print and paper; but if Dr. Warton, or Mr. Malone, hould intend to print in that fiyle for the collections of the opulent and curious, I hope they will confider alfo the herd of common read ers, whofe pockets will not justify the purchafe of pompous editions! If I might take the liberty to fuggeft a hint, I fhould propofe a crown octavo as the moft elegible fize for poetry in general; as it not only affords an amplitude of page for fine print, and a good margin, but it likewife renders the volumes very portable, at the fame time it is a good library fize, and modifies the price to purchafers in general. For examples, I could refer to a beautiful edition of Thomfon's Works, in vol. 3 printed by Strahan, 1788; likewife thofe of Dr. Young, 3 vol. for Dodfley, &c. 1792; Hurd's Cowley; and numerous Whatever mode of printing may be adopted, it is hoped the celebrated tranflations of both authors will be included. I was alfo well-pleafed to learn at the fame time, that a new edition of Dr. Percy's Reliques, &c. was coming forth; it is an elegant and pleafing work, fuch as no real admirer of English poetry would furely be without. Yours, &c. others. Mr. URBAN, T. WOOLSTON. Adderbury, Nov. 6. AM very fenfible of the impropriety I of troubling the publick with queries which concern nobody but ourtelves; this occafioned a diffidence about fend ing thofe p. 610: but I thought, per. haps, they might excite fomething in anfwer to them, from fome good-natured reader, which might prove agree able information to others as well as myfelf. On this head my acknowledgements are due to U. U. p. 799, for his kind endeavours, but I have not been able to profit by them at prefent. have read Dr. Knox's Eays, and Winter Evenings; but I never met with the information he alludes to, relative to Cafimir. My edition of his Effays be-ing that of 1782, in 2 vol. 12mo, Į thought, perhaps, it might be inferted in tone fubfequent edition; according I ly I examined the ninth edition, in 3 vols. 8vo. and, not finding it there, I must have been either an inattentive reader, or there must be some mistake in the reference. I read Watts's Lyric Poems fome years ago, which I believe first interested me in the enquiry after Cafimir; but, as I have not them at hand, I do not recolle& what he has faid of him in his preface, nor what ac knowledged ufe he made of him in his Odes. How far Dr. Watts's claims to originality may extend, I know not; I believe that was a matter of no great confequence to him; his chief aim feems to have been in rendering his Mufe fubfervient to the cause of Religion and Virtue : and, if poetical merit were to be estimated by its usefulness, [ believe, he would have very few stand before him. I am particularly obliged to T. P. (p. 904, who has not only directed me to a tranflation of Cafimir, but has alfo given us a good account of Watson* the poet, and his works, though it may, perhaps, be a difficult matter to pick any of them up at this time of day, as they are become fo very antiquated. Examining the paintings of J. Barber, Efq. in confequence of Mr. Copley's requeft, I find the portrait of Sir S.Luke is ftill in being there, together with another of his lady, and one of his fon; they are fine portraits, and in good prefervation. As Dr Grey, the celebrated and indefatigable anno ator on Hudibras, lived at Hinton, within fix or feven miles of Adderbury, and was, donbtlefs, acquainted with the father of the prefent Mr. Barber, it is rather furprizing that he did not get a copy from it, for his fine edition of that poem: for, though he did not believe Sir S. Luke to have been the real hero of that piece; yet Butler's connexions with that family, and the general opinion that he was fo, was of fufficient confequence to have entitled it to a place there. Mr. Barber fhewed me a curious antient piece of painting on oak pannel; it was a small, but very hne, head of Chrift, with the following infcription : EY THE THIS PRESENT FIGURE IS THE SIMILYTUDE OF OUR LORD JHE OUR SAVIOUR IMPRINTED IN AMIRALD PREDESESSOR OF THE GREAT TURKE AND SENT TO POPE INNOSENT THE VIII. FOR A TOKEN TO REDEME HIS BROTHER THAT WAS TAKYN PRISONER. *In my letter, p. 6ro, l. 21, it thould have been “elegant smeteor? 