is not, nor ever will be, a sincere ally to Britain; she is not content with immense regions to people, with a vast line of coast to navigate, and keep by these means free from European politics; but she will attempt, and she does attempt, a rivalry. To embrace the times as they are, to be placid with the events as they turn up, seems to be (circumstanced as we are) the truest wisdom; and after resolving, one and all, to work the rule of reduction individually, we may permit ourselves to take an extensive range of thought towards a future benefit; and here I would beg leave to submit to your ReadersColonization. Soame Jenyns ouce said, "the East and West Indies were two great wings, that would one day fly away with little Britain." An American once said to me on his own Continent, "I vow the Old Country is ruined-'tis gone." Now I deny both these assertions. Britain will remain Britain, if her sons will continue prudent. I now beg leave again to draw your Readers' attention, not to "wings," but to "feathers;" not to continents of such vast extent, but to islands, or to such local situations as afford reasonable grounds for great advantages to us. The Southern Archipelago, and the Southern extremity of Africa, open a wide field for colonization and for commerce. The small Island of Tristan D'Acunha, W. by S. of the Cape of Good Hope, about a week's sail, is now peopled with 500 settlers, and vines are planting, every effort making to be productive. Many other islands in that hemisphere increase the field for active attention; and the late information from the Governor of New South Wales is another field for energy; a superabundant population in a contracted spot may thus be found the means of " enriching a state;" alms, poor's rates, and idleness, cannot do it: not idleness from principle, I beg leave to add, but from want of employment. there certainly is a prospect, through the means of Colonization, of employ. ing our thoughts and our talents well, to the improvement of our commerce and our navigation, without which neither the landed nor the moneyed interest can long be in a flourishing condition. What has raised Britain to her present height among the nations, must be the means And Mr. URBAN, Shrewsbury, June 19. THE enclosed Inscription, which I transcribed from a large grave-stone. erected in the Churchyard of St. Nicholas in Warwick, com memorates an event of the most distressing kind, which happened in Mellow's-lane, in that town, on Sunday' I send it for insertion in your widely night, the 19th of November, 1815; circulated Museum, in hopes it may put people on their guard, and prevent a recurrence of similar disasters. Yours, &c. D. PARKES. "Beneath this stone, in one grave, lie interred the remains of OLIVER Newey, aged 38, late a private in the Warwickshire Militia; of REBECCA his wife, aged 42; and of JAMES, their only child, aged 12, who were all suffocated in the night of Nov. 19, 1815, by the fumes of burning coal, which they had incautiously placed, on retiring to rest, in their chamber. This monument to the memory of a brave Associate in Arms is erected by a few of his military comrades, in testimony of their high respect for his character as a good soldier, and an honest man; and with the ardent hope of holding forth, in the awful death of three unfortunate sufferers, a salutary caution structed; or, if instructed, be warned, to the living. Reader! if ignorant, be inby the melancholy event recorded on this stone and use your utmost endeavours to inform your fellow-creatures that the sure and dreadful consequence of breathing contaminated air, arising from burning fuel, in confined apartments, is instantaneous suffocation." He *** A FRIEND to ACCURACY is possessed of "The Works of Flavius Josephus, translated by H. Jackson, Gent. London. Printed and Sold by D. Henry, at the Printing Office, the corner of Red Cross Alley, in Jewin Street, 1732," folio. It appears to have been published by Subscription, and in Numbers. wishes to know whether the Printer was the respectable David Henry, who, for more than half a century was actively concerned in the management of the Gentleman's Magazine, as no mention is made in the Biographical notices of him in Vol. LXII. thereof, Part i. p. 578, and Part ii. pp. 691, 697, of his having at any time resided or carried on his business in Jewin Street. Mr. URBAN, Exeter, March 29. HE Spots on the Sun having exTH cited much of the public attention in the course of the last few months, I was frequently induced to make a drawing of their appearance. With this I send you a selection from a number of observations, by which it will be seen how irregular they are in size, number, and position; that they tend not to any particular direction, but varý every day: they appear to be opaque masses of matter attracted by the sun, continually floating within its atmosphere, and not, as some suppose, any part of the body of the Sun itself; for on the 6th of this month I particularly noticed the two oblong spots on the South-eastern lib, which appeared with a shade on one side of each of them, as if they were less dense on the edge next to the Sun's disk than on their inner edge. The spots have not, I think, any immediate influence on the weather; as it may be noticed that when we experienced a violent storm of wind and rain on the 20th of January, they were much scattered, yet they are not more compact on other days just before and after, when the weather was settled. I would remark that, at present, they are very small, and probably occupy altogether much less space on the Sun than they did in the Summer months of the last year. Mr. URBAN, M. B. July 1. THE HE celebrated Physician Dr. Mead some years ago printed and dispersed a Paper, intituled, "A Certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog." In referring to this Paper in his EssayOf the Mad Dog," contained in his "Mechanical Account of Poisons, London, 1747," Dr. Mead says, "I can safely