The Manor Farm had formerly an admitted claim of turning all live lock on Woolmere Foreft at proper fealous, except fheep; for, being clofe grazers, they would rice out the finest graffes, and hinder theeer from thriving: for this privilege the owner paid the King annually feven bushels of oats. The Manor is now the property of Francis Love Beckford, efq.; the Manor-house and demefne lands called Le Court having been fold off from the Manor in 1577 to Mr. Lewkner. The Church appears to have been erected about the fifteenth century, and confits of a fingle Nave, with a Chancel extending beyond it. The fimplicity of the building attracts our notice; and much may be faid in favour of its fequeflered fituation, in the midst of the village. On entering the Porch, we perceive the following grotefque denunciation in large letters over the door : "Avoid, profane man; come not here; Adjoining to the pulpit against the South wall is placed a fumptuous tomb, with the following infeription:" To the memorie of Dame Margerie Caryll, who, having fvre confidence in the merits of our Saviovr Jéfvs Chrift, departed this life with great covrage and comfort the II daie of Maie, anno D'ni 1632, in the 40th yecare of her age. This vertvovs ladie was the wife of Sir Richard Caryll, of Harting, knight; with whome the lived feven geeres, and after his death: continved his widowe all the time of her life, being the space of fixteen, yeeres, Thov marble tombe, though long t may'ft endure, [myre; And doft within an honor'd corps imYet, rais'd and freed, thy pris'ner GOD fhall fee, [bee; When thov for ever fhalt demolish'd A Jewell, then, of price thov doft containe, Imaine. When thov confvm'd for ever shalt reJohannes Love cognatus devotiffimus." On the oppofite fide is the following infcription to the memory of a pious and excellent Clergyman, who always proved himself fincere in the cause of a Religion, and warm with fentiments of Humanity: "Near this place are interred the remains of the Rev. Richard Newlyn, Bachelor of Civil Law, and Vicar of the Pariches of Rogate and Empfhot. As a Di 1 vine he adorned his station with undeviating integrity and unaffected piety; in Social Life, with purity of manners he happily connected a propriety of expreffion and pleafing affability; his actions, the refult of a confiderate mind, exactly correfponded with the juftnefs of his fentiments. He died May 25, 1772, aged 74. In the adjoining grave are depofited the remains of Beata the wife of Rich. Newlyn, who died the 24 of July, 1778, aged 69." The large yew-tree in the Churchyard extends its fable branches over the mouldering graves; and, having withflood feveral ages, remains a pleafing monument of antiquity. RECTORS. Edmund Yalden, in 1728. Richard Newlyn died 1772. Edmund White, prefent Rector. Greetham is valued in the King's books at 61. 5s. 10d. Yearly Tenths, 12s. 7d. and dedicated to St. John the Baptift. FATHER PAUL. Jan. 17. L Mr. URBAN, Goldthorpe, Yorkshire, ONE of my neighbours, a poor ho neft man, applied to me the other day for my advice in an affair on which I am certainly unqualified to affift him. The matter is this:-My neighbour is, undisputedly, the Heir-at-law of an Aunt, who died about 17 years ago. poffeffed of a freehold entailed estate of confiderable value. He is her only near relation; and he was, when young, her favourite. He has refided, fince eight or nine years before her death, here, about 200 miles from her neighbourhood; and having no correfpondence there, he did not know of her death till lately. On going there, he found that The had, on being teafed on her deathbed, made a will, and given the eftare to a very diftant Relation, on a wilful mifreprefentation of his death-that that Relation took poffeffion, in confequence of the will, without any oppofition; had immediately levied a fine of it, and, about five or fix years afterwards, had fold a confiderable part of it for betwixt 1500l. and 2000). My Leighbour, on paying a vifit to this diftant relation to obtain redrefs, met with the groffeft ill treatment. Indeed that might have been expected, confidering the means by which the eftate had been acquired. Now, Mr. Urban, as I find myself quite unfit to advife in this matter about the vefted by Law in the Corporate Bodies being adequate to the correction of the exifling abutes, it be recommended to Dr Harrifon to endeavour to afcertain, by proper enquiries, the real extent of fuch powers, and their competency to effect the defired purposes. 