Oak; and stands in the turnpikeroad from Shrewsbury to Wenlock. Holes have been cut in the trunk for convenience in climbing it; but, as it is not in an elevated situation, there is no very extensive prospect from it. If Mr. Parkes, to whom we are already so much indebted, or any Correspondent in that neighbourhood, would favour you with a Drawing of it, with its dimensions, its supposed age, the origin of its name, or other particulars, the communication, I presume, would not be unacceptable to the publick, and would be greeted with uncommon interest by HAVE noticed the plan of Mr. Harrison for a reformation in the Medical profession, and see just cause for his laudable endeavours; but I fear his intentions will be frustrated by a want of knowledge of what has been going on in this over-grown Metropolis for some years past. The increase of Man - midwifery has so corrupted the three different branches of practice, that, by its chemical combination, it has produced a Terlium Quid, which, upon examination, proves good for nothing. The modern education of a youth towards the profession of Medicine, may be thus described: Five or seven years' apprenticeship to what is called a Surgeon, Apotheeary, and Man Midwife, without being instructed how to apply a bandage, a tourniquet, or an hernial suspensor; to cure an infiamed eye, a simple gonorrhoea, or to comprehend the distinction between Inoculation and Vaccination. All the Latin he need be master of, is comprised in the abbreviated prescriptions of his master's log-book, where Fiat mistum and Repetatur haustus comprise the summum bonum of his practice; and with this profundity of knowledge, he is advanced to the Universities in London or Edinburgh, to take his degrees in Anatomy and Man-midwifery. Walking an Hospital, as it is literally called, and attending a confusion of Lectures for a Winter, finish his Tuition; and, as to passing the College of Surgeons, there are several Professors who will undertake to supply him with answers to any questions that are usually asked, for five guineas. I will not suppose that corruption can have crept into the Court of Examiners; but, if I was scrupulously to investigate how some persons got their seats at that Court, I might be led to suspect, that if, accidentally, there should be a single individual who came there by Purchase, he would not scruple to refund his expences, by one means or another. a If Mr. Harrison would strike at the root of the tree, he should oblige the Examiners to enquire, whether master is capable of teaching a youth the necessary mechanical parts of Surgery, before he binds the apprentice; and they should examine a pupil when he has left his studies, whether he is expert at any of the manual parts of Surgery. Such an examination would oblige the pupil to do more than walk an Hospital; would supply the Army and Navy with useful Assistant Surgeons, and the country with able Practitioners, when a War was ended; but, while the first ranks in the profession of Surgery are filled by persons who never were regularly educated, or even intended for that practice, while one person shall occupy a multitude of valuable situations, who set up in life simply as an Apothecary, Mr. Harrison's endeavours to cleanse the Augean stable will be exerted in vain. Yours, &c. YOU! SENEX. MR. URBAN, Nov. 5. YOUR Correspondent S. E. Y. in p. 311, in his remarks on some passages in the poem of "Wallace," has quoted the lines, "And to the lips the traitor steep In infamy and scorn." And after an allusion to Mrs. Glasse's Cookery book, has observed, that has the unquestionable merit of ori"this receipt for steeping a traitor, ginality." I am surprised that your Correspondent should not be aware of the line in Othello : "Steep me in poverty to the very lips.' Which the Authoress has made no scruple of borrowing for her own purposes. Borrowers are usually detected by a clumsiness of application. So it is in the present instance: In the wild raving of Othello, the terms Mr. URBAN, THE Heriford, Nov. 12. HE following notices respecting the families of Irish Baronets, &c. and settlers in Ireland during the seventeenth century, will form a useful addition to what has already been communicated in your vols. LXXIX. and LXXX. on the subject. The first of the Knox family, in Ireland, was the well-known Andrew Knox, Parson of Paisley, a Scotchman, and author of many excellent works. He went over from Scotland; and his descendant, Thomas Knox, became possessed in 1692 of an estate; and was the first of this family who held land the title of Baron was granted so late as 1781. Archibald Acheson, esq. of Glencairney, was created a Baronet of Scotland in 1628; and about the middle of that century, the family seated itself in Ireland; where, in 1776, Sir Archibald was advanced to the title of