We thank B. C. for his information. The copy was found among the Papers of a Friend of the learned Gentleman alluded to, at a very distant date. We were not aware that any part had been before printed; and possibly more than one was concerned in making out that list of Publications.

We also thank Mr. KEM for his Hints respecting the Biographical Dictionary.

The Charges of VERITAS against the Bishop of B-r are inadmissible, even if they were not anonymous.

Mr. W. SMITH'S " Geological Claims" appear to be very just; but the Paper sent,us has been already printed in more than one Periodical Journal.

We are much obliged to our Correspondents, Mr. J. B. GARDINER, Mr. E. BELL, and Mr. PRATTENT, for the offer of Drawings of the Remains of the Collegiate Church of St. Martin-le-Grand. They would either of them have been acceptable, had they not been anticipated by the Engravings previously in preparation by Mr. BUCKLER, (see p. 393.)

LICINIUS is referred to our vol. XXXV. pp. 88, 144, vol. XLIII. p. 198.

EUONYMUS; AN OLD FRIEND, whose Critique came too late; &c. &c.; shall appear in our next.

W. B. remarks, "How fortunate it would be if all controversialists would write in the temperate and gentlemanlike manner which Mr. Hardy has followed in your last Number. But I cannot agree with him in what he says about Archdeacons. A Bishop cannot be expected to visit in person every Parish in his Diocese; but his Archdeacon is the eye which ought to see every Parish. The necessity of seeing I know to be urgent. I could name an Archdeaconry where no Archdeacon has seen a Parish for many years, and I know the consequences. As to what is called the Archdeacon's Visitation, he perhaps attends to collect his fees; but as to any information to be there obtained of the condition of the Church, the Parsonage house, or the proper performance of duty, it is perfectly out of the question. And as to the insufficiency of an Archdeacon's profits, I believe that kind of preferment is seldom given to any one who has not other preferment; but if it should be so, would a conscientious Clergyman take an important office, with a design to receive the profits, and do no part of the duty ?"

T. M. informs us, that the Lines inserted in vol. LXXXVII. Part II. p. 106, are the production of JOHN CLEIVELAND, and are inserted in a small volume, containing his Poems, &c.

T. M. will be obliged by information where he can see "The Secret History of

Whitehall," in two parts, with "The Tra gical History of the Stuarts" annexed; by "D. Jones, Gent. ;" or by any other information relating to the book.

G. W. says, I do not by any means find fault with the verdict of the Jury who sat upon the body of Sir S. Romilly, although it is obvious that the manner of his death indicates that he was deliberately bent upon suicide, and succeeded according to his wish. I know not what friends or relations he might have about him previous to his performing the act, and whether or not they observed his derangement of mind, or had any suspicion he might be urged to make away with himself; but it appears to me that if Dr. Willis, or one of his profession, had been called in and had put on a strait waistcoat, and had given him such medicines as he should have judged requisite, and had sent one of his keepers to remain with him until the mental derangement was remedied, a most valuable life might in his case have been saved to the publick, and his family might have escaped from becoming most pitiable orphans. This idea of mine, spread abroad, may operate as a preventive of evil in any similar occurrence or occurrences that should be likely to take place in future."

A NATIVE OF CORNWALL is "surprised to observe that Trelawny, the seat of the Rev. Sir Henry Trelawny, bart. is omitted in the Compendium of the History of Cornwall. This most antient and respectable family not being mentioned is unaccountable. It is extraordinary that Bishop Buller should be named, and his grandfather, Sir Jonathan Trelawny, omitted, absolutely one of the Seven Bishops. Sir Wm. Trelawny, the father of the present Baronet, was Governor of Jamaica. Trenant Park, as well as Trelawny, and Morval, the seat of John Buller, esq. are also omitted."

B. S. having noticed p. 232, the letter on the efficacy of Chalk, as a remedy for venomous stings, says, "When I was a boy at school, I recollect it was a frequent amusement to collect drowned, or perhaps suffocated flies, out of pots and bottles, and then to cover them over with the powder of chalk, in order to bring them to life again. This I have seen frequently done; but it must be observed, that we selected our subjects from fermented liquors, because we found not the same success with those who had lost their lives in simple water. Perhaps this hint may be worth the notice of the Royal Humane Society; a few sacks of powdered chalk kept in their receiving-houses would too soon afford an opportunity of trying its effects on human bodies."

P. 333, a. l. 6, read hypercritical.

HE painful sympathy with which the protracted sufferings of our venerable Queen is at length brought to an end. Her Majesty breathed her last, without a struggle, on Tuesday Nov. 17th, soon after one o'clock.

Thus have terminated 57 years of a splendour rarely paralleled in the annals of female greatness; for so long did her Majesty sit on the throne of England, so long was she the consort of one of the most powerful Monarchs in the world! Raised to that exalted eminence at the early age of 17, her innate good sense, and steady principles of religion and virtue, led her, from the very first, to choose that path of honourable duty, from which in after-life she never deviated. Nor can it be said that, as a woman and a Queen, she sustained few, or easy trials; for (not to speak of the bodily torture which for the last months of her life she endured with much pious resignation) we all know many public and private causes of mental sorrow which at various periods must have powerfully assailed her fortitude. Domestic affliction is the bitterest of all, even to those who are invested with the highest earthly dignities: and, alas! her Majesty, in the nearest and dearest of her family ties, saw the evening of her days clouded with hopeless melancholy. The case was different in regard to those anxieties and enjoyments which belonged to her public character. Fully partaking the sentiments of a Monarch, than whom none was ever more zealously attached to the best interests, the truest glory, and the most genuine liberties of his people, there was a time when her Majesty could not but view with serious alarm and apprehension the dangers which beset her adopted Country. It has pleased Providence that those clouds should pass away, and be succeeded by an extraor

dinary and triumphant deliverance ;

mighty Nation, the sharer of a Throne, established and exalted, this pious Princess, at her latest hour, may have ejaculated to the Almighty-" Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace."

In the universal grief which such a loss must occasion, every well-constituted mind will dwell with fondness on the obligations which we owe to our departed Sovereign-obligations which will survive, long after her corporeal frame has been resolved into its constituent elements, and while "her immortal part with angels lives." From her we received the inestimable benefit of example in those particulars which most adorn the character of a Christian and a female. Pious and devout in her religious duties, she was eminently distinguished for her conjugal virtues. Had she confined her views in these respects to the regulation of her own personal conduct, she would still have done much to deserve public gratitude; for who knows not, that the example which issues from a Throne must necessarily dif fuse an influence, more or less powerful, through all the ranks of society? But this illustrious Lady did more. With a truly Royal foresight, she adopted, on coming to the throne, and with inflexible firmness she ever afterwards maintained, that system of discrimination in regard to those who were honoured by her notice, the basis of which was a delicate regard for female honour. Hence it has happened that the manners of the English Court have become so conspicuous throughout Europe for their purity; and hence, too, although vices of a certain class can never be eradicated from human communities, yet they have in our country been deprived of that great support which arises from the public countenance of

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