EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS perCts perCt Long Short | India | India | India | $. Sea Confor. Ann. Ann. 1778-6 Stock. Ann. Bonds Stock. 83 108 108 1071 205 2004 207 is, pr. Old Ann. 14 73 171 107슬 207 29. pr. 1693 - 64 a 752 1078 2061 5s. dife 12 17: 5 77 107 256 6 87780 727 77 7.7 78 791a81 212 180 a81 212 178 208 208 12 14 Sunday 1764 1758 1754 18 1764 109m2 2174 1091 218 N 79 80 804 80 800 777 798 798 21 Sunday THOMAS WILKIE, Stock-Broker, No. 71, St Paul's Church-yard. N. B. In the 3 per Cent. Confols. the higheft and lowest Price of each Day is given in the other Stocks the highest Price only. LOND.GAZETTE London Evening. ALBRIDGE Canterbury 3 Coventry LEICESTER 2 Liverpool 3 Midftone Manchefter 3 Newcale 3 Northampton Norwich z Nottingham OXFORD Reading Salisbury SCOTLAND Sbetheld 2 Sherborne 2 YORK 3 Veteorolog. Diaries for May and Apr. 1793 386 | A Letter from Mr. Macklin to his Daughter 411 487 By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. Printed by JOHN, NICHOLS, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet; METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for Mav, 1793. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand. 89 44 17 48 clear blue fky, a drying wind 20 47 20 46 29,94 48 45 white clouds, fun 64 48 721 49 blue sky, fine day blue fky, gloomy P. M. dark fky, gloomy day gloomy, clears up white clouds, fharp frofty air ice, black clouds 651 40 16 W moderate 60 44 17 S calm 29,84 45 dark fky, rain and fnow P. M. 18 E calm 9 43 19 N moderate 66 44 45 21 S moderate rain most part of the day thowers of fleet, clears up gray, fair day 29,86 48 22 E moderate black clouds, gloomy day 23 SE brifk white veil, parching wind white veil, fair day 24 S calm 64 53 25 SW calm gentle ran most part of the day over caft, flight showers 26 E calm 58 27 E moderate black clouds, soft springing day, showers at night 52 white clouds, flight fhowers 2 E calm white clouds, mild bland day 52 obfcure, fhowers 46 51 overcast, gloomy day, rain at night Violets in bloom, mazereon in bloom, a pleasant bland air.-5. Bees active and foraging, return loaded.-6. Peaches in bloom.-7. Hop-buds appear, frofts, and generally ice every morning, whilft the wind is from the N. or E.-10. Daffodil in bloom May-duke cherry on a South Wall in bloom, Spring feeding purfued with ardour by the farmers.-21. Larch foliated-22. Orlean plumb in bloom, goofeberries fruit.-23. Cuckoo fings.-24. Woodpecker heard.-27. Horse-chefnut, mountain-afh, &c. foliated.—28. Taamahaca fcents the air with its fragrance, to a confiderable distance. Fall of rain this month, 2 inches 4-10ths. Evaporation, 2 inches 7-10ths. From BEING THE FIFTH NUMBER OF VOL. LXIII. PART I. Mr. URBAN, Ochterlyre, April 1. ***N the courfe of a jaunt to Eng and three years ago, in queft of, health XIX and intellectual food, a Xfriend and I visited XXX Bamburgh Caftle; and though we had no introduction, Dr Sharp received us with his ufual courtely and goodness. I was fo much delighted with this second man of Rofs, and his labour of love, that, fome time after my return home, I expreffed my feelings in an infcription for that very interefting Cafle. It is perhaps too long, but where the circumftances are equally appropriate, it is difficult to abridge. Measured profe is commonly applied to epitaphs; yet why fhould not the juft and good be told in the language of tenderness and truth what their contemporaries think of them? The Doctor's letter to me on that fubje&t breathes a dignified fimpliCuy which does honour at once to his head and heart. There is not a word in it that a friend would wish to fupprefs, or any thing of which malevolence could have laid hold,even in his own time. I am advifed by very good judges to publish the infcripton, fo the fake of his letter. Itherefore fend you the infeription a little varied from its origi. nal form, with a copy of the letter. If these be thought worthy of publication, they can no where appear with more propriety than in the Gentleman's Magazine. May I alfo request that you would add the inclofed icon, a portrait, of the father of my fellow-traveller, if being mentioned in Dr. Sharp's letter? I fént it him fix years before his death, which was as edifying as his life. Any bodywho has feen (as I often have) the love and affection with which his people regarded this excellent man, in public and in private, would have thought Goldsmith had him in view when he drew his picture of a country clergyman. The father tranflated the New Teftament into Galic; and the fon has the charge of publishing the rest of the Bible in that language. If this trifle meet with your approbation, it will afford me pleature. And two men more amiable and ufeful in very different lines than he and Dr. Sharp are feidom to be found in the fame age and land. You will pardon the length of this communication, to which I am prompted by my defire to pay fuch tribute as I can to departed wo.th. Yours, &c. Je. RAMSAY. Copy of a Letter from Dr. Sharp to John Ramfay, Efq. of Ochierlyre, by Stirling, North Britain. .. Sir, "YOU have so overpowered me by the handfome things you have been pleafed to write, fo far above any deferts of my own, that I am at a loss what anfwer to give, or how to thank you as I ought. And as you have to