able to talk on philofophical fubje&s with great fluency and precision. Having already trefpaffed too much, Mr. Urban, upon your patience, I shall conclude this account with a fentence of his, which I have extracted from his papers "Human nature has ever been the fame in all ages and nations, and owes the difference of its improvements to a difference only of cultivation, and of the rewards propofed to industry. Where thefe rewards are the most amply provided, there we shall always find the most numerous and shining examples of human perfection. Encourage ment prompts the wit, and expands the genius." Yours, &c. Mr. UREAN, THE J. C. Walfall, May 10. HE Rev. T. Jeffereys, p. 381, was fome years ago minifter of the Calvinia meeting in this town, from which he was discharged for a fuppofed irregularity of moral condu&t. He afterwards preached tome time to a part of the congregation which adhered to him at the Long-room in the Cafileyard. In this room he received ordination from the Rev. Noah Jones, mimister of the old meeting of Walfall. This, at the time, was deemed a fingu lar matter, because Mr. Jeffereys taught the Calvinist doctrine; and Mr. Jones was deemed one of thofe who are called Arians. Soon after this, Mr. Jeffereys took on him to wear a gown; and, when he left Walfall, had the good will of his latter congregation, as well as of the inhabitants in general, who thought he had not been well uted by bis former hearers, as he had formerly been at great pains in collecting fubfcriptions in various places to enlarge the meeting he first preached in here. I cannot fay any farther of him than that it was imagined here that he would Bever be able to complete the work he proposed to publifh. He had meny fubicribers in this town and neighbourhood, but I never heard that he had any money from any of them on that account. On conluiting Viacent's Heraldry (a work mentioned with approbation in your laff, p. 312), I find my account, in a former letter, of Elizabeth Burgh, confirmed; and your correspondent Algis may, by confulting Vincent, p. 472, be informed, that the Gilbert de Clare he mentions, who was flain in Scotland, was brother to Elizabeth, the grand mother of Elizabeth de Burgh, Dame Mr. URBAN, Τ May 3. IT is the oblervation of one of your brother Reviewers, that the famous Richard Baxter contributed, by his inftructions and his zeal, to promote a Spirit of industry as well as of religion in Worceßerhire, in which he effectu ally fucceeded. I have been truck with this remark, which fuggefts another, that the fyftem of faith and doctrine which this memorable man incul cared were orthodox and practical, perfectly confonant to the excellent Dr. Doddridge's character of him: "Baxter is my particular favourite. It is impoffible to tell you how much I am charmed with the devotion, good tenfe, and pathos, which is every where to be found in him. I cannot forbear looking upon him as one of the greateft orators, both with regard to copioutnefs, acuteness, and energy, that the nation hath produced: and if he hath defcribed, as I believe, the temper of his own heart, he appears to have been to far fuperior to the generality of thofe whom we charitably hope to be good inen, that one would imagine God railed him up to difgrace and condemn his brethren; to fhew what a Chriftian is, and how few in the world deserve the character.” (Orton's Life of Doddridge, 2d edir. p. 22.) Your readers are left to inftitute a comparifoa between Richard and his brethren in the prefent century. B. P. May 4. Mr. URBAN, HAVE perused the substance of the additiona: Charter to the Proceedings of the Society for Discoveries in Africa, inftituted 1788 (tee vol. LIX. 585, LX.. 633), as ftated in the Analytical Re view for July, 1792, p. 466; and tind that, in confequence of accounts received from Shavan, an Arab, and the English confus at Tunis and Morocco, Major Houghton, who, 1779, had acted * Does not the writer refer to a paffage in the review of Cookfey's Effay on the Life of Lord Somers, Critical Review for 1791, vol. ii. p. 119? EDIT. pader tive of Job Ben Solomon, high-prieft of Bunda, who was fold for a flave, and redeemed and fent home. At this time the English had James Fort in an island not far up the Gambia, and the French and Portuguese carried on a trade for gold, gum, and