jaunting, and late hours, what could he more handy than a necklace ftrung with analeptick pills? For coughs and terrible colds, a bandeau of pectoral lozenges would have in every fenfe of the word a prodigious fine effect.

Such is the only probable conjecture I can form on this new invention; it is the best I can form, but I have not the hardihood to fay it is the beft pollible. However, if any of your readers will impart a better, I thall be glad to receive information on fo important a fubject. OLD CAYEN.

OЯ. 2.

Mr. URBAN, THE following letters, which have for the last two or three days been in private circulation, deferve to be perpetuated in your truly impartial Mifcellany.

NO PARTY MAN.

"Sir, I am forry that it is not in my power to place you in a fituation which would well become you-I mean in the Epifcopal Palace at Buckden: but I can bring you very near to it; for I have the prefentation to a rectory now vacant, within a mile and a half of it, which is very much at Dr. Parr's fervice. It is the rectory of Graffham, at prefent worth 2001. a year, and, as I am informed, may foon be worth 2701.; and I this moment learn that the incumbent died laft Tuesday.

"Dr. Parr's talents and character might well entitle him to better patronage than this from thofe who know how to estimate his merits; but I acknowledge that a great additional motive with me to the offer I now make him, is, that I believe I cannot do any thing more pleafing to his friends, Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and Mr. Knight; and I defire you, Sir, to con fider yourfelf obliged to them only. I have the honour to be, Sir, with the greatest refpect, your obedient fervant,

"FRANCIS BURDETT." "Vicarage Houfe, Buckden, Sept. 26. "Dear Sir, After rambling in various parts of Norfolk, I went to Cambridge, and from Cambridge I yefterday came to the parfonage of my moft refpectable friend, Mr. Mahby, at Buckden, where I this morning had the honour of receiving your letter. Mrs. Parr opened it laft Friday at Hatsou; and I truft that you will pardon the liberty fhe took in defiring your fervant to convey it to me in Hunting

donfhire, where she knew that I should be as upon this day;

"Permit me, dear Sir, to request that you would accept the warmest and moft fincere thanks of my heart for this unfolicited, but most honourable, expreflion of your good-wil! towards me. Nothing can be more important to my worldly intereft than the fervice you have done me, in prefenting me to the living of Graffham. Nothing can be more exquifitely gratifying to my very beft feelings, than the language in which you have conveyed to me this mark of your friendship. Indeed, dear Sir, you have enabled me to pafs the years of declining life in comfortable and honourable independence. You have given me additional and unalterable conviction, that the firmness with which I have adhered to my principles has obtained for me the approbation of wife and good men. And when that apprehenfion affumes, as it now does, the form of protection, I fairly confefs to you, the patronage of Sir Francis Burdett has a right to be ranked among the proudeft, as well as the happiest, events of my life. I truft that my future conduct will justify you in the difinterefted and generous gift which you have bellowed upon me: and fure I am that my friends Mr. Fox, Mr. Sheridan, and Mr. Knight, will not only fhare with me in my joy, but fympathize with me in thofe fentiments of refpect and gratitude which I fhall ever feel towards Sir Francis Burdett.

"Moft affuredly I fhall myfelf fet a higher value upon your kindness, when I confider it as intended to gratify the friendly feelings of thefe excellent men, as well as to promote my own perfonal happiness.

"I fhall wait your pleasure about the prefentation; and I beg leave to add, that I fhall flay at Backden for one week only, and hall have reached Hatton about this day fortnight, where I fhall obey your commands. One circumftance, I am fure, will give you great fatisfaction, and therefore I fhall beg leave to ftate it. The living of Graffham will be of infinite value to me, becaufe it is tenable with a rectory I now have in Northamptonshire; and happy I am that my future refidence will be fixed, and my existence clofed, upon that fpot where Sir Francis Bur dett has given me the power of fpend

ing my old age with comforts and conveniences, quite equal to the extent of my fondeft wifhes, and far furpatling any expectations I have hitherto ventured to indulge. I have the honour to be, with the greatest refpect, and moft unfeigned thankfulness, dear Sir, your very obedient, faithful fervant,

Mr. URBAN,

"S. PARR."

