2. Honeyfuckles in bloom.-3. Hawthorn in bloom. Frogs have changed their tone fince the rain.-9. Wind a little tempestuous for a few hours P.M. The sky very black. Rainbows.-11. Thunder-clap P. M. A thower, after which bees fwarm.-18. Fox gloves in bloom.-Fall of rain this month 1 inch 9-10ths. Evaporation, 2 inches 7-10ths. Walton, near Liverpool. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for July, 1793. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. J. HOLT. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. white clouds June 27 28 56 69 July 12 ,84 rain 29 56 ,76 fmall rain 14 63 30 7.155 996 ,87 rain 63 68 6529,93 58 30,20 ,78 rain 60 15 rain 79 65 14 fair 20 55 ,76 Showery 83 69 926 21 65 54 22 57 70 60 915 W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand: THE REING THE FIRST NUMBER OF VOL. LXII PART II. Mr. URBAN,' July 11. ***X* AM fure you will allow me to render my grateful thanks to Mr. Gough, p. 399, for his affable replies to my queftions. In anfwer to him, on the fubject of the cuckow, I have to express my opi nion, that the old cuckows continue in the vicinage of the nests the eggs are dropt in; and that, when the young are hatched, the old extend protection to them, and perhaps affift in feeding them: then it is that the young proba. bly acquire the note of the fpecies; the duration of the cuckow's vocality not militating against the conjecture, as appears from the under notations, extract. ed from my journal of the prefent year. Cuckows were first heard on April the 22d, and, we may fuppofe, laid in a ready made neft either very foon after, or in the month of May at fartheft. During May and June I heard them often, and the young came abroad on the 16th of the last-named month; from which day to the 2d of July, inclufive, myself and others were entertained with the continual repetition of the cuckow note both in the day and in the night: in the night, I repeat, and aver upon mine honour. After the ad of this month, these and all other suckows be came filent. I alfo owe a tribute of acknowledge. ment to my kind encourager, and your valuable correfpondent, L. E, p. 531, whofe approbation makes me proud, This gentleman declaring, that a hafty account of the Gamgarou would be more acceptable to him than none, I inform him, that many Gamgarou fkins have been brought over by the officers returned from New South Wales, one of which is in the poffeffion of an acquaintance of mine. It is of a grey colour; the head fomewhat like a rat's the cars fmall; the fore-legs very short, # See p. 493. the hind long; as is alfo the tail. It feems the animal runs on its hind feet and tail. Such is the defcription I have received of it from the proprietor. A figh escapes me on the demise of that most excellent man, accurate hiftorian, diligent Naturalift, and elegant writer, the Rev. Gilbert White (fee Obituary, p. 581). I hope a monu ment will be erected to his memory in the church be hath fo pleasingly defcribed; in which I conclude he is inter red. A SOUTHERN FAUNIST. " SIR, "I received the favour of yours; and it will be a great pleasure to me to discharge the neighbourly office you stand in want of to your fatisfaction. I have taken proper measures to get chapmen for it, by ordering it to be publicly cried at my two parishes but I find a greater backwardness amongst my two flocks in this respect than I imagined. This is owing, it feams, to a greater profpect of hay and other fodder than there was any expectation of about five weeks ago, when, they tell me, your crop would have fold for 40s. more than at prefent. I believe there may be fome grounds for this; for, all the late mowed meadows produce plenty, of which yours (which was cut laft Saturday) will be no unacceptable proof; for, they fay, you have as much grafs as they could well mow: To that, by their account, the want of the fodder raifed the value of the crop. It is now with the utmoft difficulty, and a whole morning's waste of my lungs, that I have got two fufficient men of ********** to bid up to what you had offered twelve pounds. I have put them off under pretence of writing you word; but, in truth, to wait a day or two to try the market, and fee what can be got for it, therefore beg you will write me a line or two for farther directions, rections, which must come foon, for the barley, they inform me, muft he cut on Friday or Saturday; fo there is no time to lofe. If I hear nothing from you, I have but two things to chufe, either, to fet men to mow it for you, or let the men who bid the most for it take it; though I fear the two men have bid near al! I can get you. I beg my compliments, with my wife, to your lady; and am, Sir, with great esteem, yours, Mr. URBAN, "L. STERNE." Waterdown Camp, July 18. AM not this year, as heretofore, to write to you my obfervations from the fuminits of mountains, nor yet from the peaceful valleys of the most delight ful part of our happy ifland-Vo, Mr. Urban, I am not! but I hope the produce of the first idle hour I have had for fome time will not prove unacceptable from the fterile plain of Waterdown; a plain that was never yet cheared by a blade of verdure, or a fhrub, except the purpled heath, emblem of its bariennefs. I feel fo gratified on hearing the rain patter on my tent, I cannot refrain taking up my pen to tell you of it.-Welcome, ye refreshing thowers !-ye deAtoyers of duft!