EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN APRIL, 1811. Printed by NICHOLS and SON, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London. ZRANSCOMB and CO. Stock-Brokers, 11, Holborn, 37, Cornhill, and 38, Haymarket. THE LONDON GAZETIE Star-Traveller Cornw.-Covent. Doncaster--Derb. Dorchest.--Essex Staff Stamf. 2 Worc. 2-YORK 3 Sunday Advertise. Mr. Nesbitt on Our Lord's Second Coming 441 Meteorol. Diaries for April and May 1811.410 .486 .503 Embellished with a Perspective View of LITTLE SALING CHURCH in ESSEX; and with the Monument to the Memory of DEAN NOWELL, in Old St. Paul's Cathedral. By SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. Printed by J. NICHOLS and SON, at CICERO'S HEAD, Red Lion Passage, Fleet street, London: where all Letters to the Editor are desired to be addressed, POST-PAID. 1811. The average degrees of Temperature, calculated from observations made at eight o'clock in the morning, are 46 90-100ths; those of the corresponding month in the year 1810, were 45 50-100ths; in 1809, 39 77-100ths; in 1808, 43 10-100ths; in 1807, 42.33-100ths; in 1806, 43 80-100ths; in 1805, 42 87-100ths; and in 1804, 37 99-100ths. The average temperature of this month exceeds that of any other of the corresponding months in the last seven years, by one degree and 40-100ths, and ex ceeds the average of the same for the last seven years, by 4 degrees 71-100ths. The quantity of Rain fallen this mouth is equal to 2 inches 13 100ths; that of the corresponding month in the year 1810, was 1 inch 42 100ths; in 1809, 3 inches 75 100ths; in 1808, 5 inches 37 100ths; in 1807, 49-100ths; in 1806, 1 inch 29 100ths; in 1805, 2 inches 78 100ths; and in 1804, 2 inches 27 100ths. Day of METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for May, 1811. By W. CARY, Strand. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. i THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, Mr. URBAN, WE May 18. E commemorate the great actions of Naval and Military Commanders by Votes of Parliament and splendid Monuments in Westminster Abbey, or St. Paul's: and the Publick can do no more; for, to extend these honours to every brave man that falls, would be impracticable. But there is an action of one individual in an humble rank, so singular, that a testimony of private respect might tend to commemorate an effort of devoted heroism, which appears to have no parallel either antient or modern. It is that of John Sykes, cockswain of Admiral Nelson's barge, when he was attacked by a Spanish boat of superior force, off the mouth of Cadiz harbour, July 4, 1797. The method I propose for commemorating this gallant action is, by erecting a plain stone tablet in the Church of Portsmouth, or Plymouth, or both; where it might be read by every common seaman, and prove an incitement to similar conduct in the breast of every individual in the service, if called upon in a similar situation. If this Proposal should meet with the approbation of others who think as I do, I will pay five guineas into your hands, to commence a subscription for the purpose*. The fact is recorded by Lord Nelson himself; and again by the Historian of his Life, Vol. II. pp. 2 and 24, in these words: "The noble conduct of John Sykes, who died of his wounds, has been mentioned by Admiral Nelson. This brave man twice saved the life of his beloved Commander, by parrying the blows that were posed his own head to receive the full force aimed at him; and, at last, actually interof a Spanish sabre; which, fighting as they were, hand to hand, he could not otherwise have prevented from falling on Sir Horatio." I propose the Monument to be a plain stone, not marble, with the following inscription upon it, or any better that may be proposed; to be cut in a large letter, and placed low, so as to be read with ease, and withinside the Church, if leave can be obtained. I imagine the expence for such a stone, carved and put up, would hardly exceed twenty guineas; and if the subscription answered double that sum, a stone both at Portsmouth and Ply. mouth would not be superfluous, Inscription: JOHN SYKES, of His Majesty's Ship Theseus, who was Cockswain of Admiral Nelson's Barge when he was attacked by a Spanish boat on the night of July the fourth, 1797, off the Mouth of Cadiz Harbour. This brave man twice saved the life of his beloved Commander, by parrying the blows that were aimed at him, and at last actually interposed his own head to receive the full force of a Spanish sabre, thus sacrificing his own life to preserve ⚫ the Gallant Nelson. To commemorate the devoted attachment of a British Seaman to a brave and generous Commander, English Barge: Admiral