This humble picture of decrepitude and destitution is, confessedly, a very faint and imperfect sketch, without colouring or varnish; but, surely, the outlines, such as they may be, are hard. Fully aware of the liberalminded personages before whom this simple memorial is brought, its writer dares not insult their best feelings by idle and declamatory attempts at pathos: the sad case pleads for itself "trumpel-tongued."

Subscriptions for the relief of these ladies are received by Messrs. Hammersleys and Co. Bankers, Pall-Mall. The Rev. Weeden Butler, junior, will gladly answer the inquiries of the benevolent into the correctness of this statement, on being honoured with a line or a call at his house, No. 11, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.

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(To be continued.)

Mr. URBAN,

Chelsea, March 11. TRUST you will allow me, through the medium of your widely circulated Miscellany, to correct an error in my History of Fulham, p. 420, where it is said, "That the late Margrave of Anspach had a pension of 400,000 rixdollars conferred upon him and the Margravine jointly, for their lives." The fact is simply this: that the pension was granted to the Margrave only, on the cession of his Territories to the King of Prussia, eight months previous to his marriage with Lady Craven. The late King of Prussia gave the Margravine a Bond, engaging to pay her Highness 20007. a year, 'in case of the Margrave's death, and which Bond was ratified by his son, the present King of Prussia, but not one shilling has her Highness ever received; nor, from the present situation of his Prussian Majesty, does it appear probable that he will be able for a length of time to fulfil the tenor of his obligation.

This circumstance will be fully explained and elucidated, in the "Memoirs of the Life of her Serene Highness written by Herself," and now preparing for publication. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

THOS. FAULKNER.

Lincoln's-Inn, March 9.

Mr. Woodfall, agreeably to Junius's directions; but there is a part of the Note of Junius which L. R. 1. quotes, "This is all the Fee I shall ever de sire of you;" which induces me to suppose, that neither of the distin guished persons he alludes to were the Author of the Letters, but that he was a professional man, as I consider that no other would have used the word Fee in lieu of the more usual term reward, recompence, pay, or satisfaction:-that Junius purposely adopted that word, is not very probable. Instead, therefore, of searching the Libraries at Lansdowne House, Beaconsfield, or Stow, I should explore the library of the late Lord Ashburton. P. B.

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PHILO-JUNIUS,

Mr. URBAN, Feb. 14. HE expression Lombard Pillarsoften occurs in Whittington's View of Gothic Architecture in France; and, so far as I know and believe, nowhere else in the whole course of English literature. What is the precise and diagnostic meaning of this epithet Lombard here, and in what properties or proportions do such pillars differ from all others?

We often meet with Basso relievoAlto relievo-Cameo. These words convey indefinite ideas to me, though I flatter myself the Italian language is as familiar to me as English. The attempts of all the writers of Dic

called the public attention to a search for a Set of Junius, which no doubt were got splendidly bound by

have seen, are really founded."

and these are not a few, "Con usion worse con

Permit me to hope, some of your Correspondents will explain these words and expressions in an intelligible, perhaps familiar, manner.

I fancy some particular Act of Parliament, still in force, exists, by which all Incumbents are prohibited from letting leases of their beñefices, tithes, &c.; and in case such leases are or shall be granted by Non-resident Clergy, rendering the said lease voidable whenever the person who even granted it may please. Does such a statute really exist? What year and chapter is it?

Mr. URBAN,

CLERICUS BATHENSIS.

Murch 10.

BERNARD LINTOTT, the cele

brated Bookseller, immortalized by Pope and Swift, after having many years been the Rival of Jacob Tonson, retired, about the year 1730, to the enjoyment of an easy fortune, very honourably acquired, to Horsham in Sussex. In November 1735 he was appointed High Sheriff of that County, but died on the 3d of February following, before he had actually entered on the duties of the office; to which his son, Henry Lintott, esq. was appointed in his room, February 5, 1735-6. Henry died in the year 1758; his widow in 1763; and their only daughter, Catharine, was married in 1768, with a fortune of 45,000, to Captain Henry Fletcher, afterwards Sir Henry Fletcher, bart.-Any further particulars of

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Mr. URBAN,

Feb. 12. CANNOT agree with Viator, in thinking the Churchwardens of St. Michael's, Coventry, have been negligent, in not making the proper application before the erection of chimneys to that Church.