3. That this Commitee do highly approve of the zeal fhewn by Dr. Harrifon in collecting evidence of the va rious abufes in phyfick, and the fentiments of the Profeffion on the fubject of Reform. the poffibility of obtaining redrefs by legal means, perhaps fome of your Correfpondents who are able, will do it for me, in behalf of a poor, but worthy, labouring man, with a numerous young family, indebted for fupport entirely to his industry. I have ftated the cafe as exactly and truly as I am able. That my neighbour is the Heir, that the eftate was entailed in his Aunt, and that The never barred the entail, is, I believe, undoubted, or rather undifputed. Ap"plication has been made to legal gentlemen hereabouts; but their opinions are s various nothing pofitive can be obtained. Some fay the eftate may be recovered; others that it cannot. Surely, Mr. Urban, a poor man is not thus to -be wronged out of his right. I have ever underflood, that permitting perfons legally entitled to entailed eftates to bar the entail was formerly always looked upon as a violent extenfion of the rules of law in favour of liberty; and furely it cannot be so easy a thing now, that perfons no ways entitled, quite indifferent as it were, can do it, and that too in prejudice of the right-WITH the battle of Austerlitz, the ful owner. Our Laws, fo celebrated 4. That, as it is defirable the fulleft information should be obtained refpecting the flate of the Profeffion in every part of the United Kingdom, and the means of remedying its abufes, Practitioners be ftill invited to tranfmit to Dr. Harrison, through the channel * already pointed out, any further communications that may appear to them likely to elucidate the fubject, and to promote the objects in view. CHARACTER OF MR. PITT; ΊΤΗ Confederation against France tèrminated; and with that terminated, allo, the political career and the life of Mr. Pitt; a Statefmian to whom it would be unjust to deny the endow ments of extraordinary talents, and the praife of having improved thofe talents, in fome departments, to a moft uncommon degree. But these accomplishments, which ought to have rendered him a benefactor to his Country, were, unfortunately, fubfervient to Aug. 18, 1807. one predominating paffion, which not A appointed to conduct the proceed- but converted tiem into implements Ta meeting of the Committee only counteracted their good effects, CLERICUS. ings relating to Medical Reforin, held at the houfe of Dr. Garthshore; Dr. Harrifon having laid before them a great number of additional anfwers to his Circular Letter received fince the laft meeting of the Committee, as well from the Corporate Bodies as individuals, and the fame having been read; Refolved, 1. That the communications laid before the Committee this evening afford abundant proofs of the deplorable ftate of Society, in being expofed to the injuries refulting from a numerous race of unqualified prac titioners, and the confequent difcouragement of well-educated members of the Faculty. 2. That, as doubts are entertained with regard to the powers at prefent of danger and destruction. This paffion he inherited from his father, who cherifhed it in the early years of his fon, and directed his infant gaze towards that eminent Ration which he had himfelf once occupied. In his education, nothing was left undone that could qualify him to attain this abject; and no one certainly ever entered into public life with equal advantages. There is, however, an efletitial difference be "tween thofe qualities which are calculated to obtain power, and those which enable us to make a proper use of it. Unfortunately, the fyftem of education *The addrefs is, "To Dr. Harrifon, under cover to George Harrison, Efq. Treafury, London.” of ་ of Mr. Pitt was, in politicks, that which Lord Chesterfield's is in private life. It was founded on too natawa bafis, and aimed too directly at its oboject. A cultivated mind and a humane difpofition will render their poffeffor truly polite, found principles and a real love of mankind, truly patriotic; - but, without thefe, neither the politenefs nor the patriotism are any thing more than a whited fepulchre. The fyftem was, however, fuccefsful; the young Orator, began his career in a manner the beft calculated to difplay his powers. As he spoke, the hopes of Freedom revived; Corruption fhrank before his glance; and the Nation hailed him as her deliverer: but no fooner was the prize within his grafp, than he feized it with an eagerness, and retained it with a tenacity, which all the efforts of his opponents could neither impede nor relax. Having thus obtained the fupreme power, the talents which had acquired it were, employed, with equal fuccefs, to preferve it. The correction of abufes; the removal of peculation and corruption; the reform of the Reprefentation, the extenfion of Religious and Civil Liberty; were now no longer the objects in view; or were only re-, called at ftated periods, to fhew with what dexterity the Minifter