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Royal George of 100\ guns, in which 
Lord Bridpert lately commanded, in an 
action with the French, was at this time 
under repair in the dry dock, along with 
a French 74, which he took in that en- 
gagement. The Royal George had fe- 
veral balls through her; the Fy renchman, 
was, however, almoft a wreck, her fides 
being full of fhot-holes, and in feveral 
arts balls were fticking in the beams and 
planks; and aed the decks had been 
cleaned, there {t/1] remained difmal marks 
of the tragical dan entes which took place 
during the aélicn. Human gore, and 
even the brains of human vidtims, ftill 
adhering to fome of the beams, and other 
parts of the = Unaccuttomed to fuch 
dreadful fpectacles, I retired-to my inn, 
overwhelmed with horror at the folly and 
Prutaiiy oi my mifled fellow- beings—the 
imprefiion will never be eilaced from my 
memory ! 
In walking along the ftreets of Portf- 
mouth, particularly towards the Quay- 
fide, it is very common to fee the drunken 
votaries of Bacchus and Neptune con- 
ducting their no lefs intoxicated profti- 
tutes from one brothel to another ; ; but the 
horror which fuch objects naturally excite 
in the feeling mind, is changed to fenti- 
ments of pity, by the wooden-legged, or 
one-armed tars, who are fo numerous in 
this town. 
Otoher 9, I left Portfmouth, and weht 
to South ampton, in Hamphhire, 22 miles. 
‘The furiace is generally level ;, the foil is 
rather barren than otherwife. ‘The in- 
clofures are old, the fields fmall, the 
hedges remarkably broad, and produce 
briers, floe bufhes, ftunted caks, &c. 
they are, I {fuppofe, fuitered to grow 
thus wild for the better prefervation of 
game !—The country has rather a woody 
appearance from its evennefs and the 
number of trees in the hedges. ‘The road 
is in fome inflances very bad: It crofies 
two rivers, or'rather little arms of the 
fea, over which ferry-boats convey the: 
paflengers. The Ifle of Wight is m view 
the whole way; the eround thereon is 
high and woody, but is faid to Produce 
a great deal of corn. The harveft in this 
country was completely finifhed; indeed I 
do not recollect feeing a field of corn uncut, 
nor even any grain in the fields from the 
time Lleft London. Much of the com- 
mons in cme diftriGt are barren, and co- 
vered with heath and furze,very unlike the 
downs, which confit cf dry green hills. 
SOUTHAMPTON is a neat, clean, 
and well-built town, with a popula- 
tion of about 9020; the principal itrect 
Mr, Houfman’s Tour... Origin of Azote. 
{ Sept. 
is very fpagious. There is no manufac- 
ture of any confequence; the inhabitants 
are chiefly fupported by the thipping, and 
particularly by the tranfport fervice, 
Every thing was very dear, and all the 
inns quite: full. The innkeepers avail 
themfelves of this opportunity, and are 
amafling fortunes. The town fwarms 
with officers of the army and navy, and 
with their friends, who are come to fee 
them previoufly to their failing for the 
Welt-Indies. 
On a large common, about three miles 
from Southampton, 14,0c0 men were 
encamped , moft of whem, J} learnt, were 
to be fent to the Weft-Iadies. J] faw 
thefe Soldiers ail turned out and reviewed 
one pleafant evening ; the different bands 
of fine mufic playing, the glittering of 
the armour, on which the fan fhone, and 
the regular figures and movements of this 
great ‘body ot men, formed altogether a 
{cene of pleafing grandeur. My plain un- 
derftandi ing would, however, have felt 
much more eeatined d in feeing fuch able- 
bodied men with’ {pades in their hands 
cultiva ting the comraon a nove ufeleisly 
occupy. A large arm of the fea runs up 
clofe to Southampton, 
; (To be continued.) 
EE 
Fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. - 
SIRE 
N aniwer to the query in your ufeful 
and entertaming mifcellany for No- 
vember laft*, re{pecting the origin of 
the azote, hich enters {fo lar gely he the 
comiponige a animal fubftances, permit 
me to offer a few obfervations, not with 
a view of eat folving the difficulty, 
but of correéting an error into which your 
correfpondent has fallen, in denying the 
exiftence of azote in fuch vegetables as 
conftitute the food of graminivorous ani- 
mals. R 
Indeed, were this ftatement true, we 
need not haverecourfe to the animal ceco- 
nomy for a proof of the fallacy of the La- 
voiferian fyitem, or might demand what 
becomes of the azote, which is fo plentifully 
abforbed by vegetables, and which con- 
ftitutes one of their xutritive principles, 
according to the experiments of Prieltley, 
Ingenhouz, and others. It is to this 
nutritive principle that we muft-afcribe 
the fourifhing fiate of vegetation in the 
vicinity of large towns, where a greater 
number of fuch fubftances as afford this 
; 

* This paper, and another by the fame in-~ 
genious author, have been accidentally mif- 
laid, 
gna 