Sept. 30. HE following original letter, re

not but be acceptable to your curious readers. Yours, &c. NAUTICUS. Honoured Sir, London, June 20, 1691. I received yours on the 19th of this inftant, just as I had the countermand of my Newfoundland expedition; which, to give you an account of the bufinefs that might call me into thofe parts, was as followeth: Upon the merchants petitioning her Majefty in council that fome care might be taken to fecure our trade in thofe parts; for having the last year loft near 30 fail of merchant-fhips, deftroyed by one or two of the French coppes, our fhips lying in open harbours having no defence; the prayer was, that fome perfon might be fent of judgment, to report to her Majefty what were the molt proper ineans to fecure the inhabitants, and protect our fhips from the French. Upon this it was ordered in Council, that the Office of the Ordnance fhould fend fome perfon fitly qualified for this purpose. There being no perfon in this ftation but myfelf, the reft fent abroad, orders were given for me to prepare myfelf forthwith to go with the convoy which were to fail by the 10th inftant; whereupon I applied my felf to the Council, and to the Secretary of the Foreign Plantations, to know the particulars of my bufinefs; who were not a little furprized to find me the perfon pitched upon. But, to make fhort, it was a thing that had more than once been communicated to me in King Charles the Second's time; and I having luckily by me a copy of the refults in Council at that time, wherein were reafons fufficient to put a flop to my going till fuch time the merchants thould of themfelves find out fome means or methods to frame a government of it, with allowances fit to fupport it, or thofe who fhould go to take charge thereof; for I did alledge, and made appear, that King Charles's reafon for not venturing guns or any flores of war there

was, that there is nobody to take care or be aufwerable for them; fo that what was done might as well be for the Enemy as for us. Now the thing in hand is, the Merchants must go upon that fubject; and, when once fettled, there will be care taken that thofe ports fhall have fome fecurity. At prefent the inhabitants are all void of any head. The cuftom is, the first fhip or vetfel that arrives there in the beginning of the year, be it never fo

his fecond or mate is called LADY, before whom all caufes, of what kind foever, are hrought; and they punish, as far as whipping, ducking, and towing a-fhore, goes. And this power of theirs continues if there come 500 fail after him, unless a man of war of the King's, to whom the Lord gives up his power.

This and a great deal of fuch like cuftoms hath been ufed ever fince our inhabiting thofe parts. But the French are more formidable, having a governor and a good strong hold for the inhabitants, who are fubject to the fame laws and cuftoms of their own country; and being our very near neigh bours, and having made fome troublefome vifits, makes us look into this matter more narrowly, it being a very great nursery for feamen, and a trade of very great advantage to the Crown, and doth require a more than ordinary care to be taken of it. But as to fend me, a fingle perfon only, to inspect or fee what was fit to be done, and upon my report care fhould be taken; to which I make this anfwer, that if by my judgment what is needful to be done there fhall be ordered a twelvemonth hence, query whether, to fave time, it is not more expeditious to fend artificers and fiores of munition with me, to be difpofed of to the beft advanage, rather than to put the King to 7 or 8001. charge, befides what may happen in my abfence, I leave to the right honourable the Lords in Council, when upon debate I am ordered to defift till fuch time a governor is made, by which I hope we shall find better times. Dear Sir, I heartily beg pardon for my giving you all this trouble, but cannot, as you are my friend, be fhorter in letting you know my affairs, from whom I have received fuch inflances of friendship, that I muft to the laft extremely own myfelf your most faithful and humble fervant,

THO. PHILLIPS.

Mr.

