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634 Method of colouring Tilts. — ^ery on new Curates Bill. [Aug,
^xprefTion is this, "we cannot help re-
marking, that the word thrill feems
perpetua'ly prefent to the author's
mind, and fo familiar to her pen as mi
alnx' ys to he introJuctd with felicity."
If Mr. White's obfervations in your
lafl Mag zine are the reCult of his own
reflexions, he will at ieaft allow them
to be inconfidera*e. But if, what I
cannot help fufpefling, he has lent hi»
name to the fuggeftions of another, he
has a£Ved yet more unwilely. Mifs
Seward might well and reafonably be
fatisfied with the portion of praife al-
lotted to her in the review (he diflikes
fo much : for, flie may be allured, that
thoufands befides the Britifii Critic, al-
though they will readily allow Mils S.
the praife of ingenu'ty, do not tlunk
ber the very firft.beft, and wifeft, poetefs
thateverwrote*. Stephen Brown.
Mr Urban, July ii.
AConftant Reader, p. 380, enquires
for a m-.thod of colouring liles ;
I therefore fend the inclofed, which 1
have frequently tried with fuccef?. It
is more durable on new tiles than on
old ones ; and the n^ctility of cleaning
them thoroughly adds coniiderably to
the expence of ufing it on old ones.
Eight gallons of the Ihongeil grey
lime, three gallons of common fooi;,
and four gallons of wood-aflies, mixed
with water to the fubllance of paint,
and applied twice over in the f.ine
manner as paint: this quantity wi'l
colour 40 ffjunrc yards of tiling; but
the tiles muft be carefully cleanfcd
from mofs and dirt of any fort before
the wafh is applied. Camilla.
Mr. Urban, Jtih 20.
*< \X7^E are told that Government
VV offered the prifoners they took
to the India Company," &c. &c. Such
are Gen. Wafhington's expreirions to
the American Congrefs, in his " Of-
ficial Letters," vol. II. p. 81.
Having vainly endeavoured to learn
the particulars of the tranf3£tion here
alluded to, permit me, through the
channel of your ufefui Mifcellany, to
requeft that fnme of your better-in-
formed correfpondentJ will be fo kind
as to mform me — Is the fa£t true ? If
fo, on what footing were the prifoners
offered f — Sold as Haves ? or gratui-
toufly delivered over, as imprefl'ed
nr-n, for the land or fea fervice ? —
* We muft beg to difmils this coiUro-
verfy here. Edit.
Was the offer accepted ? to what ex-
tent in point of number ? and what has
become of the unfortunate viSims ?
A fpeedy and fat'.sfaffory anfwer
will much oblige Philander.
Mr. Urban, July 3.
IHAVE juft read in your June Ma-
gazine, p. 479, a copious abftraft
of the nenu curates bill, which afforded
me fome fatisfaftion ; but, allow me
to fay, that I feai this much-to-be-pi-
tied, long-negle£^ed, but very refpec-
t^ble, ciafs of men, will not be gent'
rally benefited by the new bill, which
the Legifiiture have been fo good as to
pafs in their favour. And for this
reafon, " they will truft," as our cu-
rate obferved to me the ether day, "to
the generrlny of th^ir en:ployer», ra-
ther than rilk the offending of them by
applying to the bifliops for the increafe
of fnlary, to which tliey aie now by
law entitled. 1 eniertaiiied this appre-
henfiou as foon as I heard of the aft,
and have been confirnied in it by every
tiling I have heard nrid experienced
ficce.'' Queiy, Ougiit not the bifhops
10 enquire of all tiie curates in their
refpe/ihve diocefes, wluahcr their fala-
rits liave beei; incrcsfed or not : and,
if not, to oblige the re6\ors and vicars
fttiflly and immediately to coinply wi-h
the acl > If this be not done, what is 1
the ufe of it ? Is it not a reflexion up-
on the Legiflatuie to make laws, and
not enforce the obfervance of them ?
But 1 hope lumething will be done to
prevent the evalion of this in particular.
1 mull not neglefl to obfcrve, that ^
I know of one inftance in which the 1
truly refpeilable bifliop of London has
obliged a refilor to conform to the aft,
though that reftor was very liberal to
his curate before. 1 luppoie, there- ',
fore, that the curates in his diocefe are
generally, cr rather uniljerfally, bene-
fited by it. I hope the other bifliops
will follow fo good an example.
A Friend TO Curates. , ■
Mr. Urban, Jiir.e 13.
DR. DARWIN favs, Z )onomia,
p. 40, " ideas exill which are not
attended to;" and calls it a paradox.
Well he may. Like a'l paindoxes, it
arifes from not defining things pro-
perly, or not defining them ot all ; for,
he immediately adds, " but all our
perceptions are ideas, excited by irri-
tation, and fucceeded by fenfation. Iti
the falfehood: of this aflenion exiles
the