871611 67 a 1011 28 162 2024 16 29 16:4 67 a 101 2024 EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN APRIL, 1794. Bank 3perCt. 3 per Ct. Ditto 4perCt. 15 perCt Long | Short | India Stock. reduc. Confols. 1726 Confol. Ann. India S. Sea Ann. 778-9 Stock. Bonds. Stock. 2014 178.pr. 68 10 103 69 103 2054 69 1033 2042 683/2 19 166 6968 a 69 103 2052 8 684 20 Sunday N. B. In the 3 per Cent. Confols, the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given in the other Stocks the higheft Price only. THOMAS WILKIE, Stock-Broker, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-yard METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for May, 1794. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. ID. of Month. 4pril Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. M.1 2 4 56 5555 59 64 29 78 cloudy 56 70 61 50 fair 50 95 cloudy 40 fair 55 60 54 30,12 fair 62 53 29,98 fair ,23 cloudy ,19 cloudy 54 ,86 Showery 20 54 58 59 55 30,00 cloudy 45 30,00 rain 46 29,98 cloudy 46 29,58 fhowery 144 Showery ,62 cloudy ,98 fhowery 25 45 54 46 ,94 cloudy 71 fair 992 cloudy 8. Elm, mountain-afh, larch, foliated.-9. Sloe in full bloom.-12. Winter-greens and turnips running to feed.-13. Bees very bufy amongst the goofeberry bushes and flowers. A butterfly fporting, Gofemore Aoats. Variety of infects upon the wing.-N. B. The laft cold rains have ftarved the foil and retarded vegetation.-14. The large bluebottle y ap pears.-17. Honeyfuckle in bloom. Strawberry in bloom. Oats appear in the blade.19. New potatoes in Liverpool market at 1s. 8d. per lb.-20. Woodpecker heard.23. Sw lows feen. Cuckoo fings.-26, New potatoes 7d. 8d. and 9d per lb. in the marAwallow faid to be feen on the banks of the canal on the eighth of the month. ket. THE Gentleman's Magazine: For MAY, 1794. BEING THE FIFTH NUMBER OF VOL. LXIV. PART I. N p. 354 of your last Mifcellany a fhort account is given of Archdeacon Travis's third edition of his Letters to Mr. Gibbon; in which your Reviewer uses the following expreffions: "An anfwer was addressed by Mr. Pofon, in Letters to Mr. Travis, 1790. Had Mr. P. difcovered lefs of the temper of Dr. Bentley, his learning and polemical talents would have appeared to greater advantage; but, notwithstand this, bis arguments will appear juft and fatisfactory.” And he afterwards fays, "What the Archdeacon, in his fecond edition, concluded with respect to the MSS. in the King of France's library, fuppofed by mistake to have been R. Stephens's, are now fully proved not to have been his." Your Reviewer will not be offended, perhaps, in being told, that this latter fentence completely (and truly) contra dicts the former. Mr. P's arguments cannot "appear juft and fatisfactory," if the [Greek] "MSS in the King of France's library are now fully proved [by the Archdeacon, as they certainly are] not to have been R. Stephens's:" because Mr. P's principal argument, as well as that of Wetstein and Griefbach, whom he follows, stands on the affumption that thofe MSS. did belong to R. Stephens. And this principal argument being thus admittedly fet afide, your Reviewer would have fhewn himself to be laudably fufpicious if he had dif trufted the rest of Mr P's arguments. The truth, Mr Urban, is (and it must be publicly known). that Mr. P's arguments are in general borrowed, and not original. But, whether original or borrowed, they are now in general done away. If your Reviewer fhall have lei, fure to compare thofe arguments with the answers given to them in this third edition of the Letters to Mr. G, he will perceive the truth of this remark. If he fhall be too bufily employed in other avocations to engage in fuch a difquifition, you may perhaps foon receive a breviate of this kind from the writer of this prefent note. Your Reviewer farther remarks, that the Archdeacon paffes by Mr. P. un noticed in the general mass of his antagonifts." I fancy myfelf able to affign one motive for this preterition. Mr. P's affault on the Archdeacon was un provoked; and his language was unbe coming a fcholar, and unworthy of a gentleman. In fuch a fi:uation, the Archdeacon's feeling expreffions are, perhaps, the moft proper that could have been adopted."Cum talibus neque amicitias habere volo, neque inimici. as." Be this, however, as it may, all the intereft which I, as one of the publick, can take in this matter, is, to ex. amine whether Mr. P's arguments have received a proper attention. And, for this purpofe, I repeat my intentions of foliciting your indulgence on fome future occafion; and declare myself to be, in the mean time, A FRIEND TO IR URBAN, ket. Gooleberries 48. per quart.