iv INDEX INDICATORIUS. marked the pains taken by the conductors of the Gentleman's Magazine, from its Mr. Chamberlayne, Secretary to the Medical Society, requefts us to rectify a Meteorol. Diaries for Feb. 1786, and Jan. 1787. Preface to a Volume of Poems by Mrs. Piozzi Character of the late Rev. Mr. Unwin Propofal to prevent Difputes in Parith Bounds Account of the Woodyades of Siberia Original Love-letter of the laft Century Lord Howard of Walden's Admiffion by Proxy On the Conftitution of Incorporated Boroughs Original Account of the Siege of Dunkirk Sarum Miffals, unnoticed in Brit. Topography The Pine defcribed, from the Roman Pocts The Fir and the Cyprefs defcribed Bihop Secker on bowing at the Name of Jefus Original Publication of Minihew's Dictionary 17 Six's new Thermometer-Reduction of Intereft 18 Inftruction for the Choice of Pr. Arthur's Wife 19 The MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT, No. 1. 22 Impropriety of neglecting the Clerical Drefs 23 Strictures on Dr. Gillies-Shakespear's Name 24 The P inciples of Roman-catholics ftated 25 Vin sication of Hayley's "Effay on Old Maids" 26 Arguments againit Torture-Perpnius illuftr. 32 Memoirs of Mr. Jofeph Cooper Walker 34 Illuftrat with an accurate Engraving of an OBELISK lately erafted at Moreton in Dortechire, in Honour of JAMES FRAMPTON, Efq. and a Delineation of a 8 Statue for Mr. Howard ftrongly enforced 15 Incoufiftencies of fome modern Antiquaries 50 19 Revivifcei ce in the Grave queftioned Dr. Priefiey's great Abilities as a Tranflator 54 Critique on a very famous Paffage in Virgil 55 Foreign Affairs-American, Irish, Scotch, Por, Lifts of Births, Marriages, Deaths, &c: 89-94 LONDON, Printed by J. NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of SAINT JOHN'S GATS, Chaffinch (fringilla celebs) fings.-2 Daphne mezereon in bloom.-3 Yellow crocus in bloom. 4 Hedge-fparrow (motacilla modularis) fings.-5 Wood-laurel (daphne laureola) in bloom.-6 Thruth (turdus muficus) fings.-7 Violets begin to blow. Very little fhow for bloom on the elms, probably owing to the profufion with which they were covered laft year. Sky-lark (alanda arvenfis) fings.-9 Bees come abroad and play about. Fine mild weather "that chears the hearts of men and bees."- Spring fown peas begin to appear.-Yellow-hammer (emberiza Hlava) fings.-12 Confectioners laying in thick Preface to a Collection of Poems, written by Mrs. Piozzi, Bertie Greathead, Robert Merry, and William Parfons, only the bafenefs of fubmiffion to poverty of fentiment, and take from infipidity the praise of being inoffen five. We do not, however, by this little addrefs mean to deprecate pub- lic criticism, or folicit regard; why we wrote the verfes may be easily ex- plained: we wrote them to divert our felves, and to fay kind things of each other; we collected them that our re- ciprocal expreffions of kindnefs might not be loft; and we printed them be- caufe we had no reafon to be afhamed of our mutual partiality. Portrait painting, though unadorned by allego- rical allufions, and unfupported by recol- lection of events and places, will be efteemed for ever as one of the moft durable methods to keep tenderness alive, and preferve friendship from de- cay: nor do I obferve that the room here, where artists of many ages have contributed their own likenelles to the royal gallery, is lefs frequented than that which contains the ftatue of a flave and the picture of a fibyl. Our little book can fcarcely be lefs important to readers of a diftant age, or nation, than fparkle in the glafs, and exhilarate the fpirits of thofe who drink them on the fpot, grow vapid and tastelefs by car- riage and keeping; and though we have, perhaps, tranfgreffed the Perfian rule of fitting fileat till we could find fomething important or inftructive to fay, we fhall at least be allowed to have glistened inno- cently in Italian funfhine, and to have imbibed from its rays the warmth of mutual benevolence, though we may have miffed the hardness and polish that fome coarfer metal might have obtained by heat of equal force. I will not, how- ever, lengthen out my preface; if the book is but a feather, tying a ftone to it can be no good policy, though it were a precious one; the lighter body would not make the heavy one fiim; but the heavy body would inevitably make the The poems contained in the volume, to which the above is the preface, were printed at Florence in 1785, under the title of "The Florence Mifcellany," Svo. in 237 pages, but were not pub- lifhed. A fpecimen of the poetry hall be given in next month's magazine. otes and Character of the late Mr. Unwin. mented. We must blame ourselves however for not furaifhing you with more