LOND.GAZETTE St. James'sChron. London Evening. Bucks-Bury CAMBRIDGE 2 Canterbury 3 Chefter 2 Coventry Cumberland Derby, Exeter Gloucefter Hereford, Hull Ipfwich IRELAND Leeds 2 LEICESTER 2 Lewes Liverpool 3 Maidstone Manchefter 2 "Salisbury 2 Shrewibury YORK 3 For SEPTEMBER, 1793 CONTAINING Commutation of Tithes A Biblical Query 806 Meteorolog. Diaries for Aug. and Sept. 1793 778 | French characterized-Heraldry explained 84 By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-street; 1. Thermometer 110 out of doors about three o'clock.-3. Violent thunder-claps, with lightning.-6. Began to reap barley this day.-7. Began to reap oats.-10. A storm of wind for feveral hours.-11. A very fresh gale in the evening. Mushrooms in great abundance.— 14. The wind very high P.M.-19. Corn harveft becomes general. A large circle round the moon.-28. Northern lights.-29. A great dew in the morning. Much corn used this day. Notwithstanding the fatisfying rain and frequent fhowers, after-grafs and fecond crops of clover are but indifferent. Goofeberries have fold at about fix-pence a quart; double their ufual price; their flavour, when ripe, but indifferent. But few apples, and wall-fruit trifling. Turnips have fuffered in many places fo much by the fly, or something else, as to have been fown twice in fome places oftener. 3 D. of Fall of rain this month, 4 inches. Evaporation, 2 inches 4-10ths. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Month. 28 Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Month Sept. 3456 Aug. 27 53 65 53 29,87 fair 12 68 57 58 30,01 rain 13 30 29 56 68 56 29,99 fair 57 66 14 56 69 60 73 rain 71 rain ,38 rain 171 rain 16 62 59 showery 54 64 57 fair 19 50 56 93 rain 59 51 30,03 fair 67 14 fair 56 25 68 50 166 54 54 119,94 21 frain 22 23 2 2 20 48 58 56 51 rain 93 rain 30,14 fair 737 51 THE (779 Gentleman's Magazine: For SEPTEMBER, 1793. BEING THE THIRD NUMBER OF VOL. LXIII. PART II. Mr. URBAN, I Sept. 13. *****N Mr. Bofwell's Life of Johnfon, Vol. I. p. 114, a letter is published from Johnfon to Mr. Cave, written merely on bufinefs, and probably only preferved in that entertaining work for the fake of exhibiting its hero under the melancholy fituation of wanting a dinner. The letter concludes "I am, Sir, yours, impranfus, Samuel Johnfon." The good-natured author follows up the quotation with such remarks as would naturally prefent themfelves to a bene volent mind on the confideration of a great and illuftrious character under the preffure of such severe adverfity. Let me hope, Mr. Urban, for the honour of human nature, that, however Johnson's circumftances might have been embarraffed, he was a ftranger to this extremity of diftrefs. In the first place, there does not appear to have been a fufficient degree of intimacy at that period (A. D. 1738) between Cave and Johnfon, to admit of fo humiliating a confeffion-or, if there was that intimacy, Johnson, inftead of mak. ing the complaint, would have fought the remedy in the well known hofpitality of your worthy predeceffor. Secondly, the irregularity of the sage's manner of life-his known inversion of the common modes in which the feveral hours of the day are devoted to feveral purpofes-his fpirit of indolent procraftination-all these are evidences in fupport of the affertion that the word impranjus was either ufed jocularly (the letter being fuppofed to be written at a late hour in the afternoon), or else that it conveyed an oblique kind of apology to Mr. Cave for the shortness of its contents; as any man, in the occurrence of familiar life, would fay to his friend or correfpondent, "I would write more, but dinner waits." For, in the laft place, the word impranfus must be very rigidly conftrued, indeed, to admit of the fignification which Mr. Bofwell gives in the prefent inftance. The particular paffage in Horace, where it occurs, Scurra vagus, non qui certum præfepe teneret; Impranfus, non qui civem dignofceret hofte, certainly means not baving dined; and probably not having fettled bis arrangements for the day-but by no means infinuates that Menius was in any danger of ftarving. So far from it, that a commentator of no mean order understands the word