-for, until this day, my rhroat has never been clear of it, and by calling up a bem 1 only juft find I am rid of a dry cough which is always the attendant of dirty thirfliness. As the progrefs of any thing which adds to our comfort is pleasant to relate, you must allow me to be a little gariulous; I fhall therefore take your thoughts to yesterday evening. After a day of toil and fun, we were rejoiced to perceive the heavens threaten a thunder-form, running from South to S.S.W. I was as fatigued as I could be, though determined to wait the hoyering attack; the lightning was bufy in different quarters, and, as it neared us, thewed the hanging rocks oppolite the encampment with folemnity. The heavenly artillery approached, and, after a few tremendous peals at eleven P.M. the firft drops of water, that have for a long time refreshed this irregular wafte, came down. With the iniling of a man of thirst! I opened my mouth to the welcomed manna, and was thoroughly wet before I recovered from my reverie; and then, with the confideration of an old foldier, I flackened my weather-cords, and retired to my canvas caftellum, hugging myfelf in the idea that the fky was as black as it could be. But, as the rain this morning kindly keeps off a field-day, I mut mention a little of our mode of going on under our earthly commander. His Grace of Richmond is particularly attentive to every minutia that may be called juftice to the private foldier. Indefatigable in every point of duty, he takes care every one under him shall be fo toos and, except on actual fervice, I believe no troops were ever more under the influence of the fun. We may be ftyled "the fweating heroes of a bloodlefs plain," drenched in perfpiration, clouded with a dark duft, a fhade between the miller and the chime ney-fweep, and tormented with the fkin peeling off our faces, For my part I have had three editions of fkih within this fortnight; and if the hot season had lafted much longer, my poor nofe, which was never fo large as it ought to be, or rather as I wifh it, must have Jeffened into one of your diminutives. Never did I go into a tent to look at myfelf in a glais (not having one of my own) without perceiving it grew redder; and I think I am now as purpled as if I had made an excurfion of a day or two within the torrid zone. The day after our arrival, I walked to Tunbridge Wells, and fubfcribed to the Rooms, thinking it would be a good occafional lounge, as I had heard much about the Pantiles, and the Beauties that grace them. But what, Mr. Urban, are Welis to us? Except thofe which fpring from ourselves, or thole in front and rear of the encampment, we are obliged to vifit whenever the foldiers wish to fill their canteens; I have never been at Tunbridge fince, nor felt the leaft inclination to go there; for, at every fpare hour, I am glad to throw myself on my bed, and old Morpheus, the God of eye-lids, is inftantly my commanding officer, till I am awakened by "the drums, difcordant found or, by a feijcant thrufting the Orderly Book over my face with "Orders, your Ho"nour" or, a petty complaint against a vagrant foldier, or, fomething to do; it may not be inapt here to quote an old military expreflion-"Thus we foldiers live, &c." The different guards mount at one o'clock in the afternoon, from the very military reafon of keeping us always ready. ready. O.ders are afterwards given our, and we are lucky if we know what we are to do by three o'clock. One recent order must appear peculiar to every military man, as it more minutely expreffes the attention officers are to give to their men, than many years of fervice has given me an opportunity of obferving. Captains and fubalterns of companies are by turns at eleven o'clock to fee the meat put into the pots; to remain with them till they have boiled some time, afterwards they are to attend the diftribution in their tents, and then return to see the fires put out. As far as relates to heath it is a molt me dicinal order; the fire-places being fo jumbled together, that every kind of camp-infection must be fumigated out of the cloaths. As there is always a little kind of wit flying about encampinents, it is a quære, as pot-wallops, whether we shall not have votes for the county of Suffex; and it is even rumoured that a certain great man may write an improvement upon Mrs. Glaffe's treatife de re culinariâ. Indeed I never was in better health in my life, and who that enjoys that bleffing has a right to complain? It is the duty of foldiers to obey with chearfulnefs, and no one is more favoured than another.-Generals, field-officers, captains, all forts of foldiers, have the falubrity of not having time to be idle; and, Í dare believe, before we return to winter-quarters, we shall have completely expelled every indolent habit. As for myself, as I do not wish to be always alive, I frankly confess I could now and then like to enjoy a little of the fweets of indolence; and, however wholefome dancing about amongst the heath and ravines of Waterdown may be, I feel myself well enough not to with to be broiled and fweated into health. As the former part of this is written with a good-humoured kind of fpleen (if I may be allowed the expreffion); I can only fay, it may be occafioned by the forenefs of my face and the peeling of my skin, &c., but I have a few words to add upon a part that muft give fatisfaction to every lover of his country. The plains of Waterdown can boaft of an encampment of 7000 as fine fellows as ever lerved; men actuated by a fpirit of regard for their King and Country; and the improvement they have inade face they came upon the ground proves they have a due obedience to orders, a juft emulation for the gond of Old N. B. It is reported in Camp, we are to make a fudden attack upon the Li liputian army on Afhdown Foreft, an eminence in view, about eight