of the their own 'cause, or blacken that of their adverfaries; concluding thus:-Tho' the practices, and perhaps the principles too, of both the accufing parties, were not a little uncharitable in those days, and that some very odd A circumstances feem to give a kind of countenance to the recriminations of each; yet I think, that whoever ventures to pronounce the sentence of guilt upon either of them, must partake pretty largely of the uncharitablenefs which I have taken the liberty to impute to both. What goes a great way in favour of the papifis is, that both my learned hiftorians (Kennet and Echard) feem to acquit them; and if the archdeacon fhould be thought inclinable to fcreen them, yet the prelate can in no wife come under that imputation, as 'tis notorious he was embarked against them on all eccafions. The reader therefore will confider, whether he can fay, with Mr. Pope, that the MONUMENT lifts up bis head and kes. B law, or against law; and of the two, the former is the most provoking and the most dangerous.-The Westminster Journal concludes the plan for a new biflory of England, James I. to Q. Anne ; but coming to Oli and fhews what minifters ruled from K. ver Cromwell, fays, No prince, among all we have mentioned, was more properly a fovereign than this man, for the space of almost 5 years, when a natural death put an end to his power. Old England of the 16th, and the Wiftmirfier Journal of the 23d, are upon the affair of the Agerines feizing the Prince Frederick packet-boat, and returning only the empty veffel after they had taken out the treafure; as alfo the expedition talked of from Gibraltar to demand fatisfaction, or make reprisals: Wherein our ill-tim'd frugality, or want of policy, in not fending the ufual compliments of presents, and other measures relating to this affair, are cenfured.-The Remembrancer of the 16th C gives fome account of our measures with Spain, from the beginning of their depredations, to the definitive treaty of Aix; which the paper of the 23d also touches upon. D The Remembrancer treats of the two abufes of power, oppreffion and corruption, and dwells long upon the latter, to fhew the pernicious confequences of it. - The Westminster Journal is a continuation of fome former papers, wherein the writer takes upon him to fhew, how few of our princes have really reigned, or how few there are whofe reign might not properly be called the reign of minifters; and coming to Elizabeth, he fays :-When Elizaberb came to the throne, the not only filled it with dignity, but performed the duties of a fovereign with spirit and reputation. I before alluded to her, when speaking of Edward 1. I faid, he was the only prince, except one of the other fex, who really E reigned during the whole period affigned them in our chronicles. Elizabeth, as well as Edward, had strong natural parts, came to the crown at years of maturity, had been formed in the school of affliction, and noted, as fo many beacons, the faults that had occafioned the diftreffes and perplexities of her predeceffors. F A letter-writer in Old England of the 9th, thinks we fhould not have delivered up Cape Breton, till the French had quited Tobago, which he fays ftill remains in their hands, and till Nova Scotia had been thoroughly fettled; whereas now, he fays, France has drawn us in to fubmit to a commiffion of infpection and fettlement of boundaries in Nova Scotia; and fpeaks with fome doubt of the fuccefs of our new G fettlement there.-The Remembrancer has fomething agreeable to the fubject of his laft, and thinks a due regard has not been fhewn to our trade and commerce in fome of our foreign measures.-Abuse of power, he fays, is abufe of power, whether by The Weftminster Journal of the 16th has a long letter, complaining of the great abufe in killing too much meat, which is daily (poiled, and rendered unfit for human food. This, fays the writer, is, I am afraid, more or lefs the cafe all over the kingdom: But however that may be, I am fure it is to a very great degree fo in this metropolis, the cities of London and Weftminfler; as is, and must, I think, appear quite plain and manifest to every just and ferves the markets, and the trade of the ferious beholder, who frequents and obgreat multitude of butchers in these prodigious populous cities, where perhaps there are abundance too many perfons of that bloody profeffion; and I have thought that fome kind of law, of a reftraining and limifing