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Diaries for March and April 1812,306,312 J.W. de Flechere to an English Nobleman 340 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. Printed by J. NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-str. London where all Letters to the Editor are desired to be addressed, PosT-PAID. 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. 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." 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 Boys, the learned and ingenious Historian of that antient town and port, soon after bis decease; but has since been superseded for a monument erected by his family, with the Latin Epitaph inserted in your last, p. 238, of which I subjoin a translation I was favoured with by a gentleman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, Which we ordain shall live, In this distinguish'd place, (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 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 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. 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 Though Mr. Dowland thinks lightly his assertion that cate means cake; "When the cowherd's wife upbraids king Alfred, in Speed, for letting the Speed's Hist. p. 386. Add to this the quotation from Dr. But Mr. Dowland himself has prov- "My super dainty Kate, 309 to be a rich and most delicious cake? |