3 efcallops Arg.-On a fcutcheon of pretence: Egerton, Arg. a lion ramp. Gu. between 3 pheons heads Sable. Creft. A Saracen's head in profile, &c. The characters of thefe two moft eftimable men were fo extraordinary, and fo worthy of imitation as countrygentlemen, that it is to be lamented they have not hitherto found a pen to delineate their portraits more at length than would have been proper for an epitaph. Yet it would require the inimitable touches, and lively difcrimination, of Fielding, and the elevated fentiments of Richardfon, to do them justice. Mr. URBAN, E. S. March 15. YOUR correfpondent confil. ad Temple, who figns Confil. ad Legem, p. 39, obferves very truly, that "the advice of counfel without a fee is never to be depended on." How the fending a fee will give Clericus better reason to rely on the opinion which this learned gentleman has "attempted to give him," I do not know. I would advife Clericus not to fend the fee. Without afking for any (which I am not entitled to receive), I believe I hall, with your leave, give him a much clearer and more decifive opinion. Lord Mansfield, and the whole Court of Kings Bench, held clearly, in the cafe of Flower against Darby, Eafter, 26 Geo. III., that, when a leafe is determinable at a particular period, no notice to quit is neceffary, becaufe both parties are equally apprized of the determination of the term. But that, where a tenant holds from year to year, if either party change his mind, he should give the other half a year's notice before the expiration of the year which has began to run; and that a notice to quit in the middle of the year is not binding, as it is contrary to the agreement. Afhurft and Buller added, that there was no diftinction in reason between houfes and land. The latter obferved, that the notice must be half a year's notice, not 6 months, by which I understand, that What ufed to be called a tenant at will is now understood to be a tenant from year to year; that is, if I lett a houfe or land at fo much a year, the tenant holds it for a year, though he is to pay quarterly. a notice to quit at Michaelmas must be given before Lady-day, and that a notice given on March 26, to quit Sept. 29, is not half a year's notice, though it is fix months. It has been often held fince, that this is the law, and that the fix months notice must expire at the end of the year. A READER OF BOOKS. Mr. URBAN, Yarm, March 12. HAVING been employed for fome rime in collecting and arranging materials for a topographical hiftory of Cleveland; and being defirous to render the work as perfect and correct as the nature of fuch publications will admit; I have taken the liberty, thre the medium of your valuable Mifcel cony, unicolicit a candid and friendly communication from fuch perfons as may poffefs any information applicable to the fubject, whether on Topogra phy, Antiquities, or Defcription. Those who please to favour me with their correfpondence, are requested to direct their communications to "The Rev. J. Graves, Yarm, Yorkshire." Proper acknowledgements will be made; and the names of thofe gentlemen who contribute information will be mentioned, if not particularly requefted to the contrary. As it is intended to give brief biographical notices of perfons either remarkable for eccentricity of character, or diftinguished for their literary abilities, &c. it will be confidered an obligation, if any of your ingenious correfpondents can furnish, through the channel of your Repoftory, any unpublished anecdotes of the immortal Capt. Cook, or of the very learned Brian Walton*, author of the Polyglott Bible, who, it is faid, was a native of Cleveland, though not known of what particular parifh within the district. Anecdotes of any other perfons (na❤ tives of Cleveland), who may be thought worthy of notice, as well as fuch hints and remarks on any particular fubject as may tend to render the work perfect and complete, will be thankfully received, and gratefully acknowledged. This topographical account is intended to comprehend the deanry of Cleveland, containing the wapentakes of