118 Correggio’s M. artyrdom of St. Catharine.—Canary-seed .[March 1, 
for the same and other reasons, a list of 
the bills fownd and not found should, 
from time to time, or as often as reported 
to the court, be afixed on the outside of 
the door of the grand jury chamber, or in 
some other conspicuous place, and be 
signed by the foreman. 
11. The state of the several prisons, 
the malversation of the jailors and turn- 
Keys, the conduct of magistrates, all gross 
and scandalous abuses, acts of public op- 
pression, and all public nuisances, within 
the county, are proper objects for the en- 
quiry, examination, and presentment of 
a grand jury. 
12. One of the grand jury ought te sit 
atthe right hand of the toreman, and 
assist him in reading the indictments. 
Gentlemen who require to be absent, 
usually consult the foreman, and obtain 
his consent. 
——ie 
do the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ee probably are not more than 
x4 two er three genuine pictures by 
Correggio in Great Britain; the works of 
this divine master are consequently 
prized above all others, and it becomes 
important not to lose any of them. A 
fine subject by this master was in Eng- 
land about the time of the revolution. 
At represented. St. Catharine just before 
her martyrdom, leaning on the wheel, 
and reading a missal, her hands grace- 
fully crossed, the book in one hand, and 
a palm-branchin the other. There have 
been two engravings from it; a large 
one by le Blond, and a smal] mezzotinto 
by Williams: and many copies of the 
painting are to be met with in private 
collections. The King has a fine copy in 
the royal collection at Windsor, but ob- 
viously a mere picture devoid of the feel- 
ing and sensibility of Correggio. 
I believe I have seen the original, a 
divine® picture, and of undoubted anti- 
guity; but before I decide finally, I wish 
to learn of any of your Correspondents 
whether any such picture, called the ori- 
ginal, exists in any British or foreign col- 
lection, and what are its pretensions, 
Your’s, &c. 
A LOVER OF THE FINE ARTS. 
London, Feb. 1, 1808. 
2 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T is lamentable that your Corre- 
& spondent J. M. Ulindell, and others, 
should persist in recommending nightin- 
gales to be kept in confinement. A 
knowledge of the myriads of them that 
have been cruelly saerificed in attempt- 
ing to domesticate them, should deter 
persons of feeling from continuing to 
countenance such cruelties. Though 
wood-larks, from being somewhat hardier 
and stronger, are longer preserved in cap- 
tivity, yet the want of their natural insect 
food renders their death little less cer- 
tain. 
Why will they not be satisfied with the 
Canary-bird, of which there are, in song 
and feather, so many varieties, and whose 
domestication (with common care) ap- 
pears suitable to 1ts nature, at least with 
respect to these bred in this country. 
The present extravagant price of Canary- 
seed arises from a monopoly of all the 
home growth by a house speculating, 
no doubt, on its not being imported 
from- abroad. But Canary-seed is not 
necessary to these birds; and birdfan- 
cyers may completely defeat the mo- 
nopolizers, by cheap/y substituting in 
its place geod wheat flour, which the 
‘birds readily eat, and require no addition 
but a little rape-seed, and a very small 
quantity of hemp-seed, 
The flour should be given (but not - 
mixed -with their seeds) ina small drawer, 
provided ; as usual, with holes,to prevent 
its being trampled on; and for a single 
bird, its seed-drawer should be fitted 
with a little box, easily made of stiff 
paper, or tea-chest lead, to its size within 
side, and part of its length, but not fas. 
tened, that it may be removed when the 
drawer is to be cleaned from husks. 
Your’s, &c. 
Jan. 12, 1808. b ep 
S — a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N perusing the biographieal account 
of the late Archbishop of York, in 
your valuable miscellany (No. 165), I 
could not but observe that you have 
taken no notice of the patronage which, 
it is presumed, his grace extended to men 
of distinguished eminence for their vir- 
tue or talents. From his situation of 
head master of Westminster school, and 
afterwards as dean of Christ-church, in 
Oxford, his grace must have had singular 
Opportunities of selecting some of the | 
first ornaments of literature and religion, 
and of transplanting them into his 
cese of York. It would be gratifyi 
the public, as well as doing justice 
-grace’s memory, if any of li 
