Aged 73, Stephen Jarrett, esq., of Jarrett's-pl., Hackney-road. At his son's house, Chepstow-villas-west, Notting-hill, aged 64, John Timewell Addams, esq., of Cheltenham. Feb. 13. At Queen's-terrace, Windsor, Eliza, widow of John Barr, esq. Ann, wife of Charles J. Heatley, esq., of Shenfield, Essex. Feb. 15. At the house of her brother-in-law, Westbourne-terrace-road, aged 79, Ann Rose, dau. of the late Rev. John Rose, D.D., Rector of St. Martin's, Outwich. At Lansdown-place, Brunswick-sq., aged 84, John Risdon, esq. Feb. 17, at Brighton, aged 34, Charles Kerrison Sala, son of Madame Sala. He fell down dead on retiring to rest, seemingly without the slightest pain. Feb. 18. At Clifton, Edward Frederick, second son of G. J. de Winton, esq., Capt. H. M.'s 99th Regt. In Brompton-cres., aged 74, J. Nicholson, esq. At Hanbury-mount, Worcestershire, Elizabeth, fourth dau. of the late Rev. Wm. Vernon, Rector of Hanbury. Feb. 19. At 10, Chester-ter., aged 17, Louisa, eldest dau. of Edward and Louisa Foster. Feb. 20. Aged 25, Eliza, wife of Thos. Dorking, esq., Artillery-pl.-west, Finsbury-sq. Week ending Saturday, TABLE OF MORTALITY IN THE DISTRICTS OF LONDON. (From the Returns issued by the Registrar-General.) PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD. Hay, 31. to 41.-Straw, 17. 7s. to 17. 10s.-Clover, 47. to 47. 178. 6d. Wallsend, &c., per ton. 16s. 3d. to 17s. 6d. Other sorts, 13s. to 15s. TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 59s. 6d. WOOL, Down Tegs, per lb. 19d. to 20d. Leicester Fleeces, 16d. to 17d. Combings, 15d. to 17d. Females. Total. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS taken at the ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH. From Jan. 24 to Feb. 21, inclusive. F.1 DAILY PRICE OF STOCKS. Jan. Bank and Stock. Long India Feb. Reduced. Consols. Cent. Bonds. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. APRIL, 1857. CONTENTS. PAGE MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-British Bishops at the Council of Arles-Was St. Dunstan a CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-Gresham College, 452; Margaret's Song HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.-Kenrick's Phoenicia, 468; Ieake's Promotions and Preferments OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Earl Amherst - The Earl of Harewood, 490; Dean of Canterbury, 491; Rev. John Collinson, 492; Sir G. W. Anderson, 493; Dowager Lady Talbot de Malahide,- Mr. James Taylor 455 467 476 478 489 494 CLERGY DECEASED 495 DEATHS, arranged in Chronological Order... 496 Registrar-General's Return of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets, 503; Meteorological 504 BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. BRITISH BISHOPS AT THE COUNCIL OF ARLES. MR. URBAN.In the year 314 we read certain British Bishops were present at the Council of Arles; three names only are mentioned-Eborius, Restitutus, and Adelfius; the first from York, the second from London, the third from "Colon. Londinensium." I know this to be a disputed point with historians; Selden and Spelman translate it "Richborough," can you tell me on what grounds? I have also heard it explained as Colchester; is there any authority for this? The third, however, is the rendering on which I especially require information. Stillingfleet renders it "Caerleon." Now this it would be most important to substantiate, because it goes far to prove a complete organization of the Church in England long before Augustine. The three great divisions of England send respectively their Bishops. York is still the chief see of the northern part; London was certainly the chief see of the south, till Augustine, by a wise stroke of policy, removed it as it were from its original site, in order to obliterate as far as possible the marks of the Early Church; and Caerleon was certainly the site of the principal see in Wales before it was transferred to St. David's. Now the question I would ask is, Is there any corroborative authority for translat ng Col. Legion. by Caer-Leon, any document? or coin, or stone inscription which would throw light upon the subject ?—Yours, &c. JASPER. WAS ST. DUNSTAN A BELL MR. URBAN.-What authority is there for supposing that St. Dunstan was a "bellfounder," as I have seen it stated? J. P. DR. GAUDEN. MR. URBAN.