Lyndhurst, co. Southampton, who shall be poor enough to accept the same, and who sball attend divine service at their respective Churches (except they are prevented through illness) on the Sunday after my funeral, the sum of ten shillings each."In speaking of himself, he says, "Fortunate, greatly fortunate as I have been in this life, yet there is no part of good for tune on which I set so inestimable a value, as the qualities of those on whom my happiness depended. My children have been a blessing to me during a long series of years, such as seldom occurs, and never caused me one hour's pain.". He appoints his wife and two sons executors. His personal property sworn to is under 36,000l.

P. 82. Lord Walsingham's Will was proved by George Lord Walsingham, the son, and Edward Boodle, esq. executors ; and the personal property sworn under 200,000l. the stamp duty on which is 2,7001. The Will is principally confined to family connexions, with the exception of some pecuniary legacies to his friends, including one of 100 guineas to his very intimate friend, Lord Eldon. He lays a strict injunction on his sons, or into whose hands the same may fall, not to publish any of his manuscripts, memoranda, or papers of office whatever.

P. 187. a. The Marquis of Abercorn, who was the only son of the Hon. John Hamilton, second son of the 7th Earl of Abercorn, by Harriet, natural daughter of James Craggs, Secretary of State to George I. was born in 1750, and succeeded his uncle James the 8th Earl in 1789. He married, in 1779, Catherine, daughter

of Sir John Copley, bart. By this lady, who died in 1791, he had two sons, James; viscount Hamilton, and Claude, both deceased, and three daughters, only one of whom, Maria, survives him. In 1792 the Marquis took for his second wife, his first cousin, Lady Cecil Hamilton, eighth daughter of the Hon. and Rev. George Hamilton, to whom his Majesty granted the precedence of an Earl's daughter. This union was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1798, in consequence of an intrigue between the Marchioness and Captain (now Sir Joseph) Copley, brother to the first wife of the Marquis. In 1800 he married, thirdly, Lady Anne Hatton, eldest daughter of the second Earl of Arran, and widow of Henry Hatton, esq. of Great Clonard, Wexford.

P. 188. The Will of Sir Richard Croft, bart. was proved in Doctors Commons, by the relict, Dr. Baillie, and John Denman, esq. the executors. The personal property was sworn under 16,000l. A freehold estate at Somerford Keynes, co. Wilts, is devised to his eldest son, Thomas Elmsley Croft, and heirs male, with the usual remainders.

P. 640. Prince Barclay de Tolly was the son of a Lutheran village Curate in Livonia. He served from the lowest rank, and received almost all his promotions upon the field of battle. In 1807, he commanded in the battles of Pultulsk and Eylau. Some years after he conquered Finland. The battle of Leipsic gained him the title of Count. He received the rank of Field Marshal after his entrauce into Paris; and was raised to the diguity of Prince in 1815.

BIBLIOMANS, writes, " In Note 6' to a very elegant Poem just published, called Religio Clerici,' the ingenious author cites a work thus:-Speculum Stultorum MS. Harl. 2422. I once saw a thin folio in the German language, intituled NARREN SPIEGEL: possibly the book so cited is a translation from the work to which I allude.-Your Readers would much oblige me, if they would have the goodness to inform me how I may get a copy either of NARREN SPIEGEL or of Speculum Stultorum."

LECTOR, having read Dr. Carey's Latin verses in our last, p. 64, Ad Hero, requests to be informed "whether it was so intended, or whether it is a slip of the pen, or error of the press, for Ad Heronem, as he finds in Ovid's Epistles Leander Heroni.". "Notwithstanding,"

he proceeds, "the ancient authorities Dr. C. has quoted for making Cui two syllables, is it right to take that liberty in a short epigram, at the present day, and in this country, where it is generally pronounced as a monosyllable?" W. H. says, "At page 38 of your last Magazine for July is an extract from the late Dr. Gosset's Catalogue, in which, by a strange blunder, a Book is inserted under the name of J. Cleland, which had no business there. The "Attempt to explain the words, Reason, Substance, Person, Creeds, &c." was written by Dr. W. Robertson of Wolverhampton, of whom a Life, with his portrait annexed, is to be found in Gent. Mag. for 1783." "I wish," he continues, "I could give Clericus the information he requires of the difference of the two' Essays for a new translation of the Bible,' but they are certainly different works, and the two editions of the English Book are in the Catalogue of the British Mu

seum.'

We are much obliged to SENIOR CleRICUS ANGLICANUS; and shall be glad to renew our acquaintance.-The Article now received shall appear in our next.

We have no recollection of the "Political Dream" inquired after by our Bath Correspondent.

A TYRO AT ELECTIONS may be very correct; but the Magazine is not a proper Tribunal for such Appeals.

'It gives us concern that we have no means of forwarding the Packet of " A CONSTANT READER." The only mode of sending is by the Foreign Post, which is expensive, and the letter should be a single sheet.

The silly Hoax of our Lancing Correspondent is applied to the only use it merited.

D. C. L. says, "R. C. and L L. D. seem to understand one another very

well, but what becomes of the original question?-If the Doctorate in Civil Law be correctly designated by LL.D.-Legis Legum Doctor,-why lay that mode of distinguishing Graduates aside? If incorrectly, how happens it to have been continued throughout so many ages?"

R.C. says, "A correspondent, p. 388. ob. serves that Dr. Hallifax's "explanation of LL.D. was Legis Legum Doctor." The objection to this is that the letters, to give that sense, should be divided "L. L. D." or rather "E. LL. D." the doubling of a letter being the known mode of expressing the plural number. So "MS." is Manuscript," "." MSS." is "Manuscripts,' "Coss." is "Consules," "Decc." is "Decuriones," "Cæss. Augg." is "Cæsares Augusti," &c.

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HISTORICUS requests of our Readers any Biographical Sketches of the following characters, or references to sources of information.

London and Wise, the Royal Gardeners. and Nurserymen. Are their descendants still in existence?

Bridgeman, a landscape gardener, mentioned by Daines Barrington and Lord Walpole.

Switzer, a very remarkable writer and ingenious rural artist.

Hamilton, who formed Painshill, said to have been a gardener, but to have improved himself by studying pictures. Of what country was he? I was told at Painshill, Irish. Southcote, who laid out and possessed Woburn farm in Surrey.

Wright, a professor of landscape gardening, commended by Mr. G. Mason. Spence, an author commended by Lord Walpole as a zealous advocate for the modern style of gardening.

Wheatley, the well-known author of Observations on Gardening, called Sir Thomas Whateley by the French, and the Knight Whitely by the Germans. Hirschfeild, the German author on gardening.

Morel, J. the Kent of France, author of several books as "Theorie des Jardins," &c.

Chambers, Sir William, late Surveyor general, &c.

Batty Langley, whose name serves com

monly as the butt of ridicule for crltics on gardening and architecture; see Quarterly and British Review. Parkyns, author of Sketches in one of Mr. Soane the Bank Architect's publications, and of an Essay on the different natural situations of gardens, Eames, a landscape gardener lately deceased.

Webb, ditto; and Mr. Repton, whose death has lately been announced.