1736, died in child-bed the 27th of the

same month.

"Mary, wife of Robert Robertson, and daughter of John Pogson, Capt. of the Independent Company in St. Christopher's in the reigns of Charles and James II. born Sept. 15, 1675, married Nov. 13, 1709, died April 6, 1739.

"And what was mortal of Robert Robertson, minister of the parish of St. Paul's, Nevis, from Dec. 1707, born at Edinburgh the 18th of March 1681-2, made some remarks which were published in London in the years 1730, 1736, &c. on the Slaves and their Owners in the Sugar Islands of England, and died.

As a farther Illustration of the Character of the late venerable Sir WILLIAM WYNNE, we give our Readers the following Address of the Proctors, and Sir WILLIAM's Answer.

Address of the Proctors to Sir William Wynne, on his retirement from office, transmitted at their desire by the King's Proctor, on the 24th Jan. 1809.

SIR,

WHEN your Retirement from

Office was first announced to us, it was proposed to have expressed to you personally the sincere regret with which we are all impressed for the loss we have sustained; but the consideration of what you, Sir, as well as ourselves, would feel ou such an occasion, induces us in this manner to offer to you the tribute of our affectionate respect and gratitude, and to assure you, that whilst we participate in those sentiments of veneration, which all persons feel towards you, for the manner in which you have discharged the duties of your important station, to the great houour of this profession, and the advantage of the publick, we are sensibly affected, when we reflect on your uniformly mild and condescending deportment, the great in dulgence shewn to us on all occasions, your readiness of access, and prompt attention to all matters of professional concern.

Accept, Sir, our most fervent wishes for your health and happiness in retirement. The hope that it will conduce to the prolongation of your valuable life, and the increase of your enjoyments, tends greatly to support us on this occasion.

May it please the Almighty to

grant you many years to enjoy the consciousness of a life eminently des voted to the best interests of society. We are, Sir, your obliged and grateful servants.

(Signed by all the Proctors.) GENTLEMEN, The kind testimony of approbation of my conduct whilst in office, which I have just received from your respectable body, demands the earliest expression of my grati tude.

The uniform civility and attention I received from you all, added extremely to the comfort of my situ ation; and I cannot retire from it without the warmest wishes for the honour and prosperity of the profession, to which your good beha viour in your several stations in it, cannot but in a very high degree

contribute.

Permit me to assure you, that L shall be to the latest period of my life, Gentlemen, your most faithful and obedient servant,

Jan. 24, 1809. WILLIAM WYNNE, (To the Proctors of the Arches Court of Canterbury.)

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Mr. URBAN, Aug. 3. WAS much gratified with the appearance of an interesting Narrative of the Death of Hampden, in your Magazine for May last, and shall feel myself obliged to any of your Correspondents, who will either furnish me with interesting documents, or point out sources of original information, respecting that truly eminent man. I have been for some time engaged in compiling Memoirs of his Life, and have collected various materials from the Histories, the Newspapers, and Public Records of his. times. But his Correspondence has hitherto eluded my research, although he must have been in the habit of writing frequently to his associates in planning the important opposition to arbitrary power, to which this coun try is indebted for all the liberty, and the other advantages over surrounding nations, which we now enjoy. The communication, through the mediuın of your Magazine, of any of his letters to the elder of the younger Knightley, to Lord Say, to Hollis, to Nathaniel Fiennes, to Pym, to the younger Vane,. or any other person with whom he was closely connected, will be esteemed a favour by G.W.M.

Mr.

Mr. URBAN,

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London, Jan. 1. WHOEVER has in any degree attended to the afflictions of their indigent fellow-creatures in the Metropolis or its crowded environs, must have observed, with feelings of regret, how many have been dragging on a miserable existence from the dread effects of a most loathsome disease, the debilitating nature of which is heightened by want of proper food, cloathing, and cleanliness. To the destructive powers of this disorder, many, very many, annually fall victims, notwithstanding all the aids refinement can suggest and wealth procure.

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The experience of medical men of the first rank in their profession, founded on an extensive practice in the hospitals of this city and suburbs, as well as among the higher orders of society, proves that medicine can effect but little in this distressing complaint. It is therefore universally advised to have recourse to that Ocean, at once the safeguard and the glory of the Nation, whose healing properties cannot be too much extolled for often alleviating, if not eradicating this corroding malady in the constitution, and restoring health to the body.

The numerous places on the coast, that now, at each returning summer, vie with each other in tempting the invalid of the interior to try the efficacy of Sea-Air and Sea-Bathing, are solid and convincing proofs of the importance of the offered remedy; and, of the numerous ills which flesh is heir to,' none can be named that has been cured in more remarkable instances, than scrofulous affection, by the renovating properties of the sea.

