Perfon and Qualities of the young Queen of Naples. and whether her hands be fatte or leane, long or fhorte. Aunfawer. Her hands be right fayre, fomewhat fully, fofth, and fayre, and clean skynned. 14. Ítem, to note her fingers, whether they be long or short, fmall or great, 'b.oad or narrow before, Aunfaver. They are right fayre, and fmall, and of a neitly length and bredth before, according unto her perfonage very fayre handed. 15. Item, to marke whether her neck be long or short, fmall or great. Aunfwer. Her neck is fully and comely, not mifhapen, nor very fhorte nor very longe, but neitly after the proportion of her perfon; but her neck feemeth to be the fhorter because of her breftes be fully, and fomewhat bigge. 16. Item, to marke her breftes, whe, ther they be big or imall. Aunfwer. They be fomewhat great and fully, and infomuch as they were truffed fomewhat high after the manner of the country, yt caufed them to feme the much more fullyer, and her . neck the more shorter. 17. Item, to marke whether there be any heare appearing about her lippes or not. Aunfwer. She hath none, but cleare fkynned. 18. Item, that they endeavour them to fpeake with the faid young Queen fafting, and that he may tell unto them fome matter of length, and to approach as neare to her mouth as they honestly may, to th' entent that they may feele the condition of her breath, whether it be fweete or not. And to marke at every tyme when they fpeake with her if they feel any favour of fpyces, rofe water, or mufke, by the breath of her mouth or nor. Aunfer. They could not come fafting, but at other tymes when they have Ipoken with her, they have found no evil favour of any fpices or waters. And we think verily by the favour of her vifage, and cleanenes of complexyon, and of her mouth, that the faid Quene is lyke to be of a sweete favour and well eyred. 19. Item, to note the height of her ftature, and to enquire whether the wears any flyppers, and of what height her flyppers be, to th' entent they be not deceyved in the verye height and ftature of her. And if they may come to the fight of her flyppers, then to marke well the fafhyon of her foot. Aunfwer. Her flyppers be of 6 fin 21 gers heyght; fhe is of a convenyent ftature, fomewhat rounde and well lykynge, which caufeth her Grace to feeme leffer in height. 20. Item, to enquire whether the have any fick nefs of her natyvytye, deformytye, or blemmifhe in her bodye, and what that fhould be, or wher fhe hath bene commenly in health, or fometyme fycke, and fometyme holle, and to know the fpecyaltyes of fuch fyckneifes and difeafes. Aunfwer. They have enquiered by her apothecary and phyficians, and other wayfe in talke, but find non, having in her perfon no difconformy tye, nor cause of fycknesses. 21. Item, whether the be in anye fingular favour with the K. of S. her unckle, and whether the have any refemblaunce in vyfage, countenance, or complexion, to him. Aunfwer. She favoureth much her unckle in many thinges, and he much eftemeth of her, and will promote her in maryage, &c. 22. Item, to enquier of the manner of her dyet, and whether the be a great feeder or drynker, and whether the ufes often to eate or drynke, and whether the drynketh wine, or water, or both. Aunfwer. She is a good feeder, and eates well her meate twyes a dave; and that her Grace drinketh not often; and that the drynketh moft commonly water, and fometyme that water is boyled with fynamon, and fometyme the drynketh. ypocras, but not often. 23. Item, the King's fayd fervaunts fhall alfo attend unto, and dyligentlye enquier for some connynge painter, having good experience in makyng and payntyng of vyfages and purtreytures; and fuch one they fhall take with them to the places where the faid Queenes make theyr abode, to th' entent that the fayd paynter may draw a pyeture of the vyfage and femblance of the fayd young Quene, as lyke unto her as it can or may be convenyentlye done; which pyc &ture and ym mage they fhall fubftantiallye note and mark in everye poynele and circumflance, fo that it agree in fimylytude and lick neffe as neere as it maye poffyblye to the verye vyfage, countenaunce, and fem blaunce of the fayd Quene. And in cafe they may perceyve that the pay: ter, at the firft or fecond makynge there f, hath not made the fame perfect to her fimylytude and lycknefs, or that he hath omyt ted any feyture or circumftance either in colours or other proportions of the fayd vyfage, then they hall caufe the fayd paynter, 22 THE MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT, No I. paynter, or fome other connynge pavnter that they can get, fo oftentymes to renewe, or reform the fame pycture tyll it be made perfecte and agreeable in everye behalfe, with the verye ymage and vyfage of the fayd Quene. 