Baron Gosford. Robert Echlin, a Scotchman, settled in Downshire; and, in 1721, was made a Baronet of Ireland. Sir Robert Hannay, of Mochrum, in Scotland, was made a Baronet of Scotland in 1630. He was succeeded by Sir Robert, whose daughter, Jane, married Charles Coote, Earl of Mountrath, in Queen's County, and afterwards Sir Robert Reading, bart. and by him had Elizabeth, who married in 1686, Johu Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn; and had Lady Elizabeth, who married Wm. Brownlow, esq. of Ireland; and had Elizabeth, who married John Lord Knapton, by whom she had issue the late Viscount De Vesci, and three daugh, ters; viz. Viscountess Pery, ViscountGENT. MAG. November, 1810. ess Northland, and Jane, who mar ried Sir Robert Staples, bart. of Dunmore, Queen's County, and had a daughter married to the Hon. Mr. Knox, brother of the Bishop of Derry, and another married the son of the late Right Hon. Colonel Fitz-Gerald, M. P. Stewart of Ochiltree was created a Scotch Baronet in 1638; from him descends the present Earl of Castle Stewart, of Ireland. Wm. Dixon was, in 1783, the 52d Bishop of Downe and Connor: his father was Dr. Dixon, Dean of Downe, descended from Richard Dixon, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1570, 12th Eliz. Of the family of Mears, vol. LXXIX. p. 1204, vol. LXXX. p. 15. John de la Mare was, in 1296, the 24th of Edward I. created Lord de la Mere, of Garsington, in the county of Oxford. He was summoned, from the 27th, to the end of that reign; and again the 1st, 6th, and 7th of Edward II. Dugdale. Roger de Meres was appointed Nov. 27, 1372, the 45th of Edward III. with John de Cavendish, one of the Puisné Judges of the Common Pleas. Beatson's Political Index. Sir Peter de la Mares, knight of the shire for Hereford in 1376, 49 Edward III. was the first regular Speaker of the House of Commons; and in 1377, the first of Richard II. he again filled that important office. Sir Thomas Meeres was in 1679, 1680, 1682, 1683, and 1684, 30th, &c. Charles II. Lord High Admiral of England. In the "Debates of the House of Commons, from the Year 1667 to the Year 1694," collected by the Hon. Aunchitell Grey (30 years M. P. for Derby, Chairman of several Committees, and decypherer of Colman's Letters, for the use of the House, in 10 vols. 8vo.) is a long account, an extract of which is given in the Annual Register for 1763, from p. 264 to 290, respecting the nomination of Sir Thomas Meeres by the Court, to be Speaker of the House of Commons - the Commons themselves wishing to have Mr. Seymour appointed. Of the nomination of Sir Thomas, an account is also to be found in a work, intituled, "Growth of Popery," Part II. p. 235. Yours, &c. GEO. OWEN, M. D. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Liverpool, Nov. 10. of Dr. Mavor's Catechisms, to which the Author ably replied, p. 332. I have since been induced to examine the whole Series; and, of all the numerous publications of this sensible writer, for the use of schools and families, I think this publication the most generally useful; becauses it embraces such a wide circle, and contains so much valuable matter, compressed within a narrow compass; so that neither the pocket nor the memory is burdened. I am of opinion, however, that Dr. Mavor should have extended his Series beyond the number of TEN. There are several important branches of Education, which could not be included within those limits; and, as I know no person who is better qualified to do them justice, I wish to call his attention, through the medium of your widely-circulated Miscellany, to Arithmetic, to Geometry, to Trade and Commerce, and to Agriculture. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, A. Nov. 13. HE following receipt for purifyTHE ing the air of rooms infected with contagion, extracted from Dr. Carmichael Smyth's Letter to Lord Spencer, at that time (1797) Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, may be useful to many persons; and, consequently, well deserves a place in your lasting pages: "Immerse a tea-cup into a pipkin of heated sand put into the tea-cup half an ounce of concentrated vitriolic acid, and half an ounce of pure nitre in powder. Stir them together with -a glass spatula, until a considerable degree of vapour arises." S. K. am going to relate; and, as a Landowner, have been a sufferer by it. When a farm is going to be re-lett, the first question asked by the farmers among themselves is, the state of the parish in which the farm is situated, with respect to the Clergyman, or Tithe Proctor, if in Lay hunds. Their biddings are regulated accordingly. Now I believe it is generally calculated, that the tenth of the grain of all kinds, together with the Vicarial Tithes, adding the tenth of the straw to it, which, in case of gathering the Tithes, must be