to the Papacy. And the Fifth Vial may be found to be carried into effect against the Papal Dominions by France itfelf; as it often happehs in life, that thofe, who have been the first to encourage iniquity, are the chief inftruments to punith it; though not from the pureft motives. Rev. xvi. 8, 9. And the fourth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Sun and power was given. him to fcorch men with fire. And men were fcorched with great heat, and blafphemed the name of God, which hath power over thefe plagues: and they repented not, to give him glory. Verfes 10, 11. And the fifth Angel poured out his Vial upon the Seat of the Beast and his kingdom was full of darkness: and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blafphemed the God of Heaven be caufe of their pains and their fores, and repented not of their deeds. The Sun has been fuppofed to defignate France; and I conceive the "Men fcerched with fire and great heat" to mean thofe who profefs the tenets of the Papacy; and that their Blafphemy confifts in their erroneous tenets and cuftoms, fome of which deferve to be filed blafphemous. See 2 Theff. ii. 4. And their not repenting to give God glory;" and their not repenting of their deeds," fignifies their adherence to thofe tenets, and their determination to maintain them, inftead of adopting the real doctrines of Chriftianity, and the pure worship of God. Arrête of Government, 21 Feb. 11th year. Review of the Situation of the Republic." The execution of the Concordat, against which the enemies of public order had ftill refted their cri minal hopes, has every where produced the inoft happy effects. The principles of an enlightened Religion, the voice of the Sovereign Pontiff, and the firmnefs of Government, have triumphed over every obftacle. Mutual facrifices have united the minifters of Religion. The Gallican Church revives' by intelligence and unanimity; and a happy change is already manifeft in the public the heart approximate; children be manners. Opinions and the dictates of come again more attentive to the voice of parents; the youth more fubmiffive to the authority of the magiftrates; the confcription proceeds effectually in all places, where the name of confcription alone ufed to excite a fpirit of refiftance; and devotion to the fervice of the country is a part of religion. "The Chief Conful has obferved, in the Departments he has vifited, proofs of this return to the principles which conftitute the ftrength and happiness of fociety. They blefs the return of Peace; they blefs the re-establishment of public worship. The other forms of Religion are organizing; and the contizens, known defenders of public orfiftories are compofed of enlightened ci der, of civil and religious liberty. "It is the duty of Government to promote and attend to these happy difpofitions." Perhaps alfo the Blafphemy vented by thofe on whom the plagues of the fourth Vial fell, may be thofe execrable fentiments and opinions poured forth in France for the laft lafto But, in that cafe, the fhew of a better state of Religion now in France does not fignify a good repentance; for the Papal opinions are re-established there. ten years. Morning Poft, Feb. 28, 1803. It thould feem, from Rev. xvi. 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, to the end of the Chapter, that the Papal Power will experience depreffions, and revive at times, though with abated power every time, till its entire deftruc tion. But it may be fuppofed, from the 12th verfe, that the Ot toman Power will fall at once. It is true, that other countries have fuffered feverely under the oppreflive and injurious conduct of the French Government, But, I prefume, not in a degree to be compared with France itself, and Italy. May our United Kingdom be admonished by thefe awful times! To confirm thefe obfervations, and, while we exercise the chathe arrête of Government, publifh-rity of Chriftians towards all our ed at Paris Feb. 21, 1803, deferves fellow-creatures, and compaffion attention. towards every thing capable of feeling, HE fending into the world the Tinclofed pour & contre on through the disease very favoura bly; but that he had afterwards taken it in the natural way-you fee what I have fuffered from it." "Southampton, June 28, 1803. "Facts are ftubborn things. One of my apprentices came from Salisbury went home to fee his friends before I came to London; returned back again a little before me, and gives us the fol Vaccination may help to fix fome wavering minds on the happy dif- lowing account refpecting the Cowcovery now extended to, and prac- bufinefs; and their maltiter was inocupox. His father carries on the malting tifed in, every quarter of the globe, lated for the Cow-pock, twice, about a while in the country which gave it twelvemonth ago. The fecond time it birth there are ftill fome who hefi- took, and he had a very pretty burthen. tate. General readers may very Acd now, while my lad was at home, naturally conclude that every rethis fame perfon, the maltfter, was not ported unfuccefsful cafe, if as fair- quite recovered (but in a fair way) of a