24. Item, the fayd fervants, by the wyfeft waves that they can ufe, fhall make inquyfycion and enfearche what land or lyvelyhode the fayd young Quene hath, or fhall have after the deccafe of the Quene her mother, eyther by tyth of joynture or otherwayfe upon the realme of Naples, or in any other place or country, what is the yearlye value thereof, and whether the fhall have the fame to her and to her heyres for ever, or elfe during her life onlye. And to know the fpecialtyes, and the tytle, and valewes thereof in everye behalf, &c. THE MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT. Number I. Jan. 1, 1787. UR mathematical way of writing is very little proper for panegyrick, which therefore I intreat you not to expect from me; but be pleafed to accept of a fhort and plain account of the Greek and Latin cycles, fuch as Mr. Dodwell hath determined them." So writes the great Dr. Halley to the pious Nelfon (Life of Mr. Dodwell by F. Brokeby, London; Geo. James, 1715, p. 614); and I fincerely wifh that this mathematical way of writing were more common in the world. It is a way, however, which I mean to follow in this and in other numbers that I fhall communicate to your Magazine, from time to time, under this title. Excufe me, therefore, if I do not deal in panegyrick either on you or on myfelf; any more than in preface, apology, account of my plan, or any fuch unmathematical trash. The title which I have chofen will fufficiently explain my intentions; what ever I fay fhall be at least ad rem, and I hope you will have no occafion to be afhamed of one, who, after having been fome years your reader, becomes at length your correfpondent in the line of his profeffion. Before I begin with the cafes, queries, &c. and perhaps fome difcoveries (material or not, as it may happen) with which I mean to trouble you; I hall take notice of a letter figned Immemor, p. 1015 of your laft Magazine. That young gentleman's want of me y is certainly owing, in part, to the immoderate ufe of fleep he mentions, which will in time make him ftupid as well as forgetful, or even worse; bút it is alfo, in part, owing to the course of his reading, and the mode of his education. Let him read and understand the writings of fome fuch man as I have quoted, and he will foon tell different ftories of his memory. Francis Bacon fays, that if a youth be bird-witted (that is, I fuppofe, if his understanding hop about like a bird from one twig of the tree of knowledge to another), he fhould ftudy mathematics; because there, if he do not attend as he goes on, and fix his mind on what he is reading, he must always begin again; to fave himfelf which trouble, he will foon learn to do what he ought to do. As a medical man, I will quote the famous Boyle, who tells us in his own Memoirs, that, while he was afflicted with an ague, by way of diverting his melancholy, they made him read Amidis de Gaule, and other romantic books, which produced fuch a restlessnefs in him, that he was obliged to apply himself to the extraction of the fquare and cube roots, and to the more laborious operations of algebra, in order to fix and fettle the volatility of his fancy. Now your bird-witted friend has ne ver, I will venture to fay, gone very far in Euclid, or even Locke; nor has he been in habits of learning by heart paffages from writers more entertaining than mathematicians and philofophers. As I like his ingenuoufnefs, and difcover the feeds of good in his conftitution, I will prefcribe for him. Inftead of eating fuppers, learn by heart fome paffages of poetry which pleafe you, the last thing before you go to-bed, and repeat them the first thing in the morning, at fix in the Spring and Autumn, five in Summer, and seven in Winter, Study Watts's Logick, and his Improvement of the Mind; Locke, and Euclid. Let me know the effects of this regimen, accompanied with plain food and conflant exercife; and I will then prefcribe further, if it fhould be neceffary. From this courfe, Mr. Urban, I have good hopes of our poor patient, becaufe it appears by his letter that his memory is by no means fo weak as he reprefents it, nor can it be true that "the pleafure which he derives from books