METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for February, 1793. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 38 334 m 35 30,23 fair Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. meter. Barom. Weather 46 fair ,85 rain ,60 rain ,61 rain 36 39 16 34 41 F.1 34 41 70 fair 98 fair 51 rain 18 36 41 37 72 rain ,27 rain 34 36 ,27 cloudy 96 cloudy 33 35 ,28 fair 30,06 36 33 951 rain ,04 fair 42 33 34 42 fair 13 23 42 52 36 75 rain and hail 24 38 48 55 45 73 showery 14 fair ,48 fnow 47 48 47 39 47 46 29,93 fair W. CARY, Mathematical Inftrument-Maker, oppofite Arundel-Street, Strand. Days 74 40 48 42 38 40 clear sky, froft, rain at night 40 43 overcaft, fhowers 12 W moderate 13 S calm black sky, heavy rain at night 44 14 N moderate foggy, mild and pleasant 15 NNE calm 58 43 clear ferene day 30, 8 42 frofty, pleasant 16 N calm 26 42 frofty, dark iky, clears up, fina 33 43 dark sky, fun in the afternoon 3° 45 22 W moderate dark fky, ferene and pleasant 23 S calm dark fky, no fun 24 S calm obfcure sky, without any fun foggy, rain P. M. 25 NE calm 26 E moderate 12 44 overcaft, rain at night obfcure fky, Nittle fun about noon, rain at night 58 46 30 SW moderate rain, continued moft part of the day 58 46 31 W moderate 551 45 clear sky, several storms, and fome hail 5. The veffel containing the water, to fhew the quantity of Evaporation in the course of the month, burst with the froft of last night.-8. The low-lands under water, with yefterday's fall of rain, and quite deluged. The roads too swimming and in miferable plight. The ditches in many places quite overflow.-13. Small birds chirp, the throttle has fung a Little at different times, the woodbine foliated, primroses in bloom, but ragged and beaten by the weather.-18. Stems of flow-drops and crocuffes above ground.-The fnow-drop in bloom, in a warm sheltered bank.-24. A very red fky in the South about ten o'clock at night.-29. The horizon very red and fiery at fun-rife. Very little fun this month. The land full of water and like a fpunge. The bufinefs of BEING THE SECOND NUMBER OF VOL. LXIII. PART I. Mr. URBAN, **XX* 淡淡 T Lanrw, Jan. 30. HE news of the falanical tranfaction at Paris, on the 21st inft. having just reached these parts, I am impatient to comXXXmunicate to you the fol lowing letter, which, from the very peculiar nature of its contents, will, I truft, have an immediate infertion in your extenfively-circulated publication. Of archbishop Williams's letters I have many more in JN W§. "My honored Ladye, "THE newes this weeke are of that nature, that you must knowe them long erre this. A greate blowe was given, upon Tuesday laft, at a fcaffold before White-half gate, about 4 of the clocke, whereof the circu'ftau'ce is to followe the next weeke. For nowe we heare little of it. Other printed newes you have enclosed. "With a wifh of myne, that (if all be cleare of the fickness) you were at your owne houfe in Glotheth, for fix monthes, till this world be fettled, and a ftrickt commau'd upon your children, not to com at you, themselves, but as ftrau'gers, and in any cafe whatsoever, not to bringe, invite, or embrace any ftrau'gers or cavileeres, to your familie, unles they defire your ruyn. Mr. URBAN, SING Hackney, Feb. 25. EEING in your laft, p. 81, an extract from a difcourfe of Mr. Robert Fleming, published in the year 1701, I fend you an extract from a book, intituled, "A new Syftem of the Apocalypfe, or plain and methodical Illustrations of all the Vifions in the Revelations of St. John," written by a French minister in the year 1685, and finifhed but two days before the dragoons plundered him of all except this treatife; and London printed 1688. On Rev. XI. ver. 11, 12, 13, "I am much deceived, if it doth not fignify, that God, who is the master of all hearts, fhall change the heart of the king and of his council, and that we shall fee a revolution in France. As it is the king of France who contributed most to the glory of the Papacy, so it shall be the king of France that fail contribute most to its ruin. The tenth part of the city fhall fall (the papal kingdom). France itself will increase both its ftrength and glory by that falling off and Archbishop Williams did not long furvive the unfortunate Monarch. He died March 25, 1650, aged 68, at Gloddaeth, the feat of Sir Roger Moltyn, an eminent loyalist; whofe lady warned him of the approach of death, the ftroke of which he received with exemplary piety, courage, and refignation. See Mr. Pennant's Tour through Wales, and Ambrofe Philips's Life of the Archbishop. To this lacy is the letter