the Orations of Demofthenes? That of Wolfius, with the Commentaries of Ulpian, is, I believe, the best; and Dr. Taylor has done a great deal towards it. But is there not still much wanting? 4. Can any of your correfpondents inform me, whether a tranflation of Theocritus was ever published by a Mr. Martin? I cannot find his name in Mr. Polwhele's lift of editors. Mr. Martin was prefented by Mr. Pitt to the living of Shrowton, in Dorsetshire, about the year 1761, and circulated proposals for his then intended verfion in the following year. 5. Does the file touch the quick when I ask, whether any of your learned readers can folve the hitherto-unexplained proverb of "Buridan's afs," or expound its meaning? John Buridan was a famous French metaphyfician in the 14th century? I cannot fee any thing very remark able or fingular in the character of Swedenbourg, who feems to engage the attention of fome of your correfpondents. I have always confidered him in the fame light with Mr. Hare, p. 620, as an infane vifionary. Within the last 200 years, the Continent has produced many fimilar characters; but I think none comes fo near Swedenbourg as the famous enthufiaft Madame Bourignon, who was born at Lifle, in Flanders, about 1620. She pretended not only to have intercourfe with the angelic orders, but frequent communications with the Deity himself. Her generation of Antichrifts, by means of the Devil's conveying the feed of unchafte perfons into witches, and thereby producing the truc Antichrifts, or wicked men devoted to him; and her doctrine of incubus, whereby a demon begets a child on a fleeping virgin, without prejudice to her virginity; were tenets not at all too grofs for Englishmen, but which were greedily fwallowed in Great Britain, just as Swedenbourg's abfurdities now are. Not only laymen, but fome ecclefiafticks, embraced Bourignonism; and, Arange to tell! her publication of "The Light of the World in 1696" was of fuch confequence as to call forth the pen of the incomparable Charles Leslie, as well as of Dr. Cockburn, who “forbade the madness of the prophet." However common humanity impels us to commiferate the depredations on the property of individuais in the late ints at Birmingham, nothing can be more ridiculous than to lament the de ftruction of the bibliotheque choisée at Fairhill as a national lofs. The philofophical labours of Dr. Priestley, how ever they have been depreciated, have added, no doubt, to the common stock of national intelligence. But what an alloy, what a difcount, is there upon his political and theological reveries! What confufion have his various inflammatory publications occafioned! His own engine, the mob, which he vainly imagined he could wield with ability, and with which he has, in frequent inftances, threatened the establishments of his country, has at laft recoiled upon him with tenfold vengeance. That Dr. P. has done all in his power to ftir up the people in oppofition to Government is a fact eafily proved. But I will refer your readers to a pamphlet published laft year, "The Hiftorical Memoirs of Religious Diffenfion;" a work which Dr. Priestley has not probably had time to read, but which has probed him and his caufe to the very quick, and which feems to be written by the Leflie of the day *. As to Mr. Thomas Paine, it is not marvelous that he should find adherents amongst the patron-powers of diffenfion; but it is ftrange that he should have literary opponents. With a fpecious fhew of political knowledge, backed by a great share of impudence and vanity, he has impofed upon the genus irritabile reformantium. Debauched appetites must have high-feafoned viands. But this fiery meteor will foon fet in the chill fens of America, unless buoyed up by the folly of Oppofition. Let me relate to you, Mr. Urban, a circumftance that happened during the ufurpation of Cromwell. Some inflammatory publicationsof Cleiveland's beingbrought to the Parliament-general Lefley, and fentence demanded against him by his accufers, the indignant foldier queftioned them on the nature of the offence. They produced a bundle of libelous verses. "Is this all?" faid the General; " for fhame! for fhame! let the poor devil go about his business, and fell his ballads." OEDIPUS. *This very able writer, in the Preface to his first edition, has promifed the world a Syftem of Ecclefiaftical Economy. But the Tecond edition, I fee, is come out, and na further intimation of the progress of his plan. Is it ftrangled? Or is he pickling his rod for the mar-prelates? From the comprehenfion of his plan it is become a defideratum in