moft warmly taken up by the Faculty, patronized by the publick, and practifed in numerous inftances, in this as well as other countries, was found to produce ferious and unexpected ill confequences, fuch as madness, and other difeafes. I am far from wishing to prevent any improvement in the above or any other fubject of the healing art; and, could these objections to the practice be overcome, am inelined to think there might be a probability, by the practice becoming general, of its being conducive to the prevention of the Small-pox; z difeafe which, there is much reafon to believe, never now occurs but from contagion. As to the immediate advantage of the practice, I have doubts. leave the reader to confult them at his leifure, and proposes to correct the place thus: ὡς ΠΑΙΣ ΑΠΗΝΗΣ, &c. &c. &c. and to tranflate: Creon. Be of good courage, Tirefias, for you are near your friends. Take hold of him, my fon. As a child is wont to expect the alleviation of a carriage, fo the foot of an old man looks for fome external fupport. As a child is used to be carried, fo an old man to be fupported. Ut eurrus infans folet expectare levamen, ONE would have imagined that a Traveller in Deron would not That the eruption may be prevent-is cob?" Let him be informed, that have put to you the query of " What ed, is probable; but that the fymp- cob is a compofition of ft:aw and adtomatic fever is in fome inftances helive loam, incorporated well toge fo violent as to be attended with ther by treading, and then put up in danger, I have reafon to believe: 1 and cannot, therefore, haftily affent to the practice, knowing from experience, that inoculation for the Small-pox is not attended with danger in the prefent improved mode of practice. For I contend that, of those inoculated, no more die than would have died within the period of going through the difcafe. Should thefe few lines be ferioufly answered, I shall not object. in my next to infert my name; but for the prefent only fubfcribe myfelf, yours, &c. T. A. Phoeniffe, v. 859, edit. Porfonianæ. Εξως μίσαι σὸν πίδα λαοῦ δ ̓ αὐτῷ τέκνακο A variety of conjectures may be feen in Mr. Profeffor Porfon's edition of this play concerning the true reading of the third line; no one of which, he fays, puts the matter entirely out of doubt. I yers of the common form of wills. With fuch materials is almof every farm-house and village conftructed. Whence the appellation is not to ealy to be ascertained. When I give you xompos, lutum, eœnum; xiðardepen☺ xa?' xowpov, Iliad; and cobble, Lat. copulare, to botch, to join together, as is done with the ffraw and loam; I fhall leave the deerfi n to yourself, of to any of your correfpondents, who may be greater adepts in etymology than, yours, &c. JOHN SWETE. **The other (and more material) pat of this letter fhall be fully investigated. In answer to F. S. (p. 32), Harte's pa pers (at least, I believe, the greater part of them) fell into the hands of his fervant, Edward Dore, who afterwards kept he Caftle and Bill iue, in Bath. Mr. Dore and his wife are both dead; but what is become of thefe papers, or his family, I Cumot pretend to fay. I remember to have heard Dore fay, "I have the History of Guftavus in Canon Harte's own handwriting N. W. P. 228. As large loaves and handfuls are indefinite terms, although Dr. Townton's words; pleafe to infert, by large loaves, our cook means twelve pounds of flour, la which add four ounces of the tubi-tute tot yeaft. J. Hort. intended for this mouth, has been miflaid Mr. The account of CHERRY HISTON, Mr. URBAN, M April 3. WAY I requeft the pleafure of your readers' company in a little circuit round Hanwell church, to admire with me the tafte with which the grounds are displayed? The village of Hanwell is at fome diftance South of the church: but the approach to it is pleafant in fummer, and dry in winter. The faithful attendants of a pleafing landscape, trees, are not wanting for a back-ground to the neat lightcoloured walls of this edifice, and its elegant little cupola *. The school+ partakes of the neatnefs and beauty of the furrounding buildings: the plan is fimple, and its pointed windows give it an antique Gothic airt. After paffing the door of Mr. Glaffe's hofpitable dwelling, a fcene burfts upon the view which few spots in the en virons of the metropolis can vie with. A ferpentine walk, kept in the most perfect order, leads from the houfe to the bottom of a steep defcent, where a ruftic temple terminates it. A vaft variety of shrubs and trees intervene at pleasing diftances, and in one part become quite impervious to the fight, except in a fpot where an opening through the foliage difclofes what appears to be an unbounded sheet of water, but in reality is an arm of the river which winds in this charming valley. On one fide of the walk ftands the decaying king of the foreft, grand in his old age, noble and majestic in his vigour. He receives in his capacious trunk the delighted vititor, and shews him, through the chafms time and the tempeft have made, woods, water, hills, and pafture. Harrow and its fteeple, furmounted by * The church was built in the year 1782, during