1. Motion in the fea, very loud 10 P. M.-2. Ditto 8 P. M. The throstle Angs-3. Polyanthus flowers.-14. The fnow-drop fcarcely peeps out: withheld by the chilling frofts.-15. The rain congealed as it fell, and rendered the roads a cake of ice, not indeed fo complete as on the first day of the present year.-16. The wind without motion, but the fea in great agitation at 10 P. M.-19. A beautiful horizon at fun fet.-21. The throftle fings vigorously, his fong hitherto has been but feeble.-23. The filbert in bloom. N. B. The cold blafts from the Eafterly wind have caufed the throftle, the red rubio, and most of pafforines to cease their warblings. Vegetation too is almost at a ftand. Fall of rain this month 0.25 inches, J. HOLT. Walton, near Liverpool. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for March, 1800. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Mar. • 13 34 14 35 33 16 32 35 39 18 36 24 79 fair 32 27 79 fhower of fn. 19 20 31 26 75 fair ,24 fair& high wd. 22 21 34 48 39 45 23 42 49 39 ,76 fmall fnow 24 48 ,62 thowery 37 47 showery 456 46 36 37 53 4354 53 53 I 200 in am 444 33 36 995 cloudy 36 38 33 ,94 cloudy 32 37 31 39 194 Klondy 39 45 44 29,94 clomly 42 ,80 fir W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk Street, Srand. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For MARCH, 1800. ** In the letter of the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft,, bart. printed in p. 104, are mentioned "MSS. of Chatterton given to him by Bishop Percy." We are authorized to fay, that thofe MSS. had been given to the Bishop either by Dr. Goldfmith or the Rev. Dr. Lort; and that he did not receive them from the family of the author. B ***** Conclufion of a SERMON preached at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Ath Wednesday laft, February 26th, by the BISHOP OF LONDON. ***ESIDES the reafons for the practice of religious abftinence, which have here been stated, every man muft, at this moment, feel himself under pecuhar obligations, to obferve a more than ordinary degree of abftemioufnefs, both in the quantity and quality of his diet. It has pleafed the Almighty, to afflict this land with an unusual fcarcity of one of the most effential neceffaries of life. Whether this scarcity may not have been exaggerated and increased, by the arts of unfeeling and avaricious men, I will not take upon me to fay but whether it be real or artificial, or (what is perhaps nearer the truth) a compound of both, the effect is the fame; a real evil refults from it. It has rendered the price of bread exceffive, and placed it almoft beyond the reach of the poor. It is, therefore, a duty we owe to them, and to the public at large, to exert our beft endeavours, to lower this exorbitant price, as much as poffible. There is no danger, I conceive, of exciting, by thefe exertions, any needlefs alarm. The alarm has long fince gone forth; and it is in vain to think of ftifling it, by fay ing, there is no fcarcity. This is, at the beft, mere matter of opinion; and different men will think differently concerning it. But there is one point, on which all men muft think alike-that bread is enormously dear, and hardly to be procured by the lower orders of the people. It is of no moment, to them, whether the fcarcity be real or artificial; they feel an actual calamity preffing upon them, and they care little about the reafonings of fpeculative men. This being the cafe, it would be as prepofte rous for us to fit ftill with our arms folded, and fuffer the mischief to advance upon us, without any effort to reprefs it, as it would be to make no preparations of defence against an enemy landed on our coafts, for fear it fhould fpread a falfe alarm over the country. The enemy, we have at prefent to encounter, is actually in the midst of us, is at every man's door; but affails, with peculiar violence, the cottage of the poor. We are, therefore, loudly and imperiously called upon, to refift him with vigour; and it behoves the higher claffes, more efpecially, to give every afliftance in their power to the lower orders: which in truth they feem perfectly well difpofed to do. One mode of relief fuggefted * has *The following is a copy of the refolutions moved by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Houfe of Lords, and adopted unanimously: "Die Jovis, 20° Februarii, 1:00. It was moved to resolve, that, in consequence of the has been that, of the highest and the middle ranks of men limiting, to a very moderate proportion, the quantity of bread ufed in their relpective families. This is, certainly, in every point of view, á very wife and benevolent expedient. The lefs bread is confumed by the rich, the more, of courfe, there will be left for the poor; and the lefs demand there is for this particular article, the lefs temptation will there be to hoard it up, and the greater probability there is, that the price will fall. Befides this, when the lower orders fee that their fuperiors voluntarily deny themfelves fome of the comforts of life for their fakes, they will more readily and patiently fubmit to the privations they muft neceffarily en dure. It is to be hoped, therefore, that, this falutary regulation, this wife and humane act of abftemioufnefs, will, univerfally prevail, among thole whom Frovidence has blefted with affluence, or with compe tence. But let us not ftop here; let us go a little further ftill. Let