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four poor fchollars (i e.) to each 51. towards their maintenance and learn ing in the Universities, two of them to be of Gonvel and Caius Coll: Cam bridge; and the other two of fuch Col. lege as the Governours thall think beft. Alfo that the Governours fee that the profit of his lands lying at or near Kilborne, in Middlefex, which were bought and purchased of Alane Hoore, Gent. be yearly applied to repair the high way from the towne of Edgware in the fame county, unto the City of London, and the high way from Harrow to London as expreffed in the con. veyance of the Founder's lands. Alfo the whole profit of his lands in Mary. bone, which were purchased of Wm. Sherington, Citizen of London, to be applied towards repairing the faid high way from Harrow to London. And that two overfeers be appointed to overlook the filling of the gravel, &c. who fhall have for their pains 30s. each annually. Likewife that 41. be bestowed yearly upon other high ways, (viz.) 40s. towards repairing the high way between Goare Line Gate, and Hide Houfe; and the other 40s. towards amending the high way between Preston and Dedman Hill.

If the school thall not (as he intends) be built in his life-time, then the fum of 300l. to be carried and taken from the rents of his lands, &c. for three years next after his decease-neverthelefs 20 marks yearly, during that time, to be paid out of the fame, for teaching 30 poor children of Harrow, till the building be finished.

Any overplus of the profits of the eftates in truft to be for the relief of poor marriages, &c.

Every Governour to be chofen out of the honeft and substantial inhabitants of Harrow within 28 days after his place becomes vacant.

The School mafter and Usher to be fingle men.

The Founder directs, that a compe tent number of poor fcholars thall be educated freely, but allows the Mafter to take other children for his profit, without any other limitation than the difcretion of the Governors. He adds a fingular ftipulation, that the Mafter fhall not receive any girls into the school. The ftatutes for the school alio fpecify the number of forms; point out the books and exercises for each form; fettle the mode of correction; the hours of attending fchool; the vacations and play days; and the na ture of the fcholars' amufements, which are confined to "driving a top, toffing a hand ball, running, and fhooting." The laft-mentioned exercife, indeed, is in a manner insisted on in the following direction to parents, and those who bring any fcholar to be admitted: "You fhall allow your child at all times a bow, 3 hafts, bowftrings, and a bracer, to exercife thooting." The custom of fhooting annually with bow and arrow, for the prize of a filver arrow, has been left off some years, and instead of it are given public fpeeches by the boys.

This fchool has been in a very flourifhing condition,particularly under the late Matters, Drs. Sumner and Thackeray. The following are a few of the Head Mafters whom we have been able to trace, (viz.) Bryant, Cox, Thackeray, Sumner, and Heath. The present Matter is Dr. Jofeph Drury, and the UnderMaiter the Rev. Mark Drury, M. A. Among other distinguished characters educated here have been Dr. Bennett, Bishop of Cloyne, Dr. Parr, Mr. Sheridan, and Sir William Jones. The number of scholars in the school is ufually about 150.

VERBAL TRANSLATION OF AN INK-MAKER'S SHOP-BILL IN CHINA.

SINHONE (this is the name of the place where the Ink is made, and whence it takes its name). "VERY good Ink, very fine, very old shop. Grandfather, Father, and

Self, make this Ink; fine and hard, very hard, pick'd out very fine and black, before and now. Sell very good Ink, prime colt is very dear; this Ink is heavy, fo is gold; no one can make like it; the others that make Ink, do it

• In choofing the exhibitioners, the preference is to be given to his own kin, to natives of Harrow, and fuch as are "moft mete for towardneffe, poverty, or painful. nefs." These exhibitions, which are held for eight years, have been railed, in confequence of the improved value of the eftates, to 2o1, per annum each.

VOL. XIII. OCT. 1802.

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for money and to cheat; I only make it good for a name. Plenty of Gentlemen know my Ink; my family never cheat always a good name. I

make Ink for the Emperor, and all the Mandarins round. All Gentlemen must come to my fhop, and know my name, UNGWANCHI LOCEE.

ESSAYS AFTER THE MANNER OF GOLDSMITH,

ESSAY XX.

"In this world men thrive by villany, and lying and deceiving is accounted juft, and to be rich is to be wife, and tyranny is honourable: and though little thefts and petty mitchiefs are interrupted by the laws, yet if a mifchief become public and grent, acted by Princes, and effected by armies, and robberies be done by whole fleets, it is Virtue, and it is Glory." BISHOP TAYLOR.

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O8o. 15, 1802.

