¢ 
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York, and.in many other Counties, were 
endeavouring by legal and confticutional 
means to procure a more equal reprelenta- 
tion of the people. It is therefore evident 
beyond all doubt, that he did not ftand 
aloof from a cautious defign of ¢¢ not aid- 
ing or concurring to introduce any innova- 
tion,’ (a term applied along with jacobin- 
ifm, atheifm, republicanifm, &c. fince his 
deceafe by timelervers and apoltates, to 
ferve as a political f{care-crow,) but be- 
caufe his health would not permit him te 
attend the propofed meeting ; and becaufe 
his long experience, fuperior underitand- 
ing, and great knowledge of the world, 
had enabled him to forefee that the attempt 
would fail through the felfifh views of forne, 
and the caprice cr want of perfeverance in 
others, who affected to be leaders in the 
bufinefs.* If the above extracts do not 
convince Mr. C. he may pleafe to examine 
the whole of the propofitions above referred 
to, in which he will find that’ his worthy 
. relative had not the fear of innovation be- 
fore his eyes: indeed if this particular 
proof had been wanting, the fact is fufi- 
ciently 'etablifhed by the general tendency 
of his moft excellent writings. The friends 
of civil and religious liberty may therefore 
continue to revere his memory, and with 
the utmoft propriety may apply to him the 
charaéter he has drawn of his friend. the 
amiable Forti,—‘ he was compleatly. 
qualified to do juftice to any fubject he 
undertook to handle; to whofe remains a 
kind of veneration is due; and whofe 
works will fufficiently fpeak for him, while 
there are any remnants*of piety, learning, 
and good fenfe among the fons of Britain.”” 
Your’s, Hoap.y. 
Lincolu’s Ian, March 8th. 
— =e — 
Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
' Take the liberty to correct a miftake 
made by your correfpondent, who 
ficns himfelt A poor Northumbrian, in his 
remarks on the hatching. of cuckoos. 
That he is perfectly accurate in his ftate- 


* The worthy chairman of the Yorkshire 
Affociation has remained fteady to his princi- 
ples, and has daredto be upright and perfe@ly 
confiftent in times of almoft general apoftacy. 
The friends of liberty are under the greateft 
obligations to him, and pofterity will ever 
revere bis memory ! 
Dum juga montis aper, fluvios dum _ pifcis 
amabit, 
Semper honcs nomenque tuum laudefque 
manebunt. ViRG. 
Several of his aflociates.are fuppofed to have 
chofen the fafhionable motte; Tempora mu- 
tantur, &c. ‘ 
Ox the Cuckoo-—Provifion far the Poor. 4.24 
ment of the facts that came under his ob- 
fervation, I have not the leaf reafon to 
doubt ; but his error proceeds from his 
having mi(taken the ferz-orvl or goat- 
Sucker (caprimulgus Europeus of Linnzus) 
for the cuckoo. This bird (the fern-owl), 
when on the wing efpecially, bears fome 
refemblance to the cuckoo; and I can réa- 
dily conceive, a perfon might miftake the 
one for the other: but in its habits and ge~ 
neral character it differs very materially. 
‘For a full defcription of this bird, I re- 
fer your correfpondent to the Britifh Zoo- 
logy of the late ingenious Thomas Pen.’ 
nant, efq. 
A fondnels for the ftudy of nature has 
induced me, fince Mr. Jenner publifhed 
his obfervations, to pay attention to the 
natural hiftory of the cuckoo in particu- 
Jar, in order to be the more fully con- 
vinced of the very curious facts related 
by Mr. Jenner in his hiftary of that moft 
fingular bird. The refult of my ingui- 
ries has been highly fatisfatory, in afford- 
ing me feveral opportunities of being an 
eye-witnefs to the cuckoo’s depofiting her 
ege in the neft of the hedge-{parrow, and 
the young cuckoo’s diflodging the young 
{parrows ; and if A-poor Northumbriaz 
will be attentive in his future obferva- 
tions,, he may convince himfelf of his 
prefent error, and of the truth of my af 
fertions. 
Se 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
INS knowing if my former applica- 
tion (vol. vill. —p. 947) has had 
any fuccefs, I am: induced to addrefs you 
again, with the view to promote the plan, 
by entering more at large into its {pirit, 
and, at the fame time, to anfwer fome in- 
timations from others, which have a ten- 
dency to check, if not totally to fubvert, 
the defign. Itis too frequently the cafe, 
that a new and ufeful idea fhall be broach. 
ed, and then abandoned to its fate, under 
the connderation of leaving it in more 
able hands; it requires, however, a very 
{mall fhare of experience to perceive, that 
genius feldom delights in improving the 
fuggettions of others, and thus many ex- 
cellent-defiens perifh in their birth. If 
every friend to humanity who conceives 
fome plan of fuppofed utility, would fol. 
low up his reflections, and give them to 
the world, not merely an outline, but 
with fome degree of connection and co- ~ 
louring, much more good might be ex- 
pected to reiult to the too much negleéted 
caufe, Each propofal would then. reft 
upon 
Prema’ Your's, &c.) Wis De 


