AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Return ending Mar. 19, 1803. 22 44 23 NNN 3456 48 5556 ,16 ram 58 46 ,17 fair 47 70 785 Effex Surrey 61 032 0125 321 1134 Kent 625 0/2001036 O 119 928 424 10 J 37 MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barley Oats | Boans s. d. s. d. s. d. s dXs. d. 57 233 025 57 JOO 025 Suffex 52 0100 025 020 432 Suffolk 54 200 Cambrid, 47 1033 Norfolk. 53 324 831 I 622 022 019 126 10 620 913 1125 321 217 327.3 623 215 10 29 6/29 2 031 O Hertford 54 435 Bedford 52 131 Hunting. 49 000 Northam. 52 10 20 Rutland 54 600 Leicester 55 100 Notting. 61 835 723 021 816 021 1017 827 6 022 018 028 022 417 4/20 026 Derby 62 500 027 Stafford 60 Salop 56 533 Hereford 51 832 023 024 123 1 33 024 820 235 I 0123 019 8 37 O 023 321 1032 020 55 700 7:19 330 10 022 300 53 6 3.20 30 53 132 025 416 Montgo. 54 400 022 5:16 000 Radnor 5L 4100 0123 7/18 1000 0 0:00 0 Average of England and Wales, per quarter. 56 636 11:23 10118 832 9 Average of Scotland, per quarter. 47 128 11.2 117 630 1 Lincoln 53 535 Denbigh 59 Anglefea oo Carnarv. 61 442 028 517 Merioneth65 48 27 4/19 031 4 Somerset 54 600 022 9:18 230 023 818 8:00 22 715 1100 Moam. 021 916 200 021 8,20 040 022 53 1.00 222 34 3 AVERAGE PRICES, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated. THE A GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For MARCH, MR. URBAN, Butterwick, Mar. 21. S the Influenza, or Catarrhal Fever, is at prefent common in the Metropolis (as I learn by the public *** prints), you will, perhaps, not object to give the following practical hints a place in your benevolent Magazine. I very lately published a tract on Confumption of the Lungs, in which a new mode of treatment was laid down as having been found power fully efficacious in the earlier ftages of that disorder; at the fame time, a fimilar mode of treatment was recommended, for its falutary effects, in common coughs of the more diftreffing kind. I fhall not hesitate to borrow an idea from that tract; and fhall put it into fuch a form as I have repeatedly found eminently serviceable in epidemic coughs, catarrhs, and fimilar affections. I will not fay that the Influenza, To diftreffing and fo prevalent now in London, is exactly the fame kind of disorder as has fo readily yielded to the medicine I am going to propofe. From the common accounts, however, it appears to be of the fame nature; and I feel anxious to make public the remedy, from a hope that it will be found ufeful. In very flight cafes and in infancy it may be fufficient to diffolve ten, fifteen, or twenty grains of mild volatile alkali, or carbonate of ammonia, in half an ounce of the fyrup of white poppies. Of this a teafpoonful may be given two or three times a day, or oftener if neceffary, to children of fix months old; and two or three tea-ipoons full to thofe of more advanced ages. For those who have arrived to maturity the following may be given: 1803. Diffolve fix grains of crude opium and one drachim of mild volatile alkali, by trituration with one ounce of water, or fimple peppermintwater, and half an ounce of fyrup of white poppies, or of fimple fyrup; to which add two or three drachms of the volatile aromatic fpirit, or fpirit of ammonia. Of this mixture about a tea-fpoon full may be taken in cold water two, three, or four times in the twenty-four hours. I fay about a tea-fpoonfull; because, if there be but little cough, or pain bout the cheft, &c. a fmall teafpoon full will be a fufficient dofe; but, if the cough be troublesome, it will be occafionally neceflary to increase the dofe to one and a half or two tea-fpoonsfull. If the cough be very diftreffing, it may be proper to increase the quantity of opium to eight or ten grains in the mixture. The addition of a few drops of oil of annifeeds will cover the tafte of the alkali, where annifeeds are not difagreeable. If the ftomach be much loaded, a grain or two of emetic tartar may be given, if thought neceffary; and the bowels muft be kept moderately open; for which purpofe one drachm of the common aloetic pill may be formed in twelve or eighteen pills; and one, two, or three, may be taken occafionally; or, if pills be objećted to, rhubarb or caftor oil may be taken for the fame purpofe. Acids, fruits, and pickles, fhould be avoided. This is the mode of treatment which I have repeatedly found productive of the moit defireable effects; and in hopes that, in the prefent inftance, it may be of equal efficacy, I with it to be made public; particularly as, if it be found not to fucceed equally