us car Ty our hoftilities into the head quarters of the enemy; let us extend our retrenchments to all the fuperAuities, and luxuries, and needlefs delicacies, of the table; not, for the purposes of parfimony or avarice, but for the directly oppofite purposes of generosity and beneficence; that we may apply the favings arising from thefe reforms, to the relief of our neceflitous brethren; and render our frugality the fource of their plenty. This would be a fpecies of abftinence, highly pleafing in the fight both of God and man; and would, at once, contribute moft effentially to health, to virtue, to content of mind, and to the comfort of all around us. This would be indeed the faft which God has chofen, and which is fo fublimely defcribed by the prophet Ifaiah, in terms perfectly applicable to our prefent fituation; and full of confolation and fupport to thofe, who, in conjunction with other Chriftian virtues, exercife that truly evangelical one, of charitable abftinence. "Is not this," fays the Prophet in the name of the Almighty, is not this the faft that I have chofen? Is it not, to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are caft out, to thy houfe? when thou feeft the naked, that thou cover bitu; and that thou hide not thyfelf from thine own fleth? Then fhall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health fhall fpring forth fpeedily; and thy righteoufnefs fhall go before thee; the glory of the Lord fhall be thy rere-ward. Then fhalt thou call, and the Lord fhall anfwer; tho fhalt cry, and he fhall fay, bere I am.-If thou draw out thy foul to the hungry, and fatisfy the afflicted foul; then fhall thy light rife in obfcurity, and thy darkness be as the the high price and deficient fupply of wheat and other grain, it is expedient to adopt fuch meatures as may be practicable for diminishing the confumption thereof, during the continuance of the prefent preffure, and for introducing the ufe of fuch articles as may conveniently be fubftituted in the place thereof. The fame was agreed to, and refolved accordingly nemine diffentiente. "Then it was moved to ref Ive, that the agreement hereunto fubjoined be ingroffed, and laid upon the table of this houfe, in order to be fubfcribed by any lord of this houe who fhall think fit to ubfcribe the fame himself, or in his name by any other lord. In confequence of the high price of grain, and the evils arfing therefrom, we the underfigned agree, that until the tenth day of October next, we will not confume, not permait to be confumed, in any week, within our refpective families, more wheaten bread than in the proportion of one quartern loaf for each of the individuals of whom our faid families may be compofed; and alfo, that, during the fame period, we will difcanti nue and caufe to be difcontinued within our faid families, all pastry.' The fame was agreed to, and refolved accordingly nemine dissentiente. "Ordered, that a meil ge be fent to the House of Commons, to acquaint them that this Houfe has come to the faid refolution and agreement." * Haiah Iviji. 6-17. noon noon-day: and the Lord fhall guide thee continually, and fatisfy thy foul in drought, and make fat thy bones; and thou fhalt be like a watered garden, and like a fpring ef water, whofe waters fail not." facilitatem, fuavitatem, humanitatem, be-on nignitatem; Amici; Honore diù profequentur ; HTS SALTEM ACCUMULEM DONIS Аздешт [χορό. Φοίβω, και Μέσαις, Μεσοπολῳ το TIS BUY σε σκιεραις ύπο Φήδοις, Τίυρες μελέψει [afeous; Adoir' » walgions, is wor' aynabis, Η τις θρήνησει, πως Γάλλος είηκεπ' ερωτι Αλλα γέλωσ' εφυγων τηλε Λυκωρίς αχῶν; Ovi apelos, derdewv re Qutor, Bola, o μηλων, Οι βομβος σμηνῶν, ἡδια τέρψιν έχει. Ορφικα τις συνθή, μόρον Ευρυδίκης το Βρετανούς Αρμοζει, γλαφυραν ώτε Μάρωνος οπα; Εχω φθισμα γοων λάκεν αγ[έλεσα παρ' αυραν Φύλοις αερίων, αλλοδαποις τι βρόλων. 18ος απέρριψε πληρωνον σέφος, ήξεν οἴσως, [ribus? rate, et planta arborum, armenta, At Lycoris ridens effugit procul a dologreges ovium, [tionem habent. No murer examinum,suavem oblectaOphel dolores, Eurydicefque fatum Britannis Eccho infont nunciaus fonum lamentati Pangit, tanquam Maronis politam vocem? Om per auram [terrà mortalibus. Generibus aëris, et habitantibus in aliâ Indus abjecit coronam è plumis contextam, fregit fagittas, Barbarus fic rependens illius beneficium in patres fuos collatum. Phantafia, vellens comas, pectufque per→ caffa, [tudinis, Repulit a tremulis manibus nervum tef Ufque dum flatus canorus fufurrabat, "Vi[heatis, Sortitus, ubi 6 Frater eft, fedem cum Affidens in prato quod abundant afphodelis, lætatur audire [afflatos, Poetarum alternantium cantus numine Odam Drydeni, fonantia epinicia 7 Graii, Spenferi fufpiria, carmina quàm dulcia vit omnino filius tuus, fimul et acerba, Miranda Miltoní vocis, altifonam chordam Mæonidis citharæ, Pindaricæque lyræ.” Wint. Coll. Feb. 25, 1800. G. I. H. Refpiciunt hæc et fequentia ad Poeticam Interpretationem Virgilii Bucolicorum et Georgicorum a Wartono noftro deflendo compofitam; Odas ab eodem fcriptas ; et Poetas ab ipfo laudatos et amatos.-Vid. Ecl. 1. 2 Vid. Ecl. 10. 3 Vid. Libros 1, 2, 3, 4, Georgicorum. 4 Vid. "The Dying Indian." -5 Vid. "Ode to Fancy." 6 Thomas Wartonus; eximia cujus ingenii poetici fpecimina funt hæc ; "The Triumph of Ifis;” “The Pleafures of Melancholy," "The Crufale;" "The Grave of King Arthur. 7 Vid. "The Bard."-" To triumph, and to die, are mine.” Te |