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years, he shall be able to fend to the
Temple, and breed to the bar: But at
prefent his pocket will not hold out
for fending him to the university. I
have propofed your taking him, if you A
think well of it, and your boarding
him, and inftructing him in mathe-
maticks, and philofophy, and humane
learning: He is now nineteen, of fo-
ber and good difpofitions; and is as
ingenious and promifing a young man,
as ever I knew in my life. Few in-
ftructions on your fide will do, and in B
the intervals of study, he will be an
agreeable companion for you. His
"father will be glad to pay you what-
ever you fhall require within his reach;
and I shall think myself very much o-
bliged to you into the bargain.

GILB. WALMESLEY.

To the Rev. Mr Colfon.

Dear Sir, Lichfield, Mar. 2. I had the favour of yours, and am extremely obliged to you: But cannot fay I have a greater affection for you upon it than I had before, being long fince fo much endeared to you, as well! by an early friendship, as by your many excellent and valuable qualifications. And had I a fon of my own, it would be my ambition, inftead of fending him to the University, to difpofe of him as this young gentleman is.

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He and another neighbour of mine, one Mr S. Johnson, fet out (this morn- E ing for London together: Davy Garrick to be with you early the next week, and Mr Johnson to try his fate with a tragedy, and to fee to get himfelf employed in fome tranfation, either from the Latin or the French. Jabnfon is a very good scholar and poet, and I have great hopes will turn out a fine tragedy writer. If it fhould F any ways lay in your way, doubt not but you would be ready to recommend and affift your countryman.

G. WALMESLEY.

Speech of bis Excellency the Earl of Hertford.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to both Houfes of
Parliament, on bis opening the Seffions Oct.22.

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My Lords and Gentlemen,

Am honoured with his majefty's commands to meet you in parliament, and embrace, with fingular fatisfaction, this oppor tunity of concurring with you in promoting his majesty's moft gracious and cordial intentions for the profperity of this his kingdom of Ireland.

Long and perfonal experience have raised in my mind the most honourable fentiments of your zeal and affection for his majesty's fervice, and of your ferious attention to the welfare of your country; and confcious that

thefe will be the fole objects of my conduct. I reft affured that this feffion of parliament will be eminently diftinguifhed by our lauda

ble emulation how best to be informed of the means, and moft effectually to carry them into execution. This will prove the most acceptable fervice to his majefty, and unanimity in your proceedings beft express your fenfe of the happiness enjoyed under the government you are fupporting, and your gratitude for his majefty's paternal care and protection of his people,

In this light his majefty has moft graciously conduct, and, by your perfeverance in thefe accepted and highly approved of your paft principles, the future felicity of these kingdoms will be established.

Interested as we are in the domeftic happinefs of our most glorious fovereign, and the ftability of his moft illuftrious houfe, you will receive with pleafure information of the increase of his royal family, by the aufpicious birth of another prince defcended from him,

Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

I have ordered the proper officers to prepare the feveral accounts and eftimates to be Jaid before you, and doubt sot but you will find that your fupplies have been properly applied to the publick fervices: His majefty is well pleafed that thofe fervices have been anfwered without making ufe of the confidential credit, which his majefty confidered as

your wife precaution against cafes of neceffity.

As I have nothing in command to afk, but the ufual fupplies, I am confident you will efeem it your duty and intereft that his majefty's establishments be fupported with ho

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My Lords and Gentlemen,

Times of peace are the feafons to deliberate on the means to render the natural advantages of this country most beneficial to the inhabitants, and to increase the national wealth, by the employment of the people. Policy directs, where the country admits of it, the choice of fome principal object of induftry, as the ftaple of commerce. The linen manufacture, in its several branches, is evidently that object in Ireland. The produce fhews its confequence: Your care will be to affift the progrefs, and by prudent laws to guard against private frauds, which prevents the confumption, and will deftroy the credit of this commodity at foreign markets. It. would be highly pleafing to me, were my adminiftration marked by any useful fervices to this most valuable trade,

When our thoughts are turned to promote Gindaftry in the people, we should remember how neceffary religious principles, and virtuous education are to promote that end. The charter-fchools were firft inftituted for thofe purposes. You have repeatedly given them parliamentary affiftance, your experience, therefore, of their utility, will induce you to continue them under your protection; other particulars must be left to your wifdom, with this affurance, that duty and the warmeft zeal will ever engage my vigilant attention to prevent what may tend to the prejudice, and to forward every meafure tor the peace, fafety, and profperity of Ireland.