Mr. URBAN,

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had the happiness of your converfation one halfe hower, I have had more true joy than to have been miftrifs of all my Lady Dorchefter's diamonds would have given mee, with which thee apeares att the Princefs of Denmark's court often in grate splendor. I have often tould yowr Maiefty there would a time conie that there would be noe comparrifon between her and nee in yowr thoughts, and that [ fhould have the advantage. That time I reckon is come now, for fhee flowrifhes in this Court; for a certain truth fhee had privat audience from the Pri. of Orrange, which my Lord Shreufbury healpt her to, and her pension is continued. I doe not thinke that hee is in love with her, or that perhaps fhee would receive itt well. If hee were foe, I would fay nothinge of her that is not true; but I believe hee likes her not, and feares the lath of her tounge, foe chooses not to anger her. I'm very fure fhee does not fpeke with refpect of your Maiefty, for I myselfe heerd her fay, if any had yowr cardes to play but yowrfelfe, yowr bifiness might goe well enough; but, confidering how much yow wanted itt here, fhee fayd, poynting to her head, and how very much obftinacy yow had, thee could not tell what to think would become of matters. Then her favourite wayting fervant perfectly railes and talks in all company foe impudently againft yowr Maiefty, that 'tis a fhame the fhould be fuffered. One thing more I muft tell yow; my Lady Dorchester told mee fhee knew not well, very well. what thee fhould with might happen, for both the queenes us'd her badly, and both the kinges, the faid, were civil to her. Now, Sir, this is her conduct; and mine is to venture all I have in the world in hopes to be valewed by yow, which is what yow know I have longe been more covitious of then of any treafure. I was netled (I confefs) that yow went away angry from mee, and would have beene a rebell if I could; foe I went 2 or 3 tymes to wayte uppon the Princefs of Orrange, who did mee the honour to receive mee very kindly; but for my life could not beare. the feeing her crownd, nor ever have I feene her fence. As foone as the oaths were offered my fpoufe, hee quitted her com'iflion. They would have made him a maior of horse, and promised him hee fhould bee made a groome of the bedchamber; but nothing mooved him,

08. 4. HE inclofed fell into my hands among fome papers of Dr. Stukeley. If any of your correfpondents can furnifh a key to it, they will gratify Yours, &c. HISTORICUS. May the 28. YOW know, Sir, I have often tould yow I would willingly venture my life in your fervife, and I have now lived to make good my word; for, fence that wretched unlucky day to many thoufands, and particularly to mee, in which your Maiefty went laft out of Whithall, I have wrote many letters to yow, and in then what is cald treafon heare. Some of them bee fure are loft; or elfe, Sir, I cannot thinke it poffible but that yow would have writt to mee before now, because, to add to the affliction of your being gone from hence, yow parted from mee in anger ere I did give yow cause I am fure; but 'tis too much that yow thought I did; that tho fure cannot laft; and I humbly begg yow will lett mee have the comfort to know it does not, which will bee the grateft delight to mee I can now have amongst a multitude of cares and greefe which your Maiefty cannot but believe I am in the midft off att prefent. When yow were at Rochefter I fent yow a large letter, which fure yow never recev'd, or elfe yow could not be foe hard-harted to mee as to have gone away without anfweringe of itt! and all this anger was only for tellinge yow what another body fayd, not what I thought. Was this a juft thinge to mee, Sir? Who have yow of all your fubiects that has ventured foe often to difpleafe yow rather then omitt the tellinge yow any thinge that might be for your good to know? And pray, Sir, confider ferioufly, did you ever meet with any woman in the world that ever loved yow foe perfectly with out intereft, or that was foe little capable of beinge moov'd by any thinge in that kinde? I never ftrove, yow know very well, to be made either rich or grate by yowr favour; nor whilft I had breathed would never have fpoke to yow att all about mony matters, if I had had but juft enough barely to live; foe much have I all my life tyme (I thank God!) difpizd what I finde had deftroyed foe often many people. All vertuous honeft principles I may fafly fware, and yow have reafon to believe itt, Sir, that when yow have beene in a good minde, and I have