ly and accurately related as that of very heavy burthen of the Small-pox. the Maltfter, would be as eafily an him, and are much concerned refpectMany of the Great have been to fee fwered. In fact, all the pretty ing their own children that have been burthens, eruptions, &c. and that lately inoculated for the Cow-pock. more plaufible appearance, the fpu- Can any of the phyficians, ftill fupport rious puftule, which follow the im- their argument in the defence of the proper conducting of the Vaccine Cow-pock? Let them if they can'; but (as well as the Variolous) Inocu- I will, ftill affirm, that facts are flublation, are very certain marks to born things." J.M. J. M." the House of the ROYAL the experienced eye of the effect KeplyJNERIAN SOCIETY." being incomplete. Indeed, it does not require much difcernment to The fact of the prefence of a diftinguish the true Cow-pock; and very pretty burthen" is a moft Stubthis is one very great advantage, born proof of the abfence of the among the other incalculable ones, Cow-pock, which only appears in one which it has over, the, Small-pox. fingle pimple at the fpot where the How cafes there have been of matter is inferted. many The Maltfter. fuppofed inoculation of the latter therefore never had the Cow-pock. which have proved unfuccefsful! Among many inftances which I heard of among the people even of the late expedition to Egypt, let by contents me offer one. The name of Stuart, lieutenant colonel of the 42d regiment, may be recognifed many of your readers: I mean the worthy officer whofe fignature has been published on the late difpute refpecting what has been called the "Invincible Standard." I do not remember any in the expedition more marked with the Small-pox. He told me, when going about the fleet in Marmorice harbour vaccinating, the foldiers and failors, "that he had been inoculated for the Small-pox when a boy, and had been confidered as having gone i J.W. ་ Mr. URBAN, Chichefter, June 30. of Sir Hans Sloane is much T HE enclofed original letter at the fervice of your excellent I conceive that its will be found interesting beyond either its mere title of antiquity, or the valued name of its author. J. P. ROBERDEAU. "Sir, London, Feb. 6, 1699. "I received yours, and fhall deliver Dr. Tyfon your letter to him. As to the matter of the feverall teeth of animals and their comparative anatomy, you will find a very ingenious and large account in Hernandez by Jo. Faber on the Animalia Mexicana. For my part, I believe I believe mankind can live on many forts of vegetables and animals and their parts. I have gathered toge ther an account of the feveral kinds of food I mett with that are used in moft parts of the world, fome of which are very strange, and yet fufficient to fuftain nature. Our bodies are fo contrived as to prepare and take out of all thefe fubftances what is beneficiall, turning of the ufeleffe excrements. In this matter nature far furpaffes chymiftry, in which different bodies require different menftruums to diffolve them. I read, fome months fince, a difcourfe on this fubject before the Royal Society, which I defign to publifh when there is room. Mr. Smith has promifed me to take care for paper both for you and Dr. Gregory, and to fend the fignature, &c. to the printer. "I doubt not you have feen a very malicious pamphlett against the Tranfactions. I am very glad the author of it was fo ignorant; fo in many things, he ridicules the terms of art, and lays down very falfe principles, that difficulties about the gravitation of the air. He has now printed his papers, and has taken occafion to abufe you, Mr. Boyle, and me, amongit the reft; but I am fomewhat of opinion, both by what I fee here and in his book, that he is fomewhat gone beyond ordinary understandings, and I doubt even beyond himfelfe. I am, Sir, your moft obedient fervant, HANS SLOANE." To Dr. SLOANE, SIR, Oxford, Feb. 19, 1988. "I received yours yefterday, and I thank you for it. I had heard of the book you mention, but have not feen it. The author of it, and of the Journey to London, is here faid to be Mr. King, formerly of Chriftchurch, Oxford, now of Doctors Commons, London, a Doctor of Civil Law. I do not hear him commended for either; and it is thought below his character to trifle at that rate. Nor have I feen that of Dumont. Such writers are beft anfwered by being neglected. They hurt nobody more than them who knew the leaft in furgery, ana- "As As to the fubject of my letter, natural history, I am much of your mind. I think muft own to be great mistakes: men may live upon fleth (with or and, for the criticall part, either he without other diet); or (without is altogether out, or frivolous. For fefh) on many other aliments. my part, I am not the leaft con- And I do not much doubt that, ber cerned at it, and fhall anfwer it no fore the Flood, they did eat flesh, other then by defpifing it. I as well as fince. But I think raw. hate ways not been yet able to find out flesh is not eligible food, where the author, or bookfeller; but, by others can be had. However, ufe, what I can gueffe by my beft in- or neceffity, may