The higher price he fixes on it, the better it will fell; and out of every crown received for it he may net four fhillings. The great difficulty of procuring genuine anchovies alfo increases the confumption of ketchup; and this year there will be a fill greater demand for mushrooms to make ketchup, by reafon that there are not any walnuts for walnut-ketchup, the frotty weather in May having proved fatal to the walnut bloom.

I have derived fo much amufement from the "Journal kept at Mocha," that I am forry to perceive it is concluded, p. 627; but I hope to fee fome more accounts of the fame kind inferted in your Mifcellany by gentlemen who were in the Egyptian expedition; for every particular relating to Egypt and the Arabias is interefting.

I apprehend T. S. (p. 631) has not feen the treatife published by the late ingenious Mr. Curtis on honey-dew; otherwife, I think, he would be fatisfied that that fub ftance is really the excrement of an infect. He is miftaken in afferting that honey-dew is followed by mildew, for the former is particularly apt to appear on cherryleaves, on which the latter is never feen; though it is true that the foliage of the common maple is peculiarly fubject to grey mildew.

To the information given by Camilla, p. 631, I take leave to fubjoin, that dried leaves of hyfon-tea, mixed with fine white fand, are preferable to foap-fuds for cleaning carpets before the application of the ox-gall, and should be used dry.

The ftory of the mifer's cobbled flippers, alluded to, in p. 608, as a forgery foifted into the new edition of The Arabian Nights," is probably borrowed from a work, intituled, "A Mifcellany of Eaftern Learning," publifhed by M. Cardonne, and afferted to have been tranflated from Oriental MSS. preferved in the royal library at Paris. An English transflation of it, dated

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1781, now lies before me; and I would with all perfons, who are penny-wife and pound-foolish," to have the perufal of the aforementioned laughable ftory, whether it be of Oriental invention or not.

I am concerned to perceive, that there are perfons watching all occafions to exercife malicioufness towards the Established Clergy. The objection raised by P. P. p. 621, against a clergyman's partaking of rural sports, or publishing a work concerning them, must proceed from an illiberal and defigning mind. A gentleman in orders ftands in as much need of air, exercise, and amufement, as any other gentleman; and it is unreafonable to require that a clergyman thould debar himself of any reputable diverfion that contributes towards diminishing the vapidity of a life spent in a reclufe parish. The work, intituled "Rural Sports," is one no way incongruous either to the pen or the library of a clergyman; it contains much knowledge ufeful in the country, and is correft in the deferiptions; the type is neat, and the plates well executed; and I fee nothing refpe&ting it to carp at. ALTHARICUS.

Mr. URBAN,

THE

Aug. 6. HE plan of Hiftories of Counties is changed from one extreme to the other. In the last and preceding centuries it was the fafhion to preferve the records of property and families, which may be called the records of civil and ecclefiaftical hiftory; and the painter and engraver were called in, to exhibit monuments of antient and modern art and landscape. In the prefent century, when we are advancing by rapid ftrides to a nation of merchants and agriculturifts, and are to inveftigate the productions of our island to its centre by chemical procefs, and fink as much as may be the memory of our forefathers, and their actions and inventions, the leading fubjects of County Hiftories are to be "Geology, Minera

logy,

logy, Natural Hiftory, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, with the Manners, Cuftoms, and Language, so far as they are peculiar and characteristic; and although Antiquities are not to have in fuch a work the pre-eminence with which they have in general been honoured, yet thofe fine monuments of antient times, which muft intereft the man of tafte as well as the Antiquary, and thofe more humble remains, which ftrike not indeed fo forcibly the fenfes, but which are remarkable for fome event recorded in hiftory, will not pafs unnoticed. Some portion of this work will also be devoted to the memory of those natives of the county who have been rendered eminent by their talents and public virtues."

Such is the County Hiftory of YORKSHIRE, which Robert Townfon, LL D. F.R.S. &c. &c. author of Travels through Hungary, and of Tracts and Obfervations in Natural Hiftory and Phyfiology, has been requested by fome literary friends to write. If his former publications have answered the wishes of the writer, the reader, and the publisher; it is not to be doubted, encouragement will be given to a new undertaking, though on a coftly fubfcription. Q.

Mr. URBAN, Witham, Effex, Aug. 8.

"Stat nominis umbia."