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for he is truly very loyall, I dare anfwer, and never would diffemble foe far as to go once to Court to kifs ther handes after they came over. His command hee kept till the offered him to fecure him from his creditors, but then hee imediatly gave itt upp, and is efcaped away to ferve yowr Maiefiy. I pray God I may have good newes that hee hath the happinefs to come fafe to yow, itt beinge a thinge difficult to doe att this time; yet I willingly confented hee fhould venture his life, and leave mee alone without any fupport but what God Almighty will put into the hart of my friendes to doe for mee; and this uncertainty I like much better then the best establishment that could bee given us heare. Yow will fay I have courage as well as honefty, Sir, fence I venture all this att'a tyme that I have reafon to believe myfelfe with child; foe, for ought yow know, Sir, I may longe to have a letter from yow; therfore I hope yow will not delay the givinge mee that fatisfaction: and if I knew how to fend letters that would certainly come to your handes, I could often write what it might bee neceffary for yowr Maiefty to know. If yow can give mee any directions how to doe itt, pray, Sir, doe. This letter comes to yow by a man that may pafs with letters backwards and forwards well enough unfefpected, because hee trades in little forts of marchandize; and, though he hath a meane aspect, yet hee comes of a good family, and has witt enough to goe through difficultyes. Hee will tell yowr Maietty his name; I will not write itt for feare, by fome accident or other, it may doe him harme.

[This is a true coppy of a letter found in a fhoe-heele in my fhopp at Grantham. PHILLIP COOKE.]

O&. 4.

Mr. URBAN, "THE Hiftory of the reign of King Charles II. from the Restoration to the End of the Year 1667, written by Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, alalor, printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe, in Pater nofter Row," two handfome volumes, 4to, but very incorrectly printed, was edited, if I am rightly in formed, by Dr. Shebbeare.-"The defire of doing juttice to fo excellent a man and fo able a minifter, to redeem him from the fangs of mifreprefentation and malice, have induced the editor to

bring it forth to light; and with this view it was depofited in the hands of Francis Gwyn, efq. late fecretary of war to Queen Anne, by the last Earl of Clarendon, from which copy it is faithfully printed by his fon.-The title of "Reflections upon the most material Pallages that happened after the King's Refloration to the Time of the Chancellor's Banifhment," &c. which was given to thefe volumes by the noble author, has been preferved, though no other writing can be fo perfect a history of thofe times; and every word of the MS. moft religioufly followed, that no imputation of having detracted from the original might fall upon the editor. Molines, 8th day of June, 1672, is written in the first page; and the Greek word at the head of it, which is now placed as a motto to the title-page."

This is the fame work which was published by the University of Oxford, at the Clarendon prefs, in two vols. 8vo, 1759, with a third prefixed, comprehending the chancellor's life from his birth to the date here given, the MSS. being left to the University by the late Lord Hyde, his grandfon, with a direction, that the profits arifing from the fale fhould be applied to erect a riding-fchool; but he dying before his father, the then Earl of Clarendon, the property of thofe papers never vefted in him, and the bequeft was void. The noble heireffes of the Earl of Clarendon, out of their regard to the publick and the Univerfity, fulfilled the kind intention of Lord Hyde, and fent the MS. to be printed at the Clarendon prefs on the fame condition propofed by Lord Hyde.

The 4to edition, which is the fubject of this letter, is difgraced by many ferious errata.

The Introduction, of 55 pages, draws the character of Charles II. and his politicks, in vindication of the Chancellor from "the reports of Burnet, Oldmixon, and others of that tribe;" and to point out "the difference in the minifterial conduct of him from all others who have fucceeded to his important duties;" to compare "12001. granted as the fupply of the year with as many millions unequal to the general fervice; to compare the fale of Dunkirk with the lofs of Minorca, the burning of Chatham by the Dutch; with the inactivity of Haddock at Gibraltar, the mifcarriage of a late expedition, our admirals, instead of