1800.| Queries relative to the Temple of Elephanta, Ke. 
ef my short, but sad tale, speaks for it- 
seif. Their remains were conveyed to 
their native country, and interred in. the 
family vault at Basildon. 
s6 Yet shall Remembrance from Oblivion’s 
veil 
Relieve your scene, and sigh with grief 
sincere, 
And soft Compassion at the tender tale 
in silent tribute pay her kindred tear !” 
The little village dependent on the 
family of Basildon Park will scarcely 
gratify the curiosity of the traveller. On 
viewing a few scattered cottages, which 
scarcely seem to merit the name of vil- 
lage, he will be surprised to find that it 
once possessed a weekly market. Ba- 
sildon appears to have been ‘a place of 
considerable importance in the time of 
Edward IT. Some relics of its annual 
fair are still preserved, in the form of a 
revel, on what istermed the wocd-green. 
Broken ,|heads are then the order of the 
day; and many a stout villager, like the 
West.Country Hob of Cibber’s Farce, is 
ready to meet the world in arms, while 
animated by St, George’s Guard,” and 
the spirit of his native county. 
On the edge of the Park, the stranger 
may perhaps pause to contemplate the 
scattered fragmetits of an unostentatious 
‘building. This building was the par- 
sonage, long since found far too inelegant 
for the neighbourhood of a mansion. | If 
the passenver should be in a poetical 
humour, he will not fail to look’on these 
humble ruins with sympathy and feeling. 
Where rank grass, the thistle, the nettle, 
or the briar, grow in baneful luxuriance, 
he will trace the site of little doiestic 
blessings, now vanished. from. remen- 
brance! But though the picture is: ex- 
tinct to recollection, fancy shall still 
conjure up the worthy priest, so simple, 
and so kind, that 
‘Ev’n children follow’d with endearing wile, 
And pluck’d his gown, to share the good 
man’s smile! - . ae 
Jf our pedestrian should stray through the 
green lanes, bordering onthe park, he 
may find himself at Yattendon, a recluse 
village, in which Mr. Carte (who les 
buried in the church) wrote his history 
of England. ‘The county has wanted 
‘taste, Or opportunity, to distinguish the 
grave of this historian, by a suitable me- 
morial. Assuredly the sconer the omis- 
sion is supplied the better.* 
Hurst, Berks, Your’s, &c. 
| TN; B. 
ce 
* We shall be obliged to tne elegant wsi- 
ter of the above, for the continuation, 
_Philalethus and Doxophilus. 
V7? 
QUERINS.* 
To the Editor of the Monthly M:rgazine. 
SIR, 
a | SHOULD be much obliged, by your per- 
mitting me to make an enquiry, among 
the readers of your valuable Miscellany, con- 
cerning an anonymous German writer, who 
commenced in the year 1734, an erudite, 
but most virulent attack on the elergy and 
Ceremonies of the Lutheran church. The 
title-page of the copy in my possession is 
torn away: the running title is, ** Die 
&&c. Unterredung von unschuldigen Wahrhei- 
ten.” The conversations are supported by 
ft is possibie, 
that some one, among your numerous readers, | 
has it in his power to make communications 
respecting this auther,s the controversy such 
a publication probably agisated, and result of 
the same ; which may gratify others, as weld 
as é 
Redruth, Corazwall. W. H. Rowz, 
StR ERATED 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
SHALL feel myself highly gratified, 
through the medium of your excellent 
Miscellany, to beinformed by any of your 
intelligenc and learned correspondents, whar 
are the most cogent opinions of the learned, 
with respect Lo the Temple of Elephanta, by 
whom, and at what period this very singular 
and interesting excavation was formed. 
October 31, 1868. Pale: aire 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
GQILVER, as well as spelter, Separately, ig. 
tasteless, but if put tothe mouth toge- 
ther, the taste becomes very strong of sul- 
‘ \ 
pitas. : 
As 1 have never heard of this circumstance 
having been explained, -you may not thipk ic 
unworthy of being laid before your long- 
headed correspondents; and by so doing, you 
will particularly oblige an occasienal corres 
spondent, and 
A Constant Reaper. 
Bristol, Fan. 10, 1809. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
MpHE Silk, lately brought before Parlia. 
ment, by Sir Samuel Romiliy, for con» 
stituting certain robberies not capital offences, 
we hope may be the means. of calling the at- 
tention of the Legislature to the Subject of 
capital punishments in general, and thereby 
of effecting a salutary alteration in the crimi- 
nal code of this kingdom. We shall be glad 
* Several other communications of this 
description afe rejected, because answers 
may be found to them in Dr. Gregory’s, or 
any other Dictionary ef Arts and Scicaces. 
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