2 GENT MAG. Supplement, 1793. Should Should the inclofed verfes be worth a place in your Magazine, by permitting me to pay a compliment to an amiable lady of genius, you will oblige, Yours, &c. T. WOOLSTON. The SONNET, p. 844, transformed and addreffed to the Writer, Mifs LoCKE. Fair "penfive Wanderer," who delight'ft to Aray, And woo the facred foul-enchanting pow'r, O fhield it from the cold damp dews of night, Mr. URBAN, NOT Dec. 30 OTWITHSTANDING it may be faid, that an Obituary revives the concern we must all in common feel for the lofs of friends and reiatives, I thought to have read fome memento of a very good friend in your Magazine for Jaft month; I mean of the late George Townsend Sloper, of Tetbury, in the County of Gloucester, and of New Inn, in the county of Middlefex, efq. bar. rifier at law, who died in November laft, and by whofe death I was much affected. He was the eldeft fon of Matthew Sloper, efq. deceafed (who for his integrity mult fill be remembered by many of the prefent practifers of the law), and of Sarah, his wife, and was called to the bar in 1783, having been previoully entered of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. He was only 34 years of age, and lived much retired, by inclination, to the regret of his acquaintance; yet he had the fpi it, at the laft general election, to oppole the celebrated Mr. Sheridan as member for Stafford, and, had he made carlier application than he did, it was generally thought he would have fucceeded. He has left his mother almoft difco fo ate; and, for her good comfort, an enly furviving brother, Henry. Hail Sloper, efq. now a captain or lieutenant in the Oxford Blues, but who, it is feared, ftands a chance of going into actual fervice on the prefent alarming emergency. Ler it be remembered at leaft, that, of the late friend of whom I am now writing, he was a worthy and an honeft man; and what more need we defire or expect to be faid of any of us when we fhall have left this fublunary refidence? I YOUR CONSTANT READER. Mr. URBAN, London Bridge, Dec. 10. HAVE lately been cured of a rheumatic complaint in my back and fhoulders by the application of a fhect ing it for a week, it produced a violent of common brown-paper. After weareruption of fmall pimples, which itched extremely. I then difcontinued the pa per; and, by frequent applications of warm milk and water, the itching aba before it is applied; and I found the ted. The paper should be well aired easiest way of wearing it was to have it fewed withinfide a flannel waistcoat which I wear next my skin; but, when the eruption took place, and I had left off the paper, I was obliged to wear a linen waistcoat under the flannel one to prevent its irritating the pimples. As the remedy is fo verv fimple, and yet fo efficacious, I wish to make it known for the benent of the poor, whe are very liable to rheumatic complaints. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, HA R. T. Dec. 12. AVING lately been into Northamptonshire, to get fome drawings done of churches and monuments, in order to illuftrate Mr. Bridges's Hiftory of that county, I met with the fol lowing inferiptions in the church of Great Oxendon, near Market Harborough, to the memory of the family of the Rev. John Morton, author of the Natural Hiftory of that county, which, if you think worth inferting in your Magazine, are at your fervice. They are on black flate Leicestershire flabs on the pavement; the three fieft within the rails of the altar. 1. "Subtus depofitum jacet quicquid mortale fait JOHANNIS MORTON, A. M. et R. S. S. mariti, patris, amici, proximique indulgentiffimi, et perquam humani : ob exquifitam plantarum fothilumque peritiem, naturalem hujufce contatûs hiftoriam Imato ipfius calamo confcriptam, in morbis explorandis fagacitatem, nec lyes the body of the Rev. Mr. HENRY MORTON, Rev. Mr. JOHN MORTON, in the year of our Lord 1737, 3. "Hoc tumulo conditur SUSANNA, Reverendi Johannis Courtman filia, necnon Reverendi Johannis Morton uxor amans, parique cum ardore redamata : quam infignivit pietas et prifca fides, infolita rerum utiliffimarum fcientia, officiofa fedulitas, mira fuavitas comitafque, virtutum omnium quotquot pulcherrimo, exemplo indigitavit, maritum feliciter æmulans. Obiit Sept. 2, 1728, anno ætat. 60." 4. "Subtus conduntur mortales exuviæ ANNE, Reverendi Henrici Morton & Annæ exoris ejus filiæ. Obiit die Sept. 25, anno ætatis fuæ 29, æræ Chrifti MDCCLX. Virgo pulchra, pudica, pia, vixit naturæ quidem parum diu, fatis ergo gloriæ, in coulis nunquam perituræ." 