and intelligent readers can and will inform Yours, &c. E.. If CLERICUS OXONIENSIS will communicate his addrefs to A. B. at the Mount Coffee-houfe, Lower Grofvenorfreet, he will receive the fulleft informa tion on the fubject he enquires after. Mr. URBAN, Nafeby, Nov. 14. TH HE ftone on which the fun dial, engrived p 985, is placed, was ploughed up, or rather the thare of that inftrument ftruck against it, in a field in the parish of Dallington, near Northampton; whence it was removed to Kingthorpe, the next village, where it lay fome time at a farmer's door. Mr. Ahby, my patron, afterwards purchafed it, and made a, prefent of it to me; and I have placed it at the bottom of my garden. It feems to have puzzled all Antiquaries who have seen it: fome few, indeed, think it may have belonged to a monaftery at Dallington, and have been a corner one of that building. The ring, in the fame plate, was bought by a perfon who collects rags, &c. in the country, among fcraps of other metals, such as iron, brafs, &c. &c. and brought to me as a matter of fome curiofity. I have reafon to be. lieve it belonged to an ecclefiaftick, a member of fome monaftery, from a niche, or fmall bit, being taken out as with a file in the infide juft under the crown or head. Of this your intelli. gent correfpondents will beft judge. Yours, &c. JOHN MASTIN. Mr. URBAN, Νου. 15. As I perceive that the candid Editor of the "Biographia Britannica" admits, as he goes on, fupplementary information to his preceding volumes; 1 perfuade myfelf you will forward his laudable intention, by pointing out fome additions to the life of an accomplish ed fcholar and devout poet, whole genius and virtues, though celebrated by one of the matt eloquent among his poetical contemporaries, have fuffered fuch unmerited neglect, that his name was omised in the first edition of the "Bioographia," and of "his perfonal hiftory few particulars can now be traced." We are informed, by a writer whom it has been too much the fathion to deVery that RICHARD CRASHAW was * Mr. Chrll, in his fifth volume of Pope's Literary Correfpondence. GENT. MAG. November, 1793. the fon of the Rev. William Crafhew; and that he was a scholar at the Char ter-houfe. Perhaps the records of that excellent feminary may confirm this particular. Was Mr. Brooke the Mafter of that School? As Mr. Hayley, the congenial writer of CRASHAW's life, informs us, that "the refearches which have been made, in the two focieties of Cambridge to which that amiable fcholar belonged have furnished no new memorials of his perfon or his genius," it may be not unpleasant to that gentleman, or to your readers at large, to be furnished with fome inftances of both, from a publication which feems to have escaped the notice of all the Biographers. This is a bold affertion, Mr. Urban, after Mr. Hayley has told us, that, by the liberality of Dr. Farmer, he had been indulged with the fight of a literary curiofity, a "Collection of Sacred Epigrams, printed at Cambridge, 1634," But the opufculum now before me, Sir, contains many pieces written evidently at a later period; and, among others, the academical one alluded to by Mr. Hayley on the birth of a Princess, the king's fifth child, 1637, with five more on fimilar fubjects, of which I should be glad to afcertain the dates. 1. "In Sereniffimæ Reginæ partum hyemalem." 2. "Natalis Ducis Eboracenfis." 3. "In faciem Auguftiffimi Regis à morbillis integram." On what occafion could this be written? Was it a recovery from the measles or small-pox ?~ 4. "Ad Carolum Primum, Rex Re dux, [1633.1. 5. Reginâ gravidâ." The whole title-page runs thus: * In the Academical Collection, the poem is addreffed to the king, " de quantâ fuâ fobole, clariffima Principe, fibi nuper feliciffimè nata;” but, in the volume of 1670, it is fimply, "Natalis Principis Mariæ." This Princefs probably died an infant; as she is not mentioned by Hume, who records three other daughters of the king; Mary, Princeís of Orange, born 1631; Elizabeth, 1635; and Hemietta, 1644. Four of thefe are alfo printed in "The Delights of the Mufes ;" where there is another poem "Ad Reginam;" and one, "Principi recèns nate omen maternæ indolis." dum Particulars of Crafhaw's early Life and Writings . alumnus fuit, et Collegii . Petrenfis Socius. Editio fecunda, auctior & emendatior. Cantabrigiæ, 1670," From a long Preface in verfe and profe, I fhall take one characteristic paragraph, which feems to indicate that it was written between 1644, when he quitted the kingdom on being ejected from his Fellowship of Peterhoufe, and 1650, the date of his death: "Maximum meæ ambitionis fcopum, Lector bone, jamdudum attigi: tunc nimirum cùm qualecunque hoc meum penè infantis Mufe murmur ad aures iftas non ingratum