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Ipfw.1,Kentish 4
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Newcastle 3

Northampton 2

Norf.-Norwi. 1

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Reading-Salisb.
SCOTLAND 19

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Meteorological Diaries for July and August 666) ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION, No.CXXIII.699
A Monument completed for Mr. Addison..667 AntientModes of Farming, and FormsofOaths701
Lines written on seeing Rowe's Monument 668 ACritique by the late venerable Bishop Hurd 702
Brook House illustrated-Antient Signs. ibid. Remarkson Dissenters-Noble of EdwardIII.793
Sir Hans Sloane-Mr. Henry S. Woodfall. 669 Poetic Album at Snowdon-Irish Baronets ibid.
Horticult. Remarks-Migration of Swallows 67 0 Meteorological Tables for 1807 by Dr.Clarke704
White Lead Manufactories-Biblical Query 671 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS; viz.
The State of York Minster in 1806..... bid. Richardson's Poems and Plays concluded. 705
Topographic.Notes from Westmeston, Sussex673 Douce's Illustrations of Shakspeareconcluded709
--from Chitlington, Bucks 674 Clapham'sSelection of Sermons from Skelton7 13
Original Letters of Buonaparte and Buchinger67 5 Baynes's Discourses adaptedtoNaval Audience717
A Volunteer's Defence of Mr. John Carter 676 Letters from the Mountains-Morton'sSerm.721
Trojans and modern Abyssinian's compared 677 Visc.Sidmouth'sSpeech-Theoryof Dreams ibid
The Town of Hoddefdon defendedbyaModern679 Lett.toBp.of London-MemoirsofSirRPhillips ib
Family of Tresham-Bp. Goodman's Will 680 LITERARY INTELLIGENCE
Architectural Fragments from Bermondsey 691 Index Indicatorius-Questions answered ibid.
A Critique on Mr. Bowles's Edition of Pope 682 SELECT POETRY for August 1809.. 725-728
Dr. Lettsom's Fifty-third Letter on Prisons 682 Proceedings in the late Session of Parliament729
Mr. Neild's Remarks on Norwich Castle.. 683 Interesting Intell. from the London Gazettes733
Illustrations of Horace, Book II. Epistle 1. 685 Abstract of the principal Foreign Occurrences736
THE PROJECTOR, No LXXXVI.
691 Country News-Domestic Occurrences.. 744
Premium offered in 1792 by MedicalSpectator694 Additions and Corrections in former Obits. 746
Testimonial to the Merit of Rev. Mr. Usko 696 Births and Marriages of eminent Perions. 746
Remarks for and against Migration of Swallowsit. Obituary, with Anecdotes of remark. Perfons 747
New Volume by Mrs. Charlotte Richardson 697 Average Prices of the Markets, for August 759
Bishop of Cloyne's Remarks on Roman Roads69s Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks 760
Embellished with Perfpeftive Views of WESTMESTON CHURCH, SUSSEX, and CHITLINGTON
CHURCH, BUCKS; FRAGMENTS FROM BERMONDSEY ABBEY; AUTOGRAPHS OF BUONA-
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BY SYLVANU S

URBAN,

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Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet, London; where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addreffed, PosT-TAID." 1808.

cloudy in general

cloudy, fome rain

The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight o'clock in the morning, are 66 7-31; thofe of the correfponding month, in the year 1807, were 64 14-31; in 1806, 63; in 1805, 614; and in 1904, 62.

The quantity of rain fallen this month is equal to 2 inch 76-100ths; that in the corresponding month in the year 1807, was 4 inch 21-100ths; in 1806, 3 inches 87-100ths; in 1905, 2 inches 60-100ths; in 1804, 3 inches 78-100ths; and in 1903, 94-100ths of an inch.

The State of the Barometer for this Month has been omitted in confequence of the Barometer having sustained an injury.

Meteorological Table for August 1808. By W. CARY, Strand. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.

Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.

July

Aug.

27

66

60 29,75 cloudy, rainat
,52 rain [night 13
,70 fair

12

74

62

63

14

30 66 76 31 68 79 66 Au.1 67 68 64

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

For AUGUST, 1808.

INTENDED MONUMENT TO MR. ADDISON.

Ecce, inventus, adest!

Mr. URBAN,

August 15.
ET me inform you of an incident,

less gratifying to your judicious rea-
ders than to yourself. After the painful
interval of almost a century, that has.
passed in silent neglect. of the ashes of
our admired ADDISON, we are soon
to be indulged with an elegant and
costly monument to his memory.

By mere accident, I lately dropped in at Westmacott's, the sculptor, of Mount-street, upon other business in the way of his profession; when, to my inexpressible satisfaction, I was shewn "the breathing marble;" and, in a kind of extacy, could not but hail my countrymen on the near prospect of a desideratum so truly auspicious. It is of the purest white, representing his statue, apparently about seven feet high, elevated on a pedestal, or base, which is most happily fancied and adorned. The decorations consist of the Nine Muses, distinguished by their appropriate symbols, and gracefully grouped as in uni-` son, to support a character so long and highly revered by every Briton. The Latin inscription, now under the chisel, and drawn up very much in the chaste spirit and manner of the deceased, does credit to the just sentiment and classical taste of its composer *. His name at present has not been announced; but that of a distinguished Nobleman, with respect to the monument, is. well known, to whose singular liberality the publick will be ever indebted for so acceptable an oblation at the shrine of departed Genius. It has been said that

Mrs. Sartré, a sister of Addison, had destined part of her property to a similar purpose; but nothing of the

lotte, his only child, died a few years since at Bilton, a family seat, near Rugby, in Warwickshire; and, could her fortune have supported the expence, it is probable, from her character, that she would gladly in her life-time have raised some grateful tribute of the sort to her matchless parent. One thing, however, is most clearly certain; that long ago our country would have dignified it-, self by doing honour to transcendent talents, to inimitable wit, to every intellectual endowment, and every moral principle, in the person of Jo SEPH ADDISON; the amiable friend of virtue, the instructive sage, the sincere and exemplary Christian.

