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Met. Diaries for Dec. 1811, and Jan. 1812 2,81 Slater's Patent Cooking Apparatus described 33
G. Puttenham, Author of " Art of Poesie"...3 Dr. Lettsom's LXXIIId Letter on Prisons...34
Remark by Killigrew on Kirk's Conduct....ib. Mr. Neild's Remarks on the Poultry Compter 35
Letter of Bp. Atterbury-Westby Family... Notes respecting Mr. Gray and Dr. Bentley 37
Maty's Letter to the Vice-chancellor 1768. 5 West Indies-Proverb ?-Richard Dixon? 38
ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION, NO. CLVIII....ib. Etymology of Whirlpool, Walpole, &c......39
Dr. Milner-Winchester Cathedral
Literary Intelligence-Index Indicatorius...40

Old Church of Alberbury in Shropshire. ..9 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS; viz.

Series of Letters on Acoustics, Letter I...... ib. Mr. Wilmot's Life of Bishop Hough .........41

Capt. Laborne-Titles of Kings of England 12 Bp. Hurd's Edition of Addison's Works......49

Royal Palace at Eltham in Kent described. 13 Dibdin's Bibliomania, continued.....

Lanterns in Churches-Bibliomania.......... 14 Battles of Talavera-Danube, and Barrosa 56

Vincent Corbet, the Father of Bp. Corbet...15 Battle of Albuera-Young's Sermon, &c....58

Fashionable Meaning of precisely and small 16 SELECT POETRY for January 1812.......60-64

Stoney Stanton, Leic.-Hints to Writers, &c. 17 Debates in present Session of Parliament ...65

English Bible-Deuteronomy, chap. xxxii. 20 Interesting Intell. from the London Gazettes 69

Locking of Carriages-Monuments destroyed21 Naval Intelligence-Shipwrecks, &c..........74

The Familes of Mendes and Da Costa 22 Abstract of the principal Foreign Occurrences 76

Antient Branch of Revenue in Scotland......24 News from various Parts of the Country

The Bagpipe?-Scarcity of Bread obviated 25 Domestic Intelligence.....

Dr. Bell's System long known in India ...... 29 Mr. Mainwaring's Address to Grand Jury...85
Vindication of the Princes of Orange.........ib. Preferments-Births and Marriages
Successful Intrepidity of a British Sailor. 27 Biographical Account of Lord Newton
Fellows of Colleges defended-Curious Picture30 Obituary, with Anecd. of remarkable Persons 89
Will of a Husbandman 1519-Dr. Sherwen 31 Prices of the Markets-Bill of Mortality... 95
Controversy respecting Henry VII's Chapel 32 Prices of Stocks for the Month of January. 96
Embellished with Perspective Views of the Churches of ALBERBURY, in SHROPSHIRE,
and STONEY STANTON, in Leicestershire;:,

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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for Jan. 1812. By W. CARY, Strand.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For JANUARY, 1812.

Mr. URBAN, Conduit St. Jan. 7.

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O the late verbal reprint of the Art of Poesie by Puttenham, is prefixed such few particulars as I could glean of the life of the author, and appended thereto some of his poems, for the first time identified, called the Partheniades. Of his Christian name the opinions varied too much, and the authorities in support of both George and Webster were too strong, to decisively reject either. George had been used by Steevens, and Webster by Ames in the Typographical Antiquities, and again by Ritson in the Bibliographia Poetica: to oppose either of these authorities required the discovery of some new testimony, nearly coeval with the author; and which, considering the literary pursuits of the

above writers and others that might

be named of equal credit, there could be little reason to suppose could yet remain uninspected among the Har

leian MSS.

I have to acknowledge, a confidence in the extent of prior researches made me too hastily give place to the name of Webster, which bears little appearance of one baptismally bestowed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and in the present instance may be rejected

as erroneous *. TheAuthor's full name appears, in the following title of a defence of his royal mistress upon the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

"An apologie or true defence of her Mate, honor, and good renowne against all such as haue unduelie sought or shall seek to blemish the same with any injustice, crueltie, or other unprincely behaviour in any parte of her Mats, proceedings against

* We have it cited for a surname, as "Puttenhame or Webster's arte of English poesie." See Letter to J. P. Kemble, esq. involving strictures on a recent edition of John Ford's Dramatie Works, 1811.

the late Scotisch Queene. Be it for her first surprince, imprisonment, process, attaynder, or death.

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By very firme reasons, authorities and examples proveing that her Matie, hath done nothing in the said action against the rules of hono': or armes or orherwise, not warrantable by the law of God and of man.

"Writen by George Puttenham to the service of her Matie, and for large satisfaction of all such persons both princely and private who by ignorance of the case, or partiallitie of mind shall happen to be irresolute and not well satisfied in the said cause.' Harl. MSS. Jos. HASLEWOOD.

Mr. URBAN,

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Jan. 18. HEN at Lisbon in the month of October last, I made the under-written extract and marginal note from an old book, intituled " A Compleat History of Europe from the Treaty of Nimeguen," in the possession of a gentleman there. The note and signature are in the same handwriting. J. FORD,

Lieut. 79th Reg.

<< 1685. But Jefferies was not the in this bloody work; for Kirk, one of his only person that was the king's agent majesty's good officers, had after the Duke's defeat caused 90 wounded men at Taunton to be hanged, not only without permitting their wives and children to speak to them, but with pipes playing, drums beating, and trumpets sounding, and boiled their quarters in pitch to set them up in several parts of the town: though Kirk was positive afterwards, when he was charged with being had instructions, both from the king and concerned in such barbarity, that he his general, to do what he did."

"I was with Kirk during his whole stay at Taunton, where he executed but 19 out of 20; which last number he had orders to hang, signed by my Lord Feversham. MARTIN KILLIGREW."

