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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

LOND. GAZETTE GENERALEVEN. Lloyd's Evening St. James's Chron London Chron. London Evening. The Sun-Star London Packet English Chron. Whitehall Even. Times-Briton Morning Chron. Morning Herald Public Ledger Gazett. & M.Poft

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Courier de Lond. London Herald Dai.Ad. & Oracle Morning Advert. 18 Weekly Papers Bath 3, Briftel 5 Birmingham 2 Blackburn--Bury CAMBRIDGE 2

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Meteorological Diaries for July and Aug. 1802 698 Church Notes, &c. from Little Shelford
Generous Conduct of the Bishop of London 699 Epitaphs to Memory of Mr. Ingle and Mr. Wale 722
Thomas Child, a self-taught Mathematician 700 Mr. De Coetlogon in his own Juftification 723
The increafed Confumption of Mushrooms 701 Pyramids of Giza covered with Inferiptions 724
Curtis's Treatife on Honey-dew.-Mildew 702 Dawley, Seat of celebrated Lord Bolingbroke ib.
Carpets-"Mifcellany of Eaftern Learning" ib. Antique Copper Keys-St. Stephen's Chapel 725)
Rural Sports not inconfiftent with Clerical Life ib. Tripleinfcription lately brought from Rofetta 726
Dr.Townfon's propofed Hiftory of Yorkshire 703 Egyptian Antiquities in the British Mufeum 727
Hints towards a complete Edition of Junius ibid. Purfuits of Architectural Innovation, Ne. LI. ibid.
Particulars of Family of Lord Widdrington 704 Particular Defcription of Laycock Nunnery 728
Roman Pharos at Dover ftill in Exiftence ibid. Account of curious Aftronomical Phænomena 730
Enquiry after Rev. Wm.Thompfon and Family Situation of many Vicarages & Perpet.Curacies 731
INDEX INDICATOR IUS-Rev. John Moyle? ib On the proper Arrangement of a Library 733
Curiofities in Lord Mendip's Houfe defcribed 705 Number of Columns in the Ephefian Diana 735
Mr. Hutton's Narrative of a Midfummer Tour 707 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS 737-755
Interefting Particulars of Mifs Phebe Bown ibid. SELECT POETRY, Ant. and Modern 756-760
Account of the prefent State of Fotheringay 708 Proceedings in the late Seffion of Parliament 761
The PROJECTOR, a periodical Paper, N° VIII. 709 Addrefs to the Freeholders of Hertford hire 766
A fcarce Angel of King Henry the Eighth ibid Abttract of the principal ForeignOccurrences 768
A Charge not improper for a Trial of the Pix 713 News from Country-Domestic Occurrences775
On Power of electing Sheriffs by the People 715 Additions & Corrections to former Obituaries 777
The Origin of the Gipfies deduced from India 716 Marriages, Deaths of eminent Perfons 778-790
Earl of Winchelfea's Common-place Book 718 The Theatrical Register-Bill of Mortality 790
Fantaftic Order of Architecture illuftrated 719 The Average Prices of Grain for One Month 791
Critique on Building called Tavistock Chapel 720 Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks 792
Embellished with Two Views of DAWLEY, the Seat of HENRY ST. JOHN, Lord Viscount
BOLINGBROKE; fome curious ANTIQUES from POPE's Vla at TWICKENHAM;
a (carce ANGEL of HENRY VIII.; and feveral other Curiofities.

BY

SYLVANUS URBAN,

GENT.

Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet, London; where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addreffed, PosT-PAID. 1802.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

*

For AUGUST,

Mr. URBAN,

I

Aug. 9.

T is a foolish and prepofterous fafhion in these times, to exclaim againft Minifters, Prelates, and others, who have the diftribution of worldly honours, as never confidering the claims of perfonal merit, but as yielding to the influence of political connexion, or private and undue partiality.

That fome fuch incidents may and will occur, whilft human-nature remains conftituted as it is, liable to imperfection and prone to error, it would be abfurd wholly to deny. I am convinced, however, that, if we would be at the pains to examine without prejudice, we fhould find many examples among the great and powerful, of genuine and magnanimous generofity, where the impulfe of juft and honourable feeling has been liftened

to and obeyed, where profeflional diligence has been noticed, and active virtue rewarded, from its own claims alone, without folicitation, obfequious attention, or any private motive whatever.