fonuit, quibus neque doctiores mihi de publico timere habeo, nec fperare clementiores; adeò ut de tuo jam plaufu (dicam ingenuè & breviter) neque fecurus fim ultrà, Lecneque folicitus. Prius tui, quifquis es, tor, apud me reverentia prohibet; de cujus judicio omnia poffum magna fperare: pofterius illorum reverentia non finit, de quorum perfpicacitate maxima omnia non poffum mihi non perfuadere. Quanquam ô quàm velim tanti me effe, in quo patria mea morem iftum fuum deponere velit, genio fuo tam non dignum; iftum fcilicet quo, fuis cnibus faftiditis, ea exofculatur unicè, quibus trajeciffe Alpes & de tranfmarino effe, in pretium ceffit " The dedication, in elegant profe, "Reverendo admodum viro Benjamino Laney, SS. Theologiæ Profeffori, Aulæ Pembrochiana Cuftodi digniffimo, ex fuorum minimis minimus R. Crafhaw Cuftodiam cœleftem P." concludes with a charming Ode, which "Salve, alme cuftos Pierii gregis," &c. Vitis habet Bacchum quarta corona fuæ, The following quibbling epitaph on Dr. quoque cùm domini fronte timendus Quòd de me nimiùm non metuendus eras? Quod tibi turpis ego torpentis inertia fceptri Quod tua virga ftatim vapulet, illud erit. Ergò tibi hæc poenas pro me mea pagina pendat. Hic agitur virgæ res tibi multa tuæ. Id licet in fœtu vindicet omne meo. [olim, Quòdque veru doćto trans obelifcus eat. Scilicet hæc mea funt; hæc quæ mala fcilicet: ô fi (Quæ tua nempe forent) hîc meliora forent! Qualiacunque, fuum nôrunt hæc flumina fon(Nilus ab ignoto fonte fuperbus eat) [tem. Nec certè nihil eft quâ quis fit origine. Fontes Effe folent fluvii nomen honórque fui. Hic quoque tam parvus (de me mea fæcula dicant) Non parvi foboles hic quoque fontis erat. Hoc modò & ipfe velis de me dixiffe, meorum Ille fuit minimus. Sed fuit ille meus." Then comes an animated apostrophe, Sed & ipfa necdum fama quem monftrat fatis, Which is followed by The death of Mr. William Herris, one of the Fellows of Pembroke-hall (of whom fome farther account becomes de firable, and where the epitaph was placed) is thus lamented by Crafhaw: "Epitaphium in Guilielmum Herrifumm*. "Sifte te paulum (viator) ubi longùm sisti Meanwhile his loved Banks, now dry, *This epitaph, and the poem on Bishop 1793-1 Particulars of Crafhaw's early Life and Writings. Neceffe erit; huc nempe properare te fcias, Quocunque properas. Et lacrymæ, Si jacere hic fcias Guilielmum, Splendida Herrifiorum famili Quem cùm talem vixiffe intellexeris, Quem In quantas fpes poffit Allurgere mortalitas, Infantem, Effexia Juvenem, Cantabrigia } vidit ; Senem, ah infelix utraque Qui Collegii Chrifti alumnus, Aula Pembrochianæ focius, Utrique, ingens amoris certamen fuit; Donec Dulces lites elufit Deus, Qui & ipfe collegium fuit; In quo Mufæ onines & Gratie, Nullibi magis forores, Sub Præfide religione In tenaciffimum fodalitium coaluere. Oratoria Poetam agno Oratorem Poetica Quem Fide Mundum Charitate Proximum fupe- Humilitate Seipfum Sub verna fronte fenilis animus, ut vitam ejus Pulchram dixeris & pudicam diffimulationem: Imò verò & mortem, Ecce enim in ipfo funere quo minore tumulo. Eo ipfo die occubuit quo Ecclefia Ite mea lacrymæ (nec enim moror), ite. Pergunt indomitâ præcipitantque viâ. 1003 Vifne (o chare!) igiturte noftra filentia dicant, Vis fleat affiduo murmure mutus amor? Flebit. Et urna fuos femper bibet humida rores, Et fidas femper femper habebit aquas. Intereà, quicunque eftis, nè credite mirum, Si veræ lacrymæ non didicêre loqui," Admit a fmall fpecimen, Mr. Urban, of the Epigrams; and I will conclude. "IN DIEM OMNIUM SANCTOLUM. "Rev. vii. 3. Ne lædite terram, neque mare, neque arbores, quoufque obfignaverimus fervos Dei noftri in frontibus fuis. "Nufquam immitis agat ventus fua murmura; nufquam Sylva tremat, crifpis follicitata comis. Aqua Thetis placidè allabens ferat ofcula terræ ; Terra fuos Thetidi pandat amica finus: Undique pax effufa piis volet aurea pennis, Frons bona dum figno eft quæque notata fuo. Ah quid in hoc opus eft fignis aliunde petendis? Frons bona fat lacrymis quæ que notata fuis.” "IN DIE CONJURATIONIS SULPHUREE, "Quàm bene difpofitis annus dat currere feftis ! Poft Omnes Santos, Omne fcelus fequitur." P.S. I fee no reafon for the fuppofi tion in the Biographia, p. 431, that the date of 1670 to the Englith poems of Crafhaw is fpurious. The publication which bears his name confifts of three parts; of which 1. "The Steps to the Temple." 