could blaft his promife without breaking his faith.. Well fchooled in all the routine and arcana of office, an adept in the fcience of finance and taxation, Mr. Pitt's great accomplishment was, a thorough : knowledge of the artificial aud complex machine of Government; and his great defect, a total infenfibility id the feelings of mankind, and a thorough ignorance of the leading principles of human nature. Unfortunately for his fame, and for his country, new tua tions arofe, to which the hackneyed rules of narrow policy were totally inapplicable. " A powerful Nation, whofe davery had for ages been its reproach, threw off its fhackles, and attempted to form for itfelf a limited Monarchy, It was Mr. Pitt's first misfortune to be infen fible to the grandeur of fo glorious a ftruggle; his fecond, to mifcalculate its confequences. The first act of France was, to hold out her emancipated hands to the free States of England and of America ; but the coldness of the Minifter foon convinced her that, in this Government, she was not to expect a 66 friend. That coldness foon degenerated into enmity and abhorrence; and; through every change of circumftance and fituation, through all the evolutions and forms of her Government, whether monarchical, republican, arif tocratical, or defpotic, the found in him a decided and an inflexible enemy. With what fuccefs his hoftility has been attended) impartial Hiftory will fhew. Whether the atteinpt was to march to Paris," to "rettore the Fa mily of Bourbon;" to "reftrain the French within the limits of their own dominion;" or, " to tiarve them into fubjection;" in whatever way our enmity has been demonftrated, it has failed of its effect. To affert, however, that thefe efforts have failed, is wholly inadequate to the proper ftatement of the fact. They have not only failed of their object; but have been the pofitive and active caufe of the continued union, and confequent triumph, of the French Nation. To what circumftance is it to be attributed, that a people fo teftlefs in their difpofition, fo changeful in their views, thould have been uned together, through all the variations of their government, and have acted in all their external relations with one heart, and as one man to what, but the continued preffure of exterior force? to the fucceffive combinations, formed, under the auspices of Mr. Pitt, to compel them to fubmiflion? That France has fuffered in the conteft; that her belt blood has flowed upon the fcaffold; that the Luminaries of Science have been extinguifhed, and the brightest gems of the human intellect trampled under foot that jealoufy, ambition, cruelty, and revenge; have acted their dreadful parts in dwful fucceffion, and have produced a lcene of calamity unexampled in hiftory, is but too true; but, fuch was the price that France was compelled, by Europe, to pay for her independence on Foreign Powers; and in this view the purchafe was, after all, cheaply made. The principle which carried that Nation through all her difficulties, was the determination of the people to rally round the exifting Government, whatever that Government might be; and to join in repelling, with one hand, and one voice, the Common Enemy. To this they have facrificed their eafe, their property, their friends, their families, their lives, with a prodigality which excites, at the fame inftant, adiniration war; admiration and horror. But in this they have, as a Nation, found their Tafety. By this they have prevented the fill more dreadful confequences that must have refulted from a citil in which one half of the Nation might have been arrayed in artis againit the other, and the contending parties might have expofed a depopit lated and bleeding country to be the prey of the firit invader. By this they have difappointed the hopes of thofe who prefumptuously partitioned out the provinces of France, like the king dom of Poland; and who forefaw no obftacles, but in the difficulties which might occur in dividing the spoil. Mr. URBAN, Manchester, Jan. 18. UPON comparing the Court Ca lendar for 1785 with that lately published for 1808, I find fome varia tions in the Lifts of the Scotch and Irish Peerage, for which I am unable to account. I fhall be obliged to any of your Correfpondents who can explain them. In the Scotch Peerage, John Leflie Baron Lindores appears in 1785, but is omitted in 1808. Is the title extinct? and, if it be fo, when did John Lord Lindores die?