from its swampy fituation. Forbid, ye Minifters of War and Peace, that we should run the risk of, in any shape, refembling a people, who feem to have an equal regard for their Enemies as their Allies! Let us finifh the remainder of the encampment upon found English ground (Brighton for inftance), fuch as conftitutional and loyal foldiers deferve; not upon a bog that may fend us bome with more colds and rheumatic pains than with fatisfaction-I expect a lumbago at leaf-in fulky hopes of which, I cannot help faying, tis only the neceffity of actual fervice could induce any troops to vegetate in fuch places without giving vent to complaint.

Though the weather was often favourable, comparative to that never-tobe-forgotten fortnight, yet, with the length of field-days, and the fun, and the wind, and the quickness of march to take poffeffion of the different eminences, and our many hours uninter

rupted continuance upon them, our faces, far from returning to their native ftate, are now fufficiently purpled to make cardinals of us-probably the clergy may be reminded by this colour of their highest posts of honour-but as to the ladies, although they may rouge a little themselves, they cannot like to fee too much of it upon the face of man, efpecially when it ferves as a background to the fucceeding editions of fkin fcattered all over it.

As I never had the honour to arrive at more fuperior rank than one of those fubaltern machines that is all obedience, I cannot pretend to dive into many of the manœuvres; and I have often made enquiries to learn whether the part we were going through was that of Friend or Enemy: but, as I am determined always to be the Englishman, I was not forry to find I could not receive certain information; fo, at the conclusion of the day, I made up my mind that we had returned victorious, and that we had been the English of course. Though devoid of thofe qualifications which are gifted to Heaven-born Generals, I dare venture to think I can tell from whofe example the tranfactions of August 7, were taken: neither from the great Turenne, nor yet from Berwick, nor from Condé, nor our own Marlborough. No, Sir; it was from none of thole refticis beings, who thought activity the foul of an army, but from that often-quoted French Monarch, who,

"with twenty thousand men,

March'd up a hill-and then came down again."

Ours was a field-day of reft, Mr. Ur ban. We took poffeffion of a range of hills to the South-east of Ashdown foreft. The day was more than comfortably warm. The men were ordered to "fland at eafe;" and, from standing awhile at eafe, they ftole to fitting down and, from fitting down, above twothirds of them proftrated their noses to the earth, and infenfibly fell asleep. This Mort bean manoeuvre lafted about three hours, without any other discharge than from nafal ordnance. After the noify fignal was made, which aroufed them from their peaceful death, our banners once more waved in the wind, the arms glittered in the fun, and we marched home again. A RAMBLER.

quand le courage a defendre la foi et la religion

étoit puni par l'oppreffion et l'exil.

Que la Divine Providence

leur accorde un retour heureux dans leur patrie le rétablitlement deleurs autelsetdeleursfoyers, où la perpétuite d'un azile falutaire, qu'ils devront à la générofité Angloife!

Tels font les vœux ardens

que nous adreffons à un Dieu puiffant et bon, profternéshumblement mes concitoyens et moi J. W.

A. D. N. M.DCC.XCIII.

Mr. URBAN,

Aug. 7. IN your Magazine, p. 616, is a letter figned Phædo, fome parts of which I have read with much fatisfaction. I entirely agree with that ingenious writer, that the moral and intellectual ftate of the natives of Hindoftan is truly deplorable; that it calls loudly for amend ment; that it is incumbent on the British Government and the India Company to endeavour to meliorate it by the introduction of the doctrines and the precepts of the Gospel among them; and that the world in general would be much the better, if there was more Christianity in it, both in Europe and in India.

So far I heartily concur with your correfpondent Phædo. But I do by no means affent to the ftatement he has made of the fpeech of a celebrated Prelate on that occafion, which I believe to be a very erroneous one; owing, probably, to the misinformation of news-paper writers. If Phædo's letter fhould fall in the way of the Learned Prelate, I have no doubt but he will vindicate himself, with his ufual fpirit and ability, from fo unfair a reprefenta tion of his fentiments and expreflions. His defence cannot be in better hands than his own; and there I leave it. But there is another miftake into which this writer has fallen; and, as it conveys a very fevere and unmerited cenfure on a whole body of men, for whom I entertain a very high refpect, I think it an act of cominon justice to do away this ill-founded afperfion, which I am fortunately enabled to do very effe&tually. The paffage I allude to is this: "that a provifion for Chriftianity in India was emitted by the Commons and the Lords temporal was not fo much to be wondered at; but that it was not infifted on by the Bishops raifes in fome minds very uneafy fufpicions." Now, Mr. Ur ban, I happened to hear the debate on the India Bill in the Houfe of Lords both at the fecond reading and in the