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Some Account of Windor-Caftle. (See.
the annexed View.
HIS fately and venerable Caf-
tle is divided into two courts or
wards, with a large round tower be-
tween them, called the middle ward,
it being formerly feparated from the
lower ward by a ftrong wall and draw
bridge. The whole contains above
twelve acres of land, and has many
towers and batteries for its defence;
but length of time has abated their
ftrength, and the happy union that
fubfilts between the prince and peo-
ple, has made it unneceffary to keep g
thefe fortifications in perfect repair.

The cafte is fituated upon a high hill, which rifes by a gentle afcent, and enjoys a moft delightful profpect around it; in the front is a wide and extenfive vale, adorned with cornfields and meadows, with groves on either fide, and the calm smooth waters of the Thames running through it; and behind it are every where hills covered with woods, as if dedicated by nature, for game and hunting.

On the declivity of the hill is a fine terrace faced with a rampart of freestone, 1870 feet in length.

is built on the higheft part of the mount, and there is an afcent to it by a large flight of ftone steps: these apartments are fpacious and noble, and among the rest is a guard room, or magazine of arms. King Charles II. began to face this mount with brick, but only compleated that part next the court. It was here that Marfbal Beleifle was confined when prifoner in England.

The lower court is larger than the others, and is in a manner divided into two parts by St George's chapel, which ftands in the centre. On the north, or inner fide are the feveral houses and apartments of the Dean and canons of St George's chapel, with thofe of the minor canons, clerks and other officers; and on the South and West fides of the outer part, are the hou fes of the poor knights of Windfor. CIn this court are alfo feveral towers belonging to the officers of the crown, when the court is at Windfor, and to the officers of the order of the gar

From this terrace you enter a beau- D tiful park, which furrounds the paJace, and is called the little or housepark, to distinguish it from another adjoining, which is of a much larger extent. This little park is four miles in circumference, and furrounded by a brick wall. The turf is of the moit

ter.

The royal apartments are on the North fide of the upper court, and are ufually termed the ftar building, from a flar and garter in gold in the middle of the structure, on the outfide next the terrace!

St George's chapel is fituated in the middle of the lower court. It is now in the pureft ftyle of Gothic architecture, was firft erected by King Edward III. in the year 1357, foon after the foundation of the college, for the honour of the order of the garter, and dedicated to St George, the patron of England; but however noble the first defign might be, King Edward IV. not finding it entirely completed, enlarged the structure and deFligned the prefent building, together with the houfes of the dean and canons, fituated on the North and West fides of the chapel; the work was afterwards carried on by Henry VII. who finished the body of the chapel, and Sir Reginald Bray, knight of the garter, and the favourite of that King, affifted in ornamenting the chapel and compleating the roof.

beautiful green, and it is adorned g with many thady walks; efpecially that called Queen Elizabeth's, which, on the fummer evenings is frequented by the belt company. A fine plain on the top of the hill was made level for bowling, in the reign of King Charles II. and from hence is an extenfive prospect over the Thames, and the adjacent country. The park is well stocked with deer, and other game, and the keeper's lodge at the farther end is a delightful habitation.

In the upper court of the caftle is a fpacious and regular fquare, con- G taining on the north fide the royal apartments, and St Ceorge's chapel and hall, on the South and Eaft fides are the royal apartments, thofe of the prince of Wales, and the great offi. cers of flate, and in the centre of the

The architecture of the infide has always been esteemed for its neatneís and great beauty, and in particular, the tone roof is reckoned an excellent piece of workmanship. It is an

area is an equestrian flatue in copper, Hellips fupported by Gobic pillars,

of King Charles II.