addreifed. She was the eldest daughter of Sir John Wynne, of Gloydir (not Gwedir); particulars of whom, and of his family, have been republifhed by the hon. Daines Barrington, in his Mifcel lanies, under the title of "The Hiftory of Gwedir Family." + Melyn is the family feat of the Meftyns in Flintshire. agriculture delayed, the ground neither capable of bearing the cart, or in condition for the plough. Fall of rain 3 inches 5-10ths. Evaporation fince the 5th when the veffel was broke, 1 inch. Walton, near Liverpool. J. HOLT. withdrawing withdrawing; fb that, upon the whole, I do not doubt but that it is the converfion of that beautiful kingdom which is premifed in this place. The first event is the death of feven thousand names of men, which is a figure where seven thousand names of men are put for feven thousand men of name, that is, quality, reputation, and dignity: thefe men of name are, doubtlefs, either the Doctors, who make a great deal of noife in France, in the Sorbonne, in the fociety of the Oratory, of the Jefuites, and amongst the clergy, or elfe perfons of quality who are diftinguished from others by their birth, and by their honour; the number of feven thoufand denotes an indefi. nite number, but very confiderable. The meaning is, that they fhall no more dare to write or to speak in favour of Popery against the Reformation, that their facieties fhall be put down, and that they shall banish themselves out of the realm, upon their not finding it their intereft to continue, all which will be a death unto them; that is, there shall be no more of that kind of Doctors who are diftinguished by the focieties and fraternities, no more monks, no more jefuites and, it may be, no more archbishops, no more abbots, and no more cardinals, in this kingdom." treatife on the Microscope, wherein he will learn, that Monf. Auxant has difcovered the blaifh flame alluded to, to proceed from three forts of animalcula; and for further particulars reference is made to Phil. Tranf. No 12. Pennant is filent on the fubject. The natural history of the filver book worm may be found in the fame treatife, as it inay alfo in Hook's work. There are a number of other very ftriking paffages; but the above were fo very remarkable, I could not but particularly notice them; if you think proper to publish them in your Magazine, they are at your fervice for the purpose, and, fhould any perfons be desirous to fee the book (which may be, perhaps, very difficult to be met with), he thall be welcome to do it. Yours, &c. RICHARD DANN. TATLER, No. 87. "There is nothing which I contemplate with greater pleasure than the dignity of human nature. I confider the foul of man as the ruin of a glorious pile of building, where, amidst heaps of rubbish, you meet with noble fragments. Virtue and Wisdom are continually employed in clearing the ruins, removing thefe, liforderly heaps, recovering the noble pieces that lie buried under them, and adjufting them, as well as poffible, according to their ancient fymmetry and beauty. A happy education, converfation with the finest ipirits, looking abroad into the works of Nature, and obfervations upon mankind, are the great affiftances to this neceffary and glorious work. Feb. IN your fixtyet of Exmouth enquires fixty-first volume, p. 1120. concerning certain fhining objects attached to oyfter-thells, which he has been told are worms. As this enquiry has hitherto remained unanfwered, allow me to refer Mr. Maret to Baker's Dendrophiles (vol. LXII. p. 1080.) should have acknowledged, that he has taken the obfervations on trees, and the idea of fetting rows of them in the edges of canals, from White's 29th Letter on the Natural Hiftory of Selborne, part of which letter has been extracted in one of your Magazines for the year 1789. Mr. White exprefsly fays, "Thefe facts may furnish the intelligent with hints concerning what fort of trees they fhould plant round fmall ponds, that they would with to be perennial." Some of the arguments urged in favour of the propofed avenues are good; but, as the expence of fetting and protecting the trees would confiderably increase the charges incident to making the canals, I would advise the undertakers to first fee how the projected navigations anfier, before they incur extra pences. ex It is alfo to be confidered, that in wet fummers the drippings of the trees would probably be found very troublefome to the men and horses, and poffibly injurious to the commodities conveyed. It would be very interesting to agriculturifts and naturalifts, to know what fuccefs Lord Saltoun found in the cultivation