1799.] Hault Hucknall Church.-Radcliff's Physical Fellowships. 449 Mr. URBAN, Notis, April 10. S have lately given us in "Condita hic funt offa qui per multos annos fervivit Vir probus, et famâ eruditionis The living is a vicarage, in the gift wick. The church is about a mile from 1 Mr. URBAN, note is a fac fine of an armorial (fig. 3) of a what-d'ye-call-it carriage, which drew the attention of the delineator as he was paffing by the fhop of the coachmaker. What d'ye-call-it certainly cannot be deemed an unapt term for a vehicle with a bow. window, that is not or coach, or landau, or chariot, or landaulet, or faciable, but which in a degree partakes of the properties of the feveral carriages thus denominated; and it is imagined that the fhield may be an unique heraldic fpecimen. It is hoped that fome of your readers, well verfed in this kind of lore, will be pleafed to defcribe fe cundum artem, and to appropriate all and every part thereof, and likewife to decypher the motto, which, primá facie, has the caft of a riddle-me ree, or conundrum. Mr. URBAN, RUSTICUS. May 17. N anfwer to N. M's enquiry about Radclf fellowhips in Oxford, p. 204, the following documents are generally true. Dr. Radcliff, an eminent phyfician in the reign of Queen Anne, founded certain travelling fel-1 lowships for medical ftudents, and endowed them with 300l. per annum each. Padua, in Italy, being at that time eminent for medical profeffors, was the great refort of medical ftudents who could afford to travel; but, the expences of going to that univerfity by English ftudents being beyond their pecuniary abilities, that eminent and liberat phyfician founded thofe fellowships; a monument to his memoy are perennius. May his eminent medical fucceffors go and do likewife! About half a century paft, or upwards, Dr. Broxholme, one of Radchiff's travelling fellows of Oxford, on his return from Padua, in Italy, to whence, vifited Paris; England, after a fhort refidence, he was prepa ring to return to England. In that interim, or mean while, an opulent merchant at Paris was in a dangerous ftate of illness, and defpaired of. It was recommended to call into conful. tation the English phyfician then at Paris. Dr. Boxholme accordingly attended for fome time; and, on his patient the merchant's recovery, the merchant prefented him with a draft for 500l. Mitfilippi ftock. Dr. Brox The third word was GALL'D; but furely an error for CALE'D. holme holme returned haftily home to a ve mote part of England, where his connexions then laid, without any atten tion to the draft in his pocket book for the Miffiffippi flock; and, on his return to London, that frock had rifen to above twenty times its original vaJue, or par, being about the time of the South fea bubble, and the other iniquitous projects and cheats of that period D.. Broxholme fold his 5ool. Mitopock for 10,000l.; at that time recorded a great and confiderable fee. I have underflood that the greatnefs of that fee overwhelmed him; infomuch, that he did not long enjoy it. The houfe in Pail mall, now the town refidence of Dr. Heberden (and formerly the freehold of the famous Neli Gwyn), was the spot on which that excellent and eminent phyfician Dr. Sydenham refided, ufually denominated the English Hippocrates. O, fortunata terral May that aufpicious Ipot be the future refidence of worthy fucceffors to thofe excellent phyficians! V. Mr. URBAN, May 31. EVERY one who travels, flirough VERY one who travels, through a large build ng on an elevated fituation on the left-hand, in the parish of, it is believed, S'audon, prefenting a front equal to any of the fmaller colleges in Our Usive.fities, and fcaffolding for its farther enlargement. They will learn that this is no less than a Roman-catholic feminary, which has ariten from fmall beginnings to its prefent conderation; and, from being first con. cealed in an old manfion of the Sadler family at Standon under the hill, on the oppofite fide of the fame road, un der the wing of the Catholic family of the Aftons, fince removed into Staffordthere, has gradually advanced into its prefent more elevated fi uation, protected at least hy, and paying reat to, the fame landl d, who is a mem ber of the British fenate. gilance in vfitation, cannot be fuppofed to fee every thing with his own eyes, but must truft to thofe of his Clergy for the inveftigation of many abules. He, with the ftricteft propriety, and the warme zeal for our pure and holy religion, exhorts them to guard against the fecret workings of the infiel and fetary in their respective pa rithes, and points out to them the best means of counteracting them. Let us then hope that, as be is ready to car red, they will be as forward to deteå, abufes and invafions of every kind. Yours, &c. A PROTESTANT. . Mr. URBAN, THAT the June 3. "fea-pincushion," mentioned by your refpectable correfpondent Scrutator, p. 368, anfwers the purpofe of an egg-thel, by containing, at a certain period, a yolk furrounded by albumen, is most true; but this yolk, with its appendages, is a fubftance in the nature of placenta, connected with the embryo thornback (raia clavala), which is deposited in this animal nidus, for fuch the fea pincushion certainly is, though exhibting an appearance fo nearly allied to vegetation. My place of refidence being in an inland county, I have not had many opportunities of remarking the producti h in question in is perfect frate, thote fpecimens which are caft on shore being generally, as Scrutator obferves, broken or burft at fea. The reason for this is obvious; the young animal contained in this membranous zoophytical fubftance has prevously made its efcape, and has been ufhered into life under the title of a "maid," (See Scott's Supplement to Chambers's Cyclopædia, vol. II. art. Raia.) Once, on a vifit to the fea-fide, I had an opportunity, after a fevere gale, of oblerving the young fish in its perfect ftare, inclofed in one of the'e lea-pincushions which had been left on the beach unbroken. At lose other other times, but not frequently, I have feen the fubftance which Scrutator mentions, and which certainly bears a very fr king affinity to the contents of the common hen's egg. A fiend of mine, who refides on his living on the Suflex coat, has mentioned to me his hay ng met with the young chora back occ honally, but very rarely, in