fatigue that they in the highest stations submit to, in receiving the complaisance and deference of those about them: but to desire love and esteem is inseparable from human nature; and as I really believe no Princes ever studied more than our own to gain the hearts of their people, it is pity but they should sincerely have them. I dare not, however, flatter myself that the delightful scene will hold long, for we begin already to bear of uneasiness and muttering, which will grow louder as the 11th of January* comes on, unless some hands be ebanged; and matters are not always mended that way. How outrageously brutish were the words which we are told were spoken to a great person at the last Masquerade. It must certainly exercise his utmost patience to keep in his resentment, and make him thoroughly sensible how improper it was to expose himself to such usage. I protest I could not hear of it without indignation: but since it has been the occasion of putting an end to that senseless diversion, I can almost forgive it." “Jan. 14, 1728-9. You are pleased to mention a certain Duke, whose chair has once or twice been seen to stand at your door: and as inquisitive people are quick-sighted, I must own I have heard from another hand of its being observed: in good earnest I can see no reason why your Ladyship should not make him happy in yourself, provided it be upon terms no way prejudicial to the children you are blessed with. Let him be contented to share with you in your annual income, and no other way to concern himself with your fortune, and I am one of those who shall wish him good success in his addresses. I have always looked upon him as a good-natured, well-bred gentleman; he is upon the point of marrying his daughter, and there will be no danger of any one to interfere with you in his family; his estate is equal to his title; and though I should never advise you to purchase quality, yet if it will come easily, and upon reasonable conditions, I should be heartily glad to see you at the top, and you would really find advantage, as well as place and figure in it." "Jan. 19, 1733. The Town is at present, I fancy, a very busy scene, where all the Ladies are preparing for the Wedding at Court, and the Lords and Gentlemen for supplies suitable to the exigency of the coming year. God grant a happy issue to both! Maythe Prince of Oranget, and our Princess, be lasting "The meeting of Parliament." +"Charles Henry, who married Anne the Princess Royal, March 25, 1733-4. blessings to each other, to us, and to our neighbours: and may the two Houses agree in every thing that may be for the service of their country, the honour of the Crown, and their own reputation! But when they are up, I dread to look forward to the election of a new Parliament; the spirits of people in some of the remote Counties being so exasperated, that it is not easy to imagine how they can meet together without great disturbance." "April 22, 1734. Your Ladyship has always been so intimately acquainted with what is most polite, that the splendour of the late Wedding and the pompous appearance at Court, have not, I dare say, dazzled you. It must have been, according to the account given of it, truly magnificent; nothing seems to have been omitted that could possibly express the pleasure wherewith His Majesty gave his daughter in marriage, so agreeably to the interests and inclination of his people; but the show is over, the ceremonious finery will no more appear to entertain our eyes, and the accomplishments of the Royal Bride, and her Prince, can only be our standing glories. The time will quickly come, when they must go to be received with universal joy in another country: God grant them a safe and an easy passage, and make them long happy in each other, and in every circumstance of life! and then it matters not much in what dress their happiness appears." "Nov. 27, 1736. The News-writers tell us Mrs. Mary Jennens § died lately, as she frequently lived, in a public Inn. Her retired humour was out of the common road, and the method she took to conceal herself from all her relations very unaccountable: it gave them just cause to suspect, that whenever she left her great fortune, it might probably fall into the hands of such as were strangers to her blood, and neither her own prudence, nor the interest of her kindred, be considered in the disposal; but herein she has deceived the world, if, as we are told, she has made a will, whereof her uncle Jennens is executor, and given her He died in 1751, and the Princess in 1759, leaving one son, Wi liam Henry Prince of Orange, and last Stadtholder." Of the Prince and Princess of Orange; see our vol. IV. p. 160. § "She was first cousin to the rich Mr. Jennens, of Acton. She never married, and had great singularities; she left her fortune to her aunt, Hester Jennens, married to William Hanmer, esq. of Flintshire. Her executor was Charles Jennens, esq. her eldest uncle." estate continually running through it. In the passage-court was a day-room for