The Diary of our kind Friend at Walton has not come to hand this Month. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for Auguft 1801. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Month. ID. of Morn. II o'cl. 566 266766 399 Barom. Weather in. pts. in Aug. 1801. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Month. D. of 8 o'cl. Mern. Noon. IJ O'cl Night. Aug. 55 29,82 clondy 12.64 59 ,82 fair 13 60 67 67 56 ,80 cloudy 14 70 ,59 howery 63 71 60 ,46 fhowery 16 ,60 showery 17 64 ,82 fair 18 60 62 63 ,92 rain. 61 ,98 fair 21 64 72 62 30,10 fair 22 2106 19 62 63 64 77 60 ,94 cloudy 61 71 55 30,06 farr 64 75 63 ,22 fair 65 76 57 ,20 fair 9 62 67 69 24 ,12 cloudy ΤΟ 64 74 59 ,02 fair 996 3456 23 59 69 56 65 64 68 62 ,02 hazy 60 73 61 29,97 fair W. CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk Street, Strand. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For AUGUST, Mr. URBAN, Norwich, Aug. 5. **** SEND yeu an original, and, I believe, unpublished letter of Mr Mafon, addreffed to the Rev. Wm. I 1801. greater fuccefs than I could have ima **Bryant, formerly of St. John's college, Cambridge, who, a fhort time before the date of this letter, 747, was appointed profeffor of mathematicks at Cod rington college, Barbadoes; but, the climate not agreeing with him, he did not long furvive. He was a man of confiderable abilities; and I have now by me, in Manufcript, a courie of lectures on Natural Philofophy, which were read by him at the abovenamed college, which, I think, have confiderable merit. He was brother to the Rev. Henry Bryant, late rector of Col-at common law, or elfe get the king ley, Norfolk, who died about two years fince, and who alfo was a man of abilities, and an occafional correspondent of your Magazine on botanical and other fubjects. Yours, &c. BLAKENEY. St. John's, Nov. Dear Bryant, 13, 1747. Your letter found me luckily at: my return to college after an ablence of the fix fummer months. I need not fay how much it rejoiced me to find from it that you enjoyed your health and liked your climate. You mention nothing (and indeed, from wriyour ting, feem to have nothing) of your hip. I believe you left that with old chum; for, generally fpeaking, this laft year I have been in low fpirits, and, though never to be called ill, always fancying myself fo. your indeterminate You gave me a very order about your prints; however, I gave directions to the old one (who 'came here last week to Specchify) to buy you as many as would furnish a room; thofe from Vandyke are the beft and cheapest I know. I defired him alfo to put up in the fame packet a Joem, much altered fince you fasy it, and published laft March. It met with to appoint a vifitor. If this turns out well, it will be a very lucky thing for me, and much better than a Platt", which I came hither with an intention to fit for, for they are reckoned the ben fellowships in the univerfity. A other thing has happened, which there is allo a probability may fome time be of service to me, and that is, Dr. Herring's removal to Canterbury and Dr. Hutton's to York. This too may, I hope, affect Cayley, who had the bad luck, about feven months ago, to be rufticated for a full riot, but, I hope, will now be foon admitted again. Dr. Burrell, I am told, gets great and has had the fortune to perform fes reputation and bufinefs at Leicester, veral remarkable cures. "Allen has got a finall curacy at Mitcham; in Surrey; and Wood one at Brackitead, in Ellex. "Bourne has done the foolitheft thing that ever a fenfible man was guilty of. He made folicitations to the Duke of Devouthire for a chaplainthip to a man of war, and is now failed in the Ruby, in Bofeawen's quadron, for the Eaft Indies. This he did unknown to moft of his friends, and See yul. LXVI, p. 452. without without any view of other intereft than the bare falary. I can recollect nothing particular of any body elfe, and am confcious that my letter is not yet half long enough to deferve carriage to the Welt Indies; yet how to make it longer I do not know; for what affiftance political news would give me I have no great defire to try, and as to literary I believe it would be very fmall. Warburton has published the Old Woman's book againit Dr. Rutherford, which bears a very good character; he has allo writ a very remarkable Preface to it: this, with an edition of Shakspeare, is all that he has done. Lord Bolingbroke has advertized a collection of political tracts; but I fuppofe they will be only fuch as have before made their appearance in the weekly papers. Mr. Lyttelton has wrote a letter to Mr. Weft on St. Paul's converfion, which alfo bears a very great character. I do not know any thing elfe worth mentioning, except that Dr. Rutherford is taking in fubferiptions for his lectures (if that be). The fame perfon is alto made chaplain to the prince; and Rothery to the Duke of Somerfel, who has given Dr. Fry a great living in Yorkhire, made vacant by the Bishop of Bangor's tranflation. "Your news about poor Hook reached me two months before yours. I had the melancholy employment when at Hull to condole with the family; the fifter was most remarkably affected by it. "Dear Bryant, write to me by all ppportunities, I told your brother, when I went up in March to London and carried his letter with me, that I fhould write from thence, but was preyented, which was the occafion of the miftake. Whether Lindley writ or no, I do not know; but I confefs I did pot. However, I will promife to he more punctual for the future. Believe me, with the utmost affection, dear Bryant, your fincere friend, "W. MASON. "Direct for me to this college; and it would be better if you wrote upon it, to be left and forwarded with Mr. Powell; by which means, if I be in the country or at Pembroke, I thall the fooner and fafer receive it. Mr. Peele* and all friends defire their compliments." the prefent venerable and refpected minister of St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich. I Mr. URBAN, · Aug. 1. TRANSMIT to you a book, put into my hands by Dr. Sherfon, containing a curious anecdote refpecting Dr. Sydenham, which fills up a chafm in his life that this MS. in fome measure explains. 