-In 1785 it is Walter, but in 1808 James, Lord Torphichen. Is this a mistake? Or if Walter Lord Torphichen be dead, in what year did his decease take place? In the Irish Peerage, John Wandesford, Earl of Wandésford, and Kenneth Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth, appear in 1785, but are omitted in 1808. If the tiles be extinct, when did the deceafe of the two Earls take place? In 1785 I find Francis Vifcount Taaffe, Bernard Viscount Bangor, and Cadwallader Davis Lord Blayney: in 1808 the first is Rodolphus, the fecond Nicolas, and the third Andrew-Thomas. If thefe variations in the Chriftian names be occafioned by the death of the Peers, I fhould be glad to be informed in what years they died. Permit me alfo to ask an explanation of the Latin word Hore in the title of Dr. Paley's book "Hore Paulinæ." Yours, &c. LERUS. by the appearance of fraggling birds of during the Summer months as in this Vel ad Nilum, vel ad Memphin." Mr. URBAN, Jun. 16. G IVE me leave to notice a mistake, which elegant and accomplished Writers have for feveral years made, by ufing the following expreffions : "It * See Pliny, lib. x. cap. 24, and lib. xviii. cap. 16. Plutarch, Sympof. lib. viii. cap. 7. Horace, Epift. vii. lib. 1. line 13. Virgil, Georgic. lib. i. line 377. Virgil, Eneid. lib. xii. line 474. Juvenal, Sat. x. 231. Ovid, de arte Amandi, lib. ii. 149; alfo Faftorum, lib. ii. 853; alfo Triftium, Eleg. xii. 9. See alfo Ariftot. Hif. lib. viii, cap. 12. were endlefs, needlefs, fuperfluous, &c," If any one thinks that this ufe of were Mr. URBAN, Exeter, Od. 6. 1807. (as if in the indicative mood) is jutin-A the days ago in an old room able, 1 muft refer him to what Lowth Mr. URBAN, Little Cheverell, Watts. PERMIT me to request the favour of be confidered as a favour conferred ou Yours, &c. CLERICUS. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 11. The Pedigree of an Arabian Horie, well known in Nottinghamshire in in the Cloifters at the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Exeter, I picked up an old tract, which I have never feen an account of in any Catalogue; and being very fmall, and printed near 200 years ago, perhaps but few are now extant. 1 therefore presume the following defcription of it will not uninterefting to the curious in rare books. Yours, &c. S. WOOLMER, Printer of the Exeter Gazette. London's Love to the Royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the River Thames at his Returne from Richmonde, with a worthie Fleete of her Citizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610, with a briefe Reporte of the Water Fight and Fire Works: London, printed by Edw. Alide, for Nathaniell Foftrooke, and are to be jolde at the Weftend of Paules, neere to the Bishop of London's Gate, 1010.1 THIS tract confitis of 29 pages, including the frontispiece of two curious wood prints with two men of war finely equipped and in full fail. After the title-page is the following address: To the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Cambell, Knight, Lord Major of this famous Cittie of London: and to all the Aldermen his worthie Bretheren, &c. "I holde it but right and iuftice (Honorable Lord, and you the rest of this Pollitique Bodie) to give you that which you have beft deferved; to wit, a true tafte "In the name of God the Merciful! The caufe of the prefent writing is, of fo hopeful a Prince) and wherein your of that dayes follemne Triumphe (in honor that we witness that the Grey Horte DER4great love appeared not a little. Your RISH, of Mahomet Bey, is of the beft breed of Nedgdee Horfes; whofe Mother is the Grey Mare Iladba the Famous, and whofe Father is the Bay Horie Dakrouge, of the Horfes of the Tribe Benhihated:We telify on our Confcience and Fortune that he is of the breed for Stallions, concerning which the Prophet has faid, the true Runners when they run strike fire; they grant profperity until the Day of Judgment. And we have teftified what is known unto us; and God knows who ave true Witneffes. "Teftifiés du Contents, Abderahman, fon of Sarhan. * Shaik Abdalla il Eubaybee fay, the Teftimonies of this authentic AtteftaTon are true; and I atteft the fame with shy own hand and feal. SHAIK ABDALLA I ED. BYBTE. time for preparation was verie fhort; and mine, for your service, much shorter: yet (of mine own knowledge) bothe of them were very royally and gratefully accepted, which I ani fure was all your chiefeft expectation, and, than which, nothing could be more defired by myself. Accept then your own, and me at your continual fervice." Next follow 13 pages, defcribing London's Love to the Royal Prince. From the 14th to the 18th page is Corinea's Speech, introduced in the following manner: “Corinea, a very fayre and beautifull Nimphe, reprefenting the Genius of Old Corineus Queene, and the Province of Cornwalle, fuited in her watrie Habit yet riche and cofily, with a Coronet of Pearles and Cockle Shelles on her Head, jaluteth the PRINCE." From the 19th to the 25th pages, relates to Ampion, a grave and judicious pro phet, |