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there, covered with pepper and salt cloth, the back being about three feet and a half high, five long, and six inches thick. A brazen chandelier in the room, the part above the candles perfectly blackened with smoke. Clothstretchers about the town.

BETWEEN Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale one alehouse has on its sign "Good ale tomorrow for nothing." Barns along the road remarkably substantial and good.

INGLETON.-Handles of the bells shaped like anchors. Single church not a mile from the town; when we passed there was a light in it, and four bells were ringing. There had been three manufactories in the town, two of cotton, and the third of tow? but they had all been given up,-which an old man who told us this thought better for the people of the neighbourhood. The mountains are table-formed. Before Settle

you leave an old road on the left. Its green line is a very characteristic object: the ground hereabout park-like. Ebbing and flowing well. Long church at Giggleswick; the schoolmaster's salary here has risen from £50 to £1000. Proctor1 born at Settle, but very little known there, though we inquired of his own relations at the inn. An old market-house, a pillar like a pelourinho, and stocks.

the water beautifully clear. Wharfdale, a fine prospect below. We saw an iron gate near this pretty village.

AFTER the Norman conquest, Harold's mother Gytha, and the wives of many good men with her, went to the Steep Holme (Bradanreolice)—is this rightly translated? -and there abode some time, and thence went over sea to St. Omers.-Saxon Chronicle, p. 268.

1584. SIR JOHN YONGE, of Bristol, sends Lord Burghley stones from St. Vincent's Rocks, to be used in a device in a chamber at Theobald's.—Lansdowne MSS. No. 43, 14.

Dec. 18, 1737. "THIS day, according to annual custom, bread and cheese were thrown from Paddington steeple to the populace, agreeable to the will of two women,

who were relieved there with bread and

cheese when they were almost starved; and Providence afterwards favouring them, they left an estate in that parish to continue the custom for ever on that day."— London Magazine, 1737, p. 705.

FONTHILL, then called Funtell, belonged to Lord Cottington, and Garrard thus describes it in one of his letters to Strafford. 1637. "It is a noble place both for seat Ar Skipton there was a print of the Short-horned Bull Patriot, engraved by Wil-arable, woods, water, partridges, pheasants, and all things about it, downs, pastures,

liam Ward, engraver extraordinary to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Duke of York.

WHEN we were at Witham Common, September, 1815, they were foddering the cows for want of grass, and brought all the water for sixty horses from a mile distance, such had been the drought. In the north we had had rain enough.

BATHS at Ilkley high up the hill, and

1 Thomas Proctor, the sculptor, is alluded to. J. W. W.

fish, a good house of freestone, much better for some additions he hath newly made to it; for he hath built a stable of stone, the on-the-Hill only, exceed it; also a kitchen third in England, Petworth and Burleigh

which is fairer and more convenient than

any I have seen in England anywhere. £2000 land a-year he hath about it; and whilst I was there his park-wall of square white stone, a dry wall, only coped at the top, was finished, which cost him setting up £600 a mile, but it is but three miles about. The finest hawking-place in England, and wonderful store of partridges, which is his

chiefest delight when he is there.”—STRAFFORD Letters, vol. 2, p. 118.

TUNBRIDGE Castle. The inclosure turned into a vineyard by its owner, Mr. Hooker, and the walls spread with fruit; and the mount on which the keep stood, planted in the same way. He sometimes makes eighteen sour hogsheads, and is going to disrobe the "ivy-mantled towers," because it harbours birds.-H. WALPOLE'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 259. A. D. 1752.

"WITHIN a mile or less of Bristol city, there is a navigable river that runs for about two or three miles between two prodigious high rocks of hard stone, (supposed by some to be as high as the Monument in FishStreet-Hill,) just as though it was cut out by art."

Query. Your opinion whether that river was the product of nature or of art! British Apollo, vol. 2, p. 600.

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IN a mere near unto Staffordshire, small eels, about the thickness of a straw, abound so much about a set time in summer, lying on the top of the water as thick as motes are said to be in the sun, that many of the poorer sort of people that inhabit near to it take such eels out of this mere with sieves or sheets, and make a kind of eel-cake of them, and eat it like as bread."-Iz. WALTON, p. 188.

"A BOY about twelve years of age, belonging to most respectable parents at North Shields, was during the summer taken to Gilsland Wells by a near relation. The scenery pleased his youthful imagination to such a degree, that he formed the romantic notion of making a plantation in that neighbourhood the place of his residence for life, where he designed to build a hut to screen him from the winter's blast. On his return home he used every endeavour to raise money, in which he in some degree succeeded. His next care was to select a brother hermit to accompany him,

and he at last found a schoolfellow, rather younger, who appears to have been as romantic as himself. These two worthies last week, after packing up their wardrobes, and securing a pistol, powder, and shot, to furnish themselves with game, actually set out on their pilgrimage, and were some miles west of Hexham before one of the persons employed to seek the fugitives overtook and brought them back."