Nelson, This Monument is erected. Captain Freemantle, eleven seamen ; six killed, Spanish Barge taken; Don Miguel Tremoyen, three Officers, tweuty-six seamen: eighteen killed, all the rest wounded." .. * Our worthy Correspondent is so moderate in his ideas of the expence requisite for this laudable testimonial to merit, which he proposes, that there can be little doubt of its being immediately supplied. EDIT. I Mr. URBAN, Oxford, May 20. TAKE the liberty of sending you a few remarks upon a phænomenon noticed in your pages 124 and 234. It is stated that the Laplanders will offer a stranger a piece of cold iron in severe weather, which, on being applied to the tongue, produces a sensation of burning. May not this be effected by the rapidity with which the vital beat rushes to one point in order to restore an equal temperature; the quantity of which caloric may be so abundant, as for a momeut to cause sensations of the nature alluded to. The blackened appearance assumed by leaves when affected by frost (evidently resembling the action of fire) may be accounted for on the same principle, viz. the sudden transmission of heat from different parts of a plant to its leaves, which we know are of a most delicate S you value the interests of Socie matters come in course, and supplies are voted for Army, Navy, and Orduance, the contracts for loans, and the considerations of currency, embarked in with eagerness, not a word has escaped on this great subject, the ultimate end for which we profess we have been arming, and expressly stated to be for the defence of our Religion and Laws, in that solemn appeal to the Deity we have been making for his support and blessing in the perilous war in which we are engaged. Whence is this apathy in so essential a concern? or have we discovered that our Constitution can be upheld without the aid of Religion? that our success is not owing to the blessing of Providence, or that our professions are without the zeal requisite for their adoption, and when millions are voted for the purposes of War, funds towards so salutary a measure are not even thought of? Admitting that new buildings cannot be undertaken without a heavy Aty, of which I cannot but think tax you are a principal guardian, I am persuaded you must be the advocate of the Established Religion of the country, and would promote its extension by every means in your power, to the extremities of this sea-girt Isle; and upon this laudable principle I have ventured to trouble you with the following observations: In the course of the two last years, the consideration of the want of places for public worship for this populous metropolis was very prevalent, the inhabitants of which, in many parts of it, have been doubled within a few years; and, with the exception of some Chapels built at the fashionable cnd of the town, and let out as a profitable concern, there is not any addition to the Parish Churches, but which we had sanguinely expected through the exer.ion and persuasions in Parliament of our Archbishops, Bishops, Nobles, and others, who have felt for the cause of Religion, admitted the necessity of these measures, and whose names have been repeatedly mentioned with the respect and veneration they were entitled to, from the patronage they were disposed to give to such in portant undertakings, as well as for their general efforts in the promotion of learnn, virtue, and religion; but, alas! Sir, although other on the Landholders, many Churches that are competent to be enlarged, and require to be so, for the increased inhabitants of the Parishes, should, under the immediate authority of the Diocesan, be forthwith rendered sufficiently commodious. Sorry I am, however, to notice that this is not the case with the metropolis only; there is hardly a village in the neighbourhood, say within ten miles of London, where the houses and inhabitants have not so multiplied as to require the enlarging of the old Church, or building a new one upon a larger scale; and the most disgraceful squabbles prevail about pews and seats amongst the wealthier class, whilst the inferior characters and labouring poor have no accommo dation beyond that of standing in the ailes, which wil barely contain them, and therefore they decline to come: chancel pews are made a property of by the lay impropriator; and those who are accommodated with pews attached to their houses by a Faculty or by an allotment of the vestry, feel not the inconvenience suf. fered by others, or the privations of the poor, where there should be as little distinction as is consistent with Christian society. In many places they cannot have the Gospel preach, ed unto them for want of room. As in the |