26. Rich. Cumberland, Efq;

vert, Efq; Rich. Cox, Efq; Thomas Wyld, Efq;

27. Rev. Hen. Bate, Dr. Ford, Rich. Tickell, Efq; Thomas Linley, Efq; 28. Nath. Barwell, Efq; Geo. Ramus, Efq; fen. Hon, and Rev Mr. Cholmondelev, George Ramus, jun. 29. Wm. Whitehead, Efq; Benj. Wilfon, Efq; Dr. Burncy, Joseph Airey, Efq; 30. Mr. The. Forrest, Parton, Etq; J. Crawford, Efq; Tho. Vaughan, Efq; Angelo, Efq; Racket, jun. Mr. Racket, fen. -- Churchill, Efq;

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32. Monf. de Loutherbourgh, Mr. Bennet, Monf.' Texier, Mr. Becket. 33. Tho. Walker, Etq; Thomas Johnes,

Efq; Mr. Noverie, Edw. Capel, Efq; Mr. Garrick's family coach empty; Capt.

Schaw's ditto, followed by the gentlemens' family carriages, to the number of thirty-four, the coachmen and footmen in black filk hathands and gloves..

After the burial-fervice, which was performed by the Bishop of Rochester, was over, the mourners feverally quitted the Abbey, but did return in form as they came there.

The mourning coaches were drawn by fix horfes in each, and pages walked on both fides.

The coffin was crimfon velvet with filver gilt nails and plate, on which was at the top the arms of the deceased, underneath this motto,

RESTRGAM," and his name, the day he died, and his age in Latin.

There was not the leaft accident happened during the whole of the ceremony; and the regularity and order preferved throughout plainly proved that the directors of the funeral were very properly chofen for that business.

Rings were given to all the gentlemen who attended the funeral.

The expences were estimated at upwards of 15col. The fees paid to the Dean and Chapter were 100 guineas.

A party of guards preceded the proceffion from Mr. Garrick's houfe to the church, where two other parties formed a lane for the ceremony to pass through. The paffing of fuch a number of coaches which attended the funeral, and which lafted fo long, and covered fuch a distance in the freets, caufed a great floppage of carriages, many of which were detained upwards of two hours before they could get away, the paflage being ftopped both backwards and forwards.

It was univerfally allowed by the fpectators, that nothing was wanting to

complete the proceffion, but a number of musicians to have played fome flow and folemn mufic.

Some indiguation was expreffed at the time, that Mr. Garrick's remains were not quietly interred on Saturday, Jan. 30, when both theatres were that up. It would have had the appearance of respect, and without injury to the property. it was hard duty upon the performers, to be taking a fo'en farewel of their old mafter upon to fad an occafion in the afternoon, and to be playing the fool at night, much against their inchisations, as if nothing had happened."

Mr. URBAN,

Aug. 10.

THE name of Madame Dacier has

long been famous in the world of letters, and has often been justly mentioned in proof of female genius and abilities. But till very lately I was unacquainted with an incident which contributed to lay the foundation of this lady's literary merit, and without which, probably, he would never have arrived to that fame and diftinction the afterwards obtained. As the circumstance may likewife be new to feveral of your readers, I beg you will, for their information and entertainment, prefent them with the following tranflated extract from the Journal des Scavans of the 9th of December, 1720, where the fact is attested,

ACADEMICUS.

"Anne de Faber, the daughter of Tanaquil de Faber, was born in Saumur, 1651. She was about eleven years of age, when her father (who was a profeffor of Greek and Latin in that univerfity) formed a delign of giving her a learned education, the new cafion whereof was this:" "While he was teaching one of his fons the rudiments of grammar, in the fame room where Madamoijelie de Faber was employed at her needle; the, as a perfon wholly unconcerned, did now and then fupply her little brother with proper anfwers to the molt intricate gram. matical questions propofed to him by the father, when the found he could not help himself.

"The father took this hint, and refolved to make her a fcholar. She was brought up according to the foregoing method *, and became the ornament of her fex, as well as a reproach to men employed in the Rudy of learning, but who spend their lives in laziness and ignorance."

GENT. MAG. før October, 1780.

A CARD to the learned (no longer reverend) Mr.MADAN, on bis «Thelyphthora." [See p. 380.] MRS. Singleman prefents her compliments to Mr. Madan. She has only this inftant heard, by a letter from a friend, of his pious differtation recommending Polygamy. As Mrs. Singleman has not feen the book, Mr. M. muft excufe her faying little in its Commendation; yet the cannot avoid taking up her pen to condole with good Mr. M. on his having unfortunately quitted the law for the gofpel, before his wonderful genius led him to make this bleffed difcovery for the benefit of laymen, (which yet can hardly with justice be called his, the practice having been long in ufe among the laity, viz. the late Sir C. B. Mr. L. the late Lord D, &c. &c. and of late among many grave divines, viz. an Irish bifhop now and then, the late Dean of Doctors ---, &c.) for, as a priest, Mrs. Singleman fears Mr. M. cannot properly avail himmelf of the difcovery, that eminent lawyer, and afterwards as eminent gofpeller, St. Paul, in his 1ft Epistle to Timothy, chap. xiii. fpeaking by the Holy Spirit, having faid exprefsly, that every divine must be the husband of one wife's fome rigid folks have even gone so far as to fay, that his meaning was to exclude from the priesthood those who in their unconverted ftate had dealt in wives rather than in other commodi. ties. And to do the apostle justice, he appears ready to practile more than he preached; for, far from wanting a. feraglio, he contented himself even without one wife.