flaves. In the fame Collection, p. 304-374, may be feen accounts of Sierra Leone, by William Finch, an English mer chant, 1607; Villault de Bellefond, 1667; Baibot, 1678; Atkins, 1721. Yours, &c. YOUR he P. T. Mr. URBAN, May 6. OUR correfpondent, Tho. Blore, feems to be horridly mortified that cannot perfuade other people to under General Rooke as first major in the ifland of Goree, undertook to penetrate to the Niger by the way of Gambia. He left England, October 10, 1790; arrived at the entrance of the Gambia, November 10; and was well received by the King of Bana, whom he had formerly vifited. He proceeded thence up the river to Guniconda, where the English have a fmall factory; and thence he prepared to pafs with his merchandife to Medina, the capital of the fmall kingdom of Woolli. But, being under fome alarm for his fafety, he croffed the river, and went with much difficulty along the oppofite fide to the diftrict of Cantor, where he re-paffed the river, and was hofpitably entertained by the King of Woolli at his capi-think with him about the ALL of Bp. tal, Medina, which is 900 miles by Tanner's MSS. I will venture to fay water from the entrance of the river that his correfpondent Mr. Namith Gambia. The greater part of it was (whofe letter, by-the-bye, he has not burnt during his ftay there; but the in- communicated to you) will not, from habitants were relieved by their neigh his own knowledge, affirm that all Bp. bours in the town of Barraconda. The T's Collections are not in the Bodleian Major proceeded in five days to the un- library. Nor does his observation in inhabited frontier which feparates the his Preface to the new edition of the kingdoms of Woolli and Bondon. Notitia Monaftica warrant an affertion, Thence he proceeded 150 miles to that the additional notes were not taken Bambuk, arriving firft at the, river Fa- from articles fince lodged there, and leiné. The King of Bambuk had been there at prefent. I fay no more, but defeated by the King of Bondon, who leave the ifiue to the publick, who are had derived from the English fupplies, certainly very competent judges of the which the other, fince the defection of plans and propofals for pubhithing counFather Jofeph by the French, could ty hiftories, as well as the mode of exenot obtain. The account concludes cution adopted by fome writers, among with the Major's preparation for his whom Mr. Blore cannot be included, journey to Tombaitoo, to which a re- unlets fingle bundreds and fingle walk1pectable old merchant of Bambuk had bers differ nothing from whole volumes, undertaken to carry him, and bring him or there be no difference between a back by the Gambia to Jukilund. His careful attention to the arrangement of laft difpatch is dated July 24. materials between the time of iffuing proposals and that of delivering out the work, and the thifting and changing the propofais themfelves five or fix times over, with which nobody charges Mr. Blore. If Mr. Nafmith fet Mr. Blore right about the reference for Lokhay, it is more than he did for the publick in his new edition of the Notitia Monaftica, where he has left Barrow in the fame county where Bishop Tanner and Mr. Gough found it. R. S. G. On looking into Afiey's Collection of Voyages, II. 140-158, I find that the French fent out the Sieur Brue on the fame difcovery, 1698. He proceeded along the Falerné to Bambuk; erected Fort St. Jofeph 1700, which was destroyed 1714, and re-inftated again by him; but the defign finally failed 1727. Our own countrymen, Thompson and - Jobfon, about 1618, went up the Gam bia to Barracond; Stibbs, 1724, twenty leagues farther. Capt. John Leach's map of the river, 1732, reaches only to Barrakunda. The accounts of Jobfon and Moore are re-printed in Aftley's Collections, II. 174, 304 In the latter's narrative is interwoven the narra * This name is not mentioned in older accounts. 5 Mr. URBAN, May 7. WISH as much as Clericus Cornabienfis, p. 317, to fee" The prefent State of Queen Anne's Bounty," first or fecond edition. I prefume his statement is taken from the return made by the Governors pursuant to an order of the House of Lords, 1736, folio; fince which, which, if I am rightly informed, no returns have been made. Is not the plan of St. Catharine's chapel, near Guilford, a long fquare? P. 321. P. 312, col. 1, l. 18, read file; 1. 