1043 117267 Ditto 4 per Ct15 perCt Long | Short | India | India | India | S. Sea 1726 Confol. Ann. Ana. 1778- Stock. Ann. Bonds. Stock. #14 13186 EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN SEPTEMBER, 1791. Old New 3perCt] New | English Ann. 1751 Navy. Lot. Tick 16 7 Irish Ann. Lot. Tick Excheq) Loyal Bills. Debent 7 9 difc. 18 Sunday 29 2001 89 384 a 89 1041 117 262 2 N. B. In the 3 per Cent. Confols, the highest and loweft Price of each Day is given; in the other Stocks the higheft Price only. J. BRANSCOMB, Jun. Stock Broker, No. 4, Cornillo GENERAL EVEN. 2, Coventry Cumberland Derby, Exeter Gloucester Hereford, Hull Ipfwich IRELAND Leeds 2 LEICESTER Lewes Liverpool 3 Maidstone Manchefter Newcastle 3 Northampton Nottingham OXFORD Reading SCOTLAND Sheffield 2 Sherborne 2 Shrewsbury Stamford Winchester Worcefter Chelmsford For YORK 3 ОСТОВЕR, 1791. CONTAINING Meteorolog. Diaries for Oct. and Sept. 1791 882 | Writers of WelfhHift-Latinizing Surnames? 912 By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent, Printed for D. HENRY by JOHN NICHOLS, Red Lion Pallage, Fleet-freet;\ where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addreffed, Pos T-PAID. 946 W. CARY, Mathematical Inftrument-Maker, oppofite Arundel-Street, Strand. 6. Very red sky funfet.-7. Great dew.-11. Thermometer 108 out of doors betwixt one and two. Grafs fprings amazingly. A few leaves begin to fall. The autumnal tints are apparent upon the foliage of the foreft-trees and the walls of buildings. Nectarines and peaches have been gathered fome time; the fruit but indifferent. Nuts very fcarce. Filberts is. 6d. per pound.-12 Moft of the wheat got in in high condition. Crops good, and the grain remarkably well fed and productive. Barley but flight; oats tolerable.-13. Red after funfet; a mift arifes.-14. Great Dews. Webs upon the hedges. White frots in a morning. Not a cloud has appeared upon the sky from the ath to the 15th-16. Apples few, BEING THE FOURTH NUMBER OF VOL. LXI. PART II. Mr. URBAN, Westminster, Oct. 13, XXXR. LODGE, in the third volume of his late valuable and interesting pub. lication*, pp. 178, 179, has made fome ftrictures M XXX on the article of the Lady Arabella Stuart, in the "Biographia Britannica," and has blamed the authors for faying, that "fhe was far from being either beautiful in her perfon, or from being diftinguifhed by any extraordinary qualities of mind." The juftice of Mr. Lodge's objections to thefe affertions I freely acknowledge; but muft beg leave to obferve, that his cenfure is delivered in too hafty and indifcriminate a manner, His charge properly relates only to the old articles; and, if he had adverted to the addition which is made to that article in the second impreffion of the "Biographia," he would have found that I have given a very different account of the Lady Arabella, both with regard to her understanding and perfon. This too, I did, without having thofe advan tages Mr. Lodge has enjoyed by the poffeffion of the Talbot papers. Will you indulge me, Mr. Urban, in tranfcribing what I have faid on the fubject? "Mr. Ballard hath given a place to the Lady Arabella, in his Memoirs of British Ladies, who have been celebrated for their Writings or Skill in the learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences. His reafons for fo doing are, that Mr. Evelyn, in his 'Numifmata,' hath put her in his lift of learned wo men; and Mr. Philips, in his Theatrum Poetarum,' has introduced her among his modern poeteffes. Though no works of this lady have appeared, which can serve to fhew on what foundation her literary reputation is built, yet it is not probable that Mr. Evelyn affigned her the rank they have done. Three letters of hers are tranfcribed, by Mr. Ballard, from a MS volume in Mr. Afhmole's ftudy, which prove her to have been a wofrom the fame author, a fhort copy of Latin man of a good understanding. We shall add, verfes, addreffed to the Lady Arabella, by the noted epigrammatift Mr. John Owen, together with a tranflation of them by Mr. Thomas Harvey. 'Si foret in nudis virtus aut gloria verbis, In laudes facerem carmina mille tuas ; Nobilitare poteft noftram tua gloria mufam; At tibi mufa potest addere nostra nihil.' 'If in bare words were honour, I could raise, Could write a thousand verfes in thy pra fe; My Mufe may by thy worth ennobled be, But my poor Mufe can nothing add to thee.' "We learn from Mr. Granger, that the print of her, which is very rare, is thus infcribed, The picture of the most noble and learned Lady Arabella Stewart.' "As there are thefe teftimonies to the Lady Arabella's having had a better underftanding than is mentioned in the text, fo it fhould feem, from Mr. Oldys's Manufcripts, that fhe had, at least when young, a far greater share of beauty than is above reprefented. From a picture of her, which was drawn at full length in white in 1589, when she was thirteen years and a half old, it ap pears that the was, at that time, very beau tiful in her perfon. Her complexion was fair as alabafter: the had fweet large grey eyes, and long flaxen hair, flowing almost to her waift, and finely curled at top. Mr. Oldys fays, that he was born in 1575." Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, AND. KIPPIS. GREATLY admire the prefent refpectable Bishop of Durham's Speech to h's Chapter, which you have given in p. 695. It befpeaks the elegant icho. lar, the polite nobleman, and, what is above all, the ferious Chriftian prelate. Friendly as I am to our prefent ex and Mr. Philips should, without cause, have few, but very fine. Wafps, which have been numerous, after making depredations upon the wall fruit, attacked the apples.