mifmanaged at its acceffion quickly degenerates into a worfe ftage, and puts on a new character, requiring allo a different treatment; or to know that an excellent and a fure refult of genuine experience is, to induce modefty, and prevent hafty conclufions; but that of half a century, it is plain, has not cured this writer of prefumption. How does he know that Chemiftry may not furwith a fure and powerful counteraction to Antimony, which may render unneceffary the old nurfe-like practice that he has afferted to be the true one? My prefcriptions require no treatment that fhall promote a diaphorefis; for, when the caufe of Fever is fubdued, the natural fecretions will be immediately reftored. In this refpect I find my preparations greatly fuperior to the Powder of the juftly-celebrated Dr. James; and I have every poffible reafon that fuccefsful experience can af ford to believe, that they will here after be efteemed a moft valuable addition to Medical Science. As this fubject, Mr. Urban, is of high importance to the publick, I shall avail myself of your liberal efforts to diffufe knowledge, to fend you fome farther very curious matter another opportunity. Yours, &c. JOHN RIDDELL. Mr. URBAN, Repton School, Nov. 17. GENIUS, however unfortunate or irregular, deferves a better fate than to be configued to oblivion. This feems to be the opinion of your correfpondent R. S. (p. 902), who wishes to have, fome account of Lewis, the tranflator of Statius. What few particulars of his life and habits have come to my knowledge, fince I was placed at the head of this Seminary, I now fend you. Mr. Lewis was recommended by a friend, ou a vacancy in the First Ufher's place in 1765, to Mr. Afley, Mafier of Repton School, as an ingenious man, and good fcholar. He was elected Fir Ufher 1765, and continued in that place under Dr. Prior, Mr. Aftley's fucceffor; and, had his attention to his duty been equal to his abilities, he might have reflected as much honour on the place as his predeceffor in the fame tuation, Dr. Lightfoot, the great Scholar and Divine, to who the world is indebted for refearches that throw great light on Scripture and Divinity: but, being fond of eafe and pleasure, and from being much careffed by fome neighbouring gentry, who were pleafed with his fociety and converfation, too ready to facrifice duty to amufement, he found his fituation too irkfome; and, in 1776, refigning it, he went to London. Involved in diftrefs, the confequences of imprudence, like Savage, Boyfe, and Smith, whom he resembled as well in genius as misfortune, according to the information I have re ceived, he there ended his days. It is the misfortune of Genius to be inattentive to worldly concerns; too eccentric to conform to prudent regular habits of life, its fire and fpirit tempts the poffeffors to defpife thofe who purfue a fteady courfe, either in commercial or fecular employments. Hence it is that many men of fine parts, from a volatile humour, are irregular, and exhibit inflances of mifery and misfortune. Imprudence will produce moral and natu ral evil, their genuine offspring in all fituations and modes of life. Neither great abilities, nor a knowledge of arts and fciences, can always prevent their errors or their mifery, which muft arise from not knowing how to regulate their private and focial conduct. But where prudence and virtue are not wanting, few walks of life are more pleafant or fafe than thofe which lead through the occupations of Science and Literature. The age of the Rev. W. Dawson, which your Correspondent, p. 902, mentions as incorrect, was 66. Yours, &c. W. B. SLEATH. Mr. URBAN, Nov. 10. · IT is feldom that a fecond part of a popular Poem fucceeds. But “The Peacock at Home," on the model of Mr. Rofcoe's " Butterfly's Ball," exceeds, if poffible, the original *. It is faid to be written by Mrs. Dovers; and, as a defcriptive Poem, is a very elegant compofition. But if it is confidered (by implication, and comparative allufion) as a humorous, but unoffending, Satire upon the manners of the times, and of the Great, it is one of the neatest Poems which has appeared fince the days of Mr. Anftey." A. B. and C. D. THE following beautiful Latin Epigram appeared in the Morning Chronicle, on the 31ft of last October, as an Extempore of the Hon. General Fitz-Patrick, on feeing the Duchefs of Devonshire canvaffing for Mr. Fox. But a letter in the fame paper, two days afterwards, stated that the Latin compofition was more than 100 years old, and was to be found, with the change of two words, in "Les trois Siècles de Literature." It was probably quoted by General Fitz-Patrick, and applied to the Duchefs upon Mr. Fox's first election for Westminster. Quæ Dea fublimi vehitur per compita Mr. URBAN, HE Rev. Martin Tomkins * was THE allowed by those who differed from him in religious fentiments to be a very threwd and able difputant, and was nearly related, if not brother, to Mr. See hereafter, p. 1014.