peared in uniform dreffes made on the whole of this end of the room had a most beautiful and firiking effect. The fupper was a very elegant one, and had more, both of abundance and variety, than this feemingly inhofpitable rock might be fuppofed capable of affording; and the lines of the Poet, in cenfure of habitual luxury, might, on this occafion, be applied in commendation of the atten❤ tion of the managers: "Earth, sea, and air, Were this day ranfack'd for their bill of fare." Although Ceres and Bacchus poured forth their stores in abundance, vet Pru dence prefided over the whole; for, perhaps, there fcarcely ever was an infiance of fuch a number of young men being collected, with a pre-determination of conviviality, who pailed a night with fo much decorum; nor of fo large a company being allembled where every indivi dual was pleated and happy. The teftivity of the scene was confiderably heightened by a judicious felection of catcl.es, and other vocal and inftrumental mufick, very well performed; among the reft, the inclofed little fong, written upon the occafion, was fung by one of the finging-boys belonging to the Queen's regiment of foot, in a very pleafing man ner. One mind feemed to animate the whole company; the only contest being, who fhould do molt honour to the illuftrious gueft, and difplay moft both their perfonal regard for him, and their affectionate and zeal us attachment to his Royal Father and family. On the 13th of May, Sir Rob. Boyd was plealed to give out the following acknowledgement from his Royal Highness in General Orders, v.z. 66 66 "His Royal Highness Prince Edward having requested of Sir Robert Boyd to exprefs, in the fulleft manner pof"fible, his Royal Highnefs's warmest "thanks to the whole of the officers of "this garrifon, who gave him the Féte "of the 11th inftant; Sir Robert Boyd, "in compliance with the Prince's withes, has thought proper, by putting it in "Public Orders, to affure himself of 66 every officer being acquainted how flattering to his Royal Highness this "mark of their attachment to him las been, and how fincerely he withes "them all to be acquainted with it.” * Written by Capt. Fyers. See p. 756. Original 718 Original Letter from Dean Swift to Mr. Towers. [Auguft. SIR, CANNOT imagine what bufinefs it is that fo entirely employs you. I am fure it is not to gain money, but to spend it; perhaps it is to new-caft and contrive your houfe and gardens at 40el. more expence. I am forry it should cost you two pence to have an account of my health, which is not worth a penny; yet I ftruggle, and ride, and walk, and ain temperate, and drink wine on purpofe to delay, or make abortive, thofe fchemes propofed for a fucceffor; and if I were well, I would counterfeit myself fick, as Toby Matthews, Archbishop of York, ufed to do when all the Bishops wère gaping to fucceed him. It is one good fign that giddinefs is peculiar to youth, and I find I grow giddier as I grow older, and, therefore, confequently I grow younger. If you will remove fix miles nearer, I fhall be content to come and Spunge upon you as poor as you are, for I cannot venture to be half a day's journey from Dublin, because there is no fufficient medium of flesh between my fkin and my bones, particularly in the parts that lie upon the faddle. Therefore, be pleafed to fend me three dozen ounces of fleth before I attempt fuch an adventure, or get me a fix-mile inn between this town and your houfe. The cathe dral organ and back fide are painting and mending, by which I have faved a fermon; and, as the rogues of workmen go I on, may fave another. How, a wonder, came young Achefon to be among you? I believe neither his father nor mother know any thing of him; his mother is at Grange with Mrs. Achefon, her mother, and, I hear, is very ill of her afthma and other diforders, got by cards, and laziness, and keeping ill hours. Ten thoufand fack. fulls of fuch knights and fuch fons are, in my mind, neither worth reating nor preferving. I count upon it that the boy is good for nothing. I am, Sir, with great truth, your obedient, humble ferJ. SWIFT. vant, At the annual meeting of the Bath Agriculture Society, in Dec. 1789, it was agreed, that the merits of feveral Drill Machines fhould be tried, and that each proprietor fhould appoint an umpire. Accordingly, on the 22d of April 1790, the feveral machines were fet to work at Mr. Fitchew's, near Devizes, in a field extremely well prepared, and particularly adapted for Mr. Cooke's drill; but, though the land was a light loam, free from fiones, Mr. Cooke, with his utmost exertions, could not poffibly keep the coulters to an equal regular depth; a great quantity of the feed, even the whole on the declivities, remained