Mr. URBAN, IN Feb. 19. N your Magazine for laft October, your correfpondent H. D. takes rctice of a new appellation for the Sunday fortnight before Eafter, viz. Careing Sunday, In Northumberland that day is called Carling Sunday. The yeomanry in general feep peas, and afterwards parch them, and eat them on the afternoon of that day, calling them Carlings. This is faid, by an old author, to have taken its rife from the difciples plucking the ears of corn and rubbing them in their hands. Alfo Palm Sunday is faid, by the fame author, to have taken its name from the branches of palm-trees ftrewed in the way as our Saviour entered Jerufalem. Branches of that tree are frequently worn as nofegays on that Sunday, when it falls fo late in the feafon that the trees are in flower. In the faid county is ufed the following couplet on the fix last names of Sundays in Lent: Tid, mid, miferay, Carling, palm, and good-paste-day, Of the first three names I have no where met any explanation. The last are explained above, except good-pafte-day, which feems borrowed from the Jewish rites of the Passover. Yours, &c. PHILO-BOTANICUS. MR. URBAN, Acton, May 23. OUR correfpondent X. (p. 282) fays, that our Reformed church does not retain the cuftom of bowing at the name of JESUS, becaufe no rubric requires it. But the canons must be alfo regarded. The 18th contains directions for regulating the behaviour of its members during their attendance upon public part of it: "When in time of divine worfbip. Pertinent is the following fervice the LORD JESUS fhall be mentioned, due and lowly reverence fhall be done by all perfons prefent, as it hath been accustomed; teflifying by thefe outward ceremonies and geftures their inward humility, Chriftian refolution, and due acknowledgement, that the * Vide Plott's it. of Staffordshire. P. S. The words, Phil. ii. "at the name of JESUS every knee fhall bow, &c. and every tongue confefs," &c. not only juftify our conformity to the cuftom of fo bowing, but at least intimate his divine and adorable nature. They are cited from Efh. xlv. "Look unto ME, and be ye faved, all the ends of the earth: for I am Gop, and there is none elfe-unto ME every knee fhall bow, every tongue fhall wear." The infpired apoftle applies the folemn words to the "GOD manifefted in the fieth," who declares, "I and my FATHER are One." MR. URBAN, IN May 20. N the notes of references fubjoined to Bishop Tanner's account of the priory of Montacute in Somerfetfhire (Notit. Monaft. p. 467), it is mentioned, that tranfcripts of many deeds formerly belonging to that religious houfe were, anno 1698, in the poffeffion of Mr. Andrew Pafchall, rector of Chedsey, near Bridgewater; and in the "Magna Bri tannia," publifhed in 1728, feveral deeds of gift relative to the nunnery of Campfey Afh, co. Suffolk, are faid to be then in the hands of Francis Canning of Foxrofe, Warwickshire, efq. Should any of your readers be apprized where thefe deeds if extant, or tranfcripts of them, are depofited, by communicating fuch information in your valuable Mifcellany, they will much oblige, Yours, &c. MR. URBAN, T. Ros. May 21. Curfe of Scotland," to the nine of diaHAVE always underflood, that the monds [fee p. 391] was not earlier than the year 1707; and I must own I think it more probable that the nine lozenges in the arms of the Earl of Stair, who made the Union, fhould have given rife to the phrase, than the arms of Packer. But of this I leave your correfpondent to judge. Yours, &c. ARUNDEL. 52. Objer Review of New Publications. 52. Obfervations Critiques fur les Memoires de M. le Baron De Tott, par M. De Peyf fonnel. THE 411 rilous and uncertain, as they are repre- - in HE author of thefe Obfervations on Baron Tott's Memoirs, which we have already mentioned, with particular commendation *, is M. de Peyffonnel, a perfon well qualified for the tafk he has undertaken, having refided many years at Smyrna, as conful for the French nation, and having holden the fame poft which the Baron held in the Court of Tartary. He acknowledges that the first perufal of the Memoirs afforded him the moft lively plea-" to give a foreigner an idea of French fure; but that, upon mature confidera- "jurifprudence? or, if he purposed to tion, there appeared many material_er- • "defcribe the nature of the French rors in the courfe of the detail. Thefe "conftitution, would select the reigns he now undertakes to point out and re- "of Charles VI. or Louis XI. ?". move; but wishes, in the performance With the exception of fome few partiof his talk, to be regarded, not as a culars of a trivial nature, the observer critic cenfuring a work which he con- confirms the Baron's account of the demns, but as a commentator illuftrat Tartars. Of the celebrated fea-fight ing and correcting a book which he ad- between the Turks and Ruffians this mires, and which he is defirous of ren- writer gives a curious and particular dering perfect. Of the Letters of our account, collected from the moft aucountrywoman, Lady M. W. Moun- thentic information. This, he fays, is tague, which the Baron has treated as a mifreprefented in the Memoirs; work written rather for entertainment which alfo the remarks on the religious than information, the obferver fpeaks orders, and on the military establishwith the highest praife. "Thofe (lays ments, are vague and unfatisfactory."he) who have long refided amongst After pointing out various other errors, "the Turks, who are acquainted with he concludes his obfervations with an "their manners, customs, laws, govern clogium on the fidelity and elegance of "ment, with the genius of their lan- the Letters of Lady M. W. Moun66 guage, and who have intimately tague. He takes his leave of the Mar"known many of the events which the quis de N-, to whom thefe remarks "relates, thofe will find her informa- are addreffed, in the following manner. "tions in every part authentic and "I have performed, Sir, the task you "true."