20, Hamo; 1. 21, Brayboef; 1. 44, venerable town; 1. 46, outworks, Archbp. Abbot's portrait. The figure engraved in pl. III. fig. 3, p. 322, is the common ornament of altars in churches and chapels. The font at St. Martin's, Canterbury, was not engraved among others, in the Xth volume of Archæologia, because it had already been engraved by Francis Perry, 1760; and, as you obferve, in the Bibl. Top. Brit. XLV. pl. XIII. both which views are to unlike it, and fuperior to Mr. Nixon's, that I am furprifed you admitted it. P. 324, col. 2, 1. 6, read Bufcbing. 325, col. 1, l. 13, read an Howard. 329, col. 1, 1. 37 read Polybium and fcribit. 334, col. a, l. 13, read Antiquity. Yours, &c. YOU D. H. Mr. URBAN, April 5. YOUR readers may not be displeafed to fee the editor's advertisement and the table of contents of "A Selection from the Harleian Mifcellany of Tracts, which principally regard the English Hiftory, of which many are referred to by Hume;" a republication which must be highly acceptable to the reader of Enghh hiftory, and of which your reviewers have given a favourable account, p. 159. ADVERTISEMENT."The fcarcity and high price of the Harleian Mifcellany has induced the editor of the following work to offer it to the publick. It is compofed of a feletion of thofe pieces which regard our own history, and which have been chiefly arranged in chronological order. The vohime contains in quantity one-fixth of the mifcellany, and the price of it is a guinea, only one-twelfth of what the original work now fells for." CONTENTS. "The life of King William the First, funamed The Conqueror-The life of King Edward the Second-The life and death of Edward furnamed The Black Prince-The history of Perkin WarbeckThe life and death of Cardinal Wolfey-An epistle of Henry VIII. on being cited by the Pope and the Emperor to appear before a general council-Love-letters from Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn; and two letters from Anne Boleyn to Cardinal Wolfey; with her last to Henry VIII.--The beggar's pection against popery-The life and death of Robert Earl of Ellex-Fragmenta regalia; or, obfervations on the late Queen Elizabeth, her times and favourites-Gowrie's confptracy-England's mourning garment; to the memory of Queen Elizabeth: to which is added, the true manner of her imperial fu neral-The shepherd's Spring foog, in gratulation of King James I.-Demeanour and lation of Sir Walter Raleigh's troubles-The carriage of Sir Walter Raleigh-A brief reprerogative of parliaments in England, proved and a juftice of peace-The hiftory of the in a dialogue between a counfellor of ftate gunpowder treafon-Difcourfe of the most illuftrious Prince Henry, fon of King James【. Letter from Sir Charles Cornwallis to Lord Digby, on the marriage that should have been made between the Prince of England and the Infanta of Spain-The forerunner of revenge-A fhort view of the life and death of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham-The five years of King James; or the condition of the ftate of England, and the relation it had to other provinces-A brief relation of paffages and fpeeches in the Star-chainter, at the cenfure of Dr. Baftwicke, Mr: Burton, and Mr. Prynne-Two fpeeches spoken by the Earl of Manchester and John Pym, Efq. as a reply to his Majefty's answer to the City of London's petition-A view of the reign of King Charles I.-The King's cahinet opened; or, certain pacquets of fecret letters and papers taken in the King's cabinet at Nafeby-field-Hiftory of the life and death of Oliver Cromwell-A true narrative of the occafions and caufes of the late Lordgeneral Cromwell's antwer and indignation against Lieutenant-colonel George JoyceThe Lord-general Cromwell's fpeech. dehvered in the council-chamber, July 4, 1653— efcape from the battle of Worcester-News A narrative and relation of King Charles I.'s from Pembroke and Montgomery-A relation of Major-general Sir Thomas Morgan's progress in France and Flanders-An account of the burial of King Charle: 1. and of Oliver Cromwell-The world's mitke in Oliver Cromwell-A narrative of the late parliaments, &c.