29, 1684. civil war, a captain. The book has been in Dr. Sherfon's family above 50 years. He mentioned his with that you might avail yourself of it in your Magazine; and that afterwards it fhould be depofited, as a prefent from him, in the library of the Medical Society of London. J. C. LETTSOM. "Dr. Thomas Sydenham died Dec. He was an actor in the late and difcharged the office of He being in his lodgings in London, and going to-bed at night with his cloaths loofed, a mad drunken fellow, a foldier, likewife in the fame lodging, entered his room, with one hand griping him by the breaft of his hirt, with the other difcharged a loaded pistol into his bosom : - yet, O ftrange without any hurt to him. Moft wonderful Indeed! by fuch a narrow field as the edge of the fol dier's hand was his breast defended. For the admirable providence of God placed and fixed the tottering hand that griped the thirt into that place and pofture, that the edge thereof and all the bones of the metacarpus were fitu ate in a right-line betwixt the mouth of the pittol and his breaft; and fo the bullet difcharged neither declining to the one fide or the other, but keeping its way through all the hones, in crufhing then loft its force, and fell at his feet. So wonderful a fituation of the hand, and more wonderful courfe of the bullet, by any induftry or art ne ver again imaginable! The foldier died foon after. Surely Providence does not bring forth fuch ftupendous miracles but for fome great and equivalent end. "The great Sydenham for all his labours only gained the fad and unjust recompence of calumny and ignomity; and that from the emulation of fome of his collegiate brethren and others, whofe indignation at length arofe to that height, that they endea voured to banish him, as guilty of ine dicinal here, out of that illuftrious Society; and by the whispering of others was baulked the employment of the royal family, where before he was called among the firft phyficians. Yet fome patrous this great and good man had among his brethren, as Goodall, Brady, Ganian, and Dr. Cole of Worcester, as may be feen by their epifiles in his works. Dr. Mickle thwait a little before his death did profels, notwithstanding all the attempts of feveral against the methods of Sydenham, that these would prevail, and triumph over all other methods; and the event has fully verified this prediction of Dr. Micklethwait." Mr. URBAN, IN confequence of Aug. 18. your fpirited Review of Mr. Coxe's Monmonthshire Tour I purchafed the book, and have read it with extreme fatisfaction. Though it cofts four guineas it is a very cheap book, the plates are fo numerous and well executed. I am furprized, however, that you did not infert one of the most interesting anecdetes in the book relative to Valentine Morris, particularly as it would have been a pleating fupplement to the account of Valentine Morris in your vol. LIX. p. 862, which Mr. Coxe quotes. I, therefore, requeft you to infert it for the benefit of your general readers. Yours, &c. J. A. "He lived in a ftyle of princely rather than private magnificence, and treated thofe whom curiofity drew to the fcenes of Piercefield with a liberal but oftentatious profufion: fervants out of livery conftantly attended without being permitted to receive any gratuity; collations were indifcriminately offered to the nutnerous vifitors; and even his hot-houfe, cellar, and larder, were open to the innkeeper of ChepBow, for the accommodation of travellers. a fucceffion of unfavourable feafons in the ifland of Antigua, inattention to his accounts, but, above all, an unfortunate propenfity to gaming. Being difappointed in finding a purchaser for Piercefield, he contracted his expences into a narrower fcale; but it was too late, and his embarrallinents increa fing, he was compelled to retire to his Weft India poffeffions. "Before his final departure from England he indulged himself with bidding adieu to Piercefield. In company with a friend, he furveyed his own creation, for the laft time, with apparent compofure and manly refignation. On his return to Chepstow he was furthemfelves on their knees, thanked rounded by the poor, who, throwing him for numerous inftances of his bounty, and implored the blefling of Heaven on their generous benefactor. Even this affecting fpectacle he bore with filent fortitude, and entered the chaife which conveyed him to London. But he had no fooner reached the Gloucefterfhire fide of the bridge. than his car was ftruck with a mournful peal of bells, muffled, as is ufnal, on the lofs of departed friends; deeply affected with this mark of efteem and regret, he could no longer coutroul his emotions, and burit into tears." Mr. URBAN, Aug 6. OULOGNE is an antient, large, hand fome, ftrong town, head of a particular government, refidence of a governor, conmander, and lieutenant of the king; has a bithop, fenefchals, baille prevotal, admiralty, &c.; and is divided into the upper and lower town, about 100 paces afunder. The latter is the larger, most populous, and bett built, and chiefly inhabited by merchants. It stands on the river Lianne, at its mouth, and on a port or landing defended by a little fort; and is to difficult of accefs, that trading-vellels and fishtide. Men of war come to the ing-boats can only get to it with the road of St. John, a league and a half to the Northward, and the winds muft blow from the North to the South-eaft. It contaimed "After a refidence of feveral years his circumstances became involved, and he was compelled to offer Piercefield for fale. This embarraffment is generally imputed to the expences of a contefted election in 1771, for the county of Monmouth, with John Morgan, efq. of Tredegar; but the real caufes were derived from a variety of circumfrances; an expenfive ftyle of living, numerous benefactions, imprudent management of his Weft-India ellates, indebted to Mr. Jennings," *For is interesting anecdote I am 1600 |