That the truly noble and munificent guardian of so great a name, may amply enjoy the consciousness of adding dignity to his own, is, believe me, Mr. Urban, the very cordial wish of Yours, &c. W. B. **

P.S. The following lines, written above 30 years since, by the Rev. William Thompson, may perhaps be no unsuitable appendage to the above. They pleased me at the first reading, from their connexion with the subject; and a perusal of them may equally amuse the myriads of your other friends.

To Miss ADDISON, on seeing Mr. Rowe's Monument in Westminster Abbey, erected at the expence of his Widow. LATE an applauding people rear'd the [owry: To SHAKSPEARE's honour, and alike their

stone

A copy of it, I am informed, was shewn to the late learned Bishop of Wor cester, Dr. Hurd, and had his Lordship's decided approbation.

+ The lady, as I have been recently assured, did leave a sum of money for erecting a monument to his memory; but Lord B. her executor, finding it inadequate to a work worthy of Addison, most handsomely made the addition it required.

A perfect

A, perfect whole, where part consents to
part,

The wonder, he of Nature, this of Art.
And now, a wife, ye wits, no more de-
spise,
[rise!

move

The name of wife bids Row in marble
Smiling he views her conjugal regard;
A Nation's cost had been a less reward:
A Nation's praise may vulgar spirits
[Love.
Rowe more deserv'd, and gain'd a sponsal
Oh, Italy! thy injur'd marbles keep
Deep in thy bowels, providently deep,
When Fools would force them over
Knaves to weep:

But, when true Wit and Merit claim a
shrine,
[mine!
Pour forth thy stores, and beggar ev'ry
They claim them now: for virtue, sense,
and wit,
[cours yet
Have long been fled, and want thy suc-
They claim them now, for one-yes one,

I see;

Mr. URBAN,

W. T."

Old Town, Stratford-
upon-Avon, Aug. 15.

OBSERVING in your Magazine

for April last, p. 289, a view of "BROOK-HOUSE," in which it is supposed our immortal Bard was born, and unaccompanied by any account whatever of the house itself; should you consider the following desultory observations and memoranda not altogether devoid of interest, they may not, probably, be unworthy of insertion in your next number. Upon refer ring to Shakspeare's will, contained in most editions of his Dramatic Works, we find that he possessed a house, &c. in Stratford-upon-Avon, held of the manor of Rowington, in this county but are uninformed concerning its particular situation. Whether this copyhold, which might have been subsequently enfranchised, was the identical house John Shakspeare, our Poet's father, possessed and resided in when this, his eldest son, William, was born, and which might afterwards descend to him, I have no information, sufficiently. authenticated, to justify its communication. Certain it is, that in 1640, this

“Brook-house,” so denominated from its contiguity to the Avou, or rather the ground whereon it stood, constituted part of the possessions of Charles Lord Carington, Baron of Wooton Wawen*, in this neighbourhood; at which period "it consisted only of a burn and backside, and a pleck of ground, or garden pleck." On the 1st sept. 1640, this burn, &c. was purchased in fee of Charles Lord. Carington, Dame Elizabeth his wife, Francis Carrington, alias Smith, his son and heir-apparent, and of Valentine Smith, by a Mr. Richard Hunt, and after wards descended to his great grandson and heir, Joseph Hunt, gent. of shipston-upon-stower in Worcestershire; being sold by him to James the year 1750. Mr. Holyoake soon Holyoake, geut, of Worcester, about after conveyed the property to Mrs. Dianal Careless, his then tenant; by whom it was resold to William Hunt, esq. of Stratford, who demolished the house, and added its site. to his garden, and whose son, Thomas Hunt, esq. is its present proprietor. We must, Mr. Urban, remark, that a century nearly elapsed from Shakspeare's birth in 1564, to the period, 1640, in which Lord Carington disposed of this property; when it consisted, as before noticed, only of a barn and

garden; consequently, the house of

which you have given a view, if indeed it was the original one, must have undergone astonishing transformations, from being the residence of our Poet's father, who was a principal inhabitant, member of the mu nicipal body corporate, and a reputable and considerable dealer in wool, the flourishing staple commodity of the town; thence dilapidated, during the silent course of nearly 100 years, to a barn; and afterwards renovated, and ultimately converted, as it undoubtedly was, into the comfortable habitation of a respectable family. Circumstances like these contribute but insignificantly to corroborate the opinion of that identical house, communicated to and engraved by you, being the place of our Poet's nativity, though I am unauthorized by

*This title became extinct in 1700, upon the decease of Francis Lord Carington, Baron of Wooton in Warwickshire, and Viscount Berrefore, in the kingdom of Ireland.

any