5. "Beneath of the Rev. WILLIAM FRANKS, M.A. Dec. the 30th, in the 42d year of his age, in the year of our Lord 1752.” The family have now fold the living to a Mr. Bolton, whofe fon is the prefent rector. The church of Brixworth is a curious ftructure, the body of which is built out of fome old Roman temple or fortification, the fides are full of Roman arches, and at the end of the spire fteeple is a round Roman tower, curious. T. Grant, efq. of Towcester, has been levelling the caftle dykes, mentioned by Bridges, vol. I. p. 61; and gave me a Roman pot found in one of them. I likewife fend you an impreffion I took from a brass in Wappenham church (fee plate I. p. 4.), which Bridges calls an ecclefiaftic; but it evidently appears to be a person in armour, with his beaver up this is all of it remaining: it was a whole-length, with an infcription, but the rest is broken off and gone. Yours, &c. J. Simco. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT, 1793. (Concluded from p. 1112.) TH H. OF LORDS. May 17. HEIR Lordships proceeded on the trial of Warren Haftings, efq.; which was afterwards adjourned till Friday, the 24th. In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Hobart in the chair, the House refolved felf into a Committee of Ways and Means. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acquainted the Committee, that he had deemed it expedient to propofe, that the fum of 675,cool. fhould be railed by means of a lottery, for the fervice of the enfuing year. He faid, that a mode had been devised to remedy the justly-complained-of evils of infurance, which he thought, as far as the cafe would poffibly admit, would anfwer the propofed end. He moved two refolutions, expreffive of the opinion of the Committee, relative to the meafure of a lottery, in the ufual way; which were paffed, and the report ordered to be received. The adjourned debate on the eftablishment of a Board of Agriculture for internal improvement was refumed; when Sir 7. Sinclair opened the business, which, indeed, partook more of the nature of a converfation than a debate, and firenuously recommended the meafure of conftituting the Board. Meffrs. Duncombe, D. Scott, Rofe, and Pulteney, fpoke in approbation of the meafure; Meflrs. Fox, Grey, &c. were against it. The Houfe divided; and there appeared in favour of the motion 101, against it 26. On the report of the bill from the Committee for regulating the affairs of India, Mr. Fox oppofed the prov fion for regulating the Board of Controul, adding two new commiffioners, &c. as tending in a very confiderable degree to increase the influence of the Crown. Several gentlemen delivered their opinions; after which, the queflion being put, the House divided, Ayes 113, Noes 42. In the Commons, the fame day, the bill for the relief and encouragement of Friendly Societies was read the third time; a claufe was added, by way of ryder, and paffed. Mr. Wilberforce moved, that the House do refolve itself into a Committee, to confider of the motion for leave to bring in a bill fo far to abolish the flave-trade as to prevent the fupply of Slaves to foreign iflands. The motion was oppofed by Mr. Cawthorne, and fupported by Mr. Buxton. Sir William Dolben, Mr. Francis, and Mr. Courtenay. The Houte divided, Ayes 61, Noes 18. H. OF LORDS. May 23. Lord Grenville brought up the report of the Commitee of Privilege appointed to examine precedents relative to the question, Whether a Scotch peer, created an English peer by patent fince the Union, had a right to vote for the election of Scotch peers to reprefent the peerage of Scotland in that Houfe? Lord Grenville conceived that the queftion ought to be referred to the Judges for their opinion; his Lordthip adduced many arguments in fupport of his motion, which involved much legal knowledge. Lord Cathcart acknowledged that it was a very important question; but he conceived that their Lordships were competent to decide on it. The Duke of Norfolk was of the same opinion. On which the Houfe divided, Lord Mansfield then moved, that the votes given by the Duke of Queensberry and the Marquis of Abercorn, at the late ele&tion for the reprefentation of the peerage of Scotland, be ftruck off the roll. Lord Kinnoul fupported the motion in a fpeech of tome length. The Lord Chancellor quoted several precedents and legal opinions in support of the motion. Lord Grenville, in a fpeech of confiderable length, combated the motion. His Lordship refted his arguments on the ftatute of Union, the refolutions of the Houfe in 1708-1782, particulaily in the cafe of the Duke of Hamilton, who was created an English duke by the tyle and title of Brandon, who fat in that Houle as an elected peer of Scot and, and an elector of the Scotch peerage reprefentation. His Lordship therefore afited, that the votes of the Duke of Queensberry and the Marquis of Abercorn ought to be counted. On the qtion being put, that their votes, if duly tendered, ought to have been counted, the Houfe again divided, Contents 41 Non contents 31 Proxies 7 Proxies Majority 7. 