the incumbency of the late rector, Dr. Glaffe, having within it two fide ailes and a gallery. The altar-piece and its accompaniments are finished in a light and elegant manner; and there is a richly-painted window on the North fide of the altar. This, I find on enquiry, has been placed in its prefent fituation fince the publication of Mr. Lyfons's work, as well as a beautiful mu ral tablet near the font, the only monument to be feen in the church, on which is the following chafte and appropriate infcription, which may prove an agreeable entertain. ment to many of your readers, who, while they admire the compofition, will perhaps recollect that they are in the neighbourhood of very classical ground. HEILBRVNNI. IN. GERMANIA, HONESTA. STIRPE. ORIVNDV DILIGENTER. ET. FIDELITER. ADMINISTRAVIT DIEM SVPREMVM. OBIIT PRID. ID. APRIL. ANNO. CHRISTI. M.DCC.LXXXX.VIII, AETATIS. SVAE. LXXX.II. ET. SEPVLTUS. EST. IN. HOC. TEMPLO QVOD. FIE. SANCTE. QVE VIVVS. FREQVENTAVERAT IOANNES. GVLIELMVS. COMMERELL FILIVS. SVPERSTES PATRI. BENE. MERENTI H.M. PONI. CVRAVIT. Erected in the last year, the former ancient edifice having been blown down by a hurricane. "" For fome curious particulars refpecting this ancient found tion, I must refer your readers to Mr. Lyfons. GENT. MAG. April, 1800. ftormy Mr. URBAN, April 3. formy clouds, fometimes deluged tilated trunk. Providentially ne with rain when the furrounding lives were loft. J. P. MALCOLM. country is dry, is feen to great advantage, framed as it were by nature, from this noble trunk. Near it is a garden-room, with a curious door of ivy branches, and within a collection of minerals, foffils, &c. The whole of the view, including the water, fhould be feen to comprehend the variety and beauty of the place. In the front of the houfe ftand two remarkably handfome cottages; and through the valley the river is feen to glide till it is terminated to the view by a fpacious bridge in the Uxbridge road, converted by Mr. Glaffe to a ftone colour, which, with the tufted trees in Ofterley park, the woods of Richmond and Petersham, and the diftant Surrey hills, close the profpect. Plate II. reprefents part of an elm-tree ftanding to the Southern fide of Hanwell church-yard, which was torn by lightning during the time of divine fervice, on Whitfunday, May 12, 1799. The elecfunday, May 12, 1799. The electrical cloud, which came in a North-wefterly direction, was evidently only a few yards above the furface of the ground, as the part of the tree which met the ftorin in its courfe is not by feveral feet fo high as the adjoining cupola of the church. The ball of fire, after making a deeply-indented furrow in the tree, and fcattering the bark in various directions, fcooped out a confiderable portion of the footpath in a circular cavity, ftill vifible at the foot of the tree. Mr. Glaffe informed me, that no lefs than eight trees in the neighbourhood felt the effect of the lightning; one of them, a large and folid oak was rifted, apparently by a vertical fhock, in a form refembling the open petals of a tulip. A fragment of the folid timber, weighing upwards of 50lb. was torn from the centre, and thrown to the diftance of more than 50 feet from the mu T HE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE have acquired fo just and permanent a celebrity, that public curiofity is naturally excited towards the Author. I am not, Sir, about to name him; but I will point out to demonftration three works which he published 20 years ago from the fhop of his friend T. Becket. One of thefe, "The Heroic Epiftle to the Rev. Richard Watfon, D.D." is properly noticed in vol. L. p. 484. In the fecond, "An Heroic Addrefs in Profe," the author fays, "Should a generous publick fofter my infant fpeech; I may hereafter wear upon my baby brow the-But excufe me, reader: I forget myfelf "Caufa fuit Pater his," &c. lines, we have Greek, Latin, and Then, in the space of a few lines, we have Greek, Latin, and Italian, befides allufions; bits, but this is nothing to the farrago fcraps, &c. from English writers: of quotations with notes far outfwelling the bulk of the text. Epiftolary Treatife, addreffed to From the third publication, "An F.R.S. &c. &c. containing curiory the Rev. Richard Watfon, D.D. Remarks on the Code of Gentoo Laws, published by the East India Company, and the original Shanfcritta Language in which they were written," &c. (which feems to have been but little, if at all, attended to by the Reviewers), I fhall make a few extracts, &c. "It has been a matter of very enter various gentlemen to whom my works taining fpeculation to me to observe the have been afcribed; ́in which have been exercised much ingenuity, and great goodnature; I have indeed heard of feveral, though I find the generality of Cognoscenti, their ftyle, have fixed it on a Rev. Mr. or coxcombs, who know all authors by Rennell, late Fellow of King's college, in Cambridge, and now prebendary of Winchefter. I am proud of the honour con Dr. Watfon's fermon at a Vifitation at Ely, recommending the study of the Onental languages, it will be recollected, was the oceafion of these fevere Philippies. furred |