Mr. URBAN,

June S. IATOR has my thanks, and is en

Viited to the applause of every con

scientious Minister of the Established church who is desirous of seeing the Edifices dedicated to Divine uses maintained with becoming decency, for his laudable endeavours to engage and attract the attention of those whom it especially concerns to the disgraceful state of some of our country churches. If his travels should lead him into Kent, I beg leave to say that he will find abundant and lamentable cause for his judicious strictures. Passing from Rye to Hythe lately, I could not avoid noticing, near the bank of the famous military canal on which so many, many thousands of pounds have been (I will not say uselessly) lavished, the Parish Church

of reduced to bare walls, without a roof, without a floor, and without windows! I could not avoid noticing that it is not only in a condition the most ruinous that imagination can pourtray, but profaned to some of the vilest uses to which a Christian Temple has ever been misapplied, being made use of partly for a pig-stye, and partly as a depository for the broken wheels of a dung-cart! The dilapidated condition of this building is not imputed to the incumbent of the sinecure rectory of the value of £.300. per ann. to which it belongs, as a fault; but common decency should at least have preserved a sacred edifice from such brutal violation; and I most sincerely hope that the state of this Church, and of so many others in every Diocese which have long demanded attention, will be surveyed, and animadverted upon by abler pens than mine, amongst which I respectfully reckon Viator's, before any great progress is made in the scheme of building new Churches, whilst scores of old ones are left to crumble in neglect and decay.

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

CAPT

CICESTRIENSIS.

June 10. APT. Parr reports in page 212 that the Admiral ordered the Coventry and Chaser towards Bengal and against the Dutch. Both ships sailed from the Coast of Coromandel; where the Coventry, Capt. (since Sir Andrew) Mitchell had joined the fleet. The Chaser, after losing company, &c.

was approaching Calcutta, when Capt. Parr was importuned to pass that City, and run on with the same floodtide against Chinsura. His pilot was extremely eager, appeared quite acquainted with the place and its defences, and anticipated very little opposition from the Dutch. The Pilot's account had filled the Officers and Crew with ideal prize-money; and the Captain provided for realities, as soon as his superior in command (sine quâ non) should warrant the attack.

The Nymph sloop of war was lying at Calcutta under some repair; her Commander was presently possessed of the Pilot's proposal, and of Capt. Parr's people being all on tiptoe to proceed. Capt. Parr was supposing at the moment immediate activity on the part of the Nymph's Commander, to have jumped on board the Chaser, and gone with them.

No such thing; the tide was spent, and the first report to Capt. Parr next morning was, that the Lieutenant of the Nymph had in the night-flood been sent with her boats manned and armed to take Chiusura!

Capt. Parr and the Nymph's Captain never met afterwards. The Death of Honour on the Superbe's quarter-deck in February drew its veil over aught less worthy! It is mentioned now, that similar partial attempts may not again endanger the Public Service in War. Besides, we have a generally acknowleged maxim at Sea-Neighbour's fure is good enough for any Man,

Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

P..

June 11.

THE Editors of all the modern

Peerages (not excepting the ele gant and intelligent Author of the Biographical Peerage) give an erroneous statement of the revival of the ancient Earldom of Orinonde in 1791, in the person of John Butler, father of the present Peer. Sir Egerton Brydges states that the "attainder of the honours was reversed in his favour." This is erroneous. In Lord Mountmorres's History of the Irish Parliament, vol. I. page 215, you will find the following notice relative to this ancient and illustrious title; viz. "The revival of the Earldom of Ormond in 1791, and the restitution in blood of John Butler, the present Earl, turned upon the following question: James

Butler,

Butler, the second Duke of Ormond, was attainted by two acts; one of the English, and another of the Irish legislature. The question before the House of Lords of Ireland was, whether the second act in 1715-16 extended only to the forfeiture of the property of the said Duke, or whether it affected the titles also? Upon this latter point the House decided that it did not."-The House of Lords of Ireland having decided that the Irish honours of the second Duke of Ormonde remained unattainted, it of course follows that on

his Grace's death in 1745, the dignity

of Duke of Ormonde in Ireland

(his English Dukedom of Ormonde, &c. being legally forfeited) descended to his brother, Charles Butler, Earl of Arran, who however never assumed the dignity, supposing the

Irish honours to have been included

in the attainder, as it was certainly intended they should have been. Lord Arran, who was in fact the third Duke of Ormonde, was enabled, by an Act of the English Parliament, passed in 1721, to purchase the Ormonde estate; which he accordingly did. He died in 1758, when the titles of Duke and Marquess of Ormonde became extinct, as also the claim to the English attainted honours of Duke of Ormonde, Earl of Brecknock, and Baron Butler of Llanthony, he being the only male descendant of James Butler (twelfth Earl of Ormonde, aud) first Duke of Ormonde in England and Ireland.