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of the rest of the club are unknown even to the mafter of the inn (the Red Lion), who, being asked lately for a catalogue, could not produce one, and faid it had been loft a great while ago. If, Sir, by the means of your numerous and learned correfpondents, you could procure an accurate lift of the members of this Club, you would refcue their names from oblivion, and CANTAB. would extremely oblige,

Mr. URBAN,

08.7.

IN reply to Scrutator, p. 407, he is

right as to "Whaley" (with a fingle 1), and alfo as to the poem annexed to the Ades Walpolianæ;" but as to Thomas Taylor, D.D." a Welch divine, I had my information from the author of the poem to him, Dr. Davies.

Ibid. Dead yew is allowed to be alwars fatal.

For "Mr. T. B. of Canterbury.” p. 410, pafim, read " T. R."

In anfwer to H. W. p. 422, I apprehend Sir Charles Davers, Bert. has now the legal poffeffion of the fite of the abbey of St. Edmund's Bury," as Lady Davers (his mother, lately deceafed) was faid by Mr. Gough, in his Britfb Topography, ift edit. 1768, to be then "tearing to pieces its ruins, and deforming the fite by a fantastic difpofition of it." Mr. G. adds a with "that fome able hand would oblige the world with a geometrical draught of this fine building."

How could the Duke of Wharton (p. 366) call himself Sir William Wharton, wher his name was Philip?

Or how can Si The. Boughton's title and eftate, p. 44 5, devolve to the late Shuckburgh Boughton, Efq.? J. D Mr. URBAN, 08. 12. YOU may add to the curious account of Bishop Warburton, that he received the early part of his education under Mr. Wefton, then master of a school in the county of Rutland, and afterwards vicar of Campden in Gloucestershire; and when "The Divine Legation" appeared, Mr. Weston exprefled the greatest surprise, declaring," that when at fchool he had always confidered young Warburton as the dulleft of all dull fcholars."-In 1748 he published fome "Remarks," not noticed by his Biographer, on “ Jackson's Treatife on the Improvement made in the Art of Criticifm." Were thefe a separate pamphlet, or included in the third edition of the Divine Legation?-He wrote alfo the preface to Mr. Richardfon's first ediæ tion of Clarifle, EUGENIO,

64. Letters from an English Traveller. Tranflated from the French Original printed at Geneva and Paris. With Notes: a new Edition, revifed and correted. Sm. 8vo. pr. 2s. 6d. Nichols.

TO this new edition is prefixed (in French) a letter with which Mr. Sherlock was honoured by the King of Pruffia, in return for his book, which he fent to his Majefty as he was paffing (a fecond time) through Potf

dam.

me.

"Mr. Sherlock, I thank you for the book which you have just fent It has met with the reception that it deferves. I defire to fee its author, and you will come to me for that purpose to-morrow about eleven in the forenoon. My Major-General, Count de Goërtz, has orders to conduct you thither, and to present you. I pray God to have you, Mr. Sherlock, in his holy and worthy protection. "FREDERICK.

Potfdam, July 19, 1779." Without this proof, few would fuf, pect that this royal author ever prayed. From Mr. Sherlock's Nouvelles Let tres (XLIV in number), which we hope to review alfo in English, we learn that his Majefty received him graciously, and faid to him things too flattering for him to repeat." The editor, confidering his author "as a kind of literary phænomenon, as he travels through Italy, and publishes a book in Rome in Italian, and another in French at Paris," has alfo annexed accounts of his merits given by the Journalists and Reviewers of France and Italy." Thefe reviews relate to his three works, viz. his two volumes of Letters, and his Configlio ad un Giovane Poeta (Advice to a young Poet), which has not yet appeared in English. The profits of this work were directed by the author to be diftributed to poor diftreffed widows, the Marquis of Maccarani undertaking the receipt and diftribution."

65. Ode to Speculation. A Poctical Amusement for Bath Eafton Villa. By the Rev. William Tafker. 6d. Cruttwell, Bath.

THIS "bright fifter of Contemplation," whofe origin is here traced back beyond the creation to the throne of God, is afterwards followed on earth to the banks of Ilyffus, to the bowers of Plato and of Ariftotle, in ancient

66. A Storm: with the Defcription of a Water-Spout, a Shoal of Dolphins, and other ominous Appearances. 4to. 6d. Crowder.

