"Sweet ferepe skye-like flower, Hafte to adorn her bower:

From thy long clowdy bed,
Shoot forth thy damafke head!
"New-ftartled blush of Flora ! ·
The grief of pale Aurora,

Who will conteft no more;
Hafte, hafte to ftrowe her floore !"

An Ode to Lucasta opens in the following exquifite manner :

"Ah, Lucasta, why so bright! Spread with early ftreaked light! If ftill vailed from our fight, What is 't but eternal night ?"

The 5th ftanza is thus:

"Lucafta! ftay! why dost thou flye?
Thou art not bright but to the eye,
Nor chafte, but in the marriage-tye,
Nor great, but in this treasurie,
Nor good, but in that fanétitie.”

I will give one more fpecimen, and then have done :

"TO ELINDA, that lately I have not written.
"If in me anger, or difdaine
In you, or both made me refraine
From th' noble intercourse of verse,
That only vertuous thoughts rehearse;
Then, chafte Ellinda, might you feare
The facred vowes that I did fweare.
"But if alone fome pious thought
Me to an inward fadneffe brought,
Thinking to breathe your foule too well,
My tongue was charmed with that spell;
And left it (fince there was no roome
To voyce your worth enough) strooke
dumbe.

"So then this filence doth reveale
No thought of negligence, but zeale:
For, as in adoration

This is Love's true devotion,

Children and fooles the words repeate,
But anch'rites pray in teares and fweate."
Yours, &c. CLIFFORDIENSIS.

D. O. M.

The foffil-ftone beneath
covers the remains of CATHARINA,
wife of JOHN THORPE, 'M. A. F.S.A.
Pray disturb not her ashes"

This foffil-ftone was brought from Cocklefhell bank, near Green-ftreet Green, or from fome bank of a fimilar kind in Bexley parish, whofe ftrata are minutely defcribed in Antiquities within the Diocele of Rochefter, fubjoined to Cufumale Roffenfe, pp. 254, 5. As Mr. Thorpe died at Chippenham, it cannot be matter of furprize that he should be averfe to giving his friends the trouble of conveying his remains more than an hundred miles. But why did not the tree lie where it fell, instead of being drawn a few miles to Harden Huish Confidering the short refidence of my worthy friend in Wilts, Harden Huish muft have been to him a novel parish. But, perhaps, fome information he had acquired refpecting its antient hiftory, or fome veftiges he had traced of a teftaceous foil, might occafion his chufing this fpot for a place of interment. He was, as you have truly observed, on Antiquarian topicks, almost an enthufi aft; and, in this inftance, he might be willing to fhew

He felt his ruling paffion strong in death.

When, by his direction, a foffil of marine exuvia was made the keyftone of the fepulchral vault in Bexley churchyard, it doubtlefs was his intention that it fhould cover, and keep undisturbed, the duft of John Thorpe, as well as the afhes of Catharina. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

W. & D.

Nov. 2.

SOME poems by the Rev. Thomas Warwick have been lately printed in a fmall Collection of Poems, faid to have been chiefly written by gentlemen of Devonshire and Cornwall. As the pieces by Mr. Warwick have much merit, it is with great regret that I inform your correfpondent K. Z. that he erred in placing Mr. Warwick in the Lift of living Poets (p. 691), Mr. Warwick having died before that lift appeared.

George Keate, efq. (p. 505), is married to the only filter of Sir Charles Greaves Hudson, bart. a scientific and accomplished woman.

William

William Hayley, efq. married the youngest daughter of the late Dr. Ball, Dean of Chichefter, a lady of very fu perior attainments, that a fuppofition has gone abroad in the world of her ha ving affifted her husband in compofing fome of his best poems,

na.

