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D-. Athiey Sykes, formerly of Bene’t, 
gathor of numercus controverfial works. 
Mr. Theophilus Lindfey, formerly Fel- 
Jaw of St. Johns’, This ,entleman may 
Gm a manner be called the father of the 
modern Socinian churches, being the iff 
who amended Dr. Clarke’s Reformed Li- 
turgy, and adopted it in public worfhip 3- 
author of various publications of theole- 
gical controverly. ; 
Mr. Evanfon, formerly of Emanuel, 
author of a work on the Diffonance of the 
Golvels, &c. 
Mr. Arch-deacon Blackburne, author 
efthe Confefisnal. 
Mr. Taylor, author of the Letters of 
Ben Mordecat. 
Capel Loft, Efq. formerly of Trinity, 
author of various publications, theologi- 
eal, critical, and political. 
Dr. Difney, formerly of Peter-H-ufe, 
author of the Lives of Dr. Sykes, Jortin, 
Febb, &c. 
Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, formerly Fel- 
fow of Jefus, tranflator of the New Tef- 
tament, author of various critical publi- 
cations, editor of the Claffics, &c. 
Mr. Fythe Palmer, formerly fenior Fel- 
Jow of Queen’s. 
Mr. Garnham, formerly Fellow of 
Trinity. 
John Hammond, Efq. formerly Fellow 
of Qucen’s. 
But enough—thefe hints are dropped 
as articles of hittory: we decide nothing. 
Who fhall decide when Doétors difagree, 
MXIX. MR. W. COWPER, THE POET. 
The Meihodifis belong to another 
{chool, profeffing themfelves to be warmly 
attached to the doctrines of the Church 3 
otherwife we fhould have introduced the 
names of feveral Cambridge members of 
that perfualion, reipeClable for talents and 
learning. 
We, however, recolle&t a circumftance 
mentioned by a perfon of a poetical ge- 
mius, of St. John’s, who, when at col- 
lege, ufed to vifit Mr. Newton, of Olney, 
at whofe houfe the ingenious and amiable 
Cowper then refided ; if was, that in fome 
of his moft melancholy moments, he ufed 
to write lines affecting!y defcriptive of his 
-Own ushappy fiate. We record two {weet 
lines here, (though not properly belonging 
to this place, for Cowper was not of Cam- 
bridge), not recollecting that they are any 
where introduced, and conceiving them to 
be more ‘Gelcriptive of the circumflances 
Gantabrigiana. 
(Jan. is 
of Mr. Cowper’s fituation, than any witk 
which we have met in his writings ; 
Czfus Amor meuseft, et noftro crimine, cujus, 
Ah! cujus pofthinc potero latitare fub alis ? 
My Love is flain, and by my crime is flain, 
Ah‘ now beneath whofe wings fhall 1 repofe ? - 
: E. Re 
ee ai 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, \ 
R. Smith having, in a fermer vo. 
lume of your Magazine, (vol. ii.-p. 
207,) ftated the reafons of the delay of ~ 
the remaining volumes ef his Flora Bri- 
tannica, for the years 1800 and 1801, 
and thofe reafons having long ceafed, and 
the work yet remaining unfinifhed, I feel 
anxious to know to what eaufes the bota- 
nical world are to afcribe the continued 
fufpenfion of this highly important publi- 
cation. At the fame time I beg leave to 
fucgelt to the very candid and mitelligent 
author of this work, fome few remarks on . 
the volumes already in the poffeffion of 
the public. Thefe principally relate to 
the omiffion of fome plants authentically 
indigenous to the Britifh Mes; and to the 
correGtion of a-pérhaps not unimportant 
error in one of thofe already inferted. 
With refpeét to the firtt, the Hieracium 
ovaium of Caley, difcovered on the weft 
fide of Ingleborough, inferted in Bell’s 
Britifh Flora, p. 175, is omitted as a fy- 
nomyn to the: Rieracium villofum, under 
which name it appears inthe Flora Bri- 
tannica. Some other Hieracia, undoubt- 
edly diftin& from any yet defcribed, and 
found in Scotland by Mr. Don, the intel. 
ligent curator of the botanic garden at 
Cambridge, are entirely unacknowledged. 
The Ixia Bulbocodium, found by the late 
Mr. Hudfon in the ifland of Guernfey, 
and prelerved in the rel ques of his herba- 
rium, in the poffeffion of Mr. Forfter, of 
Hackney ; and the Schenus minimus in 
the fame collcGiion, a new {pecies deferib- 
ed from the MS. of Mr. Hudfon, in Sy 
mons’s Britith Synopfis, are allo pafled 
unnoticed by Dr. Smith. The Viola 
amena, a new {pecies found by Dickfon, 
in Scotland, likewife defcribed in the 
fame work, from the manufcript mono- 
graph of this isterefting genus, by Mr. 
Forfter, is omitted in the Flera Britan- 
nica. i i 9 
The Ranunculus aguatilis, which Pro- 
feflor Wildenow, in his comprehenfive 
edition now publifhing of the Species 
Plantarum, and other foreign botanilts, 
have, with great judgment, feparated into > 
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