tial to health, there must be flated times for enjoying both, more efpecially for those whofe conftant employ -ment is fedentary. Athletic and innocent amufements are proper; but gaming, having the most deftructive effects, must be forbidden under the feyereft penalties. Cleanliness being of equal importance to fecure health and promote ftrength, cold and temperate bathing muft be introduced, together with a regular and frequent change of linen. On admiffion, the parties muft undergo a thorough cleaning in the warin bath; and, to avoid any danger from filth and infection, a proper drels muft be provided for each perfon. Thofe who have been brought up to any particular trade muft be fupplied with the neceffary tools and materials to carry it on and fuch as have been initiated in agriculture, and fuch manufactures as the place cannot admit to be carried on in it, with menial feryants and idlers, muft either learn a trade or be employed in fome profitable occupation. The profits of the labour of each perfon are to be appropriated to defray the expence of his cloaths, tools, and fubfifience; and the furplus to be kept as a fund to be given, without any deductions, as foon as their conduct has convinced the directing committee that they may be fent into fociety, with the character of diligent, induftrious, and fober men. Premiums and certain indulgencies to fuch as do the best and moti work, and who conduct themfelves in the mot becoming manner, will be neceffary, that their example may prove a ftimulus to others. Thefe curfory thoughts are in themfelves of litle importance; but, if they prove a foundation for a permanent ftructure to be raised, they will have anfwered all that is expected. This much, however, may be obferved, that although a confiderable expence maft be incurred in commencing fuch an infiitution, it may, in a fhort time, be nearly competent to fupport itlelf. MEDICUS. Mr. URBAN, Edinburgh, May 18. IN the poffeffion of a gentleman of an antient family and ample fortune in this country, are two folio volumes in manufcript: the one intituled, "Dyet Buik of the Kingis Hous at Falkland, Surling, Leith, Dumfermling, Perth, and Scone, beginneth the 8 day of Julii, 1650, inclufive, and endeth the last day of December, 1650." The other, "The Secund Dyet Booke for the Kingis Hous, begun at Perth 2 Januar. 1451." The following extracts are taken from these volumes for infertion in your Magazine. Tuesday denner, 16 Julii, 1650. Of main flour bread Paifirie. Beef Hens, young and old 4 6xx 15 1 p. 1 iip. 7 4 17 9 10 8 8 8 6 1ft. 71lb. 1 p. 4 5 doz. 6 Tuefday fupper, 16 of July 1650. Salmond Pykis Trontes Pearches 3 doz. İ 18 July. Solan geifs 6 fent be je Laird of Waghton. Venyfon, ane back out of Falkland park cut in 6 pieces to be baked. Ane heth cock; ane heth hen. 23 July. This day afternoon the King's Ma'tie and his trayne went fra Fakland to Perth, q his Maue is to be entertained be the provoft and baillies of Perth for fupper this night and for breakfast the morn (and the haill day next thaireafter); and fra thence to Dunfermling that night for fupper; and efter breakfalt (ane haill day interveining) the morne y'efter his Ma'tie and his trayne are to go to Stirling upon Friday at night the 26 Julii, 1650, 26 July. Sent fra the Marques of Argylle ane reid deir broken into fex pieces. 27 July. Sent fra the Laird of Glennoqubie ditto. Stirling Sunday, 28 Julii 1650, being a fafl, no dinner. 29 July. After breakfaft the King removit fra Stirling to Edinburgh or Leith. Leith, Menonday 29 Julii, 1650, the Kingis Matic was enterteint in the Lord Balinermoch his hous in Leith, upon his charges that night; and upon the morne thereefter being Tueday dinner and fupper alfo upon the faid Lord Balmerinoch his charges. Leith, Tueldav penult Julii, 1650, fent be the Laird of Glennurquhic ane reid deer and two hinder legs cult in ten pieces. Damfermling, Sunday 4 Aug. 1650, na dinner, boc fating in the Kingis hous. 9 Aug. Sent be the Earle of Mar, out of the park, of Surling, ane buck broken into 6 pieces. 10 Aug Vennyfone, ane buck fent be the Earle et Lotmane, and cure other be Glennurqubie. 12 Aug. Sent out of Falkland park be the Earle of Angaudaill ane Int buck. 13 Aug. Sent fra the Laird off Glennarquie ane buck and ane roe. Fryday 10 Ang, the King came fra Dumferinting at hours ternoone, and came to Perth about 14 houlis at Bigln. 18 Aug. Ane great old turku cok; young turkies 2. 19 Aug. Ane deir fent fra the Erle of Murray, 5 Sept. Partridges 1; pioveris 8. Perth, Fryday 6 Sept. 1650, spent upon breakfaft before the intimation of fatting comandit be the king, 8 mayne flour rollis, 60 fair flour bread. Na denner. 