-The obferver remarks, and "have affigned me; and, notwithstandindeed proves, that the Baron has no ing the various errors that continually critical knowledge of the Turkish lanoccur, the Memoirs have afforded me guage, and is entirely unacquainted great and repeated pleasure. I could with their literature, which is by no "have withed that the Baron had not means in that contemptible ftate which "fo haftily and unfavourably decided the Memoirs reprefent; for the ob- "on the genius of the Turks; though ferver tells us, that the Turks have a "he could not perhaps have given any great variety of books, in almost every department of useful and polite learning; but, in their profound ignorance of the arts and fciences, he, in fome measure, confirms the Baron's affertion. Almost every thing that is advanced in the Memoirs refpecting the Turks is controverted in these Obfervations. M. de P. fpeaks not unfavourably even of the conftitution and jurifprudence of Turkey. He tells us, that the defpotifm of the fovereign is not fo unlimited, or the fituation of the fubject fo pe * See our vol. LV. pp. 374. 632. particular praife to the prefent gene"ration, he might, not without reason, "have formed more favourable hopes "of their defcendants. A thick cloud "indeed at prefent overshadows the "Ottoman empire, but he is yet young "enough to fee that cloud pafs away. "I am entirely of opinion, that the "Baron did not write the Memoirs as "they are printed, but that they have "found their way, by furreptitious 66 means, to the publick; for they a"bound with errors which could not 66 proceed him. We muft, without doubt, expect a more ample and exact "edition. 412 Review of New Publications. Notwithstanding the doubts of M. de Peyffonnel, the Memoirs are undoubtedly genuine; to which these Obfervations form an excellent, and, as it appears, a very neceffary fupplement. We do not know that any tranflation of them has yet been given. The publick will however expect it from the tranflator or tranflators of the Memoirs. We cannot quit this fubje&t without offering what appears a very obvious apology for the defects of the Memoirs. The peculiar fituation of the Baron de Tott in Turkey was unfavourable to accurate obfervation; for though that fituation might give him opportunity of feeing many things inacceffible to others, the magnitude and variety of his duties did not leave him leifure to remark them with care, or to remember them with exactnefs. Of Tartary, where he had no other avocations but the common bufinefs of his poft, the obferver tells us, he has given a clear and faithful account. We are indebted to the Baron de Tott for much enter tainment, and for confiderable information on fubjects of which before we had a faint and partial knowledge; and we are alfo indebted to the appearance of the Memoirs for the communications of M. de Peyffonel. 53. Sunday-Schools recommended, in a Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Alphage, Canterbury, by George Horne, Dean of Canterbury, and Prefident of Magdalen College, Oxford. With an Appendix, concerning the Method of forming and conduding an Eftablishment of this Kind, Publifhed for the Benefit of a Sunday-School. Oxford. THE mind condemned to toil through the various publications of the day, where truth is facrificed to fophiftry, every contest is embittered with rancour, and, where the only purfuit is the vain breath of popular applaufe, refts with peculiar fatisfaction on a work like this, where Genius and Learning are united with Truth and Benevolence.. This excellent difcourfe is written with the fame elegance, eafe, and originality, which characterife the former works of its author, and is equally formed to fatisfy and delight the Chriftian, the Pa triot, and the Scholar. The Appendix confifts of letters on the subject of Sunday- fchools from the Rev. Mr. Hearne, rector of St. Alphage, în Canterbury, the Rev. Mr. Moore*, of Boughton, Rev. Mr. Parfons, of Wye, both in Kent, and from James Sixt, Efq. of Canterbury; all of whom have, in their refpective parishes, received and protected this laudable institution. It will not, we truft, be deemed too great a tranfgreffion on this publication, that we have extracted the whole of Mr. Hearne's letter, as it contains the most useful information on the fubject, and difplays fo much Chriftian zeal and benevolence, directed by the most exemplary prudence. To the great work of general reformation every one fhould contribute his affiftance; for, if the great deed be done, it must be effected, not by the efforts of any particular