Allertonshire, Langbergh, and Whitby Strand. J. GRAVES. *See vol. XLIV. p. 219; vol. L. p. 461. EDIT. Mr. Mr. URBAN, March 14. AM glad to record one step to wards my plan of ereaing naval nemorials in different parts of the metropolis. Stratford-place has been decorated by a Corinthian pillar and pedefal, upwards of 20 feet in height, Supporting a Ratue of his Majeti, with trophies, &c. and the following in fcriptions. J. P. MALCOLM. On the front fquare. "Sacred to British glory and the heroes of its empire: whr, aided by the Almighty, from the Athetical principles, and tyrannical fubjugation, reforing due fubordination, felicity, and Civilization, throughout Europe." On the right-hand fquare. on the 4th of May, 1799, by the English forces under Gen. Harris ; the territory of Mylore, and port of Mangalore, annexed to the Eastern dominions of Great Britain; and quiet and fecurity restored On the left-hand fquare. "In memory of the atchievements of Admirals Lords Hawke, Reincy, Howe, Hood, Bridport, St Vincent, Nelfon, Duncan, Sr John Borlafe Warren, Sir Sidney Smith, and Mitchell, who, in different actions with the Spanish, French, and Dutch, took the Admirals of each nation; captured, funk, and defroyed, above ene thoufand of their thips; annihilating their fleets and commerce, and atcertained and maintained, under the Divine Providence, the empire of Great Britain over the Globe." On the back fquare. "Stet columna, in fecula fet, 1 Qui, regnante Georgio Tertio, fub aufpiciis Dei Omnipotentis, annoque Salutis 1799, Mr. URBAN, Y pofuit." March 17. OUR candid correfpondent, vol LXIX. pp. 450, 1, may be affured, that the writer of the letter on the Smapincushion, in p. 368, is not the time who has for many years occafionally atta med bis fignature; and who well knows the worth of "good Palæmon,”” which is elegantly difplayed in the "British Critic," V. 238. The etymologist in p 949, with the fame fignature, is alfo not your sid correfpondent Scrutator. In p. 973, the late Lord Abingdon is reprefented as having been educated at Geneva. This may be partly true; hat he was moft undoubtedly a member of Migdalen college, Oxford, where he was the pupil of Chriftopher Robinson, D. D.; whofe fon, of both his names, is the editer of the very ufeful "Reports of Cafes determined in the High Court of Admiralty," now in a course of publication, and an advocate in Doctors Commons. The perfon, of whom fome anecdotes are given in pp. 1171, 2, is described by Mr. Bofwell, in his "Life of Dr. Johnfon," 1. 165, 8vo edit. as "Mr. Stewart, fan of Mr. George Stewart, bookfeller, at Edinburgh," and one of the fix amanu enfes employed by the Doctor. The "Strictures" on the Confeffional, noticed in p. 1187, col. 2, may, perhaps, be the publication regia-red in your vol. XLV. p. 192, col. 2. SCRUTATOR. S EEING your correspondent Nicot's account of Tobacco (LXIX. p. 1045), I have to inform you, that I was, from 10fancy to the age of 40 years, afflicted with very bad periodical afthmatic fits; and then, by advice, began to fmoke tobacco; fince which time, being now above 20 years, I have had fcarcely any fir. The treatite Nicot mentions was written by one Adam Clarke, and printed for G. Whitfield, Cty-road, 1797 Now, in return for this intelligence, I with you, or he, or any other of your learned leiders, would be to kind as to au fwer the two following queries: What is the true defcription of an Abbé in the Romish church ?-What is the true reafon of the Popes of Rome wearing al ways a triple crown? CLERICUS. 