On the contrary, I am inclined to attach some blame to Mr. Sharp, and his sagacious friend Mr. Nixon, for not interfering of their own accord; and I heartily wish that sentinels possessing as much taste for the fine arts, as much regard for our venerable religious buildings, and as much recondite learning as these two gentlemen, were stationed in every city in the kingdom, and that their minds were imbued with the same spirit as that of the ingenious author of " The Pursuits of Architectural Innovation," whose multifarious collection of papers have enriched your Magazine, while they have contributed, in no small degree, to the preservation of some of our most valuable pieces of Antiquity.

It is right, Mr. Urban, that men like Messrs. Nixon and Sharp, who hold possession of the chair of Aristarchus,should be found at their post, ready to defend such sacred edifices from the polluted touch of unhallowed invaders. SENEX.

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Murch 1.

Bere traveller across that part of the country which constitutes the Alpine scenery of Malvern, I had not time to do more than make the drawing of the Church* (See Pl. I.) which is situated to the left of the road leading to Ledbury, &c. There are few situations. more grand in a peculiar way, as the semi-mountains rise in a long line in one direction, and within them (opposed to the level Eastward) are the numerous fortified hills of Herefordshire, mostly conical and smooth on their surfaces, except where the antient Britons have broken them for the purposes of defence. Yours, &c.

M.

all of which were still standing. To wards nine o'clock, sun

very bright, several the sun amining the shore, and carried off many people. A young man, son to our housekeeper, finding me out, told me that he was endeavouring to hire a boat, to carry his mother (who was also much hurt, and then in the square) on board a ship. He very kindly asked me to go with them, to which I imagine I hardly answered in the affirmative, as supposing all the danger of fire to be over, and therefore unwilling to leave my only friend Mr. Forg behind me. We were now again in a crowd of people, with their bundles, all endeavouring to procure boats: amongst them was Mr. George Parclay, lying upon a mattress, having, as I afterwards

quake at LISBON.

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N Sunday morning about five o'clock the wind changed; and blowing fresh, it drove the flames with the utmost rapidity down the hill from the Cathedral towards our side of the Square. This obliged us immediately to move our station; and the black servants carrying me opposite to the Custom-house, left me there, till they could convey their masters' bundles to the other side; but so quick was the progress of the flames, that they presently seized the Custom-house, and bursting out all at once with a violent heat, I attempted all I could to get away; which being unable to do, I remained scorching there, till good Mr. Forg appeared, and removed me a little way from it. The blacks then came and conveyed me again to Mr. Graves's family, laying me, as before, upon their bundles. We were now very near the Palace, the roof of which had already fallen in; and the fire was so much decreased, that there seemed but little left. to burn, and we apprehended no danger, except from the falling of the walls, almost

stone; but I saw no more of either him or the housekeeper's son. Mr. Forg returning from the waterside desired us all to remove thither, or else it would be impossible, he said, to get a boat, for the moment they touched the shore they were immediately filled. This was directly complied with, and I found the cool air from the water very refreshing; but it did not last long, for in a little time it grew excessively hot, and we soon perceived that the fire, which we imagined to have left so far behind us, had crept along through the low buildings by the water-side close by us. This obliged us immediately to return into the Square, soon after which the flames, by means of a large quantity of timber that lay upon the shore, gained the end of the Palace next to the water, which, to our great surprize, blazed out afresh, though before it had seemed to be quite extinguished; and presently we found ourselves every way surrounded by a prodi gious fire, attended with such a shower of ashes from the timber by the water-side, that, to keep them off, notwithstanding the violent heat, I was forced to close my quilt over

my