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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE:

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LONDON GAZETIE GENERAL EVENING M.Post M. Herald Morning Chronic. Times-M. Advert. P.Ledger&Oracle Brit. Press-Day St. James's Chron. Sun-Even. Mail Star Traveller Pilot-Statesman Packet-Lond. Chr. Albion--C. Chron. Courier-Globe Eng. Chron.--Inq. Cour d'Angleterre Cour, de Londres 15otherWeekly P. 17 Sunday Papers Hue & Cry Police Lit. Adv. monthly Bath 3-Bedford Berwick-Boston Birmingham 4 Blackb. Brighton

Cornw.-Covent. 2
Cumberland 2

Doncaster--Derb.

Dorchest.--Essex

Exeter 2, Glouc. 2
Halifax Hants 2

Hereford, Hull 3 Ipswich 1, Kent 4 Lancast.-Leices.2 Leeds2, Liverp. 6 Maidst. Manch. 4 Newc.3.-Notts.2 Northampton Norfolk, Norwich N.WalesOxford2

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Portsea Pottery

Preston Plym. 2

Reading Salisb.

Bristol 5, Bury

Camb.-Chath,

Carli.2--Chester 2

Chelms. Cambria.

Salop-Sheffield2
Sherborne, Sussex
Shrewsbury
Staff. Stamf. 2
Taunton Tyne
Wakefi.-Warw.
Worc. 2-YORK 3
IRELAND 37
SCOTLAND 24

Sunday Advertise. 4Jersey 2. Guern. 2.

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Met. Diaries for March and April 1812,306,312 J.W. de Flechere to an English Nobleman 340
Epitaph on Mr. Boys-Roxburgh Library, 307 ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION, Nd. CLXI......ib.
Leicestershire-Lit. Anecdotes--Stilling fleet308 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.......
"Cat in the Pan"-Family of Gardiner.....309 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS; viz.
Shakspear-Evening Lectures-Cochineal 310 History and Antiquities of Coventry.........345
Snuff-takers--Literary Anecdote of LewisXI 312 Jones's Edition of the Biographia Dramatica ib.
Wrentham Hall, Suff.-Johnsonian Fragments313 Works of Dr. R. Hurd, Bp. of Worcester...350
On Antient Manners, from Dr. Lort's MSS. 314 Remarks andImprovements on Registers Bill355
Licences granted for eating. Meat in Leut...315 Address on the Accession of Prince Regent 356
Description of Ivinghoe 315-Flamsted ...318 Catalogue of Bishops-Galt'sVoyages, &c..357
Chorography and Topography defined ......520 Annual Report of Royal Humane Society 561
Monuments at St. Alban's.-Antient Seals 321 Address to Clergy, &c. on Registers Bill 363
Grace at Meals; Residence; Preaching, &c.322 Poetical Hist. of England-Spirit of Journals364
Study of Hebrew encouraged at Dublin.....323 Art of Dyeing Scarlet-Female Prostitution ib.
Series of Letters on Acoustics-Letter IV. 324 SELECT POETRY for April 1812....365-368
Salaries of Organists.-Norwich Cathedral 325 Proceedings in present Session of Parliament 369
Lay Clerks andChoristers. Noble's Granger 326 Interesting Intell. from the London Gazettes 373
New Plan for checking Inroads of the Sea 327 Abstract of principal Foreign Occurrences 377
Remarks on the present State of the Jews. 328 Country News.-Domestic Occurrences....381
Analysis of Books.-Hermes Trismegistus..331 Theatrical Reg.-Promotions-Preferments 385
Incontestable Proofs of the General Deluge.332 Births and Marriages of eminent Persons. 386
Remarkable Letter from a Highwayman...334 Memoirs of the late Dr. MaxwellGarthshore 387
Pilgrim's Progress.-Uvedale's "Comines" 336 Obituary, with Anec.of remarkable Persons 391
Extempore Preaching.--Ellis on Respiration337 Prices of Canal, Fire-offices, &c. Shares.....398
Roach Rocks-Churchill's Grandaughter...338 Bill of Mortality-Prices of the Markets....399
May Game at Richmond, in Yorkshire...
......339 Each Day's Prices of Stocks in April........ 400

Embellished with a Perspective View of WRENTHAM HALL, in the County of Suffolk; Monumental Remains from St. MICHAEL'S Church, St. Alban's; Antient Seals, &c.