kindly interefied yourself in what has been done here, perhaps a little hiftory of the gradual improvements will not be dif agreeable to you. "It was owing to the peculiar fituation of this caftle, and accidental crcumftances, more than to any other caufe, From whatever quarter the wind has blown this month, except on a few occafions, the air has been tharp and chilly. Vegetation has made little progrefs. There is no grats; and the feeds committed to the earth have lain under ground longer than their ufual period. The foil feems not yet to have regained its ufus! force and fpring, an over fateration of water, and wart of a sharp froft, may have been the cause. The gooseberry buthes feem thinly hung with young fruit. A fwallow faid to have been feen on the 18th, but not one fince.. Walton, near Liverpool. J. HOLT. Ju caufe, that fo many charities have been thought of, and inflituted here. 1757, a part of the old tower being ready to fail, my father, in the last year of his life, got it fupported, merely because it had been a fea-mark for ages, and confequently, as fuch, beneficial to the publick. "Ilucceeded him in the truft. The children of the poor wanted education; therefore schools were neceffary; and where fo proper as under the eye of the trufices? "The rights of the latter were fuffer ing, for want of manor-court being held; to remedy which, a court room was fitted up, and other accommodations made for that purpose, where courts are held regularly twice a year. "There was no hoole belonging to the minister of the parish; the truftees therefore (the living being in their gift) confented to be at an equal expence with my brother, who was then the incumbent, in fitting up rooms for that purpose. On my brother's death, I fucceeded to the living; and, as he had left me his library, I fold it to the truflees, in prder to its being made a public library; and applied the money, in part of a larger fum, to be laid out b mie in land, by a deed enrolled in Chancery, as a fund for the perpetual repairs of the great tower. "The poor on this maritime coaft were frequently much diftreffed for want of corn, owing to the convenience the farmers had of exportation. This grievance was alleviated by the erecting of granaries, and receiving a part of our rents in corn. "Once a vcffel was wrecked behind the cattle, and the crew faved; but the unfortunate mafter, after having efcaped the perils of the fea, died of a damp bed in the village. That the like might Dever happen again, all thipwrecked failors (who come) are received here, and supplied with every neceflary, "This was the beginning of our little infirmary, which foon fuggefted the idea of a general difpenfary for the poor, which is particularly ufetul in this part of the country, as there is no other charity of the kind between Edinburgh and Newcable. The vicinity of the Fern iflands, and the want of regular foundings without them, pointed out the convenience of regular filing in a fog; and an oid gun found in the land was ap plied to that purpose, which has anfwered our most finguine expe&tation. "The accidental difcovery of the an tient well pointed out the convenience of baths, and the infirmary required a variety of them. "The number of wrecks, on this particular coaft, of veffels that had run for Holy land harbou, in a form, and had failed of getting into it, and the melancholy fights from the caftle of perfons wrecked on the islands, and ftarving with hunger and coid, together with the fav ge plunde ing of fuch goods, &c, as were diven on thore, in dated the lo ds of the manor to try to give every affiance to velles in diftrefs, and prefniums for faving of l·vęs. "But how are warlike pre, arations confiftent with charitable purpotes? This requires fome explanation. The crews of veffuls in time of war chaled by a privateer are glad to keep as near the thore as they can, and rather run upon it then be taken. Here we have fome uncommon local advantages. The deepnets of the channel between the fhore and the islands, which is fufficient for the largelt th ps, and the narrow De's of that part of it oppofite to us and the elevated fituation of the castle, which an enemy's flip cannot well pats but within gun-fhot, demonftrate the utility of a battery, of which we have al eady had fome experience, and in cafe of a war fhall perhaps have more. "By refiding a good deal here, I had an opportunity of railing the rents of the cltates confiderably, though full with moderation, fo as not to distress the tenants; this railed a farther income for charitable purpotes. But as I can do nothing of myfelf in the truff, without the concurrence of my brethren, if any praise be due, they are entitied to their share of it; for they readily agreed to every proper plan of charity that was proposed to them. But as for thofe improvements which did not frictly come under the denomination of charity, but yet were neceflary for carrying on the repairs of the cattle, and making it babitable, com modious, and more extentively uteful I have hitherto defrayed the expence thefe, out of the clear yearly pronts of the living of Bamburgh, together with fome allitance from my relations and friends. of "Que charity naturally brings on another; and, perhaps, there are few fituations in the kingdom, where to many |