430 
Barnet is a fall, but very pleafant town, 
and contains a number ‘of genteel mha- 
bitants. It alfo ftands on the north road, 
-and is a fhort {tage from London : the 
country around it, pretty level and agree- 
able, and it is needlefs to add, furnifhed 
with a great number of country refidences 
for people in eafy circumiftances. 
(To be continued. ) 
Ta the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PONE extract which A TRAVELLER 
i gave in your Magazine for May, 
frem the letters of Mr. Von Wurb, on 
the fubject of the BOHAN UPAS, may, 
perhaps, be confidered as fufficiently de- 
‘cifive of the non-exiftence of the plant. 
The miraculous account, however, given 
of it by the Dutchman, Mr. Foerich, 
who pretends to have been an eye-witnefs, 
and the facts which he relates, have been 
centroverted in all their parts, ina Me- 
moir of Dr. Lambert Nolft, Fellow of the 
Batav. Exper. ‘Society at Rotterdam. 
This memoir was procured from John 
Matthew a Rhyn, 23 years refident in the 
Hfiand of Java. It is inferted in the 
<¢ Gentleman’s Magazine for May, 1794)” 
page 433, to which I refer fuch of your 
readers as are defirous of further iaforma- 
tion on the fubject. 
’ This formidable and deftructive Upas 
has been moft, poetically defcribed by the 
beautiful and fantaftic pen of Dr. DarR- 
WIN, in his *¢ Botanic Gardcn:” 
e¢ Where feas of glafs with gay refleftions 
fmile, &c.”* Part 2. Cant. ni. line 219. 
Did Dr. DARWIN really credit the ex- 
iftence of the Upas? or were the qualities 
afcribed to it, fo admirably calculated to 
enrich his poem, that he finned againit 
his better underitanding, and deferted his 
philofophy for the fake of his mufe? 
The Doétor has inferted, in his ‘* ad- 
ditional netes” to the fecond part of the 
*¢ Botanic Gorden,” a tranilation from 
the Dutch of Foerfch. AARC. 
Tee ‘ 
4 Tour from Lonpon fo DUBLIN azd 
fome other Parvs of IRELAND; wiz. 
the. COUNTIES of KILDARE and 
WiuickLow, wade in the SUMMER of 
1797 
(Continued from page 348.) 
FIIHERE is another hofpital of good 
; plain architefture, with a handiome 
fteeple; inftituted for the relief of poor 
lying-in-women.. It was founded by a 
Doégter Mofs, and continues to he patron- 
ized to the prefent day, by almoft every be- 
nevelent lady in Ireland (Dublin in par- 
Boban Upas.—Tour from London to Dublin, Sc. 
ticular), as well as by a humane public; 
The number of women under this deferip- 
tion relieved in this houfe, has been, in 
forty years, 37,6153 and the number of 
children born there in that fpace of time, 
38,2913 viz. 20,082 boys and 18,209 
girls. Of thefe women, 667 had twins ; 
11 had 3, and x had 4 children at a birth, 
There are, befides, a great number of 
other charities in the capital,of the fifter 
kingdom; but their external appearance 
does not claim the attention of travellers. 
There is, however, one whoie inftitution 
is very recent, but whole growth, from 
its gad-like ftamina, has been gigantic, 
as it foitered and fuccoured by the provi- 
dential and merciful dew of heaven. This 
is the orphan-houfe for deftitute female 
children, a receptacle of plain and hum- 
ble architesture, built upon the verge of 
the circular road (a fathionable equettrian 
promenade round Dublin). This initi- 
tution was opened upon the firit day of 
January 1790, in-cenfequence of a-truly © 
pious and charitable woman, who, in the 
daily habit of feeking out wretchednefs 
for the purpofe of adminifering relief, 
difcovered (fhocking to relate) a number 
of deftitute infants, at different times, ex- 
pofed to perifh in ditches and upon dung- 
hills. With her own private purfe ihe 
began to form an alylum againft juch 
barbarity. It foon was aflitted. by her 
private friends; and an appeal in behalf 
of this inftitution, was made te the pub- 
lic from the pulpit, by that mimitable - 
orator, the Rev. Doctor Kirwan, which 
fucceeded admirably. Heaven calied away 
the foundrefs, and her lois was felt like 
an eleétrica! fhock among the females of 
fafhion at Dublin, under whofe aufpices 
this little nurfeling has imereafed within 
that fhort fpace, fo muchy as to :contain 
upon the firength and prefumption of 
voluntary contributions, noylefs than 130 
children, cf this deftitute clafs; and,.to 
the honour of the fifter kingdom be it-re- 
corded, that this popular: preacher has 
otten fo fuccefsfuily pieaded: the caufe.of 
mifery from the pulpit, as ‘to draw from 
his auditory a voluntary- donation, of 
more than rooo guineas at a charity fer- 
mon. It is now, and for the jlaft: five 
years has been, the cuftem, at the an- 
nual fermon for this charity, for the 
moitt diftinguifhed peerefles, and other la- 
dies of high rank, to colleét the dona- 
tions of the congregation in the church. 
Each of thefe carries a filver plate in her 
hand, preceded by a gentleman usher, 
with a whitel rod, whiciv mcuvelle Ggnt 
never fails to produce the defired effect. 
Fhe 