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The average degrees of Temperature, from observations made at eight o'clock in the morning, are 36-22 100ths; those of the corresponding month in the year 1811, were 40-22 100ths; in 1810, 39-45 100ths; in 1809, 50-56 100ths; in 1808, 33-66 100ths; in 1807, 33 46 100ths; in 1806, 37-94 100ths; in 1805, 40-20 100ths; and in 1804, 36-33 100ths.

The quantity of Rain fallen this month is equal to 2 inches 72 100ths; that of the corresponding month in the year 1811, was 1 inch 65 100ths; in 1810, 0 inches 63 100ths; in 1809, 1 inch 27 100ths; in 1808, 35 100ths; in 1807, 0 inches 34 100ths; in 1806, 1 inch 67 100ths; in 1805, 6 inches 98 100ths; and in 1804, 1 inch 80 100ths.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for April 1812. By W. CARY, Strand.

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THE

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

For APRIL, 1812.

Mr. URBAN, April 3. the strictest integrity, adorned his life. proposed at SandHE following design for a public He died on the 15th day of March, 1803, aged 68 years."

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wich in Kent, for the late Mr. Boys, the learned and ingenious Historian of that antient town and port, soon after bis decease; but has since been superseded for a monument erected by his family, with the Latin Epitaph inserted in your last, p. 238, of which I subjoin a translation I was favoured with by a gentleman residing in that place. Emblematic figures of Genius and Science, presenting to Time a Portrait or Medallion of the Deceased, with a Scroll affixed to it bearing these lines: "Accept, O venerable Sire

Of all the ages past,
This portrait of our favour'd Son;
Preserve it to the last.
Inscribe in thy records his name,

Which we ordain shall live,
Who in his day deserv'd that fame
Which our decree can give.
Let it peculiar honours gain

In this distinguish'd place,
Which bis historic pen describes,
And which his talents grace."
Inscription on the base or pedestal

(being now part of the epitaph:) "To the respected memory of WILLIAM BOYS, Esq. Fellow of the Antiquarian and Linnean Societies; of an antient and illustrious family of Bon nington and Fredville in this county.

He was born at Deal; which he left, and established himself in this Town, where he practised Surgery and Medicine from his youth to an advanced pe riod of life: He was a Jurat of this Town and Port forty-two years, and twice filled the office of Mayor. During the performance of the duties of his profession, and of his public station, he cul tivated Polite Literature with success. Natural History, the Remains of Antiquity, and especially the Civil and Parochial Records of the Town and Port of Sandwich, were elucidated by the force of bis genius and the depth of his learning. Great liberality and peculiar candour of mind, the most courteous manners and

The proposed public memorial was not carried into execution; but an elegant mural monument has been erected in the chancel of the parish church of St. Clement, at Sandwich, by the Family of the deceased, with an inscription in Latin, of which the foregoing is a translation (omitting the verses which are applicable only to the emblematic design) with the following conclusion:

"He married his first wife in the. year 1759, Elizabeth Wise, the daughter of a gentleman in this town; she died in the year 1761, and was buried in the church of St. Peter: his second wife, whom he married in 1762, was Jane, daughter of Thomas Fuller, gent. of Statenborough, in the Hamlet of Eastry," in this county, who died in 1783, and lies buried in the same grave with her husband. By the former, he had issue one son William Henry, and one daugh ter Elizabeth; by the latter six sons and three daughters of these, Elizabeth and Sarah have departed this life some time but the others survive, and have since; consecrated this tablet to the memory of a beloved Father." W. B.