Whilft Dr. Wolcott (p. 690) refided in the West Indies, he published fome pieces full of fire, intituled, "Weft-Indian Eclogues ;" and he certainly had better have confined himself to that line. Eyles Irwin, efq. (p. 691), is now gone in Lord Macartney's fuite to ChiIn 1780, he published "A Series of Adventures in the Courfe of a Voy. age up the Red fea," &c.; a work fo very romantic and flowery (though entertaining), that one cannot help fufpecting him of having availed himself of a liberty that is very allowable in poetry, and of having given too much way to the influence of a poetic imagination. In this volume are introduced, An Ode to the Defart, and another to the Nile. Besides thefe pieces, Mr. Irwin has published a poem, called, "St. Thomas's Mount," and one intituled, "Bedukah." I hope K, Z. will favour us with a lift of the living poeteffes. BLONDEL.

Mr. URBAN, Kirby Moorfide, O&. 20.
HE inclofed fketch of the action

on the fpot by Mr. George Harwood, of the Adjutant-general's Office, Feb. 6, 1792, having been prefented to me by a friend lately arrived in the Camden, I fend it for the illuftration of the action described in p. 659, &c.; and am, Yours, &c. C.

Mr. URBAN, Howden, Aug. 20. D., F the gentleman who figns D. 4, p. 624, will favour me with his addrefs, I fhall think myfelf happy in the communication of the plan of my intended Hiftory of Wrefile Castle, and the parish of Hemingbrough.

Inclofed I fend you the copy of an infcription (pl. I. fig. 2) on a large blue ftone in Howden church, which has been frequently misreprefented; it relates to Walter de Kirkham, Bishop of Durham, who, dying at Howden, according to Mr. Hotchinson's Hiftory of Durham, vol. I. p. 213, on the 9th day of August, 1260, was there emboweled, and his bowels buried in this church.

Can any of your correfpondents inform me where the register of the family

of the Methams may be met with, which is referred to by Burton, in his Monaf ticon Eboracenfe, p. 481, note d.

Yours, &c. JA. SAVAGE

THE CHRONICLES OF THE SEASONS, ENTOMN entered amid the blue 'NWRAPT in fombrous gloom, tering of wind, and the rattling of hail. In the fhort fpace between the fun's enfrance into Libra, and the first day of the fucceeding month, occurred ice, hail-forms, hurricanes, driving howers, glooms, damps, heavy falls of rain, frofts, and vefperine irradiations of refplendent fun-fhine. St. Michael's way was lightly frewed with leaves of lime, acacia, walnut, apple, plumb, pear, and cherry; and much windfal-fruit lay proftrate before him. Yet with decay had begun renovation: already had the filberd-trees and hazel put forth kat kins, and the knee-holly flower-buds; the daffodilis and giant-nowdrops now emerged, and the dwarf hazels bioffomed. Had the apples which compofed the fauce been as good after their kind as the geefe were after theirs, we should have ate Michaelmas goofe in the highest perfection, the wetnefs of the year having preferved thofe birds in uninterrupted health. Not fo, the confined finging-birds; among them, prevailed, at moulting time, a mortality more gene

tended to their wild congeners is a doubt not readily refolvable; though, if it did, thofe at large probably derived relief from feeds ipecifically appropriated by nature. Mushrooms were not fearce, but fo tough and bitter, that no culinary fkill could make them eatable in any manner.

In the beginning of October, the cabbage-butterflies difappeared, but not till the caterpillar-offipring of the early fwarms had effected the anatomization of all the cabbages, created a fcarcity of cauliflower-plants, and began upon the turnip-tops; but the evil might have been abated, and the number that may be expected (if the winter prove moderate) next year diminished, if children had been fet and encouraged to destroy them. One fource of the wretchedness and idleness of the poor is their not beginning early enough to train children in habits of utility, by felecting for them fuch employments as their ftrength is equal to. Instead of this, till the boys are hale enough to tend a team, and the girls to make hay, their whole time