14 Sept. Ane reid deir fent fra the Earle of Murray. Sunday, 15 Sept. Na denner bot falting be ordour of the Kirk. 16 Sept. Ane reid deir fra the Earle of Athole. 17 Sept. Ane great back fra the Marques of Argyll. Wednesday, 18 Sept. Na denner, bot faning be ordour of the Kirk. 29 Sept. Black cokis 1. Lafi Sept. Widgeons, or atteillis 2; wyld duckis 4. Fryday, 4 Oct. Efter dinner the King went away from Perth. Sunday, 6 C. Efter denner the King returned to Perth. Wedneßay, 30 Oct. This day efter denner the Kingis Matie went fra Perth to Burghly (Burleigh, near Kinrols.) Saterday, 2 Nov. This day efternoone, before night, the King returned fra Burghly to Perth. 24 Nov. Clack geifs 1. Perth, Tuesday 26 Nov. This day before noon, after fermon, the firft parliment of King Charles the Seeund, our foveraigne lord, began at Perth, 26 Nov. 1650, prefente Rege. God fave our King! Wyld dukis fra Earl Londerdaill 2. 27 Nov. Wyld geits fra Earle Lou derdiaill 1. Perth, Thurfday 26 Dec. na denner, bot fatting in the kingis hous. Scone, the firk day of Januar 1651, being the day of the coronation of our Soverane Lord Charles the Second. Fiat S. D. N. Rer CAROLUS; through whom it may pafs to the noble and able patron of this unfortunate body of men, for fo may thofe juftly be filed, who are compelled by their profeffion only to remain in a flate of helpless indigence. 1. I propote, that no curate whatever, upon livings amounting to 1001. a year, fhould have less than 501. per ann. falary from his rector or vicar; that upon a living of 1501. 51. more fhould be allowed; of 2001. 101. more; of 2501. and 9001. 201. more; and that on all livings above the laft-flared amount, and under 5001. 10 per cent. in addition to the original 50l. fhould be granted to the curate; and where the living is above 5001. 151. per cent. fhould be paid in addition to the origi na! 501. 2. 1 propofe the curate's appointment to be for life. 3. That in the very finall livings of very trifling duty, where not more than 301. or even 201. can be expected to be paid to the curate; and alfo, in the livings under 3001, per unn. a per centage from the lay impropriators, according to the refpective wants of the feveral poor cures, and adequate to a full performance of the intentions of Government, be paid to a particular office, on purpose to be diftributed to the feveral. holders of cures halfyearly. 4. That every clergyman fhould enjoy an income of not fefs than 150 per ann. and that, therefore, the above per centage fhould be regulated in amount, to as, with the aid of the better livings, to produce this annual in come. PHILO-CLERICUS. the men of pleafure about the town whofe employment it is to act up to the principles laid down in the above, mentioned paper, and who struggle by repeated projects of unquestionable onginality and powerful attraction to vindicate the ingenuity of our country, and emulate with fuccefs the gaieties and licentionfines of a French meto polis. Thofe of this clafs, who have become my correfpondents, profefs a readincfs to confirm what I have, more from speculation than experience, ventured to affert, and to prove that it is not neceflary to vifit the Continent, if our only object be the purfuit of follies that may contribute either to the wafts of time or money. As every man muft be naturally pleafed to find that his efforts have been fuccefsful, and that his endeavours have been understood in their intended meaning, I fhall make no apology for inferting the following letter: nor, like fome of my too modeft fellow projectors, be ashamed of the praife it confers. To the AUTHOR of the PROJECTOR. Sir, I have read your paper in the April Magazine with more pleasure than I expected to reap from speculations begun on the moral plan: and as perceive that you not only know, but are inclined to apologize for the gay world, I applaud your spirit, and fhall be very happy to give you that affiftance, of which men like yourself. very much fand in need. It has, indeed, always firuck me as one of the, greateft abfurdities in the world, that men profefling to be fcholars or moralifts fhould take upon them to judge, of the important concerns of TON and fashion, which maft, in the very nature of things, be as much above the comprehendions of their minds as beyond the reach of their perfons. It is a pretty farce, indeed, to fee a fellow who is confined all day amongst a par-' cel of old books, and who fheaks to bed at eleven o'clock, pretending to write about midnight frocs," and a world which does not begin to live and move until his faculties are fufpended in fleep; a man who has not a fecond change of raiment, cenfuring