Committee: and, in both those stages of the bill, I remember well that the Bifhop of London expreffed, in very pointed terms, his furprize and concern that, in a bill of fuch magnitude and importance, not one fyllable was fad on the article of Religion. He urged the neceffity of increafing the number of English clergymen in India, especially

in fome of the fubordinate fettlements (where the British inhabitants were entirely deftitute of divine worship); of appointing chaplains to all the Eaft-India fhips, which the Company, though bound to it by their charter, had for many years neglected; and of making fome provifion for the inftruction of fuch of the natives of Hindofian as withed to be inftructed in the principles and precepts of the Chriftian religion. He reprobated the doctrine that had been maintained in the debates at the Indiahoufe, that all religions were alike, and that it was no concern of ours, nor of any importance to the Hindoos, whe ther they were Jews, Mahometans, Pagans, or Chriftians. He contended, on the contrary, that there was as much difference between Chriftianity and every other religion in the world as between light and dark nefs, between truth and faltehood; that we were taught in Scripture, that there was no other name given under Heaven by which men could be faved but that of Chrift only; that, be fides this, wherever Chriftianity was planted, and confcientiously practifed, it never failed to produce happiness and virtue, whereas heathenifm was the conftant parent of vice and mifery; and that, for thefe reafons, it was the indif penfable duty of every Chriftian Government to diffufe the light of the Gofpel (not by force and violence, but by inftruction, argument, and perfuafion) throughout all their foreign dominions, colonies, and fettlements. He affirmed, that there was not a country upon earth that flood more in need of being enlightened by the doctrines, and purified by the precepts, of the Chriftian Revelation, than the natives of Hindoftan. They were funk, he faid, in the groffeft ignorance, brutality, fenfuairy, fuperftition, and wretchednefs; and, therefore, to withhold from them the advantages and the bleflings of the Golpel, when it was in our power to give it them, would be an act of the greateft inhumanity as well as impolicy and irreligion. How it fhould be introduced among them he could not pretend at

that

that moment to fay. They were certainly great difficulties in the way, which would require much confidera tion. He thought that the inftitution of fchools for the instruction of young Indians would be the best and leaft exceptionable method; but fomething, he was confident, ought to be done. He meant, he faid, to have offered claufes to the committee for all the purpofes above-mentioned; but, having been given to understand that the introduction of fuch claufes at fo late a period of the feflion might endanger the paffing of the bill, and that the Board of Control had in themselves a power to make provifions of this nature, he should rely on that board for taking fuch meafures refpecting the establishment and advancement of religion in India as became a Chriftian Government, and fo opulent a body as the East India Com

Mr. URBAN,

Aug. 20. A CKNOWLEDGING the general utility of monthly criticifms when liberally conducted, I read with no fmall difguft fome remarks of the Critical Reviewers on the "Hiftorical, Monumental, and Genealogical Col lections relative to the County of Glou. cefter, by Ralph Bigland, Efq. Garter King of Arms." By unfairly adducing only what he ftyles trifling extracts as a fpecimen of the whole work, by endeavouring to extort a laugh, by a flimfy attempt to be witty, and the anathema that he denounces upon the editor, if he continues to publish what is deemed ufeless, this hyper-critic proves that his fpleen is more predominant than his good fenfe.

The late Mr. Bigland will be defervedly remembered, in the College of Arms, for his fuperior fkill in genealogy, and was well aware how ferviceable a Collection would be to future compilers of pedigrees, although fo extenfive and minute. In a country where Property Auctuates fo frequently as in England, the "fhort and fimple annals of the poor" may become the records of the rich. So mutilated and neglected

as these memorials ufually are, a printed evidence of them in difputable claims to property may identify perfons and afcertain right. Useless as the prefent compilation is declared to be, it is acknowledged, by feveral practitioners in the law refident in Gloucestershire, that they have been enabled to clear up titles to eftates folely by confulting these fepulchral tables, It might as well be faid that parish-registers are unneceffary and of no importance. This is a CountyRegifter, and contains fuch reference to names, places, armorial bearings, &c. as is given in no other county-history, and may be confulted as a dictionary to point directly to the name or circum flance required. The filly fneer about Church-yards induces me to prefume, that the hyper-critick could not conceal his antipathy to a fite contiguous to that ftructure, which it has been fo long the loft labour of a certain defcription of men to undermine and deftroy."

The book is faid to be published alphabetically, and that the firft volume extends only to the letter F; but the fact is, that the next letter is included, with a copious index of three parts, plates of coat-armour, and other embellishments. Shall this partial account be attributed to careless faftidiousness, or wilful mifreprefentation?

The reviewer should be told, of what he appears to be ignorant, but of which he might not have been ignorant had he read Mr. Bigland's Preface, that two Hiftories of the County of Gloucester had been previously published, and that the intention of Mr. Bigland's work was to fupply deficiencies in the detail of property; and, if Sir John Sinclair's word be allowable, to offer a more ftatifical account of individuals and popu lation; nor is it vain to affert that no County-Hiftory more fully answers that defign. His objections therefore lofe much of their force, as the work is confidered original or fupplemental; and, as you, Mr. Urban, will, I am confident, contribute to encourage the study of topography and whatever illuftrates it, I beg the infertion of thefe free fenti

ments.

