เท Globe THE AVERAGE PRICES of NAVIGABLE CANAL SHARES and other PROPERTY, in March 1819 (to the 25th), at the Office of Mr. ScoTT, 28, New Bridge-street, London. -Oxford, 640l. reserving Div. -Grand Junction, 2571. — Monmouthshire, 149/. 19s. Ellesmere, 687-Dudley, 551,-Brecon and Abergavenny, 454-Thames and Severn New Shares, 35l. 10s. - Original Ditto, 177. 10s. - Kennet and Avon, 231.-Huddersfield, 137. Wilts and Berks, 134. 13s. Gloucester and Berkley, 481. — West India Assurance, 127%. ex Div. 31. ditto.-Imperial, 901-Albion, 451.—Rock, 21. 4s. premium.-County, 20%. premium. ex Div. 51. per Cent. Eagle, 21. 5s.-Hope, 41. 4s. Original Gas Light, 687, ex Div. 21. Half-year. London Institution, 461. 4s.— Dock, 1801. ex Div. 51. Half-year. London Dock, 781. ex Div. 17. 10s. ditto. East London Water Works, 874.- Covent Garden Theatre, 500l. Share, 4651. Days shut 262 173 472 382 31 924 17104 34 1944 Bank EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN MARCH, 1819. 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AN ANTIQUARY will find an Engraving of his Medal in Rapin or Perry. A. C. R. informs us, that the Queen's Establishment, noticed in page 93 of the present volume, was removed on the death of Mrs. Pawsey, from Silsoe to Ampthill, where it still remains, under the care of Miss Pawsey, daughter of the above-mentioned lady. BIOGRAPHICUS, in adverting to the fourth volume of the Biographical Peerage, where the royal titles of Earl of Tipperary, and Baron Arklow, are stated to be Irish Peerages, says there is evidently an error; as" the creations of these honours took place in 1801, after the Union, and are consequently peerages of the united kingdom. His Majesty cannot confer an Irish peerage under the articles of Union, unless on the extinction of three peerages. The Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex are the only ones of the royal family who do not enjoy Irish peerages, though they have titles derived from places in Ireland, as Earl of Tipperary, and Baron Arklow. The intelligent author, Sir E. Brydges, is also mistaken in supposing the Irish barony of Maynard to be enjoyed by Viscount Maynard. The barony of Maynard of Wicklow, in Ireland, granted in 1620, became extinct in 1775; as also the English barony of Maynard of Estaines, in Essex, granted 1627, in the person of Charles, sixth Baron Maynard, and first Viscount. The English honours of Viscount and Baron Maynard of Much Easton, granted in 1766, with a collateral remainder, devolved to Sir Charles Maynard, bart. now Visc. Maynard, descended from a younger brother of the first Baron Maynard of Estaines and Wicklow." A Correspondent suggests, that housekeepers in the metropolis should this season adopt the custom of having Fish once or twice a week in their families, as long as the price continues moderate, for the sake of promoting the British Fisheries. This arrangement would give employment to thousands of British seamen; and its good effects would be sensibly felt, by reducing the price of every other article of human subsistence. F. D. in addition to the inquiries respecting the Alexander family, inserted in our Number for February last, p. 98, would be thankful for any particulars, through the medium of our Miscellany, of the descent of the Rev. John Alexander, Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Plunket-street, Dublin, from 1730 till his death, Nov. 1, 1743. Mr. Alexander was a native of Londonderry, and nearest male heir to the earldom of Stirling, on the demise of Henry, fifth earl, in 1739. He was the author of an excellent work on Irenæus, and one of those men whose society was courted by the celebrated Dean Swift. B. C. D. would be much obliged by being informed what issue Henry Baron Compton, who was born in the year 1579, left by his second wife, and who that second wife was: also, who were the descendants of the issue by that marriage. It is stated in an incorrect pedigree, that the above Baron Henry married for this second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir John Spencer (which Anne afterwards married Will. Stanley Lord Monteagle), and left issue by her Sir Henry Compton. The same pedigree further states, that this Sir Henry Compton married Cecilia daughter of Robert Sackville, Earl of Dorset, by whom he had issue, 1. William; 2. Colonel Henry Compton; 3. George; 4. Cecily, 1st married to Sir John Farmer, 2ndly to Lord Arundell of Wardour; 5. Mary wife of John Lumley, and mother of Richard first Earl of