miles off. If I do not fall in the charge and many a foldier has fallen fince we are here, even the Commander in Chief Mr. URBAN, if I do not fall, I truft I fhall be able to give you as good an account of ot♣ bravery as I have done of our alertnek. July 4. Aannual tribute, which, during the last two hundred years, has been paid by the family of Trawerfch, of Ortenftein, to a church in the valley of Domlefchg, in the Grifons, has an ori gin too fingular not to merit publicity and prefervation. Among the scenes of anarchy and hostility which took place in the Grifons at the commencement of the 16th century, the prevail, ing party accufed Pompeius Planta of having betrayed, to the Spaniards, the interefts of his country, and of the Proteftants; and he was fummoned to ap pear before the tribunal at Tufis. Either from the apprehenfion of delivering himself into the hands of prejudiced judges, or from the fenfations of a guilty confcience, Planta refused to ap. pear, and was confequently profcribed as a traitor. George Jenats, his mor tal enemy, a degraded priest, and at that time a colonel in the fervice of the Republic, determined to be himself the executioner of the fentence. With that intent, he assembled sume refolute men, with whom, during the night, he marched through a camp of three thou fand Catholics, and appeared in the morning before the cattle of Rietberg, where Planta imagined himfelf in perfect fecurity. Jenats broke into the caftle, and meeting Planta in the kitchen with a drawn fword in his hand, foon overpowered him, and dragging him into an adjoining room, cut off his head with a hatchet, with fuch force, that the mark of it is full visible upon the floor. Planta's daughter Lucretia, who was then very young, and afterwards married Baron Trawerfch of Ortenstein, made a folemn vow to revenge the tra gical death of her father; but many years elapied before the found a favour able opportunity of performing her row, in the gratification of that thirst after revenge which no time could affuage. At At length, when Jenats was one evening at a ball at Coire, the ordered him, under fome pretence, to be called out; and, in the moment of his fetting his foot into the free:, fhe flew him with the very fame hatchet which he had Lained with the blood of her father. In penance for this deed, Lucretia founded an annual benefice of 300 florins for the maintenance of the church and poor of the place where her father bad been killed. Travellers may fill fee in the caftle of Ortenftein the hatchet which was the inftrument of this double affaffination, and which is carefully preferved in memory of the event. Yours, &c. VIATOR A. Mr. URBAN, Welis, July 15. -non dignior unquam In plateos, Bodleie, tugs accefferat hofpes, Teaf this cathedral, and prefiHE life of Ralph Bathura, M. D. dent of Trinity College, Oxon, was published by T. Warton, M. A. about thirty years fince. An abridged account of this celebrated dean may be accepta be to fome of your readers who have not feen Mr. Warton's publication. Dean Bathurst is not the first medical dean on record in the Weft of England, there being a monumental infcription in St. Olave's church, Hart-street, London, in memory of William Turner, M. D. who died dean of Wells, A. D. 1568; and we find, in 33 Hen. VI. an order, under the privy feal, to fummon a phy. fician to attend the king at Windlor; the doctor fummoned was Gilbert Ke. mer, dean of Salisbury. It is alfo re. markable, that Dr Bathurt had for contemporaries two phyficians, heads of houfes; viz. Henry Clerke, M. D. prefident of Magdalen, and John Par ker, M. D. warden of Merton; and he himself married the widow of John Palmer, M. D. warden of All Souls. Ralph Bathurst, M. D, was born in the year 1620, at Thedingworth, in Leicefter hire. In 1640 he was appointed fellow of Trin. Coll. Oxon. He took the degree of M. A. in 1644, and was ordained the fame year by bishop Skinner, of Oxford. The confufion and troubles of the grand rebellion promifing but little encouragement to the mimiferial function, he changed his plan, and commenced student in phyfick. "I knew," fays he, "no better way than to turn my studies to phyfick, that fo, in fpight of the iniquities of the times, I might get a tolerable livelihood, whatever became of me in the Univerfity." In the year 1654. he took the degrees of M. B. and M. D. by accumulation, The three questions for his bachelor's degrees were: "An Tætus materno fanguine nutriatur? For the degree of M. D. he gave "Præ- Romoleas audax pænus cum invaderet arces, Before he had taken his medical de grees, he had the reputation of an ablę practitioner, and was employed under the board of fick and hurt feamen; and, in the difcharge of the duties of his ap pointment, he gave much fatisfaction to the admiralty, and to the board. He afterwards affociated himself with Dr, Willis, with whom he regularly attend. ed Abingdon market every Monday, In the year 1651 he affifted in the reco very of Ann Green, a young woman executed at Oxford for the murder of her baftard infant; on that occafion the doctor was the imputed author of the following epigram: "In puellam úsçónorμ”, a patibulo Quæ nuper medicos, vefpillonefque fefellit, Cum poterat Stamen fie renovare fuum.' To the ftudy and practice of phyfick Dr. Bathurst joined every branch of philofophical knowledge. About the year 1662 he was engaged with others in forming a fociety, who held weekly meetings at Dr. Wilkins', warden of Wadham. It was from this inftitution that the Royal Society of London originated; Dr. Seth Ward, Mr. Boyle, Dr. Wilkins, Sir Wm. Petty, Matthew Wren, |