or criti cifing the varieties of a fplendid wardrobe, and talking of body, train, and trimming," as if they were the furniture of a garret-a man who-but I beg your pardon; I do not mean to be perfonai. I difcover in you, Mr. PROJECTOR (I like your name), a more more liberal fpirit; and I fhall fo far honour you for it, as to beflow upon you my private correspondence, and throw fuch light upon your lucubrations as your lamp cannot furnith. Whatever, indeed, I may think of you as a writer, you either deferve fome credit as a prophet, or you were led by fome accident to choose a very happy time for the fubject of your fourth paper. You must have forefcen that, within a very fhort period, every effort would be made to vindicate the ingenuity of our native country in the manufacture of the articles fpecified in that paper; and that May and June, the carnival months of London, would exhibit a blaze of unufual brilliancy enkindled by a fpirit of rivalfhip, which I hope will prevent thofe emigrations fo much dreaded in confequence of the peace. The event has, I truft, fully anfwered your expectation; and I fhould have left our fetes, and routs, and balls, and mafquerades, to the confequence of their own merit, had I not feen it neceliary to obviate fome objections, which ignorance or prejujudice has fiarted against them. Thofe who are inclined to admire the number and fplendour and utility of our fêtes, and routs, and balls, and miafquerades, and hops, and pic nics, and public breakfafts, and are convinced that they are powerful rivals to the glories of Paris (he that city ever fo glorious), err very egregioutly in one particular, in which it is my bounden duty to fet them right, and clear up any mifunderlanding that may intercept our progrefs towards perfection in thofe truly valuable concerns. What I allude to is, the frequent complaint made of the " vaft nunibers" admitted, or at least invited, to our routs, more than the places of rendezvous can contain; and the confequent crowding of carriages, blocking-up of fireets, and endangering of limbs and lives, fo that what Swift faid of familiarity with the great may be truly faid of a fashionable aflembly; it is "vanity" at fir, but ends in vexation of spirit." In answer to this, permit me to remark in the first place, that this complaint is a remnant of the old way of thinking, of which we muft pofitively get rid before the aufpicious projects, which we have formed for the advancement of national pleasures can be ca¡ried into execution. It is founded on the antiquated notion of felf-preferva tion, which is faid to be one of the laws of Nature, but which it will appear very abfurd to retain at a time when the whole code of Nature's laws is, by general confent, repealed, and fcarcely even the preambles of any of them are to be found, except in the old and neglected writings of your predecellors. But there is another more powerful reafon for abolishing this law of felf-prefervation, which is, that it interferes with a new edict, intituled the SQUEEZING ACT, according to the letter and fpirit of which (and no law has more fpirit) every danger of life and limbs, of decency or diflocation, is to be encountered in the parfuit of pleasure; and according to an amendment lately introduced in the fame, it is enacted, that in all time henceforward CURIOSITY fhall be held and confidered as the first law of, nature. Without, however, accounting for this complaint fo ferioufly, or anfwering it by fach a pompous difplay of my legal knowledge, which must be very dry reading, I fhall now point out in the next place the grofs abfurdities to which it will lead thofe who are unhappily prejudiced in its favour. "The inconveniencies," fay they, "of fuch immenfe crowds, are drawbacks on the pleasure we should otherwite. receive, and tend to remind us rather of the horrors of war than of the reitoration of peace; for what can have a more hoftile appearance than the ftratagems we are under the neceffity of practising, to force the narrow defiles, and clofe paflages of the fireets, or than the many bloody encounters between the heads of the vifitors and the poles of the coaches?" All this is fpecious, but it is in reality the prejudice of ignorance; of ignorance, however, I am willing to believe, not fo deep-rooted but that a little explanation will fet every thing to rights, and convince thofe who offer fich complaints, that the aforefaid grievances without doors are really and bona fide as component a part of the much-envied entertainment as what pafies within doors. In fact, fir, if you will but confult common fenfe, you will fee how prepolteroutly unfashionable fuch complaints