carried off from the farm, amounts to nearly one-third of the rent paid to the landlord. If this is granted, supposing land to be worth a certain value to the farmer, the rent paid to the landlord must vary in proportion to the difference between one-third or one-tenth being subtracted therefrom, as no farmer will give more rent for an estate than he can afford to do, and live upon it. Thus stands the case with regard to the proprietor of the farm: I will now state the case with respect to the Property Tax. We will instance, for illustration, the consequences that will ensue on a If the farm of £90. per annum. Tithes are estimated at one-¡bird, £30. per annum, the rent will be £60. If one-tenth is deducted, viz. £9. the rent to be paid the landlord will be £81. So that, in the former case, the Property Tax will amount only to £6. per annum; in the latter, to ES. 2s. This fact, which cannot be controverted, cannot fail, I think, to rouse our Legislators to take the subject of Tithes into immediate consideration. Your constant Reader, AGRICOLA. P. S. As there are many pious persons, as well as a great proportion of the Clergy, who look on Tithes as a sacred appointment, I am ready to prove, if called upon; 1. That among the Jews, the tenth of the produce was set apart for the mainte nance of at first but one-twelfth of the population, the tribe of Levi; 2. That Corn was not then, as with us, an article of merchandize, as, at present, not one-third of the people are employed in Agriculture; whereas among the Jews, every family, the Levites excepted, cultivated its own Corn; the land, under the immediate blessing 1 something here might give the buyer satisfaction for the price of his book: but you are found, in the generality, so contrary to the Camelion (a true emblem of hypocrisie, levity, and sophistication) as not to take a colour for what you judge, from the tincture of sense and reason, but the pied and contaminated constructions, fuming from braines suborned out of interest, or a contrary practice, to condemn of error, ignorance, or irreligion, all things, though never so modestly proposed, that suit not with their breeding, or fall not within the narrow circle of their understanding. An insatiable lunacy that lies far below my notice."-- "To precipitate revenge, no prudence. The old Earle of Essex, Citizens of London where he spent his revenue, then in Wales from whence he received it, denudated himselfe of the most probable protection the extremity of his bad fortune had left him. His tenants and friends being more likely to have proved cordial at a distance from the Court, than those found to gather their livelyhood under the shadow of it; and so more probable to increase, than raise a power first in his favour. Which maturely weighed, proves the study of friends and enemies the most politique and useful employment.” Despise no enemy, especially at Court for where jealousy holds the scales, a small drachm of detraction will turn the beame.---How prejudiciall must the neglect of caution appeare in the field, where Fortune, to exercise the dominion she usurps over strength and probability, suffered a dwarfe not long since to kill a man. This makes me admire the valor more than discretion of an acquaintance of mine, that met an armed enemy in a formall and premeditated duell with a wooden dagger and re-. bated rapier, I confesse this gallant soule did worst him; which appeared lesse, because no more than his contempt engaged him to. But if Chance (the lady of such events) had turned her face the other way, his honor and prudence, if not life (seldome ransomed, if at the mercy of a coward) had been lost in the indiscretion of the action," blessing of Providence, affording ANALYSIS OF BOOKS. No. II. The Second "A Part. By Francis Osborn, Lon- placing a greater confidence in the don: printed for Tho. Robinson, in Oxford. 1658," "The Stationer to the Reader, &c. Our Author, from whom I formerly presented you with a rope of smaller pearls, viz. his adviso's thredded in a more coherent and exact method, doth now offer these bigger ones to your acceptance, single and loose; which, as they are iu magnitude, so may you not possibly rate them at a like proportionable value. Something of confusion, you know, is taken as a symbol of greatness---being in all hands like Cards, more delightful, if not useful, shuffled then in suits; through which all sorts may be tempted to read them over, and (so) not improbably gain a knowledge they would never have sought for, but upon such an omission; wherefore whether you consider the whole pack, or do but draw here and there, you shall be a winner.”