AP 4 03 ON COMPLETING HIS LXXVIIth VOLUME. WHEN annual form invites the Mufe, While thofe who know your worth will ask, Why, one more like to fall than rife, Are we not ALBION'S Sons, they cry, And 'midft the threaten'd tempeft smile, And plant the laurel in our Ifle. With deeds like these we 'll Heaven implore, And Plenty re-affume her reign, To blefs all ranks that now complain : Difcord her hellish arts to cease, And hafte the day of Love and Peace. When you with confcious pride thall tell, To form a lafting Jubilee. Thefe, URBAN, thefe are Britons' true delight, H. LEMOINE. 1 ས The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight A, M. are 59 12-30ths. Thofe of June 1806 were 61 24-30ths; 1805, 57; and in 1804, 62-Quantity of rain this month, only 15-100ths of an inch; 'that in June 1806 was 1 inch 32-100ths; in 1805, 2 inches 53-100ths; in 1804, 25-100ths of an inch; and in 1803, 3 inches 15-100ths. It will be obferved, that during this month, there fell but three-fifths of the quantity noticed in June 1804, which was the next fmalleft in any month during the last four years and a half. State of Vegetation at the clofe of the Manth. First crops of hay all nearly got in. Wheat has been in full bloffom about ten days. The grafs on the higher grounds is fuffering for want of rain; as are the gardens. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for July 1807. By W. CARY, Strand. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE For JULY, 1807. Mr. URBAN, w Doctors Commons, July 20. HEN you did me the favour of inferting the fhort notice which appeared inyour laft Number, I was not without hope, that, by inducing a private explanation from Mr. Le Mefurier, it might have faved me fome pain in the public performance of a promife, already perhaps too long delayed from fimilar motives. It has, however, produced no more effect than the former intimation of the fame kind, which Dr. Milner gave at my request. I muft, therefore, proceed as I can, to difcharge what I confider as a facred debt of juftice. Never, Sir, have I thought it worth while to anfwer any mif-ftatement of my Speeches in Parlianient, or any comment founded on fuch mil-statement, by which I alone could be injured. I have fuffered not a little in that way; but it was my own affair: I have not the fame right to leave the character of another unprotected, where my name has been made the vehicle of an unjuft imputation, With the charitable view, as he profeffes, of clearing me from having any concern in a fraud, Mr. Le Mefurier has advanced, on my alledged authority, a moft ferious charge against the wliole hody of Roman Catholicks *. He flates, as from me, not only "that I difavow the report of my Speech," which his antagonist Dr. Milner had quoted; and that it is not as I fpoke it; but that the Romanifts have twisted my arguments to answer their own purpofes. And this" (he takes occation to obferve, Mr. Urban) will give your reiders a pretty clear idea of what is the impartiality of this boafted Report of the Debates on the Catholic Question." My Reverend Friend then Gent. Mag. for January, 1807, p. 33. goes on, through the rest of his Letter, to be fometimes very fevere, and foinetimes very fmart (1 fuppose I muft, in civility, fo call it), upon "the fabrica tor of the Report,' "the impartial Re porter's talents at garlling," and "the fabricated Report, to which Dr. Milner has given currency by his figua ture." In a fubfequent Letter, the fame charge is "repeated, and pofitively afferted" again, though in terms rather guarded and equivocal; and, in a late pamphlet, this ready Polemick renews the original attack, referring to "the garbled account of Dr. Laurence's Speech, which the Roman Catholicks have published in their impartial ac count of the Debates, and which Dr. Milner has adopted." Thus, in every fhape of controverty, in the fugitive mifcellany of a Magazine, and in his more formal publication (though, perhaps, Mr. Urban, not likely to circulate fo widely, or to live fo long, as your pages) he perfifis in a fweeping accufation of falfification and forgery against the whole Catholic Body in ge neral, and Dr. Milner in particular; and I am the witnefs whom he calls, over and over again, to prove his case, In this exhibition of me, as a fort of deluded accomplice turning King's evidence, my friend, I doubt not, believed that he was doing me honour. He wifhed, probably in tenderness, to reprefent me as lefs criminal than I might be fuppofed, in my wicked en deavours to protect fro from political. degradation and oppreffion, three millions of my fellow-fujets, from whom I mo confcientioufly differ in religious opinion. In the true pint of Chriftian Lenevolence he haftened to draw out of the mud, where I was floundering, "a man of my fize and eminence," as he truly and cetionfly delerines me; for your readers, Mr. Urban, mufi know, tha I was born to be one *The Sequel, &c. &c. pp. 61 and 62. of bably be printed, with fome curious conclufions of games, as a fupplement to another volume of the "Stratagemes d'Echecs." Mr. URBAN, July 10. HE fubject of John Dean's porTrait au the fudia house, (ke vol. LXIV. pp. 919, 1098, 1183,) being, after lying dormant near 13 years, at Jength revived by the publication of J. W's letter in your last, p. 536, has led me to fuppofe, that a reference to what has been formerly inferted in that valuable Mifcellany refpecting this man may not be unacceptable to many of its readers; therefore, for the fake of thole who may not be poffefled of the early volumes, I have taken the pains of tranferibing every paragraph in which I have found any mention of him, or of the famous law-fuit, wherein he ap pears to have been the only material witnefs on behalf of the Eaft India Company. They are as under: Vol. XH. p. 601, November 1, 1742.. "Came on at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Juftice Lee, the Caufe that has depended fo long between the Eaft India Company and Capt, Francis Goftling, late commander of the Suffex India-man, concerning the lofs of the cargo of the said hip. The trial lafted till five next morning, when the Jury gave a verdict for the Company for 30,2021. Vol. XIII. p. 273. May 13, 1743, "The Court of King's Bench delivered the opinion of the Judges in the great caufe, wherein the Eaft India Company were plaintiffs, and Capt. Gofling defendant; by which the verdict for 30,000l. obtained by the plaintiffs is fet atide, and a new trial granted." Ib. p. 388, July 12. "Before the King's Bench, was tried the caufe between Capt. Goiling and the East India Company; and a verdiet was given them for 25,000l. Ib. 610, Nov. 16. "The Court of Directors of the East India Company agreed to allow John Dean, the only furviving failor of the Suffex India fhip, an annuity of 100l. and sol. to his wife, fhould the furvive him. Vol. XV. p. 109, February, 1745. John Dean, the only furviving failor of the Suffex India fhip, was appointed, by the Directors of the Eaft India Company, an Elder, in the room of Mr. Adams, de ceafed." Vol. XVII. p. 592, December 17, 1747, "Died, in the Eaft India Company's hofpital at Poplar, John Dean, the only furvivor of the mariners who remained on-board the Suffex Indiaman." I can remember reading, at an early period of life, the publication referred As June 10. Mr. URBAN, row's Travels in China," p. 569, The ingenious people of China "have a common method of propagating feveral kinds of fruit-trees, which, of late years, has been prac tifed with fuccefs in Bengal. The method is fimply this: they trip a ring of bark, about an inch in width, from a bearing branch, furround the place with a ball of fat earth, or loam, bound faft to the branch with a piece of mate horn, with water, having a small hole ting; over this they fufpend a pot, or in the bottom juft fufficient to let the water drop, in order to keep the earth conftantly moift. The branch throws new roots into the earth just above the place where the ring of bark was ripped off. The operation is performed in the Spring, and the brauch is fawn off and put into the ground at the fall of the leaf. The following year it bears fruit." I know not whether the following remark on the communication of T. C. p. 400, is worthy of any notice. I am not confident, but, I think I have obferved, "the profufion of on Apples which renders them -- |