favour of an expectation so inseparable from the best feelings of our nature. Young's enforcement of them indeed, I think, authorises the climax to which he ascends, when he makes the immortality of the soul and the existence of a Supreme Being correlative with each other (puts them on the same ground of certitude): "If man's immortal, there's a God in Heaven." For, without the one, what solid or permanent interest can man have in the other? And when, in concurrence with all the suggestions of our Reason and our Feelings, we have the assurance that is given us in the Sacred Writings, the truth of which is irrefragable when fairly examined, what further proof can be wanting? If, however, still farther is desired, the very existence of that desire (I speak to those who can think and feel), unsatisfied as it is, and (for the best reasons) must remain in our present state, may be urged as a proof that it will at some time be satisfied; that is, be lost in the certain posses. sion of its object. Or, to express myself still better in the words of Mr. Mason, in his beautiful Elegy on the death of Lady Coventry : "Eternity, by all or hop'd or fear'd, Shall be by all or suffer'd or enjoy'd." Yours, &c. MATUTINUS. Mr. URBAN, Μ' March 5. UCH having lately been said in your Magazine respecting the Discipline of Christ Church, Oxford, under the successive administrations of Bishop Bagot and Dr. Cyril Jackson; I beg leave to observe that it should seem, that Bishop Fell was as rigid a Disciplinarian as either Bishop Bagot or Dean Jackson. His biographer says "The Dean set himself as a bulwark against the corruptions of the University, and as a faithful guardian to the youth of his College, and enquired into the behaviour of them all. He would see that they attended both the Chapel and Hall, esteeming those noblemen and gentlemen who would reckon themselves to be above discipline to be but a splendid nuisance to the University, who, by their example and purse would influence the scholars. He either reformed their manners or sent them away. On some mornings of the week he would go round to the chamber of those of the first quality, examining them, and finding out what progress they had made in their "In 1675, Dr. Fell studies," &c. &c. was made Bishop of Oxford, having liberty to hold the Deanery of Christ Church in commendam, that so excellent a Governor might not be lost R. U. to the College *.” Mr. URBAN, Ludgate-street. T has often been wisely, though perhaps somewhat quaintly observed, that "there is a Providence in every thing." This fact has of late received most pleasing and ample confirmation in the numerous benevolent Institutions and Societies to which the ignorance, the vices, and the bodily wants, of a great portion of our fellow-creatures have given rise. To their ignorance are we indebted, as a first motive, for the establishment of numerous schools, in which learning, may be acquired at a comparatively trifling expence. Their vices have called forth some of the very best feelings of our nature, and the exercise of the highest and noblest of the Christian virtues ;whilst the physical wants of the poor have elicited charities, and called into action principles in numerous quarters where they might otherwise have lain dormant. In fact, Mr. Urban, we may almost say, the poor have been their own almoners; and even their very frailties have catered for their own amelioration. In all this, I think, I perceive the hand of Him who," from seeming evil, still educes good." Numerous, however, as are the means of relief to the poor, the sluices of benevolence have not yet been all opened; and it is under this impression that I beg leave, through the medium of your Miscellany, to draw the attention of the opulent publick (particularly that portion of the British Publick, whom Mr. Ledyard, in his beautiful Poem on the character of the Fair Sex, describes as "Alive to every tender feeling, To deeds of mercy ever prone, With soft compassion's sweetest tone,") to the present very diminished use of Straw Hats and British Lace. Owing * "Lives of the English Bishops, from the Restoration to the Revolution," 8vo. 1731. to 1820.] British Law.-Tottenham High Cress. to this circumstance, numberless are the poor women and families now in a state of the utmost distress, who have heretofore derived subsistence and comfort from industry in these particular branches of manufacture. It gives me, however, sincere satis faction to have authority to inform you, that this subject has already roused the sympathies of several distinguished ladies of the highest rank and influence in the country, who have most patriotically and benevolently resolved to give encouragement to a design for removing this great evil, and to hold forth the hand of encouragement to their less affluent fellow-country women. Amongst these Ladies, I am proud to notice the names of their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of York and Gloucester. The Duchesses of Rutland, Wellington, and Leeds. The Marchionesses of Salisbury, Stafford, and Worcester. The Countesses of Harcourt, Jersey, and Grosvenor. The Honourable Mrs. Villiers, the Honourable Mrs. Wellesley Pole, &c. &c. &c. and I mention this circumstance merely, that by giving circulation to the gratifying fact, others may be induced to 66 'go and do likewise." Yours, &c. WILLIAM CORSTON. TOTTENHAM HIGH CROSS. *The following particulars are chiefly extracted from Mr. Robinson's interesting History of Tottenham;" reviewed in our last Vol. Part ii. 432. EDIT. 66 6. Mook of Wis Brief Description R. BEDWELL, in the second Crosse standeth as it were in the middest betweene the forementioned Cell and the Hermitage, That there *This word signifies number, and in antiquity was esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great antiquity among the ancients. GENT. MAG. April, 1820. 305 hath bene a Crosse here of long continuance, even so long as since that decree was made by the Church, that every parish should in places most frequented set up a Crosse, I make no doubt; but whether it were such as the first, as afterward it is manifest it was, I much doubt of; for that it hath bene of an extraordinary height, and that from hence the towne gained the addition of altæ crucis, the towne, I meane, to be called Tottenham High Crosse, all men must needs confesse." "Edward the First, sirnained Longshanks, determined a journey into Scotland in the yeare of our Lord 1290, to decide, as our historiographers repeat, the controversie between the competitors of the Crowne, tooke the Queene his wife Eleonora along with him; the Queene by the way fell sicke, yea so sicke, that the physitians despaired of her recovery; whereupon the King would go no farther, but returned with a purpose to bring her backe to London againe; in this return she departed this life at Herdbey, a towne neere Lincolne, ou the 28 of November: she being dead, as soon as preparation could be made, the corps was carried back in state toward London, and in every toune and place where the body of the Queene stayed, the King in token of his marvelous love toward her, caused a stately Crosse to be erected. That this is one of them, I dare not say, but that it was against the corps should come through the toune re-edified and adorned, and peradventure raysed higher, there is no reason to thinke to the contrary.” It is pretty certain the corpse of Queen Eleanor did not pass through Tottenham, but took the following route, viz.-from Herdbury to Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford, Geddington, Northampton, Stoney Stratford, Dunstable, St. Alban's, Waltham, and Westminster, at each of which places King Edward caused a Cross to be erected, and these Crosses were adorned with the Arms of Castile Leon: so that it clearly appears the corpse of that Princess did not rest after its departure from Waltham. Mr. Bedwell further states, "about fifty years agone (1580) I remember riding through the towne, observed it to be a columne of wood covered with |