are. Without buttle, inconve nience, and danger, what would a rout or a masquerade be but a poor tame-spirited and infipid vifit which any any man might pay without the least knowledge of the world, without the rifk of a fpeck on his ftockings, or the derangement of a fingle grain of hairpowder, and without exciting the curiofity of the neighbourhood, or, what is more effential, difturbing their quict? Can any man who has ever panted in the circles of fashion, fuppofe that this would fatisfy the givers of routs? No; they would defpife themfelves, if they did not occafion to their friends an incredible degree of anxiety and confufion in trying to get to the place ap pointed, and if they did not break the relt of an extended diftrict. It is this which confitures the honour which we exprefs by the word eclat, which although I cannot give a fhort definition of it, my whole letter will have a natural tendency to illuftrate. To humour this prejudice, however, (for there are occafions when it becomes neceflary to yield a little to popular whims), we have been fometimes told, that "no more tickets would be iffued than the houfe could conveniently hold." Every perfon of fashion per ceives at once the futility of fuch a regulation. It may be propofed in joke; but no man would for a moment be deceived by fo clumfy an attempt at wit. In truth, I might as well invite the parfon of the parish and his family to eat a bit of mutton with me at two o'clock, and call my entertainment a rout. To pretend to invite no more than the houfe can hold, would be a dereliction of the first principle of eclat, which is, and ever muft be, to try the ftrength of the walls, the width of the fireets, the expertnels of coachmen whofe horfes cannot move, and the intrepidity of ladies who cannot keep from fainting. Dangers must be provided with liberality and tafie upon fuch occafions, or what will there be to talk about? Where would be all thofe narratives of hair-breadth efcapes, and imminent dangers from axle-trees, and poles, and quick turnings, and backings, which are the conftituent ingredients of eclat, and furnish converfation for that immenfe length of time which intervenes between one rout and another, and which at this feafon of the year has been known to extend to eighteen or twenty hours? No, fir; whoever calmly and philofophically confiders this matter, will acknowledge, with the conviction of GENT. MAG. June, 1802. often repeated experience, that risks must be run; that poles of coaches hehind muft be, forced through poles of coaches before; that legs and arms require to be crushed, elfe why are they in places where crufhing is an unavoidable operation? that fcreams must alarm the neighbours who are afraid to ftir, and guards be called out to clear the way to which they cannot approach; that cloaths muff be torn, laces reduced to tatters, wigs forced from their bafes, and the whole labour of the toilet deftroyed, before it can excite envy or admiration. And whoever is converfant in fuch campaigns of peril, will ever contemplate with a fond delight thofe fainting fits in mobs, where no affiftance can be procured, and thofe pantings for breath where the air has no accefs. Such are the chief characteristics of the eclat of a rout, to which "all the world" has been invited, and to which all the world repairs with an eagerness that befpeaks the value and importance of the enter tainment, how neceffary to human felicity, how indifpenfible to rank and character, and how degrading to be left out. But all, hitherto, is without doors. It is fomething abfiractedly confidered. It would be fomething if it were to end there, and if the whole night's pleasure were only an effort to gain admittance. But it is little when compared with the diftreffes and inconveniencies hofpitably provided within doors. Formerly, during the dark reign of popular prejudice, fome means were adopted to eftablifh a proportion between the recipient and the thing received: fome notions of capability prevailed, and it was even afferted that a houfe could hold no more than it could hold." Some pains, therefore, were taken to afcertain what quantity rooms could contain, and what ftair-cafes and landing-places could bear; and the estimate, I underftand, was generally taken from the dimenfions allowed to the negroes onboard the African thips in their paffage to the Weft Indies. But the parlia ment having extended thefe dimenfions by fome late acts, either confidering that negroes had not the conflitutions of people of fashion, or that they were a property of fome value to the owners, this ratio could not be continued ; the estimate is now made according to and the |