Down. Mr. J. Usher-Mrs. Waleaton, relict of the late Rev. J. W. minor canon of Bristol Cathedral. At Chard, 66, Mr. J. White-At Clifton Hill, near Bath, Mrs. F. Wilson, daughter of the late Dr. W. Bishop of Bristol. DORSETSHIRE. Population. Heytsbury, 1329. - Increase, 306. Married.] Isaac Fry, esq. of Wimborne Minster, to the eldest daughter of T. Moulden, esq. of Statenboro', Died.] At Poole, the eldest daughter of J. Bristowe, esq. The Rev. J. Munden, LL.D. rector of Beer Hackett, and Corscombe. At Weymouth, Caroline, wife of Mr. Small, surgeon. At Woodsford, near Dorchester, of the small-pox, R. Antram, esq. At Okeford Fitzpayne, Mr. S. Hallett. DEVONSHIRE. Improvements in Exeter.The removal of the last remaining house on the eastern side of the entrance to North-street; the ancient statue at the entrance to be replaced; the green sward to be extended over the site of the Old Treasury House in the Cathedral yard; Sun-lane to be widened; the projecting houses outside of Southgate taken down, and that part of the street widened; Broadgate to be taken down. A new church has been lately opened at West Teignmouth. A silver coin of King Edward IV. was lately found near Exeter, and purchased by Mr. Shirley Woolmer, of that city. It is about the size of the new crown piece, extremely thin, but in brilliant and high preservation. The obverse in part resembles the gold rose noble of 1465; the reverse differs a little. On one side, the Prince is represented in a ship, wearing a three-forked crown, indented with four holes, and his sword drawn; on the other side is a sun in the centre, surmounted by a rose and encircled with four crowns and four lions. As we have no account of any larger silver coin at that period than groats, it is considered a great curiosity. Population.-Exeter, 23,479.—Increase, 4583. Tiverton, 8649.-Increase, 1917. Married.] R. Cornish, jun. esq. of Totness, to Lucy, daughter of the late S. Ricketts, esq. of Wraxhall, Somersetshire.-At Tavistock, N. Rundle, esq. banker, to the only daughter of W. Harness, esq. surgeon. At Collumpton, H. Melhuish, esq. solicitor, to Miss E. Clarke.-Also Mr. P. Martin, of Upton Moore, to the second daughter of P. Martin, esq.-At Lympstone, Mr. H. Martin, brother of the above, to Miss E. Baker, both of Taunton. Died.] At Exeter, Elizabeth, widow of G. Poole, esq. of Stogumber.-Mr. J. Berry, bootmaker, 66-Miss E. Hake. At Sidmouth, from the rupture of a blood-vessel, in his 24th year, W. W. Bingham, esq. son of the late W. B. esq. of Gameley, Somersetshire. At Kingston, Jamaica, 28, Mr. W. Lakeman, jun. late of Standcombe, near Tot ness. At St. Stephen's, near Plymouth, Capt. T. G. Caulfield, R. N. of the Windsor Castle. At Tamerton, the Rev. G. Hawker, son of J. H. esq. of Plymouth. He had just entered on his pastoral duties as vicar.-At Stonehouse, Captain Salt, R.N. -W. Patterson, esq. of Picton, Nova Scotia.-Anna, wife of the Rev. G. Patch, rector of Puddington and St. Leonard's, Exeter-Lately, at his seat in this county, Abel Worth, esq. He has left £10,000 to different schools and charities in Exeter. At Teignmouth, the eldest daughter of R. Jordan, esq. CORNWALL. Married.] The Rev. Orlando Manley, minister of St. Petrox, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late P. G. Glubbe, esq. of Liskeard. The Rev. Mr. Jennings, of Megavissey, to Harriet, daughter of Dr. Marshall, of Truro. Died.] At Launceston, 62, Mrs. Autridge. At Camelford, 77, Mr. C. Bate. At Penzance, Miss A. Colquhoun, eldest daughter of the late Lord Registrar of Scotland. WALES. Population of Brecon 4321. Increase 1000. Parish of Neath, males 1366; females 1457; houses 640. Hundred of Llangafelach, in Glamorganshire, containing 12 parishes; males 4995; females 5180. Married.] The Rev. D. Davis, D.D. rector of Holyhead, Anglesea, to Miss H. Holloway, of Emsworth, Hants.-J. Deere, esq. solicitor of Cowbridge, to Mrs. Rees, widow of the late W. R. esq. of Court Colman.-F. Fredericks, jun. esq. of Portmaur, Crickhowel, to Catherine, daughter and coheiress of the late J. Williams, esq. of Dynfyn, Glamorganshire. Died.] At Trewellwell, Pembrokeshire, 24, Mr. B. Mortimer, surgeon.-Near Milford, 92, P. Pavin, esq.