In Dec. 1652, the College of Phyficians teftified their regard for their illuftrious associate, in a manner fingularly honourable. They voted the erection of his ftatue in their Hall with the following inscription: Gulielmo Harveio Viro Monumentis fuis immortalî Hoc infuper Collegium Medicorum Londinenfe Pofuit Qui enim Sanguinis Motum Ut et Animalibus ortum dedit meruit effe Stator perpetuus. This obligation foon met with a fuitable return. On the second of February following, Harvey, inviting the Members to a splendid entertainment, prefented the College with the deed of gift of an elegantly furnished convocation room, and a museum filled with choice books and chirurgical inftruments, which he had built at his own expence in their garden. In 1654, on the refignation of the prefidency by Dr. Prugean, the College appointed Harvey in his abfence to fucceed him; and proroguing the meeting till next day, deputed two of the elects to acquaint him with this refolution. Harvey then came, and in a hand fome fpeech returned them thanks for the honour they had done him, but declined the office on account of his age and infirmities, at the fame time recommending the re-election of Dr. Prugean, which was unanimously complied with. He ftill, however, frequented the meetings of the College; and his attachment to that body was fhewn yet more confpicuoufly in 1656, when at the first anniversary fealt, instituted by himself, he gave up his paternal estate of 561. per annum in perpetuity to their ufe. The particular purposes of this donation were the inftitution of an annual feaft, at which a Latin oration fhould be fpoken, in commemoration of the benefactors of the College; a gratuity for the orator; and a provifion for the keeper of his library and mufeum. This attention to perpetuate a spirit of learned and focial friendship among his brethren must fuggeft an amiable idea of his benevolent and liberal fentiments. At the fame time he refigned his office of lecturer, which he had till then difcharged, to Dr. Scarborough. He now with difficulty fupported the burthen of years and infirmities, and at length, on the 3d of June 1658, ha ving completed his 80th year, he qui etly funk under the load." Concerning the manner of his death, an invidious report was propagated, that, unable to bear the increafing calamities of old age, which were aggravated by the fudden lofs of fight, he put an end to his fufferings by drinking poifon. This ftain on his memory will be beft removed by relating the particulars of his decease, as given in an oration before the College by Dr. Wilson, a few days after the event. He laments that the ufual ferenity of Harvey's temper was in his latter days wounded by numerous infirmities, and especially by the excruciating pains of a fevere gout; but alleges, that, when drawing near his end, having compofed his mind as to all his remaining concerns, he examined his pulfe as if marking with a philofophical attention the progrefs of approaching diffolution, and thus with the utmost tranquillity and refignation yielded up his breath. His body, a few days after his death, was removed in funeral proceffion to Hempstead in Effex, all the fellows of the College attending it to a confiderable diftance from the city. His remains were depofited in a vault near that place, where a monument was erected to his memory. By his will he bequeathed the greatest part of his effects to his brother Eliab Harvey, a merchant in London; his houshould furniture among his relations; his books to the College of Phyficians; legacies by way of memorial to his friends Dr. George Ent and Charles Scarborough; gratuities to his fervants; and thirty pounds to Bartholomew's Hofpital. From this account it feems probable that he did not die rich. DR. Grant, in his Obfervations on the Origin, Progrefs, and Method of treating the Abrabilious Temperament and Gout, lays down the following rules to those who mean to be cured of the gout radically: 1. He must quit the flat fertile cultivated plains during the summer feason every year, and remove to the higheft parts of the country were the air is thin, pure, and piercing. 2. Learn to amufe himself with contrary divertions to us to fatigue himself every day. Of thefe, fishing and wading in the cle (tream is the best; 赛 walking is next, riding is only a fuecedaneum, and a carriage is not equal to the intention. 3. Avoid Rules neceffary to be 3. Avoid populous towns and great cities, fhun all occafions of anxiety, debilitating paffions, noxious diffipations, exhaufting pleafures, and heavy mental concerns, or intenfe thinking, even on agreeable fubjects. 4. Keep to regular hours of exercife, eating, and fleeping; fhort fleep is beft, on hard beds, in the early part of the night. 5. Let his apartments be large, lofty, ill finished, and well warmed by strong fires. 6. He will foon feel the advantages of frequent bathing, much friction, and warm clothing. 