affirm, that I have never known this method to fail of success, where it has been followed before the Hydrophobia began: although in the course of about thirty years (besides the experience made by others, both in town and country) I have used it a thousand times. I have often wished that I knew so certain a remedy in any other disease: I shall therefore give the reasons of this method." GENT. MAG. July, 1817. After mentioning "the most considerable medicines, which have been formerly used in this case," he continues, "From hence it appears, that the surest remedies in all ages against this venom have been such as provoke a great discharge by urine. Reflecting upon this, I thought it must be right to give to the publick a course easily to be pursued, which by preventing the fever for a long time after the bite, and constantly promoting this evacuation, might secure the patient from danger. The method is this: 'Let the patient be blooded at the arm nine or ten ounces. Take of the herb, called in Latin, Lichen cinereus terrestris, in English Ash-coloured ground liverwort, cleaned, dried, and powdered, half an ounce. Of black Pepper powdered two drachms. Mix these well together, and divide the powder into four doses, one of which must be taken every morning, fasting, for four mornings successively, in half a pint of cow's milk After these four doses are taken, the patient must go into the cold bath, or a cold spring, or river, every morning, fasting, for a month: he must be dipped all over, but not stay in (with his head above water) longer than half a minute, if the water be very cold. After this he must go in three times a week for a fortnight longer.' warm. "This powder was first published in, the Philosophical Transactions from Mr. Dampier, in whose family it had been kept as a secret many years: and in' the year 1721, it was, at my desire, put into the Pharmacop. Lond. by the name of Pulvis antilyssus. I afterwards made this alteration only, of putting two parts of Lichen to one of Pepper, instead of hot: and whereas but two or three thought it too equal parts, because doses of it were formerly given, I repeated it four days." See "A Mechanical Account of Poisons, in several Essays, by Richard Mead, M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. and R. S. S. Physician to his Majesty. The fourth Edition corrected. London, 1747." 8vo. This extract may possibly find admission into your Miscellany, if it is not already recorded in it. The Recipe may at this season particularly be worth attending to: at least the Extract may remind your Readers of the existence of a book which contains much curious information. Yours, &c. T.L.! Mr. Mr. URBAN, You July 2. OU have doubtless heard of Waterloo Waltzes, Waterloo Bonnets, Waterloo Shoes, &c. but not yet perhaps of Waterloo Literature. By this term is meant a narratory style, which resembles the pell-mell of the Battle, and consists in bulls, erroneous dates, and writing history, without collation of the incidents, or examination of opposing authorities. Its general principle is, to give exparte evidence a grand display, that the Reader may have the pleasure of finding it contradicted as he proceeds. The intention of this essay being a jeu d'esprit, the names of the authors will not ill-naturedly be given: but the Reader may be assured that the passages really exist. The Battle commenced by the famous attack upon the villa called here Hougomont. The Literature also begins with a misnomer: for it is allowed all sides that Goumont upon is the true appellation. A Paddy, who was an eye-witness of this gallant affair, after an elegant pleonasm, informing us that the inhabitants fled to the forest of Soignes for security, 66 and in the hopes of saving their lives," says, that "our troops retiring into the garden, did not yield one inch of their ground." The same writer, speaking of the fruitless efforts of the enemy, uses these words, "at no period, during the day, notwithstanding the heavy masses of infantry and cavalry which were advanced against our centre, time after time, he was never able to force our position." I proceed from hence to a concentrated account by an author, who with peculiar felicity distinguishes the Ex-Emperor by the elegant appellation of the Corsican. The first thing I shall notice is an anarchy of dates and incidents, very similar to the bull before quoted. It is a letter of the Marquis of Anglesea, in exculpation of his regiment, the 7th Hussars. This letter is dated Brussels, June 2, 1815, above a fortnight before the battle alluded to: aud, notwithstanding, speaks of the 17th and 18th of that month; as well as bears the signature of Anglesea, not of Uxbridge. Now as every body knows that the, battles of Quatre-bras and Waterloo were fought upon the 16th and 18th of June, we are, I presume, to con- We are next told that Buonaparte Napoleon put himself at the head of his guard, consisting of fifteen hundred men: to which the Enemy, greatly diminished in numbers, could offer no effectual resistance. As the guards amounted to fifteen thousands the Compiler proves also to be a dealer in diminution of numbers, and in a large way. In defiance of the guide's account, Buonaparte is made to escape in his carriage, which is described as "a complete office, bedchamber, dressingroom, eating-room, and kitchen." This Iliad in a nutshell is thus couverted into an impossibility. Though Fielding says that stage coachmen consider human beings only as baggage, whom, without regard to variations of size, by squeezing, they compress into the most portable form, to avoid waste of room; yet they would scratch their ingenious heads for a resolution of this wonderful convenience. The fact is, it only contained packages for various services, which were taken out and in, wherever Buonaparte stopped, as they were wanted; and were very ingeniously stowed in the carriage, like a dressing-case. The In a French account of the battle, fitter, 1 |