or otherwife omitted in a future edition of that work. I have, therefore, troubled you, Mr. Urban, with this acconnt; but beg leave to add, that Dr. Cappe, of York, and Dr. Ryan, of Dublin, reported Mr. Charles Darwin's experiments, and found fimilar refults with those described by him; and alfo, that Dr. Soëmmering muft ftill continue the propagator, though not the inventor, of the affertion contained in his Treatife on Diabetes. This circumftance reflects no credit on the very ingenious German phyfiologift, as the contrary facts ought to be ments, not by hearfay evidence. eftablished by repeated experi BENJAMIN HUTCHINSON. Directions to Gaolers for Prisoners on Trial. to be brought into the cour at one time. Their heads to be combed or fhaved.-Their faces and hands to be wathed; foap al-, lowed for it.-Their feet to be wathed in falted water. are The above rules are worthy attending to, particularly at this time, as the Lent Aflizes are fo nearly at hand; and at this period of the year the fevers of the putrefcent tribe are generally more prevalent. The directions plain and fimple, but fufficiently efficacious for the purpofe. The ineftimable value of the lives of judges, magiftrates, and counfellors, of this kingdom, at all times, to the publick, calls forth the aid and arm of protection from every good fubject, and every good Chriftian, Jew, or Mahometan; and as fuch, I wifh the infertion of the above fhort documents in your extenfive and useful Monthly Publication, from a medical friend related to Mr. Urban by urbanity. V. & B. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Lercomb Regis, Nov. 5. a true and long-established British I SEND, the almthoufe of grafping the comprehenfive plan, SEND you a tketch (plate I. Critic, 1kilfully and fagaciously William Fetty place at Childrey, Berks, who founded the fame, in 1526, for one chaplain, or cantarift, and three almímen, together with a chantry in the South aile of Childrey church, wherein the faid cantarist and almímen were to pray for the foul of the founder, and for the fouls of all his family (by name), for ever *. At the Reformation, this chantry was valued at 81. per annum, which is now applied as a falary for a schoolmafter, and the houfe abovementioned appointed for his refidence. In the tower of the church, which ftands at a little diftance Weftwards, is a ring of fix finall bells, faid to be the moft mufical in the kingdom for their number and fize. I have heard them; and indeed the tones are exquifitely fine: the tenor is in the key of A. Yours, &c. J. STONE. Mr. URBAN, TH March 7. THE annexed drawing, fig. 2. is a fketch of Stratford house, near the caftle of Old Sarum. The manfion has not been occupied by the Pitt family for a great number of years, but let to different tenants: first, I think, to a Mr. Treby; after him, Lord Windfor; and then a Weft-Indian (George Webbe, efq. of the island of Nevis), and for fome years paft has been occupied by a farmer, tenant to Lord Camelford. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, AMICUS. Feb. 18. PLEASE to accept the author's thanks for your speedy and judicious analyfis of the Infpector and Irith Purfuits of Literature, in vol. LXIX. pp. 865 and 1135; like * For a very particular account of this foundation, fee "Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica," No. XVI. under the article CHILDREY. Gent. Mag. March, 1800. and developing the fubtle fpirit of those "defultory and extraordinary" mifcellanies by no trivial, infufficient, and faftidious review. Compare the Brith Critic, O&. 1799, P. 359. Your learned and candid correfpondent Iulus, in his useful Hints to Commentators on the Sacred Writings, Jan. 1800, p. 13, has expreffed his withes for "fome channel of communication between fuch, in order that they may correct each other's errors, inconfiftencies, and felf-contradictions;" and, as you have commendably admitted his not illiberal ftrictures on the Infpector, you will, I am perfuaded, grant the Infpector the like indulgence: "Hanc veniam petimusque damusque viciffim.” This Commentator himself does not feem to have fully comprehended the scheme of interpreting Daniel's moft abftruse and myfterious chronological prophecies, ftated too concifely, I fear, in the Infpector, and not fufficiently explained in the Irish Pursuits of Literature. May the following fynopfis prove more fatisfactory! 1. The grand prophetic period of 2300 days, or years, involving the fortunes of the Jewish State, from its reftoration after the Babylonian captivity to its final reftoration at the end of the predicted defolation, Dan. viii. 13-14, is fuppofed to be divided into two main branches, before and after the deftruction of Jerufalem by Titus A. D. 70; the former confifting of 70 weeks, or 490 years, commencing B. C. 420; the latter confifting of 1810 years, ending A. D. 1880. 2. The former branch is fubdivided into three parts; 62 weeks, 7 weeks, and 1 week. Arranged in this order 62+*2+1+*5=70. Suppofing two of the 7 weeks to be inferted between the 62 and the one |