A

GLEVENSIS.

Mr. URBAN, Nayland, Aug. 21. GENTLEMAN with whom the late Dr. Horne, Bishop of Norwich, kept up a literary correspondence for many years, has preserved a very large and valuable collection of his letters, The following, which was writ

ten

ten near thirty years ago, was the firft we laid our hands upon by accident; but, being fo remarkable in itself, and fo fuitable to the prefent times (for it is actually prophetical of the prefent ftate of France), we fend it as a fpecimen of the ftyle and manner of his private cor refpondence, and of the great fubjects which were always uppermoft in his mind. By giving it a place in your valuable Mifcellany, you will probably gratify many of your friends, and oblige W. J. your conftant reader,

"My dear Friend,

"Coll. Mag. June 6, 1764. "Have you heard yet from the Abbé Nolet? A friend faw, the other day, a letter from Sir James Macdonald, now at Paris with Lord Hertford, in which Sir James informed his correfpondent, that the French philofophers liked Mr. Hume (fecretary to the British ambaffador) in the main very well; but difapproved of certain religious prejudices not yet shaken off, which hindered him from afpiring to perfection. This at first seems an irony, and a pretty strong one. But Sir James explains himself by adding that the great men in France were, most of them, deep in Materialim, and had difcarded the belief of a God, which our worthy Senttish philofopher refufed to do: "fo that poor Hume," fays Sir James," who on your fide of the water was thought to have too little religion. is here thought to have too much." Is not this a very amazing anecdote ? Yet, upon enquiry, I am apt to fear there is too much truth in the reprefentation. D'A lembert, they tell me, is fuch a character. The Czarina fent for him to educate her children; but he would not go: he is a great favourite with the Pruflian hero. Maupertuis was of the fame fort. In fhort, fo far as 1 can find, Infidelity and Republicanifm have croffed the ftrai's of Dover, and are more likely to fubdue France than any other of her

enemies. A young gentleman wrote to his

father from Paris, that a notion prevailed, of the Government ere long intending to feize the religious houses, and fend the monks after the Jefuits. And now we talk of Jefuits, an Englishman of that order, Thomas Phillips, has just published a quarto volume, being the first part of the Life of Cardinal Pole, printed here by Jackfon. He is a writer of great learning and elegant tafte. The character of his hero is a very amiable one; and he has introduced us to most of the cele.

brated Italian wits of that age, with whom Pole was intimate, as Sadolet, Bembo, Longolius, Contarini, &c. Sir Thomas More and Bifhop Fisher appear with great lure. K. Henry VIII, Vicar-general Cromwell, poor Nanny Boleyn, Lutker, Calvin, and the Reformers, cut very forry figures indeed.

Erafmus has justice as a scholar, but is pronounced an Arian, a fcoffer, a blafphemer. The laft fection, and it is the longest in the hook, contains the proceedings and decrees of the Council of Trent, where for fome time Pole prefided as legate. That council, Mr. Phillips gives us to understand, was compofed of the most learned and holy fathers, who exhibited to mankind the most perfect plan of Chriftian doctrine and difcipline, without advancing any thing but what had been in the Church from the beginning. It was, in his opinion, a council which bore the nearest poffible resemblance to that which met at Jerufalem. I obferve, he denies the Pope's depofing rower, and pleads, as Pole bimfelf ever did, against all fanguinary meThe book, I think, muft make a great noise thods of propagating the Catholic religion. in the world, and is, at this time of day, a pretty extraordinary performance to be pub lished in England with the author's name.

"I have just finished my comment on the 92d Pfalm; I am getting fome of the work tranfcribed, to carry with me into Kent, by way of fpecimen. We must have much talk ou the fubject there, where I hope to find months. O! may the day come when we you comfortably fettled in fix weeks or two

all think no more of journeyings and reing Abraham, and Ifaac, and Jacob, in the movals, but fit dorun with the once-fojournkingdom of God! for whofe bleffing on you and yours, now and ever, most fervently prayeth

G. H."

P.S. To this letter give me leave to fubjoin the following anecdote:-Two French noblemen were dining lately with a worthy baronet in this country; when one of them took the liberty of converfing loosely on fome fubjects of religion; the other reproved and faid, "Pray, Sir, forbear; this is the fort of converfation which has been our ruin." W. J.

Mr. UREAN,

June 25.

awer who married a daughter N anfwer to a query, p. 391, Richard (not a fifter) of Dr. Wall, had 17 children (befides his wife having once mifcarried); namely, Sampfon, Catharine. Richard, William, Ann, Edward, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth, Cecil, Walter (who died within the month), Mary, rothy; all of whom are deceased except Walter, Rebecca, johny Jane, and DoWalter (now refiding at Barnet), Jane (now of Maidstone, widow of the late Rev. Mr Waterhouse, of that place), and Dorothy (alfo of Barnet, who re mains unmarried). My having married a great grand-daughter of the faid Ri chard Waring enables me to give you this information. C. E.