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age, I beg to inform him, that at the time Andrew Lord Ochiltree and his fon the mafter, fold the Barony of Ochiltree to their coufin James, he was in lieu thereof created Lord CafileStewart of the Kingdom of Ireland, by patent dated in 1619, and alfo received Jarge grants of land there from James I. to whom he was related. All the parties, therefore, interested in the Barony of Ochiltree having received an adequate confideration for it, it cannot revert to the reprefentatives of the men who alienated it; and of that opinion was the Houfe of Lords in 1798, when they decided against the claim of the prefent Earl of Caftle-Stewart. C. C.

Mr. URBAN,

Oct. 21. PERMIT ne to thank your correfpondent B. for his communication refpecting Dr. Cotton.

P. 587. Sam. Bricknell. What was he imprifoned for?

P. 588. col. 2. Rev. Wm. Dawfon is faid to have been of Queen's Coll. Oxford, M. A. 1728. At that rate, he must have been nearly 100 years old. But the Wm. Dawfon who took his master's degree at that time was afterwards Prefident of Williamfburgh College in Virginia, and in 1746 a D. D. by diploma.

P. 589. col. 2. Rev. John Lavington published two Sermons, one in 1743, the other, on a funeral occafion, 1757.

P. 608. Mr. Lawrence's death is recorded in the Gent. Mag. vol. II. p. 775. He occurs frequently in that eutertaining medley, Whitton's Life.

P. 685. The death of the Bishop of Raphoe was given in vol. LXXV. 285, probably by mistake, though I do not find it corrected.

Ibid. Rev. Jofhua Berkeley. Not furely fon of the late Bishop : perhaps

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education are fenfible; but as to dif cipline, little can be done in public fchools or colleges, unlefs difcipline begins at home. In the few cafes that have come before the publick of feverity in mafters, we have found that the parents have uniformly taken the part of their fons. Obedience to fuperiors, fubmiffion and humility, which must all compose a teachable difpofition, are falt wearing out of the practice of parents, efpecially of the higher claffes. Pert, forward, and infolent manners, are accounted marks of genius!

P. 788. Mrs. Barrington, the Bifhop's fecond wife.

P. 818. A correfpondent inquires whether there are any defcendants of Dr. Mead now exifting? His grandfon, the Rev. James Mead, died June 1772, a young man of 26 years; who, I think, died unmarried. Farther I'cannot trace the family.

I fhould efteem it a favour if any of your Correfpondents could furnish fome account of Mr. Lewis, who tranf lated Statins. He was of Pembroke college, Oxford; but I have not been able to trace him farther. R. S.

Mr. URBAN,

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Oct. 22. HE fituation of the Poor having at laft attracted the attention of the Legiflature, I beg leave to obferve, that the immorality and mifery which prevails among them, is, in a great degree, to be attributed to the alarming increafe of Public-houles, &c. In fupport of this affertion, take one fact. In Whitecrofs fireet, St. Luke's parish, meafuring only 3 farlongs 18 poles, there are no lefs than 25 public-houfes and dram-fhops; and in Golden Lane (not 100 yards from it) 12 houfes of the fame defeription.

A FRIEND TO THE POOR.

nephew, con of Dr. Robert B. Vicar- LETTERS from HOLLAND and GERgeneral of Cloyne.

P. 701. The gentleman mentioned here, as being the dupe or the accomplice of Joanna Southcote, was also a firm believer in Brothers the Prophet; I fay a firm believer, for a man believes very firmly, whom experience will not cure. Mr. Brothers, it is well known, was a tool in the hand of the Democrats, to create a depreflion in the public mind. What Joanna may be, I hope the Magiftrates will enquire, and give fomewhat more than a harp look-out.

P. 717. Senilis' remarks on public

MANY in 1794.

LETTER IV.
Nimeguen, April 18, 1794.

My dear Friend,

took our leave of Utrecht on

Tuefday morning the 25th. It is a beautiful and elegant place; and men of talte, fcience, and fashion need be at no lofs for congenial fociety at Utrecht. We had rather an unpleafant occurrence on feuing out. The commiffary attempted to impofe upon us by charging extravagantly for our horfes: we remonftrated with him on his extortion, but as ke spoke

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no language but Dutch, of which we were completely ignorant, we were forced to remonftrate in dumb show, which exhibited a grotefque fcene. Our pantominic eloqnence was all loft upon him; he obftinately perfevered in his demand, and ended the converfation with a fignificant fhrug and a Nay Mynheer;

-nor more he deign'd to say, But tern as Ajax' fpe&tre ftrode away, We were determined, however, if poffible, not to fubmit to the impofition; and we made our appeal to a worthy gentleman who refiding at Utrecht, argued the cafe with the Commitfary at full length. The Commiffary urged every plea which his avarice fuggefted, and dexteroufly availed himself of a claufe in the Letter of the Law which feemed to fanction his extortion; this plea our Counsel rebuited by demonftrating the inconfiliency of his conduct with the spirit of the Law, and indeed with the fair and equitable conftruction of the ordonnance in queftion, and above all with the golden rules of doing as we would be done by. This last appeal to his confcience was urged fo forcibly as to leave no room for evation; and the upshot of the bufinefs was that we carried our point. There is no end of impofition on English travellers at Inns and Poft Honfes; for, in the first place, they think we have all plenty of money; and in the next place, it must be allowed that the conduct of too many English travellers is fuch as to ftimulate avarice and encourage extortion.

A great part of the country through which we travelled on Tuesday was beautiful, fertile, and well cultivated, particularly between Utrecht and Rhe

nen.