to my withes, it it ftill may be tried with fafety, if the first dofe or two be given with caution. The importance of the fubject will be a fufficient apology for the length of this article; and at the fame time will, I hope, fecure its infertion in your refpectable Mifcellany. E. PEART, M. D. Mr. URBAN, Bath, March 8. T appears, perhaps, difficult to believe, but is at the fame time ftrictly true, that I never faw the letter figned S. S. vol. LXXII. p. III, till I was. fhewn it here, at Bath. The paffage as quoted there does certainly appear to be nonfenfe; and I fuppofe with S. S. that there must have been fome miftake made by my printer. When I return to Wales, I will examine the original MS. and let you know, They have printed agues for Agnes in a letter of the fame volume, I remember; the date fome time in 1781. Dr. Johnfon ufed to fay I behaved like Agnes in Moliere's comedy; and, advising me to thew more fpirit, fays fomewhere, "This is not the time (or feafon) for Agnes;" and printers not comprehending how that could be made fenfe of, printed the word Agues. Such is conjectural criticifm. I feel obliged by the politenefs and candour with which the remarks of S. S. are expreffed; and am Yours, &c. H. L. Prozzi. being able to afcertain their general connexion with the whole; and this, after they had been confiderably injured in the removal, and fome of them entirely destroyed." Having been employed by the Society of Antiquaries to make copies of these paintings, I beg leave to affirm, that either a reduced outline or tracings of all the subjects on both fides of the altar, and in the arches on the South fide of the chapel (which includes every thing material that was discovered), were made by myself before a fingle ftone of them were removed; a fact which may be corroborated by Mr. Groves, and the different perfons employed in the alterations of the building at that time. It may farther be added, that fo far was the fubfequent careful removal of thefe paintings from being difadvantageous with refpect to their imitation, that, by affording an opportunity of placing each portion in the beft light, it not only facilitated my progrefs, but enabled me to make corrections, and discover many parts which, but for the removal, could never have been feen. From experience of the time and labour neceffary to the finishing of a fmall part, I may fafely venture to say that, far from being able to make a correct copy of the whole, I thould have found it utterly impoffible to have compleated much less than a quarter during the time the originals remained in their place, even though I had begun on the first day of the difcovery. RICH. SMIRKE, Jun. wards for the unremitted labour beftowe 1 for more than three years one coloffal ftatue of Marquis Cornwallis, to which your defcription chiefly refers. You will, however, allow me refpectfully to fubmit to you one inaccuracy, which I would not notice if an exact statement on the fubject was not a point of confiderable importance to me. It is ftated that the group in honour of Lord Cornwallis was under the chifel of my late father, and that it has been only completed" by myself. I beg leave to inform you, that the whole has been executed fince his death, and that the models and marble are both from my own hand. The firft idea, however, expreffed in an outline on paper, belonged to my father; and the commillion was put into his hands a fhort time previous to his decease: but the work was not begun till about two months after that event. Your obfervation on the impropriety of denominating this work a group is extremely juft; I was, however, unable to felect a more appropriate term that would have been at the fame time more generally understood. JOHN BACON. rent animals, especially in thofe of the fame fpecies, it feems hardly poffible to define the extent of the power, or to fay wherein it differs from the leffer exertions of reafon in man. Avowing myfelf to be totally inadequate to the task of inveftigating this fubject, I humbly fubmit it to the confideration of your literate and liberal correfpondents, hoping to fee it fully elucidated; and conclude with reciting an inftance, of which I can vouch for the truth; and remain, Yours, &c. T. MOT, F. S. M. Remarkable Sagacity in a Dog. SOME years fince, Mr. S--, of Margate, in Kent, was returning from a neighbouring town, during a very heavy fall of fnow, and was accompanied by a dog belonging to a relation of his, who kept an inn near his own houfe. He becaine fo fatigued with his journey, which he