2. "The Delights of the Mufes, or other Poems written on feveral Occafions;" appeared in 1646, and again in 1649. The third part only, "Sacred Poems," appeared in 1670, with a poetical Preface by Car, written evidently after the death of Cralhaw, who was living when the former parts were published; and is commended, in the Preface, for his excellence in five languages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, and Spanish; and, amongst other accomplishments, for his fkill in poetry, mufick, drawing, limning, and graving; and, with allution to his refidence abroad, his friendly publisher fays, "the learned young gentleman is now dead to us." Yours, &c. M. GREEN. TWO MONTHS TOUR IN SCOTLAND. (Continued from p. 896.) THOUGH the night was far ad vanced before we retired to repofe, we were on horfeback early the next morning; yet not fo foon but that fome of our worthy hofts were alfo up. to do the honours of the fort, and bid their laft adieus. As we had expreffed a wish to quit the beaten track to Inverary, and, by penetrating into Upper Lorn, make our way way nearer to the Western coaft, we had been inftru&ted, for that purpofe, to proceed towards Ballechelith ferry, inftead of keeping to the military-way, which, bearing to the left hand, leads to Kinlochlevin. At first we skirted along the margin of Lochyell, if that may properly be called a loch which is, in fact, an inlet of the fea. Rifing by degrees above the level of this water, fresh views of various kinds opened upon us in agreeable fucceffion, bounded by a high, ragged, and uncultivated, range of hills, forming its farther fhore; whilft, looking backward, Benevih ftill feemed to hang frowning over us, his hoary head wrapped to-day in clouds, and deriving additional gloominefs, from, the contrafted Inftre of the loch below. Croffing a chain of mountains, we at length defcended into a deep valley, dull and fwampy in the beginning, but ending in corn-fields bettertilled, and a village of more comfortable afpect than any we had for fome time feen. A litthe forward lies Ballechelith ferry; in approaching which we remarked several large malles of native marble of the pureft white, finely veined with grey. The river Levin, which we had to crofs, came down from its parent loch, at fome miles diflance up the country, with vaft rapidity and noife, pouring no fcanty tribute to Lochyell; which, fpreading itself into a fpacious Day, fomewhere hereabouts exchanges its appellation for that of Linnhe-loch. Learning that the violence of the Levin was occafioned by its current having been checked and driven back by the influx of the tide, and that it would foon abate as it was now the time of ebb, we fat down befice it, among rocks ft.ewed with various fhells, to refreth ourfelves from the well-ftored wallet, which our generous friends at Fort William, aware of the nakedneis of the tract we had to traverle, had kindly forced upon our fervants in the At length the river grew more imooth, and we ferried over it with no other accident than that one of our torfes, encumbered with a portmanteau, leaped out of the boat into the ficam, and funk entirely under-water; but, as we luckily had not yet pafhed off from fore, he was recovered without any damage, except a flight weting to our cloaths. morning. A neat and regular-build houfe becomes, in thefo rude regions, no incon fiderable object of regard. Such a one prefents itfelf on the afcent from Ballechelith ferry; leaving which on the left, and literally climbing, by a bad and broken road, up the fide of no inconfiderable heights, hagged with birch and other trees, whofe ftinted growth denoted the nature of the climate and the foil, we defcended, by a better fort of road, into a fmall village encompaffed with fields and meadows, apparently. neither ill-cultivated, nor ungrateful in their produce both of hay and bere, though the fift was as yet not cut, and the latter fill quite green, notwithflanding that the month of Augult was more than half run out. The way hence for a while keeps clofe along the Linnhe-loch; then, floping fuddenly up the hills, mounts to a vaft height above that water; and, being in many places fcarcely two yards wide, bounded on the left by a feep and foaring reck, whilft, on the right, a precipice of a moft giddy depth lies almost immediately beneath your furrup, it becomes really formidable to the traveller. In fome few parts the foil is fo worn and crumbled down, that there remains barely fpace enough for a horse to pafs along. In short, whatever may have been the perils of Penmenmaur, before the building of the parapet, by which they have long fince been done away, if they ever equalled, they fcarcely could exceed, thofe of the truly Alpine path, along which we were now advancing. Hence the profpect was in the greateft ftyle. The loch, at an immenfe depth beneath our feet, ftretching far on either hand, and embellished with many rocks and islands of different characters and colours, backed by a chain of mountains at least among the loftief in North Britain, together with the heights upon whate fides we hung, projecting their long fhadows