Mr. URBAN,

Feb. 2. N the volume of Thomas Heyrick's Poems, which furnished the English copy of verses by Joshua Barnes in p. 62, are two others by the same learned Critick; one of them under the strange title of "On a Flea presented to a Lady, whose Breast it had bitten, in a Golden Wire, 1679;" the other, a very beautiful

Epitaph on his dear friend Mr. Robert Cony the younger, who died November 9, 1681, and lies buried in Weypole- Church in Marchland, Norf. By J. B.

"In prime of youth and near to manhood drawn, [dawn: Here envious Night opprest my hopefull Before the nuptial crown adorn'd my

head;

Before I tasted of the bridal bed,
In parent dust seal'd up to Death I lie
A sad example of mortality.
Beauty and Youth and Wit and Wealth

are vain;

For I had all yet all could not obtain A short reprieve from the unwelcome grave: [have. The last possession that poor Man must Then let all know, how nought by Death's regarded; [ed."

And Vertue's in the other world reward

In the same volume are two Poems addressed by Mr. Heyrick to "his worthy Friend Mr. Joshua Barnes, B. D.;" one of them, "The Twelve Rules of Friendship;" the other," On his incomparable History of King Edward the Third," dated "Harborough, Nov. 4, 1690;" in the first of which he is called "President," in the other "Senior Fellow" of Emanuel College.

As the Author of this Volume is but little known, and may be mistaken for his kinsman, Robert Herrick, the famous Author of the "Hesperides," a short account of him may perhaps be not unwelcome.

Thomas Heyrick, a descendant of the antient family of that name, and nephew, it is believed, of Robert Herrick the Poet, was born about 1647, and educated at Peter-house,

He obtained the curacy of Market Cambridge; B. A. 1670; M. A. 1675. Harborough in 1682; and published a Sermon, in 1685, on the Proclamation by King James II.; and another, in the same year, under the title of "The Character of a Rebel, in a Sermon preached at Market Harborough, on the 26th of July, 1685, being the Day of Thanksgiving appointed for his Majesty's Victory over the Rebels." This Sermon, which was licensed at Lambeth, Aug. 22, 1685, and published “ by Samuel Heyrick, at Gray's Inn," is inscribed "To the Right Honourable Edward Griffin, esq. TreaLieutenant-General of his Majesty's surer of the Great Chamber, and First Troop of Horse Guards;" whose

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loyalty, and that of his family for many generations, that vestal fire which hath never gone out, but hath cherished an inextinguishable zeal for King and Country," is extolled by Mr. Heyrick; who goes on, "Blessed be God for Victory! We live now in a time when Loyalty is in fashion; it swims quietly down the stream without any opposition; and every one will venture out to sea in halcyon days."

The Volume which occasioned this Letter is intituled "Miscellany Poems, by Tho. Heyrick, M. A. formerly of Peter-House College in Cambridge. 1691." 4to. pp. 112; and contains also "The Submarine Voyage, a Pindarick Poem in Four Parts;" and prefixed to it, besides the verses by Barnes, are others, by William Tunstall; Theophilus Judd, of St. John's College, Cambridge, dated Kibworth, Sept. 11, 1690; George Walker, of Emanuel College; and Lancelot Manning, B. A. of Trinity College.

The gratitude and attention of Mr. Heyrick to the Family of the Earl of Rutland is evident in many of his Poems; and his principal amusements appear to have been Poetry and Angling.-Mr. Judd's Poem is addressed to "his ingenious Friend and Brother-Angler;" and Heyrick has

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"A Pindarique Ode in Praise of Angling, to my worthy Friend Mr. Thomas Bateman," which, beginning with an Address to Water," the mighty universal good, the mother of fertility," proceeds,

"Ceres to thee her growth doth ow; - And Bacchus thanks thee for his generous wine, [flowers! Bred by the sun and thy sweet And gods to thee their gratitude should show, [flow! From whom their Nectar and Ambrosia

Here in Elysian fields by chiding rills

The off-spring o'th' eternal bills; Beneath a pleasing shade, that can defeat The Sun's impetuous heat;

Where Zephyr gently murmurs thrô the bowers,

And dallies with the smiling flowers, And all the winged Choristers above In melting strains sing to the God of Love: While pleased Nature doth a silence keep, Even hills do nod, and rivers seem to sleep:

Here with a Friend, copartner of my joys,

Whose artfull soul knows every way The scaly off-spring to betray, The bold, the fearfull,or the cautious Prey: I an extensive empire lay

O're all the watry plain; [fear. And numerous subjects do our scepters Salmon, the king of rivers,that each year

Removes his watry court to th' sea; But with the sun and spring returns again, And o're all bars of art or nature, flies, O're floodgates, wears, and rocks, his

course doth steer.

