rian opening it only when he pleases! No fault in the books being so damaged during the twenty years fabbath of this reverend gentleman, as to require Mr. Charnley's assistance to restore them from the injuries of the dampth! No fault in the regula. tions being withheld! None in the old library being positively refused access to! None in the compromised attendance of the librarian or his deputy! None in that deputy receiving half the salary for half the statute attendance, and the real librarian curtailing the duties, and shielding himself under the smallness of the falary! None in many of the books entered in the catalogue being miffing!!! This gentleman would do well to take the number of years Mr. Ellifon has been librarian, which, multiplied by five, gives the sum he has received for buying books. How many has he purchased? If he wishes for conviction, let him apply to Mr. Charnley, of whom they were to be bought; but that worthy man has spoken for himself above. It is also said that Mr. Ellifon has no right to attend, or that it would be cruel to make him, when none, or only one or two, To this only one reply is necessary: be receives his falary; by so doing, he makes it his duty to attend whether any come or not: if he does not attend, or send a substitute, why receive the money? As to the old library room, if it was empty, it might be open to inquirers. But we would ask any of the trustees, Is it a crime to make it useful? Would it be " impudence," as one of those gentlemen has affirmed, " in any public body putting it to a public ufe," until wanted for the library, if the librarian fuffers it to be wanted at all? But Mr. Hird allows that there are fome books there; the neceffity, then, come. for 1 for its being opened, is obvious; and yet these clerical gentlemen are the first to raise the hue and cry of innovation, directing their anathemas at reformations! They should not vociferate the Io Paans of self complacency to stun the ears of those who, but for them, would hear the still small voice that reformers would use in their own defence. The only effectual cure we can point out is, to have the catalogue printed, as at Bamborough Caftle, with the above codicil and the regulations; and if any money is wanted to defray the charge of printing, &c. Mr. Ellison cannot better employ the balance of what he has received for buying books, than by aflisting such a publication with it. The falary is at present paid by a Mr. Bosville, in in the county of York; and the trustees, ex officio, are: Joseph Forster, Esq. mayor of this town. Rev. J. D Carlyle, vicar of do. *Rev. Dr. Thorp, archdeacon of Northumberland. SECONDARY. *Rev. Dr. Thorp, rector of Ryton. *Rev. Dr. Proffer, rector of Gateshead. *Rev. Mr. Greville, Rector of Whickham. Those marked thus (*) were, in conjunction with Mr. Reed, the late mayor, applied to; but have not yet thought any reform neceffary. Dr. Tomlinfon died March 24, 1747- OTHER OTHER LIBRARIES. At the New Affembly-house there is a fubfcription news-room, upon a plan peculiarly liberal and acceptable. Here, befides the public journals of every kind, a confiderable number of books, particularly those illustrative of the public tranfactions and events, and of the state of manners and literature at home and abroad, are purchased and preferved, and will one day form a very valuable library of the most popular productions, on all fides, upon the various interesting topics of discussion which, from time to time, have agitated the public mind. We cannot avoid mentioning the valuable circulating libraries of Mr. Sands, in the Bigg-market, and Mr. Humble, in Mosley-street; in which, particularly the former, are upwards of twelve thousand books, on every branch of science and literature. There is also a circulating-library in the Groatmarket, consisting chiefly of novels, belonging te Mrs. Chilton. CHA CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. The Manors, once the site of the sumptuous priory of the St. Austin friars, contain several charitable institutions, among which is JESUS HOSPITAL. This well endowed asylum had originally the name as above, but it is now called the Town's Hospital, or General Hospital, for the reception of the poor of the several parishes of the town. You afcend to it by stairs from the street, and then enter into a plea fant field, on the north fide of which is the faid hofpital. It is three stories high, and the under story is adorned with piazzas, which are about fixty yards in length, and make a very agreeable walk. About the middle of the piazzas is the entrance into the fecond and third stories; and over against this entrance is a fountain (very much beautified) for the use of the hospital. It was founded for a master and thirty-nine poor freemen, or freemen's widows. A. D. 1683, it was incorporated by the name of the Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the Hospital of the Holy Jesus, founded in the Manors, in the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, at the charge of the mayor and burgesses of that town, for the support, for ever, of poor impotent people, being freemen and freemen's widows, or their sons and daughters that had never been married. Thomas Lewen, merchant, was appointed the first master, with thirty-nine others, to have power to fue fue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, purchase and hold lands, and have a common feal, with a cross graven thereon, and in the circumference, "Sigillum Hofpitalis Sancti Jefu in Novo Castro." The mayor, aldermen, and common-council of Newcastle for the time being, were appointed vifitors, and to give rules and laws to this hofpital. These rules were drawn up and fealed in the year 1683. So benevolent an institution, serving as a calm and peaceful retreat in a most delightful fituation, foon experienced that the observation of St. James (ch. ii. v. 15) was inapplicable to their generous patrons: "If a brother or fister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?"- What indeed? The most substantial fources of support for the Freemen's Hofpital are as follow. A. D. 1683, a messuage, key or quay, and garden, in that street called the Close, in Newcastle, was purchased by the mayor and burgeffes for seven hundred pounds, and fettled on the master, brethren and sisters of this hofpital. In the year 1683, an estate at Edderly, in the county of Durham, was purchased as above for one. thousand fix hundred and ten pounds, and settled on the above master, &c. In 1685, an eitate at Whittell, in the county of Northumberland, was purcahsed as above for one thousand three hundred pounds, for the same charitable purpose. |