EFORE the truly refpectable Henry Sampfon Woodfall (who now refides in comfortable retirement at Chelfea) quits that world in which he has been fo long diftinguished, it were earnestly to be withed that fome entire collection of ALL the letters of Junins could be printed. To afford pofterity a full view of the state of parties and party-writers, it would be highly interefting if accurate copies were likewife printed of every letter, avowed or anonymous, which Junius ever answered or accidentally noticed: and it would indeed prove a moft exquifite treat for rifing politicians, could fome gentleman of abilities be found to revife the

prefs, and to write an ample commentary in the form of notes. All the editions I have hitherto seen are greatly deficient. In an edition of the letters of Junius, printed, in 1771, for John Wheble, bookfeller, in Pater-nofter Row, London, which I am inclined to confider as the piratical re-publication which (in his letter to a correfpondent) Junius himself condemns, I find a copious table of contents, which is wanting in Mr. Woodfall's edition of 1772 in my poffeflion; I likewife find a

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Monody, or the Tears of Sedition, on the fuppofed Death of Junius," by Poeticaftos, with Junius's reply; Junia's elegant challenge to Junius, and the infolently-witty anfwer of Junius; the letter of Frances in vindication of the Duke of Bedford's munificence, with an anfwer of Junius, in which he applauds Frances for advancing one benevolent action of the Duke of Bedford, an admirable letter of Modeftus to Junius, containing a defence of the conduct of Miniftry relative to General Ganfel's rescue; and other particulars. In his letter to Sir William Draper, dated Feb. 21, 1769, Junius writes, "I had determined to leave the commanderin-chief in the quiet enjoyment of his friend and his bottle; but T1TUS deferves an answer, and fhall have a complete one." An anonymous letter, which deferved a complete anfwer from Junius, must certainly deferve prefervation; yet where is that letter of Titus, or the anfwer thereto? The examination of Dr. Mulgrave (printed by Almon) is greatly praised by Junius as "a most curious and interefting tract:" this praise fhould preferve it from oblivion. The letter of Anti-Junius is answered in Woodfall's edition, vol. II. p. 146; it ought, therefore, to be printed; fo ought Scævola's for the fame reafon, being anfwered vol. II. p 278; and Zenos, vol. II. p. 281: nudi alteram partem is the plain rule of equity in all cafes. I could allo with to fee the note figned "An Advocate in the Caufe of the

People,"

People," fince it was thought deferving of two whole pages, vol. II. p. 290; as well as "A Barrifter at Law," of four, vol. II. p. 262. In short, every claffical document fhould be kept, and every little fugitive anecdote fhould be fought for, even for the honour of this Junius himfelf, who (with all his malevolence, fophifm, and impiety,) was undoubtedly the moft interefting party-writer that ever took an Oppofition pen in his hand.

Hoping to fee thefe obfervations inferted in the Gentleman's Magazine, and that fome fpirited writer may take the hint, I remain, Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

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H. FIELDING.

Aug. 8. HE Lord Widdrington, enquired after in p. 605, who was attainted in 1715, efcaped from the Tower of London, and foon after died in France, and was buried at Nunnington, in the county of York. That lord's widow, Catharine, fifter of Charles Lord Viscount Prefton, was likewife buried at Nunnington, in the county of York. She died poffeffed of large eftates fituated at Netherby, in Cumberland. Your correfpondent, therefore, vol. LXIX. p. 569, is not correct in ftating, that Lady Widdrington left the Netherby eftate to Dr. Robert Graham, the dean of Wells.

The Doctor Robert, to whom Lady Widdrington bequeathed the Netherby eftate, was the father of Sir James Graham, bart. the present polletfor of that eftate; but he, Dr. Robert Graham, was the youngest fon of William Graham, dean of Carlifle, and afterwards of Wells. The faid dean had an elder fon, Charles; which Charles left two fons, William and Charles, of whom the latter is now living near Stevenage, Herts. M. M.

In the "Addrefs of the Gentleme of the Choir of the Church of Weftainfier to their late Dean" (now Bishop of St. Afaph), p. 596, 1. 52, for heightened read brightened.

Mr. URBAN,

Aug. 14. N aniwer to the following queftions is requested of any of your correfpondents converfant in Suffolk genealogies.

Was the Rev. William Thompfon, rector of Kettlebarfton, co. Suffolk, in the reign of Anne, related to Lord Haversham, and in what degree? What became of the fon of this Mr. Thompson, who afterwards refided at Wheatfield hall, in the fame county, during the early part of the miniftry of the facetious and Rev. Mr. Clubbe, author of the Antiquities of Wheatfield? And did the faid fon leave any iffue?

If your correfpondent, who, in vol. LXXI. p. 400, defired to know the best method of turning to account the eels in his Northern fishery, will leave his addrefs with you, I will endeavour to give him a hint which may prove advantageous to his intereft.

A CONSTANT READER SINCE 1768.

INDEX INDICATORIUS. BIOGRAPHICUS withes to be informed

whether JOHN MOYLE, M. A. a native of Denbighshire, and mafter of the free grammar-fchool at Winbourn Minster, where he died 1717, and was buried, and has a monument, erected by his eldest son, Edward M. efq. with an epitaph, to be firft edit. II. 96, was related, and how feen in Hutchins's "Hiftory of Dorset," nearly, to Walter M. a polite writer of the 17th century, who, according to the Biographia Britannica, was fon of Sir Walwall, and died, 1721, without iffae, leav ter M. bart. of Bake, near Loo, in Corn. ing a brother, Jofeph, of Southampton, who published his pofthumous works, in 2 vols. 8vo. 1727.

Mr.