-28. A hurricane of wind for a short space. Leaves of trees and bloom ftrew the ground. A neft of young (parrows just fledged. A general display of bloom upon all kinds of fruit trees. Pears knitting. The wall-fruit has fuffered greatly from either blight or infects. Notwithstanding the damage done amongst the bloom by the hurricane, if one-fourth yet remains, there will be a fufficiency for the trees to fupport. The Spring throughout the vegetable kingdom univerfally indicates an early feason. Wheats begin to recover their colour. Fall of rain this month, 4 inches 2-roths. Evaporation, 3 inches. Walton near Liverpool, Dele fall of rain, March, &c. p. 336, last line, J. HOLT. Mr. Mr. URBAN, IN May 13. N your vol. LVIII. p 1065, fo curious an account is given by D. H. of the origin of felling books by Cata logues, that I am tempted to folicit from the fame intelligent writer an hiftorical narrative of the Catalogues by marked prices; in which confiderable afliftance might yet be obtained from fome remnants of "the genuine breed," p. 1068. One of the Ballards, I believe, ftill furvives; as does that "Trypho Emeritus, Mr. Thomas Payne, one of the honetteft men living, to whom, as a Bookfeller, Learning is under confiderable obligations*;" and from whom the publick would be happy to receive fuch information as he, perhaps, above all other men in his profeffion, is enabled to bestow. "By age and long experience rendered wife," to him we may look with confidence for inftruction; and, I flatter myself, we shall not look in vain. Of the two SAMS mentioned by D. H.. Mr. Paterfon is living, and no one more capable of fupplying fo material a defideratum Not lefs able alfo is Mr. Leigh, the Partner and Succeffor of the OTHER SAM, who continues to fupport (and long may he do fa!) the credit of the York-ftreet Auctions. Yours, &c. M. GREEN. Mr. URBAN, May 14. O my flight remarks concerning T the voyage to Ophir and Tarfish, which you inferted in your Magazine of last month, p. 291, be pleafed to add the following extract from Mr. MeDonald's Effay (which was accompanied with a fpecimen of gold), printed in p. 336 of "Afiatic Researches," &c. Ib. p. 338. "It is more than probable that Sumatra must have been the Ophir of Solomon's time. The word Ophir being really a Malay substantive of a compound fenfe, fign.fying, a mountain containing gold. The natives have a tradition, that the land has, in former times, afforded gold for exportation." And here it deserves attention, that along with the GOLD, which was brought from Opbir to King Solomon, were imported precious ftones and ALMNG- (fo Kings x. 11; or, as 2 Chron. ix. 10, reads, ALGNM-) trees; which were, it seems, of a very fupe * achi re the fentiments of a Poet, whofe "Purfuits of Literature" at prefent engrofs the converfation of the Literati. rior quality to any which had ever before been feen in the land of Judah. Of what fpecies the commentators have thought this precious wood to be, I have, at this prefent writing, no opportunity of enquiring; but I have been affured by a friend of the late Mr. Millar (author of the Gardener's Dictionary, &c.), that he judged it to be the wood of the cedar of Lebanus; and that this peculiar fpecies of cedar was not originally a native of India, but had been imported from some other country, and planted in that very mountain; for, that it was not indigenous in Paleftine, he inferred from its being found in no other place there, and from the very few plants that have just kept the fpecies from being extinct even on Lebanus. That it is of a diftinct genus from other trees which are called cedars is well known to Naturalifts: but, whether the above opinion of Millar be well founded, I leave to the confideration of fuch as have leifure and opportunity to investigate this curious fubject; and particularly to enquire if this peculiar cedar be found growing on the mountains of Sumatra, and any of the T*. P*. adjacent countries. Mr. URBAN, ON May 15. N taking up your Magazine for the last month, the first artic'e which engaged my attention, as a Surrey gentleman, was T. L's letter, inferted in p. 296. About forty years ago, as he states, a fubfcription was fet on-foot by fome of the Clergy in the deanery of Stoke, in the diocese of Winchester, for the bes nefit of their widows and orphans; and to promote the object of which, if I am rightly informed, the lay-gentlemen of the neighbourhood contributed very liberally. The fubfcription has fince been discontinued; but not before a fum of money had accumulated to the amount of fix or feven hundred pounds. This accumulated fum is faid to be now ftanding in the three per cent. confols in the name of three trustees. It is more. over faid, that those three trustees are the only gentlemen now living who continued their annual fubfcriptions to the laft. About four or five years ago it became a question to whom the fund, which had been thus raifed, of right belonged. The writings originally drawn up, relative to the bufinels, are unfortunately lost. At |