hurricane, and liable to be difperfed by storms towards every quarter of the globe. Hence, fome of them have been blown by the tempefts of war into Europe (fee p. 291), even as far North as Denmark and Siberia; and perhaps others of them may have been impelled as far South as Hindoftan, and may there have introduced fome of their words and cuftoms among the Suders, the only caft of the Hindoftans that was likely to hold any intimate communication with them. It feems infinitely more probable, that Arabs may have wandered to Hindoftan than that Suders fhould have roamed to Europe, feeing that it is the unalterable difpofition of the former to rove; whereas, it has ever been a fixed principle with all the Indians never to depart from their own country; and in this point no beings upon earth can poflibly be more oppofite than are the Indians and Arabians. Befides, Hindoftan is a rich country, and the greater part of Arabia is fterile; and it is more natural for people to fly from a ftarving diftrict than from a plentiful one. Some fimilarity between the Suders and the Arabs may alfo be accounted for by confidering the trading intercourfe. that was carried on in very early times between Egypt, Arabia, and Hindoftan; and as Arabia was the intermediate country between the other two, and the infitious Arabs fo fond of travelling, it is likely enough that they might be the principal carriers of the commodities exchanged between the three countries; in like manner as a party of them were carrying goods into Egypt when Jofeph was about being being buried by his brethren in the pit. The facred writers fay that Ifhmael's wife was an Egyptian; but this contrariety to the afsertions of the heathen hiftorians may be reconciled, by fuppofing that, as the North-weft corner of Al Hejâz adjoined to Egypt, it is pollible that Moles and Jofephus might regard the Jorhamites inha biting that part of Al Hejâz as Egyptian borderers, especially as in that part lay the wilderness of Pa ran, wherein Ishmael was roving as an archer when Hager procured him the Jorhamite princefs in marriage. Although Íshmael had, according to the commandment of God given to Abraham, undergone the ceremony of circumcifion, yer through the concurrent circumcumftances of his youth at the time of banishment, and of his new connexions being idolators, he feems to have loft all the knowledge of the true God that had been communicated to him by his father, and to have bred his children in idolatry; in which darkness his pofterity continued till Mahomet converted them to Mahometism; which is ftill the profeffed religion of the Arabs, and was probably the religion of the firft Gipfies that entered Europe; although the peculiar circumstances they were under neceffitated them to conceal it, and to affect the different religions of the countries they fought refuge in; but, not being properly infiructed at firft in the princi ples of any one of the religions they would have adopted, the melancholy confequence has been, that the defcendants of the first Gipfies are not really of any religion at all, notwithstanding they perfift in the affectation of being zealous Catholics in the Cathoic States, and firm Protestants in England. They fometimes require our country parith priests to perform the rites of baptifm, marriage, and burial, for individuals of their gangs, and behave themselves decently on fuch occafions; yet I believe that they much oftener difpenfe with than require the performance of religious rites, and that the majority of them both enter the world and go out of it without the clergy knowing anything of fuch events happening among them. It is faid, that they do not either in their marriages or amours amours pay any regard to near confanguinity; but this is an afperfion of fo horrid a nature, that charity forbids accredence to it, and perhaps it may only have arifen from the extraordinary ftrong affection which the Gipfies, like the Arabs, bear towards their near relations, and from the inveteracy which our common people (from whom the report must have originated) bear against the Gipfies on account of their thievifhnefs and gullibility. The charge of devouring children has also been alledged against Gip: fies as well as againft Jews, but I really believe equally unjustly. Perhaps it arofe from the peculiar appetite that Gipfies have for hedge-hogs, which animal bearing with children the appellation of URCHIN, either mifapprehenhion, malice, or jocularity, might pervert the circumftance of the fynomen correfponding into the charge of Cannibalism. A SOUTHERN FAUNIST. Mr. URBAN, June 4. Twill be confiftent with the liberality with which your publication has ever been conducted, if you lay before the benevolent the following statement, from the Governors of an inftitution which is univerfally acknowledged to be moft admirably well adapted to the purposes of "found learning and religious education." Whatever