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Mr. URBAN,
Jan. 20.
EING lately in the neighbour-

into the Church, where I could not help thinking of Mr. Gough, whilst I was meditating over the monument of Judge Gascoigne, and the mural bust of Judge Deunison. No inscription or arms on the fine Altar-monument of Gascoigne, except a shield of the King's Arms (at the head end) supported by Angels.

The Inscription for Dennison is said to be written by the late Lord Mansfield.

"To the memory of

Sir THOMAS DENNISON, Knt.
this Monument was erected
by his afflicted Widow.

He was an affectionate Husband,
a generous Relation,

a sincere Friend, a good Citizen,
an honest Man.

Skilled in all the learning of the Common

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is not litigious, or an Instrument of Chicane; but the plainest, easiest, and shortest way to the end of Strife.

For the sake of the Pablick, he was pressed, and at the last prevailed

upon, to accept the Office of a Judge

in the Court of King's Bench. He discharged the important Trust of that high Office with unsuspected Integrity, & uncommon Ability.

The Clearness of his Understanding, and the natural Probity of his Heart, led him immediately to Truth, Equity, and Justice;

the Precision and Extent of his Legal Knowledge

enabled him always to find the right way of doing what was right.

A zealous Friend to the Constitution of his Country, he steadily adhered to the Fundamental Principle upon which it is built, and by which alone it can be maintained, a Religious Application of the inflexible Rule of Law

to all Questions concerning the Power of the Crown,

and Privileges of the Subject. He resigned his Office Feb. 14, 1765, because, from the Decay of his Health,. and Loss of his Sight,

he found himself unable any longer to execute it.

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He died Sept. 8, 1765, without Issue, in the 67th year of his Age.

He wished to be buried in his native

Country, and in this Church.
He lies here,

near the Lord Chief Justice GASCOIGNE, who, by a resolute and judicious Exertion of Authority,

supported Law and Government in a

manner

which has perpetuated his Name, and made him an Example famous to Posterity. ARMS.-Argent, a Bend Sable between

an Unicorn's head erased in the sinister Chief, and a Cross crosslet fitchée Gules in the dester Base; impaling, Argent, a Chevron engrailed between three Oak-leaves Vert (for Smithson). In the same Vault with those of her Husband, Sir THOMAS DENNISON, Knt. and agreeable to her Will, are deposited the Remains of Dame ANNE DENNISON, Daughter of Robert Smithson, Esq. She departed this Life July, 1785, in the 72d year of her Age.

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The burial-place of Mr. Daniel Lambert, at Stamford, was, as you have said, one of the lions to be seen by strangers; and as a testimony of re spect, a very neatly inscribed stone has been erected by his friends in Leicester*. T. G. C.

Mr. URBAN,

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Feb. 3.

many of your Readers having recently visited the Freach Capital, I have great expectation that some one will answer the following questions, on the subjects of which I find Books and Masters contradict each other. In the most fashionable French pronunciation of the present day, is the letter in the pronoun il ever pronounced before a consonant (il parle, &c.), as directed in Tardy's new Pronouncing Dictionary? Formerly, my Master and all my Books directed me to pronounce i parle, always omitting the 7 before a con sonant. Is the termination of verbs in oir, as recevoir, savoir, &c. pronounced, as formerly, like the English sound of the letters wawr, or like ware? In Catineau's Dict. (Paris, 1814,) the pronunciation of savoir is marked, in French letters, çu-vöèr.

Lastly, where can I find an accurate account of the old French weights and measures, compared with the English, or with their new decimal weights and measures?

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Mr. URBAN,

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Feb. 1. HERE is not a more pleasant place in the vicinity of Bristol than the village of Redland, which is situated a mile North-west of that an tient City. The residences of the opulent in this neighbourhood are remarkably bandsome, particularly Redland Court; and the numerous flourishing trees, which surround them and the Chapel, give each a very lively effect.

The Chapel (see Plate I.), which is a most pleasing specimen of Grecian architecture, is composed of free-stone, with four Ionic pilasters, their entablature, and pediment, in front. Immediately above the great door and a niche, is a turret of uncommon beauty and proportions, enriched by urns on pedestals, and terminated by a ball and cross.

The altar picture is from the pencil of Vanderbank, and represents the embalming of our Saviour. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

A TRAVELLER.

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Feb. 2.

HE anecdote of Swift's dining Tith Sir Robert Walpole, extracted in your last volume, p. 570, and concerning which "A Friend to Accuracy" inquires in p. 28, was never published till given to the world by Mr. Roberts.

The Letter of Lord Peterborow to Swift, which your friend supposes to have been left out of the editions subsequent to 1767, I will transcribe for you, from Mr. Nichols's* edition of 1808 (vol. XI.) It is only dated "Saturday Evening;" but is indorsed by Swift," 1726, in Summer."

"One of your Irish heroes, that, from the extremity of our English land, came to destroy the wicked brazen project,

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As the subject is somewhat curious, your Readers may not be displeased to see the Dean's own account of his

visit to Sir Robert:

"MY LORD,

April 28, 1726. "Your Lordship having, at my request, obtained for me an hour from Sir Robert Walpole, I accordingly attended him yesterday at eight o'clock in the morning, and had somewhat more than an hour's conversation with him. Your Lordship was this day pleased to inquire what passed between that great Minister and me, to which I gave you some general answers, from whence you said you could comprehend little or nothing.

