EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JULY, 1808. perCt 15 perCt Cons. Navy. 2 dis. par4 a 2 pr. shut shut 2 apr. 21 10 o2perCt. disc. 68 69 84 shut 18 shut a 2 dis. 3 pr. par shut shut 21⁄2 pr. 96 1 241 70 844 shut 18 shut 2 a 4 dis. 1 dis. 1 pr. shut 68 shut 2 apr. 2 69 85 shut 18 shut 3 a 1 dis. 1 a 2 pr. shut shut 3 apr. 21 10 O Ditto. shut 3 apr. 21 10 0 5 242 69 70 85 shut 183 shut 2 dis. par 2 a 3 pr. shut shut 3 pr. 96 6242 683 70 85 shut shut 2 a 3 dis. 2 a 4 pr. shut shut 3 apr. 7242 69 69% a 70 842 shut 19 shut 3 a 1 dis. 3 a 2 pr. shut shut 3 a 31 pr. 22 6 22 6 8 242 691 691 a 70! 85 shut 18/3/ shut 1 a 2 dis. 1 a 4 pr. shut shut 3 apr. 22 9 6969 a 68 e.d. 85 99 e.d. 18186e.d. a 5 pr. 4 a 5 pr. shut shut apr. 981/ 68 22 22- 6 0 Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. ΟΙ Ditto. Ditto. 5 a 6 pr. shut shut 3 apr. 12 243 69681 e.d. 85 99 e.d. 18186 e.d. 6 a 5 pr. 6 a 8 pr. shut shut 3 a 3 pr. 33 243 69 69 a e.d. 852 99 e.d. 18186 e.d. 4 a 6 pr. 16 a 7 pr. shut shut 2 a 3 pr. 68 22 6 ΟΙ 68 22 6 68 22 34 69 68 e.d. 85 99 e.d. 19 15243 69 691 e.d. 85 99 e.d. 19 shut 186e.d. 4 a 5 pr. 4 a 5 pr. 6 a 7 pr. shut shut 3 a 3 pr. 68 22 98 4 a 5 pr. shut shut 3 a 3 pr. 68 22 69 683 e.d. 85 99 e.d. 19 shut 4 a 5 pr. 4 a 5 pr. 743 e.d. shut shut 4 a 5 pr. 4 a 5 pr. shut 19 2431 69 68 e.d. 85 99 e.d. 100 19 185 e.d.6 a 4 pr. 4 a 5 pr. 20 243 69 68 a c.d. 8599 e.d. 19. 185 4 a 5 pr. 3 a 5 pr. 68 3 a-2 pr. 68422 6 6822 6822 21 213/ 68 68 a e.d. 85 99 183 1852 4 a 5 pr. 3 a 5 pr. 681 682 apr. 22 169/a e.d. 85 99 693 68 a 85 99 88333 19 1813 13 a 2 pr. 3a2 pr. 18 99 19 99 19 99 19 [Printed by J. NICHOLS and SON, Red Lion Passage.] 3 apr. Ditto. Ditto. SIR JAMES BRANSCOMB and CO, Stock-Brokers, 11, Holborn; 37, Cornhill; and 38, Hay-market. 2222 222 Ditto. Ο 22 6 o 22 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE LOND. GAZETTE ChelmsCambria. Cornw.-Coventry Exeter 2,Glouc 2 Hereford, Hull 3 Northampton 2 Norf.-Norwi. 1 Notts.Nor.Wales OXFORD2. Portf. Preston-Plymo. Reading-Salisb. Salop--Sheffield2 Staffordshire Stamford-Tyne Wakefi.-Warw. Worc. 2.-YORK3. Jersey2. Guern.2. ... 724 Meteorological Diaries for July and August 666) ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION, No.CXXIII.699 BY SYLVANU S URBAN, GENT. Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet, London; where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addreffed, PosT-TAID." 1808. cloudy in general cloudy, fome rain The average degrees of temperature, as noted at eight o'clock in the morning, are 66 7-31; thofe of the correfponding month, in the year 1807, were 64 14-31; in 1806, 63; in 1805, 614; and in 1904, 62. The quantity of rain fallen this month is equal to 2 inch 76-100ths; that in the corresponding month in the year 1807, was 4 inch 21-100ths; in 1806, 3 inches 87-100ths; in 1905, 2 inches 60-100ths; in 1804, 3 inches 78-100ths; and in 1903, 94-100ths of an inch. The State of the Barometer for this Month has been omitted in confequence of the Barometer having sustained an injury. Meteorological Table for August 1808. By W. CARY, Strand. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. July Aug. 27 66 60 29,75 cloudy, rainat 12 74 62 63 14 30 66 76 31 68 79 66 Au.1 67 68 64 64 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, For AUGUST, 1808. INTENDED MONUMENT TO MR. ADDISON. Ecce, inventus, adest! Mr. URBAN, August 15. less gratifying to your judicious rea- By mere accident, I lately dropped in at Westmacott's, the sculptor, of Mount-street, upon other business in the way of his profession; when, to my inexpressible satisfaction, I was shewn "the breathing marble;" and, in a kind of extacy, could not but hail my countrymen on the near prospect of a desideratum so truly auspicious. It is of the purest white, representing his statue, apparently about seven feet high, elevated on a pedestal, or base, which is most happily fancied and adorned. The decorations consist of the Nine Muses, distinguished by their appropriate symbols, and gracefully grouped as in uni-` son, to support a character so long and highly revered by every Briton. The Latin inscription, now under the chisel, and drawn up very much in the chaste spirit and manner of the deceased, does credit to the just sentiment and classical taste of its composer *. His name at present has not been announced; but that of a distinguished Nobleman, with respect to the monument, is. well known, to whose singular liberality the publick will be ever indebted for so acceptable an oblation at the shrine of departed Genius. It has been said that Mrs. Sartré, a sister of Addison, had destined part of her property to a similar purpose; but nothing of the lotte, his only child, died a few years since at Bilton, a family seat, near Rugby, in Warwickshire; and, could her fortune have supported the expence, it is probable, from