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from the Scantiness of its Population, and the Barrenness of its Surface.

Isle of Wight.

When the Liberties of BRITAIN were menaced by the Invincible Armada, Sir GEORGE CAREY, afterwards Lord HUNSDON, was Captain, or Governor, of the Island. The great Power which the Captain of the Isle of Wight, had about this Period, may be instanced, by the curious Anecdote respecting Attornies, quoted by Sir RICHARD WORSLEY, from the Papers of Sir JOHN OGLANDER, a. Descendant, from one of the most ancient Families in this Island, and who lived at the beginning of the seventeenth Century. "I have heard," observes the Knight," and partly know it to be true, that not only heretofore there was no Lawyer nor Attorney in oure Island, but in Sir GEORGE CAREY'S Time, an Attorney coming to settle in the Island, was by his Command, with a Pound of Candles hanging at his Breech lighted, with Bells about his Legs, handed oute of the Island: inasmuch that our Ancestors lived

here so quietly and securely, being neither troubled to LONDON nor WINCHESTER." In another Part of his Writings, Sir JOHN remarks," that Peace and Law hath beggared us all;" and since his Time, the legal Practitioners have so greatly increased, that many of the Inhabitants, make little Scruple of wishing, that Sir GEORGE CAREY was alive again.

The very great Abundance of Game with which the Isle of Wight was stored, Tradition refers to Sir EDWARD HORSEY sometime its Captain, during the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH, and who is reported to have given a LAMB for every HARE, that was brought to him from the neighbouring Counties.

Herefordshire.

The principal Fish taken in the WYE, is the Salmon, which is found in it at all times, but FULLER has erroneously asserted, that the Salmon of this River are in Season all the Year. They are only in PERFECTION, between the Months of December and August.

Formerly they were more abundant, so much so, that, in the Indentures of Apprenticeship at HEREFORD, it was a Clause, that the Apprentice, should not be compelled to live on them, more frequently than two Days in a Week. The Passage of the Salmon up the WYE, is now, however, so much obstructed by Iron Works, that unless the Water is swelled far above its usual Height, they cannot advance; from this Cause, together with the illegal Practice of taking them in Cribs, the Fish have become comparatively scarce, and the aforementioned Stipulation, has ceased to become a part of the Contract.

We shall here wander from our more immediate Subject, to notice Three Persons of this County, who from their Endeavours to mitigate the Sorrows, or to solace the Hours of social Life, ought to be had in Remembrance. JOHN KYRLE, the Man of Ross, has given to that Town, an Attraction, beyond its local Importance. His extensive Charities, and the exemplary Tenor of his Actions, procured him the Esteem and Affection of all his Cotemporaries, and POPE, during his Visits at Holme Lacy, obtained a sufficient Knowledge of his Beneficence, to render Homage to his

Worth, and the Fervour of the POET's Description of it, in his Moral Essays, was, in this Instance, founded in TRUTH.

"Who hung with Woods yon Mountain's sultry Brow? From the dry Rock who bade the Water's flow? Not to the Skies in useless Columns tost,

Nor in proud Falls magnificently lost,

But clear and artless, pouring through the Plain
Health to the Sick and Solace to the Swain.
Whose Causeway parts the Vale with shady Rows?
Whose Seats the weary Traveller repose?

Who taught that Heav'n directed Spire to rise?
'THE MAN OF Ross,' each lisping Babe replies!
Behold the Market-place with Poor o'erspread!
THE MAN OF Ross divides the weekly Bread:
He feeds yon Alms-house, neat, but void of State,
Where Age and Want sit smiling at the Gate:
Him portion'd Maids, apprentic'd Orphans blest;
The Young who labour, and the Old who rest.

Is

any Sick? THE MAN OF Ross relieves,
Prescribes, attends, the Med'cine makes and gives.
Is there a Variance? Enter but his Door,
Balk'd are the Courts, and Contest is no more.
Despairing Quacks with Curses fled the Place,
And vile Attornies, now a useless Race.

Of Debts and Taxes, Wife and Children clear,

THIS MAN possess'd Five Hundred pounds a Year. Blush, GRANDEUR, blush! proud Courts, withdraw your Blaze!

Ye little Stars! hide your diminish'd Rays."

This eminent Benefactor to his Species,

died Anno 1724, ætatis Eighty-four, upon his Monument in Ross Church, is an appropriate Symbol of the active Kindness of his Life; a Medallion of CHARITY, supported by BENE

VOLENCE.

Of Mr. GARRICK, So much has been related, that it would be superfluous, to enter into a minute Account of this inimitable ACTOR, who so truly deserved, the finished Compliment of Dr. GOLDSMITH, "That 'twas only, when OFF of the Stage, he was acting." This Gentleman was born at the Angel Inn, Widemarsh Street, HEREFORD, Anno 1717, his Education at LITCHFIELD Grammar School was liberal, and partly received under the Tuition of Dr. JOHNSON, who, at a subsequent Period, accompanied his Pupil to LONDON, in search of the Means of EXISTENCE. A Passion for the Stage, soon induced Mr. GARRICK to quit his Brother, with whom he had engaged in the Wine Trade, and his first Appearance was at IpsWICH, 1741, under the assumed Name of LYDDAL. His Celebrity in the Part of RICHARD, in Goodmans Fields, almost immediately after the Country Exhibition of Aboan, in ORONOOKO, spread his Fame, and the

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