The Gentleman's Magazine Edinburgh 5 Leeds 2 Gloucefter 2 Bury St. Edmund' Lewes Shrewsbury Whitehaven Dumfries Aberdeen Glasgow Canterbury 2 For AUGUST, 1786. CONTAINING 660 661 Meteorol. Diaries for Sept. 1785, & Aug. 1786 626 | Original Memoirs of Dr. Trapp concluded 664 632 ibid ibid 633 635 637 638 639 Defcr ption of Hatfield Peverell in Effex 665 ibid. 667) 668) 669 iba. ibid. 670 677 682 ibid 695-609 651 ibid. INDEX INDICATORIUS-Price of Grain 700 702-712 720 Embellifhed with various VIEWS and curious ANTIQUITIES at HASTINGS in Suffex; a fine MEDAL ftruck in Honour of Lord ANSON and his glorious COMPANIONS; a remarkable KEY, found in the Middle of a Chalk-ftone; curious SEALS, &c. &c. By SYLVANUS URBAN. Gent. HIND Y Je of SUNT JOHN'S GATE. 625 Meteorological Diaries for September, 1785, and Auguft, 1786. clouds and fun. overcaft and ftill.4 fog, fair and warm. clouds and fun, very warm rain.s cloudy, warm and ftill. 6 rain, heavy clouds, warm air. heavy clouds, warm air 7 heavy clouds, warm air, rain. overcaft and mild, 10 clouds and fun, warm air. clouds and fun, warm air. 11 rain, warm air, cloudy. 12 rain, heavy clouds. 13 [air. 3 [rain. 14 Therm. 70 at r o'clock P. M.-2 Colchicum in bloom. -3 Hops deft oyed, fruit blown down, and trees broken.-4 Swallows rooft in the weeping willows, over the water.5 Therm. 70 at 2 o'clock P. M.-6 Some wheat ftill unieaped -7 Halo r und moon.8 The m. 72 at 1 o'clock P. M.-9 Grapes begin to ripen, they want fun.-10 Large halo round moon-1 Ivy (hedera helix) begins to blow. Therm. 70 at 2 o'clock P. M.12 Therm 70 at 2 o'clock P. M.-13 Horfe-chefnuts have almoft loft their leaves; elms ftill continue verdurous -14 Barom. 28, 16 in the afternoon.-15 Lighted firft fire. Goffamer floats. Say, what retards, amid the fummer's blaze, "Th' autumnal bulb, till pale declining days?" METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for August, 1786. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 12 13 59 14 58 69 15 63 66 16 58 17 18 58 54 19 20 556 63 thowery 21 67 60 29,77 cloudy 61 74 65 30,18 fair 36 2345 700 66 57 60 59 TO 64 66 57 29,84 cloudy 69 57 30,9 fair ΤΩ 60 30,1 fair 60 23,7 69 56 29,9howery 71 62 30,16 fair 77 68 30,14 fair 166 8 690,1 fair 60 63 59 30,27 fair 69 65 30,2 thowery W CARY, Mathematical Inftrument-Maker, oppofite Arundel-street, Strand. ! (627 THE Gentleman's Magazine: For AUGUST, 1786. BEING THE SECOND NUMBER OF VOL. LVI. PART II. MR. URBAN, XXX* A Auguft 19. SI was charmed with the idea of erecting a ftatue to Mr. Howard, I beg your acceptance of my mite towards fo XXX good a work; and this fentimental offering fhould have been larger, were it not for the expence of fome living ftatues which I am at this time raising to myself. A plan fo truly national meets my ideas in every point of view; but its grand effect, I hope and truft, will be, that, by this pointed diftinction, a door may be opened for the revival of good-fenfe, and for the restoration of that honour to Virtue, which has fo long been engroffed by every thing that is oppofite to it. It is a melancholy truth, Mr. Urban, that, for thefe laft twenty years, the epithets of famous, celebrated, &c. have fcarcely ever been applied except to perfons anfwering to fome of the following defcriptions, viz. ft, rebels; 2dly, ftrumpets; 3dly, rogues, highwaymen, &c. 4thly, atheistical or deiftical writers. Thefe, I fay, have for fome time been the ton; but I flatter myfelf, that the immortal honours, intended to be conferred on our great philanthropist, may be a means of thaming the vicious from affuming thofe titles which they and their dupes have been fo lavishly beftowing on each other. May we not, I fay, indulge a pleasing expectation that this, through God's good providence, may become an epoch in the moral history of mankind; and that, under fuch aufpices, the public man may henceforth become what he always ought to have been, --uni æquus virtuti atque ejus amicis? in confequence of which pious hope, I rejoice and exult in the opportunity of contributing my humble fanction and fupport to the bufinefs you have in hand. Befides this, I think the British nation is very properly confulting its own honour, by perpetuating that of Mr. Howard. This is now the third time that England has produced a worthy of fuch eminence, as to be not only unrivalled, but even, I think we may add, inimitable: it is easy to fuppofe I refer to the names of SHAKSPEARE, NEWTON, and HOWARD. Thele are men whole expantion of foul, and exaltation of genius in their feveral lines, have fet them clearly, and xal' oxur, above the rest of their fpecies, of whatever age or nation. Indeed, I was tempted to have fquared the circle, by fuperadding the name of Afred, if our ideas of him had been fufficiently precife and incontrovertible. I hope it will not be deemed too light and fanciful if I add, that H, which has been faid to be no letter, bids fair to become the most honourable letter in the alphabet, fince it has, in the prefent age, produced, or rather introduced, the names of a HoWARD, a HANWAY, and a HETHERINGTON. Yours. &c. RN T 628 Letters for and against the HOWARDIAN Plan. To the Committeee of the Subscribers to the National Design of erecting a Statue to Mr. HOWARD. I GENTLEMEN, HAVE it in contemplation to erect a confiderable building in St. George's Fields in the form of a Crefcent, after a plan drawn by Mr. George Dance; and I fhould be well inclined it thould re*ceive the appellation of Howard's Crefcent, or any other which you may think more conducible to perpetuate a name which does fuch infinite honour to our country and to human nature, and to the Bearer of which you are fo very laudably engaged in endeavouring to raife a monument of public gratitude. The centre of this Crefcent will