in a fenfe directly contrary to its common acceptation, and interprets it by BENE PRANSUS, fatur, temulentus. And, indeed, the rules of grammar and analogy juftify, at least do net condemn, this interpretation-"Præ pofitio in, in compofitione cum adjectivo vel participio, fæpe negat-aliquando intendit." A thousand inftances might be adduced in fupport of this affertion, and fuch as inebrio to make very drunk, inerro to wander up and down, infremo to roar aloud, &c. &c. &c. I do not mean to infinuate that Johnfon ufed impranfus in this fenfe; but I hope I have fatisfactorily demonftrated, that he was not in the unhappy condition in which it is impoffible to contemplate him without the heart-ache. Yours, &c. E. E. A. Mr. URBAN, Sept. 18. ROLAND, a native of the county of Cork, has assumed dominion over an ifland fituated in the celebrated Lake of Killarney, and has thereon with his own hands built the hovel in which he dwells. The inland contains about forty fquare yards; but the ferocious fway of its lone inhabitant extends over Killarney, the people of which town stand in terror of him. The ifle has obtained the denomination of Roland's, and `is annually vifited by Lord Kilmair, the proprietor, who is civil to Roland, as is Roland to his Lordship; the favage poffeffing the good quality of not mo Theod, Marcilius in loc. lefting lefting those who do not moleft him; in that particular excelling many who pretend themfelves civilifed being. His food is fifh, growle, and the fleth of the roebuck, the procurement of which delicacies conftitutes his pleafures. On a certain day he was fifhing on the margins of the lake; fome ftrangers ven tured to furvey his habitation; therein they found feveral growse, which they were fo hardy as to roaft, and begin Hence, his lofs was deeply felt within his own and his death widely lamented by the numerous participators of his bounty. But let Religion, let Humanity exult, that he lived to support their interests fo long; that he was matured in virtue and in years; that he afforded a venerable instance of the universal esteem and admiration in which a good man may live, and a ftill more illuftrious proof eating in his kitchen; he caught them of the "eafe with which a Chriftian can die!" in the fact; he was exceedingly enfuriated, tore a remaining roafted bird to pieces, and difperfed the members in the air. This proceeding afforded the offending interlopers an opportunity of retreating; the boat-men who had attended them had been exceedingly averfe to landing on the island; and, when the precipitate retreat was effected, declared, that, if it had been they alone that had intruded, the Wild Man of the Inland hed affuredly fhot them on his entrance into his innovated premises. Wonderfully various are the charactcrs exhibited in human kind! The one I have sketched is fo eccentric and fo novel, that doubtlefs, Mr. Urban, it would give other of your readers pleafure, befides myfelf, to fee it in your Magazine particularly delineated. YNYR. proved himself a worthy difciple of his Bleffed Mafter, Ob. Aug. 22, 1793; æt. 83. INSCRIPTION ON THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW TRINITY HOUSE, TO BE ERECTED ON TOWER-HILL. Which Stone was laid by the Right Hon. WILLIAM PITT, MASTER OF THE TRINITY HOUSE, &c. &c. &c. accompanied by the ELDER BRETHREN of that Honourable Corporation, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 1793. "In ufum Societatis Sacro-fanctæ et Individuæ TRINITATI optimis dicatæ aufpiciis; Ut neque navigantibus deeffet incolumitas Nec lumen inter tenebras errantibus ; Nec emeritis in fenectute perfugium; Nec viduis in paupertate folatinum; Has ædes excitari voluit, Fratribus uno ere confentientibus, GULIELMUS PITT, Præfes: Vir omni præconio major: Hujufce Sodalitii rebus acriter invigilans, Et Imperii Britannici gubernaculum Validâ manu tenens : Sept. 12. HE very hot and conftant fervice The which the British Foot-guards have, to their honour, been engaged during four fucceffive wars (all within our own memory) ought to open the eyes of thofe thoughtlefs parents who, when they purchafe commiflions for their children in that fashionable corps, by conformity to