428 
street, Birmingham; and the boy, Tho- 
mas Moore, about nine years of ave, son 
to Matthew Moore, a workman, at Mat- 
thew Boulton’s, esq. Soho. . 
The intention of this application, is to 
solicit some honorary mark of the so- 
ciety’s esteem, in favour of Patrick ; 
leaving the others-to slag consideration 
as the society may think proper to give 
at, AN public subseription has been sct 
en foot at Birmingham, for pecuniary re- 
ward, but the amount has not reached 
twenty pounds; this is intended to be 
distributed, as near as can be asceriain- 
ed, according to merit. It was also. pro- 
posed to purchase some apparatus, to be 
-m readiness for future exigencies ; how 
far the society, consistent weitle its plans, 
could assist in this respect, is respect fully 
submitted to them. The writer, how- 
ever, requests to know by ieee means 
the drag mncented by Dr. Cogan, ¢ of Bath, 
may be obtained, supposing it to have 
the entire approbation of the society. 
Te may be necessary (to vemark, that 
Hockley pool is the only large body of 
water ‘ila the town, that is accessible to 
the public, or at lease: being the nearest, 
is most frequented both for . summer andl 
winter amusement. 
Birmingham, April 6, 1808. 
' This ‘case was presented, through the 
medium of a very respectable profes- 
sions! gentleman, and was returned with 
the following endorsement, but without 
any ‘other conimunication or remark. 
London, April 12, 1808. 
“This case not comibg within the 
himits of this society, cannot be consi- 
ered by the committee of managers 
here.” J. Jexnincs, Chairman, 
Now, Sir, as I have obtained ee 
friend's permission to make this public 
enguiry, 1 shai} feei much gratified if any 
of your correspondents wi fl inform me, 
what are the limits by which the Uu- 
mane Society are bound, but which im 
this mstance th 
ing. I am well acquainted with a case 
ef considerable merit, and where so far 
from envying the reward bestowed, [ 
thoeght it much to the honour of the 
society, apd well calculated to excite to 
similar endeavours, when occaston should 
require them; but it. certainly involved 
much jess risque and exertion, than the 
instance before us. Yet. from an appli- 
cation, with which the benevolent ope- 
rator was at the time unacquainted, he 
was presented with the society’s medal, 
anda highly complimentary letter, sizned 
By the Chairman (w lia Was I believe at 
4 
ey have declined explain-. 
“=@ vee a 
Account of recent Travels tn Spain. 
[March ' ’ 
the time Lord Mayor) on the unanimous 
resolution of the Society. 
T cannot refrain also remarking that I 
think the common civilities‘of life should 
have suggested some repiy to the request 
concerning Dr. Cogan’s Drag, as the ap+ 
plication was made to a society expressly 
established for purposes of humanity. EF 
eould have no other view than’ public uti- 
rr As that Gentleman has received a 
handsome token of approbation from one 
of the London $ Societies, it is fair to pre 
sume that his invention is an instrument 
which ought to be generally known, A 
description of it, with some general re- 
marks on its advantages, and the informa- 
tion where it may be purchased, will alse 
be gladly accepted. J should not have 
chosen this mode of enquiry, but must 
confess I could not _bring my mind to trou- 
ble the Society with an application which 
pia thought officious, or which might 
neet with the same cold attention which 
my friend had before experienced, — 
I am, Sir, Your's, &e. 
Oxford, 
Dee. 21 1808. 
eae 
For the-Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of RECENT TRAVELS in SPAIN, 
in which particular ATTENTION was’ 
paid to the ANTIQUITIES Of that COUN- 
TRY.—-Continued from p. 537, vol. 26. 
ISHING. to have an opportunity of. 
witnessing the splendid ceremonies 
by which the festival of Christmas was to 
be celebrated at Toledo, I left Madrid 
on the morning of the 23d of December, 
and ‘crossing the Manzanares by tle Bo 
ledo bridee” entered on the grand road 
leading to Aranjner. This royal residence 
is situated about seven Spanish leagues or 
26 English miles from the capital, and the 
road thither was one of the earliest apen- 
ed for the convenience of the court ; it/is 
SaLam, 
“broad and well onbia running in general 
in a succession of straight lines, and bers 
dered with rows of elms. The country is 
open consisting of gentle swellings, and 
apparently but thialy inhabited, the pro~ 
ductions being corn with a little wine, 
About mid-way from Madrid is Val de. 
Moros, a village where travellers usually 
bait their: mules or change their post.. 
horses. ‘A league short of Aranjuez the 
road descends to the vale of the Xarama, 
there increased by the Manzanares and 
other streams from the northward, flow- 
ing under a capital stone bridge, anid unis 
ting at Aranjuez with the Tagus. 
This Country-seat of the Spanish mo- 
narchs occupies the south bank of the 
Tagus, 