this its midus. The oblervation may perhaps by this time be unneceffary, Mr. Urban, that your prefent correfpondent has no Mr. URBAN, May 28. TOTWITHSTANDING me of your correspondents (pp. 122, 124) have clearly hewn that bitch is much in ufe in the Northern counties, it is obfervable that Ry, in his ol lection of North-country provincialims, has not introduced the word, poffioly from fin ling, on enquiry, that It was not unfrequent in the Suth and E-t country. And to the printed authorities already offered for the ufe of bach may be added this definition and apt illuftration of it from Kerley's Dictionary: "To hitch, to wriggle or move for ward by degrees. In fea-language, to catch hold of any think with a rope or hook. "Hitch the tackles into the rings of the boat-an expreffion used by feamen when they would have the boat loifted in.” pretei fions to the title of a Naturalin; N The I was Thofe hours are gone, but they are not, nor will they be ever, forgotten. "They have left a reh and a fragrance upoy the mind, and the remembrance of them fweet." ..Yours, &c. AGRICOLA. 13 As Johnfon knew not where the word was ufed, but in the paffig he has in his D.étonary cited from Pope, and as he elected fo many examples from the poems of Spenfer, from Suckfpeare's plays, and from Hudibras, it is not likely that either he, or ever a one of his aliiftaut fearchers, und otch in any of thate volumes, though it icems to be a word to often partie nent to the builefque defcriptions of the motley characters in Hudoras, that it is rather Aranye that i should not have prefented itself frequently to the thoughts of the facetious Berler. Johnfon farther confelled, that he did not well know wha Pope here meant by bitch; and I will take the liberty or oblerving that, in the clofe of one verfe, there is not the correctnels of expreftion fo gener lly noticed in Pope's Works. The Dunctad was the fatirical and vindictive collar to which, with his harp-pointed and ftrong hooks, he grap: led the Imaller verfifying and critical barks of tus fe who had provoked him, in order to carry them down the treas of time as his captives; and to which his right reverend Commentator, under the fame captious diipolimnion, lathed to his galley with notes feveral verv refpectable perfons, because he deemed them to be litera.y buccaneers. Pope, however, did not bitch in rhime fo many culprits as the tur at implied he would do, at least there do oot jult now occur to me more than two where n mes were unluckily fastened by this jin gling gling padlock, viz. Ozell and More, Can make a Cibber, Tibbald, or Ozell." A wit it was, and call'd the phantom More." Book II. ver. 49, 50. A query concerning Pope thall finish my fcroll on this fubject. It is, whether, when the lines under review were penned by him, he might not recollect the underwritten not diffimilar verfes in Hudibras, part I. canto 1. HISTORY OF PHYSIOGNOMY. HE moft material_circumstance Trefpecting Baptifia Porta is, whe -the heads and faces which he exhibits are real pictures of human nature, or only fancy portraits, drawn on purpole to compare with the animals which they are intended to relemble. I have, Mr. Urban, for many years paf, obferved a great variety of human countenances, and thofe of different nations; and I confefs myself inclined to believe (in favour of my ingenious autho:) that his portraits do really, or at leatt may be fupposed to, exit in human nature without any violation of probability. And among the refemblances which we should leaft expect, Porta gives one between the face of a man and that of a ram, and makes the likeness confift in the mouth, in the upper part of the nole, and in the dilated pupil of the eye. But the face of a young woman he compares to that of a cat; and repeats the lame figure in the feveral engravings. In the first, he makes the refemblance to confift in the fhortness of the face below the eyes; in the fecond, in the fmalloels of the face; and, in the third, in the thinness of the lips. I refpect my fair country women too much, Mr. Urban, to fuppofe that any of them, young or old, refemble cats in difpolition; for this ludicrous reason, that none of them were ever known to have any propensity to catch mice, however they may be difpofed to catch men. But, if the phyfiognomift be impolite to the fair fex, he is much more fo to ours; for, he compares the head of man to that of a hog, and that in no less than three points of view. In short, Mr. Urban, it would be too tedious and prolix to follow Po ta through all his bestial fimili. tudes, if I may be allowed such an expreffion. But, to give a concife account, чer it fuffice to add, that he proves a likeness between the poles of fome men and the beaks of lome (mall fized birds. And he compares the face of a man to that of a crow and of a dunghill cock as well as to that of the imperial eagle; though, at the fame time, he degrades "the human face divine" by comparing it to that of an afs. And he likewife compares it to that of a horfend of a grey housd. And, lafily, he compares a human ichneumon, or the water-rat. And these eye with a fall pupil to that of the that I have enumerated are, I believe, nearly the whole of his comparisons between men and other animals. Ia few words, Mr. Urban, the conclufion from all thefe laboured resemblances may be included in a nutshell, viz. when any man resembles any other animal in form or feature, he must refemble that animal in difpofition likewife. This has been the unanimous fentiment of every antient phyfiognomift, from Ariftoie to Baptifta Porta, who published his treatife about the year 1593. And, as far as my obiervations extend, I am not ashamed to fay that, un certain reftrictions and limitations, I really believe the affertion of the oid phyfiognomills to be true and well-founded. More of Baptifta Porta's general fentiments in my next. Yours, &c, T-3. A TOUR THROUGH WALES and the central Parts of ENGLAND. By CHARLES SHEPHARD, junior.' (Continued from vol. LXVIII. p. 563.) THE HE arrival at Titley, and the hofpitality of its inhabitanta, afforded new profpects, and enlarged our felicities. We returned to Pref teign, and, again entering the coofines of Wales, purfued cur journey to the interior of the northern divifion, through the villages and towns of Norton, Knighton, Clunn, Col beach, |