In consequence of the many calamitous fires that have recently occurred, we consider it a duty to give as much publicity as possible to the different Stations of the Fire Engines of the London Insurance Offices; so that immediate notice may be given to the resident Fire-men at the nearest Station, on the breaking out of a fire. Ratcliffe Highway-Sun.

Lower East Smithfield—Imperial
Ditto Nightingale Lane-Royal Exchange.
Well Close Square-Phænix.
Bishopsgate Street Without, Sweet Apple
Court-Union.

Threadneedle Street, near the South Sea
House-London.

Upper Thames Street (Lambeth Hill)-
Royal Exchange.

Carter Lane, near St. Paul's-Phenix.
Earl Street, Blackfriars-Atlas.

Ditto............Ditto-Globe.

Little Bridge Street, Blackfriars-Handin-Hand.

Fleet Market-Eagle.
West Smithfield-Hope.
Holborn Bridge-Sun.

Well Street, Oxford Street-Westminster.
Swallow Street, Ditto-Sun.

Warwick Street, Golden Square-Royal
Exchange.

Baker Street, Portman-square-Union.
Horseferry Road, Westminster-Globe.
Regent Street, Piccadilly-County.
Charing Cross-Phænir.
Hungerford Market-British.
Ditto......... Ditto-Imperial.

Bedford Bury (Covent Garden)-Westminster.

Commercial Road, Lambeth-Sun.
Horslydown (John Street)-Sun.
Weston Street, Bermondsey-Albion.
Thomas Street, in the Borough-London.
Carter Lane, Tooley Street-Phoenix.
Ditto............Ditto-Royal Exchange.

A CONSTANT READER will find in Betham's Baronetage, or indeed in every Baronetage, that Sir Edmund Bacon is styled the Premier Baronet, as the lineal descendant of an early Baronet.

DR. BOOKER writes thus: "I feel much obliged to Mr. Urban's intelligent Correspondent, who so very handsomely corrects the venial anachronism into which I had fallen, respecting a belief of Shenstone's being the author of the notices concerning Spence. On referring to the third volume of Shenstone's Works, printed for J. Dodsley in 1769, I perceive a short note subjoined in the last Letter, stating that he died on the 11th of February 1763. The volumes whence I transcribed the MS account of Spence, &c. were presented to me by a gentleman re

siding near the Leasowes, who assured me they once were Mr. Shenstone's property.' This, no doubt, was the case, having his accustomed vignette of a part of the Leasowes pasted on the inside of the covers. The notices in question were evidently written by some relative, or intimate friend, who was well acquainted with the facts thus circumstantially detailed. If a friend, probably by J. Dodsley, the surviving brother of him whose death is so particularly recorded in the MS. is it unlikely (with the exception of what relates to the melancholy dissolution of Spence) that they were transcribed from private memoranda of Shenstone."

Nor

R. C. communicates the following information: Vol. LXXXIX. p. 572. “ Lord Hill is not the brother of Lord Berwick, but a younger son of Sir John Hill, bart. of Hawkestone, Salop, a distant relative of Lord Berwick."-P. 578. "Is there not a mistake either in the copy, or in the original inscription of the antient ring here described? I presume it is, or was intended to be, "al as God well," that is, "as God pleases."-P. 594. "Alexander Ross's Medicus Medicatus' may be seen in the Bodleian Library, as appears by the printed catalogue, in which there is no mention of Sir, T. Browne's treatise De Lucis Causa et Origine'."

ANTIQUUS (vol. LXXXIX. ii. p. 482), who inquires after the family of Lambe, is referred to a pedigree of that family, under Hetton on the Hill, in Mr. Surtees' first vol. of the Hist. of Durham; the last heir, it is believed, left Anthony Storey of Newbottle his executor.

T. P. remarks, "You give the statement of a Sussex Experimentalist,' the errors of which are so conspicuous, that a child who had only passed through the four first rules of arithmetic could not fail to detect them."

A. Z. (p. 2) would much oblige G. H. W. by informing him, "whether John Hanger (who died in 1654) was father or brother of George, who died in 1688. The inscriptions to the Hangers in Driffield Church would be very acceptable. Sir George Hanger of Driffield, knt. was, I presume, son of George, who died in 1688. The purchaser of Driffield, John Hanger, is stated in some of the Peerages to have been of the family of Aungier."

A CORRESPONDENT asks, "Is it necessary that two Churchwardens should be returned for each parish?"

Mr. GODFREY will find the first of the Series of Letters from the Continent printed in p. 25 of our January Magazine.

than your Reviewer represents them. The differences are so great, that Latimer, Cranmer, Ridley, and many others, who perfectly knew what Popery was, chose rather to suffer death at the stake, than to conform to. it. If an unlearned Protestant were asked, why have you such an abhorrence of Popery? he might very justly answer, Because it was abborred by Latimer, Cranmer, and Ridley;-because they "resisted it unto death," because they "gave their bodies to be burned," rather than continue in it; and because our Church says, that the idolatry, which it practises, is "to be abhorred of all faithful Christians." The sacrifice of life, and the strong language of our Liturgy, were not the effects of irritation and resentment, but of the most deliberate and pious conviction.

But to return to your Reviewer. He states the Churches of England and Rome are distinguished not so much by differences, aš by omissions! The "omissions" are the very "differences," which distinguish the two Churches. The doctrines and usages and contain the essential differences, on account of which our martyred Reformers laid down their lives.