7. His diet must be in proportion to his exercise, both in quality and tity; but he must never quite fatisfy quanhis hunger at any time; in general it is proper to abftain from butter, fat, highfeafoned, falted and fmoaked meats; fome forbid black flesh and pork, but I do not find much difference, so that the fat and skin are taken away; wild fowl and game of all kinds are proper, and fo is fifh without butter. Animal food must not be used above once a day; four days in the week he may eat meat, but never mix fish and fleth in the fame day, far lefs in the fame meal. Buttermilk, whey, fruit, greens, roots, feeds, bread, and dishes prepared from them, ought to conftitute the greater part of his nourishment, efpecially during the fummer and harvest; tea and coffee, thin chocolate, and cocoa, agree with moft people, mixed with milk, provided they eat no butter along with them. 8. The best common drink is cold water, but when he takes animal food he may drink small beer, cyder, wine, or fpirits very much diluted. 9. When he eats heartily at dinner he ought to eat no fupper, but fuffer the ftomach to be quite empty once in twenty-four hours. 10. He must be well rubbed all over every night and morning; and altho' I with him to be warmly clothed, yet I think he ought to walk out in the air as much as may be. 11. When he is quite free from all complaint, fea-bathing, or even cold bathing, will agree with moft people, to restore the ftrength. 12. But in all fituations he must take care to keep his body regular by taking fulpher at night, when he is coftive; and if he fhould be tormented with wandering pains, the aron-root and fcurvy grafs will be of service to him. By fuch means as thefe, properly GENT. MAG. June, 1780. 4 obferved by the Gouty. conducted, and fteadily profecuted for 277 by only attending to the juvantia and a length of time, a man of obfervation, laetanda in his own conftitution, will in general radically cure any recent gout, always moderate it, never injure his natural taie of health, or shorten his life. I do not expect that it can be in the power of every one of my friends to obferve all my directions literally; but it is my province to draw the line, and them to follow it as near as circum ftances may permit, carefully obferving what does and what does not agree. Obfervations on the University of Ox ford (continued from p. 120.) THE first Exercife neceffary for a degree, is the holding a difputation in the Public Schools on fome queftion of Logic or Moral Philofophy. It is termed in the phrate of the Univerfity doing Generais. As it must be carried on in the ftrict forms of fyllogifm, and is generally on one of those abftrufe and uninterefting fubjects which formed the learning of the middle ages, one should imagine that much reading and of a particular kind would be requifite to form a difputant. Yet it is certain, that, within a week after his admiffion, any young man of mọderate abilities may find himself a match for the ableft veteran in the schools. It may not be unentertaining to thofe, who are unacquaintedwith our cuftoms, to fhew how this amazing progreis is made in fo fhort a time. Be it known then, that every Undergraduate in the University, if brought to confeflion, has in his poffeffion certain papers, which have been handed down from generation to generation, and are denominated firings. By virtue of these papers the whole miracle is performed; and left the reader fhould fufpect that our Academical Literati, like Avicen of old, have brought the fecret powers of nature into fubjection, and that these papers are endued with magical influence to communicate knowledge by contact, we must affure him in vindication of ourselves, that we have every reafon to imagine, both from tradition and experience, that the wifdom of those who compofed them never went fo far as to become fufpicious to their neighbours. Thefe frings confit of two or three arguments, each on those fubjects which are difcuffed in the fchools, fairly tranfcribed in that fyllogistical form, which alone is admit • In our Sifter Univerfity called arguments, ted on this occafion. The two disputants having procured a fufficient number of them, and learned to repeat them by heart, proceed with confidence to the place appointed. From one o'clock till three they must remain feated oppofite to each other, entertaining themselves as well as fo ridiculous a fituation will admit; and if any Proctor should come in, who is appointed to prefide over these exercises, they begin to rehearse what they have learned, frequently without the leaft knowledge of what is meant. Tho' the Latin ftyle of these arguments is equally curious with the matter, yet for the benefit of those who are unacquainted with that language, I have fubjoined a tranflation of one of them; and even they, who have been used to them in the original, may be pleased to fee them in an English drefs. Opponent. What think you of this queftion, whether universal ideas are formed by abftra&tion? Refpondent. Iaffirm it. Opp. Univerfal ideas are not formed by abfraction; therefore you are de ceived. Refp. I deny the antecedent. Opp. I prove the antecedent-Whatever is formed by fenfation alone is not formed by abfraction: but univerfal ideas are formed by fenfation