10 May 24 Their Lord hips proceeded farther on the trial of Warren Haftings, efq. In the Commots, the fame day, the order for the reading of the bill for regulating the government and trade of India being moved, and the bill read accordingly, Mr. Dundas prelented leveral cleufts, which he moved thould be added to the bill by way of ryders. Thele claufes produced much defultery converfation between feveral gentlemen, but did not in general meet with any pointed oppofition. Mr. Alderman Curtis propofed a claufe, the intent of which was to relax the operation of the act which goes to notwithstanding any adjournment of the regulate the depofits, hour of payment, House. &c. of the tea brokers, by empowering the Dire fors to enquire into the circumftances of the different cafes, and to act accord ngly. Many gentlemen delivered their opinions; when, the queftion being called for, the Houfe divided, and there appeared in favour of the claufe 41, against it 90. H. OF LORD S. May 27. H. OF LORDS. Mr. Townshend, attended by Mr. Sheridan. Mr. Grey, and others, appeared at the bar, and fated, that, as the evidence on the trial of Mr. Haftings was extremely voluminous, and would require a longer time to be confidered by the Managers than the time fixed by the Lords; it was requifite that a longer time be given for that Their Lordips proceeded farther on purpose. the trial of Warren Haftings, efq. - In the Commons, the fame day, on a motion that the report of the bill for enlarging the elective franchife of the borough of Stock bridge be now received, Sir R Hill was against the bill; for, if it paffed into a law, its prefent form would involve the innocent with the guilty. Mr. Eliot contended that the majority of the voters were involved in the accufation. Mr W. Ellis called it a bill of pains and penalties. The proper fep would have been to have directed the Attorney-general to have profecuted the accufed perions; but, as the time limited for that was elapfed, he should therefore confide, this bill as an ex poft facto law. The Houle divided, for the question 33, against it 42. H. OF LORDS. May 28. Mr. Dallas, on the part of Mr. Haftings, concluded his defence; after which Mr. Haftings addreffed their Lordships in a speech of upwards of 20 minutes, which he concluded with begging their Lordships would endeavour to conclude his trial in the prefent feffion of parliament. In the Commons, the fame dav, Mr. Burke, after a few introductory obfervations, moved, "that a Select Committee be appointed to enquire into the ftate of the impeachment of Warren Hattings, efq. and to report according Ly;" which the Houfe agreed to, and named Mers. Burke, Wyndham, Grey, Sheridan, Cox, Ryder, Will. Smith, North, and a few others, for the Committee. Five were appointed a quorum; and permition was given to proceed The members of the House of Commons having withdrawn, Lord Stanhope moved, that the House fhould proceed on the trial on Monday fe'nnight; which was agreed to. In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Townshend brought up the report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the ftate of Mr. Haftings's trial. H. OF LORDS. In a Committee on the debtor and creditor bill, Lord Thurlow moved, that the bill be read the third time on this day two months. On a divifion, the numbers were, In the Commons, the fame day, Mr. Wharton rofe to make a motion refpecting the prefent ftate of the Conftitution. He prefaced it with a fhort fpeech, in which he afferted, and pledged himself to prove (fhould his motion be agreed to), that all the falutary provifions which were affeited and enacted at the time of the Revolution, for the fecurity and the pure adminiftration of the Conftitution of thefe kingdoms, had been, fince that period, almoft entirely done away. He then concluded by no. ving, "that a Committee of the Houfe be appointed, to enquire whether any, and which, of the provisions, made by Parliament in the reign of William and Mary, and in the reign of William, for fecuring the refponfible exercife of the Executive Authority; for fecuring a fair, free, and frequent, reprefentation of the Commons in Parliament; and for fecuring a fair and impartial adminitration of juftice in the courts of law: whether |