the precepts of his Gofpel. think that they will have no fervice to Dignified by humility, ennobled by beneficence, and confecrated by true piety to the fervice of the Church; his Miniftry formed a model for the priesthood of every order: while fuavity of manners, united with urbanity of heart, conftituted as amible an exemplar in domeftic life. perform of greater danger than that of walking up and down St. James's ftreet, or, at moft, of guarding fufferers by fire from pillage. The truth lies quite on the contrary fide. The Foot Guards are a numerous body of foldiers, always under the eye of the War-office, always complete and always ftationed at the metropolis, whence (as a general centre) draughts draughts may be more eafily made than from more diftant stations. It is on this account (and not from any preference to the Regiments of the Line, whofe conduct has always been irreproachable) that the Foot-Guards are always fent abroad, almost inftantly on the breaking-out of any war in which the continent has any fhare. Without looking fo far back as the wars of William and of Anne, in each of which the Foot-Guards were emplayed with honour, let us read the account given by Voltaire of their steady and intrepid conduct at the battle of Fontenoy; let us attend to the honourable thanks given by Government to the corps for their uniformly 'gallant con. duct in Germany during the "Seven years war;" and let us enquire, by the perufal of books or the reports of parties prefent, into the military fame of Tuch of this gallant and steady brigade as croffed the Atlantic during our late unfortunate conteft with North America. The refult will be, that there never was a military corps fo frequently* fent on fervice, or more celebrated for intrepidity while employed. How often has the delicate (and perhaps effeminate) air of the "unfledg'd enfign" of the Foot-Guards been held up to ridicule in newspapers! How often have the elegant but thoughtless young officets been the fubjects of caricature-prints! Yet thefe hewy, mo, difh youths have always, when called upon, not only affronted death at the cannon's mouth with intrepidity, but even fupported the most painful fatigues without a murmur. The writer of this letter cannot prefume to become the hiftoriographer of this gallant brigade; but he wishes to preferve from oblivion at least the names of thofe brave officers, in particular, who, on the 18th of Auguft, 1793, at Lincelles, with only 1100 men, forced a strong intrenchment, and utterly routed 5000 French foldiers. The number of wounded alone speaks the heat of that feryice in which thefe intrepid Britons were engaged. Uuluckily, I can only fpeak of the first regiment of Foot Guards; but it is not improbable that fome perfon, more intimately connect * Perhaps it will be found on a calculation, that no one marching regiment has been fo often fent abroad in time of war as the FootGuards (or at least a detachment from that brigade) have been. ed with the brigade than myself, may fupply the names of the officers in the other two regiments who shared the glory of the day, and may correct any miftakes which he may find in my lift. Yours, &c. MILES EMERITUS. Officers in the first regiment of Foot-Guards, engaged at Lincelles, under Major-Gene ral Lake. Colonel Samuel Hulfe Francis D'Oyley, wounded Lieut. Col. Thomas Glyn John Smith W. Coulfield Archer, wounded Arthur Whetham, wounded Enfign William Wheatley E. W. Vaughan Salisbury John Duff John Dick Burnaby. If any of your correfpondents can favour me with fome account of the manor of South-church, and of the Drew family, it will much oblige, amongst A CONSTANT READER. others, Mr. URBAN, Wells, Somerset, Sept. 10. T is an obfervation (of Sterne's, if I miftake not), that, where there is as much four as fweet in a compliment, an Englishman is always at a lofs how to take it, a Frenchman never. As I am no Frenchman, I confefs myself at a lofs how to take the Epiftle addreffed to me by Clericus, p. 748, and cannot but think that this poetical effusion contains feveral reprehenfible levities which but ill accord with the fignature the writer has adopted. With refpe&t to what perfonally regalds |