Lord Arran left the Ormonde estates to his sister, Lady Emilia Butler (who survived him about a year), with remainder to his male beir, John ButJer, esq. of Kilcash, descended from the younger brother of the first Duke. This John Butler was in fact the fifteenth Earl of Ormonde; but, not being aware of his right, and conceiving the honours to have been attainted, never assumed the dignity. He died in 1766 without issue, when the estates devolved to his first cousin, Walter Butler, esq. of Garryricken, who was in fact the sixteenth Earl of Ormonde. His son John Butler, seventeenth Earl, was admitted to the titles of Earl of Ormonde and Ossory, Viscount Thurles,

I SEND you a few memoranda of

mond's rebellion

the family of Supple, now enjoying a place among the British Baronets under the name of De Capel. This family have been seated in the County of Cork since the time of Queen Elizabeth, in whose reign they removed from the County of Limerick, where they are mentioned by Camden by the name of Saple. The family appear to have taken part in the Earl of Des; and John Supple, of Ightermurragh, was found by an inquisition held in Cork, Sept. 9, 1588, to have been concerned in that Earl's opposition to the existing Government; in the same list with him also appears Gerald Supple of Ightermurragh. Smith, in his History of Cork, mentions the Castle of Ightermurragh erected by the Supples, who inarried into the family of Fitzgerald; he also mentions some tombs of the Supples in the parish church of Ightermurragh. Edward Supple, Esq. was living in 1750 at Supples Court, near Castle Martyr, which

Smith calls 66 an handsome seat." Smith also mentions" Aghada, near Killeigh, the seat of Mr. Richard Supple. From the latter is descended the present Sir Richard Brooke de Capel Brooke, Bart. of Northamptonshire, who assumed the name of Brooke, and changed the name of Supple, at the same time, to De Capel, the old mode of spelling.

On Disorders arising from Indigestion. (Continued from p. 216.)

On the Periods of Disorders. EFORE we proceed further in

House of Lords of Ireland; it appearing that the attainder of 1715-16, passed by the Irish Legislature, involved the property only, and not the honours.

varieties of disorders originating in the digestive organs, it will be necessary to describe a phænomenon of a curious and important nature, con

nected

nected with such disorders. I allude to the periodical returns of paroxysms of disease.

The tendency of diseases to occur in periodical fits is particularly striking in those complaints which happen in the stomach and bowels, or which are the consequence of the sympathetic action of some distant part of the body, which occurs with some digestive disorder.

A natural division may be made of periodical paroxysms, into those, first, which depend on some internal causes in the animal body, and appear unconnected with any external cause; and, secondly, those which seem referable to atmospherical and luoar periods.

That many diseases, having once occurred, acquire a tendency to recur at the same time of the day, month, or year, for a long while, is well known; but the question at present to be cleared up is, how far these periods are synchronous with certain periodical alterations in the state of the atmosphere. The celebrated Dr. Sydenham, and also Dr. Mead, inclined to the opinion that there were causes for the periodical returns of diseases dependent on the Moon; and though this doctrine has been carried to an undue length by the antients, it seems not wholly without founda

tion.

To proceed in the most clear and philosophical way with this inquiry, we will briefly allude to several sorts of periods, and the collateral phænomena in the atmosphere and in the vegetable kingdom, and see how far the periods of diseases agree with the periods of the atmospherical changes.

I shall first speak of the annual periods of diseases. It has been long known that many nervous complaints, as well as gout, &c. &c. have a tendency to return at the same time of year, for many years together. Numerous cases of melancholic insanity have lately come to my notice, in which the patient became attacked at the same time of year, for a long space of time. The paroxysms, after recurring for several months once every lunation, at length subsided, but returned again at the same time of year, and went through the same course; only mitigated, but not cured by medicines. How far, depletion might have ultimately succeeded, if

properly persevered in, in these cases, I am unable to decide.

Another sort of periods consists in the monthly paroxysms, or exacerbation of diseases, which seem to recur at particular times of the moon. The early writers on medicine made frequent mention of the influence of the Lunar periods on diseases, and our celebrated physician Sydenham has written very ably and ingeniously on this influence. I bave of late been enabled to confirm by my own observation the doctrine of this writer with respect to Insanity. By a collation of a great number of cases it appeared that in by far the greater number of cases of periodical Insanity, the paroxysms returned at intervals of about twenty-eight or nine days: of these the greatest number occurred near the full of the moon; the next greatest number happened near the new moon; and few, or, I may say, almost no paroxysms, were found to occur at the quarters. Moreover, the recurrence of the paroxysms was generally synchronous with those changes of the weather which usually happen near, and are commonly as cribed to lunar influence. At these periods I have also noticed that the exacerbations of many diseases happen. And a gentleman of great practice in the West Indies assures that this Lunar influence is much greater there than it is in this country.

US

The tertian and quartan periods of fevers are well known; but the doctrine upheld by the late Dr. Darwin, that these also were connected with Lunar changes, seems to want further proof.

The diurnal periods of diseases constitute also another and a very curious subject of inquiry. They should be accurately compared with other diurnal phænomena which happen at the same hours; such as the opening and shutting of certain flowers, which perform this function so regularly as to form a very good botanical clock, of which I shall give an account in my next communication. I have at present thrown out these hints as a subject of future observation, as the reader should bear these interesting facts in mind during the observations on the treatment of digestive nervous diseases, to follow*.

(To be continued.)

* See Forster on Periodical Diseases. COM