on the furface. Mr. Cooke was obliged to go over the fame ground the fecond time, with his fcarifiers, to cover the feed. The quantity of land drilled by my machine was 3 roods, 20 perches, and 23 links; the grain fo compleatly covered that none could be feen, and the land left fo even as not to require rolling; whilft Mr. Cooke's drilled only 1 rood, 35 perches, and 16 links, and which was left in a very rough ftate. My private business prevented attending till the 5th of June, when only one of my ridges, adjoining to Mr. Cooke's, was hand-hoed, and that produced lefs in proportion than the unhoed ridge; which I attribute to many of the plants being unavoidably cut and injured, owing to their being grown fo high, and hoed too late. The umpires fixed on the aft of September for alcertaining the experiments. I conceived that two days would have been fully fufficient for compleating the work; accordingly I accepted a gentleman's appointments from Hampshire, on particular buftaefs, to be at my houfe on the 3d of September. On the aft of September, Meffis. Cooke, Matthews, Bourn, and feif, met at Mr. Fitchew's. The umpires' nonattendance occafioned fome contufion and debate. It was propofed, as fo many (eight) experiments were to be tried, and having fo little time (it being then twelve o'clock), that a fhort, but equal, length and breadth of the best part of the crops fhould be cut: to which I ab. jeled; obferving that, as there were numerous uncropped vacancies on Mr. Cooke's ridges, 8 perches in length, and the whole breadth of fuch ridges adjoining each other, including good and bad, ought to be cut, to afcertain the produce with proper exactntfs; and that, according to the real measurement of fuch ridges, a calculation in proportion per acre acre fhould be made. •pinion. This was my Mr. Cooke's ridge (which was my lot, but, at his request, refigned to him) measured in breadth 17 feet from the centre of its furrows. About 3 or 4 perches in length of his head-land was without any vacancies, and very different to the other parts, which, I must repeat, contained numerous uncropped (paces, that appeared to me either to have had no grain depofited, or fuch torn up by the fcarifiers. My adjoining ridge contained no fuch uncropped fpaces; the breadth thereof, about 35 feet, was more than twice the breadth of Mr. Cooke's. About 2 perches of my head-land were flatter, and not fo healthy as Mr Cooke's narrow ridge; the crop on that part evidently difcovered it; accordingly, abour one perch was permitted to be cut off bath our ridges. After, a fhort length, and exact breadth of 15 feet (which Mr. C's rows of corn exactly occupied where there were no vacancies), were cut, which was calculated to produce in proportion to 66 bufhels, i gallon, and 1 pint, per acre. The fame measure, being noi so good as other parts of my ridge, was cut, and produced in proportion 63 bushels, 2 pecks, and quart. My other ridge, unhoed (two ridges difiant from Mr. C's), produced in proportion to 66 bufhels, 2 pecks, 1 gation, and I quart, which is a greater produce than Mr. C's above experiment; and my unhoed crop was about 3 bushels per acre more than my improperly-hoed corn produced which adjoined Mr. C's. And be it remembered, that Mr. Cooke chofe this ridge, and that the calculation was made from 15 inftead of 17 feet, the real breadth thereof. The chain extending lengthways, and acrofs into the middle of the ridges, the measurement being calculated from 1 perch and 1-10th, which is only equal to the 146th part of an acre, cannot be a proper proportion to alcertain the real produce; for the chain unavoidably covering only a few plants out of their proper fituation, the variation on fo fmail a fcale as the 146th part of 160 (being fo many fquare perches in an acre), muft make a material difference in the calculation; hence I will confidently fay, that the experiments were by no means properly, but very improperly, attempted to be afcertained. Let any impartial man, understanding agriculture, reflect, and properly inveftigate the tacts I have produced, I doubt not of his immediately being convinced of my aff rtions being true; and am certain, from what has been done, that, had the experiments been properly made, the produce of mine would have exceeded Mr. Cooke's many bushels per acre. I now will further affert, that Mr. Cooke's machine cannot drill advantageoufly, much more than hoe, in ftony and ftilf land, where mine can. The ze of September was employed in threshing. On the 3d I was engaged to be in Briftol; but, on my arrivai at Bath, accidentally I met the gentleman who had engaged to be at my houfe; and, after fetthing our bufinefs, I immediately returned to