into the very middle of the lumbering flood below, formed a scene worthy even of Virgil's fine defcription of the Lybian bay: "Hinc atque hinc vafte rupes, geminique minantur In cœlum fcopuli, quorum fub vertice latè Parfaing for fome time, with mixed fenfations of apprehenfion and delight, this elevated track, the groves of Appen at length appeared before us, in a lower fituation, waving over the borders of the loch, and almoft concealing a white edi fice, the fummer refidence of Mr. Seaton. As As we left Fort William, our kind and attentive hofts had faid-"Be fure to make the houfe of Appin your refting-place to-night; there is none other fo comfortable; Mr. Seaton is the beft landlord in this country." This figurative phrafe, being taken too literally by us, led to an event, on account of which we have fince been often rallied by thofe of our friends to whom we have related it. In short, Goldfmith's "Miftakes of a Night" were partly realized by us here; and we had actually taken poffeffion of a private houfe, and begun to call about us with the freedom ufual in an inn, before we perceived our error, or attended to a variety of circumftances which ought to have undeceived us in an inftant. Mr. Seaton was from home, and we were about to have withdrawn immediately, when the house keeper coming forward intreated us, almoft with tears, not to go away-"It would cost her," the faid, "her place; her mafter would impute our departure to fome neglect of hers, and the thould never be forgiven." It was to no purpofe we told her that we had not the pleasure of being known to Mr. Seaton, nor had brought any letters of recommendation to him, but that our intrufion had arifen from an abfurd mifanderfranding. "It might be fo," the anfwered, "but many gentlemen came thither whom her matter did not know; and he had his pofitive commands to accommodate all fuch with the beft the Boufe afforded." After a fhort deliberation, we stayed the night; and the rather, because a fervant was then about to follow the laid of Appin to a diftant part of the country, whither he was gone upon a vilit, by whom we difpatched a card, explanatory of our fitu. ation, and the impreffion fuch unufual and elegant hofpitality had made upon our minds. One of our party has fince fortunately had an opportunity to make his perfonal acknowledgements to Mr. Seaton for the accommodation and entertainment we received beneath his roof. (To be continued.) or diftances in the heavens, of which the refraction and parallax change the place, nor of inftruments, which are often defective, nor of accessary tables, where arbitrary fyftems reign. My method makes ufe but of true time, which is always found in the centre of the Sun, and in the paffage of the Moon on the meridian, both which have no need of correction. The difference of the paffage of each terreftrial meridian through the centre, of the Moon in true time will be the difference between them in longitude: from which, if the paffage of the Moon is rightly calculated from one meridian to the other in true time, the observation of the fame paffage on the fame day, in true time, on an unknown meridian, will give the difference in true time; because no terreftrial Meridian paffes over the centre of the Moon in the fame time of another Meridian. The mean difference is of 8 feconds for a degree; from which it is impofiible to make a mistake of 8 feconds in true time; and it is alfo impoffible to deceive one's felf in one degree in longitude. The Ephemerids of thefe days conveit the diftances run over, or to run over, into time, to conclude the hour of the paffige. My method fhews at once the hour of the paffage, after the combined motion of the Earth, the Sun, and Moon, which move very regularly in their respective orbits, producing ap parent inequalities in the fame time, and, on the contrary, equal space in unequal time. It is from thefe principles that I am to make my tables of the Moon according to my new fyftem of the World, which nixos the uniformity of equal motion in the three bodies of the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth; which anfwer completely to all the aftronomical phanomena, to all the apparent irregularities which aftronomers may have known, and which cannot be done with any other known fyftem. in advancing these truths, I muft give a demonftration of them from an altro. nomical phænomenon, which will be the return of true time to mean time, which is feen twice a year in two unequal periods, one of 14 and the other tween the first and the fecond there are two others, of 3' and of about 5'. It is in this manner that the tables exprefs themfelves, which have been formed from oblervations and experience. Monfieur de la Lande, in his Afro Domy, |