performed on foot, that he was hardly able to proceed; and when within a mile or less from home, he feveral times stopped; when the fagacious animal feized hold of his coat, and impelled him forwards, until, through his kind efforts, he literally tore the skirts from his garment. At last, Mr. S. being entirely overcome by the inclemency of the weather, when March 12. he had arrived within two hundred MONGST the many inter- yards of his houfe, was obliged to efting investigations which drop on the fnow by the tide of a have enriched your venerable pages, hovel; and fuppofes he immediately I do not recollect to have feen fell asleep. It appeared that the much, or that which is very fatis- faithful animal had ufed every enfactory, on the diftinction that is deavour to awaken him, as his made between reafon in the human hands and face, when he was diffpecies, and what is called inflinct covered, were evidently marked by or fagacity in the brutes. I mean, the claws of the dog; but this bethat the difference has not been ing ineffectual, he then left his diftinctly defined; neither has the friend, and hafted to his maiter's latter faculty or influence been fo houfe, and by every gefture which clearly afcertained, or defcribed, he could command endeavoured to fo as to give us any determinate entice fomebody with him, by ideas on the fubje&t. Indeed, from howling, running backwards and the many tales which are related, forwards to the door, &c. and the frequent inftances which not being able to make himself unmuft fall under the notice of every derflood, he took a perfon by the attentive obferver, of the wonder-coat, and led him to the fpot where ful proofs of faga, in the diffe- his friend lay in an infenible fiate, Mr. URBAN, A But, aud and nearly deprived of life by the Mr. URBAN, PER March 13. ERMIT me to occupy a fmall portion of your valuable Mifcellany, by expreffing my great furprize, that, among the noble teftimonials of national gratitude erected to the memory of our departed heroes, ftatefmen, and other eminent characters, no monument has hitherto been erected, at the public expence, to the memory of Capt. Cooke. To fay any thing in praise of this truly great man, would be fuperfluous. His indefatigable refearches, his unwearied application to the objects of his purfuit, his unexampled attention to the health of the men who failed with him (which is not the leaft amiable trait in his character), and his unparalleled intrepidity in facing the many dangers to which he was unavoidably expofed, are ftill fresh in the memory of every one. That fuch a man fhould be fuffered to moulder into duft, "with fearce a 1tone to tell where he lies," is, in my opinion, much to be regretted; but I fincerely hope, that at no very difiant period we may have the fatisfaction of fecing his memory handed down to pofterity in a manner worthy of his name. J.B. Mr. URBAN, March 15. WITH profound refpect for the Liturgy of the Church. of England, of which I am an erring member, I cannot agree with your worthy correfpondent W. B.. p. 37, that the occafional use of it in priváte families can be prophane or improper. Does not W. B. know many parifbes in which the Church Service is confined to the afternoon? Knows he not many parithes wherein the Church is three to feven miles from much of the inhabited part? Will a ferious matter do wrong, if on fhort days, or in very bad weather, he fhall affemble his family and fervants, and use the Church Liturgy (except the Abfolution), and read to them the Leffons, and either a Sermon of fome Church Minister, or, if he be not fo provided, that of our Lord on the Mount? Can he fupply himfelf with any other Prayers fo well adapted to all our wants and defires, or more full and ardent thankf givings for the benefits poured upon us? Dr. Johnfon fays, No. Ought the inftance of a few petulant fchool-boys ufing the Liturgy irreverently out of the Church, or the carelefs and rapid reading it in the Church, to be a reafon for neglecting it on the occafions I have mentioned? One thould almost be tempted to think that the accommodation of other forms would proceed from a Diffenter only. There are forms of long ftanding for private devotion, particularly infomeWeekly Preparations, which are in need of much alteration. Were every head of a family to endeavour to fupply the inevitable abfence of public worship, Chriftianity would again rear its facred head, the morals of our fervants and labourers would not be what they now too often are, and the Church would be much better attended. |