Scarborough; 6. Mary wife of Colonel Thomas Sackville. A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN, who exerted himself among his Parishioners, and in. duced several of them to contribute to the Subscription set ou foot for the alleged purpose of erecting a Cenotaph to the memory of the late Princess Charlotte of Wales, wishes for some information ou the subject, that he may be enabled to answer the question of "What is become of our Subscriptions, and when is the projected Cenotaph to appear?" E. P. wishes to learn what was the origin and object of the Royal Military Club, established at Jamaica 1788? and whether it exists at present? He also inquires where any account can be seen of the origin, objects, and proceedings of the SQciety of Industry, founded Nov. 1785. A Correspondent quotes the following passage from Blackstone, vol. II. Comment. 54. "In one of our juvenile pastimes (the King I am, or Basalinda of Julius Pollux) the ceremonies and language of feodal homage are preserved with great exactness." He then inquires whether there is any modern account of this game, and if it now exists? THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For APRIL, 1819. MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE. HAVING teren, I perceive a AVING lately read Boswell's Life Letter in the 4th volume from Dr. Johnson to the late Reverend Thomas Wilson, B. D. Master of Clitheroe school, Lancashire, to thank him for the honour he had done him in dedicating his Archæological Dictionary to him, wherein the name of Johnson's "excellent friend (as he calls him) Dr. Patten” is introduced, at whose solicitation it was, that Dr. Johnson permitted Mr.Wilson to prefix to his Work the name of so distinguished a character. Now, Sir, having Dr. Patten's original Letter to Dr. Johnson, as well as Dr. Johnson's Answer, in their own hand-writing, in my possession, I beg leave to send you copies thereof, conceiving them well worth preserving in your valuable Miscellany as literary curiosities; and if you are of the same opinion, by inserting them you will oblige, Sir, your very humble servant, COGNATUS. Dr. PATTEN's Letter to Dr. JoAN. SON, Sept. 4, 1781. "A friend of mine has imposed a very hard task upon me. I must write on his behalf to Dr. Johnson. Nothing would more highly gratify my taste and my pride than a correspondence with my dear and honoured friend Johnson; but could I conceive myself worthy of so rare a gratification, I should tremble at the price to be paid for it, conscious that my finances would fall far short of paying it. "Thanks, therefore, to your communicative disposition which enables me to enjoy the strong and pleasing productions of your pen without exposing the weak ones of mine before the Master of the Sentences. But in the present case the industrious and deserving Wilson will hear of no denial. "He is master of the school at Clitheroe in Lancashire, and though his classical ideas have not received the polish of an University education, his efforts in composition are far above what might be expected from one of the mere élevés of a school in Cumberland. He seems to have a good taste, which lacks refining; and his labours, as far as he knows how to direct them to that end, are very assidu ously laid out for the attainment of it. "With great industry he has been preparing for the press, what he entitles An Archæological Dictionary, or Antiquities alphabetically digested, in order to illustrate the Classics, both sacred and profane: containing a suc cinct Account of the Manners, Customs, Rites, Ceremonies, Religion, Civil Institutions, &c. of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans.' "This specimen of his judgment and labours, he is desirous to submit to the eye of the publick; but he is more than desirous-he is ambitious, to send it into the world under your patronage, and, with your permission, to dedicate it to you, if you shall judge it worthy of so splendid an introduction to the public notice. "I know not whether he is not too presumptuous when to this end he desires me to request the favour of you to cast your eye over a few articles of his work, from which you will easily form a judgment of its degree of merit, and of its pretensions to the honour to which it aspires. "He has transmitted his Papers to a friend in London, who, if you are not averse to it, will be directed to leave them or any part of them with you, for what time you shall mention. "Whether you are disposed or not to undertake