-At the Mount near Bangor, Elizabeth, wife of B. Hewitt, esq. 40. SCOTLAND. Number of inhabitants in Edinburgh and Leith, about 139,000. Increase 35,000. Died.] At Edinburgh, J. Jackson, esq. Commissioner of Excise for North Britain. IRELAND. Moving Bog-According to letters from Tullamore, King's county, this extraordinary occurrence first toak place June 26, After some convulsions, it burst forth from its site, (Kilmalady) and in less than an hour hour covered 100 acres of land, from 20 to 60 feet deep. It left no chasm behind, but the original bog is 15 feet under its usual level. It has since spread to a great extent, and is still proceeding with a terrific front, 200 yards wide and 8 feet deep, at the rate of 2 yards every hour. A. Fuller, esq. of Woodfield House, has a thousand men embanking before his house and endeavouring to direct its course in the line of Ballyboughlan. The upper country is completely inundated, and fresh convulsions have rolled the pasture lands before it, and apprehensions were entertained that it would get into contact with the river of Ballyboughlan. Roads and bridges are covered, communications cut off, &c. Married.] At Dublin, E. S. Lees, esq. Secretary to the General Post Office, to Jane daughter of the late Captain Clarke, of the 40th regt. Died] At Coldblow, county of Dublin, D. George, esq. late one of the barons of the Court of Exchequer. The late Dr. Beaufort, whose death was reported in our last, had rebuilt at his own expense, his two parish churches, a few years previous to his decease. At Castle Lacken, county of Mayo, Jas., Earl of Tyrawley. His lordship was remarkable for the urbanity of his manners, and a punctilious sense of honour. ABROAD. The whole of the country of Siam was in a deplorable state in consequence of the spread of the Cholera Morbus, from Hindoostan, where it has carried off half a million of persons. In Siam its ravages were so dreadful, that at Bancok alone (the capital) up wards of 40,000 perished. The poorer classes TO OUR of the Siamese unroofed their houses to admit vultures and other birds of prey to carry off the dead. The King had convened a council of nobles, priests, and astrologers to ascertain the cause of this unprecedented mortality; when they were unanimously of opinion that it proceeded from an evil spirit in the form of a fish, who being disturbed in its usual abode in a far uninhabited country, had sought shelter there, and that the only method was to frighten him back with guns, muskets, drums, gongs, &c. Accordingly an innumerable number of the inhabitants collected along the sea-shore, to put into execution the imperial mandate; drums and gongs beat in all directions; and thousands of the Siamese plunged into the sea with spears, swords, stones, and other missiles, to frighten the fish; but when the scene ended, about seven at night, upwards of 7,000 souls were left dead, with the cholera morbus on the beach and in the water! what a triumph of priest craft. Died.] At Jeho, in Chinese Tartary, on the 2d of Sep. last, the Emperor Kea-king. The express from Peking mentions, that his Imperial Majesty on the 25th of the 7th moon, at Jeho, departed to ramble among the immortals. The Emperor was of the Ta-tsing dynasty, aged 61 years, 25 of which he sat on the throne. He was the 14th son of Keen-lung. Since he mounted the throne, the great body of the people have loved him, and praised him as a beneficent prince. His government has been, upon the whole, better than that of the princes of the former dynasty (Ming.) He seems to have been capricious, under the influence of his minions; fond of drink; distrustful; harassed by superstitious fears; often guilty of persecution; but upon the whole not an oppressor. READERS. In our next Number we shall give POPE'S HOUSE at Binfield, and in the next following "JOHN BUNYAN'S HOUSE" near Bedford. We have already sixty subjects prepared, and they will evidently form the most interesting series ever presented to the public. Some impressions will be taken on India paper at 1s. 6d. each. Local anecdotes of the houses and persons will always be most acceptable. An extra-quantity of the last Magazine was printed to accommodate persons desirous of commencing with the series. The unavoidable length of the article on Napoleon, has occasioned the postponement of some miscellaneous matter. We should be glad to receive further information from the gentleman who knew Junius, and also relative to the Fair Quaker; the letter relative to whom has excited so lively an interest. The USUAL SUPPLEMENT, replete with interesting matter, with Indexes, &c. was published with the present Number, with which it ought to be delivered. At the commencement of our FIFTY-SECOND VOLUME, we return thanks to our early and new friends, for their liberal