is no longer in its duration than while they lie before him, all afterwards being a fad vacuity;" becaufe he evidently had Strictures on the Impropriety of neglecting the Clerical Drefs. in his memory, or in his hand (the former I conclude) both Pope and Horace; and, by the ftrength of his language, he fhews that he has read other books to fome purpofe. In fhort, Sir, I doubt not, from his own reprefentation, but we shall be able foon to provide fome memory for our patient, and to make him a useful correfpondent (the only kind of fee which I fhall expect him to pay), unless indeed the unhappy gentleman fhould by this time have loft the recollection of having written his letter, or of having figned himfelf Immemor, and even of his being Immemor, and fo have forgotten (as I wish he may) his own forgetfulness. I MR. URBAN, Jan. 5. HOPE the following particular, and not general cenfure, will give no offence to that refpectable body of men to whom it is addreffed. Some individuals are indeed hinted at, whofe reformation is ardently wished: in their ferious reflections they must acknowledge the obfervations to be juft and wellgrounded. They relate to that extraordinary negligence and foppifh affectation of drefs in many of our clergy, who, except they are in the act of clerical functions, can hardly be distinguished from a common mechanic; he may also wear a grey coat, a round wig, &c. A pair of filver buckles do not always authenticate a clergyman; and if fo infignificant a mark is to be our guide, we may often mistake, or be in the dark. Give me leave to exemplify with an anecdote which concerned my felf, and wherein I committed a very innocent blunder. Being fome years ago at a fashionable watering-place in --fhire, I had officiated for a few days as lay-chaplain to a very graceful company; but, coming later than ufual into the dining-room, I began in a hurry the accustomed fhort form of, Thefe good creatures, &c. when a confufed none of inarticulate founds buzzed from different parts of the table, and the ladies gave fignal for filence by genteel raps on the plates. In this perplexity I was informed there was a clergman prefent: in vain I fought for him, till a more knowing perfon near me whispered "the brown coat." I immediately made an apology for my infringement, declaring at the fame time the fault could not be mine, there being nothing canonical in his appearance. The good parfon blushed, whe 23 ther from conviction of his own impropriety, or the violation of his rights, is uncertain. The clergy in general can have no reafon for difguifing themfelves; they ferve the greatest of mafters, of whom it is their duty not to be afhamed. How much more commendable would it be for them to dress with decency in a becoming and diftinguishable manner! I fhall bring another inftance in favour of my argument. During a fummer's excurfion, paffing through a confiderable village, an invincible penchant detained me to view the infide of its large parochial church, once a priory to the abbey of Weftminfter. Whilft my attention was deeply engaged in decyphering Gothic infcrip tions partly obliterated; tranfcribing into my pocket-book; filling up the cares and blanks occafioned by time; affembling in mind the confufed jumble of onceunited and well-difpofed historic glass; and fometimes walking about to admire the structure and beautiful turn of the delicate columns and arches; I was fuddenly roufed from my penfive mood, from a filent converfation with the dead, to that of the living, by two perfons who, approaching, interrupted my pleafing reverie. Curious perhaps they might be, but not fo profoundly intombed as my felf: this I understood plainly by their looking more above than towards the humble pavement. Thefe two perfons accofted me with a very courtly and gracious fmile, made fome pertinent queftions, which were as politely anfwered; they foon, however, left the gloomy pile for gayer fcenes of pleafure. But what has all this to do with your prefent purpofe? cries fome impatient reader who hates digreflions. If he is not too petulant, he fhall be informed, if information he wants, that the arrows of fatire do not ftrike moft in a direct line; there are many ftops and windings in the road to truth. Upon my retuin to the inu, and by the help of an all-knowing landlord, I difcovered my church-companions were two noblemen, a lord fpiritual and a lord temporal. In regard to the laft, I had been fortunate enough on glancing at his ftar and garter to conclude him one, and addreffed him accordingly. But the Lord Bishop did not receive that degree of refpect from me which it is my practice to make ute of before fuperiors. Here again I was not to blame; no epilcopal mark in short, I could not fee a bishop. Even in 24 Strictures on Dr. Gillies.