THIS writer has the merit of painting from the life, as he must have been an eye-witness of the fcenes which he fo graphically defcribes.

67. Modern Anecdote of the ancient Fa

mily of the Kink vervankotfdarfprakenfgotchderns: A Tale for Christmas, 1779. Dedicated to the Hon. Horace Walpole, Sm. 8vo. 15. 6d. Davenhill.

THIS whimfical tale, which is faid to be of noble birth, "was prettily written in French (we are told) by a German lady, who paffed fome time in England with the late Madame Mouthkin Pouthkin;" but Lady Chas added perfonages, fuppofed circumftances, and given defcriptions," &c.

68. The Candidate: A poetical Epifile to the Authors of the Monthly Review. 4to. 15. 6. H. Payne.

IF the authors addreffed agree with us in their opinion of this Candidate, they will not give him much encouragement to itand a poll at Parnaffus; though we join iffue with him in thinking, that, "however little in this poem is worthy of applaufe, there is yet lefs that merits contempt." But mediocribus effe poctis, &c.

69. Epitome of Philofophical Tranfactions. Vol. LXX. For the Year 1780. Part I. 4to. 10s. 6d. Davis and Elmily.

ART. 1. Calculations to determine at what Point in the Side of a Hill its Attraction will be the greateft, &c. By Charles Hutton, LL. D. and F. R. S.

This procefs originates from the fuccefafui experiment lately made on the hill Schehallien (fce our vol. XLVI. p. 272), to determine the univerfal attraction of matter, but it is too mathema. tical to intereft the generality of our readers, and alfo requires diagrams; we shall therefore fkip to the conclufion, viz. "that commonly, at one fourth of the altitude, or very little more, is the best place for obfervation, to have the greatelt attraction from a hill in the form of a triangular prifm of an indefinite length; but when its length is limited, the point of greatest attraction will defcend a little lower."

ART. II. An Account of jome new Experiments in Eectricity, with the Description and Use of two new Elerical Inftruments. by Mr. Tiberius Cavallo, F. K. S.

We have here an eafy explanation of Profeffor Lichtenberg's experiment on the electrophorus, i. e. a plate of fo ne rofinous fubftance, as fulphur, rofin, gum-lac, &c.; and alfo a method of exciting powders. Toth fe are added delcriptions of an improved atmosphe rical electrometer, and an inftrument for trying the conducting power of the effluvia of burning bodies, with promiscuous experiments illuftrated by figures.

ART. III. A new Method of offeying Copper Ores. By George Fordyce, M. D. F. R. S.

As this procels cannot be abridged, we must refer thofe who are curious in this Rudy to the article at large,

ART. IV. An Account of an Eruption of Mount Veluvius, which hap pened in August 1779. By Sir William Hamilton, K. b. F. R. S.

fhamed to own that he comprehends very little of its wonders. Since the great eruption of 1767, it has never been free from fmoke; nor ever many months without throwing up red-hot fcoriæ, which were ufually followed by a current of liquid lava. In this vifit Sir William, with one of his countrymen, paffed a night on the mountain, attended (as ufual) by Bartolomeo, the Cyclops of Vefuvius, but with fome hazard, (the wind changing,) from the heat and finoke of a gentle stream of lava, about 60 feet in breadth, which, however, was obviated by their walking across it, at the inftance of their guide, with no inconvenience but the violence of the heat on their legs and feet, the cruft being fo tough that they made no impreffion, and its motion fo flow that they were in no danger of failing. They then coafted this river of lava to its fource, within a quarter of a mile of the crater, to which they then went up, but which the fmoke and fulphureous fmell foon obliged them to quit with precipitation. The eruption of August 5, 1779, Sir William obferved from his villa at Paufilipo, juft oppofite to Vefuvius, and fix miles diftant, and also from the King's Palace and the Mole of Naples. As his very picturesque deferiptions of thefe pl.ænomena would fuffer by an abridgiment, and we cannot infert them at large, a few particulars fhall be felected. A heavy shower of rain fell Aug. 7, which, by the clouds paffing through the column of fire, fcalded the face and hands of a man in the fields near Ottaiano. The fountain of liquid tranfparent fire on the 8th rofe, it is thought, three times the height of Vefuvius, or near 11,000 fert at least a bright but pale electrical fire was perceived within the fmoke, iffuing from the crater, and brifkly playing about in zig zag lines, like thofe defcribed by the younger Pliny, in his letter to Tacitus. black cloud once bent towards Naples, and occafioned great alarm, proceflions, &c. but the wind increafing from the S. W. carried it back." A fcene fo glorious and fublime as Sir William has defcribed it, he thinks, may never before have been seen (for the reafons he gives) in fuch perfection. Octaiano and Caccia-bella he vifited on the 15th, and paints in

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