felons, and a small one adjoining to it for debtors: they have irongrated windows, opposite the publichouse, kept within the gates of the prison; and from which they, were constantly supplied with liquor. Men felons slept in two "strong rooms," planked with oak, and studded with large broad-headed nails, on boards raised about three feet from the ground; having each a rug allowed them and up stairs was another large room for men, and one for women. The Chapel, which was below, had a gallery for master's side debtors; and the felons, and other criminals, were seated on forms or benches in the area beneath. At the top of the whole building are spacious leads, where the mas ter's-side debtors were occasionally allowed to take the air. The keeper, however, or turnkey, was always with them, because the adjacent houses were thought capable of furnishing the ready means for escape. Such was this prison. in the year 1803; but the buildings being in a very dilapidated state, and in many parts shoared up with props, it became at length so dangerous, not only to the lives of the prisoners, but of other persons resorting thither, that in July 1804, an Act passed, with a degree of uncommon expedition, suited to the supposed pressure of the occasion, for the removal of "all the debtors and prisoners here in custody to the Giltspur-street Compter, or to such other safe, secure, and convenient place within the city, as should be approved of by the Lord. Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons thereof in Common Council assembled." It was also ordained to "be lawful for the Sheriffs, from time to time, and until the Poultry Compter shall have been rebuilt, or made secure, and fit, and commodious for the reception of prisoners, or another Compter shall be provided, to receive, keep, and detain them in such place of intended removal." This took place in consequence, and prisoners continued to be received in the Giltspur-street Compter till the 20th of May 1805; when the very erowded state of that temporary re ceptacle occasioned a necessity of seuding all the night charges to their old place of destination in the Poultry. Nor was this step sufficiently adequate; for in August 1806, the Giltspur-street Compter not being found large enough to contain the criminal prisoners of both gaols, they likewise were re-consigned to the Poultry. This ruinous and tottering pile therefore (so long before deemed hardly tenable) has now, for, above eighteen months, been made the only place of confinement for the criminals of the two Complers; and the Chapel of the present, being turned into a sleeping room, for want of space, no Divine service is performed there. The result is, that Gillspur-street Compter is now wholly appropriated to the confinement of the debtors only belonging to both prisons, until a New Poultry Compter shall be provided, or the old one rendered safe," for we can hardly say "fit," and "commodious for the reception of prisoners." :: More than five years have now elapsed the circumstances above narrated are matter of notoriety; yet how little, if any thing, is done!!! The two rooms already mentioned as fronting the public-house, the one set apart for debtors, the other for felons, are at present both shut up: and the Queen's Ward, with nearly the whole East end of the prison, have been taken down, to prevent their falling with instant destruction on the helpless inhabitants! Master's-side felons, or those who can pay for beds, sleep in strong rooms above stairs, to which the ac cess is from the keeper's house. Common-side felons have, within the wooden gate, a small court, paved with flag-stones, and a miserable room called the Rat-hole, with an iron-grated unglazed window; and two dismal cells to sleep in, upon boards raised about a yard from the floor, with a rug or two each, ac, cording to their number; but no straw. One of these cells is for four prisoners, and the other for two; above which are two other rooms, of a similar description. The Chapel, since its conversion into a dormitory, has barrack bedsteads laid on the floor. The women felons are shut up in a dreary a dreary place below, called the House-hole. This will hold sixteen prisoners, and is fitted up in the same manner as the above are for the men. Over it. is that which was formerly the Jews' Ward for debtors, but now set apart for the sick. LEGACIES AND DONATIONS. Christmas quarter Lady-day ditto Midsummer ditto £19 2.10 20 13 10 15 5 7 Michaelmas ditto - 20 17 3 Annually on the 5th of November the gift of Mrs. Margaret Dame, one quarter of beef and five dozen of penny loaves, is sent by the Ironmonger's Company. The Drapers Company allow annually fourteen pounds for the discharge of small debts up to forty shillings each, the gift of Mr. John Kendrick. Sheriff's court, twopence each judgmeat, from the Clerk of the Judgments, Mr. Higden, Curriers Hall, at Christmas. The prisoners receive 65 penny Toaves every eight weeks, the gift of Eleanor Gwynn. N. B. Master's-side Debtors partake