"HONOR'D SIR, "I WRITE this, hoping it will find you in good health, as I am at prefent. You met know, Sir, that I reads your Eys every month, and fo does my wife; and I must needs fay, that upon the whole we are very much pleased with your morality, and all that there: but Mister (I don't know your name), we are very much difappointed, that though you do now and then give a fly wipe at politics, yet you never favor us with a good round dofe upon the fubject. One likes monftruoufly to hear what you people, whom no body knows, think about things in general; and I believe I have fome pertenfions to enquire into the matter; for you must know, Sir, that I am an author as well as yourfelf, nay more, a poet, having written my thoughts publickly, feveral editions of which may be feen on the windows of numerous inns and alehouses on the roads throughout England and Wales, for I am a glazier and painter by profef. fion; but that's no matter; poetry does very well by way of amulement, but politics, politics, Sir, is my forte (as you call it). I was born, Sir, a politician; it is herydittary in our family my father was one of your true old English fort; for you must know, in his days there was no fuf. penfation of the Hapus Corpus Act, and every body might tell the truth and thame the devil; fo he rapp'd it

out just as much as he liked against Kings, and Princes, and Patriots, and the whole kit of them. I don't know whether I exprefs myself so elegantly as I cou'd with, but your know what I mean. Well, Sir, I being the eldest fon of my father, fucceeded to his trade, and his politics, in both of which I have fucceeded beyond my most fangwin expectation. I glaze the windows of half the 'ward; am chofen Overfeer of the Poor; and am chief politician of the parish': I fettle and determine all difputes upon the laws of nations in our club, and handle the internal affairs of Europe with great dexterity. But, Sir, to the caule of my troubling you with this letter ! You must know, that the conduct of a very great Perfonage (don't be alarm'd, 'tis nobody at home) has lately come under our review and confideration at the club, and much has been faid as to what he has done already, and what he means to do next. You may eafily guefs I means Mr. Bonapperty. Now, Sir, I can't bear that a Great Man fho'd have a parcel of ignoramufes all having a flap at him as if he was running the guantlet. I have, there. fore, after mature reflection, thought it best to write to him myself, that is in a civil way, and offer him a little of my advice, for we fho'd none of us be above larning, you know; and as I have ferved an apprenticeship to politics, and have drank more porter over the fubject, than, I'll venture to fay, any man in England, I ought to know fomething about it; but you will fee what I have faid. Now, Sir, the only difficulty was, how to fend my letter to the Great Gentleman after I had written it, for I was afraid it might miscarry by the Poft, and befide I didn't like to put him to that expence, though to be fure it was on his bufi

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nefs, and I cou’dn't get a frank from Mr. Hotto, do all I cou'd. Luckilly a thought truck me, that if you wo'd have the goodness to cram it in with one of your Effays into the European Magazine the affair wo'd be done, and he might have a chance to read it over a cup of coffee. The following is a true copy.

"MOST RENOWN'D CONSOL, "I hope you won't, dread Sir, be offended at any thing that I am going to fay, because I don't mean no harm. I am none of your newfpaper fquib. mongers; I fcorn fuch mean fcandalous proceedings. I am, like yourself, a politician and a foldier, for I be long'd to a Wolunteer Corps for eighteen months, and admire your man ner of exercife and platoon firing. I am, in fhort, your friend, and there fore think it my duty to acquaint you with an important fecret, that your conduct has lately been canvafs'd at the Club where I belong, and where like yourself fomewhere, you know where I mean, I am perpetual Prefident. They are impertinent enough, I affure ye for a fact, to hint, that you have got into a fnug birth; that your name is up; that you may-go to bed; that nevertheless they think you may out run the conftable at latt; and fo forth for, Sir, as they don't dare talk much home politics, and as you are in the Land of Liberty, where folks may fay what they pleafe, you know they think it all fair to touch you up a little in fhort, fome of your actions (I don't mean that at Moringo) don't meet their approbation entirely they want fome explanation about certain things; not but what I am defired by the body, nevertheless, to in. vite you to become a member of our Club, if ever you vifit Old England (that is, in a peaceable way); and if this arrives in fafety to your hands, which I hope it will, you will fee I have taken great pains to direct it properly, "To the Great Confol, at Ps, or elsewhere, because I didn't know where you might take it in your head to go next, as I was laying to my wife the other night, who adores the very ground you walk on, and admires your fine drefs. By-the-by, I had like to have forgot, the defires her duty to you, though I affure you fhe's very fond of abfolute power, and if you was to lend your Ady Camp,