and persevering patronage of this Miscellany, to an extent never before equalled in the history of periodical literature; and we feel it our duty to assure them, that although periodical works have increased in our time from ten or twelve to one hundred and twenty, yet this Miscellany still maintains an unrivalled circulation at home and abroad, and we believe never stood higher in its literary reputation. For the further gratification of our Readers we have annexed to this Number at a considerable expence, a general view, from an original drawing, of THE CORONATION FESTIVAL IN WESTMINSTER HALL, taken at the moment of the approach of the Champion, accompanied by the Marquis of Anglesea and Duke of Wellington, followed by the Gentlemen Pensioners with the covers for the King's table. Impressions in colours may be had separately at 2s., and an extra number of the Magazine is prepared to meet any extra demands. MAGAZINE. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. 358.] SEPTEMBER 1, 1821. [2 of Vol. 52. Mr. Pope passed his youth in his father's house, at Binfield, adjoining Windsor Forest, and there he wrote many of those works which laid the foundation of his celebrity and established his fame as the first poet of our language. Many of his Letters are dated from this house, and he resided here while he composed his "Pastorals," his "Windsor Forest," his "Rape of the Lock,” and his translations of Homer. afterwards removed to Twickenham, and there he wrote his "Satires," and his "Essay on Man;" but in connection with his genius and the history of English poetry, the house at Binfield will ever be considered as interesting and sacred. SINCE For the Monthly Magazine. EXTRACTS of LETTERS, from MR. W. C. JONES, to his FATHER, in LONDON; dated Achaguas, 9th Feb. 1821. INCE I wrote from Cuyaral, on the banks of the Arauca, I have made good my arrival at this place, the head quarters of the army of Gen. Paez, in company with the deputies to congress for the Province of Guyana, with whom I expect in a few days to continue my journey to Cucuta, where I am animated by the hope of seeing the president (Bolivar) frequently while congress is sitting, who is the life and staff of every body interested MONTHLY MAG. No. 358. He in the independence and welfare of this country, and from whose acknowledged high sense of honour and integrity I flatter myself with the best results to the object of my journey. Cucuta, the place of my destination, is stated to be much healthier than Angostura, and indeed in travelling westward from that city the climate gradually becomes fresher and more salutary. The thermometer indicates but little variation hitherto, but as there is generally a breeze, and the surrounding plains are very open, there is consequently a freer circulation of the air, and the temperature, although but N little little less in heat, is considerably more supportable. You have already my opinion of General Paez, whom during my stay I have visited and had many opportunities of seeing, as well as receiving from him much attention and courtesy; he has strongly urged us to proceed by water in preference to going by land, and we have agreed so to do, as we are informed we shall reach Cucuta in eighteen or twenty days. Disembarking at Tetio, and travelling the last few days by land, we shall pass through St. Christobal, which is only one day's distance from our journey's end. The village of Achaguas is considerable, in proportion to those by which it is surrounded, and from the circumstance of the army being at present quartered in it; its chief inconvenience is that from the extreme dryness of the soil it is most inconceivably dusty, and is therefore very disagreeable to walk about in, while there is the least breeze stirring. In the fore part of the day we are obliged to keep the doors and windows quite closed to exclude this universal intruder. The houses with the exception of one (the residence of the general) are all on the ground floor, but have a clean appearance from their being generally white-washed. The officers and men find indifferent living here, as they have only beef for their rations, without bread, salt or rum; the men fare better than their officers, as they have opportunities of earning something from the shop-keepers, and from strangers passing through to the kingdom. General Torres has been sent by Paez into new Granada, to obtain funds to alleviate the condition of the troops, who with much anxiety look for his return