"I had no other design in desiring to see Sir Robert Walpole, than to represent the affairs of Ireland to him in a to myself, but to any party whatsoever: true light, not only without any view

and, because I understood the affairs of that kingdom tolerably well, and observed the representations he had received were such as I could not agree to; my principal design was to set him right, not only for the service of Ireland, but likewise of England, and of his own administration.

"I failed very much in my design; for I saw he had conceived opinions from the example and practices of the present and some former Governors, which I could not reconcile to the notions I had of liberty, a possession always understood by the British Nation to be the inheritance of a human creature.

"Sir Robert Walpole was pleased to enlarge very much upon the subject of

Who tells us, in a note, "When Dr. Swift was in England in 1726, he went to see Sir Robert Walpole at Chelsea; which drew the notice of all the company: but no one knew him till Sir Robert entered, who went up to him very obligingly. Swift, without rising up, or any other address, said, "For God's sake, Sir Robert, take me out of that Ireland, and place me somewhere in England.”—“ Mr. Dean," said Sir Robert, "I should be glad to oblige you; but I fear removing you will spoil your wit. Look on that tree (pointing to one under the window :) I transplanted it from the hungry soil of Houghton to the Thames side; but it is good for nothing here”. This happened some years before the Dean's Rhapsody appeared, where Sir Robert has an ample share of his pointed ridicule.—In a letter to Mr. Pope, Oct. 30, 1727, the Dean says, "I forgave Sir Robert Walpole a thousand pounds, multu gemens;" alluding to an order which he had, upon the Exchequer, for that sum, a short time before the death of Queen Anne, which was never paid.""

GENT: MAG. February, 1815.

Ireland,

Ireland, in a manner so alien from what I conceived to be the rights and privileges of a subject of England, that I did not think proper to debate the matter with him so much as I otherwise might, because I found it would be in vain. I shall, therefore, without entering into the dispute, make bold to mention to your Lordship some few grievances of that kingdom, as it consists of a people, who, beside a natural right of enjoying the privileges of subjects, have also a claim of merit from their extraordi nary loyalty to the present king and his family.

"First, That all persons born in Ireland are called and treated as Irishmen, although their fathers and grandfathers were born in England; and their predecessors having been conquerors of Ireland, it is humbly conceived they ought to be on as good a foot as any subjects of Britain, according to the practice of all other nations, and particularly of the Greeks and Romans.

"Secondly, That they are denied the natural liberty of exporting their manufactures to any country which is not engaged in a war with England.

Thirdly, That whereas there is a University in Ireland, founded by Queen Elizabeth, where youth are instructed with a much stricter discipline than either in Oxford or Cambridge; it lies under the greatest discouragements, by filling all the principal employments, civil and ecclesiastical, with persons from England, who have neither interest, property, acquaintance, nor alliance, in that kingdom; contrary to the practice of all other States in Europe which are governed by Viceroys, at least what hath never been used without the utmost discontents of the people.

"Fourthly, That several of the Bishops sent over to Ireland, having been Clergymen of obscure condition, and without other distinction than that of Chaplains to the Governors, do frequently invite over their old acquaintance or kindred, to whom they bestow the best preferments in their gift. The like may be said of the Judges, who take with them one or two dependants, to whom they give their countenance, and who consequently, without other merit, grow immediately into the chief business of their courts. The same practice is followed by all others in civil employments, if they have a cousin, a valet, or footman, in their family, born in England.

“Fifthly, That all civil employments, grantable in reversion, are given to persons who reside in England.

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"The people of Ireland, who are certainly the most loyal subjects in the world, cannot but conceive that most of these hardships have been the conse... quence of some unfortunate representations (at least) in former times; and the whole body of he Gentry feel the effects in a very sensible part, being utterly destitute of all means to make provision for their younger sons, either in the Church, the Law, the Revenue, or (of late) in the Army: and, in the desperate condition of Trade, it is equally vain to think of making them merchants. All they have left is, at the expiration of leases, to rack their tenants, which they have done to such a degree, that there is not one farmer in a hundred through the kingdom who can afford shoes or stockings to his children, or to eat flesh, or drink any thing better than sour hilk or water, twice in a year; so that the whole country, except the Scotch plantation in the North, is a scene of misery and desolation, hardly to be matched on this side Lapland.

"The rents of Ireland are computed to about a million and a half, whereof one half million at least is spent by Lords and Gentlemen residing in England, and by some other articles too long to mention.

About three hundred thousand pounds more are returned thither on other accounts: and, upon the whole, those who are the best versed in that kind of knowledge agree, that England gains annually by Ireland a million at least, which even I could make appear beyond all doubt. But, as this mighty profit would probably increase, with tolerable treatment, to half a million more; so it must of necessity sink, under the hardships that kingdom lies at present.

"And whereas Sir Robert Walpole was pleased to take notice, how little the King gets by Ireland; it ought, perhaps, to be considered, that the revenues and taxes, I think, amount to above four hundred thousand pounds a year; and reckoning the riches of Ireland, compared with England, to be as one to twelve, the King's revenues there would be equal to more than five millions here; which, considering the bad payment of rents from such miserable creatures as most of the tenants in Ireland are, will be allowed to be as much as such a kingdom can bear.

"The current coin of Ireland is reckoned, at most, but five hundred thousand pounds; so that above four fifths are paid every year into the Exchequer.

I think it manifest, that whatever circumstances can possibly contribute

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