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438 Additional Anecdotes of eminent Persons.-Dr. Sumner's Epitaph.
Mr. URBAN,
GIVE me leave to add a few anecdotes to those inserted in your last Magazine. CRITO.

Archbishop GILBERT.
This prelate, when bishop of Salisbury, had a great dispute with the Mayor, in regard to the separate jurisdiction of the city and the cathedral, refusing to let the mace be carried before his Worship in the church precincts, and once having actually a kind of scuffle with the mace-bearer. Soon after, the Judge of the assize (I think, Baron Smythe), being applied to by the cook, at a circuit dinner, to know if his Lordship chose any particular dish, replied, " No :---but, as he heard the Bishop was to dine with him, he desired, if there was any soup, that there might be no mace in it, as the Bishop did not love mace."

Bishop SHERLOCK.
On the Sunday after the news of the defeat of the rebels at Preston, in 1715, Dr. Sherlock, then Master of the Temple, preached a most loyal revolutional sermon. Those which he had preached some preceding Sundays were such as would not have offended the Pretender, if he had succeeded. The Benchers, as they came out of the church, commended the sermon highly, but wished it had been preached at least the Sunday before : and it was then commonly said, that the battle of Preston had convinced the son, as the battle of they Boyne convinced the father, who, it is well know, after having dissuaded many of the Clergy, in 1688, who had a confidence in his judgment, from taking the oaths, took them himself on the last day limited by act of Parliament, and left his friends in the lurch. Soon after, handing his wife along St. Paul's church-yard, " There," says an arch bookseller, " foes Dean Sherlock with his reasons for taking the oaths at his finger ends."

Bishop Maddox's daughter is married to the Hon. and Rev. James (not John) Yorke.

Dr. JORTIN was some time assistant preacher at Lincoln's inn Chapel for Bishop Warburton. He had no recommendation to Archbishop Herring but his merit. His Grace told him most unexpectedly, at a dinner of the Sons of the Clergy, that the living St. Dunstan's was at his service ; which so surprized him, that he ran instantly out of the hall, and left his hat behind him. ---Eastwell was given him by Lord Winchelsea, Not Lord Winchester. 


Mr. URBAN, August 30, 1773.
INCLOSED you have the epitaph on Dr. Summer, late Master of Harrow School, which, if not already printed, you are at liberty to insert in some future Magazine. It is inscribed on a tablet of white marble affixed to the wall of the South transept of Harrow Church, surmounted by a neat little urn, and having at the back a pyramid of yellow marble with his arms [[footnote 1*]].

H.S.E.
ROBERTUS SUMNER, S.T.P.
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[[footnote 1*]]: Erm S. & Arg. 2 chevronels Arg. impaling Erm. a fess cheque Or & Az. Grest, a lion's head. [[/footnote 1*]]
Mr. 

Of the Serpent destroyed by Regulus.-Medical Case Answered. 439
Mr. URBAN,
THE story of the great serpent, that did so much mischief to the Roman army, commanded by Regulus, in Africa, and was at last encountered, besieged, and killed by him, is so well known, that, I presume, I need not refer you to any authors concerning it. Much difficulty, however, attends this story. Dr. Shaw, indeed, thinks it was a crocadile ; these are his words : "There is no small probability, likewise, (as, in the earlier ages, there was no great propriety in the Latin names of animals, Trav. p. 245) that the dragons or serpent, such an one as Regulus is said to have defeated with so much difficulty, upon the banks of the Bagradas, was no other than the crocodile ; for this animal along (from the enormous size to which it sometimes arrives, from the almost impenetrable quality of its skin, which would hardly submit to the force of warlike engines) will best answer, as none of the serpent kind, properly so called, will do, to that description [[footnote 2*]]." -This, though, I doubt will not do the business : for, in the first place, the serpent in questions, according to Orofius [[symbol]], and, I suppose, other authors whom he followed, was 120 feet long, treble or four times the size of any crocodile that was ever seen or heard of : secondly, the river Bagradas was near Carthage, a part of Africa where crocodiles are not known, and I believe never were ; for I take it to be certain, that no river, that disembogues into the Mediterranean ever afforded this animal, except the Nile. Mr. Barrington, I observe, who, I make no question, was well apprized of the above opinion and conjecture of Dr. Shaw, calls the affair of this enormous adder, and Regulus's proceedings in relation to it, an absurd and incredible fact I: and, to say truth, it is a hard matter to reconcile it with any tolerable degree of probability; so that, at last, we must be forced to acquiesce in his declaration. 
Yours,
T. ROW.

Mr. URBAN,
I Cannot help sympathizing with your fair correspondent Louisa Simson, who so pathetically describes her case in the last number of your instructive Magazine. Please to inform that unfortunate lady, that the loss of the sense of smelling and of taste, which she laments, does not appear to be irretrievable, but that there are still hopes (notwithstanding the complaint is now upwards of a year standing) that both may be recovered. From the symptoms there is great reason to believe, that a torpor is induced on the organs of taste and smelling, by an accumulation of mucous or [[pitrictous?]] fluid, by which the gustatory and olfactory nerves are rendered in some measure paralytic. The chief intentions of cure are, therefore, to [[disbusthen?]] the mucuous ducts and sinuses, and to stimulate the torpid nerves; in order to which, she is requested to use the British-herb [[snuss?]] freely, and, if it fails to excite sneezing, 1-6th part of the powder of white hellebore may be mixed with it. The root of pellitory of Spain,or horse-radish root, should be held in the mouth often. Let her also take a spoonful of bruised mustardfeed in a draught of rosemary tea, every night, and keep a small blister open behind each ear, for the space of a month.

I conclude (as no mention is made to the contrary) that all the other functions are dully and regularly performed.

If the above method is steadily pursued, your correspondent will, I hope, obtain the desired relief; which will give great satisfaction to, your constant reader, and occasional correspondent, 
Northampton, F -, M.D.
Sept. 3, 1773.

DEFENSE of the LUNAR METHOD of finding the LONGITUDE.

THAT excellent Astronomer Mr. BRADLEY, of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth, has sent us a vindication of the Lunar method of finding the longitude, in answer to some parts of the letter signed W.L. in July Magazine. It gives us great concern that the plan of our Magazine (viz. to furnish a variety of subjects) will not allow us room to insert this paper entire. In abridging it, we hope we shall do justice to the argument, and give no offense to the author.

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