SALE OF THE ROXBURGH LIBRARY, Tlength this extraordinary col

The

the hammer; and before the expira, tion of next month, a part of it will have been thus disposed of. sale, if report speaks true, will com mence about the middle of May; and already the thoughtful brows of the speculative, and the rash resolves of the wealthy,

Give dreadful note of preparation." The bibliomaniacal world is burning for Catalogues; which Mr. Nicol (like a skilful huntsman exhibiting the fox above the reach of the hounds) holds out in contemplation only, till the impatience of the publick is ready to break all bounds; or till

he

he perceives that hope deferred
makes every heart sick.' What bus-
tle, joy, and vexation, will be evinced
when the Catalogue issues forth! and will be very exten
Here a lover of Romances will be
starring his Lancelot du Lac; and
there a treasurer of Old Poetry will
be ticking off his Wynkyns and
Pynsons The Italian Cognoscenti
will be madder than the maddest;
and the favourite' Boccaccio will
cause a sigh to heave from every
breast. What a scene for the pencil
of the author of the Bibliographical
Romance* to delineate! Such a day,
or rather sale, will not have been
witnessed since the time of James
West. [Some particulars in our next.]
PHILEMON.

This notice may suffice for the present. With the General Index to the History (which is diligently be

Mr. URBAN,

April 3.

VER anxious to correct

given such material additions and corrections as may be communicated. I should be much obliged to any descendant of Bp. STILLINGFLEET, who will favour me with a good pedigree of that respectable Family, for the " HISTORY or DORSETSHIRE." The Bishop was twice married. By the first wife he had Edward, father of Benjamin, the celebrated Naturalist. By the second, he had James, Dean of Worcester, who died in 1746. Dr. Robert Stilling fleet, the Dean's son, was a Prebendary of Durham and died at Bristol in 1759. Had he any other sons? Is there any Epitaph for the Dean, or for the Prebendary, either at Worcester, Durham, or

Ebeg leave to mention one which Bristol? What Relation was Edward,

appears in the "History of Leicestershire;" where it is stated, on the (generally accurate) authority of the Rev. S. Carte, that the High Sheriff of Leicestershire pays annually to the Earl of Stamford 101. for licence to come into the Hundred of Sparkenhbe, to execute any part of his office." On this a professional gentleman of great respectability at Leicester says,

No such payment is made, or was, I believe, ever before heard of; I have served the office of Under Sheriff myself, and seen it executed several times; and have also inquired of most of the Practisers here who have served it; and all say the same thing. What could give rise

to the idea I cannot conceive, unless by some blunder respecting a payment made by the Sheriff to the Steward of the Honor of Leicester, for the liberty of executing process within the Duchy of Lancaster, which, you know, includes or extends over considerable portions of the County, and I believe, more or less, all the Hundreds; which payment used to be 87. till lately, when it was raised to,

I believe, about 20%. If you can devise
any means of rectifying this mistake, I,
and all I have talked with, hope and
trust you will; as otherwise it may pos-
sibly some time or other produce mis-
chief, besides, at all events, now opera
ting against the credit of the work itself;
to preserve which there is no one of
your subscribers more anxious than,
Yours, &c.
C. L."
See a description of the Roxburgh
Sale, by anticipation, in the Bibliomania,
P. 119.

who died in 1777 ? J. NICHOLS.

P. S. Allow me to add, that the "Literary Anecdotes" are completed at the press, with the exception of two or three sheets of "additions," and wait only for some additional Portraits, and the " Index," which an unusual temporary press of business unavoidably delays for a few weeks. Yours, &c. J. N.

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Mr. URBAN, Worksop, April 13.

CAT in the pan."An unknown Correspondent imagines, very naturally, that it is corrupted from cate in the pan."-These are the very words Is of Dr. Jobuson (see his Dictionary); and they certainly allude to Paul Gemsege, 1. e. Samuel Pegge: but, as Mr. Dowland, in your last, p. 228, seems to think that" much reading and some ingenuity" ought how far his pretensions should be to give way to a deficiency of both, supported is the subject of this paper.