Mr. Fitchew's, with a full intention to have the refidue of Mr. C's and my ridges cut and compared, but found them mowed, and mixed together. In the courfe of this fpring I expect to have an opportunity of having a proper trial made between Mr. C's and my machine; and accordingly I hereby invite Mr. C. or any perfon pofleffing his machine, to meet me near Bath, not to afcertain by cutting only the 146th part of an acre, but by cutting two or more adjoining ridges, as fall be deemed equitable by Mr. Matthews and two other impartial perfons; and, as a compenfation for lofs of time, the lofer to pay the winger the value of his machine, exclusive of the premium from the So ciety. Mr. Cooke profeffes himself a firanger to the art of jockeyfhip. I never fald he was a jockey; nor did I ever fay that he was poffefed with cunning. But I will fay that, as he did publish, he ought to have mentioned all circumftances as they really occurred. Capt. Lloyd, of Killgwyn, in Cardigaufhire, invented, about eight years ago, a hoffe-harrow and rake with tines of different fizes; and I have lately been informed that Mr. Mayes, of Notown, near Ipfwich, invented one alfo, which Mr. C. faw prior to his being made public in 1788 or 1789. However, as having feen Capt. Lloyd's, I can affert, that Mr. C's vaunted borte-noe and fcarifiers are conftructed on the exact fame principles as Capt. Lloyd's. Extra of a Letter to Mr. Winter from Mr. WV Weeks, who occupies a Farm to the Amount of about 5001. a bear. Dated Salisbury, Marc.. 12, 1-59. "I now am able to inform you of the produce of the fix acres of Parle, which you fuperintended the towing of the laft featon. You 720 The Pendrell Family.-Luxury of Clouted Cream. [August, will, I do not doubt, recollect that I did not fow quite a bushel and a half per acre, and I had exactly four quarters per acre, nine-gallon measure, of the best marketable corn; very little tailing, it was fo even growed. This is full a third more per acre than where we fowed five bushels per acre broadcast." N. B. Mr. Weeks had fowed upwards of 60 acres broadcast, prior to drilling the above on the 14th of April, 1788. The fucceeding feafon was fo dry, that no rain fell till about the latter end of July; and the drought was fo great, that, in numerous parts of this kingdom, the farmers did not reap even two for the one bufhel of feed they fowed. I extremely exult in the peculiar prerogative of a Briton, that, when he is illiberally and maliciously attacked by any perfon, he has a right to enjoy the privilege of felf-defence. Such is my fituation. Mr. Cooke was pleased to attack me firft in a certain "Encyclopædia." We have fince had feveral controverfies. How far his expreffions may appear to be illiberal, and filled with acrimonious invectives, I will fubmit to the determination of the publick, and those who have noticed our publiGEO. WINTER. cations. MA Mr. URBAN, Auguft 2. ANY thanks to fenfible coryour refpondent E. I. who dates his letters from Uppingham, and gives you fome account of the Pendrells, and of that worthy prelate Dr. Jeremy Taylor. He obferves, that Mrs. Terefa Sykes was the laft furvivor of that antient name of Pendrell, at least of that branch of it in Staffordshire; and therefore there may be another furviving branch, which your correfpondent A Loyalifi mentions. And we fhall be glad to hear that any thing is done for Mr. Thomas Pendrell, of which he and his ancestors may be deemed worthy. The manner in which the burial of Mrs. Tereta Sykes is inferted in the Regifter, with the addition of her maiden name of Pendrell, is agreeable to the mode which the prefent refpectable Bishop of Durham recommended to his late clergy of the diocefe of Salisbury, and may have its ufe in many inftances. I would remind E. I. that Dr. Jeremy Taylor was probably prefented by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1637, to the rectory of Uppingham, as being his Grace's option from the Bishop of LonJon for that turn; for E. I. mentions, that the advowfon of that church was granted to Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, and his fucceffors for ever, as long ago as the fourth year of Edward VI. that is, about 1550. This will eafily reconcile any doubt upon this fubject. I hope E. I. will continue to favour you and your readers with other ufeful and entertaining remarks. And you may probably hear again, upon fome topick or other, from your humble fervant, and a former correfpondent, V. Mr. URBAN, Honiton, Aug. 8. As you cater very happily for the public in general. I think you may not difapprove presenting your readers with a delicacy peculiar to Devon, and the borders of its adjoining counties; what I allude to is the mode of producing