-- "To my dear brother, William Draper, esq. of Netherworton, in Oxfordshire. Since it is become a general custom to affix before books the names of the author's best friends; I could not without calling in question so manifest a truth as your desert, and running the hazard of being esteemed ungrateful myself, but present you with what follows. Weigh not your acceptance, or my will to serve you, at the common beam, but by the standard of your love, &c." "To the Readers. Did all your heads own a like mode and figure, they could not but be fitted with “Have peace with all men, is as wholesome an aphorisme in policy as divinity. divinity.--And because example receives a more lively tincture from memory than precept, I shall instance it as a blot in the greatest Rochet, that did in my time appear in the Court of England, or indeed any I ever heard of since the Reformation: who managed a quarrell with Archy the King's Foole, and, by endeavouring to explode him the Court, rendered him at last so considerable, by calling the Prelat's enemies (which were not a few) to his rescue, as the fellow was not only able to continue the dispute for divers years, but received such incouragement from standers-by, as he hath oft, in my hearing, belched in his face such miscarriages as he was guilty of, and might, but for this foul-mouthed Scot, have been forgotten: adding such other reproaches of his own, as the dignity of his calling, and greatnesse of his parts, could not in reason or manners admit; though so far hoodwinked with passion, as not to discerne that all the Foole did, was but a symptom of the strong and in veterate distemper raised long before in the hearts of his countrymen against the Calling of Bishops: out of whose ruines, the major part of the Scottish Nobility had feathered, if not built their nests. Nor did this too low-placed anger lead him into a lesse absurdity, than an indeavour to bring him into the Star Chamber, till the Lord Coventry had, by acquaint ing him with the priviledge of a Fool, shewn the ridiculousness of the attempt: yet not satisfied, he, through the mediation of the Queen, got him at last discharged the Court; whither be brought after the same mind under a Cloak, as he had before in his Fool's Coat." "To jest with Princes not safe.--An instance whereof appears in William Earl of Pembroke, none of the least obsequious observers of the times, who naturally, or rather customarily, abominating a l'røgg, had one throwne into his neck by K. James and did in requitall cause a Pigge (of an equal disgust with the same Prince) to be put under his Close-stool; where, though it produced no extraordinary ill effect for the present, it being as usual a thing for his Majesty to be frighted as &c. ; yet after the prank (innocent enough of itselfe) had been descanted upon, and the worst of in terpretations made by some (the title of Jewes being at that time usually given to the Scots) the King was much affected by it; and the more, because done at Wilton, under the Earl's own roofe.” "It is a no lesse violation of friendship than charity, to laugh, when another by accident falls into a mischance; and hath proved, in my experience, the originall of many quar rells. As it fell out at the new Lodge, by Barnet ; where, after a great dinner, K. James, walking out, and something neglected by such as led him, stumbling at a Mole-hill, fell downe, and managed his legges after so ridiculous a posture, as many of the company could not hold from laughter which his Majesty tooke so ill, as he called them Traytors, and protested revenge; nor would he suffer any of them to take him up. 'Till Mr. John West, the Keeper, at whose house and charge the enter tainment was, came, and by a witty conceit (of which he was full) fetched them off, swearing, no good subject could refraine to rejoice at his Majesty's activity, to see him so nimble as to come over and over.”. : "Patience and moderation often necessary in human life.---The rarest president for moderation I ever met with, was the last Bishop of London, who extracted, by the chemistry of this Mountebank Deity, and alembecked through a number of great mutations, from one of the meanest of Vicurs to the highest of Treasurers, was in none of them elated above the meridian of the ground he first stood on, or did debauch through his miscarriage the dignity of any place he passed through: nor did he suffer with a more sullaine brow, the breaking of all the glasses this pied goddesse had blowne in his favour; but did after the Curiaines were drawne, and the Tragedy acted, without any visible reluctancy, turne his eyes towards the same landscape of Country pleasures, they had, as it were against his will, been taken from. I have (deare Son) but named him whom I esteem fit to be placed in your heart for the best pattern of moderation I ever met with; as he might have remained for putience, had he not been eclipsed, though the far greater sufferings of a person, more splendid, and no lesse miraculous |