It is not my disposition to be witty; and if any thing I shall advance wears that complexion, I beg it may be considered as merely illustrative of the subject.

Mr. Gemsege, your old Correspondent, vol. XXIV. 66, tells us the meaning of cat i'th pan is the changing of sides in politics or religion; that the turning of a cake in a pan very aptly expresses this, or, as we otherwise might say, turning one coat" but Mr. Gemsege no where

asserts,

1812.]

"Cat in the Pan."The Family of Gardiner,

asserts, or intimates, that it requires a
frequency or repetition of turning to
constitute a cat in the pan, which Mr.
Dowland's reasoning implies. Mr.
Dowland says, a cat, when suspended
by the neck in a band, twirls about;
and by his using the words "rotary
motion," I should suppose him to
mean a perpetual one to be necessary,
Connecting with it the idea of over-
coming the nine lives of a cat by sus-
pension; how he makes the gesticula-
tion of the cat, or that of its taking
up more space than perhaps any other
animal during strangulation, to apply
to the proverb "turn cat i' the pan,"
he has not explained.

Though Mr. Dowland thinks lightly
of much learning, I find he attends to
as much of Mr. Gemsege's as he
imagines will serve himself, erudite-
ly supporting it with a proof from
Shakspeare. Here I wish Mr. Dow-
land had not lost sight of candour; for
this, with his saying that," indeed it
is afterwards observed by the same
'respectable writer, that cale is no
other but the last syllable of the word
delicate, and that cates signifies deli-
cacies," leads the reader to believe
that Mr. Gemsege has relinquished

his assertion that cate means cake;
now that he has not done so, take it
from his own words:

"When the cowherd's wife upbraids

king Alfred, in Speed, for letting the
cake at the fire burn, the author ob-
serves, she little suspected him to be the
man that had been served with more
delicate cates.

Speed's Hist. p. 386.
Here it signifies a cake, but in general
it means any dainty or delicacy."

Add to this the quotation from Dr.
Johnson I started with; for would the
Doctor have said, "imagine very na-
turally, if he had not understood cate
in the pan to mean a cake?

But Mr. Dowland himself has prov-
ed that cates means cake, though he
knows it not; for his quotation from
Shakspeare, taken with his observa-
tions thereon, it is most certain, ac-
knowledges as much; he says that
delicacies, or dainties we may presume,
come from the farm. Now we will
apply this to his quotation from Shak-
speare, and then ask if we can be
otherwise than simpletons, if we do
not believe the metaphor

"My super dainty Kate,
For dainties are all Cates,"

309

to be a rich and most delicious cake?
We never, I am positive, can presume
it to mean a sucking pig or a fat
goose," the immediate produce of the
farm." By a visit to the farm, we shall
get acquainted with a stranger Mr.
Dowland has not thought fit to intro-
duce to us; I mean the salt-cat Mr.
Gemsege speaks of, whom I under-
stand to be a very worthy resident
of the Pigeon-house, and well known
to all the people of the farm, so much
so that the most illiterate plough-boy,
belonging to the said farm, will tell
you, in his own dialect, all about the
salt-cat, just to the same meaning as
Mr. Gemsege has done, with which
meaning of Mr.Gemsege's I shall close
this paper, as I am fearful of having
encroached too much on your pages,
"Now that this is the true original of
and that I have tired your Readers:
this saying is very clear, from a similar
corruption in the word salt-cat. A salt-
cat is a cake well impregnated with
brine, and laid in a pigeon-house, in
order to tempt and entice the birds,
here used for cate, in the sense of a
who are exceeding fond of it; and cat is
cake, just as it is in this proverbial saying
which we are now explaining. (Gent.
Mag. vol. XXIV. p.67.) PAUL GEMSEGE."
Yours, &c.

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