may be the fpeculations on the advantages refulting from the higher public fchools, not a fecond opinion can be entertained of thofe which may be afcribed to the education bestowed on the children in Chrift's Hofpital; the remarkably good order in which thefe children are conftantly kept; or the wife regulations adopted by, thofe to whom the management is entrufted. “At a Court holden in Christ's Hofpital, London, on Friday the 28th Day of May, 1802. "This Court having been fummon ed to receive a Report of a Committee of Almoners relative to rebuilding the Hofpital,' the fame was read as follows: "The Committee of Almoners, hayinto confideration the state of the building been fpecially fummoned to take ings, feel it their duty to call the atten tion of the 'Governors of Chrifi's Hof pital to a refolution of the Court, which paffed on the 4th of April, 1794: viz. That it is far more for the interest of the Hofpital to expend any fums that may hereafter be voted upon a plan for the gradual and uniform rebuilding of the Hofpital, than to enter into a further alfo to another order of Court of 23rd repair of the prefent buildings.-And of January, 1795, authorifing the Committee to apply to Parliament for an act to enable the Governors to make pur chafes to complete fuch plan. The Committee now report that the act has been obtained, and that a Model has been prepared by the Surveyor for rebuilding the Hofpital; but, articles for building during the war, and on account of the high price of all the the increafed expence of maintaining the children from the late unexampled high price of all the neceffaries of life, they have not felt themfelves justified in proceeding further to carry the plan into execution: and at the fame time, they have cautiously avoided expending more in the repair of the old building, than their general decayed flate and the comfort of the children abfolutely re quired. "The Committee looking forward to a period more favourable for building, and being defirous of fhewing the Court that they have not been forgetful of its inftructions, have had feveral meetings to deliberate on the proper mode of carrying them into effect; and after having of the Hofpital, and the means of levery particularly investigated the funds fening it's expences, they find themfelves conftrained to flate that the manent revenue is barely fufficient to maintain the ufual number of children on the eftablifhment. per "The Committee reflect with great fatisfaction upon the amount of the legacies and benefactions which the bounty of the publick has showered on this inftitution; and although they contemplate with equal pleafure that there is'every reafon to expect ip future limilar liberality, they think it would be imprudent to depend wholly on favings, to arife from this cafual fource of income, for defraying the expence of erecting Cherish'd by thefe, by Time's maturing The laft best bounty of indulgent Heav'n, forth fmile With equal bleffings on Hibernia's Ifle! Thou too, fir Gallia, once the Mo- For loyalty renown'd-in deep affliction Soon may thy conscious Sons with me accord, And Oh! when late our Sovereign yields And all his virtues are rever'd in death, ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. FRANCE. Paris, April 27. The First Conful, in the name of the French Republick, has proclaimed, as a law of the Republick, the following Senatus Confultum : Extract from the REGISTERS of the CON SERVATIVE SENATE of April 26. log revolution; that nothing can more effectially fecure peace within, than a meafure which, tempering the severity of the law, puts an end to the uncertainty and delay refulting from the eftabhfhed forms of erafures; confidering that this meature will be only an amnesty to a great number who are more mistaken than criminal, whilft thofe really guilty will be punished by being definitively placed upon the lift of emigrants; that this Amnetty, infpired by mercy, is not agreed to but on conditions just in themfelves, neceffary for the public fafety, and wifely combined with the national intereft; that the particular difpofition of the Amnesty, in prohi biting any attempt to overthrow the Acts of the Republick, has confecrated anew the guarantee to the purchafers of national domains, which will always be an object of carneft folicitude with the Confervative Senate, as it is with the Confuls: the Confervative Sen, te decrees as follows: The Confervative Sente, united to the number of Members prefcribed by the goth Article of the Conftitution, having feen the extract of the Register of the deliberations of the Council of State of the 16th inftant, containing a project of an ACT OF AMNESTY, CONCERNING THE EMIGRANTS, fent to the Council of State by the Couls of the Republick; the deliberations of the Council of Ste upon this project, and the refult of thofe deliberations, approved by the First Conful, that the project of the A&t of