European Magazine, For JUNE 1807. [Embellished with, 1. A Portrait of JOHN PINKERTON, Esq. And, 2. A View of SOUTHAMPTON, FROM MYTHE.] Memoir of John Pinkerton, Esq. Description of Southampton CONTAINING, 411 Letters of Yorick and Eliza 413 415 A New System of Domestic Cook ery Vestiges, collected a d recollected, The Revolution in Sho Buckles. By Anthologia Joseph Moser, Esq. [Concluded] 424|| Poetry-including, Ode for his Ma Mogli and irganna; or, The Fron Observations on the Fall of St. Chad's Philological Defence of the Utility of jesty's Birth-day-The Husband- 427 TheSnow-drop-Sonnet-ToMas 430 ter Barrington Purvis-Sonnet- 431 484|| The Reasoner. No. VI. 442 gram, &c. Page 459 ibid. ibid. 460 461 462 4.67 444 469. 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S., who desires us to give the Memoirs of an Honourable Baronet, and our opinions respecting his character, we read with attention, and consequently experienced the different sensations of pleasure and pain-pleasure, that he deems our Magazine, what we have assiduously endeavoured to make it, USEFUL and IMPARTIAL ;" and pain, that we should be obliged to refuse a request so respectably urged, upon the ground, that if we inserted the article, however cautiously we might word it, we should be in danger of forfeiting our claims to usefulness or impartiality in future. Mr. S., of whom, from his address, we think we have some slight knowledge, will understand, that to attempt to delineate the character of a Gentleman who has already made a great, and promises to make a still greater figure, in the political world, would probably lead to those PARTY disquisitions and controversies which we have most sedulously endeavoured to avoid. Looking upon human actions in the most favourable points of view, our sentiments can be of little importance upon A SUBJECT, respecting which there are, perhaps, as many opinions as there are PARTIES, we had almost said sects, in the kingdom. The account of EDWARD KING, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., &c., shall be commenced in our next. We are extremely obliged to Mr. Salisbury for his kind and liberal offer respecting the plate of the Botanical Garden; but upon a mature consideration of the subject, are of opinion, that, however interesting, it will, with the explanation, occupy more space in the Magazine than we can devote to that particular article. The Editor did not receive the note from Lady B. until the poetical half-sheet was printed. Mr. MOSER has desired us to intimate to W. J., that the idea of his piece is a very good one, and the anecdote characteristic: but that there are some ca uherances in it, which he is sure the good sense of Mr. J. would, upon revisal, correct. The Power of Sensibility even in humble life, and Louisa de Vernon, shall be inserted in our next. Lectures on Scripture Facts, by W. B. COLLYER, shall be reviewed in our next. Essex AVERAGE PRICES of CORN from June 6 to June 13. MARITIME COUNTIES. INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barl. | Oats Wheat Rye Barl. Oats Beans 78 0136 636 6129 358 3 Middlesex 74 613 0157 0132 G36 Surrey Sussex 72 400 0440 032 000 cflertford Suffolk 72 1000 032 1127 1036 11 Bedford Cambridge 67 51440 432 10 22 985 eHuntingdon 69 600 034 624 Norfolk 68 100 030 837 6 Northampt. 71 450 332 Lincoln 69 714 636 321 137 7 Rutland 73 York 70 1045 454 726 1113 11 Leicester 71 8:15 Durham 81 100 017 10/29 30 Nottingham 75 043 1123 00 0127 6/19 Northumb. 70 1156 037 1129 4100 O Derby 73 300 028 4.5 36 323 1067 1 12 028 41:5 8 18 3 0 20 91.8 565 4116 of Worcester 7133 819 & Warwick 6 EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR JUNE 1807. MEMOIR OF JOHN PINKERTON, ESQ. MONG the many untoward circumstances attendant upon biographical researches, one of the most difficult is the compilation of the memoirs of authors during the periods of their existence; because many are perhaps inclined to think that too much, and others, that too little, has been said, either of their characters, or of their works: " while a man is yet living," (says Dr. Johnson,) "we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best:" therefore, recurring to our first proposition; there is that delicacy required to enable a writer to steer between the extremes of exaggeration, and contraction, which too frequently opetates as an insurmountable obstacie to that kind of discussion, which the freedom of history requires. However, although these observations may apply to living biography in general, they can have but little influence with respect to the individual who is the subject of this brief memoir; because his life (passed, in its adolescence, in the flowery paths of poetical effusions; and since, in antiquarian researches, and the pursaits of useful and elegant literature;) must, by every man, and by every set of men, be considered as having been devoted to the public upon the best of principles, that of endeavouring to improve the present age, and leave a scientific le gacy to the future. It was an observation of that eminent antiquary, MR. GEORGE VERTUE, that every man who had in any art or science acquired celebrity, ought to record in his packet-book the events of his life, the course of his studies, the progress of his works, and even of bis ideas, as they suggested any parti cular improvements; in order that the mental progress of science might be more accurately ascertained, and, through the medium of the press, more generally disseminated. This, though seldom practised, would, he said, save the biographer a world of labour, were it universally adopted. But as that is a thing rather to be wished than expected; perhaps such notices as these, which we are now writing, may, in some degree, serve as a succedaneum for better information; because, if we err, we may by the parties themselves be corrected. Leaving the high antiquity of the name of PINKERTON, which we have seen traced from the time of EDWARD the Ist, out of the question, we shall descend, at once, to the grand-father of the subject of this memoir, whose name was WALTER PINKERTON, and his situation in life, that of a respectable yeoman of DALSERF, in CLYDESDALE, Scotland. This worthy man had a numerous family; one of the the communication then existing be sons of which, WALTER, influenced by twixt the Presbyterians in NORTH BRITAIN and the West of ENGLAND, settled in SOMERSETSHIRE; where, it is said, that in the business of a hair merchant he acquired a moderate fortune. About the year 1755, he returned to his native country, where he married MRS. BOWIE, the widow of a respectable merchant in EDINBURGH; who, at her death, left him three chil dren. Of these, JAMES, the eldest, stimulated by the military spirit which is indigenous to his country, joined the British army in Germany as a vo lunteer, and gloriously fell at the battle of MINDEN; a battle in which the exertions of the Scotch will never be forgotten, either by their friends, or their enemies. ROBERT, the brother of this gallant youth, succeeded to an estate in Lanerkshire, left by their father. By his wife, the daughter of a medical |