her character, that she would gladly in her life-time have raised some grateful tribute of the sort to her matchless parent. One thing, however, is most clearly certain; that long ago our country would have dignified it-, self by doing honour to transcendent talents, to inimitable wit, to every intellectual endowment, and every moral principle, in the person of Jo SEPH ADDISON; the amiable friend of virtue, the instructive sage, the sincere and exemplary Christian. That the truly noble and munificent guardian of so great a name, may amply enjoy the consciousness of adding dignity to his own, is, believe me, Mr. Urban, the very cordial wish of Yours, &c. W. B. ** P.S. The following lines, written above 30 years since, by the Rev. William Thompson, may perhaps be no unsuitable appendage to the above. They pleased me at the first reading, from their connexion with the subject; and a perusal of them may equally amuse the myriads of your other friends. To Miss ADDISON, on seeing Mr. Rowe's Monument in Westminster Abbey, erected at the expence of his Widow. LATE an applauding people rear'd the [owry: To SHAKSPEARE's honour, and alike their stone A copy of it, I am informed, was shewn to the late learned Bishop of Wor cester, Dr. Hurd, and had his Lordship's decided approbation. + The lady, as I have been recently assured, did leave a sum of money for erecting a monument to his memory; but Lord B. her executor, finding it inadequate to a work worthy of Addison, most handsomely made the addition it required. A perfect A, perfect whole, where part consents to The wonder, he of Nature, this of Art. move The name of wife bids Row in marble But, when true Wit and Merit claim a I see; Mr. URBAN, W. T." Old Town, Stratford- OBSERVING in your Magazine for April last, p. 289, a view of "BROOK-HOUSE," in which it is supposed our immortal Bard was born, and unaccompanied by any account whatever of the house itself; should you consider the following desultory observations and memoranda not altogether devoid of interest, they may not, probably, be unworthy of insertion in your next number. Upon refer ring to Shakspeare's will, contained in most editions of his Dramatic Works, we find that he possessed a house, &c. in Stratford-upon-Avon, held of the manor of Rowington, in this county but are uninformed concerning its particular situation. Whether this copyhold, which might have been subsequently enfranchised, was the identical house John Shakspeare, our Poet's father, possessed and resided in when this, his eldest son, William, was born, and which might afterwards descend to him, I have no information, sufficiently. authenticated, to justify its communication. Certain it is, that in 1640, this “Brook-house,” so denominated from its contiguity to the Avou, or rather the ground whereon it stood, constituted part of the possessions of Charles Lord Carington, Baron of Wooton Wawen*, in this neighbourhood; at which period "it consisted only of a burn and backside, and a pleck of ground, or garden pleck." On the 1st sept. 1640, this burn, &c. was purchased in fee of Charles Lord. Carington, Dame Elizabeth his wife, Francis Carrington, alias Smith, his son and heir-apparent, and of Valentine Smith, by a Mr. Richard Hunt, and after wards descended to his great grandson and heir, Joseph Hunt, gent. of shipston-upon-stower in Worcestershire; being sold by him to James the year 1750. Mr. Holyoake soon Holyoake, geut, of Worcester, about after conveyed the property to Mrs. Dianal Careless, his then tenant; by whom it was resold to William Hunt, esq. of Stratford, who demolished the house, and added its site. to his garden, and whose son, Thomas Hunt, esq. is its present proprietor. We must, Mr. Urban, remark, that a century nearly elapsed from Shakspeare's birth in 1564, to the period, 1640, in which Lord Carington disposed of this property; when it consisted, as before noticed, only of a barn and garden; consequently, the house of which you have given a view, if indeed it was the original one, must have undergone astonishing transformations, from being the residence of our Poet's father, who was a principal inhabitant, member of the mu nicipal body corporate, and a reputable and considerable dealer in wool, the flourishing staple commodity of the town; thence dilapidated, during the silent course of nearly 100 years, to a barn; and afterwards renovated, and ultimately converted, as it undoubtedly was, into the comfortable habitation of a respectable family. Circumstances like these contribute but insignificantly to corroborate the opinion of that identical house, communicated to and engraved by you, being the place of our Poet's nativity, though I am unauthorized by *This title became extinct in 1700, upon the decease of Francis Lord Carington, Baron of Wooton in Warwickshire, and Viscount Berrefore, in the kingdom of Ireland. any |