The communication of "A Bard," respecting the family of Berkeley of Stratton, and the Digbys of Ireland, is not sufficiently explicit in respect to the dignity claimed, and requires some authentication of the facts before we can insert it, or open our pages to controversy likely to ensue from

any erroneous statements.

A Correspondent says, "In your last Supplement, p. 583, T. E. recommends the use of Mustard Seed for the purpose of restoring and strengthening the action of the bowels. That useful and practical writer, Sir John Sinclair, in his Code of Health and Longevity, published about 20 years ago, strongly advised the same remedy. The great difficulty most people have to encounter in this remedy is that of swallowing the seeds, in consequence of their floating upon the top of the water poured on them. This difficulty is obviated by soaking the seeds in a wine-glass half full of water, about three or four hours before they are taken, as they then become enveloped in a kind of mucilage, and adhering to each other, are swallowed by the patient without the least difficulty."

CLIONAS begs to inform J. J. K. p. 98, that he is decidedly wrong in his statement in our last Magazine, relative to the family of Musgrave. The facts of the case are these: George Musgrave of Nettlecombe in Somersetshire, by Juliana, daughter of Thomas Bere of Hunsham, co. Devou, left issue two sons, Richard and George, and three daughters, Juliana, who married John Keigwin of Rousehole in Cornwall (from whom the present highly respectable representative of the Keigwin family, the Rev. James Jenkin Keigwin, Rector of Withiel in Cornwall, is descended); Dorothy, and Gertrude, who both died s. p. George Musgrave, the eldest son, married Mary, daughter of Edward Clark, and had two sons and two daughters, viz. George, Thomas, Julian, who became the wife of John Davie, and Mary, who married Edward Jones; George Musgrave, last mentioned, married Katherine, daughter of Sir John Chichester, and had Thomas, who died s. p., and Julian, who, on the death of her brother, became heiress of the elder branch of the family of Musgrave of Somerset, and married Sir James Langham, bart. father of Sir James Langhain, the present Baronet. Richard, second son of George Musgrave and Julian Bere, had one son, Samuel Musgrave, M.D. who is well known by his classical attainments, and who left two daughters; one of whom died s. p.; the other, Elizabeth, married Richard Harvey, esq. whose issue are still living. It is thus manifest that Juliana Musgrave, who married John Keigwin, never was an heiress or coheiress of any branch of her family.

X. remarks, "Among the many improvements which have been proposed for the convenience or beauty of the City, it seems singular that the laying open the magnificent West front of St. Paul's Church should not have been one. It appears to me that this might be accomplished at a very moderate expense, by prolonging Crescent - place, Blackfriars, apparently constructed with this view. The only houses of any great value to be taken down would be two in St. Paul's Church-yard. That this plan would add much to the beauty of the City, I think no one will deny. And, at the same time, it will in part remove the reproach we lie under of shutting up our public buildings in corners, where they must be seen to great disadvantage."

W. G. states, that in perusing "Green's Tourist's New Guide to the Lakes," he found the following note (vol. I. p. 139), which strongly corroborated Mr. Haslewood's supposition that Richard Brathwayte was the author of "Barnabee's Journal:"-" An old copy of his Itinerary is still in being at Dalham Tower, on a blank page of which, a predecessor of the present proprietor, Daniel Wilson, esq. wrote, 'I knew the author of this book well, he was commonly called Dapper Dick.' A portrait of Dapper Dick is still preserved in Kendal, and is in the possession of Anthony Yeats, esq; but certain local Antiquaries suppose it to represent the person of one of the Braithwaites of Burneside, more remarkable for an attention to his personal appearance than for his opulence."

Mr. S. WILKIN, Librarian to the Norfolk and Norwich Literary Institution, is preparing for the press an octavo edition of the entire works of Sir Thomas Browne, knt. author of "Religio Medici," "Vulgar Errors," &c. who resided in Norwich in the seventeenth century. A considerable quantity of unpublished miscellanies, together with his correspondence, which have been obtained from the British Museum and Bodleian Library, will be added, together with a life. He would be glad to know if any of our Correspondents can refer him to a copy of his posthumous works having the date 1720, 1721, or 1722. The edition of 1712 is common, and there is a copy of it in the Royal Institution, having a reprint title-page 1723. He would also be obliged by the communication of any original information, by the use of any MSS. or of any illustrated copies of any of his works.