of the Carolina Grafs, for one bufhel of the feed of which his lordfhip gave Mr. Frafer fixty-feven pounds, four thillings. Does your valuable correfpondent, Mr. Gough, p. 1198, mean by the Fi caria verna the Pilewort or the Kernelwort? Does he mean the male or female Mercurialis perennis? And what plant does he understand to be the Stellaria nemorum? I obferve, that at the head of the wild plants Mr. Gough places the Galanthus nivalis, whence I infer, that the inhabitants of Weftmorland are to fortunate, as to have that digenous product of our own country. immaculate herald of the fpring the in If fo, Mr. Hudfon, Dr. Stokes, and Dr. Sowerby, ftand juftified in placing it in the lift of Britib plants. As fome of your readers fay with "The Village Curate," "Ye Mr. URBAN, Feb. 15. N the beginning of September last, a paragraph appeared in feveral news. papers, mentioning, that a hawk had been found at the Cape of Good Hope, and brought from thence by one of the India hips, having on its neck a gold collar, on which was engraven the following words: "This goodlie hawk doth belong to his Moft Excellent Majestie, James Kinge of England. A. D. 1610." On feeing this account, an anecdote immediately occurred to me, which I had lately met with in a curious old manufcript, containing fome remarks and obfervations on the migration of birds, and their flying to far diftant regions; and which, if you think it may throw any light on a fubje&, now much attended to by naturalifts, or con firm the opinion of fome, refpecting the longevity of birds of prey, it is much at your fervice. The words from my author are as follows: "And here I call to mind a ftory of our Anthony Weldon, in his "Court and Character of King James;" "The King," faith he, being at Newmarket, delighted much to fly his gohawk at herons; and the manner of the conflict was this; the heron would mount, and the gofhawk would get much above it; then, when the hawk ftooped at the game, the heron would turn up its belly, to receive him with his claws and tharp bill; which the hawk perceiving, would dodge and pafs by, rather than endanger itself. This paftime being over, both the hawk and heron would mount again, to the utmost of their power, till the hawk would be at another attempt; and, after divers fuch affaults. ufually, by fome lucky hit or other, the hawk would bring her down; but, one day, a moft excellent hawk being at the game, in the king's prefence, mounted fo high with his game, that both hawk and heron got out of fight, and were never feen more; enquiry was made, not only all over England, but in all the foreign princes courts of Europe, the hawk having the king's jeffes, and marks fufficient, whereby it might be known; but all their enquiries proved ineffectual." Hoping, Mr. Urban, that the above communication may prove acceptable to fome of your readers, either as a matter of amufement, or occafioning fome far ther enquiry to be made after the hawk lately brought over from the Cape, I remain, Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, T. S. Feb. 5.. SOME time ago I took the liberty of troubling you with an enquiry relative to a decition, faid to have taken place, by which the founders kin are deprived of the fellowships of Ail Souls College, Oxford, directed by the founder to be given to them in preference to all others. My question is not of mere curiofity; I am really interefled in it, and fhall take it as a favour if fome gentleman, who is able, will state what has actually paffed, and if there has been fuch a decree, if he will, through your, very valuable publication, inform the public of the particulars. Yours, &c. MR. URBAN, A. B. Jan. 28. VARIETY of circumstances in A duce me to belive, with your correfpondent W. T. (p. 1105), that the yew tree is indigenous to Great Britain, from having, a few years fince, frequent opportunities of viewing it flourishing amidst the inacceffible northern impending cliffs. Underbarrow Sear, Dear Kendal and Hudfwell, and the oppofite Sears near Richmond, Yorkshire, abound with it; and in many of the rocky mountains above Ullfwater (one of which is called Yew Crag) and Winandermere, where the winged inhabitants alone are vifitors; the yews and hollies enliven the scene, and form a pleasing contrast of ever-greens, to the gloomy brownnefs of furrounding rocks. Few in fuch lofty fituations arrive at that remarkable fize which we frequently fee them in churchyards; they have the rugged blafts of Winter to contend with, which (amongst thofe mountains, being hurled in continual eddies) frequently loofen the