I am induced to make these remarks, from the very generous and noble manner in which the Bishop of London has lately difpofed of the most valuable piece of preferment in his patronage, the rectory of St. James, Westminster. His Lordship confidered the qualifications molt effential to make the rector of fo large and populous a parifh as ufeful as poflible. He faw and felt the neceffity of unremitted attention, of engaging demeanour, and, above all, of known and approved talents as a preacher. With this impreffion upon his mind, he difregarded all claims of perfonal intimacy, private attachment, or even

1802.

ties ftill nearer, which might have juftified him both to himself and to the world.

His Lordship conceived he faw the qualities he wanted in the Rev. GERRARD ANDREWES; and upon him, unexpecting and unfoliciting, he accordingly beftowed this valuable mark of his efteem and favour.

That his Lordship has before done fimilar acts of noble juftice, they very well know who enjoy the honour of his friendship. We could alfo name other individuals of the fame rank who are alike honourably diftinguished. This act in particular feems fo highly reputable to the giver and receiver, that you are called upon, as a friend to the Church, to record it in your excellent Publication. CENSORINUS.

Mr. URBAN,

Aug. 10.

correfpondent the Rev. John

ROM the MSS. of your old

Jones, curate of Welwyn, I fend you the following authentic anecdotes, by him committed to paper in 1760. Yours, &c. M. GREEN.

THOMAS CHILD, a farmer, at Digfwell, in the county of Hertford, born at Wheathamftead, near St. Alban's, where his father kept a public-houfe, and gave him a little fchool-education in reading, 'writing, and arithmetick, but could proceed no farther, though the boy was eagerly defirous of farther inftruction: he was placed out as an apprentice to the late Capt. Hale's gardener at King's-Walden, where I firft knew him in the year 1726, but took no farther notice of him than as being a fober and induftrious young man; for I was not then in the leaft apprehenfive of the greatness of his genius, which by degrees, after my departure from

thence

thence into Huntingdonshire, difcovered itself gradually, to the furprize and admiration of all that were better acquainted with him than I was, and had alfo an efteem for parts, and a taste in matters of fcience.

From King's-Walden, as he told me fince, he removed to Digfwell, where he was gardener to Mr. Shalcroffe*, who foon difcerned his worth, and valued and encouraged him in a manner fuitable to his genius, and anfwerable to his merit. That ingenious gentleman furnished him with books, lending fome and bestowing others; as he did particularly by making him a prefent of the two volumes of Chambers's Dictionary. He found him to be a truly honeft as well as a very ingenious man; and was pleafed to tell me fome time ago, when the poor honest man was in danger of lofing a confiderable fum of money which was juftly due to him from one in whofe hands he had depofited it with confidence, that he would not fuffer him to want, and would freely lend him 100l. though he fhould never be able to pay it again. Of the particulars hereof I never told Thomas Child; but affured him, in his diftrefs, that I had heard Mr. Shalcroffe fpeak very favourably of him, and that he would be his friend +.]

His leading talent is for the mathematicks; in which I doubt but he would long ago have excelled, and been eminent to a degree that cannot well be imagined, if he had had but a proper education from his childhood, and other advantages fince, which are abfolutely neceffary to make a man fhine at the head of the sciences; and he would have been one to the honour of our nation.

You would not judge him by his *Thomas Shalcrotte, efq.

+ One Pilgrim, parith-clerk of Paul's Walden, in this county, is another extraordinary perfon. He criticised on Dr. Long's Aftronomy. The Doctor made corrections accordingly; and fent him a prefent of his book, handsomely bound and gilt, &c.

looks to have fo much in him as he really has, and is well known to have; though Dr. Young, whom I lately prevailed upon to make him a vifit when we were one day out upon a ride near him, told me on his return that he faw fomething uncommon in the man's face and eye; the one grave, the other attentive and alio penetrating. And the Doctor was fo good as to say, that he wished he had invited him to-dinner; and that he could have his picture well drawn, with the mathematical apparatus of his own contrivance, which we saw, placed by his fide, &c.