make it tolerable; formations, they are the fame that and the ape-kind (I think) do nawrote and printed the Journey to turally make choice of other food. London against Dr. Lifter. Though But the laft is much different when there is some reason to believe there, prepared by coction. But the quef were more than one about it, yet I tion is not, with what food a man believe the chief compiler was the may poflibly live, but what is most fame with that. Severall perfons agreeable to our conftitution. Some of the Societie are angrier then I, things, we know, are noxious; who am principally concerned in it. others are lets wholefome; and I have heard of it above a year fome things, which at firft are not fince. grateful, may, by ouftom, become more acceptable; the ftomach, by degrees, becoming fixed to its ufuall food. What kind of food is moft natural we may better judge tomy, phyfic, or y perfon felves. "There is alfo another libell printed in French in Holland by one Dumont. I formerly mentioned to you a perfon who propofed fome from from the ftructure of the inteftines, Mr. URBAN, July 2. attacks and devours the flock." In other words, the tribes of itinerant preachers know readily when and where to fecure a footing. But this they can never do where things are looked after, and the Church Service, and other offices, performed by a vigilant and exemplary minifter, who does every honour to the facred character. Of this parifh, under its prefent establishment, there is little to be feared Mthem in the world, have from innovation. But a contempt feen that there is nothing, however abfurd or unjuft, that fome oddity will not maintain and vindicate; nor any thing, though eminently good and virtuous, that others will not cenfure and calumniate. This reflection is brought on by your Reverend Correfpondent's letter, p. 512, concerning Northfleet church, of which the writer had no vanity, more than that if what he has obferved does not amufe, it will not miflead Mr. Urban's readers. This Reverend Critic's letter produces in the author's mind nothing but contempt of fuch ridiculous frivolity. This is all from authority, forfooth-no fuch thing; the reverfe is the truth; and every inhabitant there knows it. First hear the apology for dishonouring confecrated places; for who minds if fometimes an unlucky ball, or aftone from the hands of a boy, may break a quarry or two of glass in the windows of this old church? Bravo! Now the fports begin! now is your time, my lads! Break and fmath away! Confufion to old churches and old times! The Bishop of London, in his late vifitation through his diocefe, zealously admonishes his Clergy to perfevere in their endeavours to ftem the torrent now prevailing among fectaries, by a vigilant attention to their parochial duties, and of all things do honour to the church: "for," fays he, "when the fhepherd neglects his fold, the wolf, ever on the watch to plunder, *See the Autographs in Plate II. One or want of reverence for the edi- She moft accurately and faithfully defcribed, as could have been by any topographical writer what-ever. Therefore, I beg this Reverend Gentleman will difplay his talents in the Pulpit and Theological Magazines (for in the Gentleman's he appears as an Interloper), writing and not interfere with the innocent delight of Topographers, Antiquaries, and Hifforians. Yours, &c. This is the language of audacity with a vengeance. The other is like unto it; for the authority he prefumes to speak from is fomewhat equivocal; and, for his fake, it is to be wifhed he had faid nothing about it. The particular defcription he cannot relish. However, in fatisfaction of the writer of it, this harmless epithet was the addition of the Editor, who politely thus denominated the notes on his excurfion from town to relax a few days from the laffitude of clofe confinement. If this fhould be queftioned, the Reverend Vicar may afcertain the fact, and learn the Author's name, on application to Mr. Urban, who is entreated to give this long ftory, which the writer fends reluctantly, and only in juftice to himself. Mr. URBAN, ROBERT POсоск. July 10. CORRESPONDENT who A thinks that fome public tefti mony of the merit and talents of the late Wm. Boys, efq. fhould be given by the town and port of Sandwich as a tribute of refpect to that gentleman as the hiftorian of the place, and as an active and ufeful magistrate of that corporation, propofes that a memorial, either in ftatuary or bafs relief, fhould be erected by fubfcription in the Town Hall, or one of the parish churches; containing emblematical figures of Genius and Science prefenting to Time a medallion, or, portrait of the deceased; with the following or fome other appropriate infcription: To the memory of WILLIAM Boys, Esq. F. A. and L. S. S. an active and respectable magiftrate of this corporation, and alfo the hiftorian of this town and port; who died on the 15th day of March, 18c3, at the age of 68 years. The addrefs of Genius and Science to Time on prefenting the medal- Of all the ages paft! Which we ordain fhall live; In this diftinguith'd place," Mr. |