-22. Bufy fowing wheat and taking up the winter potatoes. Harvest finished. Springs low. The weather delightfully pleasant to the end of the month. We enjoy a Michaelmas fummer. Fall of rain, 2 inches 4-10ths, Evaporation, 4 inches 6-1oths. Illuftrations of British History, &c. cellent cellent Church-eftablishment, I greatly respect many of the Diffenters and their writings, fuch as Dr. Doddridge and Mr. Orton, who are both dead, and whole letters and correfpondence 1 would ftrongly recommend to the publick. And I should have thought more favourably of Dr. Price if he had died in those tenets which he professed in his fermon of 1759; extracts from which are to be had at Meff. Rivingtons. Mr. John Clayton's Addrefs and Sermon of the prefent day do him much credit; and, if the fame rational, moderate, and candid fpirit, had influenced the reft of his brethren, we should neither have heard of Birmingham riots, nor of French Revolution-feafts in England. The widow of that excellent man, Dr. Doddridge, died within thefe two years. It is to be hoped that the Editor of his Correfpondence, in the next edition, will infert the admirable and pious letter which he wrote to her children, from Lisbon, upon the death of their father. In the mean time, I fend it to you, to infert in your useful and interefting Repofitory. Philip Doddridge, D.D. was prevailed upon, for the recovery of his health, to go to Lifbon, in the neighbourhood of which city he died October 26, 1751. His widow, Mrs. Mercy Doddridge, who accompanied him thither, wrote the following letter to her children in England after his decease, Yours, &c. "My dear Children, 66 O, C. Lifbon, Nov. 11, N.S. 1751. "How fhall I address you under this aweful and melancholy Providence! I would fain fay fomething to comfort you. And I hope God will enable me to fay fomething that may alleviate your deep difirefs. I went out in a firm dependence that, if Infinite Wildom was pleated to call me out to duties and trials as yet unknown, He would grant me those fuperior aids of ftrength that would fupport and keep me from fainting under them; perfuaded that there was no diftrefs or forrow, into which he could lead me, under which his gracious and all-fufficient arm could not fupport me. He has not difappointed me, nor fuffered the heart and eyes directed to him to fail. God all fufficient, and my only bup, is my motto: let it be yours. Such, indeed, bave I found him; and fuch, I verily believe, you will find him too in this time of deep diftrets. Oh! my dear children, help me to praife Him! Such fupports, fuch confolations, fuch comforts, has He granted to the meanest of His creatures, that my mind, at times, is held in perfect astonishment, and is ready to burst into fongs of praise under its most exquifite diftress. "As to outward comforts, God has withheld no good thing from me, but has given that the tendereft friendship was capable of me all the affiftance, and all the supports, affording me, and which I think my dear Northampton friends could not have exceeded. Their prayers are not loft. I doubt not but I am reaping the benefit of them, and hope that you will do the fame. "I am returned to good Mr. King's. Be good to poor Mrs. King. It is a debt of gratitude I owe for the great obligations 1 am under to that worthy family here. Such a folicitude of friendship was furely hardly ever known as I meet with here. I have the offers of friendship more than I can employ; and it gives a real concern to many here that they cannot find out a way to ferve me. These are great honours conferred on the dear deceased, and great comforts to me. It is impoffible to fay how much thefe mercies are endeared to me, as coming in fuch an immediate manner from the Divine Hand. To his name be the praise and glory of all! "And now, my dear children, what shall I say to you? Ours is no common lofs. I mourn the best of husbands and of friends, removed from this world of fin and forrow to the regions of immortal blifs and light. What a glory! What a mercy is it that I am enabled with my thoughts to pursue him there! You have loft the dearest and best of parents, the guide of your youth! and whofe pleasure it would have been to have introduced you into life with great advantages. "Our lofs is great indeed! But I really think the lofs the publick has fuftained is fill greater. But God can never want inftruments to carry on his work. Yet, let us be thankful that God ever gave us tuch a friend; that he has continued him fo long with us. Perhaps, if we had been to have judged, we fhould have thought that we nor the world could never lefs have fpared him than at the prefent time. But I fee the hand of Heaven, the appointment of His wife providence in every step of this aweful difpenfation. It is his hand that has put the bitter cup into ours. And what does he now expect from us but a meek, humble, entire fubmiffion to his will? We know this is our duty. Let us pray for thofe aids of His Spirit, which can only enable us to attain it. A father of the fatherless is God in his holy habitation. As fuch may your eyes be directed to him! He will fapport you. He will comfort you. And that he may is not only my daily, but hourly, prayer. "We have never deferved fo great a good as that we have loft. And let us remember, that the belt refpect we can pay to his memory is to endeavour, as far as we can, to follow his example, to cultivate thofe amiable qualities that rendered him fo juftly dear to |