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Mr. URBAN,

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- Jan. 1.

HE following very interesting Original Letter from Bp. Atterbury, with whose hand-writing you are well acquainted, is not in either of the Editions of his "Epistolary Correspondence." It is indorsed "Late Bp. of Rochester to Mr. Taylor." Yours, &c. M. GREEN.

SIR, Paris, Dec. 14, 1731. You will be surprized, and perhaps a little frightened, to receive a letter from me, after almost nine years' interruption of our correspondence. But the occasion, on my side, is as extraordinary as the attempt, and will, I hope, excuse it. You cannot help being written to by me; nor is there any crime in it, if you reveal to a minister of state the first step of our intercourse, as I desire you would, for my sake as well as your own, in order to your obtaining leave in form to make answer to what I now write, or shall hereafter write on the same subject. It is of such consequence to me to have your advice and assistance in an affair of law now depending, that I shall willingly be at the charge of a sign manual towards procuring it.

Sir, my elder and only brother, lately dead, has dealt more cruelly with me than the Act of Parliament did: for that left me the small temporal fortune I then had, or might afterwards justly expect, in order to keep me abroad from contempt and slarving. But my brother, taking advantage from my circumstances, which he knew would render it difficult for me to question whatever he should do, has endeavoured to withdraw what the Act itself intended I should enjoy, and to strip me, by an unjust will he has made, of the patrimony which by law belongs to me.

A small estate in land, which he possessed, was, in default of issue male from him, entailed on me by my fa

me there with esteem and dearness, after never having shewed any instance of either since I was abroad, or assisted me with one shilling out of his fortune at a time when he did not know but I might have stood in the utmost need of it.

I am under no obligation, therefore, to suffer the unrighteous disposition he has made of an estate given me by my father to take place, if you shall find that my title to it is good, and will allow me your assistance in order to assert it. I am persuaded you will find no obstruction towards procuring leave for this purpose, it being matter of common humanity and justice, and within the intention of the Act.

As soon as you have obtained such leave, I will hope to hear from you;' and in the mean time have desired Mr. Morice to do what can be done at this distance towards laying the proper evidences and instructions before you. He may be of more use in furnishing these upon his return than he can be now; however, I am not willing to lose any time, when I have so little of it left, and my 70th year is (as you know it is) near approaching. Haste, in this case, is requisite, if I hope to be the better for what my father designed me, and thought he had, without wronging any body, conveyed to me in due form of law. If he did so, and it really belongs to me, there is no man of worth and honour who will think it unfit that I should be put, by your assistance, into a condition of obtaining it.

Be pleased to make the steps that are proper in this case, and to add this obligation to the others you have formerly laid on, Sir,

Your most obedient and ever faithful humble servant, FRA. ROFFEN.

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ther. My brother has left no other handsome mural monument in

issue but a daughter of his daughter, who has a good portion assigned her, and inherits beside a good estate from her mother. To all this he has added by his will the bequest of that land which my father, in such an event, gave to him only for life, and to me after his death: and, to alleviate and cover this injustice, he has given me an hundred pounds by a codicil lately added to his will; and has mentioned

the parochial chapel at Ravenfield, near Rotherham, in Yorkshire. It is the only legible inscription now remaining there to an antient and respectable family (the Westbys), that long (during, I believe, some centu ries) resided at Ravenfield, aud in the adjoining hamlet of Firsby; rebuilt (but not to its present extent) the hall house, and owned the estate till

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the year 1749; when Wardel George Westby, esq. (who married an aunt of the earl of Holderness, but had no surviving male issue) disposed of it to Mrs. Elizabeth Parkin of Sheffield, co. York, and of Woolley near Bath. This gentleman and his lady died in London within a few years afterwards, his lady being the survivor. They left an only daughter, but of whom I know no particulars.

If you would be so good as to give the inscription a place in your pages, it will remain a memorial of the family, when the monument, very possibly, may not be. B.

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and placed in the hands of the Patres Scholarum Piarum.

"Tuscany ill cultivated; the product of ten harvests is computed to be spent in seven years.

"Forty-five Professors in the Aca demy of Pisa, divided into three ranks: 1. Theology; 2. Medicine and Philosophy; 3. Canon Law and Civil. To the Professors, the first three years, 351. afterwards 201. added. Teach Euclid, Newton, Locke, Smith, Sanderson, Maclaurin, and Cotes. Greek much neglected. Their Acts and Disputations very trifling."

ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION. No. CLVIII. (REMARKS, &c. continued from p. 518.)

Creeds with the appearances marking the progress of the First Order (as he justly terms it) of the Pointed Style, and says: "During the latter part of the twelfth century a strange mixture of styles prevailed in the numerous ecclesiastical buildings which were then going forward, as might be expected when an old style began to be exploded, and a new one was in the act of formation. This would not have been the case had the latter been copied from established models in Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Spain, or elsewhere." He then enumerates the intermixture of the old and new styles, from St. Cross, and St. Mary Magdalen on the Hill, both near Winchester, raised about the year 1174. "It is matter of evidence that the Pointed arch was used in England a considerable time before any other member which is now considered as belonging to the Pointed Style." The East end of Canterbury Cathedral is then brought into notice: "rebuilt between the years 1175 and 1180, under the direction of William of Sens, and of another architect of the name of William." Then follows some curious information: "It is an incomparable advantage for forming a right idea of the rise of Pointed Architecture in this country, that we are possessed of an accurate comparison made by an intelligent eye-witness, Gervase, a monk of this cathedral, between the choir part of the church built by Lanfranc, who was an architect as well as a prelate, about the year 1085 (and which was burnt down in the year 1174) and the said choir part rebuilt

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