The Reviewer represents our Reformation as the mere removal of lichens and mosses, that is, excrescences, exterior to the substances on which they are found. In this he is greatly mistaken. The corruptions of the Church of Rome, abolished by the Reformation, were not superficial matters of indifference, but the very essence of Popery, such as its idolatry in the sacrifice of the mass, and the idolatrous doctrine of transubstantiation, which led to it; its idolatry in the invocation of Saints; its "blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits," in the doctrine of purgatory, &c. These corruptions of the Romish Church are, unhappily, so far from being mere "lichens and mosses, ," that they are articles of faith, which the Roman Catholick Clergy, and all converts to Popery *, are worn to maintain to the last moment of their lives.

* See the "Ordo Administrandi Sacramenta," p. 56. published by Keating, London, 1812.

I will only observe further, that the question, whether the invocation of Saints, included in the Declaration against Popery, is idolatry or not, is not simply a matter of opinion and dispute between the Bishop of St. David's and Mr. Wix, but is a criterion of doctrine, which distinguishes Protestants from Papists, and is, therefore, as well as transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the mass, an effectual test of Popery. These are the offences against true religion, which make the state of the Church of Rome to be "so far wide from the nature of the true Church, that nothing can be wider t.”

But the Reviewer will, perhaps, form a correcter view of the imprac ticability of the projected union, as well as of some of the pernicious tendencies of its proposal, if, in addition to the Protestant objections, which have been made to it, he will read a Tract by Mr. M'Dermot, a Roman Catholick, on the subject, published by S. T. P. Keating, 1819.

Mr. URBAN,

HE

23, Old Bond-street, March 14.

Magazine for February, under the head of Lucky Hits, p. 127, appears not to have been aware that the copy of Geyler's Navicula Fatuorum 1510, sold by Mr. Saunders, of Fleet-street, for 6s. to Mr. Boone, was not only imperfect in several places,-but was so stated on the first leaf, and by the auctioneer at the sale. Mr. Edwards's copy certainly brought 421. but it was from the circumstance of two unlimited commissions crossing each other. Since the fever of that time several copies have occurred in the sales, and the last was sold in 1819, at Mr. King's, for 2l. 10s. The copy imported by me last year had been purchased at Sandras' sale for 11 francs, and was bought at the usual price on the Continent (24 francs).

The only use to be made of the copy in question would be in the perfecting another. I have been led to give these particulars, as from the statement in your pages it would lead a person unacquainted with the fact to suppose that it bad escaped observation. R. THIPHOOK.

1820.]

SONERS.

"We see (says Visconti, pp. 3, 4) by the costume of these colossal figures, of which the draperies are executed in porphyry, that they represent some Barbarian Princes, who had adorned the triumphs of some Roman Emperor of the third century, for the style of the execution denotes this period. The heads and the arms, of white marble! are restorations of the 17th century." The constant costume of Barbarians upon ancient moDuments are anaxyrides, or loose Turkish trowsers, and a bonnet, crooked forward, like the Phrygian. In this marble we see the bad effects of injudicious restoration.

VII. LUCIUS VERUS. A Colossal Bust. His head is covered with a fold of the toga, and crowned with wheatears, according to the costume of the Fratres Arvales in the rite of sacrificing. (Visconti, p. 4.) In the Villa Borghese (says Winckelman, Art. 6, 7) are three busts of Lucius Verus; one of extreme beauty, larger than life. The most rare head, a portrait of him in his youth, is at the Ruspoli Palace. There is also a bust at the Capitol. Of the three at the Villa Borghese, two are copies. In the Florentine Museum is a statue found at Palestrina, to which is adapt ed a head of Verus, taken from a bust of the Villa Mattei; and another bust found near the Porta Major. The French Museum has three busts; one taken from the Ducal Palace of Modena; another, from the Villa Albani; and this, which was before at the Chateau d'Ecouen.

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VIII. ANTONINUS PIUS. A Colossal Bust. It is in the same costume as the preceding article (Visconti, p. 4), and came from the same place. His portraits are common. There is a bust at the Capitol; another at the Florentine Museum. Colossal heads are to be seen at the Palaces Farnese and Borghese, and at the Castle of S. Angelo. A head from Adrian's Villa is in the Pio-Clementine Museum.

IX. JUPITER SERAPIS. A Colossal Head. Paganism has sometimes confounded this God with the Sun; at other times with Pluto. The hair of the head is that of Jupiter; the Modius, or bushel, which surmounts it, is a symbol of the benevolent deities, and an attribute of Serapis. (Visconti, p. 4.) All the figures of Jupiter Serapis are of the later ages, not older than the Ptolen.ies. (Macrob. Saturn. L. i. c. 7. p. 179.) Upon a gem in Stosch the modius accompanies the head of Jupiter Philius; and the distinction of heads of Serapis or Pluto from those of Jupiter is the disposition of the hair. In the former, it is turned backwards in front, as occurs upon three Serapises at the Villa Albani, the Villa Pamphili, and the Guistiniani palace. In one gem the beard is forked. (Winckelm. Art. 4. 2.) Count Caylus (Rech. v. 187) observes, that the Romans did not adopt the symbol of the modius before the reign of Hadrian. According to some authors, the modius distinguishes Serapis of the Nile, because it symbolizes the fertility of that river. The modius upon the heads of Deities and that upon coins differ in form. The latter has feet.

X. TRAJAN. A Colossal Head, in a civic crown. Next to the celebrated column, the finest specimen of the art of his time is the colossal head at the Villa Albani (Winckelm.); and there are or were two busts in the French Museum, of which one belonged to the same Villa, but the French one is not the finest. There is another colossal head, crowned like this, at the Capitol; another, at the Farnese palace; and a third, supposed to have belonged to the statue upon the column, in the palace of the Cardinal della Valle. (Mongez, Rec. d'Antiq. 14.)

XI. ESCULAPIUS. A Colossal Bust. His head is wrapped in a bandage, or

sort