Amnesty should be prefented to the Senate, to become the matter of a Senatus Confultum, &c. &c.; confidering that the meat re propefed is den and by the actual state of things, by juftice, and by nation 1 m'ereft, and that it is conformable to the fpirit of the Conftitution: confidering that, at the different epoch sf puffing the laws relative to Emi-finitively erafed." gration, France was torn by inteftine divifions, Supporting against all Europe a war, of which History affords no parallel, and which created a neceffity for rigorous and extraordinary measures; that the Peace which is now made without, indicates the cementing of interior tranquillity, and an oblivion of the evils infeparable from a 2 TITLE 1-Diffofitions relative to the Art. 1. An amneity is granted for emigration, to every individual who is not de 2. Thofe individuals who are not in France, thail be bound to return before the 23d of September next. 3. Immediately on their return, they fhall decore, before the Comanillaries ap pointed for that purpote, in the cities of Calais, Bruffels, Mayence, Strafburg, Ge neva, Nice, Bayonne, Perpignan, and Bourdeaux, Bourdeaux, that they return to the territory of the Republick by virtue of the Amnesty. 4. This declaration fhall be followed by an oath of fidelity to the Government eftablished by the Conftitution; and that they will not entertain, either directly or indirectly, any connexion or correfpondence with the enemies of the State. 5. Those who have received from foreign Powers places, titles, decorations, gratuities, or penfions, thall be bound to declare it before the faid Commitlaries, and formally to renounce the fame. 6. Those who thall not return to France before the 23d of September, and fulfil the conditions prefcribed by the preceding articles, fhill remain excluded out of the prefent Amnesty, and definitively placed upon the lift of Emigrants, unless they prove in due form that it was impoffible for them to return to the territory of the Repablick within the time fixed, and that they have, before the expiration of that time, fulfilled before the Agents of the Republick, in the countries where they refide, the other conditions above expreffed. 7. Those who are at prefent on the French territory, shall be bound under the fame penalty and definitive establishment on the Lift of Emigrants, to make, within one month from the date of the prefent Act, before the Prefect of the Department where they refide, fitting m the Council of Prefecture, the fame declaration, oath, and renunciation. 8. The Commiffaries and Prefe@scharged with receiving fuch declarations, oaths, and renunciations, thall without delay tranfmit to the Minifter of the Interior, in the form of a difpatch, the Proces verbal of their proceedings, on fight of which the Minifter hall make out a Certificate of Amnesty, which thall be fent to the Minifter of Jaftice, by whom it shall be figned, and delivered to the individual concerned. 9. Such individual fhall, until the delivery of fuch Certificate of Amueity, refide in the Commune in which he made the declaration of his return to the territory of the Republick. 10. The following perfons are exempted out of the prefent Amnetty. ft. Thofe individuals who have commanded arm.es affembled in hoft.lity to the Republick. 2d. Those who have had rank in the enemies armies, 3d. Those who, fince the foundation of the Republick, have held places in the household of the ci-devant French Princes. 4th. Those who are known to have been, or were, actually movers or agents of the civil or foreign war. 5th. Those who commanded by land or fea, as well as the Reprefentatives of the people, who have been found guilty of treafon against the Republick; and the Archbishops and Bishops, who, despifing legitimate authority, have refused to give in their refignation. 11. The individuals denominated in the preceding article are definitively placed on the Lift of Emigrants; but the number to definitively placed on the Lift of Emigrants fhall not exceed 1000, of whom 500 fhall be named previous to the 23d of September next. 12. The emigrants to whom the Amnesty is extended, as well as thofe who have been definitively erafed from the Lift of Emigrants, according to the decree of the Confuls of the 28th Vendemiaire (October 20), 1801, fhall for the space of ten years, from the date of the erafure, or Certificate of Amnefty, be under the (pecial infpection of Government., 13. The Government, if it judges expe. dient, fhall have the power to oblige the individuals placed under the faid inspection, to remove to the dittance of 20 leagues from their ordinary place of refidence. They may alfo be removed to a greater diftance, if circumftances fhould require it; but in that cafe, the order of removal muft fift have been committed to the Council of State. 