nature, is, in regard to that trade, very greatly wanting. We daily pray, that we may not be reduced to scarcity and diftrefs, when at the fame time our daily practice and actions have a natural and pofitive tendency to bring it upon us. Doubriefs, our national circumstances, justly confidered, fhould put us immediately upon correcting our follies, intemperance, luxury, and avarice; and be a great and prevailing motive to the cumfpection; which certainly we ought to practice of moderation, frugality, and cirlearn and practife, before we can justly and reasonably pray and hope for the divine pity and compaffion, which we implore in refpect to the prefent national calamity, (the diftemper amongst the cattle.) SIR, SIR, HE following is a folution to the geometrical problem in your Magazine for June Tjaft, p. 271*. Let AB, BC, and CD, be the lines given in pofition, &c. Join the points A and B, and produce the line AD indefinitely towards E and F, as alfo the line BC till it cuts the other in E. Now it is evident, that if a femi-ellipfis be defcribed, as H, N, F, to touch the given line BC, as in the point N, whofe two foci are the given points A and D; I fay, 'tis evident that N is the point fought. Erect the perpendiculars HI, and FG, at the extremities of the tranfverfe axis; and K, L, the femi-conjugate axis. Per trigonometry AD, and E K, are easily found from the data; as alío the relation of EH, to HI, &c. Let EKb, AK=KD=a, and HK-KF=DL=x; then will EH6-x, and EFbx; then may HI be expreffed by db-dx, and FG by dbfdx; but KL is known to be a mean proportional between HI and FG; whence KL2 ddbb — dd xx ; but K L 2 + 2 K D3=DL2, &c. i. e. ddbb— ddxx† aa —xx. Re dd bbaa duced x = √ I + dd 2 Then per conics EK: HK::HK: MK. Erect the perpendicular MN, join AN and D N, which is the minimum required. 2. E. I. Portsmouth, July 15, 1749 I am, Sir, Your very bumble fervant, A DESCRIPTION of the North Riding of T YORKSHIRE †. HIS Riding, a few miles above Flamborough-Head, extends itself in a long and narrow tract, for 60 miles, as far as Wefimoreland to the weft; being bounded on one fide partly by the Derwent, levering it from the East Riding, and partly by the Oufe and Ure, dividing it from the Weft Riding; and on the other fide by the Tees, which feparates it from the bishoprick of Durbam to the north. The boroughs in this divifion are, 1. Scarborough, 169 computed and 204 meafured miles north from London. It is fituated on the fea fide, is very antient, and famous for its ftrong caftle upon a rock that advances into the fea. The town is encampaffed by the fea on all fides, except on the west, where it has an entrance by a long narrow flip of land. It is well built, populous, and enjoys a good trade, having a commodious key, to which plenty of fhipping refort, chiefly employed in the coal trade, and the fishery, which is here confiderable for herring, ling, haddock, hake, whitings, mackarel and cod. famous fpaw or purging water occafions abundance of the nobility and gentry to refort hither, to the great profit and improvement of the town: It boils up like a pot to the quantity of 24 gallons in an Its A B JAMES TEREY. hour; 'tis very clear, fomewhat bluisht, fmells like ink, has a pleasant acid tafte, and is impregnated with vitriol, iron, al lum, nitre and falt. The caftle is not fo ftrong as formerly, the stately tower which added to its strength, and ferved as a landmark to failors, being now demolished. On the top of the rock there are about 18 or 20 acres of good meadow ground, about an acre of which, fome years ago, funk down near perpendicularly 17 yards, with cattle feeding upon it; of which strange accident fee a particular account in our Magazine for 1738, p. 45, 99. The town is governed by a bailiffs, a common-council, &c. fends 2 members to parliament. and has 2 markets weekly, viz. on Thurfdays and Saturdays. It gives title of earl to the family of Lumley. North from hence his Robin-Hood's Bay, fo called from a famous outlaw in the reign of Richard I. 2. Malton, about 18 miles S. W. of Scarborough, on the river Derwent, over which it has a good stone bridge. It is divided into 2 towns, viz. New and Old Malton, in which are 3 handsome parish churches, being a town well peopled, and accommodated with good inns, and markets on Tuesday and Saturday. It is govern'd by a bailiff, &c. and fends 2 members to parliament. 