our late learned Correfpondent of Chef terfield. To our Mifcellany the Major was a frequent contributor both by his pen and his pencil. To the ftudent in Natural History he communicated a Meteorological Diary for years fucceffively, from 1794 to 1805. To the Society of Antiquaries, Account of the remains of two Roman villæ difcovered near Manffield-Woodhoufe, in May and October. 1786, Archæologia, VIII. 363, with five plates. Obfervations on the Roman roads and camps in the neighbourhood of Manffield-Woodhoufe; with an introductory letter on Roman camps, IX. 193. Roman remains in Sherwood foreft, X, 378. (These laft were incorporated in Harrod's Antiquities of Mansfield-Woodhouse and its Environs, Mansfield, 1801.) Description and fketches of fome remarkable oaks in Welbeck park, 1740, 4to, with ten plates, drawn by the Major, and engraved by Mr. Ellis. Sketch of the antient and prefent ftate of Sherwood foreft, Nottingham, 1799, 8vo, with four plates. Defcription of an antient medallion in his poffeffion, found near Newftead abbey, ibid. 1800. Description of fome remains in Harborough, co. Derby, Archæologia, IX. 206. Of certain pits in that county, X. 14. Antiquities difcovered there, XI. i. Roman antiquities at Bradbourne, ib. 8. Account of Druidical remains, ib. 41. Difcoveries in a barrow, ib. 327. Druidical remains on Stanton and Hurtle moor, in the Peak, I. 110. Farther illuftrations of Druidical remains, VI. 175. Two views of the crofs and Roman altar at Bakewell, after his diaries, in the Antiquarian Repertory, I. No 37. He accompanied Dr. Pegge's" Narrative of what paffed at the Revolution-house" with a plan and clevation of the house, 1788; and his hiftory of Bolfover caftle with views, 1785; and the bas-relief of the Nativity, in the church, in our vol. LVI. p. 299. 19. On his way to Bath, for the recovery of his health, fincerely lamented, at the Rev. Dr. Drake's, at Amersham, co. Bucks, the Rev. John Eaton, LL. D. rector of St. Paul's, Deptford, Kent, and of Fairfted, Effex, and formerly of New college, Oxford; where he proceeded B. C. L. 1777, D. C. L. 1786. 20. Mr. Samuel Hazard, bookfeller and printer, Cheap-ftreet, Bath; whofe memory will be long and defervedly held dear by all who knew him. 22. Mifs Anne Lindsay, fecond daughter of James L. efq. of Merton, Surrey. 24. At Blackheath, Kent, Peter Wright, efq. of Lamb's Conduit-ftreet, master of the Report-office in the Court of Chancery. 25. Rev. Wm. Cole, D. D. one of the oldeft prebendaries of Westminster. *PROMOTIONS,&c.unavoidably deferred. BILL OF MORTALITY, from Auguft 26, to September 23, 1806. 2 and 5 113 5 and 10 53 10 and 20 51 20 and 30 85 30 and 40 131 40 and 50 136 PRICES OF FLOUR, September 22: 50 and 60 113 60 and 70 87 70 and 80 61 80 and go 20 90 and 100 4 100 O 105 Fine 73s. to 75s.-Seconds 60s. to 65s.-Pollard 24s. to 26s.-Bran 85. to 10s. od. Kent Bags... Suffex Ditto.. Effex Ditto............. 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But, however this may be, of one CONSTANT reader thing I am certain, that the Bishop's of your very useful forbearance in this inftance is not ow and impartial Miling, as the Reviewer infinuates, to incellany defires you to difference for the Protefiant cause, be give a place in it to caufe there are the moft unequivocal a few lines in defence proofs of his zeal for it. of a refpectable Prelate, and the refpectable body to which he belongs, against a charge that ap pears to me to have no juft ground to fupport it. Happening to take up, the other day, the Anti-Jacobin Review for Augult laft, I turned to the account given in it of Sir William Forbes's excellent Life of Dr. Beattie, with which I was much pleased; and in page 364 the Re viewer, after citing a paffage from it, which contains a high encomium on the Bishop of London, fubjoins the following note: "We cannot but exprefs our furprife here, that a Prelate fo firmly attached to the Established Church, and fo feelingly alive to every danger which threatens it, fhould view with apparent indifference the establishment of an extenfive Nunnery in his Diocefe, at which English young ladies take the veil. But, after the paffive conduct of all our Prelates but one, and the activity of that one on a recent cafe, in the Houfe of Lords, we ought not to be furprised at any thing. It is high time, however, for the Proteftants of this country to look about them." Now, Sir, fuppofing the fact to be as it is here flated, might it not have occurred, to a candid and confiderate mind, that the Bishop of London might never have heard of this Nunnery, or at leaft might never have been informed that any English ladies had taken the veil in it; or, amidit the infinite multiplicity of his occupations in this laborious and populous diocele, might not yet have had leifure to turn his attention to this particular object, or to afcertain the proper mode of remedying the evil, if it really exified; which, perhaps, may be no very eafy matter, as I do not recollect any exprefs flatute against When his Lordship was Bifhop of Chefter, he was in the very centre of the great body of the Roman Catholics, of whom more than one third is to be found in that extenfive diocefe. And a great alarm having arifen in the year 1780 on the fupppfed rapid increafe of Popery, I happened to know (being myself then refident in the diocefe of Chefter), that he was indefatigable in his exertions to afcertain whether there was any fuch increafe, and to recommend the proper meafures for preventing it in future. With that view, in the year 1781, he published a Circular Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chefter, containing precautions refpecting the Roman Catholics; and he allo drew up and printed an abridgement of Archbishop Secker's excellent Sermons against the Errors of the Church of Rome. Both these tracts are in the Catalogue of the Society for promoting Chriftian Knowledge; and if the Reviewer will have the goodness to caft his over them, he will, I think be eye convinced that indifference to the progrefs of Popery is one of the most unfortunate charges that he could have poffibly brought against the Bishop of London. After this follows a ftrong accufa tion against almost the whole Bench of Bishops; namely, "that in a recent cafe in the House of Lords (meaning, I prefume, the appeal to that Houfe refpecting the guardianship of a child of high rank) they were all, except one, fo paffive in their conduct on that occafion, as to make it high time · for the Proteftants of this country to look about them." |