this petty province, you will be so kind to signify by a line to me. And in case you should undertake it, I believe, I must be so unconscionable as to request another line imparting your opinion of the Work, so far as to apprize me whether you think it worthy of having your name prefixed to it in the publication. "As I suspect, judging by my own feelings, that this business will be rather irksome to you, I received my friend's request with many a discouraging hem and haw, cur excusatus abirem; but it is difficult to discourage those who have a favourite point in view, or to dispose them to consider how troublesome an office they are engaging their friends, and frequently their friends' friends, in a tedious series, for obtaining it. Nor would I have yielded to this eager candidate's importunity, but that I am well acquainted with your generous disposition to encourage literary efforts, unless they appear to proceed from some awkward wight whom none of the Muses favours. "I need not tell you, my dear friend, that I have read, and I will not say how I have been entertained in reading, the Lives of the English Poets.' I only say that I could have wished to all of them Nestoris annos, if those years would have protracted the stories of their lives in due proportion. ་་ To my favourite Pope, I think the biographer has been highly beneficent. His genius seems to me to have been not so much that of a Пoning, an inventor, a bodier forth of fine forms, as of one who studied to dress Nature to advantage. The harmony of his numbers, and his cu rious felicity in the choice of words and expressions, frequently recom mend lines which, if not so gaudily tricked out, would not be admired for the thought they contain, or the image they exhibit. One of his great talents was to improve upon matter laid upon him, a talent far below original invention. There is not a sentiment in his Heloisa that is not to be found in her original Letters; and the Poet was singularly happy in having no other task before him in his Homer, than to give a noble glow of expression to the copious magazine of the finest thoughts and images that ever imagination bodied forth. "Many of the happy expressions that give pleasure to his Reader are catched up from other Authors in the course of his studies; in his lucky application of which I will allow there is such a merit as belongs to a sound judgment and a lively retentive memory. But this merit has its bounds, and does not claim the honour of the first coinage. I have lately met with a poetical bird, to which he owes a fantastic feather which has done him much credit, and which, I believe, universally passes for one of his own growth. I casually took up a book of Poems, by a lady *, printed in 1713, and which I suppose has enjoyed a placid slumber ever since, when in a poem on the Spleen, I threw my eye upon these lines, Now the Jonquille o'erwhelms the feeble brain, We faint beneath the aromatic pain.' -one of many instances how watchful was this industrious bee (if I may vary his metamorphosis) to gather perfumes as well as honey from every flower that fell in his way. "In passing through Stratford lately in my journey from Warrington, 1 did not fail to pay my tribute of gratitude and reverence to the tomb of our first original Poet, as well as to his statue and picture, the offerings of Garrick at the Town-hall. "The painter has given as fine a phrenzy to the poet's eye as his pencil could describe; but he was not to copy the picture Shakespeare had set before him. I see a much more vivid eye in the Midsummer Night's Dream than on the canvas of the ar tist. One loves to take notice of every thing that puts one in mind of that wonderful man; and I was accordingly struck with the name of Burbidge among those of some erecting and beautifying churchwardens who have immortalized themselves in golden letters on the front of one of the Church galleries. We need not doubt that this man was a descendant of the famous actor whom Shakespeare probably spirited away from Stratford to go with him in quest of theatrical adventures. "Burbidge, you know, used to play Richard the Third; and from what I once met with in a poetical itinerary of that merry old versifier, Corbet, Bishop of Norwich, it should seem that he was thought to excel in that character. Lady: The title page of her volume of "Miscellany Poems on several Occasions. Written by a Lady. London: Printed for J. B. and sold by Benj. Tooke, at the Middle Temple Gate (and others) 1713." "The |