alone; therefore univerfal ideas are not formed by abftraction. Refp. I deny the minor. Opp. I prove the minor. The idea of folidity is an universal idea: but the idea of folidity is formed by fenfation alone; therefore univerfal ideas are formed by fenfation alone. Refp. I deny the major. Opp. I prove the major. The idea of folidity arifes from the collifion of tro folid bodies: therefore the idea of folidity is formed by fenfation alone. Refp. The idea of folidity, I confess, is formed by fenfation; but the mind can confider it as abftracted from fenfation. The Opponent upon this is to fuppofe himself confuted, and after a short paufe thus proceeds: Opp. I prove it otherwife: what is formed by comparifon is not formed by abstraction: but univerfal ideas are formed by comparison; therefore univerfal ideas are not formed by abfiraction. Refp. I deny the minor. Opp. I prove the minor. The idea of relation is an univerfal idea: but the idea of relation is formed by comtarifon; therefore univerfal ideas are formed by comparion. Refp. I deny the major. Opp. I prove the major. The idea of relation is formed by comparing one thing with another: therefore the idea of relation is formed by comparison. Refp. In truth, the idea of things related is formed by comparison: but the idea of relation itself, taken separately from the things related, is formed by abfraction. So ends this hopeful piece of argumentation; and after the reader has perufed it, let him not imagine that I have felected a ridiculous example, in order to give an unfair reprefentation of the whole: I affure him of the contrary; for the arguments are good, and would be allowed fuch by any Proctor in the University. Four times at least muft this farce be performed, exactly in the manner which I have described, before the student is any way qualified for the degree of Batchelor of Arts; by which the minds of youth are to be accuftomed to a readiness of invention, and an accurate difcernment in the investigation of truth: how far the end is anfwered, let the judicious reader imagine for himself. The remaining Exercife neceffary for the first degree is an examination in five fciences. By the fame kind of Academical Legerdemain is our candidate enabled to pafs thro' this formidable trial with credit, tho' at the fame time he may be ignorant, and frequently is fo, of what is meant by the terms Logic, Grammar, Geometry, Rhetoric, and Ethics. He provides what is here called a fcheme, which contains a collection of all the questions, which will probably be asked him in each science: and having fixed this jargon in his memory, he is fure of being pronounced properly qualified for his degree: it is true, he is examined in three claffical authors; but as thefe are in his own choice, and he has three or four years in which he may prepare himself, he will certainly take care to run no rifque in this point. Mr. URBAN, AT a time when plans for amending the conftitution are formed in almost every county in the kingdom, it furprizes me, that an union with Ireland fhould not have been more generally thought of. Several of the county committees of affociation and correfpondence have declared their wish for an increase of members in the House of Commons, with a view of checking the influence of the Crown. Would not this end be well as anfwered for the good of Great Britain in particular, and much better for the Empire in general, by a union with Ireland? This union would increase the members of both Houses of Parliament, and of courfe increase the difficulty of extending corrupt influence. It would anfwer every end of this fort without introducing any diforders of multiply. ing county (or hundred) elections. I am aware that it will be objected against this scheme, that the difficulty of members in our Parliament coming over from Ireland will render it impracticable; or will induce the members chosen there to fettle in England, and become indifferent to the interests of their constituents. But I am prepared to answer this objection. It is the opinion of many perfons, whofe judgments in fuch matters may be depended upon, that it is no very difficult matter to divert the water from the narrow part of the Irish channel near Port Patrick, and to join Ireland and Scotland together. How this might be done, I may, perhaps, fome time find leifure to defcribe to you, if no abler perfon takes it up; but I most fincerely with that fome perfon, more in the way of giving and receiving information on the fubject, would pay attention to it. Suppofing then this fcheme to be executed, a new county (or fome addition to an old one) would be acquired; and the two islands becoming one, travelling from Ireland to England would be just as easy as it now is from Scotland to London. Every objection therefore against a union with Ireland would then cease; for the interests of the two kingdoms would become exactly the fame, and no affociations for a free trade be at all neceffary. The advantages to the Empire from such a union, in population, travelling to and fro, trade, &c. and confequently increase of internal