-A fecond narrative of the late parliament-England's joy; or, a relation of the most remarkable paffages from Charles II.'s arrival at Dover to his entrance at Whitehall-The trial, and condemnation of the regicides-Two letters by the Earl of Clarendon-The humble peition and addreis of the Earl of Clarendon-An account of the reafons which induced Charles II, to declare war against the Dutch-Obfervations on the burning of London-The Papifts bloody oath of fecrecy, &c.—A brief account of many memorable patlages of the life and death of the Earl of Shaft:bury-A letter to a perfon of honour, on the King's difavowing the having been married to the Duke of Monmouth's mother-Lord Churchill's letter to the King-The expedition of the Prince of Orange for England-A relation of the proceedings of the forces of King William and Queen Mary against the French in the West Indies-A letter concerning a French invafion to reflore King James to the throne-Political remarks on the life and reign of King William III.-Bishop Spratt's relation of the wicked contrivance of Ste phen Blackhead and Robert Young, against the lives of feveral perfons-A view of the court of St. Germain, from 1690 to 1695A letter to a new member of the Houfe of Commons, on the embezzlement and mifmanagement of the kingdom's treasure." A copious index would have added much to the ufefuinefs of this curious and interefting publication. Mr. Agutter, in his "Chriftian Politicks, or, the Origin of Power, and the Grounds of Subordination, preached at All Saints, Northampton, September 28, 1792," as an oppofer of Republicanifm, has my concurrence, though I have feen abler refuters of the pernicious doctrine. One would think the measures purfued by the French to establish fuch a fyftem in thefe days must make every confiderate man heartily fick of the principleswhether he is read in the hiftory of antient republicks or not. Q. Q Mr. URBAN, Appleby, May 5. WHE THEN we perufe the memoirs of men difinguished for learning, valour, or virtue, we feel fomewhat interested in the most trivial events of their lives, and thirst after a difcovery of any unknown or unexplained circumftance, left in fuch ftate by the faithful biographer, rather than, by hafty and unfounded conclufions, lead his reader into error, and render his veracity obnoxious to fufpicion. But fuch is not the cafe with the biographer of the great Dr. Johnlon; who hath faithfully and diligently collected, with a care the most reverential and affectionate, many valuable, though detached, particulars of that unrivalled fcholar. Many are irrecoverably loft; but there are fufficient remaining to convey his fame to the remoteft pofterity. It is recorded, that a fchoolmaster of eminence once obferved, "he was very near having that great man for his fcholars" but this was in his days of obfcurity; for, as Mr. Bofwell obferves +, "Could the world have forefeen what was to attend his emergence from that obfcurity, his attempts of a fchool at Edial had better fucceeded.” *Bofwell's Johnson, vol. I. p. 16, + Ibid. p. 45 . To which I may add, his degree of M. A. obtained without difficulty, and Appleby fchool honoured by his ap pointment to the head-maftership. I was led into thefe obfervations by by "Earl Gower to a Friend of Dean particularly attending to a letter written Swift+;" where fome of Dr. Johnfon's friends appear affiduous in procuring for him the head-masterfhip of a school then mentioned; but it is not mentioned where this fchool was fituated; though fuppofed by Mr. Bofwell to be in Staffordshire; and in a note at the bottom, by Mr. Pope, in Shrophire. It being evident that one must be erro. neous, if not both, I compared time and circumstance together, in order to difcover whether the fchool in queftion might not be this of Appleby. Some of the trustees at that period were "wor Lichfield." Appleby itlelf is not far thy gentlemen of the neighbourhood of from the neighbourhood of Lichaeld. The falary, the degree requifite, toge ther with the time of eledion, all agreeing with the ftatutes of Appleby. The election, as faid in the letter, "could not be delayed longer than the 11th of the next month," which was the 11th of September, juft three months after the annual audit-day of Appleby fchool, which is always on the 11th of June; and the ftatutes enjoin ne ullius præcep torum ele&tio diuius tribus menfibus moraretur, &c. Thefe I thought to be convincing proofs that my conjecture was not illfounded, and that, in a future edition of that book, the