670,000 fouls in London, and about 7,400,000 in all England and Wales; -in which there are about 28,000,000 of acres, of profitable land. That the periods of doubling the people are found to be in all degrees from between 10 to 1200 years. That the growth of London must be at its greatest height in the year 1800, and must stop before the year 1842, when it will be eight times more than it was in the year 1682." In a table, he fhews the progreffion of the increafe of mankind from the Flood to the birth of Chrift; in which laft period he fuppofes the eight perfons that came out of the ark were increased to 128,000,000. "That, in 1682, there were computed to be upon the face of the earth $20,000,000 of fouls. That in the next 2000 years the world will be fully peopled, fo as that there fhall be one head for every two acres of land in the habitable part of the earth. And then, according to the prediction of the Scriptures, there must be wars and great flaughter. That, in the year 1840, the people of the city of London will be 10,718,880; and thofe of the whole country but 10,917,389.", Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, R. W. June 11. VIATOR, p. 121, will find his difficulties about Pliny's defcription of Diana's temple obviated by Mr Windham, in the Archæol. VI. 68, and Mr. Falconer, Ib. XI. 3, the firft propofing, the fecond approving, the feparation of centum from viginti feptem,, making the whole number of pillars 100; of which 27 were given by as many kings or princes. To fuppofe otherwife would introduce an odd number of columns. Your traveller is fo accurate in the fite of the temple, that one wishes to have a little more converfation with him on the fubject. Mr. URBAN, VIATOR MINOR. June 9. L. M. p. 423, will find an ac count of the two earliest and rareft editions of Juliana Barnes's book in that moft elegant of modern publications, the Specimens of early English Poetry," by G. Ellis, efq. The third edition is there defcribed to be printed by Toy and Copland. Intermediate editions between that by Toy and the one methodized by G. M. [Gervafe Markham] in 1595, were printed by William Copland for Tottell, by William Powell, and by Ab. Vele; all without date. Markham's edition had alfo a re-print in 1614, and was intituled, "A Jewell for Gentrie.". the greateft literary curiofity of the Mr. Ellis regards the work itfelf as reign of Edward IV. So exceffively St. Albans, that Lord Spencer was inrare is the first edition of it, printed at duced to give feventy guineas for a copy at Mr. Maton's fale, to place among his invaluable collections of early typography. T.P. Our correfpondent, p.429, pofbook; of which fee Herbert's Ames, feffes a fecond edition of Juliana Barnes's p. 1290. Of the first edition Mr. Herbert, p. 1435, had seen only one copy in the public library at Cambridge, Mafon, efq. (now Lord Spencer's.) and another in the poffeffion of George Mr. URBAN, Jane 19. HE inclofed letter is fubmitted to the inveftigation of your readers, who may be acquainted with its meaning, and with the Dean's reafons for fuch an addrefs to his diocefan, who, it is fuppofed, was Dr. John Wynne, tranflated from St. Alaph 1727, and died 1743. Dr. Crefwick was made dean 1739, and died of an apoplexy, Feb. 15, 1746*. "To the Bishop of Bath and Wells. "My Lord, on Sunday next I intend, by God's grace, to celebrate the Lord's Supper in the cathedral church; and the rubricks before the Communion office are our rule for admitting or rejecting those that offer them felves to be partakers of it.. Offence, great offence has been given; and in that cafe a proper declaration is required and expected. This is the method prefcribed; and the notice (though with grief and concern for the occafion of it) I give you, as I think it my indifpenfahle duty fo to do; and likewife that you may be under no furprize, nor leave if in your power to complain in any future reprefentation of this matter for want of a lue warning from your faithful monitor and friend, SAM. CRESWICK." H Mr. URBAN, May 29. AVING been favoured with a fight of the fuperb and beautiful medal prefented by the prefent king of Sweden to the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, I was induced to requeft the worthy Baronet would permit Mr. Bafire to prefent a faithful copy of it to your readers; who, I am convinced, will not be difpleafed to find it accompanied by a short extract from a loyal publication, which has been already lightly noticed in vol. LXX. p. 768. "Mankind have been faved by the unexampled firmness and greatnefs of mind of a fingle individual-by that turn of mind which was fo univerfally admired in Hyde-park, and in Drurylane theatre, on the 15th of May, 1800. This publication, for the purpofe of recording that greatnefs of mind, fuggefted itfelf to me from a letter I was writing to a dear and most able friend, ambaffador from the King of Sweden in Germany, Chevalier Peyron, refpecting the event of the 15th of May, 1800; fo fimilar to that of the 17th of March, 1792, lamented ever fince by all Europe. May I be permitted, without indecent breach of confidence to that valued friend, to relate in this place a fpeech of the young monarch's, whom he and I fo fincerely revere, and who was defervedly named Guftavus Adolphus? In thete days of democracy, it is criminal to conceal fuch anecdotes of royalty as the following, and as thofe which are the fubject of this publication. On "In 1798, the King of Sweden condefcended to make the author of these pages a prefent of a fuperb gold medal, firuck upon his Majety's birth in 1778; which does equal credit to the mind of his great father and to that monarch's patronage of the arts. giving it to the ambassador, his majesty, then only 19 years of age, was enough of a hero to fay- You will deliver this to your friend with what I have directed you to tell him; but add, as you remember the difpatches you read to me yesterday