If such advantages are constantly accruing to the rich, no wonder that the case of the poor should have interested the best feelings of the heart, and should, a few years ago, prompt some humane characters, by the establishment of a Sea-Bathing Infirmary, to aim at extending these benefits to their necessitous brethren who were pining to death under every circumstance of aggravated suffering. The late Dr. Lettsom, whose labours for the benefit of the afflicted poor cannot be too highly estimated, with a few friends, founded in London, nearly twenty years ago, an In

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stitution, which it is the object this letter to recommend to the notice of a benevolent publick. In look, ing for an eligible spot for the erec tion of the General Sea Bathing Infirmary, their attention was, in the first instance, called to South-End, being a convenient distance from the metropolis; but the difficulty of access from the sea, and the circumstance of vessels sailing constantly to the Isle of Thanet (a passage by water being much cheaper and easier to the Patients than land-carriage) led them to prefer a part of the coast at Westbrook, near Margate, which accordingly was purchased by several charitable individuals. Dr. Lettsom undertook the office of Treasurer; and, under his auspices, the house was opened for the reception of patients in the year 1796, when sixteen patients were admitted.

From that period to the present, three thousand seven hundred and fifty-six patients have experienced, in various degrees, the salutary effects of this establishment; uumbers of whom have gone from the close and confined chamber of poverty and disease, situated either in some lane or alley of a populous city; several from the poor-houses of out-parishes, the hospitals, and other charitable foundations, as well as many from various parts of the kingdom; the institution not being confined to any particular district, as its title, General, testifies.

Shortly after the opening of the Infirmary, an architectural drawing of the building was given in your Magazine, vol. LXVII. page 841; but since that time there has been a new wing erected, and the whole appearance has been much improved, as will be easily perceived by a comparison of the former engraving, with the picturesque view now given, executed with much ability by an ingenious artist, from a drawing taken for the express purpose.

Every succeeding year from its foundation, the medical officers have had the pleasure to report_the increasing good effects, from the rapid and extensive improvement in the health of the patients. As a proof how much its benefits are prized by the poor, each season produces an augmented list of applications; but such has been the situation of the

Directors

Directors in regard to finances, that they have hitherto been circumscribed in their operations, on account of contracted means. They have, indeed, already done more than the revenues warranted: but, in hopes of continued and increased patronage for such a noble institution, they have persevered, and not without success; for, from the kind exertions of friends, a considerable accession of Governors has been made during the last year.

In the Plan of the Charity lately published, it appears that the Directors have circulated some resolutions, for the purpose of soliciting additional assistance from the Governors, as well as to call the attention of the Public in general to its utility. Among which are the two following.

"Resolved unanimously,

"That since the General Sea-Bathing Infirmary has been declared by the first Medical Gentlemen of the Country, to be calculated to rescue numbers of the industrious poor of the Metropolis from the ravaging and vitiating tendency of scrofulous disorders, peculiarly generated in their confined dwellings, and thus to improve the race of the labouring part of the community, and preserve to the state many valuable lives; and especially when this opinion has been verified, in the annual examination of cases in the Infirmary, beyond their most sanguine expectations; it appears to this Meeting that the Institution merits liberal support, on principles of sound policy as well as humanity.

"Resolved unanimously, "That it also appears to this Meeting that this excellent Charity, for affording the relief of Sea-Air and SeaBathing to the poor of London and its vicinity, labours under peculiar disadvantages, that do not affect the other Establishments for alleviating sickness and poverty, in not being so situated as to attract the attention of those whose ability and benevolent feelings are ever ready to support the institutions that are the ornament of this City and Nation. But when it is considered that, without the aid of the General SeaBathing Infirmary, many afflicted poor would be deprived of that remedy which all the hospitals are unable to afford, and that the Gentlemen of the Medical Board" [who give their time and attention gratuitously]" consist of Physicians and Surgeons who belong to all those Establishments, it is confidently expected that this appeal in

behalf of suffering humanity will not be made in vain !"

Should the object and merits of this invaluable charity, thus shortly stated, induce any of your numerous and intelligent readers to afford some support and encouragement in aid of so benevolent a design, and should it excite a wish to obtain any farther account of the Institution, information will be readily given, and subscriptions thankfully received, by the Secretary, Mr. Joseph Rainbow, No. 35, Cannon-street; or the Collector, Mr. Anthony Wagner, Grosvenorrow, Chelsea. B. S.

To the Re-editor of the "Monasticon Anglicanum."

SIR,

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Staffordshire, Aug. 8, 1815, AVING lately been led, though but incidentally, to bestow some study on Wulfruua's grant to her Monastery at Hamton, in this county, the copy of which, subjoined to Archbishop Sigerich's Privilegium," fills most part of pages 989-991 of the first volume of the Monasticon, I wish to engage your attention to sirableness of procuring, if possible, some remarks, and to urge the desome one acquainted with the Saxon, and possessed of a minutely exact local knowledge, to re-examine carefully the autograph instrument cited by the Monasticon as in custody, 1640, of the Chapter of Windsor. That it has beeu imperfectly read, in several passages, is plain, from the blanks in the copy: and I conceive, farther, that in some it has been mis-read, or mis-printed, or both. I lay my finger, particularly, on the sixth of the places specified by the grantress, printed with the Roman initialW, instead of the Saxon P, like the two places preceding it, and every other word, regularly throughout the grant, where the same capital was to be used. In drawing the present letter I have been caught by various and sometimes contrary considerations; first, in an idea that the compiler of the Monasticon had mis-read the word, and again, rather, that it was even possible the archbishop's original scribe had mis-written it. But, on an attentive re-studying of both the charter and the connected circumstances, I cannot help supposing that

Weolerhale,"