Mr. URBAN,

Sloane-st. Feb. 14.

MR. R. Malone, in noticing a deed executed by Shakspeare, 10th March, in 1612-13, three years before his death, which instrument is now in Mrs. Garrick's possession, makes this observation "Much has been lately said in various publications relative to the proper mode of spelling SnAKSPEAR'S name. He spelt his name himself as I have just now written it, without the middle E. Let this, therefore, for ever decide the question."

The propriety of the omission of the middle E, your Readers will perceive, is further authorized by the passage hereafter extracted from Verstegan's Epistle to the English Nution, dated-"From Antwerpe this 7th Februarie, stilo novo, 1605," more than that eight years previous to the execution of the deed alluded to. "Breakspear, Shakspear, and the like, have been sirnames imposed upon the first bearers of them for valour and feates of Armes." W. P.

Mr. URBAN, Northiam, April 10.

YOUR Correspondent, who signs School, in his remarks upon my letter on Mr. Durham's Evening Lecture at Rolvenden, is wrong in supposing me an advocate either for Extempore Preaching or Evening Lectures, or any sort of innovation on the regular performance of clerical duties in the imanner he approves. If he gives that letter a second perusal, he will find that I merely commended Mr. Durham's zeal in doing what he conceived would best counteract the efforts of the Sectaries in deluding the members of the Establishment; and that I considered it as a questionable point whether such a departure from ecclesiastical order was strictly defensible, although I allowed that, as far as it was found effectual, much might be admitted in its favour; and I expressed that approbation of the Lecture itself (the only one I ever heard from bim) that I thought it justly entitled to; but I beg to assure your Correspondent that I am as much a disciple of the old school as himself, and nearly

of his opinion with regard to the ir regularities of some of the younger parties which may be expected to follow their attendance on these nocturnal meetings; nor do I think it by any means a duty iucumbent on the labouring class of people, who have been employed through the day in their honest and industrious callings, to attend those meetings, instead of going home to their respective fa milies, to renovate their strength, by needful sustenance and an early hour of rest, for the toils of the ensuing day; but where they are so religious ly disposed as to attend a place of worship at such hours, it is better that the church should be open to them, than that they should be com pelled or induced to resort to Tabernacles and dissenting meeting-houses for religious instruction, in doctrines adverse to the principles of the religion they profess or belong to; and such is the popularity of this Lecturer, that, if he chose to assemble them at midnight, I believe he would have a full congregation. I have, most assuredly, nothing to say in vindication of those ministers whom your Correspondent mentions as systemati cally departing from the Liturgy in their performance of divine service, or those who read over our admirable

form of public prayer with a carelessness or haste that betrays their iudifference to its proper effect. This certainly is not a conduct calculated "to preserve the purity of Christian worship, or to support the venerable fabrick on which it is maintained;" nor is your Correspondent warranted by any part of the letter he alludes to, to conceive or represent me, or the Clergyman I have mentioned above, as inclined to justify or ap-prove such practice; and if he will take the trouble to look into a former letter of mine on the observance of Good Friday, the Festival of Easter, and Ascension Day, inserted in your Magazine for June last, p. 527, he will find my sentiments more at large on Extempore Preaching, and the duties of the pastoral office, perfectly concurring with his own. W.B.

In turning over a neat well-written "Treatise" [see page 364], I find the following words in p. 2 ;

"The man who discovers a substitute for so expensive an article (Cochineal), and the mode of using it, this substitute

being the produce of our own territories, and moderate in price, who, without seeking his own exclusive advantage, unreservedly publishes his discovery, may justly claim the gratitude of the Dyers, and the approbation of his Countrymen at large."

Again in pages 8 and 9, I read this

passage:

"The manufacture of this valuable article is certainly worthy the attention and encouragement of Government and the Nation in every point of view; first, because it is the produce of our own ter ritories, and can afford to pay the same duty as Cochineal; secondly, because it will save the nation not less than 200,000l. per ann, in procuring cochineal from foreign countries; again, because it affords a dye equal in splendour and superior in permanency, to cochineal, at one third or one fourth of the expence : thus enabling Government to clothe our troops uniformly, officers and soldiers, with cloth of the same shade, beyond all comparison more beautiful, and more permanent, than the dye at present used for our soldiers' coats, yet equally cheap; again, because it must become a valuable article for export, and tend to enrich us as much as our manufactures of Indigo. In short it would be impossible to enumerate all the advantages to be derived from this source."

On reading these passages, one of the first emotions that arise in the

mind is a desire to know who the in

dividual is, to whom the country is indebted for so valuable a discovery. But the desire becomes infinitely greater, when, to the merit of discovery, he unites the still more transcendant merit of" foregoing his own exclusive advantage, and unreservedly publishing his discovery to the world." I know not whether I might not add, as the general feeling, because it is my own, that the very modesty which seems to cast a cover over his own name, and, perhaps, has commanded Mr. Martin to observe silence with regard to it, raises one's admiration and curiosity tenfold. Mr. Martin of course-must know,and doubtless many of those who are more immediately interested in this discovery are equal ly well acquainted with the author of

April 5.

A VERY well painted portrait has

lately come into my hands, on which is inscribed "Heywood Bickerstaffe, esq. Etat. suce 34, 1632Qui gloriatur in Deo, glorietur; 1 Cor. i. 31." The precise cut of his beard, the starchness of his dress, and a certain look of self-sufficiency in his countenance, bespeak him to be a man of some note; probably a member of parliament.-My own reading does not furnish me with any knowledge of such a person; but some of your numerous readers may, probably, be able to supply me with some particulars of this gentleman's history, or refer me to some channel of information. A COLLECTOR.