The round tower, which forms the weft fide of this upper court, contains the governor's apartments. It

whofe ribs and groins fuftain the whole ceiling, every part of which has fome different device well finished.

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An Account of a Mummy inspected at
London 1763, by Dr Wollaton, Dr
Blanfhard, Dr Hunter, Dr. Petit, the
Rev. Mr Egerton Leigh, and Mr
Hunter. From the Philofophical
Tranfactions juft published.

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HIS mummy is the first article in Dr Grew's catalogue of the rarities of the Royal Society. He informs us that it was a prefent from Henry Duke of Norfolk, and was an entire one, taken out of the royal pyramids.

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It had been greatly injured before it came into our hands; the head had been taken off from the body, and the wrappers with which they had been united, having been deftroyed, the cavity of the thorax was found open to wards the neck; and part of the upper cruft, with the clavicles, having been alfo broken away, the heads of C the offa humeri prefented themselves, covered with a thin coat of pitch.

The feet alfo had been broken off from the legs, and were fixed, by wires, to the end of the wooden cafe in which the mummy lay.

The outward painted covering, which reached from the upper part of the cheft, nearly to the bottom of the legs, had been removed, and fastened on again by a great number of ordinary nails, driven up to the head, into the fubitance of the mummy. This had most probably been done by thofe who had orders fome years fince to E repair it; and by this, and by the manner in which they had fastened on the feet, they feem to have done their work in a moft clumsy manner.

were found to have been in actual contact with the bone, fo that the integu-.. ments must have been taken away before the wrappers were at firft applied.

The under jaw was loft, and the fuperior maxillary, fphenoidal and ethmoidal bones were broken away; the foramen occipitale was ftopped up with pitch, with which alfo the inner part of the skull was lined; this feemed to have been poured in at the foramen, and made to apply to the feveral parts of the infide of the skull, by turning the head in different directions; the wave of the melted pitch from fuch motion appearing very plain. The inlide of the skull was in many places covered very thinly, and, in fome few, which the fluid pitch had miffed, it was quite bare. The pitch, which topped up the foramen occipitale, had on it the impreffion of one of the vertebra of the neck; and externally a bout the foramen adhered a confiderable quantity of pitch.

The outward painted covering being removed, nothing but linnen fillets were to be feen, which enclosed the whole mummy.

Thefe fillets were of different breadths; the greater part about an inch and an half, thofe about the feet much broader; they were torn longitudinally; thofe few that had a felvage having it on one fide only; the uppermcft fillets were of a degree of fineness nearly equal to what is now fold in the fhops for 25. 4d. per yard, under the name of long lawn, and were woven fomething after the manner of Russia fheeting; the fillets were of a brown colour, and in fome measure rotten. Thefe outward fillets feemed to owe their colour to having been steeped in F fome gummy folution, as the inner ones were in pitch.

This whole external covering of the fore part of the mummy, confifted of feral folds of broad pieces of linen cloth, made to adhere together, by fome viscous matter, which had not yet loft its property; and the whole had received an additional degree of trength and fubftance from the coat of paint laid on. The figures, which were not entirely defaced, were of the fame kind with thofe which all the G writers on this fubje&t have defcribed.

There were not the leaft remains of hair or integuments on any part of the head; fome parts of the fkull were quite bare, particularly about the temporal bones, which had the natural polish, and appeared, in every respect, like the bones of an ordinary skull. H To other parts of the full adhered fe- veral folds of pitched linnen, which, together, were near half an inch in thickness; on removing them they (Gent. Mag. OCT. 1765.)

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The fillets immediately under the painted covering lay in a transverse direction; under thefe, which were many double, they lay oblique, diagonally from the fhoulders to the ilia. Under thefe the fillets were broader, fome nearly three inches, and lay longitudinally from the neck to the feet, and alfo from the fhoulders down the fides, on which there was a remarkable thickness of thefe longitudinal fillets; under these they were again tranfverfe, and under thefe again oblique.

The fillets in general externally did not adhere to each other, but, though pieces of a confiderable length could be taken off entire, yet (from the great age) fo tender was the texture of the

cloth,

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