that cream termed fcald, or clotted cream: this deficience only could have fo long confined fo luxurious a treat to the more Weltern parts of England. The obvious purpofe of making it is for fuperior butter than can be procured from the ufual raw cream, to which it is preferable for flavour and keeping: fome perfons will eat no other. Thofe dairies that make feald-cream butter cannot ufe leaden cifterns, but brafs pans, for the milk; and that which is put into the pans one morning is let ftand till the next, when, without dif turbing it, it is placed over a steady, brisk fire, on which it is to remain from feven to fifteen minutes, according to the fize of the pan; but the point of time for removing it must be carefully attended to, which is when the furface begins to wrinkle a little, or fhew figns of being near the agitation of boiling; it is then inftantly to be taken off, and placed in its former pofition, when the next day it will prefent its fine clotted cream, which is ready for the table, or to be converted into butter, which the delicate hand of the neat dairy-woman foon accomplishes by ftirring only. Some know when it is proper to take it from the fire by founding the pan with the finger; it will then be lefs fonorous: but this art can only be acquired by experi ence. As the procefs is fimple, I may therefore hope, when I vifit different parts, to fee the tables adorned with the regale of Devonshire cream. Yours, &c. J. F. Efe, public fervice has carried me frequently to the Cape of Good Hope, where it ftruck me as a ftrange fancy, in every family, to fee a small land-tortoife in the inclofed yard behind the offices of the houfe. For fome time I regarded the animal as a kind of universal pet; but at length I was told, that it was admitted for the fake of avoiding the peft of rats, which would not approach any place the land-tortoife was harboured in. I remember that one of these creatures was kept in a small back en of a house in Henrietta-ftreet, Covent Garden, for very many years, and poffibly for this very excellence. It retired into the earth during the winter months; and, I believe, was living when the family left the premises. W. P. Mr. URBAN, IN Bottesford, July 29. an excurfion to the North of England, I was easily prevailed upon to fee the Luck of Edenball, celebrated in a ballad in Ritfon's Select Collection of English Songs. The only defcription I can give you of it is, a very thin, bellmouthed, beaker glass, deep and narrow, ornamented on the outfide with fancy. work of coloured glafs, and may hold fomething more than a pint. Antient fuperftition may have contributed not a little to its prefervation; but that it fhould not, in a more enlightened age, or in moments of conviviality, (fee the Ballad), meet with one gentle rap (and a gentle one would be quite fufficient for an ordinary glass of the fame fubftance), is to me fomewhat wonderful. Superftition, however, cannot be entirely eradicated from the mind at once. The late agent of the family had fuch a reverential regard for this glass, that he would not fuffer any perfon to touch it, and but few to fee it. When the family, or other curious people, had a defire to drink out of it, a napkin was held underneath, left any accident fhould befal it; and it is ftill carefully preferved, in a cafe made on purpofc. The cafe is faid to be the fecond, yet bears the marks of antiquity, and is charged with ths. Tradition, our only guide here, fays, that a party of Fairies were drinking and making merry round a well near the Hall, called St. Cuthbert's well; but, Edenball, the antient feat of Sir Philip Mufgrave, near Penrith, Cumberland. GENT. MAG. Auguft, 1791. being interrupted by the intrufion of fome cutious people, they were frightened, and made a hafty retreat, and left the cup in queftion: one of the last screaming out, If this cup fhould break or fall, inferted. It was written by the Duke of Wharton; and is called, "The Earl's Defeat."-To the tune of Chevy Chace. The Ballad above alluded to is here “On both fides flaughter and gigantic deeds.” MILTON. GOD profper long from being broke To chafe the spleen with cup and can, The ftout and ever-thirsty Duke Six in a hand went round; Now when thefe merry tidings reach'd The Earl of Harold's ears, And am I (quoth he, with an oath) Thus flighted by my Peers? I'll be with them right quick; We'll know this fcurvy trick. "Lo, yonder doth Earl Harold come!" Did one at table say: "'Tis well," replied the mettled Duke ; When thus the Earl began: "Great Duke, You did not learn in France : Under the board shall lie : I know thee well, a Duke thou art; *A piat bumper at Sir Chriftopher Muf grave's. (N. B. Ancestor of the prefent Baronet.) As |