EACH Ann. Short | India | India India S. Sea Old New 778- Stock. Ann Bonds. Stock DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JULY, 1793. Long Ann. Ann. Commerce Exchequer-Bills. New Excheq3 perCt Sep. 30 Je. 3 Mar. 31, June 30, Navy Bills. Scrip. 1791. 1793 28 7 thut 22 2114 fhut Thut 9 dif 9 } 22 10 2114 78 1794 58. dif 1794 78 5s.df 25s.dif. 335. dif. 30 N. B. In the 3 per Cent. Confels, the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; in the other Stocks the highest Price only. THOMAS WILKIE, Stock-Broker, No. 71, St Paul's Church-yard. LOND.GAZETTE GENERAL EVEN. Lloyd's Evening St. James'sChron. Whitehall Even. London Chren. London Evening. Le Packet-Star English Chron. Evening Mail Middlefex Journ. Courier de Lond. Daily Advertifer Public Advertiser Gazetteer, Ledger Woodfall's Diary Morning Herald Morning Chron. World.-Briton. Oracle-Times Morn. Poft-Sun 13 Weekly Papers Bath a, Bristol 4 Birmingham 2 Blackburn Bucks-Bury CAMBRIDGE 2 Canterbury 3 Chelmsford For AUGUST, CONTAINING 1793. Meteorolog. Diaries for July and Aug. 1793 632 | Family of Vaux.-Famous Tomb at Howden 710 Anecdoteof Mr.Agecroft.-Stepney Curiofities 713 By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet; 21. Blackberry in bloom and forming fruit.-23. Water lly in bloom.-24. The ther mometer about 70 at 3 o'clock P. M. in the fhade.-28. Gathered mellow gooseberries for the first time. Fall of rain this month 2 inches. Evaporation, 3 inches 8-10ths. Gooseberries scarce in all the country where I have travelled.-Crops of hay thin, but the grafs in good quality and well got in; many inftances of cutting one day, and housing the next *. J. HOLT, Walton, near Liverpool. D. of METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for August, 1793. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Month. 11 o'ci. Night. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Barom. Weather ,or fair 79 59 29,87 rain 73 57 12 57 72 64 1456 58 72 58 58 ,86 rain 16 62 30,12 fair 58 17 60 74 62 56 986 ,II 96 fair 64 81 62 29,81 rain 59 rain 56 58 fair 62 58 ,46 rain 18 53 61 55 23456789; 60 76 59 ,66 fair 59 72 63 88 rain 59 30,02 cloudy 68 56 ,10 rain 58 29.78 71 975 61 73 57 76 fair 68 73 54 30,03 55 13 fair 74 76 565 60 923 59 ,15 72 67 51 68 57 103 55 29,93 rain 54 30,04 fhowery W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand. *For the obfervations made by our Journalist from June 19 till his return to Walton, see pp. 618. 720; and in p, 620, read "fix quarters per acre." EDIT. THE T Mr. URBAN, Oxford, Aug. 12. *XXX*HE account given in your last (pp. 662. & feq.) of what paffed at our Encania, on the memorable event of the inftallation of the new Chancellor, is in general pretty exact; I shall only add, that the fpirit of loyalty and regard for eur happy Conftitution, in Church and State, was fo warmly and fo generally expreffed on this agreeable occafion, as could not but afford a heart-felt pleafure to all that cordially love their King and Country; and, in the public recitations, our happy ftate was fo properly contrafted with the mifery and horrors exhibited now in France, as must have made a ficong impreffion on all prefent; not lefs falutary for the younger part of the aud ence than confolatory to their venerable feniors. And herein the Bishop of Dromore very properly took the lead, in his initiatory fermon; the conclufion of which made so strong an impreffion on myfelf and fome of my friends, that I fhall endeavour to give you, from our joint recollection, what we can remember of his Lord p's words. Having oblerved at large how much the Chriffin religion had improved the fpirit of love and kindness among men, &c. the Bishop thas proceeded: "In a Christian country, where the doctrines of the Gospel are conftantly taught, the most important truths, and the fublinieft morals, are fo generally known, even to the loweft of the people, that we are fcarcely fenfible of their value. Like the light of day, and the genial warmth of fpring, their benign influence is univertally diffuted; yet is tcarcely obferved, or excites attention. To eftimate them as we ought, we thould experience what we must futter from their lofs. "This is precifely our prefent cafe. That we may know and feel how much we owe to the Christian religion, we have before our eyes a great nation, our nearest and most powerful neighbours, actually deprived of this ineftimable blefling; who have expelled PART II. (683 "It had become a problem with fome, whether the fuperior comforts and happiness of modern times were not merely the refult of high civilization; whether the boasted refinement of manners, and delicacy of fentiment, which diftinguish the prefent age, were not fufficient to account for its fuper or difplay of the humane virtues, and greater fecurity of life and property; and whether Religion had any fhare in procuring to us thefe tranfcendent advant ges. Or, if it was allowed that, in the infancy of nations, Religion might be of fome ufe, in fuperadding its imaginary terrors to the obfervance of laws, and the practice of morals; yet, when these were established, and had obtained a general influence in the habits and manners of men, it was doubted whether Religion were then any longer neceffary; whether a nation could not do as well or better wi.hout it; in thort, whether it were not an useless, if not a noxious, incumbrance. "Divine Providence hath allowed the experiment to be made. It hath permitted a people, who boafted their superior poffeffion of all thofe benefits, to be given up to the effect of their irreligion and impiety. It hath held them up for an example, for a warning to the world, that all nations may fee what the