-In Kennett's Coll. Lansd. MSS. 1023, p. 433, (note), we have th following evidence that Dr. Gauden wrote, or materially enlarged the celebrated EIΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ : 'Among the papers said to be lost by Mrs. Gauden, his widow, was a Copy of pleads that which was done like a king a Letter to Chancellor Boyle,' where he should have a king-like retribution;' and that his design in it was to com'ort and encourage the king's friends, to expose his enemies, and to consult," &c. Kennett gives here a curious list of some of these missing papers, and adds. "Letters patent of King Charles II. dated the 20th Nov. 1660, granting to Richard Royston. of London. book-eller, the sole privilege of printing all the works of King Charles I., among which EIKON BAZIAIKH is mentioned with a particular character and commendation. And yet when the like privilege of reprinting the works of King Charles I. was granted by King James II., by his letters dated Feb. 22, 1685, though the grant refers expressly to the first edition, published by Richard Royston, in the year 1662, and in which his Majesty declares that all the works of his royal father were collected would not suffer EIKON BAZIAIKH to be and published, the King, notwithstanding, inserted as a part of those works. And the person chiefly concerned in the property of that edition, Mr. Richard Chishall, after a tedions and expensive applic tion, could only obtain, or rather take a cognizance of finishing the work with a FINIS set to it, and after the said FINIS to add that book, not as of equal authority with the rest." E. G. B. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SYLVANUS URBAN. CHAPTER IX. DR. HAWKSWORTH'S BROTHER-IN-LAW, MR. RYLAND.-MRS. MARY MASTERS.-MRS ANNA WILLIAMS.-JEDIDIAH BUXTON.-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND PETER COLLINSON. THE DEATH OF EDWARD CAVE. MR. BOSWELL once inquired of Francis Barber, Dr. Johnson's negro servant, who were the most frequent visitors to Johnson when he was left in deep affliction upon his wife's death in 1753. After mentioning Dr. Bathurst and Mr. Diamond an apothecary, and the blind Miss Williams who resided in the house with him in Gough-square, Frank added, "There were also Mr. Cave, Dr. Hawksworth, Mr. Ryland, merchant on Towerhill, Mrs. Masters the poetess, who lived with Mr. Cave, Mrs. (Elizabeth) Carter, and sometimes Mrs. Macaulay (then Miss Sawbridge); also Mrs. Gardiner, wife of a tallow-chandler on Snow-hill, not in the learned way, but a worthy good woman;" after whose names follow those of Mr. (subsequently Sir Joshua) Reynolds, and others of higher grade and greater notoriety. This passage presents a remarkable group of the immediate associates of SYLVANUS URBAN: naming first Mr. Cave, who, before another year was over, was himself in the tomb; next Dr. Hawksworth, who had become his best friend and contributor; and then Mr. Ryland, who was Hawksworth's brother-in-law. Mr. John Ryland, as well as Hawksworth, was one of the original members of Johnson's Club, formed at the King's Head, in Ivy-lane, in the winter of 1749. It did not last longb; but the survivors, Johnson, Ryland, Sir John Hawkins, and Mr. Payne, of the Bank of England, met again to 1 find, since writing the note to my last chapter, at p. 285, that my friend Hawksworth latterly wrote his name with an e inserted-Hawkesworth; which accounts for the orthography that has prevailed with his biographers. This alteration appears on the title-page of his Voyages, and in a letter written shortly before his death to Joseph Cradock, Esq., F.S.A., which is printed in that gentleman's Memoirs. b Sir John Hawkins says until about 1756, and he enumerates ten members; viz., the Rev. Dr. Salter, father of the Master of the Charterhouse; Hawksworth; Ryland; Mr. John Payne, bookseller, the original publisher of the Rambler, and afterwards chief Accountant of the Bank of England; Mr. Samuel Dyer; Dr. William M'Ghie, a Scots physician; Dr. Edmund Barker, a young physician; Dr. Richard Bathurst, also a young physician; Hawkins himself, and Johnson: but Dr. Johnson, in his letters to Mrs. Thrale, Dec. 13, 1783, and April 19, 1784, recognises only six-the four who met again in 1783, with Hawksworth and Dyer, then deceased; and says that they had not met for thirty years. |