[Dove. Of Derwent, fruitfull Trent, and chrystal Carp even by Princes priz'd, whom curious tasts approve;

In fenced ponds, safe as a treasure laid, The stream's physician Tench, whose balmy slime

Heals all the maladies of the watry clime. The silver Eel, that yet doth keep unHer secret way of propagation:

known

These and a crowd of Species more
That live on many a distant shore;
Some that in Beauty do exceed;
Some that in Strength and some in
Speed:
[Fight.
And some by Nature arm'd for bloody
Some that in fertil Mudd do feed,
Some that in barren Sands delight,
Some that fenc'd Rocks and woody shades
do own:

Beside the ignoble lesser fry,
The Rabble of the watry clime,

Not worth a Fisher's time,
And more unworthy memory,
Destin'd by fate the greater's prey to be,
I' th' water's curs'd Democrasie,
Are subjects all of our dominion."

“The Submarine Voyage" is a Philosophical Poem of no mean desert.

So

Among the "Miscellanies" is one on "The Chase of the Fox at Welby, 1677. To St. John Bennet, esq." and the following verses "On an Indian Tomineios, the least of Birds:" "The Indians me a Sunbeam name, And I may be the child of one: small I am, my kind is hardly known. To some a sportive Bird I seem, And some believe me but a Fly; Thô me a feather'd Fowl the best esteem: What er'e I am, I'me Nature's gemm; And, like a Sunbeam from the sky, I can't be follow'd by the quickest eye. I'me the true Bird of Paradise, And heavenly dew 's my only meat: My mouth so small, 'twill nothing else admit. [poise, No scales know how my weight to So light, I seem condensed air; And did at th' end of the Creation rise, When Nature wanted more supplies, When she could little matter spare, But in return did make the work more Yours, &c. CARADOC.

rare,"

Another

Mr. URBAN,
Feb. 2.
None of the private letters of

now first

published in the new Edition, vol. I. p. *243, is the following request :

"When the book is finished (Woodfall's Collection of Junius's Letters,

2 vols. 12mo.), let me have a sett bound in vellum, gilt, and lettered JUNIUS I. II. as handsomely as you can; the edges gilt: let the sheets be well dried before binding. I must also have two setts in blue paper covers. This is all the fee I shall ever desire of you."

Now it is possible such a copy of Junius, in such singular binding, and which was very unusual at that time (1772), may be found in some library; and if not in that in which it was first placed, if it should be in the hands of any intelligent Collector, no doubt it might be traced through whose hands it has passed. What a precious note for the Bibliomania! Junius's own Copy of his Letters, bound in vellum with gill leaves !

Here is a scent laid for the Bibliographers; let them beat the bushes of Berkeley-square, Beaconsfield, and Stow, or any other place where the game is likely to be found; no doubt it exists somewhere, and what a happy man will he be that discovers it. Yours, &c.

L. R. I.

Mr. URBAN, Brookend, Feb. 3. T has long been the practice with me to make an abridgment of every book I read that contains matter worth remembering. I send you an extract from one of those abridgments to be inserted in your MiscelJany, if you think it will be useful to any of your readers. The work from which it is made has for title, "Le Livre de tous les Ménages, ou l'Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les Substances animales et végétables. Par Appert." &c. 1810.

The numerous letters and reports in favour of M. Appert's method of preserving alimentary substances or comestibles, I shall pass over, and confine myself to the more useful parts of the performance, After objecting to the old modes of preserving, by desiccation, or by adding some substance (as sugar, salt, vinegar, &c.) to prevent fermentation, as more or less destructive of the flavour

more or less unwholesome; he states his own newly-discovered method to consist in, 1. placing the alimentary

in jars; 2. accurately stopping the bottles or jars with the finest corks, by driving them in for three-fourths of their length, and fastening them down with wire; 3. putting each bottle into a coarse linen bag, made on purpose for it, and placing all the bottles so prepared in a copper, into which water is then poured till it is almost up to the corks; 4. the water is then heated to a certain degree, and for a longer or shorter time, according to the nature of the contents of the bottles. The lid of the copper or boiler is made to rest upon the bottles or jars, and a wet cloth is laid round its edge to confine the steam as much as possible. A bottle will sometimes burst with detonation. None of the bottles should be completely full, for fear of such an accident. The day after the operation, the corks may be secured still more by a covering of pitch or cement.