literature. Mr. Mr. URBAN, A Holborn, Sept. 16. S your Magazine has the juft repuration of being a general afv'um to the injured reputation of every man who by his labours has deferved well of his country, I have no difficulty in defiring your permiffion to lay before your numerous readers fome out of the many proofs that might easily be offered to refcue Mr. Burke from the charge of inconfiftency in his political opinions, which his adverfaries have with much malignity attempted to fix upon him. Finding that his late defence of our Confitution, upon its own original principles, as well as upon thofe on which it was established at the Revolution of 1688, cannot be overthrown by any thing like fair and ingenuous argument, they have judged it expedient to leffen, if poffible, the weight of his respectable authority by calumny and detraction. I shall rejoice if, by your means, I fall be enabled to undeceive any impartial perfon, who, by the unfounded affertions, or the crafty infinuations, of the factious and the defperate, had been led into an opinion injurious to the well-earned fame of Mr. Burke; of whom it may be faid, Micat inter omnes Burkium fidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores. In order to prove what I contend for, namely, Mr. Burke's confiftency of opinion in matters of government and politicks, in every period, and under, every circumftance of his public life, I shall begin with prefenting you fome extracts from a famous pamphlet of his, intituled, Thoughts on the caufe of the prefent Difcontents;" which made its appearance not long after his first entrance into Parliament, and that during the time in which, together with the whole Whig party, he was in oppofition to the mea fures of Adminiftration, at that time fuppofed to be under the influence of Lord Bute and his Tory partizans. "Any new powers exercised in the Houfe of Lords, or in the House of Commons, or by the Crown, ought certainly to excite the vigilant and anxious jealoufy of a free people. Even a new and unprecedented course of action in the whole Legiflature, without great and evident reason, may be a fubject of just uneafinefs.". "It is true that the Peers have a great influence in the kingdom, and in every part of the public concerns. While they are men of property, it is imposible to prevent it, except by fuch means as muit prevent all property from its natural operation; an event not eafily to be compatted while property is power; nor by any means to be rifbed, while the leaft notion exifts of the method by which the fririt of liberty acts, and of the means by which it is preserved.”. "Nothing would be more unworthy of this nation, than with a mean and mechanical rule to mete out the fplendour of the Crown. Indeed, I have found very few perfons dif- · pofed to fo ungenerous a procedure." Condemning the idle profecution of Mr. Wilkes, and not believing that his immoral character was the real, though it was the pretended, ground of his punifhment, Mr. Burke favs, "When I fee that. for years together, full as impious, and perhaps more dangerous writings to religion, and virtue, and order, have not been punished, nor their authors difcountenanced; that the most audacious libels on R val Majefty have paffed without notice; that the most treasonable invectives against the laws, liberties, and conflitution of the country, have not met with the slightest animadverfion; I must confider this as a fhocking and shameless pretence. Never did an envenomed fcurrility against every thing facred and civil, public and private, rage through the kingdom with fuch a furious and unbridled licence." Speaking about reforming the Parlia ment, &c. M. Burke has these words: "If I wrote merely to please the popular palate, it would indeed be as little troublefome to me as to another to extol those remedies fo famous in fpeculation, but to which their greatest admirers have never attempted ferioufly to refort in practice." And then he goes on to express his difapprobation of a place-bill, or of a triennial parliament. Again, in another place, on the fame fubje&t, he fays, "Our Conftitution ftands on a nice equipoife; with fleep precipices and deep waters upon all fices of it: in removing it from a dangerous leaning towards one fide, there may be a risk of overfetting it on the other. Every project of a material change in a government fo complicated as ours, combined at the fame time with external circumstances ftill more complicated, is a matter full of difficulties; in which a confiderate man will not be too ready to decide; a prudent man too ready to undertake; or an