30* Improvement of 



12. A bijf Iiead witli a broad forclictd 

 IS like lliat of nu ox, having: a large 

 ji;i;ra»tic face: i( dciioles a man slow, gen- 

 tle, jet laborious, and exlrcnicl.v indocile. 



13. When Hie head is slraiglit, and al- 

 most flat ill the middle, and of a middle 

 ■size, it denotes a man of strong under- 

 standing, who is courageous, and fears 

 Bothtng, as to the all'airs of the world; 

 who is indefatigable in the A'icissitude of 

 ftirtune, so that afilictions hajij)ening to 

 Liin cannot make him quit his post. If 

 he have a high forehead he is perfectly 

 martial." 



To the Editor of the Montlihj Magazine. 



SIR, 



IN answer to your correspondent Q. 

 (page 107, of Magazine for Septem- 

 ber,)— Gibbon, in Iiis account of the iii- 

 Tasion of Gaul by Maximus, who as- 

 sumed the pmple in this island, A.D. 

 883, notices the legend of Saint t'rsula 

 and the Virgins, and refers to Archbishop 

 Usher as an autiiority. The following 

 Is a verbatim extract of the note : — 



" Archbishop Usher (Antiqnitat. Britan. 

 Eccles. pp. lor, 108,) has diligently col- 

 lected the legends of tJie island and the 

 continent. The whole emigration consist- 

 ed of 30,000 soldiers, and 100,000 pie- 

 beians, who settled in Bretagne. Their 

 destined brides, St. Ursula, with 11,000 

 noble, and 60,000 plebeian, virgins, mis- 

 took their way, landed at Cologne, and 

 were all most cruelly murdered by the 

 Hnns. But the plebeian sisters have been 

 defrauded of their eqnal honours ; and, 

 vliat is still harder, John Tritheraius pre- 

 snmcs to mention the children of these Bri- 

 tish rir/rijis." — See Gihbon's Decline and 

 Fall </ the Roman Empire, vol. 5, pp. 8, 9; 

 «mil3. Sco.cdit. 1807. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR. 



YOUR correspondent Q.'.rcquests 

 information concerning the legend 

 ©f Saint Ursula and the eleve7i thousand 

 vir"-iiis, which he may find in the " Dic- 

 tioimairc de Moreri," under the article 

 ilrside, Sainte. A. P. 



To the Editor of the Monthly 3Tagazine. 



AS I was lately walking in a garden, 

 I noticed some bees busily em- 

 ployed upon the blossoms of some scar- 

 let-runner kidney-beans ; I was sur- 

 prized to find that, instead of burying 

 themselves within the blossom, as is 

 ^ir usual maimer witU othej; flowers, 



the English Poor. [Nov. 1, 



they alighted on the Outside, and thrust 

 their ])roboscis into an opening, which 

 appeared to be formed by nature fotr 

 that purpose, and which m as found on!/ 

 in those flowers whose petals were fully 

 cx])andcd. I examined the blossoms of 

 some dwarf beans, but could find non& 

 of tiicm ijcrlorated in a similar man- 

 ner. As I have never met with a 

 notice of this fact, I hope you will 

 favour it with a place in your Maga-. 

 zitie. y. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Maguzine, 



IT is a cause of congratulation, that 

 one of the works of our periodical 

 presK, devoted to the support of the ex- 

 isting government in church and state, 

 and distinguished for the ability with 

 which many of its essays are written, 

 has taken up the consideration of a great 

 question, which has lately interested the 

 public in an extraordinary degree — the 

 present situation of the English poor. 

 It is a caii.se of congratulation in a mors 

 jrarticular manner, because, from its 

 well-kuoM'n attachment to the political 

 creed of our present rulers, it obtains Hf 

 wide circulation among men, who, pro- 

 fessing themselves contented with things 

 as they arc, are ready to condemn all in- 

 novations as dangerous — to educate ll»»' 

 poor is dangerous — to alter the system 

 of the parish-poor laws is dangerous — • 

 to give the Bible at home, or send mis- 

 sionaries abroad, is dangerous ! The in- 

 fluence of this journal must have a teu- 

 dcncy to remove these childish fears. 

 I am not about to pass an unqualified 

 eulogiuin ou this work, as a guide of 

 public opinion on politics and morals — 

 many prejudices deface its texture, many 

 inconsistencies deform it — but I may ven- 

 ture to state tliat an abler expose of the 

 advantages of a liberal public policy to- 

 wards the lowcrclassesthan thatcontain- 

 cd in its last number, under a professed 

 review of the Reports of the Society for 

 bettering the Condition of the Poor, has 

 rarely appeared. Abating a few errors 

 which common sagacity may detect, 

 and here and there a httle incongruity 

 of reasoning, which such errors natu- 

 rally superinduce, it may be recom- 

 mended as an admirable production. 

 The writer of it deserves well of his 

 countrymen, and, although unknown, 

 must, as Pope observed of Dr. Johnson, 

 when he anonymously published his Va- 

 nity of Human Wishes, soon be deterre. 

 He not only elevates the mmd of tha 

 reader, by directing it to^th« considera- 