14. After the expiration of ten years of infpection, all the individuals against whom the Government fhall not have been obliged to put the above-mentioned meatores in execution, fhall cease to be fubject to the faid infpection; it may be extended to the whole duration of the lives of those against whom these measures have been put in execution. 15. The individuals fubjected to the infpection of Government fhall enjoy, in other refpects, all their rights as Citizens. TITLE II. Arrangements relative to Good.. 16. The individuals included in the Am nefty fhall not be entitled, under any pretext, or in any cafe, to interfere with the arrangements refpecting propery, which have been entered into between the Re publick and individuals before the pretent Amnesty. 17. Thofe of their goods which are fill in the hands of the Nation (with the excep tion of woods and foreits, which have been declared unalienable by law; immoveables applied to public fervice, the rights of property, real or pretended, to impofitions on the grand canals; claims which they may have on the Pablic Treafury, and the extinction of which took place in the mo ment of confufion, when the R-publick feized on their goods and debts,) fhall be restored to them without any of the fruits, which, in conformity to a law paffed, per tain to the Republick, down to the day on which they obtain their Certificate of Amnesty. The prefent Sénatus-Confulte fhall be tranf fonablenefs and advantage of national humiliations upon the approach of War," on the Faft in 1740. your vo From p. 60, col. 2, of lume for 1800, the worthy Hiftorian of Worcestershire appears to be too fqueamish in depriving his valuable work of what he had prepared for the prefs," merely because "fome things intended to have been noticed" have been foreftalled in another publication; of which no fayourable character is exhibited in pp. 138, 9, of your volume for 1797. It is hoped that Dr. Nah may be prevailed upon to fubjoin thefe neceffary additions to his Supplement," and not permit his volumes to remain imperfect from the omiffion of them. He might with equal reafon have omitted the account of the circumftances relative to king John's tomb; as from p. 745 of your volume for 1797, col. 2, it appears that Mr. Green has defcribed them in the publication referred to. The Doctor would alfo do an acceptable fervice by republifhing his edition of Hudibras in octavo, with any improvements, which might be printed feparately for the benefit of the poffeffors of his truly fuperb quartos.-Verbum Sapienti. The following ftrictures refer to your Volume LXX. for 1800. P. 408, col. 2. 1. 7, read "my Mufe." P. 497, col. 1. Some of your correfpondents will perhaps afcertain whether in "the Peerage of Scotland, by Robert Douglas, efq." any mention is made of a prior valuable Work publifhed at Edinburgh, 1716, folio, by George Crawford, efq. with the fame title. P. 477. col. 2, 1. 6, for "many," read "fome." The Letters of Lady Rachel Ruffel, here referred to, were in 1748 copied from the originals by Thomas Sellwood, who lived in her family." His manufcript, which is in the library of Woburn Abbey, "being faithfully tranfcribed," was firft publifhed in "Introduction 2773 4to. with an vindicating the character of Lord Ruffell against Sir John Dalrymple, &c. See your volume for that year, .P. 232. P. 53, 3. The "excellence of Clivers" has been frequently celebrated in your valuable volumes. But it may not be amifs to refer your humane correfpondent to that for 1788, p. 191.; and that for 1790, p. 1164; and, for an illuftration of these references, to that for 1791, p. 520. col. 1.; and for 1795, p. iv. col. 2. may be · P. 768, col. 2. S. B. alfo referred to your volume for 1790, p. 911, 968, 1083; and for 1791, p. 232; for remedies for the Cramp. In the next paragraph, for "July, 1798," read, "Octo ber, 1798." P. 828, col. 2. It is not improbable that the Rev. Roger Huggett, M. A. rector of Hartley Wafpaill, Hants, whofe death is registered in p. 414 of your volume for 1769, and whofe wife was the aunt of the prefent Bishop of Oxford, might be a defcendant of the fubject of the "Leonine verfes" here copied; the chriftian and furnames being both the fame. The worthy rector was long connected with the College of Eton, to which he bequeathed some of his MS collections; was a celebrated genealogift; and is defcribed by Granger as "a very accurate antiquary" in his "Biographical Hiftory of England," under the ar ticle of Catharine Parr. P. 934. col. 2. A fuller defcrip tion of the Church of Tong, in Shropfhire, is to be found in your volume for 1763, pp. 162, 3. P. 1142, col. 1. The celebrated phyfician, Dr. Richard Mead, with whom his eldest brother travelled in 1695, took his degree at Padua on Auguft 16 of that year, according to Dr. Maty's "Memoirs" of the former, pp. 6, 7. Can any of your communicative correfpondents tell what became of this eldest brother, fo particularized in this Letter of Dr. Prideaux, then Archdeacon of Suffolk? SCRUTATOR Mr. |