is or are received in pursuance of this act, and doth or do accordingly remain in the hands of the faid receiver-general, or fuch perfon or perfons to be appointed by him to receive the fame, to be difpofed of as is hereby directed.

XVIII. And be it farther enacted, That each and every fuch ticket in the faid lottery, fo to be depofited with the faid receiver-general, for the purpose of being afterwards fold into shares, shall remain and continue in the cuftody and poffeffion of the faid receiver-general, or of the perfon or perfons fo to be appointed by him as aforefaid, until

the expiration of three days after the draw. ing of fuch ticket in the faid lottery; and that, on the expiration of three days next af

ter the drawing of fuch ticket in the faid lot

tery, fuch ticket fhall be returned to the owner or owners thereof, his, her, or their agent or agents, affignee or affigns, upon producing the receipt of the faid receivergeneral, or of fuch other perfon or perfons fo to be appointed by him as aforefaid, for the fame: and, in cafe any fuch ticket, fo to be depofited as aforefaid, fhall remain un claimed at the end of two years from the day of the drawing thereof, the money (if any) to arife by the fale of fuch ticket shall be retained in the hands of the said receivergeneral for the time being, and be applied in defraying the expences of the stamp-office in executing this act, and otherwife in fuch

manner as is hereinafter mentioned.

XIX. And be it farther enacted, That a book or books fhall be kept by the faid receiver-general, or the perfon or perfons fo to be appointed by him as aforefaid, who thail truly and fairly enter and regifter, in fuch book or books, the number of every lottery-ticket which shall be depofited in the faid office in pursuance of this act, together with the name or names of all and every fuch perfou and perfons who fhall fo depofit fuch ticket, and alfo the number of fhares into which each fuch ticket fhall be fo divided as aforesaid; and any perfon fhall and may, from time to time, and at all feasonable times, refort to and infpect fuch book or books, on payment of the fum of two pence to the faid perfon or perfons fo to be appointed by the faid receiver-general as aforefaid; and the money arifing from fuch payment shall be paid and applied in defraying the expences of the ftamp-office in executing this act, and otherwife in manner herein after fpecially provided.

XX. And be it farther enacted, That, upon the leaving and depofiting of any lotteryticket, at or in the faid office, with the faid receiver general, or fuch perfon or perfons fo to be appointed as aforesaid, for the purpofes aforefaid, the perfon or perfons, who shall fo leave and depofit the fame, thall pay to the faid receiver-general, or the perfon or perfous fo to be appointed by him as afore faid, for each thare into which every fuch

ticket shall be divided by the faid officer or officers, the fum of two pences and the moneys arifing from fuch fee, to be paid as aforefaid, fhall be accounted for, from time to time, and fhall be paid and applied to wards the expence of keeping fuch office for the depofit of lottery-tickets as aforesaid, or in defraying any other expences of the ftampoffice in the execution of this act, and other wife in fuch manner as is hereinafter fpe cially prescribed.

Mr. URBAN,"

W.K.

Nov.TS. PERMIT one more intrufen in your worn-out, though still unfettled, fubexcellent Mifcellany on that almost ject of Fairy-rings, by one who tras hi therto been filent on that head. I fhall be brief, and only recite a fact which came under my obfervation in the month of July laft, and which nearly proves (what I myself always believed) that thefe circles have an electric cause. On the inclined plane of a pasture-down, making an angle of about 45° with the horizon, were two imperfect Rings near together that did not much exceed a femicircle each, their inferior comple ments being deficient. Both curves with an irregular interrupted chalim, or were frikingly impreffed throughout cleft, about a foot in depth, and half that in breadth at the greateft. I only afk, what but lightning can account for this appearance ?

The ingenious author of the English Botany, Mr. Sowerby, would oblige many of his admirers by publishing a figure of the Purple Bird's-neft, Orchis abortiva, Lin. and of the Ophrys Co rallorhiza. Linnæus, to prove the ant mal nature of the genus Corallina, fays, in his Syftema Nature, p. 1304, "Corallinas ad regnum animale pertinere ex fubftantia earum calcarea conftat, cum omnem calcem animalium effe productum veriffimum fit." But this can carry no proof, fince there are fome productions undoubtedly of the vegetable kingdom that are ftrongly calcareous, fermenting violently with aqua fortis both in their dried and recent ftate; an example of which may be leen in the Chara vulgaris, Lin.

