1803:}  . - Memoirs of Dr. 
‘There isa clafs of men, Mr. Editor, 
in every civilized country—(I with fervent- 
ly it were more numerous)—who do not 
deem attempts tosredrefs the wrongs, and 
mitigate the conftant and flagrant cruelties 
_ infligted upon brute animals, either jaco- 
binical, antifocial, or the mere cant of mo- 
dern philanthropy. T’o fuch, thefe lines 
are refpectfully addrefled. There are 
others (mark well the magic of phrafes) 
who, alarmed at the idea of beafts poffef- 
fing rights, will yet acknowledge that 
men have duties to perform towards them, 
among which they reckon thofe of juftice 
and cempaffion. I havethe honor to be, 
Sir, ‘your very humble and obedient, 
Somer’ s-town, Joun LAWRENCE. 
Feb. 3. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N your Magazine for December laf, 
4 amongft the articles of Literary and 
Philofophical Intelligence, you mention 
Mr. Rawfthorne, an eminent architect, of 
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Tobie Mathewes. 141 
Doncafter, in Yorkfhire, as the inventor 
of anew kind of bricks, for confructing 
cielings of rooms, &c. ‘The invention, 
Sir, which you allude to, is mine, and for 
which I took out a patent about fever 
years ago. The mittake has arifen, I 
prefume, from Mr. Rawithorne’s having 
adopted the invention, very foon after it 
was made public, in a houfe which he 
erected for his own refidence. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
EpMm. CARTWRIGHT. 
Woburn, Dec. 4, 1302. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHOULD be much obliged, by any 
I of your Correfpondents informing me, 
where I could obtain a fight, or purchafe, 
an ** Effay on Clafiical Learning,” pub- 
lifhed, a few years pait, by the celebrated 
Dr. Ruth, of Philadelphia. —Was it pub- 
lithed feparately, or in the Tranfa€tions of 
any literary fociety? © Your's, &c. 
S. THOMAS. 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
ei ameal 
ACCOUNT of TOBIE MATHEWES, DEAN 
and BISHOP of DURHAM, and after- 
wards ARCHBISHOP of YoRK. 
2 September 1583, when he went. to 
take poffeffion of his deanery, the whole 
univerfity went out of town with him, to 
tettify the refpect they had for his worth, 
and amongft the reft his learned and 
worthy friend Dr. Edes, who, though de- 
figning but one day’s journey, could not 
bid bim adieu till he faw him in his dean- 
ery, fo attraétive is fweet converfation, 
ancient friendfhip and the communication 
of ingenious literature. The Doétor being 
poetically given, made the journey plea- 
fant by defcribing in verse their Iter Bo- 
reale, a title given once or twice fince to 
other books and fancies. It is not in 
print, but mentioned by Harrington in 
his additions to Godwin’s Catalogue of 
Bifhops. Ant. Wood alfo fays, that he had 
the MS. . The firft verfe begins 
Quid mibi cum Mufis ? quid cum borealibus 
oris 5 
and another line will fhewin fome degree 
the humour of the poet ; . 
Nil Tadcafter habet preter, fine flumine, 
Pontem ! 
The Dean being once travelling through 
MontTuiy Mac. No. 98. 
Lincolnfhire, had a report of a youth of 
very pregnant parts, and would needs go 
fee him. The boy had attained to fpeak 
feveral Janguages, and have {kill in other 
pieces of learning through his prodigious 
memory. When the Dean had examined 
him, and received fuch fatisfaétion as made 
him admire, he began to beftow upon the 
father a grave exhortation to take care of 
him. ‘* I have obferved, ({aid he,) divers 
fuch youths,who, through debauchery had 
corrupted their parts, or through Jazinefs 
had funk and drowned them.*’ The boy, 
obferving the words, called to his father 
to whifper, and told him ‘* Certainly this 
gentleman was of very pregnant parts — 
when he was young.’—The father, of 
courfe, reproved him with his frowns, 
but the Dean being impatient to know 
what the boy had whilpered, the man, 
blufhing and begging pardon for his fon, 
at length told it out, when the Dean was 
extremely well pleafed with the witty far- 
cafm, ‘* taking nothing amifs from a 
child, being uled to take and forget 
greater morofities from men.” 
Dr. Mathews held the deanery of Dur- 
ham about eleven years and a half, in 
which time he preached 721 fermons—in 
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