Rhenen is a fmall town upon the river Leck, a branch of the Rhine, and belongs to the Province of Utrecht. In the days of Popery there was a large convent of Nuns at Rhenen, of the order of St. Agnes, which afterwards was converted into a palace for the refidence of Frederick V. Elector Palatine of the Rhine, fon-in-law of James the Firft, King of England. The unfortunate Frederick, after having heen ftripped of his Electorate, and his newly-acquired kingdom of Bobemia, in confequence of the fatal battle of Prague in 1620, retired with his faily to Rhenen, a ftriking example of 6

the inftability of fortune, of whom we may truly fay with Horace:

-hinc apicem rapax

Fortuna cum ftridore acuto Suftulit; hic pofuiffe gaudet. How remarkably do the times in which fervation! Il-fated Louis the XVIth! we live exemplify the fage Poet's obhow rapid was the transition to that humane and benevolent Monarch from a throne to a prifon, and from thence to the fcaffold! Let us never, my friend, "" envy the 'painful preemi❤ neuce" of fuch of our fellow-creatures as are most highly favoured by the gifts of Fortune! nor can we be fufficiently thankful to that kind Providence who hath placed our lot in "the cool fequeftered vale of life." You ask what would fatisfy me? I answer (if I know any thing of my own heart at this prefent moment), in the words of the immortal Hooker, "fome quiet parionage, where I may fee God's bleffings fpring out of my mother earth, and eat my own bread in peace, and privacy; a place where I may without disturbance meditate my ap proaching mortality, and that great account which all flesh mutt give at the Laft Day to the God of all fpirits."

The palace in which the Elector Palatine refided at Rhenen devolved to George the First, as heir to his Mother the Electre's Sophia; and George the Second made ufe of it for the accommodation of his fuite in his journies to and from Hanover. I forgot to enquire, nor is it of any confequence, whether our present gracious Sovereign has any inheritance remaining at Rhe

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within a few miles of Arnheim, the rural fcenery was by far the mofl diverfified and pictureique I had yet feen in Holland. We arrived in the evening at Arnheim, the fituation of which upon the Rhine, and near the coufluence of the Rhine and the Iffel, is truly delightful and the environs, in feveral points of view, quite romantic. I have entered in my journal fome particulars refpecting Arnheim, which I have no time to tranfcribe by to-day's poft, but which I may probably give you in my next letter. We left Arnheim on the 16th, in the afternoon, and travelled from thence along an excellent road to the Wall (a river branching from the Rhine), which we croffed to Nimeguen, where we are now, and from whence we shall not probably remove for fome days. The hotel at which we lodge is kept by a Scotfinan of the name of Farquhar, who has lived here many years, and is uncom monly civil to us. We have letters of introduction to fome refpectable families here, and hope to pafs our time very pleafantly in the enjoyment of "fucceffive ftudy, exercife, and eafe." We spent yesterday in delivering our letters of introduction, and furveying the town and its environs. Nimeguen is a large and elegant town, and ftands upon an eminence. It is washed on the North fide by the Wall, which takes its courfe towards Rotterdam, and forms the communication between that city and the Rhine; in every other direction the town is furrounded by frong fortifications, beyond which the ground is regularly marked out in the form of an intrenched camp. The villages to the South of the town appear pretty, and the land is well cultivated. There is a long continued chain of rifing grounds extending towards Cleves, many parts of which are prettily skirted with woods. This

town is the chief refort of the Nobleffe of Guelderland, who have pretty high notions of their own confequence, I affure you. There is an old building here, called the Cafile of Charlemagne, which is a bold objeét; and clofe to it is a delightful walk called Belvidere (a name given to it by the Duke of Parma more than 200 years fince) which commands an extenfive view of Guelderland and the Dutchy of Cleves; and though it is not quite equal to the view from the terrace at Windfor, yet the Duich have great reason to boast

of it. Adieu: you may expect to hear from me once and again before I leave Nimegnen. With kind remembrances to all our Ic-t-- friends, I

remain yours!
very fincerely.

P. 796, col. 2, read, "a young gentleman, the fun of a profeffor in the Univerfity of St. Andrew's."

Mr. URBAN,

Sept. 4. IN all the old Tables of Precedence, our "Field and Flag Officers" were placed next to "Baronets." (I underfand Field and Flag Officers to be thofe gentlemen who, in the Navy, bear commiffions froin an Admiral to a Poft Captain, inclufive; and in the Army, from a Generál to a Major, inclufive.) I profefs myfelf too ignorant of courtly etiquette to determine whether fuch was the proper order of precedence; but I cannot refrain from expreffing fome furprize that, in all the late Tables of Precedence, Field and Flag Officers are totally omitted! Now, Sir, it appears to me that these gentlemen not only derive very confiderable confequence from the high trufi conveyed to them in the commiffions they receive from his Majesty, but that they are likewife perfonages to whom fome particular mark of civil diftinction is incontefibly due, on account of the important benefits our Country receives from their intrepid exertions. My curiofity, therefore, is much excited to difcover the reafon for excluding these fuperior Officers from any place whatsoever in the different degrees of fociety? I conjecture, this proceeds from miftake; but am of opinion that fuch a mistake cannot too foon be rectified, in all publications relating to Rank and Precedency.. Yours, &c. EREMITES.

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MANY perfons who are but fuperfi

cially acquainted withthe religious world, take it for granted that the Unitarians are gaining ground in this conntry. This, Sir, I am very happy to say, is not the fact. In London and its vicinity there are but three Unitarian Places of worship; Mr Belfham's, Effex-freet, Mr. Jervis's, Westminster, and Mr. Afpland's, Hackney; and in many parts of the kingdom, their meeting houfes (in confequence of want of fupport) have been difpofed of to the Methodifts or Cal initiic Diffenters.

A CONSTANT Reader.

Mr.

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