Anu EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN FEBRUARY, 1788. Rank 3 perCi 3 per Ct. Ditto 4 per Ct5 per Ct Long Short Ditto India India | India | S Sca 1726 Confol. Stock. reduc. confols. Old 1777. 1778 Stock. Ann. Bands. Stock. Ann. New per C New 13 per CaperCi Excheq Lottery Ann. 175 Navy. Scrip. Scrip. Bills. Tickets. Sunday 33 301 31 161 764 96 113 66 113 1611 763 96 1:3 22 14 28 16 14 Q 56 88 1614 76 961 113 222 133 84 2 1614 8 1611 9 161 To Senday 11 161 72 1614 13 34 16 15 16:2 16 20 1605 21 1601 22 1601 23 1604 24 Sunday 2 26吋 76 221 "N.B. In the g per Cent. Confols, the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; in the other Stock the highest Price only. 87 86 89 80 79 81 2 28 16 10 16 10 15 19 .6 2 116 10 O LOND.GAZETTE Public Ledger The World Bath 2 Birmingham 2 Bury St. Edmund's ST. JOHN's Gate. Derby Leicefter Lewes Chelmsford Coventry Cumberland For MARCH 1788. CONTAINING Meteor. Diaries for Mar.1788, and Apr.1787 186 Defcription of a curious new-invented Stove 209 ib. 280 By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON, Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of SAINT JOHN'S GALF. a Wryneck (jynx torquilla) returns and pipes.-6 Standard pear-trees in bloom.-r Paftures yellow with bloom of dendelions.- Phillyrea media in bloom. Leaves of forward horfe chefnuts half expanded.-f Some fwallows appear one hundred miles north of London, but none feen here yet.-g Minute pafture-ruth (juncus campestris) and ftichwort (ftellaria holoftea), in bloom. Elder (fambucus nigra) in leat. Cuckoo heard.Laughing wren (regulus non criftatus medius Raii) laughs.-k Tit lark (alauda pratenfis) and black cap (motacilla atricapilla) fing.-/ Redftart (motacilla phoenicurus) and fome fwallows appear.- Apple-trees and lilac in bloom. Finches ftill pull off the bloffoms (187 THE Gentleman's Magazine: For MARCH, 1788. BEING THE THIRD NUMBER OF VOL. LVIII. PART I. Mr. URBAN, M March 24. XXXY father (fays Triftram Shandy) bad fuch a fkirmifbing, cutting kind of way with him in bis difputations, thrufing and Kripping, and giving every one a firoke to remember him by in bis turn; that, if there were twenty people in company, in less than balf-an-bour he was fure to have every one of them against him. Somewhat, perhaps, of this characteristic is difcern ible in the correfpondence of the late Dr. Samuel Johnson. In two of his letters, published by Mrs. Piozzi, are the following ftretures; and on each of thefe I fhall trouble you with a few remarks, extracted from an explanatory note I have juft received from a friend, who thinks (like Falftaff) that fuch fneaps should not be undergone without reply. Vol. I. p. 326. Steevens feems connected with Tyrwhitt in publishing Chat terton's Poems; be came very anxiously to know the refult of our enquiries; and, though be fays be always thought them forged, is not well pleased to find us fo fully convinced. "That eagerness in Mr. S. which Dr. Johnfon conftrued into anxiety, was merely the effect of hafte. When he called in Bolt-court, he had little time to fpare; and being kept waiting till the Doctor could be prevailed on to leave his bed, might reasonably be allowed to urge the queftions he came to propose, with fome degree of earnest nefs and impatience. Mr. S. was that morning to fet out for the country, where he expected to meet Mr. Tyrwhitt; who, having heard of Dr. John fon's peremptory decifion in the business of Rowley, very naturally wished to be acquainted with the particular circumftances on which that decifion was founded. To obtain fuch intelligence for Mr.Tyrwhitt, was the fole object of Mr. S's early vifit and precipitate enquiries." That Mr. S. always thought the Poems forged, is certain. That he was not pleafed to find Dr. Johnfon fo fully convinced, is by no means a fact. It might rather be obferved, that Dr. Johnfon himfelf was piqued at finding Meffrs. T. and S. refolved to make their own eyes and understandings their judges in the Chattertonian controverfy, inftead of expreffing complete acqui efcence in his decrees. On his determinations, however, he wished them to repofe, ftrove to laugh Mr. S. out of his intended journey to Bristol, and fi nally dropped this ftroke of fatire on him, because he perfifted in his defign to accompany Mr. T. and look at manufcripts, of which the Doctor himself could be no competent examiner, for want of eye-fight keen enough to trace the weak veftiges of almoft evanefcent ink. On the fcore of knowledge in an cient hand-writing, his qualifications for the fame task were equally difput. able. Had Mr. S. however, been the firft to declare against the genuineness of these verses, was it not poffible tha bloffoms of the polyanthus. This gentle rain foaked into the grounn, and much encou raged vegetation; hafty showers in larger quantities are not fo beneficial, as they run of and feed rivers only. Saxifraga granulata in bloom.