interefing and accurate materials. If this omiffion fhould not be better remedied, you will be fo good to fupply the imperfections and correct the errors of your former account, by inferting in your next Magazine the following particulars: Mr. Unwin was not the fon, but the nephew of John Unwin, Elq. of Croydon. His father was a refpe&table clergyman, and, if I mistake not, mafter of a fchool in Bucks, where his widow still refides. He was educated at the Charter-houfe, and from thence removed to Chrift's College, Cambridge, where he formed an intimacy, which subsisted till his death, with the prefent amiable prelate of Clonfert, and the admired author of "The Principles of moral and political Philofophy."-He diftinguifned himfelf in the univerfity by the unaffected piety of his manners, and the claffical elegance of his converfation. His attachment to polite literature was rewarded with the chancellor's gold medal. On his admiffion to holy orders, about the year 1769, he ferved a church in the neighbourhood of Cambridge. He began his miniftry with that wifdom and fidelity, that affectionate zeal, and that exemplary purity which marked the whole of his public life. He was not only popular but ufeful in his parith, where his memory is ftill very highly efteemed. The next year he was prefented by his uncle to the confolidated rectories of Stock, cum Ramfden-Breehoufe, Effex, which prevented his admiffion to a fellowship of his college.This living, with the adjoining parifh of Ramfden-Crays, to which he was inflituted in 1780, on the prefentation of Bond Hopkins, Efq. was the only preferment he enjoyed. In his character of a parish minifter he was well known to the writer of this article, who though happy in an acquaintance with many of the most refpe&table clergy in the eftablifhment, deliberately declares that he never found Mr. Unwin's equal, both in exertion and fuccefs. The village of Stock, where Mr. Unwin conftantly reGided, he found in a state of the most notorious depravity. It was profligate to a proverb. His weekly religious meetings at his own houfe; hs fervent exhortations to his people from the pulpit; his familiar catechetical lectures to their children; his affectionate vifits to their famiPios; his vigilant attention to their sempo ral interefts; his liberal fupply of their wants, of which he kindly impelled the inflexible oppofition to the oppreffion of approach or prevented the preffure; his the powerful, and his exertions to curb the libertinifm of the poor; the fweetnefs of his addrefs, and, above all, the fhining example of his life both in the world and in his family; formed altogether fo ftrong an argument for virtue and religion, as only a very few of the most abandoned of his people could refift. Accordingly, the parish of Stock is now neighbourhood; the congregations in an example of public decency to the few country villages are fo numerous, and in none that I have ever heard of fo orderly and devout. Where there is a general external reformation, there muft be fome genuine piety. The benevolence of this good man was too ardent to be confined to his parishes. It was his regular practice to vifit the county gaol, for the double purpofe of awakening, if poffible, its wretched inhabitants outward wants. to a fenfe of religion, and alleviating their For feveral years he had laboured with all his intereft to obtain an allowance of fire for the prifoners; and the winter before his death he had ' the fatisfaction of finding that his folicitations were at length effectual. As a preacher, Mr. Unwin was plain and energetic. The fublime truths of the gofpel had very deeply impreffed his heart, and he recommended them to others with the fimplicity and confidence which fuch an impreffion may be fuppofed to produce. He did not always read his fermons; nor was he fo idle as never to write them. But his good fenfe and reverence for the word of God algle expreffion inconfiftent with the digways prevented him from uttering a finnity of religion -The complexion of his mind was chearful; and he was formed to adorn and improve a large circle of acquaintance, which he felected with uncommon prudence. Few men have united fo much piety, and fo much politenels. The delicacy with which he administered reproof was inimitable. It not only produced the effect intended, but was in feveral inftances the occafion of agreeable friendships. His acquaintance, which he highly valued, with one of the most benevolent friends of mankind, who left this world but a few weeks before him, originated from his noticing, with the manly fortitude of a chriftian minifter, and the elegant addrefs of good breeding, an unintentional irreverent |