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" I take delight in perusing this magazine, because it 

 contains variety ; yet I think the editors confine them- 

 selves too much to the antique, especially in the counties 

 about the metropolis. The plates of churches carry 

 with them a sameness. Ormskirk Church, I have 

 been told, has at one end a spire and at the other a 

 tower : such as have a similarity about them ought 

 not to be introduced. 



"Dr. Richardson must accept my thanks for the 

 goodness of his communication of the Fiorin, and 

 muse also forgive the harsh treatment of Mr. S. The 

 public surely would have liked Mr. Urban to have 

 given a plate of this grass. 



" Dr. Lettsom., by publishing Mr. Neald's letters, has 

 done more good to society than any individual since 

 the days of Mr. Howard ; but I cannot help remarking, 

 that whilst the philanthropist is exerting himself to 

 relieve forlorn, dejected, petty debtors, to the comfort 

 of their families, on the other hand there are in the 

 country a set of pettifogging attorneys continually 

 trying to establish -Courts of Requests (Courts of 

 Conscience, alias without conscience) managed by a 

 set of commissioners, mostly tradesmen under the in- 

 fluence of those attorneys who distress the poor debtor 

 frequently by imprisonment, illegally proclaimed. 



" Mr. Hall (it is to be hoped) will favour us again 

 with his communications. 



" September 3rd. The eclipse of last night passed 

 over without my knowing it ; but it would not have 

 been so if I had consulted Moore's Almanack, which 

 I have frequently disregarded on account of the 

 prognostications contained therein. Surely those 

 might be omitted, and more useful matter substi- 

 tuted. 



