it by saying that the child, having been exposed to the Small Pox, was infected. But how happened this? He had been inoculated by Dr. J. himself with the Vaccine matter. It is true," the appearance excited by its insertion, produced an effect that lasted two or three days only, and then died away." But, if Dr. J. did not know how to judge of the efficacy of this Inoculation, who shall decide upon it? And if he had not supposed his child safe from contagion, would he have suffered him to be exposed to the Small Pox at Cheltenham ?

There is great obscurity in Dr. Jeuner's Reply to the Second Question. If the child was infected with Small Pox, what signified it whether or not Dr. J. had Vaccine matter with him? and how did this want of Vaccine matter reduce him to the alternative of immediate inoculation?

I am no party man, Mr. Urban, in any way; but I am a little astonished at Mr. Taylor's mode of refuling the assertion of P. P. A LOVER OF TRUTH.

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ORIGINAL LETTER from

Dean BATHURST to Dr. BUSBY. REV. SIR, Oxon, Nov. 7, 1682. HAD not made a full distribution of your Benevolence to the Poore, till a little before I left Wells. Being now come to Oxford, I send you an account on the back side hereof; and withall, abundance of thanks and hearty prayers for your life and health, from many weake and indigent soules, who have been comforted by your bounty.

The fourscore pound you was pleased to pay-in to my brother Sir Benjamin Bathurst, I returned here: viz. 101. I payd to Mr. Chaunter (Dr. Creighton) for the repaier of the Choristers lodgings: the other 70%. I payd to the Commoner (Mr. Dutton) who reserves 507. of it to the fabrick of the Church; the other 207. he deposited in Mr. Healy's hand, to manage for the Library, with the concurrence and advice of our Brethren upon the place, according to your directions: And we do all returne you our hearty service and thanks for your noble and charitable intentions upon all those publick accounts. How the money is more particularly disbursed, you shall understand in time.

ready to call for your share at all Sealings, whereof he receives many a half-crown in a year, and I hope accounts to you for them. Dr. Sellek came not out of Stafford-shire till the audit was ended, which was my time of departure; so that I scarce exchanged 2 words with him. I suppose our Brethren will not be wanting to aske what they may, upon your account: but there is some talke, as though he threatned warre.

Sir, If in any thing I can serve you whilst I am in this place, 1 pray be pleased freely to com'and

Your most faithfull and affectionate, RA. BATHURST. Received by the hands of Dr. £. s. d. Creighton, 10 Guineas, i. e. 107. 15s.

Given to Mrs. Williams to distribute by her List of 60 poor people, as she doth weekly from myselfe

ToWidow Howell, and 2 others, by the approbation of the Chapter

1 10 0

0 10 0

To Mrs Bamfield, to distribute to her poore To the old servants of the Church, Gabriel Keck, Sanford, Gilbert, Lay To Davis's poore family, by direction of the Chapter To Widdow Witty, and another sick (by Mrs. Williams) To 5 of the Choristers To Mr. Hobs, for his wife (being very poore) To Alice, a poore chare-wo

More to some of the Choristers At several times, by small parcells

Left with some of iny Brethren and Mrs. Williams to distribute the day before I went away, the remainder

0 17

6

0 15 6

£.10 15 0

301. for his owne paines. He is very

College in Westminster.

Mr.

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Mr. URBAN, Shrewsbury, Aug. 3. BEG to offer you a sketch of the N. E. view of the antient and very curious Church of St. Alkmund in Shrewsbury, which, excepting its most beautiful steeple, was destroyed by the Parishioners in 1793. The drawing from which the inclosed is copied, was made by me a few days previous to the unnecessary demolition of the venerable fabrick, and is, I believe, the only existing representation of its Northern elevation.---(See Plate I.) Yours, &c.

H. O.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF HORACE.

BOOK II. SAT. I. JOTWITHSTANDING the relish

Rome still found in the satires of old Lucilius, the enterprise, however, of our hard to try his strength in the same species of composition, excited as much surprise as though he had ventured on that slippery path without precedent or example. Resentments naturally subside with time, and none had now any reason to complain of the liberties, however great, that, seventy years ago, Lucilius, the famous poet, had taken with the leading men of his age; they cropped the roses of his wit, without being wounded by its thorns, and laughed, with all their heart, at many a sarcasm, which had caused him at whom it was aimed, to make a sour face. We are at present in the same situation respecting the satires of Horace: but at the time, and in the place when and where they were written, many parts of them must indeed have produced a quite contrary effect; and though Horace (besides that he was really of that gentle and benevolent disposition which he assumes to himself in the fourth and sixta satires) from his easy and agreeable situation in life and the good company in which he passed his time, could never let his satire degenerate either into the angry snaps and bites of a snarling cynic, nor into the splenetic ravings of a disappointed man, nor like Juvenal's, into a bitter invective on the times: yet there were not wanting people, who were much alarmed for themselves, when they perceived what little ceremony he observed with a Gorgonius and Rufillus, with a Pantalabus and Nomentanus, Fannius and Tigellius, and

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it were much if even the artificial teeth of Cauidia, and the false hair of her friend Sagana, had not done him signal disservice with some fair ladies, whose charms he thus taught their rivals to suspect.

Horace had already in pretty lively colours represented to himself this inevitable fate of a young satirist, at the time when his first essays were circulating singly among his friends and acquaintance, in transcripts of their own taking: but having now collected them, and a whole volume of his satires lying on the stall of the brothers Sosii for public sale, the clamour raised by those who thought themselves struck at, exceeded his ex

gether with the manner of judging in general here and there, perhaps even in respectable houses, of his Socratic muse, seems naturally to have inspired him with the thought of prefixing to the second book of his satires, such a comic apology, as should procure aim peace for the future, and get the men of good understanding and nice dis cerument, as well as the laughers, on his side.

The wit, the bumour, the ingenuity, the urbanity, with which he has introduced these ideas in the present perfor mance, still continue surprising, even after he has so long accustomed us to find him uniformly equal to himself, and comparable to himself, alone. That strain of irony, in which none (the great Athenian master himself, not excepted) ever knew how to wanton with more elegance and ease than he, is called in most opportunely and successfully to his aid; it runs through the whole piece; agreeably insinuating itself into that playful style of simplicity and good nature, which is so peculiar to him; while both combine to shed a grace upon the whole, which may be better felt thau described, but certainly cannot be unobserved by any reader of taste, Nothing could well be more happily imagined, than in the ironical perplexity into which the contradictory judgments of the public on his satires have thrown him, to go and consult a lawyer, and (on which the whole matter ainges) of all possible lawyers, exactly Trebatius: an incident, whereby the poem at once acquires all the interest of a ludicrous dramatical scene, and the art

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