Yours, &c.

J. N.

beth and her fucceffor. Having been for fome time conftructing fome regular memoirs of that zealous miffionary, I felt confcious of many paufes which a contracted investigation could not eafily fupply. One part, I was apprehenfive, would naturally remain involved in the duft of oblivion; the other not eafy to be extracted from the grasp of zealous and tenacious prejudice. I could derive little that was fatisfactory to me from the dull labours of Ribadeinira; the fedulous accuracy of Pitts; the biographic details of Butler; or the defultory memorials of Chaloner. The low relations of Speed, rancorous in his temper, and virulent in his Proteftantifm, records nothing that reflects either credit on himself, or that were worth the trouble of extraction. I wonder he has ever been quoted. I think his candour and authority equally impeach able, and his relations almost always di gufting from the bigotry of his principles. He often condefcends to a nickname. Of the writings of Parlons, I Rated a lift as fupplied by the Oxford Antiquary, and expected, as many are fill depofited in that feminary, a fupplementary communication. However uninterefting his controverfial writings might be, I ftill hope that the author of Leicefter's Commonwealth" might claim respect. It is doubtiefs the fevereft faure in our language, however little it is known, and illuftrates a ma terial part of the English hiftory. It delineates the character of that favou rite and able ftatefman with the clofedirected eye of Tacitus himself, and the penetrating genius of that great mafier of human nature. Little, per haps, might be expected from the affected liberality of the editor of the Letters of Abelard and Eloife, or the verfatility of the tranflator of Ververt.

In fome memoirs relative to a con temporary lefs might perhaps be hoped for, Of Dr. Gregory Martin, however, I request the favour of the fmallest details. According to Wood, he wrote "The Errours of the Proteftant Bible," "Delectionem Scripturarum," 1582, Rhenis. De Chriftianæ Peregrinatione cui adjiciuntur Epift." &c. Ang. Edit. 1583." Tractatum de Schifmate. Duaci. 1587. Ango

A NATURALIST'S STRAY.
(Concluded from p. 994.).

B.

M Y engagement with my fellow.

travellers made it neceflary for

me to quit the Wells fooner than I fhould otherwife have done. In purfuing my way, I paffed by a large manfion that is not fo worthily inhabited now as it has been formerly, the present occupiers being fome of the Gallic incumbrances that every where infest our land. I found foon after, that the falubrious air of Sunning-bill had excited. sensations that would not allow me to proceed farther till they were fatisfied; and, befides, I was unwilling to leave the place without having ate of the buns I had heard of its being noted for. On making the application courteous, a couple of thefe cates were procured me by a tidy crone whom I found whirling her fpinning-wheel in a but wattled with hazel-rods, walled with mud, and roofed with turfs. Beneath the eaves 1 efpied near a dozen beehives; and, upon asking for honey, had fome given me that was deliciously impregnated with the taste and fragrance of wild thyme. Thus I was provided with a repaft fit for a monarch, and, like a monarch, 1 fat to eat it; for, there chanced to be an antient beech near the crone's wicket, the wreathing roots of which ferved me for a feat and footstool, whilft the head anfwered as a canopy its gloffy leaves broke the funbeams into twinklings, and its penfile fpray for warded the breezes. Some particles of the yellow, red, white, black, and refplendent, fands I had come through were troublesome in my throat, and I befought. a little water to wash them down; a nimble imp who attended on the crone fupplied me from a rill that ran thrilling between fome reeds, but it participated fo ftrongly of the mineral, that it was little lefs unpalatable than the phyfic I had tafled at the fountain, the fteely quality pervading all the water in the district; however I took as much of it as answered for a gargle, and ens abled me to hold converfe with my hoflefs. I enquired about bees, and was glad to underitand that many are here kept, and that this feafon had been propitious to them. I afked concerning the management of them, but received on that head more amusement than in formation; the communicative bee miftrefs reciting to me how many times the had awakened her bees when deaths had happened in the family; a ceremony deemed by her indifpenfably neceflary to their profperity. I was going to be let into other mysteries of the fame na❤ ture, when there arofe à dire alarm, that finished