be in a line with the Obelisk in St. George's Fields, and that ftanding at the top of Bridge-street, oppofite to Fleet market, as you will fee by the plan which I have fent for your infpection. Now, Gentlemen, it is for you to confider whether the centre of this Crefcent may not be a very proper fpot on which to erect this monument; or, if the fpot of the Obelisk should be preferred, that erection might be removed to the centre of the Crefcent; and then Howard's Column and Howard's Cre fcent would be feparated but by fpace enough to prevent the two objects from being confounded. Yours, &c. JAMES HEDGER. St. George's Fields, Aug. 24. To DR. LETT SO M. SIR, Whiteford Houfe, Callington, THE very laudable defign which I It was owing to his ideas, and the intercourfe I had with him when theriff of Cornwall in the year 1771, that I conceived the defign of conftructing a jail, *This plan, of which an engraving thall be given in our next, may be feen at Mefirs. Gellings, in Flect-ftreet. EDIT. bridewell, and debtors ward, in this county. It has fince been carried into execution; and I flatter myfelf the criminals, as well as the public, are greatly indebted to him for the refpective benefits refulting therefrom. I am, Sir, with great efteem for this opportunity of fub fcribing myfelf your very obedient humble fervant, JOHN CALL. To the Committee, &c. GENTLEMEN, Aug. 25. AFTER contributing the trifle which grateful and generous plan of raifing a accompanies this letter towards the memorial to my worthy Relation (for fuch I have the honour to style him), deference to the gentlemen who compose Mr. Howard; I beg leave, with great the Committee, to offer a thought or two on the fubject of their propofal. Mr. Howard appears to me, from my own obfervation, and from all I have heard of him, to be modeft and diffident to an extreme-vanity has no fhare in his compofition-his good actions (pring from native benevolence alone, without any mixture of a wifh for worldly ap plaufe. To fuch a man, who fhrinks from public approbation, will not the fhowy tribute intended to his merits be exqui fitely painful? Statues are not very ufu ally erected, in thele modern times, to any perfons (crowned heads excepted) during their lives, more efpecially when the perfon fo honoured refides chiefly near the propofed fituation of this elegant memorial. Should this excellently-well. intended monument give fo much uneafinefs to the perfon it commemorates, as to make him avoid the metropolis, which has hitherto been a confpicuous icene of his benevolence, would it not then in vain be wifhed, that the execution of the plan had been deferred until his ideas on the fubject were at least gueffed at? I will hazard one more question.Suppofing that the fums ra.fed and to be reised for the Statue were to be em. ployed in alleviating the dittrels of prifoners, in rewarding and encouraging proper attendants on their fouls and bodies, in liberating thofe confined tor fm li debts; in thort, in following up thofe plans for the welfare of the deftitute part of mankind, which Mr. Howard's life and actions have always meart to inculcate, can there be a doubt of the fuperior pleafure which that Friend to Mankind would feel, when compared with his fenfations when he finds, on his re tura Letters for and against the HowARDIAN Plan. turn to Britain, an oftentatious token of gratitude, which can neither extend his fame, or aid the accomplishment of his defigas? It will give me fincere concern, fhould I find that my ideas on this fubject fhould give offence to a fet of gentlemen fo well-intentioned, fo liberally-minded, as the Committee to whom I addrefs myfelf; their candour will, I hope, excufe a variation from their opinions, a variation in which I am by no means fingular, fince the fame idea has ftruck many who have perufed the papers publifhed on this affair, and among these are fome who seem to be well acquainted with the fentiments of my excellent Rela tion. I am, Gentlemen, with true refpect, your devoted humble fervant, J. P. ANDREWS. MR. URBAN, Nervbill, Aug. 26. I THINK very differently to your correfpondent in p. 357 of your Magazine, who is of opinion, that it would be more to the honour of the nation that a Statue to Mr. Howard fhould be voted in full fenate. In that cafe a Statue would have been forced from the public; in the prefent, it is their voluntary act; and the voluntary commiffion of an honourable deed is infinitely more praifeworthy, than when fuch deed is only the effect of compulfion; befides, had the fenate voted a Statue, the fenate's would have been the honour, and the public's the expence. I wish his apprehenfions in regard to a portrait be not too well-founded; but perhaps fome artift of Mr. Howard's acquaintance may execute from memory a portrait of tolerable fidelity. Should that be found impracticable, what you have already hinted in your note may be adopted, and that would doubtlefs have the leaft tendency to wound the good man's modefty. As to the extravagant praifes mentioned, too much I fear has been, and will be, both faid and printed; but where is the juftice of fuppofing a man difgufted by the virtuous praife of his countrymen, as the friends of Dr. Johnson by the impertinence of thofe from whom friendship and gratitude demanded better things? The caules of difguft are so much more obvious in one cafe than the other, that I wonder your correfpondent fhould offer to compare them. I conceive, Mr. Urban, that in the erection of a Statue more honour arifes to Britain than to Mr. Howard. Never 629 fince the beginning, of time was a public Hifne, falus rerum, felix his Sylla vocari, Inclofed you receive five guineas, which And in his greatnefs dignifies her own. P. MR. URBAN, arduous obfcure individual to recommend the |