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Mr. URBAN, April 3. HE following design for a public at Sandwich in Kent, for the late Mr. Bors, the learned and ingenious Historian of that antient town and port, soon after bis decease; but has since been superseded for a monument erected by his family, with the Latin Epitaph inserted in your last, p. 238, of which I subjoin a translation I was favoured with by a gentleman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,
This portrait of our favour'd Son;:
Preserve it to the last.
Inscribe in thy records his name,
Which we ordain shall live,
Who in his day deserv'd that fame
Which our decree can give.
Let it peculiar honours gain

In this distinguish'd place,
Which his historic pen describes,
And which his talents grace."
Inscription on the base or pedestal

(being now part of the epitaph :)

"To the respected memory of WILLIAM BOYS, Esq. Fellow of the Antiquarian and Linnæan 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 strictest integrity, adorned his life. He died on the 15th day of March, 1803, aged 68 years."

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 ehurch 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 since; but the others survive, and have consecrated this tablet to the memory of a beloved Father." W. B.

A length

SALE OF THE ROXBURGH LIBRARY, Tlength this extraordinary col. is doomed to come under the hammer; and before the expira tion of next month, a part of it will have been thus disposed of. The 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 be

he perceives that 'hope deferred makes every heart sick.' What bustle, joy, and vexation, will be evinced when the Catalogue issues forth! Here a lover of Romances will be starring his Lancelot du Lae; and there a treasurer of Old Poetry will be ticking off his Wynkyns and Pynsons! The Italian Cognoscenti will be madder than the maddest; and the favourite' Boccaccio will cause a sigh to heave from every breast. What a scene for the pencil of the author of the Bibliographical Romance * to delineate! Such a day, or rather sale, will not have been witnessed since the time of James West. [Some particulars in our next.] PHILEMON.

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 107. for licence to come into the Hundred of Sparkenhoe, 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 blünder 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 201. If you can devise any means of rectifying this mistake, I, and all I have talked with, hope and trust you will; as otherwise it may possibly some time or other produce mischief, besides, at all events, now operating against the credit of the work itself; to preserve which there is no one of your subscribers more anxious than,

Yours, &c.

C. L."

*See a description of the Roxburgh Sale, by anticipation, in the Bibliomania, p.119.

This notice may suffice for the present. With the General Index to the History (which is diligently preparing, and will be very extensive) shall be 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 OF 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 Stillingfleet, 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 Bristol? What Relation was Edward, 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.

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Mr. URBAN, Workson, 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 of of Dr. Johnson (see his Dictionary); and they certainly allude to Paul Gemsege, i. e. Samuel Pegge: but, as Mr. Dowland, in your last, p. 223, seems to think that "much reading and some ingenuity" ought to give way to a deficiency of both, how far his pretensions should be supported is the subject of this paper. is not my disposition osition 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.

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Mr. Gemsege, your old Correspondent, vol. XXIV. p. 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 pan very aptly expresses this, or, we otherwise might at say, turning one's coat;" but Mr. Gemsege no where asserts,

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one of the nieces and coheirs of Henry Bridges, esq. of Ember Court, and had no other wife. Manning and Bray's History of Surrey, vol.I. 54.565,586; vol. II. 543.

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Mr. URBAN, Sloane-st. Feb. 14. R. Malone, in noticing a deed executed by Shakspeare, 10th March, in 1612-13, three years before his death, which instrument is now in Mrs. Garrick's possession, makes this observation-" Much has been lately said in various publications relative to the proper mode of spelling SHAKSPEAR'S name. He spelt his name himself as I have just now written it, without the middle E. Let this, therefore, for ever decide the question."

The propriety of the omission of the middle E, your Readers will perceive, is further authorized by the passage hereafter extracted from Verstegan's Epistle to the English Nution, dated-" From Antwerpe this 7th Februarie, stilo novo, 1605," more than that eight years previous to the execution of the deed alluded to. "Breakspear, Shakspear, and the like, have been sirnames imposed upon the first bearers of them for valour and feates of Armes." W. P.