- A Conftant Reader alfo refers to Neal's Memoirs prefixed to the Edition of the History of the Hardinge Tomkins, an Attorney of note in his day, in great repute among the Diffenters, Clerk to the Company of Fishmongers, and, if I mistake not, Clerk alfo to St. Thomas's Hospital. A few years ago two or three tracts against Popery, published in the reign of James II. came into my hands: one of them was Bp. Patrick's Sermon on St. Peter's Day; another was, "A Difcourfe concerning the Devotions of the Church of Rome, efpecially as com pared with thofe of the Church of England;" and fome perfon, to me unknown, has written on the title-page Dr. Stanley. Will any of your readers. do me the favour to inform me who was Dr. Stanley? Mr. URBAN, B. Nov. 20. DR. Frank Nicholls, p. 318, the daughter of Dr. Mead, and left by her celebrated Anatomift, married a The fon was called to the Bar, but did a fon and a daughter, both now living. not long continue to attend it. He has children. The daughter married the Rev. Trinder, and has children. The economy of turning a grave ftone, as fome people turn a coat, is not a modern invention: I have now before me a brafs not long fince torn from a grave flone, (not by me, Mr. nicated it to me), the upper fide of Urban, nor by the friend who commuwhich commemorates one who died in the other fide one who died If any of your correfpondents will tell "M° lxv c-due quater y fincul adde." me what this laft date is, I shall be much obliged to them. X. Y. Robert Thomas Crosfield, M. D. Francis and Ruth Crosfield, of Spennithorn, in the County of York, Puritans published by Dr. Toulmin, note who died the 8th day of November, 1802, in pp. 18 and 19; or Dr. Watts's Life, by Johnfon, with Notes by S. Palmer, p. 2 & feqq. aged 44 years: previous to which, he wrote the following epitaph, so truly characteristic of Mr. URBAN, TH Nov. 22. HE Bonftrophedon infeription of feveral of our fonts (as at Sandbach, Chethire, vol. XL. p. 617; Harlow, in Effex, XLI. 120; and in other churches, both in this Ifland and on the Continent) is well explained by your old and refpectable correfpondent T. Row, vol. XLI. p. 262, to be of the kind called, on account of the difficulty of compofing the like fantaflical infcriptioas, Devil's Verfes. That inftance of them which he gives from a cloister at Florence, in Millon, Sacrum pingue dabo nam macrum facrificato, is not exactly a cafe in point; the coincidence being in the words, and not in the letters; and your correfpondent, G. D. vol. LX. p. 605, fent you parallels of this kind. He doubts whether the infcription on the Harlow Font is of fo late date as the Reformation, or even of Monkery. If by this he would infinuate that it is not Chriftian, becaufe to be found in the Anthologia, and on a fountain belonging to the Greek Convent at Mauromelos,. oppofite to Conftantinople (to be found in Chifhull's Travels, p. 42), both fon fermon ainfi. Nous lifons autour du Solem, aulas, animos, omina falva melos. "The late Dr. Atterbury, in a Differtation upon the To Evayliner x Evo (not printed), fhews, on the thefe inftances are Chriflian. The latter is called by Mr. Chifhull (Travels, fea of Galilee, which is the fea of Tibewords John vi. 1. Jefus went over the p. 42) "a device not more proper for rias,' when Tiberias was fo called by the place, than ingenious for the contrivance, in making the fame words the edict of an Emperor, and when read forwards or backwards ;" and that edict was revoked; and from thence be adds, it is part of an epigram proves the genuineness of that Els Abounder rápor. Antholog. Lib. VI. Gufpel, and the time of St. John's p. 563." It is thus defcribed by Ge-writing it." MS. of Sam, Carte, in Dr. Ducarel's MS Collections. vartius, referred to vol. LX. pp. 605, 1107. "Le doce M. Gevartius, Hitoriographe de l'Empereur et du Roy d' Espagné, me donnant à difner chez luy à Anvers, me fit remarquer fur fon baffin à laver, ce vers retrograde, tiré de l'Anthologie: Mr. URBAN, D. H. Νου. 17. I you can give your correspondent |