1 *** A. B. afks, whether the Barbados penny of 1788, and the penny and halfpenny of 1792, are current there now as Comes de Aldborough, de Ormond Super, couns, or whether they were ftruck as trial Vicecomes Amiens, Baro de Baltinglais, &c. &c. &c. pieces, or as tokens? and whether the Bermuda copper piece of 1793 was truck for currency, as a trial piece, or for a token? Mr. Mt. URBAN, T March 17. IIE broche, p. 121, is an humble imitation of that engraved and defcribed by Mr. Penant (Tour in Scotland, 1772, II. 14) as of the time of Elizabeth, and in the poffeffion of the late Dr. Lort. Being of Scottish manufacture and propery as well as that worn by Robert Bruce, king of Scotland, there defcribed, it is fair to prefume that yours was worn by fome of the Scottith chieftains, or nob:hty, who efpoufed the canfe of their unfortonate monarch at the battle of Nafoby, wherein out of the 600 flain 150 were officers, Your correfpondent W. W. p. 132, has properly reprobated the obtaining the degree of doctor of divinity on fuch eafy Jerms. Does not his obfervation apply to miany doctors of phyfick, who are dubbed in the fame mode, and carry their blushing honours in their pockets till opportunity ferves to blazon them abroad? I have feen an excellent caricature, by the Scotch Hogirth, of Dr. Chalmers, reprefented as a fkeleton, in a gown and hair fol-dreffed, haling a fcythe, and faying, "Degrees, male and female, in medicine and midwifery, fold here for ready money "3 Ralph Bridges, p. 135, was probably the brother of John, the Hiftorian of Northamptonshire; (of whom fee Anccdotes of William Bowyer, p. 145, 505.) M. A. of Trinity college, Oxford, 17:2; B. and D. D. 1714. Wilitam Harding proceeded M. A. in the fame college, 1693. P. 154. Was not Mr. King's house in Harrington Street? I Marb 13. 1734, aged 96 (IV. 452), is faid to have left to the then Duke of Montagu, fon of her hufband by his firft w fe, 2000l. a year. In 1700, the manor of Sutton in Yorkshire, and other parcels of ground at Newton, Eaton bridge, and Shipton, were in the poffeffion of Sir Walter Clages, hart. grandfon to John abovementioned, as “devifee under the will of Christopher Doke of Albemarle. Her fecond hufband joined with her against the Earl of Bath, Mr. Grenville, and Sir Walter Clarges; but left their caufe. Of Gen. Monk's wife, fee Biog. Brit. V. p. 3139 [O]. P. 91, a. l. 11, for English, r. original. any iftac? Mr. URBAN, Nantwer to the enquiry, p. 166. Gen. Monk was created, in 1660, Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Torrington, and Baron Monk, of Polkridge Besuchamp and Teyes, being defcended from Arthur Pantagenet Vilcount Lifle, naturai fon to Edward IV. He married, Sept. 22, 1652, when heute. nan -general under Cromwell, at St. George's church, Southwark, his fempArefs, Anne, daughter of John Cligs, farrier, in th. Savoy, and wife or quidate of Thomas Ratford, perfumer, at the Three Spanith Gypfies, in the New Exchange.” He died Jan. 3, 1669, aged 70; and his widow, as is believed, Dec. 25, 16;5. He had a fon, Christopher, born 653, wo furvived him, and died in Jamaic, of which he was governor, 1687 or 1628, having married Lady i lizabeth Cave drth, e' 'eft dangster and co herefs of Henry Duke of Newcale, by whom he hat no dice, in Confequence of which all his to les hecaire extinct; and the married to br fecond husband, Ralph Duke of Motage. Second toned in his infancy about 1657. What poffeffts Mook had in Lancashire, but the dutch f, who diet 1 know Dek, His at Newcattle houfe, Cluukenwell, Aug. 23, P. 159, bl. t, r. Daubeny. P. 175, a. L. penult. dele "Lord W. Hamilton," and infert "The Marquis of Lorn, Baron Hamilton of Ha neldon.” In the account of Mr. Jones of Nayland, p. 183, his Doctrine of the Trinity is mentioned twice, and there is no mention of his Letter to three converted Jews, 1799; his new Preface to the Life of Bp. Home; or of "The Scholor armed against the Errors of the Times," 2 vols. 1795, of which he is underfood to have been the compiJer; and an effay of his is the fit in vol. II. "On the Nature and Conftitution of the Church of Chrift;" his new Preface to the fecond edition of Memours of Bp. Horne, with Remarks on a Life of him inferted in the new Biographical B.ctionary, dated July 20, 1799, to mainta ♬ his favourite analogy of the Holy Trinity again the wrner of that Life. Mr. URBAN, E. E, March 19 WISH to receive fame information abut Mr. James I hoitoa e, who was fecretary of Ane for Scotland, a relation of Ep. Burnet's who recommended him as fecretary to Mr. Sidn y, envoy to the Prince of Orange, 1679, as in active man, who could both run about, and