-Abfurd Fashion of modernizing Names. in the course of our converfation in the church the word Lordship never paffed their lips, which amongst the great is looked upon as fulfome when too frequently ufed. Thefe circumftances being matters of fact, of small importance in the main, will ferve, however, to draw the following confequence which I fhall leave to your decifion: Whether the clergy, defirous of receiving that refpect which is justly due to their character, fhould not ob ferve a proper decorum as well in drefs as in manners; fuch as may fecure us laymen from mifnomers, and other im proprieties of behaviour. The public prints have lately announced the Archbishop of Vienna's mandate for reforming the drefs of his clergy, who had lapfed into ridiculous extravagancies. We certainly do not mean to copy from the follies of other countries; may our own national vanity forbid it, and reftore all ferious churchmen to the modeft and fuitable habits of their order! Yours, &c. PRO CLERO. MR. URBAN, Jan. 6. IF you think the following remarks merit attention, you will, by the infertion of them, confer an obligation on, Yours, &c. Y. Z. Dr. Gillies, in his Hiftory of Greece, p. 8, vol. I. afferts, without adducing any authority, that the Hellenes were acquainted with pi&ure-writing. This mode is not univerfal before the ufe of alphabets. The writing of fome of the inhabitants of Sumatra is angular; whereas the curve is effential to picture writing. The veffels collected for the purpose of transporting the Grecian forces to Afia, are faid, by Dr. G. (p. 27), 10 have been entirely unprovided with decks or anchors. Wood, in his "El say on the Original Genius of Homer," mentions that the fleet, affembled at Aulis, confifted of half-decked boats, which had each of them one maft, and were fitted either for rowing or failing. A paffage in Homer's Iliad (lib. I. line 436), icems to indicate that anchors were made ufe of by the Greeks at the fiege of Troy, if Clarke's tranflation of the word was, anchoras, be just. P. 31, Euripides afferts that Helen never was at Troy; and Herodotus too, from the words of an Egyptian priest. P. 46. Mariden, I think, has given an account of a people in Sumatra who had a custom, very fimilar to the one here noticed, of drinking the blood, and eating the limbs, of the enemies captured in war. P. 47. It is advanced, that the an cient heroes addreffed their heavenly protectors in an erec posture. Achilles addreffes Thetis (lib. I. of the Iliad) in the posture of fitting. P. 51. The equal fpirit of the Grecian inftitutions" is not evinced by the compenfation in money, which might be accepted for a lofs fuftained. P. 56. The emotions in the breaft of the perfon, who reads the interview of Hector and Andromache, do not ap"natural pear to me derived from a equality" obfervable between the two perfonages. P. 57. The observations of the Dr. with refpect to the affections of persons in a favage ftate, were not, I think, als together conformable to experience. P. 60. "It was agreeable to the will of the Gods that the life fhould be fpared when a fufficient ranfom was promifed." Agamemnon then, in the fixth book of the Iliad, acted contrary to the will of the Gods, by flaying Adraftus. Yet Homer makes ufe of the words αίσιμα παρειπων, referring to the fpeech of Agamemnon to his brother on this occafion. P. 195. "The warlike Spartans would fcarcely admit into their city a writer who had faid, that it was better for a foldier to lofe his fhield than his life," &c. The difgrace attendant on the lofs of a fhield in battle is noticed by Tacitus concerning the Germans. Horace toc (Od. II. vii.) mentions his parmula non bene relicta. on MR. URBAN, Jan. 8. GIV IVE me leave, at the hazard of offending fome of your antiquarian correfpondents, to make fome remarks a prevailing piece of affectation, which, in my opinion, tends to deform our language, and injure our taste. This is, the modern fashion of spelling proper names according to the most ancient authorities, when our orthography was extremely vague and irregular, rather than according to the practice of later times, in which found and meaning have been more uniformly regarded. I do not accufe the fpirit of antiquarianifm alone of this alteration, as I believe the pride of appearing to have had anceffors has at leaft been equally inftrumental in it. Our numerous monofyt labical Orthography of Shakespear's Name.