from England. refpecting my convoy's being detained, that I fend this proof of my good-will to an Englishman the day after I have received the news of a great injury which has been done me by his country.' GENT. MAG. June, 1801. Much may be expected from fuck a character by his own fubjects and by Europe. But the fublime medal to God and his country (Deo et paof the father devoted him, on his birth, tria); and the fon, in his famous de claration as member of the German empire, has already manifefied his royal wishes to render himfelf a worthy offering. In a publication calculated to bring the future hiftorian acquainted with the fingular magnanimity dif played by one monarch and his royal confort, this anecdote of another king will not appear mifplaced. The Britifh reader will admire it; Mr. Pitt will, whatever may be thought of the Swedish convoy; and one of the first to admire it will, I am fure, be the wife judge who condemned the convoy, Sir William Scott, whom I am proud to have had for my college-tutor, the brother of him whom I do not fear to pre-entitle the great Lord Eldon.". Yours, &c. M. GREEN. I W. Mr. URBAN, Temple, June 7. MUST first thank you for inferting my letter, and engraving the coats of arms I fent to you, requesting an expla nation, in your Magazine, p. 25: my thanks are then due to your correfpondents D. E. and P. Q. for their antwers to my enquiries. D. E. obferves, that the arms, "fig. 5, p. 25, are a Merchant's mark impaling T. with fome mark of difference." His opinion coincides in fome measure with that of fome of the old old inhabitants of Salisbury, who fay the hall formerly belonged to a company of Clothiers; but upon what they found their opinion I have never been able to learn. I have inclofed another coat (fig. 4) which your correfpondents D. E. or P. Q. will perhaps favour me with their obfervations upon. Yours, &c. F. WHITMARSH. Mr. URBAN, PERHA Bishop's Waltham, June 10. ERHAPS you may find a corner on one of the plates in your next Magazine, for an exact reprefentation of a token, fig. 5, which was found in a garden at Cornhampton a fhort time fince. I like to fee thefe antiques as they appear from time to time in your Mifcellany: by comparing them with thofe elegant ones which were lately current in every county, we fee the progrefs which the arts have made in this particular in the courfe of the laft century. If we had made equal improvement in virtue, we thould not have been in our prefent diftreffed fitu ation. Mr. URBAN, W. May 21. HE notion of three or four AntiTH chrifts (p. 224, b.) hardly deferves a ferious anfwer, or a moment's thought. If by Antichrift is underfood the little horn in Daniel vii. 8, and St. Paul's man of fin, 2 Theff. ii. 3, to which the name of Antichrift has been given at leaft from the days of Irenæus, l. v. c. xxv. xxvi. in the fecond century, it is certain that this horn, this idolatrous and perfecuting power, is one only; which alfo, be it what it may, nuft have been in the world for many ages; for it was to come, when he who letteth (i. e. the Roman empire, according to Chryfoftom and others who wrote before the event) was taken out of the way;" or, in other words, when the Roman empire was divided into ten horns or fovereignties. There is another point, which does deferve confideration. It is haftily fuppofed, and "the opinion has of late been very eagerly circulated," p. 226, that Chriftianity," the ftone cut out of the mountain without hands," thall deftroy the ten horns or kingdoms (which fome, for obvious reafons, with to understand of monarchies only) in the fame manner as the Grecian empize overturned the Perfian, and the Roman the Grecian. It is, indeed, foretold of the Meffiah, that he " fhall break" the nations "with a rod of iron, and dafh them in pieces like a potter's veflel," Pfalm. ii. 9. but this rod of iron," the emblem of power, must be interpreted in confiftency with other prophecies; and there, we find, it is "the rod of his mouth," Ifa. xi. 4; or, as it is in the Apocalypfe, i. 16, xix. 15, 21, a two-edged fword, proceeding out of the mouth of Chrift. And the witnefles of Chrift are armed" as he is armed: "fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies; and if any man will hurt them, he muft in this manner be killed;" but "he that killeth with the fword, must be killed with the fword," Apoc. xi. 5, xiii. 10. Now this "two-edged fword," taken from the armoury of God, the fword of reafim and revelation, which are both the gifts of God; fuch a fword may pierce the heart and fubdue the understanding; but it breaks no bones, it overturns no ftates. With this rod of power Confiantine was fmitten, when he became a Chriftian; but he was as much an emperor then as before. "The kingdoms of this world fhall, as it is foretold, Apoc. xi. 15. become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Chrift, and he fhall reign for ever and ever." In what manner this great event fhall be brought about, and what fhall be the ftate of things afterwards, I prefiume not to conjecture; but in the mean time, till the fudden arrival of that glorious day, the religion of Chrift, which injoins "fubmiffion to every ordinance of man for the Lord's fake," 1 Pet. ii. 13, does not itfelf oppofe or interfere with any fuch ordinance. Popery, and Prefbyterianifm, and Infidelity, have each in their turn depofed and murdered lawful fovereigns; but Chriftianity moft affuredly never did, and we may reafonably hope never will, attempt any fuch thing; but that, as in times paft and prefent, "kings will be nurfing-fathers and queens nurfingmothers" of the church, Ifa. xlix. 28. 'Is it as certain from Gen. i. 16, as your reviewer, p. 245, takes it to be, that the fars were created on the fourth day? If every ftar is, like the fun, the centre of a fyftem, there is doubtlefs no abfurdity in the notion, that these innumerable fyftems were coeval with own; but to me, I con fets, |