of no charity, exccpt it be particularly ordered by the Donor. I The Public-house, within the passage leading to this Prison, is rented from the City at 301. per annum. was constantly assured it had nothing to do with the Compter, although I as constantly saw that the iron grated rooms of the Debtors and Felons were supplied from thence with Liquors the windows of both being opposite to it. It is worthy of remark that this Public-house was shut up as soon as the Poultry prisoners were removed to Giltspur-street Compter; but was opened again immediately on their being returned hither. From the best accounts I could extract from the books it appears, that from Jan. 1, 1800, to Jan. 1, 1807, there were Four hundred and twentyfive Debtors committed to this Prison from the Court of Conscience; and yet, the number of Creditors who received debt and costs, in consequence of such imprisonment, was no more than seventy-eight! Scanty fuel this, for the Spirit of Litigation! My Dear Sir, Chelsea, Dec. 23. It gives me pain to publish an account of this execrable place of confinement, which has so long been suffered to remain a discredit to a City that on all public occasions stands foremost in acts of Liberality, Benevolence, and Humanity: It is difficult to account for the delay in repairing this Prison, or building a new one. It does not seem to be lost sight off. At a Court of Common Council, held 26th October last, it was resolved, That the Poultry Compter is in a most deplorable and ruinous condition, and by no means a fit place for the confinement of Prisoners of any description." 66 Should the preceding remarks tend to expedite the building a New Prison, it will be the highest gratification to Yours, &c. JAS. NEILD. Doctor Lettsom, Sumbrook Court. "Mr. Gray was supposed to have died worth 10,000l. He left 1000l. to Miss Antrobus and her sister Cummins. A Play of three acts, plain prose.-Discretionary power, to Mason, with Brown, to publish an "Elegy written at Stoke Pogeis," where he is buried with his father and another. The "Long Story" published, because it contained the only drawing he ever made of Stoke House. It was written, in one morning, at StrawBannerman wrote of his berry Hill. death to Walpole before it happened. Gray was very satirical in early life, which went off. He has large notes on Linnæus and Goedart. He had large architectural collections of Founders and Builders from Books; and notes from actual survey. He lay a week, much afflicted with obstructions. Glyn says, he had no pain.-Brown shocked at his convulsions; but his face after death returned, though not sufficient to take a cast.-Bostock, of Christ's, his, elève, attended his funeral.-Farmer was offered 2001. for directing a new edition of Beaumont and Fletcher, with critical notes and introduction to each Play." 'Richardus Bentley, Ebór. de Oulton*, filius Thomæ B. defuncti, annos natus 15, et quod excurrit, literis institutus infra Wakefield, admissus subsizator pro Magistro Johnson, tutore et fidejussore ejus, Maii 24, 1676.' his own. "The late Dr. Powel, who gave me this copy, said it was remarkable that he was admitted Sizar for his own Tutor, Every Sizar must be admitted for somebody, but it is now entirely a mere form, yet he said he had never observed such an instance; and that though they put down the first fellow's name that occurs, yet that he had never put down Had his father been living, his profession would have been mentioned. The received opinion in College is, that he was a Blacksmith, which in the country is nothing very great. But if any body has a mind to see how astonishing a scholar and critick he was, let him only read a letter on Hesychius - Somersham, in Alberti's noble edition. Pidley, and Colne, all in Huntingdonshire, are annexed to the Regius Professorship of Divinity; but, though he takes care of them by Curates, they cannot be called livings in the common acceptation of the word, as he may hold two livings besides, just as if he had not them. This is one of the 40 capital blunders in Biographia Britannica.” *** Mr. URBAN, Jan. 18, 1 Yo "A hamlet between Rothwell and Methley, due North of Wakefield and its Outwood. Jeffreys' Map," to appoint a Suffragan, with full powers, to reside in those distant regions? The law respecting Suffragan Bishops is still in force, and they might be legally appointed in different parts of this Kingdom in the antient places. Nor do I see any law against a new appointment, in a case like this under consideration. The present Bishop of London is a man of correct information, of activity, and of business. If my feeble voice could reach his ear, I should press on his attention the consideration of this subject. The plan may be attended with difficulties, but in surmounting these difficulties, his Lordship might immortalize his name, by conferring a lasting benefit upon the Church. Mr. URBAN, U. U. Jan. 6. N Rabelais' Works, by Ozell, Vol. I. p. 154, 1750, occurs this note: "Wine of one ear.] A proverbial expression for