is wafted in indolence and mischief. The obftruction to employ found in the children's volatility might be easily removed by teaching them to confider their garments and their meals as the rewards of their industry, and by plaeing the aged men and women to fuperintend them. One old woman might manage a dozen; efpecially if he were allowed to portion out to them their daily bread, and to recompence extraordinary diligence with apple-dumplins and hafty puddings. So uncongenial was the weather, that quite in the beginning of the month the ladies found occafion for the furry fpoils of lynxes, foxes, raccoons, rabbits, hares, moles, cats, and fit chets. Juftly does Sturin affirm, that all things in the kingdom of nature tend to the ule and fervice of the human fpecies. Thus does even the ferocious lynx, that the favage hardly dares approach; thus does even the fetid fitchet, that the clown will fcarcely touch, contribute to the ornament, the comfort, and the health, of the delicate and tasteful females of Great Britain! This is the fact; though, in regard to the fitchet, many ladies probably fuppofe, that the animal fo called is one of the rare natives of the frozen-zone; and, poffibly, thefe ladies would fhrink with horror, did they know that the fitchet is no other than the loatbfome polecat of their own counary; the co of which, by the ingenuity of the furrier, is rendered worthy of defending, in the form of tippets and bojem friends, the fnowy bofoms of the proudeft beauties, and of being feen even in the ball-room of St. James's! Never was contraft greater than the one between the October of last year (fee p. 424.) and the October of the prefent. In this, the country an eftuary, ponds and rivers confiderably overflow. ed, luxuriant crops of hay and clover rotting in the water; beans and barley Spoiling for want of opportunity to cut and carry them; fheep and cattle becoming fickly from the redundancy of moisture; the operations of the fpade and plough retarded by the wetness of the ground; and every road a poach. Such was the fituation of the country *An article of drefs introduced last win ter, confifting of an oblong piece of fur doubled fquare, to place under a lady's neckkerchief when the is about leaving a warm room, and juftly entitled to the appellation it bears, being admirably calculated for preventing thofe pulmonary complaints, that are so fool contracted, and to rarely cured.

in that month that is ufually the drieft of the twelve! Of thefe circumftances, many were peculiarly unfortuitous at a period when England was fupplying the ravaged Continent with bread, and was feeding thoufands of refugees who had reforted to her bofom for fecurity. By the unfortunate concurrence, the prices of all neceffaries increased exceffively and rapidly, infomuch that thoughtful people regarded the approach of winter with great anxiety. Whilft famine was thus threatening, the industrious gypfies were epicurizing-epicrizing upon fnails, thofe animals conftituring an article of epicurifm in the diet of that femi-barbarous fraternity. Never were fo many fnails and flugs before. feen in the memory of man. They abounded greatly, and in most of their varieties during the fummer; but in the autumn, by the addition of the young, their number was increafed ten-fold. For their food, they, in the gardens, fe= lected the lettuces, leaving the plants of endive untouched: perhaps, the foporific quality of the lettuce is particu larly appofite to the heavy temperature of the fnail; and it is remarkable, that, at the Roman tables, lettuces and fnails were concomitants; but, were the fashion to come up here, it could not be this winter, fince all the former have been devoured by the latter.

Very few indeed were the fair days in this month; even when the wind was Eafterly, the weather was fhowery; and often, at the fame time, prevailed the dry, thin, pink haze, that fmells like a hot oven; a kind of haze fo tranparent, that the moon fhines through it without the leaft obfcuration. Ŏn the evening of the 13th appeared a moft luftrous aurora, which lafted feveral hours: in the Eaft, it affumed a stedfaft red; in the South, a vivid green; but in the other quarters, and in the zenith, fafhed in ftreams of glory. But, alas! this grand difplay of heavenly fplendour was followed by deluging defcents of rain, by furious hurricanes, by thunder, and by lightning which feveral phænomena prevailed at intervals for eight or nine days. During this period, the troublous atmosphere exhibited a variety of thofe beautiful tints that have been expatiated on with fo much ingenuity, and imitated with fo much tafte, by the amiable forefter of Boldre. But it is obfervable, that the declining foliage appeared not this Autumn in its wonted full degree of richnets; a circumstance,