in ten or twelve days. There are many lakes in this neighbourhood (occasioned by the rain in the winter season) which abound with wild ducks, and the soldiers who can manage slily to possess themselves of a little ammunition, bring in considerable numbers of them, which are sold at about a real (five pence) each. The great ant bear is a common animal here, and attain in some instances the size of an English sheep: they are amphibious, yet may be perfectly domesticated. The armadillo also are so very abundant in the plains that the Llaneros, if at a loss for food, kill and eat them in considerable numbers; they are occasionally offered for sale here at one or two reals each, alive and quite tame. Amongst the feathered tribe the solder-bird is the most conspicuous, and is extremely common over all this part of the country. I have seen many of them as tall as myself (viz. five feet ten inches); the Creoles eat part of them, and describe them as very tolerable food. Singing birds are by no means so common here as in England. The slumbers of the sun-burnt traveller are never disturbed by the song of the lark, nor his spirits soothed in the evening by the sweet warbling of the nightingale. Of common birds, the tropial is almost the only one that sings, but its notes, although in considerable estimation amongst the natives, does not appear to me equal to that of the English blackbird. The powie (or turkey) of this country is a very fine bird, and is met with frequently in the woods; it is easily domesticated. In the neighbourhood of Angostura, as well as in every other part of this country which I have yet visited, small doves are very numerous, and frequently afford to travellers and sportsmen the materials for a repast. This place is called the Island of Achagues, from it being surrounded by three rivers during the winter season. SECOND LETTER, Dated Cucuta, 4th April, 1821. After a voyage of eighteen days from Apurell, we arrived without accident at Tetio, from whence we proceeded in four days by land to Saint Christobal, and thence in one day to this place, where we arrived on the 19th of March (nearly four mouths from my departure from Angostura) a period sufficient to have made a voyage to the East Indies. An officer who left Angostura a month before me did not reach here till ten days after me. Such are the difficulties of travelling in this country. I should have written to you before, but have been prevented by indisposition, brought on I attribute wholly by the long and distressing journey I have lately gone through. I am now fast re-establishing, and hope to be quite myself again in a few days. In our passage up the Oribante we were entertained with the sight of many birds which would be thought curious in Europe, were it possible to convey them there: the principal are the powie, guacharaca, aruca, arindajo, tropial, &c. &c. &c. &c. The king of the crows appeared to me the most curious of them all; its size and form somewhat resemble the eagle, but its colour is generally white, the shoulders of the wings tipped with black, its head is of a bright vermillion colour, beak yellow, and its eyes have an appearance differing from the generality of the feathered creation; it is called the king of the crows because, from its being larger and stronger than they are, it will not let them feed with it. We frequently saw the danté or great ant bear wandering on the banks of the river. The plant you mention in yours of the 9th Sept, 1820, is very abundant here, very productive and very cheap ; its taste is between the English potatoe and turnip, and it would in Europe certainly be a most useful vegetable, and form an excellent substitute for bread. I will endeavour on my return to get some roots put into a box, with the soil they grow in, and get them conveyed to you through the colonies, &c. &c. In the map of Columbia, published by Delarochette, you will find the rivers Caballure and Arauca, laid down by the appellation of Cavinsari and Senaruco, Cucuta is not mentioned; but you cannot err much as to its situation, placing it a little to the west of St. Christobal which is laid down, and from which it is distant only one day's journey: at Zancudo, which is also laid down, we slept one night on our way from Tetio: there are no houses but very good shelter; it is merely the name of a particular spot, while Cucuta, which is in a plain containing three respectable villages, is not taken notice of upon any of the maps of this country, &c. &c. |