excellent good wine. In some parts of Leicestershire and elsewhere, speaking of good ale, ale of one Because ear; bad ale, ale of two ears. when it is good, we give a nod with one ear; if bad, we shake our head, that is, give a sign with both ears that we don't like it." Not having met with this proverbial expression in any other Writer, I should be glad to know to what County it is properly to be appropriated. H, Mr. URBAN, Jan. 10. REGULAR Correspondent of A yours will be much gratified, if you will, through the medium of your publication, convey to him some information respecting RICHARD DIXON, Once of King's College, Cambridge, B. A. in 1555. Was he the same person who was Bishop of Cork and Cloyne in 1570, but suspended in 1572? If so, where was he born, where buried, and what inscription is there on his tomb-If you can inform me also about what time Bells began to be used in matters of Religion and Festivity, you will have the sincere thanks of YKS. Mr. URBAN, Brentford, Jan. 20. Hinvestigate the title to some land in the parish of Isleworth, I found in the deeds connected with that title the name of a lane in which the property is situate, spelt Whirlpool, Walpole, and Wurple, which induced me to make some inquiries as to the real orthography and derivation of the word in the place where such information was most likely to be obtained; but, finding no satisfactory result, I investigated the matter further. The lane is long and narrow, intersecting garden-ground to a considerable distance; and I conceive its name is a corruption of Warp, Belg, and Wellan, Sax. and was probablyantiently called "Warpweli" Lane, and by an easy transition Warple or Wurple. Warp is the thread which crosses the woof in cloth, and Well is a boundary, edging-border, or hold: hence all words signifying an inclosure are derived; as Belt and Wall, Eng. and Vallum,Lat.; and in this sense Chaucer, Adam welte (i. e. held) al paradise saving to one." And in an Account of the expences of a May Game in the Reign of Henry VIII. there is an article "A Cote of Russet and a Kyrtle of Worstedde weltyd with red cloth." Before inclosures became general, land, being open, was intersected with roads, common to all the occupiers, but exclusively the property of none; hence the name Warple was indiscri minately applied to all such roads, as being that part of the land which was the border or boundary, and distinguished one man's land from another's. The Warp, therefore, is that part of the cloth, which, not being crossed by the woof, is waste; and the Welt a border; consequently,if my derivation be correct,theWarple may be denomi nated a piece of land uncultivated, bounding or bordering open or com mon field lands. Perhaps a more familiar exemplification of this derivation may be seen in the weaving of Napkins, where the division between each is marked by the threads of the warp not being crossed by the woof. Yours, &c. T, BONNY CASTLE, Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.-The work will be printed in two moderate-sized Octavo Volumes, and is designed to form the second and third Parts of the Author's intended General Course of Mathematics, of which several of the succeeding branches are nearly ready for publication. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Communications for this Article (of Works preparing for publication, not of Works already published) will be a duly attended to. The Hulsean Prize for the last year has been adjudged to FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM, Esq. fellow commoner of Queen's College: subject, "A dissertation on the Books of Origen against Celsus, with a view to illustrate the argument, and to point out the evidence they afford to the truth of Christianity." The following is the subject for the present year: 66' Inquiry into the Religious Knowledge which the Heathen Philosophers derived from the Jewish Scriptures." The following works will very soon be published: An Sermons on various important subjects, in two octavo volumes, left for publication by the late Rev. OWEN MANNING, Vicar of Godalming. A Treatise on Algebra, in Practice and Theory, methodically arranged in two Parts, and adapted to the present State of the Science, together with Notes and Illustrations, containing a great variety of particulars relating to the Discoveries and Improvements that have been made in this branch of Analysis. By Mr. Rules for English Composition, and particularly for Themes, in a duodecimo volume. By Mr. JOHN RIPPINGHAM, of Westminster School; who has also in thepress, a Translation of Longinus, with critical and explanatory notes, in an octavo volume. Narrative of a Voyage to the Rio de la Plata, and of Travels in Brazil, from 1804 to 1810. By Mr. JOHN MAWE, author of a Treatise on the Mineralogy of Derbyshire. A Description of the Arteries, in an octavo volume. By Dr. JOHN BAR CLAY. A History of the University of Cambridge, including the Lives of the Founders, with illustrative engravings. By Mr. GEORGE DYER. The |