Prices of Grain-Theatrical Regifler.-Bill of Mortality. have left fome papers behind him, on the ufeful fubject of ventilation; which it is much to be hoped his nephew (who we understand to be his executor) will in no great length of time oblige the world by publishing. 20. After a few hours illness, at his house in Uxbridge, the Rev. John Lightfoot, M.A. Promotions, Preferments, &c. are 183 F.R.S. rector of Gotham, co. Nottingham, and author of the "Flora Scotica;" well known for his proficiency in botanical and natural knowledge, and the companion of Mr. Pennant in his tour through Scotland. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, Wheat Rye Barley Oats Beans s. d.js. d.js. d.js. d.js. d. 5 913 312 912 02 10 COUNTIES INLAND. 26. At Greenwich, Mrs. Standert, widow of Frederick S. efq. unavoidably poftponed for want of room. from Feb. 11, to Feb. 16, 1788. IL London Eflex 02 912 13 5 Durham 51 92 Rutland 02 61 102 Leicefter Nottingham Derby 16576∞o & moo 73 37 Northumberld. 5 43 52 8 5 8,3 6/2 61 11 8 Monmouth 5 100 4 Somerset Cornwall 5 80 02 9 I 5 112 82 71 11 5 80 5 2 2. Fate of Sparta-Comus. 4. The Heirefs-Selima and Azor. 9. The Fate of Sparta-Cómus. 14. The Fate of Sparta-The First Floor. 15. Redemption. 16. The Fate of Sparta-The Deserter. 18. Richard the Third-Harlequin Junior. 19. The Fate of Sparta-Selima and Azor. 20. Alexander's Feaft. 21. Love in a Village-Harlequin Junior. 23. The Fate of Sparta-The Humourist. WALES, Feb. 4, to Feb. 19, 1988. North Wales 5 9/4 3/3 1 104 5 1. The Man of the World-The Farmer.. 2. Robin Hood-Midnight Hour. 4. Confcious Lovers-Maid of the Oaks. 5. Love in a Village-Comus. 7. The Beaux Stratagem-The Farmer. 19. The Recruiting Officer-The Farmer. BILL of MORTALITY, from Feb. 5, to Feb. 26, 1788. 967 1137 965 1139 223 NB. In the 3 per Cent. Confols, the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; 14 5 16 6 7,Sunday: 18. 91601 10 1605 I 1604 22 160 23 166% 24 Sunday 763 763 76 66 2 16 8 6 28 A Public Advertifer Gazetteer Public Ledger The Times The World Bath 2 Birmingham 2 Bristol 4 Bury St Edmund's CAMBRIDGE Canterbury 2 Chelmsford Coventry Cumberland ST. JOHN's Gate. Derby Lewes Liverpool 3 Maidnone Manchefter 2 Northampton Nottingham YORK 3 220 Meteor. Diaries for Mar.1788, and Apr. 1787 186 Defcription of a curious new-invented Stove 209 233-24 Embellished with a Portrait of Dr. HENRY DE JUSTEL; a fine old CHIMNEY PIECE at SALISBURY; a curious new-invented STOVE; a ROMAN VASE; Remarkable SEALS; a SILVER COIN, &c. &c. By LONDON, SYLVANUS URBAN, Genc. 279 280 Frinted by JOHN NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of SAINT JOHN & GATE. W. CARY, Mathematical Inftrument-Maker, oppofite Arundel ftreet, Strand. 46 53 40 29.54 fair 42 52 44 29,63 fair overcast and gloomy fmall rain fair and pleasant overcaft and windy, rain & fun, and clouds, brisk wind c fun and wind d white froft, bright and fill e 12 28 39 33 50 E overcaft, with wind a OBSERVATIONS. funfhine through haze, ftill f heavy clouds, and fun g clouds and fun i fun and clouds, harsh wind overcaft with wind, ftormy night clouds and wind overcaft, harth, drying wind a Wryneck (jynx torquilla) returns and pipes.- Standard pear-trees in bloom.- Paftures yellow with bloom of dendelions. Phillyrea media in bloom - Leaves of forward horte chefnuts half expanded -f Some fwallows appear one hundred miles north of London but none feen here yet.-g Minute paiture-ruh (juncus campestris) and itichwort (ftellaria holoftea) in bloom. Elder (fambucus nigra) in leat. Cuckoo heard.Laughing wren (regulus non criftatus medius Raii) laughs. Tit lark (alauda pratenfis) and black cap (motacilla atricapilla) fing. Redftart (motacilla phon.curus) and some swallows appear.- Apple-trees and lilac in bloom. Finches still pull off the bloffoms M Mr. URBAN, March 24. XXY father (fays Trifiram Shandy) bad fuch a fkirmifbing, cutting kind of way with him in his difputations, thruffing and ripping, and giving every one a firoke to remember bim by in bis turn; that, if there were twenty people in company, in less than balf-an-hour he was fure to have every one of them against him. Somewhat, perhaps, of this characteristic is difcernible in the correfpondence of the late Dr. Samuel Johnson. In two of his letters, published by Mrs. Piozzi, are the following str&tures; 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 Fal ftaff) that fuch fneaps should not be undergone without reply. Vol. I. p. 326. Steevens feems connected with Tyrwhitt in publishing Chatterton's Poems; be came very anxiously to know the refult of our enquiries; and, though be fays he 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 al lowed to urge the queftions he came to propof, 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 deciñon 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 controversy, inftead of expreffing complete acquiefcence in his decrees. On his determinations, however, he wished them to repofe, ftrove to laugh Mr. S. out of his intended journey to Briftol, and fi nally dropped this ftroke of fatire on him, because he perfifted in his design 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 almost evanefcent ink. On the fcore of knowledge in ancient hand-writing, his qualifications for the fame tak were equally difput. able. Had Mr. S. however, been the firft to declare against the genuineness of thefe verfes, was it not pollible 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 off and feed rivers only. Saxifraga granulata in bloom.-p Alyffum faxatile and evergree candied tuft (iber fempervirens) in bloom. |