The sorts of green peas preferred by the author for preservation are, the clamart and the crochu; the michaux he rejects. The peas being gathered when not too young, and the largest separated, they are put into bottles, observing to jog the bottles that they may contain as many as possible. When corked, they are submitted to the water bath, which is kept boiling for an hour and a half or two hours. The large peas also are to be bottled, and treated in the same way, but with thirty minutes' longer boiling.

Asparagus, being washed as usual, are plunged into boiling, and afterwards into cold water, before they are bottled: if they are preserved whole, they are carefully ranged in a jar with their heads downwards. They are left in the bath no longer than till it begins to boil.

Garden Beuns. The larger sorts, gathered when the bean is about half an inch long, are shelled, and bottled with a small bunch of savory, &c. and submitted to the bath, which is to boil for an hour and a half.

Green Kidney Beans are gathered as for common use. The best sort for preserving are known by the name of Bayolet. They are to be

cut

cut and stringed, and then bottled. The water bath should boil for an hour and a half. But if the beans are large, they should be cut in two or three lengthwise; and then an hour's boiling will be sufficient.

Artichokes (whole) are treated the same as Asparagus, and left an hour in the bath. Cauliflowers require the same treatment, with only half an hour's boiling. A longer heat is given in dry, and a shorter in wet seasons. Culinary and medicinal herbs are to be pressed close in the bottles with a stick, and, after being corked up, submitted but a short time to a boiling heat. The process should be gone through as quickly as possible, for preserving juices and fruits. Fruits should be gathered before they are perfectly ripe. They will be best if gathered in the middle of the season. Gooseberries and grapes, picked and bottled like the peas, are placed in the bath till it begins to boil: the fire is then removed from under the copper, and a quarter of an hour afterwards the water is let out through a cock, or Goose. by other convenient means. berries are preserved better if the seeds are previously taken Cherries and raspberries are preserved in the same manner as gooseberries. Strawberries require to be squeezed through a searce, as for making ices; and every pound of fruit

out.

should be well mixed with half a

pound of fine sugar, and the juice of half a lemon. Their colour is lost in some degree, but it may be restored by art when they are used. Apricots are gathered when ripe, yet somewhat hard; are cut lengthwise, and have the stones removed with a knife: they are then bottled, and to each bottle twelve or fifteen kernels of the fruit are added. In all other respects they are treated like the gooseberries. Peaches require a similar operation. The author has found by experiment that sirop of raisins preserves the aroma and pleasant acidity of fruits infinitely better than sugar. About 30 pages at the end of the book are taken up in describing the manner of using the various preserves, and in summing up the advantages of his new process. His attempts to theorize are not very successful, Yours, &c.

ELLEN.

Mr. URBAN, Lichfield, Feb. 16.
BEG leave to appeal once more

to solicit your valuable assistance, in the hope that the following "very curious case" may not prove a lost case. Your aumerous readers are individually desired to consider themselves, more or less, concerned in the perusal of it; and if any one of them will have the goodness to throw some light upon the present state of the case, the obligation will be very gratefully acknowledged.

In a Catalogue of the Library of James West, esq. President of the Royal Society, sold by auction in London, in March and April 1773, by Messrs. Langford (24 days' sale) is the following very curious article, viz.:

"The Book of Common Prayer, 1702, interleaved and filled throughout with manuscript notes by the learned and laborious Bishop Kennet, with two manuscript letters, the one from Florence, signed Henry Newton, July 1707, touching the approbation of the Patriarch of Constantinople and his Suffragans, of the English Liturgy (from Dupont's Greek translation of it, which they had seen); the other, from Vale Royal, June 1707, signed Fr. Cholmondeley, testifying the zeal of Grotius for the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England."

Now a manuscript note in this Catalogue informs a learned friend of mine (for I presume to call him friend though personally unknown to me) that this book was bought by William Herbert for thirteen shillings; and by the liberal attention of the same gentleman I am further enabled to state, book is thus far traced, was the that Herbert, into whose hands the author of the improved edition of Ames's Typographical' Antiquities; and that all his literary treasures were dispersed after his death, some by tract. auction, and some by private con

Here, then, Mr. Urban, we are foiled in our pursuit, unless through your means we can fortunately recover the scent. The book in question probably at this moment is in the library of some reader of your literary as well as entertaining pages, and if we can hit it off, by the aid of so many coadjutors, emunctæ naris,

I feel