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or your Mamyluck, to her, it wo'd be to little purpofe; Lord blefs ye, the wo'd out-talk them prefently, and wou'd rule her own houfe (as the calls it) after all, the wou'dn't care a fig about your thoufands and ten thou fands: I know. I cou'd do but little with her when I was a Wolunteer but Lord, he's a woman, and not one of the Lords of the Creation, like us, But to the point (my wife always puts me out): never mind a letter fho'd be like a converfation, and you and I understand each other perfectly; I aflure ye I confider myself at home. But to proceed: I believe I told ye before that your conduct was not altgother fatisfactory to fome of our members. Now Mr. Grumble, the butcher, fays, he doesn't like ye, because you drink coffee with a Turk, en pork with a Chriftian, oil and fish with a Jew, potatoes with an Irithman, and finget heed with a Scot; in fhort, that you are, like Saint Paul, "all things to all men. Now I do like you for it; I fay 'tis focial, 'tis friendly, and I fho'd like to hob-nob with you very much. But this isn't all: they fay, that you have the ambition of Alexander the Great; that you have a face like Cefar Borgia, and a nofe like Anthony Pagi: now all this is downright fcandal, for you are not fo ugly as that comes to; they even go far enough to fay, that your being Consol is the reafon our confols don't get any higher than they do. But a word between ourfelves (the Swiss); there's the rub: You've no idea, Sir, of the extent of their defamation: but our politicians will fay'any-thing, Sir, but their prayers; and that was the reafon of the fufpenfation of the Hapus Corpus, as fure as I'm born; for can you fuppofe now, Sir, as a politician, that any wife Government would prevent the truth being spoken, when it is the great fupport of their just views and upright meafures. No, no, no; it was because there are a fet of people that will go any lengths, and thofe are they, renown'd Sir, who wickedly affert that you are fond of Swifs cheefe that you want a flice of it to yourself; that you wish to be acquainted with every body; and that you force your felf, without being atk'd, into all companies. I'll tell you what I told them the other night. Gentiemen, fays I (I was in the chair); Gentlemen, fays depend upon what I'm going to fay: M m 2

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the Great Confol only means to confolidate (a pun always tells in our Club) the interefts of the Swifs, to stop bloodthed, Sir; to affift the weak, Sir to fuccour the opprefs'd, Sir (and then I thump'd the table); to put them to rights, Sir to make them happy, and ¿ then to with them a good day, and leave them to enjoy their liberty; that'll be noble, Sir; that'll be great, Sir; that'll be like himself, "Sir." Fgad, they were all fo aftoundered (as Milton fays) that they cou'dn't reply a word. Thunders of applaufe fucceeded. You fee I took your part in your abfence; but as I must confefs I had a few doubts upon my mind, which I wish'd to have clear'd up be. tween ourselves before the next club night, I thought I had better write to you at once, to know what you actually mean to be at in, that there affair. Don't be afraid to communicate your intentions; Mum's the word: but I am pretty fure you don't mean to do them any harm; but if you do, I muft once for all be under the neceffity of telling you that I fhall drop your acquaintance, and that our correfpond. ence muft end. I fhall be glad of an early answer, to decide my conduct in this refpect. A letter directed for me, poft paid, at the fign of the Angel and Boot Jack, Turn again Lane, Fleet Market, London, will come fafe to my hands. I am,

Moft renown'd Confol, Yours most affectionately, and devoutly, and every thing elfe that is handfome and pollite,

MATT" MUDDLE.

.. PS. If you with to become a member of the Free and Easy let me know only fixpence entrance: two black balls make a negative.

N. B. Mind, I am to keep the Chair. None of your tricks upon travellers; you know what I mean."

The above curious Epiftle came to my hands just in time to put into my pocket for a perufal in my morning's walk in the Green Park. I confefs 1 was a little furprifed at my friend Matthew Muddle's familiarity of style, until I recollected that it was one great man writing to another; for the President of a club-room is doubtless a great man, and abfolute in his domihion round the table. It is only enJarging the fcale, and he becomes a lord of a province, or a director of a

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commonwealth. In short, the epithet Great Man is fo vague, and fo uncertain in its meaning, that much depend. ence cannot be placed upon it. It was a mifnomer given to Alexander; and has been tacked to the names of innu merable other murderers and robbers ever fince; it has, however, been fo degraded, abused, and indifcriminately conferred fince, that in these days, to ufe a very common expreffion, there is no knowing who is who. Nothing would better remedy this evil than ftrict fumptuary laws, by which every man fhould carry about him on his back a fcale, divided into degrees of greatnefs and littleness, that might de termine his rank in fuch a way that no perfon fhould measure with him in fociety but his equals. Now this would be excellent, and what one might properly call "keeping one's felf to one's felf." To establish which opinion, we have only to look at the advantages of external marks of excellence where they do exift. Might not, for instance, a Counsellor be fometimes taken for an undertaker's man, were it not for his big wig, particularly when he makes a long face. One of these fatal blunders happened to a Magiftrate of great importance, who took occafion, on a walk out of town, to go into a small public-houfe for a little refreshment: the Juftice, with becoming authority, called for a glafs of ale, and feated himself by the fire, with the newspaper to his nofe. At this inftant entered the Barber of the village (a Great Man), and drawing his chair close to the chair of the Magiftrate, fat himself down next him, and giving him at the fame time a fevere flap on the thigh, hallooed in his ear, "Well, old Boy, What news?" Nothing could restore the dignity of his Worthip, and all he bad to do was to walk off in fullen majefty.

But however the oddity of my friend Matthew Muddle's epiftle might at first create a fmile, it led very naturally to more ferious reflections: the words Conqueror, Conqueft, Mandate, and Manifefto, engaged my contemplation, till I arrived at a feat, where I fell into a dofe, but my imagination was dif turbed with the fame ideas. I fancied I faw fpread before me on the ground a Map of Europe, the spaces between the interfections of the countries painted with the most lively green and yellow, exhibiting a pleafing picture of nature

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