honeft man too ready to promife. They do not refpect the publick nor themfelves who engage for more than they are fure that they ought to attempt, or that they are able to perform. Thefe are my fentiments, weak perhaps, hut honeft and unbiaffed; and fubmitted entirely to the opinion of grave men, well-affected to the Conftitution of their country, and of. experience in what may beft promote or hurt it." (To be continued.) *For a particular Description of Burghope Houfe, in Plate I. fee p. 787. PLATE I. reprefents BURGHOPE Wynn, Efqr. Eaft and Weft, Robert Fisher, HOUSE, the feat of the GOODERES in Hertfordshire; from an original draw ing by our friend Mr. WALKER. ADDITIONS to THREEKINGHAM *. [A View of the CHURCH in our next.] R Ichard South, born here in January, 1750, was remarkable for his early manhood and ftrength, At fix years of age he could carry with eafe twenty ftone weight, of 14lb. per stone, and increased in ftrength until he was twelve years of age; after which he was no more remarkable than other people. He was living in London in 1787, and in good health. His father refided in this village many years, following the business of a taylor, and died at about the age of eighty years. He had feven wives, all of "whom he furvived. In the South wall of the chancel, before it was repaired laft, 1789, grew a large quantity of the herb Polypody, or Oak Fern, a plant not ufually found in this part of the country. Infcription on the mural marble mo. nument in this church: This Monument is erected to the Memory of WILLIAM FYSHER, Robert, February 14th, 1711-12, With 5 of their Children, who died young, viz. WILLIAM, OCTAVIAN, SUSANNAH, DANIEL, and MARY. Alfo Lucy, who died May the 25th, 1710, in the 24th Year of her Age. Copy of a paper in the church cheft: "Lincoln: "A true and perfect terrier of all the buildings, homeftalls +, glebe, tithes, cuftoms, furplus-fees, church furniture, clerk's wages, &c. belonging to the vicarage of Threekingham cum Stow, in the deanary of Aveland. Taken June the 26, An'o Dni 1718. "Imprimis, Vicarage-houfe walled with ftone and thatch'd, only one bay, having one chamber over it, no out-houses, homefall contains but twenty perches, Rich'd * See Gent. Mag. vol. LIX. p 615. + Home-clofes, or paddocks. Tiled, 1780. GENT. MAG. September, 1791. Efqr. North: glebe land none befides the church-yard and chappell-yard of Stow, and one cow-common and follower belonging to the vicarage-house. "Eafter roll-dues are, for every person above fixteen years of age, as a communicant, two pence; churching, feven pence; marriage without license, two fillings and fix pence, with licenfe, five fhillings; burial, fix pence, where no mortuaries are due; mortuaries due according to the act of Hen. a 8th. the year, two pence; if barren, one penny ; "Tithes. Every milsh cow calving within the tenth of pigs, ducks, chickens; the tenth alfo of all homeftalls mown and reaped; the tenth of fruits, like wife of orchards, &c.; each fire-hearth, three pence; every Easter two eggs due for a cock, and three for every hen; and wooll due every tenth fleece, and likewise every tenth lamb: it being fo long fince wooll and lamb have been taken in kind, that we can give no more particular account of the manner of tithing them. "No penfion nor feast charged upon this vicarage. "No land nor money given for the repairs of the church. "Church furniture is a communion table, three bells, a Bible, a Book of Homilies, and Common Prayer-book, furplice.-Communion plate, a filver flagon and filver chalice, both weighing four pound, Troy weight, with this infcription: "In memoriam Gulielmi Fyheri æterna' p'r fingulari rerum fcientiæ morumq; in omnes integritate, fuavitate, memoria digni, ego Deo confecror, 1676." Clerk's wages, four nobles p' annum ; for furplus wathing, one fhilling p' time, this paid by the churchwarden, for every marriage, one fhilling; grave in the church, two fhillings and fix pence; grave making in the church-yard, and bell ringing, one fhilling and four pence; churching, fix pence. "Note, that the clerk is appointed by the vicar. "Every inhabitant adjoining the churchyard repairs his part; the reft is repaired by the parish." The above account, with respect to the tithes, agrees with the endowment as related by Bifhop Wells †, in the first inftitution of incumbents, A D. 1209; but now, fince the inclosure of Stow, in this parish, A.D. 1768, the vicarage is chiefly land. Before the Diffolution of Monafteries, this living was appropriated to Burton Lazars ‡, co. Leicester, Edward III ||. Mr. Gough has moft certainly made a |