The two most remarkable things which he fhewed us were thefe: a globe, and an air-pump with the proper apparatus or appendages, both of his own contrivance and workmanship, and each of them exquifite in its kind. I wished him to bequeath them to the British Museum, to be preserved there in memory of his unrewarded ingenuity.

I faw alfo at Mr. Shalcroffe's a very curious and exact draught of that gentleman's houfe at Digfwell, executed by the pencil of this man whilft he was gardener there'; which draught, well deferving the place where it ftands, and a proper decoration to the room as well as a curiofity in it, remains hitherto (in a gilt frame) over the chimney in Mr. Shalcroffe's parlour.

Thefe are all the notices with which I have hitherto been made acquainted relating to this great but poor man: and all that I have at prefent to add farther is, that his moral character is a very good one; true to his word, and jutt in his dealings; and I believe he has a fober, ferious, and juft fenfe of religion. All that know him with regard to his conduct in common life, efteem him. But you must be a perfon of greater difcernment than the vulgar, to dive into his real worth as a man of fo uncommon parts, and to efteem him as he deferves.

He

He is now, as I fuppofe, much about 60 years of age, and has a wife and one child, a fon; but a fon, who, though fober and harmlefs (as far as I know), has no turn for ingenious purfuits, or for any mathematical enquiries, as his father has.

I fhould probably have had no thought of fcribbling down this as I have done, but for a hint occafionally given me by Dr. Young, who appears to have a juft value for him.

Telling Mr. Shalcroffe afterwards that Dr. Young withed he had invited Child to dine with him, and that I would endeavour to bring them together; he faid, "You will be difappointed if you do; for, firft, Tom (faid he) is fo modeft, that he never likes to be in company with his fuperiors: I never can," he added, "get him to dine with me, unlefs when he comes at Christmas along with my other tenants, his fellow-farmers, to take a dinner at my houfe. And next, if the Doctor and he were together, Child would find no relith in his converfation unlefs the difcourfe fhould happen to turn (which I much question) upon mathematical or other philofophical fubjects," &c. "Knowing his great abilities and other merits," Mr. Shaleroffe added, "I would willingly have put him in the way of preferment. The late Secretary Winnington being with me once upon a vifit, I recommended Tom Child to him as a perfon that might do eminent fervice to the Government in the way of calculations, &c. adding, that he was a truly honeft man. The Secretary, though he highly commended his drawings, &c. took very little notice of this propofal, and made no promife. I told Child afterwards of the overture I had made. Would you like to go, Tom, if he fhould fend for you?' 'No,' he replied very coolly, 'I am much better where I am," &c.

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He leads an inoffenfive and exemplary life in his low ftation;

quiet, peaceable, friendly, benevolent, juft, minding only his own bufinefs and the duties of his calling. Perfectly unaspiring, thoroughly content, defpifing (as he is really above) the pageantries of life, and all its other vanities and follies. So fedate, ferious, and grave in all his deportment, that you may at once difcern in him the wife man and the Chriftian, and not the leaft fymptom of the man of this world; though of great knowledge, of very few words. I have fcarce ever feen any man like him, and can compare him to nobody but himself. I love and respect him; and think I have briefly delineated his real cha.racter.

He beftowed his care and pains for about two years in forming that draught of his mafter's house, but ufed the utmoft caution all that time that the gentleman thould know nothing of it; nor did he. And Mr. Shaleroffe was pleafed to add, in giving me this account, that all the while he never missed an hour in executing the business of his gardens. Rare industry and integrity!

Mr. URBAN,

THE

J. J.

Aug. 5.

HE circumftance noted in P. 599, of fo much more mushroom-ketchup being made now than ufed to be formerly, may be accounted for by obferving the high living that has been introduced by people who have been refidents in India; and which, I am forry to fay, is now becoming general, and that among many families that can but ill afford it. Mushroom-ketchup was formerly found only in a few gentlemen's houfes; but now the fhops of many oilmen, grocers, and fishmongers, are filled with an increafing variety of poignant, or Pandoraen fauces, in most of which mushroom-ketchup is a primary ingredient. A man who wants to fill an empty purfe may find an easy way of doing fo by inventing a new fauce, giving it a founding name, and puffing it in a morning-paper.

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