roots, and even tear up both rocks and trees: shofe fituated in the acceffible parts of the mountains are generally cut down and brought to market for chairs and steps of ladders, for which use their durability renders them valuable. But the inhabi tant of the church-yard (which adorns, even now, many of the confecrated grounds in different parts of the kingdom, particularly Kent, Weftmoreland, and Cumberland) alone is defpoiled by Time; a reverential awe prevents the mutilation of a branch, and its expanding arms generally overshadow a feat, def tined for the cottage-Sunday-afternoon politicians. The numerous inftances of the yew-tree growing amongst the rocks are, I think, ftrong indications of its being there, in its natural fituation; and the reasons above given why thofe in a church-yard are larger than thofe on the mountains, appear to me moft cogent; but my remarks I fubmit to the confideration of fome other of your correfpondents who may be better acquainted with the nature of the yew-tree than Yours, &c. T. C. Mr. URBAN, Feb. 10. A FIGURE of the geranium lucidum having appeared in the 25th Number of English Botany, I was surprised to find the fhape of the leaf to differ, both from the fpecific character of Linnæus, and from a fpecimen of the plant obtained from Mr. Curtis's Botanic-garden. Linnæus defcribes the leaf, " quinquelobis, "rotundatis," which is juftly tranflated by Dr. Withering, "leaves five-lobed," rounded, not leaves rounded and fivelobed, as in the above work, in which the specific character is altered, to correfpond with the figure. Rethan, in his Flora Cant. defcribes the leaves as being kidney-fhaped. Mr. Woodward in the Bot. Arr.leaves kidney-fhaped, with moftly five lobes, lobes with generally three lobes, the middle one with ufually three fcollops, the fide ones entire." In Mr. Curtis's plant, the leaves are truly kidney-fhaped, and the lobes rounded. The above figure, therefore, must not be confidered as the general appearance of the plant, but a variety, occafioned by a change of foil or fituation, or both; and tending to mislead the ftudent, who paturally places a great degree of confidence, where the authority is fo very reSpectable. The figure of the campanula trachelium, in N° 4, does not accord with the fpecific character of Linnæus, " calyci bus ciliatis, pedunculis trifidis," as the calyx is not ciliated, nor the peduncles three cleft. Yours, &c. R. G. Mr. URBAN, Feb. 12. AM forty to fee in your Magazine, vol. LXII. p. 987, at opportunity taken of renewing a fubject, which must give pain to every moderate man ; and of cenfuring the conduct of the magiftiates and clergy upon the unhappy occafion alluded to. L. L. must be very little acquainted with human nature not to know, that the language of conciliation was much more likely to appeafe an irritated multitude, and put a flop to the enormities they were committing, than that of invective; and muft have a difpofition of mind, for which he is not to be envied, not to believe, that fuch was the fincere wish of the objects of his illiberal cenfure. It was not on a religious account, as he afferts, that the riots at Birmingham took place; nor is it probable, that even the well-known political principles of fome of the Diffenters would have occafioned them, had there not appeared frong indications of an attempt to put them in practice, and had not the opportunity of celebrating the French Revolution been cholen for the purpose. A few days previous to the anniverfary of it, a moft feditious hand-bill was put in circulation, the author of which, a Diffenting Minifter, foon after fled to France; and on a door of one of the principal churches was written, "This fhop to be lett on the 14th of July.”This may appear a trifing circumitance; but it tends to fhew the difpofition of the party. Dr. Priefley, in his letters to Mr. Burke, fpeaks exultingly of his expectation of the near approach of what he calls, the great crifis of the affairs of bis country, by which he avowedly means the total fubverfion of the conflitution, and the established religion of it; and fays, that, dreadful as it appears in profpect, and though calamitous to many, perhaps to many innocent perfons, it will be a confummation devoutly to be wished for; and that fpeculations of this kind contribute to exhilarate bis mind, though they might difburb and diftrefs that of Mr. Burke. His fon (L. L. acquaints us) croffes the feas, and folicits the rights of citizenship among a free and brave people. He has been rather unfortunate in his choice of epithets, fince thofe he has |