—p Alyffum faxatile and evergree candied tuft (iber fempervirens) in bloom. his friend the Doctor, to whom the caufe of the Savage or the Citizen* was indifferent, for the fake of mere contradiction, might have food forth the champion of the counterfeit Rowley? "But this farcafm on Mr. S. is of little moment. What follows is of importance, because it may, perhaps, be confidered as fome oblique reflection on the literary integrity of Mr. T. which, to those who enjoyed the happiness of his perfonal acquaintance, can want no juftification." Vol. I. p. 337. Catcot has been conwinced by Barret, and has written bis recantation to Tyrwhitt, who fill perfifts in bis edition of the poems, and perhaps is not much pleased to find himself mistaken. "As Mr. Tyrwhitt (unfortunately for the publick as well as his particular friends) can no longer vindicate himfelf, that office muft devolve on one who honours his memory, and, knowing all his gradations of belief as to the authenicity or illegitimacy of the pieces in queftion, thinks he ought not to fuffer the most remote infinuation to his difadvantage (and especially from the pen of a writer fo eminent as Dr. Johnson) to pafs without proper notice. "Before Mr. T. published his Chaucer, the productions of the fictitious Rowley were only known to him through the medium of partial tranfcripts, and extracts of very doubtful authority. When he was first favoured with thefe fpecimens, he was fufficiently willing to have fuppofed them genuine, but foon difcovered reafon enough for wavering in his opinions concerning their value, if confidered in the light of ancient compofitions. Till he visited Briftol, however, he had not feen the fmalleft fragment of their boafted archetypes. His judgement, therefore, might be allowed to Auctuate till the means of complete decifion were in his reach. No fooner had he examined the many-coloured "Rolles," (thofe jimie vetuftaris) than his fentiments became immutably fixed. Nevertheless, he refolved to proceed in printing the Poems, which had been already purchafed (as curiofities of dubious character) by his recommendation. Still he forbore to obtrude on the publick a fingle hint of his own concerning their spurioufnefs or originality; though he referved to himfelf a right of delivering his undifguifed opinions of them on fome future occafion. Of this privilege he availed himself, in an Ap See Mrs. Piozzi's Collection, vol. I. 115. pendix, about a year afterwards; and, had Dr. Johnfon been acquainted with the gentleman whofe conduct he under took to cenfure, he would never have urged against him, either as a weakness or as a fault, that he perfifted in his edition of the Poems, and was not much pleased to find himself mistaken. Mr. T. was wholly uninterested in the refult of the publication. He was equally content whether he was employed to enlift a poetical recruit, or to detect an impoftor who frove to difguife himself in the uniform of one of the oldeft regis ments of Parnaffus. Mere truth was the object of his researches; and, in the prefent inftance, he discovered it by his own fagacity, his judgement being alike uninfluenced by the recantations of Catcot, the difquifitions of Barret, and the decretals of Johnson.-And yet, had the Doctor's reprefentation of this matter been strictly juft, could it have been amifs if the vifitant of Fanny the phantom had been disposed to manifeft a lit the more indulgence to a quondam fceptic în the cause of the Pfeudo-Rowley ?" Mr. URBAN, London, Carling Sunday, Mar. 2: HAVE long threatened to trouble you with fome of my grandmother's faws; for, what we catch in our youth, we rarely lofe. At the diftance of nearly half a century, the tag of many a monkifh rhyme ftill rings in my ears. Born and educated in a Northern county of England, and therefore remote from the capital, their fayings, and their cuftems, which fill favour much of Popifh fuperftition, are not to be won dered at. In a former volume of this valuable work, you make mention of the Sunday fortnight before Eafter being, in Not tinghamshire, called Careing Sunday: Careing Sunday, care away; We have in Northumberland the following couplet, which gives name to every Sunday in Lent, except the first: Tid, and Mid, and Mifera, Carling, Palm, and Good-pas-day. ther they mean any thing, fome of your What the three firft mean, or whe correfpondents may inform us. of Pafque, the old French spelling for Pas-day is obviously an abbreviation after. Pas-eggs are ftill, I am told, fent as prefents for young folks in the * Vol. LV. p. 779. LVI. p. 410. Eafter |