write over long and full accounts of all matters, and had been formed by the bishop, who knew him to be both fai liful and diligent, and very fit for the employment he was truffed with." Hitory of his own Time, I. 761 He deicribes turn as futhful and diligent; and a 2 mufcript note in this Hritory, by the lat Mr. William Bow. yer, m my paftalion, adds, "he was indred hot and eager, too foon poffeffed with jealoufy, and too vehement to all he propoled but he proved very fit for," &c. He came over with Sidney, 1688, and "brought a full tcheme of adv ces, and had of declaration." (1. p. 750). ile was fent e voy to the Elector of Brandenburg, ant re-call a home, 1692, and made fecret ry of state for Scotland (1. p. 8:). He received the fift notice of the defiços of the French on England that yea.. (p. 93). In In 1695, the parliament voted, that, in the malfacre of Glencoe, the fecretary of ftate's letters pufhed it on beyond the king's orders; and carried, by a great majority, an addrefs to the king to proceed according to law against him and others concerned in it. (p. 157). Both the fecretaries of state and the Marquis of Tweedale were turned out; and there the matter ended. (p. 162). The Marquis was, 1704, named by Queen Anne commiffioner for fettling the fucceffion in Scotland. Mr. J. was made lord register, and fent down to promote the defign (p. 396); and he was charged by his enemies with double-dealing; but Bp. Burnet fays, he could never fee a colour of truth in these reports. (p. 400). He married Catharine, youngest daughter of John, 2d Baron Pou lett. I Mr. URBAN, PHIL. HISTOR. March 7. WAS much pleafed to find the definition of jury maft, vol. LXIX. p. 1134, To juftly ridiculed as it is by Q. p. 119; nor can I conceive one more latisfactory than that already given under the fignature Scrutator. NOR FOLCIENSIS. Mr. URBAN, March 13. Na letter, dated New York, Nov. 23, Nage, I obferved the following lines: the confulship, for the prefent, on Mr. Palmer, who married Mifs Temple." I referred to your Magazine, but without finding any mention of fuch obit; and fhall thank you to inform me who Sir T. P. T. John was, &c. if you can. Mr. URBAN, Wells, Norfolk, March 14. U P. I endeavoured to induce your ingenious correspondent B. I.B. TH Mr. URBAN, Dorchester, March 15. HAT the velocity of a failing body fhould be directly as the times, or as the fquare root of the spaces it defcribes, is a difficulty which has perplexed me much; for, if the body falls one space in the first inftant, and three in the fecond, I cannot conceive how these three spaces are defcribed, but in confequence of the velocity being three times as great as in the first inftant. In the application of this to mechanicks and hydraulicks, the mind is bewildered unless it has a clear perception PHILOTECHNË. of its truth. "Sir John Temple died fuddenly the 19th inft. aged 67. The title devolves on Granville, who married Mrs. Ruffel; and PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT, 1799. H. OF LORDS. OЯober 2. ORD Grenville, after entering inLORD afiepentant de vices of our different naval and military officers, proceeded to move for a vote of thanks, expreffive of the high fenfe the Houfe felt for thofe fervices-firft, by moving, "That the thanks of the House be given to General Sir Ralph Abercromby, for the great skill and ability with which he effected a landing on one of the most important parts of the Dutch coaft; for the courage and conduct which he difplayed in landing the British troops under his command; and for the lapid and important fucceffes which he gained, and by means of which the whole of the Dutch arfenals and navy at the Texel were prevented from coming into the hands of the French. That the thanks of this House be given to Lieutenant-gener Sir James Pulteney, Major-generals Doyley, Sir H. Burrard, Sir Evre Coote, &c. and to all the other Officers employed under Sir Ralph Abercromby. Alfo, that the Houfe do highly approve of and acknowledge the fervices of all the troops employed at the fame time, vere vere in the defence of St. John