most polished people, in the moft enlightened age, may immediately become, when Religion is withdrawn, and the truths of Chribanity denied or rej-Atd. "From the highest improvements of polifhed life, from the first line in the scale of national refinement, they are inftantly funk and degrrded below the level of civilized nations We faw them but as yesterday excelling in arts and fciences, cultivating every branch of learning, aboanding with the comforts, the elegances, the luxuries, of life; great, flourishing, powerful. Wanton in their profperity, they hit their impous hands against leaven: they rebel against God, and reject his Son! What immediately do they become? The moft wretched, the mult fal en, of all nations! Their learning gone; its profeffors fled: the fciences extinguithed: the finest productions of Art deftro ed. All their comforts vanished: every humane and estimable quality erated from their bofoms: and and they are fast reverting to the miferies and crimes of lavage life; brutal manners, wanton cruelty, indifcriminate carnage. "May their fad example be a warning to ourfelves, and teach us to revere and obey thofe inftitutes, which Heaven in its mercy feat for the guidance of man; to add the reftraints of conference to the public fanctions of human laws; to prevent even their operation, by training the mind to habits of virtue and goodness, by teaching it to refift ail temptations here, and to fix its final hopes on Heaven! "These fentiments, thefe reflexions, cannot furely be deemed foreign to the fubject on which we are this day affembled. To confider the dreadful effects of caring impiety, of avowed Atheism, cannot be improper when we meet to perform one of the most fublime acts of Chriftian charity; to fupport an inftitution which flows from the genuine fpirit of the Gospel : in which we manifeft our obedience to the great injunction in the text, pf loving one another. For, where Christianity is extirpated, we fee fatally difplayed the want of that love; we fee fpring up in its place all thofe baleful qualities, all those works of the fleft, enumerated by the Apoftie-batred, variance, emulations, wrath, frife, feditions, brefies, envyings, murders! Thefe are the bitter fruits of that wisdom (may we not call it that philofophy ?), which, to ufe the language of St James, is earthly, fenfual, devilish! which, fays with the fool, there is no God; and which tends to confufion, and every evil work. "Whereas the fruit of the Spirit (may I be permitted to fay the divine fpirit of Chriftianity?) is all goodness,-righteoufnefs, and truth. That true wifdom, which is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and caly to he intreated, full of mercy and good fruits. (James iii. 15-17.)" Of thefe good fruits the Bishop obferved, that to heal the fick, and to relieve the miferable, were among the mott diftinguished; and thence took occafion to recommend more particularly the object of their prefent meeting, viz. the Radcliffe infirmary; concluding with the following very apt and forcible injunction of St. Paul to Timothy (1 Tim. vi. 17—19): "Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor truft in uncertain riches, bus in the living God, who get us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good work, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in ftore for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life." This fermon was preached on Tuef. day, July 2; and on Wednesday, July 3, the Bishop of Dromore, who had taken his first degrees of A. B. and A. M. at Oxford, having been educated at Chriftchurch College, whereof he had been what is here called an independent member (that is, not a student on the foundation, but a commoner), and who had afterwards taken his degree of D.D. at Cambridge, was now admitted here ad eundem gradum; and this according to the ufual order of prece dence, in the first place, before the ho norary degree of DOCTOR OF LAWS was conferred on the noblemen and gentlemen enumerated in your former account in p. 662. By inferting the above, you will o- blige Mr URBAN, Brigbion Camp, Aug. 21. YOU will please to take off the cuo tation you made before the following expreffion in my last-"the_sweating heroes of a bloodless plain"-the thought was new; and, if you could have feen the caufe which gave rife to it, I think you would have allowed the application was a strong one: the thermometer was that day at 92. We will now proceed to inform you, the uncertain weather, after our friendly thunder-form, gave us (as Waterdownian foldiers) a defirable refpite; during which I traverfed the encampment, and perceived the neighbouring country prefented many beautiful views 1 had neither time nor inclination to admire in the exceffive heat of our DOGDAYS. Although the rain was frequent and heavy, it took fome time before the thirty turf feemed affected by it; but, when it had reached a layer of clay, more than a foot beneath the furface, the water oozed upward, and made the ground as foft as a sponge; and, befides this wet-footed inconveni ence, many fnipes were feen. Thefe aquatic lymptoms, added to the name of Water-dorun, give us the profpect, as we are to conclude our canvas expedition upon this fwamp, that we may be regenerated into an army of frogs. Is not it faid that fheep change their na ture when they change climate and food? Very probably this may be an experiment to find if man may not too; and if water, and croaking, and et-ceteras, can make us approach the gre nouille race, what reafon is there to doubt but the trial may have the effect? SWIFT has fomewhere an allufion of there being many human frogs in Hol land, which can only be occafioned from |