description of men, but by the general and united exertions of the whole mafs of the people, by Clergy and Laity, Rich and Poor, Learned and Ignorant. Each should avail himself of thofe occafions which his particular fituation may offer; and not unfrequent occafions will present themfelves to all :-and we hope, in our department, to contribute to the general good, by fpreading, as far as our Mifcellany extends, the excellent examples of the Author of this Sermon and the Rector of St. Alphage, for the edification of the Dignified and Parochial Clergy. After making two fhort extracts, we fhall conclude our remarks on this difcourfe with earnestly recommending it to the attention of our readers. "It is a great happiness that men, in their prefent flate, are not immortal. An evil ge Deration paffes away; and therefore, if proper care be taken, it may be fucceeded by a good one. Elfe, were the cafe of the world lamentable indeed! With old offenders little can be done. Hard labour, fpare diet, and, above all, folitude, might do fomething and the experiment, it is greatly hoped, will be made. But, in general, if the husbandman has dug in vain about the trees in his garden, and taken every other ftep neceffary for their improvement, his method must be, to train up younger and better plants, which may answer the end of their plantation, and bear fruit when the others thall be no longer fuffered to cumber the ground."..... "Of every community, as it has pleased GOD to ordain in the prefent conftitution of * See p. 137. + P. 138. + P. 39. things, Review of New Publications. things, the poor must always form a confi. derable majority. The neceffities of mankind could never else be supplied; for the rich will not labour; but they are constrained to pay thofe who, for their own and the common good, can and will labour. In return for thefe fervices, the rich, if they were wife, fhould do every thing in their power to make and to keep the poor honest, virtuous, and religious; to inftruct, or procure them to be inftructed, in the knowledge and practice of their duty to GOD and man; more especially to fet them a proper example. This, I fay, would be to act the part of wife men, as well as good men. For when the religious principle is once perished and gone in the poor, human laws will lofe their effect, and be fet at nought." 54. Narrative of the Death of Captain Cook, c. By David Sarnwell, Surgeon of the Discovery. 4to. circumna THE object of this publication is, to vindicate the conduct of Capt. Cook, at the time of his death, from the charges of confidence and rafhnefs, which have been by fome imputed to it. Thofe falfe and injurious ideas arofe, we believe, from a hafty and unauthentic Journal of the Voyage, which appeared in 2 vols. 8vo.; but were effectually difproved by the publication of the genuine account. This Narrative, though more circumftantial, does not materially differ from Capt. King's relation, except that it mentions an unfortunate miftake of a fignal, which caused, perhaps, the death of our great vigator. This Narrative contains alfo fome particulars of the life and character of Capt. Cook. In correcting an error of Capt. King's, refpecting the time of his birth, the narrator is hunfelf mistaken. "His name," fays he, "is "found in the parifh-regifier in the "year 1729;" (fo that Capt. King was miftaken in placing the time of his birth in the year 1727.) The Voyage, how. ever, tells us, that he was born on the 27th of October, 1728.-The account concludes with the writer's remarks on the introduction of the venereal difeafe into the Sandwich Islands, where he thinks it was known before the arrival of the Europeans. The arguments which he advances in fupport of his opinion are not without weight, and, for the honour of our country, we hope that his opinion is true. "If," fays he, we for a moment fuppofe that the late voyages to the South Sea Iflands have "been the means of diffeminating the GENT. MAG. May, 1786. 413 "venereal difeafe among the inhabi"tants, the evil is of fuch a magnitude "that we are induced to with they had "never been undertaken: for who "would not fooner remain ignorant of "the interefting difcoveries which have "been made, than bear the reflection of "their having been attended with fuch an irreparable injury to a happy and "uncontaminated people?" 55. Poems, and other Pieces. By Henry Headley. fm. 8vo. MR. HEADLEY has, we believe, before attracted our notice, and received our commendation, as the author of Fugitive Pieces (reviewed in vol. LV. p. 557); for in that publication, which appeared without the author's name, we Yecollect the Ode to the Memory of Chatterton, and Verfes written amidst the Ruins of Broomholm Priory, both of which we find in this. Notwithstand ing the correction which the poems may have received in this republication, they are ftill incorrect. If the ftructure of our author's blank verfe be formed on any model, he has been moft unhappy in his choice: it is little better than measured profe, and wants that strength and harmony which is produced by the of Poetry!) by the elifions of Milton. varied paufes and (tua pace, O Profeffor Our remarks are not intended to repress this author's literary labours (many of which occafionally grace our pages), but to incite him to purfue them with additional vigour and perfeverance, for his works are entitled to confiderable praife. His thoughts are, in general, poetical, original, and juft; and, in our opinion, he poffeffes talents which time and application may mature into excellence. To direct his ftudies, and to correct his judgment and his tafte, Mr. Headley cannot have a more valuable friend than the learned, ingenious, and refpe&table character to whom the poems are dedicated.