-Principles of Roman Catholics. 25 labical names, moftly expreffive of com mon and vulgar qualities or occupations, have been thought, by their prefent richer poffeffors, not fufficiently dignified without a little embroidery of antique fpelling. Thus our I's are all changed into Y; and an e final is tacked to our Browns, Cooks, and Clarks. But my chief motive for writing this letter, was to express my dislike, nay my utter abomination, of the latelyadopted fpelling of Shak fpear. It is not only an idle and unneceffary alteration of a mode fufficiently fettled by ufe, but it leads to a moft vile and barbarous pronunciation of the name, clofely refembling the waiting-maid's Shickfper, which, with infinite difguft, I perceive daily to gain ground. It is acknowledged by the launchest antiquarians, that Shakespear's own practice can be adduced as authority for two or three different ways of fpelling. Why then fhould we chufe the worft both with refpect to found and etymology for 1 fuppofe nobody doubts that the name is coinpounded of bake and spear; and furely no ear can be formed fo as to prefer the hard to the foftened e in this combination. Mr. Urban, if this new method fhould prevail, and bring in with it (as it certainly will) the shocking pronunciation deducible from it, 1 shall be provoked almost to conclude that tafte and antiquarianism are in direct opposition to each other: a conclufion which you, Sir, as a friend to both, will, I truft, use your influence to obviate. Yours, &c. PHILO-SHAKE. I hope the directors of the newly. planned fplendid edition will take this matter into considération. tions, Comber's Advice to the Roman-catholics," I was defirous of knowing the motive which impelled the editor to give a new edition of that work at this time; but, on perusing the preface, I found no particular reason adduced for it; the following paragraph I could not help remarking; fpeaking of the fupremacy allowed by the Roman-catholics to the Bishop of Rome, he fays, "It fhould feem to be neceffary for the Roman catholics of the pretent day to make a folemn declaration, that, by referving the fupremacy of the Pope, and of the church of GENT. MAG. January, 1787, Rome, they mean not to extend ecclefiaftical authority beyond matters purely fpiritual," &c. This, Sir, at first fight appears extremely rational, and would be perfectly fo if the Roman-catholics of this country had not univerfally made that folemn declaration, here required, in the oath which they took to Government in the year 1778, in the following words, viz. “And I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, ftate, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurifdiction, power, fuperiority, or pre-eminence, directly, or indirectly, within this realm." But as I have frequently obferved the real tenets of the Roman-catholics to be miftaken by our writers, as well in this as in other points, I thought it would not be improper to lay before the publick, through the medium of your extenfive Mifcellany, the following fhort statement of their principles, which was drawn up in the reign of Charles II.; and, as it is proper the Publick should be acquainted with the real tenets of every fect of men refiding in this kingdom, I hope you will give a place to the following in your Magazine, and thereby oblige, Yours, &c. CANDIDUS. THE PRINCIPLES OF ROMAN CATHOLICS. 1. The fruition of God, and the remiffion of fin, are not attainable by man, otherwife than in and by the me rits of Jefus Chrift, who gratuitously purchased them for us. 2. Thefe merits of Chrift are not applied to us otherwise than by a right faith in him. 3. This faith is but one, entire and conformable to its object, which is divine revelation, and to which faith gives an undoubting affent. 4. This revelation contains many myfteries tranfcending the natural reach of human understanding. Wherefore, 5. It became the Divine Wifdom and Goodness to provide fome way or means whereby man might arrive to the knowledge of thefe myfteries; means vifible and apparent to all; means propertioned to the capacities of all; means fure and certain to all. 6. This way or means is not the reading of the Scripture, interpreted according |