D'Acre, on the coaft of Syria, and the valour and heroifm which he difplayed during a period of 60 days, until he totally defeated the French army under the command of General Buonaparte. Alfo, to the Officers and Seamen under Sir Sidney Smith." Thefe motions being put and carried nem. con. Mr. Dundas brought up the militia reduction bill; which was read the first time. In the Commons, the fame day, the House refolved itself into the Committee of Supply, Mr. Bragge in the chair. Mr. Windham faid, it would be neceflary for him to do no more at prefent than just to ftate that the estimates before the Committee were only a part of the estimates for the whole year, being but for the two firft months. They were all that it was thought neceffary to bring forward at prefent. They confifted of fix heads: the army in Great Britain-the rest of the army in Holland, and upon other foreign fervice-the militia and fencible cavalry and infantry-barrack expences -allowance to innkeepers, and ord. nance. With respect to the militia, the estimate, at present, could not be correctly made out, because a great part of that depended upon the iffue of the measure now pending before parliament. Refpecting the expence of the barrack department, the House would recollect, that it was not a new charge; the greater part was for the fubfiftence of horle barracks, and was merely an old expence in a new shape. Thefe accounts had, however, been made up with as much accuracy as could be done; they might be more accurate hereafter, and would undoubtedly be corrected when the whole account for the year was brought forward. The queftion being put, for employ. ing 90.047 troops for the fervice of two months, from the 25th of Dec. 1799 to the 25th of Feb. 1800; Mr. Tierney objected to the voting fupplies in the prefent parliament, called together as it had been upon only fourteen days notice, and that, as they had been told, for the exprefs meafure of augmenting the regulars by reducing the militia. He objected to the measure alfo on the ground, that GENT. MAG. March, 1800. the king's fpeech had stated that the fupplies already voted would be abundantly fufficient for the prefent year. He would, therefore, leave it to the House and the country to decide whe ther they ought to do this upon fo fud. den a call, and for the only reafon affigned, that they would gain a few holidays. The Chancellor of the Exchequer contended there was nothing unconftitutional,now parliament was affembled, and there was a full attendance, to bring forward a measure which might at another period not meet with fo full an attendance; but it was for the Houfe and country to decide, and he would not fay another word. The following fums were then voted for the fupply of two months in the next year; viz. 510,5061. for 90,047 troops. 166,480l. for the plantations. 93,000l. for fencible cavalry. 232,9981. for embodied militia, fencible infantry, and Cornwall miners. 40,000l. for increased rates of fubfiftence to inkeepers. 120,000l. for expences expected in the Barrack-mafter General's departmt. 350,000l. for the office of Ordnance, for the land fervice. 121,11ol. for ordinaries for the navy. 115,625, for extraordinaries of ditto. The militia reduction bill, after a fhort converfation, was read the third time and paffed. The Houfe went into a Committee of Ways and Means; and voted the annual duties on malt, mum, perry, cyder, tobacco, fnuff, &c. The House, in a Committee on the petition of the West-India merchants of Liverpool and Lancaster, agreed to the following motion; "That it is the opinion of this Committee, that his Majefly be enabled to direct that 500,000l. in Exchequer bills be iffued to Commiffioners, to be by them advanced to the merchants of Liverpool and Lancaster, in fuch fums as they may require, on fufficient fecurity being given." The Houfe, in a Committee, agreed to two refolutions moved by Mr. Pitt; viz. "That the drawback on fugar be given whenever the price is below a certain fum."-"That fugars imported be warehoufed." Agreed to, and the report ordered to be received. Н. ОР 1 |