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Tour through several Scotland. It is built in the form of a square, and is a large and stately fabric, Marischal College in the new town was founded by George Keith, Earl Marischal, in 1593. It stands in a confined part of the city, and has an ancient and venerable appearance. On a turreted corner of this college is an observatory, which commands a view over the city, of the harbour, and the sea, and a great extent of country around. The optical and philosophical instruments and apparatus are said to be extremely rare and valuable. Indeed, to go through the library, the rooms containing natural curiosities, and the college hall, hung with the portraits of eminent characters, is a high treat to a curious and inquisitive mind.

The Universities in Scotland are now in the same overflowing state as the English Universities. I was told that the colleges in Aberdeen alone can now supply the yearly vacancies in the Church of all Scotland, without any aid from the three other Universities.

The Scotch Universities, like the English, have the privilege of confer. ring degrees, when they think proper, on learned and meritorious characters, without a regular matriculation at any of their colleges. But such degrees they are very wary in conferring, and never bestow them without strong reasons or recommendations. The examinations for the degree of M. A, at Aberdeen are nearly similar to the examinations for that degree at Cambridge, During my stay here, I was at an examination for this degree. The degree was afterwards conferred in the college hall with great solemnity and ceremony.

We regret to observe, from a statement recently presented to the Patrons and Alumni of this venerable University, that the funds originally appropriated by Bishop Elphinstone to the support and reparation of the buildings, are now found totally inadequate, owing to the great depreciation of money, particularly in Scotland, during the last three centuries. It appears, however, that his Majesty has granted 2000l. to be applied for repairing the buildings of King's College, and in aid of a public subscription to be set on foot for the same purpose. The Duke of Gordon, as Chancellor of the University, has subscribed 400l.; the Earl of Aberdeen, as Lord Rector, 350l.; and the Principal and Professors of the College, 3001.-EDIT.

EDINBURGH, from its remarkable situation, and the elegance of its streets and buildings, is one of the finest eities in the kingdom-perhaps in the world. After surveying it from Calton Hill and Salisbury Crags, I visited Holyrood House, which is situated at the bottom, between these two hills. The room which excited most interest in my mind was that wherein Rizzio was murdered. In this room the bed of Mary Queen of Scots remains to be seen. At a corner of it is the little room, like a dressing-room, 12 feet square, wherein Lord Darnley, Lord Ruthven, George Douglas, and others, rushed in by a narrow private staircase, and found Rizzio sitting with Mary, and dragging him out, and along the bed-room, stabbing him all the way, he fell and died at a corner of the room near the door, at the top of the stairs, and the stain of his blood is still pointed out. After this murder Mary had a wainscot put up, which remains, between the spot where Rizzio died, and where her bed stands, as she never liked to see the stain which Rizzio's blood had left.

The Courts of Justice occupy the ground whereon the Scotch Parliameni House stood. I had some difficulty in making my way through among the shoal of advocates and attornies that crowded the area of the outer Court. The eagerness of the conversation that was here passing among them, and the sharp look-out they all seemed to wear, gave a very business-like aspect to the place. At length I got into the inner Court, and had a leisure view of Sir Walter Scott, Jeffrey, and the whole of the Scotch Bar. Sir Walter is Clerk of the first division, and sits at a corner of the table next to the Judges. He is 53 years of age, middle size, fair complexion, his head, which is finely and regularly formed, is thinly covered with hair, between a white and a dun colour. There did not appear that fire in his eye which I expected to have seen in such a writer. His countenance indicated composure, firminess, and contemplativeness. Mr. Jeffrey is 51 years of age, rather below middle size, very compactly formed, with a fine full forehead, and a face that indicates quickness and firmness. The advocates in Scotland who hold no official situation under the Crown, are at liberty to attend the Court either