-We fhall felect "VERSES written on a WINTER'S NIGHT. "Who heeds it, when the lightning's forked gleam The rifted towers of old Cilgarran Arikes? Keen from the piercing East, or when the blast In deathful fpeed at midnight howls along May 414 Review of New Publications. May play the ruffian with a vermeil cheek, That, in no fingle eye, through the wide Save mine alone, her gentle image lives. none, are Who bask in funshine of profperity, The train of blufhlefs Folly fweeping by, Nor dare, though hunger gnaws, to dog its heels, Before old age comes on, and beckons Death, To have the memory clean forgotten, 56. Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes of Dr. Johnfon. WITH this lady's proje character of Dr. J. (as a companion to her poetical one, inferted in p. 331,) we will now conclude our extracts. "It is ufual, I know not why, when a character is given, to begin with a defcription of the perfon; that which contained the foul of Mr. Johnfon deferves to be particularly defcribed. His flature was remarkably high, and his limbs exceedingly large. His frength was more than common, I believe; and his activity had been greater, I have heard, than fuch a form gave one reafon to expect. His features were ftrongly marked, and his countenance particularly rugged, though the original complexion had certainly been fair a circumftance fomewhat unusual. His fight was near, and otherwife imperfect; yet his eyes, though of a light-grey colour, were fo wild, fo piercing, and at times fo fierce, that fear was, I believe, the firft emotion in the hearts of all his beholders. His mind was fo comprehenfive, that no language but that he ufed could have expreffed its contents; and fo ponderous was his language, that fentiments lefs lofty and lefs folid than his were, would have been encumbered not adorned by it. "Mr. Johníon was not intentionally, however, a pompous converfer; and though he was accufed of ufing big words, as they are called, it was only when little ones would not exprefs his meaning as clearly, or when perhaps the elevation of the thought would have been disgraced by a dress less fuperb. He used to fay, that "the fize of a man's understanding might always be juftly "meafured by his mirth," and his own was never contemptible. He would laugh at a Aroke of genuine humour, or fadden fally of odd abfurdity, as heartily and freely as I ever yet faw any man; and though the jest was often fuch as few felt befides himself, yet his laugh was irrefiftible, and was obferved immediately to produce that of the company, not merely from the notion that it was proper to laugh when he did, but purely out of want of power to forbear it. He was no enemy to fplendour of apparel, or pomp of equipage. "Life (he would fay) "is barren enough furely, with all her trap"pings; let us therefore be cautious how "we firip her." In matters of fill higher moment he once obferved, when speaking on the fubject of sudden innovation, "who plants a forest may doubtless cut down "a hedge; yet I could with, methinks, that " even he would wait till he fees his young "plants grow." He "With regard to common occurrences, Mr. Johnfon had, when I first knew him, looked on the ftill fhifting fcenes of life till he was weary; for as a mind flow in its own nature, or unenlivened by information, wil contentedly read in the fame book for twenty times perhaps, the very act of reading it, being more than half the business, and every period being at every reading better underftood; while a mind more active, or more fkilful to comprehend its meaning, is made fincerely fick at the fecond perufal; fo a foul like his, acute to difcern the truth, vigorous to embrace, and powerfal to retain it, foon fees enough of the world's dull profpect, which at first, like that of the fea, pleafes by its extent, but foon, like that too, fatigues from its uniformity; a calm and a form being the only variations that the nature of either will admit. "Of Mr. Johnfon's erudition the world has been the judge; and we, who produce each a fcore of his fayings, as proofs of that wit which in him was inexhauftible, resemble travellers who, having vifited Delhi or Golconda, bring home each a handful of Oriental pearl, to evince the riches of the Great Mogul. May the publiek condefcend to accept my ill-firung felection with patience at least, remembering only that they are the relics of him who was great on all occations, and, like a cube in architecture, you beheld him on each fide, and his fize ftill appeared undiminished! "As his purfe was ever open to almfgiv ing, fo was his heart tender to those who wanted relief, and his foul fufceptible of gratitude, and of every kind impreffion; yet, though he had refined his fenfibility, he had not endangered his quiet, by encourag ing |