A MAD Welshman, in BEAUMONT and FLETCHER'S Pilgrim, says―

"The organs at Rixum' were made by revelations,

There is a spirit blows and blows the bellows, And then they sing."-Act iv. sc. 3.

This Welshman " ran mad because a rat eat up his cheese."

MARBLE discovered at Dent by two upright slabs set up as a stile in the churchyard, which in process of time were polished by those who rubbed against them in passing through.

BIBLE Society.- Book worship substituted for idol-worship by the Jews, Heretics, and Moslems.

Catholics in Ireland and England, how they have acted.

Spectacle Society desiderated, and of course to follow.

It will soon be a question whether the Bible be created or uncreated.

THE Admiralty has ordered that one Bible, one Testament, and four Books of Common Prayer, shall be allowed to every mess of eight men in the navy. The books are to be in charge of the purser, to be frequently mustered, and considered as seastore. A proportion is also allowed to all the naval hospitals.

G. G. S. from Birmingham, suggests “me

i.e. Wrexham. The pronunciation is pretty much the same to this day.-J. W. W.

thods by which generous persons in mid- | dling circumstances, during these trying times, may keep up their charitable subscriptions:-First, by selling all or most of their jewels, trinkets, hoarded coins, &c. Secondly, by leaving off or diminishing the use of wine, spirituous liquors, tobacco, and snuff. Thirdly, by decreasing expenses;— there are professors who keep carriages or horses, some of which they could do very well without. And lastly, by disusing the expensive custom of treating parties at dinner or supper. Here I must also add that if reputable persons would restrict their families during this season to the use of cheap provisions; they would thereby have more to spare for the poor."-Evangelical Magazine, March 1813.

"THIS opinion of Inspiration, called commonly Private Spirit, begins very often from some lucky finding of an error generally held by others; and not knowing, or not remembering by what conduct of reason they came to so singular a truth (as they think it, though it be many times an untruth they light on), they presently admire themselves, as being in the special grace of God Almighty, who hath revealed the same to them supernaturally, by His Spirit."-HOBBES, p. 36.

SECTARIANISM of the wilder sort-like

love

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que siempre en estas materias

aquello que no se sabe

es aquello que mas prenda."

broke, “you know I don't believe the Bible to be a divine revelation; but they who do can never defend it on any principle but the doctrine of grace. To say truth, I have at times been almost persuaded to believe it upon this view of things, and there is one argument which has gone very far with me, which is, that the belief of it now exists upon earth, when it is committed to the care of such as you, who pretend to believe it and yet deny the only principles on which it is defensible."

Madan relates this as communicated to him by a person to whom Bolingbroke reported the conversation.

SECESSION of the Baptists from the Evangelical Magazine, because in A Concise View of the Present State of Evangelical Religion throughout the World, which the Editors admitted "without making themselves responsible for every sentiment they contain,"(for thus they premised),—this sentence occurred:-" The Particular Baptists have greatly enlarged their numbers, not perhaps so much from the world by awakenings of conscience in new converts, as from the different congregations of Dissenters and Methodists." This was complained of by the Baptist Brethren. The Editors took the subject into consideration, and came to this resolution:-" "That the Editors having reconsidered the paragraph complained of, are by no means convinced that it contains any mistake in point of fact; and they are further of opinion, that recurring to the subject in the Magazine can have no possible good effect." Upon this the secession fol

D. FRANC. de Roxas. Los Vandos lowed; and the Editors in announcing it,

de Verona.

A DIGNITARY of the Church is said to have found Bolingbroke reading CALVIN'S Institutes, and being asked his opinion of the book, to have replied,—“ We do not think upon such topics: we teach the plain doctrines of virtue and morality, and have long laid aside those abstruse points about grace." "Look you, Doctor," said Boling

say" While it is painful to separate from brethren whom we respect and love,-we feel ourselves liberated from the restraint which our connection with them laid upon us, to refrain from all observations in favour of Infant Baptism, which we firmly maintain, in common with our fellow-Christians in general throughout the world. To this important subject, therefore, we shall occasionally recur; and endeavour to defend

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"WITHOUT steadiness, and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness; such as they have, that, entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose by every thing that comes in their thought, into so many and so long digressions and parentheses, that they utterly lose themselves. Which kind of folly I know no particular name for."—Ibid. 33.

