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Kk the gift was well appropriated ; 
it ougbt to have been given, to the wo- 
man, who so heroically endured so many 
thin 
evils. _, BR. Dinsmore, 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
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ao you can spare half a column of your 
_ extensively circulated Magazine for 
the insertion, of the following, you will 
considerably benefit a, benevolent object, 
and oblige a constant reader, 
__.) ... MR. CHARLES GRIGNION. 
The public will learn with pain, that 
this venerable artist, who may justly be | 
considered as the father of engraving in 
this, €yuntiy, has been reduced by. age 
and ipfirmicies to z situation of the great- 
est difficulty, Having for near seventy 
years devoted himself to the steady pur- 
suit, of his profession, his. eyes have at 
leugth failed him, and: at theage of ninety 
he is:compelled for ever to relinquish it, 
-In a nation abounding with wealth like 
Great Britain, itis deeply to be Jament- 
ed; that any man, who has passed throuzh 
life in an industrious and Jandable man- 
ner, should find the close of his last days 
embittered _by pecuniary. embarrass- 
ments; but it, would, be still, more. I~ 
mentable if an individual, who has giyen 
up the whole of his life to the cultiva- 
tion and. practice of an ingenions art, 
which he has never prostituted to un- 
worthy purposes, should be ultimately 
deserted by those whose taste he has con- 
tributed to form, and whose virtue: he 
has assisted to establish. 5 ; 
_ The chief employment of, Mr. Greg- 
nion has been the embellishment of books 
of amusement and instruction, The hu- 
Fle Addison, the sentimentiof Sterne,, 
the morality of Jobnson, are all indebted 
to bim for illustration and enforcement ; 
and those who know that the impressions 
made on the nund of youth by ideas re- 
ceived through the orgais of, vision, are 
at the least as. strong as those occasion-,, 
ed, by any other sense, will readily adit 
inflaence. which Mr. Grignion’s 
giaver must have possessed upon the, 
several generations to which its. effects 
have beén published, 
Mr. Grignion has a wife and a daugli-- 
ter, the latter nearly blind; they are tor, 
tally dependent,on him for support. 
A‘subseription for the parchasing of an, 
apnuity las commenced under very fa- 
vourable auspices; several artists, and 
kuow patrons of the arts, having already 
iberal contributions. No, large sum, 
will be required to save this venerable. 
\ man frou the extremity of his hard fate, 
4 | 
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4 Aare a) dry 4 STtSAN Xr Vueo's ‘a 
Appeal in favour of Mr.’ Grignion. 
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219 
ii L en0ne”. A IG ; Os 
—he wants but little here below,” nor is 
it probable that, he wall **, want that little . 
long.” The gentlemen who have parti-.» 
cularly interested themselves in his, bee 
halt, feel confidept that the, generosity, 
if not the. justice of the public, will aid 
_ them in placing; him, in decent, comfort 5 
for the few years that he has yet to lives . 
The principal subscribers at present. , 
are, the Earl of Carlisle, 20/.; J; Hope, esq. 
102.; W. Lock, esq. 5/. 5s. ; John, Julius, 4 
Angerstein, 5/,.5s.; Messrs:;Hoare and 
Co, 5/.;, Winter, esq. Bank, solicitor, 5/.. . 
and 1/. monthly ; besides numerous sub-. , 
scriptions of 1/. 4s, and upyler. if 
Should you, Siv,, wish ty be informed, 
of the particulars respecting Mr. Grig- 
nion, Mr. Johnson would, L.iavey no 
doubt, give you every information you™ 
could wish. Your's, &c. 
A CONSTANT READER, 
P. S, Subscriptions con:inue to be received 
by Messrs Hoare, bankers, Fleet-street 5 
Messrs. Hammersley and Co. bankers, Pall- 
Mall ; Messrs. Rogersand Co bankers, Corns. 
hill; Mr. Jonnson, bookseller, St. Paul’s 
Church-yard ; Mr.. Richardson, No, 23,,Corn- 
hill, opposite the Royal Exchange ; Mr. Car- 
penter, Old Bond street; Mr. C. Cook, Pas * 
ternoster-row; Mr Richardson, No. 315 
Strand; printseller; Mr.) W. Sharp, engraver, 
50, Titchfield streets Mr. C.. Warren; ditéd, 
17, St. Chad’s,row, | Grays inn: road; Mrayp 
Heath, ditto, Russell-place; and, Mr, John 
Hunt, Examiner-office, Beau/ort-buildings, 
Strand, 
‘ 3 = PO sa fi bose 
To the Editor of the Monthly-Mugazine. 
SIR, pee ornare trie 
“HASTEN to give your Correspon- 
_ dent H,Q. (p. 154) all the informas. 
tion that I am able respecting the, times ; 
of arrival and departure, and other habits, 
of the swift. I have indeed been an, ate,.. 
tentive observer of the swallow tribe for. 
, several years past, and have observed, that, 
this species ' (hirundo apus) .usually,, ar=, , 
rives in the beginning of. May, and de- 
parts about the 10th or 1ith of Augist; , 
though I have sometimes seen one or 
two straggling birds of this species, for ay, 
few days aften that time. For several,. 
weeks previous to their departure. these. 
birds assemble together in great numbers, 
and svar toa vast height in the air, utter-_ 
ing at the same. time aloud shrill ery, ) 
whence in some parts of England, they, , 
are denominated sgueakers. Their place. , 
of destination when they leave their sum- 
_mer_haunts has never been clearly as-_ 
certained, though, it is generally beheved 
that the whole of this genus migrate into.» 
some warmer climate, as, they) have: 
been observed at the Cape of Good 
Hope, 