circumftance might be recorded as fact. But what banishes every fhadow of doubt is the Minute-book of the fchool, which declares the head-mastership to be at that time VACANT. J. HENN. Ι A. B. more. The academy at Daventry, fcribed to the Fellows; and to be informed, whether that oath was taken Northamptonshire, is alfo broken up. be thofe Fellows who voted against the I am a moderate and candid Diffenter, Founder's kin; whether the Oath has though above twenty years ago I was been fince abolished; and whether the Vifitor ever faw the Oath? extremely ill-ufed by a very fmail fociety, whofe fubfcription, though I had a wife and numerous family, was continually diminishing. The Prefbyte rians neglect their fcholars. To fay nothing of myfelf, they treated infa moufly Dr. Taylor, of Norwich, the immortal author of the Paraphrafe upon the Romans, as may be feen in my funeral fermon occafioned by his death. With what difrefpect and neglect they ufed the great and good Dr. Lardner is fully manifefted in Dr. Kipp:s's Memoirs of his Life. The Diffenters are too generally governed by the vox et præterea nibil. With regard to the fpeedy diffolution of the New College at Hackney, the old adage has proved too true, Quos Deus, &c. thofe whom Mr. URBAN, Hyde-fireet, Bloomsbury, May 17. WAS greatly diftreffed in my melancholy confinement by a paper in your left Magazine, which announces to the publick the approaching downfal of the New College at Hackney. As it is to be broken up this Midfummer, a gentleman offered 8,000l. for the premifes; but the prop jetors and agents afked 10,cool. fenfe, what did the Diffenters mean In the name of good five a future? They have ruined the by erecting fo magnificent and expeninftitution by fetting out in too fuperb a Ayle, God is willing to ruin, he first blafts fimplicity of the Diffenters. How did their understanding. This is abfolutely they ever imagine that it could be fup- the very laft paper I fhall fend to your ufeful Mifcellany, as I do not expect to live from one week to another, and cannot get out of bed, or get into it, po:ted in the prefent age of extravagance and expence? The rich Diffenters, being generally merchants and tradefmen, fend their fons to boarding- without help. Yesterday I have been schools or private schools, where they deprived of my left fide for eleven years. teen; where they learn nothing, being affliction and difirefs, continue till they are fourteen or fif. I am your obliged old friend, in much fometimes better fed than taught; when they are taken into the counting houfe or put behind a counter. The fons of EDWARD HARWOOD. Mr. URBAN, May 21. the poor or middle clafs of Prefbyteri.THE fketch of Old Sandwich in your ans are educated for minifiers, for whofe lait has a fufficient refemblance to to believe that the picture, from fupport a fund is neceffary. None of that place in its prefent ftate to induce the rich families bring up their fons for Prefbyterian parfons: they have too which I conjecture it was taken, is an me dom. What the rational D:ffenters will feeing, near thirty years ago, at the now do, in the education of their fons for the ministry, I know not. few years past threescore, and have feen Sandwich in its antient flate, with the wonderful revolutions with regard to Diffent ng academies. The academy at Kendal, in Rocheram, Weftmorland, kept by Dr. man, perished at his death. The acaa learned and intelligent demolished on the 13th of October, 1661, as appears by an extract from the register in Mr. Boys's Hiftory. Being a native of Sandvich, and having left it early. in life, I was much gratified by that demy at Taunton, kept by Mr. Grove, and afterwards by Dr. Amory, was discontinued upon his removal to Lon- publication, and feel myfelf interested in every thing relative to the place. If completely ruined by building feveral you do me the favour to infert this, ftately ftru&ures, by being not able to perhaps your correfpondent will take raife money adequate to the pomp of the trouble to inform me, in a future kept by the ingenious and pious Mr. Towgood and Mr. Merrivale, is now no GENT. MAG. May, 1793. The late academy at Exeter, was from the picture I have mentioned, number, whether the sketch he fent you 4 or what other, and the reafon he has to doubt of its originality. Yours, &c. Mr. |