finished our inoffenfive goffop. My terrier, in fniffing after vermin, had difcovered upon a washing-block the crone's cat; puls ran for fecurity under one of the bee-hive ftools: Venom followed, and dog and cat together overfet ftool and hive. The danger was imminent to all parties: the crone bid her imp run for gaffer but gaffer was fo decrepid, that he was long in coming. The third commandment I never break, fo I had no exclamation readily vociferable on the occafion but Venom! Venom! Venom! The canine champion heeded not; and the crone, obferving my voci ferations to be vain, feized her broomflick, and therewith laid on upon Venom till he had releafed her feline friend. The next affair was to appeafe the angered bees, and this was one lefs eafy to be effected. I inconfiderately flung my hat at them; infult added to injury naturally enraged them more. The fuperior wisdom of the crone was again demonstrated: into a brazen tea-pot of antique mould the put a few of thofe fmooth black pebbles which housewives roll in old gloves to polish fleel grates with; thefe in the cavity of the tea-pot produced a harmony that foothed the wrath of our enemies, and induced them to retire into the re-inflated hive. The crone had now leifure to be angry, and very much fo the was, both with me and with Venom; but a verbal expreffion of concern, and a filver apology, made peace, and that so effectually, that the was kind enough to attempt charming away the anguifh of ftings I had received; but my want of faith in her in cantations prevented them from being efficacious. After the bustle was thus fabfided, the old man arrived, who, in reply to f me excules I made him, innocently replied, "It was only a mishap to please your honour;" but, in fact, although the crone had been fo enchafed, it was my dog and I that had the work of the affair; for, Venom had received a fevere beating, and I a dozen fings; for, the clone was firong though antient, and the bees had most discour. teously made their main attack on me a franger. It is true that Venom in his Ipeed had knocked down the fpinning wheel, and fmathed fome red pipkins; but the spot offered enough alder, afh, and withy, to repair the machine, and the crockery could be easily re placed from the manufactory of coarle ware that is carried on at Cove, a village in the vicinity; mnomuch, that the das

mage was fo far from being irreparable, that my filver apology weighed down the matter in favour of old Darby and Joan.

I now had to encounter the cold looks I expected to meet from my waiting friends; but I had the comfort of hearing, on my arrival at the Wheatsheaf, that they alfo had been vifiting the Belvidere; an excurfion that had caused my abfence to feem fhorter than it really had been. The flight degree of fpleen that they had imbibed from not finding me returned before them to the inn was foon diffipated in laughter on hearing the biflorette of the crone, dog, cat, and hive; so I came off with only being told once of the dinner being fpoiled. The landlady, being a good motherly kind of woman, applied to my hurts fome moiftened stone-blue, which affuaged the pain immediately. We dined in a bow-window that looked upon a cascade. This cafcade ripples down an aggregate of stones that forms the head of the Virginia Water; which artificial rock is a work fo out of unifon with the face of the country, that it only excites one to wonder whence the

ones that compofe it have been brought. A Chinefe yacht upon the water, and a Chinese temple upon the fland, are yet more out of character; for, whilft ftanding upon English ground, no European can fancy himfelf, any more than he can with himfelf, in China. I am not forry that these Eastern gew-gaws are become fubfiftence for the worms; for, where the beauties of nature are fo con. fpicuous, the trivialities of art appear defpicable, and only caufe one to regret the money that has been lavished on them. The proper embellishment for the island would be a fisherman's hove!, and for the water a Thames barge, attended by fome feuhers and wherries: craft of that kind would remind the fpectator that the parent ftream flows into the Thames, a fact that should be preferved in recollection, because, from contributing to the replenishment of that important river, the Virginia water derives the only real confequence it poflettes. The fort of barge l'allude to would be useful in conveying things from one part of the water to another, and might be kept fufficiently neat to accommodate water parties, and be occa. fonally made comfortable, by awnings, carpets, mats, &c. &c. The rock [ have mentioned was erected after the great inundation that happened fome

years