3. Thirske, or Thruke, about the fame *See another folution in July, p. 328. + See defcriptions of the East and Weft Ridings, together with MAPS of each, in our Magazines of June and August laft; as alf the MAP of the North Riding bere annexed. distance distance N. W. from Malton, an antient but small town, with an indifferent market on Monday. It fends 2 members to parliament, chofe by the burgage-holders, about 50 in nnmber, and returned by the bailiff. 4. Northallerton, 7 Miles N. of Thirske, a good place of trade, with a great market on Wednesdays. It is govern'd by a bailiff, deputed for life by the bishop of Durham, who is lord of the manor. The 2 parlia ment-men are chosen by the burgageholders, who are about 130. It gives title of viscount to the prince of Wales. 5. Richmond, 10 miles N. W. of Nor- ings and knit caps. K. Charles II. in 1675, fome quality in thofe grounds, to which the geefe have an antipathy.-6. Gisborough, 16 miles N. W. of Whitby, has a market on Monday. It lies pleafantly on a bay near the mouth of the Tees: Camden compares it to Puteoli in Italy for pleasantness. On the coaft are many fea-calves, and red and yellowish stones, that look like brafs, and in tafte and smell refembie copperas, A nitre, and brimstone. Here are likewife other ftones, refembling cannon bullets, which being broke, difcover ftony ferpents without heads, wreathed up within them. The adjacent foil is fruitful, and abounds with veins of metal and allum-earth of feveral colours, from which the best fort of allum and copperas is extracted. On Ownesbury-Topping, a very high green mountain in the neighbourhood, a foun tain iffues from a great ftone, and the water is good for fore eyes. This mountain is a land-mark for failors, and an almanack to the countrymen of Cleveland, the neighbouring district, who always expec rain, when clouds appear on its top.C7. Yarum, W. of Gifborough, has market on Thursday, an harbour, and a fine ftone bridge over the Tees.-8. Stokefly, or Stockfly, 6 miles S. E. of Yarum, has a market on Saturday.-9. Bedal, 8 miles S. W. of Northallerton; market on Tuefday.-10. Middlebam, 8 miles W. of Bedal, has a clothing trade and a market on Mondays.-11. Masham, 8 miles S. E. of Middlebam, has alfo a cloth manufacture, and a market on Tuesday.-12. Afkrig, 12 miles N. W. of Middleham, has a weekly market.-Befides thefe, Reeth, Leyburn, Cockfawold, and Egton, are fet down in the maps as market-towns. On D Other towns are, 1. Pickering, 13 miles W. of Scarborough: It has a market on Monday, belongs to the dutchy of Lansafer, has jurifdiction over the liberty, called Pickering Liberty, and an old castle. E F 2. Kirkby, or Kirby-Moorfide, 8 miles W. of Pickering, with a market on Wednefday.-3. Helmefly, 5 miles S. W. of Kirby; market on Saturday.-4. Eafingwould, 8 miles S. W. of Helmefly.-5. Whitby, 16 miles N. W. of Scarborough, on the fea fide, which has a good market on Saturdays, and a commodious harbour, with a pier, for the rebuilding and repairing of which an act paffed in Q. Anne's reign. Here they find thofe they call Serpent-fiones, from their resemblance, which fome take to be the fame with the cornua Ammonis: Some think them to be petrified fhell-fishes, and others that they are pro-G duced in the earth, by a fermentation peculiar to allum ftones. Black amber and jet are found along the coaft. Camden mentions feveral grounds in the neighbourhood, where the wild geefe fall down when they fly over them; which he afcribes to a In Richmondshire, upon the head of the river Ure, the hills are fo wild and folitary, that the people call the deep rivulets here Hell-Becks; particularly, one at the head of the Ure has a bridge of one stone, and lies fo deep under it, that it strikes those who look down with horror. The Ure runs thro' Wenefdale, a valley well stocked with cattle and lead mines. Several Roman monuments have been found in this fhire; a very curious one was preferved at Nappa, the feat of the chief of the Metcalfs, who, in Camden's time, being sheriff of the county, met the judges, and conducted them to York, with 300 knights of his family and name, all clad alike. Swaledale is another divifion of this fhire, fo called from the river Steak, which runs thro' it. The valley is pretty fruitful, and the neighbouring hills abound with lead mines. Stanmoor is a mountainous tract in the N. W. of this fhire, for the most part defert, and has only one inn in the middle for travellers, called Spittle in Starmour. JOURNAL |