strength, -are fo immense, that it may perhaps be worth while to point them out in a treatise upon the fubject. This fcheme is by no means an idle project formed by an idle man in his closet, but is very practicable, and that at no very great expence. It might be completed in one fummer by a few regiments of foldiers, and the temporary Tofs fuftained by the public would very foon be repaired with moft ample intereft. If you infert this in your next Magazine, you will have fome further confiderations from your present correfpondent The fecond is Grace Tozier, who is thus defcribed in Ames's British Heads, p. 164. "Hat, cap, neckcloth, gloves and ruffles, flowers in her bofoms, "apron." The third in the fame collection reprefents two perfons; one, rather an elderly man in a full-bottomed wig, neckcloth, and coat buttoned; the other, a younger man, fomewhat fimilar in Face to Mr. Toby in Wagstaffe's Mifcellanies.—In a fhield below are a pillory and a triangular gallows. On the first, the infcription is rather imperfect, but feems to be "The Poft Boy from Nov. 8 to Nov. 10, 1711." On the gallows "Impartial account"On each fide of the fhield "Nec Lex "eft-juftior illa.” I My good Friend, my Should have been mighty glad of the favour of a vifit from you, when you were in town. I thank you for your kind congratulations, tho' I am not without doubts and fears, how far the occafion of them is a real fubject of congratulation to me. Increase of fortune is infignificant to one who thought he had enough before, and I forefee many difficulties in the ftation I am coming into, and no advantage worth thinking of, except fome greater power of being ferviceable to others, and whether this be an advantage, entirely depends on the ufe one fhall make of it; I pray God it may be a good one. It would be a melancholy thing in the clofe of life to have no reflections to entertain one's felf with, but that one had spent the revenues of the Bishoprick of Durham in a fumptuous courfe of living, and enriched one's friends with the promotions of it, instead of having really set one's felf to do good, and promote worthy men: Yet this right ufe of fortune and power is more difficult than the generality of even good people think, and requires both a guard upon one's felf, and a ftrength of mind to withstand folicitations, greater, I wish I may not find it, than I am mafter of: I pray God preferve your health-and am always, dear Sir, Your affectionate brother and fervant, JOSEPH DURHAM. Mr. URBAN, IN your late examinations of John fon's LIVES of the POETS, you have mentioned fome new circumftances concerning SMITH, commonly called CAPTAIN RAG. To which may be added the following curious anecdote, juft published in Mr. War ton's fecond edition of the LIFE of Sir THOMAS POPE. "In Monmouth's "rebellion, the University of Oxford "raifed a regiment for the King's "fervice, and Chrift- Church and Jefus "College made one company, of which "Lord Norris was captain; who pre"fented Mr. Urry (the editor of "Chaucer) a ferjeant therein with a "halberd. Upon Dr. Pocock's death, "Mr. Urry lugged CAPTAIN RAG "into his chamber at Peckwater, lock"ed him in, put the key in his pocket, "and ordered his bedmaker to fupply "him with neceffaries through the "window; and told him he should "not come out, till he had made a of verses on the Doctor's death. copy "The fentence being irreversible, the "Captain made the Ode, and fent it "with this epiftle to Mr. Urry, who "was a well-built man and large"limbed; who (Smith) thereupon "had his release." p. 449. APPEND. The ODE is Smith's famous Latin Ode, PoсOCKIUS. The epiftle here mentioned is printed in the preface to Jobnfon's ENGLISH POETS, vol. IV. P. 62. Mr. Warton extracts these notices from a collection of original manufcript letters in the Bodleian Library. Dr. Johnson has faid that Smith obtained his nickname of Capt. Rag, from the raggednefs of his dress. This remark is not ftrictly true. It was not from the raggedness of his dress (in which however he was probably too great a floven), but from the tattered condition of his gown, which was always flying in rags about him; and to conceal which, he wore one end of it in his pocket; a practice still common enough at Oxford, among the young Rags of the prefent days. tive to this unfortunate poet, which There is another circumstance rela feems to have been unknown to the great biographer. Philips and Smith were fuch intimate chronies, that whoever invited one, always had the company of the other of course. The confequence was not difagreeable. Philips was never good company till he was drunk, Smith never but while he was fober. Thus the inviter had conftantly one of them, to keep up the ball for the evening; and, as Shakefpeare expreffes it," to fet the table in "a roar." I have this account from a gentleman who was contemporary with them, and extremely intimate with them both. If in any future edition of their lives, thefe circumstances fhould be thought worthy notice, the authority of the relater may be depended on. Yours, &c. 'T. P. 252, 21. for "Sir Chrifto"Sir Godfrey." pher," r. |