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Mr. URBAN, Northiam, April 10. VOUR Correspondent, who signs himself A Christian of the Old School, in his remarks upon my letter on Mr. Durhain's Evening Lecture at Rolvender, is wrong in supposing me an advocate either for Extempore Preaching or Evening Lectures, or any sort of innovation on the regular performance of clerical duties in the imanner he approves. If he gives that letter a second perusal, he will find that I merely commended Mr. Durham's zeal in doing what he conceived would best counteract the efforts of the Sectaries in deluding the members of the Establishment; and that I considered it as a questionable point whether such a departure from ecclesiastical order was strictly defensible, although I allowed that, as far as it was found effectual, much might be admitted in its favour; and 1 expressed that approbation of the Lecture itself (the only one I ever heard from him) that I thought it justly entitled to; but I beg to assure your Correspondent that I am as much a disciple of the old schoolas himself, and nearly

of his opinion with regard to the irregularities of some of the younger parties which may be expected to follow their attendance on these nocturnal meetings; nor do I think it by any means a duty incumbent on the labouring class of people, who have been employed through the day in their honest and industrious caliings, to attend those meetings, instead of going home to their respective families, to renovate their strength, by needful sustenance and an early hour of rest, for the toils of the ensuing day; but where they are so religiously disposed as to attend a place of worship at such hours, it is better that the church should be open to them, than that they should be compelled or induced to resort to Tabernacles and dissenting meeting-houses for religious instruction, in doctrines adverse to the principles of the religion they profess or belong to; and such is the popularity of this Lecturer, that, if he chose to assemble them at midnight, I believe he would have a full congregation. I have, most assuredly, nothing to say in vindication of those ministers whom your Correspondent mentions as systematically departing from the Liturgy in their performance of divine service, or those who read over our admirable form of public prayer with a carelessness or haste that betrays their indifference to its proper effect. This certainly is not a conduct calculated " to preserve the purity of Christian worship, or to support the venerable fabrick on which it is maintained;" nor is your Correspondent warranted by any part of the letter he alludes to, to conceive or represent me, or the Clergyman I have mentioned above, as inclined to justify or approve such practice; and if he will take the trouble to look into a former letter of mine on the observance of Good Friday, the Festival of Easter, and Ascension Day, inserted in your Magazine for June last, p. 527, he will find my sentiments more at large on Extempore Preaching, and the duties of the pastoral office, perfectly concurring with his OwD. W.B.

In turning over a neat well-written "Treatise" [see page 364], I find the following words in p. 2:

"The man who discovers a substitute

for so expensive an article (Cochineal), and the mode of using it, this substitute being the produce of our own territories, and moderate in price, who, without seeking his own exclusive advantage, unreservedly publishes his discovery, may justly claim the gratitude of the Dyers, and the approbation of his Countrymen at large."

Again in pages S and 9, I read this passage:

"The manufacture of this valuable article is certainly worthy the attention and encouragement of Government and the Nation in every point of view; first, because it is the produce of our own ter

ritories, and can afford to pay the same duty as Cochineal; secondly, because it will save the nation not less than 200,0001. per ann, in procuring cochineal from foreign countries; again, because it affords a dye equal in splendour and superior in permanency, to cochineal, at one third or one fourth of the expence: thus enabling Government to clothe our troops uniformly, officers and soldiers, with cloth of the same shade, beyond all comparison more beautiful, and more permanent, than the dye at present used for our soldiers' coats, yet equally cheap; again, because it must become a valuable article for export, and tend to enrich us as much as our manufactures of Indigo. In short it would be impossible to enumerate all the advantages to be derived from this source."

On reading these passages, one of the first emotions that arise in the mind is a desire to know who the individual is, to whom the country is indebted for so valuable a discovery. But the desire becomes infinitely greater, when, to the merit of discovery, he unites the still more transcendant merit of " foregoing his own exclusive advantage, and unreservedly publishing his discovery to the world. I know not whether I might not add, as the general feeling, because it is my own, that the very modesty which seems to cast a cover over his own name, and, perhaps, has commanded Mr. Martin to observe silence with regard to it, raises one's admiration and curiosity tenfold. Mr. Martin of course-must know, and doubtless many of those who are more immediately interested in this discovery are equally well acquainted with the author of

Mr. URBAN,

B. S.

April 5.

A VERY well painted portrait has lately come into my hands, on which is inscribed "Heywood Bickerstaffe, esq. Etat. suæ 34, 1632Qui gloriatur in Deo, glorietur; 1 Cor. i. 31." The precise cut of his beard, the starchness of his dress, and a certain look of self-sufficiency in his countenance, bespeak him to be a man of some note; probably a meniber of parliament.-My own reading does not furnish me with any knowledge of such a person; but some of your numerous readers may, probably, be able to supply me with some particulars of this gentleman's history, or refer me to some channel of information. A COLLECTOR.

HAVE lately been told there has been a remark made, that there are few men of genius of any profession or occupation whatsoever butwhat take snuff; witness our eminent professors at the bar, in the theatres,