A TAME crow at a public-house in Swallwell, Durham, bred there from a young one. It used to fly at large during the fine season, and return in winter. Sometimes, in summer, it would visit the village, perch in the trees, and come down to take meat or bread from those who offered it to their old acquaintance. It would alight upon their shoulder, and take the food from the hand.

* NAMES of Gooseberries, at the Annual
Gooseberry Show, held at the house of Mr.
Robert Huxley, Sign of the Angel, Chester.
Mr. Blead's, Creeping Ceres,
Glory of England,
Apollo,

Colossus,

Golden Lion.

"SIRRAH," said an old Scotch minister to Mr. Cooper's,-Worthington's Conqueror,

Mr. Halyburton when a boy, "unsanctified learning has done much mischief to the kirk of God."

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Somach's Victory,

Bell's Farmer,

Green Chissel,
Game-Keeper,
Langley Green,
Green Goose,
Apollo,
White Bear,
White Rose,

Yellow Seedling.

"LAST of all, men, vehemently in love Mr. Huxley's,-Royal Sovereign.

with their own new opinions, (though never so absurd), and obstinately bent to maintain them, gave those their opinions also that reverenced name of conscience, as if they would have it seem unlawful to change or speak against them; and so pretend to know they are true, when they know at most but that they think so."-Ibid. 31.

GRYFF. LLOYD had two hunters, whose names were Heretick and Beelzebub.

THE London bills of mortality for 1812 enumerate 1550 of old age; 4942 of consumption; 3530 convulsions; 1287 smallpox; 4 of grief; 1 of leprosy.

In 1811 only one single case of small-pox | he had a good bellyfull in the late race, and at Copenhagen, such had been the progress it must be owned in his favour, he ran very of vaccination.1 truly to it."

Ar Mr. Mummery's academy, near the seven mile stone, Lower Edmonton, young gentlemen are boarded and educated at twenty-six guineas per annum, including washing. For the accommodation of those parents who may be desirous of sending their daughters to the same school with their sons, Mrs. Mummery takes young

ladies on the same terms."

MARY BATEMAN, the Taunton witch. *"For, as for witches," says HOBBES, "I think not that their witchcraft is any real power, but yet that they are justly punished for the false belief they have, that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can ;—their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science."-Leviathan, p. 7.

A MAN and woman, for coining, were hanged at the same time with Patch the

murderer.

"Diamond is in the second degree from Herod; Hambletonian from Eclipse. The Herods are in general hard and stout; the Eclipses, jadish, speedy, and uncertain."

1799. The Hambletonian and Diamond

of their day, Sandy-o'er-the-lee, a few years since the property of Mr. Baird at Newhythe, and Whitelegs, about the same period belonging to Sir Hedworth Williamson, Baronet; horses by which, at a moderate computation, their owners may be supposed to have realized £5000 a-piece, are at this time running together in one of the diligences between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

"As a sportsman, I cannot but congratulate you, and all true lovers of the British turf, upon the late evident increase of the noble and heroic sport of horse-racing."

FITNESS of having summer and winter apartments in great houses.

ABSURDITY of verandas in the streets of

"CAUTION to officers going abroad, and to sportsmen in general. Whereas the Pa- London, and by the side of its dusty roads.

tent Elastic Anticra Enodros Absorbent Military Fulax Kleistrow will be ready for inspection in a few days. And as whenever talents are on the tapis, imbecillity and avarice are ever on the watch, this is solely to caution those persons whose ardent imaginations might lead them to support those servile and illiberal imitations which we have no doubt will be offered to the public." -Courier, Dec. 28, 1813.

“Ir was a good race, the winner being much spurred."

HEDGE-HOG Crocus pots.

"ON Saturday, January 1, 1814, will be published, continued weekly, at Swansea, a provincial newspaper, in the Welsh language, under the title of Seren Gomer.”

"ST. PAUL'S, Covent-Garden, Dec. 24, 1813. "Whereas many of the sepulchral stones and buildings in the above churchinto a very ruinous and dilapidated state; yard are, through the lapse of time, fallen notice is hereby respectfully given to the families and friends of those to whom such but to make him swerve, or bolt, or pro-propriated, that unless the same shall be put sepulchral conveniences may have been apbably stop him outright; but of spurring

"As for whipping such a dishonest brute as Hambletonian, it would answer no end

I have noticed before the great care taken on this head. See suprà, p. 394.

into decent repair within the space of three months from this time, they must be considered as exclusively the property of the

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